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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-03-01, Page 2Pape 2 The Times-Advocate, March 1, 196 orals This newspaper .believes the right to express en ,Goinion. In. .pUhlici „contributes.. tq the 13,r091.10 of the nation end that it must bra exers cased .freely end, withOut prejudice tft preserve. end improve ;Iqrep- 4rofic 9overnment, at yours Last week we urged our readers to take a. long look at Bill Smiley 's comments on a serious education problem outlined in his column, "Sugar and Spice". He asked for opinions on how schools should cope with students who are "not pulling their weight". These are the students who for various rea- sons—parental indifference, psychological problems or just plain lassitude—refuse to work. Smiley asked: "Should these young people be allowed to disrupt the system, set a bad example to others and generally act as a brake on the ,educational process?" He introduced the topic by praising the ',pripcipal and board of an Ontario high school which had the courage to suspend seven pupils "for habitual neglect of duty". The act caused a furore in town but the school authorities stuck to their guns. We believe such disciplinary action is not 'only desirable but essential if education is to be given the respect it deserves. We suggest that a reasonable, yet firm, policy can be set down by the board to give the principal and staff a guide upon which they can act with confidence and authority. The outlines of such a disciplinary policy should be distributed to parents as well as students in 'order to establish a realistic understanding of the situation. Such a policy, however, is useless without .effective enforcement. If the board cringes at the first complaint from the punished youngster and kris upset parents, as boards have been known to do in the past. the objective will not be acomplish- ed. Those pockets One little toddler in our neighborhood is convinced all good things come from pockets. That's understandable since often candy and coins emanate from that ,source. She came wandering into the kitchen re- cently displaying a toy china pig. "This is Eliza- beth," announced she, "and pretty soon she's going to lay some baby elephants from her pocket", Not long afterwards, she described to her father a mealtime scene with a litter of pups, "Dad, I saw a whole lot of baby dogs getting lunch out of their momma's pockets". And, we suppose, when she grows up and has a husband, she'll not lose her affection for this handy feature of today's garments. Canada .matters The T-A -endorses this opinion expressed by The Financial ?fist: All Canadians deeply concerned about this country's survival as a nation of distinct entity and individual vision are applauding the decision of the Piefenbaker government to create a better climate for Canada's national magazines, We refer to Prime Minister Diefenbaker's announcement this week that: "We shall be putting before this house, in due course, measures that will offset the compett, tive handicaps under which Canadian periodicals have been laboring, while fully protecting the reading preferences of the public and fully pre- serving the freedom of the press," We believe that magazines created, edited and published in Canada by Canadians provide a vital national forum for the discussion of issues that shape and mold this country, We believe these magazines affect how our people think, what they hold precious, what they aspire to for themselves. their community, their country and their children. We do not believe all these expressions of national identity could have long survived the totally inequitable competition from U.S. publica- tions using the enormously profitable devices of "Canadian" editions or split runs. We do not believe these so-called Canadian magazines with virtually no-cost American editorial material flanked by high-profit Canadian advertis- ing could ever effectively bind this country to- gether and give expression to the beliefs, opinions and desires of our people who .are Canadians—not Americans, So we welcome the announcement that the government plans to act on the. O'Leary Royal Commission report—which at no time suggested that publications printed and published abroad and carrying foreign advertising should be barred from Canada, This means, for those who now start new Canadian magazines, a chance to survive and grow, For those who publish existing Canadian periodi- cals, it proffers the prospect of a return to fairer competition and financial health. But above all, this Diefenbaker decision ensures that the news and interpretation of govern- ment policy, of national economic development:, of social change will not be shaped and edited by Americans for Canadian readers. i"*;e3',1 . ' • Sugar and Spice dispensed by Bill Smiley Z- i 41- I •3 1'°- 4t'i to y,,,,.; 1 v.ttyrrs cvnilicatc, inc,. NO. 'World rights resc • • •-• - "To give credit where credit is due, we'd never have discovered this place if it weren't for your cooking." The reader's comment LETTERS TO THE EDITOR /s27 Xint FeaturenS,vnelieate, inc,, 1942. Wnrld iqr)Itt 'reserved, LateA "Why, if it isn't my old Vreamboat'l Well, welll— and this must be the chap you finally married." 45 t .Xini worm okt- 12.4 • MORE POWER..: G.REATER spEED than ever before, • Remington,'s New SUPER 75 chain saw Most powerful, fastest cutting chain saw yet. New "Power Pulse" engine delivers 420 cutting strokes every second. Now you can cut 4 logs in the same time it used to take you for 3! 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Stephenson Trophy, beo front Page (Ontario), 1956, 1165; All,Canada Insurance Federation national safety award, Igo, Paieliin.,AdVante Circulation, Sept, 00, 1061 -ss.s 3,505 SLIASdRiotIoN KAtts: Canticle $4,06 Poe Year; USA OM ( ALF .ANDRUS meetings and by the time the I wish. to take this oppor- school is built he may went tunity to say that I feel Mr. much more again. The school. Frayne and his councillors are 'tax will probably be two or doing a good job, Mr, Goman three times what it is now in. in his letter last week seemed only a few years, It has hap- rather bitter towards them. pened other places. The high school debentures I beg the ratepayers of Us- are very different from the de- borne Township to stop and bentures needed for a central think before they vote. If the school. The high school pro- debenture is turned down now vides an education for bun- it can be approved in a few dreds of young people who years, but if the new school is would have stopped attending built it will be too late. to school at the end of grade change your mind, eight. The central school is "OPPOSED" only to replace schools we al- ready have and is not abso- lutely necessary, shall of the OAC notes that in Opposes school the past feW years there has To the editor, than he wanted before at the sualize the antics when some of the old kriegies eel info the grape. At one end of the aircraft. the singers will he serenading 0' Riley's Daughter and other ladies of that ilk. in the galley somebody will be mixing up a krtegie cake: pulverized Ws- cuits, powdered milk, mare, and prunes. There was never a cake recipe to heat that one, for sheer weight — 12 pounds to the square fool. You can have your Duncan Hines mix. Some other character will be setting out a hatch of pure, unadulterated kriegie h r e w. If's made from potatoes, tur- nips, prunes or anything else that will ferment. One hooker of that stuff, and an angel can turn in his wings. lie doesn't need them any more. Elsewhere in the aircraft, some old-timer will be ham• moring- away at empty pow- darecT.nlillc tins, turning them info cups, plates, jewellery and high-powered machinery. But I doubt if the expedi• ben will ever make, it to the U.K. Some kriegie, who cut his There's to he a grand re- union party in London, with former RAF kriegies, That'll he a good one. I wonder if wee Jock will be there, with his Inverness tongue that, could peel your hide? Will Paddy B. make it, and if he does, will he get drunk and want. to fight, everybody? I wonder if Dave will show up and infuriate, one and all with his calm Eng- lish view that it's time some- body "took those colonials in band." meaning us? * Trouble is, I see them, and many like them, as they were then. Wee Jock with his nob- My, schoolboy face. Paddy as strong as a bull and quick as a rabbit, Slim, blond Dave with his casual manner, lean face, huge mustache. And all of them just e year Or two older than the lads I'm teach- ing in school right now. Wouldn't it be terrible if they turned up for the reunion party looking just like the rest of us: thick around the middle Mr. Goman seems to he do- ing all the pushing for a cen- tral school. What right has he to do this? He is not a rep- resentative of the people; the school board and. council are. He should not interfere with their work. Mr. Goman feels we should have a central school because most of the other townships have. This is not a very good reason. if we all went out and bought a new house and a new car just be- cause the neighbours did, the economy of the world wouldn't last very long. A central school may have some advantages but transpor- tation is not one of them. In the winter parents will have to keep the children home half the time or else worry about them being stuck in a. sideroad somewhere. I do not feel that the high and public school pu- pils should be collected to- gether. The language and the subjects discussed make it an unfit place for smaller chil- dren, The inspectors were in fa- vour of the school area too, but. Thames Road section got along better or just as well without it, A central school might be the same. Mr. Go- man wanted 120,000 more now, put out by men who are fin- anced by money taken from us by compulsion. What have we gained through this costly and complicated system of marketing hogs? Hog price analyst R. G. Mar- 50 YEARS AGO Mr, James Atkinson, the see- tionman of Clandeboye, who was struck by a train on Thurs- day last, the day of the big storm, died Friday morning. Dr. Hyndman of Exeter was unable to reach his bedside. He died before he could be re- moved to London hospital. On Tuesday afternoon a quiet wedding was solemnized at. the Crediton parsonage by Rev. R. Hicks with William. McGuire of Con. 10 McGilli- vray and Rose Mean of Mo- ray as bride and groom, Mr, Edgar McFalls, Centralia, and Miss Jessie Wright, Lteury, attended the couple. Air. R. Murphy received his delivery of farm machinery this week. Mr, and Mrs, George Law- son left last week for their hoc e in Artland, Seale. Mr, Sam Elliott left Satur- day for Sarnia where he has accepted a position on the Bell Telephone. staff. 25 YEARS AGO The first hockey game in the new arena Was played on Mon. day evening when Dashwood and Exeter played to a one- one tie. The Toll brothers, who hitch- hiked around the world, will present colored pictures in DashWood EVaugelical church Wednesday evening, TAavitt's Theatre was pec- ked to the doors and Many were turned away Sunday eves ping for the Exeter Band con- eert ,"under the leadership of Ted WalPer. MOrenz, outstanding hockey star with the oatia- diees of Montreal, and form' tidy of. Stratford, died sudden• ly Monday at the age of 34, It is just 15, years ago when the Exeter' Zurich hockey team was linked With the Stratford team and Howie Was teen fte. qtrehtiy • on Exeter Mr. 'William Ratter has stalled a new aufOrtiatie hob thing Machine and woof, to be Wed in connection with tits tteiry business, Urges changes To the editor, The statement was made at the annual meeting of Huron County hog Producers Ass'n that in the last general vote on the hog marketing plan, the irregularities that were com- mitted were somehow engin- eered by Free Enterprise men, so that they would have some• thing to talk about if they did not win the vote, This accusa• tion is obviously ridiculous and seems nothing more than a clumsy attempt, to shift the blame from where it belongs. Another accusation that seems to me to be wearing a little thin, is this business of branding all truckers and deal- ers as villains whenever the farmers don't vote or think the way they, are supposed to. I notice this again in regard to the corn vote. In an, article which appeared in The - T-A of Feb. 15, the statement is made that the corn vote was lost, It looks like well over half of the grain growers would say the vote was won. In Perth county where more hogs are produced than in any other county in Ontario the farmers are almost solidly against the present marketing plan. Rather than being influ- enced by truckers the farmers of Perth have reached their decision in spite of propaganda been a downward• trend in hog prices. He says that in time of —Please turn' to page 5 15 YEARS AGO Boy Scout and Guide week came to a conclusion in Exe- ter Saturday afternoon with the entertainment of Scouts, Guides and Cubs to a skating party at the Exeter arena. Mrs. Peter Frayne cele- brated her 90th birthday on Wednesday. Exeter now boasts the only waxing plant with an automa- tic drying machine which has reduced to only nine minutes the stage from washing ma- chine to the bag. The interior of Crediton EVan- gelical LIB church is being, re- decorated by Mr. Paris An- derson of Ailsa Craig. J. S. White, son of the late J. J. White, editor of the Exe- ter Times, haS been appOinted deputy health minister in Sas- katchewan, A new Canadian four-cent stamp will be issued shottlY to cernmemorate the centen- ary of the birth of Alexander -Graham Bell, 10 YEARS AGO Exeter Council voted to take "no action" in regard to in- stalling parking meters Mon day night, Mrs. J. N, Willis was the winner of a silver tea service offered by Jack Smith Jewel- ler as a treasure hunt speeial last week, A cheque for WO was nre• settled to Elmer D, Bell for the South Huron Respite from the local 'chapter BOA Sigma Phi at the annual balloon ball TUes• day night, Dr, C. Borden Sanders, a graduate of Exeter schools, has been awarded a fellowship in the Royal College of Physi, clans of Canada, volunteer workers are re- vameleg Stephen's' township hall at Crediten to Make. A tive. storey structure housing a Mo.. dern stage and dressing rooms tip stairs and Connell chamber meeting rooms downstairs, Marie Iledgadn, daughter of Mr, and Mira, W. 1f, Rodgton, took to honors , in the draina , fit etass of Western Ontario's verse OOMPOIR1011 li e 1 d at. UWO, Burners Heating, ,PlYtTi§ing, Sheet Metal Work 403 ANDREW ST., .EXETER . PHONE .21$40.10 CAR LICENSE TIME The Ontario Government now demands $20.00 from uninsured car owners in addition to the car license fee. 'this is NOT Automobile Insurance You will still be liable far damages and can be ruined by a serious accident. A low cost policy with The Economical Mutual insurance Co. may save your future Phone or write W. H. HODGSON Ltd. W. H. Hodgson M. Gaiser "The Insurance Men" PHONE 24 OR 720 EXETER • Exeter Branch: CHAltLBS SMITH, Manager Centralia (Sub-Agency): (Open Tuesday, Thursday and on litIday 4.30 6 0.th.) Crediton (SUb-Agency): (Open Monday, iVednesday And Friday), liensalt drend Bend Brancht DONALD 11011E1ITSOINT, Mitnagei )asliwood (Sub,Ageney)1 Open Mon,,Wed, 81 Fri. flrahcht KENNBTH CHItiSTIAN, Manager LUCktil JACK STFACV. Manager Bran rcht 161-11`st BANN1STPR, htaneeee WokiON6 WITH AN•biAlsiS IN BVERY WALK OF Bltkt 18171\‘ and thin on top; a whole lot less interested in staying up all night; and, meekly murmuring, "Yes, ,dear" to some strange woman with a cold, suspicious eye in her head. That letter about the trip brought back a host of memo- ries of prison-camp days. All of them were good ones. That's a beautiful piece of machinery built into us humans — the ability to Forget the bad times and remember only the good ones. In retrospect, the life in pri- son camp has a great attrac- tion for old kriegies, The rea- son, of course, is because it was completely free of com- plication. There were no jobs, no homes, no mortgages, no cars, no children, and no women to worry about, All the decisions were little. ones, You had to decide -whe- ther to have turnip soup or turnip stew for dinner. You had to decide whether to go on smelling like a goat or to have a midwinter bath with ice water in the unheated washhouse. You . had to decide whether to gobble your slice of bread in one gluttonous mouth- ful or nibble at it for an hour. Looking back from the wel- ter of payments and problems and children and wives in which they are firmly •mor- assed today, it is little wonder that old kriegies heave a sigh of nostalgia for the simple, or- dered existence of the camp. Even though they'd have sold their own grandmothers into slavery to get out of the place while they were there. There's an aircraft flight way through a six-inch con- scheduled for this coming July crete wall with a nail file, 20 that Id like to be taking. I years ago, and was on the read all about it in a letter loose for three days before he received the other day from was caught, will insist on dem- air force branch of the Pri- onstrating how he did it. And soner of War Association. Some when the whole bottom falls of the boys, with their wives, out of the aircraft, the others are chartering a plane to take will have to agree that he them to the United Kingdom. hasn't lost his touch. wji e r e they will visit old haunts. Former prisoners of the Ger- Every old kriegie is Jarce- mans call themselves "krie• nous at heart, and the pilot of gies." an abbreviation of that aircraft is going to have the German word ''knegsgte• his hands full convincing them fangenen" or something of that. he hasn't room on the re- the sort. it'll hr a lively turn trip for a few things they jaunt, There is to he a well- picked up in England, such as stocked bar a board I can The. Tower of London, Princess Margaret. Big Ben and the en- tire saloon bar of The Gate Hangs High or the Dirty Duck, As the "Times" go by HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE T-A FILES •