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T hih k it over, lads
Thus is a reprint of a reprint 01 a reprint of
an editorial that was \Nritten a number of y.ears
ago by a newspaper editor in Conneetwirt. It's been,
printed in many hundreds kit' and Canadian
newspapers and maganties since. Well worth the
reading thereof .
The facts are in, boys, and • you just don't
make the ,,trade., You, a' a group between the ages
{If 16 and 23 think you're the WOrICUS best drivers;
but here's the low down . you're the country's
worst. The facts are in and your insurance rate has
gone nil any w hero iroin 2 0 to 5 0', •
Think that over. Lids and Dads, The
Insurance people ate tut dopes, They don't care.
whether you're handsome and have the temale.s in
R dither; tinny don) care Whether you have your
7.2
piece of Junk lovingly tuned to a raceWay song;
they don't rare if you can name every part of
every motto' ever built or that you can rebuild one
with your eyes closed. All they care about is your
performance on the road.
Frankly. sons. your performative stinks. You
as a group are a menace to society. . . and to
yourselves. Who says so? Not us, The insurance
companies say so and they know. They don't know
your name and address. They don't, know if you
own a Ferrara or a Ford, And don't care. All they
care about is facts, anti the facts are you have the
wo rst road, record of any- age group in the country,
And getting morse.
And getting worse: Think that over. And
think that user, fathers and mothers. Proof". Car
insurance costs have gone up sharply this year
only for boys in this age group. You are still boys,
boys, You aren't a man unless you can handle
cars. among other things. and you aren't handling
them properly. even though you have plenty of
know-how to do so, So, obviously. you aren't hand-
ling yourselves. Thai's the real answer.
Don't blame this on the insurance com-
panies. They just go by the number of accidents,
the number of arrests, the number of maimed and
killed which you have strewn over the roads of
this and other states,
So you as a group are experts, eh? You're
suckers for your own buildup. That wouldn't mat-
ter so much if only you look the rap, It isn't only
you who gets killed or hurt . . it's the girl with
y..01.1; it's the guy down the street, or the lady in
the next county who trusted. you to act like a
man. Or even like a boy who still knows he's a
boy and doesn't pretend any different. Sure. you
never meant that. accident. and won't mean the
one you're going to have. And of course it never
is your fault, You have a heart of gold and are,
kind to your mother . . and you go out on the
highways and act like a damn fool, A real fool.
That's the truth and the illStlrgiltie figures
bear it out, Maybe the fifty extra bucks this year
will give you pause. Of course you may be the
exception that proves the rule. Certainly' every one
of you isn't that. bad,
But as a group you are, and what are you
going to do about it? Are you going to be one of
the gang that pays _homage to the hot rod artist
who ought to be in jail and will be soon, or dead?
Are you going.10 go along for the ride so as not
to appear chicken and let some bragging twirl) at
th e wh ee l gam bl e with y o ur fut ure? Are yo u going
to encourage these "buddies" of yours to keep on
boosting your owl) cost of driving a car? What's
the percentage in acting like that?
You wouldn't let this guy hit y on over the
head with a hammer: why let him drive you into
a post? You wouldn't let him steal fifty bucks out
of your pocket. Yet he's already done that this
year.
And you, the worst offenders . you little
spoiled brats thinking you can handle 130 horse-
power when you can't handle one boy-power; what
are you going to do about it? Makes you import-
ant. huh? Brother, get the low down . the girls
in your age group Wave it all over you. Not only
in looks, but in intelligence, in self-control, in fair
play, and in their ability to handle those 130 horse-
power you can't handle.
That's not out' opinion; it's the eorisidei'ecl
opinion of the insurance companies. The rates for,
girls in your own age group have gone down, not
up. They are getting to be better drivers, not
worse. How does that make you feel.' For all your
boasting and all your showing off and all your
flouting of the rules of the road, and all your
reckless bravado, and all your. skill (oh, yes, we
know you are skillful) you just haven't got what
it takes . . . and that is judgment.
You haven't yet learned that the champs
are not chumps. And if you don't believe the in-
surance companies about what lousy drivers you
are, ask a champ sonic day . , if you can face
it. Don't fool yourself about the cheap adulation.
of the kids around you who don't know any better.
And don't think your girl is impressed by your
hot-shot antics the next time yeti take ,her out.
She, and most of your buddies. have you tabbed
for what you are, a chump. They're just too polite
or too seared or too disgusted to tell you.
Nobody else will tell you so, so we're telling
you. We'll take it back when the insurance rates
go back down,
Sugar and Spice
dispensed by Bill Smiley
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As the "Times" go by
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE T-A FILES
50 YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO
Miss Ora Hoffman, Dash- The Exeter Legionnaires are
wood, has been successful in 1917 Cyclone hockey champs.
passing her musical examina- Schools of the district were
tions, closed Tuesday anti Wednesday
Mr. George Stanley, a talent- an account of the severe storm
ed lay preacher of Lucan, will on 'Tuesday.
occupy the James Street pulpit Ata meeting' of Exeter
Sunday morning, Council the tax rate for 1947
Exeter's clever hail tosser, was placed at .12 mills, an in-
Tom cart i ng, has received a crease of live mills over last
contract from. the Brantford ::";;','„ 4
protessional baseball team with f ''fc" '"
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, rt ne‘\* 11111- a request to sign and report fyrms, ,the Exeter Citizens
on May 1 at a good salary."" band pr'ese'nted a concert al,
,mr. Robert .Pickard Theatre Sunday eye- rd left last rl i o ,
week for Vrobisller• Bask •• \Ft: and Mr s Calvin liev• while his two sons left this wood left WednesdayWednesdayfor 'No's,'
week and Mrs. Pickard and York anti will sail for England daughter will leave Saturday. wh ere they will make their
Mn', and Mrs. A. W. Ether- home,
ington returned 'Thursday' eve- The contributions to the Red
lung 'from their honeymoon Cross Campaign in Exeter and
placed on the hallw ay of district amounted to $2,800.
.5 .nosy metallic cei,ling is be-
ing
the Central Hotel, 10 YEARS AGO
Long winter got you down? (-herons kidneys; acid stomachs.
Feel a hit frazzled? Ulcer act- and that we are. badly in need
mg Worried about the of a new truss for that old
bomb'? Let's lake a straight hernia, They don't leave a
look at things. and see how stone. not even a gall-stone.
we ieel. unturned. They imply that we
If peop4u, ;paid any heed to,are,,,r sickening creeps.
the warnings. dire predictions-- Fortunately, there is a won-
and appalling statistics with derfut cluelessness, a dehber-
which they are assailed on ate obtuseness in human na•
every hand, the .human race tyre, makes us go blithely on
would he made tip of drivel- our way, reeking nought of the
ling cowards, cringing under Cassandras in our midst. And
their respective beds. a jolly good thing, too, or life
would be not only frightful
but also frightening.
There is something gallant
and dashing about the two-
decks-a-day man who reads
the lung cancer _story, pales
slightly, then lights a fag and
blows out the smoke with the
devil -may - care smile, the
quizzically - lifted eyebrow, of
the condemned spy facing the
tiring squad,
Just look as though you feel There is something heroic
like a beer, and somebody, in the man who hears the week-
probably your wife, will start end fatality figures while driv-
reeling off the latest figures mg to work. and merely sets
on alcoholism, his jaw, tramps on the gas,
and bulls through the traffic,
Reach for a coffin nail with
your morning coffee and pa•
per. and a headline hits you
between the eyes: SMOKING,
LENG CANCER LINKED,
TESTS PROVE. Turn on your
car radio as you drive in work
and the announcer tells 3 on,
triumphantly. that o eckend fa-
talities hit 71. heti eying last
year's record by eight. lie
sounds happy about it.
that you're h ea d = f or a tossed them off a bridge into
coronary. the river
Besides these fairly deadly Reaching for the new clothes,
forecasts, we are sulitected to lie was surprised to see that
a barrage of minor threats and they had dropped nut of the
insults, most of them of a wagon and were floating down
personal nature. The ads leave the river.
nothing sacred. They shout ••Giddap, Maude," yelled the
that we have: body odm': loose old man. pulling his shirttail
scaly dandruff: unpleasant as he realized his plight. "We'll
breath; slipping dentures; trea- surprise her anyhow!"
Start putting away some•
thing for your old age, and
60111e cheerful vulture will in-
form you with ill•concealed
satisfaction. that the human
race will be oblit0rMed by
nuclear weapons within the
current decade.
Put in an honest, hard flay's
work, and some magazine ar-
ticle will IrumPet the news
It is good to be back after
a holiday in the sunny south.
ll was quite a surprise when
I landed in Toronto to find so
little snow on the ground after
hearing about the stormy wea-
ther anti heavy snow that On-
tario has been experiencing all
punter.
Each morning at nine o'-
clock throughout, the week a
radio broadcast "Canada Cal-
ling" by Dave Price, of Tor-
onto, is heard throughout .Eto-
rula. .Da.ve relates the leading
e‘ents, the hockey games the
stock markets and the weather
from Halifax to Vancouver.
To those Floridians who lis-
ten to the broadcast it must
have seemed that Canada dut'-
,ing the winter was a land of
ice and snow and often the
weather from Canada is blamed.
on the cool weather down
there.
II is funny how you run
across so many people when
away from home who know
something about your town or
sonic people that you know,
Among those who w ere mem-
bers of the St, Petersburg
Lawn Bowling Club with whom
we arc quite friendly were
George and john Thompson, of
Hensall; Peter 'Bissell, and Dr,
and Mrs. Hall, of Goderich,
'When not bowling, (he mem-
bers of the club played differ-
ent kinds of cards, but Peter
had a -game all his own. We
used to accuse Peter of chan-
ging' the rules to suit simself,
starting a good-natured argu-
ment,
We played cribbage quite
frequently wtih P. A. Woods,
who has a summer cottage at
Sea:rho', Lake, Ont. He was for-
merly with the London Life
and wanted to be remembered
to Ralph Bailey. A Mr. Brogue
wanted to be remembered to
Charles and Mrs. Borland,
I was the guest of Mr. and
Mrs, E. C. Harvey, who have
a very comfortable efficiency
apartment. I was also the
guest of Mr. and Mrs. George
Wright. formerly of Exeter,
They have turned over the
store to one of their sons and
they are now living in a new
home. A few days before
was there Dr, and. Mrs. Fletch-
er had visited with the Wright's,
I had,orie unique experience.
I was sitting at breakfast
alongside a lady who was tel-
ling about the wonderful cele-
bration and parade at Tampa.
commemorating the time when
the Spaniards seized the city,
I was telling her that a few
25 YEARS AGO
George M. Grant was chosen
leader of Hensall Band at a
meeting Meriday night.
Mrs. A, ,1, Little lost her
life in an early morning fire
that destroyed the one-storey
frame cottage in Exeter North,
Two sons and three little
grandc'hildr'en escaped through
a bedroom window,
Ddnald Gladmati will be
ordained into the ministry of
the Chureh at London
Conference in Jude.
Mr. A. H. Wuerth, who re-
eently sold his grocery busi-
ness In llensall to Mr, Cook.
has Opened up a Shoe and
leather repairing business in
Exeter.
Benoit Masonic Quartette,
composed of, W. 0. GoOdWirt,
Rev. W. A. Young, Dr, similie
and William A. McLaren, Were.
ist Clinton Friday evening.
and ND's, Harold Hein,
jinn,, lost their hod, 0 by Lire
Monday afterhOOn.
years ago we were watching
the parade on a cold clay when
it stopped for so era) minutes
in front of the stand in which
Mrs, Southeoll and 1 Mere sit-
ling. Several girls in bathing
suits were shivering in the cold
and I loaned them our car No,
until it started up again. "I
recall that e\ em" she said. "I
was sitting on the same stand
and saw a gentleman go down
and hand them the rug.- 1
thought of how small a world
it is.
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,hint .Garter, grade 8; Ann
Alcsander, grade u, -and BouuY
1\.000s, wauc a, took, top honors
at ine tsoorne scnum public
speamng finals nom at Thames
Juni« rrivay night.
1,,D1.1Z1 IniSKetbilli learns have
proved once more they re time
lops in W OSSA "B competi-
tion. 'I he hints tought weir
way to' two championsmps
Saturday in London,
"Pete • Eisenbach of Grand
Bend is enjuyIng his second
II oy akilig maple 5.} rup--
m ins 80 acre grove near
Bruceueld.
A title new sign was erected
al the entrance to 0rand .6cnd
on Saturday. The Lions Club
donated the sign at a cost. .01
$1,300,
.Success of this winter's night
school was shown by the on-
nouncement at the open. house
Thursday night that another
will he held next ,-ear.
Exeter arena will boast Aril•
octal ice next season as a
result of
Moat;•debentures for $60:000.
n old I a I'M er Made a trip
to Inc city and decided to
startle the wife by appearing
in brand-new raiment. To sane
wear on the new suit he placed
it in the hack of the wagon.
A few miles from home he
took off his old clothes and
with all the skill. enthusiasm
and disregard tot danger of a
Ben Hur at the reins of a
chariot.
You can't help 'admiring the
cool concern of the heavy
drinker, as , lie peruses the
article' 6i:t"alcoholics, while get-
ting through his fourth rye
and water. "Trouble is a lotta
these people are weak, an'
they get too Fonda the sluff
and they can't hannet it," lie
muses, as he reaches • for the
quart and knocks the lamp off
the end table.
It is difficult to withhold
applause at the spectacle of
the type who disdains the im-
minence of . sudden annihilation
by Fr-bomb 'because he's too
busy figuring out angles to
diddle the government out of
the death duties on his estate.
And surely one cannot re-
frain from a rousing cheer for
the man with a burn ticker
who, retired after 30 years in
a sedentary job, immediately
starts slaving like a navvy,
building, tearing down, fetch•
ing and carrying, shoveling
snow and cutting grass, and
generally showing a fine scorn
for living to a ripe old age.
It must be horribly exasper-
ating to scientists, traffic
authorities, temperance people,
tax collectors and doctors, but
there's something unbeatable
in human nature. It's a sort of
massive, charming stupidity, a
superb recklessness that has
made people ignore all warn-
ings and deliberately seek out
disastet, ever since the day
Eve was warned not to fool
around with that apple.
00n.
MacGregor
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