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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-05-03, Page 264 The TiroP.4.•AdVae.Ato, 10, 1 Edit•nails • Let them :debate Th4 newmapor belloya4 till: right to: ::ex.preOe etel .111, 't1 .41 t; gontribute$ to the .proureas of the, pollen: and that it must .be exer• sired freely " without prelOics to prekerve _and: improya critic ,government. Matter of .concern Now that 11)d.S$.i\R scientific and Medical, evidence has proven .conclusiv.ely that cigarette smoking contributes to lung :cancer, The 'United Church Observer, in an editorial: in the current issue. asks if The United .church of Canad,i shouldn't reconsider its views of ten years ago, wilco the Cle(u-val Cottrell said that smoking "not a moral issue," and the .subject "is not one of sufficiently serious (g.noern to warrant the work o , a group. at devoted men A lla women," The picture has changed .today, the church journal points out The Royal college of Physicians in London, after three years study, recommended re,.ently that the British government take decisive steps to curb the rising consumption of tobacco. in Wales and England, 22,000 persons died from Iting cancer in 1960, Doctors say 18,000 of them le1101 still be living if they hadn't smoked. The Observer says: "The United Cbur ,th should reverse its 'not a moral issue' decision, and repudiate its 'not sufficiently serious concern' con- clusion. "We should recognize that Christians who oppose smoking as expensive. and unhealthy aren't. necessarily narrow-minded old fogeys.," the church triper says. Correction, please Somehow 01' other, our comment last week about Blston Cardiff's chances in the forthcoming election came out exactly the opposite to that which we intended, as a number of readers sus- pected. We said: "Few doubt at this moment that veteran L. Elston Cardiff will be defeated, despite his age." We meant: 'Tow doubt that Mr, Cardiff will be elected, despite his age." 74 A et, i t tq 1St, Y.,c; Y Wuru $pr4ate, Weed t4hte reexlvtl "Dear, you know how 3'01-11 ve Wateting a gQIII- Paqt, car Flood on the Thames JOTTINGS BY J/v1$ uttl:aq Er{dies,te.iftd. *AY.d ritnto.:.t0.1 "Now you've .get it---except for the smile!" orie't 'Pert, but. it i$11.14 ?" /1 I e t'it,5 4H1—tA GA4144+,4 r' IS tk7 t ,hq w avid Zbe (exam: Zitne5.2notate Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 Published Each Thursday Morning At strAttovd, Clot, Autherfeed as Second Class Mail, Past Office Dept, Ottawa and for Payment of Postaee in Cash AWARDS .6., Prank Howe Beattie Shietdt best front pogo (CO. 640, 1957; A, V. 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ONTARIO TRAVEL LITERATURE mail to; Ontario Travel, 11705 Parliament tildes„ Toronto, Ontario Ontario Department of Travel end Publicity Hen, Bryan L, Cathcart, Minister 1\otaing 01E1-Tab about ourEcmso -Ehis spring-I t' Bright and shiny, like a new spring bonnet — that's how our house looks these days. We've had it "done" all over and now the Joneses are keeping up with us. The cost? Well — much less than you'd think. We financed the "works" with a B of M Home Improvement Loan. That's how you can get homevor improvements 11 vy 6ANK, done at lower cost. Talk to the people at your neighbourhood. B of Al ,,,0111 5 h AN PY4; 1)1'M:it soon —. they'll be glad to tell you all about it. BANK OF MONTREAL • 6;0444 eit,te 2744 , Prime minister Diefenbaker has. dismissed summarily a challenge from Liberal Leader Pear- son to take part in a televised election debate. 11 e hope be changes his mind. Politically, as the PM indicated in his abrupt reply to the challenge, it might not he a goad] "risk" for him to appear with Mr. Pearson. In • such .a situation. the _challenger obviously has more to gain than the champion. Nevertheless, in the interest of democracy pressure should be applied to hold TV debates ..among the political leaders. The TV CM ners, pro- • vides a wonderful opportunity tor the public to their leaders in action, lo compare their plal• forms, their arguments, their abilities. Surely the public has a right to make direct comparisons when the ideal facilities to do so are available. The prime minister is not being realistic when he sti2-ests that veil debates are not just'. lied in Canada because the leaders debate cantina- - ally on the floor of the House of Commons. The public does not see such debates and its know- ledge of them is secondhand. Mr. Dielenbaker, in our opinion, should not be permitted to deprive the public of this °ppm- • tunity because of a narrow political view-. As prime minister of this country, he should be prepared to defend his policies and his programs against any qualified challengers. It is not as if Mr. Dielenhaker could not hold his own in such debates. lie has proven his mas- tery often in the House of Commons. We'd like to see the public press for a scrip.; of such debates. As a matter of fact, we'd like to see it go much further than that. With the proper • organization, there could be a televised debate among the candidates in each riding on local sta- tions. These, along with the national debates, would he most effective in assisting the voter to make his decision. Su ar an Spice dispensed by Bill Smiley This spring. I was confront- Riehl new, it remild save me ed by a difficult decielon. 11 about Se a week, %%Inch tt costs Involved making a choice be , to gee my son to the city for tween two ways of lite. I a music lesson every Saturday. wadder what you'd have de- cided? aly, i t wasn 't a world-sh a ki ng Taking the job meant higher d eci si on. lik e gi vi ng up stun k. expenses. Parking, lunches, ing or drinking, or entering a garage, public transportation, monastery, or any th ing as ee l,. pre -lunchmartinis, more costly ions as that. But it did require entertainment; an these would much mulling over, and Fri easily neutralize those vast wager that the Old Girl and I sums we saved in the last got through about 400 cupe of Paragraph, tea in the process of making Accepting the up our minds. moving from a house we like It came about like this. An old acquaintance. and a very decent chap, had offered me an extremely interesting job. The salary was a big improve- ment over my present one. The holidays and fringe junk To the editor, were as good. My training and For the past five years background fitted me for the have had most happy relation- job, which was a challenging shipseeeith the editor of The one, Green light all the way, Times - Advocate a n d appre- Very attractive. even exciting, crate the many times he has gone considerably out of the way to assist me and to give Why didn't grab it? Well, wonderful publicity to the var• it was a matter of piling items ions farm organizations. on the scales—an advantage hero, a disadvantage there — and in the process, my wife and I learned a lot about what we wanted out of life, for our• selves and our children, I should mention that taking the job meant moving to a large city. It meant the second major dislocation of our child- ren at school within two years, it meant saying goodbye to new friends we had made, and starting the process all over again. These were some of the things that took a little of the shine off the proposition. But there were many items for the other side of the scales. I have nothing against large cities, and my wife likes them, They have cultural ad- vantages the smaller centre cannot provide. There is a certain excitement in the city, with its good restaurants. its theatres, its concerts, its major sporting events. There is a definite feeling. however little It is therefore with a great deal of hesitation that I write this letter taking exception to his editorial in the May 3 is- sue in which he indicates that as a prospective candidate for the New' Democratic Party in !hie riding, will have diffi- culty in arranging the mar- riage of labor and agriculture. This is indeed true. I have arrived on the scene much too late to attend this wedding. Fifteen years ago I became secretary-treasurer to the Grey Tow tiship school hoard. During the following ten Years it would he my considered opinion that at least S out of 12 teachers were farmers' wives. These people said they were married and neither I nor the school hoard questioned their hones'7,-.. Not only are these farmers married to labor, they are married to one of the tight- eet closed-shop unions in the country. it II is indicated that many may be justified, of being farmers wives are employed at at: the centre of things. the Campbell plant at Listow. Taking the job meant say- el. tag money. '11. won't he long Then lleere is the farmer's until the kids are ready f or wife who stays et home and university. Think of what we'd loops her eye no the farm save if they could live at while her (assumed) husband home while attending college, works in the salt mine, the position meant very much, set in a huge lot currently festooned with tulips and daffodils, shaded by huge, spreading oaks. We shuddered at the memory of all those dreadful little suburban brick boxes jammed in rows, with just room to park a ear be- twecn e a c h pa i r, seriously considered, with halt my life spent. whether could afford the sheer waste of time imposed by city life. Hours are stolen from each week, simply getting to work and home. More hours of trafe shoe factory, Boshart's the canning factory or any other of the many plants under con- tract is not only married to labor. lie is labor. suppose "domination" might describe the relation- ship in some marriages but in the vast majority "co-opera- tion" would be the correct word to use. Co-operation is certainly the word that describes the rela- tionship between farmer and laborer in the New Democratic P arty. This division between farmer and labor is a myth that has been long and successfully — Please turn to page 5 fie-battling and parking -frus- trations are snatched from your leisure in the process of getting places, whether it's to visit friends or go to church or go golfing or go to a show. Here, a minimum of time is wasted in the boring business of getting where you want to go. Fin five minutes from work, golf course, curling rink; three minutes from church and shopping; five minutes from good swimming for the kids: 15 minutes from a trout stream, Taking the job meant getting away from the heavy snows and deep cold of winters in these parts. It meant escaping the long, wearing drive to the city, so often necessary. On the reverse side of the coin, it meant sweltering summers in the city, or the expense of a cottage in the north country, and the long, wearing drive to the cottage. This sort of dithering went on for weeks, Finally, we found the item that tipped the scales. We decided that life looked a little better in this land of Lout streams and trees, of black squirrels and blue water, of friends and flowers, than it did in the con- crete canyons and the self., conscious suburbs. Do you know what swung the decision? We realized we were too darn lazy to tackle moving. 50 YEARS AGO At the annual election of offi- cers of Bethany E p wort h League president named was John Cann; vice-presidents Miss Ruby Passmore, Wesley Johns, Miss Lily Woods, Orville Cann; secretary, Miss Flossie Pass- more; treasurer, Harry Ford; organist, Miss Flossie Francis. The government is just com- pleting the planting in Lake Huron of 45 million little white- fish. Later from 150 to 160 mil- lion little pickerel will be pieced in the lake, time nearly 200 million will be planted this year. The Kirkton Telephone Co are now running a wire from Gran- ton out the townline to Whalen. ,Fraser Brown, Crediton, left Monday for Windsor where he joined the Berlin baseball team as pitcher. Messre, Percy Gillies, Tied Bawdeo, C. Heywood and Cel ald Iturcion were in London Monday. Gerald has accepted a position as sign writer in the city. Mr, Berl. Station, who has been in London for the winter, returned home to Grand Bond bring an auto with him pur- chased by his father. Grand Bend tan now boast of, having an auto as well as other vil• lagee. 25 YEARS AGO Dr, Eugene Tiernan of the Ariny Medical Corns, tialifax, telephoned his mother, Mrs. a lleman on MOther's'Day. Ile has just received his com. Mission as captain, the first to be awarded in Canada by our' Hew sovereign, King George VI, Rev, A. E. Elliott of Main Steed, theited C h wits chosen chairman of Huron PresbyterY hold at GodericIL 'Loden C. Jeckell, SI, died in California, May 7. Ile was horn on the homestead north of 1.0;eter and left Ontario for the south aQ years ago, Mrs, John Chambers was the winner of leti pounds of sugar tot' the most popular mother in a Methee l e Deer contest cony ducted by Grieve's Lunch, Air, and meg, W. N.. Bowe celebrated their golden wed ding anniversary on Monday, A tennis club waS organized in HOMO With Sam Ratieie es neeeideet end Ali Sarah Man- son A's Seeretary4reasttrer, Portraits and nhotogvephs had been knocked to the floor and were covered with mud. Drapes 1;4,,nndmprtsIg isinodoziendeiltnt.kltilioaeldedwaolerr. by the rush of scaler and lamp shades Were torn and mud- soaked. ''They won't let us clean up yet" said Nicol, ''We just came in to see bow badly things were damaged. We hardly expected it would be even this", he turned to the tutiti'ndotowro, but ilt -ehse 0f water1, was overflowing out. of the kitchen doer. A city official inspected his west London home, His billiard room in the basement was ruined, his down-stairs furniture was valueless. "I'd give anyone everything down stairs and in the basement for 10 cents if they would take it all out," he said, adding the upstairs rooms had only been slightly dam- aged. A small store on Wharncliffe Rd. was another example of the damage done. The owner had more than 60,000 gold fish, many rare tropical varieties, but only one was alive today. He had 50 valuable pigeons two of which won top prizes at a United States show, but all had been lost or drowned. Your library By MRS, VAS Paperback publishing's big- gest event of this and many a year occurred last week with the appearance of William Shirer's —De Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", pooksellers are stocking up anticipating a record run. As we mentioned hi this' col- umn recently this book has had a phenomenal success as a hardcover book even at the price of $12, It has been on best — Please tan to page 5 l5 YEARS AGO Rev. 1. S. Burn of Calvary .EUB Church, l)ashwooci, is retiring and his successor, Rev, Getz, will arrive in Dash- wood next week. Leroy G. :Brown, BSA, has been appointed agricultural representative for Huron County effective May I. When lightning struck on the farm of Mr. cinch Mrs. William Gibson, one and a halt miles south of Exeter, Tuesday evening, Alt', and Mrs, Gibson, who were in the act of taking in some clothes from a clothes- line, were both rendered tan. conscious. Both regained con- sciousness through the night, Mrs, Glenn MacLean was made honorary, president, of Kippen East. Wf after serving as president since the begin- sling of the Institute in .Decem- her 1931. The Hopper • 1-lackey Furni- Company is preparing to ree model the apartment building on William St., recently. pur- chased from A. 0, Elliot, into a MOdens funeral home, The inaugural meeting of the newly-appointed Exeter' Com. inanity Park Committee was held Saturday evening with A. J, Sweitzer as chairman, 10 YEARS AGO Mr8. Al, Des ,lardins, Grand Bend, will head Ithron \VMS Presbyterial for the coming year', Mie Ed °Veils of 'McGillivray Township had six two.year-old cattle stolen from his barn het week, Me, and :lire, Cl, 1.j, (Irent fnce Clerk), Si, ThoMes, celebrating the twenty fifth anniversary of their marriage on Monday, May 12. Sonic 80 papas and teachers of Osborne 'Public Schools left AL 7 4.1)), Thursday from Win. chelsta for a long anticipated trip to Ottawa, Stephen COUlteil decided to snood $1,560 On the redecorat- ion and renovetion of the township hail at crediton. Marilyn 13iseett took top honors and a *25 special 'Prize for her singing at the !Woo County Vestival in aorierieh When she COMPeted Willi other public, Nelson' pupils under U Fears The reader comments While I was in Florida during the winter the subject of cone vorsalion almost every day was 'fie ''torn" and the snow that was piling up in Ontario. The thought occurred in me that possibly there would be some floods when the snow diee_p. peered. when I arrived in Toronto the latter part of April the sun was shilling brightly and the snow hail largely disappeared, The thought of floods was a thing of the past, in looking through the Times- Acivotate of May 6, 1037, I ran across the following account of the damage created in London when the Thames river over- flowed. "Loss suffered by Mr. and Mrs. F. Nicol, Paul Ave„ Lon- don was indicative of the losses suffered in hundfeds of homes in the west London area flooded 111 ondae night. The latter reached eight feet up the walls of the first floor which 'was several feet above the grounds on property considered safe from the Thames river ['feed- ings because it was a dozen blocks away from the normally quiet stream, Oozy mud covered chester- field suite, chairs, tables, beds, chests of drawers, buffet, tab,es, ice box, the floor and all other furniture and equipment, "Everything is lost" sighed Mrs. „Nicol. "We spent seven years trying to furnish our home and now everything is ruined, We didn't have much but we got the best we could and bought it in small (meal- ties. Now it is all gone," Mr. Nieoi walked to the ra- dio, so soaked with water he easily pulled a piece of veneer wood from it. The buffet in the diningo room was warped and the sidee bulged. Every article of furniture was in disarray and lying on the floor. The buffet was on its side spilling out dishes, silverware and table linen, The refrigera- tor had been knocked over by the rush of water. The beds soaked with muddy water and fine mud covered the springs, As the "Times" go by HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE T-A FILES