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On looking back
JOTTINGS f3Y JMS
There st as a time in my life, don, conference, his duties fre-
when I used to set type by hand, quently called him away to
that I. said that typesetting was take special services, The min-
one thing that could not be done isters from neighhoring
mechanically. Setting type by churches were called in to
hand WAS to pick from a ease preach in ,lames St- and
each individual letter, figure was asked to fill their pulpits,
and character and spacing hart Some of the things that baton
to be put between the words to me now are the blunders 1
adjust the line, made when performing some
flow wrong I was. because in Public duty.
the office of The Times-Advo- On one occasion while intro-
c at e ihave se en radical changes clueing, an important person to
in the 60 ,'ears that I have been a large gathering. my mind
connected with the office, went blank and I could not re-
Now we are about to launch call his
on a new project that will com-
pletely revolutionize the printing
of a newspaper. It is called an
offset process. H my informa-
tion is correct the process was
patented in the Owen Sound
Sun-Times office, sold to -Ger-
many and perfected by them,
name.
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25 YEARS AGO
lU YEARS AGO
Ken Moir and Jean Taylor,
top athletes at. simr rrs. were
elected in top posts of the Stu-
dent council this week.
Beta Sigma Phi sorority re.
rently purchased A film strin•
projector and screen and pro-
smiled it to the school for the
use of the teachers.
A service dedicating the E.
elm' Memorial hail to the
memory of local 11.101. 1;111cd
serving their r011farY in dir er
wars, was -witnessed Sunday
afternoon by Legionnaires from
all parts of the vine.
Dr. J. W. t'nflieli. Vold'
dentist, 110e moved his oftice
to the house formerly occupied
by, the late Tames Till1V$611. ills
If you act up with a loaded former' bffi (1, in the
gun, 'it may be your last per- Laughion building has been
IntrilanCt. taken 'ONtt• by the law firm.
A number or meetings have
been arranged for heron
County in the interests of. Mr.
;lames Ballanlytte. Liberal
didAte for Huron.
The 'Coronation Diploma , of-
fered by the Ontario Fall Fair
Association for the best horse
in arty class at Exeter Fair
wont to 'William Hamilton.
Those who are attending Ex-
eter High School front Sbipka
ate Jean meNenzie, Gertrude
and Melvin Gaiser.
It looked like Old Hints to
se'r, Mr. Jack Mallelt of Lon-
don parade with the Exeter
Band and handle the snare-
drntri on Fail' Day.
Don't ever let them talk you
into making a speech, old
friend. Especially if you have
nothing to say. It happened to
me, and pretty well destroyed
the entirie month of Septem-
ber.
I've been avoiding speech-
making for years. My distaste
for listening to speeches is
only exceeded by my panic at
the thought of having to de-
bt er one. The whole business
of speeches has grown into a
monster, an insatiable fiend.
The Guest Speaker has be-
come one of the more flagrant - symbols of the sickness of our
Canadian society. You can't
get four people to sit down in
the same room any more, with-
out one of them suggesting you
have a guest speaker at your
next meeting.
All across this onee-careiree
country, the blight has spread.
A new species, called the Pro-
gram Committee Chairman,
has surged to the front in
every organization. He is mere
important than the president.
He is the bird who scrapes
guest speakers from the tint-
toms of barrels and other
native habitat.
He is one of those persons
engaged in the greatest man-
hunt of the 20th century—try-
ing 'to find a guest speaker,
any old guest speaker. There
is an excellent chance that he
twill wind up with an ulcer. The
Itorripetition is more frantic
ttan it is among the super--
Zi rket a,
There is a fair probability
that our Program Chairman
wall suffer a complete limeys
altrbakciown within a few months
attar he has taken the posi-
tot. This is usually a direct
result of: al the guest sneaker
coming down with the 'flu the
night of the banquet; or hi the
guest speaker getting a little
oiled at the pre-dinner recep-
tion, and including a couple of
off-color jokes in his speech:
or ci the guest speaker turn-
ing nut to be a real clod, who
has nothing whatever to say,
and says it at great length,
However, I have no sym-
pathy for Program Committee
Chairmen, who are completely
unscrupulous in their methods,
One of the more slippery mem-
bers of the fraternity hooked
and landed me with the skill
of a con artist, and that's how
I came to be standing in front
of a couple of hundred people
the other night, with my hands
hanging down, my mouth hang-
ing open, and the entire aud-
ience hanging on my opening
remarks, which I couldn't re-
member.
This crafty character called
nie last June and asked me
casually if t would address
the Canadian Club in Septem-
ber. He had picked his day. It
was the last day of school. I'd
had a couple of belts to cele•
brate, and September seemed
six months away. -Shore,
Shore. glad to,"
I went back out to the gar-
den. picked up my empty
glass and enquired, "Hey,
Suse, what do you know about
this ('anadian Out,'"
She said, "You know per-
fectly well we can't atford
Any of that it's about fit e
dollars a bottle."
This was getting us nowhere.
I then learned that the eanael-
Jan was an outfit in tonn
imports distinguished speakers.
This made me feel like a hot-
shot for about threeminutes,
then threw me Mtn a blind
panic. however. T did lime tha
whole summer to prepare a.
In the new process the en-
tire operation is done by pho-
tography. thus eliminating the
old process of setting type by
type-setting machinery,
No doubt. when the process is
complete, the full story will be
told in pictures. My object in
this column is to reminisce a
Mlle.
The first newspaper press in.
Exeter Tim es was operated
by hand, That was before my
time, The first gasoline engine
that was used 'to run the press
was water cooled. On one oc-
casion when the engine balked
I was accused of putting water
in the gasoline, That hurt my
ego,
A job press was run by foot
power. It was a big step when
an electric motor was installed
for operating this press.
When the type for the news-
paper was set by hand it was
fast work to set six inches of a
single column in an hour, On
the linotype a column or more
is set in an hour, With the new
process that speed may he
doubled or 'trebled..
As a newspaper man my in-
terests went beyond the office.
With a limited education. hav-
ing just passed the entrance
examination. I followed the
advice of one or the American
presidents as follows: "If any
man is fool enough to ask you
to do something worth .while,
you should he fool enough to
try." Making a success of any
undertaking brings greater op-
portunities.
Several of us formed a small
group that met in the dental.
office of Dr. Roulaton for study
and debate and on one neva-
sion Dr. Roulston. Dr. Main
and myself were winners in a
public debate in the Exeter
Opera House. It was one of
several debates.
At a time when nor. W. t,
:\leAllister, our minister, was
elected president of the Loft-
Rev. Dr. Peter Strang., an
Exeter Old Boy, superintend-
ent of Saskatchewan Missions,
preached in Coven Presbyter-
ian church Sunday morning.
Mrs. 5, Fitton, Mrs. 1. W,
Blatchford and Mrs. E. A.
rollick attended the WIT
convention in Blyth this week,
Miss Beatrice limey, Miss
Lulu Hastings and Willie Mori-
son took part in a recitation
competitiob, the latter winning
the prize.
oo. Monday, W, J, Carling
disposed of his store to Mr, B.
Bedford or trightoo, In the
deal Mr. Carling gets a farm
of 130 acres near Brighton.
Mr. Bert Clark has just
completed the painting and
decorating on the :south dwell-
ing of the three erected by
Messrs, Snell and Marchand
on the site of the Old Mansion
House.
Appreciation
To the editor:
On behalf of the Commanding
Officer of RCAF Station Clinton
and myself wish to express
our sincere thanks for the ex-
cellent publicity given by your
paper to our Centralia-Clinton
Air Force Day 1962.
Your personal interest in our
activities is always appreciated
and. I know the co-operation
provided, by you and your staff
contributed very materially to
the unqualified success of our
Air Force Day.
L. 11. Randall
Group Captain.
Commanding Officer
RCAF Station Centralia
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Robert Sanders of town was
awarded 15 firsts and one sec-
ond out of 17 entries in 'Vege-
tables at Exeter Fair.
'I'ltc half-mile bicycle
race tat Exeter Pair was won
by Hank Ellis, Neil Slatlalte
and Kovin Delbridee, Over 6.000
attended the fair,
At the field day for the high
schools of Exeter. Mitchell and
St. Marys, held at Mitchell
Friday, the Exeter pupils car-
tied off five of the seven
championships. Murray May
won the senior boys' champion-
ship: B. -O'Brien. the intermed-
iate; ,ranot Kestle. Ilutiltirt
and Lillian tmter-Duvar lied,
for first place in senior girls"
championship.
Charles Wong. .who has been
operating a rate in Exeter,.
has closed his 'establishment.
'The building recently porchas-
NI by Ileayers 'Hardware will
be remodelled And made into
an up-fn.:date hardware store.
The TlInes-,AclYecete, Septemkter 27, 1902.
This newsee.e.er ballaYea, the.. ,right to oxprels
F 9ntriOute4- 1,o. the progre ss .of .the nation and the
died freely and sylthopt pronotics to prekervi #
;WI; .government,
pinion to public
trust be 1*,r,
4001q,
as Let's get tough about traffic .,accidents
The Times-Advocate believes. the following
editorial, written by Tom Deachm.an and origins
printed in a Canadian weekly newspaper. is
worthy of study by, this community. We -endorse its
.,recommendations:
When we slaughter thirty, fifty, one Isund.
!.t red, or more valuable, warm-blooded, and very
human men, women and children on our highways
each weekend, and maim countless others, it is.
customary to devote Monday to deploring, and
'buttering about the necessity for safe .driving, be-
Jore settling back to the every-day grind, After all,
what else can you do? That's the way it has been
y for every weekend of every summer for almost as
long as you can remember.
But the fact is. something can be done. We
have proved that certain steps can be taken to
ring about drastic reductions in the predictable
. number of deaths.
The sword most likely to defeat the man
with the scythe has in o edges; one: vigorous en-
forcement of the law: two: stiff penalties for of-
fenders. including ,jail sentences and lengthy per-
mit suspensions or even cancellations.
This is not just idle theory. When tough
'Policemen combine with tough magistrates .
.swhen retribution is known to be swift, sure, and
.stunning in its severity . . accident "by invita-
tion'' virtually ceases. Only true accidents remain,
.if such there can be.
Now if we know this to be so, and we do,
:then there may be some kind of an ugly word to
4escribe an apathy or a neglect which results in
death.
Let me ask 'a brutal question: When we.
neglect to take dangerous drivers off the road
permanently, or at least give them a jolt in jail to
bring them to their senses, how far are we from
criminal negligence?
Section 191. of the Criminal Code says:
"Everyone is criminally negli g ent who :at in doing
anything, or lb) in omitting t o do anything that it
is his duty to do, shows wanton disregard for the
sl`c lives or safety of other persons. For the purpose
of this section, 'duty' means a duty imposed by
law,"
Let me spell it out further. We are accus-
tomed to seeing charges of criminal negligence
laid against motorists, particularly when they
cause a fatal accident. But I am now asking whether
our police, our magistrates, our civic and provincial
administrators and society itself are not open to
charges of criminal negligence when we KNOW
how to cut the traffic toll and do nothing about
it?
I do not believe for one second that any
policeman. magistrate or administrator is being
deliberately negligent about it. But I do feel they
they have not, in all their wisdom, properly re-
lated their actions to -their duty under the law,
which is primarily to protect the lives of all QUI,
zees. In short, I don't believe the police are con-
sistently and vigorously enforcing the laws, nor
are magistrates consistently and vigorously making
the punishment fit the potential enormity of the
crime.
I ant not arguing here for over-protection,
or for narrowing of existing regulations. Theoretic-
ally it would be possible to legislate the elimination
of many accidents; we could reduce all speed limits
to 70 miles per hour, for example. But that would
place a heavy and senseless imposition on the
majority in order to curb the irresponsible minor-
ity,
No, I suggest simply that those charged
under the law with enforcing existing traffic laws
do so with every means within their power, and
that those charged with handing out penalties take
a more serious view of the nature of the infraction
and of their own responsibility to society, and act
accordingly.
For some reason we have been resisting a
"get tough" policy. There seems to be a national
belief that a man who aims a gun should go to jail,
but it is all right to let a man who aims a car off
with a light fine. We believe it is not cricket for
police to patrol in unmarked cars. Speed traps are
actually the subject of indignant protests to the
press. We feel righteously entitled to drive up to.
10 m.p.h. over the posted speed lit-nit, .And magis-
trates wh-o have the good sense to impose severe
penalties are compared to the "hanging judges" of
the old West.
Who are we kidding? Driving illegally is
not a game to be played with. the law, like buying
an illicit sweepstakes ticket or over-parking, It is
a deadly Russian roulette, played with other lives
as well as our own.
Le us now abandon all hope regarding the
effectiveness of Monday's armchair editorializing
about "the other fellow's" bad driving habits, al-
truistic though it may be. The clowns, the smart-
alecks, the fools, the half-wits and the drunks who
cause too many of today's accidents don't absorb
editorials nor do they respond to safe driving
slogans, It is now time to face the fact that, When
lives are at stake, the law must take over. Appeals
to reason just don't work,
Let us put the case to our police and to our
magistrates. Let us ask our municipal and pro-
vincial legislators to urge those within their juris-
diction to take the steps we know can reduce the
toll. Let us ask our newspapers, radio and TV
stations and other media to mount an active cam-
paign to bring about broad public support of the
law and its enforcement in this vital area,
For if we continue as we are. knowing a
great part of the solution yet doing nothing about
it, then ire must. in all conscience, re-read the de-
finition of criminal negligence and start; asking
ourselves some very embarrassing questions.
Sugar and Spice
dispensed by Bill Smiley
sophisticated, scholarly ad-
dress. so I stopped worrying.
Unfortunately, time passed,
as it so often does, and I
didn't do a thing about it. Two
nights before the banquet, des-
peration drove me to choose a
topic. I decided to talk to the
Canadian Club about Canada,
This was throwing swine be-
fore pearls, but it was a nice.
big vague subject, so I stuck
to it,
But t can tell you I felt
pretty foolish when I stood up
in front of all those people. At
thier banquet last year, they
had really obtained their
money's worth — a beautiful,
blonde speaker, colored mov-
ies, dancing girls, special
Hawaiian music.
didn't hate men one lousy
lantern slide, I had tried to
talk rny wife into doing a few
native Canadian dances, to add
some color. But the only native
dances we have are Indian,
and she refused to stomp
around a fake fireplace in her
bare skin, and the kids got in-
to a scrap over who was going
to play the bongo drums for
the performance, so we had to
wash out the whole business.
It was awful, But do you
know what i found out? People
are extremely polite. They will
sit there fighting to keep their
eyes open, no matter how rot•
ten a Guest Speaker you are.
They will aplaud„ with a nice
blend of relief and gratitude,
bin politely, when you finish,
And they will have one or their
members stand up and thank
you, without a trace of irony,
for your inspiring .address
"which I 'am sure we will all
remember."
As the 'Times" go by
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