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. Almost exactly one year ago, this news-
papex asked why there should be such a delay in
dealing with the Parkhill Darn project. Although
the circumstances were somewhat different then.
here's: what we said:
Editorial
Why the delay?
- "What's holding up the hearings over did-
sion Of municipal costs toward construction of the.
million-dol:lai° Parkhill OW HOW long Swill this
project be left up in the air?"
At that time, the hearing had been pests
poised in favor of an examination of discovery to
determine what criteria WAS used to arrive at the
municipal assessment adopted by the authority,
• We noted then that after' the examination
had been beld, the hearing proper would have to
be .scheduled and that, at the rate matters were
proceeding, the decision eeu,ld be delayed for
months. Our editorial said:
"How long will all this take? We have no
idea, except to suggest that the courts and the
municipal board could. kick it around for another
year or two unless some agitation is done."
The hearing has been completed—many
months ago—and still no decision. We repeat our
original conclusion:
"In the meantime, municipal budgets will
have to be juggled around to cope with the delays.
Exeter, for example, levied between two and three
mills this year to meet its assessment toward the
darris. Most other municipalities figured the costs
in •their budgets, toe, They'll likely have to carry
these,- funds into another year, and perhaps an-
other year after that, •
"The authority, too, is hamstrung waiting
for the outcome. They have been preparing to
undertake the elaborate administration which will
be required on this major project, but it may be
months before they can take action.
"Is all this delay necessary?"
sMvoeste, 'Ocileber;4, 154.62.
Ibis f steses.peper ktelleves .the rig.ht to express - .tit .epimeri evbile
eentribmt0 .prpsri4 tbs. .Hatton end that It must
eiseei.freely. end without prejudice to preSeree, end impreve: demos
cretjc toyernmenis
it may come as a bit of a shock, particularly
because of the nice warm weather we've .been
having, but the truth is that municipal elections
are jtist about one Month _Way. NOW 'S the time
to do some thinking about them,
Too often, municipal selections in this area
have been a case of simply finding enough candi-
dates to fill the posts. on record that, more
than once, municipalities have had to call second
nominations to secure sufficient representatives,
IS this an example of the way we cherish
the freedom we've fought on numerous occasions
ie maintain, the same freedom for which we're
spending millions of dollars to protect in view of
the current threats to world peace?
Surely, our faith in democracy warrants a.
bit more enthusiasm than this.
municipal government still seems to be
small potatoes to a great many ratepayers these
days. Yet most town,. village and townshit coun-
cils are handling hundreds of thousands of dollars
every year. That kind of money is easy to spend,
but it's not so easy to spend wisely, particularly
‘ehen there is so much for which it can be used.
With sewerage systems, subdivision develop-
ment, municipal planning, capital budget forecasts
and many other important considerations facing
most councils, it should not be a question of filling
the seats, The concern should be, to elect the best
men available.
Exeter, which will elect municipal officials
for a two-year term, should be giving serious con-
sideration to candidates now. Certainly there
should be an election, perhaps for all the posts, A
two-year term should be earned at the polls, par-
ticularly at the council level.
No, it's not too soon for citizens in every
municipality to begin thinking about their respons-
ibilities in this department. Let's not leave it until.
nomination day.
Time to. .choose
The worry problem
"I AM, an emergency ease! I have shopping to dor
.Do they know?
We read a few months ago where the
economic predictors in Canada were forecasting
a coming slump in business. The-"monthly letters",
the writers in the financial papers, and others who
are supposed to know something of how to pre-
dict future trends in economics seemed to be
almost unanimous that there was a gloomy period
of recession ahead of us in Canada.
Of course these things are pretty . hard to
predict accurately or even with a semblance of
accuracy. There are' certain indicators to be looked.
for and from balancing the, good ones with the
bad ones they apparently come up with their own
opinions as to what is going to happen to the
economy.
Personally we think many of these pre-
dictors- are all wet, They are doing something
which is of very little service to the country and
besides that we feel that many of them are not
possessed of sufficient experience and knowledge
to be able to make such forecasts.
A few months ago one of them was pre-
dicting a serious drop-off in sales of the key auto-
mobile industry. This same source has changed its
tune completely since early summer and now
predicts a continuance of higher auto sales
through the early part of 1963.
We have been personally following the fore-
casts of a prominent U.S. organization which has
been in the business of economic forecasts for
some decades now. incidentally their viewpoint
over the past several months, despite the break
in the stock market, has been one of continued
optimism,
Pessimistic predictions are fine if they are
based on absolute and certain knowledge, but
lesser lights should leave this business to those
who are fitted by knowledge and experience to
take part in such business.
St, Marys Journal-Argus
ugar and Spice
For the past two weeks,
rvee been "batching it". That
is, if there's such a thing as
a eirachelor with two great,
galumphing children, I have,
No, my wife hasn't left me.
Nothing as exciting as that.
I hadn't been left alone with
the kids for years—not since
they were quite small. In
those times, we all enjoyed it
thoroughly when Mom went
away for a few days. Not only
did we get the Old Battleaxe
Off otir necks, but reverted joy-
fully to the pigs that men and
small children really are at
heart.
We ate whatever and when
ever and wherever we pleased.
We let the dishes pile up in
the sink and the dirt pile up
on the floor, with equAl indif.
ferenee, We wore the seine
socks for days. It was a real
holiday, even though we al.
ways caught supreme hell when
the boss got bonne.
se, ses
tut something hes. happened
Voce those days, 'Either I've
&Own a lot Older, or the kids
have grown b lot more Om.
-pliceted, or our household er.
rangernente have Increased
immensely in eintipleeify. This
finite It was no fun, If was
lust plain 'boring, not to Men.
tion ..Exhausting, I've never
been so glad fo see anyone as
seat ..tie see the old Trouble' n Strife *hen. she walked In
the other evening and started
glaring around to see what
kind of a mess we'd made.
In the old days, cooking was
fun when 1 was left in charge.
There was flair and imagine
tion, vision and variety, in our
menu. We might start off with
a bowl of Pablum garnished
with pineapple. The next course
might turn out to be meat
pies and ice cream, We'd wind
up with chocolate bars and
pop, or cherry tarts and
French fries, The kids loved
my cooking, and there was
never a scrap leftover.
Somewhere in the interven
ing years, these youngsters
have been ruined, They've turn
ed into horrible little conform-
ists. They want meat and
potatoes and regular dessert
and milk and all that sort of
junk that dirties a lot of
dishes and is also pretty dull.
And in between meals, they
have 12 little snacks each,
strewing a sordid trail of
rookie crumbs, banana sldns
and apple cores from one end
of the house to the other,
did learn one thing during
this appalling fortnight. I found
out that My wife was not just
an old crab, as the kids and
had firmly believed for
years. During the Iast decade,
she has informed tls at least
twice a Week, that we are a
trio of "filthy bums" or, , al-
ternatively, "dirty Slops." She
hex told us faithfulle., and to
S. .0.testeeseVS;10
our faces, that we are selfish,
thoughtless and useless. We
just shrugged it off. We
thought all women talked like
that.
Well, let me be the first to
admit publicly that she was
right, At least, she was right
about the kids, It's inconceiv•
able that two children who
have been trained for yars in
the good, old-fashioned virtues
of indestry, cleanliness, help*
fulness and obedience could be
so lazy, dirty, unhelpful and
Here and now I make soma
premises. Never again will I
walk out of my shoes and
leave them lying in the middle
of the kitchen, Never again
will I leave empty beer bottles
and heaped ash trays all over
the joint. Never again will I
hang my jacket on top of the
refrigerator. Never again will
I snort contemptuously when
my wife wails about the slop.
piness of the kids and hand
her that eld bromide, "They're
lust normal children."
Never!
And '1 do further promise
that forevermore hereafter, I.
Will pick up my socks, wash
the ring off the bath ttib, wipe
my feet at the door, and force
the kids to help with the
dishes every night. With a
Whip, if need he.
And I hereby retract every
snide remark 1 have ever
made about running a house
being a soft touch. It's not,
Looking after a house and
raising a family is all right
for the birds — birth them,
feed them for a few weeks,
then kick them out and move
to a new house — but it
crushes the sensitive spirits of
such people as me and all the
housewives in the land.
However. every skeleton has
its closet, and there's a black
cloud for every silver lining.
With this in mind, and in the
light of the last, two weeks. I
know that, should I be turned
out of my present job, 1 could
easily find Another: capable.
middle-aged housekeeper; will
itg; experienced took; to live
in' top salary; no scrubbing.
It will soon be two months
since 1 observed my sixtieth
anniversary with this newspa-
per. This places me in the cat-
egory of a young man growing
older than he feels. However I
will admit that I arn not as
young as I used to be,
One of the things for which 1
have reason to rejoice is the
fact that the good Lord has
spared me to enjoy life past the
alloted span of life. True, the
reflexes are not what they used
to be, but in spite of that fact,
I still manage to get a great
deal of enjoyment out of life.
1 have my hobbies and too, I
have my worries. I am thankful
to say that I have had very
little sickness and I think I
should truthfully say that, there
is a streak of laziness in me.
What prompted me me take up
this train of thought was a
hook that I was advised to pur-
chase: "How To Stop Worry-
ing and Start Living" written
by Dale Carnegie, author of an-
other best seller; "How to Win
'Friends and influence People,''
The chapters in the first, book
are a series of lectures by Car-
negie printed in book form that
sold more than 225,000 copies.
The entire book is now printed
in pocket series and can be
purchased for 35 cents. The to-
tal circulation is now over
265,000.
It contains the true and start-
ling stories of many prominent
and successful men who had
practically worried themselves
into the grave and how they overcame t h e i r worr i es and tri-
umphed in the cod,
Here are a few concise ex-
amples;
Jack Dempsey relates that the
toughest opponent he ever
fought was worry, lie worked
out a system to stop worrying.
He would get out of bed at
night; look at himself in the
mirror and say to himself;
"What a fool to he worrying
about something that never hap-
pened." lie would pray while
training for a bout and would
pray each round before the bell
sounded,
Rev, William Wood, of Carle-
voix, Mich., worked under con-
stant pressure and never re-
laxed and got to the point
where he worried about every-
thing. One day while going over
some old notes, he crumpled
them up and tossed them into
the waste paper basket and
said to himself -why don't you
do the sa m e thing with your
worries"
Connie Mack, was in proles-
skenal baseball for over 63
50 YEARS AGO
The Exeter High School "at
home" was held in the school
rooms Friday night. The pro.
gram consisted of a piano
solo by Howard Quackenbush;
recitation by Willie Manson;
trie by Misses Lilian Boyle,
Mary Acheson and Madeline
Carling, solo by Maurice Senior
and violin solo by Melville
Gladma n.
elr. Dan MeDonald has open.
ed a new blacksmith business
in the Davis' Old Stand on
Main St,
A letter was recei\ ed by
council from John Ransford,
president of Clinton Board of
Trade, iced' ling the County Of
Huron's decreasing population,
and calling a meeting in Clin-
ton 'rnivn hall to discuss ways
to attract immigration.
Mr. and Mrs. William Pen-
hale have moved itito the
house purchased from B. N
Rowe ne Huron Steeet,
25 YEARS AGO
About 850 participated to the
fowl supper in the large church
sheds of EleB church, Credi.
ton, ,lt lakes the nature of
family gathering for people to
attend from Colorado,
Detroit, London.
Miss ('lare MeGewart„
who returned freth Peking.
Chine, two months .Age Where
she had fought for roue years.
addressed the, sectional m eet
nig. of ilurOn Presbyterial h eld
in Chiselhurst UnitedChurch,
Nine carloads of foodstuffs
have been shipped to Western
Canada during thc last two
weeks front districts represent
ed mellibersef the Smith
Huron ltinlsterdal Aeteeletiott
EtOter has a fieei industry
that few people are aware ef.
Turnips, that heve bteti.
ed, stamped and Waxed, are
being shipped by the carload
This is being 'dope in the Liege
brick storage budding on ,lames
JOTTINGS BY JMS
years. He was the only base-
ball manager who ever fin-
isnbed in lael, place for seven
consecutive years and he used
to worry until he could hardly
eat or sleep, 1 3e made his own
rules on bow to stop worrying.
John D, Rockefeller was a
millionaire at 33; at 13 he was
head of the Standard Oil Com-
pany, the largest monopoly in
the world; at 53 worry and high
tension had wrecked his health,
had swept away his hair, even
his eye-lashes. His income was
a million dollars a week, but $2
a week would probably pay for
the food he ate, It was not un-
til. Rockefeller began giving
away his millions that he re..
gained his health and peace of
mind,
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— Please turn to page 5
• 15 YEARS AGO
William A. Schramek and
his six sons are dredging some
480 acres of virgin marshland
near Grand Bend for an A-
mt. venture in peppermint oil
production, Right now the
Schrameks provide almost one
third of total Canadian pepper.
mint oil production.
The Ausable Conservation
Authority approved a 500,000
improvement scheme for the
mouth of the Ausable Al Port
Franks.
Mr. Hartle West has dispos-
ed of his service station on
Highway 4 two and a hell
miles south of Exeter to Wen
Riddell and son of Cialide.
hove. Mr. West hAe been
operating the newly erected
station for little over A. year.
A Remembrance Day service
coupled With the unveiling and
dedication 6f a e 6 1* i Al
plaque at the Exeter MerebriAl
will take place on Sunday. The
bronze plaque contains the
names of the boys from Ex-
eter and Ushothe who gave
their, lives in the lest Gl'eat
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Holt D. McCurdy,
Mlit, :former Lt. Gov, of Nova
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Ceetralia officiate At the
forMal opening of the depeed.
rot's school •mined in his
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Pupils ssfthe tseter
School purchased a 'radio thee
week with funds received from
A drive Oil coat hAligett, They
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The 'Choose took Shop wilt
open tit Meter on Monday,
November 3.
A .new dry. cleaning firm,
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