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We can't overlook parking
BY SARA M. LAING , EXETER LIBRARIAN
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of appreciation, creativity and
capability, increase of social
and political awareness as well
as ation recre .
Some of the many sources a
library user taps are books,
periodicals, pamphlets, films,
maps and micro-reproduction.
The modern library is a fas-
cinating reservoir of the means
to knowledge and a fuller life.
Today 60% of the users of
public libraries are students.
A great many adults also are
engaged in continuing education
to assist them in keeping step
Each year during Canadian
Library Week, attention of Ca-
nadian citizens is drawn to the
importance of libraries and the
need for extending library ser-
vice in Canada.
"Reading is the key to ob-
portunity, new worlds and un-
der stariding' P . This is the theme
of the sixth annual Canadian
Library Week, April 441-
Libraries are no longer
merely a storage place for
books. Among the many motives
that send people into libraries
are self education, development
You don't need to. be an expert of any
kind to see the importance of 'proper parking
accommodation for small communities. It's as
vital to the prosperity of any retail servicing
area as roadS themselves.
From cities, where parking provision
.has proven a factor paramount to success in
merchandising, to rural communities serving
the farm population, parking has become the
subject of major study and development.
In this area, every encouragement
should be given to plans for improvement. Hen-
sail is considering the paving of the railroad
lot adjacent to the business section. Exeter
planning board is studying plans for develop-
ment of side street parking and off-street park-
ing areas.
Elsewhere, almost everywhere, concern
over parking is being expressed in terms of
major programs. Listowel, only slightly larger
than Exeter, is considering the establishment
of a huge parking square which will cost
$134,000. Newmarket, Oakville and many other
centres have adopted extensive development
plans,
It's folly for the small community to
say, "We don't need it yet—we're not that con-
gested". Let's look at several important mis-
takes about that kind of thinking.
First is cost. Why wait, like other corn-
munities have, until the retail area is so con-
gested the cost of providing parking space is
exorbitant because buildings must be torn
down or costly changes in roads and entrances
are needed? It doesn't make sense. The sooner
parking projects are started, the less costly
they'll be.
ONE MAN'S OPINION
by John C. Boyne
Second is transportation. Our mtom-
ers, many of whom come from the farms
around, are subject to traffic temptations. hn
provements in highways (and we're happy to
have them in this area) not only lead to our
towns but also away from them. The shopper-
now drives many more miles for convenience..
Third is competition. A new shopping
centre in Toronto expects to attract customers
from as far as 70 Miles because of direct ac-
cess routes, That type ,of development will ill-
crew, not diminish, and it will prosper on the
strength of traffic access.
Let's concede that in some ways we
offer better access to retail stores than in
some urban areas, simply because of our small-
ness. But we'll have to keep ahead to survive.
You've heard it suggested before that
this is a problem strictly up to the business-
man. Not entirely, Retail servicing is the life-
blood of our communities — make no error
about that — and we must keep this industry
healthy to ensure a prosperous future,
Here's the way Oakville presented the
case in its plan for downtown parking: "The
vitality of the downtown business district is
essential to the health of the community and
is the concern not only of the merchants but
of the public at large. The alternative to con-
tinued health of the downtown area is a creep-
ing deterioration which would also without
doubt affect the 'adjoining residential areas with
their fine old buildings and many substantial
newer houses'."
It's a challenge the community must
tackle, and soon.
Let's be
honest
Front and centre, coaches
Exeter's minor hockey teams have
brought three more WOAA trophies to the com-
munity this year, a feat for which the people
associated with this active program can take
a deep bow, front and centre,
Although some of us wonder just how
much hockey these kids can take (the all-star
teams have been playing in two organized
leagues, in addition to house play and special
tournaments), we appreciate 'the work of the
coaches and managers who supervise this busy
schedule.
It's a major effort to look after these
rambunctious hockey players—rushing through
supper to get away to a game, arranging for
transportation, making sure the equipment is
there and in good condition, looking after all
the details involved in players' certificates,
eligibility, schedules and playoff contests. Not
to mention the basic job of coaching, supervis-
ing and organizing.
These men perform a valuable com-
munity service for our youth at the cost of con-
siderable time , and usually money.
Applause, please.
But no place to show 'ern
with the problems of the world,
preparing for new vacations,
'acquiring skills and hobbies.
As the desire for knowledge
grows, the need for better li-
brary service across Canada
becomes greater. There is a
continuing urgent need for more
and better library service to
provide our rapidly expanding
student population with the edu-
cational resources demanded by
modern teaching methods and
curricula.
With more libraries comes
also the need for more and more
trained librarians, A survey re-
cently made shows that by 1967
we shall need 2,565 more li-
braries in Canada, 508 in On-
tario alone.
Today books and information
are found not only in library
buildings but through mobile
services provided by bookmo-
biles, book launches and in the
Yukon, by plane and canoe. In
spite of this, hundreds of thous-
ands of Canadians are still
without urgently needed library
service. Only great community
effort will establish complete
library coverage for Canada.
Books, of course, continue to
play the major role in our li-
braries. Prime Minister L. B.
Pearson, •Patron of Canadian
Library Week, 1964, has stated
in his library week message,
"Complete education has been
likened to a banquet with formal
schooling the appetizer, ex-
perience the main course, and
books the dessert. I like the
analogy but its weakness is that,
unlike a banquet, education
never ends. The dessert —
world of books— can never be
consumed, for, the more one
partakes of it, the greater one's
appetite, and the supply for
practical purposes is infinite,"
A community might well be
judged by the type of 'library
service It offers and to the ex-
tent this service is utilized.
Canadian Library week re-
minds you to visit your Public
Library this week. It is there
for you to use and enjoy—
make use of it.
The three WOAA trophies won by minor
puck teams here brings up a good argument
for improvements at the arena.
First of all, there's no trophy case in the
building. Other centres of athletic endeavor,
including schools, provide for 'proper display
of awards won by teams over the years. Lucan
has its "hall of fame" in which outstanding
sportsmen are recognized. Most other com-
munity arenas at least have a case in which
trophies of current possession can be proudly
displayed.
But a handsome new trophy case would
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and charming side-walk cafes.
HONOUR/1 /413LE JAMES AULD,
Minister
look out of place in Exeter's arena. Its entrance
and auditorium, and other facilities, need re-
decoration. It's not a very presentable "me-
morial" building at 'the moment.
RAP has had its financial difficulties
and it's now solving them, for which it deserves
credit. Perhaps soon 'it can devote some of its
attention to a modest program of improvement
at the arena, a renovation which should include
provision for the recreation office which likely
will have to vacate from the library basement
soon. This consolidation should be part of the
committee's plans.
11.C11•64
BY THE EDITOR Don Southcott
Centralia accepts challenge
move
most Canadians, I applaud the
move of Defence Minister Hellyer to
integrate the armed services into a
single, co-ordinated force with a na-
tional — and international—purpose.
The conscientious armed service
personnel must have felt keen frus-
tration up to now over a program that
has been without aim, without target
and without firepower. You can't win
a shooting match under those condi-
tions.
In his white paper on defence, the
minister describes his program in this
manner: "The objectives of Canadian
defence policy, which cannot be dis-
sociated from foreign policy, are to
preserve the peace by supporting col-
lective defence measures to deter mili-
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Praise others
To the editor,
In regards to the efforts of
Bill Lamport and myself, you
are giving us far too much
credit. This campaign would
not have been successful with-
out the sincere co-operation of
everyone involved.
First, there was the earnest
desire of the people of Us-
borne who proved this by their
signatures and a small donation
for legal expense.
There was very strong co-
operation on the part of the town
council and the businessmen's
association. Our efforts would
have been useless without their
support.
We' mu st thank our own Char-
les MacNaughton and William
Stewart for setting up a meet-
ing with the telephone commis-
sion so quickly. We must also
publicly thank our solicitor,
Peter Raymond, for his efforts t;=
in our behalf. Mr. Raymond de-
dined payment for his work.
The entire sum collected
($36.00) was given to Milt Rob-
bins for the crippled children
fund, from the petitioners of
Usborne and Peter Raymond.
Robert Mayer
with all its fancy machinery and
new fangled contraptions, 'The
builders got so swole up with
sinful pride they figured they
was almighty scientific, they
says, this here ship can't be
sank'. But all the time they was
abuildin9 and abraggin' what was
the Lord doin'?' He paused and
smote the pulpit triumphantly,
"the Lord he was tinkerin with
that iceberg".
She comments, "Despite the
warnings of the preacher, pro-
gress and its contraptions have
moved into the mountains slowly
at first, then with increasing
tempo during the last 15 years".
We supposedly believe in the
freedom to seek for truth. The
Renaissance and Reformation
surely left us that we believe
it was of God. Well, then surely,
progress and technological ad-
vance is of God too. And so our
children are being taught scien-
tific truth. For, goodness sakes,
let's give them a healthy attitude
to it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick was
one of the leading American
churchmen who first supported
evolution. In his autobiography
he describes one reactionto his
position. "Mr. Fosdick believ-
es he has brute blood in his
veins . Baptists have nothing
to do with his ancestors though
they are bad enough, but cer-
tainly he is pretty foxy. He is
a professor in the most here-
tical seminary in all the round
world. . . . In the meantime
we may expect him to raise a
howl {the language of his pro-
fessed ancestors)."
To answer his critic he quot-
es Dryden's remark about Jere-
my Collier: "I will not say, 'the
zeal of God's house has eaten
him up': but I am sure it has de-
voured some part of his good
manners and civility".
The fact is many cannot face
this issue with calmness. Many
simply cannot discuss it. So we
are told that we must ignorant-
ly and blindly hold to six-day
creation and a 6,000 year old
universe. Personally I think
they are wrong and it is timewe
told our young people the truth. ing last week's mess dinner at RCAF
Station Centralia. The event originally
was staged to celebrate the 40th an-
niversary of the RCAF. As the CO
pointed out, it probably will be the
last such anniversary.
Group Captain Randall saw the new
program as a challenge, an experi-
ment in which Canada can provide lead-
ership for the western world and make
a concrete contribution toward world
peace.
There'll be plenty of grumbling about
the loss of service traditions, the effect
on morale, and associated problems.
Surely, however, the challenges of
the future will develop greater esprit
de corps than the laurels of the past.
Comments or criticism will be wel-
comed,. Write PO Box .12 Exeter
tary aggression; to support Canadian
foreign policy including that arising
out of our participating in international
organizations, and to provide for the
protection and surveillance of our ter-
ritory, our air-space and our coastal
waters".
What more honorable or significant
role can there be than that of an in-
ternational peacemaker? Canadians can
support this program wholeheartedly,
and with new respect for the people
in it.
Both as a civilian and a taxpayer,
I was happy to bear Group Captain
Randall officially, add many of his
officers unofficially, express enthusi-
astic support for the new program dur-
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7 That's all very line, O'Connor,
now tell me, have you *redo
anything of a sunken ship?'
The old dwelling of the estate
of the late ThomaS Willis, one
of the first brick building s
erected in Exeter, is under-
going renovation and repairs.
25 YEARS AGO
Russell Collingwood com-
menced his new duties as as-
sistant janitor at the Exeter
schools Monday.
Mrs. J. C. Gardiner, mother
of the Minister of Agriculture,
Hon. James Gardiner, is to be
presented to the King and Queen
May 18 at the state dinner at
Government House, Ottawa.
15 YEARS AGO
Harvey Perkins has purchas--
ed the fifty-acre farm of A.
Dayman of Usborne Twp. Mr.
and Mrs. Dayman have niOved
to Grand Bend.
Rev. W. A. YoUng, former
Herisall pastor, has been ap-
pointed chaplain and lecturer
of OAC, Guelph.
10 YEARS AGO
A graduate Of SIIDIIS, Petet
A. Fraser has' received one of
the top awards given In Canada
--- a National Research Connell
poSC‘doctorate worth $2,500,
The local Cdrr eiillet feel
2,703 coat hangeesSattirday, the
proceeds to be used for camp,.
If the Church is to talk about
honesty in public life it must
be honest with its people. For
a start it should state clearly
and without hesitation that the
Bible is not a scientific text
book.
If you want to know WHY the
world began, if you want to
know whether our universe is
filled with meaning and a pur-
pose, then read Genesis and
find these words right off the
bat; "In the beginning God
created".
If you want to see that the
world did not come into being
simply by a CHANCE meeting
of atoms but rather that all
things were planned, then read
Genesis. If you want to know
the nature of God and the his-
tory of his action with the Jews,
then read the Old Testament.
If you want to see the clearest
revelation of himself, his char-
acter, his nature, his purpose,
then read the New Testament
and come to knowJesus Christ.
But, if you want to know how
long it took for this world to
come into being, if you want
to know with some semblance of
certainty how things came to be
as they are, then don't expect
a scientific answer from apre-
scientific age.
Don't expect detailed scien-
tific evidence in Genesis. Look
instead to geology; look to the
related fields of science. In
short look to Darwin and his
successors, Learn all you can
about evolution, It can add to a
wealth of appreciation of the
complexity of God's creation.
This may sound like rank
heresy to some — so be it. The
simple fact is that you cannot
date the creation of the world
at 4004 B.C. as Bishop Ussher
did in the 17th century. Science
has provided the knowledge that
the world is much' more than
6,000 years old.
Nor is it good enough to say
that the world was created in
4004 B.C. with the fossils in
it to tempt us— this is a pure
ostrich reaction.
As the United Church's, "The
Word and the Way" puts it:
"The doctrine of creation is
totally misunderstood if it is
thought of as a scientific theory
or as a play-by-play descrip-
tion of how the physical world
came into being. The doctrine
of creation 18 not a scientific
description of how the physical
universe took shape. It is rath-
er a description of how God was
and is and always will be re-
lated to the whole of nature,"
No doubt many will react
against that statement, But I
can find none better. It is pos.,
sible to be blind and obscurant-
ist in our attitude to science.
But in so doing we create a
false choice for our teenagers.
Many try to tell educated peo-
ple that you have to choose eith-,
or the Bible or science at this
point. If it is put this way and
interpreted this way, Who can
blame them for Choosing
science?
Yet many church attitudes re-
main untouched by the winds Of
change which may indeed be the
Moving of the spirit of God.
Many clergynien still feel they
know more thart the scientists.
A couple of weeks ago the
Saturday 'Evening Post carried
an article On "The Change in
the Mountains" (the Blue Ridge
in vitgirli4 by Beverly Smith,
Jr. The author told this story.
4 oIt was here that the horseback
preacher warned almtist the
prides and presuMptions Of pro=
greSs: Ills sermon was widely
eluotbd in jest or in awe all
throtigh the hill Country.
"The yea, Via& 1912, and the
preadher used the titanic dish'
aster foil. text, He described
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