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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1964-05-07, Page 2LADIES' COATS SAVE 1961 01410 Fohlitl. Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 exeferZinefx-Akasocafe SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND Member: C.W.N.A., O.W.N.A., C.C.N.R, and ABC PUBLISHERS: J. M. Southcott, R. M. Southcott EDITOR: William Batten this Sunday, wpane.o.day,.gterhe9n and during :the e'enina threuano,0 the .wee.I.0 EDITORIALS. THE ,MPs DEBATE ,Support for sweepstakes Crack down on crooks In a guest article 'in last week's T-A, Elmer D. Bell, QC, gave some much needed ad- vice to area citizens Who are being caught by high pressured salesmen selling a variety of goods and services at exorbitant prices. While readers should be urged to give his remarks serious consideration to be pre- pared to escape the circumstances outlined, it is also encouraging to note the provincial gov- ernment has stepped in 'to curtail the activities of some of these rackets. Municipalities will be given the oppor- tunity to crack down on flourishing home re- Pair rackets under legislation approved; allow- ing them to ^set regulations governing persons engaged in altering and renovating buildings. The legislation is aimed particularly at chimney repairmen who in some municipalities were doing poor work and were fleecing older residents. The protection this should bring is long overdue 'and area councils would do well to give it serious consideration at their earliest convenience, as this is the time of year when these firms are most active. Moving the wrong way? a (Following are some of the comments expressed by MPs in the House of Commons on Tuesday. While none of the parties objected to the proposal to a l l o w provincial syieep, stakes, the bill was "talked to death" during an hour set aside for private members' bills. It stands little chance of being debated again this session.) L. J. Pigeon (PC—Joliette L'As tomption-Montcalm) — The legalizatioa of lotteries by an American state (New Hamp- shire) adjoining Canada should encourage the Canadian people to buy lotteries from the Amer- ican state, just as they buy them from foreign countries. It is time for the government to be consistent with itself and fulfill its promise in order to stop that loss of millions of dollars that benefit foreigners. In New Zealand, where each year $4.5 million was spent on foreign lottery tickets, they set up a national lotte r y which brings in so much money that the government is wondering how to spend it all. I beg to convince the house to agree to amend the Criminal Code so that lotteries may be set up to help the proyirices which could use such additional revenue. If this took place, it would 13e. possible to reduce taxes, imPi.PVe Certain social 4pr, vices, in brief, improve the conditions of life of the people. And for that there it only too much to choose from. Mr. Speaker, Canada is on the road to ruin. We have an inefficient government which accumulates astronomical de- ficits; taxes are increasing at an alarming rate and the people in some provinces are down- hearted. The provinces need their sources of income. If the federal government were wil- ling to amend the Criminal Code, so as to enable the pro- vinces to hold lotteries, it would help the provinces to recover these sources of income. Barry Mather (NDP-New Westminster)—In rising to say a few words in favor of the proposal (provincial lotteries) I must make it clear that I speak for myself and not for the party. In the New Democratic party we have a lot of very high prin- ciples and admirable moral and ethical ideals which I certainly fl 0 c e ONE MAN'S OPINION by John C. Boyne On the surface, the government's an- nouncement to establish a minimum wage of $1.00 per hour for 'workers in Ontario would appear to be a sensible move, 'and will un- doubtedly be greeted with support from the people who 'are presently earning less than this amount. Due to the fact the supply in many la- bor markets is higher than the demand, some employers have been able to pay lower wages and this has enabled them to gain an unfair advantage over a competitor who may either be in an area where it is necessary to pay high- er wages to attract workers, or one who real- izes that people have a difficult time living on such meagre wages. To an extent the new law will place all employers on am even basis. It is this one particular aspect which may create unfavorable conditions in smaller communities, such as in this area. On of the major drawing factors of smaller communities has been the fact prevail- ing wages are generally lower than in larger centres, and industries have moved out of the large industrial areas and into smaller com- munities on the basis of this incentive. This is particularly true of industries which hire female and seasonal workers. However, with a minimum rate in effect, this will terminate some of the attractiveness of smaller communities for industries and it el t( pl 1% Family responsibility could also create hardships on industries al- ready located in smaller communities; many of which are able to exist against their bigger competitors by paying lower wages. Besides removing the incentive for in- dustries locating in smaller communities, the new law could also force some employers to dispense with "marginal" workers whose du- ties or abilities do not warrant the $1.00 pay- ment. In some regards it would appear the government is moving in the wrong direction, BS Canadian goods and services are steadily be- ing priced out of the world markets as labor costs rise. Perhaps it is time when more considera- tion should be given to maximum wages, so a halt could be called to increasing costs for all goods 'and services. To set as ceiling on the top wage earners would not only put Canada in a more favor- able situation in regard to world markets, but would also have the same effect as the new minimum law in that it would enable those persons in the lower income bracket to pur- chase goods more cheaply—rather than pay- ing them more to meet the continually in- creased cost of living. And one other question remains unan- swered: how much :work can an employer de- mand in return for the wages the government feels he should pay? cl tt tt Your Ontario is a stirring, exciting place. Take this sum- mer to explore. For more information write, Ontario Department of Travel,Room 270, Parliament Bldgs., Toronto, Ontario. c Ontario has all the bigness, all the variety for one of the most exciting vacations of your life. Ontario covers 415,000 square miles, packed with fas- cinating things to see. Like old castles and cathedrals, art gal- leries, and long sandy beaches, red-coated Mounties and mag- nificent wilderness, cannons and charming side-walk cafes. HONOURABLE JAMES AULD, Minister 11.CN ,64 w Py BATT'N AROUND p WITH THE EDITOR It's a friendly community LSMFT Regardless of how much enjoyment or excitement people experience on travels and visits, they invariably ex- press the thought "it's nice to get home" after they set their feet back on familiar territory again. And that's exactly how we feel, despite the fact we were only 18 miles away from home for the past year or so and did make numerous hikes back to our old stompin' grounds. Most people tend to get into a rut in their every day surroundings and it is only natural that the grass on the other side of the fence becomes mighty enticing. However, it doesn't take too long before you come to the conclusion there's "no place like home"—espe- cially when Exeter happens to be your home. This in no way suggests citizens shouldn't pack up and leave on occa- sions. In fact this is the most important element as it is one of the few ways we have of re-discovering the attributes of the community. The one aspect we notice more than any other about this community is the fact it is friendly. At first we thought perhaps people were just going out of their way a bit to welcome us back, but closer observation shows this isn't particularly the case at all. We spot people all along the street, stopping to chat with friend s and acquaintances and it's very seldom you pass the local post office without seeing two or three such friendly chats in progress. There's always a friendly greeting or wave from the neighbors and a toot on the horn as people drive past. All in all, it's a pleasant atmosphere and it shows in the faces of most people and certainly the energetic youngsters. But it's something that we all should continue to cultivate and improve where possible and it shouldn't be confined to only those whom we know. Having been a stranger in a similar community we appreciate the need more than ever for an out-going friendly attitude in regard to those with whom we are unacquainted. While such an approach would draw questioning glances from residents in a Used Cars share, but sometimes Members of the NDP are at times apt to be in order of the old, Round- heads of Puritan days, and are apt to take a rather Puritan view, at to some of the facts of life. Speaking as one who favors public control and public oper- ation of sweepstakes provin- cially as in the public interest, I want to put forward five facts • which underline what seems to me the need for this legislation. 1. The question is actually not whether we want sweep- stakes. We have sweepstakes. No less than 28 of a major nature function in Canada at this time. Gambling and drink- ing are two of the oldest human frailties of which we have re- cord. Drawing by lot, which is a form of gambling, is favorably recorded in the Old Testament in Joshua chapter 18 verse 10. In the case of drinking, the public long ago gave up the idea that it could, through prohibi- tion, be legislated out of exis- tence. We have public control of drinking, with the public con- tributing to the government, through taxation, a considerable amount of the public money. My contention is that the time has come, indeed is long over- due, to apply the same general principle to the control of sweepstakes in Canada, just as we have done earlier with gam- bling at the race tracks. 2. At present millions of dollars leave this country every year to subsidize the private or public sweepstake promoters in other countries. Legislation permitting a provincial or na- tional sweepstake would reduce this toll, and keep a good deal of this money in Canada. 3. The most modest estimate indicates a province the size of British Columbia would net over $1 million a year, sufficient to build at least one chronic hos- pital every 12 months. 4. Canada is one of the dwind- ling number of countries which do not already have some form of national lotteries. Countries with as divergent policies as Great Britain and the Soviet Union have, if not a sweepstake in the terms of the Irish sweep- stake, at least a government bond lottery through which a person may buy a non-interest bond and thereby be a partici- pant in a draw which distributes a number of prizes to lucky holders. The public thereby is encouraged to invest in state enterprises and the state saves the interest it would otherwise have to pay. 5. Our present anti-sweep- stake law is flouted daily by thousands of Canadians and it is time to make a law that con- forms to public usage in this matter rather than to strive vainly to make the public con- form to this outdated and un- - Please turn to page 3 (The T-A welcomes comment on the sweepstake issue.) '56 METEOR SEDAN Make us an offer. '55 CHEV SEDAN $450 larger centre, it is the trademark of most smaller communities and we're happy to see that Exeter is at the top of the list. Let's keep it there! Some of our so-called friends have been pointing out it was rather obvious that yours truly was at the helm of last week's edition; basing their re- marks on two items of interest. The first was in regard to the large number of photos taken at last week's fashion show picturing some of our attractive young ladies in brief summer attire. As we have already explained to one particular party who threatened to terminate her duties as chief cook and dish washer, the pictures were not taken by us and were in fact some of the items we "inherited" from the former editor before he took off for Stratford. As readers may well imagine, we questioned the advisability of using the eye catching photos in this family journal, but decided it would be rather presumptuous on our part not to use the material chosen by our highly res- pected predecessor. We trust this explanation will be suitable for all concerned and will bring an end to that steady diet of baked beans with which we've been inundated. fog till he the P‹! of in ci '55 BUICK HARDTOP 4 'door, above average '57 HILLMAN SEDAN '53 CHEV COACH p1 w is Used Trucks VAPIVMP.teN Although it will come as no particu- lar shock to some of our former English teachers around the local hallowed halls of learning, we often have difficulty with words and find a chap by the name of Webster as one of our more faithful companions when writing. This is due in part to the continual practice of using words in our vocation and, similar to many other occupations, a person often forgets the things with which he is most familiar. So it is with us as we find ourselves referring to the dictionary for some of the more common words we had pounded into our noggin away back in grade school. Such a case was pointed out last week in our initial editorial when we made reference to our bulging waistline. While it came out in print that way, our original copy had actually been "wasteline". While a linotype operator with a similar problem (waistlines that is) drew our attention to the faux pas, we noted that our spelling was in fact more appropriate than the one chosen by Mr. Webster, as the area would certainly be better explained by use of the mean- ing of "waste" rather than "waist" in many cases. Old times IMUMMIKMOIONitingligliMMX 50 YEARS AGO The electric lights were turn- ed on in Dashwood Saturday night for the first time. The 100-acre farm of the late George Rook in the township of Usborne was purchased by Al- fred Coates while John Thomp- son has purchased the 50 acres south. '59 GMC 3 TON platform, long wheel base, good shape $1,350 '56 FORD PICKUP 8' box. $600 '56 FORD F-700 DUMP A good farm truck. $550 '56 INTERNATIONAL 1 ton, aluminum van $650 Tractors '62 ALLIS CHALMERS 270 diesel, 3-point hitch, very low hours $2,000 JOHN DEERE B with hydraulics ALLIS CHALMERS B and mower. $300 '44 CASE S C „., $250 '50 M M Z $650 "Now let'S go sptizd all that money we saved!" nalafrAVAIMMItgefMarfaa1311d0ReiffidatEggdA2=1011611t9017,01War• Cockshutt Grinder $50 71/2 ft George White Cultivator, power lift • $150 Case 2-furrow Plow $57 '63 FORD Country Station Wagon loaded with extras, one owner. $3,300 '63 FORD GALAXIE 500, V-8, sedan, loaded with extras. $2,800 '63 RAMBLER SEDAN 6 cyl., automatic, radio $2,200 '62 FORD Country Sedan, V-8 automatic. $2,500 '62 FORD GALAXIE 500, 6 cyl., automatic, radio, tinted glass, $1,950 '62 LARK SEDAN A steal at $1,500 '61 FORD FAIRLANE 500, sedan, overdrive, washers '61 CONSUL convertible. An ideal car for the wife. $1,500 '60 FALCON SEDAN Save money. $1,000 '59 METEOR standard, 6 cyl., 2 tone $1,250 '61 VOLKSWAGEN deluxe, above average $1,150 '61 FORD 6 cyl., standard 2 door $1,500 '59 METEOR 6 cyl., 4 door, one owner. $1,250 '58 MERCURY SEDAN 4 door, automatic, radio '58 CHEV SEDAN $895 '56 CHEV SEDAN '56 MERCURY ' 4 door hardtop '56 FORD SEDAN New Calsca Sprayer 3-point hitch, 10 gal, per min. List Price $442 Special ........ $375 Larry Snider Motors Ltd. out the door and stay home themselves. By the time the children are twelve or so they wake up to the facts of life and drop out—and with good reason! As the writer of Proverbs put it—"A good wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels". Yes, as we ap- proach Mothers' Day and Chris- tian Family Sunday, we are reminded that fine parents are more precious than jewels. Real keepers of the springs of our national life are precious., There is simply no substitute for the home. George B. Mc- Clellan, Deputy Commissioner of the R.C.M.P. made a speech a year or so ago which one paper headlined "How To Con- vert Children into Monsters": (1) Do not have any rules for child behaviour or obedience in the home. This will ensure that the child has no concept of right or wrong. (2) If you have any rules don't enforce them consistently. This will ensure that they resent all discipline. (3) Air your domestic dis- putes in front of your children. Throw in a little name calling. This will ensure that they have no respect for their parents. (4) Never give a child work to do around home. This will convince him that the world owes him a living. (5) If he is disciplined in school, always pull down the teacher in front of the child. This will create an excellent contempt for authority. (6) If he has any difficulty with the police be sure to refer to them as "dumb cops". He will soon get a diploma for con- tempt of authority. (7) When you are driving always exceed the speed limit but slow down when you see a police car. Your child will then know that lying and cheating are accepted procedures in the adult world. (8) If you have managed to chisel a few dollars on your income tax be sure to tell the family how smart you are. This will convince them that stealing is alright if you can get away with it. (9) Never bother with where your children are at night, who they are with, or when they get home—this one is sure fire. He sums up this devastating blast with this: "Trouble usu- ally begins at home and ulti- mately it will have to be cor- rected at home". So in the home we have our greatest danger and one of our greatest hopes. As Grace Noel Crowell ptit it: "So long as there are homes to which men turn at close of day So long as there are homes where children are—where women stay. If love and loyalty and faith be found across these sills A stricken nation can recover from its gravest ills. SO long as there are homes where fires burn and there is bread, So long as there are homes where lamps are lit and pray- ers are said, Although people falter through the dark and nations grope With God Himself back of those little homes we have hope. Published Each Thursday Morning at Eketer, Ont. Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Dent, Ottawa, and for Payment of Postage in Cash Paid-in-Advance Circulation,. September 30, 1963, 3,828 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada $4.00 Per Year; USA $5.00 Ford Fairlane Falcon and Ford Trucks DIAL 235.1640 EXETER Comments, or criticism will ; e corned. rife PO Box 32 Exeter 25 YEARS AGO Noble Scott has disposed of his farm in Stephen Township to John Quinlivan of the same township. Mr. Scott has pur- chased the residence of Mrs. A. Rollins, Main St. Excavation has started for the foundation of Wilbur Martin's new house on the property he recently bought from Dr. D. A. Anderson at the south end of Main St. 15 YEARS AGO Fire which started in the dump about three Miles south of Grand Bend scorched and partly burned leaves and underbush over an area of one and a half miles, J. L. McKnight has diSposed of the Exeter Frozen Food Lockers to Ralph Hicks of Lon- don. 10 YEARS AGO The Farquhar chopping and Mixing mill owned by Carl Hume collapsed inside of an hour when fire broke out Tuesday. Principal of Exeter Public School for 10 yeara P C. Hi 'BleWesi has resigned to accept a position on the staff Of Pres-i ton PS. Mist Barbara Lavender of liensall was the first'Girl Guide in this'district to receive her Gold Cord, It was presented to her Friday evening. , Robertson, Whe, for the past I4:yearS, has con- dueled The Robertson tirtig.4 store, has sold his bUSinesS to W G. Huntley '0f Al4kOria wfio gets possession May 15. Peter Marshall in his,"Mis- ter Jones Meet The Master" tells a story of the keeper of the springs. A town had grown up at the foot of a mountain range. High up in the hills, a strange quiet man took it upon himself to be keeper of the springs. He pa- trolled the hills and wherever he found a spring he cleaned its brown pool of silt, fallen leaves, mud and mold, and cleared it away from the spring so that the water that bubble d up through the sand ran down clear and cold and pure. It leaped sparkling over rocks and swollen by other streams it became a river to a busy town. Mill wheels were whirled by its rush. Gardens were fed by its waters. Foun- tains threw it like diamonds in the air. Swans sailed on its surface and children laughed as they played on its banks in the ,sunshine. But then the town council decided that they no 1 onger needed the keeper of the springs and they built a reservoir. It soon filled up with water but it didn't seem the same. It didn't seem so clear and a green scum soon appeared on its stagnant surface. There was constant trouble with the machinery at the mill because it was often clogged with slime. The swans soon found another home. Finally an epidemic raged and the clammy yellow fingers .of sickness reached into every house on every street. The town council met, ack- nowledged its error and rehired the keeper of the springs. He returned to his old job joyfully. It was not long until pure water came lilting down from the cleansed springs and sparkled in the cleansed reservoir. Mill wheels turned again. Stenches disappeared. Sickness waned and convalescent children play- ing in the sun laughed again because the swans were back. Our homes are meant to be keepers of the springs. We need homes which will lead children in the way they should go. We need homes which will point out the difference between dirt and health—spiritually as well as physically. Too often many of our homes expect the Church and the school to do a job which only the home can do. And so much of our machinery for living is "clog- ged up". The simple statistics tell us that the Church has the child for two or three hours at the most each week. The school has ap- proximately twenty-five hours. That leaves the home with the responsibility for the remaining one hundred and forty hours! This allows many homes suf- ficient time to undermine all that has been taught outside the home. Too many parents expect their children to be responsible citizens when they themselves are not responsible parents. It's like the council in our story— they expected clear water with- out the keeper of the springs. So, I feel that this needs to be said—do not blame the church or the school for failing to do a task which only you can accomplish. It is futile for parents to expect their children to be 'in- terested in Christian living if their parents louhge around on Sunday morning and Wave them r:f a t, ,