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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1964-06-25, Page 2Electronics .MODERN RAPE. Day or Evening classes Radio, 'Tgfeyis.ipp, Industrial fiectronio For information Write '.RO019. Electronic s Television School .130X 472 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE KtITORIAL$1 Help those .who help themselves Canadian Gas & Energy Fund Ltd. are happy to announce the appointment of Mr. John Hotson RR1, Grand Bend as Area Representative The Telegram, Toronto SYMBOLS WE CAN STILL BE SURE OF... Mr. Hotson offers the opportunity to the community of participating in afiely managed savings and investment programme which in 33/4 years has recorded a 73% growth picture with Tax privileges. ONE MAN'S OPINION by John C. Boyne The old adage that the proof of the Paling is in the eating may well be brought to the fore in regard to the acquiring -of in, duatrjal development in Exeter, In their latest bid to entice industry into settling here, the Exeter Industrial YelOpinent Corporation have literally put the pudding right in front of those who would apparently benefit most from eating it — every resident of the community. The ingredients of this pudding are between $25,000 and $30,000, which is what the Corporation hope they will be able to acquire from selling debentures that will be loaned to provide a building if an industry interested in establishing needs the funds to get going, The investment possibilities on a di- rect cash remuneration basis are not apt to entice shareholders to any great extent, but the indirect benefits could be termed almost inestimable for each and every person in the community, First and foremost of course is the fact an industry provides jobs and no corn- munity can continue to grow or flourish with- out places of employment for its inhabitants. And industry provides jobs not only for those within its own framework but throughout the whole community. Depending on its size, it could either create new jobs or at least maintain those already in existence, and it is this latter sit- uation to which each and every person must give consideration in assisting an industry to establish here. The idea of commencing such a yen- LOCAL OFFICE: Canadian Bank of Commerce Building Richmond and Dundas Streets, London, Ontario. would you like a modern kitchen? an up-to-date laundry? extra living space? find the best way to plan it in the free planning guides available now at your HOME MODERNIZATION CENTRE ONTARIO HYDRO Main St.S., Exeter Phone: 235-0930 compassion and forgiveness not judgment. But there were times when He was most in- tolerant. He wasn't very tolerant when He cleansed the temple. He was not very tolerant when He called the Pharisees whited sepul- chres. He wasn't very tolerant when He asked the disciples to follow Him and thus radically transformed their way of life. Where would we be if Hitler's murder and aggression had been tolerated? Where would we be if slavery had been tolerated? There are many things in our society which we should not tolerate to do so would be to escape from reality. We need to take a stand some- where on the basic issues of our time. And this will undoubt- edly lead us into controversy although we'd be more com- fortable and wouldn't get spank- ed so often—at least verbally — if we just let sleeping dogs lie. But we either take a stand or we soon find that we don't mould our society but our society moulds us. Comments or criticism will be wet- corned Write PO Box 37 Exeter Why evade issues? Need answers before judgement disgust. It closes its eyes when it should see. This type of tolerance leads many to say: am tolerant, generous, keep no rules and the age honours me. Thank God I am not as these rigid fools, even as this Pharisee". We all need a little dash of this quote from Ogden Nash: "Sometimes with secretprideI sigh to think how tolerant am I. Then wonder which is really mine. Tolerance or a rubber spine". There is a very thin line in- deed, between the two —toler- ance often covers up a rubber spine. Jesus was most tolerant with those who had sinned. He showed 50 YEARS AGO Six rinks of west of Main bowlers finished 19 up Friday evening against six rinks from the east side. The ladies of Caven Presby- terian Church gave a social on the lawn of Mr. E. Christie Wednesday evening. Mr. William Drew died at his home on Huron St. He was Exeter's oldest resident com- ing to town when it was a mere hamlet. A carpenter by trade he built many of the first houses in town. Work started on the exca- vation for the new Carnegie li- brary. The building is to be built of Hamilton red pressed brick with Corinthian stone trimmings. The contract for brick work has been let to P. Bawden and carpenter work to C. Heywood. taasa-aa.b.,.7aarzaaara:a:aaaaraaaat-aaaza<4. LETTERS THE EDITOR Vaa-calaza!aaaa...aawaaaa,\Mai-.'4a.kaaa, GET THIS BOOKLET OF BASIC FACTS about IDB business loans The recreation question remains the hottest issue on the streets these days and brought forth an unusual state of events at last week's council meeting when an unre- quested $500 was turned over to RAP. The actual motion authorizing the boost in the budget contained no information as to what the money was to be used for, but the discussion preceding the motion left little doubt as to what Councillors Wooden and Boyle had in mind. Regardless of haw they smoothed it over with their intent of giving RAP the money to deal with the situation as they saw fit, the strong suggestion was still evident that the two members felt RAP had acted unwisely and should have granted the re- quests from the rec director. Councillor Wright also backed the mo- tion strongly, pointing out G-ravett was en- titled to more money. He even went so far as to say the decision was one that affected a great number of people, and he questioned if the seven-man RAP committee should have made a decision that did affect so many people. This latter inference that no seven men should be allowed to make a decision for so many is rather difficult to understand coming from one who every two weeks sits around a table with eight others to formu- late policy concerning every person in Exe- ter. While this newspaper has already sug- gested the RAP committee handled the situa- tion badly to a certain extent, we find it dif- ficult to go along with a complete condemna- tion of RAP as some others would. In the first place is should be noted RAP has done an excellent job since taking the reins of the recreation, arena and parks a--11 are to be commended for their efforts to date. They must have reduced the operat- ing expenses considerably and a raise of $500 to the rec director in the past two years would indicate they have not been cutting corners too sharply in this regard; and in fact it would appear to be very fair. Council members—or anyone else for that matter— may voice their opinions as to what they think about RAP's decision in re- gard to the rec director question, but they went a hit too far in saying in no uncertain terms that the requests should have been granted. As members of the town's governing INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BANK 25 YEARS AGO Fifteen Exeterites took in the Dreamboat Convention of the Lions Club which took the form of a cruise from Sarnia.to Chic- ago. Dr. Harry Joynt of Byron left Sunday for New York to at- tend a Fellowship Course which has been awarded him at Belle- vue Hospital. He is a son of Mrs. Alice Joynt of Hensall. The whole village (Grand Bend) turned out to London to see the King and Queen last Wed- nesday. Mr. and Mrs. George C. Petty of Hensel' quietly observed their 62nd wedding anniversary Thursday, June 22 at their home. body they could easily have asked the com- mittee to reconsider the situation, and could even have offered their suggestions. But Councillor Wooden's first suggestion of giv- ing them enough money to pay an increase to $4,500, plus the purchase of a gestetner and the other minor requests from Gravett, was going over RAP's head and was border- ing too closely on a no-confidence motion for RAP. If members of council felt the RAP committee made an unwise decision, they were quite within their rights to request a complete report on the thinking of the com- mittee in turning down the requests from Gravett. However, without having such a re- port given to them, council members were ahead of themselves in suggesting all the re- quests should have been granted, unless of course they have made a complete survey of the matter and know for certain that a raise, gestetner, filing cabinet and other office re- quirements in the rec director's requests were warranted. Councillor Wooden's fears that the rec- reation program may be seriously endangered through the loss of the rec director may well be justified as were his statements that he believed the RAP committe had no inten- tion of hiring a full-time replacement. However, rather than only basing his comments on opinions gleaned from a discus- sion which did not definitely verify them, he should have asked for an explanation of what RAP had in mind in regard to the fu- ture of the rec program. While RAP has pointed out to council and the Exeter Kinsmen they have not de- cided because Gravett's resignation has not come as yet and forced them into making a decision, there surely must have been some thought given when they had every indica- tion he would resign if not given the things requested. As noted last week, we think it was a lack of communications which hampered the discussion between RAP and the rec director and now it appears that a lack of communica- tions has seriously affected relations between RAP and council, Two members of RAP sit on council and if other councillors didn't think the de- cision was a wise one they should have at least asked for a complete report of the think- ing of RAP before issuing their proposals. Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 VteexeferZirta-Usocafe modernize you are planning to start, 'expand or a business and you require a tent loan to carry out your plans, write for this descriptive booklet Or Visit an IDB Office. SERVING CANADA'S BEST FARMLAND Member: e.W.N.A., 0.W.N.A., C.C.N,R. and ABC PUBLISHERS: J. M. Soufhcott, R. M. Southcott EDITOR: William Batten 25 BRANCH OFFICES AdRotS CANADA Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ont. Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Dep't, Ottawa, and for Payment of Postage in Cash Paid-in-Advance Ci`rculation, September` 36, 1963, 3,828 'SUBSCRIPTION RATESt Canada $4.00 PO Year; USA $5.00 ,;:ilaiLick,:=0!ar.411M KITCHENER VVATERICO Waterloo Square Building Tel. 744.4186 There are those who criticize this column for touching on con- troversial issues. There are those who feel that a minister should stick to "religious" or "spiritual" matters. There will always be many who refuse to get involved in controversy. They consider it below their Olympian detach- ment. They don't like to take sides. They prefer a placid, -undisturbed, tolerant peace. But whether we like it or not we are all affected by the de- cisions which are made by oth- ers for us if we don't make them for ourselves. We are in- volved in the stuff of human life for better or worse and the at- titudes of others vitally influ- ence every area of our life. And so, I submit, that we all have to develop the ability to dis- criminate between that which is positive and that which is nega- tive. For example, we can hardly evade controversy in religion. But we still must grapple with whether God has anything to do with our world or not. We have to decide on the basis of the evidence whether lie is friend or foe. If we know Him as Friend we can hardly be silent when there are those who shout about His non-existence. If we believe that certain at- titudes are helpful in our re- lationships with those who differ from us we will object when there are those who tell us that real relationships are imp o s- sible. It isn't good enough to say that everybody's view is of equal value so why bother. I believe that this wishy washy relativism is a curse in our time. We all stand in danger of becoming part of a nice, quiet, amorphous mass — without dis- tinctiveness, without character, without form and without shape. As one popular song express- es it so well—we stand in danger of all being the same "in little boxes". The fact is we need the courage to stand up for what we believe to be right. For example we have to de- cide what political party to vote for and why., We have to decide what our attitude will be to so- cial legislation. We have to de- aide if a government sponsored medical care plan isn't better than continuing to provide pro- fits for private companies in this field. It is one thing to respect how someone else feels on these Subjects. But that surely doesn't Mean that we have to agree and all think the same thing. 'why do so many demand that we evade these issues? Tolerance is surely one of the slogans of our time. But often this cheap, slippery tolerance is just a cover all mask to hide the fact that we refuse to think. I dislike a hard, rigid Phari- Sac self-righteousness Which forms the basis for the bigotry iinplied in "Only my position is right". But at least this type of person has applied the energy to think through at least one position. This rigidity, hoWeVer, is not the danger at thd moment. Our real danger is a cheap tolerance Which Sells its soul to fit in, to be popular, to confortn. It shuts up when it should lash out in Prices high for students? To the editor, In a recent edition of your paper it has been noted that the prices for pool patrons have been set by Exeter's RAP Com- mittee. We realize that an adUlt, on the average, displaces more water than a child but why such an outlandish difference in prices? The 14 fee for children is fairly reasonable but the 35 adult admission is ridiculous. We noted also that no stu- dent price has been set. There- fore we have assumed that, uniesS your paper has unwitting- ly misplaced this information — which we thoroughly doubt — the students will be compelled to pay the adtilt price. Students who have summer employment usually wish some kind of refreshing recreation after a day of work and natural- ly the pool will be the focal point of this activity. HoWever if the students fre- quent the pool to any great ex- tent they will find it Will deplete their funds considerably. Therefore we suggest a student price or a reduction in the adult fee. Although We fear this mes- sage Will receive no attention We hope it Will cause some people to take note. Sincerely Penniless Pool Patrons *igartte available anrequest 15 YEARS AGO Wednesday evening Hon Les- lie Frost, Preinier of Ontario, addressed a large gathering seated in the bandstand of Exe ter Community Park in the interests of Elgin McKinley, the Progressive-ConserVative member for Huron-Perth. Grading of the site for the new $25,000 community Centre at Hensall is being done this week: It will provide 'a standard- size ice surface for hockey and skating as well asmeeting' rooms kir Boy SCoUtS etao Hoof on the newly ad d e d grandatand and rest rooms will be installed at Oominunity Park before the annual race Meet; here July 20. dieter garage operators 'met Thursday evening and decided to CloSO WedneSday afternoo ns. The bnd Open the prieVioUS day will alSO be Open Wednes- day afternoon. 10 YEAllS AGO The first garden party at TriVitt Memorial Church in 25 ye.it gave The new restoration fUnd its lira major contribti, don Wednesday. tore to provide funds to, loan to industries is not sdmething that has been dreamed up by local men, and WINSB, values .can only be tested on the success with which it will meet here, 'This idea has been used in many Com- munities and has worlied, and there is .every reason to believe it will work with equal benefits in Exeter. It should be pointed out explicitly that a .$100 debenture in such a scheme is not a gift or a donation, It is 'an investment and the return of the $100 is practically guaran- teed, plus a small rate of interest, whether an industry settles here or not, But as previously noted, it is more an investment in the future of this community. An investment that each person now em- ployed will continue to be just that, An in- vestment that local stores will continue to operate at least on their present basis. An investment that those providing services to the community will continue to have custom- ers. Strictly an investment in the future! While some will argue that at present the community is prosperous enough as it is, there is absolutely no guarantee that it will continue to be so in the future. There may be some who can not af- ford to invest $100 in the future of this com- munity, but it is also a fact that the ma- jority may not be able to afford not to. This forward and progressive step be- ing undertaken by the Industrial Develop- ment Corporation deserves the sincere con- sideration and support of all whose livelihood depends on the future of the community. Sottrce Imam mg An' ( INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BANK