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Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 `fie txeferTrimes-Abuocafe 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 EDITORIALS HELPING THE NEEDY Donations do big task Earlier decisions would help For instance $164,010.00 was spent on provision of braces, artificial limbs, wheelchairs, etc. and $243,000.00 on oper- ational costs of rehabilitation centres where treatment was provided. With this assistance about half of our caseload will be able to carry on independently, but severe disability is usually a lifelong matter and they will have recurring problems. The year 1965 will bring hundreds of new cases in ad- dition to the carryover for instance all crippled children who have passed their nine- teenth birthday will come to March of Dimes service. The need is still great and the cost is high, but rehabilita- tion of disabled people still makes a lot of "cents" — $673,- 500.00 in fact! sessed and found capable of tak- ing specific training that will lead to a competitive job some time in 1965. Sixty-two others have been prepared for certain types of unskilled employment and as suitable jobs are found we ex- pect they will join the work force also. Twenty-eight are ready for work in a sheltered shop. As more work becomes available for these shops this group will be taken up. If even a third of these three latter groups get back to work for one-half of 1965, there will be a further welfare saving of $25,000.00 and wages earned totalling $37,000.00 All told there will be an ANNUAL savings in welfare costs of $280,000.00 for the working lives of these people. There will be wages earned by them totalling $393,500.00 for 1965 and no doubt improving over subsequent years. This means well over half a million dollars in new wealth will be available to Ontario annually as a direct /result of the eco- nomic re-establishment of 198 disabled persons through the March of Dimes rehabilitatiori program. And the cost? Approximately $250,000.00 to get this gitoup back to work. The balance of March of Dimes income last year—$500,000.00—was spent on a variety of medical re- habilitation services for the 3,699 disabled per sons who. came to us for help during the year. Did you know . .? (ED NOTE The following news release is inserted to in- form readers of how their con- tributions to the March of Dimes are used. Canvasses will be made throughout the area by Women in Hensall and Exeter in the near future.) Howard C. Caine, president of the Rehabilitation Foundation for the Disabled reported this week that as a result of the March of Dimes rehabilitation program in Ontario in 1964, 158 men and women went back to work. None of them had worked since becoming disabled, and for them it has been like a re- turn to the land of the living! Considered unemployable be- cause of the severity of their disability, all were receiving either welfare or disabled per- son's pension at a total annual cost to society of $255,000.00. One hundred and fifty-eight very happy people and a $255,- 000.00 welfare saving seems like a pretty substantial pay-off for a year's rehabilitation work, but there is a great deal more! One hundred and three of these disabled workers went out to a regular job in industry and will average a minimum of $2,500.00 per year in wages, — a total of $257,500.00. The remaining 55 went to work in sheltered workshops and will average $1,800.00 per year, — a total of $99,000.00, Thus $356,500.00 in wages will be contributed to the econ- omy in addition to the $255,- 000.00 saved! Another 29 persons were as- ONE MAN'S OPINION by John C. Boyne such duties. New members on council are less apt to have this knowledge and are gen- erally ill-prepared to know what people may be available and willing to serve. A second suggestion that would help alleviate the problem encountered in the RAP situation, would be to ask all repre- sentatives to indicate their intent in writing as to whether or not they would be willing to serve another term. Members should be asked to make up their minds and advise council before the final meeting of the year if they will not serve again. If no letter of resignation was submitted, councils could then assume the member was willing to serve another term. This eliminates the present situation of councils having to rely on getting this in- formation in conversations with the mem- bers or through hearsay. Had the two suggestions listed above been followed this year, there would have been no problems encountered in knowing who should attend the first meeting of RAP. As noted previously, no major prob- lems were encountered by the confusing set- up. But the decisions were made that the new committee will have to abide by during the remainder of the year. It is only fair that the decisions should have been made by those who will have to abide by it. This brings up one final thought that should be mentioned and that is in regard to the practice of putting recommendations in the minutes for a new council or board to follow. The practice has some merit in that groups whose term of office is up should not decide on matters that are primarily the duties of their predecessors. But any recom- mendations made should be as explicit as possible. An example was the recommendation on the RAP books that Alvin Willert be given a "substantial" pay boos t. Unfortunately there was no hint as to what the former members had in mind when they used the word "substantial". It would have been much more prac- tical had the recommendation carried a defi- nite suggestion for the guidance of the new members, some of whom had no idea what Willert's duties were and what pay he should have been given. Breath of fresh air The rather confusing setup noted at the January meeting of RAP created no ma- jor problems, but there is always the chance that problems could have arisen, and possibly some changes should be implemented to en- sure they do not crop up in the future. Reason for the unusual setup of both old and new members being present at the initial meeting was brought about by the fact the entire new committee was not named at the inaugural meeting of council. And the reason they were not named was due pri- marily to the fact there was some question as to which members of the previous RAP committee were willing to remain. There are two suggestions that could be made that should eliminate either of these two problems arising in the future. The first is that members of RAP, and all other committees for that matter, should be named at the final meeting of council in December by the existing council members. This procedure is followed in appoint- ments to the SHDHS board, as they are named at the end of the year rather than at the inaugural. In this way, the membership of the high school board is known and they can commence their work as soon as they wish. This is indeed necessary, as it can easily be seen that there would be problems this year if surrounding councils had delayed in naming their representatives as the Exe- ter council did in naming RAP members. The SHDHS board had some very important de- cisions to make and if their first meeting had to be delayed while councils located repre- sentatives, it could have proven costly. A similar situation existed with RAP. They had important matters that needed early attention and to delay their opening meeting would not have been wise. There would appear to be no problems in naming committee members and repre- sentatives at the final council meeting of the year and such a proposal should be discussed by councils. They may not be able to name their own members to committees and boards at this time, but their inaugurals are held early enough in the year that this would cre- ate no problems if left until that time. Another argument in favor of nam- ing representatives at the end of the year is the fact that sitting members are more likely to know what persons may be available for The insurance industry is aware that not all traffic deaths are the result of "accidents". Some are suicide. There are two main forms of self-destruction by auto, says the Ontario Safety League: those in which pedestrians purposely walk into death paths, and those in which motorists crash their vehicles in hope of accomplish- ing suicide. In the first case the pedes- trian may hope to leave a lu- crative liability claim for his survivors. Broad defences against the traffic toll — better education, enforcement, engineering—are of slight effect in face of a driver or pedestrian seeking death. The public demand for better protection at rail crossings af- ter a local fatality, for instance, may be misplaced if the crash was deliberate. The Journal of American In- surance says that suicide of- ficially ranks 11th among causes of death. Each year in the U.S. 26,000 people succeed in killing themselves, and an- other 180,000 attempt it. The rates of officially successfully suicides vary from eight in New York City, per 100,000 population, to 28.6 in San Fran- cisco. Suicide rates, however, are highly deceptive since they are based on official reports, often disguised for reasons of relig- ious conviction or compassion for the deceased's family. „daSSIESTMECIIMIIMIL BATT'N AROUND WITH THE EDITOR The criticism returned out the Douglas theme or the- sis most clearly of all. A great deal of his writing hints again and again at the explosive power of the Sermon on the Mount which can be found in Matthew 5 and following. He seems to be saying again and again—be reconciled to the people around you—forgive and accept each other—only then do you fully experience God's ac- ceptance and forgiveness of you. Surely that is what the Lord's Prayer is saying: "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us". I suppose my friends knew that I'd read a lot of sophisti- cated literary garbage last summer and they took pity on me. In any case their suggestion that I read some Lloyd C. Doug-. las was a real breath of fresh air for me. If you want a refreshing bit of reading try these. The local librarian tells me she has a pretty good selection—four or five anyway. You'll find them more than worth the effort. RENT THE MONEY YOU NEED MV\W The future of Farmers' Allied Meat Enterprises Co-Operative Ltd. ap- pears to be very much in doubt yet, although at a general shareholders' meeting in Brampton, Friday, a re- solution was passed demanding that the provincial government guarantee a bank loan to help FAME regain the Fearman Packing plant which it lost when it was unable to meet a$1,000,- 000 second payment. While loans have been made to similar groups, such as the Ontario Flue-Cured Tobacco Growers' Mar- keting Board, it is difficult to under- stand how shareholders of FAME think they can "demand" such action by the government. Earlier requests by FAME for a loan from the government, and also for help from seven of Ontario's lead- ing farm groups, were turned down, and there is no doubt but what the organization will have to agree to a full investigation into its setup before loans will be received from any source. While it is to be hoped the large investment made by Ontario farmers can be saved, they can hardly expect public money or that from other groups to be tossed in unless the ven- ture appears sound. It is interesting to note that the "press" came in for considerable criticism at the Brampton meeting, Friday, for "distorting the facts and printing inaccurate information". This of course is a practice used by many persons in their attempt to absolve themselves of any blame, and there is no doubt that the directors of FAME should be the recipients of much of the blame for the troubles In which they now find themselves. NOW PAY OFF ALL YOUR ‘itedrosta4 BILLS Messrs Verne Smith and Re- ginald Taylor last week enlist- ed in the RASC as carpenters. "An apple a day keeps the doctor away" is the latest to be so vindicat- ed," he notes, suggesting a recent me- dical research report suggests an apple may do just that. Apple-eaters, it has now been de- monstrated, are not only generally healthier than apple-haters: specifi- cally, they also are significantly less prone to arterioslerosis, respiratory infections and ailments, including as- thma, and teeth and gum disorders. Apple, anyone? The readership of The T-A is na- turally quite extensive and as we have pointed out before, goes to var- ious corners of the world to persons who have a connection with the many communities covered in Its news columns. But events of the past week make us wonder just how far it does go. Readers will recall we mentioned last week that the winter weather to date had been lacking its normal supply of cold and snow, and while Some enjoyed it, the situation was not good for our economy which is dependent to a great extent on there being considerable snow and cold to persuade residents to buy warm cloth- ing, snow tires, shovels, etc., etc. Well, just after the paper was dis- tributed, things changed drastically and winter arrived in no uncertain terms, and warm clothing, shovels, snow tires and all the rest of it were very much needed. Must check that mailing list again just to see if there does happen to be a reader who has such power to act so quickly on our suggestion that winter is indeed needed in this area. However, we will be the first to admit there were inaccuracies print- ed about FAME in this and most other newspapers which attempted to inform the large number of shareholders among their readership of the FAME circumstances. But most of the in - accuracies were brought about by the false statements made to the press by directors of FAME. Whe FAME got into trouble, it was reported by a director that president C h ar le s McInnis resigned due to health reasons. And even at the meet- ing held in Huron County, Carl Hem- mingway, Brussels, only cleared the air briefly by implying that McInnis resigned of his own free will, with health reasons not being a factor. However, another director at the same meeting refuted this statement and said the resignation was demanded after a vote of the directors. So, press reports were inaccurate, but only because FAME directors were unwilling to provide them with true reports. There are many other examples of directors not agreeing as to what was the truth, and this, plus the lack of information of FAME's plight supplied to shareholders are two of the major reasons why it ran into such difficul- ties, and why few people were willing to put money into the project in the 11th-hour bid to save it. FAME will remain only a dream under such conditions. The editor of the St. Marys Journal- Argus points out this week it is "curious the number of old adages which in our day and age are being proven to have more than a grain of truth in them". 50 YEARS AGO There is to be considerable building in Exeter this summer. The school is to be remodelled; A. E. Fuke will build on Andrew St., W. J. Beer, two homes on William St. and also Dr. Rout- ston on Main St. T. B. Carling was appointed clerk and treasurer of the Vil- lage of Exeter for 1915 at a salary of $400 per year. W. J. Bissett was re-appoint- ed constable and street com- missioner with the understand- ing that he take no constable duties outside of town at a sal- ary of $525 — an increase of $25. Council appointed Mrs. John Harness to ring the village bell at $50 per annum. ti 15 YEARS AGO Grand opening of Brady's new laundeteria with four new auto- matic washing machines and two large dryers will be this week- end. Exeter Senior Citizens mark- ed their first birthday Tuesday night in the Legion Hall. "The Exeter Club is the model for Ontario" said Bob Secord, dis- trict advisor for community programs. Rev. A. E. Holley tendered his resignation to the Official Board of Main Street United Church to be effective July 1. Jim C art e r and Marion Creery won the public speak- ing contest sponsored by Exe- ter Lions at SHDHS Monday afternoon. MOST people need extra cash at this time of year. Many people prefer to RENT the cash they need from Crescent, When you RENT money from Crescent you can combine all your bills into one easy monthly payment — suited to your budget, HOW do you RENT money? — Phone, write or walk into any Crescent office and tell the Manager you want to rent enough money to pay off all your bills, Then you will have only one easy monthly payment. RENT money? Yes, it's the modern way to meet your money needs, When you rent, there's no need to feel apologetic because we respect our customers and their reasons for renting with most of our customers, we don't even ask why they are renting money! There's no red tape, just a simple credit requirement. CAN you think of an easier, or safer, way to pay off all your bills? Use the handy "Money-Renter" coupon below and solve your money problems the modern way. 'IMui r Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ont. I I would like to vent $ Name Address 1,014.07 30 months 42.00 1 2,016:00 36 month: 77,00 Telephone Larger Amounts ep to $3,0001 L., am IMO MIS MIMI MN Mill UM NOM am( MIN MIN 10111 Or more) AISD MIMI - MI Example 1141y. Amts. Term Pmts. 105.70 12 months 1000 1 395,42 20 months 24.00 1 710.65 24 months 36.00 1 Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Dept, Ottawa, and for Payment of Postage in Cash 25 YEARS AGO Huron County has been dig- ging itself out of the worst snow storm in years. For a solid week zero weather and snow- storms visited this section, blocking roads, freezing pipes and playing havoc with the fuel supply. James Ballantyne MLA came by train to Dublin Saturday to spend the weekend at the old homestead in Usborne Town- ship. He Stepped off the train, took one look, stepped back on again, went on to Goderich and doubled back to Toronto on the next train. Mr. M. Walker, who for the past five years has cenducted a drug business in Exeter, has Sold the business to C. L. Ro- bertson of Sarnia. Paicl-inAdvance Circulation, September 30, 1964, 4,063 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada $4.00 Per Year; USA $5.00 crescent 5inance agrAilt161.1 F. G. Flannigan, Manager, 463 Main Street-, Phone 236-0633 , . 10 YEARS AGO Huron's new warden, Earl Campbell, reeve of Hay Town- ship predicts an increase of one mill in the county tax rate for 1955. H. G. "Hal" Hooke has been appointed the first full-time field officer of the Ausable Conservation Authority. "Wheels are turning" toward purchase of the 4,000-acre Pin- ery as a public park, the Atis- able Authority announced Wed- nesdaY. Mrs. Lee Learn Was crowned "Snowball Queen" at the annual dance sponsored by the Legion Auxiliary. We all do too little reading. There seems to be a dreadful "sameness" to magazines. We tend to become victims of "the idiot box" because it's easier and involves little effort on our part. Many of the paper backs aren't exactly designed to en- courage us to enjoy reading either. There are, however, a great many writers who have been able to indirectly relate the powerful principles of the Christian faith to the exper- iences of every day life. There have been those who were master story tellers— but at the same time they have been aware of how the teachings of Christ can affect and influ- ence human life. Famous writers such as Shakespeare, Milton, Haw- thorne, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Ro- bert Penn Warren and dozens of others have consciously or unconsciously made the great themes of the Christian faith vitally relevant to the human condition. Other writers have become famous by rebelling against the Christian faith in some or all of its aspects. The influence of the faith on literature how- ever has been tremendous. I have never read "The Robe" by Lloyd C. Douglas, nor have I seen the movie. It was made into a ',spectacular" and I dis- trust "spectaculars"—Biblical or otherwise. However, a couple of months ago I was urged to read the "Magnificent Obsession". A friend had found it helpful so I read it. This book provided me With a real breath of fresh air. It heightened my appreciation of the fact that you only grow as you get involved in the cares of other people. It strengthened my own conviction that 'involve- ment' leads inevitably to real satisfaction. It raised a great many ques- tions as to how the power of our faith can be harnessed and applied. It created a new appre- ciation of the tremendous re- sources that are available for daily living if we will only lay hold of them. By coincidence, about a month ago, another friend suggested I read "White Banners" also by Lloyd C. Douglas. Well, my interest had been aroused, so I went at it—it only takes a couple of nightS to read a book like this! In this book the concept of forgiveness began to play a major role in the theme. There appeared to be the suggestion that the power of God is directly related to our ability to forgive. At this point, my wife remem- bered that she had a couple of "Douglas novels" amongst her old books in her home in Ham- ilton. Over ChristmaS we picked up ',Forgive 'US our Trespass- es". This book seemed to spell