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Do motorists really care?
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farmer.
As time goes on and the popu-
lation increases, this situation
is bound to change, but right
now, the small farmer isn't get-
ting a fair shake when compared
with other industries.
The professor is a member of
the Agricultural Institute of
Canada and a Fellow of the Che-
mical Institute of Canada. When
he began teaching chemistry the
field was just opening up. In
the past two years programmed
learning has been introduced.
The department of chemistry at
the university will soon be mov-
ing into its new quarters in a new
building on the corner of College
Lane and the highway.
Along with his reading, Pro-
fessor Birk intends to spend
some time at his summer place
at Sauble Beach and to do a little
bit of travelling.
Safe, efficient, economical LP Gas assures
dependable hot water heating for all needs.
who had just returned from
fighting a war. They were plea-
santly surprised to find these
young people eager to learn.
They seemed to have known
what they were looking for and
wanted to work and get it.
Professor Birk and his wife
are members of Chalmers Uni-
ted Church. He is an elder of
the church and involved with
its affairs. For relaxation, the
professor tends his garden and
reads. He didn't have time, when
he was working to read as much
as he would like and he is
catching up now.
His reading follows his in-
terest in agriculture. Speaking
as a person involved in this
field for a number of years,
Professor Birk said, from an
economic point of view, the
present situation in agriculture
is not good for the ordinary
Hotson Propane
but events of the past week would indicate
that people aren't really concerned. In a
three-day safety check sponsored by the local
police force, only 125 motorists took their
cars in for an inspection, despite the fact
faulty vehicles are blamed for a major share
of road deaths.
Naturally, only those who believed
their cars were in good condition had them
inspected in this voluntary check, and it is
interesting to note that 17 of the vehicles
had minor defects of which the drivers were
not aware.
This leads to the question of how
many cars not checked had defects of which
the drivers are not aware. Of greater con-
cern is the question of whether or not these
defects will lead to a serious accident.
Safety checks provide motorists with
an opportunity to determine the condition of
their car. If they are no more concerned
than was evident in Exeter last week, the
death toll from accidents will never diminish
and drivers will have no one to blame but
themselves.
Unfortunately, many persons who are
concerned about their safety to the point
where they will do something to ensure it,
will be innocent victims to crashes caused by
the unconcerned.
• re ONE MAN'S OPINION
by John C. Boyne
Venturing onto the highways these
days is becoming a continually greater risk,
and unfortunately we are becoming hardened
to the staggering traffic toll.
Newspaper headlines record the tragic
loss of lives each week and the news no
longer startles us. It is an accepted part of
a way of life, yet figures show that since 1936
some 72,673 Canadians have died in traffic
deaths, which is about 30,000 more than the
number of Canadian fighting men killed dur-
ing the whole of World War II.
The rising death and injury toll is
prompting some people to action and the
Weekend Magazine contained an article in re-
gard to approaches being made to force car
manufacturers into producing safer vehicles
—not cars that won't become involved in ac-
cidents, because it is still the driver's fault in
most cases, but rather a vehicle in which
crash victims will have a better chance of
surviving.
Some Members of Parliament have al-
ready petitioned Prime Minister Pearson to
back such a campaign, and the rising interest
should be greeted with enthusiasm by all
motorists.
But is it? Do motorists really care
about their safety?
It would be encouraging to think so, Exciting
possibility Not the way to say thanks
J. Duncan Edmonds is organ-
izing committee secretary of
the Company of Young Cana-
dians recently set up by the
Federal Government.
When Crossroads Africa was
being launched in the U.S. by a
Presbyterian minister, James
Robinson; when John Kennedy
was stressing excellence and
service this young man became
executive of the co-called Ca-
nadian Peace Corps — Canadian
University Students Overseas.
At 24 he became a lecturer in
Carlton University. He also be-
came a familiar figure in the
corridors of the House of Com-
must realize this is their debt and not just
that of six men who probably have already
donated more than the average person, to say
nothing of the vast amount of time and ef-
fort they have put into the project.
It would be fair to say that without
them the pool would not be a reality. It is
strange that they should be thanked by be-
ing left holding the bag for some $3,000.
We suggest that with a concerted ef-
fort, the money could be raised. Special pro-
grams could be staged at the pool to raise
funds.
If this fails, the swim pool committee
should close the pool until such time as it
is paid for, unless they decide they want to
virtually donate their bank notes to the pool.
They shouldn't have to do that.
While area youngsters splash merrily
in the new pool at Exeter, six members of
the swimming pool committee are in a bit of
a stew as they have signed notes at the bank
to cover the $3,000 debt still remaining on
the needed and welcome facilities.
The men are obviously the victims of
peoples' nature. The swim pool is already
built, kids are enjoying it. So why should
anyone want to dig into his pockets for an
additional donation?
Obviously, the swim pool committee
made their mistake in opening the pool until
it was completely paid for, but with so much
of the nation's business being conducted on
credit these days, that attitude is certainly
old fashioned.
The answer is that people in the area LETTERS T E EDITOR
BATT'N AROUND WITH THE EDITOR
Some facts to ponder
Not so, Smiley
Received our copy of Quick Ca-
nadian Facts last week and the small
edition provides some very interest-
ing reading on all facets of Canadian
life, from history to stamp collection.
Many of the facts are based on
figures from the last census and of
interest to those who strive after
wealth is a report that there are ac-
tually some people in this land of
ours who earn over $200,000 per
annum. In fact there are 71 out of
the 4,681,227 who were in the work
force in 1962.
While some may be envious of
these people, the booklet shows in
no uncertain terms that a large per-
centage of that money goes to the
government in the form of taxes.
In fact, if it is any consolation,
there are 623,971 people who earn
less than $2,000 and they pay less
in total income tax than the 487
people who earn from $100,000 to
$200,000 per annum.
That should convince people that
it's better to earn $2,000 than $200,-
000. Doesn't it?
* * *
One of the most interesting items
in the booklet is regarding taxable
corporations in Canada from 1944 to
1962. Back in the early years there
were 20,023 companies reporting a
profit, while another 7,709 reported
a loss.
In 1962, the number of companies
reporting a profit had increased to
78,241, while the number recording
a loss jumped to 57,304.
However, the country appears to
be in much worse shape than that.
The estimated debt charges for the
federal public debt for the year end-
ing March 31, 1966 is $1,101,056,400.
The unmatured debt of 18,982.7
million dollars in 1965 was just
slightly under the total income of
all Canadians in 1962.
Public welfare services in Canada
amount to a large percentage of the
amount received in taxes at all three
Leonard A. Birk, professor of
Chemistry at the OAC for nearly
35 years, retired last fall.Pro-
fessor Birk was born a.nd raised
in Dashwood, Ont., a village in
Huron County between Exeter
and Grand Bend.
His parents were farm peo-
ple and Prof. Birk inherited
from them a lifelong interest
in agriculture and the sciences
relating to it. He attended a
three-room school in Dash-
wood and Exeter District High
School. He came to the OAC
and graduated from there in
the class of '30. He went on to
get his Master of Sciences de-
gree from the University of
Michigan.
Thirty-three men graduated
in Prof. Birk's class and the 25
who are left will return to the
University of Guelph this year
for their 35th reunion.
Professor Birk and his wife,
the former Nellie Barclay, of
Guelph, live at 16 Forbes Ave.
They have two children, a son
and a daughter. The son, Arthur
is now a dentist, practising in
the town of Lardner, British Co-
lumbia. Sheila, the daughter,
married Dr. Ivan Reed, a gradu-
ate of the OVC, who is now in
charge of the federal health of
animals division in Medicine
Hat, Alberta. The Birks have
five grandchildren.
Professor and Mrs. Birk sp-
ent about two months last sum-
mer visiting their family in the
west.
When he was at the college,
the professor's main interest
was in teaching chemistry and
for many years he taught the
courses in organic chemistry to
the students at OAC, OVC, and
Macdonald Institute.
Professor Birk did some re-
search too, in line with a course
he was giving on insecticides,
fungicides and pesticides. The
research chiefly involved a stu-
dy of pesticidal residues re-
maining on vegetation and in
soils following spraying with
various pesticides.
An example of the work was a
study he did on the milk of cows
that had been sprayed with DDT.
It was felt that there was a dan-
ger of this and of other pesti-
cides persisting in the soil or
on the animals and affecting
sensitive crops such as milk.
This topic raised a furor a
couple of years ago when Rachel
Carson's book "The Silent
Spring" was published. The
book forecast doom and death
to mankind if they continued us-
ing deadly chemicals to combat
weeds and insects.
Professor Birk spoke briefly
on the changes in student types
in the past 35 years. He said
that he could see very little
difference apart from the fact
that a student entering univer-
sity today has a better educa-
tional background and the uni-
versities tend to expect more of
him.
He said that by far the best
students he ever taught were
those who attended the colleges
following World War 1.1. He said
the faculty was a little leery of
having to cope with young men
levels of government. The federal
government is currently spending
about $3.1 billion a year on social
security, health and welfare and the
provincial and municipal governments
spend about $1.4 billion.
Transfer payments to persons —
that is, money collected by taxation
and then paid out to the public in the
form of family allowances, old age
pensions, welfare payments, etc. —
at all three levels of government
amounted to $4,159,000,000 in 1964.
Canadians of course know all about
living on credit and if you don't
believe that, statistics show that on
December 31, 1964 they owed no less
than $5,483,000,000 to banks, finance
companies and various stores provid-
ing instalment credit.
And that, dear reader, should pro-
vide you with enough facts to spend
some time in pondering just where
we are going. When you find out,
let us know.
* * *
Police officers receive a multitude
of "excuses" when they arrive on the
scene of an accident, and they range
all the way from drivers having
trees step out in front of them to dogs
coming unexpectedly out of a ditch
to cause motorists to veer sharply
to avoid a collision.
Their action of course often re-
sults in their landing up in the ditch.
And of course the dog usually escapes
unscathed and unfortunately myster-
iously disappears before the inves-
tigating officer arrives.
We heard a suggestion the other
day that motorists should carry a
dead dog in their trunk, because the
excuse is getting to the point where
police are realizing that there just
can't be that many dogs running
around loose to get in front of so
many motorists.
Such incidents do arise of course,
and are much less strange than two
"freaks" reported in a recent bul-
letin from the Ontario Safety League.
Sir,
I was annoyed after reading
the column "Sugar and Spice"
in the last edition of the Exeter
Times-Advocate. I see no rea-
son why Smiley feels that Brit-
ish historical figures would be
indignant if they knew that the
Beatles had received an M.B.E.
Have the Beatles not earned
a great deal of money of which
the British government has tak-
en a large share?
Has the mop-haired quartet
not been greeted by thousands
of devout fans at almost every
airport where they have
stopped?
The Beatles, in fact, could
be considered a British gesture
of good will abroad (I am re-
fering to the group's increased
popularity in Germany after the
— please turn to page 4
One of the classics occured in
Scotland when a workman, cycling
home after dark, collided with a sub-
marine. He was taking a short cut
along the beach, and the submarine
had been stranded on the sand by the
receding tide.
The other "first" involved Atilio
Pirelli, driving a small truck. He
smashed into a jet airliner. Pirelli
was on his way to pick up news-
papers from an incoming flight, when
he ran into the plane, which was
parked on a Rome airfield.
However, let us advise readers
that submarines and jet aircraft are
few and far between in this area, and
perhaps they should confine their
excuses to dogs.
If you happen to be one of those
parents who has the idea that gaining
a college education is the only manner
in which your offspring can avoid a
kind of second-class citizenship and
a collapse of earning potential, hold
your verdict until the present car-
penter's strike is settled.
Readers are probably well aware
of the wages being sought by the nail
hammerers in London as they hope
to attain a pay of $4.00 an hour within
two years. Some speedy calculation
indicates that would put them into an
$8,000 a year bracket.
A student attaining a Bachelor of
Arts degree and entering the teach-
ing profession could hope to get to
$8,000 in 10 years or so and with many
summer courses could possibly reach
$10,000 by the time he retires.
Meanwhile, the carpenter has been
working some four years while the
scholar is at University and OCE,
so he is already ahead about $24,000,
figuring a starter in the trade would
average only $6,000 a year until he
became a craftsman.
The student has spent anywhere up
to $10,000 on his education, so in
fact he is $34,000 behind the carpent-
- Please turn to page 4
15 YEARS AGO
Misses Norma Fahrner and
Margaret Ratz, Crediton, left
Saturday for Ottawa where they
will continue their course in
primary methods of teaching,
Miss Elaine Mitchell is taking
the course in Hamilton.
Grand Bend will apply for
permission to incorporate into
a full-fledged municipality
sometime during July.
The surfacing of No. 4 high-
way from north of Lucan to five
miles south of Exeter this year
will complete resurfacing of
the highway from Exeter to
London.
Night Constable William
Wareing is enjoying two weeks'
holidays.
50 YEARS AGO
Headed by the Citizens' Band,
the Orangemen paraded to Triv-
itt Memorial Church Sabbath
evening and listened to a sermon
by the rector, Rev. D. W. Col-
lins.
Mr. J. G. Stanbury and family
motored to their summer cot-
tage at Bayfield in their new
Studebaker auto.
The citizens of the south end
of Exeter are devoting much
time to fixing up Victoria park
on Huron Street. A new band-
stand is almost completed. A
cinder tennis court will be fixed
at one end of the park.
Miss Ella Baker is holiday-
ing for a week at Crediton. Her
place at the telephone office is
being taken by W. Manson.
Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ont.
Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Dept, Ottawa,
and for Payment of Postage in Cash
mons. Through this varied ex-
perience he worked for one
a j o r conviction: Canadians
were not doing enough about
poverty or inequality either at
home or abroad. They hadn't
faced up to it "morally, eco-
nomically or politically". From
Carlton he became executive
assistant to External Affairs
minister Paul Martin.
Listen to some of the points
made by this fired up young
man who heads up Canada's
most exciting proposal in years:
"It is incumbent upon every
Christian to be an advocate of
his faith every working mo-
ment, sometimes with words,
mostly with his life."
"I find myself praying often
during the day. It's just a mo-
ment but it gives me a source
of strength the humanist denies
himself."
"Young Canadians must sup-
ply the initiative needed to face
up to problems in their own
land and give leadership to oth-
er nations if they are to fulfill
their destinies."
"Far too much apathy exists
with respect to the vital chal-
lenges facing the world today.
There is even a lack of guts on
the part of those to whom we
normally look for leadership.
As a people we are prone to
let Jack do it. That is an at-
titude which appals and bewild-
ers. It is an attitude which
must change."
"There is a widespreadfeel-
ing among many Canadians that
the youth of our country are
more anxious than ever before
to play a leading and sensitive
role in national and interna-
tional life and also that young
people today are concerned that
their contribution be as direct
and as concrete as possible."
In his words the Company of
Young Canadians is being set
up so that the "idealism and
energy of young people can be
a vital and potent force in a
democratic community." It is
being instituted to "give prac-
tical expression to this ideal-
ism and to utilize this energy."
What types of projects will
be involved? Well it appears
as if the Canadian University
Students Overseas' idea will be
expanded to include domestic
problem areas as well. This
will no doubt lead to urban and
rural renewal projects slum
clearance etc. Work with de-
pressed Indians will no doubt
have top priority,
But perhaps the best way of
illustrating what will probably
happen is to use some personal
illustrative examples provided
by Kenneth Bagnell in an ex-
cellent United Church "Observ-
er" article entitled "The End
of the Beat Generation."
"pant MacKenzie is doing
surgery in Tanganyika. Peter
Bothroyd is working with Douk-
hobors in B.C. Lois James is
helping refugees in East Punjab.
Michael Sinclair is heading
adult education in part of Zam-
bia. Rene Brisson is teaching
mathematics in Rwanda. Lynn
Pollard is on an Indian aid
project in Saskatchewan. Gary
Perly left his psychology course
at Toronto to help poverty rid-
den Negroes. Diane MacVicar
of Halifax is preparing to leave
for a remote Indian reserve
in Ontario. Paul and Marilyn
Duchesne were packing for a
two-year term in an East Af-
rican Village."
AS Bagnell comments: "Can-
ada's young people are thus
writing the end to the Beat
Generation and opening the Era
of the Committed."
He quotes Harvey Shepherd,
M.A. English, former editor of
the university paper in Tor-
- Please turn to page 4
10 YEARS AGO
Police are asking housewives
to co-operate with them to pre-
vent illegal peddlers operating
in town. Chief Reg Taylor re-
quests them to call police as
soon as possible when apeddlar
without a licence calls at their
door.
Barely a week after it began
the campaign to buy a resuscitat-
or for Grand Bend and district
is almost over the top. Cost
of the machine is $782.50.
Celebrating her 94thbirthday
is the good fortune of Mrs.
Ann Carling. She was formerly
Ann Fitton, daughter of the late
Thomas Fitton who conducted a
jewelry business in Exeter. Her
husband, the late William J.
Carling, with his brother Thom-
as conducted a general store in
Exeter.
Official opening of the Beta
Sigma Phi Sorority wading pool
in Victoria Park will be held
Wednesday July 20 at 3 pm.
25 YEARS AGO
The Exeter Lions Club is
commencing its big drive for
the raising of funds in con-
nection with its annual fall f r o-
lio. The prizes to be given away
this year will be War Saving
Certificates.
The new law requiring pass-
ports for entry into the United
States kept many Americans
from entering Canada for the
holiday for fear they might
have difficulty in returning.
The Exeter band under the
leadership of Ted Walper gave
a band concert at the Casino
at Grand Bend Sunday evening.
A collection of $25 is being
turned over to the Red Cross.
Seven operations for the re-
moval of tonsils were perform-
ed at Mrs. Godboltts Hospital
Wednesday. The operations are
being sponsored by the Exeter
Lions Club. Dr. Steer of Hen-
sel]. and Dr. Weekes of town
were in charge.
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