The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1969-06-05, Page 4Looking over the list of graduates
this year from Exeter and the
Surrounding district, we are
overwhelmed by pride that we have had
a small part to play in their success.
All these young people are products
of our local schools, built and
maintained by tax dollars. They have
been taught by staff members paid
through our labors; they have studied
from textbooks purchased through our
endeavors; they have travelled on our
sc hoolbuses, assembled in our
auditoriums, played on our athletic
field., followed our courses.
More than this, they are the
offspring of our citizens who have 'net
the expenses of higher education
through the stability of a prosperous
community. They have worshipped in
our churches, danced in our halls, skated
in our arenas, grown up through our
elubs.
They are making their mark in the
world today because we prepared them
well to meet the challenges of today's
complex world.
Just this one time each year we are
reassured that our efforts have not all
been in vain. It is a good feeling.
The truth isn't funny
A bit of levity at Friday's session of
Huron County Council had more
wisdom in it than most members
realized.
We're thinking now of Warden
James Hayter's quip concerning the
obvious difference in the various levels
of government.
When council expressed concern at
the one sump pump necessary in the
basement of the new administrative
building in Goderich and were reminded
that the National Art Centre in Ottawa
had 19 sump pumps in its basement to
keep out the waters of the Rideau Canal,
Warden Hayter said that showed the
difference in the level of government.
Everyone laughed. But the truth
was still there. The further away the
government gets from the people, the
larger the problems.
Of course, county councillors are
particularly aware of the difference in
the various levels of government. They
are in a perfect position to see how
things work at the Municipal, county,
provincial and the federal levels. Right
now, they don't like what they see in the
senior governments.
Perhaps they are fighting for
survival but it could possibly be that
smaller government units closer to the
people are still more efficient and
effective.
After all, there is only one sump
pump in the basement of the Huron
County administrative building and there
are 19 sump pumps in the basement of
the National Art Centre.
You can't have it both ways
Laymen who query television
executives about the impact of their
medium on current behaviour often have
the uneasy suspicion that the latter are
walking two ways at once.
They report with pride their
effectiveness as purveyors of goods and
services. The pitch for cereals, hairspray
and easy credit from finance companies
presumably pays off. Certainly, TV gets
the lion's share of the advertising dollar.
However, when it is suggested that
the programs themselves are equally
influential, the story changes. When
asked about the connection between the
incessant gunplay on the screen and the
rising crime rate and disrespect for law,
they answer solemnly that there is none
at all. Confronted with the similar
techniques used by psychotic mass
killers in various places they vigorously
reject the idea that television has been
either stimulus or teacher. "We only
reflect current patterns we don't create
them" is the stock answer.
It is difficult to see how
communications experts can have it both
ways. Either television advertising is not
what they claim, and the buyers are
being rooked, or programs that tie
viewers to their sets leave a potent
residue.
No one would contend they are
solely responsible for violence. Many
other factors are present — the deranged
mind, the frustrations that trigger the
explosion — but a concerned public feels
there is a genuine relationship between
some television fare and violence.
Several studies in this field have
been made, We need more of them. In
the meantime a little soul-searching on
the part of those who work in this
explosive, potent medium would be
welcomed.
The gullible get duped
the "motorcycle gang." We saw
them. In all their glory. Black
jackets, beards, long hair and
frightening. The kids weren't. I
was. Frightened, that is.
When we arrived, these young
adults, and I emphasize that
they're not teen-agers, were
grooving on fireworks.
Fortunately, they were so
beered-up, and it was so damp,
that the whole thing was a fizzle.
They were trying to light Roman
candles and such on the floor of
a restaurant. Adults, playing
with firecrackers.
What makes these people
wander about the country in
wolf packs? They get their kicks
from noise, speed and violence,
But they're people, and-certainly
some of them have brains,
feelings, decency. Yet they're
capable of actions that recall
Hitler's Brown-shirts, and I don't
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It's got me baffled
It takes a mickle to make a
muckle, whatever that means.
And it takes a lot of mickles and
muckles to make up that
peculiar agglomeration of mam-
mals known as modern society,
including a quantity of
crackpots and a welter of
weirdos, Present company
accepted.
Four different glimpses of
modern society, the human race
in the last few days have baffled
me completely, How did we get
as gar as we've come? And how
come we haven't got farther?
First of these was a big
project at the big shoe factory I
work in. Teachers and students
have been. slaving for months,
making canoes and planning
trips. They wound up with
about 30 canoes, maps,
compasses and no brains.
With just a little less fanfare
than the Spanish Armada, they
set off on a sunny Friday
afternoon, holiday weekend, to
conquer the wilderness and
make Etienne Brute look like a
Sunday tripper.
It rained all day Saturday,
Sunday and Monday in the great
national park they chose for
their insanity. The temperature
was a little above freezing. They
came back exhausted, soaked to
the skin, and frozen to the
marrow.
About 50 people were about
as miserable as they ever have
been, or ever will be, in their
lives. And already they're
planning the next trip. Already,
it's a great adventure, in
retrospect.
I know the feeling. I was a
prisioner of war, and there was
little joy in the jaunt. But
looking back I wouldn't have
missed it for anything. Pretty
stupid, eh?
The same weekend, since the
rain ruled out anything
intelligent, I took two little
nieces out to the beach to see
There's no doubt about the
fact people are gullible, and
there are a number of rich
people around to prove it.
Only recently, a number of
people entered a contest
appearing in a national magazine
that offered a free trip to the
sunny south.
Many of the entrants were
elated a few days later to learn
that indeed they had been
chosen for the final draw and all
they had to do was send in a
"refundable" $25 to get the free
trip.
Had they read the fine print,
they would have found that the
$25 was refundable only to the
winner of the trip.
Numerous enquiries from
entrants uncovered the
fraudulent scheme, although
some people lost their $25
before the culprits were
apprehended,
Had the scheme worked, the
operators would have ended up
getting about $1,500,000 from
the entrants, and the only
expenses they had to meet were
for the advertisement, the trip
for two for the winner, and the
refund of the $25 to the winner.
The magazine which carried
the advertisement was no doubt
embarrassed by the fraud, but
on the surface the whole plan
appeared to be okay.
There was nothing in the
advertisement about having to
forward $25. The ad only
brought in the entrants, who
were then contacted by mail by
the operators to effect the fraud.
Despite frequent warnings
about reading contracts carefully
and not entering into agreements
with itinerant salesmen and
such, people still get duped on
such schemes and really have no
one to blame but themselves.
The trip scheme described
indicates there are some things
which are given national
advertising that have to be
watched carefully.
Students, politicians and
others seeking a crash course in
history might do worse than
begin with the highly condensed
version of writer Charles A.
Beard.
Asked if he could summarize
the lessons of history in a short
book, Beard said he could do it
in four sentences:
1. Whom the Gods would
destroy, they first make mad
with power.
2. The mills of the Gods grind
slowly, but they grind
exceedingly small.
3. The bee fertilizes the
flower it robs.
4. When it is dark enough,
you can see the stars.
Not a bad summing up at
that!
A speaker at a recent safety
conference commented that "if
man can go to the moon and be
brought safely back to earth,
surely it is not beyond our
ingenuity to establish conditions
in which we can get home safely
from a shopping centre."
It's a pOint well taken
perhaps, but the speaker
obviously didn't stop to consider
the number of people and highly
specialized equipment required
to get only three men to the
Moon and back safely.
If we all had that going for us
every time we jumped behind
the wheel of a car, getting to a
destination and back would be
Much less hazardous.
We also wonder how long it
will be before the air lanes to the
Moon will be so crowded that
travel there will become as
dangerous as it is down here on
earth.
It seems rather strange that 15
years ago we could hardly
envision such a trip taking place
and now we wonder if things
will get jammed up with traffic
in the next 15 years.
If a newspaper editor were to
suggest that people would be
better off not reading, he would
obviously be cutting his own
throat as far as his livelihood was
concerned, and that may be the
situation SHDHS Principal J.L.
Wooden was creating last week
when he suggested the number
of children per family should be
set at two.
However, the population
explosion may well create more
of a danger for the next
generation than even the most
horrible bomb explosions we can
imagine.
Many people feel a twinge of
guilt when they hear or read that
over one-half of the world's
population is malnourished and
starvation is common place.
That's obviously bad enough,
but think what will happen
when the world's population
doubles within a predicted time
of only 35 years.
David M. Prescott, writing in
BioScience, says this will more
than double the quantity of
human suffering.
He suggests the crisis is
already here in its preliminary
stages. "How else can the
destitute state of over half the
world's people be described?"
Prescott goes on as follows:
"The most astonishing
position with respect to the
problem of overpopulation
maintains that the problem is
essentially one of world food
production. It is a simple fact
50 YEARS AGO
Chairman F.W. Gladman and
Trustee R.N. Creech go to
Goderich this Wednesday to wait
on County Council to have
Exeter Continuation School
changed to a High School.
Miss Lena Coates of Usborne
last week graduated with honors
from the London Conservatory
of Music receiving the degree of
ALCM.
Wednesday afternoon a
deputation of people from
various parts of Huron County
waits on County Council in
Goderich to make a grant of
probably fifty to sixty thousand
dollars toward enlarging the
present hospitals at Wingham,
Goderich and Clinton and
building hospitals in Seaforth
and Exeter.
Among the Exeter boys to
arrive home from overseas the
latter part of last week were: Pte
E.H, McAvoy, Sgt L.G. Hogarth,
Pte J.N. Willis, Pte R.B. Walker,
Cpl E.L. Tuckey, Cpl E.W,
Munn, Harry Parsons and Gnr
Reg Knight.
25 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Wein,
Crediton, have purchased the
stucco home of the late Wm. H.
Johnston on Victoria Street and
will take possession about the
first of July.
Mr. H.L. Eilber of Crediton
who, for the past ten years, has
been clerk and treasurer of the
Township of Stephen, has
resigned his position owing to
illness and Mr. Lloyd Hodgson
of Centralia, has been appointed
in his place.
Dr. R. Hobbs, M P P for
Huron and Mrs, Taylor and Mr.
and Mrs. A.W. Morgan of
Usborne Were guests at the head
table at a banquet in First
Presbyterian Church, Seaforth,
Wednesday at noon for the Earl
of Athlone, Governor-General of
Canada and Princess Alice of
Ottawa,
The building on Main Street
that, for a number of years, has
been occupied by the Public
Utilities Commission, was last
week sold by tender to Clarence
Fairbaien, dealer in eggs and
poultry,
that most of the world's
population reproduces as rapidly
as the level of nutritional intake
will allow.
"Provision of food to those
world population segments
which cannot adequately
provide for themselves, for
whatever reasons, soon must
lead directly to an
intensification of burden of
overpopulation with its
consequent aggravations and its
increase in the aggregate of
human misery.
"The most immediate
problem may be the
insufficiency of food, but the
most urgent problem is the
overabundance of birth, and the
only solution is the curtailment
of the so-called right of ad
libidum reproduction.
"But one problem is
inexplicably bound to the other
and the elimination of starvation
will be an impossibility until
man is willing and able to
control the rate of his own
reproduction.
"Because it creates a vicious
cycle that compounds human
suffering at a high rate, the
provision of food to the
malnourished populations of the
world that cannot or will not
take very substantial measures to
control their own reproductive
rates is inhuman, immoral, and
irresponsible."
15 YEARS AGO
Don Tremeer, RR 2 Kippen,
won the grand championship
honors for the best calf in the
Feeder Calf Club Show at
Hensall on Friday. He sold his
calf for 35 cents a pound netting
him over $155 after paying for
its feed and other expenses.
Misses Norma Keller and
Rena Murray were the first
members of the First Exeter
Company of Girl Guides to be
presented with gold cords, the
highest award in Guiding. The
presentations were made at the
mother and daughter banquet
Friday night.
The biewler, who tossed the
best single game during the past
season, Wes Ryckman, was
elected president of the Exeter
Men's Bowling Association at
the banquet TuesdaV night.
The new $1,000,000 office
building and factory of the W.A.
Shaeffer Pen Company of
Canada Ltd., the largest factory
to come to Huron County, was
officially dedicated at Goderich
Monday morning.
10 YEARS AGO
Members of SHDHS Board
decided Tuesday night to ask
seven municipalities in the
district to approve a proposed
$160,000 addition to include
two classrooms, one laboratory,
one shop and one cafeteria.
Existing cafeteria will be made
into two classrooms.
A new record of thunder in
May was established last month
when it occurred on nine days
during the month. The previous
record was seven in 1956.
The Sarepta Hotel, one mile
east of Dashwood, which was
purchased by the Department of
Highways has been bought by
Andrew Hamilton for $450 in
public auction.
New site for Darling's IGA
market now undergoing
extensive renovations will open
next weekend, The former
Simmons implement building on
the corner of Main and Sanders
„Street has been completely
revamped to provide 0,000
Square feet for the market.
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