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My boy is as smart as a whip! Yet sir, a
regular chip Off the old block. Why, already
he's saving his money so he can go to college.
That's right. Yes sir, A chip off the old block.
Wouldn't be surprised if he gets to be a big
star on the football team, He's just like the
old man. Now, boy, tell 'em where you're
saving your money, Speak up, b6y!
THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA, naturally!
4 The ThrosA.O.Yo.cetA., $eptethher L 1960
Editorials
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This. newspaper The right to .express en opinion in public.
OIntri.lovte.a to the .progreto of the nation and, that it must be goer,.
rood freely and without prejudice to preserve and Improve demol,
critic government.
In the mirror
An,oft-ignored point about today's living :is
expressed capably by Mrs. M. C. Fletcher, Exeter,
in the "Thought for the Week" in Grand Bend Ho
day recently,. We reprint it for your consideration;
There really are no bad young people! Some-
one may wish to debate that assertion.
As their parents, let us look in the mirror.
Honestly.now, take a good look, What do you .see?
You are that young person—or the badly abused
term "teenager"—grown up. So, let us turn back
the pages.
How good is your memory? Just what did you
do at the ages of 13, 14, 18 and 20? Whom did you
pal with? Where. did you go?
Let us be truthful with our answers. I believe
we perhaps went to about the same places, only
didn't get there quite as quickly; didn't stay as long;
and had to be home earlier.
The young men were just as nice, only didn't
have the same hair cuts.
In fact, we were just like our parents. When
Mary is a little girl, she does as mother does. As
Mary grows older she still tries to pattern herself
after mother. Then later, she is as mother is.
So parents, as we are looking in that same
mirror, remember we are very responsible for what-
ever our children are. Now perhaps we had better
start being the kind of person we would have your
child be.
Landmark disappears
"'And if I a* re-elected, I will buy my *rite it., new
fur coat Dear, you've been. tampering with my
speeches again,"
Nice thought
The Aurora tanner has begun a campaign to
elect a 'HurOn county publisher prithe minister. Says
the banner:
"George Ellis, publisher of the Goderich Signal-
Star, has just returned from a trip to England. He
found his time was up, with still lots to see, so wrote
in the Signal-Star that he expected to return to
England when he retired, 'but by that time we will
probably have flat feet, heart trouble, rheumatism,
gall bladder trouble and all other ailments that
prevent you from enjoying life when you reach the
stage when you are supposed to enjoy your years
-of retirement.'
"'We think the government should advance
us money to enjoy ourselves in the days of our youth
(or comparatively so) when we can enjoy it. Then
hold it back from us in the later days when we get
it but are too ill to enjoy it anyway.'
"Starting today, George, you can be priale ,
minister!"
dispensed by Bill Smiley
"Since the doctor ordered him to get more rest, he's
. been coming down to the office earlier."
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Farm machinery travelling on our highways
llinst be regarded as a hazard. This large, .slow-mov-
egnipment has been involved in ..a.a increasing
number of accidents.
It would be unfortunate indeed if, in view of
t• he growing problem, highway officials found it
n• ecessary to enact laws curtailing movement of such
machinery on highways. It would impose a definite
handicap on the farmer. Nevertheless, there have
• been indications that such actions are being con-
sidered.
Worried about this situation, one district
farmer recently suggested that, farm people them-
selves can help to relieve the problem by taking a
more realistic attitude toward it.
In the interest of their own safety, in addition
to the convenience of motorists, farmers should drive
machinery on concession roads wherever possible and
practical, he suggested. "Many farmers who• use the
highway could get to their destination just as quick-
ly and certainly more safely by using the back
roads", he said.
He also felt, and it's one thing he tries to do
himself, that farmers should pull their equipment off
to the shoulder of the road when, they find traffic
piling up behind them. "I get angry myself when I
find myself tied- up behind a combine or some other
machine on the highway. I can understand how the
other motorists feel when they find themselves in
that situation," commented the farmer,
"Unless we do something ourselves to relieve
this problem," he continued, "we farmers may find
ourselves bound up in strict highway regulations
which will handicap our operations."
Better design
Ten years ago almost every industrial product
used in Canada was designed in another country, very
often the United States. Now that situation has
changed radically as more and more Canadian manu-
facturers have come to realize that merely copying
some other country's article was not good enough
for themselves, their customers or Canada's economy.
Design is not just a matter of style or good
looks. Good industrial design is one that which takes
into consideration choice of raw materials, the pro-
duction of the article, the packaging and the ship-
ping as well as appearance and function.
We had a good example of what can be done
in this regard in our own town more than a year ago
when designs created by a local man at Marchand
Furnace Ltd. received awards from the National De-
sign Council. This is just another indication of the
fact that Canada is "growing up".
—St. Marys Journal-Argus
Sugar and Spice
This week the Old Girl and I Those were pretty good days,
mill observe our 14th anniver- in retrospect. All I wanted to do
eery. You noticed 1 didn't ,W.,..was. read books, eat, drink and
'celebrate", We just obseite..„tleelii,.. When felt like it, And
'Chem, rather coldly. She's been avoid . perSonal entangle:tents
it little cool about anniversaries like the plague. My chief ambi-
- .eince the time I bought the pros- tion was to avoid work in any
ent and the card, a few years form, and my only desire was
to find some exotic land crawl- back.
ing with beautiful native women,
She'd been beefing about her and there settle down in the paint brushes being hard to
clean. On our anniversary, 1 silo.
But, even as the walls of Jer- gave her a lovely little package icho, I tumbled. Like most
of paint brush cleaner, suitably young men of that age, I was
gift-wrapped.
also handed her just like an egg. I thought T was A.
beautiful anniversary card. It bard-boiled, but I wasn't even cost me .40 „cents, and had flow-
half-cooked. One crack in the ers and cupids and all sorts of shell, and I ran all over the
thing,S on it.
Only thing was that it was place.
• headed off; "To my darling hus-
band, on our anniversary," I'd
In short, I got married, and forgotten to read if.
I've been running all over the
place ever sirice. Our marriage,
These anniversaries are hard- in those 14 years. has had its
• er to take than birthays. The ups and downs. And a good part
• whole 14 years was brought of the time we seemed to be
graphically to the fore tonight at going sideways. In those 14 fran-
dinner, when I looked around, tic years, however, I've changed
and realized that all these peo- -a lot, My cynicism has become
pie belonged to me, and were merely a healthy scepticism. I
any responsibility for feeding. haven't a hope of being selfish
clothingarid housing, among any more. But some things
ether things. haven't changed. I'm still broke,
Fourteen years ago, I was a 'and I'm still free.
young veteran of the air force, Oh, not free in the old way,
full of ginger and peculiar ideas, mind you, I can't go out with
With the aid of other young vet- girls` any more. I can't sit up
• erans and various wenches I with the boys until the wee
had been successful in getting smell hours, and I can't throw
through all my gratuities in a all my wordly possessions in a
few months of high living. I bag and take off for Rio. Not
was broke, free, cynical, sel- unless I want to arrive at the
fish, and happy as a trout. airport with a kid clinging to
I thought Love was something each leg, and my wife flying
made up by women and the from my neck like a pennant.
movies. Marriage and children But I'm free in the things that
were for the dopes, Money was really count, I can go golfing
• something for other people to or fishing any time I feel like
scramble after, The Home was it as long as the kids don't
where old people went when they want to go swimming, I can
ran out of money. Family ties speak my mind on any subject,
were neckwear I borrowed from around our house, without fear
My brothers, of contradiction, As long at I
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One of the did landmarks of
Exeter is soon to disappear at
the property has been taken
over by the Ontario Liquor Con-
trol Board for the location of
the new liquor store to be
erected in town.
The building at one time was
the office and, showroom 'for the
Verity Plow Works before that
company moved to Brantford
and became associated with the
Massey-Harris company.
It was the home of the ,first
electric light plant in. Exeter
owned and operated by the late
Charles B. Snell And. Chris
Zuefle. They built the tall brick
chimney. for the Steam boiler
that was fired with cordwood.
The lights came on at dark and
were turned off at midnight.
The first street lights were of
the carbon type where two
sticks of carbon came close to-
gether to form' an electric arc.
The lights • had to be lowered
each day to adjust the carbons.
The system was the butt Of
many a joke as the lightS fluc-
tuated, One familiar expression
was that "another stick of wood
had been fed to the boiler."
I well recall the time when a
deep well was drilled at the hack
of the plant. A steam engine was
used for the drilling and one
night, after dark some, of the
boys tied down the whistle of
the engine. A. large crowd ga-
thered at the scene wondering
what had happened. I was just
a youngster at the time but ran
from the scene when the whistle
started and I laid down on the
grass behind a fence on. Andrew
Street.
Following the introduction of
hydro the plant was taken. over
by Mr. Sylvanus 3, V. Cann, now
of Bayfield. The north part of
the building was converted to a
resideride for Mr. Cann and has
been. used as such ever since.
The south part with. the boiler
was turned into a cider and
apple butter factory. Apples
were more plentiful in those
days and apple butter was used
quite extensively during the win-
ter months and many a cellar
had its apple cider barrel,
Mr. Cann erected a small.
.booth at the south end of the
building where he sold groceries
and. confections. He also ope-
rated. several gasoline pumps,
each pump having a different
Passenger: "What's the ave-
rage tip for this run, porter?"
Porter: "A dollar sir—Thank
you, sir; you're the first one
that'S come up to the average
today,"
40 YEARS AGO
Mr, Brute Walker left Satur-
day for Toronto where he will
resume his studies, James, hav-
ing gone last week to take up
dentistry.
Master Charlie Acheson is hol-
idaying in London.
Mr. Donald. Urquhart,
has shipped nearly 10,000 bush-
els of wheat from }Jensen since
Saturday last.
Mr. C. R. Howard, who has
been An, accountant on the staff
of the Canadian Bank of Com-
merce in town, left on Wednes-
day morning for NOW York
where he has been appointed
assistant accountant of the New
York brarieh.
'Mr. D. *Urquhart, Hensall, has
gold his oatmeal Mill, grain ele-
vator add grain butinest to Mr,
George Mi. ckle of Rielgatown
who takes possession ittniediate-
Y.
A carload of cement arrived
~In Centralia last week fot Roger
13ros, to build silos, for William
tssery, Murray Elliott and S.
Hodgson.
/5 YEARS AGO
Miss Mary Gardiner, Thames
Road, left for Clinton where she
will, take a business course At
the tusiness
Mrs. WilliamPenrice of. Exe-
ter displayed three hatid-hOOked
rugs at London Fait and WOO
three first pHses,
Warren Brock, UShorne, car-
ried Off numerous priata for
hotses At Western Pair,
Dr 1. Barry Browning M.D.
has disposed of. his practice in
"Exeter to tor. ekson et Al-
berts and will, move to Lemdon
shortly,
Miss Dorothy Davis has taken.
Petition as stenographer At
the Hydre office succeeding Mitt
ItOt a.Dearing,
Drilling for water on the tarni
of Me, Nelsen. Kestle :has been
Abandoned after the taking of
live test holes.
JOTTINGS 5Y JMS
brand of gasoline, lie worked
long hours and did quite a *trio-
ing business before puilips were
Ordered back off of Main Street.
Since that time only the Apart-
ment has been occupied.
Your library
By MRS., JMS
The exchange of Huron County
booki took plaea oft Thursday.
Among the non-fiction received
was:
Remedies and Rackets
The alternate title it "The
Truth About Patent lifeciieineS
Today." It exPoses the slick,
colorful techniques used by drug
prothators 40 get their products
into your medicine cabinet.
The author, James Cook, a
medical writer, reveals that
over-the-counter and thrOugh-
the-mails drug traffic is bilking
sick people Out of millions Of
dollars every month., Variout
brands of aspirin tablets, all of
which are essentially the same,
are being sold at a baffling
variety of prices. Millions Of
dollars are being spent for
products which Are advertised
as weight-reducers but which
actually have no influence On
weight. Thousands upon thou
sands of arthritiet are being
persuaded to buy high-priced
remedies and treatments, many
of which are nothing more thati
compounds of aspirin,' or other
simple salicylates. Hosts of can-
cer quacks are growing rich sell-
ing witch-doctor brews which
have no effect on cancer.
According to Mr. Cook a . cru-
sade a g a i s t these frauds
brought about the first Pure
Foods and Drug Aot in. 1906. By
requiring manufacturers to . ,list
narcotic ingredient§ on teir
labels the law helped to elimi-
nate some Of the most vicious
of the patent medicines, but had
no effect on other evils of. the
traffic. In 1937 after more than
100 people died after dosing
themselves with,Elixir of Sulfa-
nilamide the Food, Drug and
Cosmetic Act of 1935 prohibited
the sale of dangerous drugs with•
out a doctor's prescription. This
gave the governnietit greater
power to prosecute dealers in
harmful meditines.
The author concludes "The
citizen must demand of his leg-
islators laws which really pro-
tect him and, having Obtained
such laws, must Set that they
are effectively enforced."
15 YEARS AGO
In the deciding game played
at the Sharon diamond before a
large crowd on Wednesday eve-
ning Grand Bend defeated Shan
On, to win the distriet softball
championship. •
Rev, and Mrs. Ferguson, Rod-
ney and Judith moved into the
Presbyterian manse, Mensal].
Rev. Ferguson will bi inducted
as pastor of Cannel Presbyter-
ian church on Friday night.
LAC Keith Weber of the RCAF
who has been overseas for two
and a half years has retuned
to his home in Dashwood,
Leading Seaman Glenn Robin-
son. arrived. At his home, Cen-
tralia on• Sunday,
The first annual picnic in five
years of members Of Huron
County Council Add their wives
was held it Itarhot Park Wed-
nesday afternO0n, me picnic
was discontinued during the war.
Cpl., Gordon CighnOte, with the
RCAF at Tot Bay, NeWfoutiti-
land, has returned to his home
and is awaiting his discharge,
'AtI 10 YEARS AGO
Mrs. Thos. Dinney, Mrt."
Johns, Mrs. Olive Grainger arid
Mrs, E. S. Steiner attended the
'Mary Heating§ Hontewilies /k-
nit at Springbank On Saturday,
Ilensall wilt hold its Annual
achoplfair on MAO/1y, Septette.
ber 24 in the ebrirnunity ten-
tre.
Exeter Kinsmee art consider , u the project of numbering
heuses in the village.
The cornerstone for , the addi-tion to txeter Public School *ill
be laid on StOtellibtr 21. A six point prOgram
mote safety, of public' sehoal children 'Crossing it dangerous
interatetiont Esker wet insp. ped out by village council and public school teachers on Men,
da;iglinilgahritd 14111 aed tacker Dalt-ICS inereated the pride of iblik to IO e*nte at tittle end ri mita at MO.
the radiator needs attention
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appliances—mete stores per capita than any city in i
Canada. You deal direct with folks you know,
+ Competition is keen
+ Business is clean
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do it down in the cellar, or
while I'm mowing the lawn. I
can stop my son from wearing
my T-shirts and sox. .If I can
catch him before he gets Out of
the house.
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Fourteen years ago, abhor-
red the idea of possessions. I
didn't want to sink any roots.
Since then, I've collected an
awesome assembly of junk, and
my roots are so far down they're
blocking the sewers. Besides the
ball•and-chain, I've acquired two
children who eat like sharks,
two mortgages, a great big, old
house that swallows every nickel
I can raise, acid enough accum-
ulated stuff to fill a couple of
warehouses,
A lot of wafer has gone under
the bridge in those fourteen
years. And most of it has ended
up in my cellar. But there's
plenty on the credit side, too,
We've two healthy youngsters
whose daily presence is a joy
in our lives, and also a great
booster of sedative sties at the
drug store.
Was it worth it? Would I do
it again? You.'re darn right I
would. It't been a Wonderful ex-
perience, and as we step off
into the fifteenth year, I can't
help giving thanks for the gentle,
lovely, Steadfagt helponate who
has been by my side, ever ready
with a word of encouragement,
or a slam on the ear, if that
didn't work,
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