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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1937-11-04, Page 3Nl ■for your CHILDREN "Crown Brand” Corn Syrup makes happy, healthy chil dren. No doubt about that, for doctors say it creates Energy and helps'to build strong, sturdy bodies. Chil dren love it and never tire of its. delicious flavor. THE FAMOUS ENERGY FOOD . ^LETTER BOX Mr. Editor,— Judging from the response to my last article in your .paper regarding the liquor problem in Ontario, it will' not be out of place to write another. ’ I stated in my last article that the confidence of my thousand voters, as well as the knowledge of the hacking) of thousands of other tem perance people in Huron acts as $ . challenge to us to- advance to-, tjh-e spot where there is the greatest need iSince the beverage room menace remains for another four years, at least, provision must be. made to provide for the casualties,—the ever- increasing numbers of unfortunates, already helpless in the toils of the traffic. |A place for treatment of these is of immediate and vital importance. 1. It must be a place where the ipatient will be really' rehabilitated, not merely given a temporary nau seous experience. 2. It m'ust be a place where the cost of treatment is not prohibitive. 3. It must be a place free from the stigma of the suggestion of an institution for 'the insane or men tally weak. We know of no institution in On tario where there are all these above mentioned requisites present. Now how are we going to get it? Your first thought was mine, after the election, may ibe to. ask the Pre mier to .relegate a part of tihe liq uor revenue millions for this pur pose, -But second thoughts are often best thoughts and iso perhaps /in this. case. In the first place, is it likely the Premier would entertain our proposition? He might lightly say, “There are plenty of local phy- ’ sicians to give him a shot, and that will easily put him off the booze and One’ll know better next time” or he might say “There are several private institutions to go to, and if this fel low has money enough to spend lav ishly for drink, he can easily .spend-' $200.00 a month for treatment; or / he might say„ “We ihave already w provided and are, providing mental • 'hospitals and if people are weak- ’’ minded enough, to get the habit, 'they’re weak minded enough to gb * there.”. But even if oui’ Premier should entertain .our idea and* meet our requests apd give us a pittance from the • liquor revenue, would we not be placing the Liquor’ Interest in a position so they could say, “Well we do admit*after all that there is a trifling number of weaklings, who ihave to be considered^ and we are quite willing to increase our liberal PICOBAC ■■s pipe MH■■k TO B ACCO FOR A MILD. COOL SMOKE NO TERRIBLE HEADACHE NOW Found Quick, Sure Way to End Them It’s fortunate that a great Canadian doctor made the famous fruit, herb and tonic remedy, Fruit-a-tives. Mr.C.D., Toronto, writes, “I wasbothered with very severe headaches. Pain on top of head and in forehead was more than I .could bear. My doctor advised me to take Fruit-actives. Since then I have not had any trouble with headaches.” When you take Fruit-a-lives, your liver is cleansed. Stomach, kidneys and intestines work natur ally. Poisonsand Wastes go. Food nourishes. Health comes. 25c. and 50c. All druggists. FRiirr-AWESiiX THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4th, IO1JT giv^igs from our legal and respect able business to help ameliorate this •unfortunate complication, and so would we temperance people not be really in league with the beverage l*quor trafiic to that extent in the acceptance of their donation, -Of course it would not be any worse than what we are doing right now, accepting as a sop a percent age of the liquor license fee from the beverage room to meet our mun icipal expenses, but this would be even more of an evident sop if we accepted toll from the traffic. The fact is that we are right now, as slavishly under the control of a dic tator as are the people of /Germany oi’ Italy and that dictator is the Liq uor Interest of Ontario. Unless the Premier gives us much more of evidence of his bravery in the meantime, we will be going on, just as the liquor traffic anticipates we will, splendidly apathetic, until the next election. In his last ‘ election speech the other day,- Mr. Rowe, as Coroner made some enlightening pronounce ments. He said in explanation for defeat “Apparently the drys didn’t trust us and the wets were afraid of us.” Mr. Rowe never uttered any thing nearer the truth. From his weak parrying; plea for another year of beverage rooms, what else than distrust could he expect from the drys; and as for the wets being afraid to vote for him, he explans that in another quotation from the same speech when he says, “Appar ently foi* every dollar the /Conserv atives had to spend on publicity, the liberals had $10.00; If Mr. Rowe had had his pre-elec tion mixed concoction more of a stimulation ingredient for the wets, lie might ihave had the balance of the 10. to 1 on his side. Mr. Rowe missed ihis chance. If he had come out foiur square on an anti-beeragO liquor policy, he could have proved that there was at least one party leader who was willing to cut the slimy tenacles of the Liquor Inter ests. Mr. Hep-burn H's" supposed to be able 'to handle a good sharp knife. He liras plenty" of opportunity to use it now or is the Liquor Octopus quite sure that he will not. We want Mr. Hepburn’s point of view, and we ihope soon to write an article en titled, “Report of an interview with Mr. Hepburn on the Liquor Problem in Ontario.” i Huron County is no better than ! any other Ontario County, but the J election has taught us that there are many thousands of voters in tihe Province who are looking at the problem With both eyes open and there are thousands more.with, as yet, just one eye open, but we see enough and have learned enough in the actual campaigning to know that the Liquor Traffic has a strangle hold on this province, and with its weapon of millions is prostituting all moral and human -interests and even Democracy itself. Are we discouraged? In places, yes, but not generally so. We have thousands of recruits in the Tem perance Cause. Besides the ministers and W.C.T.U.’s and Federation, all of whom have given much personal service in the past, we now have working with us Women’s Institutes Young, People’s Clubs, the Press to a great extent and in fact the In telligentsia of the Province. We hdve a Premier who has a well earn ed reputation for courage and a goodly number of temperance can didates elected to Parliament and a .'Traffic, living well np to its^reputa- tio-n as a menace to life and morals. So why be anything but optomistic as to the final outcome? Intelli gent citizens will not long stay put, hibernating, for your year periods between elections. Even the sea tides can be con trolled. I thank you, Mr. Editor, for your liberal space. ALEXANDER MOIR WINCHELSEA Mr. and Mrs. Joiliin Prance spent the week-end with friends in Toron to. Mr. and Mrs. James IF'rancis, of Tavistock, visited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Garnet Johns. . Mr. Percy 'Foster, Gordon and Helen, of St Marys, called on Mr. and Mrs. Herman Foster on Sunday evening. We are glad to” report that Mrs. Horace Delbridge is able to be up and around again after her attack of pleurisy. Mrs. Herman Foster and Verna spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Gebrge Parkinson, of Blanshard. Mr, and Mrs. R. w. Batten, and family visited with friends at Whal en on iSunday. Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood Brock, Beryl, Ivan and Harold Davis were at Byron on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Newton Clarke and family visited on Suiiday with tlieir friends at Lucan. Quiet Imitation The class in public speaking was to give pantomines that afternoon. One student got up when called on, went to the platform and stood per fectly still: Professor (after a minute’s silence for something to happen): Well, what do you represent? Student: I’m imitating' a man go- ’ng up in an elevator. EDITORIAL Got the little old garden all dug and tucked away for winter? * * * * * * * * No, we’re not at any of those social functions of the higher ups, We just help to pay the bills, one way and another. ***••»** Funny, isn’t it, how abundant the apple crop is when you have some for sale, but how scarce they are when you come to buy. There’s something really interesting about putting on the stoi’/m windows when a strong north-east wind blowing at 40 m.p.h, with a nice mingling of snow in the rain. ■ » » ♦ « * Britain has got along nicely with iber peaceful ways of doing things now that she’s prepared to drop shells or to shoot just where the obstreperous fellow is standing. ******** Word has come of an Alberta man’s selling ibis farm at about one-eighth o.f its cost and buying another farm in Perth county at a. fair price. . Steady-going farmers in Old Ontario who kept right on doing business at the old stand are coming into their own. Slow and steady and purposeful is sure to win the day. Romance Is all very good, but it takes money to build a bank account, THE spirit We caune across a young man and bis wife who had been “dried out” of .Saskatchewan, He had secured a job, a job of the long distance variety. It is a task discharged under unpleasant con ditions, a job .to whjch he has been totally unused. “How do you like your job?” we asked. “That’s not the point. I have a job and I’ll stick it if it’s the last thing I do.” His boss has him marked for promotion.- -Ontario can stand a thousand workers of «that spirit. ******** GLAD TO KNOW HIM We came across a university graduate of the right sort, just the other day. He is a clevei’ young chap, a university graduate, mind you, not quite old enough to take up training for a profession al course7 at least so his parents thnik. His dad has rented a nearby lot for the young fellow, gets him up at six every morning to look after 30 0 hens. This chore well done, the youngster is taken to dad’s office where he is learning a good deal of office routine and some of the real business. Of course there is a tennis outfit and such means to fun, but the youngster has bought them himself, bought -out of the youngster’s earnings. Oppression? Not at all! Occupation and the toughening; of the youngster’s mind for his next trip to the professional school. The youngster is gaining in weight and strength and general fitness. "• *♦♦*•*»! * DAYS GROWING LONGER No, we haven’t stolen a march on lady autumn noi’ have we deceived’ old man Winter into allowing us to get past smugly chill November. The youngsters need not be alarmed nor feel cheated out of Christmas. No, we haven’t lost two months. We’re simply' -quoting a paragraph from that sedate big brother of ours, the reliable London (Eng.) Times. -Here it is: “At tihe present time tihe day is becoming longer*by 0.0037 se cond' a century. Dr. H. /Spencer Jones, the Astronomer Royal, writing in the current Horological Journal says:— This slow increase in the length of the day is far outside the limit of detection by the best terrestial clocks. It is not unimpor tant, however, for tihe action, though slow, is progressive, and will continue until the earth always turns the same face to the moon, when the day will be equal in length to the montihi, and each will equal 47 of our present days. •One of the causes of the longer day was tidal fraction, partic ularly in narrow, enclosed seas, such as the English -Channel, the Irish Sea, and the Bering -Sea. Tidal friction acted as a brake and slowed the earth down. The effects that it produced were very small, though clearly indicated by astronomical observations. ******** * DO THE STRAIGHT' CLEAN THING For some years past sex has been emphasized away beyond its ’ importance and exaggerated out of all proportion to the rest of life. Ever so many magazines have depended upon the thrill of the sensuous nerve for their interest. Su/mmer resorts have pand ered to this sort of thing. Allegedly or pseudo-scientific journals have trailed the minds of their readers through stuff sailing as near the wind as they dared. Grave churchmen have huddled to gether craning their necks to catch a whifif as near to the obscene as" the law will allow. And all this is in the name of science or of morals' The result? Those frightful disclosures appearing from time to ‘time in our courts, witihi their trail of suspicion, of misery and shame. Often the trial is followed by the prision term or by the gallows. Is the thrill worth while when bought" at sucilu an ap palling cost? When no- outward penalty is seen ruining the for- tune and blighting the career? tihe lewd story, the wrong conver sation, the illicit discussions are followed by spiritual degradation and inward horror beyond all telling. “I waive the quantum of the sin, The hazard -of concealing; <*’ But oh, it hardens all within And petrifies the feeling.” The cure? A good, clean mind, a clean tongue, urigh-t conduct as ever in the great Taskmaster’s eye, a resolute respect for the bounds of modesty. Whatsoever exceeds such limits eases down to ruin and moral death. Walking chalk may not always be easy, but doing so never leads to shame or to the penitentiary. A word to- the wise is -sufficient; a cell yawns for the others. PERPLEXED AGAIN The hygienic big wigs. ui,ed to tell us to “take” our milk slow ly. We are to sip the fluid slowly ,in small sips, the smaller the sips the better for our well being. Today we have been reading that this advice is all wrong. The , proper caper is to attack our milk as wee McGregor attacked his “He” or as we used' to make our vernal onslaught on molasses and1 sul'pihur, getting the whole thing over witih or down with one fell swoop, ,§o to speak. We’re worried; Is science capricious to the point of unreliability? The perpetrator of this last theory has no conception of where his teaching will lead to. What of swain and sweetheart who hitherto have “taken” their icecreami in infinitis- mal quantities,, soft eyes looking unutterable things to soft eyes that* speak again. Is love’s young, dream to be broken in upon in ‘ this way? Is romance to be stifled? Is the reluctance of youth to enter upon the sea of matrimony to be encouraged with all manner of social complications.' Milk is none too popular a fluid. “Milk for babes” it has been urged. ArO farmers to have their finan cial struggles made more severe by taking away from milk’s already none to great popularity, as a beverage at least? Are we, next, to have the gprm theory *of milk utterly shattered only to find that what has been wrong with niilk is not “bugs” but the manner of our getting it down the way where has trickled many a fortune? Or is the man of science on an altogether different track? Is he telling us that we Should drink milk, large quantities of milk and by so- doing we’ll discover its real worth; Perhaps a new day lias dawned the day of flooding society with rapid fnilk drinkers, thereby settling our troubles, economic and social. Page Lewis and Hitler and -Mussolini. How dull that We did- hot think of this long ago! Then what are young mammals to come to? Perforce they get their milk is sups and sips. Or is the new big wig igiOing to correct all “that” with a few severe punches in his typewriter, "Ho Hvm!" W. C. T. U. Meeting The monthly W. C. T. U. meeting was held in James Street church -on Thursday, October 28th. Miss Ho- gath led the devotional service. The president, Mrs. Abbott then taking charge. It was decided to hold the next meeting on November 25th. A motion was passed that we purchase 500 temperance blotters for distri bution in the 'day schools; also that we send $5.00. to the Budget fund. A program consisting -of extracts from speeches given at the recent Diamond Jubilee W.C.T.U. Conven tion held at Qshawa. (Those were taken from the daily newspapers.) The president, Mrs. John Wright, of Brantford, in her opening address said: “In the span of sixty years looking down the vista, .from candle light days when a woman’s interests were chiefly in the home, to the present when women have disting uished themselves -in matters Pro vincial, National and International import, we see the fight against the evils of alcoholism has been waged all down through the years and while many agencies have assisted in the reforms -of the last sixty years, it is the Worldjs 'Christian Temperance Union that has been the driving force behind every notable advance achieved, not in one coun try, not on this -continent alone, but -in almost every land and among people of almost every race. It is very evident that the problem Our positive objective, Total Abstin ence for the individual and prohibi tion -of the Liquor Traffic must be attacked through legislation as well as education. Roger Babson says for every dol lar of whiskey revenue received we have lost twenty dollars in the reduc tion of legitimate trade and the cost of damage to society.” Also that for every dollar given for relief two has been spent for beverage alcohol., Laws can never make right to a traffic which ruins so many lives. We have our own men and women drinking. Never was the need more great for the W-G.T.U. to- measure up to our .present day opportunities and make the paths safter for those who follow after. There is no- limit to God’s power through yielded hu man instruments. Addresses were given by Dr. Irwin Dr. Webber and Dr. Little. Quota tions—If the -churches do not empty the beverage rooms, the beverage rooms will empty the churches. 'Christ expressed the worth of per sonality and 'Christ is the solution qf this whole question. You cannot have a generation of Christian mo thers from a generation of women frequenting beveage rooms. Christ -would have us consecrate these bod ies of -ours to the service of God. Je sus Christ can lead us to victory over the alcolhol question. Renew Now! SETTLER^ FROM DRIED OUT 4 AREAS OF THE WEST T|AKE UP FARMING IN HURON CLINTON—’When Earl R. Dou cette of Windthorst, Saskatchewan, came to Huron County a month ago with a car load of stock for James Medd( Hullett township^ he decided that this was the place 'for -him. Carrying out that resolution Mr, Doucette and his fiancee, Miss Lola C. Mason, of Jamestown, Sask., and Arthur McInnis, a partner, arrived recently at Clinton by C.N.R. freight train, Miss Mason, who, but for the •hard times prevailing during the past few years in (Saskatchewan, would have been Mrs. Doucette, i-s tfiie second woman on record to have brought a load of stock from the West. For one week following the loading of four cars at Windthort, Miss Masons home was one end of a C. N. R. box car, the remainder of the space being taken up with cattle and turkeys and household goods, Crowded Quarters An accomplished horsewoman, Miss Mason knows her cattle and ‘turkeys too and knows how to look after them. Mr. Medd, who had been in the section, returned with the party. Miss Mason’s cai’ which in addition to -her own sleeping quarters, was ifurished with a table, chairs and oil stove, provided meals for the party on the long trip at lunch time, and in , spite of the close proximity of the stock the oc casions were jolly ones.. A mascot, a pretty blue and white ihioming pig eon, attached itself to the car at Hornepayne, flying about outside when stops were made and returning to the car when again in m'otion. As thougih having learned all about the matter it left tihem during the short lay over at Toronto and no doubt returned home. The cars, four in number, were billed through to Londesboro, and were'forwarded to that point Mon day evening. The stock consisted of 22 /head of horses, 18 -cattle and 5 0 turkeys of the fine pure strain bronze variety. Mr. Doucette and Miss Mason will be married very- soon and will settle temporarily on one of Mr. Medd’s Hullett (farms. There was no money in Saskatcihie- wan explained Mr. Doucette and marriage licenses out there cost $10; Mr. James Medd. is a brother of Mr. W. G. Medd, of Exeter. He stated that several other partieS”left the same locality about the same time. Mr. Doucette, a native -of New Brunswick, had lived for 28 years in Saskatchewan. Mr. McInnis was there 18 years ihaving gone out from Ontario and Miss Mason whose parents went from Ontario was born there. Drought Conditions Bad Mr. Doucette tells harrowing tales of conditions in Saskatchewan, The dust storms, piling up drifts that cover th© fences, shut out vision fee* yond a few yards, sift into tihe house into tha food, inside the clothing gpd the intolerable heat, often over the .hundred degree mark, and worst of all the grasshopper pest. He said grasshoppers came in swanm-s and darken the sun, To drive a ipar against a flight of the pests is im possible. They smash against the windshield and it quickly becomes smeared with a brown sticky sub stance impossible to see through, The party seemed very ihiappy to be away from the whole situation. 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