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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1942-12-10, Page 2* .Fags 1 TUB EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 10th, 1942 Times established, 1873; Advocate established 1881 amalgamated November 1924 PUBLISHED EACH THURSDAY MORNING / AT EXETER, ONTARIO An Independent Newspaper devoted to the interests of the Village of Exetei’ and Surrounding District Member' of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers’ Association; Member of the Ontario-Quebec Division of the CWNA AU Advertising Copy Must be in Our Hands Not Later Than Noon on Tuesdays SUBSCRIPTION RATE $2.00 a year, in advance; six months, $1.00 three months 60c J. M. SOUTHCOTT PUBLISHER ‘ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1942 Learn to Labour and to Wait ’ For a while many good people looked for nothing but good news from the seats of war. Warning after warning was uttered against the folly of expecting our forces to march easily to victory. We were told clearly that it is still possible for us to lose the war. We have had a few bright days. The news of victory was like apples of gold in pitchers of silver. We are learning and we feax* we will further learn that we must take the bitter with the sweet. The Axis powers still are mighty. They know that They are fighting for their very existence and will bring every resource'of millions to further their evil designs. They will stoop to any trick­ ery, they will follow any device, they will em­ ploy any agency to promote their ends. Against this we must put our faith in God, our own ut­ most efforts and our last atom of strength and our most valiant endeavour*. We must learn to walk undei* dark skies from which the sun and moon seem to have withdrawn their light. We must learn to stand up under the coming of bad news. While we wait and labour, our men will do all that men can do. These men of the breed of Lincoln and Cromwell and Nelson and Pitt will match wisdom against cunning, the prize of liberty against the lust for power, and chiv­ alry against that vilest thing this side of the pit, Hitlerism, with its abomination of wickedness, the Gestapo. And we’ll prevail, as surely as light overcomes darkness. Goodness is the nature of things and must prove victorious. # # * # Better Try This Every radio gives us it's blast regarding manpower,while every magazine and daily paper editorial takes up the same theme. We cannot be far out of place if we put in our little peep squeak on that topic. What we suggest is that every man begin just wl?ere he is and on that patch of blue find need our food for what we for our fighting men. and the shears do their work with old clothing. Let us care for the sheep so that there may be no shortage of wool. Let us waste no cream in the way of food doodads. Next let us use-what we have by making something of it. Let noth­ ing be wasted that may be turned into fertilizer for our fields or gardens. Let no penny be thrown away that may be turned into a war stamp. When we have done our utmost let us see that we regard ourselves as unprofitable Servants who have required of us. ground and under that covering of what he himself can contribute to the government presents to us. We need oui- fighters. Let us economize with have in that line. Clothing is needed Let us see that the needle not done all that is lawfully . np* Butter Shortage • r Thanks to the good sense and fine spirit of local buttermakers and farmers and housekeep­ ers, this region has not felt the pinch of the but­ ter shortage. Others have felt that pinch and we sympahize with them. As far as we know, two causes have contributed to the hardship many have suffered from the butter scarcity. The smaller of these causes is the hoarding of butter by a minority of citizens. Fortunately these selfish people have not been comparatively nu­ merous, but they have been sufficiently numer­ ous to aggregate a situation that gave every in­ dication of becoming serious, by creating and developing the panicky spirit so easily set agoing. We fear that the main cause was the speculator who held up butter supplies for the increased price they thought the government was about to allow1. The speculator in food is not exactly the highest type of citizen. We believe in re­ serves of food but these reserves should not be­ come a means wherby food may be withheld from those requiring it. Such a procedure is likely to become an abuse. When hoarding is done by the speculator, the government should immediate­ ly reduce the price of the article to the point where the speculator cannot but be a loser. # & # & That No Hardship Those regulations regarding milk and tea and coffee and oranges impose hardship on no one, Some people are inclined to smile at the thought of rationing tea and coffee. These ar­ ticles are not foods. They are distinctly in the luxury class. The grip these articles have on the folk of this fair land indicates the power of habit. It is different with oranges and milk. These are articles of food with distinct nutri­ tive value. The same is true of butter, Butter has in it certain elements that are essential to welfare^ though some people have existed for many a day without its presence on the table. The generation just preceding the adults of the present day looked upon butter as an extra fox' the table to be used on the occasions of honored guests. Of that we are not going to say a great deal, as many think that the butter is a fat in a class by itself. So far the restraint asked of the citizens of Canada in the use of butter entails no hardship whatsoever* It is but a reminder that we have become extravagant in the use of this article, Further, the speculators may have over­ leaped themselves and may find that butter may be dispensed with to a degree that will surprise them..•? $ That Social and Economic Legislation The British parliament is getting busy with legislation that it is hoped will provide for every citizen according to his need, This action has much to commend it. Before this step was taken it would have been better,for the government to have seen to it that every citizen seiwes accord- ing to his ability. When we are all as the angels all men will be willing' to make the best use of all that is in them and of all that is around them. Since we are not in that happy condition, surely it is wise to have men see that unless they put their brains in steep and their hands to work they will suffer want. Unfortunately the major­ ity of men will work only under compulsion— such compulsion, we mean, as the need for food and clothing and shelter, and for such contin­ gencies as sickness, accident and old age. The effort to make such provision lias wrought untold good for the race. On the other hand, those who have not put themselves under the discipline of circumstances as a rule are a poor lot. We know two men of much the same age. The one was a blacksmith who put all that he had of strength of brawn and brain into his job. By’ dint of hard work he had acquired a little some­ thing that enabled him to educate his family and to face old age with a quiet mind. The other simply loafed. One day he told his toiling fel­ low-citizen that he was an eternally lost fool for working hard. “You see,” he continued, “the government will support me out of your wages and your savings.” Anyone can name dozens of folk who have eaten their own cake and after­ wards without so much as ‘by your leave’, have demanded their frugal brother’s cake. All of this is to the bad, to the utterly bad. The simple fact is that in the great majority of insances the man who works and who practises ordinary com­ mon sense has plenty both for the days of his strength and the days of his feebleness. Pater-' nalism even in homeopathic doses has its decided limitations. In all this we have not said a word against helping the unfortunate. What we do urge is that every man should be-encouraged to work according to his ability. To compel men by government regulation is to introduce dictatorship. And dictatorship has proven to be an abomination. Bad as dicta­ torship is, it is not as bad in the ultimate results as paternalism. Paternalism issues in utter ruin to both mind and body. Leading strings do not develop strength or anything else that is good, no matter whether these strings are held by a good natured but easygoing dad or by a govern­ ment. The old rule, “If a man will not work, neither shall he eat,” is hard to improve upon. We urge our readers to keep their heads out of a noose that has strangled many a good man. Pap for babies, but work and strong meat for strong men. If it is reasonable and right for a citizen to live by the results of his labor and thrift, it is equally reasonable and right that he should bear the results if his idleness and folly. Canada Becomes a Manufacturing Nation Hitherto Canada has been regarded as source of raw materials foi- manufacture, prairies produce an unlimited quantity of grain. Her hills abound in minerals of every description, while forests provide everything in the way of wood and timber. Her fisheries are of untold value, Within the last three years she has proven that she can not only produce raw ma­ terial, but that she can more than hold her own with the othei- nations of the world in the manu­ facture of these materials. Hex* sons have shown that they can invent with the best of their bro­ thers anywhere. Indeed, we hear it frequently said that Canada has become a manufacturing na­ tion. Should this be the case, we ask our rea­ ders to consider where this change in status has led this country. Men like Alexander McKenzie and Sir John Macdonald declared that Ontario was to be the manufacturing portion of the Dominion. We had unlimited facilities in the way of power and trans­ portation foi’ this purpose. Events have proven the soundness of the judgment of these farsight­ ed men. In addition, Ontario is an ideal land for fruit and seed grain development. Along with this goes her unsurpassed conditions for livestock breeding and development. The variety of her food for stock and the range of her climate and her situation in relation to the great cities of the continent make her the home for the breeding of the best stock the world knows anything about. What is imperiously demanded at this junc­ ture is a policy that will keep the activities of the province in due balance. The extremist is a pub­ lic nemy. To a very great extent the preeminence that Canada has attained in manufacturing is a war measure. We have manufactured because we had to do so or lose our freedom. To our great relief, we have found that we can not only manufacture prolifically but that we can take the top place in manufactured things when judged by the standard of timeliness and excellence. Let us not forget that it has been this combination of qualities that has given this country the advantage she now enjoys. By giving the world the things she needs when they were needed, Ontario has commanded the respect and the cash of the world. By improving in both these particulars she will rise still higher and take a more dominant place in the markets of the world. ^.iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiL CHANNEL CONVOY I LETTER BOX Kgr-irjirr-rn-r;—r—gj Pilot Officer Murray Hicks, neph­ ew of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph May, of own, writes an interesting letter of a recent visit to Cornwall and Dev­ on, from where the Hicks family originally came. He also tells »f some experiences as a rear gunner. Writing to his father, Mr. A. 55- Hicks, of Qkotoka, Alta., he says: “I am just finishing another week’s leave, which, incidentally, I well earned. They very hard lately, I action than I could were allowed to., I msi and newest bomber and our pilot is a wizard. And why shouldn’t he be,, He had 2,500 hours instruc­ tional flying in Calgary, His name is Abercromby, a Scotchman. Our kite gets right in on its target and you'll probably know that our squadron has the best record in Eng­ land in every way. A Visit to “On my leave I to Cornwall to see family came from. have pushed us have seen more relate even if I am on Britain’s a Her ?iigiiiiiiifiiiEiiiiiiiiiiiriiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiii|iiuiiiiiiiiiniiiiB I have just come back from a voyage through “The Hole”. A lot •has' been talked of “Hell Fire Cor­ ner”, “running the gauntlet” and other admirable phrases in descrip­ tion of the St'raits of Dover, but the men who go that way week after week and month after month call it simply “The Hple”—sometimes af­ ter a blacker night than ordinary they decorate the name with epi­ thets, but that is by the way. At the end of the passage which I made, the , senior officer of the es- *oi t made a signal to H.M. Balloon Ship “Blank” congratulating her on her hundredth voyage safely com­ pleted. There is, I think, in that very considerable '’food for thought. This ■ ship,one of the extraordinary mixtures of R.A.F. and naval per­ sonnel that go to sea as the Mobile Balloon Barrage,'had passed through the Straits of Dover one hundred times. Despite everything that Ger- mariy can do by way of mines, can­ non fighters, bombing planes, E-boats and long-range guns, the Channel convoy goes through. The world showed a strange sur­ prise when the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, choosing their moment, protected by the greatest air umbrel­ la the world has ever seen, rushed through at thirty knots. This little convoy, week in, week out, almost to a railway timetable, threads the narrows at a fraction of that speed, and takes its cargoes into pdrt. Germany has failed strangely in, the Channel. She thought when she established the enormous and phen­ omenal batteries of long-range guns along the Gris Nez coast that she had sealed the Straits. Blit we found merchant seamen to defy those guns, and somehow the strange, technical perfection of Germany let her down. She tried with . bombers that swooped to the very mastheads of the ships, and the the Prime Minis­ ter himself thought out the remedy for that. Within a matter of hours Of his suggestion, the Air Ministry and Admiralty had worked out a scheme. Within a week the ships had been prepared. Then went to sea . twenty-four hours after with balloon winches bolted to their after- . decks and the great, fat, land-type balloon towing insolently above them. There were teething troubles, ■but they got over that. The bombers thereafter had to keep high where' , anti-aircraft guns could them, where bombing is accurate. * Germany tried E-boats. nel is very narrow* run for a destroyer from France to the convoy route, twenty .minutes s for a motor torpedo boat, four min­ utes for a bomber, throe minutes for a fighter, only seconds for a long- range shell. The guns had failed and the bombers. Germany tried E- • boats next. There is a new class of destroyer called the “Hunts”, named after famous packs of hounds. They dealt with the E-boats. . They are 'small ships, heavily armed for anti­ aircraft work with dual purpose guns that can be used for surface work as well. They have brought back to the havy that most romantic of all guns, the “bow chaser”, and they disposed of the E-boat. From time to time It has achieved a slight success—north of the Channel It has done a good deal more—but In the narrow waters off Dover it has re­ mained strangely Ineffective. The Channel convoy Is one of the .miracles of the war. I have been down with It when we were bombed deal with no longer The C'han- -half-an-hour’s off Ramsgate; when, few miles south at the head of the Downs, we had a brush with an E-boat; when, in a rising gale we were shelled off Folkestone*; when we met the full force of the Channel gale off Dunge­ ness and hung there against a foul tide and roaring wind till dawn; when we, as last ship of the convoy, had to ’hark back to find a lost sheep that had drifted over towards the French coast, most uncomfortably near the big guns of Boulogne;1' when the voyage as a whole'took almost precisely twice its scheduled time, and the balloons of the barrage blew away one by one. And yet, at the end of it I saw that whole convoy move safely into harbor. Week after week, month after month, the men make that run. The Yoeman of Signals in the* last ship I went through in, senior balloon vessel of the little force, was com­ pleting his hundred-and-twenty-sixth passage; the commander was mak­ ing his hunred-and-thirteenth. Some of the destroyers have been as many as sixty times. Think of the nerve strain of that passage. When the Gris Nez guns open uip you see a white flash that covers half the sky to the southeast, and then you wait while somebody holds a stop watch in his hand and says, at the end of something like hours, and you. know that even then the shell is not across. And you wait while the seconds stretch out into an in­ finity of possibilities, before some­ where down the line you hear the thunder of the detonation and see the spray lift white and ghostly in the night ’ But more even than the shrill whistle of the descending bombs, more than the danger of the maclw ine-guns of the E. boats, more than the crash of the heavy shells, there is always and inevitably the Chan­ nel weather—fog, sno'w, rain, low visibility, the short steep atrocious seas of the Channel. There may be fifty ships and more in convoy, with escort and merchant vessels, Those fifty have to be navigated through some of the worst channels in the world, narrow with mines oh ei­ ther hand, with strong tides racing through them,. with sands shifting. Convoys have battled for days at a time with fogs, feeling their way al­ most by hand from one buoy to the next—and yet they go through. They have never failed. It is a double fight against all that Germany with all its scientific brilliance can pro­ duce, arid against all that the black­ hearted weather of the Straits can produce likewise; and it is a battle that we have won week after week, month after month, year after year— uhtrumpeted victory of the war. —A. D. Divine 4B.B.C Service). an Press PRACTICE BOMB HITS - house near wuan Sunday night at 10,3d. one of the bombers at the bombing field, sit­ uated about two and a half miles from Lucan, accidentally dropped a bomb which struck the home of Miss Kate Ryder. It crashed through the kitchen roof, demolished the table, plunged through a sugar bin to the cellar where it is ied. Miss Ryder was alone at the time. The officer in charge visited and inspected the place-— the house is about SO1 rods from the bombing targets, deeply bur- and in bed afterwards Cornwall have been down where the Hicks _____ ___I’ve visited your birth town, Lewannick and Market place, Launceston (pronounced Lawnston.) and the family is defiu- itley Cornish. It is a very beautiful part of England. It is extremely hilly, winding roads and lovely big trees. Devon ’has that brick red soil.* Cornwall sdems -to be the out­ crop of old mountains because lots of hard marble limestone can be found everywhere, They are still working the quarries and tin mines. Both ’Cornwall and’ Devon are very old and religious. I guess the fam­ ily left from Plymouth which has been a very wonderful city and harbor, but has been terribly blitz­ ed. From Plymouth I travelled -the thirty -miles to Launceston by bus. This town of 4,500, pre war popu­ lation, is very old. I visited the old castle which stands high on a hill. It appears Launceston was the capital of Cornwall at one time and .between this town and Ply­ mouth (Cromwell’s .stronghold) great battles took place. From Launceston I took a taxi to Lewan­ nick. As the family left there six­ ty years ago and I could find no one who had been there more than fif­ ty years, I couldn’t get any informa­ tion about the family. At Exeter That evening I spent in at the Rougement Hotel, is a very old, proud c.ity, which has been hit by -the blitz very badly. It is impossible to take pictures of any of this damage. I have secured a book on the city and the cathedral and am sending it over. I visited the mighty fine old cathedral built in the ninth century and completed in the 14th century. It- has been damaged at one end and all the windows blown out. I went about town and Visited other interesting places among which was the Guild­ hall where I met Mayor Glave- Saunders and the Mayoress.- Signed the visitors’ book along with other notable people like the Prince of Wales, and saw the old ancient courthouse where the judge and the rest of them wear the long white hair of rope, which is all very in­ teresting. From there I went to Southampton which has been ter­ ribly hit and then back to London. I’m 1001 per cent fit in every way and have no worries.” Four Times Over the Alps In another letter he writes: “I’ve been cut out of mall about a month but today I got letters so I guess they are coming through again. I can’t tell you much here-except I’m O.K. Have been on lots of trips over Germany and oth­ er European countries. In fact, I’ve been over ten European coun­ tries other than this island. I’ve flown for miles and miles at fifty feet above France, occupied and unoccupied, and Italy, as well as crossing the Alps four times. The Alps are lovely, but not as high as ours and *do not have the glaciers and snow that we do. Lake Geneva is lovely. “My second .trip to Italy was quite a ‘shaky’ one and very close. I left my mark there too. I think MilaiF was the prettiest city I ever saw. I’ve just been listening to Italy with the news. It seems they are beating the devil out .of us but if you ever saw them run at Genoa as I did, you’d know how yellow they are. “It is getting near Christmas and I hope the family will all be together and have a god time. Love to all, Murray / Exeter Exetei’ 15 YEARS AGO Tuckey - Hunkin—~At the Thames Road United Church manse, on Sat­ urday, December 10th, 1927 Miss Arabelle Louise Hunkin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hunkin to Benson Ward Tuckey, A storm of cyclonic nature during Wednesday night last caused consid­ erable damage to the farm buildings, houses, orchards and windmills in the Township of Usborne. Mr, Clarence Down returned home last week after spending some time in the west. Following are the results of the December examinations in the Ent­ rance class; Helen Stanbury, Mar­ jorie Complin, 'Adeline Ptone, Ruth Fraser, Florence Stewart, Lucy Pom- fort, Gladys Penbale, Ruth Colling­ wood, Rowe Dinney, Marshall' Dear­ ing, Marguerite ■Cann, Tom Ellering- ton, Nora McInnis. Margaret Taman, Li. Freckleton, iRay 'Creech, Howard Kerslake, Florence Ross, Lois McDonald key, Dorene Caldwell, Bill Chambers, Billie Miss L. Wt Jeckell is ^pending the wintei’ in VanNuys. California. Cornish, Jean Kenneth Hoc- Helen Walper, Burke, 25 YEARS AGO Mr. Andrew Dougall, of the Lond­ on Road, while in the woods chop­ ping on Monday,- had his leg broken when a large limb fell on it. The tree had been felled and he was trim­ ming the top when the accident hap­ pened. Two firms in Canada have receiv­ ed licenses to manufacture oleomar­ garine, and three hundred lincenses have been granted to import it. The Canadian Bank of Commerce has given the staff of their banks a ten per cent bonus, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 'bank. W. E. Sanders has been having the interior of the house, Which he rec­ ently- purchased, renovated and modelled. 1 Mr. R. J. Seldon is in Buffalo business this week. Mr. Ira Stebbins was united marriage to Miss Hazel Webb at the Presbyterian parsonage, Grand Bend on December 5th. Farmers are growling about the price of wheat and other grain but they should be fair and take into consideration the excellent prices re­ ceived for’other articles.—Potatoes, 75 cents a bushel; eggs, 17 cents a dozen; pork, $7.00 a cwt.; butter, 18 cents a pound. The old mill site property has been disposed of for the sum of $'2,8(60. A merchant asks how it bread is selling at four cents don and six cents in Exeter. re- on. . in I is that in Lon- REV. H. J, UREN DIES AGED 72 YEARS Rev. H. J. Uren, of London, a Methodist and United Church min­ ister for 40/ years in London and Western Ontario, died suddenly at Victoria Hospital on Saturday. He. was *72. Death came after three weeks in hospital. Mr. Uren retir­ ed from the ministry five years ago after serving at Kincardine, Mitch­ ell, Parkhill, Highgate, Harrow, Brant-ford and Colborne Street Un­ ited Church, London. During his seven-year term in the pulpit of Col­ borne Street Church from 1923 to 1930, he was elected president of the'- London United Church Confer­ ence. for 15 Pete—What does he do foi' a liv­ ing? Pat—He used to be geon, but he had to quit. Too hard on his nerves? No, too much inside work. a sur- Pete— Pat—- A MODERN . Spociai Weoldy ' * a Monthly Ratoe Hotel WaveHey 3fab«na Ave. at Colle-ob St. RATES SINGLE - $1.50 to $5.00 DOUBLE - $2^0 fo $6.00 QUIRT . . . 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