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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1943-02-11, Page 2Page 2 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 11th, 1943 Advocate established 1881Tinies established 1873; amalgamated November1 1924 PUBLISHED EACH THURSDAY MORNING AT EXETER, ONTARIO An Independent Newspaper devoted to the interests of the Village of Exeter and Surrounding District Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers' of the < ' Association; Member Ontario-Quebec Division of the CWNA All Advertising Copy Later Than Must be in Our Hands Not Noon on Tuesdays SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 a year, in advance; three months RATE six mouths, $1.00 60c J, M, SOUTHCOTT PUBLISHER THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1943 Russia the Surprisei- For years we heard that Russia, since the day of the Czars, has been the home of cruelty and bloody purges. Lately we have been, told that these, hard things were done, not by Stalin and a few bloody men, but by the people them selves in their effort to rid themselves of op pressors. We heard, too, that the church was trampled under foot.. e are hearing now that it was the superstitious accretions that had fastened themselves upon the church and people that were resented and cleaned out. We heard that Russia was a poor land where ice and snow and scanty grain crops were about all the peo ple had. Of late we are told that Russia has a material wealth that even astronomical figures fail to adequately set forth. When -Germany turned her legions” against the land thought to be the home of the storm and driving snow it was freely said that Russia would not last ten days. All the world knows how badly we were mis taken in this regard. Russia did to the German legions what the rest of the world hesitated and feared to attempt. We stand before Russia’s accomplishments with wonder amounting to amazement. The giant has awakened. What is to be done in the presence of a phenomenon so colossal? Some are asking what will we do with Russia? Still more people ask what will Russia do with us ? So far Russia has not been a country bent on conquest. Her aim is to live on-, developing her own resources, material, in tellectual and spiritual. Unless fairly treated she may suddenly become aggressive. There is but one way out of the situation. Russia must be treated fairly. Justice must be the domin ating feature of every effort made in the way of getting on with her. She is anything but dull and uninformed. She knows the business of her allies. Let no one be deceived on that point. Russia, fairly treated, will likely prove one has has can of the most beneficent forces that so far blessed this world. Angered, perverted, she in her potentialities for evil that no man estimate. * * # # have Practical Co-operation not something that the municipal bodies, village and township and county will do about getting on with the farm work of this year? Last season such co-operation proved the friend in need for farm activities, hit and miss as it was in many particulars. We sug gest that these bodies, or their representatives get together and outline Some scheme whereby each man, everywhere, and of all ages, may serve according to his ability and wherever his services are most required. The farmers are not asking for free labor nor are the folk in the town asking unreasonable returns. The labour er is worthy of his hire. What is needed is ^co-operation and the bodies referred to have .the statesmanship that will show how this co -operation may be brought about. .. * * * * A Fine Experience We had the experience a Sunday or so ago of attending church in the open country. We’re not going to forget that event for many moons to come. Such singing as we listened to! The music teacher has been abroad in the rural schools and there, in the churches, we splendid results. All four parts were heard in tuneful, melody. After the service something that warmed the cockles heart. Right there, in front of the neat build ing was a sleighload of fourteen handsome men and bonny lasses, with as many youngsters as could be tucked in around them. How cosy and vigorous and comely was that sleighload? We were quite sure that a fine horse in the team looked quizzically at us saying something like “You folk have overlooked us and the fun we can give, but here we are ‘without hard feelings and joy in our hearts to prove once more that We are man’s best friend. Let us Is there * have the we saw of our The Passing of Private Property Formerly we were taught that it was part of a good citizen to go on the principle of earn ing a dollar and living on ninety cents. The unused ten cents was his to make use of as his best judgment dictated. Nowadays that prin ciple does not hold, so far as the ten cents is concerned. The government makes all sorts of demands upon that dime. An income tax is made upon it for one thing. Should the own er have a portion of the dime left when the whistle blows, the government takes another slice from it in the form of succession duties. Should a man earn a comfortable salary, the government taxes the salary mercilessly. Should lie put his brains in steep and make a good pro fit by sound management, the government steps in with its yawning purse and iron heart, and sharp pruning knife. If a farmer makes a few pounds of butter, lo, that butter is not the farm er’s,. but passes under the inquisitive eye and keen scalping knife of the government whose eye is everywhere. Private property soon will be a thing of the past. The worst feature of the situation is that the worker has no say in the changing circumstances. He is told what to do or else I In all this there is danger. Folk some times become aware of what is going on and dire results, follow. There is an old principle that rulers should carry on with the expressed will of the governed. Tax paying goes on hap pily only with the taxpayer’s good will. Chloro formed people some times recover from the anaesthetic given them by theix’ rulers, no mat ter how skilfully the sleeping medicine may be administered. * r, Stalingrad Stalingrad is a terrible spectacle. One’s heart sickens as he thinks about what is to be found there. Again man’s inhumanity to man has made millions mourn. But Stalingrad is free! Well the Russians may say, “This freedom was bought at a great price.” While we listen to Rachel weeping fox* her children and mourn ing because they are not, let none of us forget that those Russians are dead and their homes blackened not for Russians alone but in defence of every Canadian home. Those Russians, dead or impoverished, stood in the place of destruc tion for us, Neither let us. forget that those German dead are dead because they refused to think, but swallowed, hook, line and sinker the folly their chosen leaders foisted upon them. Surely Germany now sees her folly. We’ll do well to look over our town and countryside and then to think of what we may learn from Stalin grad and its scorched earth foi’ hundreds of miles round about. Her fate might well have been our lot. Having done so, unless we are ut terly insensate, we’ll see that our parliament gets down to business, that our schools and churches and homes renew their strength and usefulness. It will never do for us to read the headlines of the tragedy of Stalingrad and then to walk away with arms akimbo and join the Priest and the Levite. * ❖ v * Those Blubbering Germans Germany is out to win this war by force of arms, by U boat sinkings, by treaty breaking, by cajolery, by lying, by whimpering, by blub bering. Let no one be deceived. Germany will not give in until she is beaten. And a beating is tlie very thing the allies are out to give her. Just now she is howling to exdite the sympathy of the world. She is simply feigning weakness in an effort to get the allies off guard. Only one twelfth of her military might was defeated at Stalingrad. I'roin Norway to near Gibraltar and from near Gibraltar to the Black. Sea she maintains a wonderfully fortified line of de fences to protect her against invasion. Her people are on fire with hatred fox* the allies in general and for Great Britain in particular. Every soul in the Fatherland is full of the thought of victory. Every subjugated nation is being fine combed for resources wherewith to prosecute the war. Germany may be feigning, but she is not beaten. The fox and the ape and the tigex* are still strong in her. Note and Comment Someone circulated the story that Hitler is dead. Not so. He was taking it easy and safe in a funk hole. The elusive Churchill is almost as great a diplomatic resource for the allies as a division of armed forces. Stalingrad was relieved by Russia’s acting on the principle that the leader who does well must be relieved on the instant by the leader who can do better. Huron county has shown not only its good ness of heart but its characteristic soundness of judgment by contributing as she has to needs of the war ravaged nations. That’s stuff that makes a land beloved at home, vered abroad. the the re- « « # « we are 'cleaning up around the way of getting rid of incom petent and loafing students, why not take an-’ other step or two ? Why not get rid of dull, in efficient professors and fire a good percentage of the powers-that-be who do mighty little but “occupy a seat on the board”. rp. We’re commencing to see that that social security stuff may be very costly. The money therefor must come from somewhere. We are beginning at the wrong end. The proper thing is to discover the source of social insecurity, clear up that source, and get on with the job. You see, we’ve been putting the cart before the horse. Now that universities in the , $ ❖ * « , • Speaking of the good work of the Huron county council, we wish to commend their in terest in the public libraries within their bounds. We have seen some of the books made available through their generosity and thoughtfulness and recommend many of them to thoughtful readers. Their books dealing with the new life of Russia are fine. We hope to see some of the better books on China on the stacks. T Cleaning off the snow from the main streets merits commendation, Equal consideration should be given to the needs of the back streets, Just so long as the back streets are closed to motor traffic just so long arc the residents of that district without fire protection to say noth ing of being inconvenienced. Our fire-fighting equipment is motorized and experience teaches that the majority of fires happen during the cold spells, 15 YEARS AGO Mr, C. 12. Tuckey^ while cuttin wood, in the bush was injured whop a stick flew up and throat. At present difficulty, (Mr, Eli Christie is ing with his brother Aylmer in St.- Thomas and taking in a government short course jii farm mechanics. At t h e Trail Rangers banquet '‘iCampcraft” badges were awarded to Graftpn Cochrane, Ray Pryd®, Harry Penhale, Joe Jaskson, Ed ward Dearing and Gerald Bagshaw, The Thames Road Farmers’ Club enjoyed a sumptuos oyster supper in Exeter Opera House. Mr. Charles Monteith is the. president of the Club and Mr,, Percy ^Passmore, the secre tary. Mr. Waltei* H, Harness has dis posed of his grocery business on Main Street to Mr. William North- cott. •Eugene D. Howey, representative from the Exeter High School in the Senior division, in the Inter School Oratory Contest, was awarded first prize. The contest was held in Ilder- ton, the judges being members of the staff of Western University. Miss Hilda Sims has received a position as stenographer for a cloth ing manufacturing firm in Toronto. hit he this him, in the talks with week visit- 25 YEARS AGO Hern’—-Phillips— At the home of the brides’ parents, on Thursday, February 14, 1918, by Rev, S. Mux- worthy. Mr. James Wellington Hern to IMiss Ella Gertrude daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. Benjamin S. Phil lips, all of Exeter. School report of S.S. No. 3 Step hen for January is as follows: Sr. IV, Aylmer Christie, Ethel Preszcat- or, Lloyd Parsons, Edith Schroeder, Norman Sanders; Sr, III, Celia Christie, James Willis, Guy Jacob, Jennie Dearing; Jr, III, Frank. Par sons, Herb Schroeder, Ethel Dearing. The paper is a day late this week owing to the heatless days, were closed up on Monday by order of troller. Mr. Elmer Harness Boyle and McLeod barber shop and intends going into partnership his brother, Pte. Bert Harness, is expected home shortly. Herman Gower, who lives his grandmother, Mrs. Sutton, un fortunately broke his arm at school on Thursday. The arm was broken above the elbo'W’and the elbow was also injured. tfw War PRESERVED, PACKED AND SHIPPED Shops Saturday and the Fuel Con- has leased the with who with 50 YEARS AGO Services are being held in tbe English language in the Evengelical Church, Dashwood, this week. Mr. Fred Elliott, who has been in Toronto for the past week, has re turned home. While in Toronto Fred was successful in passing two exami nations qualifying 'him to practice as a barrister and solicitor. From Directorate ot Public Relations Army 1 Most Canadian homes will be af fected by the increases in pay for private soldiers and by the new scale of allowances w and cost-of- living bonus for dependents of men in the Navy, Army and Air Force, as announced by the Department of National Defence. Canada is proudly listed as hav ing the highest paid Army in the world and the average Canadian to Whom the army belongs is pleased because the troops are rated as the best-organized fighting unit in exis tence. The pay increases are contingent upon the proficiency and good con duct of the men. Jack Canuck in the army will continue to receive $1.30 a day as a private in the army but at the end of four months' effic ient service and good conduct he will be given, an increase in pay of 10 cents a day. If at the end of six months he appears to be a Will ing, well-trained soldier and still of good conduct then he will get an other ten-cent raise in pay so that from then on he will be paid a day, All of this money does not the soldier, however. He will? the new assignment of pay mencing February 1, send his wife $23 a month instead of $20 if he Is a private or an N.C.O. below the rank of sergeant, and earning more than $1.40 per day. His wife and family will receive increased al lowances in their own right, also. They will receive a cost-of-living bonus and in addition dependents may earn up to $40 a month in stead of $20 without having their allowances affected. Changes in the regulations af« $1.50 go to under COnl- Farmers, fishermen and stock-raisers would labour in vain to supply food to the United Nations, were it not for the added labour of those who prepare, preserve, pack and ship the food. Thousands of Canadian men and women are doing a most necessary job of converting live and raw products co usable, transportable food for millions of fighting men and civilians'overseas. In estimat ing the value of various tasks in the total war effort, much credit should be given to the workers in the canning, dehydration, curing, packing, refrigerating and shipping industries. “Bacon for Britain"? Yes, bur also canned salmon and dried fruits and evaporated milk for Britain and' our allies overseas. The Bank of Montreal is working with ail war-time industries and their workers by supplying the kind of banking service needed — through hundreds of conveniently located branches. BANK OF MONTREAL •‘A BANK WHERE SMALL ACCOUNTS ARE WELCOME” MODERN, EXPERIENCED BANKING SERVICE.................the Outcome of 125 Years' Successful Operation Exeter Branch: W. J. FLOYD, Manager 1791 fecting dependents’ allowances pro vide that dependents’ allowance may now be paid for children of all 'ranks up to a maximum of six. Previously, however, officers and warrant officers, class one couid claim dependents’ allowance for not more than four children. The scale of dependents’ allow ance for children has also been increased. The rate of $12.00 per month for each the first two children remains the same. For the third child the allowance is now $10.00 as against $9.00, and for the fourth child $8.00 instead of $6.00. The eight dollar rate also applies to the fifth and sixth child. The increases in pay and allowances date from Jan.-1. A further conces sion provided by the recent changes permits the award of a Dependents’ Allowance on behalf of or soldier in respect of or father, who qualifies regulations, in addition and up to six children. a mother or father9 could not re ceive an allowance if the officer or soldiei’ was otherwise claiming for three dependents. Rural 'Canada is doing its part in providing men and women for the armed services. Not only have the people in the towns, villages, hamlets and farming communities supported the war effort in their bond and war-stamp buying; their increased production “Of vital ma terials such as food; their supply of comforts fox’ enlisted personnel and refugees but they are sending their sons and daughters to the na tion's battle an officer a mother under the to a wife Previously units. * # * enlistments from the the war in September, amount- Voluntary outbreak of 1939, to Octobei4 31, 1942, ed to 618,318, according to the De partment of National Defence. This total was increased by 683,335 when the number of "R” recruits who “went active" was included. The Maritimes have led the field in enlistment ratios, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island having 41.5 percent of their eligible male popu lation in the services. New Bruns wick has 39 per cent, A fairly large indication of how rural communities are answering the call for manpower is given in a recent contingent overseas. Chit of and engineers who one draft from a from rural communities and the re maining 10 0 from cities. Drum heller, Alta., is another example, where there is an honor roll of en listments totalling 1,202 from a population of roughly 3,000.- which arrived 275 artillerymen were included in camp, 175 came Soldiers are urged to write home frequently. Just as they enjoy re ceiving letters from their families •and friends so do their families and friends enjoy hearing from the men who are fighting in Canada’s army. An opportunity was afforded offi cers of the army who followed tradi tion this year by serving Christmas dinners to their men, to suggest to the troops the value of writing home frequently. * * # When the padre of Canadian Ma chine-Gun Training Centre A17 at Three Rivers, Quebec, arrived at church parade recently his pulpit was missing. He informed the par ade that he did not wish to embar rass the parties responsible for the pulpit’s disappearance and then told this story: A minister noting that church funds were sorely needed, announc ed to his congregation, "Brethren, there is a man in my hearing who is flirting with another man’s wife. Now if he doesn’t put a $5 bill on the plate I shall announce his name from the pulpit.” When the col lection was taken there were 19 five-dollar bills on it along with $2 and a note stating “The remaining $3 on pay day.” Similarly the padre’s pulpit turn ed up in its accustomed place next day.* * * Tlie Royal Canadian Army Cadets with a goal of 140,000 enrolled boys in 1943 will have a snappy new uniform of khaki, it combines the battle dress of the Canadian Army although it has a tunic similar to the Australian Service tunic. Patch pockets, a belt, improved anklets, red-wedged service cap, a maple leaf emblem with the letters R.C.A.C. in gold, green and red, the name of the school or commun ity unit on the shoulder, and profic iency badges for the sleeves com plete the uniform. Officers will wear red braid oii the shoulder straps. * The Royal Canadian Army Cadets are proving popular all across Can ada with schools, service clubs, Re serve Army unists and communities sponsoring battalions and compan ies. Col. C. G. M. Grier, E.D., is officer commanding the cadets. GREENWAY (Intended for last week) Clarence Brophey R.C.A.F. of Bagotville, Quebec, is spending some time with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A Brophey, while recuperating from a recent operation. Messrs. Harold Pollock and Sel- bourne English, of Detroit, spent the week-end at their homes here. Congratulations to Pte. and Mrs. ’ Gordon Luther (nee Margaret Clu- ness) who were married on day. Berton Brophey R.'C.A.F. Thomas, spent the week-end ■home. Mrs. Lloyd Smythe spent days last week with Mr. and Mrs. Donald McGregor. Pte. Stanley Hartle, of London, spent the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hartle. A progressive euchre party, dance and social evening was held in the school south of Greenway last Fri day evening. A good time was en joyed by all those present. These parties are to raise money .so that boxes may be sent overseas to the boys from S.S. No. 14. Satur- of St.- at his © few zp SWEET | CAPORAL "fHt PUREST FORM WHICH ) TOBACCO CAN BE SMOKED/* Painful, Pus Filled Bails th Gause of liieii Misery If you suffer from boils you know how sick and miserable they made you fed. Boils are aft . outward indication of impurities in the system, and just when you think you are rid of one another crops up to take its placet and prolong your misery, All the lancing and poulticing you can do may not stop more coming, . To help overcome boils you should purity the blood, so why not give that old, reliable blood medicine, Burdock Blood Bitters, a chance to show what it will do in helping you got rid of thorn? Thousands have used it for this purpose for the past 00 years, Why not you? The T, Milburn Oo.» Hiniiod, Toronto, Ont,