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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1943-04-08, Page 2Page 2 THE EXETER T1MES-ADV0C/XTE, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 8th, 1943 Exeter Tinies established 1873; Advocate established 1881 amalgamated November 1924 PUBLISHED EACH THURSDAY MORNING AT EXETER, ONTARIO Am Independent Newspaper devoted to the of the Village of Exeter and Surrounding home,, who attend Sunday School regularly and who read good books. The parent who would not have a sword pass through his heart must guard his children* The youngster who ■would not sup sorrow while he Is this side the sun must keep his honour bright. interests District Member of the Canadian Newspapers’ Association; Weekly Member of the Ontario-Quebec Division Of the CWNA All Advertising Copy .Must be in Our Hands Later Than Noon on Tuesdays SUBSCRIPTION RATE $2.00 a year, in advance; six months, $1.00 three months GOc Not J, M. SOUTHCOTT PUBLISHER THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1943 “As We Go Along” We’ve, been waiting for someone to say the right word and now Anthony Eden has said tlie very thing. He was addressing a joint meeting of the Canadian Senate and House of Commons last Thursday. As -was inevitable under such august circumstances, the relations to exist among* the Allies when the war was won, came up for discussion. It was then that the states man said, “We need not wait to discuss this problem till the war is over. If we understand each other and trust each other as the war goes on, we’ll have no difficulty in trusting each other and working with each other when the war is over.” That’s sound sense for you. The spirit’ taketh a body as it pleasetli Him,” said one of the world’s greatest and best. “We learn to do by doing,” said one of Greece’s wisest sons. We learn to get on with other nations and other people by setting our jaws and resolving that whatever comes or doesn’t come, we’ll get on with them and like it. There’ll always be snags and bumps and problems that we’ll need to keep our eye on the road and not forget to peddle. We’ll "gravitate where we cogitate and we need make no mistake on that point, treaties or agree ments to the contrary notwithstanding. We’ll get on by getting on. Funny, isn’t it, that never saw all this long ago ? But there’s fact and you may lay to it. If nations are right sort they'll get on as they go along. ’t* He Has No Faith in Liars When he was in the way of saying i things, Anthony Eden said that he had no f in the word of our Axis opponents. We I been hearing the soft sighing of the sob sisters lately about the necessity of our approaching the Axis with glasses of nice cool pink lemonade and some of the finest chocolate bonbons ever sung of in songs, or dreamt of in dreams and of coax ing them in dulcet tones to be good boys. We have heard of this sort of thing and we don't like such booby hash even a little bit. If a man once lies to us we’ll try to get on with him, but we think of the man who gave us the saying “Once a liar, always a liar.” As our old friend, Josh Billings, taught us, “A broken reputation may sometimes be mended, but the eyes of the world always will be on the place where the crack was.” We believe that this is especially true of liars. Anthony Eden agrees with us, though the sob sisters will be sure to pipe up to the contrary. Before we’ll lay down our arms we must have guarantees of good conduct from our enemies and these guarantees must be some thing other than they say or sign. As we try to get on with those liars and treaty-breakers we’ll need to have the hangman’s whip nearby. •£> .JUt **• n* ❖ Jfc 3 Noble Conduct Anthony Eden’s visit to this continent re minds us of his conduct under circumstances that were difficult and trying. We refer to the tempestuous pre-Munich days. We were rest ing in our easy hope that the. war cloud in Europe, would but thunder and pass by. To our ever lasting shame, we were planning how we could save our skins by throwing Ckecho-Slovakia to the German dogs. We. came at last, in our diplo matic relations, to the point when that fine coun try was to be torn to pieces “in the. interest of peace,” so far had we fallen from the heights, like Lucifer, sun of the morning. Eden would have none of it and left the chamber of betrayal, though it looked as if he had sacrificed every thing but honour. But wisdom is justified of her children, for no one in Christendom stands higher in the esteem of honourable and capable men than does Anthony Eden. He and Church ill are true yoke fellows because patriotically and practically they are akin. we the the Juvenile Misbehaviour Men in whom the public has perfect con fidence and who have the best of opportunities for making observations, inform us that there is an alarming increase of misconduct on the part of the population under sixteen years of age. Such information should give the youth of the day and their parents and friends the gravest grounds for thought. An increase of seventeen and one-half per cent in juvenile misconduct in one year reveals ,a serious condition of affairs. Let no one take this matter lightly. A stain once placed upon one’s character or reputation re mains there for life. And it remains there to work harm, and only harm, and misery, and only misery. We do not intend in this connection to give the details of the misconduct referred to. Our interest is in getting rid of the evil. Here are a few hints. First of all, parents and guardians of the young should be aware of the rampant and des tructive evil. Second, they must see clearly that such evil is no respector of persons. What stains one young person lies in wait to stain any other young person. In the third place all must re cognise that to step aside is human and that only eternal vigilance will provide a safety. Every youngster from the time he knows anything should be taught the sacredness of his body and of his thoughts. He should know as early as he knows anything, the supreme impor tance of utterly avoiding certain topics of con versation with all and singular, with the excep tion of his parents and the family doctor. Fail ure to observe this rule has opened the door to many a sorrow; Next, the youngster should be trained to live with an object in life. To attain this object he should be trained and encouraged to work overy waking hour. Work is the most delightful of pastimes. There is no doubt in the World about that. The home is the best recrea tion centre in the world. Outside recreation centres may well be regarded with something akin to suspicion, ft should b remembered, tooy that few youngsters go Wrong who have a good Those Gardens There is little but heartbreak in planting seeds where the ground is shaded for the great er portion of the day or where the soil is full of roots from trees and shrubbery. Vegetables grown under such conditions rarely, if ever, prove satisfactory. On the other hand no sun ny, fertile bit of garden ground should go un planted, as every vegetable that can be pro duced in town or city or village should be cul tivated up to the limit. For one thing, trucking of vegetables is almost sure to be done on a small scale, as rubber and gasoline and oil are bound to be scarce, if available at all for such pur poses. It should be remembered that vege tables require a great deal of cultivation and cultivation means a sore back and the giving up of many a pleasure. However, the devil of ne cessity is driving these great days and we may as well give up all thought of luxury. In this good town there are lots and lots of spaces where vegetables may be grown that should be impressed into service, dance of ance the We have an abun- soil cultivators who can give the guid- occasion demands. * * * « We Disagree year the price of maple syrup is alto gether too low. We have made maple syrup. We have set up the old sugar kettle when the snow was knee deep. We have hauled in the sap for boiling. We have watched those kettles till late at night and have carried home the sweet ness when our legs bent under us through sheer weariness. We know something of making sweet ness by the pans and later by the evaporator. We therefore know and now solemnly declare that the present price of maple syrup is fifty per cent too low. We know the cost of the syrup in financial outlay and hard work and tell all the world that the present prices are not anything like they should be. Those big salaried brothers should give the syrup makers a fair deal. # * # # Keeping the Eye on the Ball When we played the fine old game of As sociation football our captain used to tell his men to keep to their quarters and never to let their eye get off the ball. We hear the captain’s slogan these days but all of us are not acting as if we believed the captain knows what he is talking about. Some simply have forgotten that if we lose this war nothing else matters. Instead of keeping victory in mind we are prattling about post-war conditions, conditions that may con front us one month hence, one year hence, ten years hence. Meanwhile our enemies are pound ing us wherever and whenever they can hit us. Then we are talking about improving living con ditions for this and that body of people, when a victory for our foes means that we’ll not be alive or, if alive, our only living conditions will be the living conditions of slaves. Worse than all, we are playing the miserable game of party politics, forgetful of the stern fact that should the swastika take the place of the Union Jack, the only parties in this fair land will be the lash wielders and the boot lickers. We must face ’ these grim and appalling facts. We have hardly begun to put our backs into this life and death struggle. This month promises to test us every hour it brings us, And still we go on amusing ourselves. Russia struggles while we cry, “On with the dance, let joy be unconfined!” Over our heads we hear the roar of airplanes and every radio broadcast tells of brave men struggling for their lives in the icy waters, or of children being blown to pieces by the invader’s bombs. We talk of the launching of this or that “offen sive” when all that comes is a Dieppe. Then We get word again and again of our being about to “toss Rommel out of Africa” while brutal facts remind us that the terrible African battle is not a game of parlour ping-pong, as some of the tellers of “tossing” would have us to believe. The simple fact is that we'll have to give up a great many more things that are right in them* selves but which are wrong if and when they take our hand or our thought off war-winning. When life and liberty are at stake, as they abso lutely are at stake this moment, there is nothing for it but to strip to the bone and look terrible facts squarely in the face. * * * Note and Comment We’H suffer if we do not lay in a good sup ply of maple syrup, $ * # We'll be wise in doing all we can to preserve our working efficiency. There’s nothing more wasteful than sickness. This 15 YEARS AGO Mr. (Frank Taylor has disposed of his farm, known as the Dow farm north of the fairgrounds, to, Mr. Earl Parsons, of Usborne. Mr. Tay lor has purchased the residence of Mr. Walter Harness on Main Street. Miss Maybelle Strang was suc cessful in, securing honors in eight subjects in the commercial depart ment of the Dondon Technical School in the Easter tests. Miss Doreen Dunn has returned home after spending several weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Win. of Toronto. Following a week of weather, Easter Sunday ed in with wintry blasts and snow. Mr, Fred Kerr attended the Woodstock Gun Club Tournament on Good Friday and was successful in capturing three first prizes. In the handicap event he succeeded in scoring 24 out of 25 and in another event scored 58 out of 60. Mr. G. S. Howard is this week in Toronto attending the annual con vention of the 'Ontario Educational Association as a delegate from "West Huron. Misses Gertrude Francis and Mil- died Rowe are spending this week in Toronto. Mr. Sydney West has taken a position with' the Times-Advocate. springlike was usher- Blatchfprch WAR EFFORT ■ k JSk'Ywta.X':.;. , y i V. Vale, P. Harness, G. Pass, M. Rowe, Mary El- M. Gladman, M. Norry, F. H. Seldon, Carrie Davis, R. May Elworthy, B. iRussell, 25 YEARS AGO School report of Room 5, Exeter Public School. Honors S. Stanbury, B. Brown, Creech, worthy, Shortt, Davis, E. Willard. Mr. William May has purchased fiom the estate of the late Samuel Hicks that valuable dwelling prop erty. Miss Vera Rowe has taken the position as stenographer with Messrs. Gladman and Stanbury, Miss Roach having resigned. Mr. C. J. Luker has purchased Mr. C. Northcott’s^ residence in Wil liam Street. Mr. George Geddes, of Hay Town ship, has disposed acre farm to Mr. Stephen Township intends moving to Mr. Albert Spencer leaves today for the west to take up a farm. The weather has been bright but cool during the last few days. Seed ing is becoming general although the night frosts interfere. of his fine 100- John Grebb, of for $6,800' and London shortly. 50 YEARS AGO Work has begun on the founda tion of the new home to be erected by Mr. A. Cottle on William Street on Christie’s old property. That interesting an live journal, the Mitchell Advocate has passed another milestone and has now en tered on the thirty-fourth year of publication. .Mr. E. Treble is erecting a work shop at the rear of the one he occupies. The old shop will be verted into a show room. The shovel brigade were on on Friday and scraped Main Street. A money order branch has been added to the Kirkton post office. now con- duty I A man in an insane asylum sat fishing over a flower bed. A visitor wishing to be friendly walked up and said, “How many Have you caught today?” “You’re the ninth,” replied the fisherman. Ode to Spring All Hail! Ye faithful days of spring; You come like wild birds on the wing, Sometimes you sigh, and then you sing, You surely make the woodlands / ring. Today your bass notes from the west, Express your mood, with soulful zest. Again, to pour your feelings forth, You” strike the high notes of north. The east winds make you moan sigh Till each note seems a sob oh Your south wind brings calm, every breeze becomes anxious hearts you balm, Welcome, all the sounds that come, Setting all the air a hum, Telling us that spring has come, See the birds and bees and flowers. Hear the dripping of the showers, In between the sunshine hours, Wjlille beauty clothes the fields and bowers, After months, We are glad Most fruitful You come to cheer, And For the and cry. a restful a psalm, bring a OF CANADA'S HURRYING wheels, thundering wheels. Wheels that have made it possible for Canada to grow in strength. Today those wheels—the driv ing wheels of Canada’s railways— are setting the pace for the war effort. They haul raw materials to humming war industries and rush away the finished tools of battle. They move food and fuel for the home front and the fighting front. They speed civilians on essential business, hasten troops to camps, ■ embarkation points and on leave. It’s Canada’s big war job. A job that only railway wheels can do. A job in which an army of 150,000 IF POSSIBLE AVOID TRAVEL OVER WEEK-ENDS AND HOLIDAYS CANADIAN NATIONAL railway workers, men and women, is in the fight for Canada ■;.. shop crews and train crews, yard workers, section hands, telegra phers, signal men and office workers, a multitude of men and women in a multitude of jobsj They are making the giant wheels turn faster and faster. From coast to coast in Canada, we—your railways—are rolling in the service of freedom, and our lines to and in the United States have linked the war efforts of two great sister nations. The railway wheels are driv ing, in war as in peace, for Canada. CANADIAN RAILWAY FREIGHT RATEf, ARE THE LOWEST IN THE WORLD SEAFORTH — Cardno’s grocery store is now closed after being oper ated continuously since 1860 in Sea forth. The business was founded by the late Alexander Cardno, pioneer resident of Seaforth, and was oper ated by three generations of the same family. The decision to close the store was made necessary by the appointment of Nelson C. Cardno to a commission in the R. C. N. V. R. He reports the middle of April. so cold and drear, thdt Spring is here, season of the year, fill our hearts With -J. W. Down, V.D.M. CANADIAN PACIFIC FO.REST received a fell at her of age and her years. — Mrs. Orne Gilmore broken hip when she home? She is 84 years has ‘been very active for The class had named several animals that hibernate in the win ter. Teacher: “Now can anyone tell me of anything that hibernates in summer? Just one hand? All right Bobby.’’ Bobby: “Santa Claus Rev. E. R. Glavin, formerly of St. Joseph’s Church, Chatham, has been appointed assistant to Very Rev. Dean D. J. Egan, of St. Joseph’s Church, Stratford. Father Glavin,* who is a native of 'Mt. Carmel, is a son of Mrs. Edward Glavin, of Osh- awa, and the late Edward Glavin. He was ordained in St. Peter’s Cath edral, London, in 1927. He has served at the church in Watford and St. Anthony’s Church, Windsor. KEEPJTlON YOUR PERSON.DO NOT LEAVE IT IN YOUR CAR NOW that you have your 1943-1944 gasoline ration book, it is up to you to keep it at all times in a safe place. If it is lost, burned, or stolen, you will be deprived of coupons which will not be replaced. In this regard, the policy of the Oil Controller is as follows: • If, through negligence, you lose your gasoline ration book before October 1, 1943, you may be allowed no more, and perhaps less, than half the coupons to which you would be entitled if you were making an original application. The new gasoline rationing system, effective on April 1, will be. strictly enforced. Under its provisions, the motorist, as well as the service station attendant, is held responsible if any infrac tions occur. It is contrary to the orders of the Oil Controller: • If, through negligence, you lose your ration book on or after October 1, 1943, you may be allowed no more, and perhaps less, than 25 per cent of the coupons to which you would be entitled if you were making an original application. IQ To purchase gasoline with 1942-1943 coupons. /\To purchase gasoline unless you have the correct category sticker affixed to your windshield. To detach coupons from your own book. (The removal of the coupons is the duty of the attendant.) To have in your possession a gasoline ration coupon not attached to, v and forming a part of, a gasoline ration book. To have in your possession a gasoline ration book other than the book Q issued in respect of a vehicle you own, or in respect of a vehicle driven by you with the full consent of the real owner. To alter, deface, obliterate, or mutilate any gasoline ration book or coupon. If you sell your motor vehicle, remember that before making delivery you must remove the windshield sticker or stickers. Remember also that after the sale is completed, you mustjmail to the nearest Regional Oil Control Office in your province the gasoline ration book or books issued for the vehicle. THE DEPARTMENT OF MUNITIONS AND SUPPLY Honourable C. D. HOWE. Minister