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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1943-12-23, Page 22 TH1 TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 23, 1943 Cxeter ^uneB ^bbotate Thues established 1873; Advocate established 1881 amalgamated November 1924 PUBLISHED EACH THURSDAY MORNING AT EXETER, ONTARIO An Independent Newspaper devoted to the of the Village of Exeter and Surrounding interests District Member of the Canadian Newspapers1 Association; of the Ontario-Quebec Division of the CWNA Weekly Member All Advertising Copy Must be in Our Hunds Not Later Than Noon on Tuesdays SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 a year, |n advance; three months RATE six months, $1.00 60c J. M. SOUTHCOTT PUBLISHER THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1943 Mr. Churchill’s Illness All people contending for the freedom of the world are deeply sorry that Mr. Churchill is ill. Every soul that loves his kind wishes him a speedy and full recovery. ill is no wonder tained his vigour so long amazement. vent of the war did not bring liis first terrible burden. For many a long day he saw his count­ ry drifting heedlessly into the earthquake and storm through which she is now passing. What he could do for long years Mr. Churchill did to prevent the disaster that he saw was inevit­ able should his country not right about face and give herself with all her might to following a saner course. This long struggle for a wiser national policy sapped his strength more than any of us are aware. The calamity he foresaw overtook his loved emigre. Disasters that threat­ ened her very existence fell When the storm was at Churchill was called to the was his to rally his nation among bodings. He was equal to the occasion. No statesman that the world ever knew,did a finer task than he. Then followed the even harder task of winning the other freedom loving nations to see their danger and to take their place by Britain’s side. Every day since taking office has brought to Mr. Churchill nothing less than a giant’s task. Little wonder that his amazing strength was sapped. The prayer of every man who desires the welfare of th® world is that his wonderful Stitution may come once more to his aid and that the hour of his return to the duties none but he seems capable of discharging be one of he gifts that the New Year may bring to us. That he should be That he should have main- is the real cause for We should not forget that the ad- upon her like hail, its very worst Mr. captain’s bridge. It when the stoutest her were filled with well grounder fore- !. He was equal to the occasion. con- that may * * * * I The Readjustment Period From time to time we hear of war factories discharging some of their help ,though informed and earnest statesmen are urgent in their telling us that the hardest part of the war lies ahead of us. We have no explanation for the discharge of the war workers but we are wondering if the leaders in the strife see the necessity for new weapons and are now installing new means for production of those weapons and supplies. Right earnestly do we wish that the cause of the dis­ missal of the men is that there is no occasion for the making of wai* supplies of any sort. As far as the men who are being discharged from war work are concerned, there need be no an- -xiety on account of their not getting jobs. Every •farm is short of help. Ordinary industry is sad­ ly in need of restoration to normalcy, or of being- built into a new normalcy. The trained hand and the trained mind are needed more than ever to take up the slack inevitable during the war years. • Necessity is calling upon our war workers as loudly as ever she called during the darkest hours of the war, * Those Strikes We have every sympathy for the laboring man seeking ample return for his services. Too long the workingman has been regarded as a "hand” rather than as a man with all the wants and hopes of a man. Such a way of treating men, whatever their rank or lot, is unwholesome and altogether unwise. On the other hand, it is unwise to look upon the employer of labor as a lucky sort of person who gets his money easily and is guaranteed, in some mysterious fashion to carry on his business regardless of cir­ cumstances and the visitation of outrageous for­ tune. Further, it is not reasonable to think of the employer as necessarily an exploiter of those who sell him their labor. Indeed, it is quite the other way. Well does the employer realize that unless his helpers are happy and loyal because they arc well treated, he must soon lose out in the world where good work alone wins and holds the market. At the present period, all must see that the employer who enters upon the much talked of new era with an empty purse, will not be able to Employ labor. The competition in the new day promises to be desperately keen. Hence the folly of asking from an employer wages that will impoverish him and make it impossible for him to keep up in a race where the running will be k®en above all telling. The interests of man and employer this minute are one and indivisible^ Wa degree that history has never hitherto experienced. Enlightenment must be the aim of white collar and overalls if this good land is to hold her honored place on the farm and in the workshop and on the The Best Sort of Thing Out there in the breezy west they have come upon the right sort of thing. One. of the milling companies took the lead in the matter and a fine job the company is doing. As is so often the case, th® good thing grew out of a necessity. The company was aware that the people on the prairies and in many another locality were in need of fabrics from which they could make quilts, bedspreads, curtains and clothing of all sorts for men, women and children. The. com­ pany was well aware that the west had plenty of the best of sheep producing an excellent qual­ ity of wool. It knew, too, that cotton was avail­ able for clothing purposes could it but be woven into suitable sizes and widths. Further, the com­ pany knew that women in the west in many a locality, isolated but fitted to become highly socialized, had no end of leisure on its hands that often drifted into bitter loneliness, So here there was material and capable hands and leis­ ure. Accordingly the company hit on the ex­ pedient of having those women taught weaving by a party who knew the art to perfection, This Weaver was engaged by the company and classes were organized all over the prairie and wherever the women could be got together. Were the wo­ men delighted? We need a bettei’ word to des­ cribe their overflowing happiness. The move­ ment spread like an old time prairie fire only this time the new movement brought clothing and bedding and curtains and a thousand othei- needed and beautiful things. Czechs, Bulgarians, Russians, English, Irish, Welsh and all the rest of the differing and often antagonistic elements of the west learned to work together, to neighbor together, to get on together and became friendly and patriotic and genuinely Canadian in the pro­ cess. May this company’s tribe increase, and may the rest of us profit by what they did. ** «• WE MUST HOLD THE LIKE! »;■ of Strat- with her C. Pearce. Ella Mor- What is Being Done About It? Exeter region faces a new condition owing to the opening of the dehydration plant. Farm­ ing in this district is taking on a new form. We wonder what the local powers that be are doing about it? Are prizes to be offered by the local fair board for the best turnip or beet and carrot or cabbage fields or gardens. Is the local fair board that has done so much for farming, ready to make the change in the work of the fair that the new conditions justify? Here is a good field for co-operation between the government, the local fair board and the farmers. What may prove a distinctively new era for this town and the farming region round about it is here. De­ hydration is in its early stages, though it has passed the purely experimental stage. It is up to all of us to take occasion by the hand. Pros­ perity does not come by way of the Northern Lights or as a result of some happy chance. It follows upon a deal of hard thinking and well applied elbow grease and the right thing in knee action. * * * * Worth Trying Reinstatement of the men now in war work or who are members of the fighting forces has two aspects. First, there is the preparation of the men who are now making civilian hour of become locality should be alert as regards the men who went from that individual locality to take up the activities of war. It will not do to leave work so important and difficult to the federal govern­ ment alone. Local authorities are aware of the local needs and may well do a little something in the way of suiting the task to the man. Churches and municipal bodies and fraternal societies and service clubs have in Such work the best chance in the world to help men who soon will be home from the stern duties that have demanded their thoughts for years. There is no end of work that needs to be done. One big difficulty will be the wage element. Men who have been receiving war time wages may find it hard to settle down to the remuneration of pre war conditions. * * in uniform or -who are war materials. They should be made minded. Men cannot think war every the day for four years and immediately civilian minded, In the next place every * * W YEARS AGO Mr. Cypbris Pym, of Usborne, shipped, three 'baby beef to the Tor­ onto market for the Christmas trade and the animals brought the top price, 14c per lb. The youngest of the animals was 10 months old and. weighed 830 pounds. The other two were eleven and thirteen months eld gnd the three weighed 2280 pounds in Toronto. The price ave­ raged over $100 each which is pretty high for animals of their age, Miss Francis Pearce, ford, spent Christmas parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Misses Evelyn Howard, lock, Marie Willis and Messrs,. Ken­ neth Stanbury and Carl Morlock of Western University are home for Christmas holidays, The Exeter High School teachers are this week spending the holidays at various places, Miss Ross at Tor­ onto, Miss Bayne is at her home in Newbury, Miss Huiser is in Toronto; Mr. E, J, Wethey is in London: Miss Hills Is at her home in Dub­ lin and Miss McKenzie in Toronto. 25 YEARS AGO Pte. M. F. Gladman, who went overseas in September last, arrived home on Wednesday evening of last week, Melville had been training in 'Canada since early in the year. Pte, Walter Harness, who went overseas with the 161st, returned home Monday night. He was woun­ ded in the shoulder but is recover­ ing nicely now. Two other brothers Elmore and Bert were also over­ seas, but returned some months ago. Pte. Ira Taylor, son of Mrs. Alex. Tayloi’ of Exeter North, also of the 161st, returned on Monday, and received a warm welcome. Corporal Chester Harvey, son of Mrs. Tlios. Harvey, returned to his home here on Monday. Corporal Harvey went overseas in August of 1916 with the Mounted Rifles of Hamilton and remained with them during his time in France. In June last he was poisoning, but ed. It is stated six million people have died with influenza pneumonia. The war is said to have caused twenty million deaths. Mr. Wes. Heywood bought Mr. B. M. Francis’ farm on Con. 9, Us­ borne, at the latter’s auction sale Thursday last and later sold the farm to Mr. Mark Wilds. The farm was sold for $8850 while the stock and implements brought a little over $5000. Gqws sold for $190, $188, $160 etc. Mr. Francis is now pre­ paring to move to Exeter. laid up with septic is now much improv- that in twelve weeks 50 YEARS AGO Mr. Howard is prepared to put his water power in proper condition to furnish the town with electric lights of the best and cheapest for the village provided he gets suf­ ficient citizens and the council. It would be well if the set about the much needed Mr. Samuel years has successfully con- a blacksmith shop here, en- a large and well deserved has decided to retire from encouragement from the people would at once matter and secure a advantage. Buckingham, who for On the home front the battle against inflation is now the most critical of all. The winning of this battle will contribute much to winning the war. It will contribute more than all else towards the solution of post-war problems. The purpose of Price Control is to prevent infla­ tion. Its purpose is to protect and maintain a basic standard of living. A higher money income will not be of any ad vantage if, because prices are going up, money buys less and less* To win the battie against unemployment in post-war period, we must first of all win battle against inflation. our the the many ducted joying trade, the business. The entire stock of tools, hardware etc., has 'been pur­ chased by Mr. James Dignan, who will, conduct the business in future, and will vacate his present place of business, favorably eter, and chanic in Mr. Dignan is well and known in and around Ex- is a gentleman and a me- every sense of the word. TRY A WANT AD------THEY PAY! Salaries and wages are a large element, often the largest element, in the cost of everything we buy Ottawa, December 13, 1943 PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA A ORACLE OF MERCY How often we sigh for the might- have-beens, telling ourselves how much happier our lives would have been if only such and such a thing had materialized. We bemoan our lot, feeling fate has been unkind to us by denying us wealth, robust health, great talents oi- maybe good looks. But we never stop to think of the other kind of might-have-beens. We might have • been deformed, crippled, blind deaf, penniless or homeless. So next time we regret the things that haye been and sigh for that were not, let us stop and our blessings instead, for great writer has said, ‘‘Each life is a miracle of mercy.” If the Price Ceiling breaks down, in the long run all stand to lose. We must hold the line against inflation to assure victory in war. We must hold the line to provide a solid founda­ tion on which, after the war, to build a greater and a better Canada those count as a one’s > Note and Comment Ji are to have the socialistic parties get ) t what may, the youngsters the merriest sort of Christ- this, once of «the country’s affairs, elections of are done with. * * * •it- •» I 9AND OTHERS OBJECT, TO RATIONING I They made him his rations too short and slim, For a man so tall and stout, And now he didders in every limb, Whenever he toddles about. * -x- «■ * That snow something like sneaked up on us. We were all set for a whole lot of fine weather till this Storm came upon us unasked unabetted by the right thinking people of this fine district. « 5{S W We know of no better friends of the com­ monwealth than are those fine folk who have resolved that come at least, mas. Get control rulers are done with. The totalitarian people always elect their their own successors, that is unless they are shot or hanged, W iS # Just because ones sneezes once a week and has a drop on the end of his noze when he comes in from walking or working in a zero temperature is no dead sure proof that he suf­ fers from an infection of influenza. * -x- •» * Funny isn’t it that some people who would not •have an inexperienced person fill a tooth for them are perfectly content to hand over the banks and insurance and loan companies of the /” PUCE LIS'? LOAF OF BREAD DOZEN EGGS.. "$&5o 5LBS.POTATOEs')i<00 f YES, I GUESS WERE PRETTY LUCKY THOSE ARE OH, THE POOR PEOPLE I 1 BLACK MARKET PRICES IN GREECE ""J AND TO THINK SOME PEOPLE j COMPLAIN ABOUT PRICES HERE! AND SOME EVEN BUY IN THE BLACK THERE IS PLENTY IN CANADA Yes, by any European standard we have enough and to spare . .. to spare to help feed our men overseas and the people of Britain. Enough, that is, if we all share and share alike. Anyone who tries to get more than his share is actually in­ creasing the danger that we all may have to face a situation like that in Greece. JOHN LABATT LIMITED London Canada