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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1947-05-15, Page 22 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 15th, 1947 Cxeter Bitner JBtaocate 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 Exeter and Surrounding District Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers’ Association; Member of the Ontario-Quebec Division of the CWNA &D 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 8. M. SOUTHCOTT - - PUBLISHER THURSDAY, MAY 15th, 1947 Seemly Seemly, indeed, was the second celebration of the allied victory in the Great War. There was no blare of bands and tempestuous ora­ tory on the part of the victors. The wounds made by the terrific struggle were too great for any such display. ’There are too many bleeding hearts and empty chairs for the mere sound and foam of triumph. The thought that freedom has not perished from the earth is too awe-inspiring to be expressed in gay par­ ade. Quiet contemplation of the goodness of the Divine Being in whose name and by whose aid the allies triumphed is the only fitting celebra­ tion of an event before whose grandeur and significance all nations must walk with un­ covered heads.* * * « Bewildered When we awoke on Thursday morning last. May Sth, we were bewildered to find the ground covered with snow. We thought the worst of the cold weather had passed, but the snow and the radio word that the weather was to continue very cold was discouraging. Hudson Bay breezes dissipated our hopes that mild spring conditions were on the lap of the im­ mediate future. All day the thermometer lin­ gered around the middle thirties with snow falling at frequent intervals. Houses through­ out the district were warmed by midwinter fires. Exeter’s weather was mild, we under­ stand. in comparison with that of some other parts of the Province. Must Be Heeded Prussia has come to be much nearer to us politically and commercially than she was ten years ago. We have already had a hint in the recent espionage trials of how eager she is to impose her governmental ways of doing things upon us. The revelations of those trials show us what Russia is willing to do with us. Eternal vigilance alone will protect us from Russia’s enslaving devices. Further, we must heed the threat of Russian wheat upon the markets we now occupy. Russia has the advantage of forced labor to aid her in producing this crop. She has an abundance of fertile soil. She has a varried climate. Her young people are inured to hard farm work. She is near to the markets requiring her wheat. She has the advantage of Canada in. this last respect. Naturally she will make use of every one of her opportunities. Canada simply must be up and doing if she is to retain the smile of her present markets. Two things must be done by her. She must im­ prove the quality of hex* wheat. To very great extent she has solved the problems of the rigor­ ous climate of our western provinces. Rust­ proof wheat has become a reality in many lo­ calities. What is needed now is improvement in the milling qualities of our wheat. The bread loaf, aftex* all, is the test of the quality of the wheat. The wheat that produces the most and the best bread holds the market. Next, Canada will need to improve her facilities for wheat production from the seed drill to the last stage in the marketing process. As we have said, we have no forced labor in Canada. This must be made up for by improved facilities in wheat growing and marketing. Rewards should be offered for those producing a better wheat while the man who provides better marketing ■facilities should be rewarded. * * V, A Natural Consequence Laboy conditions in Britain are decidedly disturbing. Letter after letter from persons familiar with the conditions of which they write inform us that the working people of Britain, in some only too numerous cases at least, do not respond to the government’s ap­ peal to work harder and yet harder in the in­ terest of production. Naturally Britain finds herself crippled in the matter' of competition with other countries. This lack of enthusiasm and devotion to gruelling toil on the part of the workers is the natural outcome of conditions that have existed in Britain for many a decade. With a few fortunate exceptions, the worker in Britain has been a toiler rather than a con­ structive operator. He has been regarded as a '‘hand” rather than as a man with a thinking brain. His hours at the bench or in the mine or in the factory or store were killingly long and the reward therefore merely enough to keep soul, and body together. With the coming of the last two great wars labor commenced to see its power and commenced to make demands and to assert its claims upon the good things of the commonwealth. Labor demanded more pay and got it. It commenced, to find itself with spare money in its pocket. The wolf was no longer scratching at the laborer’s door. Find­ ing that he did not have to work every minute, lie became independent and worked only when he needed money. The result has been that the British workman who has come upon lus new freedom is not working as the situation requires. Britain has found out the truth of the axiom, “Where no vision is, the people perish.” For long years the employers engaged their men without recognizing that however ob­ scure a man s toil may be he must be treated as a man <>r disastei* will follow as it has fol­ lowed these weary perilous perplexing days in Britain. * * * * Our Day Gloomy forecasters were telling Viscount R, B. Bennett that Britain had had her day. “Man.” exclaimed the Viscount, “every day is England’s day.” So must we all feel and act. We cannot make the weather but we can be ready for the fine days when they come. We cannot prevent misfortune but we can be ready when opportunity is on our door mat. We are proud of the achievements of the pioneers in this country. We appreciate the achievements of our fathers in constructing fine farm prem­ ises, in constructing highways, railroads and harbors, churches, schools and capital cities. Yet we are but digging our own graves if we attempt to live on the achievements of our fore­ bearers. This is our day. Britain is trying hard not to regain markets, but to reconstruct mar­ kets. If we are to survive we must build new things or see to it that old things become new. This is the privilege of every Canadian. Long­ fellow well expressed it in the following lines: “Trust no future, howe’er pleasant, Let the dead past bury its dead; Act, act in the living present, Heart within and God o’erliead.” « * * « Is This Good Sport? Many people are puzzled over the treat­ ment given Miss Barbara Ann Scott. We under­ stand that a professional sport to be a sport who engages in a sport event looking for a material reward if successful in the contest. All the information that we have secured leads us to believe that Miss Scott never contended in any of her contests for material gain. Her one .object, as far as we know, has been to excel as a skater. Her skill as a skater is spoken of in every household on two contin­ ents. But in all her competitions she skated for the joy of the sport. When she excelled all competitors her native city Ottawa very properly recognized her excellence. The capi­ tal city of the Dominion would have had ici­ cles in its blood had it done less than honor her daughter who had won their approval through sheer sportsmanship. The car they gave her was a simple recognition of her attainment. It was no pay envelope. It was not even a prize. It in no way obligated Miss Scott to Ottawa or to any person or body of persons in the world. "Why, then, should any person or body of persons see in the car an iron gate shutting M’iss Scott off from her remaining in‘the. class of amateur sports ? All the world wonders.* * * That Ten Per Cent. Cut That effort by the Sarnia people to reduce prices by making a cut of ten per cent, has taken on not only a national but a continental force. It is sigifnicant of a very earnest protest ! against the steady rise in prices of commodities that everyone, required. When the war was on and the purchaser expressed surprise at a ris- | ing price he was told “There is a war on,” and its expenses must be met. He lived in the hope that the day was coming when the merchant would say, “The war is over. We can afford to lower our price. But the purchaser was due for another jolt. Prices rose steadily. This time the merchant explained, “The ceiling has been lifted.” Meanwhile, the buying public suspect­ ed that there was a good deal of nest-feather­ ing. They believed that the vendors of goods i were looking out for themselves and no one else. Buyers believed that they were caught in a net of circumstances expressly designed to squeeze the last copper out of them. Whether this belief was justified or not events will de­ termine. We have a distinct recollection of dealers, who after the last world war, grabbed all they could in'all the ways they could, satis­ fying their consciences by making what seemed to be liberal contributions to worthy projects. The memory of such traders is not pleasant. One thing that the over-zealous dealer forgot is that the purchasers have open eyes and a desire fox* fair play. Anothex* thing forgotten was that the buying power of the public is dis­ tinctly limited, Further, they ignored the fact that the purchaser holds the purse strings. At any rate the buying public is in rebellion. Every day it is becoming more keenly resent­ ful of the treatment handed out to them by the price raisers. How fax* this will go no one can predict. How serious the results of the price reduction movement may prove, grim events will disclose. The price raisers have it under their thumb to correct the whole situation. To a very great extent they have under their con­ trol the powex' and opportunity of a disastrous shaking of a large portion of our economic ac­ tivity. The rising tide of indignation at the un­ justifiable raising of prices is not a mere gust of anger. It is a growing, serious belief that one portion of our citizens is bent on exploit­ ing anothex' portion of the citizens. Let us hope that wise counsels will prevail and that the rumblings of approaching trouble may but thundex’ and pass by. Should the selling public not take heed to what is said in the press and ovex’ the radio the lightning will strike and strike hard. » * * «■ Cheer up. During this time last year there was bad weather in several parts of the prov­ ince. Recall what a splendid harvest was reap­ ed. IO YEARS ago The coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth will long be remembered by all who took part in the coronation services on Wednesday. Reeve W. I). Sanders, as chairman, spoke a few words. Mr. W. E. Middleton, president of the Canadian Legion, raised the flag while tlxe Exeter band played the National Anthem. Mr. Win. May, chairman of the Exetex* Board of Education, planted two acorns that were sent from Windsor For­ est in England. Rev. Mr. Hunt de­ livered a short address. Headed by the band and followed by the mem­ bers of the Legion, the Boy Scouts, members of the municipal council and of the Board of Education and several hundred school children a parade marched down Maiix Street and then back to Trivitt Memorial church where a service was held. The speaker was Rev. D. C. Hill. In the afternoon a doll parade was held*. There were prizes for decor­ ated carriages with dolls; dolls ixx arms; girls’ decorated bicycles; decorated tricycles; boys’ decor­ ated 'bicycles. The affair proved to be a great attraction and was quite interesting and entertaining. The members of the Lebanon Forest Lodge, A.F. & A.M. together with theix’ wives or lady friends held a very successful “At Home” at the Exeter Arena Friday eve­ ning of last week. Bro. E. A. I-Iow- ald acted as chairman. W.M. Bro. W. E, Middleton welcomed the vis­ itors. The first part of the evening was spent in progressive euchre with a few tables of bridge and crokinole. Following the euchre a splendid program was givexx with H. O. Southcott as chairman. D.D. G.M. Rt. Wbr. Bro. Johnston, of St. Marys, was present. Lunch was served aftex’ which the flooi’ was cleared foi' dancing. Miss Pearl Wood left Tuesday for Toronto to join hex’ sister, Miss Olive Wood, Reg.N., oxx an 11-day trip to Bermuda. Mr. Wm. J. Smith left on Mon­ day for Windsor having been as­ signed to Essex County in aix ad­ visory capacity to the Government service. 15 YEARS AGO A tragedy was averted in a most miraculous manner on Friday Af­ ternoon when Beverley Stonehouse and Carl Hewitt, both four years old, fell into an old well at the Mousseau Machine Shop. The well which is 46 feet deep contained 2G feet of water. Both boys received several bruises hut none of the in­ juries wex'e serious. Hilton Johns, of Usborne, who happened to be present, hastened to the scene and lowering himself to the watei’ down the brick sides of the well be suc­ ceeded in getting one of tlxe boys out of the water and held onto tlxe othex’ until help ari'ived. The Minstrel Show presented in Leavitt’s Theatre Tuesday evening drew a large crowd. Mr. H. O. Southcott acted as interlocutor. The whole program was exceedingly en­ tertaining. The show was under the auspices of the Canadiaxx Le- gioxx and the Trivitt Memorial A.Y.P.A. Mi’. Harry Hoffman, of Dash­ wood, was awarded tlxe gold medal in the bass class and. incidentally, received the highest marks award­ ed at the Stratford Musical Festi­ val on Saturday. An enthusiastic baseball meet­ ing was held in the Central Hotel on Thursday of last week. The fol­ lowing officers were elected: 11. Pres., B. M. Francis; pres., W. G. Mtdd; vice-pres., Dr. Steiner; sec.- treas., Frank Creech; executive committee, DL iFleteher, H. C. Riv­ ers, Jas. Bowey, Frank Boyle; coach, IL Lewis; grounds commit­ tee, James Taylor, Oren Winer, Verne Harness, Bert Rivers and Ernest Applelton. 25 YEARS AGO About fifteeix xnexx busied them­ selves on Arbor Day in beautify­ ing the town. About forty-five trees were planted in the parks and near­ ly one hundred in various parts of the town. The fence at the Library was taken down and set up again farther back. The play presented in the Exeter Opera House last Wednesday night by the St. Matthews Dramatic Club, of London, under' the auspices of the Girl’s Auxiliary of Trivitt Memorial Church entitled “A paii' of Sixes” was a decided success. At Caven Presbyterian Sunday School on ’Sunday morning last Master Melville Ernest McNicol was presented with the Royal Hu­ mane. Society Life Saving Medal. The presentatioix was made by Mr. Earle H. Davidson, field secretary of the Boy Scouts. Two winters ago young McNicol was instrumen­ tal in saving Scout Bob iGambrill from a, watery grave. On Monday night Mr. I. Hether­ ington, D.D.G.M., paid his official visit to Lebanon Forest Lodge, A.F. & A.M. There was a good turn-out of members. At the con­ clusion of tlxe business of the eve­ ning a banquet was served in the lodge rooms. The Exetex’ Junior baseball team in tlxe north Wellington league has been grouped with Lucan and Kirk­ ton. Capt. Tom Best, of Hamilton, who conductced the James Street Sunday School anniversary on Sun­ day, addressed a public meeting Sunday afternoon and again oix Monday evening. His addresses were much appreciated. SO YEARS AGO The Exeter Band held their an­ nual meeting in the hand room on Monday evening. The following of­ ficers were elected: Pres., Jos. Senior; vice-pres., A. J. Snell; sec.- treas., A. Stewart; leader, I-I. Gid- ley; business committee. A. Coffin, Geo. Eacrett and H. Gidley. R. W. Bro. J. W. Shaw, M.D?, D.D.G.M. of South Huron, paid an official visit to Lebanon Forest Lodge on Monday night. A goodly number of the members were pres­ fewer people on each line — these are the major objectives of our big rural construction programme on which we are spending $3,500,000 this year alone. Telephone courtesy is catching. Remember, everybody benefits when everybody practices these simple rules • FOR BEST RESULTS FROM YOUR TELEPHONE 2. Keep calls brief. Space your calls. Avoid "listening-in." Give right-of-way to emergency calls. THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF CANADA ent together with several other vis­ iting brethren. After the usual de­ gree work was performed at the lodge room the brethren repaired to the Commercial House where a pleasant time was spent. The Exeter Bicycle C’lub, under the captaincy of Mr. J. D. Boulton, presented a very imposing appear­ ance as they passed in procession down Maiix Street Friday last on their way to Centralia. There were about twenty-five in line. This was the first run of the season. Mr. A. McDonell, who left here some weeks ago with a load of horses foi’ Liverpool, returned home last week. He reports a pleasant trip over, but the return, voyage was very rough. Wily be “cash out” when you can “cash in” with a Times- Advocate Want Ad? Smiles . . . . Mrs. Bigtalk: “I had a terrible dream last night. I dreamed that all the animals that went to make up my furs were standing around my , bed.” Mrs. Backtalk: “How silly to let a few alley cats frighten you!” At .the end of a concert at the Lewisohn Stadium the other night, we xvere glad to note that a couple of ushers ahead of us were applaud­ ing harder than anybody else. We were just beginning to work up a little homily about where the true lovers of music are to be found when one of the ushers stopped applauding. “Keep clapping, dope,” the other said sharply. “One more encore and we’re on overtime.” RAILWAYS I schedules. c°ul dtan M enclose space. ,clesy »od service. Cajiadtan Nation t c to as at EVERYV' Drop in at any Canadian National ticket office and talk it over. We will be pleased to help you.