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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1947-07-24, Page 2rimes established 1873; Advocate established 18S1 amalgamated November 1&24 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 All 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, JULY 24th, 1947 Sunshine Needed We have had moisture aplenty this season but sunshine has been lacking' to a regrettable degree. Already the results of the lack of it are becoming apparent. For one thing, pasture is lacking in qualities that abundant sunshine alone can impart. Grain is not what it should be. Wheat is sure, to fall down in the milling. Cereal grains will be deficient while potatoes and corn cannot but prove lacking in starchy constituents. People will find themselves low in physical vigor. Sunshine will be welcomed by everyone, What sunshine there is should be made the best possible use of or folk will go into winter under par as far as resisting pow­ ers are concerned. Just because the weather­ man has a fine sprinkling system is no justifi­ cation for his working it overtime. « » « « Still At It There, is serious trouble in the Balkans. It was situations such as the present that the best spirits of the race sought to prevent by com­ bined actions on the part of the major powers. To our horror we have reason to believe that one of the major powers is at the bottom of the present unrest. Russia is busy getting her plans wrought out while the rest of us are con­ ferring and twiddling our thumbs. National conditions do not change over night. Put the name of Russia at the present time where the name of Germany "was in ’38 and ’39. The rest of us are deploring the weakness of the big powers as we were complaining about the fail­ ure of the League of Nations when Germany was in the saddle. We are saying that we do not want war as everybody was saving in the thirties that nobody wants war. Meanwhile, if we were seeking war, the nations this minute are doing all that can be done to make war a dead sure thing. Intrigue is in evidence everv- . where though Britain is less able to assert her­ self than formerly. Her diplomats are untrain­ ed and inexperienced for the terrible inter­ national game. Further, we are cpiite as unable to see as we were in former years that we are but reaping what we sowed. We ■went into church and state for social theories that turned our minds from production and wonder why we have not an abundance of goods to sell. Again we are prattling about the duty of pre­ serving Germany. Yet Germany did her utmost to destroy civilization. We sat on Russia’s door­ step till she kicked us off. Just now wTe are saying to Germany, “We cannot get on with you and we cannot get on without you. Please take our goods. Become serious and get ready for another war.’’ A more absurd situation is hard to imagine. » « » * This Peculiar Season Already the oldest inhabitant is admitting that this season is about the worst he has ever seen. And the Exeter region has gotten off comparatively light in this respect. We see an occasional load of peas finding its way to the canning factory with other good produce likely to follow. Nevertheless, the season is a difficult one and we must act accordingly. The approach­ ing winter is likely to be a difficult one on the farms. In this region when the farmers find the going slow the rest of us soon become aware that there is something wrong. We live in. hope that next year will prove a prosperous one. Imt us not bank on any such conclusion. Before now, Canada has had a succession of bad sea­ sons. The western provinces bear witness to this statement. Whatever next year may have for us it will do all of us a great deal of good to make specially good use of everything that we can secure in the way of saving of clothing, of food and of fuel. Speculating on the future in the way of incurring debts smacks of in­ viting disaster. Canny rowers will do well to keep near the shore. * * * » Serious Talking Serious talking is being done to the people of Britain by the British government. For in­ stance, Herbert Morrison told the British peo­ ple that the financial clock was likely to strike twelve, sometime this coming autumn or com­ ing winter. What he meant was that finances in Britain are perilously near something ap- approaching a crisis. He is not the only one in a position to know what he is talking about who is expressing grave fears as to Britain’s financial future and in doing so holding out a red light to Canada, Two causes of the pres­ ent financial mess are quite prominent. First, there is extravagant spending for unnecessary things. Music and dance halls arc flourishing. Delicacies are apparent where common, sense in eating and drinking and amusements should be the order of the day and of the night. Tens of thousands are employed in mere waste of time. Along with this sort of thing goes the in­ evitable failure of the country to produce ex­ portable goods in anything like required amounts, to saj nothing of a failure to mine coal, the nerve of industry. Meanwhile we hear the old muttering about trusting to luck and muddling through. The wise tell us that Anglo- Saxons have not put the principles of economy into serious practice. It is said that w<; are a people who have had plenty and have spent accordingly on things that have given no .sub­ stantial return. We have cultivated tastes that are almost sure to prove our tormentors. Brit­ ain is discovering that she cannot live on past prosperity. There L grave danger that Canada soon will share her experience. In any case, individuals and all spending bodies will do well to look to their spending. A month’s serious doing so will do our souls good and help us to be wiser men before we become sadder men, * * * * Their Choice C’zecho-Slovakia and like-minded nations have decided not to accept the invitation sent out by Britain and France to meet with them to consider ways and means of co-operating with the United States in getting the nations of Europe on their feet economically. These nations openly say they are acting on the threat of Russia. These nations have considered th<‘ western nations on the one hand and Rus­ sia on the other hand and have deliberately decided that they prefer to go with Russia. It was their privilege to make that choice, They have openh preferred the Russian way to the western way. That is their business. But the matter does not end there, These nations have deliberately refused western aid. Will the west­ ern nations have sufficient gumption to leave these nations alone? It is not the western na­ tions that have formed this eastern block. Rus­ sia and her satellites have formed the block. It is* Russia anil her subordinates who have drawn the iron curtain,. Very well, let us accept the terrible fact and act accordingly. But should we feed these nations who have with open eyes turned away from us? Why feed the nations who are sharpening their bayonets to pierce the hearts of our soldiers and who are manu­ facturing munitions wherewith to blow to pieces our cities? The refusing nations are trusting to the soft-heartedness of Canadians and Ameri­ cans to send in rehabilitating supplies regard­ less of the affront these refusing nations have offered. But will western heads prove as soft as folk of the Czecho-Slovakian block think? •A Jt JS A Hearty Good-Bye Over there in Europe they are bidding good-bye to jazz and jittery-bug jingles. That sort of stuff has proven unequal to sustaining people who are undergoing serious trials such as western Europe is now passing through. We venture to say that there soon will be a change in a great deal of what has been passing for church music. In place of the alleged lighter music we have been listeining to in our Sunday Schools and young people’s meeting as well as in our churches,, will come the religious music that touches the heart and renews the will and gives courage to face life as it is. Ernest, duty­ doing men and,women require the best that the choices souls living and dead can supply if they are to be sustained in the struggle for exist­ ence that already is upon us did we but know what is going on.« « * • Deadly Delay Well may surrounding nations stare at what is going on in Paris. Sixteen odd nations have met in Paris to consider the mooted offei’ of the United States to assist in rehabilitating the dis­ rupted business life of Europe. At least six other nations have refused to sit in at this con­ ference, the chief of whom is Russia. Russia openly stated that she would have nothing to do with the gathering. The other five nations have, said of Russia’s utterance, “Those are our sentiments too.’’ Well, the conference has its speeches full of warm sonorous sentiment. It has appointed committees. Such appointment was expected. There has been adjournment. That was looked for. There was the declaration that war was not wanted. True again. As a crowning act of nobleness of soul, the confer­ ence stood hat in hand and bowing its best ask­ ed the six refusing nations to be good enough to change their minds and to entei* a door they had banged shut. How nice all this is and how it must have commanded the respect of Stalin and Molotov. Indeed it was all sublimely dove- like and appeasing. Meanwhile Stalin had an offer of hundreds of thousands of wheat in re­ turn for machinery. Russia came to the hungry folk with wheat. The western powers came before these hungry folk with speeches and fine discussions. The western nations have fine intentions. They seem short of the ability to translate them into food.* * * « / Note and Comment We heard dad say that he took in the circus for the sake of the children. Some customs never grow old. The Canadian House of Commons is about to adjourn. We wonder what it has accom­ plished in the way of making history.«• ‘ * * * India is setting up her own housekeeping. Al ready she is employing British brains to as­ sist her. We cannot but wonder what Mr. Chur­ chill will have to say as he addresses the House of Commons in his first speech, since his recent illness. At any rate, he’ll not be dull.♦ * * * Greece, it seems, is not altogether guilt­ less for the present disturbances within her borders, according to an international report dealing with the threatened war in that part of the world. Greece needs to attend more strict­ ly than she has been doing, to the affairs of her own housekeeping. THE TIMES^ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 24th, 1947 Sunday and Evening Service One garage will be open In Exeter on Sundays and dur­ ing the evenings throughout the week. Open this Sunday and During the Evenings throughout the Week. FORD Garage Men, Women! Old at 40, 50,60! Get Pep Feel Years Younger, Full of Vim Don't always blame exhausted, worn-out, run-down feeling on your age. Thousands amaied at what a little pepping up with Ostrex wll. do Contains tonlo often needed alter 40 — when body is weak, old Just because lacking iron, also supplements ot calcium, phosphorus, vitamin Bi. A middle-aged doctor writesW I took It myself. Results were nne." Get Introductory sixe Ostrex Tonlo Tablets today, for ontv 35c, Way feel old? Try Ostrex to feel peppier, get new vim and feel years younger, thia Yery day. ior sale al all drug stores everywhere IO YEARS AGO The crop of peas this year is turning out well and the factory will have one of the largest out­ puts of any season in Exeter. Rev. J. B. Moore, of Grand Bend, with Rev. M. A. J. Waters, left Tuesday from New York on a trip to the Holy Land. Mr. Stanley Smith, Murray Moore and Robert Southcott are this week attending the Junior Boys’ ’Camp north of Goderich. Mr. Stanley Smith will have charge of the music at the camp while the other two are acting group leaders. The Huron Lumber Co. have been awarded the contract to sup­ ply material for two summer cot­ tages at Ipperwash Beach and one at Camlachie. Mr. Russell E. Balk­ will is doing the building. Messrs. W. E. Middleton, Thos. Pryde, W. W. Taman and E. M. Dignan are in Ottawa attending the Masonic Grand Lodge. A number of men and trucks are working on the county road east of Crediton, removing the logs and stumps used in the days of corduroy roads. The road is being widened and is to be resurfaced. 15 YEARS AGO Messrs. Thos. Pryde and W. W. Taman are at Kingston attending Masonic Grand Lodge. Glen, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Robinson, of London, suf­ fered a fractured skull and other injuries in an accident while he and his parents were visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Essery, of Cen­ tralia. Glen and the other children were playing in the barn and had climbed to the top of the hay mow. He stepped into a hay shoot and fell to the cement floor of the stable, a distance of about 30'feet. At an enthusiastic convention of Liberals which packed the Hensall Town Hall Monday afternoon Wm. H. Golding, of Seaforth, was chos­ en as the candidate for South Hur­ on for the federal seat made vacant by the death of Thomas McMillan. At a meeting Tuesday evening at Hensall. Louis H. Rader, warden of the County of Huron, was chosen Conservative candidate. At a meet­ ing Wednesday evening at Hensall, William Black, prominent farmer of Tuckersmith township, *was nom­ inated Progressive candidate? Misses Gladys Stone and Bernice Delbridge are attending the Sum­ mer School of the United church being held at Goderich this week. Misses Lily Greb and Dorothy Ryck- man, of Main Street Young People s are attending summer school this week also. The wheat cutting has commenc­ ed in this district. The wheat is down badly making cutting quite difficult. 25 YEARS AGO ■Rev. A. A. Trumper, rector of the Trivitt Memorial Church, left this week for Winnipeg where for the next six Sundays he will supply the pulpit of Holy Trinity Church, one of the most important Angli­ can churches in 'Canada. Among those from town who were successful in passing their Normal School exams were: first- class, Miss Gladys Harvey; second- class, Misses A. Hogarth, May Ford, Vera Jones and Lillian Walker. The open ditch on Ann Street which runs along the south side of the old Commercial Hotel is to be closed in for one block west of Main Street and a six foot walk laid along the top. Mr. John Hunkin has the contract. Mr. Wm. D. Davis, teller at the Canadian Bank of Commerce, has been transferred here from the Queen Street East, Toronto, branch. SO YEARS AGO During the severe electrical storm on Monday afternoon the residence of Mr, Wm. Snell, Wil­ liam St., was struck by lightning but luckily little damage was done. It struck the chimney, tore off several shingles, blew the pipes out of their place and filled the room with soot. A very heavy downpour of rain accompanied the storm. Flax pulling has commenced and the crop is an exceedingly heavy one.»F’all wheat harvest has begun' and there is every prospect of a I good yield of excellent quality Chalmers Clan Hold Reunion Eighty-three members of the Chalmers clan attended the ,22nd annual reunion Wednesday, July 16th, in Queen's Park, Stratford. William Moodie was named presi­ dent; William Allison, vice-presi­ dent; Miss K. L* Robb, secretary: Mrs. William Allison, lunch con­ vener, and John Duncan and Ken* noth Duncan, sports conveners. Members were present from many places in this district, as well as Western Canada and United States. Mr. and Mrs. Elgin Bartley, Rol­ and, Man., representing the West­ ern clan members, were the guests of Miss K. L. Robb, 216 Cobourg st. Other places represented were Bronxville, N.Y., Hamilton, Kitch­ ener, London, Ilderton, Exeter, Kirkton, Hensall, Thames Road, ■Cromarty, as well as Stratford. A short program followed supper, with brief addresses by President Moodie, Mrs. J. C. Downey, Winni­ peg, and Mrs. Bartley. Messages of greeting were read from a/bsent, clan members, which included the McCullough family, Vancouver; the ' Monteith, Woods, Grobe, Phillips and McKay families, and Mary Chalmers, Calgary, Alta., Allison family, Regina, Sask.; Duncans, Winnipeg; Gardiners, Clearwater, and Hon. James Gardiner, Ottawa. Mrs. John Allison was the oldest lady present, while William Moodie was the oldest gentleman. Bruce Boddy, Kitchener, was the young­ est baby at the gathering. Results of the races were as fol­ lows: under 5, Margaret Ann Cow­ ard, Garry *Rowcliffe, Danny Cow­ ard; 6 to 10, Allison Whetton, Bar­ bara Allison, Carol Gill; 11 to 14, .Jane Morgan, Mildred Ballantyne; young ladies, Leone Duncan, Doris Duncan, June Borland; young men, Grant Morgan, Bob Parker; mar­ ried ladies, Mrs. E. Kemp, Mrs. 'W. Rowcliffe, Mrs. Ken Duncan; mar­ ried men, John Duncan, Ken Dunc­ an, Ted Goddard; bachelor race. Bob Hamilton, Edgar Monteith; wheelbarrow race, Grant Morgan and Bob Parker; ladies’ slipper kicking, Leone Duncan; men’s slip­ per kicking, John ‘Duncan; three- legged race, Grant Morgan and .Bob Parker, Leone and Berta Duncan; shoe race, June Borland, Leone Duncan; rooster-crowing, Mrs Thomas Ballantyne. BANKING BY MAIL IS SAFE, HANDY If you find it difficult to get to the bank, either because you live out of town or are busy during banking hours, James Hendry, lo­ cal B of M manager, can tell you in four words how other people similarly situated do their business at the B of M. They bank by mail. This method brings the Bank of Montreal as near as your own mail­ box. Under the B of M’s “Banking by Mail” plan, you can send in cheques or cash for deposit—and you can pay your bills by cheques drawn on your account, too. While you’re thinking of it, it would be a good idea to write now to Mr. -Hendry, explaining your banking needs. Ask him for your copy of “How to Bank by Mail”. It can save you time, trouble and many a trip to town. (advt.) Junior Girls* Club Guests of Branch Fifty junior girls and members of Clandeboye Women’s Institute met at the home of Mrs. Louis Kil­ mer when the work of the girls' club in two major projects was re­ viewed by Mrs.Douglas Hind- marsh. Mrs.Ed.Flynn conducted the opening exercises and the motto was prepared 'by Mrs. David Henry. Miss Jean Heuston played a piano instrumental; current events were read by Mrs. Roy iNeil; Audrey Dar­ ling and Jean Heuston contributed an instrumental duet and Lorraine Blake presented a paper on salads. 'Mrs. Hindmars'h told of the two projects, “Being Well Dressed and Well Groomed” and “The Supper Club,” hnd in appreciation of the leadership received in the course the girls presented gifts to Mrs. Hindmarsh and her helpers, Mrs. K. O’Neil and Mrs. j. Hall. Barbara Simpson and Shirley McRann sang a vocal duet with Audrey Darling at the piano and a demonstration was presented by Clarice Lynn and Mary Jane Hall on “The right and wrong way.” Mrs. Hindmarsh introduced the ten girls who had completed both projects. A contest which completed the program was won by Mrs. Nor­ man Hardy. The girls served supper and the meeting closed with appreciation expressed to Mrs. Kilmer for her hospitality. grain. Mr. John P. Ross left Exeter on Monday last for a.n extended trip to Nova Scotia and the New England States. The Canadian Savings, Loan and Building Association through their general agent, Mr. J. D. Mcllmogh, has organized a local board for the town of Exeter and Vicinity. The Company issues three classes of stock, instalment, Prepaid and Permanent. The following gentle­ men compose the local board: Pres. A. J. Rollins; 1st vice-pres., J. A. Rollins; 2nd vice-pres., Frank Wood; sec’y-treas., F. W. 'Collins; valuator, Joseph iC’obbledick; soli­ citor, L. H. Dickson; local agent, Joseph Senior; director, James H. Grieve. YOU SAVE J 3 WAYS ( ' JM sWHEN YOU TRADE IN YOUR USED TIRES AT firestone BY THE SPECIAL LIBERAL TRADE-IK ALLOWANCE (2) MORE ON MILEAGE AND SAFETY /Z\ TIME AND TROUBLE... 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