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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1948-01-29, Page 2Pgge 2 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 29th, 1948 <fje Cxeter One£=^bbocat£ Times I^tablished 1873 Amalgamated November 1034 Advocate Established 1881 Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario Aii Independent Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the Village of Exeter and District Authorized as Second Class Maili Post Office Department, Ottawa Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario-Quebec Division of the CWNA Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation Paid-in-Advance Circulation as of September 30th, 1947 - 2,214 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Canada, in advance, $2.50 a yeax* United States, in advance, $3.00 Single Copies 6 Cents Each J. Melvin Southcott » Publishers Robert Southcott THURSDAY, JANUARY 29th, 1948_________________________ Welcome? Exeter welcomes the newly formed group of singers. This is the right sort of thing. We have excellent voices in this vicinity. It is encouraging to know that they are uniting for training and for sing­ ing exercises. They have some real work ahead of them, for good singing comes by hard work and not by chance. Every en­ couragement should be given this musical organization. Such clubs require money and we know' that money will be forth­ coming as needed. London has done, well with her Little Theatre and that now in­ fluential body had its days of small things as well as its long pull for achievement. It is now a lively aggregation. So may it be with our singers. X« ❖ ’S # Oh, That Shake Up Wc are not" going into the merits or otherwise of the adjustments made in the federal cabinet. We suppose that the changes were made by the prime minister because his colleagues had failed to please, everybody with the price arrangements lately made. Whatever the reason for tell­ ing one to come and another to go. we are pleased with the. fact that changes are made even in these regulated federal ca­ binets. Some ministers of the crown are likely to fossilize. Hence, the great need of their knowing that unless they step for­ ward they must step out or step aside in the way of another. Everyone is like a man on a bicycle,—he must move on or move off. As the old, •weather prognosticator used to say “perhaps we’ll be the. better of the change and perhaps not”. It -will be one way or the other. Of the fact -we are sa­ tisfied. What’s a prime, minister for if it is not to shift things around. An Expanding World Much is being said these days about an expanding world. Every day we hear of some fine achievement for the welfare of childhood,, for the advantages of youth and for ever growing enterprise among those in middle life. And all this is to the good. Lately something inspiring to the discern­ ing has taken place in the achievement surrounding Gandi. This frail man. -with­ out lifting a sword, has achieved what navies and airplanes and threat of atomic bombs has been unable to bring about. We have no explanation for this strange man who has proven to be a phenomenon in the history of the race. One thing is clear. Gandi exemplifies the triumph of tlie spirit. Socrates exemplified this very thing long ago as did Diogenes. These men stood for the spirit of man. How they accomplished what they did to be. appre­ ciated must be unselfishly and devotedly attempted. These choice souls saw with clear eye man is a spirit and sought with unclouded heart to release the spirit of every child of Adam, They did not try to .serve two masters. Gandi is of the same class. He makes no provision in his way of living and teaching for anything that be­ clouds or imprisons the spirit of man. The very essence of this spirit is good will, pure good will without a mixture of any­ thing that corrupts its pristine clearness. He does not care to live if strife or any­ thing short of pure good will does not prevail. He has so lived that all men be­ lieves this very* thing. For this reason he rules the race, though some men of lesser insight regard him as unpractical. We do well to study him and to revere his unique character in these strange days. * # ❖ # Watch Western Grow We. recall the days when Western University was struggling for a place in the sun. As Queen’s was toiling amid po­ verty of cash but richness of spirit, Wes­ tern was coming into being. Some said it was altogether too bad that money should be spent on a university so insignificant as Western or on Queen’s. Critics argued that it was too bad to expend, money on these two small outlying universities. “Outlying? Of course they are,” thundered Principal Grant, the ^Greatheart” of Queen’s. “True, but they’ll grow.” Let us not forget that the United States said: “The ideal universiy is a log with Mark Hopkins on one end and a student on the others,” “There will be an everlasting ap­ peal for grants by Queen’s, and when Queen’s asks for a grant, Western will be behind her and even more imperious,” continued the critics. “Yes,” the friends of higher education replied, “and every dollar spent on educition means something for the stability of the commonwealth,” The convictions of those friends of the free spirit have been more than justified. Queen’s and Western together are the pil­ lars of the better life of the province. Watch Western grow and as you watch, see the hope of the Dominion expanding and achieving.y * « $ Honour To Whom Honour Let us not forget Barbara Ann Scott’s mother, a heroine of whom little is said. Without the care and watchfulness of that mother we doubt if Miss Scott would be wearing, her skater’s crown this hour In a thousand ways, both subtle and mighty, that mother kept her daughter making­ steady progress towards her outstanding achievement. The daughter’s health was guarded, her strength was conserved, her mind was kept healthy, as well as her body. Excesses were avoided. Diligence was encouraged. Ideals were kept high. The goal was never lost sight of and everything that kept the young lady mov­ ing toward that goal fostered. Above all else Miss Scott remained a normal girl with a personality whose charm kept pace with her skill as a skater. At every stage of her growth and progress in skill and popularity, Miss Scott’s mother was her guide and her companion. # . ❖ Those Incommensurables The British government is failing in the incommensurables so essential to func­ tioning when foreign governments are to be dealt with. This is shown in her actions in Canton. It appears that there were some houses in that region that the .British looked upon as unhygenic and proceeded, for that reason, to pull them down. The Chinese did not see eye to eye with the British in this particular and offered phy­ sical opposition to the action of the Bri­ tish. Serious trouble ensued and Britain is likely to be required to fight for her co­ lony. All this came about because the Bri­ tish did not sense the situation. They fail­ ed to see the affair from the Chinese point of view and tramped toes that already were sore enough. This is the fault of the present government in Britain, not only abroad but at home. Trouble is the inevi­ table consequence of this way of doing things. While the labour government is strong on certain economic principles, it lacks those incommensurables necessary to deal with international complications of a serious character. It is a great asset at the present moment that Jack Canuck and Uncle Sara understand eaeh other. Uncle Sam is doing a fine chore at his interna­ tional job and may be depended upon to improve his technique and his strength as he goes on. He is bearing well his full share of the white man’s burden. ❖ ❖ ❖ * Newfoundland As is most seemly, negotiations for the uniting of Canada and Newfoundland are proceeding quietly, carefully, and with dignity. There has been no telling of tales out of school on the part of the negotia­ tors. For the most part, the press has ab­ stained from anything like dictating to the parlies who are endeavouring to find out if the union of the two countries is desir­ able. and, if desirable, practical. Each party to the discussions is given a fair field and a friendly atmosphere in which, to discuss a movement so important and, it may be, so fateful not only to the par­ ties immediately concerned, but to the race. There is no occasion for haste. There is every need of a just arrangemnt. If such an agreement cannot be arrived at, mutual good -will must follow and remain undisturbed.$ # « $ An Interesting Find Thanks to Mr, Sylvanus Cann wc have just come across the photograph of the last Port Hope Conference of the Bible Christian Church. And a fine looking body of men these, were and bravely they stood for the best things in the province and the Dominion, Shortly after the taking of this photograph, the Bible Christians were hap­ pily united with the Methodist Church. To this day that body is a tower of strength in the Christian life of this country. >!< * « # Every once in a while We hear of courts deciding that some parents arc not qualified to earc for their offspring. We should be glad to see that the children are ordered by the court to be cared for. 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Hours: 9 to 12; 1:30 to 5. 0 50 YEARS AGO Ths second carnival of the season in the Exeter Skating Rink .took place. Monday night. The costumes were varied and the character representations were excellent. The tollowing prizes were awarded.- ladies’ •best character, Gertie Hicks, representing Goddess of Liber­ ty; girls’ best character, Ella. Heywood, representing Lady of Japan; boys’ best character, Al­ len Myers, representing a Red Skin; gents’ best character, W. Abbott, representing a Commo­ dore; Irish character, Russell Howard; egg race, Wm. Sheffer, 2 mile race. Geo. O’Neil. A very unpleasant accident h appended on the 4 th conces­ sion of Stephen on Friday night last. Mr. Thos. Sweet, accompa­ nied by his family and a num­ ber of friends, drove ovei* to Crediton to spend the evening with relatives. When opposite Mr. Geo, Hirtzel’s brick-yard on their return home, the night being very dark, the horses got off the road and ran into a log, upsetting the sleigh and occu­ pants into a pond of water. All escaped injury except a bad scare and a disagreeable drench­ ing. County Councillors Rollins and Mclnnes are attending a meet­ ing of the County Council at Goderich this week. Mr. George McEwen, of Hensall, was elected Warden of the County for this year. Mr. Ezra Faist, of Crediton, has engaged Mr. J. B. Cornell, of Parkhill, as baker. One of those howling and blinding blizzards swept over this section of the country Tues­ day afternoon. It was by far the worst storm of the season. 25 YEARS AGO The Adult Bible Class of James Street Methodist Church, of which Mr. W. H. Johnston is the teacher, met in the church on Tuesday evening for further organization. Mr. W. H. Kestle was elected president and Mrs. J. Horney, secretary-treasurer. “Co-Workers” was selected as the name of the class. Mrs. N. Baker and Mrs. R. Skinner were chosen captains of sides for a membership contest. Three sleigh loads of young people of the Trivitt Memorial Church enjoyed a sleighing par­ ty to Saintsbury on Tuesday evening. The Fraser Presbyter­ian and the Saintsbury young I people united in entertaining the visitors1 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Dobbs. The Saintsbury people rendered an excellent program which was followed by refreshments. Exeter won .the first hockey match with an outside team this season when they defeated the Hensall team 6-4. The game was fast and exciting from start to finish. The Exeter line-up is: goal, Harness; defence, Lawson, and Hardy; centre, Hind; r.w., Wells; l.w., Tiernan; subs, E. Anderson, W. DaViS. 15 YEARS AGO The Opera House was crowd­ ed to capacity on Wednesday evening of last week when “The District of Fifty Years Ago” was put on uhder the aus­ pices of the Ladies’ Guild of Trivitt Memorial Church. Mr, IS. J, Wethey acted as the school master. At the conclusion of the play the drawing for a handsome walnut hope chest was won by P. Stobble. Gerald­ ine Harness, of Mount Carmel, won tho walnut table lamp. Reeve IL M. Francis made the draw. Jthogo taking part in the program were, I-Iettie Sweet, Tom Walker, Florence West, Ted Moyle, William Walters, Francis Abbott, James Morley, Wm. Middleton, Miss Bain, Miss M. Wood, Amelia Acheson, W. C. Davis, Mary Wells, Margaret Ellerington, Tena McCurdy, Ro­ sa Dearing, Mildred Murphy, Greta Dearing, Mrs. - Middleton. Caroline Davis, Sydney West, J. Jennings, Ed. Ward. The “At Home” given by. the members of Lebanon Forest Lodge in the Exeter Opera House on Friday evening was a very happy and enjoyable af­ fair. About 115 persons were present. Past D.D.G.’M. Bro. Thos. Pryde acted as chairman. Progressive euchre was enjoyed followed by a very fine pro­ gram. .Refreshments were served Special Evangelistic services are being held in James Street United church this week with Rev. Dr. Walter E. Millson,- of the Dept, of Evangelism and. Social Service, Toronto, as the guest speaker. The special ser­ vices were held all last week and were well attended. Mr. R. N. Creech', who has served on the Exeter Board of Education for many years but who retired a year ago, has again been appointed to the Board for a term of thuee years by the Huron County Council. 10 YEARS AGO Rev. J. B. Moore, of Grand Bend, gave his illustrated lec­ ture “Palestine in Pictures” at the James St. United Church on Monday evening under the aus­ pices of the Sunday School. Considering the weather and the condition of the roads the at­ tendance was fairly good. Rev. Moore accompanied by Rev. Watters, of London, made a vis­ it to Palestine during the past summer visiting Gibralter, Italy, Athens, Egypt and Syria. The lecture was both interesting and instructive. The Exeter ' Ladies’ Bowling club held a progressive euchre in the Town Hall - Wednesday evening of last week. Fourteen tables were in play. Ladies high prize was won by Mrs. G. Ap­ pleton, gents high by W. E. Middleton and lone hands by F. J. Delbridge. ' Mr. L. J. Penhale is in Chic­ ago to attend the National Canners convention which meets there. 'Mr. H, C. Rivers, president of the’ Exeter Bowling club, re­ cently received a Christmas card from Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Shay­ man, of South Africa. Mr. and Mrs Sharman were among the South African bowlers who vis­ ited Canada last season and played against an Exetei' rink, at Stratford. WINCHELSEA Mr. and Mrs. Alf Collier and Grace, of Kirkton, visited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Harrv Bailey. Mr. and Mrs. Orville Cann, of Thames Road, spent Friday eve­ ning with Mr. and Mrs. Newton Clarke. Misses Jean and Donna Gilfil- lan and Kathleen Horne attend­ ed Mission Band at the church on Saturday evening. Mr. and -Mrs. Calvin Horten and family spent Saturday even­ ing with Mr. and Mrs, Colin Gilfillan. 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