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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1948-07-01, Page 2THE TIMES-ADVWATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 1st, 1948 ......................................................~........-.............-.........-..................................' - , | Wje Cxeter Times Established 1873 Amalgamated November 19214 Advocate Established 1881 Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario An independent Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the Village of Exeter and District Authorized as Second Class Mail, 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 year United States, in advance, $3.00 Single Copies 6 Cents Each J, Melvin Southcott * Publishers Robert Southcott THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 1st, 1948 We Are Losing Them Seven thousand Yu go Slavs are on their way back to their native, land. This appears to be bad news fox- Canada, as these peo ple are saiil to be the material of which good Canadian citizens may be made. The purpose of those people returning to their native land is alleged to be the rebuilding of their war wasted native land. The im mediate reason given fox* their leaving Can ada is that they have not been well used by Canadians ox- their government. These people are taking back with them the tools and implements of farming that they be lieve they will require for their new en terprise. All of this gives us cause to ask are we using the new comers fairly and satis factorily? Canadians will not rest till we get at the reason for so many deserting our land at the time in which we are keen to add to our populations. Further, the re turning Slavs tell us that they are being replaced in Canada by newcomers to Can ada. Why are those Slavs being replaced? Is some subtle influence that does not ap pear at present operating against Canadian welfare ? Were Canadian conditions not properly represented to those Slavs before they sought our borders? Citizens from displaced persons’ camps should be weigh ed as well as counted. Because we have vast areas needing populating is no reason why those areas should be wasted. We wait anxiously for a fair statement of the. facts regarding the homeward trek of those Slavs. We should like to know how the Slavs find conditions in the land of their birth. ■v Sfc Not Planning Out Well We recall a conversation we overheard a few years ago in -which one Ontario far mer was heard to say that the day was not far off when collective farming would be the rule in Ontario. Further, we have heard it said that the day of the small farmer was a thing of the past. Farming must be done in a big way if it was to be continu ed.. In this connection it is interesting to not that collective farming generally is not doing well in the very home of such farming, namely in Russia. In one district alone there are six hundred and sixtv-six fewer such farms than there were a very few years ago. All manner of inducements were held out to the Russians in various parts of Russia to go in for collective farming. Many went in fox- this style of agriculture but abandoned it at theix* first chance. Compulsion was resorted to to drive the peasants into that form of agri culture but compulsion proved ineffectual. Persuasion was tried but it failed. Collec tivism is bound to fail because it is a form <of slavery. All normal men desire indepen dence even -when independence involves .serious hardship. Collectivism works against neighbourliness which is the very breath of farm life. Collectivism is the foe of in dividual initiative and, with the passing of individual initiative goes progress and any thing resembling pride and satisfaction in one’s work. * * * Mighty Good Work As has been said over and ovex* again, Britain threw all she had into the cause of freedom in two world wars. Out of these struggles she emerged with hex’ shipping trade and construction terribly disrupted. No one would have blamed her if she had folded hex* arms and said to the world, ”you carry on the task I did fox* centu- ries”. Instead, she showed fight and set to work to rebuild her shattered navy. And this is a part of what hex* sturdy sons have done: More than 11 million tons of shipping went to Davey Jones’ locker dur ing the recent war. Official reports from London inform m that she is only a mil lion toils short of pre-war tonnage. All that is in less than three years of despar ate effort. It is well to remind ourselves that in these three years hex* builders were anything but overfed. The rationing of food ixx Britain was a real thing. Britain let it be carefully noted, did not build for herself aloiie, for she built in addition to her own fleet a large number of ships for foreign countries. Had British builders not got under the foreign ship shortage, they would have been past their normal ship tonnage, Had Britain had the steel she would have built more ships. Let it again be noted that the steel workers are on their job with a vim that is turning theix* trade into a Large measure of success. They arc produethig fifteen million tons of steel pex* year. Only once in their history was this production exceeded,—namely, ixx one crisis year of the war, This is no mere hurry up, rough and ready job. The new British frieghters ixx appearance and com fort for their crew far surpass those of , anything given the world before the war. They are no mere comparatively small ships biit large affairs of from ten to twenty tons. Facilities for ship loading and unload ing have been nxade and provided, thus enabling these fine new ships to almost in definitely increase their carrying service. Britain is still the great carrying nation of the world. This position she has secured and retained on a basis of sheer merit. # « « * “Observe and Report” Word comes that the United Nations people have sent a body of meix to Pales tine to look after sonxe matters that seenx to have got out of hand. One of our big brothers who is generally right in such matters says that this body of fifty men is sent to Palestine to “observe and re port”. Our influential contemporary sees in this body a similarity between them txnd our mounties. We earnestly hope that the men sent to Palestine will prove as effici ent as the Mounties. Let it be known that the Mounties were men who were select* cd only after they had passed through the grim fires of actual testing. They were obliged to prove their worth ixx the. exact ing field of actual contact with conditions. They were hard bittexx men to begin with and desperately exacting were their tests before they could wear the scarlet and gold. Let all men know that the R.C.M.P. is the hardest body in the world to get into and about the easiest body in the world to get out of. They observe, they act, and aftex* they have done both, they report. They are men of action and ac complishment. We cannot but wonder about those men sent to Palestine. We fear that they are to be softened as they go out oxx their great task. Like the Mounties, they are sent out to keep peace, but not to ‘‘ob- . serve and report”. We have had enough of that sort of thing.# # # # “Put the Responsibility on Them’1’ Our fathers knew a great deal about nature. They may not have made many speeches oix this subject but they had a working rule that is golden as fax* as get ting results is conserned. When a young- stex* was showing himself obstreporous, or, better still, before there were visible signs of obstreporousness, they said: “We’ll put responsibility on him.” From the time the youngster knew anything, there were cer tain things he knew that he had to attend to. As the youngster grew in stature, his duties became wider and heavier. As man hood approached, he found himself putting away playthings. Ixx this way the well car ed fox* child of those far off days grew into manhood, a state for which he was gradually prepared by taking an ever in creasing part in the things that became a xnan. He was kept busy about such things he could do. Usually night found him tir ed and ready for rest. His main concern was his home and to the welfare of his home he made a substantial contribution, Have we improved on this principle by our efforts to provide recreational activi ties? Recreational centre at best are the handmaids of the home and are in no sense its substitute. We must ever look to the home for the men and women who will keep our land progressive and society sweet and wholesome. “These are my jew els,” the Romaix matron piously said as a rich foreignex* asked about hex* wealth, and the noble matron pointed to her children. Let us not forget hex* wisdom as so many things are trying to get oui* children away from home and rest and sleep and work that results in health and contentment. # # # * Note and Comment While Joe Louis may not be a railroad magnate, he nossesses terminal facilities, is # & # if wo didn’t lu?ar the cr<bps gv owing. as the hot weather sue•.needed tho se show ers , it was because wo have e ars no t tun 0(1 to such music.* # $ * Well, the hot weather came at last. It sneaked up on tts just as we were becom ing accustomed to a little five every eve ning. Even the C.C.F. has little control of the weather. WAITING FQR THE GRADUATES —Hungerford, in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette .M 50 YEARS AGO Mr. Mattliew Thompson, of Usborne and Miss Annie Miller, of Cromarty were married at the maxxse, in Hexxsall, on June 16tlx, by Rev. S. Henderson. Mrs. S. Gidley. Mrs. W. H. Levett, Mr. A. Coffin and Fred Gillespie attended the I.O.F. ex cursion to Sarnia last week. Mr. M. Eacrelt. attended the annual meeting of the municipal clerks of th& County of Huron in Clinton last week. P. W< Quinn, of Detroit, has takeix a position in the Molson’s Bank here as juniox* clerk. Mr. A. Kemp has been advanced to ledger* keeper. Conductor* Parker, who has been running on the G.T.R. be tween Loxxdoxx and Wingham for some time, has been promoted to run between London and Wind sor. He will be succeeded by Mr. John Quirk, of Kincardine. The Exeter lacrosse team went' to Parkhill oa~ Friday afternoon last and played a league game with the team of that place, re sulting in a victory fox* the local team by a score of 7-2. On Tuesday afternoon, the St. Marys and Exeter teams played at Ex eter, and it was a victory for the home teaxxx by a score of 9- 4. torxx from both back and front of the forearm. Oix Monday afternoon, when Mr. Charles Godbolt, of the se cond concession of Usborne, was driving to town, he lost control of the car, It took .to the side of the road and, in turning it quickly, the wheels cramped and the car rolled over, - making a complete turn and a half, com ing to rest on its side, lying crosswise on the road. The body of the car .was completely wreck ed. Mr. Godbolt was thrown out onto the roadside and suffered a slight concussion. 25 YEARS AGO Mr. Stuart Stanbury returned home on Friday from Ottawa where he had been taking a spe cial scoutmasters’ course. On Sa turday, he left for Bigwin Inn, Muskoka, where he received the appointment as commandant of a camp of Boy Scouts from Tor onto for the sumrnei' months. Sunday was Decoration Day at the Exeter Cemetery. The mem bers of the I.O.O.F. lined up at the southern corner and paraded around the grounds. Mr. E. Ho- wald acted as marshall. Rev. A. A. Trumper and Rev. Jas. Foote delivered two very able dis- Rev. M. J. Wilson, B.A., clos ed a very successful pastorate of the James St .Methodist Church on Sunday last. They leave this week for their new charge at Amherstburg. Captain T. Hobbins, of the Salvation Army, .commander of the local corps, has been trans ferred to Goderich. He will be succeeded in Exeter by .Ensign and Mrs. Stevens, of Goderich. Messrs. A. J. Penhale and Harry Jennings were in Toronto last week attending the I.O.O.F. Grand Lodge. The elections oxx Monday re sulted in a sweeping victory fox* the Conservative party and the Hon. Howard Fergusoxx will be Ontario’s next Premier. In Hu ron South, Nelson Trewartha won with a majority of 394. 1O YEARS AGO On Sunday morning last, Rev. A. E. Elliott, concluded a six years’ pastorate of the Maiix St. United Church and on Wednes day, with Mrs. Elliott and fami ly, left for their xxew charge at Thamesville. On Wednesday eve ning last, the Ad Astara Mission Circle of Main Street Church presented Mrs, Elliott with a pair of pillow cases and Betty with axx au-tograph album. On Monday evening,) several mem bers of the congregatioxx met at the parsonage and presented Rev. Mr. Elliott with a purse of money. The Exeter branch of the Can adian Danners commenced its pea pack on Wednesday. Decoratioxx Day at the Exeter Cemetery on Sunday afternoon drew a large crowd of people. The Legion and the I.O.O.F. par aded to the cemetery headed by the Exetex* Band. Members of Lebanoix Forest Lodge A.F. and A.M., together with a number of visiting breth ren from Hensail, motored to Thames Road Church on Sunday morning and attended the ser vice in a body. The members were marshalled by Past D.D.- G.M. Bro. T. P r y d e. Rev W. Mair preached a very fine ser mon. Commencing oxx Saturday, a contest is being sponsored .by the town council, the Lions Club, merchants and business men of Exeter, to select a young woxnaxi who, as “Miss Exeter”, will represent the town and im mediate district iix the great pa geant which will be one of the features of “Old Home Week” at London early in August, Mr. and Mrs. Arto Delve and family left Monday for Taber, Alberta, where Mr. Delve has se cured a position with a canning company. 15 YEARS AGO Miss Brown, B.A., of Parkhill, has been engaged as a teacher for the high school staff. She is an honor graduate in Latin and specialist in art of the University of Western Ontario. Captain and Mrs. S. Barrett, officers of the Exeter Salvation Army, have been transferred to Ridgetown, They have been suc ceeded b y Captain Silver, of Wingliam, and Lieut, Prior, of Toronto Training Garrison. Mr, Alfred Coates, of Usborne, met with a painful accident on Monday, Mr. Coates was in the act of cranking his car, which was in gear, and when the rno- tor started, it pinned Mr. Coates against a spreadex* in front of it. His right arm was oaught be tween the fender and tlie wheel of the spreader and Mr. Coates was held fast for some time, it was found that both hones were broken just above the right wrist and the flesh had been “It is a recognized fact that Without the use of up-to-date- equipment yoUi* farm cannot give you all the profit it^slxould” said Jim Hendry, manager of the Bank of Montreal, iix discus sing farm financing. Modern farm machinery, mat* erials for extensions and repairs pumps, motors, and milking ma chines, adequate electrical facil ities—these are the things, he said, which are absolutely neces sary for maximum farm profits. “The purchase of these prdfit- making aids may seem to be beyond your immediate financial resources,” Mi;. 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