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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1948-07-22, Page 2THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 22. 1948 Wfje (Exeter <(me#=$fobocate Simes Established 1873 Amalgamated November 1921 Advocate Established 1883 Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario An Independent Newspaper Devoted to the Interest 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 (.'WNA 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 22, 1948 Perplexing Days We all wish that conditions would set­ tle down. We'd love to join in Tug Boat Annie’s song, “Happy Days Is Here Some Moi’e”. We regret that we cannot do so. Anxious people are afraid that things will go to pieces and are anxious to grab off all they can get their hands on. The my­ sterious feature of the situation is that the more folks grab, the less they seem to have. They rush off for holidays and come home weary. They get a whole lot of money in the bag and find that the bag is full of holes. They shoot their bolt and hit the target, as they think, only to find they are not winning any prize. They :seem to attain their end only to find that the object so devoutly sought is worthless when measured in terms of peace of mind. All the rivers run into the sea and yet the sea is never full. That seems to be the experience of most of us. Still there are a number of people who are doing very well. They spend little time in theorizing but saw wood, or ply the hoe and the fork, or parcel sugar., or sell cotton, or cook and mend and sew and look after the youngsters, and sav their prayers and go to church in the quietness and confidence that over all, high above the waterfloods, is the eye of the Eternal, watching care­ fully. They simply plod along, whistling a quiet tune or humming a melody of faith. They are not seen in processions but they are found on the job. Their sober wishes have little to do with the madding crowd. However, as the years pass, it is found that they have built what is not destroyed by the “ivey’s tooth’’. It is to such people, that we now look for comfort and hope, in days that promise to be desperately try­ ing. And we’ll not look in vain. The grasshoppers may be very noisy but their day is short. The grasshopper may injure but he cannot ruin. * * * # That Strike All of us breathed easier when we heard that the “railway” strike was settled. We’ll breathe more easily still when all causes and occasions of trikes are remov­ ed. When that breathing is done it will be under wider heavens and in a rarer air than we now possess. The strike just set­ tled is water than has run over the dam, but what about the conditions that may lead to the next strike? The causes for the dislocation of trade by the way of strike or the lockout may remain. They are sure to remain while folk who sell and who buy believe that every man is entitled to secure all the market will stand. Till the buyers and sellers see eye to eye with Him who said “I am among you as one That serveth”. we may look for the horrors 'Of trade war. We see no way short of men’s turning to the principles of the Gos­ pel for settling disputes between man and man. The thieves of the Jericho road still •are abroad with this difference that they now strip their victims not only of their raiment but of the fillings of their teeth. Let us not forget that while we are rejoic­ ing over the settlement of the strike that it is the public who will pay therefor. For ways that are dark and tricks that are in vain, disputants are now very peculiar. 1 * T. ?V. , » » Salvaging Salvaging the burned-over areas of Nothern Ontario is no light job. That it is an important undertaking no one will deny. There is a great deal of timber that may be saved for lumber purposes. There is, too, a great deal of timber that may be made into good, light wood, an article that is likely to be sorely needed within a year. Only those familiar with the ways of the woods and who know something by prac­ tical experience of working over a forest fallow understand the difficulties of the work to be done in those devastated for­ est areas. An eye for timber values is re­ quired. All relatively uninjured timber is not worth saving. On the other hand the forester must be able to sort out the tim­ ber for its various uses. This work can be done, however, and it should be undertaken forthwith. If this is not done, the timber ;soon passes into the semi-rotting stage and so on to uselessness. The work is hard and dirty but. it can be done, Our lumberjacks can do it and should be given every en­ couragement to bo. on the job at once. There is a great deal of timber in those, northern regions that may be made into good light wood that will bo real help in solving the fuel problem next winter anti next spring. Further, till this salvaging is done, the work of reforestation will be ser­ iously retarded. If the salvaging it not done and the reforesting not pressed, the whole country will soon be covered by a .shrubbery of a .sort that will not develop into forest. More important than the sal­ vaging of burned timber is the protection of the forest areas that remain. This pro­ tecting is not the work of schoolboys but the task of hardbitten men who can be de­ pended upon to look after hunters and tou- | rists and trappers who have a way of put­ ting out fires but who are not particular to a nicety to extinguish them. nr* Keep It Up! It is a pleasure to note the improve­ ments our merchants are making in their places of business. We might mention some villages where improvements have not been kept up but Ontario is not particularly proud of such places. A town or a village that does not move on, moves off the map. We do not agree with those who hide the major portion of their profits in an old stocking or its equivalent, nor do we look with respect on those who look up an old teapot and hide their wherewithal therein. Most people lose what they do not wisely invest. Our merchants have, for the most part, made their investments in facilities for displaying their goods. They go on the principle that hearing about goods awakens interest, that seeing goods creates and develops interest, but handling goods by a customer makes him keen to buy. All this means better service to the community and better service, along with goods of quality at a fair price, is one, of the essen­ tials of good business. In fact merchandiz­ ing that sustains trade and social living is a man’s full time job these stirring days. Profits returned to the business’ like clover plowed in, have a wav of making the mare go. Exeter merchants, generally, have no intention of taking the onslaught of those perplexing days lying down. That is why so many from all parts of the older por­ tions of the province find Exeter a g'ood place in which to trade. And Now? Those well-meaning people at Lake Success to consider international problems have decided that it would be just as well if the Jews and Arabs in Palestine were to stop shooting each other and otherwise behave themselves. Those good people have taken another step. They again have ad­ vised the Jews and the Arabs to stop shooting each other. Indeed, the Lake Success people have done more than this in that they have told the combatants that if they don’t stop fighting the United Na­ tions are likely to interfere in a business way with the scrappers and hint that sol­ dier men will do for the disputants what the disputants have, so far, failed to do for themelves. Of course, the Lake ;Suc- cess people have not said who these sol­ dier men are to be. It says nothing of the nationality nor of the terms under which this ‘‘International Police Force” is to serve. Before the date of the force’s be­ ing got into fighting togs, a good deal may take place in Palestine. Indeed, the Jews and the Arabs may have succeeded in kill­ ing each .other off. Or the small war may have become the big war and the whole creation may be in a turmoil. So there you are and, like Mr. Macawoer, we may make a note of it.* * * What Next? Our big brother devotes an editorial to the alarming incident that a boy living in that land of eccentricities broke into thir­ teen homes on Saturday night to indulge in a bath. Wc are stunned, bewildered! Are all our traditions to be shattered? Are we to hear of a boy who washes behind his ears without his mother’s solemn urg­ ing. Are wc to hear of a husband who will polish the heels of his oxfords without his wife’s abjuration ? Are we to have a race of boys who wash above the high water mark? Are we to have youngsters who sit up straight in church ? Ate we to have hubbies who stay in nights? Are we to have yunkers who keep their wagons off the streets and haflin’s who do not ride the sidewalks bic.yclewisc? O the times! O the manners! Now that Mr. Truman has donned his war paint and his leathers, the rest of us may get down to a consideration of how the Marshal Plan is going to affect Cana­ da. BERLIN IS BOMBED AGAIN Little, in The Nashville Tennessean. As the-------- “TIMES* Go By I1™—‘"— ———- - —.— SO YEARS AGO The long spell of dry weather I was broken on Monday by an abundant and much needed rain. The fruit was suffering a great deal. On Tuesday night last, while Messrs. John Gillespie and Bert Gidley were returning home at about one o’clock, their atten­ tion was attracted by a light in Mr. H. Spackman’s hardware store. They informed the night watch and several citizen’s, who on returning to the place found that the burglars had made their escape. They had gained en­ trance by the back window. No­ thing was missing. An accident happened at Mes­ srs. H. Bishop & Son’s hardware store on Friday Hast which might have resulted seriously. It ap­ pears Messrs. C. Coates and W. Ross were about to lower some glass on the elevator and, after putting on three or four very heavy boxes, together with their own weight, the elevator took a sudden drop, precipitating the entire outfit to the ground floor. Mr. Coates received a painful wound on the arm together with a bad shaking up. Mr. Ross es­ caped with nothing .more than the shock. Mr. Micheal Eacrett, a long and highly respected resident of this village, has accepted a posi­ tion as night watchman at the Verity Plow Works, Brantford. Mr. Eacrett has filled the posi­ tion of clerk of the village for many years. 25 YEARS AGO The Ladies’ Aid of Caven Presbyterian .Church held a most successful garden party on the lawn of Mr. E. J. Christie on Friday evening last. The grounds and booths were made very at­ tractive with Japanese lanterns and bunting. Vendors, in cos­ tume, sold bananas from a push­ cart. The gypsy fortune teller was on hand. The Exeter Band enlivened the proceedings with some stirring music. Messrs, T. S. Woods, . J. A. Stewart, W. W. Taman and R. G. Seldon were in Kitchener tak ing in the W.O.B.A. tournament. Mr. Seldon was elected vice- president of the association. Mr. E. J. Horney, who has had charge of the Dominion Store in Exeter ever since they opened up here, is leaving next week for .Mitchell to take change of a new branch which the com­ pany is opening up in that town. The community games and vesper service held ‘by the young people of James Street Church ar® growing in interest and at­ tendance. Messrs. Goodwin and .MacLar- en, 'Of Hensail, won the Free Press Trophy at the Scotch Dou­ bles Tournament held at Sea­ forth on Wednesday and Thurs­ day of last week. 15 YEARS AGO ’ Messrs. Ted Wethey and El­ don Hading, tw.o local youths, left Exeter on Tuesday of last week to hitch-hike ,to the Cen­ tury of Progress Exposition at Chicago, On Friday afternoon of last week, a severe electrical, storm passed over this community ac­ companied by a downpour of rain. The lighthihg struck th-e telephone wires loading into the home of Mrs. T. G. Creech and put the telephone and hydro service out of commission. A charrod spot was made on the outside of the building while on the inside the paper on the wall was somewhat singed, The employees of the Exeter branch of the Canadian Canners held a picnic at Grand Bend on Friday of last week following the finish of the pea pack for this season. Sunday was one of tthe hottest days of the season. A great many of the citizens sought re­ lief from the heat by motoring to Grand Bend .where there was possibly one of the largest crowds that was ever seen at this popular resort. Miss Gertrude Francis and Miss Gladys .McLean, of Kippen, left on Monday for a motor trip to Montreal. Thirteen carloads containing members of the Goderich Band and others motored .to Exeter Sunday evening to put on a band concert in Victoria Park but ow­ ing to a storm the concert had to be called off. IO YEARS AGO In a popularity contest for the selection of. a “Miss Exeter” to represent Exeter in the Lon­ don Old Boys mighty pageant “London Marches On”, Miss Jean Sheer e was the winner. The contest extended over two weeks and was sponsored by forty merchants in co-operation with the town council and the Exeter Lions ‘Club. The runner- up was Miss Hazel Snell. Sandy Elliot’s pacer Teddy Davenport, driven by W. Haley, placed fourth, sixth and third in the Tillsonburg races Wednes., afternoon of last week. Dashwood Sports Day, held last Wednesday, was a decided success and a large crowd turn­ ed out to witness the excellent program of sports and other en­ tertainment including a parade, ball game, hand tatto and a dance. The afternoon program commenced with a calithumpian parade headed by the Dashwood Band. Mr. Percy Hewitt has been appointed road .supervisor to look after the new provincial highway from Russeldale to the Blue. Water Highway. Mr. Ray Creech, recently en­ gaged with the Canadian Can­ ners, has been transferred from Exeter to Forest. Messrs. W. H. Pollen, W.M. of the Exeter Masonic Lodge, and James Bowey, W.M., of the Hensall Masonic Lodge, with Bros. W. W. Taman, Thomas Pryde, M. W. Pfaff, J. A. Tra- quair, E. M. Dignan and H. S. Walter, are in Toronto attend­ ing Masonic Grand Lodge. SMILES . . . . Husband: “My dear, the seeds you ordered won’t flower until the second summer.” Wife; “Oh, that’s all right. I ordered them from last year’s catalogue.’’ * * * * Bessie: “Did he sedm sad when you promised to be a sis­ ter to him?” Jessie: “Oh, no; he said he had some socks that needed darning and he’d Send them over to me in the morning.” . , * * * * Steward: “Don’t be discourag­ ed, sir, no one has ever died of seasickness yet.” Passenger: “Please don’t say that. 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