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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1948-09-09, Page 2Psge 2 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1948 <tje Cxeter ®imes>-OtJbocate Times Established 1873 Amalgamated November 1924 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, Dost Office Department, Ottawa Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario-Quebec Division of the CWXA Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation 1UQIT BUREAU P7 or JRCUIAUC Paid-in-Advance Circulation as of September 30th, 1947 - 2,214 SUBSCRIUriON RATES Canada, In advance, $2.50 a year United States, in advance, $3.00 Single Copies 6 Cents Each * PublishersJ. Melvin So»thcott Robert Southcott THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 9 AGO p iv & of stiwi- d return-’ urpose o£ plebiscite nt i farm of Mr, Jas. Shapton, concession of Hay Town- that has continued for se- days and has swept over 50 YEARS Mr. Thomas Fra- ley, has been appui ing officer for tin taking the prohibition n. an, of .................................................. f ..... ga is to be used as a children's playground. The earth has been levelled. should not have parked the poor thing next to the .Jones' car—-theirs jqst had an Exeter Motor Sales’ wash job!” Exeter Those Unwelcome Guests Those high prices are unwelcome guests, May they sit on thorns as all un­ welcome guests are expected to do. But while those high prices that are so effec­ tually robbing our souls of peace are un­ welcome guests they are guests here on our own invitation. We invited them by asking for all sorts of costly furnishings. We insisted on having speedways rather than good solid roads. And these roads can be paid for only at the cost of high prices. Then nearly everyone insisted on having a car, Cai's cost money. Gasoline costs money. We insisted on having tele­ phones and the telephone bill pried off more good dollars. We required our mail to be brought to our doors. We passed by the merchant who did not deliver the last bun and the last spool of thread. We in­ sisted that our neighbour should get rid of hi.s cow and his pig and his chickens. We declared ourselves too busy to bake pur own bread. We must have our tables .•supplied with bakery and confectionery made from products exemplifying the last degree of refinement. And these are but a few of the guests who have been eating us out of house and home. Of course, all these are very entertaining guests but they are guests who have a way of eating. They have eaten up a great deal of what wc should have been storing against the cold blasts of our allotted span of three score and ten. These unwelcome guests are very entertaining and highly recommended by the omniscient uplifter but they cost money and governments have no way of securing this money except by taxation. Those de­ lightful services our merchants render are about the nicest accommodations in all the world of business, but they cost money and the much harrassed merchant knows of no way of securing the money therefor except by raising prices. Every high price that now torments us was invited to be our guest. Why deceive ourselves? Jack Ca­ nuck’s guests have left nothing to be de­ sired in the way of entertainment but they have been greedy caters. Jack has done a fine stroke of business but his guests have consumed bis profits. There has been plen­ ty to go around but Jack’s family has been coming short because his guests have drunk the cream leaving himself and his wife and youngsters to subsist on the Every time he asks his guests they show him his invitation permanent quarters with him. people make out that there, place as Hades. They scrambling to show that high prices are taking the hint that it is time for them to remove their feet from the Canadian house. Jack Canuck is weary of them. Jack is not dull enough to fail so see that he has cultivated tastes that have become his tormentors and is treading the toes of those unwelcome guests. 'C 'T Those Japs Again The records show that the got a sound trouncing in That interesting experience did not put the little yellow men out business. Just now they are regarded the key to Asia. Now they have got world to see what they arc capable of ing as soldiers and as seamen to hold strategic position in oriental trade, doing they are aiming to hold the hand in world polities. It looks as race for the control of Japan now tween Russia and the United States, with her usual cleverness is playing Sam against the Russian bear. The Japan­ ese have rare ability in the way of manu­ facturing. No nation in the world excels them when it ’comes to .making the best of an invented article. They are not inventors but they are exceptionally clever imitators. They easily go one step farther than a competitor though they are. not the. sort to take the first step. While they are alert in manipulation and making up products they Jack money and materials. Russia has no end of material resources but little cash for the Japanese she is’ wooing so assiduously. The United States has both money and na­ tural resources but is situated al a distance from the sunrise kingdom. Australia and the other countries of the Pacific are at a considerable distance from the island king­ dom, Hence the lively stir about Japan be­ tween the nations ; and Russia so near Japan is emerging, giving the situation British Columbia is Japan may again do skim milk, to move out to take up Some clever is no such • will have some tall that high prices / Japanese World War II. • on their part of as the do­ th e In so whip if the is be- Japan Uncle at a distance from her 1 at hand. In any case Thoughtful people are a good deal, of study, very much interested, a major part in male- va- li v J a- Ing Russia behave herself, If anyone is ger for a real job he will be satisfied attempting to figure out the part that pan will take in world affairs, # ❖ # There’s No Avoiding It Reference already has been made what Britain has done this harvest, , had the promise of an unusually fine much needed harvest when n tempest* of rain and wind broke upon her fields, levelling every­ thing and forecasting another winter of mi­ sery. Then the skies cleared and the child­ ren of the heroes of Dunkirk went at the harvest. Everything from a pen knife to a combine harvester was requisioned. Every hour of light was untilized. Everyone, who could lift a straw was set doing what he could. The blacksmith vied with the dainty fingered seller of silks and laces. The car­ penter riballed the haberdasher. My lady was required to leave her lipstick. All had a mind to work, and work they did till the last grain of wheat. And the result? Britain again Well plate joled tige, to Shu her own efforts, nations eontem- While Russia ca- about party prvs- saved herself by might surrounding this strange .sight, and France argued Britain worked and .saved the day. Reasonable folk cannot but wonder how great would be Canadian prosperity' if our tomato fields and peach orchards and apple holdings were worked by people ready to work in this fine spirit? This autumn, al­ ready, uncounted wealth of fruit has gone to waste simply because folk will not en­ dure a bit of severe, hardship in gathering it. in of A In spite of Britain’s shining leadership the war and since the war, a whole lot us serve the Lord in a mighty poor way. tired back is better mach. than an empty sto- # * Will He Be Winston Churchill England by reminding inevitability of World fell on deaf ears, came, a war that pire. This hour Sir Stafford Cripps is try­ ing to save England by having her prac­ tise the ancient virtues of industry and thrift. “England must produce more’’, he thundered in parliament, on the hustings and in council chambers. Will. Britons heed his appeal? They ignored Churchill. Will they pass bv Cripps unheeded? They will their peril. Will She? General Council of of Canada will soon Heeded? attempted to save her citizens of the War 11. His appeal The war he forecast all but ruined the em- do the United be meeting. Will it give The Church Will this council do her work? guidance to a perplexed world? Will she speak with a high accent that her num­ bers, her prestige and colleges demand of her? Canada has been forced into the bright light of her early morning. Will the council point her way to her proper place among the spiritual forces of the day? Will she waste her lime in discussing pro­ blems that properly' belong to the stale or will she raise her voice in behalf of the spiritual nature of man and remind the world of the one source, when that nature may' be informed, inspired, guided. Never in all the history’ of the. world was the. need as great as now for the reiterating of the call '‘Thou shall love the Lord thv God with all thy heart and all they .strength and all thy soul and thy’ neighbour as thyself”. Will the mighty council rise to her oppor­ tunity. The world waits for the inspired message of the Bible to be proclaimed by inspired and inspiring men. Will this coun­ cil show her sons and daughters bow that great message may kindling passion? # * be proclaimed with * # Note and Comment We are happy to say that the potato blight has dealt leniently with this com­ munity, & sjt s# *. The assessor has been around. We hope that he’ll not lose his popularity when the tax slips are delivered* 1^5 n1* S’p $ Taxes seem to be here to stay. Folk wished their undo their we must* effect of destory With the passing of the buck have head taxes. If village to hold up its wishing has raised the have we must pay. # & * the recent excessive heat much of the buckwheat The was to blossom wheat blossom goes the hopes of the buck­ wheat honey crop, so greatly prized by the southern European countries. vote in South Hurt Mr. W. W. Tar.i was prize winner watch given by ti cursion committee looking gentleman Messrs. Jones i have been conduct store at Winchels time, recently disposed business to Messrs. Roy, of Mitchell, moving to Exeter Hall is undecided lure residence. The heavy downpour of .Monday morning blighted prospects of carrying on races advertised to take place here that day. Mr. F. Lutz left on Saturday morning for Toronto where he •will take a course at the school of pharmacy. Mr. T. 13. Carling and Mr. H. E, Huston left Saturday to at­ tend the General .Methodist Con­ ference at Toronto as lay dele­ gates. Miss Smith and Miss Urquhart last week resumed their posi­ tions as milliners with Messrs. E. J. Spackman and J. A. Stew­ art respectively. of Bly th, | the silver L.O.L. ex- to the best hi the train. Hall, who ig a general a for some of the Couch and I Mr. Jones is , while Mr. as to his fu- rain all the I I 25 YEARS AGO Mr. Ed Harness let Wednes­ day or Windsor where lie is opening up a retail produce bu­ siness. Workmen are engaged in making alterations rating the interior son Mfg. Co. Mr. D. Watson and re-deep- of the Jack- Son, of up a gro- North in & Wingham, are opening eery store in Exeter the old McTaggert store on the Lake Road. London Fair is on this week and many from this community are taking it in. Mr. Fred Wells had the mis­ fortune to have the middle Ein- ger of his left hand come in contact with a saw at the Ross- Taylor factory on Saturday last. He will be laid off work for a couple of weeks. Workmen are engaged in fenc­ ing off the postoffice site which i 15 YEARS AGO During the dry spell of the ast week, from the flip of a match a fire started on the pas­ ture! sixth ship, veral 40 0 acres of bush and pasture land. The fire was noticed as soon as it started and an effort was made to extinguish it but it was beyond control. Farmers or- blaze con- ganized to which was trol, Harburn sail, were horseshoe at Woodstock when more than eighty players from twenty different clubs com­ peted. The Exeter softball girls won the silver cup at Grand Bend when defeated the Lucan ‘Fords’ by the score of 4-3. The game took place before a large crowd of spectators and was keenly contested from start to finish. The Exeter lineup was as fol­ lows: V. Wells, p; M. Sims, c; M. Ellerington, lb; Mary Wells, 2b; M. Cutting, 3b; Helen .Hey­ wood, ss; Helen Murch, IE; Do­ reen Caldwell, c£; Hazel Clark, rf. ’ Mrs. z I combat the brought under Hen-and Simon, of the winners of the pitching tournament on Labor Day . -iglity players The .cup was presented by . Eccleston. IO YEARS AGO rink of Exeter bowlersA skipped by W. H, Moise won first prize at the eighth annual Manufacturers’ and Merchants’ Tournament held by the Strat­ ford Lawn aesday of eight rinks ed centres and as far part in rink comprised W. H. Pollen, IT. Snell, H. C. Rivers and W. 1*1. Moise, skip. Mr. Harold don, Worthy the Order of visited Exeter Friday, September purpose- oE organizing a Chapter of that Order. He was accom­ panied by Mrs. Kitchen and Mrs. Bowling Club Wed’ last week, Seventy- £rom widely scatter- of Western Ontario east as Toronto took the tournament. The Kitchen, of Lon- Grand Patron ot the Eastern Star, on tile evening ot 2, for the 1 Dodge & DeSoto Sales & Service Phone 200 Tom Coates Fred Dobbs Sell with Confidence Highest Prices Paid for Live Poultry of All Kinds Weigh on the farmer’s scales at his door. Riverside Poultry Co. Howard Ferguson, Manager THAMESFORD ONTARIO Phone Kintore 17r9 or^Hensall 80r2 p. ■d'A X A A "IP'T SgjPT 13^18 Pion to visit Canada's oldest exhibition . . . see wonderful agricultural exhibits . . . su­ perlative grandstand performances . , . live­ stock competitions . . . Conklin's famous midway . . . horse racing and latest in industrial and household appliances . . . wonderful entertainment for the whole family —don't miss this year's exhibition. W. D. JACKSON, ’ Gen. Mgr. -ssnffi ® I Zetta Keith of Walkerville, Wor-; were made for the institution of thy Grand Matron. The meeting the new chapter to be known as I was attended and plans | “Exeter Chapter No. 222”. HANDS AT W0RK.,.f„r OXTABIO’S products are desired and purchased by people all over the world and the capacity to produce such goods largely determines the economic ... , , i and child within her Borders. Because the sale of cry article produced in Ontario brings valuable dollars into this Province, we all are ore assured of iob security . . . and we and our children can have more of the life. But to produce such goods in sufficient quantities, skilled welfare of every man, woman ev< more --------------.--------------v . . better things in life. But to produce such goods in sufficient quantities, skilled labour is vital, That is why every single one of us should be glad that war veterans are constantly being trained to provide the skilled hands so needed by industry* They receive ON THE JOB training under expert instructors in our Ontario factories. This training, provided through the co-operation of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, the Federal Department of Labour and the Ontario Department of Educa­ tion, starts the veteran on the road to skilled craftsmanship. In assembling business machines, for example, veterans must have a thorough knowledge of electricity and must learn to perform intricate work on precision machines having thousands of separate parts. These Canadian-made business machines Are sold in all parts of the world, creating new Wealth for Canada and Ontario, Therefore every effort of these newly skilled veterans helps to make Ontario a finer place in which to live and contributes to the welfare and happiness of all her citizens. THE BREWING INDUSTRY (ONTARIO) LEARNING MACHINE ASSEMBLY • • ft ft ft ft ft ft•••••••• ft '« ft a MACHINE ASSEMBLY —------—wrs*-— — John N. West, 25, of Toronto, a .Royal Canadian Navy veteran, is shown here making an adjustment to one of the 10,000 parts in a business machine designed for a New Zealand firm. Various types of business machines are produced in Ontario fac­ tories. Because of their in­ tricate mechanisms it is es­ sential that these machines be checked by expert Craftsmen at every stage of their production • ft ft• « > » ft