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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1948-11-04, Page 2Page 2 THE TIMES-ApVOCATE, EXETER, QNTARIQ, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 4, 1948 Cxeter Times JJstgblishecl 1873 Anuilganmted November 10131 Advocate Established 1881 Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario An independent Newspaper Devoted to th© 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, NOVEMBER 4 The American Elections Our American cousins have survived another presidential election. l?or a num­ ber of months it looked as if everything were to go as quietly as bells at evening pealing. We Were quite sure that President Truman would not use ‘'language”. His opponent was guaranteed to observe all the amenities. It seems as if each of them know the words that stir things up politi­ cally. The election has been a Pollyanna affair. In the good old days there were plenty of bands abroad blaring out their stirring call to electoral duty. There were torchlight processions of sufficient length and number to satisfy any boy’s heart. There has been soft pedaling in those par­ ticulars. The electric light has spoiled the torchlight. The loud speakers have relieved the strain on the vocal organs of the spea­ ker. In the later stages of the election just closed, the crowds have been enormous. Elections in Canada are coming to be tame affairs. Compare a modern poll booth with a booth of open-voting days! Compare, the election speeches of those days with the carefully prepared utterances of mo­ dern Limes! In those days, speakers knew how to stir up dander. And we are none too certain that the advantage in these re­ peats is all on the. side, of the modern way of doing. Great things came out of those days of clamour and shouting. By means of them Lincoln saved the Republic. Through such days came our Canadian Conf eration. While noise does not always indicate sense, processions tell of interest and from interest comes progress. We may depend upon it that things are not healthy with body politic when elections are tame affairs. # & We Must Seek Markets When the last war was concluded, Canada found herself in the fortunate posi­ tion of being a seller. The world was in need of goods and Canada could supply them. Just now, she is finding herself seek­ ing a market for her products. Other na­ tions have caught up on her in the manu­ facturing lines. This was to be expected. No nation will long buy what she can ad­ vantageously make for herself. We may count on that. We cannot but wonder if we. have not been neglecting the inventive and creative side of our manufacturing in our national life. The business world will not stay put. Its interests changes over night. Goods, in active demand one season, are scorned the following season. Have we failed to observe this obvious fact? In this respect, have we failed to do our own in­ venting? When we go for a suit of clothes, we generally find the fashion set by a dis- tant city, and has no relation to local tastes or needs. Why should this be the case? The same principle holds for tools, for mil­ linery, for machinery. Why should not Exe­ ter merchants have a full share in setting fashions ? This sort of thing prevailed a few years ago. The local men knew how to outfit their customers according to tastes and requirements. Surely there should, be distinctive character to Hamilton goods, and to Montreal and London goods. Our way of standardizing products is not all for the good. There is an imperative need for originality. Tastes of other nations must be studied again and again till we learn what people need or what appeals to them. We must learn more of needs and of salesmanship, Xs ❖ ❖ & A Control Needed Now' that the shortage of electricity is one of the topics of the day, we cannot but ask why we have not some control of elec­ tricity where the electricity is being used. When we turn on the water tap, we may so use the tap as to have a full stream or a mere trickle. It is not so with the turning of an electric switch. When the switch is turned, we receive the full force that the switch turns on for us. Wc cannot diminish the current without turning the electricity off altogether. When we light a lamp, we can control the amount of light to a very considerable extent. We cannot exercise the same control over electricity, as far as the local switch is concerned. The same principle applies to the use of the electric range. Why, in this relation, should there not be some control of each of the three powers in the range? We speak of electri­ city as coming under many of the laws of fluids, The individual user of fluids can control the flow of fluids such as water. Why should he be left powerless when it comes to the flow of electricity? All of us know how fine it would be to lower the lighting of the bulb but we do not care to go to the trouble of bulb changing. Now that the matter of shortage of electric power is forward and the saving of elec­ tricity is to the fore, why not save where the wastage is great, whether the wastage be at the control of a big factory or of a private residence. * # The Shortage of Steel On the heels of the shortage of elec­ tricity comes this shortage of steel—a shor­ tage that is bound to affect everyone of us. We arc partly to blame for the shor­ tage, as we have not put our backs into the manufacture of steel to anything like the degree we should. Further, the shortage has been made worse by the action of cer­ tain men who have interfered with our •workers from the mining of the ore down to the last bit of polish put on the finished article. Those who followed the agitators little imagined that they were taking neat sums from their pay envelopes. But such was the ease. When miners fell down, the ore was not forthcoming. When the sailors failed to get the orc to the smelters, pro­ duction failed, and so all through. The re­ sult is proving to be an incalculable loss. At the very hour when we should be in successful competition with the markets of the world our efforts in the lines of steel goods are sadly handicapped. Unless some­ thing is done to relieve the steel shortage, something like a calamity in our manufac­ turing world stares us squarely in the face. A Good Sugar Beet Harvest The farm boy is mighty glad that the weather has been ideal for sugar beet har­ vesting. We recollect, with a feeling that brings up the big briny tears, when sugar beet harvesting was about the meanest job immaginable, with the exception of hang­ ing. We were up to the knees in the stic­ kiest mud we were sure the world ever saw. Our clothes were soaked away beyond the saturation point. Plenty of rain found its way, in the coldest of streams, down to the very bottoms of our shoes. The wa­ gon bogged down as we sought to save the crop. Frequently, three brave attempts at loading were needed before the load was on the way to the station. Night found us chilled to the marrow and the horses tired and cranky. We are not surprised that as we wearily and sleepily groomed those horses for their next day’s work, and found our way to the old farm kitchen, we de­ cided that, while farming was the most an­ cient and the most honourable of the arts, we should have nothing to do therewith. Beet harvesting never is a parlour job but it is all the better off being carried on un­ der such pleasant weather conditions such as have marked this season. # s{j # Law Enforcement Considerable discussion has taken place in regard to law enforcement. One police officers has been heard to say, "I simply use my own judgement in regard to the laws”. When asked regarding the enforce­ ment of the liquor laws, the inspector re­ plied “All that sort of thing is left to my own discretion”. Then, surprise has been expressed that certain Jawbreakers get off easily, though their offence has been a serious one. Unless we arc mistaken, pub­ lic opinion is hardening on this way of do­ ing things. Law officers are looked to as law enforcers. A law officers is no strong­ er than the body of public opinion that supports him. At the same time, the offi­ cer must make the first move. An officer does not seek for trouble. He does not make trouble nor docs the good officer tun away from trouble. He is not required to either pry or to snoop but, when he comes upon a transgression of the law, he is re­ quired to take action, sparing none through favour and finding none through malice. At the same time, an officers is not en­ gaged to overwork his blind eye. The sim­ ple fact is becoming more outstanding every day that there is need of a keener sense of duty. Mon must learn to keep their promises and to fulfill their obliga­ tions. Over and over again, we hear of ser­ ious disasters that have followed upon a non-heeding of orders. Officials will do well to review their obligations that they assumed on taking office. All Oyer Now’* Barrow, in the Jacksonville Times-Union, c,......... ................ ..... As the-------- - «TIMES» Go By ®—---—----—_—--------- *50 YEARS AGO Hallowe’en night passed off very quietly in the village with little damage being done. Mr. I. Smith has added a new gasoline engine to his already well equipped repair shop. 'Mrs. Crocker, who has been conducting a fancy store in town for many years, has decided 4t° remove to St. Marys to reside. Mr. L. Day has moved into the butcher shop, recently vacat­ ed by Mr. D. Davis. The shop has been all remodelled. The Miners Colored Troop ap­ peared in Gidley’s Opera House on Tuesday and Wednesday eve- niugs and rendered a very ap- preciative program. The negro melodies were greatly enjoyed. Mr. J. M. Stogdill of Seaforth has opened up a laundry in the premise recently vacated by AV. W. Harrison. A - revolver was stolen from Mr. B. S. O’Neil’s bank through I the bars of a rear window by’ some small boys. Mr. Robert Sanders left Mon­ day for Michigan where he will spend a few weeks in hunting. 25 YEARS AGO The anniversary services of the Main St. Methodist Church were held on Sunday and de­ spite the very inclement weather large congregation were present at both services. The pastor, Rev. F. E. C'lysdale, conducted the services for the day. In the afternoon, the Sunday school held a mass meeting in the au­ ditorium. The pastor gave a very appropriate address. Hallowe’en passed off without any serious damage, although the usual pranks were carried out by the hoys. A large number of masqueraders paraded the streets. “Dollar days’’ were held in Exeter on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of last week. There were a larger number -of shop­ pers than usual in Exeter, es­ pecially on Saturday, and the merchants were well satisfied with the success of the occasion. Great interest was taken in the contest to guess how many onions were in a jar. The guesses were free. The ifirst prize, 100 pounds of sugar, went to Clifford Heywood. Messrs. John Hunter, John Hunkin and .Bert Kernick left last week for Trout Creek on a shooting expedition. A snow flurry visited Exeter last Wednesday night and on Thursday morning the ground was covered for the first time this season. 15 YEARS AGO Ghosts and goblins took, pos­ sesion of James Street parson­ age on Tuesday evening when Rev. and Mrs. Stainton enter­ tained the choir to a Hallowe'en masquerade. The guests proceed­ ed through the darkened house where many wierd sounds came from most unexpected corners. The second car-load of food­ stuffs for the drought stricken area of Saskatchewan left - Exe-. ter station on Friday. The Main St. Girls' Softball team held a banquet in the church on Tuesday evening, each entertaining a friend. The church was tastefully decorated. Mr. W. G. Medd, manager of the team, acted as toast master. The auction sale of the effects of the Central Hotel was attend­ ed by a very large crowd Mom day afternoon and good prices were realized. Mr. H. pagshaw, owner of the hotel, is again*put-- ting the place in shape and ex­ pects -to re-open the first of next week. Several delegates from this community were in London at­ tending the convention of Wo­ men’s Institutes of Western On­ tario. Among them were Miss Nettie Keddy, district president; Mrs. A, Rundle, district chair­ man of education; Mrs. Gordon Bolton and Mrs. Edwin Walker. This section was visited with heavy frosts and a slight fall of snow during the past week. 1O YEARS AGO The fine, L-shaped barn of ! Orville Beaver, of the Thames 1 Road, was totally destroyed by fire Friday evening of last week. Mr. Beaver was in the mow forking hay when the lantern which was on a beam was acci­ dently knocked over and imme­ diately tlie mow became a roar­ ing mass of flames. The stock and farm implements in the buildings were removed and the nearby buildings were saved. Leavitt’s Theatre was packed Friday afternoon for the style show put on by Mrs. M. C. Bal­ lingall, style expert representing Wabbasso cottons, under the ■auspices of the Exeter Women’s Institute. Mr. R. G. Seldon rented the south half of Mr. Senior’s store and the building is now being divided. Mr. Seldon will use this new office for the issuing of mo­ tor licences and - in connection with the coal business. Mrs. Hyndman, who has con­ ducted a gift shop at Grand Bend during the summer months has rented a store in the Frayne block on Main Street, recently vacated by Exeter Ladies’ Wear and is bringing her stock to Exeter. Hallowe’en saw the usual crowd of youngsters parading the streets Monday evening. Lit­ tle or no damage to property has been reported. Letter to the Editor Editor, Times-Advocate: Since the Canada Temperance Act is in effect in Huron Coun­ ty, the comments arising from discussion on a resolution deal­ ing with temperance at a recent W.I. area convention, may serve as “food for discussion’’ else­ where, when the subject is brought up. What do we think of this— “Get back to the open bar with a plate glass window in front of it, rather than put up with un­ der cover bootlegging?’’ Referr­ ing to Huron 'County—“There, there are no cocktail bars but every few houses ypu’ll find a bootlegger”, we beg to doubt that statement. Will the Liquor Interests ga­ ther from these statements that Huron County is ready to throw over the Canada Temperance Act? Already the order has gone out from the Liquor Control Board, that the hours for selling ■booze be extended until 2 a.m. What a contradiction to make appeals to save hydro and then extend the hours of sale for booze!!What about the proprietor of a cocktail lounge who says that the business he Is engaged in requires someone with a clear head about the place and there­ fore he doesn’t touch liquor in any form? American Industry reports that the drink problem is cost­ ing the industry one billon dol­ lars a year. If 50% of our high­ way accidents have alcohol as a causitive factor and 7 0 % of so­ cial diseases have drink as the underlying source, it may be time for some serious thinking by Mr. and Mrs. Citizen. -—“O Canada” SMILES . . . 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