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THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 18
Mr. King Retires
Mr. King has retired from the office
of Prime Minister of Canada. He was some
what doubtfully appointed to the office. In
deed, he was regarded as a sort of “stop
gap”, as it was feared that he had not the
strength for the great office. All fear on
those points were soon allayed as Mr. King
developed remarkable gifts of leadership.
No one of his ministers and no member of
the party found it good policy to oppose
him. Throughout-his long term of office,
Mr. King was the leader and the comman
der of his party. All that anyone who had
doubts on this subject needed to do was
to start something and he found a master
ful hand laid on his shoulder. Mr. King
was almost uncanily shrewd in his political
moves. He seemed to know the moment to
step forward and the proper time to keep
quiet. He was a master at keeping his own
council. As a speaker on matters that in
volved the party, he was a man by himself.
He never said more or less than he intend
ed to say. He used this art with great ef
fectiveness when dealing with purely poli
tical affairs. Whatever the storm, his hand
was steady on the helm, Whatever other
political crafts went down in the gale, the
boat Mr. King raptained was almost sure
to reach harbour. Whether the safety of
his political ship was due to his masterly
way of guiding or to the staunchness of
the crew we leave history to determine.
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A Good Move
Not till recently have we found out
what a fine servant hydro is. It is a case
of adapting the old adage to “We never
miss the hydro till the power runs low”
For years many were afraid to use the hy
dro. When, however, the hydro once be
came a servant, all saw that it was one of
the best of our utilities. Then we were sure
that the amount of electricity was practi
cally unlimited. Now we are urged to use
electricity with something like penurious
frugality. But mere doing without utility is
a poor way of carrying on. Accordingly,
the hydro commission is getting a project
to the fore that will in the course of a few
years add very greatly to the hydro sup
ply, particularly for the southern portion
of Ontario. This is altogether to the good.
We should like to furnish our readers with
a map of what is proposed for setting Nia
gara to greater usefulness but such a map
is not available for the present. All of us
are interested in this affair. Indeed, we are
wondering if some bright youngster in our
high school or in Western University is not
hatching out some scheme that will supply
the province with additional energy, elec
tric or otherwise. We’ll not be surprised if
some such invention will be in the keenest
demand before the world is a great deal
older. It must be remembered that the put
ting of electricity to work in any such way
as it is now applied to nearly every human
activity is a comparatively new way of car
rying on. Even electricity may be super-
ceded by some more practicable form of
power. It is up to our schools and univer
sities to be wide awake in a matter so vi
tal. The time comes when even the best of
grain becomes threshed out.
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Unemployment Increasing
Hints have been thrown out for some
'time that jobs are increasingly hard to get.
Surveys are showing that there are fewer
Jobs than those seeking them. The fact that
the decline in the number of jobs has been
gradual but steady is all the more signifi
cant. Employees should take the hint. Ex
ecutives are doing a good deal of brain
sweating to keep ahead of the drive of the
hour. Let us not attempt to deceive our
selves. We must remember that our fields
and town and cities were not ravaged by
either of the two world wars. Indeed, the
demand for everything we could produce
has reached the acute stage. With the close
of the war the nations who had suffered
by its ravages went about the work of re
covery in real, earnest. Just now, they are
catching up and demand for goods manu
factured on this side of the Atlantic is not
as keen as it was two years ago. And this
demand for goods is bound to lessen.
Hence, the falling off of demand for la
bour. Further, the high cost of goods has
developed a great deal, of buyer resistance.
People are finding out that they can get
on comfortably without a great many
things they had come to look upon as
something like necessities. This means a
falling off in. sales and a slackening of the
call for labour. Along with this goes the
fact that in a great many cases the stable
ultimate consumer’s money is becoming
scarce. Of course, there has been the con
sumer who is practically broke before pay
day comes about. This is an unsatisfactory
sort of customer* at best. The retailer large
ly carries on with the trade of the cash
customer. And now that the cash customer,
in many cases, is near the end of his
tether, the retail merchant is commencing
to see a red light. Further, since strikes of
one sort and another have become preva
lent, executives are doing all they possibly
can to become independent of labour. We
cannot lay increasing unemployment to any
one cause but to the spirit of the times
and to such conditions as have been
brought about bv the shortage, of available
electricity. It is unsatisfactory trying to
produce foods at a loss and for a shrinking
market.
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The New Way
As we looked over our back fence, we
saw something taking place that gave us
cause for wonderment. We saw a garden
being plowed by a tractor! Further, an ex
tra good job was being done. The garden
plowed was the fifth garden for the trac
tor for the afternoon and* the little wonder
was hustling away for a sixth garden. The
writer still is enjoying his salad days but
lie remembers the time when a tractor
never was thought of for a garden. We
cannot but ask “What next?” Is gardening
soon to become a matter of button press
ing? It that fine old gentleman, who kept
things so neat and trim with the wheel
barrow and his few tools, to be relegated
tq the class of “has-beens” ? We cannot but
wonder. It made one rub his eyes to see
that nimble, efficient tractor doing in a
little over half an hour work that usually
requires more than half a day.
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# Those Unhatched Chickens
As one thumbs his copybook, he finds
a warning not to count his chickens before
they are hatched. It seems that a great
many stock gamblers have not heeded this
warning as the presidential election loomed
large. The result was that those gamblers
got a bad jarring as Mr. Truman romped
gaily back to the White House. But, then,
a few millions of more or less fictitious
blues do not count for a great deal these
hectic times. We wonder how much those
Gallop polls had to do with the slippery
state of the markets. Then, what is to be
said of those papers and magazines who
were so dead certain 'that they knew just
how the election was going? Then, all of
us did a little premature chicken counting
when it came to our dependence upon elec
tricity. We thought that all we had to do
was to install machinery and electricity
would be at our command. We overlooked
the fact that rivers depend upon rain.
Water at the generating plants steadily
lowered and proud man found that the old
copybook line applied to every barn and
manufacturing establishment in our broad
land. But then, we are inveterate guessers.
We like to spend a good deal of time try
ing to unscrew the inscrutable, even though
we are almost sure to get our fingers
pinched in the effort. Still, every pinch
teaches those, who heed. It is that way we
make progress.
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Another Punch
Russia has intimated that she is going
to be very sensitive regarding the air cor
ridor whereby the western people have
been conveying supplies into Berlin. In
fact, she is going to work for the complete
closing up of that air corridor. That clo
sure was her purpose from the very be
ginning of the days after the war. Russia
has told herself that she owns Berlin bag
and baggage, lock, stock and barrel. She
is going to possess Berlin by stealthy ag
gression, by bluff, by deceit, or .even by
force. Little by little she is making it har
der on the western allies to be patient. No
one wants war but Russia is doing all she
can. to bring the western powers to the
point where they must fight for their rights
or lose their self-respect.
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It was reported to us that one of the
local blackouts caught an elderly woman
descending a stairway and, rather than at
tempt the remainder of the precarious trip
in the dark, waited until the lights came
on. It was suggested that it would be a
good idea to blink the lights a few seconds
before the cut-off to give us a warning.
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50 YEARS AGO
(The Advocate, 1908)
Messrs. C. Prouty, Clerk of
Stephen, J. Morley, Clerk of Us-
borne, and G. H. Bissett, Village
Clerk, attended a meeting of
clerks of the county at Clinton
on Wednesday.
The Brussels Herald, after
several months of idleness, has
been revived by Mr. James Ir
win, late publisher of The Lucan
Sun.
Mr. I. R. 'Carling, who has
been on a shooting expedition in
the hunting grounds of Musko-
ka, sent home a large buck on
Wednesday morning last.
Miss Fanny Bowden arrived
home from the “Old Country’^
on Monday morning. She reports
a very rough passage, being fif
teen days on the water.
A movement is on foot to es
tablish a peat works in the vi
cinity of Exeter provided the
promoters can get sufficient en
couragement to go on with the
project. Mr. Ardagh, C.E., of
Barrie, 'has contracted with the
Canadian Peat Fuel Company to
operate the County of Huron.
25 YEARS AGO
(The Times, 1923)
Brigadier-General King and
several of his staff motored up
. from London on Wednesday of
last week and inspected the re
cruits who have been drilling
under the command of Major
Heaman. The boys were put
through a number of manoeu
vres and were complimented for
the manner in which they were
carried out.
A heavy fog enveloped the
community on Wednesday eve
ning of last week and again on
Thursday evening, making mo
toring very unpleasant and ha
zardous.
On Thursday morning last
while Mr. Richard Davis was
plowing Reeve Beavers’ garden,
one of the horses stepped on the
covering of an old well which
gave way. Fortunately the well
was not deep and the horse’s
head and front feet were above
ground. A derrick from the mar
ble shop was erected and the
animal was rescued, little the
worse for its experience.
A fire on Saturday afternoon
destroyed the large grist mill at
Staffa, which has been used for
some time by Mr. Robert Sadlei’
as a chopping mill. The mill
was running at the time and the
fire is supposed to have started
from an oil engine which back
fired. A large stable and garage
close to the mill and also owned
by Mr. Sadler were 'burned to
the ground.
Mr. Oran Winer left on Mon
day morning for St. Thomas
where he has secured a position.
The Ladies’ Aid of Caven
Presbyterian Church held a suc
cessful chicken pie supper on
Thursday evening of last week.
The proceeds amounted to over
$135.00.
15 YEARS'AGO
(The Times-Advocate, 1933)
A three-act religious drama,
“The Slave Maid of Israel”, was
presented by the Dramatic Club
Of Empress Ave. United Church,
London, in the James Street
United Church before a fairly
large audience on Monday eve
ning. The various parts were
well taken and the gorgeous cos
tumes and oriental setting added
a great deal to the attractive
ness of the production.
Exeter has again organized a
Badminton Club for the winter,
A meeting of enthusiasts was
held in the ’Canadian Bank of
Commerce chambers on Tuesday
evening and an organization was
set up. Arrangements are being
made' for two courts on the se
cond floor of the Ford Garage.
Mr. R. E. Guenther, of Dash
wood, is erecting a garage west
of the service station at the
north end of Exeter. Mr. Guen
ther, who has a very extensive
trucking business, will use the
garage for storage of trucks and
merchandise at times When the
road between Exeter and Dash
wood is closed to motor traffic.
“Remembrance Day” was ob
served in Exeter on Saturday. A
public service was held in James
Street United Church, followed
by a -short service and the plac
ing of wreaths at the cenotaph.
A snow storm visited this sec
tion and the weather was any
thing but ideal. Rev. J. H. Stain
ton was in charge of the service
and Rev. A. E. Elliott gave a
very appropriate address
A considerable change has
been made this past week to the
'building occupied by Interna
tional Harvester Company Limit
ed on Main Street just south of
the Ford Garage. A new window
and door have been put in the
front while the interior is en
tirely changed around with the
office and repairs stock room
located in the centre, which faci
litates a large light show room
to the front and an asesmbling
and stock room .in the rear.
IO YEARS AGO
(The Times-Advocate, 1938)
Remembrance Day lost none
of its significance since the days
of armistice, judged by the
splendid services that were held
in the community on Friday of
last week? The day zwas observed
as a public holiday and the
weather was ideal. A service was
held in Caven Presbyterian
Church in the morning. A splen
did address was given by Rev.
Mr. Hill. The Exeter Band head
ed the parade to the church and
to the cenotaph. Following the
service in the church, the Legion
paraded to the cenotaph where
wreaths were placed. Reeve W.
D. Sanders was in charge of the
service at the Cenotaph.
The South Huron Plowmen’s
Association held its annual ban
quet in the Thames Road United
Church Wednesday evening of
last week and distributed the
prizes to the winners in the re
cent plowing match. The associa
tion was fortunate to have as
its guest speaker the Hon. Jas.
Gardiner, Minister of Agricul
ture in the federal government
(a Thames Road “Old Boy”).
The chairman for the evening
was Mr. Archie Morgan.
The first touch of real winter
was experienced Tuesday of last
week when a cold wind was ac
companied by snow. At different
times during the day a 'blinding
storm swept the district.
The walls of the new school
building are now complete and
the cement base for the new
roof was laid on 'Friday. Splen
did progress was made during
the fine weather.
A new enterprise is to be add
ed in Exeter. Mr. John Vidt, of
Arkona, has purchaser the resi
dence on Main Street, the pro
perty of the late Miss Mary
Tom. At the rear of the house
Mr. Vidt will erect a refrigera
tion plant. The new plant will
be for the use of the citizens of
Exeter and the surrounding com
munity.
SMILES . . . .
1-Ie: “Why do you weep and
sniffle at a picture show over
the imaginary woes of people
you never met?”
She; “For the same reason
why you scream and yell when
a man you don’t know slides
into second base.”
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“I hope you don’t think me
too young for marriage to your
daughter, sir,” said the young
man, anxiously.
“That’s all right, my boy,”
was the cheerful answer, “you’ll
age fast enough------”
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“Do you keep powder here?”
inquired the city woman at the
general store which served the
rural community where she was
summering.
“Yes, madam,” replied the
storekeeper. “Washing, baking, |
face, tooth insect and gun.”
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Teacher was Dying to explain
to her class the meaning of the
word “slowly”. In desperation,
she sauntered across the room
and asked, “Now, how did I.
walk across the room?”
Right away a little boy in the
rear of the room yelled, “Bow-
legged!”
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