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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1946-07-11, Page 2Page 2 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY Jlth, 1946 W (Exeter ^une^bbocate Timea established 1873? Advocate established 1881 amalgamated November 192$ PUBLISHED EACH THURSDAY MORNING AT EXETER, ONTARIO Am Independent Newspaper devoted to the Interests of the Village pf jExpter and Surrounding District Member of the Cann-Han Weekly Newspapers’ Association; Member Of the Ontario-Quebec Division of the PWNA AD Advertising Copy Must be in Our Hands Not Later Than Noon on Tuesdays SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 h year, in advance; three months J, M. SQUTHCOTT RATE six months. $1.00 60c . PUBLISHER THURSDAY, JULY 11th, 1946 Welcome We welcome the move of the government in restoring the Canadian dollar to being on all * fours with the American dollar. There has been something uncanny all along about the disad­ vantage under which the Canadian dollar lab­ oured. There was an Ethiopian in the financial woodpile who had a way of making off with the poor man’s pullets, all this pother about the balance of trade, and similar flub-dub, notwith­ standing. When we made inquiries about this state of affairs the financial bigwigs put on an expression of inscrutable wisdom and were ob­ liged to go on our uninformed and miserable but suspicious way. That sort of thing has .b'een cleared up by the Finance Minister. However, that good man will receive many a tear soaked telegram and letter telling him of the ruin soon to overtake certain interests who fatten on the quiet-going man’s toil and sweat. A e are bound to hear a great deal of wailing from folk who have lived on the fat of the land so long that they act as if the earth and all that it contains were their private and personal possession. Canadians, generally, should not be made to suffer at anybody’s hands because Canada is in a strong financial position. Moreover, the days of special privilege in Canada are lopg past. Canada has grown up and all her people should be out of their infantile perambulator. Canada has made a bold stroke by placing her dollar in its proper place in world markets. * * * * Try It Yourself Explorers in the old days who sought out new paths in Africa tell of monkeys who pelted them With ugly missies from the trees in the jungles and forests. No doubt the monkeys were resentful in their monkey way of those strange intruders who were proceeding in ways that the monkey mind was not familiar with. Still, the humans persisted and we have modern Africa. Still later, humans planted corn in Af­ rica only to find that the monkeys stripped the corn stalks of every ear. The planters resented this monkey way of carrying on with the result that Africa has her corn fields and other mat­ erial for the feeding and clothing of mankind. The monkeys have their human imitating, we are sorry to say. Just now the folk who follow the practices of the mischievous, destructive monkeys, is to antagonize and belittle folk who are trying hard to save the day when danger threatens, or to find a better way when times are quiet. The method of those destructive hum­ ans is to put the facts regarding people in a disappropriate way. If a public man has a wart on his nose the wart is shown up in a’manner to utterly disfigure not only the nose but the Whole face. Even the dead are not allowed to escape the work of those distortioners. Every personal practice of the party attacked is drag­ ged out to the light and distorted away beyond all decency. Queen Elizabeth is represented by those viHifiers as corrupt beyond all telling. Yet Elizabeth saved the 'England of her day. Wellington is belittled as being a blundering soldier, though he was the hero of a hundred fights and never lost an English gun. Churchill is represented as a miserable spendthrift waster of Britain’s gold, yet Churchill saved civiliza­ tion in her darkest hour. Roosevelt is criticized because he did not lie in state after his death and did not treat himself to a public funeral. Yet Roosevelt saved the United States from Wallowing in a slough of isolation and short­ sighted selfishness. Surely the Anglo-Saxon world will do well to get away from this prac­ tice of belittling the folk, who have done the race’s work or who are now keeping the world moving upwards. « * * That Atomic Bomb Experiment Our supply of headache pills was nearly cxhaused as we listened in nerve wrecking sus­ pense for word of the result of the experiment with the atomic experiment. Never did the United States set herself for a bigger show than she set herself for that atomic bomb af­ fair* Advertising did its best; Simply nothing was omitted to lend hurrah to the occasion. And what questions weye raised! What con- jeotutes fill the air! Would the exploding bomb set the Faeifie Ocean on fire? Would the air be dissolved into its constituents? Would the fishes of the deep perish and would plague follow. Well, the bomb fell a mile and a half short of its target. There was a big cloud of something or other* Some old tattle ships were sent to Davy Jones’' locket. There was a lot of camera clicking and all that* There was some iradio activity but our receiving set kept on do- jug* fine work, We have ideal weather for all sorts of things* The moon still does business. The suit rises a little too early for some of us, but that is the way the sun has carried on for a term of years. We are glad the whole thing is over but devoutly wish that science would turn its mind to something that will aid ns in the day’s work, in helping to bring quiet to a troubled world* in feeding the hungry and in making things rather than in destroying them* ■*•*•** Stabilising Prices The Canadian government has done the correct thing in keeping control of prices. We have an illustration of the other way of doing things in the markets of the United States. When government controls were removed, prices there jumped as high as people could pay* Greed ran rampant. Folk were grabbing where grabbing was good. The right of others were thrown to the dogs. No matter who suf­ fered, the dollars were grabbed for, Starvation might walk the streets and invade millions of homes, yet these modern bandits seized every penny they could lay their talons on. The con­ trol measures of the Canadian government may not be above reproach but the government has done a fine job in keeping prices fairly well in hand to say the very least. Donald Gordon has proven himself a fine citizen and a capable administrator under circumstances that would have wrung the withers of a man less endowed with business acumen and moral sense. He is proving himself one of the outstanding men of trying times, » * * * Unemployment Insurance Folk brought up the old-fashioned way are puzzled by this unemployment insurance. It a man’s services were required in those days he sold his labour for an agreed upon price. When his services were not required his pay ceased. He saw this clearly and soon found him­ self rustling for a job that steadily furnished him his bread and promised him a competency in his old age. The result was a self-reliant people. Every man who was worth his salt thrilled to the thought of independence. He was glad when he called no man master. Lately that sort of thing has been changed. The car- pentei- is encouraged to believe that whether he builds houses or sits under a shade tree, his wages or an equivalent for his wages will come from a paternial government. And what holds for the carpenter holds for workingmen of any occupation. We are accustomed to the maxiin, “Root hog or die.” Now we are told we need not toil for our daily bread. The government will provide food and raiment for all of us regard­ less of our labour. We have heard of the work­ man who said, “I’ll work for no such wages. I’ll take the allowance first.” In the days when the workman saw that he’was up against hard times unless his boss’s business kept humming, the workman took the. hint and dug’ into his job. He saw no good coming to him if factory wheels were "rusting. There was real coopera­ tion as a result. On the other hand, the em­ ployer saw his sales fall off in proportion as his men were under-fed, unhealthy, poorly clad and badly housed. Prosperity requires more than dollars. It requires the welfare of the whole state and of the world. More than most of us realize, unemployment can be cured by all parties to the situation being built around a good conscience and a well-informed mind. Not to see this is to make labour and every other condition increasingly unsatisfactory. * # * * Unlimited Oil Reserves Well and favorably known in Masonic circles at Stouffville and Markham^ John Ness has writteen an article for Saturday Night full of enlightenment on the oil situation. He is a petroleum technologist with Imperial Oil, and has written extensively on oil exploration. He says: “Alaramists periodically warn us that the days of the petroleum industry are numbered, that the world’s oil wells are giving out. But there is no cause^ for alarm, as shown by this brief inventory of reserves and probable sup­ ply. The United States, for instance, has an expectancy of 50 billion barrels of new oil. Canada has vast areas of proven oil reserves to the extent of 30 million barrels. Other parts of the Western Hemisphere have a further 50 billion barrels for posterity. Still remaining for further exploitation are tlie Middle East teri ritories, Russia’s, etc., not to speak of present and future production of synthetic gasoline. Oil seems to be everywhere, providing we have the energy? and skill to find it. Countries where oil production lags are those which have restrictive legislation or ex'-’ cessive regulation.”—Stouffville Tribune. «• «. «. Note and Comment Another week of such weather and we should have a fair fall wheat crop of exception­ ally fine sample. * * * ■» Tourists keep on telling us that Exeter is the finest village to be found anywhere. Some have worked hard to place Exeter where it Is. * * * • The imposition of a bread ration in the United Kingdom is one more indication of the severity of post-war conditions in the old land, states the Goderich Signal-Star*. Canadians may be thankful they ate eating regularly and suf­ ficiently, and there should^ be no unnecesary interference with the flow of foodstuffs from the farms and fields of Canada to the areas of n cur-starvation* IO YEARS AGO Possibly one of the largest con­ gregations ever to be packed into Caven Presbyterian Church greeted Dr, Margaret .Strang-Savage op Sun­ day morning, a splendid message was given of her missionary work in the Peace River district. Trivltt Memorial congregation met Monday evening in the Parish Hall to honor Rev, Harry Jennings, B.A., prior to his departure for a mission field at Ft* Norman, in the mission diocese of Athabaska. He was presented with a travelling communion set, two quilts and a handsome purse of money. The induction of Rev. Douglas <C. Hill, B.A., JB*D„ into the pastoral charge of Caven Presbyterian church on Friday evening by the Presbytery of Huron was an impressive service, The Moderator, Rev. D. J. ’Lane, of Knox Church* Goderich, was in charge. Rain is badly needed. The spring grain, roots and garden vegetables are suffering fox* lack of moisture. The first really hot days of the year visited the community this week. The Exeter Band took part in a Band Tafttoo in Parkhill on Monday evening. 15 YEARS AGO Mr. .Fred Kerr, of Creditou, was high, man for the two-day shoot -at the Canadian Indian Gun Club at St, Thomas. on Wednesday and Thursday of last week. Mr. Kerr won the 300 target event at 16 yards, the handicap with 49 out of 50, doubles 42 put of 50 and the merchandise ‘shoot with 32 straight. His average for the shoot 'was 96 per' cent, The ’St. Thomas shoot is the biggest in Ontario. At the Canadian Medical (Associa­ tion convention recently helcT at Vancouver, B.C., it was announced that Dr. W. Stuart Stanbury, B.A., an Exeter hoy, had been awarded the scholarship, of the association for the best thesis on Tuberculosis. The- honor carries with it a money award of $250. Miss 'Celia .Christie and Miss 'Mil­ dred Rowe are this week attending Summer School -at Alma College, St. Thomas. Mr. Robt. Gam brill, Miss Violet Gambrill and Miss Rogers are in London taking a summer course in orchestral music being given at Western University. 25 YEARS AGO •On Wednesday, July 13th, at high noon, a iquiet but pretty wedding took place at the home of Mt. 'and Mrs. <F. H. Neil, Lucan, when their •daughter, Miss Florence E. Neil, be­ came the bride of Mr, J. Hubert Jones, son of (Mr. and Mrs. J. 'G. Jones, of Exeter, the ceremony be­ ing performed by Rev. J. E. Holmes of 'Stratford. Capt. Barr and Lieut. Parnell are •here establishing a Salvation Army in town. They have been holding some open air meetings. Mr. Emmanuel Beaver, of Credi- ton, has decided to give up, the but­ chering business with his* brother. Mr. A. ,S. Schram will succeed him in the trade. This district sustained a consid­ erable amount of damage from the excessive rains which fell from Fri­ day to Sunday. The 'great heat wave was broken on Friday last when a thunder and .lightning storm brought on a heavy fall of rain. This was followed on Saturday and Sunday by eight or ten heavy rains. SO YEARS AGO .Mr. Thos. Bissett who has faith­ fully served the town as night watch, for over a year, quit the job on Thursday night -last. 'Mr. James Creech, Jr., has succeeded him and will receive fifty cents a night. Work has been begun on Mr. Dixon's Hotel at Bracefield. M*r. Heywood, of Exeter, has the con­ tract for the brick work and Mr. Welsh, of Hensail, the frame work. The building is to be completed by the first of October. Mr. James Dignan is having a. new and commodious stable erected at the rear of his dwelling. Rev. Bray will preach his initiat­ ory sermon in the Trivitt Memorial Church On Sunday next. Miss Edith Myers, -after complet­ ing the millinery season in London, returned home Saturday. Miss A. L. Crocker,, milliner at Blyth, also re­ turned home. Smiles . Cop—"What’s the idea of park­ ing right in front of the fire house?” Lady Motorist—"Why, the sign said, "Fine for tparkingl” The judge thought there Was something familiar about the pris­ oner. Judge'—-Haven’t I seen you foe* fore? * Prisoner—Often* sir. Judge—I thought so. What was the charge the last time I saw you? Prisoner—Fifty debts, your hon* or. I mixed a mint julep for you as 1 often do. You remember Peter, the bartender, don’t you? A new patient at a sanitarium for the mentally deranged: complained to the attending physician; “What’s the idea of sticking me in a room with that crazy guy over there?*’ "Well, I’ll tell you/’ said the doc* tor piacatingiy, "it’s the only room we have available just now* Is your roommate troublesome?” “Why, the guy’s crazy I He keeps looking around and saying* *No Hons, tto tigers, no elephants’—and all the'time the room’s full Of ’em!” Graduation of Hensail Publ ic School liensall Public School examina- lieu results are as (follows; Grade I to Grade II-—Honors: Tillie Kirk, Graham 'Fai’qubai’, Jimmie Raynham, Margaret Moir, Phyllis Lostell, Billie Kerslake, Donald McLaren, Jack Judd, Joyce Peters. Passed. — Bobby Bennett, Jack McICenzie. Grade 11 to Grade III—Honours; Teddy Norniington, Billie Lavender, Gwen Voth, Elsie Smith, Tommy Lavender, Wayne Welsh, Marilyn Anderson, Ruth Anne McLarnon. Passed—Gerald Plynn, Wayne Mc­ Bride, Jimmie Hyde, Bobbie Bayn- ham, Ray McKenzie, Bobby Lavery. Grade II'I to Grade IV—Honors; Gladys Moir, Marilyn Mousseau, Judy Shaddick, Eudora Hyde, Cor­ inne Smale, Jimmie Orr, Jack Hen­ derson, Russell Kirk, Passed—Carol McMurtrfe, Murney Twitchell, Lola Volland, Glenn McKenzie, Ronnie McKenzie, Grade IV to Grade V—Honors: Jean Lavender, Jerry Rannie, Ger. trade Bell, Marlene Petzke, Ruth Soldan, Grace McLeod, Donald Koehler, Bobbie Bell. Passed—Nita Smith, Jeanne Soldan, Gordon Mc- Larnon. Grade V to Grade VI—Honors: Ewen McEwen, Jack Boyd, Audrey Walsh, Ronald Ohuter, Passed— Ronald Passmore, Gerald Moir. Grade V to Grade VII—Honors: Shirley Flynn. Grade VI to Grade VII—Honors: Ruth Alexander, Betty Moir, Elaine Beer, Marie .Boyd, Lois Henderson, Orian Stephan. Passed—(Lloyd Bu­ chanan, Donald Orr, Anne Hilde- brant, Bill Carlile. Grade VII to Grade VIII—Passed Bruce Moir,, Douglas Moir, Sam Peters, Keith Volland, Betty Smale, George MacLeod, Jack Sangster.— A. E. Judd, Princial; Barbara Michie and June Brandon, Assist­ ants. See here, Mr. Deadbeat, if you don’t pay me what you owe me, I’ll tell your other creditors that you did. STEVENSON—GARDINER Of Canada-wide interest was the ceremony performed Monday after­ noon, July 1st, at Pleasant View farm, Lemberg, home of the bride's father, by which Florence Ellen, daughter -of Hon. James G. Gar­ diner, federal minister of agricul­ ture, 'became the bride of W. S. Russell Stevenson, son of Senatoi' and Mrs. J. Stevenson of Regina and Rockcliffe, Ont, Rev. W. H. Hughes officiated. • Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore a white satin wed­ & Si >>> ft*; AHEAD FARMER Interestat 5 Jo <5% is the only charge the B of M makes for a loan to improve your farm—no compounding- no service fee—no other charge whatever. See your nearest B ofM manager today. Bank of Montreal working with Canadians in every walk of life since 2817 Ask or write for our folder “Quiz for a Go-ahead Farmer.’’ n a ntk ADM ding gown, fashioned with a net bodice adorned by satin leaves. She wore a fingei' tip veil and car­ ried a white Bible topped by a •cor­ sage of roses from which fell streamers in which rosebuds were tied. -Miss Beth Gardiner, the bride’s sister, and Miss Kay .Burgess, of Ottawa, attended the bride, the former wearing a yellow eyelet gown and a Juliet cap of flowers. She carried a colonial bouquet of dark red roses. Miss Burgess chose a blue eyelet gown with Juliet cap of flowers and colonial bouquet of yellow roses. The groom’s mother appeared in a turquoise dress with corsage of talisman roses. The groom was attended by his brother, Wilfred Stevenson, and Bob Milliken, Regina, ushered, Mrs. Lionel Stilborn was soloist, singing. "I’ll Walk Beside You" and pianist was Warde Laidman. At tlie reception which followed Hon. Mr. Justice J. W. Estey, Ot­ tawa, proposed a toast to the bride. The couple left to spend several weeks at Waskesiu before taking up residence in Montreal. For travelling the bride donned a pas­ tel blue three-piece suit the top coat of which was trimmed with gyey fox. Her accessories were navy blue. There were many Regina and Saskatoon guests while those from Ottawa were: (Miss Isabel Gum­ mings, Miss Burgess, Hon. Mr. Justice and Mrs. Estey, Harold Estey. The bride is a granddaughter of •Mrs. J. C. Gardiner, of Usborne. The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just so long as it is good and grabs the new just as soon as it is better. ALL SIZES TO SUIT ANY PURPOSE • A. J. CLATWORTHY We Deliver Phone 12 Granton Lucky lad! Getting snagged on the wire in his effort to climb over a Hydro barrier . . . probably to recover a bail . . . may have saved his life. Some boys have not been so lucky. Hydro energy is one of'the finest things we have in Ontario to make for better living. But it can stop one from living, if you thoughtlessly gjve it a chance to flash through your body. Every possible precaution for safety is taken by your Hydro; but once in a while someone gets careless of “takes a chance”, and tragedy strikes. A boy climbs a pole and touches a Wire. Or he flies his kite near a Hydro line, and it contacts a high-voltage circuit and carries death or injury to whoever is holding if. Sometimes a storm breaks down a line and some­ one fakes hold of the broken live wire with disastrous results, these dre just examples of acts that Ore beyond the power of Hydro to prevent* Your Hydro can only Warn of danger, dnd seek co-operation of parents irrid teachers and all Who have influence with thdse who might ekpose themselves to that danger* Hydro *need never be d threat to anyone who: 1. Will not climb poles. 2. Will stay dWay from distribution lines dnd transformer stations. 3. Will keep aWdy from fallen wires, For your safety, in Cdsie of trouble immediately notify your nearest Hydro dffice* But never, never touch d fallen Wire. hHF’H .. ^^jl^ric^power- commission of a......................................................... .