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THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY CORNING, MARCH 31, 1940
Wf)e Cxeter
Tinies Established 1873 Amalgamated November 1924 • Advocate Established 1881
Puhlfehfd Bach Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario
An Independent Newspaper Devoted tn the Interests of the Village of Exeter and District
Authorized as Second Glass Mail, Rost Office Department, Ottawa
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THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 31, 1949
Demetrlades, in Vima, Athens (Liberal)
"Peace: ‘Surely, they will never meet that way?”
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TOURIST CAMP
OPERATORS
Too Muck Publicity
Have we gone to an extreme in pub
lishing information regarding our national
defences? Is it wise to inform all and singu
lar of any advance airplane flights and
missies and explosives and shipping? Is it
sense to have any possible enemy informed
of the effect an exploding bomb would be
almost sure to have on a canal, a railway
centre, or a dock, or large dam. We may
be sure that any possible enemy knows
already a great deal about our resources. He
knows, 41s far as spying will allow him to
know, where our cruisers are to be found
and where otheir supplies are kept. Why
add to his already too complete a store of
information? On the other hand it is good
business to let anyone know the advan
tages of being-'on good terms with the
. C a n a d ian people. Any possible enemy
should be left in the dark as to what we
cqn do and do quickly and powerfully
should we
suits.
be disturbed in our peaceful pur-
Some the
can.
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As Regards Wheat
folk have been cherishing
opinion that all the wheat a farmer
spare may be sold for $1.80 per bushel.
That belief may be wide of the facts.
.When the wheat is offered it is submitted
to various tests, and the price fixed ac
cording to the grading resulting from the
tests. It is this way. Canadian wheat is sold
on a competitive market. Naturally the
buyer desires the best wheat he can secure
for his money. The seller is not the only
party to the deal. If his wheat does not
attract the buyer, it will be just too bad
for him. There is another factor that de
mands attention. If there is a large surplus
of wheat the buyer is not likely to purchase
the wheat just because he liked the would-
be-seller. It must not be overlooked that as
soon as any product ceases to meet a want
either real or imaginary it cease to have
value. This applies 'to wheat and butter and
iron and to anything else. A horse that has
drunk all he wants has little use for the
water trough. We are familiar with the ex
pression "fed up”. We know its meaning,
though we are likely to forget the profund
ity of the words ”tlie full soul loatheth an
honeycomb”. Yet in the fae$ of facts so in
controvertible we have men making all
sorts of pacts dealing with the future
values of commodities to the ignoring of
the truth that coming days will set their
own values. Drought and frost and hail
and torrential rains have a way of making
a sad mess of the best laid plans of the
pact-makers. Natural products such as the
former has to do with, go in cycles. When
those cycles will begin or end or how long
they will last or’ what will be the interval
between them there is so far no way of
or practices
be’ forecast,
such as food
should be clearly stated on the package.
The manufacturer's name should be clearly
printed. The qualities that make the butter
or the oleomargarine first class or secoild
class should be readily available. Just now
there is a regulation setting the minimum
price of first grade butter at fifty-eight
cents, That is, if the creameries cannot sell
their first class, highest grade butter, the
government is pledged to take it off their
hands at fifty-eight cents per pound. But
the butter so purchased will be required to
be the simon pure article packed in first
class packages and in tiptop condition in
every way, shape and form. We cannot but
ask why oleomargarine should not be in
spected and in every way looked after with
equal care with that exercised over the
manufacture and sale of butter. The un
regulated sale of butter and other dairy
products brought the industry perilously
near to a downfall. Unless the oleomargar
ine situation is carefully and fairly looked*
after serious difficulties are sure to emerge.
Taking Off The Muzzle
We have seen a horse patiently gather
ing corn for his owner by dragging a spe
cially mounted box. The faithful animal
had pulled plow and harrow and cultivator
till the corn was ready for market. His
next job was to help in gathering the
corn and, finally, to haul the crop to mar
ket. It struck one as being hardly fair for
the horse to perform all this labour and
then to muzzle him so that he could not
secure a single bite of-the crop for which
he had foiled so hard and long. •
Our government and some branches of
the church have been entertaining similar
thoughts. The church has granted veterans
a bonus to help them out in these days of
high cost of living. How gratefully this
bonus has been received only these old
servants and their dependents in any de
gree realize. The government has been con
sidering the lot of its public school teachers
and is doing what it can to provide a pen
sion for those teachers who have come to
life’s late autumn. Neither teachers nor
ministers have been directly engaged in
gainful occupations, yet upon their activi
ties the state rests and in schools and
churches is the spring of what makes
life worth while living. No one wmuld care
to remove to a country where there' were
neither schools nor churches. Yet as these
ministers and teachers have carried on they
•have been painfully like muzzled Dobbin
who cannot partake of the good things
they have given their lives to produce. We
arc glad to see that this condition is
partially remedied.
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Chewing gum is*
Look I Listen!
SO YEARS AGO
(The Exeter Advocate 1889)
Mr. P. Bowden, proprietor ,of
the Exeter Skating Rink, intends
holding races on Good Friday,
if the weather continues cold.
Mrs. French, of Medicin Hat,
is visiting her sister-in-law, Mrs.
E. A. Follick.
Mr. Fred Bissett, who has-
been engaged with .Mr. J. P.
Clark, as a clerk for some years,
left Monday morning for Crystal
’City, Manitoba, where he has
accepted a position in a ^Iry
goods store.
The Misses Lilia and Ida
Johns visited at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. ghirrey, near Hensail,
for a few days . during the week.The timbers 'are being prepar
ed foi' the erection of the new
mill on Huron Street by the
SutherlandMnnis Company.'
Lome • Cann -has commenced
as an apprentice to learn the
trade of moulding with Mr. Alex
Tait, Exeter .Foundry.
Before leaving for Toronto,
•Mr. Robert Lang, who has been
one of our most ■progressive and
highly valued citizens, was ten
dered a banquet at the Metro
politan Hotel on Tuesday night
last by a number of our prom
inent citizens. The affair took
the form of au oyster supper,
after which Reeve Spackman
presented Mr. Lang with a hand
some .gold ring, *to which Mr.
Lang very feelingly replied.
bird House .competition .conduct
ed by the Exeter Horticultural
Society. The houses are on ex
hibition ip the show window of
M. E. Gardiner’s furniture store.
15 YEARS AGO
(The Tinies-Advocate 1931)
Snell Bros. & Co. have made
two trips to Oshawa within the
past .-ten days aud have made
deliveries on seven new Chevro
let cars. .
.Mr. Garnet McFalls is moving
to, his .mother’s farm on the
third concession of Usborne.
Rev. Canon D, W. Collins, of
St. George Church, Sarnia, and
a former rector of the Trivitt
Memorial Church Exeter, has re
signed his position and is given
a temporary superannuation.
_ One of the .pages of the
Times-Advocate this week is de
voted to Horticulture?
The heaviest fall of snow that
has visited this section ,at one
time all winter- fell Monday and
early Tuesday morning. Citizen’s
awoke on Tuesday to find a
foot of snow coyer-ing the
ground. %
being
sjs
to be cheaper.Stop!
25 /EARS AGO
(The Exeter Tim’es 1924)
Mr. Charles Salter was ,*
Guelph last week taking a short
course in cream grading at the
O-A.C.
Mr. and Mrs.
,in
Garnet Pass-
more and family have returned
to their farm in Usborne’ after
spending the winter in Detroit.
During the severe windstorm
from the east. Saturday morn
ing, the large iron roof of the
Central Hotel was completely
biown off- .and deposited in the
rear yard.
George Beavers carried off
the majority of prizes in the
1O YEARS AGO
(The Times-Advoeate 1939)
Mr. Andy Easton, secretary of
the Exeter Branch of the Can
adian Legion, was presented with
a life membership in the order
at a regular meeting of the
branch, Friday evening last, ,in
appreciation of the splendid
services he has rendered,
Mr. Harvey .Pfaff, of Crediton,
had tire' misfortune to fracture
a bone between the wrist and
elbow of the right ’arm, while
assisting in cutting wood with ,a
circular saw.
Mr. Russell Collingwood com
menced his new duties as assist
ant janitor at the Exeter school,
Monday.
Miss Fern Welsh, of Sarnia
General Hospital is visiting for
.two weeks with her parents, -Mr.
and Mrs. William Welsh,
Mr. Reg. Beavers, of the
Custom’s Office, at Sarnia, visit
ed here on Tuesday.
SMILES . . . .
determining. What fashions
will emerge simply cannot
There are certain basic needs,
and drink and clothing and housing that
may be counted upon, though even in this
region there are hosts of baffling and de
feating uncertainties let proud man fuss
and worry as he will. A great deal of our
lung distance planing seems to but add to
our confusion. Still we would be less than
human did we not try to see an inch be
yond our noses. Even though the wheat
pact, recently signed by some thirty-four
wheat dealing nations, already is revealing
many weaknesses,
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Oleomargarine Arid Butter
Some people may think that an
amount of attention is being paid
situation created by the legalizing
Salt' t'i vKwuiarg<^._v —.
bn remembered that one
every six in Canada is either directly or
indirectly dependent upon the dairy indus
try for his daily bread. One has but-to look
at this fact for a moment to realize the
anxiety with which any movement is re
garded when that movement imperils the
dairy industry in its various ramifications.
Particularly is this true of all farmng dist
ricts such as that of which this village is
the centre. For this reason the whole oleo
margarine situation requires careful atten
tion. At least no competitor should be given
any advantage over another competitor
since few industries are working on too
wide a margin* Some men who are in a
position to do some figuring in this connec
tion tell us that the profit in the industry
is less than half a cent per pound, What is
contended is that the contents of both oleo
margarine and butter should be squarely
and authorilively before the public'. The in
gredients of both butter and oleomargarine
undue
to the
of the
of oleomargarine in Canada, Il must
person out of
V
done
aid to personal
on .one’sThe budgeting
premises is a better
peyity than the budgeting done in Ottawa.
What Other Editors Say
own
pros-
Thank You, Mr. Pryde
(Mildmay Gazette)
On Tuesday, March IS, Thomas Pryde,
the MX.A. for Huron, broke a long-stand
ing precendent in the Legislative Assembly
by publicly disagreeing with party policy
on the floor of the chamber. He advocated
higher old age pensions, despite the fact
• that his party was not favouring such a
move.
We have known Mr. Pryde personally
for several years and have always held him
in the highest esteem, but his action has
■ doubled and tripled tlie respect we bear
him. It is unfortunate for our province and
our nation that we haven’t many, many
more such sturdy representatives who are
willing to speak their cortvictioils in the
face of party policy.
Many of you have heard and mouthed
the phrase "representative, government”,
but most have forgotteiF the meaning of
those words. The word representative means
that our elected members of parliament and
legislature have been chosen by the major
ity of the people to represent them—-not to
be chore boys for a powerful leader who
is entirely unacquainted with the needs
and opinions of any one constituency.
Mr. Pryde is a stout-hearted and in
dependent son of Scotland, and apparently
he believes In standing firmly behind his
convictions. Tt is our sincere hope that Ins
example Will influence some of his col
leagues to similar action whenever they
feel that the time has come for plain
speaking.
Father: I'll teach you to make
love to my daughter.
Sailor: I sure wish you would,
sir. I haven't got
a six-hour pass.
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An old colored ___ __ ___
•plaining about the railroad re
fusing to pay for his mule which
had been killed by a train.
“Dey won’t pay for mall mule.
Dey won't even gimme- back
mah rope.”
“What rope?" he was asked.
“Wily, sah,” lie replied, "de
rope ah done use to tie de mule
on de track.”
much time on
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man was com-
"Let it be understood," said
a wife to her husband, "that
I’m a woman of a few words!"
"I know," replied her hus
band. "But don’t you tliink
you’re using them up too rapid
ly?"
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It was so cloudy that the bar
rage balloons were invisible
from the ground. An inquisitive
old man, looking up, was frank
ly puzzled.
"How do you' know there’s a
balloon at the end of that rope?’
he asked one of the m e n on
duty.
The soldier cocked an eye up
ward ’ ” ’
ain’t, GUCU, 1UL11LUJ', L VC U.VLLC
tlie blooming Indian rope trick!”
and replied: “If <there
then, lummy, I've done
All licences issued to Tourist Camp Operators
under The Tourist Camp Regulation Act, 1946,
‘ expire on March 31st, 1949.
Applications for renewal should be made to the
Municipal Clerk in the municipality in which
the camp is established, or in unorganized dis
tricts, to the -inspector of Provincial Police in
that district.
, If you are in doubt as to your status insofar as
this Act is concerned, please write to the Deputy
Minister, Department of Travel and Publicity,
Parliament Buildings, Toronto.
DEPARTMENT* OF TRAVEL & PUBLICITY
PARLIAMENT buildings
TORONTO
Hon. LOUIS P. CECILE, K.C.
Minister
TOM C. McCALL
Deputy Minister
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NATIONAL TOURIST SERVICE WEEK
From May 2nd io May 9th x
Tourist business is .YOUR business. The Canadian
Association of Tourist and Publicity Bureaux has
published an informative booklet "The Visitor
Industry’’ which tells what yon can do to help further
this important national program. Write for your
free copy.
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Last S a t u r d a y, the Cubs,
working with the Boy Scouts,
held a paper drive in Exeter.
The result was that about IS
tons of scrap paper were col
lected.
The drive started at 9
hi tile morning, and due to the
large turnout of Cubs and
Scouts, was finished by 5130 in
tlie afternoon. All the fellows
did a very good job, and every
one seemed quite pleased nt the
■result. Several businessmen Were
very generous in lending their
trucks and men to help out in
the collection,
A new oil burner has been
installed In the hall, replacing
the old coal stove. As a result,
the building is much more com
fortable when the pack meets,
and the room itself . is much
easier to keep clean. Last Satur
day afternoon the building was
swept and the junk thrown out.
It looks much more respectable
now, and it is now up tp you
fellows to keep it clean and
looking decent. That shouldn’t
be too hard, should it?
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Business lite starts With
pocket money. To you Wolf Cubs
a dollar may mean ten comic
a,in.
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books or a dozen-odd candy
bars. It can also mean a step on
the road to success, for it takes
only a dollar to open a savings
account in the Bank of Mont
real. By the habit of regular
saving you do much more than
build a bank account. You grad
ually achieve firmness of char
acter and patience, the basis of
success in the business world. In
a short period of ye}ars you will
havS a nice reserve to enable
youjb take advantage of oppor
tunity when it occurs,
’1*o Be a real Wolf Oub you
should have a bank account. It
you have not already started .one
call and see Jim Hendry., man
ager of the local branch of the
Bank of Montreal. He will be
glad to arrange your account
and also show you how me
various departments of the Bank
are operated^ in .other words
What we do with your money.
BE PREPARED—FOE LIFE
AND OPPORTUNITY
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Remember now fellows, if you
have any friends who would
like to join our ®ackt be sure
and bring them up to the meet
ings on Wednesday nights. The
pack 1S growing every week, and
the more the merrier,
MORE PEOPLE
ARE USING
long Distance
MORE OFTEN
A*
Out Long Distance operators now put through over 5
million calls a month—-twice as many as six years ago.
To-day more families keep in touch with one another
and busy men get more things done by Long Distance.
Providing for this growing use of Long Distance is an
important part of our vast expansion and improvement
program. Thousands of new operators have been added
— more are being selected and trained. Hundreds of new
and,.improved switchboards and lines have been built —
more are on the way,
With Long Distance as with local service, we want to put
your calls through courteously, quickly and accurately—to
give you even greater value by continuing to provide more
and better telephone service at the lowest possible cost.
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