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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1949-05-05, Page 24 Page £THE T1MES-ADV0CATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 5, 1949 Exeter Birney* locate Times Established 1873 Amalgamated November 1934 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, Post Office Department, Ottawa Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario-Quebec Division of the QWNA Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation Paid-In-Advance Circulation As Of September 30, 1948 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Canada, in advance, $2.50 a year United States, in advance, $3.00 Single Copies 6 Cents Each PublishersJ. Melvin Southcott THURSDAY MORNING, MAY S, 1949 * Of Danger has said that the Everybody’s Business That interesting old lady, Dame Rumor, is telling us that the Dominion government has a surplus of butter on hand and that cheese is on the way to the surplus stage, AU manner of suggestions are being of fered. One valuable hint is that the govern ment should seek for markets abroad where people want butter and cheese. This sug gestion is a fine one but will some person tell us how the suggestion can be carried out? Canada is at her wits’ end for mar kets and it is everybody’s business to secure those markets. As regards the butter situa tion would it not be well to reduce the price of cheese and butter by a very considerable amount? Should this be done, everyone would be surprised to note the increased sales of these products so essential to com fortable living. For years the price of but ter has been mounting. At last, in sheer desperation, the housewife found ways and means of using butter substitutes for her household purposes. And the “do without plan has come to be a prevailing custom. ' Why not put the butter at an attractive price ? It is urged that some one would be a loser by so doing. That same some one soon will be a very heavy loser should the price remain where it is. In fact, the whole dairy economy will need to be gone over. Little by little the dairy people were lead into the present unsatisfactory condition. That condition must be corrected. The government soon will be in a pretty pickle if butter is not soon sold. While we are on this ‘disagreeable topic we must once more urge that Canadians do more than they are now doing to improve the attractiveness of their product. When there was a necessity for doing so, the Canadian buyer was con tent to scrimp along with second rate food of one sort and another and to buy cloth ing that was not worth the price asked. Other goods were in the same class. Now that necessity is a thing of the past, the buying public seeks goods of real quality at a fair price and what it seeks it is pretty sure to find. There are two sides to every counter and the buyer’s side is now quite earnest about prices. * * * They Were Aware Prime Minister Atlee British ships have the right to sail upon the river where the unfortunate firing upon British vessels has taken place. In this way it is hinted that defensive and even retalia tory measures on the part of Britain are justified. That may all be but we question the justice or the right of Britain to start a war at the present time in defence of a few people who had ample warning that trouble of the most serious character was likely to break upon them. Those citizens ■were in a very real sense adventurers who were trying their fortune in a region where stability of government never has been a characteristic. Of this state of affairs the Britons in the troubled region were well aware. They took the risk freely and under no compulsion of any kind. Why should they be the cause of loosing a world war or a war of any kind? * * * * What Is Ahead? What is ahead for what was once known as the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland? What is ahead for the Empire of India? We may well wonder, A great part of Ireland has taken itself off from the kingdom and has set up housekeeping altogether on its own. Lately thinkers have said something about the disintegration of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Just now there is a proposal that the word Bri tish be left out altogether* What next? We may well ask that question. For one thing, we must keep our heads. There is no oc casion for hasty action. There is no cause for panic. We know our stock and we know that we can act and that we can en dure. The next thing is for us to take a good turn at repentence and spend a con siderable time at the penitent bench. British rule in Ireland was oppressive in many par ticulars. That oppressiveness alienated many* of the choicest spirits from the British rule* Many of the people of Ireland were driven to the hills and fastness of the centre of Ireland where they brooded over their wrongs " and became more discontented every day. We now see the result. Britain must show her sincere contrition for her past offences in Ireland and by a new liberal and just policy reconcile a people who are warm hearted and responsive to fair treatment. In this policy there must be no cause for suspicion, The old idea of superiority must be forgotten and a new Audit \ {Rureau 2 ©RCUlApm 2,276 NO WONDER SHE QUAKES! Robert Southcott redblooded and just and generous way of doing inaugurated forthwith. In India there has been a tendency at least to treat the people of that land as our inferiors. We have gone on the theory that we were deal ing with poor, benighted heathen rather than our equals. We have appointed rulers to India rather than insisted upon Idia’s appointing her own rulers. For India, to far too great an extent, we hqve not en couraged the practice of government of the people by the people. India is now in a position to select her own rulers. She has the blessed opportunity of making her own mistakes. She is now bound to the empire by ties that seem lighter than air but which may prove stronger than iron. sfc & # # A Better Understanding The day is right here when there must a more complete understanding between labour, and management. We must get rid of the idea that, labour is to exploit capital and that capital is in any way, shape, or . form in any degree to oppress labour. Management has capital to invest. Labour has a commodity to sell. Each is helpless without the other. In the new relation to be established there simply must be new motivation. Each must see in the other an indispensable element. Each must see that it is imperative that the other should con sider the necessities and the welfare of the other. And there must be a new relation between labour and government. Labour cannot long be considered as a mere thing to be at the beck of any sitting in the seats of the mighty. On the other handx labour must see that the government is no special functionary to benefit any one class. Gov ernment must no longer seek to use labour but to work hand in hand and for a com mon purpose with labour. Just now we are looking for the leaders of all parties enunciate a policy that labour and to management * * $ Asking IFor No “We place our graduates in positions where they do the full work their job re quires of them, asking for no sympathy and not looking for any allowance to be made because of their limitation. These men and women are not liabilities to society, but assets.” In these stirring words Mr. Arthur Sparks spoke of the workers who had been trained in the National Institute for the Blind, situated in Brantford, Ontario. Rare ly has an audience been more deeply moved than were the Lions who listened last Fri day night to Mr. Sparks as he addressed them at their supper meeting. The local Lions under the leadership of Mr. Sylvester Taylor have undertaken the assistance of a number of folk suffering from impaired vision and in this way have driven away the darkness from handicapped lives. ❖ sj: & * Tightening Up Grave authority is telling us that there is a move to steadily improve conditions around some of our summer resorts. There is no moral spasm in evidence but the word to tile resort people is to clean up in every sense of the word. Laws are not to be dead lumber. Best of all, the improvement is come from the people themselves and be - - • - be will appeal alike. * Pity to to Wrought by’themselves. , $ $ * * Note and Comment Every time we go to the store we ask who is building the latest house. ❖ * * And what fine weather we have for our gardening and farm seeding! « # * * Provincial politicians are doing lusty fence building and repairing. ♦ * * * With the meandering skunks and ing dust clouds, many residents are to to must had Sdxne swirl* ~ - refer ring to Exeter as Skunk Hollow and f<the only town where you can have an inside garden and an outside garden”, * » # 4 There’s always something. There’s to be a federal election by the end of June. Better get the takers planted, and the corn seed busy and all that. We may have a busy time of it ns July comes in. # * # # The last ten days of April were de cidedly cool, though but one frost came to these parts. Still, it is early . ♦« In the good old days we considered ourselves well off if seeding were through by the twenty* fourth of May, Let tis lift up our hearts. YOU SCAttE 50 YEARS AGO (The Exeter Advocate 1899) Dr. Lutz has erected a very pretty sign in front of his drug store. 'It is done in gilt and was executed by Mr. William Weekes, Drs. Rollins and Amos, who have been conducting >a success ful practice here for some .years, have dissolved partnership by mutual consent; Dr. Amos has moved his office to his resi- dense. Hilton Evans has accepted a position with Messrs. H. Bishop and Son to learn the ,dry goods business. Mr. and Mrs. John Spackman left on Wednesday to again ..take charge of their famous summer resort at Grand Bend. Mr. Spack man has been there for .some weeks renovating and improving the grounds. Mr. J. A. Stewart, who recent ly purchased the Snell property, adjacent to his own place, will commence the -enlargement of his store shortly. When com pleted this will be one of .the largest and most modern stores in the county. It will have fifty foot frontage- and will 135 feet long. a be | lucky winner of the congoleum rug given by Jones & May. Mrs. ■M. Finkbeiner, of Crediton, was winner of the r u g given by Southcott Bros. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Lay- ton have returned to Exeter after a pleasant winter spent in Florida. Fire which started about three o’clock Saturday afternoon com pletely destroyed the large and up-to-date barn of Mrs. Archie McCurdy, north boundry of Us- borne. 25 YEARS AGO (The Exeter Times 1924) Dearing and Harry .Sweet left Saturday for Liverpool, England, in charge of a shipment of cattle for Mr. William Colwill, of Centralia. Mr. M. Senior, .of Toronto, who has completed his year at Os- goode Hall, has returned home for the holidays. ■Mr. Walter Johns, of Ellni- ville, has received word from the Methodist Book Room that he has been awarded the prize for his story “The Law of Kindness” which will be published in the Onward, June 21, Messrs. William H. 15 YEARS AGO (The Times‘Advocate 1034) •Mrs, G. F. Roulston was the winner of a Gypsy Queen Cole man camp stove at the demon stration held at Beaver’s Hard ware on Friday last. Exeter and vicinity had its first .opportunity to share .in a mass rally of the Oxford Group when a team of Groupers visited here over the week-end. Over thirty-five speakers Were with the .team representing London, Stratford, Mitchell, Seaforth and Biyth. Miss Florence Norry is to be congratulated o n winning a beautiful silver flower basket for ladies’ high* at the annual euchre of the East Middlesex Conservative Association held at the Masonic Temple, London, on Friday evening last. The shanty in the sugar bush of Mr. William Hooper, Lake Road, caught fite late Saturday night and was burned tto the ground. Mr. Milton Russell, Of Hay Township, has received word from the Department of Game and Fisheries Of his appointment as Deputy Gaare Warden. IO YEARS AGO (The Times-Advocate 1939) Residents and „cottagers at Grand Bend spent an anxious few hours ,Sunday afternoon, when a bush-fire in the Pinery fanned by a high wind , swept through the dry underbrush to wards the village* Several hun dred persons gathered to do battle against jthe flatties. Cot tage owners at the Reach O’ Pines stood by ready to remove their household etiects, Finally a backfire was started >and as the two fires met the flames were brought under* control. Mt, Wes Simmons was the SMILES . . A bewildered man entered a ladies’ specialty shop. <Man: “I want a corset for my wife.” Clerk: Man: out.” “What bust?’’ “Nothing. 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