The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1949-12-22, Page 6THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 22, 1949
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THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 22, 1949
Taking Stock
First among the items to be reckoned
with in taking stock in this season is the
asset we have in being citizens of an em
pire that put all she had of blood and
treasure into insuring that freedom should
not perish from the earth. Britain’s present
difficulties have grown out of her high en
deavour for all that is prized by healthy
minded men. Neither us nor our children
ever will have cause to blush for what
Britain has done in those two titanic wars.
While blood runs in liberty-loving beings,
men will stand with uncovered heads at
the memory of Britain’s heroism in those
‘dreadful days. Amazement will fill their
hearts as they ask, "How could these
things be?”
Canada has many an advantage in hei*
mineral and forest potentialities. The treas
ures of her soil are as yet almost un
dreamed of. As this is written many of our
stoutest hearted are devising ways and
means of protecting and developing the
forest wealth of Northern Ontario and the
known timber wealth of our western prov
inces. Labrador is producing iron ore in
quality and quantity little thought of years
ago. Canadian fisheries are just beginning
to show their power to employ men and to
feed the world. Uranium and gold from
our mines are but emerging on the markets
of the world. Oil for home and factory and
field is slowly taking the place its worth
commands. The diesel engine this hour is
demonstrating with efficiency in transport
ation. We realize that we are citizens of a
great land surging with a new life.
Along with this material wealth so
greatly to be desired is the bright light
Shining from our churches as they do their
part in keeping* life sweet and wholesome
in every corner of our land. These churches
pioneer in building and equipping hospitals
and schools and homes of mercy. Wherever
men venture the church keeps pace. If
people in this community require evidence
of useful learning, let them look around
them and note our up-to-date schools and
read the list of our* teachers and scholars
and professional men who have been grad
uated therefrom.* * ❖ *
Change In Markets
There will be a change in our overseas
marketing opportunities, but if our states
men will but take the pains to look square
ly at what lies ahead we’ll see the day
that markets are opportunities for ever
widening relations. We fondly hope that
the younger men of this generation, and
particularly our children, will see Canada’s
merchant ships passing to and fro exchang
ing goods in every market of the world.
May a kind Providence open our eyes that
we may see that the conditions calculated
to work for us far outnumber the conditions
that are against us.
Those New Medicines
Anyone who lias endured the pangs of
arthritis welcomes the news that a remedy
has been discovered for the relief of this
distressing and disabling aflliction. In the
same breath we mention the discovery we
are duty bound to say that the remedy is
still very much in the hand of researchers.
It is said that while the medicine drives
out temporarily at least, the devil of arth
ritis, it opens the way for other troubles
that may prove equally serious. In any
case the remedy is not a medicine for the
layman to use. The doctors will need to
satisfy themselves as the use of a medicine
that has so much doubt about the disabil
ity of its use. The encouraging thing is that
the government is doing what it can to
assist researchers in regard to the securing,
manufacture and. use of a remedy that
promises so much. We recall an instance
where a physician was approached by a
sufferer with the statement "I have tried
everything and everyone I know about to
get rid of this trouble. Now, kill me Ot
cure me!” "Which do you want? There are
lots of drugs that will help you to shuffle
off the mortal coil. You can do the kill
ing yourself. Curing is different.” We earn
estly urge that the researchers may have
a high degree of success with the new drugs
or remedies mentioned. Meantime we can
but wait. Other ills of humanity such as
typhoid and diphtheria no longer are the
dreaded scourge of fifty years ago. Hence
our hope for the future . . ,
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Labour And Wait
Headaches are common these days
among editors who are honestly trying to
make the present agricultural situation
clear to themselves and to their readers.
Of course, we are thinking of the relation
of the Canadian farmer to the British mar
ket. We have heard again and again that
the British market is closing against such
Canadian farm products as Canadian cheese
and eggs and bacon. As soon as such in
formation gets in at one ear it is almost
driven out by word that comes in at the.
other ear to the effect that some food from
Canada, besides wheat, is to find its way
to Britain. This sets all of us wondering
and makes it difficult for the farmer to
readjust his enterprises. Again we are told
that the opposition to Britain’s taking our
Canadian farm products is official and that
the British people are quite ready to take
our farm food. Yet the officials of the
British government have been sustained by
the votes of the people who are said to
be eager to trade with Canadians. /Ind
there is another headache. Again, we are
told that Britain’s dollars are intermixed
with Marshal aid dollars. Along with the
good dollars supplied by the United States
is a provision that such money in the hands
of the Marshal aid receiving countries must
not be spent in the aid receiving country
unless the United States, declares herself to
have a surplus of the goods the aid-receiv
ing country is willing to buy. Anyone may
see the mess this provision makes of Bri
tain’s purchasing powers. There is a string
attached to Britain’s available dollars and
one end of this string is strongly held in
Washington. To a considerable extent Bri
tain is not free to buy goods in Canada
that must be paid for in dollars. It will
try the teeth of our best statesmen to untie
this ugly knot. We have been accustomed
to lean on the British market. It looks as
if Canadians can, for the present at least,
trade with their old friend John Bull. All
of us may depend upon it that our states
men and business men are doing their
sturdy utmost to get Canada out of her
trade hobbles. Power to their elbows!
Meanwhile, the rest of us must be on our
guard against jumping to conclusions. There
is no need for running up the black flag.
We must continue to labour and to wait,
and to use our* gray matter along with our
toil.* >:« ❖
Looking Forward
Civilization deplores the predicament of
China. A nation that had in it the potency
of advancing everything that is good in
humanity has seen its government overrun
till at this hour the centre of government
has been driven to one of the islands of
the once mighty empire. What the future
of this great land is to be, no one can fore
cast further than to say that the land is
doomed to many an agonizing hour. More
than that the immense population is almost
sure to be made the tool of an ever-advanc
ing, never-sleeping communism bent on the
conquest of the race. What this will mean
to the rest of the world it is difficult to
say. It is useless to attempt to unravel the
tangled web of Chinese politics and still
more futile to follow the devious and ob
scure ways of Chinese politicians. It is
plain to see one or two of the causes of
China’s downfall. For one thing, her insist
ent study of the past has failed to have
her make a stepping stone of the past but
to make a millstone of the past that is
sinking her into the morass of contempla
tion without corresponding application of
the lessons of experience. Her hindsight
may serve a purpose in her economy but
has failed to have her act in the living
present. Enemies have seen her mistake
and are taking merciless advantage of her
grave mistake. In the second place. China
is suffering the consequences of a wrong
system o£ education. Her students have not
been trained to investigate and to inquire.
Their students are not lead to ask why
things arc as they are. Sufficient attention
has not been given to the study of events.
The Scottish universities used to say of a
student who had not an inquiring mind
"There is nothing to him but what the*
spoon puts in”. China smiles serenely at
the follies of mankind but does little to se
cure the new wisdom of the present hour
calls for. Her people are diligent but their
diligence lacks the healthy nerve that is en
riched by a foresight that seeks the new
life and the new wisdom and the enlight
ened mind the new day demands on the
peril of the loss of freedom.
Local merchants’ faces should be as
1 red as reindeer Rudolph’s nose for not con
tracting Santa Claus to make an appear
ance at the children’s day show in the
Lyric Theatre, sponsored by the Lions Club
and Canadian Legion, Or maybe Saiita had
a previous booking?
SANTA CLAUS MYTH
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50 YEARS AGO
(The Exeter Advocate 1899)
Harry Browning lias returned
home from Madcham to spend
the Christmas vacation.
Frank Ruse, of Hamilton, is
shaking hands with many old
friends.
Miss Nina Kinsman left for
Toronto to attend the Conserva
tory of Music.
Arthur Ramsay has returned
from the Veterinary College, To
ronto, to .spend Christmas.
Mr. Aquilla Snell left Wednes
day for Winnipeg where he will
continue as traveller for the
prairie provinces.
In a Centralia school report we
note that Sam McC’oy, now of
London, headed his class in one
of the junior .grades.
Miss Fredrena Down was wait
ing at the creamery for some
milk when the horse became
frightended and ran .away, up
setting the.’rig and injuring her
badly.
The Dominion (Government de
cided to send a second conting
ent of not less than a thousand
men to aid the Imperial Forces
in South Africa.
25 YEARS AGO
(The Exeter Tunes 1924)
(On Tuesday evening, a horse
driven by Benson Tuckey on
Main Street .became frightened
and started to kick, getting one
of its feet between the shafts of
the dashboard. The cutter was
somewhat broken and the horse’s
leg cut.
W. J. Beer was advertising
radio sets built at home, with
loud speakers and head sets>.
The merchants advertising
their Christmas merchandise and
still doing business in Exeter
were Jones & May, Southcott
Bros., R. G. ^eldon and Harvey’s
Grocery.
Eggs were selling at 60 cents
for extras and hogs were $9-00,
wheat $1.38, barley 82 cents and
oats 15 cents.
The fine new addition to the
Hensail public and continuation
school costing in the .neighbor-
hodd of $14,000', was officially
opened. G. P. Hoag, inspector of
continuation schools, assisted in
the opening. Thomas .Welsh and
H. C. Soldan were the main con
tractors. The brickwork was done
by R. Cudmore and Chas. Wolfe.
Messrs. Boiithron and Drysdale
installed the heating, and John
Passmore, the wiring.
Vsborne Council fixed the rate
of wage per hour for snow work
for tile season at 40 cents for
man and team, and 2m cents for
man.
Garnet McFalls, of London,
was taken to London Tuesday
by Dr. Graham and was operat
ed on for appendicitis.
Five ducks were stolen from
the farm of E. J. Shapton and
eight ducks from the farm of
Henry Francis, Stephen, while
both families were attending
Christmas entertainments in Exe
ter.
15 YEARS AGO
(The Times-Advocate 1984)
Motorists who waited until the
day after Christmas to return to
their homes after holidaying with
relatives and friends found them
selves in the grip of the worst
snow storm of the winter.
Among those who .are home
from Western University, Lon
don, are Messrs. Hugh Creech,
Harry Jennings, Earl Christie,
Grafton Cochrane and Rowe Din-
ney, and Misses Helen Penhale,
Margaret and Jeanette Taman..
Holiday visitors in the village
are Miss Lulu Gaiser, of McMas
ter University, Hamilton, Mr. II.
Johnston, of Toronto University,
Miss Lulu Kerr, of Toronto, Mr.
Royal Haist and Miss Velma
Guettinger of Chicago—Crediton
News.
Miss Annie Simmons and Eva
Copeland of Victoria Hospital
staff, London, holidayed with the
the former’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. Simmons.
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Davis,
while on their way to Toronto
and Grant Sanders, -while return
ing to Buffalo, were passengers
on a train that was in a wreck
at Dundas. None of them were
hurt.
When a car belonging to An
drew Hamilton failed to pull out
of a rut on the highway north
of Exeter it struck a car belong
ing to Cyril Tuckey. Damage was
about $50.0'0.
Howard .Dignan, science teach
er at Thorold, is home for the
holidays.
Ray Creech of London Normal
is home for the week.
1O YEARS AGO
(The Times-Advocato 1939)
Fire Saturday night partly de
stroyed the farm home of Mr.
Hedley May, two and a half miles
south of Exeter. The fire started
in the rear of the summer kit
chen and spread rapidly. Fire
men from Exeter helped to con
fine the fire to the summer kit--
chen, which was destroyed.
The Howey Bros, grist mill
has been sold to Mr. Q. A. Cann, |
Dunville, who recently came from ■
the West. ' ITraffic Officer Wm. Robinson |
lias been transferred to Smith- ]
villc. I
During the heavy motor traf
fic on Exeter’s Main St. Saturday
evening, Herbert Bierling, son of
William Bierling, of the Blue
Water Highway, was knocked
down by a passing motorist. He
suffered lacerations of the right
wrist, one of the tendons being
cut The motorist stopped, but
failed to leave his name.
"You seem very quiet tonight,
Roland,” said the pretty girl.
"Are—are you sure you love
me?"
"Love you?" Roland exclaim
ed. "Good heavens, Rhoda, when
we were saying good-bye at the
gate last night your dog bit a
piece out of my leg, and . I didn’t
even notice it till I got home!”
H. J. CORNISH & CO.
CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
294 DUNDAS ST. LONDON, ONT.
FROM YOUR
JOHN DEERE DEALER
G. Simmons & Sons
Exeter and Goderich
The Voice
Of Temperance . * * »
Last Wednesday morning they
hanged John Christian down at
Chatham. He was a veteran of
the last war and he had a wife
and two . small children. Some
months ago being awakened out
of a drunken stupor he had
killed a man. That’s how ter
rible the sequel to drinking can
he, first murder, then hanging
the murderer. That’s why the
Huron Temperance Federation
keeps on fighting against alcohol
ism and for sobriety, (adv’t)iJ
Mere words cannot begin to bring you the many
good wishes Which we hold for you and your family,
As a tiny token of our high regard for your patron
age and friendship during the past year, and as a
renewed pledge of the service which we constantly
strive to offer,* may We taken this occasion to send
you our best wishes for a . » ♦
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