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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1951-05-31, Page 2Page 2 THE TIME5-ADV0CATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 31, 1951 <fje Cxeter ^unes>^i)bocate JHmes Established 1878 Amalgamated November 1034 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 th© Ontario-Quebec Division of the C1VNA Member of the Audit: Bureau of Circulation Paid-in-Advance Circulation as of March 31, 1950 2,329 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Canada, in advance, 83.50 a year United States, in advance, 88.00 Single Copies 8 Cents Each X Melvin Southcott * Publishers Robert Southcott THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 31, 1951 Moving Ahead Churches and Sunday Schools in this vicinity are taking a step forward this sum­ mer in doing what they can to furnish the district with a vacation school. Good work was done in this line last summer. This sea­ son there is every hope that the good done already in the way of a vacation school will be extended. What is proposed to be done will be given due notice later. Just now plans for the school are in the making. To say anything definite now would bat bring confusion. In general terms such vacation schools are intended to give the children a definitely happy time f >r two weeks or more in which play, games, recreation, and instruction are given by teachers who know' how to teach and to entertain and to interest the young charges who come to school. There is no loafing at .such a school. While there is no hardness there is firm­ ness and direction. Throughout there is a serious effort on the part of the school lenders to help the children to the best way of playing and listening and profiting by the leadership of men and women who see in the children of today the stuff out of which we hope to make the citizens of tomorrow. The schol realizes that the best citizen is the one built around a conscience. Happi­ ness is the right of childhood, these vaca­ tion school ■workers plainly see. These workers in the school realize happiness and wholesome play, and instruction in the best things for childhood, are one and insepar­ able. The district awaits the outcome with interest and hope.* st- ~ * Growers’ Protest “Fruit and vegetable growers are deep­ ly concerned over the rising cost of living in Canada. Rising prices affect them as much as any group in Canada. “The prices of the things they must buy have risen faster than the prices of the things they sell. “For this reason, growers in Canada can accept no responsibility for recent in­ creases in food prices in this country.” That's a statement from M. M. Robin­ son, secretary-treasurer of the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers* Association, who has issued a brief defending their posi­ tion in this mad cost-of-living race. Mr. Robinson has good legs to stand on when he says farmers’ returns are not the largest factor in these index boosts that hit the headlines every' so often. For instance: “Canadian fruit and vegetable growers resent the imputations that they are benefiting from higher prices. They view' the cost-of-living index with dis­ trust. Of nine fruits or fruit products used in the index, one (corn syrup) is not a fruit product, six are imported fruits, and only two—jam and canned peaches—are Canadian in origin.” Another: “A study of the cost-of-living index established that all foods advanced from 204.0 on March 1, 1950, to 233.9 on March 1, 1951. But, while this advance was being recorded, the index shows that vege­ tables advanced but 3.5 points, mainly on the strength of the high prices in January and February of imported cabbage and higher retails prices for canned tomatoes, peas and corn.” “The advances against canned toma­ toes, canned peas and canned corn were the result of rapid and unexpected dis­ appearance of stocks on hand. With sup­ plies dwindling as they did the canners fol­ lowed “good business practice”. They ad­ vanced the prices. The growers of the pro­ ducts within the cans did not benefit as they sold their tomatoes, peas and corn in 1950 and 1949 for considerably less than they did in 1948. The increases in the prices of these three canned products were all extra for the processors and distributive trades. But, in the public mind, the farm­ ers got the money.” Mr. Robinson continues: “For the past two years, the prices paid to Canadian farmers for their fruit and vegetables have declined. At the same time, the costs of production—-the cost of seed, sprays, lab­ our, transportation, containers, fertilizer, taxes, etc.—have risen, in some cases very sharply. “But while the farmer has been receiv­ ing less and less for his produce, consumers have been paying more and mure for some items.” “Who,” asks Mr. Robinson, “has been responsible ?” He concludes a presentation of facts and figures with this: “Inflation hits the farmer in two ways—cost of operating and cost of living. “Farming is a business. Farmers are actuated bv the profit motive as are all others. “The attention paid to food costs is out of proportion in relation to the profit grabbing in all other phases of the econ­ omic life of the nation. “Let's be fair.” These excerpts have been reprinted in this column foi two reasons—one. to assist growers in presenting their ease to the public, and two, to show that farm groups are realizing that strong organization can do a very effective job in looking after the interests of the agricultural industry. Through such organization farmers were able to obtain more fail- prices by their united action with relation to canning contracts during the dispute in February. Farmers have been slow in the past to recognize the importance of united action. They have suffered because of the mass strength of labour and the trade associa­ tions which industry has organized. While these organizations have at times been unfair in their practices, it will be recognized that on an over-all basis they have been of tremendous benefit to their members. Farmers, too, will improve their liveli­ hood by having a strong federation and such organizations as the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers' Association. * * * * Independent, Progressive Now that Grand Bend has decided that it will affiliate with Lambton County, the. next step will be the election of a muni­ cipal council in June. The new council will have a great op­ portunity and responsibility in developing the summer resort, already regarded as one of the most important recreational area’, in Western Ontario, Almost of immediate need is a second right of way from the Blue Water High­ way to the beach. On busy Sundays the existing road is crowded to the point where traffic is almost stalemated. If fire -were’ ever to break out or tradegy to strike in the village, help would be a long time com­ ing because of the traffic bottlenecks. Some restrictions on the types of cot­ tages erected would be of benefit to the village and its tourist industry. Some of the small, hastily-built structures which have been constructed, are not a credit to the village. Other thing’s which the new council might consider are picnic grounds, parking areas, and, with the help of provincial and federal governments, dredging of the river.' Huron County, although disappointed that Grand Bend joined Lambton, will hope for continued growth and improvement of the summer resort. Its popularity affects business in South Huron and neighbouring municipalities. The residents of Grand Bend deserve credit and encouragement'’in their bid to become an independent and progressive community.* * «- * Everyone Can Do It This is a very active, interesting kind, of world. Most of us have so many things to do, and a great many more things that we are planning to do when we have the time and opportunity. Our very activ­ ity keeps us so busy that we tend to over­ look the fact that there are a great many people who are shut out from the normal type of life by being shut in. To remind us of these folk, and to urge us to do some­ thing for them, the first Sunday of June is set aside annually as Shut-ins’ Day. Plan to make Sunday, June 3, the day in which you show at least two shut-ins— a civilian and a disabled veteran—that you care. It could be through flowers, a gift or a letter; or a personal visit in which you leave behind some little token of your thoughtfulness. But above all don't forget them until Shut-ins’ Day comes again next year to remind you once more. Tn His name who said, “I was sick, and ye visited me,” let us unite in making June 3 a rare, unforgetable day for the shut-in and for ourselves, » RESUMING THE GREAT ’DEBATE' IN KOREA ■——.....—.......—....-.....—...—...- ..... ■ ■ -......-■ As the-------- “TIMES* Go By 11------------------------------------- --------—»---------------------------- - 50 YEARS AGO Samuel Switzer intends start­ ing liis stave mill at Sliipka in a few days as he has a large amount of staves to cut this season. The R. Pickard Co. has placed a new and modern delivery wagon on the road. The seventh annual meet of the Exeter Turf Club was made the occasion for celebrating Vic­ tory Day, May 24, in Exeter The heavy rains of the pre­ vious day were a great draw­ back to the day’s program. In the morning a Trades and Cali- thumpian procession paraded the principal streets followed by> horse races in the afternoon and a contest in the evening was staged by the Exeter .Band. Mr. Use of Dashwood is here this week with his merry-go- round which has located on the vacant lot north of Mr. J. D. Atkinson’s block. Miss Maud Hicks is expected home today from Riverside, California after an absence of two years, 15 YEARS AGO Mr. William Ward, Exeter’s leading amatuer rosarian is the proud possessor of the first rose to bloom here in 19 3 G. ■Miss Gladys Stone has taken a position as assistant operator at the Bell telephone office. The students at Western Uni­ versity have finished their ex­ aminations for this term and have returned home. They are E. Christie, Grafton Cochrane, Rowe Dinney, G. Grep and Miss Margaret Taman of town. The Public Utilities Commis­ sion have a gang of men at work on the new water works system. Water is to be piped from the newly acquired pro­ perty one mile east of Exeter to a reservoir to be erected on the south bank of the river at River­ view Park. Mr. Howard J. Dignan has been appointed Principal of the Niagara Falls High school, dut­ ies to commence in September. Saturday Evening Here, There And Elsewhere By Rev, James Anthony, M.A, 25 YEARS AGO Miss Vera Rowe has resigned her position with Gladman and Stanbury. Miss Carrie Davis has taken a position at the Post Office in place of Miss Alice Pfaff who has resigned. Miss Margaret Strang of Us- borne was successful in winning second class honors in honor science at Western University. Mr. Bruce Medd returned home last week having graduat­ ed from the O.A.C. Guelph with the degree of B.S.A. Mr. Garnet Frayne has pur­ chased the hog business from Mr. H. Elworthy. 1O YEARS AGO Huron- County War Loan drive will begin with a “bang” 'Mon­ day morning next at nine o’clock. Mr. and Mrs. Van Camp and Mary, Gerald and Ardys McFalls, Irene Sweet and Dorothy Johns were in London on Monday at­ tending the graduation of Miss Irene Van Camp as a nurse at Victoria Hospital. A number from the Sub-Deb club spent the week-end at Grand Bend in Mr. Andrew Hamilton’s cottage. Misses Margaret Tape and Marion Snell of the Exe­ ter High School staff acted as chaperons. Mr. Ray Pryde who has been with the Kredge Store of Strat­ ford spent the 24th at his home Here. He has been transferred to Montreal where a new branch has been opened. ■ ■ ■ Neighboring News Planes Disturb Kits According to some local mink ranchers losses have ibeen suf­ fered as a result of the female mink with kits being disturbed by aircraft flying overhead. As the result of a formation passing over this way about a week ago one rancher here says he lost about a hundred kits. Officials at Centralia have been contacted by several ranchers and have of- ferred to cooperate to the best of their ability in avoiding losses to the ranchers. St. Marys Journal-Argus Lioils Barn Razed Friday Morning (Efforts of members of the Seaforth Fire Brigade were sabo­ taged Thursday evening when fire broke out in a small barn located at the rear of the Lions house, which is situated at the eastern limits of the town. The fire was quickly brought under control, and from all appear­ ances, totally extinguished. How­ ever, it broke out again the fol­ lowing morning, and the local brigade was called about 7 a,In. This time the barn was razed, At the time of the first alarm, the new fire truck which was to be demonstrated to members of ths newly-formed Seaforth Fire Area later in the evening, had just arrived in town. It answered the call, too, and a demonstra­ tion followed of the new pumper and its various adaptions to dif­ ferent situations. Huron Expositor Horses Go To U.S, Eric McIlroy’s Merryrood Farm Stables, consisting of five pacers and one trotter, under the guiding hand of the well- known trainer, Louis .Tames, left ■ ■ ■ last week for Hamburg Raceway, near Buffalo, N.Y. One of the better known pac­ ers, Silver Peter, who was raised by Orin Loomis, of Parkhill, looks like one of the fastest horses to compete in the U.S.A. Last year he was staked in all the engagements, but due to an accident he did not compete in them. This year he looks fit and ready for all comers. The remainder of the stable is made up as follows: Louella Grattan, Patricial Hal, Merry­ rood Girl, Merryrood Direct, and the trotter, Helen Steinway. Mr. McIlroy, besides having this stable of fine horses, is well known in the district as pro­ prietor of ‘Lakeview Casino, Grand Bend. He is a director of Parkhill Turf Club. Merryrood Farm is one of the finest private stables and train­ ing quarters in Canada. It is managed by Ed Stewardson of Greenway. Parkhill Gazette Crop Report For Huron County Hog markets have moved back upward again tills past week. Milk production still shows the continued seasonable increase. A good rain during the week was very timely and all crops are growing well. Sugar beets are practically all in. Corn plant­ ing is general and some beans have been seeded at week’s end. Two dollars a year is the cost of ‘'boarding” every farm rat. A new ingredient known as war­ farin is reported successful in ridding the farm of rats for long periods. The Real Thing “They could fire three shots for our two” and old soldier who was with Wellington in the peninsular war remarked to one of our grandfathers. “But,” he added, “When it came to a bay­ onet charge they ran like sheep.” This statement is worthy of consideration in view of what a modern general had to say of the Korean war. “For cleaning up a mess there is nothing like the rifle and bayonet." A good soldier does not do much in the way of argument. He simply holds the line or clears the way. Everyone of us had better take the principal lying in behind these sayings that smell so strongly of the powder smoke of the battle field. We have sought so eagerly for the sleek and easy way of get­ ting on, that fortune is likely to pass us by, searching for per­ sons with iron in there veins, there is an alarming tendency to flee the smell of powder and to find our tools a weariness to the flesh. When we follow the primrose way we are liable to land in the bonfire, whether we are indi­ viduals or nations. There is noth­ ing in all that has been said to decry invention. The airplane is here but the airplane in reality is but the scout and the sapper and miner on a larger scale. The tank is an advance on the cavalry of other days. The cannon is an advance on the bow and arrow of a Black Prince. What is needed in every ad­ vance in civil and military life is the stuff that makes a soldier terrible who handles the rifle and bayonet. Downright manhood wins the day on the field of bat­ tle and in our everyday exis­ tence. A Thrilling Opportunity It’s in the news that the Do­ minion government is to build three hundred and seventy-five new houses, part of a six million dollar building program at Cen­ tralia. Quiet going people in this region find it hard to believe that all such works are going on in the region that only a few years ago was given to the peaceful purpose of farm life, but the news of the great enter­ prises is not a whisper from dreamland nor the creature of some wild speculator talking without a method or an aim. Should the war threat con­ tinue there is the gravest rea­ son to believe that what is today on paper and in men’s minds is sure to work out in solid achievement. The writer devout­ ly hopes that there will be no reason for all the stir in build­ ing. War prosperity is of scant benefit to anyone. But things are as they are and the people of this reagion will advised to be up and doing. These houses will require men to build them. That building re­ quire laboroures and machinists and carpenters and skilled me­ chanics and draughtsmen of every sort. These builders will require potatoes and poultry and dairy products and bread and clothing and every food that workmen and their families require. It is the privilege of this com­ munity to meet those needs. Every man who can lift shovel or hammer will be in keen de­ mand, and our merchants will have an opportunity to supply goods as they never supplied goods before. In all this new- stirring there is no room for profiteering but for efficient service and the best of merchan­ dising. Those men and women who will employ additional labour over there in Centralia know their business and are acquaint­ ed with a true sense of values. The churches of the community will need to give themselves with new ardour to the great work for which they have been called into existence. More Perplexing Than Ever Matters Korean do not clear up. In violation of the agree­ ment reached by the United Na­ tions, the thirty-eighth parallel was crossed at the instigation of China and Russia. This was seen to be but a prelude on the part of the aggressive nations to the conquest of Formosa and the chain of islands that would be­ come when conquered as they surely would be a line of fortifi­ cations that would land Chinese and Russian forces on the shores of the United States. Freedom loving nations re­ solved to stamp out this menace at its inception. These friends o f I i b e r t y made the m i s- take of underestimating the strength of the enemy to be de­ feated in battle and the difficul­ ties of terrain and climate they were to encounter, and so the struggle that should have ended in a few months or weeks was prolonged into months and gives, sighs that it continue for a year at least. It is now seen that the strug­ gle in Korea served a double purpose. The struggle was a subtle effort on the part of Russia to start the conquest of the world. If successful in its various stages, Russia would have gained her purpose. Failing in Korea Russia was prepared, to start a war in Iran, the modern name for ancient Persia. By this time Russia sees that her efforts beginning with Korea, cannot succeed. What she now hopes for is a war beginning with Iran, Iran is rich in oil, aud oil, Russia sees, must constitute her life line. The oil wells of Iran are her immed­ iate objective. In her effort to secure this source of her supplies she is doing all that she can to stir up a holy war in Iran, a war that she hopes may spread throughout all Asia. Well does she know the signi- ficanse of such a struggle. None is so fierce as a religious war. For such a war the Mohamme­ dans are tempermental, specially well fitted, as Russia well kilows. Accordingly Russia appears to be shifting the struggle from Korea to Iran. Her men in Korea have proven unequal to the task she gave them and now she turns to Iran. What the putcome will be is very difficult to forecast? Chang­ es come over night, in both Kor­ ea and Iran. But Russia never changes her purpose of dominat­ ing the world. With the persis- tance of a screw gimlet she keeps boring away and will not cease her efforts till something turns her point and that something will be a spiritual power rather than a military power. .The day of Russia’s change of heart seems to be far in the dis­ tance, till it comes the world is bound to keep up the inspiring, but toilsome, struggle to see that freedom does not perish from the earth. LAFF OF THE WEEK "Maybe We Should Wait A Little While Until It Slacks Up A Bit." r