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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1952-02-28, Page 2THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 28, 1952 Bfje Exeter Cime5-^bbocate Times Established 1873 Amalgamated 1924 Advocate Established ISSA Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario An Independent Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the Town 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 CWNA Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation Paid-in-Advance Circulation as of September 30, 1951 — 2,493 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Canada, in advance, 5?3.00 ft year — United States, in advance, $4.00 a year Single Copies 7$ Each Melvin Southcott - Publishers - Robert Southcott THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 28, 1952 Look Around Next week is Education Week—and it comes at a good time, Recently outbreaks of criticism of the present curricula in schools have brought a new interest in to­ day’s system of education. Ontario Minister W. J. Dunlop has condemned what he calls an undue em­ phasis on “fancy subjects, frills, and fads” in the schools and promises that more stress will be placed on the three “Rs”. By “fancy” subjects he said he. meant music, art and athletics. The minister said: "J am anxious about time spent in activities that have nothing much to do with real study. I have dis­ covered that in some of our schools ai? in­ ordinate amount of time is spent on ath­ letics.” He promised that what he termed the tendency to "sugar coat” education with athletics and "useful” activies will be curbed in Ontario schools "before it is too late”. Other recent criticisms have no doubt made parents anxious about the education their children are receiving today. Whether the critics who say that the three "Rs” are being neglected are right or not is indeed a subject of much contoversy among “pro­ gressive" educationalists and the “tradi­ tional” variety. Certainly the three "Rs” should have the most prominent place in our schools’ cur­ ricula, But what’s the matter with includ­ ing Mr. Dunlop’s so-called "frills” and “useful” subjects in the program? Can’t music and athletics, agriculture and shop work take a part in the school day with­ out hindering the academic education? Where else but in schools can these things be taught and encouraged. When we went to school, the frills weren’t there. It was mostly fundamentals. But to fill the timetable wijh fundamentals meant so much repetitive discord and dis­ continuity in the program, most students students were more confused than enlight­ ened. If Mr. Dunlop’s ^department has thor­ oughly investigated its overall program of three “Rs” education through primary and secondary schools and found that there isn’t enough time alloted for sturents to learn these fundamentals then he’s perfect­ ly justified in making his statement. But if he thinks that more time spent on a subject will overcome a haphazard year-by-year or an ineffectual presentation us outlined by his department then he sure­ ly is mistaken. People who like to make a general criticispi of the “frills” and activities” of the school should find out some of these facts: How much of these activities are be­ ing done outside of regular school hours. How much time is being devoted to them during school hours. How much time is be­ ing spent on fundamentals and how well is that time being used. «• «• «■ Investigation Parents who are concerned over the present controversy in education have a splendid chance this week to find out some facts and figures for themselves. In the first place, we would urge you to read the page entitled “Education— Everybody’s Business” which appears in this week’s newspaper. Secondly., you have the opportunity of going to open house at the public school next Wednesday to see for yourself what’s going on. Discuss the program with the teachers and find out what their attitudes and reactions are. Compare the education being taught today and in your day. And while you try to criticize today’s curriculum, don’t forget to be critical of what your education was, too. •X X- * « We Need It v Some rnonfhs ago pupils participated in an essay contest conducted by the On­ tario Hospital Association, on the subject, “What Our Hospital Means To Our Com­ munity”. Winner of the province-wide contest y/as Rachael Moir Morgan, of Port Arthur. In her essay, she said; “As never before, the community de­ pends on the hospital of today to enhance fcTie general health, happiness, and welfare of this modern generation. “From ancient times to the present day, untold progress has been made in the field of medicine. We can hardly appreciate the value of convenient, time-saving inven­ tions and methods which have come to us down through the centuries, as a result of the splendid services rendered to the com­ munity by the hospital. Doctors’ offices could not contain the equipment necessary co diagnose cases quickly and efficiently, and patients benefit from new, costly and ever-improving equipment, accessible to the community through the hospital. "The care of sick and injured is the most important function of every hospital, and the institution, therefore, must be on duty 24 hours every day with skilled per­ sonnel ready to receive emergency calls of traffic casualties, fire victims, births, and every other sickness and disease. There must always be adequate staff and equip­ ment to meet the need of each type of in­ jury and sickness. The patient’s social and financial standing and his menta lattitudc must be considered in his treatment and the hospital makes every effort to maintain the necessary services for his benefit. The community is indebted to the hospital be­ cause anyone requiring care, whether he is financially able or not, may be admitted for care and treatment. "Citizens from the community who do not require hospital confinement are con­ stantly attending medical and surgical clin­ ics at the hospital as out-patients, for the purpose of receiving treatment. “In training medical interns, student nurses, dieticians and technicians, and em­ ploying laundry workers,z kitchen staff, ward and nurses’ aids, and others, the hos­ pital performs a unique and direct service to civic life. “The promotion of health and preven­ tion of disease through public health serv­ ices is another important function. The old adage, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”, is personified in the serv­ ice the hospital renders to the community. The hospital justifies the faith placed in it by the community. Early diagnosis of can­ cer, tuberculosis and venereal diseases can bring about immediate action to assist un­ fortunate victims. “Every hospital may advance research by keeping accurate records from which statistics can be made. These confidential clinical records are sources of information for the physician in diagnosing similar cases, serving as a check on individual pro­ gress and preventing duplication of exam­ ination. 4 “There are, in every hospital, such de­ partments as physiotherapy, X-ray and laboratory which aid in diagnosis, treat­ ment of disease and rehabilitation of pa­ tients, while dietary and laundry sections uphold the laws of good nutrition and cleanliness. “One is impressed, while visiting a hos­ pital, by the attempts of sterility on every ward, particularly in the nursery and oper­ ating room. Doctors and nurses, masked and gowned, -may be seen working incess­ antly over weak, frail bodies. Children are safeguarded by isolation as far as possible. Large quantities of sterile supplies are shelved for use at any time. “A hospital cannot operate without people who are giving of themselves to al­ leviate human suffering and it would be useless to attempt to build up a community without a medical centre of some descrip­ tion. No, the community and the hospital cannot be separated for they are part of each other. “You need it, and it needs you!”* * * * Save Your Paper Exeter Lions have brought forth a sim­ ple and inexpensive way of raising funds for the South Huron Hospital—one that everyone can participate in. It’s saving your waste paper. You# old newspapers and magazines are nod good to you. Both gathered and tied and shipped in ton lots they can raise a lot of money for the hospital. If this service club makes depots avail­ able and the members donoate their time to make collections and. send shipments, surely the least the rest of us can do is to co-operate by saving, tying and, if neces­ sary, taking our waste paper to a depot rather than throw it out. Set aside a corner in the cellar or back room to save those old papers. Yon'be help­ ing to build your hospital. «■ -x- * * As The Windsor Star proclaims: “Can­ ada’s railroading business has hit the bil- lions-a-year bracket—which certainly war­ rants an extra couple of toots at the level crossing?’ As the---------- “TIMES" Go By .... . ! N I 50 YEARS AGO Mr. Wellington Johns who has been conducting- a tailoring bus­ iness on the East side of Main Street for a number of lears has decided to quit business in Exe­ ter. KIRRTON: Messrs. Alfred Blake and George Farthing have broken the wood cutting record. They cut, split and piled ten cords of hard maple for Mr, Robt. Wade in seven hours. USB ORNB: Mr. Thomas Smale, our veteran well digger who lias made himself known far and near by the never-failing tests in locating and securing water, has again distinguished himself. He undertook to sink a well for Mr. John Delbridge on the old Balkwill homestead and like many of his other attempts, struck a gusher. The water 'rose rapidly and in less than an hour 13 feet had run in and it was still raising. The new finm, Messrs. Harvey Bros, take possession of the grist ill on Saturday next. 25 YEARS AGO Mr. M. Pfaff has purchased a new Chrysler sedan, and has Mr. Wes Dearing of Stephen. Mr. Thomas Pryde has pur­ chased the fine brick residence on Mrs. Emerson on William Street. Mr. Chas. Prout, of Detroit, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Prout, of Usborne, has purchased the 125-aci'e farm of Mr. Robt. Luk­ er on the-London Road South. Mr. Reginald Knight, a veter­ an of the Great War, who has been farming a mile and a quar­ ter south of town, has been or­ dered by his physician to take a, year's rest and if offering his farm for sale. 15 YEARS AGO Winners at the high school field day were: Phyllis Prouty, Grace Snell, Grace Beckler, Ro­ bert Dinney, Ralph Delbridge and Austin Fahrner. Receiving at the High School At Home were the teachers: Misses Alma Brown, Helen Jones, Zetta Mark, and Messrs. E. J. Wethey and G. C. Koch. Kirkton: Dr. G. Jose, Mr. A, Bickell, Dr. Campbell, Mr. R Humphreys, Mr. G. H. Burger and Mr. Jas. Robinson went to Toronto Wednesday, February 2 4, to wait on the Hepburn Government in connection with paving No. 22 Highway. Hensail: Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Tapp left this week for Ottawa where Dr. Tapp has accepted a position with the National Re­ search Council. / IO YEARS AGO Winners of the fancy dress carnival at the Exeter Arena on Monday evening were: Teddy Prout, Marion Cowan, June Smith, Marjorie Welsh, Doris El­ liot, Ruby Welsh, Wanda Tur­ key, Goldwin Atkinson, Bill Mickle, Bob Gladman, B. W. Tuckey, Lloyd Parsons, Marion Woods, Patsy Hopper, Joan Hop-, per, Maxine Reeder, Anne Marie Rivers,. Russell Hopcroft, Joyce Broderick, Eleanor Cook, Ross Taylor, Mrs. C. V. Pickard, Lome Passmore, An electric "V" for Victory has been erected in the centre of Exeter’s Main Street 'and shows up prominently at night. Rev. J. B. Rhodes, M.A. a for­ mer minister of Caven Presby­ terian Church and now connect­ ed with the Toronto Bible So­ ciety, occupied his former pulpit Sunday. Would Brand Cattle The much-storied Western cus­ tom of branding cattle may come to Ontario if directors of Huron County Federation of Agricul­ ture have their way. Viewing with concern a series of cattle thefts in-Huron, direc­ tors decided to seek registration of livestock brands in the pro­ vince. The request will be for­ warded to W. P. Watson, On­ tario’s livestock commissioner. It was suggested that branding of cattle might be necessary for proper identification and that such a move should be province­ wide. The directors also instructed their secretary-fieldman, Gordon M. Greig, to request Crown At­ torney H. Glen Hays, QC, to- ap­ peal a county court decision on a recent cattle theft case, (Clinton News-Record) Open Arena With the anticipation that Turk Broda, the idol of the hoc­ key world will be here to offici­ ate during the opening and dedi­ cation ceremonies of the Mitchell and District Community Mettr orial Arena on Friday night, Feb­ ruary 29, the program commit­ tee of the Arena committee has lined up a program of such in­ terest that it should draw a crowd that will pack the new building and give them enter­ tainment that they will talk about for weeks,(Mitchell Advocate) Hereford^ At Scafotth Already planning for the 1952 Fall Fair directors have been successful in obtaining the Here-1 ford Regional Show for Seaforth. The Hereford show covers five counties and will include more than 100 head of cattle. Tlio prize list will total nearly $600. Application is also being made to the Ontario Department of Agriculture to raise the Seaforth Fair to Class ‘B’, according to President R. T. Bolton. It is ex­ pected that within a year the necessary 'standards will have been met. (Huron Expositor) New Fire Truck The new fire truck for Sea­ forth Fire Area arrived from Woodstock on Tuesday after­ noon. During the evening a de­ monstration was given with re­ presentatives present from Sea­ forth and the participating town­ ships of Tuckersmith, Hullett., Hibbert and McKillop. The new truck is similar in appearance to the Seaforth fire truck and has two additional pumps, It is housed in the addition built last year at the rear of Seaforth fire hall. S (Seaforth News) Four Killed When Car Crashes Into Tree The worst traffic accident in this district for some years Claimed the lives of four young men and seriously injured three more. The crash occurred about a mile west of Ailsa Craig on Number Seven Highway. Ironi­ cally, the accident occurred und- er ideal driving conditions. The driver, whom police sur­ mise dozed at the wheel, was Edward Ilunniford of Bosanquet Township. All the’ other passen­ gers were soldiers training at Camp Ipperwash, (Parkhill Gazette) A "Big'Indian” strayed away from liis camp and got lost. In­ quiring the way back, he was asked: "Indian lost?” "No,” said lie disdainfully, "Indian iio lest—-wigwam lost.” Striking his breast, he exclaimed, "Indian here,” Canadians . . . News And Views From Canada*s Weekly Newspapers Canadiana; From The Farm Spokesman the news that a lead­ ing expert figures that the av­ erage farm wife is worth $60,- 000 in extra income to hei* hus­ band and family during their married life . , . At Berwick,NS, Mayor Horsburgh and council­ lors went in unopposed op nomi­ nation day, and no election need­ ed ... At Kamloops, BC, the Rotary Club with the local steam laundry will have, during February, an exchange of ties campaign; if you don’t like your Christmas tie anymore, for two- bits they’ll have em cleaned and exchanged with some other per­ son’s tie . , . at St. Vital, Man., of the 75 civil defence volun teers who turned out for classes, the majority were—yes, ladies . . . The Picton, Ont., Gazette reports the homely item that the Cherry Valley Pin-up Girls met at the home of Madeline Good. "Miss Good showed the proper way to make a bound button hole.” . . . Something new has been added ip the Markham Township Municipal office at Unionville, Ont. It’s a Sugges­ tion Box and every ratepayer ,is welcome to drop in his or her suggestion as to how they be­ lieve the administration can be improved . . . The Brooks (Alta.) Bulletin holds no one can say people of Canada are copy-cats, colorless and phony . . . "They are not braggarts but in their heartsthey know they have ac­ complished great things.” . . , The Tillsonburg (Ont.) News commenting on traffic accidents, morosely says, "Unless there is a drastic change in driving hab­ its, thousands of Canadians will be taking the last ride to the graveyard in 1952” . . . who wants to farm wheat; J. M. Holt farmer of the Strathcona muni­ cipal district, sold his 300 acres of farm land to the city of Ed­ monton for $245,000; it is less than a mile east of the city limits . , . Read it and weep, mumbled workman Jack Sim­ mons at Mission City, B.C., as he was demolishing a building and found a poster advertising a 19 24 Ford car for $495 . . . Noc­ turnal thieves in Camden Gore Township stole three tons of coal from the Dresden Farmer’s Club, the size of the theft stun­ ning police who thought such a stunt impossible . . . Aprop the 5-day banking week and the suggestion in Pafilia- nient that girls working in banks are in a better position as far as marriage is concerned if they are off all day Saturday and Sunday, the Collingwood Enter­ prise-Bulletin wonders “whether the girls imagine they are work­ ing in a matrimonial bureau or for one of the foremost services which the. public now enjoys1.” The trouble with th© Ontario government producing another rent formula, suggests one article is that as with its predecessor, neither landlords o r tenants can understand it. Continues: “Ontario could have taken this action last spring, but lacked po­ litical courage to do so. Result is that housing shortage, which is quite artificial, continues. There is enough housing in On­ tario to provide every family with accomodation within its means. But it will never, be .pro­ perly allocated under rent con­ trol." Gloomily the Langley (BC) Advance presents this argument. The high cost of living will nev­ er come down so long as labor and management are chasing each other with wage and price hikes. In the meantime those who arebeing really hurt, and who are not in the least bit re­ sponsible for the predicament they are in, are the primary pro­ ducers and those on fixed .in­ comes. Somewhere along the line our elected representatives will have to call a halt to rising wages and prices, otherwise those who are being hurt will gradu­ ally starve to death.” The Rural Scene: No doubt the British Government .prefers to buy wheat through inter­ governmental contracts, for this has proved the most profitable method of buying from Britain's point of view. But that puts the Canadian government in the dif­ ficult position of having to ex­ plain to the western farmers why their wheat which is said to be the best in - the world, should sell for less than inferior wheats from other countries. Lacombe (Alta.) Globe: The travel folder and publip adver­ tisements designed to attract American holiday seeks over-em­ phasize the dramatic and are not a true conception of our nation as a whole. Our industry, our culture, our system of govern­ ment and our standard of living is glossed over or ignored. Now that Canadians are de­ termined to eat margarine and Canadian farmers are determin­ ed not to milk more cows, why not set bout to grow the neces­ sary vegetable oils in Canada, asks the Camrose (Alta.) Cana­ dian, adding, “Sounds funny to thresh butter out of’ a separator in a field but it might smell sweeter than the friendly cow and her winter stall." St. Maurice Chronicle, Three Rivers, Que: , . , “If Canadians are to be asked to save more and spend less, the example of econ­ omy must be set by Ottawa. So far, there is hardly a sign that the federal authorities realize their responsibilities in this mat­ ter.” Thanks'Unknown* For Newspaper Wilkie, Saskatchewan, February 19, 195 2 The Editor, The Exeter Times-Advocate, Exeter, Ont. Dear Sir: Through you may I say “Thank You" to some kind sub­ scriber to your paper. For some time the Times-Advocate lias been sent to us by someone Who hasn’t divulged his, or her name. This week’s issue will be passed on, in Wilkie, to a friend who once lived and taught at Shipka, and who now is Mrs. Leona Slatzer, The Times-Advocate proves in­ formative and useful to all of us. Louise always asks for the paper as she clips all the items from Exeter High School. To us the news from Greenway, Shipka, and Grand Bend, as well as items from the various churches, have a personal flavor. Any of your readers who have lived in Western Sask., may be interested in a weather and road report. Though there has been spells of cold weather generally the winter has been fine. For example, we have just had three weeks of as fine weather as any­ one in Canada could wish. During most of the winter main roads have been open. In many places groups of farmers are purchas­ ing blower plows to keep their roads open. This morning, on coffee row, I showed my copy of the Times- Advocate to the Editor of the Wilkie Press. He told me he thinks it is a fine paper, and will read it more carefully at another time. I appreciate this opportunity of thanking my unseen and un­ known friend for forwarding the paper. Your Very Truly, Rev. K. M. Wood. "This pie tastes like it was made of sawdust —mighty good sawdust, though "