The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1952-09-04, Page 2Page 2 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1952
This journal shall always fight
for progress, reform and public
welfare, never be afraid to at
tack wrong, never belong to any
political party, never be satisfied
with merely printing news.
THIS YEAR’S BIRD NEST
THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1952
Discuss Problems
At St. Andrews, N.B.
Every year meinbtri? of the Canadian
Weekly Newspapers Association represent
ing weeklies located in communities from
Vancouver Island to Newfoundland and
from the Yukon to Southt rn Ontario gather
in convention. At thoc conferences the
newspaper men and women discuss mutual
problems and ways and means of improv
ing their weeklies that they may better
serve their respective communities.
This year the C.W.N.A. convention is
being held during the first week in Septem
ber at beautiful St, Androvs by the Sea,
in New Brunswick,
When newspaper pt < pit gather at a
convention they spend their time between
formal sessions and entertainment in “shop
talk”. They exchange ideas, learn how
others solve problems similar to theirs, find
out. new ways of doing things, discover
short cuts which helj t< keep in line ris
ing costs of production ... in general they
spend much of the convention time in
gleaning ideas which will help them do a
Hair-Puller
The typographical error
is a slippery thing and sly;
You can hunt until you’re dizzy,
but somehow it gets by.
Till the forms are off the presses
it’s strange how still it keeps,
It shrinks into a corner
and never stirs or peeps.
The typographical error
is too small for human eyes,
Till the ink is on the paper,
when it grows to mountain size.
The boss, he stares with horror,
then tears his hair and groans;
The sad sack who okayed the proofs
just drops his head and moans.
For all the other printing
may be clean as clean can be,
But that typographical error
is the ONLY thing you see!
better job in their respective communities.
Turning out a creditable weekly news
paper is a complicated process. Thus C.W.
N.A. members find plenty to talk about.
They discuss, among‘Other things, ad
vertising both national and local, layouts,
news and editorial writing, subscriptions,
district news gathering, the use of pictures
and other features, the development of
classifieds, training of apprentices, care of
typesetting and printing machinery, and',
well, the list could go on.
Weekly newspaper men at convention
time welcome representatives of the rail
ways, advertising agencies, nation-wide
companies, supply and machinery houses,
federal and provincial governments and so
forth. Over the years these people have
proved themselves to be good friends of
C.W.N.A. and of the more than 500 news
papers which make up its membership.
At such conventions as that at St. An
drews by the Sea at least one speaker is
bound to refer to the good job being done
by the weeklies in serving the “grass roots”
peojile of Canada, the people of the smaller
communities. That always causes weekly
newspaper people to chuckle for they know
that the people who live on the farms and
in the small towns are just as up to date
in their thinking and ways of doing things
as their city cousins.
Yet there is an element of truth in that
“grass roots” expression, too, for rural peo
ple do seem to be more sane, more bal
anced, more conscientious and certainly
more neighborly than many who live in the
big cities of Canada.
Gradually through the years out of
C.W.N.A. gatherings have evolved weekly
newspapers vastly better than those of even
a few decades ago, newspapers of which
the communities they serve may well be
proud. That there is still room for improve
ment in the average weekly, no one knows
better than the men and women who are
striving week in and week out to improve
the papers they are producing. That’s why
the C.W.N.A. holds conventions.
The Religion Of The
Common Man
By JOHN V. DAHMS
Zion Evangelical Uniteel
Brethren Church, Crcditon
50 YEARS AGO
Miss Mabel Brooks com
menced her duties as cashier
and bookkeeper for Messrs. F.
Hawkins & Son on Tuesday.
Mr. W. Johns has again-de
cided to open up a tailoring
business in town and will occupy
the premises recently vacated by
Mr. W. W. Tainan on the east
side of Main treet.
The open season for wild
duck began Monday and will
close December 1.
Messrs. Bawden and McDonell
shipped a carload of imported
horses to the Toronto Exhibition
Wednesday. Mr. H. Smith ship
ped a car of thoroughbred cattle
for exhibition to the Exhibition.
Labor Day was very quiet in
Exeter, while the proposed la-
cross match between Exeter and
Ailsa Craig did not materialize,
a ball game between two picked
local teams was enjoyed.
condition in Victoria Hospital
suffering from fractured bones
in his neck received from a fall
from a load of grain. He was
unloading grain in his barn
when he lost his balance and
fell to the floor of the barn.
Claudette Blowes, three-year-
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Claude Blowes, Hensail, was
badly bitten in the face by a
bulldog Thursday of last week.
She stopped to pet the dog and
it knocked her down and grab
bed her cheek.
Although there has been no
infantile paralysis in Exeter, the
Board of Health has deemed it
necessary to keep the high
school closed as a precautionary
measure for an extra week this
year since pupils attend the
school from such a wide area.
Miss Marguerite Hogarth, who
has been holidaying at Port
Stanley, recently won two ama
teur contests at the Casino con
tests held there.
Let’s Prevent This
What’s Manners
To A Hog?
By PAUL JONES
(T
Director of Public Information, National Safety Council
The big trouble with highway safety
today is too much “me first”. That's the
rotten apple in the traffic barrel. Get rid of
it and you’ve taken a big step toward re
ducing a highway toll that is a national
disgrace.
The “me first” attitude of motorists is
more serious than might be apparent at
first glance. Actually, this boorish traffic
behavior goes deeper than mere lack of
manners. It reflects the same attributes of
greed, selfishness and disregard for the
rights of others that bring about black
marketing, bribery, corruption and the cur
rent slump in old-fashioned morality.
It seems to me that basically there
isn’t a lot of difference between the poli
tician who is inclined to regard public
funds as his own private bank-roll and the
roadhog who regards the public highway
as his own private racetrack. Each is mere
ly taking his own way of saying "me
first
The next time you re out taking a
"pleasure” drive, take a look at what
passes for good, clean fun on the highway.
Observe the antics of the quaint characters
you meet aS they grimly give you the
business in their mad scramble to be first
at the finish line. Would you care to offer
this charming bit of Americana to a strang
er as a demonstrator’s model of the Ameri
can Way of Life?
Our modern traffic brawl is the great
est mass demonstration of gutter manners
ever seen in this country. The marvel is
not that so many people are killed and
maimed in traffic, but that so many man
age to survive.
So I earnestly recommend a concerted,
continuing and relentless battle to change
this “me first” attitude on the part of a
big segment of the motoring public. Either
we do this, and quickly, or those of us who
still care to stay alive had better abandon
our cars and take to the hills.
Better roads, tougher law enforcement,
required driver training and more rigid
driver licensing are vital factors in reduc
ing the traffic toll. But none of these can
be achieved as long as the public greets
safety appeals with “enthusiastic apathy”.
No one can tell me that we really want
safety on the highway when a driver can
get drunk, run over a child and get off
easier than a hunter who is caught with an
out-of-season deer.
And no one can tell me that we really
want good drivers until parents insist that
their sons and daughters be taught how to
operate an automobile as skillfully as they
do a typewriter or a slide rule.
The accident toll will come down, and
come down fast, when—and only when—
enough people take enough interest to do
their part in making it come down.
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25 YEARS AGO
A stalk of oats measuring six
feet, grown by Mr. Basil Ed
wards, of He’nsall, is on display
in The Times-Advocate window
this week.
The Exeter Canning Co. will
finish the pea pack this week.
It will run close to 40,000
cases.
Owen Geiger and son intend
starting flax pulling this week
and will bring a large number
of Indians to Exeter and Hen
sail for the work.
A rink of Exeter bowlers com
prising W. W. Taman, W. J.
Heaman, R. N. Creech and R.
G. Seldon was successful in
winning the Cornwall trophy at
the W0BA bowling tourney in
London last week.
15 YEARS AGO
Mr. Ben Case is in a critical
IO YEARS AGO
In accordance with a procla
mation and at the special re
quest of the King, Sunday next
will be observed as a day of
prayer throughout the Dominion
to mark the beginning of the
fourth year of war.
Four Huron County farmers
were fined $10 and costs at
Magistrate’s Court in Goderich
Tuesday. They were found guilty
of having creamery cans in their
possession and using them for
purposes other than the trans
portation of milk or cream to
the owners.
A dedication service was held
Sunday in the new T. Harry
Hoffman Funeral Home, Dash-,
wood.
A group of young people met
at the James .Street Church
parsonage to make plans for the
reorganization of a Y.P.P. in
the near future.
We wish the common man
would take his religion serious
ly.
Our experience leads us to
believe that the religion of most
Canadians is pretty well sum
med up by the Golden Rule, “As
ye would that men should do to
you, do ye also to them like
wise.” (Luke §:31), They may
use other language. They may
say their religion is the Ten
Commandments, the Sermon on
the- Mount (Usually they have
only the vaguest idea of what
is in the Sermon on the Mount),
the Fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of man, or love to
God and your neighbor, but our
impression is that they usually
mean something very much like
the Golden Rule.
Now we believe that this re
ligion of the common man starts
at the right place. It gets off on
the right foot. Indeed it is the
kind of religion that should lead
a man straight into Christianity.
(The common man usually
thinks his religion is Christian
ity. He doesn't know any better.
It is largely the fault of preach
ers, Sunday School teachers,
and the churches in general that
he doesn’t know any better.)
Indeed, Jesus himself said that
the Golden Rule is the essence
of the Old Testament law, which
the Bible says is a “schoolmaster
to bring us unto Christ”.
Why is it, then, that t-he
common man is not led to
Christ? I think the reason is
that lie has never taken his own
religion seriously.
We would like to ask this
common man, “Have you always
lived up to your religion?” Be
fore he became a Christian, the
apostle Paul’s religion was the
Old Testament law. (Remember
Jesus Himself said that the
essence of it is the Golden
Rule.) And Pau^ took his relig
ion seriously—with the tragic
result that he came to realize
that he hadn’t lived up to his
religion! His own religion told
him he was a sinner. He says
that when he realized that, “I
died”. He didn’t die physically.
He kept on eating three meals
a day, or whatever number of
meals it was customary to eat
in Palestine at that time. He
kept on with all his usual activi
ties, including his religious
ones. But his peace of mind died.
American lads, who had the
privilege of .taking part in the
Olympic Games of Model Avia
tion, Plymouth’s Sixth Interna
tional Model Plane Contest, in
Detroit during the past week,
came home with a beautiful two
foot high trophy, and a $25
United States Savings Bond as
a third prize in the senior com
bat competition. He was the only
Canadian entry in the finals. A
young lad by the name of Por
ter from Hamilton placed third
in the hand-launched glider.
(Mitchell Advocate)
His hope for eternity died. His
quiet conscience was gone. A
terror of death came. He knew
that in God’s Sight he was
guilty and terror of death came.
He knew that in God’s sight he
was guilty and condemned, As
he put it himself, he was “dead
in trespasses and sins”. Then he
was ready to take seriously
Christ’s death on Calvary. Be
fore that he had ridiculed the
idea that the Messiah, the Son
of God, should die a sinner’s
death, a death that covered Him
and His with the utmost shame
in the eyes of men, a death that
came with the cry, “My God,
my God, why hast Thou forsaken
me?” But when Paul realized how
hopeless he really was, he was
ready to heed the news that
Christ had died in his stead,
died that he might be forgiven.
The common man today does
not take Christ’s death serious
ly either. Unlike Paul, he usual
ly believes that Jesus is the Son
of God, and that He died on the
Cross. But it isn’t of too much
concern or importance to him.
If only lie would face his own
failure to live up to his own
religion seriously, he would rea
lize how hopeless a person he
really is, and would soon clutch
at Calvary as the only solid
means of deliverance and es
cape.
Though it is enough for any
man to face seriously the mean
ing of his past failure, another
question may be asked those
we have dared to call the ‘com
mon man’, “Can you live up to
your religion from now on?”
Multitudes have put their faith
in the Golden Rule, but have
never really tried to live up to
it, and so they still believe they
can, if they only set their minds
to it. Indeed they fully intend
to do so some day. Possibly some
have really tried to live up to
it. If so, they have failed, per
haps over and over again. Per
haps they tell themselves that
they’ll succeed yet—like many
alcoholics who don’t realize for
some time that liquor has so
enslaved them that they can’t
help themselves.
We wish these folks would try
seriously to live up to their own
religion. They would soon find,
as Paul found, that, “The good
that I would, I do not, but the
evil which I would not, that I
do”, or, as a modern poet said,
“Our best resolves we only
break”. Then they would be
ready to take seriously the risen
and living Christ who offers to
change our hearts and lives, and
to lead us, not to perfect good
ness and righteousness immed
iately, but “from strength to
strength”. As Paul came to say
about his slavery to failure,
“The Spirit of life in Christ
Jesus hath made me free.”
News From Our
NEIGHBORS
Stafi’a Co,Op Dairy
Takes First At ONE
First prize at the Canadian Na
tional Exhibition butter competi
tions, in the finished June but
ter, printed class, was awarded
last week to the Hibbert Co
operative Dairy of Staffa. Some
2,500 pounds of butter were
entered in the various competi
tions this year. Entries came
from Ontario, Quebec, New
Brunswick, Alberta and Mani
toba. (Huron Expositor)
Moon Mirage May
Fan Fancied Fire
A vivid orange moon, sid
ling the evening horizon in late
summer, has for ages been the
call of lov.ers, poets dreamers
and romanticists. Its warm haze
in the still dark of the night
sky lias beckoned fhe vows of
youth, the muse of the intel
lectual and the inspiration of the
artist.
Sunday night Deputy Fire
Chief John Crich figured that
same moon was responsible for
an excited lady on the Mill Road,
calling Seaforth and beckoning
the town fire department to an
imagined barn fire. Anyway,
when the trucks reached the
area there was no fire ....
only a vivid orange moon.
(Huron Expositor)
Car Enters Store
The front of E. J. Hovey's
store, Bayfield, looks as if it
might have been bombed! And
it it had been a bomb, it could
not have caused more consterna
tion and shock to customers and
staff than the resounding crash
and flying glass caused by a
1951 Buick sedan which tan
through the window riext to the
Post Office, about 2 o’clock,
Saturday afternoon. The hood of
the car was inside the window
when it came to a stop. It push
ed the framework in and bent
the corner of the steel ice-cream
freezer which was knocked about
eighteen inches over against the
meat counter with such force
that it dinted the corner. One
customer received a slight cut
from flying glass. Five large
panes of glass were broken and
the Hoveys are still sweeping up
splinters of it.
(Clinton News Record)
Best Cheese
Tom Aicken of the Blanshard
and Missouri Cheese1 Factory at
Wellburn “did it again” at the
Canadian National Exhibition
cheese competitions, making a
Clean sweep with his entries.
Tom took firsts in every class
and captured the silver trophy |
with a total of 9 8.35 points. In
the past several years Tom has
compiled an enviable record of
wins for his cheese in various
national and internatioal shows.
(St. Marys Journal-Argus)
Has B. A, Scott Autograph
The few people who happened
to be down town last Sunday
afternoon got quite a thrill when
Miss Barbara „Ann Scott stepped
out of a car here. Miss Scott, her
mother and a girl friend were
motoring from Ottawa to Chi
cago and as they were travelling
along No. 7 Highway, dropped
into Parkhill for lunch.
One of the prized possessions
of the Cosy Snack Bar is an
autographed menu which Miss
Scott graciously signed when she
was recognized by Mrs. Gordon
Thomas. (Parkhill Gazette)
Wins Olympic Prize
Bob Anderson, 17, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Morris Anderson, town,
one of 13 or 14 young Canad
ians, along with so«ne 490
The father called his daughter
into his study for ah intimate
chat. “Your young man was at
my office today,” he told her.
“He asked me for your hand—
a rather silly phrase—but any
way, I consented.”
The girl threw her arms about
him. “I must go and tell
mother.” Suddenly her voice lost
its ring of excitement. “But,
Father,” she faltered, “I hate to
leave mother.”
“That’s perfectly all right, my
dear, perfectly all right. Just
take her with you.”
Tedynscung, Chief of the
Delaware Indians about 1780,
was told the Golden Rule. He
said of it, “It is impossible. It
cannot be done. If the Great
Spirit that made man would
give him new heart, he could do
as you say, but not else.” Living
according to the Golden Rule is
a religion that leads straight to
despair—or else it leads straight
to Christ, who not only offers
a new heart, but provides escape
from our past failures as well.
Would that every person who
says his religion is the Golden
Rule, or the Ten Command
ments, or the Sermon on the
Mount, or the Fatherhood tof
God and the brotherhood of
mart, or love to God and neigh
bor, would take his religion
seriously! If he does, he will
soon flee to Christ.
LAFF OF THE WEEK
»i Guess it wasn't a loose hair after alt**