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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. Cxeter ®imesi=gfobocate jfimes Established 1878 Amalgamated 1924 Advocate Established 1881 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 off the Ontario-Quebec Division of the CWNA Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation * Paid-in-Advance Circulation as of March, 1952 — 2,534 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Canada, in advance, $3.00 a year —- United States, In advance, $4.00 a year Single Copies 70 Each X Melvin Southcott - Publishers - Robert Southcott 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**