The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1952-09-11, Page 2THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1952Page 2
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.
THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1952
Here She Comes i
Fair Promises To Be
Best "Heyday" Ever
This district’s biggest annual “heyday”
■—Exeter Fair—takes place next Wednes
day and Thursday. With good weather,
this year’s show will draw the largest
crowd and give tin best entertainment
ever!
Fail’ board members have been work
ing since the. spring to ensure the success
and improvement of next week’s exhibition.
Prizes in almost all departments have been
increased; top-notch entertainment lias been
secured; new features have been -added;
keener competition and greater enthusiasm
is already being shown.
Note And Comment
Them there was the man—mentioned
by The Windsor Star—who claimed Scot
tish extraction bccaust he had a dentist
named McTavish.
* * * *
People are funny, in the opinion of
The St. Thomas Times-Journal. They’ll live
in the same town or city and seldom speak
to each other. Then they may move to an
other place and become firm friends.
* * * *
In Exeter, England, a political organ
izer, a solicitor and a student formed a
company to help people -who forget birth
day and wedding anniversaries. For a small
sum and a list of dates, they provide eight
reminders in advanct. Always noted for
diplomacy abroad, the British, it seems,
are. literally practising, it at home now.
Toronto may have, its ‘ ‘CNF” and
London may stage “Western Fair” but still
there’s nothing like the home-town show.
The big Thursday parade will feature the
Exeter Band, local merchants’ decorated
floats, cars and commercial vehicles, dist
rict school children in costume, clowns,
freaks, horses and all the regalia.
Primarily the show window of this
district’s agriculture, the fair will boast
more and better competition than ever be
fore. The large number of early entries en
sure this. The increased prizes are expect
ed to draw a record number of exhibitors.
For those who want fun and excite
ment, there’ll be a large midway, sulky,
saddle and carriage horse races, children’s
sports and performing clowns.
Wednesday night, the fair will present
one of the best vaudeville shows ever as
sembled in the district. On Thursday night,
a dance will be held in the arena featur
ing the local artist, Earl Heywood.
Already the winner of the distinction
“Huron County’s Biggest Fair”, Exeter
Fair is going all out to seek the title. “On
tario's Biggest Rural Fair”. As it improves
each year, it comes closer and closer to be
the sole claimant of that honor.
Exeter Fair has always proven its
value to the people of this district and the
visitors from beyond. This year, it’s going
to do better.
As the day draws nearer, excitement
in the air yells “Watch out, everybody;
here comes Exeter Fair!”
We’ll see you there! .
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Ypur Minister Speaks
The Healing Value
Of Beauty
By REV. W
Thames Road
J, MOORES
United Church
Let’s Prevent This
Do You Know All
Your Highway Laws?
50 YEARS AGO
A team of Exeter lacrosse
players won a match in Clinton
1-0 Friday afternoon last.
Mr. Thomas Cudmore, Andrew
Street, has a sunflower growing
in liis garden that contains 107
heads and stands nine feet high,
Mrs. James Handford
daughter, Maggie, of
Road, who have been
friends in Manitoba,
home last week.
Messrs. Ed. Hooper and Fred
Sweet,
several
country,
night.
Mr. Garfield Sheere
Monday to accept a position at
the Verity Plow Works at Brant
ford.
and
London
visiting
returned
who have been
week’s visit to
returned home
an a
the old
Saturday
left on
15 YEARS AGO
Fire destroyed the large barn
on the farm of Mr. Archie Row-
cliffe south of Hensall Friday
evening last. Most of the sea
son’s crop was in the barn.
Mr. Rowcliffe was in the milk
house, adjoining the barn, short
ly before eight o'clock when he
heard an explosion in
part of the barn. On
tion, he found it a
flames.
Mr. Rowcliffe was
the upper
investiga-
mass of
hear much about “Ther
apy” jn these days. There are
many kinds of therapy, such as
the therapy applied to medical
science, psychological therapy,
occupational or vocational ther
apy, the healing effects which
accrue from teachers, soldiers or
civilians who have been partly
maimed or away from their
regular pursuits in life, to get
back into swing again, and pick
up the normal routine duties of
everyday life. This has a healing
effect on mind and body and
keeps the patient from thinking
too much about what the old
English writer calls
thing called I.”
with the art of
There is also
healing eleijient
pecially is this
the beauty of Nature. These are
gloripus days in the rural
countryside. Perhaps those who
live closest to it, fail to recog
nize or experience its fullest
significance. There are healing
effects to be found in simply
looking out over the panorama
of beautiful scenes spread out
before our eyes. Sometimes we
need not do more than, as W. B.
Keats in one of his poems called
"stand and stare” to let the
healing effects sink into our
souls. And after all, wasn’t Yeats
right when he said:
“A poor world this if full of
care,
have no time to stand and
stare.”
our modern world how-
. with the speeding up of
And Everlasting motion ...........
From my first dawn of childhood
Didst Thou intertwine with me
The
The
And
We
build up (heal,
our h u m a n.
feeling and of
discip-
fear.
” r ’'the fussy
It is connected
healing.
a therapeutic or
in Beauty. Es
so in regard to
Many people violate traffic regula
tions, sometimes deliberately, sometimes
through ignorance. Ignorance is no excuse,
of course, but few ever attempt to learn
what the highway laws are. Most of us as
sume we know them.
The rules of the road are made for
our safety. Below are a few excerpts. If
you’d like to know all the regulations (and
you should), write to the Ontario Depart
ment of Highways. Toronto, for your copy
of “The Highway Traffic Act”.
“No vehicle shall be driven upon a
highway at such a slow- rate of speed as
to impede or block the normal and reason
able movement of traffic thereon except
when such slow rate of speed is necessary
for safe operation having regard to all the
circumstances.
“Every person who drives a vehicle on
a highway without, due care and attention
or without reasonable consideration for
other persons using the highway shall be
guilty of an offence and shall be liable to
a penalty of not less than $5 and not more
than $100, or to imprisonment for a term
of not more than one month, and in ad
dition his license or permit, or both, may
be suspended for a period or not more
than six months.”
“The driver or operator of a vehicle
upon a highway before turning to the left
from a direct line shall first see that such
movement can be made in safety, and if
the operation of any other vehicle may be
affected by such movement shall give a
signal plainly visible to the driver or oper
ator of such vehicle of the intention to
make such movement.”
“Where a person travelling or being
upon a highway in charge of a vehicle or
on horseback is overtaken by a vehicle or
horseman travelling at greater speed, the
person so overtaken shall quietly turn out
to the right and allow such vehicle or
horseman travelling ;4 greater speed, the
'person so overtaken shall quietly turn out
to the right and allow such vehicle or
horseman to pass.”
“No vehicle shall follow any fire de
partment vehicle when responding to an
alarm at a distance of less than 500 feet.”
"No person shall employ or permit
anyone under the age of 15 years to drive
or operate a motor vehicle or farm tractor
on a highway.”
“. . . every lighted spotlamp shall be
so directed, upon approaching or upon the
approach of another vehicle that no part
of the high intensity portion of the beam
from such lamp will be directed to the left
of the prolongation of the extreme left
side, nor more than 100 feet ahead, of the
vehicle to which it is attached.”
“Where two persons in charge of ve
hicles or on horseback approach a cross
road or intersection, or enter an inter
section, at the same time, the person to
the -right hand of the other vehicle or
horseman shall have the right-of-way.”
“No person shall park or leave stand
ing any vehicle whether attended or un
attended, upon the travelled portion of a
highway, outside of a city, town or village,
when it is practicable to park or leave
such vehicle off the travelled portion of
such highway; provided, that in any event,
no person shall park or leave standing any
vehicle, whether attended or unattended,
upon such a highway unless a clear view
of such vehicle may be obtained from a
distance of at least 400 feet1 from the ve
hicle in such direction upon such highway.”
“Every motor vehicle other than a
motorcycle, when operated upon a highway
shall be equipped with brakes adequate to
. stop and to hold the vehicle, having two
separate means of application, each of
which means of application shall be so
constructed that the cutting in two of any
one element of the operating mechanism
shall not leave the motor vehicle without
brakes effective on at least two wheels.”
25 YEARS AGO
Floral displays, arranged by
members of the Exeter Horticul-
tui’al Society have been exhibit
ed in various store windows re
cently. This week, the two large
windows of Beavers Hardware
showed an exhibit of exceptional
quality.
Master Jack Anderson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Anderson,
was watching the street dance
Monday evening- from the' bum-
pei’ of a parked cai’ when he fell
to the pavement and gashed his
leg on some sharp object there.
A stalk of sweet clover,
measuring over nine feet, is on
display at the Times-Advocate
office. It was grown on the
farm of Mr. L. Dearing, Stephen,
who reports that most of the
clover in the field measures
eight feet.
After a baseball tournament
on Labor Day in Exeter, a half-
mile race between Pete Willard
on horseback and Haryey Pollen
in a horseless carriage took
place. While the horse held his
own for the first stretch, the
car won theZrace by a. narrow
margin.
exhausted
with his efforts to save the live
stock and when Hensall firemen
arrived on the scene, they found
him unconscious. He was taken
to Seaforth Hospital.
Thieves visited Centralia on
Thursday night last week,
entering three private garages
and taking tires and a coat.
After extensive redecorating,
Centralia United Church will be
reopened
planned 12.
with special services
for Sunday, September
YEARS AGOIO
Over $100 earned by adults
Exeter when they volunteered
and thinning
of
help in blocking
sugar beets early in June, will
be turned over to the Exeter
War Time Board to provide
parcels for local boys overseas.
The
Trivitt Memorial Church which
marked
third year of war and at, which
the honor roll was unveiled,
drew so many people that many
were unable to get
church.
As a
meeting
in,g was
prohibit
bicycles
According to
from
Trade Board, everyone
tiirn in an empty tube before he
may purchase a new one of
toothpaste and shaving cream.
News From Our
NEIGHBORS
anniversary service at
the beginning Of the
inside the
the council
final warn-
result from
this week,
given Exeter citizens to
cyclists from riding
oxi the sidewalks.
a new ruling
the Wartime Prices and
Board, everyone must
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Carlingford Homy Suffers
From Bridge Blasting
Workmen who were blasting
the bridge across the sideroad
between the farms of Ezra. See-
bacli and Mrs. T. Gould did con
siderable damage to the Gould
residence. The blast occurred
around 8 o’clock and was heard
for two miles. The home is of
stone construction and the plas
ter was shattered and some
china and windows broken.
The sideroad between Carling
ford and No. S Highway is being
widened this year and so a wider
necessary. The other
getting their annual
gravel at present, and
getting a. coating of
(Mitchell- Advocate)
Society Wins
Kirkton Agricultural Society
through the efforts of five of
its members aiid exhibitors was
successful in carrying off the
society prize for Ontario at the
Canadian National | .......*
the past week
awarded for
wheat grown
oats by Alvin
John Switzer,
Allan Berry i
Milton Hooper.
• (St, Marys Journal-Argus)
Male Beauty Contest
At McKillop Fair
Not only will prizes be offered
in the usual beauty contest at
the McKillop Township Schools'
bridge is
roads are
coating
the air
dust.
of
is
Kirkton
Exhibition
. The prize was
the scoring of
by J.
scoring
Urquhart.
Crago, barley
clover
timothy
red
and
by
by
by
Fair September 16, but a special
award token is up
looking unmarried
right, a male beauty
and naturally enough
will be women. The
open to any male,
and between the ages
80. (Huron
Back To School
With Tuesday morning rolling
around, the sound of the old
school bell „ „
quietness of the past, nine
ten weeks, and children all over
Canada again hustled off to
school, some very jubilant about
it all, while others not so en
thusiastic. A small change in the
teaching staff of the Zurich
School has become necessary
owing to the resignation of Mr.
Victor Dinnin as principal who
4~ replaced by Mr, James
and
the
the
We
of
going
for the best
male. That’s
contest,
the judges
contest is
unmarried,
of 16 and
Expositor)
again grazed the
or
is being
Reid, who with his wife family have moved into
Willard Apartments during
past week
welcome 1
Zurich _____ o__
back to their places of learing are: -- - - -
ron to ___ ____o_.
Welland, and Marjorie Klopp to
Fort Erie. The remainder of the
Zurich teaching staff is as
formerly. (Zurich Herald)
Honor Agriculture Leader
Last Wednesday evening thou
sands gathered at Poplar Hill
Memorial Park to pay tribute to
one of the leading figures in
from Sudbury,
them as citizens
Other teachers
Miss Meda Surerus to To-
; Campbell Krueger to
In
ever, vyxlu LUC apccuiug up vi.
life, and its mechanization we
have
and stare” at the beauty around
us.
As I look out upon the world
from my study windows in a
country manse I see beauty in
all directions; healing, quieting,
restful beauty. The Divine Art
ist, Who is also the Great Archi
tect of the Universe, has created
such designs and dashed on the
canvas the predominating color
of green of various shades, that
with the trees, the whole ’ scene
beggars description. But the
average person in the country,
and especially those who have
to wrench their livlihood and
wealth from the land, have so
much to do with Nature and the
soil that they cease to be_ ideal
istic and see largely the "econo
mic and social problems arising
from their involvement in it.
The English poet Wordsworth
found Nature to be
potion to both mind
He had let
time when
with the
Like a lot
are Swept
slogans of
gies, Wordsworth became caught
up in the whirlwind of the
French Revolution with its
slogan of “Liberty, Equality and
Fraternity.” High sounding
phrases these, and they seemed
alright, especially as they were
supposed to bring "Utopia” to
the peasant or working classes,
in a similar way in which Com
munism is supposed to bring in
the “Dictatorship of the Prole
tariat” or the rule of the work
ing man. But Wordsworth was
a very young man at the time,
and his mind was not yet
matured. He was not capable of
fully assessing the values to
which he committed himself. As
a result he became disillusioned
and spiritually bankrupt. He re
turned to England and went to
the lake-country, since
immortal hy his poems,
surrounded by the glories
lovely countryside, he
healing for his mind,
poise and spiritual
Friendship which was congenial
and sympathetic in the persons
of his sister Dorothy and his
poet-friend Coleridge, also add
ed to his assets. They roamed
the fields together. They sat
and brooded and relaxed by the
banks of the streams. They
climbed the hills and rested in
the Dove cottage, their little
home. There peace of mind re
turned to him, Beauty invaded
his inmost being. There,
short, Wordsworth found
Author of Beauty—God.
writer has a relative who, a year
ago—Britain’s Festival year, was
given a trip to the Old Land.
Among other places of moment
she visited the beautiful lake
country, and went through the
Dove c ottage, and she writes
enthusiastically of those lovely
scenes. Wordsworth speaks of it
thus:
Wisdom and the Spirit of the
Universe!
Thou Soul that art the
of thought!
And giv’st to forms and images
a breath
little time even to “stand
a healing
and soul,
i for a bad
j associated
.Revolution.
himself in
he became
French .1
of people today who
off their feet by the
contemporary ideolo-
made
There,
of that
found
mental
health.
in
the
The
Eternity
Keith•Middlesex Agriculture, W
Riddell, and to his wife.
Mr. Riddell for the past 23
years has been agricultural rep
resentative of Middlesex County
an<i during these years he has
brought Middlesex to a very
prominent place in agriculture
and during his regime several of
the various farmer groups and
organizations were founded and
flourished. (Parkhill Gazette)
passions that
reconstruct)
souls;
elements of
thought,
sanctifing by such
line, both pain and
Pain and fear sanctified by
discipline! There you have it,
This thought vies with what the
: psychologists and psychiatrists
• tell us today. Our lives, so they
claim, are in many circum
stances, plagued with fears of
illness, insecurity and death. We
• fail, in the midst of all our
beautiful surroundings, to see
the beauty of the seamless robe,
and catch the accents which fail
so clearly—"If God so clothes
the grass of the field which
today is, and tomorrow is cast
' into the oven, how much more
will he clothe you, 0 ye of little
faith?”
It is not necessary for us to*
: go to Wordsworth’s country in
England to find Beauty, we have
it at home, in all our provinces.
The writer has seen it in ,the
■ Muskoka Lakes area, beside the
1 shores of Howe Sound, in British
Columbia, or sailing peacefully
up tlie Queen Charlotte Sound 1 surrounded on either side by
mountains. Also he has been 1 sitting oil the cliffs overlooking
beautiful Lake Huron, or along
the Atlantic Coast and the rough
and rocky coast of Labrador.
Yes, and out in the fields of our
own county, what lovely pastoral
■ beauty there is to be found.
How many there are in our
! day too, that are missing the
healing values which come from
worship which carries with it
also the elements of healing and
helpfulness. They absent, them
selves from the House of God
on the Sabbath Day on the
ground of their ‘being too busy’
• or, ‘they can hear as good a
■ sermon at home’ which in the
majority of cases is true, but as
: a result, they witness very little
• change of environment, they be-
. come bored, or ‘fed up’ with life,
; and soon cynicism and hardness
i of heart freezes up the ‘genial
, currents of the soul’. There are
i healing sensations which result
from attendance at a service of
> worship which combine in it
beauty of ceremony and archi-
■ t.ecture, where we may sit and
listen quietly to the strains of
religious music, meditate upon
the great emotional lines of the
great hymns of our Faith, and
become relaxed and quiet. Th?
Psalmist long years ago found
this to be so. Life pretty nearly
got him down; until, as he says:
“I went into the sanctuary of
God; then understood I”. (Psalm
73: 17) In another place he
prays: "Let the beauty of the
, Lord our God be upon us.” St.
Augustine long years ago prayed:
"0 Beauty so old and yet so
new, too late I have loved thee.”
There was one who lived in
the Province of Galilee, in far-
off Palestine 2000 years ago,
who has taught us those truths
in simple language. One, Who,
if we listen to His words, we
shall be wise and stop for a
moment in the rush of these
. hectic days and take in a little
o£ the beauty of the countryside,-
instead of driving seventy and
eighty miles an hour, and see
the flowers by the wayside, and
hear Him say to us across the
centuries “Consider the lilies of
the field how they grow, they
toil not, neither do they spin,
and yet say unto you that Solo
mon in all his glory was not
arrayed like one of these.” "If
God so clothed the grass of the
field which today is, and to
morrow is cast into the oven,
how much more will He clothe
you, O ye of little faith?” In
other words, what he is trying
to get us to see is, that by let
ting our minds dwell on the
bounties and beauties of God’s
world there are therapeutric or
healing values which automatic
ally result from such concentra
tion.
Our
promise
would
men’s
bodies. He did not say fro people
whose minds were overpowered
with cares and whose souls were
distraught with the fears of
demons, "Get away up into the
mountains '
you’ll be
not, were
today, say,
in wrong ............
harmony with God and our fel
low men, ‘ '
Lakes”, or
Coast and ...............__ ......
Beauty which is healing and re
storative must also be redemp
tive. There must be an .inner
spring of beauty in our ___
which responds to that which
serves _ _ _______ „„ ....
thoughts and feelings. Hence the
Psalmist.-—"Let the beauty of
the Lord our God be upon us."
Or, as we sometimes sing:
“Let the beauty of Jesus
seen in me,
His wonderful passion
purity.
his Spirit divine, all
nature refine,
the beauty of Jesus be
in me.
Lord
that Beauty
effect
minds
did not however
in itself
the healing of
and souls and
for a holiday and
alright”. He would
He here in the flesh
f if we were involved
doing, or were out of
Go to the Muskoka
"Go on a,trip to the
you’ll feel O.K.
lives
as a stimulus to our
All and
Let my
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