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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1950-12-07, Page 2Page 2 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 7, 19SQ ©xetet Wmea Established 1873 Amalgamated November 1D24 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 the Ontario-Quebec Division of the CWNA Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation Paid-in-Advance Circulation as of March 31, 1950 — 2,329 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Canada, in advance, $2,50 a year United States, in advance, 83.00 Single Copies 6 Cents Each J. Melvin Southcott *. Publishers Robert Southcott THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 7, 1950 No Substitute There is no substitute for good meals for school children. A great deal has been said and done in the way of i>roviding hot lunches for school children. In spite of all discussion and action, the best researchers have found that home-cooldng still leads the van in this particular. Some have gone so far as to say that the school meals are a detriment to the boys and girls, as par ents in many cases have a way of scrimping the home meals, looking to the school to supply the food that should be supplied at home. There are particular and sad cases where the home does not provide good food. In such instances the school lunch is a makeshift that is better than nothing. A makeshift is a poor affair. Its necessity must be got rid of. Some interested parties urge that the lunch provided at home is not sufficient to sustain the school boy or girl. All one needs to do is to recall the days of one’s school life to see that this judgement is not quite true. We recollect the lunch of bread and butter and an apple, with an occasional sandwich lunch, and fruit of some sort that kept life high and strong for games and •afternoon lessons. Some of us have got along comfortably on bread and butter and bananas or oranges and lots of water. Of course we had a good hot supper. We were not packed off to school half fed in the mornings. More and more busy people are depending on the warm supper. Dad finds a hearty dinner is not always the best pre paration for a good afternoon in the office. Further, it ha^ been proved that scholars fed up on the hot noon lunch provided at school do not excel their contemporaries who are provided with the lunch sent from home. We think that there is too much at tention drawn to what we eat. Dr. Charles E. Barnhart of Owen Sound used to send his patients home with a bottle of coloured water for medicine with directions to live on patience and water gruel foi* a week. The shepherds of Scotland did well on oat meal “parritch” or even on brose. The Caledonia canal was built by masons who lived on peas brose twenty-one times a v eek “for a rarity” as they hilariously told the writer. Britain’s health never was bet ter than during the years of food austerity. But, then these people saved a kingdom financially, at least, and with every pros pect of giving her a premier place politi cally. There are a lot of things the up- lifters do not know* about diet. There is no substitute for mother’s plain meals inter mingled with lots of chores and home duties well discharged. * * ♦ « Such Weather! Much heralded bad weather visited this region last Friday night. The long suf fering weather man was sorely put to it. We were to have some extremely cold weather, was not a wave of that sort on the way? Just as we had put on our freez ing temperature “flannels”, didn’t a wave of strangely mild rainy weather spoil the prognosticator’s predictions? Of course, there were drifts of the meanest snow for the snow* shovellers and with a thorough vetting from the chilliest rain, Young Can ada was abroad but sledding was poor. There was little sunshine so he returned to the house out of sorts. The only folk who wore a smile victorious over all distress were the snow shovel and rubber boots vendors. What’s that old saw about an “ill wind”? * * * Wake Up, Public Spirit Exeter, like many another municipal- fty, has plenty of good business men who keep the town alive and progressing by do ing good business. They give employment. They see that their premises and homes * are attractive. They sell their goods at a reasonable, price. They contribute to every good cause. Without such citizens a muni cipality would be poor indeed. Schools would lose their influence and churches would fade out of the picture. But when it comes to taking part in municipal life they turn away and refuse to give a reasonable portion of their time to attending to those duties of a public nature which when undone or when poorly done result in a municipality running down at knee and heel. Sanitation is neglected. Streets and sidewalks and highways run down at knee and heel. Law enforcement languishes. The underworld, never too far ■distant, shows its ugly head. AU this and scores of other nasty features emerge. These fine men do splendid things in a score of important things which it is well to do. These fine things they should do but they should not in all conscience leave their municipal duties undone. These men urge that, they have no stomach for the .way duty doing reeves and councillors all too freqently are used. We own the justice of their plea. Carping criti cism and mud slinging are poor returns for hard work unselfishly done for everybody’s welfare. Yet the fact remains that the un fair faultfinders are in the minority though the noise they make would lead the un informed to regard them as the people who make a municipality worthwhile. Sage ex perience proves that a duty doing municipal officer has the profound respect of people with sound common sense. Honesty and in tegrity and attention to duty in reeves and councillors bring their rich reward. Let no one doubt this. Men who toil in view of the public welfare and who scorn a bribe no matter what form the bribe may take, need have no fear of undertaking duties in the public interest. Such men do not need the wisdom of Solomon, the patience of Job, and the hide of a rhinoceris, but a fair endowment of intelligence and a down right determination while in office to dis charge their public duties by hewing to the line and letting the chips fall where they will. These are the days when the call to municipal duties grows stronger and strong er1 and more necessitous. ft A Great Man Passes Canadians gladly owe their debt in nation building to her clergy. The work done by the Jesuits in their attempts to bring the best that Europe had to offer to America was an offering and a sacrifice to ‘the world of indescribable value. Orders of the Catholic Church were not slow but al together zealous in teaching, in nursing, and in the practice of timely kindliness. We liad the days all over Canada in more modern times when the Methodist circuit rider and the Presbyterian missionary and the Anglican curate counted life, itself a little thing and ease and comfort as no thing if only they could bring light and comfort for the life that now is and for the life that is to come to the early settlers who were borne down by the fight with the forest and blight and storm and the appall ing loneliness inseparable from the condi tions amid which they were founding the civilization we now enjoy. The modern minister who knows his work is doing a work equally important though less spectacular. Just now we’re entering upon a distinctly new era of church duty. Wealth has accumulated. Along with the increase of wealth there has had a distinct tendency to separate the well-to-do from their less fortunate fellow citizens. The church has been bewildered in the effort to correct this unfortunate con dition. For the most part, the ministers have been baffled by a condition so utterly distressing. Not so with Dr. Peter Bryce whose passing has caused all Canada to mourn. Dr, Bryce succeeded as few have even ap proximately succeeded in having the rich and the poor meet together on the ground of the need and their common humanity. Dr, Bryce was a man who could enter the lives of the unfortunate without obtrusion and to live with them without being offen sive. In him was fulfilled, in a measure, the prayer of Burns that the day would come when men would brothers be “for all that”. He knew the love of the beautiful in every heart and opened wide the doors of his wonderful church to all who would enter to listen to the most beautiful music and be warmed by a service deeply religious and seemly. He was everyone’s friend and always the gentleman. Of him it is well said that he pointed to heaven and led the way. His life exemplified that the presence of the Eternal Father is the greatest and loveliest fact in all the universe. ♦ » a u Well Done Faithful and efficient service is always rewarded. Such is the case in the acclama tions received by neighbouring municipal councils. These men devote considerable time in the service of their municipality, re ceive little remuneration; yet are subject to all sorts of criticism, both intelligent and unintelligent, on the part of neighbours. They are bulwarks of democracy. «■ «• Here’s a new twist on an old maxim: “Familiarity breeds attempt,” -— — —-...... 11 . ■■■■■ ——»■ & As the-------- “TIMES* Go By B... .............................. - .................... ...........-g 50 YEARS AGO Mr. William Elliott of Centra lia has returned home after his third trip to the old country with, a load of horses. Miss Hattie Fitton returned home Monday after a pleasant visit with her sister Mrs. Gre gory Tom in Vancouver B. C. Owing to the scarcity of elm timber at Exetei’ the Sutherland- Innes Co. will remove their stave Machinery from the Exeter mill after working out this winter’s supply of timber. The company remove it to the Ottawa Valley where they have secured a large supply of elm timber. Three years ago a new fire engine was purchased from the Wateroue Engine Co., Brantford at a large expense which has sin ce proved to all practical pur poses of no use whatever. It was decided to purchase a new mod ern Steamer. It arrived here on Monday and was thoroughly tested. It is a substantial looking piece of machinery and we ex pect it will place our town in class D. One grade higher than present rating. 15 YEARS AGO ■Mr. Chester Parsons left last week by Motor bus for his home at Pease, Alberta, having been called home owing to the death of his father the late Samuel Parsons. At the Exeter High School Prom on Friday evening of last week it was proposed that the school should have an Alumni Association. An organization was elected with the following of ficers forming the first executive Hon; Pres., Principal E. J. Wethey »M. A. president, Mr. G. Cochrane, Western University; vice-president, Mr. Hugh McKin non. Queen’s University; Secre tary, Mr. Gerald Zwicker, Credi ton. At a meeting of the young People’s League at Crediton on Friday evening a very pleasant occasion took place when Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Wein, recently married, were presented with a beautiful silver basket. The same evening at choir practise the members of the Evangelical choir presented Mr. and Mrs. Wein with a beautiful Silver fruit dish. 4 farmer's/w needs- Backbone A wishbone won't do instead,,, Bur tires are fine for tractors They have Backbone on the tread! See &s today South End Service Russ and Chuck Snell. Props. 25 YEARS AGO Messrs S. J, Pym and sons, of Elimville, spent one day last week with Messrs D. D. Bell and sons, Shakespeare, and purchased from them an Oxford Ram lamb to head their flock, paying a handsome price for the same. Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Orme and daughter, accompanied by Mr. C. Beaver and Mrs. William Smith, of Crediton, motored to Detroit, the past week. Mr. and Mrs. James Oke, of Centralia met with an accident Sunday morning while starting for church, The horse became frightened and ran into a gate post. I 1O YEARS AGO I Mr. and Mrs. Henry Eilber | highly esteemed residents of Cre- j diton celebrated their sixtieth I wedding anniversary last Satur- iday. Thirty members of the R.A.F. now stationed at Port Albert to gether with their hosts were pre sent in a body at James Street United Church on Sunday Morn ing and afterwards were enter tained in the homes of Exeter and community. The house of the late Henry Welsh was sold by auction on Saturday last to Mr. Eric Cars- caddem ... Neighboring News ... Bull Sells For $8,350 The grand champion Aberdeen Angus bull of the Royal Winter Fair, Toronto, owned by Ed wards Bros., of Watford, Was bought for §8,350 by the Merry dale Farms, of St. Francisville, La. Officials said this is the highest price ever paid for such a hull in Canada. It is also the best price of the fair. (Forest Free Press) Inquest Child’s Death Blame for the death of Mary Lou Dantzer, five and a half year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Dantzer, Dublin, who was killed in a highway traffic accident November 15, was attributed to a large extent to the little girl running across the highway without keeping a :proper lookout, but had the I driver of me car been more 1 careful she would have seen the girl sooner and probably : avoided the accident. This was the verdict returned by the jury at an inquest last Saturday afternoon at the Town Hall, Seaforth. Dr. E. A. Mc Master, coroner, conducted the Hnquest while Crown Attorney |H. Glenn Hays examined the 1 witnesses. (Huron Expositor) Logan Opposed To School The Mitchell District High {School question 'stole the lime- ’ light at Logan Township’s nom ination meeting on Friday. Mer- ivyn Linton, introducing the sub ject, explained that he had re- ■signed as Logan representative on the Mitchell District High School Board because the town ship council did not see fit to | accept his recommendations and ] those of the school board regard ing provision being made for ad ditional accommodation so badly needed. He felt that the council should have taken the respons ibility to approve the debenture, rather than pass the buck to the voters and was of the opinion that no member of the 1950 council would say the school ad dition was unnecessary, over 200 students being packed into a school that could reasonably ac commodate 120. (Mitchell Advocate) Child Drowns In Pool Parkhill was saddened Wed nesday when Harold Thompson, six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Thompson, was drowned in a pool of water, His parents became alarmed when he did not show up for dinner and after telephoning neighbours they be gan to search for him. His father found him in a five-foot hole on the site of the new building north of his home which was nearly filled with water and covered With ice. The youngster had stepped on the ice and crashed through. (Parkhill Gazette) SMILES . . . . The maid was asking if she had hung up any mistletoe this Christmas. “Not me,” she re plied. “I got too much pride to advertise for the ordinary court esies a lady has a right to ex pect”* ♦ ♦ * A Scotchman entered a sad- lery shop and asked for a single spur. “Why only one?” asked the salesman. “Well,” replied Sandy, “If I can get one side of the horse to go, the other will have to go with it.” '-----------------------------------,------_---.------ ----------—----