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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1950-12-14, Page 2Page 2 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 14, 1950 SJe Cxetex Wmes=^bbocatE Sepnes Established 1873 Amalgamated November 1P24 Advocate Established 1881 Published Each Thursday Morming at Exeter, Ontario At, 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 OWN A 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, $3.00 Single Copies 0 Cents Each J. Melvin Southcott - Publishers Robert Southcott THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 14, 1950 The Whip Of Small Cords Budyard Kipling saw very clearly that when the guns begin to shoot that Mr. Thomas Atkins is greatly needed. When the communists moved into South Korea, con trary to international agreement duly made, Thomas Atkins was again needed if the world was to retain its decency. Just now the big-wigs have found out that they may confer behind closed doors oi' otherwise, about what is desirable but they will get but a little way till the stern arbitrament of battle decides who is the stronger* party in Korea/ the communists or the United Nations. We may as well admit that fact. There is some talk of a commercial blockade of China but the effort to do so will be largely futile unless the sea-going power of the United Nations is equal, and a little more, to enforce the blockade. Facts and things are as they are, why then seek to deceive ourselves. President Truman and Prime Minister Atlee have conferred and “reached an understanding’* but admit that they have settled nothing. The soldiers and the sea men and the airmen must first give the nod before the statesmen can accomplish anything. Bight and might are the two oars of the boat. Little progress is made unless both are operative and operating. Mean while it is the manifest duty of Canada and all her allies to seek the just thing for all the nations and to build up her whole strength to the very limit. * * * * Chickens Coming Home We have been handicapped in the present struggle now centering in Korea by the divergent mentalities of east and west. West of Suez we said there are no ten commandments East of Suez, the east was saying there is no sense. These beliefs were so warmly cherished that- all were coming to believe that east and west were essentially fundamentally different. They were in compatibles, the oil and the water that never mix. Just recently, however, we have an act on the part of some thirteen Asiatic nations that is causing a great many thoughtful people to revise their opinions regarding the impossibility of having east and west meet on the ground of a common understanding of what is for the good of the race. These nations have asked China to stay her hand in Korea. Nothing could be finer or more timely than this act on the part of those thirteen nations. Their doing so may pave the way to peaceful settlement of the present strife and to a way of international carrying on that may give the world a long era of peace. The west has no reason to give up her efforts to thwart tyranny and’ aggression. What it is coming to see is the dawn of a day when misunderstandings will have van ished like the mists of the night. The per sistent efforts of the west to deal fairly by the east are bearing fruit. Exploitation of the east by the west on the part of some who should have known better has been all too evident, but when Britain’s record in the east is reviewed impartially, it has been found that in spite of blunders many a time she has given the east the .square deal and something more. The east has found her to be their best friend. Mission aries have been severely criticized but the simple fact is that the missionaries have honestly and saerificially tried to be fair and practice the Golden Rule with the easterners. The easterners now know this. Church and government alike have proceed ed on the theory that in the end right makes might. The action of- the thirteen nations of Asia in coming to the aid of the west in these grave days proves the good sense and the rightness of the feeling of both state and church. India, for instance, of her own free will and accord, has come forward to stand side by side with Britain, though the ink is scarcely dry on the documents grant ing her her complete independence. We be lieve that Jokh Bull and Uncle Sam have no better friend than India. # * # Basic Training The subject of clerks getting on was up for discussion. A merchant who has been forty years in business and who was about to retire was asked his views on this important subject. "I have had but one clerk during all that time who really filled the bill. I have just secured a fine job for him.’* Asked further on this matter he con tinued: “The trouble is that the young peo ple will not get down to it.” This remarks fits in with the words of another speaker who lately told his hearers that the workers did not get the basic ex perience required. He told of being obliged to sweep out the store for his first year. Along with this job went the care of the furnace and arrangement- of the basement, He told of being required to put the goods on the shelves in attractive and orderly fashion. He had to fetch and carry and to be lively and pleasant about his tasks. He said that by the end of the second year he could find any article in the store the min ute it was mentioned. He. had to deliver goods over* all parts of the town. In this way he learned the disposal and sale of the goods. He learned the ways of the custom ers. When he was placed behind the counter he was ready to accommodate his custom ers. He knew them. Later, he was the pro prietor of the store and knew what to ex pect of every employee. He knew the busi ness from A to Z. Later he had trips to the manufactur ers and learned about these men by actual contact and could tell about the goods by study of their manufacture. In the early days he knew what it was to be cuffed about. In other words he added, “I learned at first hand to take it and smile and work all the harder. I have had to “take it all along. The juniors won’t ‘take it’ and so never learn the business and are not fit for responsibility. S’- £ # # The Brooding East Now Active It is well to record what the East or what we regard as the Arab nations, have done for the race. Historians declare, after careful investigation that those lands were a blaze of civilization five thousand years before Abraham settled in Palestine. These people have rare skill in manufacture. They knew a great deal about the manufacture and uses of steel many centuries before the New England forests listened to the rugged psalmody of our Puritan fathers. They were the morning star of astronomy and chemistry. They had views of life that com mand the attention of thoughtful men to this day, They had conceptions of natural forces which are only now beginning to be spelled out. They were wise enough to give the most penetrating thought to the pur poses of human existence. Because they gave themselves to thinking and to the ef fort to understand the relation of man to the universe they wrought out systems of government that not only endure to this hour but which are doing not a little to show the West the shallowness of many hastily devised wavs of carrying on. The action of these Arabic and Hindoo peoples i n requiring China to stay her hand in these hours of world crisis is signi ficant. The Chinese beyond the western powers, respect the lessons of history and see the underlying thinking of the rest of the world. Chinese nations and the Arab nations understand each other in a way and to a degree that the western nations can not, at present, appreciate. We hope that the Arab intervention in the present dilem ma may be heeded not only by the Chinese but by all the nations. The Chinese and the Arab nations understand each other. May the West not meddle and muddle. ■K- * * * Need Of Relaxing Mr. Churcliill’s latest book, probably about his best, brings out two ideas. In the darkest days of the Second World War, when Mr. Churchill required to know the position of every allied battleship and of every regiment and the plans of every leader in parliamentary and civil and social life, he tells us that he and his friends had a way of withdrawing to situations where he and they could bathe their bodies and their minds in glorious, beautiful sunsets, They took not a brief glance at such won drous scenes but lingered long till the love liness of the summer eve swept itself away in dewy freshness. From these scenes Mr. Churchill returned to his desk renewed and reunited to the great peace and strength of the living universe. All of us should do more of this sort of thing. We have our own hills that make up the Trosachs of this country. We have a river flowing by in quiet strength. We have the starry heavens and the glorious sunsets of the autumn and the spring. We have the storms that sweep by but do not destroy. Why not contemplate tlmse things and be renewed and do more and better work because we have been made greater in spirit and our lives are made something like what they should be. 50 YEARS AGO Mr. Robert Sanders returned from his annual hunting trip in Michigan and Lambton last week. Messrs Gidley and sons, one of the oldest -businesses in town, disposed of their large furniture stoclc to Messrs Beverly and Hud son last week, and having leased the opera block to the same firm will go out of business. 100 pairs of men’s plow shoes at 80 cents per pair for sale at Geo r-ge M an s on ’ s. Mr. N. Contine, the founder of St. Joseph, is now in Montreal in the interests of that enter prising town. A big boom is looked for when he returns. 25 YEARS AGO About three o’clock Saturday morning fire broke out in the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Harness on "William St. and when discovered it was a mass of flames and beyond control. The fire was discovered by Dr. Gib son. who smelled the smoke. Everything was destroyed. On Saturday the Soldier’s Aid pre sented Mr. Harness with a che que for $100 and a subscription was taken up amounting to $475 Miss Greta .Lammie, of Hen- sall, was one of the Sunshine Trio who sang over the radio last week. The 14 th of December was a record -day for Exeter, being the last day of tax collections and $10,0'00- was received. The bank staff was swamped. 15 YEARS AGO | Huron Council terminated, a three and a half day session Fri day with the presentation of an enscribed gold-headed cane to Warden William Sweitzer, reeve of Stephen township. About 5,000 tons of sand were poured on Western Ontario high ways during the past week. Mr. p, Dearing made a splend id showing with .his Dorset horn ed sheep at the Guelph- winter fair last week. The young men of Elimville community field a sparrow hunt ing contest recently when they captured about 5,000 sparrows. Lloyd Bell and Amos Herdman were the captains, the latter’s side being the losers. They pro vided duck supper. 1O YEARS AGO The officials and players of the Hensall Baseball Club who won the Championship cup of the O. B. A. were pleasantly en tertained to a venison dinner by the manager of the team, Mr. Stanley Tudor. Tenders were called for the new highway bridge at Exeter, Estimated cost was $30,000. Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Heywood, residents of Exeter, quietly cele brated their golden wedding an niversary on Tuesday. A cablegram was received Wednesday morning from Sapper Andy Easton that he had arrived safely in England. ... Neighboring News ... Dies From Bull Attack Silas Charles Garbutt, 84, was found dead Sunday night at the barn of his brother, Watson Gar- butt, lot 7, con, 8, Fullerton township. He is believed to have been attacked by a bull while engaged in doing the chores, as he was found near the animal by his sister-in-law, Mrs. Watson Garbutt, and the .hired man, Dan O’Connell. He had gone to the barn around 5.45 pan. and was found at 6.30 p.m. (Mitchell Advocate) Fire Destroys Hatchery The building which housed the Watt Chick Hatchery, destroyed in the fire of Saturday midnight, was one of the first cold storage warehouses in St. Marys. The building was erected by the late Alexander Beattie, pioneel’ gen eral merchant of this town, as a storage place for produce, such ns butter, eggs, lard, pork, etc. J The building was insulated with sawdust in some parts and was substantially built. It had stood on this ground for almost eighty years. (St. Marys Journal Argus) Logan Votes School Addition; When it cam© to voting on the plebiscite “Ate you in favour^ of the township of I.ogan approving . of and contributing its ratable proportion to an addition to and i-mnrovements to the Mitchell District High School at an estim ate’! cost of $264,000?’’ Logan electors Monday turned it down by a majority of 139 in a vote that was said to a au'-arable with other years. Results of each noli appear elsewhere on nave. pointing to the sections which voters opposed or approved the measure. 364 were in favour '*'d 503 against. (Mitchell Advocate) renter of St. Thomas’ Anglican Church Resigns * the morning service on Sunday last the rector, Rev. T. Dale Jones announced to his con gregation that he had tendered his resignation as rector of the parish. Mr. Jones has accepted the invitation of Bishop Pierce newly consecrated Bishop of Athabasca to return to the far north. The Diocese of Athabasca ex tends from about 100 miles north of Edmonton right down into the Mackenzie basin and is 200,006 sq. miles in area. (Seaforth News) Investigate Break-Ins Police are continuing their in vestigation of two break-ins which took place in Clinton Fri day night or early Saturday, morning, involving two office ’ ■ safes but no cash. I Chief of police Leo Kelly stat-, 'ed to-day that he expected an.' • arrest to be made this week. (Clinton News Record) SMILES '. . Donwm©n l?oy©l Mlty Treetm PULIS (IKE A MUIE on the R©u«|fcesf Deep, husky nobs dig—give extra pulling power. No need for chains when you get Dominion Nobby Traction Tires. South End Service Russ and Chuck Snell, Props. EXETER, ONT. PHONE 328-W H. J. CORNISH & CO. CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS . 294 DUNDAS ST. LONDON, ONT. .... 1 .........- 1 ..............................-... " ....... ..—..... 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