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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1950-12-21, Page 6especially for of st Marys left for Mon- lUDIT \ gUREAU y JRCULAnOMS 1 Neighboring News J, Melvin Southcott THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 21, 1950 for ■ ■ Motor SalesSMILES Woman (moaning in water, to shipwreoke d husband): “It Lyall Hatton Crawford, B.A. to the parish of L . a" Hits Car and Mrs. Joseph Larkin of 2, ParkhiU, escaped ser- 25 YEARS AGO Mr. W. A. Balkwill who the past ten and a half years has been a successful prohibition of­ ficer in this district has resigned his position aS County Constable. Mr. and. Mrs. Earl Whiting and little son, Donald, of- Farkhill came over to spend Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. J. Kestle. Mr. John W. Vanatter, well- known newspaper man of Gode­ rich died Saturday morning. He was associated with the Goderich Star. A serious accident occured at the home of Richard. Taylor near Kippen when his son was badly hurt when a horse kicked him in the stomach. Dr. Dougall of Hensall was callled. and found the lad fit critical sate but he is now doing nicely. 50 YEARS AGO Dr. Rollins was in Goderich on Tuesday in his official capa­ city as County Councillor, James Dearing of Stephen held a sawing bee yesterday and as a result a large <piie of wood was cut. Miss Gertie Dempsey, milliner, returned home from Zurich Sat­ urday to spend the Christmas season. Christmas trees are the order of the day this week. Mr. Thos. Elston, of Centralia has got his chopping department in operation. He has also started an ashery and is doing a large business in that line. the appointment of the Reverand couldn’t he worse, Sandy,... .... - } 7 j •, Sandy: “Ah but it could. I ParkhIH and mightha* bought return tickets?* „ Good Tires One Osvner Utelv WintersCompletely THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER £1, 19$0 €xeter ^imes=^bbocat£ Times Established 1878 Amalgamated November 1Q34 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 Mall, Pest 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, 82.50 a year United States, tn advance, $8.00 Single Copies <0 Cents Each Publishers Advocate Established 1881 Robert Southcott What About That Leisure? For some considerable time there has been a consistent effort for workingmen to have more leisure. It was said, in defense of this plea,, that workmen require more time for the study of things that are beauti* ful and refining. It was urged that unless workingmen were given shorter hours they would become sordid and like dumb driven cattle or live a mere quarry slave life. This was largely true of the days when men wo­ men and children toiled two-thirds of the day with little opportunities for* the neces­ sities of life, let alone for its amenities. Yet it must not be forgotten that David Livingstone as a child toiled hours that would now be considered outrageous. Yet we know what he accomplished in later life. Some of us recall the welcome day when a worker’s day was from seven in the mor­ ning till six in the evening. The majority of workmen did not complain, though they had a hearty welcome for six o’clock Saturday evening, We know the shortness of the workman’s hours this day of grace. Has the shortening of hours that has come these last few years been altogether for the work­ man’s good? Has the output of his work on the shorter hour schedule improved? Busin­ ess men lead us to believe that the output has fallen off rather than increased. What about the quality of the work done during those shorter hours? It was contended that the quality of the work would improve as the hours shortened. At least some observers tell us that as men are speeded up beyond a certain point the quality of the product falls off. The problem amounts to something like this. Trade requires so much produce of the employer. Labour is asked to pro­ duce that amount. Can labour\>roduce what is required with the shorter day it de­ mands? If it cannot, the employer will be obliged to drive his employees faster and harder till they pass the point of endur­ ance, and thus bring in a slavery more guelling than the salvery from which they have made a painful escape. Or will the employer be driven to secure machinery that will displace labour? Quality and amount of product must be maintained if the employer is to hold his own. Can this be done with time put into the job? Labour already is finding leisure time an expensive luxury. The busiest people as a rule are the happiest. The man who has time for his work is likely to do the best sort of job. When he is urged on in one way and another to speed up there is every prospect of his doing inferior work. * * * * Well-Conditioned Workers In Demand The East has wakened up. This wak­ ing up has long been looked for. Thought­ ful, informed people have waited for the waking with a good deal of anxiety. The eastern population is overwhelming in com­ parison with the western population. These people can move mountains through sheer weight of numbers. In addition they have an almost uncanny skill in the use of their hands and ingrained plodding industry to which the west is largely a stranger. At the present minute the east is flushed with its sense of power shown on the battle fields of Korea. Their subtle intellects com­ bined with their extraordinary powers of endurance together with their newly found sense of power combine to make them com­ petitors that the west may well fear. Just now the west has the advantage of the machine in all its applications and ramifications. Without the machine com­ petition on the part of the west is bound to go to the wall. Unless the west can improve the machine its outlook is dark indeed. Ko time is to be lost for the east is moving and floating with its sense of competency. Unless the west puts forward a great deal of energy it looks as if it were doomed. Our wealth of yesterday may be­ come one with Nineveh and Tyre. Let us not deceive ourselves. One thing is imperative. Every patent is required to get his children ready for stern days, for the tough sledding is likely to be borne by the youth of today. The training that seems to pass muster these days, strenuous as they may seem, will not be sufficient for twenty years from now. Let no parent fail to see this. The discipline and the practi­ cal training that sufficed for lnm as he puts his school books on the shelf, is bound to prove inadequate for liis son as he enters the field or the office or the factory or the store or professional life. School boards and teaching staffs in our high schools fand technical schools and colleges as well as every church and Sun­ day School are urgently required to be up and doing with the aim that the last boy and girl among us may be conditioned for the exacting days ahead in which business life and all forms of mercantile life will confront conditions, that are not competi­ tive but which are warlike.* * * * Those Christmas Decorations Exeter is looking her best these eve­ nings. Windows have their fine wreaths that give liveliness to the home windows. The stores are ornamented with trees and farpaeries suggestive of joyous winter and Christmas cheer. Stores welcome customers and visitors with trees of fine gracefulness and. shining lights. The streets are lighted, at their best both by the village ‘fathers and the enterprising merchants. Youngsters are donning their bright seasonal coats. Johnny is abroad with his brightest col­ oured. sleigh. Best of all, the village is adorned with the smiles of folk who, war cloud or no war cloud., are bound to be happy for one season of the year. We are wondering if the day has been appointed for Santa to come to town, with his decorating moving van with the gayest decorations ever, to say nothing of his herald who proclaims good-will to all. The dear old saint simply could not afford to pass this village with­ out his nod and song and greeting. There’s a great welcome for him.* ■» * * “Back On Her Own”. The foregoing is the headline in British papers in articles dealing with Britain’s economic recover}'. Britain, be it noted, is the first of the European countries not to require aid: from the United States under what is known as the Marshal plan. Britain had thrown her resources in the mighty contest for the freedom of the world. The result was that the war found her economically distressed. Indeed, some were prophesying that Britain’s flag had been lowered for all time. Meanwhile the United States had become immensely rich. Fortunately for herself and the world, the leaders in the United States were enlight­ ened men who saw that for Britain to go down would be a disaster of inestimable proportions. Hence her plan to advance financial aid to all nations who were will­ ing to help themselves. Preeminent in this class was Britain. Her sons tightened their belts, rolled up their sleeves, and went at the job of re­ covery with the vim that restored her after the Napoleonic war. She practiced an aus­ terity of which the rest of the world be­ lieved her incapable. Little by little, by ad­ justment after adjustment, by sheer adher­ ence to her old motto ’’It’s dogged as does it” she has attained her present position. She is not altogether out of the econ­ omic woods but she is in a position to attempt to fend for herself. She may be offered aid in the appalling task for the defence of liberty but even in that hateful emergency she will do her stury utmost to stand on her own feet. Again has Britain the soundness of the policy not to allow others to do for her what she can do for herself. Once more has she demonstrated the soundness of the practice of thrift and economy and strict bargaining. Her people have learned to labour, and to be patient and self-denying. Those who know Britain by her derby races and the sports of her great univers­ ities may also learn that while Britons love sport, they take enthusiastically to well directed work. Above all else, those mighty Britons are at their hearts deeply religious in a practical way. For this reason, princi­ pally they have given the world Magna Charta and have taught the world the worth of free parliaments. Britain has saved herself by her sound morality. She is likely to save civilization by her example. Another Wenige? Alonzo McCann, who defeated three other candidates last week to win the 1951 reeveship in Stephen Township, may be fol­ lowing the footsteps of London’s George Wenige. Wenige is almost a tradition in London politics, having been elected mayor nine time during the last two decades. Mr. McCann is only two years short of Wenige’s record but he’s a younger man in years. Both have the ability to arouse peo­ ple’s interest at ratepayers* meetings and both are keenly interested in municipal politics. ONE-TRACK 15 YEARS AGO A beautiful evergreen tree has been set up at front of the public libray and it is ornament­ ed with coloured lights making a very colourful effect at night. The Exeter Gun Club was or­ ganized on Wednesday evening of last week. W. Balkwill Jr. was elected president and Irwin Ford secretary. A delightful anniversary din­ ner was held, in the basement of Main St. church, Exeter on Wed­ nesday last to celebrate the ■twenty-fifth birthday of the W. M. S. ( Rev W. M. Whiting, a returned missionary from Japan, who was visiting his brother Mr. Earl Whiting gave a splendid address at the White Gift Service in James St. Churcli, on Sunday last. 1O YEARS AGO Mr. Garnet Flynn moved into his new barber shop in Dr. Cow­ en’s new building east side of Main St. A. E. Wuerth was the first customer in the new stand. Grand Bend and the country­ side for 15 miles around was shaken by an unexplained earth tremor about 1,30 ~ Thursday morning of last week when win­ dows and doors shook and dishes rattled although no damage re­ sulted. Mr. Lawrence Battersby left last week for Toronto where he has joined up with the R.C.A.F* The Exeter-Hensall Branch of the Canadian Legion have re­ modelled the building they re­ cently purchased on the west side of • main St. from W. Smith. HOLIDAY SEASON May Your Holiday Cheer go on and on! E. L. Chaffe & Sons Creditor! Road and No, 4 Highway MAY CHRISTMAS BRING SPECIAL BLESSINGS TO YOU AND YOURS J Huron lumber Co Limited Traill Mr. R. R. ... ______, .ious injury last Wednesday when their car was carried 150 feet down the track by a C. N. R. freight near Ailsa -Craig. Mr. Larkin had no injury and his wife had a few cuts, a bruised knee and chest injuries. They were treated by Dr. A. E. Letts, of Alisa Craig. (Parkhill Gazette) Eddie Kenny Wins O. A» C. Award Eddie F. Kenny of R. R. 5, Mitchell was awarded the On­ tario Wholesale Farm Equipment Association prize valued at $100 for knowledge of farm equip­ ment. The prize was awarded at the semi-annual prize-winning banquet at the Ontario Agricul­ ture College where Mr* Kenney has been a student for the past few years. (Mitchell Advocate) Father Lucien Dies Zurich and vicinity was great­ ly shocked when they learned of the very sudden passing of a be­ loved citizen in the person of Rev. Father A. J. Lucier, who i took ill While doing some odd work around the church when medical aid was at once sum­moned and on his request he was removed by the Westlake ambulance to St. Josephs Hos­ pital, London, where he soon passed away on Friday evening. Rev. Aubrey X, Lucier, was born at Wall aceburg rm April 22, 1398, student at Assumption Col­ lege, Windsor, and St. Peter’s Seminary, London, and was or­ dained to the priesthood June 2, 1928, by the late Bishop M« F. Fallon. (Zurich Herald) Rev. Lyall Hatton Crawford The Reverand G. N. Luxton, Bishop of Huron, has announced Greenway, to be effective the first of -January, 1951. Mr. Crawford was born in Woodstock, Ontario. He is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario, having obtain­ ed his B.A. there in 1935, and also a graduate of Huron Col­ lege, where he obtained his L.Th. in 193 G. (Parkhil Gazette) Uelebratcr 80th. Birthday Jas. H, Robinson of the 3rd line Blanshard celebrated his 80th birthday on Sunday, Decem­ ber l'Oth* Mr. Robinson enjoys rises at 5.30 each morning to help his son James E. Robinson to look after some GO head of cattle. There was a happy fami­ ly gathering in honor of the event on Sunday, A grandson Dr. Frank Robinson, of Stoney Creek, came here the occasion. Mink Ranchers At Fur Auction Mihlt ranchers I and district who treat fur auction last week with that anxious look on their face returned to their homes early this week all smiles. The reason? Prices for their pelts wore gene­ rally about io per cent higher than last year. Those from this district who made the trip included Messrs. Earl Hooper* D. R. Stevens, Wil­bur White, Clayton. Sheldon, Clarence Dunseith, Don Finals, William Hanly, Jeff RoWnson, Donald Edye, Early Stephen (Anderson), Ross Francis (Kirk­ ton), Clif Brown and Calvin Mar­ tin. (St. Marys Journal-Argus) i960 Dodge Spec i860 Dodge Gusto gea„.n. 19.10 Dodge Spec. DI- Xw Dovd Coaeb. Co.«b 1030 Modm * peek’s Spet'al BuY Xo FOKD COACH - 5 Battery, Hensail