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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1950-04-27, Page 2Page 2 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 27, 1950 Exeter Established 1873 Amalgamated November 1924 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 September 30, 1948 »— 2,276 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Canada, in advance, $2.50 a year United States, in advance, $3,00 Single Copies 6 Cents Each ' J. Melvin Southcott - Publishers Robert Southcott THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 27, 1950 Are Hospitals Needed? The following report of the New­ market hospital was taken from The New­ market Era and Express of April 20, 1950: York County hospital records for the month of March give an indication of how necessary the hospital is to this district. During March, fifty-one male and 128 fe­ male patients were admitted to the hos­ pital, Thirty-two male and thirty-five fe­ male children were born there. Twenty-nine m a j o r operations and thirty-three minor were performed. Ten accident victims were operated on. Two hundred general x-rays and 153 chest x-rays were taken. Two hundred and twenty-nine patients were discharged. There was no small opposition to the hospital when it began. Sick people were being taken to Toronto or were treated in their homes to the general inconvenience of everyone in the house and many times a danger to the patient. Patients are still sent to Toronto for special treatments or, operations, but York County hospital has become the haven for the sick as far south as Richmond Hill and as far north as be­ yond Bradford. The hospital too serves a necessary role each summer as accidents increase on the highways, and population doubles. Its presence has encouraged doc­ tors to locate in the district with resultant advantage to everyone. It is not generally realized that the hospital plays another role in Newmarket itself where, quite apart from its service to the sick, it represents the equivalent of a minor industry. It has a regular pay-roll, much of which is spent in town: it buys in town; it offers employment in town; and it is an inducement to new citizens and in­ dustries to settle in town. ❖ * Xs Is It A Disease? Does the craving for alcoholic liquor indicate disease ? A great many well in­ formed people believe that it does. We have heard a good deal about the craving for liquor being an appetite, a morbid ap­ petite. A morbid appetite smacks of dis­ ease. What these workers talk of is that the craving for alcohol is a distinct disease, a disease by itself as is, say, diabetes. There is no end of controversy on this point. So seriously is the alcoholic regarded as being the victim of disease that govern­ ments are having competent scientific authorities give the matter special study. One of these governments is the Province of Ontario. Along with this study goes the careful investigation of the best methods of controlling the user of alcoholic drink when his conduct become a nuhisance to the public or to those immediately connected with him. When it comes to saying what is the best method of control of alcohol, civil­ ization is perplexed. It is to be hoped that the assembly- soon to meet in Connecticut will find a way of controlling this force that is wrecking the lives and fortunes of millions. Never was there a louder call for men to give the world some aid in the solu­ tion of the problem of the control of al­ cohol. All the world awaits the solution of the baffling problem. The beverage use of liquor is beset with the gravest dangers. # # * # Those Sheep Canadians are being gently chided for not raising more sheep. It is pointed out that the market demand for wool is active and the price paid therefore satisfactory to enticing. It is further pointed out that the demand for lamb and mutton is lively with a good price offered. It is contended, too. that sheep raising is a good sideline for any farmer. It is suggested, moreover, that every farm of one hundred acres should support from fifty to one hundred sheep. This is all very fine. Fanners are not slow to heed any suggestion whereby they can turn an honest penny. On the other hand, many farmers al­ lege that sheep on the farm are almost sure to become a nuisance. These gentle crea­ tures seem to have the uncanny ability to get into more trouble and to cause tlieir owners more worry than any other four- footed animal on the premises. They have a keen eye for every open door about the buildings. They can find out every open gate and every lowered bar on the farm. They can insinuate their bodies under or through a fence with the least of efforts. If they once pasture a field, that field is avoided by all other farm animals. While the sheep are wonderful weed destroyers, they graze pasture so closely that it is well nigh ruined for the season. Further, there are any number of farmers who recall the days when they had great difficulty in sell­ ing wool, whilg buyers were not anxious to purchase sheep or lambs at any price. On the other hand, there are farmers who have the knack of profitable sheep culture. What can be done about it? First, farmers with an interest in this industry must get over the idea that sheep culture is a sideline that requires little study and attention. The reverse is the case. A visit to the flocks of Scotland and England re­ veals the fact that shepherds are a class of men of specially high intellectual quality. These men have sharpened their wits on their industry, They never dream of allow­ ing their charges to get on, as best they may. Canadian farmers have sometehing to learn from the old country if they would win the dollars that beckon to them from the sheep industry. There are farms within easy reach of Ontario’s older cities that wait for the shepherd and the businessman. Science will do well to lend her careful eye to this enterprise. Breeding must be studied with the minutest care. Feeding and protection of the flocks call for thought. Some of our hilly farms with their springs and shade trees will prove real money­ makers if sheep are introduced thereto with due thought and placed under the care of men who understand its own. Carelessness and lack of interest have allowed many a dollar to slip from Canadian fingers as far as the sheep business is concerned. # ❖ Is Democracy Failing? Democracy lias been defined as govern­ ment of the people by the people and for the people. The emphasis in this definition is on the word “people”. The emphatic words are not “of” and “by” and “for”. The emphatic word is “people”. Taking this slogan with the suggested emphasis, is democracy going to the wall? For instance, what proportion of a municipality’s popula­ tion attends the annual meeting of the municipality? Usually this meeting is called the nomination meeting. It would be in­ teresting to have the figures on this sub­ ject. How many ratepayers read tlie min­ utes of their county council? Consider the provincial field of government, How many people attend the meetings where the can­ didates for provincial parliamentary re- sponsibilties are selected? The proportion of those attending is discouragingly .small. The same lack of interest on the part of the ratepavers is manifest in the federal field. Attention to the workings of the re­ presentatives in parliament does not give a lover of his country much cheer. Someone goes to the representative of the crown to indicate, someone to take up the duties of forming a government. This’ party choose from the members of Ins parliament a body of thirteen or fourteen men or so who are henceforth called the government. These men are allowed to become independent of parliamentary representatives and really manage the affairs of the province or of the dominion. That is to sav, democracy has come to mean the government of mil­ lions by a baker’s dozen. More interesting still is the way the prime minister runs the thirteen. In this way, the land virtually is ruled by one man. Yet people would be angry were they told that they have lost the hard won democracy of which they boast but which exists only in fancy. Over and over again we hear elected representatives who tell their party that they are proud to support “our honoured leader”. When quizzed regarding what they did to earn their money they reply in ef­ fect that they supported their party, add­ ing "we must have party discipline, you know”. We cannot but ask if democracy as it now runs its way is getting to first base. Municipalities have some tall thinking to do. For a starter, the municipal ratepayer will do well to figure out what the amount of the municipal expenses total up to. He will do well to figure how large is the tin- controlable expenditure of his municipality. It will take a little work to get at, these sums but it can be done and it is up to the ratepayer to do so. * $ * A coroner’s jury has recommended parallel parking for Exeter, in consequence of the fatality on Main Street last week . , . We have sung this same tune until our vocal cords have become a series of granny knots 1 Better Let Him, For There Are Those Who Will As the—----- « TIMES” Go By & — , — 50 YEARS AGO Mr. John White of the Exetei’ Times and wife celebrated their golden -wedding 'Good Friday. Mrs. Peter F r a y n e spent Easter with her father in Lon­ don. Mrs. D. A. Anderson spent Sunday in Mitchell with rela­ tives. Two children of Mr. Janies Shapton of the third concession of Stephen are suffering from an attack of typhoid fever. There’s only one 24 th and one celebration and that is at Exeter, May 24. Good races, a first-class track and a most en­ joyable time are assured. Seven hundred and twenty-five dollars will be hung up in purses for the races. In the report of the School Board, three loads of sawdust were procured for fifty cents a load and thirty-three cords of wood have been purchased at three dollars per cord. 25 YEARS AGO Fire destroyed two barns on the .farm of Geo. Jeffery, Thames Road, together iwtli the stock, implements, grain, etc. The fire started from a spark from a gas­ oline engine. 'Mr. Jeffery suc­ ceeded in getting ‘out a team of horses, but twenty-six head of cattle, two horses and nine pigs perished in the flames. Mr. George Windsor, of town, had a narrow escape from , as­ phyxiation. He was found un­ conscious in his home about six o’clock in the evening by friends who had not seen him around all day. Escaping coal gas was the cause. A play “Welcome Home Jim­ mie” was presented in the Opera House by young people from James Street .United Church. The cast was Silas Reed, Wilf. Shap­ ton, Alma Harding, Wilma Powe, Amy Shapton, Thelma Taylor, Leonard Pfaff, Hedley May and Rita Rowe. Thirty little tots, innocent, full of hope, and brimful of life, UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BOOKS MUST BE RENEWED EMPLOYERS !■—Please send all unem­ ployment insurance books for 1949-50 and previous yearg immediately to the National Employment Office with which you deal, unless renewal arrangements have already been made. They must be exchanged for new books. Before sending in your 1949-50 insurance books, take note of the date to which stamps are affixed, so as to avoid duplication in the new books. Renewal of books' is important to you, to your employees and to the Commission. Please Act Promptly. TO THE INSURED WORKER!—-Have you an insurance book in your possession?. If so, please take or send it to the nearest National Employ­ ment Office for renewal immediately. If you send your book, enclose your present address so that your new book may be sent to you promptly. UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE COMMISSION C. A. L. MURCHISON J. G. BISSON Commissioner Chief Commissioner i R, J. TALLON Commissioner U.I.C. have created a situation that is puzzling .the Exeter Board of Education. They are the new scholars who marched off to the halls of learning following the Easter vacation. After canvass­ ing the situation in town, the ■Board decided to ask the Council to submit a by-law for the erec­ tion of a two-room addition. W.W. Taman, D.D.'G.M. of the I.O.O.F., and several of the brethren attended a meeting in Seaforth. 15 YEARS AGO Rev. W. E. .Donnelly, pastor of Wall Street United Church, Brockville, has accepted a call to take the pulpit of Young United Church at Winnipeg. Mr. Don­ nelly was pastor of James Street United Church from July 1923— 1925, leaving Exetei’ for Central United Church, Stratford. Lebanon Forest Lodge A.F.& A.M. held a most interesting meeting on Monday in connection with the seventy - fifth annivers­ ary of the lodge. The secretary, Won. Bro. R. N. Creech, read a very interesting history of Masonry in Exeter since the time of its organization seventy-five years .ago. While William Balkwill, Jr., was repairing the floor of an old stable on the property of John A. Willis, at the corner of John and William Streets, he found below the old floor, an apparent­ ly unused clay pipe in a perfect state of preservation. The pipe was found to be a souvenir of the 1897 Diamond .Jubilee of Queen Victoria. IO YEARS AGO Miss Doris Harvey, ‘ nurse-in­ training at Victoria Hospital, London, visited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Harvey and other relatives. The store and residence Oc­ cupied by Mr. H. S. Walter, who has conducted a shoe repair bus­ iness for many years, lias been leased, to Mr. James P. Bowey, coal merchant and insurance. WE ARE THE CLASS OF ’50 Many among us are War Veterans—some with family responsi­ bilities not always asso­ ciated with the younger graduate. We know that a university degree will mot in itself guarantee success. It must be backed up with hard work. But, whether or not we have acquired a particular knowledge of direct interest to employers in any par­ ticular industry, we still suggest our degree is a good reference, for we have at least proven ourselves to the extent of obtaining it. Graduates are available from all types of courses this year. If you can employ a graduate, or offer summer employ­ ment to an undergraduate, please ’phone or write the Executive and Professional Officer at your nearest NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICE office, NOW. DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR fflK HUMPHREY MITCHELL Minister A. MacNAMARA Deputy Minister . B8 Pasture Weeds Even in well managed pas­ tures, weeds can become a ser­ ious problem. .While fertilization will reduce many weeds to a negligible proportion, some seem to thrive best under these con­ ditions. For instance, at the Fredericton Experimental Sta­ tion, reports T. O. Chiasson, tall buttercups have become a serious problem on the fertilized pas­ tures. Of late years, Canada this­ tles have also been on the In­ crease. , Until 2, 4-D became available, the buttercups in fertilized pas­ tures at the Fredericton Station were gaining ground, despite several attempts to suppress them by mowing and digging up. Trials during the past three years indicate that this .Weed may be controlled effectively and “Henry? Why he whs here just a minute ago.*> relatively cheaply .by spraying with 2, 4-D. Five acres of fertilized perm­ anent pastures sprayed with two pounds of 2,4-D acid per acre in 1949 resulted in approximately seventy percent of the tall but­ tercups being killed. In addition, a similar control of Canada this­ tles was obtained, also a com­ plete kill of dandelions, plantain and fall dandelions. While the control of butter­ cups and thistles was not com­ plete there is a .good reason to believe that repeating this treat­ ment for a few years will event­ ually clean up these weeds., For best control, weeds must be sprayed in the active growing stage. At Fredericton spraying before buttercups reach the bud stage means spraying very early in June. Spraying has been made to date with a potato sprayer, using about eighty gallons -of Water per acre. Another advant­ age of Using 2,4-D is that it is not poisonous to stock. jPastures have been sprayed during the past two years without removing the cows frthn tlia pasture. It should he noted that a con­ siderable portion of the wild white clover is suppressed by this treatment, However, results indicate that, given proper fer­ tilization and grazing manage­ ment, wild white clover will make a rapid comeback. 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