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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1958-07-17, Page 211: '?me!S-A v eater July 17, 19501 Editorials This newspaper believee, the right to express an opinion In pubtie contributes to the pro• ereee of the nation and fhet it must be exercised .freely to pre- serve. and improve democratic government. !rnportcint Decision Farmers make an important decision when they vote on the hog marketing plan July 25. Many of the producers, we fear, are taking the issue lightly. This is not a private feud between a McInnis and a Parker or a noisy election campaign in which the voters can relish the slurs and misrepresentations of the zealous opponents without concern over the outcome. It's a decision at the crossroads; a trial for a significant development affecting the entire agricul- tural industry. One point should be clearly understood; this is not a vote on assembly yards, or on the popularity of present co-op officials, or an the approval of present ""prices for hogs. It's a plebiscite to establish whether farmers wish to sponsor their own collective market- ing system for hogs or whether they will return to ::the old method of selling their product individually. 'The method of selling and the officials can be changed by the hog producers through their democratic organi- zation if the plan remains in effect; their right to bargain collectively will be lost, for a period at least, if the plan is voted out. This newspaper, admittedly not affected direct- ty by the outcome nor entitled to a say in it, has 'supported the organized marketing trend in the past -.Arid continues to do so because it feels it is a progres- ""sive step which will bring benefits to a large part of the community which it serves. These views were strengthened recently by the editor's visit to the co-op sales office in Toronto. The work being done there on the producers' behalf _ ,.appears, on the surface at least, to be impressive and -efficient. Perhaps it should be pointed out, for those who may be suspicious, that the visit was not spon- sored by, nor was it accompanied by officials of, the =log producers' board. It becomes clearly evident that the co-op, in its present operation, is able to compile a considerable amount of significant data about the hog market that uts it' in a bargaining position few producers can visualize unless they have viewed at first hand the operation. Not only is the board able to keep an accurate record of the supply corning on the market, but through a study of retail markets and prices, indi- vidual processors' purchases and comparisons of past sales, reveals a mass' of data which not even the largest individual processor can compile. As in any competitive sales program, a compre- _:bensive knowledge of all aspects of the market is a powerful advantage in gaining the best price. We feel no critic of the present sales program is competent to comment until he has at least inspect- ed the actual operation atfirst hand. . It seems to us preposterous at best to suggest that the individual farmer could bargain for his hog z2•eturn anywhere near as competently as can this central office with its authoritative information on ,,;the market. ,:. There are other aspects about this program which should be discussed before the vote. They will be dealt with next week in this column. ifs Progress Here's an editorial we'd like to be able to write some day, when a town plan has been estab- lished for Exeter. It appeared in last week's edition of The Goderich Signal -Star. "First reading has been given by Town Coun- cil to the zoning by-law prepared by the Goderich Area Planning Board. It was in June, 1954, that the initial meeting of this board was held. Four years have now elapsed, during which time the board has done a very considerable amount of work in an effort to propose zoning suitable to the welfare Of the town as a whole. Every town has its particular set of problems. Goderich's problems are more pronounced than the average municipality because of the unique layout of the town which makes it difficult to zone. But the planning board has worked long and well in its efforts to reach a solution. This, despite the fact that the personnel of the board has had a num- ber of changes over the four year period. "Municipal planning is not a form of day- dreaming, indulged in by starry-eyed visionaries. Rather, it is *necessary civic function which, under intelligent direction, establishes the pattern under which ci;e live and work. It is to the end that the Goderieh of the future will grow in an orderly Inan- :ner instead of a haphazard one that the Planning Board has been working." -• •• * * tx 1s .Turning your back on one problem brings you face to .face with another, Tjjc Cxeter Ximolthbotate Tithes 'Established 1873 Adv©tate R3tabliahld 1881 Arnelgemated 1924 c`tytLp"t` Published Each Thursday Morning. at Stratford, Ont. .Authorized as Second Claus Mail, Post Office Dap'f, Ottawa AWARbi—..Frank Howe Seattle Shield, beat free* pt)Lry (Cartade, 1157; A, V. Nolan Teephyr general excellence far newspapers published: In Ortftielo teens bete/Oen 1,500 and 4,500 pbpulatlbn, 1958, 1937, 1956; .1. Geor01a,Johnstrin Trophy, Iypbeeepitleel eiteelleitiee (Ontario), 1951`; E. T. Stepireriten *trophy, best front :pa>4e (Ontatiti), 14561 1955' All-Canade itttueanco Fodeeatiora nailontil tatty award, 1353, ' Paid,411•AdVeillce eirculafiOn, .Mardis ;3 , 1968 3>240 tgiiStRIIsi' N RAtet;, 1taiiae1a 44.611 Par Yetlif; IDSA 35.90 • . 4 rPt,IERFt1 MENAGERIE By wait Fisk y Jottings By J,M.$S Copper -Toe.. Shoes The S'ears Ago A etil1F ,:e. d 117 Xing Features Svndteate, 1.14- pi.'19fSN 't# 1958 Walt Disney Productions World Rig}.+a Reserved "Wowl He really lives it up, doesn't he?" }If11111111t111111t1111111111111,111111 llllllllllllllllllll lull 111 Illi 1111111111t1111111,1,1,II111111111111111111111111111111l11silllll ilial Sugar AN D Spice Dispensed Ely BLL SMILEY. melleitellt11,1111111111111,elle1t11111111U1111111eel....ele111tlllitlt111111111ieseesei 11111,1ilee1t1emei1111U1ime Well. summer got off to a great start around our place. Just two days out of school, Hugh gets his annual sore foot. Other years, he's stepped on a broken bottle, a rusty can, or a piece of glass. This year, it was a nail. It's normal procedure. but we never; seem to get used to it. and it calls for a fair amount of alarm, confusion and panic about lock- jaw. a' * * r Next. I run my car in the ditch. This is fine, as the insur- ance company believes the wild story 1 tell thein, but my relief is short-lived when I'm reminded that the pleasure of peying the first century of the $300 tab is mine, all mine. * .f * * The very next. night, 1'ni sitting around trying to convince my wife it really was the other fel- low's fault, when there's a crash and rumble overhead like a dozen white elephants doing a soft-shoe shuffle. We look at each other, then leap for the stairs. Sure enough, it's the plaster on Kim's ceiling, which has been hanging like Sophia Loren's lower lip for the past few months, and is resting all over the floor, the bed and the dresser. x * Well. believe it or not, this cheered me up considerably, be- cause, as an old pilot knows, accidents always come in three's, When you've made your three, you usually have a brief respite, time to put the pieces together, while Fate • is figuring out three new ways to put the boots on you. li 1' * til Usually, that is, Not this time. Next morning, the Old Lady got up in one of those real owly moods that even the sweetest - natured women getinto once in a while. As a rule, I •get out quick, and the air is clear by the time I get home for lunch, * * * Not this time. She slapped my spartan breakfast—cuppa tea and pieca bread 'n jam—in frontt of me, and stomped outside, She made a quick tour of the estate and carne back in, like a thun- der -cloud. "Do you know what this place looks like?" she asked ominously. "God's Little Acre, and you get more like a charac- ter out of Tobacco Road every year," She'd probably been cook- ing this withering stuff up during her wade through the patio, which is waist -deep in hay and old Christmas trees, about this time of year. F * I maintained the calm, well - tempered air that she admires so much, or resents so bitterly, depending on the mood she's in. "Yes, dear, it is a little raggedy, but I've been planning to ..." lY * * * WHACK! went her hand on the table, and the kids jumped about a foot, before continuing to eat their peanut -butter and banana sand-wiches with the cynical in- terest of old fight fans at the ringside. "You've been plan- ning!" she went on, voice choked with emotion or something ."You've been, planning nothing but fishing trips and golf .games since the ice went out!" * * %' * Well, I knew my number was up, the die was cast, the heat was on., and there was going to be a purge, So before she could say another word, I rushed to the phone, called the plumber, and told him I wanted hint down, right today and no fooling about it. to fix that tap that has been dripping at a steadily increasing tempo, since February. .1 * til * But. This didn't stop the deluge'. It poured all day, and there was plenty of thunder and lightning with it. Eighteen hours later, I had not only done a full day's work at, the office, but had: taken off the storm windows, cleaned out the back stied and the cel- lar, normally a two-day job, and promised T wouldn't leave the premises for relaxation until the new clothesline was up, the holes. in the lawn levelled, and some runways hacked through the jungle in the back yard. Next day, she was like a new woman. "Now, wasn't that worth it?" she kept saying brightly, as it creaked around, "It: certainly was, dear," I responded, just _as brightly, "it just makes me feel good all over." That annoyed her slightly, as she recognized the bitter, sardonic note, However, nothing could spoil her mood. She was experiencing the elation of the outpost -of -em- pire type who has had to go in among the lazy mutinous coolies and lay about him with his sjam- bok. She's been fine ever since, and I think I might be able to slip out for nine holes one of these evenings. •,,11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111.1,11t,M1111111/ News Of Your LIBRARY By MRS. J. M, S. The whole world was stirred by the news of the nartjtrd6m of five American missionaries who gave their. lives trying to evangelize the Auca Indians in the Ecuador jungle two years ago. The magazines, Life and Read- er's Digest, of .August .1956 car- ried articles and pictures of "Operation Auca" but now Elisa- beth Elliott, a widow of one of the missionaries in, collaboration withthe other four , missionary widows, from diary records that survived, has written the full story in a book Through Gates Of Splendor The book tells of the men's a'aried backgrounds, their evan- gelizing work in Ecuador and their last fatal expedition in January 1956. Excerpts from some of the men's diaries and letters and recent photographs compose a tribute to a dedicated group who died for the faith in which they lived. On the back cover of the book is a photograph of the five mis- sionaries' families taken a year after the tragedy and this tribute "The women were magnificent. There were nn complaints, no self-pity. They had lost their men, the fathers of their chil- dren, but they had not lost their faith." Catherine Marshall, auther of "A Man Called P'eter" on read Ing the book writes "The mis- sionaries were fired by a een- secration and a courage that shames us all."' All the royalty income from this book shared equally by the The other day. 1 became in- terested in a pair of shoes that reminded lase .of earlier days and the long way we havee come from the days when a shoemaker was a maker of shoes and not just one who repaired broken doe;n. Iootweat. 'the pair of shoes I refer to would be classified as top boots for a child three or four years old. I was told they came from the store belonging to the late .1'. A Stewart, afterwards South- cott Brothers and now the Gould ec <)nrS• store on Main Street.. The shoes' are about a foot high and made of leather. The soles of the shoes were put on with wooden pegs, identical with what were used in larger shoes in those early days. The heels were nailed on. Across the front of the toe was a thin, narrow strip of copper. This narrow strip of rapper was used on many of the. larger boots in those early days and became known as cop- per -toed boots, At the top of the boat was , a diamond-shaped piece of red leather which added to the attractiveness of the foot- wear and inside were two leather i loops r nr pulling on 'the shoe. I imagine it would be a proud youngster who wore the boots or prouder still the parents to see their offspring strutting out in something super-duper. It was the same spirit that prevails to- day to see the youngsters dressed in the height of fashion. When Mr. Stewart first came to Exeter, I would say about 75 years ago. he advertised his bu- siness as the bankrupt stock store for that was exactly what it was. He started with and af- terwards bought up bankrupt stocks which he was able to sell at bargain prices. until finally he had* one of the finest general ,stores in the town• The shoes above referred to no doubt came from the stock of someone who had failed in business. Mr. Stewart was a progressive business .Ivan and was one of the first in town to discard the old eoaloi,l lamps for lighting the store and install an extensive system of acetylene gas light. ing. A plant for making the gas was oracle in the form of a cir- cular cement tank at the rear of the store and piped to gas jets throughout the store, giving a brilliant light. So successful were the lights that Mr. Stewart had the gas piped to his home a block east of the store. The gas was more or less dangerous but I never heard of there being an accident. It was this same acetylene gas that was used in the early* Head- lamps for motor cars. Mr. Stewart. was a shrewd bu- siness promoter and at one time he had a Shetland pony displayed in one of his windows on which tickets were given for a draw on the pony with each purchase in the store. When Mr. Stewart retired from business in the twenties be was in comfortable circumstances but unfortunately he suffered heavily in the stock market crash of the thirties. The shoes above referred to are now the possession of T. 0.. Southcott and are proudly dis- played beside the fireplace at the summer cottage at Grand Bend, A short time ago a for- mer clerk with Mr. Stewart asked T. 0. if he knew what be- came of the copper -toed shoes and he was surprised to be shown them, 1ll,llin11111,1111111111111111111111111111111111,1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111. As the "TIMES" Go By 1111111111,11111111111111111111111111111111111i1,111,111111111111111111111111111111111t1111111111U11111111111111111111111111t1111111111111111 50 YEARS AGO The Stephen voter's' List which has been completed gives the number of voters as 1,251. The new C,O,C.F. Hall at Elim- ville is being rushed along ra- pidly and will be about completed August 1. Several automobiles have passed through t h e village (Elimvill.e) lately some of them going at a 30 mile. clip. Daniel Koehler has bought the corner lot opposite H.ees's ear- riage ~Works, Zurich, from Dr, Buchanan for $500. Mr, Leroy Coultes has coin- menced the drug business With W. S. Howey. Messrs. Ed. Treble, George An- derson and Cliff Spackman took. part in a quoit tournament in London. 25 YEARS AGO Miss May "Gill. of Exeter who has taught school at Portage La Prairie for the past 23 years has resigned. Camp services at Grand Bend will begin at 7:30 Sunday eve- ning as the United church has installed a lighting system, • The price of bread has ad- vanced to 8 cents in Exeter, The new summer resort being opened up south of Grand Bend (Beach 0' Pines) is being pushed ahead rapidly: Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Statham and daughter, Lois, left Tues- day to visit the World's Fair at Chicago, Miss Hilda `Sims of Gladman and Stanbury's law office is on holidays. Mr. G. S. '}toward, principal. of Exeter F'ublic School had 30 stu- dents pass the entrance examina- tions and only two failures. 15 YEARS AGO Sgt; Don Whiting received his wings as an air -gunner gradua- ting on Friday at McDonald, Man. Hon. Duncan McArthur, min- ister of Education for Ontario died suddenly at his summer home, Maple Grove, north of Grand Bend, Six vessels loaded with wheat on the east coast of Canada are on their way to Greece to re- lieve the starvating Grecians. A quart box of raspberries was five widows, is being channeled directly into missionary projects. Choose your holiday reading from your library, being sold for 45 and 50 cents at Grand Bend Saturday. Members of Huronclale Wom- en's Institute met at the home of Mrs. John M. Glenn on Mon- day and made 135 pounds of rasp- berry jam. A deputation from Huron Coun- ty Council conferred with min- ister of Agriculture Hon. P. Dewin asking that James Shea- rer be retained as ag, rep in Huron County. 10 YEAS AGO Miss Jean Hennessey has been successful in passing her exams at the Grey Beauty School, Lon- don. District Orange Lodges to the number of 3,500 celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne at Clinton. Mr. Ken McCrae, Dashwood, attended the International Baby Chick Assosciation held in St. Louis, Missouri, this week. Mr. Harry Hoffman attended a post graduate course in embalm- ing held at Ranting . Institute, Toronto. Induction service was •held for Rev, H. Currie in Crediton United church on Friday eve- ning. 5, W. Archibald, civil engineer of London has several mien en- gaged lit surveying for houses at Centralia airport. • 1111;1.1,1,1111111111111111111111111111111111111111,1111,1111 1111111 The Reader Comments , 111111111111111,1„III I11111111111I111111111111111111, 1111111,III li17 A Complaint To the Editor: . • Your editorial page states that you believe the right to express an opinion in public .contributes to.the progress of the community and that it must beexercised freely 'to preserve .democratic rights. - Does this apply only to your newspaper, or to only a few in• fluential business men, or to all residents of Exeter who are dis- turbed and indignant over a condition of lax police enforce!. nient? In talking to a numberof associates we have discussed this particular subject and have found that I aim not alone in the opinions expressed herein. —Please Turn to Page 3 �11 * f '",r”.4e0440,0004,40.0 t t4sa, I in Parotin 5yhttiata,'1 eirMd hti rtitevsii bli,#AV'altet", le'vox+ iattey;t . tioo poi% *-.-• d 10V, klhA &MAY 59aXa;;10,104., t'u Yg*t, r xn.d "Mk Magu far f1ie tend tier," aRutot11UIIttUttit1U11IUIUtIl1111temil IAlI1UU111tint1111tUnitillitt1tilet tU111U11at111U1t111111ituttitMillittg E F 1 ornish, Mitchel lCo. z CEI TIFIEI PVBLIQ A + VN1ANTS H. J. Cornish L. P. Cornish D. Mitchell K. W. Slade 1N. 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