The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1958-07-24, Page 2•4Y-inocate„ July 24, 1954
Editorials
This newspaper believes the
right to expreee on opinion in
public contributes to the •pro-
311'OSS MO netion anct that it
mot be exorcised freely lo pre.
rvo and improve democratic
government.
Friday's Vote
• Chief objection to the Ontario hog producers
marketing plan, inch will be voted upon Friday,
seems to be the compulsion aspect of it. Opponents
•charge that the regulations compelling farmers to
market their hogs through the agency constitutes
-dictatorship and loss of freedom for the individual
isroducer.
We fail to see the point. As has been said here
before, we feel producers are gaining a freedom, not
.losing one.
• Farmers, as individuals, do lose the right
under the hog marketing plan to sell their hogs
where they wish. Collectively. however, this is not
the case—they can dispose of them to whom they
wish—naturally, the highest bidder.
Even so. let's assume the individual producer
:has lost this so.called freedom under the plan. Is this
loss important? We don't think so.
Surely the most vital thine6 to the farmer is,
not where he sells his hogs, buthow much he re.
?elves for them. We doubt very much, for example,
if a farmer would sell his hogs to his favorite packer
if another was offering him more money. Providing
other things axe equal, he would naturally sell where
he gets the best price. That is exactly the objective
'of the hog producers' plan.
Again. to repeat what has been said here be-
fore, we believe that the fanner is gain:ng a right
that is decidedly important—the right to sell his pro.
'duct collectively. to sell on an open market on which
.all.processors must bid competitirsly, to ensure that
he receives the best return possible. The exercise of
this right gives him. in our opinion, a chalice to
.compete effectively. along with organized labor and
powerful industry, for his fair share of the national
income.
Another objection is the suggestion that the
_plan is not operated democratically. Our 'experience.
-admittedly limited, reveals the opposite. We have
attended a number of annual meetings of hog pro-
ducers in Huron county—they are open to all' pro-
ducers, elections have been conducted by impartial
.and competent chairmen; nominations have been ae-
.cepted from the floor as well as from a nominating
.committee; balloting has been held in. instances
where there is more than one candidate; resolutions
presented from the floor have been properly put to
the meeting. The representatives elected at these
meetings have been the delegates to the annual pro-
vincial meetings where the board of directors for the
association, the marketing board and its agency, the
leo-operate. have been chosen.
Opponents have also appealed for support on
the basis of remuneration received by the officials
nperating the coop. The suggestions and insinuations
have been wild and irresponsible, in our opinion. It
:is significant that none of the opponents with whom
we have discussed the controversy and- who are criti-
:cal about the salaries paid has never yet quoted
authoritative figures.
Practical farmers will recognize that, in order
to handle an operation as extensive as the hog pro-
ducers plan. it is necessary to employ men capable
of running big business and who, as such, can de.
mand good wages. It would be folly, indeed, to put
a novice in charge of a co-operative handling mil-
lions of dollars.
Have there beenbenefits from the hog pro-.
timers plan? There are more conipetant observers
who can compare the actual returns which have been
receive:! ;d the producers can judge for themselves.
Howeve•:, inere are several other .factors which we
feel are important enough to point out here in gene-
ral terms. Since the open market has been establish.
ed, the number of buyers has increased considerably,
indicating that competition for the products has in-
tensified, a definite 'benefit for the farmer. •
..Farmers realize the advantage of selling by
auction rather than to the first buyer who happens
2.1ong. They have the auction .ystein working for
them now in the selling of their hogs. They can lose
it tomorrow, either by voting against the plan or fail-
ing to vote at all.
• Anyone who thinks by the inch and talks by
the yard, ought to be moved by the foot,
Hardening of the heart ages people
quickly than hardening of the arteries.
more
A rich man is one who isn't afraid to ask the
clerk to show him something cheaper.
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Great strides have been made
in the twentieth century toward
the conquering of disease. One
after another, typhoid, smallpox.
diptheria and whooping cough
have been knocked on the head.
Folio is pretty well licked. And
the medical boffins are hot on the
trail of cancer.
That's why It's so discouraging
to realize that, while today's med.
icuie-men have had their noses
glued to a test-tube, a little virus
that at first seemed harmless,
has sneaked around behind thein,
spread with the stealth of spilled
maple syrup, and is now result-
ing in an epidemic of appalling
proportions.
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Worse still, there Is no drug
that will kill it, for it is not a
physical ailment, but a mental
aberration. Already this highly
contagious mania has hit so
many people that it's not likely
anything will • stop its ravages
of the race except the radio.ac.
tive fallout that will stop every-
thing one of these days.
*
Tts symptoms are unmistake-
able. its victims easily discerned.
When under an attack, they will:
suddenly leave work in the
middle of the afternoon; miss the
funerals of close relatives; skip
meals. though they love their
victuals: desert their loved ones
at all sorts of odd hours; inex-
plicably recover from pain or
illness that would have them
moaning in bed, in the winter.
Oh, yes, this disease is most
prevalent in summer, as polio
was.
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The wretched victims in the
latter stages of the disease may
be easily distinguished from the
lucky people who have not yet
been affected. They may be
found, in vast numbers, wander-
ing over hill and dale in all sorts
of weather, with sticks in their
hands, smashing - at the ground,
and occasionally striking vici-
ously a harmless little blob of
white which they pursue relent-
lessly and blasphemously...
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This mental illness to which I
refer, of course, is that ancient
and honourable state of mind —
it's not a game, and don't ever
think it is — called golf.
4. 9 * 9
Don't snort, gentle reader. Per-
haps Yott have thus far escaped
the anaconda coils of this ser-
pent -like sport, but you're not
safe unless you're over 90, bed-
ridden, and the relatives are
sitting around wishing you'd
hurry up and die so they could
get out and hit a few,
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Just the other day, I was sit -
Ling on a bench at the ith tee,
An elderly man came tip, play-
ing with two others. He let them
go on without him, and collapsed
beside me. "Played whuff six
holes today," he wheezed trium-
phafttly. "Had a whuff heart at-
tack two weeks ago, whuff. Got-
ta take it easy, Played whuff
three holes yesterday. I'll make
whuff nine tomorrow."
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Golf used to'be,a game for neh
ptopie and a few professionals,
It was associated with country
dinbS, snobbery and soda' clirrib-
ing. But something has happened
in the last decade, and we rabble
have stormed the barricades and
infiltrated the fairways. Go out
to a course any day and you'll
see a butcher and a baker, a
printer and a preacher, a hair-
dresser and a botel-keeper, huh
ing themselves with unanimous
vigour and inaceuraey in the
general direction of the bouncy
little fiend of a ball.
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Old lathes who should be home
knitting garments for grandchil-
dren sweat happily amend the
course, hacking divots as big as
dishpans. Attraetive young
women. who should be sitting
around at a beach or bar, just
looking beautiful, potter lan-
guidly about in long tanned legs
and short, tight shorts, Thereby
wrecking the concentration of old
codgers, who are distracted into
slicing $1.50 'balls into the rough,
after spending $300 in lessons
to get rid of that slice,
Oli. I know. The whole thing
is ridiculous. "What could be
sillier,' I used to say, before
the virus entered my veins,
"than walking around hitting a
little ball with a stick?" I still
think it's crazy, a mere obses-
sion. And the day I break 100,
I'm going to throw away my
clubs and start living again,
Which will probably be about
the same day I'm elected pre-
sident of the Women's Institute.
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News Of Your
LIBRARY
By MRS. J. M. S.
What books are you planning
to read during your holidays?
Maybe it will be some you have
wanted to read for a long time
or maybe you will plan to re-
read some old favorites or do
you prefer the newer books?
If it isbooks of travel you
like, read
"As Far Ai You'll Take Me"
This is the story of a lady
who hitchhiked to Alaska. The
writer is Lorna Whishaw whose
husband went off on a three-
month no -women -allowed. expedi-
tion. At loose ends and with $36
and no more equipment than
she could• carry in a pack the
author set out one fine morning
and casually turned north. By
the time she returned home to
southern British Columbia at the
end of summer she had come to
know, as few tourists know,
Alaska and the Yukon and the
people who are settling there,
With a naturalist's eye for the
beautiful scenery .of' the North
and a knack of bringing out the
hest in even the worst of hu-
man b e be g s, her adventures
make no ordinary book,
*
Those of you who enjoyed
"Wuthering Heights" and "Jane
Eyre" by the Bronte sisters will
be interested in the new book:
Wild Decembers
'this book is a biographical
portrait of the Bronte family as
written by Hilda White, It is a
vivid picture of life in the early
nineteenth century which serves
as a good background for "Jane
Eyre" written by Charlotte and
"Wuthering Heights" written by
Emily.
Charlotte dominates the storsr
Used To .Morket Hogs
At Loco/ Packinghouse
I get a lot of enjoyable reading
rn goine through some of the
early files of the Exeter Times
or the Exeter Advecate. Many of
the names are familiar to trse,
and starts me reminiscing of old
times and of many who bave long
Passed away. I wonder just how
much of what appeals to me
would appeal to our present day
reaciere.
Froin the Exeter Advocate of
1802 I have copied the following
items:
"A visit to the porkpacking
establishment of Snell Byes.
will repay anyone for their
troubles. Within the walls are
,large quantities of meat under-
going the different preparations
of curing and making ready for
sale. Under the manageinent of
these gentlemen it is being made
a success and during the past
winter farmers have found a
ready sale for their pork."
The porkpacking plant relerred
to was on James Street and the
building is now occupied by the
Exeter Furniture Manufacturing
Co. It was in operation for many
years and the man in charge
was the,late Louis Day.
Spare ribs, a choice delicacy
for which you pay a handsome
price to -day as it passes over
the butcher's counter, has a lib-
eral amount of choice meat. I
think it must have been after
eating spare ribs that the phrase
was coined "The nearer the bone
the sweeter the meat." But that
couldn't have been said about
the spare ribs that carne from the
Snell Bros. packing plant, for
after the packer got through
with them there was very little
meat left. However, the one con-
solation was that you could carry
away a six quart. basket full of
spare ribs for 10 or 15 emits.
Phonographic Concerts
Another Item says: "A phono-
graphic concert is to be given in
the 'Methodist cburch, Centralia,
next Monday evening and in the
Eden church on Tuesday. This
will he the first appearance of
the famous concert phonograph
and will be the source of much
interest."
Assessment Prebleme•
"Mr. James Beer. -who is at
present busily engaged in ems
-
sing throughout the village gave,
us a can last week. He has made
rapid progress in this work since
he began and reported having
addect a large number of names
to the lists wluch heretofore had
been left of: for seine reasons
unaccounted for."
Various Items
The sound of the fish horn of
Mr. Reed has echoed loudly
throughout the streets of our'
village during the past week.
Some person or persons must
have spent a very enjoyable
time whilst daubing paint on the
door knobs on Mam Street last
Monday evening. Nothing smart
about it.
Several of our young men, who
think they are euch, were seen
fishing in the river on Sunday
last and should have been pun-
ished by the one seeing them.
Remember should it occur again
you will receive the full benefit
of the law.
Miraculous Escape
Mr. Sam Stanlake and son
Silas, of Sodom, narrowly es-
caped being killed on Tuesday
night last between 11 and 12
o'clock by a colt, which they
were driving. running away. It
appears they were about to
leave the Mansion House hotel
when t h e horse became
frightened and started to run UP
Main street at a break neck speed
and when it front of the Advo-
cate office gave a sudden turn
and hurled the occupants from
their seats into the road.
' Mr. Stanlake alighted on his
head on a large stone and re-
ceived ,a very bad scalp wound
and otherwise bruising him. The
son struck against a post but
escaped unhurt. Mr. Stanlake
was thought to have. been dead
when first noticed as blood was
oozing from the wound and he
bore a ghastly countenance. Medi-
cal aid was at once summoned
and the injured man's wounds
dressed,
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Go By
50 YEARS AGO ' Florence Worry, , Pearls. San-
ders, Cbra Sanders, Stella San-
ders and others,
All 19 Entrance pupils of Miss
Clara Vosper in Exeter `school
were successful,
11 took eight large carryalls
and innumerable single rigs to
convey those who attended the
•
James Street Sunday School pic-
nic at Grand Bend,
Flax pulling has started in this
section.
N. D. Harlon received a postal
on Saturday from Pete Bawden,
whi is in England with the Cana-
dian Bowlers, stating they were
having one continual round of
feasting.
This year's Thanksgiving Day
will be pelebrated on Monday,
Miss Kathleen I -lodging, Miss
Mildred Hodgins and Miss Laura
Sutton of Lucan were successful
in London Normal School exams.
This year the crops are excep-
tionally good.
• 25 YEARS AGO
About 20 boys and girls who
played together arouiid Victoria
Park about 15 years ago gathered
at Grand Bend — Mildred and
even as she dotneneted the fame
ily within the parsonage at Ha-
worth. The story of each of the
Reverend Patrick Bronte's ehild-
reii is a dramatic one and in
this book they are all woven to-
gether as they were in teal life.
Visit your library fer your
reading requiremetts,
The • ehiployees of the Exeter
branch of the Canadian Canners
held a picnic at Grand Bend on
Friday following the finish of
the pea pack for the season,
Messrs. Ted Wethey and Eldon
leading hitch -hiked to the Cere
tury of Progress Exposition at
Chicago last week
Exeter merchants are to have
Aviation Day, A sales slip from
any of the advertising merchants
plus 98 cents entitles the holder
to an aviation flight over Exe-
ter.
On Wednesday, Mrs. John
Kuntz, Dashviood, was enter-
tained by her family at Spring -
bank in honor of her birthday.
15 YEARS AGO
The ladies of the Pentecostal
mission picked enough wild, rasp-
berries to make 24 pounds of
jam for the Red Cross,
Donald Oestricher, Hay, re-
ceived the degree of doctor of
medicine at convocation exer-
cises of the medical school of
University of Western Ontario.
He won Classt of 17 Scholarship.
C. Borden Sanders, Exeter, was
awarded the W. H. McGuffin
Scholarship in radiology.
J. M. Southcott, returning of -
ricer for Huron, has rented the
store formerly occupied by Exe-
ter Ladies Wear to be used in
connection with the forthcoming
election.
The proceeds of an orchestra
concert on Sunday evening at
Grand Bend Casio — $216, was
presented by Mr., Eric elcilroy
to the Exeter War Time com-
mittee for comforts for boys
overseas.
• Mr, and Mrs. Affleck are lion-
daying al Grand Bend. Mr. Af-
fleck as engineer of the plane
accompanied Winston Churching
to Africa ,and America.
10 YEARS AGO
Over 400 invitations have been
mailed for Winchelsea Old Boys'
and Girls' Reunion to be held
August 2.
L. V. Hogarth and Jack Weber
leave Saturday to attend a school
of poultry diseases at Dr, Sals-
bury's offices at Charles City,
Iowa.
A large Water tank, bought
from Port Albert airport, is be-
ing installed at Zurich, Its capa-
city is 65,000 gallons,
Work on the new runways at
-Centralia RCAF Station h, pro-
gressing rapidly, The landing
strip8 are being doubled in length
to give one mile runways.
P,Ixeter horse races had to be
called off after the second heat
in only one race owing to rain.
Newton Clarke, Woodham, was%
winner in the field crop corn -
petition in barley,
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