The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1958-09-25, Page 2Pape 2 T.Iie Tnnes•Adyocate, ,September 25, 1956
Editorial
This newspaper bellexex thS
right to express an opinion in
pudic contributes to the pros
gree' of the nation end that at
must be exercised freely to pre-
serve and improvedemocratic
government.
Let's Be Socialists
Reports, and ones which would appear to be
fairly authentic, indicate that the cost of hospital
• care may as much as double when the new pro-
vincial
ro-
i i
v nc al government insurance program conies into
effect.
This should be a deciding factor, if none of
the others are convincing, to persuade those who
have not yet registered for the hospital plan to do
iso immediately.
Obviously, hospital costs at rates which may
be as high as $16.00 a day for standard ward care
in community hospitals could quickly cripple fin-
.. a.ncially any family.
For those who may still oppose public hos-
-; pitalization because of a dislike for social legislation,
we recommend the following paragraphs from The
Wingham Advance -Times:
'I11 one way we feel a certain bond of sym-
-
pathy with these folks who no doubt believe that
any family should be entitled to its own independ-
. once and the right to incur and pay- for its own
hospital obligations.: Such thinking plight be com-
mendable .. if it would get the individual any
:place. In this case it won't.
"The hospital plan will surely emerge as
typical social legislation; the kind where the citizen
of independence and spirit becomes nothing more
romantic than an old-fashioned sucker. We've all
heard that old saw about if you can't lick 'em join
Here you have its wisdom undiluted."
Safety On Cycles
An unfortunate highway traffic accident in -
.volving a bicycle this week serves to illustrate again
the need for a re-examination of traffic regulations
•regarding the status of these two -wheeled vehicles
on our highways.
Under present regulations, a bicycle is given
the same right to the road as a motor vehicle, We
suspect this privilege, rather than being of benefit
to the cyclist, actually invites disaster.
What chance does a bicycle have in highway
traffic travelling at lawful speeds up to 50 m.p.h.
and at illegal speeds up to 90, a• not uncommon oc-
currence? Rights or privileges cannot balance this
unfair conflict.
This is not to suggest that the rights of the
bicyclist in Sunday's accident had any bearing on
the cause of it in a direct way 'hut perhaps indirectly
the mere fact that the rider had equal privilege
with cars on the road contributed.
For their own safety, bicyclists should be re-
quired to yield the right of way to any motor vehicle
on the road.
Regardless of the legislation, however, bicycle
safety can be effectively promoted by an organized
safety program conducted either by police or in
schools. The lives of our children merit it.
Engiish Hurnor.
We have yet to meet a real-life Englishman
who matches the stage version in his ability to see
a joke. Or one who says "Bah Jove!" However, if
you must have your Englishman slow on the joke -
up -take, there's the one about the chappy who asked
kits friend if he knew any new stories.
"Well, I know one about a dirty window, but
you wouldn't see through it."
Later in the day the friend heard the English-
man say to another, "Reggie had a' story about a
muddy window but it was so dirty he wouldn't tell
it to me."
One of our British born friends, hardly falls
in that category. We were describing a Beleek pot-
tery dish we had bought in Ireland, a lovely bit of
pottery of interlaced strands like a woven basket,
with tiny opening between the meshes. "Makes a
good soup bowl," we suggested, without cracking a
smile.
Quick as a wink, and equally deadpan, he re-
plied,
plied, "Oh yes, leek soup no doubt."
—KVP Philosopher
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Maybe I'm just getting cld an
grouchy, but it seems to me tha
life around our, place gets mor
frantic and complicated with th
passing of each year. I'm be
ginning to look back with nostal-
gia on the good old days when
all the kids did was scream all
the time, knock over milk, and
keep their diapers soaked.
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From this distance, those days
had a tranquillity about them
that makes me green with envy..
We'd bath the children and put
then to bed, looking and smel-
ling like rosebuds. We'd do the
dishes amiably. Then we'd . sit
around and dread, or chat, or
play cribbage or chess.
d she knocked over a glass of
t milk, Laugh? I thought I'd cry.
e . h $ N
e When everything was squared
• around. and the recriminations
had ceased, she went out to play.
Three minutes later, she was
beck in, looking seared. She'd
torn the buckle and strap off one
of her brand new shoes. So I
spent half an hour of lunchtime
crawling around in a big pile of
leaves, looking for a shoe buckle,
Didn't find it, sent her off to
school with a last volley of
threats, and went in and let the
Olcl Girl out of the strait jacket.
Oh, we weren't complete fuds.
We'd go to the odd show, and get
together with friends a couple of
times a 'week. And I used to go
out to meetings quite often, in the
evening. But when I'd come
home, there would be the old
Trouble 'n Strife, with a -big
pot of tea and some lovely home-
made tarts from the bakeshop.
I'd try and tell her about the
bright things I'd said at the
meetings, while she told pie the
bright things the kids had said
or done before bed.
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As I remember it, though, we
thought life was pretty strenu-
ous in those days, and we could
hardly wait until the kids got a
bit older, so we'd have more
freedom, more time for relaxa-
tion and recreation. Looking
back, I realize we were up to
our ears in gracious, simple 1dv
ing, and didn't know it, Com-
pared to the continual connip-
tion fit that seems to constitute
our family life nowadays, we
were as peaceful as peas in a
pod.
*
Somewhere, at some crossing,
that idyllic existence went off
the tracks. Life at our house is
now a series of crises, each one
as noisy and frenzied as the last
one, as exasperating and exhaust-
ing as the next one.
* D *
First crisis of the days is be-
fore breakfast. Kim does her
piano practising early, starting
at 7:30. Her mother, just out of
bed, a real martyr, and grou-
chy as a grizzly, supervises. In-
variably, there are harsh words.
I'm getting 'sick and tired of
being awakened by a tear -stained
kid, declaring that "Mummy's
so mean!"
* e * >*
Noonhour is sheer chaos, just
one big crisis. The kids fight
with each other. The parents
fight with each other, The kids
fight with the parents, Occasion-
ally, when there's a lull .in hosti-
lities, the three of them are
merely all talking at once, all
talking excitedly and all talking
about something different, while
I move silently about the kit-
chen, pouring glasses of milk,
looking for the salt, and trying
to stay neutral.
*
Just the other day, we had a
typical noonhour deal, Kim
dropped a slice of peach on her
fresh blouse, She reached for it,
with the hand that held her
knife and a big gob of butter.
The butter scooted to the floor.
Getting a little excited, she bent
to go after it, her chin hit her
dish and the rest of the peaches
flipped, Trying to save then,
F a 1r
Tuesday, Hugh was to catch
the bus at 4 p.m , to take ,him
to the city, 20 miles away, for
his music lesson. I was out sel.
ling ads. At 4,05 I sec this fami-
liar-ooking kid wandering non-
chalantly into the bus stop.
That's my boy. I grabbed him,
borrowed a car, and we took off
after the bus. We hurtled down
the highway at 75, yes 75, trying
to catch up. We caught it two
miles this side of the city. Hs
thought it was a dandy adven-
ture. I lost an hour's work on my
busiest day.
I don't think I'm up to much
more. When I walk into the
house, anything can confront
ine. Maybe there are eight small
children lying on the floor, read-
ing comics. That means Kim is
entertaining. Maybe the record
player is at full volume, with a
soprano screeching 'an aria from
Carmen a t window -breaking
pitch. That means Hugh is
standing on his head on the liv-
ingroom rug, Mdoing his Yogi.
To compound confusion, the
old lady has taken unto herself
some piano pupils. Which means
that I'm going to have to keep
the front walk shovelled all win•
ter, so they can get in. We used
to make do nicely, 'back in those
dear, dead days, with the path
the milkman tromped through
the snow, to the• side door.
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News Of Your
LIBRARY
By MRS. J. M. S.
Helen Maclnnes author of
"Above Suspicion" and "Pray
for a Brave Heart" has this year
had another book published
North Of Rome
Set in Rome this intricate but
fast-moving novel of suspense
and espionage centers upon a
young American playwright who
finds himself fighting. a Com-
munist -directed narcotics ring.
A pursuit leading north out of
Rome. and the break-up of the
ring are recounted in this story
written in better -than -average
English.
Cousin Harriet
This book is a Victorian story
Written by Lady 'Tweedsmuir.
MI who tire of the pace of mod-
ern life can give themselves up
to the charm of this story.
The Tartan Pimpernel
Dr. Donald Caskie, the author
of this book, on Sunday June 10,
1840 of the Scottish church in
Paris preached for the last time
in four years, locked the church
and joined the mass -exodus
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Jottings•.By JAS.,.
Tour Of Lake Distrkt
ShQWS !mprovernents
'Someone has said "Whaf is
rarer than a day in ,Tune?" .On.
Monday I badoccasion to pay a
visa to Grand Bend and on meet-
ing an old friend we remarked
about the weather. "It is hard
to imagine a :more perfect day"
said my friend. It was about
noon and we were both in shirt
sleeves. There was not a riople
among the trees and the lake
was nerfeetly calm.
1 thought that male* a few
weeks before Grand Bend was
humming e ith the hundreds a of
holiday seekers finding relaxa-
tion nr pleasure at this popular
resort and today when the
weather is ideal the place is al.
most rieserterl with 'the excep-
tion of the few who are privileged
to rn,ioy a prolonged visitation.
The same afternoon with some
friends we went on a picnic
party We visited Pnrt Franks
and saw something of the splen-
did work that is being done by
the Ausable River Conserve..
tion Authority. We were sur-
prised to see the number. of
pleasure heats that lined the
river and the natural waterway
that makes boating such a pleas-
ure in all kinds of weather.
Farther on down the lake we
visited the government park at
Iuper+sash. During the summer
the place was so crowded with
tents and trailers and weekend
visitors that it taxed the park-
ins facilities.
Today it was deserted with
the exception of one lone trailer
and one picnic party. Picnic
benches by the :hundreds were
rounded up for the winter. One
dollar for the season permits a
car in enter any provincial park,
From Iuperwash we went on
to the Indian Reserve at Kettle
Point and here we received our
greatest surprise. The park like
the others, was deserted. Two
fishermen were out in a canoe
and twn others were out in al
boat and in spite of the fact
that the lake at Kettle Point is
considered good fishing grounds,
the nimrods were successful in
landing only two .members of
the finny tribe.
But the thing that surprised
us the most was the rocks end
the shale that were in' evidence
away out into the lake. Huge
kettle -like rock formations, from
which the point gets its name.
were everywhere and made one
• realize just haw much the 'water
of Lake Huron has gone down
in the past few years.
Returning hoarse we passed
the Ausable River Conservation
Park where extensive prepara-
tions are being made to preserve
and improve the property bor.
dering the Ausable and then ad.
joining the Ausable River Park
is the new provincial park now
in course of cons:ruction.
I have visited the . government
park nn former occasions and I
ea,n assure our readers that
there is a great surprise in store
for the residents of Western On.
tario when this park is opened
to the publie in the near fu-
ture. There are miles of attrac-
tive winding roads thrnugh the
thousands of oaks and pines and
already numerous parking spots
have been laid out for the ac-
commodation of the public. Far
the first time a bridge has been
built across the old Ausable
River which gives access to the
property adjoining the lake and
it is on the west side of the Au -
sable that the picnic grounds are
being established with access to
the lake in various places.
• After visiting these several at-
tractive spots I am reminded of
what a former president of the
provincial tourist association
once said that it is not any one
particular spot on which we
should focus our interests but on
the many attractions extending
all along our .lakes and rivers.
And it is not only the summer
months of July and August that
should be .emphasized but the
lovely months of May and June
and the gorgenus months of Sep-
tember and October with their
flaming colors and also the in-
vigorating winter season.
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50 YEARS AGO
(Toot weather — hot and dusty
but dry -_ a full list of exhi-
bits in all the branches, a big
crowd and plenty of- side attrac•
tions combined to make the fair
of 190$ a success.
Friday, September 25 has been
declared a • civic holiday by the
"City Fathers." A grand tour-
nament will take place with rinks
from Mt. Carmel, Dashwood, Zur.
ich, Exeter and local. A hand-
some trophy consisting of a cabi-
net of silver is offered,
Messrs. 'Crosley and Hunter,
the evangelists, will commence
several weeks services in James
Street church on November 29.
Mr. Weidenhammer, the prin-
cipal of the school, is becoming
settled on William St.
Monday, November 9 has been
proclaimed Thanksgiving Day.
October 26 is the date set for
the Federal election.
25 YEARS AGO
Cold damp weather and a driz-
zling rain in the afternoon on
Wednesday were contributing
factors to mar the success of
the Exeter Fair.
W, Hatters Jocal dairyman,
has purchased a pasteurizing
plant which will be operated in
connection with the Exeter
creamery,
Mr., Thomas Batter, Exeter's
oldest resident, attained his
96th birthday. on Tuesday.
Messrs. Donald Gladman and
Earl Christie leave this week
from the city. He arrived in
Marseilles and commandeered
the British Seaman's Mission
which became a vital link inthe
escape route for prisoners -of -war
and soldiers escaping from
Dunkirk. He collected military in-
formation for the Allies,,
He was arrested and sentenced.
to death in a Nazi Court but he
was saved by a German padre.
Still the Scottish minister to
Paris he has saved the books in
which he recorded the names of
his guests of war. He was
awarded the O,B.E, for his ser-
vices to the Allied cause.
All of these books are found
on the shelves of your library,
for Toronto where the former
will enter Emmanuel Theologi-
cal Seminary and the latter will
take up. the arts course at Vic-
toria University.
The Dominion Festival Series
will give four entertainments in
Exeter on the afternoon and eve-
ning of Thursday, October 6 and
19,
15 YEARS AGO
Schools in Huron County have
collected tons of milkweed to be
used in the manufacture of rub-
ber.
The canvassers have all been
chosen for the fifth Victory Loan
and the three week drive will
commence on. Monday.
Miss Ada Mitchell has .recently
been appointed administrator' of
the new hospital being built at
Midland,
Miss Vera Decker has this
week moved her Beauty parlor
into the residence she recently
purchased from Mrs, Ida San-
ders..
Residents of this community 16
years of age and over are in-
vited to visit the Centralia Ain
port on Sunday afternoon.
The sixth annual two-day
Lions frolic held in the arena
Thursday and Friday evening
netted $4000. •
10 YEARS AGO
Mr. Vernon Heywood recently
received a Mentioned Dispatches
certificate' for distinguished ser-
vice in the army.
Mr: and Mrs. George Fergu.
son, London, and 'formerly of
Exeter, won a new Ford at West-
ern Fair,
Exeter firemen will sponsor a
baby contest at the Opera House
for the benefit of Child Welfare.
Harry Cole is attending 'the
College of Pharmacy at the Ville
versity of Toronto.
Mr, and Mrs, William Rohde,
Thames Road returned on Satur-
day after spending their honey-
moon in eastern Ontario and
Mr. and Mrs, Edwin Miller re-
turned from their wedding trip
on Sunday.
Sixteen nubile school canvas-
sers realized $81.60 for the Navy
League on Saturday.
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DRUGLESS THERAPY
For Appointment - Phone 606
DR. H. H. COWEN
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Closed Wednesday Afternoons
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If you need more room in the farm house for the
children, more accommodation for hired hands,
more all-round convenience for everybody in the
homes a spare room for visitors ... or if you simply
steed snore space for relaxation, don't let a short-
age of ready cash stop you from going ahead with
building plans now.
If your proposition is sound, there's money for
you at the B of M ... in the form of a Farm Inv,
.myprovement Loan: Talk it over with the man-
��� rr ager of your nearest B of M branch this week,
es semen .
FIL the fixer
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chance tb help fix up your farm
he's economical, convenient, versa -
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making your farm a better farm.
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