The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1958-12-04, Page 2"ams 2 The Times -Advocate, December 4, 1958
Editorials.
This newspaper believes the
right to: ,express an. opinion in
.public contributes to the .pro•
grass of the nation and that it
must be exercised freely to aro,
serve .anal,. improve domoeratic
government,,
Eest Wishes
The Times -Advocate extends congratulations
to those candidates who were successful in district
,elections.
These winners have undergone the test of
tiublic opinion and appraisal. They may assume their
offices with confidence and pride.
• And the losers—those people with the courage
to withstand public rejection—we commend sincere-
ly for making possible the _nost vital of our demo
erratic process.
Distubring Trend
'A disturbing trend in municipal affairs was
forcibly brought into focus by George Armstrong,
former Huron County warden, and long-time public
servant, at the recent nomination meeting in Hen-
sall. It applies not only to that village but to many
other municipalities as well.
Elected officials are selling merchandise or
services to the councils, boards or commissions on
which they serve. Often tenders or competitive prices
are net sought. This is an illegal, dangerous trehd
which can lead to serious mismanagement of public
funds,
. The declaration of office, which every elected
representative signs, says in part: "I do solemnly
promise and declare , , that I have not received,
and I will not receive, any payment or reward, or
promise thereof, for the exercise of any partiality or
ll.alversation, or other undue execution of the said
office and that I have not, by myself, or partner,
either directly or indirectly, any interest in any con-
tract with, or on behalf of the said Corporation."
We are not suggesting that any elected official
has overcharged the public or failed to provide the
service paid for by public fund, Indeed, in many
cases, elected officials have provided merchandise at
less than normal mark-up.
We have also some sympathy for the argument
that, in return for the service he gives the town,
the elected official deserves consideration on pur-
e,hases.
But this practice, harmless as it may seem to
be, can develop unfortunate complications. Repre-
sentatives
epresentatives may be barred from office for such activi-
ties and, indeed, severe penalties are provided by law.
Those at the head of these bodies are respons-
ible, more than anyone else, for the proper conduct
of members. The situation described above may be
cleared up voluntarily by chief magistrates - and
chairmen and by the members themselves, for that
matter. It would appear wise that; they take. action
now to stop the trend.
'Netghborl y Buying
We like the theme of an ad which appears
in this week's paper.
It says: "My pay . cheque, is spent to. benefit
my neighbors in Canada r . , and my, neighbors'
spending benefits me!"
The message explains how the buying.:of Can-
adian products—like Canadian cheese for example --t
benefits Canadians from the farm to .the retail lever
It has the same importance, in a broader sense;
as the "buy at home" habit we like to encourage- at
this time of year.
Let's be good neighbors—at Christmas- time
and all year around. Buy Canadian and buy at home.
Still A Challenge.
If you have not made your contribution to .the
annual Christmas Seal sale of Huron County 'TB As-
sociation, don't forget it. Although this appeal :has
been made for many years,. it should net be taker
for granted. •
The importance of continuing the fight against
TB is shown in reports which indicate that,, while the
death rate from TB is decreasing, the' number of
people contracting the disease continues to rise. ' -
Huron county has an active group in charge
of TB prevention. Last year over $10;000 was spent
in mass X-ray surveys, monthly chest clinics,, assist-
ance to patients, and educational Methods. Over 1,000
people took advantage of free chest clinics in the
county last year. .
Send your cointribution . today.
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"I say when they start asking for ablonde instead of
a brunette, they're old enough to stay alone without
a sitter 1"
•
Something sinister is develop-
ing in the kitchens across this
fair land of ours. There is con-
fusion in the cuisine. Culinary
dry rot has made' its appearance
in the cookhouse.
The signs are everywhere. Gar-
bage cans, which once sat in
solid dignity, heavy with tea -
leaves, ,pgtato peelings, egg shells
and grapefruit skins, now teeter
giddily in the slightest breeze,
their cargo composed of .frozen
food wrappers, waxed orange
juice containers, empty tins and
vacant ready -mix boxes.
Children, who once came in
from play, bright-eyed, rosy-
cheeked, piping "what's for sup-
per, Mon?" now sit before a
lighted box in a darkened room,.
shoving unknown, untested food
into their slack little Mouths.
• * *" „
Brawny labourers, home after
a hard day on the job, looking
forward to a heaping hot plate
of viands, quail as they are con-
fronted with yet another triumph
',of the canning kings, the frozen
food fanatics.
• There is a close similarity
between the development of new
cars and new stoves. As gadget
after gadget, frill after frill, is
added to the new models, their
owners become worse and worse
drivers. As stoves sprout. more
and more buttons, louder and
loader bells and buzzers, women
grow' less and less .able to • .cook
a decent meal.
r ;a .
As a matter of -fact, the very
word "cook" is growing into dis-
repute, Women no longer admit
shyly that they are " a pretty
good cook." They brag instead
that they can "turn out" or
"whip up" a pretty good meal.
The very phrases tell a lot about
modern "cooking," The women
turn out the contents of a box,
whip .up the muck in, it, and
think, they've baked a cake.
* * * *
Even at that, it's an ordeal.
Only time we see 'a cake around
our house iswhen Some organiza-
tion is having a bake sale, and
the Old Girl gets booked for
making one, By the time she
gets through making one' lousy
cake, we're lucky if we get a
can of soup, or some frozen
fish and chips, for dinner.
Mother is not only exhausted,
but every dish in the kitchen is
dirty,
* * * *
I remember what my mother
Halted: :every Sa:turday:. eight
lave of bread, including a
couple .to give away;. three or
;faun dozen buns;' a couple of
pans- of cinnamon rolls, about
four „pies and two cakes, 'choco-
late and light. Mum was too
busy baking to cook on Saturday,
so we'd have to be satisfied with
something light, like maybe a
big dish of home-made pea soup,
with home -tirade 'bread, followed
by fresh buns' and preserves.
* *
It almost makes me cry when
I think of the future my kids
face, unless there is a reversal
of the trend in modern cooking.
The other night, I was helping
Hugh study his science. The
book described how fruits are
preserved and put in jars. "That's
a kind of crazy thing to do with
fruit," he says. "Why don't they
just buy it incans at the store,
like .we do?"
Sugar
AND
Spice
Dispensed By BILL SMILEY
My heart smote me when • I
realized that the boy had no
knowledge of the great pleasure
of going down to he cellar, look-
ing along the serried rows. of
preserves, and picking out a
quart of delectable raspberries,
delicious yellow peaches, or pale
golden pears.
M *
Tq my delight, however, de-
generated as their tastes are,
the kids retain an instinct for
honest food, When they're served
the latest in canned Italian
ravioli or Polish cabbage rolls,
the last word iii frozen chop
sucy or pre -prepared chile, they
merely muck it about on their.
plates. But give thein an. honest
home -cooked in e a 1 , however
simple, something like sausages,
potatoes and mashed turnips, and
they gallop it up and want more.
* * ,i1 .
I shudder to think that cook-
ing in the home is on the way
to becoming a lost art. But un-
less the girls stop cooking from
the recipes on the outside of
those packaged food boxes, and
start cooking with some integrity
and imagination the day is com-
ing. And when it arrives, I'm
going to sprinkle a little powder-
ed arsenic in with the prepared
pie fill, and eliminate a hopeless
future for my little brood,
* * *: ,•
T don't know what brought all'
this up. But I want it clearly'
understood that the fact that ,my
wife has been deeply involved in
a drama group for some weeks,
during which•'the kids and I have
subsisted on crackers-and•sbup,
beans -on -toast, raggedy ends of
bologna, bought cookies and 'bits
of stale cheese, has nothing to
do with it,
The Reader
Comments
Who Sets ka.te?
To the . Editor; .::
In' 'your last issue 'of The
Times -Advocate a reader night
think that the speech I made at
the nomination meeting was not
true.
At our September meeting in
West McGillivray Hall; in the
absence of our chairman,' the
secretary called a meeting of
Bryden Taylor,. Arthur Simpson,
Ellison Whiting arid myself, -We
were all present, including "the
secretary, I asked: '"When are
we going to set the tax rate?"
The secretary answered: "It has
been set long ago." I asked..
"Who set it?" The secretary
answered: "I did,"
if the board had set the tax
fate, it would be in the minutes.
There has not 'been anything in
the minutes about setting the
lax rate since I came on the
board two years ago.
I hope this clears up the ques-
tion.
Yours very truly,
Grant Antos, ,'.:.•
R.R. 3, Ailsa Craig
Jottings By J,M.S.
ysteriQus .Prowler
e
Lan. aged 1').. reshers
Many 'Usborne Township farm-
ers will recall the years of ter-
rorism when iron bars were
Placed in sheaves of grain in an
attempt to wreck the. machine
that was doing the threshing.
The threshing machine of
Chester _Gorvett, of Granton, was
wrecked on different occasions
and once on the farm of Louis
Beavers, near Woodham the rear
of the .machine was wrecked
and farmers working close -by
narrowly escaped being injured.
The London Advertiser in Oe-
tober, 1929, published the follow-
ing account:
"Sal Did eri.pg for the past nine
years, the enmity of .a mysteri-
ous prowler of Usborne Town-
ship, near Woodham, Ont., has
flared out anew. Seven times this
autumn farmers in the.terrorized
district formed armed posses to
apprehend their unknown as-
sailant, who strikes silently and
in the dark, and each time they
have failed.
• The latest assault by the night
prowler was on the farm of
Hugh Berry, well-known Usborne
farmer; when George' Copeland,
his son-in-law, a former ehauf-
ler for the London division of the
nrovineial police, was slugged
and left unconscious at the edge
of a bush. A fleeting glimpse of
the mystery man was caught by
members of the Berry family on
the following Monday flight, but
stall police are without a clue
to his identity,'
'Tire reign•of terror in.Ushorne-
Township, the motive of which
is as darkly veiled as is the
identity of the night prowler,
began nine years ago. Each fall
the prowler's grudge against
Usborne farmers is fanned into
flame. Iron bars, that were in-
tended to wreck threshing ma-
chinery, were. found in stooks
of grain. Hay wire wast stretched
through rows of growing grain'
to destroy the iron teeth of the
corn binders.
Farmers Carried Arms
For many weeks'recently'farm-
ers in the prowler's district went
about armed prepared for a
chance meeting with. their will-
o'-the-wisp, assailant, Lately, how-
ever, provincial police have been
+.
re
informed of the whole history
of the mysterious ease and they
have taken full charge of the
investigations,
Guesses as to the identity of
the prowler ranged from. the
• belief that he was a maniac to
the suspicion that he might be
a former resident nursing some
unknown grievance against his
fellow farmers. There was little
piece of mind in Usborne until
the mystery was cleared away,.
Seven or eight neighbors to
Ilugh - Berry have been victims
of the mystery man's attack,
Mower guards in their grain
sheaves have wrecked the ma-
chinery of their threshing out-
fits, and binder guards skilfully
hidden in wheat and oat stooks.
The guards are light in weight
and it is almost impossible to
find them without tearing down
the whole sheaf. Once they are
inside the thresher the machin-
ery is completely wrecked by the
thin iron bars.
'The Copeland Assault
The assault on Copeland, who
is well known in this vicinity,
took place late Thursday night
last, when he was repairing an
auto tube on the farm of his
father-in-law, Hugh Berry. The
prowler crept quietly up behind
him while he worked, slugging
him over the head with a blunt
instrument and left him uncoil-
scions near- the edge of a woods,
pi) Monday night of last week
a second visit was .made to the
Berry farm by the mystery man,
but only a fleeting sight of him
Was obtained as he flitted about
the farm buildings.
Horh Bros., of the tenth line,
Usborne, have also been vic-
timized by the prowler, who has
cut their harness, smashed a
gravel box and cut down a pump,
all with in the past few years.
On several Usborne farms wire
has been found stretched among
the growing corn, and the teeth
of mowers used in harvesting the
grain have fallen prey to the
strategy of the unknown vandal.
Driven to the point of despera-
tion farmers on seven occasions
this autumn have banded them-
selves together to hunt down the
prowler, but each' time he has
managed to elude their clutches.
As the
„T i M E S„
Go By
a:. 50 YEAR; AGO
The Crosley and" Hueter even-
gelical services` -•are gaining in
popularity,
Talk about having customers
from a long. distance our (Dash-,
wood) merchants have the fa-
culty of getting long distance
customers and of piling unto
them a good load of merchan-
dise. They have just the things
the people want.
James Ducharme,' one of the
oldest residents of the Sauble
line died on . lljdnday of. last
ween ' •
The :street lights iii Crediton
have' ,been installed and have.
made .a great i:iiprovement. to.
.the tcOn. ;.
Mr, !and; Mrs, William..Moiley,
Whalen, .have -:returned : from
their, wedding trip. .. •
Sidney Hodgins; Clandeboye,
is drawing brick from Crediton.
-He purposes building a new
house next summer.
R. G. Seldon was elected pres-
ident of the Curling Club with
G. E. Anderson secretary -treas-
urer. They have procured the
rink for Tuesday, Thursday, and
Saturday eveliings .and evory
afternoon except .Saturdays,
25 ::.-YEARS AGO
• The C (x.I T, 'and Boy; Souts'
in 'Exeter :will be 'glad • to fix or
mend any` -dolls or broken toys
for ,distribtutibh :locally at. Christ-,:
mat; ; ' - .
Ray Pryde was elected presia
dent of the 'Exeter•'High School
Senior. Literary Society on Thurs-
day afternoon. •
Mr. Robert Brooks has rejoin-
ed his family after spending the
summer in England,
Exeter has entered an inter-
mediate team in the 0.14.A.,and
are grouped with Mitchell, Gode-
rich, 'Seaforth, Clinton and New
Hamburg,
Mrs W. I -I `Dearing 'wire wa; •
the ,.winner.. of rife cake-.
baking prize was also the county:.
winner at. the baking;: contest;
.sponsored by Exeter WA. in the
town hall last week. .
14Ir.•Harry Anderson, Thames
.(toad, will enter on his duties as • •
teacher bf No. 3 Usborne at the
beginning of the year,
15. YEARS AGO
Exeter held its fifth blood don-
ors clinic on Wednesday with
106 donors reporting.
R. E. Shaddick was elected
reeve of Hensall by acclama-
tion and councillors are Jas.
Parkins, 'A. W. Kerslake, F. W,
Smallacombe and E. Fink.
Harold Wolfe who is stationed.
with • the R.C.A,S.C. at Owen
• Soulid' Was at his home in Cred-
ltoii for the weekend. •
Meter vehicle markers for
1944 will. be available early in
,January When stamps will be
affixed to the lower left hand
corner- of 'the windshield in lieu
of plates, the manufacture of
which is prevented by wartime
restrictions.
P!0 Bert Borland left for Ralf -
fax on Thursday after spending
a few days leave with his par-'
ents, Thames Road.
Among those who attended the
United -Farmers' annual conven-
tibiii .in. Toronto last week were
Roland, Williams, Mr. and Mrs.
Eddie. Gill, Grand Bend, Sam'
Hendrick and Mrs. Lloyd Tay-
lar
Ail teachers of high and public
schools—are required to attend
a clinic at Goderich where the.de-
partment of Health conducted an
X-ray" examination of the lungs.
.10 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Millen
have moved to town foin Thames
,Road,
Reeve B. W. Tuckey has an-
nounced his retirement from
municipal office after 11 years:
two years as councillor and nine
as reeve.
Explosion of a waxing cloth
which ' she was wiping .across
the ,kitchen stove caused burns
Froin finger to elbow to the arm
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