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Brotherhood Week
The contributed editorial below is published
in recognition of Brotherhood Week. February 15 to.
22. We endorse itsmessage wholeheartedly . . .
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, -.....7' Somewhere in the dark jungles of the mind,
. .::. Man harbors a fear of the unknown,. the -.different,
, the strange to him,
• Its excesses can be an acquired vice, not one
accomplished without effort. Little children must be
schooled to its more sinister refinements.
•• Mankind has often developed it into a scene,
and intolerance is the casual label we put on it.
It would be a boringoworld if every man was
:• like every other and we had an assembly -line stamp
• On every face on this globe. Luckily there is a variety,
and authentic variety is not an antagonist to man's
real needs. It should, on the contrary, be a stimulant
• to his life and living.
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The superficial should be taken for what it is.
goes it really matter much that one man eats with
chopsticks, another with a knife and fork, that one
man rides a camel and another the commuter train,
that one faces the east when he prays and another
faces the preacher, that one wears a bowler on his
head and another a feather, that one lives in a ranch
home and another in an igloo?
Cut skin, white, black or yellow, and you will
find blood — and there is no colour line in blood.
Laughter is international and so is hunger. No grave
has ever been dug without tears. The starting point
of life is the same for everyone . and so is the
end. Romance flourishes in tea shops and cellar cafes.
And the sky is always blue at home. Still some men
insist sub -consciously that their habits must be copied
and would outlaw anyone who is different, They are
rnotivated by fear and they are reluctant to adventure
in new trails,
Tolerance, in its true sense, is such an adven-
ture. It is the willingness of one man to search the
heart of another, and find the essence of brother-
hood. A man must rule his own kingdom. He must
search and enquire and choose what he believes is
best for himself and his family. But he must not be
blind to. the other side of the fence. He must recog-
nize that what is best for himself is not always best
for others and he must be willing to give freedom
for freedom.
He must do what he must but he should not
steal what he himself cherishes most. He must treat
every man as his guest, offering the best he possesses
but. forcing no man to accept his gift.
Such is the threshold of tolerance.
;And Boy Scouts
We doubt if the promoters of either observ-
ance planned it, but it's not by any means incon-
sistent that Brotherhood Week and Boy Scout Week
are being held during the same period.
• Few organizations foster a more genuine
'brotherhood—and at a significant age—than do the
• Scouting groups:
Scouting spans many races, colors and creeds.
It now operates in 87 countries of the world, em-
- bracing eight million boys.
Exeter, RCAF Centralia, Lucan, Hensall and
Grand Bend are foetunate in having excellent lead-
ers who are providing boys and girls in the various
• organizations with exciting and energetic programs.
:The community is indebted to these volunteers whose
influence upon youth is of untold benefit.
In Exeter, Boy Scout Week serves to *empha-
size the current campaign being waged by the Lions
Club to raise funds to improve the Scout Hall. Cer-
tainly the project is worthy—make a generous dona-
tion.
Driver Award?
Because of the monotony of weekly accounts
of accidents in this area, it's a pleasure to report
this week about a man who has given tip driving
after 43 years without at accident Or even a traffic
ticket.
A commendable record indeed,
Francis W. Clarke, Crediton, has set an ex-
ample many of us already will not be able to match.
We hope, however, his record will inspire pride in
those careful drivers who never reach the headlines
because they use common sense at the wheel.
A special life-saving award should be estab-
fished for these people.
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• Venice:"
During last week's dreadful
storm here, my wife and 1 got
talking, as people will, about
what we'd do if the storm lasted
a month. It wasn't bard to ima-
gine, at the time. We sat huddled
M the livingrooni, listening to
the pagan howling of the wind,
watching the drapes flutter fit-
fully in the breeze coming in
around the windows,
• * * *
First thing we thought of was
food. As it happened, we were
poorly stocked that night. There
wasn't a potato in the house, for
example. I'd bought two bags
from a farmer, but they were
still sitting up in the office.
There was alr'ost no meat; a
hunk of bologna, a little bacon,
and a can of bully beef, which I
always keep around to remind
me that no matter how poor a
meal the cook contrives, it's
better than the bully beef lumps
and compo tea of pre -dawn
breakfasts in Normandy.
* *
Even our canned goods were
low, as nobody had done any
heavy shopping for a week. A
couple of tins of the eternal 'soup,
one of fruit, one of sahnon. What
about all those preserves in the
cellar, you say? Cut the kidding
Mac. The only thing that's been
preserved in our cellar since
we moved in here is the look of
the place: a cross between the
catacombs of Rome and the
sewers of Paris.
re a: *
We took stock further: half a
loaf of bread and half a pound of
butter; some Krunchy-wunchies
or similar junk in a box, enough
for one breakfast; a stale end of
cheese and a box of soda crac-
kers; a little jam and peanut but-
ter; small quantities of salt, tea,
coffee, milk and sugar; enough
spices. savouries, garlic and
seasonings to tasty up the food
for a large convention, but not
much hulk in it,
* * *
Even I, as farmer inmate of
Stalag Luft I, and at old starver,
was beginning to! blanch at the
thought of making this paltry
hoard last a month. Getting a
little tense, even though we were
only imagining, I leaped up,
headed for the kitchen, and be-
gan foraging,
* * *
Well sir, you'd never believe
the stuff !the average woman has
tucked away, that she never gets
around to using. In one cup-
board shelf I found not one, but
four family -size Nixes of va-
rious types of pre-cooked cereal.
About every six months, my wife
decides we all need a hearty
breakfast, and she buys a whae-
king great box of vitamin -packed
easy -to -make porridge. We have
it twice, nobody has time to eat
it, and she puts it away. There
was enough oatmeal on that shelf
M make us all breakfast for a
month.
* *
That settled one meal a day.
I kept on exploring. Next dis-
covery was a big bag of pan-
cake mix, We have pancake
about every Shrove Tuesday.
There was enough muck in that
bag to make at least a hundred
flapjacks. And in a dark corner
of the closet under the stairs, I
located our gallon of maple sy-
rup, gathering mould. Every
year we buy a gallon of syrup,
eat a pint, and let the rest spoil.
* *
That was treasure indeed, but
Sugar
AND
Spice
Jottings By
Oldsters Enjoy Games
In Large Florida Club
(JAIS is currently enjoying a
vacation in St. Petersburg, Pie,
ida, from where he Sends this
•column.)
It is Friday evening and St.
Petersburg Lawn Bowling Club
is practically' deserted.
I wandered over to the snuffle -
board club There are 107 courts
—itis the largest club of its
kind in the world. There were
less than a •dozen couples playing
at the time.
I entered the largest of three
gaming rooms. A sign said "No
Smoking." I counted the tables.
There were 42. Most of those
present were playing bridge.
Others were playing pinochle or
some other card game.
In another room there were
19 tables in play. In this room
every evening there is a sing.
song of all the old familiar
hymns. It starts shortly after
6 pan. and lasts for about an
hour, •
In the third roam where smok-
Ing is allowed there were 11
tables in play. Here I noticed
some playing dominoes, others
cribbage. 1 think 1 am safe in
saying there was no one in those
rooms under 50 with a goodly
number of them over 70 and
some •over 80. MI seemed in-
terested in their games.
There is a fourth room with
Dispensed By BILL SMILEY
there was more to come: a five.
pound bag of beans, stored away
for the semi-annual pot of baked
beans and used between -times by
the kids, to play bingo. Enough
for six or eight meals. No ntol-
lasses to cook them in, but lo-
cated a can of malt left over
from our last honiebrew venture,
which would do as well. And six
three-year-old jars of chile sauce,
with only an inch of blue -mold,
to ginger up the beans.
* *
We kept right at it and un-
earthed not only a box of pie
crust mix, but six large cans of
pumpkin, bought a year ago on
sale, to make pies, and resting
since behind my tackle box in
the utility room. Also one large
box of spaghetti with all the trim-
mings, enough for three meals.
Also a huge bowl of bread crusts,
saved to make turkey dressing,
but sufficient now to fashion a
couple of mighty bread puddings,
• *
The vegetable bin, an old hat-
box kepton the cellar tairs,
yielded a real prize: a bag of
onions, one slightly withered
cabbage, and a large turnip,
Thickened with a little rico, of
which a full package turned up,
there was enough soup -stew for
four days.
* * * *
But something was missing. No
meat. Neither flesh nor fowl nor
good red herring. Aha! Red her.
ring? Quick as •a light I made
a dart for the shed. Sure enough,
there it was, frozen solid. That
beautiful five -pound lake trout a
slightly inebriated. first - footer
had deposited .with a flourish on
our kitchen table, New Year's
Eve, Surfeited with turkey and
ham, we'd put it in the deep-
freeze, the back shed.
• *
Returning in triumph, the trout
clutched to my bosom, I stum-
bled over a fat black spaniel
pup. Little did he realize, as he
scurried away yelping, that I
was cooly estimating what he
would look like skinned, trussed
and stuffed with bread crumbs.,
* • * *
Never fear, chaps. If the Big
Show does come, and you're cut
off, come to the Smileys. We've
food to burn. And while some of
it should have been burned a
year ago, we'll•be glad to have
you, and there'll be plenty for
all.
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News Of Your
LIBRARY
By MRS. J.M.S,
THE THREE EDWARDS
,By Thomas Costain
This book is the third in a se-
ries depleting "The Pageant of
England" and deals with the era
of the threa Plantagenet Ed-
wards from 1272 to 1377,
These years are resplendent
with stories of heroism of the
Scottish wars and Robert the
Bruce, of the great battles in
the Hundred Years! War and is
dramatic with conspiracies and
executions, But at the heart of
all •the stories is the story of the
great Plantagenet family— their
tragic wars, their wives arid
Mistresses arid families of beauti-
ful children.
And behind this story Is a
easy chairs for lounging or read.,
ing. It was partially occupied
mostly by men. On certain eve-
nings dancing is enjoyed in a
large auditorium and bow some
of those old people •can still
swing their partners!
It costs seven dollars a year
to join the club and this covers
all activities, with the exception
of a few special events at dif-
ferent intervals.
On Monday the President's
Ball is to be held at the Coliseum.
There is to be a concert from
7•30 to 8.30; dancing from 8.30
to 9,30 followed by the Grand
March. Admission to members
is 40 cents; for others, $1.00.
There is a band concert every
afternoon in Central Park. I
was down Sunday afternoon and
there must have been several
thousand present as the park
takes in a whole block.
Two meals are the order of the
day with a light snack at noon,
Meals are very reasonable. The
number of toUrists is down quite
considerably and there, is not
the numbers waiting in line at
the various cafeterias as there
has been some seasons.
The vacant sign is out on near,
ly every hotel, motel or rooming\
house. One of the reasons given
was the cold wet spell of last
season,
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As the
TIMES"
Co By
50 YEARS' AGO.
A meeting in the interest of
the proposed new railway to
pass through the township of
Usborne was held at Elimville at
the township hall. • The promo-
ters from St. Marys were pre-
sent and spoke of the advantages
to the farmers of a railway and
they would erect a station mid-
way between Elimville and Win-
chelsea, •
• Mr. Richard Snell expects to
leave in a fete weeks for Clares-
holm, Alberta, where he will
open. a general store,
Messrs W. H. Levett and W. T.
in
Acheson left f' New York where
they will spend the week,
Mr. T. E. Handford shipped a
load of horses to Winnipeg on
Thursday.
Mr, Joshua Johns took posses.
sion of the store he recently pur-
chased from B. W. F. Beavers
at Farquhar.
• Mr. Henry Smith of Exeter
was last week elected one of the
vice-presidents of the Dominion
Shorthorn Herd Breeders Asso-
ciation.
25 YEARS AGO
A daring masked robber en-
tered the home of T. S. Woods,
manager of the Bank of Montreal -
and succeeded in rifling his poc-
kets while he was sleeping,
L. V. Hogarth, who for sev-
eral months has been in a plas-
ter cast at Christie Street Hos-
pital, Toronto following an ope-
ration on his spine has had it
removed and X-rays revealed a
perfect graft. The operation was
one of the marvels of surgery.
A Valentine masquerade car-
nival was held at the Exeter rink
on Friday evening for old time
skaters. Prizes for ladies comic
went to Miss Amelia Acheson;
farmer's wife, • Miss Florence
West; best flapper, E, R. Hop -
mass of information about the
times, the habits, the inventions,
the authors, the merchants and
the churchmen of thirteenth and
fourteeneth century England. All
this written in Costain's readable
style makes good reading,
LIGHTS ON THE
ST. LAWRENCE '
' Edited by Jean Gogo
The' St. Lawrence River has
been very much .in the limelight
owing to the building of the Sea-
way and, more so, becauSe
Queen Elizabeth will visit Can-
ada this summer to open this
great undertaking.
Jean Gogo, a native of Corn-
wall, Ontario is librarian at Mc-
Gill University and for some
years has been collecting pub-
lished material abeut the St.
Lawrence river, And so, in this
hook, the river is seen through
the eyes of the explorer, the
missionary, the coleinst, the his -
torten, the novelist and many
others who have tried to put
—Please Turn TO Page 3
per; oldest lady skater, Mrs. B,
W. Beavers; best shiek, Mrs.
George Grant; tough guy, Bruce
Tuckey.
The town hall was filled to
capacity Monday for the public
meeting called by Reeve W. D.
Sanders for the purpose of re-
ceiving an expression of opinion
from ratepayers toward asking
for government relief.
Mr. George Chittick, who has
been manager of the local branch
of the Chainway store, has left,
,for St. Marys.
15 YEARS AGO
About 20 airmen from Centra-
lia narrowly escaped suffocation
Friday night when they escaped
through smashed windows of a
smoke-filled Western Ontario
Motorways London to Exeter
bus after a blazing engine
caused a panic amongst the pas-
sengers. Napoleon Geromette,
Exeter, was the driver of the
bus.
The Exeter Boy Scout Troop
under the leadership of Scout-
master H. W. Whyte and assis-
tant, Donald Traquair, together
with the Exeter Cubs with Mrs.
Robert Dinney and Mrs. Nor-
man as leaders will attend James
Street church in a body on Sun-
day.
Mrs. William Murdoch will fill
the position as organist .of
James Street church tempora-
rily as W. R. Goulding com-
mences his duties in London
next Sunday,
Pte, Harold Maier, 21 year old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Maier,
Dashwood, has been reported
wounded in Italy.
A Russian Relief bale will be
packed at Zion church on March
2.
The members of the Eastern
Star have been entertaining in
their homes the last few weeks
for the purpose of raising funds
to provide shoes for British eva-
cuee children.
10 YEARS AGO
The largest train -load of lum-
ber ever to arrive in this com-
munity piffled into the Centralia
Station •Monday morning. There
were 20 carloads of lumber
pulled by two engines. It will be
used to build 50 homes at the
airport.
Miss Birdine McFalla has ac'
cepted a position with the staff
at Westminster Hospital in Lon-
don. —
Mr. and Mrs. 'Urban Pfile of
Con, 14 celebrated their silver
wedding anniversary on Satur-
day, Feb. 12,
. Mrs. Rufus Nestle was in To,
ronto attending the convention
of the Provincial Fairs Associa-
tion.
District Deputy Governor J. A.
Traquair paid his official visit
to Parkhill Lions on Monday and
Strathroy on Thursday,
Thos, Coates has disposed of
his garage and service business
to Mr, Fred Dobbs,
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