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This newspaper believes the right to express an opinion in pulzlic
centrihutas to the proproSa of the nation and that it must ,he Nser.
filed freely end wRhQut PretPdica 11) Preserve and improye demo,
critic spsyerninerit„
Let's study 11
Ti § :vocational school ,development b an
important one and we're :pleased to see Huron
secondary iebools taking. a keen interest. The steps
Ulcen so far have been progressive .ones and we
trust the committee will continue to. :press for the
provision of proper facilities..
We.'re somewhat concerned at the moment,
however, over the lack of planning, and guidance
in this new development. me lack of knowledge
concerning the vocational education program itself,
the rather obscure objective, the hazy proposals in
regard to .courses tend to make one wonder just
how well prepared the county is to undertake this.
type of training.
Yet we're convinced this more practical ap-
proach to education is just in its infancy in Can-
ada. It will expand to a considerably greater de-
gree than has even been suggested. We 'wonder if
Huron isn't foolish to apply just for one school
instead of planning for at least two. The -combined
;federal -provincial offer to underwrite entire capi-
tal cost of the facilities is an opportunity not to be
overlooked,
One can say, for argument's sake, that the
present .educational structure provides for only
3.5% of the youth of our .area, since that's roughly
the percentage Which graduates from it. We must
continue to provide the academic instruction for
that 15c7,7, but we should not ignore the 85%'
whose talents, apparently, are not being developed
to the extent they might be. 'Of that '85%, there
may be 254-r, even 50%, who may not benefit
from different training; that still leaves a large
group—from 35 to 64%—Whose interests we are
not looking after 'properly.
How should our authorities deal with this
problem? What is being taken into consideration
in the present study? Here lies our concern.
At this early stage, it appears the dep't of
education is not providing the type of leadership
it should. In its initial presentation, the dep't has
been vague. Apparently unprepared for this de-
velopment, it has shifted the burden for decisions
and co-operative arrangements on the boards them-
selves who have had no experience in this field
whatsoever. This attitude, we hope, will ehange
when the boards get down to serious negotiations:
at the moment, however, it has leftthe local
authorities at sea.
There have been indications that the pro-
gram will be an "experimental." one, a sort of
"push your way through the bushes" type of thing.
Surely, with the experience gained. in. other coun-
tries who have had vocational education :for many
years, there can be more expert guidance than
this.
The second point lies with the lack of direc-
tion froni the local professional people involved—
,' the teachers themselves. These are the people from
whom boards must seek some guidance since they
are facing the problems personally day by day,
year by year. Surely they can provide some leader -
1
!,..• ship.
This criticism may be unjustified at least
partially, because local boards seem disinclined to
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For the future
Grand I3end, with the assistance of the •On.
tad() Water Besonrces commission, is investigating
the use of Lake bicron as a source for a municipai
water system. Engineers are surveying the shore-
line to determine a Location for the intake of the
proposed system.
It has been suggested—and with good, rea-
son—that area municipalities, particularly Exeter,
might consider taking part in the project as mit.
anneal insurance against the -needs of the future,
Water inland is scarce. That's being proven
yearly by the extensive drilling that tales place
throughout the area. Municipalities aro finding it
difficult to augment supply to meet growing •de-
mands,
Through foresighted management, Exeter
has a better than adequate supply at the moment,
Yet for how long and for 110 W much grOwth? No
one really knows.
In this ever -intensifying search for water,
men and municipalities are turning more and more
to the Great Lakes, A number of towns already
have gone to Lake Erie. Goderich is tapping Lake
Huron in co-operation with the new Ontario hos-
pital. Technologists predict there will be, some day,
a network of pipelines throughout Western Ontario.
Establishing intake facilities is, according to
those who should know, one of the expensive por-
tions of a lake supply system. When. Grand Bend
installs its intake, it might be wise for other niUni-
cipalities to contribute to the cost of installing
facilities with much larger capacity than Grand
Bend needs, or will ever need, in order that they
may take advantage of it in the future,
With the co-operation of the OWII,C, area
communities may be able to provide partially for
an inexhaustible future supply which some day
must be established regardless of cost.
consult their staffs on major problems. They are
treated as employees hired to do a job, not as a
vital part of the management of our society's big-
gest and most important business.
From both these areas -the department
level and the teaching level -7 -We feel boards should
be receiving more guidance and leadership. We also
feel that, to be successful this program needs some
extensive study, not just discussion. And that study
should include not only what success has been ob-
tained in other areas but the extent of locil needs.
We cannot delay action toward construction
unduly, of course, and yet it 'would seem hap-
hazard to barge ahead without some intensive re-
search. One suggestion is this: while the boards
continue their general discussions toward provision
of facilities, they can appoint a eOrniniSsioll of
three to study the situation intensively over the
summer months. Perhaps two principals or teachers
and a board representative could be named to con-
duct this investigation, particularly from the local
standpoint. Certainly there should be some teach-
ers available who would be interested, in this pro-
gram and who are capable of doing the,50b.
It
would cost money, of 'course, but it would be an
excellent investment.
Sugar and Spice
There's something missing in
my life this spring. I've been
feeling restless and unfulfilled
lately, and didn't know what
• was the matter. But I've real-
ized what it is. I'm lonely for
my old house.
Since we moved here last
September, we've lived in a
rented place, and while it's a
good heuse, it hasn't the char-
- atter of the old place. There's
nothing falling down, or heav-
ing, or torn up. Everything is
as neat, tidy and un -inspiring end was rotten, and kind of
as the exterior of a shoe-box.leaned toward the house, let -
Other years, thud this time ting the line down to about two
of year. I'd be excitedly plan- feet off the ground. And every
May, I'd look at it and rnur-
nitig all sorts of repairs, reno-
as mur, "If a fellow could just
nations and improvements, get a good, straight cedar pole
I walked around my haggard about 15 feet. .."
dispensed by Bill Smiley
ming it. And every spring it
was a foot higher. Then the
maples and spruce started
growing up through the cedar,
and it was GO pretty I just let
it go. It must be twenty feet
high by now. "But, if I wanted
to thin it, I'll bet I could get
some good timber out of
there..
Next part of my annual in-
spection was the .cellar, I'd go
down there ready for anything.
—Please turn to page 5
give me quite a bit of troubleyou ever saw — those skinny,
over that. About four times red ones that the trout really
each spring, she'd haul me into go for. "Say, you know, if e
the backyard, wave hysterically fellow started breeding these
at all the fine, sturdy, upright things seriously ..."
clotheslines of our neighbors,
and shame, at ours. Satisfied that my worms had
It wasn't the rust that made wintered well, I'd give the
her so mad. It was the way the cedar hedge a routine check,
line gently sagged in the mid- When we first moved to the
die, as soon as she put any old house, it was about twelve
thing heavier than a pair of feet high. Every spring, I tried
anti it. Pole At the far to figure out a way of trim-
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and point, speechless with rage
half -Acre. Once the first fever
of the trout season had abated,
I'd make a tour of inspection,
usually on a sunny Saturday in
May,
* * *
First, I'd check the ruts le
the lawn, made by the coal
truck. Depending on what kind
of a winter we'd had, these
crevasses ran from a few in-
ches deep to more than a
foot. I'd measure their depth
with a practised eye, shake my
head admiringly at the skill of
the truck driver in hitting the
softest spot in the lawn, and
Mutter, "If a fellow just had
about a truekeload of fill and
some grass seed,"
Then I'd mosey are -tied to grow carrots or radishes or
the back and check the clothes. green onions but it produced
line, The Old 'Lady used to sortie of the best fishing Worms
Then I'd poke around into
my patio and look at my
shingles. They fell down there
when I had the new roof put
on, seven year e ago, Each
spring, I'd kick thein over, so
they'd dry on the bottom. I al-
ways figured that when they
were well dried, I'd tie them in
bundles and sell them for
kindling. "If a fellow could get
10 cents a bundle for them,
even . • '
Then I'd turn aver a few
spaclefuls of earth in my gar-
den, 1 had dug that little plot,
the whole four square feet of
it, six years ago. It wouldn't
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1 PHONE 181 ExITER
JOTTINS4 BY NS
The retirement of Hon. W. the commission charged with
Melville Martin as Chief Jus- the responsibility of the re.
Glee of Saskatchewan, after 53 vision of the criminal code,
years of political life, recalls In an address presented to
the early life of this eminent Martin by Premier T. C. Doug -
jurist that was spent in Exclas, of Saskatehewan, it was
ter when his father the late stated that Mr. Martin had
Rev, W. M. Martin was min- earned the gratitude and af-
ister of Wen Presbyterian, rection of the people of Sas-
Church, katehewan who will remember
Mr, Martin received his early him as one of the architects of
education in Exeter, graduate this rdele
at.Psici•oluytierit
ncein: tkeligssy, mcArs-
en from the Clinton Collegiate ity and
Institute and continued his natural dignity and modesty.
studies at the University of To- will ever remain_ a model of
ronto. At Toronto two of is conduct for men in public life.
fellow students were W, L. What has been said of Mr.
outs
nhuirnblieas
lifa
e
Mackenzie King and Arthur Martinrktiin beabasuatid hioaf
Meighen, each destined to be -
u
come prime minister of Can- Young man who was a rnem-
ada, a position Mr, Martin ber of the Exeter lacrosse
might have attained had he team. Be was anoutstanding
been so inclined. athltheteie
e gaanndplayed for the love
Mr. Martin moved to Reginor
a I have stated on other ocea-
in 1903 and had i•ritieli to do sions that Wil Melville
with moulding the destinies of Aladin was my idol when as a
the Province of Saskatchewan, lad not yet in • his (teens 1
In 1908 he was elected to the watched and admired his ac -
House of Commons along with
his two fellow students from tions en the lacrosse field.
Toronto. The association which
stalished County, although of different Your library
he ebthere with Arth-
ur Meighen, a native of Perth
political views, lasted through-
out Mr. Meighen's lifetime.
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"WeloOnte to au. plotet.”
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In 1911 in the Reciprocity
election Mr. Martin was again
elected to the House of Com-
mons and • there he remained
until he resigned to accept the
premiership of Saskatchewan:
Mr. Martin is believed to be
the last 'surviving member of
the. 1908 Rouse of Commons.
On April 5, 1922, Mr. Martin
resigned as premier of Saskat-
chewan and was succeeded by
Hon. C. A. Dunning, one. of
the great Canadians Mr, Mar-
tin brought into •public life. A
few months after ',his resigna-
tion as premier Mr, Martin.
was appointed a judge of the
Court of Appeal. He served in
this capacity until 1941 when
he was appointed Chief ,Tus-
tice of Saskatchewan. a peg -
tion he occupied until his re-
tirement,
At the outbreak of the Sec-
ond World War the govern-
, elf Canada called upon
By MRS. .IMS
Advise and Consent
This book "Advise and Con-
sent' has been on the top of
the list of Time's choice of
best reading for fiction kr
weeks.
It is a story of United States
politics written by Allen Drury
who has covered the U.S. Sen-
ate in all its aspects for 15
years. Be now supervises the
work of the Congressional
Press Galleries.
The author has centred his
story the world's stormiest
political battleground — the
committee roorris of the U.S.
Senate to reveal the bitter' on
filets in motion when the Pres-
ident called upon the Senate to
confirm his choice for Secre-
tary of State. The question is,
"Will the Senate advise and
consent to this nomination?"
Then he probes the minds
and motives of the istatesmen,
Nfr, Martin to he the ,Custod- the opportunists and the °W-
ien of Enemy Alien Property
in Canada. Later the Canadian
government called upon him to
implement the difficult prob-
lem of rent control. Following
the war the federal govern-
ment called upon him to chair
fashioned idealists of present -
clay Washington—their driving
ambitions, their vanities, their
hopes and their fears set
against the ominous back-
ground of steadily mounting
—Please turn to page 5
As the "Times" go by
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE T -A FILES
30 YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO
The Crediton United Church Exeter will this year, cele -
congregation decided on Sun- brate its first peace -time 24th
day to use the new Hyrnnary of -May since World Warn. MI
commenting June 17,
returned men are beingenter-
The 1,000,000th Ford oar to tabled the evening previous.
be . manufactured in Canada Mr. john Thomson has sold
made a trip to the Ford garage his farm at Eden to Mr. John
and was driven about town on McAllister a returned veteran.
Monday.
Mr. and Ws. Thomson will
was a red letter move to Exeter into the home
nigAhr
recently purchased from. Har-
ladfoarY the members of the
Masonic craft when the largest old Whyte.
Nihe children were baptized
and most enthusiastic gathet- at Staffa 'United • Qiurth on
ing of Masons ever assembled Mother's Day— the largest
to DDGM 'rhos, Pryele on the
in Exeter met to pay homage ktio.ouypeabrsaptized at one tittle for
occasion of his official visit to Mr. and Mrs. T. Hendry
hism11:eefe
niealzodiHa bus has taken a have moved into the new apart-
ment fitted tip over- the Bank
position in Grieve's Sandwich of Montreal.
S
Mr, and ;Mrs. Hector Taylor. hI41PrP.e.Wesley Heywood, lis. were in London attending the
borne, has secured his Bache- graduation exercises of their
lot of Ark degree at Western son, Grant, who received hiS
BA degree in thelnistry.
Willv
111rer
.sNikv.S.. Eaton, who for the Dr. W. S. Stanbury, a native
past three years has been man- of Exeter arrived in Canada
ager of the Canadian National recently from England to take
Express Office here, has heen charge of the Red CrossSo.
transferrOcl to Englehart
elety's national blood transit'.
in
northern Ontario, cion service.
10 YEARS AGO
The National Film Beard of
Canada is shooting a picture
of the activities at Rom* Sta.
tion, Centralia,
Nine 'members of the Provin-
cial Police ,assisted in the ini.
dation of one 01 their mem-
hers, Elnier "eitninernian, into
theOreiltasoni
en
Lodge.Order of Lebane
ir
Largest shipment of cattle to
leave Tterisall in 20 years was
shipped last. Saturday 'from the
local co.operative to the United
Pa rni era' Cb -operative Stock
'Yard, Toronto,
Approximately 950 ctletofilell
Sleere, Laurie Viralsein, COr. in Exeter will be featured itt
den Feta drid Clarence Heythe so-tycle changeover frorn
wood of Maio Street Ohara .1-ttrie 11 to 20,
conducted the service in Licari Flags Of six nate evitipped
Metiodi8t Clitirch on Sttilday, proudly in the wind 1m0140' AS
Mr, i. A. Stewart, Miss flying tadeta of NATO .651111.
Xathieert and Wilfred were in tries marched together
London Monday and 'WOO ceive their wings iit histo'
and rettltned With A neW Me- rical eercinOtty 01 RCAF
ita-
j,augliliil auto, Oen, Centralia, before S,600
Mtge Irene Handfeed has re- district residena.
tutted to her duties ns :nurse Hitroti County sbblArghit) 01
New York after visiting with OAC Guelph went to Grant
tratehtS, Mt tid Wirt, mooti, PR, 1 1-teriall, first
rari i3egree tours(' stitdett4
Tot Jlandfordo
50 YEARS AGO
T. B. carting, ;Ms
Senior, H. Spackman and Dr.
Quakenbush motored to Lon-
don last Thursday,
Messrs, Harvey Bros, pun'
chased the Bethesda Church
which was sold by auction last
Week. The hriek will he used
itt the construction 01 their
new storehouse.
John FAgery, tertattS coin-
miesioner, with 40 trittni et a.
tors 'hope Thuraday 10 take
the census of South Huron,
Misses Edna Pelliek and Wi.
'Data iloWard and)MEttiSrs.
DOI
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Poor horse. His reword far a lifeErms of hard work Is
rain in the face. Why doesn't the boas got the roof
fixed', Even a horse knows that leaks left unattended
just get worse, If money's the problem, all that's ;weeded
is to apply for a Sotiabank Farm Improvement Wan. A
Scotiabank Loan is available easily and quickly for
repairing buildings, buying new machinery, upgrading
livestock, and many other worthwhile projetts.
Don't wait to get your farm in the shape you want tt.
Visit your Bank of Nova Scotia branch monagor soon.
Find out how a Sogabcmk*Farrn Improvement Loan
can help you.
THE SANK OF NOVR SOOTIR
Manager: Exeter Branch, Kenneth W. McLaughlin
BELL
LINES
by W. W. Haysom
your telephone
manager
Back in 1911, 246 tele.
phone people gathered in
Boston for the first coriven.
tion of The Telephone Pio.
nears of America. Today, 50
years later, the triangular
emblem shown above is
A.,(4° tem • worn by some 202,000 men
F AMEIVIC
and women throughout North
• O •
America who proudly call
themselves Pioneers. There are 12,000 Pioneers in Can.,
ada and this month many of them will gather in To.
ronto for the 21st Convention of the Charles Fleetford
Sise Chapter—an all -Can.
adiah chapter. George
Lawson of Exeter is a
Pioneer in this commun.
ity. All Pioneers have
completed 21 years of
service in the telephone
business. The word "ser-
vice" is probably the key
to the Pioneer movement,
gri the job the Pioneer
like hit fellow employees
devotes his time to ser.
Vice — telephone service,
How natural then for the
Pioneer to spend his lei.
sure time serving his
fellow employees and his
co m m unify. You'll find
the Pioneer visiting the
sick, helping his fellow
Pioneers, promoting hob-
by interests and taking
an active role in com-
munity projects. It's this
spirit of service that has
kept the Pioneer organ-
ization thriving over the years. It has niade them a
credit to the telephone industry,
*et and to their communities.
to their fellow employ.
Like most parents in Exeter you have probably spent
many anxious monients worrying about your youngsters
when they are away front home for a good part of the
day 11 you could only hear from them and know theY'
are alright, specially if they're late Tor a meal or are
delayed on their way home. Well, there's one geed War
,set your mind at easet encourage yottr youngsters to
call you from a phone booth. There's nearly always
handy outdoor booth nearby—at stores, service stationer
on the streets and highways, on patetik niake sure
their youngsters have dime with them at all times
expressly for OAS moose, You'll also find a hhOno
booth a Mighty welcome sight when you're in a hurry
to Make a thone call on the go—and so convenient, too,
irl hdd weather or late at eight, They're there for yeer
convenience; we hope you and "tout family We than
often,