The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1961-08-24, Page 4;age 4 The Times -Advocate, August 24,. 1961
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Protecf thern
Count us among the supporters of the
O'Leary Report and its recommendations to place
'restrictions on split -run U,S. magazines (notably
Time and Reader's Digest) which have been gob-
bling up the Canadian advertising dollar at the
expense of Canadian publications.
Whatever it may appear to be, it essentially
involves the preservation of the Canadian identity
just as does the subsidization of Canadian radia
and TV and Canadian art.
While it may be admitted that Canadian
magazines clo not measure up to their American
counterparts (obviously they do not have the re-
sources to compete), a continuation of the present
situation could very well bring about their com-
plete disappearance from the scene, By adding a
few Canadian pages at relatively minor cost to
present a so-called "Canadian edition," the U.S,
publications Have been able to lure a tremendous
volume of Canadian advertising at a substantial
profit.
The candidly ignorant defence that both U,S,
magazines have presented to their Canadian read-
ers (the Reader's Digest hints that it may be forced
to withdraw from Canadian newsstands; Time sug-
gests the recommendations threaten freedom of
the press) add insult to the injury they have al-
ready inflicted,
We like the argument presented by the
Ottawa Journal, in part:
"If three out of every four magazines read
by Americans were imported from Canada;
"If in a single year Americans read 147,000,-
000 copies of Canadian magazines compared to
45,000,000 copies of their own magazines;
"If distribution of 40 per cent of all maga-
zines sold on U.S. newsstands was controlled by
two Canadian companies;
"If two Canadian -owned and controlled
' magazines publishing so-called "U.S. editions" in
the U,S. were taking between them 40 per cent of
all U.S. consumer magazine advertising;
"If these two Canadian -owned "U.S. edi-
tions" in the U.S. were using second-hand editorial
material from a Canadian parent editorial pool to
provide unfair competition for U.S, magazines,
' threatening them with extinction.;
"If these Canadian -owned magazines with
their. "U.S, editions" were reaping profits not only
greater than the profits of American magazines
but greater even than the profits of their parent
Canadian companies — in such circumstances,
WHAT WOULD AMERICANS DO?
"We think we know what they would do,
Thisnewspaper believes the -right to express an opinion in public
contributes to the progress .of the nation and that it must be oxer-
clsed freely and without prejudice to preserve and improve sletre
vatic government,
11�o prosection
A strange story carne from an Ontario court-
room last week.
It told about a man being fined for selling
beer illegally --bootlegging, if you like. The un-
usualthing about it was that he wasn't making any
profit on his sales; he was selling cases• of, beer
at the normal retail value,
The story explained, why, It said the roan.
had been :employed by a brewer to solicit sales.
He collected money when he delivered the cases.
Despite this revelation in the courtroom,
there was no indication that action was being
taken against the brewer. We strongly suspect that
none is contemplated.
Earlier this year several district men were
fined for bootlegging under the LCA. This sum-
mer, a number in Grand Bend have been convicted
of similar offences. We commend the authorities
for these actions. The people have supported the
LCA because of the control measures it provides
and it is heartening to see that they can be en-
forced.
But the point which annoys us is that the
action taken against bootleggers appears only to
skim the surface. Who is supplying the bootlegger?
Obviously, he doesn't truck all ,his supplies from
the LCBO store, There have been strong indica-
tions that brewers are encouraging the illegal sales.
It's no secret, either, that brewers are of-
fending the regulations in other ways, too, in their
intense drives to increase sales. Some of these
measures have been publicly exposed in some of
the province's largest newspapers,
Yet there has been no prosecution. Why?
Surely the brewer cannot be considered above the
law, while his agents and illegal sellers take their
just punishment, The brewer has the greatest ob-
ligation to abide by the law; he therefore should
be the first to be prosecuted when he becomes
the instrument to break it.
And we think also .that they would do it without
asking or waiting for permission from Canada.
"And the Americans would be right.
"For if a nation be unwilling to safeguard
its own communications, or be afraid to safeguard
them, it is hardly fit to be a •nation.
"The report of the Royal Commission on
Publications went out of its way to try to explain
this to Americans—to appeal to thea sense of what
was just and fair. And if ever a report was free
of anti -Americanism, it was this report."
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Sugar and Spices
My, but the city has become
e wild, wicked place, since I
Iiued her as a student, twenty
odd years ago. In those days,
it was considered a lost week
end if you had a few beers in
the King Cole Room. Once in
a while, we had a Dionysian
revel in the men's residence,
when we were allowed to have
.girls in., on a Sunday afternoon,
and give them cocoa and rai-
sip bread, in the common
room.
Gut those days of innocence
and virtue have vanished.
Don't talk to me about the
stews of Alexandria, the bor-
dellos of the Left Bank in Pa-
ris or the French Quarter of
New Orleans, Your words
would fall on the indifferent
ee-�s of a man who has just
emerged from a weekend of
unbelievable debauchery in The
City, Canadians need no lon-
ger hang their heads in shame
when the talk turns to depra-
vity, We're loaded.
I know I shouldn't have
done it. It's going to be hard
to face my wife and children.
But you know how it is when
You're at the dangerous age,
-Suddenly something just seems
to snap and you're off on a
crazy wing -ding.
* * *
I'd stayed in The City on the
weekend to study for the ex-
ams coming up. My intentions
were as pure as those o a
divinity student, But, oh dear,
it was a warm, soft summer
evening and I was lonely all of
a sudden, and Psychology in
Education seemed a hook of
monstrous size anddreadful
dreariness. So I had one of my
famous little chats with myself:
"You have to go out to eat
anyway. . A change
is as good
as a rest. You'll gn queer
cooped up in here, You can
study later.” As usual, I won
the argument.
Next thing 1 knew, 1 Was
strolling happily up Philoso.
pher's Walk, enjoying the sights
and sounds: The lovers lying.
on the grass, nose to nose; the
old lady bawling hell out of a
black squirrel because he
wouldn't come out of the tree
and get his peanuts; the burn
stretched out, his overcoat on,
but his feet bared to the eve-
ning sun.
I thought I'd: eat at a new
place, just opened. It boasted
a 50 cent buffet, all you can
eat. Just right for my budget.
It had a Gay Nineties decor.
I ordered a beer and nursed it
through the entertainment —
a fellow playing a honk-tonk
piano and a gal belting out
some old-time songs. I loaded
my plate at the buffet, chuck-
ling at the way I was beating
the management. For one beer
and 50 cents, I was getting the
whole show. An evening on the
town for maybe 85 cents.
*
The waiter brought the bill.
Food — 50c; beer •— 70c. What
they lose on the bananas they
make up on the pineapples.
The waiter was a big, robust
dead -ringer for John L. Sulli-
van, I tipped him a quarter.
Disgruntled but dignified, 1
walked out, ready to head back
to the books and brood on the
treachery of mankind. But,
Monday's lunch money already
shot, 1 was caught up in that
wild, devil-may-care frame of
mind familiar to the crap-
shooter who has lost half
his pay -check on the way
home. Either you try to get it
back, or yot' go home, a fail-
ure.
Throwing family ties and
moral principles out the win-
dow, I walked right around the
corner
and went to ab ad mo-
vie, the one that had "shocked
The City," according to the
ads. 1 got the first shock when
I produced my 775 cents to get
in, "It's a dollar and a half,"
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UESGRIP'TION RATES; Canada $4.0O Poi' `flan, USA $5.O0
dispensed by Bill Smiley
sneered the stating lady. Well,
you know how it is. You don't
want to look like a hick. So,
muttering "There goes Tues-
day's dinner" through clinched
teeth, I paid.
I suspected I was in a pret•
ty avalanche -guard place the
minute I went in, because peo-
ple were smoking, right and
left, intheir seats. And I was
sure of it, when some of the
characters in the film swore,
right out, clear as anything.
Why, they said things I wouldn't
even say to my own wife.
But, it wasn't until I left the
movie that I was sucked into
the real whirlpool of vice, sin,
mope and gawkery that has
turned The City into the So-
dom, to say nothing of Gor
morrah, of our tune. The first
thing I walked past, for exam-
ple, was a place with people
eating outside. There they
were, sitting at tablesright be-
side the sidewalk, eating away
just as though they were for-
eigners and had no morals at
all.
Just a few doors down,
caught up by who knows what
mad impulse, I turned into a
... I'm sorry, 1 can't go on.
When I remember that I was
once president of the Young
Men's Bible Class of our
Church, 1 feel a wave of some-
thing going over me. Besides,
I've run out of space.
may be able to tell all, to
relate the remainder of that
dreadful night. But it will have
to be in next week's issue.
Watch for it—the sihnple, but
affecting story of one srnall.-
townchap's descent into the
pit that is The City after hours.
This is a lousy depression,
Everybody's working and eve-
rybody's broke. At least we
didn't have to work in the Iasi
one.
"It's a Iow-budget film. We spent our vacation at
home."
O Yui, 8a irat. ssnarnte,]fna, vVot79 gads rmzryed.
"X.iOokit 3S though you're king the race for space,"
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i Y• /® lost; SSmtPWtoer S Lw Wortd riabte reserved
"I think I hear the posse."
Pioneer promoters
Under the heading "Notable
Business Men, Promoters in
the Village of Exeter" Mr. W
li, Johnston in 19138 referred
to the early settlers who came
to this section of Huron County
lle mentioned James Willis
and his wife the first settlers
in Exeter who came to this
country in the winter of 1832.3
The following year Mr, William
McConnell carne and built a
shanty where the Presbyterian
church now stands. He had
previously bought 200 acres of
land and in the fall he erected
a sawmill which proved a boon
to the settlers. The following
year he built a gr'istm'ill,
A child born in the family
was the first white child born
in the Exeter district. The
growth of the settlement was
slow at first owing to the ]ow
and swampy land near the
river.
In 1847 the late Isaac Car-
ling, a brother of Sir John
Carling, of London, arrived
and, believing there was a fine
future for the village, estab-
lished a tannery at once and
started a store. He succeeded
in building up a fine business
and the village took on an ap-
pearance of growth and pros-
perity. The fertile lands of the
adjoining townships of Us -
borne, Stephen .and. Hay were
rapidly filling up with a fine
class of settlers who did much
of their trading in Exeter.
Mr. Carling represented
South Huron in parliament for
some years. He erected the
mansion -.like home on Huron
street which now forms the
main entrance to the South
Huron Hospital.
Three of his sons, Thomas,
William and Isaac, were a-
mong the most prominent citi-
zens of Exeter in later years.
In, 1852 another man_came to
Canada and located in Exeter,
James Pickard, an English-
manby birth, with an almost
empty pocketbook, but a man
withvision, whose history up
to the time of his death was
entwined with that of Exeter.
He opened a shallstore at
once and gradually won a' place
in the front rank of merchants.
He built the large three-
storey building now owned by
A. O. Elliot, also an imposing
residence where a number of
his hired help were boarded
by Mrs. Pickard. Ise also
JOTTINGS BY JMS
acquired a number of farms
in, the vicinity, ran a sawmill
and gristmill and bought grain
in immense quantities, besides
working for the religious, edu-
cational and commercial in-
terests of his adopted town,
Almost without education he
had to trust to others to care
for the numerous details of his
large business interests. The
result was what we might ex-
pect, After about 36 years of
successful ' commercial aotivi-
ties he was forced into in-
solvency and all his enter-
prises passed into the 'hands of
others. However he had the
satisfaction of knowing ;that he
had accomplished something in
his career as .. business man
and all done honorably, be-
sides helping Exeter to grow
from a nondescript and scat-
tered village to a live and
busy town of over 2,000 peo-
ple.
P'art of the above history has
been printed previously but
there is some additional infor-
mation that makes it worth
repeating.
The Reader
Comments
Too many weeds
To the editor,
This is just a short note to
explain why Exeter has lost a
new resident. I was in town
recently looking for a new
home or a place where I could
build but everywhere I looked
I saw lots of ragweed, the
cause of hay fever.
Surely you people could find
a way to eliminate the many
weeds that grow along the
river bank and the many va•
cant lots, as well as the old
dump. They are a disgrace to
your otherwise clean town.
"Very disappointed",
London, Ontario
According to a 1959 American
Bankers Ass'n suevey, - more
banks will use newspapers for
thieir advertising than any other
medium, — in .Fact, more than
will use TV, radio, and maga-
zine combined.
As the "Times" go by
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE T -A FILES
50 YEARS AGO
Dr. G. F. Roulston leaves
this week for a trip across the
Atlantic v i s i tin g England,
France and Switzerland.
Among the milliners who left
for. Toronto this week were
Misses Maud. Rollins, Lida
Quante, May Hawkins, and
Miss Yelland of town and Miss
Mary Hepburn, Centralia.
Those who passed the Junior
Matriculation exams from. Exe-
ter school were L. Geiser, H.
,tones, A. McPherson, W. Bir-
ney. A. Dow and I. Marchand.
The masons, %who have been
working nn the new Bank. of
Commerce in town, left, this
week to work on a similar
building in Forest.'
Mr, E. Rannie's now brick
house in Hcnsall is rapidly
nearing completion.,
The inembers of Exeter
Council motored to Parkhill
Monday to examine, the new
roadthere, built with broken
stone and crusher. Parkhill
have to get the stone from St,
Marys but Exeter has a supply
near at hand,
30 YEARS AGO
The Ford coupe of Dr. Mise•
ncr, Crediton, was stolen from
the front of his office early
Sunday morning and the store
of Charles Zwicker entered and
considerable merchandise stol-
en.
Mr, and Mrs. Fred, South-
cott returned by motor to their
home in Venio, California after
spending. several weeks at
Grand Bend. It i$ a distance of
3,306 miles and took them nine
days to make the trip here.
Mr. J A. Stewart has Softie
fine specimens of dahlias,
Mr. MervinElston, Centralia
has rented his farm and in-
tends moving his Wife and son
to London where he will con
tirue his studies as a student
tor the Anglican mi tistry et
Huron College,
Mrs. C V. I al'vey, rias tics -
posed of the Harvey& Harvey
grocery.. bus(ness to Mr. R.
Mots of Meltort, Sask.
Miss Evelyn 'Howard has
1reen engaged as the sixth
teachers for Exeter High School.
15 YEARS AGO
Mrs. Doreen Mary Heywood,
who came to Canada on the
Lady Nelson, arrived in Lon-
don. Wednesday at noon where
she was met by her husband,
Calvin Heywood, and other
members of the family,
The percentage passing in
all subjects in the departmen-
tal examinations averages 85%
which is unusually high.
Cann's Mill .are in the pro-
cess of installing a new seed
cleaning plant.
At the Achievement Day for
4-H clubs in Huron County in
Clinton Miss Marion Rundle
was chosen to represent the
county on a free trip to Chi-
cago.
Messrs. s Recto
zIey w
ood
Vernon and Calvin Heywood
leave on the forepart of the
week for Dunnville to dismantle
the building recently purchased
by Exeter .Board. of Educa-
tionpreviously belonging to the
RCAF.
E. W Brady has equipped
his new plant on Main Sl. with
the most modern machinery
and has secured a license to
use the Sanitone method.
10 YEARS AGO
Mr. Tillman Mills, CNIt
agent at Centralia for the past
three months, .has been trans-
ferred to Appin.
The third Davis reunion was
held at Springbank Park on
Saturday when close to 75 de-
scendants of the late Mr. and
Mrs. William Davis, Saints.
bury, gathered,
Mr. Earl Heywood, the sing -
mg cowbby from 'Cisborne Town-
ship who is with CNNX Wing&
ham, is at present in Phila..
dephia incl appeared On tele,
vision for the first time on
Saturday. He is booked for a
month in Philadelphia and
New York.
Council requested a blinker
light be placed at the lade,
section of Highways 4 and 83,
Ocrald Wain floss Veal, El-
met Merlins,
CatotoestnE oesmrd Oh
West in a Model A, to take part
in harvesting operations.
Exeter Lions Club Held a
summer frolic at the Exeter
Roller
Rink nl
c rhursday MON
and J•aised $466 to btty Arlan.
crab lifobs tor a local boy,
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