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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1963-06-27, Page 4No Matter here You Live you can now enjoy the luxury of.. . LP Gas, the modern fuel. Clean burning, safe, trouble-free. Ask about hook-ups and service. Costs just pennies per day! that by saving just 50C a day you can have over $5,000 in 20 years from now. EOITORIALS ,Keep an open mind TED 1101,.MES 145 Deer Park Circle, London GE .4.9502 or gmfuire at The Times, Advocate QUEST OPINION Debate on the -hoax" A. GAT Zion Lutheran Ceurce, DeenWPOO Your Credit Union Protects you, tion. Only a rather thorough study of these regulations will qualify ratepayers to consider the alternatives intelligently and it is obvious that all the voters are not going to give the question this much consideration. The request by the east end sections for a three-room school in that locality is un- derstandable enough in view of the area's af- finity to the neighboring village of Hensall. But these ratepayers will have to decide if the convenience of location is more important than the advantage of a full graded school with gymtorium over the limited facilities which a three-room operation could provide. These, and other considerations, make it imperative for the school board to make a clear and fair presentation of all the facts as a guide to ratepayers. We agree with some of the opponents in this regard that it is the re- sponsibility of the board to show that the alter- natives are not as satisfactory as the solution proposed. After viewing the central school de- velopment in tJsborne and McGillivray town- ships, this newspaper is very much aware of the difficult problem of keeping the facts straight. Rumors and misrepresentations are circulated which confuse the issue needlessly and cause voters to oppose the very develop- ments which are in their best interests. For these reasons, The T-A appeals to ratepayers in Hay and Zurich not to make hasty and ill-considered decisions in regard to the vote until such time as the facts have been presented. Closed minds are the worst enemies of the democratic process. (Calculated on the monthly minimum balance) OPEN DAILY Monday to Friday 10 aen, to 5:30 p.m. EVENINGS Tues. 8 to 9:30 Fri. '7 to 9 Free Life Insurance On Shares up to $2,000 and Loans up to $10,900 The Hay Township School Area Board, convinced that its proposal to complete .cen-, tralization of public school facilities .at :Zurich is the best move for the area, has requested that the issue go to a vote of the people. The councils of Hay and Zurich have no alternative but to conduct such a referendum. We feel it's unfortunate that the matter must be resolved by plebiscite and regret that more effort wasn't made by both school board and council to reach agreement. We hope the vote will solve the problem but we fear it may not. This is a peculiar situation which in- volves both Hay township and Zurich village, since the village is part of the school area. The board's proposal to make an $80,000 addi- tion to Zurich school to accommodate all of the children of the area in effect involves only the three former school sections where one- room facilities are now provided. The rest of the area already has graded school education at Zurich. How the majority of the voters, who fall in the latter category, will react to the question remains to be seen. It is possible that, since the project will not affect greatly the education of their children, they may hesitate to approve the spending of funds which will increase their taxes, Yet it would not be fair for them to deprive a small area of the town- ship of the facilities which the majority enjoy. The numerous alternative proposals sug- gested by opponents of the board's plan may seem to be reasonable, yet it must be remem- bered that any program must be conducted within the scope provided by Ontario legisla- Phone 235-0640 Devon Building Exeter A salute to 4-H This year the 4-H movement marks its 50th anniversray. Its story has been referred to as the "50 golden years" because of the out- standing contribution this important organiza- tion has made to Canadian rural life. As the largest agricultural county in On- tario, Huron has had an active 4-H program for many years and it has paid handsome divi- dends. Through the operation of their own clubs, the participation in varied projects and the display of their efforts on achievement days, the youth of this county have gained un- told wealth in knowledge, citizenship, co-op- eration and preparation for future careers. The 4-H motto stands for Head, Heart, Hands and Health and the organization's theme is "learn to do by doing". It takes advantage of the proven adage that experience is the best teacher. Hotson Propane Ltd. Phone 238-2005 GRAND BEND Sills Hardware, Seaforth -- Davis Hardware, Lucan Agents also in Sarnia, Forest and London DIA TIRE ASSOCIATE STORE 436 MAIN ST. EXETER WILL BE eieegaieferfeliteee .iieeMe'ereeMeeee.aeleielieeerere Ts. • Everywhere one goes in the immediate rural area, the influence and usefulness of 4-H work is apparent.' 4-H members have become parliamentary representatives, leaders of farm organizations and community stalwarts. The 4-H program has helped to establish more profitable operations on farms, fostered great- er interest in the advanced methods of agri- culture and encouraged youth to seek con- stant improvements in techniques. They have helped to make the rural areas more attractive and better communities. Behind all this, is the work of the agri- cultural representatives and their assistants whose guidance makes the program a success. Still more vital is the leadership provided vol- untarily by adults in the farm community who recognize the value of the program and who make personal sacrifices to give its advantages to farm youth. We salute them. INZINTRVEZZgni:MM:.A BY THE EDITOR Don Southcott un-lovin' charity w July 1 — 8 FOR H LID YS rkers What is a Shriner? Following their weekend fun-fest at Grand Bend, people in the area may be wondering. Dr. E. A. McMaster pro- vides the answer in a recent article in the Grand Bend News Bulletin: "Many people may think of Shriners only as a fun-provoking, fun-loving group of middle-aged men. That thought is partially correct -- they all have fun on convention parades and at their monthly meetings. But Shriners are more than little boys grown talL With all their fun they have not forgotten charity. They do not and have not for- gotten that first of all they are Master. Masons with all the humility they are taught by the craft." The doctor reveals there are 800,000 Shriners in Canada and the U.S., one of the most recent of whom is none other than Col. GordetiOaoper, the astronaut who circled the earth 22 times. "Shriners and Masons in general have always practised charity -- al- ways without ostentation and usually in Secrecy. Masonic traternalism does not permit the glorification of the fortunate at the expense of the un- fortunate". Their charity takes the form of hospitals for crippled children and they have erected 17 in Canada and the RE—OPENING ON JULY 9th records, magazines, endeven sometimes over TV that causes our young peoPle to be enticed into an improper uee of sex, but to me it is not the root •of the problem. Because if we took all this terrible advertising off the Market we would still have the sins of sex, maybe not as bad, but it would still be there be- cause we still have the evil tendencies in us which want to do these things. During the time of the people of Israel and. David, they had no advertising, but they still committed the crimes of sex. Tile problem lies in ourselves, our sinfulness. As that great man of God the apost- le Paul says, "sin dwelleth in me," This is where we attack the problem of the wrong use of sex rather than deal with the result of the problem as Mr. Berton did. Young people who are brought to faith in Christ should be taught that their bodies are holy because the Holy Spirit dwells in them. Young people shouldbe taught that their hands, their feet, their tongues and also their sexual members should be used to serve the Lord. According to the Bible there is only one rea- son why we are living in this world of ours today and that is to serve and to give glory to our gracious God. Therefore, the parents who have been given the giftof these children by the Lord should rea- lize it is their responsibility to teach their children the right Christian use of their sexual members. At the proper time the parents teach them to use their arms, their legs, their hands, so also at the proper time the parents will instruct their children in the proper use of their sex members. And by the proper time I do not mean at the age of 20, but mean when the girls and boys begin to mature in their early teens. If the parents shirk their respon- sibility, then, It is the church's duty to step in and teach the young people the proper Christ- ian use of sex. If for some reason the young person does fall into the trap of sexual relations outside of marriage it is the duty of the parents, as well as the church to forgive this young person if he or she is sorry for this particular sin. In the Bible the Lord places the sin of stealing, of theft, murder, false pretense, alongside of sex. Surely if our Lord Jesus Christ can forgive these sins so should we as par- ents and as Christian churches forgive those who have been mislead by one of the strongest drives which our Creator has placed in us. It is at this time that the young person needs his parents, his minister, or priest, and especially his Lord to guide him through the difficult times ahead. And so in conclusion to my reply to Mr. Berton's article, I believe that all of us as par- ents, as church leaders and as young people should realize that this thing which is in us which the Bible calls sin is really something which is dangerous. And because it is dangerous as all explosives are it has to be checked. And this sin which dwells in us, the filthiness of sex, of stealing, of pride, of cheating can be checked by re- maining close to the Lord. May we always remember Paul's words, "Your bodies are the temple of the Holy Ghost." And by this Paul means everything, our sex members too. riage, Each time God punished them because they were break- leg God's Law, Just, because many were doing it, did God say it was all right? No, God punished them because the y were not obeying His command- ment. They were sinning against God. Mr. Berton said, "the cher- ches ought to take the lead in the matter," I would rather heve had him say let the Lord speak to us concerning these things in ills Bible, Paul that great apostle for Jesus Christ gives us a very wonderful ac- count of the very subject. I think many times, if I may add, that if we would turn to the Bible for these searching daily problems •and hear what our Lord who created us has to say, that we would be helped tre- mendously more than by any human writer. Writing to one of his con- gregations ' St. Paul tells us, "Now the body is not for for- nication, but for the Lord." (1 Coe. 6:19). We have been made holy simply because we believe that Jesus Christ is our Saviour from sin. Because we are God's children we love him and we will want to serve him rather than submit ourselves to the temptation, in this case the sins of sex, which takes us away from God. We know that we sin daily. We know that as the Lord Christ says, "Out of the heart procede evil thoughts, murders, adul- teries, fornication, thefts, false witness, blasphemies." (Matt. 19:19) And we know that as Paul tells us, "The good that I would I do not; but the evil which I would not that I do." (Romans '7:19) And so we also know that the evil thoughts of sex and of sex relations out- side of marriage are caused by the sin or the evil which we have in us. As human beings we know that we want to go the way of the filthy stories, of the raw jokes, of the sexy magazines and the other temptations which are a result of our society. The rea- son we want to go this wide way of the world is simply be- cause we are sinful human be- ings. We would rather do these evil things than go the Lord's way. And if there are some people who are reading this article who do not believe this take alook at yourself and the things about You. Ninety-seven percent of the Canadian people claim a church affiliation.Only about50 percent of the people attend church re- gularly. Think of the people who curse and swear.Analyze your- self, , if you are honest think of the pride and the evil thoughts which run through your mind. Surely these are not of God, are they? They are a result of sin. Realizing that we are sinful human beings, realizing that the precious blood of Christ which he shed on the cross for the sin of the world will overcome this sin for everyone that believes in him, and realizing that our body is the temple of the Holy Ghost we will not want to sin or to commit this evil against God. We know that every part or member of our body is to serve God. Whether it be the members which we use to commit sexual relations or our hands, our feet, or our eyes, all should be used and dedicated to the service of God. I agree with Mr. Berton that there is too much advertising in SUMMER NEEDS The Christian's head and heart were really set awhirt in the recent article, ""it's time we stopped hoaxing the kids about sex"' by Pierre Berton in Macleans magazine, It's no wonder that Mr. Berton was dismissed by Macleans because of the views he expressed. In his article he complained that "profitable gibberish" which includes teenage maeae sines and juke box tunes is leading the young people Into sex relations outside of mar- riage. I just wonder what his article is doing? Certainly from all appearances, he is giving the green light to the young people saying, "It is all right to have sex relations outside of mar- riage." He says, "I do not really believe the experience will scar their psyche or de- stroy their future marriages, Quoting the figures at the beginning of his article that 4,000 of the 9,600 outpatients in Ontario psychiatric hospit- als are under the age of 16 appears to make Mr. Berton feel that sex relations outside of marriage will help the teen- ager so that lie does not end up in one of our psychiatric hospitals. It appears that be- cause m any persons are bother- ed by some particular drive, in this case a misuse of sex, that it puts the okay on this situation because many are doing it. In all respects this writer .has noticed Mr. Berton has for- gotten about our Lord who has created us. Also he has for- gotten why the Lord made us. This is why he was critized so severely across the nation and in particular by ceurch groups. He stepped on ground where no mortal being can tread when he said: "Specifically, I say, society is going to have to accept the fact premarital sex isn't always a bad thing." The Lord tells us in the Bible that not only sex relations are wrong but also any evil thoughts concerning sex with anyone ex- cept our wife. About the only place where Mr. Berton really got down to the heart of the matter is when he said, "what is bad is the sense of guilt, shame and sin which keeps young people at arm's length from their par- ents and in a state of constant emotional tension." Mr. Berton failed to realize that this guilt and shame after the premarital sex experience is what the Lord produced and it was there for a purpose to work as a safety valve. Because sex relations out of wedlock certainly are against the ordinance which God has set up in this world which we are living in. Looking into the Bible we see that God's Word lists the sins of sex as one of the commonest sins which man or woman com- mits. Recall when Moses was commanded by God to go up into Mt. Sinai to receive the 10 commandments. After Moses was there for a while God sent Moses back down the mountain to the people of Israel to straighten them out. They were falling down to a false God, plus, they committed the sins of sex. Recall how David was over- come tainwife, by ath thBe slusthe boa. Also fhi c y - re- call the strong maneamson who became a ruined man because of the desire of sex. Yes, we could quote many other examples from God's Word where people were guilty of sex relations outside of mar- in a wheelbarrow which the muscleman couldn't handle. "You're on," said the boaster, with a smirk on his face. A wheelbarrow was obtained. "All right," said the little guy, "get in." U.S. "No patient has ever paid one cent for any services received. The doors are open equally to Jews, Cath- olics, Negroes, Mohammedans and even an occasional child of a Shriner." Funds are raised mainly through benefit baseball and football games, the most outstanding of which is an all- star ball game in San Francisco which pits the best of the east againsttbe best of the west, "Shriners now have increased the scope of their financial aid among children and, at the Imperial Cceincil in Toronto, they set aside a fund of ten million dollars last summer for re- search and the buildings of hospitals for treatment of children who have suffered major burns." "At present, " says the doctor, "there are no Huron county children receiving treatment in anyof theShrine hospitals, but these hotpitals are open to Huron children if they meet the re- quirements." I like the story, told by Jim Dills in the Milton Canadian Champion, about the husky construction worker who bragged continually about his strength. Bored by his boastfulness, a skin-and- bones member of the crew bet the braggart .$25 that he could wheel a load Tan with Coppertone Cream $1.50 Lotion 984, $1.75, $3 Oil, bottle $1.'75 Aerosol Spray $2.25 To be resumed The series, "Miracle of St. Joseph", will be resumed next week, * If you happen to deserve a parking ticket in Stratford (as I did last week), you may notice a subtle difference in its wording which gives you a more appropriate view of the responsibility for traffic regulations. While most such tickets (including those issued in Exeter) are attributed as coming from the police department of the municipality involved, the Strat- ford one is signed bythe "Traffic com- mittee, City Council." When he first sees the ticket on his car, the owner's first association is with police and if he feels any anger about it, it normally is directed at the constable on the beat. The signature on the document, however, reminds him quite correctly that the responsibility for the regulation is not that of the police but of the traffic committee, which is a part of the elected council of the city. In other words, the ticket suggests that if you don't like the regulation, complain to council, not to police; the constable was just doing his duty. FAMOUS POLAROID SUN GLASSES Children's, $1.29 Adults, $1.98 - $4.08 72:177"' ' :11:7:177•21r1-vIrnr.a2rZi.:: limo e Establiteed 1873 Amalgamated 1924 Advocate Es .210 4qgrrrnOgnEg blished 18S1 trefer inies-Akniocafe sertviNG CANADA'S BEST tARMLAND Member C.W.N.A., 0.W.N.A., C.C.N.R. and ABC Swim Cap Full Helmet Shape "Ori your way home, pick up sterie pork chops, Brussels sprouts, potatoes and .Mother to deter dinner." lOADS INiTANTO Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ont. Authorized as Second Ciast Mail, Post Office C Dept,, Ottawa, end for Payment of Postage ins e EN TLEY DRUG' STORE EXETEB Telephotid Ontario 2354070 Paid.iteAdVenee Maeth lti61-4;928 sU85Gglivt1614 'BATES: Cattadit p...00 Per Wail USA $Loo 50 YEARS AGO Oliver and Elgin Roy/cliffs, Cecil Harris, Margaret Strang and Katie Sanders of SS 1 Us- borne are writing Entrance ex- aminations this week. Misses Gladys Bissett, Win- ona Howard, Florence Hunter and Edna Follick took part in a recital given by Charles Percy, London, Tuesday evening. Mr, Stewart McQueen, Liam , ley, sports a new buggy. Messrs J. Bolton and Fe Simmons have had theirs painted. Exeter Orangemen will cele- brate July 12 at Hensall this year. 25 YEARS AGO Miss Alma Brown, who for the past five years has been a teacher on the Exeter High School staff, has tendered her resignation and has been ap- pointed head of the English and history departMent at Port Cre,. dit High Scheel,. Mr. and Mrs. D. 1, Green and family of Delhi are Moving to town, Mr. Green Is the new superintendent at c ailed I'a 'n Canners Merit plant, Ten boys are to be given an Outing at the Huron DotintyHeyS Camp near Goderich in July through the generosity of the Exeter Lions Citib. Miss Grate Mason,•Gbderich, has been engaged as supervisor Outfit- co Complete Nett $1,95 Get 'your extra vatafiett needs now Mrs, Cochrane visited Exeter, England, the English Mayor said• man y remarkable eVente had taken plaee le the deaden in its long history but it had never before seen two Maybit of D5(4, etti, together, Dr, Bruce Eleklrieler haN. opened a dental office on the corner of Main and liar on Streets, no attended S'kete bistriet High 866°1, of Dr, MOWS Hospital atHuron Springs. 15 YEARS AGO Mr. Ted Dooley shipped 150 turkey eggs by Air to England. He received word back that they arrived in perfect condition end within four days of leaving here they had been set for hatching. Eric Heywood of the Royal Canadian Navy and his wife Sr. rived in E xeter this Week. Eric, for nine months, fide been eta ,. tioned in Ireland and came Over on the aircraft carrier "Meg., nificeet" built in Ireland. His wife came by air. Pride of Huron Rebekah Lodge celebrated its first birth- day by entertaining membersof the mow Lodge. Within a few Weeks Cannes Mill will instal a new pellet- lag machine, the first of Its kind in this part of Ontario. 10 "MAPS AGO The South HuronHospital La- dies Auxiliary has raised over $g A00 for the puitheee Of linen -a', during the six Menthe-it haebeee operating, ArticleS swooped up by the' vicious tornado that struck the titV bf FTiitt r 1Vlicft., Monday ovening have been found near pA,M1Wotiti 'over 100 miles from the •city, on Tuesday taotting., When :Meyer Cochrane and 1.24"-"WEWZniZZP'.1TMUMSOZITMMWACMOMMOMIVAMMEACOTtal-gl ''e•eeeerieleeeeteeeeeeee:,Z I eseeere J.