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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1965-03-11, Page 2. .... ...... We appreciated your loyal support in the past and trust you will extend to Mr. Watcher the same kind spirit of co-operation. LLOYD HOFFMAN IS YOUR BUSINESS HELD BACK BY LACK OF FINANCING? Many growing Canadian businesses requiring more land, buildings, machinery or equipment finance their expan- sion programmes through IDS. It may be useful for you to discuss the financial needs of your business with us. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BANK 25 BRANCH OFFICES ACROSS CANADA KITCHENER-WATERLOO WATERLOO, ONT.: Waterloo Square Building — Telephone: 744.4186 DOES YOUR FARM INSURANCE GO BEYOND YOUR FEN LINES? There are many things that can happen off your premises that could hurt you financially. You could be liable for damages caused by yourself, your employees, or livestock to somebody else's property. Or while you're away from home, you or a member of your family may be injured ... or your property lost, stolen or destroyed. 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'58 Austin Sedan '58 Chevrolet 'CI dc(3)??..r, stick 14 SOUTH END SERVICE 587 Main South Exeter 235-2322 Special Tire Deals EDITORIALS Don't bury competition GUEST ARTICLE Withstanding criticism CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP As owner of Superior Maintenance Service, Exeter,I wish to announce that as of March 1, 1965 REPRINTED FROM THE HURON EXPOSITOR, SEAFORTH The high cost of living has been over- shadowed at times by stories on the high cost of dying and this was again brought to the fore last week when the Exeter Cemetery Board announced increases for lots 'at the lo- cal cemetery. It is only natural that costs of main- taining the cemetery are increasing and so the increased rates are certainly justified. The local board strives very hard to maintain the cemetery as well as it can, and their efforts can readily be seen in the beauti- ful grounds. Exeter's cemetery ranks with the best and their decision to increase rates to maintain this standard is to be commend- Robert M. Watcher will own and continue to operate the same business under the same name. ed. according to what is popular." The writer points out that the modern device, in which many have become expert, is to refuse to act withcIt a com- mittee, and then refuse to bear responsibility for a committee decision. Too many committees occur because leaders in high places and low "either lack confidence in themselves, or they are so sensitive to criticism that they can't accept the responsibilities of leadership." Some people do it another way. They hit back at every- thing; protest every time they are misquoted; set people straight every time they get things wrong; discredit their chief criticism by pointing out superficial errors. "Some pro- test is good; but not always," cautions the Observer. The advice to would-be lead- ers ends with a quotation from Abraham Lincoln: "If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the at- tacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how, the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to any- thing. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right, would make no dif- ference." ONE MAN'S OPINION by John C. Boyne Inherent in any effective lead- ership must be the ability to withstand criticism. In the progress of achieving results It is inevitable that there will be those who, while approv- ing the end result, may dis- agree with the method of ap- proach; there will be those who disagree for the sake of argu- ment. In our democracy, that is their right and privilege. But the fact remains that those aspiring to leadership — be it on the national scene or in a small neighborhood group — can expect to receive critic- ism. Realizing this, the United Church Observer addresses some words of advice to lead- ers and would-be leaders: "It would be nice," says the Observer, if those who critic- ized would always be construc- tive and impersonal. But that's too much to expect. It would be nice, too, if those people who hand it out to others could take it themselves. Most can't. "There are a number of de- vices by which the thin-skinned object of such criticism may protect himself. He may thicken his skin and arrogantly dismiss all criticism which every art- ist, leader, and creative person needs to grow and survive. "He may avoid taking action, or if forced to act, may be- come an expert barometer of public opinion and do things not according to what is right, but Comfortable Pew It is also only fair that out of town residents should be required to pay more for lots, due to the fact local citizens pay a share each year in taxes as the board receives an annual grant from council. If anything, it may be argued that the spread between the two rates is not high enough. However, ft should be noted that many of those being brought here to be bur- ied were former residents and therefore have paid in previous years. The local board does appear to have made a serious mistake though in their de- cision to "monopolize" the sales of cement vaults by making it mandatory to purchase this required article from them. There are many reasons why this is a mistake, not the least of course being the fact it is hardly in keeping with the principles of a democratic country. Surely our federal and provincial governments are making enough in- roads in this direction without municipal bodies following the socialistic trend by. tak- ing over services provided by private busi- ness as is the case in this instance. Members of the board have apparent- ly justified their decision on the grounds that they can provide vaults cheaper than local funeral directors, thus saving money for be- reaved families. On the surface this may ap- LETTERS TTA EDITOR pear valid, but the fact is it may not work out that way. In the first place it is only reasonable to assume that what profits the funeral di- rectors lose through this business will have 'to be made up elsewhere, either by increas- ing profits in some other way or by reducing costs on services. This is only common busi- ness practice. But the unfortunate part of the board's decision is the fact they have stipulated what type of cement vault must be used, and there are apparently people who prefer a better type than what they intend to provide. Many people even desire steel vaults. While the board may have the opinion that their vault is suitable for everyone, it ap- pears highly unfair that they should deny the right to use whatever type people desire for their loved ones. Stipulations on a minimum quality should naturally be set, but it is ques- tionable if the maximum quality should be decreed as well. The choice should be left with those who pay the bill and under the present reg- ulations of the board this is not the case. In summary: the board has forced pri- vate individuals out of a business that they were actually in before the board was; they have stipulated what type of vault must be used, thus eliminating every individual's right of choice. Coupled with these two facets is the fact the board will probably have problems with out of town funeral directors who will be unaware of the change for some time unless all are notified immediately. And too, if peo- ple want a better type of vault, it is obvious that they will actually have to pay for two as the board's price is one inclusive price for a vault and opening the grave. The drawbacks and unfairness of the decision appear to be too great for the small amount of cash it will provide the board through increased sales of vaults. The matter should be re-investigated carefully. Wiliftnre". BATT'N AROUND Are you among BY THE EDITOR guilty? While there are some who bemoan the fact we are speeding down the trail to socialism, the fact remains this is only coming about by the demands of the people. Every day people de- mand more and more of their govern- ments and it is now most difficult to know just where this will all end. It is also a fact that most faults and problems facing people are blam- ed on the government or ruling bodies in one way or another, and perhaps it is only natural that these groups should move to gain complete control so they will at least have some con- trol over the situation for which they are now being blamed. Any municipal official can tell you just how unreasonable people can be in their requests, but rather than quote local examples that may embarrass someone, we'll quote from a Michigan paper given to us last week by Alf Wuerth. The paper is from Royal Oak and came out on Friday February 26, a date most area residents will recall as it followed the winter's most ferocious storm. So, what did Royal Oak residents complabkabout? Well,': 0any were "actually burned up" because their postmen were late in making their rounds with the mail. The residents apparently couldn't reason why the mailmen could be late. After all, there were only a few feet of snow for them to plow through. One woman even went so far as to phone up the postal officials to com- plain that one carrier walked across her lawn — which of course was buried under snow as well. The police also came in for their share of criticism, Imagine them be- ing so derelict in their duties that they wouldn't go out to battle the blocked streets to answer a lady who had phoned in to demand that her neighbor be told to refrain from shovelling snow off his lane and toss- ing it onto her property! The only satisfaction they gave this upright taxpayer was to soothingly tell her the snow being shovelled onto her property would melt. In my opinion more than the Anglicans should be studying "The Comfortable Pew" by Pierre Berton, during the Len- ten season. There is a pretty good chance that this will hap- pen. This book is now number one on the best selling list of non- fiction books in Canada. It de- serves to stay there for a long time. Just how many printings this book will go through, only a fool would try to predict. I agree with much of his criticism of the "majority at- titudes and actions" of the Church. The Church inthe main has used hollow meaningless ir- relevant language. It has sup- ported so-called just wars. The Church has been slow to make the faith relevant in matters of war and peace, racial brother- hood, business morals, industry and labour tensions. The questions he addresses to us concerning our attitudes to nuclear war should be studied long and hard. Perhaps it's time we all began to listen to the Quakers and Mennonites at this point. His stock criticism of the dichotomy which exists between faith and action, profession and practice is too valid and timely to attempt to refute. Berton's reference to the experience of the Indians and Japanese in Can- ada is also close to the mark. The fact is, too, that for many of our people worship is "fun- ereal", dreary and irrelevant. Much preaching is spiritless, dull and badly delivered. His comments on the changing interpretation of our faith are helpful. I believe, however, that he goes too far in implying with Bertrand Russell's backing that "the Church is a force for es- tablished opinion and resistance Scared them! Dear Sir: Our present teletype system for selling hogs was forced onto the Marketing Board by a few of our large packers as they refused to buy hogs from the Marketing Board under the Mc- Ginnis system, which at that time was said by the experts running our present Marketing Board to be the best system to sell hogs. This teletype system is a scheme of the large packers to put all the small packers out of business. A number of our small packers have been forced out of business to date and I understand there are a number of other small packers on the verge of bankruptcy. These small packers are for- ced to pay more for their hogs than the large packers on this teletype system. When we see old and efficient packing plants such as Whytes of Stratford and especially Fearman's of Bur- lington, who have the most mo- dern and efficient packing plant in Canada, being forced out of business it's time to change to a method that doesn't play into the hands of a few large packers.. If this present system 'con- tinues another five or six years, all we will have in Ontario is a number of huge pig factories — Please turn to page 3 A beautician wanted police to shovel a parking space at her place of busi- ness and hundreds complained of stalled cars in their driveways, de- manding to know why police didn't move them. Others wished rides to and from bus stops and busine s ses, while "hundreds of others" wondered why their garbage wasn't collected. These were just a few of the actual complaints and question s registered on the police log and show how foolish and unreasonable some people can be. The Goderich Signal-Star also com- mented on this situation last week, telling readers of an incident some time ago about a man who kept chickens in the cellar of his home. Following an unusually heavy rain- fall, the basements of many homes in the town were flooded. The chick- ens were drowned. Highly disturbed, the man sought remuneration from the town for dam- ages. The man wrote the Town Clerk and asked what he should do about the chickens in the basement. The reply from the Town Clerk contained only two words: "Keep ducks." "We know that ratepayers some- times feel they receive only facetious replies following their complaints from public officials, "the editor pointed out, "but we also know that an ever increasing number of rate- payers are completely unreasonable in their demands for SERVICE." * * A Cromarty area farmer, Norm Harburn, dropped in to the office last week to ask that we advise bean grow- ers that he and his brother, Ernest, are not recommending the Use of a. specific chemical weed spray for beans as salesmen for the product are apparently telling area farmers. Har bur n explained that several farmers have contacted him saying the product salesmen have given his name as a satisfied customer from last year. The truth is, the Harburn brothers never used the stuff last year. This is not a new situation and farmers should be careful in their dealings with these high pressure salesmen who will go to any lengths to make a sale. Agricultural representative Doug Miles commented on this very situa- tion while re-opening the Co-Op mill recently, noting there were many salesmen on the road who were only out for the fast buck and in many cases were selling farmers materials that many did not need. Promises of higher yields or fewer weeds are naturally tempting to farm- ers, but the fact remains they should be wary of some of these salesmen unless they know they have a good reputation. We finished printing the annual Huron Soil and Crop News last week and by now it should be in the hands of all Huron farmers. Miles has written a further story in it explain- ing that Huron farmers have spent huge sums of money in the past on what he says may be called "ques- tionable crop management procedures or practices". This is an article that should be "must" reading for all farmers. In all walks of life, there are people who make their livelihood on "suckers" and the numbers in that latter category are numerous. But there wouldn't be if they would heed some of the sound advice of experts, such as their own Agricultural Re- presentative, who bases his opinions on facts accumulated from sound tests and experience. Farmers should also be reminded practically every worthwhile product needed for their operations is avail- able at local dealers. These are firms that can be trusted, because they're permanent and have to depend on good will to stay in business. They can't afford to dupe farmers. Many farmers would apparently save themselves a great deal of grief and expense if they remembered that fact. OLD 50 YEARS AGO A number of farmers in the community have installed eva- porators for the making of maple syrup this season. Mr. C. H. Duplan, who, for 12 years, has filled the office of GTR agent in contralto, has been transferred to Ilderton. Miss Edna Dow, graduate nurse of Toronto, is visiting her father, Mr. Alex Dow. Miss Dow has volunteered to go as a nurse with the Toronto Univer- sity contingent which will leave for overseas about the middle of April. Mr. Charles Lindenfield, who for 12 years has been employed with J. A. Stewart in the general store business, has purchased the hardware business of Thomas Houghton, Parkhill. 15 YEARS AGO Miss May Schroeder was crowned Queen for 1950 at the Exeter High School At Home by last year's queen, Miss Janet Kestle. Mr. and Mrs. JohnPassmore received four medals from the Minister of National Defence for services rendered during the war by their son, F/O Ger- ald Passmore who gave his life in February 1945 during flying operations over Germany. At the Huron County Seed Fair the wheat championships, both spring and fall, went to Harry Strang of Usborne Town- ship while R. D. Etherington also of Usborne was the early oats champion. Harry S tr an g won the soybean title and also the late oat championship. Paict.in-Advance Circulation, September SO, 1164, 4,063 SUBSCRIPTION RATES,: Canada $4.00 Poe Year; USA WOO to conscientious protest". This to my mind is a distortion of the truth. To say as he does that the preacher has "long since lost his ability to convince or change people by the power of his words or the conviction of his mes- sage" is again a distorted gen- eralization. My basic criticism of the book, however, is that it under- plays the role of the radical in today's church. Ernest Har- rison says in the foreword "I believe that the radical refor- mation has already begun and that this book may be one of its symptoms". Berton himself says "This (invitation) alone suggested to me that there was more life in the Church than I had previously thought". And further "Every statement I make can be con- tradicted by specific examples of dedicated men". And again, "Much of what I have to say has been said before in various ways and often more eloquently by others. Many of these have been practicing Christians and clergymen". I feel that Mr. Berton should now go on to show how the radicals refute the thesis and even the detail of his first effort. He should enlarge the follow- ing statement that he himself makes: "The Church may be struggling to make a genuine and honest effort to join the twentieth century — indeed it may be on the verge of a fun- damental revolution as earth- shaking as the Lutheran re- formation". He wonders if it will come in time. I believe that it will. I believe that in his cynicism he fails to recognize the im- pact of men like Kierkegaard, Barth, Bonnhoeffer, Bultmann, Tillich, Niebuhr, and a host of others. These men have been stand- ard reading in the best theo- logical schools for some time. They have influenced a great many ministers and laymen. They have obviously also in- fluenced Mr. Berton— but not enough. He says of some of these men: Nazi persecution "served to produce a brilliant and cour- ageous handful of philosophic theologians who as a result perhaps of their example and experience are in the forefront of Christian radical thought to- dary. To say that these men are attacked as heretics by the Church at large is nonsensical- ly false. These so-called here- tics have formed the thinking of a vast majority of graduates in the last ten years in the major denominations. Their influence no doubt help- ed produce the 80% who thought Bishop Robinson's "Honest to God" was helpful. They have helped produce the "Christian radicals in all the major churches who are standing up to be counted". They have attracted many to the Revolutionary Christ who seems to haunt ',The Comfort- able Pew". They have helped produce a growing minority that is quite vocal in its attacks on the status quo; a minority that could not care less about conformity or status; a minority that does not fear controversy but in- deed welcomes it—just as "The Comfortable Pew" is welcom- ed. In Berton's terms, these people are called "agitators, disturbers, eccentrics, odd balls, radicals". I believe that more attention should be paid to them and the Lord who motivates them. Let's hope that the next Len- ten study will proceed along these lines. Mr. Berton says Christianity began as a re- volutionary religion. I believe it still is one. Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ont. Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Dep't, Ottawa, and for Payment of Postage in Cash 10 YEARS AGO the Exeter 50 members of the. Exeter Liona Club made a blitz of the town Friday in the in- terests of the Red Cross and Collected $1,500. C. W. Hall who for the past six years has been the account- ant at the Bank of Montreal has been transferred . to the branch at Westport Where he will act as manager. Colorful costumes, attractive stage settings and more than the usual amount of MI m makes "The Mikado" one of tht most popular of the five oper., ettas the 'Hutrotiis Male Choir have presented Under the 'di- rection of Mrti Alice Sturgis. Campaign for mail serviCeby truck for Exeter and district was started this week by coon- oil and the Businessmen's SOCiation. 25 YEARS AGO Rev. W. E. Aldworth, pastor of StaVa. United C Mitch, travel- led five miles on snowshoes Sunday to get to his service at Zion United Church located on the highway between Mitchell and Dublin. In order to reach Exeter from Dashwood Tuesday H. Hoffman, driver of the Dashwood bus, travelled to Grand Bend and out the Crediton road to the high- way and Exeter a distance of about 25 miles. He took the same route home in the even- ing. Mr. W. H. Moise, who for the past four years had been man- ager of the Bank of Montreal, has received word of his trans- fer to the branch at Blenheim4 At the IOOF meeting Tuesday evening Mr. Edward Treble was presented with a 25-year jewel in appreciation of his services.