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Science as
a new God
To serve you better
A banquet for some 140 district
merchants and their employees was a
send-off to a ten week promotion fea-
turing the local area communities as a
shopping centre in their trading areas.
The banquet might have given in-
digestion to some. Its piece de resist-
ance was a sweeping sales clinic given
by Prof. Norvin Allen. a noted and
highly paid speaker on ills that befall
the selling fraternity.
At least the indigestion may have
its healthy aspects. Shoppers will find
a better service and attention at the
participating stores.
One look at the list of the spon-
sors and participants in the ten-week
promotion reveals familiar names. They
are established and healthy business
enterprises that are already noted for
their good service to customers.
That they want to do an even bet-
ter job is commendable and deserving
of customers' support.
In addition, these merchants and
businessmen were guided yet from an-
other consideration. They were endeav-
oring to present a united front on the
outside.
For they realize, that only in unity
can they combat the enticement that
sterns from the cities, not necessarily
providing a better opportunity for the
shoppers that leave their home com-
munities to shop there on occasions.
They are fully aware that a healthy
Main street in their home town will
mean a better business all round.
And they have acted as good citi-
zens of their communities,
They realize if Main street busi-
ness has-to surrender a greater degree
to the influx of the city, they will be
the first to suffer. And then the con-
sumer.
It is true, that promotions cost
money. So does advertising. So does
sales personnel. So does the armament
race, the contest for space and the co-
existance with the communist bloc.
Each expenditure has its assigned
role to fulfill and a neglect to appropri-
ate funds for each respective objective
twill have its repercussions.
A small community is a nucleus
that forms the nation. If the smallest
wheel functions, so does the big piece
of machinery. We are pleased, that in
our small communities, serviced by this
newspaper, there is civic awareness and
consideration for the future of the
economics of these localities,
We hope that the consumer in
these localities will appreciate this spir-
it and play his role in maintaining a
strong community, that after all, pro-
vides for his own well-being.
By Val Baltkolns
Agricultural Conference
instruments with which to commit
universal suicide and it does not
provide a way out,
Knowledge, technology and
science are morally and spirit-
ually neutral — they have no
built-in self-control. It is our
spiritual health or sickness which
will ultimately determine wheth-
er knowledge and science are
blessings or curses. Unless our
knowledge is tempered by the
Spirit of God we will find 'cures
that don't cure, blessings that
don't bless and solutions that
don't solve', as Chesterton put
it.
Martin Luther King Jr, has
said, "We have learned to fly the
air like birds and swim the sea
like fish, but we have not learn-
ed the simple art of living to-
gether". As one Oriental writer
put it after observing western
life: "Your devices are neither
time saving nor soul saving ma-
chinery". That is what we need
to understand very clearly — our
devices, our science, our tech-
nology, our education are not
necessarily soul-saving. They
are only as good as the people
who put them to use.
Our ultimate salvation will not
be found in a test tube, I believe
that it does not lie in the direction
of machinery or techniques. I
believe that it is a false dream
to think that undirected by God
we can save ourselves and bring
in the new society. I believe
that it is the ultimate arrogance
to acknowledge no dependence
on God — this sort of arrogance
only proves our lack of spiritual
insight.
We have not found the key to
overcome hatred or greed or
selfishness or lust for power or
sin in science. Scientific develop-
ment or education do not root
these things out — in some cases
they only accentuate them.
I believe that deep down we
know that our moral progress
lags behind our scientific pro-
gress; our mentality out dis-
tances our morality; our civil-
ization outshines our culture.
Dr. Martin Luther King has
paraphrased I Corinthians 13 in
these words for our time; "you
may have the gift of scientific
prediction and understand the
behaviour of molecules: you may
break into the storehouses of
nature and bring forth many new
insights: you may ascend to the
heights of academic achievement
so that you may have all know-
ledge and you may boast of your
great institutions of learning and
the boundless extent of your de-
grees but devoid of love all of
these mean absolutely nothing".
I further believe that love is
the gift of God alone — He alone
is the source of our salvation.
It seems so natural to look to
science to solve all our prob-
lems, Many see science as the
new saviour. In the past science
has provided a type of salvation.
As one man put it; "When we
were in the midnight of physical
limitation and material incon-
venience science lifted us to the
bright morning of physical and
material comfort. When we were
in the midnight of crippling ig-
norance and superstition, science
helped bring the daybreak of the
free and open mind. When we
were in the midnight of dread
plagues and diseases, science
through surgery, sanitation and
the wonder drugs ushered in a
new day of physicalwell-being.
Science and technology have en-
larged man's body. The telescope
and television have enlarged his
eyes, The telephone, radio and
microphone have strengthened
his voice and ears. The auto-
mobile and airplane have length-
ened his legs. Man made jets
compress into minutes distances
that formerly required days and
even weeks of tortuous effort.
Science brought creative analysis
and objective appraisal".
Because of these spectacular,
fantastic and wonderful advances
from which we have all bene-
fitted there is a growing danger
that we will idolize science, tech-
nology and education. There are
a lot of people today who think
that if you just give people a fair
chance and a good education they
will save themselves. This leads
to the type of thinking expressed
in these words; "I fight alone
and win or sink, I need no one
to make me free, I want no Jesus
Christ to think that He could
ever die for me".
This idolatry leads others to
say; "The future is not with the
churches but with the labora-
tories; not with prophets but with
scientists; not with piety but with
efficiency. Man is at last becom-
ing aware that he alone is re-
sponsible for the realization of
the world of his dreams, that he
has within himself the power for
its achievement."
It leads also to this type of
parody of the 23rd Psalm;
"Science is my shepherd, I shall
not want. It maketh me to lie
down in green pastures. It lead-
eth me beside the still waters.
It restoreth my soul. I will fear
no evil for science is with me.
Its rod and its staff they com-
fort me".
I believe this god has feet of
clay. It provides us with physical
things which we are not yet
spiritually mature enough to con-
trol. It has given us the tools to
destroy humanity in minutes be-
fore we have learned the way of
love. Science has given us the
The first annual Agricultural Con-
ference. which will be held in Exeter
this Saturday, is a move in the right
direction as it is a major project which
required the co-operation of two major
farm organizations in the county. The
program planned is an ambitious one
and one which has a variety to attract
all farmers, regardless of their type of
operation.
We are particularly pleased to see
this co-operation as it paves the way
for other major projects of this type.
All too often groups are so afraid of
their local autonomy or afraid they may
lose some of their prestige that they
are hesitant in joining with another
group no matter how valid the cause.
In this case there was no hesitancy
and we are sure that both groups will
share in the appreciation of those who
attend and benefit from this.
The Town of Exeter is pleased to
host the first conference of this kind
and we are sure they will continue to
assist in any way they can in future
conferences. Exeter as a primarily ag-
ricultural community has a sincere in-
terest in programs such as this which
will benefit farmers of the county.
The quality of the program plan-
ned attests to the sincere work and in-
terest which a great many people have
contributed in order to make this a
success. It is a program planned by
and for farmers and the men involved
deserve a vote of thanks for their work.
The Hon. W. A. Stewart,
Parliament Buildings,
Toronto, Ontario
What of the delinquent parent
Today we have many broken
homes. not necessarily by the absence
of one of the parents, but by a break-
down of the functions of the family.
It is generally accepted that a complete
group, consisting of father, mother and
children, living in close harmony, is
essential to the development of a bal-
anced and socially adjusted personality.
To cause trouble, only a few threads
have to be broken. Tensions that snap
these threads may include conflict over
the pattern of child education, maybe
disagreement over duties. restrictions
and behaviour and, most important.
failure of the parents to keep up with
the changing times.
We are fond of pointing the finger
at the delinquent child, but what of the
delinquent parent ? Time and time
again, we hear cries deploring the state
of today's young people. Warning fin-
gers point to a rising juvenile crime
rate. to the problems of dropouts. to
ferent era, too much government
control disturbs me. The public
has been led to believe by press
releases that the current dispute
in farm marketing legislation in
London is cut, dried and settled.
I say to you it is a long ways
from being settled. I have come
to an honest conclusion that for
the good of agriculture in gen-
eral, in the current bean dispute,
it is a return to the way it was
operated or nothing.
Roy Cunningham
Clandeboye
There are few stories ever
written which will fit a given
space for the simple reason
that when they are written, no-
one knows what that given space
is. Bob has the major problem
in this work. He must take
every advertisement, assess
how much written copy must
fit into how much advertis-
ing space and decide which
size type should be used, Fol-
lowing this the girls start work
on the machines setting the ma-
terial and filing it in dockets
for use later by the pasteup
girls.. The editorial copy is
set and rough layouts of the
pages are made and then the
fun begins.
Naturally the photographs are
not the correct size so these
must be either reduced or en-
larged to fit the given space,
the heads for the stories writ-
ten and then comes the great
task of fitting 14 inches of copy
into nine inches of space. The
scissors come in handy here and
stories are read to see which
paragraphs or sentences can be
deleted to make the story fit
exactly. This happens with all
newpapers and is probably the
reason some of our correspon-
dents scratch their heads and
say to themselves, was sure
I wrote about Mrs. —.visiting
Mrs last weekend."
and which many people take for
granted. Its a big business and
a good business operating up to
18 hours a day in an attempt
to produce the material at the
time the customer wants them,
Last week was really excep-
tional and it amazes me how this
quantity of work could be pro-
duced by the regular staff. I
will admit we were working
on two of the publications a little
bit the week before but the
majority of this was carried
out during the first four days
of last week. ; don't ask what
we did on Friday because moss
of us took it a little easier.
Putting out a newspaper,
whether it is your own or for
someone else is a --.*Torry-lng,
frustrating experience for al.:
the staff. Take for example.
the Huron Soil and Crop News.
After hundreds of letters had
been written and received, num-
erous telephone calls to such
places as Montreal, Toronto
and New York, after two days of
travelling around the county
taking pictures we ended up
with a massive pile of stories
photographs and advertising.
From here the first of the
decisions had to be made asses-
sing the volume of material
and deciding how many pages
the paper should be. It is im-
possible to be exact and the
secret is to have enough ma-
terial to fill the paper without
having so much that you have to
throw away a lot of someone
else's work.
We set a new record at the
T-A last week and although we
were a little tired when the week
was over I think everyone was
a bit proud as well. The record
was publishing five newspapers
in four days with the greatest
number of pages ever published
in one week. These included
a 16 page tabloid size edition
for the Hanover Recreation
committee, a 32 page, two sec-
tion edition with color for Don
with his Stratford Times, the
annual edition of the Huron Soil
and Crop News, 18 pages, our
regular edition, 14 pages of
The Times-Advocate and a 28
page tabloid size paper for the
University of Western Ontario.
Many people walking Into the
front office of The Times Ad-
vocate fail to see the great
hustle and bustle of the back
shop. They see their regular
edition of the T-A but have little
understanding of the amount of
work or the size of business
which is carried on in Exeter
every week. If all we had to do
here was to publish one edition
of the T-A every week, three
quarters of the staff would be
unemployed and the ones that
were left would still not have
to work too hard.
As well as newspapers there
are books to print, booklets to
print, flyers to prepare, tickets
to be printed, handbills, in-
voices, letterheads, labels and
the hundred of other printed
articles used today in offices
the decline in morals of young people,
and so on.
By and large, teachers and reli-
gious leaders know and have accepted
their responsibility. But many parents
are caught in a whirlpool of status
seeking. While the fathers drive stately
cars and the mothers show off their
homes for admiring inspection, they
sometimes lose their sons and daugh-
ters. These parents no longer accept
the full responsibility of their children.
They are satisfied to let other people
take over the responsibility in educa-
tion, in the church. If we are to edu-
cate the -whole" child, ALT, parents
must take on more of the responsibil-
ities.
In this rapidly changing world, it
is the parents' decision . . "to be or
Seat to be" . just an apathetic parent
or a responsible parent.
Delhj Nev,.s-Record
Putting out newspapers can
a lso be a tedious job. Because
of the great possibility for
errors every word and figure
is proof read at least once for
accuracy before it is allowed
to be pasted up on the page.
Even with this there are bound
to be a few errors but constant
checking keeps these to a mini-
mum,
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50 YEARS AGO
Uncle Tom's Cabin will be put
on in the Opera House next Sat-
urday evening. Prices 25 and 15C
This is the 605th day that the
British Empire has been at war
with Germany.
The linemen, who are bringing
the hydro line from Lucan, haVe
the wires up nearly to Centralia.
The installation of the machinery
at the power house is nearing
completion and it is expected the
system will be complete by the
end of May.
Mr. George Mantle is erecting
a large verandah In front of his
dsutle house on John Street..
Times Established 1873 Advocate Established 1831 Amalgamated 1924
Dear Sir;
We have discussed, studied,
and tried to look at the beanprob-
lem from every angle. We have
come to one conclusion — that
there has been a misunderstand-
ing all along the line. We do not
believe that the Bean Board has
acted in bad faith, as you seem
to think, in the separation matter.
We actually believe that what
the Bean Board thought they were
agreeing to, was a completely
different thing than the Farm
Products Marketing Board had in
mind. We were also told that it
was the amendments from the
F.P.M.B. that were tabled.
We have been cast in a unique
roll to judge this controversy, in
that we have heard both sides. We
realize, what we think, are the
government's fears in this mat-
ter. But, we say to you, that
Agriculture has the complete
moral right to control a percent,
we would say not over 33 1/3%,
of our products through Farm
Marketing Board owned and oper-
ated facilities,
We cannot accept the principle
of government seizure and dis-
missal of grower appointed
boards. We know that complete
separation is not feasible as far
as the grower is concerned.
Yours truly,
Hubert Dietrich
Cliff Cook
Roy Cunningham
Alan Hill
exeferZimesAhmeafe
Everyone works against a
deadline and I suppose its a
wonder someone doesn't col-
lapse from the pressure. I have
a sneaking knowledge there
were a few sleeping pills and
tranquilizers gulped down be-
fore the week was over. There
is one good point about work-
ing that hard for one week,
The next week you work at your
regular speed and it feels as
though you were taking it easy.
Its much like the story of the
man who liked to pound his
head against the wall because
It felt so good when he stopped.
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25 YEARS AGO
Cne of the worst blizzards of
the year visited this district Mon-
day. There were times when one
cetas scarcely see across the
street
:
,
Dr. eSeekes, who has re-
signed as secretary-treasurer
and has joiner' the CAMC. was
presentei with an engraved foun-
tain pen at the Liens Club supper
treating. Lion Sandy Elliott made
the presentation saying that "if
:ioniser. meant anything in Exeter
we have Dr. We4e.kes to thank for
George Vv'right ts this week
rnesong Ms tr.ertandise to the
stir* recentlyperthasel ream
Me.;; store that
Prig. Martin,
T Mr. Wright is
vae ating was purchased by Mr and
Mrs. john grout ar.el will be re-
rnaleeltee. The ground floor will
te aSesi IS a Beauty Parlour by
;..Ss 4. r,7f.,!ker,
15 YEARS AGO
Three teams, senior boys and
girls and junior boys will rep-
resent SHDHS at the annual
WOSSA tournament in London this
Saturday.
Sixteen-year-old Nancy Tie-
man of Dashwood recently passed
the piano section of AWCM exam-
inatien. with first class honours.
Hawkers and peddlars will be
subject to a $50 licence fee be-
fore they can sell their wares in
town, if the Municipal Board
approves of the bylaw which was
given first and second reading at
Exeter Council Monday night,
10 YEARS AGO
The first Junior Farmer orga-
nization in Huron County was
formed around Exeter in 1923
with Enos Harding as president.
Mr. Carfrey Cann presented
the new project "Operation
Brown Cow" at the AOTS ladles
night in James Street church.
Dr. Walter Strangway On furlough
from Angola, Africa, hopes to
take back with him a herd of
brown Swiss cows and the AOTS
have undertaken to provide at
least one cow.
Construction began Monday on
$47,000 three-room red brick
school for the Roman Catholic
Separate School Section No. 6,
Stephen at Mount Carmel.
Red Loader brought Exeter
a champlohship team in his first
yeat as coach when the club
Copped the WOAA Int, "A" charn-
piOnShip. It was the first title the
Exeter team has won since 1948,
Unless something is done to
save her, the historic Italian city
of Venice may be doomed, for
she is slowly sinking into the sea,
says Reader's Digest, The land
level has susidel until the entire
city, subjected to increasingly
frequent floodings, is a mass of
corroded foundations and wet, un-
livable ground floors. The pop-
ulation of the city centre, now
125,000 has desreased by some
50,000 in the past 15 years.
Dear Sir:
At a recent meeting we were
asked pointblank "are you in
favour of farm marketing legis-
lation", I have asked myself
this question many times in the
last couple of days. I am going
to give this gentleman my an-
swer. First may I say that in
my opinion farm marketing leg-
islation in Ontario has been sound
and in some cases very good.
I have come to two conclusions.
If farm marketing boards are
producer controlled, yes I am
in favour of present legislation
with some changes. If however,
they are government controlled
and dictated to, then I want ab-
solutely no part of it, and gentle-
men that has been the trend in
the last couple of years. I have
tried to look into the future and
as far as farming is concerned,
I think we are moving into a dif-
Dear Sir,
I feel sure that the Minister of
Agriculture and the Minister of
Highways will be grateful for
your support in the Bean debate,
but it might have been more
valuable if you had checked a few
facts before jumping to the de-
fence of the Government,
As soon as the former Ontario
Bean Growers Marketing Board
was dissolved three reasons were
put forward to justify such action.
It might be valuable to examine
these in a little more depth.
Mr. Stewart's first reason for
such action was that the Farm
Products Marketing Board had
decreed that the Ontario Bean
Growers Marketing Board was
not to subsidize the Bean growers
company. The fact of the matter
is that no subsidy has been paid
by the Board to the Company in
any of the last three years.
This has not only been demon-
strated by the Boards own audit-.
or but also by the firm of Price
Waterhouse who were instructed
to make a full enquiry into the
activities of the Bean Board and
we can assume that had a subsidy
been paid they would have fer-
reted it out. Three years is too
long to wait before taking this
sort of action. Quite clearly the
subsidy is a very poor excuse.
The next reason suggested was
that the Ontario Bean Growers
Marketing Board had agreed to
separate the Board and Company
and that since separation had
not taken place a takeover was
necessary. However whateva.s not
pointed out was that the agree-
ment to separate was made in
November 1965 and that it was
agreed that the separation was to
take place within a year. We are
some way from November 1966
and yet the takeover was auth-
or lzed.
Quite clearly separation is a
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