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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1960-09-22, Page 4Page 4' The Times-At sate, Sept at tar 22, 1,:60. Editorials It's up to us Every four Years, after Canada makes a "dis- mal" showing in the Olympics, there's a great hye and cry demanding the launching of a nation-wide program to develop medal-winning talent for the world games. There never seems to be any compromise in the demand: either we should organize a full-scale program from kindergarten up or we should with,- draw from the Olympics altogether, the critics sug-- ;est. Common sense dictates it's not that easy. The nation just can't whip up an extensive development prograin which will produce spectacular results over- night. Nor should the objective of such a program be the production of a few human freaks who can run a three-minute mile or an eight-second dash, The aim should be the. general improvement, of the physi- cal fitness of all of our citizens, particularly our youth, The only person who can provide the impetus for such a deVelopment program is John Doe him- self, Until the public becomes enthusiastic enough .about physical fitness to encourage and expand the • program at all levels, there'll be no great effort made. As in most things, the decision rests with the people,. ,not the government, the schools, or any other bodies, Don't be one Are you a SLOB? Zone Forester R. A, Cunningham, of the Guelph district, suggests there are lots of them around. In a recent bulletin, he wrote: "Almost anywhere one chooses to drive through the country, one can see the inevitable gar- bage scattered along the .roads and ditches by speed- .ing motorists, or the mounting piles dumped regu- larly in the same location by trucks. "It's everyone's business, to have a clean coun- . fry, and attractive country in order to enjoy one's -weekend outings without the smell of rotting garbage ,•"or the crunch of tin and glass under foot. . "There is no excuse for strewing the country with refuse. This is the work of SLOBS." • • That's giving 'em - the old what-for, e117 tNYWW.TAST,,,,A4V Sugar and Spice ThiS tiSW ip41 NIT hit irgYOS The right to •*press. .1n 6,114011 itg Contributes. to the preer*ss of, the notion end -that • it' MYRA Ai exer,, cited freely ,and without prejudice to. ,preserve and Improve .0sitee, erotic government,. Who's responsible? Tho older driver of an automobile is' not quite as serious a threat to road safety as he is. coin. , moray said to be. According to the Ontario Departinent of Trans- port, 3.8 per cent of Ontario's licensed drivers last, year were 65 years old or older; and they were in- volved. in 2,5 per cent of the accidents recorded. By contrast, drivers in, .the 16-to-19 age group made up 1.7 per cent of the licensed drivers; but they were involved in 10.9 per cent of the accidents. Drivers in the 20-to-24 age group represented 12,3 per cent of the total, and were'involved 17.8 per cent of the accidents—a shocking record,. When will the public rebe), against bad man- ners on the road, and against the wreckage and death that follow? Some in every crowd There has always existed, we -presume, that strange breed of people who'have a knack' of - ignor ing official advice. You know the ,type we mean— they never' set the road signs when they're travelling, they never hear 'the important annoUncenints at a meeting, they never read the special notices in the newspaper,. Ask any official in charge of any program-- he'll agree that no matter how carefully or how often such advice is given, there's always someone who missed it. An amusing example of what we mean occur- red at a band concert in. Goderich recently. To pro- vide some fun during intermission, the officials in charge of the program decided to play a, recording of the first practice session of the band,,.complete with al) the screeches, discords and foul notes one would expect. Bitt two ladies in the crowd—you Can be sure they were gossiping about a neighbor woman—failed to hear the explanation.. 'When* the squaWks and screeches reached-their ears, the ladies were disgust-. • ed. 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Snell made Greet Morgans Don Bell, Bill use of his hydro lighting system Mickle, Roger Varidenbutache and with the .aid, seVeral inten and Walter Creery have regiaters from town• threshed alls night, ed for the tees) year practical Diamond jubilee services will training course at CAC, he. held in the Greeloway United' Elmer I), Bell KC, announces Church on October 6 With Pees that Mr, C. Van Laughton .LLB Johnson of Creditein as speaker Will be associated With the law end' on October 13 with, Rev. firth, Harold W i 11 aja s, :London, as sneaker, Revi Willans was pas- tor at. GreenWity 1915 to.'1,017. Miss Kathleen Hieks IIN, who has spent, the suriirtier months with her patents. Me. and Mrs, Atidttv Rieke, Centralia, left, on htnitday to resume her duties at New York, She was accompanied to Montreal by hetssiterf Miss Startaret. B _ ieks, • Wit Mega ritt, Wails. tart William Wareing has tendered his resignation as night corist.a. bid marking the end Of 19 years of pOlice duty, • Miss Mattie ?Ills,• • Hensel!. won a television set at the. ftiOlie sponsored the Rental) Chamber of Conimerce.• Itart Strang:obtained ton yield in the Wheat Clubs of Ontario. The yield wadi bitslitts per acrd,— g SiXlear.old Judy proves that a blind child can have fun. With her older Judy_ help she learns to roller skate, Judy and her family have discovered through the Pre-School Department of The Canadian National Institute for the tlind that blindness need not deprive her of a happy, normal life. You help blind.ehilcIren like Judy when you support C111113"S multi-service program. Give generously to the current appeal (or funds. You are the Eyes of the blind through MB aver trues of Service. Tri-County .Campaign. For The .Blind ` HURON COUNTY OBJECTIVE; $6,000.00 Send ytior dortetitm today to*. S. IL Towlerf Exeter • or quadrupled, the youth of to- consisted of • shooting pool. and day must scramble, not amble, roaring• it up at the •country if he is to avoid being trampled dances in the district; on Friday underfoot. Young Hugh, who nights. We had almost none of made the jump this year from the moderate pace of public school, with its recess periods and long lunch hour, to the split- second gallop of. a district high school, is enthralled. "Gee, dad," he observed, "you haven't even time to go to the bath- room." He's , right. . Back in the Hungry Thirties, when I was in high school, there wasn't much point in graduating es there were no jobs available. Some of us stayed around so long the new kids thought we were on staff. The caretaking staff, that is, as we spent our "spares" down in the. boiler room, smoking and talking about ioining the Canadian. battalion being raised to fight in the Spanish Civil War. Cur extra-curricular activities Today's high school student is as far removed from the simple youth of our day as a rocket missile is from a bow and ar- row, He works hard and plays hard. He must be continually on the- lump it he m is. to meet his ; • Provided the men n. the white coats 'don't come for :me soon, shall look forward with pleas- ure, and Some trepidation, to letting him use me as' a' spring- board from. which to launch some of his jumps.- - • - the myriad of affairs and events which are. part of high school life today. About twice a year, there ':should be a rigidly super s vised school dance, at which all the boy.s stood 'on one side of the gym and -talked rugby, while• the girls • danced discon- solately with each other.• Boy-, my only regret is that somebody :didn't steer me into this. teaching game years ago. Its the easiest stint I've had since I worked in the' salt mines of Poland as a prisoner of war, About the same hours, too,. •. The amazing -thing about it "'is is of that' it's so easy, it's that ybu actually get paid for it. L doubt whether squirrels running on. a treadmill receive a nickel ter their' efforts. 'And' as far as I know,, the prisoners in those labor camps in Siberia don't draw a salary. Teaching is just as easy as either of these oc- cupations. * * * !Vs not redly so bad, though. You don't have to get up until 7.13 in the morning. and some nights you have your lesson pre• aerations' completed by 2 S.M. I Seem, to be thriving on it. I've only • lost seven pounds, have felted two weeks end haven't even been fired yet. , It has a lot of good points, too. If cuts down on the smoking, -when you have to teach six per- iods before lunch, without time for a single drag, from 9 to 1. That. first cigarette, when you Smiles , 6 E 6 "Why the delay captain? "Lake's all covered with fog, Madame," "But I see stars overhead." . i'Yes, but we're not going that way." V Aunty: "Well, Bobby, how do ,stsu -like school?" Bobby: "Closed, of course.' * nem spinsters were discussing pion, One asked.: "Which would ••ou prefer most in a husband, brains, wealth or appearance?" "Appearance," r e pli e d the other, 'and the sooner the bet- ter," finally totter out of . the class- room, is, better than a stick of marijuana. It's like being kick- ed on the head by an angel. The room spins 'slowly around you and. you drift happily about a foot off the floor. * • Then' there's the• happy, Bo- hemian camaraderie of the teachers' •room. Six men teach- ers, slumped heavily in chairs, staring at, their boots and suck- ing deepZdh. the weed. A few w o.in'e fi teachers, exchanging sprightly repartee about how their feet hurt. It's all sort of gay and warm and charming. * * * And another aspect of the job has cheered me immensely. Be- fore I began teaching, I agreed with most people that teenagers were monsters from outer space, or somewhere. I've changed my mind completely. I have five classes of them, and there isn't a single one from outer space as far as I can learn, Seriously, I've never met more interesting people than the 180• odd kids i face each day. They range from bright little crickets of boys, athirst for knowledge, to great hulking brutes of 17, whose leering presence makes your hackles rise; from dumpy little dolls who will get a crush en me, to elegant, sophisticated young women who will scarcely deign to sweep me with one of those insolent glences with which elegant, sophisticated young women dismiss old men of 48, Oh.• its exhausting, but scarce- ly dull. The modern high school is a far cry from the leisurely hall of learning you and' I at- tended, Dad. The bodies are pouring into them from the, pub- lic schools at such a: rate that space and time are the essen- tials in coping with them, As a result, the thundering herd must be kept on the run and under the thumb. to avoid chaos, ' With si broader curriculum, and his outside activities tripled Many of our readeri will' re; call the depression days of the early thirties when unemploy- ment 'Was at an high and. scarcely a day passed with- out some transient appealing' for assistance. The following account of "An Hour With the Transients" ap- peared: in The Exeter Times- Advocate in Februray 1931 • "Scarcely an evening passes hut Constable John Norry is host to r one or more transients who relnain for the night and then 'pass on to other parts. On Friday evening the ,editor along with ConStable Norry interview- ed fiVe transients 'who were comfortably 'located in the base- ment of the town hall and. spent an interesting hour listening to their tales' and asked them ques- tions. Some of these men,. with prep- tidally all of - their_ possessions on their hack, have seen ,a great deal of the country during the past few months and tell. some funny ,stories .of treatment along the road. One young fellow in his ' twenties, since August 1.1. had travelled from Toronto •'to Vancouver and from. Vancouver back' to Ottawa and Montreal and is now touring Western. On- tario. We asked him. if he did much .walking • and he stated "very little".. Long distances were usually made by.. jumping freight trains • and 'riding the tenders. • Asked it many were travelling ' this way .he stated that -sometimes the tender . was loaded. Another •fellow stated that they sometimes rode onsthe :sstOoltestaek, when a third .pop- ped. the qbestion. "Did you ever see• 'anyone .riding .the -echo of the' whistle?" "How. about stile • grub??" we asked; "Good, bad and indif- ferent, but we never go hungry." The • men protested vigorously against, certain relief organiza- tions, who sell.: meal and bed tickets • to citizens in some of. the larger centres and these in turn. are' handed , to the transi- ents. "Someone is • making a good haul out of that sort, of thing" said one of them, for in cases where a 25O. ticket had been provid.ed the,. meal .served • e µForth less than 190., "HoW about .'sleeping accent-. niodatiori?" "Well,. usually get sleeping accommodation but. often it- is on a cement floor • 40 YEARS AGO etve B, W. F, Beavers has moved into his neser: residente corner • of Main and 'Gidley streets, ' Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Jory cel- ebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their' wedding at the home of their daughter, Mrs. Ed. Kestle, Mr. C,' B. Snell'has purchased. the• D. Braund property in Exe- ter North and has started to tear doWn the old blacksmith building. Exeter Will be .putt on the hock- ey map this winter by Zurich end EXeter, going together and entering's team in the OHA and the Northern Hockey League. Twelve autos containing mem- bers of, James Street Choir visit- ed the peach orchards about one h Mile west of Tedford last Thursday. The journey, a dis- tance of 33 Miles was made in about an hour and forty min- Wes. . The large, Water tank on the corner of Main and John,Streets is being filled' in.‘yitii eath this week. The tank is 36x14x14 and was used to hold water in con- nection with the old waterworks of a road JOTTINGS BY JMS with newspapers furnishing the bedding. We cad always pick up old newspapers' at some drug stores," said one of the boys, "Some -places they take every- thing away froM us and lock us up for the night while in some places like this we have a comfortable room with fire and mattresses .on which to lie." Vermin, however, is one 'of the enemies of the transients • and some municipalities 'never think -of fumigating their lodgings, The five men, mostly young fellows, seemed like a happy- go-lucky bunch and were sitting around an improvised table play- ing card's when we entered. In making their travels from plate to place they 'usually' travelled alone as their:.chances• of being picked up by motorists on the highway are greater and they meet up at night at. a pre-ar- ranged • destination: Some of them. had been ,at . Seaforth the night before where 'some- local. boys got into • trouble with the ,police and a transient , had come to the assistance .of the police. One of the boys suggested -that we write an 'Transient Comes to Aid of Police in Quell- ing Disturbance,"• • They know fairly well ahead of time about what kind of re- ception they. will receive at the next place. One fellow termed. this "bumology" or advanced in- formation. picked up from other transients, One of the• older men was con- cerned about the boys who are parading the country .for 'experi- ence and a so-called good. time, He was afraid it would get -in the blood. :and have ••a. ruinous effect. For -man.- out of work and no home• however there was only one 'thing to do and that' was to keep moving.e Most muni- cipalities will care for, a man for 24 hours -and. he must then move on. What . chance was there et- getting a job under theSe conditions? One of the big- gest diiticulties.on.the road, how- ever, g..being able to keep clean and. look respectable. F.S. — Great. credit was due Chief Norry for the way he. handled these transients. Many of ' them afterwards wrote to hint from a distance and if any of then: ever happened. this way the were sure to look him up. .Many a time Mr. Norry out his hand, in his own pocket to help them out, Christie. Rowe Dinney and Graf- ton Cochrane are attending the University: of Western Ontario. Marvin,,Howey, teller at the Aylmer ank of 'Montreal has been transferred to Peterboro, 1.5 .YEARS AGO Bob Burns and Eldrid Sim- mons of the -RCAF have return- ed from Belleville airport and are on an extended' leave. Mr. Jack R. Kestle has ac- cepted a poSition with Zellers Limited and, left Wednesday for John, N,B.; to .commence his ditties. ' Mr. and. Mrs: Robert, Dinney of London, formerly, of Exeter, celebrated their, golden wedding anniversary on Tuesday. The latest information . regard- ing the future of the Centralia, airport: which was first known. as No. 9 SETS•, is being re-organized and is' to be known as No. 1 Flying Training School. Mr, R. C. Dinney has taken over the furnitureand funeral business of Mr, R.• N. Rowe with whom he has been employed for the past three years, • Dr. and Mrs, D• G, Steer of. Rental], left on Satiirday for their As the Times" go by ' HIGHLIGHTS FROM"THE T-A FILES roller recently, , 10 YEARS AGO /system A Portion of it gave ne7/home in London. way under the Weight