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'THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1955
WHY NOT SUPPORT BUTTER?
THIS 'LX NUNBOUS muttering about 37 ,our government bas- to dump it on the world
cent butter sold to the Russians is getting': market at any old, price, preCarri.ig tolet its
more maddening to us by the minute. Those enemies have: it rather than make living easier
who are taking up the issue and making such for"its own. serfs -(that's ns!)." '
We hope sincerely that our editor friend
will reconsider and get to the facts, before
writing any more of such drivel •
Canadians are supporting the butter price,
a thing of it, must be very i11 -informed, indeed."
Last week in his editorial column, a week-
ly newsman (whose judgment up until now we
had much, respected) takes the issue and says
true. It is' costing them something like 2,9
this:
cents per person, per: year to do it, But Cans
"It would be quite possible to retail that : °Alarm are also supporting the; gold •mining in -
butter in the iron curtain market at a nice dustry at a cost of $1,00 per person, and also
profit and still leave a margin for propaganda'
pointing out how much more cheaply the Come
rives can buy butter than can the -poor down-
trodden capitalistic citizen. ,
"Another point could be that the capitalistic
Canadian Government can supply the Commun
ists with butter at 37 cents While forcing its
own subjects to pay 60 cents and over at retain
Quite effective propaganda could be worked 'up
' out of those' two points alone. ''Vlore' could be
evolved along the lune that the starving masses
under capitalism can't afford to' buy butter, sit
general labour (through unemployment insur-
ance payments) is being supported at a, cost of
$2,00 per person.
Do we get reams -of editorials written on
this subject? Of course not. Then, why should,
we who live in dairying parts of the' province
castigate ourselves over the government's sup-
port of our neighbour's (and indirectly, our owri)
income?
'Canada's standard of living is one ofthe
highest ii the world.. We must not lower it if
we wish to forge ahead.•
SCROOGE?. OR A REAL GIVER?
(Contributed)
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING has not really got unhealthy culitom, each person giving presents
into high gear- yet. One of these days it will • because others are doing it, they May have.
really happen. Men all of a sudden will -re- something. There is no•doubt we areall Moved
member that' they have done nothing towards to action by convention and custom.. We have
Christmas. The women folk who have been to keep in the swim or drown. We have . a
planning a long time ahead, and aremethod- sneaking suspicion though,, that many of those
really drawing up their list will really go to , who complain about having to bow to 000ven-
tow. Then, the problem will arise: what to do ventiok just want to get out from under the
with the things that have been bought until responsibility Of doing the generous thing, So
the great day dawns. In any home there, of ' -even if social pressures make them loosen .up a
course, are little nooks and corners which can bit it is good for their souls,
be pressed into service, If these prove too • After all,there are those who would rarely
small there are always the neighbours• spend a nickel on Va good cause if custom or
The Scrooges among us will not be too convention did not. compel them to do so. If
happy about all this. 'They' look on it as an- as. so-called commercialization helps to force a
other method of prying money out oftheir man to become unselfish, we are for it even
though on general principles we are opposed to
compulsion,
, But we like to think that this giving and
receiving of gifts, which may be overdone a
bit, in certain quarters, has a much deeper
.purpose and origin than appeals on the surface.j
It is based on the first Christmas when the
greatest gift that man ever received was pre-
sented to him. In these daysof wars, hot,
cold or warm, days of tension, national and
personal greed, it is good to know that during
one season of the year at least, we can concen-
trate on the welfare of others to the exclusion
of our own selfish interests.' After all that is
one of the deep meanings of. Christmas,
pocket books. It is all too. commercialized
• they will say; there Is too much high pressure
advertising and anyway people only give because
others are giving.
Now, there may be some truth in this, but
What would a mere man do about getting
ready for Christmas were it not -for the adver-
tisements? A popular pastime these days is
Watch the mere man scanning the newspapers,
and not always 'the funnies and the sporting
page but the ladies'' wear and toilet advertise
mentis as well. It is all right. How is a man
to know otherwise? •
When the Scrooges in our midst tell us
that the whole celebration of Christmas is .an
'TWAS A BIG JOKE RAT RACE
(Saturday Night)
THE JOKE was on us at nomination night,
when our suggestion to reverse procedure and
hear school board members first instead of
last, was kindly acted upon. ° As it happened,
only two of the seven men who let themselves
. be nominated were present to say a word. '
"Tie ;joke was on those nominated men who
counted on being laat and so stayed home to
Watch TV until "those . dull councillors were
finished" and' by the time they came to the
hall :found..their own opportunities lost,
The biggest joke was on education. Certain-
ly We have no quarrel with the present school
board. They are doing, and have done .a good
job. But this thing "education' =which we hon-
our above all, to the•extent of paying any cost
to which . We are put for its sake --4s apparently
not worth_ paying, much attention to at an ad-
ministration level. ' tThfortunately, no repre-
sentative of the 'Collegiate Institute Board was
called upon, This is an item very important
to the tpwn, even though the school is now
administered by a district board. ,There .are
three Clinton men acting upon it.
The two nominees for the public school
board who cared enough to speak, gave a very
good account of themselves, however, and we
• still think the reversal in procedure was a good
idea, because a good many public spirited men
heard the • school reported on. The great ma-
jority of citizens •present, ' then stayed' right
thi'oilgh to hear the mayor,' the reeve and
deputy reeve nominees and the ,meeting lacked
that creat "going home" 'atmosphere of most
nomination meetings.
COURTESY PAYS
BEFORE THE WAR manners were much
better all round, People were, perforee, : doing a
selling job through the depression. alien
the days Of short supply when anyone', could
.sell anything and courtesy all too often went
by the boards:
Today we are back in a competitive society.
People will like you, if you are polite; they will
live , in your town if they find it- pleasant; they
' will build. their industries there if it is to their
advantage and once again -courtesy pays off.
Muggs
and '
Skeeter
WITH COMMENDABLE ZEAL, Attorney -
General Kelso Roberts has been Carrying on a'
campaign against drivers who make a dangerous
adventure of travel on Ontario's highways. But
.he is in the position of a mantrying to bail
out a spring creek.
Provincial police have been cracking down
on motorists along selected 'stretches of high-
way, but they are far too few to do' an effec-
tive, province -wide job. Magistrates have been
told to 'be stern in their hand'l'ing of offenders,.
but they have such freedom .of `decision under
the traffic laws that what one magistrate con -
eiders adequate punishment may be excessively
harsh to another. The most serious.' obstacle
to the successof the safety 'campaign, however,
is the Government's own 'attitude 'towards the
issuing of driving licences.
About the 'only . practical requirement for
obtaining a licence is that, there be 'sortie life
in the body -enough to totter to a wicket and
pay the fee. You may be ready for a straight-
jacket or know so little English that "Stop" is
just; gibberish. to you, but you can get a permit
to take char$e of a two -ton projectile on the
public streets, Thus, while the undermanned
,police and harried magistrates are busily taking
licences away from drivers who are not fit to
hold them, other public servants are.even more.
busily handing them out ,
CRIBBAGE
With: "fifteen two and eight are ten"
•Upon a narrow board
Three centuries, and more, good men
Their cribbage hands -have scared:
And strangely, by the rules they made
Three hundred years ago,
The game today. is: being played
Without a change to show.
What throw the crib and what to hold
My father taught to me.
"Turn up the jack, take two," he told.
"Each runais' good for three.
You get two points' for every (fair,
And a& the 'game goes on
Remember here and everywhere
It's' two fol• thirty-one.""
SAY, SKEETERI S
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NEWS YOUJ
L OVERHEARP -YOUR TEACHER Ls
TELLING ANOTHER TEACHER SHE'S
NOT GOING TO GIVE YQUR
CLASS ANY HOMEWORK-
T'ONIGNT!!
THAT
IS
NEWS:;
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(SWAN)SONG OF INDIA?;
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(By. •BENJAMIN BEVERIDGIIu)
Peter Quennell -'s latest,: book, was •said about them but what
'Hogarth's Progress", has reached
the bestseller list of the New.
York Times. And I ami not sur-
prised. -
This is one of the most inter-
esting"books of '-no real conse,
quence that I have. read for some,
time, andthanks to the Collins
publishing : house, who sent it to
me,knoar the English artist
William Hogarth• 'well. I cannot
say to you' that you must read
this book any more than I should
say you must get up; to see the
sunset or have apple pie a la mode
for dessert, or read "Byron in
England" •and other books by
Peter Quennell, Those are pleas-
ures one must select for himself,
But, having . read "Hogarth's
Progress", one could not Consider.
the .time lost.
A few weeks ago I mentioned
another Collins book, "The Year
is 1851" by Patrick Howarth,
which was an exciting. omnibus
ride into the fascinating corners
of British society as it existed
during the time' of Prince Albert's
great exposition. Together, these
two volumes reminded me of two
other little books I read because
the titles interested mei and which
I still have on the top shelf. One
of these H, Montgomery Hyde's
"Cases that Changed the Law',.
in the vein of the Earl of Birken-
heade "Famous Trials". The oth-
er is "I Planted Trees", by Rich-
ard St. Barbe Baker, one of the
"Men of the Trees", whose book
would befriend any one who hates
to see a shade tree cut down.
If there is anything. I -am try-
ing to prove by all this it is just
that one shouldn't expect every
book to preach to him. Some
books can be read for the sheer
joy of . it.
*
Now, back to Hogarth for a
moment. Ile was born in 1697
and what schooling he got he re-
ceived from his father, who was a
schoolmaster. Just over five feet
tall, he started out as a silver-
smith and then occupied himself
illustrating hand bilis and books.
As an artist, it is doubtful if
Gainsborough or Rtrnolds ever
had quite as much fun in their
paintings as Hogarth. And it
takes a Quennell to point this fun
out in the details of such paint-
ings as `A Harlot's Progress" and
"Marriage -a -la -Mode".
Hogarth -called himself a liter-
ary artist, a pictorial playwright,
His canvases' were conservation
pieces, not only because of what
Cruel and Unusual
This unpleasant distinction made
for offenders is "cruel and un-,
usual':.' So say some about the.
new license . legislation dealing
with drivers convicted In highway
accident cases. -
We wonder! "Unusual" certain-
ly, But "cruel?" Let us see: Mr.
X, .overconfident one evening be-
cause "one or two for the road"
had given him an exaggerated idea
of his mastery: over his death
machine, killed a boy: The boy
was at fault -but he died: Trag-
edy crashed into a home when
that ,car struck.
An extreme case? Yes, but only.
cue of the many. Surely such of-
fenders are fortunate that their
red licenses don't have to be Worn
conspicuously on their . person,
even as the Scarlet Letter in
Colonial days.
This red license will serve as a
Constant reminder of a dangerous
weakness, It i5 expected that
about 2,000 Ontario motorists will
be affected annually,
Cruel? No! Congratulations to
our highway minister, ;the Hon.
James N. Allan and our legislat-
ors, 49b
(Advertisement . inserted by the
Huron County Temperance Fed-
eration),.
was said by . them. He was • as
much a satirist with paints :as
Addison and Steele were with
their writing pens. And it: was
like. him to expound that a' lineof
beauty was "a curved :line found
oftenest in silhouettes of the 'fe-
•male human body," '
"Hogarth's Progress" is ' not
bitty a biography. It is a book of'
the times, and were there ever
times quite so ribald and exciting
as those in that part of the 18th
Century, before the ''artist:'died in
1764, in the middle of a letter to
Benjamin Frankhn, - •
It is pleasing to see that the
'British Pan Books series • have.
brought out a two -shilling edition
of James Stephens' "The Crock of
Gold". All those who liked Sir
James Barrie's .'Peter Pan", and
who somehow missed The Crock
of Gold, first published in 1912,
should avail themselves of this op-
portunity as soon as the paper-
back issue reaches the Canadian
drug stores.
Mr. Stephen was an Irish poet
and novelist, one of the best, I
should say. The deep wisdom of
his Crock of Gold, a fairy tale for
grown-ups kindles myriad fires in
the reader's imagination. What
fantasy!
A * ,,
A friend of mine who pinch hits
as a literary critic from time to
time for the public prints received
a new juvenile book for review.
Prompted partly by pressure of
time and partly because of a new
approach to juvenile' reviews he
had in mind, he made an arrange-
ment with his young son. The
latter was to read the book and
to relay his impression to his fa-
ther. The father in turn would
re -assess the volume, retaining the
juvenile point of view. After all,
juvenile books . are for juveniles,
and what they think of the books
should be important.
For his efforts the lad was to
receive the fee paid by the.news-
paper, amounting to about $10.
When•'the book was read and
the impressions ptit down on pap-
er, my friend asked the boy how
he liked reading for a living.
"Not much," he replied.
"What do you mean?" " said
father. "You were well paid,
weren't you?" The rate worked
out to about $1 an hour.
"Yes, But I'd rather be deliver-'
ing parcels for the drug store."
"HoW much do,you make at
that?" asked the arent.
"Fifty cents ail hour," was the"
answer; "But that's fun!"
n r
' We probably wouldn't. have lik-
ed goingto school any. better,
even if he had. been paid for it.
Quick Canadian
Quiz
What is the origin of the name
of the City of Ottawa?
2. In 1939 there were 24,805 man-
ufacturing establishments' in
Canada.' How many are there
today?
3. At the 1951 census Canada's
population was 14,009,000. What
- was the , total at' the time of
the 1931 cepsus?,
4.', Which province is the leading
butter producer?.
5. In 1949 the combined spending
of federal and provincial gov-
ernments was about $280 ,per
capita. What is it today?'
ANSWERS: , 5About 5450 Per.
capita. 3-10,,376,000 1 -The
,capital gets its name from an Ind-
ian tribe, the 'Ottawas: ` 4 -Que-
bec, '2 -Today there are more,
than 38,000 manufacturing estab-
ilshments.
Material prepared by the editors
of Quick Canadian Facts, .,the poc-
ket, annual of facts abopt Canada.
There are 22 'parties currently
Seeking , : the legeridary Captain
Kidd treasure supposedly buried
On Oak Island, N.S.
AND I WASAFRAID
SHE WAS MAD
BECAUSE NOBODY
FINISHED ALL THE
HOMEWORKI.AST
`7 NIGHT:
WELL,
THAT
EXPLAINS
,.IT SEEMS SHE'S GOING TO
KEEP YOUR CLASS TWO HOURS
AFTER SCHOOL TO MACE SURE
YdU ALL FINISH YOUR
ASSIGNMENT TcN1GHTll
fly
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On December" 4, Bible Sunday
was observed by many denomina-
tions throughout the world. This
year this observance had special
significance for 1955 ,marks the
500th anniversary of the printing,
of the Bible. '
A German named Gutenburg,
the inventor of printing by mov-
able metal type, the basis of mod-
ern methods, ' decided that the
Holy Seripttues would be the first
product of his blain child.
In a clumsy hand -operated press
he turned out whole' pages in the
time fornerly required to Write a
single word, ', His methods revolu-
tionized printing and the Bible is
still the most printed Book.
In the superstitious' age when
printing was 'born it was regarded
with suspicion andthe printer
thought to be In league with the
devil, This was true of Europe
hut also, of America, As late as
1671 the Governor of Virginia is '
quoted as saying: "I thank God
we have no free schools, nor print-
ing learning has brought
disobedience and heresy and °sects
into the world and 'printing -,has
divulged them and libels against
the government, God keep us
from both."
Today this craft is credited with
the spread of both freedom of re-
ligion and democracy. It is con-
sidered of incalculable value in
shedding "the white light of;learn-
Mg on the dark ages of ignoraaice
and making possible the placing of
a copy of the Word of God in
every, hone" around the s'world.
The latter is thetask of the Bible
Societies, through • this once dis-
trusted medium. The Societies' •
contribution to the spreading of
the Scriptures was set forth and
their claims for support were pre-
sontintedBible in churches' across Canada
Sunday,
Suggested Bible Readings for'
the week:
Sunday Matt, 25: 1-30
Monday Matt, 25:.31-46
Tuesday. Mark 12: 1-27
Wednesday Mark 12: 28-44
Thursday Luke 7: 31-50.
Friday Luke 14: 1-14
Saturday Luke 14: 15 35
WOLLB THEY• SWIM 'IN IT?
An Editorial in The Peterborough Examiner
wanting lavatories we might as
well built a sporting club In Ot-
tawa, and move the' Government
to Winnipeg - where it logically
belongs.
Although news is our business,
we very often get the impression
that things are beingkept from
us. For instance, it is by the
merest chance that • we learn that
there is talk of putting a parlia-
mentary swimming ,:pool in the
new building which is to take the
place of the West Block of the
Houses of Parliament -,supposing
that, the West Block is torn down:
A parliamentary swimming.
pool!• What pn earth do our noble
tribunes;Want with such,•'-a•thxng?
•
And if they get it, what will, they
want next? Turkish baths (With a
tpeciai ¢ladies'" night) and a mani-
curist,service? Our guess' is that
they',tvill not use', it. if they get it.
They. haVe a, Library,, and a very
gooc'.;:one, but . how' many, parlia-
mentarians ever use it, except as
a source of detective stories to
amuse their wives? We gave them
a` Library; and they won't read
Ii we give them a swimming
pool they will stop washing.
The agitatio., to tear down the
West Block is rooted in nothing
more than the Canadian desire to
destroy anything -that begins to
be old,' . and the civil service de-
sire to squander public money.
Apparently the West Block is in-
convenient. Those who think so
should visit the British Foreign
Office, and get a taste of real
inconvenience. It is said that the'
civil servants who work in it have
eat enough lavatories. They
should visit the Escurial in Spain,
in its day the most " superb gov-
ernment building in the world.
Not a lavatory in the place. With
parliamentarians wanting swim.-
ming pools and civil servants Luther Penhale.
We have a radical, un -Canadian
solution to the problem: leave
the West 'Block alone; fire civil
servants until the number em-
ployed in the West Block and the
lavatory accommodation are in
exquisite balance;' tell the parlia-
mentarians -to., wash at home.
This plan, which We call the Ex
aminer•Architectural Conservation
and Trouble -Saving Plain(or
EACBP) will save, at a very con-
servative estimate, four •,: million
dollars of money which Will 'other-
wise be gouged out of the' tax-
payers.
TOWN OF EXETER
At Exeter another election was
assured when R. E. Pooley quali
field to oppose Andrew Snel-
grove for the office of mayor.
Balloting was to be held Decem-
ber 5.
Reeve William McKenzie and
Deputy Reeve Chester Mawhin-
ney were returned by acclamat-
ion. A second nomination will
be necessary, since only three of
eight council nominees qualified.
They were Ralph Bailie, Ross
Taylor and Alvin Pym, Others
named were R. D, Jermyn, R. C.
Disney, Edward Brady, Donald
,Southcott, and Eldred Simmons.
School board offices were fill-
ed by acclamation by Claude F.
Farrow, Robert Southcott, and
Glen Bonnaliie and the Public
Utilities Commission post by
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THAT HANDSOME ENG/NEEfc 15
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BABYrK!S5/NG SUS/NESS 15 PART
D'HIS VOTE -GE r/NG CAMPAIGN;
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ACROSS -: ?3 Etescal"
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the Ottoman ' with lien
dynasty 4. Part of
8. Consumes . "to be"
gradually 5. Northeast
11. Frighten (abbr.)
12, Curved path 6. Forests
of a planet 7. Sea eagle
1.3. Rational 8; Arabian
114. Bestow garments
;15. Man's , 9. Ceremony
nickname 10. Bolt slowly
16: Help 14.;Perishes
17. Stitch 16. Branch of
18� Begin a learning
quarrel 19Factor
,22. Confections 20. Web-footed
23. The common birds
skink 21. Taste
(Egypt) 22. Resort
27.:Partsaof
windows
28. Benefit -
29. Grows old
30.Of flowers.
81. A witty -
saying
33. Luzon
native
' 86. Constel-
lation
87. Type
measure
99. Ecclealaa-
tdcal laws
41. Doom
42. Thin tin
plates
44. Projecting
roof edges
46. Choice
playing
marble
48. Sandarac
trees
DOWN
1. Bones
(anat.)
24. Biblical
name
28. Straight
line
throiigh
center
of
a
circle
26. Entire
amount
28. Sea-
weed 35. Plant whit
30. Pines yields 1ndl�
32. Flower 38, Botch
33. Deeds 40. Single unit
34. Variety of 41. Distant
Dutch . 42. Polynesian•
apolcen in drink
'Union of 44. Water god
• South Africa (Babyh)
Weeldy
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