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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1928-11-08, Page 7THE EXETER TIME5-ADV0CATE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER «th, 1928 That piquant, mellow smoothness of a fine Japan tea cannot be appreciated unless it Is tried In the cup. Try this delightful green tea. "SALADA" <JAPAX T£A> Freeh from the ■■ ' J ■ _•I HP H. t. Give Them the Start Tots Owe Them By all means let them 6‘raise their own crop, ” but would you have your children come through the struggle you had in getting a start? What would a little money and a better education have meant to you at the beginning ? Education means money, and an educa­ tion is even more important today than it was when you were young. Life Insurance will enable you to do all you would wish to do for your children. MEAD OH-ICE —WINNIPEG R. E. PICKARD District Representative J ^22 DIGGING POTATOES BY MACHINERY (Alliston Herald) Potato digging is no longer an op­ eration with a flat tined fork, nor are the potatoes turned out with a plow anymore. Some years ago, implement known as the potato dig­ ger appeared on the market and ex­ tensive growers seized it with grati­ tude to the inventor of another la- . bor saving device. When a team of horses had drawn the digger the length of the field the potatoes lay on the surface awaiting the pickers who usually put them in pails from Which 'they were poured into bags. But the work of picking became very tedious and, with help short it be­ came difficult .to get the potatoes off a field of from twenty-five to fifty acres before frost or the elements had damage! them. Now comes the bagger and is doing all that has been claimed for it. This implement was demonstrated on Nicol Wilson’s farm a few weeks ago and numerous potato growers decided to use it. Joining a number of townsmen who were going out. to see digging op­ erations on J. H. Carmeron’s farm. The Herald saw the digger and bag­ ger being operated by four mon and a horse team. The potatoes were running from 260 to 300 bags to the acre and the filled bags were being dropped off the bagger every twelve feet. The digger delivers the potatoes to the elevator of the bagger, a man standing at t’lie side of the elevator to throw aside the tops/ Two men were kept busy tak­ ing off the full Tags and securing others to the delivery end of the elevator. Two men and a team were busy hauling the potatoes from th =» field to the* stable where they were being temporarily stored. ,7 .WK MINER’S VIEWS ON WOMEN SMOKERS “The other morning, while on the train on route from a lecture in New. York City and Boston, Mass., while waiting for my breakfast to be serv­ ed, a morning paper was handed me, in which in the front page, in capi­ tal letters. 1 read the words: “Henry Ford Hospital Nurse Discharged for .Smoking Cigarettes." I then thought d several’ requests I have had to jput in print the impressions I had <of Mr. Ford. I say this alone shows the calibre of Mr. Henry Ford and ibis interests in the moral side of llife and in the born and unborn generations, and this fact, connected with the character of Mr. Henry Ford, will go down it: history. If more men will take Mr. Ford’s ■(example alicl have a backbone in­ stead of a wishbone, it will help islow this world up a bit, and chil- iflren a century from now will have (healthy reasons to thank him. So many ask why I am opposed to wo­ men smoking and in reply I will say; The biggest asset the world has is Sts babies, and the hope of the world tyfor permament peace is more love and education among its babies, who will profit by the mistakes of their foreparents. But what a pityful 'thing if .these babies' growth, intel­ lectually and morally, is going to Jbe stunted through the motherhood <of the land smoking cigarettes months before they are born, Right -here lot me say to the world, I will give more for anj child’s nine months health and education before Sie is born than I will any nine years after. I think every human being wants to see the world take a step forward and not backward, and who, fn the name of God. can say by women smoking it makes this world Jbet ter."-—Jack Miner. Former Exeter Woman Devoted Worker In India By II. Isohel Graham in the London Free Press If anyone had told Mary Haise when she lived under the parental roof in St. John, N. B„ that she would travel to a country 12,000 miles away and spend her life among a foreign but not unfriendly people she would have smiled incredulous­ ly, but that was wnat happened. Providence had decreed that she should continue the work and prove a worthy successor to two 'heroic and illustrious pioneer missionaries who had passed to their reward, Mrs. Adoniram Judson and Mrs. Board­ man, of Burma. After graduating from Brantford Ladies’ College she accepted a position on the staff of the Exeter public school, where she met her future husband, Ernest Grigg, w’ho was to lead her far afield Mr. Grigg’s interest in missions dated back to the time when as a little boy he. was greatly impressed by a picture of a Hindu holding on to the tail of a sacred cow in the hope that it might help him into the next world. As he grew older he heard the call of the Christless mil­ lions and in response to the appeal dedicated himself to foreign mission work. After completing his course at McMaster University, Toronto, he and his wife were resignated by the American Baptist Mission Board to Burma in 1893, where they have la­ bored most devotedly for the past 35 years, coming home recently on their fourth furlough. Overcome Illness X After they had been in Burma a little over three years their hopes seemed doomed to disappointment, for they both became very seriously ill with fever and were forced tq re­ turn to Canada without any expec­ tation of ever being able to resume their work. But two months of a Canadian winter, with the tempera­ ture below zero, drove every microbe out of their systems and they again set sail for the scene of tlieii' former labors, landing at Sandoway, among the Chinn people, w’ho were wor­ shippers of evil Spirits. Dr. Thom­ as, who was leaving on furlough, left the whole field, in which were a l’ew hundred Christians in the midst of thousands of heathens, in the hand^ of Mr. Grigg and an interpreter. Mrs. Grigg and a native Keren Bible woman undertaking the work among the women. They afterwards spent two years in Malmain and seven years in Rangoon, a modern city of 370,000. Mrs. Grigg was handicapped at times by ill-health, but her loyalty and devotion to her husband and the cause of missions never wavered. She never considered any sacrifice or self-denial too great and would not allow anything to interfere with his duties. Always deeply interest­ ed in the spread of the Gospel, she went when able wit'h Mr. Grigg from house to house, talking with and getting into personal touch with the natives, by whom she was much be­ loved (She found real inspiration in teadhers’ meetings and Bible classes. On their return from their third furlough Mr. and Mrs. Grigg took charge of a mission station in Si- gain, where they remained until the time of the Great War, when they volunteered for work at the front and spent two years in France, af­ terwards returning to Burma. The Burmese are a most interesting people, differing in language and re­ ligion from the Hindus. The popu­ lation of over 13,000,000 is made up of various tribes of people, the Karens, Katchins, Talings, /JLalius, ettc., including also a. uarge number of Chinese, Hindus, Eurasians and British. The country is famous for its rubies, which are the finest in the world. In the same gravelly sub­ stance are 20 other varieties of stones. The Peace ruby, which was recently sold for $100,000, is the largest ever found. The Karens had an ancient tradi­ tion that their younger brother the white man, who kept company with God and had found the Book of God, which they had forfeited and lost on account of sin, would come some day to them with white wings. This was actually fulfilled when the distinguished pioneer missionaries, Dr. Adoniram Judson and Dr. Board­ man went to Burma over a hundred years ago in a sailing vessel, entire­ ly ignornt of t'his tradition. The natives rejoiced when they saw the white wings of the ship, believing that it was the fulfillment of their tradition, and now among these people, who were absolutely illerate, are college graduates, professional men and members of the Burmese Legislature. There are 900 Chris­ tian churches in Burma, with a com­ municant membership of 85.000, and 800 schools with 22,000 people, as the result of a century of missionary endeavor One of the churches sent teakwood to England, out of which the head1 builder of the organ in Westminister Abbey built a fine pipe organ for them, costing $15,0o0. Buddhism There are still 9,000,000 Buddhists in Burma and thousands of yellow- robed priests, Buddhism, the mis­ sionary says, is the light of Asia, but not of the world/ It is the best religion Asia has ever produced and is a fine code of moral ethics, em­ phasizing, right thinking, right living right speaking, right acting, hospit­ ality, kindness to animals and ab­ stinence from intoxicants, but it can­ not compare with the religion of Jesus Christ. It is all material—no creator apart from creation. They absolutely deny the existence of God. The eternity of matter, trans­ migration of souls and picture con­ ditions depending on present efforts and culminating at last in a state of unconsciousness makes of it a hope­ less religion. One of the Buddhists priests con­ fessed to Mr. Grigg that he did not know where he would go after death, whether .to hell, the great country, the animal country or to Nirvana. The Buddhists are doing their besL to offset Christianity, taking some of our hymns and changing them to suit themselves, such as: “All Hail the Power of Buddhist’s Name." They are starting Y.M.C.A.’s and as­ cribing everything to Buddha that we ascribe to Christ. zThe Burmese, who are Mongolian in origin, are a very interesting people. The love their British white brothers and very loyal to the em­ pire that rules over Burma. The Korens live in patriarchial style and wear nothing on their heads to cover their long hair and 85 per cent of the people are engaged in agricul­ ture, their farms ranging in size from 10 to 50 acres. The majority of them have not more than 25 acres. India is cursed with caste, but there is no caste in Burma. The women and girls wear picturesque costumes and are very fond of bright colors. They have a very artistic sense in regard to the harmonious blending of colors. Some of the women are quite handsome. They have a decided objection to bobbed hair and wouldn’t wear short skirts for anything. The Burmese excel in carving­ ivory and silver. Most of the trans­ portation is done by elephants, who are captured in the fprest and train­ ed to draw teakwood. The larger cities are quite modern. The people are fond of gayety, entertainments and • theatricals. Sometimes the whole family go out to spend the night and carry their beds, made of mats or rugs, with them. If they get tired they fall asleep and then wake up again and enjoy the play. Mrs. Grigg, who has been a. pa­ tient in Victoria Hospital, Lonon, re­ covering from an operation, hopes still to return with her husband to Burma to spend the eventide of their days among a people they love. DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK? S. G. . Goldthwaite, publisher of The Boone (Iowa) News-Republican, says: THAT if every cent that was spent in some otther town was spent with the home town merchant the banks would be full of money, the merchants would all build new homes, work would be plentiful and the town would grow rapidly. * Why isn’t this money all spent at home? Every person who has ar­ rived at the age of intelligence knows what a good thing it would be for himself if he is a property-owner and what a good thing it would be for the town if no money was spent outside. There are two reasons why he spends 'liis money elsewhere. ■One of the most elusive and un­ explainable reasons and the hardest one to combat is that a certain per cent, of the people in .town ar^ sure that the home merchants are trying to beat them and are charging more for their goods than they would have to pay elsewhere. They will not be­ lieve if you prove it to them in black and white'and in dollars and cents that they can buy as cheaply at home as anywhere else. How can these people be converted? I give up! Another reason is that the merch­ ants themselves are not as careful as they should be with their cus­ tomers. Every store has a careless and dilatory clerk. Every store has one of those clerks that turns up his or her nose when you ask for an article land says in a haughty and su­ percilious manner “We have no call for that.” Every store is more or less guilty of getting out of it and telling the customer they 'have something just as good or1 better. People want what they want. Nevertheless, it would be better for all of these kickers if they would trade at home. Peter, though too young to have very great control over his mouth tongue, was, nevertheless, old enough to be a keen motorist “We had a. tire punctuated yester­ day," lie confided to a visitor. “No, sonny; you mean punctured," replied his friend. “We came to a full stop, at any rate," was Peter’s retort. Perth County Plowing Match Drew Big Crowd Plowmen from many parts of West­ ern Ontario on Wednesday, October 31st entered the lists at the annual plowing match of the Perth County Plowmen’s Association and demon­ strated to a huge crowd that the art of plowing has by no means lost in this section of the province. The match was one of the most success­ ful held in the county in recent years interest having been stimulated to a large extent by the international match held1 in London recently. The competition was held on the farms of W. Potts and J. Fawcett, near Mitchell. Following, were the prize winners; Class 1, high cut in sod (open to all)—A. McKercher, Wroxeter; W. Davies, Ailsa Craig; A. Hansome. Southwold. (Three entries) Class 2, plowing in sod (open to all)—W. O. Grenzebach, Woodstock, N. McLeod, Galt; J. Batty, St. Pauls, Percy Passmore, Exeter. (Six en­ tries.) Class 3, (open to residents of Perth, who have never won 2 firsts in t'his class)—R. J. Scott, Cromar­ ty; M. Linton, Mitchell; W. C. Hodge, Science Hill; W. Collins, Mit­ chell; E. S. Scott, Mitchell and G. Stewart, St. Paul’s. (Nine entries) Class 4, Plowing in sod (open to boys 18 years and under)—-Austin Nairn, Munro; Frank Hamilton, Cro­ marty; Fraser Dewar, Wellesley; F. Harburn, Cromarty; Norman Cliaffe, Mitchell and Donald Wallace, St. Pauls. (Ten entries.) Class 5, single furrow riding plow plowing in sod—J. Harris, Dublin; C. Ritts, Stratford. Class 6, Tractor plowing in sod (open to all solely engaged in farm­ ing)—Gordon McGavin, Walton; F. Bell, .St. Pauls; R. J. Spence, Rod­ ney; Clarence Staffen, Mitchell. (5 entries.) Best plowed land in sod—W. O. Grenzebach. Special Awards Best crown in class 4-—Austin Nairn. Best finish in class 4-—Austin Nairn. Best crown in class 2--W. O. Grenzebach. Best finish in class 2—W. O. Gen- zebach. Best crown in class 3—Mervyn Linton. Best finish in class 3—R. J. Scott. Best crown in tractor class—Gor­ don McGavin. Best work in tractor class—Frank Bell. - -Best work in class 4 by a Massey ■Harris plow—Frank Hamilton. —Youngest plowman in competition —Jack Pitts, aged 12 years. Best harnessed and decorated team—Frank Hamilton. Best team in match W. C. Hodge. Best plow team—G. Stewart. Best ins and outs in boys class.— Norman Cliaffe. First plowman finished—Jack Pitts, aged 12 years. Best plowed land by plowman living in Huron, Middlesex, Lamb­ ton or Perth—R. J. Scott, awarded silver tea set donated by A. H. J. Eckhardt. Tractor plowing in sod, Paul Arm­ strong, St. 'Marys; R. B. 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