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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1929-01-10, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY# JANUARY 10th, 1929 EDITORIAL THIS ’N that JNF.LVENKA BATTLES SCIENCE (Literary Digest) : Hundreds of, thousands of dollars have l^nen spent in the effort to solye the mystery of influenza,, and more thousands are available a foy the study of the disease, but it contin ues' to baffle scientists who have 'IhCkled the problem. We are still as helpless against this foe, says Science Service’s Daily News Bullet in (Washington) as we were in 1918 and 1919 when tit swept across the world in one of greatest pandemics ever known. No one knows a thing about it—that is, not anything of practical value. No one knows what germ causes it, no one knows def in* Rely, how it |s spread, and, above all, no one knows how to stop it, The writer goes on:. “In 1918 a commission was ap pointed to study the disease. It was , hoped that with all the resources of modern science, which have been so successful in checking other a means could be found to check this one also. But for once science has had to admit defeat, The best scien tists can do for us in the present outbreak is to warn us against con tact with is known two days suffering not £ive have had . ... careful as those who have not. Stay ing away from crowds is generally recommended,. because in every crowd there are apt to be some people who have the disease, either recognized as such or 'thought to be a cold or grippe.) Most epidemics follow closely along lines of travel. Influenza outbreaks, especially dur ing great epidemics, occur simultan eously in widely separated §pofes, thus making it impossible to predict exactly where they will strike next. However, cities and towns on the di rect line through transportation by rail, motor, water or air from, any of the present epidemic centres may expect an outbreak soon, regardless of the actual distance in miles. It is time distance and not space dis tance that counts >in influenza. The' motor tourist and the student re turning for holidays are sources of "danger." Resolutions, like Christmas toys, not always last as long as might desired. Broken already? , * * if ♦ * 4! “Don’t take a chance" is the ad vice being 'handed put to 'flu' ferers. The Odds aye top great, stakes are life' or. death. do be suf- Tlm * * * **♦ Holidays may be fine for the chers and scholars just now but it will he a different story When the time comes for catching up. *♦* ♦** Faith i.s a- splendid thing if not misplaced but the heirs who placed faith .in to their ter was tea- WISE CRACKS The mailed fist was’A menace it never made as much noise as tin horn.M* •** The girl who casts her bread upon,; the waters expects it to pome back a wedding cake,M*. **K : If the Cap Fits To those who talk and talk and . This proverb should appeal: “The steam that blows the whistle WU1 never turn the wheel," bufe the tall; influenza patients, since it that the disease develops after contact with persons from it. An attack does immunity, so those who it before must be just as Baker and his scheme find sorrow that another promo working .for his own ends. • «* January is the stock-taking month when biisiness men. will check up to see just how they stand in compari son with a year ago, In the vast ma jority pf cases, both in the town, and country, 1928 will not be recorded as a particularly prosperous year. *#♦ There is a virtue in “Good Will" tours not to be found in ;alliaiices and treaties. “If you knew me and I knew you" applies equally to nat ions as it does to individuals, Great Britain long ago adopted the prin ciple but chiefly within the Empire, the. outstanding figure being the Prince of Wales. Lindbergh, as a Good Will, ambassador of the United States, created a favorable impres sion on his recent flying trip and now Herbert Hoover, president,elect, has been received with outstanding ovations wherever he has visited in South America. Saying the right thing at the right time seems to be an accomplishment of Hoover. if If if If if if if if 'if The Only Way don’t feej just right, don’t sleep at night, moan and sigh, The man of the hour ft the one who mak^s .a specialty of watching the clock, **♦ ♦ «#« They started even, she led him in the proposing and he led her to the altar. WORLD’S NOISEST CITY MARSEILLES A CITY OF DREAD- • F.UL HOISE, Fur coats will be worn shorter this year—except mother’s. It will be worn longer, mt w k> **♦ You never get fooled if you marry a widower with ten children. It takes a man to support a bunch like that. “Rastas, your dog seems, to be in pain.” “No, suh, he ain’t in pain, he’s 'jist lazy.” " ' “But surely he must be suffering or he wouldn’t be- howling like that.” ■ -'•^^fg^lirnib laziness, jes’ laziness;? ■ he’s sittin? on a thistle.’’ You’ve noticed, of course, that the flappers who are aS-naughty as they look are the other /fellows daughters *•* #1 ♦ * If neighbors call to offer sympa thy after a scandal, they offer it in exchange for the details. Anything you want and can’t af ford is a luxury. . : Hi #*'**' * * * * My dearr why not use the silvei' and linen you- have. His next wife will use it. Calling a man half-wilted doesn’t always tell the story. There are smaller fractions than that. Man usually gets what lie deser ves in the end—but which end? - * * * * * * A woman educator says, women Save‘not .made'*a' Success ^.politics, Well, has man?' • • ■ ■ . V you you you your throat is dry, you can’t smoke or chew, your grub tastes like glue, your heart doesn’t beat, you’ve got qold feet, * yoqr head’s in a whirl— For heaven’s sake—.-marry the girl! • ♦ * • » • * V * A certain man sporting a couple of black eyes said that his wife gave him a pair of socks for'his birthday.*♦» ♦ *** most useless thing in the Let’s see, How about a glass a keyhole.• *** *#« Wasn’t She Timid They sat in silence for a long time He knew he had to say something; it seemed expected of him. Then he spoke nervously. “What are you thinking about?" “I won’t tell you,” she answered, it’s your place to propose, not mine” Every husband admits that his wife showed sound judgement when she picked him out. 41 4t 4^ 4i 4^ 4t 4^ VThee is so much competition that if there is a meanest man anywhere lie is not conspicuous.• «« “Frank friends" usually are en emies who pose as friends to get the privilege of insulting you. * * ♦ * * * * * ♦ Modern styles may be imperfect but it isn’t necessary to take a few safety pins along in case of emer gency. . The world? eye at * * * 4» ♦ * * £ * It may be nice to “live in a house by the side of the road,” but not if you are a chicken. * * ■# * m * If he says his town is a bum town you may be sure it has caught him doing .something he is ashamed of. .*«« ' Paraphrased, modernized and fem inized: Girls, put your best knee forward. * * * * * * * * * Automobile courting has vantage, there’s no small under the seat. ♦ * ♦ ♦ # * * * * The little things count, they count 'better than' the big guys they caddy for.««* *** *** M’odern kids aren’t worse, are just too frank to sneak the barn to eat the forbidden * *>!< * * * Probably the gnashing of teeth in Hell indicates that there will be a neighbor upstairs playing a saxa- phone. one ad- brother So often They out to sweets » $ & # * « <•. * « may he inferior in some ways doesn’t think something ter- 4** *4:* ’ll** A bachelor has advantages, but think how inexperienced lie is when he gets in a tight place aud must think ,up a lie, \ ♦ * * * X: Ki * # J|t Women have decided at last to put their foot down on the high hegl • - * * * iff# * * t- ♦ And the hardest thing; is to make a success of success. i»*fi *** $#4: Husbands are more afraid of wo man’s suspicion than her intuition. Man but he rible will happen if the telephone isn’t answered at once. * * * fl * « If nature had intended man to fight with his fists, she wouldn’t have made a finger bone inure deli cate than a chin bone. Xt j'i Xt # 4: 4* $ A modern child that clings to his mother’s clothes may become a tra peze artist. * * * * * * t * * Let none of you treat a brother in a way he himself would dislike to be treated.* « 4c *** * While they speak of a howling suc cess does it is usually the failure who the howling. * * * ** flapper is a young female who 3, J. Greenwall Describes a Visit tp the Bustling French Seapiort-—Be- twixt East and West—In Memory of Fallen Soldiers and Sailors. Marseilles, the bustling Freaoh icaport has been dubbed by H. J. Greenwall, In an article published in the London Daily Express, as “The City of Dreadful Noise.” Nobody seems to care to speak softly. All questions and answers are shouted in a very loud voice. I travelled through seven hours of darkness from Lyons to Marseilles, he says, and when I reach this great port of the south I was overcome by the color, the glamor, the garlic— and the noise. I have heard New York in full blast; in Paris and Lon don I am attuned’ to the sound of the traffic, but here beneath the golden sun and blue sky of Provence I must confess I found myself muttering “What noise annoys a noisy Marseil lais?” and ‘answering myself, “Not even a noisy noise annoys a noisy Marseillais.” There are trams in every street, and they are not silent; there are hundreds of taxicabs, and they have a peculiarly annoying klaxon which they sqund every second, and they are on the streets all tpe hours of the day and night. When a policeman desires that the stream of traffic should halt or proceed., he blows a whistle, and I do not think there are any whistles in the world to equal the whistles of Marseilles. And, as if there were not noises enough, there are always the Marseillais giving tongue. Marseilles is the gateway to the East, but.the jostling, bustling East Is pushing through the gateway and stands astride 'twixt East and West. Sit with me on the Canebiere this morning and watch the world go by. Over there on the corner, that little kiosk which you think sells news papers. Go and look at it. It sells sea food. Oysters, mussels, lobsters, cray fish, and other denizens of the deep you have never met before, all in baskets dripping with salt water. Hark to the screaming of the lottery ticket hawkers. That boy over there by the Bourse is selling tickets price twopence, and you have a chance of winning an automobile. If you do not believe it, you can see the model of the car. The man who just said to us: “Pardon me, but you are »an -Amer ican, aren’t you?” is a well-known confidence trickster; he is ready to sell anything from a gold brick to a gold watch. And the'women—why, just look at them. See ,Iiq,w they walk, with the Jithsome, •$w.ay|ng, gracefulness of the East. Many of them, too, you can see, are not more than a generation away from Africa. See how the "crowd pours through the streets; just look at that gorgeous Spahi, with his white-lined crimson cloak, his/- tur ban, and his red Jeather boots’, see how well he stands out against the. background of those two little-. An- namite soldiers in soiled khaki/ ! They seem pygmies next to Those couple of uphtanding Senegalese^. Do you see li.ow those Chinamen refuse to talk to the couple of Japanese sailors walking with those two Ara bian girls; they are Arabian, even though they have abandoned every-, thing, including their national qos- tumes. The world and his girl goes iby, shouting, gesticulating, buying, drinking, love-making and living. -All the nations ■ of the world pass ’ through this gateway, and some wish they had never come.. All ports hf’e, of course, vicious and Marseilles has little claim to virtue. In the Old Port you will find the harpies, the crimps, the ollapodrida preying !on the sailors, and here, too, if you know where to look for it you will find the Spider's Webc Marseilles has a resident popula tion of about 600,000, and a floating population which adds many thou sands more. There are splendid thea tres and cinemas, and, as in every French town of any size, a wonderful opera house giving grand opera .ev^ry night. , J British enterprise has just gi^en- this city a model hospital called,'the Queen Alexandra Memorial Hospital. It was begun in 191& under the pat ronage of the late Queen, and of the estimated cost'of $250,000, 95 per cent, was subscribed in England. I have written of the noise of Mar seilles, yet for a brief minute I heard the whole city hushed to a painful silence. It was All SalntB’ Day, when it is the custom for a ship to put out to sea and drop a wreath on the water in recognition of the dead who died during tho great war. The Mediterranean was like a sheet of sapphire. The authorities, priests, pastors, and rabbis gathered in a ship and put out to sea; everywhere the marine-scope was dotted with rowing boats and other vessels. The. fore shore was lined with thousands of men, women and children. All the tugs, the liners, and other shipping were blowing their' Sirens. The noise was deafening. The official ship, when oft the great gfey stone memor ial, slowed down, and prayers were said in French, Hebrew and the Pro vence dialect. Thon, in a silence that vra& awe* inspiring -a wreath was dropped over board. That was the signal for other ships to throw flowers into tho sea. Spectators on the foreshore' began hurling bouquets and. single flowers# and in a few minutes the sapphire sea was one gigantic flower garden. Roses, carnations, and autumh flow* eos floated on the waters, find there lirtt anunJl Flashing Eyes Downcast Eyestell ; Yourfiharacter Browneyes for/strengtji—Blue for generosity-?—Gray eyes for jealousy—Sparkling eyes in dicate! beatyty, yes, and good I Do your eyes re the whites clear health, toi sparkle? or ape they tinged with yellow —indicating an oqt-of-jorts condition — due to constipa tion? Tf so, you need Sale* 4getit>t Harold F. Ritchie & Co., Limited, Toronto—• tell toe story, " P^ucT~ Rcadybout Character from the Eyes in v&ttire Beecham Advertisements. Rev. W. H. Spargo owmanville Fifty Years of Faithful Service in the Christian Ministry Bowmanville Statesman) On the eve of the passing of the old year into the new one of the worthy citizens of Bowmanville, in the person of Rev. William Henry Spargo, v?“as called to enter the high er life and to receive the reward of a life well lived, after a short illness at the age of 73 years. Deceased was born in Penryn, Cornwall, -Eng., on February 3rd, 1855, being a son of the late Will iam Henry and Mary Ellen Mitchell Spargo. In 1878 lie came to Amer ica, settling in Westerly; Rhode Is land, where he Worked at his trade of stone-cutting for. three months when^he was called’to Canada and entered the ministry of the Bible Christian chuch on July 1st, 1878, serving the church for fifty years— forty-cine years in -active work, and a little over nine years retired,. Of the, forty-one years six years were served in the London Conference, nine in Prince Edward Island, fif teen in New Brunswick, ..and eleven in Bay 'ofrQuinte Conference. Since coming to . Bowmanville he has always taken a very keen inter est in the work of the church, assist ing the pastor of Trinity church, as well as other toXn pastors and on ;l many appointments Ibn the nearby circuits, visiting thwsick and help ing in any and every way possible as long as healtli permitted. On September^21st, 1883, he was united in marria'ge' with Elizabeth Passmore, of Exeter, by the late Rev Dr. W. S. Pascoe who spent his re maining 'years with Rev. and Mrs. Spargo and who passed peacefully to rest at their home a few years ago.Left to" mourn his pissing are his widow and two ’daughters, Miss Vesta Sp’argo at' home and Mrs. R. J. Fletcljer Staples of Toronto. Their only 'son, William Stanley, passed away in,” 1900. He is also survived by two; sisters, Mrs. W. H. Jewell, of Falmouth, Cornwall, Eng., and. Mrs. M. E. Wilkinson, Toronto., Maify beautiful floral tributes from./the church ' societies, lodges and friends expressed sympathy to the bereaved ones. The funeral took iflaqe on Wed nesday afternoon from his late resi dence. A short service, was held at the house previous to the public ser vice in Trinity United church. The Pastor, charge Sutton, the dec were most" appropriate, S. Dale sang the solo voice of Jesus say." Bunner offered prayer Whattain of Oshawa, read, the scrip ture, and Rev. J. E. Griffith, Black- stock, chairman of the Presbytery, gave a short address paying tribute to the life of tips deceased and em- phasing his friendship, which had been to him greater than a ray of sunshine. Rev. iMf. Robins gave a fine address based on the words. “Say Ye it; shall be With the right eous,” Isaiah 3: 10, 11. He referred to Mr. Spargo’s early work in the Bible Christian church and later in the Methodist church, his keen in terest always in, the work of the ministry and people of this district; his loyalty to the principles of the Masonic Order, his family and to his God. ting no\v God veil dime” Ws sttfig and Rev Dr \ ........................ , J | church pronotmeed the benediction. The members of Jerusalem Lodge A. F. & A. M. Ho. 3i» 'wore present at the clitirch and followed the re* mains to the cemetery where they took part in the service at tho grave. .,J.V ' A would be practically dumb if it were not for the word “perfectly." *** Children had individuality in the $ld days too, but if was called' ilft^ pudence. ***#****» It doesn’t matter on-which cheek you kiss a girl if you hesitate long enough between them.* * * * * * * « * Dirty work at the cross roads now means gathering up the debris after the accident happens.♦ **♦ ♦♦♦ If Joseph’s coat of many was a sport coat you can’t blame his brothers. * * * * * * * * Strange that nobody yet has ribed a crime wave to human sedness. ) colors much I’ll asc- cus- HIGH PRODUCTION AT ANGUS (?) * H: .ii * * * * * * Example of an excellent after- dinner speech: “Now, honey, help you with the dishes.” W Iff * * * if! * * * Ain’t, it the Truth? A mule as 2 legs B hind, And 2 he has B fore; U stand B hind B 4 U find What the 2 B hind B 4. i Trinity United church. The Rev. J. U. Robins, was in. and the .choir with Mr, F. orgaiiist, led the singing of easdd’s favorite Here is shown one small corner of the Angus Shops, tiori within the Shop and right, setting anada’s increasing agricultural, '*■'* industrial and commercial pros perity is making more and greater demands upon transportation and the country’s railways must always be a long way ahead of the times in order to keep up with them. Stoat# in a town- within a city, sixty- five hundred men with a monthly pay-roll little short of a million dollars will be engaged al! winter building, equipping and repairing rolling stock for one Canadian company reflects not only the im mediate benefits of a record crop year, but the encouraging and in spiring confidence of its directors in the continued prosperity of the country, This is particularly true when one realizes that the Angus Shops of the Canadian Pacific which employ -these sixty-five-hUh-* tired men and through them sup- jport, say# a community of at least Illg Inset, a section of the great machine shop. Lower left, transporta- •thc .wheels for a new 3100 locomotive, twenty-thousand within the city of Montreal, is not engaged in k the actual construction of its freight cars and locomotives, that the frames for the passenger equip ment are purchased outside and that these shops alone do not handle the whole of the repair Work of the system, there being other shops in the west. The present volume of tvork and the probability of further increases are dbo to the orders for rolling, stock that* have been placed with various Canadian steel car con struction companies. The steel frames are built at Hamilton and other points in Canada .and are taken to Angus where the finish ing is carried out ^Ohe hundred and six passenger cars, including sleepers, diners, first class coaches and other equipment will have to be handled shortly by the Angus Many people may be unaware of having anything wrong with their heart till some little excitement, overwork or Worry starts it to palpitate ami throb, skip beats, beat fast for a time and then so slow ai? to seem almost” to stop, then it causes grbat anxiety and alarm. Mrs. O. Hicks, Clratficld, Man., writes:-—’‘I used to bo very bad with palpitation of tho heart and sometimes, with, the least excitement, it would seem to boat very fast and make my throat and chest throb. hymns which Mr. Melville “I heard the. Rev. W. A. ; Rev. J. W. re- 120 out and an to try ^Iiods while tit ths cOn* struction of 40 cabooses, .7 snow ploughs and 2 rail hoists is going oh. At preseht, also, eleven paired passenger cars and freight Cars are being turned daily, and every fiV6-houi^ forty-five minutes shop time, overhauled and repaired ’ncomotivd is ieturned to service, $ The Angus shops of tlje, Cana dian Pacific Raihvay, .situated on the eastern outskirts of Montreal, are the. largest diversified railway shops maintained by any railway on the continent, They cover 300 acres of ground and handle, each year hipwards of . 29;000u railroad cat's of various sorts and descrip tions. The first two of the 3,100 type of locomotive# the largest in the British Empire# wore built at Angus by the company^ own em ployees and from1 its own design. was. told by a friend his faithfulness to As a fit- closing to a life well-lived and closed, the hymn “Servant of Usually it Is Yrhat a woman not say that puzzles a m*A. Best, minister of St. Paul’s does ■'/f which X did# tuad before 1 had taken half the box my trouble had stopped.” . ) . .. yPrice 600, a box it all druggtots Or dealors, or mailed direct <m MMtft of price by The T. MUbwni Oa, Ltd.# Toronto# Oni.