HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1937-01-08, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, JANUARY 7th, 1937
LETTER BOX Sunday School Lesson
Fort Norman', N. W* T,
December 3, 193*5
To the Editor of the Times-Advocate
Dear Sir;
May I than'k you for printing my
last letters. As a plane is expected
Which may ,get mail out soon, I am
■writing this in hopes that it may
reach you before Christmas. If it
does may I wish all my friends a
very Merry Christmas and a Happy
and Prosperous New Year. I hope
you will think of us up here when
you are enjoying Christmas down
there because at Christmas time one
always desires to be home.
The coldest we have had thus far
is around 20 below. I think noth
ing of going outside to cut wood
when it is 15 below but it is a drier
cold than in Ontario. I am cutting
my owh wood pile of 15 cords in 8
foot logs. I have been skating on
the river and tolbaggoning on the
hill near the mission. Dog teams are
‘going and coming and are a common
sight.
My church attendance has kept
up very well considering that there
are so few white 'people here, I have
to put a lamp in the church for ser
vice at three in the afternoon. Our
shortest day in winter will be about
two hours.
I have been learning to read the
Indian language of the Prayer Book
and Bible. When the india'ns come
in at Christmas time I shall give
them a service in then* own lang
uage I cah now bake my own
bread but -it was .not until after the
fourth attempt that I obtained .good
bread. I consider it an achievement
for me.
Norman is at the junction of the
Bear and Mackenzie .rivers. It is
built on a high bank «of the Mac
kenzie. There is what you might
call an upper and lower part. As
you approach on the .river the Hud
son Bay is up on a hill, then below
-this hill is our mission and below
us again is the most of the Fort
spread out along the bank of the
river. There are between twenty
and thirty log shacks. At the end of
the trail through the Fort is the
Northern Traders’ Co., and off to
the 'West at the mouth of Bear
river is Bear Rock overlooking the
■Fort, On higher ground behind the
mission is the radio station and on
this same level further on is the
.Roman Catholic.mission and further
on again the R. C. iM. P. barracks.
The ice on the .riv^r is too rough so
aeroplanes land on skis on a small
lake behind Norman.
I .have received messages over the
radio at 8 o’clock on Saturday
nights. The Canadian Radio Com
mission will send up short messages
free of charge if anyone cares to
write to Ottawa in care of Northern
Messenger, Canadian Radio Com
mission, Ottawa. I shall be expect
ing several at Christmas time. We
are glad to get letters or messages
from anyone ouside at anytime.
H. L. JENNINGS
Church of England Missionary
.Fort Norman
P.'S.—I am receiving, the papers
O.K?> and thank you. They are ap
preciated up here.
INSPECTOR HONORED
John Hartly, recently appointed
public school inspector to succeed
Dr. J. M. Field in East Huron, now
retired, formerly a principal of Clin
ton public school and a former
member of Clinton- lodge A.F. & A.
M. He took occasion to present a
gavel to the lodge, the head of
which was turned from a piece of
masonry from the original temple
of Solomon. Mr, Hartley told about
a recent trip taken by himself and
Mrs. Hartley to Palestine and a visit
to the excavations of the temple. He
brought away with- him the piece of
quarried stone and had it turned
and the emblems cut in raised fig
ures. E. Paterson, master of the
lodge, very fittingly acknowledged
the valued gift.
0 Magic
A conjurer invited a little boy on
to the stage to assist him with his
next .performance,
“Now. my boy,” he said kindly,
“your mother canmo.t gets eggs with
out hens, can she?”
“But she can,” said the boy with
out hesitation,
The conjurei’ looked startled.
“How’s that?” he asked.
"Miiin keeps ducks, sir,” said the
boy. '
“ THE ETERNAL NECESSITY”
It seems evident that we are to
think of Nicodemus as, in general,
an excellent type of man, interested
in the best things and ready to
learn in regard to the great and im
portant matters of religious faith
and practice. His coming to Jesus
by night need hardly be set down
against him. At the worst he was
probably exercising some discretion
and for that he might not need to
be blamed, It seems likely that he
knew very little about Jesus, and a
man in his place of influence in the
community could scarcely be blam
ed because he might not have wish
ed it to be known that he went to
consult a quite unaccepted teacher.
It might ibe well to keep in mind
the idea that Jesus’ reply to Nico
demus was not a special statement
of the situation, set forth to him
just because he was the kind of man
that he was. We can imagine that
He might have said very much the
same thing to a quite different type
of man. The truth that He stated
was a universal one, intended for
such a .highly respectable and relig
iously interested man as His visitor
was, and intended equally -for a
quite different sort. Jesus wasn’t
rebuking Nicodemus because he was
a Pharisee and was guilty of the
sins of which the Pharisee was gen
erally accused. What was said to
■him was the truth for every man.
What was the truth, then, that
Jesus intended to set forth? When
He told this Pharisee that he must
be born again before he could even
see the Kingdom of God, the man
was shocked and scandalized be
cause he didn't at all see what he
was driving at. It is quite possible
that we should be in the dark just
as he was.'and it is most important
that we come to know His meaning
in a real understanding way, for He
was speaking a truth that was good
in the first century and just as real
today. Men became good after
Jesus’ thought in one way. They see
truth, they see and understand the
Kingdom of God, and enter into it,
by one process and by no other,
even though the steps to these pro-
ces may be as different and varied
as are the ways and tempers and
moods of men.
And when we come to look into
the matter we find Jesus even in
that far-away time was quite up
with the teachings of the twentieth
century psychologists. They tell us
quite as emphatically as Jesus said
it that the .way to goodness is by a
new birth. You cannot get to be
good by patching up here and there
or by cutting off this bad habit or
that, but by some process of sub
limation through which a new spirit
and motive take possession and the
whole life yields in obedience to the
new life impulses formed within.
What Jesus said is that life must
become new from "within or it can
not become new in any real signifi
cant sense at all, and the answer
that our own intelligence and our
own experience gives is that that is
and must bo true.
Home Daily Bible Readings
January 4: John 3:1-8.
January 5: John 3:9-17.
January 16: Rom. I.i8-17.
January 7: 1 John 5:1-5.
January 8: 2 Cor. 5:14-21
January 9: Col. 3:1-11.
January 10: 8 Peter 3:114-17.
THE OKANAGAN HELPS
(Calgary Herald)
A magnificent donation to the
drought-stricken areas in Southern
Saskatchewan has been made by the
fruit interests of the Okanagan Val
ley in combination with the Cana
dian Pacific and Canadian National
systems.
One hundred and one cars of
apples and vegetables 'were sent
from the Valley and landed in Sas
katchewan free of cost to the recip
ients. The different centres in (the
Okanagan vied with one another in
this kindly enterprise, Kelowna and
Summerland winning top ihonors by
each contributing 22 ears.
The entire consignment consisted^
of 1,800 tons of apples and 2'50,000
pounds of mixed vegetables, and the
only cost involved was that of load-
ig. (Relief ears were distributed
at every second station throughout
Southern 'Saskatchewan.
This was an exceptionally fine
demonstration of goodwill from the
people of tone province to those of
another.
Dr. Wood's
NORWAY
PINE
SYRUP
The Slight Cold of Today
May Be Serious Tomorrow
“common cold” is a serious matter and the
proper thing to do is to get rid of it as quickly aS
possible; if you don’t it' may result in. congestion,
inflammation and irritation in the head and bronchial
tubos,
,Pr; X00^ Norway Pino Syrup is particularly
adapted for coughs, colds and troubles Of a bronchial
; nature. It is composed of barks, herbs and roots of
* recognized value,
, », bottle of <lfDr, Wood’s” and see how quickly
0'it .wl give the desired relief. Don’t accept a
Substitute. *
Q RIAL
The rooster’s crow has a new confidence.
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And now pur second wind with those good resolutions,
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Present duty and the future are now our business,
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,So the weather man relented for the Christmas holidays.
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Filling the woodbox is worth a whole lot of catching “visions.”
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Holidays ae very fine, but for keeping the appetite .good and
putting feathers in the pillow, commend us to the regular day’s
work.
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THINK OF THIS
A less than three-year-old had a Christmas tree provided for
him. The whole affair was to be a surprise to him. All manner
of expense and care were expended in order that the little chap
might have a genuine surprise and a half hour of real Christmas
delight. There was the tree with all its tinsel and lights and
colour when the laddie was introduced. Imagine the feelings of
parents and friends when the young fellowlooked the tree over with
hands in his pockets and legs spread well apart as he remarked
“phooey” and walked out of the room. Run this incident over in
your mind.
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FED UP
Word comes that the Spanish soldiers are fed up with the war.
They are throwing away their rifles and telling the experimenters
in governmental forms that if they want any fighting they had
better do it themselves. They are serving notice on political and
social theorists that what the average man wants is a chance to
work for reasonable returns, to build a home for himself and his
family, to educate his children and to go to the church of his own
choice. The Spaniards see that they have been befooled and are
downright angry that they have been made the victims of empty
social and political theories. We congratulate those soldiers on
their good sense, meanwhile commending their dear-bought exper
ience to the rest of the world.
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PLAYING WITH DYNAMITE
Having anything whatsoever to do with' the use of liquor as a
beverage is playing with dynamite. The game with dynamite cart
ridges and sticks as playthings may look innocent enough but the
risk is so terrible that no one aware of the nature of dynamite will
handle it as a social recreation'. Precisely the same is true of the
social use of liquor. There is no doubt in the World about that.
Scores and scores of folk have used dynamite carelessly without dis
astrous results. Of that we are perfectly aware. Sores and scores
of folks have tippled with liquor and have escaped with but little,
hurt. But who has not seen the very moderate use of liquor make
a victim of the tippler? The pity is that the present generation of
young people seems unaware of this fact, so terribly plain to folk
who gained their experience 25 years ago. Young people appar
ently are unaware of the grave danger in which the tippler or the
social drinker stands. We utter our warning, hoping that our
readers will think this matter through in the light of experience.
Total abstinence from the beverage use of liquor is the only safe
course.
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A BETTER TONE
One in interested to note the difference in tone of the average
newspaper as it greets 1937. There is no swagger. There is very
little of whistling to keep the courage up. There is some talk of
the new year’s being the best yet, but even these remarks are some
what chastened. Editors no longer believe it good policy to mis
take the rattle of drums for serious counsel. Rather, there is a
facing of the fact that agitators are doing their utmost to stir up
class strife. iSome of these disturbers are telling the unwary that
the man who' has a .few- dollars is a bad mess who should be cleared
out. There are others who are persistently encouraging employers
of labour to get more out of the blood of their employees. There
are still others who urge that the old order must be changed,
simply because it is an old order. In high places there are dictat
ors whose sleep is taken away unless they foment some internation
al strife. Editors see these things and a good many other things
to boot and do not fail to remind their readers that all is not well
with the world while this unrest is everywhere. On the other hand,
they are very frank in their telling their readers that virtue is still
rewarded, that industry guided by sound information and aided by
good training, is sure of due compensation. The day for prattle
about “good times coming” apart from downright hard work‘united
with 'intelligence is past and editors knowi it.
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A SUCCESS RECIPE FOR 1937
This is success: to live beyond deceit,
Too big to play the liar or the cheat,
Too big to lean when burdens heavy grow,
Asking no favor from a friend ior foe,
(Standing to life and all that it may mean
With head erect and hands and conscience clean.
This is success: to live from year to year
Not asking always sunny skies and clear.
But wise enough to know and understand
Life never iriuns exactly as we’ve planned;
Seeking the best,* but when the worst is met
Taking the blow without too much regret.
This is success: with all to Ip'lay the friends,
Willing to give and glad at times to lend,
Laughing and singing whenso’er youi may,
But walking bravely through the rainy day,
Giving your best throughout the passing years,
Neither deceived by flattery nor by sneers.
This is success: the love of friend to win,
To taste no pleasure that may lead to, sin.
To take no 'profit from the hand of shame;
But 'by a fair fight win or lose the game;
To get from life such triumphs as you can,
But still through good or ill to play the man.
• 2 —Edgar A. Guest
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KING GEORGE VI
The Manchester (Guardian speaking of constitutional aspect of
George Vi’s reign says:
“He begins his reign, if one may say so without misunderstand- •
ing, with prospects that are not unpromising both on the public
and on the personal Side. iSo far from the monarchy having been
shaken by the crisis, it is possible to predict that it has been streng
thened; its exact relation to that “High Court of Parliament,” as
now or at any future time assembled, (has been made clearer to the
minds of the people Whom Parliament represents than it probably
has 'been for many a long day. All must now see where the* func
tions Of the King as man end and >his carefully defined responsibili
ties as monarch begin.”
Speaking of his training and personal experiences and qualities
it adds:
“On the (personal side the new. King is already known to his
subjects as one wild takes an assiduous interest in industrial welfare
and the various movements which are concerned with a better and
fuller life for the youth of the nation. He is known, too, as* one
who lias' had to struggle against various difficulties that wore never
of His own making, against youthful ilUhealtli which he did not al
low to stand in the way of his service in the navy during the war
(in the course ibf which it is recorded in dispatches that “Mr, John
son,” whioh was his navy nickname, made cocoa as usual during the
Battle of Jutland for the gun crew in the tire turret of the Colling
wood, on which hs was sarvihg as junior officer*) He had to Strug'*
gle, too, against a physical aversion from public oratory And to
mastei’ that difficulty, as he has done, by strength of will and a
sense of duty. Those surely are the conflicts which, if they try a
man, also temper him and his character as they are surmounted; it
may be that one of the temptations that encompassed the future
King Edward VIII was the fact that his path to personal popularity
was made more open, easy, and assured by greater natural gifts,
If our new King has faced a different and less subtle type of diffi
culty, he has already shown his capacity to deal with it, and when
a man has fought and, struggled in one direction he is usually the
better fitted for mastery of others, Not that there should be any
special difficulties in store for him; the path of kingship is newly
defined, bis advisers will be eager to help him along it, and he
should be able quickly to dispel that uneasiness which recent events
have created in the public mind. The good wishes of Parliament,
the country, and the British Commonwealth of Nations go out to
him and to the lady whom we have long known and welcomed as
the Duchess of York. The King has abdicated! Long Live the
King!
Be Moderate, Live
Long, Says Doctor
Aged 93
But He Adds Drawing, Painting,
Watclunaking, Elocution, photo
graphy and Dramatics to Active
Practice as a Physician.
(Toronto Globe and Mail)
■EXIETER, ONT.. Jan. 3—Perhaps
it may be thought that Dr. Joseph
W. Browning, of Exeter, now in his
9'4th year, is entitled to rest after
seventy-odd years '“on the halter”
but really there is another job he
should undertake. No one else could
do it ‘better.
At ten he learned telegraphy. At
thirteen he 'was telegraph agent and
operator for the Whitby and Georg
ian Bay Telegraph Company at
Markham. Younger still he had
started life as a watch and clock
maker, like 'his father; not a re
pairer, he will tell you, but a maker.
He is the oldest living arts grad
uate of Victoria College. He is by
■all odds the oldest active physician
in Canada and the longest on the
job. He is a crayon and water col
or artist. At a time in. life when
others would have begun taking
things easy he took first a course
in elocution and dramatics; then
one memory course, than another.
Worked as photographer
He worked as a professional pho
tographer to iput himself through (
college as a physician and surgeon.
For perhaps 40 years ihe averag
ed only four to four and a half
hours a night in bed, but he caught
up by sleeping “thousands of miles”
in saddle or buggy as his 19 horses
each in turn, carried him on his
rounds in this locality.
For several years Dr. Browning
has kept a register of signatures of
former patients who have
back as .he says, to say hello, and his
roster covers every Province in Can
ada and all but four of the forty
eight States in the Union,
Dr. Browning’s father was an
English watch and clock marker who
believed in exactitude in every
thing. He started little Joseph off
in the same path, and had a ipretty
good watchmaker in 'the making
when the telegraph line came thro'
W' BROWNINO»
'Markham. The company had great
difficulty in persuading anyone to
believe that there was any future
for a proposition that asked forty
cents to send ten words twenty
miles to Toronto. Finally the elder
Browning consented to allow his
daughter to try it. Joseph with a
shrewd eye stood watching his sister
tapping out letter and smiling
called’ | broadly to herself at something he
could not understand.
Learned Morse at Ten
3o at ton years old he spirited
away the code, learned it for him
self and was not altogether taken,
unawares when the (Superintendent
of the line, one George Yule, wrote
to ask for Misg Browning’s ■baud in
marriage, with the wedding the bey
at thirteen fell heir to the -operator’s
job and he held it like a veteran,
“I sent out whole pages of Th®
Globe learning to be an operator,
he said. “Through the Crimean
war I handled many war messages,
and well remember the recurring
name of Florence Nightingale in the
despatches,”
The business of being an opera
tor and later a iphotographer (pro
vided the money that sent him to
college for his arts course and that
gave him his training under Dr,
Rolfe, “The lovable rebel”, for his
career in medicine. On the side he
rounded out his earnings as a writer
>cf news, fiction and “skits.”
“I was really never supposed to
have lived through boyhood,” he
'said, with that hearty joyialty that
seems to have kept him young to
ward the end of his century. “I
was never three months in any year
out of a doctor’s care till I became
a doctor myself.”
Never Practiced for Money
The doctor was a little diffident
about his own abilities and many
charitable actions, but he made one
admission. “I really can say I never
practiced for money,” he said, “For
when I took a patient I hated like
the devil to (be licked. I wanted to
cure the .patient if I never got a far
thing.”
“It is true,” he said, discussing
longevity, “that people dig their
graves with- their .teeth, i have al
ways eaten to live, and it’s a great
rule. I have been as regular as I
could be in my diet and in my ha
bits. 'I .never 'knowingly abused my
health, and have tried to be moder-
e_in. everything.”
“If any one wants to live long
and enjoy himself let him live the
physiological life— not overeat, take
proper exercise in the fresh air, get
sufficient rest, be moderate and not
overdo it.”
Dr. Browning’s .grandfather in
England followed those rules pretty
well and lived to be 100 years and
six months. His sister, Mrs. Yule,
died at 9 4'—of an accident in which
she fell and suffered a fractured
hip.
Renew Now!
CANADIANS AND THEIR INDUSTRIES .... AND THEIR BANK
MINING AND
Mining in Canada, now second largest of the country’s
industries, gives employment to 80,000 workmen and has
a production value of over $300,000,000 per annum.
As an accompaniment of this great and growing mining
industry, Canada is building up a smelting and refining
industry of world importance. There are now huge plants '
inr Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, British Columbia and
Manitoba. These plants produce:
Copper • Nickel • Zinc • Lead • Cobalt • Iron
Ferro-alloys • GoH • .Silver • Bismuth * Radium
Cadmium • Selenium • Aluminum * Tellurium • Utanlum
The plants .give direct employment to 10,000 workers,
and indirect employment to many thousands more; have
a production value of $200,000,000 per annum; purchase
coal and electricity to the value of $12,000,000; pay for
METALLURGY
equipment, supplies, freight^ etc., some $40,000,000 pet
annum; and add some $100,000,000 to the export value
of Canada's mineral products, without counting the value
of the gold recovered from base metal ores.
Prominently identified with the upbuilding of the smelting
and refining industry of Canada from its inception, the
Bank, of Montreal gives -this industry financial service
through every .stage. Thousands of workers are deposi
tors, sharing in the safety and facilities of .the Bank with
their employing companies.
The Bank’s services include; Commercial accounts; foreign
currency accounts; financing of shipments; Ioans and dis
counts? collections; trade and credit information; safe
keeping of securities; savings accounts; money orders*
travellers cheques; banking by mail; personal loans.
BANK OF MONTREAL
ESTABLISHED 1817 - HEAD OEFICE, MONTREAL
Exeter Branch: W. H. MOISE, Manager
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