HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1938-02-24, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY SHt, 1038
Undiscovered Wealth
Men have always been lured by
the prospect o£ undiscovered, wealth.
Drake and Columbus, Cortez and
the Conquistadores, were all attract
ed to the 'New World Iby the tempta
tion of vast wealth. ’ Yet, wealh
usually evaded them . , only a very
few were successful in the search
for El Dorado,
For every successful seeker of
Gold in California in 1849, Austra
lia in 1851, South Africa in 1885,
the Klondike in 1898, hundreds,
even thousands, lost their lives be
fore they arrived at the Gold Fields
and many hundreds more failed to
find gold after they arrived and the
few who did find gold . , Well, most
of them lost it or were cheated ?or
robbed of what they did find,
When one considers the. hardship,
suffering and discouragement that
has been part of every gold rush or
every conquest for undiscovered
wealth, we are impressed with the
thought that one martyr, one pioneer
in medical research', one poet or one
man of letters—has left more to
humanity than all the thousands who
trekked across the plains, deserts
and mountains to the Sacramento
River succumbed to fever in the
Australia bush, or froze to death in
the ice and snow of the Yukon.
What we wonder, were the emo?
tions and feelings of 1 the successful
gold seeker, What philosophy—what
(Spiritual reaction possessed him
when he realized that out of the
many thousands who were following
the same lure, he*was one of the few
that were successful. He made his
pile and could return home and live
in comfort and even in luxury.
Perhaps, Robert W. (Service came
nearer to expressing the innermost
feeling of many of these selected
few when he wrote,—
“I wanted the gold and I got it,
Came out with a fortune last fall;
Yet somehow life’s not what I
thought it,
And somehow the gold is not all.”
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The man of experience knows how
they used to do it.* lit #
(Advertising is getting people to
believe they want what you have to
sell.* * *
One sure way to wipe out Com
munism is to handpick a group of
ringleaders, start them in business
for themselves—any business — and
let them see what a swarm of drones,
crabs, buckpassers, bellyachers and
whistlelisteners can do to retard
business.* * *
There are three kinds of people—
the thinker
the doer
the thinker-doer.
Ask yourself to which group do you
belong.* * *
Fifteen Finest Novels
William Lyon Phelps, Yale Uni
versity lists the 15 novels—front a
world viewpoint—and in chronolog
ical order:
Robinon Crusoe (1719) Daniel Da
foe.
Gulliver’s Travels (1726) by Jona
than Swift
Clarissa (1747) Iby Samuel Richard
son.
History of (Tom Jones (1749) by
Henry Fielding.
Eugenie Grandet (1833) by Honore
de Balzac.
The Three Musketeers (1844) by
Alexandre Dumas
David Copperfield (1849) by Charles
Dickens
(The Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nath
aniel Howthorne
Henry Esmond (1852) by Wm.
Makepace (Thackery.
Madame Bovary (1857) by Gustave
Flaubtrt.
Fathers and Children (1861) by Ivan
S. Turgenev.
Les Miserables (1862) by Victor
Hugo.
Anna Karenina (1873) Iby Leo N.
Tolstoi,
The Brothers Karamazov (1879) by
Feodor M. Dostoevski.
Huckleberry Finn (1844) by Mark
Twain.
A well read person is familiar
•irn.Tf—
Build Up Run
Down Systems
They Help To IhfUse Hew
Life and Energy Into
Dispirited, Health Shat
tered Men and Womeii
with'the names of important authors
and can name at least two hooks by
each writer who has achieved inter
national immortality in literature.
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Digging for facts is a more profit
able form of exercise than jumping
at conclusions.
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Answer to last week’s Prankish
Problem; The present age is 28 and
21 respectively.
(Prankish- Problem No. 3: If each
rail is 44 foot long, how many sec
onds must rail joints be counted in
order that the number o-f seconds is
equal to the speed of the train in
miles per hour?
(iSee if you can get the correct ans
wer before we publish it next week)
* * *
(The Chairman of a Committee is
the sucker who is picked to do all
the work,
* « ♦
(A farmer asked this new hired
man ‘‘Where is the mule I told you
to have shod?” ITo which the new
hired man replied.; “(Shod? ... I
finished burying, him.* * *
Example is more helpful to a
child’s character than precept.
* * *
Be noble and nobleness in others
will rise to meet your own.
* * *
(True .happiness comes from being
of use in this world.* ♦ , *
IThe margin of success lies in .do
ing your work just a little better
than anybody else.
* * *
Nothing so nerves a man to ac
complish .great things than to 'have
someone who believes in him.
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A Little Boy’s Prayer
Dear God, I need you awful bad,
I don’t know what to do.
My pa-pa’s cross, my mama’s sick—
I hain’t no friend but YOU.
Them keerless angels went and brung
iStid of the Iboy I ast,
A weenchy, teenchy baby girl—
I don’t see how they dast.
(Say, God, I wisht you’d take her back
IS'he’s just as good as new;
Won’t no one know she’s second
hand
■But ’ceptin’ me and You;
An’ pick a boy, dear God, Yourself,
The nicest in Yer fold.
But please don’t choose him quite
so young—
Make him at least four years old.
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Aztecs Used Gliders
According to a Polish Archaeolo
gist, gliders were used by the Aztec
Indians thousands of years ago . ,
he found the design of a glider carv
ed in stone.
IThe glider ihad wings made -of
stork feathers and was used by Az
tec nobility in gliding down from
Mexican' mountain heights. Goggles
worn by fliers have also been found.
* * *
'Oldest American Settlement
(The Indian settlement of Oraibi
on the Hopi Indian Reservation in
(Arizona is thought to be the oldest
continuously inhabited community in
North America. It is believed to
have settled first in 1200 A,D.
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H®w College Girls Rate the Ten
. Connnandirients
|Ten years ago, a Girl’s College in
Boston took a poll in which they
ranked the Commandments accord
ing to their own ideas of their rela
tive importance. Recently another
poll was taken. This time, 1,000
women students participated and the
results BOTH (TIME'S were the same
... a majority gave first place to
the IFift'h Commandment: “Honor
thy Father and tliy Mother.”
There need be no fear for the fu
ture of the coming generation when
the present generation rates Honor
and Respect above all other virtues,
* * *
With graceful feet a maiden sweet
Was tripping the light fantastic
When she suddenly tore
For the dressing room door . . .
You never can trust elastic.
* * *
Ever know a failure who didn’t
blame it on luck? If you did, he
wasn’t a failure.
# * *
(Sign in a Buffalo Tap Room:
“What Foods These Morsels Be?’
* * v ,
Closing a. column, is an easy job
dust four lines to- make it terse.
A thought, a wish, a bit of a sob
Clumsy, yes, but still a verse.
Tita GOWNED
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A smile a day keeps the wolf away.
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That’s good news about the heavy snowfall in Saskatchewan.
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They’re calling ike goat “a handy pocket edition of the cow.”
Tackle the most worthwhile job early in the morning and tackle
it hard. '
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They have a machine that will turn out half a million glass
bulbs daily.
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The dark days have a way of passing. (Let’s prepare for sun
ny weat'hler. ,
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That advance .in the price of butterfat helped the farmers to
sihile that sticks.
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(Starlings are suspected of having brought the foot and mouth •
disease to England.
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k It’s not the number .of 'people you meet but the way you meet
■them and what yo.u do about it that counts as the years pass by.
**« *£»£*
■It is just as well to go carefully regarding sprays for prevent
ing Infantile Paralysis. A good doctor is the best guide m such
matters.
King George calls upon his subjects either to make or to
keep themselves physically fit, as a duty to themselves and tot the
Empire. (Health is not a mere by-product.
#.*♦*#**/•
The price of eggs has been a real help.
All of which causes us to think that tble cows and hens are
showing more good sense than some of the politicans over there in
Europe.. • .
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Great Britain employs 1,350,000 in agriculture. According to
the figures of Barclay’s Bank there has been a noticeable improve
ment in this industry throughout the British! Isles. To Englishmen
•tfa-e countryside is their heritage.
* * * • * • * * * *
There is an Indian village up there in Alaska thlat has not had
a single citizen on relief during all the depression years. The vil
lage has a well-doing salmon factory worked. on the co-operative
principle. What about our sending a deputation thither to find
out blow the trick is turned?
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If some o-f the relief takers were to jspend a few hours on a
farm these mornings and evenings taking notice of the labours of
farm women, to say nothing of the toil of some farm men, they’d
understand why ,a great many folk think that the rest of mankind
should do something in return for their daily bread.
**•••• • •
The Works Progress Administration of the United iStates gov
ernment makes the following statement; “Relief expenditures
have registered new peaks in business degressions and have not
receded to their old levels with business recovery. Instead, after
each depression, they have .again moved upward from a new and
higher base.”********
LOOK UP AND LAUGH
“I would be true, for there are those that trust me;
< I would be pure, for there are those who care;
I would be strong, for there is much to suffer;
I would be Ibrave, for there is much to dare;
I would be humble, for I know my weakness;
I would be giving, and forget the gift;
I would be friend of all—the foe, the friendless;
I would look up and laugh—and love—ana lift.”
Harod Arnold Walters
A CHEERING WORD
As we go about with anxious hearts longing to hear a -cheery
word, it is refreshing to glean thie following from the report of
Barclary’s Bank.
‘VTIhe experience of our affiliated (banks 'operating overseas and
of our foreign branches in London and the provinces confirms the
indications, apparent in other directions, of the improvement in
economic conditions which! has been a feature in many parts of the
world during 1937.”
Political and sociological capers of One sort and another have
too long thrown the machinery of trade -out of gear, much to the
loss and distress of everybody. Thlaftks to the terribly hard ef
forts o-f business men, confidence is returning, though slowly,
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SEEING,A RED LIGHT
Is the Federal Government seeng a red light these days, as
it 'declines to contribute largely to provincial relief funds? It
looks like it.’ It appears to be high time they were dbamg so. It’s
just this way! 'Someone must furnish the funds foi relief. In this
country it is the taxpayer wlho pays the piper, whether lie does the
paying through the local municipality, the Province or thie Domin
ion. Very gradually the taxpayers are waking up to this fact, though
not till they have mortgaged their future almost beyond redemp
tion, .
We are deeply sorry that relief is required in any instance.
There is plenty to go round. No one should be hungry w go cold
in this fine country. At the same time, no one should be idle and
no one need be idle. What all of us must see is that few can pick
jobs. If we are to get on at all, we must work at the job we can
get. We must be Up and doing with a heart for any fate. We are
glad that the Federal Government has seen this. It’s high: time
that the rest of t'hte commonwealth took a peep through the federal
government’s glasses.
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GET OVER THE SCARE
War fear 'is doing a whole lot of harm these days. Parents
lock at their children and wonder if tlh'ey are to turned Into can
non fodder. A great many politicians and social gangsters play
upon this fear.
The simple fact is that by far the great majority of nations
do not want war and are doing their very best to prevent war.
There are a very few nations who would wage war for one purpose
or another did they think it safe to do so-. Britain knows this
and is doing wihat she can to defend herself should- any of; these
outlaw nations go on a rampage. IShe -prefers the smoke of work
ing factories to the smoke Of battle. She prefers inorclhlaiitmen to
dreadnoughts. At the same time she sees that other nations w.hiom
she can name would tihrotble her tomorrow did they dare so. As
a matter of downright go.o-d sense sihe is preparing herself to keep
off the plunderer and the robber and murderer. So far she has
been successful in her effort to do so. (Her effort in this direction
liks gone a long distance towards preserving the peace of the
world. Every British colony is by duty hound to back her to the
hilt.
On the other bland, it is the bounden duty of every citizen to
be about his (business with all his might. War shivering will get
him nowhere. Tho people who do their simple duty as meh and as
citizens are the folk who work for a just and lasting peace,
SET A GOOD EXAMPLE
(The Listowel Banner)
As a rule one would not look to
Hollywood’ and movie stars to set
good examples for children. So we
were interested in reading recently
that 'Tom Mix never played a part
in which he must either smoke or
drink, because, as he says, “he had
to keep faith with the young Iboys
who have been my admirers for
years.” Sonja Heipie will touch
neither, nor will Paul Muni, Conrad
Nagel, Janet McDonald, Guy Kibee,
nor May obson. And believe it or
not, Miss Mae West neither smokes
nor drinks in private life.
THT GULLIBLE PUBLIC
(Goderich Signal-Star)
As an example of human gullibil
ity, it is reported that as a test a
newspaper reporter in the United
States made an appeal for funds for
the widow of “the Unknown Sol
dier” and was deluged with contri-,
buttons.
Quidnuncs
(Scientific tests -have shown that a
bird needs only two ounces of body
fat to- make a^2,000 mile flight. This
is a lot of mileage out of a small
amount of fuel. An expert ihas
said if an airplane could do- as well,
it would use only a pint of gasoine
on a twenty miles flight instead of
the gallon that is now required.
Turkey has 6,241 living centenar
ians (100 years or over) 2,356 male
and 3,8'85 female.
Archaeologists in Austria recent
ly unearthed bronze razors more
than three tho-usand years old.
.Finland is spoken of as a new
country in the sense that it was only-
in 1917 that she won her Freedom'
from Russia. But there have been
Finns living in Finland for eighteen
hundred years. Helsinki, the -capi
tal o-f Finland (or -Suomi as she is
now -called) was founded in 1640. It
/has been the capital since 1812. (How
ever, its most important buildings
have been built since Finland achiev
ed independence. Helsinki is the
northermost of Turopean capitals.
The total numlber of known radio
receiving sets in Europe is approxi
mately 28,000,000 (the population
of Europe is approximately 475,000,-
000); while in the United iStates
(with a population of approximately
123,000,000), it is estimated that
there are 30,000,000 sets for which
Americans have spent Four Billion
Dollars in the past fifteen years.
Copenhagen with a population of
800,000 has 350,000 bicycles. During
the busy iho-uys, the streets are so
crowded that when traffic is halted,
each rider steadies himself by plac
ing his hands on the shoulders of the
person next to him.
There are fewer than eight hun
dred thousand (800,000) Japanese
living outside their native land . . .
not including military occupation, of
■course, which is estimated at more
than 'One Million outside the Islands
of Nippon. ,
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DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES,
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ANY DAY A FISH DAY
WILLIAM KRUSE DIES
AT SEAFORTH
IThe funeral of William Kruse, of
Tucker smith, who died at the Scott
Memorial Hospital, aged 77 was held
from the home of his son-in-law,
William Oldfield, with services in
(St. 'Thomas Anglican Church, Sea
forth, and interment in Egmondville
cemetery. His wife, died last sum
mer. Survivors are four daughters
and one son, Mrs. Wm. Oldfield, of
Tuckersmith; Mrs. Edward Brown,
Egmondville; 'Mrs. E. Neubach, of
Niagara Falls and Mrs. Raymond
Nott, -of ITuckersmith' and Harry
Kr-use, of'Toronto; also five brothers
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