The URL can be used to link to this page

Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1938-03-03, Page 3THURSDAY, MARCH 3rd, 1038THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE 4 BI A I.JI jpx LI We notice that girls are making the headlines these days as bandits. It used 'to (be that the fair sex did not need the assistance of a gun to get what they wanted.-™ Wingham Advance-Times. Faith IFaifeh is the ^foundation pn which all religion is built. Fai|h does not demand miracles but it very often accomplishes them. 'There is a world of truth in the o-ld proverb: “Faith can move moun tains’’ the trouble with most pro verbs is that we heam them so often we do not ipause to 'understand their leal meaning. Without Faith, there would -be no achievement because achievement requires earnest effoii't and in turn, Faith is necessary to- sincere effort: faith in our ability to achieve. * Faith engenders determination and the world makes way for the determined man. Faith is the foundation of a man’s character—unless a man believes in himself and in his convictions, he is a failure. Faith is the basis oif all credit and the true measure of a man’s financial strength is not in his pos sessions or assets but in his credit. Faith is not a passive thing— mere believing or waiting—it is an active thing—-a positive, striving and achievement. Love, affection and friendship — all are inspired by Faith—our be lief in the sincerity and integrity and honor of our fellowmen. iFaitih. requires a faculty of vis ion, a vivid imagination — because man must see beyond the present: he must be alble to conjure uip men tal pictures of the future; he must possess enough imagination to de velop- a goal or objective. iThe man who lacks the qualities of Faith' canont be loyal to his job, his friends -om his family. Faith is more than just praying, It’s striving with, all your might; Faith is more than wisihng and and saying, T Believe’ it’s in always doing right. There are always two sides . . . the right side and the one which requires name calling, evasions and vindictive villifications. Gold From The Sky ♦* * It isn’t always the dumbest girl who needsi the most lessons ■ in swimming. ** * He who will not obey may never command. ** * iScence’s first recorded discovery of gold that has fallen from the sky to the earth was reported, by Dean Gillespie, of Denver, -Colorada. (This unique discovery was an nounced before the American As sociation foni the Advancement of Science. [ The -Stone Meteorite found near Melrose, New Mexico was analyzed by H. G. -Hawley of the Niniger Me teorite Laboratory in Denver . . . minute amounts of gold were de tected. Just to make sure, this unusual result was checked again Ib-y an American Smelting and Refining Company assay. * * * One Word Enough The yo-ung woman carefully wrote out her telegram anil handed it across the counter. “ISeventy-five cents” said the clerk, giving the yellow slip a (pro fessional glance. “Gracious” the girl exclaimed, “Isn’t that rather expensive?” “Regular rate, Miss,” the clerk informed her. '"Seventy-five cents for only one word?” asked the girl. “Yes, ma’am. But of course you can send 9 more words without it costing you any more.” he pointed out. • , She thought this over for a mom ent, then finally decided, “No, I’ve said ‘yes’ once. Ten of them would look; like I was too anxious.” * * * A broad-minded person is -one who holds the same beliefs you do. Relieve Weak, Lame and Aching Backs Ec tore And Gcf Moan’s A T. MOW 00., ITO., PRODUCT IThe man may last—-but never lives Who much receives, but nothing gives. * * * Quidnuncs In all the would, only three moun tain ranges run east and west , . . all the others run north and south. Will Dutrant Ph. D., author of “The Story of Philosophy” lists the following as the ten greatest think ers known to 'History: 'Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, (Thomas Aquinas, Copernicus, Bacon, Newton, Voltaire Kant and Darwin. • Can you quote from the writings of any of these men ? ISmall business — independent stores — comprise 89 per cent, of the retail distribution outlets in the United States; and these indepen dents do about 87 per cent, of the total volume of retail business in the United States. About 90 percent, of the avail able wheat supply .of the world is held in 'Canada. It has been estimated that the honey bee travels 44,0 00 miles and has to stop at 56,000 blossoms to make one pound of (honey. In China, 2,000 years before Ben Franklin made his first pair of glasses, the wearing of eye glasses was considered a mark, of education. It is reported that the Bri tish Museum paid the Soviet Gov ernment $510,000.00 for the Godex Sinaiticus—one of the oldest and most precious manuscripts of the Bilble. From the viewpoint of scarcity as well as collectors’ interest, the most valuable contemporary autograph is that of -Col. Chas. A.> Lindbergh. The first Union Label was used by Ban Francisco Cigar Makers in 1874. It has been estimated that the population of the United States is now increasing (births over deaths) at the rate of cue person every 35 seconds. $ sit The reason a cleric’s sin seems so stnO'Cikiing is that a man just has to be unusually wicked to be bad at all in a clerical environment. - * * * Prankish Problem Answer to» Prankish Problejn No. 3.—30 seconds. Prankish Problem No. 4: What is the smallest number that will leave a remainder of one (1) when divid ed by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 12 and which, is equally divisible by 13 (thirteen.) (Answer will be printed in this Column next week. ‘Can you solve it now?) ♦ * » In the ‘Good Old Days’ No set of -China dishes was com plete without' at least one ‘bone dish’, the purpose of which was to receive, chicken, pork, lamb and beef bones at the family meal. People used to cut out paper in ner soles for their shoes in real cold weather . . . using several thicknesses of paper. Every- family house had a large cookie jar Which was filled with home-made cookies once a week. ((Readers are invited to send in their ‘good old days’ memories; either prose or verse . . . but make them brief. Thanks.) $ # ❖ Disillusionment I “thought you were a nomad Bound for the road last turn, So sick you seemed of the cities So starved for hill and tern. I thought you were a spirit 'Caught in the -peopled eatrh— So Iblithe you were with sorrow (So sad you were with mirth. Twas yesterday I thought so— Ah, dream im/permanent! Today you preach -of charity And 'Civic Betterment. * * » More often than not, we dislike people not for wihat they are but for what we are. * * * Profits starts only where cost leaves off. * * * No man has failed until he .has made his last attempt. * *- * Your own life is doing much to decide what you will be a customer for . . . (but Advertising is doing most to decide wihose cutosmer you will be. * * * A cup. bf coffee at midnight A verse and an epigram, Column’s finished-—hope it’s right; Anyhow, it’s time to- scram. THE COLONEL “There’s no fun like work.” A man without vim is like a car without an engine.* * * * * * * * 'Snow and ice do not hold out long against a warm south wind.* * ♦ * 4 * * * The criss-crossing of delivery wagons helps to make the cost of living so high.* * * * * * * * It’s wrong to utter dscouragng words; it’s downright stupid to heed them.* * $ * v ‘ That 'blanket of snow helped out the wheat. Will it do some thing for the maple syrup crop?**«***»<* Apathy in business is like cancer in the body . . . -unless erad icated early it will ruin the whole body.****** * * Men are not horn ambitious; they build themselves that way., .Courage and amlbitibn grow by experience. The cackle of the Ontario hen was heard in British Columbia. Is the mooing of the Ontario- cow to be* heard in New Zealand? Farmers find it difficult, almost impossible, to get help. The unemployed say they can’t get work! Politics is a great game.****»«»* That’s a modest demand, surely, that Mussolini is making upon Britain, that she should give up control of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal.******** We heard the other day that old McDoggle .had a farm and on it some ducks. Well, t'he waddlers stayed right there. The old fellow did not advertise. ******** It Looks as if the 'Chinese were carrying the war into Japan, much to the surprise of the Japs. A cure for many a rowdy is to give 'him a drinkf out of his own bottle.• **«*«*> We’d like the powers that be in Exeter to announce what they are doing to capture our share of the tourist trade of the coming summer. Thousands of dollars roll right through this good town every summer day.dr * < <t As long as muncipalities and 'provincial and federal govern ments feed and clothe and house a certain portion of our population farmers will find it difficult to secure help and the cost of living will run high. Many Britons do not like the thought of their government making friends of the dictator who'ruthlessly invaded Ethiopia.’ Progress does not lie t-hat way. “They enslave their children’s children who make compromise with sin.” To do a great right, do. a little wrong ... no not for Venice!” Ill fares t'he land to hastening ills a (prey when it forsakes its ideals. HE’S PUZZLED AND ANGRY “I don’t understand it” a workman said the other day. “Tor onto is offering 60c. an hour for the unemployed to shovel snow and all tools found. I have an investment in shop and tools of $7,000 and I can’t make 60c. per ho-ur. In addition I have to-pay my full share of taxes to keep the unemployed fed even better t'han I can board myself and family.” ISurely handlers of other people’s money in the form of taxes will take a hint. The day of trouble is not far off. T- ****** >” LET’S NOT WORRY A gooci deal of anxiety- is felt for the merchandisers in British Columbia competing with Japanese merchants subsidized from Tokio This bomusing has been tried before but it never- has proven a good practice. As far as British Columbia is concerned, should Tokio be ibonusing; British Columbia merchants, it simply means that Japanese money will be transferred from Japan to British Columbia, the citizens of British Columbia reaping t'he profit. In the meantime native merchants will suffer should the bonusing continue. The citizens of British Columbia have the remedy in their own -hands. Japan money lenders would soon tire -of loaning money at a loss. The government, if it is the government that is do-ing the lending, would stop the practce for t'he same reason. T'he bonus system, generally speaking is a form of business self-decep tion. NO CAUSE FOR FEAR Hitler is just a man. (He and ihis admirers may not think so b-uit (he’s a-mere man. For the time being, making a lot of trouble and a lot of worry for the rest of -mankind. He is bleeding his -own country white. He is leading, his people back to the days when their ancestors worshipped stocks and stones. He is trying to revamp a social and economic system that has been tried and found wanting. He has done all that he can to (have his people refetter themselves with the iron bonds their fathers struggled and died to remove. Every hour of the day he strives to undo t-he labours of the -best of his race for more than a thousand years. He’s a re-actionary in th-e garments of a pro gressive. ' But one result can follow—his utter ruin, though for a brief period he may cause trembling in every capital in Europe. The nation that turns its back upon all t-hat is fine and good in the race, that spurns the mind and spirit -of Jesus Christ has but one destiny. “Everyone that heareth these sayings of Mine and doeth them not shall be likened unto a foolish man which built his .house upon the sand.” It is not for Hitler and his people to set aside an authority so high. He and they cannot make and unmake the world at their sweet will. It is still true that “Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.” The stars in their courses fight against the tyrant. si: * ****** THE RELIEF SITUATION Merchants and folk who have been carrying on during the hard times find that they have been taxed to the limit: According ly they -are saying that they cannot pay higher taxes, not because they are -unwilling to help a lame dog over a stile, but because tlheir business wll no-t warrant their doing so. .F-or a considerable time the old slogan “Help the worker” has been changed to “Tax the Workers.” Formerly worthwhile folk encouraged their chil dren to hoe their -own now. -Lately this healthy-minded principle has given way to t'he practice o-f getting someone else to provide one’s board and roof and-clothing. The idea has got into some people’s heads that because a man is doing a large business that he ■has a large amount of money for which he has no immediate use. In many cases the facts are all the other way. Merchants and manufacturers have a way of putting their earnings back into their enterprises. Many of these men know that an invention or a change of fashion may put them o-n the rocks ever night. Most large incomes have large demands upon them if the income is to continue. Governments, local, provincial and federal know this. Hence the slogan, “every man must pull his -own weight.” There is no evading this stern necessity. There is a limit to the gift-giv ing practice and it looks as if Canadians have found the limit. Let’s face up to reality.' We drifted into this easy way. We must work ourselves out of it. WORTH THINKING ABOUT The Empire Club of Toronto the other day listened to a speak er who has been through our Canadian West and who has been informing himself .regarding Canadian natural wealth. There is a growing belief that we have been misinformed as to cur natural resources. Instead of such resources being boundless, we are now being informed tlhat we already have reached the limit of some of those resources. Some mines that promised well, wrought out at a surprisingly early date. Word is coming in that difficulty has been experienced in finding the farmers in the dried out area new farms, not because the farmers are unwilling to move, but because there is a scarcity of land to which it would be advantageous to have the farmers removed. Let us hope that the speaker somewhat over-stated the situa tion, At the same time we’ll do well to act as if there was no warrant for a prodigal use of land or forest or mine or fishery, In any case, we’ll be well advised to train our youth to face really difficult situations. Childhood is the time for play and fun. Youth is the time to learn to endure hardness. A pampered youth, un less a miracle takes place, results in a soft citizenship that must give way to folk, of the hardy type. Life in Canada is likely to have hard days ahead. (Such times must be faced in the spirit of stern adventure. . The joke of the week appeared in Saturday Night, a resident of the Niagara district stating that the river s under control and there is little danger of an epidemic of fall en arches.—Fergus News-Record Weather men -are saying that this February is different from -other years. From our own observation of the weather for a few years, we would say- that each year brings something new in weather. In other words our usual weather is -unusual ly unusual. St. Marys Journal-Argus (Shakespeare says you can’t trust a man w-bo has no music in his soul. A banker will ask how much secur ity he can give before he will trust him. But here’s a new tests, of a man’s character that someone thinks good: “He may have a greasy hat and the seat of his pants may be shiny, b-ut if his -children have their noses flattened against the window pane a half-hour before he is due home from work for supper, he can be trusted.”—-Tony’s .Scrop Book. —Listowel Banner JUDGE PRESENTED WITH WHITE GLOVES When Justice Green paid his first visit to Goderich on Tuesday to open the spring sittings of the Supreme Court, he was presented with a pair of white gloves, there being no criminal cases on the docket. There are two n-on-jury civil -cases. “Dis pensing w of the services of a grand jury will save the county $300 to $600,” said County Treasurer Er skine, “but the cost of the 12 jury inquests, made necessary by motor fatalities, was four.” 'One man, who was to (have come before the court on a cattle thieving charge, ire-electd at the last minute and will be tried lby the county judge without jury in March. Father A FATHER'S LOVE in some re spects -outshine t'he Mother's. He is a busy father, much absent, hard pressed with laborous work and un ending cares, but he never forgets the true son ifor whom he -would give -uip his life at any time. (The softness, gentleness and sweet ness of Mother is an ever- full ala baster box but the boy remembers that his Father’s strong, steady arm always seemed as mighty to him as that of iSamson in his first years . and his Father's wisdom as great as that of iSolomon; and there is no emotional ecsta/cy in life that ever equals the boy’s thrill -of emotion when his Dad .paid him a justly de served compliment for some defin ite accomplishment like receiving a 100 mark in some lesson, or the time Dad watches him make that first ‘home-nun’ with the neighbor hood team. He is a grand guy—-Dad—even though we are a bit shy on the sen timental side and don’t often bother to tell him how deep and sincere our affection is for him. You can always tell which polit ical party is winning by the other side’s use of invictive and mud slinging. i Tea for every Taste "SALADA S03TEA s? Clearing Land for Cultivation Major Task By W. H. Johnston in London Free Press ■Life of the early Western Ontario settler was centred first in clearing bush lands, a difficult task, for fre quently many months’ work was necessary to clear a comparatively small section. Majority of the new arrivals came into the bush after harvest and at opce constructed a log shanty. This work accomplished, they started the task of cutting down trees in order land might be cleared for spring activities. ■In order to make a good job of felling the trees, underbrushing (had to be done first. That is, all the small timber up to six or eight inches in diameter had to be cut down before the nsows of wintei' cov ered the ground. IThis stuff was cut close to the ground and the little stump was left fairly smooth on the top so that the “drag,” that is, the homemade har rows, would hop over it when t-he seed grain was being harrowed in. 'The limbs were cut off and piled one way, with the small logs cut from the stem piled on top. These compact brush heaps burned readily the next spring. Underbrushing finished, the giants ■of the forest were attacked and here the experienced woodsman showed his strategy. He noted the leaning trees and planned where possible, a long windrow of fallen trees on top of one another. Sometimes this could not be done, but instead many trees were felled around one spot. This was called a jam pile and was often eight or ten feet high. The limbs were cut down and the ex posed trunks cut into lengths. These masses of logs and brush would be burned in the spring. Much of the smaller timber was completely consumer, but there were many trunks in the centre which needed cutting into log lengths. |These were “niggered off” by placing large limbs across the logs and keeping them burning -until the logs were burned through. In using the leaning trees to make a jam pile the wood-cutter chopped the trees nearly all the way through and then he cut down the leaning tree, which, carried the others with it. -Sometimes one of the partally chopped trees held the others and the man, at considerable danger to himself, had to weaken it further and then run to safety. While chopping the farmer was constantly on the lookout for free- splitting timber- fo-r rails. After the burning of the fallow in the spring this logging had to be done by the means of a logging bee, when sev eral acres were logged in -a day. Next came the picking, up of limbs and sticks scattered around, follow ed by the burning of the log piles and the spreading of the ashes. When the spr-ing seeding was done rail splitting ibecame the order of the day. Ths was hard work. With a heavy wooden sledge, called a mall or beetle, the farmed used two iron and a number of wooden wedges to sjglit the logs. The mall was generally a large, rounded knot cut from a tree. IThe timber was beech, maple, ash, -oak, hemlock, elm or* basswood. (Some days, if the timber was tough, a man would have to be satisfied with splitting 50 to 100 rails. Another day he might make 200 or more. One man was credited with splitting 200 in an. afternoon, but he had especially straight-grained elm logs to work. A successful logging bee was a red letter day in the life of the young farmer. IThe day before the fallow was divided into strips of one and one-quarter acres across the field. That was the area allotted to each gang of men and yolk of oxen. This provided the impulse for a race and every gang worked as rapidly as possible to reach the other end first. When there were enough men th-e gangs were larger, foiuir- men to roll the logs into piles, one man to hitch the chain around the logs, besides the driver. -If there were two more to go ahead to plan where the log piles should .be and roll two or three logs into position so much the better. Many finished their strip, (before noon. In the af ternoon the logging was done more leisurely, all combining to clean up the job. Where the timber was heavy, some gangs began at' day break. I COUNT YOUR FALL EGGS IN MARCH! THE BRAY CHICK DOES THE TRICK! IT MAY be risky business to count yo-ui’ chicks before they’re hatched, but when you buy a flock of Bray chicks yo-u can certainly count on t'he results you’ll get next Fall. We say that, on the strength of actual reports received from Bray customers. Her-e • are some of them; Mr. L. M. raised every one o-f his 300 Bray White Wyandotte chicks. Mr. F. <M. raised 970 out of 1,000 Bray Whte Rocks. M-r. G. W. S.’s Bray White Leghorn pullets started to lay at 4^ mouths. Mr. J. M.’s 700 Bray Barred Rock, pullets averaged 465 eggs a day for the 6 highest price weeks in 1937. 80 out of every 100 eggs laid by Mr. W. H. G.’s Bray New Hampshire 7 months old pullets graded A-large. Mr. J. N. M.’s Bray Barred Rock cockerels dressed 6J to 7 lbs. each at 5 months. When poultrymen all over the country report results like these, there must be a reason. There is! r-there must be Bray breeders are carefully culled for strength, health, vigor and egg-producing “ - ■ ...... . . blood-tested. ounces 'per dozen for Xtra-Brofit chicks and eggs that average grade A-large for Standard chicks. Then too, Bray chicks are hatched in the most up-to-date incubat ors. This careful selection, breeding and incubation gets chicks away to a real start. |Try them this year—-let the chick do the trick for you, too. Fifty Cent Discount on Advance Orders Here’s a real opportunity for you to lower the .-cost of your___ chicks. For every 100 Bray chicks ordered 30 days in advance we are offering a discount of fifty cents. What is more, we will pro tect you against rising or falling prices. 'Telephone us, write us, or just drop in and give us your order today. capacity. On top of that, every last breeder is Big eggs only, are selected for hatching:—25 to 30 Bray Bray 1938 12 BREEDS Barred Rocks White Leghorns New Hampshires Rhode Island Reds White Rocks White Wyandottes Columbian Wyandottes White Minorcas • Brown Leghorns Jersey Giants Light Sussex Australorp ALSO Cross-breeds BRAY CHICK HATCHERY EXETER, ONT. FRED W. BRAY John Sheet, North Phone 246 Limited Hamilton, Ont,