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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1938-03-24, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE * of a sack of $17.75 at Dut- to those who n THURSDAY, MARCH 214, 193« 3> BEFORE YOU INSURE - CONSULT The Ross From Whom I Leai-neA the Most Ever sit down and think back over the different bosses or immed­ iate superiors you have had? Ever try and figure out which one meant the most to you . . , which one taught you the most about your business? ISpme of us are still holding our first job . . but not many. Others have shifted about a bit, but all pf us at one time -or another have work­ ed under the constructive influence Of someone who was our immediate superior. Isn’t there someone—some boss—■ for whom you have worked who ex­ erted a strong influence on yoiur ciharacter—on your -growth and de­ velopment; someone who has help­ ed maybe you what you are today? Someone without whose help you wouldn’t be where you are today? Surely there is . . . Have you summed up all you have learned from that man? If yolu haven’t, then do so today. It will be time well spent because it will help you to recall many half-forgot­ ten lessons. Experience is the best teacher When we open our memory file The lessons we learn and remember Are the (Success action. •onTy ones worth while. * ♦ * is chiefly a question of First become • * • hand knowledge does not second hand when used. * * * Avoid the companionship of the cynic. 'Prejudice prosperity. * * very * often prevents * * Times * and OUTSeven iSeven is a Cabalistic number; it is also a favorite of poets. , The seventh child of a seventh child is reputed to .have psychic power. But a .Greek professor has discov­ ered seven to be destructive. Writ­ ing for a Greek paper that appears in Paris, he produces a mathemat­ ical cjuriosity, which we reproduce from the London Evening Standard: “The magici figures are 142,857. If tihey are multiplied by 2, the re­ sult is 2'85,714. That is, the same figures and the same sequence. Mul­ tiply by 3 and the figures 428,571 and sequences are still undisturbed. Multiplied by 4, the result is 571,- 428. .Here again are the same fig­ ures and the same undisturbed se­ quence. Multiply by 5, and the re­ sult is 7’14, 285; by 6, 857,142. In this last example the result is even more curious be'eause the two sets o-f three figures are exactly trans­ posed. “However, when the doubtless weary figures are multiplied by 7, the magic formula breaks down and isthe following curiolus result achieved . . . 999,999.” * * » | Just to be Held by You Oh for tihe gift of a genii’s power! 'Power to change my shape at will; Change, tho’ the change last for an ■hour( And grow inanimate, cold and still I’d shed this husk breathing Marrow and blood all; But change myself to reading Alone, when the shafts fall Into the mystic west . . your tender Glances would fall on me sooth­ ingly; About me I’d feel soft slender And know that your Iclose to me . . i of flesh and and. sight and a book you are shattered sun- arms and lips were mark won’t be haunting us? Thanks, * * * He who talk big—thinks little. * ♦ * Quidnuncs Consumer’s Societies, in iSwenden now own nearly four thousand shops and stores, 'Stone Mountain in Georgia is the largest single block of exposed gran­ ite on earth , . incidentally, it is over 865 feet high and well over 5,~ 000 feet long. There are t'wo general specie of camel: the Arabian or one humped known as the Dromedary and the Bactrian or two humped camel. The two humped, camel is larger and, more powerful than the Dromedary it can carry a 550 pound load. The Dromedary or one bumped camel is used for speed and light travel. It can cover seventy miles or more in a day with one rider. Some drom­ edaries are used for pa'ok animals and can carry between 200 and 4po pounds. The average speed of a camel caraven — well loaded — is about 3 miles per hour, Since 1493 approximately twelve hundred million ounces of gold have been produced in the world. All of this gold could be packed into- a cube measuring forty-one feet to tlhe side. And yet, there is gold about us . . . also, analysis, by a chemist of ordinary coal ashes (the kind we ipay to have (hauled away) revealed that there is about two cents wortlh of gold in every can of ashes. Artificial gold good enough, to fool the average observer has been made of an alloy of aluminum and copper. The estimated flight of teal ducks is 68 miles per hour, canvasback ducks, 72 miles per hour. However, the majority of ducks fly at much slower speed. The humming bird is believed to stroke about 200 wing beats per second and easily achieves about 55 miles per hour and have ^een recorded as covering 600 miles non stop from the coast of America to Bermuda. Birds do not like to fly with the wind like an aeroplane because they need the lift of the wind under their wings from the front to keep them up. How modern transportation af­ fects our daily lives can be better understood when we realize that the milage of food transportation rep­ resented on the average American breakfast table east of the Appal­ achians is 14,000 miles. Many deep sea fish have a lum­ inous (phosphorescence) which sur­ rounds .them with light and serves to attract pray—-just as insects are attracted by a light after dark. Fifteen morning and evening newspapers are published daily in London, England.* * * Koncocting a Knew Koffee Konf ection iM'ix one and one-half cups strong coffee, one tablespoon of gelatine, one-third cup of granulated sugar and one-half cup cream. Heat in a double boiler. Add the yolks of three eggs slightly beaten and mix one-third cup of granulated sugar and one-fourth teaspoon f salt. 'Cook until it thickens and then add the whites of the three eggs beaten stiff to which has been added one-half teaspoon of vanilla. Mold, chill and serve with whipped cream, of coffee, spuffle.” If you like the full flavo-r you wi-ll like this “coffee * week’s problemAnswer to No. 5: $'8-.75. PRANKISH PROBLEM No. 6: A I man has a sheet of metal 22 feet ’ 1 am ri XI ■Paa.)' XI zs XT rt Iltl/Ta — yourBut, darn it all! You’d place By throwing me flat down on my face! ***fL,J.R. * * * Far too many of us ascribe a great many failures to causes that do not exist. We blame economic tor political conditions of our coun­ try to our own low income or low profits when the real cause is our own lack of applioation and hard wortfi. We credit another mail’s success to Tuck’ Wihen in reality it is tlhe (reward of hard work and constructive thinking. * Hi # pity I saw a maiden weeping, A-weeping bittei’iy, Abd when I asked her what Wrong, She sobbing, answered me; The Above was Ho be the start of a throe or four stanza vefse but this is as for as it Went before some inteiTUp'tion. Now, the idea is gone . . We can’t recall whether it was going to <be serious or humorous, Can any of our readers write the next two or throe stanzas so this lo-ng and 5 feet wide. . He Is unde- cded as to whether a round or square tank would hold the most water. The one tank would be 52s feet square and the other 7 feet in diameter, Find the difference in quantity and also which shape would hold the more.* * * Many a man of small ability has become truly great and powerful by having a worthy purpose.* cynics at sixteen ♦ ♦ (There are more than at sixty,* * wits ♦ It’s all in the -Bible plain enough but many preachers seemed to have overlooked it. . . “Whosoever shall ciompell thee to go a mile, go* with him twain.” If you do only what you ate com­ pelled to do, you. are a slave; and the way to free yourself is to do what you are not compelled to do. In other words, do' more than is expected of you. . -that is the right idea and Christ taught it nearly two thousand years ago.* * * Once again—both timid and diseneet We come to the place Where The column aud»the signature meet. THE COLOiNEL March still fills th© ditch wth both black and white. ******** The .boys still like to fix'up Towser with a mouthful of taffy,*.•*.*#** + For insurance of a sound night’s sleep we recommend a stiff day in the sugar '.bush. .• * * * Spring fever has the same the same as in other years. f « * “Whom tlhe igods destroy, they first make blind/’ Yes, and the nation doomed for destruction is first made self-oomplacent. • ***** 0 • Gramma lhas planted her little boxes of garden seeds. She is quite sure that planting time and summer are coming. ******** Once more township and county councils are reminded that good ro^d (building is impossible apart from adequate drainage. ******** !Did it ever occur to Canadians that they need to work for advance along the lines of. wholesome progress at least as hard as Germany is working at INaziism? There is room for a whole lot of waking up in this good Canada, of ours. *•**.*••♦ SUPPOSING Supposing it had been Vancouver or Halifax that those bombs dropped on instead of Barcelona what would Toronto or Ottawa have said about it?* * * oid * * * • * •symptoms. • * * * The ‘cure, too, is Did You Know That- - April 1st is All Fool’s Day. The Retail Price Sugar in 1920 was ton, Ontario. All things come hustle while they wait, In California Hen Eggs sold tor $1.50 Each during the Gold Rush, 'Blossom of a fig Is on the inside, If drinking interferes with your business give up drinking, Crediton had its weekly paper called Crediton Star vol. No. 1, Mar. 30, 1911—26 years ago. A black cow eats green grass and gives white milk. Horses tails convey a warning to sailors and Haymakers. Berlin, Ontario, was changed to Kitchener, Ontario and tlhe Old Ger­ man Club was wrecked 20 years ago February 1917. Chimneys were first erected in 'Britain in 1200. The word eighteen is pronounced Eight-een not Eigh-teen. way HEAD OFFICE CONFEDERATION LIFE ASSOCIATION TORONTO F, J. DELBRIDGE, Representative, EXETER THE LAST OF THE SERIES The Dilatory Bachelors have just (concluded an interesting series of meetings held in the town woodshed. The member with the baldest head, by a'ctual count, was elected president. The re­ tiring president was thanked for Ihiis diligence and presented with a bottle of Vain Hope hair vigour. The retiring secretary was given a set of knitting needles. The outside guard was given a com­ mendatory address and a darning needle. After the election of officers, the members dined heartily on cold potatoes and stale pan­ cakes. The treasurer, in a charming outfit of last year’s overalls, poured buttermilk. The treasurer reports a deficit of three cents on the rent account. Members renewed their vow to avoid viewing Easter hats, as the danger of their being cotched is still rampant. *******$ WHEN CONSCIENCE AWAKES Even at this distance the bombing of Barcelona fills one with The very day we heard of the bombardment we saw a He looked well ■He was pictured with two officers war, can’t but wonder what the thoughts of suich men will be one as conscience awakes. Every child he sees will then remind of a thousand he blew to pieces. Every home he sees that remind of ten thousand he destroyed. Every town and city, remind ihim of the hundreds he reduced to ruin. Yet, the day' horror. picture of the general who directed the slaughter. fed, sleek and easy in his mind. equally well fed and comfortable, studying -the maps of the One day Ihiim will will is coming when snclht as he will be welcomed to democratic cities and extolled as heroes. IBut what of the gnawing of the worm that never dies and the terror of 'the fire that is not quenched? ♦ •***••* WELL DONE, QUEBEC Quebec lhas just passed a law that a motorist, who makes a nuisance of Ihimself either- iby the way of killing or o.f injuring some one or 'by destroying property is a culprit and should be treated accordingly. For sometime the powers that be have being going on the assumption that because a man >is driving a car that he ceases to be clay subject to, the laws of the land. A motorist grave faced authority has been ruling, can -splash a clean car or bespatter a pedestrian with a fine mixture of road filth and get away with it. (Flu-tner, if a poor soul in a fit of temper were to inflict half the damage wrought by a motorist in all the serenity of mind of a June morning, he would be sent down as a criminal, while the motorist, if cleverly defended, is allowed to go mnwhipt. Well done Quebec.*****• » THEY WOUBN’T STAY PUT In the brave days of old when men were men and a nation’s word was as good as its b'ond and no one was greedy but was con­ tent with what he owned, the Danes became interested in England and with a benevolence that would make Hitler and Mussolini turn green with envy, resolved that they’d take England into their gracious care and 'keeping. The Anlgo-ISaxons, in their lamblike honesty, saw things otherwise and tried to persuade the Danes to stay away. The Danes disagreed. The Anglo Saxons then said: “If you’ll leave us alone we’ll pay you so much gold.” The Danes took the gold, as you would expect, but, loh naughty, naughty, they came back to- England and demanded, demanded, mind you, more gold. (The Anglo ISaxons kept on paying the gold and the Danes kept on demanding iriore and more gold. (Finally the Anglo Saxons got tired of this1 procedure and licked the Danes to a frazzle, or something. ; After that the (Danes stayed away and they have stayed away ever since, though Nelson gave them their last (hint to that effect. -I.t seems strange that British statesmen have soon forgotten this fact so well authenticated in history. ******** KEEPING COOL Austria is simply another country that is Sowed. (She bullied weaker’ countries and now is Of her own wineskins. Those who know her sympathy for her. reaping wlhat she- getting a drink out ______ ________ ____ __ .. _ _ ihistory have little sympathy for her. At any rate she is not wortlh tlie cost of war. What does matter is what Germany means to do with the otlher lesser countries of Europe. .Does she mean to subject all the lesser folk to iher domination? Will her doing so make her menace to democracy? When that time comes the democratic, powers will know what to do. As it is, adding land to her dominions may prove a circumstance working to the detriment of the fatherland. Some countries, like some farmers, have become land poor. Added ter­ ritory that either a farmer or a country cannot profitably employ lhas a way of paving the road to ruin. Germany, be it remember­ ed, ihas not a genius for colonizing. Germany’s present pre-emi­ nence is built on the excitement of mobilization with a war scare as the incentive, rather than on industry and the development of humanizing interests. There is but one end to such' conduct. Can Britain but stave off war for a little while Germany must fall thro’ her own folly resulting in poverty and industrial incompetence. * * * * . * * * *. * THE UNDERDOG Easy and popular is it to praise the champion of tlhe underdog, big brothers who say anything about the late Clai-ence Dar- tlie mighty defence counsel who has just died, praise him for Our row, ________ ____ - ___...___ __ - - - . . 'being consistently on tile side of the fellow wild was up against hard circumstances. Mr. Darrow had a way of getting off a wihole lot of people wlh'o had run foul of the law® of the land. When lawbreakers found themselves in trouble they employed Darrow who had a way of something like bullying judges and juries out of theirs doing their plain duty or of breaking through statutes when lite couldn’t per­ suade the courts of the land to break them head On. This some people- consider being on the side of the underdog. Plain, honest citizens, however, have their quiet thoughts. 'This underdog defending may 'be and very often is a miserable 'business. The underdog often is a snarling, meddling ciur that in­ vites a sound thrashing. In nine cases out of ten the underdog’s -place was at home or about his own business. The meddling dog or boy or man who sticks his nose in where it is Out of place de­ serves What he gets. When a man murders or steals or. violates another man’s home or makes a nuisance of himself on the road, he is a criminal and when eauglht should be punished and reap what lib sows. Maudlin sentiment about the “friend of -the underdog” Wthen the under dog Is a private and public nuisance ior a criminal is cheap and nasty stuff that encourages bad manners and law­ breaking, especially when the championing is done with an eyes on the nimble dollar. , ^$'1 Bananas grow tih« opposite to what you see in your store A meeting was held in Goderich, January 26, 1911 (26 years ago) when 12 Reeves pledged themselves in connection to the C. P. R. building a road from ,St. Marys Exeter, Hensall and North. The first auto accident was England in 1802. Co. via. n Exeter has more Farm Tractors on display at present thap .any other Village of its size. Yes’! Yes! ■Feb. 2 3, 1899. Wheat was selling for 68c.; flour $1;8i5 cwt.; barley 412c.; ibutter 14c.; eg'gs 15c; pota­ toes 55c. bag, Hay $14.50 ton; chickens 5c. pound. It must be .brief and not too sol­ emn a parting verse—and the end of the column. 'S. J. s. “The Romance of an Old Clock” Free their declining years and adversity failed to crush the spirit of the man and just as long as he lived there was a Rodgerville, Now. then gentle reader, “I heai* some of you saying, What about the old clock?” “'Oh, nothing much—you have all heard about the old clock that stop­ per short, never to ,go again, when the old man died— Well I have the old clock that used to be in the old Rodgerville Hotel, but unlike the clock of song and story it did not stop but is still going strong, and is well over one hundred years old. I have also the old gentleman’s walking stick and his snuff box both of which are more ancient than the clock, relics that money could buy, unless, perchance like the village of Rodgerville I fall on days. .In a recent edition of the Press and also in last week’s Times- Advocate, I enjoyed the pleasure of reading a write uip concerning the pioneer days of .Rodgerville by Mr. W. H. Johnston. Now I have read several’ articles along this line iby the aforesaid writer and they prove venj” interest­ ing but to me, the history of Rod­ gerville was the most fascinating of all. - I .am, in fact, Or you might say al­ most a Rodgerville “old boy.” Al­ though born in North Molton, Devon­ shire, England, my father moved to Rodgerville When I was about ten years of age and most of my boy­ hood days were spent in that village and I was well acquainted with both Matthew Rodgers and his wife Mar- tihia. ■No 1 am not going to enlarge on anything Mr. Johnston had to say concerning the activities of the place for it was just another 'ghost town’ when we moved there. But there were two- old timers left, relics of by-gone-days. 'Old man Currie with the strawberry nose and Geo. Mc­ Leod. The 'former still carried on a woodworking shop and made wheel­ barrows and su'oh like while the lat­ ter continued in the blacksmithing trade. Mr. Johnston says the original store and hotel are still standing. In part, ths is true, but there remains now only about one third of the ori­ ginal structure. The late J. P. Mar.- shall had it wrecked and the ma­ terial moved to Hensall from which three fine stores were erected. Matthew Rodger was certainly a great business mdn. Although a /Scotchman, he was .generous to a fault. The hotel was open to all comers. If you had money you paid if not you, got a night’s lodging just the same. The merchandise for the hotel and store was all teamed from Lon­ don but Matthew used to drive to London In his private coach to do the buying. Naturally this was always a red letter day for all the hostel- ries along the way. Matthew Always had lots of money and n&ver took any change. The slogan was “come on boys by jing.” He also played the violin and gave dancing lessons and coitld sing the old iScotch songs to perfection, I have seen him dance the Highland Fling and Sword dance when ho was well over eighty years of age. He could read without the aid of glasses and walked like an athlete. IP fact he never really grew old, old in years perhaps, but the spirit of youth remained. It might interest some of readers to know that Rodgers built the hotel that used to stand on the corner now occupied by a gar­ age in Exeter North and this oom- ibinod by the opening up of the Lon­ don, Huron- and Bruce railway con­ tributed largely to his financial downfall. Bnt I am happy to say there whs enough salvaged from the wreckage to koo them both through my also Hensail, JACK TAPP March 14, 1938. not old evil CONFERENCE IS ARRANGED FOR HURON The Huron County Boys’ and girls’ work board met in Wesley Willis United Church Clinton to arrange the spring conference. It was de­ eded that the conference be held in Brussels United Chuncih on April 22, morning, afternoon and evening ses- sios being arranged. The theme for the day will be “For Christ ad His Church.” The summer camp arrange­ ments were discussed and it was de­ cided that boys, senior and junior, should have the use of the camp near Goderich from June 28 to July 15, junior girls, August 1 to 6 and senior girls, August 22 to 30. YOUTH STEOKLE—BAEOHILER A quelt, ibut pretty -wedding was solemnized at the home of Bishop Christian Schultz, of Poole, when he- united in wedlock Gertrude Baech- ler, daluighter of Solomon Baechler, of Zuriloh, and Oliver S. Steckle, son of Menno Steckle, also of Zurich. The bridal couple were attended by Eva Baechler, sister of the and Asa Stecfkle, brother groom, both of Zurich, wedding dinner at and Mrs. Schultz left on a trip to einity. On their take up residence ship, Huron Coiunty. bride, of the Following a the home of Rev. the happy couple Markham and vi- return they will in Stanley Town- Fred Jones is Awarded $5,069.00 A judgement of $5,069.10 was awarded Fred Jones insurance sales­ man, in Supreme Court, London, in his suit against Ward A. Casselman, London shoe merchant, Jones had brought suit from Mr. Casselman foi’ damages as a. -result of a motor crash on No. 4 highway near the Crediton road, on Jlune 20, of last year. IThe jury in the case deliberated for two hours before they returned With their verdict which was accept­ ed by Justice W. D. Roach. The jury found Casselman guilty of negligence in that he did not have his car- properly under control and was driving at an excessive rate of speed under the circumstances. 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