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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1938-04-07, Page 7i EDIT I 7 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE # MWBSDAX, AWttt 7lh, 1038 ■R Get the Other’s Fellows Slant The most successful man — no matter what his calling, business or profession—is the one who under- tands clearly how other people t'hink and react.. Human nature is pretty much the same the world over—we are all more interested in our own problems than we are in those of the other fellow, and by the same token, the other fellow is more interested in his affairs than ihe is in ours. The other’ fellow thinks his relig ion is better than the one you have. Your logic must square with his own experience before he will agree with your reasoning. His wit is original—he has heard your jokes before. His <car is the best car on the mar ket for the money—because it is a tangible vindication of his judgment He thinks his children are the brightest and brainiest in the neigh borhood (because he can understand them while the neighbors or relatives do not. .His furnace burns less coal. His garden yields more tomatoes than yours. His radio has less Static pick up more .stations than because he is with it when it is working good as well as when it is sensitive to outside interference. He gets more miles out of his tires than the other fellow. His wife is the best cook — her cakes are far better than her neigh bors—because he is used to her way of cooking and she naturally cooks the things he likes and the way he likes them. In other words, each person has his own standard of comparisons based on ‘’.is personal experiences, the training he has had, his environ ment ed. He your cording to his viewpoint. Try and see the other fellow's side of the picture as well as your own and you will make more friends, be mo-re successful, achieve more happi ness and earn a greater reward here ot corn or and can yours— and 'knowledge ne has acquir- may be wrong according to viewpoint but he is right ac- and hereafter. In the words Annette Densted: . If we knew each other better, You and I and all the rest .Seeing down beneath the surface To the sorrows all unguessed, We would quit our cold complaining And a hand of trust extend, If we knew each other better, W would count each one a friend.* * Failure teaches more wisdom than success. * i j .Barbers threw in a couple hand fuls of bay rum with each hair out. English was the principle lang uage spoken in New York city. Newspapers suppressed news of scandal and .crime because the public did not w ant to read about immor tality. 'Children obeyed their parents —- and their parents obeyed the laws. 'Bleachers took their text from the Bible and not from political economy. Day laborers received $1.25 a day and could buy beefsteak every morn- inging for breakfast. iReaders are invited to„send in their 'good old days’ memories. Please make them (brief. Proper 'credit will be given to all contributors, * * * Wllien Robert E. Lee was a .cadet at West Point a classmate took a violent and irrational dislike to him. The animosity .persisted later1 in life. For many years, the fellow-officer made malicious attacks on Lee. 'One day a mutual acquaintance asked Lee what he thought of the individual. To the questioner’s sur prise, Lee spoke in the highest terms of him. Then .the questioner said slyly; “I guess you don’t know what he has been saying about you, for years.” “You have not asked me,” Lee replied, "for his opinion, of me. You asked for my opinion of him.”* * * When You Hear a Kindly Phrase—• Pass It On. .If you hear a person compliment ed, why don’t you find an opportun ity to tell him about it? This old world needs more pleas ant reports and fewer criticisms. If YOU want to be popular, remember tibe nice things which one person says of another—then tell ^tliem. It is such a little thing—to repeat a compliment — and yet it makes (him feel kindly toward you and the p-eson who made the compliment. You like to hear nice things about yourself, don’t you You. enjoy knowing that some people like you well enough to say so. No matter how big or important the man nor woman, a genuine com pliment gives pleasure. “Don’t tell me how clever or cap able you think I am—if you really mean it, tell the other fellow.” 'The following poem by Isla P. Richardson further’ illustrates my point— * * * Some men use twelve cylinder words to express four cylinder ideas. * * * The moving picture industry would not be able to pay big salaries if they had to depend on the collection plate. * * * 'Once there was a young husband so innocent that he chopped down all the shade trees around his house because ih-is wife wanted a little sun.* * * The woman of fifty and a gossip is just trying to get a second hand thrill out of sin.* * * (Man’s knowledge is the accummu- lated thinking thousands who him. NOW If there's’love within your heart, -Say it now. If a truth you could import, - •Say it now. All the world needs love and cheer, Just a smile may dry a tear Or a word may lessen fear, Say it now. Iif a Not kind act comes youi’ way, Do it now. tomorrow, but today, Do it now. the days pass swiftly—yetFor What we might do—we .forget, Then remembering—regret! Do it now. and experience of have lived .before Love and kindness cost us naught Give it now. of praise, a loving thought, Give it now. go along life’s way, share the good we inay— Words * **i Frankness in Advertising Much mental effort is expended by advertisers in trying to make the public place orders at once but we have never seen ally more convinc ing copy than this one: “TO THE PUBLIC— The reason why I have hitherto been able to do painting So much cheaper than anybody else is because I am a bachelor and'do not need to make a profit for the maintenance of a wife and children. “Tis now my duty to inform the public that this advantage will very shortly be withdrawn as I am about to be married. You send in youi’ orders old rate.”* * When ancient hymns It's comforting to know These will be the good old days In thirty yeans or so. * * * 'One day, Margaret Angelin this message stuck in the mirror of Mrs. Fiske’s dressing room at the theatre: “Margaret Anglin says Mrs. Fiske in the 'best actress in America. Mrs. Fiske read it, added two com mas, stuck It in ah envelope and sent it back to Miss Angelin. It read “Margaret Angelin, says Mrs. Fiske, Is the best actress in America. * * * Tn the Good Old Days Father drank :Ms coffee from cup with a mud-guard on the inner rim. As we Let us For we only have today. Give it now.* * * Monk'ys seize new things quickly and as quickly lose interest. Isn’t evolution Would chatter. wonderful? * boring —avoid * * you avoid ** will do well to at once for the ♦ the happy past left * Roger Wood would saw wood he saw With a saw ihe saw would saw wood, But the wood he would saw With the saw he saw was knot wood And the Saw he saw would not saw knot wood. iSo Roger saw if he would saw knot wood He would saw with a knot wood saw Wood calif. 120.7 years a And a knot-wood saw Roger saw not. ***Jim jack, San Diego,* * * prankish problems .Answer to .Problem No. 7: car lengths. Prankish problem No. 8: 5 ago my age was the square of my son’s. 10 years from now I will be twice as old aS he. What are our present ages. (Can you get the -correct ages be fore thy are printed in Thursday’s issue?)* * * Ole Spring Fever’s got me Just can’t think of an ending verse But it doesn’t matter About my line of .patter As long as I keep it terse. THE COLONEL Been fishing yet? * * * * * * * * March did pretty well—(for March. (Great friendships are possible only to great souls. ******** A machine has been invented for planting trees. ******** The sap buckets are laid away for another year. * w ♦ * * • • • Livestock, thanks to plenty of feed, has wintered well. #.*©***•* Bo far, so good, as regards the fall wheat and the meadows. The farmers are on the land again. This is the real army of occupation. • • •• We welcome those tulips as their mission of beauty. they make tiheir entrance upon * * ♦ ** * ** The roads came through quite satisfactorily, Our road engin eers are doing their stuff, «***«««* Deer running wild in Florida spread ticks to cows. Deer are all right when in their place. It’s ,bad enough to get one’s feet into hot water without our heating the water ourselves. The vote on tih-e Ontario sweepstakes matter holds a mirror to the face of the Ontario electorate. ****$«•« They’re getting moisture in abundance in the Western Prov inces. This is a good time to keep our heads. ♦ We met a happy old farmer the other day. He sold ibis pota toes when 'they were 90c. per bag. It pays to follow the market. Perseverance is a big word. However, the thing itself is simple, It consists in catching on, holding on and not lettimg go. ******** • Folk in the western provinces found March going out like the proverbial lion. The heavy fall of snow was welcome. “Hope springs eternal.” ****** • « PROPHETIC A fine crop of flax -has -been grown in a watei’ solution, without soil, in North Dakota Agricultural College. ********* The foundations of this country were laid by folk* who talked very little about physical comforts. They -considered themsevles well when they had life’s bare necessities. ******** It isn’t at all likely that Mussolini and Hitler and Neville Cham/berlain tell the world what their’ plans are. In fact the gov ernments of the day let the rest of us know just what they see fit. A whole lot that we (hear is not news. * * * * * * * * -Grim, fact-stating statistics presented to the American Society for the Advancement of (Science is responsible for the following statement: “Flaming youth at the wheel is the deadliest foe of to day’s highway-using public.” ******** Everyone hopes that the western provinces will have bumper crops not only this year but -for many a year to come. Canada has waited long for the turning of the economic tide in favour of the great West. However, we’ll known more about Western prosperity when the money tinkles in the till. Some folk cherish the belief that Hitler and Stalin and Mus solini are keeping their nation mobilized, not for war, but in the be lief that nothing but the threat Of war will hold a people together in 'unified action. At the proper moment, it is believed, the dicta tors will launch some social and economic scheme that will work lasting good. That is all very fine, but we have our quiet thoughts. Lasting good -comes from intelligence and conscience (backed ihome by industry. ******** A SANE POLIpY The proposed governmental policy of helping the farmer who finds the sledding hard but who is making some tangible iptrogress and who gives promise of doing better by being helped a little, is in every way to be commended, provided the farmer helped continues to improve his condition. It’s high time for stopping helping farm ers or anyone else, when doing so is like pouring water upon sand. We need to encourage assets rather than to develop liabilities. ******** “Whether men sow or reap the fields, Divine monition Nature yields, That not iby bread alone we live, Or what a hand of flesh can give; That every day should leave some part Free for a Sabbath of tih-e heart: So shall the seventh be truly blest, From morn to eve with hallowed rest.” Wordsworth ** ****** MUCH APPRECIATED Dr. Stephenson's lecture on keeping a healthy mind is the sort that does a great deal of good. It is one of the modern discoveries •hat a healthy mind 1’s something to ‘be cultivated. The day was when a mental aberration was looked upon as something like a crime. Knowledge is demonstrating that such a condition is some thing of the nature of sickness that may be removed or cured by folk who know how the mind works. The old ideal of a healthy body and a healthy mind is one that should be lived up to. Nowadays we are finding that not only does a sound body contribute to a heatlhy mind, but that a healthy mind has a great deal to do with a healthy body, Investment in health- gives a return of 100 per cent. One thing that is coming out of the new way of this looking at things is the practice of unhappy people of going to a reliable "mind doctor” for advice and practical guidance. Incalculable good fre quently results from so doing. Naughtiness in a child, wayward ness in youth, cantauikkerousnesg ibordoring on -criminality in adults (have been cured by consulting and heeding the man who under stands the workings of the spirit, Men like Dr. Stephenson are real human benefactors. According to a statement issued by the North Western Univer sity Dental School each- one. of us has in his saliva a clue on how well his teeth will last. The North Western group support these rules for tootih health: 1. Eat the simple, natural foods rather than the refined or processed foods, 2- Reduce refined and highly purified carbohydrates to the necessary minimum. This means cutting -down on sweets and. other ’rich” foods. 3. Eat plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables to obtain the ne cessary vitamins and. minerals. 4. Use a highxsupply of good grade protein, foods, including milk, milk products and glandular meats, such as kidneys, liver and sweetbreads. 5. Take accessory vitamins only in off seasons when fresh fruits and vegetables are unavailable or expensive. Vitamins A anS D may be given during tih-e winter months. 6. Use mineral tablets, calcium or phosphorous only under professional direction. • **?••*»* THAT SWEEPSTAKES LEGISLATION Ontario stands amazed at what her ligislators have done in the way of prompting sweepstakes legislation. Yet facts are stub born things and cannot be evaded. It must not be overlooked that the voting in favour of gambling was done by men who were elected by the voters of this province. These legislators are not dull men, ignorant of the state of public opinion. These men are not eager to vote themselves to stay at home, Their vote was not a snapshot affaii’ but one taken after each voter (had an op-portunity of “get ting word from home” as to what their constituents thought oh tihe ipatter. No vote in the Ontario legislature ever was more de liberately taken. The vote was cast with the full knowledge of the folk' in every constuency "who run things.” The unconsulted folk in this matter were set down as “those who don’t count but who will come round all right on election day.” There is, of course, the other side to this. The last word, the Ontario members of parliamnt know rests with the Dominion -parliament. With this 'in view the Ontario politicians say: “It’s up to King and (Bennett. Our vote is just a straw affair. Why not be on good terms with both the hare and the hounds.” Then there is the third side. Gambling is wrong. It is an of fence against all that is good. It’s slimy trail leaves ruin in its wake. Yet we have the vote of the Ontario legislature, a vote made by men for whose election the voters of this Province are respon sible. What have these voters to say about this situation? Each to His Own Liking About a year ago The .Seaforth Ex positor pu-blisihed an editorial on the advantages of living in Huron Coun ty, one paragraph of which we quote “We have never experienced a flood We have never experienced a drought We don’t know what a dust storm is. We -have never seen drifting soil. Shade trees line our streets; the lawns are 'green; the gardens are a riot of color. In the country the trees are larger, more imposing, and they are of every kind. The pastures are green; the crops are growing so fast you can almost see them grow. The (growth spells abundance —abundance everywhere.” Under the above heading, and quoting the above paragraph, The Brooks 'Bulletin, of Brooks, Alberta, makes a reply to The Expositor edi torial in these words: “A green, pleasant and lush land for -comfortable, complacent, easy going people, forsooth. But we have seen— A -prairie fire a mile wide travel ling faster than a man could run; Land dissolved into foaming yel lowy froth by floods and pouring into a swollen river leaving behind j holes that would contain a large I house; I A tornado and felt the mighty arm of Boreas in ‘its surge across the prairie; 'Great forest fires on the ramparts of huge mountains and felt their burning breath; 'Fifty square miles of green prairie after a spring rain; And mingled with the 'great Rocky mountains and look with awe upon “Bright-faced Aurora, rosy-fingered dawn, Standing tip-toe on misty mountain tops.” And felt cloud-high dust storms, pelting hail storms, cold that bit to the bone, heat thac burned like a cinder, blizzards tha t cut like a knife; The tossin-g horns above a sea of stampeding cattle; A vast panorama of wheat extend ing mile after mile across the level prairie, the green turning to straw color, on a late summer day; A great land produce in less than a generation grain wealth whose to tal equals half the value of all the gold stored up in the -coffers of the great nations of the world; We have seen a hard-bitten, fate- flogged people, fighting to retain a toe-hold when all the elements seem to be conpsiring against them — a pioneer people in a tough, pioneer land. We may all have missed much, so ’ far from the east, security and ap parent contentment of the somnolent countryside of (Southern Ontario. But we have lived, by the gods, we have lived! (Huron Expositor) Tested Recipes’ (MM* "*!■■■ FRIDAY IQp,m. E.S.T. Station CBL MEN WHO FEEL OLD Get Back New Youth, Energy, Vitality Too many pien to-d*y feel tired out all the time—can’t work, .hate to get up mora- iogs, haven’t th© vitality to do the (dungs they used to do. A weak unhealthy liver caused by modem living, soft foods, lack of exercise, is the chief reason. Your liver is the atorehouse for glucose or the "energy part” of the food you eat—it supplies energy to muscles, tissues and glands. If it is not strong and active no wonder you feel old! Take “Fruit-a-tives”, it will build up your liver like nothing else will. You’ll be sur prised how young you soon feel. 25c., 50c., all Druggists. ' FRUITATIVESr^s They Cut Down the Old Pine Tree Macaroni Dishes for Lent During Lent, the moire -or less re stricted range of foods taxes the in genuity of the homemaker in creat ing varied and attractive meals. The foods most commc-n. during the Lent en season as staples of the menu are fish, eggs, cheese, vegetables, milk, marcaroni, spaghetti and egg noodles The last th-ree are included in Cana dian macaroni products, for the manufacture of which the name of the Dominion is now becoming fam ous. It will -be remembered that in 1935 Canada ousted Italy from the first place as the largest supplier of , macaroni to the British- market. (Macaroni products require a min imum of time and labor to prepare. They should ibe (boiled in plenty of boiling salted water, and they com bine naturally with other foods, such as milk, cheese, eggs, and vegetables The following are a few Lenten dish suggestions; Spanish Macaroni Casserole 1-2 lb. Canadian Macaroni 1-4 lb. grated cheese or cut into small pieces' 1-2 cup sliced celery 2 medium onions (icho'pipd fine) 1 can whole tomatoes -2 tbsp, chopped green pepper 3 tlbls'p. butter 2 cups white sauce (med. thick) Salt and pepper to taste Cook onion, igreen pepper, and celery in the butter until tender. Cook the macaroni ift boiling salted water un til tender and drain. -Combine ma caroni and cooked onion, mixture, ar range in layers in baking disihi, with alternate layers of cheese and ma caroni. (Season and pour white sauce over ijt. Cover and bake 30 minutes at 350 degrees. Spaghetti with' Eggs 1-4 Canadian spaghetti 8 hard boiled eggs 2 cups white sauce (med. thick) 1-4 lb. Canadian cheese (cut in •pieces) Sliced tomatoes and parsley Cook spaghetti in boiling salted wa ter until tender. Drain. Melt the cheese in white sauce by heating it in double boiler. Arrange spaghetti n a mould on a serving .platter, circle with eggs cut in half, and gar nish the platter with parsley and sliced tomatoes. Serve with hot cheese sauce. A copy of the "Canada Lumber man” carries two delightful stories about pine. (Somehow or other we lose sight of the fact that the lum ber industry has in large measure been tihe origin of our greatness as a nation and also the hope of our future progress. There is a Scot tish -proverb which tells us not to forget the cradle in which we were cradled. So (here are two stories to jog ouir memories' about the faithful pine tree. The first comes from Albuquerque New Mexico, w-heje an old pine tree was cut down. Timber experts who examined a oross-section of the trunk estimated that the tree was “born about the time the Pilgrims left for America. They counted 311 annual rings. The tree, one of the largest in the ‘mountain forests in that section produced 880 feet of lumber—enough for at least 12 “coffin of pines” or a whole chorus of hill-ibilly singers. The second story is about one of Canada’s many ancient wooden hous es. The buiding is 147 years old and was built of white 'pine. It is still occupied |by the descendants of the owner and is visited by many people who are interested in such a remarkable relic of early days In Ontario. The interior layout indicates the method of life of our Ontario fore fathers. Nearly all houses built in those days were similiarly planned. On the ground floor there is a large dining room and two bedrooms one foi* the parents and one for the minister, who presumably lived with the flock, changing homes from time to time. 'The kitchen was gen erally in an adjoining room, . fre quently undei- a separate roof. The first floor was one large room oc cupied by all the girls in the family and the top flat, also a single room was for all the boys. This particu lar house was tih-e home of no fewer than 16 children; all the sons stood six feet or over. White pine has throughout the years been a (good friend to man. The Forestry Branch of the Domin ion Bureau of Statistics tells us that about 250 million feet of wlhiite pine were cut in the lumber industry last year. One way to read a man’s -charac ter is to find (Ait what his prejudices are. Theories 'require explanations facts are usually obvious. The teacher was explaining to the 'Class the meaning or tihe word ‘big amy* "Bigamy”, she said, "means having two wives at once. Now can you tell me what is meaht when a man has only one wife?” (Little Johnny piped up with, "Monotony, Teacher.” Vegetable Ring with Buttered Egg Noodles 6 oz. egg noodles 1-2 cup- celery (diced) 1 cup shredded carro-t, raw 1 cup milk 2 cups soft bread crumbs 2 eggs, beaten slightly ■Salt and pepper to taste Combine ingredients as listed. Bake at 350 degrees Farhehflueit in butter ed ring mould. Cook' egg noodels in boiling salted water until tender. Drain and serve in centre of veget able ring. A -cheese or tomato sauce is good to serve with this dish. Don’t Count Sheep When You Can’t Sleep Help You To Get That Desired Rest So Necessary To Make You Fit For Your Day’s Work See tn it that the World of Action and the World of Thought are no longer two divided camps, For the boys with imagination, build up the faculty of decision and the Will pow er of the dreamed so that in the fu ture, men will have the courage to lad the way they have sibown, and the men of action will have the vis ion to imagine tihe consequences of their decisions. A “strong”flour that goes farther pm