HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1938-04-14, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
ENEMIES
THURSDAY, APRIL 1401, 1038
You tell me you are proud of the
fact that you have no ememies. I
used to feel that way . . I don’t
now. Always I have tried to make
friends—always I have gone out of
my way and done everything within
reason ito make people .like me. But
there are some folks who just won’t
like you—wih-o just will misconstrue
your motives, who can’t see -any good
in anything you do or say.
Well, what about it? Should you
sidetrack your ideals to please such
folks? Get out from under your
real self to avoid marking enemies
of such people? Not on your life!
That’s the easiest way, of course, but
no red-blooded man—no man who
has self-respect and ambition and a
real desire to be of service seeks the
easiest way!
Make enemies if you must—they
won’t hurt you. Mine haven’t. In
stead, they have been a prod — an
urge to make me hew close to the
line of my own concept of life. When-
I hear a man say that he has no en
emies now, I kind o’ wonder if he
ever attempted to do anything worth
while.
■Charles Mackay has summed the
whole matter tup quite understand-
iagly in these few words—
You have no enemies, you say
Alas, my friend, the boast is poor;
He who has mingled in ithe fray
Of duty, that the brave endure,
Must have made foes! If you have
none
-Small is the work1 you have done.
You’ve hit no traitor on the hip-;
Yu’ve dashed no cup from perjur
ed lip;
You’ve never turned the wrong to
right— "
You’ve been a coward in the fight.
* * *
Ever notice that the fellow who is
always in a hurry is usually late?
* * * '
Many -a noible purpose has been
tangled, lost under the mazes of
mental discord, drowned in a sea of
fear, or swept away iby the waves of
worry and discouragement
sis * *
Enthusiasm is the fruit of sincer
ity.* * *
One of the -penalties of matrimony
is being compelled to listen to some
one describe your faults.
* * *
Russia’s problem is what to do
with the illiterates—why not do as
we do and let them write our popu
lar swing music.
* * ♦
If you were condemned for life to
an uninhabited island and were al
lowed to 'hake just one person with
you, would you. dare to breathe his
or her name here and now?* * *
April 6th is the date the United
States officially entered the World
War—Remember, fellows . . .
.Rookies, squads right! Camp
Sharman—‘Paint 'Street and the City
Park. ’Yu kant stand there, sojer’.
Hoboken and the convoyed transports
The crowded lighters and the quay
at Brest. IF'rg urchin singing:
’Heal, heal, ze Yanks zoll ’ere.’.
-Sixty men in a ’40 and 8'. The
rumbling ‘and rattling of overloaded
artillery caissons. The thud, thud,
thud of hundreds of hob-nailed boots
on the muddy caly roadway.
Eighty pound packs and weeks
without sleep. The thundering drone
of the big guns. Whippet tanks,
supply carts, portable kitchens and
the watercart.
’Cooties, gas, shrapnell and a mess
kit full of slum—an empty stomach.
Replacement camp-. “Hinky, dinky,
Parlee voo.” vin blanc. Overperfum
ed mademoiselles. Cognac. “-Shoot
yer des franc.’’ M.P.’s and the
guard house.
Wh-whom! . . Bong-ng-ng! The
barrage of the night attack. No
man’s land and a pocket full of pine
apples. The order to advance. The
ra-r-ra-tac-tac of a machine gun . .
ever-thinning but ever-advancing,
never^faltering, never-wavering line.
Gas! The shell .hole—the empty
canteen—one ’body motionless with
one leg torn off. One buddy blind
and constantly talking about his
mother. Cripes, won’t night ever
come. The last ’cig’ shared with a
blind man.
We thought we had done a good
job . . . “The war to end all war.”
But the next one promises to work
greater havic and greater devasta
tion.
Will it?* * *
An Easyi Way to Acquire Garden
Tools
“Say, is that Brown’s rake you’ve
got?” one neighbor called over the
fences
“Yes, it is,” was the reply.
“That’s good. If you let me bor
row it occasionally I’ll let you have
his lawn mower now and then.”
Who Will Be President in 1940?
•By a strange coincidence, begin
ning with 1840, every man elected to
the Presidency of the United States
in a year represented by a date end
ing by a date ending in zero, died in
office.
In other words, the 'President
elected in 1840 and the one elected
every -20 th year thereafter, failed to
complete his term. The Presidents
with dates to their election are, as
follows:
1840—‘William Henry Harrison
II816O—Abraham Lincoln
1&80—James A. Garfield
1900—William McKinley
1920—Warren G. Harding
and since, the vjlce^pjresident suc
ceeds to office, who will be the next
Vice-President?
* * *
“I was born a teetotaler,” said
John D. Rochefeller, Jr.------Weren’t
we all?* * *
Don’t Put it Off
Most -of us belong to the army of
“put-it-offs.” I know a man who
never does anything until circum
stances force him to get busy.
When the time comes for him to
die, he’ll have to make an excuse to
St. Peter for being late.
We put off our joys until some
m-ore convenient tomorrow . . and
then we find the joys have flown.
The good impulses we ‘have are
squelched. -Some poet sums it up in
these lines:
It isn’t the thing you do, dear,
It’s the thing you leave undone,
That gives you a bit of a heartache,
At the setting of the sun.
The tender word forgotten,
The letter you did not write,
The flowers you might have sent,
dear,
Are your haunting ghosts at night.
* * *
The looks, not the lips, reflect the
soul,
* * *
Wishing to serve the Lord in a
simple way is piety; wishing to serve
the Lord in a big way is sham.
is * *
The boss in a family is the one
who loves least . . love surrenders.
* * »
'Oversleeping will never make your
dreams come true.
$
Some Inventors Do Get Rich
Inventors of the -simplest devices
often make real money:
The toy, 'Dancing Jim -Crow”
yielded the inventor $75,0’00.00 a
year, while the man who invented
teh roller skate earned more than
$1,000,000 Rubber tips for lead
pencils yielded the man who thought
of it about $100,000 a year. The
inventor of shoe laces made $2,500,-
000. (We used to wear button
shoes, remember?) The -ordinary um
brella brought more than $10,00'0,-
000 to the inventor. The man who
perfected a metallic heel-plate for
shoes 'Sold .over 14'3,000,000 sets a
year which .brought him more than
$1,500,000 in royalties. The man
who developed the first steel writ
ing pen made a good sized fortune—
according to the Popular Mechanics.
iSuch returns are realized only in
rare instances -but it is often enough
to justify us in fostering and encour
aging inventiveness in ‘Our young
sters. Because, aside from the
chances of personal gain, every in
vention that makes a fortune for the
inventor also makes money foi- a lot
of other people as well. It also adds
materially to the happiness, comfort,
convenience and general good of
mankind.
* * *
A prim old lady was dining one
evening and while the waiter was
standing by the table she asked him
to find out the name of the piece the
orchestra was playing. Othei’ duties
claimed the waiter for a time and
when he returned, the lady had com
pletely forgotten her request. Ima
gine her surprise and confusion when
he bent toward her and softly whis
pered: ‘What Can I, Do To Make
You Love Me.”* * *
Prankish Problem
Answer to Prankish Problem No.
8: Ages: 30 and 10,
Prankish Problem No. 9: A man
lias $1.05 in change. What denom
inations of coins does he possess if
he is unable to change a dollar, a
half-dollar or a quarter?
(We’ll print the correct answer
ill the next issue.)
* * *
“If you go first, dear, you will
■wait for me on the other shore,
won’t you?” questioned the fond
wife wistfully.
* * *
It should be subtle
add Should be brief,
Otherwise, dear reader,
I’ll come to grief.
THE COLONEL
“As changeful as an April day,”********
The tulips got a bad snubbing.********
An evil mind is not an efficient mind.• *♦•••••
‘Has Hitler seen his (best days? Will he soon enter upon the
time of his sear and yellow leaf?
**«*»««>*
Picking weeds out of good seed grain is far more profitable
than finding fault with one’s neighbors.
********
In many respects the winter conditions of 1937-1938 have
been very trying. As ISpring and .Summer come, let us provide for
another such in 1938-1939.*** *****
MORE OF THE -SAME
The magistrate who decided that a man who can drive a car
can support a wife shows himself level-headed.********
A TEST OF YOUR STUFF
For a bi£ of real experience try a jaunt against a 40-mile
Nor-tihi East gale mixed iuip with sleet and ilce on a slippery road.
****** • •
OVER A TERM OF YEARS
Over a term of years the man who minds his o.wn business and
leaves othei’ people’s business alone proves the best citizen.
The dictators of Europe do not want war. They simply want
to get the rest of us to go to sleep and then pounce’ on us. Britain
lear-ned one lesson about being unprepared for violence.
********
What we need in Canada is a citizenry who wonk for unity.
This thing of meddling and “uplifting” has gone too far. Scores
and' scores of folk who have set out to make conditions better by
interfering with other people’s affairs have ended by making things
a whole lot worse.
********
” 'OVER A TERM OF YEARS
The farmer who raises -a good colt annually, who annually
sells from 12 to 20 fat cattle, who keeps a dozen cows producing
8,000 pounds of m'ilk testing 3.50, who keeps 2'00 working hens
and who sells 75 Ibogs per year, the great proportion being selects,
is very likely making a little money.
Last week’s storm in many of the States of the Union was
the worst of its sort in history. Road conditions were exceedingly
had in many portions of this Province. It takes more than a few
fine days to make a (Sipring.
********
The Roosevelt administration has received one of the worst
defeats any executive of the United States ever has sustained.
Roosevelt made the mistake of thinking that that big vote for his
re-election was an evidence of personal confidence in himself. In
reality it was an inarticulate way of -the people’s saying1 they were
glad that they had suffered so little from the depression. Roose
velt began on the wrong lines and was guided iby wrong principles.
There is but one end to that sort of thing.
**** ****
The new way of carrying on our public- and secondary schools
is coming under severe criticism. The complaint is that the new
system is based on the principle of asking a child to do only what
he wants to do. We know of quite a number of children who
were brought up on this principle. A good many of them found
their way to the jail, some to the poorhouse and others are living
on'what theii’ dads, or their wives have provided for them.********
AN INTERESTING EXPERIENCE
You’ll not find a patent medicine ad. at the 'bottom of this
paragraph so read straight down. A retired farmer found himself
out of fix generally. He was mean to live with. He was a crank
at church. He found fault with the town council. He invested,
a little money in a phony deal and was quite sure that all salesmen
were icrooks. He tried out half a dozen doctors. He was an habit
ual hockey fan, but lost his-bets. -For the past six weeks he has
been all right. ’He's a new man. He bought a new Ibuck-saw last
December and two cords of cordwood and cut the wood into stove
wood and piled it for the sun to dry out. There’s a healing magic
in real work.
********
A NEW NOTE
-Some little time ago a man was convicted of an abominable
assault. A sentence of four years in the penitentiary with twenty
lashes to add interest to his prison term was the sentence imposed,
after a characteristically 'British trial. ,Sob sisters in trousers
under the guidance of a lawyer appealed the sentence. The
judge who reviewed the case handed out the judgement confirm
ing the sentence with some such remark as this. “M.r Lawyer,
you had little to do in taking up this case. iSuch work is not what
lawyers are set apart to do. IFior my part, I’d double the pris
on term and double the number of lashes were it competent for me
to do so.” The solb-sisters in pantaloons must have been proud
of themselves.
********
A CURIOUS SUGGESTION
A clergyman the other day asked a prominent churchman and
business man who commands the respect of a large Conference for
a man to address the young folk of his congregation. Said this
business man. “Has your (church turned out, during the last 40
years, any outstanding man who is interested in church matters?”
Now, why this -suggestion? W'hy not get “just any” notable?
The reason is not far to seek. Folk with sense like to know
the goods they’re buying. The notable of the “just any” type may
be like the distant hills that look green. He 'is likely to prove the
disappointing sort who has no solid record of achievement behind
him, with which the listeners are familiar. They are not aware of
his struggle and therefore they do know the cost of his attainments.
The sane business man referred to is right. When folk are
to be addressed about the deep things of life they require the words
of one they know rather than the words of a passing stranger. One
great defect of church life is the itch for the new thing and the
entertaining thing that passes with the early dew.
********
THAT STORM
It began in the night. The sunset of the previous evening
was peculiar. The light Uround the horizon was of that uncanny
variety that causes the old country shepherd to look well to his
flocks. All afternoon before it’.s appearance the shepherd’s do.g was
uneasy. The .p-igs in the farm yard run about the straw stack or
bury themselves deep under its shelter as the night comes on. The
following morning the wind had wrought itself to the North East
and blew with sullen ferocity under a dark leaden sky. Then
came the gusty drives -of ice and sleet. Then came the snow and
sleet till finally the air was full of an icy, snowy wetness that the
increasing gale drove into every cranny of the farm buildings. The
milk flow fell off. The horses were loath to leave their stalls. A
very few cars made their unsteady, wabbling passage along the icy
roads. Here and there along our country roads travel became
impossible and the night came on with a sudden dreariness an hour
or two too early. The whole community settled down to a night
of misery and blackness except when the radio brought in the hews,
though even the radio rattled and wheezed and sputtered in sym
pathy with blue general horror of the April wind and rain and snow
and darkness. But it is against such testing times that the farmer
must build and provide for himself, his stock and his family.
LAID UP FOR WEEKS
BY SCIATICA
At 76 Kruschen
Conquered His Complaint
At 86 years of age, this man is
still going strong, yet 10 years ago
he was laid up for weeks with an
attack of sciatica, Read how he keeps
fit in spite of his advanced age:—
“Ten years ago, I was laid uip for
about a month with a severe attack
of sciatica, I was quite unable to
sleep and I suffered a great deal. I
tried several remedies, but obtained
little relief. At last I saw one of
your advertisements, and' decided to
give Kruschen a trial. I stuck to it
and took about half-a-teaspoonful
every morning in my coffee and my
sciatica gradually went. I was 86
last month—still going strong'—and
my friends ask how I keep my clear
skin and healtihy looks. I tell them
all it is due to Kruschen Salts.”—
C.T.L.
Whether you are in your ’teens or
past your prime, it is neither too
early or too late to start on the
“little daily dose.” Just a tiny,
tasteless pinch in your morning -tea
or coffee—that’s the Kruschen rule
for constant fitness.
PURCHASES FARM
Mr. Lawrence Regier has pur
chased the 146-acre farm in Stanley
Township from the owner!, Mr. E, A.
Westlake, and gets immediate pos
session.* Mr. Regier will reside on
the farm at .Blake until the lease ex
pires and then move onto his new
home a few miles from Blake.
FAMOUS $15,000 BULL DIES
Millhill’s Ransom, the $15,000
Shorthorn bull purchased by Sena
tor Duncan Marshall during his
term as Ontario Minister of Agricul
ture through donations made by a
group of Ontario citizens died at
Guelph on Wednesday of last week.
“We have a large number of his
calves and his blood will be saved
through them for the province,” Dr.
Christie said. 'The animal was
completely insured.
Did You Know That—
A sign hangs ih a garage, ireads-—
(Service to you is not a favor. It
is part of our business,
In a Bake Shop—
In smiling we use 14 muscles, in
frowning 64 muscles. (Smile and
save your muscles
In a Lun-ch Room—
Mary Burns—Lunches and Din
ners.
At a Grain Dealer’s—
C. W. Bunch-Hay and Straw
Medical Sign—
t Dr.- iC. iS, Early
A. Trick, M.D.‘
Ice Cream Parlor—
Edna .Springs
Around the corner for Pop, Ice
Cream and -Candy
Factory—
If you want to know who the boss
is here—Just start up something.
Bar Room—
Mary had a little lamb, what will
you have
General Store—
If U don’t C what U want ask 4 it.
Gas -Station at Mooresville—
By gas (here and save money.
Bill Board, Detroit—
Wanted—iSausage grinder for road
Hogs.
-Some one wants to put their
“knows” in your business.
Coin Collector—
Will pay $10.00 for 1902 King
HEALTHY
CHILDREN
CHILDREN®;;
CHILDREN of all ages
thrive on '‘CROWN
BRAND? CORN SYRUP.
They never tire of its delici-
Ous flavor and it really is so
good fpr them—so give the
children ‘‘CROWN BRAND?
every day.
Leading physicians pro
nounce “CROWN BRAND”
CORN SYRUP a most satis
factory carbohydrate to use
as a milk modifier in the
feeding of tiny infants and
as an energy producing food
for growing children.
Edward 10 cent pieces.
Notice Sign—
If any man’s or woman’s ciows
gets into these here oats, his or -her
tail will be cut off as the case may
be.
■Constable: “Sorry, but you’ll have
to be summoned for driving at fifty
miles an hour.”
Motorist: “Make it eighty, officer’
I want to sell this car!”
Auction Sale 'Sign—
Animal sale now on, don’t go else
where to be-cheated—come in here.
Real Estate Sign—
Money Tawks—But Poority yells.
On a Farm—No Trespassing
Trespassers will be prosecuted to
the full extent of two mongrel dogs,
ane one double barrel shot gun that
ain’t loaded with sofy pillows. Darn
ed it I ain’t sick of this hell raising
on my property.
Did you. know that there is noth
ing new undei’ the sun?
S. J. S.
Backache Bother You?
It May Warn of Kidney
Or Bladder Irregularities* Take
A Diuretic For The Kidneys
Be Sure And Get DOAN'S
1 T. MILBURN CO., LTD, PRODUCT
Reductions in tele
phone rates — local
and long distance—
in 1935, ’36 and *37
have effected savings
to telephone users m
Ontario and Quebec of
nearly one million
dollars yearly.
^eU, Sie f Porat‘on?<
eit’s
4 fellow ,
/une; .&
th* I
of out^- 1
^rVJ>0>ote,rttobo’b7ere
tired ft re than e c blg tn
Ont=rio°^San'l tekpL10 hun’
^Ppo^^Qoebe^fe
Geo. W. Lawson, e°"°'
Manager