HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1938-04-28, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
MONEY AND HONOR
Banish them.* * *
People work for just two things.
Money and honor.
‘More people work for Honor than
for Money; that is they would rather
have a title and recognition than a
raise in pay.
This is the reason why there was
so xnuc’h ‘-Nobility’ in Europe and it
is why we liave so many meaningless
titles in this country; such as ‘Fifth
Vice-President’, ‘Secretary to the As
sistant President’, ‘District Adminis
trator’, ‘Chairman’, ‘General Chair
man’, ‘Chairman of the Board,’ etc.
Indeed, this trait in Human Nature
has been the fundamental cause of
the increase in ibureaucratito depart
mental dignitaries.
Why is it that some men will work
harder fit lodge work, club work, or
commit'tee work' than they do at t'heir
own job? The answer is simple:
Honor - Title . , . they like to feel
(we all do) they/are a wee bit more
important than their fellow members
or fellow workers.
It is this human emotion that
makes the average salesman—who is
no more than a ‘glorified order tak
er’—assume the title of ‘contact inan’
‘service executive’, ‘account execu
tive, 1 etc.
If you want to get someone to do
something without paying him any
money, think u:p a high-sounding
title and he’ll work his fool head off
to justify the title,* * *
It is often a lot easier to deceive
yourself than the other fellow.
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’Scrap the old and adopt the new’
. . . applies to
to your personal ■* ♦
your business—not
friendships.
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Happiness can ibe bought very
cheaply . . . .when it is for someone
else.* * *
Stability is more essential to suc
cess than brilliancy.
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The best .part of a poem is not the
thought it contains but the thought
it suggests.
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Pal O’ My Heart
I’d like to think of youi my own,
As the dearest pal I've ever known
A jolly pal when all is gay,
A tender ‘pal when things are grey,
A patient pal when things go wrong,
A pal who’ll lhelp her pal along,
A winsome pal, and sweet and kind'—
Each day new charm in you I find
And year by year, you grow more
dear—
For you are the Pal O’ My Heart,
my dear.
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What is
The Arctic Fox 'has a brown coat
in’the summer season which turns to
snow white when the first snow ap
pears. This is nature’s way of pro
tecting this animal -by making it less
visable according to the season.
The (Flag of Era (Irish Free State)
is 'Green, White and Orange arrang
ed iri bars of equal width.
.Prayer is not universal in religious
worship. The Druses of Syria, -for
example, -who number more than
150,000 regard prayer as an imper
tinent interference with the Creator.
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Expension
Great sijse no longer scares the av
erage American, His desire for in
dividual expression does not hold
him back from satisfying his strong
er desire for better living.
We all have learned that it is bet
ter to have a central power system
than to have a private electric power
plant or oil lamps. We have learn
ed that it is 'better to have a large
milk company instead of keeping
our own cow or goats as they do in
many countries. We know too, that
our market is not limited by city or
county boundaries and that m order
to build any kind of business, we
must continually expand our market
—reach out in ever-widening circles
for new customers.
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If you can’t 'boss yourself, you
have to pay someone to do it for you.
Your salary is based on .t/he amount
of supervision you require.‘ * * * ,
Don’t 'be fuzzy-minded. A fuzzy-
minded person is one who is
indefinite
in exact
indirect
One who puffers—one who has no
system to their work. Ask yourself:
“Am I fuzzy-minded?”
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In spite of all the talk we hear
the
con-
about petting and necking,
nation’s consumption of onions
tinues to increase.
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Prankish Problems
Answer to Problem No HO:
minutes.
Prankish Problem No. 11: Three
clowns in a circus were numbered 6,
3 and 1. Can you arranged them so
the numbers they are marked with
will be divisible by 7
(Watch for the correct answer in
this space, next week.)
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Armor
Cynical with old loves— .
Puzzled iby' the new—
Following the way of a dream
My whole life thru.Edict, JRoanoke, Va.
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Advertising
We have read many pertinent and
pithy definitions -of advertising.. . i
but t'he one Jerome Fleishman in
Baltimore, Md., wrote, we like the
best:
“Advertising is the art of making
people dissatisfied with the things
they own and do.”
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QUIDNUNCS
The fourth Thursday in April is
the usual date set apart by proclam
ation of the Governor of New Hamp
shire as a day of abstinence, fasting,
prayer and devotion for all denom
inations.
The Pacific Ocean comprises more
than one-half the total amount of
water on the surface of the globe—
and scientists have estimated the age
of the ocean at about seven million
years . . . basing their estimate on
soil erosion and the salt content of
the water.The 'Belgian Government will '
erect a 155 foot Carillon Tower
- which will contain approximately 100
bells at the New York World’s Fair
in 1939.
The P.P.L Exposition in Sari Fran
cisco in 1915 had as one of the chief
attractions, ‘The Tower of Jewels’.
The San Francisco Fair in 1939
(Which will nun for 288 days) will
have ‘The Tower' of the Sun’ that
will cost Three Hundred and Fifty
Thousand Dollars ($350,000) to
bu-lld.
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out affecting its healthful vitamin
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Love me if you want to
Or leave me if you must—
You can never hurt me
Unless I learn to trust.* * *
Rule of Thumb
Montana a railway bridge ihad
destroyed by fire and it was
The 'bridge
In
been
necessary to replace it.
engineer and his staff were ordered
in haste to the place. Two , days
later came the superintendent of the
division, flighting from his private
car, he encountered the old master
bridge-builder. “Bill”, said the sup
erintendent and the words quivered
with energy, "I want this jolb rushed.
Every hour’s delay costs the company
money. Have you got the engineer’s
plans for th‘e new -bridge?”
“I don’t know,’ said the old mas
ter bridge builder, “whether the en
gineer has t'he picture drawed yet or
not, ibut the bridge is :up and the
trains is passin over it.”
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Look out, signature—here I come
’Cause this particular column
Is just about done.
THE COLONEL
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ROAD WORK CHECK
County Treasurer A. H. Erskine is
in receipt of a check for $68,44.2, it
being the annual provincial highway
subsidy allowance. The money was
spent on Huron County roads last
year, as was as much more by the
county itself. —
JOHN PATON SUCCUMBS IN HIS
59th YEAR
John Paton, 12 Riverview Ave.,
London, and. formerly resident in
North Middlesex, died ill Victoria
Hospital in his 59 th year. He was a
son of Mrs. Paton and the late An
drew Paton. London. Surviving are
his wife, who was formerly Miss
Sophia Tetreau, of Alberta; one
daughter, L. Mae, and five sons,
King, -Murray, Albert, Andrew arid
Frank. -Mrs. Robert Crelin, of Lon
don is a sister and A. Earl Paton,
London and John Paton, of Claude-
boye, are brothers. The funeral was
hold oil Friday afternoon. Inter
ment in St. James’ Cemetery.
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THVRSMY, AHRU. SSth, MSB
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The year's at the Spring.
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Don’t brood over your worries,
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The season’s getting on. W'hat about the^worfc?* * • ■* * • * f
Is the European wolf getting ready for another jump?
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Ten first magnitude stars are to be seen during Aipril.
Is there anything more welcome than those spring flowers?
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It’s a dififcult matter to spend one’s way to prosperity.” ********
Bounteous nature loves all lands but her home is surely here. ********
No, we're not brushing up either our -German nor our Italian.
May the West’s hopes of a fine season come to a happy fruition.
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A whole lot of us could get on nicely if only we were out of
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Those cool, dry days made practicable the doing of a great deal
of. seeding.
Britain’s controlled marketing gives her people more and
cheaper food.
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The European barometer
of “fair and warmer.”
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Nature will not be
nored with Impunity.
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-So far, April has
devastating frosts.
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seems
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.hurried
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been
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and
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to be settling in the direction
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financial laws will not be ig-
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singularly free from searing winds and
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Prontosil aud sulphanilamide are spoken of as valuable in the
treatment of undulent fever.
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The farmer th-jnks its just too bad that the price of butter
should fall away just as the butter is becoming abundant.
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Informed financiers 'believe 'that this is to be a good season for
business. Exeter merchants are, already proving this.
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A little painting here and there
Is done by wise men everywhere.
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“You see” said John Thrift, Che merchant man, “when one line
falls off, we find another line that will coax in the nimble dollar.”
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We cannot b>ut wonder what some folk think of themselves who
once urged that the open sale of liquor would abolish boot-legging.
3ft * * * **J*
T-he trouble with farming and the unemployment situation
that the farmer cannot employ unskilled labor. Farming has come
be one of the most technical of the arts.
is
to
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YOUR CREDIT
You will
you can show
have no
that you
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difficulty in borrowing as much money
can -use to advantage.
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Those who lent their time and cash to manipulating the butter
market will live to,repent their action. The consumer has been
caught napping once, 'but that experience has taught him a lesson
not soon to be forgotten.
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MACHINE SATURATED
Has the time long looked for come when the majority of people
have secured all the machinery they need? • High pressure sales
manship has wrought its own
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destruction.
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It’s too bad when those European “gentlemen’s” agreements
require the support of poisoned gas and airplanes and war
say nothing of submarines and -battle cruisers. The
seems to be finding a‘weird nesting place.
dove
tanks, to
of peace
COMING?
in
in
at
have
cure
the
The 'Old Link and Pin couplings
were in use on rail-road cars.
(Six drinks were sold aver the bar
at hotels for 25c. and sometimes se
ven drinks.
. The prickley horse -hair sofa was
in your parlor.
Your best girl wore bangs, a high
lace collar reinforced with whale
bone, and hig-h buttoned shoes.
$4.00 bills and 25c. shin plasters
were in everyday circulation.
A ten-inch hat pin was used 'by the
women to keep their hats in place.
You -had a black cord attached to
your straw hat to keep it from blow
ing away.
-Coal oil could not 'be bought after
sundown.
Your car had to be jacked up
the fall and all tires stored away
a dark room.
Beer and whiskey was plenty
barn raisings, Those were the days
also at logging bees.
The fanning mill, sewing machine,
range or stove and weigh scales agent
sold his goods off the wagon. Always
drove a smart team of horses.
The woman sat in the buggy or
cutter while t-he old man had to
his toddy.
Goose grease was a postive
for rheumatism and colds in
chest.
Whiskey barrels were arranged at
back of bar telling you the age 40-
60-70 years old in wood.
The daily task of cleaning lamp
chimneys, trimming the wicks and
filling the bowls with oil.
The old hotel managers fed you
and your horse for a 50 cent piece
and a drink thrown in.
The old wood box behind the stove
had to be filled every night with a
supply of wood, also kindling for t-he
morning.
The turkey red table cover with
>white flowered patterns was on dis
play in your front room table.
You gave ashes for bars of soap
and kitchen
ed last week.
(Shining the families’ shoes on 'Sat
urday night with the old paste black
ening.
The old peacock used to strut
around the old log hotel at Khiva
just 3 % miles west of Crediton.
tinware. That happen-
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Making Canada
A Better Place in Which to live and Work
A Series of Letters From Distinguished Canadians on Vital
Problems Affecting the Future Welfare of Canada
Specially Written for Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association
and Addressed to the President, George W« dames, of Bowmanville
LETTER NO- 3
• Quebec City, Que.
Dear Sir,—
In your letter you inform me that
the Canadian Weekly Newspaper As
sociation is striving to promote saner
thinking and more wholesome living
in Canada and you1 ask for my advice
on this subject.
I cannot but -congratulate the As
sociation on their laudable endeavor
and feel confident it will commend
itself to all who have at 'heart the
welfare of our country.
The characteristic feature of our
age is that the ordinary source of in
spiration for the multitude is derived
from t'he newspaper, editors have
therefore a mighty power for good
at their command and since you ask
my advice, I would recommend that
■they should impress upon t'heir read
ers Chat the disregard of the 'Chris
tian precepts has had a disastrous
effect on Society and is in a large
measure, the cause of the present
universal social and economic dis
order, I would suggest that they
should lay stress on t'he importance
of fostering the 'Christian spirit in
the family circle.
The family is rightly regarded as
the cradle of society. The training
of the children is a duty which na-
CARDINAL VILLENEUVE
ture as well as religion imposes upon
the parents. If in their early years1
children find within the walls
their homes,
life and the
tian virtues,
our country
-Believe me,
Yours sincerely,
J. M. R. Villeneuve, O.iM.I.
Cardinal Archibishop of Quebec.
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the rule of an upright
discipline of the Chris
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stock are sawdust and air^dried
muck or peat.
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There’s a sound of going among the maple trees
that local school 'boards soon will be a thing of t-he
this take place, who will be to blame? The days of statute labour
are gone. Why? The township council is not what it once was.
Why? Little by little the highways are passing from local control.
Why? The average M.P. and t-he average M.P.P. command but
scant respect. Why?
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that
past.
♦WHY NOT?
We visited a little rural Sunday (School just tlite other day. The
room was neat, clean and tastefully decorated with “homey orna
ments, while the walls were .hung with suggestive and beautiful
mottos. The little congregation with which this Sunday School is
connected has a severe struggle to carry on financial, but the Sun
day School is «one of the most attractive and alluring rooms to be
found anywhere.
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. THE ORDER IS CHANGING
>Some time ago it was urged that farmers would be greatly ad
vantaged by having a man or two m every community who would
do custom farm work with the tractor outfit, in plowing, discing
and cultivating and threshing and silo filling. A few mechanically-
minded men invested in such outfits and did a fair business, though
we know of none W-ho really made money. It looks as if that way
of doing things is passing. One reason for the failure of this ven
ture is the shortness of the Ontario farmer’s working season. Usual
ly seeding and harvesting operations come suddenly, the result be
ing that every farmer wants the machine owner’s helip- at the same
time. Some, in every community must come late for their service.
Dis-satisfaction is sure to follow. Those who can manage to do- so
secure their owh power outfits. 'Gradually the machine owner’s
patrons fall away till he is left high and dry, if not actually ruined
financially, or is so short of patronage that he must retire from
business.
The European situation lias presented many sides to a thought
ful onlooker. Some have never feared war, provided reasonable
steps were taken to prevent it. Any nation that was not ready to
fight for its existence during the past ten years 'became a pawn on
the international chess board. Had Britain not re-armed, late tho’
she was in doing so, she would -have been swallowed -by now. The
dictators armed that they might capture any national sugar tart In
sight, by the bully’s method of 'bluff and throat. However, the bul-
lies did not want war because they dared not incur the ri&lo. <0n
the other hand the bullies saw that the method of allowing Jack to
be regarded as being as good as his master and to have as much to
say as his master, was not marked with efficiency. If a nation was to
get on, they believed and -practiced, t-he people must play the game
of follow your efficioht leader. Hence the rallying cry of war of the
threat of war, These men lookd for no battles, but they did work
for a united people. Now that war is passing from the scene it is
believed that the dictators will use their hard-won dictatorial pow
ers in the interests of peaceful occupaions. The unity brought
about iby the war scare with all its attendant cost of labour and
treasure, will be turned to invention and manufacture and the good
of the race. We’ll see, though we have our doubts.
ernizing your
home can be
spread over a
three
period.