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PUNCTUALLY
One mighty important index to a
man’s character is his reliability in
the matter of keeping his anoint
ments on time.
Name any man you can think of
off-hand who is considered a big suc
cess in busmess and the chances are
ninety-nine in a hundred, that this
man you pick-—who necessarily has
a wide variety of interests (many
more things to do and think about
than the average man) has trained
himself so thoroughly in the habit of
punctuality that it is part of his very
nature.
Punctual ipeople show they respect
the value of the other fellow’s time,
and in turn, command the respect
of everyone with whom they do
business,
.Anything is hard to begin whether
it is taking a cold hath, writing a
duty letter to some deserving rela
tive, clearing up a misunderstanding
or ‘falling to’ on the day’s work.
Yet— 'a thing begun is half done*
No matter how unpleasant a thing
is to do, begin it; and immediately,
it becomes less unpleasant. -
.Form the habit of making a start.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, wrote
Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the
same stbry
Tomorrow and the next more dilatory
For indecision brings its own delays
And days are lost lamenting o’er lost
days.
What you can do, or think you can,
begin it
Are you in earnest? seize this very
minute!
Only engage, and then the mind
grows heated;
Begin it, and the work will be'com
pleted.* * *
To succeed, your main objective
must be to make some substanatial
contribution to the public good rather
than to make the most profit for
yourself. *
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Perform one duty well and your
reward will be an even greater duty.
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Does Your Opinion Agree with the
Average?
It has been estimated that there
are about 144,000 restaurants in the
United States, of which 17,000 are
located in the New York City area.
Of the total number, about 10,00'0
of them do an annual 'business of
more than ^200,000.
According to “.Sales Management
and Advertisers’ Weekly’’ reports,
there are nine principle features
which make a good restaurant 'pop
ular:
Good Food .................................25 %
Convenient Location ............... 15%
Reasonable Prices .................... 15%
Unique Decorations ......... ..... 15%
Intelligent Advertising ............ 10%
Speedy service, mo'dern sanita
tion, quiet atmosphere e and
adequate? ventilation, each 5 %
or ‘.....<....................’..............20%
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PICK OUT A GOOD STAR
How much will power have you?
If you are ihonest, ' you'll admit
that you haven’t any. What you do
have is desires—and if those desires
are powerful, you find you can gen
erate the energy to realize them.
I doubt that anyone can cultivate
will power by reading a book about
it. The best way to cutlivate Will
power is to cultivate your imagina
tion.
Get a realizable goal. Keep your
ambition to yourself, Don’t talk
about it—Otherwise your energy -will
be dissipated in conversation, instead
of action.
Why is one man able to iget up
promptly at a certain hour each
morning while another turns over
in bed and sleeps an extra thirty
minutes—arriving late at his office.
It isn’t will power. The first man
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has a clear mental picture of the ad
vantage of holding liis job and get
ting a better job, of avoiding the
anger of his superior. He likes his
bed just as well as the second man,
and his. instinct tempts ihim to lie
in, bed. Only* his imagination saves
him from taking the extra nap, com
pelling him to open his eyes and
jump out. The second man may be
stupid or .'half-sick, or lacking in
any strong desire to alter his econ
omic situation-—sleeps seems more
desirable than anything that may foe
gained by rising and t'he stronger
desire wins.
■Will Power—or what is popularly
called will power—can be more ac
quired, I foelieve, by reading books
of inspiration such as biography and
, autobiography, than by studying
! volumes dealing with psychology. i\
i All that most of us need to give
■ us the will power to improve our
selves is a good example.
One evening, a group of men met
to consider what could be done to
fouild up one chapter of a national
college fraternity. The boys had
become shiftless. The quality of the
membership was low and getting
lower.
“One good youngster could pull
that crowd out and put the chapter
up where it belongs,’’ remarked an
old alumnus, “I’ve seen it done many
times.’’
He was absolutely right. Give a
fiouj) of college men a hero and each
lad will try to become like the hero.
If the hero is a gentleman, his ad
mirers will conductxthemselves like
gentlemen.
Nations are moved by equally
simple methods. Let a certain type
of man catch the public mind, and
millions will be influenced for bet
ter or for worse. No one ever read
Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography
without foecoming a better man—
that is, this writer’s idea of a better
man. Franklin is one of my heroes
Therefore, if you’re dissatisfied
and seem to lack the will power to
change your condition, don’t expect
to make any change in yourself by
repeating magic phrases or hanging
wall mottoes in your bedroom. De
fine your desires by writing them
down on paper. Then, if you have
been honest and reasonable, you'll
find you have the energy to make
your goal.* * *
PRANKISH PROBLEMS #
Answer to Prankish Problem No.
14: 147.7 pounds.
•Prankish Problem No. 15: Four
men and a monkey were cast ashore
on a desert island. The only thing
of an edible nature they found was
a tree of mangoes. They picked the
tree and divided the mangoes equally
by count amongst the men—one be
ing left o.ver for the monkey.
They went to sleep but A woke up
and fearing the eats might run
short, took his share and hid it. He
then divided the remaining mangoes
into four equal parts by count—one'
being left over for the monkey. B,
C and D, each in turn, woke up and’
did the same; there being in each
case, one mango left after the equal
division by count—and this mango
was put in the monkey’s share. Thus
we know that the monkey had 5
mangoes
How many mangoes were there to
start with and how many did each
have at the finish?
(’Correct answer will, appear in
this space next week.
<1* H* H*
Did’ja ever notice—
that the fellow who has the ha
bit of doing things without be
ing told, seldom has need to dis
like ;his boss?
that the people who are mean
enough to build spite fences us
ually have two or three conven-
■ ient knot-holes for peeping?
that the people who. mispro
nounce the big words are tfoe
ones who use them most?
* * *
WHO DESERVES CREDIT
Many a man whom the world ac
claims 'a giant would be pretty puny
mortal were it not for the inspira
tion and encouragement of some
good woman.
The greatest tribute a man can
pay his wife is to admit that she
ought to share fifty-fifty in what
ever of fame or glory has bOeii Re
stowed upon him.
Business is a tough game and
some of its shining lights are rather
Iiardboiled, hut the influence of
love isn’t given the credit it deserves * * *
Clickety-Clack, 48 typewriter keys
Two-finger technique, go as you
please
Getting near the last line by a very
tight squeeze
Hunt-and-pfc'k! now I take my
ease.
THE COLONEL
THE EXETER TIMES-ADVCHCATE
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Sweet is the sunshine after rain,
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The lilacs and the bridal wreaths.
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And now for the church gatherings.
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pasture conditions leave little to be desired.
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' Let’s keep the Cape of Good Hope in sight.
A neatly kept lawn and premises tells of an ordered mind.
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If the warm showers continue we’ll have a bumper hay crop.
The trouble with a wihole lot of us is that we’ll not learn how.
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If there is no European war the fault will not lie at Hitler’s
door,
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We like tfoe man who trims the edges of either a field or of a
lawn. It’s there the advantage lies.
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. Don’t wait for the tourist trade. It’s .passing right along the
highways.
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iSo far, tfoe season has been about two' weeks ahead of the av
erage year.
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Will the .Exeter green peas and new potatoes be ready for the
first of Joly?
Yes, the outlook is good but John Cautious never cooks his
hare till he catches it.
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Yes, sir, the apple blossoms have about had their day for an
other year, and well have they made use thereof,
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Western Ontario has been favored this season. Business has
been very good, strikes have been rare and the general health of
the people has been of a.high average.
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How much of that money set apart for public works will bene
fit the farmers of 'Ontario? How much of it will find its way to
the inland villages and small towns?
■Canada is talking of spending $40,000,000 in .public works of
one sort and another, but with a corner of her eye on relief. All of
which means a further leading of her citizens in the way of incom
petency.
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Rarely has there been a better early spring than that of 1938. The
ground has been in splendid condition for seeding'. The blossoms
have been, abundant, while the frosts have not been severe. The
growing season is off to. a good start.
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THE WINNER
We saw a. gray figure going patiently up and"d6ivn his fields
spud in hand. That old chap reaped 40 bushels per acre of wheat
last. year. He’s trying to beat that performance this year.
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KEEP STEPPING YOUNG CANADA!
Just the other morning we came across a man with a thirty
acre orchard. The man in charge was a Hungarian. Said the
owner, “The mice girdled my trees terribly. I engaged a man, who
was recommended by the fellows who were supposed to know what
they were talking about to engage a certain ’Canadian, to do the
job of grafting. I paid out $85.00 for the work and not a graft
grew. I engaged this man and not a graft missed. I have been
'blamed ever since for employing this man who did the trick for me.’
Do we need to point the moral?
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THAT SHOW BUSINESS
The only things that took tfoe joy out of the old circus days
were the empty (pockets and the necessity of working doubly hard
the next few days to overtake the work on the good old farm.
These thoughts have been suggested to us by the visits the dictat
ors of Europe have ‘been making to one another. The show busi
ness was of a high order, but it cost money. German doctors are
telling the German government that unless they feed the people
better, all manner of physical and mental and social ills are on
the wing. Italian doctors are doing the same thing for the Italian
people. Even governments are finding that they can pusih the star
vation business altogether too far. Enthusiasm, the people are
realizing, is no substitute for bread and butter and meat. Mean
while Britain and France are looking on, realizing that the more
cash Italy and Germany spend on firecrackers of one sort and an-
otheT, the less money they’ll have for trade, for munitions or for
food. .
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the forward look
We have a lot of sympathy digging into the past of our young
country, bitt we have enthusiasm for the folk who are iplanning for
the future. As far as this good town goes, we are more anxious
about her’today and her tomorrow' than we are about her. yester
days. Columbus was short on antiquarianism. In the same class
we find Henry Ford and Edison and MacDonald and Laurier. The
men who are making this good town fairly hum are men who heed
Longfellow^ call to his fellow countrymen:
“Trust no future how’eer pleasant;
Let t'he dead past bury its dead!
Act, act in the living present,
Heart within and God o’erfoead.”
“The paths of glory lead but to the grave’’ is very gcfod poetry
even if a bit morbid, but it was written by a man who watched a
crowd of iboys playing and made the following comment. “Where
ignorance is bliss ’tis folly to be wise.” The fewer such comments
on hitman life the better.
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THAT 'TALK OF DISUNITY
We’re not one whit surprised that the western provinces are
uneasy and that there is some talk of disunity. For years on end
the West has been hit hard. The very souls of her people have
been desperately tried. When poverty has come at the ''door, little
wonder that courage and steadiness have flown through the window.
There is one thing that ciheers us amid all the pother and brew
and stew of the disunion talkers. That thing is the conviction on
our part that the folk who have stuck through the las,t eight dread
ful years will not give up now that the better day is redonmg in
the West. Showers, abundant sho/wiers, are finding their way to
thirsty lands. The fertility is in t'he soil. All it requires is the
moisture. The lessons of the depression have been learned. What
man can do to maintain moisture will be done.
With prosperity will return the paiper with its daily or weekly
budget of optimism and suggestion.
The West will learn that they are not the only folk who have
struggled with breezes from the Gulf of Despair fanning their
cheeks. For a decade we’ve been terrible toilers, everyone of us.
The East and the West that have suffered together and shared what
bounty each had with the obhei\ will not •separate at the call of a
few axe-to-griiid schemers and political hucksters and charlatans.
Did You Know That—
Man was mentioned first in Gene
sis 1:27.
“There is no skeleton key to the
door of success.”
It takes years to raise a man; you
can kill hi in a minute.
Doing good is the only certainly
happy action of a man’s life.
A man who is careless is danger
ous—with him no tool is safe.
A man wraptped up in himself,
makes a small package.
Bachelors are the rubber tires on
the wheels of civilization.
In Ireland there are men of 'Cork;
In (Scotland men of Ayr; but in Eng
land, they have Lighter men.
* * *
To get good is animal;
To do good is Human;
To be good is Divine.* * *
It’s always hard times with the
man who sows dirty seed and uses
Scrub Sires.
The horse is “the faithful servant
to man”—'But horses can’t all be
trusted always—neither can man.
* * »
When a fellow get so good that
he can drive with one hand and with
out thinking, it’s time to lock him
up.
A cow requires about an hour to
eat enough grass and regrind it suit
ably for assimilation to produce one
quart of milk.
Four things a man must learn to do,
If foe would keep his records true,
Think without confusion clearly;
Act from honest motives purely;
Love his fellow men sincerely;
Trust in God and Heaven securely
* * *
How much alike
Are men and shoes!
For instance, each
A soul may lose,
When shoes wear out,
They’re mended new;
When men war out,
They’re men dead, too.”
•S. J. S.
Misery's love for company is nev
er reciprocated.
* * *
Why is it that people who are eas
ily shocked at naughty things like
to talk about them?
'J’HIKSI.AV, MAX 2<HU, 1038
SHOE BUSINESS SOLD
Mr. Charles Fritz, of Zurich, has
disposed of his shoe business to Mr.
Edward J. Datars, who has taken
possession. Mr. Datars has also
purchased the building containing
the stock. Mr. Fritz has reserved
the large private garage at the rear
of the shoe store for his own use and
will also have the use of the small
addition adjoining the shoe store to
the south for a number of years and
intends fitting same up as an office.
Mr. Fritz came to this villiage 50
years ago and has been engaged in
the shoe business all those years and
he considers that he is entitled to a
rest. Mr. Datars has been employ
ed at the mills of Mr, F. C. Kalb-
fleisch for some years and is well
known throughout this community
and should command a big share of
the shoe trade. —Huron Expositor
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and build up your liver like nothing else will,
You’ll be amazed how well you are every
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