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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1938-06-02, Page 7Do you measure a man’s character by his daily work or by what he .does under unusual circumstances?♦ * * We are told to forgive our enemies —shouldn’t we also forgive our friends?* * * PLAY THE GAME Play the game with all your might, ■Play the game and do your part Play the game with the will to- fight Back up your work with both head and heart. Yon will not fail if your heart is there You will not fail if you daily dare You will not fail if you make this your creed . To put your best in every deed. If you pay the game with your heart and soul If your heart is there you reach your goal Don’t falter—don’t waver — do not quail. The fight is yours—and yours alone The fight is yours, answer the call The fight is yours, there’s naught to atone When you do your best—when you give your all.* *. • Musical Comedy is for the eye- minded—Grand Opera for the ear- minded. * * * •One reason ideas die quickly in some craniums is because they can’t stand solitary confinement. * * * 'On the other hand, would your wife have accepted you if she had had an independent fortune of her own?* * * . When you read is vvise maxim, do you apply it to yourself or to some friend ? * * * When John D. Rockefeller was a small boy, a so-called Indian Doctor in the district started business by announcing that he would auction off —‘this 'bright silver dollar’. The crowd, suspicious, did not bid until young John D., aged 7, said: “I bid 5 cents.” “Sold,” said the auctioneer, “give us your mckle, Sonny, and take the dollar.” 1 “Take it out of the dollar,” said young John D., as cautious as any body, “and give me ninety-five cents’ Such a boy was quite sure to get ahead.* * • ENERGY “The difference between men is energy.” Mental as well as physical energy. Men who make a success in any line: Business, finance or athletics—are energetic—more energetic than tiheir 'competitors. (Successful salesmen are • energetic salesmen. This is an accepted truth that every salesman will admit. The ’ slow, plodding type lacks the spark of enthusiasm and naturally fails to import that something—fails to en gender the impulse to buy—in the mind of the prospect. Have you ever, noticed that chain stores employ only energetic' people? Have you ever noticed that suc cessful men or women in any line of work are energetic? If you are an employer, how many .people on your payroll are energetic —naturally energetic? Half of them? Well, it will pay you to see to it that all of them are—and if you can’t encourage and inspire all of them to become energetic, then they have no place in your shop, store dr fac tory. If you are an employee, are you honestly energetic or do you work in ‘fits and starts’? You can ac cept this as a truth that unless you are energetic, yOur 'chances of suc cess in any field of endeavor are mighty slim. Yes, sir—the difference between men is energy.* * * What good does it do for a one- armed ma* to go fishing? He- mis ses most of the fun of talking about it afterward. Obstinate Coughsand Colds The Kind That Stick May Become Dangerous Of. Wood’s Norway Pine Will Help Bring Relief N t MILBURN CO., LTD., PRODUCT Last year, more than $26,000,000 worth of golf balls were gold in the United States, while over $2,'000,000 worth of the little wooden tees were lost, strayed or stolen by ar dent golfers.* * * Did Lot’s wife make a left-hand turn?* * * If you think you are so darn smart—why aren't you rich?♦ * * Would’st be supremely happy? Then love thy family more ’than thyself.* * * DON’T TELL YOUR TROUBLES Nobody knows that your luck' has turned; Nobody cares that your bridge has burned; Nobody gives a rap when you’ve quit; While you’re sulking and skulking, you don’t count a tbit. We’re working, we’re busy, we’re eager to try, Permitting no chance for success to slip by. Don’t tell us your troubles—we’ve " lots of our own; Stop whining and pining and start in to “bone.” We all 'have reverses, but we don't 'proclaim The fact that our fortunes are spav ined and lame. We keep it a secret and seek to- the end, We face the world smiling till luck starts to mend. * * * Asked to pray tor warm weather so that her grandmother’s rheuma tism might pass away, a six-year old girl knelt and said: “Oh, [Lord, please make it hot for Grandma.”* * * SUCCESS The father of Success is Work. The mother of Success is Ambition. The eldest son is Common Sense. 'Some of the other boys are Perse- verence, Honesty, Thoroughness, Foresight, Enthusiasm and Co-oper ation. The oldest daughter is Character. (Some of her sisters are Cheerfulness Loyalty, Courtesy, Care, Economy, Sincerity and Harmony. The baby is Opportunity. Get acquainted , with the “old man” and you will be able to- iget along with the rest of the family.* * * No, the facts of the case are— gentlemen -do not prefer blonds— they iprefer “redheads.”* * * Young Bride: “Now dear, what'll I get if I cook a dinner like this for you ever day this year?” Hubby: “My life insurance.”* * ■ * Did’ja ever notice that— —in a town where you could park as long as you want to, there is no good reason why you1 should? —there is very little difference between ‘apiplause’ and ‘applesauce.’' —you couldn’t get a rise out of some people if you fed them on yeast cakes?* * * PRANKISH PROBLEMS Anwer to last week’s problem No. 15: |l,021 mangoes to start with and each had 80 at the finish. Prankish Problem No. 16: A 'bot tle and a cork cost $1.10. If the bot tle cost $1.00 more than the cork, what is the cost of each? (Watch for correct answer in this space next week.)* * * Henry Ford was asked what he would do if called upon to take charge of a manufacturing business that was failing because of excessive costs of production—and lie replied: “The first .thing would be to see if the plant was clean. It is 100 to 1 that I would find it dirty. If so, I would clean the plant from end to end before I did another thing. There is nothing so demoralizing to work ing men as a dirty shop. A dirty shop drives away good meh and at- tracks bad ones.” * * * Why is it nobody ever believes a ‘Wet Paint’ sign? .Ml Mi * A bronze statue will never be erected to the fellow who. puts iliis feet on his desk. * Mi * Have you stopped to consider Why nature gave yon two eyes, two. ears and only one tongue?* * Ml The habitual knocker never ‘knock’ an, inferior. . Kind header, again I pause And at this ipiace Once more insert this clause—* ’Adies'—and win the race, THE COLONEL THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE IHVRW, JfXB 2nd. !»3S The ground is cold for t'he season. The good things of day cannot long remain, in reverse. ***** *** A really stiff day in the field is a safe cure for night-hawking. ******** That frost of the 24th of May did far more damage than we care to admit. ****..*.*«?• Rhrely has early June been blessed witlh such a profusion of leaf and blossom. Its a good sign When a neighborhood enters keenly into stand ing grain competitions. ***»**».* The weatherman may send an early season but Jack Frost will not be cheated out of his dues. Wise gardeners own the corn. ******** Thanks to good sense and the necessity of securing daily bread, the gears of civilization are still in mesh and her work is moving right along. ******** Young Canada can snare fish with the smartest of his—yes, and of her—ancestors. We have seen them at it in this long- settled portion of the province. • • ****** A SUGGESTION 'Brother news broadcasters—a little less conjecture and la little more news of constructive activities, if you please. ******** It looks as if Europe has called Hitler’s bluff. He is either a mighty clever man oi* other clever men have used him as a cats- paw. We fail to see any constructive thing he has done for the world. It may be that instead of bestriding the world that five years will see him in discard. .Popular cries make men. They also break them. * ******** NO FOREIGNERS WANTED Canadians do'not want any foreigner' to have any control what soever of the Island of Anticosti. We have memories of the trouble that ensued when Britain ceded Heligoland to the Germans, under one pretext or another. We wish no foreign camel’s head in any part of our .British Dominions. The easy way is not to allow any concession of any sort whatsoever. This is a case where the ounce of prevention is the part of wisdom. ******** ’ THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY Pick up almost any British magazine these days and you’ll ob serve that more space is given to pomp and circumstance than to war and rumors thereof. But America does not get that side of the story—-perhaps because it does not understand that the braid and tinsel is the British Empire’s method of dressing its democracy. But behind closed bars of the Tower of London the keys to the Tower are turned over to- the new Constable, Sir Claud Jacob. Jewels royal prisoners, old doors, musty traditions; very British. We like it. —'The 'Christian Science Monitor’ ******** BOUND IN THE BUNDLE OF LIFE WITH BRITAIN ■Let it be known that the freedom of this country is bound up with the welfare of Britain. If Britain falls Canadian liberty van ishes like snow on the river. 'Should Britain lose a major war Ot tawa may as well throw up her hands. The time to prevent such ■calamities is this very hour. The policy for Ottawa is to. declare that in any major crisis Canada is behind the mother country to the last man, the last gun and the last Canadian. When shells are falling in London or Halifax or Vancouver and on the City Hall in Toronto it will be too. late for Canadians to stand by the mother of parliaments. The pity of it is that so many people ig nore the peril of tne present times. *♦**?*★** Providing jobs is all very good. It is far better than giving direct relief. Unemployment insurance is all very good, It is away beyond a comparatively inconsiderate granting of old age pensions. Yet both tend to unman our population. Both smack of paternalism. Scotland got on well for centuries without either. Denmark fought for and won and has maintained a place in the siun without either. Cartier and Champlain got on without any such support. Cromwell and his fellow citizens were not bolstered up with such staying legislation. Government does very well by its people when it sees that every man who toils shall do so in peace and that he reaps what he sows unmolested. Danger is invited when these principles are violated or exceeded. Why should one able-bodied, sound-minded man live on the fruits of another’s labour? ■ 1******** NAZIS IN CANADA That wasn’t news for some of ns that Hon. R. B. Bennett 'gave out the other night in the House of Commons when he said that there was Nazi propaganda being carried on in Canada. Three years ago the writer was told by a party who had officially investi gated the case that there were at least 30 well known anti-Britisli organizations at work in Canada supported from outside. Russia and Germany were mentioned in this connection. Canadians, in this respect dearly love to play the ostrich. Along with these or ganizations were scores and hundred of men in public places who were everlastingly telling the youth of the land that Britain is in a bad mess, sadly in need of chastisement of one sort or another and who were doing their little bit to have Canadian youth taught that figuring in her defence was both unn^b-ly and unchristian. Only fools and blind shut their eyes to these facts.. Ml ****** * DIFFICULT DAYS No one wants war. Yet there are some nations, Germany and Italy, for instance, who play on this fact, not wanting war but hop ing that other nations want war less than they want it, and press every war threat to the limit. It is well known that these nations would wage war on ill-defended nations, so void of conscience have they become. Germany would seize Britain this minute if she dared. ,Sane folk realize Germany’s objective is not only Austria and Czechslovakia, but France and Britain. Meanwhile Britain must carry on a double-barrelled policy, treating Germany as if she were ready to trade with her and otherwise be her good neighbor, but prepared to the last shoe latchet for war should Germany turn aggressor. More difficult times it is hard to imagine. AND IN BUSINESS No Canadian cares to own tihat there has been a slowing down • in business. On t'he other hand he -says very little when you talk tO' him about the state of his cash register. And this is, a good policy. The wise merchant buys only what he is reasonably sure of turning over quickly. He is keeping down expense; working his head off; watching details; surmising how the cat will jump and carrying on wit'll a goodly mixture of trepidation and hope. He dare neither quit nor launch out. Only t’he very rare trader or manufacturer dare venture on a long distance policy. Merchandis ing and manufacturig are difficult propositions these days, but they are being carried on. t AND As FOR ARMAMENTS Should war come armaments will be greatly needed. In that case they’ll cost a lot of money plus a lot of blood add a regression to savagery. Should war not come they’ll cost a lot of money, greatly needed for every day life. In any case the making of those arma ments will take out of human life a lot of energy that should have gone into better livlrng*. Did You Know That— The letter “a” is one thing' that makes men—’mean. Sound travels 115 miles a second. Light travels 186,000 miles a sec ond. A person with a hobby never has “nothing to do.” It is better to patch up a quarrel today than your face fo-morrow. The rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman. Gen. II. In one hour an average of 19*8,500 crimes are committed. In one hour 176 tons of tobacco are being cultivated. In one hour two and a half million eggs are eaten also^ fifty million pounds of potatoes. Foreign tourists visiting Canada spent $295,000,000 in our country in '1937. This old yorld is of no account to us except as a place to live—let’s make it safe and stay as long as we can, The first female government is mentioned in Judges 4:4—'Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth. | iiji.i... J .i»i. fim. |i.i, ,i iji ,,i i ih'.i.j* Making Canada ABetter Place in Which to Live and Work A Series of Letters From Distinguished Canadians on Vital Frohlcms Affecting flie Future Welfare of Cawaila Specially Written for Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and Addressed to the President, George W. James, of Bowmanville * * * Some doctor’s couldn’t cure a ham, Some lawyers couldn’t try a case of Lord, Some artists couldn’t draw a pint of beer, Some newspaper men couldn’t write a cheque Seme druggist couldn’t fill a long felt Want. ♦ * * Women spend 250 million dollars a year on beauty preparations. 2,375 tons are used annually and some brands which retails for $1.00 costs but 10 cents to manufacture. * * * Miss Sonja Heinie the world’s fi gure skater refused two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) for an endorsement of a certain cigar ette. 'She said: “I am ashamed of women who smoke—Good bye! and Good Health!” LETTER NO. 5 London, Ontario March 14, 1938, Deai- Mr, Editor As a believer in the exceptional power of the weekly ipress to guide public thought I cannot but com mend your special effort to assemble constructive views concerning the great public issues of Canada. Tho’ I dare not count my own views as of any worth, yet I venture to submit one or two of them if for no other reasons than. you have requested them and that I hold them very strongly. It seems to me that the many in ternal issues that confront us now are really only so many phases of one great issue—essentially a great moral issue. Most of our troubles appear to- be due to the inability of Canadians as a group, to see national conditions as they are. This nothing less than a refusal to face facts, a shortcoming the right name of which * * * As I walked by myself I talced to myself; Myself say out to thee Beware of thysefl Beware of thyself For no one gives a— But me. S. J. S. Denomme-Bedard A pretty wedding was solemnized at St. Peter’s Church, French Settle ment, when Louise Bedard, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Albert Bedard, of Drysdale, was united in marriage to Adrian Denomme, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Denomme, of the 14th concession, Hay Town ship. Rev. Father Marchand, the parish priest officiated. The bride, lovely in a long white goyzn and carrying pink carnations was given in marriage by iher father. Miss Ger aldine Bedard, in blue -crepe dress, and carrying pink flowers was iher sister’s bridesmafd. The groom was attended by his brother, Harry and the wedding music was played jby Mrs. Armand Denomme. Following the ceremony, the wedding party went to the home of the groom’s parents where dinner was served. Mr. and Mrs. Ardian Denomme will reside in Zurich. W. Sherwood Fox is a very unlovely one—intellectual dishonesty. However sanely we con duct our private lives and our pri vate business we are in the habit of assuming an attitude* of wishing * thinking in regard to our public pro blems. We act as though umpteasant problems will solve themselves if we only close our eyes to their existence long enough. We seem to -assume that by merely wishing things to be otherwise we can improve them or remove them. In the meantime the plain fact is that our problems are steadily growing worse—public debts mounting, railway deficits nearing their absolute limit, government ex penses’ increasing through the de mands of ourselves, the people, who blindly ask to be bribed by our own money. Another form of this self-inflict ed blindness is playing the old game of “passing the buck”. Canada is a democratic and, therefore, we, t'he people, are fundamently the govern ment. Our representatives do the chores of government for us but we are responsible for the kind of people they are and the way in which they do* their chores. In ipractice, however, we lay the blame of bad or indifferent government upon them and arrogate to ourselves credit for any bits of good government. We are also in the habit of endeavoring to make influences originating outside the country the scapegoat for many of our own sins. I believe that the weekly press can do Canada no better service than, even at the risk of becoming boresome through repetition, by constantly reminding Canadians that most of their national troubles are of their own making and hence of their own curing; that the day of reckoning is absolutely unavoidable that if we face the facts in our pub lic business as we do m our private business there is yet time to solve a large number of our problems and to reduce or' even avoid the impact of calamity. Many other nations sin cerely profess to admire Canadians for their common sense. Let us en deavor to show ourselves genuinely worthy of the praise. Sincerely yours, W. SHERWOOD FOX President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. PRESENTATION A very appropriate address and presentation was conducted at the close of the preaching -period in the morning service of the Evangelical Church, Zurich on Sunday, when Mr. Alfred Melick took the meeting in hand and after a few well Chosen remarks read an address and Mr. Burn, who has been the pastor of the congregation for the past six years was made the recipient of a beautiful upholstered lo-unging chair which had as -part a footstool. REV. A. E. A. MENZIES IS GOING TO LONDESBORO Rev. A. E. A. Menzies, of Lambeth pastor of the Westminster West charge has accepted an invitation to the Londesboro- charge in Huron Co. Coming from Fullarton in Perth County. Mr. Menzies has been the United Church -pastor for Westmin ster West for the past six years. He will take over his new charge early in June. IMPORTANT Alee REDUCTION NEW CAR PLATES TO BE VISIBLE IN DARK Ontario Department to Make 1939 Markers “Spectur-Xdghted.” Embarrassed since the first yell of protest was sounded against Ontar io’s pretty but hard-to-read 1938 au tomobile license markers, the Hep burn Government has decided the 1993 markers would be “spectur- lighted." The 19-39 plates Will have white lettering on a black background. The lettering will be treated by a new “glass-spray” process designed td provide greater visibility after dark. The 1938 plates were baby blue with orange lettering. The new plates will be made as usual at the Ontario Reformatory at Guelph. They will cost about $20,- 000 more than the $60,000 spent on this year’s plates. Police officials . in “ all parts Of the province claim the 1938 plates are difficult to read. The Cabooses A proud parent called up the newspaper and reported the birth of twins. The girl at the news desk didn’t catch the message over the phone. “Will you repeat that?” she asked. “Not if I -can help it,” was the re ply. Speaking of gratitude—did’ja ever ■see a child write a letter to Santa Clause after Christmas? of HAMCO COKE GET A DANDY HAMCO COKE SHOVEL at a fraction of regular cost. See your dealer. • Ask him, too, about the new HAMCO automatic draft Control and HAMCO HOT WATER HEATER Save dollars through- !xt heating season by filling your bin with Hamco Coke NOW. Ask your local Ham co Dealer for full particulars. H AMgO. < HAMILTON BY-PRODUCT COKE OVENS, LIMITED HAMILTON, CANADA H. T. ROWE, R. G. SELDON, JAS. P. BOWEY INSIST ON HAMCO—CANADA’S FINEST COKE f <