HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe 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.
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’ 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?
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