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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1938-07-07, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE HOW DO YOU RATE? THURSDAY, JULY 7th, 1938 Clean up as you go, ******** • A recent survey made among out­ standingly successful business execu­ tives showed many things which they all had in common. One of these—an important one— was that with only three exceptions, each of the men of the 72 interview­ ed were as exacting in their ‘self-, analysis' as they were in demand­ ing that their subordinates fill cer­ tain qualifications. This periodic checking up on them­ selves was one of the reasons why these men had achieved such unus­ ual success. How often do you check up on yourself? On your business? On your duties and your relationship to them? No two pepole are alike in tem­ perament, training or ability and qualifications so- we won’t attempt to give you an analysis chart—just a suggestion or two so you can make your own. It will pay you to study yourself— to find all your qualifications as well as your limitations. Are you master of your habits or do you allow habit to master you? Are you running your business (or your job) as well as you know how? Do you allow a constant string of detail—daily routine—to divert your mind from your duties, responsibil­ ities and from the real purpose or plan of which your daily task is but a small part? ■Have you a growing -program — a plan of expansion covering a num­ ber of years in the future—-mapped out for your business? Have you continued to study and improve your mind since leaving school? Do you realize that a four year college course is but a small beginning in a real man’s education. Every man should have a plan or educational schedule mapped out for himself and this plan should be based on an eight year period at least—and then on a ten year per­ iod when the eight years are done. 'Strange as it may seem, nearly •every one of the 72 men interview­ ed had most of these questions as well as others in their own personal self-analysis -check up. , 'Other questions had to do with Health, -Spiritual or Religious view­ points and Morals—their obligations to society. It will pay you to set down alone somewhere today and map out a self-analysis chart or code of ethics —and then, to keep it -constantly and firmly in mind from now on. ♦ * * It is not what we gain but what we retain that co-unts. ♦ * * Action is just as important as Some men need monuments to perpetrate their memory.• * 4> The knocker never hears oppor­ tunity knocking,♦ ♦ ♦ Don’t wait to wash your hands until it is time to be called for din­ ner.♦ * • iSu-ccess never hobnobs with an indolent man.* * * PRANKISH PROBLEMS knowledge. *♦* To- get up in the world—do it be- fore 10 a.m. *** Your best opportunity lies close tto you. * * * Never show a man where he is wrong unless you can help him -cor­ rect it. $ * $ It’s, not the wear and tear on the mind that wears it out, it is the rust of disuse that takes the toll. A QUIET, WELL CONDUCTED, CONVENIENT, MODERN IOO ROOM HOTEL—8S WITH BATH WRITE FOR FOLDER TAKE A DE LUXE TAXI FROM DEPOT OR WHARF-250 St 4* Bowel Complaints of the Children During the hot summer months most childton are subject to diar­ rhoea, dysentery, colic, cholera in­ fantum or some other bowel trouble. All mothers should use Dr. Fowler’s Extract of Wild Straw­ berry on the first sign of any loose­ness of the bowels. uDn Fowler’S” is an old and tried remedy. It 1ms been used by thousands of Canadian mothers for over 90 years. Do not experiment with your child’s health by using somo new and untried remedy. Got “Dr, Fowler’s” and feel safe. Tho T. Milburn Co.,. Ltd., Toronto, Ont, Answer to Prankish Problem No. 20: The lady was G2 years old, Prankish Problem No. 21: A walks at the rate of 6 miles an hour. B walks at the rate of 4 miles per hour. Starting from points ten miles apart, they walked toward each other. A bird' flying at''the rate of 25 miles an hour flies from A to B and keeps flying back and fourth until they meet. How far (Toes the bird travel be­ fore they meet. (Watch for correct answer in this space in our next issue,) Ms * * “An engineer of international re­ putation” according to the Engin­ eering Record, “is a man whose ar? tides are read in foreign countries but those neighbors are not prositive as to whether he drives a locomotive or tunes a paino for a living.” To which we add—‘such is fame. Quidnuncs The large battleships to be under construction for the United States government will require a crew of about one thousand, five hundred men and officers. At pres­ ent, there are fifteen battleships in the U. IS. Navy which have 'quarters for the accammodation ■ of about twelve hundred men each. Shakespeare was one of the great­ est ‘wordsmen’ of all* time. In his numerous writing, it is estimated that he had a vocabulary of twenty- four thousand words. Few writers of today make use of as many as eight thousand words. Anti-aircraft grans fire about 650 shots per minute. The average consumption of fish per capita in the United States is about 12 pounds a year. Japan has an average per capita consumption of about 60 pounds per year. The largest shoe factory in the world is in Zlin in Czechoslovakia. The output of this one factory is about one million pairs of shoes a week—more than 50 million pairs a year. In Mexico, they make use of a species of cacti for fencing private property. The plants are not cut, but transplanted and continue to grow. Fences of this kind are said to be almost impenetrable and at­ tain a growth of fifteen feet or more. * * * • What will your business be like in ten years from now? Will it be a growing prosperous in­ stitution or will it be under new management? Your business ten years hence will depend almost entirely on the think­ ing, planning and effort you put into it now, for after all-—“a business is but the legthened shadow of one man.” So, the question for you to ans­ wer is ‘How big a shadow am I building?’ Mi Mi Ms All to Myself All to myself I think of you— Think of the things you used to do Think of the things you used to say Think of each happ-y yesterday, Sometimes I sigh and sometimes 1 smile Brat I keep each golden while— all to myself. Jjt Wife (paying unexpected call at the office): “You told me, John Henry, that your new stenographer Was an old maid.” Husband (flustered): “That’s right, my dear, but she’s away ill today and Sent her granddaughter instead.” * * * Always do more than you prom­ ise—rather than promise more than you do. * M< Mi A personal -consideration dwarfs our soul. , ' ■ * * * Kindness is worth much yet costs little. V * M< With a ’zim’ and a ‘zip’ and a mild hurrah, We close our desk on another day Writing the four last lines with all you got Doesn’t come easy when days are hot. THE COLONEL Get ready for the u-p-swing, ******* * A real good rest sometimes restores a man’s grip, ******** Read and act on the signs of returning business -confidence. ******** Business men have found that applied new methods to meet new occasions. The roses are beautiful, And have you come across a more delicate fragrance than that of the wild rose? ******** The workingman has a whole lot of legislation to protect him against overwork, against unsanitary working conditions, against unfair competition and all that sort of thing. What he needs just now is a job. WORTH HEEDING Said a speaker in attendance’ at the New York State Bankers’ Association: “It should be both the national policy and individual attitude to commit ourselves anew to the heroic ideal of the pion­ eer and discard the defeatist attitude of too much preoccupation with security.” ( * * * ***** For many a day the majority of people believed the earth to be flat. That is not the case any more. The earth did not change its shape but men’s opinions of the shape have changed. -Some folk for a number of months saw nothing but disaster ahead for the business world. They see sunbeams these days where formerly they saw nothing but storm -clouds. Business situations have not changed but men’s ways of regarding them have changed. There’s a great deal in the state of mind. ******** MAKING JOBS. The homemade job is the best sort. It may not be as pretty as the job handed to one but, like homemade -clothes, it is likely to- weai' satisfactorily. This thing of catching on is not altogether a matter of the system, nor of the times, nor of the depression, nor of the party in power, but of the individual -getting down to brass tacks, however deeply those tacks may be hid in difficulties. Since time began, youth has had to make its own jobs. ******** SALES MISSED Madam went to market the other morning bent on the pur­ chase of strawberries for her canning. From store to- store the good lady tramped only to be told, “We’re out. The truck has not come in. We’re looking for it any minute,” Disappointed madam found her way home, told her husband of her bad morning and made arrangements to visit a neighboring town. There the fr-uit was secured and~a good deal of other shop­ ping done besides. 'Indeed madam found that it paid her to make the trip to the place that supplied her with the goods she wanted when she wanted them.******** THIS IN 1938 "A tragic stream of 15,009 homeless, hopeless refugees reach­ ed Valencia today from the war-devastated Castellon,,-province — Scores of families brought tragic stories. ’Some told of having pa-used briefly in their flight to scoop out a shallow grave of a rel­ ative or friend killed at .their side by machine-gun bullets. Almost certain death lay along the highway from Castellon. Machine-gun raiders would suddenly appear and every moving'object would halt as the terror-stricken refugees threw themselves on the ground -under the rain of bullets.”—-From a Valencia despatch by the As­ sociated Press.******** HE CAUGHT UP An old farmer was plodding his way behind his old gray mare the other morning when he was-.overtaken by a neighbor who was driving a new car. The old mare filled the shafts of the democrat. In the democrat were forai* bags of fine new potatoes, two -crates of strawberries, a half bushel of fresh beet bundles and a half dozen well-fleshed chickens. The neighbors met in the town and were chatting. Said the car owner, “That’s a fine mare you’re driving', but you are slow,” “Yes” was the reply, “but I’ll catch up about tax-paying time.” The records showed that the other fellow had not paid his taxes for two years. THOSE SPIES No- one likes a spy. We like an investigator but the sneak who tries to get what “isn’t his’n” is likely to 'find himself provid­ ed with a quick lime bed. It seems that Germany has been spying on the affairs of the United States government and that Uncle Sam has caught 1<S of the dandies. We have not heard what he has done with the spies but we believe that he will look after these enter­ prising folk till such times as the information they may have gath­ ered is no longer valuable. It is a fine -country that minds its own' business and leaves other country’s business alone. It’s a simple rule, but it works. ******** WHAT? On the eve of the twenty-fourth anniversary of the Sarajevo pistol-shot. — the shot which released the mad dogs of war, sent 65,000,000 men to mobilization camps, demanded the supreme sac­ rifice of 8,543,000 men, amassed a total of 37,-500,000 casualties, and burdened the world with $300,-0'00,000,000 in war costs — the world faces another critical situation. Spanish Insurgent bomb­ ings of British merchant vessels .continuing in the face of protests, warnings, and a well-advanced plan for Anglo-Italian appeasement bring the total of unprovoked assaults on British shipping to 59. What will Britain do? And if -Britain does, what will Europe do? —(Christian -Science Monitor THOSE JONESES 'Someone with a -good lead pencil has been writing things about the Joneses. It seems -that this interesting tribe is to be found in the United States and that it will cost $-138.14 per Jones family to be governed this year. This same responsible figurer says that it cost the same average family for the same purpose $79,86 in 192-3. The writer is asking if the United States is gov­ erned twice as Well in 1938 as it was in 1923. These Jones people do like to get the worth of tlxeix* money. If they do not get value for their dollars they ask the reason why and to do some stiff kicking. We’d like to see the figures for Canada. TALKING TOO MUCH Talk may be cheap but it may help or hinder business. For years, in fact ever since 11929, we have done too much talking about business conditions. Business Is like the ^colored man’s religion, “Sometimes up and sometimes down” but the wise man is everlast­ ingly at it. The talk of what may happen is likely to- do a lot of harm. It Is as true now as it was 2;000 years ago that we do not know what a day may bring forth. It Is equally true that careful attention to what is happening is a satisfactory guarantee of what going to happen later on. It Is still a fact that what a man sows rather than What ho talks about, lxe reaps. There is a lot of sense in what Longfellow sings: Trust no -future, hoWC’er pleasant, Let the dead -past bury its dead; Act, act in the living present, *' Heart withing and God o’erhead.” 1 Did You Know That- - Cows have no uppex* front teeth, A little stream will quench a great thrist. Garden cats clear your garden or farm of Rattlesnakes. Money is the best thing going— but it is still better coming, (Lake Superior is the largest fresh water lake in the world. The Chukar Partridge, one bird that thrives in the country where the water supply is scant. The Gila whose name incidentally is pronounced heela, is a deadly monster caught in the hot deserts of Arizona. I saw a cow slip through the fence, a horse fly in the store. I saw a board walk up the street, a stone step by the door. The first horses on record in Egypt were brought by the Hyksos about 1700 B.C. Judging from the known dates of other objects uncovered near by this horse dated 11500 B.C. * * • Berries red, have no- dread Berries white, poisonous sight Leaves three, quickly flee. * * * Making friends is lots of fun Shaking hands with everyone; Hearing what each has to say, As we meet them day by day. * ♦ * Swapping smiles and trading cheer Makes up happy while we’re hear, All the joy of life depends On the art of making friends. S. J. S. Mitchell Reunion The ,17 th annual Mitchell reunion was held on Saturday, June 25th in Springbank Park, London. In spite of the wet weather there was an at­ tendance of 1'20 present. Following dinner at 1.3 0 p.m. a program of sports was run off under the conven­ orship of Mr. Cecil McMoran, Lon­ don. The results were: Girls and boys under 6 years, Mar­ jorie O’Neil, Donna Mitchell, Stuart O’Neil; girls and boys from 6 to 9 years, Helen O’Neil, Patsy Mitchell, Bob Traquair; girls from 9 to 12 years, Rosalie Adams, Shirley Moir, Shadah Hill; girls from 12 to 15 years, Audrey ^Sims, Shadah Hill, Rosalie Adams; boys from >12 to 15, Cameron Bean, Calvin Hill, Gerald O’Neil; young ladies’ -kicking the slipper, Addie O’Neil, Mrs. Vai. Hill, Audrey S'i-ms; married ladies, carry­ ing peanuts on spoons, Mrs. S. W. 'Sims, Mrs. Allie Hodgins, Mrs. S. C. Adams; young men’s race, Cameron Bean, Roy O’Neil, Donald Adams; married men’s race, soda crackers and whistle, T. Foster, Eerson Stan­ ley, Norman Mitchell; three-legged race, Violet O’Neil and Morley Adanis Helen McMoran and Emerson Stan­ ley, Violet Fraser and Gerald O’Neil; feeding the monkey, Violet O’Neil and Morley Adams, Mrs. Stanley Mit­ chell and Earl Mitchell, Audrey Sims and Gerald Sims; spot race, Violet O’Neil. There was a soft ball game cap­ tained by Manley Adams and Emex& son Stanley and the score was Adams 16, Stanley 6. Prizes were given to the youngest children on the grounds They went to Donald, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe O’Neil, Arthur, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Mitchell, Alice daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hewson Hill. The oldest person present was Mi's. Mary Foster, aged 94, who is the only living member of the orig­ inal Mitchell family. When the sports were finished they sat down to a bountiful supper after which a business meeting was held at which Dan Dew, Exeter, was elected as president for the coming year and Mr. Creighton Adams, of Lambeth secretary-treasurer People coming the farthest were: Mr. Manley Adams, of Larder Lake, Northern Ontario, and Mr. and Mrs, F. V. Hill, and family of Detroit. 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* James, of Bowmanville ■ — ... ,.|.............., LETTER NO. 10 Dear Mr, James: I may say that I am greatly in­ terested in your project, for ope rea­ son, because I think that your Asso­ ciation can do much to improve the welfare of the Canadian -people by the influence it has in moulding pub­ lic opinion. The hard times of re­ cent years have led to a .great deal of misunderstanding and, in turn, have spread some dangeroras philoso­ phies which have interfered with the natural process of economic recov. ery. In my opinion we need for the completion of this recovery not Only a return to good cro-p conditions in the Prairie Provinces, but also strong resistance against the radical ideas which have become all too prevalent in the past seven or eight years. So long as a spirit of inde­ pendence and a belief in democratic policies and methods obtain through-- out rural Canada, we are in no- ser­ ious danger of taking such desperate measures as have been introduced in certain other countries, partly to re­ lieve economic distress, and partly to satisfy the dictatorial aims and ambitions of men who consider themselves superhuman. At present I can think of nothing more important than that the tradi­ tional independences and democratic beliefs of orar rural population be maintained, and I am sure that your Association has done, and could do a great deal more, to keep, and per­ haps strengthen, these beliefs. SUCCESS It’s doing yiur job the best you can And being just to your fellow-man It’s making money, but holding friends, Amd staying true to your aims and ends; It’s figuring how and learning why, And looking forward and think- high, - And dreaming a little of doing mu-ch It’s keeping always in closest touch, With w.hat is finest in word and deed; It’s being thorough, yet making speed; It’s daring blithely the field of chance While making labor a brave romance; It’s going forward despite defeat And fighting staunchly, but keep­ ing sweet; It’s being clean and it’s playing fair; It’s laughing lightly at Dame Despair; It’s looking up at the stars above, And drinking deeply of life and love; It’s struggling on with the will to win, S. H. LOGAN I should welcome the opportunity of discussing this matter further with you. Perhaps you could find it convenient to visit Toronto in the neai’ future and call on me here. Yours very truly, S. H. LOGAN, Past President, The Cana­ dian Bankers Association, President, Canadian Bank . of Commerce. But taking loss with a cheerful grin, It’s sharing sorrow, and work, and mirth, And making better this good old earth; It’s serving, striving, thru strain and stress, It’s doing your noblest—that’s <SU>CCElSS. ***The Rambler MEETS WITH HAY COUNCIL Mr. A. N. Fellowes, engineer of the Department of Highways, sta­ tioned at Stratford, met with the council of the Township of Hay on Monday and various matters per­ taining to township roads were dis­ cussed. Authority was given to construct a wooden brid-ge on conces­ sion 4 where the dredge used in con­ structing the Aidworth Drain cut across the roadway. Work will be started at once. “Inscribe the wreath: “In loving memory of my dear mother-in-law.” “That will be extra. It is not a usual inscription.” NOW... TOURISTS SPEND 295 MILLION YEAR Co-ordination of the efforts of the various tourists agencies across the country, private as well as govern­ mental, is the pi'inxe purpose of the Canadian Travel Bureau, its direct­ or, Leo Dolan, told the Rowell Com- missioxx recently. Each year the bureau held a con­ ference of all tourists agencies so its general program of the following year would meet the requirements of all as nearly as possible, he said. The bureau advertised the attrac­ tions of Canada generally, supple­ menting the efforts of the .provinces Each day 500-600 inquiries were re­ ceived , serviced genet'ally and then turned over to- the revalent provinces for specific effort. Last year the bur­ eau, received 76,000 inquiries and so far this j’ear has received 45,000. Travel across the Canadian-Amer* lean boundary was the world’s larg­ est with 18,200,000 tourists enter­ ing Canada and spending $29'5,000,* 000 last year, Mr. Dolan said. Even so, the opportunities -of this travel market were great since it was est- imated Americans spent $5,000,000,- 000 a year travelling. The bureau spent between $180,- 000 -and $200,000 of its $250,000 ap* propriation in newspaper and maga­ zine advertising in the United States. at new low summer prices A BIGGER BARGAIN THAN EVER GOODYEAR SPEEDWAY • If your budget dictates a low first cost you can find no better buy than this husky SPEEDWAY TIRE. Here, frankly, is a Goodyear tire ata price ♦ ♦. but still a Goodyear; built with a tough, thick tread, Supertwist body, Goodyear construction throughout and Good­ year guaranteed! There’s nothing on the market that provides you with A value comparable to Speedway at its new low prices- Drive in and see this tire today . . . we have youf she! Snell Bros. & Co. Exeter, Ont.