HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1938-07-21, Page 3THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, JULY 21st, 1()38
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LET’S BE ROOTERS—-NOT
KNOCKERS
It was the seventh inning. The
game* stood 9 to 4 in favor of the
visiting team.
A goodly number of the thousands
.present arose and stretched and pre
pared to 'go home.
A man back of me said to his
companion; who- was about to go:
“The game isn’t over yet. Let’s sit
tight and pull for our boys. They
don’t need us when they’re winning
but we’ve got to root like hell if we
want to help them when they're los
ing.” '
And so he rooted. Others took the
cue and began to take new nterest
in the game. The next batter up
for tire home team banged out a 3-
bagge-r, The crowd took heart.
Somebody shouted encouragement.
Then somebody else did likewise.
Next man up hit for two bases,
scoring the fellow on third. The
crowd stood up and yelled—whole
heartedly this time. Then followed
a succession of cracks of the bat
that set everybody wild.
The score was tied in a jiffy. Then
another of our boys slid across the
homeplate—and the game was won.
It’s that way in the game of life
sometimes. We burn in disgust from
the poor devil who is pretty nearly
down and out, when all he needs is
for us to root for him a bit. Our
belief in him, if we express it out
loud, will give him a nejv ‘hatting
streak.’ A friendly slap on the back
and a sincere word of encourage
ment has saved many a man from’
going down to- defeat.
Let’s not be less stingy with kind
words. It’s then when a-man is ap
parently losing' that he needs us to
.root for him.
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If she is fifty and a gossip, she is
just trying to -get a kick out of sin.si: * *
Flattery is the name some people
give to the praise they hear given
others.* * *
Naturalists say birds are wise: but
unless poverty really is a blessing,
the stork uses darned poor judgment* * *
There are five clearly defined
moods: indicative, subjunctive, po
tential, imperative and yes-men.
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The self made man never seems
to suffer the pangs of remorse.* v *
HOW TRUE THIS IS
’Twas the night before pay-day,
And all thru my jeans,
I searched and I hunted for
The ways and the means.
But nothing was stirring
Not even a “jit”
The silvei’ had walked out
And the “green-backs” had quit.
Hasten! Oh, Hasten! O time in thy
flight,
• And make it tomorrow, just for
tonight!* * *
QUIDNUNC
The largest Diamond ever known
was about three times as large as
any other known diamod. It weigh
ed approximately 3,024 carats an
equivalent of nearly two pounds. Its
value was about One million Pound
Sterling or $5,000,000. It was nam
ed after the founder of the Premier
Mine in South Africa, Thomas Culli
nan and was known as the Cullinan
Diamond. It was cut'into about 9
different major and minor gems.
The largest gems are part of the
Royal Crown Jewels of England.
' It has been estimated by scientists
.that there is enough gold in the
•ocean (sea water) to give each per
son living about Fifteien Million. Dol
lars or Three Million Pounds Ster
ling.—if it could be reclaimed.
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„ There is a thousand times more
silver than gold in solution in the
oceans of the world.
The largest producer of tin in the
world is the Federated Malay States.
The Radio Times, published in
London, England, has an average,
weekly circulation of 3,000,000.
It is estimated that there are more
than 11,(163,000 farm horses in the
United States in addition to about
4,479,000 mules.
The Agricultural Adjustment Act,
approved February 16, 193)8, provid
es authority for control of surpluses
of five commodities: cotton, tobacco,
corn, wheat and rice.
It is estimated that a man fifty
,years old has spent fifteen years
sleeping. A man seventy years old
will have spent twenty years sleep
ing. The average man spends two
whole days each year eating- and
drinking.* * *
Mother: “Oh, Freddie, I thought
we had all agreed to economize, and
here I find you eating bread with
both jam and butter on it.”
Freddie: “Why, of course, Mother,
one slice of bread does for both.”* * *
Times change—it used to- be that
a seat on the New York Stock Ex
change cost more than a seat in the
Senate Chamber.
The proper measure of a man is
the size of the thing required to give
him a grouch.,* * *
A man always chases a woman un
til she catches him.* * *
He laughs best when he can laugh
at the joke ’when it’s on himself.■* * *
Trouble nowadays is that too many
parents’ slippers are worn out on
the dance floor.* * *
PRANKISH PROBLEM NO. 23
A farmer having a wayside market
and selling pork to the passing trade
wishes to weigh out his stock in
amounts from one to forty pounds in
clusive. But has only limited epuip-
ment at hand consisting of a pair of
balance scales and a bar of lead.
He cuts the lead bar in four sec
tions so that the four pieces weigh
forty pounds. He finds that by us
ing the four pieces of lead as weights
and subtracting from one side to
the other of the scales, he can weigh
the pork from 1 to 40 lb. inclusive.
What are the four weights?
Watch tor the correct solution in
this space next week.* * *
“Nurse,” said the patient, “I’m in
love with you, so I don’t want to get
well.”
“Don’t worry, you won’t,” she said
cheerfully. “The doctor is in love
with me too, and he saw you kiss me
this morning.”* * *
BULE BREAKER
One of several promises we made
ourselves when we started this
column was that we would retrain
from the use of the personal pro
noun—•chiefly, because we intend to
keep this column free from controv
ersial topics and also because we
know that most of our readers are
not at all interested in our opinions
and our personal likes and dislikes.
But if you will permit it just this
once, we are going to break the rule.
Our birthday is on the 25 th of
August and it has never been our
privilege to meet or know any one
shared this natal day. An odd record
for a 54 year period, don’t you think
Now the chances are there are many
of our readers who eat birthday cake
with from 1 to 9 0 candles on it the
same day we do. We would like to
hear from each of you—who knows
—we may form a “Twenty-fifth of
August Club.”
This column appears in News
papers from Norwich, Conn., to San
Diego, Cal., and from Regina, Sask.,
Canada and Selsinki, Suomi to Nam-
bour,, Australia.
It would be nice to become ac
quainted, don’t you think?
If you do, just mail a letter or
postcard with your name (age not
essential) to this .paper. If the list
is not too large, I will try and ack
nowledge each one by sending you a
list of all readers throughout the
world who favor August 25tli for
personal reasons. .How about it?* * *
Of all the forms of animal life on
this planet, man is the only species
ornery enough to need a hell.’* iii *
The difference between men and
women is that a man can love his
dog and still adore his mate.* * *
Some read this far
And some don't try, v,
Another column’s crossed the bar
My! How Wme does fly.
THE COLONEL
We saw madam looking inquisitively at the table corn patch.
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It’s ’stonisliing how tired the tiredness is on Sunday morning.
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We know very little about what induces or prevents rain fall.
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“AU things come to those who wait”—SO' says the Alberta
farmer.
Canada 'would be all the better of a little first class statesman
ship,
That currant “jell” suggests good times next winter. We’ve
been sampling.
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Did You Know That--
“Worthwhile results are worth
while efforts.”
* *
A bee has two- kinds of eyes, 3
small ones and two enormous ones.
* *
The nursery rhymn, “Three blind
mice” is more than 300 years old.
* *
The mountain Zebra is Africa’s
rarest animal. Only about 50 of
these remain on earth.
* *
Simcoe, first Lieutenant-Governor
of Upper Canada, was the “father”
of Ontario’s present-day road sys
tem.
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I saw a peanut stand up high, a
sardine box in town, I saw a bed
spring at a gate, an ink stand on the
ground.
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The showers this summer have
did a lot of good where they fell.
been local all right, but they
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Whene’er you see a man’s name
writ upon the glass you know he
owns a diamond and his father owns
an ass.
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
Spccially Written for Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association
and Addressed to the President, George W« James, of pownianyjlle
Britain doesn’t want war. That’s why she is spending $5,-
000,000 a day in her rearmament operations.
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• . The government of Alberta broadcasts that the province has
sufficient man power for the harvesting of the crop. *
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Pump-priming in politics is all very well in its way, but
it doesn’t take the place of a lving spring at the bottom of the well.
A THOUGHT FOR THE TIMES
LIFE, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in pro
gression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in past
times.—Johnson.
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Knowledge and ideals are all very fine, but when it comes to
getting the hay into the barn and the corn field into good con
dition, and the cream can well filled, we’ll put gumption and knee
action against the whole caboodle.
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' DARK DAYS
This makes sad reading, these doings in Jerusalem, the city
dedicated to peace.
The Jews, history teaches, were set apart in their favoured
land to be a people who might serve the race by demonstrating
to the world that man does not live by bread alone. While they
were to be a people of thrift in things men may measure and
weigh, they were pre-eminently to be a .people who- showed the
world man’s real Kingdom eminently is within him rather than
outside him; that man’s chief end is to glorify God. Had they
fulfilled this great end, all other things would have been added
to them. Instead they chose their own path. They could not for-.
get the calf and fleshpots of Egypt. They could not refrain from'
making the forbidden fruit their main concern. They killed their
prophets and stoned the messengers of the spiritual life. The in
evitable followed. Their house is left unto them desolate.
The Arab, who contests the possession of the Promised Land
with the Jew, -has not been true to the call of his great founder
who called his followers to. the high ideal of a pure monotheism.
He has wrapped .himself in his pride and gone his own way, only
to find his way the way of his own choice leads to death. What a
pity it all is, the "city of David, the sweet singer, and of Isaiah
who told of the Suffering Servant, the land where Jesus lived and
taught and gave His life, now a shambles! Cool .Siloam’s shady rill
where sweet the lily grew, now ' runs red with human slaughter.
These be strange times, my masters!
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NOT NEEDED HERE
Word has come that England, Wales and Scotland are in the
midst of a big campaign that affects not only the congested areas
of the large towns and the cities but the houses of the farmers.
Conditions are different across the Atlantic, as a large number of
the farmers in those countries are tenants. Further, custom has
encouraged farmers in the Old Country to submit to housing con
ditions that would not be tolerated in the older parts of Ontario.
For example. Within the last few decades, farm housing conditions
were of such a nature that when folk who .came from the Old
Country to Canada returned to their native land for a visit, were
very glad to come back to the land of the maple and the beaver.
Bonny Scotland, auld Ireland, dear old England, they found were
all very good to sing about and to sentimentalize about, but living
there in comparison with an average Canadian home, bless you that
is a very different thing! So when 'we read about all those fine
things the British Government is undertaking for her farm and
other homes, we must not forget that the average man .has five
chances in Canada for one to be had “over there,” where taxes
are mounting at a rate that would make Johnny Canuck hit the
ceiling. England is discovering the worth of the average man as
Scotland and Ireland are doing so painfully. Her working people
■as Carlyle pointed out long ago are found to be net hands, merely
but men with thinking brains and spirits .capable ol' inflate growth.
In Canada we give men the opportunity to earn, to fend for them
selves and by thrift to build and to own their own homes. When
men in (Canada, show that they can make a good financial use of
money, they have no difficulty in securing it for proper purposes.
HIT-RUN VICTIM
LEFT TWO HOURS
Left lying unconscious in a road
side ditch for nearly two hours the
victim of a hit-and-run driver, Chas.
Woods, 15-year-old son of Mrs. Lot
tie Woods, .Seaforth, on Thursday it
Was found lie escaped with minor
•head injuries and a possible rib
fracture. The young lad \yas struck
from hie bicycle two and one-half
miles north of Seaforth, early Wed
nesday morning as he rode to work
at the farm ef James Morrison, of
McKillop Township, but the accident
was not reported to police until late
that night. Young Woods is be
lieved to have lain in the ditch near
ly two hours and when he regained
consciousness began walking towards
Seaforth when a passing motorist
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Holy Land Exhibition is the larg
est mechanical model in the world.
It weighs 7 tons and has 730 sta
tues that move like humans.
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“They saw that man is mighty,
He governs land and sea;
He wields a mighty scepter,
O’er lesser powers that be.
But a mightier powei’ and stranger,
Man from his throne has hurled;
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.”
S. J.-S.
LETTER NO. 12
Dear Mr, Editor:
A hardly feel that Dam competent
to offer you suggestions as to mat
ters of policy. However, in vipw of
your definite request I am offering
a suggestion which might possibly
be fruitful, and that is that the press
of Canada in its editorial policy do
something constructive towards the
welding of the provinces into- a more
clo'sely knit federation.
The enclosed clipping from the
editorial column of the Windsor Stax-
dated July 31st, indicates to- a cer
tain extent the tendency of certain
members of the press to foment a
bitter feeling between different sec
tions of the country
periods this feeling
evident.
Suggestions for
“The East will do more than
simply sympathize with the
West in the latter’s hour of
trouble. The folks of the prair
ies do not nfeed to worry about
what the East will do. Help
will be given the West this year
just as assistance has been ren
dered in othei’ years of the
drought.
Saskatchewan, especially, has
been stricken this summer 19'37
Searing heat has frizzled the
crops until they are worthless
even for feed in some places,
the farmers ;will loss complete
ly, even being out the
their seed.
The disaster is more
local catastrophe, it is
tional extent. For, with
'poverished West, the purchas
ing power of the prairies is -cur
tailed.
The East will rally to the aid
of the West. Generous contribu
tions will be made from
part of the Dominion to
neighbors in that part.
Newspapers in the West
hoping and suggesting that
East do something. They can be
assured their pleas will be ans
wered.
Hodgert Reunion
Eighty-five members were pres
ent at the 14th anpu'al reunion of the
Hodgert family held at Queen’s Park
Stratford, on Wednesday afternoon,
members coming from Toronto, Lon
don, Port Hope, Exeter, Seaforth,
Russeldale, Fullarton, Farquhar,
Chiselhurst, Hensall and other points
The officers in charge of this
year’s picnic were,: President, Mr.
Wm. Hodgert, Exeter; secretary,
Miss Lily Francis, London; treasurer
Mrs. Milton Ho'dgert, London; sports
committee, Mr. Foster Bray, of New
Toronto, Mr. Kenneth Hodgert, of
Port Hope; refreshment committee,
Mrs. Harold Lawrence, Seaforth;
Miss Pearl Dawson, Farquhar; Mrs.
Edith Bray, New Toronto. Mrs. Elsie
Colquhoun, Munro; Percy Duncan
and John Hoggarth, Cromarty.
Results of races, .games and other
events on program: All children, 5
and under, Wilma Coates; girls, 6
to 8, Bernice Dillon; girls, 9 to 11,
Marion Hodgert, Marjorie Richard;
boys, 9 to 11, Neal Hodgert, Harold
Dillon; girls, 12-114, Janet Hodgert,
Jean, Hodgert; boys, 12-14, Reg.
Hodgert, Mac Hodgert; single ladies
Marion Lawrence, Loreen Martin;
single men, William Hodgert; mar
ried men, John Hodgert, Foster
Bray; distance race, Roy Coward,
Jim Hodgert; ladies’ kicking slipper,
Mrs. Mary Coward, Lilian Hodgert;
men’s kicking slipper, Foster Bray,
Roy Coward; wheelbarrow race, Al
lan Coward and Allan Richard; mar-
mied ladies race, Mrs. Florence
Hodgert, Mrs. Jim Hodgert; ladies’
Mrs. Mar.p Coward, Lillian Hodgert;
Lawrence; men’s balloon contest,
Harold Lawrence, Mrs. Edith Bray;
clothes pin race, John Hodgert; bean
contest (ladies) Mrs. Florence Hod
gert; (men’s) Wm. Hodgert Jr.
A base ball game was also enjoy
ed. 1939 officers: Honorary Pres.,
Mrs. John Bell, Exeter; president
Miss Jessie Hodgert, Exeter; secre
tary, Mrs. Roy Coward, Woodham;
treasurer, Milton Hodgert, London;
refreshment committee, Mrs. Tom
Hodgert; convenors, Mrs. Tom Hod-,
gert; convenors, Mrs. Leslie Rich
ards, Loreen Martin, Lillian Hodgert
sports comittee, Mr. Ken Hodgert,
Mr. G. F. Bray.
picked him up and brought him to
his home. He remembers little of
the accident except that he was
struck. He was unable to- obtain
a description of the car. Sole sup
port of his widowed mother, the loss
of his bicycle will prove a hardship.
Chief Constable Helmer Snell, of
Seaforth, and County Officer Nor
man Lever are investragting but so
far have found no trace of the car.
FAMILY WELL REPRESENTED
The Mutch family, of Clinton, was
much in evidence at the Orange
celebration in Stratford last week,
tn the Clinton Pipe Band there were
four members of one family and an
other would have been along if he
1 hadn’t had to tend store.
q,nd
has
the
in certain
been very
West
cost of
than a
of na
an im-
this
our
are
the
MRS. H. BALFOUR
CALLED BY DEATH
An estimable lady in the person
of Mary Ellen Brooks, widow of the
late, Henry Balfour, passed away at
her home in Fullarton Township on
Monday. The late Mrs. Balfour had
not enjoyed good health for a year
and a half, her illness during the
past six months having been of a
more serious nature. She was born
in Scarboro, Ontario, on September
5, 1856, and at the age of five mov
ed with her (parents to Hibbert Twp.
On January 13, 1878, Bhe was mar
ried to Henry Balfour, who prede
cased her in November, 1937. Had
the late Mr. Balfour lived until Jan
uary of this year they would have
celebrated their sixtieth wedding
anniversary. Relatives who remain
to mourn their loss are, one daugh
ter, Mrs. J. C. Roney, of London and
sister, Mrs. F. McAlpine, Toronto;
two. brothers, James Brooks, Mitchell
and Lesley Brooks, Toronto. The
funeral was held on Thursday from
the late residence Interment in the
Presbyterian cemetery, Mitchell.
VV. R. CAMPBELL
And, while we are on this subject
we would make this sugestion to
three or four newspapers in the
prairie provinces. It is that they be
a little less malicious in their con
stant attacks on the East. Some of
the assaults made on Ontario have
been particularly bitter. In fact, a
few days ago one Manitoba paper
had an editorial asking the East to
help the West, and on the very same
day it had another' editorial bitterly
assaulting the East. That’s hardly
cricket.”
? If you really want a constructive
policy I feel quite certain that a well
thought out program which would
tend towards closing gaps between
the various sections of the country
would be most beneficial.
Yours sincerely,
W. R. CAMPBELL,
President, Ford Motor Co., of
Canada.
Windsor, Ont.
Mosquitoes
An inquiry comes from a young
lady in Saskatchewan about mos
quitoes. She wants to know if it is
possible to produce any figures of
any kind regarding these pests.
The only figures the Bureau has
seen is an estimate of the loss of
dairy production occasioned by mos
quitoes, which should alone be suf
ficient to stir up energy enough to
combat the plague, for they are real
ly a plague in some seasons and in
some places.
According to the Dominion Entom
ologist, the slender, delicately built
insects known as mosquitoes are
among the worst blood-sucking
flies which attack man and animals
in many parts of Cafiada.. Frequent
ly -harmless midges, small crane flies
and similiar insects are confused
with mosquitoes, but the latter can
always be recognized by the long
narrow beak, or proboscis, and the
presence of tiny scales on the veins
and margins of the wings. Not only
are mosquitoes a source of great
annoyance to humans, but they also
occasion much loss by worrying live
stock. In some of the worst affect
ed districts a marked drop in milk
production is noted in dairy cows
at the commencement of the mos
quito season. Practical dairymen
have stated that this may be as much
as 40 per cent. Other classes of ani
mals lose flesh through loss of blood
and worry, and, in extreme cases
death may result, especially among
young animals. Even poultry and
other birds are affected by these in
sects.
The females of most of the sixty
oi’ more species of mosquitoes that
are found in Canada are bloodsuck
ers, and while they vary considerably
in their life-histories and habits, all
of_ them require more or less stag
nant water for the immature stages
(larvae and pupae) to develop. It is
quite impossible for them to develop
in damp grass or in dew on vegeta
tion, although this is a commonly
held belief. The fact that the lar
vae and pupae develop only in water
and although they are aquatic, they
must frequently come to the water
surface for air, makes it possible
to destroy them in vast numbers be
fore they have a chance to emerge.
This is done by spraying pools and
flooded areas with petroleum oil,
such as fuel oil, in spring and early
summer.
ST. MARYS SCHOOL BOARD
ENGAGES NEW TEACHER
After a three-and-a half hour ses
sion the Collegiate Institute Board
let a contract for rewiring the Col
legiate Institute, hired a new teach-
ed and purchased eight new type
writers.
Mrs. Lucille Filshie, of Hensall,
was given the position of domestic .
science and art specialist, after
Miss Louise Elliott, of Carleton
Place, had informed the board that
she had accepted another position.
Mrs. Filshie will receive $1,500.
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