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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1938-11-17, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THUKSDAi', NOVEMBER IT, 10S8 LAUNDRY The NEW CONNOR ' THERMO 0 Smart, streamline design has been added to the quality For which Connor has been famous for over 63 years to make the new Connor the greatest dollar- for-dollar value ever offered in a washing machine. Available in nine attractive colour com­ binations, chosen to harmonize with modern kitchen designing, the new Connor is, without doubt, The MOST BEAUTIFUL WASHER Ever Created Wm. J. Thomson Dealer Phone Kirkton 48 r 2 WELLS—MAINS Mar- dau- Mat- One of the autumn’s prettiest wed­ dings took place at Londesboro, at the home of the bride’s sister, Miss Elizabeth W. Mains, when Miss garet Jane Mains, of Chicago, ghter of the late Mr. and Mrs. thew Mains, became the bride, of Mr. Harvey John Wells, of Blyth, apd the late Mr. Wells, Rev. Gardiner, Egmondville, read the service. The bride was gowned in midnight blue transparent velvet, made in floor length. Her flowers were Briarcliffe roses. Her cousin, Miss Audrey E. Oliver, of Clinton, was flower girl, wearing a quaint ankle-length frock of Alice blue taffeta and carrying a colonial bouquet of pink and white roses. A reception was held immed­ iately after the ceremony. The bride­ groom’s gift to the bride was a string of pearls, and to the flower girl a white gold locket and a. chain. For travelling, the bride wore a laurel green dress, with brown coat and ac­ cessories to match. After a short wedding trip they will reside on the groom’s farm at Blyth. Guests were present from Blyth, Auburn, Clin­ ton, Exeter, London ’and Chicago. Prior to her marriage the bride was honored at showers given for her by friends in Chicago and in London There is no connection between the second syllable of the world night­ mare and the word denoting the fe­ male of the horse. Mara, an Anglo- Saxon word, meant a friend, incubus or specter which was popularly sup­ posed to sit on the chest of sleeping persons thereby causing oppressive or frightening dreams. Hence the ad­ dition of the word ‘night’ to form the English team denoting the same con­ dition. BACKACHE A Cry for Help Most people fail to recognize the seriousness of a bad back. The stitches, twitches and twinges are bad enough and cause enough suffering, blit back of tho backache, and the cause of it all, is the dis­ ordered kidneys crying out a warn­ ing through the back. The pain in tho back is the kid­ neys cry for help. Go to their assistance. Get a box of Doan’s Kidney Pills. A remedy for back­ ache and sick kidneys. Be sure and get “Doan *8.’’ The T, Milburn Oo., Ltd., Toronto, Ont. Remembrance Day Address +-+ The following is the address de­ livered by Rev. D. C. Hill at the Re­ membrance Day Service in Gaven Presbyterian Church on Friday, No­ vember 11th, St. MattheW X:34 to to “Think not that I am come send peace on earth; I come not send peace, but a sword.” It is a fact acknowledged by all historians that in the earliest cen­ turies the Christian church was very stronglj pacifist and Christians re- fuseh >to render military service to the Roman empire. I am not clear whether this \> as due to a feeling that war was by its very nature in­ compatible with Christianity or simp­ ly to reluctance to bear arms in the cause of a pagan government. However as soon as. Rome form­ ally adopted Christianity a change. Henceforth took part in wars. And the Christian church has there was Christians ever since had little hesitation in -giving its blessing to armies about to engage in conflict and Christians as individuals have taken part in war apparently without quamls of conscience. What is more the church has on occasion used war as an instrument of policy. The Cru­ saders in the Middle Ages, the Re­ ligious Wars of the Seventeenth cen­ tury being cases in point, while- there is at least a strong suspicion that highly placed dignitaries of the Church of Rome had their part in instigating the civil war now being waged in Spain. Now it may well be that the 'Chris­ tian Church has been wrong all thro’ the .centuries in thus giving support to the .use of force. It may well be that she has been untrue to -her Mas­ ter and must take responsibility and guilt for untold suffering, for fear­ ful -carnage, for the atrocities that ■go hand in hand with such action. It may be that her support of armies, her use of warfare to serve her own ends constitute a terrible stain on the record of the Church. Certainly there are many eloquent voices say­ ing that such is the case. But it may also be that on some occasions at least the Church has not been wrong. It may be that there have been situations where con­ flict was necessary if evil was not to ride roughshod over right. It may be that there have been timgs when the conflict between right and wrong blazed into the open and there was no course left for a Christian but to give active support to the right and for the church but to bless him as he \yent forth. Struggles Between Right and Wrong Our Lord seems to have contem­ plated some such possibility when He spoke the words of our text. More than that, He seems to nave believed that His very coming into the world would so intensify the struggle be­ tween right and wrong that such a truce as may have existed between them would be destroyed and the whole world would be disturbed by their opposition. Spiritual warfare would manifest itself outwardly in physical acts so that what we call peace, often wrongly, would vanish and an era of warfare would com­ mence. And I would even suggest as a possibility that so far from our lack of peace being evidence of our failure to acquire the spirit of Christ, the truth is just the opposite. If we were really true to Christ we would more constantly be at war in a world where so much evil flaunts itself. That at least is what I make out of our ‘ text “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I come not to send peace but a sword.” The World War, which ended twenty years ago today is the illus­ tration most prominently in our minds of an occasion when men and women felt .that they were called upon by duty to fight and to sacri­ fice in a terrible struggle; tha.t it was their obligation as Christians to ex­ pose themselves to hardships and danger. With the passing df twenty years we have ledge of war and were in We have learned that .business was more complex than we had at first believed, that many mo­ tives entered into it, that some of the leaders not worthy we reposed come to an enlarged know- the causes that led to that of the conduct of those who positions of responsibility, the whole whom we trusted were of the confidence which in them. Phrases safe for de­ end wars” “A live in.” And that the war Sound Like Mockery1 Moreover some of the objects which we thought we had obtained by sore fighting we are not so sure about today. There are phrases which once inspired us which now sound like mockery: “A. world mocracy” “The war to land fit for heroes to the cry has gone .up failed. Let me contradict that flat­ ly. It may be that the peace has failed. But in November, nineteeii- eighteen, we had won what we fought for. If they have since been lost, if we have allowed them to slip out of our grasp, the fault does not lie with those who. paid the price of victory. It lies at the door of those who did not sufficiently value What was delivered into their keeping. SHARP PAINS SHOT THROUGH KNEES Board of Education And I submit that all our increas­ ed knowledge of what lay behind the wai’ in the way of causes, and motives, and conduct, and all that has come after the war with the whole train of folly, disillusionment, failure and despair, in no way alter© the basic situation which confronted us in August nineteen-fourteen and in the months and years lowed. Now what was it that participate in the war? which fol- led ue to I am not asking what may have led the Bri­ tish Cabinet to declare war. I am not oil the inside of Cabinet secrets and if they had hidden reasons apart from the ones they made public, I know nothing about them. Although I would say that the moving descrip­ tion by Mr. Page, the American Am­ bassador would seem sufficient to convince most readers that the Cab­ inet acted sincerely and from the highest Still allege,' mitted France. That does not in any touch the considerations that British people everywhere to port the government in the action taken, and of course if that support had been withheld British participa­ tion in the war would have come to nothing. So we are justified in concentrating upon what led the general public, and particularly the general public in Canada, to support the war. motives. it may be possible, as that the Cabinet was by secret agreements some com- with way led sup- Loyalty to the Motherland the the quarrel she was in a where she needed all the could get. -Now I do not that is a motive for which feel any shame. .For the For one thing there was loyalty to the Motherland. Regardless of cause of position help she feel that we need British Isles occupy so large a place in the world, they have so much in­ fluence for good in the world that any lover of humanity must be filled with dismay at the thought of disas­ ter overtaking them. , Regardless of the origins of the trouble a very good case could be made for taking such action as would strengthen her hands in the hour of peril. The Rights of Small Nations Then there was the feeling that we were championing the rights of .small nations. In this connection Belgium was particularly in our minds. We felt that it was intoler­ able that the weak should be forced to bow before the strong. And that the cause of small nations was de­ fended was made manifest by the number of small states that came in­ to existence when the war was over. For them it was freedom from bond­ age. It may be that in the succeed­ ing twenty years we have fallen away from our faith in regards to the rights of the weak. But between 1914 and and was 1918 we fought in that cause at the end of the war that cause established. Opposition to Atrocities Again, a motive that influenced ,us was horror at the inhuman manner in which the war policy of our ene­ mies treated non-combatants. I say that advisedly. When a story such as the sinking of the Lusitania was flashed to the world, in the succeed­ ing days long lines of men stood be­ fore the recruiting stations. War may be horrible, but we were con­ vinced that those who violated the few decencies of warfare between civilized nations must be rebuked. Again, in the succeeding \ years we may have dropped to lower standards and it is said that in another war civilian populations will be the object of attack. But in gave our support atrocities. These, I believe motives that actuated us here in Canada. Of more selfish aims I can see no evidence. Selfish individuals in plenty sought to become Very wealthy out of the sacrifices of others, but as a nation we stood to gain nothing. We sought no con­ quests and despite the efforts of pro­ pagandists to persuade us nobody seriously believed that any of our purely Canadian interests were en­ dangered whichever way the war might go. And so I maintain that what we did as a people .in those days we did unselfishly and out of motives for which we need not apol­ ogize. the late war, we to opposition to were the main We Found Our Soul Did we gain anything from partici­ pating in the war? From a material standpoint the answer is “no.” As a matter of fact we are still paying both in suffering and in pocket. But at the same time by this mighty act we became a people. We became aware of ourselves and of what we could db. We learned that we could stand proudly among the nations of the world, spect. We found our soul that we have not lost it years after. As I have just said, paid, and we are met everything else to remember those who paid most heavily. Those names are carved in stone on our memorial monuments, and many others who / We found our self-re- It is not too much to say that And I pray God again in the a price was here above Woman Suffered 10 Years “Since coming here from Englund 10 years ago,” writes a married woman, “I have suffered badly from rheumatic pains. I bought medicine, lotions, liniments, and have taken concoctions until I was tired spend­ ing my money, I heard of Kruschen Salts so often, that I thought one day I’d try that. By this time my knees were frequently full of ter­ rible pains. I bought a bottle of Kruschen, and took a teaspoonful every morning. It had no effect, But my husband said ‘Persevere! Give it a chance to act.’ Well, I did and before long my knees were nearly normal, I kept on, and be­ lieve me I am not like the same woman. I walked four miles the other day and felt fine, whereas before I could hardly walk across the floor.”—(Mrs.) E.A. What more need be said about the relief that Kruschen Salts can bring to suffers from the pains and stiffness of rheumatism? those They did not fell in a worthy they made that they paid much, have since died and whose lives were shortened by what they endured in military service. And the purpose of our review of the motives that ac­ tuated us to ake part in the war is that we may appreciate what it is for which these men died. And these women too, for there are names of many women in the lists of who paid the price, die in vain. They cause and falling cause triumphant. Those who while were not called upon to lay down life; those who survived the fire of war and are still with us; those who are represented by the bemedalled men who have organized today’s ser­ vices, they occupy a special place in the life of our land. In many ways they are called upon to exercige lead­ ership. By reason of the experience through which they have passed they are expected to have a steady­ ing influence upon the country as a whole. Particularly when a crisis arises, such as the threat of another war that confronted us in September the rest of the nations look to them and listens to hear what they have to say. It is a position of no small responsibility. But they have play­ ed their part nobly and well, and as a people not only war, but done and peace. Still it men to call attention to themselves today. They are not met here today and in other places throughout the land for purpose of self-glorification. They are recalling comrades whom they will see no more fn this world. They are paying tribute to the mem­ ory of those of whose courage and devotion they were eye-witnesses and are summoning the rest of us to join them in this tribute. We rejoice to have part with them in this ser­ vice. This is a day’of Remembrance May it also be a day of awakening within us the courage and faith and the unselfishness of those whom we commemorate. “Blow out, you bugles, over the rich dead! There’s none'of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying has than gold. These laid the out the red Sweet wine of years to be Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene, That men call age; and those who would have been Their sons, they gave, their immor­ tality. we are indebted to- them for what they did in the also for what they have stood for in the years of is not th‘6" desire of these made us rarer gifts world away; poured youth; gave up the Blow, bugles, blow! They brought us, for our dearth, Holiness, lacked so long, and Love and Pain. Honour has come back, as a king, to earth, And paid his subjects with a royal wage; And Nobleness walks in our ways again; And we have come into our heritage, WINCHELSEA Mr.-and Mrs. Mervin Pym and family Mr. .Sam Bowers, of Thed­ ford, visited on Friday with Mr. and Mrs. John Prance. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brock epent Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. George Brock of Zion. Mr, and Mrs. W. E. Fletcher and Marjorie spent Sunday with rela­ tives in Exeter. Mrs. H. Sparling, Nellie and Hazel of Elimvilie, visited on Friday with Mr. and Mrs. George Davis. Mr, Horace Ddlbridge carries a broad smile. It’s a boy. Mr. and Mrs. Squire Herdman, of Elimvilie visited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Horace Ddlbridge. Miss Audrey Fletcher attended the Wedding of her coiuein Miss Doris Hodgins, of Saintsbury Wednesday. If you think it is love that prompts young girls to marry old men, you* are a romanticist—or—an old man, For the first time in many years there was not a quorum for the reg­ ular meetfhg of the Exeter Board of Education which was to meet in the Public Library Nov. 7th and a second meeting was called for Tues­ day evening. Members absent on Tuesday evening were W. H. Dearing and Mrs. Beavers. The minutes of the last regular and several special meetings were read and approved. Principal E, J, Wethey reported a total enrolment of 193 at the High School with an aggregate attendance of 3744, a percentage of 95.4. A satisfactory fire drill had been held since the last meeting. The official list of winners at the local field meet was presented, A request was made for additional books by two. of the teachers. The teachers and pu­ pils attended in a body at the laying of the corner stone for the new building. If the classrooms in the new school are to used when the building is opened the principal sug­ gested that the first forms be locat-( ed there to save transfer. At pres­ ent the halls in the old building are crowded. Principal J. B. Creech of the public school reported number on roll 2114; average attendance 206.19, a percentage of 97.4. This was the best attendance recorded in a num­ ber of years. The staff had attended the Teacher’s Institute held in Main Street Church, Exeter, on October 7 th. This was the first meeting held in South Huron, the county hav­ ing been divided into North and South instead of East and West as formerly. Fire drill had been held during the month and the school emptied in 1£ minutes. A number of teachers from Goderich township had visited the school the latter part of October and foui’ teachers from Hullett had visited Miss Woodall’s room on November 4th. Information received from the De­ partment through Mr. Beacom con­ cerning the Entrance exams states that there will be examinations only in literature, composition and gram­ mar, mathematics, spelling, writing. In the first three the marks will be 100 and the last three -50. High ■ school entrance certificates upon re­ commendation of principals will be i issued as formerly. A request was : made for colored chalk, report cards, i pencil sharpener and music supplies. : Principal Wethey reported that a number of reproductions of old maps of Ontario have been received from Round Trip Bargain Fares NOVEMBER 25th and 26th from EXETER to TORONTO Also to Brantford, Chatham, Goderich, Guelph, Hamilton. Lon­ don, Niagara Falls, Owen Sound. St. Catharines, St. Marys, Sarnia, Stratford, Strathroy, Woodstock. To Stations OshawS and east to Cornwell inclusive,, Uxbridge Lindsay. Peterboro, Campbellford, Newmarket, Collingwood, Mea- ** ford, Midland, North Bay, Parry Sound, Capreol, and west to Breadmore. For Fares, Return Limits, Tiain Information, Tickets, consult Nearest Agent See hand/bllls for complete list of destinations T325A CANADIAN NATIONAL -• # the Ontario Government. One of the older maps is a copy of the survey ordered by Governor Simcoe of Up­ per Canada. Moved by G. W. Lawson, second­ ed by Wm. May that the reports be received and supplies ordered. The Chairman reported that $5,- 656, had been paid the general con­ tractor and $.87 O', to the architect for work on the new building on war­ rants from the architect. The following accounts were pass­ ed: iGestetner, supplies $15.40’; The Times-Advocate $26.70; B. W. F. Beavers $15.60; Grigg Stationery $89.18; Walker’s Drugstore $4.'3O; Central Scientific Co., chemical sup­ plies $12.50; Copp Builders, supplies $34.44. i Representatives of the Internation­ al Business Machine Co. demonstrat­ ed the workings ot an electric with a system of bells for periods. Three representatives were ent and presented tenders in nection with a stoker for the new building. Action was deferred. W. C. Pearce waited on the board and made applications for a portion of fire insurance for the new build­ ing. Adjourned meeting was held at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9th, 1938. Absent A. O. Elliot and W. May. The matter of stoker was discus­ sed. Per G. lis: That we stone stoker ried. Per C. V. R. N. Creech, Sec’y, Pro. Tern. CHIMNEY TUMBLES DOWN ON TOP OF HOCKEY STAR Don MacKay, defenceman of the Clinton O.H.A. team, who resides in Goderich has gone into training for the season. While standing on a lad­ der* patching a leaky roof, the wind blew the ladder from under him. In his descent, he grabbed a guy wire supporting a brick chimney, and the chimney came tumbling down. Don landed unhurt, surrounded by bricks wire and ladder, all tangled up, “I thought I was engaged in staving off a power-play,” said Don. clock study pres- COD- Lawson and ,J. N. Wil- purchase the Living- No. 15 at §3.85. J2ar- Pickard, adjournment. Father (visiting son at university) “This is a fine greeting. As soon as my train stops you ask for money.” Son: “But, Dad, don’t forget that the train was 20 minutes late.” * * ♦• When ancients hymn the happy past It’s comforting to know These will be the good old days In thirty years ago. f0RDM0T5s » HOTELS LOCATE* »USY BOUTU Christmas Greeting Cards Come in and see our Beautiful Display of New Cards Our 1938 stock contains an artistic range of hand painted Canadian Winter Scenes; English Flower Garden; Novel French Folders; Devonshire Box and dozens of other exclusive lines Prices complete with name and address: 20 cards for $1.00 21 cards for $1.25 12 cards for 75c. Cards may also be purchased without name and address as low as 25c. a dozen Be sure to see our Christmas Cards for Convalescents, Sympathy and an Assortment of Children’s Cards.