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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1941-04-03, Page 7* THE .EXETER Tl'MW^bYQWTE We’ll have more * * * * * * * To be of everlasting benefit, spirit­ ual education should CQipe slowly and progressively. * ' # * And It Wasn’t This Close to » Easter! Not all men with good window­ display judgment migrate to the big cities. This is especially well illustrated by the proprietor of a village store who asked one qf his clerks: ’’Mary, do you- know any­ thing about the new minister who is coming to live here next week?” “Yes,” replied the girl, “he is * tall, good-looking and about 2'8 years old—and, he isn’t married,” * . “Is that so?” pondered the am­ bitious, aggressive proprietor. “Well, you may put all the new hats in the front window right away.” fc * * Everybody loves a good listen­ er,* * « 'Some people mistake kindness for ’ stupidity. * * * Genius, after all, is only a capa­ city for serious concentration. * * * On March 2'5, 1634, the first Ro­ man Catholic' Mass yr&s read in North America. * * * Are Yow Selling Satisfaction? No matter what your occupation or profession, you are directly or indirectly in Selling........just as each one of us are directly and in­ directly interested in buying. Most folks think successful sell- * ing is a matter of disposing of ar­ ticles, .goods, merchandise or per­ sonal services at a profit to our­ selves. !In other words, they believe the' buyer makes a purchase because he has «to......because he needs what you have to offer. Nothing is more removedjrom. the real truth. The seller buys._either appointment, sales transaction—whether you sell someone on giving you a job or whether you sell food, shelter, cloth­ ing *or 'entertainment—-the deal must carry Satisfaction to the buyer as well' as a reasonable profit to the seller. Both Buyer and Seller must be Satisfied. (Satisfaction and satisfaction alone begets confidence....'and Confidence stimulates more sales. No one can achieve any degree of success who does not recognize this truth. Whether you preach a ser­ mon, sing a song, write a book, build a house, or weigh.up a sack of beans....the buyer must be satis­ fied. sells and the buyer Satisfaction or Dis- Td be a successful THURBDAY, Am XilM J, P. Morgan- once said: are in the leisure class if you have a maid,” —tp which we add: you are until your wife catches you with her. '’’Shoplifters always look brazen­ ly innocent,” says a store detec­ tive. —the man who looks snpaking is the poor guy who has to match a bit of yarn or doth for his Wife. —Oley Okeydoke,* « • Today Work on, work on Work wears the world away; Hope when the morrow comes, ‘ ■But work this day. Work on, work on, Wonk brings its own relief; He who most idle is ■Has the most grief. * * * Ex-Senator Spooner of Wisconsin said the best speech of introduction he ever heard was delivered by the German Mayor of a small town in Wisconsin, where Spooner had been engaged to speak. The mayor said: ’’Ladies and shentlemens, I haf been askpd to indrotoose you to the Honorable Senator Spooner, who will make to you a speech, yes? I haf done so, he vijl now do so,” ♦ ♦ ♦ Thoughts at the Altar The demure young bride—a trifle pale—'her lips set in a tremulous smile, slowly stepped down the long church aisle clinging to the arm of her father, As she reached the low platform before the altar, her slip­ pered foot brushed a potted flow­ er, upsetting it. She looked at the spilled dirt gravely, and then rais­ ed her child-like eyes to the sedate face of the old minister, and said: “That’s a heluva place to put a lily.” ! I * * * She Sent-us the Paper to Prove It Dear Colonel: Here is one your justly famous talent-for-error scout, Rihet Oric, overlooked: "WANTED—Two persons, male or female, well-educated, superior men­ tality, to answer questions of three small boys. Twenty-hours a day, can work in four-hour shifts. As­ pirin and encyclopedia furnished. —Jill * * * ....and....I suppose you have heard of the applicant for citizenship, who wanted to take out ‘Civilization Papers’?......................................................|* * * Curious Cynic Cants —-still and all, the movie industry ’ would be poor too if it had to de-, pend on the collection plate. -—flattery is the name some people give to the praise they hear given to others. • —‘One reason why some men do not make love as ardently after marriage as they did before is be­ cause Some wives don’t deserve it. —how is it that' complaining wo­ men always manage to marry fore­ bearing men? -—a modern bride is one willing to begin married life with one Skil­ let and one kettle—but she must have at least two card tables. * * Eert and Pertinent “The farmer eats twenty per cent more than the city worker....” —but the city worker pays twen­ ty per cent more for what he eats. “Man,” an eminent scientist tells us, '’“may again grow .a tail as use fUl as a hand as the need arises.” *—he must have been watching a trap drummer in a ‘swing’ band. * * * No Wor|dei* A large corporation in attempt­ ing to improve the effectiveness of its personnel, required every ap­ plicant for a position to fill out an intricate questionnaire and to pass a written and verbal examination at the hands of experts. The president of the company was a florid, healthy-looking man, in the prime of life, who had never known a really sick day. However, one morning he appeared at the breakfast table with a haggard and drawn countenance. His shoulders were slumped forward an°d his* face was almost chalk white. ■Frightened, his wife said to him: “Why, Charlie, what in the world is the matter with you?” he, “except that night. I dream- ,of Directors said pass one of our applicants.” *A* Backache-Kidneys Most people fail to recognize 'the seriousness of h bed back. The stitches, twitches, and twinges are bad enough and cause great suf­ fering, but back of the backache and the cause of it all is the dis­ ordered kidneys crying out a warn­ ing through the back. A pain in the back is the kidneys’ cry for help. Go to their assistance. ■Get a box of Doan’s Kidney Bills. A remedy for backache and. Sick kidneys. « “Doan’s” afe put Up in nn •oblong grey box with our trado mark a “Maple Leaf” oh the wrapper. Refuse substitutes. Getf 1 Doan’s. * ’ T. Milburn OoM Ltd., Toronto, Ont, J '“Nothing,” said I spent *a terrible ed that’the Board I would have to examinations for * * Ego ' When anybody, man or woman, seems to be observing, you with uit- usual interest, don’t let you ego­ tism run away. Don’t start to pose, and’ remember, the higher the ped­ estal, the .greater the distance to the ground. Recall and- take heed of the moral in the old story of the two men who were sitting opposite each other in the bus. One of them produced a notebook and (proceed­ ed to make a sketch of the othbr. After he had finished his draw­ ing he closed his book and pocketed it. The man across the aisle was interested ‘and not a little pleased at this attention, and leaning forward, he said: ‘ ceive.” “No,” hardly an door knockers, * * * A young married couple started out with carriage, (the baby Everyone Why, clerk sign “Our 'You are an artist, I per replied the first, “I’m artist. I’m a designer of the baby to buy a baby They purchased one, put (in it land started home; smiled. They Wondered Finally they noticed that the had from OWn I omitted to remove the the carriage. Make”.♦ * * It's odd, isn’t it—-but seems like those people plenty of time to little to say! * * The only folks worth knowing are done something. It reads talk it always who liave have Very who those who have are really 's be brave a little longer,♦ w ? r And now for the spring work, • ♦ * * We’ll net haioo till we’re out of the Woods. * *. *■ * * * ♦ Au Icicle makes a poor garden dibble. * * * * .« * * Don’t go very often, but pay as you go. * * * * * « * The maple syup season has been a good The farmer with a number of well-bred, good-looking, well­ doing cows for sale is |n luck just now. ♦ ♦ ♦ .9* Thp farmer w.ho is keeping his best breeding pigs will be in luck bye and bye. 4$♦ .For tHe most part we have grumbled about the slow coming of warm spring weather, * • * * * * * ♦ * And now they have found out a way of drying beans. You can’t beat those farmers.***** * * ** ♦ V v * ♦ Labour and kindred unions have world how great they are, * * * * * an opportunity of showing the * ** When fourteen-year-old Johnny hasn’t a job, his father should see one of those head doctors. ******** Stand on your own feet. Doing so is good for both your morals and your business. There’s nothing like it. *** ***** We saw a fine-looking citizen rolling his lawn the other day. Both lawn and citizen were the better of the process. ** *»•**■* * When fifteen-year-old Mary lies abed while her mother gets the breakfast, we can mention two parties badly in need of a hairbush. * ******* •When the powers that be are regulating the price of butter and cheese they will do well to remember that all the farmers are not dairymen.** ** **** Let folk say what they will, there are a lot of fine horses in the country with real men caring for them. There's prosperity under a good horses’s foot. * * * * * * * * You had better earn a dollar, live on ninety cents and invest ten cents in War Savings Certificates. Keep up that good way of doing. Then watch your good old smile grow. ‘ ******** » No, the farmers are not hiring men. They are engaging assis­ tants. The farm assistant’s main job will be to handle the purse strings. He has taken (possession of the spare bedroom and dines in ■the parlour. -He fires the boss without notice.« * * * * * * * WHENCE THE MONEY? We were led to believe that the farmers were hard up. That being the case folk are wondering whence the money comes'for these appeals for war loans and for benevolences connected with the war and all such. * ■* * * ** * « LIGHT the Mediterranean was a red Evidently they concluded that the turn- SAW A RED That victory of the British in light on the 'German path, r “ _ ________ , ing point in the air struggle had come and ordered the scuttling of their ships in United States waters. The war is not over, but the allies are going forward full of hope. * » , * .- '* * * * A LEGEND Once upon a time a very fine man was doing deeds that helped his fellows immensely. Mr. Beelzebub was peeved and sent one of his servants after another to stop such fine endeavours. All was of no avail. At last his sooty Highness resolved to take t>n the job himself. However the work being done was so fine and the spirit of its leader was so fine that auld nicky was utterly frustrated. At last .he said: “I know what to do. .1’11 organize it.” He did so, and in six months all was over with work and worker. ** ******a Eacing up to it Our old country cousins are facing up to different times. These people have a fine sense of the actual and make no pretense that the actual is other than it is. When there is a scarcity of food, they know it, acknowledge the state of affairs and neither whimper nor bluff. They realize that things are What they are and events will be what they will be. The conquerors of Napoleon and the winners of the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights quietly .own and settle them­ selves to the most owe-inspiring struggle free men ever fought. They have suffered during the last eighteen months. They endure hardships and privation this hour. They face suffering in the days to come. They are aware of all this. They feel their burdens. It is because they are feeling as humans that they do more than Can bebecause they are feeling as humans that they asked of our frail but sublime humanity. ******* These are terribly busy times. Labour is every mind. Work must (be got at and done. _____________ _____ ‘ ing for a third hand. In the midst of times so difficult there is one thing that must never he forgotten and that is that we have no time tor making mistakes. The busier we are, the more importantt it is that we should work accurately, Mistakes are wasters of time and energy beyond all estimating. A job wrongly done is not duly not done at all but a waste, and to say the least, a trouble-making and a disaster-inviting waste. We must keep this in mind in all our busi­ ness relations, from big business executive to delivery boy. There is but One way to do anything and that is the right way, no matter what our lot, no matter what our calling, Once more we say, no job is done at all till it is done properly^ Rushing about is not getting­ things done but cluttering things and wasting time and energy. Fussiness is not enterprise. Unless business is done in the proper way, trouble is bound to follow. Just now the important thing is to get a receipt for all money paid out. This does not mean maybe. Get receipts and keeip. them. >!■ * scarce. Anxieties fill Some of us are wish­ •fs * * * * * Has the war entered a new phase? Hitler has been sending his submarines pretty Close to the Atlantic seacoast, in this manner pinching the toes of Uncle iSam. Naturally, our big cousin doesn’t like this and is stirring his long, but powerful shanks. Russia Is cherishing a disike for (Germany is’ looking for the smooth place 6n her boot. Turkey, too, is finding a pricking in her thumbs and is polishing those two million ’bayonets that look so nasty to Hitler and his gang. Japan has been taking the United States navy into consideration, into very serious consideration, indeed, and is think­ ing very long thoughts as a consequence. Hitler has received a real snub in. the Balkans. Wo cannot but wonder what the German na­ tion and the Toles and the Dutch and the Belgians and the real (Frenchmen will do when Hitler goes into reverse. We have heard that when anyone Is going downhill that everything is likely to be greased for the occasion. But we’ll sec what we’ll see. Meanwhile we’ll give the long puli, the strong pull, and the pull all together, and that’s the pull that Hitler won’t like. That hiian’s getting him­ self disliked. * We’d like io see everyone strong enough tp lift a bushel of chaff working leisurely and profitably. We’d like to see youngsters old enough to go to school enjoying a nice lunch .at ten o'clock. We4d like to know that every woman who has a home of her own is enjoy­ ing a nice rest and wearing a fine new gown as often as she cares to possess herself of such an article. One is working but not tired. ’’ .. . we’d Hke to see, but we’ll not siee them, stand in the way of the consummation of such desires. Germany, now looking through our'windows, necessity. “ W.' ’ _ . ............... .the must-be-dones come in at the door, the like-to-do^ fly out through the window, Unions or no unions, -the eight-hour day is a thing of the past. We’d like to know that every- Yes, there are a whole lot of things .... /...... Two terribly strong’forces ’ ’ ’ One is . ........... The other is stern So we’ll just let the like-to-haves go by the board. When * * * * * * * * MAGNIFICENT Great, indeed, has been the achievement of those Crpats and Slavs and Serbs. Patiently did they wait till their regularly con­ stituted authorities acted. When these authorities failed to do as the plain, patient, enduring people wished them to do, they express­ ed their unalterable devotion to fl-eedom, Their cities were filled to the rafters with German police and German spies. German tanks were on their way. vThe sky was thick with the planes that had devastated Coventry and Plymouth. Swaggering Nazis who neither w’ feared God nor regarded man were op every street with bloody hands and lustful souls and lechery smouldering in every eye. In the face of dangers that no man could have asked them to encounter, and while the boldest friend of liberty .held his breath, those Serbs and Blays and Croats raised their hearts to God and put their hands to the Plow that prepares the harvest of liberty. Nor is that all, The .heirs to Washington and Lincoln apd Longfellow and Whittier wrapped the stars and stripes about the brave nation that would freemen live or freemen fall. Hitler and his crew, belching the blood of tens of thousands were driven into reverse in their blind ambition and insane lust of conquest, The Slavs and Serbs and Croats lighted a torch that never can be put out. Liberty cannot but win with spirits so bold, so devoted. ** ****** BETTER THINK IT OVER •We have not seen the end of the effect of the rebellion of the Groats and Slavs and Serbs. The most significant thing about it all was what the people did with their rulers. W-hen those rulers were out of touch with public opinion, they were told to get out and stay out. The government acted on the hint. We are not forgetful of what fate awaited governments after the last war. Alleged rulers were tumbled nver like ninepins. The same rule will hold after the present war. Anyone with his ear to the ground is aware ff serious unrest among multitudes of people. Money is being spent like water. Many are anything but satisfied with the manner of its distribu­ tion. Smooth speeches and waving of pudgy hands and assurances that this and that will be “considered carefully” when the sugges­ tions appear not to he considered at ali are far more irritating than governments are willing to acknowledge. There is a tension in the public mind that means that a very little exra strain may issue, in almost anything. The public may be outwitted and out- debated for a while, but these men who merchandise and farm are keen as to processes and results in matters governmental. We won­ der if our rulers will take a timely hint? ******** THOSE? SWIFT-MOVING EVENTS Thanks to the mercy of Him whose way is in the sea, and to the valour of 'British sailors • an epoch-making victory has been scored in the Mediterranean Sea. No one can quite estimate the significance of that success. On the heels of this triumph came an event that, while less spectacular, is equally valuable to Britain and her allies. We refer to the seizure of Italian and German ships in United States waters. Uncle iSam was alert and at the most dramatic moment of many a day he laid a heavy hand on the ships and men who were bent on the work of senseless ruin of shipping that may be iput to (better uses. Contemporaneous with these events was the revolution in Jugo-Slavia. This little country saved her soul by her 'courage and will make Europe* a new country 'by her example. The victory in the Mediterranean means the protection of Greece, the saving of the 'Suez canal and the retention of India in the (British Commonwealth of nations and the release of warships to look after the German raiders in the Atlantic. The seizure of the Italian and German ships by the United -States means the crippling of shipping of the Axis powers for many a day. Not only is this good result obtained, but the seizure amounts to an act of war, the very thing that Germany has been trying to avoid. Hitler knows that the presence of American troops and ships and planes in the contest he is waging means his own abdication and the fall of Berlin. The action of Jugo-Slavia means the blowing on the coals of patriotic fervour of Poland, of Holland, of Belgium, the forerunner of Axis ruin. When Germany once goes into reverse, anything may take place among her citizens. Hurondale W. I The Institute community night was held at the Thames Road United Church when the members entertained their families and friends. The meeting opened with the Institute Ode, followed by the National Anthem and the Lord’s prayer in unison. A few short items of business were dealt with. Misses Grace 'Beckler and Hazel Williams were elected as local leaders to at­ tend a short course at “Meats”. The roll call, “Something in My House I Would Like to Get Rid of”, brought a variety of response from ‘mice’ to ‘men’. The main topic of the ev­ ening was given by Mr. J. W. Mor­ ley, on “Make your dollars fight. Canada’s war effort is 'being financ­ ed, in so far as possible, by inter­ nal borrowing. Do your bit!” Mrs. A. Morgan gave the motto, “Rank is but the Guinea stamp; the man’s the gouid for a’ that”. A humorous reading was given by Nola Perkins. A guitar and violin selection by Bob and Harry Jeffery and Audrey and Labelle Sims safig a pleasing dttet. The “Sky ’Pilot” chapter was read by Grace Beckler. A number of old-time War songs were sung, led by Mrs. Morgan and accompanied on the piano by Labelle Sims. Dur­ ing tiie social and lunch hoar, Mrs. Perkins Conducted a soap contest. Mrs. Kestle gave the Red Cross re­ port and thanked all the workers, especially the willing helpers who are not institute members. The following is the list of work com­ pleted last month; 11 pairs of socks, 1 turtlemeck sweater, 1 scarf, 1 hel­ met, 4 pairs pyjamas, 8 handker­ chiefs, 1 boy’s shirt and 14 quilts. 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After twenty minutes in a gloomy public shelter, the young man and his pretty companion came back into the daylight, “Do you know, darling,” he whispered, tenderly, “if I’d known we were going to be so long down there in the dark, I’d have kissfed you.” The maiden raised her blushing face to his. ’’Wasn’t it you?” she asked ip surprise. BANK Or MONTREAL "A Hank Where Small Accounts' Ax© Welcome” Exeter Branch: W* J. FLOYD, Manager MODERN, EXPERIENCED BANKING SERVICE ,Outcome of 123 Years’ Successful Cferaiion^ . « X &