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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1941-05-22, Page 7THCRSBAY, 220.1, naw * <u Exeter, Ontario Exeter Branch: W. J. FLOYD, Manager ♦ He'll get that thirty-five 'W the grass grows well in - 3 Let us subscribe to that new loan, there is to it. it’s up to the Canadian hen, News gets old very quickly these days. Some of those strikers may strike out,* * # ft: * fl- ft What we got of those -showers was of excellent quality.* a We’d better, and that's all « ft ft ft ft * Madtrn placet mining in the Yuha, in Canadian mines, smelt­ ing plants and allied industries, are among the owners of our •million deposit accounts. 'Many of our branches are well located for their convenience. wcwe $ * A # # A ft A | One of the surest ways of preventing the French fleet from falling into German hands is to give it a one-way ticket to Davy Jones’ locker. From the gold fields of the Yukon to the gypsum Thousands of workers plants of Nova Scotia, the Bank of Montreal xs co-operating with Canadian MINING, by provid­ ing its various enterprises with the efficient, spe­ cialized forms of banking service each requires. Serving Canadians and their industries in every section of the community, • we invite you to discuss .YOUR hanking requirements with us. BANK OF MONTREAL “A BANK WHERE SMALL ACCOUNTS ARE WELCOME” Make sure of a happy, carefree holi­ day by replacing smooth, worn tires with new Goodyears today! We have your size and a choice of eleven different Goodyears for cars at different prices. We are equipped to give you quick, efficient service. Start enjoying the protection of new Goodyears now and you’ll enjoy it for many, many months to come. Every tire in our big stock is priced to save you money drive in for pre-holiday service today! Here is another Silas Posthumous Johnston story: Jemima, an old friend of .the Johnston family, had just started on her new duties as family cook. Her mistress came to the kitchen door and said: “You,can open a can of corn, Jemima, and we will have . that small piece of roast veal -as well.” To which Jemima replied/ “Please Missus, the -cat ate it.” Mistress: “The -cat! What cat?” Jemima: “Oh, Lawdy, Ain't dere a cat?” high; Creamed, well, you’ve got every­ thing. Soon grass will be green, the breeze will be warm, f And flowers will burst into bloom. The air will be filled with a thous­ and sweet scents, Among them sweet onion perfume. Oh, little green onion, all’s right with the world, When in the garden you sprout. And The when you grow up and we eat you for food, whole universe knows you’re about. ’ . * « » . ©ear Colonel: Add signB of Spring: A lumber dealer seeking to attract home improvement -and re­ pair business advertised: porch has kept many a being an .old maid.” ♦ « ft Ever notice that there a certain amount of dirt jn grounds for divorce? ’ • “A ,cozy girl from is always1 * * * A stingy man got a hot shot from his wife when he reproved her for taking a counterfeit bill. “I -don’t see how you were dumb enough to let a man pass a counter­ feit on you,” he roared. "Well,” she hurled back at him, ■“you don’t let me see real money often enough to learh the differ­ ence. ”* * * Little Green Onion green onion, so modest, so shy, Your praises we heartily sing. You bring uS delight, you fill us with joy; You bring us the breath of the spring. ■ Oh, -Oh, little In soups you tickle the palate of all, In hash you are fit for a king.. With liver and. steak your rating is ■■ be ut- in- in- -—Petunia a * * Proverbs of 1941: “A fool -and his money are soon married.” Potentate of Pocatello prates It takes -two kinds of powder to make the world, go round—one goes off with a bang and the other goes on with a puff. A giraffe with t-ohsilitis may in a bad way, but think of the ter misery the centipede with grown toenails has to endure. " If you don’t claim too much telligence, people will give you cre­ dit for more than you have. Marriage is that part of a girl’s life that comes between the lipstick and the broomstick.# « * Smarty Had a Party Some time ago the wife. of -an up-state hanker gave a party to a lot of old maids in her town. She asked each one to bring a photo­ graph of the man who had tried Each of the a photo- all the pictures were of man-—the hostess’ hus- to woo and wed her. maiden ladies brought graph and the same band! Pimples Kill Many a Romance JMs may young people mm saiambla by th© breaking th© face. Th© iroubb i» not »o much phyw- flflj hut 4t 4b- >th® mental cuffer- iuff caused by th© embarrassing dis- igurswt «f the face which very often maBffl th® ■Sufferer nshamed to go out in company. The quickest way to get rid of pimple© ia to improve the general health by * thorough cleansing of th® blood of its impurities. Burdock ‘ TJlood Bitters cleanses hnd purifies th® blood-—• Get rid of your pimplba by taking B.B.B. T. Milburn Oo„ ticU, Toronto, Ont* —Penelope Prim * ♦ * What Did the Corporal Say? Private Smith, wh’ose main trouble was extreme talkativeness, was on escort duty with a corpbral taking an important prisoner to head- quartets. Before starting, he had been told that on no account was he to speak, and the corporal made a bet with Smith of a carton of cig­ arettes, that he couldn't keep silent Until reaching headquarters. -Silently they wont along in single file. As they arrived at headquar­ ters, the Corporal, Without looking around, said, '’Weil, Smith, you’ve Won the bet.” “Yes,” replied. Smith. “But you nearly had me when the prisoner escaped!” -—Shave Tail * * ft bid’ja ever notice that another’s faults are easier to bear than his virtues?i THE EXETER 74MES-ADVQCATE No matter how untoward the .season, places where it is not wanted.a * * a a a « The western farmer is sitting pretty, millions no mattei’ what comes.* a * a * a Two years ago conscriptioin was regarded as the acme of bad government. To-day it is -regarded as the only solution of a very bad situation. Two years ago we looked upon France as about the best friend we had in the world. Today we see that she is our enemy, running true to her ancient -and inveterate form. a a * A « * • .a It's just too bad. The very minute the sob sisters were all set to tell us how sweet Hess was in showing farmer McLean the photo of his baby dear, it leaked out that he was a scoundrel or something. Some people are born to disappointment.fl fl fl fl » wfl* EH, WHERE? Where would Herr Hess have gone had he not broken his ankle the other day as he parachuted out of his -airplane? What would he have done had he reached the -objective prevented by his accident? We cannot but wonder.. Evidently an airman of his skill landed precisely where he intended to land. What was he up to -anyway? We submit that we have here a first class starting point for a high­ grade mystery story, There was something in the fellow’s head that was knocked awry by that untimely mischance. Then, how came .those holes so neatly bored in the tail of his machine? What bullets did the trick? Were they of German manufacture? What good angel directed the bullets that so delightfully missed any vital part of the machine and of its flyer? That’s the queerest ankle breaking and the most unaccountable bit of shooting and airplane crash­ ing we ever heard of. Will the whole situatioin come under the heading, “When rogues fall out honest men get their due.”? * * ft * * * ♦. a FINISH THE JOB Exeter’s new bridge is fast taking shape and when completed will 'add to the attractiveness of what visitors have repeatedly stated, is a beautiful town. In its present state one can form some idea of what the completed job will look like. With two pillars adorned with hydro lights at the south end of the ,ttown and with the bridge with hydro standards at the north end -of the town a' most favorable impression .should be created for passing motorists. After the government spending thousands of dollars to give to the town a bridge that we might well be proud of it behooves the auth­ orities to do their part and complete the architectural design by erecting -the necessary lighting standards t-hat will add so much to the appearance of Exeter’s main thoroughfare. The Public Utilities Commission, which .have now finished paying off their debenture debt might well undertake the task. flflflflflfl*.* A REAL DIFFICULTY A newspaper does not desire to be an alarmist. Neither does it regard it as any part of its duty to say peace and safety when danger threatens. We may as well say in the present situation in the war that we see the gravest‘danger ahead. Without recriminat­ ing anyone, we own that Britain was eight years, to say the least, too slow in getting ready for the present hour. Canada was even worse in this respect than the -old country. Britain said for, eight years: “There is no danger.” ^Canada this.-hour.Is, saying the same thing. What we fail to see is that Germany is attacking 'Britain that she may win Canada, and afterwards hold, the United States in fee. As we said before, President Roosevelt is responsible for. the rumor that Germany is already in Greenland, a spot within easy striking distance of Montreal and Halifax and Toronto and London. What may we not look for? Wishful thinking is not enough. If the Ger­ mans are liars, we may be dupes, the very think that-we have been for too many years. What have our Ottawa people to say about this? Some informed people fell us that the sunbeams in the Can­ adian cucumber are becoming scarce. p • flflfl^flfl** » HAS SPECIALIZING BEACHED ITS LIMIT? Englishmen tell us that there are tens of thousands of acres of arable land in England that never feel the touch -of plow or spade. Yet England is crying out for food. Just now her problem is to stave off hunger dr even starvation. This perilous condition has been brought about by her giving herself for so many decades to manufacturing goods. So busy was she at this making -of cottons and machinery and such like, that she allowed tens of thousands of her people to drift into idleness. Not all her people were em­ ployed at the spinning jenny or at the forge. Not all her sons were sea rovers or fishermen. Tens of thousands of her population were idle when they should have been busy in the field rather than hudd­ ling amid the filth and poverty -of her great cities. This idleness proved the mother of unrest and evil in a thousand forms, not the least hurtful being the fact that every idler possessed a vote and so was a possible menace. No -country can afford to run the risk of allowing its population to abandon the land. It is Still true, as England to-day is exemplifying and discovering: “A bold peasantry, a country’s pride, > When once destroyed can never be supplied.” Prosperity for nations is precarious unless it is broad based on varied industry and well rooted in the soil. England’s home‘must be not only on the sea but in well icultivated fields. **♦**'♦.♦* TIMES HAVE CHANGED It used to be that when one got out of a job he felt himself bound to hustle till he got-another. It used to be, too, that when one was earning that he felt obligated to lay by a little something for -a rainy day.,. Yes, and it used to be that when one man employed another man to work for him, the obligation was met when the wages were paid. All that is changed in these fine times. All that a man has to^do, it seems, is to. work for a- little over half a year and lo, what follows? If one is then out Of a job all he has to do is to say to his -soul, “Soul, eat, drink and be merry. Your former boss must keep you in bite and soup and fuel and roof, the govern­ ment paying a certain percent for your upkeep and you, yourself, living on what you earned and saved in those seven months or so of arduous toil.” Times have come to be very interesting. Not so long ago we saw a smith of about fifty who had toiled for house and home for forty years, shoeing an obstreperous colt, while a young man of thirty-five looked serenely on. “Why don’t you work?” the exasperated smith inquired of him? “Why should I?” was the answer. “The government sees to it that fools like you support me? My vote is .as good -as yours and the government knows it," he added. And the -blacksmith has a son in the war, The political racket is a beauty when you come to think of it. Meanwhile a thoughtless public allows Canada to drift into Naziism ■as hard as it can lick. We love to forge oiir chains with one hand while we contend for’liberty with the other. Everybody counts these.- , days except the toiling and the thrifty. There are rewards for Industry but they are to be reaped by work-dodgers. The Canadian electorate delights to have it so. <(a * * ■ a A a * a The winning qualities Polk are inclined to believe that .Hitler and his -crowd are the high Water mark of physical efficiency. S'olk Who think this way believe that Hitler is a firm believer that victory Is on the side of the most battalions. Little by little this belief is being dissipated, as we learn’ that Hitler is following the example of King Sad! of the older days as he tried to see into the future by occult means. Hess Is credited with the same sort of thing such as reading the future by studying the iines oh the hand. That IS, Getmapy’s leaders be­ lieve, after all in the Spiritual forces of the great universe. The wise old Greeks lived in the conviction that you can’t get by and do wrong, no matter how yon try. When one of the kings aiteinpt- ed to do wrong, he was pounced Upon By the tfifies Who drove him in his tortured soul to something like insanity. Repentance came to him, and his fortunes changed. In plain Hnglish, goodness is the nature of things and he who flies’ into the face of this fact invites his own destruction. The man or the nation that wanders into the far country of violation of the moral law soon must seek the swine’s WAR SAVINGS < CERTIFICATES > MODERN, EXPERIENCED BANKING SERVICE.........the Outcome of 122 Year? Successful OberatietL • food only to find that no man will give unto him thereof. We have the records of one tyrant who was compelled to eat straw like the, ox. We know of another -child murderer who was eaten of worms. We know of one murdering queen who was -driven to insanity and died shrieking because she smelled blood on her hands. History is big with the fact that there is no appeal against an outraged conscience. The everlasting bonfire awaits the wrong doer, no matter how primrose the road he takes thereto. This is the ver­ dict of history. Hitler and his evil crew know this -and are doing all ' they can avoid the result of their -evil doing. They know that the spirit of Westminster Abbey will -pursue them to the being ground to powder. The blood of murdered children is already falling in fire showers upon their tortured souls. Hess saw this and tried to flee from the country in whose blood-drenching he had his full share. Isn’t it Lord .Halifax who spoke of Hess as seeing the handwriting On the wall, meaning thereby that Hess has seen the unseen emerging in judgment. The mills of the gods are grinding • over there in Germany. TOE EIGHTH DECENNIAL ALL INFORMATION SUPPLIED held Strictly confidential You can place absolute trust in the official Enumerator, who is sworn to secrecy. All the information which you provide will be held in strictest confidence both by him and the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, and can never be used against you by any tax-col- looting, military, or other agency, or in any court of law. I. HE Census is the stock-taking of the nation — of its men, women,, and children; its agriculture, trade, and industry; its housing, and general social condition. By it, all Governments, — Dominion, Provincial and Muni­ cipal—are enabled to work more effectively and econ­ omically in the interest of every resident of the Dominion. JN these days of increasing Govern­ ment responsibili­ ties, no Government can give the best service unless it has detailed and accu­ rate knowledge Of the people and their varying cifcum- stances. That is why We request the co-operation of all Canadian citizens in the taking of the Census. When the Government’s Enumerator calls at your door, re­ ceive him courteously and give him all the information for which he asks. Remember that he is in your ser­ vice, Accuracy and despatch in your replies Will promote good administra­ tion in your country, now under stress of war and facing crucial post-war reconstruction, ^MINION BUREAU OF STATISTICS * OEPT. OF TOAOE AND Issued by authority of The Honourable JAMES A. MacKINNON, Minister. It is compulsory by law to answer the questions, but you will be assisting your Government in these difficult times by giv­ ing the information readily and accurately in the spirit of good citizenship.