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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1941-08-28, Page 7•K ■ ’*1-, t« I 'J; Pert and Pertinent “The bride is faced with the task of cooking 5 (MOO meals...-.” —and the groom with providing the groceries! . #“Buigaria has more centenarians than any other ' country of like population,”' -—a possible explanation is the national habit of putting off dying until tomorrow, “The boy stood on the burning deck from whence all but he had fled...” —strong in faith but Woefully lacking in initiative. “A’"'Boston -mother of two child­ ren has just been graduated in Pharmacy,.,,..” —doubtless her experience in making sandwiches at home helped more than somewhat. | —Oley Okedoke* * * a leave of absence, sir,” “What for?” queried the officer. “My wife wants me to help her move, sir,” “I don’t like to refuse you,” said the Colonel, “but I’ve just received a letter from your wife saying she does not want you to come home because you’re more bother than help,” i % , The soldier saluted and turned to go.* At the dooi’ he stopped and remarked; “Colonel, there are two person's in this regiment who handle the truth loosely, and I’m •them...I'm not married.” —Lonesome ' * * - * it’s patriotic It’s Patriotic to drive Not to exceed forty-five. It’s patriotic to walk And not grouch or squawk. It’s patriotic to Instead qf ■scanties. wear cotton panties old-fashioned silk sing-It’s patriotic to But not boogie or swing. It’s patriotic When out toIt’s patriotic Not to strike It’s patriotic So we can one of Rookie THE EXETER THWES-ADVOCATE MlvtiSDAY, AWOT Mb, »»« work or to shirk, to all do our bit, keep fit to scornIt’s patriotic Old John Barleycorn. knit. testi- It’s patriotic not to idly sit; Buy some yarn and start, to * • The ultimate in truthful monials was graphically illustrat­ ed by. the late Will Rogers, who, for a consideration, is said to. have given this testimonial: I I ' Ah, Me! The day has come, The time draws neai’, The train pulls in— My girl is here. There goes the train, It’b come and gone, - And still I stand here All alone. \ There is a reason, What can it be? listdad of one, They came—all throe!' _^G10be &♦ ■ ♦ * ' The well-mannered are even to inferiors.. * * * Definitely Descriptive Definitions Financial Succor—The guy who makes a loan without security, Horse Sense—The ability to say “Nay”, ’ 1 < Friend—Anyone who laughs at your funny stories. Circle—A round straight line with a hole in the middle.. Initiative—Imagination in action. Triangle—Not on' the “Dear Sirs: guess your pianos are th£‘ best ever leaned against,” * * * Some rich men are handicapped by blonded indebtedness.............. A modefn girl is one who can meet the wolf at the door and come back with a fur coat...........When a man says he runs things at his house, he usually .means the lawn mower, or the washing machine.........,....Many a go-getter is afterward sorry that he gotten..........-If a man could have half of his wishes, he’d double his trouble ............ Matrimony puts end to more petting parties than the police put together. * * Private J. P. marched up to colonel and saluted. “I would like * X * an all his Anchor polite Eternal square. ** * there the manBreathes With soul so dead Who has never turned' around And said...... x“Hmmm. Not bad!”* * ♦ Speed the Parting Guest One of the problems of the aver­ age office is to get visitors and cal­ lers to transact their business, state the purpose of their calls, and then move on—to keep them from wasting the other fellow’s time. Numerous' devices have been in­ vented and pu.t into effect to tell the other fellow tactfully and dip­ lomatically that: “We are busy if you are not.” One of the most common plans is the use of signs that hint at ‘speeding the parting guest”. One of the most unusual of these signs which we spotted on .the desk of a bank executive, read: “Brevity is the aoul of be witty.” Wit- Personality 1 Personality is that rare quality that differentiates one man from another. It is one of the funda­ mental traits or virtues of the suc­ cessful salesman. No salesman can achieve success without-- some degree of personality; In fact, if he didn't possess a pleas­ ing personality,’ he wouldn’t have landed the sales job in the first place. Sales Mnaagers and Personnel Directors Will try to tell you that they do not measure the qualified-- tions of a prospective salesman on the basis of personality. But. they do every time. - , There is no need to define the word personality, and yet perhaps a definition might help us to a bet­ ter understanding of our own<per- sonalities. It can be simply ’ defin­ ed in the phrase: “I like that guy.” In short,.it means the ability to make others like us and to agree with ms...the ability to make friends. Or, to express it differently, it is the outward impression we make beeaxtse of our general appearance, our mind and our character. It means having a sense of humoi* —not the kind that wants to tease or belittle the other fellow—to get a laugh at his expense—but the abil­ ity to7 see the humorous side of any situation. It means poise, self-possession, self-confidence, belief in one’s abil­ ity, an -assurance of being well- informed on our job, our product, Or on the reason, use and purpose of whatever we are do. „ It also means than a negative determination and enthusiasm for our task. Is there any Way we can develop a more impressive and attractive per­ sonality? I believe there is. Strive to get the other .person’s . viewpoint, his understanding; add then talk to him from his angle— his side Of .the fence—his compari­ son. Get away from a purely selfish, a purely personal, opinion and view­ point. To a great extent, the de­ gree of Our personality is govern­ed by our unselfishness. No per­ son who is permanently self-centr­ ed, opinionated, or conceited, can permanently attract others»to’ him- . self. On the other hand, no really un­ selfish individual can long remain unnoticed or unappreciated; The unselfish salesman has not only the interest of his firm at heart* but he has the customers’ in­ terest also, he studies the custo­ mers* problems and strives to bene­ fit him in -any way he can, In oth­ er words, to render service. There you have it summed up in one word: Personality is Service, doing or trying to a. positive rather State of mind—a , * * * Please wail one Wail For Adolph Barr; He just would drive A one-eyed car. Diarrhoea Dysentery If you are suddenly attacked with diarrhoea, dysentery, colic, cramps of pains in .the stomach or bowels, or any looseness of the bowels do not waste valuable time, but at once pro* cure a bottle of Dr. bowler's Ex­ tract of Wild Strawberry and see how quickly it will give yon rehef. When you use * ‘Bri Fowldr’a” yon are hot experimenting with some now and untried remedy, but Ono that W stood the test of time? Ono that has been on the market for the past 94 years. Beware of substi­ tutes. Whey may be dangerous to your health. Get Fowlerand feel safe. jChtt T. JIUbdM CO., Ltd., Toronto, Ont SIGNIFICANT . Just last week we visited one of pui* up-to-date printing rooms. Our eye was caught by a new linotype machine. This affair was much larger than any that we had been accustomed to, “It will do any kind of type betting,” it was explained, “It sets up our advertisements and our headings. It will do. almost anything that a daily newspaper requires,” In this shop we used to find half a dozen or more men busy setting type by hand- That room is now unused for such purposes. That big machine has taken the place of those mbn. War or no war, the world is moving on and we may as well tighten up ©ux’ belts and get on in the competition or get out.♦ * ♦ * * * * * ♦ THOSE SLACKERS We have referred to the slackers in this hour of growing need and of growing peril. ‘ God’s call and the country’s call grows stronger and stronger, yet these no-goods waste money and time and thought on things thatsthe extreme of charity, cannot but designate as trifles light as air qx’ of, extremely secondary value. They waste gasoline, the very lifeblood of our national life, Gov­ ernment officials fail to control this precious commodity, but leave the land at the mercy of the unscrupulous first-c«me-first-have’s. The sdme applies to bacon and to scores of essential food products. Pehraps we’ll do better when bombs fall on Fifth Avenue, New York, on the corner of Dundas and Richmond streets in London, Exper­ ience keeps a dear school, but her lessons are well taught. ♦ * ****** SPLENDID There is no word too fine’ to. tell of what the women of Britain are now doing in their war services. These women have not ceased to be fine and feminine. They are showing themselves to be great and\splendid. There they stand with their brothers and husbands in thousands of munition works doing the best work that may be asked of anyone, man or woman, There is no smirking. There are no parloui’ gimcracks ox* capers. There is a solid getting at the job ■required by the houx* and a getting of it done, There is no thought of mistress or maid. There is nothing said of duchess or dairymaid. All are. women, British' women, standing together-at bench and loom, slogging along with a brave smile on their lips and a song in their hearts, working fox* the day when the last hell shall be driven from the. air and the last sneaking torpedo shark swept from the sea. Give us a word to describe conduct so unique and a spirit. so transcendent. **»♦ * *♦» “I’M A LAWYER” We had occasion the other day to visit the office of an old, iwell-established law firm in ope of our large Ontario cities, We waited deferentially .in the lobby till a very businesslike young woman appeared who engaged us in conversation. We thought that she was a secretary till she announced, “You see, I’m a lawyer. Mr. So and So is away with his regiment and I’m carrying on till he comes back.” ,8° there you are in these strange times. That prominent lawyer has given over the advantages of a lucrative prac­ tice that law and Order may be continued in tjiis good land. And what of that bright young person who is sitting in the seat of the mighty? She is wonderfully businesslike. She answers your ques­ tions with a directness and a sufficiency that leaves you gaping. Inquiry proves that she goes before the judge and jury and states, .her case with a satisfactoriness that'wfns the'verdict, the very thing that clients desire. She has one feature that delights the judges, she prepares her case with a thoroughness that pleases them. No, she hasn’t a legal manner. No, she has no strut and no stride. She’s a lawyer. Like a whole ,lot of othei’ women and girls just now, she has a business and she attends to it with an energy that makes her a winner. . . • ,. * * ■* * * * * « IT’S RIGHT HERE 1 We are not of those who would form plans for. reconstruction after the war. We believe that the work of construction goes on every hour of the day and in every hour of the century. We already have referred to the new status of women. That status has been fairly won and cannot, in the nature of things, be other than main­ tained and improved. For the most part, boys and girls are learning to work. Those not working are a negligible lot who soon will rot out of existence. The bdys and girls worth looking at are busy now and are preparing for better"things. “As soon as I’m old enough,” they tell you as they look up from their work, “I’ll be in it too.” Every effort is being made to have these young people open-minded and ready-handed, so that they will be ready fox’ any position no mattex' what duty beckons them. What we can-do we are doing to keep those young people with a clean bloodstream, a clear brain and a good conscience. We are dropping this and that doodad that never was any good. r What we can do we are doing to keep our people familiar with the best thoughts of the best men, living and dead. For ,after all, it is the spirit that'makes.a man great oi’ small. The folk who love fine and beautiful things cannot be the children of oppression. SERIOUS WORDS Those were serious words that President Roosevelt addressed . to the newspapers of the United States when he quoted the language Of President Lincoln. By so doing, the President of the United States wished the people of the Anglo-Saxon nations to understand that the war situation is serious. Civilization is at death grips .with its mortal and mighty foe. In Lincoln’s day as ixx Our day, there were those who regarded the war as something of an adventure. Lincolxx saw that for the United States, as the war drew into its vortex the blood and treasure of the nation, that the issue was nothing short of national existence. Fox’ the North to lose the war was for the United States to be destroyed. For the North to put less than her all into the struggle'was for darkness to triumph. President Roose­ velt sees the same issue in the balance now,, only the issue is the welfare, not of a nation, but of civilization. The President sees the same, easy-going way of regarding the struggle operative now as was operative in the days of Lincoln. Without any disguising of facts he told the world that half measures in the prosecution of the war would mean the extermination of the church and home, business and freedom, as we know them. He meant just that. He meant nothing less than that. Every Anglo-Saxon must think and feel and act just that. Every day we hear and see thousands who have adopted this stern creed. There are slackers, however. ****»*/*» MEANT TO BE HEEDED Winston Churchill intended his Sunday speech to be heeded. Some people regarded it Otherwise, but the British Prime Minister spoke with but one purpose, namely, to warn Britain and America that their liberties were in very serious danger of being utterly and finally lost through lack of meeting the dangei’ of the moment. And Churchill has the right' to speak. For more than ten years, in nearlv thi’ee thousand addresses he told Britain of the peril now confront­ ing her, ‘ only to be laughed at, when he was not utterly ignored. This same man is telling the Americas that the peril he saw a decade ago is oxi their doorstep. Russia, Britain, the Americas, Hitler has planned -theii’ overthrow, just as he planned the bloody succession of his now well-nigh conquered countries of Europe. Will the Americas not heed the call of the one man in Britain who forecast the approaching doom of a now terrorized continent? Will she not take time to see the, filthy lechery of the Nazi, already within chok­ ing distance of the white throat of America’s womanhood? What evil delusion is this that prevents America from seeing that the fate of Poland and Holland awaits her unless timely and. effective action is taken? The German eagle is poised in midair ovex' the St. Lawrence and the Hudson, Only the fools and blind fail to hear his scream and to note Ills bloody talons. Winston Churchill poured out his very life blood last Sunday to purge America of her ominous deafness and blindness. ♦ *■ * .A BIT OF GOOD WORK We’re not surprised that Russia has been getting an occasional black eye in the merciless fighting that has been going on. Our (surprise is that she has done .as well as she has. Most of ns thought that she’d run for her den at the first bark- of the German daschund. That hasn’t been her*way. She has fought with a courage and a skill and a tenacity that have won the admiration of the world; Since the revolution she has given herself to eonstructlon work. She has built immense damn that have furnished Immeasurable areas with water power that has been transformed into electric en­ ergy that has given almost limitless power to factories without number. She has inaugurated an immensely successful system of agriculture. She has taught her sons and daughters to study, to reflect, to invent and to work together. Little by little she was sloughing off many of the hateful things of communism and was taking up the tenets of genuine, character-building religion, War was the very thing stop did not want. Her wiser sons saw that a struggle with Germany was inevitable and for that struggle she in measure prepared. But when the wax’ came, she highly resolved to z’fight for her homes and her freedom. And marvellously has she carried on the struggle, She has. poured out torrents of blued and rivers of treasure. She has yielded no coward foot of land. Just now every man and woman and child in Leningrad Is actively in the fight, No craven spirit is in Moscow or its environs. Her struggle is a titanic one before which the student of history must stand wth uncovered head. Such a spirit cannot bow to apy tyrant. Z Let’s Talk it Over ♦ * « Well, Mr. King, our prime Minis­ ter, is in England! Qur first reac­ tion tp the news of his arrival was one of amusement. For months the daily press of the Dominion has been urging the Premier to go to London for obvious reasons and only a short time ago the agitation j over the subject reached such a pitch that the Right Honorable gentleman was practically abus­ ed of being afraid of.the hazardous Atlantic crossing. All of which only further proved that Mr, King, regardless of his abilities or short-. Comings, certainly knows how to keep his own silence, because de­ tails and time of the trip, it now develops, had been planned weeks before the voyage was made, And so, while Canadians howled foi’ action, the Premier quietly step­ ped aboard a trans-Atlantic plane and took off for the Old Land with so much secrecy that he was in London before the majority of, the people in this country knew he was leaving. His personal courage in the matter could harly be doubted, making the trip as he did on the Very heels of two terrible accidents in the trans-Atlantic service, It was, by the way, Mr. King’s first airplane flight! * ,* * ZThis icoluxnn, like many hundreds of others in the daily and weekly Canadian press, has consistently pointed out faults and weaknesses in the general set-up of things in oux’ own Dominion. T° many this continued criticism may seem poor patriotism at a crucial time and we are well aware of the danger of weakening the war effort in this way. That danger, however, is a remote one, for we Canadians are prone to icriticize our government too little and not too much. So far we haven’t seen too many people aroused to unhealthy dissatisfaction by our words. Would that there were but a sprinkling of them to liven up the rest of us! Neverthe­ less, we have devoted time and space to criticism on many occasions and it is With true pleasure that we are now able to bring to the public attention the favorable com­ ment which the press and Dominion officials are heaping on Canadian industry for the way it has respond­ ed to the efforts to arm for freedom. According to all reports most of the industries are beyon'd schedule in production to date; greater pro- , gress has been made in the months which have passed than was ex­ pected, either by themselves or by the government. The Duke of Kent, in his address at -the opening of tixe Canadian National Exhibition last week, spoke with deep and evi­ dent feeling of the help which Can­ ada is giving and will give in the future to the Motherland. To those among us who must sit on the dis­ tant sidelines and gain our news of war industry only by hearsay, these are indeed welcome words, fox’ many of us have the gnawing feai’ that our part in the struggle is fall­ ing short, engendered, perhaps, by oux’ helplessness to do anything more than knit and pray. Hearty congratulations, then, to! oui’ government and Our industrial­ ists. Perhaps in the future they will keep us a little bettex' informed' of the progress that is being made,. One can harly be blamed foi; want­ ing to know the score once in a , while. * * * | Since you have undoubtedly heard or read of the Churchill . broadcast on Sunday afternoon last, we shall refer to it only briefly. Jt Will be recalled that tMs column dealt, not ong ago, witji the im­ portance of the Atlantic Confer­ ence between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister ChWrchill and in the same issue we remarked on the justice and foresight of the peace aims which were the publish- ed0 result of the talks. Mr, Churchill, in his broadcast, referred to these peace aims at some length and clarified two very important points, points which are , of interest to all, and ones which we have often heard discussed by the man on the street. Let us quote the Prime Minister’s words; speak­ ing of tlxe Atlantic Charter, he said; “There are, however, twe dis- ? 1 ■ • i tinct and marked differences in this, Ijoinf declaration from the atti­ tude adopted by the Allies during the latter part of the last wax’ and; no one should overlook them. The United Sfatea and .Great Britain do not now assume that there will nev^r be any more war again, On the icentrai’y, we intend to take ample precautions to prevent its Re­ newal in any period we can foresee by effectively disarming the guilty nations while remaining suitably . protected ourselves. “The second difference .is this, that instead of trying to ruin Ger­ man trade by all kinds ef addi­ tional trade barriers and* hind-' ranees, as was the mood of 1917, we have definitely adopted the view that it is not in the inter-; estS of the world and of our two’ countries that any large nation should be unpx’osperous or shut out from the means of making al decent living for itself and its I people by its industry and enter­ prise, These are far-reaching changes of principle upon which all countries should ponder.”-----—m—....... Well,* Tomorrow’# Sunday! A certain minister of the gospel and a certain practitionei’ of the science of medicine (both of whom we veil in anonymity) are mighty good friends, such good friends, in­ deed, that they enjoy bantering each other about their respective professions. The other day, they met on the street and in the course of their conversation the man of medicine informed the gentleman of the cloth that he was on his way to pay a professional call on elderly Mr. Blank, who had been ‘in ill health for some time...and the clergy­ man enquired: “How is Mr. Blank? Is he any worse?” “Ah,” sighed the doctor gravely, “he needs your help more than he does mine.” Taking the bait, hook line and sinker, the minister exclaimed: “Poor fellow! It he as bad off as that?” “Yes,” said the doctor, without a smile, “I can’t get him to take a mucli-needed nap in the day-time.” FIVE AM SENTENCED Five Windsor youths, to years ot age, wm sentenced Goderich o?x Thursday of last week to varying pidson terns of two years to three xnonths for attempted jail breaking, car theft, robbery and at­ tempted robbery, a series of crimes they committed in Huron County •early this month. -Ralph J, Delduca and Max Glass- co, recognized as leaders of the groups, received one year each fox’ attempting to escape from Huron County jail on August 7 and one year tor the theft of an automo­ bile at Hensaii on July 31. The terms .run consecutively, Lesser terms of from two. to six months were given on four robbery counts, they to run concurrently with the majoi’ sentences. The sen­ tences of Ernest Rupert, 18, to­ taled one yeai’ in reformatory on •five counts. Robert Enright and Francis Ar- pentiguay, 19, members of the Es­ sex Scottish Regiment, were given three and four months in jail re­ spectively. Sentences of one year suspend­ ed, were given for car theft by consent of the attorney-general They were absent without leaves when the crimes were committed. “Your behaviour is not what it should be. You have disgraced the King’s uniform by associating with hoodlums,” Magistrate Ian McRae told the soldiers. Although notified that sentence was to be passed their military­ unit was not represented in court, “You were not satisfied with stealing a car at Hensail, but you ; went on to rob business places at Zurich, Clinton, Blyth and Brus­ sels and then tried to escape ■cus­ tody,” his warship said to Delduca and Glassco, Delduca will be taken to Windsor to answer a charge of robbing the residence x>f Hon. Jas. Clarke in that city. ----------V---------- . CALF IS CALLED . AFTER MUSSOLINI An item from Goderich to the London Free Press states: “Deputy Reeve Roy Ratz, of Stephen Town­ ship has a three-week-old calf that not only looks like Benito Musso­ lini, but possesses many of 11 Duce’s traits. The calf is black-headed, characteristic of Herefords, and has a broad, flat nose, protruding jaw. It is a good feedei’ but is not doing so well. Mr. Ratz says. It was born black and is turning' a dirty yellowish. It bawls more than all the other. calves- in the barn com­ bined and at the slightest alarm runs to its master foi’ help. Mr. Ratz calls the calf “Muss” for short.” SWITZERLAND... CZECHOSLOVAKIA ... BRITAIN ... FREE FRANCE . and the four corners of the world! ® In spite of submarines and Nazi “statistics”—in defiance of bombs and bombast—-you’ll see eye-open­ ing exhibits from all around the world! Canada’s greatest Exhibi­ tion brings you‘a dramatic picture of life today in a war-torn world. SEE Canada’s Fighting fen in Action I Canada’s Navy, Army and Air Force Will give you a "ringside seat” for today’s War of swift, smashing movement. Canadian-built fighting machines go through gruelling tests on a specially constructed “battle­ field”. Guns and shells and other tools of War will be finished and Shipped to Empire armies* Humbled Messerschmitts from the Battle °£ Britain Will be on display. A. [Wj Music Everywhere ! On the con­ tinent’s largest dance floor in the C.N.E. Dance Pavilion, you’ll swing .and sway to the rhythms of Tommy Dorsey, GUy Lombardo, Tony Pastor, Vaughan Monroe, Ina Ray Hutton, and The Modemaires. The ILS. Navy Band and hundreds of other outstanding musical organi­ zations will fill the Exhibition air with grand, martial music! Indian Native Dances and Old-Time Fiddlers’ Contests are part of the colour and charm of this 2-week, Wonderland. SEE Agriculture on a war-time basis; a Woman’s World of To- morrow; sports classics every hour, every day; the brilliant C. N.E. Horse Show. See it all and See it often—-the most dramatic, taxit and inspiring Exhibition of all time. % CAN A D IAN N AT IO N A ft EXHIBITION fOttONTO 1^41: . JOHN tl WOOtt A . #