The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1939-01-19, Page 3==£
THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, JANUARY 19th, 1989
TEN COMMANDMENTS
Here are ten suggested rules of
conduct for employees—they apply
■to you . . and you . , and you;
1. Don’t lie. It wastes my time
and yours. I am sure to catch you
in the end—and that’s the wrong
end.
2. Watch your work and not the
clock. A good day’s work makes a
long day short—and a poor’s day
work makes my face long,
3. Give me more than I expect,
and I will give you more than you
expect. I can afford to increase youx’
pay if you increase my profits,
4. You owe so much to yourself
that you cannot afford to owe any
one else.
5. Dishonesty is never an accident.
6. Mind your own business, and
in time you’ll have a business of
your own to mind.
7. Don’t do anything here which
hurts youx‘ eelf-respect. An employee
who is willing to steal for me is will
ing to steal from me.
8. It is none of my business what
you do at night. But if dissipation
affects what you do the next day,
and you do half as much as I demand
you’ll last half as long as you hoped.
9. Don’t tell me what I like to
hear but tell me what I ought to hear
10. Don’t kick if I kick. If you’re
worth correcting, you’re worth keep
ing.* * *
A papei’ in a good-sized town in
Michigan recently published this
item:
“The business man of , this
this town who is in he habit of
hugging his typewritex? had bet-
tei' quit, or we will publish his
name.”
The next day 37 business men call-
at the office, paid up their subscrip
tion and left behind them thirty
even columns of advertising—and—
told the editor to pay no attention
to foolish stories.
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WHAT A BOUQUET’
California ships almost 7,000,000
pounds of fresh, cut flowers annual
ly in ^ refrigerator care to Eastern
markets.
They are chrysanthemums, roses,
violets, acacias, zinnias, heather and
fruit blossoms combined with large
quantities of ferns, All are grown
in the San .Francisco bay region
which produces flowers all the year
around of a vitality" and freshness
that survives the transcontinental
journey. The standard for Chrysan
themum's is 9 inches in diameter
although T2 inch ’mums’ are not un
common.
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OUT OF THE VOID
Sometime, somewhere you’ll find me,
E’en o’er the globe I roam;
Dear Heart, Fate will deal kindly
In longing I’ll atone.
Tho’ years your sad quest blindly
Leads endless paths alone
I know some day you’ll find me,
Some day, we’ll both turn home.
Deart heart, these lcng years, lonely,
Will claim us mates, and then
New hopes, new vows, will sweetly
Into our union blend.
* * *
Don’t envy the other fellow—the
chances are, he is envying someone
else.$
Action without forethought usual
ly results in disaster — while fore
thought without action is a complete
‘flop.’ A
# ’K *
You can’t make both ends meet by
stretching your imagination.
* * *
Young wives seek to conquer by
coquetting, old wives, by worrying.
* * sis
A wise man gets learning from
those who have none themselves.
* * *
No matter how busy or idle we
are—we usually find time to do what
we want to do—-or, as Geode and
powel in their excellent book, ‘What
About Advertising” say:
’“People do what THEY WANT
TO DO. Man drifts into church
during the second hymn, but
seldom misses the opening
Stubborn Cases of Constipation
Those who keep a mass of im
purity pent up in their bodies, day
after day, instead of having it re
moved as Mtuto intended, at least
once in every twenty-four hours, in
variably Suffer from constipation.
The use of cheap, harsh purgatives
only aggravate the trouble and
injure the delicate mucous lining of
the bowels,
If constipated take Milburn’s
Laxa-LivCr Pills and have a natural
movement of the bowels. They do
not gripe, Weaken or sicken as many
laxatives do. -
The T. Milburn Co., Lid., Toronto, Ont,,
whistle of a football game. Duty
letters to deserving cousins
languish for days, while a new
ly discovered sweetheart gets a
special delivery letter at break
fast."
* * ' *
MENTAL VS. MATERIAL
The American System of Individual
Initiative, Industry and Integrity
•has given more people health, homes
and happiness than any other sys
tem ever known to civilized man,
Our sphere is a spiritual as well as
a physical world -— everything we
make, every new industry, every new
invention, every agricultural devel
opment — has to exist first as ao
idea—a plan—oi’ a picture—in the
mind of some man; and he in turn
must have the enthusiasm and pos
sess the ability to make others un
derstand and realize his goal.
We have made tremendous pro
gress in our brief history because our
system has been the best system to
stimulate the mental activity of the
greatest -number of people—and we
will continue to make great strides
for the benefit of all mankind as well
as our own people—if we can keep
our mental perspective unclouded by
FEAR.
People can think more clearly,
more sanely, under a system that
permits freedom of speech, worship
and movement—a system of ‘free
dom’ rather than FOR'CE.* * *
PRANKISH PROB I JIMS
Answer to- Prankish Problem No.
4i8i which appeared in this column
last week: A was right, as he was
entitled to 7 coins, while B was en
titled to only 11.
Prankish Problem No. 49: A stern
old farmer who doubted the young
man’s intelligence and hesitating to
promise him his daughter’s hand,
consented cn condition the young
man su'ccessfully accomplish for him
the following task:
He told the young riian to go out
in the orchard and pick scmje apples.
Then come back into the house and
give my wife one-half of your apples
plus one-half an apple, give me one-
half of the remaining apples and one-
half an apple; then give my daugh
ter one-half of your remaining apples
and one half an apple, and have one
apple left. If you haven’t cut an
apple in the process you may marry
my daughter.
.How many apples did the young
man pick to win his bride.
('Correct answer will be printed
in this space next week.)
*• * *
NEWS
Horace 'Greeley, who always in
sisted that the word ‘news’ was plur
al, once wired a reporter:: “Are
there any news?”
In reply, he received this reply:
“Not a new.”
$ &
There are a hundred men of wit to
one of sense.
* * *
THE HIGH PRICE OF
LEADERSHIP
“There is a SINGLE reason why
99 out of 10'0 average business men
never become leaders,” said Owen
D. Young, “and that is their unwill
ingness to pay the price of responsi
bility. By the price or responsibil
ity, I mean hard driving, continuous
work-—the courage to make decis
ions, to stand the gaff—the scourg
ing honesty of never fooling your
self about yourself.
“You travel the road to leadership
heavily laden. While thfe nine-to-
five o’clock worker takes his ease,
you are ‘toiling upward thru the
night.’ Laborously you extend your
own mental frontiers, Any new ef
fort, the psychologists say, wears a
new groove in the brain. And the
grooves that lead to the heights are
not made between nine and five—
they are burned in by midnight oil.”
$ >|: *
Happiness can be bought very
cheaply when it is for someone else.* * *
A woman’s smile is quite often
more dangerous than her frown.
* * *
Necessity is a harsh teacher.
* * *
Detours, like the abstract, help us
to abbreciate the concrete,* *
The philanthropist exacts more
than he gives. i* * *
When other pens and other lips
Their tales of mirth shall tell
With newer quirks and newer quips
YO'Ur worries shall dispel
There may, perhaps in such a day
Some recollections be
Of one—-but? no, I’m free to say
You won't remember me.
THE GOILONED
January shortened up the winter.
***** * * *
Are we to have an election in 1939.
* .**** » » *
We welcome the sun on his return trip.
****** * *
Old Man Winter is doing a pretty good job.
■ ********
What is Italy doing with Ethiopia, now that she has it?
** **** * #
What Johnny and Mary lose in sleigh-riding they are making
up in skating.
** **** * *
That rain was fine as fax'as it went, but there wasn’t enough
of it to go far enough.
Mt * ***# #
What a fine world this -would be were Hitler and Mussolini to
go into a state of perpetual hibernation!
********
Some sermons are toti long Impatient Artidi complains. Well,
some are a bit too broad. And there, you are.
******* *
Now what would you have done had you been in Chamberlain’s
shoes. Judge by the management of youi’ own bailawick.
********
We have just been presented with a penny of the date of 1790.
It was found in the till of a merchant who does not advertise.
* * ** *****
Those folk out to decorate for the reception of Their Majesties
should employ some of the store decorators and store window dress
ers.
********
The Scots drink mostly water the St. Thomas Times-Journal
tells ‘US. Does this disprove the theory that two bodies cannot oc
cupy the same space at the same timie?
********
It’s the soldier’s business to see that the Empire is in a position
to defend hei’self; it is the statesmen’s duty to- see to it that the
soldier’s special function is not brought into requisition.
********
The wise are telling us that Canada must grow less wheat.
These freezing and thawing spells help out that mandate. The
drought and the grasshoppers give a push in ‘the same direction.
********
We heard a profound lecturer the other day telling his audience
that Britain is not so much bent on the practice of justice as on ac
cepting the inevitable. Well the “just and the inevitable are the
same thing, come to think of it.
* * * * * * * «
NOT WANTED
This racketeering and gangsterism so boldly raising its head of
late must be dealt sternly by. With.their invariable accomplices,
rum-running and book-making and illegal narcotic sale they leave a-
bloody tale of financial and social and physical ruin behind them.
They are brazen and defiant. ” They stop at nothing. They are ut
terly ruthless in their methods. Terrorism is their meat and- drink.
Blackmail and bomb and bullet and torch are the strong fingers of
their right hand.
But they are not stronger than the government. They are a’
national menace and must be repressed by the full power of the
national arm. If the present machinery for controlling a dangei’
is inadequate, it may and must be replaced by equipment both effic
ient and willing.
********
LEARNING BETTER
Usually we think of the native Chinese as unchanged and un
changing. We’re wrong in this. About 50 years ago the Chinese
got it into their heads that the only way to live was to adopt West
ern ways. Accordingly they ate American food, wore American
clothes and attended American Universities. The more American
they were the better they liked it. The less they followed the
methods and customs of their fathers the surei- they were that they
were on the road to happiness. Lately they have reversed all that
The more Chinese they are the more they think of themselves.
They have discovered that they have a civilization all theii* own and
that theii’ father’s way of carrying on was not so bad after all. They
made the discovery that change is not necessarily progress.
********
Every so often we hear that there must be or that there is very
likely to be war in Europe next Spring. All such talk does harm.
To admit the necessity of such an occurence is to encourage such a
consumation, whereas the effort should all be the other way. is
one thing to admit the presence of grave, provocative conditions, but
another and a very different thing to settle one’s mind that such
can be ‘corrected only by the terrible abitrament of war. We are
not saying that Britain should .go the way of unpreparedness
She has followed that dangerous course too long. At the same time
it is one thing to be prepared for war, but another thing to seek
war. To be prepared for a storm is not to raise the storm.
Meanwhile everyone who values peace is in honour bound to
assure those bent on strife that should they break the peace they
must encounter the last ounce of fighting power of those who stand
for good will. Every unit of power in the Empire must be set in
order to promote peace. If peace cannot be had then we, the Em
pire must be prepared by the marshalling of every man and dollar
to defend the Empire’s right. The peoples of the world must be
made aware of this situation and of this preparedness. Life is larger
than theories. Facts are what they are. Why should we attempt
to deceive ourselves. Wai’ is not inevitable. But if it is forced
upon us, let us be ready for the event.
* 1 * * * * * * *
AN EASILY REACHED LIMIT
“Our boundless resources” was a phrase that tripped lightly
from the tongue of every Canadian political orator or that dropped
lightly from every Canadian editorial pen of 40 yeai'S ago. Lately,
we do not hear that sort of thing. Crop failures, diminishing for
ests, exhausted mines and the law of diminishing farm returns, to
say nothing of failing markets, have taught lessons that men would
not learn by foresight or reflection.
Germany more than half a century ago saw what a few enlight
ened and practically-minded Canadians this moment are but dimly
seeing. They saw the near-exhaustion of their natural wealth and
sought the remedy. They resolved on a no-waste policy and follow
ed it up in every corner of theii' land with a thoroughness beyond
all praise. Foi’ more than 70 years this policy has been followed
oht.
Well, Germany has found that she is near the limit of what she can do with her man-power and the utilization of earth and forest
and stream and lake and mine. In these respects nature has said to
her, “So far, but no further.” She has been on the wrong track. She
is about to learn from her own experience that no natioji runs far
ahead of her spiritual growth. What is to be looked for In a na
tion that plunders its own citizens and sends her choicest spirits to
oppressive concentration camps because they venture to think for
themselves? Coming to our own continent, we are compelled to
ask ourselves whither wo are drifting when we abandon the glory
of achievement and excellence foi' ease aftd the maximum of reward
for the minimum of effort?
STEPHEN COUNCIL
The newly elected Council of the
Township of Stephen met in the
Town Hall, CrediRn, on Monday, the
9th day of January 1939 at 11 a.m.
present Reeve, C. Mawhinney; De
puty-Reeve, Edward Lamport and
Councillors, Edmund Shapton, Roy
Ratz and Thomas Love. After each
member had subscribed to his De
claration of Office, Rev. A- E, Pletch
offered prayer asking that divine
guidance be given the new council in
transacting the year’s business.
The Reeve in his inaugural ad
dress expressed his appreciation of
the hearty co-operation he had re
ceived from each member of the
Council and the officials and asked
for the same consideration this year,
He thought some of the roads need
ed more attention this year and also
referred to the report of the County
Equalizers which would be present
ed to the County Council for consid
eration shortly. He had learned that
the report was recommending a sub-
stantial increase in the assessment
of this Township and mentioned it
was worth giving serious considera
tion.
The minutes of the last regular
meeting were then read and adopt
ed.
Moved by Edward Lamport, sec
onded by Thomas Love:
That the Reeve and Clerk be au
thorized to sign the application to
the Department of Public Highways
of the Province of Ontario for the
statutory subsidy to be allowed on
the expenditure incurred during the
past yeai’ by the Township on. its
roads according to the statements
and schedules prepared. Carried.
Moved by Edmund Shapton, sec
onded by Thomas Love:
That By-law No. 531 to borrow
certain amounts from the Crediton
branch of the Canadian Bank of
Commerce to meet current expendi
ture and cover over-draft foi' the
past year, having been read three
times, be passed and signed by the
Reeve and Clerk and the Seal of the
Corporation attached thereto. Car.
Moved by Roy Ratz, seconded by
Edmund Shapton:
That By-law No. 532 to provide
for the total 1939 expenditure on
roads in the Township of Stephen
having been read three times be
passed and signed by the Reeve and
the Seal of the Corporation attached
thereto. Carried.
The 'Clerk was instructed to order
450 dog tags and subscribe to The
Municipal World for each member
of the 'Council and the Clerk foi' the
present year.
The following correspondence was
read and filed:
1. From the Treasury Department
of Ontario regarding Railway Tax
Distribution for 193 8 less charge
for maintenance of Indigent Insane
Patients in The Ontario Hospitals.
2. From the Chief Engineer of
Municipal Roads with reference to
the Annual Conference to be held in
Toronto on the 20,th and 21st of
February next.
3. From the University of West
ern Ontario explaining the growth
of the University and soliciting the
support of the Council.
4. From the Secretary of the On
tario Association of Rural Municip-
alitites regarding the next Annual
Conventcn to be held in Toronto on
the 21st and 22nd of February and
suggesting this Council send a dele
gate and also asking the payment of
a $5.00 membership fee.
5. From C. M. Laidlaw, of Atwood
asking the opinidn of the council as
to the organization of a Mutual Road
Insurance Company. The Clerk was
asked to write and state the Council
was favorably impressed with the
idea.
Moved by Roy Ratz, seconded by
Edward Lamport:
That the following be appointee
to their respective offices and that
a By-law be prepared confirming
such appointments:
Caretaker of Hall: Ernest Guet-
tingei' $20 per annum and $1 extra
foi’ each public meeting or concert
when an admission is charged.
The Salary of the Road Superin
tendent George Silber to be 30c. per
hour.
Livestock Valuer: William Klein-
stivei' at 30c. per hour.
Board of Health: Chestei’ Mawhin-,
ney and Edward Lamport at $8.00
pel' annum.
Secretary of Board: H. K. Eilber
at $15.00 per annum and $8.00 ex
tra for attending meetings.
Sanitary Inspectors: Eli Lawson,
Clayton Pfile and William B. Oliver
at 25c< per hour.
School attendance officers: Eli
Lawsen for schools No. 1. 2, 3, 4, 5.
14 and Unions 9 and 13. Clayton
Pfile for Schools No. 6, 7, 111 and
Unions 15 and 16 and U.S.S.S. No. 6
W. B. Oliver for schools 10 and 12
and Unions 8 17 and 18 at 25 cents
per hour.
Athletic Field Committee: Ches
ter Mawhinney and Edward Lamport
(no salary.)
Weed Inspector: Edward Wiliert
nt 30c. an hour.
Milk Inspector:Ernest Guettinger
at 40c. an hour.
Each of the above to furnish his
own transportation. Carried.
Moved by Thomas Love, seconded
by Edward Lamport: That the fol
lowing Pay Sheets and Orders be
’ passed:
| Harold Turner, read 19, $3.80;
Augutus Latta, road 18, $1,88; Hy.
Eagleson road 10, $1.75; Geo. Eil
ber, snpt., salary for December $4.-
50; John Klumpp, read 26, $2,25;
total $14.18.
H. Bierling Relief re Little $3.00;
Bank of Commerce, cashing road
cheques $1.50; Bank of Commerce,
tax collections $71.10; Treas. Co. of
Huron, Hospital acet, re Geromette
$45.50; F. A. Senecal, membership
fee of Ontario Rural Mun. Associa
tion $5; C. J. Lechner, conveyance
re L. Lochner $4.00. Carried.
The council adjourned to meet
again in the Town Hall, Crediton,
on Monday, the 6th day of Febru
ary A. D, 1939.
H. K. Eilber, Township Clerk
Huron Presbyterian
W. M. S. Meet at
Clinton
The annual meeting of the Huron
Presbyterian Women’s Missionary
Society of the Presbyterian Church in
Canada was held in Clinton Presby
terian church on Tuesday, January
10 th, with representatives present
from Auburn, Blyth, Clinton, Exeter
Goderich, Hensall and Seaforth.
Mrs. D, J. Lane, of Goderich,
president, opened the meeting; Mrs.
F. R. Redditt gave the Scripure read
ing and Mrs. Lane offered prayer.
The president in an interesting
and helpful address said the Chris
tian church has many critics, but no
i’ivals in the work of redemption.
Womanhood, for which Christ has
done so- much, should learn the needs
of the world. “We women, who have
found Christianity to be true, satis
fying the deep h-ungei’ of our lives,
must spread the gospel of Jesus
Christ.”
The reports of the different secre
taries were read and were very grati
fying, showing a lively interest and
a desire to cope with the world con
ditions of today.
Mrs, Lane complimented the var
ious secretaries on the splendid work
they had done throughout the year.
Mrs. T. Swan Smith, of Seaforth,
treasurer and finance secretary, re
ported that $2808.52 had been rais
ed by the members cf the Presbyter-
ial.
Former Tuckersmith
Reeve Dies
William Elgie, farmer reeve, coun-
ciloi’ and school trustee -of Tucker
smith Township and for the past 11
years a well known resident of Sea
forth died on Saturday at his home.
West William street. He was in his
88th year and has been in good
health until he fell in his home and
fractured his hip in December and
failed to rally from the shock,
Mr. Elgie was born at Thornhill,
neai- Toronto, and when seven years
of age moved with his parents to the
third concession of Tuckersmith. He
lived there and conducted a farm -un
til his retirement to Seaforth. He was
prominent in municipal and com
munity affairs there foi- fifty years
and while on the farxn was a prom
inent member of the Kippen Presby
terian Church.
He was married to Mies Hannah
Traquair who died a few years ago
aftei’ they .celebrated their golden
’ wedding anniversary. Surviving are
two sons, Robert, on the homestead,
and John, of Tuckersmith; two dau
ghters Mrs. John Forrest and Mrs,
John McLachlan, both of Tucker
smith and one sister, Mrs. John Ches
ney, survive.
D. J. Cantelon died last week in
Clinton hospital where he had been
a patient for upward -of one month
after a short while in a Stratford,
hospital, He was in his ‘81st year.
Advice to the thin: “Don’t eat
fast!”
Advice to the fat: “Don’t eat!
Fast!”
DEAD LIVESTOCK
Increase in Membership
Mrs. H. C. Dunlop of Goderich,
Presbyterial secretary, gave a splen
did resume of the year’s work. She
reported eleven seniox’ auxiliaries,
with a membership cf 353 and two
young women’s auxiliaries, with a
membership of 31; 162 home helper's
six mission bands and one boys’ mis
sionary club with a membership of
20i8>, and two groups Of Canadian
Girls in Training with a membership
of!12i8—total 782, an increase of 34.
The total value of the supply allo
cation was $23 2.78, while extra sales
of quilts, clothing and Christmas
gifts were sent to the West and to
Northeim Ontario-.
The home helper’s department
showed axx increase of eight in mem
bership, with contributions of $311.-
55.
A junic-r membership certificate
was awarded to the Goderich Mission
Band as the bannex- band in the Pres
byterial.
The Women’s Missionary Society
of Knc-x Church, Goderich invited the
Presbyterial to hold the Septexnber
meeting in their church, which invi
tation was heartily accepted.
Officers for 1939
Mrs. Abert Taylor of Gc-derich,
Convenor of the nominating commit
tee, presented her report and the
following officers were installed fox'
1939: Honorary President, Mrs. Arn
old, Hensall; president, Mrs. D. J.
Lane, Goderich; 1st Vice-President,
Mrs. Wm. Sillery, Exeter; 2nd Vice-
President, Mrs. J. W. Scott, Blyth;
3rd Vice-President, Mrs. Hugh Jack,
Seaforth; recording and correspond
ing secretary, Mrs. H. C. Dunlop, Go
derich; treasurer and finance secre
tary, Mrs. T. Swan Smith, Seaforth;
young women’s secretary and Cana
dian Girls in Training secretary, Mrs.
W. A. Young, Hensall; Mission Band
secretary, Mrs. D. C. Hill, Exeter:
Home Helper’s secretary, Miss L. M.
Jackell, Exeter; Welcome and Wel
fare secretary, Mrs. C. S. Hudson;
Hensall; Glad Tidings secretary, Mrs.
F. Ross, Auburn; Literature, Library
and Exchange secretary, Miss E.
Somerville, Goderich; press secretary
Mrs. W. G. MacEwan, Goderich.
The officers were caled to the plat
form and Miss Jeckell of Exeter con
ducted the installation service.
Mrs. D. J. Lane, the president,
then resumed the chair, and a very
interesting meeting was concluded
with prayer.
ALMA M, MaoEWAN,
Press Secretary
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