HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1939-03-09, Page 3THE EXETER T1MES-ADVOCATE
MY RELIGION
Each and every one of us who
lead an active life make many new
acquaintances—some of which ripen
into friendship—(friends who regard
us for some special talent, training
or ability we possess. ”
Almost always — when acquaint
anceship has ripened into a more
personal stage ■?— we are asked;
“What is your religious belief?’
Mine is a religion of Kindliness,
•Consideration, Toleration and of ser
vice.
Kindliness means a deep rooted
feeling of tenderness and devotion
for those we love, and interest and a
regard for people, animals and grow
ing things — we do not knowlingly
harm the objects of our regard and
affection — and so mine is a religion
of Kindliness.
Consideration means a respect for
the rights of others, When we are
considerate of our fellowmen, we
consciously avoid making people do
unnecessary work. We are consid-,
crate of those who serve us. Con
sideration means picking up papers
and discarded things we have used
in the office or in camp or at home—-
and so mine is a religion of Consid
eration,
Toleration means a realization
that our fellowmen have not had the
same religious training or under
standing we have — that each man
has a right’ to his religious, political
or moral views and if I do not ex
pect him to inflict his pet views and
theories on me, I must not try to im
press mine on him — and so mine
ig a religion of Toleration.
Service means doing something
for the other fellow without the ex
pectation of personal gain. It means
doing just a bit more than is expect
ed of us in business or in oiir daily
life—it means to always keep our
promises and never -disappoint
and so mine is a religion of Service.
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He who will believe only that
•which he can comprehend will never
achieve greatness.
* * *
And of course, you have noticed
that two-thirds of promotion is mo-
, tion — oi- — have you?
* * *
To get mad is a privilege — to
stay mad is a mistake.
* * *
Most of us are like young doctors
— we lack ‘patience.’
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WHY MOTHERS GET GREY
“Mother, whySmall Mary Jane:
hasn’t papa any hair?”
Mother: “Because he thinks so
much, dear.”
Mary Jane: “Why have you so
much, Mother?”
Mother: “Run along and play now,
dear,”* * *
They walked the lane in silence,
The sky was studded with stars;
They reached the gate together;
And for her he lifted the bars.
are
ancestors
lish or French or German stock’
descended from common
of a thousand years ago.
“A book has been published re
cently in which several of our presi
dents, heads of universities and cap
tains of industry and finance are
shown to be descended 'from 'Charle
magne, This distinction is one
which they share with probably more
than half the citizens of the Repub
lic.
“Einhart, the contemporary bio
grapher of Charlemagne, says that
he had nine wives, besides many con
cubines, and although he was fond
of his .children, he never knew how
many he had. If it were possible
to trace our genealogies faT enough
into the past and through all the
ramifications, it would be found
that all of us are literally descend
ants of Alfred and Charlemagne and
William the Conqueror, and of any
and every other person of 1,0'00 or
more years ago who left many des
cendants — including nonentities
and worse.
“We hunt up our noble ancestors
and forget the others.”
* * *
What you will get if you do,
is a much more effec
tive selling argu
ment
than what you will
lose —• if you don’t.
* * *
is a good speeler who knowsHe
how words should NOT be spelled as
well as being able to parrot-wise to
■spell by rote. Many people can me
morize a sequence of letters who
cannot recognize wrong spelling
when they see it in print.* * *
We grow old because we pile up
useless.burdens of bad prejudices and
worse memories.
* * *
The honeymoon isn’t over as long
as the husband remains standing at
dinner until his wife is seated.* * *
x A SHREWD VICTOR
Adolf Hitler in “Mein Kampf”
says: “A shrewd victoi' will, if pos
sible, keep imposing his demands
on the conquered by degrees. He can
then, in dealing with a nation that
has lost its character - and this
means every one that submits vol
untarily - count on its never find
ing in any particular act of oppres
sion a sufficient excuse for taking
up arms once more. On the contrary
the more the exactions that have
been willingly endured, the less jus
tifiable does it seem to resist at last
on account of a new and apparently
isolated though to be sure constant
ly, recurring, imposition.”
# H4 V
PRANKISH PROBLEMS
No.
last
But this is long since over,
There’s nothing, between them now
For he was just the hired man,
And she,
follows:
10
56:
the old Jersey cow.* * *
E. Heyle of the
'Standards, after
the
u. s.
five
earth
Dr. Paul
Bureau ojt
years’ work found that
on which we live weighs 6,000,000,-
000,000,000,000,000 tons.
Vet. there is a lot of people who
think it would weigh much less than
that if they were to step off of it.
* * *
Two Rhodes scholarships to Ox
ford University are assigned each
year to each state in the U.S.A. Elec
tions are made on the ’basis of char
acter and ability rather than by ex
amination. The successful appli
cants receiving about $2,000 a year
for three years.* *
One out o-f every
need glasses,* .
*
five Americans
**
ALL DESCENDANTS OF ROYALTY
■Edwin Grant Conklin in “The Di-,
rection of Human Evolutions” writes
“Even alowing lor numerous in
termarriages of relatives, it is high
ly probable that all people Of Eng-
Robust Health ter Young People
What a common sight it is to See
young person whose bloodless face
and feeble frame are evidence of
poor circulation and weakness where
bounding health and rosy cheeks
should reign.
Young people in such a condition
heed a preparation containing iron.
Milburn’s Health and Nerve Pills
meet this requirement as they con
tain. three concentrated forms of iron
of an easily assimilated nature to
gether with other valuable ingredients
indicated to build up your system
and add to your physical attraction.
The T. MllbUtn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont.
When
Public
neigh-
Anwser to 'Prankish Problem
55 which appeared in this space
week: The four numbers equalling
4i5 are 5, 20, 8 and 12 as
5 times 2 equals 10
20 divided by 2 equals
8 plus 2 equals 10
12 minus 2 equals 10
Prankish Problem No.
the pond on the Iron Green
Golf 'Course was drained, the
borhood boys dug up a lot of balls
out of the mud and piled them in a
pyramid with a square base. Each
side of the base had 78 balls in it,
the next tier had 77, and so on up to
the one ball that capped the pile.
How many balls were there?
(Look for the correct answer
this space next week:)* * *
in
SIMPLICITUDES
—army experts to adopt new style
of shoe - improved droge of war, as
it were.
—the movement for safety for pe
destrians is gaining - by leaps and
bounds.
—when a fellow has nothing to
do - he usually does something he
shouldn’t.
—the Japanese national hobby
seems to be - collecting China.
-—when a man boasts of things he
achieved last year - he is a has-been
* * *
A “light year” is the number of
miles light travels in one year at
186,000 miles a second. Therefore to
convert light years into miles we
have 186,000x60x60x24x365, or 63,-
243 times the earth’s distance from
tile sun which is close to the ratio
of the inch to the mile. Light travels
in 1 second, 186,330 miles; 1 minute
H,179,800 miles; 1 hour, 670,788,-
■000 miles;
miles;
1 day, 16,098,912,000
X year, 588,022,995,000 miles,
* * *
bit of prose
And then some verse
epigram or two
The column vrows
To an ending terse
And then it’s thru,
THE OODoNEL -
A
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There's no cure for the jitters like working steadily at a very
worthwhile job.
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If you haven’t been vaccinated within
had better consult your doctor.
*******
The real thing in Influenza seems to
thing good in the physical human system,
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♦
tUe past five years, you
*
be the enemy of every’-
*
Not for a thousand years has there been a more generally ap
proved election than the choice of the present Pope.
********
There is nothing that will so effectually silence parliamentary
critics as a body of constructive parliamentary achievement.
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Britain seems to be adopting the international policy of noting
what the other fellow gets done and then approving of it,
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The
the book
ness done and well done.
big guns in parliament might do well to take a leaf from
of our municipal fathers, when it comes to getting busi-
********
A radio announcement stated that a Federal election will pro
bably be held in September. That will mean the curtailing of holi
days for some people during the
* * * *
summer months.
* * * *
a few trees. They will grow intoFor long term profits plant
money about as fast as money deposited in the banks these days.
Tax free woodlots and free trees should be some inducement.
*******
Speaking of earning an honest dollar, why not secure axe and
saw and tackle a few wind-exposed knotty beeches and cut a few.
cords of four-foot wood, By the end of the third day you’ll know
our meaning.
********
Every little while merchants and business men have to make
a clean-up of old debts making the best settlement possible,
might be good business for municipal — -- Y----------
the arrears of taxes.
. It
councils to do the same with
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what’s the good? What has
It is still true that
The Spanish war is over. And
it accomplished for Spain or for civilization?
‘Mau's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn.”
* * * * * * *-*
Drawing water for a herd of thr.isty cows and the rest of the
live stock to be found around a farm when your own well has gone
dry is a job that is no sinecure and will test the mettle of the best
of workers. Bu that is what many a farmer has been doing this
winter. Thanks be, the moisture of the past
finding its way into the wells.
********
few weeks is again
50 YEARS AGO
March 14, 1839
Mr. Alex Colquhoun and family
accompanied the many colonists,
who left for Manitoba this week. Mi’.
Colquhoun took considerable stock
with him.
A special emigrant train passed
south on the L. H. & B, Tuesday
morning. This spring, of those who
are leaving Ontario, ninety per cent
are going to Manitoba, Dakota and
the others Western States having
lost their old-time popularity as con
genial climes or fortune-giving fields
Mr. John Lankin has sold the
Woodham Hotel to Mr. Samuel
Riordan, of Blanshard, for a hand
some sum. He has in turn leased
the stand to Mr, Watlace Brown, of
St, Marys for a number of years. The
building is to be thoroughly renovat
ed and greatly improved.
The third and last match between
the Exeter and Hensail checker play
ers took place at Hensail in the Odd
fellow’s Hall on Tuesday evening. It
was keenly contested, every man
striving to do his level best. Exeter
won by three games as the following
score shows: Exeter, A. Walters
J. H. Hyndman 4; C. Prouty 2;
Walters 2; R. Terry 3; T. Oke 3,
tai 15. Hensail, J. McDougall 4;
McDonald 1; Jno, Murdock 4; W. C.
Charters 1; R, Bonthron 0; R. Rey
nolds 2, total 12.
On Friday last a large gathering
of ladies of the two Methodist
Churches met in the basement of the
James St. Church, when a branch of
the Woman’s Missionary Auxiliary
was organized with the following of
ficers: President, Miss Freeman;
vice-president, Mrs. (Rev.) Wilson;
Treasurer, Mrs. Trick; secretary
treasurer, Miss Lizzie Verity; corr.-
secretary, Mrs. J. N. Hooper. Commit
tee, Mrs. R. Pickard, Mrs. Currelley,
Mrs. .Clement, Mrs. Richard Pickard,
There is a membership of thirty
commence with.
25 YEARS AGO
March 10, 1914
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There’s small pox abroad,
proven ’information, is for you to
an early date. He knows what is
cases may be very costly.
* * *
BETTER CONSULT HIM
Our advice,
consult your
best, fireside “medicine” in such
grounded on well
family physician at
*♦ * * *
GIVE HIM A SHOW
March blustered and stormed in, in true traditional lion fashion.
That’s because he has so much to do. He has to put up with all
that’s said of him and with all that’s expected of him. He must
supply cold, frosty nights and warm, sunshiny days or incur the
displeasure of the sugar and syrup makers. He must avoid-“freez
ing and thawing” or have -the farmers rubbing his nose. He must
supply lots of rain but no floods or the wells will cry out against
him. He must give us a roight dacent St. 'Patrick’s Day or there
will be thrubble in (Belfast. So do you wonder that poor old March
indulges in an occasional tantrum?
CLANDEBOYE
Mr. and Mrs. Billie Simpson spent
Saturday in London.
Mac, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs,
Jack Harrison is
monia.
ery.
Mr.
family
Simpson on Saturday.
The play presented by the Lucan
United church young people “The
Small Town Romeo” in Mooresville
Hall was well attended. All
their parts well.
We hope
very ill with pneu-
for a speedy recov-
John McEwan andand Mrs.
visitd with Mr. and Mrs. A.
I’ve never been dated,
‘I’ve never been kissed;
They said if I waited 1
No man could resist ,
The lure of a pure and
innocent Miss.
The trouble is this—■
I’m fifty.
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and Mrs, Wes, Weber, London Road,
south.
Major J. A. Gregory, of North
Battleford, Sask., was in Stratford
last week to attend the funeral of
his mother, Mrs. Thomas Gregory,
Mrs. Hector Taylor, who has been
visiting the family home, Llucan,
has returned to her home at Zion,
in Usborne.
“THE GRAVEYARD OF THE
ATLANTIC’
of
of
CREDITON EAST
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Glanville,
and family spent the week-end with
their son John near Seaforth.
Mrs. Wilson Anderson is spending
Monday in London with her sister
who is ill.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Heatherley and
Mrs. Frank Scheiding and Mrs. Stan.
Kelly, all of London, spent Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Motz.
Mr. L. Masnica, who had his foot
amputated some time ago in St. Jo
seph’s Hospital, London, returned
home on Saturday and is walking
around with crutches and is visiting
with his wife at her parents Mr. and
Mrs. Ed. Penhale.
Mrs. John Baird, of Grand Bend,
is visiting with her daughter and
son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Sam. Sims.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. ’Cliffe and Mar
lene ahd Mrs. Louis Masnica spent
the week-end in London. Mrs. Cliffe
and daughter remaining for a visit.
Mrs. Ed. Penhale, Mrs. Louis Mas
nica, Mrs. Wm. Snell and Mr. Wm.
Bender attended the funeral of the
late 'Clayton Cornish at Zion Friday.
Mr. Kellett, of Usborne, lost
horse at the Metropolitan Hotel
Thursday the beast having in some
way hanged itself.
The stock sale of Mr. Philip Hern
of Usborne, on Wednesday of the
past week was one of the most suc
cessful held in this community, the
total amount of money realized be
ing over 83 400. Mr. Hern had a very
fine closs of stock and the prices for
the cows ranged from $100 to $15'2
each. One year-old heifer brought
the handsome sum of $107,
Exeter and Crediton had another
battle royal on the rink on Thursday
night last when the hockey teams
met in a great exhibition game. It
was anybodys game all the way thro’
but the locals won by a one score
margin, the half time score being
2-1, and the full time 3-2. The two
teams have been having some fine
games this season, and more are be
ing looked forward to.
The line-ups:
Crediton, Goal Motz; point, Fah-
ner; Cover, Brown; Rover, Holtz
mann; Centre, Fahner; left wing,
Gaiser; right wing, Sweitzer.
.Exeter, Goal Penhale; Point, At
kinson; Cover, Rivers; Rover, Snell;
Centre, Southcott; left wing, Pickard
right wing, Pickard.
Mr. Richard Terry is preparing to
erect a fine house on the corner of
Victoria and Carling streets.
Misses May and Ethel Armstrong
who have been visiting at their home
here returned to ILucknow on Mon
day.
The members of the Quarterly and
Trustee Board of James St, Church
with their wives met on Wednesday
evening last at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Thos. Harvey, where a plea
sant evening was spent during the
course of which the pastor read a
nicely worded address of appreciation
of the services of Mr. Geo. Thomas,
as a member of the Boards, for forty
years, and presented Mr. Thomas
with a handsome Morris chair. Mr.
Thomas will reside in future with
his sister Mrs. Pearson at London.
Sable Island, a low-lying piece
ground, lies 118 miles southeast
Halifax, .Nova Scotia, and is famil
iarly known as “The Graveyard of
the Atlantic”. It consists of two par
allel sand rdges with a lagoon be
tween them. The sand bars extend
several miles from each end of the
island.
Since 1873, the 'Canadian .govern
ment has built three lighthouses on
Sable Island, two of which have been
swept away the third undermoned as
the island is gradually sinking. Less
than a century ago, its length was
40 miles, but at the present time it
is 18 miles long with sand hills
reaching a height of 100 feet. In
1901, over 80,000 trees were planted
to check the shifting of the sands.
In addition to two first-class light
houses, watch-towers and life-saving
stations are maintained alon£ this
dangerous section of the Atlantic. In
clear weather the entire coastline is
undr observation from the light
houses and watch-towers and in a
fog or thick weather, mounted men
patrol every mile of the coast,
Another well known lighthouse is
the one at Cape Race, on the coast
of Newfoundland. It towers 180 feet
above the ground and its flashing
light of over one million candle po
wer has been seen a distance of 76
miles. .The.optical apparatus and
lantern weigh 42 tons. The electri
city for the light is generated on the
premises and the fog signal, which
has been heard 45 miles away, is op
erated by compressed air. Four
lightkeepers keep continuous watch
day and night throughout the year.
There are thirteen lighthouses
maintained on the coasts of New
foundland and Newfoundland-Labra
dor by the Canadian Government to
aid Trans-Atlantic shipping.
With approximately 50,000 miles
of coastline along the Pacific and
Atlantic oceans, the Great Lakes and
other lakes within the boundaries of
the Dominion, extensive lighthouse
service is
during the
000 lights,
and signal
radio stations, 9,000 unlighted buoys
beacons and day marks to prevent
accidents.
According to Census reports, there
are over 2,000 ’’persons employed in
the lighthouse service of Canada
who know by experience that the
price of safety for shipping is eternal
vigilance.
necessary. It requires,
season of navigation, 2,-
400 fog signals, 600 gas
buoys, 12 lightships, 32
MRS. ERNEST LOOMIS,
WEST WILLIAMS, DIES
Funeral services were held at the
family residence, West Williams for
Mrs. Ernest Loomis and her infant
daughter, Edna Jean. -Services at the
house were conducted by Rev. F. Ju-
Lewin, rector of St. James’ Anglican
Church, Parkhill, and at the grave
side by Rev. E. C. Jennings, Warwick
Mrs. Loomis, a daughter of Mrs. Mit
chell and the late David Mitchell, of
McGillivray Township, was in her
32nd year. Her father was widely
known in the district as a thresher
She is survived by her husband, two
daughters Mary Fay and Molly Ma
xine, her mother and two brothers,
George and Wesley Mitchell, of Mc
Gillivray, .She was a member of the
Grace Anglican Church, Greenway,
and has been an active member of
the L.'O.B.A., Greenway.
THAT (SETTLES IT
Absolute knowledge have I none
But my aunt’s washerwoman son
Heard a policeman on his beat
Say to a laborer on the street
That he had a letter just last week
Hand-written in the finest Greek
From a Chinese coolie in Timbuctoo
Who said that a son in Cubo knew
Of a colored gent in a Texan town
Who got it right from a circus clown
That a man in Klondike got the news
From a gang of S. American ‘stews’
About some feller in Borneo
Who knew a man who claimed to
know
A hermit who lived beside a lake
Whose mother-in-law will undertake
To prove a .friend’s sister’s niece
Has started in a nicely written piece
That her girl-friends, sweetie’s boss’s
pal
Knows a comely, buxom Swedish gal
Who says she heard her uncle say
Last Saturday when he was feeling
gay
But, of course, we don’t dare quote
That the 194'0 electoral vote
Will show what the .people think of
15 YEARS AGO
March 13, 1924
Mr. Bill Davis left Wednesday of
this week for (London (Military Bar
racks to take a Sergeant’s 'Course in
the Cavalry for two weeks.
Dr. Johnstan, after spending a few
days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Johnston returned to Hamil
ton Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Hogarth, who
have been at Komoka for some time,
have returned to their farm on the
third concession of Stephen.
Mr. and Mrs. H. A, Hooper and
two sons, of Rocanville, Sask., have
moved to Exeter and are taking up
their abode in the residence of the
late Mrs. John Elliot. Mr. Hooper
will be employed with his uncle Mr.
C. F. Hooper.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Smith, Lon
don Road, south, observed their
golden wedding annivesary on Wed
nesday, March 12. Mr. and Mrs.
Smith were married in Port Perry,
Ont., on March 12, 1872, where they
— - ------- ------------ lived tor a number of years. The
over there? What does he always family cdnsists o£ Mrs, A. Rich-
remind you of , ! ardson, of Walkerville; Mrs. Wm.
The $10 I owe him.”—-Long Aitkens, of Toronto; James, of Wash-1
Beach Suh. ington D.C.; William, of Centralia;
Collector: “I've called to collect
some back payments on that antique
furniture
Head
crazy. I
furniture
Collector:
not antique when you bought it.
you have.’’
of the I-Iouse: “You are
never bought any antique
on the instalment plan,’’
“Well, maybe it was
So Paw Quit
“Paw, what is a dark recess?”
“Christinas vacation in
mo college, my son.”
“Do they celebrate by
snowball, paw?”
"Bedtime, son.”
an Eski-
giving a
O-—0 0
“See that fellow giving imitations
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