HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1939-04-27, Page 3THE EXETER TJMEStAPVQCATE THURSDAY, APRIL 27 th, 1089
HAVE A DEFINITE AHI
(No, 2 of a series)
The Law of Success — of Attain
ment — is a definite law -'as defin
ite and as immutable as the Law of
Averages or the Law of Gravity or
any other known law of nature.
No matter w*hat your religion, your
faith or belief, the Law of Attraction
by Thought (.prayer) is a fundamen
tal natural law. To make use of
this law, we must think DIRECTLY,
clearly to concentrate on the prayer.
Duly as we concertate, can we draw
or attract the forces and powers to
us.
Direct thinking - concentration -
are essential, for any period of time,
yet each person can train himself to
concentrate — to pray. This is one
of our natural gifts - a .gift of na
ture - as much a .part of ourselves as
are our five senses given to us by
nature.
You don’t have to write your am
bition on paper — neither do you
have to repeat it every night for
21 days or any given number of days
There is no magic or supernatural
action about it. But writing it and
repeated writing of it will serve to
train your mind to concentrate. So,
it will pay you to write it - to posir
five and subconscious minds - to con
centrate.
Start now to think of your am
bition —
whether it is to become a great
musician, an artist, a banker,
a lawyer or doctor, a prosperous
merchant or a successful manu
facturer.
whether it is to win the respect,
affection and the admiration
of someone whom you like —
whether it is to become a win
ning athlete, a prominent, poli
tician, a helpful social worker,
or a spiritual advisor.
—concentrate on your aim - your
ambition. Hold it before you above
all other things. Concentrate on the
one big or central idea and as surely
as the sun rises in the east, you will
steadily exert a force, more and more
powerful, that will attract to you
the thing you desire — your aim.
■If you try to have too many am
bitions at a time, you can’t proper
ly concentrate on any single one and
so you will set in motion many con
flicting forces. Have just one and
only one main aim — one central
ambition. Keep your thoughts cen
tred on it and slowly but steadily
you will achieve it.
Every great undertaking — every
real worth while accomplishment
every outstanding success, was first
achieved by some one individual who
made use of this law — The Law of
Success.
(The third and final article of this
series will appear in our next issue.)
* *
Some people think ‘speed limit’
means ‘how fast can you go’?
* * *
The greater the achievement —
the greater the enemies.
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THE LADDER
There’s never a wholly, sun-swept
way,
There is-never a cloudless sky,
But somewhere either by night or
day,
A few long shadows lie.
There’s never a life so filled with
song,
There is never a song so sweet,
But somewhere has hidden a hurt
ing wrong, .
That wakes to the measure’s beat.
*’M<EiSye Tash Safer
When a man says he is misunder
stood’ what he really means is that
he is ‘underestimated’.
>i-. $ .s
He who is without obligation is
unworthy of responsibility,
* * *
“Didja take your .girl home last
night?”
‘‘Naw, I left ’er at her home.”
* * *
April 19 th is American Patriot’s
Day — on April 19, 1775 two of the
major battles of the American War
of Independence were at 'Concord,
Mass, and at Lexington, Mass, Paul
Revere’s ^Midnight Ride - Boston to
Lexington - was on April 18 to 19th.
This is an unofficial National Holi
day in the United Ctates.
On April 21, 1898, the United
States broke off diplomatic relations
with Spain -— following the explos
ion of the Battleship Maine in the
harbor of Havana, Cuba on Febru
ary 15th. (260 American Sailors
were killed -yr and a 'blockade of
Cuban ports was begun),
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The wife had been put on the
budget plan. At the end of each
month, she and husband would go
over the accounts together. Every
once in a while, he would find an
item: “L.O.K. $3.00” — and a little
further on ‘‘L.O.K. $6.00.” Finally
he said: “My dear, what is this
“L.O.K.?”
And she replied sweetly: ‘‘Lord
Only Knows.”
* « *
The telling of a story magnifies it,
* * *
There is money to be made in
writing — but it depends on the
generosity of those to whom you
write.* * *
The reason there are so few great
leaders is because most of us find it
easier to qualify as followers.
When you see a fellow who is ac
tive in Cluib, Fraternal and Civic af
fairs five nights a week — you can
bet his home is not a very pleasant
place to spend an evening.
* Sts *
Some of our friends who are try
ing to lose weight have sworn off
breakfasts — thinking that will help
them. This theory, has been thor
oughly exploded by food scientists.
Abstaining from the morning meal
usually results in an excessively
large luncheon. A fruit breakfast is
much better for the overweight per
son,* * *
Mullens says: “A vision without a
task makes a visionary; a task with
out vision makes a drudge.”
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PRANKISH PROBLEMS
Answer to Prankish Problem No.
62 which appeared in last week’s
issue: 10 2-7 hours.
Prankish Problem No. 63: A and
B each have a number of hogs. If A
gives B one,, both will have the same
number, but if b igives A one, A will
have twice as many as B.
How many, hogs has each.
Correct answer’ will appear in this
space in our next issue.
* * *
Some one wrote to Mark Lemon
and asked for instructions in the
writing of funny paragraphs, Lemon
replied.
“It is not hard to write funny par
agraphs. All you have "to do is to
procure a pen, some paper, and ink,
and then sit down and write them
.as they occur to you. It is not the
writing, but the ‘occurring’ that is
hard,”
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What does a new family moving
into your community or city mean
to local merchants? •
It is estimated that the average
family’s yearly purchases are as fol
lows:Department Store .........$b 15.00
Clothing Store ...... 85.00
Furniture Store ............ ,87.00
Cloak and Suit .......... 104.00
Jewelry ............... 57.00
Hardware ........................ 32.00
Tired Out Before Day Half Over
Women who should be strong and
healthy become weak, run down and
worn out, and are unable to attend
to theit household duties.
Some disease or constitutional dis
turbance has left its mark in the
jform of shattered nerves, impover
ished blood, and an exhausted con
dition of the entire system.
Women will find in Milburn’s
Health and Nerve Tills the remedy
they need to supply food for the
exhausted nerve force, and one that
will help them back to sound, per
fect health again.
Th* Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont.
In addition to the above, money
spent for transportation, recreation,
amusement, church, shoes, medical,
insurance, rent, heat, light, laun
dry, groceries and meat, etc., should
be added.
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‘■Rise every morning,” a magis
trate advised a man in court, “with
the fixed determination to make
your wife realise that you are the
master of the house and see what
happens.”
* * *
One reader writes
That these ending verses
Serve no constructive purpose —
Be that, as it may —
I have this to say:
It makes the column, less solemn.
THE COLONEL
How reluctant the sunshine was in coming!
'Sooner or later, misfortune knocks at every door,
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The Spring of 1939 came in very reluctantly but with abundance
of moisture.*■ * * * * * * * o
If anyone wishes to know the meaning of walking circumspectly,
we suggest that they study the conduct of British statesmen these
days,* * * * , f * nt »
THE ORDER OF FAMOUS SONS
Over there in the United States there is an order that we greatly
admire. It is calld “The Order ol’ Famous Sons," Only mothers can
belong to this band. Annually the order bestows a definite and much
coveted recognition upon the mother of the most famous son.
We have heard a great deal of praise of large families and still more
about small fmilies, but here is an organization that sets its mark
upon quality. In this case, too, the honour is given to the mother,
where it so rightly belongs. “An ounce of mother is still worth a ton
of clergy.”, There is no merit in mere childbearing. There is merit
in so rearing a child that he proves of real worth to society. The title
of “American Mother” goes this year to Mrs. Elias Compton, of Woos
ter, Ohio.
We noted the following item in the correspondence columns of
one of our papers. “Mr. and Mrs, Z. Y. sang a solo in our church
very acceptably last Sunday morning,” We happen to know both
parties to that solo. The man is strictly tops as a farmer, while his
wife play second fiddle to no one when it comes to housekeeping. In
their house is as fine a radio receiving set as one will find anywhere.
Yet there they were, this busy farmer and his equally busy wife, with
their solo. We admire their style. They are not satisfied with mere
listening, They put on energy enough to practice a bit of music till
they cap sing it and sing it acceptably.
;In this connection a great many are asking where the piano play
ers and organists for the future are coming from. It will be a cal
amity if music by proxy banishes vocalists and instrumentalists from
the countryside.«*#*» ***
HOW COME
Stories are abroad that large quantities of dynamite have been
stolen lately, under circumstances that excite suspicion that the dyna
mite may be used to cripple services that would cripple the public
welfare. All manner of efforts are being put forward to capture the
terrible explosive and to apprehend the thieves, on the principle, it
seems, that it is well to lock the stable after the horse has been
stolen.
One quetion must be answered or the public will not be satisfied
and that quetsion is WHO are responsible guarding a commodity so
deadly as dynamite may prove when in criminal hands? Who held
the key to the room? That there has been looseness somewhere there
can be no doubt in the world. Does that looseness still exist? Ontario will nof'be satisfied till this mess is cleared up.
THOSE FINE DAYS
That sunshine after the dark and sleety days of the early part of
the month were warmly welcomed. The cat c'limbed up to the sunniest
window in the stables and lay there for hours stretched out in the
most perfect of somnolent content. The dog, with one ear and one
eye open, curled himself up in the sunshine in measureless comfort.
The hogs forsook the sty for the warm side of the stack in the barn
yard. The horses found their way down the lane searching for those
first sprigs of 'grass that are more than medicine to livestock. The
sheep wandered far afield only to trek home at night tired but con
tented. The sick folk ventured out for a few minutes when the sun
was at his best to declare that nothing induces sound rest like actual,
firsthand contact with the living air and the nerve-building sunshine.
The whole face of nature changed with the bright hours and the voices
of the early spring songsters.. * * * * *
“NOW OBSOLETE”
In its headlines dealing with the hospital situation regarding
London mental hospital and the new mental hospital now on its way
to completion near 'St. Thomas, the iSt. Thomas Times-Journal uses
these significant words: “Intention to close London Hospital, now
Obsolete.” Within the memory of many folks now living, London
mental hospital was looked upon as anything but obsolete.
We do not propose to go into the question of the up-to-dateness
of the London hospital. That lies within the province of those whose
duty it is to “minister to a mind diseased” about the most difficult
task that the healers have to encounter. What concerns us is ■ the
fact that has been enormous, however willingly provided, should be
come obsolete under the very eyes of practical statesmen and scien
tists whose duty, it has been to keep a mental hospital efficient in
1 every form of equipment and management both in buildings and in
service. In the same paragraph we are told that it Will cost $11,000,-
0'0 0 to replace this building now said to be in the relic class and fit
for discard. Folk cannot but ask in what respects these London
buildings are unfit for service. Are buildings — costly things — the
first or nearly the first consideraton the treatment of the mentally
ill? Eleven millions is an enormous sum to put into materials that
may regarded by a new (government as obsolete. No one begrudges
money to aid the sick'. All that is required is the existence of en
lightened prudence.
GREAT STUFF
One listened with wonder to what Lord Baldwin had to say the
other day in Toronto about the present state of affairs in Britain. Only
one who has seriously-tried to say a little something on such matters
can set a proper value upon the greatness of that utterance. It all
seemed simple. And the speech was that, simplicity itself.
Now note what he said. The British people and the British con
stitution have grown. They have been no more made than a stately
pine or a lordly oak have been made. Discussion there has been in
Britain. Each has exercised the blessed privilege of saying the thing
he will. Yet each Briton seems to know why he lives and in an emerg
ency, he shows every son of Adam just why he exists. Without know
ing it and one would think eager to deny the possession of the qual
ity, the Briton is the most tolerant human in existence. He loves his
own way and is desperately keen on having his own way. Yet with-
oout owing it, the Briton finds his way bound up with everybody
else’s way. Knowing this, he has his mind made up that he must get
on with the other fellow. The fact that lie does get on with other
people in a way altogether peculiar to himself, is the marvel of mod
ern times. Lord Baldwin’s lectures are models, but we do not know
of anyone capable of building after his fashion. His silence is as
constructive as his speech. There is healing in his touch. There is
light and there is power in everything he says.
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VERY BAD READING
This talk about sabotage — intential injury by workmen to their
employer’s property—makes very bad reading, especially when the re
ported injury is done by'Ontario workmen to Ontario property. That
sort of thing is newt in this Province. Our hope is that the rumor is
baseless. We fondly hope that there is no such thing. We leave to
the authorities 'to investigate the whole matter. Should sabotage
have been done the perpetrators must face the consequences of
their faithlessness and their offence.
* Some of us are not surprised that this sort of thing should be
done however much we detest treachery in all its ramifications, Moral
soundness is ever a characteristic of a really good workman. Un
fortunately this is the very quality that has been forced into second
place to put it mildly. Some five or six years ago we heard Dr. Trevor
Davies tell the London 'Conference with fine sarcasm something like
this. "Twenty-five years ago folk abolished hell, I am not so sure
about when we abolished heaven.” This remark struck us as being
full, of warning. Nearly 40 years ago we heard Dr. Salem Bland in
Chalmers’ Church, Kingston, warn his hearers regarding Gorman ra
tionalism. Every so often we hear the expedient course of conduct
recommended even at the cost of moral obligations. Humanism has
for many, become a religion, Man, the humanists say, is the measure
of all things. Workmen may have no interest theories about life and
conduct, At the same time what educat’d men think and talk and
teach and look and act soon finds its way into the conduct of every
workman and professional and salesman in the Commonwealth. The
man who does not fear God will not long be worthy of other men’s
confidence, This is everybody’s concern and everybody must put his
weight into its consideration and treatment.
Biddulph Woman Given
$6,632 Under
Judgment
Mrs. Mabel 'G, Haskett, of Biddulph
Township, will receive $6,632,65 fol
lowing a judgment handed down in
London by Jutice ’Greene in her Su
preme Court suit against her sister,
Mrs. Pearl Marie 'O’Neil, of McGilliv
ray Township.
The action, which was heard by
Justice Greene in London on Febru
ary 1, was one to declare an agree
ment valid and binding. Justice
Greene found the agreement was
valid and binding and as a result
Mrs, Haskett will receive $6,632.65.
The case arose first in the Surro
gate Court and a trial was directed
to determine the validity of the
agreement relating to the distribut
ion of the estate of Thomas Franklin
Sceli, Biddulph farmer who died on
May 29, 1936.
Made Agreement
Mrs, Haskett, the plaintiff in the
action, claimed that following the
death of her lather an agreement was
entered into among herself, her sis
ter, Mrs. O’Neil and their mother,
Rachel Sceli. She claimed that under
this agreement her father’s estate of
$'21,598.43 was to be divided, $6,-
632.65 going to her and $13,832.36
to her mother and sister.
Her mother, Mrs. Rachel Sceli,
died March 10, 1938 and a will was
filed for probate. In this will the .
estate was bequeathed to Mrs, O’Neil
The statement for the defense con
tended the estate of Thomas Frank
lin Sceli was worth only $17,516,27
and that no agreement was entered
into.
The $6,632.65 is made u,p of a
farm on the fourth concession of
Biddulph valued at $3,500, the north
half of lot 25 on the fifth concession
of that township, valued at $1,000,
Huron and Erie debentures valued
at $2,043 and certain farm imple
ments,
J. W. (Morley, of Exeter, acted for
the plaintiff and Eldon Mitchell, of
London for the defendant.
MKB. LOUIS Si’HROEDER
ISO, pASSJSS at shipka
Mrs. Louis Schroeder, formerly
Lillian Mason, of shipka, died April
18th in her 60 th year after several
months’ illness. She had resided in
Shipka for the past 16 years. Sur
viving are the husband, five sisters
Mrs. George Harvey, London; Mrs.
Veysey, Niagara Falls; Mrs. F. L.
McCrae, Toronto; Mrs. John Smith,
Lucan; Mrs. Roy Randall, Toronto,
and one brother, William Mason, ot
Melita, Mam; four daughters, Mrs.
Earl McDougall, London; Mrs, Rus
sel pincom.be, Windsor; Mrs. Delmus'
Butler, Toledo, O.; Mrs. Ernest Per
ry, of Exetei’ and four sons, William
Melita, Man.; Frederick, Windsor;
Borden at home and Roy B. Bayn-
ham. The funeral was held Friday
at the residence, followed by ser
vice at Shipka United Church, with
Rev. Donald Gladman officiating.
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