The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1939-05-11, Page 3, r «i THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
And now for the lilacs.
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would
you?
differ-
strong
BUCK THE LINE
You need exercise if you
have strong, muscles, don’t
Well, you need exercise of a
ent sort if you would have
faith and invincible determination.
We have fallen into the idea that
our trials are evR and our pleasant
times are good. But I have a notion
that when we are faced with what
seem insurmountable difficulties
and times that try our soul, we are
developing.
When, through steadfastness and
faithfulness and courage and faith,
we have overcome the circumstances
that would hold us down or turn us
back, aren't we really stronger for
having suffered, 'and more able to
meet whatever may come of misfor
tune in the future? I think so.
The mountain-top tree that with
stands the gales is strongei1 than its
valley brother that knows naught of
powerful winds. The man who
meets opposition and conquers it 13
a better man than he whose calling
is alway smooth.
Buck your difficulties and they
will prove to be the stairway by
which you will mount to greater
heights.
he would close the book and see how
much of what he had read, he could
recall. One consequence is the de
velopment of a .quite marvelous
memory, the results of which are
seen in frequent and felicitous re
ferences in his public speaking to
literature both ancient and modern.
He who reads for inspiration pur
sues a different course. If, as he
reads, a thought expressed by 'his
author starts a train of thought in
his own mind, he lays down his, book
and follows his thought wherever it
may lead him. He endeavours
remember, not the thought
the author has recorded, but
recorded thought which the
has stimulated in his own
Reading, is, to him, not an
ition but a ferment. ‘
' —Lyman Abbott
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Those fine roads come high, but they’re worth it.
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Yes sir, that old straw bat is just the thing these bright days.
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Grain seeding is pretty well over for 1939. Time moves on. **** ****
The growth of the meadows so fai’ is scarcely up to the average.
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find their way to the straw-
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How, oh how did
berry beds?
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those
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weeds
$100,000 BLAZE HITS
factory at forest
Fire almost completely destroyed
the Hillside Vinegar Works, Limited
with loss including stock, unoffic
ially estimated at $75,000 to $100,-
000.00.
The old three-storey frame and con
crete building, formerly used by the
Forest Evaporation Company, but
taken over by the yinegai- company
three yeras ago, was refurnished
this spring. It had sufficient vats
for a 100,000 gallon capacity per
year, and was owned by Ray Kern-
ohan and Stanley Morningstar,
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frequent warm showers from now till the
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Farmers welcome
grain is headed out.
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The Dilatory Bachelors have postponed all further meetings
till June.$ ’i‘ * * * * *
Dick and Doll appreciated the cool weather furnished for the
spring work.
COUNTY
GET
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Show me with whom you go, and
I’ll tell you what you will be ten
years from now.
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as you like . .
to
which
the un
author
mind,
acquis-
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An extra digging of the garden before planting; is about the best
labour saver we can recommend.
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Majesties should not visit Exeter,
might easily have visited a worse
If their
that they
to them.
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all we have to
place. Here’s
say is
health
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hang out our best bunting in honour of the visit
King and Queen. No nation is served by a royal family more inter
esting, wiser or more gracious.
Let's of the
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Think as much
or . . . talk as little as you think.
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'Saving a dollar on pay day is
thrift—saving one between pay days
is will power.
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Accomplishment is not attained
merely by good intentions.
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O. Henry, the prolific short story
writer - seldom expressed himself
in verse, yet, the last thing he ever
write was the following touching
poem ‘and it was scribbled on
backs of a few old envelopes:
The Ci’ucible
Test the man if his heart be
In accord with the ultimate plan,
That he be not, to his marring,
Always and utterly man.
That he bring out of the tumult
Fitter and undefiled,
To woman, the heart of a woman,
To children, the heart of a child.
the
Hard ye may be in melee,
Red to your battle hilts,
Blow give for blow in the battle,
Cunningly ride in the tilts.
'But, when the striving is ended -
Tenderly, unbeguiled,
Turn to a woman, a woman’s
Heart . . and a child’s, to a child.
Good when the bugles are blowing,
It is to be iron and fire,
Good to be oak on the foray,
Ice to a guilty desire.
But when the tumult is over,
Though the world marvel
while,
Give to a woman, a woman’s -
Heart .
the
. . a child’s, to a child.
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“My wife is a wonderful
Why. I have
Wiggs:
vocalist,
to hold her audience foi-
Miggs: “Get out!”
Wiggs: “After which
lay it in the cradle and rock
sleep.”
known her
hours . . ”
she would
. it to
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PRANKISH PROBLEMS
Answer to Prankish Problem No.
64 which appeared in .this space
last wgek: Father’s age 56 years;
mother’s age 42 years.
A Parlor Trick
Amaze Your Guests With Mental
Arithmetic
There are “tricks to all trades” —
mind readers, fortune tellers, coin
year guessers, seers, Blind-fold and
mental marvels,
code
tions
maze
If
‘human adding machine’ here is a
short cut to finding the day of the
week of any given date, such
birthday anniversaries, wedding an
niversaries, historical dates, etc.
So, if you want to know, without
looking at the calendar, the day
Christmas falls on this year, you
would follow these simple steps:
. First: Take the last two figures
of the year and add one-fourth of
them (neglecting the remainder.,)
Thus, 1939, or 39 plus % or 9,
equals 48.
Second: Add the following num
bers according to months:
. January or October ................ 2
May ............................................... 2
August ......................................... 3
February, March, November 4
June ............................................. 5
September or December ........ 6
April or July ............................. 0
Third: Add the day of the month.
Divide this sum by 7, and the* re
mainder gives the number of the
day of the week.
NOTE: If the numbers of the year
are divisible by 4 without remain
der - leap year - add, for steii No.
2, for the month of January 0; for
February 3.
To find a day in the 19th century
add 2 to. the final answer; or for a
day in the 21st century, add 6.
Illustration: Find day of week of
December 25, 1939:
Step No. 1, 1939, or 3 9 plus 1-4
or 9, equals 48; Step No. 2, Decem-
■ ber adds 6; Step No. 3 date of month
>adds 25 total 79.
79 divided by 7, equals 11 with
remainder of 2, oi’ second day of
week, or Monday.
“'Sorry, old man, but
pinched for money lately.
“Well,” wise-cracked
pointed friend who asked
“women have different ways
ting it. My wife kisses' me when
she wants some.”
;, etc., have their
words, swift mental calcula-
or pet phrases with which they
the audience.
you want to be considered a
as
I’ve been
the
for
disap-
a loan,
of get-
$
That system of co-operating among farmers and the price fix
ing of wheat may be perfectly intelligible to the government but it
is perplexing to a great many plain people.
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The Western provinces may as well admit that when they can
not do one thing profitably that they must turn to another. Down
east we learned that stern lesson long ago. This thing of guaran
teeing prices is not what it is cracked up to be. ’In the end it works
badly for all parties. It looks like bribing people with their own
money.
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■Garden soil this yeai’ is cold and hard. Many are finding that
it requires an extra working and a good deal of airing in order
that the bacterial life may multiply. 'Soil is not a dead thing, but
full of living organisms. A little extra natural fertilizer is requir
ed this year to encourage the vitality of the soil. This is a season
when one who is working his land requires patience and a great
deal of application of good muscle.
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Spring this year was received with an unusually hearty welcome
The Influenza had left many a person weak and unable to do his
usual work. The cold wind made it almost impossible for him to
get out into the fresh air. Recovery was slow and difficult from
the ailments of the winter. But when the warm days came, healing
and hope and new strength came back, bringing, happiness and a
cheery outlook on life, f"
given the hearty welcome
that have been extended
friends.
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iNot for many a year has the countryside
1 to the south wind and the warm sunshine
this year. The winter of 1939 had few
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THE PITY OF IT
•Surely the world never was quite as crazy as it is this hour.
We are thinking of the expenditure on war materials and the
thought put forward merely to save the peace of the nation. Real
progress under such conditions is very difficult. Hatred and sus
picion are not the soil whence come health, happiness and pros
perity. •
When we are asked the cure for this madness we cannot but
give the words of the statesman of the long ago “:In returning and
rest shall ye be saved,” and repeat his warning “Ye trust in horses,
on horses shall ye flee away.” Would not a perplexed world be wise
to “stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.” This is not a
preachment but the statement of fact of the soberest and most prac
tical character. It is the verdict of history,
going its own way has got the world into
herself.
Forgetting God and
the mess she now finds
1
OF HURON TO
AIRPORT LEASE
The lease on Sky Harbour Airport
will pass to the County of Huron in
a few days, the flying club having
patched u^ its differences with Ray
Dean, private lessee. Dean had ask
ed for $1,500 for the transfei’ of
the lease, but it was divulged that
the settlement figure was less than
half that amount. It also was an
nounced that the county airport is
to be enlarged. More land adjacent
is to be leased to lengthen two of
the present runaways.
Another meeting of the committee
has been called fox’ May 10, when
plans will be set afoot for the an
nual civic holiday weekend aviation
meet, which attracted 30,0,00 people
last year.
Foui’ more aviation students have
made their tests, one commercial
aiid three private pilots, at the air
port before Col. D. G. Joy, district
inspector of civil aviation who
up from Toronto.
POPULATION INCREASES
According to the 1939 census the
population of Mitchell has increased
from 1,600 to 1,666 during the past
year. The town's assessment is very
slightly higher.
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THE LIFE OF A SEED
In the Field Museum in Chicago
there is a lotus plant grown from
seed that was estimated to be nearly
four hundred years old when It was
planted. Similar experiments have
been tried with age old seeds and
since these experiments have proven
successful in some instances, scien
tists now include seed along with
various other objects that are de
posited in various American caches
being establihed for future genera
tions of several hundred’years hence
to open.
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Even imitation requires initiative.
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A thought, once written, lives for
ever.* *
hero of a recent 'book of
in the late twenties or
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HEADING
One may read for acquisition or
for inspiration.
A gentleman, who has acquired a
national reputation as a popular lec
turer, formed the habit, when in
college, of always subjecting him
self to a recitation in all his serious
reading. After finishing a chapter,
Worry Saps the Nervous System
Worry over business or household
duties, sudden shock, the insane
quest for pleasure, the foolish at
tempt to put a weok of normal life
into twonty-four hours, feverish over
activity, tho demand for sensational
literature ate all conductive to the
aggravation of wear and tear on the
nervous system.
If you are tired, listless, nervous,
worried and distressed you will find
in Milburn *s Health and Nerve Pills
a body building and nerve strength
ening tonic that will help to put you
On your feet again.
Tlio T. Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont.
If the
fiction is . _ . .
early thirties, it is a sure sign the
author is fast approaching middle
age -1— or better.
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HUMAN INTEREST PAYS
Business is more than the ex
changing of commodities for cash.
The human interest enters into prac
tically every transaction and
much greater degree than
merchants realize. 'Ordinary
esy is demanded and friendly
est appreciated. Matters of
granting of credit and other factors
may be considered but the attitude
'of the store’s personnel is of deter
mining importance. >
The public in buying good does
not object so long is it gets its
money worth, yet, it much prefers
to deal in a store in which the own
er and his clerks give the impres
sion that selling is a human pro
position — that the interests of
dealer and custoiper are complimen
tary and not antagonistic, and that
the entire
benefit.
to a
many
court-
inter-
price,
transaction is of mutual
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courage
the smile of fate
Have to rush the last line
So I won’t be too late.
Persistent
Wins
THE COLONEL
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A GREEN LIGHT
’Motorists frequently find themselves
truck and have the greatest difficulty in passing in safety. Why
should not such a-motorist signal with his horn and the truck driver
reply by turning on a conspicuous green light, if the way to passing
is strictly OK? We believe that the truck driver is required to
have a mirror that tells of traffic approaching from the rear, but
we are not aware that he is required to signal when such traffic
is safe in passing his vehicle. We leave it to the powers that be
to abate this difficulty. Further, the slow moving car is about
the biggest nuisance the normal moving motorist^ encounters. Why
should not such slow moving traffic be required to do something in
the way of having traffic moving normally get past him in safety?
We mention these two situations, in the hope that the normal-tra
velling public may go about their affairs without the danger now
facing them nearly every time they' go abroad.
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THET^ LIKE THE BRIGHT LIGHTS
We have just come across the case of a lady who has a com
fortable pension that enables her to live without fear of the wolf
or poverty, but who has' not enough to employ a maid at anything
like good wages. This lady lives by herself and Is desirous of se
curing a lady companion. (She advertised in the city papers foi’
some woman to come and live with her, in this way, as she thought,
doing a little something to help some woman who found the going
hard. To her surprise she could secure no assistance. The relief
officers told her that while they knew of many women who should
be glad to receive just such a position as this lady offered but that
they found it impossible to get the average relief-receiver to leave
the bright lights of the city. And there you are again. The excuse
offered is that many women who .have accepted positions in the
country have found themselves up against hard work. We^fail to see the validity of such excuses. Farm women work hard’ them
selves, frequently with small monetary returns. The city people
urge that they are better off on relief, though they know that it is
the toiling women who support them. Meanwhile governments
have no hesitation in adding taxes that the toilers must provide ,
for the comforts of those who prefer relief and the noise and the
show of the city streets to preserving their self-respect.********
. WOMEN AND THE UNEMPLOYED
At the meeting of the London Branch of the W. M. S. of-the
United Church a prominent membei’ said that it is high time for the
women of Canada to be heard on the unemployment question. We
agree. But if the women have not already been heard, we ask
where they have been living for the past few years. The questions
of the unemployed has been crying to heaven for answer. Why
should any prominent church woman say at this stage that women
should 'be getting busy in a matter -so vital and th^t comes so close
to human requirements! But the right sort of women, while they
may not have been vocal in this matter that concerns everybody,
they have working effectively, as they have been working since the
dawn of time and in the most practical way in the world. The wo
men with the right flair have seen to it that their youngsters have
been hustling from the time the lad or lassie could lick a spoon.
Every mother worth her salt sees to it that her offspring help them
selves. No sensible mother dreams of doing anything for her child
that the young hopeful can do fox* himself. She sees to it that hei’
boy or girl invents his way to the satisfaction of his wants. If Jack
or Mary want anything^the darling is made to do some tall scramb
ling. Few youngsters so raised arb found in the ranks of the un
employed. It is said of a well-known family “Put an “X” down
naked in the desert Of a morning and he’ll have a suit of clothes
and money in his pocket' by night.” We can name this family, a
family who have lived up to this reputation for generations. It may
be all right for the women to be interested in this .great question
but the interest must begin at home. Most people have enough to do
to feed their own families, without being taxed for fqlk who will not
work unless they get the sort of job they desire. The women can
help but they’ll find that their best contribution will be made along
the lines open to everyone rather than by hatching out schemes that
make the situation more grievous. “As the twig is bent, so is tho
tree inclined.”
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behind a slow-moving
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Our influence depends not so much
on what we know or even what we
do — but upon the results we
achieve.
Dafoe on the road because of his
year-in, year-out preference for
Chevrolet and his long-familiar
D-70 license plates. Dr. Dafoe is
shown here
Chevrolet.
THURSDAY, ma¥ 11th, m#
Main Stflew
EXETER,
We’re having lovely weather,
Warm, with skies of blue;
But isn’t it too bad,
The rich can enjoy it too?
Phone 109
ONTARIO
DR. DAFOE CHOOSES. /, J /
with his new 1939
K can always spot Dr. Allan Roy
— TTzjTrkzj r>yj tho rfiiifl. lippcmso hh
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