HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1939-06-01, Page 7Every Knock Is a KNOCK
THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
En t TH R I A If JLl 1 A V* JP* A <•>.
THURSDAY, JUNE 1st, 1»3»
A good many fallacies manage to
get into adage form and are passed
down through the years as tested
and approved truths,
One of the most famous of these
was probably said in a spirit of
satire . . , but has come to us as a
proverb: “Every knock is a boost.”
Every knock is not a boost. Every
knock is a KNOCK and they all hurt.
Many a good man has been relegat
ed to obscurity through the continu
al knocking of his jealous contem
poraries. \
This is true of statesmen, politic
ians and the men in the less promin
ent professions. He is indeed a
clever dodger who can manage to
escape with a whole skin when the
anvil chorus starts in earnest. Ask
the man who has been knocked for
years by people in his own organiza
tion . . .he can unfold a convincing
tale.
Another grand old fraud in the
way of slogans is: “Sticks and stones
may break youx* bones, but lies will
never hurt you.”
'It sounds wonderful, but don’t
depend upon it. It doesn’t mean
anything . . . because lies do hurt
you and they grow and grow and
grow and become more virulent be
cause the person lied about is usual
ly the last one to hear about it and
base no chance to chase these fab
rications to earth and nail them.
The public is more prone to ac
cept a plausibly told lie than an ab
solute truth. A lie is dangerous
and chiefly dangerous to the victim.
A'nd every knock is a KNOCK
. . . and nothing else.
Put a pin in that one, because
it is the truth.
* * *
“My boss says”, said the office
boy, “that he has had a bus'y day
and feels too tired to talk life in
surance,”
Insurance Man: “Please go right
back and tell him that he won’t
have to talk . . . not a word.”
* *
Sarcasm is a mark' of the little
man.* * *
Misery loves company and judg
ing by the way some company stays,
it would seem that they love misery.
♦ *
Ignorance is the parent of hate
and mistrust.
* * *
Be happy. Make the best use of
what you have where you are, and
you’ll have all the happiness heart
can desire.* * *
lose faith in advertising ... all ad
vertising.
Advertising -— no matter what
media is used: newspaper, magazin
es, radio, outdoor or direct mail —
is a logical and practical business
tool.
One advertisement, rarely if ever,
makes a sale. It takes steady, re
gular, constant reiteration and re
petition to make advertising profit
able ... no matter what you are
selling.* * *
Unless you have ever had it hap
pen to you when you were extreme?
ly young, you cannot understand
how it feels to have your youngster’s
toy balloon snap its moorings and
go sailing off into space. We
have had . . . and we did.* * *
“So you're an actor, eh?” mutter
ed the stout man. “Well, I’m a
banker. And, would you believe it,
I haven’s been near a theatre in ten
years.”
“That's nothing at all,” respond
ed the other breezily. “I haven’t
been near a bank in twenty years!”
* * «
Girls, when they went out to swim,
Once dressed like Mother Hubbard
Now they have a bolder whim;
And dress more like lxex’ cupboard.#
You can’t talk yourself up by
talking others down.
* * *
Any man who goes outside of his
own bailiwick to hear himself talk
is a- fool.* * *
better a wise enemy than an ig
norant friend.* * *
Every community has at least one
ignoramus who is good at an argu
ment but at nothing else.* * *
PRANKISH PROBLEMS
An Empire sympathizes with Queen Mary in her motor accident.
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Yes, siree, the boys had a great day’s fishin’ on the 24th,
********
The lilacs are coming into their own for another year,
********
It was no good day for Canadian sports when soft ball replaced
“Yankee Base,”
********
Tulips and sunshine and warm days make an unbeatable beauty
combination.
We don’t exactly like that expression of eager anticipation our
village treasurer is wearing these days.
* * # ** ** *
The Exeter Eligible Maidens have adopted the Bridal Wreath
as theix* floral exnblem.
* * * ** ** *
Zurich District Swiss,
Germans Has Clan
Ways
UNTOUCHED BY RAILWAY,
CONTINUES TO PROSPER
LEST WE FORGET
In the Great War, the Allies mob
ilized 39,G76,S64 men; the central
Powers 19,500,000. On the Allies’
side 4,869,478 were killed and 11,-
075,715 wonded; on the side of
the Central Powers 2,912,3 28 were
killed and 7,605,542 wounded.
The United States mobilized 4,-
272,521, of which 67,813 were kil
led and 192,483 were wounded.
Lloyd George estimated that the
total cost of the war was $ 120,000,-
000,000.« * *
It may never have occurred to
you to wonder how the robin can
usually manage to connect with the
worm which he drags forth from its
toe-hold in the sod. A chap who
knows all about birds tells us that
the robin doesn’t ordinarily see the
worm but hears it. That is why, he
states, the robin perks his head over
to one side. He’s listening. The
only flaw in this theory is contain
ed in the query: What sort of a
noise does a worm make? Does he
whistle, sing or hum? And if so,
why, after thousands of years in
, dodging robins, hasn’t he learned to
keep his mouth shut?* * *
BLACK MAGIC
Too many otherwise shrewd and
capable business men have, the
wrong viewpoint on advertising,
and particularly direct advertising.
They regard it as a sort of magic.
They prepare a series of two or three
advertisements or form letters and
then expect miracles and when the
golden harvest fails to come in, they
Pimples Kill Many a Romance
The lives of many young people
are made miserable when unsightly
pimples break out on the face, neck
and other parts of the body. t
The trouble is no,t so much physi
cal pain, but it’s the mental flutter
ing caused by the embarrassing
■disfigurement of the face.
The quickest way to get rid of
pimples is to improve the general
health by cleansing the blood of Its
impurities. „„
Burdock Blood Bitters purifies th<
blood. Get rid of the pimples by
taking B.B.B.
The T. Milburn Oo., Ltd., Toronto, Ont.
Answer to Prankish Problem No.
67 which appeared in this. spaces
last issue: 72 dozen and 5 dozen.
Prankish Problem No. 68: An
ant 6 feet from the side’ wall, 1 foot
from the ceiling in a room 30 ft.
long,' 12 ft. wide and 12,11. high,
spotted a piece of sugar on’the diag
onally opposite wall, 1 ft. from the
floor and 6 fee from the side wall.
What is the shortest distance the
ant can travel to reach the sugar?
Correct answer will appear in this
space next week.* * s
“I talked with a very interesting
man today. He is a Buddist.”
“Oh, I’d love to meet him . . .
all my geraniums are wilting.”* & #
Failure to prevent the World War
by shielding Austria’s Archduke
Francis Ferdinand from Assassin
Gabriel Princip, with his own body
at Serajevo in 1914 clouded the last
twenty-three years of the life of
Count Francis Harrach, who recent
ly died in Vienna. Count Harrach,
whose car the Archduke was using,
wished to stand on the footboard as
the car passed through the streets
of the Bosnian Capital. “Don’t
make a fool of yourself,” the Arch
duke admonished Harrach. An
hour later Francis Ferdinand was
dead . . . and twelve million other
Europeans doomed to die.
* .* *
GOOD WILL
What you know is best . . .
Most men recommend their own
doctor, their own architect, their
haberdasher, their barber.
Why?
Because most men assume that
what they know about is better than
what they do not know about.
They prefer to go to a play they
have heard about even if they have
forgotten who told them about'it.
Isn’t it true in the case of some
of your friends?
Good Will rests on common know
ledge of merit.
* * *
A Wet paint sign is a warning . . .
not a temptation.si: * *
He that lives for speed shall die
by speed.* * *
A good test of a man is the way
he spends his money. It you had
a million dollars, how would you’
spend it?'* * *
The meanings of words change
with the years. When King James
called St. Paul’s Catherdai “amus
ing, awful and articifial,” the archi
tect was pleased. In those days,
“amusing” meant “amazing,” “aw
ful” meant “awe-inspiring” and
“artificial” meant “artistic.”
* * *
You can’t eat your cake
And have it too;
You can’t read this far
Without being through.
THE COLONEL
********
Johnny and Mary are watching the strawberry patch with more
interest than they are giving the rose bushes.
“Just as we had installed our best and costliest poultry equip
ment the price of eggs dropped.” a farmer told us.
' **»*.*#»«•
We’d like to see an uncensored photograph of Hitler, The cen
sored variety has done a great deal to spread his popularity.
***** ***
The school children know that there is an abundance of straw
berry blossom along the roadsides.
********
The best preventative for the importation of hurtful forms of
government is our doing a good job at our own business.
• • • * * * * - *
Here’s hoping that Cnferences of the various churches may
bring in practical and constructive reports. Such are.greatly needed
just now.********
The Queen was not afraid of a few drops of rain during her
visit to Winnipeg. She was reared in a rugged country where
showers do not hinder anyone as he goes about his pleasure,
********
Experienced farmers in many parts of Ontario are anxious re
garding the hay crop. The prevalence of cold weather and lack or
moisture have rendered the growth of the hay decidedly slow.
********
■Owing to the hardness of the ground when seeding was in pro
gress, seed has come up in a decidedly patchy fashion, some of the
best farmers tell us, We need plenty of moisture and a good deal
of warm sunshine if the general crops are to come to their best.
>«****»**
Will the German people continue their way of non-resistance
till they no longer strive for anything? Enthusiasm has a way of
burning itself out. There is no sadder sight than a nation without
ideals and without hope.
********
We are sorry for those Indians who left their homes in ’the
very far North to make a canoe trip of hundred of miles of ice and
water in order that they might see the Great White Father and the
Great White Mother, only to arrive at the station one half hour af
ter Their Majesties had departed. The disappointment was deep
and heartbreaking. We hope that some compensation will be made.
Britain will find .a way.
********
WELL FOUNDED
A good deal of complaint is being made that the car insurance
people take away the privilege of insurance from cautious drivers,
wholly on account Of age, and give protection to careless drivers,
simply because they are under seventy. One man told us “I never
drive over forty. I never had an accident. Yet I cannot get insurance.
I have no protection against the reckless driver.”
********
TUNING UP THE LAWNMOWER
Strange, isn’t it? how lawnmowers have a way of going wrong
during the winter. Now every lawn ownei’ knows that nothing tries
the temper like a balky lawnmower. A smoking chimney and a
nagging wife are not to be mentioned by way of comparison. Hence
the importance of tuning up the lawnmower just as the grass re
quires attention. Here are our well-meant, experience-born sug
gestions: To begin with one should have a good supply of wrenches.
In addition one is all the better of having handy a good cleaning
fluid to remove all traces of old grease and soil. The mower should
be taken apart and each bearing carefully adjusted. A liberal sup
ply of heavy oil nd carborundum of the proper weight should be
secured for the sharpening process. Of course the direction of the
manufacturer and of the neighbors should be carefully followed in
detail. After the cleaning and sharpening have been done, the
machine should be put together with, exact attention to detail. As
a final precaution the machine should be taken to a competent lawn
mower mechanic for the last and other touches. Otherwise the
contraption is not at all likely to work satisfactory.
********
THE KING MADE A CHANGE
It was arranged, according to Gregory Mason, for their Majes
ties to spend four minutes at Christie street hospital in order that
the hopelessly wounded soldiers of the Great War might have the
privilege of seeing the successor of the one for whom they all but
gave their lives. These same grave folk had arranged for Their
Majesties to spend very considerable amount of time at a horserace.
By all accounts the horserace was rather a commonplace affair with
its betting and display of fine clothes, from which Their Majesties
escaped as expeditiously as circumstances and frigid politeness
would permit. But what of the four minutes at the hospital fox’
seriously wounded soldiers? Foui' minutes for the wounded Veter
ans? Five selected men were to shake the hand of royalty. Wound
ed veterans who could not get to the windows well, they were to
rest in their beds or in their wheel chairs contented with a proxy
contact with the throne they had served so well. Right here King
George and Queeix Elizabeth saw otherwise. They extended the four
minutes to forty-five, schedule or no schedule.. Instead of remain
ing on the terrace of the hospital, they entered the hospital and
gave the best that was in them in the way of personal contact with
the helpless heroes. There are occasions when Kings are greater
than those who advise them. This was one of them and we applaud
our king and his royal lady for doing so.
WOMANI — THE GREATEST Old ALL CONTRADICTIONS
She’s 'afraid of a roach, she’ll scream at a mouse
But she’ll tackle a husband as big as a house.
She'll take him for better, she’ll take him for worse,
She’ll split his head opeu and then be his nurse.
And when he is well and can get out of bed,
She’ll pick up a teapot to throw at his head,
She’s faithful, keen-sighted, loving and kind,
She’s crafty, she’s witty, deaf, dumb and blind,
She’ll lift a man up, she’ll cast a man down,
She’ll crown him hex’ king, she’ll make him her clown.
You fancy she’s this, but you find she is that,
Foi’ she’ll play like a kitty and bite like a cat.
In the morning she will, in the evening she won’t
And you’re always expecting she does - but she don’t.
She’ll love yon in truth and ignore your worst fib
And there you have Woman Man’s long lost Rib.
Proud of Achievement of Sons and
Daughters of Life of the Dominion
By W. H. Johnston in the London
Free Press
It has oftexx been remarked that
the people of certain nationalists are
very clannish,. This may almost be
accepted as a truism when applied
to the early settlers in this new land,
no matter what their race may have
been, One reason foi’ this belief is
to be found in the fact that in al
most all localities, the people were
of one nationality and owing to the
early difficulties encountered this
was well.
An Irish settlement felt like one
faxnily and naturally helped one an
other. The Scotch, French, English,
Germans, etc,, were actuated by the
same love of their fellow countrymen
and the results were always the
saxne friendly, helpful and prosper
ous communities were planted almost
everywhere in the cold, raw hungry
pioneer days.
At least the struggling settlers
were hungry fox* the sympathy of
their fellow and they got it.
■Such were the conditions under
which the Swiss-German village of
Zurich in the Township of Hay, Co.
of Huron, came into existence.
The village is found six miles west
of Hensall and five miles from lake
Huron. It is in the centre of a very
fertile district and these quiet, gentle
industrious people have made tne
most of their opportunities in build
ing up a prosperous farming com
munity.
Zurich is also the “capital” of the
township where the council meets in
the township hall. To pronounce
this name correctly we should know
that though we pronounce the last
lettex- of the alphabet zee, Germans
pronounce it tsett, therefore Zurich
becomes Tsurich in the language of
the Germans.
The first settler on the village site
was Frederick Knell, a Swiss, who
was the first storekeeper and when a
post office was established in 1857
he was appointed postmaster. Othex’
earliest settlers were Petex' Deichardt
and Frederick Axt, both of whom
were blacksmiths and Henry Wolnick
a carpenter, Michael Zeller, treasure!’
of the township, and Henry Greb
came later, Henry Solden, a shoe
master, kept the first hotel.
D, Steinbach was foi’ many years
a successful merchant as were also
the Merxxer Brothers and Robert
Brown, the lattex’ said to have been
elected to the reeveship of Hay Twp.
for 13 consecutive years.
Still others who had much to do
with the working out of the destiny
of the village and township were J.
C. Kalgfleisch, J. B.. Geigher, Dr.
Buchanan, iSamuel Rennie, Henry
Heyrock, C. F. Moritz, Johnston
Brothers, Conrad -Berholzschemher,
John Schnell, the Hesses and others.
In the heyday of her prosperity,
Zurich could boast of having among
her industrial institutions, three gen
eral stores, one drug store, one mer
chant tailor, three harness shops,
three carriage shops, three or four
blacksmith shops, a tannery, a wool
en mill, a grist mill, a flax mill, two
hotels, four .churches, Lutheran
Evangelical, Roman Catholic and
Baptist. Today, the first three of the
churches are still running and doing
a good work. The Amish people
hold services in small churches in
rural coxnmunities.
There is not the variety of busi
ness places there was 50 years ago
but the village is still prosperous.
Zurich may well be proud of some
of her public men. Alvin Surerus
and Rev. G. Geoger of the United
church are outstanding young mexi
who have distinguished themselves
along educational lines, J. J. Merner,
cxpM.P,, represented South Huron
from 1911 to about 1921. Of German'
Swiss origin he was supported in his
election campaigns by those on both
ides of politics most enthusiastically
by those of his parents nationality.
Another family name found often
in the History of Zurich is that of
Hess. Baek in the 18th century
their forefathers emigrated from
Ireland and settled in Germany near
the border of Switzerland where
they became expert clockxnakers and
jewelers. After coming to Zurich they
built town clocks for Exeter, Tavis
tock and other places. One member,
of the family became reeve of Hay
and afterwards succeeded Hon. >S. J.
? Latta as township clerk, about 1900,
and this office lxas remained in tne
family over since. The most versa
tile member of the connection was
the late Fred W. Hess who is credit
ed with being a skilful clock and
watchmaker, the Inventoi' of a phon
ograph, the improver, if nofc the real
inventor of a moving picture machine
and an electric clock. He was also a
photographer, printer, band leader,
and a crack shot in the village gun
club. It would take a column to tell
of his activities
This smart little village, though
six miles from a railroad, has held its
own in a rather better manner than
most small places, principally owing
to the loyalty of its citizens.
Truckers Escape As
Road Caves In
Oats Spill into Water as Truck
Upsets on Edge
When a portion of the x'oad skirt
ing the water at the Goderich har-
bor suddenly caved in underneath a
big motor transport, two Wingham
men, Timothy Carbert and Kenneth
Mobery, had a narrow escape from
drowning.
The truck came to rest on its
side in a 10-foot hole only a foot
from the retaining wall, dumping
10 tons of oats, which had just been
loaded at the elevator, into the har
bor, 22 feet deep, Carbert and Mo-
berry were able to scramble out of
the cab uninjured.
Blasting operations in connection
with dredging of the harbor, now
in progress, are believed to have un
dermined the road and nothing is
jxeing done to cleai- up the wreckage
or repair the road until department
of marine officials come from Lon
don to investigate.
The fact that neither truck nor
trailer had tarpaulins was fortunate
the two men said, fox’ the tarpaulins
would have held the oats cargo arid
carried the truck into the water. As
it was the machine held precarious
ly on the edge while the grain was
poured into the lake.
It was a spectacular accident the
rear end of the six-wheel truck
trailex’ first dropping, raising the
engine and cab 'With the two men in
it high into the air. It finally set
tled oix its side on the edge of the
wall.
THREE LONDONERS HURT IN
CLANDEBOYE ACCIDENT
Three London persons were in
jured as a result of a xnotox’ crash
on No, 4 highway at Clandeboye on
Miss Nola Cameron is in hospital
suffering from shock and a possible
fractured nose, Jaxnes Bailey, 29,
suffered a gash oix his forehead and
shock and Bernard Crelin, 24 suf
fered a gash on his left forearm.
A fourth passengex- in the cai’ Miss
Eilene Crelin escaped without in
jury.
Crelixx was said by police to have
been the driver of the cai’ 'which
left the pavement and crashed into
a culvert and plunged through a
billboard.
Before You Insure
Consult
Confederation
Life
Association
One of the World’s Great
Life Insurance Institutions.
Renowned for Strength,
Service and Security
Since 1871.
F. J. DRLBRIPGE,
Representative,
EXETER
Quidnunc
North American membership of
Masonic Lodges is approximately 3,-
000,000 members; in the United
States 2,634,867 with a total of 15,-,
908 lodges.
The Forest Service of the U.S.A.
Department of Agriculture lists 7
species of Cedar trees, 7 kinds of
Hickory, 6 of Maple, 19 varieties of
Oak and 17 of Pine.
In spite of the advances made by
the motox* industry, there are still
nearly 300 livery stables and near
ly twenty thousand blacksmith shops
in the United States.
There is a gasoline station for
every mile and a quartex’ of hard
surfaced roads in the United States:
197,5 68 filling stations . . .accord
ing to the latest figures.
The aix- transport companies of
the Doxninion of Canada carry ovei’
three times as much freight and ex
press every yeai’ than all the airlines
ixx the United States put together.
Wholesale prices of bathing suits
in the United States average more
than twenty xnillioxi dollars annual
ly.
In 1855, the United States Army
imported 75 head of camel foi’ ser
vice in the desert section of south
western United States, The experi
ment lasted less than a year. It
was found more practical to use tlxe
mule which had served the arxny so
long and well.
The motion picture machine was
perfected in 1861 by a man naxned
Sellers,
Nearly forty per cent, of all the
telephones in the world, are govern
ment owned.
More thaxx sixty thousand bunch
es of bananas are imported by the
United States each year.
Do you know the correct way to
fill the bathtub with water? Put
cold water in first and warm up with
hot. This way the aix' in the bath-
roonx does not get hot and humid
and the bathei' can leave the room
without fear of catching ox* taking
a cold.* «
Learn to bring your mind to at
tention. Attentioxx is necessary fox*
concentration, and, Concentration is
the Key to Success.
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