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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1939-07-27, Page 7THE EXETER TIME5-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, JULY «57, 1939 GET IT Eritoi A IJmf 1 JL JPjL JL JU* "As a man thinketh . . —the trouble is, sometimes, to get man to think at all. Two percent of mankind, so it is estimated, do the world's thinking. The two percent own the earth in consequence. They know what they want — they know how to go after it—and—they get it! Quoting Berton Braley, in “Things as they are’*: “If you want a thing bad enough To go out and fight for it, Work night and day for it, Give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it, If only desire for it Makes you quite mad enough Never to tire of it, Makes you hold other things tawdry and cheap for it, If life seems all empty and useless without it And all that you dream and you scheme is about it. If you'll glady sweat for it, Fret for it, Plan for it, Lose all your terror of God or of Man for it, If you’ll simply go after that thing that you want, With all your capacity, Strength and sagacity, Faith, hope and confidence, stern pertinacity, If neither cold poverty, famished ana gaunt, Nor sickness nor pain Of body or brain Can turn you away from the thing that you want, If dogged and grim you beseige and beset it, You’ll get it!” * * * In a democracy, we do not dic­ tate what you shall do — but we do demand that you do something. * * * The strongest point about a weak man is his resourcefulness in finding excuses for his weakness, ♦ A • Chance is the word invented to explain the known effect of every unknown cause.* * * Cheerfulness is the antidote for fear, grief and anxiety — life’s three greatest scourges.* * * HE GOT THE IDEA He was a little lad in a mountain school and he insisted on saying, “I ain’t gwine thar.” “You must not say that,” correct­ ed his exasperated teacher. “Listen: I am not going there, you are not going there, he is not going there, we are not going there, they are not going there. Do you understand?" “Yassum,” said the boy “thar ain’t nobody gwine thar.” Sit * The Ad of the Week From the Times-Gazetto FOR SALE—Twin beds. One al­ most new. * * * Of all the sad surprises There is nothing to compare With treading in the darkness On a step which is not there. . * * * Present day copywriters who com­ pose the ads extolling the virtue of tea would do well to heed the words of a Chinese Mystic of the tang dynasty: “The first cup of tea moistens my lips and throat. The second shatters my loneliness. The third causes the wrongs of life to fade gently from my recollection. The fourth purifies my soul. The fifth lifts me to the realm of the un­ winking gods,"* * * EGO DEFLATION Dr. Joseph Parker made he fol­ lowing retort to one who came and inflatedly described himself as a self-made man. “Sir" answered Dr. Parker, “you relieve the Lord of a 'great responsibility.” Another Bad Night Could Get No Rest To the thousands who toss, night after night, on sleepless beds and to whose eyes slumber will not come. To those who> sleep in a kind of • way, but whose rest is broken by bad drcams and nightmares. To those who wake up in the morning aS tired aS on going to bed, We offer in Milburn’s Health and Nerve Pills a remedy to help soothe and calm, the nerves and bring them back to h perfect condition, hnd When this is done there should bo no 4 more sleepless nights due to shat­ tered nerves. The T. Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont. Note to engineers building the 1940 automobile models: One- way to reduce motor accidents is to build cars so they won’t go any faster than the average driver thinks.* * * PEELING APPLES I never peel red apples but I see You at my knee— Your tiny face all puckered in a queer grimace Watching the knife go round and round. “Mother make me an apple ring?” Strange— To remember such a trivial thing! Burd Bennett Skemp* * * FREE ADVICE Thru the thoughtfulness of one of our readers, we are privileged to pass along this free advice story. It is not new but its point is so obvious that' it is worth repeating. If any of our readers have similar brief ‘classics’ of days gone by, we’d like to have them to pass along, A man opened a fish store and or­ dered a new sign of which he was very proud. It read: “Fresh Fish For Sale Here.” “Wliat did you put the ‘fresh’ in for?” said his first customer. “You would not sell them if they were not fresh, would you?” He painted out the word, leaving just “Fish for sale here.” “Why do you say ‘here’? asked his second customer. “You are not sell­ ing them anywhere else, are you?” So he rubbed out everything ex­ cept - “Fish for Sale.” “Why use ‘for sale’ asked the next customer. “You wouldn't have fish here unless they were for sale, would you?” So he rubbed out everything but the word ‘fish’ remarking: “Well, no one can find fault with that sign, now.” A moment later another customer came in — “I don’t see the object in having that sign ‘fish’ up there,” said he, “when you can smell them a mile away.” —one very successful man says: “A good rule to follow is this: Lis­ ten to all the ‘free advice’ that folks want to give you and then use your own judgment.”# * * From life’s books of tears and lau­ ghter I have gained this little bit of lore, I’d rather have a morning after Than never have a night before. * * a Use words to express ideas—not banalities.* * * prankish problems Answer to Prankish Problem No. 75 which appeared in this space in our last issue: 5,7 29 6 inches. Prankish Problem No. 76: A tra­ veller is able to make only 10 miles per hour going from one city to an­ other. On their return, however, he makes the trip at a rate of 15 miles per hour. What is his average speed for the round trip? (Watch for the correct answer in this space in our next issue.)* * * DON’T WORRY There is a lot of difference be­ tween thinking and worrying. Every business man must spend much time thinking but he has no time worry­ ing. Thinking develops ideas. It iplans big things. It builds. Thinking is constructive. It makes men strong but as soon as thinking becomes dis­ organized, jumbled and confused, worry begins. Worry tears down, destroys and weakens. It results from a confus­ ed and shuffled mind or body in need of repair. With a calm mind and sound body thinking does not weaken a man. Worry is not the result of think­ ing — it is the result of trying to think under the wrong conditions.He # SIMPLICITUDES —-women, according to news reports, are now marrying younger than they used to — and apparently, much more often. —it is not the wear and tear on the mind that wears it out - it is the rust of disuse that takes the toll, —most carpenters will saw into a nail now and then - but he is indeed dumb who will saw thru it. —'silence is golden’ - as the folks who have had to pay hush-money well know.* * * Sing a song of six pence Never tell a lie This column seems to be Just four lines shy. —the colonel And that first apple — but why say more. # * * * * * * * He's a wise guy who has his will made. * ■* <4 Can ye your cherries while ye may, old time’s allying, **** * *** John Bull is the king bee. That’s why so many people don’t like him. ******** Those cool days of last week gave Ontario a fine respite from the extereme heat. ** ****** From meddlers and mixers and muddlers may kind Providence keep us forever free! ******** Those cool nights were just the thing for sleeping but not so good for the corn.******** Hitler is reported to have been giving lectures on architecture. On peace building, suppose?* ****** * An open field or the top of a load of grain or hay is not a de­ sirable location during a thunderstorm. «*»•**** Fall wheat harvest is about over for another year. This season it has proven a good stand and of a good quality.******** Said Observant Bill, of bright renown “How well-used paint improved our town.” ******** There’s all the difference in the world between adjustment and compromise. The one leads to progress, the other to trouble. One swallow doesn’t make a summer; nor does one commodity make a nation prosperous, especially when other nations have about all they need of that very thing. *•* + ♦***♦ Did Colonel Drew get off side when he told some people out there in British Columbia that all Japanese should be driven out of Canada? ******** Once to dress and have a beau Was a woman’s sole ambition; But now to dust and get a job Is her healthy intuition. ******** With this grief our soul is laden As we rhyme in accents rude, Why a thousand dollar maiden Picks up with a ten cent dude. ******** If Happiness you would not burk, After breakfast go to work. After lunchean rest a while After supper’ walk a mile. ******** We cannot but wonder if Britain is running her head into an­ other noose by trying to bribe Germany from making war. How can successful bargaining be carried on with people who do not keep their word?******** Exeter seems to have reached the place where sneak thieves operate with impunity. Those who so think may as well rethink the. situation. The sneaks are better known than they believe. Jus­ tice may appear th lame duck at noonday, but by sunset she is sure to- have overtaken the guilty.******** PLEASE NOTE Wheat last week dropped to its lowest price level since 1588, yet we remember the day when sobed gravity declared that all busi­ ness should be on the wheat standard. And never did folk try harder to control prices.******** GIVE THEM A CHANCE All that the business men want is a chance to carry on. Last week as the word crept about that there was a reasonable prospect of the peaceful settlement of the Dantzig mess, business leaped for­ ward like a giant refreshed. War, as anyone knows, is the great interfere!’ in human affairs. It stands disastrously in the way of business enterprise. When a major war threatens, business draws back from its ventures. But war is but one of such meddlers tho’ about the greatest. We must mention among other obstructionists in this hegard partisan special-interest politics. Along with this goes the activity of a certain form of uplifter who arrogates to him­ self the control of reasonable men’s activities. Still another nui­ sance is the man who would hamstring every enterprise just because it is big, bigger than lie himself can take in. Business prospers where there is liberty based on sound common sense and a healthy- minded public opinion.» ******* BRITAIN GETS HER STRIDE Britain’s wordis is being heeded once more as she speaks in the councils of the nations. For a while she heeded the out-and-out .pacifists, only to find that many of the pacifists had an axe to grind. For a while she followed the advice of those who asked her to lead the way in disarmament only to find that other nations were mean­ while seeking her destruction. She tried the way of appeasement, only to discover that she was opening her tent to every camel’s head that other nations were poking into her affairs. Almost tpo late sue woke up to take, life as it is and conditions as they are and argued •with the east wind by putting on her oovercoat. 'She has not laid a single gun or built an airplane or trained a soldier with the inten­ tion of harming any man of any colour or of any clime. Her tre­ mendous effort in the way of armament has been in behalf of all who would carry on their affairs without making nuisances of themselves. Her every interest lies in the way of peace. She has armed herself that peace may be established. If fight she must it will be for freedom, without which life is not worth living. She cannot do less than she is doing and be self-respecting. « * * * ‘ « WE NEED NOT FEAR When it is urged that Canada should go the limit in welcoming the new life offering itself from Europe, it is urged by some that the standard of living of the new comers is not as high as Cana­ dians are accustomed to. There need be no fears on that point. One hundred years ago the standard of living in Ontario was not as elaborate as it is today. Wholesome, noble simplicity marked those early years. The new arrivals of those times had to make nearly everything they used. Our museums tell this story. Gradually these Canadians had more under their hands. Very gradually the general standard of life rose to its present height. History is re­ peating itself in regard to the new comers from Europe of the last two decades. European workers in the tobacco and sugar beet fields of Elgin and Norfolk for the most part illustrate this point. As the European workers have had more to spend they have invest­ ed at least a fair proportion of their earnings in the things that make life comfortable and even elegant. We cannot expect these new comers to do in a decade what our fathers had to struggle for a lifetime to accomplish.******** AN OPPORTUNITY Knocking at our national doors stand some of the soundest capital and best brawn and most highly trained brains of Europe. Conditions have been made so difficult for these self-respecting folk in the land of their birth that they simply cannot but seek other shores and other governments. Some of these mon saw the evil day coming and sent their capital ahead of them to Canada. When the tempest broke they forsook the old country to try life undewtlie shadow of the maple. Many of these men are highly trained arti­ sans who learned their craft under the hardest conditions of labour of competition and of marketing. Others of them are doctors and scientific men at whose feet American students were proud to sit. Still others are farmers who carried on under the most difficult con­ ditions of soil and climate. These men are not strangers either to labour or to skill. All of these folk now feel the sharp spur of ne­ cessity. All they ask of this Dominion is a chance to invest their skill, their labour and their capital. Canada was advantaged to a degree beyond all reckoning by blood from France, from England, Ireland and Scotland in tho early days of the last century. Let us admit and be grateful that the new blood now offering itself for infusion into Canadian life is the peer of the best tho world has ever known. Let us welcome the .proffered new life of so rich and high an order. What have Mackenzie King and Dr, Manion to say about it? Henry Hyndman Was Big Figure in Early Huron Remarkable Home Set Up by Man More Familiar With Letters Than Farming LIFE ENDED WITH TRAGEDY; FLAMES RAZED LANDMARK Large Landowner Was Friend of Canada Company’s Famous Dr. Dunlop By W. H. Johnston in the London Free Press The early history of the Huron Tract is so bound up with the Can­ ada Company, John Galt, the organ­ izer and Doctor Dunlop, his co-ad- juter, that we can scarcely introduce an event of those early times with­ out connecting it with at least one of the three. Though the company was charter­ ed in 1825, before 1833 more than 50,000 adventurous spirits poured into Western Upper Canada and the majority of these came to the Huron Tract. Of course, there were many fail­ ures, but there were many brilliant successes, especially among those who were financially short of money, but who were determined to see it through and make a home for them­ selves. Many who were better off came from the cities of the home­ land and before fortune smiled on them, their money had disappeared but they had learned to love this new country. Among the select class may be mentioned Henry Hyndman, of Lin­ coln’s Inn Fields of Old London, who in 1833 read literature issued by the company and who promptly bought 800 acres as an estate and soon af­ terwards set sail for Canada with his wife and six ehilrden. With him also came his widowed mother. Coming by water, they landed in Goderich, July 20, 1834 and took up their abode in two of Baron Tuyle’s bark-covered cabins. These were so low that the earthern floor had to be dug out so that a man could stand upright in them. Work was started on the farm at once, lot 4, east, Lake Road concession of Colborne Twp., and a large log house was erected, but the material was green and had shrunk so much before the second winter that the children enjoyed sliding in the spacious hall in spite of the large fire places at each end. “The house was fitted throughout with old country furniture, big four- poster bedsteads and roomy arm chairs, ^family portraits and silver, warm curtaining and much good lin­ en and most valuable of all, a lib­ rary of over 2,000 books. Of Mr. Hyndman, it was said by one who knew him well. “Although he was born with a pen in one hand and a dictionary in the other, he could take a tremendous lift at the end of a handspike.” With characteristic energy and having a fair amount of money, he. and his men. applied themselves to the huge task of clearing off the heavy timber on his farm. Probably his education fitted him better for another walk of life. His fellows seem to think so. too, as he was appointed returning officer for the parliamentary elections and later was made the first sheriff of the Huron district. As sheriff and friend, he often accompanied Dr. Dunlop to Toronto and Kingston. In 1843, the sheriff was in Toron­ to and came home on the stage coach In an accident, all the passengers were thrown out and Mr. Hyndman’s head struck a stone. An abscess formed and a year later he died. One record said of him: “A tall man straight as a tree the best and truest man that ever set foot irv Huron,” For a few years, the family used to move to Goderich in the winter for the sake of the children’s school­ ing, but one early January morning in 1846 when all were at home in Lunderston, fire broke out and the comfortable home large and commo­ dious, with all its rich furnishings, portraits and treasured library was a heap of ashes. Awakened by Mrs. Morgan, Mrs. Hyndman’s sister-in- law, they escaped half-clothed in the barn while the boys tried to quench the fire. A neighbor, David Lawson took all of them to his home. The loss was irreparable and in 1 849 the two ladies with all the fam­ ily save one son and one daughter returned to Ayrshire, Scotland, where the eldest, Henry, had inher­ ited an estate, named Springside. Tested Recipes Tomato Juice Tomato juice has varied uses. A glass of chilled tomato juice, with or without seasonings to taste is a re­ freshing and also a nourishing first coure for any meal of the day. In addition, this healthful juice, full of flavour and attractive in col­ our, can be put to many other ex­ cellent uses. A few suggestions for including tomato juice in the sum­ mer menu are: Tomato Mjik i cup tomato juice 1 cup milk Mix tomato juice and milk thorough­ ly together. Serve well chilled. J'e1Iied Tomato Consomme 2 cups tomato juice 1 su<> consomme (canned) % cup water tablespoons gelatine U cup cold water 1 tabelspoon lemon juice or 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce and 1 teaspoon onion juice Satl and Pepper to taste. Heat tomato juice, consomme and water to boiling point. Dissolve gela­ tine soaked in the cold water in hot liquid. Add seasonings. Chill. Serve in buillion cups. Jellied Tomato Cheese Salad 1 tablespoon gelatine 3 tablespoons water 1 cup tomato juice 1£ cups cream or cottage cheese B cup salad dressing Juice of I lemon 1 tablespoon sugar 1 cup grated carrot 1 small green pepper, chopped 1 tablespoon minced onion 1 small cucumber seeded and diced Salt to taste. Soak gelatine in cold water. Dissove over hot water. Mix together all in­ gredients. Stir in dissolved gela­ tine. Pour into moulds rinsed with cold water. Chill. Umnould on cups of crisp lettuce. Tomato Tea Biscuits 2 cups flour 4 teaspoons baking powder a teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons butter I to two-thirds cup tomato juice Sift flour, baking power and salt. Cut in butter. Add tomato juice to make a soft dough. Turn out on lightly foured board. Pat or roll to about % inch thickness. Cut with cookie cutter. Bake at 450 degrees F. for 10-12 minutes. Serve with fruit or vegetable salad. Note: a cup grated cheese may be added to mixture, reducing butter to 2 tablespoons. The height at which birds fly sometime indicates weather changes as it is ail indication of the air’s den­ sity. With a low pressure it is harder for them to fly in a higher or more rarefied layer of air. Rings around the moon or sun are called haloes. They are due to re­ fraction of light on upper bodies of moisture. By indicating the pres­ ence of moisture they tell us that this same moisture is apt to be precipi­ tated as rain or snow. The second Sunday in December is designated as 'Bible Sunday? There is true majesty in simplicity Quidnunc Honey is flavored according to the kind of flowers and blossoms the bees visit. Thus, in season, clover blossoms are in such profusion that the cloved flavor dominates the hon­ ey in some hives. This is true of many other varieties of bloom. There are, perhaps, as many as one hun­ dred different flavors in honey mar­ keted in America. Each Aircraft Carrier has a capa­ city for about eighty planes. The last lee Age which began back about thirty thousand years is slow­ ly disappearing as the glaciers keep on melting—but—they still have a lot of melting to do. In Antarctic, enough ice remains to encase the en­ tire world with a layer 120 feet thick. A million children in one group would make a sizeable crowd but as a statistic, they are not so prominent For example, recent figures show that there are 11,564,059 attending City (urban) schools, while there are 10,894,121 children attending country or rural schools. There are 3,74 counties in the 48 states of the U. S. A. Texas is the largest state with 254 counties. Dela­ ware, while not the smallest state has just three counties. Two states, North Carolina and Virginia have exactly 100 each, For the supersti­ tious, Oklahoma is th most lucky state with 77 counties. If you live in the U. S, A, can you nante the number of counties in your state? ---<-- ------ --- - I SCHOLARSHIP FOR LONDON SINGER Miss Helen Cole, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Cole, Emery street, London, has received a scholarship from Sir Ernest MacMillan to study > opera under the direction of Di*. Heinrich Jalowetz, famous conductoi’ of the opera in Vienna, Prague and New York, it was dearned recently. This scholarship entitles Miss Cole to lectures and studies in sight-sing­ ing and rudiments in music from George Lambert, and expression and. deportment from Marion Copp, in Toronto. Miss Cole is well-known in London music circles and has been honored at various festivals in the U. S. A. and Canada, The finest summer excursion of them all is nearly here—an excur­ sion into a veritable land of Make- Believe! Railways, steamship and bus lines are offering special rates so that you may take a trip to this Wonderland—the Canadian National Exhibition. Ling: “If you looked at a postage stamp, how could you tell we were never going to lose a war?” Long: “Because, the King is al­ ways on the side that’s never licked.” "SWEET caporal "Tit* for® ie wUc!» <•!>•*•• *•« W* »a*k*P* $5—li Firestone Tires, with vGH I all their extra features, | do not cost one cent I more than ordinary tires. You can buy them at prices to suit every purse. And on the basis of cost-per- \ mile, they are by far I the most economical ' I tires you can buy. ] ■ I Be smart and get the most tire value for your money. Ask for the sensational new Firestone Champion. If you want lower priced tires, ask for the Firestone Standard or the Firestone Sen­ tinel. See the nearest Firestone Dealer and have him put Firestorte Tires on your car today, F/l M .. CHAMPION I *Seminel 30x314. Other sizes and types at proportionately low prices.Tirtsfatit AfOST A//2 PER DOLLAR^ For Sale by Graham Arthur and Sandy Elliot