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THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE 'I’lIURSDAY, OCTOBER IS, 1939 ‘
LEARN TO FORGET
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A*good memory is a blessing, but
If it is too good, it is not a blessing,
There are things we ought to remem- '
her, and other things that it is our
duty to 'forget.
Train your mind to forget all the
cross words, all gossip, and slander,
all unkind looks, and the invitation
you did not receive, Forget the
.seeming carelessness of those who
love you; they are sometimes too
busy or too troubled to do ’all you
desire.
Forget unpleasant things. By carry
ing them in your mind, you make it
-a chamber of horrors. Do not allow
the wreckage of a month or a year
to fill your mind with mental junk.
Train your memory for good things
■only, and train your ‘forgettery’ for
things which do you harm. Bad mem
ories hurt us. .Memories of good
things build usmp.
Bearn to forget what should be
forgotten.
* * *
A Chiropractor is a guy who gets
paid for what an ordinary guy would
get slapped for.
* * •
It is better to be an original jack
ass than an imitation lion.
♦ * *
You’re either a tugboat or a barge.
♦ * •
'To sell a man once is a simple affair
Not a matter for very much crow
ing,
And will not, in the course of a full
business year.
On your books make a very great
showing;
But to sell him again is a. far differ
ent thing -
When he comes 'back for more, it’s
a token
That your service is good, and you’ve
made him your friend;
Sell him twice, he is yours - years
unbroken.
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FREEDOM OF THE DRESS
In the United States (Senate, eight
members were and are owners and
publishers of daily newspapers. In
Congress, 26 members were and are
owners and publishers of daily and
weekly newspapers.
Each of these 34 men are trained
journalists as well as .being respon
sible for the active business manage
ment of their papers. They know
‘what it is to meet a payroll'. They
know that no newspaper can 'be suc
cessful that doe not present the news
and editorial viewpoint in the true
American Way — fearless honest and
.sincere. They know the problems
of Labor as well as of the Commer
cial and Industrial interests in their
respective communities.
These thirty-four men represent-
both political parties - Republican
and Democrat. And, we in the Unit
ed States can feel assured that we
will have ‘Freedom of the Press’ as
long as we have such a strong re
presentation of the ‘Fourth Estate’
among our lawmakers in Washing
ton D. C.
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FISHERMAN’S LUCK
Beside the fireplace of an autumn
night,
Unheedful of the big log’s friend
ly cheer;
While Nimrods tell their hunting
skill and might -
I sit and sneer. ,
Their talk of ‘blinds’ and ‘marshes’
leaves me cold -
What care I.for their ‘mallard’
or their ‘teal’?
The thrills and pleasures of a hunt
er bold,
I cannot feel.
And yet, one tiny ray of hope, I see'
■ When winter’s storms and snows
have all passed 'by,
And ‘fishin’' time -comes round - I
know ’twill he
My turn to He.
Stubborn Cases
of Constipation
Those Who keep a mass of
impurity pent up in their bodies,
day after day, instead of having it
removed as nature intended, at least
once in every twenty-four^ hours, in
variably suffer from constipation.
The use of cheap, harsh purgatives
Will never get you any where as they
Ohly aggravate the trouble and. in
jure the delicate mucous lining of the
bowels, and are very liable to cause
piles.
If constipated take Milburn’s
Laxa-Liver Pills and have a natural
movement of the bowels. They do
not gripe, weaken and sicken as
many laxatives do.
Tho T. Milburn Co.} I4ck Toronto, Ont.
A good thing to remember,
and a better thing to do, is to work
With the construction gang, and not
With the wrecking -crew.
V * *
Phillips says: The best education
in the world is that gotten by Strugs
gling to get a living.x \ * * *
Mother nature has given us ‘time’
to heal the -wounds of sorrow,
* * *
One way to tell a donkey is by his
lack of horse sense.
» * *.
Never show a man where he is
wrong unless you can help him cor
rect it.
* * *
Musical Comedy is for the Eye-mind- ■
ed. Grand Opera is for the Ear-
minded.
* ■ * *
The silent promise is usually ful
filled.
* * *
There can be no greater endeavor
without enthusiasm.
* * *
Ah, love, dear love
With your tired eyes, and
Your wondrous kiss.
There is someone
A-longing for you
Tonight.
There is someone
Stretching wide arms afar -
Like a child to an
Ultimate radiant'star,
And, a sick heart faints and moans.
* * *
NOW, YOU KNOW
Customer, pointing to Chinese
characters on laundry ticket, “Is
that my name?”
Chinese laundry man: “No ’sclip-
tion. Means li’l ol’ man, cross-eyed,
no teet’.”
Customer—“Er - thank you.”
* * *
Miniature Course in Diplomacy!
Woman in crowded car, to her
friend; “I wish that good looking
man would give me his seat.”—
Five men got up.
* * *
Warren says: “The "best remedy
for conceit is to think of all the
things you don’t know.” 's* * *
Contrary to the accepted 'belief
that a hole dug straight down in the
United States would come out in
China the fact is it would come out
in the Indian Ocean.
* * *
There is no damage done to the
mechanism of a modern watch or
clock when turning the hands back
ward. This fallacy comes down to
us from the days when clocks work
ed by gears' which were forced by
reversing them.
* * *
I’m looking for a woman -
''I’ve been searching days and days;
Her fame is spread athwart the
world;
She revels in its praise,
There is a note I’ve got to meet -
A mortgage, I must raise.
Oh, where’s that famous woman
who pays, and pays, and pays?
* * *
Sunday would be spiritually impor
tant - as in’ past years - if we could
get people to wear their ‘dress up’
clothes only on Sunday.
* * *
The fellows who are behind in their
rent are always willing to take the
time to tell you how to run your
business. .
* * *
It is a sure sign you need a shave
when you ask yourwife if you need
one.j> * * *
Far too many of us listen to a new
idea with our prejudices.
* * *
YOU ARE RICHER TODAY
You are richer today than you
were yesterday, if you have laughed
often, given something, forgiven even
more, made a new friend today, or
made stepping-stones of stumbling
•blocks; If you have thought more
in terms of ‘thyself’ than ‘myself’, or,
if you have managed to he cheerful
even if you were weary.
You are richer tonight than you
were this morning —- if you have
taken time to trace tile handiwork of
God in the commonplace things of
life, or if you have learned to count
out things which really do not count;
or if you have been a little blinded
to the faults of friend and foe.
You are far richer if a little child
has smiled at you, and a stray dog
has licked your hand, or it you have
looked for the ‘best in others and
given the others the best in you.
* * *
Glass, China and Reputation
Are easily cracked, but not mended.
Crocked or mended, this column’s
ended.
—the Colonel
The glory of autumn.
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Was there ever a war with so many iuclavuable .elements.
9 - * * 9 * * 9 *
Go to church, citizen, and don’t forget the collection plate.
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Jay-walking makes the grave digger wear that pleasant smile,
» * * *- * « * «
John Bull never gets down to business till he has his toes well
tramped,
*♦.**♦*»»
The severe frosts kept off till the corn had attained its max
imum of growth..»****♦♦*
, The best citizens of the United States are vitally concerned in
who wins the war.**♦*•♦«»
We used to say things when a farmer drove Dobbin through
town at ten miles an hour.» + *»*»»*
Hitler proposes to settle all Jews in Warsaw. You see, Hitler
knows just where to drop shells,
* * * * * * * *
It’s a risky business, this thing of trying to make political pro
fit out of an Empire’s agony.*»***♦*»
If we ration ourselves and discipline ourselves fur-seeing states
men will not require to compel us to pass under the red.
It is a strange world if one man or one nation is to have the
power of waging war or making peace.
**•••***
Russia seems to be saying to Hitler and John Bull “I don’t care
who does the fighting so long as I get the spoils.’’** «««••*
Johnny and Mary and mom and dad are playing high jinks at
getting in the potatoes and mangles and turnips.
***„*•***
And what are all those British troops in France doing? All
the exploits we hear of are 'being done by the French.
********
The modern struggler in any field is required to have not only
a sound body and a good conscience hut a well trained mind.
********
Let us heai' and heed our leaders when they call upon every
one to push field and store and manufacturer’s plant to the very
limit. The slacker is a public qnemy.********
Germans and Britishers alike recall the work done 'by the Em
den in the early stages of the last war. They also recall her fate.
She was battered to pieces without mercy.
***•*•••
If we were not required to reserve one word for the Book of
Revelations we would speak of those^Ziglorious” sunsets. Old Sol
and Jack Frost and the woods are working harmoniously for gorg
eous coloring hard to surpass.
* * * *****
The trouble with Hitler’s speech of last Friday morning is that
it was made by a man whom nobody believes. His offers of peace
were made in 'behalf of a people who nobody trusts. Hitler* must
be caught before Hitlerism can be destroyed.
* * * *****
We are informed that the farmers around Exeter are being
paid a cent per pound more tor butter fat than is being paid
for butter fat delivered in Toronto. Farmers have been producing
butter fat at a margin of profit next to nil. A slight advance in
price is well earned.
It is interesting to watch for the way the new international
strategy is going to work out. .Premier Chamberlain and Lord
Halifax are telling the British public that whatever Hitler proposes
will not be acceptable and that whatever, he says they are not at all
likely to believe. This is a new way of carrying on negotiations.
* * * * * * * *
The person whose benignity is so wide that he cannot and who
does not pray for the success of Britain and her allies should be,
forthwith invited to betake himself, bag and baggage, to Germany
or to Russia. He who is not of us in this life and death grapple
with all that we abhor, is against us, and he should know it, and
be treated accordingly.
********
.Speak to a man of business
During business hours.
When you have done your business
Go about your business.
There may not be much rhyme in the foregoing, but there is
a whole lot of reason. So pin it in your hat.
" When we are saying all manner of things about Hitler, let us
stop long enough to recognize that he has brains and that he is a
worker. We don’t like what he has done with his brains but we
recognize that the man has enough skill to outwit the rest of Europe
While 'other statesmen were bowing and smiling and kowtowing
Hitler made himself the terror of a continent. Until the rest of
• us work as hard as he worked and works, he’ll lead the world by
the nose. This is not the time for statesmen and army leaders in
one sphere and another, to make mistakes.
********
YES, INDEED
Yes, indeed, we have hope for Canadian youth. You remem
ber some time ago that Rev. Frank, of Toronto, took pity on the
condition of certain young men were out of employment and whose
outlook socially and financially and every other way was about as
cheerful as a last year’s bird’s nest on the first of November. Rev.
Frank had little money and little influence but these he invested in
Canadian youth. These young fellows were nursed back to self-
respect. They got a farm that had been down and out and planted
potatoes and all such things that they might have a bite and a sup
for this winter. Well, when the war broke Out every youngster
of them enlisted. Every man among them physically fit now
wears His Majesty’s uniform. Well done, Mr. Frank and good
for you, young Canada. A^youth may be low in cash but high in
everything else that healthy minded men regard.
OVER-MEDDLING
About twenty years ago a body of people made themsevles very
busy with our young people. So busy were they that they got them
to sign a document declaring to all whom it might concern that they
would not go to war, no matter what the cause, circumstances or
outlook or anything else. .Lately all that is dear to. our hearts,
our homes, our schools, our churches, our children, our women, our
freedom have been imperilled and those gentle folk who did not
believ in war woke up to the fact that force can Ibe met only
by force. They discovered that things are as they are and that a
man is a fool who seeks to deceive himself. Meanwhile youth
shows its manhood by hearing the call of duty. Every stone was
turned, every road was explored to find the way to peace only to
prove that war is the only course, When the facts became known
youth knew the way without the aid of meddlers. It ever will be
so with the British born.
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LET’S GET GRIM
If we are to win this war upon which all depends we must get
over our easy-going, smiling way of carrying on. We must real
ize that we are up against a foe determined, earnest and unscrupu
lous and deadly, who will stop at nothing to work our ruin. We
must be as dead in earnest as he. Heaven helps those who help
themselves and is no friend of the idle and self-indulgent. Cana
dians do not as yet realizb this fact and are carrying on as if the
clock of destiny were not soon to strike. .So let us get down to
business. This means that every farm should be got Into produc
tion, down to the last square rod, that every cow should be produc
ing her lawful maximum and every hog getting down to his best
condition, that every High School and University should be working
as never before getting youth conditioned to the peak in body and
mihd and morals. Efficiency relative to the need of the hour is
lacking everywhere. We’d like the Duke of Wellington to look
things over and to tfell us what he thinks of our easy-going way of
carrying on. 1S0 Canada is but playing at war, We are not calling
for’ band playing and shouting but for grim work, for work that
brings results.
“It All Depends”
Up to now I have never fallen to
the columnist’s lowest level - that
of asking my readers to simplify my
work by asking them to write to me -
but something occurred recently that
causes a change in policy. It was a
very simple thing. Most stirring
things are simple. My wife discov
ered a prayer written by Robert
Louis iSteveuson that has captivated
us both. It has captivated too, many
of the friends to whom we have
read it. I am sure you will like it.
And now I want to know from some
Stevenson expert if it comes from
one of R. L/s books as a prayer ut
tered by one of the characters or
whether it represented a bit of his
vagrant work. Perhaps someone will
tell me. Here is the prayer:
“We thank Thee for this place in
which we dwell; for the love which
unites us; for the peace accorded us
this day; for the hope with which
we expect the morrow; for the health
the work, the food end the bright
skies that make our lives delightful
.... for our friends in all .parts of
the earth. Give us courage, and
gaiety and a quiet mind; spare to us
our friends; soften to us our enem
ies; bless us, if it may be, in all our
innocent endeavors; if it may not,
give us strength to encounter that
which is to be, that we be brave in
peril, constant in tribulation, temper
ate in wrath; and in all changes of
fortune and down to the gates of
death, loyal and loving one to an
other.”
Just why a layman should shy off
prayer or scriptural quotations, I
don’t really know, but the fact re
mains that many writers do. They
leave that sort of thing to ministers
who, after all, were the original scri
veners, Stevenson, evidently, was
different. And I am very glad that
he was. There is a serenity about
that little prayer that is somehow
very satisfying in days like these
when perhaps our greatest need is
serenity.
As a study for would-be writers it
makes an excellent example. There
is a completeness about the thought
expressed that many an editorial
writer today would - or should - be
ready to give one of his ears for;
and its expression, like any example
of ‘R.L.B.’ you choose has the smooth
surface of well-polished brass. Good
writing, if you believe the Stevenson
legends, like practically anything
else you do calls for constant prac
tice, hard work and an infinite ca
pacity for polishing and improving
what you have done.
Which sententious utterance leads
to a short dissertation upon the in
evitable way history has of repeat
ing itself. But history, I am afraid,
hasn’t the Stevenson faculty of pol
ishing and polishing 'Until it improves
itself. To say that history repeats
itself is as trite as running into a
Montreal neighbor on the Bund in
Shanghai and exclaiming, “It’s a
small world, isn’t it?”
But the fact is inescapable. His
tory does repeat itself. A study of
English newspapers of the years 1811
and 1815 shows that Napoleon Bona
parte had - for its day - as efficient
a propaganda department as ever a
mentally and physically twisted
Goebbels could organize under pres
ent conditions. The tyrant’s mind
repeats itself. In that day events
were twisted to suggest to the rest
of the world that the British were
responsible for the chaotic conditions
of Europe. English Naval captains
were accused of tactics unfair as the
stupid suggestion from Berlin that
the “Athenia” was torpedoed by the
British in order to enlist American
sympathy.
, Back in those days, too, the con
voy system - developed again in
1917 to defeat the submarine war
fare, and within two weeks of the
outbreak of the present war - was
in use. Big, slow-sailing, comfort
able East Indiamen were convoyed
as they wallowed their way across
the Bay of Biscay filled with British
manufactured goods for Bombay and,
even more carefully as they made
their way homewards again laden
with precious cargoes of tea, And a
hard job for the escort ships it must
have been, too. There were no
cables, no wireless and rendezvous
had to be planned months ahead. Es
cort ships were smart sailing frigates
or heavier armed ships of the line.
Of course the enemy was not the
slinking, evil-breathed jackal that
befouls the clean seas today. I
In those days, sleek, beautiful cut-1
ters or easily-handled luggers (prey
ed upon peaceful merchantman and
won their prizes by smart seaman
ship. They put prize crews aboard
the ships they captured and sailed
them to French ports. Which may,
for all we know, have been the real
introduction of tea into France, To
day, history repeats itself but there
is deterioration, not improvement in
the repetition. Today a subtnarine,
lurking in the depths and giving its
prey not even a sporting chance at
escape, sinks without warning and
destroys cargoes of food for which
good, kindly, bewflderd German cit
izens are starving.
A few days ago a British warship
intercepted and detained a merchant
vessel that carried, amongst other
things, 2,000 pounds of coffee con
signed to Adolf Hitler. He had plan
ned to lay in a sufficient supply be
fore the war broke out ‘but delay in
the shipment has reduced him to the
level of the ordinary, taxpaying Ger
man who has not tasted real coffee
or tea for these two years.
To those of us who find a cup of
tea a welcome interlude in the morn
ing or afternoon either as a social
occasion or 'because we find it les
sens fatigue the plight of the German
people is hard to imagine. We do not
know what it is to try to give a tea ,
party at which we have to substitute
tea, substitute bread made from
wood .pulp substitute butter that also
grew in a forest, sandwich spreads
that contains wood pulip. They do.
They knew it before war broke out,
For two years substitutes have play
ed a big part in the German house
wife’s economy.
But we, because history repeats it
self, because the British navy - as it
has always done - will keep the seas
free will be able to stop foi- a cup of
tea when the day’s work becomes a
tiring and we need a lift. We will
be able to do as England was already
doing before the war and increase
productions of munitions essentials
and even luxuries by keeping effic
iency at a high level. A few weeks
ago .Sir Theodore (Chambers, a noted
British financiei’ and housing expert
told reporters at Quebec that “Tea,
thrift and housing will win the war.”
'Sir Theodore claimed that British
studies of fatigue had demonstrated
that a pause for tea in mid-morning
and mid-afternoon materially in
creased the production and improved
the health of the worker. To this
rest-pause he added the importance
of proper housing as developed in
garden cities in the Old -Country.
“Thrift,” he said, “was a third fac
tor.”
It is becoming harder and harder
to find a situation in which the title
of this column, “It All Depends” is
not applicable. Take this question of
history repeating itself. The finger
would seem to point to a successful
outcome of the huge task set for
themselves by England and France.
But, it all depends, It depends on
you and me. We must all do our
■bit to see that history repeats itself
on our side of the page.
ASK BIPROVE3IENT
BLUE WATER ROAD
Demands that the Provincial Gov
ernment improve sections of the
Blue Water Highway, especially the
road through the Pinery, south of
Grand Bend, and a stretch between
Goderich and Kincardine, will be
formulated at the annual meeting of
the Blue Water Highway Association
which will be held at Goderich on
Wednesday, October 11 at noon.
The meeting was originally sche
duled for Meaford but the change
was made following an executive
meetings at Goderich recently at
which the allegedly deplorable con
dition of several sections of the high
way was aired.
Fears have been expressed in the
municipalities along Lake Huron
and Georgian Bay that the tourist
patronage that has been built up at
considerable expense over a period
of years will suffer and it is under
stood that because of the war and
the value of United States money
the Federal Government hopes to
.push the tourist trade harder than
ever.
G. .S. Woodrow, of Sarnia, is the
president and W. D. Ferguson, sec
retary, of the association.
Renew Now!
"MUCK” CONACHER
SWEARS BY KRUSCHEN
Says keeps you op ypur toes”
“When an athlete is patched up as often
as I have been in the last few years he
learns the value of keeping fit in other
ways,” says Charlie
Conacher, “I find a
pinch of Kruschen
Sdltstekoxi every morn
ing is a great way to
avoid colds,, head
aches, . sluggishness
and acid indigestion. F
It helps keep you fit £
and on your toes.
I TAKE
KRUSCHEN SALTS *
EVERY MORNING- J
Kruschen Salts combines the advan
tages of not just one or two, but several
highly important, refined mineral salts,
each one with a special function. The
net result is a system clear of poisons,
a healthy .bloodstream
— that million dollar
Kruschen feeling. Start
today—25c, 45c and
rrF the little]
d THAT POES IT 1—
75c at
I r u gOAlir DOSE stores.
David Kydd Dies
at Moosomis
WAPELLA—David Kydd, council
or in the rural municipality of Ro-
canpille, pioneer and highly esteem
ed and respected farmer in the
Woodleigh district north of Wapella,
died in the Moosomin, Sask., hospit
al, early Tuesday as a result of in
juries received while harvesting oat
sheaves on his farm. Mr. Kydd was
climbing the ladder on the front
of the rack when one of the cross
bars broke and he fell to the ground.
The horses became frightened kicked
at him causing severe injury and
then dashed away, drawing the load
ed farm truck over his body. He
was taken at once to Moosomin Hos
pital but the injuries were so severe
that nothing could be done to save
his life. Born at Exeter Ont., Mr.
Kydd came west with his parents in
189 0, the family locating first at
Douglas, Man., where they engaged
in farming, and in 1904 moved to
Wapella, establishing a new farm
in Woodleigh district. He is survived
'by three sons and three daughters:
Charles and William, of Woodleigh;
James, of Vancouver; Mrs. W. Sur-
ridge. Woodleigh; Mrs. J. Miller and
Mrs. G. Nixon, Wapella. There are
three brothers, Nelson, Norman and
Newton, and a sister, Sybilla, Kas-
lo, B.C.; Mrs. Charles Kydd, Wapel
la, is a stepmother. The funeral took
place at Wapella Friday. Service
was held in the Wapella United
church.
An epigram is usually the philo
sophy of many expressed in a few
words.
POOR DIGESTION
TF YOUR diges-|
*• lion is bad, your 'i-
food will not nour- ?
ish your body. Dr.
Pierce’s Golden
Medical Discovery
stimulates the diges
tive juices and helps
the stomach digest
food properly So that
the entire body is
nourished. Mrs. Mary McKaig of 253 Chippewa
St., Sarnia, Ont., says: “I -would get acid indi
gestion and would belch gas. I ate little, was
underweight, didn’t Bleep well, arid felt so weak.
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery helped tu
build mo up just wonderfully. It improved my
digestion, relieved me of the stotnach Upsets and
helped me to Tegain my normal Weight and
strength.” Get Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis
covery from your druggisutoday,
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