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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1939-11-16, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVQCATE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 19.39 COMPENSATION.! Yes, column writers are just like other folks—-they like to get letters too. In fact, it is the letters from our readers which stimulate us on to greater effort. 'Some letters are very cordial and friendly. Others are severely and even unfairly critical - hut friendly or critical - they serve to inspire and encourage your columnist. Today, I am mindful of the very friendly letters that find their way to my desk. During the past year, two readers have told us that they clip bits from the Column for their Scrap Book >—> typing material good enough to be part of your scrap hooks is the greatest honor a column writer can achieve and is- just ’•com pensation for the effort spent in ‘grinding out the column.’ (Wonder if any other readers give up a tiny space in their scrap book? Hope so? One of our letters came from a little Miss way -u'p in Northern Can ada—in it she said she was twelve years old and lives with'her grand father who has lost his sight, He is 87. Once each week after school, she gets their paper from the post box, then at home, the first thing she does is to read to Grandpa - and, at his request - she reads ‘our col umn’ first. Not ‘your column’ but ‘our col umn’. We can have no greater tri bute to our work than to have read ers think of this as ‘OUR COLUMN’ Every letter we receive from our readers influences, in some measure, our attitude in writing this column. But this particular letter seems to typify all our readers and although it is many weeks since we received this letter, we have never written a column since then but that it seems I am writing a personal greet ings to be read aloud -— way up in Canada. •So, if our readers will be gener ous enough to permit my expressing personal reactions just this once, I would like to dedicate this column to all those readers who have writ ten me and particularly to my friends, Dorothea and Grandfather Mackelman.* * * Most people who scoff at the ‘jit terbug’ craze seem to forget their own school daze. «J» H8 Each time a bit of gossip is re peated, it is magnified. * * * The boss of the family is the one who keeps the radio turned to the program he or she likes best. * * * Vour leisure moments are your most dangerous moments. * * * The Influence of a Poem I chanced upon some tender verse, Whose cadence rang both sweet and true; And somehow, after that it seemed Within my heart a fondness grew A fondness for the things of life, A love of sunshine and the world, The flowers, the trees,' the happy birds, The gracy fields with dew 1m- pearled. For I could almost smell the sweet Scent of the clover on the hill; Could almost hear the lowing herd, And list the murmur of the rill. So filled with nature was the verse, It minded me of towering pines, ■Of lofty oaks and great gnarled limbs, Of wild plum trees and tangled vines.* * * the apostrophe before the S?” “Put the which before the what?’ the painter questioned, courteously. “That little curly-tailed mark af ter that E and that T. Some call it an apostrophe.’’ “Posserphe, is it? Well, young feller, I seen and I make that din gus a hundred times, and I never knew that it had a name. Posserphe! That’s a good one. I’ll have to spring it on the gang. Some painters always paint it in after the S, but I always put it before the S, be cause I think it looks more artistic there. Otherwise, it don’t make no difference where you put it."* * * Bovee said: “M>ind unemplayed is mind unenjoyed.”♦ * * - Prankish Problem: What mystic number is divisible by any number from one to nine? YoifTl find the answer at the bot tom of this column,* * * Even our most disdainful reader would not accuse this column of being ‘literary’, but we feel that just one more bit of ‘fine writing’ might slip in before we are accused of be ing boring. Of those writers who had something to say and said it in a delightful way, we quote the words of H. M. Tomlinson because of its imagery, rhythm and spirit ual quality. It is from his book, “ ‘Old Junk’ ’’.— The rain flashed across the mid night window with a myriad feet. There was a groan in outer dark ness, the voice of all nameless dreads. The nervous candle flame shuddered by my bedside. The groaning rose to a shriek, and the little flame jumped in a panic, and nearly left its white column. Out of the corners of the room swarmed the released shadows. Black spect res danced in ecstasy ovei’ my bed. I love fresh air, but I cannot allow it to slay the shining and delicate body of my little friend the candle flame, the comrade who ventures with me into the solitudes beyond midnight. I shut the window. The talk of the candlepower of an electric bulb. What do they mean? It cannot have the faintest glimmer of the real power of my candle. It would be as right to express, in the same inverted and foolish comparison, the worth of ‘those delicate sisters, the Pleiades.’ That pinch of ^tar dust, the Pleiades exquisitely remote in deepest night, in the profound where light all but fails, has not the power of a sul phur match; yet, still apprehensive to the mind, though tremulous on the limit of vision, and sometimes even vanishing, it brings into dis tinction those distant and difficult hints - hidden far behind all our verified thoughts - which we rarely properly view.’’* ♦ ♦ Interrogatory Department — Ever hear of a college boy who wrote to his Dad regularly when he wasn’t broke? Most any curbstone philosopher . can tell you six or eight secrets of success — but why is it they do not practice their precepts? I wonder if evolution will in time produce men who are so well educated that they1 will not have to quarrel about it? Ever see a man who lets his wife have her own way who didn’t either brag or pout about it?* * * WEALTH can never take place of character. * * * WHEN YOU SEE a man trying hard - help him,* * * It Has Puzzled Us, Too Some years ago he watched a ■sign-painting genius while he put the finishing artistries on a master piece: “Ladie’s and Gent’s Restaur ant","Pardon my inquisitiveness,” said the spectator, “but why do you put Does Your Food Cause You Distress? The impairment of the stomach ia often of serious conscquencesj for only by properly digested food 18 the svstem nourished and sustained. Burdock Blood Bitters is a re liable remedy for stomach disorders such dyspepsia, indigestion, sour stomach, belcliing of gas, headaches, Gt It helps to stimulate the secretion Of saliva and gastric juice, the main factor in digestion,, neutralizes acidity, tones up the lining mem branes of the stomach, and restores the natural, healthy process of Put' your stomach right by taking B.B.B. and sec how quickly you will Sitart to enjoy your meals free from digestive troubles. Tho T. Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont. IT IS BETTER to master one thing thoroughly than to lug around a big basket of tricks that are not in pefect working order.* * * RELIABILITY is the first essen tial to a raise in salary. * * * CONSISTENCY One way of ’going broke’ is thru false pride in opinion. A man will come to a conclusion that a certain line of action is de sirable, and will pursue this line until he is flat on his back and tak ing the count. That is very foolish. Conditions change, and therefore opinions should change. , 'Conditions are often changing while an opinion is being formed. There is nothing discreditable in changing one’s opinion. # # ♦ Answer to Prankish Problem: 2520 is the only number divisible by every number from 1 to 9. * * * If you like some columns Better far than others, Tell me What you’d have me write If you had your druthers. -—the colonel Hitler may be learning the havoc wrought by bomb dropping. ****** ** When better bargains are offered they will be offered in Exeter, ******** These bleak chill November days remind us that a big welcome awaits Spring. ******** A forty-mile North Wester has a way of finding the cracks and crannies about the old house.r ♦ * * * * It has at last got into the heads of Exeter youth that the re moval of property on Hallowe’en is stealing, ( ******* V And now they are trying to fasten the guilt of bomb throwing on the Archbishop of Canterbury. Oh. well!******** What has come of those conferences that we read about? We’d like to know more of what the government has done. * * * * * * 9fi. K The opened dykes of the Netherlands and the desolated homes of those brave people show the consequences of unpreparedness.******** What is being done about arrears of taxes. 'Citizens do not like tax sales. Still less do they like paying for the other fellow’s privi leges.****** ** Exeter, like all other mnicipalities, will do well to study the contents olJ the already-brewing municipal pot. Freedom is hard won and easily lost.* 4, * * * * in Tim Buck is at it again. But what of those who urged that he should be turned loose upon an uninformed public to spread his nefarious doctrine?******** If for twenty-five years more attention had been given to the significance of Armistice Day, the 11th of November, 193'9, would not have been the sad day it proved to be.******* * EASILY SETTLED 'Some controversy is going forward that may easily be settled. The federal government is accused of using the present war to po litical advantage, The government denies the accusation. Let the names of those receiving public contracts be published and the vot ers and taxpayers will judge for themselves. Public business of this sort is all the better of being carried on openly. NECESSITY THE STANDARD Canada's debt is assuming, indeed it has assumed, alarming proportions. In the prosecution of the war Canadian taxpayers are ready and willing to assume enormous responsibilities but they are extremely unwilling to spend their dollars for unnecessary things. They have no cash for the grafter. They have not a penny for the merely ornamental. They rightfully ask of their government to see that not a copper is wasted. The man who wastes government funds is a public enemy. Incompetency on the .part of those handling pub lic funds is unpardonable and inexcusable. We suggest strict audit and the publication of the names of the large spenders and pur chasers.* * * ***** SET THEM TO WORK Word comes that many unemployed are not down to business though the war is on. Some folk tell us that many of this class are not physically fit to bear arms. We are not overlooking that fact. What we contend is that these men should be enlisted, con scripted, if necessary, and set to work in behalf of their country as they can do. These men are able to fetch and carry a great deal and to do odd jobs that are of real value. While so engaged they would be adequately fed and housed and disciplined into real citizenship. This valuable experience they are bound to miss if left to their own free will, the most disastrous mode of life to which they can be exposed. ’The Canadian nation and every muni cipality therein is loaded down with debt far beyond the point of supporting in idleness any person, man or woman, able to serve in a time so perilous. There are scores of ways of serving the com monwealth, under military regulations besides carrying a rifle.•» • • tr. * * * * CANADIANS DO NOT LIKE IT In the great struggle for freedom now going on, Canadians are prepared to endure any hardship, Including high prices. What they do not like or will they long endure, is the rise in prices when there is no call for such a rise. They are not inclined to submit tamely when there is an uncalled for slice taken from their dollar bill by anyone who says with a bland smile “The price has gone up on account of the war” when the real reason is that greed has taken advantage of the war and depends upon the patience of the buying public to go scot free. We are making no appeal for govern ment to interfere in this matter of prices, but we are doing what we can to tell big business, and in some instances, little business, that the public has been bit already and is twice shy. The man who earns a dollar generally knows how to spend it. THE UGLY HEADS OF PROFITEERING IS IN SIGHT Russia has served notice on all Russian folk in Russia and else where that it is the duty of every Russian to spread Communism, the hateful thing that is the sworn and aetve enemy of everything that is good. We must remind 'Russia that he is a busy man who attends to his own business and who leaves other people’s business alone. Especially do we remind all Russians living in Canada that it is the Union jack that floats over Canadian parliament buildings and court houses. Russians breathing Canadian air are required to respect and to obey and to speak well, of Canadian laws. Rus sians or any other folk believing or talking or teaching otherwise have no place on Canadian soil. Further those folk who have been saying in an easy way “There is a whole lot of good about Com munism” should be noted and reported to the authorities. These are not the days for academic discussions, but the days for active service in behalf of democracy. We have no use for the straddle- the-fencers and the facing-two-ways.******** DIFFICULT Negotiations in behalf of peace are beset with many difficul ties that baffle statesmen and that outwit the plain man whose one interest is to get on with the great business of living and of getting on with tile day’s work. For instance when an offer of peace is made or any power offers to negotiate for peace, everyone asks two questions. First he wants to know what the offei’ means, for he is quite sure that whatever the offer says, it is not what it means. That is, a nigger is looked for in every fence corner and a joker is suspected in every proposition. Second, he who is behind the offer. The old Romans Used to ask “Quo bono?” which being lit erally translated is “To whom is this for a good?” In modern lang uage, the phrase is better translated “Whose graft is this?” Some liars are expert in the use of words. • Still other liars are expert in securing very nice, upright people to do their lying for them. And these are the sort who are suspected of making a great many peace propositions. If the world had learned the wisdom of the One who said “Let yoUr yea be yea, and your nay, nay, we could get on in our various kinds of. individual and public bargaining. But what is be done when man do not know what the other man means?******** A few days ago Herr Hitler made one of his fire-breathing speeches. It was such an occasion as demanded the presence of every high official in his realm, Unless that official had been ex cused by the direct will of the All Highest. On such occasions the building housing such mightiness is searched cellar to garret. The buildings adjacent are fine-toothed combed with microscopic detail and particularity. No chance is taken of there being anything either in the building Where the speech making is done or within any distance admitting of danger to the distinguished leaders. No bomb placing on the part of an enemy is within the possibility of a shadow’ of reality. Germans are too particular and thorough for that event uality. Further, the whole gathering would be watched with a de tail and a carefulness that excluded all possibility of an enemy’s working any mischief. An enemy had no chance of working harm to the All Highest or his official followers. Since the bomb was not in the building and not placed there by an open enemy of Hitler, we ask who placed the bomb? Hitler knew when to leave that building in safety, How did he know that there was danger? Why did he abandon his usual custom of stopping on such occasions to talk with his comrades? Why did he leave on this occasion in time to escape destruction? Common sense gives the answer. Any any rate Hitler is once more the idol of his people. He is regarded as a brave man who ventures all danger for the Father- land. He is a hero, a self-made hero, some canny folk are bound to tell you. “It AU Depends” / ~ An article I read today told the story of a Bessarabian who occupied a high place on the councils of the Bolshevik government for years be cause he could speak eight lang uages. Now I and I am sure, you would like to be able to speak eight languages but I’m pretty certain neither of us would want a place - high or low - in the Soviet. I know a fellow who speaks only one language, a peculiar lang uage which was taught him as Eng lish, is spoken and written by him as American but which is nothing more or less than the illiterate jar gon of the litterate of Broadway. The fellow is Walter Winchell an ex dancer of vaudeville who has devel oped an amusing way of recording the doings of obscure and uninter esting people in such a way as to make them and himself invest them selves with a spurious glamour. He is a funny little man and in the course Kof. a number of years has attached to himself an ever-wi dening circle of informants whose desire for dubious praise in Wn- chell’s column act as informers. They vie with each other to regale the Broadway gossip with the sort of information that is common knowledge to those of us who live in small communities and that is accpted as the business of those it most concerns instead of being ea gerly spread about to be rolled around malicious tongues. What is the moral of all this? It all depends. Perhaps it is that the highly-priced linguist suddenly fell with a terrible thud from his high place - the sort of thud occasioned by the fall of a bullet-ridden body. Perhaps it is the man with only one language is so nervous as the result of years of amassing a fortune from gossip that he can’t sleep at night, so nervous that he never travels without a body-guard. Probably, though, it is just that most of us, those linguists attain ments reach the happy medium of - shall we sav - a little Latin and just enough French to help our children with their homework, are the happy ones. I might as well be truthful and admit that all the help lean give with French home-work would never make a linguist of anyone. In fact about all the French I can remem- : her consists of a few phrases that came in handy when the government bought iny clothes and gave me a chance to boast ever after that I was partly educated in France. You know the sort of thing: “Ma dam, voulez donnez-moi s’il vous plait un autre tasse du the?” or: “Je ne parle pas Francais.” There wasn’t much of it but it was always good for a laugh and we wanted laughs in those days we Canadian soldiers, and the mothers of French soldiers. And now it is all going on again and it is hard for those of us who have been secretly proud of the scars or limps that have kept us from being rivals of Clark Gable, Robt. Young and Robert Taylor to realize that we are ‘old dugouts’ whose general relation to the scheme of things today is in about the ratio of a bow and arrow to a modern anti-aircraft gun. Things have changed. Yesterday I talked with a friend of mine who is Quartermaster of a battalion of the C.A.S.F. He told me that in this force they are actually teach ing army cooks to cook. They did not do that when I was a boy. In those days they just picked out a fat man and made him a cook, pre sumably on the premise that a fat man must be fond of his food. But that doesn’t happen today. They are even teaching them how to make tea and allow each man three cups a day. The tea ration is one quarter ounce of tea per man per day. And it you make tea correct ly from a good blend that equals three cups. Of course if you are the kind who fills up the tea pot with hot water you will get another three cups out of it. For some reason known only to the powers that be the coffee ration is much less generous. .By weight the soldier gets a third of an ounce of coffee - just one cup per day - in addition to his tea. And - things certainly have changed - if he pre fers it today’s soldier can forego his cup of coffee and have half an ounce of tea per day, which, by the way, is more than we use in our house and we are heavy tea-drink ers who like our tea of medium strength. And the choice of food they get now! I can’t really believe the list the Q. M. reeled off to me until I get a chance to walk through a mess hall some day and see for myself. I’m willing to bet though, that when the Orderly Officer asks the time- honoured question, “Any, complaints men?” he’ll get the standard ans wer, "No, sir, but the'tea’s not like mother makes!” HAY COUNCIL The regular monthly meeting of the council of the Township of Hay was held at the Town Hall, Zurich, on Monday, November 6 th, with all members present. The minutes of the meeting held October 2nd were adopted as read. Numerous com munications were disposed of and the following resolutions passed. That the Clerk write to the Bell Telephone Co. regarding portion of line north of Greenway owned by the Bell Telephone Co., and obtain a price for same. That the fidelity bond for Tax Collector be renewed for one year. That transients be given accom modation on same terms and con ditions as last winter. That no further relief be given Fred Jackson from and after Decem ber 1st, 1939, That the Department of Welfare, London, Ont., be notified that Rich ard Thomson be sent back to the, Township of Hay, where necessary relief be given if said person is en tered on the relief roll of the Township. That the county treasurer be in structed to purchase for ‘the Town ship of Hay all lands on tax arrears list affecting said township at the adjourned sale to be held at Goder ich on November 14th. That accounts covering payments on Township Roads, Hay Telephone, relief and general accounts be pass ed as per voucher: Twp. Roads—Dorn, Rd. Machinery Co., repairs, $7.05; A. Clark, act. re crusher, $2.65; J. M. Ziler, road 10, $14.70; C. Aidworth, roads 2-3, $16.90; H. Steinbach, road supt., $21.35; G. Dick, road 2, $1.60; W. Coleman, road 2, $8.35; R. Miller, road 9, $4.50; W. E. Turnbull, road 11, $6.40; M. G. Dietz, labor, gas, etc., grader $67.07; T. Welsh, 1308 yards of gravel, $104.64; Dashwood, Planing mill, acct, road 9, $14,08; E. Erb, road 9, $7.50; P. 'Campbell, road 14, $5.00; S. Hoffman, road 13 70c.; A. Mousseau road 3, $7.30; F. Campbell, road 1, $11.95; H. H. Pfaff, road 5, $13.65; H. Becker Jr. road 11, $8.73; Int. Har. Go., re pairs $31.30; Crain & Eisenbach ershk., trkg., $654.00. salary $165.00; C/N.R. bah freight* poles $5.60; H. Hoffman, ejttra labor $38.4'5; E« R. Guenther cart age, $4.16; Econ. Fire Ins. $24.1 Nat. Revenue, tax on tolls, $120.88; H. Hoffman, 1 month salary $175. Relief—-L. Hendrick rent $5; Treasurer, Stephen, re Masnica $1.- 74; Restemayer & Miller, flour $2,* 25; G- Moulton, rent $3; Mrs. Gals- er, milk $7.44; W. Hay, allowance, $10. General Accounts—Div. Court re Thomson, $27.72; D. J» A. Addison, venerial disease $44; Dr. P. J. O’ Dwyer, ditto $14; G. Armstrong, se lecting jurors $2,; W. H. Edighoffer $2; A. F. Hess ditto $5; Treas. the Grand Bend Fair, $5; Treas. Zurich Fair, grant $50; Treas.5Exeter Fair grant $10; Hydro, lights for hall, $4,90; Municipal World, supplies $7.5!8; D. of C. Gen. Ins. Co., tax collector’s bond, $15; Insurance on hall, $>20; Perth Co. do., $20; Queen Alexandria Sanatorium, $12; M. G. Dietz, grading re Knight $9.33; W, S. Johnston, postage tax notices, $19.65; tax acct, taxes St. Jos. lots, $1.41. I The Council adjourned to meet again on Monday, December 4th, at «1.30 o’clock p.m. A. F. Hess, Clerk MRS. RICHARD O’ROURKE DIES IN STEPHEN TOWNSHIP Mrs. Richard O’Rourke died on Wendesday November Sth at her home in Stephen Township in her 82nd pear; death resulting from a heart attack. Her husband died six years ago. Surviving are six sons James, Calgary; Joseph, Jack- son, Mich.; William, Edmonton, Ba sil, of Brucefield; Thomas and Leo, at home; three daughters, Miss M. O'Rourke, San Francisco; Mrs. W. Thompson, McGillivray Township; Mrs. John Horigan, Jackson, Mich., and a sister Mrs. G. Wilson also of Jackson, Mich. Requiem mass was sung for her by Rev. Father J. M. Fogarty on Friday morning at Mt. Carmel Church, with interment in Mount Carmel cemetery. i __ __________ i Hay Telephone System—Bell Co., • Schubert had a horse named Sarab ! Rode hei’ in a big parade - tolls $319.82; Nor, Elec. Co., mater-, When the brass band started playing ial $329.53; H. G. Hess, month’s 'Schubert’s Sarah neighed. CASH DISPOSAL SALE of Canada Company Lands in the Township of Hay Cash offers-will be received until sold for the lands listed below. Some of them are work lands, others are pasture lands, while still others have Varying amounts of fuel timber. If your offer be accepted, you will be notified at once to send to the Canada Company the price so offered within a week after acceptance. The deed of the land will be forwarded to the purchaser by registered mail as soon as the cash is received. Taxes will be paid to 31st De cember, 1939. These lands will be sold at reasonable prices for cash. Interested per sons must look them over for themselves. All offers must be made on the Canada Company’s regular form of offer, which gives sale conditions. Write tor this form. List of Lands Con.Lot Acres Co tl.Lot A cres 6 E %6 75 8 W.¥s 22)6 S.%8 75 8 w.¥2 23)1006N.%8)8 E.¥2 21) 9)125 8 E.¥2 22) 7 7 100 8 E.¥2 23)1507111008N.¥2 27) 7 12 100 8 28)1507 7 7 N. Re ¥2 m.S. i S. i 13 17) 18) 100 74 13 13 E. E. pt. S. 2-3 N. % 7) ¥i 7) 8 13 100 13 E.2-3 S.¥2 8)105 8 E.¥2 16 50 N.Boundary B. J E. i 16 25 T HE CANADA COMPANY, 37 1 Bay s treet, Toronto, Ontario 3rd November, 1939 CASH DISPOSAL SALE of CANADA COMPANY LANDS Cash offers will be received until sold for the lands listed below. Some are work lands, others pasture lands, and still others have varying amounts of fuel timber. If your offer be accepted, you will be notified at once to send in the purchase price within a week after acceptance. The deed will be for warded by registered mail as soon as the cash is received. These lands will be sold at reasonable prices. Interested persons must look over the lands for themselves. All offers must be made on the Canada Company’s regular form of offei’ which gives sales conditions. If you are interested, see William Waller, Thedford, Ontario or write the Toronto Office. Township of Bosanqttet Con.Lot Ac.Per Con.Lot AC.Per B S. Wi 17 60 B W.New Rd.6 50 35 B 18 120 B W.New Rd.7 78 27B19120CW.New Rd.1 28 110 B 20 120 C W.New Rd.2 57 50B2111440CW.New Rd.3 85 34 B 22)C W.New Rd.4 112 16 B Pt. N. Canal 28)120 C W.New Rd.5 140 15SB23)C 6 120BPt. N, Canal 27)99 C ' 7 120B2452c17120BE pt W pt S pt 28 26 c 18 120BW pt W pt S pt 28 26 80 c 19 120 C Pt. N. Canal 24 70 c 20 120 7- C Rom. S. Canal 24 35 c 21 120 C Rem.25 61 c 22 120 C Rem.26 18 58 c 23 120 Township of Stophen Aux Sables ConL. Lot 14-—•150 i acres.Lot 15--13 9 a acres A tourist from Texas, Speeding along a Kansas Highway, somewhere between 100 and 110 miles per hour was stopped by a highway police man. “Was I driving too fast?” asked the Tekah, apologeticly. “Heck, no, you were flying too low” the patrolman retorted. There is also available for sale some thirty parcels of various areas from four to ten acres each. These are choice celery or vegetable-grow ing soils, and are located in C Concession of Bosanquet Township, south of the Canal. They are known as the sub-divided lands, and are more particularly described on Registered Flan No. 21 for Bosanquet. These lands are close to good gravel roads and will be sold in one or several parcels as suits the purchasers. THE CANADA COMPANY, 371 Ray Street, Toronto, Ontario 4th November, 1939