HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1939-11-30, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, NOTOWH 30,
SUSPENDERS TREE
RIAL
(Remember your first long-pants
suit? How the salesman reveled in
your glory, and threw In the pair of
suspender that clinched the sale of
your next five suits?
It wasn’t that you got something
for nothing’ but that the other man
seemed more interested in making
you happy than he did in getting
ypur money. Intense concentration
on getting the order spoils many a
sale. A sincere interest in what the
customer is trying to do, what sat
isfaction he is trying to get, will
build permanent business for any
salesman. ' '
We are not arguing for free goods
hut we stick to the suspenders prin
ciple. Free suspenders - in the form
■of suggestions, alertness, sincere at
tention to the customers interest,
Will help hold up volume and pro
fits just as suspenders hold up pants.
* * *
Strive to be a race horse rather
than a truckhorse — race horses
are thoroughbreds.
* * *
Don’t tell your young hopeful but
few great men ever were prize win
ners at school.
* * *
A test of character: Gan you read
a list of casualties and not be dis
appointed if you don’t see the name
•of someone you know?* •♦ •*
Mrs. Nutt (handing her husband
a saucer of white powder); “John
taste this and tell me what you
think it is.”
Mr. Nutt: ‘"It tastes like soda.”
Mrs. N.: “That’s what I told
Bridget but she declares it is rat
poison.”* * *
WHEN
WHEN you aim for- success and
maintain it —
WHEN you attack failure and defeat
it —
WHEN you can recognize wrong
and combat it —
WHEN you believe in right and can
shout it —
WHEN you can meet opportunity
and know it —
WHEN you can make an admission
and forget it —
WHEN you can strive for an ideal
and can live it and aim for what
is right and pray for 'it—
WHEN you can sense competition
and not knock it —
WHEN you can fight competition
and still boost it —
THEN your future is safe.
* * *
ROADS
Oh, you may take the smooth paved
road
The highways, if you will;
But I will take the country road
That straggles up the liill.
What fun is there in wandering
If you must always know
Where every road will take you to
And where you want to go?
Give me the road where every turn
Will bring a fresh surprise
Of cozy farms and apple trees
And shade to rest the eyes.
The dusty road, the country road
Where friendly birds fly low,
Where lazy carters rumble past,
And scented breezes blow;
Where ruts are grown with tufts of
grass
And daisies spring between;
On either side long fields of grain
That billow gold and green.
So take the highway if you will
From town to smoky town,
And rest you in a stuffy inn
When velvet night comes down;
But think of me beneath the stars;
All pillowed in the hay,
With songs of birds to waken me
And send me on my way.
***Abigal Cresson
Be great enough to be modest.
* * *
•Every time you get discouraged,
remember how long they train a race
horse or a prize fighter or a tennis
champion before a big test — if you
do as well as you are able today,
possibly tomorrow you will find it
an easy matter to do a little more
and do it still better.
* • ♦
The burglar’s wife was in the wit
ness box and the prosecuting coun
sel was conducting a vigorous cross-
examination: “Madam, you are the
wife of this man?” z
“Yes.”
“You knew he was a burglar
when you married him?”
“Yes.”
“How did you come to contract
a matrimonal alliance with such a
man?"
“Well,” answered the witness
sarcastically, “I was getting old and
had to choose between a lawyer and
a burglar.”
(Note: The cross - examination
ended right there.)♦ ♦ *
Only those who can practice self
control are worthy to command.♦ * *
One of the first rules of a success
ful salesman is to know when to
stop talking.* * *
“Lawyers,” comments a commen
tator, “are more successful in cities,
where the population is dense.” And
it often helps if the judge is a little
dense as well.♦ # *
PRANKISH PROBLEM
If a bear can eat a cow in one mln-
uate, and a lion can eat a cow in
half a minute, how long will it take
the bear and the lion - both eating
togethei- - to devour one halt a cow?
(Correct solution will be found
elsewhere in this column.)
V * *
“How can I drive a pail without
hitting my finger?”
“Let your wife hold it.”* * *
In Your Own Coin •
The universe pays every man in
-his own coin; if you smile, it smiles
upon you in return; if you sing, you
will be invited into gay company;
if you think, you will be entertain
ed by thinkers; if you respect others
you will re respected; if you are af
fectionate and kind, you will get
| love and happiness in return.”
She: “When does a book become
a classic?”
He: “When people who haven’t
read it, begin to say they have.”♦ * * “
AIRPLANE SOUNDS
If sound waves of a speeding air
plane were visible, they would be
seen as conical in shape with the
point moving forward with the ship
and the sides expanding outward be
hind the plane at about 1,100 feet
per second, the velocity of sound.
The change in tone heard when a
plane passes overhead, or dives and
flattens out near by, is explained by
a bit of physics known as Doppler’s
principle. In simple words - when
a plane move away from you, the
pitch of the sound is lowered, while
the pitch is raised if it is moving
toward you.
The beating effect heard and of:
ten felt results from the ship’s rapid
motion, being caused by a reinforc
ing of sound waves already given,
out new' waves, produced as the
plane moves along,( joining other
waves emitted at a point farther
back. The result is a very intense
noise, while at Other points the
sound is reduced because of the can
cellation of waves. The noise often
appears to come from a point consid
erably behind the machine because
the plane has moved ahead of the
point where the noise was produced
by the time the sound waves reach
the ears. ,♦ * *
Answer to Prankish Problems: 10
We have had a fine Indian Summer,
***.•***$
Got all those little last things done before the winter storms
begin?
* *******
HOW COME?
How did it come about that so many of oui’ young men who
volunteered their services as soldiers and were “passed” by the
doctors have been found unfit for military service? Who was
asleep at the switch? How much of this sort of thing is going
on in the conduct of the war? We confess that we are curious,
Why should not a whole lot of those young fellows who have
been discharged as physically unfit for military service be retain
ed under the colors and put to work in other capacities than actual
soldiering? When undex* such control these young men might be
disciplined in a manner that would restore them or build them np
to vigorous manhood. While under such discipline they could
render good service to themselves, to their families and to their
country, Turned “loose” they may prove a problem.
* * * * * * * *
A MAD ACT
Germany's sowing the channels of trade with mines is an act
of madness and wickedness without parallel in histpry. Her doing
so is but another of the many proofs that that country is the out
law of civilization. Neutral nations may now see why Britain is
at war. There is nothing that opens the eyes of some nations like
a severe jolt to the pocketbook. They whom the gods destroy,
they first make blind. Germany is not the only nation to learn
this terrible fact,
********
Stop that Tickling
In the Throat
That tickling in the throat is most
distressing, and is caused by a cold
settling in the throat.
Tile dry, hard cough not only keeps
you in misery all day long, but also
prevents yon getting a good night’s
sleept
What you need to relieve this
tickling cough is Dr, Wood’s Norway
Pine Syrup. This valuable prepara
tion is composed Of the most sooth
ing and healing expectorant barks
and herbs with Which is combined
the virtues of the world-famous
Norway pine tree.
When you ask for “Dr. Wood’s*’
see that you get it.
The T. Milbum Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont.
seconds.
* * *
Albert: “No more time-clock
punching for me.’*
Arthur; “Oh, so your new job
makes you independent?”
Albert: “Absolutely, I get there
any time I want before eight and
leave just when I please after five.”
* * *
Laziness, inefficiency and intem
perance are the chief causes of the
crime waves,
* * *
When you hear a boy say: “I
won’t play if I can’t hat” -— you
can bet his wife will lead an un
happy life.
* * *
Oolumning is a fascinating game
- You Write a few pages of copy,
then,
'Sign your name.
—the COlohel
MORE INITIATIVE, PLEASE
In the brave days long gone by, but which still live in the
hearts of the students of history, when Carthage and Rome were
in death grips for the supremacy of the world, it was not till
the Romans decided to carry the war into Africa, the Darthagenian
stronghold, that victory rested on their banners. This principle
holds true in the present world situation, tit is Hitler that launch
es the surprises, for the most part. He has been the aggressor all
along. What we’d like to see is a few surprises handed to this
man so keen for fight and so swift to hand out some new and
deadly weapon. A few sharp lessons would do him and his dupes
a deal of good, meanwhile saving a deal of good French and British
blood. Sailors and soldiers and airmen are eager to venture.
********
STOP THJEF
Last Saturday evening when the Anderson big store in St.
Thomas was in the full stride of the evening business, two women
entered the fur department and stole two coats, one valued at
$350 and the other at $375. Such is the peril of merchandising
these difficult days. It is earnestly to be hoped that the miscre
ants will be captured and adequately dealt with. Far too many
thieves are abroad and far too many of them are lightj.y dealt with
when taken into custody. If some of the folk who plead for mercy
for such rascals knew a little of the difficulty of merchandising in
times like these we believe that fewer thieves would be abroad.
It is every man’s business these times to stand for old fashioned
honesty,
. * * * * * * * *
A FINE DEED WELL DONE
Praise and only praise is due that daring flyer who raided the
Siegfried Line by dropping a whole load of bombs on the strong
est portion thereof, and who returned to his airbase with his plane
riddled with bullets. This raid reminds us of the best deeds and
the finest spirit of Drake who “singed the Spanish king’s beard.”
This daring airman is on a pax- with the trawlers in the North Seas
who in heaving seas and raging winds pursue their perilous task
of sweeping the seas .of mines, a work simply terrific for its labor
iousness and dreadful perils. All the world wonders at the amaz
ing deeds of these souls of heroic mould. Not while red blood is
found in the veins of men ’will they forget the deed of this great
airman. It was magnificant and it was war.
$ * * * * * * *
WHY NOT?
This talk of suspension of the European hostilities for the
Christinas season makes a fine appeal to our finer sensibilities.
The one thing that stands in the way of such a move is the utter
faithlessness of Germany in the hands of Hitler. In view of events
of the last year or so, who is willing to take Hitler’s say so for
anything? How could such a man such as he resist the bombing
of London in the full glow of Christmas joy?
But if hostilities may be suspended for the Christmas season,
why not for all time? It is up to Germany, entirely up to Germany.
For the ending of the war all that is needed is for Germany to lay
down her arms and for the allies to receive compensation for the
damage Germany has wrought and have substantial guarantees
against the recurrance of German aggression.
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NOT QUITE
We’ve just been listening to some United States Thanksgiving
orators. One characteristic feature of those addresses was grati
tude expressed for peace. We are not sure at all that we'd have
joined in those felicitations, that is, under the world circumstances.
We are not at all sure tha^t we’d have been happy to stand on the
sidelines eating .turkey and cranberry sauce while Poland was be
ing ravished and those youths in Prague lined up and shot for no
Other offence than their recalling with gratitude that twenty years
previous they had attained the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness. Still less could Canadians have been happy had they
continued in the awful suspense that Germany might at any hour
break out into acts of uncalled for aggression that sooner or later
would rush civilization into the maelstrom of anarchy. Canadians
love peace, but it is not the peace of the slave men nor of a grave
yard of human spirits. Rather, like St. Paul, they glory in tribul
ations in what the greatest of Americans called “a just and last
ing peace.”
. * * * * * * * *I
“CUT TO ESSENTIALS”
We cull this heading from a description of the drill being
given the Canadian forces. Said the man responsible for this drill,
“It is cut to essentials.” These (soldiers in the making) are be
ing prepared for some stern work, when that work comes, unless
they are ready therefore things will go badly With them. For the
unprepared soldier there will be a little cross over there on which
a brief notice “stripped to essentials” will be carved. In Canada
there will be a household mourning, all because someone has not
the essentials. .So much for the soldiers.
What about officialdom up there at Ottawa? Is it “stripped
to essentials?” The Dominion wonders.. Are there crowds and
crowds of officials who are not down to “essentials?” Curious eyes
are being turned that Way. Anger Will follow those glances if
trusted men are not “stripped to essentials” and stepping lively.
We look about us and see a good deal of luxury being indulged in,
and note that a good deal of the non-essential is occuping the at
tention of men and women who should be acting better, in fact
Canada is scarcely aware that war is on, a war that threatens all
dear to the hearts of decent men. It is high time that Canadians
were “stripped to the essentials.”
Exeter-Hensall
W. C. T. U.
The Hensall-Exeter W.C.T.U. met
in the United Church school rooms
Hensail, on Thursday, November 16.
There was a good attendance with
a goodly number from Exeter pres
ent.
Mrs, Jinks conducted the devo
tional exercises assisted by Mrs.
McQueen and Mrs. Spencer and a
number leading in prayer and Mrs.
Hedden contributing a solo. Prom
inent among the hymns sung was
“Spirit of the Living God.” The
president Mrs. Geo. Hess took the
chair for the remainder of the meet
ing. The secretary, Miss Douglas,
read the minutes of the last meet
ing and called the roll, The treas
urer, Mrs. McQueen in a concise
manner presented a very gratifying
report. The clip sheet entitled
“What the W.C.T.U, is and what it
does” was taken up. The following
are some of the gleanings on’ the
subject:
The W. C. T, U. was born in pray
er, and is an organization of Chris
tian woman banded together for
protection of home, the abolition of
the Liquor Traffic and the triumph
of the Golden Rule laid down by
Christ in both law and social usage.
Members wore the wliite ribbon bow
as a badge, and prayer for social
progress, especially at the noontide
as a bond of fellowship.
The most permanent evidence that
we have that the W.C.T.U. serves a
necessary and beneficial purpose is
in persons helped in character build
ing and educational attainment. This
is not all or as one of the means to
that end they have 'built Willard
Hall in Toronto where hundreds of
girls, away from home in the city,
giving them the pleasures and coma
forts of home with class-rooms for
lectures and study courses as well as
recreation rooms for social gather
ings and a well-equipped gymnasium
and swimming pool with instructors.
London and St. Catharines also
own buildings. Kingston and Brook
ville’ have just this year presented
their communities with marble
drinking-fountains as memorials of
the .Francis Willard Centenary and
these are by no means the full list
of W.C.T.U. achievements.
It has been asked if a separate
organization for temperance work is
necessary when most Women’s Mis
sionary Societies have at least one
temperance program each year, The
answer is that while the W. M. S.
study temperance they have no per
sons especially trained to give full
time to temperance work. Their
funds are trust funds given for mis
sionary work alone within their own
denominational fields of service and
cannot be spent on temperance work
however great the need may be.
All W. C. T. U. women belong to
the W. M. S., all W. M. .S. women
might well belong to the W.C.T.U.
At least two full time secretaries
are at work regularly in Ontario do
ing temperance work. Toronto dis
trict had a field secretary at work
last year who in seven months visit
ed a different ’Sunclay iSchool every
Sunday to teach Temperance from
a scientific standpoint.
Ontario W. C. T. U. has a full
time field secretary who specializes
in work in day schools. Eighteen
counties have had her within a single
year address many of their school
children in the classroom. Her work
has won high approval from school
principals. When visiting a town
she is often invited to talk to church
organizations- She also organizes
new union Y’s and L.T.S.’s. During
school vacations the Field Secretary
helps in Summer Schoo'l work. Two
Y Camps have been carried on in
Ontario for the' last few years, one
on Lake Oonseson, near Pembroke,
where for eleven days or two weeks
is ministered in enjoymeent with
knowledge, to ovei’ a score of girls
in each.
It has been asked what work is
done by the organized unions. It
world take a whole report book to
give all the temperance work carried,
on in two dozen different depart
ments, carried on by unions but the
following is a report given at the
annual convention of one department
in one union. Kitchener union
distributed 3600 leaflets, 1500 blot
ters and 42 books in schools. The
Superintendent of Narcotics sent let
ters to the members of the boards
of educating enclosing samples of
literature and gained consent for
distribution by teachers.
Unions also sponsor Medal Con
tests. They believe that the hope
of the future is in the education of
the children and youth of today.
There were 110 medals provided in
Ontario by the unions and 429 con
testants took part. These lead up
to a grand Gold Medal Contest at
the Provincial Convention and the
Diamond Medal Contest at the Na
tional Convention in Ottawa.
There are also Essay and Poster
Contests in Schools.
The following is a brief summary
of the W.C.T.U. in prisons. In eight
counties the W.C.T.U. have prison
visitors. There were 162 services
held during the year when a number
took the pledge of total abstinance.
117 Bibles and 1600 papers were
given away. Definite conversions
are an encouraging feature of this
work.
The following is a sample of hos
pital work/Toronto District Unions’
send cheer parcels to soldiers in hos
pitals in Toronto once a week. The
superintendent of this department j
in Toronto made 134 visits in five
hospitals and 215 to soldiers homes.-
Hers is a real ministry-of sympathy |
and helpfulness. i
The annual report book records |
the work done year by year. Every:
officer in a Union should have one.
They are a quarter each. I
The Canadian White Ribbon Tid
ings should be carefully read. It
reports work done and gives a know
ledge of the affects pf alcoholic
beverages, upon the individual and
upon society. j
The yearly subscri ption is only;
fifty cents and if ordered for a Xmas
gift a Special Christmas sticker with
the paper carries the (Season's Greet
ings of the sender. It is an interest
ing all the year round Christmas
present for shut-in friends. It is uni
que in that it is our only National
temperance journal in that it is
written by women for women.
Because the W. C. T. U. is a truly
patriotic society aiming at making
Canada a land of happy homes by
taking away the Liquor Traffic that
shadows so many of our happy
homes, church workers especially
should lend a hand in W. C. T U.
efforts because nothing destroys the
image of God in the human heart
so rapidly or so completely as the
drink habit unless it is the use of
other narcotics.
A reception of new members was
held in which the president read the
welcoming address, stating that by
signing the pledge and paying the
membership dues a member belongs
to the largest organization of wo
men in the world, and her influence
and effectiveness in temperance
work increased a thousand fold. Let
us wear our white ribbon bow.
I seek it, the white ribbon
In parlor, street and car;
I watch for its flashing message
As those who watch for the stars,
For thought it be frayer and dingy
And worn on a shabby dress,
It lends to its faithful wearer
A charm you can never guess.
So wear it with pride dear women
Morning and noon and night,
Glad to show wherever you go
You’re standing for God and right.
Mrs. Johns assisted Mrs. Hess in
pining on the bow. The members
sang “Blest be the Tie that Binds”
and closing with “The Lord Bless
thee and keep thee; the Lord make
His face to shine upon thee and be
gracious unto thee, the Lord lift up
His coutenance upon thee and give
thee peace.”
Unique Tombstone
Antiquarians and others interest
ed in unusual details of Canada’s
history would be repaid for a visit
to Union cemetery, a short distance
northwest of the village of Welles
ley, in Waterloo County, Ontario. A
cryptographic tombstone stands
there, the letters and figures appar
ently a hopeless jumble, but convey
ing a message to anyone patient
enough to decode the involved ciph
er. The tombstone was erected by
Dr. S. Bean in memory of his two
wives Henrietta and Susanna, who
died while the district was still UP-
pei’ Canada.
Among the few people who have
decoded the ciphei’ is Mrs. Anderson
Dewar, of Wellesley, and this is
what she obtained:
“In memoriam, Henrietta, 1st wife
of S. Bean M.D., who died 27th Sep.
1865, aged 23 years, 2 months and
17 days & Susaana, his 2nd wife,
who died 27th April 1867, aged 26
years 10 months & 15 days. 2 bet
ter wives I man never had. They
were gifts from God but are now in
Heaven. May God help me to meet
them there.”—J. G. Fletcher, Wa
terloo, Ont., in MacLea’n's Magazine.
—Milverton Sun.
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EXETER
FREIGHTS CRASH IN
•STRATHROY O. N. R. YARD
Lumber, brick and silica sand
were scattered about the Canadian
National right-of-way foi" a large
distance and traffic was disrupted
on the main line in Strathroy about
11 o’clock on Saturday night last,
when the engine of a fast freight
crashed into another freight train
as it pulled from the westbound to
the eastbound track, just east of the
station, An eastbound freight had
crossed over to the westbound track
to allow a through freight also east-
bound, to pass, As the freight cross
ed over its own track, the fast west
bound freight crashed into it about
half a dozen car lengths ahead of the
caboose, demolishing the three cars
and scattered the varied contents
over a wide area. One of the
smashed cars carried lumber and
brick, a second brick and the third,
silica sand, used in the manufacture
of glass.
When the fireman and the head-end
brakeman on the through freight
saw that the crash was inevitable,
they jumped. The brakeman escap
ed unscathed, but Fireman McKay,
of Sarnia, suffered a gash in the
hip which required a stitch to close.
Engineer Patterson, also of Sarnia,
stayed with the engine,’ and escaped
uninjured.
The engine of the westbound
freight was badly smashed up, and
a part of the track torn up. Traf
fic on the main line was tied up for
a short time, but the wreckage was
cleared away with dispatch, so that
it was possible for traffic to use
the yard sidings to pass the scene of
the crash. Within a short time af
ter the accident the wrecker from
London was on the scene, and main
tenance of way men in the district
had been summoned to aid in clear
ing away the wreckage. However,
it was not until late on Sunday af
ternoon that the mess was finally
cleared up.
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