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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1939-12-28, Page 3THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE ‘Bob’ .Burdette, >on the subject of WORK, said; “My son, remember you have to work, Whether you handle pick or wheel-barrow Of a set of books, digging ditches or editing a news­ paper, ringing an aucton bell oy writing funny things . . you must work, ♦«Dont be afraid of killing your­ self by over-working on the sunny side of thirty. Men die sometimes but it is because they quit at nine p.m. and don’t go home until two. a.m. It’s the interval that kills, .my son. “The work gives you appetite for your meals; it lends solidity to .your slumber; it give you a perfect appreciation of a holiday. “There are men who do not work but the country is not proud of them, It does not even-know their names; it only speaks of them .as old ’So-and-So’s boys. Nobody likes them; the greater, busy world does not know they are here. So find out what you want to be and do, Take off your coat and make dust in the world. “The busier you are, the less harm you are apt. to get into, the sweeter will be your sleep, the brighter your holidays and the bet­ ter satisfied the whole World will be with you,’’* * * Ignorance is the bliss that pre­ vents many people from acquiring wisdom. * * * Precedent cannot establish prin­ ciples unless truth is the foundation * * * A man’s friends know his strug­ gles, while others knows his faults. * * * When a people love liberty well enough to fight for it, they are usually capable of self-government and not before.* * * Nations will beat swords into- plow shares only when science dis­ covers how to extract poison gas during the beating process.♦ * * IMAGINE THIS The following were culled from the examination papers of various schools and compiled by Colin Mc- Ilwaine; A senator (centaur) is a being half man and half horse. (Note the restraint of the student!) Ambiguous (bigamous) means haying two wives and not being able to get rid of one of them. (John Billings said ‘a man who has too I many wives is not always a bigamist. Ostracism means hiding your head in the sand like an ostrich. Genius is an infinite capacity for picking brains. Gladiators are used for heating houses. polygons (!) is a dead parrot. A molecule (mollycoddle) is a girlish boy. Ali Baba (alibi) means being away when the crime was committed In India a man out of one cask cannot marry a woman out of an­ other cask. The best way to keep milk from souring is to keep it in the cow. Posters are sheets of papers past­ ed on blackguards i(blackboards). A grass widow is a wife of a dead vegetarian. Called to the bar means invited tQ drink. (Well sometimes, it does) Abiguity means telling the truth when you don’t mean it. The army and navy cause great waste of public money . . . they are so costive! * * * Don’t worry it your job is small And your rewards are few. Remember that the mighty oak Was once a nut like you. * * * A CHOICE If you must sit and sigh, And have the blues, Why dont you try To realize That there are sighs and sighs And blue and blues, From which to choose? There's Heavenly blues, and blues of tranquil seas, Both pleasant - if you have them, pray have these; And when you sigh, be like the turtle dove, Who knows not grief, and merely sighs for love. —John Kendric .Bangs * * * TRUE FAITH “Do you believe in prayer?” a friend of mine once asked his negro servant. “Yas, sir, boss,” was the quick reply. “Do you say your prayers every -day?”“Yas, sir, boss, I certainly does.” “Well, Joe, does- God- answer all your prayers?” “Yas, sir, boss. He answers one way or another.” * * * PRANKISH PROBLEM At 60 miles per hour you cover 1 miles in 1 minute. At 30 miles an hour you cover 1 mile in 2 minutes. How fast do you average when cov- ■erng a mile in minutes? (.Solve it yourself .before looking at the correct answer elsewhere in this column) * * » It is a far more worthy ambition to aspire to be the author of an im­ mortal book than to aspire to pos­ sess great wealth. * * * Mankind must have been in this earth longer than seven thousand years . . . otherwise, how could some people attain the degree of religious bigotry they now enjoy? Agonizing Eczema (Salt Rheum) No rest, day of night, for those afflicted with that awful skin dis­ ease, eczema, or salt rheum as it is commonly called. 4 . •The intense burning, itching and smarting, especially at night, or when the affected part is exposed to .Strong heat, or hot water, are almost unbearable, and relief is gladly welcomed. 4 To eCt rid of eczema it is neces­sary to have the blood cleansed by •g? X of a thoroughly rotablo blood aodleino such as Blood Bitters which during the past GO years has met with in relieving such diseases by its Wood cleansing ahd purifying properties, tho t. Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont. Answer to Prankish Problem: 40 miles per hour.jjt $ J A Typical Reward for Genius! Rembrandt was his first name. His family name was Van Ryn. He was born at Leyden and when he studied painting under a local teacher lie seemed dull and stupid and was the butt of the other schol­ ars. For other learning he had little desire. At 25, he was the most ’fashion­ able and popular portrait painter of Amsterdam and numbered among his patrons - Frederick William, Prince of Orange and Burgomaster Jan Six. He married in 163 4 and his wife, Saskia, was the inspiration and the model of many of his best works. After eight years of domestic felic­ ity, Saskia died and poor Rembrandt went to the dogs. His popularity waned, his influ­ ential patrons withdrew their sup­ port; his creditors sold his wonder­ ful art collection, including many of Rembrandt’s own works, for the paltry sum of five hundred florins. He was adjudged a bankrupt and died in poverty and obscurity. And yet, not long ago, his portrait of hmself sold for .$-4'00?000! (What other geniuses do you know about whose career parallel’s Rembrandt?)* * * , Interrogatory Department . . . Wonder how soon it will be be­ fore the nifty male will get a girlish bob? Wouldn’t this be a grand old world if all the alienated affec­ tions were really worth the price named? Is hell the only reward for good intentions? A statute was recently struck by lightning which knocked its head off. Wonder what naughty thou­ ghts it was thinking? * * * Excited young father: “Quick, tell me, is it a boy?” Nurse; “Well, the one in ‘the middle is.”* * * I can’t unscrew the unscrutable Nor find a rhyme for colondl But I can make these four lines look Like an ending verse. —the colonel BIDDULRH COLLECTIONS UP Biddulph Township tax collector, Hilsoh Stanley, reports taxes up to date, December.21st have been $29,- 000, an increase over last year. There is still $5,000 to collect, aTtho’ taxes dn the township are $500 high­ er than last year owing to the high- er country rate. “Did you go on a honeymoon, Suzabelle?” “AU Suppose you might call it dat, ma’am. Henry done help me wid the washin’s de fust Week." Bn iinn di a l JLJ M M VJ A JFul LI We wonder if there’s any nicer feeling than Christmas tired­ ness,****** * * Old man Winter and Santa Claus and Johnny and Mary were in cahoots on midwinter day.* * * * * , * » Ontario feels honored when she recolects that she was host to Commander Bickford even for a limited time.****** *O We noticed a boy this week with his first “boughten” hair cut. We don’t know which was the most appreciated, the cut, the wonderful perfume of the razor. All in all it was a great occasion.******** That stiff sentence handed out to the young thief the other day has met with general approval. We are sick and tired of this thing of letting pilferers and sneak thieves off scot free. We have no use for light fingered gentry who, without excuse meddle with other people's hard earnings.• * * * * POOR STIFF Those German sailors who fire and scuttle their ships rather than face the stern music of the guns with manly hearts or make an honourable surrender to a chivalrous foe have never attended the schools of Rugby or Eaton or Harrow. Had they done so they would not have stayed two months aboard a German train­ ing ship. Duty well done is far better than a whole skin at the price of honour.♦ * * * * • * * ' RIGHT IN LINE Commander Bickford, of the British submarine Salmon, who worked his way through a maze of six submarines, right under the guns of the Germans, and who succeeded, in one day in sinking the German Destroyer Leipsiz, disposing of a German submarine and seriously injuring a second German destroyer, thereafter re­ turning safely to his own base, is right in line with the British seamen who have given their native land command of the seas. ******** GERMANY’S DEFEAT Germany’s real defeat this last few days does not consist mainly in her loss of a. p'ocket battle ship, the capture of one of her crack liners and the destruction of her submarines, but in the loss of her very soul. No folly can be greater than the folly she practiced in insisting that her gallant captain, Hans Langsdorff, should be compelled to sign a declaration that his ship, the Graf Spee, passed unscathed from the British guns, requiring only a few minor repairs to make her not only seaworthy but a firstclass fighting man-or-war. How have the mighty fallen. ******** A NEW STANDARD OF FITNESS The making of Canada the training centre for the airplane service of the Empire makes new demands upon the general fitness of Canadian youth. No physicial weakling may hope for a place in that exacting service. Size may not count to any considerable degree, but the decidedly undersized will be at a disadvantage. Physical soundness and vigour and cleanness of the blood stream will be required. High mentality is essential in a vocation so ex­ acting. Along with these will go that stamina apart from which there is no dependability. Anyone laking any of these character­ istics may as well save himself the trouble of applying for the air force.* * 5h, * « * * * RECRUITING AGENTS Those Canadian soldiers who landed on Scottish soil singing and cheering are about the best recruiting agents that we know of. Canadians are at their best when faced with a bit of hard work with a tang of dangei* connected with it. Those men knew what was ahead when they enlisted. They knew what faced them as they stepped aboard their transports. They knew what faced them as they greeted the land of the heather. Their one request is to be first in the place where danger is greatest, first in the work that men must do for freedom’s sake and the first to carry on till danger’s troubled night breaks with the dawn of victory.******* * IN TRAINING FOR A COMMISSION “We have a thousand sodiers in training for a commission," grave authority informs us.’ That’s the talk. “Every French soldier has a marshal’s baton in his knap sack,” Napoleon told his soldiers. “I’ll work you!” was the curt comment made when a soldier did a bit of particularly fine work foi’ Kitchener. And now the king is telling his'Canadian youth that he has a thousand men in the ranks who are being trained for commissions. And a bit of real training it will be. There will be hard study, hard drill and long marches and a bit of wholesome fatigue and belly pinch and some enduring of pain. These youngsters will learn what to do with blackguardism and such debilitating conduct. But they will come out of it all sturdy, self-reliant and altogether cap­ able of doing a man’s job in a man’s way. And we are proud to say that we can multiply that one thousand by ten or twenty, or even thirty, Canada knows how to breed men.* * * * * * * « THE BRITISH BREED We have no fears for the future of Britain while men sing “God Save the King” as they think of their Majesties.' As soon as the children of London were asked to become refugees, King George and Queen Elizabeth sent their little folk to Scotland, the same as other parents in London disposed of their children. Since deaving the palace their Majesties have seen their little daughters but twice. Our King and Queen are one with their people. They ask no favours. What their subjects suffer they endure. They seek no soft cushion of privilege but serve as befits their high place. They hide behind no royal prerogative. They seek no exemption. What any m&n or woman dare their Majesties do. They are our leaders now in all that’s fine and great. They hold their place because their throne is “broad based upon the people’s will.”******** ILLUMINATING The suiciding of Captain Langsdorff of the Graf Spee, the ship ordered scuttled and destroyed by Hitler, the mouthpiece of the German high command, is at once a tragedy and a revealing incident in the life of the German army. It is tragedy becaxise the Captain was a generous foe who died with praise on his lips for the gallant foe who had driven him to seek shelter in a neutral ' port. It is illuminating because it shows the servile conditions under which the German fighters Of his position are obliged to carry on. Such men realize that there is not an office, not a mil­ itary command, not a Captain’s bridge which is not under the eyes of the German secret police, a body of men whose sleep is taken away unless they send some brave soul to the firing squad. His action may be prophetic, too, for there are folk in Germany who will not long sell their souls, even for the fatherland, when mis­ represented and misgoverned by men of the stripes of the present German High Command.* * * * * The Peterboro Examiner man has been making a wee bit of moan because the St. Thomas Times-Journai man has been draw­ ing attention to certain things that the Scotch don’t do and don't possess and don’t wear after the aggressive fashion deai’ to the heart of the Examiner man. The St. Thomas man says they do not all speak Scotch, they do not all eat “cart loads o’ the halt- some.” Every Scot is not red heeded nor do they all patronize the mile posts so maircifully provided for the HielanderS by the Duke of Argyle and which had so much to do with the origin of tile Highland Fling, according to a certain tradition. We may not be quoting exactly, but we are giving the grist of the statement of the article and of the criticism. One is liable to be a bit hazy in memory When discussing Scotch matters about the New Year. Our one wish is to act the peace-maker in thus Verra serious see tn a- tioh. We tremble if those doughty Scots should meet waving ter­ rible claymores and firing mighty blasts of eloquence from their typewriters and fearsomeiy with their scalping fountain pens. Both champions are well meaning and courteous souls for the most part, but when it comes to discussing the kilts and haggis they rouse easily and draw quickly with results beyond all telling, Shiver our timbersif our timbers if we don’t wish the quarrel well over. “It AH Depends” When is an argument? Even in these enlightened days children are frequently admonished not to ans­ wer back. That is, at home, But when they get up towards the high­ er grades ^t school they are encour­ aged to argue. You may call it a debate if you like, but it is still an argument. In fact, when you study the situation in all its aspects, argu­ ment plays quite a big role in every­ day life. Every meeting of a municipal body is an argument if the members of that body are onto their jobs; every conference, whether it be in a business office, a synod or general sessions, every presentation of a case in a court of justice, is an argument. It is unfortunate that to most Of us plain people argument usually means altercation on contradiction, And it is unfortunate, too, that we use English so loosely that sub­ stitution of the word “debate” calms all our fears and permits us to take pride in the fact that our youngsters in school are proficient in an art that we depreciated in their forma­ tive years as “argument.” It all depends, doesn’t it? In middle age we glow with satisfac­ tion that we are enlightened enough to listen to a son or daughter pre­ sent the othei- side of the case. Do we stop to think that if we had let them give us their views when they were much younger we might have helped them to educate us in the right way to foster their develop­ ment from the beginning. All of this grows from my daugh­ ter’s assignment to debate affirma­ tively that teachers have had more influence upon the world than doc­ tors. We started searching oiu minds for example and, of course, made the obvious discovery that teachers are to be found in every walk of life, that all of us - milk- ■ men, farmers, street-car conductors, writers, plumbers - are teachers at some time or other. We had quite an interesting ar­ gument about it! A few nights ago I heard another argument. Forgive me if I bring the war into these columns occasionally and accept my assurance that it will not occur often. Somtimes a war has its lightei’ side - and 1914-18 edition did, I know. But to get back to the other night and its ar­ gument. I tuned in on th’e news in English from Berlin as I often do whep I feel the need of a good laugh On this occasion, with heavy sar­ casm, the announcer was trying to argue that the British are ready to “fight the war to the last French­ man.” He based his argument on the “fact” that while the French 'poilus' were existing miserably in the squal­ or of the Maginot Line, “British Tommies live comfortably in billets where they can have their five o'clock tea every afternoon.” The general idea, I suppose, is to separate the French from us. But isn’t it typically German that the program designed to make the French annoyed with the British should be given in a language not generally understood in France? Gan you figure - I can’t for the life of me - how a German^ thinks to an­ noy a Frenchman by 'pointing out that his British ally has tea every day? The average poilu is much more interested in his daily ration of wine than he is in Tommy’s tea. It is understood that in recent years afternoon tea is becoming quite a French custom but it has not yet reached far beyond the confines of the cities. .Personally, even up in the front line, I would rather have a good cup of “Sergeant-Major’s tea” than an issue of wine - even if the wine was served hot, which is how the French troops get if - but, it all depends; Fashion is entirely beyond me. And you, if you are a male, I am willing to bet. It is perhaps harder for me to understand than for you - unless you, too live in a seaport - why the kerchief worn round their hair by so many girls today has reached its popularity. You see, in this part of the world we used - until recently - to see a great many new Canadians arriving from time to time. The men wore caps with shiny peaks and the wo­ men very voluminous skirts, colour- ! ed bodices (I know that is an old- ’ fashioned word, but it’s descriptive and, almost invariably, kerchiefs tied round their heads. As they huddled on the piers or in the stations, puzzled but hopeful, they were all too frequently looked upon with amused disdain by freak­ ishly-hated, silk-legged young fash­ ionables. I suppose a year later finds these immigrants somewhere in Canada all rigged out in crazy hats and silk- stockings, While there erstwhile cri­ tics wear the kerchiefs - but not the sensible wool stockings. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1939 Staff* Cider Mill Was Busy Place By J. MacTavish in. the London Free Press Father Time in bringing about changes all through the passing years certainly did not overlook Staffa, Township of Hibbert. The old town hall has been re­ placed by a more modern building, on a new site. Page’s Tavern has beep remodelled into a creamery; the three-storey, clapboard grist­ mill was razeS by fire some years ago; the village weigh scales are no more. No medical doctor or veterinary, no framer, no carriage maker, no cobbler, is located there now. Associated with the passing of what has been enumerated, we wish to include the cider mill, which dur­ ing the fall season was a thriving industry and a busy place. Our thoughts revert especially to the old cider mill because rosy- cheeked Canadian applet for years have been in high favor on the United market; and now with the best crop in years, the majority must be absorbed in the homeland. Usual shipments cannot be made* because boats carrying Canadian goods are in use for foodstuffs less bulky and more concentrated than apples. This causes thought on the part of growers, aided by the Do­ minion department of agriculture to strive for means to dispose satisfac- factorlly of that part of the apple crop which cannot be sent overseas. Towards the close of the past cen­ tury, when apples were in abun­ dance almost every year;, when the spraying was not a necessity; when Skinner, of Mitchell; Cardno & Son, Seaforth; David Cantelon, Clinton; R. Elliott, Goderich and other buy­ ers, from Huron County alone ship­ ped some hundred thousand barrels, cider mills scattered here and there did a flourishing business. As far back as the early seventies, John Sadler erected a cider mill about a quarter of a mile west of Staffa and in the 70’s 80's and 90’s during the fall months it was kept alert. Day after day wagons load­ ed with apples stood in line Waiting their turn to be hauled to the chute in front of the building into which the apples were emptied to be ground into pulp, then shoveled into large presses which squeezed the desired juice therefrom. Layers of pulp or mash and layers of clean straw were .put alternately in one of the presses till the contents of the load were used. Heavy slabs or boards were put on top of this, directly beneath the end of a long huge beam, hewn from a maple log, which was suspended teeter-like and reached to the back of the building. . It was connected there to an im­ mense jack or wood screw that was made to revolve by long handles which one man, and frequently more pushed round and round to raise the beam and cause great pressure at the other end where the cider was tn be extracted. The work of turning the screw was often hard, but many times boys from the village came to assist and for their labor were welcome to all the refreshments they couldd drink, which usually was more than was apparently beneficial. We‘are of the opinion that in the long ago much more cider was con* sumed in houses as a beverage than is the case today. It would only be conjecture on our part to estimate the quantity of cider made by Mt, Sadler in a seas­ on, but we know that the villagers and farmers locally, hundred of bar­ rels went from the presses very fall. One owner of a cider mill claimed that years ago he shipped to Lon­ don as many as 800 barrels a day to be made into vinegar. The quantity kept in different homes seemed to vary from one to 10 barrels. One man claimed he kept 10 barrels of cider in his cellar in different stages of potency up to five years. It met with different uses but principally was consumed as a beverage. And the beverage drinking habit during the winter months, and especially on festiye occasons, in many places was re­ garded as a sign of genial hospital­ ity. Many happy evenings were enjoyed in front of the open hearth, when guests indulged in story and song and partook of cider, with sugar in tumblers, heated by pokers made red hot in the glowing coals. Someone • in the village, back in the 80’s got a recipe to make a new kind of jam, which grew rapidly in favor, and for some years was quite extensively used. It was called apple butter and was made from apple pulp and cider. Apple butter made from 'Snow apples and Talman Sweets seemed to be in greatest fa­ vor especially when the apples In the making were quartered when put into the cider instead of being ground to pulp. The by-product or pomice, as the pulp was called after the juice was taken out, was put in heaps by the roadside and was hauled away by farmers to use for livestock food. A farmer told us that he fed doz­ ens of wagon loads of mash or pom­ ice to his hogs every season and during his years of farming hogs were the most profitable things he had about his place. For many years Mr. Sadler oper­ ated a sawmill in conjunction with the cider mill and long after the lat­ ter fell into disuse, the sawmill was kept so active that great piles of lumber might be seen in the yard ready for shipment almost any time during the year. • Make money during the Fall and Winter months by selling HARDY CANADIAN NURSERY STOCK Exclusive Territory for Local Salesman. Handsome Free Outfit Supplied Largest list of Fruit and Orna­ mental Stock, Etc., grown in Canada. Now is the time to or­ der for Spring planting. Write for Particulars STONES WELLINGTON THE OLD RELIABLE FONTHILL NURSERIES Established 1837 TORONTO 2, ONT “My foot’s asleep. What shall I do?" “Nothing. You should let sleep­ ing dogs lie." o—o—o “Johnhie, what did you have for breakfast?" “Teacher, I et Six eggs.” “Why, Johnnie! You should say, 'ate.” “Well, maybe it was ‘eight’ that I et." LATE JOHN W. HORNER There passed away recently one of Zurich’s highly esteemed resi­ dents in the person of Mr. John W. Horner, aged 77 years, 10 months and 30 days, after an illness which he endured for over two years. Mr. Horner was’ a livelong resident of the Zurich community and a very prosperous farmer. For many years he farmed on the homestead on the Blue Water Highway, north of Drysdale, selling out he moved to the 14th concession, on the farm now owned by his son E. Blake, then for a few years1 he lived on a farm just south of the 14th conces­ sion on the farm now owned by Mrs. E. G. Krueger, then some years ago he and his wife moved to Zur­ ich to enjoy a well-earned rest. Sur­ viving besides* his sorrowing widow, who was previous to her marriage Miss Bertha Hey, are two sons and two daughter; E. Blake of the 14th concession and Albert Horner of Varna; (Laura) Mrs. Alfred Ings,, of Varna; (Myrtle) Mrs. E. G. Krueger, pf the 14 concession, Hay Township.’ The funeral was held from the family residence, Zur­ ich to the Evangelical church for service, thence to the Bronson Line cemetery for interment. Rev. 0. B. Heckendorn, pastor of the church officiated. ATTENTION I Tailor: “And how would you like a belt in the back mit a cuff in the pants?” Irritated Customer: “How would you like a sock in the nose?" MRS. ISABELLA LAMOND . DIES IN 67TH YEAR Mrs. Isabella Lamond, widow of Malcolm Lamond, died December 20th at the family residence, 913 Colborne street, London, in her 67th year, Born in Hibbert Township, Mrs. [Lamond was predeceased «by her husband 19 years ago. She was a member of the New St. James Presbyterian church. Surviving are four sons, Malcolm, of Hibbert Tp.; and Neil and John of London and George of Toronto; one daughter, Mrs. H. McLeod, of London; one brother, Allan McDougald, Hibbert Township and one sister, Mis's Mat- Margai’et McDougald, LonRon. Re­ mains rested at the C. L. Evans fun­ eral home London where services were held on December 21st. Rev. James MacKey, pastor of New St. James Church officiated. Interment was made lit Roys cemetery, Fullar- ton Yownsliip. In Toronto A Modem Hotel Convenient — Economical Rato SIngla IS® A Special Weekly and Monthly Batea Wrlto tor Folder. WHotel Spadiria Ave. at College Si. A. M. Powell President