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HAVE YOU A DEFINITE GOAL
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All to often, the people who talk
so glibly about the importance of
a plan foi’ a state or nation, have
no well defined plan’ for their own
personal lives. Ask them to tell
you what they are working for —
what their .chief objective in life
is or what they aim to achieve in
five or ten years and they will
be unable to make a definite answer
Suppose, right now, someone were
to ask you what your chief aim in
life is. What you hope to accom
plish in the next ten years? What
would be your answer?
Every business - commercial or
industrial - should have a well de
fined plan — a program of growth
and expansion.
Every individual should have an
ideal - a purpose and objective -
a goal - toward which they con
tinually strive.
When we have a clearly under
stood plan in mind and keep it in
mind continuously, we set in mo
tion the forces outside of ourselves
which steadily attract success.
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Quality in service as well as in
product is always worth the price.
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‘Chance’ is the word invented to
explain the known effect of every
unknown cause.
An acted lie is as bad as a spoken
one.
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There’s lots of people - this town
wouldn’t hold em’ - who don’t know
much excepting what’s told ’em.
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Andrew 'Carnegie, asked which he
considered the most important fac
tor in industry: labor, capital or
brains, replied: “Which is the most
important leg of a three-legged
stool?”
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An old, but still a favorite, is the
Scotch telegraph story which has to
do with the man who telegraphed,
■‘‘Isaiah 9, 6.”
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Brother Blank is one of the best
presiding officers that ever filled
the chair of the organization. He
always officiates with grace and dig
nity. I recall one cold winter night
I attended a meeting over which he
. was presiding in his glorious dig
nity. The hall was packed and in
terest was high, when suddenly the
proceedings were interrupted by the
guard at the inner door entering,
saluting and announcing: “A wo
man is at the outer door, without
food or clothing.”
“What!” the presiding officer
said dramatically. ‘Is it possible that
in this great city, one could be so
destitute, and standing at our very
door? Did I hear you aright —
that a woman is standing there,
without food or clothing?’
“Perfectly right, sir,” affirmed
the guard.
“Then,” said Brother Blank, “in
the name of heaven, feed her and
send her in!"
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The combined ages of the monkey
and its mother are four years, and
the rope weighs four ounces to the
foot. The weight of the monkey is
as many pounds as its mother is
years old, and the mother is twice
as old as the monkey was when the
mother was half as old as the mon
key will be when the monkey is
three times as old as its mother was
when she was three times as old
the monkey was. The weight
of the rope and weight is half as
much again as the difference be
tween the weight of the weight and
the weight of the weight plus the
weight of the monkey.
How long is the rope?
(This problem is difficult and I
complicated to state but the answer
is very simple).* -K ■*
The greatest eloquence requires
an eloquent listener.* * * •
The man with IDEA'S is usually
the master.* * *
When there is nothing to look
forward to but the expected, ro
mance ends.
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Herbert ’had been taught to rise
when his mother came into a room
and to remain thus until she was
sitted or had left. One day he had
a.friend with him when his mother
entered. He stood up, but his friend
did not move, so Herbert asked him
to do so.* • « <
A few minutes later, mother again
entered, and the same procedure
was gone through. When Herbert’s
mother entered for the third time,
her son rose —■ but the precocious
guest remarked: “I say, does your
mother thing she’s the National An
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According to zthe theory of color,
black .is the absence? of all colors
and white, the presence of all col
ors. Thus, the white people - not
the Negro - -is colored. /
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WORK
Let me do my work from day to day
In field or forest, at the desk or
loom,
In roaring market-place or tran
quil room;
•Let me but find it in my heart to
say,
When vagrant wishes beckon us
astray,| “This is my work; my blessing,
not my doom;
Of all who live, I am one by whom
This work can best be done in the
right way.”
Then shall I see it not too great,
nor small,
To suit my spirit and to prove my
powers; ,
Then shall I cheerful greet the
labouring hours,
And cheerful turn, when the long
shadows fall
At eventide, to play and love and
rest,
Because I know for me my work is
best.
x —‘Henry Van Dyke
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The formula for success is simple:
Learn to work by avoiding the
soft snaps. Don’t be afraid of re
sponsibilities and develop your init
iative.
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PRANKISH PROBLEM
A rope hangs over a pulley. On
one end of the rope hangs a weight,
and on the other end hangs a mon
key, equal in weight to the weight.
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What we call Luck is simply Pluck,
And the doing things over and
over;
•Courage and will, perseverance and
skill,
Are the four leaves of Luck’s
clover.
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It is the privilege of wisdom to
listen — it is the right of Know
ledge to speak.
Worry Saps
The Nervous System
Worry over business or household
duties, sudden shock, the insane
quest for pleasure, the foolish at
tempt to put a week of normal life
into twenty-four hours, feverish ac
tivity, the demand for sensational
literature are all conducive to the
aggravation of wear and tear on the
nervous system.
If you are tired, listless, nervous,
and worried why hot give Milburn’s
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GREETINGS TO YOU
The American and English say:
“How do you do?”
“How to you carry yourself?”
that’s French.
The German says: “How do you
find yourself?”
While the Italian wants to know,
“How do you stand?” ,
“How do you fare?” says the
Dutch.
And “How can you?” is Swedish.;
The Egyptian asks: “How do you.
perspire?”
“How is your stomach? Have you
eaten your rice?” queries the Chin
ese.
,In Poland: “How do you have
yourself?”
“How do you live on? is the
Russian.
And finally the Persian states:
“May thy shadow never be less.”
—and all mean much the same
thing.
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Answer to Prankish Problem
stated elsewhere in this column:
The rope is exactly five feet long.
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A budding young columnist says:
Be thankful you don’t get all you
really deserve •— Originality is only
a fresh’ viewpoint — It takes a,
man’s hearty co-operation for a
woman to make a fool of him — He
who waits until things are proved
will have only experience to reward
his patience — Richest is he who
wants least — He who can say
witty things without a sting is in
deed a'humorist.
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I don’t fancy these ending rhymes
Any more than you
But how else can you tell
When the column is thru’?
—the colonel
January proved an unusually cold month.
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better think of this
A little group of as practical housekeepers as the country pos
sesses were discussing the fuel problem. One fuel after the other
was mentioned when one homemaker of forty years’ experience said
“When I want to do some real cooking, I prefer good, dry hardwood
to anything else in existence,” Her remark was greeted with a
chorus of approval.
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‘ JUST THE THING
Just as the snow was at its deepest we saw one family setting
out to school on skijs, We saw another lassie starting off on her
snowshoes. This is as it should be. One has doubts about this
thing of coddling children. We know that there are exceptional cases
but we cannot but congratulate youngsters who are brought up to be
hard rather than soft. In that same section of the country we noted
that one church official more than seventy years of age came to
cnurch on horseback. The minister of that church walked three
m’les to keep his forenoon appointment. Lounge lizards are not
popular in that region.
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IT HAS DONE GOOD
Whatever the defects in Mr. Hepburn’s and ‘Col. Drew’s criticism
of the federal government on prosecuting die war, it has resulted in
a lively stirring among the dry bones a't Ottawa. Whatever folk
may be saying about taste and minding one’s own business, the fact
"remains that plain folk see that the authorities in the Dominion
aie showing a livelier gait than they showed before they were told
that they wero limping a'nd hunkersliding when they should by step
ping lively and putting all they had of mind and muscle and con
science into the greatest and most urgent task that ever confronted
the Empire.
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WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT?
Every municipality must ask this question of itself when it dis
cusses the war issue, “What are we doing to win the war?” it
should ask. It is not enough for us to ask “What are we doing to
provide soldiers’ comforts?” We must ask what are we putting
into the actual contest morally, economically and in the way of pub
lic vim and enterprise. We hope to be victorious in this struggle.
There is no reason why we should not be victorious. Meanwhile,
complacency is oui’ worst enemy, as far as Canada is concerned. Till
that smugness is gone we’ll only keep on opening the gates to the
enemy by allowing our vitality and practical effectiveness to seep
away into ineffectiveness.
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THE BEAL McCOY
The Salvation Army lassies have opened a room or quarters
or something down there in London for a purpose that we wish
to applaud. The purpose is to make Tommy Atkins comfortable.
T.he Army knows mighty well that a soldier is liable to be on
strained relations with everything that is good if his socks need
darning and 'he’s hungry. So the lassies provide Mr. T. ■ Atkins
a cup of hot coffee and a doughnut at cost andi darn his socks
for nothing. We confess that we like 'this sort of thing. The
Sals are short on passing resolutions of “learned length and thun- I
dering sound,” but as ineffective as summer lightning. They are
the whole British navy wheii it comes to giving cups of coffee,
feeding hungry people and mending' clothes, and doing a few
score other things that folk with dainty nostrils and exquisite
sensibilities will not tackle, except by proxy,
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THEY CARRY ON
We came across something good to see the other afternoon.
The country merchant had had his orders telephoned in to his store.
4-t two o’clock he set out for his deliveries. Snow was deep and
piled high in many a locality. But there he was out out on"his right
of way being driven by a neighbor with a fine team and a large set
of bobsleighs. There were the empty egg crates and facilities for
gathering the wares his farmer customers had to offer him, as well
as grocery orders to no end. -Coming home we found him with his
sleigh piled high with well-filled egg crates and orders for more de
liveries.
Here was a storekeeper who met the needs of his customers and
a farmer who had ^given his horses a fine work out. The business
life of the countrywide was kept moving and wholesome. If there’s
a way, country people may be counted on to find it.
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FINLAND’S BRAVE FIGHT
Not in the history of the struggle for freedom has there been a
nobler achievement than what we now witness on the part of Fin
land. The awful steam roller of filthy Russia has been turned upon
that li! tie country near the Arctic -Circle, only to be rolled back again
and again. Hospitals with chiiding mothers have been bombed and
defenceless cities subjected to a cruelty that beggars description.
Hardships that no language can utter have been undergone by as
brave a people as ever breathed God’s free air. All this has been
gone through with an anguish of spirit that is understood only by
the One who went through Gethsemane, in order that’“government
of the people, by the people and for the people should not perish
from the earth. Before such an achievement the coming generations
must ever stand with uncovered heads. -But what shall be said on
the day when the books are opened and judgment is set of those
who now hear Finland’s cry “Behold all he who pass by and see if
there is any sorrow like unto our sorrow” and who do nothing?
Nations are responsible not only for what they do but for what they
allow.
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THINK IT OVER
We have been looking over the list of some of the leaders in
Cahadian activity in the present war. What has been driven right
into our nerves is the vast difference between the pay of the soldier
in the ranks and that received by some of the men who’ll never
smell powder or carry a knapsack or wade in the horror of thel
trenches. We hear someone say at once, “We must have the besti
business men the country possesses to lead us in our national ef
forts, and to secure them we must pay them.” That sentence Is.
worth thinking about. When thought out, this question must be
asked. “And what of this big man’s business should the war be
lost? Is not this big business man working for his „own interest,,
to say the least? The soldier in the ranks is putting all that he has
into the struggle, leaving his family to shift for, themselves on the,
merest pittance for a separation allowance. If Tommy Atkins is ob
liged to live on soldier rations, why should not all and singular en
gaged in the war not do the same? Why these special privileges?
Why should the men who have been receiving $10,000' or $15,000 per “
annum in civic life be coddled at the country’s expense and applaud
ed as their country’s saviours and models of patriotic fervour and
sacrifice, while the men who are fighting are given beggarly treat
ment by .comparison?
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FROM EXETER, FEBRUARY «6th and t7th
* to *
CHICAGO $11.50
(Plus Exchange)
WINDSOR, ONT. $3.05 DETROIT, MICH.
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“It All Depends”
The Duke of Windsor when he first
visited High River," where the E. P.
Ranch is located, is quoted as hav
ing said that the difference between
a farmer and an agriculturist is
that the farmer makes his money in
the country and wastes 'it in the city
and an agriculturist makes his mon
ey in the city and wastes it in the
country.”
Naturally, the sally - which was
not orginial - met with loud laugh
ter from the roomful of farmers and
ranchers at the luncheon at which
II.R.H. spoke.
No matter who said it first the
saying has a great deal of truth in
it, I am neither farm nor agricul
turist although I live in the country
but I am rapidly becoming philos
opher enough to realize that without
the ingrained knowledge of living
things that comes from growing up
with them, a city man is just 180
pounds of inexpert weight.
And I haven’t even the satisfac
tion of thinking that a farmer in
my job would be as helpless as I
would be in his. It always seems
too that anyone who has passed out
of “Grade Seven” or ‘Senior Fourth'
is capable of writing down what he
sees and does and thinks.
To get back to the subject of
weight. Last Saturday we felled
a tree. It was an elm; a lovely
majestic tree, a century and a quar
ter old. ’Of course it was a shame
to cut the tree down, but there was
a reason. .Some fifty years ago a
high wind or a flash of lightning
tore a big branch from the elm and
ripped a cruel gash down the trunk.
For a long time that didn’t matter
to anyone accept the tree, and it,
bravely making the best of things,
grew thicker and taller and spread
its leafy branches wider and wider.
Unfortunately the thicker the trunk
grew, the wider and deeper grew
the wound in its trunk until at last
there was danger that the next high
wind would blow the tree down.
There was only one thing to be
done. Just as a decayed tooth must
come out for the good of the rest
of the body, or a dictator-infected
people must be disinfected for the
good of the rest of the world, the
tree had to some down.
In its century and a quarter of
life that elm' had grown to a great
height and had spread its branches
over such an area that the problem
was to get it down without break
ing nearby trees or injuring the
house, '
I wrote, “we felled a tree” - as a
matter of fact, I felled it. But only
because I weigh 180 pounds - not
because I am a woodsman. A friend
of mine who is as good a stone-ma
son as ever built a chimney, as
might a hunter as ever spent two
weeks in the bush and came home
with an alibi and as good a logger
as ever topped a B.iC. Fir, together
■ With a young fellow-sawyer, under
took the job.
One of the two huge main branches
they lopped off on the Friday while
while I was at work. The other was
cut nearly through when I arrived
on the scene on Saturday afternoon.
High above the cut an end of a 150
foot rope was tied. The other end
of the rope was anchored to a stur
dy trunk 100 feet away. As I
watched they cut through as far as
was safe. Then because the big
limb had been inclined by decades
of prevailing westerly winds in the
wrong direction, they put a strain
upon the rope to start the fall to
wards the clear space.
They strained, and took up the
slack of the rope, and strained again
The tree swayed towards them. Yet
each time it reached a certain point
the long habit of years asserted it
self and the massive limb straight
ened again and inclined to the east.
So I volunteered.. Volunteered with
all the diffidence of the untried
amateurs. “Gan you use more
weight?”
My friend looked me over. Not
as you. would look over the man
who is paying for the job - more
as you would look over a heifer or
a shoat at the country fail' before
making an offer.
“I think your weight will just
about do it,” he said, “pull when I
tell you to, and when she starts to
j go run back towards the house.”.
With my added weight about the
fourth pull started the fall. But I
didn’t run towards the house. Nei
ther did' the two experts.
We all fell on our back th the
snow and watched the big branch
crash down. It didn’t fall just
where we wanted it, but our efforts
were sufficient to keep it from do
ing any great damage.
And the moral? Well, there isn’t
much of a moral unless it is that
just a litle bit of additional weight
added to the practised work of the
expert will sometimes do a job that
could not be accomplished without
the co-operation.
In other words it all depends.
Take this matter of the war.
Right now we are faced with the
direct responsibilty for Canada’s
share in the job the Empire has
undertaken. In the next few weeks
we are to elect a new parliament.
Wo can’t all be experts but we can
add'our weight. And that extra
180 pounds may do the trick.
This election is one without any
TRAINED TO CARRY ON ?
The Canadian
Legion's War
Services are under
taken with the
approval and active
eo-operation of the
Canadian
Government
Under a great new, much needed plan the
Canadian Legion is providing Educational and
Vocational training for our fighting forces. The
Legion’s personal services will aid in the
solution of private and business problems.
Leave Hostels, Soldiers’ Concert Parties and
Recreational facilities will also be provided.
Your contribution to the $500,000 drive for
funds will help to maintain morale today and
train our men to achieve success in civil life
after the war.
Will you help to give our boys a leg up the
ladder of success when the war is over? Then
give generously to this great new cause. Now!
Send or take your contribution to your nearest
Legion Branch.
CANADIAN LEGION WAR SERVICES
EDUCATIONAL AND PERSONAL SERVICE APPEAL
need for politics and the Dominion
has no need for politicians. No po
litical party has a monoply of the
brains and it all depends upon us
electors what sort of effort Canada
will be able to make.
Recruiting officers do not ask re
cruits what political party they be
long to - they select the fittest re
gardless of politics, creed or colour.
That is what we Canadians should
do as voters when the candidates
offer themselves - elect the fittest.
BUS AND CAR COLLIDE
PARKHiELL, Feb. 1—The park-
hill-London bus figured in a head-
on collision with a car driven by
Norman Fraser, West Williams’ at
the-corner of Main and. Ellen strts.
The >bus, driven by Ernest Browning
was proceeding south and making
a left-hand turn at the corner. Mr.
Fraser was driving north when-the
accident occurred. Both'cai’ andsbus
were badly damaged but the drivers
escaped with minor cuts and. bruises
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