HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1940-02-22, Page 3THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY |22, 1940
TODAY IS HERE
Yesterday has passed. There may
be no tomorrow, Today is at hand.
Take advantage of today you have
it firmly in your grasp.
Think, If this were your last
day, what would you do? Do you
owe some friend an explanation? Is
there a debt you have neglected to
pay? Are your affairs adjusted as
they should be?
Get busy and do the things you
have been putting off.
Live for today. Not in the past.
Or for tomorrow. What you did yes
terday has been done, Tomorrow
you will have fresh tasks.
Bolve today’s problems today.* * *
Some people’s idea of a good
time is a bad one.« * *
He was indeed a wise lawyer who
made his male client appeal* before
a woman jury with three buttons
off his vest.* * *
Most gifts are bribes.* * *
“Your sore throat seems’worse.”
“Yes, I’ve been telling so many
people about it.”* * *
A well-known manufacturer re
ceived an exceedingly bitter com
plaint from a customer and wired
the local representative to call, pac
ify and report. In due season the
manufacturer received this crytic
telegram:
“Saw Mr. Brown and explained.
He was well-pleased when I left!”
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The following gem was written
by Wilfred A. Petersen in Jacqua
Way back in January 1930:
A MAN OF THE AGES
A dying mother touching with
loving fingers the tear-streaked face
of her boy and whispering: “Be
somebody, Abe”;
A lanky, homely lad stretched out
on the floor before the open fire,
reading, thinking, far into the
night;
A splitter of rails; a champion
wrestler; a farmer, a store keeper;
A funny story teller who could
“make a cat laugh”;
A young lover turning away from
the grave of his sweetheart 'With the
face of a man grown old;
A melancholy dreamer who never
carried a penknife for fear he might
take his own life;
A candidate for office whose first
speech was “as short and as sweet
as the old woman’s dance.”
A sincere man, a lover of justice,
a hater of cruelty, who said of slav
ery: “If I ever have a chance to hit
this thing, I’ll hit it hard.”
An awkward orator with coat
sleeves and trousers too short, but
with a spiritual light in his eyes;
A man who rode in the day coach
>vliile his opponent traveled in a
special train;
A man who was found down on
his knees playing marbles with a
group of boys when news came that
he had been elected president of
the United States.
A gaunt, tired man on the rear
.platform of his train in a drizzling
rain, bidding goodbye to the neigh
bors he loved.
A man of destiny at the helm of
the ship qf state with blackened
skies, high seas, and the lightning
flashes and thunder of war;
A man with one desperate idea;
To save the Union;
A writer of tender letters to wi
dowed mothers who gave their sons
for the cause;
A pardoner of boys who could
not be blamed if their legs were
cowardly;
A man of influence patience,
“who held on through blame and
faltered not at praise;”
A man so humble he said he would
hold a general’s horse if that gen
eral would win battles;"
A man who. signed with steady
hand a proclamation that struck
the shackles from the slaves;
A man who lived to see his cause
All Tired Out
Before Day Half Over
Women who should be strong and
■healthy become Weak, run down and
worn out, and are unable to attend
to their household duties. They get
up in the morning dreading the
day’s work ahead of them.
Some disease or constitutional dis
turbance has left its mark in the
form of shattered nerves, impover
ished blood, and an exhausted con
dition of the entire system.
Women will find id Milburn’s
Health and Nerve Rills the remedy
they need to supply food for the
exhausted nerve force, and one that
will help them back to sound, perfect
health again.
The T. Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont.
triumph;
A man whose death set free for all
mankind, a Great Soul that shall’
bless and benefit inspire and en
courage until time shall be no more".* * *
The smallest county of the Unit
ed States has the largest population.
It is New York county, the- heart of
the metropolitan area of New York.
Its area is 22 square mITes,* * *
EVERY INCH A JUNG
When, recently King Gustav -of
Sweden found in his mail a letter
which his dutiful secretary had left
unopened as it was marked ‘strictly
private.’ It began:
“Darling.
“Can you meet me this even
ing at oui* usual rendezvous?”
As a Swedish diplomat tells An
gus Quell, who gives the story tq
Pearson’s Weekly, “King Gustav
Looked startled, and hastily glanced
at the envelope. He saw it was
addressed to a sailer on board the
warship Gustav V.
“The King has a fine heart - and
a sense of humor. So he dictated
a telegram to the captain of the
ship instructing him to grant the
sailor leave for the evening.”* * *
LINCOLN
From the great deep and the great
deep he went,
A flashing star amid life’s firma
ment,
A soul who in the nation’s darkest
hour
Pressed onward the goal with over
coming power,
To lead men on through dim and
dangerous ways
Toward freedom and the dawn of
better days.
He stands today, a great inspiring
force
For those who guide men o’er a
nobler course,
And teach the peaceful way. to
guard the home
And help the happy days to surely
come.
He stands today, ideal of those who
serve,
Example high of those who would
not swerve
From life’s great purpose; thus for
us lives he.
The mighty Lincoln wrapped in
Memory,
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Three-fourths of the habitable
globe is in the hands of six nations,
The other quarter is divided among
the remaining sixty-odd countries.
All told, there is only 5 7,00 0,0'0 0
square miles of earth, good, bad and
indifferent. Of that, the British
control 13,172,000 square miles, or
approximately one quarter. The sec
ond largest landholder is the iSoviet
Union with 8,144,000 square miles,
about 1-7 of the total. France ranks
third with nearly 5,'0<0/0',00 0 square
miles and China fourth with some
4,250,000. Brazil comes fifth and
the United .States last, each with
something like 3,000,000.
* * *
Worry less and work more,
Ride less and walk more,
Frown less and smile more,
Eat less and chew more,
Talk less and listen nlore,
Preach less and practice more.* * *
Homesteading in Alaska
More than 5,000 acres of land in
the Fairbanks district were taken
up during the past year by
homesteaders — the total number
of applications filed at the (Fair-'
banks land office during the period
being forty-three (43).
* * *
DARKES’I’ BEFORE DONE
John Treadwell was a mining ex
pert. He lost a lot of time and
money in Alaska and one day he
was in Juneau licked and ready to
quit. He was waiting for a steamer
to take him out of the country.
Along came Pierre Joseph Erus-
sad a storekeeper, commonly call
ed, “French Pete” and offered
Treadwell a prospect on Douglas
Island for $2 64 - the exact amount
Pete needed to release a shipment
of merchandise from a local ware
house. Treadwell hesitated, decid-
i ed to look the prospect over and
ended by buying it.
It was the famous Treadwell Mine,,
Treadwell sold out to D. O. Mills,
of New York, and associates for
$1,5'00.00.
In 1917 the waters of Gastineau
Channel broke into the mine, flood
ed it and stopped all operations,
but not till the Treadwell had .pro
duced over $66,000,000 and paid
to its shareholders over $27,000,-
000 in dividends.
* * *
Write it on the typewriter
Or scratch it with a pen
It doesn’t matter how
So much ass ‘when’,
The Maginot line of the coal bin has been hard pressed.
**** *** *
Never mind, there
way.
The 'Canadian
of snow,
We’ye had an
fashioned spring.
are a whole Jot of nice south winds on the
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West wouldI welcome an extra three or four feet
* * ** * ** *
old-fashioned winter.Here’s hoping for an old-
*** .** *♦*
Most red blooded
of the Finlanders.
foils feel a personal interest in. the struggle
*** ** * **
It’s all very well speaking messages into the microphone, but
that is not the way Confederation
* * ♦ ♦
was brought about,
* * * *
the lips of the blacksmith as heThere’s a Queer smile about
thinks of the icy roads soon to put in an appearance,
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Farmer Gray is putting up an extra two or three cords of good
wood. The lesson of this winter has not been lost on him.
* * sfs * * * * *
We wonder were those Canadians are who told us some time ago
that the Russian way of doing things was a blessing to the world.
*********
The air is heavy with suspense these days as to what will take
place in Europe when the fine spring days arrive. These are fate
ful hours.
*’* * * * * * *
We wish that that four and a half million Ontario deficit had
been a five million dollar surplus. But we can’t have our money
and spend it,
********
The Exeter groundhog asks to thank the Eligible Maidens for
their timely gifts of footwarmers for him and his tribe. They come
in very handy during the cold weeks.
********
It’s astonishing how many queer local telephone companies and
cheese factories have substantial surpluses to show for the year’s
work, while provincial and federal people wind up the year with a
deficit. One wonders and wonders.
* * . * * * * * *
The, jack rabbits have made a sad mess of many a young orchard.
When they were at it, these pests made savage inroads on many a
reforester’s area. Yet the day was when these marauders were,
welcome as a friend of Canadians,
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“COME OVER AND HELP US.”
■Finland with her manhood fighting waist deep in snow amid
forty below zero weather conditions, with every woman at some
task to aid the army,’ with her industries at .a standstill, putting her
last tear and her best blood into a fight such as the world never
witnessed before, cries out, “ICome and help us!” Was ever there a
cry so pathetic? It is the old story of David and the giant, only the
struggle is more prolonged and nerve racking. What nation dare
stand by, allowing the call to go unheeded. Who are “too proud to
fight” in such a cause? Who but the family of Meroz upon whom
came the bitter curse of the Almighty.
Upon all who stand idly by in an hour so awe-inspiring must
fall the curse invoked upon Meroz for his failure to come to the help
of the leal hearted against the mighty. Finland’s cry rends the heart
like the trumpet of the last judgment.
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FATEFUL YEARS
When a school boy starts to High School, the lighthouse bell
begins its ringing. Unless a boy has his mind pretty well made up
as to his future occupation by the time he has had a couple of years
High School he is very likely to be heading for an old age pension
or the penitentiayy. This sounds hard’, but then life is hard as most
of us have discovered. Especially must the Ontario youth get down
to business or circumstances will crush him. For it looks as if this
country were to abound with new industries that will win only if
Canadians are thoroughly trained and deeply in earnest. A soft,
flabby schoolboy will make a pool* showing when first class work is
required of him. A boy who slides along with sixty per cent, grad
ings will be fired next pay day when one hundred per cent, pro-j
ducts are demanded of him. It cannot be otherwise. A healthy boy
who is not standing up well in his classes will be tremendously bene
fited by being given a month’s real work getting up wood under a
boss who has no use for soldiering. Blistered hands and aching
; back and a few frozen toes before now have put new interest into
school work.
* * * * * * * *
LORD TWEEDSMUIR’S WARNING
Almost the last statement of Lord Tweedsmuir is one that de
serves a good deal of attention. He says, first that Canada .could
not hope for a teeming population. Ot this we are not so sure.
Science has done stranger things than controlling weather and mois
ture conditions. We have not felt the necessity for taking precau
tions in this matter. Hence the little that has been done to give
something like more uniform meteorological conditions for our great
western areas. When that matter has been disposed of, and we hope
that it may be disposed of satisfactorily, we may look for a large
population. The exploits of Finland should cause us to realize what
may be done even under conditions far more unpropritious than those
of any area of the Dominion..
With the second suggestion of Lord Tweedsmuir, we are in
entire accord. He says that Canada must make high .quality her
watchword in all her production. iSo far we have not felt the grim
necessity for excellence. We have bustled along and have paid
too much attention to numbers and bulk, We have counted men
and votes and products rather than weighed and analyzed them. Let
it be owned that the day for that sort of thing has gone forever for
the winners. The quantity problem has been solved. Let the mar
ket ask for any product and Canadians will supply the quantity.
Only the enlightened souls have seen the necessity for quality. Those
who have made the discovery already are reaping a fine reward.
CLEARS STUFFY HEAD
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Clogging mucus, helps to keep the
Sinuses from being blocked by the
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NEXT TIME, don’t wait Until your
head is all stuffed up. At the first
warning sneeae or sniffle, use
Va-tro-nol at ohce-it helps to ’pre
vent many colds from developing.
Va-tro-nol is specialized medica-
tion-expressly designed for the nose
and upper throat where most colds
start. Used in time, it stimulates
Nature’s own defenses to fight off
many a cold,
or to throw off
head colds in
their early
stages.
Vicks AJr
Va-tro-nol
Did You Know That
p----0—0
Revenge dwells onty in little
minds.
A wife’s art displayed in a table
well laid.
The sun rather than the moon,
controls the tides at Tahiti,
James Madison was more or less
dependent upon his father until he
was fifty years old.
In the U. iS. A. about 800,000 boys
and girls of junior age are in jail.
The Pagagos Indians date their
year now the harvest of the fruit
the gxeat Cactus.
There are two and one half mil
lion Canadians in Canada, who are
. • y L C A * • or 4. rench origin yet
they are loyal to Canada.
The Hydro Company says: Failure
to receive bill does not entitle con
sumer to discount; also a 30 day
notice must be given when vacat-
mg premises.
At Alresford church yard, England
a tomb reads: •
.jCntaui this silent stone is laid
A noicy antiquated maid;
Who from the cradle talked to death
And ne'er before was out of breath.
iS. J. S.
USBORNE COUNCIL
The Municipal Council of Usborne
Township met on February 10th
with all the members present. Min
utes of January 8th were read and
adopted. Correspondence was read
and filed.
Re a request from the Canadian
Legion War Services, the following
resolution was passed: That, where
as this Council finds it impossible
through recent Provincial Legisla
tion prohibiting Municipal Councils
from making grants for Patriotic
Purposes that we hereby desire to
express our sympathy with the or
ganization and its aims and to hear
tily commend the worthiness of the
cause to the citizens of Usborne
Township.
Another resolution was unani
mously adopted by the Council and
a copy was handed to Henry Ford,
requesting his resignation .as Road
Superintendent.
I The following grants were passed:
South Huron Agricultural Society,
$15.00; Queen Alexandra Sanitor-
ium, $10.00; War Memorial Hos
pital, London, $10.00.
An appeal from the Salvation
Army for patriotic purposes had to
be refused but attention was drawn
by the Reeve to the fact the the
County Council increased their grant
to this organization by $150 in 1940
to take care of increased demands.
By-law No. 1, 1940, confirming
appointments and salaries and allow
ances as set down in the minutes of
January 8, was read a third time
and passed on motion by Fishep and
Berry.
By-law No. 2, 1940, appropriating
the sum of $9,000’ for estimated R.
& B, expenditure in 1940 was given
a third reading and passed on mo
tion by Cooper and Hodgert. The
Clerk was authorized to present 2
copies of the same to the district
engineer of municipal roads.
It was maved by Cooper and
It was moved by Cooper and
Inspector for 19 40 and that B-Law
No. 1, 1940, be amended according
ly.
Relief Officer, N. G. Clarke re
ported relief expenditures amount
ing to $87.25 in January.
Treasurer’s Report of Receipts,
$'.248.56, cash balance February 1,
1940, $3645.00.
On motion by Berry and Cooper
the following accounts were passed
and orders drawn on the treasurer:
Road supt’s voucher $153.94; Ad
vertising, printing and supplies
$102.87; Clerk, registrations, B.,
M. and D., $8.75; telephone collec
tions, $24.43; grants, $3'5.00; mem
bership, Ont. Association, Rural
Municipalities, $5.00; relief and re
lief administration, $92.75.
Council adjourned.
February 12th, 1940
The Council met with ’Councillor
Cooper absent.
I The Clerk reported that he had
J received the resignation of Henry
Ford as Road Sup’t.
0Tlie resignation was accepted on
motion by Hodgert and Berry and
the Clerk was instructed to notify
the District Engineer of Municipal
Roads to this effect.
A by-law to be known as by-law
Number three, 1940, appointing
Arthur Rhode as Road Supt. was
read 3 times and on motion by
Berry and Fisher was finally pas
sed, subject to the approval of the
Minister of Highways for Ontario.
Owing to the fact that Mr. Ford’s
resignation became effective On
February 10, 1940, a resolution,
proposed by Fisher and Hodgert was
passed, instructing the township
auditor to take charge of the Road
Superintendent’s records and to hold
them, pending further instructions
from the Council.
Council adjourned.
A. W. Morgan, Clerk
Customer: “Usher, take me to
the center door or isle.”
Usher: “Or you’ll what?”
Quality You’ll Enjoy
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ITS TOP PEAK LOAD TOO
WEEKLY NEWSPAPER HAS
We are glad that there are a few
thoughtful souls in the community
who bear in mind that a weekly
newspaper needs copy on Fridays
and Saturday as well as on Tues
days and Wednesdays. We are en
couraged by the belief that more
and more people are gradually awak
ening to that fact. If everybody did
so, it would help us to produce a
better newspaper,
Many -press secretaries and other
contributors, who often might have
their material in a week ahead of
time, will send it in on Wednesday
and expect to see it published. When
such material is sent in later than
Tuesday, the writer need not be sur
prised if it dose not appear. Our
staff will do Bs best to handle late
copy but can do just so much.
A weekly newspaper has a peak
load just as local’Hydro has a peak
load. The peak falls on Wednesday
when the weekly’s staff has far too
much to do. People who do not
think of sending in their items of
news or their advertising until Wed
nesday, are contributing to the
peak, and are making economical
production of their weekly news
paper very difficult.
Our slogan is “a daily newspaper
published weekly.” we plan to
handle the news of events the day
they happen. We set type for our
newspaper every day, but we print
our newspaper once a week. The
Times-Advocate is your newspaper
and you can help to make it better
by your co-operation in sending in
your copy early.
SAFEGUARD MEAT SUPPLY
In safeguarding Canada’s meat
supply, the Health of Animal Di
vision, Dominion Department pf
Agriculture, condemned 11,830 car
casses of cattle intended for fpo4
during the year ended March 31,
19'39. The principal causes of the
condemnations, which amounted to
1-38 per cent, of the total cattle
killed for food, were emaciation and
tuberculosis, The number of car
casses of calves condemned was 5,-
5 4’3 or 0.82 per cent of the total
slaughtered, the main cause being
immaturity. Condemnations of sheep
were 0.29 per cent, as against 0/31
per cent, in the previous year. Swine
condemnations totalled 6,768 car
casses, or 0.22 of the total kill. Tu
berculosis was the cause of 37.20
per cent, of all carcasses condemned
and 72.91 per cent of all portions
condemned.
The number of carcasses marked
“Canada Approved” was 841,909
cattle; 670,852 calves; 777/964
sheep and 2,047,972 swine — grand
totals 5,33)8,697.
YOU TELL ’EM, I STUTTER
Along the line of thought that
we never miss anything until we
lose it, an editor of a small weekly
explains the loss of the letter “s”
from his composing room as follows:
‘"fLatht night thome thneaking
thcoundrel thole into our compoth-
ing room and pilfered the ca^inetth
of all the eththeth! Therefore, we
would like to take advantage of
thith opportunity to apologize to
oui* readerth for the general inthip-
id appearance of your paper. We
would altho like to thtate that if at
any time in the yearth to come we
thoqld thee thith dirty thnake in
the gra.thth, about the premitheth,
if will be our complete and thorough
thatithfaction to shoot him full of
holeth. Thank you!”
BRINSLEY
(Crowded out last week )
The many friends of Mr. and Mrs.
Merton Sholdice met and presented
them with a pair of blankets and a
clock; it being a reception that was,
held on the occasion of their recent
marriage.
Mr. Everard Corbett had the mis
fortune to . get hurt while cutting
wood in the bush. He had several
ribs fractured.
•’ We are glad to report that Mrs.
Walter Morley is much improved
after her recent long illness.
The play presented by the Clover
dale Young People on behalf of
the Red Cross Society in West Mc-
Gillivrary Hall on Friday evening
was very well attended.
Day of Prayer Service was ob
served in the United Church when
■the ladies of St. Marys church met
with the ladies of the United church
Mrs. Thos. Lee acted as leader and
Mrs. L. L. Craven sang a solo
“Haven of Rest”
The Young People met at the
Hall and presented Mr. and Mrs. H.
Lenton with a studio couch. An
other recent marriage.
Rev. Mr. Turner gave a talk to
the Young People’s Union Monday
evening on Missionary work in
Northern Ontario. Mr. Turner has
recently come from the North to
take over the work of the Crediton
charge.
'Well, Henry, I did a good piece of
business at the Bank of Montreal.♦.
“Remember I told you last fall I had
a lot of coarse grains and didn’t whnt
to sell because ptices were so low?
Well, sir, 1 went to the Bank of
Montreal and got a loan for $36,
bought nine young pigs, fed them
the coarse grains, and this spring sold
them at a nice profit. Yes, and the
Bank’s paid back. And the interest
cost me just 84 cents.”
Ask fir our booklet, “The Farmer and His Bank?*
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