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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1940-03-07, Page 74 THE EXETER TIMES-AOVOCATE TWggspAy, mw 1940 look ahead - and row LUCE ------! Indifference toward the job that provides .food and shelter for them, .and to the opportunity it holds out to them to grow into something better, is one of the weaknesses of the workers in this land of ours. At least, that's the way it seems to me. This talk you hear among a few of the chronically disgruntled ones about all the opportunities having been seized is the '‘bunk.” All the opportunities haven’t been created yet, much less grabbed. Why, man alive, in a country where precedent-smashers are born every minute, how could all of the opportunities be used up? Life is drab only to the man who has a closed mind and who is asleep to the miracles that are going on about him. To the rqan who is mentally awake - who sees in the task of hand his chance to do it better than it was ever done before - who takes an inqusitive interest in day-to-day changes and improvements - life is ever a zestful adventure. If your job is hum-drum to you, it’s because you’ve been thinking hum-drum thoughts. ■Edison, after his first invention, could have quit cold and said: “Well, there aren’t any new ideas . . . that’s all there is to be in­ vented.” He didn’t. | The man who built the first au­ tomobile might have said: “There . that’s the last word in transporta­ tion.” He didn’t. The fellow who first thought of ending an electrical impulse thru space, without wires might have patted himself on the back and said “I’ve pulled the ultimate in my line —'beat it if you can.” He didn’t. Some of the best brains in the coun­ try are always devising better ways of doing it. The secret of accomplishment is vision. Nothing is quite so perfect that it can’t be improved. .So, if you’re satisfied with your­ self and your job and your place in the world, that’s the end of things for you. You can’t acquire with­ out peaching out. ■ Big things are done by men who work up enthus­ iasm. Indifference never yet got anywhere.* * * A banker in a nearby community was approached by a printer on the subject of a loan. The banker was one of those “commercially deaf” in­ dividuals. “I’d like to borrow $5,000,” pleaded the printer. The banker cupper his hand be­ hind his ear and said: “.Speak a little louder — and — cut down the amount.. * * * Charles Austin Bates, writing of Arthur Brisbane, said: “He can make commonplace sub­ jects tremendously more interest­ ing than can an ordinary cub. re­ porter, and of course, that is the reason Mr. Brisbane’s salary on the4' Hearst Newspapers was $5,000 a week, but the chief attraction in his writing is its simplicity, its reason­ ableness, and its driving straight to the point. “It is exactly these qualities which are most desirable in adver­ tising copy, of course, a very im­ portant part Of successful direct- mail, advertising. There are adver­ tising men who maintain that copy is the first and chief essential that unless the copy is brilliant and scintillating, the campaign must be a failure.”* * * IT HAS BEEN SAID OF WAR “War is the business of barbar­ ians.” — Napoleon. “The next dreadful thing to a battle lost is a battle won.” — Wel­ lington. “Every toy soldier should be abol­ ished.” —4 Dr. iPauline Luisi. “When war is looked upon as Backache-Kidneys Cry for Help Moat people fail to recognize the seriousness of a bad back. The StitcheS, twitches, and twinges are bad enough and cause great suf­ fering, but back of the backache and the cause of it all is the dis­ ordered kidneys crying out a Warn­ ing through the back, A pain;,in the back is the kidneys ’ ■cry for help. Go to their assistance. ■Get a box of Doan’s Kidney Dills. A remedy for backache tod sick kidneys. “Doan’s” ate put up in an oblong grey box with our trade mark a “Maple Leaf*’ on the wrapper. Refuse substitutes. Get *' Doan’s. ’ ’ The T. Milburn (Jo., Ltd., Toronto, Ont. . The young men are required to don their political war paint, * * . * * * * * We’re having too many robberies. Will authority please take the hint? ** ****** vulgar, it will cease to be popular.” — Oscar Wilde. “War will disapear, like the dino­ saur, when changes in world con­ ditions have destroyed its survival value,” — Robert Andrews Milli­ kan. “It is the business of the church to make my business impossible." — Field Marhall Earl Haig. “Peace at all costs, at any price, even without honour.” Ethel Man- nin. “The worst government is better than war.” — Pierce Ramus. * * **'“And can you tell me what were his last words?” inquired a repopt- ter, who was collecting material for the obituary notice of a local cele­ brity. “He had no last words,” was the reply. “You’d better just say his dear wife was with him to the end.”■t * * SHORT DIVISION “I shall now demonstrate my own short method for dividing even numbers by two,” said Percival as he stood by the blackboard, point­ ing at stupid Bobby with a piece of chalk. Miss James inserted herself with a graceful corkscrew motion into one of the too-small seats be­ hind a desk, and tried to relax while her bright student took charge of the arithmetic class. “You simp­ ly put a two down in front of the number and rub out the lest figure.’ Miss James sat bolt upright, and opened her mouth as if to speak, but before any words came: “For example, divide 4 by 2,” suggested Percival, writing a 4 on the black­ board. “I put a 2 In front of it, rub out the 4, and we have the answer.” In a wave of clapping and shout­ ing, of “Aw, easy!” Percival wrote down 50-. (Miss James now wore an air of bewilderment and resig­ nation.) “Now, look at this number. Put a 2 in front and rub out the nought. 50 divided by 2 is 25.” He wrote ,and erased as he talk. “If that looks too easy, here’s 4»8-. Put a 2 in front and rub out the 8. There you are — half 48 is 24.” ; (A painful expression suffused the teacher’s face and she passed a hand over her brow.) “With one more example, I con­ clude this demonstration,” said Percival, and wrote down 498. “Di­ vide by the short method, and you get .249 infmediately. Do it by the old way to check it” — here he wrote down the original number, and divided it by long division — “and again you’ get 249.” (iScreams from the children ,— Miss James had fainted.) * * * THE LADDER There’s never a wobbly- sUn-swept way, , There is never a cloudless 1 sky, But somewhere either by night or day, A few long shadows lie. There’s never a life so filled with song, There is never a song so sweet, But somewhere has hidden in hurt­ ing Wrong, That wakes to the measure’s beat —Elsye Tash ,Sater * * * Question: “(Should a gentleman put on a lady’s rubbers?” Anwser: "No. They would be too small.” * * * “Your husband, Madam, is suf­ fering from voluntary inertia.” , “Poor Dear Robert: And I ac­ cused him all along of being lazy!” * * * To argue about religion is a poor way to demonstrate one’s piety. . * * * Theywalkedlikethisuponthestreet They’re young, and life is bliss. A thoughtless word, a lovers’ quar­ rel and they walked Like .......................................... this. ♦ # * When our characters will not defend us, explanations will not vin­ dicate. * * * John Howard Payne, author of •Home, iSweet Home, was broke and alone in Paris when he wrote the words. In fact, he was always roam? ing. 'On March 3, 18'51, he recalled his wanderings, when, on that date, he wrote a letter to a Mr. Clarke, in which he said: “(Surely there is something strange in the fact that it should have been my lot to cause so many people in the world to boast of the delights of home when I have never had a home of my own and never expect to have one.”* « * I like people - The so-called human race If I didn’t - you can bet I wouldn’t versify this space. t -—the colonel Though the present war isn’t spectacular it is taking a terrible Loll of life and treasure. * * * * * * .* * The poet well may sing of country lanes. We have passed few lately, but they were formed of snow banks. ******** Blessed is that country whose election annals are dull. So say the political leaders of the present Canadian election. ******** The voter who is not doing his best politically these days Js a poor affair. We’d like to see the women taking a more active part in the national struggle. ***** * * * We’re a funny lot. The snowplows on -country roads clear up some roads and raise enormous barricades across other roads. If we don’t look sharp, winters soon will be an expense to this fair land. ‘ ******** Why all this anti-conscription talk? Conscription would not be asked for unless in the case of emergency. Should an emergency arise there would be no keeping of Canadian youth from the colonies. We don’t like this anticonscription propaganda. ******** NO WONDER We cannot but wonder what lies behind the peace visit of Mr. Wells to the European capitals. Hitler says that he will not quit till he has destroyed Britain. Britain says that she will not let the sword rest in her hand till peace is assured for Europe. Now where does Mr. Wells come in? ****** ** THAT WHIRLING WHEEL Our attention has been called to two items in a contemporary. One items tells of a forced mortgage sale. The other appearing in the same issue, under the heading “Twenty-five years ago” tells in flattering terms of a sale of pure bred stock on this very farm, under the same ownership. The sale netted well up in four figures. And ‘there you are. The wheel has turned for that poor chap. ******** “ “IT’S AN EASY WAY” Word had just got out that a bank had been robbed and we were noting the reaction the news had on a group of young men. “It’s an easy way to get a lot of money commented one youth. “But think of what overtakes him if he gets caught,” suggested a second. Then came the reply. “He’ll likely escape. .If he gets caught, he will get off with a light sentence. He’ll go to some other part of the country and he’ll have a lot of money to make a new start.” iFoolish youth! There is no such a place as the unknown for a criminal. Go where he will he’ll be detected and shunned, however smooth he may be about supping with a long spoon when he’s at the table. • Records show that the criminal is sure to be overtaken. He can’t cover up all his tracks. That’s why the wide awake officers always “get their man.” ******** THE GREATER LOSER Those who have tears are shedding them for gallant Finland. All that men could do they have dared to do for their native country, for civilization and for all that is dear to the hearts of true men. Tens of thousands of her best and bravest have been crushed by the sense­ less glacier, Russia. Her daughters have toiled beyond all telling that theii’ husbands and brothers and sweethearts might pour out their hearts’ blood for freedom’s golden cause. The countryside is a shambles. We pity brave Finland from the bottom of our hearts. But Russias’s in the greater loss though now she and her kindred spirit kill the fatted calf and fare sumptuously every day. She has paid for victory with the price of her soul. The fires of her national life though fanned by conquest’s crimson wing can but turn to a torment that knows no end. With honour gone, selfrespect under her feet, decency forgotten, loaded with the contempt of all fairmind- ed peopje, living and dead, what has Russia the brutal and insensate to look for? Is there a deeper depth for a nation that has; fallen so low? For Finland, imperishable renown; for Russa — to be a zby-word and a hissing. Rttssia's punishment consists of being '•obliged to live with herself. **** **** HAVE WE BUILT OURSELVES OUT OF PROSPERITY? We have in mind an incident of the days when we Canadians were building the old Grand Trunk Railway. The survey showed that the railway was to pass directly from the North East corner of as fine a farm as was to be found in Peel county coming out at the South West corner. The farmer who had grown grey in putting that property into prime condition offered the railway one thousand dollars if it would not follow the proposed route. The offer was re­ fused, and the old man left the farm in utter discouragement. Well, the railway failed to pay its stockholders one cent on their investment. The country is now paying handsomely for that railway. The railway Was a great convenience but it failed to pay its way. We ask, was there not something else that could have been done, something that would not have practically ruined farmers but which would have serv­ ed the' turn served by the railway? No doubt oUr readers can cite instances illustrating this principle. Our intentional speedways come to our niind in this connection, He is going ahead by leads and bounds we shy of some men. Yes, but what is at the end of the lakt leap? ** ****** STEADY ALL Folk need to steady thehiselves just now*. Fears are in the way. For many a long month we have expected something to take place on the western front over there in France. Every so often we have the date fixed approximately for the thunder and the tempest. Still others are hopeful that the powers that so far have hold the forces of destruction in leash may continue to do so till reason prevails. The unexpected is what takes place in many and many an instance. Writers in the early days of the Christian era were sure that un- namable horrors were to be wrought by Roman Emperors of inesti­ mable ferocity. Instead there came on the scene five emperors who wrought the empire untold good. Prophesing always is a difficult undertaking. Wise men do the vefy best they can in the living pres­ ent. Such a course is our counsel in these dreadfully mysterious and ominous days. The children must be kept at school. Youth must prepare for life’s graver responsibilities. Older folk must continue the day’s work. Eyes must be kept open for the signs of the times, but the day’s work must be kept on with. Such a course will streng­ then the arm for battle if it must come. So doing will give fibre to the soul if losses are to be borne. Bracing one’s spirit for present necessity will be the best preparation for the dawn of peace. The man who Is up and doing fits himself for any fate. ’The future ever steps out ahead. The past ever recedes, the present Is ever with us and is full of opportunity. Oid You Know That p——p~—o With economy few need be poor. With economy pone can be rich, Blotting paper does not BLOT— it prevents blotting. In Canada the telephone is used more than any other place in the world. New Zealand army camps are supplied with beer gardens and the tables set out under beach umbrel­ las. Bees were brought to America from Europe and the Indians called them “white man’s flies.” Big pleasures and great* happiness are but many little ones bound to­ gether as a loaf of many crumbs. The famous Blue Hole near Cas­ talia, Ohio, The water level and the temperature never change. Fish can­ not live in the waters of the Blue Hole. Reason; No oxygen in the Blue Hole itself. The U. S. A. Census Bureau has given up trying to keep up with Europe's map change. The 1940 cen- us blank asks: “If foreign born give country in which birth place was situated on January 1, 1937.” S. J. S. MRS. ZAVITZ, AILSA CRAIG, BREAKS ARM AND LEG Injured in a fall down cellar stairs at her home, Mrs. Annie Zavitz, ag­ ed 65, of Ailsa Craig, was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital, London, for treatment on Satudray evening. She suffered a broken arm and broken leg in.the tumble as well as from shock.* Dr. A. E. Letts, Ailsa Craig attended her and had her removed to hospital in London. Later her condition was reported as fairly satisfactory. I I » » « k>??<s&when r^ZYOUBUY i blue coal' LtHE COLOUR GUARANTEES THE QUALITY -4 W. C. ALLISON Listen to “The Shadow” every Wednesday k over CFRB, 9.00 to 9.30 p.m. 1' \410 Keep Canada’s War Effort United! Experienced Leaders are VITAL for VICTORY In six months of war the Mackenzie King Administration has set an unprecedented record of getting things done without fuss and fury. Under Its steady leadership, Canada has gone ahead on all fronts—war, economic and domestic. With clear heads and with feet on the ground, this group of purposeful men is making every ounce of Canada’s weight felt in our fight for freedom. What it has done has been done thoroughly: there has been no loose thinking; no half-measures; no waste of men, money or materials. Some of the Mackenzie King Administration Wartime Accomplishments Great Britain’s war financing problems have been lessened through the co-operation of ihe Canadian Government. War Contracts .totalling well over $100,000,000 have been placed, stimulating every branch of Canadian industry. Canadian employment has hit an all-time high owing to these orders and to good in­ ternal business conditions. Armament deliveries are approaching full­ speed: aeroplanes, Bren guns, tanks, artillery accessories, ships — all coming forward in impressive quantities. Large purchases of Canadian wheat,— preventing a serious wheat glut — have been arranged through a special mission sent to London by the Mackenzie King Administration. 5,600,000 pounds of bacon will be shipped to Great Britain each week, as well as large quantities of flour and fish. Huge shipments of steel and other mate­ rials essential to the conduct of the war have been arranged for. It united Canada as never before— Every province is heart and soul behind the Empire’s war effort this time, thanks to the Administration’s truly national policies. The First Division, completely equipped, has (been. sent overseas to a Mother country prepared to receive it. The Second Division is recruited, equipped and ready to go over. The great Empire Air Training Scheme- sponsored and mainly financed by Canada, has been launched on a planned and ordered basis. Naval Defence for both East and West Coasts including Air Force, Mine Sweepers and Convoying, has functioned efficiently since the outbreak of War. Of it, a Senior British Naval Authority has said: “No finer work is being done anywhere by the Royal Navy itself.” Price Control of all commodities, including such Vital necessities as wool and sugar, has been established, with prices pegged low for the poor man. The profiteer is out, and will he kept out—in marked contrast to the free- for-all of the last war. Shipping Control and Foreign Exchange Control are firmly established on sound lines and are functioning smoothly and effectively. A $200,000,000 War Loan was over-sub­ scribed within two days of its launching, a record that proves public confidence. Its reasonable rate of 3*4% contrasts with 5^2% tax-free rate of the last war. Political and Private Patronage has been stamped out: merit is the sole basis for selection or promotion in our armed forces. Make Your Vote Support Canadian Unity Such a record simply didn’t fust happen. It resulted from the efforts of a strong adminis­ tration working on behalf of a country united in all its parts as never before. And this singleness of purpose—conspicuously absent in 1914—is due to the visioii, understanding and drive of individual Canadian and Empire* minded Statesmen who back the Empire’s participation in the war with their eyes wide open and with full determination to play their parts to the full. We appeal to the people of Canada for the support which is essential to Carry on and complete a task, the groundwork for which has been laid carefully, soundly, wisely . . . with foresight, determination and resolute courage. On March 26th show yourfaith; vote for the Candidate supporting Mackenzie King and help make sure there can be no break in Canadays steadfast stand in these critical times* FORWARD WITH MACKENZIE KING The National Liberal Federation of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.