HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1940-05-02, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
KEEP ON KEEPING ON
If you ever get to feeling discour
aged. over the things you have fail
ed to accomplish in life - read bio
graphy.
Of course,, the biography will tell
of someone who has accomplished
something worth while; but if it is
a worth-while biography, it will also
record the repeated failures which
were scattered all along the rocky
road to success..
We think of Abraham Lincoln as
a successful politician - yet he was
defeated repeatedly before his first
■election.
We think of Thomas'Edison only
as a marvelously successful inven
tor - yet hundreds of his experi
ments failed for everyone that was
successful.
Do not become discouraged be
cause you cannot do everything well,
or excel in everything you under
take. Persons of such superior
ability are too rare to figure in the
statistics.
* * *
To succeed, your main purpose
must be to make some substantial
■contribution to the public good -
rather than to make the most pro
fit for yourself.* * *
Let’s see now ... if you were
as smart as you pretend to be -
you’d be rich, wouldn’t you?
* * *
If you cannot help to make this
a better world, at least you can help
keep it from being bitter.
There is always two sides: the
right side and the one which re
quires name calling, invective, eva
sions and vindictive villification.
* * *
>Sambo borrowed a pair of rub
ber boots from Mose. Time passed
and the boots were not returned,
so when Mose met (Sambo the other
day, he asked: “Sambo, when is you
all gwine gimme back dem boots
■ob mine?”
“I ain’t got yoh all’s boots, Mose,’
answered Sambo, “I dun traded
■dem foh a pair of my own.”
* * *
PRANKISH PROBLEM
An aviator travels a certain dis
tance against the wind, and can tra
vel the same distance back (with the
wind) in one-half the time. The
wind is blowing 3 0 miles per hour.
How many miles per hour can
the aviator travel in still air?
* * *
The number of jewels in a watch
■does not necessarily measure its
■quality. Because many Americans
do believe this, watches of low or
inferior quality imported from the
other countries with 15 to 23 jewels
have found a ready market — much
to the later chagrin of the gullible
purchaser,* * *
Optimists of the Season —*
—the suburbanite who expects
that last year’s porch screens will
still be in good condition.
—all families who go to summer
hotels recommended by their
friends.
—the man who buys $100. worth
of tackle after reading ‘good fish
ing’ in a summer hotel brochure.
—the family who expects the
spring rise in their stocks to pay
for then’ summer vacation.
—all wives who plan to leave
their husbands alone in the city
during the summer.
* * *
Sprig Dime Aged
I dod gare wad you say—Sprig
id here! Lab Mudday de sud wad
shiddig ad daddyliods bloobig bud
de nesd day id sdowed ad I godd
by feed wed ad doday de birds are
siggig aged.* * *
As old as horse racing is the study
of ways and means of getting the
horse to put forth his best effort —
his extra best. Some unscrupulous1
promoters resort to ‘dope’.
Recently a trainer gave violet ray
treatment^ to one of England’s
Night
Coughs
Terribly wearing on. the system is
the cough that comes on at night
and prevents sleep.
Sometimes it is the constant cough,
cough that will not be quieted.
Sometimes it is a cltoked-up, stuffed-
up feeling that makes breathing
difficult.
Dr. Wood’s Norway Pine Syrup is
the remedy you need to give you
relief, for the reason that this prep
aration contains the healing virtues
of the Norway pine tree with which
is combined wild cherry bark, and
the soothing, healing and expectorant
properties of other excellent balsams,
barks and herbs.
Tho T. Milburn Co,, Ltd., Toronto, Ont,
best horses and it later won a great
race,
-—there might be a tip in this
for some of our 1940 Presidential
aspirants.
* * *
Boost, and the world boosts with
you,
Knock, and you’re on the shelf,
For the world gets sick of the one
who'll kick
And wishes he’d kick himself.
Boost, for your own achievements,
Boost for the things sublime,
For the one who is found on the
topmost round,
Is the Booster - every time. |
* * *
QUIDNUNC
Highway research abstracts re
port that roads carrying as few as
700 cars a days now earn for the
government a yearly income from
gasoline taxes of $150 a mile.
Goldfish, pike and salmon are
the only fish that do not sleep.
More than half the flowers of the
world are some shade of red.
The ostrich is the tallest bird in
the world, 'being eight feet.
Camel's hair brushes are made
from the hair of squirrels.
About one-tenth of the total area
of Sweden is under water.
Canada is larger than the United
States and Alaska combined.* * ♦
What Education Should Be
The great end of education is to
discipline rather than to furnish
the mind; to train it to the use of
its own powers rather than to fill
it with the accumulation of others.
* * *
Answer to Prankish Problem: 90
miles per hour is the rate of speed
in still air.* * *
Count that day lost
Whose low descending sun
Finds no Roosevelt vacations
Just ended or just begun.
* * *
Tempora Mutantur
One of the big problems of a col
umn photographer is to strive to
write up to rather than down to the
mental level of the average reader.* * *
One of the ladies who was pre
sented at the British Court last
summer had been traveling in the
Orient before the presentation, and
arrived in London with a Chinese
amah, or nurse-maid.
From the time she had left the
Orient, the amah had suffered fits
of homesickness, and her employer
thought up little things to try to
keep her interested and happy.
The evening of the Court presen
tations,1 still in full panoply, train,
three feathers, and all, she returned
to her hotel and related to the
amah, with complete gestures, how
she’d advanced to the throne, curt
sied and withdrawn. 'She went thru
the whole ceremony.
The amah watched with fascina
tion' and broke into the first broad
smile that had appeared on her
face in London? and inquired: ‘King
laugh?’* * *
The gentry of the Old South are
always accorded the characteristic
of high spirit and courtesy and gen
erosity to the point of imposition.
One fine example of this is brought
to light in the story of a Kentucky
planter, who, discovering a poor
neighbor in the act of stealing a
ham from his smoke-house, said in
a hearty cordial manner: “Joe, I’m
glad you came for that ham, I was
going to send it over1 to your house
today.”
* * *
It is easy to dodge our responsi
bilities; but we cannot dodge the
Consequences of dodging our respon
sibilities.
Children who often attribute their
failures to ‘hard luck' tend to have
poor personalites than do those
Who blame themselves. The former
regard themselves as victims; the
latter believe they can do something
to improve their success.
We find that children who often
<iay: “I can’t help it,” tend, to have
poorer personalities than those who
will not admit permanent defeat.
The latter refuse to accept their fate
or clumsiness and keep on trying.
* * *
Let’s hope justice will take ac
count of man’s frivolity and weigh
in a different scale his words per
taining to certain fishing exploits,
the number of miles he gets on a
gallon, his score on the water hole,
and what he told the boss about
running the business,
* * *
Following the thought of a recent
ending rhyme, A. G. D. writes:
Some may sigh,
Some may cry
While you write a column -
I wonder why?
EDITORIAL
JUJ A A wA A AvIl
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Let us never forget the appalling burden carried by British
statesmen.,
*****.♦«*
Whether we admit it or not, the sun is on his job. Had he
forgotten the needs of this region and made things too hot for us,
we’d have had destructive floods.
♦ ♦♦ ***♦♦
“We do not know of another town where so many people seem
willing to speak to you as Exetej;.” A‘You are going to live over in
Exeter” a big newspaper man said t^> us. “Good for you! That town
has a great many substantial people’ in it. The foundation is good
old English stock.” So there you are, Let us go one better. It’s
up to you and me, in this regard. There’s no cure for the blues like
a cheery good morning and a real job. «
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HAVE IT LOOKED OVER
Experience is a good teacher.
'One day this" week one of our farmers found himself treated
to an electric shock as he made use of the kitchen sink. He at once
disconnected his premises with the leading wires and sent for a real
electrician. It was found that one part of his electric wiring had
got out of fix and was connecting itself dangerously with the farm
buildings^ A serious fire was escaped by a hair’s breadth. Events
prove that more premises are near trouble than we are ready to
admit. Electric wiring should be looked ovei’ from time to time.
Insurance companies have every reason to be alert in this matter.
Then why not tone up inspectors who are concerned with electric
wiring?
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A DIFFERENCE
■Good roads cost high, we are well aware. We are also aware
that they offer genuine advantage to folk who are privileged to travel.
As winter used to take leave of us there were weeks when getting
about was difficult to impossible. There were sink holes on even
the main travelled roads that made negotiation thereof almost im
possible. Mud, mud and then more mud confronted road users for
weeks on end. Many a good horse suffered terribly or was ruined
for life because the roads strained him beyond all reason. That sort
of thing is done away with now. As soon as the snow disappears
the farmers are out on their right of way. Travel becomes a
pleasure. Goods are delivered with despatch. IFolk with business
can carry it out with ease. Roads may seem to come high but a
little calculation demonstrates that they more than pay their way.
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IT HISSES BUT IT DOESN’T FALL
The press of the United States represents the public opinion of
that mighty democracy. And clearly does that press utter the opin
ion of millious of United States people. Every considerable paper
undei- the stars and stripes exhausts the vocabulary of scorn as it
deals with the abominaole conduct of Germany in its ruthless treat
ment of nations with but one desire—the desire to pursue their
day's work of peaceful life. Yet that hissing lash of public opinion
does not fall upon German soldiers or statesmen or business' men.
The menace is there in stinging word and biting phrase, but the
public opinion of the United States does not provide a single dollar, a
single soldier, a single gun to defend the liberties and the highest
spiritual ideals of the race. We welcome the words of the United
States citizens. 'But Hitler is not killed or restrained by words.
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YOU DON’T KNOW YOU’RE ALIVE
This remark was made to a group of young people last winter
by a young Czech who six months ago could not speak a word of Eng
lish, to a group of young people who were entertaining him and a
dozen, odd, of his fellow countrymen. He was a young lawyer in
good practice in his native land, who was driven out by the German
invaders. He at once set out to learn English and now speaks the
language of Shakespeare and Milton with a fluency that shames
many a young Canadian. He told of conditions in his native land,
of his losses and heartbreak, of the relative opportunities in the land
of his birth, and of what lies under the nose of young Canadians.
Comparing the two countries and speaking of what he had seen in
Ontario and of what Canadian youth are doing he concluded with
an earnestness that was almost terrible. “You Canadians do not
know that you are alive!” What a criticism! Will we need a term
in a German concentration camp tot awaken us? What strange
enchantment has overtaken us? A study of the world’s work and of
the market pages of our papers is illuminating in this regard.
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IS there a need of change?
■Our youthful ambition was stirred by a little book “Tact, Push
and Principle.” This is a volume that should be studied by all young
people and by oldsters who are not too hard in the horn to learn ne.w
and better ways. What we have in mind just now, however, is the
disastrous practice so much in vogue for many a day of putting tact
in the place of push and principle. Here is a case in point. A wood
worker had brought a piece of material to be manufactured into
a farm article.- The workman said to the farmer, “This timber is
worthless for your purpose.” “That’s my business. You make it up,”
was the reply. After a few days the work was completed, the farmer
came for the article and found the article worthless. “You’re a man to
be trusted,” was his comment. “Here’s your money and a little more.”
Blunt? Of course the workman was blunt, but he showed himself
dependable. A bubbly jock may resent being fed from a red
dish, but he’ll soon get over that provided the feed is good. Welling
ton did not shine in parlour graces when he was on the battlefield,
but he brought .Britain victories. Tact is a way of doing things and
of getting on generally that cannot be too highly commended, but it
is a nuisance and a menace when practiced for its own sake. The
modern folk need to learn something about push and principle.
'*•* * * * * * *
COMING INTO ITS OWN
We are glad to notice that peppermint candy is coming into its
own. This useful article is known by different appellations. ‘Some
well-informed people speak of the condiment, as Presbyterian drops.
We can’t but think that this is the proper title. In the early Scotch
settlement days there were periods when the Kirk held what were
known as the Scotch meetings, lasting from Thursday till Monday.
There was a fine ritual preceding attendance upon the kirk. The
male portion of the congregation paid up all debts and then proceeded
to the local refreshment room where they got into the condition in
which no subject but theology was allowed to intrude. As the time
for the kirk services drew on the refreshment room was solemnly
left and the store visited, where the Presbyterian drops were bought
and the munching process started as the procession to the kirk was
formed.
But time would fail to tell of the service of the “peppermint"
in building up our modern civilization, it rewarded childish virtue.
It sustained our infantile efforts to follow the minister’s learned dis
cussions regarding free will and sovereignty. It had a way of com
forting folk who returning on dreary days from market, were nour
ished by the little paper bag of this delightful confection, We regret
its being discarded by the delicate nostril because of its obtrusive
fragrance and the objection that it was used as a “coverer.” But
now the learned have come to the rescue of this nation builder. The
doctors tell us that the neglected “peppermint” is really good for one.
We knew it all the time, but who can withstand the decrees of fashion
or of custom? But here it is, the doctors are ordering “peppermints”
and we are tree. Hitler will soon be a monster of the past. Pepper
mints are out on their right of way.
500 Women Attend Meeting of
Huron Presbyterial
The fourteenth annual meeting of
the Huron presbyterial was held
on Tuesday, April 23rd in Northside
United -Church, Seaforth, which was
beautifully decorated with 'Spring
flowers and pussy-willows. The
meeting was inspirational and large
ly attended. About 500 ladies were
present. The new president, Mrs.-
R, E. McKenzie, presided.
A Presbyterial executive was held
at 9.001 a.m. the session opening at
9.30. At the close of the worship
period led by Mrs. H. V. Workman,
Seaforth, and Mrs. Powe,..'Centralia,
gracious words of welcome were con
veyed by Miss Winnie Savage, of
Seaforth, to which Miss J. Murray,
of Hensail, made a fitting reply.
Following the minutes and business'
session interesting reports of the
Auxiliaries, Mission Circles, affili-
iated C.G.I.T. groups, Mission Bands
(with presentation of certificates of
recognition and affixing of seals)
and the Baby Band, by the secretar
ies, Mrs. W. J. Thompson, Miss C,
McGowan, Miss Caroline Wellwood,
Mrs. W. Pickard and Mrs. J. M.
Soiithcott, all showing that the past
year had been a most successful one.
Each church was advised to send
a delegate to the Leaders’ School
at Alma College St. Thomas, and
also if a missionary is addressing
a meeting in the district to try and
arrange to have him speak to the
boys and girls. Senior members
were asked to take more interest in
the C.G.I.T. groups, Mission Bands
and .Baby Bands for they are the
foundation of the mission work in
the future.
A splendid display of Band work,
layettes, quilts and other articles
for the bale to Hearst hospital,
Hunter hospital. Fenelon ■'and the
West was shown in the vestibule of
the church. Some belts made of
beads by the Indian girls who are
good workers, were also shown.
Emphasis was laid by the secre
taries of these departments on the
importance of temperance education
among the young, Christian steward
ship and work among the strangers,
sick and shut-ins.
The Huron Presbyterials now
comprises, 60’ Auxiliaries, 6 Evening
Auxiliaries, 13 Missioti Crcles, 3 0
Baby Bands, 4 C.G.I.T. groups, 398
Associate Helpers, an increase of
19, 496 subscriptions to World
Friends, 93 more than last year.
The newspaper reports of the Press,
secretary it was noted tend to make
the community missionary conscious
2314 calls were made by the Com
munity (Friendship Department. To
tal membership, 1566. Life members
601. Receipts, all sources, $133,-
701.13, 91 clothing bales including
2 69 quilts weighing 3440 pounds,
value at $3,000 were sent to the
West by the supply Department.
Prayers were offered by Mrs. W.
Procter, Brussels; Mrs. M. Wilse,
Goderich and members of the Mon
crief Auxiliary. Mrs. F. J. Bechley
and Mrs. E. A. Menzies, of ILondes-
boro contributed well rendered
solos.
A delicious dinner was served at
noon in the basement of the church
to the delegates and members of
Presbytery by the ladies of the con
gregation, The afternoon session
opened at 1:30 p.m. with a wor
ship period led by Mrs. Ney, Gorrie,
and Mrs. J. McGill, Westfield. Miss
Babel Carroil, secretary of the
younger groups of the Dominion
Board, a highly, gif tel speaker, gave
the principal address on “Mission
ary Education” and “World Peace.”
Mrs. A. W. Gardiner conducted
the “In Memorian” service. Mrs.
Greer, conference Branch secreary,
also gave a valuable talk on Chris
tian 'Stewardship. Greetings from
the Presbytery were conveyed by
Rev. A. W. Gardiner, of Egmond-
ville. The following officers were
installed by Rev. H. V. Workman:
Past President, Mrs. A. W. Gardin
er, Seaforth; president, Mrs. R. E.
McKenzie, Seaforth; first vice-pres.,
Mrs. H. V. Workman, -Seaforth; 2nd
vice-president, Mrs. Herman Powe,
Centraia, R.R. 2; 3rd vice-president
Mrs, Robert Ney, Gorrie, R.R. 3; 4th
vice-president, Mrs. James McGill,
Blyth, R.R. 3; fifth vice-president
Mrs. W. J1. Greer, Wingham; re-
I cording secretary, Mrs. W< P. Lane,
Goderich; corresponding secretary,
Mrs. W. J. Thompson, Centralia;
treasurer, Miss Mary Milne, Blyth;
Christian Stewardship and Finance
secretary, Miss L. Young, Londes
boro; mission circle secretary, Miss
Clare McGowan, Blyth; affiliated
C.G.I.T. groups’ secretary, Miss
Caroline Wellwood, Wingham; mis
sion band secretary, Mrs. W. Pick
ard, Clinton; baby band secretary,
Mrs. J. M, Southcott, Exeter; sup
ply secretary, Mrs. A. Colclough of
Blyth; community friendship secre
tary, Mrs, R. M. Peck, Zurich R.R.
1; Missionary Monthly and World
Friends secretary, Mrs. W. Well-’
wood, Wingham1, temperance and
Christian citizenship secretary, Miss
Maude Sterling, Bayfield; literature
secretary, Miss Winnie iSavauge, of
•Seaforth; press secretary Mrs. L.
Wightman, Wingham R.R.3, asso
ciate helpers’ secretary, Mrs. E. Me*
Queen, Hensail
Nominating committee, north sec
tion, Mrs. Lloyd, Wingham; west,
Mrs McVittie, Westfield; centre,
Mrs. Robert Alien, Brucefield; south
Mrs. McFalls, Centralia; evening
auxiliary, Mrs. Carey, Exeter. FL
,nance committee; centre, Miss L.
Young, Londesboro; west, Miss
Milne, Blyth; evening auxiliary, Go
derich, Mrs, Stoneman; north, Mrs.
Charles Shields, Wipgham; .dele
gates to Branch Conference: West,
Mrs, Townsend, Belgrave; centre,
Mrs. W. P. Crozier, Crewe; south,
Mrs, J. P. Manning, Londesboro;
Mrs. C, Christie, Exeter and Mrs. N.
Hockey, Exeter,
Resolutions Passed
A resolution was passed expressing
thanks to the conference church and
to those on the program; also to
those ladies who arranged the floral
decorations, I
Resolutions adopted- were; “Be
it resolved (a) that as members of
the Huron Presbyterial by prayer,
by example, and by education, we
do all in our power to restore the
evil of intemperance and promote
total abstinence; (b) that we at this
time of stress do not forget to put
first things first and to increase
our efforts towards furthering the
missionary spirit in all lands, (c)
That we may at all times maintain
a brotherly attitude toward all na
tions and races, removing from our
hearts and minds all prejudices and
showing a Christian attitude toward
our enemies.
The next presbyterial meeting will
be held in Bayfield, There were
delegates from all sections of the
county.
It isn’t hard to live on a small sal
ary if you don’t spend too much
trying to keep it a secret.
* * *
Opportunity may have knocked
at your door the day you were down
the street telling someone a hard
luck story.
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