HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1940-05-09, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
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Those welcome daffodils.
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Guess we are all a bit sentimental
About our offspring —-
That is what holds us true,
Even the most calloused cynic
Longs to wonder and to do -
Dotes in fancy, if not fact,
help him cultivate this
now being done as well
be done. Less than a
INQUISITIVENESS
Probably the most valuable qual
ity with which a youngster begins
life is curiosity.
If he faces all situations with a
■question mark on his tongue, he
should go far and contribute some
thing that will benefit mankind.
Asking questions proves ■ that a
-child has observation and it will be
well if you
trait.
Nothing is
as it could
hundred men in a million can be
expected to raise a doubt about any
thing. Most of us are prone to
take life easy. This is not because
we lack mental capacity or ability
.but because of lack of proper early
training of natural curiosity and
powers of observation.
Occasionally, a man comes along
who wants to know WHY something
is done in a particular way — or —
why it is done at all.
For a whole generation, conduct
ors laboriouslly collected fares from
street car passengers, then someone
thought of the fare box — incident
ally, his patent, made him a for
tune.
Butter was scooped from a tub
until’someone thought of the pound
brick, and later someone else
thought of dividing the brick into
four sections.
Whatever we may be doing in
shop, office or home, there is a
chance of improving what we are
doing. Opportunities lie close at
hand but they will remain undis
covered until someone with keener
observation and greater curiosity
happens to discover them.* * *
400 Billion, Dollars
The last World War cost all told,
and apart from thirty million lives -
Four Hundred Billion Dollars —
fourteen Billion of which is still
■owed to the United States.
With that kind of money, you
could build a $2,500 house, outfit
it with $1,000 worth of furniture,
place it on ’five acres of land worth
$lOOt00 an acre and give this size
and type of homestead to every fam
ily in the United States,, Canada,
Australia, England, France, Ger
many and India.
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The short sentence is reme.mbered
longest.
the
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ground
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w*ell covered with snow.
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Friday last found
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Incompetency is a form of dishonesty.
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Have we been allowing ourselves
standard of our best achievement?
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to
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rest contented with a low
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ever look over
eff a crib
two little eyes of blue?
Did you
The side
And see
Two little hands
So chubby and white
That wiggle and reach for you?
Two cute little ears,
;So tiny a nose,
And a mouth puckered up to say goo
•What makes more sentiment
In all this wide world
Than a baby — unless it is two?
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. Wonderful Hair Tonic
Professor Genung of Amherst was
on a hunting trip with his twin
brother. One day they come to a
small village to replenish their sup
plies and Prof. Genung decided to
get a shave and a haircut. The so
journ in the forest had allowed his
hair to grow to an unusual length,
After the trimming, the" barber per
suaded the professor to try a hair
tonic which he extolled at great
length.
In the afternoon, the professor’s
brother, who „had shaved himself
but whose hair was some six inches
long, repaired to the same barber
shop and climbed into the chair.
The barber stood in astonishment
until the brother inquired: “What’s
the matter?”
“Nothing,” sail’ the barber, ‘only
I’ve been lying about that hair
ic for thirty years and never
half the truth!”
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Two heads are worse than
when one is bobbed and the other
bald.
ton-
told
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one
Why are Canadian leaders in church and state and finance so
silent regarding the European situation?
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Is Europe going to repeat the story of hei' struggle with Napo
leon? It took her many a long, weary year to discover her Nelson
and her Wellington.
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Those records of the work done by the women of the country in
behalf of the Red Cross tell of real effort and of doing without rest
and other good things.
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That newspaper headline “The Mediterranean Cleared of British
Shipping” made some of us do some hard thinking. We wonder what
“that old Jew” Beaconsfield would have thought of such a line. So
much for sleeping and resoluting when we should have been up and
doing.
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WHAT WOULD THEY DO WITH HIM
Some wealthy Americans are offering a million dollars for the
capture of Hitler. Our question is, what would they do with him
should they capture him? We are aware that he is known as hand
some Adolph, but that was some time ago before the wreck of Poland
was written on his face.
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A BAD WEEK
The first week in May proved a trying one for the farmers.
Monday was a fine day for seeding but after Monday came the rain
mingled with snow and in some places hail fell. By the end of the
week the creeks and the ditches were running full and the ground
wet above the point of saturation. 'Seeding simply was ou£ of the
question.
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✓IT TAKES IT
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Incentive To Be Good
If you don’t snitch cookies or steal
ma’s jam
Always do what you’re told as meek
as a lamb.
If you go to bed every night at
eight .
And don’t smoke Grandma’s cigar-
, ettes and date
If you study hard as a good boy
should
Wear your long undies and
kindling wood.
Spend your vacations in a
Scout Camp
Farley may (we say may) put
picture on a postage stamp.
chop
Boy
your
Next Visit to
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Try
Hotel Waverley
Located on Wide Spadlna Ave.
♦at College St.
Easy Parking
Convenient to
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Parliament Buildings,
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Theatres, Hospitals,
Wholesale Houses, and
the Fashionable Retail
Shopping District.
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HALF AND HALF
Germany, a news report says, is
consuming horse meat in increasing
quantities. In some cities there are
now butcher shops who trade ex
clusively in horse meat _— sold on
ration cards only.
In one industrial city, the report
says 1,794 horses were consumed in
the past four months (and presum
ably digested). The story is told
(we heard a similar one back in
1918) that a certain restaurant ad
vertised “Partridge Pie” on the
menu. Patrons swarmed the place- ! but found the dish lacking in taste.
They questioned the proprietor,
and he admitted casually that he
had mixed in a little horsb meat.
“How much”? persisted the custom
ers — “Oh half and half,” he re
plied, “one horse and one partridge’
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In the grey dawn of Advertising,
poetry was frequently employed to
popularize pills, plasters and pain
killers.
From, tyne to time rhymed riga-
marole has appeared on behalf of
soups, breakfast foods, loads of an
thracite and other public utilities.
Recently a New York firm (name
of Peck & Peck) put on a sale of
Camel’s Hair Coats ... which sug
gested the following metre:
The Dromedary, calm and airy,
Habifrates the far Sahary,
Devoted to his line of duty
He is, if truth be told, no beauty,
His is a face you must pardon -
■Beyond the help of Earle or Arden
But what a gentleman, what a Ra
leigh
Without a whimper or a bawl he
‘Takes de wool from off the beck
To make de coats from Peck & Peck * * *
The Elephant and the Donkey
■Craft, trade and guild signs, such
as the ljarbei’ pole, watch,
three balls, etc., record a
when illiteracy prevailed and
necessary to identify every
by a symbol.
The emblems of the political par
ties are similar survivals. The party
emblem is placed on the top of the
column of the parties so that those
who cannot read or write may make
their (X) mark and thus, the illit
erate voter cannot be distinguished
from the literate.
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to college diction, a
may indicate a loose
i
boot,
period
it was
trade
a
Children’s Coughs
Quickly Relieved
It ig hard to keep the children
from taking cold; they will run out
of door3 not properly clad; have on
too much clothing and get overheated
and cool off too suddenly; they get
their feet wet; kick off the bed
clothes at night. The mother cannot
watch them all the time, so what is
she going to do?
Mothers should never neglect the
child’s cough or cold,'but on its in
ception Should procure a bottle of
Dr. Wood’s NorWay Pine Syrup. It
ia so pleasant to the taste the
youngsters take it without any fuss.
The T. Hilburn Co* Ltd., Toronto, Ont.
According
leaky mouth
shingle.
may indicate a
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absolutely true
“There is no such word as
wrote Johnny on the blackboard.
“Why don’t you correct him?”
visitor asked of the
“His statement is
rect as it stands,”
reply.
fale)’
a
teacher,
absolutely cor-
was the calm
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Skagerrak and Kattegat
Double talk and plain .
Soniehow I must end this Column
In spite of war and pain.
—the colonel
We know a young farmer who was more than ordinarily diligent
in getting read for spring work. He secured his seed, he went over
every implement, he exercised his horses, he secured adequate
help and had everything ready for a fine getaway last Monday, .when
down came the rain. All week his spring work has been at a stand
still. Meanwhile his expenses are mounting. His feed bins and his
coal bins are lowering, and hexinust look on,, helpless. But that is
part of the farmer’s fortune. 0
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DISCOURAGING
can endure ‘hardness. They can look upon
They can make sacrifices and not complain.
The' British public
reverses and not wince.
The British people will endure about anything for dear old England's
sake. But they will not endure everything. They will not endure
being kept in ignorance as to' the truth regarding any situation that
they must face. They leave matters of strategy to experts but they
insist upon knowing results. What is to be done they leave to men
whom they believe competent. > The consequences of their so doing
they want to know. The British people are brave and enduring be
yond all peoples in the world,, but they will not long submit to having
their efforts hamstrung by incompetence in big places.
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APPRECIATED
It is a real pleasure to record from time to time the recognition
given retiring Sabbath school teachers and superintendents. Such
faithful nation builders are on their job as regularly as comes the
first day of the week, be the weather fine or rough. They give of
then’ best of time and thought and cash that the youth of the coun
tryside may be grounded in^the best principles of living. Too often
they think that their efforts are unappreciated if not unwelcome.
All such workers should be. made to realize that there is no ground
for their discouragement. Every family honours them and wishes
them well. To their efforts we owe many a life saved from the down
hill road. Hence the value of their being done kindly by as
throw to others the torch they have carried so helpfully.
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they
with
out-
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THOSE MUSICAL FESTIVALS
Inclement weather and impassable' roads .sadly interferred
school attendance last winter. This spring there has been an
break of childish diseases that has seriously reduced the average at
tendance of little folk at their regular classes. ’All this results in
grave difficulties in the way of preparing for the spring musical
festivals. This is greatly to be regretted, as folk generally are fail
ing to cultivate their singing powers, a failure that cannot but work
irreparable loss to the home, to the church and to the community. A
singing nation cannot be conquered. A nation, on the other hand,
that loses its 3ongs is on the way to decline. The phonograph and
its successor, the radio, are poor substitutes for the parlour piano and
the local church choir. Grim necessity urges our giving attention
to those musical festivals that do their great part in keeping alive
the song and laughter and spiritual life of the commonwealth.
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HE KNE W
We called on a young barber the other day. We congratulated
him on his equipment and on his workmanship. We knew something
of his Situation, financial and otherwise. He had to pay rent. He
had his aged mother to support besides keeping up his end in local
interests. “You are doing pretty well,” we suggested. “I have to do
my very best” he replied. “If that isn’t good enough I’m out of luck.”
Experience has taught that young fellow something. “I must do
my very best.” We have heard that. Usually, it go’es like this “Do
your very best and you’ll win.’ The university of hard knocks had
taught this young fellow that one’s very best may not be good enough.
When this takes place, we have the tragedy of life. When one’s best
is not good enough we wonder what is to be done about it. There is
nothing for it in this easy going age but to see to it that our best is
good enough with a fair margin. We pass this story along to Mr.
Chamberlain.
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KEEP RESOLUTE
The first week of May closed with the hearts of the Empire quite
as anxious as they ever have been, we need not recite the causes for
this depression of spirits other than to say that every new day brought
news of new disasters, winding up with the word that the industrial
centres of Britain are within easy bombing distance of German air
oases. Every fear was expressed that if Britain were to carry on
her production war materials she must do so in Canada. Anyone
knows what this implies. What strained thef nerves even more than
the word of defeat Was the growing belief that the public was not
made aware of the worst regarding the situation. Along with this
was the deepening conviction that the leaders in the War were pursu
ing a meandering, indecisive course, breaking the spirit of the people,
What we know in relief of this situation is that when our people
know the worst, they do.their best. There is no cause for despair.
There is cause for dead earnestness and resolute action.
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THCBSDAY, MAV Olli, 1010
Snell Bros. & Co., Exeter
Associate Dealers5 G. Koehler, Zurich; J. E. Sprowl, Lucan
FOREIGN EXCHANGE ACQUISITION ORDER
IMPORTANT NOTICE
'As announced by the Minister of Finance, the Foreign Exchange Acquisi
tion Order, 1940, has been enacted by Order-in-Council under the authority
of the War Measures Act.
Unless exempted by the Order, every resident of Canada who, on May
1st, 1940, has any foreign currency in his possession, ownership or control,
whether in Canada or outside Canada, is required forthwith to sell such
foreign currency to an Authorized Dealer (i.e. a branch of a chartered
bank) ‘for payment in Canadian dollars at the official buying rate of the
Foreign Exchange Control Board.,
“Foreign currency”, for the purposes of the Order, means any cur
rency (excluding coin) other than Canadian currency and includes bank
notes, postal notes, money orders, cheques, travellers’ cheques, prepaid let
ters of credit, bank drafts and other similar instruments payable in any
currency other than Canadian currency, and also includes' any amount in
foreign currency of which a resident has a right to obtain payment by rea
son of a deposit, credit or balance of any kind at or with a bank, savings
bank, trust company, loan company, stockbroker, investment dealer or
other similar depository.
The Order does not require the sale of any foreign securities.
The Order does not affect any foreign currency, deposit or securities
of any non-resident of Canada and for greater certainty the Order ex
pressly declares that a non-resident visiting Canada for business or pleas
ure for a period or periods not exceeding six months in the year continues
to be a non-resident for the purposes of the Order unless such person
enters or has entered Canada with the intention of becoming a permanent
resident.
No resident is required to sell any foreign currency if he satisfies
the Foreign Exchange Control Board that he held such foreign currency
on May 1st, 1940, solely as trustee or agent for a non-resident and that
the non-resident’s interest therein had not been acquired from a resident
since September 15th, 1939, except'in a manner approved by the Board.
Under certain conditions stipulated in Section 1 (b) of the Order,
a resident who is not a Canadian citizen may be granted exemption, but
only after application for exemption is approved by the Board.
No life insurance company incorporated in Canada is required by the
Order to sell any foreign currency which it needs for the purpose of carry
ing on its business outside Canada.
Further particulars may be obtained from branches of chartered
°banks. Any resident who has any foreign currency in his possession,
ownership or control on May 1st, 1940, regardless of amount, should con
sult his bank at once in order to ascertain the extent to which he is
affected by the Order.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE CONTROL BOARD
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