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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1940-05-23, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
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Celebrate 52nd
Anniversary
DON’T TAKE IT TOO SERIOUSLY
The specialist on nny number of
business operations is prone to re
gard his work with undue gravity^
That is where the fun comes in.
The donkey makes himself an ob
ject of rjdicule by sounding, his ser
enade with to much solemnity.
Among our honored specialists,
the adverstising man has attained
a unique position of eminence. It
is not often that he is given the big
and merry Haw Haw, However,
the following guffaw is now making
the rounds ... or
hope.
soon will (we
**.♦
AD MAN 'THE
•Glorifying pink
Eulogizing smelly cheeses;
Diel’ying rubber tires,
Sanctifying plumber’s pliers;
Accolading rubber panties,
Serenading jitterbug’s scanties;
Rhapsodizing bathroom fixtures,
■Sermonizing on throat mixtures;
Some call us the new Town Criers
■Others call us cockeyed liars.
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chemises
a
of
Human Nature is That Way
According to Herb Stephen,
restaurant owner with plenty
advertising ideas and little money
for advertising purchased the larg
est fish bowl he could find, filled it
with water and then placed it in
his front window with a sign read
ing;
“This bowl is filled with invisible
Peruvian .Gold Fish.”
It required two policemen to keep
the pavements in front of his win
dow cleared.
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BOTH ENDS
In Montana, there is a town nam
ed Eurelia. Trainmen differ as to
the pronunciation of the name (We
would like to hear some radio an
nouncer try it).
Passengers are often startled, up
on arriving at this station, to hear
the Conductor call; ‘‘You’re a liar.
You’re a liar!”
Then, from the other end of the
coach, the
head in the
really are.”
brakeman sticks his
door and cried: ‘‘You
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PLATITUDES
‘‘I am dping this for your,good.”
‘‘You and who else.”
‘‘Hey! Where d’yu think you are
goiug - to a fire?”
‘‘Sorry, but I won’t have any mo
ney until payday.”
“Be sure to come
time.”
and see us some-
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Use to the best
you have where you are.* * rt
Tht honeymoon is over when—
he neglects to kiss his wife before
breakfast;
—she doesn't hum a tune while do
ing the evening dishes;
—they talk about the weather
mean it;
—he takes more interest in the
chen than any -other room in
house;
—he keeps his arms folded at
movies;
—he keep his hat on in an elevator.
—she asks him for a match and he
says - ‘on the table’ - without
looking up from his paper;
—the one who finally gets up to
■answer the telephone or doorbell
glares at the other.
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advantage what
and
gay,
shy, and on
June
your
your
peach kissed by the
Do you recall our honeymoon?
The very clouds sang songs that
day,
Happy for us and our love in
Ypur brown eyes danced,
hat was
Yet you were
blush
Recalled a
rain, -
But somehow in the station crush -
Do you remember? . , I miss
ed the train,* * *
An Important phase of the aid
rendered by the St. Louis Public
Library during the current depres
sion years has been its Public Writ- j
ing Room with unlimited writing
paper, envelopes, pens and pen
points, ink and other services.
The room was primarily estab
lished for men out of work, the boy
oi- girl who is homesick or working
their way thru school and whose
room is ‘not nice. Many come back
day after day. Some with the want
advertising section of the paper and
they labor over their replies which
in most cases are applications for
jobs. Perhaps your local library
renders a similar service. If not,
why not offer this as a suggestion?
It may be of real help to some de
serving person.
To aid in the study and apprecia
tion ot good music, the Public Lib
rary of Springfield, Mass., lends
phonograph records. • The Library
owns more than 2,000' records - all
music of high quality, instrumental
and orchestral records, some opera,
vocal selections and chamber music.
Before and after a concert, there is
a large demand fox’ records of the
program numbers. If your library’
does not lend records (and the
chances are it doesn’t) why not start
a movement in your club or lodge
to sponsor a lending library of re
cords ’Little or no cash is required
and it will be wonderful help to
those who appreciate good music
but cannot afford to buy all the re
cords
hear.
of the pieces they want to
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burly man with the big dia-
scowled. ‘‘What would you
somebody started howling
graft and corruption in this
’ he demanded.
The
mond i
do if
about i
town?”
, “Go fishing.”
“Suppose they sent delegates aft
er you?”
“I'd make a speech asking their
help in stamping out petty graft.”
“And if they demanded action?”
“Appoint a committee.”
“Good. Now about
gets the jobs?”
“Whoever you say.”
“Now how would
charges ,that crime is
“Demand more policemen.
"And what would you do when
everything was running
“Install a new traffic
“Good.”
The burly man made a
his pad—and
candidate for
offices. Who
you answer
flourishing?”
li
smoothly?’’
system.”
kit-
the
the
I
“TheJut ia no
tobacco JUST LIKE J
OLD CHUM
A Help To Those
Past Middle Age
When men and women get past
middle age their energy, and activity,
in many instances, begin io decline,
and their general Vitality is oh the
wane.
Liitl® sicknesses and ailments seem
harder to shake oil then formerly,
and, here htid there, evidences of a
breakdown begin to appear.
Now is the time When those who
wish to maintain their health and
vigor, and retain their energy un
impaired should take a course of!
Milbum’s Health tod Nerve Pills.
They brace up and invigorate the
system, and help stall off the decrepi
tude of advancing years.
The T. Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont.
the gang
Mayor.
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notation on
had a new
SISU
have a favorite word.The Finns
It is not easily translated because no
other language has its precise equiv
alent yet SISU is a word ' that ex
plains Suomi, or Finland.
Even the Finns have difficulty in
defining it, for it is a thing felt like
religion or patriotism or love. SISU
is pronounced ‘see-sue.’ To under
stand SISU 'is to understand how a
country no- larger than California
withstood heroically for so long the
onslaught of .a nation that covers
One-seventh of the world’s land area.
SISU, a -Finn will tell you, means
“something still more”. It surpasses
fearlessness and extraordinary' en
durance. It is a kind of inner fire
or superhuman nerve force. It makes
an athlete forget fatigue and paiu
— it is patience and strong will
without passion — it comes to one
miraculously in times of stress. e
SISU is a god-like gift to a people
who are fundamentally and basical
ly fair and HONEST — perhaps it
is God’s reward to the Fihns for
having cultivated sincerity and in
tegrity.
From the Pinecone Courier
One of the most delightful events
of this social season was the wed
ding of Miss, Miranda Jones to Mr.
Seth Barnes. Many beautiful gifts
■were bestowed upon the charming
bride, but most unique Was a broom
presented by Si Appleman and ac
companied by these original lines:
This trifling gift accept from me;
Its use I do command -
In sunshine use the bushy part;
tn storms, the other end.
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The mission bells told me
That I must not stray
Until this column is finished
Be that as It may.
—the colonel
Those miserable starlings are busy nest-plundering.**** ****
Dad licks his anticipatory chops as he gathers in great handfuls
of that there asparrergrass.♦ * * * ♦ * *
Many farmers have found the seeding slow and difficult, on ac
count of the sogginess of the ground.********
The war is not without its humor. Witness the way the news
broadcasters wrestle with the pronunciation of those foreign names.* * * * * * * ♦
All that our people needed to know was that pulling the trillium
meant their destruction. On learning, they did precisely the right
thing.********
When speaking of those who are fighting with us just now, the
London TIME'S, refers to them as our Allies and spells the word
Allies with a, capital letter.********
THAT NEW ECONOMY
There’s talk of calling together the big wigs to get this Dominion
ou.t of its financial mess. There’s no need for such a costly action
that is bound to turn out fruitless. If the country will get down
to having money before it spends it, to spending only for necessary
- things and seeing to it that he who will not work shall not eat, the
whole thing will soon right itself, We are quite aware that our
suggestion will go unheeded, but for that matter so will the finding
of the big wigs. Only bitter experience will teach us.********
PERPLEXING
We’re waging the most terrible war in history. And this in face
of the fact that knowledge has steadily grown from more to more,
that mechanical facilities have increased beyond all expectation. Yet
here we are slaughtering without mercy and destroying our best pos
sessions with a zeal surpassed by no one in the prosecution of the best
cause ever known to man. Is not all this a vindication of the cry of
the Saviour of the world “Ye 'Will not come unto Me that ye might
have life.” IHe has been passed by. The race has taken its own
way and we but reap what we have sown. »********
WE WONDER AND WONDER AND WONDER
When the police of this province were doing what they could to
suppress the efforts of communists to spread their pernicious doc
trine, ever so many professors in our universities were blubbering
about the shame of such action. What do those learned men now say,
the men who were paid out of public funds and who did all they could
to encourage the folk who are now shooting our sons'on the battle
field? We’d like to have the government tell us what it is going
to- do about this sort of thing. Then, what about those clergymen
who seconded the efforts of those professors?********
READY
Exeter is ready to welcome the summer’s tourist trade. Our
merchants know the value of the American dollar in terms of the
Canadian dollar,. They know where the town’s rest rooms and
eating places are to be found, They know the topics pleasant to
American ears - that drive in the United States for ten million
dollars to help out Red Cross in its efforts to- alleviate the sufferings
of the war torn countries of Europe, for instance, to say nothing
of President Roosevelt's speech on the occasion of the new drive
of Germany for the heart of the Empire. Best of all, the merchants
are ready to show the goods that Americans most like, to buy, and
how these goods may be prepared for shipment without unpleasant
features of the customs offices.********
THAT JOB INSURANCE*
If job insurance is to be another form of political graft we are not
in favour of it. Yet that is the very thing that such insurance is
likely to be. Under the guise of sweet charity, the keen-eyed poli
tician sees another way to put working men under his thumb. Next,
if the men who have toiled a life-time, taking such jobs as they
could find, are to be taxed that the dainty pickers of jobs should
be maintained in a genteel form of mendicancy, we’re not in favour
of the proposed scheme. We do not like this thing of having the
politician secure his seat in power under the guise of something like
venomous philanthropy.'--rt * >iy * rt * * *
SPEED THE NEEDLE
In nearly every home we find women who are busy with needle
and shears as they give of their scant leisure to provide necessities
for wounded soldiers. Every so often these ladies bring in their
supplies for headquarters to be forwarded to the places where distress
is being relieved. No work ever undertaken by women is more to be
commended. The need is desperate beyond all telling,
nor moon ever looked upon carnage so appalling,
wing never hovered over
be said of our women:
“When pain and
* A ministering
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Neither sun
Sweet charity’s
agony so dreadful. Yes, inSeed, it may
anguish wring the brow,
angel, thou.”******
AN EXAMPLE
When the last war was over, the Hollanders took tens of thou
sands of helpless, destitute German children under itheir care. Every
Holland home 4vas open to the little refugees who were faced with
starvation and destitution. The best of food was put into the little
mouths. The best of clothing protected the little bodies. The best of
schooling was provided the little minds and every provision made
for the little people to make their way in the world. When grown,
these little people, now grown to manhood, returned to theii' native
land. What followed? These same people returned to Holland on
the outbreak of the present war, armed with the deadliest weapons,
clad in Holland clothing,,to the places where they played in the days
of theii’ destitution to burn the homees that sheltered them, to cut off
the hands that fed them. Buch is Germany. Such are the people
whom graduates of our Canadian Universities plead for as being a
gentle courteous folk who knew no malice and whom it was shame
even to think that they would work any ill to anyone.********
THEIR CAREFUL PREPARATION
The German preparation for the present fateful moment in
history is not a matter of the present moment nor of the present
century. As far back at the early 1870's the German, people became
aware that their manufactured articles were not holding their own
in the markets of the world. Accordingly, they sent out a deputa
tion to ascertain the cause of the German failure in the world mar
kets. This
comparison
and nasty.”
step was to
an effort that improved German taste immeasurably. __ _____
ly with the inculcating of good taste in the children, went a systematic
effort to stimulate an intense love of the fatherland. Songs, legends,
history, religion all were devoted to this end. The children and
youth were encouraged to believe that there was no land like Ger
many and no people so noble as the German people. The result was
immediate. How effective, all of us know only too well. Every
German pulse leaped at the call of the fatherland. Every German
is a crusader for the land of his birth,*******
BLACK FRIDAY
Friday the 17th inst will go down as Black Friday to Britain
and her Allies. It was a da/ of cruel surprises with scarcely a ray
of light as far as the success of the Allies is concerned. What did
not fail was British courage -and coolness. There was no panic either
at the battlefrojit or in French or British cities, The only fear was
that the Allies were being outsmarted. Their best laid plans seemed
to be going agee one by one with an appalling consequent death toll.
Along country concessions and sidelines comparatively little inter
est was taken in what was going on. There was no call for enlist
ment. Parents and sons seemed to have forgotten that there might
be a call to the colours. No offical call rang out for men to get ready
for the time of trial. Many seemed to be saying that the United
States would defend their interests, though the United States herself
was wrought into something approaching a, panic as she realized that
the Germans were within a few hours of New York and Washington.
At last the mighty republic saw in the Allies’ battlefield the first line
of American defence. Little comfort was found in the knowledge
that the Republic could have a large number of fighting planes ready
by the time Santa Claus would be taking to the air. 0 AU in all it was
a dark day for America as well as for the European, democracies.
Canadians realized what we meant when we said that it would be a
late day for Canada to wake up to her danger when the Germans
were throwing shells-into Halifax.
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deputation reported that ‘‘German products were, in
with the manufactured products of other nations, cheap
The next step was to correct this state of -affairs. That
inculcate artistic taste and skill in the German children,
Simultaneous-
We join the many friends in con
gratulating Mr. and Mrs. Louts
Kalbfleisch of the 16th con., who
last Wednesday evening celebrated
their 52nd wedding anniversary by
having all their children home with
the exception of a daughter, Mrs.
’Victor Deichert, of Staffa, who, was
unable to come,
family was there,
plentious dinner
which a program
son, Prof. Herbert Kalbfleisch of
Western University was present and
spoke, and was followed by his
friend Prof, Emberton also of West
ern who also made suitable remarks.
Children and grandchildren to the
number of 3-5 were present and en
joyed the evening, all wishing their
parents and grandparents continued
health and happiness together.—Zu
rich Herald,
1941 LICENSE TO BE GREEN,
WHITE
License plates for 1941 in Ontario
will have a white background and
the figures will be green, it was an
nounced last week at Queen’s Park.
Government officials said
green is of a dark shade that
provide plenty of contrast to
white„ background and make
plates easy to read. This will avoid
the difficulty experienced in 1938
when the background and figures
were neutral shades of blue and
Plates this year have black
ures on a yellow background,
plates are made at the Ontario
formatory at Guelph, Ont.
while some of her
A very tasty and
was served after
was in order. Their
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fa-“I’m. delighted to know youx’
ther is pleased I’m a poet.”
“Yes, the last boy friend of mine
he tried to toss out of the house
was a wrestler.”
Indecision, hesitation and proc
crastination are the three chief
causes of failure.
Depriving one’s self to give is true
generosity.
Keep trying, it is often the last
key that opens the lock.
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Watch where you are going -
even if you are not going anywhere.
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And this extra length in Chev
rolet for ’40 means many extra
advantages to you as a motor car
buyer. It means extra riding ease.
Extra road-steadiness. Extra com
fort inside the roomier Bodies by
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pressiveness of appearance in a car
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Come to our showrooms today.
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C-4I9B
SNELL & CO., EXETER
Associate Dealers’ G. Koehler, Zurich: J. E. Sorowl. Lucan