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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1940-05-23, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE f 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. rt * * 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. rt rt rt 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 « * * 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- rt rt 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. * 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 rt rt 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. * * rt 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. rt rt * 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 ♦ * »r« 4* 4* 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. * 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 'J'Hl/USDAY, MAY «B, 1910 the Will the the BEAurrn/t L COLORS. red. fig- The Re­ WrmtNARVO [S.35/J 19/ Narvo combines all the good qualities of paint, enamel, varnish and lacquer in .one odorless, quick drying, tough finish. For Sale by G. A. 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