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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1940-05-30, Page 7COURAGE O What great importance is cour­ age in our every day life! Too often, the only difference be­ tween abject failure and great suc­ cess may be summed up in this one word. Good ideas .are infrequent. Splen­ did plans for organization or im­ provement exist in nearly every hu­ man mind but because of lack of courage, many fail to work out the good idea or to cellent plans to •ion. They fear their or that they lack the ability if not the initiative. They fear failure and the scorn of their fellow work­ ers or some members of their own family or of the world at large. How are we to know the sound­ ness of our judgment or the power of our ability without a fair trial? The world has no score for the man who fails if he keeps on trying. * Keep trying—at least one day every seven is lucky. * * * carry out successful their ex- conclus- judgment is faulty * * iu Tomorrow Today is mine - my very own, To use as I see fit. Tomorrow, it may ne’er be born, I have no claim on it. planted them in as many different places as we could find. We don’t own an orchard — not even a single apple tree — we just plant the seed and leave the rest to nature. We have planted apple seed ’out in the open’ in 14 states. Probably not more than one seed in a hundred grows and bears fruit but we do know that some have thrived. While visiting a farm near where we grew up the farmer, now 80 years old, took us out to the side of the house and called our attention to four apple trees that are now more than 40 years old. Then, he astonished us by saying they were trees we had planted one Sunday afternoon while attending a "home coming” held at his farm, We remembered the big family dinner but not the seed planting — but the incident served to justify our habit of apple seed saving. We have taken up your time in this column not to talk about our habits but to offer the suggestion that saving fruit seed: apple, peach, plum, cherry or pear, will give you' something to do and a lot of faction in knowing you are helpful to other folks who will after you. that won’t NOW is start. satis- being come habitBest of all, it is a cost you anything. mighty good time toa at All days that evei' were are mine, They’re all within ‘today’. Without the yesterdays of time There could be no today. Tomorrow it may never come, I wake and it has fled; Today is all I call my own - Work; heart, soul and head. * * * Journalism andare 450 universities that have courses in Jour- In 1939-40, there were * * * night do I wake with * How often a fright, Cause of which I can find no sug­ gestion 'Til I think of my habit of eating Welch Rarebit Then decide that it’s m/ indigestion. * Lecturer—"I am going to speak about the farmer’s best friend. Do you know what that is?” Farmer: "Sure—a politician up for re-election. ♦ * * A good example of a gallant speech: "Won’t you come into my garden? I would like to have my roses or Wash­ people are the right There colleges nalism. 13,995 college students enrolled in Journalism courses — and, judging from our mail bag, 13,000 of them aspire to be Columnists .ington correspondents. * * * "The vast majority of honest and want to do thing” - reports the columnists of the Webb City, (Mo.) Graphic Re­ view - "but still it is a fact that a attached to any kitchen uten- tableware loaned to a church is the only fair string sil or social one a it back.” chance t.hing that gives of ever getting * "I want a bookThe gift for a boy of seventeen.” Bookshop Clerk: "Studious normal.”* * * APPLE KNOCKER In the United States, there are approximately 250,000 apple trees representing about 17 distinct spec­ ies each of which have from 5 to '50 varieties. The apple tree is of the genus Malus. Back in our pre-school days, some­ one read or told us the story of Johnnie Appleseed. This story made such a strong impression on us that we started saving and planting ap­ pleseed. It is an annyong and some­ times embarrassing habit - saving seed - because we seldom eat an apple in public or private that we do not 'remove the seed from the core and save them. We have grown quite self-conscious and ashamed of the habit but it persists neverthe­ less. Whqt do we do with them, you might ask? Well, next to the habit of saving the^eed we have formed the habit of' planting them, any­ where and everywhere they might have a chance to grow, years we have taken our winter ac­ cumulation of appleseed times during April and i For fifty and some- May have Your Next visit to TORONTO Try Hotel Waverley Located on Wide Spadlna Ave. at College St Easy Parking Convenient to • m “ Single • • »i.sv ioRates Mie : * $2.50 to $5.00Four |0 R()Ortv 55 M b j6i()0 • to the University, ament Buildings, Facilities Highway* .■ $1.50(0 L2.S6 Close Parll------------ ----------- Maplo Leaf Gardens, Theatres, Hospitals, Wholesale Houses, and the Fashionable Retail Shopping District. A* Ml POWELL, PRESIDENT see you.”* * * a recent luncheon of newspaper the following toast was offer- At men ed: "The ladies! Second only to the press in the dissemination of the news!” * * * Pert and Pertinent "The automobile of the future,” said Chas P. Kettering, "will make the present contraption look like hay wagon.” —that is the way our car al­ ways looks when - every new model comes out. "It is recorded that Chicago is to have more than 1,000 conventions this year, attended by more than 1,000,000 people.” —doubtless there will also be some persons and personages "A fanatic is one who does not swallow our own brand of brewed bigotry.” —without making a rye or a ribald retort. "Apple eating,” according eminent M. D., "is the best way clear out the digestive tract.” —-well, it all right.♦ a home­ face to an to cleared Adam out, ♦ ♦ I Etruscan is Still a Mystery Among the things men do not know about mankind is the identity derivation and language of the civil­ ized, artistics, luxuroug inhabitants of. Etruria in west central Italy, northwest of the Tiber, conquered by Rome in 283 B.C. Professor Francisco Pironti, after long labor, recently published a work in Which he claimed to have found a method of interpreting the language, fragments of which were discovered in three places. The commission appointed by the Italian Ministry of National Educa­ tion has just reported officially that "Pironti’s work is not acceptable. Up to the present,” it continues, "there is no scientific foundation for the belief that the Etruscan language can be * He talks like best behavior. * Professor: "This be conducted on the honor system. Please take seats three seats apart and in alternate rows.” * * * There is one thing to be said in favor of those ‘oversized’ stamps the post office has issued lately — they provide innocent employment for idle tongues.* * * Thinking of an ending verso, Doesn’t take much knack, The typewriter does the work, While I just sit back. —the colonel interpreted.”* dictionary on its * a ** examination will THVBS1M.Y, MAX 30th, 1010 “ ‘Rush All Deliveries, Jim * in the Canadian House barked the Chief and THE EXETER T1MES-ADVOCATE « * be their desparate utmost to win the war. for the war may be postponed till another day. road in this struggle. He against her. The Hun is measures. ****** Senator Arthui’ Meighen, you should of Commons. Canada has need of you.****** The grass has done a good job of growing.******** May showers this year will bring forth June flowers. ******** It’s up to every one of us to do a little better what he already can do fqirly well.******** Britain has voluntarily surrendered her rights that sue may maintain them. * We are grateful to our friends the radio- news broadcasters and tO' our brothers of the daily press for keeping us promptly informed as to world events.******** The prevailing cold and storm of the past winter, followed as it been hard on thehas been by the dark days of this Spring, has nervous condition of many people.******* * How fine the gesture had the United States “Take all the planes we can make and without a are fighting the battle of liberty.”******** Anyway, the meadows and the pasture land have sufficient mois­ ture. If the law of averages still holds, we’re in for some really hot weather. So don’t fail to get that seed into the soil.******** Keep on hoping. We know our farmers friends have passed through an anxious hour this Spring. The moisture has been exces­ sive and the soil is cold. Yet we have had similar seedings that turn­ ed out well. Farmers tells us of the seasons when dressed hogs sold for three dollars and fifty cents per cwt. and wheat for forty cents per bushel. So let us keep on hoping,******** NO MIDDLE ROAR The church’s paramount duty is to urge her members to do The assessing of the guilt There is no middle who is not with Britain and her Allies is at our gates. We dare not take half- said to the Allies: cent of cost.. * * * * * * * * THAT TREACHERY Appalling was the news that the Germans had little or no diffi­ culty iu getting behind the Maginot line. In sheer dismay they asked the reason. The answer came in the dark word “treachery,” Men utterly failed to do what they could easily have done, and what they solemnly promised to do. We have learned once more that no nation is stronger than its conscience.******** DIFFICULT TO CONTROL Last winter as we waded waist deep in snow we prophesied flood conditions as Spring drew on. Well, the Spring passed without destructive floods. Five 'yeais ago some farmers in Fullarton had . no seeding done by the 24th on account of the excessive dryness of the soil. Thirty-five and forty years ago farmers in the Western provinces were beset by excessive Spring moisture that endanger­ ed getting seeding done before the heavy autumn rains. Lack of moisture seems to be the besetting evil of the west these later years. Weather conditions still lie beyond human control.* * * * * * * * NOT MUFFLING THROUGH John Bull nas not only taken off his coat for the war. but his sleeves are rolled up and his hands grimy with the hardest kind of work. He has conscripted every man and every woman and every penny and every bit of property in his’ realm in the interest of victory. No men in England calls his house or his hand nis own. All that England owns is now on the altar of her country and of her God. If England fails in the present hour not one of her sons cares to live. England sees best on a dark day.******** LET’S GET GOING ‘ In view of the appalling treachery being revealed every hour municipal authorities, the chosen local leaders in public affairs should take immediate steps to have every possible source of treason or treachery investigated and rooted out. It will be all the better if the minimum of broadcasting is done in this matter, but the work should be done. In days when one’s foes may be those of his own household or of his own neighborhood the utmost vigilance is requir­ ed. A serious word to the R.C.M.P. is carefully guarded and properly heeded. es for be- We ******** WHAT WAS EXPEC TED That German drive toward England surprises no real student of events, England has been the objective of German hatred and strat­ egy for twenty-five years. Poland, Finland, Norway, France, all of them were to be but incidentals to the laying waste of England All sorts of people pursed their lips and gave the rest of us a pityiug glance when we stated this fact. Now, however, the evil beast has not shown his teeth, but he has shown his plans. His further objective is the United States. A few informed folk in the United States are seeing that the line of the Allies is the first line of defence the United States. They are shivering up and down their spine cause they did not strengthen that line, long, long ago.******** WHY NOT A DISTINCTIVE CANADIAN CONTRIBUTION We are not suggesting a fifth wheel to the Empire wagon, are not thinking of dividing the war effort. We are all for each and all for the Empire. What we are thinking of is that Canadians should have distinctive way of doing things, under the supreme com­ mand. There is some talk that Canadian airplanes are not wanted by the Empire simply because they are not made after the old country pattern. The validity for the refusal of Canadian airplanes is not sufficient. We know that there is a difference between Canadian cars and British cars, but both cars are highly efficient. Both will stand the test of the road. If Canadian airplanes will stand the test of battle, why not get them to the men who are crying out for them? If Canadian airmen can stand the test of battle, why not allow them into the battle with machines made by their countrymen.******** WHAT OF OUR SELF-RESPECT? Adopting the language of another surely is an admission of ad­ miration of the other. The use of his terminology is an admission that his terminology is superior to our terminology. With these things in mind, what is to be said of certain news broadcasters and editors adopting German terms at this particular moment in world history. These men talk glibly and unctuously of a blitzkreig when they refer to the German attack on the liberties of the race. When they speak of the way German troops and sailors and airmen destroy our defenders - our Allies - they use the German word strafe. When they look about for a man with hand and brain and spiritual quality to led us out of our present awful condition they speak, not of a lead­ er, but of a Fuhrer, Is this their way of telling us that they be­ lieve in the Swaztika rather than the Union Jack? Is this their way of preparing us for surrender to our foe? What about it? Is there a preference for the language of Hitler rather than for the language of Milton an evidence of their seeking to come under the benign influence of Hitler rather than to continue under the rule of King George? Do these straws show the direction of the tide of opinion in some quarters in Canada?******** IT GAN’T BE DONE Appeasement has utterly failed with Germany. We have out that it is a waste of time to believe the promises of a liar, ther, we have found that standing on the defensive will never win this war. Defences were built by us, only to crumble like a house of cards. Too late have we discovered that the best defence is an attack. For a quarter of a century wo deluded ourselves into thinking that we would be safe behind walls and cannon. Our foe was wiser than we and did what we should have done twenty-five years ago, For this folly the people must bear the major share of the blame. Over and over again church courts passed resolutions that war is "unchristian” no matter what the provocation or occasion. Rulers, In view of this state of public opinion, played the miserable game of partisan politics. We know the result. We must prepare for an overwhelming attack. The foe is plac­ ing his cannon to blow us and the whole Empire to smithereens. What we have done falls pitifully short of our requirements. 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