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WORKOUT
As winter ends my spirit sits and
broods,
Not only for the pleasant flowery
ways
Of singing streams and birds that
fill the days
With melody but for the great North
Woods;
For lonely trails and empty soli
tudes,
And roaring waters and the camp
fire blaze,
And boughs to sleep on, or from
which to gaze
Up into the stars, and in rapt Chal
dean moods,
Hasten! My palate aches for wailing
fare;
My shoulders long to feel the heavy
pack;
I sigh for portages of storm and
stress;
My soul of all convention would be
bare;
I’d be primeval and go trudging
back
Into the dim untrodden wilderness
But it I could and did -
I'd feel a yearning
To be back — pecking out a column.* * *
Rid Egyptians Find America?
The Abbe Moreaux, directoi' of
the Bourges Observatory, and au
thor of a work on "The Mysterious
Science of the Pharaohs" has come
out with a theory that, centuries be
fore Columbus, Egyptians discover
ed America.
'Otherwise, how did it happen that
when Columbus arrived, he found
Mie Indians calling the constella
tions or heavenly bodies by name
corresponding to those now known
to have been bestowed upon them
by the ancient Egyptians?
Again, as the Abbe Moreaux in
forms us in "Le Petit Parisen," ’a
savant, Moustafa Ibrahim Bey, has
just demonstrated that certain geo
graphical names in America are de
rived from ancient Egyptian, where,
for example, ‘Mississippi’ means
■‘Father of Waters’."
Still again, "in Mexico we find
pyramids, hieroglyphs, and sculp
ture in which the human beings,
especially in their mode of hair
dressing, exactly resemble those
shown in ancient Eyptiau paintings.’
But would an expedition analo
gous to that of Columbus have been
possible in the days of the Phara
ohs? According to Ibrahim Bey,
Raineses II had a ship 280 cubits
long built by Phoenicians and we
know that the ancient Egyptians
perfectly understood the use of
sails. In the seventh century, B.C.
“Egyptians circumnavigated Africa”
Those mariners, thinks the Abbe
Moreau, may later have risked a
voyage to America.
Thus, the company of pre-Colum
bian discoverers of America in
creases, and .to Norsemen and Ne
groes these subjects of ancient
Pharaohs are, if not a universally
plausible addition, at least enter
taining,
f.i * *
Slips of Type
"The horses were stricken with a
strange melody.”
Music and lancing in the dining
room."
"The opening number was render
ed by a mule quartette.”
"Many fiends attended the wed
ding.”
"Miss Lucy Smith has been under
the doctor’s car for a week,”
* sp *
PRANKISH PROBLEM
In a room llxllxll feet is an
electric outlet in the lower right
corner of the rear wall, 3 feet above
the floor and 2 feet .from the adja
cent wall; a second outlet is in the
upper left corner of the left wall, 4
feet below the ceiling and 2 feet
from the front wall. It is desired
to connect these two outlets.
Worry Saps
The Nervous System
Worry1 over business or household
duties, sudden shock, the insane
quest for pleasure, the foolish at
tempt to put a week of normal life
into twenty-four hours, feverish ac
tivity, the demand for sensational
literature are all conducive to the
aggravation of Wehr and tear On the
nervous system.
If you are tired, listless, nervous,
and worried why not give Milbum’s
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Find the shortest distance be
tween the centres of the outlets,
measured on the surface of any part t
of the room."
(We’ll print the correct answer
in next week's column. Can you
solve it before then?* * *
The real problem concerning your
leisure is how to keep other people
from using it.
* * *
With some people, you spend an
evening — with others you invest
it.* * *
PAL O’ MY DREAMS
Alone at last in the quiet night
watch of my dull and dreary apart
ment surrounded by lurking shad
ows that deepen as they recede
from a single lighted table lamp.
Hands folded idly over a book -
the book he gave me - while from
the tiny radio comes a lilting song
of love and yearning — longing.
Ah, it is good to be alone, some
times, with one’s memories. Idleness
breeds idle fancies — and dreams
long ago laid to rest arise to taunt
—to linger—and to be lived again
in fancy. There is an old, old one
of the ideal pal — the one where
strangers beckoned and called when
we were young. All the others that
I used to dream of - and still do -
come back to be repolished and
brightened. Each time they open up
new by-paths aud vistas that shine
and gleam among the shadows of
the past in a dazzling tantalizing
array.
Longing, yet not lonely, wistful
but not remorseful — for we did
have our brief moment of happy
ecstacy we were all in all while
for us, the world stood still.
And so to you, Pal O’ My Dreams,
I blow you a kiss along the corri
dor of our memory Castle.
* * *
"I hate that chap,” quoth the
’lovable girl, as she rubbed cold
cream on her lips.
* * *
Frankness Rewarded (
On board one Navy vessel, there
was a Captain in command who was
noted for his strict attitude in re
gard to granting extensions of time
to men on furlough. Absentees were
wont to use every sort of pretext to
have an extension granted — and
usually were refused. One man sent
the following telegram: “Nobody > sick. Nobody dying. Have plenty j
of money and still going strong.
Request five days’ extention. Wire
collect.” (N.B.: He got his leave.)
* * *
"To be or not to be" - are the
most famous six words in the litera
ture of the world outside of the
Bible. They are from Hamlet by
William Shakespeare.
* * *
Will some kindly reader tell me
why it is that receiving tellers in
banks are so condescending when
they reluctantly accept your deposit
and paying tellers so skeptical when
you try to cash a check?
We are always made to iv-ei so
thoroughly apologetic wheA We are
depositing or withdrawing and this
is a mental condition that makes
us self-conscious. There must be
some other method - other than
buying the bank outright - but that
is the only one we have thought of
to date.* * *
'i
YOUR PET AND MINE
While mast people prefer to buy
their pets quite young, the business
of training and selling ‘educated
pets’ is quite important.
Near Philadelphia there is a new
Parrot Seminary which uses all the
the modern methods in training the
birds to talk. One trick is to make
use of a phonograph record on
which the words ‘mother’ and ‘hel
lo’, etc., are repeated again and
again •—- which is just as good as
the old method of oral training and
. a lot less, worrying on the profes
sor.
A recent development involves
the use of mirrors. The professor
stands behind the mirror apparatus,
■which faces the student parrot, and
talks in a loud voice. The student
parrot, seeing another parrot in the
mirror thinks the other parrot is,
doing the talking, Curiosity, jeal
ousy and a desire to emulate are
brought into play and the progress
is rapid.
All that remains is to train par
rots to teach other parrots and do
away with the human parrot teach
ers altogether.
k * ♦ *
I ain’t no good at figures
The kind With numerals I mean
But my hardest job isn’t figures
It’s ending the column lean.
-'-•the colonel
Hay in this part of the world was harvested in the- best of condi
tion,*** *****
Anyone desirous of a stiff bit of work is recommended to apply
to a farmer short of help in a hurry loading green peas.
********
That canning factory makes merry music for a great many Exeter
workers and merchants as well as the farmers of the surrounding
country.**** ****
Hitler is consulting the stars for guidance in his campaigns. We
have heard of another who did so and whose end was St. Helena.
What we are looking for is quite a revival of astrology and of fortune
telling.********
Deep and keen regret is felt by many in this district because of
the untimely death of Private Philips. This young man had scores
and scores of friends. He was among the very first to enlist. The
neighborhood in which he lived feels his loss very keenly.
********
THEY WON
Yes, the Italians won that boat race in the Mediterranean. That
Italian cruiser saw the British cruiser and immediately took to flight.
She made use of every lawful means in her power and gained a
straight victory, She had the finest of tail lights and displayed them
to her rival with fine effect. For the Italian warrior,, discretion'is
ever the better part of valour.********
A GOOD NAME
Sydney is a great name among British fighters. Sir Philip Syd
ney proved himself the finest gentleman of all time by giving a
brother soldier the drink proferred with the words "Thy need is great
er than mine.” Then HjM.'S, Sydney pounded to pieces that vicious
commerce raider the Emden. And now another Sydney has sent to
the bottom of the sea an Italian warship, the gayest and best of her
kind. Yes, a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.
Humphrey Gilbert, Drake, Frobisher, Nelson and now Sydney, what
would the Empire do without such beacon lights to victory and gal-
antry.***♦♦»» *
WELL DONE, EXETER
Exetei- is not a big town but its heart is in the right place. That
eleven hundred dollars raised the other night at the theatre party
was a good deed exceptionally well done. What pleases us all the
more is the knowledge that the gesture of theatre night is hut an in
dex to what is going on steadily every day. Lads and lassies who se
cure an extra quarter buy a thrift stamp therewith. Business men
turn any spare cash that way. Some even go without this or that
extra for the table in order that Jack Canuck and John Bull may be
able to pay their compliments.to Hitler in the only way that big bully
can understand. You see, we're out to win in this struggle and win
we will, no matter what the sacrifice. Sacrifice loses nothing of its
fragrance when made with a smiling face and a lifted chin.
********
BETTER GET READY
This affair of national registration had better be attended to.
So far it looks as if the registering people will have a busy time of it.
Lively stepping on the part of everybody wll be required. Folk are
anxious about the secrecy of the registering officers. There will be
questions asked of folk that simply must be kept secret, a very diffi
cult affair when everybody knows everybody else. We have heard of
oaths of office being regarded as mere matters of form and of the
folk who take the oath forgetting the significance of what they have
done. The public needs resassurance on this point. Any official1 vio
lating his soelmn obligation by word or wink should get a staggering
penalty.********
A DELIGHT
There it was, that little rose. Around it were brick and mortar
and all. the hardness that goes to make up a corner of one of our main
streets, but there the little rose bloomed and filled the air with deli
cate fragrance for anyone who would take time to enjoy its loveliness
and respond to its appealing tenderness. How the little beauty tame
to he just there we cannot say. Perhaps it i< a relic of days long past
when neither brick nor cement intruded upon the life of this little
flower’s ancestors. But there the little bush grew tinder the hardest
of circumstances and gave a deal of pleasure to any who stop and
take pleasure in what it had to offer. It was indeed like a good deed
in an naughty world. Long may it flourish.
********
A DELIGHTFUL SURPRISE
As we were going down the street the other morning we were
surprised to hear a piano being played. There was the notes of Kil-
larney streaming out in the lovely summer sunshine. Twenty years
ago such an experience was by no means novel. To hear half a dozen
youngsters busy at the piano and dads proudly announce to one an
other that May was mistress of a new "piece” and invite friends in
to share the triumph and the genuine treat was quite usual. May
those days soon come again. We like the radio. It’s fine orchestral
and other musical treats are priceless boons to thousands of us who
never would hear those glorious harmonies were it not for those in
struments that never .cease their power to make us wonder how it all
comes about. Yet they never quite take the place of the first hand
production of music or of the human voice. Still less do they take
the place of the real culture that comes from mastering the music for
one’s self. Music from a mechanism is a poor substitute for the family
or individual performance.* * * * * * * *
BETTER STOP AND THINK AT LEAST TWIO^
Any one of us would share all he has with the hungry people of
Europe, When we hear of hunger or hardship or first impulse is to
give liberally of our best. Why, we ask, should Poland and Denmark
and-France suffer while we have abundance? Let the Red Cross dis
tribute our bounty for us with liberal hand,
But that is not the question just now. Should we send of our
superfluity to the distressed countries of Europe, the food we offer
will never reach the suffering ones but will be instantly and ruthlessly
diverted to feed the German war machine. Make no mistake on that
point. All aid given to the ravished countries is feeding the murder
ers of Britain’s soldiers and sons and daughters. Let no talk or plea
of any kind to the contrary mislead us. Germany is deceiving the
world when she states that Britain is the cause of the famine creeping
over Europe. Germany alone is responsible for the arrow that now
flies at the heart of menaced Europe. Germany and Germany alone is
responsible for every empty mouth in Europe. Were Germany to lay
down her arms and behave herself, the ills that infect that bewildered
and bloodsoaked continent would heal themselves in six months. Till
Germany does so, the pestilence must continue to walk in darkness
and famine to ravish at noonday.********
HE SIMPLY does no l1 know
We heard' a talk over the radio the other evening by,a prominent
clergyman who dealt with some such topic as "The Need, of the Hour”.
The spirit of the talk was admirable, but the good man simply did not
understand the situation as it confronts the country people of Canada.
He told us that as we dived into our lakes and fished in our streams
and canoe over our fine wafer expanses that the Hun was at our
gates and keen to destroy all that we hold dear.
The good man utterly failed to know how hard th'e majority of
Canadians are working. True there are a few who enjoy fine holi
days such as he so eloquently described, but the most of us are up to
our ears in work of the hardest kind for twelve hours in the day,
pitching green peas, making hay, killing weeds or milking cows or
picking small fruit or gathering vegetables for the market. All this is
done that schools and homes may be kept going and churches main
tained with open doors. From homes where such work is done go
forth some of the sturdiest defenders of our liberties. Will not those
fine folk give over canoeing and fishing and such sport and lend a
hand where meh and women are toiling to the point of fatigue
that soldiers may be fed and the ideals of the Empire we love be main
tained? The pressing need of the hour is for workers who will not
stay their hand till the last Hun has been routed and the three-cross
flag of Britain waves over a world where every man calls his soul his
own and a freeman to requited toil to all the blessings of self govern
ment,
A preparatory school for the fu
ture pilots, air gunners and air ob
servers of the Royal Canadian Air
Force, No. 1 initial training school
at Toronto is operating at full ca
pacity months ahead of the original
schedule of the British Common
wealth Air Training Plan. Hun
dreds of young Canadians have tak
en the four weeks’ course of basic
air force training at this school since
it opened to a small introductory
class late in April. The graduates
have passed on to the next, phase of
their training either as pilots, air
observers, air gunners, or instruct
ors.
The initial training school at Tor
onto is housed in the renovated and
adapted premses of the Eglinton
Hunt Club. Two similar schools will
be organized elsewhere in Canada.
Lounge rooms in the old Toronto
Hunt Club headquarters have lost *
their luxury fittings to become lec
ture rooms with bare floors and
blackboards around the walls.
The banquet hall contains long
i tables and benches; the arena is a
paved parade and drill hall. In this
big building, young men spend four
concentrated weeks in the processes
which determine their aptitude for
training as pilots, observer-naviga
tors or gunners.
Elsewhere they spend much long-,
er training periods, yet here is •
where they are observed most close
ly, far more than they realize, with
the result that a lad’s destiny may
be determined to a great extent by
his conduct during leisure hours.
And here they learn the basic essen
tials for -service as members of an
air crew.
When a lad enters the school,
' with a draft from the Manning De
pot, not knowing whether he is to
be pilot, air gunner or air observer,
he is first identified and entered in
the station strength. He then gets
an issue of bedding, is shown his
bunk, documented into the school
training strength and paraded with
the rest of the new draft. Then the
Commanding Officer addresses the
newcomers.
His address is brief and friendly.
1-Ie reminds the lads that they have
j been chosen because of their high
calibre, and that because of this fact
much of the routine is based upon
an honour system. He points out
I that no barbed wire fence surrounds
j the station, and that leisure hours
are exceptionally free. Men can
1 leave the school any night until I 10.30, can obtain passes for leave
until midnight. But he stresses that
studies are heavy and a man per
sonally determines much of his des
tiny by his use or abuse of privi
leges.
Thereupon the new classman en
ters into school life. Henceforth
he rises at 6 a,m., must be 'shaved
and ready for physical training at
6.50. Breakfast fallows, with every
one reporting for work at 8 a.tn. The
day, until 4.30 p.m. is solid with
studies or drills. Studies include
mathematics, administration, duties
of an officer, armaments (gas and
small arms), etc. There is much
route marching and drill.
During his studies, the student
finds himself undergoing regular
physical tests, even more rigid than
the original medical prior to his
acceptance into the Force, Coupled
with these, he gets lectures and
demonstrations on what is called
sanitation, but is actually a sort of
aerial medicine. He is told of
things that happen to airmen at
high altitudes, of what happens
when they dive too fast to low alti
tudes. and a blackout is described.
This is the momentary loss of con
sciousness which faces a pilot or
crew if a plane dives or turns at ter
rific speed. He is told how to recog
nize approach of a “blackout” and
what to do to avoid it.
All these things he learns during
his four weeks at the school. Reg
ularly each week he writes examin
ations as a member of either A, B or
C Flight of No. 1 Squadron or as
a member of D. E or F Flight of
No. 2 Squadron. As he leaves one
classroom, another flight follows his
flight into it. In this way every
room is busy at every hour of the
working day; no time is lost.
Then he reaches the stage wliety
he gets a ‘trip’ in the Link trainer,
i This is a full Size aircraft cockpit,
with stubby wings attached, equip
ped with normal flying instruments,
and as responsive to control move
ments as a real plane. It is con
nected with instruments at a table
where an instructor can sit and
watch the student’s progress. But
the table is outside the Link room,
so that the student is alone on his
"flight.”
The Link Trainer is placed in the
centre of a circular room which is
painted to represent open country.
There are moutains and bays, a
storm at one side, open country on
another. The objective is to teach
the lad to learn how to -"1601” the
horizon level of his ship, and how
to turn, bank, climb and dive.
In between time, the student tra-r
vels to a nearby research institute
or clinic, where he is taught the use
of oxygen, what effect Is has on fh°
human system, why it is used for
high altitude flying, and so on. .He
is also taught its dangers, if used
to excess, and is given opportunity
to have a whiff or two of it.
So, day after, day, he travels the
concentrated route of study and
practical experience. During this
period he does not know if he will
be a pilot, an observer or a gunner.
His eniightment allows his assign
ment to any of these three branches
of air crew service. And, almost
unknown to him, he is being care
fully assigned by his instructors and
officers. They call it. ‘categorizing
the embryo officer.
At nights he may study or go
out. There is considerable freedom
in getting late leave passes. He is
left to determine his own desires
in this course. If he stands high on
examination, stays out late, and con
ducts himself properly, he is not
criticized severely in general report.
But if he stays out late often and
fails in exams., it is assumed he is
showing little interest in his future.
He may be warned once or twice.
But, to a great extent, he is largely
master of his own destiny. As one
officer put it: "He is judged on his
life here; his future will be the sum
of his actions here whether they be
off or on parade, off or on duty.”
There is plenty of wholesome en
tertainment and recreation1 for the
student during his off-hours. There
is a swimming pool under the man
agement of a former Canadian swimy
ming champion. There are Y.M.C.A’.
tennis tables and a library. Citizens
flood the school with invitations to
tea or dinner; theatres supply free
tickets, There is regular Sunday
church service, plus facilities offer
ed by nearby churches such as so
cials, dances and so on.
There is much of high-class pre
paratory atmosphere about the whole
school. Discipline is strict on duty;
officers are saluted and addressed
with briskness and courtesy. But
they smile as they return the salutes
and they try to get across an air of
friendliness because they know bet
ter than the boys themselves just
what it is like to be a long way from
home among high-spirited compan
ions who do a lot of kidding and
ragging in leisure hours. If a lad
seems to be too quiet or despondent
officers go out of their way to chat
with him and the Y. M. C. A. officer
in station quietly starts to work at
interesting the lad in books, games
or talk. Incidentally, the whole syl
labus of udties provides one full af
ternoon a week for games such as
bowling, baseball, swimming and so
Middlesex - Huron Regiment Men
at Drill at Goderich.
Fifty raw recruits of "C" Com*
pany, Middlesex-Huron Regiment,
were put through their first drill
July 16 at the armories, Goderich,
as Lieut. B. Twamley directed the
first step in the training of men
who have enlisted since the call
went out 10 days ago to bring the
non-permanent militia up to, war
strength.
Quite a xiumber of prospects look
ed oh and many of these signed up
later. One hundred and fifty will
be recruited from Goderich and
Clinton, Another company of 150
is being recruited from Seaforth
and Wingham,
The "awkward squad” was shown
by demonstration and later they
were put through the first rudi-
mens of soldiering by Q.M.S. Nelson
and C.S.M. Allen. They hlso were
issued rifles and instructed in their
handling.
Physical examination of the re
cruits was commenced but not eoin-
pleted. There will necessarily be a
weeding out.
Officers in charge, while well
pleased with the start made, have
launched a vigorous recruiting cam
paign which already is bearing fruit.
It is hoped to have the company
at full strengh foi’ the camp to be
held in August. Drilling is contin
uing two nights a week.
MRS. A. E- JOHNSTONE DIES
Susanna Catherine Heaman, wi
dow of Albert E. Johnstone, died on
July 17 at the home of her son-in-
law, Russell Dorrance, in McKillop
Township, in her 72nd year. She
was born near Centralia, and was
married in 1-8*89 to her late husband
who predeceased her 38 years. They
lived in London and Exeter, Fifteen
years ago they moved to Seaforth,
and latterly resided wih her daugh
ter, Mrs. Russell Dorrance. She was
a member of the Northside United
Church, Seaforth, and a life mem
ber of the W. M. S. Surviving are
two daughters, Mrs. A. Curtis, Little
Long Lac, and Mrs. Dorrance. The
funeral took place on Friday from
the home of Mrs. Dorrance. Inter
ment in the Exetex’ cemetery.
Those who have pleasant mem
ories may live their life twice over.
on.
Under these conditions the lads
work out theix- own future. Then
comes the eventful day when they
are paraded before the command
and told they are being assigned to
flying school, observer school or
gunnery school. Ninety of every
hundred want to be pilots. But the
rale of the Air Force is "The best
man for the job."
"It is tough sometimes to tell a lad
he is going to gunnery school when
you know his whole heart
ped up
officer,
gently,
of each
future success, that they will serve
as good a cause. And we try to i
explain just why the particular lad
has been categorized to so-and-so
grade. But they take it like men,
usually.”
is wrap-
said one
break it
members
in a pilot’s job,"
"But we try to
We explain that
groups are essential to our lOc
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