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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1940-08-01, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, AVGUST Jat, 10(0 The Turks think their poverty is due to Armenians, the Japanese at­ tribute theirs to the Koreans, and the Germans attribute theirs to the Jews. The Turks, whenever they suffer­ ed defeat in war, used to massacre Armenians; the Japanese relieved their feelings after the earthquake in Tokio by a pogrom of Koreans; the Germans transfer their dislike of the Treaty, of Versailles to the Jews. All three hope to grow rich by exterminating the most industrious inhabitants of their countries. —B. R. • * * * Pest No. 14 There is one in every picture show, I’d lil<e»to tear to bits - With noisy zest she chews her gum , And behind me always sits! The *($.)” ‘ %&,&?? spoils my fun And dr-r-t-r-rives me most to fits! —M.A. * * * Them’s Our Sentiments, Too! When the naturalist Thoreau was near to death, a very pious aunt asked him in deep concern: “Henry, have you made your peace with God?” His frank, honest reply was: “I didn’t know that we had ever quar­ reled.” ♦ * ♦ It’s not only bad form to call her ‘friend wife’, but more than often, it is inaccurate. •Gold-diggers never celebrate gold­ en weddings. Misery loves company — that is why matrimony is more popular than single blessedness. If the heroine in a book is in her late twenties or early 3 0’s - it’s a sure sign the author is fast ap­ proaching middle-age. There is many a noble purpose that has been lost in the' maze of family discord. —Curious Cynic * * * A LITTLE LAD When down he goes on hands and feet Quite unexpectedly His lips begin to quiver* And he looks around at me. iHe clambers up to stand erect, But tears are in his eyes - He is so very funny with His air of hurt surprise. And then his dimples deepen, He smiles his tears away - Its nice to be a little lad: If feet must go astray. .—Par Agon * * * SMILE - AND BE LIKED Smile - and I’ll like you! For friends, to -*me, don’t necessarily have to have pockets jingling with coins, nor great records of valor or renown, so long as they can smile. .Well, what more can you ask of a friend? I have one friend of whom I am very fond. HE smiles when things look blackest, and don’t imagine the fact that you might be low-doWn in the'dumps. Far from it - he’s kind and understanding, and with his smile he unconsciously persuades YOU back to the par of good humor. And before long you, too, get the habit of smiling. He isn’t always "pleasant and smiling. There are times when he’s low-down and silent. And then 1 ’hate him, as honestly as it’s possible to hate anyone, for I know he’s con­ scious of (and perhaps gloating ■over) the fact that he is withholding the power of his helpful smile from others who have grown to count <?n it. And I hate him, too, because 1 know that as soon as he’s over his .grouch, he’ll smile again - and - I’ll Check Discharges From the Bowels Bowel troubles, although happen­ ing at any time of the year, are mwto prevalent during the hot sum­ mer and early fall months. Summer Flu is one Of the worst troubles, but diarrhoea, dysentery, colic, cramps and pains in the in­ testines, or any looseness of. the bowels Should have immediate at­ tention,The action of Dr. Fowler’s Extract of Wild Strawberry is pleasant, rapid, reliable and effectual in help­ ing to check the unnatural dis­ charges. AIt has been on the market for the pfist 94 years, so why experiment with new and untried remedies? Get“Dr.‘Fowler’s” and feel safe’. Tho T. Milburn Co<, Ltd., Toronto, Ont, like him! Love? Fascination? Hardly. It’s merely a sincere admiration for an individual who, with his own shoul­ ders heavy with trouble and diffi­ culty, thinks enough of other hu­ mans to smile. So, here’s to all my friends - most of them far from angels - they make perhaps more mistakes than praise­ worthy deeds, but when all ig said and done; if they can smile, I’ll willingly scribble their names in my little red book marked - “Friends.” Smile - and I’ll like you1! —'Helene * * * PLATITUDES “Oh, I think it’s perfectly ter­ rible!” “You don’t mean to tell me?” “You can't eat your cake and have it too.” “Going my way?” “You know what I mean.” —42nd Cousin * * * TRUE Last night when you found about me A something that was new, A slackening of ardor -— You said I must be blue. I let you say and think that And in a sense 'twas true; For now, alas, I’ve found me Indifferent to you. *—.Duchess O’Dunoon • • • In rising to support a measure in the House of Commons on one oc­ casion, an M.P. declared: “The friends and opponents of this bill are divided into two very distinct groups - the a-bility and the no-bil- ity.” * * * Uv all the gerls i’ve luvved and losst, The besst bifar wuz helen; She luvved me till i wrot hur - She coodent stand mi spellen. —Deputy Dan * * • At the Naval Academy in Anna­ polis more than several years ago. the class was required to write an essay on “The three things that con­ tributed most to the defeat of the Spanish Armada.” Cue daring young man turned in a sheet of paper on which only three words were written. His ‘essay’ was taken more seriously than he had figured on. In fact, the powers-that- were threatened him with court-; martial. He was denounced and ,giv- j en the dickens in particular. His papers, along with the papers turned in by other members of his class, were sent to Washington. Word reached the officials there that the young men who had written the ultra-brief essay had been threaten­ ed with dire things—and then the Washington office flashed this mes­ sage to the authorities at Annapolis: “Cancel the court-martial and keep your eye on that young man.” The writer of the essay that had offended the academic sensibilities of his instructors was a marked man after that. Today, says the man who told me the story, this young man is making his way to the TOP RANK of the navy. These were h<s reasons for the defeat of the Armada: “Seamanship, Marksmanship, Comradeship.” This little story is recommended to the consideration of men who over that co-operatipn in business doesn’t mean anything — the last reason especially. * * * One of our favorite- trepidationp: Sometime at some convention, some secretary will pull his usual threat to read the minutes of the previous meeting - and nobody will be paying­ attention and thus nobody or any­ body will .move that the reading be dispensed with — and the things ac­ tually will be read!* * * COINCIDENCE Dear Colonel: Out at the amuse­ ment park, I squandered a nickle on ‘Princess Doralinda’, the gypsy for­ tune teller. After the wax figure had passed her hands over the cards, and the ‘princess’ bowed in my di­ rection most royally, my printed fortune was shot out to me. Just let me write you the first two lines: “You are a strong lover and need love.’ Now, how in heck, can anything mechanical size up the humans who stand in front of it so accurately? I’m asking! -—.Bachelor Button * * * A Het of fish may or may not stimulate the brain, but going fish­ ing certainly stimulates the imagin- tion,* * * Description of a ‘tightwad’: He is left-handed and carries his money in his right-hand pocket. Currents, both black and red, are somewhat shy in the yield. ******** After all, there’s a difference between a government's getting informed about people and simply being funny. ****** * * When we think of those millions of French soldiers all dressed up and now with nowhere to go and now released. ********I We cannot but wonder what all those French soldiers now re­ leased from military service are doing with their little selves. They are no longer free men but Hitlerites with no outlook on life but the obedience of dumb-driven cattle at the whim of thei’1 German con­ querors. They must be a forlorn lot. , ******** The people of this country can and will do great things but not under compulsion or coercion. 'Our people are long on saving com­ mon sense, but mighty short when the powers that be act in a man­ ner that smacks of dictatorship. They get crusty when the govern­ ment goes on the theory that one shall be taken, and another left, ******** GREAT STRATEGY The axis powers are marvels when it comes to strategy. For instance, they have evolved the method of having their submarine send out a lifeboat filled with meh apparently in distress, When a British vessel comes to the rescue of the men in, assumed peril, the submarine lets loose its torpedo. Great work, proving that the axis powers have indeed entered into a league with death and have made a covenant with hell. The best reply we can make is to buy war stamps. ******** Napoleon used to tell his armies that every French soldier car­ ried a marshal’s baton in his knapsack. We may as well tell every company of soldiers that they have a Wellington in their ranks. It may well be that some such leader will turn up to kick Hitler and all his works out of modern Spain. The axis moths will play with the Gibraltar candle till presto the modern Wellington singes its delicate wings. It may as well be owned that Franco, of Spain, is no friend of Britain. Those thousands of German troops on Spanish soil make that point definitely clear. We must not allow the Gibraltarian tra­ dition of impregnability blind us tp facts. ******** The pasteurizing of milk is growing in popularity. There are some small vendors who complain of the extra work and cost that the pasteurizing requires, but the folk who purchase the milk could not think of going back to the old methods. |F'oi' some unhappy reason the dairy herds are menaced by many troubles that may be commun­ icated in milk to human consumers. Pasteurizing the milk renders it practically safe for human consumption. Farmers may be slow to accept new ways of doing things, but none are more willing than they to fall in with the best methods once those methods have been shown to be practicable and valuable. The cheese factory and the butter factory have done a great deal to improve farm herd condi­ tions. Every community has in it a number of farmers who have in­ stalled milking machines. Scarcity of 'farm labour has made this ad­ ditional expense imperative. ******** THE SECRET Folks are wondering how the Exeter grandads are so spry and so efficient these needful days. We wondered, too, and set out to look into a problem, so interesting. (Here it is. Granded keeps a garden. ,We heard him telling about it the other evening. “The place was overrun with twitch grass,” he reminisced. “So I got after it. I shook-forked every foot of the land and shook it as a retriever shakes a rat and carried t-he roots and stuff off the land and burned it when it was dry enough. I wheeled on a good coating of manure and dug the whole thing, every inch of it. 'Since then I have hoed and dug like a good fellow. You’ll not find a weed on the place. Then there’s the lawn. Yes, I’ve been busy'. This thing requires real work, 'So there is the_Exeter grandad for you. He eats like a horse, works like a Trojan and is as brown as a berry. He’s thinking of ' taking on another lot “just for a little exercise.” J.ust for the fun of it, he’s out with Bill on the farm feeding hogs and building loads. Talk of the Elixir of life. It’s right there in the backyard, if only you’ll shovel it out. Curious Cynic queries: Now that the word “obey” has been struck out of the wedding service, it looks like trouble ahead for us men. If they wouldn’t obey when they prom­ ised to, what won’t they do when they promise to? * * * Pert and Pertinent “The mind is like a stomach — it is no how much you put. into it bilt how much it digests.” —and a couple of magnesia tablets will help the stomach. “The Biograhy of Patrick Henry should be a great inspiration for those who play the game at both ends. He said, “Give me Liberty or give me Death.” —and he got both. “No one nas ever been able to discover the cause of love,” says a psychologist. —however, the tabloid reporters work every day discovering the re­ sults of it. “What is a (Senator to do when the visiting delegation is too small for a formal speech?" —and too large to take too lunch? —Oley Okeydoke * * * Sayings of a Hindu Poet Kabir says “Four things be That gives delight - a pool, A kindly man, a tree And cloud-born shadows cool.” The dumb man understands Another dumb man’s sign; And so your soul that knows My joy can signal mine. The fire is the same in all forms, It appears, Hearths, lamps or sun So the manifold world of out joys and our tears In Brahma are one. —The Phantom Pirate * * * Some see beauty in flowers and trees But there is naught but duty in words such aS these! —the colonel “London Calling” o---0---0 “London is calling.” When London ■calls, On the waiting world a silence falls; From Bering .Sea to Magellan Strait From Tokyo, west to the Golden Gate, White man, black man, yellow man, brown, Sit listening in to .London Town. They may love that voice, they may fear oi* hate. But they know her words are the words of fate. They have heard her pleading the cause of peace, To fashion a world where wars will dease; In years gone by they have heard her voice Calling an Empire to rejoice, Calling her children across the sea To join in the song of jubilee; In hours of sorrow, in days of strain She has called to her sons and not in vain; And if, in hbr hour of desperate need, She calls once more, will they give no heed? Will they stand aside, and, cringing, quail At a raucous voice and fist of mail, When the war .planes drone and the bombs rain down On the ancient glories of London Town? From tawny veldt and from lonely bush, From snow-swept wasts where the dog teams mush, From palm-fringed island and sun­ baked town, And north where the dark Himalay­ as frown, From Southern Cross to Arctic skies Wherever the flag of Empire flies, With a muffled roar like a distant drum, They answer London, “We will come!’’ He who stops to look each way Will drive his car another day. Lay Preachers Aided Founding Church Circuit Earnest Workers of SO and 90 Years Ago Built Well in . Aslifield Township STRONG RELIGIOUS UNIT ORGANIZED BY PIONEERS Regular Ministers Often Scarce, but Settlers Ready to Carry on Services By W. H. Johnston in the London Press How frequently we hear the wish expressed that the fathers and mothers of 80 and 9 0 years ago could see the transformation that has taken place in this new land of Canada. We think of them in their struggles to clear the land, grow enough to feed their families and their animals, build homes and barns and pay the awful mortgage that encumbered almost every farm. In no way has their work been more fruitful than in their efforts to provide schools and churches for the people'. As an illustration of what we mean allow me to call at­ tention to the Ashfield Circuit of i the former Methodist Church, now | the United Church. It was not until about 184i8 that a large influx of settlers came pour­ ing into the northeasterly portion of Ashfield Township, County of Huron, around Belfast and Luck­ now. One of the first settlers was a Joseph Hackett. Other members of his family came soon after and many others, Altons, Stothers, Gib­ son, McMillan, Smeltzer, Irwin, Mul­ lins, Barkley, McDonagh, Sherwood. Andrew, Webster, etc. to build their cabins and clear a few acres for sus­ tenance. One of the earliest projects was to build a school house where Hackett’s church now stands with a Mr. Jackson as teacher. We may not know who the earliest preacher was but in 1853 and 18'54 Rev. Thomas Adkins, a New Connexion Methodist minister from Goderich, came to the settlement and organized a class with a Mr. Hackett as class leader. From that time to the present ser­ vices have been held in this place. Named Hackett’s Appointment it formed the nucleus of religious ser­ vices for an extended .area, After him came Rev. William Birks, filled with zeal for the spread of the Gospel, It was during his pastorate in Janu­ ary, 1857, that a. “cause” was begun at Zion on the 12th concession, near­ ly two miles farther north. Hackett's being situated on the 10 th conces­ sion. In 18 67 the Ashfield Circuit was established, consisting of the two appointments, Hackett’s and Zion. Though the membership was fairly large yet the people had little cash but they kept a minister and paid him, or rather tried to pay him a salary in the neighborhood of $35 0 a year, though there were deficits in many of the lean years. However, we should mention that these pas­ tors of the early days were often presented with a bag of oats for theii* horse by some of their support­ ers. One of these good men, Robt. Cranston by name, told me that for several years he always took the minister a load of hay and from the time he began this good work he never had a shortage of hay for the needs of his stock. Conspicuous among the ministers of the early 7 0’s were Revs. James Walker, John Dochstafler and Thos. Jackson, men who held prayer meet­ ings to the south on the eighth con­ cession and thus laid the founda­ tion for the opening of an appoint­ ment at Blake’s. In 1S78, the Ash­ field Circuit consisted of four ap­ pointments, Blake’s on the eighth concession; Hackett’s on the 10th; Zion on the 12th and Hope on the 13th, about two miles apart in each case and yet these churches were well-filled and their ministers well- provided for. It was an absolutely rural circuit with the parsonage in I the Village of Lucknow. i With two preaching services at Blake’s and one at’each of the other three every Sabbath five sermons had to be provided and thus a num­ ber of "local preachers” were press­ ed into the work. Some of thes*3 later became full-fledged ministers as Rev. N. Miller, of the British Columbia Conference, and Revs. Dr. R. Barnby.and J. A. Agnew, of Lon­ don, besides John Elliott, of 682 William Street, London, a leading layman of the United Church and Rev. I. W. Kilpatrick, of Strathroy. Among the other local preachers the following may be mentioned: David Agnew, John Taylor, James Taylor, R. E. Brown, R. Murdock, William Gardiner, Sr., James Hunter, Wil­ iam Johnston, Samuel Sherwood, A. Bowles, Ernest Sherwood, John F. Andrew Jr., and D. A. Andrew. What a school for the training of preachers was this Ashfield Circuit Not only* for preaching but fol* gen­ eral public service. . Almost all of these young men could do credit­ able work in public speaking any­ where, but, best of all tlieir work resulted in fine spiritual growth for thenwlves and the congregation or the circuit. Another distinctive feature in the Ashfield circuit’s work was the holding of an annual Sunday School convention for the whole circuit but changed yearly until the four ap­ pointments were gone over. Today, almost 90 years of con­ tinuous religions services, this rur­ al circuit, whose membership with one of two exceptions, is made up of farmers and their families, is a much alive organization and appears to be good for possibly another cen­ tury. OFFICERS CHOSEN FOR BIG PLOWING MATCH List Drawn Up For Big Event in Hullett and McKiUop — To Be Held Ln 1942. A meeting to organize for the 1942 Huron 'County Plowing Match was held at the agricultural offices at Clinton, at which J. D. Thomas, Goderich, committee chairman, pre­ sided. The following arrangements of the management was made sub­ ject to acceptance. Chairman, J. D. Thomas, of Goderich; vice-chairman, Hugh Hill, Colborne township form­ er reeve; secretary, J. C. Shearer, agricultural representative; assist­ ant secretaries, George H. Elliott, Clinton, former warden and Harvey Erskine, of Goderich; treasurer, G. W. Fraser, former manager of the Western Canada Flour Mills, Gode­ rich; assistants, E. C. Boswell, man­ ager Dominion Bank and J. M. Mc­ Millan, manager of Province of On­ tario Savings Bank, Seaforth; hon­ orary officers, the 19 42 county war­ den, M..P.’s and M.P.P.’s, Huron; Gordon McGavin, 2nd Vice-Presi­ dent of Ontario Plowmen’s Associa­ tion; co-ordinators or key men; north section, L. E. Cardiff, M.P., of North Huron, with the following committee convenors: Park, A. W. Morgan, Usborne; billetting, Ross McGregor, Hullett; publicity, Harry J. Boyle, Wingham; local day, Percy Passmore, reeve of Usboime; traffic, George Feagan. county warden; cen­ tre section key men: W. L. Whyte, Hullett; committee convenors, teams W. J. Dale, Hullett; tractors, A. J. McMurray, Clinton; grounds, Wil­ mot Haacke, ex-warden, Goderich; horse shoeing, William Quinn, Cen­ tralia; horse show, Telford Mont­ gomery, Howick; south section key men, Thomas Pryde, Exeter; com­ mittee convenors, banquet, J. H Scott, reeve of Seaforth; lunch Ro­ land Williams, Exeter; reception, G. L. Parsons, Goderich; non-farmers, Bert Hemingway, Brussels; main­ tenance, John Eckert, former war­ den. “Professor! Professor!” “Well, what is it?” “There is a burglar in the library.” “Dear me 'What is he reading?” SAVE TIBI HBW limit. Every Goodrich tire your old tires to-day. Ilf | GOODRICH V-TYPE FAN BELTS LAST LONGER... BECAUSE THEY’RE STRONGER LOW PRICES ON FLOOR MATS! • "Dress up" your car with a long-wearinc Goodrich Floor Mat. GOODRICH FLOOR MATS- Sunoco, Service and Garage THOMSON REUNION HELD AT DUBMN The home of Mr. and Mrs. Herb. Briton, of Dublin, was the setting for the annual Thomson reunion on Wednesday of last week with more than seventy members of the clan present from Winnipeg, Toronto, Parry Sound, Auburn, Dungannon, Brucefield, Kippen, Clinton, Mit­ chell. The oldest member present waa Mrs. James Moodie, of Brucefield. and the youngest, Joyce Agnes, four-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. priestap, of Mitchell, and. honors went to Miss Eleanor Fisher, of Winnipeg, for the member com­ ing from the longest distance. Sports directed by Lloyd and Miss Hazel Thomson were an interesting fea­ ture. Following a delicious supper served on the lovely lawn of the Britton home, a sing-song was en­ joyed under the direction of Mr. Garrow, of Clinton, and speeches were also featured. Following is the result of the officers for the current year: President, Bert Thom­ son, Kippen; vice-president, Elgin Thomson, Brucefield; secretary - treasurer, John Alexander, Hensail; sports convenor, Miss Mabel Work­ man, Hensail; assistant, Samuel W. Thomson, Kippen; program conven­ or, Lloyd Thomson, Brucefield; as­ sistant, Herb. Britton, Dublin. 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