HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1940-09-05, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, SE.I'TEMBBR S, J94O
YOUPRAYER FOR PEACE.
“Lord God of our fathers thro'
Who's divine guidance and constant
help we have made this a Land of
Liberty and Freedom - a Nation of
Homes, Health and Happiness.
In all humbleness and humility,
we ask your forgiveness for all those
in our country who have helped to
create War in Asia‘and Europe by
selling and supplying the raw ma
terials and inplements of War l’or
their own selfish gain. Forgive
them for their greed and for the
millions who has been killed and
for the millions more who face fa
mine and starvation.
For those in our country who have
purposely and thoughtlessly foment
ed hatred toward our nation in other
lands by unwise remarks, criticism
and name-calling with the aim of
furthering their own political am
bitions — Oh, Gracious God, for
give them for, just as Jesus asked
Thee to forgive those who crucified
Him — “Father, forgive them for
they know not what they do.’’
In sincerity and devotlion, we
pray that peace may come to the
warring nations abroad and that alb
people throughout the world may
again he permitted to worship God
according to their understanding
and belief—that all people may be
freed from bondage and slavery.
Oh Almighty F'ather, we beseech
Thee to bless and protect this land
of ours and keep it free from the
ravages of war, hatred and blood
shed, brutality and intolerance.
Protect our homes and aur children
and lead us ever on toward a more
wholesome spiritual existence.
With reverence and fervor we pray
that our country may have wise
and just leadership, that we as a
people will always be united in our
Patriotism and we shall have no
class hatred, and no bitterness to
ward any of our fellow men.
We earnestly implore that in case
War does come to this hemisphere -
North or South - we may be proper
ly prepared, united in understand
ing and purpose, and that we may
meet whatever the future holds for
us with firm determination, uni
versal strength, moral courage and
unflinching fortitude.
Amen.”* * *
Unity in the armament program
is essential for the unity of Nation.* * *
A news release points out that in
1932, Wendell L. Willlcie did not
control his wife’s vote — Edith
Willkie voted for Hoover, while
Wendell voted for Roosevelt. Well,
we’ll bet a nice, fresh, crusty, cir
cular cruller against what George
Washington tossed across the Poto
mac, that Wendell will control
Edith’s vote in the November elec
tion.*
THE LOST RHYME
Mr. Smith was seeing a friend off
to the Convention in Chicago - “Be
sure,” he said, “too look up my
friend Mr. Lumnac while in the
■city.” . .“Mr. Lumnac,” said the friend
ab s en t-m in d e dly.
“Yes, 'Lumnac’ - you can remem
ber the name because it rhymes with
stomach.”
A week later his friend returned
and encountered Mr. Smith on the
street and after the usual gieetin»
he said: “Do you know, I tried and
tried but never could find that Mr.
Kelly.”* « ❖
Scene: an elevator in a big office
building.
Dramatic personage: two men
getting on“Who, that fellow? Why he al
ways does everything he promises
to do. You can absolutely depend
on him.”What a sermon in a few words.
4 Do people say that about YOU?
* * *
After the first month of the elope
ment, the fellow sits down and won
ders what all the rush was about.
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Come now September, do your stuff.
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’ We wished for rain and we got it.
********
The other day I had a talk with a
young man (he is not yet 25) who
has made a success in the retail
business. I asked him to what one
thing - more than any other - he
attributed his success. This is what
te told me:
“People like to be appreciated —
they like to be singled out for
courteous friendly attention.”
Well, we are not in the retail
business and we are past 25 (quite
a little) - hut we always like to
feel when we whip this column into
shape that we are having a per
sonal visit with each reader — just
as though we headed each day’s I
writing with YOUR FIRST name
and we were talking to you alone.
—and—I sincerely hope that you
feel that way too.
* * *
UNTO ETERNITY
In measured beat,
In minor key
Play me your lullaby.
Prolong each surging rhapsody
’Till sleep comes with his placid
touch
To still your golden harmony,
And lead us hand in hand into
The rest that is eternity.
•—'Phantom Pirate
* * *
INQUISITIVE
One night at the theatre a rather
inebriated gentleman stood up
smack in the middle of the play and
said: “Is there a doctor in the
house?”
The actors faltered slightly, but
the show bravely went on though
it was a bit of a blow to those con
cerned. A moment later, the same
gentleman still standing, repeated
the question: “Is there a doctor in
the house?”
At this second call, a man in the
rear of the theatre arose and said: .
“Yes, I am a doctor.”
Whereupon the gentleman neatly
finished off the performance with:
“How do you like the show Doc?”
* * *
Just as the bride, an amateur
cook, tries the results of her cook
ing efforts ’out on the dog first’
so too, do many writers have some
one upon whom they rely for favor
able or unfavourable reactions to
their ‘masterpieces’.
As a school girl, Mrs. Peter Caza
let, was more helpful than most |
daughters who criticize their par
ents. Her father P. G. Wodehouse,
used to try out his jokes on her,
and when her verdict was 'not fun
ny’ - he would think again.
In one of his earlier books, he
acknowleded her invaluable assis
tance with this dedication.
“To my daughter Leonora, with
out whose constant aid and encour
agement, this book would have been
written in half the time.”
♦ * *
Each night I tuck you into bed,
Each night I kiss the rounded cheek
smooth the tangled hair,
I cannot see the changes each day
brings:
Each morn I seem to find
the same boy there.
—Par Agon
THOU SHALT NOT!
There are too many people in the
world who want to regulate other
people. ‘The average man finds
himself hedged by too many ‘Thou-
shalt-nots’. Goodness seems to have,
been made a matter of legislative
inactment, when, in truth, it never
can or Will be other than personal
inclination.
I have no use for reformers. Those
Whom I have met aren’t actuated by
high motives at all. They are nar
row, bigoted, selfish, unkind. .They
preach God and practice Beezlebub.
If they can’t rule you, they want
to ruin you.
The minute a man becomes over-
zealous in a religious sense, it is
true in most instances that he auto
matically becomes fanatical. And
when that happens, you have a
hard-boiled, unreasoning and un
reasonable mind to deal with.
The one thing the profession
al uplifter doesn’t know anything
about is joyousness. He deals in
gloom. His merchandise is tear-
stained. He doesn’t sell it; he
wishes it on you. Give me the man
who laughs as he lives; who lives
hard while lie’s at it; who is toler
ant of the other fellow’s shortcom
ings; who hews close to the line of
decency because he wants to; who is
kind instead of critical; forgiving
rather than vengeful.
* * *
Though I am engrossed
In work or play
This column always demands
An ending lay.
—the colonel
Never mind Christmas is still a long why off.
********
Johnny and Mary have sized up the new teacher.
********
There was many a shower twixt hizz and the bower.
********
Those black squirrels are coming to be decidedly destructive.
********
Of all Acadian delights none has it on milking cows in rainy
weather.
********
Good-bye, nice old straw hat and light-colored trousers. See
you next summer,
* * * **♦* *
Those orders for enlistment tell us to set our houses and our
households in order.
* * * *. ** *
How would it do if for every prisoner escaping they’d intern
a guard for the duration?
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Those ten days of wet, cold weather discouraged the growth of a
good deal of garden sass.
********
Apparently those German prisoners in our internment camps
do not like to stay put.
********
There is no downing Old Mother Nature. See what she did
with a whole lot of make-ups.
* * * * * * * *
We didn’t like that awe-inspiring smile we saw on the face of
the fuel people those cold wet days,
********
And now for the church anniversaries and those wonderful
chicken suppers. This surely is a fine world. '
********
When it came to the hit, Germany gave Roumaniu just five
minutes to make up her mind. U. S. will please take notice.
********
We saw Johnny examining a pumpkin the other day and then
consulting his mother. We wonder what was the topic of conver
sation.
********
For pure water, excellent milk, smart stores, well kept boule
vards, lovely flowers, low tax rates and charming lassies, Exeter
is hard to beat.
****** * *
Stook threshing has undergone a severe test this season. The
farmers who got their grain to the barn during the fine weather,
were definately in luck. Those who failed to do so are looking on
while the new seeding of clover and the harvest weeds grow into
the sheaves almost hiding them from view. The success of any
plan depends upon a number of circumstances, many of which are
beyond all human control.
********
If a town youth really wishes to become of use on the farm, he
should try boarding with a farmer “for his board and keep” with
the privilege of going to school between times. He’ll learn to get
up at four-thirty, milk half a dozen cows, feed thirty hogs, groom a
hundred hens, get in wood and water and bike four miles to school
against a head wind or hoof it in winter. He’ll get into the way
of biking it home, downing a hasty lunch, doing chores till eight
and then getting at his lessons. By spring he’ll be getting into shape
for being somewhat busy. This thing of being the farmer’s helper
is just one long round of joy. Try it once, all ye who would solve
the farmer’s problem and direct the practice of youth at one fell
swoop.* * * * * * * *
A REVERSAL OF POLICY
Hitler intended to win the battle of Britain and then to steam
roller the Balkans. As the Ba; tie of Britain did not finish up ac
cording to schedule, he turned to Roumania and steam-rollered to
his heart’s content. His third step was the over-running of North
America, We’ll see.
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THOSE DARK DAYS•r
Those dark days remind us of “how free we seem, so fettered
fast we are.” Many a grain field was cut and stooked only to suffer
serious deterioration before it was got to the granary. Corn
simply did not mature. There may have been development of stalk
and leaf but even this was poor and watery and lacking in feeding
values. In any case the ear did not come to its own. Potatoes
failed to take on their food value. Pasture was luscious but lack
ing in mineral qualities. Gardens lagged in food values, and so on
all down the line. Never did folk long more earnestly for warm,
bright sunshine, both for the growth of their farm products and also
for their own general health. “I tell you more than half is in the
season” was the sage remark of a veteran farmer.
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SHE JUST DIDN’T THINK
France hurled herself to liidious ruin because she let go her
faith in God and gave up the privilege of thinking. When a na
tion gets into this pass anything may take place, as France found
out to her bitter sorrow. Anyone who will look the facts in the face
may see the truth of this statement. Anyone who will not look the
facts in the face will learn in the school where the bayonet and
poison gas rule with a fearsome power there is no gainsaying.
France so gay, so imperious, so liberty loving is today a poor be
draggled thing at the beck and call of the foulest tyranny that ever
cursed this earth. Little by little she became conscienceless and
dead to all that healthy minded men honor. When her soul was par-
alized, her arm lost its power and her hand its cunning. WThen
men cease to think, they mistake the will-o-tht-wisp for the sun.
Some Frenchmen, too late, realize this.
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TIC KLISH BUSINESS
All healthy-minded Britishers and American citizens welcome
the drawing together of Britain and the United States for the
pursuit of a worthwhile object. The effort to get together in the
matter of mutual defence is a case in point. Iceland, Greenland,
Newfoundland are strategic points under consideration just now.
Some are thinking that Canada and the United States should each
have a finger in /he pie of fortifying these places. It looks as if they
should, yet we have our doubts regarding the practicability of such
an undertaking. Partnership is said to he a poor ship to sail in,
as there is likely to come a time when there will be a dispute as
to who is captain. Even members of the crew may take to making
faces at each other. Our suggestion is that the United States
treble her navy and air ‘ defences, and that Britain look after
Labrador and Newfoundland. Sometimes it looks as if it were a
good policy to leave well enough alone.
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LET US KEEP UP THE CHIN
We know only too well how difficult the harvest conditions
have been for the last ten days of August. We. know too, that such
conditions have been met before and overcome. Old Ontario is
not a grain selling agricultural region and the grain, though slightly
damaged, will make good feed. Before we know it, the demand
for butter and cheese will be lively, while there is every reason to
hope that there’ll be good sale for beef and pork and mutton. The
heavy growth of alfalfa and clover is doing the land no end of
good. We are looking for a sunshiny fall that will put no end of
fertility into the roots of all the legumes. Then let it not be for
gotten that for years our farm lands and swamps have not had a
sufficient soaking with warm reviving rain. At this moment, many
high lying fawns are not suffering from too much moisture. These
heavy rains will prove one of the best visitations this good province
has enjoyed for many a day. We can't have everything our own
way and it is just as well that a greater wisdom than our own
guides the affairs of the universe.
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LET us wake up
Let us not forget that Hitler and his crowd are not our enemies
because they are at war with us but because they regard us as fit
only to be trodden to the earth whether we are at war with them
or not. They hate everyone who Is not a German and they are
bent on nothing’ less than the destruction of anyone and of anything
that is not German. Wre wondered why Hitler and his gang attack
ed and robbed and plundered and murdered the Jews. We thought
that the Jews had injured the Hitlerites in some way. Not so. The
Jews were not of the Hitlerite’s race and were therefore fit only
for destruction. Anyone, not of the Hitlerite blood has, according
to our enemies, no right to the sun. The Saviour of the world is
not of the Hitler blood, therefore He is fit only for destruction.
His religion is not Hitlerite and therefore to be overthrown. All
this and its implications is in active practice. No man, white or
black, unless he is of the Nordi blood exists for any purpose what
soever but for Hitlerits rapine, murder and irretrievable destruction.
All that is not Nordic, Hitlerite, is what carrion is to the vulture,
what the lamb is to the hungry wolf. Is it not time for us to
wake up and to put more iron into our blood?
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still unsolved
Western provinces are still puzzled in regard to their finances.
They have a fine crop of wheat but there is not a sufficient market
for it. Britain can take only a relatively small proportion there
of, while the rest of Europe simply cannot take the shop. Money
is scarcer than hen’s teeth in the west, while those provinces have
no marketable commodity to offer as collateral for their borrow
ing. Indeed, the West already has liabilities heavy beyond all
telling. The Times-Advoeate has already offered a partial solution
\ for the problem in suggesting that the Universities and technical
schools find ways and means of manufacturing the wheat into
various articles of daily use. We suggested following the example
of Dr. Carver of the Tuskegee Institute in the use of the peanut.
To this it has been replied that as soon as a new use is pointed
out and demonstrated as practicable, vested interests immediately
interfere and the plight of the people is not a whit bettered. Folk
who claim to be well informed tell us that the patent offices are
crammed to the roof with inventions that would help immensely
in the present situation but which are rendered impotent by keen
business men and their highly paid advisers. Behind all this is
the wily politician who backs up the cunning of the oppressors by
legislation and the shortsighted voter who allows himself to be
bribed with his own money. Till this state of affairs is cleared up
and cleaned out, there is no relief for the West. Let us own the
corn.
Lawyer Quits
in Murder Case
GODERICH — With all witnesses
present and the court stage set for
the preliminary hearing of Sam
Dodge, Indian, charged with the
axe murder of James Kilpatrick on
June 7 last, there was an unex
pected hitch in proceedings on Aug-
;ust 29.
Frank Donnelly, defense counsel,
announced that because he could
not see eye to eye with the prison
er on the conduct of the case he
was withdrawing, ’
Ian Macrae, Strathroy, counsel
representing the department of In
dian affairs, told the court that
Dodge, a member of an Indian
band known as the “Wandering
Caldwells” apparently was not sat
isfied with either counsel. The
charge was read to Dodge, but he
was not asked to plead. He was
given until September 12 to en
gage another counsel.
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