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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1940-09-19, Page 3CONVERSATION It lias been observed that the works o£ literary genius survive best when they choose as their subjects, things of enduring and universal importance. The mental processes, emotions and reactions *of Shapespeare’s char­ acters still interest us . . . even though the language and expressions of today liffer from that of the 1600 period. The following extracts from a let­ ter written to his children by Sir Matthew Hale in 166 2 are as ap­ plicable today as when he wrote them: “Never speak anything for a truth which you know to be false, nor assert positively that for which you have no authority but report, con­ jecture or opinion. “Be not too earnest, loud or violent in your conversation. Silence your opponent with reason, not with noise. “In conversation, learn as near as you can where the skill or excel­ lence of any person lies—put liim to, talking on that subject, “Beware of him who flatters you and commends you. Remember the fable of the fox commending the singing of the crow who had some" thing in her mouth which the fox wanted, “Respect another’s right to his religious convictions. Never deride any man’s station in life ... a man’s race and his relatives are God- given, not of his own choosing, and he is craven who denies them. “Be careful that you do not com­ mend yourself. It is a sign that your reputation is small and sink­ ing if your tongue must praise you. “Speak well of the absent when- evei you have a suitable opportun­ ity. Never speak ill of anyboby, unless oy uare sure that they de­ serve it and it is necessary for their amendment or for the safety of others. “Forbear scoffing and jesting at the conditions or natural defects of others. Such offences leave a deep Impression and they often cost a man dear. (The above, in case you are inter­ ested and even if you are not, is a partial creed of this column, and we recommend it particularly at this time to some of our more pompous politicians.) * * * LIFE IS SO SHORT Take time to love fne, dear Life is so long, Precious One, feed me Morsels of song. Don’t put off loving ’Til another day Be not too engrossed In work or play Another day may see our ship Leaving its port . . . Take time to love me now, Life is so short. —Par Agon * * * HOW OUR LAUNGAGE IS CHANGING The local Mortician who is al­ ways willing to lend a helping hand —while driving his 16 cylinder ben­ zine bronc, stopped at the corner the other P.M. to give a lift to a uni­ formed criminician who was tired hoofing his beat and wanted a ride back to the police station, Th& newsician (formerly reporter) hail­ ed them and took them into the corner pharmacy and told the par- egorician to “coke up’’ the mob. —Gipsy Jim * * * Dear Colonel: Just the other Sun­ day or so, I heard this over our, radio; “Miss Nomer has just sung ’The Lord Knows Why'.” —Thelma, the Kider* * * Our prize definition-maker-upper says- a true diplomat is a man who remembers a woman’s, birthday but not her age. « * * Charity Begins at Home “Father, will you give me ten cents for a poor man who is crying outside?” “Yes, here it is son. You are a charitable boy and I’m glad to know you are tender-hearted, kindly and I sympathetic. What is he crying about?” “He’s crying, ‘Fresh Roasted Pea­ nuts, five cents a bag’.” * * * There was a young lady of Rye Of eating green apples she died. Within the lamented They quickly fermented And made cider insider her inside.* * * The modern girl makes a lot of men tired—running after her.* * * The man who thinks himself a budding genius is often a bloom­ ing nuisance. * * * Some folks seem to think they can climb the ladder of success wrong by wrong. At * * HERE THEY BE I tried my hand a verse, I tired my hand at prose— At most every literary form That anybody knows. I tackled tragic stuff, Wrote humorously, too; . But I kept saying to myself That nothing seemed to do. So I’ll just take these rhymes Be they clever or solemn— Affix a stamp and send ’em on Forwith to the Colenel’s Column! —Piquant Pat* * * We have heard this one before but never believed it . . . ( A good many ped'ple have given much thought to the problem of how to make productive use of our in­ creasing leisure time. Maybe Har­ old Ryder, of Waikato, New Zea-I land, has found a solution. Mr. Ryder, facing a long spell in a hospital, took a hen’s egg into, bed with him and, after “setting” for three weeks hatched out a White Leghorn chick. * * * Precinct Captain just came into our sanctum santorum with these words of wisdom . . . —in a popular vote, the ten com­ mandments would have defeated Moses. —an optimist is a guy who reaches for his hat when the polit­ ical speaker says: “just one more word and I will close.” —a lame duck is a Congressman whose goose is cooked. —there is always two sides; the right side and the side that calls names.* * * “Father,” said 'the small boy, “what is a pork barrel?” “My son, you are entirely too in­ quisitive.” “Don’t you know?” “Only in a general way . . . it’s an institution, more or less mythic­ al, to enable a congressman to show his folks that he can bring home the bacon.” » * * THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, HUl’TEMBElt 19, into EniTHRI A !■JhJ 1 1 w H 1 JPV 14ft ANOTHER DEFINITION FOR HOME On the banks of the James River a husband erected a tombstone in memory of his wife, one of those 100 maidens who had come to Vir­ ginia in 1619 to marry the lonely settlers. The stone bore this leg­ end : “She touched the soil of Vir­ ginia with her little foot and the wilderness became a home.” Backache-Kidneys Cry for Help Most people fail to recognize the seriousness of a bad back, the stitches, twitches, and twinges are bad enough and cause great suf­ fering, but back of the backache and the eauso of it all is the dis­ ordered kidneys crying out a warn­ ing through the back. A pain in the back is the kidneys’ crv for help. Go to their assistance. Got a box of Doan’s Kidney Pills. A remedy for backache and sick kidneys* , "Doan’s” are put Up m an oblong grey box with our trade mark a “Maple Leaf” on the wrapper.Refuse substitutes. Get ‘(Doan’s. ’ ’ Tbo T. Milburn Go., Ltd,, Toronto, Ont. Lest We Forget. If it had not been for Washing­ ton, Lincoln would have had no country to save . . . and if it had not been for Lincoln, Wash­ ington would have been the father of twins.* * * Ah , . . yas, indeed, Mae . . . Profe'ssor McArthur says that the radio audience is being given fre­ quent opportunities for acquaintance with the model liturgical music of complex polyphonic texture. * * * Jake: “Just between you and me Herman, vot do you tink of Lena Schnitzel?” Herman: “Between you unt me not so hot, Jake, but alone, oh boy.” * * * SWING SONG loti Gotme, baby, you gotme! You gotme out on a vino; * If I ain’t sticking my neck out, Please, please, baby, do be mine! * * * A clock that ticks Is a friend, and true It ticks off the minutes. And hours for you And it lets me know By bell or chime It’s time to write An ending rhyme. —the Colonel Here’s hoping for a fine October,******** Great decisions make great men.******** How we welcomed the sunshine after the rain. * * * *t* * g 6 Character and brains make an unbeatable combination. ******** The farmers are making the best of hitherto bad harvest con­ ditions. ******g 6 If you have not invested in the Victory Loan it is not too late. Dollars are needed to fight Hitler. 9 9 # * ‘ * * * * The needless and useless bombing of King George and Queen Elizabeth was an affront to every Briton. It is so taken and will be avenged. ***** *** Every man to his job, these days. Every man must serve ac­ cording to his ability and his opportunity. This does not mean maybe. ******** Though bombers smash Old London down Though airplanes roar the Midlands o’er Though Berthas raze brave Dover's homes We'll Britons prove and pay the score. ******** We wonder what Sir Francis Drake really was thinking about as he finished his game of bowls as the Spanish Armada was bearing down on England. Who will be the Exeter Sir Francis Drake who will show us the way out. You see, we have a whole lot of men who are bowlers and, we are sure, akin to Sir Francis Drake.******** THINK OF THIS Just the other day an honest to goodness chemist waved an ordinary cotton handkerchief before a group of witness who knew their business and said “In one hour we can give you this in. the form of bituminous coal. In an hour and a half we can give it to you in anthracite. In a litlte longer we can give it to you in the form of highgrade gasoline.” We recommend this to everyone’s serious thought.******** DIFFICULT FOR THE FARMERS The folk worrying least about the difficult harvesting condi­ tions are the farmers themselves. These sturdy folk are accustomed to meeting conditions and to do the best possible therewith. Still, field crops are rotting. Peas and beans and now tomatoes found the small end of the horn. Fall wheat sowing is held up. Fall cul­ tivation is impossible so far. Poultry is not at its best. . Still the farmer carries on and smiles as he does so. May his tribe increase. ******** DIFFICULT TO SAY In the summer of 1939 we wondered a good deal about rain fall. In the midst of our cogitations we came upon an eminent geologist and asked him about it. He looked up wearily and said, “We know very little about it. This matter of rainfall and drought has us guessing as hard as ever. We have considered about all the theor­ ies we have known to be advanced and have passed them up one after the other. These seasons run in cycles but what causes the cycles and when the cycles will return or how long they’ll last, we cannot say. After all, the universe is quite a place. What we know about it is very little. Conjecture is amusing but it is not always satisfactory, except as conjecture.”* * n* * * * * * THE INCOMPARABLES Last week the Germans purposely bombed King George and Queen Elizabeth in their home. Englishmen call the king’s home a palace, but their Majesties speak of their royal dwelling as their home. As soon as the all clear signal was given the royal pair were out once more among their people giving themselves freely to such duties as time and affection required of them. Where their service is most needed this Royal English gentleman and his Queen are found sharing the toils and dangers of the people who elected them to -be their leaders in the great work of serving the world in danger as well as in safety, in war as in peace. Since crowns first were worn, was ever there a more royal pair. Their conduct is more regal than their crowns. In their high place they are incomparable. ******** TRYING DAYS Beginning with Monday of last week, Britain's soul was tried as gold is tried in the furnace. Wave after wave of German air­ planes of almost incalculable might and as the locusts of the desert for-number, sought to lay waste every vestige of her brave island. Behind the planes loomed tanks and soldiers of Germany red with the blood of overwhelmed nations. Even the shelters provided for an emergency so dire. Despite all, iBritons renewed their faith in God and stood to their duty as God gave them to see their duty. With one hand resting on the integrity of their cause and with the other grasping the sword of justice they awaited eventualities with brave hearts. No craven spirit was within her shores. The sons of Alfred the Great and of Cromwell stood shoulders together with the heirs of Pym and Hampden to wring from oppression a new Magna, Charta. There was no divided house among the stately homes of England. From the terrors of the tempest and earthquake they highly set their souls to win a new birth of freedom. The Most High was their refuge and strength and though they .passed through the \ alley of the shadow of death, they feared no evil. ******** “THE DARKNESS DEEPENS” There’s no doubt about a few things. First, Canadians, gener- erally, are not aware that the battle of Britain is our battle and that battle is trying Britain’s metal. Why not own the facts. Why not own that we have taken the whole affair mightly easily?. For years we slept when we should have been putting our backs into gettng ready for the inevitable struggle? If that battle of Britain goes against us finally, the Lord have mercy on us. Second, let us own that men who should know better are nestgathering and self- seeiking. We need not specify. Anyone with eyes in his head knows who is implicated in that evil business. Further, he is an enemy of liberty who does not see that there is but one issue before us — the winning of this war. Yet there are such persons. We are still in far too large a measure, like the followers of Fingal of olden days, who saw their danger but allowed themselves to be so be­ witched that they awoke, half alseep and remained in their cave on their elbows useless, helpless while the enemy ravaged up to his own dire wishes. |For .some unhappy reason, willing people are not given the leadership their dreadful and fateful hour requires. The morale of our people is high, but we need to have this morale turned into fighting effectiveness. We require faith, but it must be the faith that shows itself in effectiveness, in the battle. ******** BETTER BE(X)NSIDER With the dawn of the twentieth century the race was persuad­ ed that progress was its distinctive mark. Whatever came or didn’t come, progress was inevitable. The pulpit dealt with such themes as, “first, the corn, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear.” A leading Canadian told his delighted fellow citizens “The 19th century belonged to the United States. The twentieth century be­ longs to Canada.” Our prominent statesmen talked of the. impos­ sibility of war, it was so distant a thing. Poets sung of the parlia­ ment of man. A groat editor said “We have conquered tin* ocean: it remains for us to conquer the air.” In Canada we spoke of our North West as the granary of the world. We were sure that we were on the way to the conquest of disease and death. Progress was one thing we were sure of and we were almost as sure of the way prog­ ress was to take. We know what has taken place and see wliat is going on now all over the world. Very soberly we acknowledge life is not us simple as we thought it was. The way things take we may he quite sure will differ from what we think. This is not a topsyturvy uni­ verse. Men’s conduct is not a caper in the mist. Our guide is not a will-o’-the-wisp. Wisdom lias her own ways but reveals herself only to the childlike who carry on in humility. GREAT DAYS FOR YOUTH These are great days for redblooded youth. Of course there aie wars and rumors of war. Sacrifice and self-denial are called for He who would win must fight. At the same time youth lives in times when a new life is being ushered in. The old is giving place to the new. Some may ask what times were like in the good old days. /Our answer is, read about what was done by the folk of the time of Alfred the Great. There were wars then, but there was the joy of achievement. The British navy was founded in those stirring times. Ti’ial by jury was instituted. The Bible was translated into the English tongue. In the good old times we had the reign of King John when sober writing historians said that Christ and His saints slept. But Magna Charta, the charter of English liberty was secured and never lost. There were, too in the gold old days, the reign of Charles the First when law was scoffed at, trodden under foot and the plain man dared not lift up his head. But we found Cromwell. Liberty of conscience was asserted. John Milton gave to the world poems that have stirred the hearts of men for centuries. There was, moreover, the time of James the Second who threw the Great Seal into the Thames in his effort to utterly disrupt British government as he fled from his grave misdeeds. But there followed the Bill of Rights and such a birth of freedom as the world never experienced before. In America we have had the incomparable civil war that drenched the United iStates with blood. There followed the United States as we know them. The present struggle is incom­ parably greater than any of the struggles mentioned. The prob­ lems of finance demand the strength of Titans and the devotion of saints. No one can forecast how severe the struggle is bound to be. Nor can anyone portray the greatness of the times that are to be ushered in by the leal and true Who will face up to the mighty issues right ahead. We congratulate youth on the days they are facing. It is great merely to be alive. To be young and in the fight is an advantage the angels may well covet. ZION I Church services will be held next Sunday at 1.30 p.m. The services will be conducted by Rev. George Williams. Mr. Thomas Pullen visited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Ross Hern. The monthly meeting of the Zion Mission Circle was held at the home I of Miss Erlma Jacques on Friday evening. The meeting opened by singing the National Anthem fol­ lowed by the Lord’s Prayer in uni­ son. Hymn 603 was sung. The min­ utes and Roll Call were then read aftei- which the business was dis­ cussed followed by the worship service. The study book was taken by Erlma Jacques and the Watch­ tower was given by Jean Brock. The offering was then taken. Mar­ jorie Earl favoured with an instru­ mental. Hymn 499 was then sung and the meeting was closed by the Mizpah benediction. Mr. Kenneth Hern returned on Sunday from Thames Valley Camp. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hern Harry and Bobby spent Sunday with Mr. I and Mrs. Charles Kerslake, Exeter. Mr. and Mrs. Everard Miller re­ turned from their honeymoon. We wish them much future happiness. Rally Day services were held at Zion church on Sunday. The story was given by Anna Brock. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dickenson, Shirley and Jim, Miss Hazel Stewart and Mr. George Stuart spent Sun­ day with Mr. and Mrs. Warren Brock. Mrs. William Brock returned on Saturday from visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Hector Taylor of Exeter. Mr. and Mrs. Melville'Hern and Margaret were at Victoria Hospital on Sunday to see Mr. Gerald Chap­ man a patient there. On Monday night all cow-bells, drums, dish pans and articles too numerous to mention gathered to­ gether and the result was a chari­ vari for Mr. and Mrs. E. Miller. Over sixty from the community at­ tended. SHIPKA Mrs. N. Clark is at presen in St. Joseph’s Hospital, London, for treat­ ment on her eyes. On Sunday next, September 22nd, Rally Day services will be held in the United church at 10:30. Every­ body welcome. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Sheppard, of Parkhill, Msis Olive, of London, cal­ led on friends here on Sunday. Anniversary services were well attended on Sunday last. •Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Amos and Miss Gertrude Amos, of Brinsley, visited friends here on Sunday and attend­ ed anniversary services. Miss Audrey Yearley, of Crediton spent the week-end with friends here. Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Lovie, of London, spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Lovie. | HAY COWCU ! The regular monthly meeting of the council of the Township of Hay was held at the Town Hall, Zurich, on Monday, September 9th, with all members present. The minutes of the August meeting were adopted as read. After disposing of the communi­ cations the following resolutions were passed: That By-law No. 8, 1940 provid­ ing for the rates to be struck, lev­ ied and entered on the 1940 Col­ lector’s Roll be read three times and finally passed. That taxes assessed in 1939 to County of Huron be struck off as roads affected by taxes have been taken ovei1 by the Department of Highways and that said taxes be collected from the Department. That accounts covering payments on Township Roads Hay Ttelephone, and General Accounts be passed as per vouchers as follows: Township Roads — Dorn. Road Mach’y Co., repairs crusher $52.33; M. G. Deitz, gas and oil $40.30; Craig & Eisepbach crushing and trucking $109.04; H. Steinbach, rd. su.pt., $36.75; Stade & Weido acct., $1.65; Johnston & Kalbfleisch acct. $56.24; T. Welsh 188 yards gravel $15.04; Pay Roll No. 6. Hay Telephone System — Muni­ cipal Board re Bell Co. $1; North. Elec. Co., material $230.21; H. G. Hess, salary $175.00; E. R. Guen­ ther cartage, $1.70; T, H. Hoffman, salary $191.66, H. G. ess, extra labor $76.02. Genera^ Accounts — L. Hendrick rent, $5; Treas. Huron hospital ac­ count $1.75; Witness fees drain action $26.60; W. H. Edighoffer, equal D.P.V. $5; Dept. Health, in­ sulin $6.90; Stade & Weido acct., $15.10; J. Gascho & (Son flag $11; Exeter Fair, grant $10. The Council adjourned to meet again on Monday, October 14th at 1.30 in the afternoon. A. F. Hess, Clerk Renew Now A CHALLENGE TO CANADIANS 1 Emergency Call THE MOST WE CAN GIVE WILL NEVER EQUAL for $5,000,000 Our men give all ... fireside, family, friends, careers. They hold nothing back. Unasked, but stirred within by the urge of manhood and pride of race, they go forth bravely to face hardship, loneliness and danger, to risk life itself, in a great cause. It is your cause for which they fight. You are not asked to give your own life — but you can help to save one. The Red Cross, of glorious tradition, unchallenged in purpose, needs your help so that it can answer tanks with ambulances, bombs with beds, horrors with hospitals, cruelty with mercy. Those of us at home will not be less loyal, less generous than our fighting men. We can remind them daily of our gratitude and our devotion, through the Red Cross.