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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1940-09-26, Page 7THE EXETER T1MES-ADV0CATE THURSDAY', SEPT. 30th, 1910 TO HELEN EDITORIALJm JLaJ 1 JL w >•> 1 You should have been a mediaeval queen To reign supreme in some Me- dicean court, Your auburn hair a crown of ivory wrought To features fine; great eyes of lus trous green In which there dwells, as though in two deejp pools, The frank serene assurance, learning gives To one who learning loves, by learning lives, And lives on heights beyond the ken of fools. IThe Phantom Lover * * * Is His First Name ‘Adam*? Dear Colonel: For your Academy of Immortals, have you a niche for the attorney in Dallas >by the name of Krook? Divvy Dend* * * Love is when a girl wearing a long white dress will ride to a for mal in a fellow's rattle-trap, moth- eaten, dust-ladden, topless auto mobile.* * * In a graveyard in Wooster, Eng land', is a slab over the grave of a departed Auctioneer bearing a single word - “GONE”.* * * Just a Little Star A little star twinkled on high - “I'm only a little star” it sighed to itself. “My rays can’t be seen very far. Oh, if only I were the .moon. I could shine on men and make them happy.” Down on earth a man - sad, lone some, despairing - looked up at the heavens and saw the little star. It fascinated him. He watched it twinkle. And a great peace stole into his heart and he took fresh courage. “If that little star can inspire me with its tiny light,” he said, “surely I can inspire other men with whatever of light I can add to the world's darkness.” And the little star never knew that it had been a greater power for good than the big, bright moon. We never know how far a kind deed of ours may reach. * . * * CONSCRIPTION Raising an army of 1,2 0 0,000 by conscription of 900,000 to augment our present personnel raises a ser ious question of ‘Officer’ material. Personally, we don’t consider this an insurmountable |problem . . take for example, there are more than 17,000 Colonels who hold beribbon- ed commissions from the Blue Grass State alone. This is enough ‘officer material’ for an army of 3,- 000,000, in addition, there are ■enough admirals to man the quar ter deck of all the ships we have ‘on order’ plus all those that will be talked about before the November election.* * * Abie Was Right The teacher asked little Abie Weinburg to give a sentence using the word ‘'diadem.” After much effort, Abie turned in the following: “People who drive onto railroad crossings without looking diadem sight quicker than those who stop, look and listen. * * * MIltA. — the largest star known to astronomers - has a diameter of 432 million miles. Or, in other words, it is 125 million times as large as the sun. Its existence was discovered by Fabricius of Holland on August 1G, 1596. ♦ * * Some folks go thru life touching red hot irokers to see if they will get burned. Painful Boils Bad Blood the Cause When, boils start to break out on different parts of the body it is an evidence that the blood is loaded up with impurities.^ Just when you think yOu are rid of one, another crops bp to take its place and prolong your misery. Alt the lancing and poulticing you may do will not stop more coming. Why not give that old, reliable, blood purifying medicine Burdock Blood Bitters a chance to banish the boils'? Thousands have used it for this purpose during the past 60 year^ Take B.B.B. and get rid of the bad blood and the boils too. The T. Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont. “I am going to believe all the good I carl aibout everybody,” writes Gee Bee Dee - “because, goodness only knows, if I looked at. people as they really are, I'd be awfully discouraged.”* * * Miss Bott Farley, age 17, daugh ter of the former National Demo cratic Chairmau, James A. Farley, was reported wearing a “Wfllkie” button down in Birmingham, Ala bama,* * * Those who borrow trouble are seldom the one who pay their debts. * * * The best way to meet the bill | collector is to be one yourself.* * * Dear Colonel: With regard to your recent ‘old maid’ story - have you heard about the one who had twin beds in her room because she figured there was twice as much chance of finding a man under them? —Jiminy Crickets According to an article in Screen Play, here is a story that Preston Foster insists actually happened; Tactful and delicate was the reply made by the Hollywood-bound French film star who had not found ‘life on the ocean wave’ all for which one could wish. She was sink ing, pale and haggard, into her steamer chair when her neighbor cheerily asked: “Have you break fasted, mademoiselle?” “No,” monsieur,” answered the actress with a wan smile. “I have not breakfasted. On the contrary.” * * * For those who have been wond ering why geology professors only get $5,000 a year while football coaches command salaries from $10,000 and up, we can suggest a simple answer . . . Did you ever hear 80,000 Ipeople cheering a lecture on “Subsurface formations on the northwest half of the south east portion oif the San Andreas fault?”* * * Five of the 31 individuals who have been president of the United States were twice married: Tyler, Fillmore, Benjamin Harrison, Thea- dore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wil son. N.B.—No, that number “31” is not a typographical effor . . there have been only 31 individuals who have served as president even tho’ President Roosevelt is termed as “32nd” president. I * * * Myth ancl Moral There is an old Green myth about Sisyphus, who was comlpelled to spend eternity rolling a huge stone uphill. The stone rolled down as fast as he pushed it up, and, to save himself .from being crushed by it, he had to struggle continuously. Well, the modern translation - as I see it - is that each of us must keep pushing if we don’t want to be overcome and crushed by the boulder of iprogress. We aren’t crushed by the pebbles of 'Circum stances ... it is the accumulated boulder of things left undone that finally makes the going hard. * * * With apologies to Judy Shea The wise man considers and waits and prays And saves up his money for rainy days. And when he is old, his only care Is a lamp, a book, and a com-. Portable chair; And he thinks of the money he might have slpent. Now drawing interest at 3 per cent. He chuckles and rubs his hands and then Wished he were young once again * * * Tact? The serious yoking man wrote to his prospective father-in-law; “I hope my recent a/ppointment to the curatorship of the Museum of An tiquities will induce you to trust your daughter to my care.” * * * A Add to your Scotch stories the one about the chap who gave his sweetie moth balls for her Hope -Chest.* * * After all things haven’t changed so very much, we’ve just read of a Greek maiden who satup all night listening to a lyre. . . . which reminds us - we don’t know just why - of the col lege ’boy who couldn’t get his slick er on, because he had a book in his hand which was too big to go thru his sleeve. * * * I may rant and I may rave But I must keep this column From seeming too grave. —the colonel Those squash, oh well, why try to tell of their goodness? * * 4s * * * * * The late corn is doing fine. Wonder if the late tomaters will follow suit? ******** If we 'could but work sunshiny weather pe<; for wet day jobs how much more we could get done. * * * * * * * * While we are welcoming sunshine, the thirsty land about Mont real is crying out for showers. ******** If we cannot win King George’s medal for civil service, we may make gain in self-respect. ******** We are living in grim days and there may be grimmer days ahead, King George told us. Let us be heedful. ******** , Already we detect ’with interest the new method of walking and standing exemplified by our enlisted men. * ******* On every occasion u|pon which he broadcasts, His Majesty throws new lustre upon the fine old name of gentleman. ******** How those farmers have managed to salvage so much of their crops after the devastating rains is beyond all comprehension. ******** That war loan went over all right. We can put over another and one after that and then still another if we get down to business. ******** THE KING’S SPEECH The King’s speeh was worthy of the man and&of the occasion. We can say no more. ******** And the Calf iClub. What we have tried to say for the swine club we wish to say for the .calf club and all interested therein. Here’s doffing our hats to a service club that has started something. Will the Lions keep after these boys and their live stock? We do not venture to say what the Lions should do in this good work, for men who have done so well, have it in them to do still better. We nod and approve their good work and look for what the Lions consistently seek - for advance along humanizing lines of activity. ******** SEND WATCHES We have just had a letter from a boy wham we mentioned on a former occasion who writes us from England that his watch is the only time|piece in his company. The men on sentry duty borrow it as they take up the lone patrol looking for German bombers. That little wrist watch presented by some o-f his chums as he left Canada has been a real boon. * * * * * * * * IN TWENTY-FIVE YEARS Two little boys will be taking a quarter-of a .century from now. One little fellow will be coming home and saying, “I was over at Bill’s today. He was showing me a funny suit of daddy’s. He said it was' his daddy's uniform that he wore in 19 40. Have you a uni form, daddy? His daddy limps? He- said he got hurt in the big ■war? Did you get hurt? What were you doing when Bill’s daddy ■was fighting.” ’ What will you tell the little chap. * * ****** LET US SET OUR SELVES THIS TASK This is no plea for dourness or for long faces. It is a plea for each one to assist the war winners. -While we do not eliminate recreation from our fall and winter program, why should we not eliminate luxury in every form and give the cash the thereby saved to buying war stamps and war .certificates and war bonds? Our fighters need machines. Let us supply them up to the limit. Better for us to deny ourselves than for Hitlerism to strip us of everything dear to the heart of decent men. * * * * * * * * And here’s our approval of what Constable Ferguson did at the Fair in clearing out so many of the humbugs and fakirs. That was his job, someone says. True, but he idid his stuff when some of us were a bit backward in making our protest. The fact is that this is a good country where the people who get things done and who may be counted on for generous support of worthy causes, do not want gambling or anything that comes close thereto. A worthy cause always finds support from worthy people. We do well to slrun even the appearance of evil. iSo here’s hoping that Constable Ferguson’s tribe may increase. And while we are so hoping let the rest of us do a little thinking. ******** A FINE TYPE What strikes one as he meets the soldiers of the present time is the high grade o.f men who now wear the king’s uniform. We have stopped some of these men as we met them from time to time to make casual inquiries as to how they are getting on. The replies have been straightforward and manly, soldierly. Of course there is the occasional roughneck, but what has impressed us has been the deportment of these men. They are civil, openeyed, direct. One need not look twice to see that these men are steady, alert, smart, efficient. They are anything but roysterers. These are men to be depended upon, men who give a fine performance as engineers, as infantry men or flyers or in any other arm of the service in which their lot may be cast. It’s .'up to the rest of us to see that they are well supported. The better’ such men are used the better will be their performance. As one of them remarked to us. "We’re put ting our all into this job.” ******** A REAL CONTRIBUTION Universal approval and hearty praise is given to the boys of the Exeter Swine Club. They and their supporting organization, the Exeter Agricultural '.Society have brought into this district forty-two pure bred sows, of the Yorkshire type. Those pure breds were at the Exeter Fair and a fine looking lot of mortgage lifters and rent and insurance payers they were. There was not a runt in the whole bunch. If to this bunch of porkers is added gumption, hard work and real knee action, we’ll find solid land lasting financial re turns resulting therefrom. But there was more than a few hogs up for apjpraisal that show day. The boys and their dads were and will be on trial.•Only the first step has been taken. It remains for dad and’ boy to put. their heads in steep and to look well to the next two or three, years for lasting results. The boys were interested last Thursday. What about the months and days already on the way? A sneer will do a boy no good. A pleasant and timely word may help. Those hogs have a good start, but right hog husbandry is needed every minute. Rome was not built in a day. A hog pen is not the result of any mere happy accident. We’ll see. Some of those boys will do well. Whose boys will it be? *.#****#* THE SOURCE ■Men stand with uncovered heads in the presence of the qualities shown by the English people during the terrible times of the past weeks. Words have been beneath the weight of meaning as our best writers have told as best they could of the patriotism that has endured and has been (patient. Whence such outstanding virtues? Englishmen laugh when a WILL KILL MORE FLIES THAN SILVER AL DOLLARS'WORTH/ k\OF ANY OTHER FLY KI LIE R/A Packet of \ WILSONS FLY PADS joke is made and respond to the stimuli that excite other men. ' Whence this present, endurance that .cannot he measured by ordinary human standards? The reply is the quality of the Englishmen who have been nurtured on the great teachings of the Bible and the prayer book and the teachings of such men as Watts and Wesley and Whit field. English hoys went to Sunday School and behaved themselves while there. Yes, and they learned a humming good old Collect every Sunday and if their conduct was not up to par they learned two or three collects in addition. These quiet going folk know the Scriptures, though they are shy in acknowledging any such fact. In '■nrij an hour us they now face, it is this grounding in great spiritual truths and this taking in of spiritual life that has made them great. These men and women and hoys and girls don’t know how to be anything else. Their spiritual nature makes the timid spirit brave and nerves the feeble arm for fight. The last thing a first class Eng lishman will do is to sneer at religion or allow anyone else to do so. ******** WELL DONE, BOSSY Wasn’t it Ann Taylor who about one hundred years ago wrote the jingle: “Thank you pretty cow that gives the milk to soak my bread.” It seems that bossy is going one better. She is giving the milk that is actually being turned into wool, a wool that is in re spects superior to the wool produced by the sheep. The chemists are stepping lively and this wool already is on the market for a great many purposes. Some time ago we pointed out that the chemists are in duty bound to help us out in the matter of disposing of our farm products. We are glad to say that they are making gasoline or its equivalent out of corn stalks and straw. There is no reason why an equivalent of wood may not be made from straw and grain. The whole thing in this line is waiting to break. Imagine what this would mean to our Western provinces. It would mean not only the open door for disposing of their crops, but houses and barns and granaries. It would mean a new country out there where problems that remained unsolved for decades will he answered and a day of prosperity dawn. The closed door of the west is almost sure to prove an opportunity. This is the time for government action, prompt and sure and ef fective. Already we have pointed out the necessity for such action. 'Fhe times are too strenuous and the needs of the average man are too great to be balked by selfish interests. This country exists for the welfare of the average man. This statement is a guarded one, but we can speak more plainly but not as plainly as events may yet speak. We speak constructively. Events may speak in terms of the whirlwind. Will the politicians please take notice? Best of all fly killers* Clean, quick, sure, cheap. Ask your Drug* gist, Grocer or General Store. THE WILSON FLY PAD CO.. HAMILTON, ONT. lOc WHY PAY MORE I ----------------- — . . | AV. ONTARIO TEACHERS MEET ' j IN LONDON OCTOBER 4; ABOUT 1,500 EXPECTED Fifteen hundred primary school teachers from various sections of Western Ontario will 'be in London October 4 for the annual regional conference, The program, has been complet ed and the details announced. Among those taking part are the Rev. A. J. Smale and Inspector Gordon Young, both of Strathroy; Dr. Carleton Stanley, president of Dalhousie University, and Miss H. Horsman, reading specialist in De troit and 'Chicago Universities. Teachers attending the meeting will include those from two inspec torates in Oxford as well as those of Elgin, Huron, Middlesex, Lon don district, Lambtom and Essex, j The meeting continues for one day. I | CLINTON MARKSMAN HOLDS CANADIAN ( HAMPIONSHIP To have won the Canadian cham pionship on target shooting in a class o'f approximately 30,000 com petitors is no small achievement and that is just what Mr. Elwood Epps, of Clinton has done. Elwood heads the Clinton Rifle Club, a class of marksmen who were Canadian champions when they teamed up in club competitions a few years ago, and this year lost to a Calgary club by a small margin. They say an old shoe tied to the back of a married couple’s car signifies the superiority of the male? Who’s kidding who? MRS. WILLIAM PEASE DIED On Wednesday morning, Septem- ber 18th the death occurred at her home of Mrs, William Pease, on lot 5, Son th East Boundary of Usborne. Death <came suddenly for Mrs. Pease had been in her usual active good health till Sunday, when she became ill. The late Mrs. Pease, whose maid en name was Fanny Tebay, was born in Lancashire, England. There she was married and fifty-three years ago she and her husband came out to live in Cleveland. O. Twenty years ago they moved to the locality and in 1923 Mr. Pease passed on. She was identified with the Anglican church. Mrs. Pease, who was the last remaining mem ber of a large family of brothers and sisters, is survived by one step-son, Herbert Shaw of Cleve land, Ohio, and one daughter, Mrs. William Elliott, of R. R. No. 1, St. Marys, five grandchildren and six great grandahildren. Funeral service was held on Friday afternoon with interment in Kirkton Union ceme tery. Rev. Mr. Rapson, of Kirkton United Church had charge of the service and was assisted by Rev. C. L. Lewis, of Brussels. Mrs. G. Hall sang during the service and the ipallbearers were Messrs. Glea son Gill, Nelson Watson, William Bibby, Geo. Hall, John O’Brien and. Roy Francis.—St. Marys Journal- Argus. Caven W. M. S. The September meeting of Caven W. iM. S. was held at the home of Mrs. H. Whyte. The meeting opened by all repeating the call to prayer and the singing of a hymn. Mrs. Johnson took the Scripture read ing and Miss Jeckell offered prayer. The treasurer reported an increase of $20.0u in our givings over last year. Mrs. Whyte and Mrs. Sillery gave a report of the Huron Presby- terial meeting held at Hensall, one taking the forenoon and the other the afternoon sessions. Miss Jeck ell read an account of the life of “Mary Murray” who has spent 34 years of her life as deaconess in Scotland, Africa and now Toronto, where she still carries on. Mrs. Cann gave current events. Mrs. F. Gladman presided over the meeting which closed with repeating the Lord’s Prayer in unison and a so cial half hour spent. The next meet ing to be held October 24th will be at the home of Miss Jeckell. HON. J. G. GARDINER HOLDS TWO MINISTRIES AT ONCE Hon. J. G. Gardiner, minister of the new department of national war services, will remain indefin itely as minister of agriculture as well, Prime Minister Mackinezie King said at a brief talk with Ot tawa correspondents., “There are a good mauy agricul tural [problems existing with which Mr. Gardiner is in close touch,” the prime miniser said, “and some of them dovetail into the work of the national war services department.” The pessimist says: “Any milk in that pitcher?” The optimist, says: “Please pass the cream.” •fl * * “arriage may be failure,” lisped Lucy McGee. “But I’m going to make some guy prove it to me.” Ploughing, planting, reaping, conserving, marketing—AGRICULTURE commands all sea sons. The farmer is ever working and managing to secure the gifts of nature and their profits. The Bank of Montreal at all seasons is assist ing thousands of farmers throughout Canada, by furnishing at convenient branches the va rious kinds of banking services they require. 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