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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1942-07-23, Page 7»*TO® EXETER TJMES-APVOCATE i » t- I I Avoid waste whew you make tea Page 7 observe a farmer on &means, * and I care not who has * days. * * * * What a crop of hay! What an abundance of everything! How sugarbeets and the corn and potatoes and turnips and mangles coming along! What an .encouragement for ovejyhody to do utmost! “Det me but hold my country’s offices its liberties.” Who said that, anyway? .*..******. First things first, these stirring * * * t> •* If you want to know what busy fine day in harvest. >it * i|i * * * * *• ♦ * * * 15 YEARS? AGO Miss Ruby Creech has been suc cessful in securing her first class teacher’s certificate at the Strat ford Normal School and has been en gaged at Corbett School in Stephen, Mr. Oren Winer, employed with the Bell Telephone Co., at Brigden, is carrying his arm in a sling, the result of a fracture, He top of a pole tightening when the pole broke. A rink composed of Woods and Dr. A, W, Smith, of Lon don, and R. G. Seldon and R. N. Creech, an-d entered by the Lon don Rowing Club, carried off the O.B.A. trophy at Hamilton last week. Mr. G. S, ^Howard, principal of the Exeter Public School, together with his scholars, are to be con gratulated on -their excellent show ing in the entrance examinations. Thirty-five of his thirty-six pupils passed, twenty-one with honors. ■ Master Joe Creech, aged 12 years, carried off the scholarship for Exe ter and obtained the highest marks in West Huron, was the Dr at the wires, J. N, 25 YEARS AGO The canning factory started op erations on the pea pack on Tues day, July 24th. Mrs. Thos, Carling and children, of Brighton, are visiting relatives in Exeter and Centralia. Eal’l Parsons, thought to have been lost on his way home from France, has landed at Halifax. Miss Laura Jory and Miss Rotha King, of Creditor, have returned from a visit in St. Thomas and Lorne Station. In a lettei' from Pte. Bert Har ness, of the 75 th Battalion, France, he states, “I saw Eric Hurdon, Bert Rivers, Jim Marshall, A, Hooper and a number of other Exeter boys, and can say it was a real treat. During the severe electrical storm on Thursday which was accompan ied by heavy rain, hail and high winds, the barn of Mr. Melville Hern, concession 7, Usborne, was partly unroofed, a large patch of shingles was torn from the kitchen roof and the silo was totally wreck ed. RAU-DUFFY St. Columban’s Church, St. Col* umban, was the scene of a pretty wedding when Esther S„ daughter of Mr. and Mrs, William Duffy, of Dublin, was united in <marriage to Gloin H. Ran, ^on of Mrs. and the late Joseph Rau, of near Zurich. Rev, Father O’Drowski performed the ceremony. The bride, given in marriage by her father was lovely in a floor length gown of white triple sheer crepe chiffon, which fell in grace ful folds to the floor from a shir red bodice. She wore ’a veil with a long train and wreath of orange blossoms. Her bouquet was of Briar- cliffe roses, bouvardia and maiden hair fern. The bride was attended by her sister, Vera, who acted as maid of honor, wearing old rose crepe chiffon and a matching bow in her hair. . Her bouquet was of Virginia carnations, corn flowers and maiden-hair fern. Miss Doreen Regier, of Brescia Hall, as brides maid, wore a pink sheer crepe chif fon gown and a matching bow in her hair. She carried roses, corn flowers and maiden-hair fern. The groom’s attendant was his brother, Verdun Rau, of the provincial po lice force. Louis Duffy, brother of the bride, and Roy Rau, brother of the groom, acted as ushers. Af ter the ceremony a wedding break fast was served at the home of the bride’s parents. Mr. and Mrs. Rau left on a wedding tour ’to Brampton, Barrie, Owen Sound, Manitoulin and other points, chose a brown return groom’s i i i Tobermory, and other northern For traveling the bride beige dress with beige and accessories. Upon they will reside on farm near Drysdale. their the Bathing . .. sun Lincoln whited three long, patient years foi* a competent mili tary leader. King George may be in the same boat. * * * * * * * “AVE THOUGHT IT WAS FUN!” Two office girls were talking to the editor about helping the farmers? “We were out hoeing sugar beets,” they told us, “and we thought it was fun,” That’s the spirit both of healthy youth and of sound patriotism. We have not heard the sequel to the girls’ adven ture, but we should not be surprised if -there soon will be a couple of vacancies in that office. The modern Ruth and the up-to-date Boaz are still abroad in the land. ❖ £ “EVERYTHING POSSIBLE” Down there at Ottawa when the bigwigs are told that some mischief is going on on the par-c of the enemy, the party reporting is told “Everything possible is being done in that inratter." We be lieve the statement if the speaker will but add the words, “by us”. And there is the rub. The government is, no doubt, doing its “everything possible”, but that “everything possible” is not suf ficient to prevent our getting a sound licking when we should be marching to the music of conquerors. If ever there was an occa sion for a national government that time has come right now. The Canadian public is tired of this thing of being told that parliament does not count in the affairs of the country. * * * * ** * * IT WILL COME OUT IN THE AV ASH That secret session of the Dominion parliament is a funny sort of thing. Does anyone imagine that all those men down there can keep a secret from the world? It is to laugh. We have heard a great deal of the efficiency of the Canadian navy, Yet it seems that it does not keep those German submarines from playing havoc with Canadian shipping right under the nose of the Canadian navy. Will this session with its awe-inspiring secrecy, reveal the secret of the German success in the St. Lawrence? Will it bring out why those Lower Canadians who professed such willingness to fight if the war came to Canadian shores, are not keeping those St. Lawrence deprecating submarines in their proper place, that being. Davy Jones’ locker? We are living in great times, surely! » * * ♦ * * ♦ 50 YEARS AGO new addition to the Hensail school is nearing completion. The public , Sunday was considered the warm est day of the year, but towards evening we were refreshed by a shower of rain. ’ registered about ninety degrees. The greatest conflagration Which ever visited Bay City, Mich., broke out on July 25th in the lumber establishment of Miller and Turner. Three hundred dwellings, churches, four hotels and forty Stores were destroyed. '**• Mi*. S. M. Sanders met with a painful accident one day last week. While crossing a scaffold over the ■barn floor, which was composed of poles, one of them turned and he fell to the floor, a distance of 12 • feet. He received only some cuts and bruises about his face. A warning against, too much bathing is given by Dr, Norman Wrong, in an article in Health Maga zine, -organ of the Health League of Canada. Dr. Wrong, demonstra tor in dermatology, University of Toronto, discusses facts and fal lacies about the skin. The chief function of the skin is to protect and cover, but “equally important, however, are’ its func tions of heat regulation, of elimina tion of sweat and of acquainting with our surroundings through sensory’ nerves,” he declares.’ “The skin is‘admirably suited resist harmful physical agents such as heat, cold, drying, wetting abras- BETTER BUCK UP Word comes that some parachutists have pudence to land somewhere near the estate of This isn’t nice on the part of ‘ that submarines are active in of such conduct. Over there word that the Germans were or something like that in the had the brazen im- President Roosevelt. Then news is afoot . We don’t approve the Axis people. the St. Lawrence. _ ___ ___ in New York they should have had coming. Perhaps there was a count landing bunch. If there were such a party the band should have been out and the nobler four hundred should have had an opportunity to have entertained his blueblooded mightiness. Down the noble St. Lawrence .way there should have been a nice little regatta to have .met. the- distinguished visitors who would have escorted them about our defence works and shown them our blueprints. We confess a dislike to this privacy on the part of visitors to America. * * * * * ♦ * • us its to The thermometer! ives and niinor violence.” Dr. Wrong / . _ ! nAfa.ta /ml* 4<Tf thia WDVft n nf £n. two jMW M MUbura Ck>, IM. Toronto, OH. Those who keep mass of impurity pent up m their bodies, day after day, instead of having it removed as nature intended, at- least once in every twenty-four, hours, in variably suffer from constipation, The use of cheap, harsh purgatives will never get you any where as they only aggravate the trouble and in- gre the delicate mucous lining of the welsj and are very liable to cause piles; If constipated take Milburn’s Laxa-Liver Pills and have a natural movgmeht of the. bowels. They do not gripe, weaken and sicken an many laxatives do. ! points out, “If this were not so, humans could not live in the trop ics, the arctic, on the desert and in the water. Fats and oils can be applied to the skin and will lubri cate and soften, but are not absorb ed. The skin cannot be nourished or “fed” by - rubbing in a cream, any more than a piece of leather can be “fed” by oiling it. Vitamins add ed to skin creams are practically useless in theii* effect.” Our skin resists chemicals ex tremely Well, according to Dr. Wrong, with the exception Of such rare chemicals as mustard gas. It also resists remarkably well the invasion of most tered. purely Clares. It is sun, although “our skin offers fair protection against the ultraviolet rays of the sun. Tanning is an ef fort on the part of the skin to pro tect us further and, of course, the negro has the most protection of all against' the. sun’s rays. Sun bathing, in moderation, is very healthful and undoubtedly increases our resistance to infection, and,, is a sure-prevention of rickets. How ever, the vogue for sun-bathing is undoubtedly as harmful as moderate sun-bathing is- healthful. Severe sunburn can make a person as ill as a heat burn, and sunstroke not Uncommon here.” “In Australia,” Dr. Wrong stat es, “where sun bathing is almost a religion, the amount of skin cancer is greater than anywhere else in the world.” . He concludes: “Fair people must use discretion and moderation ili their sun bathing.” Pimples local skin dangerous i I i bacteria encoun- and boils are infections, he de to have too much EDWARD TL WEGENAST Relatives and friends from Zur ich, Waterloo, Bort Arthur, Dash wood and Sebringville attended the funeral of Edward M, Wegenast who died day, were dore and Albert Deichert, all bro thers of Mrs, Wegenast, and Alfred Bfaff, a brother-in-law of Mr. Weg enast. All the pallbearers live in Zurich, interment was in Avon dale cemetery. suddenly in Goderich on Sun* July 12th. The pallbearers Victor, Jacob, George, Theo- < % WE QUESTION THE PROPRIETY We question the propriety of a judge’s being appointed to , membership in any commission or committee dealing with public affairs. The reason for our doing so is obvious. When the report of any such body is criticized, the judge’s robe is held up as a screen between the critics and the report. In this connection we recall a .remark made by the late Honourable Alexander Mackenzie when asked what he thought of the appointing -of judges to such work. He replied, “I ha-ve been very fortunate in my day in that I nevei* have had a trial in any of my elections. If I should have encoun tered such a circumstance I should have preferred to have had judges on the bench who had been liberals in their day.” Mr. Mackenzie knew something of human nature. A judge’s robe is very fine but it is easily soiled. * >s * * * ♦ * * DON’T HUBBY — WORK! We have just heard of a mechanic who was busy beyond all hope of overtaking what was expected of 'him. He was doing his • best as he thought, till one day he was so busy he did nbt provide against accident. The result was a fall that knocked him put after .the pattern of Joe Louis. There he lay, about as useless a specimen of humanity as the township had to offer. At last he came to and resumed his work. “I learned a whole lot from that (period Of unconsciousness,” he told us. “Suppose my skull had been cracked on -that cement?” Just so. * There is nothing gained by hurrying. Progress comes in the way of intelligent planning and steady appli cation. It’s dogged that does it when guided by good sense. When a man gets in a hurry it is always a good policy for him to wait till his hurry is over. Rushing is motion that counts. Results copybook. a pure waste of time. It’s not the alone have value. And this isn’t * * ****** GETTING IMPATIENT Impatience is being felt and expressed regarding the Hong Kong situation. Parents mourn the loss of their sons. They do not ■deplore their being offered in behalf of the liberties of the race. They are worried at the thought-the sacrifice may have been the re sult of inexcusable blundering and mismanagement. They wish to know all the facts and to judge for themselves., They are not con tent to take any mania say so when the lives of their children are concerned. All Canadians sympathize with them. What they fear is that the politicians will outwit them. They are well aware that the nation has its moral spasms and that when the nine days’ won der of the spasm has^ passed, the whole Hong Kong and Singapore l. In times like these Canadians „ . _ The Kong Is heid back, the more sus- Biit then, the people like to be inquiry Will be as dead as Queen Ann. ______ __ . _____ desire that their government should profit by experience, more information regarding Hong •picious 'Canadians will become. fooled. * * * ** * * * A MENTAL ATTITUDE Somebody some time ago told the Anglo-Saxons that they are a superior race hud we have believed it ever since. Lately some of us have been questioning out superiority. For instance, who would have thought ten years ago that we should have taken the? sound licking we have got in Libya and have liked it so well. Who ever 'thought that Britain’s generals and Britain’s soldiers would' sustain a defeat so serious? But facts are facts. Then Singapore. The very thought of what went on there is sickening, Two charac teristics of our nature must be got rid of. The first fe our sense of superiority, The next characteristic is our calm assurance that we’ll win the last battle by some -decree of the gods, We see no evidence of national superiority. Judged by achievement in the present war, Chipa has bettered us a thousand times. Again, com pare Dunkirk with the months-long struggle of' Russia and one judges of the blood in human veins. We have not been marvels of astuteness in statesmanship over the last quarter of a century. We have not been models of financial skill when we compare the rivers of treasure poured into the war effort with the results we have ■to our credit. Till we wake up we may as well be prepared to have our ears pulled by Germany and Japan. It is1 not so much that we are complacent as that we are sound asleep and lulled into deeper somnolence by the roar of the enemies* cannon ami the bursting of hiq shell. WHY? On Saturday morning the daily paper headlines read somethin like this: “Germans forced back across the Don. Egyptian battle outcome in doubt.” Lovers of our best life rejoiced in the Russian success. Anglo-Saxondom wondered .and grieved at the work done by the British in the Egyptian battle. Five years ago we were inclined to despise the Russians, On Saturday morning they were reported to be succeeding where we were doing pretty poorly. Yet we were told that the British were prepared for the Libyan cam paign in men and equipment. The question persists, why are the British not doing better? Are we not tough enough? Have we forgotten the art of producing first class fighting men? Have we dropped, somewhere, the ability to give a little better tlian we get? Have we abandoned the skill of the battlefield to cultivate, as a substitute, aptness in phrasemaking? Is liquor one of the dis abling causes, It has been openly stated that our soldiers in Africa must have liquor. We do not see the necessity. It is more costly to supply the soldiers with pure water than it is to supply them with liqu-or. The containers that will carry liquor will carry the best of water. Experience has shown that men will keep in condition better on pure water than they will on liquor. We know .some thing about the way men behave whose bodies have been corrupted by constant liquor drinking, In any case, something is seriously wrong and we want to know what that something is. Thirty, July 2M, horn YOUR GROCERY, DRUG ANO TOBACCO STORES-ALSO RESTAURANTS BANKS AND POST OFFICES Two Countries Covet Azores By Hugh Templin The stories for the past two weeks have been about the group of islands in the Atlantic known as the Bermudas, or, more generally, simply as Bermuda. This week, I will tell of the other group of At lantic islands at which the Clipper lands on its way to Europe. Nobody could have known much less about the Azores than we did before flying to Europe. We remem bered- the first line of the poem that used to be in some of the readers. It was about -the last fight -of the Revenge. It began, “At Flores, in the Azores, Sir Richard Grenville lay." You remember how Sir Rich ard and his crew went out against the might of Spain and -did a lot of damage before being overpowered. We realized that the Azores were islands somewhere off the coast of Portugal. They had been used by ; the first Americans to fly across -the Atlantic. We used to think that was cheating, because they claimed to be the first to cross the ocean in planes but they .came down twice on the way across. As it happened, we came down four times. Two of these landings were at Horta in the Azores, on the Island of Fayal, if we recall. (We wouldn’t be too sure.) They are not little islands, these lands, a thousand miles or so froin Portugal, to which they belong, and they weren’t built up by little coral animals, either, as the Bermudas were, They are volcanic islands, and at least one volcano remains, on the Island of Pico, opposite Horta. It I is distinctly of the volcanic type, J and as we flew past the crater of I it, we believed tha-t we saw smoke i still coming out of it, though it Unto the Hills Around These were with buildings scattered here and over the fields and winding going up to the top. There few trees, most of them in But the fields were di- Even more interesting than the town of Horta was its background, a range of high hills, cultivated to the very top. little there roads were the town, vided off by hedges of what was said to be bamboo—for this is a sub tropical country. These hedges were to be found sometimes around patches of cultivated land on islands which we flew over I supposed that the be terribly windy and grow some Azores it was things little other later, must impossible to without such protection.. There was one other feature of that island which stood out. Along the top of the ridge there was a row of tall, stone windmills, with great arms turning around, the type we think of as Dutch windmills, but common, apparently to many Euro pean countries. They were up where the and used and this guel. It must be well over a hund red miles in length, for we were within sight of it for hours. The island is decidedly mountainous, and only here and there were there signs of life. The occasional val leys, coming down to the ocean, usually had villages on the coast and a few houses back in the val ley. Railways would be impossible. Perhaps travel is mostly by boat. ! Towards dusk, we passed a fairly large city, well lighted. Some of the European refugees on board stood out on deck till the last of the lights disappeared under the horizon. It was their last sight of Europe. When I hear of San Miguel, I will think of dolphins. A number of these playful animals (for they are not fish), followed the Excam bion that day, jumping out of the tops of the waves, and playing around the boat. I could under stand why so many old navigators chose the dolphin for a place in their coats-of-arms. The appear ance of dolphins must have been a pleasant break in the monotony of long voyages. Much Coveted Islands t may have been just the clouds. As the Clipper came within sight of the Azores, we watched curiously for our first sight of Europe. It was a rocky shoreline, with a rock off the tip with a hole in it, which might have been the Perce Rock off our own Gaspe shore. Clippers Land at Horta Horta is the landing place "for the Clippers '(if a seaplane can be said to “land”), with most the others light blue, red roofs. The harbor is an artificial one, with a concrete breakwater. Inside the breakwater, a large Portugese destroyer was anchored. It had a big “V” on the stern, but this wasn’t an Allied “V for Victory” sign, but an identification, for the name of , the ship was “Vouga”. I I f It is a small city of the houses white, and painted a light pink and true pastel shades, with It was quite picturesque. wind must blow continually,. sohieone told me they were to pump water, grind grain even to develop electricity in modern age. My stay at Horta was brief. In .a little over an hour, the passengers were back on board the Clipper with three added to their number, a young Portugese couple and their baby. Ten minutes later, the Clip per* moved out of the harbor into the op’en water of the Atlantic and after only a two-minute run, we were in -the air—the best take-off I had seen the.Clipper make. For more than half an hour, it flew over the coasts of an island, which was probably Pico. The is land must have been 75 miles long, and it wasn't the largest in the group. (Compare .that with 20 miles for the length of the main island at Bermuda.) many inhabitants. ' was was The had a stone wall. submarine bases nearer to parts Germany which high and rocky, making its way along fields looked tiny their hedges, or There weren't The An shoreline oil tanker the shore, and they occasionally It is probable that you would far* rathei’ spend the rest of your days in a Canadian prison than on the bleak shores of San Miguel or some of these other islands, but they are coveted by many nations right now. Germany would like to have them. They would supply a thousand miles of North America. Nor is it only could use the Azores. Last October, before the United States was into the war, that country was quite un popular in Portugal. The reason was simple. The United States had recently acquired naval and air bases on a chain of British islands stretching from Newfoundland to South America. Having got these bases they looked for more—and the eyes of some talkative senators fell on the Azores. “With those islands in our hands,” they said* “we could hold off German attacks before they had much more than left Europe.” x The argument was ’true enough: there was just one flaw in it. The ! Azores belong to Portugal, a neutral 1 nation, at present doing harm toA Lost Opportunity | n° one- And y°u can take my word for it that over in Lisbon, the Ger- The skipper of the plane sat be- jmans were doing their utmost to .Spread the sayings of these too- | talkative senators in Washington. II .. I side me and we talked about things aeronautical. He asked mie if I would like to go upstairs with him to see the pilot and navigators at their work. I assured him I would like nothing better and he told me that when the plane came down to the {water again, he would look me up: Nearby was Jit was against the rules to -take the a large German m'erchant ship, in- passengers up during flight, ternod since early in the war. There ............................. ‘ i I I II I ( The chance never came. ■ Just at that moment there was 41 change in the rhythm of the motors. We both heard it and looked out. four -motor had stopped, per said, “Oh, oh!” nothing more, and was gone again. The Clipper Horta. The had' left New we did, was sitting on 1 Before we came down, the ------- was dumped into the Atlantic. Someone told me that 5,000 gallons went to waste in the interest of safety. We came down easily to a perfect landing and piled out into launches at Horta for a second time. On the breakwater six other Can adians watched proceedings with in terest, They were the balance of the newspaper party, who had left New York on a later Clipper and had now caught up to us. There I first met three editors from Western Canada, two from Quebec city and i one from St. John. We left the Dixie Clipper sitting He° was "boasting 011 the waters of Horta harbour, with A little spilled on hiechanics working feverishly over had been two, but the other one got away with the crews of both on board. The sailors from the ga” were out on the water, drilling. It was early morning, Azores time, 4.35 by which still showed New Night had been three hours shorter than usual, A Pan American launch came out' and took us to shore. The break water was built of stone. Along the top ran a cobblestone road. Along it, donkeys, oxen, mules and horses hauled little carts. Many of them had sugar cane that they were tak- ■to a factory near the shore. A seam up a flat “Vou- break- by the watch Number The skip- 7.35 my York time. and I didn’t see him turned back towards other Clipper which York two days after We have piles of them oh hand. They are No. 1-XXXXX Best Grade. THE PRICE IS RIGHT. We expect a car load of High land CEDAR POSTS this week. A. J. CLATWORTHY Phone 12 Granton We Deliver Even ing soft coal, apparently out of a in the nearby mountain, made number of other loads. Nearby, there was a market, at that early hour, women with bas kets on their heads were carrying fresh fruit and fish. In wineshop, native brandy a dollar a bottle. One bought a bottle of cognac it on the plane, of his bargain. a rubber tobacco pouch and ate a hole in it. He lost his appetite Portugese drinks. Boys came along with boxes equipment for shining shoos. I clinod. Others had 'postcards, and I bought several excellent photo graphs of the Islands, with Portu gese stamps to bring them back by the next Clipper, Both the shoe shine boys and the boys with the postcards knew a little English. . a nearby sold for Canadian and took for and do* that balky engine, while the At lantic 'Clipper soared into the air and ten hours later came down on the Tagus river opposite Lisbon, Nrttt Miguel S4x weeks later I saw the other side ef the Azores group. This time i it was from the water level and t J was on the “Exeambloti”* sailing | past the high and rocky coast of ’the largest of the islands, Ban 1I :l A MODERN * « , euiit.,» WKU CONDUCTED , * < CONVENIENTLY LOCATED Hom,,. Close to Parliament fitnljihg*. Uhiyerrity 6f Toronto, Mnple Leaf Gat'deiw, I’rtahionftwe Shopping IJiitnct, Wholeante Ilotiscff, Theatres, Churches of Ew.r# petfdWfti'trtiili, A, M. 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