The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1939-04-13, Page 3THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, APRIL 13th, 1939
ARE YOUR PRAYERS ANSWERED
“III fares the land, to hastening ills a prey
When cement increases but universities decay.
THIEV1. a-- YLE SHOP
When Mr. Heffrom arrived at his
butcher shop Tuesday morning he
discovered that tin ack door had
been brcl. a h »es ,md entered
the plac ■ l/£toj ..30 in cash. It
is only some n.o* the ince a theft
of a si: u i • rred st the
same shop.
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This farm fence
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According to the best authorities in Washington the week fol
lowing Easter Sunday will go down as one of the crisis weeks of ail
history.
Prayer is an almost universal form
of human appeal to the ‘Supreme
Power. While the form of mental
perspective may vary between people
of various races and creeds, the 'Pur
pose is very much the same —- ask
ing a favor of the Almighty.
Prayer is a recognition of an omni
potent power and a firm belief that
if properly approached (mentally)
our prayer, petition or favor, will be
granted. It is based on the sound
conviction that God is our friend.
Human nature is pretty much the
same the world over — we are all
prone to ask and expect special gifts
or favors from our friends without,
thought or expectation of returning
the favor. .Many of us - most of us,
in fact - sub-consciously pray with
the expectation of having our favors
granted but without doing anything
in return when they are granted.
When you ask a friend or rela
tive for a favor and promise to do
something in return, nine times oui
,of ten, the favor will be granted. And
if we keep our promise - make good
on our pledge - we can return again
and again and ask for other favors.
When your prayers are not an
swered, perhaps it is because you
neglected to make a pledge to do
something in return for the favor if
granted.
The law of compensation is im
mutable — we must ‘return the fa
vor’. There is no such thing in the
physical world or spiritual world as
‘something for nothing’ . . . “as ye
sow, so shall ye reap.’’
How may we show oui' apprecia
tion for prayers answered?
There are many ways:by self de
nial, foregoing some pleasure, doing
without candy or sweets for a day or
a week, performing some extra or
unrequired task (particularly some
task we usually avoid doing), doing
without something ourselves to help
others. The more important or ser
ious our prayer, the greater should
be our promised act of compensation.
The next time you ask God for a
favor, ‘promise to do something in
return. God is kind, generous and
friendly — He is interested in your
FAITH AND SINCERITY rather
than in your position, race or creed.
Happiness is worth all the sacri
fice that love makes necessary.
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A man is valuable only in propor
tion to his knowledge.
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The government mint makes it
first — it is up to you to make it
last.
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We are all alike — some of us
fight for our religion — others,
about it.
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Don’t Re Afraid of Paying a Few
Compliments
“I have never seen a man who
could do real work except under the
the stimulus of encouragement and
enthusiasm, and with the approval
of the people for whom he worked."
Chas. M. Schwab
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The teacher had forbidden the
eating of candy and the chewing of
gum during school time, i One day
She became suspicious of a lump in
Jimmie’s cheek — and asked: “Jim
mie, are you eating candy or chew
ing gum?’’
“No,” replied Jimmie, “I’m just
soaking a prune to eat at recess.’’
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QUIDNUNC'
An average of nearly six pounds of
cheese per person is the estimated
average consumption in the United
States.
‘Cockney’ is a term used since the
17 th century by people in rural sec
tions to designate a city person of
the city of London.
The Taiping Rebellion ip ‘China
cost the lives of Fifty Million people.
Anaximander of Miletus is credit
ed with making the first maps
known to modern history — about
500 B. C. And in the same period,
the first Geogarphy was written by
Hecataeus.
The English language is spoken
by more than 225 million people;
Chinese (including dialects) 175
Million; Russian (including dialects)
10 millions; Japanese, 90 million;
German, 78 million; French 63 mil
lion; Spanish, '80 million; Bengali,
(spoken, by Mohammedans of East
ern Bengal) 51 million; Hindi and
various Indian languages are spoken
by 216 million people; Polish, 32
million; and Portugese 47 million.
American College Fraternities; the
oldest fraternity is the Phi Beta
Kappa organized December 5, 1776.
It has a total membership of 76,000
According to Baird’s Manuel, there
are approximately 76 American Col
lege Fraternities and 29 Women's
Sororities, 8 Honor Societies in spec
ial fields and 96 Departmental and
Professional fraternities.
The first message sent by cable
was sent under the English Channe)
from England to France, November
1851.
iln the United States, there are
11,392 American Legion Posts.
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ILittle wisdom makes big fools.
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Solitude is necessary for genius.
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Few men propose until they are
certain of the right answer.
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A women is never neutral — she
either loves or hates.
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PRANKISH PROBLEMS
Answer to prankish Problem No.
60 which appeared in this space
last issue: The train and cannon ball
would be 10 0 miles apart.
Prankish Problem No. 61: The let
ters of one four-lettered word pro
perly arranged can be used to fill
in these five blank spaces:
“Fill up the . . . ,” the land
lord said,
“Until the . . . run over;
“Tonight we . . upon this . . .
“Tomorrow ... to Dover
■(Will print the correct answer in
this space next week. Can you solve
it now?)
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Population of the Western
Hemisphere
United States ................ 130,215,000
Brazil ...... 41,560,147
Mexico ....................... 16,552,722
Argentina ....................... 12,561,361
Canada ............................ 10,376,786
Colombia ........ ............. 9,305,995
Peru ................................. 6,500,000
Chile ............................... 4,522,136
Cuba ................................ 4,011,088
Venezuela ....................... 3,451,677
Bolivia ............................. 3,226,296
Haiti ........ ..................... 3,003,000
Ecuador .......................... 2,756,522
Guatemala ...................... 2,245,593
Uruguay .......................... 2,065,986
El Salvador .................... 1,597,549
Dominican Republic .... 1,544,549
Nicaragua ............... ...... 1,133,5 47
Honduras ........................ 962,685
Paraguay ....................... 931,799
Costa Rica .................... 591,862
Panama .......................... 50 6,926
The population of the United
States as listed represents continen
tal United States only and does not
include:
Puerto Rico ............. 1,543,913
Alaska ............................. 59,278
Virgin Islands ............... 22,012
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Wheezing In The
Bronchial Tubes
Bronchitis comes from a neglected
cold or cough and begins With a
tightness across the chest, there is a
difficulty in breathing, a wheezing
sound comes from the bronchial
tubes, and considerable phlegm is
raised when coughing takes place.
On the first sign of bronchitis you
should check it immediately by using
Dr. Wood’s Norway Pine Syrup and
thereby pi-eventitig it becoming
chronic, and, perhaps,, developing
into something more serious,
The T. Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont.
Yesterday belongs to eternity —
Tomorrow belongs to posterity —
TODAY IS YOURS.
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The secret of achieving great
wealth is: Hire your mental super
iors to do your work.
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‘Cheapest Thing’ Dearly Bought in
the Long Run
There are not many people in the
world who can afford to buy ‘cheap’
things. Only the extremely rich or
the spendthrifts stnd to fool with
“cheap’’ things.
The reason for this is that there
never was a “cheap” article sold
that did not turn out to be mighty
expensive to the purchaser before
he was thru with it.
Any article is worth a ceriain
price. If you get it for less, there
is something wrong some whers.
Did you ever notice the street fakir
selling “$5.00 fountain pens for 50
cents”? Of course you have. Lots
of people bite bn it too. But after
they use the article a few times, they
discover they have bought a 50 cent
pen.
The ‘bargain hound’ is the worst
stung person in the world.
THE COLONEL
It may be a late seeding. Then again, it may not. The weather
man has a way of acting capricously. As Aunt Jeruslia says, you
never can tell.
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It looks as if this is to be one of the seasons when it will pay
over and over again to work field and garden to the limit. The soil
cannot but be cold.
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This is a good time of year to decide upon the extent of the
coal supply, Johnny always wishes his' mother to put the school •
lunch before breakfast.
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Before governments cut the grants ’to higher learning they
should consider the verdict of history viz: that every scholar in the
land means something for the stability of the commonwealth.
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The cut in government grants to Varsity and Queen’s and
Western will not have been an unmixed evil if' the people of the
Province are awakened to the fact that the University is the spring
* of the intellectual life of the Province. As Varsity and Queen’s and
Western are today, so will Ontario be 20 years hence.
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The invasion of Albania is another of those atrocities to which
we are becoming accustomed. If it serves to teach the statesmen of
the democracies that the dictators of Europe are ruthless and void
of all dependability, the sufferings of the Albanians will /not be in
vain. To* tolerate what Italy did in Ethiopia and what she is doing
in Albania is to tolerate anything.
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THE COMMON MAN’S TRIUMPH
Let’s give honour where honour is due. It is the common
man’s work that has saved the day for civilization. The statesman
who has kept his mind on what is doing among the nations; the
business executive who has kept his concern going; the workman
who has carried out the plans of the executive; the editor who has
kept his head and his readers sane; the preacher wno has assured
his people that the right way is the only way; the farmer who has
fattened his beeves and filled his milk or cream can; the sailor and
the railroad man who has carried goods and passengers in safety;
the mother who has made her domain a place of strength renewal
and of moral revival, all these have made Britain what she is. It
is because these plain folk have done their work and have done it
well, that our Empire is able to speak as one having authority.
The common folk, under God, have saved the day.
TALKING TOO MUCH
There was a flurry of excitement the other morning when it
was learned that a man of the navy in a high place had let it be
known what the British navy was about to do. It was not a matter
of whether the information was important or negligible that mat
tered. It was the fact of the navy’s saying anything at all, that
was significant. The British navy does not talk, It acts. It ap-_
pears where it is needed and is ready when It is-needed, and that’s
all there is to it. Our Canadian Mounties have the same tradition.
All of which reminds us these newsy, talking, sensation-mongering
days of the bit of doggerel that has a real sting in its tail.
A wise old owl sat in an oak; •
The more he saw the less he spoke;
The less he spoke the more he heard;
Why not be like that wise old bird?
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REAL COURAGE
Merchants all over the Province have evinced these Easter
holidays a courage that is beyond all praise. They stocked up as
usual only to be confronted by conditions that proved altogether un
usual. Winter lingered and lingered only to be followed by wea
ther so cold and wet that spring goods simply would not move. In
stead of being behind their counters selling goods many of them
were obliged to stand at their store doors with hands deep in their
pockets that had little cash in them, wondering and wondering
and wondering. But they kept right on without a complaint, tho’
they knew that obligations must be met. All of which means that
folk should practice a healthy localism and give their brother tax
payers the best chance in the world by buying at home. It is also
a hint to spending bodies to go a bit slowly. The spending habit
must be kept in control.
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“LEI1 THEM COME”
Gregory Clark has been in London, England. He tells us that
that mighty city is the same as she was 20 years ago, steady, busy,
with her mind on her work. “But what of the troubles we hear so
much about?” he inquired. “Let them come!” tne Englishman
answered! And should the troubles come they’ll find Britain unit
ed. The Englishmen have done their grumbling. They have ex
ercised their British privileges of, whether girt by friend or foe, of
saying the thing they will. They have done all they can to be on
good terms with the world, to trade with fplk, to play with folk,
to let folk go their way in peace. Now they find that some people
are not fail' about it all, are selfish and cruel and oppressive. In
deed they find that some of those with whom they have tried so
hard to be on good terms have become bossy, tyrannical and threat
ening, insulting to the Englishman’s home and his business. Like
a breeze from the heather scattering the night fogs, the news, of
danger has brought every man in Britain to one conclusion, to one
mind “We’re British and we’re prepared to go before the world and
fight for our rights, and for the rights of the little fellow who is too
weak to fight for himself.” Danger and duty the Englishman
counts his opportunity.
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THAT EASTER MUSIC
Those fine, triumphant .strains of the Easter music were the
very thing we needed. We’d’had a difficult winter. Sickness of a
severe type had invaded every home. Business had been slow
enough and difficult enough. There had been a bitterness in the
wind that pierced the heart itself. Then came that fine music. Or
gan and choir and soloist entered into a conspiracy of hope and
good cheer that assured us once more that life was worth living and
that every winter would surely turn to spring. Many thanks, you
folk endowed with the blessed gift of song and to you, choir leaders
for the fine work done by you and your select band cheer and life
bringers.
“He is not here!”
That’s what the preacher read from the Bible on Easter Sun
day morning. Rome and Jewry thought they had disposed Of Jesus
for good and all that First Good Friday. They had Seen to it that
His body was laid in the tomb and well guarded there. Those sel
fish men thought they might go on tlieir way unrebuked of Him
who was so gentle yet so mighty. Then the women, with sore
hearts came to His resting place to do all that Pity and affection
■could do, iBut in the night watches the angels had been abroad
and one of them waited to tell those women that Jesus was not in
the tomb. That He was about His work and that He was winning
His way. As wo heard these words quietness and strength tilled
our thoughts. War clouds might gather and greedy men do their
worst, but He is alive, watching carefully. We’d heard the text
before but this year it was fuller of music than ever.
MRS. ELLEN KEATING,
; SEAFORTH, PASSES AWAY
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Following an illness of 10 weeks,
Mrs. Ellen Keating, widow of Joseph
Keating. ,p' ' • So-forth. Formerly
Ellen A. O’Keefe, she was a native
of Hibbert Township. Her husband
died in March 193 8, and a son in
March of lb: year. Surviving are a
daughter and two sisters. Because of
her efforts for the Red Cross in
World War days, she was made a life
member of the Red Cross Society.
ROBERT JOSEPH O’KEEFE
’ DIES IN BIDDULPH TWP.
Robert Joseph O’Keefe, a life
long resident of Biddulrh Township,
died April 7th at the home of his
sister, Mrs. Joseph Mitchell, lot 15,
concession 6, He was in his 79th
year. Mr. O’Keefe was a son of the
late Robert and Mary O’Keefe, pion
eer settlers of Biddulph. He had
farmed most of his life on the sixth
concession. He was a member of
St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic church
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Mit
chell and Miss Rose O’Keefe, both of
Biddulph. The funeral was held
from the home on Monday to St. Pat
rick’s Church for requiem high mass
and interment.
The reporter came idly into the
office. “Well,” said the editor,
“what did oui’ eminent statesman
have to say?”
“Nothing.”
“Well, keep it down to a column.”
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