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THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
LETTER BOX
Courtesy counts.
Mrs. Chas. Johns president of the
Main 'Street United -Church Mission
Band has received the following in-
eresting letter from Dr. A. S, Allen
of West China.
Canadian .Mission Hospital Chungking/ Szechuan
West China,
June, 30, 1939
THURSDAY, OGTOBEH HHh, 1030
Trim TEST OF A MAN
The place to take the true meas
ure of a man is not the forum or the
field, not the market place or the
Amen corner, ibut at his own fireside
There he lays aside his mask and
you may judge whetltei* he is imp
or angel, king or cur, hero or hum
bug.
I care not whether the world says
of him; whether it crown him with
bay, or pelt him with 'bad eggs; I
care never a copper what his reputa-
tion oi’ religion may be; if his babes
dread his homecoming and his better
half has to swallow her heart every
time she has to ask for a five dollar
bill - he’s a fraud of the first water
even though he prays night and
morn ’til he’s black in the face and
howls hallelujah till he shakes the
eternal hills.
But, if his children rush to the
front gate to greet him, and love’s
own sunshine illuminates the face of
his wife when she hears his footfall,
you may take it for granted that he
is true gold - for his home is a Hea
ven, and the hum'bug never gets that
near to the great white throne of
God, ” ’
I can forgive much in that fellow
mortal, who would rather make men
•swear than women weep; who would
rather have the hate of the whole
lie-world than the contempt of his
wife; who would rather call anger to
the eyes of a king.thqn fear to the
face of a child.
—■William Cowper Brann♦ * •
That action is .best which procures
the greatest happiness for the great
est number of (people.* >K * *
Our conscience - if we will but
heed it - is a more severe critic than
our enemies.* * *
Keep one end in view and all
things will serve.* * *
It is not what you gain, .but what
you retain, that spells success.* ♦ *
\
What Are You Doing?
The attitude one takes toward his
job determines the spirit of interest
he takes in it — as shown by the
following story:
A 'by-stander, watching three stone
masons at work, asked one what he
was doing.
“Earning my wages,” was the re
ply.The same question as asked of the
second, who replied: “Cutting stone”
“And what are you doing?” ques
tioned the .by-stander, of the third
worker. «
“Oh, I’m .building a cathedral!”
was the quick, enthusiastic reply.
We repeat, “What are you doing?”
* * *
And that brings to mind the story
about a man, arraigned on a charge
of bigamy, but after the jury had
deliberated, he was acquitted, so the
Judge said: “You may go home.”
“Thank you, your honor, but I
don't want to make a mistake, which
home shall I got to?”¥ * «
QUIDNUNC
Although the beaver has been
known to reach a weight of 6 8 lbs.
he 'belongs to the same family as the
squirrel or mouse. There once was
a prehistoric form of the animal
which weighed about 400 pounds -
judging from fossil remains. There
are thousands of places in the Unit
ed (States and Canada which bears
the 'beaver’s name, although he has
been extinct in England since the
13 th century, there are dozens of
places on the Island - such as .Bever
ley, Beverstone and Bevers'brook -
which still bear witness.to his form
er habitat,* * *
Custom is the basis of Law - Na
ture, the basis of Art.
A TRUE STORY
***
True grief is
passed.
the memory of joys
*♦*
Fish and men
they are dead.
are boasted of after
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Got the storm windows on?* * * *
Suixshine and storm clouds.
***.<<
Exeter — the town with a welcome?* * ♦ * * *
And we have had our first snow of the
*******
season,
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When it comes to shopping, Exeter can’t 'be beat,f • «
We lxaye not much faith in an imposed frugality.
, *********
This tang in the October weather gives fine lift to the foot.
********
If freedom is worth enjoying, it is worth contending for.
********
We have all varieties of weather these days, Help yourself.
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Trees and gardens are getting ready fox’ a long winter nap.
* * * * * ..* » 1 •
Nature put on a wonderful show of autumn grandeur.
*
and
*
* *
This thing of ruling
hand.
* *
It’s astonishing how
ciates.
* *
* *
waves
* **
* *
air is not in any human
* *
much fixing a really good garden appre-
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Let’s not be over-elated oi’ unduly depressed by early victories
oi’ reverses. ** * ■£ * « < « *
When a man is busy at a worthwhile job, he seldom stands in
his own light.
* * * *****
Happy the man or the government who can meet circumstances
as they arise,
* * ♦ »* * * ♦
Let us get ready for Spring. Wintei’ comes uninvited and needs
no preparation.
Evidently
arteries due to
Now that
» * ♦ ♦
diet.* *
The Virgin at Noon
Translated from the French poem
by Paul Claudel, which appeared in
“The Commonwealth.” There are 12
stanzas to the poem — we quote the
first three only 'because of limitation
of sipace. We’ll glady send any read
er the complete poem without ob-'
ligation — please send a stamped,
self-addressed envelope for relply.
High noon. The church is open I
enter in and say,
Blessed Mother of Jesus, I have not
■come to pray.
Nothing have I to offer, I plead no
gift, no grace,
I only come, Great .'Mother, to gaze
upon your face;
To gaze and wee,p with perfect joy,
knowing that we are one,
'That I may call you ‘Mother’ and
hear you answer ‘son.’* * ♦
“Was her martial trouble incom
patibility?”
“No, just the first two syllables.”
* * ♦
A scientist tells us that certain
musical notes will prevent sleep. I’ve
known promissory notes that had
the same effect.
Does Your Food
Cause You Distress?
The impairment of the stomach is
often, of serious consequences; for
only by properly digested food is the
System nourished and sustained.
Burdock Blood Bitters is a re
liable remedy for stomach disorders
such as dyspepsia, indigestion, sour
stomach, belching of gas, headaches,
■*It helps to stimulate the secretion
Of saliva and gastric juice, the
main factor in digestion, neutralizes
acidity, tones up the lining mem
branes Of the stomach, and restores
the natural, healthy process of
digestion. , ., . , ,..Put your stomach right by taking
B.B.B. and see how quickly you will
Start to enjoy your meals free from
digestive troubles.
Tho T. Milbum Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont.
A gentleman who lives in Detroit -
according to the Adcrafter - recently
received a telegram from his wife
and two daughters who were visit
ing the World’s Fair, New York. The
telegram read:
W. T. Gray,
416 Brainard St.,
Pleasant trip. Staying at Belmont
Plaza. (Luke Fifteen Fourteen. Love
Ruth
After some time_ in hunting for
a Bible he found the parable of the
Prodigal Son: “And when he had
spent all, there arose a mighty fam
ine in that land, and he began to be
in want.’
Yep, the ladies received additional
funds promptly.
And you, in checking up on our
quotation, will find the ,13th and
15 th versea interesting also,
- * * »
It isn’t wise to hide the truth behind
a cloud of doubt;
’Tis all in vain to love a girl unless
she finds it out;
And yet some men will own a shop,
with goods all closely packed,
And never think it worth their
while to advertise the fact.* * *
PRANKISH PROBLEMS
Two men travel toward each other
from towns A and B and meet in
four hours. It takes one six hours
longer than the other to travel the
whole distance between A and B.
How long does it take each to travel
the distance?
(You’ll find the correct answer at
the end of the column - if you don’t
know or won’t solve it now.)
* * *
There are many isms today to per
plex us - nazism, communism, fas
cism, and so forth, 'but most of them
will cancel each other out. There is
only one ism which kills the soul,
and that is pessimism.
—Lord Tweedsmuir* * *
Some High School Howlers
Radius is the distance you can get
on your radio.
'Periphery is what a submarine
boat looks out of when it cannot
see where-it is going.
A tripod is what seeds grow in
when there are three of them.
Oxygen is what you become when
you are 80 years old.
Rations are the movements of ob
jects, such as migrations, vibrations,
gyrations, etc.
A marsupial is an inhabitant of
Mars.
An orchid is what fruit trees grow
in. -* * *
■One of the most important things
in life is to know’when to stop talk
ing.
* * *
Only those who can practice self
control are worthy to command.<■ * *
An ounce of help is worth a pound
of scolding.* * *
As Often as not, speech is used to
conceal real thoughts as well as to
convey them,^ * *
Knick-knacks and jim-crdcks
Make this column terse
Then I need to end it
With a very short verse.
—the colonel
♦ • ♦
Answer to prankish Problem; One
takes 6 hours, the other 12.
* * » *
the Germans will not suffer from hardening of the
an excessive meatw ♦ * *
shipping is somewhat difficult, Britain wants none
but the best product of Canadian farms.******* *
Few people suffer from near sightedness because they persist
ently look on the bright side of events.4$ *
Anyone can grum'ble, but it takes
bacon - oi’
*
*
Those
what they
to get the plowing done.
♦ * ♦ •
first flakes of snow are not
represent that we resent.
^ ***** *
*
♦ *
a man to bring home the
so ibad in themselves. It’s
* *
Cautious (Sandy tells us that he has joost met a botanist so
lairned that he disna ken a thing aboot gairdenin’.
***** * * *
Germany is resorting to the suicide squad idea. She did her
first stunt in that line when she elected Hitlei’ to be hei’ leader.
********
We suspect the vitality of a man’s religion who is driven to
church by 'bayonets and who doesn’t pray except, in the flare of
bursting bombs.
' ********
Power to the folks working towards a successful plowing match.
The Bible and the plow are supports of our civil and religious lib
erties.
* * * ■ * *
This good old town is'exemplifying the old truth, the “old or
der changeth, giving place to the new.” Witness the improvements
being made in oui’ stores and othei’ places of business.
******* *
The consumer is npc to be caught by trickery in the matter of
prices. We know one town that has spoiled a very good fall’s trade
through sheer greed. Most emphatically, that town is not Exeter.* * * * * * * *
COMPLICATED
A modern war is a complex affair. It requires military strat
egy, .bluff, displomacy, a deal of hard fighting and a poker face.
And a ship load of cash and an ocean of blood.
******* *
Hitler said that he was not going to launch the full fury of his
attack till the allies had time to consider the peace terms he offer
ed. We suspect that he had another reason that had nothing to. do
with the welfare of his opponents.
********
WHA BEGOOD IT
Cautious .Sandy tells of a bull that let loose his terrors upon a
fellow countryman. However, the farmer, nothing daunted, seized
a stout hickory limb, grabbed the -bull 'by the tail and laid on like
Bruce at Bannockburn till his .bullship roared in fright and agony.
“Tak, on ye deevil,” panted Scotty, as he belabored all the harder
and faster, “'but wha 'begood it?” We recall this incident as we
hear of the Hitler peace overtures.
** *
Witness the improvements
Hitler tells us that now his peace offer has been rejected .that
he is going to get down to war in dead earnest. His proposal was
rejected 'because both he and his terms were offensive.
Britain is slow, of course, but she has a way of 'being in the
right place as the race closes. Canada is not rushing about as
much as she did in the early stages of the last war, but she is mak
ing a deal of the right sort of preparations for a serious struggle.
**■*•**•*
A curious old chap asked five men, all of them over forty, how
many members there ar9 in the county council, how many regular
sessions of the council are held annually, the length of those ses
sions, the functions of the council, what are its main committees,
what the daily remuneration of the members o'f the council is and
who appoints the board of health and what are its duties. To none
of these questions did he get a correct answer from the major
ity of the parties questioned. Yet these men are critical of ou'r
representatives.
*** *****
What a pity that Col. Lindbergh has not learned that while
he has made an undying name for himself as an aviator that he is
profoundly ignorant on international questions. The least he could
have done in the present turmoil was to keep silent till he was in
formed upon the questions regarding which he ventured an opinion.
While we say this we marvel that broadcasting stations with a good
reputation for puiblio service should have devoted so much time to
broadcasting the humbug he uttered.
* * *
IMPATIENT
The burden-bearing average tax payer has (been wondering why
the wai‘ had not been prosecuted with more vigor. And the more
they wondered the deeper has grown theix* perplexity. No doubt a
great deal more has been accomplished than the most of us know
anything about. Ibis is not a war of fife and drum, but of mech
anics and of downright strategy. Britain and France have learned
the supreme importance of full, accurate, first-hand information.
There is throughout a determined effort to spare life. It may make
great reading to hear of the “The Wild Charge They Made” but it
is not War. What counts Is permanent results. The last war taught
the uselessness of precipitancy,
But while all this, and a great deal more is true, leaders in
the field and council chambei’ must not forget to keep up the hope
and courage of the men who fight and of the men. who support the
strugglers. It is a bad day for a county and a cause when Impa
tience merges into suspicion,
Brought up from
by the farsighted-
Chiang Kai-Shek
helpers, they are
Pear Friends,—
Youx’ recent contributions of post
age stamps apd your kind letters
have 'been received. Many thanks,
We do appreciate the interest shown
by you and othei’ friends in the work
done iby our Hospital, as evidenced
by the number of packages of stamps
that are coming in to us from all
over Canada, aS well as from othei’
countries.
Probably you would be interested
in hearing something about the war
orphans who are at present being
taken care of here. We now have
thirty-six of them but the number
are continually changing, usually in
creasing. This is not surprising
when one realizes the thousands of
wax* orphans now stationed in and
near Chungking,
the wartom areas
ness of Madame
and hex’ corps of
now distributed among the different
orphanages established in this dis
trict. These are spread about in
the towns and villages, where the
danger o'f .bombing is not as acute
as it would be in the city of Chung
king itself.
Most of the orhlpans, when admit
ted, are found to be suffering from
malnutrition, but they usually pick
up in health and strength very quick
ly and by the time they are ready to
leave the hospital, they seem to be
totally different personages, Their
complaints are such diseases as dip
htheria, dysentery, malaria and tu
berculosis. Measles, also, is one of
the chief complaints. One boy came
in for injuries received during an
air-raid, but is now quite well again
and about to be discharged. The tu
berculosis patients usually remain
for some months but the average
length of stay is a few weeks, none
staying less than ten days. We find
there is a greater number of boys
than girls at present and their ages
range from two years up to 13.
One marvels, when one sees the
mere infants which are sent to us,
how small and helpless they must
have been when they left their mo
thers—in many cases never to be
reunited. The children lying there
in their cribs are as a rule rather
pale and thin, but the neat young
Chinese nurses in charge seem to in
fect them with some measure of
cheerfulness and good spirits. A
few of the lankier children present
a rathex* -comical picture, with their
feet protruding through the railings
while those which are able to walk
about can be found playing in the
center of the room or sitting quiet
ly in their miniature easy-chairs,
surveying the world with a some
what blank expression in some eases.
Others are being taught to read the
Chinese characters by a male teacher, who sits with them in
round a tiny table,
But then night fails and
comes, it is interesting to
peaceful everything is in the
phans” Wards. Here are the rows
of little beds, each -carefully pro
tected by a mosquito net, and one
feels how good is is for these poor
refugees to have a place where they
can build up their little bodies in
restful slumbers.
May I repeat that no matter how
small your gift may he or how com
mon the stamps sent, all are wel
come and are of material assistance
in this section of our hospital work.
With all good wishes, I am,
Gratefully yours,
A. Stewart Allen, M.D.
WAS OFF ON A TOOT
a circle
bedtime
see how
'War-
In the early hours of .Sunday morn
ing when all is usually quiet and
peaceful about the downtown sec
tion, St. Marys, after a hustling Sat
urday night, Chief of police, J. S.
McArthur, was considerably perturb
ed when he heard the sound of a
car horn -coming from the jnner re
gions of a garage building'. He im
mediately thought that someone was
in the building presumably meddling
with the cars, but he was unable to
gain access to the interior himself.
Finally he found it necessary to con
tact the owners of the building and
the noise was .stopped in due time.
No explanation of the affair has been
given other than that
change in temperature
morning hours started
its sonorous and long
ture.-
the sudden
of the early
the horn on
winded ven-
■St. Marys Journal-rg’us.
BEWARE OF CHARITY RACKETS
Citizens are warned to be wary of
subscribers for war time charities.
In the near future the public can ex
pect an avalanche of charity drives
supposedly to aid in welfare work
jcreated by the war and residents
I should exercise care in making do
nations as many solicitors will be
working for no one but themselves.
A true friend is one who likes you
in spite of your achievements - or -
lack of them.
Canada Temperance
Act Is Valid
(Toronto Star Condemns Hephum
Government For Contempt of Cowt)
The temperance forces of Ontario
and the Attorney-General of Canada
have won an important victory over
the Ontario Government in court of
appeal which has deeded, by four to
one, that the Canada
Act is valid. Because
dissentient, the Ontario
is enabled, if it wishes,
ease to privy council.
The Canada Temperance Act is
the one measure which enables a
whole county to vote against the sale
of liquoi' within its boundaries. It
does not, however, prohibit impor
tation by the individual for his own.
use. At present the Act is nominally
in force in Peel, Perth, Huron and
Manitouliu. But while Conservative
administrations repected this fact,
the Hepburn administration defiantly
put beei’ parlors into Perth and Hur
on and licensed, a number of clubs
in Peel.
The excuse given for this action
was that these counties had come
from
which
to be
cision
ada which Mr. Hepburn has ignored.
.Manitoulin is in a 'Class by itself. It
has never been contended by anyone
that it has come out from under the
C.T.A., and the action taken by
government in that instance has
•been to put its beer parlors in,
to take law enforcement out.
Hepburn has refused to enforce
Canada Temperance Act, and
thus left the Island with no liquoi’
law enforcement whatever.
It is a scandalous condition, and
now, despite the finding of court of
apipeal that the C.T.A. is valid, it
is hinted that the Ontario Govern
ment may simply ignore the decision
an continue to refuse enforcement on
the ground that since the law is a
Dominion one, the province will not
enforce it. The Criminal Code is
also to go unenforced? The attitude
of the government is not only absurd
but tends to bring all law into con
tempt.
The
tempt
C.T.A.
law by the method which the law
provides, namely, a straight major
ity vote of the electors. In the ab
sence of such a vote, the government
should enforce the C.T.A. in Manl-
toulin unless and until a privy coun
cil decision upsets that now given
by the court of appeal.
Temperance
of the one
Government
to carry the
under the C.T.A.—as excuse
the temperance forces declare
in direct opposition to a de-
of the Supreme Court of Can-
the
not
but
.Mr.
the
has
curious thing, is that no at-
has been made to bring the
counties out from under the
A MILLION DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS DENOTE CONFIDENCE
AT CANADA'S PIONEER BANK
"be equally
tr
•lours very sincerely.
Here is a letter from a school
teacher recently received
among numerous others By
one of our branches observ
ing the 50th anniversary of
its establishment:
the 0-----branch Of
celebration of its
wish it continued
.+o+o congratulate"I «rlte J“al on the
^iversary; to
prosperity ^°°®aller depositors in your
"As one of the tbere for BOst of tn.
I have teen \artalnly appreciated
fifty years, and * ine8S of the
the courtesy an ,;am0
the feeling o t0 me.
Montreal has relations may -- -
"Hoping our future r d3 aBV be added
pleasant, and that many new
to your list,
111 am,
staff—
'BanK of
BANK OF MONTREAL
ESTABLISHED 1817
Exeter Branch, W. H. MOISE, Manager
"A B^NK WHERE SMALL ACCOUNTS ARE WELCOME"^