The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1939-11-09, Page 7PREJUDICE
THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
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A Bar to progress and Success
Prejudice is like a bad case of
indigestion: it spreads a poison
throughout the system which warps
the judgment, sours the disposition
and destroys that kind of activity
which builds and produces.
Every time a man allows preju
dice to influence him, he is cheating
himself. His mental vision is cloud
ed, He doesn’t see straight.
/Carnegie, Schwab, Erick, didn’t al
low prejudice to obscure their vision
•of the steel industry. They became
multi-millionaires.
Bell was not influencel by preju
dice when they determined to dis
courage him in what looked like the
impossible - the creation of the tele
phone. It has made unmeasured
fortunes.
♦ * *
Who was it said: “Earth has no
fury like a woman’s jury?’’* * *
Few insults equal that of using all
second-string men in the last quar
ter.
♦ * *
A broken promise can sometimes
be repaired but is never as good as
new.* * *
“A politician is never to old to
learn" — so that is why they keep
putting it off.
* * *
Daughter: “Dad, did you ever
hear anything as wonderful as the
grand finale on that swing band pro
gram?”
Dad: “Can’t say I did, daughter,
unless it was a collision I once saw
and heard between two trucks —
one filled with empty milk cans, the
other with several crates of live
ducks on it.”* * *
Johnson said: “(Great works are
performed, not by strength, but -by
perseverance. Yonder palace was
raised by single stones. Behold its
height and spaciousness."
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Sleep, Black Baby, Sleep
Honey, quit yo’ mumblin’
Mammy she’s right hea’h.
No ’scuse to’ yo’ grumblin’,
Shet yo’ eyes lil’l dea’h.
Mammy lubs her lil’l ol’ lam’
Sof’ as cotton fluff,
Lil’l black angel sho’ yo’ am.
-Cain’t lub yo’ ernuff.
Hesh yo’ snifflin’ honeybug,
Shet yo lubly eyes.
Mammy gwine hoi’ yo' moughty snug
Yo’s mah bestes’ prize.
Ainjels hoverin’ abeh yo’,
Fait’ful watch t’ keep,
Gwuine gyard yo’ whole night thru’
•Sleep, black ba/by, sleep.
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BETTING ON THE WEATHER
In a climate like ours, few of us
would be willing to 1 make even a
small bet on the welter. for the next
24 hours. When it Cobies to gamb
ling on the climatic conditions of the
country as a whole, how many good
gamblers would take a chance?
Yet in the manufacturing field,
thousands of conservative people bet
on the weather each year. When
the guess is a good one they prosper;
when they prove poor weather pro
phets, they loose money.
As a classis example, take the
clothing manufacturer. He gambles
not only on the weather but also up
on the styles for a period more than
six months ahead. If the summer is
a cool wet one, his tropical worsteds
and palm beach suits remain on the
dealers shelves and both he and the
retailer face a huge loss. If the win
ter turns out to be mild, and huge,
woolly greatcoats are not sought af
ter by his customers he again must
lose money.
The bathing suit manufacturer
doubtless has his problem in guess
ing about the weather. So, too, does
the maker of electric fans. The soft
drink men, the ice cream manufac
turer, and a thousand more, large
Stubborn Cases
, of Constipation
Those who keep a 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
jure the delicate mucous lining of the
bowels, and are very liable to Cause
piles,
If constipated take Milburn’s
Laxa-Liver Pills and have a natural
movement of the bowels. They do
not gripe, weaken and Sicken as
many laxatives do.
the T. Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont.
and small, all must (be gamblers to
a certain extent where the weather
is concerned.
The difference between the man
who bets on a horse race and the
man who bets on the weather is that
the latter sometimes wins.* $ $
Lawyer: "It would be better for
you if you had a good alibi. Think
hard now. Did anyone see you at the
time of the crime?”
Client; “Fortunately, no,"* * *
Better a hornet’s pest hung in the
store than a discourteous clerk,
* * *
THINK
It’s a little thing to do,
Just to think,
Anyone no matter who,
Ought to think.
Take a little time each day
From the minutes thrown away
Spare it from your work or play,
•Stop and think,
You will find that those who fail,
Do not think.
Those who find themselves in jail,
Do not think.
Half the trouble that we see,
Trouble brewed for you and me
Probably would never be
If we’d think!
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How Much Time Do You Really
Work?
Many people complain of having
to work so hard and such long hours.
After giving this matter considerable
thought, we give the following anal
ysis:
Total days in year ............ 3 65 days
Deduct for sleep, 8 hours
per day or ................... 122 days
243 days
Deduct for recreation 8 hrs.
per days or ................. 122 days
121 days
Deduct fifty-two Sundays 52 days
69 days
Deduct ’Saturday afternoon
or 26 days ................... 2 6 days
43 days
Deduct 1 hour for lunch
or 16 days ................... 16 days
27 days
Deduct 2 weeks vacation,
or 14 days ................... 14 days
13 days
Deduct 12 legal holidays ... 12 days
Leaving number of days
worked per year ......... 1 day
ik $ 5{t
Officer: “What are you doing here
at this hour - 3 a.m»?”
/Stranger: “I forgot my key, offic
er, and I’m waiting for the children
to come home to let me in.”
z * * *
“What can be done with by-pro
ducts of gasoline?"
“Usually, they are taken to the
nearest hospital.”
* * . *
If parcel post rates are based on
zones are airmail rates (based on
ozones?
* * *
Imitate and the world is with
you - create and you are on your
own.
* * ♦
Now that women have achieved
equal rights - they are striving for
preferential positions.
*There was a young theologian nam
ed Fiddle
Who refused to accept a degree
He didn’t mind being called Fiddle
But he didn’t like Fiddle Dee Dee
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Common Sense
Laws of physics, morals health
and many other kinds of laws gov
ern the Universe.
If you climb to the top of your
House and step off, you fall - accord
ing to the law of gravity. That is the
result of 'disregarding a physical
law.
If you lie to your neighbor, your conscience troubles you. That is
because you violated a moral law.
If you overeat you get indigestion.
You have failed to Observe a law of
health.
Your every act is governed by
some law. You know enough of
these laws to do the right tiling.
They are all laws of common
sense. Keep them,
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You may not like this ending verse
Well neither much do I—
But somehow, I can’t improve
Now matter how Hard I try,
—‘the colonel
And now for Christmas!********
Times are better, so get down to tax paying.********
There are only a few of us who are really perfect.********
If you can’t chase the ball, cheer from the side lines.
The first step forward in a life or in a business is to clean-up. ********
Those grey November days with their occasional gorgeous sun
rises and sunsets.
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Winter is not fai’ away. We saw Johnny digging out his skates
and heard him dickering with dad for a new pair of hockey boots.* * * * * * * *
The latest abomination in diplomatic talk is Russia’s statement
that she is massing her troops on the border of Finland because she
fears the Fins will attack her.* » * * * * * »,
It will be unfortunate for Canada and the world should party
politics show' its ugly head in the present crisis, Yet it looks as if
Canada is to have that experience.•>. s 4 * * * * *
Considerable checking up is needed in regard to the condition
of a good number of our 'back and side streets. Look about you,
fellow citizen and you’ll see what we mean.
This is a strange war that is going on over there in Europe.
Mystery is an outstanding feature thereof. What may take place
is looming as large as what is being done.* ♦ ♦ * < * *
Well, we're having another “mad dog" scare. Why of course,
and the moral pointed by the incident will have weight till a new
set of victims take the place of those suffering just now from some
one’s carelessness. ,******* *
This good town should be on its toes just now in municipal
matters. If we are to drift into a long term of municipal official
dom, amounting to a dictatorship, we should select the best men
available. Its far easier to get into a municipal muddle than to get
out.********
“This town is not a hop-skip and a jump municipality," a mer
chant told us, “The folk whose trade makes our business know what
they want, investigate and buy what they want when they want it at
prices asked by dependable ’firms. These are the buyers who keep
things going."
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A HELP »
Community Day saw some real trading done in Exeter. How-
everfExeter does not depend on Community 'Days for her prosperity.
Such occasions are helps, a great many of us think but they do not
make up the real stock in trade of our town's enterprise. Steady
progress makes all business life.********
NOVEMBER
The melancholy days are come
The saddest of the year- —
Of wailing winds and naked woods
And meadows blown and sere.********
GREAT LITTLE PEOPLE
The fame of Poland and Finland will never die. In a moment
of extreme peril for liberty they put all they had of blood and trea
sure into the struggle for freedom. They were willing to lose all
but their souls. Not till the judgment is set and the 'books are
opened in the last dread assize will it be revealed what they have
done regarding their struggle and their loss. /Size never is the
measure of moral and spiritual greatness. Men of insight wonder
how it, comes that nations so physically big as Russia and Germany
can house souls so miserably small and despicable.
A HEALTHY LOCALISM
There is no reason in the world why a prospective purchaser
should buy from any one in town just because the merchant in the
town is a fellow citizen. A prospective purchaser will do well to
give the local man the preference when he is not involved in a loss
by so doing. Every purchaser has the right to inquire where he
may do the best trading. It is required of the local business man
that he do good merchandising by having goods on sale that warrant
his fellow citizens trading with him. When he fails to do so the
days of his business life are drawing to a close. It is Exeter’s pride
that her merchants see to it that those trading with her merchants
find themselves gainers by so doing.********
NOT THE RIGHT TANG
We do not like this thing of attempting to deprive municipali-
tes of the right to elect their representatives annually by any gov-
vernment, provincial or federal or by any means whatsoever save
the voice of the people themselves. There is in the whole thing
the tang of encroaching dictatorship. Those intimately associated
with municipal life know the wisdom of giving any set of men a
long tenure of office. Scores and scores of instances can be cited
where untold harm has been wrought by such a procedure. Further,
who is to say how long the present war is to last. Every sane man
hopes that war will end speedily, but who is so bold as to tell how
long the strife will last? Electors of the province will do well to
go cautiously in the matter of giving up their right to freely choose
their representatives. Better to endure the ills we have than to fly
to those we know not of."********
A CONTRAST
Just twenty years ago a boy of seven announced that he was
“going out with the fellas" on Hallowe’en. “Nothing doing” was
the answer of his father. “Why?" argued junior “I want to be
like other fellows!” “And I don’t want you to be like them. I have
something better in mind for you." 'Since then the youngster has
made a fine rec.ord in the Collegiate, in the University and is now
filling a high place in the country’s service, at a splendid salary with
the guarantee of a good pension when he has served his day. The
other boys of his age "went out" this year again and did precisely
the same sort of things they did twenty years ago. They are known
as the sons of Old So-and-So. Their names are scarcely known. They
are just Tom, Dick and Harry to the public. They have no credit
at the bank and scant respect from those who have a stake in the
neighborhood.
HIS DILEMMA
He was a hired man just returning from doing a little shopping
after a long day’s work in the hay field. He was tired, as anyone
could see. When he commenced talking one was surer than ever
that he was weary with something beside physical toil. “How’s
everything going?” we inquired with the boldness 'born of years of
acquaintance. “We’re living and we’re well,” he replied in a dull
voice, “but we’re net getting ahead. How can we on the wages I’m
getting. I’m not complaining. The boss says he can’t give me any
more." and he named a sum so ridiculously small when one recalls
he had a wife and 3 husky youngsters to feed and clothe. “I don't
want to go on relief, though some men situated as I am have gone
oh relief and have more to do with, than we have in our home. I
sometimes wonder if it is worth working aS I do and then to have so
little,’’ and the hired man mounted his bicycle and went on with
his problem unsolved. i
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NOT THAT WAY
Already some people are talking about what is to be done after
the war in Europe is over, committing again the blunder of similar
thinking people during the last war. There is no harm for people
of idle hands and idle minds to busy themselves with almost any
kind of gtiess work, but we think that folk expected to have some
thing to do With rational living should give their time and strength
to getting the war over with in a iftanner satisfactory to the allies.
Till that is done nothing constructive can even be thought of. For
the allies to lose the war, is to leap into chaos. The recession to
barbarism according to the last white paper issued 'by the British
Government, already is only too apparent.
One of the much-mooted suggestions just now is the formation
of the United States of Europe, modelled something after the pat
tern of the United ’States of America. Nothing could be more fan
tastic, Whatever else may be said of it, as a glance at the history and
the ethnology and the ideology of the nations Of Europe will dem
onstrate. X . , 'g
Properties in Goderich
and Stephen Twp.
Under Review at
County Hearing
Foux‘ Sets of Figures Presented at
Huron County Hearing
A wide discrepancy in -valuations
was disclosed Tuesday of last week
when four sets of assessment fig
ures were submitted to the board
hearing the appeals of the Town of
Goderich against the equalized as
sessment of the County of Huron,
The figures were those of the Go
derich assessor, N. R. MacKay, Mr.
Mogg and Mr, Quinlan, county valu
ators, and P. J, Ryan and Thomas
Gundry, special valuators appoint
ed by the Town of Goderich for ap
peal purposes. Thirty-three proper
ties had been reviewed by the time
Goderich had finished Its case Tues
day evening.
In direct contrast to the county
assessors, the Goderich men took
into consideration the age of build
ings and its state of repair, interior
and exterior.
An example of the wide variance
in figures was shown in the differ
ent assessments of the office of the
late Dr. J. B. Whitely, Goderich, on
Kingston street, just off the square,
oi' business section. The Goderich
assessment of this property is $1,-
300; Mr. Mogg’s assessment is $2,-
4/50 and Mr. Quinlan’s the same;
that of Ryan and Gundry is $1,250.
Similar discrepancies were' revealed
in some residential properties. A 10-
roomed house on Waterloo street is
assessed locally for only $800. Mr.
Mogg valued it at $1900; Mr. Quin
lan at $2,050 and Ryan and Gundry
at $1,050. There were similar cases.
Boiled down, the Goderich resi
dential assessment is 83 per cent,
of Ryan and Gundry’s assessment
and only 60 pei’ cent, of the Mogg
and Quinlan .values. On business pro
perties the Goderich figures are (8:4
per cent, of those of the special town
valuators, Ryan and Gundry and 75
per cent, of those of the county val
uators.
Stephen Property Under Review
on Wednesday
'Stephen Township property came
under review in the assessment ap
peal when the court opened on Wed
nesday.
•Oliver Amos, of Lieury, Middlesex
County who with Reuben Goetz, of
Dashwood, as appointed valuator for
the township, was on the stand all
day. Mr. Amos, lives in McGillivray
Township, three and a half miles
from the southern boundary of Ste
phen, Desides farming, lie has done
conveyancing and acted as agent for
farm lands since 1931. He carries on
an insurance business and has been
clerk of the township of McGillivray
Middlesex County, since 1923.
Examined by E. S. Livermore, the
counsel for .Stephen township, Mr,
Amos said he had made certain val
uations in Stephen recently, includ
ing farm and .small village properties
accompanied by Mr. Goetz.
Clay Land Most Valuable
In placing values on farm proper
ties consideration was given to
whether the land was clay or sandy.
Clay land was given the highest val
ue, then gravel land suitable for the
road purposes; if not sandy land was
better. Swampy land and character
istics of water supply, the value of
repair and suitability of buildings
and situation as to locaton were fac
tors in determining values. The pres
ence of a railway was considered a
detriment.
“The township has a lot of very
swampy and light sandy land in the
centre; the east and south ends are
good, he testified.
In police villages properties of
Crediton and Centralia considera
tion was given to location, size, and
condition of buildings as to repair,
and according to sales. Comparisons
were made with Stephen Township
assessments with those of Township
of McKillop and the hamlet of Blyth.
Few Bad Farms
In concluding his comparison of
the two townships Mr, Amos said he
saw few bad farms in McKillop. The
land is uniform and the buildings
good. There are he stated, only two
farms in the whole township with
poor buildings.
“Stephen has a lot of poor build
ings and a lot of good ones," he
stated.
After cross-examination by W. K.
McGibbon counsel for the Sixteen
townships the tribunal adjourned to
meet on Monday, November 13, at
10.30 a.m. The date of the meeting
of Huron County Council was set
back to November 20 th.
The fall assizes opened in Goder
ich on Tuesday, November 7th.
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A nation built a battleship
With ’bristling guns o’erhung
Its bulwarks sheathed with painted
steel
Its flag so proudly flung.
It cost ten thousand pounds and
more
Of the nation's golden hoard
To build this mighty man-of-war
With its deadly guns aboard.
A nation built a friendship
With goodwill at the helm,
It carried trade and commerce
To another foreign realm.
With peace and understanding
And 'brother love aboard
It sailed serene through stormy seas
Of hate, with sweet accord.
Let us caste aside our battleships,
Costly of men and gold,
They do not sail in peace and love
Nor the golden rule uphold.
But let us build more friendships
That all men brothers be,
And the God who rules the universe
Will guide these ships at sea.
Maude Taylor Agnew
P. fi.—Mrs. Agnew, a resident of
Winnipeg, is a former Exeter girl,
daughter of Mrs. John W. Taylor,
and sister of Mrs. McTavish.
WED SIXTY YEARS
BLYTH—Mr. and Mrs. James
Huckstep, on November' 3rd, cele
brated their 60 th wedding anniver
sary at their home here. Mr. Huck
step is a barber and is still active
at his profession. Both .are members
of the Blyth United church. They
have no family.
It does not cost nearly as much to
keep well as to get well.
* * *
“What’s the idea of stretching
this awning between these two build
ings?"
“Oh, I’m just making a house-to-
house canvas!"
WE ARE FORTUNATE
(Lacombe, Alberta, Globe)
Trans-Canada Airlines planes fly
over Lacombe regularly these days
with watch-setting precision, La
combe residents, who 19 years ago
would have craned necks and drop
ped work to watch a silver-tinged
plane fly serenely across the sky, pay
indifferent attention to these com
mercial birds today. Ears have be
come attuned to the roar of propel-
lors and eyes no longer search the
skies for sight of the roar-producing
machines. How much more fortun
ate are we than our fellowmen In
Europe! There the roar of airplane
motors means siren-warnings; it
means helter-skelter dash for air
raid shelters; the manning of anti
aircraft guns and the parallel roar
of defending fighter planes. But in
Canada, airplanes are still looked
upon as commercial machines. How
fortunate Canada is in this regard!
INVISIBLE LIFE
All of us would like to be known
for what we are—-lor what we are
in our truest moments and at our
truest selves.
But alas! The world even our
closest friends all to often see and
think they know us, hut have only
caught out shadow, our fleeting, our
momentary selves. And from *thi<8
they build a picture as to what we
are—and we are not this picture at
all.
It is the inner circle that knows
and God has promised that he will
prepare a place for us according to
what we are in his sight.
We rather imagine that the re
cording angel is more interested in
a man’s seven day average than what
his behaviour is on Sunday.
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