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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1940-02-01, Page 3THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE LETTER BOX 2210 W. Van Buren St., phoenix, Ariz, And now for the hubblebubble.******** The Canadian banks are doing a good job of it these days.* * * * * * * * The blacksmith is saying something about the more snow the more ice. Many tales have been told of the gold mines of Arizona, how they have been lost and re-discovered. The following is a story referring to one of mines from Gerald Hurdon at Phoenix. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, l»40 Qualify That Satisfies RADICALS Thoughtful and intelligent people who try to make the world better Are intelligent radicals. They will harm no one, but will change things carefully and honest ly and will improve conditions with out destroying life and property. Ignorant radicals are to be feared. They stand on busy corners and preach destruction. Everyone who does not agree with them is an enemy, who has no right to live. These people try to tear down our government better one. Listen to one. Keep away They are dangerous,* * ♦ Even more serious than alcohol road hog who drives while the influence of ego.* * * way to put an idea over is to have just lost au order you were sure of landing, when everything > combines to give you that "Oh, whats the use" feeling, try this recipe: Throw back your shoulders, hold your head erect, ready to look the whole world square in the eye, step out with long strides and tackle next job. You’ll be surprised how gressive physical attitude will help you to get a new grip. Of course, you have seen many artist drawings of failure and suc cess. Isn’t the failure, the down- and-out, always depicted slinking along with drooping head and bent over shoulders, whilst the man of success stride, erect? Here try it. brisk your this ag- but could not build a intelligent radicals. Be from ignorant radicals. . is the under steps out shoulders is sound with a long, firm back and head psychology. Just One take the other side of the question.♦ w» ♦ Only by labor can greatness be purchased.* * * free from bitterness is bet being beautiful. * * * Ward Beecher said; To be ter than Henry A man without mirth is like a wagon- with springs.* * , * Lovely Things Are Gray Lovely things are gray . . . Like twilight on a snowy day; A fuzzy little kitten’s paw - A pale jade Budda I once saw - A curving pussy willow spray - High in the Alps a Swiss .chalet; A snowbird screen made in Japan Ideographs on a Chinese fau - A quiet Virgin carved in stone - . A naked tree standing alone - Distant mountains capped with snow - St. Patrick’s ever-reaching spires - Ashes left from burned-out fires - The harbor on a rainy day . . Lovely things in gray. Nelrose * * * REPUTATION "There is a tyranny which pels men who do good work on doing good work. The name of that beneficent tyranny is reputa tion. There is an inflexible daw which binds man who build well, to go on building well. The name of that kindly rule is reputation. There is an insurance which infallibly pro tect those whose reason for buying is that they believe in a thing and in its maker. The name of that kindly insurance is reputation.’’ *' * ■* "I refused to marry Bob three months ago and ever since.” "Thats what celebration too * Gasoline is an ■.more powerful than TNT (trinitro toluol). We cannot put TNT stead ily to work because we do not know how to control its explosion . . . while gasoline works harmlessly and usefully because we know how to control and harness it. * * * He had never had such a tough time in his life. First he got an- l gina pectoris followed by arterios clerosis. Just as he got 'thru that he got pneumonia, and then pul monary phthisis and tuberculosis. He recovered just in time to get appendicitis, to say nothing of pyor rhea. All in all, he never knew how he survived, for it was the hardest test in spelling he had ever experienced. * * » A man is relieved and gay when he his work Lytle co in to go he’s been drinking I call carrying a far.”* * explosive ten times Physical has put his heart into and done his best.* * * <> Bearing and Mental Attitude When things have all gone wrong, when business is bad, When you Many a Romance The lives of many young people are made miserable by the breaking out of pimples on the face. The trouble is not so much physi cal pain, but it is the mental Suffer ing caused by the embarrassing dis figurement of the face which very often makes the sufferer ashamed to go out in company. The quickest why to get rid of pimples is to improve the. general health by a thorough cleansing of the blood of its impurities. Burdock "Blood Bitters cleanses and purifies the blood — Get rid of your pimples by taking B.B.B. the T. Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont. < * * * smile brings spots shortens us stren- in every * * PRANKISH PROBLEMS An airplane with a 300 horsepow er engine makes 6.0 miles an hour. A horsepower equals 550' feet pounds per second. What is the thrust of the propeller in pounds? (If your mathematical mind isn’t working well this morning, you’ll find the correct answer farther down the column.) * Life’s pathway is often lonely, As we trudge on. its weary length, But a good Pal’s many a mile, And a handclasp gth; There are rough pa th day, There are turns in every road - But a word of cheer, from a friend sincere, 'Does much to lighten our load. Maj. Harrie A. Douglas * * * Until about the Fifteenth Century nails were sold in England by the hundred, the price being determined by the size of the nails. Those sold at tenpence a hundred were called tenpenny nails, those at sixpence a* hundred were sixpenny nails, etc. The old names survived even after the prices had changed and we now use them as standards of length * . * * “Yes," said Mrs. Bloggs, who was discussing her nextdoor neighbor, "I certainly told her yesterday. iShe was hanging h.er washing out on the line and when I saw her hus band’s shirt, I says: "What, your husband joined the Fascists?’ . . . Prides herself on her washing, she does!- Humph!”* * * SUCCESS To know what I must do, and to do it cheerfully and promptly; to keep on plugging away until the job is done; not to seek praise so much as to ask; Have I helped? To tackle a new job' with a re newed vigor when what I have to do is completed; to smile, and take the breaks. These, I am convinced, will make me happier, healthier and more prosperous.* * * Answer to Prankish Problem: I,i875 pounds is the thrust of the propeller. In nearly of God has French Latin ........ Hebrew ..... Dutch ..... Persian ..... Sanscrit ... Greek ........ Viking ...... Inca ........... Syrian ...... Chaldean ... English ..... German .... Assyrian ... Danish ...... Mohammedan ..... Spanish ............... Greek (mythical) Egyptian .............. Phoenician ......... Japanese ............. Hindustan ........ Swedish ............... * * * all languages, the name only four letters: .. Dieu . Deus JHVH Godt . Sorn Deva .. Teos . Thot . Papa .... Illu Nebo . Lord .. Gott . Adat Godh .... Alla .. Dios ...... Zeus ... Amon ..... B aal .... Shin ... Hakk ..... Goth (Jehovah) * It takes ten success. You can vocabulary ’V (Allah) ... .ft..* * failures to make one * *♦ tell a lazy man by his, of cuss words.* * * True love does not measure its" service by hope of reward. * * * The nearer we approach to per faults we see * fection, the fewer in others. ** * You’can have your ■Chops or mutton pie Give me just a four-line verse And I’ll get by. —the colonel * roast beef, * .# ***** * Instead of subsisting on ham and bacon, Mars may yet compel Canadians to live on pork tenderloins,****** ** We’ll need to buckle to a good deal harder if the war is to be got through with the balance in our favour.******** Times and conditions are changing very rapidly. The world has moved on a long distance the last four months.******** We hope that Prime Minister King and leader of the opposition, Dr. Manion, will make the issue before the electors crystal clear.******** Better get ready for'thatt big thaw. Water runs down hill when the conditions are favourable. It will also run into cellars. It all depends,i ******** As the^slw.Qk hands as they parted at Ottawa, "When shall we folk meet again? " When the hurly burly’s done, when 'the election’s lost and yftjn. a /*** * ** * * Th^'c fljust stirred up by Premier Hepburn and 'Col. Drew has ■“*, Sometimes the sun does get up to hear ahad serous repercussions, coupled roosters crow,❖ Just now Dobbin and Dexter will be groomed for the roads. The good old honest country vote must be got out and the car simply will not do the occasion justice.******** ‘Our American cousins would have been delighted to have bought a big share of the Dominion War Loan bonds. Meanwhile Jack Canuck’s is getting ready to purchase the next issue when it comes.******** Well, our representatives got $25.00 for their ardous labours at Ottawa. That is 'they were paid at the rate of $6.25 per hour and that is a whole lot more than the average Canadian receives for his honest Sometimes toil. ** * * * ** ****** was a plaintive note in the old camp meeting refrain in membersrof parliament joined as they learned that the There which the Dominion Parliament had really and truly dissolved. "Soon we part, it may be never, never here to meet again.”******** “As the backbenchers and the common sort of representative saw his $4,000 sessional indemnity vanish into thin air -he knew that he was reaping the reward of his allowing himself to be treated as a nobody in parliamentary matters. The House saw itself taken by the nose and run all over the place by half a dozen men.**#***#♦ * PUZZLED We’ve been thinking of saying a little something about the Pro vincial government’s action in passing a vote of censure on the Dom inion Government’s manner of prosecuting the war. Our difficulty has lain in securing a proper heading for the proposed article - Was the Legislative Assembly’s action dignified, timely, wise, unify ing, provocative of better effort? redden the skin, but do not warm the heart.* Is a bolter, parliamentary or otherwise, a dignified person? Does us think of the party of whom the Scotch poet sang so Or was it one of those things that ** ** * * *A he make sweetly? His gun’s a burden on his shoulther, He downa bear the stenk o’ pouther. Ap’ aye 'he’s in an eerie swither Tae fecht or run.******** IT TAKES PLUCK BRAINS came, across a farmer the other day who exemplies some we like. This man’s well had failed, failed for the first . ,. Weevil or some such pest that eats the life Was he be- Not a bit of it. He was hauling water for his Meanwhile he was We qualities time in half'a century, out of the grain, had attacked his wheat and barley. 'moaning his lot? cattle amid wind and snow near zero weather, deepening his well and fanning his grain to permit the frost to cleau up on the weevil. "You see," he added, “it’s in the day’s work.”, ******** SWEET AT THE BONE Canadian opinion, for the most part, may be depended upon to impell the people of the Dominion <in the right direction. When Canadians think, they are about sure to think right. Take 'the mat ter of selling that wheat to Russia, a deal, by the way, that has been neatly and effectively aborted. Some one wanted to make a few nasty dollars by selling wheat to our enemies. Jack Canuck has no stomach for that way of doirig things, and the money-at-any-pricers were given a stiff setback. That sort of thing will not be attempted - for some time. Just now there is a revulsion of feeling regarding these slangwhanging episodes in the provincial legislature. People well supplied with gray matter wonder why legislators who censured the Dominion government for not getting on with the war have time ■for extensive but fruitless recrimination. In days like these when every news broadcast brings word' of blood-red seas and desolated sailors’ homes no one cares to hear the pot calling the kettle black. Public men by this time should realize that Canadian opinion is sweet at the bone - and at the ballot box.***** *** THE BOYS’ OPPORTUNITY The new industries coming to Canada and the increasing demand just in the offing for more men for military service means that the boys from fourteen and upwards will soon be in active demand for places of responsibility. The importance for trained youth to meet the new requirements is obvious. Parents of youth should take this matter into their serious planning. The new situation is not wholly due to military requirements, but has in it the elements of permancy. Scores of the newcomers to Canadian shores have abundance of capital. Should they not have the capital, but possessed of s’kill and character, tile capital may be readily found. These Canadians in the making seek under the shadow of the maple and under the eye of the sagacious beaver what they are not likely to find in Europe for many a day, security from military domination and political unrest and social tyranny. Hence their certainty of making Canada their home. Under such leadership we may depend upon it that new in dustries requiring the help of thousands of youth will be making their appeal. Canadian parents and boys with eyes in their heads are preparing for the new day. No one need be surprised if over the door of every industry re ferred to appears the notice, “No youth with an untrained mind need apply.******* ** GOING PALEFACE Everyone knows just what a healthy minded boy means when he refers to another boy as a paleface. As the youngster thus speaks we think of a boy who plays no games and who can’t be counted on when anything severe is to be undertaken at a task of any sort. The epithet is anything but a compliment. Nevertheless it starts one thinking now that winter really is here and some difficulties chal lenge country people, attendance, 'their pews, the excuses the Article Johnny and Mary and school? to say to his young Canadian friend as he shivered by the home regis ter? Then what of the unbroken country roads? What is their silent witness? What is to be said of the boy who can’t mend his own clothes or cook a decent meal? The Indian used to insist that their young men should be able to capture a deer, to break the ice, and spear a fish, or snare a rabbit, enduro cold and hunger and bear fatigue. What about a great many modern youth when faced by the red man’s standard? Luxury is the foe of all that is manly. Life’s laurels await only those who endure hardness and hardness can’t be borne by proxy. It’s easy td be a paleface. Take the last two or three Sundays and church Cars were not running and folk simply were not in Why? What would a Finnish soldier have to say for offered? What would a Mountie "getting his man under Circle” have said Under the circumstances. Then about What would a little Laplander have Dear Bill,— Many tales of hidden wealth have circulated about this valley of the sun from long before we have any accurate record but none have struck a more responsive cord or fired my imagination more than this story of the black ledge of gold and espec ially so since we’ve checked each detail with the state historian, a very charming little lady, who will i personally vouch for its authenticity i Out on the Verde river just a, short distance from where it joins : . „ ,the Rio Salida, is an area known B“laI1’' near ‘owns as Mormon Flats, and it was not far ; from this place one rainy night some I 50 years ago there stumbled into aj miner's cabin a decrepit old pros- J pector who's pockets bulged with ore ! so rich as, to be worth thousands of ; dollars per ton, sick, wet and fired , he asked to be put up and cared for ; and in return promised to share his , find with the eager miner, however, ' he succumbed to an attack of pneu monia before he could give anything ( but a meagre description of the * the best grain with the a very little whereabouts of his " discovery and ! ” ‘ ’ outside of the fact that the ledge from which his ore was taken was located %long the Verde river not more than five hours walk away no more was learned. The miner set out in search of the spot described but altho’ his intermittent search lasted for years he never discovered the black ledge from which the ore was taken — now the scene changes and the time was comparatively recent. A young Easterner had engaged in a dude ranch business along the Verde near Mormon Flats and was being visited by his brother, who, one day while meandering about the ranch happened to spot a deer graz ing not far off. returning to the ranch he secured his rifle and start ed off in pursuit of his prey — after a trek of several miles during which he lost sight of the deer entirely he sat down to rest on a ledge over hanging the river — that ledge .was black, and its rocky formation sparkled with gold colored sub stance — the brother had heard of this sort of thing of course it was iron pyrites — fool’s gold------- seeing that he was due for a nice \ ribbing about losing his deer he thought it would .afford the crowd a little more pleasure if he took back some of this fool’s gold and kidded them into thinking that he thought it was the real thing. He arrived in camp at dusk and as a tenderfoot was greeted by the expected western humor but. when he showed them his "gold” the greeting turned to awe stricken silence — these men knew the real thing when they saw it and that was the richest pay dirt they’d ever seen. Of course he’d lead them ba'ck to it — they’d stake it out together tomorrow and at sunrise they started — searching all that day and the next and for weeks they combed the riverbed and banks hoping for some small clue to its whereabouts — they systematized the Search until every route was checked that this deer-stalker could have taken ~ non? however lead to the black ledge — finally the young brother had to return east to earn another stake to try again the fol lowing year — later again he made the journey — no trace of the ledge was ever found altho a fairly ac curate description is on record to day at the state historian’s office, together with samples of found there. You probably think it easy to find that ledge? will never find it back east I can as sure you — but I can take you to within a few miles of it here,and now’s the time to look for it while its cool enough to enjoy looking — it’s a six-foot wide ledge some hun dred yards long and over hangs the chasm gorge by the stream — is black in color, and fabulous fortune awaits ”its finder — wouldn’t you like to try? If you’re interested in these stor ies of mine, let me know and I’ll be only too glad to furnish names and addresses of the men who found such a bonanza up in Nevada last I know per- who took up prospecting as a joke! We visited their diggings just a short time before the strike was made and can assure you first hand informa tion in this instance. For each one who strikes it lucky tho’ there are thousands who grow grey in the search of this elusive metal — men who today roam the hills as they have for years and years With their pack-burros grow old in service hoping against hope that some day lady luck will beam on them •—• and their dreams, what ever they may be, will come true —- to me they are tragic figures of the great open spaces — a living proof of the old adage that hope springs eternal in tho human AdloS mi ■Growing Ducks for Market (Experimental Fann News) Growing ducks for market is a specialized side line in poultry keep ing and is becoming popular with many poultrymen and farmers, es- cities. Profits received for money invested are very attractive, and the turnover is rapid. Considerable experimental work with different varieties of ducks, and the use of different feeds fed in different ways has been carried on at the Experimental Farm in Ot tawa, states A. G. Taylor, Poultry Division. A brief summary of re sults obtained would indicate that ducklings of the Pekin breed mane i t the gold might be Well you year — men whom. sonally and easterners too breast. Amigo TOROHY feed. When properly handled, duck lings of this breed made one pound gain in weight on of feed consumed, veloped to market weeks’ time when of equal parts cornmeal, shorts and bran, with ten per cent, beef meal added. It is a good plan to add about one pei’ cent, fine salt to the mash. Mix thoroughly in its dry state before using. Frequent feeding promotes rapid growth. Feed six times daily from the start until ducklings are three weeks, old, and five times daily un til they are ready for market. Duck mashes should be moisten ed with water before feeding. It is a good plan to moisten the mixture about two to three hours before feeding, so that the mash may come swollen and more easily gested. Add sufficient water make the mash quite moist and it stand for a few hours, ready to feed it should not be py but just-enough that it will together. Sprinkle coarse over the mash before feeding, sand acts as grit, and aids in the process of digestion. Chick size oys ter shell should be provided so that the ducklings can help themselves. Feed only what the ducklings will eat up clean at each feeding. Finely chopped green feed should be added to the mash after the ducklings are four to five days old. (Fresh cut clover or alfalfa which has been chopped fine makes excel lent green feed. Start with only a very small amount and increase the green feed gradually until it represents about one fifth of the ration. When the ducklings are about 7 weeks old., the green feed should be gradually eliminated, and at the commencement of the eighth week the mash should be changed to 50 pounds cornmeal, 3b pounds of shorts and 15 pounds beef meal with a sprinkling of coarse sand. By the ducklings flesh and coat of there should be no delay in market ing them. If kept longer they will change their feathers, which will slow up development and reduce profit. The profit made in the raising of ducks for market is dir ectly dependent on the successful marketing of the product at proper time. 3.5 to 4 pounds They can be de age in about ten fed on a mixture be- di- to let When s slop- stick sand The end of the tenth week the should be in excellent have developed their first feathers. At this time. the STEPHEN COUNCIL A special meeting of the Council of the Township of Stephen was held in the Town Hall, Crediton, on Wednesday, the 24th of January 19 40 at 8 p.m. All members pres ent, Moved by Arthur Amy and sec ond by Nelson Schenk; That Mat thew C. Sweitzer be appointed Weed Inspector at a salary of 30c. per hour which shall include his trans portation. Carried. Moved by Roy Ratz and seconded by Nelson Schenk; That Henry C, Beaver be appointed Assessor dur ing pleasure of the Council at a sal ary of $110. with postage extra and that he also be appointed Livestock Valuer at a salary of 3'0c. per hour which includes his transportation. Carried. Moved by Thomas Love, seconded Arthur Amy; That by-law No. 539 appointing certain officials of the Township, having been read three times, be passed and signed by the Reeve and Clerk and the Seal of the Corporation attached thereto. Car ried. Moved by Roy Ratz, seconded by Nelson Schenk: That By-law No. 540 appointing Henry C. Beaver, Township Assessor and repealing By-law-No. 510 which appointed William Kleins tiver, Assessor hav ing been read three times, be passed and signed by the Reeve and Clerk and the Seal of the Corporation at tached thereto. Carried. The meeting then adjourned until the next regular meeting which will be held on Monday, the 5th of Feb ruary 1940 at 1 p.m. H. K. Eilber, Twp. Clerk the driv- and then crawling Goderich 20-ton Caterpillar Plow Opens Highways Twenty tons is a lot of steel and that’s what the big caterpillar plow of the Department of Highways weighs. They say some of ers cross their fingers now when the big machine is along the big bridges at and at Bayfield. Tourists who trav el the Bluewater highway in the summer time just know how narrow these bridges are so you can’t won der at the drivers of the big plows pausing when taking twenty tons over. The big caterpillar proved her worth when she opened up the toughest section of the district oft the northern outskirts of Clinton on the way out No. 4 Highway just before you come to the curve-—- Stratford Beacon-Herald. Pat determined to pass by his favorite tavern oft his way hoftte. As he approached it he became somewhat shaky but after pluck ing up courage, he parsed oft. Then after going about fifty yards he turned and said to himselfs "Well done, Pat, me boy. Come back and I’ll treat ye.” Here’s How to Relieve MISERY of COLDS Without Dosing There’s nothing to swallow. Massaged on throat, chest and back, Vicks Vapo- ( i • | Rub acts two ways k i_J lat once t0 re^eve ’ "misery of colds. VapoRub acts on the skin,FIRST: _____ stimulates like a warming poultice. SECOND: At the same time, VapoRub gives off soothing medicated vapours that are breathed direct into irri tated air passages. THIS DIRECT, 2-WAY ACTION loosens phlegm, clears air passages, checks tendency to cough—also relieves muscular tightness and soreness. Because it’s ex ternal and safe, VapoRub can be ||| used freely and as often as needed, for children and grown ups. No wonder it’s * used in 1 out of 3 Canadian homes. w VapoRub DEED IN THE WEST Word was received here of the death in Saskatchewan of Mr. Wil liam Merner, a former old boy of the Zurich , district. Mr. Merner who died on Sunday had reached the age of 81 years and 11 months. He is survived by three sons and three daughters all in the west and four brothers in the east. Edward and Jacob of the Bayfield district, Sam uel of Hensall and W. J. Merner of Zurich. The one brother, Mr. Ja cob Merner, is at present in the West.—Zurich Herald. ATTENTION I Make money during the Fall and Winter months by selling HARDY CANADIAN NURSERY STOCK Exclusive Territory for Local Salesman. Handsome Free Outfit Supplied Largest list of Frtiit and Orna mental Stock, Etc., grown in Canada. Now is the time to or der for Spring planting* Write for Particulars STONE & WELLINGTON THE OLD RELIABLE FONTHILL NURSERIES Established 1837 TORONTO 2, ONT