The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1940-02-29, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE TIIIWAY, FEBRUARY .IpjO
A MATTER OF CHEER
Just wliat is the essential differ
ence between optimism and pessi
mism.
Today, we rise with music in th'e
soul, light-hearted, energetic, smil
ing and blissfully cheerful.
Tomorrow we rouse from sleep
slowly; the air seems dull and
heavy; cares weigh heavily on our
minds; we are dull and apathetic,
even harried and worried.
Just what is the essential thing
which one day lifts our minds u.
the heights of ^happiness and the
next day lowers it *to. the depths of
dullness?
Perhaps, if you will recall, when
we are feeling best, we are filled
with purpose to accomplish some
thing - the business man finds the
possibility of a biggei’ deal a whet
stone on his brain, the wife finds
the task of buying new clothing a
sharpener of the appetite for enjoy
ment.
The thing ahead, the possibilities
of the new and untried, the upward
forward look seems to supply the
motive power just as the absence
of a look ahead seems to drivel and
shivel the soul.
We reach the conclusion that too
much thought devoted to things as
they are, and too little imagination
employed in picturing the things
as we want them to be dulls the
souls of more people than all other
causes combined.
A cataloguing of all the petty
troubles of one day would make a
volume of stupendous proportions.
A reading of this volume would set
the mind to imagining what would
happen if this one ddy’s worries were
to be duplicated every day for a
year. And lo before we know it
we picture a year’s troubles for
tomorrow.
It makes no difference to us that
these troubles rarely ever material
ize - we think they will, and the ef
fect upon us is the same.
Is it asking too much of oneself
to catalogue the good things and
view them as a whole - with the
possibility of firing the imagination
so that it pictures for tomorrow a
wealth and treasure of happiness?
Your mind will do it if you direct
it.
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Part of the cure is wanting to be
cured.
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other day?”
The salesman said he would, and
would the girl please give back his
card. iShe looked at him, scarcely
believing her ears. "That’s a very
fine engraved card,” he said, "I
can use it again. My firm spends a
lot of money for these cards.”
"But,” the girl said indignantly,
"I left the card on Mr. White’s desk
and I can’t disturb him akain.”
"Very well, then, give me two
cents. That’s what the card costs,”
The girl’s eyes almost popped out
of her head. Nobody had ever in
structed her what to do in such a
circumstance. She turned on her
heel and disappeared. In a few
moments she returned and - said:
"Mr. White will see you.” And the
salesman, winking broadly, entered
Mr. White’s office.
WHAT IS COTTON?
Cotton is the overcoat, of a seed
that is planted and grown in the
Southern States to keep the produc
er broke and the buyer crazy.
The fiber varies in color and
weight and the man who can guess
the nearest the length of a fiber is
called a cotton man by the public,
a fool by the farmer and a poor
businessman by his creditors.
The price of cotton is fixed in
New York and goes up when you
have sold and down when you have
bought, A buyer working for a
group of mills was sent to New
York to watch the Cotton Market
and after a few days’ deliberation
wired his firm to this effect: “Some
think it will go up, some think il
will go down. I do too, whatever
you do will be wrong. Act at once.”
Cotton in planted in the spring,
mortgaged in the summer and left
in the field in the winter.
There are other definitions —
but none better.* * *
VALUE OF PUBLICITY
"Advertisers,” said the architect,
“ought to keep on advertising. Who
were the two men who made the
first successful trans-Atlantic flight
in an airplane? I’ll bet you have for
gotten them. Did I say advertisers
ought to keep on advertising? I
meant must.”• • ♦
I eat peas with honey
I’ve done it all my life
It makes the peas taste funny
But the peas stick on my knife.
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Two months of solid winter.
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This terrible war drags on. Every day we hear of some new
irritation or of some aggravation of discontent already existing.
Hardly a ray of hope for the ending of the strife pierces the heavy
clouds that hang over us. Human effort in the way of peace never
seemed more futile.
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DESERVED RECOGNITION
Word comes that some interested parties have given a banquet
to truck drivers who had no serious accidents in 1939. This is as it
should be. This thing of hanging people for murder or fining them
for car accidents, is not to be compared with rewarding the life-
savers and the careful drivers.
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SUDDEN CHANGES
Last Sunday afternoon the main roads in the southern portions
of the province left little to be desired as far as motoring is concerned.
By midnight these roads were blocked to the point of impassability.
And there you are. For two months motoring on the side roads of
the province has been precarious if not impossible while up to
Christmas these roads were about the best for motoring that we
I have ever seen, We do not lack for variety in this fair province.
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NOT THE THING
We’re sorry about that incident in the Toronto hotel in which a
band of soldiers invaded a beverage room and smashed up the furni
ture. We await with interest the outcome of the investigation of
the disorder. Not for many a day have we heard of such an incident.
Our soldiers are a remarkably well behaved, orderly class of men
enjoying the respect and confidence of their fellow citizens. An inci
dent of this sort creates grave misgivings and’ is likely to alienate
the sympathy and practical helpfulness of many citizens. However,
the case will be cleared uj> and the military will see that no more
such events transpire.
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% LIFE’S OTHER SIDE
As we linger in the harness shop we heard a customer saying
“they’re selling out old Ted next Friday.”
We left the shop thinking. We recall old Ted’s early days. He
was the heir to a good farm and to some money. It got into his head
that his father was rather slow in his business methods, a fault that
x he proceeded to correct as far as speed is concerned. Soon we heard
of debts, debts, and then more debts. Well, he’s to be sold out and
the old chap sees nothing .ahead but the old age pension. Last
summer one of his sons had a job at 40 cents an hour but gave it
up. He said, he did not like to ibe tied down. He told us that a
young man should have a good deal of time to see the world and
to engage in sports-. It’s a great world, my masters.
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FROM SCENES LIKE THESE
We came across an interesting scene one day this week. We
were making a call at a farm and found the lady of the house com
ing in from the bayn in full farmerette outfit. "Yes, I’ve been at it
all day. We got the turnips, in from the pit this forenoon (the ther
mometer registered 20 degrees) Bill has to be away this afternoon
so I’m doing the barn work.” The youngsters were coming in from
school one by one and conversation took that turn. “Jack, Oh, he’s
in the seventh Grade. He’ll have one more year in the public school.
We’ve be'en saving up to get him through High School. Wasn’t it
plain old John Knox who said, “Ilka sholdar in the land means some
thing for the stability of the commonwealth?” Just think of what
this woman is doing for her native land. No toil is too severe for her
if the toil means the education and the general welfare of her chil
dren. We’d like to. know what that boy’ll be doing 25 years from
now. •
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NECESSITY A GREAT FRIEND
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"I was just saying how forgetful husbands are . • •
LOHIG DISTANCE
. . . and put me to shame!” A 300-
mile station-to-station call after 7
p.m. (and all day Sunday) usually
costs no more than a couple of movie
tickets. With rates that low, a fellow
can easily keep in touch with his
family when he’s away from home.
Why not call them up . . . tonight?GEO. W. LAWSON
Manager.
The best part of courtesy is tol
eration.
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We owe a great debt to our Pil
grim ancestry — and the best thing
about the indebtedness is that we
will never be obliged to repay it.
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Noblesse Oblige
If I am weak and you are strong,
Why then, why then,
To you the braver deeds belong;
And so again,
If you have gifts and I have none,
If I have shade and you have sun,
’Tis yours with freer’,hand to give,.
/Tis yours with truer grace to live,
Than I, who giftless, sunless, stand
With barren life and hand.
’Tis wisdom’s law, the perfect code,
By love inspired;
Of him on whom much is bestowed
Is much required.
The tuneful throat is bid to sing,
The oak must reign the forest’s king
The rustling stream the wheel must
move,
The beaten steel its strength must
prove,
’Tis givfen upto the eagle’s eyes
To face the midday skies.
—Carlotta Perry.
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HE SAW HIS MAN
We like the story of the sales
man who, in calling on a prospect,
handed in his -card at the informa
tion window. The girl returned
presently and said, “Mr. White is
busy. Will you call again some
A Help To Those
Past Middle Age
When men and women get past
middle age their energy and activity,
in many instances, begin to decline,
and their general vitality is on the
wane.
Little sicknesses and ailments seem
harder to shake .off than formerly,
and, here and tliere, evidences of a
breakdown begin to appear,
Now is the time when those who
wish to maintain their health and
vigor, and retain their energy un*
impaired should take a course of
Milburn’S Health and Herve Pills.
They brace up and invigorate the
system, and help stall oft the decrepi
tude of advancing years.
The T. Milbum Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont.
SIMPLICITUDES
—a genius is a fool who succeeds —
a fool'is a genius who fails.
—a good loser is a bad sport — he
takes away half the joy of winning
from the victor.
—vacant minds and vacant lots —
both gather rubbish.
—we all crave affection — yet most
of us refrain from giving it.
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Fully sixty persons in the world
have died since you began reading
this column — today.
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Oscar Wilde once wrote,——
'Selfishness is not living as one
wishes to live; it is asking others
to live as one wishes to live. And
unselfishness is letting other
people’s livps alone, not interfering
i with them.
“Selfishness always aims at cre
ating around it an absolute uni
formity of type. Unselfishness rec-
orgnizes infite variety of type as a
delightful thing, accepts it, ac
quiesces in it, enjoys it.”* * *
INVENTIONS
Every time a new invention is ex
ploited, upgets some “me, too” and
shows us the same egg in his own
incubator ■—■ unhatched
Inventions are usually the result
of many trials and experiments. And
usually many experimenters are
working toward the same objective.
As in any speed trial, the first one
under the wire is the recognized
winner; but the also vans often re
fuse to abide by the decision. They
take it to court.
The invention of the telescope
was claimed by many. Litigation
.over Daimler and Selden patents for
a gas engine was strung out for
years. Bell and Gray warred over
the discovery of the telephone, Two
besides Edison claimed to have or
iginated the phonograph. .Beach and
Wheatstone were dival claimants of.
the typewriter. Photography was in
vented three times in .1839 by Da
guerre, Niepce and Talbot.
No oiie head contain ALL THE
GOOD IDEAS on any subject. In
ventions may spring from several
sources. It is the first person to
secure a patent who is the nominal
inventor.* * *
Thinking up a last line.
- Week after week
Is much like a child’s game
Of hide and seek.
—the colonel
We have just come in from a conversation with a director of a
cheese and butter factory that has just had its sixtieth annual meet
ing. We are not going into the figures for this year’s make, only to
say that the poundage runs away into the hundred thousand pounds.
For the first year., the make was about 60' pounds. “How did
the factory come to get started?” we asked.
"Money was very scarce,” was the reply. “The potash industry
had vanished from the locality. Coal was displacing wood on the
roalroads. We could not get money for our farm produce. We felt
that the dealers were beating us both going and coming. One man
in these circumstances got word that we might sell cheese in the
old country and a few put their wits and their energies together and
we got our little factory started. We have had a deal of trial and
error in our efforts, but we are running nicely now. You asked how
we came to get going. Well, it was necessary that we should. Like
the fox climbing the tree when the dogs were after him, we had to.”
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1 CAN WE PAY THE PRICE?
Can we pay the price of progress? For instance, those new
roads are not all gain. They are terribly costly to build. Every year
is showing mounting costs in upkeep. And now a new difficulty
has emerged in their being kept open. As one blacksmith told us
“I’m through with sleigh-building. I’m - practically through with
horseshoeing. The cars have driven out both of these industries.”
Electricity has driven out the chopping and feed-grinding business,
but at a very considerable outlay of money. What a great many
farmers are asking is, “Will the soil sustain the new demands upon
it?” One farmer told us something like this, “I recall the day when
a farmer was thought of as being in a precarious financial position if
his .farm were heavily mortgaged. It’s not that way now.” Only
yesterday one farmer was glad to lend to his neighbor, taking land
for the security. Now the money-lending is done only through the
large corporations, reluctantly at that. Rural Canada has many
a convenience, but each one of them comes high. Such good things
are just the thing. The farmer deserves them if anyone does. -
Of course the matter of the price must be considered. Can we
raise it?
SHIPKA
Next .Sunday being missionary day
in the Sunday School, instructions
will be given.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Pickering are
the proud parents of a baby boy on
the 23rd of February.
Crediton Y.P.IS. visited our society
on Tuesday evening last and provid
ed a very interesting program.
The Ladies’ Aid held a quilting
bee on Thursday of this week at the
home of Mrs. Wm. Sweitzer.
The reguar meeting of the Ladies’
Aid will be held Thursday, March
7 th at the home of Mrs. Ed. Lam
port at 2 p.m.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Keyes, Miss
Pearl Keyes attended thg. funeral of
the late Mrs. John Keyes, of Hen
sail last Friday.
Miss Nola Sweitzer, nurse-in-train
ing at Victoria Hospital, London,
spent the week-end at her home here.
Mrs. R. Neil has returned to her
homo at Brinsley after a week’s visit
with her parents,. Mr. and Mrs. Ma
jor Baker.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Kleinfeldt,
of Crediton, and Mr. and Mrs. Edvin
Ergerett of Greenway, were Sunday
visitors at the homo of Mr. and Mrs.
E. Keyes.
The Wrong Hand - There Is Always
A Reason If You Search For It. [
On the opening day of the mid- I
year semester, John Stewart Black
ing a famous professor in a boys’
school, asked all boys who had note
books to raise their right hand. One
chap raised his left hand.
And the Professor said, somewhat
louder: “All who have notebooks
please raise their RIGHT hand.”
And again the same boy put up his
left.
The professor then shouted: You
boy, there, Hold Up Your RIGHT
Hand, Not Your Left.” The boy
murmured something but still kept
up his left hand.
The professor was now furious
and tactlessly said: "You stubborn
fool put down that left hand and
hold up your right.”
This time the boy obeyed, but
he held up only a stump, for his
right hand had been cut off.
Professor Blacking was very kind-
hearted underneath his gruffness
and was so distressed at his own
stubbornness that he rushed down
and put his arm around the boy
and apologized to him.
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^o^e^4...B0RR0WERS
Like ploughing and harvesting, the
need to borrow for productive pur
poses occurs with the seasons.
There are numerous purposes for
which you may wish to borrow: to
meet seed and harvesting expenses;
to purchase fertilizer and equipment;
to purchase and feed live stock or to
finance shipments of livestock, poul
try or other farm produce to market;
or to undertake farm improvements
under the Home Improvement Plan.
The manager of our branch nearest
you will understand your seasonal
needs and be glad to receive your
application for a loan.
Ask for our booklet, ‘'The Farmer and His Bank’
BANK OF MONTREAL
ESTABLISHED 1817
Exeter Branch: W. H. MOISE, Manager
"A BANK WHERE SMALL ACCOUNTS ARE WELCOME1*
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