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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1940-08-08, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE WVBSPAY, AUGUST Bib, 1010 LULLABY ENLIGHTENING EDITORIALImk JLf 1 A W *•> > <•>. m Canadians Everywhere Forward Donations to Country’s War Effort A silver sail has my little red beat, And a string to guide it when it’s afloat; But the lake is big and my boat is small - I wonder if it will came back at all. On silver wings goes my baby dream I send it out on a blue star-beam; iBut the world is big and my dream is small I wondei’ if it will come back at all. —Par Agon * * * A woman is never old ... who allows herself to think only of pleasant things; who trains her tongue to utter only pleasant words; who remembers that frowns are unbecoming and that smiles are better; who keeps her nerves well under control and remembers that they are not an interesting sub ject to anyone; who enters into the plans and as far as possible into the doings of the young people about her. who never allows herself to be come slouchy and careless in appearance; who treats others as she likes to be cared for herself, and; who never demands too much from her friends. * * * Wendell’s Wit A clergyman once attacked Wen dell Phillips for causing what he called an unfriendly agitation in one part of the country about an evil that existed in another part. “Why don't you go South and kick up this fuss, and leave the North in peace?” questioned the accuser. Mr. Phillips was not in the least ruffled, but said smilingly, “You, sir are a minister of the gospel, are you not?” "I am, sir,” “And your calling is saving souls from hell?” “Exactly,” “Well, then, why don’t you go there?”* * * When a man boasts of the things he achieved last year, he’s a has- been. Most politicians do — and many of them are.* * * The Tower of Babel was the first attempt at a League of Nations. * * * The longer it takes to convince you - the less often will you pick a winner. « ♦ « PREPAREDNESS Perhaps it is just human nature to want to put off until tomorrow the job that should be done today. How often when we are face to face with an important job do’ we lay it aside just because ALL con ditions are not quite right to pro ceed. Instead of buckling down to the job we say to ourselves: “Well, to morrow, I’ll have everything okeh to get this out,” If one selects the easy tasks be fore tackling the hard ones, he eventually finds a huge pile of diffi culties staring him in the face — and then they look much bigger than they really are. A general once called his chief engineer and asked: “How long will it take to build a bridge over this river?” “Three days, sir.” “Get the chief drafts to draw the pictures and build the bridge.” Then, three days later, he called the engineer and asked: “We are ready to move. Is the bridge ready?’ “Yes, sir.” replied the engineer. “The bridge is ready but the pic tures aren’t drawn yet. If you .don't have to have the pictures, you can march across right now,” Diarrhoea Dysentery If you are suddenly attacked with diarrhcca, dysentery, colic, cramps or pains in the stomach or bowels, or any looseness of the bowels do not waste valuable time, but at once pro cure a bottle of Dr. Dowler’s Ex tract of Wild Strawberry and sco how quickly it will give you relief. When you use “Dr. Dowler’s” you ate not experimenting with some new and untried remedy, but one that has stood the test of time; one that has been on the market for the past 94 years. Deware of substi tutes. They may bo dangerous to your health, Got “Dr. Dowler’s” and feel safe. Tlitt T. Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont. Just how serious a lady’s injuries were in an accident which occur red recently, it’s hard to tell be cause the paper spoke thusly of the mishap; “Mrs. Wilson, in at tempting to get out of the way of the auto, fell on the pavement, in juring her somewhat.” * * * Misrepresentation will destroy any business — or politician. * * * Last week a man in Arkansas stepped up to the railroad ticket agent’s window and asked for a ticket to Atkins. The agent said: “That will be $3.00.” j The man answered that he only had $2.00 but added: “Wait while I step out and get it.” When he returned with the $3.00 the agent asked how he had got it and he replied: “I went to a pawn broker and pawned the $2.00 for $1.50, then I sold the pawn ticket for $1.50. So, while you’re making out the ticket, will YOU kindly tell ■me who is out the dollar.” * * * Our Most Prized Possession This column is not - and if we have our way about it - never will be a ‘personal pronoun’ column. So-o-o - this isn’t a story about us but about YOU — or at least about the mail you send us. We prize the letters we get from our readers and we save each and every one of them. Occasionally, when we open the letters, we find a photograph or ‘snap shot’ which somehow makes the letter more intimate and friend ly. This collection of photographs from our readers has grown to a I point where we have started a more or less ‘infomal album’. One of the pictures is from a lady who wrote: “This was taken 61 years ago at the age of 4 months.” (Wish she would send a current one too.) Then, there is one signed “From one of your shut-in readers’ Another is a group of five fine old gentleman at ‘Snug Harbour’ and inscribed “Taken especially to send to you.” Several from clergymen (oddly enough each of a different denom ination) and all are ‘group’ photo graphs — usually their own family or members of their congregation. ■One is a picture from a light weight prize fighter—and we are mighty proud of it too because near ly forty years ago his Dad and ye scribe were ‘copy’ boys on the same paper in Chicago and we hadn’t heard from him in the past thirty- six years — now, both father and son say ‘we are regular readers of your column’. Yes — there is a couple of ‘bath ing beauty’ picture, and one is from a ‘strip-tease’ actress whom we have never met personally (No. — it is in street costume.) There is a human interest story back of each of these pictures and some day, the editor willing, we shall write it for the column IF YOU want it. Meanwhile, we’d like to have YOUR PICTURE too for ,our album. Your letter will always be strictly confidential. Won’t you send your snap-shot soon?* * * Some men are so constitutionally contrary that they never eat any thing that readily agrees with them. * * » * I Miisivjgs We are creatures after our own de sires. Isn’t it peculiar how we will: Get out of a message what we long to hear? Believe the things which we wish to be true? Find time to do things that we want to do? —Maybelle * * * From Wrangell, Alaska, comes a story of an Indian girl who was sent to the Government school from the Westward. When they asked her what she was, she said she was half Aleut and half Coast Guard. i s|s Us * An Old House Yoxi must not laugh at my house When you are passing near; You must not laugh at my house Because It- looks so queer, The windows, may be odd and small, But stars look into them at night, And God has let the warm sun fall To make the roof look worn and white. —Pai’ Agon iti * * Trying out a,n. ending rhyme To finish off tills column It matters not how gay I feel The ending must be solemn. -—the colonel We may as well own the corn. The days are shortening. ******** The best summer sermon is the sermon twenty minutes long, wifh a leaning to mercy.******** Insect pests welcomed the hot, humid weather. Fungus enemies wakened to new activity with the event of their allies, heat and moisture.******** H’s astonishing how many dollars pop up out of jeans when something is brought forward that people want especially when nothing but cash is accepted,******** TWO SIDES If Hitler resolves on a wav of attrition against Britain he may be sure of a war of disintegration against himself.******** If anyone is suffering from depression of spirits or something like that and feels that he would be all the better of diversion, he is respectfully referred to a patch of vigorous twitch grass in the bosom of his garden. By the time he has rid his yard of a couple of square rods of this vegetation the most of his indigestion will have disappeared,******** Ricliilieu said “The pen is mightier than the sword.” Modern Germany says that the lie backed by cruelty is mightier than anything else. Hence the delay of Germany’s major attack. In the meantime Britain, will be -wise to act as if the German hordes were already on the move. The Germans have no imagination. We have that, faculty and it may lead us to oui* ruin.******** A HOT WEATHER POEM O happy is the man whose breast With virtuous ardour swells For from his neat back yard there comes No nasty evening smells.******** THOSE THRIFT STAMPS The best thing one can do about those thrift stamps is to buy them. Along with this good intention must go the resolute planning and the denying oneself that the stamps may be purchased. Most of us will find that there are ways and means of doing this thing. We are not asking anyone to do without necessaries, but we do say that as a people, we have allowed ourselves to become self-indulgent. Over and over again we spend our money for that which is not bread and for that which does not secure for us clothing or warmth or shelter, of a competency for our old age. The citizen who thinks about these things and who resolutely spends his money in thrift stamps is making a good financial investment, he is doing his part to save his country and is gaining a measure of self control that will help to make the right stuff out of him, So do without what you do not really need and buy thrift stamps. Self-respect and the need of your country lie that way.* * * * * * * * FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF THEIR COUNTRYMEN Exeter is proud of a great many things - of her gardens, her homes, her churches, her merchants and schools. Just now she is particularly proud of her enlisted sons. We know these young fellows. We know something of the hopes entertained in their be half. We know something of their achievements in enterprise and character. From this knowledge we were forecasting their future. Now we know away beyond all peradventure the sound manhood in every vein and nerve in their athletic young, bodies. They may have rough work ahead of them. They may have perils to encounter They may have greater sacrifices to make. But whatever they are called upon to do they will accomplish with manly hearts. Well do they know that their friends have the harder part. The discharge of duty nerves the arm and stirs the blood. Waiting and enduring tries the very soul.******** A TIME OF TRIAL As we are writing, Germany has made preparations for an at tack on Britain which .for ferocity and sheer power, that island never before has sustained. All that Germany and her allies can do is being done to destroy the one power that so far has resisted success fully her lust of conquest and her insane ambition. We await with breath-hokling interest the outcome. The struggle is between brute force efficiency, utterly lacking in conscience and the better things of life, and all that stands for the life exemplified by Christ and His saints, Britain and the nations associated with her follow the cross. Germany follows the jungle and the serpent and the ape and tiger. The expectation is that the trial will soon be on, if it has not begun before this reaches our readers. In our anxiety we do not forget that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.* * * * * * * * “THE COUNTRY IS WORTH SAVING” The scene was the main street of St. Marys. A young Cana dian in the King’s uniform waved to Mr. Walden and a little group gathered’ about the soldier. “You’ll soon be leaving us?” it was suggested. “Well, here’s hoping that you’ll soon be back!” Then the quiet reply that bespeaks the spirit of Ontario youth, “I think the country’s worth saving.” And the young man is paying the price - his life. All he has he offers. He can do no more. He has had the advantage of one of the best Canadian homes. He has been educated in her schools. He has attended her Sunday Schools and Churches? He has taken his part in her sports and has done his full share of her farm work, and done his bit in political life and social life. His serious judgment is that Canada is worth saving and he has offered himself as the price that Canada may be, and remain forever free. Yes, Canada is worth saving because from her loins issue young men of this quality and calibre.******** THEY WOK GOOD Those young people who are takng some of the summer courses are returning home with a .good light in their eyes. We refer, of course, to those who have been under teachers who know what a young person can accomplish and who tolerate uo soldiering. Those wholesome minded young people have learned that the elixir of life and vigorous effort are not far apart. Labour in the lot of man. Over and over again folk have found that pleasure and solid work are the thumb and finger of their right hand. Children have the right, to play, but when a youngster reaches the age of twelve or fif teen he should be putting away childish things. If he lingers with the marbles and the old swimming hole till he is sixteen his fate is pretty well sealed. Nothing remains for him but the press gang in some form or the reformatory. Hence the light in the eyes of those young people who used the weeks of this summer in taking a step upward and forward by getting in some solid training from teachers who know how to give it, filling their minds with some more usable knowledge and by fitting themselves more firmly into the great world where only those who serve are long welcome.******** HIS VACATION This young school teacher of whom we are writing was badly in need of holidays. Months of severe work in the school-room had taken their toll of his physical energies but the university course lie held in view required money. Hence there was nothing for it but to hire to a farmer noted .for his thrift and fair play. “The sun will he hard on you for a while, but we’ll do what we can” was the word from his new boss. The hours of this young man were from five a.m. until sunset. There was breakfast at six, dinner at eleven, sup per at four and bread and milk at eighty-thirty. The occupation was pea pulling by hand, interspersed with barley loading with the old- fashioned barley fork relieved by stocking heavy fall wheat sheaves As the season progressed fall wheat threshing was upon the farmer and our young friend was the third man in the mow handling heavy ■sheaves amid dust and sweltering heat from seven till eight in the evening. Aching bones, real ache, mind you, drove this young fellow to his bed. after a hasty wash in the river. After three weeks of this sort of thing the young fellow was as keen on the job as any man on the farm and had the satisfaction of having his wages raised twice and of being told by his boss that he was the best man of the hull dozen on the big farm. In addition he had in the bank forty dollars of as well earned money he ever possessed. Broken down? Rendered dull and heavy and slow of foot? Not at all. He returned to the collegiate to head his class and to play a fine game of football. Steady occupation, plain food and lots of sound sleep made a physical and mental man of him. We commend such a vacation to any youth who wishes to fit himself for a real life’s work. A shower of “silver bullets” con- j tinues to fall into the State coffers at Ottawa evincing the fine spirit! of sacrifice Canada's people is show-! ing in pushing ahead the job of win ning the war. Gifts from individ uals and organizations are received daily in verying amounts by the Department of Finance. But whether the gift is an anonymous eighty-five cents oi’ the more ambitious don ation of $35,000, Waterloo’s and Kitchener’s contribution for the purchase of a light tank, all are accepted with equal gratitude. The- written comments which ac company many of the subscriptions •from individuals would be worthy of history's attention and might make a fine “bedtime” story for Fuehrer Hitler. A Torontonian knows exactly why he sent the mon ey in; simply, “Ten dollars towards beating the Hun, Only wish I could do more; I will when I save it.” The only comment which accompanied an Ontario woman’s $25.00 dona tion was short but how eloquent: “My son was killed at Vimy Ridge in the last war. An anonymous person sends in one dollar with the hope that it will be followed by many more: He or she is starting a chain letter in the U. S. A. A light-house keeper joins a long list of war pensioners who have re quested that varying amounts be deducted from their cheques every month for the duration. He asks that $5.00 be deducted each month. A light-house keeper’s salary, in that category, is $420.00 per year. Another refuses a six-months’ leave of absence, granted by the Civil Service Commission, after keeping the light for 29 years. Gifts from individuals range any where from fifty cents to $100,000. Equally impressive are the gifts of groups. The Vancouver Ail’ Su premacy Drive nets $24,0 0 0. The Cowichan Air Supremacy Drive sends $8,000 rolling into the strong boxes. Four thousand five hundred dollars to buy surgical units are donated by the Canadian Nurses As sociation. The Canadian Daughters’ League. Port Alberni. British Col umbia. sends $1,837 to be used to purchase an ambulance as a contri bution from the Alberni District. Municipal districts, town councils, citizen’s groups, ladies’ associatons, school children and all manner of groups, representing all ages, join to make these voluntary efforts a Canadian-xtfide contribution. But numerous donations also come in from the United States, from people who sympathize with Canada's cause in the war. A group o-f British and American persons, resident in Mexico, join the parade with $2,188 donations. The Sioux Indians of the Moose Woods Reserve, in Saskatchewan, sold tickets and wood to raise $20. besides contributing to the Red ■Cross, The Reserve consists of 17 families. In Lethbridge, Alberta, a war chest organization raised $2,400 through service clubs and associa tions. And from a grand old lady in Lea- cross, Saskatchewan, who is com pleting 90 years of life, comes sage advice along with five dollars. Says Mrs. A. Daevies, “Things are black for the British just before they lick the enemy. THERE’LL ALWARS BE AN ENGLAND There will always be an England, While the waves of ocean roll, For no weapon ever can be forged, To conquer England’s soul, The glorious flame of Liberty, That beacons England dales, By tyranny, can ne'er be quenched While God in Heaven prevails. When from the azure, ocean, First arose proud Britain’s stand, A charter was presented By an angel guardian’s hand. And down throughout the ages, She has kept that charter grave,’ Attuned to mortal music, ‘Rule Britannia! rule the waves! When Queen warrior, Boadicea, Bleeding from the Roman rods, Called her Druid priests around her Seeking counsel of Their gods. “Britain’s enemies shall perish,” Said a hoary Druid priest, With a voice vibrate with anger, And a heart o’ercharged with grief There will always be an England It is written in the stars, As a warning to those nations, Who invoke the god of Mars. There will always be an England, While the waves of oceans roll. For no weapon ever can be forged, To conquer England's soul. BARN RVRNEH BY LIGHTNING The bank barn on the old. Scott grass farm about three quarters or a mile west of Leadbury on the thirteenth concession of McKillop* which is owned by William Somer ville, was completely destroyed by fire on Thursday, July 24 around. 12 o’clock after being struck 'by lightning. The barn contained 69 tons of hay and also 300 bushels of grain stored there was lost, together with a hay loader, fanning mill, cut ter, sleigh other implements. The nearby drive shed and old house, containing a threshing machine/ were not burned as the wind car ried the flames in the other direc tion. The fire was first noticed by neighbors, Fred Scarlett and Ed. Miller. As the glare of the fire could be seen for twenty miles a larged crowd gathered, many going from Seaforth. There was some insurance on the building and contents but Mr. Som erville does not consider it likely that he will rebuild the barn. This farm was formerly owned by the late William Scott, pioneer resident. In the same storm two horses and a cow belonging to Frank Coleman, second concession of McKillop, just north of Seaforth, were killed by lightning. They were found the next morning near each othei’ close to a wire fence in the lane from the barn One of them, a mare, had grass still in its mouth. A horse was killed by lightning the same night in a field at Hugh Alexander's farm on the tenth con cession of McKillop. Horse-shoe pitching, long the na tion's favorite back-lot sport, has certainly come into its own. Last year this universally popular pas time found a place on the Canadian National Exhibition sports calendar’ this year the Canadian and Interna tional horse-shoe pitching cham- •pionships will be held at the “Ex.” PROVINCE OF ONTARIO AN APPEAL FOR ARMS The Provincial Police of the Province of Ontario, acting under the direction of the Attorney-General, are co-operating with and advising municipalities now, organizing or having organized Volunteer Civil Guards. There is now an urgent need for arms with which to equip such guards under proper supervision and direction. Therefore, this appeal is being made to the citizens of Ontario asking that they Ioan for the use of the Volunteer Civil Guards any available rifles and 12 gauge shotguns, together with ammunition, for the purpose of protecting the lives, property and homes of our people. Such donations will be gratefully received, officially acknowledged and a proper record kept. Arms may be deposited at the headquarters of the Volunteer Civil Guard, Parliament Buildings, Toronto, or with any Ontario Provincial Police Officer throughout the Province. Any further information may be obtained by addressing communications to the Parliament Buildings, Toronto, or consulting with the nearest Provincial Police Officer. M. F. HEPBURN Prime Minister G. D. CONANT Attorney- Gen oral Toronto, August 6tb, 1940 .......................................................... N-640