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imi’ti^anship or Patriotism
Addressing his fellow editors, Se
cretary of the Navy, Col. Frank
Knox said;
“. . , .1 would put the emphas
is in any message to my fellow edi
tors on the importance in this crisis
.of invariobly subordinating partis
anship to patriotism . . .”
Why, Colonel hadn’t you heard?
We thought you knew . . .
that partisanship is patriotism -
real American PATRIOTISM; and
any attempt to keep politics out of
the press in an election year - es
pecially since the nominations for
President have been made - is PAR
TISANSHIP and not Patriotism.
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OF MEMORIES
We shared the Rubiayat of one
Omar Khayyam;
We climbed a winding trail; we
chorused with a lamb;
We lingered on a sloping hill and
flirted with a star;
We toasted bacon on a stick,
And mused and worshipped till the
thick
bark haze of dusk came from afar
To
bring us
peace,
In ecstasy and wonderment we
spent each day
Until the space of one brief week
had slipped away;
In all God’s true divinity we fellow
shipped on high.
And then I turned and found you
gone,
Yet still those memories linger on;
Some hurt within me pains to cry,
“Give
me
release.”
—LEILA
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Out’ Favorite Epitaph
‘Some one of these days, the Grim
Reaper will nod at me and I’ll wink
back at him, knowing that my num
ber is up and it’s my turn to cross
the Styx.
When that day comes, I want to
be laid away as I have lived
without ritual, pomp or ceremony.
I would not wish that any man
should say of me anything finer
than the tribute Elbert Hubbard
wrote to his wife:
— and still the joy in work well
done, the calm of honesty, the sense
of power thru facing unpleasant
tasks, the sweet taste of food earned
by honest effort, the absolution that
comes through following one’s high
est ideals, the self-sufficient pur
pose and firm resolve to do still
better work through having done
good work today—”
If there should be a granite head
stone, carve these three words:
“He had friends.”
* * *
Oh every fly that skips our swatters
Will have ten million sons and
daughters,
And countless first and second cou
sins,
Of aunts and uncles, scores and
dozens,
And fifty million nieces,
So squash the blamed things
All to pieces.
* # Xi
pickling the Bushes
The New York Banker, George F.
Baker, was one of the country's five
richest men — perhaps his wealth
was surpassed by only Rockefeller,
Ford and Mellon.
Baker earned his first money as
a boy picking cranberries after other
pickers had gone over the same
bushes. Finding things that others
overlook has accounted for much of
the wealth of the world.
If you really expect to put over
something big in the world, don’t
pass a thing up because somebody
else has tried it — perhaps that
means nothing.
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 oh the
wane.
Little sicknesses and ailments seem
harder to shake off than formerly,
and, here and there, 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
Milbum’s Health and Nerve Pills.
They brace np and invigorate the
system, and help stall off the decrepi
tude Of advancing years.
feta T. Ullbtira Co., IM, Toronto, Ont.
—-■-that worried look the politician
wears indicates he doesn’t know
which one is THE band wagon.
—perhaps it is called machine
politics .because the success of the
machine depends on the nuts stay
ing in their place,
—the difference between popular
votes and straw votes is that the
post office department collects a
poll tax on straw votes.
—some people have the courage
of theii* convictions - and others
vote a straight ticket.
—reduct Captain
x: * *
Beneath this stone lies Murphy
They buried him today, |
He lived the life of Riley
While Riley was away.
* * *
■First tourist: “Look and see how
much gas we’ve got ,will you?”
Second ditto: “It points to i -
but I don’t know whether it means
half full or half empty.”
* * *
Scatter us once more
Where some shy violet
May bloom more blue
Because of letters
Love once wrote to you!
—Par Agon
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Watch Your punctuation
An. English Instructor was talk
ing of punctuation, “Let me show
you what a lot of difference the
placing of a comma makes”—and
he wrote on the blackboard: There’s
a divinity that shapes our ends,
rough hew them how we will’.”
Then he rubbed out the comma af
ter ‘ends’ and moved it one word
farther along in the sentence with
a result that brought giggles from
the students: “There’s a divinity
that shapes our ends rough, hew
them how we will.”
'Sometimes we feel that Shake
speare’s version was correct — but
when we get a carelessly punctuat-
'ed letter, we often feel that the
teacher’s punctuation is more to the
point.
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pert and Pertinent
“A typewriter has been recently
built on -which there are 1,150. keys,
which cover 40 alphabets, and on
which the inventor can attain a
speed of 28 words a minute.”
—will blunders never cease? )
Lives of great men continue to
remind us that honesty is - as ever -
the best policy.”
-—yeh, yeh, the rarest!
Beauticians say nothing is less at
tractive than an elderly woman
with hennaed hair.”
—apparently only the good dye
young.
‘‘Cotton stockings have advanced
in price.” **.
—but the women never know it
until they see some such notice as
this in print.
“A moron is anybody who does not
agree with you.”
—or, who cannot understand
what you do not understand but are
trying to explain.
—Oley Okeydoke
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OLD LETTERS
Open the bundle
Read us once again
Old tales out of the past
Nearly forgotten
In this rushing present life.
Ah, what bittersweet memories
Of love's wax and wane
Lie in old letters!
Do not count it vain
If once more in the heart's
Most sacred spot
An old emotion hurts you,
It is not much tribute
To the dead - this moment’s pain,
Having read us,
Do not leave us
For less kindly eyes
But in a clean corner
Of the garden
Turn us into ashes.
Xi X< *
! Re-enter Par Buster saying:
The true test of ability is to win
applause from people who do not
like us.
Ever hear anyone knocking an
inferior?
Imagination makes liars of us all.
Any statement repeated often
enough will find some believers.
Keep one aim in view and all
things will serve.
Genins creates - talent, imitates.* * *
Sometimes the ending rhyme is easy
And sometimes not so much so
Some are typed most seriously
Others with much gusto.
-—the colonel
A soft head and soft hands keep in touch with each Xs >,i X: * XI * * X<
There are few things more beautiful than a* well Impt maple
tree.
Out there on the farm, grandad is steppng, high with* and hand
some. That Hue old gentleman knows his business.
X: Xi Xi X1 Xi * if *
Business life is not likely to perish for want of holidays, what
ever may prove its fate from other causes.
***X>X«Xi**
Some folks coming back from their holidays are in need of a
tonic and a real rest. Holidaying is a serious business these times.xi ****** *
Just as we were all set to grumble about the dry spell that really
never came, down fell one of the finest showers that ever visited this
locality.********
That way the council 1ms of treating the country roads is a real
investment. It protects the car from the worst form of wear and
tear, it helps out the horses who are obliged to travel the roads.
********
We heard a youth of fifteen summers complaining that work
makes his back ache. I-fis mama fond and dear said it was too bad
and that he mustn’t work any more. Do you know the pretty boy’s
name **x<*****
A few more workouts and. the good old lawn mower will be put
to silence. Ah, there’s nothing permanent in this world. We console
ourselves with the thought that the leaves will fall and we may be
happy raking the lawn.
The occasional saphead who drives furiously is still with us.
He needs checking up. There are a few who approach and drive
over the bridge in the north end of the town at a speed that invites
death, to say nothing of what some people fear more than death to
the other fellow, a sharp dent in their pocket book.
********
THE BIG FELLOWS DO NOT ESCAPE
Mayor Houde of Montreal has been interned because the Domin
ion government thought he said things detrimental to the welfare of
the state. We do not hear about it, but there are others who are
quietly but legally taken into custody who speak neither wisely nor
well in these trying times. It is just as well for a good many people
to think twice before they speak on public questions.
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HAVE WE OVERDONE IT?
The other evening we were amusing ourselves by watching the
antics of a black squirrel. Our pride was the friendliness that had
developed between ourselves and the nimble, playful creature. This
squirrel seemed particularly friendly and trustful. There he was
poised and alert, but not alert enough, for suddenly a mongrel dog
sprang from somewhere. One sap of the cruel jaws and his squirrel
ship was in the happy hunting ground. Have we overdone this thing
of making the squirrels forget their natural alertness? There is
something mischievous in disturbing the balance of nature. Old
Mother Nature has been on the job a long while and is mistress in
hei' own realm.
* Xi Xi * X'- * * X:
A FORTUNE AWAITS
A fortune awaits the smart person who will invent a car finish
that is attractive but not shiny. Think this over those of you whose
exchequer is a bit low. Anyone who will get the glare out of the
present car finish but leave the smoothness in the finish will prove a
human benefactor. Count the number of times a day your eyes
have resented the glare from the other fellow’s car and you’ll know
just what we mean. That glare and shine are but a fashion after
all. So let us find something better and more attractive. Women
resent a shining nose. Why should they be enamoured of a shining
car? Men take to the tall timbers when they contact a shining
road. Why should they doff their headgear to a shining car? It's a
queer world, my masters.
Xt XI ******
THAT STITCH IN TIME
Beautiful trees are characteristic of Exeter. The good folk who
had to do with laying out this vicinity conferred an inestimable bene
fit upon those coming after them by planting trees that are now
a delight to all who live here.
But while this is true it is the duty of the present generation
to continue and. to add to the good work of their predecessors. Our
Horticultural -Society has been showing the way in this. The whole
situation should be looked over and ways azzd means of caring
for and of protecting the trees we now possess. For one thing storms
play sad havoc not only with threes but with adjacent property in
volved in the breaking of trees by the excessively high wind. Further,
some of the trees already have seen their best days and are slowly
dying out. What about their replacements? Such work cannot be
done by an amateur. A plan that is a good combination of good
taste, practicability and economy is not evolved by the untrained and
the inexperienced. If this generation works out some such reason
able scheme coming generations will bless theii* memory.
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AN UNPOPULAR MOVE
The prolonging of the holiday period in our schools is not a popu
lar move. The cost is regarded as too big for the results. The boys
who are worth anything for farm work may readily be excused from
attendance on classes, <but they must take the risk of overtaking the
other members of the class in their studies. This has been done be
fore and it may be done in this instance.
The suggestion that the government should supplement the
wages of the farm greenhorns is a very poor one. Why should
blacksmiths and clerks and doctors and all the nest of us who find
things hard enough when it comes to taxpaying be given another
turn of the screw to accommodate city folk who would be all the bet
ter of getting a taste of really hard physical work?
This thing of eternally advising farmers and talking of bemus
ing them one way and another is simply sickening. Farmers will soon
tell you that they always have got their harvests garnered and that
they will garner them this year. Farmers are in a tight corner* we
know, but that is nothing new for them. At any rate, who doesn’t
know times are difficult? The only thing for it is the extra roll on
the sleeve and a little more of putting brains in steep. Youth that is
worth its salt is not asking any favours. The other variety of youth
doesn’t deserve favours and shouldn’t get them. The subsisters and
the upllfters of mankind will do well to get down to theii* knitting.
The farmers are all right. It is their advisers who need stimulating.
We need more lifters and few uplifters.
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EXPE 1HEN< E TEACHES
Germany is learning that lying and treachery and cruelty make
them no friends. We mean just that. For years and years we swal
lowed the humbug that the German nation was a nice and polite
country bent on useful labour and the promotion of science, and of
all else that was for the betterment of the race. It we are not rid of
that nonsense by this time, our case is hopeless. Germany herself is
showing that she realizes that she has been playing the fool. Just
now sir* understands (hat she has roused the practical enmity of the
whole western hemisphere. Uncle 6am is wakening from his long
foolish sleep. He sees that Germany is bent on taking over all that
his sons have won by generations of toil and is going in for prepared
ness against German aggressors, not as an emergency measure, but
as a permanent policy. Germany is a faithless liar, he sees, Hint will
not change her Ethiopian skin of treachery for centuries to come.
She has been brutal and ferocious since men have known anything of
her. Brutal and ferocious she will remain for a hundred centuries
lo come. Her leopard spots are part and parcel of her every nerve
and sinew. It is purest Pollyanna blah to think otherwise. Truth
and. decency are not in her. Uncle Sam is wise enough to see this
and is acting accordingly, the sob sisters of his great country not-
t withstanding.
And what is true of Germany is also true of Japan. What Ger
many has been doing in Europe, Japan has been doing in Asia. She
Is the vulture of the Pacific. She needs no argument but guns and
bayonets. Uncle Sam is seeing to it that she can have all she wants
of both these persuaders. He is wise in so doing.
Will Pay to Check!
Canning Program !
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The cunning season is well on it5’
way with all the tempting array
of foods that ran he stored away
for winter use.
In liom« caiming there are four
print-ipal steps, each of which is
important in obtaining best re
sults. First, choice of product — I
no amount of care will make a good [
canned product unless the fruit or
vegetable is fresh and in good con- '
dition. Next, preparation and pack
ing are included. Then processing
sufficient heat must be attained to
destroy all spoilage organisms.
Fourth—most important of all is
air-tight sealing so that no further
organisms may enter to cause spoil
age.
At one time all fruits were cooked
in open kettles with large quanti- ‘
ties of sugar to make thick, rich
preserves. Vegetables were kept in
strong brine with or without cook
ing. These methods are excellent
in some cases, but for regular use
canning in glass jars or tin cans
is the most satisfactory.
There are some points that should
be checked to make sure that meth
ods are up-to-date.
Be sure that the rubbers fit the
type of jar. The wide rubbers are
for spring top jars; narrow rubbers
fit screw top jars.
Use pizzt jars for vegetables. They
are easiei* to sterilize.
Do not shorten the time of sterili*-
zation. Vegetables contain little
acid and, therefore, require long
sterilization to assure their keeping.
If a hot water bath is used keep
the jars covered with water to two
inches over the top.
Keep the water boiling. Count the
time of sterilization from the time
the water begins to boil.
Remove the jars at the end of the
required period. Insufficiently pro
cessed foods cultivate spoilage and
are sometimes poisonous, more of
ten are unpalatable. Never take a
chance. Too long cooking affects
flavour and eoloz* and makes the
product too soft.
Seal jars tightly at once. Never
open after sterilization.
If the rules are observed the can
ning of these products in the home
is simple and successfully carried
out, and nothing is more satlsfac-
| tory to a housewife than a store
cupboard filled with a variety or
home-canned fruits and vegetbles.
Full diretions for canning are
given in the Bulletin No. 53 4 “Can
ning Fruits and Vetgetables” which
can be obtained free by writing to
Publicity and Extension Division,
Dominion Department of Agricul
ture, Ottawa.
Overheard while enjoying our
regular Wednesday late afternoon
foursome at the country club:
First lady player: “Oh, dear that’s
the worst shot I’ve ever made.”
Companion: “Oh. so you have
played before?”
TRY IT THE "SALADA" WAY
Infuse 6 heaping teaspoons of Salida Black Tea in a pint of fresh, boiling water.
After 6 minutes strain liquid into 2-quart container,* while hot, add 1 to 1 >£ caps
of sugar and juice of 2 lemons, strained,* stir until sugar is dissolved; fill container
with cold water. Do not allow tea to cool before adding cold water or liquid
will become cloudy. Serve with chipped ice* The aboye makes 7 tall glasses.
Murray Family Reunion
A family reunion of the descen
dants of the late Mr. James Murray,
formerly of Rogerville, on the out
skirts of Kensall was held at the
home of Mr. Hugh M. Murray, of
Murray Dene Farm, Brampton on
Monday. The party gathered upon
the spacious lawn where old ac
quaintances were renewed and new
ones formed. A very pleasant time
was spent and cameras were busy
taking snaps of various groups.
Visits were made to the harvest
fields and to the buildings in which
the animals were kept. Tables beau
tifully decorated were set and. re
freshments served. Mr. Hugh Mur
ray presided and gave an address
of welcome to which Miss Jean
Murray, of Hensall replied. After
supper the guests adjourned to the
living-room of the home where Mr,
A. G. Smillie was appointed chair
man and a committee consisting of
Mr. Hugh Murray, Mr. Murray Smil
lie and Mr. Will J. Murray, of Tor
onto, was formed to plan a reunion
in 1941. Mrs. Jas. Murray, Pitts
burg, was escorted to the piano.
Solos were sung by Dr. I. G. Smil
lie, duets by Mr, and Mrs. James
Smillie, of Pittsburg and a quar
tette by Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Murray
Mrs. jack K. Murray and Dr. I. G.
Smillie. Choruses were sung by the
whole company in which “Rule Bri
tannia” The National Anthem and
“0 Canada” were happily inter
spersed with “God Bless America”
and many others closing with “St.
| George Edinburgh” and “Auld Lang
< Syne.” The day was all too short.
Many lingering farewells were made
and the many groups departed hop
ing to meet next year. Members of
the family included: Miss Jean Mur
ray, Hamilton; Mr. and Mrs. W. J.
Murray and family, Mr. and Mrs.
A. G. Smilllie, Mr. and Mrs. Mur
ray Smillie and family, all of Tor
onto: Mr. and Mrs, Stuart Smillie
and family, of St. Catharines; Mr.
and Mrs. John Kerr Murray and
family, of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs.
James Murray and family, of Pitts
burg: Miss Jean Murray and Dr.
I. G. Smillie, of Hensall.
KIRKTON WOMAN SPEAKER
AT FULLARTON MEETING
The meeting of the W.M.S. was
held with Mrs. Herb Clarke pre
siding. The program, in charge of
Mrs. Ed. Brigdeman, included solos
Muriel Harmer, Bonnie Brown, Dor
is Boyd; readings by Isabel Haynes,
Phyllis Reid; Scripture, Audrey
Boyd; duet, Beth Davis and Noreen
Walter. An address was given by
Mrs. Kirby, of Kirkton. The meet
ing was closed with prayer by Mrs.
Gabe Morris.
Ten? Rules
1. The more you do, the more you
can do.
2. Don’t tell youi* friends or as
sociates how capable or clever you
think you are — tell the other fel
low.
3. If you want to be promoted,
don’t be the first to quit.
4. Spend ten minutes every day
when you are away from youi* work
thinking about it constructively.
5. Conserve your strength - don’t
waste your time fighting sham
battles.
6. Don’t be afraid of assuming re
sponsibility — the fellow who gets
ahead is the man who can be de
pended on.
7. Dare to do it different if you
feel it is a better way.
8. Initiative and loyalty are es
sential qualifications towards ad
vancement - cultivate both constant
ly. The man with initiative and lo
yalty is the last to be laid off when
times are slack.
9. An empty wagon sounds the
loudest — learn to keep your mouth
shut.
10. If you earn $5.00, save one.
You can’t make a down payment on
a home or start in business for
yourself on borrowed capital.
—Par Buster
A song in the heart is worth two
in the book.—Arthur Stringer.
FACTORY HONOR
ENLISTED MEN
Employees of the John Boshart &
Sons factory on Saturday evening
presented four members of the staff
who have enlisted with pen and pen
cil sets. Each was also given an
address. ,
The enlisted men were Jack Cam
eron, Hartman Huisser, W. C. Suth
erland and James Barry.
— Huron Expositor
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