Witness and Canadian homestead, 24 septembre 1930, mercredi 24 septembre 1930

[" ~~ WITNESS and \u2018Canadian Homestead JORN DOUVDALL & yom THE WITNESS is working through .Île rencers in every province, and thay through it, to à audi & Cro The Week\u2019s Outlook rebuke the \u201cwaste of which that expensive institution was invented, it was that the searchlight of intelligence should be brought to bear on the expenditure of their taxes.Et has for game time been the usage fer every protective claïm to be discussed exchanged tokens of mutual loyalty at t.0 maternal hearth.But all will recognise his adequacy in that respect; all will understand why Sir Robert Borden was no aspirant to that service.Rffrontery also marks the methods of the lackeys.One newspaper heads its announcement of the triumph: \u201cApproval General in Britain.Favorable Reaction Evident to Canada's Tariff Changes.\u201d Seldom, if ever, has à long- suffering public read such a grossly perverse interpretation of half-digest- ed facta\u2014facte before which the Canadian press and public and the members of parliament, who toed the mark on one side or the other, found themselves dased and silenced; even Yet.hardly knowing what has been VOL LEXXV.Ne, 28.MONTREAL, SEPTEMBER 2, 1936.85th Year.SUBSCRIPTION PACTS IMEDS TWO DOLLARS à YEAR done.With nine-tenths of the press: progressives and thinkers, both of was quite enough to cause grave com- of Canada in the service of protectiôn, » whom have the world's economic cern.But weighty though that trouble and most of the remainder for obvious reasons mum, or mussled, such reports situation at their finger tips.With their analysis of the causes of our of the speeches of critics of the HOW = present discontents, based, as they tariff as have appeared have been entirely inadequate to represent the able manner, in view of all the circum en sound economics, there can be little disagreement on the part of sincere thinkers who look at matters stances, in which some of the glaring\u2019 pertaining to trade with the realisa- Injustices of the schedules were schmdieqion that Canada must maintain her on by members of His Majesty's loyal.opposition and members of the Progressive and Labor groups.Their out- \u201cspokenness was far better evidence of a truly Canadian viewpoint than the stony silence of the serried ranks of Government members who count only as component parts of a machine which goes into action at the sound of the division bell.JFORTUNATELY the pages of Han- sard\u2014sometimes, it must be admitted, dry and uninteresting\u2014have recorded in full the strictures of members British Columbia and from Mews of representatives of the prairie provinces and of Quebec and Oniarfo.Taken together these surely give a national outlook and prove that those who are not the mere emissaries of big business see in the new schedules not only none but momentary hope of assuaging the.rising flood of unemployment bus the gravest.tisk of adding to the n rs of those bound to be out of wark.To th why would otasp what the involve, two numbers of Hansard In pare ticular are fo be commended, vol.LXVI, numbers 8 and 9 of dates September 17 and 18, 1930, obtainable at 5e each from the King's Printer, though each of last week's issues is of value to citizens who would learn to what the Bennett government has committed us as a people, and that, it must be admitted, as a result of the people\u2019s votes un July 28.° ° .attention should be given to the remarks of Mr.A.W.Neill, member for Comox-Alberni, a British Columbia riding, with a great diversity of occupations, farming, logging, fishing and coal mining.Mr, Neill made plain that for his constituents of every class there could be only one result of the tariff\u2014namely, increased cost of living, with the reverse of any increase in employment as practically a certainty, due to the higher duties.\u2018In common with other critics of the government proposals he poured scorn on the pledges from Cam 3 ë EERE hi $ attitude of the United Farmers of Alberta was ably expressed by Messrs.Garland and Irvine, both exports If she is to prosper commercially.Their view that to cut off imports by prohibitory tariffs is bound to react on exports-is primary truth.Mr.Bennett's scheme of blasting his way into the markets of the world is exposed as tending merely to enrich certain privileged manufacturers.Cognate with them, Mr, J.8, Woodsworth their concern for the ultimate consumer, whether farmer or working man.All three emphasize the fact that manufacturers\u2019 pledges have In the past been worthless as is obvious.They cannot, pledge each other and 30 not even themselves.Mr.Garland's exposure of the conduct of certain motor-car manufacturers (see Hansard pages 418 and 419) was convincing evidence.Mr.Woodsworth put on record the distribution of the retail price of a 12c loaf which showed that the wheat producer received only 13.4 per cent, as against 50.77 per cent to the wholesale baker and 14.96 per cent to the retail grocer, the figures based on the years 1922-1034 by the United States Federal Trade lon.Mr.Woodsworth, who is 8 Labor member, scouted the idea that tariff increases could be made in the interests of the worker.\u201cIt would seem,\u201d he also remarked, \u201cthat in the modern world we have reached a stage when no longer can we go on absolutely regardless of the outside world; indeed we cannot very well care for our own household without giving some consideration to the nations about us.\u201d * .AILED examination of the new schedules, taken in conjunction with the figures of the condensed preliminary report on the trade of Canada for the fiscal year ended March 31, 1930, completely confirms what critics have said as regards the certainty of increases in the cost of living.On almost everything that Canadas buys from Britaln\u2014cottons, woollens, carpets, yarns, knitted goods, boots and shoes, together with iron and steel\u2014the tax goes up, tariffs being raised, in the case of socks and stockings, to take one example, by a hundred per cent plus a duty of a Aellar per dozen pairs.\u2018Many other æases, the increases being higher or lower, might be pointed to, all directly affecting farmers and people with moderate incomes.\u201d The serious thing from the standpoint of Canada\u2019s trade relations with Britain, our best customer, is what will be the effect on our exporta thither of restricting our importa.We have, at all events, no trade with our southern neighbor to lose by restricting our exports thence, She has already cut us off as far as possible, though we have been buying four times as much from her as we have from Britain, as Mr.J.H Thomas asserted during his visit to Canada last year, a fact confirmed by the trade report.* .are extremely serious days for Canadas, without magnifying our difficulties.The sise of our adverse trade balance ie the past year, was, it is being due to an exceptional cause, unimportant compared with the risk of antagonizing those who have hitherto been friendly, and that at a time when the glut of our stpple product shows no signs of mending.Mr.Bennett is not to be blamed for putting into effect the policies which he advocated during the election campaign.Some who supported him said he wouldn't; but those who financed him had to get their pound of flesh.Those who have laid upon us these new fetters and have promised s0 much in the way of employment are, no doubt, counting much on the better feeling prevailing in the world and the growing anticipation of better times just around the corner helping them out.Should this affect Canada, it would be coolly attributed to the new tariff.It is hardly to be hoped for that Mr.Bennett's recention in Britain on the part of his colleagues at the Imperial Conference, either the Mother Country's representatives or those of the Sister Dominions, will be completely cordial.As someone has observed, \u201cHe has thrown a monkey-wrench into the works\u201d of the British Commonwealth, In his absence Canada will begin to wake up to the pinch of his new enactments on the tarif.Prices HE manufacturers®are pledging themselves \u2014 how can they pledge all\u2014not to increase the prices of goods on which they seek still further imposts, so high that they will effectively secure elimination of com- \u201cpetition from abroad.It is a specious cry, in view of the fact that the price-curve of commodities the world over shows a downward tendency because of overproduction.What might be reasonably asked of these manufacturers is whether their prices will come down In \u2018accordance with \u201cworld prices?Of course, they will give no such guarantees.While on this subject, it ia well that we should realize that from the consumers standpoint England fs still the ideal country in which to live.Again to quote from the economist of the Bank of Nova Scola, wholesale prices there have been falling more rapidly than in Canada, Australia or the United States.Considering that Britain \u201cle still in the main a free trade country,\u201d and that each of the three coîntries with which comparison is drawn has, to say the least, fairly high protection, the conclusion to be drawn is obvious.\u201cWhen the level of prices has fallen to the point at which the purchasing power available in the world is capable of handling the great volume of business offered, the principal reason for the depression will have disappeared,\u201d writes the ecomo- mist already quoted.\u201cWe may, then, look for a resumption of business activity the world over.When \u201cthe Far East\u201d settles and can buy our wheat there will be no lack of a consuming market unless Russia forestalls us, There is, today, no question of more immediate practical importance than this: When will the fall of prices cease, and at what level will they be stabil- ined?\u201d In our view Mr.Bennett and his high protectionist cohorts are attempting to interject by means of & tartff for Canada a check ona \u201cdumping\u201d.We had premonitions of this fn the accusition raised by the American farmers that the Russian poo?was selling short on the Chicag> exchange.Why should ft not, in the gamble there, take advantage of fis exceptional knowledge of a world-wide market whose centre is at Liverpool?Who is to prevent it?Speaking of today\u2019s record low, an English author- Ky \u201ccannot remember a situation so terrible for the dominion farmers, due, it Is there naturally said, ta \u201cgrain planted, grown and reaped by serfs\u201d.Whether those words are correct or not, Ît is what we in Canada are up against.We suspect that what we have to face is not servile labor, but the efficiency of machines made in the United States and Canada, and increasingly applied to Russian fields.Who knows whether the Chicago story, however raised, did not give a temporary shock to the English market?Who knows what Interest is behind the terrible words that come to us today?But it comes at an awkward time when we have just laid new burdens on the producers af that by which Canada has long been Rving.The Right te Secede LONDON writer of a New York ngwspaper writes: \u201cTo an American brought up on New England achool-book accounts of the Civil War in the United States, the dispassionate manner in which the word \u201csecession\u201d is used in discussion (of the imperial bond) is amazing.Everybody is wilting to admit that any part of the empire, not excepting Great Britain, has a perfect right to secede if it wants to, but the political possibilities of the entire world con- iain no remoter contingency.\u201d True, South Afriea is gemanding that the right to secede be explicitly declared tn the definition of national status.Prat that, according to this correspondent, is purely academie; nothing is further from Mr.Hertzog\u2019s mind than using thai liberty.Still, in view of the fact that less than ten years ago, Ireland was openly asserting her independence, in view of the fact that India, a potential dominion, 12 raging now as Ireland then was with swaraf, her word for home rule, meaning thereby secession, this con- cluslort by one with his thumb Johm Bull's pulse revexls a compote tively placid throbbing there.John Bull is used to that sort of thing, and is not easily perturbed by fussy peoples.He complacently thinks the domifiiens know when they are well oo.Bureancracy ORD HEWARY, formerly Lord Chancellor of Britain, some time ago wroie à boek in which he held up bureaucratie rule as a danger te demacracy, citing case after case of imfringement en the liberty of the dividual by the precesdings of par- manent officials over wham the Miniaters of the various departments emescised little control, ParMament still less.An incident related by Ms.Young, member for Wegbukn, Saskatchewan, in the tarifl debate Inst week, werns ws that the danger ls not WEISKESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, SEPTEMBER Dé, 1986.source of supply, found the facturer thereupon \u2018had recourse te some permanent officials of the Department ef Mational Revenue, whe were apparently more aympathetie to FIR doer importers, anxious te sscartain the facts, set foot inguiries which elicited the informa- tien that the change wus made under the authority of an order-in-couneil.Whea Mr.Young asked for a copy of the order, he was told that it wes a secret document which could not be produced.He then appealed to gev- oral members af the Cabinet who are supposed to pass on such orders, only te learn that none of them knew anything of the affair.Aceording to Mr.Young, the ministers themselves, on asking further information, met with the same reply that the order was a secret decument and eould be produced.Mr.Young's threat raise the matter in the House, ever, caused a change of mysterious arder was and proved not to be an council at all, but officials § goods If the Minister\u2014in effect the permanent staff\u2014is satisfied that their importation ts injurious to Canadian ferns producing stmilar articles, Of course, everybody understands that with the Tarif Board now abolished and with it all that nonsenss about inquiring inte the views of those who might de adversely affected bg facreased tautffs, we ave back again 3 § ; ÉfEPE TH i ial | i itself In s political umit, interested politieally in Mttie else than In matters as make a difference bétween SE ig is i REE E 12 we accept the eriterien: \u201cBy their fruits yo shall know them,\u201d it would be generosity.It is, after ail, spending em Térury st a time of greatly shortened where an outery against tolls, and tbe ronds cost « good desl to keep up.And in this country the money has to filler dey through provincia) and mwni- cipal hands, à congenial process where the local! expenditure flows through that emphy road fovemen right oolvr.¥ The Ruling Order IN thus putting the whip into the hands of the down and out, democracy has, in the most compétent populations, gone Russia one better.The ideal of soviet government is that nations should be governed by the trades unions as representing the workers on the plea that they are the real producers\u2014a false plea there, where industrialism, as a power, is less than thirty years old, having been nursed into life by that very progressive statesman, Count Witte.The soviet ts still a very minute part of the population, the peasantry being unorganized.For the trade union to claim rule as representing labor would be false anywhere if that laborious basic and free element of labor did not lead\u2014{free at least in thé new world where there remains no tradition of landlord bondage.In Russia, as all know, it is not the trades union that rules at ali, but political bosses, these ruled in turn by this dictator or that.That la, of course, the very thinnest pretence at democracy.But every.whare it is, as Carlyle says: \u201cThe man who ean,\u201d whe, taote or less obviously, - Tales.: ° e .WHAT then, is to be said when a new labor dispensation has created a new social order of political aociety\u2014the order of the down-and- - out, the cast offs of the standardizing machinery of industry, whose demands for a living wage draw an ever higher line between the ins and the outs, ~\u2014which throws an ever Increasing proportion below it.If there is any distinction to be drawn between the competence of the fits and the misfits, it is presumable, if it is not evident from the facts, that the outs are, on the whole, the least fit, whether to care for themselves or to govern the country.When, in the course of social evolution, production becomes so facile as to exceed demand, this class becomes numerous enough to determine many elections.In its agonising need, it is naturally amenable to the enticements and lures of self-scekers.Here is where all these democratic countries find themselves .It is what they must find how to deal with, Love Your Master AS we have always said with confidence, there 1s certainly some way out of darkness to light, out of bondage to freedom, thqugh we may be still groping for it.It may be a long way round, and through many a quagmire of folly.The best hope in the matter Le that society must now become practically conacjous that its only hope is in uplifting the whole mass, which, ft will have to learn, is not only the nearer kin, but the human race.If that does not change men's hearts toward each other, what will?We are first thrown back upon the old Panacea of democracy, once expressed by Robert Lowe in the British par- Hamént in the words: \u201cEducate your masters.\u201d That seemed a clearer path to the earthly paradise than it does now that the popular press is the great dispenser of knowledge and wisdom and is practically owned by the privileged Interests whose purposes, unconfessed to themselves, are plunder and whose appeals are to men\u2019s lower motives.What hope is left?After all, education can teach man how to be selfish.It needs religion to teach him to be unselfish.Is there any hope from it?Strange that such a question should be open.The Church certainly has, as it always has had, as its mission to bring about the King: dom of Heaven among men.Judged by the supply of churches there is plenty religion.But the trouble is that {t seems to be pretty safely boxed Up in there, On The Watch Tower THE churches have had some shaking up of late.There has been a Food deal of gainsaying with regard to them by people whose parents were - WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, BEPTEMBER 34, 1939.church-gosrs, but who, themselves, are now outside.There Le, too, à good deal of wholesome questioning Inside them \u201cAs to their failure to shape the thinking of what we still know as Christian countries.There have been from age to age great new blasts of spiritual fervor that have moved and changed mankind, each characteristic of its time, impossible in another time.The day, greatly to be longed for, is no doubt, coming, but has hardly come, when democracy will know its own Interests and will not follow every pled piper.Rowland Hill, the great, Popular preacher of a century ago, told how he had seen a man followed by a drove of pigs contending for the beans he kept dropping, while all the while he was leading them to the slaughter house.There was something akin to that in the infatuation of the English voters who voted far dearer living and, as a necessary consequence, dearer production, upon the wild assurance that they would have the empire market secured to them and would all have work In supplying it.Even the beans were only gravel.Canada, led by à similar deception, has left Lord Beaverbrook pretty foolish, The loyalty party of Canada, to whieh Britain always looked for the salvation of the Empire, placed in power, has voted unanimously to kick empire trade overboard, that empire trade which the sordid Melchetts and Beaverbrooks have been declaring to be the absolute and only bond af Empire.Where is Christianity?By Senex.OOKING at the question of Christian Unity as dealt with «4 by the Anglican bishops, one might get the impression that Christianity with them consists In * something they call order, something they call orders, some holy of holies called the Catholic Tradition which they worship as they turn to the East.for their most kindred fellowship.did his fathers before him; that is, in 80 far as he was able, as few of us are yet, to lift his soul above his flocks and herds.We who know so much more than did the ancients of the infinity of creation in which our earth is as the very small dust of the balance, who know, too, the busy life within every invisible atom of that immeasurable universe, which atom It looks as though the groined aisies\u2014 men of yesterday thought to be the of Christlan Rome shut them hopelessly in from the infinite heaven; as though the ponderous and pretentious.framework of the Church had suppressed the dynamite of the \u201cupper room.\u201d The first commandment in the Old Testament is: \u201cThou shalt have no other gods before Me.\u201d He who came to reveal the universal .Father whose approach had been-till then restricted to holy places, sald: \u201cthe hour cometh when ye shall, neither in this mountain nor yet at - Jerusalem, worship the Father\u201d It Was a tremendous sentence, soon to be executed, sn those shrines that \u2018claimed a monopoly of that Father, who was seeking wherever He had children for such as could worship Him in spirit and in reality.How bracing this! how expansive to religion after ita long bondage to pisces and to the traditions of the elders, which in so many ways made of none affect the \u201cclaim af the Father on His children of every name! Wayside Wisdem Séarching further for Christianity, the enquirer, let us say, from Mars, naturslly looks to the churches which throng in our cities as thick as did _ the temples In Athens in Paul's time, and finds us also \u201csomewhat religious.\u201d As he passes by and beholds \u2018our devotions, he finds on the outward wall of a commanding church a show- bill, presumably displaying, after the manner of business men, the wrres within.It reads.\u201cIn any nation which aspires to self-government, the people must respect their own laws.\u201d The wildest rebel against the religion of Jesus can find no fault with that.In à series of years, these wayside sermons appearing here and there, have never broached the notlon that it is in Christ that God is reconciling the world into Himself, in fact have never touched upon Christianity.But, stay, we cannot say they have never pointed higher than this world, for here is one that loses itself and us in the empyrean: \u201cTell me your mood, ye patient stars who climb each night the ancient heaven.\u201d That is going &s far as the Magians of old for a religion; but not far enough.We can imagine either Zarathustra or Abraham, who had neither a newspaper nor spectacles to occupy his evenings, nor electric light to blink the lights of heaven, and who had no Christian revelation, sitting outside his huc door and gazing wonderingly into the peliuctd Persian or Syrian bive, and worshipping after that fashion, as final indivisible fact of nature, have certainly more of God's wonders to adore than those had who thought of the stars, as apparently does the wayside pulpit, as revolving nightly round the world {or man's sake with surely some divine message for him which they fain would unriddle.Human Religion BUT to get down again to the humanized religion of the posters, it represents something absolutely necessary, if men are to live safely in communities.If they will have neither God nor human dictator to rule over them, they must obey the commands of the multitude to which they have as an alternative given their allegiance.There is this also to be sald, If it is the Church that is to bring about the Kingdom of Heaven on earth\u2014and who else is to do that?\u2014It cannot go on leaving civil duty to take care of itself, as being taboo In mixed congregations.\u201cHonor and obey the powers that be,\u201d was pretty much thé whole of civic duty as often enjoined on the first Christians.It is a very different thing today when every citizen is responsible to the utmost of his influence and example for the quality of the said powers.A good deal more courageous paternalism in matters of civic and social duty is needed at the hands of the Church.People, at least, need to know right \u2018from wrong better than they do.\u201cThis ought ye to have done,\u201d but surely not, as so broadly suggested, to leave undone the great work of bringing the soul of man through Christ to God.There is none other name whereby our communities can be saved.It is to be hoped that there is not within doors any tendency to a lke shyness of what is central In Christianity.Ethical Religion \"THERE are those who talk of ethical religion.They borrow the word \u201creligion\u201d from those to whom it means relations with a power beyond themselves.The Positivists, who refuse any belief that cannot be proved, hold that a man\u2019s only demonstrable immortality is in the eternity of the frults of his conduct when alive on earth, whether good or bad.To such religions we must assign the wayside pulpit.To it, some would assign a scripture writer who wrote: \u201cPure religion and undefiled before God and the Father 1 this: To visit the widow and the fatheriess in their af- \u201d fiction, and to keep bimself unspotted from the world\u201d This writer was James, supposed to have been the once unbelieving brother of Jesus.He was fighting vigorously against thas flabby piety, common among excitable peoples, which is intense in sentiment, but loose on human duty.Those who refect the rule of God and of kings need, if society is ta be saved from anarchy, to submit themselves to the multitude to whom they have transferred their allegiance.But where is the salvation of the soul through personal relation with God?Where is He by whom men come to God?Lowly Doors SEEKING further, our searcher stumbles on a glowing cross hung out with the legend \u201cThe Light of the World,\u201d further down the some building, \u201cFor Sale\u201d, arid says to himself: \u201cWhatever religion may be in there, it has at least the primitive credential of having no continuing citadel nor place it can call its own.\u201d on thus hides many vari- colo: lights in simple places emulative of the stable where the light had its birth, where non-conforming people meet who have in the common view the further primitive credential: \u201cnot many wise.\u201d They are free, at all events, from the oppression and burden of a massive structure, or of standardized machinery which has a way of taking for the rank and file the place of the impulse of being charged with a messgge.A song, heard in childhood, told of & good little boy asking, as little boys will, the difficult question: \u201cMother, oh where is that better land?\u201d each verse of which, after glowingly painting some earthly paradise, ended: \u201cNot there, not there, my child\u201d .\u201cEye hath not seen it, my gentle boy.\u201d True Loyalty \"THERE is, in all this study, no disloyalty to the Church.We can all rejoice with each church as i turn, at its annual high festivals, it gives thanks for marked progress in temporal and spiritual things, as well as in anxious aspiration after a higher fulfilment.No more explosive force has arisen within the Church in our day than H.R.L.Sheppard, who wrote: \u201cThe Impatience of a Parson.\u201d Yet no one loves the Church of England, as well as the Church Universal, more than he.Dwight L.Moody was a layman whose evangelistic zeal could not abide the placid attitude of the churches, yet he would exclaim with all the fervor of his ardent nature that if there was a drop of blood in his body that was not loyal to the Church of Christ, he would let it out.The retiring moderator of the United Church of Canada, as reported in his retiring address, sald that, in his travels in all parts of the country, he had been greatly impressed by the anxious desire he found everywhere for a revival of religion; possibly a prophetic sense.It was not due to any lack of present prosperity as measured by visible facts and figures, but to a sense of the great need of something very much more effective.Questionings IT is an age when one everywhere sees the wrecking of old structures, physical and moral, to make way for \u201cmore stately mansions\u201d or for the advancing needs of the time.Does the pressing need of à new dynamic once more demand that worshipped shrines and usages and forms be consigned to the dust 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pst dE Lies JEU IE iii ind fla aiid iii hig 1d 3 iz al Ll i Llu i 5 Lisi Hib Bash pire dfsecagi éet ssl ih 8 24 hil il |W ely ji iat hla Ii i PETE jE fii fallin ; jaa lit os i ë i Budiadll CERNE IRL Wl : PHTEF vane ALES A lis pu 5 li Ha HIT A its gil: 1 EEE, i HER Le bn 1e sl la ni I i H plinth sig té he nln Sli i in ih HE Éllécgés ji ui 5 hill TE int s split Hear, i lig hii 3 [inital Cart fii fle Di toit EEE Ep js 3 ska\u201d SHIH i canaux arms NEWS OF THE WEEK mous Eve ; , 118 againat, while the Progremive- [Jpnited Church General Parliament Prorogues qairamendiment, moved by £3.Onc Council Meets September 16\u2014Before a fuily attended House and packed galleries and in one of the shortest budget speeches on record, Premier R.B.Bennett, on Sept.16 announced to Parliament and the country the changes he proposes, to aid in relieving the present serious unemployment situation in the Dominion.The principal features of the proposals submitted by the Prime Minister during a speech, which wes of only 35 minutes duration are es follows: 1.Belection of what he designated the key industries of the country, and according to them a protection tn- crease ranging from 15 to 50 per cent, that tariff increase operating against not only such foreign countries aaghe United States, Japan and the nations effectual position by specitying effective protective duties.3.Reducing from 50 to 331-3 per cent the Empire content requirement for British goods coming into Canada under the British prefer- agriculture and manufacturing industries and at the same time guaranteeing the consumer posed tariff increases, the Governor- in-Counoil, under the new legislation, taking the power to cancel the tariff increases when and if exploitation is proven.A notablé fact in connection with afternoon by the Prime Minister was Dia intimation that in sddition to very considerable there would be a general revision at the regular session of Parliament next winter.However adequate might be the proposed increases in duties as pro- little of this would be United States, England and continental Europe.The agricultural industry also receives considerable protection, the general tariff on horses being doubled, that of fresh meats being nearly doubled all tariffs on butter doubled and all tariffs on hops nearly trebled.The general tariff on oats, oatmeal, rye, wheat and wheat flour are doubled and an ad valorem of 78 cents per one hundred pounds upon potatoes also proposed.As to the iron and steel industry, particularly in connection with those commodities that come in from continental Europe, the increases range from 10 to 50 per cent.Increases in the tariffs on agricultural implements range from 20 to 50 per cent.There is à general teriff increase ef 5 per cent on electric fixtures and appliances.While the actual ad valorem rate increases in the textile increases do not Trade and Commerce replied for the Government.\u2018The Rt.Hon.G.W.Forbès, Prime Minister of New Zealand.was an interested listener to the debate, being furnished with a seat on the floor of the House at the Speaker's right.September 18\u2014The second day of the Government's proposals brought from the ranks of the United Farmer and Labor members, in the House of Commons, an amendment to the Liberal amendment moved by Rt.Hon, Mackenzie King, Opposition leader.\u201cIf there is one striking fact with regard to the budget which, is now proposed, # is that in it there is no provision whatever that offers, In any way, assistance to agriculture in western Canada,\u201d asserted B.J.Gar- J.8.Woodsworth, Labor member for Winnipeg North Centre, was the seconder of the sub-amendment.vote of 23 for end 193 against, In the debate on Saturday the chief speakers were Messrs, Bennett, King and Rhodes.At the morning sitting of the House, Premier Bennett, in reply to questions, sald that on Monday morning would be tabled the comment of this Government on Premier Ferguson's statement demanding for the provinces the right to be consulted before any changes in the B.N.A.Act are proposed at the Imperial Conference.He also said that the diplomatic posts at Washington, Tokio and Paris were to be regarded as out of the realm of politics, which means that Hon.Herbert Marler and Hon.Philippe Roy will remain where they are, but a man has yet to be found for the Washington post, which was vacated by the resignation of Hon.Vincent Massey.He could not, until after surveying the ground when at the conference, decide who would be the next High Commissioner in London, & post, he added, which must be regarded as political and subject to the changes of government at Ottawa.September 22\u2014The tariff changes passed both Houses, and Parliament prorogued.Near the close of the afternoon ait- ting Premier Bennett announced to the House the personnel of the delegation which will accompany him to the Imperial Conference and Imperial Economic Conference which open in London on September 30.The Cabinet Ministers to go will be Hon.Hugh Guthrie, Minister of Justice; Hon.H.H.Stevens, Minister of Trade and Commerce; Hon.Maurice Dupre, Solicitor General.The following departmental officials will also go, Dr.H.M.Tory, chairman of the National Research Council; John Reid, counsel of the Department of External Affairs; Dr.R.H.Coets, director of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics; Wil- Ham Gilchrist, of the Department of Trade and Commerce; General Mec- of the Department of National Defence, and Colonel Steele, of the same department, but having to do entirely with radio signal ser- In addition to the department of- ficlals, already enumerated, it had been thought advisable that men who could speak with euthority on the grain trade should go to the Economic Conference, and it is expected that these will Include A.J.McPhail, representing the wheat pools of the three prairie provinces; Dr.McGib- bon, vice-chairman of the Board of CGraln Commissioners; Prof.W.W.Swanson, of the University of Saskatchewan, and John I.Macfarlane, well known in the grain trade.THE SENATE September 17.\u2014An act for granting of ald for relief of unemployment which passed the Commons wes introduced by Hon.Gideon Robertson and given its second 3 September 19\u2014The bill amending the Customs Act was given its third reading Without amendment.- September 20.\u2014The Senate met for a few minutes, and then adjourned until Monday at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.September 22\u2014The Government\u2019s Tariff Bill was given three readings and passed by the Senate this afternoon a few minutes before the offi- clal prorogation ceremonies were duction of the bill by Senator Gideon Robertson, Minister of Labor, and a short reply by Senator Raoul Dandur- Rev.Dr.E.H.Oliver, principal of BL.Andrew's College in Saskatoon, Sask, was elected moderator of the general council of the United Church at the meeting of the General Council on Sept.17 in London, Ont.Five years of progress since chureh union were reviewed by the retiring Moderator of the United Church of Canada, Rev.Dr.Willlam T.Gunn, in his valedictory message to the General Council, \u2019 He extolled Church union movements throughout the world and described the re-union of the Presbyterian Church in Scotland, the merging of the Christian and Con tional churches in the United States, the approaching Methodist union in \u2026 England and the projected union ia South India which was approved by the recent Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops.The new hymnary of the United Church of Canada was released for the first time at.the close of the opening session.Canada must sooner or later adopt some form of unemployment insurance, declared Prof.J.W.MacMillan, chalrman of the Minimum Wage Board of Ontario, in an address to the General Council of the United Church at luncheon on Sept.19.\u201cTo hear people talk,\u201d said Mr.Mac- Millan, \u201cone would judge that the only country in the world which has unemployment insurance is England, and there it takes the form of charity to men who won't work.That is a most ignorant and unjust view.\u201d Industry must always have a reserve of men available for ment, explained Dr.MaoMtllan, and these should be cared for by an insurance fund.\u201cIt is a most unfortunate thing that this bendlit is being advoonted now when there are so many men out of work,\u201d he continued.\u201cThe time to insure a man is when he is employed, but I suppose nobody would listen if it were advocated then.As a matter of fact there is some form of unemployment insurance in force in every clvillzed country of the world except United States and Canada.\u201d A deficit of $798,378.71 in the missionary and maintenance fund of the United Church of Canada was reported by Rev.Peter Bryce.Nearly half of this is due to the expenses of church he explained, and in 1929, $2,696,710 was contributed to the fund, only four per cent short of the objective.Since the union the people of the United Church have spent $40,000,000 for new buildings, stated Dr.Bryce, and the total value of property held by all congregations is well past the $100,000,000 mark.The United Church of Canada is always open to overtures for the arrangement of further church union, the Moderator, Rev.Principal EB.H.Oliver of Saskatoon, told an Anglican delegation which brought greetings to the General Council on Monday.Home mission work of 1,700 fields of the United Church of Canada was reported to the General Council.The new home mission secretary, Rev.R, B.Cochrane, of Toronto, described the needs of the frontier.He called on the church to follow the settler and reach him even before the railway.New buildings, with log-cabin manses have already sprung up on the shores of Hudson Bay, and in the Peace River country, he said.The Moderator of the United Church of Canada should be detach- wes full time.Sir Joseph Flavelle, of Toroute, that adequate provisions be provide for executive offi- retirement, other than payments from the church pension fund.Rev.Dr.W.L Armstrong, of Trinity Church, Toronto, criticised the suggestion that executive offices aheuld receive any more retiring allowance than ministers in the pastor- ste.On his motion the matter was referred to the Presbyteries, who will be asked to report their vieWs to the special committee.Recommendations that church executive officers should be retired at seventy, and that their salaries should be revised were also referred to the Presbyteries.Twenty-six educational institutions numbering 300 teachers and more than 8,000 students, were described by Rev.Dr.J.W.Graham, secretary of the Board of Education.Including the new building of Emmanuel College in Toronto, these instituting represent about $16,000000 worth of property, it was reported.Final steps for the union of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Bermuda with the United Church of Canada were taken at the General Council in session here.Canada Announcement of the personnel of the reorganised Ontario Cabinet of Premier G.H.Ferguson was made on Sept.16.Drig-General T.L Kennedy Peel, succeeding Hon.John G.Martin as Minister of Agriculture; Dr.J.M.Robb, of Algoma, Hon.Dr.Forbes Godfrey as Minister of Health, Leopold Macaulay, South York, new Provincial Becretary, succeeding Hon.Lincoln Goldie; Hon.E.A.Dunlop, since 1928 a Minister without Portfolio, took over the Provinclal Tressurership; Hon.J.D.Monteith that of Public Works and Labor, and the new appointee, Rev.W.G.Martin, of Brantford, will head the new Department of Public Welfare.Nine by-elections, made necessary by the elevation of five members to the Ontario Cabinet and by the resignation or deaths in the case of four others, will be held on October 29, nomination day being set for October 18, it was announced om Sept.17.The new tariff schedules announced in the House of Commons on Sept.16 by Premier Bennett came into effect on Sept.17, It was stated by ocials of the Department of Na Rev- Seven men were killed at River Hebert, NS.on Sept.17, following « fire-damp explosion in the 1,200-foot level of the \u201cOld Victoria\u201d mine.The explosion was followed by a fall of stone, which imprisoned a number of the 17 men at work in the mine.À crew was rushed from Springhil, 18 miles distant, to proceed with rescue work.Several of the ten who escaped suffered burns or effects of the gas.High-grade record of the 1929 wheat crop is being far surpassed by early deliveries of the 1930 yield, according to figures contained in the report on milling and baking characteristics of the 1930 yield, issued on Sept.19 by Dr.F.J.Birchard, chemist in charge, and T.R.Altken, assistant chemist at the laboratory of the Board of Grain Commissioners.Though the report makes no comparisons with last year's grading, it mentions \u201cthe very small percentage of wheat grading No.3 northern or lower,\u201d and mentions that more than 70 per cent.of the wheat to date passing through Winnipeg graded either No, 1 hard or No.1 northern.Although exact figures are not avall- able, it is reported that the percentage of No.1 hard and No.1 northern 1s even greater in Alberta.Damages estimated at $200,000 was caused to the second narrows bridge, joining Vancouver and north Vancouver, when the log carrier Pacific Gatherer, in tow of the Pacific (Coyle) Navigation Companys tug- Horne, crashed into the three-hundred foot north span on Sept 19.Two hours after the crash, when the Pacific Two interim injunctions taken out by the Manitobs Wheat Pool against farmer members for alleged breach of contract were dissolved by Mr.Ji Kiigour In Court of King's Bench, \u2018Winnipeg, on Sept.19.In each case the pool will have to pay the costs charge of the Injunction was due to technical defects, and in neither instance was the merits of the suit reviewed py the court, Other cases, WYRNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTESD, SEPTEMBER 24, 1008.buyers dy pool members were adjourned until October 1.A deliberate and well-planned attempt to wreck a huge passenger airplane at the Weston, Ont.airfield was foiled on Sept.19 by the skilful placed if in the oil pump of the radial engine of Skyways six passenger monoplane.The big airplane was being used under contract in making aerial broadcast and sound tests, and the loss to both the companies from the forced landing it caused, was con- aiderable.On Sept.30 a cairn was unveiled at Port Morien by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, thousand feet east of the cairn the French mined coal in 1720 for the and fortress workmen at Louisbourg.Cargoes from this mine were later shipped to New England and the West Indies.George Frederick Porter, designer of the Quebec Bridge, and one of the outstanding engineers of the continent, died in Grace Hospital, Detroit, on Sept.31 from an attack of angina pectoris.He had entered the hokpital for a rest period.Most Rev.Dr.C.L.Worrell of Halifax was selected on Sept.20 as acting Primate of the Church of England, the House of Bishops thus solving the problem created by the resignation of Most Rev.Dr.8.P.Matheson, Metro- at a time when the method of choosing a Primate is under consideration by a special committee and it was Reduction of one cent per loaf In prices of bread was announced by Winnipeg bakers on Sept 23.Twenty- ounce loaves now sell for eight cents.New flour contracts at better prices are the reason, it is stated.Great Britain The British Ambassador to Argentina was authorized on Sept.18 to inform the provisional Government of Argentina that diplomatic relations between the two countries would remain as before the recent revolution.The King on Sept.18 forwarded to the Marquess of Aberdeen and Te- mair a message of congratulation on attaining his jubilee In the Lord Lieutenantship of Aberdeenshire.The message says: \u201cAs I understand your commission as Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire was granted by Queen Victoria September 17, 1880, I offer you my sincere congratulations on your having completed 50 years in office.I assure you of my aigh appreciation of your services rendered as the representative of three successive sovereigns.\u201d A furious gale lashed the English Channel and the southwest coast of England on Sept.20, placing numerous ships in need of assistance and damaging property inland.The opening of the Imperial Conference has been postponed, Reuter's News Agency learned on Sept.22 that the conference is now due to convene on October 1, instead of September 30, the original date, the change being made out of consideration for the Canadian delegation headed by the Rt, Hon.R.B.Bennett, It was officially announced on Sept.23 that the younger daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, fourth in line of succession to the Throne, born at Glamis Castle, August 21, will be christened as Princess Margaret Rose of York.The christening ceremony will take place in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace next month.Sister Dominions about the town hall where the Bombay legisiative election was held on Sept.18.The police arrested 383 women and 18 men.The women were later released.It was reported on Sept.18 that Diwan Chaman Lal, the only representative of Indian labor invited to attend the round-table conference on India, has declined the invitation.The Mahatma Gandhi on Sept.19 spent his sixty-second birthday, according to the Hindu calendar, writing during the moming and spinning on his small hand wheel in the afternoon.There were celebrations by congress volunteers in several parts of Bombay.Mrs.Rama Baikamdar, who a fortnight before succeeded.Mrs.Hansa Menta as president of the Bombay Chapter of the All-India National Congress War Council, was arrested on Sept.20.Four hill tribesmen were reported killed, and 50 wounded on Sept.31 by police suppressing a riot in Bordehls village, Betuld district of India.Gev- eral hundred tribesmen attacked the police with bamboo sticks and stones, in an attempt to rescue some of their fellows from custody.The police, hard pressed, opened fire on the mob.Hetnforcements were sent to (be vil United States Secretary Stimson announced on Bept.17 he had ordered American diplomatic representatives in Argentina, Peru and Bolivia to resume normal diplomatic relations with those countries.\u2014 Enterprise, America's Cup defender, won her third straight victory over Shamrock V., Sir Thomas Liplon\u2019s challenger.She came on alone.Shamrock having dropped out of the contest when her main halyard, or asti- ho'sting cable, tore out forty-four minutes after the start, on Sep.17th.In a race that smashed all records for America\u2019s Cup competition, Rnter- prise on Sept.18 completed the defeat of the last of 8ir Thomas Lipton's Shamrocks on the high seas and the ela=ic emblem of world yachting supremacy remains im.the United States for*the 20th year since lt was captured in British waters.Mrs.Emma Louise Ashford, 80 widely known composer of sacred music, at her home in Nashville, Tenn, on Bept.22.To her credit are more anthems, sacred and secular \u2018The special \u201cRed\u201d coggmitiee created by the House of Representatives at ts last session of Congress to investigate Communist activities throughout the United States, will conduct an enquiry into the alleged short selling of wheat by the Russian Government on the Chicago exchange, it was announced Sept.22 by representative Hamilton Fish, jr, of New York, chairman, \u2014 Europe An intrense of 750,000,008 frarids in Pracce's defence budget was made known when the finance minister's for the next year were handed to the cabinet on September 18.Storms that battered and broke large and small boats in the English Channel for more than 36 hours began abating Sunday after taking a heavy but as yet undetermined death toll.The wreckage of many small boats was scattered along the French and English coasts and large passenger ships fought their way to port mountainous waves and a wind of close to 70 miles an hour with the greatest difficulty.À Se.vx a imo Marconi was elected pre- aident of the Italian Royal Academy by acclamation on Sept.18.Benator Marconi succeeded Senator Tittoni who resigned for reasons of health.Frank B.Kellogg, former Secretary of Btate of the United States and coauthor of the Kellogg pact to outlaw war, was elected & judge of the World Court by the Assembly of Ce of Nations on Sept.17, to to the uncompleted term of Charles Evans Hughes.The Irish Free State on September 17 replaced the Dominion of Canada as à member of the Council af the League of Nations.\u2018There were three retiring members of the Council, namely, Cuba, Canada and Finland, and Guatemala, Norway and the Irish Free State were chosen to fill the vacancies.Canada will not be eligible for re-election to the Council until three years have expired.The budget committee of the League of Nations Assembly on Sept.19 voted 300,000 gold francs (about $57,000) for the expenses of a general disarmament conference next year.This ae- tion was accompanied by declarations from the representatives of various powers, urging speed in the League disarmament program, and Imsisting that a world conferpnos te effect genuine reduction land, ase and alr forces be convened in 1981.In the midst of a technical discus sion In the League of Nations Assembly on Saturday on clauses of the draft convention for finamcial aasist- ance to nations which may be victims - of aggression, J.H.Scullin, Australian Premier, who had just arrived in Europe, added his word to those of Arthur Henderson, Hugh Dalton Viscount Cecil that the time was ment of Article, VIII te coventnts 2 of the : J \u201d Chinese civil war which started April and for months was a threat to the life of the Natiohal Gor- ernment at Nanking apparently ended Bunday, Peiping despatches said on Sept 22.\u201cTwo Adventurous Girls A NEW Canadian story by a talented Canadian writer \u2014 Agnes Lent Hall\u2014aiready known to Witness readers as the author of tha! moss attractive serial, \u201cCaptain of His Soul,\u201d which ran through our columme & few winters ago, will start in the Northern Messenger on 10th October, and should command widespread attention.It concerns the fortunes of two well on trial to the end of the least twelve weeks\u2014~for 28 cents, in clubs of six or more copies to one address, for 8.8.distribution, for onl 15 cts.Jonn Doucair & Sox, Publish ors, Witness Bldg., Montreal). Propaganda ve.Propaganda - When Jesus left this earth He left behind Him no Christian writings that had not been in existence at His birth, but He left behind Him His gaspel written «in the hearts and of hundreds of disciples.This number increased into thousands through the witness bearing of the hundreds, with the blessed Influence of Holy Spirit, s0 that they \u201cwent everywhere preaching the gospel\u201d by words of power and conviction.Propaganda has been defined as the sealous spreading of someone's Opinions.There are opinions being spread that age not s0 beneficial as the Christian teaching.We have seen war propaganda, and today we see much antl-temperance propaganda.With a view to counteracting temperance and prohibition education among achoo! children of the world the International Wine Office wiil ahortly publish a pamphlet of not more than 50 pages under the title, \u201cThe Truth About Wine.\u201d It is designed to be distributed in the schools of as many countries as possible.This project is a sequel of a recent incident in the French Chamber of ul when passages in French es ret books which condemned wine drinking and praised the United States prohibition law were severely criticised by Bdouard Barthe, deputy from the Department of Herault, and leader of the wine producers\u2019 group in the Chamber.His attack drew a promise from Plerre Marraud, Minister of Public Instruction, that the textbooks would be revised in the in- tereats of the wire industry.The issuing of the propaganda booklet for school children is only one phase of a vigorous campaign which is being organized with the view to Increasing wine corsumption in France and abroad, in.order to improve the conditions of the French wine market, which Ls now in a bed atate due to overproduction both in France and Algeria, and to tariff and other barriers raised against French wives by cumerous countries.Wine growers and dealers are making a determined effort to persuade restaurants and hotels to-retutn to Mé pre-war practice of including wine with sll fixed price meals, The International Wine .Office which has its headquarters in Paris is intimately connected with the International League against Prohibition organised in Brussels in 1923.This shows us how necessary our educational work is in our schools, since even there we have to combat attractively presented wei propaganda.The question has been asked: Is not the result of the poll taken by the Literary Digest most discouraging?Do you judge that as intentional wet propaganda?The Literary Digest poll may have been impartial in intention.Let us give them the benefit of the doubt There are 60 million voters in the USA.Ballots were sent to only one- third of these, and of these less than one-quarter took the trouble to return the ballot.Less than five mil- lons out of 60 millions voted and of these only 1,943,052 voted for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment.Less than 2 millions out of 60 million voters of the country cast a vote for Tepeai.Less than 2 millions Of the twenty millions of ballots sent out werë returned for repeal \u2014just about Lat the votes cast were wet out- It looks as If Henry Ford's figures were right, that 1-10 of the States are wet in sentiment.The Christian Century comments on this vote in the following words: \u201cThe alleged excitement over the prohibition situation ls, apart from a few centres, à fictitious excitement worked up by the wet press, and magnified by persistent pubucity.\u201d The wet press is constantly declsr- ing that Prohibition is a tyrannical law interfering with personal rights.I believe that we have a right to regarti private referendums on public questions as a real menace, for the following reasons which I read in the Union Signal, from the pen of & noted Profestor of Sociology.The taking of nation wide polls under private aus- ploss may be a menace to democratic government for the following reasons: First.\u2014Such referenda being oostly will be taken when some private In- serest with abundant financial resources deems the time favorable.Second.The referendum is taken without the safeguards whieh should make it fair and authoritative, \u2018Third.\u2014Once taken, the interests which it favors will argue from it as if it were an official and authentic disclosure of voter opinion.Fourth.\u2014When the result of such a referendum Le adverse to a law, It will be used to paralyse the law-en- forcing agencies, to justify law-break- Ing.and as an excuse to nullify the w.Law is for the protection : of the citisens of the land, and prohibition has been advocated in response to the cry of thé people for release from the tyranny of a devastating evil\u2014debas- ing to manhood, weakening the vitality of the nation, and producing many grievous.hardships for women and children in the homes of drinking men.The liquor habit Le bondage.Prohibitory law is not tyranny.Offsetting Wet Propaganda How are we to counteract the wet propaganda in the press?The only way to combat those ny- ing that Prohibition is a failure, i to cite proved and not-to-be-contra- dicted evidences of its success.For instance, \u201cProfessor Irving Fisher In his latest book, The Noble Experiment, finds that already the financial gains to the working man are so great that not a single economist In the USA.will dispute that fact.\u201d The difference that Prohibition made In one industrial centre is concretely illustrated by this fact.\u201cIn one town in Northern New York there used to be two saloons on the corner opposite a large factory, there are now no saloors, but instead there are one hundred automoblles parked in those corner lots.\u201d Let each one of us start to save prohibition facts for reference in a large envelope or a scrap book and thus collect material for our own individual drv propaganda.\u2014Ontario W.C.T.U.Clip Sheet.DR.MORLEY PUNSHON A Famous Canadian Preacher T.P.G.London, writés In the \u201cNeweastle Weekly Chronicle: \u2014 Wil- I'am Morley Panstion was a native of Doncaster, where his father was a partner in à large and prosperous drapery business.H's mother was the daughter of Willlam Morley, a well krown shipowner of Hull.It was at school where William first manifested a singular aptitude for learning and was especially noted for his extraordinary power of memory.He would learn, for the mere pleasure of the effort, long passages from \u2018The Speaker\u2019 and rec'te \u2018them to his schoolfellows.His father was eager for him to take up » commercial career.30 he heir sent to his grandfather's office at ull.\u201cDuring his residence in the town he became associaed wih Waltham Street Wesieyan Chapel, where his addresses at the Sunday school attracted the attention of the minister and led to his delivering hig first sermon at Kllerby, and to the ministry.His uncle introduced him to Richmond Wesleyan College, where he studied for some time, but, on ascertaining that his mind was made up to remain in England and not go out as à miss'onary, he was unexpectedly put out \u201cJust at that moment an opening came to him at Marden, Kent, where a number were saxious to form & Methodist Chapel, he became their minister, and laid the foundation of 8 prosperous cause.\u201cIn 1845 he was accepted.after an examination, for the Wesleyan ministry, and was sent to Whitehaven, where he spent two years, followed by Carlisle for a similar period, and, In 1849 he took up his residence In New- castle-on-Tyne, as the third minister on the Blenheim Street Circuit, and - here he married Maria, daughter of ; J.Vickers of Gateshead.\u201cIt was during his stay on Tyneside that he gained his extraordinary popularity which he never lost, his faihtul devotion to every department of the work being no less remarkable than his eloquence.\u201cAfter leaving Newcastie he went to Sheffield and Leeds and later to London.During his residence at Ialington he delivered a number of lectures, which excited remarkable interest, and 44 wag the means of ralsing large sums of money amd the giving of £1000 towards the Wesleyan Chapel a4 Spit- \u201cI¢ is impossible to speak t00 warmly of his unselfishness and generosity.In 1862 seeing the needs for Methodist Chapels at seaside towns, he undertook to raise within five years, by his lectures etc.the sum of £10,000 and he accomplished the task within the \u201cA visit to America in 1668 led to a stay in Canada.where he became the president of the Canadian Conference.In 1371 he returned home, and had a \u2018wonderful reception wherever he went.He returned to Canada to carry out a promise of ralsing an Endowment Fund for the Victoria College at Coburg, which he did, and in return Fi FE : i ê E 4 PEEESED] HH 4 Ë 3 The first shipment of Nova Scotia apples to the British market\u2014some 4,000 barrels\u2014left Halifax on September 3nd, a matter of eleven days earlier than the first shipment of last year.National W.C.T.U.Campaign Mrs.M.D.Cushing, Director; Mra.T.T.George, Manager; Mias Edith Giles Associate Manager.360 Cralg St.West, Montreal, Box 3070.The Religious Education Council of Canada Rev.Geo.T.Webb, D.D,, Chairman, Temp.Committee.The Temperance Instruction Course Has your Sunday School made careful plans for the series of Temperance Instruction lessons?The Course will consist of six lessons.The Instruction material for each Sunday will be printed in the Sunday School papers of the previous week.That is, the material for October 19th mm appear in the papers for October 1 The material will be graded.Juniors will enjoy the delightful stories and Temperance physiology of a aerial story about \u201cYou,\u201d abridged from \u201cThe Three Partners\u201d by Margaret Baker, and printed in \u201cPlaymate\u201d and \u201cNorthern Messenger.\u201d Por Intermediates, \u201cAlcohol and Human Well-Being,\u201d by Rev.John Co- burn, will appear in \u201cThe Canadian Boy and Girl\u201d and \u201cNorthern Messenger.\u201d \u201cCam.lian Youth and the Liguor Question,\u201d by W.R.Plewman, will be found in the pages of \u201cOnward,\u201d and \u201cNorthern Messenger.\u201d It will be excellent for the Seniors, Young People and Adults.AGES OF GRADES AND NO.OF EXAMINATION QUESTIONS JUNIORS-\u2014# te 11 inel, 12 questions.INTERMEDIATES, 12 te 14 incl, T questions SENIORS, 15 to 17 incl, 7 questions.Be sure to plan for this series early.Work of Examiners th the Lessons.Under the direction intendent or some one duly ap- the \"teachers will be responsible for marking the papers.CORRECT ANSWERS AND MARKS.\u2014Io sealed envelope snd marked CONPIDENTIAL POR THE SUPERINTENDENT, the answers and marks wil be sent to the name and address to which the Sunday School Papers have been addressed.PASS AND HONOR CERTIFICATES \u2014All who tet 50 and less than 86 marks out of a possible shall be listed for Pass Osrtificates.All whe ® or over obtain Honor Certificates.C.FT.U.PRIZES.RTC.\u2014In competition fer Provincial and National prises, the three In each grade in achools with 6 cempeti- or less, shall be submitted by the 8 8.his thelr scholars may not be dimppointed.In that event they will comply with all the instructions aa outlined for the Superiniendent.NOTE PARTIOULARLY \u2014But in any event the first marking and ranking must be dooe by esch 8.S.ORDER FORM NORTHERN MESSENGER.Witness Bldg.Montreal.in duplicate, sending one copy to his own Domin- jon Denominations! 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You are here .\u201d He proceeded in which led one to think that acres and buildings had the olue sky, of that Deity had a down and with a master out this clearing and buildings into the ground put up fence posts.He gave opinion that he too would not before he was \u201cas well fixed\u201d of the rest of us, but he learned day.He learned that there is nothing without effort.Things simply do not fall from the blue sky, not the things I am thinking about.Neither success or prosperity come to the shiftiess, roving, rollicking disposition, but to jective, and go towards it though there be as many devils in the way as there are shingles on the barn Hitch up your negative .qualities to the positive, rejuvenating powers of God.ONCE I sold life insurance\u2014only.once.The territory worked was that which suited my disposition and which I knew best, among the types of men I had known long since and lost awhile.When the Ferguson Highway was under construction (I hewed aquare pins timber on that same highway), I dropped in at the camp operated by a Mr.Fay, and there made plans to work up the emotions of the gravel-haulers, the pow- der-monkeys and the station men when they came in from supper.I slept there with a Medical Doctor who told me he had taken his BA.at the age of nineteen, that his father had protected the investment (education) with an insurance policy of $5,000.00, and that he intended to set up a practice for himself in Sudbury or Cobalt.The next morning ! was doing some writing\u2014not the kind I am doing now \u2014when the door of the shack burst Resse gf HE H my 3 E if: duel hn 88851 \u201cThey'll never make it\u201d and then stood before the little window watch- ; 1 IFE insurance men learn to uncover the secret places of the heart, just as men in other walks of human endeavor learn the tricks of the trade Rag pickers, they say, throw water on the rags to make them weigh heavy, but just how true i is I cannot say, besuse I was never in that business\u2014 my part in that drams was wearing the rags before anyone got the chance Ë I ] 8 i F 5 what he called his old age.He told me some real philosophy, and wound up with a wave of his hand towards the white immensity outdoors, and the men who had gone away.He added something akin to this: \u201cBut these\u2014are itke the chaff which the wind driveth away.\u201d Later on én the day I looked out of the window and saw the old man at the wood cutting.He had a good- sed log on the skida, had a stout stick stuck somehow into his thigh to support his \u201cgame leg\u201d while he sawed blocks off the log to de split up for firewood.did anything in my life.\u201cLet me go,\u201d \u201cWhere destiny is blow!nz like & high wind at sea, And the souls of the damned and forsaken, The rich and the poor, the weak and the strong, Through a Dantesque darkness are hurrying, Hither and yon are they hopelessly scurrying Like the leaves of à tempest-tost tree.\u201d \u2014Macgregor.1 know what is wrong with this generation; it is being educated away from work.It is not becoming these days to have one's finger nails trimmed by close contact with \u201cold mother earth.\u201d Thrift end economy have been displaced by the dollar per week plan\u2014the mortgaging of un- EKIND the evening paper, in the last seat of the ca?Eric Brown mat, in premeditated isolation.It had been a duy of a thousand irritations and griefs, expected and unexpeoted.As Manager of an Insurance Company, he was the shock absorber\u2014a three-way buffer between the Company, the Agent and the Public.Today the shocks came in from all aix directions.There was the late agent, whose territory had been invaded; the policy-hoider who claimed his brother-in-law had a better policy in another Company; the sentimental tearful woman, who would not let her husband take a policy\u2014he might die; PRESIDENT OF THE LEAGUE Nicholas Titulescu, Roumanian Minister te Great Britain and fermer Minister of Fereign Affairs, hes becn elected President of the Eleventh Assembly of the League of Nations.He received 8 of the 51 votes cast.My, and posterity not here to object.Men do scatter \u201clike the chaff .» as the old man Indicated, and youth is being drawn by pleasures that have no lasting satisfaction.All the mothers I know, even our own \u201cMother\u201d here, wants her boys to have a \u201cwhite collar job,\u201d and, folks TPE LR a Fédgt ai Hi Ll i fl rin Ua ge il i {32 hy ail th | ths; ji ë F | ESSELE hat fusing Le rt vÉsisE } £3 saiz THE I fit Eh li feof EH 1 Ho It i PEL gil: (West Africa), the Dominion of Canada should extend thelr commer clal dealings to thelr mutual benefit, Hi | H il RE | | Lit Ei » i Ë >» : hi h I | § E i i I ¥ ! I \u201ct Ft Us sf bi-1 H | I i Hh Ë £ I | ¥ i à i § i ii ~f li i ï Ft ¥ R Ere \u20ac £7 \u201c5 | 5 TN i sk ih 2 ; 1 § : Ë I i t Hi ky ie FE Ï | i : | J) | I : 5 i E ; ts ith £ ; i | i ] i Ë i Siadnme $0 many s weary .Yas, cheer upi\u2014PFred Landry, Que.THE THRER NEW TOPIOS TO CHOOSE FROM, ARE: \"WAGE 1 atm to Become ems WAY \u201cAs 1 Wouls Wish Te Be of NU\u201d \u201cWhat I Would Do If 1 Hel Pumty of money.\u201d WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, SEPTEMBER 24, 1930.ENTRIES; 6/0 JONN DOUGALL AND 308, GPO.BOX 3070, MONTREAL.13111 ] F Het Hi È I i 5 FIRSY CASE PRIZE .SECOND CASN PRIZE .$388 PNIRD CASH PRISE .Tell your friends about this comnetiven.STAMP NEWS By slow degrees a new series of stamps is appearing in Canada.It 1s not two years since the present issue was commenced, but the stamp contract has lately been transferred Sir John and the new printers are preparing entirely new stamps.The first ex- green and § cents violet, bear a new portrait of the King, the engraving of which is not up to the standard ao consistently maintained during nearly eighty years of Canadian postage Indeed the new stamps compare unfavorably with the original King George lssue of 1912, showing the portrait in profile, with the crown ia each of the upper angles and maple branches at the sides below.The is omitted from the new SEC ES TL ë exhausted.The full portrait consist of the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, higher values wii be devoted scenes different from those cow in Government Library is de- the 10 cents, and other be included in the series are Edith Caveu in the Rockies, a JRE 8 igs iF Saf gs ë F i the Chyreh at Graod'pre, Nova French Dating Erver \u2018The sheets of the current French stamps are numbered by an automatic totalisator, and the figure ap- \u201c pears in black in the bottom left comer.At the same time there is printed in the bottom right corner to some irregularity of working, sheets have been found by collectors which are obviously wrongly dated.Examples have been found, among others, of the 25 centimes \u201cSower\u201d type, dated mext December, 23-12-36, and on some sheets of the new 150 francs air-post stamp the date is given as 26-12-39, more than nine years ahead of time Franklin Continuing the Epic Story of the Trail of the North.Y a strange coincidence, almost at the same time when Swedish arctic adventurers by the older method of sea travel stumbled, somewhere north from Spitsbergen, on the relics af Andree, that daring pioneer of the air who thought to drift over the North Pole by balloon, Major L.T.Burwash, ustng the air century ago followed each other in the well, he was sent to the grammar school of Louth, where many years afterwards Charles and Alfred Teany- son and Hobart Pasha received the It had the opposite effect, for young Franklin came back more determined for à nautical career than ever! sailing on M.M.8.Polyphemus, and in leas than a month undergoing his baptism of fire as a midshipman under Nelson at C: ., Franklin's next appointment was to the uvre bien to commandes: by his cousin, Captain ders, was salling on a voyage of discovery % Australia.Captain Flinders was a fine sailor and skilful navigator, and under him, John Franklin received \u2018raining which was of inestimable value in his after life.Commodore Nathaniel Dance.As the squadron entered the Straits of Malacea, they descried a French fleet under Admiral who been sent to intercept immediately gave order for to form in line of battle.this did not look Nike the behavior of peaceable merchantmen.and morning dawned with stil] facing each other.Franklin who was acting as signal midshipman received orders to signal the squadron to \u201ctack in succession, bear down in line ahead and engage the enemy.\u201d There was a short fight.Linois brave man and so were his men, but sixteen \u201cdisguised line-of-battle- ships\u201d were more than he had bargained for.He salled for safety and for succor while the Indi: after pursuing him for a couple hours, resumed their homeward voyage.FPrankiin\u2019s next appointment was to the famous \u201cBellerophon\u201d\u2014the \u201cBilly- Ruffian,\u201d as the sailors called her.She sailed under Nelson and was in the thick of the fighting at Trafalgar.Franklin again held the post of signal midshipman.Throughout the greater part of the action he was on the poop and was one out of only four or five in that quarter of the ship who escaped without a wound.He, however, suffered during the remainder of his life from deafness\u2014the result of the thundering cannonade.Te The Arctic TN 1818 Pr-nkiin was appointed as Leutens: commander of the \u201cTrent\u201d, sailing in company of the \u201cDorothea\u201d under Captain Buchan, on scène, the Citadel at Quebec, - an expedition whith aimed at the Pole by the Spitsbergen route, The ships did not get beyond the eighty-first parallel, but it was during this voyage that the Arctic cast its strange spell over Franklin.During the next two or three years The loyalty and courage of the French-Canadian voyageurs accompanying the expedition contributed greatly to its ultimate sugcess.In 1828 Franklin, having returned to England, married Eleanor, daughter of William Pordin.He might easily have rested on his laurels, but again came the insistent call of the Arctie.The admiralty wished to make further explorations in the extreme north of British America, and Franklin volunteered.This expedition also achieved valuable geographical and scientific results and further demonstrated Franklin's remarkable faculty of evoking the enthusiasm and loyalty of his fellow officers and the mem under his command.During his absence on this voyage, his wife died.Some years afterwards he married again.In 1830, he was in the Levant, and six years afterwards was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Iand (now Tasmania).During his term of office James Ross with the \u201cErebus\u201d and \u201cTerror\u201d made Hobart Town the base for his famous Antarctic expedition.The Last Voyage TN 1844 Sir John Franklin returned to England.But again there was the call to adventure.The government was fitting out an expedition to search for the North West passage, and Franklin, pleading that he was \u201conly fifty-nine,\u201d offered to lead It The ships were the \u201cErebus\u201d and \u201cTerror\u201d which had just returned from their Antarctic voyage.They left Greenhithe, England, on May 18, 1845.and two months afterwards wers seen by a whaler awaiting a favorable opportunity to enter Baffin's Bay.This was the last seen of them by white men.From Disco in Greenland, Franklin wrote his last letter to his wife.It concludes with the words: \u201cI have written to each of my dearest friends to comfort and assist you with their counsel.To the Almighty's care I commend you and dear Eleanor (his daughter).I trust He will shield you under His wings and grant you the continual aid of His Holy Spirit.Again that God may bless and support you both is and will be the constant prayer of your moet affectionate husband John Franklin\u201d When, by 1848, nothing was heard of the \u201cErebus\u201d and \u201cTerror\u201d the govern- meat despatched a search expedition.The Hudsons Bay Company also seat (Continued on page 23) Geary, Ban 0 DIFFIRENTY STAMPS, Sweden No.131, which ocataleguas 30s.Only 10s %0 approve] applicants.ADAMSON, 66 West 2th Sirmsl, Bayonne, XJ, STAMPS Belling Old Oellection and Duplicates, Solectisns st 1-8 Oat.snd Good chsawe for collectors starting and with medium coflec- in Grest Britain Refereness, 31 Dudley St, Medford, Mass.AERO-PHILATELISTS Bveryene interested in Air Mall stamps er covers nesds \"The Aviation Atlas.\u201d Containe\u2014Maps ef U.& and each country in world ahowing sir routes: world maps irecing fameus flights: ple- Aviation History; pietures ef noted Aircraft; chronological review of Aviation ox parative development of Aviation in U.& and rest of world, comparisen Alr Mail time and KR RN.time betwem tities.Oniy 86e postpaid.Air mail sad sommenerstive stamps sppreval Against references, - JOEN ARNOSTL, S.F.A., 608, Central Station.Box #5, Grand Now Yorks, WITNESS AND CANADIAN NOMESTRAD, SEPTEMBER 26, 1938.Adventuring for the Kingdom THE HEART OF CHINA What is the very heart of China?It is not to be found in the militarism of the war lords, for China is essentially peace loving, and the soldier takes but a low place in the scale of values.Nor is it to be found in the aggressive patriotism of her young students, for her love is for the quiet things, the paths of reflection and reason.In the preface to her book.\u201cThe Very Heart of China,\u201d (Carey Press, 2s.6d.), Mrs.Payne suggests that the temple lies very nearly at the heart of China, and that is certainly true; out in her records in this book she leads us to other places where it may be found\u2014\"Away from the railways,\u201d in the myriad remote villages where the common people of that great land strive with an inexhaustible patience and tireless industry to wring their bread from the hands of adversity, and to live that life of peace and family love and gentleness of spirit which has been the ideal of their teachers for uncounted ages.There, far from Nanking and Peking and Canton, the immemorial people dwell, living the life of their fathers with their fathers\u2019 watchwords, and ready with the courtesy of their race to pause a moment to hear of a new teacher and a new Way of Life.And of this willingness to listen there are beautiful stories in this book.At a Fair to wbich the missionaries had gone: \u201cWe kept open house during the fair.Plenty of tea was on hand, and the people, weary of trudging the crowded, dusty lanes of the fair in the brilliant May sunshine and dry, sparkling air, would troop in to the cool, dim rooms to rest.And we went to make friends with them.I would ask them if they had been to the temple, which reared its grey, weathered walls and bell-shaped roofs on the very summit of the nearest hill.\u201c\u2018Oh, yes, we have been there; to ask for all at home good harvests and good health in the year to come.What sort of religion is it that you believe in?\u201cI tried to explain as they courteously listened.How much they understood I could not guess.And what was I to tell, which vital part could be of service of these strangers from far away, who might never learn more of Him?\u201cThey would rise in a group, after a good rest, and, smiling, bow to me.\u201cYou will understand,\u2019 they explained gently, \u2018that we are not educated people, and we are unable to judge which religion is right.Our ancestors taught us to go to the temple.You say God is everywhere, and that we can speak to Him informally as to our own parents.Who are we, to understand these things?However, next year we Will retum, and you must teach us more.\u201d Even so brief an extract will suffice not only to show the character of these Chinese women, but the spirit of the woman who went out to them and now tells us about them.Mrs.Payne was twenty years in China, and her husband is still there, one of the most valued workers on our staff \u2014 Baptist Missionary Herald.WORLD'S 8.8.CONVENTION Preliminary plans are now under way for the Eleventh World's Sunday School Convention to be held in Rio de Janeiro during the summer of 1932.Much interest is being manifested in this Convention on the part of religious education workers throughout Canada and the United States.This is the first time the World's Sunday School Convention has ever been scheduled to meet south of the equator, and the first time the Sunday Bchool workers of North America have ever been Invited to visit South America.It is also the first time a world gathering of Christians has ever been called to meet in South America.» Following historic precedent the fnitial conference to lay the ground work for the Convention was called to meet in the private office and dining- room of the late John Wanamaker in his store in Philadelphia.Probably more World Sunday School Conventions have been set up in Philadelphia than in any other city on the globe.Through the courtesy of Mr.William 1.Nevin, these private rooms of Mr.Wanamaker were opened for this occasion, the first time they had been used since the death of Mr.Wanamaker in 1832.An earnest group of twenty-five men chiefly from Phila- delphis and New York City attended the meeting and gave enthusiastic attention in this hallowed spot to the consideration of plans to make this Convention à success.L.W.Simms of St.John, N.B, has accepted the chairmanship of the general committee for the 1932 Tonvention.The Present Opportunity It Le most gratifying to note the increasing interest throughout North America in the world outreach of religious education.The number of laymen is increasing whose time and thought and money are devoted to the ongoing of this couse.Such laymen have always been the chief source of strength for the work of the World's Sunday School Association.In addition, the constituent bodies of the International Council of Religious Education, including the denominational avencies and state and provincial councils of religious education, are Increasingly concerned with the development of this work around the world.The time seems ripe for the World's Sunday School Association as now reorganised to become a federation of national and international, inter-denominational organisations concerned with the work of the Sunday School and religious education today throughout the world.It is shared alike by missionaries and natlon- als in all denominations in all lands, It may be attributed to the work of no single agency or organization.It seems rather to have came in the fulness of time and under the leadership of the pirit of God.Here lies the opportunity of the church today, The agencies of the church are revising their programs and directing their leaders to take larger advantage of this situation.A FRENCH EFFORT As in London and Berlin, ao in Paris, the problem of the churches ts itself in a new form, namely, the evangelization of the suburb.Our contemporary, Le Christianisme au XXe Siecle, describes an effort in this direction made in the vast area of .Drancy, Bobigny, Le Bourget and Dugny, a district with a growing population, mainly composed of the lower middle-class.Most of the resl- dents are distinctly \u201cleft\u201d in polities, but thelr religion ls non-existent.and their mode of life entirely secular.Spiritually, it is a great, uncuitivated territory.An attempt has been made recently to reach the Protestants in this neglected area.A minister was stationed there, and within à few months twenty-four Protestant families had been located\u2014a small beginning with the promise of almost unlimited growth.The extension work is being pushed forward as rapidly as time will allow.The Roman Catholics have set the example.God\u2019s Emigrants Sermon by Rev.William T.Gunn, United Church, Delivercd at the Opening of the of the United Church of Canada, Wednesday, D.D, Retiring Moderator of the Fourth General Council September 17, in St.Andrew's Church, London, Ont.\u201cNow the Lord said unto Abram, get thee _ thy kindred, and from thy father\u2019s house, thee: \u201cAnd ! will make of thee a great nation, and I will make thy name great, and thou shalt be \u201cAnd I will bless them that bless thee, out of thy country, and frem unte a land that I will shew bless thee, and a blessing: and curse him that carseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.\u201d\u2014Genesis 12:1-8.UR Dominion of Canads is s0 Oz a country and a0 la\u2018ely settled, that there are few of us ° who do not know what it is to be an emigrant either in our own experience or that of our forefathers, whose story has been handed down to us, and, whether our homeland be England or Scotland, Ireland or Wales, or one of the other great homelands of our people, we are all God's emigrants who have heard His call to to th's great and w.despread Dominion.We pray, too.that the promise made to Abram, \u201cthe first great emigrant,\u201d as Henry Ward Beecher calied him.may be fulfilled in us here and that God will make of us a great nation, blessing us and making us a blessing to His whole great world.In the life of an emigrant, there are four great and easily recognizable stages\u2014the Call to Emigrate.the Pain of Parting, the Walking by Faith and, at long last, the Entry into the Promised Land.The Call of Emigrate Gorse call to His children to emigrate comes to us in many ways and to Ly things.We are like an island the middle of the ocean of the love and knowledge and wisdom of God.Whichever way we are called from our little island and however we differ in the direction in which we go, We are all being led of God out into His ocean fullness.The call may be the voice of God heard In the quiet of our own heart.It may be in the form of a letter coming back home from those who have gone before: It may be the call in a little lad'a heart to see where the clouds go over the mountain, or where the road ends that circles around the hill, or what les beyond the line where sea and sky meet.The call may be also to many things\u2014to preach the gospel.to pioneer God's new lands! to search out the riches of the thought of God, or to explore the treasures of the everlasting hills.With our distinction between sacred and secular, we have unduly limited the call of God.\u201cGo plant corn!\" may be as truly a call of God to the man to whom Ît is sent as \u201cGo preach Christ!\u201d is to another man to whom is committed the ministry of the gospel.It is for each of us to sse that we hear and obey our own call.The Pain of Parting remember the pictures that have come down to us of those who s:00d by the bulwarks of the vessel and saw the h.ls and cliffs and the green sod of the homeland fade away behind them, while on the shore were those who, through a veil of tears, watched until they saw the last flicker of Light on the white sails disappear in the western sea.It could have been no easier for Abram to leave behind \u201ckith and kin\u201d in the far away Ur of the Chaldees.Journeys were long and difficult in those days and the aeparat'on would seem to be almost forever.But to this pain of parting there is often, for God's em'gran's.as there may have been for Abram, an added pain of parting in that those who remain behind do not always believe either in the divine call or in the vision of the Promised Land ahead.They may have called him \u201ccrazy\u201d to think of leaving the fertile, irrigated plains in which they dwelt for a long desert and an unknown land ahead.Optos'tion and lack of fai\u2018h have often added to the bitterness of the parting of God's emigrants as they prepared for thelr journey.Walking by Faith Fer the emigrant, there always comes a time, be it Jong or short, when he has to walk by falth\u2014the old home vanished in the d's\u2018ance and the Promised Land ahead not yet risen in sight.There must have been many a weary day for Abram as he turned north west over the desert, and it may be that some, even In his own little group, would grow impatient and question whether it were not better to turn homeward again.Our emigration is, sometimes, as it fi ix and th's law of the emigrant is life, leading us all the way.our child by the hand and lead him to the Primary Class, forcing him to emigrate from the sheltered land of home Into the land of school.soon as the boy has successfully mastered the primary lessons and feels at home, he is called to a higher class to go through the process again \u201cand again.After school classes comes business.After working for others comes the management of his own business.Then comes the bome life, with the bringing up of the children, then the heavier resvonsibilities of ater years.and.by and by, comes the call to enter through the narrow door into the life eternal.In heaven.to, there may be the GF of progress.Horace Bushnell, in one of h's great sermons, pictures the magnificence of this physical universe and asks how it can ba possible for the Son of God to give Himself to the tiny inhabitants of one of the smallest of the stars of heaven, but he answers his own question by picturing a life developing in the Likeness of God through the three score years and ten on this earth and then going on Into larger life from world to world and from revelation to revelation of the thought and power and love of God for a thousand years and ten thousand years after that.For such a life, he says, it was worth while for even the Son of God to die.With Paul, by the grace of God, we press toward the mark for the prise of the upwards calling of God in Christ Jesus.This law of God's emi.grants\u2014the soul of man ever looking toward a greater and expanding life\u2014 is based in the very nature of things.Given a God of infinite knowledge, love and willingness to teach, and, on the other hand, the children of God (Continued on page 11) The Publishing Game The publishers of The Witness, World Wide and Northern Messenger turned work into absorbing play.Each of the papers opens doors for ever new and high venture, The larger the adventure the greater its dividend in life for the publishers, who in these adventures find the very luxury of living.: Having ample independent means they draw no more revenue from these publications than the ardent golf member does from his golf club; nor do they speak of \u201csacrifice\u201d when, figuratively speaking, they \u201cput more gas into the tank\u201d for a greater \u201cJoy ride.\u201d Let us \u201cTeam-Play\u201d tegether Those who like these publications will not only support them with their annual subscriptions but will introduce them to others and thus fully share with their publishers the satisfaction in giving this service to our country. 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