Witness and Canadian homestead, 10 janvier 1934, mercredi 10 janvier 1934

[" WITNE HOMEMAKERS PAGES 11-12 TES In its 89th year of volutell service The WITNESS is working through Ua readers In every province and they thrgugh it 10 - Praha (anaca « faud 6 bn.\u2018wlerd of sects) and economic justice @ tend of political integrity ana constructive adventure à land wilt » the nations a Chan laa TE The Week\u2019sOutlook (TO those who care:\u2014We expected a flood of subscriptions after the sudb-2er0 weather bui\u2014well, our statement will be found on page 4.Recovery RESIDENT ROOSEVELT, in à mes- : sage, notable for its omissions as well as for what it did say, delivered personally at the opening of what may prove to be the most important of all sessions of Congress, drew a sharp dis- a those to whom recovery, tés now definitely in process, means a return to the old methods and those for whom it means a drastic reformation and a permanent readjustment of national economic philosophy with far-reaching so- clal implications.Mr.Roosevelt aligned himself squarely with those who aim to build \u201con the ruins of the past & new structure designed better to meet the present problems of modern clvilizatfon.\u201d Those who, like Lot's wife, are harking back to the old dwelling places are small in namber, the President thinks, wrongly we believe.He is, however, enough of a practical politician to realize that it is stil] his greatest asset that in the minds of his fellow countrymen, he and the backward lockers are locked in a struggle that may be mortal, not to the advocates of either side, but to .the principles for which they contend.Opponents IN the ranks of Mr.Roosevelt's opponents are men like Mr.Sprague and Mr.Borah, who, like some other people, cannot understand his magic.There are others of whom Mr.Norman Thomas and Dr.Reinhold Niebuhr are representative, who are out of step because they believe the president is on the wrong track, or does not go far enough.Here again is opposition with character and patriotism behind it.But from what sector do the Big Bertha shells of opposition come?Who are the inspirers of the opposition, open or covert, that seeks to emasou- late the \u201cNew Deal\u201d while sympathising with its recovery objectives?The and the public, the Stock Exchange gamblers whose manipulations injured the values of the farmer's crops and swept away the savings of the poor.If Mr.Roosevelt had desired to sum up this unholy alliance in a single sentence, he might have said they were simply the people from whom Mr.Hoover sought counsel in every emergency.Tuzede Banditry R.ROOSEVELT made little differ- , entiation between that kind of living off the public and outright banditry and racketeering.He envisaged the end of both.The vicious and wasteful part of society that the respectable \u201cchiselers\u201d stood for, the country could not save even if it wigh- ed.These had chosen the way of self-destruction.He sought to save and keep for the future the genuinely important values created by modern soclety; useful mechanical invention and machine production (no nonsense here about hand labor replacing machinery in order \u201cto make work\u201d), high industrial efficiency, modern means of communication; broad edu- The Forgotten Men # MR.ROOIEVELT also foreshadowed the re-discovery of U man, not merely of his on à of practically every state of the world, the forgotten man of the Ottawa Pacts, of our fiscal policy, and of all the trade treaties of recent date\u2014the consumer.\u201cWe would save and-en- courage the slowly growing impulse among consumers to enter the indus trial market place equipped with sufficient organization to insist upon fair prices and honest wales,\u201d said the president.We seem to recollect in Canada an organization of consumers which modestly asserted the right of the buying public to consideration when our tariffs were being \u201cjacked up\u201d at the behest of industries swollen with living at the public expense.We are not sure whether the organization was laughed out of existence or simply died from want of nourishment, but its ghost must surely have smiled sar- -donically when it heard that part of the President\u2019s address.We wonder also what those who cry \u201cLess government in business,\u201d as a substitute for thinking, will make of this frontal as- sauit on the sacred right to make money, no matter who is injured.A Tutelary Government, unnecessary expansion of industrial plants,\u201d said Mr.Roosevelt, \u201cthe waste of natural resources, the exploitation of the consumers of natural monopolies, the accumulation of stagnant surpluses, child labor, and the ruthless exploitation of all labor, speculation with other people\u2019s money, these were consumed in the fires that they themselves kindled; we must make sure that as we reconstruct our life there may be no soil in which such weeds can grow again.\u201d Alas, what an outlpok for those who are longing for what a crude predecessor of Mr.Roosevelt once described as \u201cthe return to normalcy.\u201d There is even less hope of that eventuality in the announce ment that the Nationa! Recovery Administration provisions, mads flexible to meet new cgnditions, are to become permanently embedded in the industrial make up of the nation, maybe, ./ Canadian Homestea more or less, of all nations.These provisions would oversee the relations of industry, agriculture and finance to each other and to the nation as a whole.There is plain recognition that the era of unfettered competition has meant liberty to the strong to oppress the weak.All that is ended.\u201cWithout regard to party,\u201d the President says, \u201cthe overwhelming majority of our people seek a greater opportunity for humanity to prosper and find happi- nest.They recognize that human welfare has not increased and does not increase through mere materialism afd luxury, but that it does progress through integrity, unselfishness, responsibility and justice.\u201d Here the president lays his finger upon the gravamen of the charge against our modern commercial civilization, its overriding of human rights in favor of property rights, its failure to make its distribut.ve funct.on keep pace with the rapid development of the productive processes, its bursting barns alongside the starving millions, His Authority justification of the unparalleled interference with business which is the essence of the planned economy he adumbrates, Mr.Roosevelt cites the oft forgotten fact that it is only through the protection afforded by t the State, the \u2018collective organization = the people, that even the most powerful business is able to continue an- molested.\u201cWe have demanded of many citizens that they surrender certain licenses to do as they please in their business relations, but we have asked this in exchange for the protection which the state can give against exploitation by their fellow men or by combinations of their fellow men.\u201d Using these powers, Mr.Roosevelt sald that uniform hours and living wage standards had already been set up in ninety-five percent of the industrial employment which came within the scope of the Recovery Act.Through it would come the end of combinations in furtherance of monopoly and in restraint of trade, while at the same time efforts were being put forward to curb ruinous rivalries within Industrial groups which in many cases resembled the gang wars of the underworld and in which the real victim in every case is the public itself.Efforts to ease the debt burden of farmers and home-owners had proceeded satisfactorily the president said, but the experience of the Agriculture Adjustment Administration had convinced him that lasting pros- pesky of all industry could be achieved only on the basis of a prosperous agriculture, ONTREAL, JANUARY 10, 1934.ESTABLISHED 1848.SS OXFORD GROUP - PAGES 7-10 d What of the night?R.LLOYD GEORGE has been casting the world's horoscope as from the New Year.He sees prosperity before it, and a long period of it, But! It will be a different world.No hope for those who are barking back to \u201cnormalcy.\u201d Production is, indeed, going up in response to increased demand, and unemployment is going down.These are facts full of hope; and hope is all that is necessary to start the machinery which has clogged 80 long.\u2018The papers which have been boosting and booming for four years, find it hard now to raise the temperature a degree at a time now that there are actual cheerful facts\u2014 unemployment diminished by millions; reduced more or less in all lands.People sigh and say: Oh! it is all artificial: just some more of their discouraging encouragement! The man who has got far below his line of credit through the reduced market value of his securities looks languidly at figures telling of increased orders for raw material or of increasing traffic returns.What he wants to feei is some reduction of pressure from his bank.When that comes, if it does come in time to save him, he will breathe more freely.We get much evidence from regions smitten with drought and grasshoppers that even for thrifty people in those districts a fifty cent subsorip~ tion to the paper of their choice is beyond them.Here is à letter that 33 typical ¢f many.Sira, \u2014We live In the southern part of Saskatchewan, and it is our 5th year of crop failures; drouth and grasshoppers took all we had.We had 220 acres of leased land and we had 190 acres seeded to wheat, oats and barley and we only got three small loads for horsefeed.We have worked hard and reaped nothing, but we have reaped abundant blessings from the \u2018Witness and the Oxford Group Movement has been a wonderful A A PIONEER.The morning cometh And also the night SOME publicists count an getting back to normal by next autumn.Some put it a year later.Thess may not be considering what a Cape Flyaway that word normal may mean.In some countries, there are already more people fully employed than ever before.The increase of unemployment is due to the increase of the population and population would increase faster still if times were better.Moreover, without any increase in the population, a million of unemployed is normal for good times.We must remember, too, that some of the causes of unemployment will persist in the best of times, through improved facilities for supplying people's needs and tastes Here for instance you can buy for twopence a chromo reproduction of a picture that would cost at the artist's hands several hundred dollars which the artist himself might mistake, if similarly framed, for his own.Also the means of production have overtaken and surpassed the demand, even though what we would now call nor- The Way Out SO long as more than half the world's population is living under conditions which the smaller proportion could not endure, it is plain that things only need readjustment at least to postpone the evil day of over population far beyond our time.Bo long as all the needs of life are in oversupply we cannot get up much apprehension as to the world ever being starved.Meantime if thel evil of over supply can be made to work beneficently in our day, we can safely leave the care of the world to Him who is working out His great plan for tt.To have it work beneficently, however, we need a social revolution of which no man can see the full operation.It involves the pulling down of all national barriers to trade, abolition of all class and color obstructions to commercial intercourse.True, & will make the Chinese and Japanese worker compete with the so called Aryan, whom Mr.Hitler has made ridiculous.On the other hand, it would give to those now in the lead an enormous market.The Chinaman already knows a motor car from a rickshaw and will get into one as soon as he can, and will set his millions to work to make highways and byways for its activities.What is more, he will raise his scale of living and his demand for wages without being told to, 20 that while we are profiting by his thrift and assiduity, he will be emulating our supposed superior way of life, and perhaps teaching us a wrinkle or two in the same direction.We are not in all this drawing a picture of what might happen if men were all brothers, but of what is going to happen whether we want it to or not.We cannot, like Mr.Wells, foretell what is going to develop in coming centuries We can only foresee what is going to happen in this Twentieth Century for which alone this present generation of men is intelligently responsible and what it will be our wisdom to shape our ways to it.Centrolling Production OUS, then, above all other economic questions is how to harness the volume of production.Like all the economic questions that face and mock us, this cannot be solved by any ome country.Fortunate it is for us that we have only to litt up our eyes ard see how a like breath breathes over all nations and the most dissimi- divides itself into two.One is reduction of output without reduction of living conditions.Politically speaking, it is decides for itself what it get.The only limitation, and 18 is à very practical one, is whether labor's output will pay for what labor | 5 F Hu Ë the ~ WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, JANUARY 10, MeL Wecking Fer The Country \"THE otber serious question that rises out of the shortening of productive labor is how to get the worker to realize the greatness of his opportunity and duty as a man of leisure who owes his powers to his country.A very surprising description was copied into World Wide a week or two ago of how the people of innermost China were spontaneously and enthusiastically engaged in making education\u2019 common among themselves and in public improvements, all being done out of simple patriotism without pay.This astonishing story is ascribed to Mr.Edgar Snow in the Herald Tribune Magazine of New York who gives his observations in detail.It would look as though John Chinaman hed stepped ahead of us in civlam, or, a3 we used to call it, public spirit.Now that the two greatest and economically the most self-contained federal republics in the world are shaking hands across what has been accounted the greatest and most repellent economic chasm known on earth, gnd propose to be reciprocally useful to each other, there seems to be no ideal that nations may not aspire to, no economic wisdom that men may not discover.\u201cProtection\u201d At Sen HE hope of the world economically is in the opening of markets to each other's products.One of the gravest features of the present international jam is the diminished shipping business.The country\u201d that owns the shipping for which there is no paying use is, of course, the most direct loser.The United States drove her own merchant marine off the sea by closing her ports to the return cargoes.She also put a deadly handicap on her export trade, which had to for carriage both ways because ships, from whatever country they had to pay for the double voy- out of freight charged extra- burden dispute in the German Church shows no sign of healing, \u201cWhat concord hath Christ with Belial?\u201d When it seemed last fall that the Nazification of the Church was imminent, Karl Barth declared that \u201cIt would be better if the Evangelical Church were reduced to the merest handful and were to go into the catacombs than conclude even & distant peace with this doctrine.\u201d Three thousand ministers, forming the \u201cGerman Pastors\u2019 Emergency League\u201d joined their protest with his.It will be recalled how Chancellor Hitler bowed to the storm he had raised and decreed that in future there would be no Interference by the State in Church \" Sundays a month.The whole atmosphere of the schools was tp be charged with the \u201cnew German\u201d spirit.Bovs were encouraged to come in uniform.The \u201cHorst Wessel\u201d and other Nasi anthems were to be sung and the .asl salute and \u201cHell Hitler!\u201d were never to be forgotten.The \u201cformula\u201d \u201cwea that von Schirach and his lieutenants were to oversee the recreational and cultural activities of the young people while the Church should \u201cpreach the Gospel\u201d and look after their distine- tively \u201creligious\u201d training.Such concordat is not unknown in of countries.Von Schirach soon confidently reported: \u201cIn carrying obt orders given to me to bring about unifiestion of German youth, I port the incorporation of the gelical Youth in the Hitler you » The Plan Bree \u2014Wotan, Thor and the rest\u2014for the Old Testament, and would delete the \u201cSemitic\u201d elements from the New They detected that the Chancellor's pledge of ecclesiastical and religious freedom was merely an attempt to throw dust in their eyes.The Emergency Federation leaped to twice its original membership.An ultimatum was sent to Reichbishop Mueller demanding an entire reconstruction of the Church Cotncil with guarantees that the promise of freedom from poii- tical control should be respected and that the freedom should be real.The ultimatum expired on the secomd of January.The various state Bishops met at Halle and gave out that Dr.von Mueller had shown unfitness for leadership and that the agents to whom the Chancellor had entrusted position, preached a fiery sermon od the theme \u201cWe must obey God rather than men\u201d After service he read letters from many insergent pastors pra- testing that Paganism was endanger the church, He charged Bishop with \u201clmcompetency in office\u201d eritieined Bishops and dignitaries church who had miserably fail- their duties.A thousand sturdy order has been issued providing for dismissal of pastors and disciplinary action against church officers \u201cwho of political discussion.\u201d As this ie really what the Opposition is protesting against the logic of the decree is not evident.The German psychology is to an extent a closed book to out- uhday School marching would seem to be the most absurd\u2014and in the long run the most muicidal\u2014poliey that any governmens Jay or ecclesiastical over embarked om.The Return of Titles FTER fifteen years of barres aridity knighthood is again in flower in Canada and two Canadiens Justices are \u201cSirés\u201d to use the French- Canadian expression, as evidence thas titles are definitely \u201cback again.\u201d When Mr.Bennett made up his mind that the 1019 resolution of the House of Commons which prayed his Majesty not to confer any more titles oft _ Canadians domiciled in their own the \u201cmilitary bishop,\u201d always appearing on public occasions in uniform or with medals across the breast of his gown.But he cannot send six thousand ministers and their congregations to concentration camps.Three times he telephoned the bishops asking them to delay action till be had time to reconstruct the church \u201ccabinet\u201d Finally he announced that one \u201cGerman Christian\u201d must be included in the cabinet.This the bishops would nit\u201d agree to 50 they adjourned, each party resting on their arms but with no sign of agreement in sight.Bishop Muslier succeeded in frightening a deputation of angry clergy by telling them that Hitler was incensed at their opposition.At the magic name the party withdrew in undignified haste, but the opposition is still far from quelled.Xt has been suggested that the prestige of President von Hindenburg, as the most distinguished and respected Bvangel- ical layman, might be invoked to settle the dispute by approving a Church has no desire to be mized up in the quarrel.It seems as if Herr Hitlers great scheme of church consolidation ON Sunday, in spits of the bask dowa of the Bishops, hamdreds of pas- country, was no longer binding, it.was Inevitable that titles would ceme back, for the Canadian Prime Minister is the King\u2019s adviser in such matters now that there is no question of any Intermediary, and the Canadian Prime Minister is absolute boss with as docile a majority as the House has ever known.The point Mr.Bennett made, that the famous Nickle resolution bound only that Parliament which passed it, appears to be well taken, but in view of the refusal of the House of Commons some five years ago even to permit the appointment of a commit tee\u2014for which both Mr.Bennett and Mr.King voted\u2014to co: r whether the subject might de ré-opened, it would have been well if the Prime Minister could have submitted his opinion to the House and avoided the appearance of rough riding the will of the popular Chamber.It is one more step to the universal rule of dictators.To this new Canadian list no exception can be taken.If all previous Msts had i 7 in Ë i H ~ | distinctions\u201d to whom he might attend.He finds in the latest move of the government another evidence of its remoteness from the realitles of the present.A great many people have been wondering just how close to real- past three years.A Canadian Flag / - NCE more the question of a distinctive flag for Canada is to come up in parliament in the shape of .& bill providing for the selection of a design for a distinctively Canadian flag.This idea hus a history.It was ralsed in Parliament some eight years ago when a committee was appointed to consider a suitable design.The idea was howled down with cries of \u201cOne King, one Empire, one Flag,\u201d with which we have a good deg} of sympathy.Let us hald on to that in any manner binds this surprising Commonwealth together, The committee was not rendered any more acceptable when an angry Orange mrember ferreted out the fact that its composition was a hundred percent Roman Catholic.Two years ago Mr.Cameron R.Mcintosh, Battleford, again raised the question without result.His proposal had a fatal weakness in having been initialled by a \u2018Liberal, a circumstance which furnished those highly loyal politicians, who always voted solid against British goods, with a choice assortment of 0b- jurgations such as \u201cdistoyalists,\u201d \u201cseparatist,\u201d and what not.Had that fateful act of Bir Robert Borden at Paris, demanding for the Dominions absolute equality of status with the Mother Country, only originated with & Liberal, we might, by a similar process of denunciation, have escaped & troublesome and somewhat absurd series of anomalies which have moek- ed us at every turn since that demand was conceded, as it had to be.We have learned since, however, that Sir Robert had imperial reasons for doing what he did\u2014that it was prompted by General Smuts to get Bouth Africa around an untoward crisis.Our Sea .- JT was in the early days of Confed- \u2018 VY Wrrvess anD CANADIAN gaudy meaningless wreath in an of- - fensively unheraldic \u2018fashion.This was speedily adopted by Canadians ev- erywhare, as being the flag of Canada, a3 loyally as though the Queen's own choice, the cost of arms- becoming increasingly un- The Maple Leaf .- JT was then that the Witness took a hand and said if Canada does want a distinctive flag, as she seems to, let its bearings be such as all men can distinguish, and as will appeal to the heart of every Canadian from sea to sea.Especially has it become dear since the war, when their men were distinguished by M in fleld and camp and many very dear ones buried with it on.It is right, too, to remember that very many of those ~who become Canadians enter the British Commonwealth and loyalty by way of the Canadlan door.These must necessarily be Canadians first and British as they realize that greater citizenship.Such would naturally look for the flag of the country to which they belong and for the emblem that was io be theirs.So let us remove all that unauthorized rubbish and put a big golden maple leat, without any diafiguring and confusing surroundings, on the fly of the red ensign.Meanwhile, the antipodean dominions had acted in a simflar vein by putting the Southern Cross on the fly of the blue ensign; so happy a conceit that both of them have adopted it in varjous display, one with six stars and one with four.: It is not improbable that many in Canada who still sing to \u201cthe Red, White and Blue,\u201d and certainiy many in the United States, do not know that they are singing to the red, white and blue squadrons of the British Navy\u2014 each distinguished by an ensign with the Union Jack in the chief place (the canton) and a fly of its own distinguishing color, the white ensign bearing also Bt.George's red cross.Some proposed that the maple leaf should appear at the centre of the Union Jack, but the design which took advantage of the flare of red in the sky made by the red ensign, with the Canadian emblem large enough to be seen, - was, however, more fetching.It was more like the bastard flag already in local use among the people.It found great favor at Ottawa.Lord Strathcona-took-se kindly to it that he gave à number of dinners in its furtherance.His guests were naturally Conservatives.No one would accuse Lord Strathcona of being either \u201cdisloyal\u201d .or \u201cseparatist\u201d and the same could be said about all his group.He referred to it in speeches in Britain.Indeed, as every little Crown Colony has its own flag\u2014that of Malta, for instance, of British choice, 1s à shield divided in the middle, red dexter, white sinister\u2014there can be no possible disloyaity about adding to this imperial flag a symbol of our own.Anything to get rid of the present menagerie with its tawdry decorations! It must be a \u201cgolden,\u201d that is, à yellow, maple leaf.Heraldic laws fortunately forbid green on red.Green would lack the impressiveness of yellow.And let all flag printers see to it that they make the maple lenf correctly\u2014the hard mapie that turns such a beautiful bronze in the fall, though it failed to do so this seasorm\u2014-The maple is a leader-in the forest of every province, as ail realised when they saw the result of the Canadian Pacific Rallway\u2019s \u2018Maple Leaf\u201d competition some months ago.British Columbia produces maple leaves twenty inches or more across.\u2014\u2014 A Quesr Bubble MAN with a Polish je managed to decamp from Puits with Joss, \u2018 tory milly) dollars, more be 1 HOMESTEAD, JANUARY 16, 1934.- raised by an Lssue of bonds on & pawn shop business.It seems that the calculation of the Investors was to make large dividends on all that money out of the distress of the poor.\u2018The hue and cry of Paris over Stavinky\u2019s disappearance was tremendous.He was pursued to all the ends of the earth and all ships at sea by wires, cables, wireless, but seemed to have got off the planet with his pelf, untü he was caught in a lonely Aipine village.He, of course, is small matter.But the forty million dollars! What were they made of?Gold?They say all French transactions still mean gold.But that would be too much gold for Mammon himself to handle in this world or another.It would weigh nearly a hundred tons.Its disappearance would have trebled the cost of gold in the Roosevelt market.Forty million dollars! Let us see.That would mean two hundred and thirty-six mil- Mon francs.Was his loot made of paper, say forty dollars worth, all told?Is that what he has robbed Paris of?The Parisians always know what to do in such an.emergency.Let us go to the Qual D'Orsay and put our government to death.If the government 18 not responsible, who 15?Time they went, anyway.They have.been in power a fortnight, _There is this much to be seid for the popular view, that one at least of the Cabinet members alded \u201cHandsome Serge\u201d in his schemes and most of the government countenanced him.The Prime Minister was seated cheek by jowd with Serge at the opera à night or two before the scandal broke.The Church 7 And Business .HERE is at last and almost ; everywhere a quickening of the \u2018Christian social conscience and con- acloumvess among the clergy and the churches.From the Pontifical chair and the pulpits of the most protestant and evangelical churches come de-, clarations today which but yesterday would have been called \u201cred.\u201d The vine, root and branch, was good, but the luscious grapes were, till lately, more concerned with their individual well being than with the well being of sociely without which they themselves must perish.It took a severe depression to teach them that truth.The church cannot live at the rich man\u2019s table unconcerned for what the present system is doing to the multitude.But in the winepress of the present time the individualism of the grape is crushed and its rich, red blood is being spilled for the succor of humanity.Read it twice\u2014that pastoral letter upon which the House of Bishops of a great church among our neighbors has placed its imprimatur.Here 1s no vulgar vociferous abuse df \u201ccapitalism\u201d and \u201ccapitalists,\u201d no effort to unite men in their hatreds, but, rather, a probing to the depths of the causes of our economic dislocation, to find the spiritual bewilderment from which the other ills flow.Our commercial systems are examined im the light of the Christian Gospel.Are these things in accord with the mind and will of Christ?\u2014the ultimate test of all men and systems The old charge that the church \u201cis blased off the practical,\u201d never wholly true, has leas relevancy than ever, The Church is becoming increasingly aware of the things in our modern society\u2014which hitherto It has challenged only feehly \u2014and that appear {0 mock Christ's greatest commandment.\u201cThat ye love one another.\u201d .# The New .CNR.Trustees .FTER' considerable delay, the A government has\u2019 appointed a Board of Trustees, three {n number, to take the place of the unwieldy Board of Directors which formerly governed the Canadian National Railways THE absurd convention that demanded re- L presentation for all the provinces on the directorate of the publicly owned lines is ignored and a field for the rewarding of party hacks is thereby considerably restricted.Por this relief, much thanks.The difficulties that hedge railway operation, public or private, in Canada are too immense and complex to permit of fooling with them by making important posts party toys for good political boys who have vated aright.All three new trustees have at least a nodding acquaintance with railway management; the chairman, Hon.C.P.Fullerton, being until recently chairman of the Board of Railway Commissioners, and the other two, J.E.Labelle, Montreal lawyer, and Mr.F.K.Morrow, a Toronto bust- ness man, being members of the Canadian National Board which thé new body displaces.A well authenticated Ottawa report says that the government contemplated the appointment of a hoard even more divorced from political pull than the present one, but quailed before the determined remonstrances of its French-Canadian mem-~ bers who predicted dire consequences for the party which thus overlooked the claims of Quebec.So national and business considerations make way for party expediency.Mr.Labelle is of course as good à choice as the government couid make under the circumstances, while it is to be sald to the \u201ccredit of Mr, Morrow that he has declined to accept any salary for his services, on the ground that he ample private resources which enabk him to do this work purely a patriotic duty.All honor to him.quaintly he has stated inat he devote seven days each week to enterprise until the full period of unexpired term of his prison sen! has elapsed.He has decided to stain from activities that would lead him to prison until August of this Le his cause.As many of those who contributed are desperately poor, this is not bad for one city.The Mahatma is described as being in good health and spirits.People crowd to hear him though a considerable element holds aloof considering that the Untouchables should be \u201ckept in their place.\u201d The authorities are relieved that Gandhi is avoiding causes of offence.Everyone admires and likes the little man and they frankly would not know what to do with him if he started again to run foul of law and order.\u2018There are still irreconcilabies who believe that \u201cterror\u201d is the only way of \u201cfreeing India,\u201d buf all over the couh- try there are knots of reformers organized to capture the legislative bodies which will be erected under India\u2019s coming constitution.Some of the organizers and supporters of these groups were formerly Congress workers who only a few months ago demanded \u201cHome Rule\u201d without either delay or qualification.The principal trouble in India at present seems to be the jealousy between Hindu and Moslem.This simmering hatred that may at any time boil over into violence goes far toward paralyzing the efforts of the best friends of India\u2019s progress.: Social Straggle ND then there is in India as everywhere else à social and economib unrest.The White Paper scheme will not solve a single one of these problems.\u201cIndian unrest\u201d says one of its leaders, \u201cis part of.the world struggle for the emancipation of the exploited everywhere and for the establishment of a new social order.\u201d Of course, the White Paper does not pre- - tend to be a cure all for India\u2019s ills.It is the honest attempt of British.statesmen to give India power to cure her own ills.It is apparent that in spite of the die-hard opposition of Lord Lloyd and Mr.Churchill, à system of Home Rule along the lines that it sets out will be given to India.This WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, JANUARY 16, 1884.will mean a greater measure of freedom and self government than her people ever had before.It will be for them to use these powers wisely and well.British lovers of liberty will be the better pleased, the more successfully India learns to manage her own affairs.Religion in Education By Senex.à body no less thoughtful, responsible and liberal than the Student's Christian Movement should have taken up the problem of the relations of religion to common education in England and put out a magazine called Religion in Education.À generation has grown up under the compromise that was reached in the act of 1906 with its practical secularization of education; and the resus of that modern development not only in England but in still fuller degree in other countries have raised the question, In these days of trying all foundations, as to whether public opinion may not be ripening, no! only in England but in all lands to the need of something on a higher key.In the first number of the new mag- axine is an article by no less significant an authority than Lord Irwin, the President of the Board of Education, in which he says: \u201cIf character training is to be a reality, and if this training must.be based on religion, formal religious instruction is by iteelf Insufficient.The object of religous education is to inculcate a faith, a fundamental conviction, an attitude Yoward Bf.a way of thinking, which can only be riven by teachers who are not only tecionically competent to teach, but protoundly convinced of the reality of their faith and eager to bring others to the same conviction.\u201d No one tan question this authoritative enunciation of the -problem, nor the difficulty it involves.Can anyone solve it?How is a state school system to become a channel for such spiritual results?: The Alm is Nermal RELIGION always was fundamental in education.Its detachment is the Innotation.Perhaps not s0 large a proportion of the people of Christendom today \u201cprofess and call themselves Christians\u201d as in simpier times when the word Christian was used to distinguish a person from a beast, or a white from a blackamoor or other pagan; a day when everyone belonged, of course, to the common religion, end became a Christian by being \u201cchristened.\u201d In those days, religion was a primary part of education, Whatever else a child was not taught, and that was a great deal, his first schoo} lesson was that he was a Christian, having become s0 when his godfathers and his godmother gave him his Christian name at his baptism.By the way, in simple conditions of life that is à very gractous relationship well adapted to draw communities info kindly and intimate relations, even with its naturel touch of scandal when God-sihs become gossips, and its touch of romance when in the folk-lore the godmother became a fairy.The function of the godparents was to see to it that, whatever happened, the child should be instructed in the Lord's prayer, the Commandments and whatever eles it wes necessary for a Christian to know.Apart from any sacramental implication, it may perhaps be a pity that the Puritans threw that genial custom overboard because they did not find i in the Bible, though they would find there solicitude enough about the upbringing of children.Revelt JT the descendants of those Puritans made fight a quarter of a century ago against being taxed for the support of parish schools, and preferred s secular system to these, it was not [ IS à matter worth noting that a because they were not anxious to have their children taught religion, but because they did not consider it consonant with religious liberty to be taxed for the maintenance of a relig- jous system which they had left, and forced, as ît were, to apprentice their children to forms out of which the spiritual essence of religion had in their view evaporated.To Dr.Clifford, who was a Baptist, and to other dissenters in their degree, the children were taught heresy.The measure of religious liberty achieved by this ire- volt was antedated by perhaps a century in the United States where the principle of universal suffrage carried with it an imperative need for universal education.Taxation directly for education necessarily raises the religious question.It so comes that the abolition of the state church involves the replacement of that by the almost equally responsible and of God on Sunday.As it is the shocking things and stories of graft that make news, England has no doubt formed as low an opinion of the United Slates as it deserves.She has measured the history taught, ever since the Revolution, created the nation's demigods, by the devil- inspired divagations of Mayor Thompson and the moral fruits by the emulation of certain wealthy youth of the same city In their achievement of \u201ca perfect crime\u201d añd by the weekly record of lawlesmness.In so far as Britain knows religion to be excluded from the achools of the United States she no doubt asociates the complete lapse of moral sense occasionally displayed to that condition.This shocking estimate, has doubtless helped to rouse a feeling that something should really be done to mend matiers at home, Negative Training IT is vain for any who would defet.d the present order of things to say thai to leave religion alone is not to - injure it; though even that Is better for it that too rude the case.Here ia & teacher's training course.Most of 4a students are from ordinary religious families.At achool they come in contact with questions ° about religion that they had never suspected.There are two or three very brillant girls who deride religion.In a machine-made school system into fect crime.The Irreligions State have as yet only staled the difficulty.To put it briefly: While ! is universally agreed that it is the right, the duty end the need of the state to educate those who shall rule it and to tax the people to make provision for that-\u2014such provision indeed, 11 it is wise, that every person can = wanting men and women fit to con- troi its affaire, it is on the other hand; _ the common conviction that the state \"TO thés end the reform must begin .at the housé of God.There seems no ultimate reason why the Church should be divided in spirit.Where live E 4 g i g 3 Â il ii Wi Brest tian fellowship that Ignores every consecrated wall of partition snd sends a new thrill of spiritual life through those who are by it brought.unconsecrated all together in most \u201cupper rooms\u201d Diversity Necessary is no need, however, to forbid Peter and John going as of old to the temple they were accustomed to, or Paul to his familiar synagogues or to perform his Hebrew vows, so long as the real fellowship dominates.Do we not see here some hope of a new heaven on earth with the Saviour the light thereof\u2014a pervading light in which all the civil and international functions of life may prosper?Meantime, might st not be a brave step toward that all-pervading unity for the extremists of aH the different creeds to get together and find for school purposes just how much they are agreed upon and treat that as practical Christianity?That might not have been possible five or ten years ago; but it may be quite possible now.Men will necessarily differ in reasoning about the nature of God, to convey, as between man and man, such broken lights as were possible to man, upon what is beyond his range of thought still more, of expression.For heaven's sake, Jet them not denounce each other with regard to as between man and God and man.Might it not be at ! possible to agree upon ethics in the broad, a subject we have allowed \u2018our strivings the unseen to thrust dangerously ous of sight?\u2019 Our Challenge to You FEE subscription tide, though sill rising, is as yet far below IAst And even throw away prices just to keep going.That, of course, reduces the strength of the family to carry the Witness.IT will be obvious to all that the future of this paper depends on a.rapidly increasing co-operation on the part of ite readers In extending its circulation.In doing so they will not only ensure its Life of service bat greatly extend its opportunity for If there is not a prompt and enthu.reaction, a program of shrink- surely have to govern, We ust cut our ooat according to our as fis f | | i Marcia was sitting invalid who Iny in a big canopied bed.There was a heavy carpet on the floor and heavy curtains on the windows, and the soft candle-light gave an appearance of comfort and cosiness.But Julia knew there was something wrong with the room, and that if Maggie or Bidsey were heré things would be different.The vigorous young gir} would gladly have rolled up her sleeves and swept and dusted and cleaned, but well she knew that the sight of her daughter at such a task would do the invalid more harm than the dust and disorder.\u201cYou're feeling r to-night, are- n't you, Mamma, dear?\u201d Julia asked as she always did.Mrs.Hadding turned her languid eyes upon her younger daughter, her long delicate hand touched lovingly the rough brown ones.\u201cI'm just about the same, Jewel, darling.I should be better if Basil\u2019 were home.\u201d I scarce can either go or creep Since Lubin is away.sang Julia.\u201cThat's how you feel isn't it, Mamma, mine?\u201d - The mother turned her hedd away wearlly: \u201cYou are so vigorous, dear child,\u201d she \u201ccomplained, \u201cYour very presence 1s fatiguing.\u201d The elder sister took the tray and the.younger one slipped from the room.Her feelings were not at all hurt.Her mother had always been disturbed by her presence since she was à noisy little thing and had to be kept away under Bidsey's care.She went back to the kitchen.Taffy had eaten his supper off the kitchen table and mounted her pony and gone to the Portage to accompany his master home It was nightly becoming mor\u20ac of a necessity for Tafty to convoy the Squire to his home.Old Merrin was dozing by the fire.Julia roused her and made her go to her.bed.Then she went about the many duties that were Possible for her to do only when Mer- rin was out of the way.Taffy had mil the cow and left the foaming pall on the floor just inside the doorway.Julia strained the milk and put it away in the pans in the vast cold store-room at the back of the kitchen.She went carefully over the larder, the scantiness of the butter still troubled her.But there was oatmeal for breakfast and a few eggs, and tomorrow she * would run through the swamp to Bid- sey and demand to know just how butter was made.When everything was done, Julls wandered upstairs to her chilly little room under the eaves.After the excitement of the afternoon, life seemed very dull.If Taffy had not taken her Pony, Bateese, she would ride down to the Portage and sse how Maggie was taking Malcolm's defeat.Julia had some well-founded fears that Malcolm would get a warm scolding for allowing the allen to beat him.She looked out through the small-paned window.It Was not quite dark yet and she decided .THE FOREST BARRIER A Story of Pioneer Days By Marian Keith (Copyright) = 5 -WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, JANUARY 18, 1964 oo» company for Malcolm at the tavern, and then she over to he Challoners and see how poor No.was get on with his wood chopping.tos .\u201cTafly's gone to the Portage for Papa,\u201d said Julia in dismay, \u201cI'll go for Bidsey myself,\u201d \u201cOR, no, Jewel, not the swamp at this time.\u201d Why it's almost dark and the wolves.\u201cI'll take Fido and Jupiter.I'm not a, Mat will bring us back on the 8he was downstairs by this time pulling on her moccasins, her sister protesting feebly.\u201cI can\u2019t bear to think of your going the Black Ash swamp alone,.Jewel.It'll be quite dark before you get there.Ride up to the Portage and get Maggie to come.Or ask Malcolm to go out for Bidsey.\u201d Julia nodded as she flung on coat and mittens and her sister hurried back to the sick room.It was like Mar- cla, the younger girl told herself, to think that everybody and everything must be at hand when they were in need.She did not think it was necessary to enlighten Marcia as to the fact that there was not à horse on the place for her to ride, ahe had long \u2018since learned to take matters in her own capable hands.She darted upstairs to take one anxious peep at the white, exhausted face on the pillow, and then with a reassuring wave of her hand to her sister she was off.The two big dogs, lying in the straw of the shed, leaped joyfully towards her but she ordered them down.She decided that she would yield to Marcia\u2019s fears and go for Maggie instead.The road was not so long nor 80 lonely as the forest trail to Bidsey's and she decided not to take the dogs.There was always a bloody fight with Malcolm's whenever they went to the Portage.As shd ran down the avenue\u201d she skimmed lightly over the hard crust that the night's frost had laid over the soft snow.She found to her surprise that the day had not yet gone.The glow of the western heavens still burned behind the deep blue of the forest.Why it seemed just like midday.By the time she reached the big sagging gate posts she decided to go to Bidsey's.Bidsey had been her nurse, and a faithful servant of the Haddings from the time of their arrival in the new country.She had married one of the farm hands, and when the Had- ding fortunes declined they had gone into the bush and taken up some of the Hadding land.Their clearing was back from the settlement about two miles.There was & winter road broken through from the Portage road, and many a time Julla had ridden down it.She knew the forest as she knew the grounds about her father's house.When she came to the place where Mat\u2019s road led into the woods she turned and ran into the swamp without à thought of fear.She did not run fast for she had nearly two miles to go and she knew better.Instead she trotted along at the easy Voyageur pace that Big Malcolm had taught her.The light of evening faded behind her, the great pillars of the black ash trees towered above her, thelr smooth boles unmarred by branches for forty feet.The long grey aisles gréw black and hushed.Julia paused and lit the torch of pine which she always carried at night.And on she ran holding the flaming light on high, exulting in her strength and the knowledge that she was doing ething for the dear, helpless one lying suffering at home.Fire Weed, her father called her; she smiled at'the remembrance and i» waved the little toreh.A real flaming fire weed she was tonight, he would say, if he could guess at her daring escapade, sending a swift shaft of light away down the aisles of the ice-bound forest.And s0 she ran, thinking only of her loved ones, and not once dreaming that down those dark aisles ahead, one who was young and daring and flaming like herself was coming on swift feet to meet her.CHAPTER X.The Welf Dance ANY a time Allister had pictured himself in his fiddiers dreams leaving home for the wide world.But always his heart was light and he went forih as a congñeror.But now as he left the bounds of the MacAllister settlement in the grey morning light his feet were slow and heavy and his heart was sick with longing to turn back to where Little Johnny had turned homeward after seeing him a mile on his way.The parting with Little Johnny was something he dared not think of yet.He shouldered his axe determinedly, tied his fiddle closer on his back, and trudged on.: The rough trail across the Barrier was a long lone trudge.He reached the settlement at the English Block at nightfall and was received at the first shanty where he pulled the string as though the inmates had been awaiting him.He turned southward the next morning, saying he was en his way to the Portage to work for Miles Hardy.The road south from the English Block was punctuated with scattered clearings and his way was made easy.All wayfarers received a royal welcome, and one with a fiddle was a royal visitor.A traveller brought news of other clearings and the settlers were hungry for news.No matter at what time of daf or night he might pull the string of the latch there was always a plate of porridge or pork and potatoes set before him.And if he could bè prevailled upon to spend the night it was all the better.Hospitality was the same when he came to the Irish settlement.The Murphys were just like the other settlers he found, Papists though they might be.He was going to work for Miles Hardy, was he?Well, he was the lad for luck for there wasn't another such a man as Miles Hardy in Osborne township.In every shanty they chanted the praises of the Miller of Gala Water, and the nearer the traveller approached the louder the praises became, Wasn't it Miles Hardy that saw them through the dry year when everything was burned up; and the wet year when the praties all rotted in the ground?And there was the summer of the great hail, when there was- n't a bag of wheat to go to the mill nod even a handful for seed.Eh, it was Miles Hardy that sent them a barrel of flour and .told them to pay just when they could.When Allister came to the last clearing of the Irish Line he found himself on the borders of the great Had- the to ! ding estate.At the last shanty of hospitable Murphys he enquired as the whereabouts of Mat McKim and his wife Bidsey.He recalled their relationship to Mrs.Sandy Red and the Frasers and felt they would be a link with home if he could get to them.Sure, wasn't it the best way to the Portage to go by Mat McKim's, his host declared.It would save him many a mile to cross over instegd of going all the way round by road.There was & blased trail straight through to Mat's, and the craters would be glad the Bquire had so many to felch and carry for him.It was a mighty di?- ferent time now-a-days.The Squire Mat a lot back of his Black at grey dawn, for there tales abroad about the ing bad.His hostess filled pork and boiled potatoes ii yo'rp overtook by night in that yell be like to spend it In a He stood for a long time the young adventurer move \"forest trail, and shouting his structions.He was to keep blase and he couldn't miss clearing.Mat was the foine 80 was Bidsey, and he was to back soon and stay longer.It was a long day's tramp thro the dense forest.Allister's heart hot as he tramped on hour after hour.So much rich land so near to the Allisters should have had this, Red Bandy had always said.It was all the best of timber and was well-watered.Allister pictured the gentry as Aunt Teenie and the other women so often described them, spending their days in idleness and then going out for a walk just to give themselves something to do.He would soon see their fine places with their lawns and gardens, their idle men and their useless women.He had but one glimpse of humanity on all the lone day's travel.As he sat on à log eating his potatoes and pork there came past him a silent file of Indians going south with their furs for the Spring trade.The braves strode ahead In single file, their guns on their shoulders, the squaws trailed behind pulling the hand-sleighs piled with furs and their camp equipment.Al- lister followed them, glad of the company, and found they were following his blase straight to the Portage.They turned to the west just at evening and Allister went on alone.He had not gone many paces till he saw ahead the light of a clearing.Then he came upon the tracks of a man's shoepacks and following them he came to the open clearing shining in the rosy glow of evening and set in its deep blue ring of forest.Two great dogs leaped up from the shanty door and rushed towards him with deep bayings and the shanty door was flung open.The shanty was half buried in snow, and [ts owner, a little hairy man, looked up at Allister, like a shaggy ground-hog looking up out of his hole.Then a long hairy arm was shoved out and the visitor was into the warm shanty followed by the Joyously barking dogs.Allister had been made welcome so many times on his journey that he was accustomed to it by this time, but when he made known his relationship to the Fraser brothers and Mrs.Sandy Red, he was overwhelmed by the rapture of his reception.À éousin of Fraser the weaver! And of Beattie\u2019s! And come all the way from the MacAllister settlement! Mat stood and Stared at im, and Bidsey walked roun olding up amazed hands, the better to view the wonder, They had just finished their supper but he was set down to a great meal of pork and potatoes and he ate ray- enously.Bidsey waited upon him, but Mat sat close and stared at him in delight, over and over to his wife at the wonder.Here was a visitor come from the north! By the blazed trail and from the MacAlliater settlement! How many years was it since anyone had come through that way?Everyone who ever came their way, and few there were at best, always came up from the Portage road to the south.Mat could not get over Sn 94 the marvel of the visit.th questions.Mat's cousin Martha, was her man- doing well?Did she have a cow?Three cows! Think of that now! And 4 i Eg RÉCFE 8 been scouring the table when Allister entered and she returned tc it while he ate his supper off the other end.time.IE was alrsad mien ned e.was à clean the cleanest Allister had seen since left home.For Bidsey had been well- trained in her years of service in Hadding household.Mat had s0 far recovered joyous amasement as to be take part in the conversation questioning regarding his relati Allister was put to it to satisfy ravenous appetite and at the same time attend to the catec of both his host and hostess.At last Mat moved about bringing wood and water, and whenever he was out of earshot Bidsey informed the guest with aig- F 4 leave because y mouths to feed.a good home at the Squire's a sad day for her.But what could a body dn?The Squire had n Mat this lot and he had no one and what else could SHEZEE |B pet gi Ë 1 ones and Maple syrup.The been awful kind, Bidsey He had sent out two men them build the shanty.But indeed it was a lonely life, and if she + get out to the Birches some times she thought she would be like to die.It wasn't often they had a visitor, only dear Miss Julia, the darling, ran out on her snow shoes sometimes with the foolish lad, Tafly.Allister, well-fed and warmed, felt his head drooping from weariness a8 Bidsey's tongue ran on.It was twelve years since the Squire brought his family out from the Old Country and built the beautiful home for them by the lake, and sure the poor gentleman had had nothing but bad luck ever since.Poor Miss Marcia was well-nigh worried to death with her mother's sickness indeed.If it wasn't for Miss Julia she didn't know what would become of them all.Miss Julia was the smart little lady indeed.Allister had been trying desperately to keep awake and give attention to Bidsey\u2019s story and aiso Mat's, the latter a tale of an encounter with wolves which was running simultaneously with his wife\u2019s.He had been more interested in the man\u2019s story, but at the mention of Julia Hadding's almost forgotten name le left Mat treed by wolves and gave full attention to Bid- sey.Mat had great staying powers but his wife went much faster and Allister learned that by watching carefully he could listen to both.He was interested in this aspect of the Had- ding family.It would seem that the tales about the gentry living in idleness and luxury had not been quite accurate.Poor little Miss Julia, Bidsey was saying, it was her was the blessed lamb! Never brought up to do a hand's turn, and yet she could do anything.Wasn't the Squire like to die of laugh- tng the day she come out into the wood yard and showed him how she could split wood?And indeed if Miss Marcia hadn't cried when she saw her, she would have split up the whole brush pile.Indeed she didn\u2019t know what would become of them all if it wasn't for Miss Julla.The way she had taken bold since she was away at school.For what with the Squire taking a drop too much, and Master Basil never coming home any more, and the poor lady herself lying on her back, she did not Know what would become of them all.Indeed whenever the dear lady took one of her bad spells it was always Bidsey she called for.Nobody but Bidsey would do.Dear, dear, she did- n't see how she could have left the dear lady to come away out here to the bush with Mat McKim.Bidsey stopped long enough to beg him to take out his fiddle.As Allister drew his bow across the strings some dismaying sense of the miles of trackless forest that lay between him and his home, and the heart-breaking quarrel with his uncle got into his fingers.He played only sad and wistful airs: \u201cI'll meet ye on the Lea Rig,\u201d \u201cWae's me for Prince Charlie,\u201d \u201cYe Banks and B \u201d He could see Aunt Jane Ann when she returned and found him gone, and Little Johnny's face twisted with silent pain as they parted.He dropped into a walling je 5 g Tig BES Irish lament that his mother used to.lilt.Bidsey's apron went to her eyes.\u201cSure, it's the fairies is under yer fingers, lad,\u201d she faltered.\u201cIt's playin\u2019 the birds off the bushes you'd be.Och bone, for my poor Mothe., and a sight o\u2019 the old cabin at home.It was the the morning.What was his hurry?It was only two miles across the bit bush to the Birches and not more good BÂSSÈFES sit cg i z 2 E 5 £ Ë È i 3 B 2 Ë « + ve.WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, JANUARY 10, 1904.about the troubles of the Haddings, and the cleverness of Miss Julia, that the afternoon was well on its way before the meal was set upon the table.Then he must just give them oné more tune before he went and by that time the short winter afternoon was waning.He was insisting on departing when Bidsey set up a wail.He was missing the potato scones she was going to bake for supper, and he was forced to wait till they were cooked.Then there were elaborate instructions regarding his road out to the village, and Mat began begging him to stay another night.Theres were wolves prowling round these nights.But Allister was impatient to be away, and though the light of sunset was flooding the clearing between the intense blue shadows of the forest, he shouldered his axe and his fiddle and started.Mat accompanied him to the edge of the clearing giving.careful directions, mostly regarding the path he was not to take.There was a bit o' clearing he had made in his sugar bush where he had put up a wee sugar shanty, and after he passed that there were two paths one to the right the other to Allister tore himself away with no clear idea of which one he was to take.Long after he was out of sight he could hear Mat shouting instructions and Bidsey's voice calling him to come again and stay longer.He went \u20ac down the trail over the crust his heart high, for he would sleep this night at the Portage, the Mecca of his great hopes.He would see Miles Hardy, perhaps tonight.Yes, and he would go to Toronto and see the great Mackenzie, and the place where the fiery sheets of the \u201cColonial Advocate\u201d had their birth.His ambition had found its wings again.The last glow of the sunset was gone, but the fires of spring were kindling beyond the forest rim and the glimpse of sky through the thick canopy of branches was a delicate primrose and jade green, with a shining silver moon riding far above the black tree tops.The trail ran into a little clearing as Mat had promised, a circular opening in the forest with the little sugar shanty in the centre.\u201d It was à «lent, rabbit's foot, that a fox\u2019s.fixed now In the frozen crust on snow, like a delicate bas-relief marble.It seemed a hushed, holy place, Allister stopped whistling and moved silently.across the sacred enclosure.And then he paused to consider.There were the two openings into the forest, the beginning of the two trails and which one had Mat and Bidsey told him to take?He was almost convinced Mat had sald the one to the right, but the one to the left was much wider and apparently travelled, so it surely must be the right one.He did not hesitate long.He was near his destination and impatient to get on.He had very little farther to go and he couldn't go very far wrong.And so he turned into the wrong path, a negligible choice apparently, but one that influenced the whole course of two lives.He plunged into the path and ran on whistling and he had not gone far before he stopped and listened.His quick woodsman ear had detected a sound.Ahead the forest road dim and uncertain but far down it he descried a twinkling, dancing spark, as though.a fire-fly were out in March.He paused and unsiung his axe from his shoulder.Then he dimiy made out a figure running forward, light-footed over the snow, \\ ad just as he realised that it was huran and reslung his axe, a woman's toice called, a clear silvery voice that awoke the echoes of \u201cthe dark forest.\u201cHo, Mat! Mat, dear, is that you?\u201d \u201cNo, it's not Mat,\u201d Allister shouted, \u201cBut I've just come from his place.\u201d The figure stopped a few yards away, then came on slowly.It was a girl, Al- Master could see at last, not any older than Annie, but taller.In the flickering light of her torch he could see that she was different from the girls he knew.Her coat was edged with fur wore a seal-skin cap, and as before him there came from her subtle perfume as though it were denly spring and the violets hepaticas were in bloom.Allister 4 BEC Ee membered his mother\u2019s teachings and pulled off his cap.= \u201cIt's Bidsey I want,\u201d she maid, still panting from her run.\u201cMy mother is very ill and she wants Bidsey, and II thought you were Mat.\u201d she burst out in dissppolntment.\u201cI've just come from his place,\u201d Al- ister said, moved by the tremble in her voice.\u201cIf you ilke to tum back FH go back for them.\u201d .\u201cOh,\u201d she said, and he could see her mile flash out, \u201cWould you be 0 kind?I'll run back before sha misses me.But perhaps you are in a hurry yourself,\u201d she added softly.\u201cNo, no.\u201d Allister was suddénly in hurry as.all.fe would be glad to was he to say?He asked shyly.\u201cJust tell her that Mother has one of her bad spells, Mra.Hadding.Bid- sey will understand.And ask Mat to please bring her at oncs for I'm afraid.\u201d .She paused faiteringly.\u201cI'll bring them both.Right away.\u201d Allister assured her hastily.\u201cYou .you don't mind going back alone?\u201d he asked, and was relleved to hear her laugh.\u201cOh, no.Why should X?If I know Bldsey is coming I won't mind anything.\u201d Bhe turned away.\u201cI think you are .very kind indeed,\u201d she sald.Allister turned and ran back feeling strangely warmed and exhilarated.This must be Julia Hadding! And she was running alone through the bush at night without a thought of fear.Annie and Effie would hardly go to the byre alone at night.He had gone but a few yards when he heard a call behind him.He whirled about to find the girl running down the forest path towards him again.\u201cWhat is that?\u201d she cried, \u201cThat no eo uk ÊngF i HS EE Ë B i , de .the Impact, but his clutching hands slipped.One foot went off.For an instant he hung and then he felt himaelf caught by the collar and dragged Even In his desparation he had af of wonder at the strength of the hands that held him.The leader of the pack fell back his jaws gleaming in the moonlight, and the two scrambled madly to the high est point of the roof.It creaked ominously but by great good fortune there grew a.huge maple tree right against the front of tie little shanty.They climbed up into the branches clinging together.They were silent for a moment their breath coming in ~ whining noise?\u201d They stood still list- SPs ening, their sharply drawn breath the - only sound in all the vast stillness of the winter woods.But suddenly there came another sound.From the east.where the swamp was densest there arose an eery whine.\u201cWolves,\u201d Allister said.\u201cWolves?\u201d she whispered.\u201cIt can\u2019 be possible so near the settlement.\u201d Allister was undisturbed.\u201cIt will just be one howling at the moon.They wouldn't come 80 near a clearing.\u201d \u201cBut they have been very bold ' winter,\u201d she faltered, \u201cThey told me\u2014 listen;\u201d she raised her mittened hand.The sound came- again, nearer and more distinct.There was no mistaking it this time.It was the long quavering call of the timber wolf leader.And immediately there came an answer, in a far-off, dim\u2019 chorus; far off, but quite near enough.Even Allister was stirred.to action.- \u201cMaybe they are somewhere near,\u201d he admitted.\u201cYou'd better come back with me to McKim's.We'll get the dogs.\u201d \u2019 be after us.\u201d The girl did not run, she flew.Allis- ter was filled with wonder and admir- he found himself striving to the tops of the hillocks.A great log lay across the path.She put one hand on the top of it and went over it like a bird.over a hidden root and went sprawling in the snow.Allister leaping at her cried half rising.The girl caught hold of him In rar.\u201cYou\u2014you don't intend to go down!\u201d she cried in dismay.- laugh, but it thrilled the boy.It was marvellous for a girl to laugh under such circumstances.Suddenly he felt gay and full of mad fun.It had always been so with him.He often amazed.his brothers by bursting into the wildest spirits just when everything was in the darkness with no intention of away.\u201c (To be continued) TRADE IT FOR A WHISTLE Fling it on the air! \u201c For that merry, fluting souné WII scatter every care.~ Change the whistle to a song! Sunshine singing; ~ ft Un = \u201c= WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, JANUARY 10, 1034.Life-Changing \u201cAnd yo shall bg my witnesaes\u201d.WEE \u2018\u2019OXFO KLY e RD GROU \u201cARE ye shaïl recsive power afte?that the Holy Spirit is come «por yom\u201d.Supplement In the Wake of the Southern Team (Excerpts From an Enthusiastic Article in the Southern Virginia News.) à State university does not teach N a great university which, being 2 ie paies form, hundreds of siEEERED BARE ie re let | EH: \u20ac RE dE | i Ë 8 have appeared; not clergymen, but ~ laymen\u2014merchants, manufacturers, raliroad officials, insurance men, Iaw- yers, jurists, farmers, authors, physicians, surgeons, engineers, statesmen, school teachers, college professors, men of every walk of life.Having \u201csurrendered,\u201d they have been going about telling others of their wonderful experience, of the way they are governed in all they do, of the success of their endeavors, of the happiness that has come to them.Thelr greatest desire seems to be to share all this, that others may have this new joy that they have found.Those with whom they share, share again with others.It is a continuous progression.Not only aingly but in groups these men and women are working.Forming \u201cteams\u201d of volunteers they have traveled to many cities and towns, and to many different countries.They hold meetings which thousands at- fend.To all who will give ear they tell the story of their change\u2014how they have conquered sin, conquered even the wish or impulse to sin, how their daily lives have been altered, * how thelr work, their business or profession, has been shaped to accord with God's wish as they now compre- Bend it, and of many benefits that have come from this It's God's Werk How is this transformation accomplished?All concerned aver that it ja God's work: the men and women chänged have devised a method of reaching other people with the message they have caught.travel, as we have mid, In \u201cteams,\u201d Many are traveling in teams today in rent parts of America and other lands.But they have no organisation.\u2018They have no \u201ctrea- ury\u201d of common fund; each pays his own expenses.They do not set up anything that resembles a denomination or sect; it has been called \u201ca determination, not a denomination.\u201d They have no creed except the teachings of Christ in their simplest form.If a reporter may venture to state it briefly, after reading much about it and interviewing a team-member, à \u201cMr.Stead,\u201d said the Csar, \u201cwe have 20 minutes for this interview.You have talked for 18.Would you like to listen to me for two minutes?\u201d \u201cIta that way with most people, and was with me,\u201d said the team-member.\u201cWe pray, but in praying we and talk and TO God, and don't take powerful appeal of their message, and its tremendous effects on individuals and on the spirit of the community.The Bishop of Kentucky, the Ri.Rev.Charles E.Woodcock, DD., said: \u201cThey have not perfection, but sincerity.Théy bring not trey Gospel, but à werking Gespel.Are the nearest to a united Christian.It has been similar in many cities in the United States and in cities and n of four continents.\u201d How Named The only name these volunteer Christian evangelists have ls \u201cthe Oxford Group.\u201d An American started the movement, almost without knowing it.He began telling simply the simple story of how, when he \u201csurrendered\u201d, bis life was changed, his attitude toward other people changed, and a new joy came to him.A group of students at Oxford University, in England, got interested.They believed what the American told them.They did what he did\u2014 turned thelr lives over to God, listened for guidance, received it, experl- enced an extraordinary joy and were been formed and gre traveling, \u201cWitnessing for Christ,\u201d pointing the way for others.; A team from England toured Canada; thousands have been affected in li; manner in all the provinces of the dominion, The Church Beacfitod The Church iteeif?It stands unmolested and secure, its life quicken- \u20184d wherever the members of the teams have traveled.~ \u201cThe Oxford Group in Macon impresses me as opening the way to a Renaissance of vital Christianity,\u201d wrote Blshop W.W.Alnsworth, of the M.E.Church, South, Birmingham.The Rev.E.A.Lowther, DD.president of the San Francisco Pedera- tion of Churches, sald that \u201cthe Oxford Groups deserve the gratitude of the Christian Chureh.My own Judgment is that we have in them the most significant spiritual awakening in America.\u201d The Rt.Hon.R.B.Bennett, prime minister of Canada, said it was his \u201cablding belief\u201d that the' influence which the Group \u201cso powerfully represents\u201d is \u201cthe only one that can save the world.\u201d Dr.D.A.Davis, World's Committee of the YMCA.Geneva, wrote: \u201cWhere the Groups have been in Europe, drifting, useless, often harmful lives have been directed and given purpose; discouraged, despairing and cynical people have been filled with hope, joy and confidence; and especially here at Qeneva, this world centre of thought and action, an increasing number of leaders see new hope for a solution of national and international as.well as personal problems.\u201d This, of courte, ls an incomplete and faulty story of this world-wide movement, one of the greatest evan- gelistlc movement of all time.But we hope that what we have written of it, in answer to our readers\u2019 inquiries, may be as convincing of the fact of this spiritual awakening as is the answer to life\u2019s problems which has been found by many, in the way described.Life Changing By F.B.Bourdilion.(The Nineteenth Century) reproduce them here.However, we feel that we must quote the final paragraphs of the article tn which the writer speaks of Hfe-changing and its results as he has seen them, HAVE known the movement personally for rather over two and a half years, and have been tully endorse a judgment which the master that of many persons he hes known to be influenced by it there were none Who had not been influenced for good Everywhere where the movement has become established there are histories of persons who- have found salvation from problems such as drink, drug habits, stammering, and other vices or habitual inhibitions.The effects of contact with the movement necessarly vary with the past history of the individual.Opposite types meet.One finds release from fear or repression, the other powers over his tongue or temover.\u2018There is à general tendency towards harmony, concentration, confidence and controversion (turning in the opposite direction.) Anxiety, hesita- dion, and shyness give place to confidence.The harsh become tolerant, the laxy become active, the ineffective become efficient.The individual generally becomes a happier and more useful member of the community.Wherever the movement has penetrated the same gocial results are visible.Families have been reunited, divorce arrested, and children and parents have found commen ground on which they can meet and plan for united action.A new relationship has been established between muster and servant, layman and priest or minister, employer and employee.Business methods have been measured by the absolute standard and revised.Restitution has been made for \u201cpadded\u201d expense accounts, and to railway and insurance companies and custdms authorities.Friendships have been put on the basis of freedom from mistrust, selfishness or sentimentality.Old resentments have been abandoned and jealousy forgotten.Men have found & new capacity for fellowship a common consecration.Mombers of all denominations have found new power and a new meaning in their church life.Many have duty have returned to it.Clergy and ministers have found a power \u2018to change lives which they had lost or never known, and their parish councils have become teams of workers National political preblems have been affected.In South Africa the Group has been the means of hundreds of rapprochements between members of the two white races, which have resulted in& marked increase of political harmony.A leading South Affican statesman has said that \u2018If the Groups continue to grow in the next three years as they have grown in the last three, there will be no ra- elal problem left in South Africa\u2019 In the same country remarkable advance has resulted in regard to the individual relations with the kafir population.In Europe outstanding cases have occurred in which racial animosity has been overcome without any loss of devotion to national causes.At Geneva this year, at the time of the assembly of the League of Nations, a leading delegate called on the movement to play a bigger part in relation to the League.To sum up, the Group Movement 1s nothing new.It has no creed or doe- trines but those which are common to Christianity.Its only orgeniss- tion is that of the.Churches to which its adherents belong.As Canon Gren.sted, the Oriel Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion, has phrased it, \u2018the Group is the Church militant being a Mttie militant\u2019 The coming of the movement is an appeal to the Churches to live up to their own standards: it is a to à way of life that in its essence is the ideal of all humanity and the aim of every religion.\u201cLiving Within God's Plan \u2018The Group lays atress on certain points which have tended to be neglectéd, or even come to be regarded as too remote for ordinary attainment.It emphasises the possibility of Mving constantly in the state of harmony with the Eternal Purpose which we call the rule or guidance of God.It stresses the importance of a wide human feMowehip \u2018that is governed by that purpose, the fello that is the alm and Mfe of the Churches; and it calls attention to the two conditions of their fellowship, which are that each shoud piace his experience at the disposal of the community and should treat his resources, material, mental and spiritual, as a sacred trust rather il i E FREE jf f political and economic nationalism are more blatant, than at any time.Materialism is more confident.Hopes born of the huge effort of the war of 1914-18 have not been realised.Disarmament appears almost out of the question.War In the Pacific area, if - not elsewhere, appears well nigh certain In the not very distant future.This gloomy but scarcely exaggerated picture contrasts with that of the huge advance In the arts and sciences during the past two centuries.We have never been better educated, better fed, better equipped, or better amused in the history of man, and yet never nearer to appalling catastrophés There ls no other reason for chaos, enmity, and waste in human affairs but individual and collective selfishness.Mr.Stanley Baldwin - wrote recently: I confess I am not sure if à Wesley or a St.Francis were to arise today that to found a body of preaching friars would not be the best thing they could do for the world.In the Oxford Gromp I see the beginning of such a movement of youth in modern dress and modern speech.To my mind it is a'gnificant that the young generation are leading.If the Group, as Professor Grensted has put it, is \u2018the Church militant,\u2019 and if it is the militancy of youth, then it is surely a cause for rejoicing that youth is already taking the lead.It is significant that at Oxford, where the movement first began to take shape, and has always held its annual international house-parties, the great bulk of those who are active in !t are undergraduates or men who are staying en for one or two years after taking their degree There is to my mind, no more hopeful feature of the world of today than the history of lives that have been changed through contact with the Group.The essential feature of the Group in action is that it works as a team, bound by tles of loyalty and îts cause\u2014a team in which each member both gives to and takes from the others ~~ SOUNDS LIKE BUSINESS Regina, Sask., Jan.2, 1934.Dear Fred: Following our School of Life steps were taken towards the formation of a representative Central Team In Regina.That team is now funcilon- ing and we are sending the enclosed notice to the newspapers.A good many interested people in the pre- vince will be readers of the \u201cWitness\u201d atid we shall be grateful if you will publish the notice too.You will be interested to know that the team is planning a-visitation of all groups in the interests of \u201cThe Witness\u201d.We wish Mrs.Dougall, yourself, and The Witness a Happy, Prosperous and Useful New Year.Yours in Christian Fellowship, THE REGINA GROUPS, per Julia Reekle.REGINA'S CENTRAL TEAM In order that the work of the Oxford Group Movement might be facilitated and made more effective à Central Team made wp of representatives of each group in the city has been formed In Regina.* Mrs.Julla Reekie, 1908 College Avenue is acting as secretary for this team.All correspondence in connection with travel- Ung teams and group matters should de CRITICISM QUBSCRIBERS sometimes send us cilp- from other or booklets they read the criticisms they complain of.Very often & paper that das printed an attack will be quite willing print an article (well written) on the æ WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, JANUARY 10, 1986 - An Inveterate Criminal .Finds God Through the Group Oxford Group International Plans for 1934 HAT should 1934 be, 1933 having seen what it has seen?\u201cThe Oxford Group movement, which seeks to revitalise Churchpeople and to win pagans to Christ by personal evangeksm, has for its program in the coming year the building of a united Christian front round the world agaipst the common foes of Christiandom.The London team plans to spend the first ten days, at least, of 1934 at Victoria Park in the East End.But at the same time, all the other activities in the city itself will have to be carried on.Then Paris and Brussels, and the national awakening in Switzerland, all call for attention.Recent developments in other European states, notably Holland, have to be kept in mind.Canada has already planned a large team and campaign in the Maritime Provinces, with House Parties to be held at the Chateau Frontenac in Quetec \u2018already Hmited to 3,000 guests) and at Banff Springs Hotel.À liner is bringing 500 over to the Oxford House Party, and England may expect to be flooded with friends from Canada, bringing back to the Old Country the message which has meant so much in thelr own.Meanwhile, the home of the work in Oxford, where in 1925 there was only & small group of four, includes in its plans the making of one single college wholly Christian; and Cambridge is doing the same in its own field.DR.DE BORDES LEARNS \u201cTHREE PRICELESS THINGS\u201d Dr.Jan \u2018de Bordes, of the Finance Bection of the League of Nations Secretariat, who has been working with the Oxford Group team in the London campaign, has taken his leave of England.In the course of his farewell message he said: \u201cWhen I received the invitation to_come to England and work with this team, I did not want to come.I had two good excuses: the first was an important committee which covered the time, the second was lack of funds.No sooner had I prayed for guidance, and expressed my willingness to do whatever God wanted, than the committee dates were altered, and a letter arrived with the necessary maney.I had some leave owing to me, and I had intended to use it for a ski-ing holiday.But this also went.It was a wrench at first, but now I am tremendously glad.It has been far more interesting than a ski-ing holiday to see God really at work, winning the City of London; and I have learnt three priceless things, The first is a new vision.Cleve Hicks said that when he tried to win a university his first ught was only that of winning e students and those the junior students mostly.It was a new idea to think of dons being won to Christ.I see that everybody of whatever rank must now be approached and won.The second is a new lesson in efficiency and hard work.I have been amaged at the hard work of thesé unsalaried people of the team, at the smoothness, the speed, and the economy of time.\u201d\u2014Chureh of England Newspaper.VANCOUVER NOTES A Group witnessed at St.Mary's, South Hill, on Sunday evening, Dec.31, constituting the first of a regular series of monthly meetings, to take place on the Last Sunday -of each month.A team of young people spoke on the last Sanday evening of the year at Dunbar Heights Church, A call has come in for a team to go to Kamloops: teams for Nanaimo, Chilliwack, and Bella Coola sre also under considera tion.On Thursday, December Zist, a large aumber of bus.ness men, together with several ministers, met for luncheon at the Hudson's Bay atore; the keynote of the matting Deng our violon For 1034.ere sto bea y of Kerrisdaje grou at the Kerrisdale Baptist church, on Te day, January 16th, at 8 p.m.-\u201cHugging The Engineer?\u201d \u201cI wonder why there are so Many accû- dents on the highways?\u2019 \u201cThat's easy.Did you ever hear of the fireman hugsiag the, enginecef Are the spiritual tragedies along life's highway not due, in large degree, déstracions we permit?to the LORIOUS Liberty: Dart- ~ moor to Calvary,\u201d is Stuart Wood's own true story of the experience of a convict, under condemnation for many crimes, with the Oxtord Group.\u201cBeing a comparatively recent re- crult- to the Movement,\u201d Mr, Stuart Wood writes, \u201cI have made little or no attempt to analyse its spiritual and social content, or to assess its importance to the religious world gen- 66 erally, because as yet I do not fee! - competent to do so.Through its example, fellowship and teaching I found God, accepted Christ's standards of life and all that they imply, and dedicated my life to His service.\u201d In an early chapter Mr.Stuart Wood bells of his career of crime.The list of sentences of imprisonment he received makes well over a page, 80 there is no doubt of his criminal career, for it is all frankly confessed, What he nes to say as to the reasons fox bis downfall is of supreme inter- \u201cWithout being wo generous to myself,\u201d he writes, \u201cor glossing over my own faults, I should say, on calm re- fleotlon, that it was initially due to the maladjustment of my early years to home influences, and then to being exposed as a young lad to the full rigors of penal conditions which have been to some extent abandoned, and finally to the fact that I was released in a destitute and friendless condi- \u201cThe prison system had, even In three months Invested me with an exaggerated fear of men and of so- clety which became an inveterate inferiority complex and extended its bases and exerted its influence in corresponding ratio to my successive failures to adapt myself to respective environments.\u201cLacking social roots and the means of orderdd life, the weakness inherent in my character drove me always along the line of least resistance.Intellectual'y hostile to region as I had experienced it in various prisons, but really, I imagine, morally reluctant to face up to Hs imperative demands of me, I had no strength w.thin myself to resist temptation as it arose, and no personal * moral and sp!r:tual standards to guide me.\u201cIn addition to these considerations \u2014probably the greatest of them all\u2014 was an inherited craving for drink.\u201cSo far as memory serves, I do not remember ever committing a penal offence unless under its influence.\u2018Then, too, there was the gradual disintegration of the personality and loss of will-power resulting from the for- mhtion of bad habits in prison as a kind of defence-mechanism against long periods of almost solitary confinement during a total of more than fifteen years\u2019 imprisonment.\u201cI ought perhaps to point out that I most of my time under the older nal conditions when never less than nineteen bours cut of every twenty-four were spent in one\u2019s cell, with nothing to relieve the monotony and silence but mechanical cellular labor, books, and one\u2019s own unhealthy thoughts \u201cpsychologically I became a moral leper and a soc'al outcast, shunning all society but my own.By degw- I became a confirmed gaol bird, preferring the sanctuary afforded even in à prison from the stress and responsibilities of life outside its walls.Branded within and without with the ineradicable stigma of the broad- arrow and all that its degradation implies, I became an out-and-out egoist and introvert, regarding life, religion, and men from the morbid viewpoint of a mind diseased.\u201cI lost faith not only in God and man, but also in myself! That was my position up to seven years ago, when, being utterly t'ved of I had led, T decided to Bovine effort to get back to Mr.Stuart Wood then details how .the Oxford Group Movement was the turning point in his career, In its review of this very \u201chuman document,\u201d Public Opinion says: \u201cIt is a moving confession and rings true.He tells of meetings and conferences he attended and addressed, and certainly the Group adherents did not ostracise him in any way.Glorious Liberty is & human document, 8 practical proof that what many consider to be the coming revival is really for the \u201cdown and out\u201d as well as the comfortable classes.Those who need as-\\ eurance on this pont and have held aloof on the ground that the Moves ment is only for the well-to-do will study the practical evidence whith Mr.Bluart Wood's book supplies to the contrary.\u201d \u2019 The Theology of The Oxford Group BY PROFESSOR GRENSTED (ROFESSOR known to many as one of the leading champions of \u201cthe \u2018Group\u2019 method of evangellsation.Others are aware that he was originally a mathe- .matician, that he is an accomplished theologian and psychologist, that he has some knowledge of the arts and natural sciences, and finally that he is Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion in the University of Oxford\u201d So writes Professor Charles E.Raven, D.D., Regius Professor of Divinity, Cambridge, in the Church of England Newspaper.\u201cIt is a matter of the highest importance that at a time when discs cussion of the Oxford Group is general and heated, one of the main charges against it should no longer remain vague and therefore largely unanswerable,\u201d writes Professcr Raven in his review of Dr.Grensted's new book.\u201cEven sympathetic critics have repeated with à monotonous frequency the statement that the Group has no clear theology, and drawn from this the inference that its principles, es- peclally in the matter.of guidance, lack the support and control which - only theology can supply.\u201cCanon Grensted, whose work in interpreting the Group to his own and other churches has been influen- tlal in securing for it a good wii which might otherwise have balay freely given, has now rendered a ther and signal service both to Movement and to us all.\u201cHis book, The Person of published by N'sbet in the Library of Constructive Theology (10s.6d), is not only a fresh and original treatment of the greatest of all subjects, it Le explicitly an interpretation dominated by the experience found through the Group; and it is this as ETE Grensted 19° pect of it which gives It its chief significance Those of us who have all along \u201cmaintained that the Movement had _ not only manifest spiritual power only proceed from a genuine experience, will feel that our belief thad the Group could and would disclose ® sound theology has been strengthen=- od.\u201cDr, Grensted has given us a book important In itself as & contribution to theology, and siñgularly appropriate at a time when the Group with which he is associated is filling so large a place in the thought and lite of Christians.\u201d Dr.Grensted\u2019s book, while not difficult reading, 1s the work of a schol- ar\u2014a constructive theologian, says Public Opinion., James V.18 (Weymouth's TrJ Confess your sing to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be cursed.The heartfelt supplication .of & righteous man exerts a mighty influence.WORLD WIDE Zaskatoon, Dec.26, 1888: mir Rave bee $ puboeriber fee 15 yoats enjoy le more than over.It is à plensure to introduce such a papef to my friend.I enclose two subs ptions herewith.\u2014Yours sincerely, C.A.MACKAY.i Ottaws, Ont.Dec.22, 1988, Dear 8irs,\u2014The three subecri to World Wide are all renewals, whe its articles both stimulating tho! ng.nosrely yours.ught-peovol B.A BMITH.Mote.-\u2014À sample copy will be dent to any add; free of charge.\u2018Ad John re J a EM Montreal.but the sort of power which could\u2019 ~ | i} Ottawa Witnessing In The Chatean ' Ottawa, Jan.8, \u20183 Dear Fred Dougall:\u2014 The \u2018Citadel\u2019 Team have aghed me $0 notify you of the following: \u2014 The Ottawa Oxford Groups will bold a series of meetings in the Chateau Laurier, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, January 11.1¢ and isterial Oxford Group Team.He was 13th.Meetings will take the usual ° Group form\u2014that of witness of the Power of Christ in Individual lives There will also be meetings at which both the principles and the standards will be discussed; and separate meetings for men and women.We, in Ottawa, will be very grateful for your prayers and the prayers of all your associates in Montreal and those reached through the pages of your most valuable \u201cWitness.\u201d We.shall send an account of the campaign at an early date.* Thanking you, I remain, Sincerely yours, W.E.Graham.Sherbrooke on the Move HE second monthly open meeting of the Sherbrooke Oxford Group took place in St.Andrew's Church Hall, January nd.The team of witnesses was Jed by Rr.C.J.Edgar and reinforced by After explaining the principles of the Group Dr.Edgar introduced the first witness who told how the standard of absolute unselfishness had challenged him.The second witness told what a wonderful thing the Quiet Time was for her.The next witness related that a year ago he felt he was \u201cthrough\u201d with the worid.Now through the Group he finds thera is a great deal to live for.A woman whose work among children had been made mare effective and who had gained à At this point Rev.Cecil King, with the object of showing that tiie Oxford worries and resentinents had held her bck from the highest.The business Before we had time to answer that: man who witnessed next made the statement that, \u201cA surrender without sharing is as enduring as most New Year's Resolutions.\u201d The last witness told of the splendid fellowship he found in the Group, Rev.Cecil King spoke again and emphasized the ne- for anyone desiring to identify themselves with the Group to do so, two prominent citizens slood ap and gave testimonies.Rev.J.R.Graham closed the meeting with a few words and the benediction.Notice On January 19th, 30th, and 21st a.Behoo! of Life-of the Sherbrouke Oxford Group will be in session.Some from the Montreal fellowship will assist in conducting this School of Life which wii be a great step in the growth and nmomess of the Oxford Group in Sherbrooke, Dafoe, Sask, Jan.2, \"3 weed but have decided to follow the trail mapped out the last three or four years by having the paper sent to a couple of homes that so far as I know are not ao- quainted with the Witness.This may be à bit cowardly as I am really claiming the donor of handing this present whea it is really yourselves that are dol it.And use no man has over f the Wit- mess standing for anything less than the truth In editorials and criticisms.I! hope TT will be able to carry on.Encicesd you will please Aad M.O.for $3.00 fer the spbecriptions.Youre truly, Dur, Toed\u20141 pray and believe that you and the Wits will be permitted to carry en the splendid work la which you are sagaged.Mere is a wite to help along at WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTRAD, JANUARY 16, 1834 Now Witnessing In Heaven (From C.MeC.) EV, 8.Good, pastor of Olivet Baptist Church, Toronto, died in the Western Hospital Wednesday evening, January 3rd.His Home going will leave à gap in the ranks of Toronto's Min- affectionately known in Group circles as one of the \u201cFour Horsemen\" the other three being Revs.Barnett, (Anglican), Little (United Church) and Thompson (Presbyterian).These four ministers were greatly used by God.They acted as an advance team, speaking to Ministerial Associations in cities and towns to which a large Oxford Group team was being sent.He was greatly loved by all who knew him.It must have pleased him greatly to have recently seen the added Interest Baptist churches in Toronto have taken in the Movement that meant so much to him.We-know his wife, Jean, endeared t all the Group Is Nnding God a great friend through these days.We know what this fellowship has meant to both of them'in its binding love of man and wife when both have caught the vision.Our prayers go out to ber and her two children \u2014 A Timely Dellar One.day last week we received the following letter: .Dear Mr.Dougall,\u2014I have had the Witness and its trouble at heart.When it was at its weakest, in the fall, I watched it like a dying person.I prayed for its life «nd feared cach week would be its last.And then what would Canada do without the Witnesa?But I thought of the Oxford Group slogan \u201cwhere God guides God provides.\u201d 1 am a great believer in that spiritual movement.not been paid.I have no money, but how oan I do without the Witness?I would letter & man of purse, and who you.My text is \u201cIs anything too hard for the Lord?\u2019 \u2018With God nothing Le impossible.\u201d Miracles are everyday things Prayer Calendar OTTAWA, Chatesu Laurier, Omiipaign Jan.13-13 EERRISDALE Blaptist Groups Rally an 16 WINNIPRG HOUSEPARTT, Jan.16-18.SHERNSOOKE Sobool of Life Jan 19-31 SYRACUSE, N.Y.Friday, Jan.19-on- \u2018wards, Miss Olive Jones leads a large team hat win probably witness here for a week LONDON, England, roximately 3000 personal contacts day Feiss meetings, ooraine 0oon and night in different envir- Do You Believe: in Prayer?- wii contrat ces please list their coming even! th dates as far ah possible?ar ahead as Those who are sharing in prayer for trav- eiling teams and big events, want to share in the answers to prayer.Please rush in newspaper clippings and other reports of such events while they are fresh./ Are you getting lives changed?Jas.1, 5.If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men Mberally, and upbraideth not; and i shall be given him, Genesis XVII, 1.\u201cI am the Almighty God; walk before Me, and de thou perfect (sincere).2 Chronicles XXIX., 31.Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings.7 : 1 Sam.XV.22, To obey is better than sacrifice, 1 Samuel XVI.7.The LORD (Eternal) seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.Ps, EXVII., 14, Wait On the LORD (Eternal); be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I.say, on the LORD.Ps.XXXII, 1, 2.Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.Bless-d is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.Ptiot Mound, Man, Dec.10, 1932 Dear Birs,\u20141 am enclosing $1.00; you ., stating that he could not renew his subscription to a paper that geve so much space to the Oxford Group.This prompted me to write him, and I told him that 1 scription that he could not renew.I also wrote him telling him how my own life had been changed through the Oxford Group, and also the happiness that had been brought into.my home.I have been married for 7 years, and the happiness we should have had, had been denied lack of faith in God.- Now we are wonderfully happy! \u2018Take our own town here; lives have bean brought to God, homes that were on the verge of bresking up have been saved, both churches are enjoying better attendance, and the ministers have real sup that has been lacking in the past.Is it not wonderful for @ minister to know that in his con- and women that he ng Taking this opportunity to wish you all the success in the world in your new venture, I know that God will pour 4 blessing om your paper, and 3 WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD voluntary plan subscription rates CCORDING te your pocket and A desire, (just as to church, missionary or benevolent cause) XCEPT that we must get re MINIMUM enough to pay Lane - white paper, postage - dling of the coples going to 87 subscriber\u2014even as & chur makes a definite charge for hymnbooks for home use.For Your Guidance: The average net cost (after deducts bacriber's share of advertising coceipts) of a year's subscription is $1.18.rd But the cost, merely of paper and handling involved In adding & sub- seriber to the list for a year, IS ONLY 5¢ CENTS in round figures.The remaining 68 cents 1s requires to meet each subscribers share of the wages, light, heat, power, plant maintenance, Insurance, and the hundred and one expenses involv- ¢d in publishing a paper.: So, to cover all that necessary \u201cever- head\u201d we must get an average of at least $1.18 net subscription, just to keep going.THUS, for every subscription below $1.18, we must count on getting one equally above the avefage.(The rate for very many years was $2.08 fixed, which many are still glad to be able to pay.JT vas because of the financial extremity of many of our old friends, and many others who would like the Witness but could not afford the old rates, that we decided to adopt the voluntary basis of subscription.MAKING known the minimum cost per subscriber, we gladly accept it, or as much more as any can and likes to give, the stronger sharing, with us, the burden of the weaker.Those who really cannot or do not feel that they shouM send more should not hesitate a moment in sending anything down to the minimum of 50 cents per year.We are confident that if the service {2 worthy God will see it sustained in some way.Where God guides, Qod provides.It has been our experience in the past.EXTRA POSTAGE REQUIRED Montreal and Suburb: (as city of publication) requires 1c postage stamp for each copy, collected by the local post office from the publishers.~ U.8.A., 1c postage per copy additional.Foreign Countries; 2c per copy or $1 a year additional for postage.Extra Postage NOT REQUIRED The following countries do not call for \u2019 extra postage: con® en ISLES: Resor West Indies, on, yprus, \" Hong Kong, New Zealand.AFRICA\u2014UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA Cape of Good Hope, Natal, including Zululand and Amatongaland, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Dean Bay, Britiah Bechuanaland, Basutoldnd, and land; Northern and South Rhodesia, Bechuana- land Protectorate, Southwest Affica (formerly German East Africa), Nigeria, Nya- Ey « ng 3 Northern Territories.) ang SOUTH AMERICA\u2014Argenting, Brasil, Chile, Colombia Uruguay, Venesuela.WITNESS \u2014 ON TRIAL ! 4 WEEKS, ONLY 15 OTS.TEN SUCH ¥o= A Donan Deus, Republie, Pery, For GROUP Book Stalis st mostinge Regular weekly packages of Ten more Cul be supplied St Le par sop pest Regular Retail Price & ots, © Toe # to cerry the challenge inte the homes, JONN DOUGALL & SON, GPO.Bou WA, Shoniren Church and State, your with a solemn sense of responsibility, lay before you matters that they believe de- ur serious consideration.They the hope that at this time the Church may contribute its full share to the stabilization of those things that are indispensable to peace and security of N this momentous period in the life E the nomic dislocation, with its attendant privations, lie at the root of the world\u2019s ills.Spiritual recevery must be made coincident with economic recev- ery.Apestasy, the neglect of fundamental Christian principles as related to domestic, social and industrial conditions have contributed to the catastrophe of recent times.The reactions from the severe strain of the great war resulted in the lowering of moral standards that had been the \u201csecurity of our people, standards that had given them a place of commanding power and influence at home and abroad.The consuming passion for gain, disclosed in an era of wild speculation, with its accompanying excesses and indulgences that brooked no restraint; the untempered lust for varied and unwholesome forms of pleasure; recent disclosures of incompetence and maladministration; the looseness of marital ties leading to the disintegration of the home; these and other moral lapses contributed to the breakup of our social and econo- mie institutions, and made easy the way for our common disasters and misfortunes.Widespread suffering, hunger and distress in the face of unparalleled power mechanical ingenuity and prodigal abundance present an appalling paradox such as our nation has never before witnessed.Pride Before Fall In arrogance and conceit we had built our house upon insecure foundations, thunking the while that our cunning and skill could arm us to resist the blighting ilis of panic and misfortune.Our pride and self-con- fidence have suffered a severe shock and our boasted capacity to weather all storms has brought us perilously close to a condition bordering on the overturn of our cherished institutions.A selfish and soulless individualivm that was insular and arrogant impaired our security and wrought-ha- vee in our social and economic life.No appralsal of the events of recent years can leave out of consideration these factors.Unless they are frankly recognized and repented of there can be no salutary change effected in our economic and social order.Coinel- dent with the lowering of moral standards we have witnessed a most malevolent and violent attack upon Christian mstitutions and the Christian faith.This attack is made on many fronts In magnitude and persistence it is without parallel.It Le insidious, cunning and determined.It pervades our literature, the drama, the acreen, and touches with ita blighting influence schoclhouss and university.It addresses itself particularly to the younger peneration.As we survey the drifts and tendencies in our modern life it becomes increasingly evident that cleavage or division in our household of faith, stress upon individual conceits, over-emphasis upon practices unrelated to the supreme purpose of Christ's Church must contribute to inevitable fallure and defeat: \u201cA house divided against {tself cannot stand.\u201d The Church's unity and solidarity are indispensable; never more s0 than now.To point more definitely the responsibility that is laid upon us as Christians and Churchmen we present certain matters we hold to be vitally important.\u201d New Economie\u2014Social Order Involved in an economie situation which has left millions confronted by the horrors of unemployment and dire want In the midst of plenty, the world abounds in many and, at times, conflicting experiments which seek to meet the needs of suffering humanity.There is no certainty tn the min\u201c of WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, JANUARY 14, 1904.A New Social\u2014Economic Order Called for in Pastoral Letter recently adopted by the American Episcopal House of Bishops \u201cFor us the Croes stands as a symbol of a World Recovery Act\u201d most men as to which of these experiments will surely solve our problems It is, however, eur comviction that \u2018Christians must assert witheut compromise that no experiment which falls short of the demands of Christ can permanently advance the welfare of afl mankind.No standards shert of the Christian standards can lead us out of our darkness inte Mght.No ideal save that of the Kingdom of God can \u2018satisfy the minds and hearts of Christian people.No experiment which seeks to bring recovery for any one group, industrial, agricultural, or any ether, without considering the needs and welfare of all men is in accord with the mind of Christ.If we would be saved we must be saved together, for in God's sight all human: beings of whatever kindred or tongue are equally precious.The members of the Church must make it clear that, as followers of the Master, they cannot give their support to any program of reconstruction which doeg not recognise the fact that national recovery depends upon world recovery.Patchwork Won't Work No mere re-establishment of an old economic order will suffice.Christ demands a new order in which there shall be a more equitable distribution of material wealth, more certain assurance of security for the unemployed and aged, and above all eise, an order which shall substitute the motive of service for the motive of gain, Christians should face the fact that this new order can succeed only as the followers of Christ sacrifice and suffer greatly.It is not enough for us to \u201cdo our part\u201d.The Master calls us to consecrate our all.For us the Cross stands as the symbol of a world recovery act.It demands that we become world recovery agents who dare to carry the Cross.It demands that through leyaity to our King we serve as leaders in bringing te pass a national and werid recovery and redemption.One vital issue faces us at this moment, the imminent repeal of the Prohibition Amendment.It calls for renewed emphasis upon the value of temperance.Such a period of change as that upon which we are entering will lay upon us the demand for seif- oontrol and the exercise of vigilance that unrestricted traffic in liquor shall Dob become & menace fo our world.Cross is Above The Flag Signs on the horizon give evidence of à growing suspicion among nations.Beneath the surface the world seethes with unrest.The horrors of the World War seem to be forgotten as nation rises against nation and competition in trmbment once again cecuples a sinister place in the chan- ceillories and parliaments of the world.Pacts and agreements, readily entered into, are regarded lightly, if not abandoned.The hopes of a peaceful and arderly world aha- dowed by distrust and sel ambition.Forbldding and terrible as the contemplation of a fresh outbreak may be, direful and disastrous as may de its consequences, unless America, as the most potential force to world peace, ean play a part consistent with her high ideals, and do it with Christian fidelity, a situation may ensue beyond her- power to restrict or restrain.It is our duty as disciples of the Prince of Peace to Insist upon policies that are consistent with the maintenance of equity, fair dealing and the sanctity of pacts and agreements among races and peoples.We are bound by every solemn obligation to wage unremitting war against war.An excess of nationalism or an atil- tude of detached unconcern for the ills of other nations, together with the building up of an armed force beyond reasonable national deprives us of any opportunity to be & conserver of the world\u2019s peace.Love of country must be qualified by leve of all mankind; patriotism is suber.dinate te religion.The Cress is above the flag.In any issue between God, the clear duty of L to put obedience to finally Christ's spirit ef forgiveness and re- cenciliatien is im centrel of the world's international relations.We make this appeal especially to the gouth of America.Encouragement is found in the fundamental young people.Their ways are different from our ways.Many of their standards were not those of our youth, We were born of the old world; they are the children of the new.We trust them, we thank God for the honesty of their approach to religion, and we confidently look to them, with the help of the Holy Spirit, to fashion a more enduring social structure than their fathers builded.- Opportunity And Dare! Days of material anxiety are days more than now.Our power to help ï ' E k iil tere if Ë § L ] - Pointed ND there came unto Shakum ANG a M14 who did not put the emphasis just get many to recite his creed and to support his cause, but they did not seem to entering into the joy of their Lord, they were not being used by Him .in increasing measure.And Paulus agreed with him, adding that argument about the creed had more of sounding brass than of saving grace and suggested that a creed that was not saving the preacher from spiritual br intellectual pride was not likely to do much for his parishioners.Go and read and note the words of Jesus when he was actually changing someone and nots how simple He was, .Growp movement, are standing in - & 5 Ët F hie brit cist LT aF Ë F 3 ë ; É 5 =: g f pected.They may well be wholesome, if unpleasant.stiffening of our faith.spiritual ease makes Therefore we are told that through much tribulation the Kingdom of God.\u201d We sho better prepared for it than thers of Apostolic days.They emdur- ed much hardness for Christ, because of the hope that was set before them.We atill have that same indomitable.hope, and in addition we have behind us {he reassuring experience of twenty centuries of Christian fortitude.Confidence is eur watchword, not confidence in ourselves, but in Christ, to whem our loyalty is pledged.Though material values collapse, spiritual values remain unimpaired.We are followers of those whe'taced .lions without flinching, and who endured the perils of persecution without whine or whimper.In Him we find the assurance of final victory.God has not abdicated.Christ is not aÉhit.seelil stil] prevails.The foundations of the Church remain secure.We cannot be dismayed, God reigns.We dare not UÉE Th B Ë E pie el i | Bi EV is EE if Ë | i Parables And whem he began to do this one became interested and many came changed! .\u2019 NOTE\u2014How many preachers Sunday school teachers, proud creeds, and scornful of the fi Ë el way of sinners lest they should Christ and salvation through God's of ihe Groups?Let us pray for suc] A BTIMULATING CALENDAR 11.Look up, not down, lodk out, not im, lend a .\u2014Bdw.Everett Hale Jobn Bunyan.22.When thou thinkest thyself farthest off from Me, oft I am nearest unte Thee.\u2014Thomsas a 31.Not one step will He make you take\u201d Beyond what your foot is able to emdura Madame to show that the calendar (adowt™ #x13 inches and well printed) is full of good points.40 cts.each.Alfred Holness, 102 Burnside Drive, Toronto, Bulwark, AMa, Dec.14, Dear Sir \u2014Current events are so Yet carefully summed up for the busg reader, that he feeis he \u2018knows some thing\u2019 when he has read for even five matautes.It fe as one new in the Group fellowship, bowever, that I appreciate the Witness most.May # never be hindered in Ms wonderful work with the Oxford Geoup I emciose.for two Yours very aincersly, Ç ) JULIA GUE.\\ momma, OU ~~ WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, JANUARY 16, 19M.© A \u2018Family Habit - By Margaret Moore.i BE g : § ; Ï 2 TAKE notice today and see.It does nol much matter whether you are small daughter or mother, if you want certain but don't make any mistake, they would say, \u201cOh, I should- the family would advise your waiting until night or next morning.- You may think\u2014aloud\u2014that you will go shopping\u2014end someone will say, \u201cOh, I shouldn't if I were you.rd tor the sales\u201d\u2014or some- You decide to make over a dress that never did suit you and imme diately some one says, \u201cOh, I should 24 1! I were you.I'd just shorten | may start and some © : i mie FRELL1E It cause yqu, & grown up, happen to your intention of doing an unimportant, absolutely persomal thing, why should you be forced into explaining why and how, and defending your action.Why should you have to dig up reasons for washing your hair or running over to visit your friendly bor or go shopping on a day you felt like doing so or any other perfectly harmless and legitimate thing want to indulge in.Why should ha LE and frightfully wearing.\u2019 for, the child wh comforted > cessant objections we would get no where, do nothing but become confirmed wobbles, never able to make up our mind to do anything.We would never get a chance to act on our own initiative, never decide anything in our own lives, seems so fond of that flibbertigibbet of a Rose, and almost blind to the ex.gellence of Jane, who does so much for \u201cRose is very charming,\u201d I suggested, \u201cvery bright, and\u2014\" \u201cBut she lets Jane sweep and scrub and cook,\u201d asserted Mrs.Carter, morning it is Jane who lights the fire 3d prepares breakfast for her mo- \u201cJust observe a little longer,\u201d I said, A week later we met again.> \u201cI must admit,\u201d my friend sald, \u201cthat Rose is a very attractive little thing! Jane is, of course, a most excellent, capable and devoted daughter, but Rose is a sunbeam.\u201d \u201cSunbeams,\u201d I agreed, \u201care desirable \u201cThe other night,\u201d went on Mrs Carter, \u201cI went in with some flowers.The two girls had been to à concert.Jane burried home to get her mother's half-past-nine \u2018nourishment\u2019 ready.Rose stayed behind to chat with the girls.I thought her selfish until Jane, having served the lunch, sat down.\u201cTell me about the concert, Jane.Was it good?\u201d asked her mother.\u201c \u2018Oh 5080,\" answered Jane.\u201c \u2018Were there many vocal numbers?\u201d \u201cI didn\u2019t count.\u2019 \u201c\u2018Did Mrs.Ross sing?\u2019 \u201cNo.\u201c \u2018Mrs.Janes?\u201c Yes) \u201c\u2018Oh, she did! Then her voice ls better.Did ahe sing well?\u201cYes, 1 guess s0; \u201c \u201cDid she sing more than once?\u201cYes! .\u201c \u2018Was she encored?\u201cYes: - \u2019 \u201cWell, poor Mrs.Hall was warn out with her Jane gave every answer as if it had been a beloved tooth and her mother a dentist.Then Jn came Rose, bright as à daisy.\u201c\u2018O mother!\u2019 she cried.\u2018How I wish you had been there! It was such a charming concert! There were.two piano duets and a solo by that boy Mrs.Graham was telling us about.He reilly plays quite well.And it wasn't à bit true about Mrs.Janes\u2019 voice having given way.She was down for two numbers, and was encored twice each time.And she sang Annle Laurie for the last.I wish you'd heard her.And Miss Pratt was accompanying in that black silk she always wears with a pink bow! I believe she'll go in for sashes next! The organist from Kam.loops was there, and he made a little speech so funny and bright.All the Browns turned out in force, and Kitty has a new suit.They asked for you, and Kitty is going to bring you some flowers soon, she said.Notice the suit, if she wears it.It's a brown pin stripe with a cutaway coat.And no- tice\u2014 .\u2018Then Jane interrupted.\u201c\u201cRose, youll tire mother all out chattering like that\u2019 she said.- \u201cEvery * \u201cNo! I like i\u2019 pleaded poor Mrs.Hall.\u2018I seem to get the good of everything Rose goes to.\u201cThen Rose kissed her mother and danced off to bed.I admit, of course, that Jane helped her mother upstairs and remembered her hot-water bottle.Oh, she\u2019s capable, to be sure; but how dull Mrs.Hall would be without Rose!\u201d \u201cAnd what a fine thing it would be,\u201d I added, \u201cif Rose could have some of Jane's sterling parts, and Jane a little of-Rose\u2019s sunny temperament!\u201d-Youth's Companion.Winter Play 200 By Elsie F.Kartack 8 I glanced from my window, I sw five-yéar\u2014old John come out of his house, which was .next to mine.He was property dresged for outdoor play on a day, buf he had nothing with to play.As his mother closed the door, she sid, \u201cNow don\u2019t sit down a few moments, watched a truck until it was out of sight, called to the pass ing mailman, tried unsuccessfully to coax a dog to him, and then, seem-~ Ing to feel that he had exhausted all cap, scarf and mittens.memories were centred about the snow.What fun we used to have\u2014 my brothers and sisters and I and our playmates! I recalled the snowmen and the forts that we built and the battles we had with our snowball emmunition, the tunnels that we in the deep mow and the joy of coasting.- No normal child can resist the snow.The sensible mother will realise how much joy the child gets from it and will make this play possible.He should, of course, be appropriately dressed, with coat, leggings, warm The cl Ë other paasibilities, he kicked about In ~#h6uld protect but not hamper the child.It should be able to stand the sow at the edge of the walk \u201cPoor child!\u201d I commented, ag my thoughts went back tp my own childhood.Some of my happiest = .- sheets, and table Only the home cen found a state \u2014Joszrx Coox.Elther of these would have kept him active and happy.How unfortunate this his mother should have thought more of the kid mittens than of her child's joy in playing in the mow and the health-giving results\u2014From & series of articles issued by the National Kindergarten Association, 8 West 40th Street, New York City.Successful Dyeing N°°TENa has such a great effect * on our moods as color, and when the loveliest colors imaginable can be obtained 20 easily by the simple expedient of dyeing things, there is no reason why we should rot make our frocks and homes as attractive as we can by this means.- A change of tolor around us does us good, for, after a time, we get tired of always seeing the same colors.Quite apart from this side of the question, however, is the fact that dyeing is à most economical method of giving quité a number of things a new lease of life.Succesefui dyeing depends mostly on following explicitly all the directions sold with the particular dye you are using.It is generally wise to choose the shade you want, rather than merely to ask for it as a color, \u2014\u2014 for sometimes the names of the colors are misleading when one sees the actual shade of the dye.Having got the color you want, the next thing is to follow carefully the directions, for these dyes have been specially prepared to give certain results, provided that these Instructions are followed: An important point is always to have plénty of dye, and alse to have & bath or bowl large enough to allow the article being dyed to be completely covered.Any articles to be dyed - should first of all be washed in warm water\u2014if garments or curtains are put into dye, without previously having been soaked they will be patchy A tablespoonful of ordinary cooking salt will make any dye a shade darker, which is a useful thing to know.Dis.\u2018solve the dye thoroughly in a little warm water according to the directions.Then fill up the bath with warm water until you have the requisite amount.Shake out the article you are going to dye, and hold it by the top or shoulders, letting it down loosely into the dye.If, by any chance, the color is not dark enough it is quite easy to add some more dye, but don\u2019t forget to take out the garment before adding the second lot of dye to the water.Dyed articles should never be put through a wringer, or they will become patchy.When the articles are almost dry they should be carefully ironed.Never damp down anything which has been dyed or it may make the color uneven.Cream curtains which have become a little tired or sad-looking, can be dipped to a lovely shade of sunshine yellow, - - \u2018The question of color schemes I always feel is best left to Individual taste, for there are many things to be taken into consideration, such as the aspect of the room and the general scheme of decoration, style, and so on, but without doubt, a little careful planning will enable you to effect some very attractive changes in the appearance of both your wardrobe .and household furnishings at a ridicu~ lously small cost.Colored \u201cundies\u201d are all improved by a \u201cdlp\u201d now and then, as well as all colored .tablecloths, linen.\u2014Marjorie Clive, In the Weekly Scotaman.Some UNDERSTANDING Friends Contributing in Hatending the Services of the Wit Mr.A.B Jukes, BC.* .se Mr.John H.Milne, Ont.\u201cA \\ el Susan Asks and Answers And still the patterns for the little slippers go out, for everyons, even if they have no wee ones in their own home, knows of some little cold feet they can cover.Every mall brings more requests for them.A Dandy Pattern Dear Susan, \u2014Thanks tor the Bunty Silpper ttern.1 think it is a dan pattern.™ have two pairs cut out and hope to make several more.There are #0 many lovely things sald to you, there is nothing left for me unless it ls that you are the most resourceful and long-suffer- ing person I know.\u2014C.L.M.\u201cFive Island\u201d Quilt Pattern Wanted Te in sending us quilt patterns asi lor, still Too for the \u201cFive Islands\u201d or \u201cFive Islands of New York.\" I somehow can\u2019t imagine à quiit pattern some 0 ous Born has not got, but so far I've falied to tind this one.One of the friends Star Difficulties\u2014Eight Points Wanted Dear Susan,\u2014In a recent Witness a correspondent told of the Crazy Star, but I cannot make an eight-point star.She said make the diamonds 12x 8% but my pieces are big enough only to make 9x5 Idon't know how to cut an 8 point, being a novice at quilts, and six of these pieces make & atar.1 want the simplest star pattern, 1 was going to make the Crazy Star with the pieces left.Would you please help me out?Your page is very interesting.\u2014C.J.The Six-Point Star with your pleces would be more simple and is always pretty.but you won't find an eight-point hard to cut.Just take A good-sized piece of brown paper and rule off or cut a perfect square, any size.Then fold the square first in half, then ln quarters (if ruling, mark across from centre of sides each way.Then rule across from corner to corner both ways.) Then fold again from the corner to centre diagonally.Whichever you do and the ruling with pencil gives Fou more exactness, you can cut the square apart on the ruled or folded lines, marking the points that meet ip the centre.Now those points or angles give you your pattern.Mark up from the centre on both sides of the point the length you want the sides of your diamonds to be, and fold the centre point over where your marks come.That gives you your haif diamond.You must take the width as it comes for if you alter that you will not have the right width for an eight-point star.If I have mot made it clear, write me again.Sorry to have.been so long answering, but I have got snowed under with letters.Spiral Socks Ribbed Throughout Dear Susan,\u20141 wonder If you could procure for me directions for knitting spiral socks?In your issue for November ist there were directions for socks without heels, but they were knitted plain, whereas this pattern I would like is in purl and plain.\u2014Margaret Young.\u2018This is, I think, the sock you mean; some of us used It for an army sock.You will need about % of a pound of yarn and 4 stesl needles No.10.Cast on 72 stitches, dividing evenly on 3 needles.Knit 2 purl 2 for 4 inches.Knit 1 row plain.Mark the beginning of the next row grith a bright .*Knit 4, purl 4, for four rows.On each Sth row slip first stitch of each needie on preceding needle and repeat from °.This throws the rib over 1 stitch in éach Sth row and makes the spiral rib.Make sock 19 inches long and narrow off as follows.Knit 1 row plain.Knit 6th and 7th stitches together.Knit 6 rows plain.Knit 5th and 6th sts together.K.8 rows plain.K, 4th and StH sts together.K.4 rows plain.Continue to narrow by this method until you have 8 sts left on each needle.Divide sts on 2 needles.Use bodkin and Knit or weave off toe in Kitchener way.Laughing Little Faces And Toy Animals Dear Susan S.\u2014Many thanks for the tterns of animals.I wish you could ve the joy of seeing all the laughing little faces made glad by your kindness at Christmas.I plan on making 6 each of Bret Rabbit, the Cuddiey Cat add Sammy and if I can think of more children and have time, I'll make them.\u2014Just Another Mother, Grand Manan.Are you not giaa you sent me the patterns and we got them in?There were others which came that I was not able to get ready, but hope to manage later ready for another Christmas or for birthdays be tween.Betting The \u201cFlower Garden\u201d Together Beginning st The Corner Dear Busan,\u2014You have hel I was wondering If you co! pieced what they call the \u201cFlower Gar dem\u201d but I do not seem to put it together wight.1 was told to start (n the centre but that doesn't bring it right.I would be pleased if you could help me.Yours in trouble, \u2014B.J.I'm sorry to bs so long in answering.but mail piled up and so many wanted patterns a rush riake presents for children.1 could mot get al! done.Of course do want to pl your Flower Carden from the centre and I think the eas- so man: help me.fii: © l \"WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, JANUARY 16, 1534 lest way is to lay down a shest and ar range all the blocks on it until you get the colors exactly as you like them, best and the outside edge.Then pin them carefully In place on the sheet, That will keep them In order and you can safely fold up the sheet and put It out of your way without having to arrange them all again.As to where to begin to set |t together, personally I think the right hand top corner Is my choice, adding one on each side, then one between and so on as it were diagonally across, but expert quilt-makers may have different ways, and I would be pleased to have our other friends tell us their way.Evelyn's Sunflower Autograph er Applique Dear Susan,\u2014I am returning the patterns for which I am indeed grateful, and sénding you some others, \u201cSunflower\u201d, \u201cTulip,\u201d \u201cPansy\u201d, and \u201cRose\u201d block.All of them are for applique.I think them all pretty.The Sunflower may be cut in petals appliqued on an 18-inch block and set together with 32-inch atripe of color.- SE 4 Evelyn's \u201cSunflower\u201d Or it may be outlined in embroidery.It makes a pretty £Zutograph qulit for an organization, one name to each petal and 30 blocks In the quilt.\u2014\"Evelyn.\u201d Thank you for all the patterns.The \u201cPanay\u201d is quite different from any we have had and l'Il hope to find space for it acon.- Our Paper at a Woman's Institute Meeting Wins Subseribers Dear Susan, \u2014A friend visiting and giving demonstration in smocking at our * man\u2019s Institute\u201d meeting showed us the pattern of the Boy and Girl quilt and also told us about your paper.I sent my sui æcription and now look forward to Monday's mail when it comes.I enjoy your surb have page, iso gardening news, and I am my husband reads it all through.I two little grandchildren and would like to have the slipper patterns and romper patterns for amall boy.Would it be too much to ask Tor the \u201cFarmer Boy and Girl\" ¥ The patterns are already far on their way and we are all glad to welcome a new friend.As I-read this letter I couldn't help thinking as I've often thought before that some of the difficulties of our paper would be solved if someone told the Institutes and Societies for whom our patterns are borrowed about the paper from which they came.So often I get letters saying \u201cPlease hwrry and send the patterns for we have a meeting and I want to show them to our members.\u201d I know it fen't always possible in small groups, but sometimes one or two or more might like to have the paper.Problems of Homemakers Fruit Stain en Silk Dear Madam,\u2014Could you tell me what \u2018would take a plum stain out of a grey silk dress with a satin finish?\u2014C.A.C.The safest and usually a quite satisfactory method is to sponge with clear warm water; even a dark stain usually ylelds to this, especially if the fruit is cooked.Use a soft white cloth to sponge with, \u2018and place under the spot a folded bath towel.Move the towel as it gets damp.If this does not altogether succeed, use hydrogen peroxide, but try it firet on an imoonspieu- ous part of the dress to make sure it does mot take out the grey.Geed-looking Reef That Leaks; And Sink Pipe Stopped up Dear Madam.\u2014I need some help and thought the most likely place to get I(t was from you or readers of your page.Owing to ill health we have had to move from our Alberta homestead '(whers we have been for over 25 years) to Ontario.\u2018We bought a house hers and now find It needs repairs we have not the money to pay for as we must keep what we \u2018have for living expenses.The roof leaks, though the shingles don't look to be in bad repair.We had a carpenter come patch it, but R is as bad as ever.It is Ae slow leaks, but I am afraid it will loosen the ceiling plaster.Is there any cheap way of stopping the leaks and making the roof last à few ysars longer?Could some chéay paint preparation or cement be painted on All up the small places the rain seeps through?Another of my troubles is the waste water pipe from the sink.Ever since we've been hare the water rust away slowly and makes a gurgling sound and we have beer told it is because (hw pipe is nearly filled or clogged up.- I put some very strong lye water down, but.it has not helped any.What can I do to clean this pire so it won't stop altogether?And it ever get it cleaned what Is the best wa: to keep it from fllling up again?\u2014F.R.P.If you get up into the loft or attis above the ceiling and when it first begins to rain and again after it has been raining some time, you might perhaps find the trouble not so bad as you fear.Often around thy chimney or a ventilation vent, rain blown egainst the chimney will seep in, then run down and drip in a number of places, far from the it entered.If the ridgepole cover is not quite tight, it Also bappens there.A small can of roofing cement and a bit of tin in such places may be all you need to close them up.1f the shingles are cracked, as may wall ba after the drought, it will still help if you can get in under the roof and measure roughly so that outside you can tell about up under the cracked shingle.fr roôf reaily is leaking all over, you could stop K with a coat of hot roofing tar, he says, and it would last à number of years and be very much cheaper than shingling.When I questioned whether you could put tar on at this season, he said just get a y when the roof was dry; a bit of frost hurt and have a fire outside to , and someone to mind it, and and it would go all t.As ha ne with a horizontal rus tp pire As liable to have.The uickest and indeed the onl§ way to fix to get a man who is handy With a to taks Is down and clean it léagth Generally the greasy core will a black roll when the pipe is and hammered, but if any ick wire pushed in and out will Then a thorough washing and a Kettle of bolling water poured through ve it in good condition to put into As to keeping it clean, just stesse down as you can and also as littie Yery thick soapsuds.Run clear water in with the soapsuds and whenever you have any extra clear boiling water pour it down.Keep a strainer in the sink and don't let coffes grounds or tha leaves, etc., go down, for anything that may catch or soap is apt to start the trouble in a horizontal pipe.Perhaps L F F ir HH out in ond th Dear Madam,\u2014I find 80 many useful hints from your page that I am fust-won- dering if you could help me out.My heater is lined with bricks, but these are falling Off by pleces.I have heard there is some home-made composition one can mend it with, and would Hke to know if you have the recipe.Marmalade can be made, more reasonable in price, by substituting some pumpkin for some of the fruit.In our house baby takes orange juice dally and orange peelings and pumpkins are used instead of the whole fruit.Orange and lemon peel are cut into strips with sharp scissors, boiled gently là just enough water to cover until tender, then sugar is added and bolled until coated with syrup.These are stored in glass jars ind used instead of bought candied peel for steamed puddings, fruit cakes and decorating cookies-\u2014J.Mackle.There 12 a fire brick powder or cement which may now bs bought by the package, but- many times we have up stove linings and firebricks with the old sait and wood-ash mixgure.\u201cHow much?\u2019 I asked our handy man, \u201cOh, just put a handful or »0 of salt in a tin and some ashes and a little water and go on putt in ashes until you can putty it into the holes,\u201d was his answer.I found the sait melting made more ashes needed than one expected, but 1f he did not have wood-ash he used sifted coal-ash and it seemed to stick.Put it on with the fire out and make a little fire, being careful not to shake out the moist cement.Increase the fire and the cement will bake and often last a long time.Many thanks for the pumpkin marmalade suggestion.Bo many grown folk as well as bables use or Juice now And peel made st home hes so more flavor.Grape fruit a also make a fine flavored peel for a ot HOME COOKING : PUDDINGS AND PIES By Madam Quick Pudding\u2014Bitt together 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, 3 teaspoons Baking powder, and a pinch of salt.Add one cup raisins and a half cup milk.Combine and put into a greased baking dish.Mix one cup sauce drops down into it and motstens it.-Butterscotch Dessert\u2014-Mix to- .gether the following ingredients: two cups of fiour (sifted), three teaspoons baking powder, I teaspoon salt, 3 cup soft butter, one sugar, three eggs, and § cup of =k a cake pan with a genersus costing of butter and dust with brown sugar.In the bottom of the pan place atieus of pineapple with a oh ta the contre of each.Pour the batter over the fruit and bake 4) minutes in a moderate = meal for breakfast, a J WHOOPING COUGH?CROUP?VAPORS RELIEVE DURING SLEEP .- RELIEF AT ONCE! That ls Vapo-Orese- Jene's magie effect! Checks Darozysses anû Ching.Permits restful sleep.halts infection.Used with\" suceuse over §8 years in nj ing Bronchial and modi Croup.Bronchitis.° Disinfects room and prevents spread of infection.directions with package.At all drug stores RELIEVES WHILE YOU LEP Send tor Bovklat No.V a iis Didar, Metso ?oven.Serve with whipped cream.recipe doesn\u2019t say it, but this might \u2018be Inverted after baking and served with the pineapple on top.Health ui Steamod Pudding\u2014Sift together one cup white flour, one teaspoon bakipg powder, a little nutmeg, .and i teaspoom salt, Measure 1% cups of brown sugar and ingredients and steam for one and hours.Pile Piling Pudding\u2014Any cream ple fille ing may be used for a pudding and be vatied by adding sliced banana, ded cocoanut, ér diced pineapple.A square of bright red jelly looks pretty on top.AR easily made, but almost too rich, dessert is made by whipping cream and\u2018 adding chopped nuts and candied fruit.\u2018This 19 tablespoon of butter, add one scant toa- spoon of grated nutmeg, one tablespoon of flôur, and the beaten yolks of two eggs.Mix well together, add a cup and a half of*sweet milk.Blend all together and bake as for any custard ple lu a pestry-lined plate.When firm cover with a meringue made from the whites of the eggs and brown delicately.This ple has a flavée all its own.- ~ Apple and Date Pie\u2014Line a ple plate with any good crust.Fill with a mixture of pared and sliced tart applies, and pitted dates.Sprinkle over all ¥ cup of sugar, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon and 2 tablespoons of cold water.Cover with an upper crust, and bake until apples are done._° Old-Fashioned Potatos Pie\u2014Pesl, boll, preas enough potatoes Cream half a cup of butter with one cup of sugar, and the beaten yolks of four egsm, add the potatoes, a teaspoon each of powdered cinnamon and nutmeg, the juice and rind of one lemon, and last of all, the whites of the eggs, beaten stiff.Line & je plate with rich crust, fll with the mix- ure, and bake without a top crust.Sweet potato ple Is made in the same way, except that the potatoes ars parbolled and them grated, and leas sugar is required, about three-quarters of a cup Instead of the full cup.Thess potato fillings are very nies baked In little tarts.Potato Pritters\u2014New laid eggs may be scarce, but those of \u2018us who laid in a store in early summer can still use them freslx in cooking.Wor three beat six fresh eggs to a froth with a teespoon of salt (even).Pare six medium-size potatoes and grate on horseradish grater into the eggs.Have hot fat on stove ready,\u201d - and drop a.tablespoon of the mixture im and brown, then turn over and brown (eat cléar).With these you have a full hearty lunch, afternoon of supper.They are Eppetizing.No _flour bor any stiffening Is used with these frit.Bran Griddle Cakes\u201480 many people now use bran as a regular part of their diet that the following recipe for bran griddle cakes may be found useful: One cup beam, one cup flour, one tablespoon sugar, twe teaspoons baking powder, 3 teaspoon salt, one ogg, 1% cups milk, one tablespoon melted shortening.Mix and sift four, sugar, baking powdar and salt; add brem Combine egg with milk, and add to the dry ~ ingredients.Add melted shortening.Beat thoronghly and bake on a hot griddle.Bran waffles are made as follows: 1% cups flour, i teaspoon salt, 3; tablespoon sugar, three teaspoons baking powder, % bran, one ogy.4 cup milk, four tablespoons melted short: \u2026 Blét the flour, salt, add 8 been sent the Wits Date Squeres\u20141 cup flour, 2 cups rolled oats, % bup brown sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon soda, % cup butter or lard SIN salt and soda with flour, aid rolied oats, brown sugar and butter or lard.Mix with hands to erumbe.Bprinkle on grea-ef pan half of mixture, add dates stoned and cooked with \u201ca little water and sprinkle remainder of crumbs om top.Judge dates by size of pan.* This sounds like our old friend \u201cMat mony Cake\u201d out and should best of food for lunoh boxes, though wased paper to wrap it in Ë R \u2019 / .Uniform Lesson for anuary 31 - Jesus Begins His Ministry By Hermon Eldrodge Matthew 4:12-25 .Ho preached To all men everywhere The Gospel of the Gol The New Comma.given to men, Thinking the deed and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need.~Longtellow.Whoever Nves true life, tue love \u2014Browning.Internati \\ will love The Preacher No pretentious pulpiteer and when preached The Healer A mere catalog of his cures would.LB WITNESS AJ) CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, JANUARY 10, 1984.practitioner but a ministering brother man whose heart was filled with compassion behind the hand which min- Partaers in His Ministry \u201d But the great truth beyond and neath this three-fold ministry of Master was not what He did but he gave power to us to do \u201c works than these\u201d in à world of A He multiplied himself in his selection of the Galilean fishermen and he mulktiphes himself today a thousand times in the Mves of those who never trod Judaes\u2019s hills and vales and who lve at a distance of two millenniums from his earthly existence.: The teacher is still the heart and hope of our very existent In this our {wentieth century and the teacher who adds Christike love and kindness to knowledge stands highest of all in helpfulness.\u2018The preacher who builds on the teaching of the home and the school and the church becomes the leader of our progressive life.It may be that otiners hold *he public eye but the guidance of the teacher reinforced by the inspiration of the preacher shapes the ages.The healer in the name of Christ is in every land beneath his shining sun.13 it \u201cGreater deeds than these\u201d is be doing.He is multiplying the work of the Great Physician everywhere.Sacrificial service is the earnest of His presence.In performing Christ's three-fold ministry lies the hope of the wordd\u2014 (Published by arrangement with the Congregationalist and Herald of Gos- be insufficient to measure the Great pel Liberty.) + The Three Birthday Dolls ° A Story for Little Folk.\u2018 ,\u201d sald Aunt Mar- she = RE wt I Bs 1 BE ï À i 14 4 i g iy Es H i E His Tit 5 ot ERT ui ë E È g g i F i 3 8 ë Ë 1 & ik BE HE ith i Hit Ë § i iH Ë S5EE § sri Lt pid Har Hi : Is i § ih Là i 3 Ft : i Ë i Ë Te LE fl: #3 EE : Me jf i : E Fely § i w E #3 EF 3 : ï : E Ë ET 1 : \u20ac i Ë | i i p Es ; 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Es t Ë Ë ; i gd ë ë Ë fiz FESR g i ; ape 9 i Edith?- party, and after that every day she and Edith played together.- One morning Angela found Edith .\u201cWhy, what is the matter, she esked.\u201cOh, dear,\u201d sobbed Edith, \u201cI did not NE L hi | Ë F - 4 Hs FE ES 5 ! I; ; & od Fe k E { Ë 338% Et Ë | i Ë É ï : 15 i i 5 i F i E § fa ri ik elt have g : E g ES f Ë d ! ¥ 3 Ë Ë Ë Ë fs 8 | Ë Ë te Ÿ i È E gk Ë § Ë 45 2 ë se af F § ii 1 Eee tail u à i j E f | ie Ë Ë i ; = ë | 8 gs E i E i § 5 § î I Ë Ÿ i i § g = É : Ë Ë L § & i Ë i Ry EF HL E Ë \u2018 ; \u201cThey are lots and lots of care,\u201d sald rather than for the reception of .Angels, while Edith hugged Editha and said nothing.\u201cCome again,\u201d sald Angela, as Martha had to go.\u201cCome and play with us any time, and you have Elizabeth for your baby whenever you come.\u201d MARTHA went away very happy, promisirig to come again soon.\u201cDo you know, mother,\u201d said Angela, \u201cI think twins are lovely, because it gives you a chance to let a Little girl who hasnt a doll play with you when she visita you.I think I shall keep Elizabeth just to lend.\u201d The next day Edith came dashing around the corner with her arms full of dolls, _ : \u201cOh, Angela,\u201d she cried.\u201cDaddy didnt Yorget.It was the store man who sent them wrong.They came this morning\u2014two new dolls; and just see.Daddy came Mome this afternoon and he brought me these,\u201d and she held out for Angela to see\u2014two of the sweetest Japanese dolls possible, dressed in gay kimonos, with beautiful wide sashes.\u201cBee,\u201d said Edith, \u201cthis one with the - Singing Fish or\" all the phenomena associated with life in the waters, none is more fruitful of speculation than the sounds produced by certain fishes, writes E.G.Boulenger, Director, Zoological Society's Aquarium, London.Most remarkable are the vocal efforts of the so-called Mexican singing fish or canary fish, which perform in choirs several hundred strong.The nolse which is produced by a contraction of the air-bladder is mellcwed to musical note as filters through water {0 the listener in a boat our own waters know many -producing fish.The common mackerel, the John Dory, and sunflsh make harsh noises like that result when a file is drawn a rough surface.bullhead, a common fish rock pools, produces a sound tuning up of a violin, whilst.fishermen have lurid tales to tell conger's \u201cbarking\u201d capacity.the conger is a large one and promises to monopolize the boat, its bark is scarcely less intimidating than its bite.: Pursuing our enquiries farther afleld, all kinds of fishes \u201csing,\u201d some to an impressive degree.The huge drummer fish of the Florida coast Mves up to Ms name, as the noises it produces can be heard coming up to the boatman a hundred feet above the fish and suggest to him a roll of the orchestral ketile drums.Fish nolses are, of course, most im- RER T tives declare that they'can hear them coming, \u201cNot by splashing or jumping, for the surface of the water can be quite unbroken, but from the noise which they make under water.The natives think that the noise is in some way connected with mating.\u201d The last sentence bears testimony to the human Instinct to find an explanation for all natural phenom- ens.A close and unbiassed examination of many sound-producing fishes justifies no belief in their deliberate application of the sounds produced.In short, all such vocal or instrumental efforts appear to be quite Involuntary.sound.Experiments at the Zoo and elsewhere have justified this assumption, though some authorities maintain an opposite view.; * At the Plymouth Biological Station efforts were made some years ago to ascertain whether fish could be trained to associate the notes of an electric buzzer with the depositing of food in one particular place.The \u201cdining room\u201d In this instance was a large box, and after a few trials with the buzzer, one particular cod so closely and accurately connected the box with food\u2014whether the buzzer was working or not\u2014that it took up permanent residence there.The fish thus negatived the experiment.In public aquaria the visitor is sometimes impressed by the sudden activity shown by the exhibits when an attendant stationed in the public corridor blows a whistle sounds a gong just before the tank Inmates are fed.The visitor, however, forgets that the fish have a very keen eyesight and that the appea-ance of an attendant \u2018in the service gallery, invisible, of course, to the onlooker, acts as a very potent appetizer and causes the lively demonstration.The association \u2018of food with a whistle or gong is a very effective illusion\u2014but an fllusion all the same.The late Professor Bateman eon- cluded from certain experiments conducted at a research station that most fishes were deaf and took no notice of even a loud report or the shock of an explosion.G.H.Parker in America and Bigelow and Zennick in Germany came, however, to different conclusions.These experimenters became satis- fled that certain fish showed evidence of the perception of sound.Whatever the motive, if any, of \u201csinging fish,\u201d the mechanism by means of which such sounds are launched upon the alr or water is of interest.Though without true lungs, (Continued on page 15) STAMP NEWS In\u2019 connection with the restoration of the ancient Abbey of Orval, a long set of special stamps was put on sale last month by the Belgian post office, at a premium, in a series of striking designs illustrating the old Abbey and the new, together with outstanding episodes of its history.These introduce us to a plan of the Abbey as It appeared in 1760, followed by a glimpse of the ruins taken from an aquatint by the Countess of Flanders.e Courtyard, the Transept, the Belfry, and the Cloisters in the restored building are next shown, and then views of the Abbey in ancient times and the several restorations that it has already undergone, culminating in a picture of the Madonna and Child surrounded the arma of the seven abbeys of the Order of Citeaux in Beigium as the subject of the highest denomination\u2014namely, 10x 4 france.\u2014Times Educational Supplement, AAA AAA : Puzzle Corner § \u2019 Enigma You eat me, you drink me, Deny it who can; I'm sometimes a woman POSTAGE STAMPS NEWFOUNDLAND 3$ aim: oe: 00 mosuek ok enies 16¢; 39 Oanuds andy 16, 80 diff.Se, 7 QR.The, 100 diff.91.78.Bond referscos for epptovais.WESTMINSTEE COMPANY, Oxford Si, hendon, Canada.OUR U.5.BARGAIN LIST new low oie oe = préces om a orate, ste ams, paokels.mu A piece of ground not over large; with ¢ gardsn.\u2014Hokacx, Carnations Vie With Roses æ WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, JANUARY 10, 1936.| By E.I.Farrington, Secretary, Massachusetts Horticultural Society.WER lovers who have taken an interest in the various methods used to keep flowers fresh indoors are now asking about the best flowers to use in the house in winter.Doubtless the question of economy enters.It is desired, of course, to have cut blooms which will last long enough to warrant their purchase.It is desirable also to have flowers which will make a satisfactory appearance it only a small number be used.Curiously enough, tastes differ in different cities.Carnations, for example, are used to a much greater extent in Boston than in New York, where roses seem to find more favor.In both cities, however, and tn some other places, there has come to be a growing demand for orchids, doubtless because the greater production of these flowers has lessened their cost.Probably carnations will be used in 4s scarce and when the able for cut flowers m are comparatively cheap and appear in many shades and colors.They reach the market in several grades.Naturally those with short cheapest, but often they can be to excellent advantage for house - oration, especially on the table prove upon for decoration.Roses with short stems are as useful for house decoration, and especially for the table, as those which cost much more because the stems are two or three times as long.It is only when the receptacle 1s tall and upright that long-stemmed roses are demanded.Short-stemmed flowers are as pretty when used.in low but broad bowls.Although roses will not keep as well can be pro- HT ot many of the flower shows, when arrangements which were lovely by dayilght have become aimost pa looking under artificial lights.almost all cases yellow, purple end blue flowers lose much of their color effect when daylight ceases.Perhaps no flower exemplifies this fact to a greater extent than violets, which become exceedingly ineffective under artificial light.\u2018 The shades and hues of most sweet peas make them particularly attractive urder night lights.Sweet peas are not tall and can be used almost anywhere.The pink shades show up well by artificial lights, and the lavender varleules are always exceedipgly effective.The white kinds are good, but the darker shades evem among the sweet peas are less satisfactory.Much has been written about the beauty of Japanese flower arrangements.It is true, of course, that the to beginners, although some women sem to have à natural aptitude for making harmonious compositions.This subject cannot be adequately dealt with in an article of this kind, but requires long and careful study.It even involves the matter of background.Figured wall paper is less satisfactory as a background than a plain wall.Sometimes a piece of vel- vat hung behind a vase of flowers brings out exquisite effects.Another plan often adopted ls the setting of a vase of cut flowers in front of « : the flowers are to go into account.A large jar filled delphiniums or other tall flowers will sem perfectly at home room or perhaps in a spacious entrance hall, but would be quite powering in a tiny library room.It is especially important have table decorations ' +00 conspicuous, but which the general scheme \u2014New York Herald Tribune.FLIGHT RANGE OF THRIPS One most interesting point with regard to the length of flight of glad- foius thripe wes made Enown at the and migrations of the thrips by the Enmtomological Branch of the Domin- fon Department of Agriculture in the past two years, an effort was made to aduke were able to fly.This was done by means of tanglefoot screens, gnd trap plants, set et varying distances from a definite infestation, and by sweeping.Adults were captured on screens 465 feet from the nearest source of infestatton and on trap plants practically 1,000 feet from the same bed.It te 2:%4hat in aù prob- PR Oe ref pen \"AROUND THE HOMESTEAD sbility the insects migrate much further afield than that If conditions are ripe; bul even such flights are a source \u2018of danger to growers ralaing gladioW in the vicinity of an Infested Carrots and Calendulas WAS in the garden éonight (early October) to pick some tomatoes, fearing a frost, and I came in with 2 pall of the big red fruit in one hand and in the other I carried a bunch of orange and lemon-colored Calendulas ming] with\u2019 a few feathery green ves.I put them In a green glass bowl where y will delight the eye for several days.I had taken me only a very few minutes to gather and : \u201cqs fil ÊsFE 1 i \u201c3 if § sise UE \u2018EF candles on the buffet 30 well there.When I went garden for lettuce and onions the blossoms were there; when the carrots and beets were ready I Calendula and now that the tomatoes, cucumbers and cabbage are in season I am still picking Calendulas.Vegetables as food An Ansual Mallow Frem Spain\u2014 .Better Protect Now Than Teo Early Dear Sir \u2014Last year I saw some largé pink and white flowers that looked some thing like hollybocks but were on bushy plants abgut thres feet high.Could you tell ve what they wers and whether they are perennials and how to grow them?If build bods and ev shrubs and pes- ennials were not protected (n the sutums Ms It better to just let them go, or could anything be done now?Would marsh gress be good?With thanks for past favors.\u2014G.R Your description sounds like Orandifiors, the annual Mallow, origi y brought from Spain I think and now to be had in light red with deep colored veins.toward the inside of \u2018the flower.There are also white and rosy red varieties.Any good well-drained garden soil will suit them.Reed sown outdoors early in spring \u2018where the plants are to grow should make bushes two to three fest tall and bloom in summer and fall.Much better give your plants protection now than too early.Balt marsh grass makes à fine clean mulch, The mala thing is a material that will not mat down, but which will shelter from cold @arying winds and protect from sarily sun aich may art the buds before heavy frost over.boughs or burlap especially on the side getting the midday sup, will protect your shrubs.; Scod-\u2014Freesing gain some idea of the distance the © nation of Fruit , Not Neoessary : \u201c Dear Sir, \u2014Le it considered necessary thad fruit pite and seeds should be frozen before they will Formivate?A peach seed loft: out all winter under & mons will grow.\u2018hut one kept indoors will take à year to start, \u2014\u201c\u2018Pusxled.\u201d In the case of seeds from the hardy fruits like the Apple, Peach, Pear, A and Plum.the seeds will mot germinate for years until certain chasges have takes May I & small house and s garden havel-Cowur.,.Because of this it bes e to be bellevd that t seeds must frozen before they will germinate, but is not HEM i gt ji § 1 ÿ i : & 3 i aîter-ri seeds artificially.The ice compartment of & household refrigerator, fer example, does wall for T small quanti of seed, while for larger amounts the of seed germination.Towers For Back or Shall \u2014 Honesty .or Siiver Pennies bulbs should be set where they will the sun?Also what is the name of the plant, an everlasting, with fist white round pods or flowers?\u2014New Comer.The begonias, Impatiens sultani, paima, ferns, aspidistras and Chinese primes will do very well at the back of your shelf or even on are a fd room where - daffodils and other bulbous plants will last longer in a .cool location away from direet sunlight.The disks which make such à pretty winter decoration are the need peds of a biennial plant Lunaris, Honesty or Silver Pennies, as it is called, from these same silver pods.So ive sacs in the open garden in spring, give the plants a Mght protection over winter and the fol- È Nip off the bedding out in the spring.Have any man or boy cut a piece of heavy board & couple of inches in circumference than the bottonr of the pot, and fasten four heavy castors on it, Hfting the stand two or three inches above the floor.add a\u2019 plece of galvanised sinc over the tem eating or bending an edge up about am inch.Paint it all with a quick paint and you will wonder you have never had one before.You cam saxfiy move the plant for cleaning or light, and the sine will save your floor.GLAD HE TOOK HIS : FATHER'S ADVICE © And Used Dedd\u2019s Kidney Pills Which Made Him Well i i Mr.Rivet Resemmends Dodd': To AR Bug'erere.Montreal, Que, Jan.8 (Special) \u201cFor two years I have suffered with Kid trouble.\u201d writes Mr.Rivet of Papineau Avenue, of this city.\u201cMy Father had Dodd\u2019s X0dney Pills for a long time \u2018suggested that 1 ahouïd give them a trial I followed hia advice, and after taking one box trouble has gone and I have not suff with my Kidneya sinoe.I would like to recommend Dodd's Killmey Pills to all RRL fo, mi te Caner .ney are purely and simply a Kidney Ramedy.They strengthen, clear the clogged passages and revitalise the kidneys of the aged and tone up the kidneys' of the young.\"The road to good Meaith iles through the Kidneys, so profit by the experiencs eof atherd and keep your Kkidneys in gooë con- difion through the regula?use of Dodd's Kidney Pilla : \u2019 À 4 te - > Ec I shocks.the banks.It costs the banks practically de pate ex Ex, ty in ESS sad Sut have it ia thelr government, and every municipal- the land.Conaclous of governmental astute pelitielans clothed with of- at times big financiers, not only to control railroads, tions, wt fur it.æhool districts must do the same.The and sell them to the banks and pay inter- re Ë Hi MERILE gi sn I Biehl fe q ot ih il Bi sl 3 i i hl titi bf 1h ji dk Ë nf uf lt i ji ii Tl N | gh scramble of the in the form SINGING FISH en ° Latin Am dotjars fer pou ue morts of to the banks for it.have com publie applause, out.Bemething of ARce is yielded zs & sop to the Snanciers deudly fo: system with inaransed benefits of bank cred! À erica hai Lis ie oH F $ CUÉÉE ÉSRECEREE Eth Hs LEPRESEREEE I belle di: Est 1 A i] py fee ih Hh Sn oe and Es 5 ?i [4 ext it was Increased per circulate as money for every Paper money and deposit credit which te fot id fe bulk of our currency le ibis gold held by the bank In this \u2014 or paper money is borrowed from but the printing of the bills and The interest paid for the use of sue of credit money.When the U.B.gov- erament wants money it must issue bonds \u2018The states, cities, counties and have gained a measurable voi- are al import + F & tion it.This Christ i Church's mani; on, profit end or fall of ere sre | to Teserved to pulate privilege to increase or decrense the cur- ng the pluie acier one er to \u2018Chris: by the the tedly ao ot o Book true, as the Bishop says in 5 tak 4 kindly action Le old world go.things that people do roma of Contemporary Press pa: billion of four banking te for system ov REGENERATION OR RECONSTRUO- TION?ristian Church, but we instead © plainly ee the or deflation.They only The dig financiers have no fear of infa- Chaos\u2019 \u2014were Ch: clans the to Got.just ET ere were the tiled 1s breast forward t?The we desit wer suffered Jace ti was unable to function to ir g i fig i je, i si tagk gost i fil {fein Jk che ht ome period the ideal seemed to Ouah Profits Pad Woeskly attainable, but the Body takes swewp back the incoming tide.(Church of England Newspaper, London.) anit the Bishop of Ripon calls on the difficulties of the post-war world.reconsider its attitude to- war Dr.Burroughs was fore ndications from London and a, asnington thet the trick of \u201ca new world\u201d was to ut of the welter of carnage and to is low vitality and lack its full with « Mttle bit that people do 80., and a litüe and 1t takes Times, that the alternai te déni | I fi% re m i i ñ il i ik ol i fe i Spat [| HE eR rE HAUTE fii?i an él dil! il i.Ir Hil J Es Es pi ili Ar HL fi EUR ar f I i Ë Ha jl il i iti i i I i i ; i! ll bu ji i i i i] i i, iff fie fh ge a a Hi | j Li Ps si £3 il is i ; ili ill al bl HET bik ey Burd He que FA El want the ity by wait.things that\u2019 i of known, 100% ing i pa sf ployees Ploseant the tariff weve so great that the revenue fell to £3000.The total number of em- equipment FR bs (Advertiser, work, PROTECTIONIST PLUNDER Pr & i 5 > Te PEOPLE'S wees, full or snd instructions ONTARIO ok ws you erie soy Tor Toes Bell - that alo PANY, Dept.$40, Torante 8, Ont.New Zealand have been able Mordwread.flantial sum to the employees\u2019 dividend of 10 per cent and a bonus 0 Bor cot and alm bave placed pay per insertion) 1 umber word.care Belling shrubs eral the rate British ce and FARMER'S briefs time Wi Neokties = to | : i a Adelaide, Australie.) while in New hodlery land the duty is only 30 per cent, and a benevol that duty the Mongul Woollen Mills If these results can be obtained out display st » cesh-with-order rate ot farce cents Der mord Der insertion (mdm MART TEP ST SS, Jon fh fa values of imports of hoslery was £1,600,8M and the Customs revenues was £733,814, wages paid were £600,000, while the Gov- \u2018whereas in 1951-32 the prohibitive effects of «nment revenue was reduced by over in the industries is 4,400, and the i Eüshfaonslt po ¢ fi ii ! i paige js ?ull Bay i A i shiny ; t i \"M sr we I: = if Z fil i} a | i if not rll Whelssems, Proftatdis J.BR.PETERS, B.A, Exeter, ancisfied.Avenme, LITERARY ML.GRANT, K.C., Barrister 513 MoLeod Biook, Edmonton, machine necessary.No seiling.ONTARIO MEOE- WEAR COMPANY, Dept.350, Toronto 3.FOR SALE\u2018 Shasts 81x86 $1 Pair, Montreal.On Approval tic 1 FEMALE HELP WANTED Typed, ie For 100 31, Witness, Momtreal.TROPESSIONAL SERVICES Up.» B 3, Ont.MPG.COMPANT, D°À 78, Preston, Ont.And Soltobtez, , _Mouey Be Desert Relfef And Comfort Write SMITH Lint Pp: Pagé | 8 © and amcen, Always A $1.00.Ask .E».C., Women Wanted To Sew For Us Al Home.Sewing a Ln Tablsoieths x 58 With Coloreé 1:38 postpaid.R, M.LAVERY, Bex 238, fives tim, il i EE sh i Hei WITNESS AND CANADIAN | trans.NEWS or THE WEEK WORLD EVENTS Canada longer Communist organizations will large Tor- be allowed use of Massoy Hall, mem- board of directors, stated on Fri u's resuit of failure to stand and sing \u2018God Save the King\u2019 at a rec ing held in the hall.\u2018ernum 3 ntario nt on Jan oa © ent Toa in the Ontario by default to Douglas Liberal-Progressive lam Egan, uty Minister of I Ea oh on Jan.4 after twenty-three years in the public \u2014 He will be succeeded by Thomas ory, former M.P.for ont.\u2014 Son.Jules Tessier, K.C., aged 82 died In 6.He had held his seat Montreal on Jar.Canada for thirty years.in the Senate of int statement lssued on Jan: 7 the lie SE all three major political ok per tastions in Canada, Rt.Hon.R.B.Bennet! Prime Minister; Rt.Hon.W.L.Mackenst ae King, of the Liberal Party, and Mr.J.S.Woodaworth, of the Co-operati adian peopl Canada might make wa pence world: Commending a study ject which the recently reconstructed e of Nations Society proposes to bring to the attention of hundreds of organizations throughout the Dominion during the coming week, they said thet world peace was menaced as at no time since the close of the Great War.The Canadian people, they suggested, should co-operate in the work of peace as they once had co-operated in the work of wer.\u201cThe aim of Canadian foreign \u2018policy is peace, and that aim expresses the desire of every Canadian.But peace cannot be maintained without knowledge and conscious effort on the part of democratic les.or this reason we believe all Canadiens should study the position of our country in the world and the contribution Canada may make towards sirengthening the agencies designed to ensure world peace and economic stability.| \u201cThe Longue of Nations Society in Canada offers an outline of study in which all our citizens may participate.Without commenting on the details of this project, we commend it to the Canadian people and urge them to inform themselves of the issues which confront the world at the present time.\u201cWithout doubt world peace is menaced today as at no time since the close of the Great War.Canadians did their part nobly in that war and know only too well its borror and its cost in blood and treasure.Another such conflict might imperil western éivitization.\u2018The people of this country worked together in war.We ask them to work together in the nobler task of helping to substitute for the use of violence and force in international relations, the principles of law and justice upon which à world society as well as a national society must vest.\u201d Hon J.D.Monteith, Ontario Ministér of Public Works and Labor, died in hospital at Stratford on Jan.B The Dublin city council, with the Lord Mayor In the chalr, on Jan.8 voted unan- ly in favor of a resolution expressing preciation of the honor and integrity of Irish journalists, regretting the sentence of one month's Imprisonment imposed on Joseph Dennigan, and urging his immediate releass.Great Britain Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall, a leading authority on the antiquities of Egypt, died In London on Jan.2 after a long illness.He was 53 years old.Victor Albert Spencer, first Viscount Churchill of Wychwood, died on Jan.3 at the age of 0 and is succeeded by his son, Victor Alexander Spencer.On January 5 Bir Frederick Ma: was appointed Loré Chief Justice of the Appeal Court In place of Sir Paul Ogden, \u2018who resigned recently.The complete impartiality of the Crown in Great Britain constitutel the \u2018great basis for assumption of our constitution,\" declared Sir Stafford Cripps.Lalor party leader, on Jan.7 in reply to a storm of criticism ralsed against a speech he delivered at Nottingham the day before in which he was quoted as saying, in refer- encé to what the Labor party must overcome when it attaine power in Oreat Britain, that \u2018there is no doubt we shall have to overcome opposition from Buckingham Palace and other places as well.\u201d Cripps sald he did not mean to refer to the King at all, but only those, who advised Wis Majesty.\u201cThe term \u2018Buckingham Palace\u2019 is a well known expression used to describe court circles, officials and other pers who surround the King at Bucking- am Palace.\u201d - 35 residences.Sister Dominions Beaton back in their attempt to land and overthrow the Venesuelan Government, -& little band of rebels sought shelter in Trim- dad's jungies on Jan.§ aguinst the pursuit of avenging countrymen.An Irish Free Btate military tribunal om Jan.2 agreed to an indefinite postponement of the trial of General Boia O\u2019Dufly, co-leader\u2019 of the United Irelaho Party, on a charge of \u2018inciting to kill President Ba- moan de Valera.United States Knes deep in tons of mud, ait and debeis arm on Jan.2 worked into stricken areas California where at least 37 persons died, whom bave been identified, and 78 For the firat time in history the United States on Jan.2 had power to examine state banks while they still were under the full control of atate banking departments Walter J.Cummings, chairman \u2018of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, on \u2018 Jan.2 said that only one Federal Reserve member bank had refused to become a part of the Government's deposit guarantee scheme.In a vigorously worded, personally delivered message, President Roosevelt on Jan.3 pointed an enthusiastic Congress toward his conception of a permanent recovery on « new basis.Two tornadoes which first appeared as huge water spouts in Pensacola Bay, Fla, swept into the city on Jan.4, seriously injuring eight persons and wrecking about Repeal of the anti-trust exemption provisions of the National Recovery Act was proposed in a bill on Jan.4 by Senator Wiliam B.Borah.The Budget for the fiscal year ending June 20, 1935, submitted to Congress by President Roosevelt on Jan.4, and eati- mates for the remainder of the current year foresaw: Government of $10,000,000,000 in the next six na Exe merde for the two years totalling $16,- ,387, receipts aggregating $7,234,004,~ 234, a deficit for the two years combined of $9,286,000,000 and a consequent increase in the public debt to $31,834,000,000, the highest point it ever has reached.Of these disbursements, 35,017,488,467 were listed as general outlays for the ordinary expenses of the Government and the remainder, $11,512,317,200, was set down as emergency spending intended to further the recovery program.Governor Herbert Lehman of New York State informed Mayor Fiorello H.La- Guardia on Jan.§ that he was opposed to his request for dictatorial powers over New Yerk City finances as & move which, if granted, \u201cwould lead to chaos far more dragerous\u201d than the present New York \u2018Aty emergency itself.The parole application of Warren K.Billings, who was sentenced with Thomas J.Mooney for bombing the 1918 Ban Francisco Preparedness Day parade, was denied on Jan.6 by the California State Board of Prison Terme and Paroles.The Radio Commission's division prepared on Jan.6 to Lee FOVOCE- tion of licences of stations broad: advertising for hard liquore.: Alexander A.Troyanovsky, the firat Sovs ist Ambassador to the United States, formally presented his credentials on Jan 8 to President Roosevelt at the Whits Hewes Efforts were under way on Jan.8 te settle a farmers\u2019 selling strike that hed reduced milk shipments into to meagre supplies for infants and hospitals, Thousands of, galions of milk were dumped during the day.Five trucks déltv- eries were pushed into the Chicago River and another was burned.Pickets set wp effective blockades on every highway over which milk might be shipped.Europe A world-wide improvement in the em- Ployment situation vas Doted on Jan.8 a communique of e International Labor Office.A comparison between the last thres months of 1933 and the \u2018previous Year showed a decline In unemployment in 18 nations: Canada, the United Mates, Chile, Germany, Great Britain, Hungasy, Australia, Belgium, Finland, Yugoslavia, Kumania, Denmark and the Irish Free Sate.In Great Britain the index of employment in December rose from 91.6 in 1933 to 97.5 in 1988, the Labor Ofce re.Toned.JTigures for November in 1932 and cated an increase of workers in Canada from TL1 to 766 = Premier Camille Chautemps of made à state question on Jeu.à of «date de y of retlef and rebabilitation wok HOMESTEAD, JANUARY 10, 1634 TOTAL ASSETS IN EXCESS ON $750,000,000 lapses of the city pawnshop !n Bayonne, operated b: his alleged swindle under protection high quarters.Albert Dalimier, ter, resigned on Jan.8 as à result of publié ties with the cabinet's hands clean.Serge Stavisky, founder of the fallea Bayonne municipal pa shot himself when police closed in on him after an international search on Jag 8 and died early pext day.that such action might undermine Germany's credit rating, were made to the German Government on Jan.2 by United States Ambassador William E.Dodd, joining with Great Britain's envoy in Berlin.Thuringian state authorities \u2018moved rapidly on Jan.2 and establizhed 18 courts to handle exclusively the cases of persons suffering incurable ailments who will be subject to sterilization operations under a Gecree made effective that day.Similarly & state sterilization Bupreme Court wes named to bear appeals of these cases._\u2014 - \u2018The Rev.Dr.Rossberger, director of the Catholic Seminary at Freising, near M ich, Bavaria, was tried befors the mary court on Jan.Jon charges of sedition and sentenced te eight months imprisonment.Lieut.-Gen.Baron Werner von Fritsch meesteln-Equord, who resigned last week.Folice swooped down on 1,000 German Sunday school youths on Jan.7, broke up their mestings and arrested their leaders \u201cas the state came to the defence of Reichs- bishop-Designate Ludwig Mueller and his Nasi Church regime.In defiance of Bishop Mueller's suppressive church decres, opposition pastors in huodreds of Reich churches meantime went into open revoit and disclaimed allegiance to Musiler.A revision of arms figures calculated to strike a satisfactory balance .the armaments of the powers, rathd a Tiholessle slash previously favored by.y to have been suggested b: Mussolini to Sir John Stace, sign Secretary, at Rome Promier Mussolini and Bir John Simoa, ths British Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Teached full agreement on Jan 4 on a policy of abandoning disarmament proposais incapable of being put into effect Bow.An official communique said the two \u2018Statesmen favored abandonment of such measures and adoption of others that offered practical fulfilment.A national budget deficit of almost 3,- 000,000,000 lire (currently about 0,000,000) for 1904-38 was shown in the Budget report of the Italian Ministry of Finance dis tributed on Jan.4 in the Cham! ber of Depu~ British For \u2014_\u2014\u2014 The Italian Cabinet Counetl proved Premier Mussolini's tive law project.oo) Rumanian Gov ernment of Constantine Angelescu reaigned Ji after holding Gos leas than five days @ Constantine Bratianu, veteran R: Mondor, was elected head of the Nesey Liberal party on Jan 4 to secosed the Premier Ion G.Duos.Fire broke ort on Jan.¢ in the \u201cNelson IIT\" coal mine at Duchcov (Dux), Cseaho- slovalda, where a fearfal explosion 160 miners in the workings.One hundred and twenty men still in the mine faced certain death, relief experts feared, 11 they have not aiready been killed by polscaous uses.on Jan.§ ap- DSW COrpors- was said authoritatively on Jan.3 - Premier Benito were reported imminent on Jan.3 in circles.Seventy-six persons were killed and were injured on Jan.8 in a sudden, The Brewers\u2019 Dream By A J Irwin 7 4 Ë Ë splat i i He 2 "]