Witness and Canadian homestead, 31 janvier 1934, mercredi 31 janvier 1934

[" WITNESS HOMEMAKERS PAGES 11-12 ~ Jom DOUCALL & BOW.PUBLISNEAS, In its 90th your of veluntary service teams, are all gone, never to reappear.THE WITNESS is working through The moccasin and the snow-shoe have its readers in every province disappeared.It may be remembered that the primary reference of Kip- and they through it, to Mugs poem had nothing to do with : the question whether our climate was arctic, torrid or temperate.It was just before Queen Victoria's 1897 Jubllee and we had \u201cjust wakened up\u201d to the worth, noble freedom and generosity of British institutions.Sir + Wilfrid Laurier and his great Finance : Minister Mr.Flelding made a step toward the tariff reduction which \u2019 The Week\u2019sQutlook they xnew to be in the interest of the country, by giving a preference to - British goods\u2014a very slight retgsn for \u201d the complete freedom which we with sil the world enjoyed in Britain'y markets.So the poet wrote: \u201cCarry the word to my sisters\u2014 To the Queens of the East and the South 1 have proven faith in the Heritage , - By more than the word of mouth, Samuel Insull seems to have Incurred They that are wise may follow some such judgment as that.Greece Ere the world's war trumpet which, having no extradition trestles, blows, tells him But II am first in the battle,\u201d month from hes- Said our Lady of the Snows.Snoews and Tariffs THE Canadian Protectionists were angry with Laurier and Fielding as well as with Kipling for his appreciation of the politicil wisdom of the Canadian statesmen.They shrieked, and caused their followers to shriek, that Kipling was destroping the reputation of Canada\u2019s climate.Snowstorms and winter sports became taboo in polite Tory conversation.The Witness was almost the only\u2019 paper which upheld the beauty of the Canadian climate.As a matter of fact, Kipling's poem and the Laurier-Field- ing tariff policy were the finest bits of publicity which Canada had ever been accorded.Immigration of the very best British and European stock came flooding to our shores and our {rede returns, over a number of years, increased by leaps and bounds.In Insulated ANTE found in Hell an infinite floating ° population who were - panies among the penguins.Greece.may congratulate herself on a lucky escape.Mr, Insull was planning to give his adopted country the benefits of his organizing abilities by getting to work on her public utilities.tet fact it is from that era that Canada \u201c > dates her status as a modern nation.Our Lady But, as we know, Protectionist spite of the Snows\u201d - dogged the path of British preference ti it saw a chance to destroy its most characteristic features and i continued té heap obloquy on poor Mr.Kipling\u2019s poem.Now, judging from Mr.Longstaff's address the value of the poem to us, in dollars and cents, is beginning to permeate our conaclous- ness.Bome diy the value of the policy which the poem celebrates may also dawn on our mind.\u201cThe, gates are mine to open, As the gates are mine fo close, And I abide by my Mother's House,\u201d Said our Lady of the Boows.PEAKING at the annual meeting of the Traffic Club of Montreal, Alan N.Longstaff, press representative of the Canadian National Railways, sald that Canadians were just waking up to the fact that the country possesses wonderful resources in fresh air, scenery and outdoor enjoyment, in winter as well as In summer.\u201cSo i is that we are \u2018selling\u2019 our playgrounds instead of hiding them, and one of the finest pleces of advertising we have ever had was least appré- clated by Canadians themselves when Rudyard Kipling\u2019s poem \u2018Our Lady of the Snows\u2019 aroused such & storm of comment across the Dominion.\u201d The poem by the \u201cLaureate of the Empire,\u201d as Kipling was known in those days, certainly had à strange reception in J jamming a Montreal schoolroom, Canada, where i should have been.as many more clamoring vainly to get appreciated.In like spirit our glorious ~ inside where a Franciscan priest and ice palace festivals were suppressed a Communist leader were alternately Upon the pusilanimous date of drawing chéers from the crowd as they the Montreal Board of .Every _ argued the pro and con of the exist- nation has always known that Canada ence of God; congregations filling to is \u201ca few acres of snow,\u201d and that our overflowing the church of a converted port was closed in winter.What we Roman Catholic French-speaking cler- had to do was to make the best of it, gyman who is carrying on an aggres- not the worst of it\u2014to show what great sive Protestant ministry in a hitherto cities had grown up all of themselves almost exclusively Roman Catholic in the midst of these attractive snows.section; are these portents or merely True, these are not what they were.a transient phenomenon?Has it any The exhilarating riot of sleigh bells, bearing on the plea of Rev.Viotor the gloriously fur-bedecked sleighs, Rahard that his aggressive campaign- drawn by spanking spans and tandem ing among his racial kindred is motiv- A Freak or a Portent?WO thousand French-Canadians and Canadian Homestea .Volume LXXXIX.Number 5.MONTREAL, JANUARY 3 OXFORD GROUP PAGES 7-10 d peepee FIVE CENTS A COPY 1, 1934.ESTABLISHED 1845.sted not by dislike of the Romish ba-\"~ It is à time for a government, church but by his desire to save the\u201d in the Interests, not only of the nation muititudes who are drifting from the but of the world, to hold on to the only form of Christianity they know wisdom which it summoned- to 1ts help.into the arms of a godiess materialism?\u2018The hour appears big with opportunity.Will Protestants who claim that they have à Gospel which meets every hu- \u2018man need rise to that opportunity?The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few.We remember that Christ looked about the multitude and had compassion upon it as sheep not having a shepherd.The responsibility upon the leaders of the evangelical faith is great.It is-no time to be nice about \u201csheep stealing.\u201d \u201cThe Blasphemy Charge R readers who are living in areas where newspapers, chiefly Protest ant-owned, are suppressing information.on the progress of the blasphemy charges brought against Mr.Rahard, we have to record that the rector of l'Eglise du Redempteur appeared in court last week before a provincial judge and heard the case postponed at the request of his own counsel, Mr.A.H.Tanner, K.C., and at the request also of the prosecution whose lawyer \u2018was not even present in the Court.There has been some talk to the effect that efforts will be made to secure his deportation to France as an undesirable in the event of the prosecution being successful\u2014all of which displays the importance of his mission and the Var Scares sort of arguments by which he is opposed.Messages of support and encouragement have come to him from all parts of the North American continent and from Britain, and a cable from as far away as Australia.Protestants everywhere appear to be seized of the importance of this case, which may, indeed, have far-reaching ramifications.Only the Protestants most concerned, those of Montreal and vicinity, remain indifferent \u2018or at best manifest in too many cases the most languid of interest.The Central Bank EOPLE might be pleased to hear that the bankers had been giving advice to the Government as to the approaching revision of the bank act as being the most competent in the country to give it, were it not that throughout the country there is & strong sense that in many ways the interests of the banks have seemed to be opposed in a crisis to the Interests of the people.Bo much is this the case, that when the decennial revisal of the act came due last year, it was thought desirabie to have the whole system overhauled by an intelligent outside commission.The common outside judgment is that that commission did its work disinterestedly and competently and that as its report Involves replacing the banks, as to some of their powers, bankers must rather be pleaders for reprieve than independent advisers.The need of placing each nation's financial mangement in the hands of a central bank is the obvious lesson of the gold crisis.In future, gold will not be relied upon as The Field of Honor : revival of duelling in Paris I fell flat without the final chivalrous shake-hands.It was otherwise fairly completely staged.Instead of the lonely field and the coffee of the legend it was in a football arena, which would doubtless have been crowded but for the failure of the papers to discover and announce where it was to come off.So twenty thousand empty seats looked down upon the field of honor.The principals duly appeared, each with his second and a doctor.These, with some friends and the caretaker of the building, formed the audience of about thirty.Each of the dishonored Parisians, one - a deputy to the parliament, the other the lawyer of the forty miilion dollar pawnbroking defaulter, fired his pistol twice toward the other from thirty-two yards away, and then both drove off, each saying he was not satisfied, and probably admitting that if there is no more \u201cgloire\u201d in it than that, it is hardly worth while chartering an arena for the show.f AR dangers have been pretty well worked up all over the world\u2014war between France end Germany, between Japan and Russia, and most foundationless of all, between Japan and the United States.Though no one has heard a whisper of a menace on elther side or knows of any casus belll, the war legend 1s positively bolling over.That good pacifist, Herriot, gave it a great boost by an eloquent speech depicting impending wars.To this fire-bell, Stalin replies with a declaration that all the nations are preparing for an assault upon Russia, Great Britain in the lead.Great Britain is the Communists\u2019 pet aversion because of her abortive attempt to support her Russian ally in its constitutional phase, against the then unfathomed- depths of the communist upheaval.Stalin tells the world that any assault upon Russia will mean such an overturning as will be- Tittle all before it\u2014that the attacking nations will all be stabbed in the back by their own submerged classes.What has started Stalin in this vein is not Britain is bullding Singapore for purpose of a coming war United States.So far as go, it might as well speak of an -pending war with Jupiter.But, the curse of Babel, the worid in watertight compartments in such people can be fooled at pleasure of Hs despots. claims, the United States gave assurance that she would stand for the integrity of the Chinese Empire.That assurance may have served some diplomatic purpose.\u2018Don\u2019t,cry, dear.Auntie won't let the big bad bear bite you.\u201d But it never took form in mill- tary movement or menace.That was before Japan was a power.True also, the Philippines have since fallen to the United States and Japan is imagined to want them.True, the United States Congress most offensively shut the Japanese out of her territory.But, as the new war minister of Japan says: there are no differences that cannot be met by_negotintion between two friendly powers.If we seek for the real cause of all these fears of each other which afe bringing war anxiely to all nations, including Great Britain, we find it in the armament concerns and their liaisons with the military authorities.In the United States, the leading incentive is, no doubt to have an excuse for building as big a navy as is possessed by that ancient and supreme enemy Great Britain.But some more immediate cause might be better looking to put forward if one could be found.A Peace AN it be true?Poland, the long oppressed by Germany,\u2014Poland, enlarged beyond all reason by France im the treaty of Versailles, that she might be her right hand man when should come a clash, \u2014Poland, whose behalf that treaty ran a chivalry, from the multitude of Ger- of her imperial side that Poland repre- with the boundary as it stands for ten years to come.In return for this miraculous setilement, Poland has #Amply recognized Germany as a power of equal rights with others to take measures of self-defence.As i seems probable that Germany will assert this right anyway, it does not look like practically a hig concession on the part of a small power.The enormous meaning of this treaty is the breach it makes in the cincture of enemies that France created round Germany.A different despatch from Warsaw tells how the Polish parliament has practically conferred dictatorship on Marshal Pilsudski, who is expected to succeed President Moscicki.The coincidence seems to say that the very peaceable policy {mplied in the treaty is that of the wariike Pilsudski.\u2019 The San Breaks Through T is @ wotld of wonders.A new foreign minister named Hirata has taken office in Japan, first announcing that he was going to follow in the steps of his predecessor, proceeded to reverse everything that we have been hearing from there.No doubt there wouid be questions between Japan and the United States, be sid, when treaties were to be revised; \u201cJapan in co-operftion with Waah- ington was earnestly seeking better relations.\u201d Hew different from the - WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, JANUARY 31, 1084 Hie chickens in the peaceful barnyard when a fussy puppy gets among them giving every naval department an excuse for multiplying ships to the cost of millions and millions, to the im- medsurable enrichment of the ship- bullding and armament firms and the burdening of the taxpayers, all of which veasels will be out of date in twenty years, having probably had no occupation other than parade in the meantime.Baron Hirata went on to say that the government, which had no desire or purpose but peace with all nations, was attempting to settle all differences with Russia, beginning with the Chinese Eastern Rallway.That rallway, built by Russia, has been hers to manage under treaty with China, and is essential to Russia's purposes.The last we heard about it was that Japan had forbidden to Russia any say in the control of it.The last news from that frontier was a mandate to Russia to withdraw her troops from her own side of the boundary.Any one who looks at the map will see that Japan could Withdraw to any given \u2018distance and still be at hand, whereas Russia could not withdraw her force defending Vladivostok less than fifteen hundred miles, to where she would be beyond reach, if that all-important seaport were threatened.The Russian answer was that Japan would find a very different army in Russia from the Cxar- ist army that she drove ciit in 1906.scious Japan saw all that as having reference to her, though she may picture.It will surprise the British Empire to learn that a book on \u201cthe certainty of an Anglo-Japanese war\u201d has reached its forty-fifth edition.It is, of course, the army and the navy department that keep up an ever impending crisis and have worked up à great one for next year.The pacifist expressions of the war minister seem to have lifted much off the mind of Japan's statesmen and citizens They were greeted in both houses of parliament, by both parties, with ap- says one, \u201cthere is duplicity in it somewhere.\u201d But it does not look like that.done that\u201d What is the value of prayers for peace unless one counts on an answer to them?A Blow Discovery R.TASCHEREAU, the prime minister of Quebec, has always stood out for making\u2018ablebodied relief contingent on service, the only mode of relief that is not humiliating and demoralizing, and therefore a cruelty to the recipients.On his return from than that a great deal of good would result trom the conference.and that imch conferences are Ina getieral way he gave out that the principle of direct relief would still be pursued for this winter but that agreement was general that unemployment should be dealt with by public works which would be applied later, if possible.It would seem to be ene of the unfortunate concomitants of our and we have not yet found out bow to use the time of labor receiving support to get beneficent public works done, to the present and permanent benefit of all concerned.The chief obstacles may possibly be the determination of labor to get union wages or none.No doubt, there have been numberless cuts in wages and no doubt the prices of things are naturally very - slow In adjusting themselves to the new value of money.But the changes in wages were very much sdower than the reductions in prices, and wages or salaries, actually have profited during the depression at the cost of any who might have got work, if the cheaper cost of getting it done had afforded sufficient temptation to those > who could raise the money for such facilities, improvements, and embel- lshments, the creation of which would have been a tempting investment of the essence of liberty, the control of of the private citisen against irresponsible bureaucracy.We have not quite got to making retroactive laws such as the highest court in Germany has declared to be within the powers time In a house where it has an assered majority is.to bring on meas -ures the members do not understand, Mr.Roosevelt's i 5 E feb LE È HE that that is what they to vote for\u2014theirs not to reason why.Some will believe they have themselves thought the problems all out.In every case the result will be the same.only awgjt.marching orders.We having just now a fine example of government by prime minister in the Province of Quebec.A dill may 7 of the business or its privileges are extended.We are told now that night club galety is à notable fea- - ture of Montreal life\u2014is, indeed, à notorious scandal; so that must be done to regulate it.How to make night club life anything less than a scandal 1s, we presume, a task that would take two of the Han.Mr.Stock- well, our Provincial Treasurer, especially with the liquor commission at his elbow, continually urging more, more, more.Autecracy is Inherent In our whole parliamentary system.We are dependent for our liberties on losal diversity.Only majorities have any voice.Any unressoning whim thas blows evenly over the whole ooun- \u201cenr the First\u201d .ENRY PU-YI is determined (it cannot be a matter of indifference to mankind what his own undiscovered personality amounts to) that he will be à modern sovereign.\u201cAn entirely new order of things will be created in Manchukuo,\u201d he says, \u201cI do not want to turn back the hands of the clock\u201d So unlike that other promising young Emperor whom we know as Solomon, he is not going to have a harem.He had à \u201cnumber two wife\u201d when he was living in exile in Tlentsin three years ago, but, after the manner of Hollywood, he divorced her.His \u201cnumber one\u201d Queen possessed a lengthy and difficult Chinese name.Pu-Y1 had an English tutor and became 80 deeply interested in English history that he made up his mind that if ever he mounted a throne he would call himself \u201cHenry the First\u201d and his queen Elimbeth.Henry's \u201cmodern\u201d method of life will enable him to dispense with a host of palace servants and hangers on such as usually make an Eastern Court a centre of intrigue and corruption.\u201cDivine Right\u201d HIGH government leaders say that he has received thousands of petitions from peoples throughout the country to accept the throne.They declare that he \u201cobtained sovereign virtue and won the confidence and popularity .by his wise and beneficent rule\u201d since Manchukue was founded two years But they maintain that these petitions and popularity have not been taken with Henry.He will be guided by principle of \u201cwang-tao\u201d or \u201cbenevolent rule\u201d and will avoid all autocratic and despotic tenderness.He will honor all international obligations and will work for peace and a better understanding among the nations of the world.Henry the First will have no parliament, but à Privy Council and State Council.REPORTS have circulated in Ghina that Pu-YI\u2019s elevation to the throne of Manchukuo is a call to the allegiance of his former Chinese subjects.A Tokio Foreign Office spokesman has branded these repacts as \u201cutterly false.\u201d \u201cOn the contrary,\u201d he says, \u201cit will stress the separation of Man- chukuo from China and Manchukuo's complete freédom from the intrigues, civil wars and sorrows of China below the Great Wall and will assist in the 00 & sudden visit of Inspection, ia establishment of peace and security along all the frontiers of Manchukuo.\u201d This sounds beatiful.Everyone knows, however, that poor Henry is but a puppet prince, a figure-head for Japanese designs.He is remembered by former visitors to Pekin as a youth wearing hom-rimmed spectacles, having a treat interest in all things of the wonderful western world.He specially loved hicycle riding.As he usually had to take his exercise In the palace grounds He rode his bicycle round and round and had a really exciting time in his endeavors not to run into and destroy the imperial rose bushes and other shrubs and flowers.When he mounts his new throne Henry wil riding in keeping path laid out for him by tha \u201cdivine will\u201d of Japan.Demecratie \u201c Reformatierr R forms of government let foois contest; that which is best administered is best.Democracy is not dead but sadly needs regeneration.People may be still alivg who remember when the remarkable success of the United States had created a gensral conviction among the intelligentsia of Europe and America that all that was neces WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, JANUARY 31, 1964.sary to put the world on the highroad to good government was to wipe out class privilege and give the people themselves complete control of their own affairs.By the way, why should not the new nation prosper\u2014with the best inheritance of manhood in all history, with the vastest aweep of arable land in pbasession, in the best of climates?But people always prefer to aseribe the advantage they have from God's bounty to their own excellent ways.True, there was Tammany, the chief agitator for manhood suffrage which developed, along with what was then thought to be the final step in democracy, a code of corruption for which 1t became proverbial.But that was because its members were chiefly Roman Catholics.With public schools they would in another generation be good Americans.True again, the principle of manhood suffrage did not seem to apply to the blacks in the South or to the Indians In England, under pressure from William Wilberforce, the conclusion had been reached that the Negro was \u201ca man and a brother.\u201d Fallure of democracy on the color line proved explosive later.Btill, there was unexampled prosperity, and Charlies Mackay, a highly placed London editor, was writing popular ditties about \u201cthe land of the free,\u201d which it wasn't; \u201cwhere the mighty Missouri * rolls down to the sea,\u201d which it didn't.Its waters had to loiter far through scenes of devilish oppression which were even then firing the pen of Mrs.Stowe and kindling the unquenchable real were getting such silly jeers from Punch as \u201cBeecher, false teacher and deceiver.\u201d DP slavery cure itself?Not without thunder peals of destruction.Did Tammany cure itself?Though it was the core of the Democratic party, yet through more than half a century of Republican ascendancy it manipulated the foreign element, ruling ignorant majorities in their own level of public morals.Only now has Tammany\u2019s own party\u2014the pro-slavery party\u2014 the pro-Tammany party\u2014mustered moral strength to throw It off.So effete had the .Republican party\u2014 now the party of privilege\u2014become, so dumbfoundered were its financial supporters, not knowing which way to turn, that a Democrat of Republican ancestry walked the course In contempt of the Tammany slough.He is proving a Hercules to assail that Augean stable; and what a reeking mess he is working In! Here ls a penitentiary on Welfare Island, which, found to be run by \u201cbig shot\u201d gangsters, well supplied with narcotics, pistols and tools, who are giving hospital luxuries to such as ean pay them and excluding real sufferers who cannot.The official who made the sudden raid was received with a shower of missiles.He reported the conditions the worst in the world.This} after a century and a half of self government, most of it under popular\u201c suffrage, is pretty strong proof that, without a change of heart in the people, little else is to be looked for from giving them their own way.\u201cEvil men ,and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.\u201d We can only look with high hope to the regenerative power of the spiritual light that seems to be dawning anew upon a world in which the old lights seem to be flickers.~~ A Fairy - T IS more than a hundred years ago, while Napoleon\u2019s armies were Æhrching and ocountermarching through Germany, that the brothers Qrimm\u2014not at all \u201cgrim\u201d in their character\u2014collected and compiled the volumes of fairy- and folk-tales which shall charm childreh of all countries to all generations.In view of the directors of the new age in Germany new stories are required, which shall embody the beauty and the herolsm of the older ones.So a story has been written in which the countries of the world other than Germany play the part of the \u201cbig bad: wolf\u201d Because they were filled with envy, \u201cEngland and France and her other nelghbors wished to kill Germany.But how can one kill a land you will ask?Ah, children, that is something terrible.\u2018They tried to do it through a war.They sald \u2018We will not allow Germaany to be more beautiful than we .we will kIU her\u201d So they placed their soldiers and cannon all round Germany to shoot at her.\u201cBut our German soldiers were good and brave.Quickly ran to the frontier and did not let in the enemy.\u201d Then a \u201cwicked spirit\u201d took possession of the land.It bade the soldiers stop shooting and the workers to stop making munitions.80 poaz Germany suffered like \u201call good spirits in the fairy tales, children.\u201d Germany passed under a spell and many shook their heads and sald that nothing could be done.But \u201cone man, a soldier, sald, \u2018No! It can't go on like this!*\u201d and \u201cthe good God spoke to him: \u2018You shall save the Germans from this tragedy and I will help you\u2019 The soldier .was Adolf Hitler.Then he was alone.But now the world knows him, His Germans love him.His enemies fear him.All the world knows that he Is protected by God, with whose help he will save Germany.\u201d There is much more of it.\u201cAt the end of the war England threw dangerous bombs full of poisonous gases\u201d Into Germany.The hero was gassed but recovered and after var- lous adventures made \u201cgreat and wonderful speeches.\u201d 80, \u201cwith drums and bugles and flags, these storm battalions march through the streets.\u201d The Application or course there is the application.Good little German boys and girls must train so that they shall be prepared to follow their heroic leader.Girls above all must \u201clearn to be rub- missive and ylelding.And that, as you know, children is very Important.\u201d There is no mention in the fairy tale of how the hero or his merry men helped along the good cause by burning the Reichstag or shooting or torturing unoffending citisens, by herding people into miserable concentration camps and by confiscating their property.Sooner or later the child\u2014 and the \u201cgrown-up\u201d\u2014wakes up to the fact that\u201cbed time stories\u201d are not always-true.What will happen to the \u201chero\u201d when the day of disillusion comes and it becomes evident that he\u2014or the spirit of violence and \u201cIntolerance which he embodies \u2014|s really the \u201c spirit\u201d which has afflicted Germany?The \u201cChristmas Truce\u201d * IERE was a truce over the Christmas and New Year holidays between the various sections of the German Church, the parties utilizing the season of peace and good-will to consolidate their positions.Poor old President Hindenburg is in some respects the unhapplest man in Germany.On the one hand his whole Mfe, military and civil, has centred around the ideal of German unity.On the other hand, he is à devout Evangelical, with «il an evangelical soldier\u2019s devoutness, and looks with considerable uneasiness on the queer neo-pagan theologies of the \u201cGerman Christians.\u201d Evangelical leaders have publicly and privately protested to him about the Hitlerising of church organisations.Dr.Frick, Minjster of the Interior, has also .pointed out the unfavorable effect the merging of the youth movements of the church with Hitler bodies would have on foreign Protestant opinion, especially as it would mean the end of the YMCA and Y.W.C.A.in Germany.The President has done his best to keep out of the chureh dispute but \u2018.THREE these representations from his evangelical friends so wrought on him that he has administered an official rebuke to the Relchsbishop for his \u201cdictatorial actions\u201d especially in regard to hig \u201cyouth policy.\u201d regime had \u201cunified the church\u201d Reichbishop Mueller, evidently with the backing of the Chancellor, reintroduced the objectionable \u201cAryan clause™ as a regulation throughout the German church and forbade dissenting pastors the right of public expression on pain of suspension from office.The Lutheran Bishops of Bavaria, Wurttem- burg, Baden and Hessen have defiled him, informing pastors and congregations under their jurisdiction that they did not intend to bow to the decree.The Pastors Emergency Federation issued a solemn protest: \u201cThe bishops and high officers .have openly failed to prevent heathenism from Invading the Church.Before God and as a Christian community we make our complaint that the Primate is threatening violence to those Who.speak out and cannot keep silent concerning the distress of their Church.We also accuse the Primate of reinstating laws violating the Protestant creed which he himself had abolished for the sake of peace within the Church.We declare that this inconsistent attitude makes it Impossible to give him our confidence.\u201d (The law which the Primate had abolished and then reinstated is of course the \u201cAryan clause\u201d discriminating against Jewish Christians.) One brave \u201cdissenter\u201d from the Archepiscopal decree is Pastor Gerhard Jacobi of the Kalser Wilhelm Memorial Church, one of the famous churches of Berlin.He has been active in the Emergency Federation and capped his activity by a sermon on St.Peter and Cornelius, with special emphasis on the text, \u201cGod hath showed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.\u201d The \u201cGerman Christian\u201d reply to this was characteristic.Seven men broke into the pastor's house, beat him severely and escaped before aid could be summoned.Even if the police had come their value as protection to a \u201cdissenter\u201d is problematical.A recent document signed by Herr Diels, Chief of the Prussian Police, has come to light.It orders police throughout Prussia to watch the Emergency Federation as \u201ca potential enemy of the state.\u201d Police have visited many clergymen at their homes, have questioned them closely, and in some instances, have put them under arrest.\u201cYo Steady the Ark\u201d ERS have been issued for the dissolution of the laymen\u2019s auxili- arles which had been formed to support the alms of the dissenting pastors, The Chlef of Police of Hagen, West- phalle, has prohibited all church youth organizations, whether Roman- ist or Protestant, from holding any public meetings or demonstrations.And the queer thing about it all is that both these youth organizations and the pastors and churches are utterly loyal to the state and were quite ready to make a hero of Hitler until he and his agents introduced their repressive measures.Eight \u201cGerman Christians\u201d and eight Evangelicals met the other day in an endeavor to heal the breaches of the church.Chanesllor Hitler and Dr.Frick were afbo present.Quite unexpectedly the session was joined by General Goering.This, according to the dispatch, was taken \u201cas an indication that Goering is deter mined to enforce peace.\u201d That the degenerate and semi-lunatic Goering should put out his hand to \u201csteady the ark\u201d which those obstinate oxen Hitler and Mueller have shaken is one of the most absurd features of the whole affair.For the church to accept his aid in settling its dificnities would be suicins. WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, JANUARY 31, 1964.\u2018Tour _ Degradation ence and progress, they had to make And Disintegration acquaintance outside of that conservy- ative system.Even after a generation of the Montreal University and of its Quebec Legislative Assembly to older aister.at Quebec, we are not make lotteries for charitable and edu- sure that His Eminence puts these cational purposes legal in the Ancient deficiencies in the past tense.The Province, Mr.Taschereau intimated need of such an institution, the Car- last week.Mr.Taschereau, we are told, dinal urges in vigorous but carefully sees no reason why Quebec should be directed words, seeing that whatever tied to the Dominion Government in defects he bluntly admits ini the home this matter.As to that argument, schools, there are far more serious most people will think there is suffi- deficiencies in the soulless material- cient reason for the connection in the ism of western training.He bespeaks constitutional provision that jurisdic- - an impregnation of all the course with tion on that point is vested in the Do- the wisdom of Aristotle and St.Thomas minion Government.Since Mr.Tasch- Aquinas\u2014well selected names as both ereau\u2019s lottery plea failed to win over of these may be called, each in his the Conference of Prime Ministers at way, morning stars of the renaissance.Ottawa, he has hopes that the Domin- Still, there has been no dearth of that lon Government will be persuaded sut- sort of thing in the \u201cschools of philo- ficiently to relax the ban in the Crim- sophy\u201d which have long existed among inal Code on this form of gambling us.What was wanting was something to permit of Quebec having her own to bring culture up to date.The Car- sweepstakes and lotteries.What if dinal has pointed out all too plainly Mr.Bennett refuses?Will Mr.Tasch- the weaknesses of the new achool.ereau proceed farther along the way What his remarks force us to gather to make Quebec a state within a state, 13 that its base was too narrow for where Canadian laws on séch matters stability.Its roots are in too hamper- as gambling, validity of mixed mar- ed hot-beds for generous growth.It is mages and definition of blasphemy do racial, which hag accentuhted the not hold good?Mr.Taschereau speci- tendency to seclude it from the fel- fically mentioned the University of lowship of contemporary mental ac- Montreal as an institution which would tivity.It is denominational, bound benefit from the proceeds of the gam- to a dead body of indefensible tra- ble.By an interesting coincidence dition.It Is sectional, and yet its the Montreal newspapers which told of public resources are derived in minor the grand banquet at which archl- degree from that section of the pop- episcopal support was pledged to the ulation.These subventions had the University lottery, carried a report of usual vice of benefactions to public a Provincial Police raid upon the head- institutions in being in too large pro- quarters of a lottery in Hull, the pro- portion in land and buildings, out of ceeds of which were sald to be for a all proportion to endowment for op- needy hospital in that city.Montreal eration expenses, The fact remains University authorities have been care- .that money is needed.Professors do ful to dissociate the institution from not abound here who could live, as has the lottery launched in its support, but always been the case with most of the are quite ready and willing as indi- old world schools, out of the fees their viduals to aid the plan, and, as offi- students could pay them for lectures cials, to acoept the proceeds.Are thoy given, some of them, in the professor's willing then that their institution own parior\u2014students who have had should get the reputation of being often to reduce to extrem- supported by gambiing?ty to meet this due.° Book Making _ Needed A BY-PRODUCT of the lottery agita- Support tion is the formation of a Domin- this university was planned .i fon-wide body of bookmakers who have turned all too naturally to govern- retained a Montreal lawyer to formu- ments, provincial and civic for subven- late a bili which will be pressed upon tions and was generously treated by MP.'s to make handbook betting legal both.It was recognized in government in Canada.The bookmakers argue quarters that what was done for the with perfect justice that thelr form of Dew university must be duplicated to gambling is just as ethical as the lot- Mg@ill, & university of world renown, tery system, even more so in that a Which had hitherto flourished on the certain element of skill and knowledge bounty of Montreal merchants.It is enters into the bettor's selection of the recognized that public money must horse he is backing.With the ban Not go for the propagation of any de- lifted in this fashion, there would be nomination.Indeed, if there is any opening for the establishment of the one thing historically plain in our un- gambling casinos that are the main Written constitution it is that people source of revenue of places like Monte myst not be taxed for religions in Carlo.It isævell that Canadians should Which they do not believe.In the se the end of the road along; which Province of Quebec the Roman they are travelling, even though it be are empowered to tax their own at the beck of eminent prelates, wi.herents for the support of their an ultimate destination at which the church, but whatever can claim to turn of à wheel may replace the Secular gets what public money it \u2018ean ploneer efforts, which our orators 58 a first recourse.His Eminence has never fail of extolling.made it quite plain that in his view .this university is denominational and A Hepeful Enterprise \u201c WHE have always looked with hope we are extremely distressed that the upon the generous purpose of church is according it such sinister broadening the educational opportun- aid.- .ities of our fellow countrymen em- \u2014_\u2014_\u2014 bodied in this institution.With all their vast national foundations dating Calling bo ee se a ce ES , ir eges and convent schools ail over the country, the ERE it not for the \u201cred fool educational product in the large fury\u201d of its boyish advocates, seemed to lack breadth.Eminence a good many people In France would finds it unable to take its place with be beginning to wish for a monarchy the*product of European universities in with a ruler who could abolish mob the front rank of culture, or, as we rule.It was the extravagances of would put it, to keep abreast with the communism that drove bourgeois Italy progress of the age.There are indeed almost with one accord into the arms many things in which the product of of Mussolini.The follies of monarch- that system excels\u2014much that is ele- ists are not likely to help the cause of gant, graceful, charming; in intel- royalty which flickered out in igno- lectual achievement, in rhetoric, in miny sixty-three \u2018Yéars ago.Who casuistry In dealing with civil \u2018and knows, or who cades for the Duke of canon law.Yet with all that implied Guise, the present claimant?He has touch with the modern world of sci- not even the romantic but fiimay per- \u201c Bill may be introduced in the gas sonality of the \"Young Chevealeër\u201d who sought to restore to Britain the repudiated line of the Stuarts.Theres is, moreover, the dasling but extinguished Bonaparte legend with its meteoric glories intervening between the people and Grande Monarque.The hour to have qe, but where is the man?Fashions F ail the rocks on which a gov- O ernment may ground the most fatal one is women's dress.Revolutionize manners and morals; that is what people seem to hive made up their minds is to be looked for in these days and accepted as a dispensation.Revolutionize religion and people who supposed they had had a religion forget what it was, or where it differed from the new.But attempt to dominate woman's adornment, or absence of it, and there is trouble.When a Ruasian statesman finds his way abroad, he dresses, as the ubiquitous camera shows, after the manner of \u2018us heathen; but at home he has to appear in orthodox proletaire.That is, no doubt, more \u2018or less a matter of pride with the men as a man looks quite as well in a cap as in a hat; indeed, on the whgle a good deal better.But what of the women?Even though the ancient peasant costume, where such survives at all, is sure to be artistically superior to any of the mutations dictated from Paris, having been the evolution of ages, it is an unpardonable cruelty to forbid to women the exquisitgrjoy of redeck- ing themselves, season after season.In no country could this form of oppression have had a better chance of submission than in Russia as it is not probable that either the peasants there, or even the proletaires, have yet become the victims of the Eaton catalog, or could imagine themselves emulating for evening embrace the ever increasing V'in the - backs of the barbarian women.Yet there is said to be even in Russia an upheaval of feminine assertion against this cruelest of all repressions.Even Mussolini had only partial success when he bade the signoras and signor- ittas, as loyal Fascists, to turn away from the decolletage of the French capital for the creations of Milan and Leghorn.Possibly because Il Duce had no island prison for the recalcitrant dames, the edict fell flat and does not appear to have been renewed.A like fate awaits the fatuity of trying the like imposition of simplicity on the Gefman fraeuleins; as is being attempted, according to the same paper that records the Russian result.~ Since the judgment of the Privy Coyncll relegated the liquor question to the provinces, it has not-been easy to follow the laws of each of the pro- vinced us this legislation is only effec- nugatory as recent events-have convinced ag this legislation is only effective where it has public opinion behind it.It might surprise many-to - learn that there is a national law against the use of tobacco by young people.It is forgotten because it 1s never invoked.We have done what we could to further all efforts to convince the young of the dangers attending any use of drink.The government of our own province is the largest liquor seller in Canada, perhaps in America, and 18 naturally in sympathy and in league with the brewers, We cannot but suspect that the liquor interests have a pull om some of the other provinces, as has been at times manifested in Ontario.The Witness iz not seeking bigness or materiel prosperity for itself.Founded in 1248 dy the late John Dougall it has been pliblished ever since with single aim for man's welr Jare material and spiritual.Today the need of the Witness to Canada and jhe world is greater than ever.That is why the Witness calls for the co-operation of all right purposed ontizens ~ \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Letters ET \" THE 3IGNIFICANCE OF SOOIALISM \u2019 BIO GoMMUNIaN (To the Editor of the Witness.) Sir, \u2014Bhallow thinking and illogical arguments, based upon false premises, are not peculiar to socialists, etc.Eminent men in all walks of life are equally guiy, snd with less reason, if education counts for assume, without proof, that perfect, su dare the path to Por Tofom time to time the press contains reports of the views of prominent citinens, describing the wickedness and folly of Communism in Rid strongest, possible terms; warnl people 0: against this Tasidions foe of all that is honest, decent and good.Generally thess gentiemen content themselves with denouncing the evil without seeking a cause for its existence.So far, »o good, but of what avail to speak of an evil without prescribing a remedy?Either they do pot know of a remedy, hence their warning carries little weight; or knowing the cause, dislike the remedy and are therefore hot honest leaders to a better state of things.It is true that one gentleman y went ao far as to put à large share of pe blame foe tho spread of Communism the door of the church.To call upon the church, as presently constituted, to return to the fervor of apostolic days, would create havoc and such an exodus of the rich as would practically empty nearly every modern church.To preach justice and equity.to, denounce interest or usury, is more revolutionary than communistic propagande.And yet would be nothing but the principles of Christianity put into practice in every day Hts.M is impossible ne that our Lord put idle words into t mouth of His dis- clpies when He taught them to pray \u201cThy Ki come; Thy will be dons on earth as it is in heaven.\u201d If these words mean anything, they réean a reign of justice earth, something that has never governments, It is evident that these two contradl states cannot exist together, one must room for the other.This is probably the true significance of the \u201cworld crisis\u201d, namely the breaking down of all human governments in due time to be swept away to make room for the setting up of the Kingdom of God on earth.All human governments are founded upon \u2018might is right\u201d, legislative authority residing in \u2018the strong arm\" they naturally laws to cast a mantle of legality over their usurpations; the common people had no rights, were never considered as having any; they have been ground beneath the Reel of spetiai privilège from the beginning to the present moment.Today, with Increase of knowledge, the common people are striving to assert their rights; communism, soclalism, bolshevism, and even our C.C.F.are but blind protests against centuries of unjnst oppreasions.\u201cI bare witness that they have a zeal, but R is not according to knowledge.\u201d That these various brands of reformers have strong grounds for their complaints is freely admitted by \u2018intelligent students of economics, what they lack is knowledge of the origin and source of their miseriea.Without this knowledge their proposed cures are certain to produce conditions worse than the original diseasa- The attitude of \u201cconstituted authority\u201d to these complaints is more Insane tham the remedies.They fail to realize that these complaints are the preliminary mutterings of a storm that may destroy civilisation.In effect, \u201cconstituted authority\u201d is clamping down the safety- valve while misery is stoking the furnace.When jhe explosion occurs, and it may happäa any time soon, the destruction will be complete, because no effort has been made to rectify the wrangs that are the basic cause of the trouble.Crushing taxation, reckless extrava- gubc®, administrative corruption is sowing the wind to reap.the whirlwind.One will scan in vain all reports of conferences, etc, called to devise some way of eschpe from existing chaos, and never find \u2018\u2018justice\u2019 mentioned.Of what values Are \u201cexpediency props\u201d to sustain a fall structure when the foundation is rotten?All past civilisations fell into decay and perished from moral delinquency, and the same fate is rapldly overtaking this present; yet not a single ons of our so-called leaders - (To the Editor of the Witness.) ! \u2018 Panbold P.O., Dec.8th, 1888 Sir, \u20141 have farmed in Alberia 45 years.\u2018Four 58 year correspondent asks what we 44 with our money, in replying gour Lloydminster cprres) ent.I when we got any profit In excess over cost.It Le seldom that we realize cost.The Alta farmer is Uke the Irish weman.Loses money on all sales, but makes i om the volume handled.I eucloss §3 for my re- sewal.\u2014Yours truly, | RH J.SATOURLET.THE RACKETEBRS (Brandon Daily Sun.) ~ Now the question is if government of the rechatoors, by the \u2018racketoors and for the rasketesrs shall perish from the earth.\u201cOur grand business undoubtedly ls, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at and.\"\u2014Cariyle a CHAPTER XIN, The Thunder-Boit P the MacAllister rald had meant to Gentleman Osborne only the loss of the election he might have been able to overlook the part taken by the youfg traitor to whom he had given a lucrative position.But the loss of the election brought with it financial ruin.The reform party had had very few victories, this one was to0 conspicuous to be overlooked, and the.Governor had no privileges \u201cto waste on the man who had allowed the rebel miller of that backwoods hamlet to outgeneral him.And so, as Miles Hardy explained to Allister, though he might be considered a small tree he had to go down in the windfall.\u201cBut Jsn't it worth it when Gentleman Osborne goes too?\u201d he asked.Allister could have answered a hearty afirmative had it not been for Julia, What would Julia thigk of him?Right after their pledge to each other by the spring he had turned traitor and gone over to the enemy.He would never see Julia again, and it was \u2018mpossible to feel very enthusiastic over the cause, 7 He was almost for taking his axe and going back with Uncle Johnny the da) the MacAllisters departed for their home.But his Uncle Hector counselled otherwise, No, trere was nty of work for him.He would n find something to do.There was no word of their estrangement, no word of recoaciliation, but Alister knew he was forgiven the moment he had flung himself into ithe MacAllister Hee: the MacAllisters shouldered their axes and went away back to their \u2018remote ciearing, Unicle Johnny bearing the precious bundle for Jane Ann.- And Allister MacAllister, adrift in the \u2018world once more, went down on a certain warm evening to talk over his fate with Miles Hardy.Hardy took the boy alone out beside the cool dam where the sweet scent of water reeds floated up through the warm darkness.Here he disclosed to him all the Reformers\u2019 plans.The elections throughout the Province had gone s0 overwhelmingly in favor of the tyrants that Mackenzie felt there was nothing for the reformers now but a resort to arms.Allister was amazed to learn the extent of the secret preparations, the drilling, the gathering of arms, the forging of pikes.His position, and his friends, Hardy explained, had kept him from hearing what was being done, and Allister felt his face grow hot in the darkness, knowing that Hardy was thinking of Julia.\u2018It was à great task, Hardy was say- solemnly, and he must consider before he undertook it.But a MacAllister could hardly fail to be on the aide of liberty.Hardy could make good use of him right now if he would come.And sitting there in the soft dusk FE ; TH it meant, this being a re- This was not a personal five acres.It was Upper Canada, his © country.Tyranny and Privilege must not be allowed to get their roots deep into her new soll.There must be liberty and a chance for all, even though some, even though all the reformers should be called upon to die for it.Allister went out again to face the world, and this time be did axe with which to cont but à gun and a belt of bullets.And again, where he had always pica i = THE FOREST BARRIER A Story of Pioneer Days By Marian Keith (Copyright) WITNESS AND CANADIAN head high, he stumbléd along with a heavy heart.For he had been a traltor to Julia.He was leaving her behind, ie could never hope to see her Hardy sent him almost immediately on an important errand to the south and AVE ee Me In farewell and gave Malcolm to give to Maggie.: He could not do otherwise, he told her But though he might look a traitor to her he was true to his promise.Nothing would ever, ever come between them.He recalled a glowing verse from one of Challoner's treasure- books of poetry which he had committed to memory.He set down two ou no not love you, dear, so well, \u2018Loved I not honor more.It was early summer when Allister went away from the Portage, on a secret mission for Hardy.And it was late Autumn when he returned merely to shoulder his arms and march away.And in the early winter he found himself in the midst of the disastrous fight at Montgomery's Tavern, a little north of Toronto.It was such a pitiful little skirmish, scarcely worth the name of à battle.The little band of patriots struck out blindly for justice and Authority struck back with all its might.The rebels filed in all directions.Allister tried to keep neargto Hafdy but lost him in-the darkness when à troop of mounted men rode down upon them and everyone scrambled for his life.On the third morning after the battle, Allister found himself hiding under the hay in a settler\u2019s stable loft.He had been with Malcolm and Charley Boy the first night but another desperate chase had separated them, and he was entirely alone with no definite knowledge of his whereabouts.; \u201cWhile it was still almost dark he crawled out.He was shivering with cold and desperately hungry.A nest in the corner of the loft contained four eggs which took the fiercest edge off his appetite.It was bitter December morning, with a damp chill that went to his very bones.He dared not linger till the farm awoke; the owner might be a Royglist.He slipped behind the stable and scurried across an open field, expecting every moment to be fired at by some hidden sentinel.He plunged with relief into the shelter of the woods.Taking his direction from the ris- tramped ward, He trudged all morning without sighting a clearing or sign of humanity and then he climbed a\u2019 tall tree and took his bearings.He had taken refuge, he knew, in a large tract of forest known as the King's Bush.\u2018There was the Hu- Tontario Road running through it, north and south, the road down which his comrades and he had marched so fall of high hopes only a few days ago.Southward lay Toronto where every acre would be searched.North- RESSSEE TH gs i £ ê 1 | Ÿ ; 1 HOMESTEAD, JANUARY 31, 1984.{he bushes Allister perceived that the little party, whether loyalist or rebel, were more inspired by what they had by any desire to fight.For fifty north of the Capital there was a tavern for every mile, and it seemed as if this riotous group had been refreshing themselves at each and every one of them.As they came opposite the watcher they paused for a drink at the spring, and Allister stared in astonishment at the leader who was riding a horse.It was none other than Crooked Callum, the wild leader of the wild McNabbs, What was he doing here?Surely if there was a rebel in all the wilds of Upper Canada, the Wild McNabb must be one! There were about a dozen of his followers, all armed, some with old fowling-pleces, two with pikes, and one valiantly bore a acythe across his shoulder.Behind the wild shouting was a long pole, one end tled to the leader's horse, the other held by an armed man; and fastened to it by ropes were a half-dozen prisoners.As the boy surveyed them he almost gave a shout, for at the very end of the line, with his hands tiled behind him and a rope round his neck, his head \u2018erect, his eyes disdainful, walked Miles Hardy! It had ever been the way of young Allister MacAllister to act first and do $he thinking afterwards.At the sight of his chieftain in his position he uttered an Indian war whoop, and with a wild-cat leap from the bank he landed right on top of the man who was holding the pole.The victim went down in the road with a grunt, and quick as lightning Allister was up and levelled him completely with the butt of his gun.At the same instant, with a mighty wrench, Miles Hardy broke the bonds .that held him and felled with an iron fist the man who attacked him.And the next moment the two were up the bank and plunging far into the woods, \u2018 à few scattered shots clattering on the stones at their flying heels.It was all over with such lightning speed that half the drunken party of loyalist marching to the Capital under Crooked Callum McNabb to put down the rebellion did not know that anything had happened.The piper had never stopped marching and playing, and the din of his music drowned the noise of the conflict.Crooked Callum himself was concentrating all his powers upon keeping himself In the unaccustomed position of riding a horse, and most of his followers, drinking at the spring, like Gideon\u2019s unwary warriors.drank on undisturbed.When the party realized that their chief prisoner had escaped there was a great hue and cry and they plunged into the woods after him.But the fugitives had had a good start.Fortunately the light December snow had not penetrated the forest and there were no tell-tale tracks.The two ran as only men can run when death is _ at their heels.They ren till they could run no further and the elder man\u2019s breath was coming in heaving gasps.They slackened their pace and moved on till they were far beyond the reach of the enemy.Then they sank exhausted upon the ground and crawled under a thick cedar.\u201cWas it you, or 8 thunder-bolt from heaven?\u201d Hardy whispered when he eould get his breath.Allister told his history since they had been separated at Montgomery's Tavern.Miles Hardy had escaped into the bush also.He had planned to make his way south and try to get across to the States, for Mackenzie had airèady gone, but he was anxious about Ellen and the children.It seemed that the Wild McNabb had FIVE N trouble they had to give at- immediate Ë pressing tention to their divided it, and covering themselves with the hay slept the sound sleep of exhaustion.The next morning, stiff and sore and hungry, they sat in the hay and held a council of war.- \u201cWe must not waste our time wandering about,\u201d Hardy declared, \u201cI am in a strait betwixt two, Sandy.I want to go to Ellen and I may only add to her danger.But I cannot turn my back upon ber and seek refuge for myself.\u201d \u201cI'll go north,\u201d Allister declared.\u201cI can make my way through the bush, and you make for the States.\u201d He could not bear the look of anguish in the strong man's eyes.Hardy struck him across the bnoul- der.\u201cYou thunder-boit! And what about you when Gentleman Osborne gets his claws into you?\u201d \u201cHe wouldn't pay any attention to me,\u201d Allister scoffed, little dreaming how much reason Osborne had to dislike the young rebel who had shattered his dream of renewed youth.Hardy shook his head.\u201cYou'll get a noose round your neck! He'd never forgive a MacAllister.\u201d , But the plan was growing in Allis- ter\u2019s mind and becoming more alluring every minute.He would go north and look after Ellen and the family.He could stay at the Henderson farm for the winter and at least see that they got food.He did not add that he was forming wilds chemes to get to the Portage somehow and see Julia.; But Hardy would not hear of it, He could not go without seeing Ellen, and Allister had better go south and work his way to the States.Hardy had the names of the men at whose place it would be safe to ask for help.But neither would Allister hear of this.He would not quit his chieftain.Who knew, he declared, but the battle might have gone against the enemy in another yuarter and perhaps while they were hiding, their friends were victorious.But Hardy shook his head.\u201cIt does not matter so much what becomes of us, Sandy.We have struck our blow for freedom.I think we have So, In spite of their better judgment, they turned their faces northward, older man driven by his fears for loved ones, the younger eager to anything new in the way of ad- keeping to the woods, not too far road, they managed to hold direction and yet avold all set- But food and shelter were it 4 Efspa5 HH Ez : Hi E Bg E si 1 EF pa a under her upturned skirt in which she carried something.She prof the treasure shyly.\u201cThe praties!\u201d she gasped, \u201cSure, they're cold, but Mammy says ye're awful welcome.\u201d Deeply grateful Allister accepted them and went on his roundabout way back to where he had leït his friend.Hardy was not behind the brush heap where he had left him seated.Allis- ter hid and waited anxiously.Then he whistied softly but there was no answer, , Then suddenly he heard Hardy's whistle deeper in the woods.It was the sharp sound that meant a warning of danger.Allister slipped deeper into the underbrush and waited.He could: hear the bark of a dog from.he had left, but there g ; § 2 ef FRE R F Ë : Ë Ë SERERES CE LE I I hl! BEFESLLE : + WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, JANUARY 3%, 1804.\u201cIf he sald the word they would drop the matter and let him get away, it he 1s in the country.\u201d Julia erled.\u201cBut he won't.He'll rake even the MacAlister Settlement.He hates the MacAllisters because they spoiled his election.\u201d Squire Hadding ran his hands through his hair: with a gesture of despair.In all the troubles he had encountered in this new land he had never come up against anything more bañing than this, His favorite ehild.8he was so headstrong and determined with such decided opinions upon things that young ladies were not supposed to know anything about.And now it wrung his heart to see her in such desperate grief.She had given him no rest night nor day till he had journeyed to the Capital to intercede with Osborne for the life of their friends.Osborne was still at headquarters in command of his Company.He had the task of bringing to justice all the rebels that had come from within the bounds of his district.Hardy and Blg Malcolm Walker had been captured of the large.Captain Osborne sent a gracious message to Maggie.He would do his best to obtain a-pardon for Malcolm.It was plain his teamster could not promise to do young MacAllister.He knew it would \u2018out an effort wbat he coveted most.ket \u201cHe is not caught yet, Jewel,\u201d her father said for the tenth time, looking round the room helplessly.\u201cBut he will be,\u201d she said stonily, her face still i BoE Ë | E 150 FE fie ELE : E i befits i E fai ë i ler fi FigiiEfREREEIRELE; RE i H f E Be : ! i BE EE Ë : i £ ] : F Ë Bee ons : É HI gets EgyéE HHT Ets ; ê 5 Ë Ë F Ë 1 : Ë Ê 2 i 8 Ë | : Ë i ¢ i it fi : ; : j REE When he had gone Marcia came over and stroked the girl's tumbled, brown balr In sles syripathy.\u201cBee, darling,\u201d she sald at last, \u201cthe ice is breaking in the lake.And there is the sun.\u201d Julia did not care whether the ice ever broke up again or not\u2014that great event of other springs.But her arm stole round her sister's neck.She had spoken harshly to Marcia, and tried to make amends in a dumb way.Marcia was always 30 good and pa- The sisters held each other clone in silent sympathy, the red windy sunset faded from the sky in grey ashes.Julia arose, desperate for some form of action.\u201c*X think I shall go and see if Merrin has put away the supper things,\u201d she said, and Marcia let her go, relieved to see ber take some interest in her household tasks.again.Julia walked slowly down the dim, chill hall towards the kitchen.In the year since her mother's death the girl had mastered most of the arts of housekeeping.She had learned to make bread and butter, learned them all In a mist of rose-colored dreams in which she made them in her own home.But there had been no supper tonight.The shadow of death had come too near.As she opened the kitchen door she was assalled by a familiar sound of scolding.Old Mer- rin was not 50 helplézs that she could not scrub the kitchen floor to shining whiteness nor 30 blind that she could not see the muddy tracks that Taffy was wont to trail across its pure surface.\u201cWhy, Taffy, what brings you back?Didn't you go with the Squire?.\u201d Julia asked.ë Ë ë ë sik 11 Ë i Ë Ë al E Ë ff eg?5 | ! : i g § + Es gd \u2018 i ! ë «Ë ° i E i Ë it ; # B 2 i giF 8 EH a: ps E 2 E B= F | i g fi g gk gk i li Hi Ë ¥ i g + , FREE Ë : ë 3 F \"The Week in Parliament Thursday, January 35.\u2014The fifth session of the seventeenth parliament opened with all the customary ceremony and pomp.The Government's program as revealed in the Canada occupies a leading position among countries where evidence of return to permanent prosperity is most convineing.Ottawa trads agreements or 1832 brought substantial expansien of Cañade-Prapire trade and proved benaScial to all Empire countries.| Favorable trade balances have enabled Canada to discharge all international obil- gations and greatly lessened difficulties of international exchange.General improvement In price levels noted, and legisiation proposed to facit- tate ufficlent and profitable marketing of Mvestoek and agricultural products.ral Legislation proposed establish Cent Bank, revise bank charters and further amend banking and monetary legisiation.World wheat agreement and reports of World Economic Conference to be laid before Parliament for discussion.discussion of agricultural short term and intermediate credits as recommended in Macmillan Commission report.Continuation of unemployment relief and assistance wheres necessary to those pro- Proposal to promote yment by expenditures on tial public works and ertakings.Proposal te amend Excise Act, Compan- les Act, Judges Act and Elections Act Early presentation of Estimates which \u201chave been prepared with regard for rigid economy consistent with requirements of the public servies.\u201d \u2018As was hinted in the Speech the Government seemed eager to make the session swift: and business-like by ward estimates and other matters of concern as early aù possible, but significances was laid by observers on the remarks of the Leader of the Opposition when the \u201c Prime Minister moved first reading of Bill, No.1.Three new members had been introduced, all victorious Liberals, the South Oxford seat was vacant due to desth of ita member and another vacancy, that left by Mr.Ryckman, was to be officially announced next day.A laugh went up which meant immediate action.The is à summary ef the high- Reduction in appropriation for sv: de partment of government, but soma in creases in sub-divisioas.Decreases from $3.%6.00 in Public Werim to $0.00 t customary services malatained but with reduced administrative costs.creased by S1128680 to cover cost ef dredging St.Lawrence ship canal and fer investigating water levels in the Bt.Law- Lighthouse and coast service : frem 32442763 to 32,126,770.reduced established at beginning fiscal year 1832-88.\" Monday, January 3.\u2014Sam Gobeil, (Con., Compton) moved the Address in to his contribution to the debate, moved a motion of want of confidence in the Government, his motion declaring that om its record the present Administration no longer had the confidence of the people as indicated by Liberal victories in by-elec- tions in various parts of Canada, and that It Should, resign and appeal to the elestor- al Mr.King In his speech denied the Mig- fetry°s chaime, as from the Throne, agreage destroyed the best argument for the ft, Lawrence deep waterway, and !naisted be administered as a public rather tham a private imstitution.Most of Mr.King\u2019s remarks after the dinner recess were directed to the Prime Ministers action of restoring titles last New Years Day.Fis chief contention was that the resciution of 1919 was valid and- binding upon subsequent Parl unless rescinded.He delved Into the hi tory of titles in Canada and the mani in whish on different oscasions Goat with the question.The Prime Mia., (Continued on pags 15) + WITNESS AND CANADIAN MOMESTEAD, JANUARY 31, 1904 WEE RD SN Life-Changing OXFO \u201cAnd ye shall be my witnesses\u201d.KLY GROU + \u201cAnd ye shall receive ngoer after that the Holy Spirit is come wpon your.Supplement More About Canada\u2019s Winter Houseparty at Winnipeg His Grace Archbishop Stringer \u201cHeart and Soul ; Behind the Movement.\u201d - - PLEA for tolerance amd 8 busy opposing myself that it is funny sympathetic attitude toward now when I look back on it.\u201d the Oxford Group, rather than She had, she said, tried to be mas- hostility and criticimn based ter of her soul and had busied heron the old prejudices, was, says the self in a search for beauty and truth.Tribune, made by His Grace, Arch- But her search had become her mas- ence in the Royal Alexandra hotel, Centred in her own problems, Tuesday evening, at the first publie had been unable to give sympathetic meeting of the Oxford Group \u201chouse considers tion to the problems of her A ° udents.The Crystal ballroom, in which the \u201cIn trying to be the complete cap- main meeting was held, was packed tain of my soul I had become a slave to the doors; necessitating hold- to almost everything,\u201d she sald.the Colo- Then tragedy ontered her life.enth \u2018Three members of her family met ac- apeaker was cidental death, and It was in this received.~ great need that she found her own co! wanting, unable to give her Matter of Viewpeint coment.Although needing the spirit- * In ao large a gathering there must pal comfort of Christ more than ever ne arse § 5 the ore, she still held to a belief in ity and were indifferent ber own independence.Finally, how- their 8t- over, she was brought to God and 2 Ë i titude toward the Oxford Group, was comforted.Archbishop Siringer sald.There \u201c struggle might be a few who had come to eri- niet.ow I brought to let God manage my life.I that \u2019 _ While the House Party opened on Tuesday, January 15th, trere wus sa tea to which representative women of invited.Mrs.W.Dr.Marjorie Carpenter, dean of women at McMaster University, Hamilton, spoke of the different kinds of joy which she had & experienced such as travel, art, family, but nothing compared with of women at McMaster univer- fi Baptist church, the sory of her ae- Si à i Ë Ê 5 Tn i i ing a double life.Helfishasss w! us stretch out our handa to for ourselves.Materialiem, Ë i Hi i; I : Ë | i i teh the joy she new has in Wviag this quality .the painful process of being simply honest and acknowledging the truth.No matter how many prejudices you might have against the Oxford movement they would be only one one- millionth of what I had.\u201d she sald.As a result of accapting Christ, she immediately found she was able to give more spiritual help to her students.She found her power to help greatly increased and found her friendships immeasurably enrichea.She found her home problems easily solved when Christ's aid was sought and discovered, as she said in conclusion, that: \u201cThe besutiful thing about religion is that you are to live Joroualy and pass your joy along to other > Dr.J.J.Ross, the minister, prior to Introducing Dr.Carpenter, extended an Invitation to the congregation t6 attend the public sessions of the house party.- The house party was preceded by two meetings on Monday, the first a lunchean and the second a ladies\u2019 tea.At the former Brig.W.G.Beeman presiGed, and the following spoke: George Dunning, Toronto; Osborne Cross, Montreal, and Paul Nanton.Mrs.J.GQ.Glaseco and Mrs.W.G.Beeman were the hostesses at the tea party, and the following spoke, Miss Gwyneth Lewis, Mrs.Kate Cross, and .went through what was for me thenMiss Aubrey Leach, all of Montreal The More Intimate Notes of One in the Fellowship BY MISS GW YNETH LEWIS - individual hatrede, thirteen million men selfishness-\u2014it is devilish.It disunites folk.Man is capable of weaderful material accomplishments, but he can\u2019t control the sin in his heart.Only through God is this possible.Dr.Ronald McLeod of Rosedale, Toronto, Led one of ths Tuesday Evening Moctings VICTORY over fear was the key-note.Mrs Osborne Cross told of how her life had been defeated in every area.She realized just how much of a fallure her life had been whem she met the Oxford Group.She had done lots of church work, and had thoroughly enjoyed being patted rather bitter pill to take as she thought she had always lived a much better life than she really bad.and thought If Osborne were half as good as she they would be very happy.Mr.Osborne Cross gave a picture of his background from his boyhood up.His were Plymouth Brethren and natural life, but found after he was married that this continual drinking was spoil- them, and thus he was able to be present and what he heard there that was instrumental fn bringing wonderful happineas into his life Twe Pictures Mr.Norman Grier, Vancouver, told of two conceptioms of Christ.For thirty years he had locked Christ up in a tower that an operation, being probed in every corner of ber being with no samsthetic.he had always thought berself a Christian, but when asked iliinor Forde if she had ever spoken realized how she had falled.FAMILY QUIET TIME Taken by Kate And Osborne Crpes KATE told us how essemtial the Quiet Time is in this ilfe.At first she was all tense but now she has jong Quist Times which give her power to do God's i] and a sense of peace.She also gets viction of all the little sins of ev life.which she surrenders to God.The reason why Osborne finds Time so important is because work during the day used to near; him to a frenzy, and the peace of the early morning acts as a tion for the entire day.He and Kate take several vi apply them to thelr own need at tI \u2014such as Matthew § verses 8 10, f i Ë gl fies fe sÉStÉ i F CHANGING A TRAMP Women\u2019s Meet:ng, Wednesday Lasder\u2014Mrs.Kate Cross.entire family keep quiet so that her ragged nerves could get a rest.She now looks back with horror to the times when hee children came to her for aid and she gave \u201cthem nothing.She told of the times when men came to her house asking for work and she found it easy to give them money dut nothing oise.To the last one, just before shutting the door, she asked if he had ever prayed.Sibe was able to change that man\u2019s Hfa, giving him something that money can't buy.He now has a job as weil.Mrs.Grabin, Winnipeg, spoke of homesty.She told us how she had been defeated along this line, but God has given her courage to tell us about it, and he will Meip her in restitution.Libby Miller apoke about purity and told us how Elinor Ford peat as coming from you?Hive you ever taken anybody's character away?\u201d What is Leve?Mrs.E.B.Reynolds, Winnipeg, spoke on love.She had thought that love was sloppy sentimentality.She had realized from what her own children had told har.that she had been too strict and stern, toe reserved, too undemonstrative, and it was only after Christ had come into hee life that she realized that true love was not \u201csloppy.\u201d Now she finds the young people are starting to love her.Marjorie Carpenter told us with regard to gui e that if she didn\u2019t follow God's will she Mdn\u2019t receive guidance.She had to be sincere in getting down on her knees and asking God to take her with all her imperfections and to forgive her for them.It was necessary for her to be willing to give up even her wanted it.barriers between and God had to All her faults as well as her to be nurrendered and to be of ies Ë 5 gh tésÉSE 7s and tell him that she was quality of life as shown her'by the Group, and that quality of Hfe fore her work.All this testing | cantroi.* had always prided herself om Der meir-control #20 it was quite a te her pride.She knows definitely there 13 any block between her and God she has to ask God to show her where she is falling Him 60 that she can put it right and receive guidance again.If you gottins guidance, then it's your fault, net °.i George Dunning Led Wednesday Night x x MGHT Mis past sins, and he has neen growing from that tine of surrender.It had been due to his wife who got so much out of it that she persuaded him to join her in her Quist Time, and after many of these Quiet Times he was led to God.Margaret Woodman marveiled at the girls who could get up so \u2018early and look #0 bright and happy all day long.She sald she had found something definite that she had never known before.Rev.Roas Eaton, Brandon.described himself as a Bluenose brought up on applesauce! For the last sixteen years he has feit the lack of something in his life.If you have ever preached about things without being touched by them spiritually you are ineffectual in doing God's will.When he met one of the \u2018\u2018troupadors,\u201d he was made to look at himself and from that time a note of certainty bas crept ju grad- udlly, and God har used him constantly in bringing help to other lives.Mrs.Daisy Gardner, Winnipeg, told us that she was supposed to be very capable by her friends, but she admitted that if things didn't turn out well she could be quite unpleasant about it.She had a critical mind and tongue, end so was fond of picking people to pieces.She wasn't happy, but just félt welghed down by all her vor- Tes When the group was here she followed all the meetings; by talking to one of them who saked her what place God held In her life.She said He wasn't there at all; but she found that by leaving her burdens at the Cross she got a wonderful joy.Herd had been a life of defeat, now it Is all joy.Mrs.Kay Warwick, Winnipeg, was one of those happy Individuals who didn't know there was anything she lacked.She felt that she should read the Bible ao that ' she could teach .er little boy about God.When she heard the International Team she thought that it was only for the ministers, not for herself.But she was made to see her mistake and how she was able to find God In the Bible and teach her son 4 she never could have possibly done ore.Restoration Through Re-surrender Ira Grier said he should have been a Christian es he was a Sunday School teacher, chairman of the Mission Board, \u2018was on the session, an usher in the church, + otc.Everyone thought he Christian but himself.One of his friends \u2018who had held about as many church positions as © had was instrumental in changing him, and cres te ne F Ira was simply \u2018on the Lt.\u2019 The Lrst big temptation that came him knocked him flit as a pancake and could almost feel God leaving him.He and prayed for hours.He re- surrendered to God and all was well.Mrs.Ronald McLeod, Toronto, spoke of background as a happy Christian household.She has worked in the church with her husband for 21 years, but she was trying to do it In her own strength, and also she didn\u2019t do it all for the glory of , but for the glory and honor of her 8he wes shown that all her little were a block between her and God now since her surrender she has a joy doing God's work.- Dr.Ronald Mcleod, Toronto, was hére to witness that a clergyman must be honest with himself.He had found Christ at about the age of 16, but realized that you can\u2019t toboggan on a spiritual experience for very long.The question asked him, \u201cHave you always loved God with all your heart and soul, and loved your neighbor as yourself?\u201d was a very searching one It was enough to send him home on his knees.He had too much pride in having always led such a good life.When he realized how much had always been given him he felt that his life, which should have been so full of \u2018work for God, was most f SRÉRÉ mow things are different.To be continued next week.® Qur readers will share with us in feeling.grateful to Miss Gwyneth Lewis of Montreal for her splendid notes on the Canadian Winter House Party at Winnipeg.TWO REYNQLDS\u201d Dear Fred,\u2014It appears there are two \u201cTed's\u201d who are active in Oxford Group one in Toronto and the other in peg.both with the name of Reynolds, ht I had better drop you a line as @ been the reciplent of much encom- not entitled to on the score of inguished services of the Toronto ear that he may be shoulder- deal of unguided aggressive- which the Winnipeg \u2018Ted\u2019 may be ble for.1 think my Toronto brother met for a few moments at Quebes Oxford is EB.W., while T am BE.B, \u2018BR\u2019 in my cass standing for Edwin the \u2019B.\u2019 for Barrie.MorGver, at Oxford my wife was repeatedly taken for the wife of the Toronto \u2018Ted\u2019, but I have rather rejoiced in this error, as it is re sponsible for the fact that she has shared with me she atil) prefers the Winnipeg RE B.(TED) REYNOLDS.Ti, fi peer i 11 Winnipeg.Note \u2014Would that every town had ils Ted Reynolds.Fred D.Arnprior, Ont.Jan.18 \u201834 Dear Birs,\u2014I hope the Witness won't need to shrink any more.Unless in the Oxford Group section; we might do very well with less of that, but to say the least they might help.I like the story in the Witness.« MRS.and T.TOUNG.Continued from foot of 4th column.group, and women in worhen's group, etc.e Regina Group who were responsible for bringing us into being have spared no pains in fostering our new group life; to whom under God we ars very grateful.Sincerely yours, REV.) W.KL dolar.(United) ° WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, JANUARY 31, 1806 Victoria's Clergy A Victorious Ministry ESTIFYING to the manner in which association with the Oxford Group Movement had changed their personal experiences and brought about within them a new hope In life, seven ministers, representing various denominations, yesterday evening addressed a gathering in First Baptist Church.Dean Quainton was the chairman, opening the meeting with the assurance that his faith In the moverpent remalned after twelve months\u2019 \u201ccontact with it.No other movement could surpass it in evangelical enterprise or results, he said.\u2018There had been a glut of oratory, but the movement had actually brought results in Victoria, and there was plenty of evidence of Christ's power to change human lives, he asserted.There had been remarks to the effect that the clergy did not need the movement, but the Dean thought they needed it as much as anybody else.\u201cYou wouldn't tell an athlete to stop training or an opera star to stop practising because they achleved a cértain measure of succes,\u201d he said.\u201cPicked Him up\u201d .One of the greatest things the group had done with him had been to knock the self-centredness out of him and make him realise his shortcom- -ings and pride.The beauty of it had been that after knocking this out of him it had \u201cpicked him up again\u201d and given him new hope.Rev.E.F.Church described the movement as the greatest physician of souls and had opened his inner IIfe so that for the first time he was able to see what it was like.It had revealed him In utter need, amid evil, sin and poverty and now he felt God could help him as never before.Rev.J.M.Hughes had been given the power to do things he had never done before by the group teachings.He knew he should have done these things but he never had the courage.The quiet time had assisted him in being sererie and peaceful.- The group had served to bring men, women and children closer to Christ than anything Rev.A.deB.Owen had ever peen.When first approaching it he had been in a critical frame of mind but he had found it so full of the spirit of Jesus that he felt it was actually making the different denom- {nations love each other.Rev.F.Comley was now able to do a lot of things he had been unable to perform before.He had first been attracted by the work of the group in bringing together the Boers and the British in South Africa.Since undertaking the group's teachings.Rev.G.A.Reynolds had discovered that the real work of Christ was not to preach wonderful sermons but to link human souis to God in order that they might become mirrors of His greatness.He thanked the movement for the fact that he could now be nearer to God's presence and be natural at last.The movement had served to bring those it contacted much closer together than anything else, in the opinion of Rev.H.P.8.Luttrell.This was evident to such an extent that he now felt there was real unity between the denominations.It had been an assurance to him that religion was not dead.Columbus, Ohio pusLc meetings are being held for the first three evenings in February by a strong team led by Rev.\u201c'Sam' shoemaker and many of the leading members of the fellowship.Canade will be represented on the team by Mrs.Gertrude and Miss Bar- bars Beal, and Miss Esther Newhauwser, all of Toronto.Among others in the team well known to Canadians are Rev.and Mrs.J.Herbert Smith, Victor Kitchen, Rev.and Mrs.DuBois Morris, John 8.Beck and Miss Marjory Beck all of, New York and Dr.and Mrs.Frank J.Sladen of Detroit.A School of Life will run concurresty with the public meetings and will extend to the le of the following week from Feb.nd.to 1th.The meetings are being held in the Deshler-Wallick Hotel, 1s the Witness serving you to the utmost?\\ Are you extending its service to others?London Besieges Woodstock, Ont.K strong aggregation from Leadon, with allies from Hamilten, Brantford Blyth, and Mitchel, Ont, stock for the week-end, Jan.12-13, (Indebted to Woodstock Sentinel-Review) E have come tonight te 66 tell you very simply and humbly what God has done for us\u201d So said Rev.R.B.Perris, of London, Ont, on introducing the Team be was leading for the big evening meeting, January 13.Then he called upon Mrs Hilda 8mith, of London to speak of her experiences.She opened her story with the statement that she had always been the sort of person who looked for and enjoyed new adventares.A member of the Anglican church, she had always enjoyed going to church, feeling that God had always been very near to her In a friendly sort of way.\u201cNearly a year \u201cone of our the four standards that you heard mentioned, and in front them I shrivelled down until very selfish indeed.I found that was selfish and not quite honest.was not quite pure, and I was cer tainly not loving.It was rather humbling to discover how really smail I was, for I had thought that I-was rather a fine sort of person.I had to ask God to take charge.I had always done things in own way, but I surrendered my life te God to do what He told me.J have had to give up some things, but I have been able to do much more.Î wouldn't live any other way now.I 0 advisability of a divorce, but that since they had come under the Influence of the Oxford Group all this had been changed, \u201cThere has been a most wonderful feeling of peace where a year ago there was absolutely nene,\u201d he declared.\u201cThere was not one of the four standards that did mot hit me straight.I had not been absolutely honest, for Instance, and I wrote tô two firms for which I worked to say that I had not been honest.\u201d Mr.Campbell added that he and his wife and children held a \u201c\u201ccheck- ing-bee\u201d every night after prayers, in which they endeavored to help one another to be guided in everything by the four absolute standards.Temper 26 Obstacle Rev.Mr.Oliver, of Blyth, declared that he feit very humble in standing before the meeting as an spostis of the snowbound regions.A month ago, he sald, members of the group had visited Blyth and had asked him to lead the group thers, but he had refused to do so, although he Rad always been interested in their work.+1 asked myself why I, a8 a minister of Jesus Christ, could not identify myself \u201cwith the group,\u201d he sald.\u201cI examined - coming inferested In the movement.Detroit, and Orlando, Fin, converged on Wood- Every morning, my husband and I have our tet time,\u2019 hor reading our Bibles, and it is marvellous how the Lord us.We ask Him what He wants us to do, we depend on Him to guide us.The husband of this witness also gave testimony, declaring that while he had also been an active church worker, he had been something of a hypocrite had ity of many sins of on.this hypocritical attitude, trom feeling that I wasn't playing he game, there came ever me & a ency,\u201d Mr.Bewley said.\u201c1 felt that life held nothing further for me whem I first came in contact with the gfoup.As « commercial traveller, LP pacte accepting this way of living, bu Toronto teem cams to London, I met other travellers and found that they had sus- rendered themselves to God.Since my shrrender, many things in my lite that have been à source of trouble to me havé hy eri bebalf of th unger peopls, 8 ng on je YO! Mi Teen Bemar, of London, asserted that before her connection with the Oxford Group the church and the Bibis had meant little to her.° - been \u201cFrom a \u201cBut I have given that up Dow.\" said, \u201cand I hops now to go to China as a missionary some day to teach the Chine the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ, considered Alker, Miss Leite Hayner.From Hamilton: Mies Gwen Bel, Miss Key Doolittle, Ralph Eutwhisile, Détroit Pace Hargraves, Matt.Wijtiol- From 3 ves, , Me.VA \u2018Paliman, Miss Ruth Molmes.Orinade, Fla: Harry Oamphell.From Mitehell, Out: Mr.and Mra P.Adair Thig report will be continued next week.: i THE MORTLACH GROUP Mortlach, Sask., Jan.35 1934.Dear Mr.Dou; \u2014After the school of life held at na last December, the Regina Group decided to send the Witness to à number of persons interested in the Oxford Group.In the interests of the Mortlach Group & years subscription was forwarded to me; but as I\" was already a myself on the principles of the group.I subscriber, your circulation mansger ex- found that I had surrendered my life, my time and my possessions to Christ, but there was something In my life that I had mot got my hands upon\u2014my temper.I thought that I had my temper by divine right, and I had been so stupid as not to see it.I never lost my temper in a congregational meeting, but it was different in-my home.I had heen carrying my tem- round as a concealed weapon.1 only Ba the courage to bring it out in my own Gefancetess home.That means that I was « coward.But I have now \u2018surrendered ny temper to God to do as He likes with it.If you really want to know what the Cross means, humiliate yourselves in your own homes.\u201d Ocnsod te Werry \u2018À was always à busy sort of person,\u201d said Mrs.Bewley, of London, in her testimony.\u201cI was always a great church \u2018worker, and al: « wanted to do something for Christ.t sometimes I used to come home from a oburch meeting vi cross.1 think that né @ Christian 1 was making à very poor job of it, for I was unhappy ia my .chureh work.an Oxford Group meating, for I though that they had something that 1 hadn't got, and since I gave my LS werrigd about my chureË work any move.1 went to \u2018 tended my subscription for one year.Ace cordingly 1 have bestirred myself to try te carry out the purpose of the Regina Group who have always been so good to us, by making provision that enough Oxford Group homes may be receiving the paper that the whole Mortiach Group may have at least lending access to the Witness, weekly.We have always been interested in the group columns and have been lend- .{ng our paper as far as it would go.You will find enclosed six dollars for five new subscriptions.We receive many letters, chi trom ministers in town charges, asking about the Mortlach Group; for, no \u2018far as we have lsarned, we have the most sucosssful group of any small town in the Province.While, we have had several Invitations to other towns, up to the present we have not felt fully guided to go forth.We hold our general meeting at the close of the church \u2018services on Sunday events, in the regular group way; we are studying present the Ppiatle to the Romans.Onde & month we have open meeting to which the publie are invited.We have separate groups meeting throughout the week in the homes; thess bring \u201cobservations\u201d to the general group où Sunday evenings, as well as having advantage of sharing, mes In the men's Continued at foot of 1st column, WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, JANUARY 31, 1934.A Doctor of Divinity Wants the Truth.Jan.16, \u20183.(To the Editor of the Witness.) | Btr \u2014Bnclosed you will find §1.00 to advance my subscription.I may say that 1 enjoy the editorials and the Oxford Group as well.While I am not a member of a Group I have great sympathy with what I regard as thelr main endeavor, that is, to bridge the gulf between faith and practice, believing doing.There are other aspects of thelr program about which I em rather dubious, particularly the four absolutes upon which se much stress is laid.This, it seems to me, is very much like a revival of the old teaching of Perfectionism.Absolute is a very strong term.What 1t signifies can hardly be reached per saltum (by a jump).Experience has shown that the bridging of the chasm between faith and practice is an age-long task.with thine earliest dawn thow sbouldst begin it, Boarce were it finished with-the set of sun.I think that the Witnens would be doing a good service In clearing up this misus- deretanding.Some of your readers who appreciate the discriminating criticlam of political and economic and religious questions in your editorials fi that you might very well extend a little of the same friendly and healthy criticiem into the Oxford Gigup We all know that every new relig- movement has its admirable and effec and weaknesses.The Oxford Group Meve- ment, I take it, is no exception.Kindly criticism and direction would be \u2018in oder and shoul not be resented.The Witness has à more useful place to All than simply to be an \u2018organ\u2019 of the Groups, accepting their doctrines without question or discrimination.Many feel that ths movement is in need of some candid friends: Who is better fitted for such a task than the Wi.Desa?.CANDID FRIEND.Ç IN REPLY TS Witness is not an \u201corgan\u201d of the Group.It is ths whole-hearted vol.untesr ally of the movement in Canada.So far from objecting to eriticism, the Groups inculcate mutual \u201cchecking\u201d as ons of the big adventures ofthis fellowship.We must hold each other to the highest.Criticism must be both weil- informed and humble to be effective.Hence the truest checl know by persona) experi are talking about,\u2014having had victory over the same kind of defect or sin in their own lives.It must be dons with love for Christ and the one checked.Otherwise it will not register advantageously.\u201cPerfectionism\u2019 is pot taught by the Groups.I have never heard any boast of Berfaction at any Group meeting.On the contrary, more we know \u2018of God, Christ, the more we realise how very short we have come of the glary of God in our lives.But aiming to be loyal to the heavenly vision, we do constantly our thoughts and our acts by \u2018the four absolutes\u2019 : absojute honesty, absolute purity, abeciute unselfishness, absolute Jove.And in the light of those abstlutes we are constantly asking the Holy Spirit to reveal anything which comes between us and God or between us and anyone else, that we may surrender such also to God.It wes our old way, consciously or un- consalously, of comparing our lives with the lower standards, \u201cIt is done \u201cIt le mot done,\u201d that compromised and defeated wus.in the past and from which we have been s0 largely freed by no standard short of the four absotutes.People bave accepted as normal the condition that confesses \u2018\u2018there is ne health in ve\u201d = Oh yea, of course the ebsolutes are beyond us, but strange to say, it is easier to be good by aiming at them than by trying to keep up with the \u2018good\u2019 Joneses.Their goodness varies with the atmosphere, the cooking or the company.But as we surrender ourselves to God's will His will enters into us and His strength is made Perfect In our weakness.- .Except your righteousnedd exceeds the righteousneas of the conventionally good Joneses, ye shall In no case enter the Kingdom of Heaven.Many much better than I, are, 1 think, \u201cmarking time\u201d or fioatlag on thé stream of a more or less conventional instead of baving the joyous ad- ture pf aiming at thé highest.Let us a lesson from the barometer: From left to right or from bottom to top its principe! readings are Stormy, Wet, r, ery Dry.At any time the indicator may show what the weather te.But it is the direction of the indicator's movement that tells what the weather is going to be.If the needie points to Very Dry, but is falling mpd look out for wet or stormy weather.If ®t points to Very Stormy, but 1s rapidly rising, the indication is that the _ storm will soon be over.Whether in or | < 3 for « to God and find that tbe burning \u2018thirst has suddenly left him, never to Teturn.It Is a big jump for the man of moral act or thought to surrender that and find emanci n from such slavery.It is a big jump a woman to be e denly released from 50 daily cigarettes.It fa a big jump for a man to surrender his bitter hatred of an old time enemy and 03 tbat he has only love for him there after.It ia spiritually easier to jump thas trawl, as thousands have discovered.Stop, Look, Listen V6 did at the Sherbrooke, Que., School Life, Jom.19-81, writes as he reat IVES are being changed\u2014and changed lives are growing.Are you and I growing with the Others?If not, what is wrong?The familiar sign: \u201cStop, Look, Lis- _ ten.\u201d given by Canon Bigg as summing up his idea of the Quiet Time sums up as well what people were doing throughout the School.We found we needed to stop and look at ourselves and the world around us, and to listen for God's guidance on our next step.We found we had much to do in the way of deepening our surrender, and we suggest that if you have not taken stock of yourself \u2018 lately with the help of the Holy Spirit, you do so now.Here are a few random shots from the meetings\u2014 \u201cJt {a possible to do God's work and de ineffective because of blocking sins.\u201d \u201cDare to surronder\u2014and pone.\u2019 \u201cGo down in the pit and bring the other fellow up on your back.\u201d \u201cWe ere all adequately supplied with sine to keep our tonguss out of foreign territory.\u201cCan anyone claim to Hws on e basis of abooluts honesty when There is pretence in life and no one knows us as the pitiadle unfortunate specimens we really are?\u201d \u201c Time synchronising my is God\u2019s inspiration.\u201d \u201cQuist Timo means starting the day with God instead ef myself.\u201d \u201cHe can\u2019t give others confidences in us unless we have confidence in God owr- selves.\u201d \u201cBtewardakip's eurrender in action.\u201d VANCOUVER NOTES ALLS for teams have come in from Ocean Park and Qualicum Beach; Van- epuver will deal with the former and Victoria the latter.A team of men\u2014the \u2018heavy artlllery'\u2014 led a meeting out at Chilliwack on Sunday.Jan.Following up the successfui campalgn recently conducted In Nanaimo, a Houses Party was held on the week-end of Jan.27-238 in the\u2019 Malaspina Hotel, concluding with a Bchool of Life for ail members of the fellowship.On Tuesday evening, Jan.meeting was held for all members of the fellowship i\" the city, to hear reports of the Winnipeg and Nanaimo campaigns.ë 2, «à mass TORONTO'S NOON GROUP THR Kirgy Edward Hotel Group for men is growing into one of the most active agencies of tie Kingdom of God in this part of Canada.With unfailing generosity the hotel itself provides accommodation fos the noonday meeting on Wednesdays.\u2018When it began about a year ago this Group consisted of a mere handful of men who had been changed during the visit of the International Team.Now its adherents are numbered in ths hundreds and the rooms resarved for Its use are always erowded.Downtown Toronto most of the attendance.Doctors, lawyers, bankers, clergy, journalists and unemployed are all to be found there.An inner team of experienced leaders provide under closely checked guidance the simple requirements as to program.There is never lack of sharing and witness by men 0 are eager to declare the stories of thelr latest victories for Christ.Some of es, 30 simply told, are gripping in the intensity of their human terest Even the hard-boiled and unregenerate visitor is compelled to admit that here in « something different and a new respect for religion follows.Frequently, too, these first contacts lead to much more than this.Jan.28 198.A H.BAILEY.BELGIUM AND HOLLAND A LARGE house party in Bruseels, Bel- glum, was held about the middie of January, at which leading business men were in evidence.And in Holland Professor Martin van Ryn, Professor of Theology at Utrecht University, has gathered 100 leading clergy and 30 business and professional men and women together for a great all-Dutch house party.Great things are happening.Bishop Roots, ¢f Hankow, China, has been In the Group since the first house party in China\u2014asixtesn years ago.He has n speaking at many house parties Ia London, and his message is of great ime mpiration.He is shortly leaving with his son, n, on a special trip campaign to Scandinavia, Germany and Switseriand on a visit to the Groupa already established im those countries.Prayer Calendar COLUMBUS Ohio, Campaign Feb.1-3 » * School of Life, \u201cFeb.3-4 SEAFORTH, Ont.Feb, 11 Montreal Oper, Meeting for women, Feb.9 LONDON, England, approximately 3000 personal contacts dally besides meeti: morning noon and night in different environments.For the return of the International Team and a continent wide awakening.10 + + Many hers and there are seriously iil.Gratitude that some have turned the corner and others are restored to health.That tMe weck'a laœue of the Witness may bs blessed to many.And that the editors and correspondents may be guided in thelr work for next week's issue.That the Witness may be strengthened for its service.LS Rush in Reports ef Live Interest Will central teams please list \u2018thelr coming events with dates as far shead as possible?Those who are sharing in prayer for trav- events, want to rush in newspaper clippings and other reports of such events while they are fresh, Are you getting lives changed?MONTREAL WOMEN'S GATHERING An open group fellowship meeting for women will be held in Dominion Douglas Lecture Hall Feb.9 at 3 pm.Come and bring a friend.REV.J.J.BOSS, D.D., Of Trinity Baptist Church, Winnipeg, Writes About the Howse Party que Group Fellowship House Party in Winnipeg is over.These were truly unique and wonderful days, Pentecostal days for many of God's people here.In order to study this \u201cMovement\u201d from fctual observation and experience, I took part in ail the plans and preparations made for the meetings, and then while the meeti were in progress, lived right in thé hotel, talked to the different members of the team, made a number of contacts, led a few to Christ, was present in all the general, ministerial, and quiet- time meetings, and I have come to the fixed conclusion that no one, however wise and spiritual, can study, understand, or criticize this movement legitimately and soundly by merely belng & spectator standing apart.He must be first of all partic ipator in it.Jt is remarkable how even some sincere and orthodox Christian people seem actually to question God's right, or ability to work for the salvation of men, in weys and dy methods different from their ways and methods.This came out again and aguin at this House Party.The last night of pod party the hotel a figuratively swam people from the city and elsewhere.Btefnity alone will reveal the wonders amd signs wrought through the apostles of Christ during those meetings.32 poss Big News Typed Small JLT, no one assume that the news articles of lesser importance are set in the smaller type.Often the most important news le set small 20 as to get it all in, instead of using the larger type and only gotting half the story to our readers.Sometimes late news has to be set close s0 as to get it in an issue just going to press.ANSWERING KIND LETTERS Few pl would be greater than to write letters to all the kind friends who write us; but if we did we would have no time to edit these group pages.But we do approeints the letters and a selection of them for these columns is a grest help toward introducing the Witness to those who do not yet know it.Ottawa, Ont, Jan.27, \u201834.Dear Mr.Dougull,\u2014I very much enjoy reading the accounts of the Group active ities in Canada, as well as in other parts of the world.Your paper is doing splendid work in being able to 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some two and a half years ago At Oxford, where I live, I found myself faced with a proposition that at first had a slightly uncomfortable element In it.The Group is a fellowship which originated at Oxford in 1921 and consists of persons of all Christian churches who unite In order to ald one another in seeking the greatest possible experience of Divine Power and Divine Direction in their lives This attracted me partly owing to a conscious lack of such power and direction in my own life; but also because, having been working in the sphere of internaliona! relations ever since the War, I saw the same lack of power and direction even more forcibly in human affairs as a whole.The cases seemed precisely parallel.What we would not do, that we did; and what we would do, that we could not.The spirit was willing; but either the flesh was weak or, as I erred to think, the force of circumstances made our efforts of lit- tie or no avail.The which had the uncomfortable feature about it was one which no one exactly put to me, but which jumped at me from the evidence put before me.It amounted: to an assertion that it was not circum- chapter bore the title, \u201cIt isn't the Church, it's You!\u201d This was self-evident in the case of the League of Nations, which de- both its power and its policy the constituent member-states.lay the blame on such an institu- when we find we \u201chave got the government we deserve,\u201d is, in fact, a of the \u201cbad workman who blames tools.\u201d It is worse, it misleads us fo thinking that the remedy lies beyond our grasp, and into making no attempt to find and apply it.\u2018The fact that we ourselves are responsible and have matters in our own hands, so far from being an dn- welcome discovery, is act the charter of our escape and - If it is our fault, and not thkt of the age and circumstances In which we HH 56e process: want, I belleve, to be clearer in our minds as to what is the other half, moved.A Life in which the lion would do nothing except \u201clie down with the lamb\u201d has litle appeal to youth and much to condemn it from either a biological or a spiritual standpoint.Peace, In fact, means greater leisure, higher Incomes, more music, more reading, more sport and more exercise.But it also means an active fellowship or collaboration of man with man in removing ugly and harmful conditions.of life, such as slums and overcrowding and deadly monotony.Above all it means the In- tzgration of characier and the spiritual ha:mony with the Divine Purpose which Ls what makes life worth living.as much for nations as for the individual.This thinking of Peace as something positivé and concrete enables us to see more clearly what really are tixe obstacles in its way.The capacity for vialence is seen to be only one cause of confliet, and stil] a secondary cause.The real causes are well summarised in the phrase used in the Oxford Group: \u201cSin is anything which is a barrier between us and God, or between us and our fellow men.\u201d .What Causes War ; For the most part, the causes of racial and national conflict are identical with those which produce enmity between human beings.Jealousy, hatred, resentment, refusal to \u201cgive and take,\u201d anxiety for the future, a pride which is always desiring to draw comparisons favorable to ourselves, reluctante to take a share of the blame, fear of public opinion, seif-centredness, snobbishness, and economic selfishness in all its manifestations.All these things divide man from God and prevent the activity in us of the Spirit of God, v h is the Spirit of Love.Multiplied by millions they divide class from class, race from race, and nation from nation, and enable us to believe of another people what we know to be untrue of our own; ze us to work for our own supposed benefit regardless of the effect on others; and make us so tense with fear, suspicion, and antipathy that any relief, even that of war, seems a welcome alternative.' What's The Cure?SUCE \\considerations have two sults.In the first place, we the responsibility which each and all have for re- ses ê | Internationally this sort of action does not mean unilateral disarmament, or shrinking from the responsibility for maintaining law and order and justice in the world.It means, however, that if we wish to bring about world peace, we must think less exclusively of points at which others have Injured us or at which our in- The \u2018Oxford Group's Solution is, of course, nothing that Le new in this: as Macaulay polnt- od out to us of the Seven Years\u2019 War, nearly two centuries ago, a quarrel over-dynastic succession in small Buropean states oould even then result in subeidiéey wars in Asia and Africa and in \u201cred men scalping each other\u201d on the rivers of North America.The message which the Oxford Group brings the opening of à new year does not ¢lalm itself to be new: it is more urgent, since mechanical transport, electricity, and other Inventions have made the 1d amail- er; and it is more valua because it points the way out of ihe situation of distrecs and confusion in\u2019 which the whole world now les \u201c This way is the way of frankly acknowledging the extent of our own responsibilities ahd of our own fall- ures and undeveloped resources,\u2019 in the light of the highest standards we know; and in recognising that there is à Divine plan which represents the Ppoténtial maximum for each individual, and for the family and ail human groups; and that as long às we do not make that Plan our own and correlate our thoughts and ac- with it, we are not seriously try- g to alter the habits and attitudes which make for ceniflict, misery, and hatred.The Group message is that it is possible for each of us to know this plan, as far as it concerns himself, and to carry out that part of it which comes within his scope, if he iz wili- ing to set aside prejudice and pay the cost of obedience to, what he sees as the maximum for himself at each particular moment.M Works.THE Oxford Group is à body of men and women who, ha faced this apiritual challenge and accepted it as far as they saw, return to their businesses, their families, and thelr churches with a new insight, a new capacity and a new faith.However far they have seen the implications mes \u201cpersonal collective no problem, or > whieh cannot be soived if men place themselves wholly at the disposal of the Spirit of God.Already thousands of men have found power and purpose through contact with this movement.In forty- elght countries groups of such persons are active.In South Africa, in hundreds of cases, reconciliation has thus come about between members of the two white races, and between them and the black tants.In Europe hatred between French and Germans, between Catholic and Protestant, and between Communists and Fascists has given place to comradeship in a common greater loyalty, which throws the lesser loyalties inte a true perspective.~ FOR Peace after all must come à cf EE ia! ë 2 É 3 F o£ El Er i : SE Lo Ë - E 3 ef Ë 2 i =: i 8 5 : 4 : B E i : £ Ë Dr.E.Stanley Jonès \"Ome of the World's Greatest Missionaries Coming te Canada says: : \u201cI saw that unless I got help from somewhere I would have to give up my missionary career, go back \u2018to America and go to work on a farm to try to regain my health.It was one of my darkest hears.At that time 1 was in a meeting at Lucknow.While in prayer, not particularly thinking about myself, a Voice seemed to say, Touch.I seemed to have tapped new Life for body, mind and spirit.Life was on a permanently higher level.And I had done nothing but take it! \u201cI suppose that this experience can be to pieces psychologically .It does not matter.another way.\u201d No one caw really see Christ and back the same way.Life does become different the way of persistent goodwill; let us leave our racial prejudices there and ge back the way of a human that will transcend all distinctions of color I am sorry that so many of your olf subscribers have deserted you, om account Dear Priend,\u2014I think the dear old Wit- Dess is very cheap at 9268 per year when we consider what it embraces.I sure wish this wae more and it would be if I had tt.1 ng tha over the top\u2019 and keep on going, for I betteve it will be a power for good in the The Montreal Witness, 1 enjoy the Oxford Group Su very much.AM 1! know about ri ment I have learned from the Witaess.- When I read the Group was going to my heme city, T prayed that some of my family living there would be blessed, 5 ï f 4 | 58 = i By : jt sf | Ho ] : Ï il i pill i È | Home is the seminary of | ail \u2018other institutions.WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, JANUARY 31, 1934.Laugh and Live .By Margaret Moore.H,\u201d you to - yourself, \u201chow stupid! Of course ahe means \u2018live and laugh\u2019 ust But I don't.The laugh must come first and then you really live.y wil cc 1 ; f i à E : | i a+ fie is much easier to do the herole thing, swallow the terrible black draught.Ask thé doctors who have lost pa- à Ë g ef iB: 8 F Ë 8 «BH 2558 fl 4 5 â È F it : F Ë Ë i 4 F = i 5 à Fi © ff | i 5.7 ë iH af A B & 3 K i 34 £3 ; eH tit FE i 1 Be i : 1 § ¥ 3 OW if you have a really pleaasnt naturel laugh you will be safe.If you choke and gurgle and hate to have people hear you then change it.One pretty girl I knew had a nervous choke and whoop and she hated herself when she laughed.Being a small person of character she sef to work to change It and for a while she was really funny, for she gently he, ha, ha'd on the least excuse.TU set us all laughing to hear her and cheered up the whole lodging house full of tired studénts, but more than that, she really won her little battle.She was à middie-aged woman when I last saw her and she had the prettiest ~\u2014most spontaneous\u2014jolliest\u2014laugh.It just bubbled out on the slightest provocation and her whole face was bright and cheery.Yet she had been through not merely sorrow but tragedy since those student days) and laugh and smile naturally; they do not always feel like smiling or laughing, yet they do it and add to the joy They practiced many à so do your practice every you think of it.Look for funny things, train yourself to smile when the children do wild_ things, laugh over friend husband's jokes, smile over grandmothér's oft-repeated story.- You may have heard joke and story countless times.Well, what of 1t?Isn't that as much of a joke after day, ou 28 i Ë A Ed Tse happy be PY HOME Et nD MAKE are not love marriages have some thought like that behind them.It is finest type very often.They will take nothing but the best, and if they did not meet the one man.The girl between eighteen and -three is the easiest to capture.has still her romantic dreams 4 RS Only the home can found through which she will not see.At twenty-three it is a different matter.8hs is more developed, more sure of her own needs, She has learned Independence, and standing alone does not terrify her.At thirty or thirty-five she may marry, but it will be difficult.She will not give in as she would have given in at eighteen, but perhaps it will be all to the good that she has developed before marriage and not after, and has her eyes open, not veiled with romantic dreams.returned to the game it went on untou , and if the man who comes is not all that she dreamed of, she bas a cloak to throw over him Game Choosing \u2018 By Hilda Richmond.cs ETS play hide and seek; I\u2019 don't want to play croquet,\u201d sald Dolly.\u201cIt's so tiresome to play croquet.\u201d \u201cBut it isn\u2019t your turn to choose,\u201d aid Herbert.Dolly was new in the neighborhood and did not know thal the chlldren took turns selecting games when playing.She pouted a bit but was happy when it came her turn to choose.And so, merrily they played all the sunny afternoon.\u201cHow in the world did you accom- piish this?\u201d asked Dolly\u2019s mother who with several other mothers was sewing under the big apple tree and watching the children.\u201cI always su à certain amount of wrangling and jangling went with chjl- dren\u2019s fun, but everything is harmonious and happy here.\u201d \u201cWe let the children make their own rules,\u201d said Herbert's mother.\u201cEveryone had a voice in the making, and the first meeting was rather noisy.They decided that absolute fairness was the only waÿ to make everybody satisfied.Now they enforce the rules themselves.\u201d \u201cDo they ever have any trouble?\u201d asked the interested visitor, forgetting to sew as she watched.\u201cWell, #¥ must be confessed that sometimes there is a law violator,\u201d aughed another mother, \u201cbut the mail offender is promptly dealt with, and the trouble soon ends.\u201d \u201cAnd how is the offender dealt with?\u201d queried Dolly's mother.T that moment a small girl was escorted by two other children to the gate and put outside.Not a word was spoken by any one of the three, and when the two \u201cpolicemen\u201d without comment.Presently, the small girl outside the gate announce ed that she was willing to play fair, and she was readmitted.Most of the players at some time or other had been put out of a game, so there was sympathy and lack of comment for the litle sinner.And that, the mothers said, was one of the strong .points of the children's organisation.\u2018They had agreed that no future reference should be made to the offender once pardon was asked.Children are naturally quick to see the difference between right and wrong and to know that they.cannot have all things their own way, 20 while they are very young is the best time to impress the lesson of fair.play and the firm conviction that laws are made to be obeyed.\u201cAs the twig is bent the tree\u2019s inclined,\u201d is a good old maxim and one that needs to be emphasozed In these days of loose ideas about human rights and liberty.Tr children make and execute their own laws, they do not \u201cwrangle and jangle,\u201d neither is there opportunity to tease or.try to appeal from the verdict as they often do when parents and teachers make the rules.Even in school, boys and girls are now often taught to formulate their own code and enforce it, for no child likes to be \u201csent bo Coventry.\u201d In the home, the neighborhood and everywhere there must be laws for children, and M they, themselves, make and use them wisely, they will get valuable training for future service as good .citinens\u2014From a series of articles issued by the National Kindergarten Association, | Why 1 Vicks VapoRub is best for Children\u2019s Colds HERE'S good reason why Viéks VapoRub is preferred by mothers, the worid over, in treating the frequent colds of their children.Its treatment is external\u2014 there foro safe.It avoids the risks of constant internal dosing, VepoRub can be used as freciy and es often as needed, even , on the youngest child.\u201d © Fameus Pevitice-Vapor Action Just rubbed on throat and chest at bedtime, VapoRub relieves a cold by Stimulation | and Inhalation.Through the shin, it \u201cdraws out\u201d soreness.At the same time, its medi- coated vapors are released by body-heat and breathed in direst to the irritated air- $ passages.This combined poul- tice-vapor action works all through the night.By morning, almost always, the worst of the cold is over.- TQUALLY GOOD FOR ADULTS .water containing soda must not be straight edges of the quarter block i \u2018 TWELVE WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, JANUARY 31, 1984 3 pattern is a very, very old one and makes has made up or made over downs and can laler only a very little fat in à frying-pen, Using Hard Water + handsome quilé dose In Fed and green help us?OUP grandmothers made their fae Or perhaps noue at all in the case of fai on white.We came from.Vancouver a linem and cotton ticking down proof by meat.hard water must be used year ago list July, but we find it very ru over the Inside with soap, while \u201cThe desp fat method is so expeasive,\u201d cold in winter here in Prince Edward Is nomical and helpful to use artificlal For Sxpact to go back In the spring water softeners.Not all water L as 1 enjoy the Witness very much, \u201climey,\u201d but in such cases where it is, dapeclaily pair ire Bruce\u2019 Wright, the cleaning will be done much easier and much quicker if a softener As used.The chief reason for using it, however, is that it takes less soap to make the water sudsy.Borax, sal soda, and ammonia are the three softeners that are most commonly used In the house.Borax is very mild, and-is fine to soften bath water or to use when washing the hair.It is.also a great help in dish- washing.Sal soda is much stronger in action.It helps greatly in washing clothes, whether it is used in the washer or in the hot water in which the clothes are rinsed.It is fine for cleaning bath tubs, to use around the sink, and for cleaning drain pipes.It must be used with care on woodwork and floors.Varnished surfaces had better not be washed with water containing sal soda, and finished floors W for everything, it is both eco- Mrs.Wright's Very, Very Old Rese And Sister-in-Law\u2019s Screll Mrs Wright's very, very old quilt should must be done very quickly and well make a most attractive quilt whether with the Turkish red and I a rinsed and dried if any is used in Erandmothers seein have used washing them.Even hard or soft or in two other colors harmonizing better wood floors that have a natural finish with Sur modern rooms.The curious four.well rinsed quickly dried petaled rose alone would mak t jouet be we on Doed and 0 It is ve applique for Curtain corners\u2019 or The \u201c Ty scroll is a fine one and easier to applique good for taking out grease spots, Dut than many of these large patterns.The are wed will laid the folds of large square folded po ead Shek the boards, Linoleum twica aad the pattern mead The \u2018com: ei 3 and oil cloth are better washed With have soother good letter from Mra.Wright Plain soap and water, than with soda.telling of | how she designs snd makes her ° own wi tue proper ce ering à dan, mani Pubs ae Sl Du sweet smell.For that reason it is fine layed in reading me until too late for this when used in water for cleaning cup- Christmas, but which I hope to use later.boards, bread and cake boxes, or any receptacle in which food must be stored.It is also fine for washing glasses and windows, for it leaves them sparking like almost nothing else will, Help Through The Long Evenings Susan, \u2014Although I have been a subscriber for the Witness for over a year, 1 have never written to you before, but as the snow seems to be piling down in this province as never before, I decided that making quikts would be the only remedy to help through the long evenings.I bave made two nice quilts by patterns taken A \u201cbed-stick\u201d was the old-ttme pgs Winer \u201cThe RE Sun substitute for a hot-water bottle\u20148 \u201cGreat Grandmother's Forn Basket\u201d in smooth hickory er hardwood stick, blue and white.Now I would like a few four to six inches through, perhaps more quilt patterns and the Parrot Teapot 15 to 18 inches long, With the bark Holder.I do love pretty handmade things.The Witness is surely a wonderful paper left on.This was put into the Oven and.some help for everyone on every page.early in the evening; by bed-time it Best wishes for the New Year.\u2014Mrs.D.Kwas almost too hot to touch, and D- N.B.heated through and PRR = ~.slipped into a woollen bag, e right sise to hold it, and put In the Silk or Cotton Cevering For Downs bottom of the bed, where it pi Dear Susan, \u2014For long time I have had bi aba Bh sie RR ER - downs ve wan ce gran Che are ou at sometimes a «nd maybe you can help me out.I have - x to à beautiful new down waiting to be made careless user heated the bedstic up and I would like the puff to be as much the charring point, and risked a fair like the store comforter as possible.It chance mes t frire ihe bed or trom wiser to) put the down in a sip cover and a radiator of hot-water botdle, when ~ 38 Put my preity outer covering on.I by that the d uld be | the old-fashioned bedstick may be down-preof lining \u2018and then could be more worth trying.THE BED-STICK easily handled.Is that right?If so, what makes the best lining?I have long wondered about thin China silk, as it is \u2018wo light in weight and yet close in weave, however it would be rather ve.Can you tefl me about the China silk and also abeut any better material or idea?Which better, hand quilting or machine for such\u2019 work?Right now I have five lovely Dear Susan,\u2014I've read about your told terns for Bunny Elippers and I'd like \u2018te make small ob have such a pattern as 1 bave a good many |! Bunny Blippers of sheepskin would be end cosy.Of course size would have to added to allow for the wool If it was le! on, but the clipped wool does not take much.With the Bunny Slipper pattern sent our other favorites, for I am Moccasin Slipper would make up with clipped sheep or lamb skin straight band at the top, if put overcast seam on outside will ti making a pretty, soft edge or topi sde 255 Mrs.Wright's Very, Very Old Rese And Sister-in-Law\u2019s BSerell .Ë M ty quilt of the scroll pattern sewing 1 four large Sour sacks placing bag cover of down the complete pattern in the centre cut from sewing It fArmly faut color erstonne.Thea she took the tacking it down uarter of the pattern (as shown in outline lines af stitching.illustration) and placed it In each corner washing, it pointing towards the centre.The ether and making! § ig £52k i ~ some, am told, use parafiin wax for the same purpose now.« Problems of Homemakers Washing Down Cemforter you advise having it cleaned?Could It be in suds without spoiling the down, would you advise having it dry cleaned?would not spoil it to wash It I.suppose be done in the summer time = you can help me in this problem I shall be very thankful.\u2014A.M.B, It always seems to me that for bedding is nothing like scapsuds and fresh cleaning never leaves it with the freshness.Make a warm suds with ordinary soap.If your down is ied along the edges, take them sesing and rubbing them in your the suds, then dip in the whole move it\u201d about, squeezing and pressing it.Squeeze out as much of the as possible and drop it into & warm water and rinse weil.Then look to make sure you have not missed or streaks and if it is clean, put another rinsing water to make soap is out, and squeess, not q dry as possible.Choose for this work a good breesy day and if you have two lines near enough to pin the sides to both, suspending the down between them, so much the better.Shake and turn the \u2018comforter as often as you can, so the water will mot run to one part and streak the cover \u201cund aiso to separate and fluff up the down.Even when it is quite dry and well puffed up, I like to hang a down by the four corners to one line and let the wind blow and shake it as down tends to work out to the edges of the comforter, leaving the centre thin.PRES UE #gF i iil i Ç Sheepskins Dyed in The Tanning Selut:on\u2014Fasily Made Hats Dear Madam,\u2014May thls New Year on which we have entered ng a financial blessing to the dear old Witness.It has survived trying times and may it see light ahead.We would sorely miss the paper it it had to give up the struggle.A few another one was wonderiàg about making .the wool into mats.No t wool has gone up in price perhaps \u2014and fall with the sldns.I made severgl mats a year after A Marlin'a recipe and liked them well, but thought I would like to try them With shorter wool.So when a farmer was killing some big lambs im July I asked him to give me the skins he gave me two.I washed them well then dissolved the dye and put It into curing solution, left the skins in 2 and then tacked them up to dry.I took them down I had two lovely 1 dyed them orange.I keep one t door, inside, and one at the i way, But left legs and tail on.We put in packages of dye in case one would be sufficient as we wanted it a Now people will hard! t is a sheepskin; it looks shore course when you dye your solution you have fust one nice for à change.Yours or a \u2018ours C.A M, Man How easily the people who know h things! It did not sound easy to tease, card and then pull out wool in rugs though some of our read nothing of it but for those of us wh i fd et t ; ! fii! bs - re will value it say, \"all very well for well.to-do folk, but not for those of limited incomes.\u201d To have à pan of fat always ready does not cost much more than the firet expense, as it may be used over and over again; in fat it will keep good for apy length of ti 1 strained aftef each time of using.Of course it will waste, and will require to be replenished a little from time to time, but the expense of this will not be cansiderable.Although any kind of clean swest fat answers very well for this purpose, mixed dripping clarified the best of all.Put the dripping together in one tin as you pour it off roasts snd chops.you boll ham or other meat let the lig cool, then take off the chilied cake of on top and melt it to get »M of the mols.ture in it before adding it to your drippiag.When your tin is full set it on the back of the stove to melt and mix, then strain it carefully off into the deep saucepan.use for deep frying.Be careful not to get - in any of the brown of the meat or lings as they will make the fat scorch easily.I like to keep two saucepens malt able for frying in and when I have lo a batch of fritters or doughnuts I drain the fat carefully into the clean saucepan and set it away ready for the next sv It does not seem as if this was worth tell- i ef i 3 ing that pan ready you can snatch it set it over the fire and In a very few utes have fritters or fried fish, potato or croquettes ready to serve.You not do it if you had to hunt a and dig out drippiag and lerd containers \u2018They will be more wholesome as Tess troudle than frying pan fare.1 hear some one exclaim.Tes, if you dip it in milk or egg and it breadcrumbs or corn meal or dip it in strainer into your second pan be in the least fishy, but do the straining at once.Don\u2019t let the fat stand with erdmbs of fish in it, and then , thought so, of course it tastes fishy!\u2019 The action of tat, as in heaping it, is exactly the opposite to that of water.First it begins to bubble a Iittle\u2014this {a to get rid of any water that may still cling to it, then gradually it becomes still, and a faint blue vapor rises from the surface.It has then attained to about 365 degrees of heat, much hotter than water could eyer be, ft boilé at 212 degrees.The fat does even boil now, and if it were to walt for that.something like 000 degrees, it would scorch and burn up everything put into it.It is a mistake, therefore, to say as books do, wait till the fat baile, © BP YOU Without Calomel Your liver's & very small organ, but jt ear digestive and climinetive Seins SE later\" y dopamine to pour out fie two pounds of liquid bile into your \u201d pletely correct such « condition Ey euTing sale, oil, pera] water, lazative candy or shewing um, or roughage.Whea ore need à liver stimulant.GQurter's Lite Liver File ill econ bring back germe nto vou Tabs Bares 38a at all druggists.4\u201c .POSTAGR STAMPS - BRITISH COLONIAL PACKETS 25 Newfoundland Mo., 75 Canada Tis, $0 Canada 256, $ Ausiralian Cemmenwealih 15¢., 25 British Guisns 43¢., 15 Nong Keng 15¢., 75 India & States Ye, 7 Iraq Be, 1$ Jamales 150, 16 Kenya & Ugands Se, 10 Malls 10s, 18 Now Zealand 10e, 10 Palestine 120., 80 Sireits Settlements & Dope.bs.° 19¢., 16 Trinidad & Tobage 154, 3 Union of South Afrien 256.Stamps sll different in aneh packet.A ©.POUGLAS, - - TWO TANNOU TOUVA TRIANGLES .~ Catalogue cents to approval large; with a garden.Horace.This Year\u2019s Flower Garden - YT Is always a safe step to make à study of color combinations before rushing in to buy seeds.The nurserymen make a point of helping their customers solve knotty garden problems.The most inexperienced must acknowledge there is little excuse for falling to have an abundance of bloom during the entire season.Perhaps the beginner is too apt to forget that the mixing of colors into a harmonious whole in a flower garden requires almost as much thought and care as an artist needs for using his palette and brush successfully.Indeed color sense is a gift which, unfortunately, the gods bestow upon a chosen few.Those_not especially so gifted æhould not difdain to study their garden books and be properly guided and forearmed.A flower garden always does better it protected from cold winds by & hedge or wall, which may also serve ds a charming background for the flowers, and if an arbor or pergola 1s to be added, it should invariably lead from somewhere to somewhere.It is nothing less than a crime in landscape gardening to build a pergola without rhyme or reason out in the middie of an open space, where it has mo possible \u2018raison d'etre,\u2019 or any appropriate connection or setting.A summer house not only adds greatly to the charm of a garden, but frequently becomes a delightful outdoor living- room for the family for many months during the year.In planning the garden, it is well to realise that grass walks, although lovely to look upon, are usually wet early in the morning and after summer showers, but by sinking flat, irregular stepping-stones into the sod and affowing a few Inches between each one, this objectionable feature may be removed.There ghould always be room on all paths for at least two people to walk side by side.Among the most satisfying central features of a garden is a small pool, or fountain, or sundial, and wherever there is running water to be had it will add greatly to the beauty of any garden with its brilliant reflections and cooling sounds.Always avoid wonderful geometrical beds.They are never sulted to small informal spaces.Always stick to hardy plants where possible, for they are much less trouble to care - for; plan for a succession of flowers for the entire season.Avoid the magenta and purple, tones to make one want to turn and run, and which usualy clash with everything else in the garden and tend to ruin an otherwise unblemished reputation as a landscape artise among .one\u2019s friends.Some of the safe standbys suitable for every garden are peonies, foses, (bush climbd- ing and standards); lilies, gladioll, stock, larkspur, hollyhocks, sweet- Williams, nasturtiums, sweet-peas, campanuias, cosmos, chrysanthemums, candytuft, Iris, popples, xin- nias, phlox, snapdragons, as well as the very early spring flowering plants which are planted in the autumn.This list, of course, ls a mere suggestion and could be doubled and trebled, but it will suffice as a litle, start.To sum up, then, send for the catalogs, study thew, and prices and varieties.Work out the acheme of the proposed garden om AROUN #4.WITNESS AND CANADIAN MOMESTEAD, JANUARY 31, 1834 pte re pepper EEE A piece of ground not over paper \u2018to scale, order the manure of fertiliser and humus 80 as to have it on hand when needed.Next order or get busy and make the garden ac- ceanorios such as bird-baths, seats, arbors, pergolas, etc, which will be most appropriate for the spacial type of garden chosen; select the necessary equipment of garden tools, choasing the practical ones; be sure to set out plenty of fruit, and for a small place dwarf apples, pears, cherries, and peaches are eminently sat- istactory; also do not forget that a few shrubs for borders and hedges should be Included with the order for the trees.Finally, plan for the most charm-~ ing garden imaginable, and then, it willing to give to the cause a little patient work, the small space will became \u201cthe veriest achool of peace,\u201d where there hardly seems \u201cneed for other companions than dwell among green leaves.\u201d Gare of Heifers TF the farmer must keep only heifers out of good milch cows, it is also necessary that he give them a generous quantity of succulent feed in order that they may attain a maximum development and give -the tion on the effects of extra good and average care on aize, type and production of mature cows, show without the slightest doubt that good breeding 1s not sufficient; the animals must .(Interim Report of the Superintendent, year ending March 31, 1921.) The following method of caring for the heifers is ical and has given good resus.The calves are separated from the dam i : ; ASE Ë HEREDESEREFUREEE 1 Ht Be EF ns teract this drought, and the branches remain plump.The buds commence to push away agaln comparatively early, even In the cool atmosphere ol a greenhouse, and the plants may then be repotted.Some.cultivators prefer to subject the plants to heat to start them before repotting, and this may be advantageous if the flowering period is to be hastened by fire heat.If they are allowed to come on gradually by the heat of the sun, however, they need not be started in an artificially raised temperature.As & rule, the more straggling of the btanches are cut back in autumn, but the plants may now be regularly trimmed.The pyramidal is perhaps the most handsome form in which a fuchsia can bs trained, although standards are very popular.° Fuchsias are not very particular in the matter of soil, but a fact to be, remeni! and rich.If not naturally porous, it should be made 30 by a Nberal use of sand.A third of dried cow manure with plenty of sand may be mixed with fibrous but mellow loem.The pote should be well drained, for that is « matter of importance, consider ing the quantity of water required i ! potting.Put the plants into the clean pots at the same depth as formerly, and press the soll rather firmiy about the plants have previously.been grown under favorable conditions for glving solid and short-jointed wood.After the operation is completed, the more substantial, and I gever failed to have fine crisp stalks.I grow the seedlings early in the house t them.Then as large plants them out in the trench as they will be safe from v: it is mot that they are started heat or drought.With thanks for favors.\u2014BE.E.R.§ but it is quite possible that in your eager ness to get the plants out early you have subjected them to too low a temperatures.Quite apart (rom danger of frost, resent studies show that two tures between 40 and 58 degrees Fahrenheit is sufficient to induce premature seeding In celery plants.Of course the drought of the past two early seasons may also have caused the check or you may mot have given the plants sufficient fertiliser and so checked thelr growth.Alm at a continuous, sturdy growth from germination on, and you will smcoeed.Delay Dormant Oil Spray\u2014Oreoms in Four Years From Seed - Dear Sir,\u2014-Wil you through \u2018your éolumns as to the best for spraying with what Is called the want spray?Can It be used now a Japanese quince, hedge lilace, crabapples, etc.Ÿ aulphur spray or an \u2019 does it take to grow crocus to flower?-G.B.F.this and next month there la danger of & soéden rapid à in temperatu vis coeurs.damage Le dons ba the plants whoa oll ja weed.It is In the colder = = ap rrp is that it ahould be light scale.districts wise to wait until there will be less chance in the garden.Buch be on lilacs, Japanese quince, crabapples, ahrub ros and evi in variety.= Teed given good attention may produce guod flowering bulbs tbe third Year.In ordinary fleld cultivation it years to an blossoming.gathered in the ordinary garden = is naturally fertitised by insects duce mixed results, purple whi striped.The species of crocus, y which are as desirable as the feties of Crocus vernus come true from seed as a rule.ni ET Ë & 3 Seale on Perms\u2014Save Asbes From .Fireplace.holly ferns have p= What should I did not and it seems too big & use wood ashes from garden?\u2014M.W.sharp scissors and eut off and burn the oldest tronds and ail dead stems or of leaves as ciote 28 pos- uible to the root.With your flagers crush take off many as bis of the on the stems nf the fern leaves.a good contact insecticd » on the ferns by band.Could 1 the fireplace in the Better take and large scales Thon spray and continue sam hand.and insecte En my coleus plants?\u2014R.D.You might sow seeds of new hollyhock, snapdragons, sweet peas, pan- sles, dalsles, forget-me-nots, corp- flowers, candytuft, calendulas, stocks, dahlias, cobsa and others.Perennial seeds \u2018may be sown now aoû many will bloom this coming season.Mealy bugs which appear like cottony masses on stems of coleus and other house plants may killed with rubbing alcohol applied with a burned match or a toothpick, but you will need to keep constantly on the watch and kill the young as soon ns detected.nicotine sulphate soap solution may be- used ns à spray.5 » RATHER SURPRINING, THIS! (Brockville Recorder and Times.) Rebe did: tik Vermont Real Estate Nice Farm, 100 sores, 4 miles frem Vergennes, two miles from Lake, où Otter Cresk, guod beats ing and Aehing, windmill supplies tank, yard, house: well for domentis was: ene smile from good vahoët; Farm.160 ! jui Fi WARM WATER FOR POULTRY A poultry problem in winter time, Clara M.Butter, extension spec- South Dakota sie Hi i i 2 Ë E; H tg, EERE tke \u201cExe i 11 Au a 8 ty ek ge à si En i ¥ gf £ i gait iby it ed) il side Ale : | { ; Contemporary Press CAN'T LEND A LIGHT (Brandon Daily Sun.) We have not reached the stage where our noisy political time-servers demand state-made matches.Probably Woods nationalization Maybe it wouldn't be a vote once onto European countries have publicly.Their governments exact They are the for taxation purposes.Maybe Preiier Bracken, teo, hadn\u2019t thought of that.The Dominion has a match tax but no match momopoly or state manufecture.The ways of state operation are wonderful and those of state monopolies marvel- Bulgaria gives the governmeut the exclusive right to make and sell matches.So there the automatic lighter is legal ï USE PART TIME i on a Home Stædy Course in Story Writing, Advertising, Economies or Ascountamecy, and thus prepare to win financial rewart TEE SHAW CORRESFONDENCE SCHOOL Dept M-1, will terial, Write es Tiss Ey Bt.Toronto.the Province Quebec, an the grounds of wy sad deertion.r & ALMOND.Atterneys for Petitioner, 307 Place d'Armes, Mutstreal Dated at Montreal, Province of Quebse, Wis 3rd day \u2018of Januery, 1904.UN a I | pl ul il i J WITNESS AND CANADIAN PLACE NAMES (Ottawa Citizen.) sourl*?This question has .of for years in the hed Barer An Las now been made to settie this burning fssus for all time.Prof.A.tunately, the names of our nine provinces do not permit much abuse in enunciating Coming to cities, there is room for im- Perhaps the most abused Toronto.This varies from something like \u2018\u2018\u2019Fronna,\u201d\u2019 to the extreme \u201cToh- rontoh.\u201d The chlef offenders in the ill.treatment of to are native Toronton- case.Ottawa and Montreal also come in especially when we have so many that are distinctive and Cenedian.SELY-CONTAINRD FARMERS (Fort-Wiliam Tirhes-Journal.) If the farmer is to be a pelf-contained unit on his individual holding, the effect upon the industrial section of the country, by which the farmer has beem regarded cash income from the farm will be greatly reduced, though the living standard on the farm may be considerably higher than it was before.The question that the urban ' à certain limit, which his need for buying en à small scale will determine, will bave 2m industry much tbe name affect that (be alosing of export markets to fasmer had upon his methods of Hving.It a reorganisation to aveld creation of a surplus which cannot be THE GREATEST OF BV! «The Toronto Star.) thing to understand is how any man who is able to read and write cam fail to be opposed with all his nature to \u2018ar.ons regards cancer as an evil which the best minds should study and combat, if one thinks leprosy foul and syphilis fouler otill, if one thinks tuberculosis an enemy that should be routed, and that the mastery over typhoid fever and diphtheria \u201c - about the age of twenty who pass Al examinations, mentally and physically, or they will not be allowed to go forward and be shot down or blown to bits or people, it must inevitably follow, no doubt, that the revelation must come to them whed they learn\u2014from the air and with terror\u2014that war Ws no longer conducted in of one's own roof and the dying of whole familias abd whole cities.It blunder along and let it come.A WEEK IN PARLIAMENT (Continued from page 6) ister\u2019s action, he declared, was an affront face of a resolution given notice of by a private member.The Prime Minister was also discourteous to the representative of the Crown by conferring titles after Parliament had been summoned by His Excel- 37 bs.OF FAT GONE No Wonder She Locks {* What a pleasure to hear that os k from your friends\u2019 ips\u2014 as woman \u201cSince I started Kruschen Salts\u201d she writes, \u201cI have reduced myself by 37 lbs.I am still go down and soon be weight.My th has grestly 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\u2014 Cartes Of NURSERY completely pussies, $1.00 post- STOCK paid, ail different, large sine, 10 picoms.DEPT.pers Temsises.Grows Seed Es Butter, WW, 618 Dundss Street, London, Eleven \" juspbacriee = EDWARD Church Pisys\u2014Humerwes, Wholesome, Profitable.LR B.A., Exeler, R.3, Ont.Baby Chicks From One Of The Oldest Bred-To- vie roots 5 Fagg vy , Alta.ce .: juan oc white, 4s: se: mulet, Satistaciien or meney Ë à 4 i i af ni x i } i Well Trappere\u2014GOel This Formals Por 50 Comte.Tad .La Cuescztitood » a EW.5 eon, Graig, | a til ik | | i i Ë i * WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMKSTEAD, JANUARY 31, 1884.BES \u2018NEWS or Tue WEEK Canada Five lives were believed lost oa Jan.n on the wind-swept prairies of Alberta and Saskatchewan, where a blizzard broke out early in the day.Manitoba was witha the storm area, but no loss of life in the province was reported.In other provinces of Canada legislation has been adopted at the demand of orgen- ized labor and others interested lo social legisiation which have brought such pro- vinçes to a serious situation, and to the realization that the province of Quebec has been fortunate In not heving given way to such demands, Premier Fasthor- eau -told the annual delegation of labor men, representing the International Trades and Labor Congress in the province on Jan 23, after he and his colleagues had heard the demands of the delegation.In a review of the reaults of the recent Ottawa Dominion-Provincial Conference on - Jan.28, Premier Taschereau considered four major topics\u2014the situation in the west, unemployment, the Companies\u2019 Act and lotteries.Seeing no valid reason why the Provincial Government should be tied to the Dominion Parliament In respect to the organization of lotteries, Premier L.A.Taschereau told the Quebec Legislative Assembly at Quebec, that \u2018\u2018perhaps\u201d the Quebec Government would organize a lottery of Ms own for charitable and educational pi If indications were given that such was the will of the House, legislation to this effect would be tabled, he declared.The Premier hoped that as & result of the Dominion-Provincial Comfer- once an amendment to the Criminal Code \u2018would permit this province to hold a lottery it 14 saw fit, Major-General Charles Johnstone Armstrong, C.B., C.M.G., V.D., died on Jan.MH st the Montreal General Hospital in his sixty-second year.\u2018Nothing definite\u201d had been decided on Ontario's future policy governing the sale .of besr, Premier George 8.Henry told representatives from 100 Ontario churches on Jan.23 when they waited on him to protest against any loosening of the liquor laws to provide for sale of beer by the glass in licensed places, but he was \u2018\u2018quite satis- fled the idea of control of liquor by the Government would not be lost sight of\u201d The Toronto Liberal-Conservative Business Men's Club was told on Jan.26 by Erick F.Willis, Conservative member in the House of Commons for Souris, Man.that he represented the new type of Conservative which \u2018makes the party a young mans y\"\u201d and which did not believe In high tariffs and \u2018all the things which historically the party was supposed to stand for.\u201d - Further requests for amend\u201cé social legislation were laid before the Provincial Cabinet on Jan.M when reprsomntatives of the National Catholic Trades iTnians came forward with a long list of re-om- mendations, most of them similar to thea put forward yesterday by the international unions.Premier L.A.Taschereau replied that until economic conditions are better, the province cannot embark on any proposals to involve sweeping reform of social législation, without harming Quebec's credit.~ Appointment of à Federal Government commission to investigate the building industry was urged in a resolution passedat the final session of the Canadian Construction Association, completing a three-day convention in Toronto on Jan.25.The purpose of the commission, the resolution indicated, would be maintain a more even level In the ind , abolishing the wide fluctuations through which it now moves from year to year.\u201cCommunism has one thing to ita credit \u2014it was responsible for the birth of Fascism,\u201d said 8, Alfred Jones, Police Magistrate of Brantford, addressing the Empire Club at Toronto on Jan.25.There is à grest deal of overlapping ia ministrations, would meet criticism to the effsct that Canada ls over-governed, the Hon.Georre 8.Henry, Prime Minister of Ontario on Jan.28 in addressing members of the Conservative Association of Montreal.He favors the appointment of a Royal Commission to study this very problem and define just what authority the Federal and Provincial governments are to heave in regard to the varied governmental services.\u201cSometimes I wonder if it will not be necessary for us, as a Confederation, to aitdown and compare notes, and revamp our charters, and more definitely set up what services should be undertakea by Federal and Provincial authorities.\u201d Three Toronto men, Brother Arnold of the Christian Brotheret~ Lawrence Bom- merville and J.P, A.Hills, were summoned to appear in court on Jan M, charged with operating a lottery.It is alleged the lottery was operated under the title, \u201cDeL.feA.A.Mambership Subscription Contest.\u201d understood to stand for the de LaSalle Auxi Association.The tickets, authorities , sold for 25c each, Printed on the tickets are the words, \u201ceducational purposes.\u201d Engineer W.Lampshire and Fireman EK.Prousse were killed oa Jan.2 whes (he Canadian Natiohal Railways Bdmontom.Athabasks mized train was wresked at Meanook, Alta.The locomotive plunged WORLD EVENTS mt from the rails and overtursed, pinning the beneath i.Conditions in Canadian penitentiaries have improved ateadily if somewhat slow ly, and this improvement has been evpe- clally noticeable during the last years, says the report of Social Bervièe Council of Canada's Committees on Criminology, made public on Jan.29.A section of Upper Quebec was threst- ened by a conflagration early on Jan.20 when broke out in thé r Montmorency, destroying the building, and ing to the nearby Paplilon Building.teen men were injured, six or more suffering grave hurts, whes the roof and.one wall of the hotel collapsed.Great Britain Lord Aberecaway, 3 retired industriel magnate, died on Jan.\u2018The British Labor Party's repudiation of any individual ens advocating a dictatorship if Labor returns te power was emphasised at a special meeting of the party executive ag Jan.M.Removal of any danger of Russian dumping and an agreement between Hungary and other Danubian countries which have disputed division of their allotted quota appeared assured on Jan, 2 at the close of the opening session of the third meeting of the International Advisory Wheat Commission.Russia's shipping season is virtually over, it waa disclosed, and she has not exported more than 25,000,000 bushels.o_o Sister Dominions Commanders of the Far Bastern stations of the Royal Navy, with naval chiefs from Australia and New Zealand, on Jan.28 opened a conference to discuss naval policy in the Far East, in strict privacy aboard the cruiser Kent, flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick Charles Dreyer, Commander- in-Chief of the China Station.London officlals declared the confsrence was merely a routine matter.Total fatalities not exceeding 6,000 and property damage In the millions will be the toll of an earthquake feit throughout India 10 days ago, centering ia N Bi- har and Orisse, it was believed by author- ition on Jan 0 2e rosie work proceeded er ous ties.pond Meu The Union or South Africa's Parliament opened a new session on Jan 24.Obeerv- ors foresee a certain budget surplus and reduction of taxation\u201d Two Christian villages were raided and burned and eight Protestant converts siain in a religious war among tribesmen of northern Kavirondo, it was reported on Jan 28 at Nairobi in Kenya Ban on rice exports from British Guiana was lifted by the Government on Jan.29 as receding flood waters remewsd hope for a substantial crop.United States An assortment of narootics and weapons \u2018was confiscated in a surprise raid on Jan.24 on Welfare Island Penitentiary by New York city\u2019s new ocorréction commissioner, Austin EL FracCormick, oo said he found a group of prisoners lving In \u2018\u2018coun club\u201d style.ey A \u2018The body of Rex Scott, 29, Negro, shot approximatély 46 times, was found banging from a tree two miles south of Vicoo, Kentucky, about two hours after he was apioved by a mob from the Perry County Fourteen hundred convicts in Welfare Island prison were forced to eat scanty and cold food, Commissioner Austin H.MacCormick disclosed on Jan.25, while the other 300 cooked steaks and chops owes.- hlasing books from the prison library.Four men wers held and more arrests were predicted by Perry County, Kentucky, officials on Jan.35 as they pressed thelr investigation of the lynching of a Negre slayer of a coal miner.Failing into a police trap, the asserted chief and three members of the notoridus John Dillinger gang of Chicago were seized in dramatic fashi cen on Sarge bY Tucson Artaona.The LaGuardia Administration pushed ite drive against racketeering in New York City on Jan.28 with a raid on s Brooklyn Democratic Club and the indictment of three men for alleged sxtortion from aswe- stand operators.: ownership and operation of Uat States communications under rigid federal regulation were recdmmended In tie report on Jan.M of n special Inter departmental Sommittes formed recently y Secretary ommerce at the suggestion of the President, Pe Rt.Rev.Bdward Campion Achesens Pre- testant Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut, a veteran of the Riel Robellion, and a well = Returning In times like this .+ \u2014 15 :=-#= BHEN Prosperity .mors\u2019 thas ever, lila insurance je « bon te all \u2014 to the Uninsured os well ss the /eserod.As its accumulate they sre promptly.weed te ssist is > aiding farmera end fnancing industry jen citinene gainfully y = they It fasures more thaw Life\u2014it helps to provide work for the Breed.winner, and Food, Comfort and Shelter for his family, The Sea Life % an important factor in restoring prosperity \u2018te Canoda.Katy peurs à has born priioge te sere ts pllsbed o-dsy, its to serve the Stets.ors and world-wide organisation and ies mabe it more serviceable than ever te the Whale Tommonily.m SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA - - Montreal A vote of 306 for and 201 against wae given Premier Camille Chautemps of France on Jen.23 after Opposition charges of official corruption In connection with the $40,000,000 collapse of the Bayonne pawnshop and the operations of its founder, the late Serge Stavisky.\u2018With rioting in the streets of Paris continuing the \"French cabinet of Premier Chautemps resigned on Jan.28 \u2014_\u2014 .Edouard Daladier, War Minister: since December, 1883, set out on Jan.2 to weld a \u2018clean up\u201d French cabinet to cauterise In a manifesto.decrying the \u2018\u2018wrong leadership\u2019 and \u201cerrors\u201d of the Nazi German Christians 12 pastors in leading church positions and thres laymen announced OR Jan.34 thelr sscession from the ranks of Reichsbishop Ludwig Musller.: A ten-year past of friendship and nen- aggression, was signed at Beriis on Jan.88 by Poland and Germany.plan, which concentrates hands of the Polish President in a virtual dictatorship, was rushed through the Sejm (Legislature) on Jan.26 by a clever plece of strategy, an unpopular speaker sending opposition into the lobbies pod a snap vote being called suddenly.Maly oa Jan.23 recognised the Cuban Government of President Carlos Mendieta.The Greek Supreme State Council and the Minister of the Interior agreed oa Jan.9 that Samuel Insull must leave Greece before February 1 and seek à new refuge from attempts to eztradite him to the United States.- Speaking before the All-Uniom Commug- ist Party Congress on Jan.27, Joseph Stalin decried the activities of \u2018war mon- goers\u201d having designs \u2018against the Soviet state, but pledged his country to be ready it necessary.He warned the Italy's fiest\u2019 attempt to span the South Atlantic with a regülar air-mail plane Sours, pilot of a Pan-American .Airways plane its regular run northward toward the States.The Orient Seechuan Province, China, which hes already paid its land taxes 65 years in advance, is now being subjected to new levies in order to maintain the military forces of the five ruling warlords.It was of cially announced on Jan.M thet all owners of houses and dulldings must pay & special \u2018\u2018\u2019anti-Red campaign tax\u201d to consist of four months\u2019 rental value of sach houses or building.Even if the bulldinge are untenanted the tax must be paid, or the property will be confiscated.Two-hundred and sixteen men, women and children wers burned to death or a ERE drowned the night of January 31, when the Chinese steamer Waltung caught fire in the Yangtse River, belated reports re vealed on- Jam.25, \u2018The vessel and sank a few minutes after the blass started.Only 3¢ persons escaped.Chinese Nationalist Government reports from Ansay on Jan.28 sald the rebellion in Fukien Province had ended with the surrender of the 19th Route Army.In the Japanese Diet on Jan.27 Navy Minister Osumi confirmed news already published in the United States that Japan would ask at the next naval conference for a better ratio.THE BRITISH MARKRT (Toronto Star.) \u2018The British Minister of Agrisulture, Hom, \u2018Walter Elliot, makes no concealment of the fact { what he is aiming at in the home.: In a recent speech Mr.Kiliott.gald: \u201cWe have taken some drastic steps, but they are to the steps we are guing te | i : 8 Er In Great Britain as in the United 8 agriculture is being encouraged by the government guarant: prices\u2014a set price of $1.35 per bushel for wheat-and when the market price falls below that the government pays a subsidy up to $1.35.In 1933 this policy resulted in the wheat of the United Kingdom rising from 22,008,- @00 bushels to 45,000,000 bushels, an im crease in onb year of 40 per cent.The rise in British beef production has been such that the London Times speaks of.Canada «s having \u2018\u2018wisely and generously\u201d to keep her cattle shipments in the first quarter of 1934edowh to the 1938 level.The Winnipeg Fres Press points out that Cane i Great Britain and quotes Mr.Elliott as announcing thet bacon imports, already regulated, would be cut a further 7 pet cent on March 1 and as additional 8 pet cent on June 1 of this year, the reason he gave to parilament for this being \u201cthe large expansion of home bacon production.\u201d Owing to Empire agreements Canada\u2019s quota may not be thus arbitrarily cut, bus whether our exports be so cut or diminish because we wisely and generously reduce them the effect on our exports of farm production is much the same.\u2018With Britain subsidizing her own wheat production and in one year increasing the volume of it by forty per cent, while Can~ OR.ada holds a surplus of it and is called to reduce her acreage or plow part of crop in, the Empire agreements so jovially arrived at in the Ottawa conference do not sem to have reached very far, Some UNDERSTANDING Friends Contributing Partners ia E the Services of the rm \u201c8 &D P\u201d BCG*.EViBrE 7358 x Te CL Mre.His.Kidd, Alta.\u2019 .es Mr.Neil Molntyre, AMA?.Total for the week "]