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Page Two paper published in Con]-uncuuu wu.u the St. Thomas 'I`i1YT|eS-J`0llI'11'a.1, .by the Kiwanis Olliuub of St. Thsoimas. The Klarion devotes much space to the! activities of the Kiwanis Club. which is supervising a pliayground For children, as well as other ac- tivities. Judging from Ithe make mp of the K1~au`ion as regards real news matter and adrventisimg it will be a nnnnnna Srpeakinug at the Women's .l1lLC1' nationval League for Peace in Wash- ington, Miss Agnes M,cPhrai1 declared that the school text books of Can- adia. require diisarma-ment. History and literature as taught to Oan*.a.d~ian youth teamed with war sentiment and ideatlized the warrior, she said. She denounced cadet Draining in the ciirrieulwui of schools. Miss `Mc- Plmil does :1 great deal of criticising but very little constructing. If we do away with what we have we must ha.ve sometling better to take its place. \Vith the organizzrtiion of an Anmteunr. A Associati011 `in Barrie various lines of sport should flourish this year. The enthusiasm ,n-..x...m.1 af mp nmanimtion meet- flourish this rue eI1I.'11I.I:ra.au.L displayed at the organization ing last week must not be allowed to die out, however. The season is short and active work should be got under way at once. The executive memlbers are busy getting things in shalpe, but they cannot do it all. Co-oepe1`a;tion is needed and it's up to every citizen who likes good clean sport to get behind the 0'! - ganization and boost it along. at the Women's Inter- .gh'nnvn1 League 1)) one blur: an: the other side. r'\n.rnn16Hnn at An effort is being made to in- crease the Boy Scout Troop in Bar- rie and to raise funds for equip- ment and camp purposes. The value of the Boy Scout n1o\'e1nent cannot be too highly estimazted and a little personal and financial aid will be time and money well spent. We all know the value of a boy and what it means to guide him along the right path. It has been proven many times that Scouting develops good boys, it instils in them that high sense of honor and integrity which characterizes the successful business man: it teaches h.im -to do his duty to his God, his country, his King; to be of assistance to those about him: to do a good turn to some one every day and to obey the scout law. Can anyone ask more of a boy than this ? The report of the Superintendent of Neglected and Dependent Chil- dren of Onuario for the past year shows that there were 23,998 chil- dren cared for. There are 62 chil- riren s Aid Societies in the Province and 39 Shel-ter Homes. I`.here are 2,250 children in Orphanages and 462 in Industrial Schools. Besides this there are 2,969 in Institutions and 225 infants in various homes. During the year 786 were commit- mz nc. umrm: and there are now During U19. year (on wcic uuu...... led as wards and 8,809 children under supervision. 'I`.here were 976 legal adoptions dur- ing the year and 1,081 were released from supervision. The nunrbei` of children oi unmarried parents in- ve\=1ti;:aied totalled 1.162, and there was collected under the Unmarried Pn1'ent.s Act $67,022.56. The cost Av mnintnininlr four ,1nd-ustrial Parents .-\Cl .wu,;::;.;....u. of n1a`in-taining Schools was $170,864.17. 1% ? - --- N N *"- ` " [ NOTES AND COMMENTS , , , , , _A_._ , . ..r..`...... to .ch.n.n`lr1 ` pk move to hav Statistics of suicides in the United l States reveal the painful fact that ` during the past five years some 4,000 children in that. country be- tween the ages of 5 and 18 have committed suicide, or attempted un- successfully to do so. Most of these children ended their lives because oil unhzrppy home conditions, unplezis-3 nnt school o.\=perienr:es or yowiitliful marrizrgos and the jazz spirit 0!` the: times. The work of l\'i\\'anis Cl-ubsl and other orgzinizzitimis in lirzlninggi children is to be coinmmiilorl, but UI l(L\a|- llllnu -z u. ... tinuing nunvin md direct f ftempted which 1 Host would 1 es of 1 by olosi ns. unp1o:z1s- 3 equal s \\'hm is not 1 Iiwzlnis it is H `s }101n'111:.;l"rm.~'idu- nrmlocl, year. L Il'lIl(l.l I A('\.| iould siasm neat- owed on e aurtive gs t s .e or- sent ms of those r any- ie ini- zr and made ted by 2 Bills same 3 both e case 3 past. ictions ze, but : those md all are due L are sixtee year 438 adoption ity of the apparent Mott and is far re that W0l downwar ed and `. citizens. TOO MA RED" It is several giivin-g t close at fonmulai canvtracti brought economy service. It is over-|bx-a compari Britain, States. bank fo lation; bank f( Great I and pe Quite branchr 11 B3'r'Innd lhr pmrentts should seek more have their children's condence, f-or troubles `told are troubles half solnved. Far too .m-any children are running wild. When so many kill themselves, parents, teachers -and the public have reason for alarm. If any (1-isease caused so many deaths there would be n-o small upmtsing to devise means for swpipression. Members of the legislative coun- mittee appointed to study the agri- cultural inwdustry during the recess ,.+- um mhnrin T-Tmise. assembled at the Parliament 15-uumngs mm wccvn for a. pvre1imina1~y meeting, to plan their pmgnznm. The work which the committee was intended to accom- polish was discussed, nwmelwy to study :11] hrmmhps of the marricultxnral oc- discussed, uwmeuy LU uuuuy . all branches of algricultural ewpaltion and to report, with a. View especially to bitiiingdng together more efcienxtly prodiucer and consmnier, and it was decided to hold public meetings in v-iurious parts of the Province, C0.l1llIll(-?11Clll_`.`,` at the Agri- eulntural College at Guel`pl1 on Mway 6th and 7th, cont.in~uinig at Hm11il- ton and Grimsby on May 8th and 9th,, at B1'21I1tJfOI'd on May 1\5tl1, and at Simcoe on Hwy 16vtl1. Coumty Wa1'den`s and district agriculI1u1'a.l representzwives are to be ciirculzuized regm~ding the scope of the commit- tee -s work, and siltltln-gs will be held at_other points where it is deemed advisia-ble by the committee. Hon. Dr. Jamieson is the cli-aimnan of the committee. cultural inwclvustry uumnrg um rcuum of the Onnhario House, Parliament B-uilsdings last week an... .. n.v'oHwnin5!1`V mm>.t.inL*. t0 Dlan Judge Mott, of the Juvenile Court. Torotno, has just issued his annual report, and from the gures given in it some eoncetptio-n of the extensive work among delinaquevnt children is gleaned. In the lua/st four years 6,910 cases of `delinnquency have been dealt with and out of this. numwber only 102 children have beenl committed to ind-u.str.ial` schools. am... 09 mar cent. were dealt Even variety becomes monoton- ous. Ask any travelling man. to l1 1(1'llSl ,I'-lal` suuuuib. Thus 98 per cent. with by the probation method, and these have practically all made good. During the year the sum of $20,776 was collected from fwtliers who had deserted their children. Through the :\:Ct req-uir.i11g the fzmthers of illegi-timate child-ren to contribute to their suippom, 129 cases were dealt with and the sum of $14,384 secured by judgment or ~.--_...... .....: nr1YI`l|'J.1 nnxtnwpnfs. Uitseb WC:-.' ucuu nu... ow--- ...- _..,,, secured agreement, and ann`ua.1 pzwnients due to be made till the children sixteen years old. During the children were given legal through the instrunien-tal- the Juvenile Court. It is very `that the Work of Judge and those associwted with him ; reaching and scores of boys would otherwise continue the 5 downward road are being reclaim- 1 made into useful resrpeoted . `TOO M.~\NY BANK BRANCHES: ` REDUCTION ,IS CONSIDERED understood that heads of of the chartered banks are giving the branch situation very attelrtion in an endeavor to formulate a plan whereby genera.-I canvtracttion of branches may be about in the interest of econormy without im-pairinug banking ccxrxna service. conceded that Canada is V ovenlbranohed at the present time in comparison not only with Great but even with the United In Canada there is a branch for roughly every 1,900 popu- across the border there is a for each 3,500 odd, while in Britain Lhere are ve thous- people for every branch. ('\1n'rn 21 nnmhpr of existing {UNI DEODIB 1'01` CV61: utuuuu. Quite a number of existing lbranchos azre admittedly unprotable and their continuation is due to the present keen competition rather than to any other cause. Iurtherm-ore a number of branches which -are re- turning prots are nreally not econ- omical. and if the present tentative plan niaterializes many of them may be closed. rmmm u"hn nra nnr1pn.vnrinL' to be closed. Those who are endeavoring work out a, feasible plan admit that protable as well as unprotztble branches will have to be closed it it materializes. and its materializa- tion depends on the co-operation of the Canadian banks as a group. Some of the bigger ones anre able to operate comipetitive, non-+prof1`ta.`ble branches on accoiunit of their outside resources, and unless the big banks fall in line the smaller ones will be forced to continue to meet the com- petition. With general rising costs of banking, however, the -proiposal is receiving serious consideration. 1vinAa..- tho cnhnmn 1(>rr`.'rinr'v would receiving serlous CUXl5H.H:'l"d.l,lU1l. Under the scheme territory would be divided between the banks, not to eliminate connpetitbon, but to cut out additional comq)e~t,ition, which may, for exanmple, give four branch banks in a town a hard row to hoe to break even, where three could show a reasonable pnout. rmm rnmlamc.nm1 nrxrnmnnt nn SHOW 1. I`B'd-SUIlwU1!:: puuult. The fundamenta.l argument on which the plan is based is that it takes :1 certain minimum population to support a, branch, and therefore that it would be in the interests of all banks if branches were kept down to a supnportmble niutmbe-r, par- ti(-ularl_v in smaller centres. In :1 .=ma.l1 town :1. new bank usually goes in to get one rvarticiilar and prot- alhle accounut. Under the contraction plan now being formulatetl the one account" brunch would prohmbly move out, tu.i'niu;.: ovor its -'.re11orul ; business to a competitor. hut con- to do the xnajor loan and - tlmmcing business of its bi: account direct from head office. The banks benetted by the WUh(ll`Zl-\Vl zuvould reciprocate with than bank I closin: branches of their own of - standiny: elsowliore. l \\'lmtl1er the plan will mntoriali'/.e axis trot roriniu. hut an all r-vmlts ` tn rr-(*1-i\'n \'m'_\ Rl'ri()l]S s>it lil<(-`.3 ..v5: v\ hut`. `lit. |Vll` "Ill n" I ....o {manor} his annual Tax bills are out again, amd we might as wem pay and keep smil- ing. barb av: 61.! on no f-n,-r \\l V _ _ . _ _ . _ _ ,_ _ _ 7 In the M-Lddle Ages there was this pious resiugmation. Accondimg to the peocple of those days God sent the famines and the pestilences and so `"I`h~y wi.1l be done, they said. Wlans and slvaveolwy were acts -of God, they thought. They submitted to them, tolerated wbsalute m-omanchy be- cause it was the will of God. So tn ninna rpaixvnntinn thev folded r\NNI\'ERSAR.Y SERVICES AT COLLIER STREET CHURCH "xt me wm uu uuu. ou in pious resignation they their hands, while all around them people died hike ies from the fam- ines and pestilences sent by God, because Thy will be done. Was ever anywthin-g so abstmd ? asked the speaker. Did you ever think that urn have the mmnannts of it to-da.y? speaker. Ultl you ever Ullllli man we have the remnannts continued the speaker. Think of those who stand aside and say that Chnistianity does no good. In speak- ing of the Great VV:ar they don`It say God have mercy on me, for this was brought about partly th1`o`u`gh my selns-hues and greed." Oh, no, it is an `act broug-l1t who-ut by God n`t\v1r\ 1|. Lb an a.\.I. unuub... Wu... .._, %l\l\- alone. Mi1`1ion:s now living will never die, is the doctrine of 21 certain class. A'c.cording to their belief we 0-ughit to wait with tiolded hands for this great miracle to overtake us. That in mm rmnwnmt of the middle age 5 . ministers used ilthe use oi` ligh.tn.inlg rods, declaring great l11lI`a.Cle [0 UVe1'Lzuxt: um. .I.uu|. is the re-mu-anit spinit, he declared. We are resigned in no ot-her cle- partment, why in religiion ? We don't stop at deserts nowadays as our fathers did. VVe turn deserts intto gardens, change river courses, :.:ht pestilences, until to-diay we practically control the scouinges of smallpox and yellow fever that our ancesxtors were resigned to. We are not resigned to the liquor traic, Chlild lalbour, and commercialized vice. We don t stand and say "Thy will be done. It is the call of a world pnograni. Th.i.s chamge of emxphasis drivd not come in easily. It had to f1~gh~t ilt5 way over pre- judice and precedent. For instance, to preach against that lighitnsing VVIZIJS a divine instru- ment of God and if He wanted it to strike a certain house no inIter- ference should be offered. The change of emphasis had to fight against the missionary program. In a. conference a number of years ago a young minister advocating the sending of niissionaries to hea-then lands was told by another preacher, a much older man, to sit down, that when Clmist wants to Chris- tionize the heathen He will do it Himself withoult any help from --m- H Dn\' \h- linnri in 1836 __,._.___. (Continued from page one) -... _ 4-- LL--- .....n4 vvnn slavery. Great men of old said that war was a business just as much as buy- in: and selling. We have now reached the time when we see that war and Cliristianity canit go on together. Christiantity has triumph- ed over war. War is one of the most, wicked things our generation knows. Every competent judge to- day says we are on a lower-mor.a.1 plane that We were before the war. War takes young men ready to die for a high ideal and teaches them to twist :1 bayonet into the body of a toe. God never intended that. You can t offer this prayer, Thy will be done, without taking a new at- titude of war. When next the gyovemmenuts of men talk of war may every Christiwn nation rise u.p and sary, why Wm`? We are not dumb beasts to be led to si~a,ugh1ter. `hp Qnnacu-c mhn hue 12-nfnlv rntrnrn- Protection is receiving some hard knrockxs these days, just when it in most need ed. I uunro |')EE1.Siu~`. LU De Wu LU m~u.lu.;IuLt-.1. Dr. Speers, who has lately return- ed from a. trip through foreign Lands, startes that 75 per cent. oi` Russia is suffering from starvation, and that in the host and most for- tile pant of Rmssia the zwnrzLg9 farmer earns $40 a year. In Shang- hai he saw little girls, 8 years ol-d, working 13 hours a day in the silk factories. Egym is in u very Gethsemane of need. They llZlVf` had their reli;,:ioh for ye-ans. Who! has ` it done`? They have no famine fund instihitml by l`.Iul | VVl10ro\'0r the neotl of the world is balm: met to-rlz1y it is h,\' Clirisiizln I noopln. I-lonlhen rr-ligion will never I save the world. thoy only crcnato the I conditions that now exist. "l"..nnhin.r r\I\ nnnnnv-\ in n ...I unniul UUHIIIIIUIIS LIl`iUL lHl\V l.`.\lhl. 'I`mwhin1.: on economic and social conditions. Rev. Mr. `Hun-luv (lo- Mzlrod Hmt mzlmy thou::l1t that :1 ulinistor was 1ntruding~ hnyoml hls own .<.p]m.re whom he <'ndonv0rml to Iakn :1 hand in the business wnrld. \\'0 minis1vrs< 41idn"I mum` tho min- " '~'*' rm" hm." 1`:-:n:nv'l:r=rI lhv .u.pmLk- .._r. "Wu }JL`H(`\ L`(l (mri.-~'L'.s' low: was The Northern Advance Barrie____I_]nion Cemetery` nova:--v ..__'__ Annual Assessments The amteution of lot owners is drawn to the annual assessments for care of lots which are payable to J. VV. Ness, Sec y-`Trea.s.. Beecrofvs Bank, Dunlap St., Barrie. Owners of lots are reminded that unepaid assessments from 1913 on- ward become 21 charge against the U l lot and should not be allowed to- L accumulate, as under the Act THEY * 1ur:ncI1`I 1213`. PATTI FOR BEFORE accumulate, under me Au mum MUST BE PAID FOR THE LOTS CAN BE USED. Unnpail assessmems from 1913 to 1923 inclusive are overdue and those for 1924 are payable on or before July 1, 1924. Assessment R;ates---.$2 per annum for one lot and $1 for each addition- ? a1 lot owned by the same person; $1 for half lot. Lot owners are also reminded that 3 with the new Endowmlent System 1 now available they may eliminate, F :4: nu. mzah rnrnmr m::essm1en`ts by available they e11I1u1uu.u:,| if they Wish, further assessxnents by permanently endowing the lot to provide for perpetual care. Barrie Union Cemetery Board. W. T. H. Gilroy, Pres. the only remedgv for the sins of the world. The most glaring sins of to- day has been conr~111enoi21I'ized. Sport, love, and all the splendrid things of life are underniined by greed and money. \Vhen you ask a mintister to keep his hands of these things you ask too much. The business world needs Christianizing. \Vhy is build- ing 21. school a matter of pinot, while the teacher who teaches in it is sup- posed to be activated by a spirit of` service ? Why was the nxa.kir.:; of munitions :1 detba,1rchery oi` proIi1.~s. while -the soldiers had to bear the brunt of the battle ? Why the dif- ference between the .professiona.`: and the business world ? Because the business vworid is not Chnistiauizerl. It does not see Christ in its busi- ness rel-ations." I"nr`l rnnnirnc nn Ph nne of us to ness I`el'ilLlULlB. God requires each one be like Jesus Christ, to every man as our brother. \ a day it will be For the I church when this coxrce; realized. DIIUV P41114141 u \_I\I1In4 Have you ever seen a coal sicker dressed in 3. clean white suit actively shovelling coal inzto yawning furn- aces ? What an absurdity, you ex- claim. However, industrial science may make the occupation of the grimy giamt whose duty in. is to Burn- ish coal everlostimgnly to the boiler res obsolete and forgotten. A1v-n.nr`\7 in ennui. nlnnls I1. few -A lot of motor car factories are working overtime replacing cams wasted at grade crossings. mbsolete anu Iorgoueu. Already in some plants white comted at.te11`dan~ts feed hundmds of tons of coal danily to t.he roaring res. For them the shovel and other hand instruments are obsolete. Thoy press a swidch but- ton here or there to acc(m1p1ish w.ha,t t`<)nm1or1,v took tho life energy 01' hundreds of toil-worn slokers. rm... hnun mnunr hniltlin. oven!- hundreds or tml-worn snumem. Tho huge power hui1din.'., u:111_v to house f1l.I`hiI1(.` uniats z1_::m`o- L':Hin_:: 25,000 k.w. :11 the plan? of Um 1v`m'd Motor I(m1`p:1n._v of Can- zuln. IAd.. Ford City, ()nlnrin. is one of O:1n:1du's l'|m+ut insl:111lv:1ti0ns< nf such powwr units; it fnnms :1 strik- im. nnnh'n.QI with th(- steam) nlmns of, O:1n:1du s lim-m. 1nsummu1un.~ m im: onmrmst with th(- plmns of the p:1.<:t. And if the ('mnpun_\' so uh-sirvs H10 znlomlnnts can lw olnthml in spotless whim suits. l`*rv\Ir1|nv'n (`Hill h1ll1(d 1)_\' (`0`H1` spotless wmw mills. Pmvzlerml coal hundlvd by co-m-| ] )tl`(.`Sf`(] air is hurnml in tho furn- ztrms. Not only has this syslmn dmw nw=ay with much human jail, but it in showing: an economy sur- rmssin: nrvvinus: records in obtain- ing pnw(:r units from coal. SH?)VELI-:I~NG GOAL -_.--. -r\r\v- .. .~.~.1 W. E. B1`ewste1' ` T J/20/l/////I u, ; . , " Use the Bell to Sell To sell the customer who is "out" Vol I. The man w.ho continuously sings his own pnaises is quinte suure to be out of tune with other folks. OZICII one U1 u-n LU Christ, look on .11` Oh, what e Christian coniception is Manager '. of Service Helps EARLY every traveller misses some cus- N tomers when he is making his rounds. One salesman, whose resourcefulness will likely land him in a Sales Manager s job some day, has devised an ingenious plan to keep from losing even one of these occasional sales. He fills out and leaves at his customers a form he had printed to meet just such occasions. It is almost a foregone conclusion that he will get the order. But think of the effect on the customer, too! John Doe, who missed seeing him, is interested enough to call him by tele- phone, to get his order! If he calls after 8.30 p.m. he gets the evening rate. These otherwise-missed orders count up in the course of a year, and it s so easy to get them by Long Distance. Mr. Cox, T ..nn-A4 1V1I`. box, I regret you were not in when I called to- day. I will telephone your (office or residence) about . . . . . . . .A.M . . . . . . . . .P.M. (date). Will you please check over your stock so that you will know your requirements when I telephone? (Signed) John Doe, Grand Sunnly C Printing of All Kinds-from an Envelope to a Cata- logue--Done Neatly, Promptly and Reasonably `at The Advance Ofce. PHYSICAL CAUSE OF DISEASE REMOVED Phone 406 60 E1iza.bot.h SL, Upstairs. Phone for ;\ppoimt1nex1t. H.` ,-_u_ Under the Unlmarried P-ar.en`ts Act there was collected last year $67,- 922. That shoutld set some men thinking that the way of the trans- gressor is hard. Bird bu), Lunneu 1:.-I. LIEU),-, manufacturers of Nepomet ' Art Craft Roll Roong. Nepmoct Block Eikling Paper and r.....|.;...r:nn Wall Board. `[11:11 : I Bird : product Pnroid Roofing in mule by Bird & Son, 1 ...-....f.dn:-er: Neoomet and Cu.u&:n Colnblnnnon w a tort of building. Phones 88 & The Sarieant Co., Ltd. 1924 Has been used and endorsed for over a quarter century. Comes in three colors--slate red, slate green and bright gray. Heavier than ordinary smooth- surface roofing, it is liable and will not crack in col weather or dry out in hot weather. For warehouses, industrial nnd farm buildings. Yields extra dividends for many years on your initinlinvesbnent. .-.. ...upr-. Whether bobbed hair is worth $100 is the qruesbion being put up to Newcastle teachers. Contracts t.o he sent to the `teachers for the com- ing school year provide that the $100 salary increase aklowed by the School oBard shall go only to teach- ers wh\0:se hair is not bobbed. .oI1 Block Iilnkmag run: an: .w.u Board. 'I1:u-e'snBirl Iptodnct lcaury REGlS'I`ERED OHHIOPR.-\C I`O'R F.R.'I`.S. . A ,. R l".l.~.'1`.B. 6 Box 902 Ipstairs. Adjustments for All Diseases xent. Hours 2-5 and 7-8 and by appointment Bzu`ri0`s Busy Chi1'0p1'uct01"` 94 Yard on Mary St. 'I\HUR:SDAY MARCH 8, 1924 Ill/IL UUE, Grand Supply Co. We are in receimt of a copy of the first issue of the K-iwanwis Play- grounds Klarion, a. twelve-rp\a.ge published in conjunction with um Qt, 'I`homas