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-1. EDITORIAL Pacing tl1_:_\Alor|d ` ` week of pray nnnnles to 1 She W Wann, And boldly dees b_oth cold and r. \;Uun'w.Aca IJJ uuu w_y vnbuv `luv- ,. during the past year.--S't. Inas Times-Journal. Iwaa uuu vvuv -.uu,..... v..... ..--._ rous lay, And led them on their unknown uwu. mu: oy\...u. ..........`.....,.. .,- Hepbu1'n.-Woodstosk Sentin- Christmas Liquor L -13 |.._...... In nu us,-....4.. ... ......- could say ` was more blissfully content . s 1- ` . Press Opinions -May Riley Smith. i i The Weef Prayer; ;uu vvuL.:.u.y -Dals con broken cart to- a kite to reach in God s world to kiss its nest ' a shining Of joy: Llhllla Pioneer. [federal government can do. It draws atten-tion away from the things the provincial government has not done, and occupies time which might otherwise have to be spent in explaining` the growth of the provincial debt.--'I`oronto Sta"-.*. ` DIIUU u uvu Excerpt from address broadcast 3 days ago- from London by H. .\Izn't_vn Gooch!110i11`1.\' 900 concerning the Universal Week of - "-"" ` ` iLetter Worth Paying to Hear Hon. Howard Feiwgwuson has some admirers in Sarnia who think his speeches are worth real money. Ald. George Street passed up city council `on Monday evening and his ve-dol1ar fee to attend a Can- adian Club Luncheon to hear the former Ontario premier. Mayor IPel1ing was absent from council for the same reason. That the agricultural industr_\' is not in a satisfactory condition is generally admitted. The termina- Bribain removed a. handicap xvhich tion of the economic conict with has seriously affected the industr_\' between 1932 and-1938, but so disturbed was the export trade dur- ing these years that such recovery as has taken place has been only partial. Indeed, if something` very effective is not done to stimulate production and to secure for the farmers a reasonably remunerative return for their stock and produce, ' many years may elapse before 3. =fu1l recovei-_v can be expected.- Irish lnrdepenvdent, Dublin. i Irish Farming l Belatedly, but none the less sin- cerely, The Journal joins in the good wishes for Prime Minister ;King on the occasion of his *6-1th birthday. Through thirty years of strenuous politics, Mr. King has up- held the better traditions of our public life, and while he has often invited opposition-, he has never de- city, in particular, he has been a great citizen, and Ottawa, owing l much to his vision, must always lserved less than respect. Of this \wish him well.--Ottawa Journal. Always Wins Respect The Hnie the Source of Habit In these days when so many peo- iple place responsibility for charac- `ter on other things than the home, it is interestine: to read the opinion of a British Columbia psychriatrist on Personalit_v Development of the Pre-School Cihilrl. Writing in the December issue of the Canadian Nurse, Dr. Arhtur M. Gee of the Provincial Mental Hospital, Essen- dale, says that personality is derived from five basic elements--pl1ysique, intelligence, emotion, instinct and habit. The first four are inherited, the fifth acquired. u1xr. _._- As to habit, he says: We are born without habits and we spend the .greater part of our lives acquir- ing habits, good or bad. The baby spends his first years learning; hab- its of nursing`, habits -of hygiene. walking` and talking`. Slowly the personaIit_\' begins to unfold as the child begins to feel his security and realizes he is an individual within the family constellation. With in- creasing` emotional maturity, he is `gradually weaned from his compete physical and emotional dependence upon his mother. The day comes when he must step out from his. home and its security to enter a new `world at school, where he is thrown more or less on his own resources`. Here he learns new habit pattern`.~'. The foundation that he has received `durin_2' his pre-school life will to ,a :zrez1t extent fonm the pattern to which his later life will conform. I ' The problem of per:~:onalit_v form- ation and character building is not a matter of specic teaching: but of o`erin_2` children at each level of their development appropriate op- port.unit_\' for learning` through di- rect participation and experience. Parents cannot hope to live one way and instruct their children in an- other. Children, in their personal- it_\' formation, will reflect their home `and their parents in 'spite of every Ie"ort to teach them better. It was over ninety years agoll that the Week of Prayer was started. It was a time when there` was much to disquiet the nationsl of Europe. They were nearing al time of storm and tumult. Within every lond -those? who shared the ( Chri.=t,~ian faith had many zmxietiesrf and fears. Then it entered into thele minds of some of them to call up.-}( on all who shared the same faithp to begin the New Year tog-ether in'; a concert of united prayer, and 1 for these ninety years now the call ' has been repeated, each new year 1 reaching` out further to new regions; and new ton;-;ues, until, today, like;:` a mlL{l1t_\' river, the stream of Unit- ` ed Prayer ows through innumer-W able channels for the deliveranceg and renewa`: of our strug;;'ling hu-E manity. : ; 7.. 1041! ...1..nn 4-kn rnnl, nth` TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1939. gnu... .,\. ..,...... _..,,, As soon as a child is born. the home itself begins creafing in him spiritual climate, teachiiig: him basic reactions to life which will later :2'ove1'n his conduct. We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success, of- ten discover what will do by nd- ing out wwhat will not do, and a discovery. Horne Tooke used to say of his studies in the intellect- ual philosophy that he had become all the better acquainted with the country through having had the good luck sometimes to lose his way.-Samuel Smiles. Illalllb) . I In 1846, when the Week of Prayer commenced, Japan was closed; China was only known through its treaty-ports; Korea the hermit-kinqzdoin, sealed against; the west. Livingstone, already in Africa, was still looking` northwardp where the smoke of a thousand villages beckoned him; he had still ` to make those journeys which were to open the way into the centre of Africa, to hrinp: death to the slave" trade, and to establish the Church of Christ in the heart of the Con- tinent. To-day, not only in Japan and China and Korea, but in Ugan- du and Kenya, there are churches- sharing in this common approach tog the Magnetic Centre. Chinese pas-` tors in the midst of confusion un(ia| '35 3 ' V) --E|tabli:bed l847- Published every Tuesday at 123 "unlop Street, Barrie, Ontario. S. R. Pitts (editor) and H. M. Davies (manager), owners and publishers. A weekly newspaper devoted` to the building of a bigger and better Barrie and to the fostering of closer co-opera- tion between Town and Country. fwo Tarriv Ahuanrv sorrow of their nation during this prayer will be calling their peoples think and to pray with - those of all other races, black and brown and yellow and` white. Thousands of Koreans will meet day by day in prayer, and from many [an African station the same peti- 'tions will arise as those inspired by the universal topics. It is well named the Universal Week of Prayer. 1 i :1: If` Orillia has more drunks at the` `_!police court in one week than Bar- `alrie has in two months. I (As taken from the Advance les of January 3, 1889) The band was out blomng sweet- , lness around on New Year's Eve. i Late last `Saturday night, while stockings were being hung by i cheery resides and children were being tucked lovingly into bed by fond parents to await the comingl of Santa Claus, a 65-mile-an-hour` gale was lashing a sinking Nor- wegian freighter ve hundred miles off the New York coast. ` _ It is not true, as was asserted in one of the town papers last week, that the fee for attendance `at the Barrie Collegiate Institute has been raised. The fee is $16 `,per annum, and any candidate at :the entrance exaniinations making 70 per cent. of the marks can at- l tend absolutely free. | ___ g It is stated that girls `cannot go `to North River as school marms rand return unmarried. This is a `chance for pining spinsters. One of the church wardens of the English Church at Duntroon called" at the parsonage a day or two be- fore Christmas and presented the `incumbent with a ne black fur $|overcoat. l Two Alliston men named Larkin and Nesvbitt have been biting and `thumping each other, and now it is expected that the lawyers will be l....n,...x :... +.. a..+-no Hm rliFr-nltv. l blxkluvux I called I ' The Stayner Sun gives this: A iman in a beastlv state of intoxica- ition wandered around the streets of 'Allanda1e last week frantically en~ ideavoring with a large knife to shed |the blood of the frightenned inhabi- 5 jtants. Where was the Allandalel lpolice force when that was going` 1 I-.. 1 uear D11`: I l s c In reference to letter, in the | 1 3 Christma.< issue of your paper, signed 3` Santa Claus Admirer, would like to e%sa.\', that some people are very (lull _-}of spiritual understanding, and fig: h;urati\'ely .~:peakinp:, you could notl n'get light into their heads with d cold chisel and sledge hammer. There ll were people like that around two 1- tl10u.~'an(l years ago. 7 m1... .............. .-.4` mu: ln`r+av- rnrrnvrl- ! Goderich: the lighting of the town` :of Goderich by electricity is now a[ `postitive fact, and the new year was [ushered in with a blaze of fty] ielectric lights amid the ringing ofi `ivbells and the ring of gunsl The {Huron County Town is now a blaze of Light, illuminating the town and surrounding country for miles. `shot a bear 1 ____ Messrs. J. %Letter t.oTheEditor While the twenty persons onl board clung to the bridge as the! sinking ship sank deeper into the` Atlantic, vthe voice of a axen- haired girl ran` , out above the roar i of the sea. It was the captain s daughter, Svanhilde Larsen, singing Nomvegiaxi folk songs~--to keep up the courage of the sailors huddled] on the storm-swept deck. 141 He... .11 LL . nnnlrn T Dunn`- :gu'a_v. If it is Saint Nichlas that people :are trying to impersonate, they must` E have a very bad opinion of him, for 5 they tell some outrageous lies, while 1 doing it. It is out of order, as far 5 as time is concerned, and a dis-. t;grace to the name of Saint Nicho1a;~1.| 1' What we want is not lies, ctitious ,i:1ame:<, or substitutes, legends, or i fai1'_v stories, but the truth, it is the 1 truth that sets men free. N 7 .,_-J_ .. I!LLI.. ....1L ....u.:-.'lri SANTA CLAUS AGAIN `Editor The Barrie Advance: Dear Sir: ,,_ L- I-L.... Lnuurunu _\l:i.I1.) up.-,u. ; The purpose of my letter, regard- `ing celebrating` Christmas was to help, if possible, to keep substitutes `out of the place of honour, on that _ day. I 1': : :.. o..:..+ M:,.1..1.... 41-..~.+ nm-min `Lruun `Lllul. >!:Ln IIICII xlcc. l Society needs a little salt sprinkl- led on it every now and again, to `keep it from goimg entirely rotten. It is either salt or judgment. Yours sincerely, I -r :1 11'l'I1:ItVI" ! Althougrh Danes are noted sher- imen, over half of Denmark's popu- `lation is engaged in the landlubber I. occupation of farming. Years Ago zeu Ellfdh uu: 1avv_y\:a.a nu. . in to sete the difficulty. asu. ;u\. pounds. Ellis and R. Lemon in Essa swamp a few The animal weighed` 1 L\I|.lAn n..\.;\..._, J. v. Eium. U11 Lntt auunu-away uvun. l "1 sang all the songs I knew:_ over and over again, until I thought` I would lose my voice. The men- s faces brig'htene(l when I sang, but when I stopped they looked solemn," so I just kept on sin.9:ing," she isl reported to have told mem>be1`s of} the American freigvhter Schodackl after the lives of all on board had been miraculously saved. 1 n ,, L`_AL L1_..2ll.:..... ....:,. -4: 4.1.-,| _ QHIEB ETOST. Until at last, when we thought it lost, ` Just where the briar-grown lumbet road crossed The crest of the hill, at the old stone wall, Earth was black with the butternut fall ! Dappled like autumn, green and `|....-u-on ruwu, Only the frost could bring them down And blacken and toughen their gmnite backs. Only the iron of grandfather's axe Could bite the shells to the Wither- _...... -1. ed sweet That Grandmother calls the wildnut meat. With sun to ripen and frost to shake And us to take all the squirrels don t take And Grandfathers stone-dry maple to bake. Grandmothe1"s making butternutl "Le-t s maka believe. Our life has I too much sameness. ' | It s too prosaic, dull and com- | monplace. Day after day the round of dreamy tameness, A treadmill trodden at a plod- ding pace. lWhat seems most real at most is ` only seeming- ` Why, for apparent worries should Letter It the; Editor DIVORCE LAW AMENDMENT Editor, Barrie Advance.. Dear Sir,-I am getting ready a petition to Parliament asking amendment to the Divorce Law so as to make desertion, long im- prisonment or separation, insanity, cruelty, chronic -drunkenness, ven- ereal disease, etc., 3.-`rounds for di- vorce, in zulidtion to the ill-to-name offences which now form the only p,'round for (lissoiution of a hateful marriage bond. A 1...-n :.....1.... .......n....,. nuaaml Han IIIlu1'r12igc uuuu. _ A bill forthe purpose passed thei Senate last year, but the House of , ;Commons threw it out without dis- icussion. Many members of both `Houses seem . indifferent to Lhe woes of popr, for nearly-all the suii`erer.< from the causes above mentioned are of that voiceless multitude to which class the legis- lators do not belong. The only hope of happiness in life for the great body of the pepople is in hav-- inighappy homes and children. In- numerable are the poor persons who `are denied that chance of real life on account of these causes and they go to the grave homeless grass widows and grass widowers, com- . parative outcasts from society of 1 , happy homes of their own. This so\ $they mate without the law, shock- their kind as everyone knows. Or im: all their 'frien(l:~` who have lution of their problem is becom- ing more and more common, unde- sirable as it is from some points of view ;but their Creator, who made. them male and female, knows them and their lot better than we do. God made marriages before He made churches, and before men" made laws. `7 my ,,_._,_ L.___l_. Iauv law 0. ` Yours very truly, \ (Major) G. N. Weeks. London, Ont.. Dec. 10, 1938. LET'S MAKE BELIEVE cake ! 2 -Charles Malam. The Barrie Advance These winter nights agamst my window-pane `Nature with busy pencil draws de- xgua O1` ferns and blossoms and ne sprigs of pines, Oak leaf and acorn and fantastic \'1lIU:,` `Which she will make when summer I comes again. ` n` 12 51,1.-;.-11 `.'v.m:u bwAu;_;uu nun. \.A\rA\AJvvnn And morning wakes in song, And elds are full of daisies, I know the days are long ; When toil is stretched at nooning, Where leafy pleasures throng, When night's o errun in music, I know the days are long. [When suns afoot are marching`, I And rains are quick and strong`, And streams speak in a whisper, I know the days are long. When hills are clad in velvet, And Winds can do no wrong, And woods are `deep and dusky, I know the days are long. --Ethe1wyn Wetherald. * i K WHEN DAYS ARE LONG When twilight late delayeth, A..._l ..... .... Vifli umbcm 3n anno- The painting hands of old clocks once could tell More than the hour on the dial s face, Each with a different accent--here a bell Tinkling silver from a crystal case, And there a tall 5.rrandfather s clock, whose loud Voice boomed commandingly above the rest, They were like individuals in a crowd, ` Each mechanism wholly .~:e1f-posses.~=- ed. Ulttll. l1lu'zu;uAuu:.u_y ecnvcu. ) Since that thrilling epic of the` sea a few brief days ago, the cal- endar of time has marked the de-' mise of 1938 and the birth of 21' brand new 1939; the passing` of an. old year strewn with cares and] -_.-....:-.. -3 1-nnv\v\vv 144-\v'\n`FI1` 1'v-:1-av-` I 113.1116 ` [Controlled by distant tl1robbing' (ly- namos, `And now 21 million 1'h_vtlm1_= are the But now time comes to us in uent n , _ nu, For every clock upon its mantel knows `An unre1enting',regimented beat, Insistent as the click of marching feet. 11 u,,, v.~_.:u. cu.:,.1....,... TIRED MOTHERS A little elbow leans upon your knee, Your tired knee that has so much to bear; A child s dear eyes are looking` lov- ingly From un(le1'neat.h :1 thatch of tzmprled hair. `n,-.L-_... ...... A- \!I\ lnnnrl +1-an volunf ......,.,.-- Perhaps you i touch Of warm, moist ngers, folding" yours so tight ; You do not prize this blessing: over- much--- You almosrt are too tired to pray to-night. But it is blessedness! A year ago I did not see it as I do to-day- We are so dull and thankless, and too slow To catch the sunshine till it slips away- And now it seems surpassing strange ._ ____ I did w me, That, while I wor the badge of motherhood, not kT.'~'s more oft and tend- erly Ubu .VU':u' much u w nun Lusuu Lnnnuy worries, of happy, hopeful inter-] vals that liafe been darkened byl thoughts of international conictz, History will record for 1938 new heights and depths in national des- tinies, in magnicent overtures for` world appeasement, of war, of de- gwadation and of brutality beyond] belief. ,,,_ ,A 11100 :_ .. ...-LA.'l...J` FROST-WORK `Ulc- -HeIen Frith Stickney. .u CLOCKS :u nun. do not heed the velvet agamst my. lllo --+T. B. Aldrich. Awvs nu .... . -...-_ A snooty bandit refused to take $100 from his intended victim, de- claring that it wasn t enough to bother .with. If this thing keeps up, most of us will be quite safe.- Chatham News. Drew's Return When Col. Drew bolted from the y platform in the last Ontario tion, it is now revealed that he ly made a successful detour to '_.c 1_:_ ......4... C. 1 yun nus nnnn a ....,..-. eads of liquor commissions ughout this country are no t considering; Christmas liquor supplies? Would it not be more in keeping with the spirit and sig- nicance of Christmas if ue sale and consumption of liquor were discouraged during that sacred sea- son, instead of being encouraged and promoted ?-Ha1ifax Herald. A Liberal Paper : Dig ._ __L-._:..n_:..... 1.-.. UEHE1. The picture of 1938 is a mottled` one indeed. n_______._.x :._a... LL- :....L A Llueran rapera ung . It is astonishing how much Mr. Hepburn and his ministers can tell their audiences about the things the gown; Or that the `footprints, when the days are wet, Are ever black enough to make them frown. If I could nd a little muddy boot, . Or cap, or jacket, on my chamberl ` oor-- I If I could kiss a rosy, restlelss foot. And hear it patter in my house` once more- I There If I could mend a day. To-morrow make the sky, nu ,,,_ ...,...~nn uni: nu.) nun. .,..uu-...._V _-,,,,, than I. But, ah! the dainty pillow next Juy uvvn Is never rumpled by head ; My singing` birdling from own-- The little boy I used dead ! 112,. 11:1-.. GOD DID Who made the jaunty blue jay bold And tted him to stand the cold `.7 Well fed and tough, he keeps quite Who taught the wren to build herl nest 1 Amid the sheltering vine; Who coached the beautiful oriole | And tau_2'ht him his nest to twine. Who keeps the eagle poised on high, A picture ayrainst the azure sky; Who supplies what the nest1in_2's| need, And furnishes the sparrows feed '3 "Who put the song: in the bluehii-cls . throat, And gave the robin his trill; Who gave the thrush his beautiful tone, And trained the whip-poor-will ? UIIU Iuuccu. As we step forward into the first ` week of 1939, with its hopes, and promises, and uncertainties, may we do so with the courage dispTa_ver_i by blue-eyed Svanhilde Larsen on} Christmas Eve on that sinking Nor- wegian freighter 500 miles out on` a storm-tossed sea. A fri-ghtenedj doubting world is in dire need of more Svanhilde Larsen s to-day. An army of the type who could say under most distressing circum-: stances-Men s faces brightened` when I sang, but when I stopped; they looked solemn, so I just kept{ on singing, would have nothing to fear in the days ahead. i A . .. _ L..:..1.; L Who taught ('anarie.<. cagzed or free, To pour forth their song` in joy-} ous glee; No ner -music in all the land Than that produced by a canary band. run, The pi;-;eon on her homeward quest Who brings the birds at eventide With song: to give their best. Who guides the gull on the ocean s . ....M ply umur: a. au:..\,CaaA.un \A\.uuuA. H. ' leadership, of his pa1*ty.-St. harinesr Standard. Twas God who taught this wond- The little child that bl`oug'ht. me only good. l Why; And gave to us a world That we might worship n..1..4...... es Mixed -`irmipeg Free Press, a little sed by the din of battle, in- s its readers that the defeated ral candidate in South Water- had the special endorsation of _.._ n r--.I..L....1. G.-nu!-Cu, YT," ,_, wonder so that mothers ever fret At little children cling;in', to their gown: \_ LL..L L1... `-'l-'nn+n1-iv-We u'l1r\n fltll Prod to Our Packers ckers. in United States and da will have to look to their ebs. Uruguay has increased its nents of refrigerated meat to 1` countries by thirty-eight per ,.. LL- .......4. ..,...n Q01 .lC(1l Ill Lllc \-I613? btllvuun | As a suggestion for a bright,l' prosperous and happy new year, we can think of nothing ner thani the example set so recently by that! ca:p+.ain .< dau_e'hter--let s hold our}; chins hi._9;h and keep right onl singing.