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Gratitude will smooth the way. Sunshine which the morning sends, Love of family and friends, Food and raiment for your need, Hands to do a kindly deed; Work to an the day with joy. Good that has no base alloy, Patience when the hours are long. Words to comfort and make strong; Time to exercise and play, Wisdom that knows what to say, Strength to do an irksome task, Smiles that discontent unmask; nape to vanquish needless fear, Power to summon courage here, Means you may with others share, Spirit to endure and dare; Then with new confidence and trust We dare to greet the new born year; Believing that the living God However winding be the road, However difficult the task, That He will leod us as 01 yore, Is :11 we ask. 80 strong in 131th, with cournce firm, We step into the great unknown, Through all the days. His promises have never failed; Strength for the need has been supplied And though we grieved Him with our “lie flat]: bed The. m By the light Way.” Palm 107: 7 Another year has slipped away, With all its failure and success Its faith and fears, its joys and cares Its restlessness; Not always have we felt assured That all was well and all was best; And disappointment, doubt, distrust, Wourd' on molest. Yet as with retrospective eye We contemplate its winding ways, We see that God has led us right, â€"Bl:nche Kerr Usher Theyemuenowmundbloomwithm Mty’s wide garden; mroeeforjoy,theflmforstn, The gardener, God, to pardon All wining growths, to prune, reclum. And make them rose-like in His name. Winds a-liownng, 'shrieking merry! Cheating days of ice and snowâ€" Chnblemed heels and fingers rev. Como in Chat Awhile 4m; Ruhun. And not alone! He still was Guide. At Home My. January 7. 1932 -Needham Phillips. The GI“ at GM rour blessing every day GOOD PRINTING. JANUARY THAT/’5 LARGI {Cy H O N I C L E II US The Whistling Postman The man who brings the mail to us and others on our street. Is nearly always whtstlmg, and a whist- It isn’t just in summer when the balmy bleezs blow, .. But equally in winter with it‘s storms of sleet and snow; The Whistling Postie’s note rings out a message of good cheer For weather cannot dampen it at any time of year. Then Hail! Good friend the Postman, The empire crumbled, as all empires must All that the hero wrought has long been o’er. All that the fortune bought has gone to dust The teacher’s work goes on forever- our whistling troubadour, You carry more than letters as you go from door to door. Your mail pack is a music case and as The weather is usually our first topic of conversation when we meet a friend, and so, we meet this first time in the New Year with Blanche Kerr Usher's little word picture of our usual January weather. better day; One fought with every power each wrong uncouth, One made a fortune vast to give away; And one set out to mould the heart of yod walk along The world ls made the brighter by your whistled bit of song. Four sought to mould the future of the etrth Each in his time and way. and task and place. , They sought alone the happiness and worth, The peace and welfare of the human One reared a throne and soyght This is the season of the year we think more readily of the passing of time and Richard Banon has compared the years to flowers that “bloom within Knowledge of God’s righteous laws. Zeal to serve a worthy cause, Prayer to guide and safely keep, Best from night’s refreshing sleep. Count your blessings every day. Gratitude will 3111th the way. his] KS IN ITIES -Clarence E. Flynn. Rev. William Howey. â€"Grenvillé Kleiser. fulness. “The Whistling Postman” touched many lives which he never saw. In the year that is ahead of us we will have opportunities of service, many chances to make the garden of life a bit more beautiful, and we can, if we will, count our blessings and live cheerfully each day and we can always count on help from the Gardener. coarse, but is usually straight-grained and free from those defects which in some Woods are described as blemishes. Due to its heavy medullary rays beech possesses a very distinctive ap- pearance, especially when quarter- sawn and well polished. Beech is a hard, heavy, dense, strong and stiff wood. In color it varies from reddish-brown to white. Streaky col- our effects are not common to beech, and the wood is prized because of its uniformity. In texture beech is rather Grenville Kleiser gives us an excel- lent motto “Count your blessing every day, gratitude will smooth the way” and makes a summary for us of some of the blessings that are ours. Clarence E. Flynn in his picture on ‘Service’ shows by contrast the bigness of the task “The moulding of the heart of yout " and this is a grand task when the moulding is in the path of right. William Howey’s is a story of cheer- | CANADIAN "WWW The structure of beech is such as to give it a peculiar waxy consistency, and t prOperty is much valued in woodwo ing plants because it means a low cost of upkeep on the knives. A good wood to work and polish, and one which holds its shape well if properly seasoned, beech is nevertheless a dif- flcuit wood to kiln-dry because of its tendency to warp and check. In the drying of this wood certain corrective measures are therefore required, and it is essential that these be carried out if the utmost in utility value is to be realized. Needhazn Phillips has gone back over the year. and the review of its adven- tures ends with a. strong reassuring note “We step into the great unknown, not ieorinfl, anxious, questioning, and not alone.” Eternity’s wide garden”. We each have a part in making that garden beautiful and what a joy to have the Gardener with us alway. Good Name An Irishman working in a mill, met a fellow employee of his as he hurried to work one morning. who accosted him thus. “Say, Pat, would you believe it? When I got home last night there they wereâ€"twins. I was simply paralyzed. We’ve named one of them Anna Eliza, but we’;e up a tree for a name w‘ the other.” ”Ye’d better call her Paralyzer.” sug- gested Paddy. Characteristics of Canadian Beech Let us quote you on your next order of LETTER HEADS OFFICE FORMS STATEMENTS BILL HEADS INVOICES ENVELOPES THE DURHAM CHRONICLE Away back in 1812 they say, a detach- ment of Canadian trooos were station- ed at Fort St. Joe, occupying a com- manding position at the lower end of the St. Mary’s River. It was late Fall and very cold. The army overcoats were badly worn The tr00ps, in de- spair, consulted with their ofllcer. The officer, an ingenious soul, suggested that blankets should be manufactured into overcoats. This was done. Some of the runners attached to the post found that the long blanket coats inter- fered with their means of locomotion, and cut them shorter. Verbal° warfare which had smoldered for more than one hundred years has burst into flame between residents of St. Joe Island and those of Mackinac Island. And this time the St. Joe folk intend to carry the battle on to the bitter end. with a view to obtain- ing permanent recognition as the first and only creators of the now famous Mackinac Islanders have always claimed credit for the coats. St. Joe Islanders object. This, according to St. Joe people is the true story of the “mackinaw” coat, which they claim, should be called the “St Joe coat.” The new coats were a tremendous success. But the following year the tr00ps moved to Mackinac Island, and here the coats were even more popular and here, eventually, evolved the name “macklnaw coat.” “Why shouldn’t they be St. Joe coats?” the St. Joe old-timers ask. “We had ’em first." And so it is prOposed to ask the Historic Sites and Monuments Board to settle the controversy by placing a tablet to the coats on the ruins of old St. Joe fort. snmmmcmw on the Why do peOple worry? There are only two things to worry about. You are either successful or unsuccessful. If you are successful there is nothing to worry about. If you are unsuccessful there are only two things to worry about. You are either healthy or un- healthy. If you are healthy there is nothing to worry about. If you are un- healthy there are only two things to worry about. You are either going to get well or die. If you get well. there VERBAI. WARFARE AS TO ESOURCE MACKINAW COAT E nothing to worry about. If you die there are two things to worry about. on are either going to Heaven or Hell. i you go to Heaven there is nothing to worry about. If you go to the other place you are going to be so busy shak- ing hands with old friends that you won’t have time to worry, so why worry? Than a warnâ€"Cue Troop- at Fort St. Joe in 1812. WHY WORRY We venture to make a few pregnant remarks on pronunciation only on the understanding that we are not pontin- cating. What we have to say promises to be rather a confession than an ad- monition. for we are sure that few have more grievous sins of mispronuncia- tion upon their souls than we. A blush- ingmemoryotadaysomemyearsago orsowhenwewereaneditorofsome kind on the Mail and Empire comes to us as it often does. We rushed into the oflice of one of the editors and exclaimed, “The Hotel Viger in Mont- real has been burned.” In our inno- cence we pronounced the word as if it were English and rhymed with tiger. “Veezjhay. Mac, Veezjhay” said that sound French scholar, and we retreated we presume its pro ciation must have been agreed u y analog]: but what was agreed u has proved vain. nine people out o ten accenting the last syllable inste or the penultim- ate Now and then the man who knows4 a little about history gets a bit of his own back. ' This knowledge will guide his pronunciation when all other signs are absent. We suggets “consols”. It is universally mispronounced with the accent on the first syllable. But if [somebody happens to know that the word is an abbreviation of “consolidat- ed debt" he will save his soul alive when he finds it necessary to say the word . We have barely space to note a difference between mispronunciations ‘ through pardonable or at least under- standable ignorance and mispronuncia- tion through siovenliness. Nothing but the death penalty is suitable for those who call “iron" am. and say junnowati- mean for “Do you know what I mean?" --J. V. McAree in Mail in Empire. abashed. Most of us, perhaps. have been in the position of the melanchollc hero of Floyd Dell’s “Moon Calf” who was a writer of merit and a lover of literature. but who rashly attempted to pronounce “desuetude" never hav- ing heard it before but frequently hav- ing met it ln print. and perhaps written it. Why Most of Us fill Mispronunciation Easy Now the one familiar and misleading sequence of letters in that word “suet” and to pronounce the word without giving it its full, rich value was as im- pssible for him as it would have been to us. But it turns out that the sound of “suet” is absent from this word to which public attention was first brought by Grover Cleveland. It is pronounced, we believe, as three syll- ables, with the accent on the iirst: de-swe-tude. or dee-sweh-tude. In any event it is without suet. It is quite possible for a person to be an experienced writer and even to have considerable knowledge of literature. to use words in their prOper sense, to have an extensive vocabulary and a sensitive ear and yet be quite ignorant of how to pronounce hundreds of words which he has written hundreds of times. We do not think we have written “desuetu " before except as a quotation from fiveland, having found it a good prac- t not to employ words as to whose meaning we were not clear. and whose meaning would not be clear to every- body else who might see them in print. But the truth is that we do not learn correct pronunciation either by reading or writing. ~It isme by being in the company of pe0ple who speak correctly educator. We should never have knodm how to pronounce “irrevocable" if has. ,Fiske had not taught us. _ We Learn by Ear If we have ever used the word “hein- ous” in conversation we have mis- pronounced it, or it was only a few days ago that w learned it is pronoun- ced as if it were spelt “Haynous”. As we have said before, it is by associat- ing .with cultivated peOple that one learns the niceties of pronunciation *and we are obliged to admit that some of our colleagues and companions are ,not as high toned as we could wish. However it gives us little satisfaction to reflect that although we cannot learn from them they can learn from us. .ce they show a strong disinclination thus to improve themselves. There be- ing no rules for pronlt‘ciation which are not vitiated by nu erous excep- tions, we are all likely to be misled by false analogy. Take th two words “deficient” and “deficit".eg'hey have the same number,of sylla es. The}. are from the same Latin root. They are pronounced differently. But ob- serve that ten people would pronounce the former correctly for one who might pronounce the latter correctly. Why is this? We surmise that “deficiency” is the first of the two that the average person learns. It is a common enough word among the youths. but “deficit" belongs to a later period in life. and we read it rather than hear it sten. Playing Sate Citizen: wer. you'd better lock me up. J hit my wife over the head with ub.” ' Gainer: “ you kill her." Citizen: “Don’t think sho. The-h why '1 wt to be locked up." upon different syllables, but there is no rule which insists that in a word of three syllables the accent shall be on the second syllable. and in a word of five syllables it shall fall upon the fourth. The general practice in Engish is to get the accent toward the front of the word when possible. Thus we have noted in reading three pages of a book as a test we did not and a single two-syllabled word in which the stress was not laid on the first 3 liable. But what a beating “allies" in the war! But for the war nine peOple out of ten would never have known how to pronounce it. . “Automobile” is a coined word and False Analogues The same thing applies to words like “ferocious" and “ferocity". Most of us learn to pronounce the former much earlier in life than we have much dealing with the latter. The re- sult is that “ferocious" is not’often mispronounoed but “ftocity” leads many to err. We take “academy“ and “academician”. The accent falls A Fatal Pltldl gettingreadytostend indetenceotthe Dominion's supremcy in quality-wheat. Itwiu bethesummerot'lon before the carefully-chosen exhibits of wheat grown in Canada. ore placed in compe- tition with prize samples from more then a score of countries It the World's groin exhibition and conference ct Re- gina, but the Trelles. the urcombes. and the Gilberts of the west's when belt already are looking over their choicest certified seed to be used in the all-important crop of 1932. Kings and crown princes of Cnnldn's wheatlnnds are pnepurlng for n but! winter of plain und fancy seed-abet- lnc such as the rostest any: of path: 331-3an history never saw. Bic-shot growers whose prize winning “me ha spreul afar. 3nd Just plum farmer: with PREPARING T0 RETAIN CANADA GRAIN RECORD In July and August 1933. Canada will pit her line hard wheat against the best wheat from many European coun- tries, Argentine. Australia and New Zealand, as well as the United States. The wheat king whose crowning feat- ures what is to be the greatest grain show ever held will wield a soeptre no man has waved before. Triumphs year after year at the Chicago International Livestock Ex- position's grain show have led Cana- dians to believe the prize wheat grown on the prairie is the world's best. If it is, a Canadian will win the Regina award less than two years hence. Herman Trelie, the Wembiey, Alta.. grower who won the Chicago title last ye with a hard red spring sample an this year with Durum, stands as Wheat culture, but he has been vuiner- able to the “tools on his crown by Joseph H. B. Smith. Wolf Creek, Alta. producer and C. H. Gilbert. progres- sive young Big River, But, former who captured first in spring wheat at Chi- cago with a herd red exhibit. Only the best of highest-node oerit- tled wheat seed will be placed in the ground next spring by farmers who plan to enter its fruit in the world show. Grown in mil quentities. it will be carefuliy wetched until mturity and then the best of it prepuwed for exhibition. McKechnie Mills BAKING and PASTRY FLOUR WHIAT md MIXED CROP OILCAKE MEAL J. W. EVEN PAGE 8.