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PAGE SIX: { \ AA Cd ad eT a FES - OSHAWA, ONTARIO: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY FL 3 IIR a i, Thera. is a text in the New Testa: ment has been greatly improv- eg hoth as a rendering of the Greek and in force, in the Revised Version of the Bnglish Bible. 1n the Auth- orized Version it is In your patience 5 ye your souls ' That gives u vary noble meaning tothe swords ot Jesus, which were spoken in a thme of trouble. The Revised Version renders it, "In your patience ye *- shall win your souls." That isa still nobler idea, The thought. contained in jis word of Jesys Is not that our seuls are given to us ready-made, and that all we have to do is to possess them, bold them, guard them and defend them until they are required of ws. - Great as that thought may he, there Js & greater. It is that our souls are jyen us to he won, to be trained, to on developed ta the highest perfec tion and nobility, i Phere is a great difference he- . tween possessing and winning, A man may possess a book; he may bave bought it with good coin of tie 'realm, may have written his name von. its fly-leaf, entered it in his li- {brary catalogue and given it a place "Lon his book-shelyes. Yet he has not ,won that book for himself until he Jag read it and re-read it, until he has mastered its contents and made them a part of his own mental equipment, of his eondunet and ehar- acter, The great part of the people who own books pogséss them, 'but they have never won them, or made them really their own. A man may possess a musical instrument, have paid a lot of money for it and set It up for show in his house. Yet he will never win that instrument untit be has spent days and years of study, mastering its capabilities of melody, making it at cnee the instrument of his pleasure and his expression. Many possess musical instruments. Few have won them. The same is true of the patural powers with which we are endowed. We all possess bodies. Few of us have won them to the highest use- fulness and eniurance of which they" are capable. We have been toc in- dolent to exercise them, too self- indulgent to discipline them into hardness, toughness and fitness for | work. sort. { "being born anew." do fen times as much as he does, if he had aply cultivated his mind ana body as he should. either mind or body. . To everyone horn into this worl we believe that a soul is given. Bomo only possess their souls. Others win them. Two boys start )ife together. Bach possesses a soul to hegin with, One is content with that, He never tries to win his soul, There is no growth in heauty of character, no deepening sense of the fnseen ana eternal, no drawing nearer to God, no mellowing and sweetening of lite as he grows older. In the end that man is apt to lose hig soul entirely, for where there is no growth upwara there is pretty sure to he a dwarfing and dwindling downward. The other, not content with possessing a sonl, sets himself to win that soul and cui- tivate its noblest powers. He makes use of every means of growth; 'he learns little by little to love, labor for and serve his fellowmen; he makes use of whatever talents and abilities he may possess in doing good; he denies himself and suffers hardship for the sake of others. You have known that man once. You meet him years afterwards, You hardly recognize him, he is go chang- ed, so grown in nobility of character, purified and beautified by the pro cesses through which he has passed. That man is winning his soul. That is the biggest thing each or us has to do, to win his own spaul It is not easy: but it can be done God gives us the part in that great spiritual impulse which Jesus called From that bhe- ginning we must strive more and more to win our souls. Every time we check the unkind word upon our lips, the unkind thought in our minds, even towards those who have done us wrong, we are winning our souls. Every time we blot out with forgiveness the unfair, unjust or slanderous things others have dope or said, we are winning our souls Every time was forsake the easy and choose the hard. every time we deny curselves luxury and submit to pri- vation for the sake of our fellow- men, we are winging our s=ounls. Ir is not easy, but it is worth while. Jt is not easy. Bat it is the way our Master went, the Captdin of our sal- We all possess minds, of a| vation, whose own life was not com- Few of us have ever trained | plete till He suffered. And the way these minds to do anything like their | the Master went, shall not the ser- best work. with ourselves to win our minds. We have not been willing to pat sweat of | ~ 0 Ly "pp will and sweat of brain inte study. | Consequently we are told by MEN | ry the same who have made a specialty of such! things that the average man is USig | win Him beside only one-tenth of his ability. Nine- tenths are never used. They trankly, that the average man could WISE and -- O1HERWISE CEEARE THE FOX AND THE GRAPES Grapes like kisses, bananas, and trouble always come in bunches. - - - the the Perhaps the Fox didn't want sour grapes because he wasn't main squeeze. Ra . * Don't put things off; put them ov- er. * It's a juicy grape that queancheth thy thirst. Grapes taste good that is true: be they white or be they blue. »- . » Grapes on the wine maketh glad wine, but not for thine with Volstead in line. » » The foxy fellow who laughs first usually sees the point. - - - If you dou't reach your goal at the first jump---jump, jump again. - » - - it's a long arbor that beareth no grapes.-- "Aesop's Film Fables." Fables in Brief Those wise and witty paragraph fables, inspired dy "Aesop's Film Fables" are still appearing in the public prints. Here ave some apt specimens which we scissored today: -~ ~~ -~ Farmer and Ostrich Fable: Once upon 2 time there was a hushand who enthused ovor all his wife's new hats and prompt- ly handed her the cash to pay for them. --Amboy American. Ld » - Villian in Disguise Fable: Once upon a time there Was an expert witness whose testi- mony conflicted . with the views of the side that hired him. --Greenville (8.C.) Piedmont. ~ - Ed - Cats at daw Famie: Once upon a time every woman who was arvested, or sued or was sued. claimed to he a chorus girl. Now they ave-all motion pic- ture actresses, according to their claims --New York Evening World. In - »~ » on Miller and Donkey Fable: Ono wpon. a time there was a driver whe delivered a whole load of oeal witholit breaking any slass in the basement window. North Adams {Mass.) Herald. ~ - ~ TO-DAY'S NEWSPAPER JOKES Tolal civenlation of all American newspapers has doubled in the last eight péars acdording 15> the siate- ment of one who knows the facts. This dis a long sivide forward. = It means that the average person is twice as well informed about what is going on, all over the earth, as he was in 1914. This is one veal benefit of the World War, which say | | { | We have been too easy | Yant tread it too? "Yea, through the shadow of agony edemption--if we may but pass footprints where Master went, us." Thus He won us: we likewise Win Our Souls. roused great curiosity and got peo- ple in the habit of seeking facts news Perhaps to counteract the tragedy of war more than twice as nany jokes have appeared in the press of the world during the past hree years. This fact is vouched or by the editorial staff of "Topics f the Day" Films who select the Team of the world's laughs for showing om the motion pieture creen Are the jokes of to-day wice as funny as those printed cars ago? Well, old Joe Miller is d '2 many of the modern ~ a l-gmips. Bat, to-da)'s jokes car hold their own when it comes to making one laugh. Read our selee- tions and get your share press fun: of - # - Tem To Ome Drug Clerk-- What kind 'oothbrush do you want? Customer--Gib me boss, dare's tem in my leuntown Chronicle. » » of a big family a one --Al . Unexpected Stump Speaker-- (hoastfully) fm a practical farmer. Mention, if you can, just one thing I can't do on the farm. Voice (from the rear) lay an egg? Houston Post. . * » Bast-Proof "What is it." quizzed the Sunday School teacher. "that binds us te- gether and makes us better what we are by nature?" "Corsets" peeped Tiny Elmira (N.Y.) Advertiser. * - - Lady---Tobe, I'm sorry our wife gat a divorce. Tobe --Yessum, she done back to Alabama. Lady --Who will do my washing now? Tobe---Well, mum Ise co'tin again. and 1 co'ts rapid. --Loaisvil- le Courier-Journal. - ~ - Extremes Cashier---My oh my! 1 have for- forgotten the combination and 1 am in a terrible sweat over it. Sadie the Stenog.--Well, 1 forget my combination, too, and I'm pret- wy sear froze to death.-- "Topics of the Day" Films. - * - Naming Kin son Tim.~ to hear Emme easy chair for my hushand. Salesman---Morris? Rebocca---No: Abie? Paterson Press-Guardian. * - » Oh Lady, Lady? Old Lady Ato newsboy) don't chew tobacco, @o you, hoy? - Newsie -- No, mum, but I kin give ver a Cigarette if you want ene --Boftan Post. - ~ Wom tittle - = Decorative Teacher (after spending twenty minutes teaching the pronunciation of "wase™)-- What do you see on the mantle-piece at home? - : He has not won | | the talk about governing by our | : n | people believe that | was autoeratie. than | Rebecca--4 would like to buy an! PRESENT PURSE T0 "HRS. P. HARPER, SK. Gehawp Pigheer Celebrated Eig eighth Birthday on Friday Last on the occasion of her 88{h hirth- day, the children, grandchildren and great grandebildren of Mrs, Phillip Harper, 8r., one of Oshawn's well. kpown and oldest residents, assembl- street east, on Friday evening last, | and after offering thelr congratula-| tions- on having attained an age he- | yond thé psalmist's allotment, pre-| sented her with an address and a) well-tilled purse. Mrs. Harper has| six children, 26 grandchildren and 36 great grandchildren alive and al number of these were present, Her | children, all of whom live in Ovhawa, | are: Mrs, Jas. Lue, Mrs. John Har-| per, Mrs. PT, Cornish, Mr. Richard Harper, Mr. Phillip Harper and Mrs, | Ed. Blight. The following is the ad- dress: Oshawn, Ont,, Jan. 10, 1982. Mrs. Phillip Harper, Sr., Dear Grandmother, -- We, your) children aud gandchildren, and | great grandchildren, have gathered! together on this evening of yo ir 85th | birthday. You have lived amongst | us all our lives and have always! proved a good and faithfy! mother: and grandmother 10 us all We ask you to accept this purse as a token of our love and esteem, | and with it best wishes for many happy and prosperous yeas to come Signed on bhehulf of the relatives and friends. Taken by surprise, Mrs. Harper, with difficulty, found words ty ex press her appreciation of the kind-, ness shown her. After the present. ation. the family re-union was uiade' pleasant with cards and other games recalling old times dancing und refreshments. Mrs. Harper. al- though 88, as noted, is in goosd health and can look hack to Oshawa's carly days. She has been almost a long resident. life Orders-In-Council Kincardine Review: The Ottawa Journal has made the discovery that the now Libera! Government has jar passed 191 orders -in-council average of six a day ince i smwmed office Of course. "It could dH no hing else if it did business at all while the Parliament! is not in session. AN order- in-conucil was designed to make the! the government -an as A township council might just as and thus shall | well (rr to administer without mo- tions or resolutions or by-laws Jackie Father's fees nipeg Free Press. . Win LJ Fox and Grapes Fable: Once upon a time was a bootlegger who didn't was hottled in hound. --8t (Fla) Times. > * there say it Petersburg * * Up-To-Date-Kids Just how well young Johuny and Mary in the schoolroom know that jolly "Topics of the Day" Films screen feature is shown by the fol- lowing repartee: Teacher (outlining week's work) ----- "Now, children. on Thurs- day afternoon we shall déscuse some | topies of the day." Johnny -- "On! some good jokes. Mary "Oh! teacher, I go to the movies too." OUR MOVIE , Can's Fool Major | Major Jack Allen knows a: whole | lot about wild animals because he Lrespasses right into their baek- vards and films them a la natmnal | But, when he visited his little neice | Dolly Fay, in Philadeiphia a few | weeks ago, Dolly asked him a ques- {tion that nearly had the nature-man | puzzied: | "Say, Uncle Jack. how can a leo- { pard tell when anything goes to the | right spot? MENTIONS | { The Major deliberated a few mo- | | ments, in fact, as he admitted to! us, he felt as much cornered as a° {Juni in a cage. Then he exclaim- "Why, Dolly, when it goes 10 one spot the leopard knows it's RIGHT because then all the others ape Somebody ought to sic the Major on that Edison questionnaire The paper money issued in soviet | Russia has veached 11 trillion rou- bles. Russia's greatest econamic! need seems to be a pressman's strike. | { already vesulted in the { life. | clean and appealing stories | tupes made in their own land. |daries would seein 1p be a [worth while. The movie plays so + inl Canadian. egan ed at the hpme of her gon, 64 Broek |' (HR PIR bas hdd t LL ST SI Ll Oh, mammy FRY'S does taste so good when you're hungry! Mothers ! Just try this--let the children have # cup of delicious, warming and invigorating FRY'S Cocos when they come home from school. It is sucha "bungry time," and such a long wait from dinner to supper, whereas a cop of FRY'S is easily made and every drop is sovrishment of the finest kind. A -- TA Yeu 4 ed +o ereaa® op ETT had PT Re 18 ee SW GARR ST Sag SB ee aa lo Tire ave ER a ---------- Oy Pret Se Vp TRS If your child is nervous, pale and not strong, you will find a regular afternoon cup of FRY'S a wonderful tonic food because it contains every element a child needs for growing. Of course, everyone likes FRY'S, its flavor is so delightful, and really, it is one of the most economics! foods you can buy. *" Nothing will do but FRY'S "' EA lo fol ar L Of course, remember 4 (Continued from pdbe 4) | A p | CORRRBR 'during the last few months wilness- | CORSES. ed the progress of the plan. It has | making in Canadian territory of pictures of umi- versal heart appeal but with distinct Canadian atmosphere. These pie-| tures, it is worth noting, have found a ready market not only in the Um- | ited States but with all British and European countries, with the exoep- tion of Russia and one or two others. They are frankly advertised and an- nounced under their own Canadian names and there is a demand for more, especially these of ontdoor Nor are these of necessity pie- tures of our winter time, or calenla- ted to give strength 10 the idea pre- valént in some quarters that this is a land of snow and ioe. Many American writers, as well as some of our own, have helped 10 create thar impression to the discredit of a country and a climate that every true citizen of the Dominion has 2 right 10 be proud of. Ernest Ship- man. a Canadian and a successful producer, is the apostle of the new movement in Canada. and he has succeeded in convincing many lead- ist or a booster for certain interests ! if he warmiy welcomes any plan that | will establish on a firm basis, a big industry in Canada, and at the same time assures that our people will see in pic- To bar ont the good in literature, ant and the drama from any other coun- (try would be an nsivich like policy. To cultivate them jp our own boan- plan important a part in our everyday life (that its production ought to he a matier of interest 10 every shought- - - To these of an alder generation. - Like name of General Christian De 'Wet, whose death was recently am- acuneed, cecalls some of the dark days of the South Africin War whieh years. - "The elusive De Wer" be- came a by-word then for daring and an amount of strategic ability which shone brightest when the Baer canse was lost and the task of the British 4 » - | world politics. and in 1589 and lasted several | H | goodie. 1 know Bi Ww rid E ents. was to clean up the forces which | by very few even of tie expert guides : 1g 4) V | roamed at will over vast stretelies of : : territory, falling upon isolated posts | and columns and usually gaining sue- de Wet was an able wo the end. Ou the outbreak of | the world war in 1914, he headed | a rebellion in the Orange Free State | aud the Western Transvaal and a very considerable number of mount- | od Boers joined aim. It was a time | of anxiety for Britain and the loyal i ists in South Africa. Britain's pol- | icies were amply justified, however. | tor the forces under Cen. Botha ands Gen. Smuts, tw) men who a few years before had been at the head of the campaigns against British for- | ces, smashed De Wet and his tol- | loweps in quick order. The old] Boer leader who had counted om horse flesh as being his mainstay for | rapid movement---as in the previous war---wag really beaten dy the! amazing speed that Botha and Smuts got ont of their motor transport, of- ten over roads that were mere foot tracks. De Wet was wounded and capiured and sentenced to imprison- ment and a heavy fine. He was re- leased after six months detention. He refused to join the second vebel- lion in 1916, and in fact. is credited with mipping it in the bud. It was an insignificant affair after his in- tervention. Botha and Smuts, after the erushing of De Wets uprising. were able to turn their attention to German areas in Africa. Their aid to the British and the allies was invaluable. roa international contro! of they raw materials of the world, whi was categorically opposed by Canada at the Geneva conference in 1920, may be proposed at the Genoa Economic conference and seriously disemssed Canada is still opposed 15 the jidea. - - = it is natural that the eleciion of Cardinal Achilles Ratti of Milan, Mt aly, as Pope --with the name of Pius Xi--shouid be followed by a crop of stories as 10 his personal character | isties. Most European writers are agreed that he is 2 man of aciion. has a most profound knowledge of the intricacies of HEearopean and is in vobust health. He is 65 years of age and is credited with a sense of humor. in his earlier days he was famous as 2 mountain climber. and it is said | of him that he has an intimate know; ledge of the Alps which is possessed J * * | weil known tea merchant of Toron- to. has been ofiered and has accept- The negotiations for a reciprocity | ed the Canadian High Commissioner- cment between Australia and| agre irreconcil- | Canada. whieh have Leen in more or | powers than aay less active progress for some time, | are reported 10 be ready for remewal | under more favorable howes mination than ever 1o satisfaction of hoth countries. > - AJ cul-| Asvording 10 a decision of the Sa- preme Court. British Columbia's leg- islation discriminating against the employment of Japanese on govera- ment contracts is witra vires--that that the province has ne power to pass such legislation. Brit- ish Columbia hss had more than one case im which its legislation against Orientals has been disallowed. On one occasion it desired 10 prexent the leasing of land to Chinese or Jap- anese. In this case #8 far as the Japanese were concermed the treaty with Japan to which the Dominion war a party. was held to forbid such action. The people of the province claim that mot only are large sec- tions of agricultural land being ac- quired by the Japanese, but that the fishing and other mporiant indus- tries are gradually passing uader the absolute control of these people. Racial problems are alwars difficalt. - - » Foot and mouth disease has been playing havoc with British cattle and the most drastic measures are being taken 10 try to check it. The gov- ernment has announced its decision, as being against lifting the em- bango on Capadian live cattle at this time. is 10 say There have heem a number of raids and fights on the Irish border lines that ave jeopardizing the chan- ces of amicable settlement of is sues between the North and South. * ~ -~ Br a majority raling tae Domin- jon Railway Commission has vejoct- ed the application of the Bell Tele- phone Company of Canada for am increase in rates. The decision finds in effeci that the company's estim- ale of its fimancial requirements was excessive, and that in any event ther could have been met in part had pconomies in operating expenses been inangurated earlier. Chairman | Carvell and Commissioner Maclean | dissented from the deciston. . = a 86 Sus aapesiet. ¥- €- Sari: a1 ship in London. He will have wider previous Commis- sioner, all Canadian offices im Brit- | aim being under hiz supervision. Mr. Larkin is 66 years of age, a noted the matwal| art collector ami coungisews, prom- inent in all movements for welfare and a Liberal. pablic - (Copyright by the British and Col- cuiai Pres: fad. a Everything for your office Desks, filing cabi- nets and other office furniture--ledgers, stationery--inks, pes - pencils -- everything for your office is here at its best and at very reasonable prices. DIXON'S has lead so smooth and easy -floning that it makes writing 2 ure. All 17 deen ate for sale here WB for general use). Jf vou have never used th> Eldorado, try just to satisfy yours 1 We shail gladly advise i vou which degree 3~ > best for your work o REFORMER OFFICE Oshawa, Out.