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vounc canadians forest ieaeue and will be on the alert to prevent fore fires in all parts of the dominion bolln aunold in ooretown on tues day july 17th 1923 to mr and mrs g m arnold a son emerads for may an emerald in may keeps the de mons away about a thousand years ago gems were believed to exort their greatest power during the month to which they were dedicated the wearer accordingly changed his ad ornments with each successive month later it was believed that the great est good fortune could be obtained by constantly wearing the stone of ones natal month now although superstitions con- the sunday school lesson nected with gems have almost dis appeared the idea of blrthstones is still popular accepted lists vary considerably but the emerald is usu ally considered to represent the month of may since earliest times among the most prized of gems emeralds were credited with very great pow ers among other things it was be lieved that they could improve or re store eyesight prevent attack by venomous creatures or evil spirits x certain diseases and impart prophetic ability although mined in egypt at the time of cleopatra emeralds now come chiefly from columbia south america the story goes that when the spaniards conquered peru they found many beautiful emeralds in the inca temples torture failed to re veal their source but they were later accidentally discovered jn columbia- in fairly recent times old inca mines have been uncovered there on enquiry at the royal ontario museum we found that emerald is the clear green relatively rare variety of a common mineral called beryl it is somewhat softer than the other precious stones diamond ruby and sapphire at present standards it is the most valuable of gems being worth three to four times the value of diamond carat for carat god delivers his pimple golden text- call upon me in the day of trouble 1 will deliver thee and thou shatt glorify me pa 50 15 lesson textk 32 33 l7 13 m- exposition l moses- complaint over the increased suffering of the israelites 522 23 the ucreased persecution of the israetltes mnicn followed upon moses appeal to pnaroah for thetr uberatlon was a severer test it was not expected instead of oo-operat- ing with god through m pharaoh became arbitrary an4 unreasonable he challenged the lord 52 he ignored the righteous claims of the israelites he scorned both mosw and god he made the israelii- make brick without straw he ordered is raels taskmakera to be more exacting and treated with harshness the lead- of israel all this drew forth complaints from the people against moses and aaron this was a most discouraging situation but it was met by the leaders going to god in prayer v 22 even though he was grieved over the turn things had taken mowi asking the why of it all in this ho found refuge in reporting to god and set us a good example whenever ue find ourselves embarrassed or per plexed in the performance of our duly toward od we should turn to him in fervent prayers if c ore downcast let us seek his help hi ears are not dead to our pleas it is always best to carry your burdens to the lord in prayer ps 5322 matt 7711 hviiy u it that thou hast sent me many a taskweary servant of god has uttered the came ory gods mes sengers are not free from disappoint ment it is not unreasonable for them to ask why god has chosen them we do well to consider why wo are sent we may sense our uw- worthlnoss as did moses but god will not fall to confirm our commis sion as he did not disappoint moses in this respect kl 104 10 jer 20 79 hab 23r be win come whose right it la to rule heb 10338 itl god did work great dettv- off god history let na keep in ralnd that the of all thing la that god swl be an in an a oar 132228k bbi5tol frtglamd c p- all cl smock earn factor slang and to a certain extent saralr tt when talking to factory workera rev c f hartnan su at diocesan conference we live in a shocked world he said nad most not be shocked by svhat we hear recalls patrons of 50 years ago i jw wuvbmmcb vmwmf gsmmt late laat castas started toitolsjto cp the ontario general election gives oldtimers chance to recall the patrons of indos- tiy which became a sort of balanee- ofpower in the legislature after the general election off 1891 nearly 50 led by joseph langford ilaycock a tanner of calaraqui near kingston ontl the patrons of industry prob ably were the ssteais off the united fanner mo off 33 years ago throughout fanada in ibm the patrons were elected to 11 seats ln the ontario lgli attire a single that mad tbe ism election ran uvea ot tanners all i that we havent got the however the patrons off in were an imnt group in the leg islature cor the nest tour years in the 1889 genera election mr hay cock was oefeased with snost of his oolleagues and the patrons off bdus- try dispersed mr itayoock was in 1903 appointed inspector of binder twine for the dotnlnion go he died some yearn ago if our growth in industrial wealth means to us what a ufce growth meant to the united states we should be able to look forward to a canada mrhere tbe i cam higher standard of using thereto been possible 1 he content to enjoy these selves we must raise the off uviag of forks cbjcj lamous far flavour since 1892 i thesalada name assure you of a uniform mend ff quality teas salam this week 6e0r6e drew will apeak oven- all radio stations thursday july 2 pjm saturday july si sasejr saturday july si atoejw vote for a strong ontario wed aug 4 conssxvative candidate ii gods assurance of the keeping of his covenant 617 god answers moves with renewed assurances the patience with which he had endured the insulting blas phemous arrogance of pharaoh was for the purpovo of revealing his sov ereignty over the human kpirlt and its destiny horn 9 17 pharaohs acts and words only revealed how subject to almighty god ho finally u as now shalt thou boo what i will do to pharaoh mans extrem ity is gods opportunity of helping nnd saving job 241 up to this time it hail beemed ns though the de liverance of israel would ho duo to the work of moses and the leaders yea it had seemed as though it would be at the disposal of pharaoh but god says now shalt thou see what i will do this is the final act in human affairs some people are brousht to fulfil tho will of god through grace others are made wil ling by his power still more are brought to submission by his stern justice those who will not bend must be broken job 4012 13 ac all this reveals ithe sovereignty of god when things had become as bad as they could be jehovah acted note his declarations they are seven 1 i am the lord 2 x appeared unto abraham 3 1 have also established my coven- i ant 4 i have also heard s i have remembered my covenant 6 will bringyou out7 i will redeem you study these seven things and see how complete ifl the answer of cod to the tyrannical and godless conduct of pharaoh the egyptian king might think and say t am pharaoh but all such boast ing is answered when cod says i am jehovah men may say our way is best but jesus says i am the way jno 146 these oppos ing points of r1ew can never be re conciled one must surrender and the lord never does human self- will is always disastrous in the end the second revealed the eternal pur pose of god in grace that purpose outlasts generations t appeared as god almighty but now he appears as jehovah thus joining power to revelation and grace the third renewed the covenant which god had made with the fathers gen 1213 1518 the fourth showed that the prayera and sufferings of the israelites had not been unobserved as much as it seemed as though the heavens were as brass it is now dis closed that god was keeping watch all the time heb 135 6 the fifth emphaifzed the fact that cod was keeping the covenant he had made with he fathers before i urn the sixth assured them of deliver ance as impossible as it seemed it would bo done their days of po litical and economic bondage would soon be over tho seventh indicated that all the power of gods omnipo tence would be employed for their re demption these assurances were sure to ameliorate the suffering and anxiety of the israelites so the promises of god are our present as surances in our distressed world soon country editor shows how socialism ccf leads to dictatorship twominute talks on socialism ccf by george james editor canadian statesman bowmanville who wilt control the controllers in our last talk wc asked who will control tho controllers one of the great strengths of democracy has been that it sought to leave each man to lead his own life as free as possible from outside interference government or otherwise tho one limitation on the individual has always been that the exercise of his freedom must not interfere with the freedom of others as life has crown more complicated the danger of one mans freedom interfering with that of another has increased and we have found it necessary for the state which represents all the people to exercise more and more control even in peacetime supporters of the individualist sys tem recognize this to ensure that tho exercise of power by any individual shalt not be excessive the state rcp- resenting all classes maintain itself in tho posi- a tiort of judge controller regulator arbitrator and in the main it confines itself to these roles it docs of course supply numerous public services such as noncompetitive natural monopolies notably water and light but it has expanded its economic activities gradually and has been content to act in the main as the regulator and not the mainspring an important question what will happen if it steps out in a big way to operate virtually everything itself if the regulator becomes the mainspring then who regulates tho answer can be got quite clear ly by looking at germany and italy in these countries once the political power began to op- crate the economic machine it at once became clear that complete regimentation was neces sary with tho necessary force behind to make sure that the decrees of tho dictatorial power were carried out tho question of controlling the controllers here of course never even arose who could regulate or control the supremo power in the state once tho regulator be comes tho mainspring then tho mainspring has nothing to regulate it this seems so clear that one wonders why the socialists do not see it they do in fact see that there is a problem and try to answer it but being unversed in tho practical working of government their answer is entirely un practical and unrealistic they fall back on such statements as the principle of cabinet responsibility or ultimate democratic control must bo retained in tho running of state in dustry but any one who will reflect on the waygovcrnment is carried on will realize that ultimate democratic control must bo entirely confined to principles and policies and cannot possibly have to do with the details of dayto day business in other words a few men com prising a committee of parliament the cab inet must make all tho daytoday decisions budget as an example tako as an illustration tho budget we all know that in practice and it is the only prac tical way the minister of finance and his ex port assistants prepare the budget that it is approved by the cabinet and then goes be fore tho parliament where the government majority puts it through under the socialist plan instead of the government confining it self in the main to regulate measures to direct and control other people it will bo carrying on the great bulk of tho nations business it self and to suggest that there will bo ulti mate democratic control is merely playing with words frankly the situation is that a few men without any one to control them will run tho whole show there will be no one to control the controllers and remember that the proposed controllers almost certainly will be men without any practical experience in af fairs and yet they are rcaay to assume re sponsibilities from which competent men with a lifetime of training and experience would shrink how socialism affects the farmer in this talk wc uiall deal with mcialim as it would affect farmer- after stating that tho major proposal of tuicialism i the puhhc owner ship and operation of such things as bflilkinj railway flour mills pulp and paper heavy chemical the kescarch committee of the league for social reconstruction in its bookj democracy needs socialism nays agricul ture retail trade industries which are really competitive and small businesses will probably continue for some time to be privately owned although their output and it distribution will be related to the national plan it will bo cold comfort to the farmer who wishes to have some control over his own af fairs to bo held thatprobably not certainly he will be lert in control of his own land it will be still colder comfort to have the words torsonio time added there is however one certainty that is output and its distribution will bojrclatcd to tho national plan iabt of contkoixem system what is meant by the phrase related to the national plan it means of course that it will bo part of a controlled system it could not be otherwise because the final objective of socialism is the control of production and dis tribution in other words the farmer may con tinue to produce but the government will look after the business end by taking over and controlling tho distribution of his products all thjs is to be done whether the individual farmer likes it or not it is obvious that this totally disregards what becomes of the farmers independence and personality as u factor in tho life of tho country means check on production there is another point in this type of con trol which should not bo overlooked if tho bureaucracy is to know what a farmer is doing with his products and is to make suro he places all his production at the disposal of tho government agencies as indicated by democracy needs socialism it will be neces sary to check every farmers production and prevent him circumventing the governments arrangements for disposing of it the ges tapo methods which will necessarily have to be used can be left to the imagination the socialists of course would question this mr t c douglas deputy leader of tho ccf for example would put it differently he would say thattho socialist plan means giv ing workers farmer- trade unionists consum ers a real voice in managing their own affairs tho ccf lie says will establish a planned economy but an economy planned and control led by the people for the people commenting oi this mr bruce hutchinson the wellknown and widely travelled student of public affairs and a close observer of politics writing in the vancouver sun says whether a ccf bur eaucracy would bo efficient would represent only the people and remain above reproach or whether any bureaucracy will soon become a force uncontrollable by the people and deter mined to control the people is a matter of op inion but it is only childish to say that gov ernments can control an economy without a bureaucracy or operate without tools plenty of evidence mr hutchinson might have cone further and aid that in the last few yoarg in germany and else where we have hod convincing evidence of what happens when governments undertake to control economic life no one who understands that gov ernments must covcm can be deluded by any vogue suggestion that thore can be direct control from the bottom except on broad longrange matter of principle and policy the daytoday decision must bo arrived at by the few and lorried out by them through the steadily increasing power of a huge and growing bureaucracy wc have already in wartime n foretaste of what that ulll mean nnd we endure it as of necessity in wnrtime hnuever much we ditlllko it but we should remember that what we have now is a fore taste only of the rcglmcptation nnd control which wo shall have to endure in pencetlme if the social ists havo their way how socialism affects the trade unionist there should be no doubt in the mind of any trade unionist what will happen to trade unions in the fully planned economy contem plated by the socialists in which as pointed out in our first talk they propose to take oyer and operate practically the whole means of production and distribution what will happen is not a matter of conjecture wc have clear and striking evidence from germany italy and labor elsewhere what happens is that under tho fully planned economy the supreme auth ority which is also the supremo employer can not tolerate any opposition among its em ployees and therefore it cannot tolerate any independent employees organizations that is why in germany it was incvitablo that the nazis should stamp out trade union which they did promptly completely and ruth icssly within six monthsof coming into power some in italy in italy it took longer the outlawing of tho trade unions was not complete until lt25 three years after tho fascists came into power there arc indeed still tamo trade unions in italy how tame may be indicated by the fact that under the law no trade union official can be elected to office in tho union without the consent of high fascist officials this makes it clear that tho trade union continues to ex ist in name only indeed under the fascist state the trade union becothes merely a propa gandist and administrative organization under the direction and dictation of the government how could it bo otherwise trade unions exist to assert and maintain the rights of em ployees in any negotiation with employers when there arises an irreconcilable difference it becomes necessary to have recourse to a higher authority namely tho will of all the people as expressed through government this superior will can harmonize and adjust differences when they arise between employer and employee but what happens when the higher power takes over tho property of tho employers and itself becomes tho virtually uni versal employer it is perfectly evident to any ono who will ponder the facts that when this happens trade unionism is doomed its final disappearance may perhaps be somewhat de layed but is nevertheless inevitable let us look at the plain facts under social- ism the trade union no longer dcala witb tho individual employer who is subject to ther higher authority or tho state but it deals with tho state itsblf tho supremo authority in these circumstances any negotiation between the trade union and the new employer would be like tho negotiation between the fly and the spider benefit by experience with tho experience of germany and italy before us it ought not to bo necessary to labor this point further surely it is clear that when socialismjateps in at the front door trade un ionism goes out by the back the union may continue to drag out a shadowy and useless existence as a tool subservient to the govern ment liko the case of trade unionism in italy already mentioned but that is all it would bo well for trade unionists to ponder these things and to stop look and listen before they court the fate of the trade unions in germany and italy while no one suggests that in this country they would bo put down in tho ruthless and brutal fashion employed in europe nevertheless under social ism the trade union as understood in this or any other democracy could not continue to ex ist its disappearance would be the logical outcome of the fully planned economy and ex perience in other countries has shown that it would be folly to expect anything else make it a clean sweep vote for the progressive conservative candidate the drew 22point programme ensures social advancement of all classes along sane lines pua by pr goommtive party ef onaahs r h mimtiakj l