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9 7 the st0uffy1ui twsuhe tburiy miy 2 57 tht jsiaufiviile trtbitiu zstablishzd 183 a v nolan son publishers member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontarioquebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations authorized tcordcus raa fojtosce dep ottawa issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada 5350 elsewhere s450 c h nolan publisher jas thomas associate editor the wild plum laff of the week the wild plum is a little tree and is inconspicuous save in early spring and fall in late april or early may its black branches are covered with a white lace of blossom in the fall the tree which is hardly more than a shrub carries yellow or red plums the blossom of the white plum is quite lovely but were the tree to bloom at the same time as do the pear and the cherry little heed would be given it but the wild plum carries its flower early so early indeed that most of the earth looks forlorn while a bouquet which seems like nothing else than magic stands against the sombre trees surrounding it whether the plum stands at woodlands edge or along the roadside we shall be seeing it shortly a flash of white to the driver of a car and a gracious fragrant glory to someone who takes time to look at it closely farm industry s in transition adjustment and change are in evitable in a dynamic expanding economy such as that of canada to day yet without such adjustment and change progress itself would be halted canadas economy would be come static and living standards would suffer nowhere is this more apparent than on the farm canada is in the midst of an agricultural revolution a revolution in which farm units for obvious economic reasons are becoming larger in which the size of the farm labor force is steadily shrinking and in which small and inefficient farm ing operations have increasing diffi culties to survive it is this latter group of small and inefficient producers of farm products which is most vocal in de mands for government assistance from their spokesmen come the plea that farming as a way of life is in jeopardy and must be rescued subsidies support prices and restric tive marketing arrangements are put forward as panaceas for the supposed ills of agriculture as a whole a timely warning against the dangers of this attitude of mind comes from deftn a g mccalla of the university of albertas faculty of agriculture farmers he says have no right to expect the general public to support them instead the public has a right to expect that agriculture will be operated as an efficient econ omical industry the senate committee appointed to investigate agricultural operations would be well advised to invite the more detailed views of dean mccalla in doing so they could render a great service to canadian farmers and to the public i said heixo little gikl is your mottiek kolet jt5 getting on with people i have crossed the atlantic several times and met many interestingpeople and others a little difficult even a ship is a small space where one lives with strangers for seven or eight days seeing them constantly there are those who are emphatic in their views and express themselves about politics religion and a dozen other subjects without reserve and expect to be taken very seriously the most thoughtful people are generally reserved and at least inclined to air their views i have often remembered the saying of a famous man the most difficult of all sciences 1s the adjustment of human re lationships to say of a man that he gets on well with others is to pay him a high compliment those who have selfcontrol and good manners are the pleasantest to meet who are tolerant and of goodwill this is a true story of a man who got into a crowded street car in a hurry there is nothing unusual about that most of us have to ride sometimes on crowded streetcars and we generally squeeze in as best we can but this man accidentally trod heavily on another passengers ioes it was an accident but that didnt help very much before the injured man had time to utter a word of protest probably in anger the offender said i beg your pardon sir i am very sorry i hope you will forgive me for my clumsiness then a strange thing happened the vic tim stared at the man and said you are a gentleman to apolo gize like that everything is all right and you can walk on my toes all you like perhaps he didnt quite mean it but he was touched by the other mans politeness and consideration let us just sup pose what would have happened if the offender had acted differ ently if when he trod on the others toes the offender had said serves you right why didnt you keep your big feet out of the way that would almost certainly have started a quarrel which might have had serious consequences there is a passage in the bible which reads a soft answer turneth away wrath the truth of that statement is borne out every day the angry person thinks he is living in a bad- tempered world everywhere lie goes he meets irritable and cross people and he never stops to consider why this is so the truth is that anger stirs up anger just as a goodnatured person finds the world full of goodnatured people not long ago newspapers carried a story about a tenyearold bov who was severely injured by an automobile after several weeks treatment in a hospital he recovered from the accident but it left him in an unfortunate condition his face was in jured and the muscles which made it possible for him to laugh were destroyed no matter how long he lives he will never be able to smile again he may see things or hear things which are very amusing but he will never be able to laugh or even smile the boys parents took the case to court and the judge awarded the boy five thousand dollars damages it was not a cent too much it is hard to imagine a greater calamity coming into the life of a healthy normal goodnatured boy than to have to go through life without showing a smile there are many things in the world which get people down but every goodnatured cheerful person is a lifter and a gloom- chaser we should imitate the man who when his toes were stepped on said you can walk on my toes all you like even if he did not altogether mean it our quotation today is an old saying pebbles become smooth by rubbing against other pebbles seek 26 new missionaries twentysix new missionary recruits will be sought by the united churchs board of over seas missions during the com ing year it was announced rec ently by rev d h gallagher board secretary the official re cruiting list as approved by the board at its annual meeting in cludes eleven ministers five doctors 2 educationalists one theological teacher two social pantry and hungry lad even if they dont build houses today with pantries seems to us that the word deserves more than a description as a room or closet where bread and other provisions are kept half a cen tury ago the pantry was a nat ural and constant focal point of interest to a lad who felt he needed to keep up his strength between meals we are not antagonistic to bread when we say that the staff of life was of minor concern- so far as the pantry was con cerned a thick slice of hot freshbaked fragrant generous ly buttered bread covered with plenty of tangy oldfashioned molasses was very acceptable but the pantry was more con cerned in a boys thinking with such essentials as gingersnaps mincemeatfilled cookies butter milk doughnuts apple mince cherry or chocolate pies and triplelayer chocolate cakes with frosting thick on top and drooz- ling down the sides a pantry had shelves and cup boards a good housekeeper took pride in her foresighted- ness and always planned to have the makings on hand for a quick meal if friends or relatives drop ped in and could be persuaded to stay for a meal some who read this can remember the barrel of lour that sat on a swinging frame some can remember the big box that held a hundred lbs of sugar modern merchandising in at tractive small packages has pro ved its worth modern homes do not have spacious pantries the countryman does not pretend to know just when the progressive debilitation of modern society began but many a lad with watchful sisters has learned val uable life lessons of both caution and initiatlveas he extracted nu tritional needs from the pantry ottawa journal town clerk john urcflthart made his first appearance at the office on monday morning following his severe illness of the past couple of weeks al though able to be about mr urquhart feels quite shaken up and mr dougherty will likely be acting clerk for a time yet at a meeting of the board of health held on thursday after noon a v nolan was again elected chairman for the cur rent year maurice gillion has sold his house and four acres of land on the 9th of markham to clar ence barkey of the 8th con cession of the same township wilbur burnett has joined the local staff of the standard bank farmers report the ground as seldom in such good condition for spring work as this year fred thompson who recently went to newmarket when his parents moved to that town has returned to stouffville and taken a position with c cadleux on the local express delivery fred says that newmarket is a fine town but as for a place to live in just judge by his actions mr richard stadlebar oppo site the public school has the largest family of live stock in town consisting of about 600 little chicks newspapers record the fact that 75000 girls sent in orders through the mails during 1924 for the book advertised entitled what every girl should know before marriage each of the girls received a cook book on ly four wrote from stouffville while 31 books were sent to ux- bridge the sunday school lesson watch yourself on that income tax report untold wealth can get you into trouble opportunity this area canadian company operating on a national arale has im mediate opening for ambitions men or women to manage local business dealing with ome of canadas large chain stores can be handled in spare hours at start if desired honesty and dependability more important than past exper ience our liberal financial assistance enables rapid expan sion this is a business on a high plane for high type men or women of character only applicants must have approx 81 00000 which is secured and good reference these openings will pay you eiceptlonally high monthly income immediate ly and rapidly increase as business expands prefer appli cants aspiring earnings from 810000 to 820000 yearly no lilgh pressure men wanted as no ski uno required if yon can qualify and haxe necessary cali write toay giving phone and particulars for local interxlew write j v weiib company dept b10o 1410 st alexander montreal 2 quebec workers two agriculturalists one sanitary engineer and two other technical workers these new workers have been requested by the local church authorities with which the un ited church cooperates in an gola northern rhodesia korea japan india and trinidad the breakdown by countries is as follows for angola two ministers one social worker one agricultural engineer one sanitary engineer one doctor for northern rhodesia two ministers for india one theo logical teacher two doctors one leather worker for korea 3 ministers two doctors one edu cational worker one agricultur ist one technical worker to de velop a new project in the pro cessing of rami fibre for trini dadtwo ministers for japan two ministers one teacher 1 social worker gods plan and mans response lesson for may 5 genesis 127 28 3 to 9 golden text let the wic ked forsake his way and the un righteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our god for he will abundantly pardon isa 557 the lesson as a whole approach to the lesson the first two chapters of gen esis present a scene of wonder ful promise the world order is pronounced very good by the creator and creatures made in the image of god are living in conditions of unshadowed joy the possibilities for such beings in the realms of knowledge do minion and fellowship with god are unmeasured but the picture quickly chan ges and soon we are reading gods estimate of man that ev ery imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil con tinually frustration seems to be written across the whole pur pose of god darkness and de struction replace light and prog ress ones first impression is of god taken by surprise leap ing into the confused situation and desperately trying to save what he can from the wreckage that however is not a true statement god is not taken by surprise god never acts impuls ively or in desperation known unto god are all his works from the beginning of the world acts 1518 gods purposes are sure and all the seeming frus trations become channels along which god moves to bring to pass his ultimate purpose our lesson shows us the renewed face of the earth with noah off ering secrlfices to god whicli are wellpleasing to him this is a prophecy and a symbol of the final triumph when sin will be fully swept away from the world and gods redeemed peo ple will serve him in holy wor ship dr g campbell morgan in his analyzed bible gives this outline of genesis generation gen 1 and 2 degeneration chaps 3 to 11 regeneration chaps 12 to 50 this could well describe the once been full and had become empty the term subdue sug gests that mans dominion would not be unopposed chap 65 and god saw that every imagination of the thou ghts of his heart was only evil continually a far cry from be ing created in the image of god not only was mans outward conduct wicked but the inner springs of conduct were thor oughly perverted and base verse 6 and it repented the lord it grieved him at his heart gods repenting does not indicate changeableness in god but rather the proper attitude of an unchangeable god to a changed situation his repenting is explained in the following phrase grieved him at his heart if god had not repent ed in this situation it would have indicated a change in his character from perfect holiness to a tolerance of evil verse 7 i will destroy man from the fact of the earth both man and beast it repenteth me the lower animals were involved in mans judgment as being under his dominion verse 8 but noah found grace in the eyes of the lord in wrath remember mercy prayer habakkuk so god acted in the days of noah to save the human race a remnant as al ways was found to perpetuate gods purpose chap 820 and noah build- ed an altar every clean beast offered burntoffer ings this altar was built primarily for burnt offerings in gratitude for the great deliver ance and in token of noahs de sire to be a man of god this is the first altar mentioned for clean beasts see 72 verse 21 and the lord smelied a sweet savour i will not again curse the ground the imagination of mans heart is evil the sweet savour was not the smell of burning flesh but the grateful consecration of noah expressed in the smoke of the sacrifice the wickedness of man would seem a strange reason for gods oath not to smite the sense seems to be that mans innate evil will not again be visited united church to help with technicians a growing interest in techni cal assistance projects was re flected in the annual meeting of the cnited churchs board of overseas missions held in toronto two agriculturists a sanitary engineer and other technical workers were included in the boards official recruiting list for the coming year spe cial scholarships are being of fered for training indigenous leaders in technical fields this is in line with the boards policy endorsed by general council last year of stepping up its programme of economic assist ance to people in the underde veloped areas of the world board official announced that a new project is to be developed soon in korea to help korean farmers in the processing of rami fibre the fibre is now be ing extracted from the rami stalk by a laborious and time- consuming process the idea of the new project is to mechanize this process by introducing a machine recently developed in japan the project will get un der way as soon as the required personnel can be found an ag ricultural extension along with the rami project an agricultural engineer is listed for angola to augment the staff of two canadian agricultur ists already working there al so requested is a sanitary engi neer to strengthen the churchs extensive public health program in angola doctors are needed in angola korea and india in india there is a plan to introduce modern methods of tanning among certain christian groups who make their living in the leatherworking industry a manysided program of village extension services is now in op eration as ah integral part of the churchs work canadian staff includes two men trained in agriculture a specialist in manual arts a printer a wood worker and an expert in co operatives fob parents only books in your budget since 1918 the american heart association its affiliates and chanters have channeled almost 20000000 into research largely looking toward discovery of the basic causes and controls of rheumatic fever high blood pressure and hardening of the arteries which together account for more than 90 of all heart diseases positions involving heavy re sponsibilities and exacting work such an occupation would seem ideal for retirement the real work of adam made in the im age of god and given dominion over all the realm of nature was surely to know god worship god obey god and the garden provided the ideal setting for this in the days of his probation adams ability to name the ani mals indicated that he was on the way to the exercise of that sovereignty which god intended for him but sin entered and soon man ordained to sovereignty became a slave to evil passions evil de sires evil imaginings there can be no doubt that the path of discovery upon which adam had already entered was effectively barricaded by sin and science has been slow painful toil ever since with many a blind alley and many a fruitless search but more tragic was the spiritual effect barring men from com munion with god and embark ing them on a current of in iquity which soon called for judgment minds that were made capable of the highest holiest thoughts were filled with vile imaginations and men polluted the very earth with their viol ence and uncleanness the del uge was gods answer of judg ment by which he cleansed the corrupted earth youhl enjoy going anywhere by mists no driving worries no parking troubles fares are 10w whole biblical story see if you with such a divine judgment so the essential cause of cancer unknown many factors are involved but the most common long as time endures till then forbearance would mark gods attitude verse 22 while the earth re- maineth seedtime and harvest can apply it to our lesson por tions verse by verse gen 127 so god created man in the image of god male and female two i j and day and night shall not facts arc emphasized by repeti- cease the sequence of the sea- tion that man is a creation and i sons is promised as an unfail- that he bears the image of god ng ordinance of nature to the notice also that man consists end of time this is part of the of male and female i noahic covenant verse 23 and god blessed the heart of the lesson them be fruitful re- j the simple and delightful task plenish the earth and have assigned to adam at first that dominion procreation is ff ending the garden of eden mat be of several kird as c tne word translated re- on o the essential dignity and rrlcal thermal heat or me- penih simpiv means fill n ultimate destiny of man to chanical m friction not refill as of that which had many who spend their lives in leave stonfrville to toronto i 700 am a itr0 pm i 025 am b 820 pm a except sun hoi b sun hoi standard time round trip fares between toronto and buffalo 630 new york 2425 chicago 2413 montreal 1640 ottawa 1290 tickets and information at mr r snowball barber shop phone 270j2 are there books in your fam ily budget if they have no def inite place they are apt to be crowded out by other leisure activities and other demands on your purse young canadas book week in november is a good time for parents to discuss with each other and their child ren this vital topic most people spend their time on what they really want to do and their money on what brings them most satisfaction when mother and dad look back on their childhood and compare it with their childrens lives to days world is a different less leisurely one a generation ago there was no tj much less radio listening and movie going but if in their youth parents gained a love of books they will want to pass on to their sons and daughters this great source of joy because reading must com pete with so many other exciting activities it is more important than ever that good books at tractive and worthwhile should be readily available in our homes if children are expos ed to books the right choice of books for their age they are al most sure to catch a love of literature regular visits to the public library are valuable a teacher who is enthusiastic about books may stimulate a childs reading but there is no substitute for parents who love books and take time themselves to read fathers and mothers who believe that a good book is always an excellent investment are likely to have children to whom books matter reference books such as a good dictionary rodgets thes aurus bartletts quotations etc should have their own place then they can be found quickly when any member of the family wishes to check on a fact a number of homes also have a section in the family library for plays for poetry and for other types of books the sup plementary reading list for the schools offers a wide range of titles in various classifications these frequently give guidance in the purchase of a book not long ago a librarian men tioned that she had often seen an adolescent discover the fas cination of biography in reading one of these prescribed books she added once a 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