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in line with new legislation being passed in the various states of the american union aimed to diminish the alarming number of accidents through reckless driving of automo biles particularly on level railroad crossings the board of railway commissioners for canada has re quested the canadian pacific rail way to submit information bearing upon similar dangerous practices by motorists on various portions of its system so that use may be made of the information with a view to en deavoring through education to minimize the occurrence of such dan gerous practices in a bulletin issued by the board of railway commissioners on june 15th 1923 54 cases of danger at pro tected crossings are cited for the period october 1922 to may 1923 and of these fifty are declared to have been due to the carelessness of motor drivers motor accidents says the bulletin are becoming more frequent every sane motorist deplores this if accidents are to be lessened the sane motorist must edu cate the culpably negligent motor ists j all highway crossings are by law protected by signs and they are only dangerous when the driver of the au tomobile makes them so they are not dangerous if motorists will take i a small part of the care they exercise in turning on a city street it is the motorists carelessness that makes them dangerous the train has right of way everyone knows what may happen if the plainly seen warnings are disregarded at a point where the motor car can stop while the train cannot i the surprising part of it also is that safeguards and precautions erected by the railroads are so often entirely ignored time after time newspaper reports show that cross ing alarm bells barrier gates zni even watchmen waving stop sig nals mean nothing to the man in the motor car who is determined to beat the train to it coroners juries are usually more discriminating and put the blame where it belongs but the general public seeing the usual newspaper heading train crashes into motor car starts out with the impression that the train must necessarily be to blame when as matter of fact a fairer statement of the case would be another auto gets in path of fast train quite as often too the heading should read flying auto dashes into moving train fre quently the auto strikes the train well behind the engine a convincing indication that the motorist too fre quently treats the railroad crossing with the same casual notice that he gives the intersection of a quiet country road out of 32 level crossing accidents that happened in ontario during 1922 22 were the result of the motor ist not heeding the stop signal and seven were the result of running into the lowered gates or actually passing under them after they were lowered or while they were being lowered one man had no headlights and ap parently did not see the gates were down while the remainder in other ways tried to cross in front of the engine in order to save time in an editorial on this question the toronto star says that in a coun try like this with its magnificent dis tances and railway systems with twenty thousand miles of track the time may never come when all level crossings will be eliminated with motor cars in use everywhere there is no railway crossing so remote but that a motorist may use it it is his business to see that he does so at a safe moment it is his business for two reasons 1 because it is the presence of him and his car at that time and place and not the coming of the train which creates the risk of a crash and 2 because if there should be a crash he and his tar will be crushed- and not the fraiu farm life for young folks farming is more than a business it is also a life a life which many people who have had opportunity to compare it with urban life greatly prefer many of the people with this viewpoint have been able to satisfy it only after they have passed middle life or perhaps have not sooner ap preciated the advantages of farm life some have made their comparisons while young and decided in favor of the farm regardless of the handicaps involved if the experience of the older peo ple who go back to the farm life from choice after middle life is worth anything the young people who make farm life their first choice are on the right track from the standpoint of a satisfactory and wholesome life there can be no doubt about it when the possibilities of present farm living conditions are considered and from a business standpoint they are making no mis take in the long run while farm ing may not be on a par with some other present business opportunities so far as immediate returns are con cerned it is a stable business in which average successes are probably more numerous than are average successes in most other lines it is not alone in being subject to periods of depres sion and it hold3 no hazard of unem ployment with which industrial and office workers must ever contend all of these factors should be well considered by young people who stand at the fork of the road where they must choose between farm life gods open country and the possibility of an unsatisfactory existence in the crowded city you should eat more good bread the staff of life is well named wheat flour contains no less than sixteen essential food elements all of these are retained in the milling all are in bread when you eat bread and butter you are eating what is prac tically a complete food eat more bread 1 it is best when made in the home make it with quaker flour milled in the finest mills in the world the quaker mills quaker flour is guaranteed to give you always the finest results if it does not satisfy you your dealer will give you your money back moi sv th quaker oatsflmpaist a product of tho quaker mills peterborough and saskatoon always the samealways the best 230 stouffville stiver bros distributors uxbridge w s lapp school health 1 remember the living dead it is well that we should do honor to those who gave their lives for their country the memory of their heroic sacrifice persists in tho hearts of all of us at all times but it is well to iset apart one day for special servlca and outward consecration it is well also that we should re member those who have not given their lives but their health their prosperity their success pretty much all that makes lifo in this world profitable and attractive says tho editor of youths companion there are those who are indeed moving about among us but who are maimed crippled or otherwise injured and who perform the offices of daily life with a steadfast courago only the greater for their manifest incapacity yet heaven forgive us we sometimes lose our patience with them there are those whom we never see and are too likely to forget who are so thorough- j ly disabled physically or mentally that they can never again take any active part with their fellows and even in somo terrible case3 nrc so disfigured that their fellows can hardly endure the sight of them at all and we know that these latter are- in a manner taken care of the goy- ernment for which they sacrificed everything provides physicians and nurses to do what is necessary and what is necessary is done but phy sicians and nurses aro human they have their own lives to live and tho care of a helpless hopeless burden is too likely to be mechanical and in times of hurry and fatigue there may bo indifference perhaps even neglect and you say what can i do about it alas alas too little but you can at least pay your taxes with more conscience and less reluctance when you reflect that a part cf them goes to provide for those who have given j everything for you when it becomes a question of giving directly for the relief or the entertainment of the disj ablcd men in the hospitals you can drain your resources for a little more than they will stand and you can nil the time help to keep public sentiment nlive in tho matter since more than anything else public sentiment will insure care and attention on the part of thoso whose business it is to pro vide them j not long ago the prince of wales visited a war hospital where there were thirty hopeless case he was introduced to twenty of them and talk ed with them where arc the other ten he asked ho was told that they were too badly injured for him to see but ho insisted and finally saw nine of them he found it shocking and distrefsing enough yet here again he was cordial and kindly but he aaid there u still one more im- possible your royal highness no onel u allowed to see the poor fellow but the necessary doctors and nurses i am here to see them all said the prince and i will see them all the atendants gave way and the last room was opened for an instant the prince turned pale and shook with the agon ized pity of the spectacle then sum moning all his energy he walked gent ly across the room and kissed tho dreadful relic of a human face in that moment he was more than a prince more than a king he was a young normal healthy man with a life and a future before him and that futuro will carry the shadow of a haunting unforgettable salutary hor ror wo do notwish to impose unneces sary horror upon ourselves or our children but we may at least make the effort to remember with sacred grief and sympathy those who gave far more than life gave a busy use ful hopeful happy young humanity that their country might be saved a musical attachment to scales which would change its key if short weight were being given is one sug gestion for protecting customers from dishonest tradesmen home economics practical the term home economics is a com paratively new one it has to do with the use of economy in the home in our general conception of the term economy in the home is as old as the hills sometimes it has been prac ticed with a strictness and necessity that is often painful this oldtime economy involves the doing without it means carrying water from out doors the battening of every source of ventilation to save fuel the eating of cheap and unwholesome food to keep the grocery bill down such is not economy but an abor tion of it for it does not save in fact it is an extravagance because what it conserves in material things it takes out in human lives one of the greatest extravagances is that so- called economy which makes the hu man being less efficient and happy it means less ability to do the things which will bring greater earning power and besides most generally brings an even greater expenditure of the meager financial resources because of the doctor bills which come as a consequence household economis on the other hand means the doing of more work with less effort better eating often with less cost and a happier and healthier home household economics should be of interest to tho men folks for in the home the man is kept fit or made unfit for his daily tasks the home is the maintenance and reptir department of a mans ability ill health and its attending unhap- piness which result from haphazard economy are the greatest of human extravagances true household eco nomics will conserve both health and finances and will bring the result in happiness the st john nb dry dock is now an accomplished work and was open ed on october 29th it is the largest dry dock in north america and cap- ablo of accommodating the largest ship in the british navy many a mother who has carefully protected her child through the first ave or six years of life dreads to see him approaching school age and to know that he must go forth to possible contact with all manner of contagious diseases why dont the school authorities do something to protect them one anxious mother asks please dont forget anxious mother that when all is said and done you and your neighbors are the school authorities and it rests with you to see that the school nurses are em ployed to help the teacher in keeping your child from disease you can do a great deal yourself in spect your child yourself every morn ing it there is any sign of illness keep him at home until you are sure a sick child should never be allowed the sunday school lesson november 4 worldwide prohibition worlds temperance sunday psalm 101 18 proverbs 23 2935 golden text i will set no wicked thing before mine eyes psalm 101 3 lesson setting this week have our quarterly temperance les son this is not an interruption or a turning aside from the main theme of the lessons temperance is a world question just as the missionary move ment is temperance is a vital part of the missionary movement in temperance is waste of life and soul power just as christianity is conser vation of life and soul power for the highest ends and purposes we know how intemperance has been one of the great hindrances of the missionary in i his work for where tho missionary n school he is hurting hmself by i has wazed the the se the effort to study and may be doing has f moreover the intem- harm to the other pupils by exposing perance of so called christian nations them to a contagious disease a wise is a reproach to christianity in the mother will not be fooled into keeping eyes of many nonchristian peoples the child out of bchool for every whim a world that has turned to god will and fancy neither will she commit b a world that has turned to tern- the far greater error of risking his health merely that he may keep up in i the wisdom of the king ps his school grades next to the mother the responsibili ty rests upon the teacher any child showing symptoms of illness must be carefully inspected if doubt exists the teacher must be ruled by the wel fare of the majority and the child must be excluded this rule should hold good even though the illness seems to bo just a cold almost all colds are contagious the child with a cold will get well ten times quicker by staying at home in bed further more many serious diseases have the symptoms of a cold in the early stages teachers should be supplied with clinical thermometer and how to take temperatures 101 58 vs 6 6 whoso slandereth his neighbour in the preceding verses of the psalm the king has been expressing his sense of responsibility as ruler of the kingdom he promises we son turns our thought to temperance in our accepted sense of that word it has to do with the physical and moral effects of drunkenness the writer calls attention to the after effects of a debauch after the first exhilaration of body and mind has passed tho drunkard perhaps sought to drown his woe and sorrow but it waits for him in the morning greater than ever perhaps he had sought to banish his weariness of body but the morning brings in creased physical unfitness perhaps he had sought intellectual stimulus but the morning finds him dull and heavy the life needs release from the burdens and heaviness of life and there aro ways of escape which re create the powers of life rather than dissipate them while we aim at pro hibition we must see that healthful forms of recreation are made possible for all it will be noted also in the chapter from which the less n is taken deals with other evils of intemper ance gluttony and impurity all of them are the waste of bodily and soul power vs 32 35 at the last it bitcth like to use his power temperate by rejs cr mzing his duties to god and man d th fi j lts f power like anything else can bej k when it is all too iate used temperately david says he drunkard realizes that the cup is will remember what he owes to god f ison thesq d and to man now m the following thousands of years ago but verses he describes his attitude to t as th8 those who forget the law of temper- f intemperance are always ance in all things he will destroy same but expericnce of an w v u jtne same uut uki experience 01 an- the man who is intemperate in speech d unheede b th world led with a speaks false things against his to u t jus understand sft u ifffi i f w tified prohibition him that hath an high look he that subte an it can be is lofty eyed this is intemperance w jus- we are dealing treacherous foe thanksgiving daynovember 12 123 be ye thankful thanksgiving and for what should we give thanks for all the brightness and the joy in life freedom for which our brothers fought and died our country free from tyrants rule and free to carve her destinies among the best of nations growing better and more wise more careful of the lives and hopes of all thanks do wc give for friends who make our lives more pleasant and more useful to the world thanks do we give for books and for their help their pleasant intercourse with noble souls thanks for the beauteous sky and blazing sun for trees and hills for birds and beasts for life in all its forms for nature everywhere for all the common blessings that we take without a thought of care so common do they seem thankful for all of these and more than these thankful for pain and sorrow weariness for disappointment and the kindred things that make us feel within our inmost soul that life is but a part a small one too of that great universe and that some day some great thanksgiving day we shall not fail to understand the mystery of life and realize how many trials there were which then seemed crosses yei were but the cause of true thanksgiving if we had but known h b it may be said that we can- make people better by legislation lnnmpd tn ton m i i livs ws5sj25 we are justified in seeking to protect t f h of pride and ambitionthe sin that th heed and the weak from them- let us hope that none of the intelll- magnifies others and belittles others the r ht interpretation of gent parents who are our readers j and magnifies self and ignores god prohibit is total protection would think of being angry with alf that walkcth m a perfect way we e to shield tho and teacher for sending a child home on i this is the man whose life is from woman f rom the results of intem- suspiclon of illness tho teacher is day re mm ide perance and to protect the drunkard bound to make some mistakes but you s a 8 t fes himself the mfc of en- can always get a doctor to decide fee thai he seeks to walk in hls i forcement which all must admit do give your teacher the aid of a school vs 8 hezt worketh deceit p a sufficient reason for nurse and you will lessen disputes and shall not dwell within my home the save your children from much pre- king seeks the company of the faith- ve true but rememberthat so long ventible illness ful and shuns the companionship of e the liquor traffic we do not allow common drinking cups the wicked the matter of compan- making man worsc by legislation in your school nor the use of common ls of the u im n j the liquor traffic is a lawless treach- or roller towels it is a simple mat- sjxi t force and as such we must deal ter for you to see is placed in your child you should visit the otuyu uucu no do a maner 01 cnance duc oi j te perverse thinn enough to satisfy yourself that it is choice he that speaketh falsehood in the writer points out how kept clean and light that the well is shall not be established rev ver intemperance destroy the whole nor- protected from contamination and shall have no permanent piacc the that the privies are clean and fiytlght r favor no f ex to thesoaro practical ways in which you th w p tlse dcc j i if 11 will not be the scene of subtlety and may safeguard tho health of your craftp but of honesty and faith the childdr lerslgo king seeks to order heart home and court aright ii the woes of the drunkard of tho 526 girls that have been pv 23 2935 brought to saskatchewan from the vs 20 31 vho hath woe red- british isles since 1920 to june 15 ness of eye this section of the les- 1923 only six have returned overseas and of the sum of 545411 advanced to the girls the sum of s42980 has been repaid 400 having repaid their loan in full and the balnnce of 126 paying all but the sum of 2430 tho girls came to canada to positions as household workers 1 mal course of life mind and tongue and jbody are all out of joint they do not function aright will seek it yet again yet he has power to break away from his course of life he is chained as well as poisoned kings bath tubs in ancient egypt weighed at least ten tons each heat mg1it power the average yield of wlieht in can ada this year is 2034 bushels an acre i according to a second provisional esti- mate compiled by tho bureau of sta tistics the wheat yield is approxij mately three bushels an acre higher than last year the total estimated crop for tho year in comparison with the 1922 crop follows wheat 469- ttuooo against 399786400 oats 531373000 against 491239000 bar ley 80357000 against 71865300 rye 26936000 against 32373400 mixed grains 29090000 against 27- 707700 flax 6942000 against 5- 008500 stoves signs heaters and numerous other appliances installed by us or perhaps its new wiring or extensions to the old you require let us give you an estimate all work guaranteed reg w gyatt electrical contractor stouffville