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premiers greet new year canadas leading citizens voice significant opinions on the turning of the calendar viscount cecil too est amounted to 6000000 tho most remarkable progress has been in the dominion of electric power and in the mining industry this marvelous hydroelectric de velopment constitutes an inexhaus tible source of wealth our mining regions have revealed wealth surpassing our greatest hopes in the last ten months 12686 claims have been staked and work has com menced in several mines of incal culable value during 1927 our population has maintained those noble traditions whichsecurc for it the admiration of foreign economists everywhere it is then with all confidence that we salute the new year and it ia in cumbent upon us to thank provi dence nova scotias message halifax ns lieutenantgover nor j c tory gave out a new years message in which he lister a number verance we know too that national of reasons why he believed the people unity in a country of diilerent races of nova scotia should look forward to and creeds is not achieved without a prosperous new year among them charity and forbearance tho true were the following wealth of canada consists less in the the favorable report of the dun- abundance of ur material posses- can commission sions than in these moral qualities the sympathetic attitude of other and habits of thought which have parts of canada toward tho man premier king ottawa premier king issued the following new year message the dawn of 1928 has a special significance for canada it marks the close of one period in our history and the beginning of another be hind us lie go years of united elort in this time we have built steadily upon the foundations laid at confed eration and have extended the boun daries of the dominion from sea to sea forty years hence many now living will join in the commemora tion of the 100th anniversary of con federation the happiness of that day will depend in large measure upon our labors in the new year and in succeeding years as a result of the celebrations of the past year we understand more clearly than before the greatness of the task of building a canadian na tion we know that the dream of the fathers of confederation was not realized without eourago and perse covenant might be supplemented with a view to the settlement of nonlegal disputes excluding naturally thej decision of internal questions that is a wonderful lead to have sunday school lesson house and jesus responds at once it pi- alanfo was an unheardof thing for a reli- rlul iii rtlsolc lalhererthouse atd stiumore to sit indlcjltes condition down at his table with such company as are now present at levis board quent such mixed gatherings but jesus the purest saint whom the january 16 jesus and sinners mark world has ever seen joins them with- 2 117 golden text i came not out hesitation to call the righteous but sinner to vs 16 17 once again jesus ac- repentance mark 2 17 i offends and outrages the conven tional piety of the time the phar- subject isees protest to the disciples against as are now present at ievis ocara d1 d i t judaism forbade the religious to fre- plot to promote insurrection to give alsace autonom ous government in dicates european unrest cono down to us as an inheritance frcm the past in the new period of expansion which lies before us it is our highest duty to conserve this in heritance for the benefit of those who will come day stand in our places so may it be said of us as it was said of these who created the dominion providence being their guide they builded better than they knew sgd w l mackenzie king premier ferguson hon g howard ferguson premier of ontario issued the following greeting as head of the government of this prcviree i congratulate the people of ontario on the splendid crop and on the increase in general business activ ity which has been evidenced during the past year from every side there is the indication that the year 1928 times the practical application of tho recommendations of the duncan com mission by the federal government the quickened interest of the two great railway systems in nova sco tia affairs tho move to stimulate tourists trade and to accommodate visitors and the spirit of courage and buoy ancy which permeates to a very con siderable extent the business inter ests of the country given the empire and it is very heart ening to those who like to believe that the empire stands permanently for peace if another great war is allowed to come it can only mean the breaking up of civilization nations powers of recovering from such devastations are not unlimited they have noinj 0f c0d at wqrk ya the laxity of jesus what right has exhaustible stores of such powers a redeeming he to break down tho barriers which dlcvered and twelv6 leasets arre8l but one thing they have got within i ction the amazing strict piety has set up is he notj h a abba their reach the means of preventing authority of jesus now comes out compromising religion by frequent- q woman agnes eg- future wars by the peaceful settle- in cert statements regarding for- mg immoral society jesus answer i ma k ment of disputes and the reduction ofgivoness and the necessity of saving remarkable he compares him- hmmatbund or taa armament by international agree- sinners the religious teachers of the self physician whose duty is to- treasurer of helmatbund or the ment that is the great task vs time admitted that there was forgive- wardthe -ggggjg- r aonorn ut league violently resisted germans in it paris an autonomist plot to start an insurrection in alsace has been the league has to face in 1928 and nes with god but they attached so sin t god and to sdiritua health im niimi nninmn nlnne mi emhle many conditions to this forgiveness smners to ooa ana to spiritual neaim which public opinion alone can enable practice thcy had no he deems it right to go among them it to achieve viscount cecil london dec 30 viscount cecil former chancellor of the duchy of lancaster and a member of the bald win cabinet who resigned the chan cellorship following the recent tri- gave out the following new years message canada will doubtless embark upon will be one of universal progress the year 1928 with a greatly increas- and prosperity for the province the j ed interest in the activities of the increased interest in the development j league of nations as a member of of the natural resources and the re- the council of the league she has markable expansion of tho great in- undertaken a great and honorable po dusti ies of northern ontario assures sition she sits as one of the 14 coun to the people there a rapid develop- tries specially charged to advance meet and greater production of new wealth which will add to the general business prosperity of the whole pro vince and of the whole dominion the people of all canada and par ticularly those of our own province may look forward with confidence to a banner year in 1928 i desire to wish everybody great happiness and a full measure of comfort and pros perity during the year that is open ing premier taschereau quebec que premier taschereau issued the following new years message the year 1927 has marked a new era of prosperity for the province of quebec the federal bureau of sta tistics reveals that the figure of our population lias grown to 2604000 thi number of students attending our schools new exceeds 600000 and the fund raserved for public instruc tion by the government has practic ally attained this year the figure of 54001000 our agricultural domain too is increasingly great land under cul tivation in 1927 amounted to 0867000 acres the value of harvests is esti mated at more than 147000000 and the gross revenue derived from agri culture can be estimated at 275- 000000 the minister of highways has built 13c0 miles of new roads and lias repaired and maintained 7800 miles the ycr has rot been prosperous for our fishing industry although the latter represented a revenue of 3- 000000 s revenue from tho land and for- the peace of the world her repre sentatives oh the council and at the assembly of the league however ad mirable can only be tho mouthpieces of the opinion of her people on them rests the ultimate responsibil ity and i trust therefore i shall bo pardoned if i venture to remind them of what the league of nations really stands for and the problems with which it is faced briefly the league stands for world peace social improvement and justice those are tremendous ideals and can only be achieved by placing them above the sphere of party pol itics and going all out for them that is a point to be morne in mind by all league of nations societies their aims must be entirely nonpol itical as is that of the british league of nations union building up public opinion it is a great encouragement to know that there is an activo league of nations society in canada which is helping to build up a public opin ion that not only believes in the leaguo ideals but is actually willing to give a lead in one of the surest ways to peace arbitration m raoul dandurand the canadian representa tive at tho league assembly in 1927 reminded the dolegates that back in 1925 the canadian government in formed the secretariat of the league that canada was still firmly convinc ed that it was essential to submit international disputes to arbitration ho stated that canadn was prepared to consider the compulsory jurisdic tion of the permnnent court of in ternational justice in legal disputes- seek out and to redeem lost souls a hog pool mooted u f co organizing to con trol the ontario hog business five year contracts it is now announced that plans to form a livestock pool in ontario by the united farmer cooperative adherents and the names o tioso company aro under way for the supplying tnnds are in the possession time being the pool will be confined to of authorities hogs the hog business in ontario dovery of the is estimated to bring 20000000 a year to the producer these plans are still in the initial paris inspired one is immediately intrigued by its exquisite femininity this stun ning parisian model no 1702 fash ioned of cremc de menthe chiffon derives distinction from its detail in cut the bodice fits sleekly over the hips adding a loose flat bolero at back to vary its smartness and silver metal shoulder straps extend around the deep open neckline at tho back the skirt is made in throe tiers with m t the selvage used for the edge of each these critics had come early and 1 were occupying seats in their eyes tho word of jesus was sheer blas phemy god alone could forgive vs 8 9 jesus on the other hand knows it to be the will of god to for give this stricken sinner he cannot allow that where thoro is remorse for sin any other condtion of divine for giveness is necessary and he knows that this right to declare forgiveness is supported by his consciousness of gods power being with him to heal ing message to offer to tho repentant he como t0 support the con- they insisted on all kinds of legal ventional usages of religion but to enrols alit unrf t han iadt i1lc forms being observed before a sinner could hope in gods mercy jesus brushed these aside for he taught that wherever there was sorrow for sin gods forgiveness was at once assured moreover while the reli gious teachers of the day waited for sinners to come to god of themselves jesus went out in search of them he mingled with them and atrove to awaken in them the stirrings of a better life he compared himself to a physician whose work lay among the sick not among the strong i the forgiveness of sins 812 v 3 jesus is preaching in a house in capernaumwhen the incident now described takes place the room which is on the first landing is crowded and the entrance and stair way also are so blocked that no one can pass either in or out at this moment four men appear carrying on a stretcher a paralyzed man for the moment they are nonplussed as there is no access to jesus by the ordinary ways v 4 determined not to lose their opportunity they resort to the extra ordinary expedient of getting up on j the roof probably from the rear and lowering the paralytic though an aperture made in the tiles the plan is no sooner devised than carried out the paralytic on his palletbed is let down right at jesus feet v 5 the extraordinary boldness of tho act impressed jesus as a great illustration of faith had he not been preaching about gods immediate will to establish his kingdom in human lives and about the necessity of faith as the means of obtaining divine for giveness and power and here right before them is an example of what faith means what difficulties the men have overcome in order to get their friend into jesus presence jesus accordingly turns to the para lytic and says child your sins are forgiven you he doubtless saw in the mans wasted form and expres sion the traces of a past life of sin the jews were familiar with the say ing there is no man healed of his sickness till his sins have been for given him but jesus always sought to get down to the roots of human need he saw beneath the physical ravages of sickness tho spiritual damage wrought by sin and his first task is to minister to the evil con science vs 0 7 but his declaration of for giveness without insistenco on any legal conditions shocked a number of scribes who were present in tho room the authors included several jour- nallsts engaged in publication ot autonomist newspapers a bank clerk a furniture maker a shoemaker and a contractor former prussian captain one man doctor roose official chief ot the party 13 a former cap tain la the prussian army who at theh ead of an organization of outon- omlst troops managed to escape and avoid arrest though the number of those invol ved in tho autonomist movement is small it appears the organization which the arrested men were build ing up was well planned lists ot tier and loose hanging circular pan elswit h picoted edges furnish the now side fulness to flutter to dance tunes no 1702 is in sizes 16 years 36 88 40 and 42 inches bust size 36 requires 6 yards 36inch or 5 yards 40inch material and yard liinch lace banding price 20c the pattern how to order patterns writo your name and address plain ly gilog number and size of such patterns as you want enclose 20c in itamp or coin coin preferred wrap it carefully for each jumbr and address your order to pattern dept wilson publishing co 73 west ado- a really bonny baby a monster baby that weighs as much as a man is being worshipped in jolo in tho philippine islands al though only seven months old it weighs lost 10 lb and oals ten pounds of rice at a moal it has to bo carrlod to tho tahlo by two men tho natives of tho islands havo do- cldod that so great a person must ho a messiah in infant form and they aro already worshipping it and of- subject to certain reservations and also to study tho means whereby the j ferine it gifts to secure lta favor this is tho point of v 9 if jesus has power to heal they may be sure also that ho is commissioned to for give vs 10 12 jesus puts the matter to tho test he commands the paralytic to rise at his word tho montal and spiritual forces which have crushed tho mans life aro overcome and he rises from his couch this nmazing communication of powor to a helpless cripple produces a profound impres sion but jesus draws from it the conclusion that ho is authorized though man to dcclaro sins forgiven ii v richt to kedeenthe lost 1517 v 15 after the above incident jesus calls levi the taxgatherer to join his company as a disciplo and stage but a conference of a represen tative from each coutny has been called for jan 24 in toronto before that date it is planned to hold meet ings in each of the fifty counties when tho representatives will be se lected tho first of these meetings was held recently in petrolia tho hog pool is expected to be on a much larger scale than the ontario wheat pool it is hoped to not only control the marketing on the ex- chango but the export of live hogs as well under a rigid contract sys tern producers will be asked to sign up to market their entire hog produc tion for the next five years through the pool successful in west j j morrison secretary of tho u f cooperative company stated that tho system now employed by the wheat pood could not bo applied to livestock selling in view of the season able nature of the stock and the var iance of grades definite plans would be made at the gathering on jan 24 he said the pool has been working success fully in the west for noarly a year and similar principles will be follow ed here mr morrison stated backers of the pool claim that bene fits of the government grading now in force will go directly to the farmers they also state that it will be pos sible to prevent a glut on tho to ronto market and consequent drop in price while a scarcity exists on other markcts they expect also to do their own exporting to tho states and great britain unsatisfactory conditions which havo prevailed during the past year would be removed by the new plan they state irrigation in alberta irrigation on modern lines in al borta dates back to 1s91 when consid erable tracts of land wero reclaimed by tbe use of waters from shoep creek in the following year more extensive developments were under taken and since then thero has been a gradual increase in then umber of irrigated farms so that in 1926 the ir rigable nroa under the schemes in operation totalled 1181000 acres discovery of the plot was made r contly when tho houses ot soma twenty suspected persons were raid ed in connection with another trial which was in progress for armed conflict what is most serious is that this time the autonomists were not mere ly engaged in developing propagan da but were actually organizing their followers into battalions for armed conflict the most of those arrested aro na turalized frenchmen and germans and not of alsatian origin tha abbe fashauer has been an activo worker against french interests fcr soma years all of the arrested peo ple have been transferred t mul- house hotasm ottawa ontario plans- are under way in the post office department for tho substitution this winter of a weekly airmail sorvico for the pres ent tonday dog team mail to sorve red lake woman lake woman river and narrow lake in the mining area of northwestern ontario avia- iz j already been ap- desk and papers without further ado ifroached by tho postal authorities but still more extraordinary is the alld is expected that tenders will be sequel levi invites jesus to liis ll shortly great britain gets gift ol 1 00000 toward reduc tion of national debt great britain is wondering about the identity of the mysterious indi vidual who has made to the nation a largo and welcomo gift baid to amount to 100000 which is to ac cumulate at compound interest over a long period to reduce the national debt tho fact of the gift though not the donors name nor the exact amount concerned has como to light owing to a clause having been inserted by tho government in an obscure corner ot a recently enacted law the clause removes a hithertoexisting prohibi tion of such bequests accumulating more than 21 years and is understood to havo been especially designed to enable the present gift to bo accept ed the treasury has received many donations amounting in al sinco tho war to over 1000000 for reducing the debt stanloy baldwin it will ha recalled set an example in this re spect by surrendering a large portion of his own personal fortune for this purpose most o the gifts hitherto havo been in tho form of cancelled war bonds with the law as it is now changed others aro expected to follow the un named doners example a photograph so small that it i3 just on tho vergo of invisibility is be ing exhibited in london the ideal camera for newspaper men is per haps the thought of many who dlsliko publicity it would ho natural for those who favor mr iloovor for tho presidency to point out that the complex govern mental machinery of today needs an engineer uo it has been said that thero are vwo sides to the prohibition question but in the slang of the youth of today ono side if ftu wet mutt and jeff by bud fisher what- and now its as clear as mud to sir sidney