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VICE-PRESIDENT Making ready to move the spring rush of Ontario's wartime traffic: J. F. Pringle, recently appointed vice-president and general manager. Central Region, Canadian National Railways, (left) spent the first day» at his desk in consultation with Barton Wheelwright, chief engineer, reviewing the regional facilities and the year's right-of-way maintenanca program. SVNDA Y SCHOOL L ESJ^O N March 2S â- niE SACREDNESS OF UFE PRINTED TEXT, Genesis 1: 87, aS; Matthew 12: 11, 13; Romans X4: 10-21; I Corinthians 6: 19, 20. GOLDEN TEXT â€" Know ye not tiiat your body is a temple ot the Holy Spirit? I Cor. 6: 19. Memory Verse. Let us I^^ve one »nother. I John 4; 7. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time. â€" We do not know when man was created, and there- fore we do not date the first chapter of Genesis. The tv.o verses from Matthew's Gospel are from an episode occurring in oitr Lord's life in October, .\.D. 2S. The Epistle to the Romans was writ- ten about .\.D. 60, and the first Epistle to the Corinthians two or three years earlier. Place. â€" The scene froiu which the verses of Genesis are taken was, of course, the Garden of Eden. The words quoted from Matthew- were uttered near Capernaum. The Epistle to the Romans was writ- ten from the city of Corinth, in what is now .<nown as Greece, and it was to tliat city that Paul pre- viously penned liis two long epistles, called First and Second Corinthians. Creation Of Man "And God created man in his own image, in tne image ot God created he him, male and female created he them". Since God created .\dam of the dust oi the ground and breathed into his nost- rils the breath ot life, he is God's by creation and he bears tiie like- ness of his Creator as the child resembles his parents. The Divine Blessing ''And God blessed theiii: and God said unto them, be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and rubduc it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea. and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living tiling that jnoveth upon tlie earth." 15y the divine blessing of God given to man and woman mankind is in- creased, and the succession of hu- man generations is continued. The earth and its various products and inhabitants arc assigned to man for the display of his powers The si.bduing and ruling refer not to the mere supplying of his natural wants, but to the accomplishment of his various purposes of science and beneficence, whether towards the inferior auitnals or hi.- own race. Service On The Sabbath ".\nd lie said unto them, what cian shall there lie of you. tluit shall have one sheep, and if this fall into a pit on the .sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it r.nJ lift it out? How nuicli then is a mau of more Value than a sheep? Wlierc- fore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day." Our Lord dearly teaches that there are things wliicii can be fitly dont on the Sabbath day when the sole oUiect is the good of other-, and not our owti selfish interests. Uimiaii lite is sacred to God. and to relieve suf- fering, to bless in any way those vho are in need cannot but be pleasing in His sight, when such service is rend>Tod unto llim. Thought For Others 'So then e; us folkny aflc." things which niake for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another." We are to follow after the things wliicli make for harmony and peace withi.t the conunm.ity tn which we belong. It must hf our aim to-helii our brethren, not to distrust and weaken their ti%ttli. "Overtlirow not for meat's sake the work of God. .Ml things indeed are clean; howbeit it is t-\ il for tliat man who eateth with offence. "I'lie v\ork of t»oil here i;ici.r< a Christian brother w1k> is not to be harmed by our want of love or con-iideratioii for hi'i weaknesses. "It is not good ti eat fle;-h, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything wiicveby tliy brother stuinhlelh." The practical le-ison to be learned from this \crse »» that of showing t regard for tb« conscientious pre- judices of our brethern. There are things we may do which will do us no harm by reason of our strength of faith and character, but others following our example may stumble and injure themselvei mcrally and spiritually. Sacredness Of Our Body ''Or know ye not that' your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye hare from God? and ye are not your own?" Because we are Jhrist's pos- session we must do as He desires us to do. We cannot Jo as we like i.c more than we can do as we like â- ^.â- ith someone else's property. To defile tliat -which belongs to Him is a grievous siu. "For ye -were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body." By keeping our bodies pure, by making them the fit dwelling place of the Holy Spirit, â- we shall glorify God. Xo soul can be pure in heart anu in mind with- out blessing others, and turning their thoughts to the higher things, and thus God is glorified. The Time When Nazis Will Revolt In occupied Belgium, a Germau soldier made th; following spon- taneous statement to a Belgian; ''I had five brothers, and only two are left: 1 lost one iu France and two in Russia. I had a house ir Munich, but that was destroyed by a bomb, lly wire and iny four children have been evacu?ted. Be- fore the war, I served ten months' itnprisc>ntnent because I did not like the Xazis. Germany w-ill only sur- render when she as been over- whelmed by the air raids. Then we shall revolt."â€" .Vews out of Bel- gium. Historic Parasol Given To Red Cross Queen Mat;\- sent to the chair- man of the British Red Cross sales, tiie parasol which Queen Victoria carried at the opening of the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park in 1831. Tlie parasol is of white China silk lined with green silk, and is richly embroidered in colored silks in a floral design. The carved ivory handle is in the form of a Chinese dragon. CHRONICLES of GINGER FARM By Gwendoline P. Clarke 'It pays to advertise" â€" so runs the slogan. .\nd believe me, i; is true. I have found that out time and again. Here is the latest proof. We had promised to help daughter buy a radio last Christinas which she w-anted to get for herself. Wanting was one thing â€" getting another. .Apparently there wasn't a small radio to be bought in the city of Toronto. I said I w-ould see what I couH do and as a begijining I ran a small -want" advertisement in our local weekly. A young fel- low answered it who lived almost next door to tis. He hadn't known we wanted a radio â€" we didn't know he had one to sell â€" but through the medium of a small town week- ly we managed to make a deal. • « * So there you are â€" anything you w-ant, from a pink-eyed cat to a congenial companionâ€" object matri- mony â€" just advertise and you will get it. But if it's matrimony, be careful, advertiicnicuts tan be mis- leading. We had a bachelor neigh- bor out West v,-ho advertised for a wife. He finally arranged to meet her at the nearest village to his prairie home. They were married and after the ceremony drove straight to the farm. The woman took one look at the none-too-clean one-room shack and insisted that her "Husband" drive her straight back to the station. It was the last tiie poor fellow saw of his "bride." • * • I suppose you have been taking an interest in press reports of the health i.nsurance plans that our federal and provincial governments are arranginj for us. .-Ks I see ir, it is too early yet to formulate any definite opinion as to their re- spective merits even though they differ in so many ways. It is pro- posed to make the federal health plan mandatory-; the provincial, op- tional. Optional health insurance "ivould be a fine thing â€" tor those contributing â€" but what about the ones who wouldn't? The fact that they wouldn't insure is no guar- antee that medical care would not be required by them. I am afraid optional health insurance might work out pretty much the same as optional car insurance. A man plays safe and insures his car »«aiast property and personal liability. Then one day some fellow comes along driving a car whose brakes â- w-on't hoH, smashes into the in- sured car with dire results. The other fellow carries no insurance and has no means to compensate to the owner for damage inflicted. Thus w-ith optional health insur- ance voluntary subscril-^rs would be protected and yet. through ad- ditional taxation, would have to pay for the medical care of in- digent patients who were non- subscribers. • * « On the other hand the federal plan seems like a pretty steep fin- ancial proposition. The per capita tax wou'i'l come hard on families with limited means. However I am strongly in favour of some kind of health insurance. We need that much social security anyway. .\nd I hope a complete medical check- up every year would be one of the conditions of the plan, with a medi- cal card stamped to that efr'ect. Thus incipient disease would be nipped in the bud and many un- suspecte-l cases of venereal disease EVER SEE A GHOST FLYING? Looking like a ghost plane in flight, a Grumman Hellcat fighter pre- sented this weird appearance as it took off from U. S. carrier to s'rike Jap bases in the Pacific. Plane was too fast for even speedy rewscamera lens to "stoo" the action. bro^g;:: ti light, I: would appear that V'.D. in Canada threaten* to become a rational disaster. I un- derstand that when a person thus afflicted cossulis a doctor, embar- rassing questions are not supposed to be asked. In Russia, where V.D. has practically bien wiped out, many questions ire asked. A Russian doc- tor is required, not only to cur« his patient, but to track the infec- tion to its source. That may be one reason why Russia has been able to put up such a magnificent front. It wouldn't be possible in people ravaged by the effects of venereal disease. Garden Notes Better Varieties Gardening beginners often make the mistake of asking for varieties that perhaps were popular many years ago, without realizing that there has been vast: improvement, and much 'i>etter kinds are now available. Plant breeiers have been steadily turning out better varieties, bigger, earlier and more tender than many o: us knew in the old days. Corns have been developed that give larger cobs, thicker and juic- ier kernels. There are beets and carrots that grow more quickly; radishes that are fit to use in a matter of davs from tire time of seeding: spinach that will not go to seed and become coarse so cjuickly: peas that will be rea-iy to put in the pot in from 50 to 60 days. .\I! these points are most impor- tant. ar?l especially to the beginner or the gardener in parts of Canada where early frosts are al! too fre- quent. These varieties are much too numerous to be mentioned in detail here. The prospective gar- dener is advised to secure a good seed catalogue or up-to-date gov- ernment bulletin which lists variet- ies suitable for the various areas of Canada. Incidentally, all variet- ies listed in Canadian seed cata- logues are specially selected to thrive un-ler Canadian conditions. Planting Test Two factors determine the time to plant â€" the condition of the soil and the hardiness of whatever is being planted. Experts stress the extreme importance of the first point which, they say, is very of- ten ignored by the over-eager be- ginner. If soil is dug too soon. while it is still very ntoist. the work of cultivation is often doubled or trebled and injury to the crops planted is serious. Heavy soil will almost invariably form into hard lumps that may require almost an axe to break them up. The easy test to determine when the soil is ready is to walk across it. If it is mud-Iy and sticks tight to the shoes, then it is 'oest to al- low it to dry out some more. If it merely presses dow-n and crumb- les when handled and brushes off shoes easily, then it is right. This is the old test of the practical gar- dener. MOBILE BLOOD DONOR UNIT 50 Weddmg Gowns For British Brides Fifty weding gown â€" including one frotn Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt â€" for tall, short, fat and thin brides, recently were ready to be sent to England for British service women who want to get out of uniform long enough to be married. The gowns â€" many with long formal trains, some simple and girlish â€" were donated by .\merican women for their Uritish cousins in the armed forces. They fill a long- felt sentimental need of British ser- vice women who can neither buy nor borrow wedding dresses. The gowns are not to be given to British women. They will be Abe.-? is shown the Mobile unit which was donated by a St. Cather- ines citizs-i who wishes to remain anonymous. At right is Mrs H- Savagc, and left, Mrs. Evelyn Sheppard, the driver. Both are of the Windsor detachment C.R.C.C., Mrs. Sheppard being Commamdant. The Mobile Division of the Canadian Red Cross Society's Blood donor Ser^-ice "take's the clinic to the donor" ; this became a neces- sity after gasoline was rationed. The first Mobile clinic was held at barrie in 19-12; today more than 133 Mobile dliics have been estab- Uihed. Mrs. G. R. Fuller is the Senior Technician in diarge of operations of this Service which last year was responsible for 65,433 donations. Headquarters of the Service are at Soo Bay St. Toronto, wrhere 5O0 volunteers work at the assembling of blood sets and preparation of equipment under trained super- loaned, so that each of the 50 will go to wedding after wedding until it is worn out.' Huge crates containing the care- fully packed gowns and veils w-ill be sent to the heads of each of the armed services. Members who plan to be married may apply for the loan of a gown through their superior officer. .A.fter the wed- ding the gow-n goes back, ready for the next user. Just to make sure everything goes right, even after the wedding, a cookbook is enclosed with each gown. vision. Farming out iron, th Work Center are 7 Mobile Units carrying all essential equipment for the holding of a clinic. T'ne Mobile Division in Ontario at present aims at taking 3000 don- ation weekly; it is now organized as far north as Timmins. Nurse technicians and the women who drive and operate the mobile units can tell many a human interest story, as, for exampl-; when the clinic was lield at Forest, and a local boy, Mac Wilson, now, a radio operat.r for Trans Canada .â- \ir lines, turned up. His merchant ship torpedoed two years ago, he lost both legs, and biood trans- fusions savea hs Ufe. .A.s he don- ated he said "I figure I still owe them another.'' Mobile clinics often rind evidence of real old pioneer cour.tge. such as in the case of WiUiam Teneycke, Broadbent, who walked the 17 miles to Parry Sound when asked to report for his donation. If your Commaity is interested i sponsoring a Mobile clinic write to the office of the Commissioner, Mr. Stafford Roberts, 621 Jarvis Sl Toronto 5 Out. It is necessary to have a guaraiitee of at least 65 donors for the first chnic and a minimuni of 90 for regular clinics. BASEBALL TO NAVY HORIZOXTAL 1.6 Pictured former baseball star. 11 Like. 12 He entered :he U. S. naval service last . 13 -Auction. 14 Form of "be." 15 Daub. n Snow vehicles. 19 Japanese fish. 20 Regrets. 24 Consumed. 26 Tantalum (sym'ool). 28 Before. 29 Measure of area. 30 He was a baseball . 34 Those who pet 37 Festi\-als. 38 Behold! 40 Scandinavian. 42 Aged. 43 Life guard (abbr.i. 54 Coniferous tree. Ansiver to Previous Fuzzie 47 .filing. 48 Those who sit. 52 North Africa (abbr.). 53 Iniquity. 54Ha\vaiian bird 55 Commissions. 57 Puts in tune. 62 Sofa. 63 Bars by estoppel. VERTICAL 1 Sun god. 2 Bones. 3 Oc5tical orb. 4 Back. 5 Weight allowance. 6 Rapid. 7 Cloth measure (pi.). 8 Sheltered place. 9 Orient. 10 Ream (abbr.), 16 Type of glove. 18 Challenge. 19 Light knock. 21 By. 22 Erbium (symbol) . 23 Cluster of fibers. 25 Tj-pe measur* (PL>. 27 Performec 29 Near. 31 Provided. 32 Pronoun. 33 The letter "S." 35 Measure of cloth. 36 Bushy clump. 39 Places in line. 41 Xewt. 42 Mineral rock. 44 D.azzling light, 46 Pronoun. 43 Mathematical symbol. 49 Indigo. 50 Fixed course. 51 Habitual drunkards. 33 Perched. 56 Right (abbr.). 58 Note in Guido's ^ale. 59 Nesalive. 60 Prefix. 61 Steamship (abbr.). POPâ€" Pop Finally Puts One Over By J. MILLAR WATT Dip I SAY I'D GIVE ^X>U A BUCK EVERV TIME SJHE TARGET YOU DID. slf^ /^^r^ 1 ^^ jMa. J^^^i I^^pj.^^ S^ 1 Rf OWE YOa TEW BUCKS.' RON AND G£T SOME MORE BLAMK CARTRIDGES I T-IB ^iti»im<.