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fisfrl thjhemp lonfscoutsj our uniform today as probably nver before during our lifetimes money is harder to obtain than we ever thought pos sible most people are hanging on tight to any cash that comes into their possession and who can blame them thero is not much money being spent on luxuries in these times and for this reason lone scout headquar ters havo not found it necessary to take ou an extra secretary to sign and forward orders for scout uniform during the past few months of course one can be a scout with out wearing a uniform and we do not want you to think that ii is imperative tor you to have uniform when per haps you cannot afford it as long as you are a good scout living up to your scout promise am law we are satisfied wo want however to keep before you the significance of the scout uni form and to show you how it has helped to a great degreo in the ro mance of scouting the scout uni form is known and respected in all parts of the world and is a symbol of tho ideals and activities for which our movement stands the general public has come to look upon a scout as a hoy who possesses better qualities of character and train ing than the average boy and further that he is a boy who is ready to help others and perform his duty readily and well at all time in the boy with the scout hat shorts and neckerchief they see the leaders of the future and this uniform is something of which any lonie can be justly proud for it symbolizes the en tire boy scout organization the world wide brotherhood of scouts who will be the citizens of the future every lone scout should therefore make it his ambition to possess a scout uniform and ho should obtain it if possible by his own efforts and it necessary should purchase it one item at a time until it is complete the christmas season is coming along and it may be that some of you will receive gifts at that time let it be known that you would appreciate an article from the scout catalogue and so commence the foundation of your uniform in which you can take as much prido as any soldier of the guards does in his dress clothes a real scout will take great care of his uniform and look upon it as a trust duchess of abercorns scout test when the duchess of abercorn open ed a new boy scout hall at belfast by lighting a fire in the firephce she was given the scout maximum- of two matches she proved herself a good scout by using only one recruiting probably each louie in ontario knows several boys in his neighbour hood who in his opinion would be benefitted by scouting and who he probably would like to see enrolled as lonies maybe these boys would respond more readily it a letter was sent to thorn from lone scout headquarters if you know any such boys will you not send us their lames and addresses so that we can get into touch with them a personal word from you would al so help a great deal now tibetan boy scouts troops of tibetan boy scouts were discovered during a tour of the hima layan mountain passes this summer by the secretary of the punjab boy scouts association like scouts else where the tibetan lads were perform ing many kinds of public service in cluding the building of protected springs where wayfarers can secure clean drinking water promptness averts bridge tragedy the famous story of the dutch boy who prevented a disastrous flood by plugging a hold in a dyke with his fin ger is recalled by the action of a boy scout john kirschel of southern rho desia while fishing from a bridge over the gwebi river the lad discover ed a widening crack in a concrete pier he immediately ran and reported and the bridge was closed averting prob able tragedy tho scout was highly commended by the government road department deaf and dumb boys become scouts mackay institute for the deaf and dumb now has its scout troop the troop is sponsored by the scouts of trinity memorial church troop are you a lone scout this branch of scouting is open to all boys be tween the ages of 12 and is years who live in small villages or rural districts and who are unable to attend the meetings of regularly organized scout troops for full information write to the boy scouts association lone scout department 330 bay street toronto 2 lone e champion cornhusker the novelists faculty of invention fiction is digested experience and a great novel is the reflection of a great mans sense of the world and of the people in it it might seem from this to be a matter of indiffer ence whether he conveys this dis cursively by trumpeting it through mouthpiececharacters and interpolat ed comment or by presenting his sense of life pictorially and dramat ically making tho characters and story the vehicle for expressing hs profoundest reactions to experience and in a sense it is indifferent only if it is natural to a writer to express himself discursively he had better think twenty times before using the novel as his vehicle if discursive writing is his bent then whatever kind of writer he is he is certainly not a novelist and however beauti ful elegant acute or timely his com mentary epigrams and discussions may be the people in his book will to the way of all waxwork carlylo could draw a portrait in a tew sentences even it it were only that of a man who had sat opposite him in a railway carriage or of bomeone he had read about so that wo now not only see that man how tamely inexpressive seem engravings and photographs beside the text but are brought into touch with tho rory coro of his being at least as it was conceived by carlyle himself in addition to this unrivalled gift for rivid static presentment ho had also the power of revealing tho dramatic clash of temperaments and aims the incongruity between a man and his casual surroundings and above all everywhere and at all times the novellsfs sense of tho inexhaustible pieturesqueness nnd significance of detail carlyle could make the cut of a mans coat or the color of his shoeheels seem profoundly sym bolic he could orchestrate the passions magnificently yet fiction was not his medium and he knew it ruskin required a work of art a castle a cloud a mountain a tree to release his imagination and in discoursing he would show so vivid an apprehension of the honorable merchant of the artists intense ex periences of the noble gentleman of the dignified mechanic of the con tented cottager and also of the op- posites of all these types that it would seem he must have been able had he chosen to project them as living figures in a novel expressing his vision of the world but like carlyle he could not invent invention that is the master qual ity of the novelist a great novel as i have said is the reflection of a great mans experience of life but it cannot he conveyed in the form of a novel unless the writer has this specific faculty of invention he must he able to devise a constant flow of incidents which will exhibit his characters this may seem a commonplace but it is one usually overlooked by reviewers and entirely forgotten by many intelligent au thors who take to novelwriting reviewers and critics are seldom people with a talent for invention on the other hand they are usually appreciative of literary ability and cleverness consequently they over value those qualities to the preju dice of the storytellers specific fac ulty and they do not oven discuss stories which exhibit that faculty if those stories do not contain fine phrases or arresting comments desmond maccarthy in criticism this is the last time i shall bring this bill said the enraged collector thanks replied tho inpecunious debtor you are so much more con siderate than the othor fellow he said he was going to come again takes his job by the cars and wins a championship carl seiler of gulva 111 is right there when it comes to husking corn ho husked thirtysix and ninety onehundredth bushels in eighty minutes sunday school lesson december 4 lesson x living with people of other races john 4 510 acts 10 3035 golden text of a truth i perceive that god is no respecter of persons acts 10 34 analysis i race prejudice and human need john 4 510 ii a snobisish christians dream acts 10 919 iii the divine intention acts 10 2s5 introduction countse cullen the young negro poet tells about a visit he once made to baltimore once riding in old baltimore head filled heart filled with glee 1 saw a baltimorian keep looking straight at me now i was eight and very small and he was no whit bigger and so i smiled but he stuck out his tongue and called me nigger although i lived in baltimore from may until december of all the things that happened there thats all that i remember the spirit of jesus has always had to face snobbery racial social ecclesiastical i race prejudice and human need john 4 510 notwithstanding the inhospitality of the samaritans luke 9 5153 meet jewish pilgrims going north went through the province of samaria v 4 only the strictest of them such as the pharisees went round by perea at noon the sixth hour roman reckoning jesus and his party came to jacobs well it was an unusual hour for a woman to come for water v 7 was it shame or the severity of her more respectable sisters that sent her there when no one was likely to be about the tired stranger asked her for a urink her surprise v 9 at being thus addressed reflected the relation ships that existed between jew and samaritan the jew had a profound contempt for the samaritan with his mixed blood and impure religion northern israel hac intermarried with the foreign conquerors and had adopted pagan religious customs see 2 kings chap 17 because of this the samaritan offer to help in build ing the temple was contemptuously spurned ezra chap 4 resentment brought reprisals mutual hatred was the consequence the appeal of human need over came the womans dislike and suspi cion in helping a hated jew she received from him the sympathy and inspiration for a better life which she so sorely needed it was the spirit of jesus breaking down the separating barriers of race prejudice peters dream changed the course of history for the early church the scattering abroad of believers dur ing the persecutions resulted in the growth in many foreign centres of the new faith peter on a superin tendents tour found himself con fronted with the question how is a christian to act toward a gentile jews had always looked upon gen tiles as common aliens from the commonwealth of israel strangers from the covenant of promise out side the pale they ate unclean food hence eating together and con sequently all social intercourse was moossible the gentiles retorted by ridiculing jews for their abstinence from pork ii a snobbish christians dream acts 10 919 peters problem about food his hun ger v 10 wove themselves into the fabric of his dream in the sheet v 12 he began to notice all kinds of creatures clean and unclean he was amazed to hear the voice which he so well remembered commanding him to kill and eat he had broken many a pharisaic regulation in his day icking corn on the sabbath for ex ample but with food he was still a strict hebrew his abrupt refusal v 14 brought its emphatic and repeat ed reproof vs 15 10 the christian jew wa now to gi up his old dis tinctions between meats clean and un clean any custom no matter how useful in the past which becomes a separating wall between people must be removed this wall has no busi ness here says the nazarene car penter as he sees the wall which sep arates the members of his fathers family in their own house down it comes and with welldirected blows he swings his axe see the vivid pic ture in ephesians 2 14 when peter was told that some gentiles were at the door to see him he said to himself there is the mean ing of my dream he made them welcome iii the divine intention acts 10 2835 obedient to his heavenly vision peter set out for caisarea with the messengers of cornelius realizing that his unheardof action in going into a gentiles home would certainly bring on a crisis in the church he took with him several brethren from the church in joppa in cornelius house ho made it clear to the assem bled gentiles that in coming to them he was breaking with a strict jewish regulation nevertheless he had done it deliberately v 29 without gain saying means without disputing or hesitation god had shown him that they were all gods children bro thers all some chemistry of the farm how did the accident happen to the statements neither ride was i cant mako it out according in any way to blame the brave and wiso perform great actions not so much on account of the rewards attending them as on account of their own intrinsic excellence cicero by henry g bell assoc prof of chemistry oac what breed of dairy cow gives the most and best quality cwlk if youre a dairyman you cau suxly answer this question with aboul a hundred rea sons what is th6 best all round breed of poultry for the average on tario farm you no doubt have de finite opinions ou this subject opin ions backed by many good reasons but when you come to discussing the things that make up tho feed of the cow or the hen or the elements that are fouud in their products or bodies or feed the familiarity ceases that is the reason for this practical homely talk about things elements have you ever heard a person talk ing about the elements in feed or in a fertilizer and you have wondered just what an element is chemists have studied what things are made of and they have fouud a total of s7 elements an element is a substance that cannot be reduced to or divided into two or more component substances for in stance iron or gold or silver cannot bo broken up into other components than iron and gold and silver they may be melted or changed into iron or gold or silver utensils but they are still the same pure elements compounds there aro other materials in nature if red or yellow mercuric oxido is heat ed oxygen goes off as a colorless gas and metallic mercury remains tho mercuric oxide is known as a com pound nearly all things we come in contact witli in nature are compounds very few elements remain unattached and pure in nature elements exist in three different forms viz solids gases liquids hero arc some of the common elements belonging to each class solids iron fe gold an silver ag phosphorus p from which we get phosphoric acid potassium k from which we get potash sul phur s lead pb copper cu gases oxygen o hydrogen h nitrogen n chlorine cd liquids mercury hg chemical symbols so that it will not be necessary to write long names of substances each time they occur in a reaction chem- istsjiave agreed upon certain symbols which are usually the first letters of the names of the elements for in stance h always stands for hydrogen o always stands for oxygen n always stands for nitrogen p always stands for phosphorus if p were used to stand for potash it would lead to con fusion therefore the first letter of the latin name kalium k is used to de note potassium acids and alkalis there are certain compounds which dissolve in water and which have the power of turning blue litmus paper to a red color these are called acids some of the commonest in farm opera tions are sulphuric acid h2s01 hydrochloric acid hc1 nitric acid hn03 and acetic acid cii3c00ii other compounds have the power of deadening the effects of acids these are known as bases some of the commonest encountered in farm opera tions are limewater ca oh2 am monia water nh4oh caustic soda naoh caustic potash koh these substances turn red litmus paper to blue their action is said to be alkaline chemical reaction a common illustration of chemical reaction on the farm 13 seen where acid soil is corrected by the addition of limestone calcium carbonate cac03 or limestone is readily dis solved this forms calcium hydrate caoh2 which corrects the acidity of the soil when acid phosphate is made phosphate rock is treated with sulphuric acid this produces soluble or available phosphate and calcium suluphato or land plaster superphos phate or acid phosphate as it used to bo called carries 16 to 20 avail able phosphoric acid p205 some folks aro of tho opinion that super phosphate is acid in its action and that it makos tho land sour this is not tho case superphosphate or acid phosphate is neutral in reaction the calcium sulphate that it carries tends to liberate tho potash of the soil elements are combined to form compounds tho queston is sometimes asked if nitrate of soda contains only 15 nitrogen or 15 lbs pure nitrogen to the hundred why cant i buy pure nitrogen for my crops one reason soviet russias new railroad why pure nitrogen wouh be of on use for plantfood is that nitrogen is a gas i and is not taken up by the leaf orj the soviet press are issuing rally stem of tho plant nitrogen must en- i ca t0 speed up the completioi ter the plant through the roots and c tho new moscowdonbass railway that in a dissolved form thus tilt- wu f a direct coimectioi iate of soda when dissolved in water between the capital of the sovi can be taken up readily b the grow- union and the douietz basin russlai iug plant let every farmer and gar- richest coal region dener remember this fact the plant j tho work has not moved as fast it cannot use pure elements the aul- somo soviet editors think it should mal cannot assimilate or tako into its aml thcy arc out in their eritl- own composition pure carbon or oxyj eism aud explanations gen or hydrogen or sulphur or nitrogen but j the cnd thev eipress coufl or phosphorus or calcium or iroujonce that the mistakes made so fai plantfoods must be carried in com- wi be corrected and overcome in tru pounds in the soil in manure and in bolshevik fashion so that with tin fertilizers animal feeds must carry the elements in compounds known as carbohydrates proteins fats aud allied substances more of the common chemical com pounds that farmers meet in their daily operations are water h20 which composes 90 to 95 of farm crops greeu water frequently contains dissolved calciu or magnesium carbonate which makes it hard hard water kills the power of soap to produce lather water may also contain compounds of iron pota sium aud sodium some of these may render the water unfit for domestic use other impurities of a bacterial nature more often render water unfit for farm use sugar cgh120g or c13h22011 is found in the juice of sugar beets in fruits and in the sap of the sugar maple tree and elsewhere starch cgh10o5 is found in tho kernels or seeds of all cereals also in potato and artichokes fat yarious forms all built from c h and o fats are found in the oily part of seeds near the germ in cream from which butter is made and in the flch of most animals proteins flesh and muscle builders containing c h o and nitrogen the glutten of wheat or the rubbery gum my part of dough is composed of pro teins leau meat hair hoofs horns also contain protein aminoacids many of which con tain c h o n and sulphur these amino acids are closely connected with proteins bone contains calcium oxygen and phosphorus these fragmentary outlines of chem istry basic to common farm products and phenomena will be followed by discussions of specific problems from time to time rare plant species one of the oddest plant species in the world has been rediscovered in madera creek in the davis mountains of western texas according to science news letter a science service publi cation washington dr r a studhalter of texas tech nological college at lubbock has re ported this find to the scientific monthly we read the plant is known as riella and has been given the english name ruf fle plant because of its peculiar structure it consists of a slender stem an inch or so in length with a thin transparent greeu wing growing out at one side and curling over its end the graceful undulations in this green wing caused one american botanist to describe it as a ruffle standing on end the plant has thus far been found in only two states texas ud north dakota it grows only in sheltered canyons either submerge in shallow water or just above waterlevel since water in this western country is not always a certainty in any one place the plant has been very elusive dis appearing from a known habitat and reappearing suddenly elsewhere close relatives are known from tho old world growing in the same type of habitat sheltered shallow waters in semiarid regions here also it is an extremely elusive plant help of the public opinion of the wholi soviet union this railroad of para mount importance will be completed within the time limit set by the plan tho great need for the railroad u plainly shown in izvestia official or gan of the soviet government our industries require more coal j every year developing at an unpre cedented pace they make evergrow ing demands upon our coalfields in general and upon he donietz coal basin in particular in 1913 232 million tons of coal were mined in the donietz basin in 1931 this abundant storehouse of tlia soviet union gave us 50 per cent more than in 191 this is coincident with the increased exportation of coal from the basin to the coalconsuming regions in general the railroads no crossing the basin which lead to the cities of voronezh and kursk are working under great pressure yet they can not cope with the task of transmitting the needed stream of coal from the basin to the nori this lack has made it imperative to get a new outlet for the douietz basins coal and thus end the con fusion and tho congestion of freights on the two existing lines so the soviet government decided in april 1932 we are told to begin construction immediately of a power ful doubletrack railroad the moscow- donbass the new line is to includa a small railway valuikiozherelye built long ago but to be completely re built the terminal of the moscow- donbass line will be the nesvyetayev- sky mines according to plai the moscowdon bass railroad should be in working order by august 1 1933 yet izvestia advises us it must be confessed however that its construction proceeds unsatisfac torily in july and august for in stance ouy 28 per cent of track build ing planned for these months wai done in the same period only ci per cent of the buildings planned had been completed the situation is especially unsatis factory in the venevsky regior where only 17 per cent of the constructon work planned for these two months is finished this is all the more repre hensible because the venevsky portion of the road was to bo ready for opera tion about october 1 1932 investia expresses considerable in dignation that the soviet railway builders are so disappointingly un able to live up to the plan but it candidly admits there is a lack of technical equipment the work is not sufficiently well organized and there are certain labor difficulties in this official organs own words our heavy industries and the chief administration of railroad building have not supplied the builders of th road with even half the equipment which they undertook to provide isnt jack ever going to pro pose i guess not hos like an hour glass hows that tho more time he gets tho less sand he has mutt and jeff by bud fisher cooking on a short wave length at flea market boom the price of a competent flea ha risen to three dollars because of th falling off in transatlantic travel all the hecker fleas are of european orig in purchased from cabin stewards ha has traveled as far as norfolk bargain ing with ship employees for insect capable of making the grade belgian fleas learn quickest according to pro fessor hecker french and italian fleas are quite bright english fleas slow of comprehension america ia tho land of my adoption added pro fessor hecker i have received hon or and material reward in america i would not allow any expression to escape mo which might offend this dear land i must therefore beg to be absolutely excused from discussing american fleas in prosperous timos professor hecker has had as many ai seventy fleas warming up in the bull pen today his reserve stock consist of seven aged ones the new yorker be silent bo silent in the woodland waj3 when tall trees sigh and dream and in tho deep embowerd bays the still white flowers gleam and lot your listening ears impart their solace to your waiting heart be silent when the starry night makes wordly things seem small and hearken u supreme dolight when mystic voices call j and know that you who stand m still aro subject to the eternal will bo silent when tho children sleop in calm and deep consnt and in heir quiet breathing kcop your loveborn sacrament that so your own ropo30 may ba enfolded in serenity a b cooper in titbits london never keep silent if a itu ran spar w