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’THURSDAY, My, Mtll. JM*
t WE COULD DO BETTER
In .every> church it is the same—the congregation does not half
sing. More nnd more thftt is being left to the ichoir, so thut in. ;place
of a service of united praise, we listen to a sacred concert. Lovely as
this may he* It still does not represent the true spirit of sacred hymnody*
nor fulfill iU true purpose which should be to unite the two loftiest
methods of human expression, music and poetry, in the service of Rs.
deepest instinct* that of worship*Recently Miss Evangeline Booth, famous leadei* of the Salvation
.Army, was addressing a packed congregation in Maple Leaf Gardens*
Toronto, When the hymn was announced she asked that everyone who
eould sing a 'part, do so. Feeling security in numbers, many a modest
vocalist joined in to add his bit to the general harmony. The effect was
beautiful beyond belief. Since all people love to sing, would it not
possible and wonderfully worthwhile to make some positive effort
educate congregations to sing more whole-heartedly?
—The Missus
be
to
THEN THE RJSHOP SLEPT <BECAUSE
Church Meetings
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Mum St. W. M &
The W.M.S. annual meetin
Main St, United Church was held
in the church on Thursday. Nov.
33th, with the president, Mr§. Pen
rose. leaping the meeting, opening
with a hyxnn and prayer. The min
utes of the last meeting were read
and approved, The treasurer report-’
ed that the autumn thank offering
had amounted to $39.40. The ser
vice was held, on Sunday, Nov. 9th.
conducted by the pastor, Rev. Ji-
Woods. The nomination committee
presented the following elate of of
ficers; Honorary
Wickwire; pres.,
vice-pres., Mrs,
2nd vice-pres.,
vicenpres.
ing sec.,
We canwith despair.
pray and pay our taxes
gratitude for living in
and not across the sea,
hope
and,
this
take
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Because I am so frail and full
faults
I must be patient with my fellow
men;
Because I need forgiveness, oh, so
much a
I; must forgive again, and yet
again.
ofYou and I cannot end this war ar
bring peace to a world threatened
with universal disaster, but we can
refuse to let anxiety and fear rob
our nights of sleep and darken our
days
and
with
land
what comfort and pleasure life has
to offer, and greet our friends with
a smile whether we feel like it or
not.
It was a fine old Bishop, who,
years ago, worrying his heart over
what seemed to him the evils of a
doomed world, tossing On his bed
at midnight, thought he heard the
Lord say, “Go to sleep, Bishop,
I’ll sit up the rest of the night.”
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MRS. KATHLEEN STRANGE
Because I need such lavish gifts o£
love,
To satisfy the hungry heart of me,
must be reckless with my cruse of
oil,
And give and give my love un
stintedly.
—Gertrude Bowen Webster
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»SOY BEANS IN INDUSTRY
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president, Mrs. F*
Mrs. Penrose; 1st
George Jacques;
Mrs, Pearce; 3rd
., Mrs, Mawhinney; record-
Mrs. R. Johnston; corres
ponding sec. and literature sec,,
Mrs. C. Johns; treas., Mrs, A.
Campbell; jpianist, Mrs. W. Medd;
finance comm., Mrs. A. Campbell*
Mrs, H- Anderson, Mrs, G, How
ard, Mrs, J. Hind; temperance, Mrs.
A, Gunning; Missionary Monthly,
Mrs. G. Howard; mite box sec., Mrs.
Cole; Baby Band supt., Mrs. K, J.
Sims; Mission Band supt., Miss V.
Watkins; supply sec., Mrs, J. Sims;
asst, supply sec., Mrs. J. Green;
press sec,, Mrs. N. Scott; community
friendship, Mi’s. W. Powell and
Mrs. Mawhinnefy. Presented and
approved, the officers were then in
stalled by Rev. N, J. Woods. Mrs.
Powell then took charge of the wor
ship service, opening with the
singing of the hymn “Breathe on Me
Breath of God.” Mrs. Woods gave
a very interesting talk on the sec
ond 'chapter of the study book,
ter
was
Another book week has just
closed in Toronto. The Book Fair,
intended to bring Canadian writers
and composers into closer acquain
tance with the public, is something
unique, and an event to be looked
forward to and enjoyed by those j manufacture of
who attend it every year. Among ‘
the interesting people to be met
there this year was 'Mrs. Kathleen
strange,, whose book, “The West
in Her Eyes”, most of us have read
and enjoyed. A new book, “Never
a Dull Moment”, is now on sale.
. Mrs. Strange, who is an English
woman, was married during the
last war to Mr. Strange, a military
man of considerable distinction.
He began the experiments with
-gas-throwers, weapons which have
been developed for use in the pre
sent war. When the war was over,
to the consternation of their friends,
they settled on a farm near Red
Deer, Alberta, and, contrary to ex
pectations, made -a .great success of
farming,
wheat champion in 1925.
now working with, other
much-talked-of
their home
A few years ago the most of us
had nevei* even heard of soy beans,
except vaguely xas an ingredient in
Chinese icookery. Now they are
fairly common on our farms—a very
useful addition
bilities.
Soybean oil
singing a hymn the meetin
closed by prayer.
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Thames Road W. M. S.
i
to our crop possi-
the
also
the
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THE EXETER TJMES-AOVOCATE
Flying Oyer the Atlantic on Magic Carpet
Wonderland Above the Clouds
This is the! second in a scries of
articles about conditions in Great
Britain and other countries vis
ited during six weeks spent in
Europe. It is written specially
for the Canadian Weekly News
papers by the Editor of the Fer-
- gus News-Record.
•gaining height, and .then
VEHICLE PERMITS
AND DRIVERS’ LICENSES
*
will be available
DECEMBER 1st, 1941
THE TERM of 1941 permits and licenses has been extended
to January 31st, 1942, after which date they will be invalid
and those operating with them subject to the penalties pro
vided. There will be no further extension of their term.
Secure' yours early and avoid the usual rush of the last few
weeks.
For your convenience, permits and licenses are issued throughft * 4‘ '
the offices of 191 agents located throughout the Province.
Preserve your 1941 plates. Do not destroy or throw them
«away. During the first two weeks of February they will be
collected through Gasoline Service Stations by The Canadian
Red Cross Society.,
The W.M.S. of Thames Road Un
ited 'Church held the annual meet
ing at the home of Mrs. A. Hun
kin. Election of officerers took
place with Rev. W. Mair in charge.
The following were named: Presi
dent, Mrs. 'Percy Stone; vice-presi
dents, Mrs. Ferguson, Mrs. Gardin
er, Mrs. W. Mair; secretary, Mrs.
Wiseman; treasurer; Mrs, Percy
Passmore; pianist, Mrs. W. Stone;
assistant, Mrs. Archie Morgan; lit
erature secretary, Mrs. A. . Stew
art; temperance secretary, Mrs. W.
Mair; Baby Band secretary, Mrs.
F. Dawson; visiting committee,
Mrs. Gardiner, Mrs. Lamport, Mrs.
Charles Allison; program commit
tee, Mrs. Selves, Mrs. S, Coward,
Mrs. R. Cann; finance and .Chris
tian Stewardship, Mrs. A. Hunkin,
Mrs. Millar, Mrs. Stewart, Mrs. iP.
ipassmore; .auditors,- Mrs. Hunkin,
Mrs. Miller; lunch committee, Mrs.
P. (Passmore, Mrs. J. Hackney;
missionary moifthly secretary,'1 Mrs.
Rhode.
T. B. McQUESTEN
Minister oi£iig[hways
is utilized in
soap. It is
finding an increasing use in
preparation of paints and varnishes.
It is a rich source of lecithin, which
enters into the making of ice cream,
candy, cosmetics and other articles.
It finds its way into. the household
kitchen in the form of salad oil,
prepared mayonnaise, shortening,
and margarine. It may be present
as a constituent of the linoleum
.which covers the floor.
The great bulk of soybean oil
meal is used as a source of protein
for live stock feeds. Many plastic
compounds incorporate soybean
protein and only recently upholster
ing has been woven from fibre made
exclusively from soybean protein.
Flour may be made either from
soybean meal or from the beans
themselves and may be high or low
in fat content, according to the pro
duction process. Soybean milk is
likewise -made from either the oil
Its spec
ial properties have made it .valu
able as a diet in certain cases of in
fant feeding.
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In fact, Mr. Strang^ was
He is
scientists
vitamin
at
I
speak of meal- or the whole beans,
hospitable and enter-
with literally “never
One of their three
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Elimville W. A.
November 2$tb, 1941
Wzen chiving along out highways give out Soldier boys a ride
on the
bread.
Visitors
it as a most
taining place,
a dull moment”,
charming children has lately won
a scholarship
College. Such
their share to
the Dominion.
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GO GET ’EM, GIRLS
at Upper Canada
families as this add
the cultural life of
KETTLE AND PAN
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For the first time in the war
women and girls directed anti-air
craft fire at German planes Satur
day night.
A former actress and model han
dled one of the most vital of the
plotting and detection devices dur
ing the firing against bombers over
London.
The actual firing was done by
men, but girls and women of the
Auxiliary Territorial Service han
dled fire-control instruments and
plotting and detection devices in the
London area. As the alarm sounded
both men and girls hurried to their
posts. Detection devices worked by
the latter picked up the first-bomb
er before it came within range. Then
as it edged toward the city the
guns opened up on it.
“All the girls were composed,” an
officer said afterwards. “Most ef
ficient.”
One of the Women said, “We were
all Very excited, but I don’t think
we showed it.”-—Recent despatch
from London, Eng.
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FERRY PILOTS
Most women have their favorite
Christmas cake recipes, but if you
nOed one, we suggest the following,
—we found it especially good:
Clrristinas Cuke with Niggertoes
5 eggs
1 cup white sugar
% cup milk
1 pound bleached raisins
V2
%
%
Mrs.
“Re-
was
gave
to go
Nights
Icarus
unsuc-
the little square windows and soon
the slap-slap of the waves against
the bottom of .the hull grew, less
violent and then disappeared—and
the Clipper was. in the air.' It
circled over the edge of New York
twice,
turned east over the marshes and
swamps "and then the broad Atlan
tic. Two ships were nearing the
coast. After that, nothing but
waves and clouds in every direction.
%
1
■pound Brazil nuts
pound blanched almonds
pound each of red and green
cherries
pound each of citron
lemon peel
ring each of red, white
green pineapple
cups flour
powder
butter,
yolks,
and
and
A record has been established by
one of the young pilots who ferry
planes to Britain. He breakfasted
in England, had lunch in Newfound
land, and was back at his base in
Britain in nineteen and a half hours.
And yet we like to think that we are
safe
2
% teaspoon baking
Cream sugar and
milk and beaten egg
fruit and nuts dredged with flour.
Then baking powder and beaten
egg whites last. Bake in slow oven.
Wartime Christmas Cake
% cup lard
1 cup granulated sugar
1 egg ((well beaten)
1 cup Unsweetened applesauce
1 % cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
% tsp, allspice
' 1 cup sultana raisins
U
%
%
%
u
%
%
The W.A. met at the home of
Mrs. Chas. Stephen on Thursday af
ternoon of last week. . Mrs. Alvin
Cooper had -charge of the meeting
which opened with the hymn “For
the Beauty of the Earth” and the
Lord’s .Prayer was repeated in uni
son. Mrs. Harold Bell read the
Scripture lesson, Psalm 8.
Kenneth Johns read an article,
membering". “O Canada”
sung and Mrs. Wm. Routley
a reading, “A Strange Hindrance”,
interspersed with scripture verses
which were
Davis, Mrs.
John Brock,
Mrs. Harold
Horne and Mrs.
Mrs. Jack Delbridge read an article
“To You from Failing Hands We
Throw the Torch”. Rev. Mair then
took charge of the election of of
ficers for 1'942, resulting as fol
lows: President, Miss Ruth Skin
ner; vice-president, Mrs. Jack Del-
bridge; secretary, Mrs. W. H. Dick
ey; treasurer, Mrs. Harold Bell;
organist, Mrs. Franklirt Sjkinner;
asst, organist, Mrs. Kenneth Johns;
singing leader, Mrs. Hubert Hey
wood. The meeting was closed with
a hymn and prayer by Rev. Mair.
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Special Services at the
Pentecostal Tabernacle
with scripture
read by Mrs. George
Garnet Johns, Mrs.
Mrs. Jack Delbridge,
Bell, Mrs'. Freeman
Jackson Woods.
from attack by air.
Central Station in
surely one of the
and appropriate
world. The en-
tasp. allspice
tsp. nutmeg
tsp. cinnamon
cup chopped citron peel
iCup chopped orange peel
cup cherries (cut in third^)
cup almonds (blanched and
chopped)
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4c
4
4
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that
sparkling window
■be made at home as
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KITCHEN KINKS
A liquid window cleaner
produces
panes may
follows:
•One-half cup denatured al
cohol (poison) to two- quarts
warm water.
This is especially good
windows must be washed
freezing temperaiures. *.41 *»**♦'»♦ Hi ♦ * *
if
in
If you have trouble with the fruit
on the top of the cake Sometimes
becoming scorched, try this. Slave
out a small portion of the batter
before adding the fruit, and spread
it over the top of the cake before
putting in the overt. The tins should
be lifted with at least three layers
of paper, and if your oven Is in
clined to get too hot, Wrap the
tins in thin asbestos paper such as
is used to insulate furnape pipes.
This may seem a good deal * of
trouble, but the expensive cake must not -be^rufned in the baking.
Special services were held at
Pentecostal Church on Friday
Sunday, Nov. 14 and 15.
N. Buntain, General Superintendent
of the Pentecostal Assemblies of
Canada, was the guest speaker. A
good service was held on Friday
night and. Sunday morning. The
Sunday evening service was held in
the theatre. Rev. Buntdin travels
from coast to coast in this work
and has a wide experience, ‘Before
entering this work he was pastor
of a large Methodist Church in Win
nipeg.
the
and
Rev. D.
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Mat. Hedges Dies at Parkhill
Mathias Hedges, a well-known
resident of Parkhill, died suddenly
from a heart attack in his 69th
year. He was born in McGillivray
and 47 years ago was united in mar
riage with Alice Jane Turner, whe
with two daughters anti one. son
survives. He farmed at Brandon
for 60 years and iff years ago re
turned to 'Parkhill.
Flying across the Atlantic is pure
magic.
There is no other way to describe
it. No modern novelist has evei’ told
the story., It is necessary
away back to .the Arabian
with its magic carpets, to
with his wax wings and his
cessful attempt to fly over a much
narrower body of water, or to Pe
gasus with his broad pinions. Clip
per trips are more modern than our
literature.
A writer in one popular Amerir
man magazine recently tried to tell
about the flight from New York to
Lisbon, but he depended heavily
on photographs. He did say, though,
that those who had crossed the At
lantic by Clipper belonged to the
most exclusive club in^ the world.
The membership fee was $1,000
for less than a week and one re
quires “pull” besides to become in
itiated into this society. (Official
ly, the term is not “pull” ' but
“priorities”.)
-Perhaps there is some truth' to
that, but it does seem a prosaic way
to speak of magic.
In iri'any Ways, modern science
improves on ancient fairy stories. 1
always had some doubts about the
desirability of travelling by car
pet high above 'the earth. The car
pet was sure to be draughty. If
one moved too near the edge, there
was always a danger Of falling off.
And after all, the lady of the Arab
ian 'Nights and other ancient story
tellers knew nothing of the actual
loveliness of the world far above
the clouds and particularly at sun
set, or the approach of a thunder
storm, or when a rainbow spread it
self into a full circle In front of
the plane. Nothing they ever im
agined could equal .the beauty of
that world and it is almost impos
sible- to describe it4 to earthbound
readers.
Meeting the Other Editors
At New York, I met five of
other editors who were to make
trip ,to England. Three Were from
Ontario end two from Montreal:
•B, K. Sandwell and Bishop J.
ReniSon, of Toronto; Grattan
O’Leary, -of Ottawa; Oswald May
rand and Lionel Shapiro, of Mont
real. The last named lives much
of the time in Washington and
knows New York, which was for-
the
the
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* tunate, for we learned that a Por
tugese visa was necessary before
we boarded the Clipper, and .this
required much running around and
the payment of eight precious
American dollars each to the Por
tugese Embassy before we embark
ed. (Later we learned just how
much travellers through Portugal
have to pay toward the upkeep of
Dictator Salazar’s government.)
The new Airways Terminal, op
posite the 'Grand
in New York, .is
most beautiful
buildings in the
trance is a semi-circle of inch-thick
doors of plate glass or one of the
new plastics. .Inside the doors, the
passenger ascends by a moving
stairway into a great blue dome
studded with stars. 'Circling across
the dome are the signs of the zod
iac and a bronze man with wings
on his back. -Not until the travel
ler reaches the top of the stairs does
he see the offices of the various
airways companies almost hidden
around the horizon.
When the time comes to go, large
motor buses rise through the floor
at the fear of the building, coming
-up from deep cellars,
trans-Atlantic
ried away by
the airport.
The Dixie
chor in the 1
like a whale -
seem inadequate—not at all
kind or size of wings that one would
expect a whale to grow if it had
to fly 4,0 OlO miles oi’ more in the
next two 'days. But the four big
Wright motors look efficient enough
to drive their three-bladed propel-
lors indefinitely.
add the
passengers are hur-
tunnels and roads to
Clipper rides at an-
bay. It 'looks exactly
with wings. The wings
the
which tlie passengers never
took 20 minutes to get the
It
A Six-Roomed House with Wings
Fifty-five passengers left New
York in the Dixie Clipped that day
but more .than half of them stayed
in Bermuda. They sat around in
six rooms, most of them large
enough for ten persons, -for the
'Clipper is aS large as a house
inside, and upstairs the eleven men
of the crew sat around in another
room
saw.
It
Dixie Clipper up off the water,
taxied back and forth over the bay
while the pilot tried the feel of the
Wind against the Wings and man
oeuvred for the longest run over
the water. Once We passed three
of Uncle Sam’s new motor torpedo
boats, each one With two machine
gun turrets and four torpedo tubes.
We Were almost touching one of
New York’s marvellous bridges be
fore we finally started down the bay
at full speed. Spray flew up over
Flying the Atlantic, as I said be
fore, is pure magic. One does not
realize it.at first. Flying was not
a new sensation for me. I had been
doing it for 20 years in planes
large and small, but never for more
than a few hours at a time. This
was different. I sat on a sofa with
two others. One was a young Am
erican girl who had saved her mon
ey for a luxury holiday in Bermuda:
the other a Detroit newspaperman
returning to Europe. The plane
was heated and air-conditioned.
Even the wall covering added to
the feeling of luxury for it was a
tapestry with maps of the contin
ents and oceans. Dinner consisted
of • consomme, chicken salad, ice
•cream and coffee.*
All these things were man-made
attempt at comfort. The real mag
ic was outside the -windows. Every
time I looked out, the long, slender,
pointed wing was still there with
its tWo whirling pfopellors. Far
down below us Were the clouds, for
we flew at 6,000 to 8,000 feet
where the air is still and there are
few bumps. It was fortunate that
we had clouds all the way across.
The Atlantic, seen from that height,
grows desperately monotonous when
the ail’ is clear but clouds are always
changing shape and color.
The sun set behind a distant row
of thick clouds whibh loftked like a
far-off mountain range. A long
path of yellow light stretched over
the whiteness of the nearby clouds.
They looked like masses of spun
sugar candy. As the sun dropped
away the sky flamed with color.
In three-quarters of the donid of
heaven it whs already night but
out in the west the full range of
the spectrum stretched across the
sky, brilliant red at the horizon,
going up through the yellows and
the blues to tile deep indigo of night
overhead With a few stars already
brightly shining.
Lightning Around tlm Wing®
Nearing Portugal, we met h high
thunderstorm. This time, the Clip
per seemed unable to rise above
it. The clouds were close around
and often we were in them, like ft
thick fog. “ The lightning was
around us, too, sometimes just be
yond the wings, but there was no
sound of thunder above the roar of
f I
the motors. It was bumpy, too
and for the first time, two ‘ ladies
felt sick and strapped themselves
to their seats. For some ’ others,
men and women alike, it was just
a new and enjoyable sensation.
At night, the steward made up
the berths. That was after we had
left Bermuda. There were 23 pas
sengers then and room for them to
sleep. I had one of the worst posi
tions—up close to* the wing and
number .three and four engines—
but the bed was comfortable and.
there was a rhythm to the noise
that was soothing, so I slept well.
Outside the window there was a
tiny sliver of new moon and the
very bright stars.
Magic Doesn't Always Work
Yds, flying the Atlantic is magic,
b‘Ut sometimes in the hands of
hard-headed Americans the magic
goes wrong.
New York on
have been in
night. But
wasn’t behaving too well, even be
fore we left New York. Out of
•Bermuda six hours, the Clipper
turned back because of bad weath
er ahead. On the second try, We
reached the Azores, but after land
ing there for more gasoline, the
ailing engine died as \ye were op
posite the last islands of the group
and we turned back to Horta, where
the Atlantic Clipper came along and
picked us up, taking us the rest of
the way. Even food ran short at
last before we * dropped down out
of the darkness on the Tagus River
at Lisbon 'on Friday night. We had
been 47 hours in the air instead of
the usual 23, and had done some
2,500 extra miles of flying.
And the next moaning, we were
in the air aga^in, this time headed
for England.
We should have left
Tuesday morning and
Lisbon on Wednesday
number four engine
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A MILO, COOL, SMOKE