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RESOLUTIONS
ABOUT WAR
Seventy five ministers ,of the
United 'C'btu'ch .signed: a declaration
of opposition to war, 'Their views
were :set tenth In 'this way; "We
fined' ourselves not without pain and
regret, unable to approve of this
war. We recognize that other min-
1ebeis• and church members, esually
sincere, differ from us and feel l.1
duty bound to participate in it. We
take our stand upon the decision
of our own General Council in 1893
'that was Is contrary to the mind
of Obest' and 'we positively reject
war because war rejects love, defies
the will of Cludet and denies the
work of man.' "
'Ilirere was a meeting of the"auh-
executibe of the General Council
of the United Church called to con-
sider the matter,but none of the
ministers who signed the deceive -
don has been asked to attend. The
wisdom of such a course is open to
question because it indicates that a
riot has taken place and suer
matters do not readily heal them-
selves'.
The Past is as certain' as can be
that Canadians generally would
gladly subscribe to the statement
regarding their abhorrence of war.
The nays of war have not been
our wary& of living. dt one were to
sleet p'cstrtive evidence of that in
otltecial records et could be really
found in our general unpt'epared-
nees for war. It eves so in 1914.
We were not ready; we had very
!title an *hitch to sitaajt; Ave had
Lew trained men and we were short
o7 supplies, When war came in
1959 we were in a position which
was better oniy by degrees,. We
had the advantage of the ereperieece
gained in the last war, and we knew
better how to go about the work in
hand and avoid the blunders whien
we previously made and paid) for,
The point where most people
fled it necesehrp to leprve the state.
menet subscribed to by. the '15 mfhfs-
tees: its that we are facing a definite
situation which will not beard this
way or that accord4t g to our desire
els,' The central relate in the situ
z. tt as a principle that whether a man
should enlist tor active service is a
matter he should: decide for himself.
It is between him and his con-
science. Of tonne, if a law is
passed taking the decision out of
his hands, that is a different matter.
But we do not look for conscription.
"Iaacicinlg that, tilse•e ought to be
no awarding of white feathers to
indicate cowardice, There was
quite an epidemic of this cruel
sport in the early days of the Great,
War, Per'hsps the fact that a play
called The Four Feathers has re•
eesrtly been revived on the screen
will have its influence upon the
public, It is not necessary to es'
surae that because a man does not
want to be a soldier he is a coward.
Ars a matter of fait, it requires no
particular bravery to do what' every
one else is doing,
"The men who enlist are entitled
to our respect and the best support
we car give them, But no pres-
sure should be put on those who do
net go, as long its our iaws' permit
them to remain, ,They should not
be taunted or ostracized or other-
wise ,made to feel 'that they are un-
worthy cif the name 'Canadian, or
even the designation of human be-
ing. Leat us assume that they ars
the beet Judges at their awn' cond-
uct, and that they are doing what
they feel to be right,"
Just Laugh It Off
There comes a time when the only
way out of confusion for the wise
man is to "laugh 11 of." We fancy
that time had: arrived for the writer
of these lines' on the various econ-
entic stet -ups, which are today bear.
ing down on the world:
SIO1OSLDISM—lou have two cows
—You give one to your eeighlbor•
'OOMIMUNISM—you have Jive
cows—you give both to the Govern-
ment,
FASCISM—You have two cows'--'
you keep the caws, give the Govern'.
nient tire brill), tbe Government sells
Part of the milk batik to you,
NAZII'SM—you have two eoWs--
tthe Governneit shoots you, takes
both cows,
NEW DEAL—Yen have tat Cows
—Severn/nerd sirens sine cote,
milks the other cow and Pours' the
milk down the sewer,
CAPITAS.s t .— you bare two
melon 1st war and it wilt remain tbat
way, We cannot rule :out wee by
the passing o2 resolutions, If such
a thing were pos!sble then we woal9
have 'reseed the neceesorly resolu-
tion long since and have been done 1
with war,
Germany Is today bent en orlp-
pling the British Empire, and that
I means Germany is bent 'on, crippling
1 Caniada because our'countrp is ad-!
Imuittedey no small section of the
Empire. It we go down through
l leek of united effort then in, the
j making of peace terms' we will not
receive c'emed'eraition from Hitler
i because we hail paeeed a resolution
against war in, general. The situ-
: moon which we face is dangerous;
the war is not something which we
I. have sought and counted. It has
I been made in Germany, and the
resolutfont w"hiclr we pass here.
carry no wed•ght en that land.
I In a teenely way it is se teougn
i we gathered Itoge'ther and pressed .a
resolaticn saying we did not ap-
prove of mad dogs. But if a marl
! dog failing to undeesitand the reso.
lotion were to make its appearance
` in our. •community we would at once
seed Its dieeltrudti*nl nor would' we
feel easy untie that had •been ac-
complished That ds. 'where) the
average red - blbeded individual
stands today. We are dlfnitely at
war am if the Germmme could bomb
our cities' they would do eb in a
moment. For the moment we
might just Se well fold up our reso-
lutions and place them in a pigeon
hole The only resolution to welch
people can subscribe is one which
segs we are going to win this war.
ONE VIEW ON
CONSCRIPTION
(5, V. MoAree of the Toronto Globe
and. 311011 Staff)
'7t should be a aolemn obligation
on. diose of us• who. + were civilians in.
the lash war, and eepect, to be n.o
legs; in this, not to repeat gore of -
the stupidities of Which' we were
guilty 25 years ago, hoping that our
politfeians and generals will take
the hint,- We ought all to accept
FREE SERVICE
OLD, DISABLED OR DEAD
HORSES OR CATTLE
removed promptly and efficiently.
Simply phone "COLLECT" to
WILLIAM STONE SONS
LIMITED
PHONE 21 INGERSOLL
BRUSSELS — PHONE,72
cows—you sell one cow 'and buy a
bull,
DEMOCRACY — You have twr
cotyle—tone ee them gets seek; the
bank rings up every fifteen minutes
to sea how it is—no foolin'. One
cow dies, the bank seizes the other
one, then asks you to send, up the
milk can, the churn ancl, if 1t does
not smell too bad, the manure, In
the meantime you go on relief,
CHEER HP!' Some day. the : Gov -
banker must leave you the manure.
bangs nnust leave you the manure,
—The Sutherland Scrap Book.
-s—s,
AS IT WAS
ON THE TENTH
The last lap has been recorded in
another egg -laying contest et the
Experimental Farm at Ottawa '11
which 57 Pens from all over the
Dominion had been entered. The
contest is a year long and the best
individual record was madeby a
Barred Rock hen from Paris, Out.,
witlh. 312 eggs,
All the hens which are en'tererl
in this contest seem to have but
one purpose in life—laying ' egga,
They are victims of the age in
whirh we live where utility has run
riot with comfort and Where the
free and easy existence of a hen is
something for writers of past hts-
toey to record.
It was not like that on, the Tenth
Concession; not on Lot Four or any
other place. Every farm kept
chickens, white, speckled, brown,
block and, several shades in be-
tween, Nor was there ever any
suggestion .that any of them be
shipped to the Experimental Farm
at Ottawa to show how many egg's
they could produce. If and when
tdney telt inclined to lay am eg13
they attended To the business right
on the preanises, and by the amount
of cackling during the day one
could) fairly 'well estimate the ex-
tent at production.
Bens at that time lived' under a
form of benevolent democracy.
They were not subjeot to regimenta-
tion; nor was the trap nest and a
system of bookkeeping necessary to
see bow they were coming alooF
In the Spring when •tihe, maternal
instinct moved deeply within the
hien she clucked, If she wanted to
try out for a few days and sit on a
doorknob or a ehina egg then she
could do that and no person cared
much, If she looked like a sure-
fire clicker she was, put in a barrel
w ith same straw and a setting or
eggs and left Mere for three weeks.
The only thing which 'could bring
her into disrepute •on the Tenth
was to Jump the Job and leave her.
eggs to go cold,
When• the bear brought forth her
family she wses allowed to attend
to thein she could lead them
hither and thither and give all
needed instruction. Later in the
Beason When came the time 501!
molting she took plenty of time out
for that; she could :feel miserable
as long as sine pleased and if she
hadn't managed to get her featbees.
back by the time weather started
turning cool 'then et was reckoned
She was •getting old,
Bet in al lit was a pleasant exist-
ence. No person kept books on
the poultry, They Picked up con-
sidemble around the barn, followed
the plow for worms and white grubs
and were often enough wandebring
toward the kfitchen door tb see what
wits to be Iuid, en tats, mechanical
age it is• net so, Opportunity for
the hen to g .7e selff-expression to
ber desires has' become a closers
gate. Now she does; her egg lay-
ing in an official way before an
ol&Balial audience. She weans . bands
upon her Legs and has numbers upon
her pen's and she is proclaimed ft:
the press as a winner or a loser. It
was more conifer -treble being a hen
on the Tenth Concession,
FLMFR 11 REIT R A
Barrister, Solicitor, Etc.
Phonier 20X Brussels, Oat
WILLIAM SPENCE
Estate Agent, Conveyance
and Commissioner
General Insurance
Office
Main Street..— Ethel, Onbatle
Peace
(Sy A. 11. K.)
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¶ Ills Joseph was a sturdy guy,
he 5t00a up More tease six feet
liigll,
had shoulders like au ox;, hs
liked to double Up his fists, land
said his viceories. made lists, to
cover twenty blotltsi
1, And if a new chap came to
town, . big J'oselpii :,prominie trailed
him down, he'd argue ,some with
him; he was Just spoiling fold the
tbne, when he would lay hire on his
opine, and clip him on tee chin,
¶ He tivare the belly of the place
and folk gave him rt, lot, of apace,.
they feared what he would do;
they'd seen examples of his vim, for
those that had stood up to him,
he'd; left them blaekanti blue,
I A new chap came to work in
town, and not at all a loud -mouthed
clown, nor was be fast or wild; be
went about his work with skill, he
had: some Job around the mill, and
he seemed rather mild,
But Joseph heard about this
chap, and figured he should take
the rap, he Melted a quarrel with
him; but in his method came a
flaw, he could not peels him on the
Jaw, nor drive him on the chin.
e And attem the affair was
through, the young man's reputation
grew, there was a peaceful air, for
when be couldn't light no more, Big
Joseph flattened on the floes--nis
toes up la the air,
NOTE AND COMMENT
Scientists say average men live
the longest. That is provided of
course they watch their step cross-
ing city streets.
The City of Flint seems to have a
keen nose for publicity. It had
already cracked the front page twi•„ e
since the was started.
_"—
It is' claimed that the Croats hate.
been drinking up the country';
dartyover of brandy. Europe seems
to be full oh explosives,
Thousands et
copies of a Mont-
real newspaper have been tossed
into the St. Charles river and the
fish and game aIeooiation will prob-
ably .enbee a vigorous protest,
_e—,r•—
Inbewtore are busy trying to
think new forms of death•diealiag
machinery. Surely the present as-
sortment is deadly enough.
'Stories of hoar the 'Oanadfan
troops are being fed would. cause a
mutiny in the Gellman, army if the •
Nazis learned all the details,
The Ontairo goveavanent will as-
sist men who came to Toronto to
outlet and are stranded. there, ' It
is a decision upon which the
Queen's Park adreinisttra;tibn is to
be, commended,
.—'5—
Mutual assistance pacts' merely
mean in the case of Estonia, Latvia
and Lithuania that the Reda have
turned those countries into• Soviet
garrisons,
Now it is reported that Hitler is
to make a formal declaration of
war on Britain and France. Why
this sudden regard; .for the rules o1
the game?
--*—*—
The year's worst pun has been
perpetrated by tithe Globe and Mall
in its s atement that Quebec will
choose between honesty and Duples-
sisdby.
The eigns along the highways
earn that &riveter must not pass
uvea the lime in the middle of the
road on curves. But the Intl fact.
is Bert' many drivers de Past ever
and some of these far over,
The vessel City or Flint has, aippar-
entiy gone an a world -cruise, a
matter an which MS. Senators and
Representatives• now gathered at
Washington might have some-
thing to say,
--d<—dt--
Two pviators'in Los Angeles. have
renrttined• in the in for over three
weeks almost equal to the election
campaign in Quebec,
.A Siwedish explorer says that
Molt Hitler's dreamt was. for Anglo-
German union, dor Stopping the
siri'ead oh boltlievizon to the west.
His Than cannot believe' in dreams
when he signed ftp with the leader
of the bolsheeheil lee loiige5 1*
check,
.Russia is re d.—e—
lented to be sending
guns land munitions' of war to the
nisi of 'tihdna, probably because the i
WEE/NESE/AY, NOVEMBER lot
Tear cannot pas* ep any appeetun-
sty for talons sonicsort of a shot tU
Japan,
,_:(:gid:--•
• One report has It that a slosh of
wild geese foundone of lie mem-
bers injured and came down 110111
the ininrecl one was ready ie. pre'
seed. And 'that le better than the
usual habit . of the ]alt-and-r'eu
delver.
Nuts are more digesllible if ea)'en
with. a little salt,
Wiingham Cats
,.arse Rabies
A disip titch train Win;;lranr say,:
Although the authorities believe '
'that they leave the matter of dogs
suffering front rabies well in control, .
thep ore Dow faced with auotbey . •
and; more serious problem, The.
head of :a sd•ek cat seat to Torontu•, N:`
for examination by Dr. Janes IIIc
league was found to be infecteii .l `.
with rabies, Tele brings- to
front the problem of tags suffering
from rabies in'febticn. So• fat the a `.
autiler! ties. have Ielear+etl no public"
statement, 1011 it is (believed the)
they may order ail cats locked up '
nntll further notices
•1
If
4411,
"Why don't 1
call them up?
1,
Yes, why not?
Haven't you often
715 started a lettier'
when ybur thoughts
went a'wandering
—made you .want
to talk rather than write .
and, then, within a minute, you
heard "Dear Mary"—her own
familiar voice.
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'And here's
Johnny!"
7.I8Rm.
Watch a child's
face when he bears
Daddy's voice. You
wish Daddy him-
self could see it—
then he'd really
know how much' it means to
his family, when he calls from
a distant town.
tee•.deaf, •
"...now 1 call them
every evening!"
Somehow you are attracted 10
a man who says this. In those
few words he tells you much
about himself and his family.
He sets an example by "Going
hone" every evening—
by LONG DISTANCE
•
By using low Night Ratty (whicis
apply avert' everting alter 7 and
all day Sunday), and placing
"Anyone" calls—you can .folk
a long may for very little.