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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1942-12-31, Page 7THURS., DEC. 1942 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD CARE OF CHILDREN COOKING PAGE THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED TO THE POETS Here They Will Sing You Their Songs—Sometimes Gay, Sometimes Sad—But Always Helpful • and .Inspiring Let kindness be the sincere heart of me; Then peace will come -spontaneous and free. Myrtle Corcoran Watts :FOR THOSE IN CAPTIVE LANDS We have seen courage strong and glorious. 'Walking the ,shaken earth with quiet tread. .Beheld an agony past hope and dread. Fight on and, fighting win the battle thus; "The days observe strange things, the nights discuss Dark rumors; what men bore, who fought, who fled, who perished vainly and who after led 'The struggle to the end victorious These are the brave who strive with destiny 'With terror like a leech upon their hearts; ' Their wounds instruct them that they must be free 'Though all that once they cherished now departs. In courage let our souls be lifted up 'To comprehend with what they drink and sup ',Clare Shipman, in the 'Washington Post. A• PRAYER "THE OLD AND NEW." Old Year! Thou art gone, thou hast passed away. Into oblivion; kind hast thou been At times—refreshing spring, the sum- mer day, The glory •of autumnal tints—and, yet 'Midst all the darker side— the clouds. ' the tears. The disappointed hopes, and needless fears, Therefore we.let thee go without re- gret New Year! Thou are here, in radiant mien. We wonder now; what thou dost hold in store! The pages of thy book are yet unwrit, Ours be the task to keep them pure and clean; New resolutions made, with higher aims. We turn to Him, and with His light to guide We launch our bark—in perfect trust abide. To the prisoners Of war, 0 God, May the great mercies granted be, For comfort of body and mind ' To them, we bring our thanks to Thee, 'While in yon foreignland they wait 'For the freedom we coucft so dear, May they keep faith and trust in Thee With patience tried throu' war -scar- red years, May they receive, 0 Giver of Strength The will to be loyal and strong, Depressing hours to aye endure, "We pray, their waiting be not long Amen Trines Dalrymple Hey, Cromarty, • Ont. THE COMING YEAR • Just as the bells ring in the coming year • Just as their vibrant tones spread out so clear My thoughts wend back to all the far - gone days, The sorrows and the joys, Thus, as I gaze, 'My eyes are filled with tears. But here and now For all the coining year, I make my vow ' "More kindness to the lonely" for they -need `To be sought out, here in this world, where greed 'Has so much Worship: Therefore, may • little' sphere. I find That souls may be saved in the year the year is barely started on its way. Each lonely heart, and if I may be that's ahead kind • And into the Kingdom of Heaven be The later days •of our teens and Oh! let me seem to give not, but led• early years of our twenties seem to Oar Lord has promised great things be the age for making resolutions. At receive. that period of our life we seem to (I would be grateful this way to de- shall we do have all the vigor of feeling able to calve.) So let us believe, that His promise is combat whatever conies our way. We are sure that we will come off victors in the strife. As' time passes B.J.A. ON THE EVE OF 1943 A New Year is dawning and what it will hold Of joy or of sorrow, each day will unfold God. wisely has hidden the future from sight, And bids us to trust Hint, by day and by.night have paid a goodly price for a plate "All things work for good"; the' Bible `but by the time the midnight hour assures, approaches, some at least, are in If you truly love God, the promise such a condition that they have little is yours. knowledge of where they are sad to • gelate this also occurs in private Yesterday, today and forever the hones. All - kinds of amusements, 'good and bad, are engaged in at this same, particular time. Is Jesus, our Saviour, Praised be His Comparatively it small percentage In the Nayear that is past, His hand we I' of people have gone to God's House The Passing of the Year. M.w....., By "PEG" "Ring out the old Ring in the new" "It, is interesting to think over the. different customs people, in modern times, use to • "Ring out the old" year and "ring in the new." If it was your privilege to stand on the balcony of some large building overlooking a city you would have a splendid opportunity of visualizing these different methods. There is no visible sign of this passing of the year's. "The Heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth His handiwork," in practically the same way they have done for centuries, but the in- habitants of this part of the glebe are occupying their time' in different ways. Some are asleep. For various rea- sons many want to be. As the New Year came in a year ago there were dear ones with then. In their place now there is a vacant chair. While one sleeps the mind is not recalling former- days. Financial loss is an- other reason why one would rather sleep away the turning of the year. alternative but to ga on. He cannot Many have lost all interest in the expect any help from the young boy. We have put this burden on him and he must carry it. There is not a second of time -in the life of any one of us which is' not tucked aivay some place in that bur- little ones of the family are wrapped den. There was the time we lost our in sltunbev. temper over some trivial thing. We There is a rush on the verandahs decided we would not do it again and of those who are enjoying a quiet in our own strength we went on only house party. They exercise their to fall, yes time after time. Then lungs as they shout out the age old we came to our senses and realized greetings "Happy New Year." There that we were a failure. There was are those who believe that the occas the time when some one whispered ion requires a,noise of some kind so to us one of those"they say" stories thought on many kinds of musical of course it was told in confidence, instruments, guns and even canon. but we thought it was so good to We will look into our hotels and keep and we repeated it only to find restaurants. Here the merry makers that there was no truth in it at all. We had cast a shadow on some ones name. There was the time when we had to choose between a place of amuse- ment and the Prayer Meeting. We chose the former we thought it was easier to do that than to stand up for what was right. How did we feel about these things? Shaine be upon us if we did not go "to the Lord in Prayer" and can trace to pray the old year out and the ask for His foregiveness. When we So why need we fear as the future New Year in" The year which is .had done that how thankful we were we face, passing has been filled with mistakes- when we realize that we had Jesus Let us enter in faith as the door and they wish to ask forgiveness for Christ as a helper. sins of the past and guidance for the days which be ahead. Ifi the vast majority of cases peo- we realize that it is much harder to stick to a resolution than we imagin- ed it would be. Recently a young girl sat at the piano playing hysnm. The first one was "The glory song—that will be glory for rue" next came " Trust and obey" and• lastly "God will take care of you." If we were to follow the sentiment in those three hymns. there certainly would be no doubt about our beingg able to carry out -our good resolutions. They should be a wonderful guide to its as we face the New Year and as we, clay by day, travel down its hard narrow path -- No matter how we try to do what is right no one can say the way is easy.: As we stand at the midnight hour, in imagination we see Father Time, with tired weary expressions on his face, his body bent and his feet stum- bling as he trudged on. He carries a heavy burden which he has col- lected during the year. He meets and greets the young lad of the new year, but he does not transfer his burdens to him. Fattier. Time has no parade of the passing of the age. They have no desire to look into the future. The present carries all the burdens they can bear. - "The sandman" has conte and the et THE MIXING BOWL '' Sy ANNE ALLAN 'Hydro Home Economist RING IN THE NEW YEAR! New Year's Greetings, Home- makers! It is our wish that each day of the New Year may be a healthful, happy and memorable one for you and yours. swings aside, Resolving to trust Him whatever be- tide. ple are dreaming, not in the sense of to speak a word for Him and we saw Resolving to pray with a heart more having "a sleeping vision" but in a friend brought to Christ. How sincere, building castles" in the air. thankful we were when we got down And to earnestly work. in our own Many and numerous are the cast- on our knees and praised God for his les so built on. New Years Eve but many blessings to us! great has been the fall of them ere ' Father Time had all these bur - HEALTH • The Salvation Army Christmas (By John Charles) For the Salvation Army this year, it was much the same. For to them, Christmas is essentially of the spirit, a solemn yet joyful remembering of the brith of Him who brought new hope for,niankind. And, too, the ma- terial gifts which Salvation Army laddies and lassies bear to those whose cupboards were bare will be the usual sample but essential gro- ceries and so forth of which there is still plenty—In Canada at least. Asked to define Christmas, Com- missioner Benjamin Cremes, Terri- torial Commander of The Salvation Army, replied: " . .. the day when others aois remembered, especially those who would - be remembered least," Since the first Salvation Army Christmas in the Diekensonian slums of East London when William Booth and his helpers brought bread and a kindly and sympathetic "Merry Christ- mas and God Bless You?" to those who had previously known neither Cluistmas has been a time 'when Sal vation Army officers tried to do some thing extra, and in the wrappings' and trimmings and true spirit of Christi mas, for those "for whom there is n room at the inn... The Salvation. Army,'s Christma activities are wider than the aver We have made our own New Year's resolutions—to do everything we can to help people learn about nutrition so they will eat the right foods for good health, strength and happiness. Our government has planned a' Dominion -wide nutrition programme and -home economists have answered the "alert" and are ready to do their share. We suggest that every home- maker make a "resolution" to plan for her family a daily diet adequate for good health — the gold stand- ard of nutrition. For the part the homemaker will play is most im- portant. The purpose behind this nutrition programme is "to - build a stronger race through good food." It will re- quire the co-operation of agricultural scientists, public • health bodies, nu- tritionists, educationists, the medical profession, industry, homemakers - in short, everyone. While nutrition is first of all an individual and family problem, it is so far-reaching in its results that it is also of community and, finally, of national concern. Then too there were times when we seized the opportunity to help some one else; the day God led us ONE OF GERMANY'S. LATEST TANKS — AFTER. DESSERT EN- COUNTER WITH BRITISH UNIT. -- ''. NIT.—' Picture'from the Western Desert af- ter the defeat and withdrawal of Gen- eral' Rommel's forces. Th etank is true age persons knows. The cheerful, "Keep the pot a -boiling" and tinkling bells beside 'the big iron pots on .the street corner carries a warmth and a meaning to most Canadians especially in the larger cities, for it is symbol- ical of the organization. The funds thus found go to a special fund,, Christmas cheer, which means a bag of wholesome groceries, perhaps a bag of candy, too, if there are kiddies, er even a bag of coal—for the poor, for those for whom Christmas was most intended 0 s FISH LIVER OILS These oils are essential for children and should be given as recommend- ed by a physician. They may also be required by adults. The public knows, too, about The Salvation Army bands and carol sing- ers. ingers. This age old English custom IS one of the ways Salvation Army of ficers have of "going out into the highways and byways" of the world to bring their Christian message, "Peace on earth and good will to- ward men". There is no secondary purpose to this effort. The reward to those who so face 'the bitter cold is' no more than a cup of coffee, and the spiritual satisfaction of duty done. In all the Salvation Army's hospi- tals, the homes for unmarried moth- ers, the children's homes, the old p'eo- ple's homes, the huts in the camps of the armed forces, in the hostels for homelessand unemployed men, in the prisons and jails of the Dominion, the transgressors and the helpless and! the weary, the young and the aged, are reminded of the love of the Sav- iour through the celebration of Chrit- ntas in true home style. Gifts are brought to those who would not oth- erwise receive them, and there is food and warmth and kindness for all. Ev- en the hardest -shelled "inmate" of a pentitentiary may hear for the first time in his life that Christ loved Peo- ple, all people who were willing to be forgiven and' to follow Him .. . that He pitied others, too. Finally, Salvation Army Cbrps halls are the meeting place for thou sands who gathered for special Christ- mas Day services to remember in song and prayer' that He who gave the world the Christian way of life was born 1942 years ago. r ANNE ALLAN SAYS: Friends, your delightful letters and kind wishes have been gratefully ap- preciated. Thank you sincerely for your suggestions, too. I await your There have been breath -taking inspiring letters during the new year. discoveries made in the field of Anne Allan invites you to write nutrition during the past twenty to her % Clinton News Record. Send years. If we ut - to work what we in your questions on homemaking pro - now know about food requirements, bre s and watch this column for re - our own lives can be greatly en- riched' ' and to -morrow's civilization Plies can be vastly different and far :bet- ter than to -day's. So nutrition is h and extremely important. to each every one of us. Dr. E. W. McHenry has told us that if we replace an average diet with an adequate diet, we get an increase of almost ten per cent in the active life span. Think of it! Through applying our know- ledge of nutrition, we can eliminate the half -health, half-strength and half happiness which result from a diet not quite good enough. So let's all get behind the nutri- tion programme by following Can- ada's Official Food Rules— for our own sake, our children's sake and our country's sake. CANADA'S OFFICIAL FOOD RULES The following types and amounts of food should be eaten DAILY to pro- tect health, according to Nutrition Services, Department of Pensions and National Health. These are the min- imum requirements of essential foods and larger amounts should be used if possible. dens piled on Him, but he could not help us. How different from Our Saviour! While Christ was on the Cross, God placed all our sins on Him and He bore them for us•, dying that we might receive-foregiveness for our sins and that ' we might enjoy eternal life with Him. If we wish to, we can claim His promise to do these things and we can also be assured that He will walk with us every step of the New Year. - - ' ' As we orb standing at the portal of another year will we • not say Cone into my heart Lord Jesus. That is all we need to do. He is waiting for us: We will certainly find Him the very best companion of our life. Why put it off any longer. "Now is the accepted time—now is the clay of .Salvation."will you not take Him in - Let us re -consecrate to His service. our all And when placed in His hand, no mat- ter how small One talent will be as though it were ten, As we answer His call tp the' Fishers Of Men. If we seek first His ISingdons in all that we do, to your heart to -day and start the All things will be added this whole new year with Him. New Year through. • "For Thy mercy and Thy grace,, Martha MacOullum Faithful through another year, Hear our song of thankfulness, Father and Redeemer, hear.. ACUSHLA MACHIMEE So snow-white thy •clear hair As the soft clouds above;, True and kind thy dear hand Irish eyes full of love Thou art warmth of peat fire, Cheerful- glow of its falnie— Shure, Acushla Maohree -f I Be forever thy naive! the Mark IV S;^ectal, one of Ger7 n's latest and was knocked out in. Cch, thea, mother o'mine, may As I sit •by thy knee an encounter with the British. Note ren this son the new long-barrelledgun mounted Nly fond heart , gs g Just "Acushla Machreel" on this type of tank. i^y, "PEG" MILD Adults, one-half pint. Children, more than one pint. Some cheese should be added when available. DAILY. Lo!' our sinsonThee we cast, Thee, our perfect sacrifice, And, forgetting all the past, Press toward our glorious, prize. Dark the future; let Thy light, Guide us, bright and morning 'star; Fierce our foes, and hand' the fight; .Arm us, Saviour, forthe war. • In our weakness and distress, Rock ,of Strength be thou our stay,; In the pathless wilderness Be our true and living way." FRUITS One serving of tomatoes, or a citrus fruit, or one serving of tomato or citrus fruit juices and one serving of other fruits, fresh, canned or dried.— DAILY. - VEGETABLES (In addition to potatoes of which, one serving is needed daily.) Two ser- vings of vegetables preferably leafy green or yellow, and frequently raw, DAILY. CEREALS' AND BREAD One servingof a whole -grain cer- eal and four to six slices of Canada Aproved'bread brown or white. — DAILY. MEAT, FISH, ETC. One serving of meat, fish or meat substitutes. DAILY. Liver, heart or kidney,once' a week. At least three or four eggs week- ly. e .SNAPSHOT GU SYNCHRO-SUNLIGHT FLASH You'll Improveub outdoor snapshots If you use a flash bulto brightenthe shadows. THERE have been a tremendous some extra bulbs into your pocket, 1 number of important photo- and head for the great outdoors. graphic advancements in recent Then forget that you're using the years, but few have had as far- synchronizer at all, and adiust reaching effects as the development your exposure and make your of the flash bulb, and flash tech- tures as if you were taking regular pique. Today the use of flash bulbs outdoor snapshots. The light from . makes it possible to got many your flash bulb won't be strong hitherto "impossible" pictures, and enough to carry very far outdoors to save or greatly, improve thou- or havemuch effect on the scene sands of others. - ' in general, so you don't have to• - Our illustration this week comes recicou it into the normal outdoor under the heading of pictures exposure,though in real close -sips which • have been "saved" by flash it is advisable to use a half to a —the outdoor variety, known as full stop less exposure. "syncltro-sunlight." Without sup- Synchro-sunlight flash, you'll find, plementary flash illumination this is extremely helpful in brightening would have been 'a strongly back- the shadow portions of outdoor pit - and side -lighted picture, with the tures made by side- or back: -lighting.' parts of the subjects nearest the 1t will cut down the density of camera pretty much in deep shadow. deep shadows oast by the sun- But the use of a flash bulb at the those under hat brines, for instance. camera brighl,ened the shadows, re- And it will enable you to throw • vealed, just the right amount of light into .difficult corners which detail, and generally gave a more you would otherwise never be able pleasing effect. to brighten. To make synchso-sunlight plc- The next time you make outdoor tures like that, justattach your snapshots try synehro,sunlight pie - flash synchronizer to your camera, ture making. I think you'll likeit. load it with a small flash bulb, slip 383 Johp van Guilder