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Zurich Herald, 1932-06-16, Page 3The Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild Many Lone Scouts will Izo doubt be interested in knowing how the Coach Building Competition organized by the Guild is progressing, and we are glad to say that the 13rst year's activi- ties have been reported to us as being very satisfactory. There are now 15,250 boys in Can- ada, enrolled as members, and many of these are in the final stages of building their coaches, and will have same ready by the end of this mouth :for this year's judging, The judging will take place in July In three centres in Canada—Regina for the Western Provinces, Toronto for Ontario, Montreal for Quebec and Eastern Canada. Soon after the judging is over, 14 Canadian boys will be taking a trip, with all expenses maid, to the annual Guild Convention in Detroit, where their models will be rejudged in the internat'onal competition for the four four-year university Scholarships. Many Scouts front the various Troops in the Dominion have enrolled in this Guild Competition, and the suggesti.,n has been made that, should a Canadian Boy Scout win one of the major awards, his coach be purchased from him, if he is willing, and that he be given the honor of presenting it to the Chief Scout of Canada, His Ex- cellency xcellency Lord Bessborough. If there are any Lone Scouts en- gaged in building coaches for this competition, we hope they will have them ready for the judging in July, but "Lone E" understands that this competition may be extended for an- other year, so if 'you have not already enrolled you will have an opportunity to do so. Canadian Boys to Fly Model 'Planes in Hungary The display features of next year's world gathering of Boy Scouts in Hun- gary will include an exhibition of Model airplanes. Canadian Scouts are expected to show and fly models. Canadians For Air Glider Meet Air gliding displays will provide a feature of next year's world gathering of Boy Scouts in Hungary. Canadian Scouts who have taken up this new air sport will be invited to participate. Governor-General Presents Silver England's Child Labor Wolf Decoration.. The Silver Wolf, Scouting's highest honorary decoration, was pI'esellted by His Excellency the Governor -Gen - oral, as Chief Scout for Canada, to Mr, Gerald H. Brown, Honorary Do- minion Secretary of the Boy Scouts Association, and Major A. A. Pinard, of the Dominion Medal Board, for long and valuable service to the movement. India's Troubles Don't Affect Scouts Apparently the Boy Scout Code of friendliness is proof even against the political and religious dissensions of India. Latest Scout census reports indicate a continuance of the steady growth of recent years to a new high total membership of 173,444. The en- rolment includes boys of all castes. King's Scouts We congratulate Lone Scouts Ken- neth Manns and Harvey Hudson, of Hensall, vu having successfully passed all the tests to qualify them as King's Scouts, and we know that their broth- er Lonies throughout the Province will wish to congratulate them also. The Lone Scout Camp The time is drawing close to our Summer Camp, which is to be held from July 4th to 16th inclusive, and we are anxious that as many Lone Scouts as possible shaII be there. Remember it does not platter if you have passed any tests or not, or if you possess a Scout Uniform or not. We shall welcome you just as you are, and help you to understand how to play the Game of Scouting better and assist you to learn the points .neces- sary to qualify for promotion. Therefore, if you have not yet sent in your reservation, do so at once, so as to avoid disappointment. Remem- ber all applications for this camp must be at Lone Scout Headquarters not later than the 20th June, The Camp will be held at labor Park, near Brantford, Ontario. Tb,e Boy Scout Programme is open to all boys between the ages of 12 to 18 inclusive, If you live in the coun- try or where you are unable to attend a Boy Scout Troop's meetings, you can still take part in the programme by becoming a Lone Scout. For full particulars write to The Lone Scout Dept., Boy Scouts Association, 330 Bay Street, Toronto 2. Information will be gladly sent to you.—"Lone E." Canned Shrimp Added By LADY ASTON To Canada's Products '%vord of the keine Office and with- drew his hili (to restrict employ.. anent of persons under 18 to forty- eight hours a week), but nothing Was done. That gallant man works od hard in the House of Lords t get his bill. In fact, he worked as hard as be did when he tried to win the Derby. I .am the mother of many children, and if anything would embitter pie it is what has happened to a woman in humble circumstances who has a 'very brilliant child. He has bad to be sent into a blind -alley occupa- tion and will not be able to continue Ills education. The employer said, e'You will have to be here at 7 in the morning and stay until 7 at night." What chance has that child got? I do not want to give sob stuff, but I could give case after ease of Children going into these jobs. It knay be *said there are only 300,000 'br 400,0000, but I try to legislate for Other people's children as I would My own, Bus conductor (formerly house - gent's assistant: "Inside only," Fare: "But the outside of the bus is practically empty." "I've let the top floor to an engaged couple." • Excited wife: "Oh, dear, the cook as fallen and broken her collar - one." Absent-minded professor : °Give her notice at once. You told her what to expect if she broke any- thing else." NQS ss. sa'liro dude lias 'recently been made still longer by the addition of canned shrimp meat from British Columbia. Hitherto the shrimps taken in British Columbia waters, the ionly waters of the Dominion where these shellfish occur, have all been mar- keted in the fresh form but now canning is being tried by some oper- ators in the Fraser river district. Operations have so far been on a small scale only—tile total catch of shrimps is not very Iarge—but re- ports are to the effect that very sat- isfactory results have been achieved, Shrimps caught in English bay are carried by truck to the cannery where they are cleaned and shelled, Tho meat is next hand -packed in quarter -pound tins which are then put through the cooking process. When cooking has been finished, the lids are clamped on the cans which are then tested, labelled, and packaged for marketing, Misunderstood A small boy entered a library with a book which his mother wanted ex- changed. Since she had neglected to send a list of books, the librarian was at a loss to know which volume to send. Finally he asked: "Has your mother read 'Freckles'?,, "No, sir," replied the boy, prompt- ly; "they're brown!" Wife (arriving home late) : "did you think I was lost, dear?" Husband: "No—I was never an optimist." MUTT AND JEFF - 1 unday School Lesson June 19. Lesson XII --Jacob the Aged Father—Genesis 46; 1-7, 28-30; 47: 7. Golden Text—Honor thy fath- er and thy mother.-.-Exod. 20: 12. ANALYSIS. I. JOURNEYING MERCIES, Vs, 1-7. II. RESTORED AT LAST! vs. 28-30. M. RING AND COMMONER, 47: 7. INTRODUCTION -- "Behind the bril- liant, story of Joseph," says Professor McFadyen, "lies the background of a great sorrow the sorrow of the aged father who believes that long ago his son had perished; and it is fitting that these two, who have loved and lost,, should find each other before the end." Thus in the evening of his life, heavy with baubles and sorrows, the light Bills once again on the figure of Jacob. His sons, carrying rich presents, had hastened up from Egypt to inform him that Joseph was still alive and was the governor of Egypt. At first the old man was stunned with the news. "Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not," 45: 26. But there before his tent stood "the ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt. and ten she -asses laden with corn and bread and meat"—sent in thougbtful kindness by Joseph. So the spirit of Jacob revived and his eye rekindled. He made haste to journey to Egypt and embrace once more the son of his love. Ali his life Jacob had been a wanderer; and no w, old though he was, he prepared to wander again. I. JOURNEYING MERCIES, V3. 1-7. The decision to leave Canaan was a momentous one. Canaan was the land of promise. Jacob himself wish- ed to go to Egypt; both Joseph and Pharaoh wished him to come. But was it God's will? There could be no sure peace of mind as long as that question was unsettled. So Jacob, _et ting out probably from Hebron X37: 14), made a first pilgrimage to Beer- sheba. This was a place hallowed by tender and holy associations, for there his father, Isaac, had built a sanctu- ary and "lifted up his heart to God, chap, 26: 23-25. At Beersheba a solemn sacrifice was made. It was a turning point in Jacob's life, end in- deed in the history of the people of Israel. Every great occasion such as this •lemanded a sacrifice; when offer- ed in true faith and devotion, it brought God and _Ian closer together. The night following was a restless one for Jacob, but God brought peace 10 his troebled heart. In a vision when consciousness was heightened (rather than in a dream when consciousness was lost) God appeared to hien. First God underwrote .he promise about to be made by referring to his associa- tions with the family. He was the God of Jacob's father, and therefpre to be :rusted: The command to "fear not" (cf. Chap. 15: 1) was timely, for Jacob was about to settle as a stranger in e.nother land, and was in need of di- vine protection. God's hand was in Jacob's journey; his purpose would be fulfilled in it. "I will there make of thee a great nation." This is one of the paradoxes of Life. Not in Canaan, the familiar homeland, were ,he peo- ple of Israel to become a great nation: but in the drudgery and slavery of the brick -fields of Egypt. To rise to the heights of real greatness, nations as well as individuals, must first be- come acquainted with the depths of life. No less remarkable was the next promise, which was made to Jacob nersonaily. God would go with hini to Egypt. It was also : comfort for hien to, know that when his end carie, his best -loved son, Joseph, would be there to perform the last office of love and close his eyes; and that his -ennains would be brought back to Canaan, v. 4. Strengthened with these comfort- ing assurances, Jacob made ready to set out. The journey would be slow and tedious. The wagons, placed at His disposal by Pharaoh, were most likely drawn by oxen, for the horse as -was but newly introduced into Egypt. The caravan comprised a large number. The removal of the pa- triarch involved the removal of all the patriarch's family and connections. In that age the old father stood et the heat; of the whole house of his des- cendants and dependents. Where he went, they must necessarily go. II. RESTORED Ar LAST! vs. 28-30. Judah, who was the leader, of the brothers in Chapter 44, again became the leader of the company. It is prob- able that he was sent ahead to fetch Joseph to meet the father. The com- By BUD FISHER WGLL, B.Ve.N A Bt)StNGSS Boomea CAN ReS"r. MAW" Arer= Masc.- Guys tavilNtNG t'een'y? w.li1,.:?'u',•?,may..,.....-_......-....-.... Tlitsr'S Tr1E i sr TIMe. GVe.R sAVJ A. cow ctiAsimS A< LiOi+i. WW's 'MG HURRY? Nonchalant Mrs. Markham, daughter-in-law of Sir Arthur Markham, quietly hopped a plane at Kenya, Africa and surprised Heston airport men. 6,000 miles in seven days. pany had arrived at Goshen, the pas- ture lands on the north-east of the Nile delta, a district which became the home of the Israelites inEgypt. Joseph did his father the honor to come to him in the fine chariot belonging to his official position. Now Jacob would see 'he high honor he had attained. The meeting between father and son was deeply moving. With emotions too deep for words, they held each other in a long, silent embrace. Jacob was now well cont it to die, since his fa- vorite son was still living and he had had the joy of seeing him again. III: KING AND COMMONER, 47: 7. It was one of the fine characteristics of. Joseph that, advanced though he was in worldly station, he was not horned of his father. He brought o.old shepherd, into• rl sssi endid court of Egj*pt, and ipre: sented him to •se mighty Pharaoh. This meeting of the great king and the humble commoner provides one of those touches with which the Bible frequently astonishes as. "Jacob bless- ed Pharaoh." Poor though he was, Jacob, having God, had something which Pharaoh, for all his wealth and treasures, Iacked. "Without dispute the less is blessed of the better," Heb. 7: 7. How's That? On a wet day a motorist had a skid in a big town, and in its gyrations the car knocked down a lamp -post. A police officer in a long white water -proof coat came to his assist- ance and helped the poor chap out of the overturned car. The driver was a trifile stunned. He looked at the prostrate lamp -post and then at the white -coated police- man, and murmured: "How's that, umpire?" Tommy asked John, a young school- fellow, to tea. John, who came from a much larger house, said with sur- p:ise; "What you have only one room? We have a dining room and a drawing room." "Oh, have you?" said Tommy, undaunted. "Well—we draw in the dining room." "Now," said the super -salesman, "this instrument turns green if the liquor is good—red if it is bad." "Sorry, but I'm color-blind," apolo- gized the customer. "Got anything. with a gong on it?" Doctors in France Increase Faster Than Population The number of physieians In Prance continuer to increase faet- er than the population, .according to the Paris correspondent of The Journal of the Ainerioau Medical As_ soolation. "The total number is at present about 28,000," he says, "During the last year, 1,124. government diplomas have been conferred. It requires only a single arithmetical operation to foresee what the result will be In a few years. It may be considered that a physician practices, in an av- erage, a period of thirty years. To maintain the present figure of 28,040, only 983 new graduates each year Will be required, from which it ap- pears that this year 187 more diplo- mas were issued than would be nec- essary to preserve the status quo, "On the other hand, 1,120 grad- uates each year corresponds to a total of 33,600 physicians. However, the present total of 28,000 physicians constitutes, for the population of France, one physician for a little more than 1,400, inhabitants; while a total of 33,600, the figure toward which we are tending, represents one physician for less than 1,200 in.. habitants. But since the present proportion Is already too high, what will it be when the number of physi- cians shall reach 33,600; It should be noted also that, promotions hav- ing been more rapid in recent years, a larger proportion of the physicians are young practitioners, and for that reason the situation is more grave than it would be otherwise. It behooves the medical profession to give this question close attention. "There are in France about 6,000 surgeon -dentists, and on every hand the syndicates of these practioers are combating this overcrowding of their profession. While for tbe physicians an average career ex- tending over thirty years may rea- sonably be assumed, it may be con- sidered that, since the studies of the surgeon-deutists are begun at an earlier age and the studies are much less extensive, their opportun- ities to practice are just sr much prolonged. Their practice will ex. tend over a period of thirty-five years. Under these circumstances, in order to maintain the present total number of surgeon -dentists (6,000), 175 graduates annually would suffice, instead of 600, the present number. Six hundred grad- uates annually correspond to 21,000 dentists, and one needs only to cite this figure to explain the grave er- ror that has been committed, to which the medical profession should not remain indifferent. That is why limitation of the number of students to be admitted to she facul- ties is being seriously considered, b ODA ln. Japanese Sunset There are no such: sunsets Japan as In the tropics; the light ie gentle as a light of dreams; there are no furies of color; there are no chromatic violences In nature in this Orient All in sea or sky is tint rather than color, and tint vapor -toned. 1 think that the ex- quisite taste .of the race in the mat- ter of colors and of tints, as ex- emplified in the dyes of their won- derful textures, is largely attribut- able to the sober and delicate beau- ty of nature's tones In this all -tem- perate world where nothing is garish. Before me the fair vast lake sleeps, softly luminous, far -ringed with chains of blue volcanic hills shaped like a sierra. On my right, St its eastern end, the most anci- ent quarter of the city spreads its roofs of blue -gray tile; the houses crowd thickly down to the shore, to dip their wooden feet into the flood. With. a glass I can see my own win- dows and the far -spreading of the roofs beyond, and above all else the green citadel with its grim castle, grotesquely pea'=ed, The sun begins to set, and exquisite astonishments of tinting appear in water and sky. . , Rich purples cloud broadly behind and above the indigo blackness of the serrated hills; mist purples, fad- ing upward smokily into faint ver- milions and dim gold, which again melt up throug+b ghostliest greens into the blue. The deeper waters of the lake, far away, take a tender violet indescribable, and tbe sil- houette of the pine -shadowed island seems to float in that sea of soft sweet color" But the shallower and nearer is cut from the deeper water by the current as sharply as by a line drawn, and all the sur_ face on this side of that line is a shimmering bronze—old rick ruddy gold -bronze. All the fainter colors change every Ave minutes—wondrously change and shift like tones and shades of fine shot -silks. — Lafcadio Hearn, in "Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan." Perception Through Patience In the aet of traveling, we feel deep ly the necessary affinity of beauty and repose; to enjoy a beautiful place, we ought to be resting in it as at home; to enjoy a beautiful sight, we ought to look upon it, not with the full gaze of delighted surprise, but rather wit$ half -shut eyes, conscious of the bliss they possess, naw letting it go, now calling it back, and playing with it as a beloved child. As the sand takes silently the footprints, so we: should receive the impressions of imperial na- ure. d 't, is, in the Last Straw Percival had heard the call of the open spaces and had thrown up an easy job to set sail for the Wild West. Arrived in the country of he-men, he found himself comfortable quarters on a farm and prepared to enjoy the simple life. Percival's first task was given hint a day or two later. He was assigned to one end of a cross -saw, the other end being in charge of an old and experienced lumberman, At the end of an hour the veteran stopped sawing and looked at his ex- hausted partner. "Sonny," he said, "I don't mind your riding on this saw, but if it's just the salve to you, I wish you'd quit scrapin' your feet along the ground." PATCHES You must not run down patches. Many places built all at once are .most uncomfortable, and some of lite .most convenient houses I know have been patched up. We get most of our comfort out of patches.—Glad- stone. THE UNIVERSE To understand the simplest work of God, the Universe must be com- prehended, Eaoh minutest particle speaks of the Infinite One, and ut- ters the divinest truth which can be declared on earth or in heaven. -- Channing. t`• Polecat in the United States, is a popular name for the common skunk. VenetteltsolupOrtrankesienemonlostnessugemo ion necessary to suppt •'.t., ;znj'Ies wants and the very means of progresse� in the tumult of strange associations, to hold your heart in chaste obedience to the quiet power of beauty, to look plainly through all these fascinating and thronging shadows, at the still light within, out of space and out of time. But, notwithstanding all obstac- les, some moments of this bright per- ception are granted to every one, who seeks them with patient desire. ---From "Memories of a Tour in Greeee," by Lord Houghton. Hopeless It was midnight. In the smoking room of a club a young man sat hud- dled in a chair. A'friend entered. "Hallo, Smith!" he asked, cheer- fully, "not going home yet?" "No," muttered the despairing one "I I daren't." "Why, what's the matter?". "Matter? It's the end of every thing. 'It means ruin!" "Here, tell pie what's up. Perhaps I can help nu." giiiith clenched his fists until his knuckles showed white. • "No one can help nae," he said. "I've come to the end of all things 1 At eight o'clock I telephoned to my wife and gave her a perfectly good excuse fair not coming eiraight home, and" --his voice sank to a whisper—"I've forgot.. ten what I said." "Yes, my new maid canna to me from a very good family." "Really? I suppose the girl wanted a change+;' They Turned On the Heat,. TNCe't' .ct A Roosrctt CelAstalte A tIGr~1z. nits tS A D42.LY NetGI-tt3oRlieoo " IT'a A FaizE ST t=tlt6 ro Fate. PI L L. 6 k lv o W'- m All 13G CHAS CNpoNc MuSSoi.lNi AN, JAc.ts •SHAicKEY- • „0 71J�d (QQ/ is tiA'4a c` PAC) j,. \V /tin I, *411 Oils+ a fitill I, !0'% ' r J, 'i Miff V/1 t . .Are 404.VI It' ^'r f;) '1..