HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1932-12-29, Page 6"A Happy Christmas"
"Lone E." joins with .ail the mem-
bers of the staff of the Lone Scout.
(Department in hoping that all. Lone
Scouts will enjoy a Happy Christmas,
with real enjoyment, and we hope, too,
that you will not forget to cio your
special Christmas Good Turn.
Boy Scouts in all parts of the world
at this season of the year are concen-
trating their thoughts upon the ques-
tion of how to make some other less
fortunate person a little happier and
how to bring a little Christmas Cheer
into the life of some person for whom
Christmas would otherwise be a dis-
appointment.
We hope that every Lone Scout in
this province will do his utmost to
play "Santa Claus" to some poor per-
son at this time, and thus be able to
enjoy his own Christmas the better
for knowing that his Good Turn has
been well done.
What Lonies Can Do to Help Others
During the Cold Weather .
Have you ever thought of all the
opportunities which the cold weather
gives to you to do' your daily "Good
Turn"?
In years gone by we have heard of
many Lone Scouts who made it their
business to do such things as clearing
snow for old folks who would other-
wise have to do it themselves. Then
we know of more than one Lonie who
assisted elderly ladies by keeping
them supplied with cut wood for their
fires during the cold weather or by
seeing that the wood box was kept al-
ways filled from the 'wood pile, or the
pails always filled from the well.
Other Lone Scouts cleared paths
through the snow at street crossings,
and put ashes down on slippery
places, or cleared snow away from
church doors and other places of pub-
lic meeting.
Yes, Lonies, you have many oppor-
tunities: to be of real service, and we
,hope that you will take every advant-
age of. them.
Santa Claus' Chain 'of Workshops
Santa Claus branch workshops oper-
ated by Scouts and Girl Guides in all
parts of Canada are again at work re-
conditioning broken and discarded
toys and dolls, to help fill Old St.
Nick's bag at Christmas. Last year a
coast-to-coast chain of 155 shops pro-
vided gifts for fully 75,000 needy child-
ren, including many on farms in the
West. Baden-Powell has called such
work "Happifying."
Scouts Head Local Relief
At Duncan, B.C., the local winter re-
lief work was organized under the
initiative of the local Scout leaders.
Plans included a surplus vegetable and
fruit survey carried out by Rover
Scouts and collection and repair of
clothing by Rangers and Girl Guides.
Peace Park Opening Features Boys
A colourful feature of the opening
this summer of the Waterton -Glacier
Peace Park on the Alberta -Montana
border was provided by a group of 24
Canadian and American King and
....agle Scouts, bearing their respective
Eagle Scouts, bearing their respective
Scout obligations also was included in
the ceremonies.
The Best Good Turn
What better Christmas Present or
Good Turn could you offer your chum
than to introduce him to the World -
Wide Brotherhood of Boy Scouts?
Scouting is open to all boys between
12 and 18 years.of aha, inclusively, and
the Lone Scouts are specially organ-
ized for boys who live in the country l ruffles are gathered and sewed to a
and who cannot belong to the ordin- , one-piece foundation.
ary Scout Troops. It's so easily made and takes but
If you know of any boy whom you 1% yards of 35 -inch material wit.k
think would be interested in the Lone % yard of 35 -inch contrasting for the
Scouts, why not send us his name and 4 -year size.
address, and we will communicate Style No.
with him.
Perhaps you, too, would like to be a
Lonie? If so, write for particulars to
The Lone Scout .Department, The Boy
Scouts Association, 330 Bay Street,
Toronto 2. We shall be glad to hear
from you.—"Lone E."
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Ruffles For Jane
By HELEN WILLIAMS.
Xlinsfrated essmaking 'Loosen. F
visited With avert/ •Pcttea n
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Of course Jane will want a new
party dress for Xmas with riffles all
the little fashionables are wearing.
The long -waisted bodice completed
by a sash attached at underarm seams
and bowed at the back, marks its
Preach origin. The straight skirt
Lack of Foresight
World's Trouble
H. G. Wells Urges Prepara-
tion for the Consequences
of New Inventions
An urgent need for "professors of
foresight" to prepare the world for
the consequences of new inventions is
leen by H. G. Wells, the historian,
Nays the Associated Press.
"All my life I have seen the aboli-
tion of distance becoming more and
more complete," he said in a recent
speech. "But, for all practical pur-
poses, we haven't begun to think yet
what we are going to do about it.
"We are all of us behaving as
though there were no need whatever
to adapt our lives and ideas in any
way to these new con:iitions.
"See how unprepared our world
Fes for the motor ear. The motor
car ought to have been anticipated at
'the beginning of this century. It was
bound to come. It was bound to be
cheapened and made abundant. It
„v"as bound to change our roads, take
passengers and goods traffic from the
irailways alter the distribution of our
population, congest our towns with
traffic.
• "Did. we do anything to work out
feny of these consequences of the mo-
tor car before they came? We did.
nothing to our roads until they were
hoked, we did nothing to adjust our
railroads to fit in with this new ele-
`anent in life until they were over -
ken and bankrupt, and we have still
bring our police up to date with
+the motor bandit.
( "It seems an odd thing -to me that,
though we have thousands and thous-
Onds of professors and hundreds of
h�housands of students of history
drking upon the records of the past,
ere is not a single person anywhere
ho makes a whole -time job of esti-
ting the future consequences of
ew inventions and new devices.
"We ought to have not simply one
PA' two professors of foresight, but
hole „faculties and departments of
oreaight, doing all they can to an-
eipate and prepare for the cense-
emcee of this gathering together,
is bunching up, which is now going
, or what were once widely dis-
ar d human relationships.
"We need to organize foresight in
these matters very urgently indeed.
Because, you see, it is not only that
men will be able to get at and see
and talk to their friends anywhere.
They will also be able to get at those
they suppose the enemies with an
equal facility."
In his vision of the "unpleasant"
sides of progress Mr. Wells sees the
possibility of air torpedoes, bombs,
gas and flame delivered "wherever
you like, or don't like, at any time."
"There are no professors of fore-
sight as yet," he said, "but I am by
way of being an amateur. Let me
oraw a plain conclusion.
"Either we raust make peace
throughout the world, make one world
state, one world -pax, with one money,
one police, one speech and one broth-
erhood, however hard that task may
seem, or we :must prepare to live
with the voice of the stranger in our
ears, with the eyes of the stranger
in our home, with the knife of the
stranger always at our throats, in
fear and in danger of death. enemy
neighbors with the xest of our spe-
cies.
"Distance was protection, was saf-
ety, though it meant also ignorance
and indifference and a narrow, un -
stimulated life,
"For good or evil, distance has been
done away with. This problem of
communications rushes upon us today
—it rushes upon us like Jehu, the son
of Nimshi. It driveth furiously. And
it evokes the same question: Is it
peace?
"Because if it is not to be peace
foreseen and planned and establish-
ed, then it will be disaster and
death."
Once let me see not things alone,
but the divine light and life that
stream through them; and then shall
every day open new revelations, then
shall the bird upon the wing and the
flower in the field speak to them of
God. --Dr. Dewey.
Begin with a generous heart, Think
how you can serve otthers. Then you
shall find resources grow. Your own
portion shall not be left desolate.
Strength shall be shed through. you. Do
the utmost with what you have, and it
shall go far enough. -0. B. Frothing -
ham. '
3139 is designed in sizes
2, 4 and 6 years.
Pink crepe de chine with pale blue
crepe de chine collar, sleeve frills and
sash is cute as can be. It's practical
because it will tub and tub.
HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS.
Write your name and address plain-
ly, giving number and size of such
patterns as you want. Enclose 15c in
stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap
it carefully) for each number, and
address your order to Wilson Pattern
Service, 73 West Adelai to St., Toronto.
Britain Has Huge
Weekly Bili for Sweets
Britain is spending $5,000,000 week-
ly on sweets.
Confectionery manufacturers re-
port a substantial increase of trade,
and one firm has taken on 900 employ-
ees to help to produce the 350,000 tons
of sweet meats yearly consumed in
Britain.
The output today is nearly double
that of twenty-five years ago.
The opinion of doctors has changed
and they now praise the health -giving
properties of sweets, half of those
which are eaten today being c:oco-
lates.
Disasters Fail to Crush
Murray, Ky.—Jack Dunaway, a Mur-
ray College freshman, resumed bis
class work and his duties in the office
of the College News last week, a de-
termined smile on his face, and told
this story: •
Within the past week his uncle
hanged himself, his sweetheart mar-
ried a rival, a bank where his mother
had $1,000 on deposit closed, and the
home where he had been staying here
burned with all his books and clothes.
The American—"When you came
home and found a burglar in your
house what did you do?"
The Englishman --"What did I
do? Why nothing, of course. I
didn't know the billy rotten"
God is the portion of His people.
They find Him in all things, and all
things in Him, This Is the sum of all
good, the perfection of all blessedness.
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Sunday School
Lesson
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December 25. Lesson XIII—God's
Gift to Man (Christmas Lesson)
Luke 2: 8.20. Golden Text—For
G :d so loved the world, that ` he
gave his only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in him should
not r,eri h, but have everlasting
Ilfe. -John. 3: 16.
ANALYSIS,
1. Tan a000 NEWS, Luke 2: 5-14.
11. SEEKING AND FINDING, I eke 2; 15-
20.
INTRODUCTION—it was during the
year of the Roman census that Jesus
was .born. It we; not the Roman
custom to have the people return to
their original homes fill out their
census papers. Such, however, had
been the Jewish system. A nxi,ous,
doubtless, to avoid unnecesea':y irri-
tation on the part of the turbulent
Jews, Augusts= conformeu to local
usage. Not only the head of the house
. had to go, but all the members of his
family as well. So it was that Jo-
seph, with Mary, his young wife,
traveled the seventy-two miles from
INazareth to Be...lehem, ve. f, 6.
In order to avoid overcrowding and
- the difficulty of carrying c.i' the en-
ralment, with a small secretfu•_al staff,
the census and valuation was spread
out over a year. Ne 7ertheless, when
the couple arrived at Bethlehem they
found the inn crowded. The only
available accommodation was the rude
stable with its courtyard surrounded
by the rude, arched shelters hewn out
of the rock-fornied hillside. Here rt
was that, lacking privacy and com-
forts, Mary gave birth to her "first-
born." Unattended it was she herself
who laid her child iI. one of the box-
like mangers provided for feeding
hay and grain to the cattle, The so-
called Church of the Nativity in Beth-
lehem is pointed out to tourists as the
site of foe -riginal stable.
i'I. 're aeries eeesrs, Luke 2: 8-14.
One mile from Bethlehem is a little
plain in which, under a grove of
olives, stands the bare and neglected
chapel known by the name,""the Angel
to the Shepherds." It is built, says
Farrar, over the traditional site of
the fields. where the Vision of the
Singing Angels came to the shepherds.
Our Lord's birth was associated with
scenes of humility, poverty and toil.
"He entered into my lot," the poorest
one can say. Not to the recognized
leaders of organized religion on Mount
Zion did the Good News come, nor to one-half ton to the acre will probably
the busy, thoughtless women of Beth- be enough. If it shows distinctly sour,
• Farm Queries
Henry G. Bell, B.S.A., Dept. of Chemistry, O.A.C.
Address All Letters to Farm Editor, . '73 Adelaide St..
West, Toronto. All Answers Wi11 Appear in this
Column, If Persona, Reply is Desired, Enclose
Stamped and Addressed Envelope.
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Questions and Answers a crop when the stand is obtained.
S. G. -I have a few acres of rather Sweet clover is a biennial. That is, it
heavy marsh land, would this grow takes two years to go through its life
barley successfully?. What variety, cycle. At the end o'f'that time it will
when and how much should be sown been cutfor the host results? Is barley straw kill out itself if the hay haseach year before the seed Is formed.
as good for feed as oat straw? Is mil-
let good feed for dairy cow ?
Answer.—Probably barley is the
best of the cereals that you could grow
on this land. It is the shallowest root-
ed of all the cereals and thrives on
neutral to slightly acid soil. If pos-
sible, you should provide for drainage
from your marsh. No crop, of course,
will grow .f the water is standing on
the soil for a considerable period.
The best variety for Ontorio so far
developed is O.A.C. 21. Seed of this
variety is obtainable in any standard
grain centre. The amount usually re-
commended Is 133 bushels per acre.
This gives sufficiently thick stand and
allows of the crop maturing at its best.
Barley straw is slightly poorer in
nitrogen than oat straw and is con-
siderably higher in potash. It is
therefore not as nutritious a straw as.
good oat straw.
• Millet makes a fair quality hay if
it is cut about the time the flowers be-
gin to appear. it is allowed to go
longer than this, it becomes very
woody and is not nutritious. It can be
fed to dairy cattle although it is not
near]y so nutritious as alfalfa hay, but
is a little better than timothy.
L. J.-1. Do you recommend putting
lime rock on sandy soil for alfalfa?
How much to the acre? Do you put :t
on before you plow your land or drag
it in?
2. How much sweet clover seed
should be sown -to the acre? Will
sweet clover grow on low land? Can
the plant be killed by plowing it up?
Answer.—Fairly finely ground lime-
stone rock is one of the best forms
of lime to apply to the ordinary field
for the growing of alfalfa. The
amount to use will vary with the test
of the soil. If the soil is sligbtly acid,
lehem to whom it did not occur to take
to their homes this unhoused and ob-
viously needy countrywoman. It came
to men engaged in thu humblest tasks
(v. 8) and so unimportant socially
that no one remembered their names.
How often do some of God's richest
revelations come to the fortuneless
and the obscure.
The. reassuring word of the angels
to the s..epherds is the word that. Je-
sus always brings to a troubled world,
"fear not." No longer were nien to
think of God as an austere, far -dis-
tant king, but as a loving frequenter
of the haunts of men, v. 10. The news
was for all mei. The Christian who
has really come to know Christ can-
not' keel the knowledge to himself. He
becomes inevitably a missionary -
minded Christian.
The "sign" was to be a "swaddled
babe, laid in a manger" (Arabic ver-
sion). • According to general Syrian
custom, says Abraham Mitrie Rib-
hany in his "Syrian Christ," in ear-
liest infancy a child is not really
clothed; it is only swaddled. Upon
birth the child is washed then rubbed
gently with pulverized salt, then.
sprinkled with powdered myrtle
leaves, then "swaddled." The swaddle
is apiece of stout cloth about a yard
square, to a•corner of which'ies attach-
ed a narrow band. The infant, with
arms pressed e'ose to its sides, and
its feet stretched full length and laid
close together, is wrapped in the
swaddle, and the narrow band wound
around the little body, from the shoul-
ders to the ankle.
The story 'of the unlettered shep-
herds, entranced with the heavenly
music, tells us how near heaven lies b
our common task, how God speaks
when we are ready to lioten, how
world peace will come when men live
aecordin'g to Gore's will. "On earth
peace among men in whom he is well
pleased" (Weymouth's Tra,islatinn).
The brother attitude, which is God's
will for us all will automatically
eliminate w e e
II. SEEKING AND FINDING, Luke 2: 15-
20.
"Let as go" the shepherds said' to
each, other when the vcsion faded. See-
ing the vision, then venturing by faith
is the secret of acbievarnent. With
simple eloquence the story tells _how
they sought the Saviour child, found
hint, told everyone about him. Seek-
ing, finding, witnessing—these are the
facts of Christian experience. The
shepherds did not permit their deter -
it will be necessary to use upwards of
1% tons to the acre. One of the best
ways to sow lime is to scatter it on
top of the plower ground and work
it in at the time the ground is disked
and harrowed. This brings the effect
oflime into the top three inches of
soil where seed is sown.
About 20 lbs. of sweet clover seed is
recommended to sow to the acre.
Sweet clover will grow on fairly well
drained low land but it will not do as
well as alfalfa and it is not as valuable
The persistent nature of sweet .clover
b t b a certain amount being
allowed to go to seed. This eau easily
be avoided.
Pregnant Ewes and Alfalfa
Second growth alfalfa is a very rich
and tasty feed to all farm ,animals.
Sheep are very fond of It and will eat
more than is goodifor them, if it is kept
before them all the time. Pregnant
ewes should be fed with some con-
sideration of their condition, and the
alfalfa feeding limited to one feed per
day. The quantity given can be limit-
ed to what they will •clean up In one
hour. Other forage, such as oat straw,
pea straw, red clover or mixed hay
can be given in quantity, to complete
their need for roughage. Pregnant
ewes that live on an exclusive alfalfa
diet may die at lambing time, and the
post mortem of such alfalfa -fed ewes
reveals a degenerate liver. Alfalfa is
the fest of forage, but it should be fed
with care to pregnant animals. Once
an animal has delivered its young and
is milking heavily, there seems to be
no danger In liberal alfalfa feeding.
Many sheep flocks have paid the pen-
alty of too liberal alfalfa feeding. Bet-
ter stay on the safe side, and make it
a practice of feeding alfalfa but once
a day to pregnant ewes. After they
start milking it may be fed liberally,
without risk.
Poultry Itch and Scratch
Great loss is sustained each year
through the ravaging of poultry flocks
by biting and sucking lice, which feed
on skin, scales and feathers. Lica
infesting poultry can cause the birds
much discomfort, resulting in a lower
egg yield and poor condition of the
birds,
Control.—Sodium flouride is one of
the most efficient dusting powders
that cau be applied to louse infested
birds. Its use is described on page 13
of Bulletin 363, Ontario Department
of Agriculture. Dust baths should be
provided the birds for winter use, in
order that they can by their own ef-
forts keep their bodies free of lice.
Dust baths should contain some to-
bacco powder or some sodium flouro-
silicate. One little louse may look in-
nocent of all evil, but bear in mints
that thousands can make their pres-
ence felt and ruin the possibility of
profit from the flock Clean poultry
are always ,profitable.
urination to find the Child to become
weakened by idle speculation. They
did not wait to worship until they
had solved the mystery of the vision
or the unlikely surroundings of the
Child's birth. For them the great fact
of salvation for a lost world far out-
weighed any difficulties surrounding
the manner of the Saviour's coming.
I know not how that. Bethlehem's Babe
Could in the Godhead be;
I only know the Manger Child
Has brought God's life to me.
The Sun Upon the Lake
The sun upon the lake is low,
The wild. birds hush their song,
The hills ave evening's deepest glow,
Yet Leonard tarries long.
Now all whom varied toil and care
From home and love divide,
In the calm sunset may repair
Each to the loved one's side,
The noble dame on turret high,
Who waits her gallant knight,
Looks to the western beam to spy
The flash of armour bright.
The village maid, with hand on brow
The level ray to shade,
Upon the footpath watches now
For Colin's darkening plaid.
Now to their
row
By day they swam apart,
And to the thicket wanders slow
The hind beside the hart.
The woodlark at his partner's side
Twitters is closing song--
All meet whom day and care divide.
But Leonard tarries long!
—Sir Walter Scott, "Poems,"
Mates the wild swans
Stranded Shark Yields
350 Gallons of Liver
Montreal.—The brush walls of a
sardine weir at Harbor DeLoutre, .
Campobello, N.B., are capable - of
holding sardines, but a 26 foot shark
weighing 3,000 pounds did not re-
main a prisoner long. It plunged
through the weir and became strand-
ed on the shore.
When opened by two fishermen
the carcass of the monster, knows
locally as the "liver -shark," yielded
seven 50 -gallon drums of liver. The
enormous liver, occupying most of
the carcass, exuded great quantities
of oil. It was sold at an oil refinery
The fish had a dorsal fin rlearll
five feet long and measured almoai
six feet through the thickest part of
the body. The first of its kind eves
taken in local waters, it was believed
to be the same species of shark wield;
attacked a fisherman's boat in the
Bay of Fundy near Digby some
months ago.
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HIS HOPE IS SURE
Blest is the man whose heart and
hands are pure.
He hath no sicknessthat lie shall not
cure,
No sorrow that he inay not well en-
dure;
His feet are steadfast and his hope is
sure.
—John Addington Symonds.
Great work are performed not ley
strength but by perseverance.—John
son.
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