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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1943-09-23, Page 3THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson CARRIED BY A PIONEER FAMILY IN I8 5 FROM MISSOURI To OREGON, AND REP—ANTED, PRODUCED $ .20, 000 WORTH OF VENEER. WHEN SAWED UP 93 'YEARS LATER-. 1441412404, POCKElir DON'T CARRY Oaz,r IN THEIR ROCKETS' THEY'RE. usED Fol CARRYING F190,0. Y.rl!I'1gi� TRUE WORDS CAN SE SPOKEN THROUGH FALSE TEETHp' SAYS GORE'oN CRAMER., /V\INION.G, WISCONSIN. NEXT: Taking picks on a turkey. A PARA WIFE CHATS TO WOMEN By Gwendoline P. Clarke Hullo, everybody! . I suppose you folk who live in urban cen- tres would be ready to take nay head off if I were to say, "Darn these holidays, anyway—they are nothing but a nuisance!' Well, I won't say it because I know if you work in a store or an office you look forward like everything to that day to your- self. So I won't begrudge you your holiday. But to people ih„ live on a farm a bank holiday isn't. a day off at all—it's just a day that we have to remember so as to make sure there is enough bread and meat and other things in the house until the stores open again. And it's a day when, we, don't gat,. our- ,.-'in�iil` delrveredlnaa"'fox trie life of me I never can remember on which holidays mail is deliv- ered and when it isn't. So I gen- erally go trudging down to the road to make sure anyway — we don't take any chances on miss- ing our mail if our youngsters are away from home, do we, Mothers? Well, I was sort of caught nap- ping Labor Day week -end. I thought about the holiday too late. By the time I went shop- ping for extra supplies there was hardly a thing to be bought any- where. An then Daughter phoned that she would be home for the week -end! And cc dear, it was so hot and sticky during those few days that even the bread I did have went mouldy. But we man- aged, and we had -one grand visit. Tuesday night I took Daughter back to the outskirts of Toronto. Had she gone by train it would have cut her visit short by six hours. That's the beauty of a car—you can come a.rd go as you please—providing, of course, that you don't get a blow -oust or some- thing, or your gas coupons don't run short. We have had a car for a good many years now and I still marvel at what can be done with it. Take Tuesday, for in- stance. We left home just as Partner was going to the barn. He had horses and cows to get in, chickens to feed and cows to milk, and yet before he was up from the barn I had been almost to Toronto and back—approxi- mately fifty-six miles, and at no time was I going more than thirty - fives miles an hour. On the road we passed no less than six ears with tire and engine trouble. I imagine there were other folk who were marvelling at what a' car could do, but possibly not in the same way as I was! After the week -end was over that left me with just one daffy in which to get ready for a birthday party that I was giving for our Women's Institute to celebrate its tenth anniversary. And I can tell you 1 made the dust fly that day! It was a wartime party—a sort of Red Cross quilting bee and ten party combined, I had three quilts set up and every woman was set to work as soon as she Arrived. Of course our menfolk always say a quilting party is nothing more than an excuse to get together to gossip! Well, I must admit tongues were wagging —I think we discussed everything from Italy's surrender to baby diapers. Yes, there was fun and laughter, and questions about where our boys were and how • they were getting along. Neigh- bor met neighbor with whom she hardly had time to exchange greetings all summer. Two quilts were finished and the third one nearly done, and during a brief business meeting it was decided that we would fill twenty ditty bags for the Navy League. So .whatever the hien may say I think we managed to put in a pretty good afternoon's work. What do you think, ladies? Harvest work is not yet com- pleted in this district. We still have our barley to get in and some of our neighbors have to cut. The ground is very hard and dry—so dry that very little wheat has as vet ,-been sown. r`arniers.. tie"..-worr .z?.a:.; al, x about what to feed their stock next winter. Yes, I know there is Western grain that we are urged to buy, but the farmer who has to buy grain isn't likely to have much for all his work when his egg and milk cheques come in, And dear help the farmer who has to buy a cow! It takes a lot of milk to pay the price of even one old bossie. So, go easy on your milk and eggs, Mrs. City Housewife, for the supply is get- ting shorter every day. One inch of rain represents more than 100 tons to the acre. HAPPY EYETIES Truckin' on down the streets of Catania, these Italian soldiers literally danced into captivity as they surrendered to British. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON OCTOBER JESUS AND THE TEN COM- MANDMENTS, - Matthew 5t 17 20; 19;1.6.22; John: 39, 40, GOLDEN TEXT—Think not -that 1 came to destroy the Jaw or' the prophets: l .came not to,destroy but to fulfil. Mathew 6: 17. Memory. Verse: I was glad when they said unto rile, Let us go into the house of Jehovah. Psalm 122:1 THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING. Time. - The Sermon on the Mount was delivered in the sum- mer of A.D. 28; the interview with the rich young ruler was Feburary,. A.D. 30; the two verses' from John's Gospel are a part of a mes- sage given the first week of April A.D. 28. Place. — The Sermon on the Mount, on a mountain near Caper- nauin; the intai•view with the. ruler took place in Peres; the events of John 5 occurred in Jerusalem. Old Testament Law "Think not that I came to des-, troy the law or the prophets: 1 . name not to destroy, but to ful- fil." Not merely were the require- ments of Moses to continue in force, but also all that was taught by the other inspired writers, the prophets. No part of the existing scriptures was to be set aside. "For verily I say unto you. Till heaven and earth pass away, one. jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass away from the law, till all things be acconiplihhed." The ex- pression 'one jot or one tittle' has been aptly compared to our English saying,—the dot of an 'i' or the cross of a 't'. "Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of 'heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach then, he shall be called ' great in the kingdom of heaven." If a man teach that any command- ment of God is' unimportant, pos- sibly behind his teaching is the fact that he himself is breaking that commandment. No man teach- es a commandment with power if he is breaking it in his own life. True Rightrousness "For I say unto you, that except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of -seaven." God is the absolute and eternal standard of right. Consequently, human conduct is righteous, as it conforms to His will and approxi- mates to His character. "And behold, one came to him and said, teacher, what good thing • shall I do that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him, why askest thou nae concerning that which is...good? One there is who is good: but if thou wouldest• enter into life, keep the commandments." Christ knew that what this man wanted was a master, and man has only one Master—God whose commandments must be kept. "He saith unto him, .which? and Jesus said, Thou shalt not kill Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honor thy father and thy mother; and Thou shalt love thy neighbor - as thyself." Disobedience to these .laws means sin in the sight of God. "The young man saith unto him, all these things have I observed what lack I yet?" The young man is dimly aware of something wanting, whether in his obedience or not, at all events in his peace; and he is right in believing that the reason for the conscious void is something wanting in his con. duct. Christ's Two -Fold Command "Jesus said unto him, If thou wouldest be perfect, go, sell that which thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me" We should understand that this command of our Lord's to the young plan to sell all that he had Is not necessarily what Christ says to every person, or indeed, to ev- ery one who is wealthy. The reason it was insisted upon for this cer- tain young man was that he had made wealth his idol. If there is anything in our life which Is keeping us back from a full ac - Season Opens in the Aleutians. Men of the United States Navy are not particular about the condition of the field as the football sea- son opens on Adak, one of the smaller Aleutian Islands. There is no regulation in uniforms, in fact those beavers look like good' places to hide the ball, and it is obvious that offsides do not matter. RADIO REPORTER .1i FROST For some considerable time there has been animated discus- sion in North America regarding the virtues and vices of public ownership as compared with pri- vate ownership. In war-torn Great Britain, it is perhaps significant of the character of a fighting people that Parliament as well as the Press are currently taking time out to mull over the pros and cons .,of the goverument controlled radii) . network known as the Bri- tish• Broadcasting Corporation. The argument has been stimulated due to the fact that the Charter of the B.13.0. will expire shortly. * * * It's rather interesting to note two characteristie arguments which represent the exchange of viewpoints, One periodical which criticises the B.B.C. on the score of "timidity" goes on to remark . "Part of the remedy lies in encouraging the growth of per- sonalities on the air, instead of doing everything possible to pre- vent • it, Individual broadcasters should be allowed to do their best to interest, to please, if necessary to annoy, instead of being neutral voices reading scripts from which anything calculated to offend any- body has been carefully removed." * * * "American Broadcasting has life and more variety than the B.B.C." it goes on to say. Then it points out that the reason for this is that the four big American networks •compete most fiercely and directly for the listener's and the adver- tiser's favour, and both liveliness and variety are the result. Com- petition might achieve this with- -With° afttiffintlftass2TtssaliDfSatia ins_ not, it ventures to suggest. All of which summed up affirms that competition, whether it's in radio or any other line of endeavour, is the soul of business. And advertis- ing in any form is the soulmate of competition, * * * September is the "come back" month of radio, So its rather un- usual to hear of well known pro- grammes leaving the air. Yet that is the case with the popular C.B.S. oeptanee of Jesus, then, ' we must part with it, Refusal To Obey "But . when the young man heard the saying, he went away sorrowful; for he was one that had great possessions" Why did he go away? Because he decided that his wealth, and all that it would buy, was more necessary for him than eternal life. He was willing to give up all the sins of which he was not guilty—but he loved money more 'than he did God. Secret Of Eternal Life "Ye search the scriptures, be- cause ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me; and ye will not come to me, that ye niay have: life." It is our plain .. duty to read the Scriptures. Men have no right to expect spiritual light if they neglect the great treasury of all light. The need of tha human heart is just this of which the Scriptures speak— eternal life. It Is . that whichr,the rich young ruler longed fo3r. It is that which our Lord insisted upon as being absolutely essential, but it could not be found outside of him. team of "Vic and Sade" which left the air last week. Bernadine Flynn, the "Sade" part of the team be- comes a newscaster in the period formerly allotted to the serial, * * * However, for a moment let us look at the "come back" trail. C.B.S. audiences will welcome Kate Snaith, "when the moon conies over the mountain" Friday evening, October lst at 8 p.m. N.B.C. will stage a "feast from the Middle East" with Jack Benny, the following Sunday, October 3rd at the usual 7 o'clock Sunday evening hour, following the popu- lar comedian's return from his troop -entertaining trip overseas, that is, if he gets home in time. If not, Jack's opening programme of the 1943 fall series will be heard the following Sunday, Oc- ,tober 10th. Fibber McGee and Molly will return to their regular N.B.C. half hour, 9.30 to 10 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 28th. * * * 0{i yes. We must not forget the return to the airwaves of the popu- lar Canadian quiz programme "Double or Nothing" which will reappear on CFRB, Toronto, 7.30 to 8 Saturday evening, October 2nd. Laughter and fun will change to thrills, shivers and suspense from 8.30 to 9 o'clock that same evening, same station, when the "Hermit's Cave" will reveal an- other of its mystifying, blood curdling mystery dramas. * * * There's apparently going to be some delay in the return of Fred Allen. At the present time Fred is making a movie, and although some time ago the famous comed- ian indicated that he might never return to the radio, there are at present possibilities he may be hitting the ether waves late th t fall. It depends largely upon hie health. "Play Ball's Searching around for a code word every American soldier would understand during the African invasion, United States Arniy Chief of Staff George C. Marshall hit on: "Play Ball!" He disclosed in his biennial report recently that this expression was chosen to inform the nien by radio they were to fire away with all they had. ■ 1 ■ FORMER NET STAR HORIZONTAL 1 Pictured U. 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