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The Wingham Advance Times, 1932-01-21, Page 5Thursday, January 21, 1932 THE WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES rrtabttkl Olt? TIII civic Ikelfaartiv • Q ;io4v rLEMtNG, �ylytti ? ';A:S OClATE SECRE A _ PNEUMONIA Pneumonia is one of .the roast ser- ious and most fatal of the acute,dis e pon- Yhis county, i� is respon- sible s eases. In y, t 1 over eight hundred deaths Bible for ov i each year, a higher death -rate than that of tuberculosis. The term pneumonia means in- flammation of the lungs, and it is used to include several forms of the disease which have one thing in com- mon, congestion and solidification of one part of the lung.` The onset of pneumonia is sudden, a sudden chill, lasting from fifteen to thirty minutes or more, 'then fever, difficulty in breathing, and a dry cough, with pain in the chest which may be severe. The .doctor should .be called without delay, when such symptoms occur. Tlie disease occurs as the result of the activity of a germ. It appears that the germ is wide -spread, 'arid. that the chances of its, causing dis- ease are tremendously increased, if, for one reason or another, the gen- eral fitness of the body has been lowered. Pneumonia ismore prevalent in the cities than in the country. This may be due to the over -crowding and to the lower standards of living which are found in the city, and these mean greater chance of spread for the germ and a lowering of physical fit- ness. Pneumonia reaches its height during the winter, and so it is as- sociated in our minds,; with cold. Cold, in itself, does not cause the dis- ease, but 'exposure to cold, and other hardships favour the occurrence of . pneumonia. Children who have been weakened by disease not infrequently fall vic- tims to pneumonia. Measles and whooping cough are serious diseases for many reasons, one of which the frequency, with which they are followed by a fatal pnetuitonia. so leaves its trail in it causes : to the ra recover from an rat>le, the heart may suffer' fi-om t ie poison given off by the germs of pneumonia. The prevention of pneumonia be- gins with keeping the body.. in good physical condition. The:. need for Proper .diet, fresh air_ and exercise continues the year round: The body should not be chilled by exposure to cold. 'Damp clothing and wet feet should be avoided. Over -heated rooms 'cause excessive perspiration; the clothing then becomes clamp and the body is chilled. when the individ- ual goes out of doors. The regula- tion of the heat of rooms and the avoidance of over -clothing are real health measures. Colds should be' avoided, but if 'they occur, they should not be ne- glected. The neglected cold has an :unfortunate way of spreading down into the lungs and causing pneu- monia. Persons who are suffering from coughs and colds should he av- oided. If, notwithstanding precaut- ions, a cold does occur, it is better to spend one day in bed than to run the risk cif developing pneumonia. The child who has been ill, par- ticularly with -measles or whooping !respectful address, Sir. It appears al- cough, requires special care, not on- so frorn the grave •character of the ly during the course of the disease, following words of Jesus. She is ar- but throughout convalescence as rested, though she does not under - well, so that he may not be exposed stand." to the dangers of pneumonia. Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy Safeguard yourself against pneu-. husband, and come hither. The-com- inonia today by paying attention to nand was a natural one, for accord- your general health. ing to Oriental ideas the husband +Questions conce;•ning Health, ad- should be present at any converse - dressed to the Canadian Medical As- tion with his wife, and Christianity sociation, 184 College St., Toronto, is always a blessing for the whole will be answered personally by letter. family. But our Lord had primarily Pneumonia thedauages bad'�es of th �' atta gi'A's�, ..: s� The woman saith unto hiin, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. The well was then snore' than one hundred feet deep; it is now about seventy-five feet deep,, Whence then hast 'thein that living water?, "'Zt'is itrit strafij e' that this w,ontan took Jesus' liteially when he spoke, in exalted and suggestive met- aphors, for it is the fate which he has been meeting at melt'shands froth then till now, She Supposed him to be speaking of that well where they sat, or of some other of which she knew not; but as a description of what Christ had i,n mind, can you think of any expression,. in all the world more true and apt. "The well at • t and is deep?"' It is an unconscious 1S a unintended tribute to ,the depth and inexhaustibleness of. Jesus." Art thou greater than our father Jacob The Samaritans claimed to be descended from Joseph, Jacob's famous son; ` Who gave us :the well,. and 'drank thereof himself, 'and' his sons, and his cattle? "That is, great er in pow*er, so that, without draw ing it from the well, thou canst fur- nish `living water,'.—perhaps by mir- acle, -as Moses did from the rock," Jesus answered and said unto her. Note how persistently Christ disre- gards her foolish literalismand ab- surd questions, and holds her firmly to the spiritual truth He seeks to teach her, In this He is an example for all Christian teachers. The Chris- tian life is a life which has within it the source and renewal of its freshness and vigor and power. CONVICTION OF SIN. The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come all to way hither :.to draw. "All the way hither is a half - humorous hint of the woman's weari- ness; but "her request has certainly a serious side. This is proved by her ver•sation of Jesus with the despised Samaritan woman, a conversation breaking over all bounds of formal religion, and leaping forth into the liberty of the children of God. Whet) the true worshippers "Shall worsltila the Father in spirit and truth.." "Hdw, broad this sentence is intellectually! How it interprets the comprehensive- ntss as well as the tenderness of the Christian faith! How it swells as the fitting dome over the foundations and walls of the Old Testament!" For such doth the. Father seek to be. his worshippers. This name of God, which we teach children to lisp in earliest years, came to her, it may be, now for the first time. The yearning of the human spirit is that of a child seeking the Author of his being, The seeking is not human on- ly. God is a spirit; and they that wor- ship him must worship in spirit and truth. "God is a Spirit' but our text does not say He is an unclothed spir- it, it does not deny, His separate be- •=.'"""' ing, and it does notassert a number of powers and affections but no per- sonality." . The woman saith unto hind, I know that -Messiah cometh (he that is called Christ). The Samaritans, al- though they accepted only the Pen- tateuch, based their expectation of the 1vIessiah on such passages as Dem. 18: 15-20. mmounew06111..13.1.211,0.11i. 44.150.1.86.1..10.041.1.4•1•11.10 THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON 1 LESSON IV—JANUARY 24. Jesus and the Samaritan Woaman— ,, John 4:1-42 Golden Text.—Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. —1 Tim. 1:15. THE, LESSON IN ITS SETING. Time. -December or January A.D. 27 (see verse 35, harvest in Pales- tine coning in Arpil). Place.—Sychar, in Samaria, near the ancient Shechem. LIVING WATER. For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. The world to -day is full: of these Jew -Samaritan feuds. They another object, to tough the wornan's conscience. "The force that was in. fill our. political history with section- the words themselves would be mut- al quarrels. Jesus answereii and said tiplied tenfoldby the sorrowful, unto her. If thou knewest the 'gift of compassionate, soul -piercing look which, he would doubtless give her." The woman answered and said un- to hint, I have 'no husband, These words were an honest and truthful confession, sa far as they went. Whether the woman wished it to be supposed that slie was .a widow, it would perhaps be hardly fair to en- quire. Very likely her 'dress showed that she was not. • Jesus saith unto her, Thou saidst well, I have no hus- band. Our Lord sets us a good sx- ample in going as far in commenda- tion as he can. For thou has had five' husbands;. and lie whom thou now hast is not thy husband: this hast thou said truly. Probably Grotius is right, in think- ing that the woman herself had -de - i• husbands anct t1�e God. Christ's -reply is directed at the woman's proud and stubborn heart. TO A be 'sure, he had asked a favor, but in reality "he is not the receiver, but Thou the giver. `errest in thinking that it is I who need:thy help, when thou rather hast need of mine.' "'And who is it that saith to thee, Give me to drink. "What roused the compan- ion of ,Jesus for this woman was' her ignorance: .`Ahl woman,' if you only ]drew the gift of God; if you only knew who was speaking to - you!' " Thou wouldest have given.thee living Water._ Tis:cure for sin is to give something that gives far greater sat- isfaction.. The living water signifies the Spirit, of God given to all them who believe." CLEA:E':KITCHEN andC1SE�4F 'Si . , HOME with "SLENT GLOW" Take a goof] look at these two pictures—the stove is the same in both, but what a difference in cleanliness and convenience! Which is the happier woman? 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I 'wance knew :a ,Tory who some - tonnes wondhered if he shud av al- ways shtuck to his earthy, 1, tould liini that he Join -so he had been EXPECTED THE WORST Jones—I'm doggone at home. Brown—How come? Jones—Well, when it comes to cooking thew I can always expect the worst. tired of eating TIMOTHY DOES SOME THINKING sorted the f sixth was not her husband, because she was not legally divorced from the earlier ones, The woinan saith unto hint, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. The woman is driven to that con- clusion by Christ's supernatural knowledge of her life. Our fathers worshipped in this mountain. That is, Mt. Gerizim, where the Samaritans still worship. The Samaritans assert that Abraham prepared on Mt. Gerizim to sacrifice Isaac, and the the patriarch met Mel- the luck hasn't been all aginst ye. chizedek, there. Andye say, that in Whin ins back is bad, an I hev to Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. "God had chosen one place for his worship, one place only for sacrifices to be offered to him (Dent. 12: 18, 14.) SPIRIT AND TRUTH. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, be- lieve me, This is the only place where Jesus uses this phrase to in- troduce a statement with especial •ea.rncstness, instead of "Verily, ver- ily, I say unto you." ;Thehour corn- eth, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father. The temple on Mt. Ger- izim-was in ruins and that in:Jeru- salem , would soon ' be destroyed by the Homans. Ye worship that which ye know not, The Samaritans had cut them - 'selves off from God's progressive re- velation of himself ift Israel, and therefore their worship was of an un- known somewhat.. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. God's training of the Jews in ways, of holiness, as traced in the Bible, is the most marvellous course of bis providence in all, history. But the ,hour cotnbth, and now The tinge of .man's. freedom its:, the Spirit: frotrnlocal "restrictions of Worry Ship was.!dotlta spin its fulness, and had; :alreadg btlgitn itt ''that very eon, To the Editur av all thin).Wingham paypers. Deer Sur:— St Whin . a lot of fellahs begin to git ould they kape woiryin theer sinses out be rayson av tli.e .inishtakes they hev been afther Makin all troo loife. 'Tis a wrong oidea intoirely, so it is, fer, shure, it wud be far betther fer thin to tink av the mishtakes they moight hev made, an didn't. Av coorse nearly ivirybody bought rnoinin stock's that hevn't turned out to be anny good yit, but tink av the wurse wans they didn:t buy, an anny- way the money wint into somebody's pocket, an he Ioikely shpint it in, makin wurruk fer other fellahs, Whin ye buy moinin shtocks an lose yer money, that's the ind av it, but if ye buy a car that is mebby only the shtart av yer ixpinses an thrub- bles. I know a 1ellah who thraded harses wan day whin he wus in Lucknow, an 'got chaited, an wus worryin about it. I tould him he shud be tankful he didn't thrade in 'Wingham, wig .sonic byes -I cud name, arr` tings wud hev been a. lot wurse wid him. Mebby. whin ye wus a' young fel- lah, ye wus shoy among the"girruls, an they used to turn ye down party flat, an ye wint arround failin sorry fer yersilf mosht av the toime, but whin, ye see thiin same girruls now ye hev good rayson to belaive that 51 shtay in the house, ,1 sometoimes shpind Inc toirne lookin over the pickters in the ould fotograf album, an tinkin av the narrey eskapes I had whin 1 wus young, an widout touch sinse. An mebby $ lot av me ould shwatehearts sometoimes see. the pickters av ntesiif, that 1. gave thins fifty years ago, an laff at thin, an tell theer grandawters av the thrubble they had givin me the shake away back in the lasht cintury, whin the wtu•ruld wits young wid us. Och, shore! 'tis a quare ould wur- ruld, so' it is. Whin we hev a harrud windier, wid lashins av shtornis,thin we grumble'about havin so much shnow to shovel, an whin we hev a ntoiid wan, thin.we do be wondlrer in how the fall whate is slitandin it, an if the crops will be cnny good' nixt summer. Whin the farruns pro- late abundantly the proices are low, • r h we • are hoigh an whin the proices €, haven't annyting to. sell. Whin we are well an shtrong an kin ate an dhrink iviryting in soight, we worry because we do' be gittin too fat, an whin we. git sick the doth- ttor puts] us od.Uilit :litatalls a doiet, ilii thin we worry' be' rayson av the fact that -we he'iry "tri shorten dor bilis iviry wake,. , Me own oidea is 'that all thi's wor- av ort es out �' n - i ht atlai fotve t s roight six, and that he wus betther aff than the Grits who were wrong six toimes out av sivin, arr the. U.F.O.'s who were wrong all the toime,' barrin whin they 'voted wid the Tories. 'Tis a long letther I hev written ye Ibis wake, but the missgis is out on the otild farruzn checdciii up on the li ` a new skit granclrildcr, an raglan up, so I hev plinty av toiane to git catch- ed up wid me tinkin. Yours till nixt wake, Timothy Hay, Assura for the Year Ending December 31st, 1931 V n v . PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT . REVENUE BASIS Surplus Funds as at December 31st, 1930,.consisting of: General Investment Reserve. - - $ 1,326,490.94 Free Surplus for Contingencies - - - 4,302,022.96 $ 5,628,513.90 INCOME Premiums (net) $18,879,019.95 Interest and Rents (after deduction of $394,287.16 for possible loss of interest on Farm Mortgages) - - Supplementary Contracts - - - - Profit and Appreciation on Ledger Assets 6,489,518.58 2,396,089.85 35,954.28 $27,800,582.66 EXPENDITURES AND RESERVES Death and Disability Claims, Matured Policies, • eat Surrendered s Endowm , Supplementary Contracts, etc. - - $ 9,683,463.08 Increases ActuarialReserveandAmounts Left on Deposit 9,007,263.65 Commissions, Taxes and General Expenses ;, 3,482,247.27 Loss and Depreciation on 'Ledger Assets 113,928.66 Amounts Written Off Head Office Premises 50,000.00 22,336,902.66 Surplus Earnings for Year - - - - - - $ 5,463,680.00 Special Charges: Additional Specific Reserve against Loss of Principal on Mortgages and Sale Agreements - - - - - $ 314,862.43 Amounts Written Off Book Value of Bonds as Provision for Possible Losses 500,000.00 Net Amount Transferred to Surplus Funds TOTAL Deduct Surplus Paid or Allotted to Policyholders Provision for Staff Pensions - - - Surplus Funds as at December 31st, General investment Reserve - Free Surplus for Contingencies ,v., v 814,862.43 $ 4,648,817.57 4,648,817.57 $10,277,331.47 $ 4,773,173.71 139,323.00 $ 4,912,496.71 1931, consisting of: - - $ 826,490.94 - 4,538,343.82 $ 5,364,834.76 Outstanding features 0f' 1931 Statement: Surplus funds and Contingency Reserves - $ 12,412,836.25 Dividends paid' Policyholders - - - - $ 4,989,562.37 Total Assets - $125,848,128.74 New Assurances paid -for - - ' - - - $ 53,193,505.00 Assurances in force December 31st, 1931- $513,379,937.00+ Lowest Expense Ratio in the Company's History. Death losses were . well within the expected. Surplus earnings per $1,000 of total assets were `$43.41. The highly satisfactory results of the operations of the past year permit the payment to policyholders during 1932 of the same high dividends as were paid during the year 1931, but the usual an- nual increase will not be ]made in 1932. 4, V v y i1 A Purely Mutual Company Established 18691 RECORD OF PROGRESS Paid to tuskless Year Income Assets Policyholders ; in Force 1891 $547,620 $1,941,570 $211,607$14,934,807:: 9 $18,161,847 t 7 � 78100 ' 71.0 20 770' 1911_ X3,329,541. � 18,1.C7.,84� 9� � ,848,128.,. $14,664 3 $513,379,937 1931 � $27,530,42 X1.25, 72 The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Policyholders will be held on Thursday,. ebruar, 4th, 1932, at the Bead 0d.ce. Waterloo,,Ontario 1.'; "l±'l.: , .. ^ r ,f'. C: M. De•viltIAN, Chair/44A?if%dirt„ rd. cC.UT.T.i�CI3, CSL ht ... , . Vice W. ll« S61!taa avictu, Guerra], Moo %i First rce��retidonx TAMS L