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i H § ' vantage of Canada's invitation and offers, whereas 'foreigners' have been quick to step in, and have eagerly ac- gired the good lands open to them." General Hornby puts forward tha following scheme of immigration: (a) The settlement of mew British immi- grants in Canada should be confined to the already developed and proven mixed-farm districts. (b) Any de- scription of settlement by contract is C0 0¢t-0000t Sunday School Lesson TOGA TTT TP It es rte res toe Aprit 17. Lesson [l1l--The Call of Abram---Genesis 12: 19. Golden Text--Thou shalt be a blessing.--! Genesis 12: 2. "ANALYSIS. I. THE CALL, vs, 1-8. II. THE CALL OBEYED, vs. 4-6. III. WANDERING AND WORSHIPPING, vs, INTRODUCTION--The book of Genesis ' opens with stories of the beginnings of mankind as a whole, but quickly narrows its interest to the family springing from Noah's son, Shem, of whom Abram was regarded as a lincal descendant. It treats history geneal- .| --"I will shew thee." It required great sending out new settlers should be also responsible for establishing them © the land and for their "after-care' --that isto say for their agricultural supervision and financial support, if years, until they are thoroughly on their feet. (e) The new settlers = b established by their Old Country communities on these farms and small holdings, as tenants, not as owners. After having made good as tenants, the new settlers should be encouraged und assisted to move off and acquire farms of their own--thus making room for further relays of new set- tlers from the same Old Country com- murity to occupy the vacated tenante- farms, In this way a continuous and automatic flow of new settlers will take place. (f) New settlers who fail to "make good" must be returned to the Old Country county or town which sent them out. It will there- fore be in the interests of the Old Country town or county to send out to Canada only those who are likely to succeed. General Hornby thinks that the ap- proach of the Imperial Economic Con- ference is an appropriate time to in- vite attention to the unsatisfactory state of British settlement in Canada and to urge an imrovement in it.--The Mail & Empire, Toronto. faith to obey so difficult a call. Now faith is never 'aimless; it does not operate in a vacuum. It serves a pur- ; pose, and the greater the faith the oftier the purpose. God's purpose with Abram was to isolate him from his old, idolatrous environment in order, through him, to found a new order--a nation great, because it would be the bearer of the divine reve- lation. This sounds like national ego tism, but its offensive feature is off- set by a wide universalism, Through Abram and his descendants the blesa- ing of God would flow out to all the na of the earth. At any rate, the severity of God's command is more than compensated for by the promise of rich ward for the obedience of faith, II. THE CALL OBEYED, vs. 4-6. Without question or complaint Abram responded to God's call. At the age of seventy-five most men would wish to settle down comfortably, but ogically. When Abram is reached, the story expgnds to considerable length because he was regarded not only as the first patriarch of the nation, but as the ideal Israelite. His faith in God, his ready obedience to God's wil his generosity, his love of peace and his noble bearing under trying cir- cumstances--all this fitted him to be- come a bright and shining light to re- mote generations. He has been called ' "the ather of the Faithful." A pion- eer in the exercise of faith, he taught men by living example how to practice it./ There are many New Testament references to Abram. He is honored bv Jews, Mohammedans and Chris- tians. t I. THE CALL, vs. 1-3, At the outset of his career Abram lived among people who neither knew nor Worship the true God, and he was himself, perhaps, little better than his neighbors. How God's call came to him we do not know, but conse it did with a heavy demand. He was required to leave his native Ur (15: 7) in southern Babylonia, with its sure prosperity and advanced civiliza- tion, and to break the ties that held him to his kindred. We, in our order- ed society, can scarcely realize what this meant for him. In his turbulent age, to separate oneself from one's clan was to expose oneself to hostile tribes and to be without protection in a war-like world. Further, God called him away from home without :ndicat- ing at first his destination. He had merely the promise of divine guidance THAT'S A BAD 1! ~ MUTT AND JEFF-- By BUD FIS | I'VE FaSchen SO AANY | S THIS fees ils here was one willing to pioneer! Such i faith is infectious; it draws others i into its company. It is net surpris- ,ing, therefore, that a considerable { number, chieflv of relatives, followed Abram out of Ur. Nothing is told us of the long and hazardous journey across the desert which stretches be- een Babylonia and the land of Can- aan, but in estimating Abram's obe- { dience this should not be forgotten. i On the way to Canaan a stop seems to have been made for some time at . Haran, in the north-west of Mesopo- | tamia, which probably formed a regu. | lar resting-place for caravans on the | great route. III. WANDERING AND WORSHIPPING, v8. 6-9, Abrac. did not come to an 'tinocca- jed country. It had long been in- + habited by a ple known as Canaan- ites, who had attained a fairly high i | civilization, but were, of course, wor- ' shippers of strange gods. Abram tra- | Vi the country, remaining for | some time in the two important towns, ' Shechem and Bethel. He had not left his home in Ur for worldly gain, and hence he did not seek it in Canaan. What he sought was the opportunity to worship God. "This opportunity he seized at Shechem and Bethel, both of which had long been shrines for Can- aanitic worship. The higher faith of Abram was thus to displace eventually the lower faith of the Canaanites at laces which from ancient times had necessary, for the first two or three} ad sacred associations. Not until he had arrived in Canaan did he know that this was the promised land (v. CASE oF b - 7) but it was not yet his. His life in Canaan was well-rounded. In v. 8 we learn that he pitched his tent, thus setting up family life; he had Bethel on the west.and Hai on the east, and so entered into social/relations; he builded an altar, nurturing his reli- gious life. The family, the commun- ity and the Church were all benefited by him. : "The danger in going away into a strange life does not have to do with phy. It is not that a man is in danger in a different land. It is thal he is in danger of becoming a differ- ent man. good deal which we con- sider a part of our deepest life is just the reflection of our surroundings. When we change our surroundings it is startling and disconcerting to watch the change in ourselves. e can be stronger than any strange environ- ment if we build an altar to God wherever the sun rise in the morning and wherever the sun sets at night." --Lynn Harold Hough. , ete i eet "DeBore calied on you last even fng! I suppose you didn't get a chance to open your mouth." "Oh, yes I did, I yawned several times," a Af teres Fiddlesticks It was at an orchestral concert, and after gazing for some time at the bass fiddle player a man in the stalls mut- ered, "He'll never do it; he'll never de it" At length the title of the first num- ber was announced, whereupon the rautterer continued "is remark, louder each time, This was too much forga man in the row in front, and eventually he turned and said, angrily, "Confound you and your mutterings, sir!" "Well, he can't do it, I tell you. I'll bet you he can't!" was the reply. "Can't do what?" "Put that big fiddle under his chin." «THAT MY THUMB PoInTS I'Veé THUMBED MY WAY FROM COAST TO COAST- ah? Experiments With Cancer . Promising, Says Anatomist London. -- Experiments being con- ducted here by a young man may lead ultimately to control of cancer, Sir Arthur Keith, famous anatomist, revealed recently. "This young man really has got hold of something big towards con- trol of growth," Sir Arthur said. "He is working with parathyroid extract, with which he experiments on ani- mals and can develop or retard the growth as he wishes." Sir Arthur did not reveal the man's name, but sai he was working secret- ly in specially constructed labora- tories on top of the Royal College of Surgeons. mem ree U.S. Air Manoeuvers Face Economy Cut Washington.--This year's manoeu- vres of the Army Air Corps may be canceled to save money. War Department officials said they had been discussing manoeuvre plans, but had not reached a decision. Indi- cations point, they added, either to cancellation or great curtailment. re Ap eee Fox Farm Started in Chile Magallanes, Chile.--A valuable con- signment of 14 silver foxes has arriv- ed here from Hamburg. The import- { er, Hérr Gustav Icken, who intends to start the first experimental fox farm in Chilean Patagonia, has select. ed for the site "Los Robles," in the neighborhood of Rio Seco. Denmark to Banish Solid-Tired Vehicles Copenhagen. -- Solid rubber-tired motor vehicles are to be prohibited on the roads of Denmark after 1934 by a law which has been passed here fol- lowing experiments with different kinds of wheels coverings and road materials, Toronto-Detroit Air Mail To Continue Service Ottawa. -- Temporary continuation of the Toronto-Detroit air mail serv- ice has been decided by the post of- | fice department, and instructions to this effect have been issued. The Winnipeg-Edmonton route has heen cut off, but it is anticipated the other service will not be touched, | An the tradition of ola: '| country wi hours, Toliy ors wea Toot | the touch of the sun's warmth, "Oh, Ernest!" protested At the crossroads of two busy ar little helpmeet, "dont spend sweet money on the other racing towards the heart of we want to have a home of our own." Kent--I waited for a friend who had | "I feel that they are necessary," he 1nvited me to share the stillness of the replied quietly, and picked out two her for twenty-four lovely bumches which she took reluct- antly, How I longed to tell her that he was building their home by buying those daffodils! Then a girl came along, who might have been considered smart. Her looked like Paris, and everything else wag in keeping with her hat. "How much are the daffodils?" she said in a voice which sounded like pent-up streams let loose. "And how many bunches have you got?" The old lady counted her remaining treasures slowly: "Threepence a bunch, and there are seven bunches," she said, smiling. "I always take a bunch home on Saturday myself," she added. "I'll take all that you can let me have," sald the smart girl, The old lady had come to the end of her wrapping paper, so the girl held the daffodils on her arm. I had no idea until that moment how becom- ing daffodils could be! And now the old lady was folding her camp stool, and picking up her basket with its one solitary bunch of daffodils. I should like to have spoken to her, for I felt in a vague way that she was doing her bit for humanity-- and had helped me to go ahead and do mine--but at that moment a cheery voice rang out. It was my friend call ing from her car, so I turned and scrambled in beside her. As we drove away, I looked back. The old lady was starting, too. Over her arm was the rough basket and camp stool, but in her other hand she clasped her bunoh of daffodils. Our . Under the archway of an unfrequent- ed door sat a rosy-faced old lady on a camp stool, at her feet a large, rough Basket still partially filled with daffo- dils. "Daffodils, threepence a bunch. Fresh daffodils." She need not have told us they were fresh, for the whole alr was pungent with that spring fragrance which fresh daffodils always bring with them. -""Threepence a bunch!" I sald to my- self. "Fancy getting all that gold for threepence!" And, even though I was actually on my way to the land of daf- fodils, I edged over to the archway and bought two bunches. While she was wrapping them up a shrill voice behind piped: "Daffodils! I wonder how much!" « "Threepence a bunch," voice from the camp stool. "Oh, Freddie! You buy a bunch for Mummy and I'll get a bunch. for Dad." In a moment one felt that spring had met spring! They seemed to be dancing with the daffodils and sun- beams! Two diminutive pocket-books flashed out and pennies were counted; then off up the street frolicked the dafrodils, A workman passed with his bag of tools; passed, but turned and came back. "How much are they, Missus?" "Threépence a bunch." He laid down his tools gently, fumb- led for his threepence, found it, and smilingly took his sheaf of gold. came the "Daffodils, threepence a bunch. | eyes met and we smiled to one an- Fresh daffodils," sang the rosy-faced ' other. I felt she understood, for she old lady. stood there smiling and waving her A couple wandered over to the arch- | bunch of daffodils till we were out-of way, the young man taking a bunch sight.--S. ».C. News Oddities Man Commits Suicide By Swallowing Savings everything, the League for the Hard of Hearing, Inc., have announced. Voting On Mountain Top Of the thousands and thousands of polling booths which were used Lyons, France.--Jean Coiffier, 42, at- throughout the German Reich during tempted to commit suicide and take the presidential election, there was his money with him. one which occupied a unique position He succeeded .in killing himself by because of its altitude. This was the swalowing his life savings which con- booth which had been established on sisted of several 1,000, 100, 10 and 6 the top of the Zugspitz Mountain, near franc notes. the terminus of the recently construct- An autopsy was performed and the ed cog rallway from Garmisch-Parten- notes were recovered, kirchen, at a height of over 8600 feet Lonely Heath Hen Bachelor To Be above sea level, Undoubtedly there Provided With Mate | were a number of people who, in order Oak Bluffs, Mass.--The last health to make the ascent of the Zugspitz on hen in the world, after four years of the day of the presidential election presumably carefree bachelorhood on' (Which like all election days in Ger- quaint Martha's Vineyard, is to be pro- Many, was on a Sunday) left Munich vided with a mate. | too early in the morning to go to the His bride will be a Wisconsin prairie Poll in the Bavarian capital, but who chicken, the finest ornithologists can| Were thus afforded ax opportunity of find in their effort to preserve as many, recording their vote amid the snow- of his characteristics as possible, | covered peaks. of Germany's loftiest Dr. Alfred O. Cross of Bowdoin Col. Mountain. lege, foremost authority on the heath hen, has consented to supervise the nuptials, which necessarily will be hur- ried because the mating season al- ready has begun. The heath hen--he is called a hen although a male--is the last of his once plentiful species wich inhabited the eastern coast from Maine to Vir- ginia. The guns of hunters reduced his numbers to a small flock which found refuge on Martha's Vineyard. Forest fires there further destroyed the species until only three could be found on the island in 1917. Two of these died and since 1928 there has been but one heath hen left in the world. Natives have reported seeing him within the last week. | Only an ornithologist can tell the difference between a heath hen and a prairie chicken, Deaf in Gotham Plug-in and Hear at Theatre New York.--A row of seats for the deaf, wired from microphones hidden! on the stage, has been installed at a local theatre. The play-goer may plug-in his own instrument or rent one at the box of- mri 7] "How long have they been mar- ried?" "About five years." "Did she make him a good wife?" "No, but she made him an awful ly good husband." a ceuns FAITH. The union of profound knowledge with divine faith, and the recognition and perception of their unity, is the mind's. first step within the domain of truth, and of the consciousness of it; or, rather, the first step in that gradation by whioh the mind and consciousness advance towards | verity. -------- When is a ple like a poet?--When OLD THUMB. I'VE TRAVELED TWENTY fice, adjust the ear-pleces and hear |it's browning. The Conductor Never Takes Up this Ticket. - AND I STILL Gol mY TICKET terles--one running down to the City, unnecessary tings. We must save if | for publication," reports in the New York "World-Tele- gram." "Took 600 shots to get it right," mourns Victor Keppler, advertising photographer, according to her ac- count. "Food is much mor: temperamental than any live model. As for straw- berries--it's harder to get a perfect tirty-six strawbarry than to find a natural platinum blonde. Why, I once picked through ten boxes of strawberries to find just six models." What goes on behind the scenes in an advertising photographer's studio "is really startling, A glance at the picture of a sparkling glass of ginger ale, a dish of ice cream, a nice red tomato, a plate of sausages and scrambled eggs would never reveal the agonies the cameraman may have gone through to obtain that perfection of light and shadow," Miss Sartain assures us as she continues: An advertising photographer's stu- dio looks for all the world like a me- dieval torture chamber. There's an alarming assemblage of metal containers shaped like torpedo tubes that hold rows of electric bulbs, batteries of steel-hoodel arc lights, and metallic piping running around the ceiling to form a trolley for more movable lights. When all these scorching lights, from thirty-five to fifty of them of around 10,000 watts collectively, are focused on the model saucer of broc- coli or slice of layer cake, things just naturally happen to the contents-- they start shrivelling or getting drippy. Icings fall away, and after «very shot must be repaired. If there are too many shots there isn't cake enough left. Sausages have the meanest trick. They bleach to a dainty ecru shade, dry up and roll themselves into the counterpart of a slice of crisp fried bacon. So to counteract their temperament, they are painted with oil just before the camera clicks. Jelly loves to take on the consis- ttney of golf balls, and as for silver- ware--it usually photographs black. To overcome the darkness, the strongest lights imaginable must be sed; then a worse problem presents itself. The silver catches reflections of all the lights, of the paraphernalia around, even of the photographer's countenance. Once an advertising phctographer had to build a special room for a sil- ver job--a room with a black velvet floor and walls hung with white Chi- nese silk. The only opening was a tiny slit in the ceiling through which could blink the eye of the waiting camera. But for a real trouble-maker, Miss Sartain invites us to consider ice | cream. | The photographer pulled all his tricks, experimenting for days. Fin- i ally he hit upon the idea of "dry ice." It was alternated, in layers, with ice cream in a sherbet glass, and wrapped in a towel for an hour, there- by freezing as solid as marble and notwithstanding the 212 degree Fah- renheit temperature of the lights for the few seconds necessary to have its features photographed for posterity. Ginger-ale campaigns presented a grave problem. Ice cubes in a glass look like no- thing at all, pictured--just a blank, But one of the best commercial photographers in New York discover- ed that a layer of hard coal placed in the back of the glass brings out lights and shadows, and outlines the stria- { tions .n the ice. Now every ice cube in a glass that you see in a pictures has been photographed that way. Another difficult model was a white dish on a white tablecloth, filled with spinach. This was a problem of light- ing, to bring out the different planes of white and to give the spinach char- acter enough. The commercial advertising camera- ran has to build many sets, and he must keep as many theatrical props as the Shuberts. "A great life we 1 ad," any adver- tising photographer will tell you, "especially in the summer, when we have ail these lamps on at terrific heat, working on all these cooling bev- erages that are so technically difficult to shoot." mii bos fren mi Roumanian Teachers Receive Higher Salaries Than Army Bucharest, Roumania--For what is believed to be the first time in history, the March budgetary allowance for the Ministry of Public Instruction in Roumania 'exceeded figures for the Ministry of War. ; Hitherto when salaries of state em- ployees have had to lag behind it has for, allot 851,000,000 lei '(about $20, | 000,000) to the teachers as against 380,000,000 lel to the army.