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or pd a aaa : / phi bd A A AIP " s FIAT NIT BAEY The Income Tax And The Farmer Finance Department May Explain Situation To Farmers With most of the workers now having the income tax deducted from their wages, and with 1,500, 000 urban citizens subject to the ~ levy, the Finance Department has felt the necessity of correcting the | situation under which an unduly small number of farmers have been paying the tax, in spite 6f the marked fucrease of their incomes during the war, says The Winnipeg 'Free Press. Ability to pay should, of. course, be the proper basis for the levying of that tax. . Form Complicated The dificulty has been the com- - plicated tax form which the farm- ers were asked to fill out and whieh they found confusing. This form asked various questions in order to establish the lability or otherwise of the farmer, with due regard for the nature of farm operation. Partly on account of the difficulty in filling out the form, only 25,000 of the 700,000 Canadiau farmers are said to have done so in 1942, and only 8500 paid the tax. This compares with 4,000 farmers in 1941, and some 1,500 before "the war. New Form Clearer An investigation intended to lead to the simplification of the farm- ers' tax form, was. assigned to a departmental committee by the Finance Minister two months ago, and the result will doubtless he announced before long. It Is said "that the new form will be more explicit about various items of Information desired, . Farmers are more liable to the tax now, both because of the low- ering of the exemption line and the increase In their incomes. It Is said that something may be done by the Finance Department to explain the whole situation to the farmers. Many thousands will doubtless accept the fairness of their contributing to the national. treasury, as the workers are doing, since this Is necessary in meeting the heavy cost of Canada's war effort. Algoma Beaver Defies Railway Trappers Asked To Take Pelts From Dams Along Railway Line "Tho Algoma beaver has built up something of a reputation as _.an_engineer, though not-all woods- men are prepared to subscirbe to -the praise that has been accorded to him. But when he starts out one of his own engineering projects he displays a cheerful insouciance as to anyone else's projects. A farm, or a highway or a railway is given no consideration by the beaver, who Js probably asserting his rights as an original inhabitant in protest against these evidences of a modern civilization. y That is probably why the beav-- er la in some prejudiced quarters known as "a 'dam nuisance," de: spite the fact-that his ponds help to build up water reserves for power projects, for canoe routes, to tight forest fires and so on. It Is this utter indifference to the rights of railways, so charac- teristic of the beaver, which has caused Game Overseer Charles ~ Cook to suggest to trappers to take their limit of pelts from dams along the line of the Algoma Cen- tral Railway. There are, Mr. Cook explains, quite a number of these dams which, it they broke away, ~ might do damage to the railway tracks, as In one case thls year when a traln was derailed by a washout capsed by such an acgl- dent, ; ; 'Trappers who are interested in beaver conservation," explained the overseer, "usually trap one or two animals In each place; but this year I have asked them to do all their trapping in the ponds within their own townships, which threaten to damage the railroad." 80 it goes. It was the trapping of beaver which first brought the white men in any considerable number to this region--and now the representatives of this earliest invasion of civilization are asked "to ply their trade In such fashion as to protect the railway, repre- senting the latést Invasion, Switzerland's Navy ~ Sails Unchallenged Bwitzerland has what might be called a navy. For the export of watches and watchworks," which represent a tremendous income to that land-bound nation, the Swiss obtained a fleet of flve boats which load their preclous cargoes at some undisclosed Mediterran: ean port and then bring them. to Lisbon or across the Atlantic to the United States, if necosgary-- under friendly protection- all the way over, And even Axis sub- marine commanders "never seem to sco a Swiss boat when it plies the seas, ! © 1 know that, whatsoever Sa pd. Vk RR i, ads & ERE SE uc RR SAS RE SRE TR " 2X: , ™ Waving tommy-guns where they once brandished swords, steel- helmeted Cossacks charge over.a ridge on the Caucasus front. '1iese famous rough riders of Russia are reported spearheading the advance against the Nazis along the Georgievsk-Armavir-Rostov road, 7, the sister of him that was dead, this resurrection call corresponds 2 S U- N D A Y saith unto him; Lord, by this with the mighty effect. The great An Experiment time the body decayeth; for he voice or shout, from One who was s S C H 0 (9) L hath been dead four days. Jesus wont to speak so gently dnd quiet- In Feeding Hogs saith unto her, Said I not unto ly, thrilled the heart of every TTT nw thee, that if thou believedst, listener. The significance of this Vitamin' * Deficie y Dis- LESSON February 28 JESUS RESTORES LAZARUS. - TO LIFE. PRINTED TEXT John 11:20-29, 32.35, 38.44; GOLDEN TEXT.--1 am the resurrection, and the life.--John 11.25. . Memory Verse: 1 love thee, O Jehovah, Psalm 18:1, B THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time--January, A.D. 30. Place---The home of Mary and Martha, in the village of Bethany, which is over the ridge on the eastern slope of the Mount of Olives, opposite Jerusalem, "Martha, therefore, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him; but Mary still sat in the house, Martha there- fore said unto Jesus, Lord, if Thou hagst been here, my broth- er had not died. And 'even now Thou shalt ask of God, God will give . Thee."~-- The characteristics of those two sisters .are evident. Mary, the quieter of the two, and the more meditative, remains in the home while Martha, as soon as she hears that the Lord is com- ing, goes out to meet Him. Mary knows that whatever Christ might ask .of God, He would grant which means that she believes Christ, even now, can raise her brother from the dead. Resurrection and Life "Jesus saith unto her, Thy * brother shall rise again. Martha saith unto Him, I know that he shall rjse again in the resurrec- tlon of the last day. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life; he that believeth on me, though he die, yet shall he live." The word "resurrection" is to be taken in its widest sense, go that it is true to say that life results from resurrection, and - resurrection from life, to the be- Haver. He must share Christ's hfe in order to have the power within him of the resurrection from the grave Lu» th: endless life, ard by sharing Christ's risen life now in faith be is in fact viten with Christ. ard independent of every future change 'death of thy body itself, and shall be kept from endless death. Believing in "Christ 'And whosoever liveth and be- lieveth on me shall never die. Be- lievest thou this? She saith unto Him, Yea, Lord, I have believed that Thou art the Christ, the son of God, even he that cometh into the world." Note particularly how Christ seems to emphasize, above everything else, the im- portance of believing in Him, Compassion for Mary "And» when she had said this, she went away, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Teacher is here, and calleth thee. And she, when she heard it, arose quickly, and went unto him. Mary therefore, when\ghe came where Jesus was, and saw~him, fell down at his feet, saying unde him, Lord, if. thou hadst been broter had not died." No Mary and Marthd had' continua talked about the Lord's coming to the house, before Lazarus had died, and had both concluded that, should the Lord come, their broth- er would be healed. This may ac- count for the fact that her words to Christ are identical with those of her sister, "When Jesus therefore - saw her weeping, and the Jews .also weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, and said, "Where have ye laid him? They say unto him, Lord, come and sce. Jesus wept," The term "to weep" does not in- dicate, like the word weeping in varse 33, sighs, but tears; it is the expression of a calm and gentle ' Victody Over DQeath "Jesus therefore again groan- ing In himself cometh to the tomb, Now it was a cave, ahd a stone lay against it. Jesus saith, _ Take ye away the stone, Martha, _ grandeur, brevity and force of thou should see the glory of God?" These words, while addres- sed first to Martha, because she is" the one who raised the objection, must surely have been uttered for the benefit of all who were near and were spoken to remind those who had. confessed their faith in Him that in ordering the stone to be removed He was only initiating an act which would re- veal the glory of God, and should thus persuade them to do what he had commanded them to do, Jesus Gives Thanks "So they took away the stone, and Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, 1 thank Thee that Thou - heardest- me. And 1 knew that thou hearest me always; But because of the multitude that standeth around 1 said it, that they may believe that Thou didst send me." In Christ's calm con- sciousness of His unity with God, of fulfilling the Father's mission and purpode, He thanks the Fath- er for the opportunity given Him of setting forth the glory of God. Symbol of Redemption And when he had thus spoken, ho cried with a loud voice, -Laz- - arus, come forth. le that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave-clothes; and his face was bound about with a nap- kin. Jesus said unto them, Loose -- him, and let him go." The simple mighty deed we cannot over-esti- mate, for it is on the one hand, a profoundly significant symbol of Christ's redemption, and on the other, a signal testimony to His right and power to redeem. Western Canada Wheat Marketings Marketings of wheat in West- ern Canada during the crop year 1943-44, starting next August 1, will be restricted to 14 bushels an authorized acre, Trade Min- ister MacKinnon annguneed in the House of Commons. The 1943-44 wheat board pay- ment for wheat sold under the 14-bushel quota will be the same as in 1942-43---90 cents a bushel basis N 1 northern at Fort William. Farmers who produce more ~-than 14 bushels of whéat to the seeded acre will" not be able to sell the excess to the wheat board at the guaranteed minimum price. Under the new program, any wheat a farmer has on hand, whether it is prodiced in 1943 or in any previous ycar, may be de- livered within the 1i-bushel quota. Minimum prices for oats, barley -and flaxseed will be continued at the 1942-43 level, THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson TH THE AGES, ANIMALS SOCIAL AND MEDICAL WORKERS NY THAT EATING DIR) COMMON SOIL) IS A HABIT REQUENTLY FOUND AMONG PERSONS SUFFERING FROM MALNOTRITION/ ¢.¢ ANSW, and Flor (LY HAVE DISAPPEARED FROM THE EARTH WHEN THEIR BIG ARMORED BODIES OUTGREW THEIR. ZRA/NS/ : Five . « Texas, Louisiana, Missisipp}, Alabama 7, : PR. 1542 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T.AURCC U. 8. PAT. OFF. Ce) How MANY STATES OF THE U.S. BORDER THE GULF OF MEXICO J ° - "NEXT: Snakes alive! cussed by The Winnipeg Free Press The current vitamin craze may _ be strongly tinged with faddism, but the new interest that is being aroused in the life-giving quali- ties of our foods is all to the good none the less, We are discovering at last that our health depends not on how much we eat, but what we eat. The havoc which vitamin de- ficieney can wreak was recently shown very vividly in Texas with an experiment in pig breeding. There is a lesson for humans to learn from these experiments, During the height of the dust - bowl years, two litters of pigs in separated communities were born blind. The authorities set out to discover the reason. Experiments were conducted in hog diet. One diet was devised which was com- pletely devoid of Vitamin A. Sows fed on this dict. farrowed pigs which were not only blind but which had no eyes. In one experiment, a sow be- came tdo weak to stand. She was |. given one dose of cod liver oil. In eight hours she was standing again, When her pigs were born they were blind but had rudimen- tary "eves, The experiments were carried a step further. The pigs which weie born eyeless were interbred and put on vitamin- A diets, In every case their offspring had sound eyes and eyesight. The conclusion which can be drawn from this experiment is clear. Many of the defeets in our bodi¢s can be often attributed to the diets of our mothers, The mothers of today who take eare of their diets are move likely to produce babies with better bodies, sounder organs and a chance for a healthier life than those who regard modern science as new- fangled nonsense, ot Of Magnetic Mines The Air Ministry released a three-year-old gerret recently in telling ow Wellington bombers helped elear the seas around Brit ain's coast of the German mag- netic mines which once were Hit- ler"s "sceret weapon" and which threatened the supply lines to these islands in the last three months of 1939. The minesweepers were equipped with a of the air hoop-shap- ed casing extending all around them and secured to their nose, wings and tail. The casing held "a magnetic coil and the current was supplied by an auxiliary en- gine of the ordinary. Ford V-§ type. The equipment was designed to set up a magnetic current which would set off the then new type of mine. Minesweeping from the air con- tinted some four months, after which it became no longer nec- essary, the (surface) ships hav- ing been fitted with degaussing gear, which nullified the magnetic mines. : A new company in Rumania plans - to produce 2,000 tons of silk co- coons by next year, . ter Howitt What do "you suppose Foster Hewitt, the well known dynamlie hockey announcer does when he gets through his thrilling descrip- tion over the radio of a Saturday night national hockey gan.3? Did [I hear anybody suggest that he puts on his hat and coat and en- joys a bit of quiet relaxation at home? Well, that is just what Fos- does NOT do. He starts in to work for several hours, It seems that Foster's air dsceription of the Saturday night hockey games is recorded in order that Canadian goldiers In Great Britain and other parts of the world may follow the fortunes of Canada's national - sport , hockey. But for the purposes of transmission overseas the game which ordinarily takes about an hour and a half of air time, has te be dondensed to 30 minutes, Foster's job therefore immediate ly following the broadcast is to listen to the record, pick out the highlights and boil. them down into a hall hour programme. When this has been done, and it is sometimes quite a lengthy process lasting into the early hours of the following morning, Canada's premier hockey announe- er can enjoy a spot of rest. But not before, The record is then rushed to a transmission point and beamed by short wave on Swnlay for the benefit of the Canadian forces overseas, From all reports this series of international hockey broadcasts has come to be enjoy- ed just as much by the British public. Canada was the first coun- try to send special shortwave transmissions overseas for the en- tertainment of the lads in the gers vices. ¢« o« More recently, since the entry into the war of the United States, radio has also played an import. ant pact in the entertainment ot Uncle Sam's Doughboys, sailors and aivmen now spread into the far distant corners of the globe. Apart from the special (rans. missions which are received dir ect in the m®re fmporiant spheres whete Americiin troops are now fighting the canse-of freedom, rec- ordings of many radio programs are being dropped by meins of RADIO REPORTER i res parachutes in many of the isolated spots. . . . In North America Sunday night has always been regarded as the highlight of the week in real tips top quality radio entertainment, CKFRB Toronto has just announced that on Sunday evening, February 21st, 9 p.m, it will bring for Do- minjon listeners the first Canade lan ediffow of the Columbia Broad. casting System's exciting feature "The Radio Reader's Digest," Al though a comparative newcomer to the air, "this programme' has been placed already among the tirst ten in two different divisions of the revently concluded radio po!l in the United States, Conrad'- Nagel, famous star of screen, stage and vadio, is Master of Cere- monies, and the whole production has been built around a dramatie and musical personnel of elabor- ate proportions, ere id a pro- gramme which I feel most listens ers will agree is entirely different and extremely yersatile, . * . CEFRB Toronto announces also a change jn the time of presenta tion of two popular broadcasts, To accommodate the Radlo Reader's Digest it been necessary to move thes much listened to dram- atie feature "In His Steps" which has from now on will be heard 21% hours earlier, namely, 6.30 Sune day evening. Enthusiasts for the series of thrilling mystery dramas known as "The Greens Hornet" which has been heard for some the 0 o'clock Friday evening over CFRB Toronto will now I: to Xs tune in the 760 kilocyele waveband - at 7.16 Saturday night, LISTEN TO "COUNTRY NEWS" [tems of Interest From Ontario Weekly Newspapers EACH SUNDAY AT 2 P.M. CFRB--860 on your dial ANCIENT FORTIFICATION HORIZONTAL Answer {o Previous Puzzle 11 European 1 Ancient Chinese fortification. 9 It dates from the ---- century B. C. 14 Answered. 15 Grain fumigator, 17 Also. 18 Like tin, 20 Fish. 21 Candles. 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