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the georgetown herald wednoday evening may 2 1 st 1 94 1 i timely topics for women by barbara baines i the farmeb s problem review in this our life mcjleod 467 do s3 00 at no tune of the year is the canadian countryside quite so appeal- lng as in the spring trees bursting into leaf greens of a thousand hues me cattlo cropping the tender grass and feeling frisky after a long winter- indoors the young lambs gambolling on the hillsides or go ing with their mothers to the creek for a drink 1 what could present a mora serene and happy picture yet every thing is not serene andbappy oh our canadian farms if you notice carefully you will see thaf in spite- of all a benevolent spring dan do fann buildings are looking shabby they need paint and repairs if you talk to the tafmer he will tell you all is not well he is worrying over payments on the mortgage he is worrying about his inability to send his childreron to high school to provide them with those little extras those advantages o important to young people his faith in himself is slipping he feels out of step with the times and the sad trua is that the farmer is out of step with the tunes though perhaps xhxoughjno fault of- his own this is an industrial age an age of cooperative eflovl of mass production the day of the individual of hand labour 16 over with the onward march of civilization it became lmproiltable to span wool by hud to do any one of a thousand thlnrtht formerly had been done by hand in the homes and when a better and cheaper shoe could be turned out in mass in a factory the individual shoemaker was squeezed out it was not the individual shoemakers fault though he had to completely readjust his life and in the long run millions of peo pe benefitted because they were able to buy good fitting shoes cheaply the day of hand labourpn farms is about over too farmers cannot expect to get prices for their product that will compensate them for hand labour when prices of other commodities are based on mass pro ducuon certainly not as long as farm products are abundant this sounds like a very harsh view point but if it is true what is the use of evading the issue wouldn t it be much better to try and find a cure for the ills that have been undermining the industry for some tkne owners of thousands of small businesses went through the agony of losing their business during the depression year i- hundreds of factor lee closed never to open again many professional men had to accept re lief for their families or see them starve yet these people are readjusting themsehes to changed conditions farmers too must readjust themselves to changed conditions if they arp to improve their economic position frankly stated there haa been less progress in agriculture in canada during the last 50 years than hi any other industry a number of cures for the unhealthy state in which it now finds itself have been put forth bonuses have been suggested but subsidizing farm prices is not a sound remedy and should only be resorted to in an emergency similarly artificially raising farm prices will not solve the problem farm prices must in the long run reach parity with the prices of industrial products how then can agriculture be put on a paying ba sis the person who can solve this problem will win for himself a place in canada s hall of fame of one thing though i am sure the individual farmer working independently is licked only through cooperative effort can farmers hope to achieve prosperity as a class farmers are thrifty practical and hardworking if they would only lay aside their rugged individualism their love of independence their distrust and suspicion of others and unite for their common good within a few years they coud revolutionise the- inoustry but the initiative must come from the farmers the government is only vhc servant of the people farmers understand their own problems better than anyone outside the industry can and it is they themselves who can best solve them if they need a subsidy to make a start at organizing i suggest the government be asked to finance the initial cost of forming a national association to study the most pressing problems draft out a plan of ac tion and an educational programme that would reach every farmer this association might then divide the country into zones with local directors and offer suggestions as to how the farmers in each might profitably co operate to cut their cost of production to improve products to meet mar ket demands and to dispose of suiplus products i might also set up dairy livestock grain and fruit cooperatives in which local farmers have membership to market their products for example would not the cooperative use of heavy machinery s ton as threshing machines tractors camcutting machines etc lower the cost to the individual farmer and in addition fill the breach made by the shortage of farm labour i do not behev the situation in which canadian farmers find them selves today is hopeless by any means but i do believe their greatest hope of bettering conditions lies in a strong national organization which will call in trained men to study their problems map out a course to co ordinate their efforts set them a goal to achieve and guide their energies to its achievement but it is up to the farmers themselves not the gov eminent to take the initiative widows benefit by change in estates act by changes in the estates act effective june 8th 1941 if a hus band dies without leaving a will and the estate is 5 000 or loss the wife receives all if more than 5 000 she gets wood plus 1 3 of the balance of the estate with the other rwothuds going to the children at the present time the wife receives only one third when the estate is left intestate by ellen glasgow ellen glasgow is one of the greatest of contemporary novelists just last fall she was awarded the howell s medal for eminence in cre ative literature and criucs agree tha in this our life is one of her finest novels it is a story of a modern family and portrays the underlying forces at work in society in the troubled period preceding the outbreak of the war asa the father is a bit of a philosopher but as the demands upon him grow his salary shrinks and ihe new house in which they live and all the extras are supplied by uncle william still enjoying at eighty the power of his money lavinia his wife has never aroused any tenderness in him and he dreams of freedom and retiring on a farm with kate roy his elder laughter and his favourite is married to peter a rising young surgeon with whom she is deeply in love stanley the youn ger end prettier daughter from childhood has instinctively seized what ever made anyone else happy when the story opens great preparatlona are under way for hr wedding o craig but from the beginning one feels the wedding will never take place five days before the date set she elopes with peter leaving behind heartbreak and shame roy suffers most but makes a gallan gesture of not caring too much craig hasn t the stamina the situation calls for and is crushed their mutual suffering draws them to each other and the plan to find what happiness they can together then comes the news that peter has taken his life 8 anlcy comes home and in spite of her retlesrress and unhappiness s prettier than ever she becomes involved in an accident in which a child is killed and blames a young coloured boy ruining nis life everyone tries to protect her and on e again ohe robs her bister of nappine when in her great need and weakness craig s old love for her is revived it is a poaerful itorj written vlth realism and a deep understand lng of a generation wh ch was not lost bultrought freedom was the right to run away it ends however on a hopeful note when roy in spite of disillusionment and despair finds that lor her u ere are things more im portant than personal happiness let me remind lol we all have something some secret bread of our own soul by which s we live tha nourishes ard sustains ua it may be a different thing for each man alive v william blake f- sponge taffy when daughter next has her friends in to play after school and 0 they decide they want to make candy let them try sponge taffy 2 cups brown sugar 1 tablespoon soda mi cup corn syrup 1 teaspoon vanilla cup water pinch of salt cook the sugar byrup and water add the salt and flavouring oook to 385 degrees f or until it spins a thread remove from the fire mid stir in the soda then cool quickly pour- into a pan 8xjh wbm cold break into pieces broadening christian hori zons peters vision sunday may 25 1941 your coldt a germs ghost max cause kt sotenoe report t last on the anes of colds and ases down to the bordernne itself studying a strange bw iworia whare hve the viruses or poisons no genua but maybe tfaetr spooks which grre us disease 10a lafhiensa and many pussunt but deadly afflictions see ms feature article n the american weekly wttn the slay 95 bftue of the detroit bun- every meal ended in misery but hu indication was relieved by kruichsn the treatment which put this man right muit surely be worth trying in every com of indigestion read what he says two years ago i suffered very much from indigestion lbs of appetite and a most severe pain in my back food soured in my stomach i felt most miserable after meals and had no desire or appetite for them a friend advised mo to try kruschen salts 1 did so and 1 am most happy to testify that after a short tune i felt the greatest relief i continued taking kruschen till i felt myself quite better and a new man i feel as light hearted as 1 did twenty years ago w b the several salts in krucchen combine aid in promoting regularity and help cleanse your system each day of poisons and impurities mil lions take the little daily dose at all drugstores international uniform sunday school lesson golden text then peer opened his mouth and said of a truth i perceive that god is no respecter of persons acts 10 34 lesson passage acts 11 5 18 the trouble with nations is human relations especially you and me peters vision 5 6 peter learned slowly he had been a disciple of jesus he had met the risen lord he had preached his great sermon at pentecost yet he needed a special vision to overcome his racial prejudices even after his vision he was not very broadmlnded about the antioch church receiving gentiles and paul had to deal vigorously with him in this peter was not exceptional nearly all of us have inherited racial prejudices or a sense of social super lority families living on the same street tend to classify themselves by wealth education and interest it is a dramatic experience for tlioso who have lived in a stratified society forced to an air raid shelter where people are people and all alike the christian church continually needto releam the lesson of peters vision snobbery can creep in so subtly we are so prone to think ourselves superior to other people the christian church should be a family in which all gods children are wel come peters background 7 10 consider this vision in the light of peters background he had been brought up in obedience to jewish customs about food and washing and separation from the gentiles his exclusiveness was ingrained both through patriotism and religion small wonder that he had to be taught his lesson three times over this corres ponding to his three fold denial and three fold profession of love peter s vision was vivid but we must not allow the details to hide from us the great truths implied the purpose of this vision was to teach peter and through peter to teach the chrlstan church that humanity is a family that ood does not play favourites among nations uid that christ s gospel is not to be limited by colour race or class this lesson needs to be learned in the twentieth century quite as much as in the first peters companions 11 14 in last weeks lesson we saw that paul the great thinker and mission axj apouc was helped by a number of humble men here also peter had his companions men whose names we do not know by a strange colncl dence direction has been given to a man in caesarea just at the time that peter was having his vision in joppa why did a man in caesarea want a lsit trom peter who was in joppa let verse 14 answer who shall tell thee words whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved- could there be any better description of christian witnessing peter no longer stood upon his jewish dignity but was ready to speak of christ to gentiles we have the same message of salvation that peter had why do we not tell it more often we too can tell words whereby families can be saved where the old story is told effectively crim inals become good citizens broken homes become reunited people who are dollar worshippers discover the leading of god who is a spirit but omeone who knows must tell peters words 15 17 how was it that peters words had such power he was an unlearned man innocent of devices of logic or rhetoric but he did believe in the lord jesus christ and he had re ceived the holy spirit peter spoke in the power of his vision experience ood had spoken to him through a vision freeing him from his jewish exclusive ness and at once he went into action telling gentiles about christ what a different message he had from john the baptist who had preached right eousness and washing with water 1 pet er told of gods tove in christ of christ sacrlflobd and resurrected and of the eomc of 42m holy spirit peters faith was vindicated because the gentile received the holy spirit even as jews bad done a traveller who visits many dtiee attends public war ship and midweek ser wherever he is working he says that in some y be is conscious of the carrolls mclaren loom pack olives r gherklnsvtr fcr29 catsup a bo lie old cheese n- 23c grahams cm pk 24 spreads r 8 9 io u coffee 32c salmon s 18 29 jelly ks 2fllc marvo ioc caurac dry ginger ale bu i9c lynn valley sweet mixed pickles c 23 glob choice aylmer i peas 1 sieve 4 h 3r25o j nasssw spaghetti heinz soups pears marmalade s 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the heart when religion are lntellecuialized so that there is no emotion left it soon looses power peters convictions 18 the lesson of peters vision was mimmed up for him in this statement then hath ood also to the gentiles granted repentance unto llle this says in a briefer way what was con talned in the flndngs of the jerusalem conference paul the proud pharisee had to undergo a radical change of thinking before he could become a missionary to the oentlles peter also required special instructions through a vision before he was willing lo preach to the gentiles yet peter had an experience of response to his preaching in ceasarea that convinced him that the gospel could have equal power with gentiles and with jews this decision prevented the christian church from remaining a jewish sect note well the phrase repentance unto life that was the difference between john the baptist and jesus john the baptist urged people u forsake their shis jes is urged them to accept the love of ood and receive the holy spirit christian disdpleshlp is not all giving up it does not require an impoverished life it merely helps us to turn from the things that cannot finally satisfy the soul and helps us to find our satisfaction in god who is our home a christian man who is spending much of his time in helping soldiers says the young soldier needs so much more today than his gifts of smokes socks suppers and concerts when the smokes are all smoked the suppers eaten the socks full of hofee the songs sung and the melody done what is left to hold hkn in the pinch only what we pour into bis life questions for d lin him 1 what is my reourrtog prejudice 2 are your dreams in line with your waking thoughts 3 what colour lines am i drawing 4 desonlm peter before and after bis vision 5 repentance unto usa what is it limehouse mr and mrs thomas allan and miss joan of oshawa and mrs har vey allan and barbara of george town visited with mr and mrs s norrle on wednesday mrs ed miller of brampton visit ed friends in the village on sunday visitors at mrs lanes on sunday included mr and mrs dick packer mrs wm hall miss marjorle hall and mr and mrs wilfred mceach em mr and mrs mills miss helen and mr bui mills and miss sally dickie spent the week end at their home here mr and mrs thomas gowdy and miss gowdy of ouerph visited with mr and mrs wm gowdy on may 11 mr and mrs jes noble and pte jack noble of cheltenham spent sunday with the meredith family mrs veates and mrs king of lon don have been visiting the former- daughter mrs gordon sutherland the wmfi meeting was held at the home of mrs r lane on thuns day evening last week the committee in charge of fin antes for may for the w i held a tea and baking sale at the home of mrs wm gowdy on saturday after noon when the many merry maid ens club demonstrated cottons may be smarf and vtastam misses charlotte mcoullough and dorothy cleave and the girls are to be commerjrjedjbr their fine work re garding their projects mr t p campbell has been in the neighbourhood during ttie past week as salesman for bundles products why sometimes im taken for my own daughter nonsense you don t look old enough to have a daughter so old have us examine your childs eyes now wtf e i want in to a bargain sate today tftjeherrf did you see anythtos that looked real oheap- wife yes several men waiting dor their wives per dssssi sf sawy at sr 7to alkevrj at imivfiek 0 stress wmsysshnl vas mjmsat