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: j Plan For British Community Settlements in Canada Hon. W. A. Gordon, Minister of Labor, has intimated that a policy of immigration must soon be started again in Canada because of the rail- way debt. "Whether we like it or not," he said, "if we are going to pay off tfat huge debt we must get o vet- to the positive side of immigration as soon as possible. That opens up . serious problem as to where we are to get people who will be acceptable to this country, and who will be easily assimilated into our national life." Among those who have giv-n thought to the resumption of immi- gration is Brigadier-General M. L. Horiiby, of tha Hornby Farms, Leth- bridge, Alberta. After 30 years of Enipire service he came to Canada in 1924 to farm, develop and settle his | properties. But he has found that tht majority of those around him are not British. In Southern Alberta, where some of his properties lie, Central Europeans have constituted the bulk of the immigrants. New British set- tlers have been- comparatively fev.-. "Let me make it quite clear," he says, "that I am not out to knock the 'for- eign' settlers. Far from it I admire [ them as workers and colonizers; I car. see how much they are doing to de- 1 \-lop this Western Lountry. Nor have' I anything againso the Government of Canada for admitting them, for I know that the Government has alwaj s offered every possible inducement and advantage to British migrants from England to come in and settle on her vacant lands. But tha cold fact is that England has been too slow to take ad- vantage of Canada's invitation and offers, whereas 'foreigners' have been quick to step in, and have eagerly ac- qired the good lands open to them." General Hornby puts forward tho following scheme of immigration: (a) The settlement of new 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 ii a mistake. England has a direct re- sponsibility for the settlement of her migrants in new homes overseas. She must shoulder this responsibility di- rectly, (c) Migration and settlement should be carried out by Old Country communities counties and towns with the object of bringing into play the very strong county and town spirit, which exists through the Un- ited Kingdom the "team spirit," which has stood us in good stead m important national and Empire causes in former days, and which is exactly what is needed to help new settlers over the first and most difficult yea-s of their new life, (d) The communi- ties, or the community organization!, sending out new settlers should be also responsible for establishing their, o the land and for their "after-care ' that is to say for their agricultural supervision and financial support, if necessary, for the first two or three years, until they are thoroughly on their feet, (e) The new settlers should 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 and 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- n.ur.ity to occupy the \ acated tenant- 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 Cana ia and to urge an imrovement in it. Th Mail & Empire, Toroito. Sunday School Lesson April 17. Lesson III The Call of Abram Genesis 12: 1-9. Golden Text Thou shall be a blessing. | lation. Genesis 12: 2. ANALYSIS. I. THE CALL, VS. 1-3. It. THE CALL OBEYED, VS. 4-6. III. WANDERING AND WORSHIPPING VS. 6-9. INTRODUCTION The book of Genesis faith, opens with stories of the beginnings II. Tin: c vi.i. OBEYICI of mankind as a whol, but quickly narrows its interest to the family "I will shew thee." It required great faith to obey so difficult a call. Non- faith is never aimless; it does not operate in a vacuum. It serves a pur- pose, and the greater the faith the loftier the purpose. God's purpose with Abram was to isolate him from his old. idolatrous environment ; n order, through him, to found a new order a nation great, because it would be the bearer of the divine reve- This sounds like national ego tism, but its offensive feature is off- set by a wide universalism. Through Abram and his descendants the bless- ing of God would flow out to all the nations of the earth. At any rate. t the severity of God's command is mow 1 than compensated for by the promise i of rich ward for the obedience .if vs. 4-fi. Without question or complaint -. i Abram responded to God's call. At springing from Noah's son, Snem. 01 t }, e age of seventy-five most men wou^d whom Abram was regarded as a lineal descendant. It treats history genea! wish to settle down 'omfortably, but here was one willing to pioneer! Such ogically. When Abram is reached, the , faith is infectious; it draws others story expands to considerable length I j nto its company. It is not surprU- because he was regarded not only as ; ngr therefore, that a considerable the firs 1 patriarch of the nan >n. but ( number, chiefly of relatives, followed as the ideal Israelite. His faith in j Abram out of Ur. Nothing is told us God, his ready obedience to God's wil., I O f the ] onp antl hazardous journey his generosity, his love of peace an i , across the desert which stretches be- his noble bearing under trying <v.r , en Babylonia and the land of Can- cumstances all this htted him to be- Latest addition to the Bronx A nice pet for the children! Threepence A Bunch All the tradition of old London and out of the basket. I felt as he gazed Springtime is embodied In this delight- ' at them that he was seeing much mor ful sketch and is particularly approprl- ' than a handful of daffodils. He asked ate and will have special appeal now the price, when Canadian fields are again feeling "Threepence a bunch." the touch of the sun's warmth. | "Oh, Ern^t!" protested his sweet At the crossroads of two busy ar- little helpmeet, "dont spend mouey on teries one running down to the City, unnecessary things. We must save it the other racing towards the heart of vre want to have a home of our own." Kent I waited for a friend who had j "I feel that they are necessary," lie Invited me to share the stillness of the replied quietly, and picked out two country with her for twenty-four lovely bunches which she took reluct- hours. antly. How I longed to tell her that 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 hunch. Fresh daffodils." She need not he was building their home by buying those daffodils: Then a girl came along, who might have been considered smart. Her hat looked like Paris, aud everything else was in keeping with her hat. "How much are the daffodils'.'" nhe told us they were fresh, for the whole said in a voice which sounded like air was pungent with that spring j pent-up, streams let loose. "And how fragrance which fresh daffodils always! many bunches have you got?" bring with them. The old lady counted her remaining "Threepence a bunch!" I said to niy- treasures slowly: "Threepence a 7) but it was not yet his. His lii'u in Canaan was well-rounded. In v. 8 we learn that he pitched his tent, thus setting up family life; he had Ben f 1 on the west and Hai on the east, and so entered into social relations; he >uilded an altar, nurturing his reli- come a bright and shining light to re- III. A Nl> WiiKSIlll'Pl.V.: WANDERINC vs. 6-0. Abrar. did not come to an unoc'ui pied country. It had long been ii: habited by a people known as Canaan en Babylonia and the land of Can ain, but in estimating Abram's obc _ dience this should not be forgotten mote generations. He has been caUeu On the way to Canaan a stop seem* 'the father of the Faithful." A pion- t(( have been m ade for some time at er in the exercise of faith, he taught i Haran, in the north-west of Mesopo- men by living example how to practice tamia, which probably formed a regu It. There are many New Testament , ] ar restinc-place for caravans on f references to Abram. He is honored] g,- CH t trade route. by Jews, Mohammedans and Chris- tians. I. THE CALL, VS. 1-3. At the outset of his career Abrar.i 1 . .^ ^\ iL j. r< A ~ iiuuiicu uy u iTtruuic MIUWII as luiiuan nor worshipped the true God, and he .^ wh / had JfSfcrf a fairly high was himself, perhaps little bettPi L civilizat j on> but were> of course , vor than his neighbors. How God s call shi ppers of stra nRe gods. Abram tra came to him we do not know, but COP-.C j versed the countrv remaining for it did with a heavy demand. He was ! some Ume in thg ^ ; rtant towns required to leave his native Lr (K>: , shechem and BetheL He had not , ef 7) in southern Babylonia, with > its his home . Ur for worl( ,, ; sure prosperity and advanced^civih^.- hence he did ^ ^ .,. - n Cana?n What he sought was the opportunitj to worship God. This opportunity hi seized at Shechem and Bethel, both o . which had long been shrines for Can age, to separate oneself from one * aanitic worship . The higher faith cbn was to expose oneselt to hosti.c Abram was thus to disp i ace eve ntua!l' tribes and to be without protection i , the , ower faUh of the Canaanites a ' a war-like world. Further. God callo 1 , aceg whlch from ancie , lt times ha him away from home without - had sacred associations . Not unti! ,, ing at first his destination. He tad had arrived in Canaan did he know merely the promise of dmne guidance tha( . this wag the promised land (v tion. and to break the ties that him to his kindred. We, in our order- ed society, can scarcely realize whav this meant for him. In his turbulent gious life. The family, the commun- ty and the Church were all benefited revealed recently. by him, " Tllis vounE n "The danger in going away into K Experiments With Cancer Promising, Says Anatomist London. Experiments bing con- ducted here by a young man may lead ultimately to control of cancer, Sir Arthur Keith, famoua anatomist strange life does not have to do with [eography. It is not that a man is in ianger in a different land. It is thai le is in danger of becoming a differ- ent man. A good deal which we con- sider a part of our deepest life is just :he reflection of our surroundings. When we change our surroundings it s startling and disconcerting to watch ;he change in ourselves. We 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." j Lynn Harold Hough. "DoBore culled on you last even- ing! I suppose you didu't get a chance to open your niouth." "Oh. yes I did. I yawned several limes." Fiddlesticks it was at an orchestral concert, and after gazing for some time at the bass fiddle player a man in the stalls nmt- .-ed, "He'll never do it; he'll never do it." At length the title of the first num- ber was announced, whereupon tha Toronto-Detroit Air Mail r.iutterer continued 'ns remark, louder each time. Thi. was too much for a man in the row in front, and eventually he This young man really has got hold of something big towards con trol of growth," Sir Arthur said. "Ha is working with parathyroid extract with which he experiments on anl 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 o Surgeons. U.S. Air Manoeuvers Face Economy Cu Washington. This year's manoeu vres of the Army Air Corps may b canceled to save money. War Department officials said the had been discussing manoeuvre plans but had not reached a decision. Indi cations point, they added, either t i cancellation or great curtailment. Fox Farm Started in Chile Magallanes, Chile. A valuable con signment of 14 silver foxes has arri\ ed here from Hamburg. The impon er, Herr Gustav Icken, who intend to start the first experimental fo farm in Chilean Patagonia, has select ed for the site "Los Robles," in th neighborhood of Rio Seco. Denmark to Banish Solid-Tired Vehicle Copenhagen. Solid rubber-tire motor vehicles are to be prohibited o the roads of Denmark after 1934 b a law which has been passed here fa lowing experiments with differen kinds of wheels coverings and roa materials. To Continue Servic Ouawa. Temporary contlnuatlo if the Toronto-Detroit air mail ser turned and said, angrily, "Confound , ice has been decided by the post o you and your mutterngs. sir!" i f[ department, "Well, he can't do it, I tell you. I'M . 0's effect have bet you he can't!" was the reply. "Can't do what?" and instructions been issued. Th Winnipeg-Edmonton route has bee cut off, but it is anticipated the other ., , hj hi 9er yle will not be touched self. "Fancy getting all that gold for threepence!" And, even though, I wa* dually on my way to the land of daf- odils. I edged over to the archway and ought two bunches. While she was wrapping them up a irill voice behind piped: "Daffodils! wonder how much!" "Threepence a bunch.," came the oice from the camp stool. "Oh, Freddie! You buy a bunch for lummy and I'll get a Jjunch for Dad." | In a moment one felt that spring ad met spring! They seemed to be 1 anciug with the daffodils and suii- bunch, and there are seven bunches." she said, smiling. "I always take a bunch homt* on Saturday myself." she added. "I'll take all that you can let me have." said the smart girl. The old lady had come to the end of her wrapping paper, so the giri held tho daffodils ou 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 earns! Two diminutive pocket-books to her, for I felt iu a vague way that ashed out and pennies were counted; | she was doing her bit fur humanity - len off up t!ie street frolicked the and had helped me to go ahead and du affodiis ! mine but at that moment a cheery A workman passed with his bag of ools; passed, but turned and came ack. "How much are they, Missus?" "Threepence a bunch." He laid down his tools gently, fumb- ed for his threepence, found it, and smilingly took his sheaf of gold. "Daffodils, threepence a bunch. Fresh daffodils." sang the rosy-faced old lady. voice rang out. It was my fneiul call ing from her car. 30 I turned ;uui scrambled in beside uer. As we drove away. I looked back. The old lady was starting, too. Over her arm was the rough basket and camp siool, but in her other Uuud she clasped her bunch of daffodils. Our eyes met ami we smiled to uu<> an- other.. I felt s h understood, for she .stood there smiiiuK and waving her A couple wandered over to the arch- ! bunch, of daffodils til! > ,VPI-I ut itt way, the young man taking a bunch sight. S. F ('. News Oddities averythiug. the I.euKu* inr the H.ii'i <>f Hearing. Inc.. uave announced. Voting On Mountain Top Of the thousands and thousands of i polling booths which wer^ used Man Commits Suicide By Swallowing Savings Lyons, France. Jean Coiffler, 42, at- j throughout the German Ileicii during lampted to commit suicide and take ' tUe presidential election, there was his money with. him. oue which occupied a unique position He succeeded in killing himself by j because of its altitude. This was tha swalowing his life savings which con- booth, which had been established on sisted of several 1,000. 100. 10 and "> the top of the Zugspitz Mountain, near franc notes. An autopsy was performed ami the uotes were recovered. Lonely Heath Hen Bachelor To Se Provided With Mats Oak Bluffs, Mass. The last health hen ia the world, after four years of presumably carefree bachelorhood on quaint Martha's Vineyard. Is to be pro- vided with a mate. His bride will be a Wisconsin prairie chicken, the finest ornithologists can find in their effort to preserve as many of his characteristics aa possible. Dr. Alfred O. Cross of Bowdoln Col- """"" lege, foremost authority on the heath ' hen. has consented to supervise the' nuptials, which necessarily will be Uur-' rled because the mating season al- 1 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 ou Martha's Vineyard. | Forest tires there further destroyed, the species until only three could be found on the island in 1917. Two of : these died anil since 1928 there has ' been but one heath hen left iu the' world. Natives have reported seeing him within the last week. Ouly an ornithologist can tell the difference between a heath lien and a prairie chicken. Deaf in Gotham Plug-In and Hear the terminus of the recently construct ed cog railway from Garmiscli-Parten- kirchen, at a height of over 8600 feet above sea level. Undoubtedly there were a number of people who, in order u> make tha ascent of the Zugspitx o the day of the presidential election i which like all election days in Ger- many, was on a Sunday) left Munich too early in the morning to go> to tat poll in the Bavarian capital, but who were thus afforded a i opportunity of recording their vota amid the snow- covered pealu if G"nnany' loftiest I'lll )-*eti mar "How tied?" "About five years." "Did sha make him :t ^ond wife?" "No, but she mada him an awful- liiisbiind." at Theatre New York. A row of seats for lha FAITH. Tha union of profound knowledge with divlno faith, and ths recognition | aud perception of their unity. Is tU mind's first step within the lomsli truth, and of It; or, rather, deaf, wired from microphones hidden that gradation by on the stage, has heeti installed at a and consciousness local theatre. | verity. The play-goer may i>lug-ia hU owu , >- - instrument or rent one at the box of- 1 When is a pie lik flee, adjust the ear-piece* and hear (it's brownin;: the conaciouwiMi th tlrst step la which tha mini advance toward! Wlnn MUTT AND JEFF- By BUD FISHER The Conductor Never Takes Up this Ticket. -AND BACk AGrMN. GooDJ OUTJ THUMB. TRAV/CLS.D ANT) I 5TIUC GO THAT'S * BAD WTCH -HIKER'S THUMB rvlVC.**^ inut'uj* rAOOCHfcD 50 f THIS k I've THUMBED COrYar TO COAST -