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thuhfldat octobajfethh 1941 the acton free tress paoat tubvcn had a motmm wha rkad to me x had a mother who read to no sans of pirates who scoured the sea co clutch in their yellow ttfeth blackbirds stowed in the hold be- tv neath i had a mother who read me lays of ancient and gaaantfl 1 flo stories of marmton and ivanhoe which every boy has a rlffht to know i had a mother who read me tales of geurt that hound oftfcehluiot wales true to his trust till his tragic death talthfulness blent with his final breath you may have tangible wealth un told caskets of jewels and coffers of gold richer than i you can never be i had a mother who read to me strickland olllllan twentyyears ago from the issue of the free press of thursday october is itll finest quality erin potatoes have been selling hereduhag thewekat 1 00 per bag the first snow storm of the season came on sunday morning it was not very serious and toon disappeared mr s r mllli continuation school inspector held a meeting in the rockwood school recently and discus sed the matter of forming a continua tion class in the hockwood school for the district messrs ileslle jk peoren have sold three purebred shorthorn cattle to the nova scotia college new brunswick voted larger ma jorities in cities towns and in the country against importation of liquor mr a w ilarge gun who came to acton after serving through the wa an then return to england arrived back in townaiblnojbsatnr day he is very glad to get back to acton and hopes to make this his per manent home wxu3qn in acton on tucsdayoo- tober 11 1021 to mr and mm charles w wllsonra daughter crbws0n in acton on sunday october 2 1021 to mr and mrs fred crcwson a daughter the sunday school lesson for sunday october h famous schools train farmers rugby tops eton and others in turning out mechanized laborer- london cp fnmoufl public schools of england nre stripped of many of their pupils this autumn to aid in the harvest morty than 16000 boys volunteered and were received in farmeri aid camps they go out on the farms and help with the harvest cutting and stacking more than 4000 have boon trained in 70 tractor schools and are used to re lieve regular drivers so that the harv est may be finished as rapidly an pos- irtble rivalryhas spr ungup among some of the famous old schools an a new terrain uujrhy has had 130 boys trained to run tractors and machine courses nre sought by the boys of such wellknown schools as hnrrou and eton v christ our saviour golden text for cod so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever belleveth on htm should iwt- perish but have eternal life jno 316 lesson text matt 121 202is- 38 luke id 110 jno 316 66669 acts 412 rom 32138 83139 2 cor 51421 phil 2 511 1 ttm 1 15 print matt 202528 luke- 19 110 place jericho time a d 30 exposition 3ctrhc selfrenounc ing master matt 202jr28 jesus dealt very gently with his disciples selfishness he called them to him he always draws us nearer to himself when he would win us i f our iovf lives to a hlghor on the merhoddrch rials kingdom is utterly at variance with the method of the kingdom of this earth in th kingdoms of this world he that ruletr l great in the kingdom ofchrlst he that serves is great if any one wills to be great in christs kingdom ho must take the place of a servant of others and he that would be the very first must take the place of a slave of all this thought occurs again and again in a variety of expressions throughout the n t matt 2026 27 23812 mk 9 35 luke 94648 1411 18 14 jno 131317 1 cor 0 1023 1 pet 5 5 6 the head of the kingdom is the supreme illustration of this principle which governs it he came not to be ministered unto but to minister huml cot him all he had h laid down his life as a ransom to purchase life for a wicked world that had forfeited it he paid the price that would purchase life for others though it took all he had 2 cor 5 21 gal 3 13 titus 2- 14 isn 53 5 2 cor 8 9 he gave up the highest glory and descended to the deepest miamc and thus attained to the name that ts above every name phil 2 6- fl hr that uould httnln to rem nx nr unt wuum grentness must tread the snmo pntli ii zacchneuh seeking jesus 14 jobur was on his last journey to jerusalem his journey to the cross his mind was greatly absorbed with the moment our events that lay be fore him he was straitened until they be accomplished mk 10 32 luke 20 50 but he nevertheless stopped on thnt journey and in the execution of h1r allabsorbing purpose to save a sinner jesus was always ready to a top no matter how engrossing was the object which he was pursuing to listen to the cry ot the distressed or to save a sinner zncchaeus was rich dishonest dissat isfied but a man of considerable earnestness and decision in splto of his money he was regarded by his fellow citizens with a good deal or contempt v 7 a rich man must h n pretty menn man to be regarded as zasshaeus was his riches did not prevent his being saved it is a hard thing to save a rich man ch 18 24 but even tlis is possible with god ch 1h 2f 27 the riches uas that hens wllllrttf our food supply written hpeciauv kor cm na new hlalerm by john atkinh farmerjournalist no everyone problefy i ever canadian has u farm prob lem my farm problem i he town cnnndtun asks yen ur farm problem you may not know furm- ing you mu not know how to milk a cow or hitrnos n horse you mn think that u doubletret in u lawn shrub hut ou hove a farm problem nevertheless you and our food fnmlh mwl food your armed forces need food your british kin iummi food the world neds food fowtwtlv tiuv awl keep- the puacejn the end your farm problem is the neod for food liou can townpejpledeal ulththt farm problem they can del with tt by understanding ltby aiding all those who are working toward the so- luuonotjt there was a time in canada when there was no economic farm problem like that of today befure the first great war there was a good balance between urban and rural life in can- ada it was a time of easy under standing cut and towns wr rela tively small every canadian knew and understood urban lite and farm ufe it was a time when people chose to hve on farms or in towns because of their personal tastes the tarne amount of money and equal industry and skill would produce similar re turns in the towns and on the farms it was not a time when city people got two or three ttmes as much for their work and for their capital as they do in cities today while the tan hour day has changed to the eight hour day and the sixty houf week has shortened to the fortyeight or the forty or the thirtysix hour week in hctea the twelve to sixteen hour day and the seven day wk have n malned in full etfitt on th- farm thetnr round then whj do jxople st on farms 1 he niikwet is that tln don t nnd the wont when work u in ulluble in the titles us it u now the oung people lenve the farms when the can lend an ensler betterpaid life in the tlt a food suppl problem that has been acute since earh summer is the lack of farm help ewr day appeals were issued for more help to save ihocrnps ttmnnh nf tn n younfl to let go of them the rich man of mark 101731 was lost because he was unwilling to give his rlchps up hq chose earthly wealth instead of heavenly wealth the rich man of this lesson was saved because he chose christ instead ot gold the rich young man who was lost was cer tainly by natural temperament and character the more attractive arid amiable man of the two he was also the more moral and the more relig ious he stood far higher in public fjsteem any one would havesaid he was far the easier to save but it did not prove so it is often the case that the more amiable moral relig ious honored and apparently hopeful man is lost and the more repulsive immortal irreligious and hopeless man is saved the very hopelessness of a mans case often drives him to christ and the very hopefulness of n mens case ofton leads him to rest content away from christ the first step toward zacchaeus salvation was that he sought to see jesus thd best thing any sinner can do is to seek to see jesus there is saving power in a look at jesus jno 314 15 isa 45 22 iii jesus seeking zacchoeus 510 jesus knew zaechaeu was there and knew his name how jno 148 make haste there is no time for delay if one would find jesus today i must abide at thy house because it was the last day at jericho and zacchaeu was one of the sheep that must be found zac chaeu would not have dared to have invited jesus to his home bub he wished tym his was the most hon ored home in jericho that day but jesus is willing to come in and abide with us too jno 1 423 rev 3 20 there was great joy in zac chaeu heart as jesus wondrous words fell upon his car his obedi ence was very prompt and joyous not all men are r to receive jesus so promptly ond joyously zac- chacus was not accustomed to such kindness and respect but they humbl ed him and converted him which severity and contempt had not done jesus was gladf too but the people were not they took up their cus- tonjnry unwise criticism of jesus treatment of sinners 5 30 7 34 39 15 2 the genuineness of zncch rnn the value of venation js shown by the wny it nf- fected his pocket book he mndo res titution nnd gave bountifully to the poor the giving to the poor wan doubtless easier than the making restitution the love and power of jesus transformed a hnrdflsted ex tortioner into nn honest largeheart ed and self forgetting saint znc- chacus lost nothing by parting with his earthly goods mk 10 20 30 salvation had come not only to znc- chaeus but to his house ac 16 31 salvation had come because jesus had come zncchaeus wns a son of abraham because he had proven his faith cal 3 7 it v nnd raith had saved him ns it did abraham it is n wonderful description of our lord jesus mission in v 10 note who it w as that enmc the son of man gods pattern man the only true man thn over li people ai rowt canada have learned something of the farm problem at first hand by doing farm work in their holidays this casual labor has beeh of great value to the war effort and the farmers are grateful for every hour ort he work tlone burfarm produc tion cannot be maintained with casual or unskilled labor it must be worth while for farm bov and girls and skilled farm workers to sta on the farms and produce food if we are o keep production abreast of need trie costofliving bonus which is being paid by order of the govern- rnent to industrial workers is based on the highest wages paid from 702a 1940 thus urban workers are re ceiving the highest wage rates ever paid to them and with full time em ployment and much overtime their pay envelopes are fatter than they have ever been before no such condition exists for farmers the higher urban w ages he increased the cost of what farmers bu and despite increases in prices of food farmers are still rej celvlng less net income than they re- i celved in 10261029 tte immediate food supply problem is to restore the balance between urban and farm incomes i canned poultry forncwexport research experts develop qunlitx and uniformity in product by frank kuuikrty canadian press ktalf writer ottawa cp improved meth ods for canning poultry have been under investigation in the laborator ies of the national research council for the past jtar deelopmentn have been made in packaging handling of raw produtt precooklng handling nnd controlling strength of broth and jell and in the development of uni form product it is expect td t lit so developments will allow the mnrketing of superior quality- canned prodmt having nil the food value and flavor of the original j nav materlnl to meet a consumer de mand for this tpe of product which has lwhn evident for some time program on production of canned poultry and canned poultry products has been in line with considerable your local newspaper in local business the acton free press plays an import ant part in all local affairs it employswageearn ers whose homes are is the town from which it se cures business these wagcea m erspaytiixes sup port churches make their contributions to local ap peals jakejpart in conynunit or and spend most of their wages with local merchants it is no idle boast that it lias the means of giving welldirected publicity to this town anrtiistricc uork done in the storage shipment and murkotina of drutsod poultry for domestic and exitorf consumption kfpiulbg dmw1 one purposein tl study of the- canned product was to develop a commodity which would compare wlthfrh dressed pouhryfor ship ment in export trade to replace to some extent the shipment of dressed poultry which u very difficult in some instances under present condi tions detailed experiments on the storage of egs have been conducted recent ly it has been possible to introduce a method of preserving ess which will allow their shipment in non-re- frlserated storase with a minimum toss of quality and with the preven tion of mould and bacterial growth experimental shipments to test the efficiency of this treatment in rxort trade are now under way 8iik failed to clou carmarthen wales cp-ai- t hough court felt mrs ann reames 74yearold widow cculdn1 physical ly obey a plowing order she waa fined the equivalent of j2 50 for fall ing to plow one quarter of an acre of land there is no business institution which gives so much free service as a local newspaper were a merchant asked to give the equivalent in goods that the newspaper ogives in free service to all local or ganizations he would find it impossible to meet the demand when money is spent for printing or advertis ing with your local printing office you are help- ing local printers to help you you make it pos- sihle for them to serve you better outoftown printing salesman take money out of the commun ity paying no taxes buying- nothing from local stores getting all they can and not caring whether you sink or swim as merchants expect customers to he loyal to their own community in buying goods from them so might merchants remember they too should fol low the same ideals in regard to their local print ing office its good business for all of us customer goodwill in this town and district can bestbe devehn7errbyteguar advertising in vonr loeal c new tjie money spent for advertising and printed matter goesjjack tolocal tnerchauts injnereased trade yourdollars do double duty when spent with your local newspaper- they help you directly and others indirectly the acton free press it r halton countys largest newspaper