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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, DEC. 20, 1928 3 The Children's Festival ion of the old Christmas is touuu-ave been provided either by paint- upon both as addicted to tl wrong, for the as as we hue u very gradual, e of Christ's, ced for many > e suggested as sts pictures t ANDY FIX-IT For several weeks before Christmas everybody in Andy's family was busy making little gifts. His sisters, Nancy and Nell, made pretty little sachets, bags, cushions, handkerchiefs, slipper holders, doll dresses and al sorts of dainty things. His brother Tom made book-ends and no end of attractive and useful things with his scroll saw and tool chest. And their mother would hurriedly hide her work when she heard them coming in from school, for nobody must know what she was making. Mother's gifts were to be a surprise for everybody. But what was Andy going to make? ! That was the question. He had a fine chest of tools and knew how to use them, but strange to say he had never been interested in making things. He was very much interested, however, in I putting things right and in repairing things. He was always mending some-! thing about O.e house or yard. So when his mother would ask one of the j other children to fix something, they | often said: "Oh, let Andy fix it." And ' his father, too, would sometimes say: "Let Andy fix it. He likes to tinker about and I am busy." So they got in the habit of calling him "Andy Fix-it." And Andy laughed for he thought it Mennonite's Back ^%T&. Aird Heads Tell of Hardships T Radio Commission Paraguay, Will Investigate Merits of f the children" Reach N.Y. on Way to Canada the hadships which have befallen s J'Well, I can't mend an egg-beater j a-nd call that somebody's Christmas 'present," said Andy to himself as he ! sat trying to think of something to ! "And why not?" a voice seemed to ask right inside him. "It would be \ different and it might make people I just as happy as having something new given to them." The idea was so strange and new : ppointment of a Ithat had t0 turn several hand" to investigate the springs before he could go on with it. radio broadcasting Tne more he thought of it the better Quitted recently. It 14 seemed- At last he gave a whoop hn Aird Toronto ' and ran t0 the basement, where there lank of Commerce was a pile ot a11, sorts of things wait-irles A. Bowman. |ing to be repaired. Andy looked them awa Citizen, andi0Ver and put in a separate pile those director of the: that he thought he could mend. Private and National Broadcasting O TOUR ABROAD Then he went on a tour of exploration about the house and made a list of the things he saw that needed fixing. It was surprising how many things he found that wanted a tack or a screw or a bit of wire or a drop of oil or a nut or a nail. The door of "Nancy's doll house was hanging on one hinge. Nell's little chair needed a bit a glue. Tom's skates needed a nut. His mother's reading lamp had a screw missing. The pantry door squeaked. The washing machine needed oiling. Well, well, it wan a long list! Andy began by repairing the pile of things in the basement. When each article was repaired and cleaned and polished, he tied a card on it and placed it in an old trunk in the farthest corner. Then the last few days before Christmas he mended the objects about in the living rooms when no one was looking. People were too busy to miss a squeak in a door and to notice that a screw had been replaced, but they would notice these on Christmas morning. Andy was going to make sure of that. Early on Christmas morning ha slipped down ietairs and put each of the mended articles in its proper place with a card attached which read: , 'Christmas Greetings From Andy Fix-it." Then he put a similar card on Tom's skates where he had replaced a nut, on the doors that had squeaked, on Nancy's doll house door, on his mother's reading lamp where the screw had been missing, on everything in fact which he had repaired. And Andy's Christmas giftc were as welcome as any received that day. Everybody was so happy to have their things in order again. But how they did laugh when they first discovered the droll little cards dotted all over the house, where Andy's clever fingers had made things right. "It was a dear, sweet thought. And nothing could have made Mother happier," his mother told him with a big hug. 'The world needs lots of Andy Mon the relative merits of broad-y privately owned stations or ns operated on the basis of TRIP TO EUROPE. Seek New Wheat Grading Process! The Nativity an Growers Want! Visual Test j xvidoned i and recalled that Ipeos from Williai I the Western Wor! ; the ship she was tendered a purse • $250, which the passengers had colle ied upon hearing of her plight fr ' the purser. This sum will enable ntncu* Canada Asked to Join Parley on Liquor Issue Washington Seeks Conference on the Suppression of Marine. Thirty-two rim-i'i..HTe*i w power of purely local operation. ammission will inquire special-the following questions: , e establishment of one or more of high-powered broadcasting ■ provi the U: lis will take of Drink Export ion will be | Ottawa--The United States has session of aske(| Canada for a conference to 0 per cent., consider an extension of the border ;ration are agreernent of 1924, for the purpose rail. There 0f more effectually suppressing the quor traffic between the two coun-Although reports have been Air Mail Service to Pacific Coast Experiment Will Be Tried at End of Present Month and Service Will be Extended if Test Proves Successful Moi i air i sricultnral inte ;atchewan who Saskatchewa: lion, in its inii Hereby upon a wold, Shepherds watching t The irmers' representatives, who were selected to represent the district at a convention held recently also recommended absolute abandonment of mixing in every form and the establishment of some additional grades, viz, four frosted or five rusted, to take care of grain too good for grade No. 5 and not quite good enough for No. 4. Witnesses testified that in this section the milling value of this year's crop is very high, that is the protein quality> but grades are low because of appearances and "off-weight" and color. Several swore they knew, by tests as well as fact, that local millers are making a fine quality of flour out of number six. This mill product is sold in this terri- that strongly over the manner in which their grain is degraded, as he termed it, by lake-head mixing houses. "This is our wheat. It goes into the private terminals without our consent and is mixed without our permission and the mixers extort a huge revenue from that source," said Mr. Porter. "Then it goes overseas and it is not the same grain we delivered at the lake-head. The ultimate buyer won't pay the price that he would have paid had it been the same wheat that.started from our farm, then the price he is willing to pay is the Liverpool quotation and that quotation on our degraded wheat overseas comes back to Canada and sets the level of prices in turn that the wheat here is sold for, minus the cost of delivery at Liverpool It is an endless chain and .vicious circle w}th the - farmer getting the worst of it and the mixing house owners alone of all concerned reaping rich profits." Chinese Student is Hanged in England Manchester, Eng.--Chung Vi Miao, Chinese law student ■ from New York, was executed at Strangeways jail for the murder of his bride, Wai Sheung-Miao. The young woman was found strangled to death in a wood near Keswick, England, last June shortly after their arrival on a •1st Prophet 1 Na, na, ha 2nd Prophet Yet do I l In what p Betwixt an Jesu this ki Going they did sing, With miiith and solace, the good cheer, For joy of that new tiding, And after as I beard them t< Ho rewarded them full well He granted them heaven thereii dwell, In are they gone with joy and And their song is Noel. There the Prophets go forth.) the ( Flay, Fifti Most l ire quick to embrace an when it's wearing frills. "crraiiate'tr-iu itio-^x^ti mat is being asked to prohibit the export of liquor, or else refuse clearances to liquor cargoes obviously destined for the United States ports, these reports are only guesses, responsible inter-] officials here declare, ivern-j - Wmiam Phillips, United States j Minister to Ottawa, has been in in- i ation: I0rmaj communication with the own- prime Minister, who is also Minister Gov-1 of External Affairs, and his sugges-1 lions are now before the Govern--ation ment in Council, but nothing has been nents. I made pubH, ag yet. It would simplify the situation so far as the United States is concerned if all export liquor trade was stopped. But such a drastic step could only come through an act of the Canadian Parliament, as at present h export is entirely legal. The liquc =rted, is made here, but sold, delivered ! and paid for here, and the purchaser ! assumes whatever risk is attached to attempted shipment across the bor-: der. This valued for the last 12 j | months at nearly $28,000,000. A] 1 large proportion of it as whisky ; destined for the United States. While ! Parliament may think fit to do a j neighborly act and prohibit exports be argued that there is no such pro-! vision in the law of Great Britain, j France or other cuntries, which are I exporters. No reply to the suggested conference has been sent as j yet. but Canada is expected to agree The chief provisions of the treaty as it now stands is for the notification of clearances of liquor-laden vessels and the refusal of clearances, ostensibly to foreign countries, of inotorboats which obviously could not weather the conditions of the high seas. The First Christmas Box While we all use the phrase Christmas box a hundred times at this sea-sou of the year, few are aware of its origin. It was, in the first place, a real box, or, rather, a jar of earthenware in which those who received tips stored them for the Christmas holiday. In a dictionary of the year 1585 we find Christmas box defined as "a mony box made of potter's clay wherein boyes put their mony to keepe, such as they hang in shoppes on toward tween Montreal and Vancouver is promised by the postal authorities if an experiment they contemplate carrying out from December 19 to 29 postmaster for the district of .Vrat- -3f real, told members of the ChambeT of Commerce recently. The inauguration of such a service between here d the Pacific Coast would take 24 urs off the time now required to deliver mail to Vancouver. Mr. Gaudet emphasized the intention of the Federal Government to use this service as a factor in bringing all parts of the Dominion into closer communication. The' Government had committed itself to a policy of providing an air mail Service to settlements which are practically cut off from outside communication during the winter months, he said. The speaker contrasted the difference in the manner mail is delivered to the Island of Anticosti and Seven Islands since the air mail service has1 been introduced. Formerly, these sections of the country had to be served by dog teams, which took 15 days to cover the distance an airplane completes in a few hours. Starts December 19 Starting December 19, the authorities will give temporarily an air mall service from Winnipeg to Regina; from Regina to Calgary, and from Calgary to Edmonton via Saskatoon. In this manner a letter mailed here before 10 o'clock on Monday, leaves for Toronto by plane at 11.15 a.m., and is in Winnipeg by train on Wed-» nesday morning. A half hour latef it leaves for Regina by air and is there before noon. It reaches Cat gary at 4.15 p.m. and is in Edmonton an hour later. A saving of 24 li#urs results. _ -* As regards the international mafj service which commenced on Oct* ber 1, Mr. Gaudet is unable as yel I to produce figures, but at present it , is being more extensively used bj j the inhabitants of the United States than of Canada. The far Bishop Hall mentions n one of his sermons, was "a shame for a rich t till it be broken i American Penetration La Presse (Ind.) It is no more uoli-day nor a little visit of goodwill that Mr. Hoover has gone to make in South America. The new President has gone to get information on the spot and at first-hand about the advantages and economic resources of a continent, the commercial relations of which the United States have assumed an evergrowing importance 6ince the war. . . We must not lose sight of the fact that these very precious advantages have been obtained chiefly to the detriment of Latin-America itself and also of other nations, principally Britain and Germany, during the War ot 1914-1918. Our neighbors, therefore, have not much justification to claim that they got of the great European struggle. Their economic gains in South America stand as proof to the contrary.