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ae TE Pr forn 'at the con story ae ro win peace by isolation. cn of au kot into Canaan (12: 1-8) and also the 1 to the story of the 8 rs to Abram by the _clous faith. Credit should, therefore, be m him for his appreciation of pel. ons tness. The two men had no difficulty in dwelling together until 8 miserable squabble about pro- perty drove them apart. 1. THE DISPUTE, vs. 5-7. Although he had not come to Cun- aan for hope of gain, Abram had bs- come wealthy there, Lot, hie partner, ared in the prosperi the whole The men of the ON Testamens perieved i that devotion to God leads to prosper- ity. Abram's conspicuous wealth would serve to illustrate and confirm that conviction. Now, one of the dan- gers of wealth is that it may sow ihe seeds of discord. As long as Abram and Lot were not too rich, they got slong together amicably. As means increased, however, their rela- tionships became complicated and pre- carious, . They were nomads, shifting at intervals from place to place, and their possessions consisted chiefly of flocks and herds, ample pasturage and Jatarnunply was all important, but as their fl and herds multiplied the supply of water and fodder became quite inadequate. "The land was nov able to bear them." It frequently happens that the increase their flocks and herds Sompels nomadic peo- ples to separate. ickerings aross among the herdsmen about the rights to pasture-lands and wells, and the dispute, once kindled, spread to their masters, A significant touch is given to the narrative in the statement that the Canaanite (who lived in walled towni) and the Perizzite (country- folk living in open villages) dwelt then in the land. It was a scandal that Abram and Lot, both committed to i.e high adventure of faith, should Juarte) before their heathen neigh- 8, II. A GENEROUS PROPOSAL, vs. 8, 9. Abram now rose to the full stature of his 'moral greatness. "His calm, strong figure," says Strachan, "rebuk- ed all petty feelings. In the midst of strife he was tranquil and self- possessed, his speech was gentle end courteous," First, he condemned strife, especially when, as in their case, the sacred ties of kinship should bind them together. Then he propos- ed that peace should bs maintained hy separation. The patriarchs were men of neace, although the world around them was continually aflame with strife and war, Their principle was to If one can- not live amicably with another, then it is better to separate from him. The Christian principle, we believe, is higher--to turn one's foe into a friend by the way of self-sacrifice. Abram's proposal involved him in a great re- nunciation. As the older of the two, he could have claimed the right to the first choice of the land, but this right he generously waived aside. III, A FATEFUL DECISION, vs. 10-18. In contrast to Abram, Lot was self- ish and covetous--a man who had his eye upon 'worldly success. It never occurred to him forthwith to concede to Abram the choicer portion of the land. From the elevation at Bethel where thev stood (v. 8) the two en- joyed a wide outlool: over the land; on the west rose the austere highlands of Judah and on the east, below them, lay the fertile valley of the Jordan. To the covetorns Tot the plain of the Jordan resembled, in fertility, the Garden of Eden or Egypt, where har- vests are uniformly good from the . invndation of, or irrigation from, the Nile. So Lot chose the Jordan vailey. His decision was made without con- sideration of the character of, the - neighbors among whom he would live. For the Jordan valley was known, not alone for the fertility of its soil, but for the' great wickedness of its in- MUTT AND JEFF-- | Brazilian inds tino; Brazil --A diamond of the | fabulous size, the largest ever found in Brazil, has been dug up by a pros- pector near here. The diamond, | weighing 574 carats, is one of the largest in the world. A Rio de Jan- '| eiro broker offered $80,000 for the stone but the prospector was veported to have rejected the offer, A diamond of 574 carats is of ex- traordinary size. The largest av found in the Kimberley mines Africa weighed 442 carats, and the largest found in the de Beers minas, 503 carats. The largest diamond ever found was the famous Cullinan, in South Africa, which was of 3024 car- '|ats. It was presented to King Ed- wardVII and was cut up into smaller stones to be added to the c: jew- els. No diamond even remotely ap- proaching it in size has been found. In several instances, however, ia- n:onds weighing more than 500 carats in the rough have been found. They are invariably reduced considerably in cutting. ---- their | Soviet Unable to Satisfy Demand for Amusements Moscow. -- Despite intensive con- struction of theatres, motion picture houses hnd circuses, the demand for tickets all over the country far ex- ceeds the supply. In the capital long lines of theatre lobbies have become an almost permanent feature. The queues stretch from the box office into the street. Statistics recently made public indi- cate the speed with which public in- terest mn theatrical entertainment has developed. Figures for the Russian Federation of Republics (which in- cludes some 90 per cent. of the total population) follow: Theatre attendance: 000; 1931--70,000,000. Motion picture attendance: 473,000,000; 1931--817,000,000. Circus attendance: 1930--5,000,000; 1931-8,000,000- ence fe 6,000-Year-Old Relics 1930 -- 30,000, 1930-- which lived in the Deccan 6,000 years skill 'and attained a considerable de- gree of culture have been discovered Nn the Chandravalli valley near Chitaldrug. Six different levels, each making a ground surface on which an ancient people once lived, were revealed by excavations. The most recent strata was 800 years old; the lowest marked the level of 6,000 years ago. In this lowest strata the pottery and other relics of Stone and Iron Ages were found. The Stone Age relics were ornate, with geometrical, floral j and other designs. The discoveries | are considered to indicate a degree of i culture equal to that of the Campig- 'nian of France and Get Ulan of | Africa. eee fe ere. Soviet Students Face Pay Cut for Failures Tashkent, U.8.8.R. -- Soviet college students who cut classes and flunk | examinations soon may find literally that it does not pay. Setting a course: which other institution are expected to follow, the Middle Asia State Uni- versity here has abolished the system of equal pay for all students in favor of one measured by work they acecom- plish. College students in the Soviet Union are paid by the state so that they may defray their living expenses while studying. The salary ranges from $50 monthly for single men and women up to twice that amount for married stu- dents. By BUD FISHER -- Photo shows Margaret Quinn, the eleven-year-old schoolgirl, who reached the semifinal in the women's snooker championship held in _ England, recently. ! water given to the same mass of soll . Why Plants Die rt : : . The clay pot, as used by the florist In Modern Homes on a moist surface such as cinders. soil 3 or sand, draws most of its moisture Experiment Proves Tin Cans|from the moist surface on which the : . pot rests and only a fraction from the Used in Grandmother's moisture within the pot. This process Day Are Best keeps the pores of the pot filled with moisture. 'When water is added to the Our grandmothers were right. They a ist | grew plans in tin: cans; some: surface of the soil in pots on a mols | world's highest-priced mist, condenses ! times punching holes in the bottoms of the cans for drainage. A window in a stuffy kitchen or a chilly room was their greenhouse, To-day, with our bettered home conditions, there are very few people who can buy a luxuri- antly growing plant from a florist and keep it healthy in well-heated, well ventilated, well-lighted homes. plants as ferns and begonias soon turn yellow and die back to a skeleton framework of stalks and stems, The more resistant plants, such as rubber bed, the water may be all absorbed by the soll mass and not shared by the clay pot. If clay pots must be used in the home, they should rest on a moist sur- face, a practice similar to that of the florist. This condition is easily met by filling the saucer with moist sphagnum moss, This sphagnum moss is the type utilized by florists for holding flowers in wreathes and it is relatively inex- pensive compared with the price pald for potted plants. Are Unearthed'in India Mysore, India.--Relics of a race ago, made pottery with remarkable | Painting clay pots, inside and out- plants and: aspidistra, "may appear side, makes this type of pot more prac- healthy for a long time, yet they grow tical for home grown plants. The but slowly, {fiat all, ! paint, by filling up the pore spaces, Now we know why our grandmoth- gestroys the evaporating surface and ers could grow good plants. It Was makes the pot more ornamental as because of the non-porous tin can. An wei. A pot may be porous or non- investigation, conducted by the depart- porous without any injury occurring ment of botany at the Massachusetts ¢, the plant if cultural practices are State College in Amherst has revealed ' adapted to the type of pot. When non- some interesting facts about plant con- porous containers are used, less fre- tainers, . : quent watering shoull be the practice Lower Soil impoverished --with the added caution that the The clay pot, kept on a moist soil by plant in such containers should never the commercial grower of plants, is | be watered if the soil is wet to the very satisfactory because it is on a|touch. The non-porous pot is adapt: moist surface. In the house the pot-| able to home and office culture of or- ted plants are on a dry surface, usual- ly a saucer. The pot itself is evapor-|one is present to care for the plants ating moisture into the afr, an air over a week-end or holiday. which, during the colder months, is; Plant containers of glass, metal and probably drier than the atmosphere of rubber have been used with consider- Death Valley. Though water is added ably more success in homes and offices to the potted plant as a daily chore, it than the clay flower pot. The better is not sufficient to make up the total distribution of soil moisture in the amount lost by evaporation from the non-porous containers is equaled only wall of the pot. This water added to by the clay pot on moist sphagnum the surface of the soil penetrates moss. With such containers, attention through the uper third of the soll and and care in watering are considerably then gradually is drawn to the absorb- lessened. The plants will survive the ing wall of the pot. week-end absence from the office, and The lower third of the pot still de- in the home we may have more luxuri- mands water to make up for that evap. 20t plants.--Linus H. Jonés in N.Y. orated and continues to draw upon the 'Herald-Tribune. soil molsture in the lower section of rr mtn the soil until the moisture is entirely withdrawn. The soil in this section be-| Wave Organ Made . comes powder dry and the active root By Electric Hums Belleville, Ont.--After seven years ,System in thig region dies. The des- n truction of an important part of the of experimenting, Mr. Morse Robb root system is necessarily felt by the announces he has perfected a small foliage part of the plant, which dies wave organ which he said has the back in proportion to the destroyed power of the largest pipe organ, but feeding roots. ocupies only about as much room as ! The Non-porous Container an ordinary wing desk. ith Grandmother, with her tin can plant Demonstrating Bis gan, Pe a t container, had no such worry about | 50m of Mr. W. D. Robb, a in the uneven distribution of moisture in °f the Canadian National Railways, the soll: There was no evaporating explained that this invention is one wall to dissipate: the water intended | Which produces musical tones from | for the plant. The water added to the electrically induced vibrations rather surface of the Soil was soon evenly than from blowing air through pipes. distributed throughout the soil mass. It Will play like an ordinary organ And, furthermore, grandmother dig console with manuals, pedals and not have to water the plants every SWPS. day, for the soil in such containers ca dries out very slowly and requires, per One discreet enemy is better than | week, but about half the amoynt of two indiscreet friends. namental plants, particularly so if no f Richest of Mists New York.--Platinum is caused to evaporate like water by a discovery announced from the California Insti- Po, probably: the into p thin films upon a wide variety of materials. It coats them virtually permanently. 2 Smoother than dew it will cover fibres, converting them into pliant, filmy threads that seem made of pure platinum, These threads are prized as wires for various" instru- ments. A Midas might even be able to pay for a platinum gown. The process was developed by Dr. John Strong, national research fellow, who reports it in the Physical Review, a natural scientific journal. Formerly the nearest approach to platinum mist has been the process of "sputtering," in which the molten metal is reduced to minute droplets and sprayed like paint. Dr. Strong produced evaporation in a vacuum by a slight change of ineth- ods which had failed. The hea: is supplied by a wire or filament of tungsten, one of the metals with a higher melting point than platinura. The failures occurred when platinum was laid in the glowing tungsten coil, Apparently too much heat was lost in the small space separating the metals. So Dr, Strong tried electroplating the platinum directly upon the tung- sten wire and that worked to perfec- tion. U.S. Expands Helium Plant To Meet Increasing Needs Amarillo, Tex.--Since the Federal government has gone into the building of lighter-than-air craft in earnest, the United States helium plant aear Amarillo has been remodelled to in- crease production and improve the quality of gas. The first plant unit, in operation four years, has been rebuilt to increase it capacity 50 per cent. and now embodies improvements made when a second uhit was constructed two years ago. Bureau of Mines officials told Con- gress in 1928 that the first unit would produce 10,000,000 cubic feet a year. The purity of helium produced at the plant never fall below 98 per cent., compared with 94 to 96 per cent. at the old Fort Worth plant in 1926-- and improvement which means an in- crease of about two tons in the lifting power of a dirigible like the Akron. More than 9 per cent. of the helium content of the natural gas, which is about 1.76 per cent, is being re- covered. With the Macon, now under con- struction, and the Akron in operation, the Army and Navy will need about 20,000,000 cubic feet of helium a year, compared with a present capacity of the Amarillo plant of about 86,000,000 eet. moi ican Brazil Trains Athletes For First Olympic Entry Rio De Janiero.--For the first time Brazil is turning an interested eye to- ward international sports participa- tion and in particular is evincing a de- termination to compete in the Olympic gees in Los Angeles, Colif., next August. The Brazilian Sports Federation, representing the fourteen major ath- letic clubs in Brazil, has appealed 'o athletes for early training so that a strong delegation may be sent to com- pete in all Olympic divisions. Spartan rules have been laid down for the se- lection of athletes. Each athlete must submit to an examination before a special committee, He must prove himself not only physically fit but must show a high psychological rat- ing. He must be in "top form" by June 15, when examinations will be held. Indications are that 3,000 ath- letes will seek positions on the team. ---- A mtn Penny for Debts San Salvador, Salvador.--Childran in all schools of the Republic of Sal- vador will contribute one penny each week to aid the Government in wip- ing out its foreign debt under a plan just announced. -- Landlady--"How do you like this room, as 8 whole, sir?" New Lodger-- | "As a hole it's all right; as a room not so good." mamta BY ANNEBELLE WORTHINGTON. Hlustrated Dre Lesson Fur- ssmaking nished With Every Pattern ~ 9 on I Sen, Just a glance at this new model and you can see how beautifully over- weight has been disguised. It has the long V-slimming bodice arrangement, graceful sleeves and cleverly cut skirt with bias hip seam- ing. It is carried out in printed and plain crepe silk. It's a style that also adapts itself perfectly to the supple woolens, so im- portant in the smart woman's ward- robe. You'll like it especially in black diagonal woolen with vest of beige wool crepe. Style No. 2644 is designed for sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust. Size 36 requires 3% yards of 39-inch material with 3% yard of 35-inch con- tr..ating. You can also carry out the chic viack and white scheme in canton crepe. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20¢ in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it .carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. fp Australia Plans State Radio For Cultural Broadcasting Sydney, Australia--A novel plan for the broadcasting of high class edu- cational and entertainment programs is contemplated by J. W. Fenton, Post- master-General of Australia, when the new broadcasting commission gets into its stride. A bill authorizing the Common- wealth to take over control of all broadcasting in Australia is now be- fore Parliament and is expected to de passed. Fenton said that when the rew commission was formed every effort would be made to establish sep- arate designated stations which would broadcast the most important literary, scientific and other intellectual dis- cussions, along with the highest class of music including selected programs from England for rebroadcasting. meee Ameer 'Canade's Art Toronto.--Canada has truly an art her own, Fred S. Haines, curator of the Toronto Art Gallery, told the Board of Trade Club in an address here on art as a philosophy of life. "Art," he said, "should be an expres- sion of the people and of the times." A Flower a Day Keeps the Date Away. ------ Al 0 IT NEVER SAW HER- BUT "SHG TOLD MG SHe would RECOGNIZE ME BY THe WHITE CARNATION. HEM: MAYBE SHe's Got A, SISTER. Theres A GUY WITHoWT™ EXCEPTION? WHY sHoulD You Be AN To Londoners the sound of Bow ; Bells would be missed. of Big Ben booming its the historical bells of other cities and villages, both chimes have become as- soclated with the daily life of the com- munities that hear them. They are counted on, like good friends, on both sad and glad occasions. Since early times, bells everywhere have summoned brides to church, the devout to prayer, the populace to war, A composer wove into a piece of music the variant tones of church bells he heard across a valley in France, and called it "The Valley of the Church Bells." Poets have traced their in- spiration to the bells of some humble chapel on a river's brink. Thomas Moore wrote: Bells as musical As those that, on the golden shafted trees Of Eden, shook by the eternal breeze. Did he draw his theme from the Koran, which relates that bells hang- ing on the trees of Paradise are set in motion by wind "from the throne of God as often" as the blessed wish for music?" As the "curfew tolled the knell of parting day," so for ages have village bells knelled for the welfare of a de- parting soul. Once they were held potent against all evils. No longer ago than 1852 the Bishop of Malta ordered the church bells to be rung for an hour "to lay a gale of wind." In France up to a decade or two ago it was not un- usual to ring church bells to ward off lightning. Bells signaled seasons and fetes. There were the Pancake Bell, the Har- vest and Seeding Bells, the Oven Bell, The Oven Bell was rung once a week on the day when the Mayor prepared his spacious facilities for the baking of the villagers' bread. At the sum- mons, each housewife took up her bread pan and hurried with it to the central oven. The Pancake Bell still rings in certain villages of Europe on Shrove Tuesday to summon the forget- ful to confession. The Seeding Bell tells when it is time for the farmer to plant; the Harvest Bell sounds warn. ing to prepare for threshing. While church bells were heard in France before chimes were hung in Whitby Abbey in' England (the year 680), it was not until the eleventh cen- tury that Switzerand and Germany be- gan to regard the bell as a useful fac- tor in community life. Later, "he who commanded the bell commanded the town." The bell-ringers were persons of importance, heralds of good and bad tidings. There was cast in Moscow the largest bell in the world, It was known before the revolution as the Czar's or Monarch's Bell. This 202-ton giant, nineteen feet high, cracked be- fore it left the foundry and was never hung. Made of gold, silver and copper alloys in 1653, it was one of the trea~ sures of the age. Two hundred years afterward the bell was placed upon a granite base and converted into a little chapel--the break in the casting form- ing a doorway. For church use, Mos- {cow molded another bell. It is this | 128-ton bell that is heard to-day with "other chimes in the city beside the | River Moskva, where church bells, un- , der the Soviet, each month grow fewer, Burma has a 117-ton gong. Peiping has its fifty-three-ton chime. Paris in Notre Dame and Vienna in St. have bells weighing eigh- Stephen's teen tons. Montreal ranks next with a twelve-ton bell. The bell at St. Peter's in Rome is of eight tons. Many bells are known by name, as Great Tom in Oxford which was cast in 1681, and Great Paul in St. Paul's. Big Ben was named for Sir Benjamin Hall, president of the Board of Public Works in 1851, when the new Houses of Parliament were completed. He was a big 'man with a grand voice, which he used effectively f carry through plans for buildings and bell.-- Diana Rice in N.Y. Times Magazine. Smtr Marconi to Help Build Television Santa Margherita, Italy.--Signor Guglielmo Marconi, who announced recently that he had made successful tests of a new short-wave raliotele- phone, disclosed that he is turn- ing his attention to television. "I expect soon," he said, "to be able to see my family in New York while I speak with them by wireless telephone." The new short-wave telephone will have its first practical application with an installation for Pope Pius be- tween the Vatican and his sumer home at Castel Gandolfo. There also will be a commercial installation be- tween Naples and Capri. The service will be used for communication with Italy's island possessions, with ships and airplanes. It should be useful, said Signor Marconi, for averting ship collisions or in the fog. i redline Town Plants 15,000 Trees Santa Clara Calif.--The city is di- precting the planting of 15,000 shade trees at a ranch near here. When they are ready for distribution they will be given to property owners with. work. The to plant along all of its streets, from the Houses of Parliament. Like