The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

* me, which advance publicity prom. HAVE: WINGS RESEMBLING: THIS CURIOUS WORLD 3% (N THE UNITED STATES, IT IS POSSIBLE: NOW TO CUT NO MORE LUMBER FOR HOME CONSUMPTION : : : ; RED hail is caused by fine dust in the atmosphere, blown up from red soil, and frozen into the hailstones. Red rain and snow have been quité common occurrences in the past few years, when ~ved soil from the Oklahoma dust phere by high winds, bowl was carried into the atmos. NEXT: Are the most skillfdl automobile drivers the safest? [RADIO REPORTER i: rom Do you like detective storles, the kind which are full of under- giound intrigue,- mystery and thrills? A new series. "Inspector Hawkes," will commence next Tuesday over CFRB Toronto, 7.45 p.m., and thereafter will be on the air every Tuesday, Wednes. - day and Thursday. This program- ises will prove as exciting as any detective stories ever heard over the radio, replaces the pop- ular favourite "Easy Aces" which recently was turned into a half hour show heard over American stations only. 4 -- On "January 12th, one of Can- ada's most popular programmes, Treasure Trail, celebrated its 7th birthday. The announcement was made that this big audience fea- ture will continue throughout 1944. During the time it has been on the air, Treasure Trail has played to studio - audiences of 125,000 and has given away In cash as telephone prizes a total fot $30,000. The only original member of the cast is jovial Mas-, ter of Ceremonies Alan Savage. Treasure Trail will continue to be heard Wednesday nights at 8.30 over CFRB and a network of On- tario stations. Another - opportunity for housewives to make "Easy Pick- in's" continues every Wednesday 'afternoon 2.30, CFRB Toronto in 1944. Since this programme has been on the air it has given away $3,800 to studio and air audi ences, as well as providing the - answers to many household mys- terles and problems. and a great deal of fun, plus in recent pro- gramnies the music of Marjorie "Dalnes. That radlo-is helping to balance SEA COMMANDER Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, above, Britain's first sea lord, will have an fim- portant role in supervising land. ng of Allied armies invading Europe from the west. As: sea' commander under General Eisen hower in North Africa, he direct. ed landings in Morocco, Algeria, Sicily and Italy 'and is consid. i a likely choice as naval chief for the new 'second front" com. the family budget in many Ca- nadian homes is to be seen also in the case of money-making "Spin to Win," the 8.30 to 9 p.m. Ontarlo network feature which originates from CFRB every Monday. The cash distributign to the studio and air audience aver- aged $250 to $300 a week through. out 1943. The first cash prize to the air audience of "Spin to Win" in 1944 went to an Allandale res- ident, -the mother of ten chil- dren, who earned the wherewithal to make certain she got away to a good start for the New Year. The show will continue to provide fun, interost and cash along the MId- way of 1944. The noon hour audience of CFRB is now brightened. by the inclusion of a new Monday-Wed- nesday-Friday serles of program- mes, 1 to 1.15, featuring Roland Todd at the Novachord, Marjorie -Daines at the plano and Gurney Tidmarsh at, the bass viol with Gordon Calder singing. and an- nouncing. Features of the pro- graniine, extra to the novel in. strumental group, are musical weather reports and a top tune for each day. A momory tune presented on each programme 'provided the opportunity for the radio audience of this featurs - to earn cash prizes. A highlight for Saturday after noon radio listeners 1s the ser- fes of broadcasts from the- Met- ropolitan Opera House. Through- out Its current season, John "Charles Thomas will be the fda- tured singer. ? British And U. S. ~ Farmers Compared A good harvest of comments was reaped recently by British --newspaper men who 'interviewed three American farmers who had travelled 5,000 miles in Britain. Oscar Henline of Marcus, Iowa, said: "The British farmer fis fonder of work than we are. He will walk behind a machine. We won't." Robert J, , Howard of Sher- burne, N.Y., said: "I take off my hat tg your land girls; they are wonderful." Earl Robinson of Mondovi, Wis., said a Scottish farmer had financed part of their trip when they ran out of cash, "Hitler First" - Two Chinese proverbs express the differing opinions 'on whether 'the Allies should undertake to whip Germany or Japan first, In- formation Minister Ligng Han- chao sald recently, hig! He said the "Hitler first" stra- tegy reminded him of the proverb 'to capture a band of thisves you must capture thelr leader." ° But there is another proverb, ha pointed out, which says "When you want-to shoot a rider, shoot his horse first." The Chinese re- gard Hitlerite Germany as the rider, Japan as the horse, 1t takes nearly threo pounds of gasoline to deliver one pound of Chronicles Of Ginger Farm . Blwendoline P. Clarke 'After over four years of war Isn't it wonderful to start a new year with a really definite hope that this is to be th¢ year of vic- tory? Oh, yes, I know we have "hoped" that same thing before but we hoped because we were afraid-to do anything else -- but there was very: little conviction behind the hope, wasn't there? ~But now we' ¢an feel the end of the European war is in sight any- way. The Allied forces are ready to strike and I am sure everyone feels, that, however great the price, victory is assured. And doesn't that thought spur you on to greater effort? Don't you actually feel--*'Well, what does this matter, or that matter, so long as I have more opportun- ity to do things--to go without things--that will help our boys = along and bring them home again that much quicker?" . . * - And just think how Mother Nature is helping us out and making things so much easier! No matter how much snow and cold weather we have from now on'it can't be as bad as it was last year because it will have started later. And how this mild weather has helped the fuel sit- uation, Sure it is still bad enough but it could 'be a whole lot worse, And it has its funny side too, Have you ever been in town after any one of the coal deal- ers has received a carload of coal? It was quite funny the other day to watch the trucks buzzing here and there like so many bees around a hive. Big trucks, small trucks.or any kind of - truck the dealer could get hold of to unload the car and make coal deliveries to the cus- tomers anxiously and hapefully awaiting their turn, Down from the station came the trucks with their precious loads -- one ton, half a ton or whatever it might be. In 'a little while the empty trucks would go rattling by again' and up to the station for -an- other load. It looked as if the truck-drivers "vere just as anx- ious to get coal to the people as the people were to get the coal, LJ . * And isn't it nice, now the hus. tle-bustle of Christmas and New Year is over, to get down to our ordinary everyday life? The mail comes along at the Tight time; work that we had put on one side "until after Christmas" can be brought out again; re- ceipted bills can be sorted out and put away for safe keeping; and we might even take time now to read the daily paper and keep ourselves abreast of the "times! * . LJ We had a friend staying here last week just for a day and what a time she had! She had to be taken around to see the horses, the cows, the poultry and even the barnyard. cats, And she wasn't above looking at Elmer either, She wanted to know how much milk this cow gave and which heifer was thie daughler of which' cow, and she was especial ly interested in "old Ciceiy's" record. Cicely is nineteen years old and still going strong. How- ever Cicely is going out before long -- s6 you may meet a bit of her if you buy some bologna about three months from now! Then there was the poultry -- how many eggs from this pen, how many from that? - Where . was the garden going to be this year and did we get that wood off the farm? Finally we settled _down in the living-room--she with her quilt blagks and I with my knitting, and I think we both had a very enjoyable time. You see our visitor was a retired farm woman and I guess to a person who has been born and raised on a farm there fs nothing he or: she likes better than to get back, it only: for a few hours, to all the things that they knew and loved in the past. That Is, If they did love farm life. There are others, of course, born on a farin, who would do anything rather than go back to it. We must live democracy, as well 'as believe it; in order to have it. TEACHES IN PARABLES January 23 > PRINTED TEXT, Mark 4:19, : ¥ 26-32, GOLDEN TEXT.--If any man hath ears to 'hear, let him hear. Mark 4:23, Memory Verse: God , .. careth for you. 1 Peter 5:7. THE LESSON IN (TS SETTING Time.--All of the discourses of our - lesson were uttered in the autumn of AD, 28. 2 Place.--The discourses were all delivered around the shores of the sea of Galilee. Parable of the Sower "And again he began to teach by the sea side. And there is gathered unto him a very great multitude, so that he entered into a boat, and sat in' the sea; and all the multitude were by the sea on the land, And he taught them many things In parables. and said unto them In his teaching." A parable is a short moral or rellgious story of which the moral lesson is the substance. Parables have always been popular in the East. The rahbis commonly began, to teach the young disciple In parables. Our Lord reversed their method. He began by the simple words of the Sermon on the Mount, then a change came, and He spoke In, parable when He found the hardheartedness of the people. . The 'Sower and The Seed "Hearken: Belold, the sower went forth to sow." The seed is, as the account of this parable . JESUS - Indicates, nothing less thap the very Word of God. As we shall see later, the Word has lite, as a ~ seed has life, and therefore fit fs able, to produce .,something living in the hearts where it is Implant. ed, By The Way Side "And it came to pass. as he . sowed, some seed fell by the way side, and the birds came and de- voured {t." The parable here pre. sents nothing unusual. It is simp- ly the picture of a man in Pales- tine with a bag of seed over his shoulder, casting the seed until the field is sown. Some of the seed naturally . will fall by the way side, that is, on a beaten path where the ground is hard, and where the seed cannot grow. As the seed 1s only safe from fowl when buried in the soil, so is the - Word of life only safe agalnst evil when it has sunk deep down into our hearts. On Rocky Ground "And another fell on thie rocky ground, where It had not much earth; and straightway it sprang up. because it had no deepness of _ earth: and when the sun was ris- en, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away." Nearness to the warm surface in- duced rapid growth, but it also led to the shortening of the young plant's life. The shallowness of _the soil did not permit the plant to develop its roofs. So with men, the same shallowness of ' ture which made them susceptizie to the gosvel and quickly respons- ive, makes them susceptible to pain, suffering, hardship. and easily defeated. It is so in all de- partments of life. Among The Thorns "And others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit." These thorns our Lord lik- ens to the cafes of the world, and the deceitfulness . of riches, and the lusts of other things. The idea here is that whoever lets these worries fill his heart will. surely smother the "word he has heard, for this deals with higher interests. . Into Good Ground "And others fell into the good ground. and ylelded fruit, grow- ing up and increasing; and brought - forth, _thirtyfold, and sixtyfold, and a hundredfold." When lite Is done some show a harvest. Some never let. the word in, some never let it root, some never let it grow up. Like all the Scripture revelations of man's sin- tul state, this one too alms at the consclence dnd repentance, thus opening the soul for gospel. The more it. is dpened 'the more fruit will there be in the end. -liken- the kingdom of God? or fn + the earth, yet - great power of the devil, St EAR ly RY wsdl ctrisennin dois prince avid saab phe AY EER AAR Shown here are hosts and guests at a Christmas party held in Ttaly by Canadian troops for chil. dren 6f an Italian kindergarten. SCOUTING... Nearly 14,000 proficiency badges were earned by the Wolt Cubs of Canada last year. . . . Brigadier Alfred Keith, Young People's setretary of the Salva. tion Army, reports that every Boy Scout Leader In the Salvation Army has enlisted except one who is medically untit. Every one has 'been replaced and Scout membership has been increased by 13 per cent. . . . . Toronto's 61st Boy Scout Troop has a unique record of enlist. ments in the armed forces. In the Sea Scout section, every eligible Scout, together with Scoulmaster William Fowler has joined the Canadian Navy as he became old enough. The land _Scouts. have an equally good rec- ord with two Scoutmasters, 11 as- sisfant Scoutmasters, and 24 Scouts joining the army or air force. In all 76 boys have gone Into the forces from this Troop, The Warning "And he said, Who hath ears to hear, let him hear." This Is rather a call to attention than an appeal to spiritual discernment, and yet such an appeal is natural- ly implied. » "And he sald, So is the kingdom of Cod, as if a man should cast seed upon the carth; and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he knoweth not how." The earth is only the medium in which the seed grows. It has no life and can produce no life; all the life Is in the seed. The seed must be brought to the earth by the will - of someone. So is the human heart. The word must be cast into it by another. must lodge there and grow; then that heart has spirit- ual life in it,-the living Word. ! The Harvest The earth beareth frult ot her- self; first the blade,! then the ear, then the full graiiin the ear. But when the frult is ripe, straightway he putteth forth the sickle, because 'the harvest {1s come." This teaches that when all that the Word of God is In- tended to accomplish on earth in this age has been accomplished, the harvest time will come when the Saints of God--whl--be-taken home. Christ's "And "he sald, Kingdom How shall we what parable shall we set It forth? It is like a grain of mus. tard sced which, when is Is sown upon the earth, though It be less than all the seeds that are upon when it is sown, groweth up, and becometh greater than all the herbs, and putteth out great branches; so that 'the birds of the heaven can lodge under the shadow thereof." Christ's kingdom shall attract multitudes by the shelter and pro- tection which It offers, shelter from "worldly oppression and the every one enlisting without being er they visited the R.S.S. Discovs called up, ery, in which Capt. Scott safled . . »3 to the South Pole.. The Discovery Ralph Moses, McLeol, Alberta," is now- owned by the Boy Scout Wolt Cub fs the first Wolf Cub [| Association and fs used as a in Canada to be awarded the training ship for Sea Scouts. Cornwell Decoration, the Victoria Cross of Scouting. the Shriters' Hospital fn Winnl- peg for several years, and under- going several painful operations- he has continued his Cub training and has gained Two Star rank, Confined to Britain Still Finds Room For Refugees Britain seems to be doing {ta part "int finding homes for refu. . * . gees, says the Sault Star. Sixty Surrounded by hundreds of tro- thousand no n-British refugees phies and souvenirs of the late hive been admitted to various Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the parts of the United Kingdom Boy Scout Movement, Canadian. | since; May, 1940, and they still Scouts ln the armed forces fn are deriving at the rate of 800 Britain have' formed a Canadian | a wofith, the Foréign Office has Overseas Rover Scout ('rew. They Baden-Powell's Headquarters n met fu Ingerial don. In a body Westminster Abbey where were welcomed by disclosed. room at Lon- being removed they attended and South they the Dean. Lat- a The announcement said 40,000 Polish refugees were from Iran to East Africa, India, Pales. tine_and Mexico through efforts sof the governments concerned. EARTH-PIG HORIZONTAL 1 Pictured animal, TIt is a em, 12 Flock ot animals, 14 Not good. 15 Symbol for cobalt. 17 Beverages. 18 Encounter, 20 Plural (abbr.) 21 Spherical bod y. 23 Musical instrument. 25 Babylonian deity. 26 Editor (abbr.) 28 Ordeal. 29 Attitudinizes. 32 Short-napped fabric. 34 Bordered (bot.). 35 Sorrowful. 36 Pertaining to the ileum. 37 Two hundred and one (Roman). ~ cinder. Answer to Previous Puzzle ant RIAL KI [NIG S <I»Z m=|T R PA IZIO) Qi>M zImZ EER H ec W 0 R E Som] [»ma] ZI =O -- |K 0/0 OCC ZM 3 -- EOE 5m Hebd -- ADL RAL © Bn BE mE MEI T M0 --] [ 0 R S (%] TIMC OINIA > OW] IME --CI0 DMT ri--I|--Z| NN = of E 39 Arabic (abbr.) 40 Endured. 42 Pronoun. VERTICAL 1 Doing. 2 Royal Dra- 44 Ladler. goons (abbr.), 46 Eccentric 3 Measure, wheel. 4 Unit of 49 Weihin, electromotive 50 Burn to a force. o 5 Turn aside. 6 Reanimators, 8 Instigate. 9 Grow thick 51 At a distance, 53 Behold! 54 Life (comb. form). together, 55 Dogma. 10 Doctor of 57 Sorts. Medicine 58 Mockers. (abbr.). 4 6 11 Soothe, 13 Dispassionate, 16 Either, 19 Elongated fish. 20 Measure, 22 Bedaub, 24 My (Italian), 27 Preclude, 30 Lubricate, 31 Algonquian Indian, 33 Bustle, 38 Dove's cry, 40 Health, resort. 41 Delay. ' 43 Half an em. 44 Foot covering, 45 Hindu queen, 47 Indian mul- berry, 48 Swamp, 50 Chief, 52 Color. 54 The soul (Egypt.). 56 Symbol for telturium, 10 I] -POP--Then Why Is She Masquerading? By J. MILLAR WATT mand. hombs to the objective. YOu OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES- PLAYING RED. INDIANS LIKE A LOT OF SCHOOLBOYS