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C. PRATT, M. D. (Physician and Surgeon) Office and residence on Main ie two blocks west of postofifice. Phone 228. ” pr. JAMES MOORE (Physician and Surgeon.) Office Main St., Listowel, up Schin- bein's stairway. Medical representative of Soldiers’ civjl re-establishment, whereby diers get free paeaa for one year after discharg ; Phone 17. DR, F. J. R. FORSTER, i Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in medicine, University of Toronto. Late assistant ‘ew York Ophthal-| mic and Aural lustitute, Moorefield’s @ and iden Square Throat Hos- pitals, London, En At the Arlington Hotel, Listowel, on Wednesday March 2nd, from 10 a. m. to 4 p.m. ‘ 63 Waterloo St. Stratford. Phone 267 DR. RK. F. PARKER Osteopathic Physician and Ophthal- mologist. All diseases treated. Eyes tested. Glasses fitted. Hours 9 a. m. to 8 p. m- Office over TOnmainSe's jewelry store. W. F. McLAUGHLIN Embalmer and funeral Director. Graduate of Canadian embalming school. 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CRAND TRUNK SAE Double Track - Route between MONTREAL TORONTO DETROIT CHICAGO Unexcelled Dining Car Service. ‘Sleeping cars on, night trains and parlor cars on principal day trains. Full information from any Grand Trank Ticket agent or C. E. Horning District Passenger Agent, Toronto. people. is too important. It is too Masud dimeriean in its sapiens tion : : The first thing a2 intelligent rd “It will be gi emaen te. pre- serve a weekly day of rest with- out an appeal to the “4 pricigie. and I regard day as the corner stone of eivil- ization.” ——Benjamin Disraeli The Sunday question has recently received new prominence, buf any- one who has practiced the art of ob- servation, during the past two de- -cades must be aware that it has been We have fallen into the stupid habit of thinking that a problem is not a problem until the newspapers take it-up; but. real problems usually an date and outlive ne per disc ion, as the Sunday snantien carteiuly will do. A great deal that has been said a- bout Sunday freedom and Sunday ob- servance may forthwith be put aside, because, it means nothing, and its only effect, whether its pur: so or not, is to darken counsel with words: Likewise many of the debaters can be put out of court. : The minister] who wants to swagger as a “liberal” and gain the cheap applause of the enemies of the Sabbath a letting 80 that he is not straight about it; the Sabbath Pb slags who seeks to gain his point by poking fun and making scurrilous jests against the people who religiously observe the day—these are two who may be tak- -en by the collar first, and shown the ‘door. There are others whe will wisely follow of their own accord. The Sunday question shall not he.mede, “a “popular topic” with such ser of man should do is to fix his mind at- tentively on the fact of Sunday. It is one of those miracles and myster- ies which are too close to us for prop- er app He Sia The . That Divides.ithe Weeks One who comes a stranger to our shores from the great countries of the Orient receives his deepest and most abiding impression, not from ‘the week days’ rush and roar, ae the miraculous suddenness which it ceases One Day in iho ‘Six days of buying and selling, rush ing and crushing, making the news and circulating the news, hearing law- suits, fighting political campaigns,| so and following the noisy multitude/ of other activities that make up our liv: ays of energy and tur- moil, of dust and clatter, of achieve- “ment . def ence! drawn in store windows. schedules reduced. Schools and col~ 1 crit Courts Newspaper offices still. vba sient: with kets empty. Working clothes laid a- side: The morning whistle hushed: Between the weeks a Day—and| why is it there? Did you vote for it? Did Your party propose it? Did: your govemmment add it to the list of the inalienable rights of man? «~~ ere is the weekly rest-day: con- sider it. How did it come there? Do you know? ’ The year is marked by Nature. The seasons are marked by Nature. The month is marked by Nature. But! ~ you will not find the Week in Nature. This custom of counting by seven days, where did it originate? Learn- ed men have dodged round the ques- tion with great ingenuity, but when they have said their say you have the impression that savage tribes knew a great deal about astronomy} and mathematics—which knowledge, strangely enough, serves only’ to chalienge the singularity of the Week- ly Day of Rest, but of no other mod- ern thing. Savages are very use- ful, in the imaginations of scientific men, to belittle certain modern ob- servances, especially if these have a religious connotation. The savage learned from Nature. There is no Week in Nature. Where did Sunday originate? No “Economic Reason"! for Sunday} “Economic reasons,” mutters an- other class. “Got to have rest; couldn't keep up if we didn't; Sun- day written in the constitution of the human race.’ That is strange, since teeming millions of the human race have not found it so. There is China, for ex- ample; a rather sizable country with an intensely busy population. But China has no Rest Day. Indeed, China has been used to prove that Labor can do witheut One Day in Seven. A very intelligent observer | writes: “Some persons have expressed their surprise that the unceasing round of toil Which the Chinese la- borer pursues has not rendered him more degraded. It is usually said that a weekly rest is necessary for the continuance of the powers of body and mind in man in their full activ- ity, and that decrepitude and insan- ity would often result were it not for this relaxation. ... Yet, in China, people who apparently tax themselves uninterruptedly to the ut- most stretch of body and mind, live ip health to old age... . } Nothing like a seventh day of rest, of relig- ious respect to that interval of time is known among tle Chinese... .” “Well,” mutters our devotee ot the economic argument, “Chinese are not industrialized. Look at some indus- trial nation.’ Very well; look at Japan whose in- dustrial development during the last quarter of a century has lifted her to the status of a modern power. The Working men and working women in Japan are theoreticaly allowed one day in 30, not as a right but a favor —but they aon’t get it? So strong is the impression made upon Japan by A. M. SMITH, Station Agent. 4, A. HACKING, Town Agest. western influences that Sunday has ressing a long time for attention.) c-| that the United States is not a Chris- tian Nation. | religious sanctions and nothing else. ment that “ever thing that savored of Christianity, cot the ‘“‘decade,"’ a ten-day week tead of a seven-day week. sctaaity decreed it! - 1793. It never took hold. eventualy| rescinded the legislation. But the legislation stands in history as an example of what “ad- vanced liberals” will do. The only sanction that Sunday has is a religious sanction; nothing else maintains this Day in the midst of the rushing weeks that tear breath- ‘lessly along until 12 p.m. every Sat- urday as if nothing on earth could stop them, but which yet find them- selves halted by the silent dawning’ of that One Day in Seven And the chief beneficiary of that Day is the plain man, who labors for his bread, whose theoretical rights are many and whose actne! rishts are few——he has the right to 52 days a year, more than seven ‘weeks of time,' to himself” The Sunday is here. None of us voted it here. Millions have tried in their ignorance to drive it away. It is here, and its blessing falls upon every son of toil. Now, the Sunday question is simply whether we are to keep p Sunday or: abolish it. The Principle Depends on Some say, “How about Saturday?’ There is nothing to say about Satur- day, nor even day—which is 2 Biohammedan day, not of Test, how- ever. If a man pre to keep even Wednesday, he is at perfect liberty to arrange his life so that all the weeks will wheel about Wednesday But the United States ie a Chris-' tian Nation. Let no one have any doubts on that score. So far as na- tionality can be religious at all, the United States is a Christian Nation, by the United States Su- pias Court. The freedom extended to all forms of faith og) of no-faith in this coun does not’ argue the _any-faith or no-faith sh the United States: it is Christian to its roots. }. This is stated thus emphatically be- cause there are influences which would take advantage of 2 -certain | popular ignorance with the assertion It is, officially and act- ually.. And will always remain so. Now, Sunday is distinctively a day of Christian observance. Granting the previous existence of the Jewish Sabbath, granting the existence now vf Sabbath-observing Christians, the fact remains that the great principle! of One Day in Seven has been ‘kept alive by the Christian Sunday, more accurately called The Lord's Day, and that the principle of One Day in Seven is strengthened or imperiled as Sunday observance is strengthén- ed or imperiled. This is where the “narrowness” comes in. But principle is surpris- ingly narrow betimes, e as it re- quires a miscroscope to ‘ 1e dead- ly germ. The United St...cs is tol-' erant in its spirit, ‘but it is specially Christian in-its allegiance; not Jew- ish, nor Mohammedan, nor Confucian, nor Buddhist, though it shelters and gives freedom to adherents of these faiths. Sunday is its One Day in Seven, and this Day is founded: on To be completely “journalese”’ this articlé should contain several flings at the. church people. But the flings shall be omitted, because the church people are the majority of the American people, and not only fingman first. thé miajorfty, numerically, but the, cream morally, mentally, socially— | humanly. That is a secret which has; not yet percolated into certain ‘“‘cir-; cles, The church people are to be credit- ed with having kept Sunday on the calendar of the shop and store and office and mine and farm and factory. Close up the churches and everything else will open. Sabbath-breakers and jesters at religion should lift their hats every Sunday when, on their way to the golf links or the show, they 8 a church; they should recite a little litany to themselves, like this: “Well, old Church, I have to thank you for today, anyway.” It would be only decent and fair. : “Sunday labor in the United States is, however, increasing. That the Increase is general is shown by the growing opposi- tion of the labor unions, and their frequent demands for shorter hours throughout the week, on the ground that they have no assurance of the Sun- day respite.”’ » The New International En- cyclopedia. “The Sunday is the tore of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence...All civil man- Kind have agreed in leaving one day for contemplation against six for practice.”—Emerson. ' | The church folks gave the country | the Day—gave it away back in time before the country was thought of; the church folks are keeping Sunday alive in the teeth of a thousand unit- ed foes that are seeking to kill it—- AND—for that reasén the church folks have something to say about it! The motion picture men did not come to Japan, after a fashion—the| banks close on Sunday, hecause Brit- invent Sunday, and they have not con-|” tributed angthing toward maintain-! ; orid couldn't tell i You what Sunday if their on it. Yet to hear them during the rue few weeks ‘you would think they had letters patent on Bunday and could snap their fin- fers in the face of Christian Perhaps—in New York; - not—in America! | ~ Students of the ‘ecnitertet new de- velopment of lying and subversive TEA Millions now use it to their utmost satis“action sige smog arg in this country have had a very complete example in the way the anti-Sunday propaganda has been handled through thé newspapers. It would ‘be pleasanter to say that the reports of what the lovers of Amer- ica want to do were “garbled;” but that is-not the wgrd at all; it is tooj | polite. A certain group.of people have had entr for the most un- founded and sjanderous ‘material a- gainst the ‘gtian American Sunday and its friends as well as other things; American. And, fatuously, . they think that securing that sort of pub- licity settles the question. This is, seriously, a question for newspaper- men. How far is this sort of thing to be assisted? AW x Men's Question The whole piint of the new Sunday agitation is this: Sunday is being ‘de- stroyed by interests that take every- thing out of the people and put noth- ing back into them for the betterment or refreshment of their lives. Sunday is a day of physical rest, not only. -but-of-inuer, “spiritual refreshment as well, and there is a strongly or- ganized attethpt being made to pre- vent Sunday ee serving, either of these purposes.. hole ‘huge sec- tions of our working people have been roused into a fever of anti-Sun- day delusions, and they, poor, gimple- tons, are always the first to suffer ibe violation of the spirit of Sun- & “The more pleasure on Sunday. the The more you break the spirit of Sunday, the more you break the body of Sunday. | The more peo- ple enjoy what they call a “free” enauey. the more are condemned to a working Sunday. It hits the work- This being Christian America, no one would say, ‘You ‘Persuasion Failed ~ to Force! Shey Sook HE was so proud of her first cake. It was so light so tempting! But her young bro- thers had an eye on it, too, and = You’ve simply got to Blase See the Wrest Maple Leaf Milling Co., Limited Toronto, Winnipeg Brandon, Halifex CREAM Tie Wess ST FLOURY You can procure Cream of the West Flour in Listowel from McDonald & Riggs and The Co-operative Store. haye got to go to Church.” But the fact remains that the Sunday stands or falls with the number of those who do go to Church. “Sunday recreation?” Certainly, that is what Sunday is for—re-crea- tion, refreshment, restoration. Ev- ery one of them must be interior first. The refreshed body, the mind restored to its equilibrium— both dependent on processes which are not only retarded jut made im- possible by. the commercialized Sun- day. In any shop or office you can count on Monday morning those who accept the commercialized idea of “Sunday recreation” and those who accept the older, tested and saner idea. The former are fagged out; the latter are refreshed, ee have® derived some good from Sunday he ad a com Ww a alized The Sunday rest on Monday after count- ing their gains; but they do not even advocate Monday for the masses. Strange ft is, calling for special note, that those who are most zealous for the maintenance of Sunday\are those who get nothing out of it—commer- cially. . T > Box Office Will Not Decide It & aday is the goose that lays the golden egg around the amusement parks and Sunday dance halls; but, like the story, the goose is killed by the greed this engenders. Extend and develop Sabbath-breaking a few. more years, and there wil be no Sabbath to break. So liberal a man tas Cardinal Gib- bons, for example, is against Sunday movies. On what grounds? He says it is not recreational te crowd into a dark movie theater and subject the body to the physical conditions and the mind to the spiritual conditions of such places. And he is right. In the act of destroying the Sabbath, men Alestroy themselves also. The Sunday Question will not be setfled by the Box Office. The Sunday Question will not be- eeme the sole property of the agnos- L. Pfeffer Milling r Company Our Leader, percwt. - $5.90 Universal “ - $5.65 Golden City “ “ - $5.30 White Plume“ “ - $4.90 Bran “os - $2.10 Shorts in ton lots - $38.00 Corn, per cwt. - - $2.15 Oats “ “ ‘. - $2.00 Our Flour is made from the best No. 1 wheat we can buy. We use best machinery, and have skilled labor therefore our flour is guaranteed to make as good and as much bread to the 100 Ibs. flour as any other flour made. tics, Bolsheviks or any other class of non-Christian newcomers to this land. The Sunday Question will be settled by the Christian Conscience of Amer- ica, and that conscience has sound backgrounde® It built this country; it will maintain this country; and those who would enjoy this country must beware not to press its patience too far. In battle and in moral issues the United States has never been de- feated Grape growers of New York state who expected to be ruined by pro- hibition have been getting as high as $125 a-ton for grapes whereas the average price before the country went dry is said to have been around $25. Clover Seed We have received a shipment of Canadian Grown No. 1 Red Clover It is climatized and a beautiful sample. See this before buying. R. A. CLIMIE Phone 72 Wallace Street