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It satisfies most citizens, and we feel sure will please you. ZURBRIGG BROS. The Bakers HOME TRAINING , (Toronto Globe) ae newspapers y articles: “eho ‘whipped young Bulpitt ean im -responsible for the by cause beys were not whi inthe good: were Magistrate’ was young, and these re- s received ,fayorable comment} he ralizings {t is certain that they geese a very inadequate idea of the duties of parents and guardians. Corpora! punishment. may be necessary in ex- treme cases, but it is a very small part of the science of caring for ag moral faculties. We should have yery poor opinion of a physician vitae treatment was confined to the administration-of castor other es. We expect the physician to understand the hum- an body and all its organs and func- tions; and hig work is not a bit more difficult or important than that of training a child. t is the duty of parents and guardians to understand children, to sympathize with them and to dis- cipline them, not to gratify caprice or bad temper, but with a view to development. Excessive ‘indulgence is bad, but it is equally true that ex-| cessive corporal punishment may be due to ba@ temper, stupidity or laz- iness. The business is not so simple as the worshippers of the rod seem to imagine. It is an exceedingly del- jeate and complicated science, and demands the whole heart and min or of the parent and guard merely the spasmodic application of drastic measures. “THAT THEY GO FORWARD” Lo Sunday school lessons of recent weeks have dealt with the cravaliines of the children of Israel after leay- ing the bondage of Egypt. The aver- age student is liable to pass too lightly over the full importance and the tremendous scale on which this movement was carried on. Even one well versed in the moving of large bodies of men by present-day meth- ods must stop and admit defeat at the thought of taking 600,000 men, besides women and children, out of the hand of their slave masters at a given moment, and leading them 33 now eae 8p a@ men be-; and sure of his old faye when the; children and developing their mental} su land atewt strength and w Scale Gh gs of the nation. The sai ufticlency of | conscious of his ow own way ate) him in several n as invaluable in arousing public It m: ay be ‘pans Cox was not in-! sentiment,.but he shawed 1 fluenced , but} ca also of swift decision and resolute action. The very qualities which served him well—and his ‘country, too—during the his undoing, however, with the post-war reaction at home. ss gaee fe relied on himself, with ocess, that he was confirmed in .05 “habits of jsolation, and was ndisposed to er com- — war policies souya be ‘sustained for the support of his peace policies a- gainst the attack . of Republican leaders who were smarting under his Tefusal to take them into his coun- cils. Had he invited them to partic- ipate in the Versailles Conference he would have forestalled the enmity which destroyed his Paris program and sent his party to crushing de- feat in the elections of 1920. Unhap- pily for him and for the great.cause which he championéd he had ost “the common touch,"’ He had not the art of conciliation which would have saved his ideals, from being swamp- ed by a resurgence of party feeling. Probably his countrymen will never agree as to 6 rightness or wrongness of Mr. Wilson's attitude ag the United States entered the own in a disappointing Nght —-disagpotintiaig "'s hee se who believe that the Allies saved civiliza- tion from being’ crush b mili- ry barbarism—in the ‘biography of Walter Hines: Page, United States Ambassador to Great Britain. Un- til this revealing volume appeared few suspected the tenacity. with which Mr. Wilson clung to peace at almost any price, and the constraint which he put upon his cpnscience to deny the existence of y moral is- she. Even while Belgi was being overrun by the Germa hordes he could implore the rican public to. be neutral in tought as well as deed. His succesfJin keeping the —E threugh a land-that was strange’and | in Pans cases barren e ars Tessons in \ edtarn of, Christian ac “for the n, W. so much ads iB) there, ‘ ay Ww: those who proclaim that on 1 ka one rch cannot rely on lekdaeat although in too cases it does. It is a divinely or@ institution, and has no right to-cl to be anything else. It has no rig to look to anything else for its guid ance. The children of Israel, as they fled with the armies of the Pharaoh behind them, came into a peculiar position. The sea was on one side, the desert on the other; ahead pty the | mountains that they could n ~—4 -| tempt, and behind the Egyptian pur- suers. What a time for the critics; and the advisers to get in their, work; what a chance for the human! advisers to act as finger posts poitit-' ing out what slrould be done. Surely! there was need for appointing some! more committees from among. the! boards, some experts who could! bring in a report showing how best | to solve the situation Then, as now, thane would be the! numerous vcices of those who in, their own strength sought to solve | the problem. No pastor in the year| 1924 ever faced a problem such as confronted Moses on this occasion. And what happened? Moses took the matter back to the Lord, and the answer stands out as one of the mountain peaks in the Old Testa- ment. There was argument; there was no request for more or- ganization work; there was no lengthened. explanation. that one, sublime command, to the — ot Israel, that they Phene 85- = PEEL HARDY ALFALFA We offer Variegated Seed that has stood the test of many winters. All fields inspected in bloom and each bag examined and sealed by a Government Inspector. As: go ei a aera ta a chance on getting “soft stuff.” go forw And tha t one command, divine in its concise authority, and god- ee = its power to, meet the situa turned the faces of the children “of Israel all in the one direction at was _— one centurie but that comm 8 had ued sei has the ability 7) tang without dimin- ishing, and the power to speak. today as ft spoke to that sorely-pressed procession under the Mosaic com- mand. t around a bit and make it read, “Speak to the Christfan Church 1924 that it go forward.” Forward © do the work it was sent to do in the first place; fo: is from the by~ paths ee aiite has turned; for- ward to te he story of ppg vo forward ‘tive the go thousands and the ey se usdinstl who have never heard Let the multitudd of ‘advisers be still and HUsten for the divine com- mand, atid, hea it, face the task with a determination born of a God- given: inspiration WOODROW WILSON (Toronto Globe) - Woodrow Wilson’s final place in history must be fixed by history it- k| ment, for-want of which a comfort of knowing that hoes ar on a aime and. te whether it's head or tails! sige States ouf§of the conflict— absorbing ain turned the scale a his favor in election of 1916, } but when Germ 8 resumption of I} ae fare ¥ later, in wd pretext ov " ee p tas vari a create ‘nt the. a whe thee : m which made | — en- d achievement. war h @ of of all aoe : a urope, and ; m2 as their deliverer. » ob hes been nothing in < YY BH history to ‘ mal a Old World of Conference, yer enemies at hom down from hie lof, j incredible to hirh, endanger the res, Paris. “It is only] a he said in a publ “who are trying to detes or to prevent the League. ™#ad-he foreseen the consequences he would not have set his face against any res- pele gp to the treaty or the Cov: nant. “Qualified adoption,” he rh aared, “is not adoption. Qualifica- tion means asking special exemptions and privileges for the United States. We cannot ask that." His refusal to tacks the amendments to the Covenant proposed in the Senate en- couraged the extremists to do’ their worst, and kept the United ‘States out of the League. It was the Pres- dent’s gravest. blunder. Had the Republic been represented at Geneva £3, country read : : THE RESULTS. . nieve Thigh ple of Lie Aton wed sig ‘Listowel Banner In many homes there's a scchidbile for it the qithate it is delivered aa _# half dozen or more often read the same paper. The Banner and Bee goes into 1600 homes, so Mr. Merchant do you realize what a vast audience you can address” through i it’s advertising columns > = Pf “Let us show you how, with the aid ofa ‘modern pte it illustrations, we can make. your advertising pull BIG "PHONE 61. The Banner Publishing Co. “Atwood Pe and WE'LL CALL. Listowel DICTATES sat sacseno ge SICK Hon. W. 8. Fielding, oldest Minister of the his bed, fn spite of broken Up am the time of his ill- ness r had been one of con- tinual and arinees activieies, and he is wholely intent upon completing his budget in time to present it to the House when it opens its next session. Perheps never has a financial. min- ister put areal us budget under such ciroumstanc get from health. dictating the national financial bude 4 { in the past few years Great Britain would have had her aid in bringing about a just and practical — settle- large Part of Europe has been in misery and turmoil, Mr. Wilson's dream of perpetual and universal, peace and his efforts realize his. noble purpose con- stitute his surest claims on the grat- itude oy ean tae of posterity. Despite errors o ft judgment -; phe phetic Risin which? lifted him far ove the rank.of smaller men io tflumphed ‘over him for the moment. 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