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The message from Amos is entitled “God's Plumb-line,” and begins with this great fact: “0 God of Righteousness, the same Through all the flying centuries.” After we are given a glimpse of the many "mammon Gods of time” before which we fall, the author asks God to “Lay to Thy plumb-line, God of right, To walls of heart and state and This message from Obadiah is a brief biography of Esau and a descrip- tion in a few word of his progeny. "He sold his birthright, haughtlly he assurance of God the Father’s love.’ The promise is encouraging,â€" “And till this earth shall crumble Beneath the powers of doom. God’s Spirit upon the humble In tongues of fire shall come.” repentence.’ ‘gives pardon) ‘nerves with This poem entitled “The Promise of the Spirit” is what the author found inJoel’sprOphesieaanditisapromiae worth reading and digesting. A promise of the Spirit By prophets long ioretold, Which we today inherit In blessing manifold: Blest Spirit, who art dwelling In each believing soul. And Joy and peace outweiiing. As living waters roll. Then the author enumerates the many works of the Spirit to the believ- ing soul,-‘He leadeth,’ ‘He ieedeth,’ Continuing the review of the books of the Bible in “Among the Immortals” by Rev. R. Waiter Wright. church, Reveal the secret sins that blight, The public lollies that besmirch, The cant, the sleek hypocrisy, Which build the towers of truth In riot. wreck and wild debris. Will topple o’er our glories high, It with our tangled lines we mar Heaven's silent perpendicular.” Leaped down the mountain-side of Were Esau's progeny. who ran amuck OI godlessness: wild men of lust and God's pledges from his life’s book Ontario’s 1931 Record Como in 8: Chat Awhile â€"Inu Rubin-I. 62 Killedâ€" 153 Injuredâ€" at Railway Crossings! Never Cross Till You’re Sure At Home MOTOR VEHICLES BRANCH ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS Every railway crossing in Ontario is marked by a warning sign. Watch for those signsâ€"heed them! 29 out of every I 00 persons injured at railway crossings, died. The man or woman driver who never takes a chance will never be a railway crossing victim. “Great crises like Joppas today Here and there o’er life’s pathway are strawed, Some Tarshish to death leads away, Some Ninevah backward to God. “Yet Jehovah delights to forbear, This prophet was the pe0ple’s friend and his championship for the common pe0ple against those who wronged them politically, economically and religiously made him their friend. Micah had a ivision of a better day, a day of uni- Unmistakable duty unfold.” What a depth of understanding of trail human nature the author finds in this book. “We start on the highways of sin Never meaning all godless to be; With the thoughts of rebellion begin We drift out on an uncharted sea. “But costly the fare in its ill. In its heart-sighs, its moaning, and tears, As we set the proud sails of self-will, And the shoreland of truth disap- borders when returning from Egypt. Obadiah prophesied the way in which the Edomites would gloat over the de- struction of Jerusalem and its captivity, and wrote to warn them against this policy of vindictive hatred. Obadiah says “Thy dealing shall return upon thine own head.” In the words of R. Walter Wright they “shall fall in ruin wild and stark, while awe-struck ages pass in silence by.” the same eternal truth in the words. “With what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again.” Most readers are familiar with the story of Jonah and we, like himâ€" “I have fled from Thy presence, 0 Lord, Like Thy weak, faltering prOphet of old, When I heard the clear voice of Thy Edomites dwelt in the rocky passes south of Judah and felt that no God was necessary for their protection. hence the author’s words “Nestins in confidence amid the stars.” The Edomites hated the Israelites be- cause they worshipped Jehovah. They refused them passage through their His miracles still bring release; From the black dungeon-depths of de- O’erarching Israel sought from hea- ven to pluck Edam; exalted as the eagle high. Nesting in confidence amid the Earth’s Holy things, and God’s great He leads to the haven of peace.” Amid the nations, smote with crash. Beside each weaver is half a cocoa- nut shell filled with water in which the finger tips are moistened; a pre- caution necessary to render the grass pliable and to prevent it from crack- ing. The liner the weave the more del- icately this moisture is applied. This is as near as the Panama hat comes to being woven under water. At the be- ginning ot the Operation of making a Montecristi about sixty strands of fibre are united, increasing in number as the crown grows. until after building the sides and extending to the edge of the brim, it reaches a total of about one thousand fibres. Such a creation sells, or did sell before the worldwide de- pression altered the ambition of the spenders, at from $250 to $500 a copy, and in a few instances hit a tap of $1, 000. The hat presented to President Hoover by the Montecristi people in commemoration of his pre-inaugura- tion trip through South America is said to be valued at $750. Into the crown. wrong. The mere wetting of the weav- ers’ fingers is the beginning and the end of this fake deluge. Here in Monte- cristi, according to Jose Isaac Santana, the Grand Vizar of the village of four thousand souls, and the largest export- er of the finest fabrications born of the cream colored fibre, I was personally conducted by none other than Jose Is- aac himself. Much to my surrpise there is no central hat factory in Montecris- ti; no humid sweat shOpS; no fixed working hours; no sign of the activity that produces throughout the hat re- gions of Ecuador half a million som- breros per annum. Every one of the thousand or more bamboo and grass shacks that stand on platforms twen- ty feet above the ground and reached by a staircase shelters a hat maker’s family. Here where the art reaches its highest deveIOpment, from four to ten people weaving hats in various stages of completion, sit in front of blocks braiding with nimble fingers; first the crown centre, which, when it reaches the pr0portions of a trade dollar is set aside pending the arrival of the ex- porter, who examines the texture of the weave which determines the grade of each hatâ€"that once begun cannot be changedâ€"and makes the price. The weaver is paid at rates ranging from $1 to $10 per lid. on which the weaver may Spend from one to six months, working only during the cool of the morning and afternoon, preferably in dimly lighted rooms, sunlight being un- friendly to the Panama. “v woven incolors, is a reproduction of the Seal of the United States. 80 fine is the mesh of a perfect specimenâ€"that is to say one which can stand the Supreme test of being rolled into a. quill and drawn through cloth fabric, than a product of woven ama. Friends, Romans and country- club members, that is bunk. However, Panama was the first open market through which it reached the outer world. From time immemorial the apocryphal rumor has gone forth that Panama hats are woven under water. More bunk; the crowning bunk. ’S’all (By Bob Davis in Toronto Star Weekly) Four hundred and fifty miles of! the pre-arranged route; three days behind in the schedule, but with the full in- tention of getting the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth touch- ing on and appertaining to the so-call- ed Panama hat, I landed at the port of Manta, Ecuador, motored twenty miles through a cloud of continuously restless dust and reached Montecristi which is recognized as the luxury-lid capital of the world. All my life I had been led to believe that the Panama hat was made in Pan- art stem To smite with two-edged sword our sin, Like a. mother's yonder, 1n the infinite. So thou, 0 Jesus, Bethlehem’s King, DISCLOSING THE BUNK ABOUT PANAMA HATS Valleyward, boils as a cauldron the great deep And blinded midday sobs and shrieks with fright. Yet high o’er all, oft veiled from hu- man sight Rises the mount of God with beacon- versal peace and good-will. 0 who is like Jehovah? He doth smite A sinful land till molten mountains Mistressâ€"“So your matrimonial lite Though Thou art crucified on every With eyes of flame, and tread with frozen feet. ' Still weepest Thou on mercy’s Olivet With love divine lost o’er the city sweep Of mercyâ€"eyes that o‘er immortals THE DURHAM CHRONICLE With no cunning for concealment, and evidently little temperament for either flight or attack, the musk-oxen are easy prey for the Eskimo or white hunter. Their method of defence is ef- fective against wolves. The herd forms itself into a rough circle or square. calves and cows in the centre, bulls facing outward in all directions. If there are only two animals they will stand back to back; three will form a three-pointed star. And Mr. Wolf is satisfied to let it go at that. A strag- gling calf or decrepit old animal sep- arated from the herd, is the best that he can ever hOpe tor. But all the hu- manhunterhastodoistosickhisdogs on the herd, which forms its wolf-proof defence, only to find that the weapons of man are an entirely different prop- With copper-pointed snows or even lance: made with hunting knives-lubed to sticks. the Eskimo: could kill the game preserve of 15,000 square miles, protected by mounted police and game wardens, has been set aside. It is in the vicinity of the Thelon and Hanbury Rivers, northeast of Great Slave Lake, where two or three hundred musk- oxen, almost the last on the mainland, were recently located. dreds of natives made annual pilgrim- ages to the district and lived almost entirely on the easily obtained musk- oxen of 'Banks Island, until their num- bers were sadly decimated, and later expeditions accounted for the remain- der. Similar native gatherings for var- ious reasons probably account for the extermination of the musk-oxen from other islands where skeletons indicate earlier abundance. the killing of musk-oxen and the sale of hides, is now making every effort to save the remaining herds. A vast The probable reason for the disap- pearance of musk-oxen from Banks Island, a particularly fertile arctic re- gion where countless musk-ox skele- tons are to be found, is of interest. When McClure’s ship Investigator was abandoned in Mercy Bay, the Eskimos discovered it, and to them it repre- sented a treasure-house of wood and iron. For two or three decades hun- So the musk-ox is making his last stand, he who once, as we know by fos- sil remains, roamed half this contin- ent as well as northern EurOpe and Asia. Within the period of recorded history no musk-oxen have been found alive except in the Arctic, and sub- Arctic America, but only a century ago their range included a vast area of the mainland of northern Canada and their numbers may still have approached the million mark. The Dominion govern- ment, by stringent regulations against And they have other virtues which put them in a class by themselves so far as utility in northern regions is concerned. No blizzard ever howled over the arctic prairies which was cold enough to inconvenience a shelterless musk-ox herd. Then they are proof against slaughter by that demon killer of the north, the wolf. Finally, they are perhaps the only herbivori in the world which do not roam in search of pasture, so long as any is at hand. A herd in plentiful pasture would not likely move five miles in a month. No fences, or even cowbells, would be needed by the musk-ox rancher. Young musk-oxen are easily tamed; in fact, they are really tame to start with. They have often followed voluntarily the men who have slain their parents. Specimens in zoos have shown ability to thrive even in temperate regions. There are probably not more than ten or twelve thousand musk-oxen in the world. Except for a thousand or so in northeast Greenland and a few hundred on the northern Canadian mainland, they are all on islands of the Canadian arctic archipelago. It is thought that the musk-oxen, unlike caribou, polar bear and other north- ern animals, do not travel over the sea ice from island to island, and from some of the islands they have been exterminated by the hand of man. Arctic Canada boasts an animal which for the purposes of domestication would combine many of the best points of cattle and sheep; far exceed them, indeed, from the point of view of the far north and its needs. This, of course, is the musk-ox. The cows give milk which is comparable in quality and richness if not in quantity to that of our familiar breeds. Though ligther than any but the smallest Scotch and Welsh cattle, the musk-ox will yield two or three times more meat per ani- mal than will sheep, and the meat is of excellent quality. The wool is plenti- ful and though its value has not yet been definitely settled, it is certamly not entirely useless. It is shrink-proof, and has been occasionally used to knit socks and mitts for arctic wear. The musk-ox bulls are not as dangerously apt to attack on scant provocation as those more familiar to us. (By W. J. Banks) Eskimo is by nature improvident with .regard to food supply. and has reck- lessly killed whole herds of musk-oxen without thought of future needs. It is a curious fact that the Eskimo mind 'cannot conceive of game being exter- minatcdiromaregionbyhisownkill- ings; his explanation is always that the animals have “moved away," prob. ably offended because of some mystical taboo having been injudiciously broken by the inhabitants. Though he stands only four to five feet at the shoulders and seldom exceeds 600 pounds live weight, the full-grown musk-ox is given a more formidable appearance than is really justified by reason of his thick coat of hair and wool. The wool which in season bulges out all over the animal in great mass- es is overlain by the coarse hair which in places reaches a length of almost two feet. Sometimes a side view of the: musk-ox fails to disclose his short. stocky legs at all, because of the or “polar cattle,” or to use the scien- tific name, ovibos, “sheep cattle.” Be- cause of the wool, some have favored the designation “polar sheep,” but in reality the ovibos have more charac- teristics in common with the cattle than with the sheep, and the name “polar cattle” is perhaps the best of all. But the term “musk-oxen” is thor- oughly established. Not only for reasons so e title and sentimental, but for economic ones as well, it is to be haped that efforts to save the musk-ox from extinction will meet with success. For his presence is a vital factor in a region where hunger is the most relentless enemy of man. more sure he is of everything.”â€"Henry L. Mencken. though he is not really humped. Both sexes carry the distinctive horns, with their wide, downward sweep, though the bulls’ are more massive and spread out across the forehead. Just how the name musk-oxen was bestowed is a mystery; it is now gen- erally regarded as a libel, for the re- puted musk odor, and taste in the meat, is not noticeable except in the case, perhaps, of old bulls in the rut- ting season. Most northern explorers prefer to call the animals “polar oxen” “We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts even un- pleasant ones, bravely."â€"Franklin D. Roosevelt. curtains ot hair and shedding wool which sweep the ground. Masses of wool on the shoulder give the musk- “ YeIâ€" they’re fine young chickens!” Low outing r40: 0' WM a 8.30 pin. .338 2.. :3 as. 38 :3. 33.53 a? 23 ..va It was Joe Kingsmill’s wife who spotted the advertisement â€"- a firm in town offering to buy 60 And now, how about the library? Did anyone ever ace a more shaggy-look- ing library in any place? We think Carnegiewomdturnoverinhisgrave it he knew about it. What is the mat- ter with the library board? Are they asleep or blind? Or have they no re- spect for the finer things of life? Do they not care to encourage the children of the town to read good literature? Most towns see to it that the library property is well kept. But alas! the great philosopher‘s gift to Durham is sadly neglected. We wondered as we gazed on it in pity, how much the local citizens appreciate their reading sup- ply-house. Evidently the people in au- thority in this town are not enthusias- tic readers; for how could anyone of influence go up those steps. past that stony, weed-infested surrounding and into that building. and not instigate something in the direction of its im- provement. Be fair! Don’t you think that the public library is important enough to be looked after and kept neat and clean in appearance? It is a dis- grace to the town to let an institution of that kind go s‘roughâ€"looking. some of those old shacks. But we must commend the work be- lnc done on the boulevards on the hill. Some ore being filled in, others plowed ond levelled. It nukes a mat improve- We think it’s'hich time someone looked into this. Think it over. natives. mung down 01 WNW, but yon must admit thut some dynumte could “Currency is like the blood in the human body; you can have too much or too little. If you have too much. you have apOplexy; if you have too little night. Boy, oh boy! Bey, do you folks up there mouse it's haying time? Or do you keep it to ploy hide-Ind-seek in? It's a vent entrnnce to a town. We're sure the tourists or motorist: coming from the north rend “welcome" on every hay field. on the rocky boule- vurds end unkempt buildings. or course it’s not our intention to surest the ner . “The most depressing social force in America right now is the motion pic- ‘In any labour policy the human con- We rambled up the mu the other She showed it (By BAMBI-ER) PAGE 3