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There is not much money beting went on luxuries In those times. Ind tor this reuon Lone Scout Headquab tern have not found It necessary to take on In extra secretary to sign and forward orders for Scout Unitorm during the past few months. Today, " probobly never before during our lifetimes, money I: border to obtain than we ever thought poo- Bible. Most people no housing on tight to any cult that comes into their possession, and who can blame them? Ot course one can be n Scout with. out wearing a uniform. and we do not won! you to think that i'. Is Imperative tor you to have uniform when, per- haps, you cunnot “lord it. As long " you are a good Scout, living up to your Scout Promise and Law, we ore "tinned. We want. however. to keep before you the 'tignite- ot the Scout uni- tom. and to lbo' you how it has helped to 1 great degree in the ro. mance of Scouting. The Scout Uni- ionn is known and respected in all parts ot the world and is I symbol of the ideals and activities tor which our movement stands. The general public has come to took upon a Scout as a boy who possesses better qualities of character and train- ing than the average boy. and further. that he is a boy who is ready to help others and perform his duty readily and well at all time In the boy with the Scout hat, shorts and neckerchiet they see the leaders ot the future. and this uniform is oomething ot which any Louie can be justly proud. tor it symbolizes the en- tire Boy Scout Organization. the The Christmas season is coming along. and it may be that some ot you will receive gifts at that time. Let it be known that you would appreciate an article tram the Scout catalogue. and so commence the foundation of your uniform in which you can take as much pride as any soldier ot the Guards does in his dress clothes A real Scout will take great care ot his uniform and look upon it as a trust Fiction is digestet I great novel is th great man's sense I a great novel is the rettecuon of a great man's sense ot the world and of the people in it. it might seem from this to be a matter ot indiffer- ence whether he conveys this dis: cursively by trumpeting it through mouthpiece-characters and interpolat- ed comment. or by presenting his sense ot lite pictoriaily and dramat- ically. making the characters and story the vehicle for expressing his protouttdest reactions to experience. And in a sense it is indifrerent. Only, if it is natural to a writer to express himself discursiveiy. he had better think twenty times before using the novel as his vehicle. it discursive writing is his bent. then. whatever kind of writer he is. he is certainly not a novelist; and however beauti- tul, elegant, acute or timely his com- mentary, epigrams and discussions may be, the people in his boot will go the way of all waswmk. Carlyle could draw a portrait in a law sentences. even it it were only that of a man who had sat opposite him in a railway carriage or of someone he had read about, so that we now not only see that man (how tamely inexpresslve seem engravings and photographs beside the text'.), but are broughtHttto touch with the very core of his being-at least as It was conceived by Carlyle himself. In addition to this unrivalled gift for it was conceived by canyle mmseu. in addition to this unrivalled gift tor vivid static presentment. he had also the power ot revealing the dramatic clash ot temperaments and aims, the Incongrulty between a man and his casual surroundings. and above all, everywhere, and at all times, the novelist’s sense of the inexhaustible picturesqueness and sdtrniLutttet' of detail. Carlyle could make the cut of a man's coat or the color of his shoe-heels seem profoundly sym- The Novelist's Faculty of Invention Our Uniform upon " ri and Duchess of Aborcorn's Scout Tut '. When the Duchess of Abercorn open- ed a new Boy Scout Halt " Belfast by lighting a are in the tiretMee, she wss given the Scout maximum ot two matches. She proved herself . "good Scout" by using only one. Recruiting Probably each Louie in Ontario knows several boys in his neighbour- hood. who in his opinion would be benefitted by Scouting and who he probably would like to see enrolled as Lonies. Maybe these boys would respond more readily it a letter was sent to them trom bone Scout Headquarters. " you know any such boys.-will you not send us their runes and addresses so that we can get into touch with them? A personal word trom you would al- so help a great deal. Now Tibetan Boy Scouta Troops of Tibetan Boy Scouts were discovered during a tour ot the Hima- layan mountain passes this summcr: by the Secretary of the Punjab Boy Scouts Association. Like Scouts else- where the Tibetan lads were perform- ing many kinds ot public service. in. cluding the building of protected springs where wayfarers can secure clean drinking water. Promptneu Avert: Bridge Tragedy The famous story or the Dutch boy who prevented a disastrous Mod by plugging a hold in a dyke with his tin. ger is recalled try the action ot a Boy Scout, John Kirsehel, of Southern Rho- "iesia. While fishing trom a bridge Tover the Gwebi River the lad discover. mi a widening crack in a concrete pier. ‘Hz' immediately ran and reported, and th" bridge was closed. averting prob. alrle tragedy. The Scout was highly (-ommendod by the government road dopartmeut. Deaf and Dumb Boys Become Scout: Ma-kay Institute tor the Deaf ani Dumb now has its Scout Troop. The troop is sponsored by the Scouts of Trinity Memorial Church Troop Are you tt Lone Scout? This branch of Scouting is open to all boys be- tween the ages of 12 and 18 years who live in small villages or rural districts and who are unable to attend the meetings of regularly organized Scout Troops. bolic. lie could orchestrate the passions magnificently. Yet tiction was not his medium and he knew it. Ruskin required a work of art, a castle, a cloud, a mountain. 3 tree, to release his imagination. . . . . And in discoursing helwould shop so vivid an apprehension ot the honorable merchant. ot the artist's intense ex- periences. of the noble gentleman, of the dlgniiled mechanic, ot the con- tented cottager. and also of the op- posites ot all these types. that it would seem he must have been able, had he chosen. to project them as living figures in a novel. expressing his vision of the world. But, like Carlyle, he could not Invent. Invention: that is the master oat-) ity of the novelist. A great novel,' as l have said. is the reflection of a great man's experience of life; but' it cannot be conveyed in the form of a novel unless the writer has this srpecitie faculty ot invention. He must be able to devise a constant Bow ot incidents which will exhibit his characters. This may seem a commonplace, but it is one usually overlooked by reviewers and entirely forgotten by many intelligent tttr thors who take to novel-writing. . . . {Reviewers and critics are seldom people with a talent for invention: on the other hand, they are usually appreciative of literary ability and cleverness. Consequently they over- value those qualities to the Preis dice of the story-teller" speeitle fac- ulty, and they do not even discuss stories which exhibit that faculty. it those stories do not contain tine phrases or arresting eottttttenttr.- Desmond MacCarthy, in "Criticism." For tall information write to The Boy Scouts Association, Lone Scout Department, 230 Bay Street. Toronto 2.---"Lotte E." "This is the last time I shall bring this bill" said the enraged collector. "Thanks." replied the inpecunlous debtor "You are so much more con- siderate than the other fellow; he said he was going to come again." I. RACE mmumcs AND HUMAN NEED, John 4: 5-10. II. A sxosmsu CHRISTIAN'S DREAM. Acts 10: 9-19. III. THE \DIVINE INTENTION. Acts IO. INTRoDUcTt0N---Cuuvtcts Cullen. the young Negro poet, tells about ll visit he once made to Baltimore: l Once riding in old Baltimore, ‘ Head filled, heart filled with glee--, I saw a Baltimorian--keep looking; straight at me. i Now, I was eight-and very small; And he-was no whit bigger . . . And so I smiled, but he-stuck out his tongue And called me "nigger." Although I lived in Baltimore l’rom May until December-, or all the things that happened there, That's all that I remember. The Spirit of Jesus has always had to face smobbery---raeial, social, ecclesiastical. 1. RACE PREJL'DICE AND HUMAN NEED, John 4: 5-10. Notwithstanding the inhospitality ‘of the Samaritans (Luke 9: 51-53) meet Jewish pilgrims going north went ‘through the province of Samaria, v. If, Only the strictest of them, such as the Pharisees, went round by_Perca. December 4. Lessoh X.-Ltving with People of Other 'ta-John 4: 5-10: Acts 10: 30-35. Golden Text --0f a truth I perceive that God is no respect" of per8on'.--Acts 10: 34. At noon (the sixth hour, Roman reckoning) Jesus and his party came to Jacob's well. It was an unusual hour for a. woman to come for water, v. 7. Was it shame, or the severity of her more respectable sisters that sent her there when no one was likely to be about? - - 7 A The tired stranger asked her for a drink. Her surprise (v. 9) at being thus addressed reflected the relation- ships that existed between Jew and Samaritan. The Jew had a profound contempt for the Samaritan with his mixed blood and impure religion. Northern Israel had intermarried with the foreign conquerors, and had adopted pagan religious customs. See 2 Kings, chap. 17. Because of this the Samaritan offer to help in build- ing the Temple was contemptuously spurned. Ezra, chap. 4. Resentment brought reprisals. Mutual hatred was the consequence. _ The appeal of human need over- came the wqman's dislike and suspi- cion. In helping a hated Jew, she received from him the sympathy and inspiration for a better life which she so sorely needed. It was the spirit of Jesus breaking down the separating barriers of, race pgejudice. . Peter's dream changed the course of history for the early church. The "scattering abroad" of believers dur. init the persecutions resulted in the growth, in many foreign centres, of Takes his job by the ears-and wins a championship.' Carl Seilf‘r ot Galva, Ill., Is "right there" when It comes to hashing com. Ho husked tltirty-six and ninety one-hundredth bushels In eighty min utes ANALYSIS. Champion Com-Husker the new faith. Peter, on a superin- tendent's tour, found himself con- fronted with the question, "How is a Christian to act toward a Gentile?" Jews had always looked upon Gen- tiles as "eommon," aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers from the covenant of promise," out. side the pale. They ate "unclean food. Hence eating together, and con- sequently all social intercourse, was mnossible. The Gentiles retorted by ridiculing Jews for their abstinence fro.m pork. II. A BN0BBitU1 cmmmAN's DREAM, Acts 10: 9-19. . Peter's problem about food, his hun- ger (v. IO), wove themselves into the fabric of his dream. In the sheet (v. 12), he began to notice all kinds of creatures, clean and unclean. He was amazed to hear the voice, which he so well remembered, commanding him to kill and eat. He had broken many a Yharisaic regulation in his day-- _ icking corn on the Sabbath, for ex- ample-but with food he was still a <trict Hebrew. His abrupt refusal (v. 14) brought its emphatic and repeat- ed reproof, vs. 15, 16. The Christian Jew was now to give up his old dis tinctions between meats clean and un- clean. Any custom, no matter hoss useful in the past, wnich becomes a separating wall between people, must be removed. "This wall has no busi- ness here'." says the Nazarene Cats penter as he sees the wall which sep- arates the members of his father', family in their own house. "Down it comes!" and with well-directed blows he swings his axe. See the vivid piir ture_in Ephesians 2: IA. . When Peter was told that some Gentiles were at the door to see him, he said to himself, "There is the mean- ing of my dream." He made them welcome. III. THE DIVINE INTENTION, Acts 10: 28-35. Obedient to his heavenly vision, Peter set out for Cesarea with the messengers of Cornelius. Realizing that his unheard-of action in going into a Gentile's home would certainly bring on a crisis in the church, he took with him several brethren from the church in Joppa. In Cornelius' house he made it clear to the assem- bled Gentiles that in coming to them he was breaking with a strict Jewish regulation. Nevertheless, he had done it deliberately (v. 29), "without gain- saying" means "without disputing or hesitation." God had shown him that they were all God's children, "bro- thers all." The brave and wise perform great actions not so much on account ot the rewards attending them, as on account ot their own intrinsic exeeilenee.-- Cicero. "How did the accident happen.'" to the statements neither side was "I can't make it oat. According in any way to blame." ' Some Chemistry of the Farm .Soviet Russia’s By Henry a. Bell l Assoc. Prof. ot Chemistry. O.A.0. What breed ot dairy cow gives the most and best quslity Hit? It you're a dairymon you can swly answer this question with about a hundred rel- sons. What is the best all round breed ot poultry tor the overuse Ott- tario farm? You no doubt have de. iiaite opinions on this mtbleet--opiu. ions backed by many good reasons. But when you come to discussing the things that make up the feed at the cow or the hen, or the elements that tire found in their prodyets--or bodies or feed, the familiarity ceases. That is the reason tor this practical, homely talk about things. Have you ever heard a person talk-1 ing about the elements in teed or in a tertilizer. and you hare wondered lust what an element is? Chemists have studied what things are made ot, and they have found a total ot 87 elements. An element is a substance that cannot be reduced to, or divided into two or more component substances. For in- stance, iron, or gold, or silver, cannot be broken up into other components than iron and gold and silver. They may he melted or changed into iron or gold or silver utensils. but they are still the same pure elements. Compounds There are other materials in nature. It red or yellow mercuric' oxide is heat- ed, oxygen goes all as a colorless gas. and metallic mercury remains. The mercuric oxide is known as a com- pound. . Nearly all things we come in contact with in nature are compounds. Very few elements remain unattached and pure in nature. Elements exist in three different forms, viz.: solids, gases. liquids. Here are some ot the common elements belonging to each class: solids-Iron (Fe), Gold (Au). Silver (Ag), Phosphorus (P) (from which we get phosphoric acid), Potassium (K) (from which we get potash), Sul. phur (S), Lead (Pb), Copper (Cut. Gases-Oxygen (O), Hydrogen (ll). Nitrogen (N), Chlorine (Cl). Liqulds-Mereury (Hg). Chemical Symbols Bo that it will not be necessary to write long names of substances each time they occur in a reaction, chem- ists have agreed upon certain symbols which are usually the first letters ot the names ot the elements. For in- stance. H always stands tor Hydrogen, 0 always stands tor Oxygen, N always stands for Nitrogen. P always stands for Phosphorus. It P were used to stand tor Potash it would lead to con- fusion. therefore the first letter ot the latin name Kalium (Kl is used to de note potassium. Acids and Alkali: THEY" are certain compounds which dissolve in water and which have the power ot turning blue litmus paper to a red color. These are called acids. Some of the commonest in farm opera- tions are: Sulphuric acid (H2804). Hydrochloric acid (HCI), Nitric acid (1mm. and Acetic acid (CHBCOOH). Other compounds have the power of deadening the effects ot acids. These are known as bases. Some of the commonest encountered in tarm opera- tions are: Limewater Ca (OH)2, Am. monia water (NH4)OH, Caustic soda (NaOH). Caustic potash (KOH). These substances turn red litmus paper to blue. Their action is said to be alkaline. A common illustration ot chemical‘ reaction on the farm is seen where acid soil is corrected by the addition ot limestone. Calcium carbonate (09.008) or limestone is readily tiibu solved.. This forms Calcium hydrate CA(0H)2. which corrects the acidity ot the soil. When acid phosphate is made phosphate rock is treated with sulphuric acid. This produces soluble or available phosphate, and calcium suluphate or land plaster. Superphos- phate or acid phosphate as it used to be called, carries 16% to 20% avail. able phosphoric acid (P205). Some folks are ot the opinion that super- phosphate is acid in its action, and that it makes the land sour. This is not the case. supetp1sosphate or acid phosphate is neutral in reaction. The calcium sulphate that it carries tends to liberate the potash ot the soil. Elements Are Combined to Form Compounds The queston is sometimes asked, it nitrate of soda contains only 15% nitrogen, or 15 lbs. pure nitrogen to the hundred, why can't I buy pure nitrogen tor my crops? One reason Chemical Reaetton Elements NTAAitrjiiRerii9eg" TORONTO why pure nitrogen noun. be ot on use tor planttood is that nitrogen is a gas. and is not taken up by the loot or stem ot the plant. Nitrogen must en- ter the pint through the roots. and that in n dissolved form. Thus. nit- rate ot soda when dissolved in water can be taken up read“, b, the grow- ing plant. Let every tamer and gar- dener remember this tact, the plant cannot use pure elements. The ani- mni cannot assimilate or take into its own composition pure carbon or oxy- gen or hydrogen or sulphur or nitrogen or phosphorus or calcium or iron. Piantfoods must be carried in com- pounds in the soil, in manure and in fertilizers. Animal feeds must carry the elements in compounds known as carbohydrates proteins, (at: and al-iied substances. More of the common chemical com- pounds that farmers meet in their daily operations are. Water-HH20), which composes M to 95% ot term crops (green). Water frequently contains dissolved calciu or magnesium carbonate which makes it hard. Hard water kills the power ot soap to produce lather. Water may also contain compounds ot iron not: " aium and sodium. Some of these may render the water unfit tor domestic use. Other impurities of a bacterial nature more often render water untit tor tam use. Sun: (06111206 or CiltHSl'.011), is found in the juice or sugar beets, in fruits and in the sap of the sugar Starch (C6H1005l. is found in the kernels or seeds of all cereals, also in potato' ', and nqtichokes. Proteins-Flesh Ind muscle builders containing C, H, O, and Nitrogen. The glutten of wheat, or the rubbery gum- my part of dough is composed of pro- teins. Lean melt. hair, boots, horns, also contain protein. maple tree and elsewhere. "t--varioug forms, all built trom C ll and O. Fats are found in the oily part of seeds near the germ, in cream from which butter is made and in the mm: ot most animals. Amitto-tteids--many ot which com tain C. H. O. N. and Sulphur. These amino acids are closely connected with proteins. Bone-- contains Calcium, Oxygen and phosphorus. These tragmentnry outlines of chem- istry, basic to common firm products and phenomena, will be followed by discussions of speeitic problems. trom time to time. One ot the oddest plant species in the world has been rediscovered in Madera Creek, in the Davis Mountains of western Texas, according to Science News Letter. I Science Service publi- cation (Washington'. "The plant is known as Riella. and has been given the English name 'rut. tie plant,' because of its peculiar structure. It consists at a slender stem an inch or so in length, with a thin transparent green wing growing out at one side and curling over its end. The graceful undulations in this green wing caused one American botanist to describe it as ‘a rutile standing on end.' Dr. R, A. Btutiltalter of Texas Teclr nological College at Lubbock has re- ported this find to The t'scientitie Monthly. We read: "The plant has thus far been found in only two States, Texas and North Dakota. It grows only in sheltered canyons either submerge in shallow water or Just above water-level. Since water in this Western country is not always a certainty in any one place, the plant has been very elusive, dig. appearing trom a known habitat and reappearing suddenly elsewhere. Close relatives are known trom the old world, growing in the same type of habitat: sheltered shallow waters in semiarid regions. Here also it is an extremely elusive plant." pose'.'" "t guess not, he's like 1n hour. 31:53." “How’s am?" "The more time he gets the less and he has.” Isn't Jack ever going to pro~ M § Rare Plant §\\ ji,':);), 9 mix Species iiitits? The Soviet prel- Ire inuin; rally in; all: to speed up the completion ot the new Moscow-Doubts: nilwa/ which will form I direct connection between the capital ot the Sovio Union and the Donletx Basin. Ruuil'z richelt coal region. The work has not moved as but a come Soviet editors think It should and they ue outspoken in their crm clan and "tti-ttttttss. "in 1913, 25.2 million tons 01 coal were mined in the Doniotz Basin. " 1931. thla nbundant atorehonne ot the Soviet Union gave no Mt per cent more than in 1918. This is coincident with the increaled exportation ot 0011 trom the Ruin to the coalconnnming regions in general. The railroads no / crossing the Basin. which lend to the cities ot Voranezh and Kursk. are working under great pressure. Yet they can not cope with the task ot transmitting the need: a stream of coal from the Basin to the nor 1. "This lick has made it imperative to get a new outlet tor the Donietl Buin'l coal, and thug end the con- tusion nnd the congestion ot freight: on the two existing lines.” Bo the Soviet Government decided in April 1932, we are told, to begin construction immediately ot a power tut double-truck railroad. the Moscow. Donbass. The new line is to include a small railway. Valulki-Olherelye. bull! long Mo, but to be completply re built. The terminal of the Mom-0w Donbass line will be the Nesvyolapev. sky mines. According to plan. the Moscow-Don- bass railroad should be in working order by August I, 1933, yet, tgvestitt advises us: "it must be confessed, however, that its construction proceeds unsatisfacr torlly. In July and August, for in. sauce. on) " per cent. ot track build. ing planned tor these months wnl dope. in the some period only " per cent. at the buildings planned had been completed. "The situation is especially unsati- (artery in the Venevuky regio ' where only 17 per cent. or the conutructon work planned tor these two months u tinitihed. This is all the more repre- hensible because the Tenevuky portion ot the road was to be ready for open. tion about October 1 1932." Invent: expresses trottaiderable in dignotion that the Soviet ruilwny builders are so “disappointingly Im. able to live up to the plan." But, it candidly admits, thero is a lack ot technical equipment. the work is not sumciently well organized, and there the certain labor diiBcutties. la this oak-ill organ's own words: "Our heavy industries and the Chief Adtnittiatmtion of Railroad Building have not supplied the builders of the road with even halt the equipment which they undertook to provide." The price ot a competent ttee has risen to three dollars because ot the (ailing ott in transatlantic travel. All the Meeker deal are of European orig. in. purchased trom cabin stewards. He has traveled u tar as Norfolk bargain- ing with ship employees for insects capable of making the grade. Belgial tteas learn quickest. according to Pro tessor Hacker; French and ltaliat Bets are quite bright; English tieaa slow of comprehension. “America it the land ot my adoption." added Pm lessor Becker. "t have received hott. or and material reward in America. I would not allow my expression to escape mo which might onend thig dear land. I must, therefore, beg to be absolutely excused tram discussing American neon." In prosperous times. Professor Becker Inn had as mnny u seventy Ilea- warming up In the butt. pen; to-dny his renews "oek consist: ot seven aged tttttts.--) New Yorker, The um white ttowertt gleam, And let your listening en‘s impart Their solnce to your waiting heart. Your love-born sacrament, That Io your own repels may be Entolded In serenity. " -A. B, Cooper, in Tit-Bits (London) m oubject to the eternal will Be silent in the woodland ways When all tree. nigh and dream And in the deep onbowerd bays Be silent when the children sleep In calm uni deep coment. And In their quiet blaming keep Be silent when the starry night mum wordly things seem umsil. And heuken with supreme delight When mystic voices call. Ant? know that you, who stand as still. .. T Never keep “In! It I hart an up“. Flea Market Boom BE SILENT 1 i t l as" EL} .1. ,3. I ' ‘:‘ ri' an”; cn F q (a: