JANUARY 22. 1952

THE GUARDIAN. CHARIXJ'l"l'E'I'0WN

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- Thoughts For Our Time By His Eminence Cordinol McGuIgoa IOODFIIIII.)

In the building of the edifice of ,m,1d pguu there are two vital ms essential elements whose sig- nificance we are most likely to minimize-the individual and the family. While wp may be skepti- cal and even cynical today over mg possibilities of peace through the United Nations, nevertheless we seldom reflect upon the power that lies within the heart of the individual person. But. in truth. order among nations will only be possible when we begin with the basic element of society-man himself. A chain is only as strong .3 its weakest link and I would like to II! that society is only as strong as its basic unit-the indi- v:diial WHO"-

I have many times stressed that me problem confronting the world today is a spiritual lack or de- riciency. Because man has lost his sense of Christian values which uicc motivated his life. he has be- ('P.'llP. short-sighted. Men them- ,.,m; are setting the obstacles which render impossible the realiz- atlun of a world order. 'rhis ia hap- porting in innumerable ways.

l would like to point out simply air and that is our changing ab- Hmde toward the family. Amoni! me many moblems pressing upon is.-.. the preservation of our family any of life should claim our atten- tion. For if the individual persons ;-in the units in the edifice of .. pi-id peace. the family iii the foun- (I'.iInl'l of that edifice. It is the only pF.'5IbIe base upon which we may tirld a responsible .soclety. '

It is commonplace to say that my attitudes toward marriage and the family have greatly changed in inc twentieth century. There have hcen many writers who thought they saw in those changes some- thing good, but today they are not an confident in their views. Whe- i'-ior they admit or not that they Vii? wrong in their ideas about

ni..irlage and the family, there is he terrifying evidence of in rapid-

ly mounting juvenile delinquency. a daily increasing number of young people without whose moral integrity, strength of character, a sense or social responsibility or an element of principle.

We have been inclined to blame our youth because we think that they should be otherwise. insofar as they have today seemingly un- limited opportunities for education and self-development. But can we be so ridiculous as not to see that the blame must be placed further back? Are we ashamed to admit that the root of the weakness in the individuals lies in the me rind. that is due to our oh god conception regarding family life?

The truth is. matters have gone so far that they cannot easily be glossed over. The telltale marks of disintegration of the family have none too far for that. The dis- integration shows itself in many forms: first of all. in the attitude toward the marriage bond itself. Once. it was regarded as sacred. Today, it is a merely profane bond and it has become little more than a term. It has lost its binding power for many and thus is sund- cred more and more frequently by divorce. Similarly, the bond unit- ing parents and children has be- come weaker and weaker. Children separate from their parents earlier than formerly; if not physically, at least personally and spiritually. A cleavage between the beliefs. men- Izlllify and social attitudes of par- rots and clilldrcn is an accepted fact.

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Our changed conceptions of fanf- ily life are evident in the ease with which we accept the loss of fnnctirms formcrly performed by the family in religion, education and recreation. There was a time when the famllv was really a re- ligimis circle. where prayer had its place. Children were taught to ask God's blessings before meals and at least to say a daily prayer. On Sundays, the family went to

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ENGAGEMENT. -- Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Macwilliams, Eldon. an- nounce the engagement of their oldest daughter Loraine William- son. to Albert Llewellyn, son of Mrs. Catherine Thomas and the late Francois Thomas, West Cove- head. Marriage to take place in the near future.

THE l"S MENETTES MEET - The regular monthly meeting of Y's Mlenettes was held On Mon- day. January 14 in the Banquet Room of the Y. M. O. A. The president. Mrs. 1". Osborne, open- ed the meeting with the Lords Prayer and 25 members answered the Roll Call with a New Year's Resolution. Miss Martin of the Y. staff expained a new course for younger people. hetwcen the ages of 16-20 years which they are en.- deavouring to launch, similar to the So-Ed group. she asked for co-operation and the club voted s26 to the project. The programme for the afternoon was in charge of Mrs. H. McPherson. Mrs. Edwin Johnson. Mrs, S. Jeffrey. Mrs. M. Melllsh and Mrs. J. A. McNalr. who introduced the guest speaker. Mrs. Ruby I-loule. Mrs. I-Ioule gave a very interesting lillk on "Public Speaking" and then a moving reading of Hiawatha. A tasty lunch completed a pleasant after- noon.

church. The situation today is al- ninst too pitiful to relate. Prayer within the home is unusual and family participation at church ll rarity.

The same holds true for educa- tion and recreation. Where for- merly the family was the foremost educational agency for the young, today its functions have shrunk enormously. The evil does not lie in the development of our educa- tional system hut rather in that the family which has the prior right and obligation to educate makes no effort at all to inculcate- habits of virtue in the children The tendency today is to expect the school. which should normally be the helumate of the family, to do everything.

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Formerly. the family circle pro- vided the recreation for all. Now, movies. night. clubs and tliellke. draw everyone from home. The riomestic circle is no longer a hearth or sanctuary but a first- class hotel. Is it any wonder then that our society is so unstable?

In the face of these facts. it ”is unfortunate that in Canada we note an increasing tendency not only to favor divorce but to in- crease the legal reasons for grant- ing them. In other countries where divorce has been unlimited. there are, at present, attempts being made to restrict the severance of the marriage bond. They ha found that with increasing divorce there is an increase in juvenile de- linquency and other social evils.

Is it too much to warn that we stand at the cross roads with re- gard to our Canadian family life? No. it is too little. Many have al- ready gone too far in the wrong direction. We are faced with the important question: Will we or will we not retrace our steps and re- turn to a greater respect for mar- riage and the family? On our de- cision will ultknately depend the

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Tl-IE PIIESBYTERIAN Church in Canada. Central Parish. The annual congregational meeting of the Clyde River Church will he held in the church this evening Jan. 22, at 8 p.m. The annual congregational meeting of the Canoe Cove Church will be held Wednesday. Jan. 23, at 2 p.m. in the church. Servke of worship will be held at Nine Mile Creek Church Wednesday evening, Jan. 93. -at 8 p.m. Rev. Donald Nich- olson, Minister.

A MUCH TBAVELLI-JD OFFI- CIAL - One of Canada's top travelling salesman. engaged in selling Canada. is CEO Commen- tator John Pisher. brother of Dr. Fisher. veterinary surgeon with the Provincial Department of Agriculture here. He himself has lost track of his mileage, but in 1951 he was in 42 of the 48 states, across Canada five times, in Mex- ico and in Europe. on these trips he speaks about Canada to groups ranging in a size to a convention of 10.000 Kiwanians in Miami. Early next month he takes off on a route which will take him to To- peko. Kansas: Akron and Cleve- land Ohio: Fargo, North Dakota, where he will speak to 3.500 fann- ers; Richmond, Virginia and Portland. Maine to speale to 3.500 teachers. In mid-March he has three speaking dates; takes off for two weeks in Europe; and is back in Montreal for further speaking dates in May, All this in addition lo a three-times a week radio program. His outstanding impression of almost anywhere in the states is the number of people who come up to him and say: "I was born in Canada' or "My fath- er was born in Canada.” seems ties with home are never broken.

Card Of Thanks

Ths relatives of ihe late Chas. A. Carr, Marshfieid, wish to thank those who sent flowers and for many acts of kindness shown in their bereavement.

IN IMEMORIAM

of John II.

In loving memory

' MaoFadyes-I. Kenslngton, who pass-

ed away January 22nd. 1950.

Fondly Remembered by Wife and naulbters.

IN TIEMORTAM

MRS PETER McDONALD

who departed this life six years ago today. January 22nd, 1046.

fondly Remembered by Her Husband.

IN MEMORIAM

In loving memory of John R. Machdyen. who passed away January 22nd, 1950.

Two years have passed since that sad day,

When one we loved was sglgleql away.

God took him home, It was his will,

Within our hearts he liveth still.

Ever Remembered by Mother, Brother and Sisters.

Strange lint True

By I. ll. MacArthur-

Abraham Linfolnpardoned Ros- well Mclntyre who was a mem- ber of a New York regiment of Calvary in the war between the states. Condemned to be shot as a deserter, Mclnty-re confessed to the President that he was a co- ward, but promised, if given an- other chance. he would prove his worth. Lincoln gave him this let- ter:

October 4. 1864.

"On condition Roswell Mclntyrc of Company E. 6th Regiment, New York Calvary. return to his Regi- ment and faithfully serve out his term, making up for lost time, he is hereby pardoned for any sup- posed desertion. This paper is hi pass to return to his regiment."

That letter may be seen in the Army archives in Washington with the following words written across its face: "Taken from the dead body of Roswell Mclntyre after the battle of Five Forks. Virginia, April, 1865.”

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The Dominion Department bof Agriculture estimate that 40 per cent of the corn grown in this country is fed to swine. lo per cent to farm horses. 15 per'cent to poultry, while about ten per cent is used for human consump- tion.

Somewhere near the shore of Liverpool Bay. N.S., lies the body of John Mullins - that is. the body minus the ears. These were cut off and carried away by a group of strange seafaring men who captured Mullins when they caught him snooping about the shore while they were digging treasure-chests from' the sand Buried up to his neck in the sand, Mullins was rescued by a. search party from the very hole he had been forced to dig the previous night. When they dragg- ed him from his prison cell they found a package tied io one hand. In contained money and a note which said the coins were in pay- ment. of John Mullins' ears.

it is possible to skate on ice because the pressure of the skates melts the ice. Between the skates and the ice a. layer of water is formed. thus reducing the friction between the skates and the ice.

The movement of glaciers down mountain sides is due to the game cause. Under the weight on the ice the lower layer melts and the ice ship slips down the moun- tain slope just as your skates glide over the ice.

If you held a sheet of iron only a hundred thousandth of a milli- meter thick against a piece of writing you'd be able to read the page as easily as though you were

looking through a piece of trans- parent glass. g I C O

In olden times people thought

that tiny, fiery lizzards lived in the fire burning on their hesrths. Others worshiped fire and built temples in its honor. For centuries lamps dedicated to the God of Fire were kept constantly burn- ing in these temples, never allow- ed to go out day or night.

The custom of keeping a per- petual fire goes back thousands of years ago to a time when people had to depend on lightn- ing'for their fire. when lightn- ing would strike a tree and set it on fire some brave soul seized a burning branch and car- ried it home or to the temple

Later, primitive people des- covered that they could obtain fire by rubbing one piece of wood against another. And the man who made that startling discovery

must have been looked upon as'

a great inventor.

In time fire was started by means of flint applied to dry lin- der. Today we have matches; and strange but true. in 1933 we cele- vrated the 100th anniversary of the first match factory.

The modern cigarette lighter is fashioned after the flint, steel and sponge. or tinder of our fore- fathers. To prove it one has but to examine a lighter. What do we

find? A bit of flint, and a piece

of steel, the tiny wheel. The mid-

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clusters of decorative white flowers which grow at the base of the leaves and re short-lived. The flowers are r ther similar in scent and appearance to the jasmine. The berries are red and about the size of a small cherry. The vola- tile oil and peculiar acid to which the aroma and taste of coffee are due do not develop till the berry is roasted. The leaves contain even more caffeine than the berrlesarid in Malaya an infusion of leaves is often preferred to the use of the berries.

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The nutmeg tree is found in In- dia, Java. Sumatra. and the Phil- ippine Islands. It resembles a pear tree and produces fruit when it is seven years old-at fifteen years it is most prolific and it continues, to iruit until it is seventy or eighty years old.

The aroma from the nutmeg trees on the Spice Islands is said to be strong enough to intoxlcate Birds of Paradise.

This very powerful nut is a most useful medicine for heart failure when rightly used.

The outer coverlng-- of the nut- meg is known as Mace and has i-NY similar properties to nutmeg but is less strong. To dream of nutmeg is said to be a sign of im- pending changes.

There are many Bible plants suitable for Canadian gardens... Today we grow the almond. and in the southern states. the fig, the alive. the pomegranate and the vine: wheat is the staff of life for us, even as it was for them the reopie of those distant times. The liumble onion and leek, the dlli. m:nt and rue of our present-day lives were also part of the cverv- tlay lives of the Bible people

The plants which clothed the land of Palestine with a rich and luxuriant verdure also clothed the thoughts and speeches of the pro- plicis and it-nriers of the land rich with imagery and poetry. These. symbols through which spiritual ideas were presented can live again in ei-oiving green as we plant a Bible garden.

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Morning Light

Have you ever HEARD the sun rising. in midwlntcr, through the woods? He comes with a faint clashing, swinging sound of cym- bals. melting the air with his beams. In the distance we catch the clarion of the cock. the sound of wood-chopping at farmers' doors. the buying of a house dog, the faint drumming of horses” hooves on the hard surface of the icy loads. But the thin and frosty air conveys only the finest part- icles of sound to our ears, with short and sweet vibrations. They reach us clear and bell-like, as though there were fewer impedi- ments than ln summer to make them faint and ragged. The lang- ling of icicles tn the trees is sweet and melodious. And the stinging cold is an elixir to our lungs waft- ed into our souls like a midsum- mer haze purified by frost.

-T. Stone.

get wick sucked in gasoline, takes the place of finder. . . o

I The Maritime Provinces have produced some very big men not

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Mr. Churchill's Speech

In a physical sense his voice is not quite as strong as in other years, and no wonder. It is just as vibrant as ever and just as fas- cinating to his listeners. I-Iis per- sonality remains what it has been for half a century, charming. mag- netic. He is still the same Mr. Churchill who for quite a while now has been recognized as the spokesman for free men every- where. a. living symbol oi the courage that lights on, whatever the cost. when he speaks, the world listens and ponders.

Greatness

I sat by the radio with a note book in my hand. realizing. as mil- lions of others must have done, that in the words which came over the air waves and, still more, in the mind which gave them birth and in the soul which inspired them, was greatness such as falls across the common ways of life on- ly rarely. when the time comes' for him to lay down his burden, on come it must to even the grc.uv.. Ui lllOl'.Zli.S. iizeii tlzv: ll(l.lll i;.- i .-cvet freedom will ll'Onf'”l' if they will ever see his like again.

Honesty

Many people, perhaps, were a little disappointed that the man who has his finger on the pulse of the world divulged no secrets and uttered no prophecy. But even here his forthright honesty shone in splendour. "When I came here ten years ago," he said, "I could not. tell. Today. I (10 not knoW." It would have been easy for him to speculate widely and to promise profusely, but that is the play of lesser men in which Mr. Churchill will have no part. No one knows better than he that the crisis of our time is too serious for idle. speculation. If lie is to lead Once! again the moral forces of woridi law he will do it, as he did it be-I fore, not by calling men to easy tasks but by helping them to face up to heavy ones.

He is able to see perhaps more clearly than any other living per- son "the strange clouds that move

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ideals we have long held in I105; our. for his skill in the ext 0 phrasing has not abated. Hi! con- ception of the Crown as MP3!- Mmg pomp from power will. it it safe to BAY. 1'39 lidded 1” m” m' tanglbles by which we are sus- tained. M('l'l will quote it for Ewe craiions to come just as they will find delight. in another phras- bearing on the place of monarch! in a democratic process of govern- ment. "If a great battle is lost the government is blamed or ever driven from office. If a. great bat- tle is won crowds cheer the king."

When he spoke of Clnldllnl ”clasping with one hand ihl friendly strength of the United States, and with the other the old iradltions of Britain and Prancei he stated in ianruase 0! Poem charm is fact which in years to come will have far reaching hist- orlcal significance.