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Appointment of R. I. C. Picard of Montreal, as Secretary of The Royal Bank of Canada is an- nounced by the bank. Mix, Picard recently returned to the bank from service in the Air Force, from which he wg| re- READ '1‘. JOEY’! tired with the rank of Squadron ——— Leader. He was born in Montreil Christ Was Born to Save and received his Master of Arts But os many as received him, to Degree at McGili University in l9- them gave he power to become the 32. The following year did post- sons of God, even to them that graduate work in economics believe on his name: Which were at the Inndon School of Ecnom- born, not of blood, nor of the will ics in London, England. Recently of the flesh, nor of the will of man, he was granted the degree of Doc- but of God. tor of Philosophy in Economics by No one knows the exact day the University of Ottawa on com- when Olll‘ Lord wus- born, Decem- plotion of a thesis on Canadian her 25 is an arbitrary date, chosen Banking in W8!‘ Time. for two reasons possibly, It is near Ml‘. Picard joined the bank in i933 the shortest day of the year, De- and served in various branches cember 21. The Church is saying and in the Inspection and Credit that the light came at the darkest Departments in both Montreal and time. "The light shineth in darlt- Toronto. From 1936 to 1939 he was ness; and the darkness overcame Special Assistant in the General it not." Manager's Department at Head “How can we have Christmas Office and in 1940 became Assist- this year of sorrow or hardship?" ant Manager of Toronto Branch. Why, that's one of the chief menn- In September i912 he was comniis- ings of Christmas. God came mic sioned in the R..C.A.F. and, uftcr the world when things were at serving as Administrative Officer their worst; l-le siiii comes then. at various stations, was transferred Collects and Gospels means more to the Organization Division of Air this year when Christmas is only Force Headquarters in Ottawa. parties and trees, Here ho became one of a small The second reason is. the old 811ml) 0f SPEC-Tami! charged With gagan feast before the New Year. the re onsibiiity of revising and eople exchanged gifts and dlssi- co.nsol ating the basic disciplinti financial and flying regulations of the RC A.F. Last summer Mr, Picard was loaned by the RCA F. to the Department of External Affairs lo serve on the Government's coni- mittee set up to prepare for and organize the first session of the Provisional International Civil Avi- ation Organization, During the first session of the Council Mr. Picaid acted as Recording Secretary.

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patcd. partly to forget the passing of time. Usually we can ignore it, but not at New Year's Death is nearer, Ol‘ is ii. another life? A- gainst the uncertain phiiosorphizing and nervous merry-making of worldliness, the Gospel flatly claims, "In him was life; and the life was the light of men." Good Christian men, rejoice, With heart, and soul, and voice; Christ was born for thlsl “Glory to God in thg highest, and on earth peace, good will to- ward men.”

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T at is why the message had to .. - . ' - . come in the way i, d,d__by angel Gods fiietrédship for man, and ilts voices. It was so far beyond hu- gatixgnf ecu upo“ We w ° man conception, not to say inven- ' _ tiona thatbits firstb proclamation fofigaduzfsflgflmgglggdyflgiQfihix coui not e made y ordinary hu- ' man announcers. It was a message “if”? thfse gm?‘ accgpmgid n“: from God, designed for human Eiifllds“ p’ ann. t °55 w g H. m)‘ ears; and for all its breath-taking 391mm‘? ‘.0 '5 0w"; an ‘s °wn

-- ~ _ received Him not. But as many glagr-‘Lfllcegce l): was qgi-le compre as received Him"—ahl what a dif-

ensi e y uman eings, even

untutored shwherds’ when it was ferenc; it made to‘ them, and still told to them. But they had to be milk" “l ihedlefe ‘frs- u told, tolieaz‘ the message themselves s‘: we 9°“ e- l “l 12m" g“ before they could pass it on; hence cm Sig“ $955,359 83:": , o: "the angel of the Lord," and the Iflwd? fis- l“ Y» mmd f°° g?“ rhapsody of the “multitude of the m‘ “is- u‘ notdtft’ is‘); 9r f,» heavenly host" when they compre- G°d ' Lgvei and I s imfh‘ pro t hended thedigdlory and wonder of gggglwelifinxlse. B" live n 9 l" 5 God's splen undertak ng, ,,, . ' .

“Glory to Godd in [he h,g,1,est»_ Tilsslhngrlzxesgod, but mean mens xignveegge ha‘? mtg” 92?: finw: Dims the crystal star of hoDe." knew. "Glory to 0d" or such a magnificent conception, the rescue of men through the gift of His Son. How could men conceive so sublime a thlng—that "God so lov- ed the world, that He gave His only begotten Son”?

"And on earth Peace"—God‘s Peace; His ow.n majestic serenity. confidence, purpose, power-to be given to mcnl

"Good will toward men"-God's own loving, saving good will, and expressed in such a fashion!

It could not be other than thnt "all they that heard it wondered at those things which were Idld them by the shepherds” as they passed on the angelic message; or that “Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart"; or that "the shepherds returned. glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told them." Who wouldn't wonder and be astonish- ed under those circumstances? Ii. was a modt amazing revelation of the love of God for men, far, far

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beyond what they could hope or think themselves apart from Gods revelation.

God's peace for us'I....foi‘ me? Yes, if we will only accept it. Is the same fatally exclusive cry “No room to be repeated in our age too? Perhaps half conscious- ly by us? By you and me, because we are too busy? Surely at lczist “who profess and call oursel- ves Christians," can open our hearts anew to Him this Christmas time, and resolve-each one of us —~that by the grace of God we shall say more earnestly than ever before:

"O come to my heart, Lord Jesusi There is room in my heart for

St. Jude's Church, Toronto. OVEBCROWDED SALOONS

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thing else entirely.

free and Young girls who should

is either relaxed or hooted to reawaken our social

ugliness of the situation and i inevitable to the usages of

to frequent saloons, es

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other for it,

women out of saloon

m: cuantorrrfown GUARDIAN

"the Navy had reports

Thee. By Rev. R. J. Shires, M.A., 131).. _. - i944 MODEL

“One need not visit battlefields o

ravages of war upon human be-

gs.

"It needs only a casual glance into the dim, noisy, crowded 4a- loons that have sprung thickly in all American towns and cities to havoc war has play- ed with moral fiber, with social

‘The ore-prohibition saloon was a masculine center. It liad developed and enforced cer- ‘ “ds of corsluct, With in- rat- ion. "But the modern version is some-

"The majority of customers arc women, many of whom are unea- corted. The talk is exceptionally shockingly prgienm

school and married woman who should be at home accept tooinany drinks from utter strangers. Ev- ery decent restraint and convention "Clearly something must be dado _ to open our ayes to the degradlnti s

conseauencel; return lgnity and sell-

re ect. 5Y1 is obviously wrong for WORM‘;

“It is wrong for them to drink l.

“Women know this, and men also know It, and both deipiao oacls

‘Their own sense of "self-respect ‘ and decency, of course, should keep

l. i "But if appeals to rtuo and propriety are not suffi ent or oi’- i tective, then the community should act protect its‘ as a

to III an _ daughters from their own folly hy

ii._s. llavy-F. s. l.". liovl llovssloil " At Investigation

By TOM RIM)! WABHINCTO ". 9. ll-(Ail- Investigators of the Japanese at» Harbor were told United States Rgvy with the Fed- eral hureau of Investigatlornstop- ped listening in on Japanese tele- phone conversations in Hawaliflvo days before the Dem], mi at- tack.

The I‘.B.l. c ‘ ’ tappingone Japanese consulate line up to tlie moment of the assault, and in this way learned that the Consul in Honolulu was destroying hlscodea. This evidence, placed before the joint Congressional investigating committee, was included in a re- port by LL-Col. Henry O. F‘ assigned by Henry Stimson, than Secretary of War, to make an in- dependent inquiry ‘in, 1942.

The committee also was inform- ed of another long-time secret- in June, 1940, that the Japanese would try to sabotage the Panama Canal if the United States Fleet moved from its Hawaii base» toward the Atlantic. The fleet feinted an ap- proach to the canal, but the sabo- tage did not occur.

This testimony was developed by committee members from a mes- sage sent by Admiral Harold R. Stork, then Chief of Naval Oper- ations, to Admiral J. 0. Richard- son, commandei of the Pacific

Fleet.

The Navy-F. B. I. row - occurred after the RBI. tapped a suspects line. The telephone company.re- ported the matter to the ‘Navy,

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which aware of the-international complications that misht- arise from buch surveillanoes, discou- tinueddts own ts ins arrange- ments on Dec. 2. l“ . were not resumed. until the morning of

Dec. ‘I, after the Jap attack. Both disclosure. came as Gen. George C. Marshall former Chg! ug ii

he hoped to avert It by show of force in the Philippines.

The wartime Chief of Btafl said everything lnted to eventual war in the ciflc from the sum- mer of that fateful year onward.

Ia told the high-level officials of the Government the Army needed until Dec. 5 to make ade- quate reparations, and that Ad- miral tarlr needed untlhlebru- ary of 1M2 to guarantee the Navy's readiness; _

"'1 had tho lit we could build u the Philipp es b Dec. l and i we could, it mig t discourage the . ., mm .- o .. I titled.

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whole country east of Manitoba eneral s-ubinomial in the

Dvisrl Novesnber ‘the 21 representative rivers across

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