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Another and greater danger h on the horizon. Unsuccessful League intervention in the Manchurian crisis threatened for a time to cause the league's downfall. 1n the event of s. serious Soviet-Japanese die- pute would certainly be a Bwiot appeal to the Iiellue. Unsuc- cessful League intervention might tlnhlmeke the ~downfa1l of the "Magnum a, political force s. ocr- tsfnty. But if there 1s to bo l. ser- imi Soviet-Japanese dispute. 8o- irom Geneva. would

Tomorrow we will be attending ..divine worship and snyifll- 01109 more to all our friends and. oc- jquaintances, "A Merry Christmas." And we will be meaning it, and f, thinking kindly of all our neighbors and all the world, and hoping 7that they will have, like ourselves, g snug family dinner, a cheerful __ fireside, ease of mind and health fpf body. If we hdVq.‘ contributed m one way o: another to insure B merry Christmas for some less fortunate individual or family, our own pleasure and satisfaction will be enhanced. 1f we have not, there is jet time to repair the omission -befct'e Christmas Day, 1934, passes. Good will is the very essence of the Christmas message, and 1t speaks something for humanity that with all its mistakes and shortcomings, it has held fast t0 the spirit as well as the text of the Christmas story. Outside sacred lit- ‘erature, perhaps no writer reflects the Christmas spirit so completely as does Dickens. ‘That sense of oneness with his kind, of human solidarity and brotherhood all over the earth, was very real to him. His Christmas stories must have been written at white heat; they still re- vtain the glow of inspiration that surged through him, and they can be read and reread without the ‘llightest loss of interest occasion- ed by looseness of plot or occasion- al lapses in style. Who but. Dickens, ior example, could have written: "The Spirit of Christmas stood beside sick beds, and they were < cheerful; on foreign lands, and they were close at hot-nu; by struggling men, and they were patient in their greater hJpQ; by poverty, and it was rich. In almshouses, '- hospital and jail, in miserys every .. refuge, where vain man in his . little brief authority had not made fast the door, and barred the ‘ Spirit out, he left his blessing."

I‘ ' At this Christmsstfde there - dhould be a wider appreciation than raver before of the meaning and - spirit of the festival. 1n Canada, and this Province particularly, we f~cnjoy blessings on which 1t is not Sgmfitting to dweiTwith gratitude at 711115 season.

,'_’_'Ib all our readers, and especially '_'those who responded so generously Jo-the "Santa Pal" appeal and have Ithus insured a measure of 10y End fhappiness to the less fortunate "children of the community, we ex- "hnd thc time-honored wish: A Jferry Christmas.

égltlBRARY EXPERIMENT

. .Undcr the above heading the Win- Ipipeg Free Press has a, favorable jerlitorial comment on the success of Tthe Carnegie demonstration library Int Fraser Valley, BC. This library --was started before the Prince Ed- ward Island movement got under Jfway, and the result, as noted by the

‘ jFroe Press, is both interesting and

fghcouraging. We quote: - _' “British Columbia is once again Jalvorcd by the Carnegie Foundation for nn experiment in bringing read- ing to the parts uf the country far Iretnoved from pavements. A gift of $15,000 is announced and follows upon the success of a similar ex- periment carried out in the Fraser Valley and of one now in progress 1n Prince Edward Island. Vancou- ver Island will’ be the scene of this one together with three other com- munitics, Ckanagan, the Kootenays nuci possibly a group centring an l‘r'.v Westminster. Dr. Helen Stew- m, who directed the Fraser Valley carzpnign, will be 1n charge. The plan is to set up regional union lib- rarics. “The experiment was carried on by the Foundation for three years in the Valley and last. January a the.» was taken of the residents as to whether it should be continued at their expense. In Fraser Valley,

LTHE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT‘

Tomorrow's should be well attended, judging by the number of men and women of goodwill in our midst.

spread. Women's orginiaatiws, oe- pecialiy the Women's Institutes. um‘ made heroic eifcrts to meet 1t, and Manitoba, among other places, has little libraries dotted hero uie there that have meant much to its communities. The Carnegie experi- ment in British Columbia and Prince Edward Island suggests the harvest 1s ready and 1s not confin- ed to a few."

THE MAIL BOX

It is reported that. the first ‘batch of Christmas mail from the British Isles to Canada was the heaviest carried by any single boot v during the past six years. 1t is estimated that this shipment, packed in 10,600 bags, included some five million letters and parcels, enough u; fill fourteen cars of a mail train. And there were other shipments to fol- low which were probably ls great m bulk and equally indicative of what is meant by the Christmas rush to the postoflice in these mod- ern days. It has been sa-ld that the world is ruled by the ballot box, the jury box and the band box. Surely we are justified in adding to this potent triumvirate the busin- ess done through the mail box. It cuts a wider swath than the other three, and at all times they are very largely dependent upon the mail service to rightly carry on their functions. We can hardly conceive how folk managed to rub along before this institution was established; nor imagine what an aching void would be produced in our own lives were this means of communication drawn. Like ‘Ibnnysons brook, the mail business goes on forever. And again, much as a little brook joins its waters with a thousand other small streams and swells into a mighty river, we may reflect upon the way in which this mail busin- ess, from small beginning, hes gradually increased unto the huge dimension it has now attained.

The Montreal Gazette recalls that the scheme of uniform penny post- age became statutory in August, 1839, having secured a majority of a hundred votes in tho British House of Commons. Seven years later the total umber‘ of letters dropped into the null boxes of the United Kingdom had nearly doub- led and reached the figure of 929 millions within the year. A com- plete tally of the mall box business as it now obtains would show that double this number of letters and parcels are dropped into the post of- fice during the week preceding Christmas.

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EDITORIAL NOTES

All hurry and scurry today.

The night before Christmas is some night.

If you have done your Christmas duty of love and benevolence all will be well.

church services

The firms being investigated at Ottawa must be glad Christmas adjournment.

of the

According to Canadian Press de- spatch from Fredericton, tato interests there do not consider the withdrawal of Quebec this year will adversely sflect for united action by the other four provinces and the federal board to improve the potato Marketing situ- ation.

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Cuba has taken three times as many New Brunswick seed potatoes this season as she did in the some period ilet year, and according to

not prevent it. . . . Soviet mem- bflnhlp of the [league is unlikely W bring the world nearer salvation. It cannot well bring it. nearer chaos.

The rhe in tho number of road deaths 1n London shows what a dif- flcult business it is 801118 to be to reduce very substantially the num- ber of fatalities. It will not be done gram me top alone, though energy and determination at the top are indispensable, Everyone must o0- operaw. Everyone must come to feel, not that he is Primfl-YUY I pedestrian. 0r a. cyclist. or a mot- orist with spectsl rights of his 0WD. but that primarily he is a.’ road- usel‘. a member of a great 00m- munity whose members must co- poerate-or some of them will die. A motorist becomes a Pedestrian when he steps out cf his ctr. l

like everywhere else, there was no gaze cash and the library main- , . tmancg meant more taxes. But the i ‘ I twenty taxing units concerned mted abut it be continued. Mk-“In the time during which 1t hoe mbeen set up 18,000 persons become Ilfiembérs and nearly three-quarters n million books were circursted. "Branches, sub-branches and stations stocked up with 22,000 volumes. Beyond l. doubt much of the suc- .. in Fraser Valley is due to the . tcbrlllisncy and enthusiasm of the fififllrecior but there must also have _ {been present on the pert of the ‘ l {beanie e thirst for reading which "“ hbrlry supplies. The oxjjri- ~Y of various organisations . l ,

bout these prairies and in- . throughout the Dominion end

the Federal inspector of seed pota- toes at Fredericton the prospect of the exports to Cuba being tripled for the season as a whole is decid- edly favourable.

Canada's export of meats in Nov- ember roached the total value of $2,004,000. of which 01.950900 wont to the united Kingdom. Bacon w tbe United Kingdom accounted for $1,404,081 of the aggregate, the next belt buyer being the United sum‘ at $8,000.

The export of poultry in Novem- ber was 10,000 pounds, or about one thousand pounds more than n your ago. Dm-ingjbe iint eight “ of the present flscsl year the export was 704.000 P011114‘. "P

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up their toy pistols. that engulfed the world in 1014 was no bigger than this trouble of 1034 —ot the start. The scuffing out of "little" conflicts which might grow puts every nation-even those which feel no obligation to join

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pedestrian becomes a motor-user when he boards a. coach. Emil! 101‘ all and all for each is a motto as good for the roads as elsewhere.- London Daily Herald.

It is characteristic of human nature to shrink from hardnw. t0 avoid the dark and gloomy and look only for the pleasant things. It is part of the old tendency and temptation to take the easy way. We shrink from effort at times and w: avoid the unpleasant thins! in me wherever possible. Perhaps that is why we are so often opposed to any way of living that would exclude the world. The world is a pleasant piece and its ways seem delightful and desirable. But “there is a. WHY that seemeth right unto a. man but the end thereof are the ways of death."

"Americans look self-control; they eat. drink and smoke 1n ex- cess; they are a. frivolous people. given to fads and rmcies. and they are thoroughly unfit for a. planned economy which might- require l certain measure of dlsciplilm" Thus a certain minister of New York city remarked the other day- He did not discriminate. He did not say some America-rm. but "Ameri- cans." ‘Ihet means our countrymen a; g, whole, "lack self-control,“ and so on. That we do not believe, and we do not think the reverend critic believes it, either. Why not be tem- perate in matters of this sort?— Boston Post.

1g |, gqflrgfl, dlplomntist who died 1n Berlin at. the age of eighty had hm his way, the world would be a very different place today. His name was Count Paul Wolff-Met- temich, and it has bem largely forgotten during the nest twenty years. But from 1901 to 1912 1t was often in the newspapers, for he was then German ambassador to Brit- ain. He sought to brine about naval agreement between Britain and Germany, but could not per- suade his own government of th’: wisdom of this and was quietly displaced after he had advocated 1t very persistently-Edmonton Jour- nal.

It is interesting to recall that. not so long ago the Catholic communit- ies or Hong Kong and Macao made a joint pilgrimage to the tomb of 5t. Francis Xavier at Sanchuen. One of the earliest missionaries to the Far East, Francis Xavier was followed by men of commerce who

found in China. a difficult though fl

attractive mart. The Portuguese have been in China for almost four hundred years and undoubtedly boast cf a longer association with Cathay than any other Western nation. Macao, their possession and stronghold in South China, afford- ed protection, not only to Portu- guese merchants, but also to those of other nationalities seeking to trade in China-Hang Kong Press.

Those mostly concerned with the problems of humanity, or of life, arc not those who make the most noise about it. or who talk or writ/e the most about it-—but those who feel the deepest, those who treasure an inward serenity of heart. In all the writings about Abraham Lin- coln I have failed to find any ref- erenoe to any irritability qf man- ner or speech on his part. He al- ways seemed calm. His very pic- tures give to one a sense of his inward serenity-yet it was a sad face. Illilkesting a. heart deeply troubled with the greatest of prob- lems. Happiness is not a matter of great possessions, but of a few choice gains, .1; ripe understanding and s. vibrant appreciation. And then I friend. 0r. two, thrown in for a perfect measure.

The opportunity Geneva affords to blow off steam and to mobolize world opinion has a value that gou beyond mere orders from the big powers to the little ones to put The trouble

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the case of Mussolini, the shade of Mechievolli stands behind the up-

ifted arm of the Fascist salute.

Stalin relies on the saintod Marx. Other dictators have more mater- iel mentors. The ‘iron men’ govern banana republics In the Car- ibbean no backed by theft-tilt com- panies. And 1n German it is Thys- len uber Hitler. Pritl Thyuon is the most powerful coal and steel magnate 1n the Keith. no rules 200,000 workers in his mines and factories. Offlcleily, be is just one

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MAKING TIE US LUNG BEST

Now that it 1s known that rest for the patient which means rest for the P1118 the bisaest ‘part q: me “We L11 illbeffbwfiflia various means. of obtaining this rest are now being used in sanatcrium treatment,

For the firstfewyyearg 31w;- we V51"? 0X rest became known patients 5111194’ spent many months m bed,

As some of these cases djd no; d9 too well even with cOmplete rest 1n bed, other methods of keeping the ilms from beinx used were tried. Thus the patient was instructed to lie on the side affected so mm, n; could not move as much when he bmflihed’; bass of shot or other weights were placed over the weak lung; adhesive plaster was strapped over the affected side m prgvgnt, fgovement, just as is done 1n pleur-

In- the more serious cases where the tuberculosis was gaining head- way despite these methods of rest- ing the lung, what is known as “arti- ficial pneumothorax was used. This consists of pumping gas into the bag-the pleural bag-in which the lung is situated. This gas pushes or compresses the lung into a very small space. Thus. by preventing the lung from expanding, the lung must rest and while so resting 1t has a, better chance to heal.

This gas pressure is maintained by refilling the pleural sack or bag from time to time.

As mentioned above this treatmgng has been used only 1n the serious cases, but to-day many lung spec- lalLsts are advising that it be done in the lus serious cases so that much time can be saved.

The ideal case for the use of arti- ficial pneumothorax is where one lung 1s badly diseased and the other free, or almost free, of disease. Some idea of how the use of arti- ficial pneumothorax has increased may be gained from a report of Drs. C. D. Parfit and D. W. Crombie, Graventurst, Canada. During a. per- iod of 19 years they treated 229 pat- ients by artiflcial pneumothorax: in the first five _years, 12 per cent of their patients were thus treated, and in recent years 30 to 40 per cent.

Apart from the benefit to the pat- ients physically you can see that as they can leave the sanitarium, w- turning only for "refills" of the gas, their beds will be available for other patients.

Why Christmas Day

(A Christmas Message by Dr. Dyson Hague, Toronto)

It was Christmas morning, Dickens said. The Church bells were ringing their lustiest peals. Golden sun- 118m; heavenly sky; sweet fresh air; merry bells. 0 glorious, glorious! "What is to-day?" said Scrooge. "What 1s to-day my fine fellow?" "Today," replied the boy, "why Christmas Day!" And you remem- ber the marvellous change that came over the mean monster of selfish- ness, Scrooge, as told 1n "The Christ- mas Caro1", that masterpiece of the genius of Dickens. If you have not read‘ 1t,, do read it, and if you have read 1t, read 1t again. And 1f you can read about Bob Cratchit. and Tiny Tim, as he said he hoped the people saw him in the Church be- cause he was a. cripple and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day who made lame beggars walk and blind Incn see, without a. tear very near the eye, you must have something of the spirit of that clutching, covetous old sinner, Scrooge, hard and sharp as a int. What is it that floods this old cold world with sympathy and char- ity and love gifts, that mellows a myriad hearts ~ the spirit of for- giveness and unselfishness, and re- leases the singing of biithesome songs and carols, the laughtgy and the children's shouts? Why, it's Christmas! And our Christmas joy is heaven-born. It started from me flashing Angel in the environing glory of the Lord (Luke 219-11). It sounded in the sky, that Christmas Evimsel of 10y. Brest joy, for all; that joy that sweeps across the rifts of space and time and melts hard hearts and lights the love light in a million lives. Why, it's Christ! Christ the Virgin-born. Christ the Incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary. Christ who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven. Christ the Babe in the manger whose name was to be called Wonderful, the Mighty God, the Prince of Peace, and by the sweetest and grandest of all names, the Name that is above every name, the name of Jesus. Oh, if we could only thin‘: that every present we make at Christmastide and every gift we give to friend or loved one. t0 the poor and the lonely, 1g jug: as 1f we gave a gift to Christi Oh, 1f the myrisds to-day who think of the cold and hungry stretch out their hands to help the poor and bring light into sad eyes and warmth into cold bodies woufl do it for the high- er love, the love of God shed abroad 1n our hearts by the Holy Spirit giv- en to us. I love that story told some years ago of the little Stratford girl who wrote: "Dear Santa Claus: i went. you to if you can let m; hsv a. (101 I hav not got one that's all 1 need because my sister needs more then i do she 1s sending s. letter to you to an if you havent enuf dole you let her hav hers first. dora." Surely that was a love that is the heart of Christmas. 1 hceni only the

tion. But in reality he is the mov- ing epirit not only of this organic!- tion, but of the whole country. Vir- tually everyone. from the humble government inspector of mine shafts up to the dread Fuhrer bim- eolf, is e puppet of this powerful industrialist. Rs 1e e‘ Robber Baron of the Rhino-new style. His rule, like those medieval prototypes, 1| truly patriarchal over the vases-i miners and factcryhunds. He, too. lives in a gloomy eutle in Lands- bert. on s hllh hill overlooking his industrial lief. And like the mbber

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The Gospel by Matthew of tho Three Wise Mon and the brilht star thlt Illided them to the stable at Bethlehem, provides s. striking i, coincidence in an on- nouncenieitt from Bnrvard observe- tory. Dr. Harlow Shplcy. director, says a Cambridge despatch, relates that Nova Herculie, 1984. In explor- ing star, discovered by on amateur in England only Pridey of lest week. is growing steadily brighter Ind of increasing importance. Not that ae- tronomers atached any but scientific significance to the event, though 1t has been held that the star which the Wise Men are said to have fol-