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WITH THE Ntsa)yis International Brotherhood The foUowir.s paragraphs will lUus- ^ate how world wide the Boy Scoutu Association has become, and if these boys maintain their friendly relation- sJiipa with their foreign Brother Scouts in the years to come, the chances of further warfare will be re- duce to a minimum. scot Scouts Tour Norway and Sweden A trobp of 20 Dundee Scouts hiked through Norway and Sii>.-itu laot sum- mer, spending the nights at the head- quarters of Norwegian and Swedish troops. English Scouts For Czechoslovakia Two Boy Scouts are among the Eng- lish boys selectetl to go to Zlin, Czecho-Slovakia, tor three years' train- ing at the famous Bata Slioe Com- oajiy's factory. OfTiclal Dates of World Scout Meet This year's world gathering of Boy Scouts at Godollo Hungary, will of- ficially open on Wednesday, August 2nd, and close on the 15th. Scout con- tingents from other countries are ex- pected #to arrive July 31st and leave August IGth. Scout Foreign Friendship Tours Scouts of Kent, England, hold the record for international visiting. For l2 successive years at Easter they have visited other countriesâ€" in sue- â-  cession Czecho-Slovaliia. Spain, Hol- land. Italy, Denmark, France, Switzer- land, Belgium, Austria. Hungary, Po- land. Last summer they visited Scot- hind. This Easter a party of 200 will visit Germany. Scout Fraternizing in Europe European camps or jamborees in *rhieh Scouts from other countries par- ticipated were held last summer in Poland, Denmark and the Netherlands. Scouting and Education A Hungarian Scouter. Dr. E. de Krai- fiath. has been made Minister of Edu- cation in the Hungarian Government. jAustrallan and Canadian Boys Swap An offer to swap kangaroo skins and boomerang.s for Indian Canadian bas- ket and bead work and carving has been made to Canadian Boy Scouts by Scouts of Queensland. Yugoslavia's 1932 Scout Gathering Yuroslavia's Second National Scout Camp, held last year, was attended by contingents from oacli province, aud by Hungarian, Czechaluvakian and Russian Scout troops, and representa- tives from Great Britain. Austria, Po- land and France. British Scouts to Holland and Poland Contingents of Scottish and Englisii Scouts will represent Great Britain at the Dutch Campcraft Camp and the Polish Sea Scout Jamboree in August. Hungarian Scouts Will Write Others The Hungarian organiziug commit- tee of the World Scout tjathering plan- ned for 1933 is working on a scheme to develop correspondence between Hungarian Scouts and those of other countries planning to attend the Ja:n- t)oree. A New Tribute to the Junior League of Nations The own-jrs of tile Campagne Rigot, adjoining the park in which the new League of Nations buildings are being erected at Geneva, have invited Boy Scouts to camp there as guests. A special Scout dormitory is planned. Earl Bessb'orough Commends Scouting to Leading Citizens Addressing the Dominion Executive Committee of the Boy Scouts Associa- tion His Excellency tlie Governor-Gen- eral commended the quality of leader- ship reflected by the many Scout units reviewed by him during his summer tour of the west. He commented par- ticularly upon the smartness of the Scouts in places where the interest of prominent public men was most evi- dent. He commended the Movement to the attention of leading business and professional men everywhere. Scouting is available, through the Lone Scout Department, to all boys from 12 to 18 years of age inclusive. If you live in a small town or village, or on a Rural Route, etc., and would like to be a Scout, writ© for particu- lars to The Boy Scouts Association, Lone Scout Department, 330 Bay St., Toronto 2. We shall be glad to hear from you and will send you particulars without any obligation to yourself. â€" "Lone E." Parisian Chic IllitSiratei^ Dresunu.ling Lesson Fur- itUhed With Every Patttm By HELEN WILLIAMS. Arrival at Dawn If I might choose the moment of arrival iu a strange city, it should bo dawn. I could then take the city unawares, before it had time to put on the preoccupied expreysion of Everyday activities in which I had tic pari. Arriving at daWn, I should begin the day with those who belong ;here, not as an intruder. The early mnshine would smile its welcome, I'nd my first remark to a atranger, ihat it was a fine day, would make aie feel at ease. In the hour of dawu, I beheld Bombay for the first time. During Che night, there had been unmis- takable sounds of arrival. The throb of engines was iiibdued; somewhere Iu the ship's deep heart, shining steel and ponderous iron became .dminously still. Bare feet went thudding overhead, and voices call- ed out iu the darkness. The night â- was still when we stopped, crept tor- ward, stopped again, and then made X mysterious slow advance. Behind US' lay the wide seas we had travers- ed tor three weeks. At dawn we had arrived. 1 went Up on deck to see palm fringed hills, dim islands of Irregular shape, and a low-lying city huddled along its harbor. Round our great ship a •core of little craft circled busily in the broadening light, and aliefn figures came clambering on board to Jtare at us with curious eyes. I was to live in Bombay. Where In that opalescent sunrise, was my home? It was strange to reflect that foon many unfamiliar streets would become known to me, that the per- !ume of exotic flowers, wafted over the water, would hold, for all time, » poignant memory. Landing at dawn, the city had still »n uucaptured beauty, aud its breath was sweet as an ocean breeze. It night have been a dream city, evolv- ed from night shadows, nebulous and fair. Later there would be crowds, discordant noises. I, with everyone else, would have a distinct reason for going here or there with a sense ol serious undertaking.^. But, as a sirangor. I could roll in my carriage at ease down almost empty streets, dust colored under trees of scarlet gold mohr, and with houses in bowery gardens stil! asleep. Too soon the enchantment of dim love-lines would give place to hard outlines of photo- graphic clarity. The Bombay of my arrival was beautiful, a city of domes, slender columns, soaring arch and carved balcony, set among lawns of emerald greenness, shadowy palm, and flaming flowers. The Bombay of my arrival was quite different to the Bombay, often wonderfully beauti- ful, of my later experience. Yes. it is good to arrive at dawn. Littoria â€" Italy's New Town Mussolini's Caesarian operation in producing a new Italian town in the midst of the Pontine Marshes, close to Rome, which maJtes them habitable and tillable, is a new triumph tor II Duce. Nero, the Caesars, the Popes, and Napoleon I. according to the Rome correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph, all attempted to drain the tract, which had become a fever- stricken fenland, probably because an earthquake destroyed tho natural drainage about COO B.C. Flfty-flve thousand men are now en- gaged in the Fascist land-reclamation scheme, and redeemed land has al- ready given health and food to thous- ands. It is stated that more than 17- 000,000 acres of swamps and mountain places have either been rendered flt for cultivation or are almost ready, tl Duce himself is quoted as saying: "To find work for our growing popu- lation, it has hitherto been necessary to cross the Alps o. the ocean. But to-day it Is here, half-an-hour's journey from Rome that we have succeeded In conquering a new province. "This is but a fraction of the land we are goiiig to reclaim. Internal work will settle the problem of unem- ployment before long and Italians will not emigrate any more." No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that It may not be subdued b.v discipline. â€" Seneca. February 12. Lesson VII â€" Jesus Teaching By Parables (Four Kinds of Hearers;â€" Mark 4: 1-10, 13-20. Golden Text â€" Herein i- my Father Glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be Tiy disciples. â€" John IS: 8. ANALYSIS. I. cospr.'. H,vici;i;.\ED, Mark 4: 4, 15. II. tUAlt.MKO BCT NOT CHANCED, Mark 4: 5, 6, 16, 17. III. PBF.-OCCIPIEI), Mark 4: 7, 18, IU. IV. Kllsi'ONSIVE, Mark 4: 8, ^^0. INTHODLCTION â€" Until now Jesus had preached so that any one .vho iiappuned to listen could understand. This method would no longer do. Pc-jple were watcJiing him, looking for M>mcthing to use against him. Some form of ir.stiuction was neces- sary which wjuid be :nearangless to the casual or critical hearer, but which would conv.-y tru'Ii to those whom he wished spe«ial.y U- instruct. To those who were really ii.terested and sirceie he would expU>.i-i the meaning. From now on he nevci. s;)oke in public except in parables. Ha gave private explanations to his disciplo*- '• 31. Verse 12 seems to contradict this reason. Matthew's account says "be- cause" (Matt. 13: 10-16,), instead of M.nrk's "in order that." '"he passage v\hich evidently came to Jesus' mind, as he reflected upon the hardness of people's hearts, was the discouraged t:.clamation of Isaiah in similar cir- cumstances, Isaiah 6 : 9, 10. In He- brew literature, when some event could be confidently predicted, it was spoken of as having been planned or purposed. Isaiah knew so well how his people would reac to unpleasant tr th that he prediced thct they would harden their hearts against all that e wuj going to say. They them- selves were bringing aboui. their de- struction, not God. Matthew, familiar with this characteristic of Hebrew lit- erature, wrote down in plain lan- guage, so that none leed misunder- stand, what Jesus really meant. "I speak to them in parables because. . ' 1 1 GOSPEL H.\RDENED, Mark •_ : 4, 15. Agair, taking to the boat to avoid I p oressure of the excited crowds, -bly also to guard against a sur- prise by the police. Jesus told the par- able of the four kinds of soil. The seed which fell by the edge of the beaten path (v. 4) refers to people whose hearts are hardened 'uy con- tinually hearing, but not doing the truth. The gospel calls, not merely for admiration, but for action. Ruskin =j.id, "Every dvrty we omit obscures some truth we might have known." What could Jesus say, or any other preacher do, with such hearers? At the moment, nothing. The birds, some twittering interest, some new excite- ment, some trivial item of gossip im- mediately snatch up the seeds of truth. Until life drives some plough- share of pain or trouble into such lives, truth will make no hold. II. CH.4R.MED BUT NOT CHANGED. Mark 4: 5. 6, 16, 17. The stony ground (v. 5^ is a thin layer of good earth on a ledge of rock. It prornotes a rapid growth which, in dry weather, quickly withers. This tigure pictures the alert mind and the closed heart. "Delighted with your sermon this morning!"â€" but it mere- ly stimulated the mind, changed neither the character nor conduct. This soil pictures the people who start but never finish, enthusiasms which d not last. "I will follow thee with- ersoever thou goest" (Luke 9: 57, 58), but the Master gave hin no en- couragement. He knew that when "following" him would mean giving up cherished plans, undertaking some unwelcome service, being misunder- stood, standing up against the cynic's talk that Jesus' ideal is beautiful but impossible to act out in daily life, then the sudden, shallow enthusiasm would settle down, vs. 16, 17. This soil also pictures those who mistake an emotional excitement for a real conversion. A religion that is just feeling, and has not captured both n.ind and will, can .lever stand up against life's trials and perplexities. III. PBE-OCCIPIED, Mark 4: 7. 18, 19. Verse 7 indicates a soil that is rich and promising, but already sown with the seeds of competing plants. People with splendid gifts of personality, in- telligence, characte-, become so en- grossed in business, the making of money, social activities, the struggle for a living, that their spiritual prom- i.se never comes to fulflment. Each life is a limited area. It cannot con- tain everything. We must select It is not so much a question " "Is this good or bad?" as "Will this crowd out something better?" As a potato plant becomes a weed if it appears in a flowerbed, so many activities, good enough in themselves and in their proper place, become e\n!» when th?y Farm Queries Henry G. Bell. B.S.A., Dept. of Chemistry, O.A.C. Address All Letters to Farm Editor. 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. All Answers Will Appear in this Column. If Personal Reply is Desired, Enclose Stamped and Addressed Envelope. â-ºâ- â€¢â€¢â€¢â€¢â- â- â- â€¢â€¢ I »»»>••â- â€¢â€¢â€¢â€¢ Su;h lascination: You'll adore it with all its new and modish points. You have the Cossack front v, ith its buttoned shoulders, .so youn^ in mood. The snugly fitted hip yoke is cut to give the new peplum effect. ^ The sleeves are ravishing and quite "puff- e'. up" about themselves. And inci- dentally you may omit the snugly fit- ted lower sleeves with no detrimental effect to the scheme, if you prafer them short. See small back view! Black rough crepe silk combined with strawberry- red crepe in today's model. Style No. 3261 is designed for sizes 14, y, 18, 20 yeai-s, 36, 38 and 40 inches bust. Size 16 requires 4 yards 39-inch with Vi yard 39-inch contrasting. HOW TO ORDER P.\TTERNS. Write your name and address plain- Iv. giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 15c in stamps or coin (coin preferred ; wTap it carefully) for each number, and address vour order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West .\delaide St., Toronto. occupy time, energy aim thought which is needed for greater purposes. .A.nvthing that interferes with the best is the "thorn" that chokes the word, rendering one's life unfruitful. IV. KESP0N3IVE, Mark 4: 8, 20. There is alwc.ys some good soil. Therefore Jesus solved in hope. Some honest souls and good hearts were to be found everywhere, Luke 8: 15. They were not faultless, but they were sincere, very much in earnest, practicing faithfully, pursuing pa- tiently every new truth that is re- vealed to them. , The parable tells, not so much ot four i;ersons or classes, as of four possible conditions of every heart and mind. We, ourselves, are responsible for the kind of reception we give the tiuth. Learning needs to be followed by action. A fitting prayer after every meeting is, "Etenial God, our Father, we have thought together seriously; now help us to go out and live seriously." « H»â€" "On the street to-day a vary handsome young lady smiled at me." Sheâ€" "Oh. 1 wVouldn't feel badiy about It. There are some men who look »T9n funnier than you do." Building the Soil With Supplies From the Farm Average Outaro farm soils, after b»- ing worked for some time, develop weakness in one or mora of the fol- lowing respects: 1. 'n plantfood. The planttood in a soil is determined very largely by its type. Succesaive crop- ping will naturally use up cooalderable of the original plantfood. 2. In or- ganic matter. After cultivation for liome years if insufJlcient attention is paid to the upkeep ot -he soli, a de- cided weakness In organic matter will develop. 3. In soil Reaction. Con- tinuous cropping will deplete lime from the soil, leaving the soil sour and In an unfit condition for crops to thrive in it. Moreover, as long as it remains sour, good stable manure and fertilizers added to it will not function at their best. All of the foregoing de- fects must be corrected as far as pos- sible If largest yields of best quality produce is to be realized. Relative Values of Manure Tu the eariy days of Ontario agri- culture, much manure was hauled from the barnyard to the river to rid the farm of this material. Farmyard manure is a highly valuable by-product of the livestock farm. When well hand- led, it is a prominent carrier of the important planttoods, nitrogen, phos- phoric acid and potash. A ton of man- ure supplies 10 to 15 lbs. nitrogen: 5 to 9 lbs. phosphoric acid and about 10 lbs. potash . The amount and quality which manure supplies depends upon at least three things: 1. The charac- ter and age of aninwi; 2. The degree of protection which has been given the mauure; 3. The type of feed that has been supplied the animal. Growing beef stock retain most of the body-building elements supplied in fodder. The manure ot dairy animals supplies relatively ;'ie least amount of plantfood in that -hese animals are making use of these elements in pro- ducing milk. Hogs and sheep produce manure ot great value. In order if plantfood content, sheep manure car- ries the highest per cent, ot nitrogen; poultry mauure carries the next high- est per cent, of nitrogen and also the highest supply of phosphoric acid, while sheep mauure carries the high- est per cent, of potash. Horse manure is stronger in nitro- gen and potash than s manure of da cattle. As a rule, manure of young animals is the leas' valuable as a source of plantfood since young .owing stock retain the elements of nutrition for the building oj their bodies. Extra protein fed dairy cattle in order to increase milk flow im- proves the quality of manure. This Is why the mauure of dairy cattle !s usually of distiuctly high value. The manner of storage deflnitely in- fluences the value of manure. If it is exposed so that rain and snow wash through it, at least 30% of the nitro- gen and 65% of the potash Is lost. When one considers that there are kept on Outario farms over 4% mil- lions of horses, cattle, sheep and hogs, the enormous amount ot this valuable source of plantfood and soil better- ment is apparent. Only the manure which i collected from the stal'es during the period of housing ot the livestock, however, can be estimated as an active source. The quality of this manure will depenc' directly upon the type of handling which Is givtn it. If it is thrown loosely on an open pile, bacterial action may quickly pro- ceed to a point where the manure be- comes flre-tanged or burnt in the cen- ter of the pil9. This flre-fanging lib- erates nitrogen in the form of am- monia and destroys much of the r- ganlc matt.6r. Losses will occur w . any method ot handling but when one weighs the cost of Increased labour necessary to take the manure out all at ouco in the spring, against th« loss from exposure In contlnuou* applica- tion, it Is considered good business to j-emovo the mauure to the field dally or at least weekly. It the soli is well supplied with organic matter, especial- ly If it has been fall plowed, top-dress- ing during winter will afford a profit- able means of handling of manure. Investigations iu England lodicale that where the rainfall exceeds 35 Inches during the period of non-growth manure should be applied to potatoes and root crops, corn, etc., aspeclall]' If the soil is of a light character. Where there is less rain, say 20 inches or less during the period ot noa- growth, winter appiicatlco can be made with good results. .Much study has been given to the value of manure stored iu manure pitj which retain the liquid manure. Liquid manure is a rich carrier of nltrogaa and potash and should at no time be allowed to seep away from the manure heap. It should be absorbed In the litter and the pile k&pt sufflciontly compact so that as little ammonia will escape from the manure pile as po* sibie. Rothamsted Experimental St* tion Investigated the question ot shel ter for the manure pit. When 10 torn of manure from a sheltered manun pit was applied to potatoes, a yield o( 9 tons potatoes per acre was harvest ed. When an equal amount ot man ure from an uncovered pit was ap plied to the same area, the yield wai 7.4 tons per acre. How to Save the Nitrogen As has already been pointed on there is always a tendency to loss a ammonia as decomposition goes on ii the stored manure. In hot weathai this is easily discernible. This loai of ammonia or nitrogen can to a larg' extent be prevented by sprlnkllm superphosphate on the stable floor m the time the stalls are cleaned on daily. An application of '•i to % lb per head per day will go a long waj toward fixing the escaping ammonll or nitrogen la the form of sulphate ci ammonia, hence will increase th« value of the mauure. Manure carrlai an insufficient amount of phosphoric acid to make it a Urst class fertilize; tor grain crops, hence the addition o) superphosphate will not only accomp- lish the retention ot the nitrogen but will build up the manure in phos- phoric acid and make It ot greats general value. Farm manure gives its most actlvs help to crops supplied with extensive root systems such as corn, cerealJ and meadow grasses. Fairly well rot- ted manure is also of great value ta root crops. Turnips benefit by a subt- ly higher supply ot phosphoric acW thai, is provided by manure. Hence the turnip field which has been man- ured should receive an additional ap plication of superphosphate it beat balance of plantfood for the tumlj crop is to be provided. Well rotted manure supplies a valuable ration toi potatoes and mangels. On the lightai gravelly loam or sandy loam soils where potatoes thrive, the addition o4 manure not only supplies plantfood but gives to the soil the power t« catch aud hold water and plantfood Is solution. In the early agriculture cf the coun try the value ot manure waa not real- ized. Too frequently this valuable by product was removed from the farm Our modem farmer has learned bj practical experience and from scieiv tiflc facts established by long time as periments that the manure pile is oni ot the most important assets on tlM fai-m. It should at all times recelTt the care which science has shown t« be merited by its great value. Money in Sweet Potatoes .Vccording to a newspaper report Dr. 0. L. Fitzflimmons of Delhi, ha* disposed of hia entire crop of aweel potatoes at the satisfactory price ol $2.50 per bushel. This speaks well tor the quality ot Nortolk-growi sweet potatoes and as they become more widely-known they should dl* place imported sweet potatoes to a great extent. Dr. Fitzsimmons has made a start which will doubtiese be followed b.v other farmers of tho district this coming season. He did not wax wealthy this year as the initial investment makes the flrst year the hardest, but in the seasons ahead ho should profit liberally i» the branch of agricultural Industrr which he introduced In C-aaeda.â€" (SImcoe Reformer! â€" , i, LAWS . . ,\ multitude ot laws in a countr/ if like a great number ot physlcltuu. « sign of weakuess am", malady. MUTT AND JEFF- By BUD FISHER Jeff Can Do a Hundred Yard* in Nine Seconds Fl*l