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Radio Reporter By REX FROST Thirty-two thousand miles. That's a lot of travelling, eh? Yet that is the record comedian Jack Benny piled up this past ummer on his trip to the Middle East, and other army centres. Yes, Jack is back, and reports have it that he is feeling fitter than the fiddle which plays "Hose in Bloom." In fact it seems as though Jack "bloomed" some- what himself. He put on fifteen pounds weight living on army chow in Italy, Africa, the Persian Gulf and Iceland, and playing 150 shows. The famous come- dian was the first United States entertainer to set foot in Italy during the recent invasion, and cave his soldier audiences a laugh blitz just before they were going into battle. Jack Benny has just commenced his twelfth consecu- tive season on the air, and once gain is adorning the 7 o'clock Sunday evening spot on the CBC Eastern Network. One of the problems of the coming winter will be to keep warm. Urban dwellers as well as rural folks have got to get along this winter on less coal. Last Monday the CBC inaugur- ated the first of a series of three broadcasts in dramatised form, titled "Keep Warm This Win- ter." The remaining two will be heard Monday evenL.gs at 8.30. If you didn't hear the opening how, no doubt you'll want to make a point of listening for those to follow. Incidentally, they're written by Dean Hughes, originator of the farm family known as "The Craigs," and are an attempt to show farmers and others in a graphic way how to Join in Canada's heat conserva- tion campaign. They're intended also as an autumn introduction to the National "Farm Radio Forum which commences in No- vember. * Xew to the Canadian air, the B! :e Jacket Choir, with Danny O'N'eill, featuring the Chicago tinging star with the Great Lakes X. ..1 Training Station's singing sailors, made its debut over CFKB on Thanksgiving Sunday . . . and will be regularly heard from 12.05 to 12.30 Sundays o > the Toronto station. Danny O'Neill is an honorably discharg- ed I . S. Navy man who has re- turned to sing with his former shipmates. Danny sings hymr.s and patriotic songs with the blue jackets in a program which is not only tuned to the mood of the Sabbath, but which also seems to lend a greater understanding to the joint naval war effort of Canada and the United States. * * * In recent years Canada has given many prominent musicians, aingers and actors to United States radio. Another young Canadian leaves for New York shortly to begin the road to star- dom, and perhaps operatic fame. It has just been announced that Evelyn Pasen, eighteen-year-old Toronto mezzo-soprano, has just been granted a fellowship at the Juiilard Graduate School, New York. In spite of her extreme youth Evelyn Fasen has been known to Canadian radio audi- ences since the early days of broadcasting. Her studio debut took place over the Canadian air when she was only five years of age. More recently she has been' a featured artist on the CBC National Networks as a member of the "Music for Monday" com- pany. We wish her all kinds of food luck. BURRO BOMBER Lady Moe, three-foot Arab donkey mascot of a Flying Fort- ress crew, and a veteran of the Bordeaux bombings, leans out of the waist-gun position of her plane. The wee donkey was bought by the Englad-ba9d crew on a "shuttle-service" flight to Africa SUNDA Y SCHOOL LESSON OCTOBER 31 BIB1E TEACHINGS ON AB- STINENCE Leviticus 10:1, 2, 8 11; Pro- verb* 31:4, 5; Lul^e 1:13-16 GOLDEN TEXT Beware, I pray thee, and drink no wine nor strong drink. Judges 13:4. Memory Verse: Let US love one another. 1 John 4:7. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time The Levitical code was given for the most part at Sinai about 1444 B.C.; the Book of Proverbs was written about 1000 B.C.; the words of the angel to Zacharias were spoken in 7 B.C. Place The Levitical code was given at Sinai; Solomon wrote Proverbs probably in Jerusalem; the angel appeared to Zacharias also in Jerusalem, while he was ministering in the Temple. The Offering "And N'adab and Abihu, the aons of Aaron, took each of them his censer, and put fire therein, ant laid incense thereon, and of- fered strange fire before Jeho- vah, which he had not command- ed them. And there came forth fire from before Jehovah, a>nd devoured them, and they died before Jehovah." This was their sin. They departd in their wor- ship from the plain word of Jehovah, who had fully instructed them as to the mode of their wor- ship. N'adab and Abihu might have deemed one kind of fire as good as another, but it was not for them to decide. They should have acted according to the Word of the Lord; but instead of this they took their own way and reaped the awful fruits thereof. Teachers' Responsibility "And Jehovah spoke unto Aaron, saying. Drink no wine, nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tent of meeting, that ye die not: It shall be a statute foe. ever throughout your genera- tions; and that ye may make a distinction between the holy and the common and between the unclean and the clean; and that ye ma> teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Je- hovah hath spoken unto them by Moses." He who serves the Lord in his sanctuary must have a clean mind, an understanding heart, an unclouded vision. Abstinence on the part of those who minis- ter in the sanctuary is impera- tive, for we know the harmful effects of alcohol on man's judg- ment. If a minister is to help others in the matter of strong drink, he must lead the way him- self. Because the priests failed to teach the people all the statutes, they departed from God and be- came a weak and sinful people. What a responsibilit rests on parer.ts, preachers, teachtrs! If they fail to impart instruction in moral and spiritual truth, some day they will be called to account. King*' Example "It is not for kings, O Lem- uel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for pnnces to say. Where is strong drink? Lest they drink and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to any that is afflicto ..'' The nation that has a self-disciplined and Godly ruler is indeed blessed. Many kings have ruined them- selves and their people by their habits of self-indulgence. Bearer of Good News "But the angel said unto him, Fear not Zacharics, because thy supplication is heard, and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shall call his name John. And thou shalt have joy and gladness, and many shall rejoice at his birth. ' Zacharias had prayed earnestly for a son. No prospect was more depress- ing to a Jew than to die child- less, so that his name should be- come extinct. At the appearance of the angel, Gabriel, he is much roubled fearing it is the mes- sengei of some calamit> But so manj of our worst fears are groundless, and now the angel v as the bearer of good news. Call to Repentance "For he shall < rreat in the sight of the Lord, and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink, and he shall be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his moth- er's wo; .b. And many of the chil- dren of Israel shall he turn unto the Lord their God." There is an obvious contrast here between strong drink ami the Holy Spirit. In place of the physical excitement of strong tli-ink, he is to ha\e the super- natural inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Why was he not to par- take of strong drink? For two reasons: Fir it, tha: nib own spiritual vision migh' be unim- paired, that all of the faculties of his personality might be con- stantly under the sovereign con- trol of the Spirit of God, and never under the Jouding, stimu- lation of intoxicants. In the sec- ond place. John wa-s to preach tepcntence from sin, a life of temperance, of self-denial, of obedience to the laws of God, A FARM WIFE CHATS TO WOMEN By Gwendoline P. Clirke This is Thanksgiving Day and a beautiful day into the bargain. There are still enough leaves left on the trees to make one marvel at the grandeur of our Canadian autumn. We have really been having wonderful weather for October, haven't we? So warm it has been possible to work outside without so much as an extra sweater. But oh dear, how dry everything is. It seems strange, after all the wet weather we have had this year to be complaining already about it being too dry. But still, it's a fact, and we can't get away from it. And it's get- ting serious. There are wells in this district that are dry even now. And once a well goes dry it takes a lot of rain to bring it back again. You folk who live in town or city, do you think it is nothing for you to worry a a it was absolutely necessary for him, as for all preachers, first to live that \.hich he was to preach, to practice daily that which he would be proclaiming to others as the will of God. By his call to repentance John influenced many to turn from their sins confessing them in baptism to seek the Lord and follow after righteousness K. P.'S DREAM The Navy's gift to oppressed K. P.'g is this potato peeling ma- chine that "skins 'em alive. 1 ' about? I can assure you it is, because it goes something like this: For want of rain the wells go dry; And for want of rain the pas- tures dry. For want of pasture the cows go dry For want of milk the dairy is dry. If the dairy is dry your bottles are dry And all for the want of rain from Heaven. So, if in a day or two, it rains and rains and 1 hope it will don't for goodness sake grumble at the "wet weather." Unless we get a good rain fairly soon it is going- to be pretty tough go- ir.g for you and me and every- body concerned. * We have been alone this week- end. Last year at this time we bad company, including my four- teen-year-old nephew, and I still chuckle when I think of his visit. This boy's whole heart and soul is wrapped up in music, so he is naturally of an artistic, imagin- ative type. While he was here, for some reason best known to himself, he took great pleasure in haunting the chicken pens. He said it amused him to watch the chickens. His mother said how much he was enjoying the fresh air. I laughed nad told her he might get more than fresh air if he stayed too long around the chicken pens. Of course we do :ry to keep our pens clean but we don't guarantee to have them absolutely free of a certain small species of livestock. V * My sister became alarmed and told the boy. After awhile he went upstairs and was gone about fifteen minutes. When he did come down he was as white as a sheet. His mother, in alarm, asked wha: was the matter. "I've got chicken lice ail over me!" answered the boy. "Oh, my dear, surely not!" exclaimed his mother. Of course he had nothing of the kind a hasty examination soon proved that but convincing the boy was another matter and I am quite s-re he suffered as a result. There are times when imagination can produce as much torture to a sensitive soul as actual bodily injury. For the rest of his visit my nephew was content to watch the chickens that were running: around outside instead of the ones in the pen! LStlU llUWwb send then crashing through to VilitUtfil ur BONDS/ SPEED JHE VICTORY Tanks and more tanks ! That's the only talk the Nazis understand. So let fhem have it with both barrels. Buy 5th Victory Loan Bonds and speed the tanks ahead driving co Victory. Every dollar counts. 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