" Giving is Joy." 
THIS title is not my own. I've borrowed it from 
Switzerland. The chance to do it has come 
through the great and terrible War now happily 
finished. With wars, we read in the grand old 
Book, there comes pestilence and famine. Famine, 
especially, has been much in evidence in Austria. 
Word of all the horrors that famine brought to 
Vienna reached that gallant little home of freedom, 
Switzerland. At once the feeling was born they must 
do something to help those worse off than them- 
selves. Rationed as they were, the Swiss deter- 
mined to do with a little less and send the surplus 
to the starving and helpless. The children of cer- 
tain schools joined in the movement. They col- 
lected provisions of all kinds, and money as well. 
On the cases which contained their contribution, 
they fastened these words, '^Giving is Joy.'' When 
I first got to know of that beautiful and generous 
act, my thoughts flew faster than an aeroplane to 
Oron. By the operation of a law which clever 
people name **The law of the Association of 
Ideas," the deed of the vSwiss school children 
brought straightway to mind the generous action of 
our youths in training at the Oron Institute. The 
Principal, the Rev. C. P. Groves, B.A., B.D., 
had spoken to them of the sufferings of the Poles 
during the first three years of war. Their country 
being overrun first by the Russians and then by the 
