CROSSFIELD CHRONICLE

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Approximately 75 grown-ups and children attended the picture show sponsored by the British and Foreign Bible Society held in the United Church on Friday last. These pictures were well worth seeing and a lot of people were disappointed when they heard what they had missed.

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We have in stock T. 6 Manure Spreaders, Ham- mer Mills and Weed Sprayers.

See the Seaman Tiller, grass.

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Local News.

R. J. Henrdy was visiting in town for a day this week. “ne © # @ @ Mrs. James has sold her house and left with her son Russell to make a new homie in Ontario.

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D. M. McLEAN,

Assistant Director, — Line blevators Faim bdervice, W innipegseM dnitoba.

Cereal Varieties In Western Canada

For several years Line Elevator country grain buyers in Manitoba,

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George Poynter has a job on farm of Keith Cochrane with Poynter as the housekeeper.

Saskatchewan and Alberta have e+e ete estimated the percentage ‘ol the Municipal District No. 49 unloaded

total acreage, in their own districts,

‘ a caterpillar and a bull dozer here oceupied by different varieties ol tie Viet Sin , fatetot wheat, oats and barley. On the ‘or use in the west district. * ¢ @ * +

basis of these estimates it 1s possible to present a fairly accurate picture of the cereal varicty situation in Western Canada.

Manitoba. The farmers of Mani- toba are sceding over 98% of theit wheat acreage to the recommended varieties Regent, Thatcher, Redman, Renown, Carleton and Stewart. As far the: oat erop is concerned, about 82% of the total acreage is sown to the recommended varictics Ajax, Pixeter and Vanguard. More

The trouble with people who drink like a fish that they don’t drin what the fish do.

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Mr, and Mrs. Art Starr have rented part of the W. Walker dwelling and have taken up residence there.

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Mr. and Mrs, T. M. Mair were Crossfield visitors on Tuesday

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of Calgary

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than 90% of the Manitoba barley last week.

acreage is sown to the. following eee eee

ae nded varicties! O.A.C, 2 ;

recomm nded varietie ; \.C, 21. | Charlie Rowat is now back at. home

Mensurv, Plush, Sanalta and : a:

(Cartons € and jis slowly recovering from his re- Saskatchewan. About 89%. of | cent operation.

the Saskatchewan wheat acreage is ene ees

sown, to the varieties. Thatcher,

Apex, Rescue, Regent and Redman.

yet to be called. a city dude, he re-!

‘Justice Rebekah Lodge

Friday,

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Celebrates 30th Anniversary

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‘were welcomed by the N. G.

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After their regular meeting on Mon- day, April 12th, the local Justice Re- bekah Lodge 62, held sway at a joint social funciion in the Masonic Hall, It was the occasion of the Lodge's 30th Anniversaiy and the 129th An- niversary of Oddfeliowship in America, so they sought jointly to celebrate the one and to commemorate the other. To do this a gracious invitation was ex- tended Oddfellows and their

near

to the

k | Seen together wtih their own fami-

Nearly assembled and of Justice Mrs, M. McCrimmon. Sister

O'Neil

fifty people Lodge,

Thelma then presided

venor of this social function and called | Presi- |

District words

on each Past dent for a few light of her term of office.

Deputy some high- This was

of

| responded to by D.D.P. Sisters Thomp-

Laut, 3allam,

and poved

son, Fox, Jones, and Lilley at times. lights on our lodge from it’s birth and

spoke of the having both a

very

honor of

George Ainscough is not ready just | Past President of the Rebekah As-

Non- recommended varieties — such sembly of Alberta and a Past Grand as Marquis, Renown. and Garnet turned to the farm this week in readi- afater of the Grand Lodge of Albe:ta account for most of the balance ness to help put the trop in. these in the persons of Mr. and“Mrs. we peo canes Ns rere! ie He Ries anh ; Chas. Fox. She then voiced hér regrets Vietory oectipy, about 04% ‘at ‘the wer, TOR Mawes ee Miss Freda that through illness, Mrs. Florence

Sa Jackson have been added to the staff wiis a charter member was unable

total acre: age: Saskatchewan farmers

are not following the official barley lof the local branch of ‘the

Canadian

recommendations very closely, In. | Bank of Commerce. 1947, for instance, only. 41% of + 0's 8.9% je het igri was a to aoe The baby son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. olncainyv recommecndec varieties: { e r :

fei Mumby is a tie € ty hgs- Plush, Titan, Hannehen, Regal and Be patient: ina Calgary ngs Montcalm. ry pital where he has undergone an op-

Alberta. The recommended varie- | eration. ties Red Bobs, Thatcher, Marquis, and Reseue oceupy about 90% of the Alberta wheat acreage. Garnet wheat which is not recommended accounts for most of the balance Alberta farmers are following the official oat and bariey recommenda- tions almost exclusively. In 1947 for # instance. non - recommended varieties occupied less than 5° of the acreage in each case. ”

The results of ‘variety survevs show that prairie farmers are hivhly “variety’ conscious”. and readily e arrept cereal varieties that nrornise higher vields and better quality.

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Stanley Matlock, local agent foy the line of Watkin’s products has rented the A. P. house and will move_ his family from Calgary as soon as it is re-decorated inside,

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Robert Laut. Sr. well known old timer f the district and now residing at Creston B, C.. was in town for a few, days this week looking after ‘his in- terests here.

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Dr, L. C. Allen, Health Officer and J. Mooney, Sanitary Inspector of the | Rosebud Health Unit were in town re- cently checking up on the condition of

fadin lamp. A. ae ae vy, a9 4 | the restaurants and other places.

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Farmers

are being put. to a gre: deal of inconvenience by ‘not being “ul as able to get the licenses for their trucks K-SPRAY Way in. town,- They wonder: why it would not have been just as easy to issue the be With 32 Tt. Boom, Each $171.50 i licenses as it is to. issue them for aut % With 26 ft. Boom, Each D6.5° «#4 ; be fi. nn 7 |. . Mrs. Ke rdge and Mrs. Clayton be With 20 ft. Boom, Each ; $144.50 x)! High arrived home on Sunday t I Supply Tanks and Rarrels not supplied | from a trip to Vancouver and Nanai- be ALSO 2,4-D CHEMICALS F. O. B. | mo, V./I..and report having visited ze ea host of friends. and relatives and ; x}; had a wonderful time. | YOUR LOCAL CO-OP STORE. 5)™3° ve, e, a a : Ween 5 | The Crossfield Memoria] Centre sub_ Crossfield Alberta | scription list will be published again

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next week with the latest additions. YOU would like to see your it get in touch with NOW!

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*-e2# ¢ * » + W. M, Davidson, C.PsR. Divisional | Engineer was in town last Thursday | looking over the flood situation and figuring how to get the water from the front street to the ditch on the a 7 * | Me Patm delivered a load of bale hay to a Calgary feed store anc found 15 farmers waiting to take | very of it.’ The price was $2.50 | | i e ind judging by the weight of s0m oi tnem, it work 7 0u if in

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the canvassers

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east side of. the track. It has not been decided yet just what will be done.

‘ a) . , Phone Bus. 13 hes, 39) ' |* 570,00 per ton. BENS ALIFE LFS SLIP LG SRILA AHS ID DCNDC 9 De DE cds (a4 2e Oe 98 DERE ae 98 9-98 EDEL DE ae D6 a . % ¢| Tommy Stamp has sd far been w | e i farm foy the eoming se W take up resic e in th ts Va Lare hovse from. « e- he vy ty me custom work wich his + Miss~Marie Hatten~ returned Y ZONOL INSULATIO " : ndergone INSTALL () ITE 0 _ n. Monday after having undergone an

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and Say Goodbye to chilly, drafty rooms, and high fuel bills ZOMAITE PAYS FOR_ITSELF FUEL SAVES i

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eration in Calgary.

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34) An ‘Open letter-has been received in own imviting anyone interested to take mart in the Calgary Stampede parade A meeting of representatives from all places interested will be held on Wea- 1esday, April 24st at the Renfrew Club. “hose attending will be the guests of the Exhibition and Stampece Board at

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The meeting will be held following. 4 Anyone with any ideas on the sub- Crossfield

ri $k) HOUDINI NPR 24 HED 3890 HIRI May as soon as possible.

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linner which will be served at 6,00 p.m.

ject should get in touch with Harry

to attend and through bad yoads, Mrs. Anna Ableman the only other charter

member was forced to stay at. home. These were honored together with other oldest members present, Sisters

Green and Thompson both having seen service in the Rebekahs in the States and Canada for nearly 40 years. Sister Fox congratulated them and in so do- ing pinned on each a corsage of roses,

Sister Violet Hurt, newly D. D. P. was likewise honored. Each spoke a few words of thanks.

Musicat selections by Walter Hurt | and Walter Lilley were enjoyed at in-

tervals.. Charles Fox, P. G. M. was called | on fora little talk aand his topic was

thoroughly enjoyed. Walter Lilley as |- N. G. of the Crossfield Lodge thanked | ‘the Rebekahs for including the Odd-

fellows at their celebration and wished them further fraternal happiness. Sis-

ter Mae Fox spoke..on behalf of her}

and tendered regrets at

to at

Anna being unable

sister for’ her own lodge and was enjoyed usual.

Ihe April meeting of the. Home and

Schoo! Association held this week with Rev. J.-R. B. Vance, Reex of the Anglican Church of the Ascension as | he guest speaker was’ too late for this | issue and. will be ‘reported in next wecks Chrenicle. The guest speak« the May meeting wil] be the Hon, tas Casey newly appointed minister. of ed- | ucation who received his own high school training in this same school. oereas

A combined annual meeting of the Fish and Game Association and the Sports Club is to be held in the Curl- |

Rink on Monday next April 19th at 800 p.m These are important meetings being for the ele- of officers fbr 1948 and the dispesal of funds held by each organi-

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Oneil | humorous } Mrs. Oneil gave a few high-,

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tend, she also spoke }

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and from

Becker, Tweedle made a special Calgary for the occasion. After this part of ‘the social even- had concluded the party assembled in the basement and enjoyed a few hands a whist, honors going to Charles Fox and Esher Richarcson these names were drawn by the N. Grand of both The tables were beautifully | decorated with pink and green tapers A huge biithday cake of the lodge

Jones, trip

Lodges

and cut flowers. emblematic by

was presented

Sister, Ballam who is noted

as an expert decorator and cook.

Aftey a sumptuous lunch, ‘all .ad- journed.after having spent a lovely evening for which a great deal of

credit must go to N. G, Margaret M°- Crimmon, V. G. Grace Budgeon and | Sisters Thelma Onei]l and Mae Fox

| Ed Corkill intends to go farming

again this spring and will assist Scot‘x Walker who is under the weather put in his crip. He has rented his house for the summer to Rudy Ronneberg. driver of the Municipal grader.

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HUSTON - WOOD NUPTIALS

A wedding of place in Calgary on April 8th when ' Alice Mae, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Huston of Ponoka and Gordon | William eldest son. of Mr. and Mrs. W. | _J, Wood of Crossfield were united in | marriage. Rev. J. Rex Brown officiat- | ed. Miss Beryl Thompson attended the ; bride and Alllen Sharp supported the} grocm. The happy couple will reside} in Crossfield where Gordon the | school bus route. } Showe Honors Bride |

Over fifty guests gathered in the! United Church parlor on Monday even- ing to honor Mrs. Gordon Wood a re- | cent bride with a miscellaneous shower. A wonderful assortment of useful gifts was wheeled into the parlor by | | Beverely McGill and the guest of hon- or and several of her friends were, | kept busy for a little while cpening the gifts and passing them atound for the guests to admire,

The rest of the evening was spent playing games after which a celicious | lunch was served by the hostesses. |

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FOR SALE — Barley Club ;- 92 -per bushel

Montcalm Barley from Germination 77-10348, $2.2

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seed No Levi mith

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COUNCIL MEETINGS

The regular monthly. me yf Village Counci] will be “a 1d 4

| FIRE HALL First Monday of eax month

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ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES

We now have a complete stock of

Electrical Appliances, Radios, and Batteries, also wiring accessories. You will find the solution to your electrical problems here.

GUARANTEED RADIO AND

ELECTRICAL SERVICE BANNISTER ELECTRIC Phone 34 Crossfield

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If you want to save money on your

Kitchen Cab{nets, see George. He will do better than you ean do any- Where else, Other cabine‘s ‘to suit your taste

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| George Becker

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All types of insurance for all types of people ;

GORDON

AGENCIES Phone 7, Crossfield

Crossfield Machine Works

Machinists JOHN DEERE Sales and Service Erices-Stratten Elerhant Brand Engines Fertilizer

Welders

Phore 22

A. Hurt

For Action in AUCTIONS See

TOM DENCH

Auctioneer Shorthorn Breeder

Phone 1304 - Carstairs

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zation. The idea of a joint meet.ng lying in the fact that the same men belong to both and would save.-time and travelling The Elba ‘Red C;oss group met on Wednesday, April 7th at the home of Martha Hehr. Although our roads art ety well blocked with snow and ice nin members and one guest wer present. Two food parcels were packeé » send to England and one knitted eater was handed in. The hostess 1-a delisious lunch to all present n s were glad to hear that Flischer ¥ back home and f well and hoped she will be att ing uy Red Ci ther blizzard on Sunday afiern ised havoc with th@ rdacs through the distvict and caused a little more worry fo the stockmen. Althoug! feed is getting short the baling crews can stil] find the odd stack to bale) and ship out to where it is ne sded |

worse. We have heard of no losses of

stock but must admit that some herds,

are on the thin side and the first new grass may knock a few of these over. A few new born clves have been los! through lack of shelter and after a winter such as we have just through the combine farmers have sad- ly missed those straw. piles

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MARSHALL- WELLS

ROSSFIELD CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION LIMITED

Alberta

PAINTS VARMISHES ENAMELS

FOR MANY YEARS THERE HAS BEEN considerable interest in this country in the complétion of an up-to- date highwety, linking Canada from the East to the West coasts. There are some parts of the present trans- Canada highway which compare favorably with any roads to be found on this continent, but in other sections it falls far short of modern standards for all-weather highways. Canada is a very large country, and ‘the trans- continental highways must, of necessity pass through many miles of sparse-

_ly-populated land, where there would be little other than long-distance traf- tic. The construction of modern, hard-surfaced roads requires a great deal ot labor and involves the expenditure of large sums of money. During the war, and in the years which have followed, labor has been scarce and con- ditions have not been favorable to commencing a roads project of the extent of a coast-to-coast highway

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There are, however, many who favor the building of Many Favor = such a road as soon as conditions are opportune for such an undertaking, Recently, a delegation represent- Such A Road ing the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, waited upon the Honorable J. G.’Glen, Dominion Minister of Mines and Resources: in con- nection with this matter, and informed him that the Chamber of Commerce believes that the present traws-Canada road facilities are inadequate. “A modern, hard-surfaced highway would be a great asset in helping to unify the United States and Canada, increasing tourist traffic, and for purposes of national defense,” the spokesman for the delegation stated. The com- pletion of an up-to-date highway system from the Atlantic to the Pacific by Federal and Provincial governments, to be undertaken when conditions are favorable, was advocated by these delegates on behalf of their organ- ization a a It has been pointed out frequently by interested An Advantage organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce,

To Canada that it would be to the advantage of the whole of

Canada to build and maintain a fine highway across the country. Tourists have become the basis of a new and flourishing in- dustry here, and good roads have come to be recognized as not only a con- venience to the local population, but Also as a source of revenue from tour- ist traffic, At present there is no direct conn¢ction between Eastern and Western Canada by means of a first-class motor road, and as a result, much money is lost to this’ country each year because motorists travelling be- tween the East and the West must travel a considerable part of the way in the United States, if they are to have a hard-surface highway all the way. The building of an up-to-date trans-Canada highway would undoubt- edly be a great asset to the country and it is to be hoped that one may be completed as soon as conditions are opportune for such an undertaking.

76,738 Homes Built |FUNNY ana In Canada In 1947 — one OTHERWISE

OTTAWA. — An estimated, number Newlywed Husband: “Do you

of 76,738 dwelling units were com- mean to say there’s only one course

pleted in Canada during 1947, the do-|

minion bureau of statistics announc-

ed. for dinner tonight? Just cheese?” Wife: “Yes, dear. You see, when

the chops caught fire and fell into the dessert, I used the soup to put it out.”

This brings the total number of dwelling units completed in the first three post-war years to almost 200,- 000, the bureau said. In 1947 74 per cent. of the dwelling units were built in ‘metropolitan and. other urban municipalities.

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“Hello, hello! Who is it?”

“Albert.”

“Who?” I can’t hear you.”

“Albert. A for apple, L for Lionel, B for Bertram, E for Ed- ward, R for Robert, T for Tom- mie.”

“Yes, but which of you boys

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make a good portrait of my wife?” If zou don't sleep well

The earliest libraries were probably | temples.

Artist: “My friend, I can make it so lifelike that you’ll jump every time you see it.”

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Johnny had given the rather surprising information that De- cember, January and February were the harvest months,

“Who told you that?” asked the teacher,

failing to cleanse the blood of poisons and excess acids—your rest is likely suffering too. Then is the time to use Dodd's Kidney Pills. Dedte bere yew heaetve get rid of trouble- poisons and acids— “My father, miss,” said Johnny. help restore to normal action. See “He’s. a plumber.”

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much brighter you feel in the morning Percy — “She didn’t remember end use Dodd's 7 Pils today. 145 me! And only last summer we

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Reggy—‘‘That’s just like a wom- Sanaa an, old chap—they never can re- member a joke!” * * * ” “Waiter, did I leave my um- brella here yesterday?” “What kind of an umbrella?”

With a record of 50 years as a most satis factory treatment for piles or hemorrhoids,

yaw Gn, aerey erie “Oh, ary kind; I’m not fussy.” Dr. Chases-Ointment | eh die

Two young doctors met for the first time since they were at col- lege together.

“I’m spécializing in nerve treat- ment,” said one.

“And have you had any. suc- cess?’’ asked the other,

“T should say so,”’ was the reply. “When I had finished with my last patient he asked me to lend him ten pounds.”

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A recruit was being given an intelligence test in the army,

“What would happen if one of your ears was cuf off by a bay- onet?” asked the examiner,

“I couldn't hear so well.”

“What would happen if your other ear was cut off?”

“I couldn’t see,”

“What do you. mean?”

“My hat would fall down over my eyes.”

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Mrs. Black stopped to talk to her friend, and her husband waited a short distance away, Presently she rejoined him. A

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“Business,” she said off-handed-

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| her husband, “but whose?”

QUITE A VARIETY

REGINA.-—Items reported lost or stolen to the Regina police depart- ment during 1947 included an upper plate from a set of false teeth, a garden gate, a fire extinguisher, three roosters, a box of chocolate biscuits and an oil burner that fell from a truck. 2769}

Buy today or write for free introductory tin to Dept. 10G, 292 Richmond St. West, Toronto.

THE CHRONICLE,

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LIGHT

RSS MODERATE GH SEVERE

ALBERTA

° CALGARY

The above map shows predicted grasshopper infestations in Saskatchewan and Alberta next summer, and indicates the relative severity. of the attacks in different areas,

ERIODICALLY, Canada‘s Prairie Grain belt is devastated by se- vere grasshopper plagues. Before fed- eral and provincial entomologists started to study this particular pest, farmers had little knowledge or ad- vance notice of these scourges, but today much is known and farmers are warned in advance when extra severe outbreaks are expected.

This year, entomologists of the Do- minion Department of Agriculture at laboratories in Lethbridge, Saskatoon and Brandon, and in co-operation with the provincial entomologists, have mapped out the areas where serious hordes of grasshoppers can be expected to attack farmers’ grain crops.

In the accompanying map, the areas

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in which outbreaks will be severe, moderate and light, are shown for the western half of Saskatchewan and the lower part of Alberta, There are also a few areas in Manitoba where a light emergence of grasshop- pers is expected, but it is in Saskat- chewan that the worst outbreaks are feared,

With the provincial authorities in the lead, farmers both in Saskatche- wan and Alberta can do much to ward off the worst effects of these grasshopper outbreaks, Poison bait will be available through municipali- ties and local improvement districts, and there will also be leaflets as well as bait supplies and _ instructions available from your agricultural rep- resentative. Farmers themselves must

Canada’ Ss War Book Started

OTTAWA. — Preparation of Can- ada’s Second World War book of re- membrance—a detailed, precise task expected to take five years—has been started here by Lt.-Cmdr. Allan D. Beddoe, 54-year-old sailor-artist.

The book will contain some 45,000 names. of fallen Canadian service men, compared with 66,651 names in the First World War book, now in the quiet sanctuary of the Memorial Chamber in the parliament buildings’ peace tower.

No decision has been made on the ultimate location of the second book.

The memorial chamber, a small peaceful room of which the first book is the centre, is devoted wholly to the deeds of Canada’s First World War forces. Its solid, intricately-carved stone work depicting First World War scenes and emblems might not easily be altered to accommodate tokens of the recent conflict.

The first book took 10 years ‘to complete, the work being delayed by the death of the artist when he had only one of the 600-odd pages illumi- nated.

Lt.-Cmdr. Beddoe, who completed the decoration of the first book, is in charge of the new work.

He served with the R.C.N.V.R. dur- ing the Second World War.

The first part of his new work— compilation of a card series on which appear the names to be inscribed in the book by hand—is under way. The names will be listed by year of death.

The new book, about 450 pages will be of rare vellum, a sheepskin ma- terial manufactured in England. The first 100 sheets already have been received here.

The exact boundaries of Saudi Ara- bia are indefinite, but the country contains more than 800,000 square miles.

Even for double the price you can’t buy anything better than

Bus Made 30- Hour

Grasshopper “Storm” Signals Are Out SASKATCHEWAN

& PRINCE ALBERT

Dash To Meet Deadline

PENTICTON.—Bus service by Col- umbia Coachways Ltd. is in opera- tion here, but it was a race against time and the elements to get it started, :

A year ago the company was granted a franchise to operate a bus service with January 23, 1948, as a time limit, and postponed a $3,000 bond as good faith.

January 21 the company got deliv- ery of its first bus—in Vancouver. Over winter roads company men drove in a 30-hour dash to get the bus on Penticton streets before the deadline.

Now, City Couneil has decided the company substantially complied with its agreement to provide service, and returned its $3,000 bond.

11-YEAR-OLD VANCOUVER BOY MAKES SOLO FLIGHT

VANCOUVER. — A _ silver mono- plane took off from Vancouver air- port, climbed to 1,000 feet, circled the field and made a perfect landing.

Out stepped John Davies, 1630 Sal- isbury, believed the youngest solo flier in B.C. air history.

John, an 11-year-old Vancouver boy, has been flying for 20 months. But he won't be able to get a licence for another six years.

The trip was his first solo flight. It drew praise from his Vancouver U-Fly instructor, Ed Bell, who said John was a better pilot after eight hours dual instruction than most adults.

The lad is the second in his family to take to the air, His mother, Mrs. W. G. Davies, won five hours flying instruction as second prize in a “Learn to Fly” contest last August.

PHILIPPINES TO FIGHT =~ DROUGHT WITH DRY ICE

MANILA, — The Philippines Gov- ernment plans to fight a drought in the sugar producing areas of negros and occidental provinces by bombard- ing clouds with dry ice to bring rain, it was reported,

A government spokesman said the drought threatened newly planted sugar cane.

BOY BITES DoG COURTENAY, B.C.—Master Rob- bie Woods bit his cocker spaniel pup on the nose and his parents rescued the dog before further damage could be inflicted. Robbie is only 18 months old,

WASHINGTON, — The United States population reached a high of 145,340,000 at the start of this year after 1947 proved the big- gest single year of growth in history. A record number of babies, 3,908,000 were born in 1947.

Continuance of a low death rate and a net immigration of about 215,000 persons also helped the net boost last year.

LEFTOVERS TRAGSEURMEe

Last night's leftover roast makes tonight’s “Magic” Meat Rolls

2 ths. soft butter

1 cup chopped leftover meat get busy and organize in preparation jaa ms sag onions

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Canadian Maple Trees Planted At Nurses’ Rest Home In Britain

VANCOUVER.—Three maple trees, flown from Canada were planted by

Princess Alice when she officially opened a nurses’ rest home in Bri- tain. Many of the furnishings for this retreat in the country for nurses injured during the last war, were provided by ‘nurses in this Dominion.

This was described by Miss Grace M. Fairley when she spoke to Wom- en’s Auxiliary to Vancouver General Hospital recently.

The Canadian Nurses’ Association has contributed $20,000 as a rehabili- tation fund for British civilian nurses unable to carry on. Some have re- ceived courses to refit them for earn- ing their own living, others have been varied help.

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Little Beaver, (centre), is a lacrosse stick expert and his companions are

j | interviewer, when Barbara Ann Scott.met press in Mont- : ; real, was Martin MacDonald, 12, seeking a job on com- ae : j} |munity centre paper, The grinning young newspaperman

ture. Happiness above everything is the ambition of the smiling ice queen. Ottawa, Barbara Ann's home town, accorded her a civic welcome when Prime Minister King was on hand to grect her.

en as Mrs. Harry Newton and daughter Mary were | bringing home the pork sausage made from the trim- mings of one hog.

discovery of a blaze by nine-year-old Carol Brammer, Toronto, Ont., gave nine occupants of a three-storey house time to flee the burning struc- ture. Carol's father, Edwin Bram- ; mer, raced upstairs through billow- ' 3 : F i ing smoke and rescued Mrs, Nellie , i 4 ’ Segriff, a cripple, from her second- oh: purges ig: i omega y pase storey room. Carol is shown here Rv. Ak, MIRACLE TREATMENT FOR INSANE—A new radical and| with ‘her mother. near-mivacle surgical technique for treating “incurable” mental patients was revealed recently by doctors at the Western Washington State hospital in Seattle, Wash. The new method, called trans-orbital lobotomy, has al- ready been performed on 41 patients at the hospital, with ‘‘very worth- | while’ changes in 80 per cent. of the cases treated, Here, Drs. W. S. Keller (seated), hospital superintendent; James G. Shanklin (centre), and Charles H. Jcnes, who have performed the new operation, lock Over before and after pictures of patients who have undergone the new surgical treatment.

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MAKING FRIENDS—The farmer in this picture is practising the “Make Friends of Your Pigs” advice JEWISH HADASSAH HOSPITAL ATTACKED BY ARABS—This is| given by an expert swineman to an the Jewish Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem, Palestine, which was attacked|Ontario meeting recently, Handled by a large party of Arabs, touching off. a battle in which two Arabs were | carefully and kindly from their early

killed and 14 Arabs and Jews were wounded, The battle was marked by a|days the young shoats will grow into series of heavy explosions, which resulted from the use of mortar bombs|bulky carcasses to fill bacon con- by the opposing forces, 2769' tracts profitable to growers,

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BARBARA ANN SHARES THE LIMELIGHT — Ace |

NO WONDER these two black cats are intrigued managed to gain almost as much attention as Barabara| § with yards and yards of sausage! This picture was tak- Anit as he confidently questioned her regarding: her 'fu- |

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APPEAL CHILD ABANDONING DECISION — De- SXES JEWISH HOMELAND WITHIN YEAR—"De- | fence counsel are preparing to appeal conviction of Mrs.| spite every lamentable British obstacle and despite the Edna Emery and her husband, Leo Emery of Ottawa, on | inadequate concern of my own government,” the new charges of failing to provide for their children. The} Jewish state will be established in Palestine before the magistrate sentenced the 29-year-old mother to the Merc-|end of the year, stated Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, New er reformatory for women in ‘l'oronto for five months.| York, president of the World Jewish Congress. Dr. | The father, Leo Emery, is to go to the Ontario reforma- | Wise, shown at right, was interviewed in Toronto, Ont., tory at Guelph for five months definite and one month in-|where he installed Rabbi Maurice L. Perlzweig, (left), | definite. in his new congregation.

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BRITAIN COMPLETES WITHDRAWAL OF POWER FROM INDIA—King’s and regimental colors are dip- ped in salute to India as the last serving battalion, the ’First Battalion Somerset Light Infantry, marches in fare- well parade in Bombay before embarking on the Empress of Australia for voyage home. The troops are march- ing into the Gateway of India, The sub-continent now is two dominions, India and Pakistan.

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PASSENGER TRAIN CRASHES INTO STANDING FREIGHT—Bud Hayes, trainman, (left), was thrown through glass door, suffered slight shock when Toronto-Detroit flyer hit a standing freight near Thamesville, Ont. Passengers were shaken up. Four box cars were reduced to splintered wood by impact, Engine of crack train hit broken switch and plowed into freight, None of coaches was damaged,

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Finding Life Lonely

Leper Colony On Bentinck Island

Has Dropped To Three Persons

VICTORIA.—The leper colony on

tiny Bentinck Island, 18 miles south

of Victoria in the Straits of San Juan de Fuca, has now dwindled to three persons and they are finding life lonely. A small party of newspaper men visited the island recently, with the permission of federal authorities, and interviewed the residents. Two Orientals and a matronaly white woman, formerly a missionary, are Dr. Bertram Jenkins’ only patients. He is the

medical officer for the colony. Houses Vacant

There are 10 neat, rain-washed cottages of sombre hues for the use of lepers, and three of these are oc- cupied.

On the reporters’ first visit to a leper’s home, they were greeted by a middle-aged, motherly woman. She explained that she had a cake in the oven “for the boys”’—the two other patients, a Chinese and a Japanese.

She had contracted the disease while a missionary in foreign service. One day she noticed a slight loss of sensation in her left leg and consult- ed the doctor. It was leprosy,

“I don’t mind being alone or iso- lated. It -is being cast out that hurts,” she said. “Why should we not be allowed to live in an institu- tion like a tuberculosis sanatorium? If peoplé knew that we lived normal- ly it might make a difference. Their attitude is so cruel+-so wrong.” '

No leper has ever died of the dis- ease, medical official said, but are | taken of a secondary ailment. Two have died on Bentinck from old age, | one over 80.

Hopes: For Company

The Chinese said he hoped another Chinese would come to Bentinck “to keep me company”. “If I am not here when he come, he read about me up there,”’ he laughed, pointing to a rough piece of beechwood recording in Chinese red letters the history of 10 lepers who have died on the is- land. He has been on Bentinck 11 years, having contracted the disease in a Canadian shingle mill.

Dr. Jenkins said there had never been a case where leprosy was con- tracted by a nurse, caretaker or visi- tor on the island, where no person under 21 is allowed.

Supplies, wood and medical re- quirements are brought from Van-

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INTEREST FIND EFFECTIVE TREATMENT FOR UNDULANT FEVER

Investigations carried out over a 10-year period in the laboratories and clinics of the University of Minnesota Hospitals indicate that combined treatment with streptomycin and sul- fadiazine is’ more effective against human brucellosis (undulant fever) than any other known therapy.

Writing in a recent issue of the Journal of the American, Medical As- sociation, four physicians report the cases of more than 30 patients with active brucellosis whom they studied and observed, and whose treatment they directed. The doctors are Wes- ley W. Spink, M.D., Wendell H. Hall, M.D., James M. Shaffer, M.D., and Abraham I. Braude, M.D., from the Division of Internal Medicine, Univer- sity of Minnesota Hospitals and Medi- cal School, Minneapolis.

Exceeded in importance by only three other communicable diseases— tuberculosis, syphilis and gonorrhea —undulant fever has baffled medical men for many years. The Brucella organism is. transmitted to humans by contact with diseased hogs, goats or cews, or by drinking unpasteuriz-

couver Island by Government launch- es which ply back and forth three or four times weekly. Letters leaving the island are sealed in a container containing formaldehyde fumes for 12 hours.

The third patient is a 26-year-old Nisei (Canadian-born Japanese), and he looks like any healthy youth. The disease affects only one leg and since settling on the’ isle his weight has risen from 130 to 160 pounds,

The humane and understanding manner with which the lepers are treated by Dr. Jenkins and his staff ig reflected in the regard in which they are held by the patients, The lepers feel ‘at home” as much as their isolated circumstances permit.

Dr. Jenkins said chief handicap was a lack of recreational equipment. Even a small movie projector would be welcomed,

Japanese Now Free To Travel

But Will Need Permit

ed milk. The forms which the dis- ease takes are extremely variable, and even after apparent recovery the Brucella organism may rerffain in the patient’s tissues. Relapse and recur- rence of symptoms have therefore been common,

The four doctors report that in both acute and chronic brucellosis cases, a sulfadiazine -streptomycin combination brought the most satis- factory results. Also, patients whose symptoms pointed to brucellosis as the most probable diagnosis respond- ed well to the combined therapy, al- though the presence of Brucella or- ganisms in their tissue or body fluids had not been proved. The treatment also was effective in cases with seri- ous complications of brucellosis.

It had been attempted previously to treat the disease with sulfonamide or with streptomycin, separately, but without success. Only simultaneous treatment. with both showed satisfac- tory results,

| GEMS OF THOUGHT

To Enter British Columbia

OTTAWA. — Japanese in Canada, their movements tied down for six years, now are free to travel at will anywhere east of the Rockies.

But they still may not go into Brit- ish Columbia without a permit of the type they previously needed for movement of any kind.

In discussing this relaxation of re-

DEFENSE

By desiring what is perfectly good ,..We are part of the power against evil, widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.—George Eliot.

Meekness excludes revenge, irrita- ‘bility, morbid sensitiveness, but not

strictions in the Commons, Labor self-defense, or a quiet and steady Minister Mitchell also made clear the| maintenance of right.—Theophylact.

government intends to continue for another year from March 31 the re- maining restrictive. powers at its command,

Besides the permit provision for travel in B.C. the chief of these other restrictions is that barring persons 0: Japanese descent from getting fish- ing licenses in that province or serv- ing on vessels operating out of its ports.

Provision for this continuation is|>=

embodied in the government's legis- lation, for extending its emergency powers until March 31, 1949.

Mr.. Mitchell aso tabled an order providing for the government to con- tinue until March 31, 1950, part of its financial assistance to Japanese evacuated in wartime from the West Coast province to Alberta.

Though not fully lifting the ties from Japanese travel, the new relax- ation represents a long step from the previous position, Under the war- time order, persons of the Japanese race could not move anywhere in Canada without a permit from the Labor department, and they were subject to be ordered to any place the department considered they should move. ,

BELATED SHOPPER BOSTON. — When a customer or- dered two pairs of “Brazilian lisle

stockings” at a department store, the Stat

puzzled clerk learned through quea- tioning that the hosiery had been ad-

Evil thoughts, lusts, and malicious purposes cannot go forth, like wan- dering pollen, from one human mind to another, finding unsuspected lodg- ment, if virtue and truth build a

¢ | Strong defence.—-Mary Baker Eddy.

There is between my will and all offences A guard of patience. — Shakespeare

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BARBARA’S HOME COMING HAT—“Fiendish” hat worn by Barhara | Ann Scott, world’s woman figure skating champion, for her home coming | brought gasps from women, A tiny black umbrella surmounts the red rose |

on her off-the-face white straw hat.

British Columbia’s victory in the about a wave of enthusiasm in Vanco a five-sheet rink costing $100,000.

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known to the turf as “The Iceman” because of his cool nerve, will be erect- | /@nds is nothing like as wasteful (in|

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born at Cardston, Alta., was killed at Santa Anita when his mount, Please

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their world title bout of 11 years ago—over a late breakfast in London re-

cently. While munching a solid meal of fruit jui¢e, bacon and eggs, hot rolls and coffee, the two fighters discussed all 15 rounds of their last ring

meeting in New York, Aug. 30, 1937. +

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THIS GOOD EARTH AND WHAT IT CAN DO FOR US

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Extracts from an Address by Professor George H. T, Kimble, head of the Geography Department of McGill University, to the Royal Canadian Institute of Architects, in Ottawa,

Wrest does a geographer discover about this earth of ours when. he begins to look at it from the geo- graphical—I might even call it the neighborly—point of view ?

He discovers that it is a pretty good earth. In spite of all the man- handling it has had, and all the abuse, it still abounds in noble pros- pects and physical satisfactions—in things that are “pleasant to the sight and good for food”.

It still yields its increase in due

season, and it can still bring forth abundantly. After more than 6,000 years of continuous cropping, the lands of the Nile Delta today support a denser population than ever before. The same is substantially true of the Ganges Valley, and of the master streams of China where many an ir- rigated area is annually coaxed into | producing three separate, and size- ; able, harvests. Scarcely less impres- | sive is the record of the fenlands and | polders of Western Europe, where, in | Spite of a capricious climate and_| perennial drainage problems, the) farmers think nothing of threshing 60 to 80 bushels of wheat to the acre.

The truth of the matter is that} most of us are still a long way from realizing just how good the earth is. Even the deserts of the earth are good for something. It would not be | difficult to show, for eXample, that without the ice caps of the Arctic} the climates of Southern Canada and | New England would be very much drier than they ‘are, and much less stimulating to mind and body. Simi-

{ larly, with the warm deserts of the)

THE SPORT WORLD

world: have not they played a lead-. ing role in the evolution of those. civilizations from which we ditaw our |

moral and spiritual standards? * * °

For myself, I believe that, if we

had but the wit to see it, we should

earth into hot and cold, dry and wet |

terms of population-supporting . pow-

mates of the* “not-s0-good” lands. They have made quite enough ene-

Eskimo and the Arab. And who is to say they would not upset every-

League who have performed in hockey’s major circuit for 10 or more years. | the atmgspheric circulation occasion-

four of these players, Syl Apps, Toronto; Neil Colville, Rangers; Jack Crawford, Boston, and Turk Broda, Toronto; are presently playing in their

Head man in the seniority section is Phil Watson of New York, who is now in his 13th year in the N.H.L. eit

10th season.

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Buddy O’Connor and Max Bentley, ace centres of New York Rangers and Toronto Maple Leafs respectively, are disproving the theory that you have to be big and tough to star in the National Hockey League. O’Connor

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and Bentley who both weigh exactly 145 pounds and are the lightest players | in the League have led the N.H.L. scoring race for the greater part of the | current campaign. They are both particularly clean players and make very few trips to the penalty box. In the six previous seasons O’Connor spent a total of 22 minutes in the “penitential pew” and Bentley in five seasons

spent a total of 28 minutes in the “sin-bin”.

Airplanes Used To Feed Starving Game

DUBOIS, Pa.—A 20th century ver- sion of manna from heaven provided food for deer, wild turkeys and other game in eastern Clearfield county this winter.

An aerial feeding project organized by sportsmen and airmen enabled the game to eat*despite heavy snow.

Six planes dropped more than two tons of corn into dense cover. Oper- ating as the Aero-Feed club, the group carried on its errands of mercy even to the risk of landing on fields covered with nearly a half foot of snow.

CURRENCY “GROWS” IF BOYS JUST KEEP IT

MEMPHIS, Tenn.— Two days before Christmas an unidentified woman gave marked dollar bills to five newsboys and told them, “to keep this. It might mean something to you.” i

Now she has made the rounds again, Two boys still had their dollars. She handed each a $10

bill and said. “Keep that till July 4 and then see what happens.”

BEFORE AND AFTER PRUNING—Photos of a fou ion, Vineland, Ont., taken before and after p °

and a nuisance in cultural operations, were removed.

fore, little or no need for pruning area. Vertised in a local newspaper in 1941.' open when the fruit crop weighs & eae

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National ‘Health Scheme Sooner Than Expected

TORONTO.—Hope that a national health scheme would be announced “sooner than most people anticipate” was expressed by Hon. Paul Martin, |

Minister of National Health and Wel-.

fare, in an interview here,

“The scheme will be fundamentally | the same as was presented at the Dominion-Provincial, Conference in 1945,” he added, Cost, if adopted by | all provinces, would be $250,000,000, | of which the Domirion Government} would pay 60 per cent. or $150,000,- 000. The balance would be met from.

| payments by provincial governments |

and individuals participating. |

Earlier Mr. Martin told the annual meeting of the Toronto branch of the | Canadian Red Cross that Federal, | provincial and municipal governments in 1947 spent $800,000,000 in social | welfare and security, /

To raise the standards of living in| the British territories of Africa, Brit-| ain is spending $220,000,000 under a} 10-year development and welfare plan | to reach its zenith in 1955. }

| tions of Mesopotamia have no modern

jestation marked the commercial hey-

ally? Heaven forbid that.

“The Government should assume

the fate of skies’ estate.

Or that Congress should start a

filibuster

On when to clear and when to

bluster,

They'd still be at it in ‘49

Half for rain and half for shine!’ |

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The second thing we discover about this earth is that it is highly expend- | able. Thanks to human folly and| abuse, large parts of it are no longer as good as they used to be. Not! every country has succeeded in emu-) lating the Nile Delta, the Ganges and the Fenlands. The ancient civiliza-

counterpart: their cities have become the habitation of jackals and a court | for owls, ‘Petra and Palmyra, Tyre) and Sidon have long since perished | in the dust, while barely a battalion | of cedars stand guard over the hills of Lebanon, Similar orgies of defor-

day of Greece and Rome, of the me- dieval Italian cities, and of Spain and Portugal —to the. grievous impover- ishment of succeeding generations. The same smash-and-grab mental- ity characterized the early immigrant

‘into the Americas, to South Africa

and Australia, with results that do

Helpful Hints

Cape collars on coats are new, very smart and very popular. They are appearing on many of the new wrap- ped toppers.

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To wash delicate lace, place it in a jar half-filled with sudsy water and shake,. Replace with clear water for rinsing. A good idea for nylons too.

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To cut flower stalks use a sharp knife-and cut stalks on a long slant, In this way water absorption is in- creased. Never use a dull knife on the stalks, as it will crush them and limit water absorption.

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To remove tarnish from crevices in silver, try this; cut a cork to a point, dip it in silver polish and use it as a tool, The cork never scratches. Sometimes just a dry cork will do the work.

Smite of the Week.

The teacher asked the pupils in the fourth grade class, “who can tell me what comes in like a Mon and goes out like a lamb?”

“I know,” volunteered little Johnny Jenkins, “Daddy”.

The centre of the earth is believed Oe

not make comfortable reading, In the United States today, after only 300 years of European settlement, more than half the original forest cover has disappeared, more than two- thirds of the land is affected by soil erosion, and the supply of many of its most valuable minerals is running out. :

In South Africa, erosion has reach- ed the proportions of a national scourge; according to the most re- cent estimate, the land has only an- other 25 years of productivity left at the existing rate of wastage. In Aus- tralia and New Zealand, the young- est of the new lands, the position is not much better.

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With such experiences multiplying before our eyes almost daily, it is small wonder that men are beginning to ask whether the good earth is any longer able to carry the burdens put upon it, and whether it will be cap- able of sustaining the ever-increasing population. ;

To the geographer’s way of think- ing, the earth is still a very adequate earth. I am not:unmindful of the prophets of gloom who periodically try to scare us into believing that Nature is quitting the housekeeping business, that she is tired of patch-

| ing up the scars of war, drought and

exploitation, and that the cupboards will soon be bare.

True, there are areas where men no longer gather any harvest save weeds, but thera-are other areas (as in the Punjab, the Sudan and our own North American West) which once were deserts, but now feed mil- lions. And there are even. larger areas — along the tropical and sub- temperate margins of our habitable earth — which, thanks to modern scientific and technological advances, may very well come to be numbered among the world’s largest suppliers of agricultural, mineral and gmanu- factured products.

But whether all this means that the world can continue to feed, let alone provide an adequate standard of living for its inhabitants, would seem to depend largely upon the readiness of engineers, architects, regional planners, geographers and governments to join forces in further- ing the enjoyment — to quote the words of the Atlantic Charter—‘by all states, great or small, victor or vanquished, of access on equal terms to the trade and raw materials of the world which are needed for their eco- nomic prosperity.”

For one thing is perfectly certain: no really adequate way of life for any community can be maintained by a Robinson Crusoe technique.

Dame Nature does her business on the grand scale. When she hands out her favors it is with a sublime

world’s

| disregard for geographical units, na-

tional boundaries. or military necessi- ties. She recognizes no worlds with- in her world. No single country was given all the ingredients of the good life—not ‘even Canada or the U.S.A.

—Ottawa Journal.

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Newfoundland — Will Vote On Union

Question Of Joining Canada Will Be Decided By Referendum In May

ST. JOHN'S, Nfid.—Newfoundland- ers Will have anh opportunity in May to vote on the question of joining Canada as a tenth province, it was annouriced here.

The question of union with Canada will be on the referendum to be sub- mitted to the people of the island, it was stated, although this had been rejected by a national convention in January.

Other alternatives on the form, the government will be:

One, responsible government.

Two, retention of commission BOv- | ernment, with the understanding that the latter form will be for an initial period of five years.

Responsible government and reten- tion of commission government were recommended as possible forms by the Newfoundland convention, but proposed confederation with Canada was voted down 29 to 16 by the con- vention, Whose duty it was to recom- mend potential forms of government to the British Commonwealth office. The British government was the final authority on what would appear on the ballot forms.

ballot announced,

Solid Ivory Statue Of Mohandas Gandhi

BOMBAY.—A 80-inch-high statue of Mohandas K. Gandhi in ivory—be- lieved to be the largest ivory statue in existence—has been sculptured from one of the largest tusks ever imported from Africa into this coun- try.

Righty-two pounds of solid ivory were used for the statue which shows Gandhi with staff in hand setting out on his march in 1930 when he went

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Princess Elizabeth To Rule British Commonwealth ‘During King’s Tour

LONDON.—Princess Blizabeth will |

wet her first big chance to “rile” the

early next year. She will head a Council of State, comprising four or

aret tour the “down under’ Domin- ions.

Tt will be her most important and extended experience in practical. af- fairs of state.

As heiress presumptive to the

member of the Council.

Throne, Elizabeth will serve as senior

} be a counsellor. the wife or husband of & sovereign,

legal age next in direct succession | may form the regency. |

Those eligible to join the Princess | are the Duke of Gloucester, the

succession; the Princess Royal, the

sons, Viscount Lascelles and Gerald Lascellés.

Three of these—the Duke of Glou-| cester, the Princess Royal and her elder son—were state counsellors dur-

Counsellors are armed with most

bishops, and to change the uniform | of any of the armed services. The) Signatures of all members of a coun-

King’s younger brother and third in| |

King’s widowed sister; and her two}

great new battleship, which Carried the King, Queen and two Princesses

British Commonwealth when her par-|to South Africa, ents visit Australia and New Zealand |

Tt was thought probable the Royal Family would leave England in Jan-

| Wary or early February, taking slong, five members,|as to South Africa, a retinue of about chosen to act for the King while he, | Queen Elizabeth and Princess Marg-|

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The distant dominions. naturally are disappointed that Elizabeth and Philip are not going along. By way of consolation they are making the ‘most of rumors that the Princess and |her husband might visit them later next year. Pigh court sources how- }ever simply repeated tha the royal

j}couple’s plans did not include trips Her husband, Prince Philip, cannot |

Under the law, only |

abroad for ‘quite some time”,

’ sis the heir presumptive and others ot | Husbands Should

Share Leisure Time

In homes. were Papa works an eight-hour, five-day week and Mama —with Several small children to care for— works & 14-hour, seven-day week, things are pretty unequally di- vided,

But women probably don’t want

|the home completely changed to cut | down on their hours.

ing the South African tour last year. |

Any over-worked housewife in the country would probably settle for

of the King’s powers. They are for-| this simple solution. Take the Teisure |bidden, however, to dissolve Parlia- | ment, to create new peers, to appoint

time of the husband and divide it so that the “wife gets half,

If the husband gets Saturday and Sunday off, how about his taking over at home one day and giving his

Cathy Downs, (left), models a Juliette Gallian original gown for informal dinners, The fine white lace lends a romantic feeling in the long, full sleeves, the pleated ruffle around the throat, down’ the front and on the cuff of the sleeve, While the skirt of heavy silk taffeta, with self cummeérbumd waistline, finishéd with full ruffles of black net, highlighted With black sequins, gives a dramatic effect. Janet Leigh, (right), shows the way to late styles with a full-skirted petticdat under her white wafffe pique dress. Hand painted cherry leaves decorate the bodice and skirt or the dress and as ah added fillip, artificial cherries are sewn on to the design.. The ¢yelet-tip- ped ruffle of the petticoat in this Lil’ Alice of California ensémble, is trimmed with cherry-red ribbon to blend with the lining of

cil are required on state papers.

Of the Australasian tour itself, Buckingham Palace had “nt the slightest detail’.

Presumably the voyage will be made in H.M.S. Vanguard, Britain’s

| wife a day of rest and relaxation ?

| To ‘even up a family’s work wouldn’t take anything more radical |than for husbands to acknowledge |the fact that a family’s lefSure ought Ito be divided up.

IRISHMEN, AIDED BY RABBITS, TURN UP HOARD OF GOLD COINS

DU BLIN.— Three Irish woods workers, aided by a family of rab-

) ‘The hoard was found in what was called the ‘‘pale” area of Ireland, be-

to the seashore to protest against the salt tax.

STERLING, Ill.—R. C. Bailey re- ported to police that a spare tire and some clothing were stolen from his automobile. He said the car was parked in an alley. Police fined him $1 for illegal parking in an alley.

the split-cap sleeves.

PRINCESS ELIZABETH'S ORCHID IS DEHYDRATED

NEW YORK. — The white orchid that topped Princess Elizabeth’s wed- ding cake has been dehydrated and is expected to retain its natural color and shape for five years, the British Travel Association said. The associa- tion said the dehydration process was begun after the wedding last Novem- ber and completed at the Bronx Bo- tanical Gardens here.

INDIA

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» Stamps courtesy, Imperial Stamp Shop, Toronto

Recent new issues include (top left to right), Nyasaland’s hew design, Australia’s stamps showing Hereford bull and alligator, Indian stamp to mark independence; (lower left to right), new Indian airtnail with date of independence, Madagascar postage due design, and India’s new flag on In-

dependence Day issue,

Czechoslovakia, a favorite Euro- pean republic with stamp collectors, was again in the news recently, Its president, Dr. Eduard Benes, has just appeared again on a new stamp issue, and new stamps can be expected with the recent change in government,

Czechoslovakia first appeared to stamp collectors as one of the sev- eral European republics founded after the First World War. Its first stamps were issued in 1918, featured the Hradcany Palace at Prague, which again recently was the site of an his- toric meeting, that at which Presi- dent Benes swore in the new cabinet.

First person featured on Czech stamps was that of first president, Thomas Masaryk. That was in 1820, and later that year stamps featuring symbols of the republic’s founding were issued. Since then there have been many stamps of Thomas Ma- saryk, followed by colorful stamps of the ancient country’s scenery and buildings, many of which have figur- ed in the news in recent years.

Commemorative stamps began to be issued in 1920, the first to the 1,000th anniversary of the death of King Wencelas. In 1932 there was a set to the centenary of the birth of Dr, Miroslav Tyrs, founder of the national Sokol games movement, If 1934 stamps were issued to cémpos- ers Dvorak and Smetana, whose music is world famous. That year there was also a set to the 20th an- niversary of the Czechoslovakian Legion which fought on the allied side in the First World War.

There have been other commem- oratives sitioe. President Benéy first

succeeded Masatyk, who died the fol- lowing year and a mourning stamp was issued. Various ‘stamps have been issued to exploits of the Czecho- slovak Legion. fn 1945, after the country was liberated from the Ger- mans, a set appeared featuring Czechoslovak heroes who served in the allied armies. During the Ger- man occupation, from 1939 to 1945, many stamps were issued along simi- lar lines to those of the republic, for the German designated areas of Bo- hemia and Moravia, and Slovakia,

Who's Who on Postage Stamps. Bedrich Smetana, who appears on a 1934 stamp of Céechoslovakia, was the founder of modern Czech music. He was born in 1824. He died in 1884, deaf and mentally ill. He wrote many scores with political independ- ence for his country as a theme. Best known of his wotks today are “The Bartered Brige”’ and “The Moldau”,

New issues. Atsttalia is to issue three stamps this year to men who have helped, develop Australia, stamps being issued to Sir F. J. H. von Muel- ler, government botanist; William J. Farrar, wheat breeder, and Henry Lawson, poet. Indian state of Baha- Walpur has issued commemotative stamp to its first ruler, 200 years ago. India is to issue stamps com- Memorating Ghandi, Bahamas set to 300 yeats of colonization will feature native industries and séenéry.

The railfoads of Great Britain, now under govefnment eoritrel, operate 62,000. miles of track; enping 695,- 000 men afd Women; tfavel 373,000,- 000 miles &-yeat, and carry 1,000,000-

appeared on stampe in 1986 when he|000-pasnengers a year. . Meo

Band To Play In Church

BURY, Lancashire—Vicar A. Wa- Sey was disappointed over the size of the congregations Who attended his. evening services.

But 650 people attended his All Saints’ church when Billy Hawkins and his dance band played sacred pieces and saxophone and trumpet solos during the time usually devoted te a sermon. The average congrega- tion is 120.

“This is mo stunt,” éxplained the Rev. A. Wasey, the 44-year-old Vicar. “You could not expect a parson to get so many people inside a church for his serrhnon.”

He claimed justification, for organ- izing the service in “the power of music to stir the emotions.”

The band — thtee trumpets, two trombones, five saxophones, a piano, double bass.and tympah—played for 45 minutes, with the church's leading chorister, 10-year-old Barry Atkin- son, as soloist:

OUR COSTLIEST COMMODITY

By Joseph Lister Rutledge

In day8 when all prices seem to be getting’ out of reason, fear still remains as the costliest commodity that any of us can know,

Men and women and children are Starving in this world. Probably half its people have never known what it was to have all the food they needed, Our world needs almost everything to help it get on its feet again so that it can achieve even that meagre way of life. Yet every year that same world now at peace, is spending $27.4: billions for armies and armaments to give us what; Nothing ‘but protection from fear of one anothet. There are still 19 mil- lion men in the armies of the world. That is more men under arms, and twice the expenditures for arma- ment that obtained in that ominous year 1939, when peace was rocking on its foundations. Now, when we have fought things out to a finish, we are still afraid. And that fear is costing a starving world $16 for every man, woman and child living anywhere in the world today. Any way you look at it, does it make sense?

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BRITAIN’S STUDENTS HELP NATION IN THEIR VACATION

Over 1,000 students from Britain's universitiés will help to make visit- ing Olympie athletes comfortable. Arrangements have beéh made be- tween the National Union of Stu- dents and the Olympiad Organising Committee for them to undertake a widé variety Of jobs in camps and hostels where contestants will be ac- commodated, They fange from that of the housé supérintendent down to caterers afid éleanefé. In addition 80 students with thé necessaty lahguageé qualifications will act a# receptions ists and interpreters.

The thickhess of poreélain enamel coatings on itoh afid steél hés been lessefiéd in recent yedts with im- proved metals arid enamels.

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“V.C. OF SCOUTING” AWARDED BOY, 15 — Winner of the Cornwall Badge, called the Victoria Cross of Scouting, is Peter Bullock, 15-year- old student of Pickering college, Pick- ering, Ont., and St. Anne de Bellevue Boy Scout; who lost an arm in an ex- plosion last year. Peter “underwent great suffering in an heroic manner,” the award said.

Males Living Longer, But Women Do Befter

NEW YORK.—American males are living longer than they used to but they still aren't doing as well as the women,

The Metropolitan Life ‘Insurance Compahy says in 1900, the average white male infant had 40 chances in 100 of reaching age 65. Now, the company reports, his chances are 60 in 100.

In 1900, however, the average white female infant had 45 chances in 100 of reaching the same goal, Now her chances are 75 in 100,

GOOD REASON FOR WANTING HAT BACK

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AIRLINES HOSTESSES

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eases leave annually to be married.) oy about slot machiné enistots Placed at strategic spots in public places, eént marry passen-| By dropping & péfmy in t y pping pércent marry airliné| 444 makea reonhél, the Alr Transport Asso-| mirror.

Ciation @f América reports.

Forty-five per cent of Airline host- charge for using the mifror!

bits, have uncovered a hoard of gold| yond which Catholics were prohibited coins believed buried by an Irish; to go in Cromwell’s time on his or- Army paymaster when Oliver Crom-| ders.

well invaded the Emerald Isle three! Dr: W. O'Sullivan, coin expert of centuries ago, it was. reported. | the National Museum, said it was

The hoard, tentatively valued at|highly probable the hoard was bur- $8,000 but worth much more at pres-|ied by the treasurer of the Irish ent day gold prices, was found in the Army which retreated before Crom- woods near Port Arlington, 40 miles] well. ®est of Dublin. Some of the coins were of Italian,

The three men who found the coins Spanish, French and English origin. —Joe Clarke, Joe Maher and Mike Three of the most valuable coins were Daly—were awarded $1,200 each for pistoles, struck in Dublin in 1546. surrendering the coins to the Na- Pistoles usually were made of ladies’ tional Museum. gold trinkets melted down into tiny

Clarke and Maher said they found | °ins to pay off the military. the hoatd when they saw a rabbit Each of the pistoles is worth about drop something at the mouth of its $1,000 as & collector's item, since bultow while they were passing with there are only nine others believed & load of timber. beacuse tae

They investigated and discovered! ,, : the rabbits were house-cleaning their| New Discovery By purrow of gold coins, Digging, they | ss . p ° found undteds of coins in a nie CAIEGGO Physician with a few remnants of a wooden box nearby. a

Mike Daly came in for a share of ithe reward the next day when he | and “meatless steaks’, and perhaps investigated deeper and fotind an-|\feht old-age, a Chicago physician other 51 coins. | Announced:

The most recent coin in the collec- The green magic is chlorophyll, the tion was datéd 1651. It was a Crom-| pigment in plants that takes energy wellian unit valued at the time at a | from sunlight to make food from wa- Sovereign. It was still bright, indi-}ter and air. It’s one mysterious es- cating it had been buried soon after | sential in photo-synthesis, the basis minting. ‘of all life.

OMAHA. — The green magic of (plant life now can be put into. pills | to give humans some cheap vitamins

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FEMININE HYPNOTIST

Distinétly rare type of entertainer is a feminine hypnotist. Ever see oné? I never have, However, there are females so engaged. An outstand- ing example is Koringa, the European entertainer, This young woman not only hypnotizes human beings but also puts wild beasts into @ trance. Inci- dentally, the study of hypnotism has become a popular pastime in many sections of this country. A number of young women are reported among the more enthusiastic students. It has been claimed nobody can be hypno- tized unless they co-operate with the hypnotist. Several hypnotists have recéntly proven this belief to be erroneous. There is one London hypnotist who can throw people in a trance by just gazing at them in a bus or a street car. The thought of a woman being able to hypnotize a man whether he liked it or not is somewhat frightening. Think of the things your wife could make you do if she could hypnotize you. She might even hypnotize you into doing the -housework on your day off,

OVER THERE

Mille. Polaire, Parisian danseusé of the yesteryear, claimed to have the smallest waist in the world. It measured thirteen inches and could be span- ned by a man’s hands, That was Mlle, Polaire’s natural measurement. She did not wear corsets. The extent to which some females will go to achieve an outstanding example ot the “wasp waist’ style is shown by the fact | some women with waists measuring twenty-four inches have them laced into seventeen inches,

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TWINS There is absolutely nothing to the claim a woman married to a man of | Irish birth of descent ig more likely to become the mother of twins than | the average wife, So states an expert on the subject who says twins are passed down on the feminine side. 5 HUSBAND HUNTING

In the 20 to 44 year age group there are 2,000,000 more single men than single women, Commentators on this situation invariably state it proves it

MINNBAPOLIS. — 8. D. Stockin| isnt’ as hard to get a husband as is continually alleged, The fact is, the asked police to help him recover his| average young woman has néver stated it is hard to get a husband. “They hat which he gaid a thief stole while | *4Y, however, it is hard to get the kin hé was haviig lunch in & restaurant.

An did hat thé thief left doesn’t fit, he complained: His own fit him) ;ych more than the average man, perfectly because he had $150 in bills| husband who is hér intelléctual and sultura! equal.

of a husband they want. In some cases the young women have pegged their matrimonial dreams too high, There definitely is & great shortage of “dream men” i.¢., ‘handsome fellows with fanty incomes, Then the a girl goes in for self-improvement his naturally inspires her to seek a i That makes her hus-

band hunting moré difficult.

MIRRORS

In the roomé reservéd for ladies at bus stations in England there is a What a test of the money saving instinct of a woman that must be! There may be the germ of a wonderful idéa in this.

e diot a woman could look at her hat, Nair-do look in a full-length

in & Small mirfot. For a nickel she coul is & great

All right, al right, sneer if you like, but f hirik money-making idea.

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New Traffic Gadget Clocks Speed

THE CHRONICLE,

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Cars Passing It On Busy- Roadways

(By HAROLD KEEN, Central Press Canadian) San Diego, Cal—For years, policemen and highway safety engineers

have struggled with the problem of es

timating the speed of an approaching

vehicle without having to swing around and follow it through hazardous

traffic,

Today, R. B. Luckenbach, California division of highways safety engi-

neer, believes he has the solution, To

determine how fast an oncoming car

is travelling, he need only place a gadget-filled suitcase by the side of the road, flick a switch and let electronics do the rest. When an auto zips by, a hand spins on a speedometer-type dial and

points to the speed with pinpoint acc

uracy, according to Luckenbach, who

inspired thagglesign of the new apparatus, Luckenbach is putting the device into operation here to improve safety

on highways.

In California such evidence as furnished by his “electronic

eye” cannot be used in court to convict a speeder,

After designing a highway on th limit the legal maximum speed to 35

e basis of known safety factors that miles an hour, for example, Lucken-

bach can use his “magic meter” to clock the average speed of traffic. If he finds that cars are travelling at 40 or more miles an hour, and

that the rate of accidents is extremely ought to be revised.

The reverse situation, of course, applies if the accident rate at 35 miles an hour is unusually high. How- ever, the important thing is to deter- mine how fast traffic actually is travelling, and that’s where the elec- tronic eye fits into the safety picture.

The device also is used for measur- ing average speed between traffic sig- nals so that they may be set to pro- vide a smooth flow of cars at a safe pace, Time lengths between signal changes vary with the time of day. These can be determined by measure- ments of speeds in correlation with traffic volume.

What happens to traffic when a motorcycle officer suddenly appears on the scene? Luchenbach has meas- ured the psychological effect of this phenomenon.

“The average motorist slows dpwn 10 miles an hour when he notices a policeman on the highway,” he says.

An engineering firm developed the electronic ¢ye for Luckenbach at his request. Its engineer, John Barker, tackled the problem in the sonic field. At first echoes from buildings and hills interefered with the sound waves which the meter was to record.

Eventually Barker overcame the difficulty. The meter now is essen- tially a broadcasting and receiving

SPEED CHECK—R. B. Luckenbach poses with the

low, he knows that his safety factors

Also, he can recommend posting of higher speed signs,

set housed in a packing case, Luck- enbach places a box containing tubes for broadcasting and receiving atop the case.

Two other boxes have complex electronics equipment and a quadrant dial. All are linked by electric cables, one of which is clamped to an automobile’s electric system for power.

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When the switch is turned on, the needle begins dancing across the dial, recording the speed of each passing car by use of the “Doppler principle”,

This is best understood by com- parison with the whistle of an ap- proaching locomotive. The closer it gets, the higher the whistle pitch be- comes. This is because the sound waves are shortening. Then, as the locomotive passes and moves toward the opposite horizon, the whistle tone grows deeper as the sound waves lengthen.

Electronic waves reflected from a moving vehicle do the same, The faster the car approaches, the more rapidly do the sound waves shorten. The speed meter calibrates this change and shows the result in miles per hour. ‘

As though he were a “ham” radio operator, Luckenbach had to get his electronic eye licensed by the federal communications commission. ~ He has a call letter, W6XYD, ‘and operates on 2,455 megacycles.

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Motorcar Industry - Breaking All Records

Britain is exporting more cars than ever before in the 50-year history of the motor industry. In 1946, the monthly rate was 7,200, in 1947, 11,- 900. In January of this year, it rose to 16,000 or 67% of output. This was apart from the 5,000 commercial vehicles and buses exported.

WAR MEDALS TO COST CANADA $2,500,000 OTTAWA.—The government esti- mates it will cost $2,500,000 for war- won campaign stars and medals in the next fiscal year. The estimate said the figure includ- ed the cost of distribution.

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THE U.S. GOVERNMENT SPONSORE

D AN ANTARCTIC ‘EXPEDITION / UNDER THE COMMAND OF CIGUTENANT ‘CHARLES WILKES, THE EXPEDITION SAILED FROM NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, AND WAS GONE FOUR YEARS, MAKING MANY IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES,

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Oddities In News — This Is It!

Farmer Sheldon Anton at .Ce- dar Rapids, Ia. was astonished to find 18 inches of a broomstick protruding between the ribs of one of his Holstein cows. The cow, purchased at a sale last fall, had not been doing well and a short time ago developed an ab- acess on her side. It ruptured and the broomstick popped out. How the stick got into the cow’s stomach remained a mystery.

The continent of Australia has an area of 2,974,581 square miles,

CROSSFIELD,

ALTA

BEEF BREEDERS CONFERENCE—Prominent in the various sessions

of the Edmonton Beef Breeders conferences were, left to right: Lyle W. Robinson, Vermilion, president of the Alberta Shorthorn Club; His Worship

Mayor Ainsley, of Edmonton; and C.

Cc. Matthews, Calgary, who presided

Over the joint meeting of all three Breed Associations.

Polymyxin, Powerful New Germ-

Killer Cures Dangerous Infections

BALTIMORE.—Successful clinical use of a new powerful germ-killer,

Polymyxin, is described by John Hopkins hospital physicians.

They report

swift cures of undulant feyer, whooping cough and other dangerous infec-

tions.

Beyond that, the drug may lead to mankind’s final triumph over an ancient curse—Bubonic plague, It will be sent to India to determine how it works against the Black Death, they said. p

Typhoid and paratyphoid fever, certain wound infections, types of men- ingitis, various urinary tract infections, tularemia (rabbit fever), bload poi- soning, and bacillary dysentry also are among diseases against. which the doctors found polymyxin “uniquely effective”.

The drug is derived from bacillus polyxa. monly found in ‘soil, water, sewage and muck, the doctors said. yet available for general clinical use.

It is not

A nine-year-old boy, near_death from a skin eruption with a secondary infection, was the first human to be treated with the new drug. Physicians injected it in the form of. a white powder under his skin.

He was well in eight days.

One big advantage polymyxin has over the other recent “wonder drugs” is that the germs it attacks do not develop a resistance to it.

GARDEN NOTES #8

Layouts

For the average layout around the home, it is advisable to use a combination of vines, shrubbery, trees, perennial flowers and the lat-

,|ter planted in clumps, make the best

background, In front of this, groups of smaller shrubs end larger peren- nial flowers can be planted with the room between, especially when the shrubbery is still small, filled in’ with clumps of annuals, Along the front tiny edging plants are used, then will come a piece of green lawn, Use clumps rather than straight rows and @ wavy edge along the front of the bed is preferred to straight edges. In the foreground, of course, will be the lawn, the shrubbery acting as the main frame for the general picture. Good Equipment Helps

With a small garden all the tools needed are a rake, a hoe and a spade or digging fork. These are minimum requirements. With a little more equipment much labor can be saved. Digging forks, cultivators, special weeders, dutch hoes, etc., will make the work easier and more interesting.

For larger gardens a small garden tractor that will cultivate, plow, etc., might be considered. They are not expensive and are very cheaply oper- ated. One can get all sorts of at- tachments to go with them—lawn mowers, cultivators, mowers for cut- ting tall grass and weeds—even snowplows.

A sharp hoe or cultivator will speed the work. It is.a good plan to wipe off all dirt between operations, and a little. oil or grease smeared on the shiny surfaces is recommended. Main Vegetable Groups

Vegetables divide themselves into three main planting groups—hardy, medium and tender. The first are planted just as soon as the soil can be prepared regardless of the wea- ther ahead. They will stand a little frost and must make their — first growth while the weather is still cool and wet. In this class are peas, the first onions, carrots and beets, rad- ish, spinach and lettuce. Make the first planting just as soon as the soil has worked up nicely and is no longer muddy. Make a practice of sowing beets, radish, spinach, car- rots, etc., at least three times, about two weeks apart.

Next are semi-hardy things like potatoes, the first corn, beans and cabbage, which will stand cool wea- ther but very little frost. Next come the tender things that can. stand no frost at all. such as melons, cucum- bers, tomatoes, pumpkins. Do not plant these until both soil and air are warm.

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PARCELS NOT BARRED | TO PALESTINE FORCES

OTTAWA.—tThe suspension of par- cel post to Palestine Feb. 28 will not affect gift parcels sent to members of the British armed forces in Pales- tine or members of the Palestine po- lice force, the Post office Department announced,

The department said that gift par- cels limited to 20 paunds will be ac- cepted here and transmitted to the United Kingdom where they will be routed to Palestine through British military postal facilities.

Moroccan children of the 17th cen- tury were not allowed to eat candy because it was considered a war- rior’s food.

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HAPPENINGS

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Banning of the Communist party will be urged in the South African house of assembly by Dr. D. F. Ma- lan, Nationalist opposition leader.

Britain is accelerating the repatria- tion of German prisoners of War. All except those who choose to remain will have left by the end of July.

A five cent stamp issued in Van- couver Island in 1865 with no perfor- ation was sold in Bond street, Lon- don, for five hundred pounds recently.

Dartmouth Naval College, where many British naval officers are train- ed, will open its doors next Septem- ber to any 16-year-old boy who has the required ability,

Senator Ian Mackenzie, former Canadian minister of veterans affairs, will receive an honorary degree of doctor of laws at the University of Edinburgh July 2.

Canada’s gross debt at last Jan- uary 31 was $17,327,820,956, compar- ed to $3,540,237,614 at March 31, 1938, the Government said in a re- turn tabled in the Commons.

Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, publishers, have announced that Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of Britain, had completed the first volume of His Second World War memoirs, and had delivered the 250,000-word manuscript.

LONDON.—Princess Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip will not occupy Clarence House, their bomb- damaged London residence, until Bri- tain’s ministry of works finishes re- pairing it. The work will take about @ year.

CLASSMATES Henry Wadsworth Longfllow and Nathaniel -Hawthorne were class- mates at Bowdoin college, Bruns- wick, Maine.

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By ROGER 8S. VREELAND

For Luck

LITTLE girl in a pale yellow

bathing suit went running past him, interrupting his thoughts. Her dark hair in damp irregular strands flopped up and down on her shoul- ders. Suddenly she dropped on one knee before him, staring momentar- ily into the clover oblivious of his presence, Just as quickly, she rose and continued on her way.

He called to her. “Think it was a four-leaf?”’

With surprise she looked back and grinned briefly. It was a wide, freck- ly grin.

“Yes! For a minute!” she laughed sh;ly, without slackening the pace of her angly legs.

Michael began to finger the leaves himself and his thoughts drifted back into the channel they had left. His six solid feet of man lay in the clover near the edge of the sand, big tan- ned back turned to the blazing sun, clean broad chest nestled in the cool soft green. His trunks were still damp from a long, hard swim, Even in the water he had isolated himself, pushing out with leisurely power al- most to the marshy shores opposite, then back. And instead of stretch- ing out on the sand'‘like others, he chose the clover.

Funny, the lengths a fellow will go to avoid the direct course! Mich- ael had thought of going directly to Angela and saying he was sorry, that it all was his fault. Trouble was, that would leave him no harbor of refuge should Angela tilt her pretty little chin disdainfully.

Raising his own chin out of the jclover, his eyes from behind the dark lenses wandered among the people in front of, the clubhouse. They were all in swim suits. Michael wondered what she looked like, now. It was hard to know what seven and a half years might do. He doubted that there could be much change in her chin! Seven and a half years ago they were really children, unstable, unprepared to weather first storms. But no longer could he doubt that they had been in love.

A mysterious nostalgia passed through him, misty at’ first. He and Angela had once searched for a four- leave clover. Ah, yes. Now it was clear! It was high on Johnnycake Hill—a glorious June day nearly eight years ago. They'd found one,

too, and within the same hour Angela |

had said yes, that she wanted to be his forever.

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An aura of delicious melancholia enveloped him.

Angela, he knew, was here, some- where, at this resort. Yes, it-was a pretty direct course he was taking at that! But he was keeping close to shelter, He'd been too stubborn. But he still loved her. Maybe the adage about absence making the heart grow fonder was corny, but in his case it was poignantly true. Life was too short. He had sought isolation too much. Too afraid of injury, perhaps. Unthinking: friends had torn them apart, Now, unthinkingly, they would bring them together. Leads about Angela had not been hard to find. She was here, somewhere.

Clutching a handful of clover, with a nervous impulse he pulled it out and tossed it to the breeze. One bit of green stuck to his palm and he started to flick it away. It was with an almost childish glee that he spied its four little lobes pressed against his skin.

The little girl in the pale yellow bathing stit came running on her way back to the clubhouse. He called to her.

“I’ve got what you want!”

She turned with uncertainty.

“A four-leaved clover!” He held it up.

Her face lighted. She took it tim- idly.

“You don’t suppose for a minute

there’s really anything to it, do you?” he asked. ‘I mean the good luck, It’s just a little freak of na-

; ture, you know.” ©

But her face remained unclouded by his cynicism. “I’m afraid you're | wrong, sir! My mother says the only good luck she ever had came on the day she found one of these!” She held it up and her eyes brightened triumphantly. “Not only .that, but she'll give me.a quarter for this!”

Michael found himself sharing her

triumph, “Gosh, in that-case you ;must be right! What about your daddy? Does he believe in’ them too?”

She looked doubtful. ‘I’ve never seen my Daddy.’ The corners of her mouth pointed to a pair of dimples land her eyes flickered wistfully. |“That’s just it. My mother says that |she found Daddy and a -four-leaved |clover at the same time—and that I | would never have been, if it weren’t |for.a four-leaved clover!” re | Michael suddenly found it hard to talk. ‘What became of your daddy?” he managed, | “Oh, they just didn’t get along I | guess,” she said tossing her head | sideways and attemping to sound ma- ture. “They were, hu-incompatible.”

He raised to a sitting position. “Your name is Angela, isn’t it?”

“Why, yes!”.she replied with obvi- ous astonishment. “How did you know that?”

“Angela—" He spoke gravely. “Do |you think your mother still loves | your daddy?”

Her eyes were gazing into his won- deringly. Slowly she nodded her | head up and down.

“Then, do me a favor, Angela! 'Give me back the four-leaved clover. | Will you?” But suddenly he realized the necessity of being practical, “You won't lose anything! I'll give you a dollar for it!”

Enthusiasm banished the wonder- |ing in her eyes, “Okay, Mister!” She |held jt toward him, its little stem delicately between her finger and | thumb. | Michael took it—and kissed it. | Then curiosity bulged in her face. |“Say, why do. you want it?” “Because I want to give it to your mother myself. Will you show me | where she is?” /'There was something about her little | chin... ; Angela reached out her hand, smil- ling. “This way,” she said. “Don't |forget the dollar!”

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|JUDGE STAMPS DOWN

|ON SPEEDING MOTORISTS

| NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.—Mag- |istrate H. G. Johnston in Police Court | warned that all motorists who appear | before him on speeding charges will |have their driver’s licences suspend- | ed,

Continuing his battle against | speeding, the magistrate fined Albert H. Lewis, $75 and suspended his li- | cence. three months. | Magistrate Johnston declared: ''Mo- |torists must learn to govern their speed in accordance with the law.”

DON’T ASK LADY ABOUT HER SLIP

VANCOUVER. pen,

A traffic officer inquired of a pretty motorist involved in an accident: “Have you a pink slip, lady?”

“It's none of your business.” Slap!

(British Columbia recently in- troduced a motor vehicle insur- ance law. Motorists having in- surance.carry pink cards.)

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Western Briefs

WOOD MOUNTAIN, Sask. — Con- struction of a concrete swimming pool will commence shortly at Wood Mountain old post, an historical spot located five miles south of here. It is expected that the pool will be in operation by June 15.

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WINNIPEG. — Announcement. by Premier Stuart Garson in the Mani- toba legislature that the long-sought- after highway between Flin Flon and The Pas will be constructed resulted in’ prediction that its completion would open unlimited possibilities for northern Manitoba.

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CALGARY.—An 11-year-old burg- lar who broke into a city home was apprehended by a housewife and free- ly admitted his act. He allegedly took a game-of monopoly, flashlight and a microscope set from the home.

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VICTORIA.—Restriction of the use of white canes in British Columbia to blind persons will become law in the province if the legislature ap- proves a bill to be introduced by Pro- vincial Secretary George Pearson.

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KIMBERLEY. — Canadian Legion post plans a $210,000 recreation building here as soon as a suitable site can be acquired, council has been informed.

* * * * EDMONTON.—St. Stephen's theo- logical college of the University of Alberta uses a large recording ma- chine to train the voices of students for. the ministry. The machine's primary purpose is to perfgc¢t enunci-

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be piled in sherbet glasses and chilled in the refrigerator or it may be froz- en in the tray of a mechanical refrig- erator.

Eleven Canadian lakes are above 1,100 square miles in extent.

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Scientists Seek |

Gasoline From Natural Gas

Vegreville, Alta., Chemical Engineer, Is Successful In Obtaining A Small Quantity From Carbon Monoxide

EDMONTON. — The conversion of natural gas to a cheap, high-quality gasoline is one of the problems now being studied by scientists at the University of Alberta research labor- atories.

Research men all over the conti- nent have been working at the pro- ject for years but as yet none have succeeded in producing a method that will make gasoline cheaply enough to compete with that obtained from petroleum. “At the university lab here, gasoline has been made from natural gas but not cheaply enough to make it feasible. The project is particularly important to Alberta with its huge untapped sources of natural gas.

Initial work on the synthesization of gasoline was begun at the univer- sity in 1943 by the late Dr. E. H. Boomer, professor of chemical engi- neering. Since his death, graduate students have been conducting the experiments.

Must Increase Yield

At present a 23-year-old chemical engineer from Vegreville, Alta., Mich- ael Chmilar, is taking his master of science degree on the project. So far he has obtained one-quarter of a pound of gasoline from 85 cu. feet of carbon monoxide. Theoretically, twice that amount should be obtained and he now is attempting to increase the yield so the gasoline obtained can compete with ordinary petroleum gasoline,

Natural gas is converted to carbon monoxide in the synthesis. The car- bon monoxide is then combined with hydrogen gas in the. “presence of granulated cobalt metal at a tem- perature of about 200 degrees. The big problem at present is to find something besides the cobalt metal to combine the carbon monoxide and hydrogen, It’s a big job—but Mr. Chmilar is optimistic about the re- sults.

Rules On Gifts From U.S. Eased

OTTAWA. — Canada’s emergency austerity regulations ha¥e been eased slightly to permit Canadians to re- ceive gifts valued up to $25 from the United States.

However, a revenue department of- ficial said that. such gifts would be subject to normal duties. The con- cession was granted primarily to pre- vent hardship through prohibiting such gifts as birthday and wedding presents.

The official said that the limit on goods which may be brought into Canada from the United States has not been altered except in the case of unsolicited gifts.

The original regulation prohibited the entry of gifts except those valued at $5 or less which are traditionally duty free.

”

A Twentieth Century Fund survey reports that one-third of the Ameri- can people live in areas without pub- lic libraries. :

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DAUPHIN ICE QUEEN—Joan Jo- hannesson, 19, chosen queen of the recent winter carnival at Dauphin, Man.

Canada’s Armed Forces Now 33,827

OTTAWA.—Canada’s armed forces have been reduced to 33,827 officers and men in the active branches of the army, air force and navy, the government disclosed in a series of written answers to parliamentary questions.

Heaviest concentrations of strength are in central, western and north- western Canada.

The détenc€ department, replying to questions from Maj. E. D, Fulton (P.C.-Kamloops), said the army’s ac- tive strength js 15,409 officers and men,

Active strength of the R.C.A.F. is 11,636 of a total authorized strength of 18,221.

The navy’s strength given as 6,782.

BUMPER POTATO CROP

EXPECTED IN FRASER VALLEY

NEW WESTMINSTER.—A bump- er potato crop is expected in the Fraser Valley this year. It is’ esti- mated that at least 7,000 acres will be planted in tubers which, barring disease, should produce a $2,000,000 crop.

Farm operations have already Started in parts of the valley and some extra early crops are already showing green,

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Set by Mountain View Council

Councillors Chas. Fox, H, Roed- ler, H. Goetjen, W. H. Metz, F. J. Niddrie, E. B. Dodd and W. J. Bag- nall were all present at the re®luar meeting of the Municipa) District @#f Mountain View, No. 49, held in Didsbury on Monday, April 5th.

The newly-elected councillors, E. B, Dodd and W. J. Bagnall took the oath of office and Chas. Fox was re-eected reeve for 1948 while W H. Metz was eected deputy reeve foy the first six months.

Board members of the Rosebud Health Unit are Councillors -Nid- drie, Metz, Goetjen and Bagnall.

Agricultural Service Board mem- bers are Councillors F. JJ, Niddrie, chairman: Chas. Fox, Frank Laut, R.

C. Sheehan and district agriculturist, Hugh McPhail

C. E. Reiber was appointed the auditor for 1948

The following grants were pas- sed: Salvation Army .$700; Insti- tute for the Blind $300: Red Cross $100 each to the branches at Olds, Didsbury. Carstairs and Crossfield.

The Reeve and secretary were

empowered to enter into arrange-

ments with dealers throughout the

municipality to supply. gopher poi- son to farme’s on the same basis as last year. Under this arrangement

the farmer may secure gopher poi- Son from the local dealer and at the same time buy an equal amount which will be paid fer by*the muni- cipality.

An application for the purchase of part of Railway, Avenue at Cre- mona Was refused,

Approval was given to the leas- ing of two yood allowances. One to L,. M. Bird of Garfield on the west of S. W..of 10-30-5 and the other to H. Semrau of Olds on the south of S. E., of 13-33-28-4 and the south west of 18-33-27-4.

Approval was also given to the Calgary Power Company. ito instal a pole line fiom Crossfield to the S. E. of 34-28-1-5 approximately 1 mile in length,

The following allo:a‘ions made for each division for work and gravelling in 1948.

Division 1 — $10,8850

Division 2 — $7,315

Division 3 — $11,100.

Division 4 — $1,580.

Division 5 — $9,937

Division 6 — $6,646

Division 7 — $10, 572

In addition to the above expendi- tures will be added the annual road grants received from the Depart- aent of Public Works.

Raites of pay were fixed by Coun- cil and provide for 70 cents an ‘hour for a man and two horses; 95 cents tm hour for a man and four horses; 20 cents an hour for. a team of horses; 70 cents an hour for local foreman; 60 cents an hour for extra man on grader; $1.25 per hour. for hire of smal] farm tractor; $1.50 an hour for hire of medium farm trac- tor and $1.75 per hour for hire of a large farm

were road

tractor,

Where work is done with munici- pal equipment other than in the Municipa} District of Mountain View the charge for D-1 and D-8 tractors is $700 an hour to rate- payers. and $10. to. non-ratepaye~

Fo: motor graders*the charge. is

#5 an hour to ratepayers and $8 hour to non-rai

For D-1 tractor and scraper the charge is $15 an hour to ratepaye's and $20 an hour to non-r

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Llepayers.

Estimates Set

At the meeting of the Council of the Municipal District of Mountain View last -Monday, the secretary estimated that expenditures for the year 1948 would be $561,890.00.

This sum includes estimated dis- counts on taxes at $40,000.

A break-down of the estimates shows that $15,510 will be nceced for administ:ation; $1,700 for pro- tection of persons and property; $161,486 for public works; $12,000

for public welfare; $5,810 for con- servation of health; $36,891 for hos- pitals; $224,596 foy education and $45,000 for capital expendituure, To raise the estimated $561,890 will require the folowing mil] rate with the 1947 mill rate shown for

comparison.

Taves 1948 1947 Municipal 20 17 Olis 8. D. 20'% 17% Red Deer S. D. 19 201% Wheatland S. D. 20 16 Calgary S. D. 17 16 Village of Carstairs 22's 22 Town of Didsbury 23'y 20 Town of Olds 25'4 24 Olds Hospital 4 4 Didsbury Hospital 5's 4%

In pointing out the increase in the 1948 taxes ratepayers are asked to take into consideration the exces- sive cost of snow plowing this year. Municipal authorities estimate that it will between $11,000 and $12,000 for snow plowing in the Municipality

The demand for gravel roads has also been a factor in extra expendi-

cost

tures being provided for public works. Increased educational costs sare

the cause of the increased rate in schoo] taxation.

The towns mentioned in the above schedule represent the rural part of the town School Districts and are in No way associated with the general expenses of the towns.

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Brilliant Speakers at Home &School Olds Convention

Headed by Campbell Young of

Edmonton, four outstanding speak- .ers will address sessions of the 17th annual convention of the Alberta Home and School Associations Which is te be held at the Olds School of Agriculture from Apri] 20th to 22nd inclusive.

Mr. Young, Edmonton delegate to the World Youth Conference in Oslo in 1947 will be the featured speaker at the banquet. His address will deal with the topic “Religion Plays Its Part in World Peace.”

The other chief addresses will -be given by Mrs. Horace Burkholder of Calgary, A. A. Aldridge, Provincial Director of Guidance and Miss Mar- ion Sutherland of Calgary.

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CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION

| Service Sunday, April 18th evensong at | 7.30 p.m.

CROSSFIEL BAPTIST CHURCH

Minister Rev. J. W. MacDonald Sunday services at 11 a.m. Bikle School at. 12 noon

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Eveni Service 7.30 Madden Sunday School at 11.q.m. Church. Service at 12. noon Rev. C. W. Anderson, Minister

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Important: changes in. the Canadian Pacific Railway’s traffic de- partment see C. E. Jefferson (top left) assume the position of general traffic manager at Montreal, H. W. Gillis (top right), and Gerald Hiam (bottom left) become system freight traffic managers at Mon- treal, and G. F.-Buckingham (bottom right) taking over the post of freight traffic: manager at Winnipeg for United Sttaes Pacific Coast agencies.

37th Graduation at O.S.A.

The graduating class this yea) comprised 80 Boys and 42 girls all of whom successfully completed the examinations in Home Economics and in Agriculture.

The actual graduation ceremonies were preceeded by a banquet in the main dining room of the schol with Mr. F. N. Miller, principal, act- ing as the toastmaster.

Following the banque:, M. W. Malyon proposed the toast to the graduating class. He traced the act- ivities of the group in the school in the field of athletics, socia] life and in their studies, In closivz his toast he said that ‘ie best wishes

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ing the banquet were held in the auditorium of the school. |

Rev. W..H. Moss gave the invoca- } tion. F. N, Miller then addressed: | the graduates. In his remarks he :eviewed the past school term and followed by inviting the graduates to maintain their connections with | the school through the alumni as- sociation. Mir, Miller said that the 8.1.00] did not necessarily need any publicity but he invited each and every ofie of the students to tell

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Diplomas were then presented to the graduates. Worthy of special mention were the following. Miss Shirley Kearns of Maple Creek, Saskatchewan was the only girl in he svhool this year registered in course in agriculture and she received her diploma for this course.

Joe Clayton of Airdrie became the fifth member of the Clayton family o graduate and receive a diploma

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