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ne? Eras a : ae + A SRA LS ei A / -- --- Bernard Cardinal Griffin, Roman Catholic Archbishop of West- minster; throws the ball into play at the Gaelic soccer match be- tween the Irish teams.Cavan and Kerry near London. Gaelle soccer differs slightly from English soccer, with 15 players on a side. H \ ... JUST IN FUN ... < A Good Yarn The shop assistant was, trying very hard to make a sale, but the customer waved aside every shirt that was put before him. Wearily the assistant 'showed him the last of the selection. ' "It's wonderful value, sir," he said earnestly. "Worth double the --money:- Latest pattern, fast colours, hole-proof, won't shrink, and it's a good yarn." -- "Yes, and very well "told," cane" the curt reply. Plain But 'Olesome A very pleasant-looking, but not too beautiful, little lady entered a _ London store. Noticing a striking . poster advertising their beauty ser- viee, she asked the liftman where- abouts in the store the beauty par- lour was situated. The man glanced at heér face and noted with satisfaction that she ap- parently did not make-up. "Miss, yer don't want ter go mucking yer face abaht. Why not stay as yer are--plain' but "ole- some!" . Not Ambitious Mrs. Smith was vigorously pow- dering her nose before going out, "Why dd you go to all that trouble?" asked Mr, Smith, was waiting impatiently, "Modesty, my dear," was the re- ply. "Modesty?" o "Yes--I've no desire to shine in public." ) Not Her- Own ~ Mrs. Hatt stopped to talk to her friend, and her husband waited a short distance away. Presently she rejoined him, "H'm," hé said, "and what was Mrs, Brown talking about?" - "Business," she replied, off-hand- edly. : "Yes, I know," murmured "husband, "but whose?" her who . XN Beaten to It A young woman about' to be married decided to test her swect- heart, and called on a girl friend. "1 want you to go for a walk with Jack," she confided, "and at' a suitable moment ask him for a kiss." | _ Her friend blushed, but consent- ed. i ' ~The following --day-the_bride-to- be called round to see what had happened. "Did you ask Jack to "kiss you, dear?" "1 didn't get a chance," was the reply, "He asked 'me long before I was going to. 3 Her Wasted Life As he was under orders fo go abroad, the ardent young soldier" begged bis girl friend to marry him at once. E Rather worried about it, the girl sought advice from the maiden aunt who'd brought her up. "Tell me what you'd do, aunty," she asked. "I suppose you think it "wouldn't be.sense to marry because I'm so young?" a "Well, dear," said her aunt, "I dunno! If I had my time over again, 1 think I'd get married be- fore 1 was old enough to have sense not to." Milk a la Tray The mistress wasSexacting, and she had the new maid flustered. One of her orders was to bring a glass of , milk every evening at seven o'clock. 'The first cvening the maid appeared with the glass of © milk in her hand. " "Jane," said the mistres¥ sharply, "don't ever 'do that again. Always bring it on a tray." The following evening Jane ap- peared at the door with a worried look on her face and a tray full of milk in her hands, "Excuse me, ma'am," she said anxiously, "but do I bring a spoon with this, or do you lap iteup?" . THE STRANGEST THING WILD VIOLETS GROW W THE ALEUTIANS, ON ADAK AND ATTU 15 LANDS THEY BLOSSOM N EARLY A DWOOD TSA FREAK SABRI SLOPES OF MT. TAMALPAIS, IN: + AR 'MARN CALIETHE 'FOLIAGE 15 THE SAME IN OE AS RED: WOOD BUT 15 ~ The blast-smashed town of Texas City lies in the foreground at right. Montanto Chemical's once gleaming styrene towers and the neat con. crete roads of its 30-acre plant are at left, a mass of fire-blackened debris under the smoke of the still burning area on the second day of the Texas City disaster. In middle, background, are fuel storage tanks, many of which exploded into flames. : When the French Line freighter Grandcamp put into - Texas City, on Galveston Bay, crew members began. loading her with ammonium nitrate, badly needed for fertilizer in France. Nitrate is ordinarily stable, but may explode if exposed --to-intense--heat.--A--few-davs--later- a small fire was discovered in: the ~hold---of the Gramdcamp.----In--less ----Beneath--it-seeped-poisonous--fumes-- Property damage -was--estimated at --til-the-processing-of -the_nitrates-.is--- than an hour the ship exploded and set off a chain of explosions. A City Devastated Within two hours the city was . devastated, Continuing explosions collapsed 'buildings, sent chunks of masonry, steel and flaming timbers hurtling through the air. The Mon- santo plant, adjacent to the. docks, became a flaming oven of wreck- --age---as--its-chemical-supplies--ignit----- ed. Black smoke veiled the area. _released from the chmicals. The explosions continued. A 'second nitrate-filled ship exploded, causing new destruction. Observers likened the holocaust to a wartime bombing. Gen. Jonathan M. Wain- wright, hero of Bataan, in the city to proffer Army aid, said: "I have never seen a greater tragedy in all --my-experience." About 550 persons were killed; 3,000 were injured. over $125,000,000. The fate of Texas City put other "port cities on their guard against similar blasts. Huge stocks of am- . munition containing ammonium ni- trate \were left at the end of the war. These stocks are beng .pro- cessed and reconverted for use as fertilizers. Explosive experts at- tending the meeting of the Ameri- _ can_- Chemical _Society_at Atlantic- City last week pointed out that un- completed, the danger of explosions will remain a real one. Mystery Story: "A Falling Mouse" In the heart of New York City, within sight of Radio City, there is a small vacant corner lot. Brick buildings rise on two sides, while the others are bounded by a. high wire fence. rm Peering through the wire wesh, a dozen 'men and women watched something taking place inside, re- lates the Philadelphia Inquirer. A cat had discovered a mouse hidden under a mass of wind-blown papers. It would pounce first at one place then at another as it detected the scurrying of the mouse beneath the papers. Finally, 'the mouse reached the nearest wall and began climb- ing straight upward on the tace of this precipice of brick. While the cat watched below and while the people. watched outside, .the mouse pulled itself higher and higher. - It moved more slowly searching for clawholds, mounting upward brick by brick. It was more than two storeys in the air when it lost its hold. Women screamed as it plunged downward. It struck the ground and, to €veryone's open-mouthed amazement, instead of lying there stunned or dead, it scampered off and later made good .its escape. * Ll * At Cornell University, another mouse survived au even more spec- tacular fall. Within a few days of giving birth to a litter, a mother mouse fell three storeys to a con- crete walk below. She not only es caped death but later gave birth to -a full_ljtter «of uninjured baby mice. _. The ability: of small animals to sustain long falls lies in the relation of their body weight to their ex- ternal surface area. The smaller the animal, the greater fs thé propor- tion of surface area to body mass. An ant is buoyed up by the air when it falls from a cliff. A horse is not. ... It is too heavy in propor- tion to its surface area to have its fall checked by air pressufe. tp \ India's \ irrigation _ system, the world's ehets waters over 55,000, 000 acres, v STUFF AND THINGS VOICE OF THE PRESS Teen-Ager Definition: A teen-aged boy is a person who flops on the sofa on the back of his neck and scatters his legs over half the living room. - --Stratford Beacon-Herald. This Year! With maple syrup at six or seven dollars a gallon, who now would call the farmer "a poor sap?" He's the "candy kid." --Ottawa Citizen, Long-Awaited Operation. now be relieved by chiselling a tiny window through the bone of the in- ner ear. This gives hope that new progress will be made in that long- awaited operation which is design- ed to get a joke into a Scotsman's head. : --Peterborough Examiner. History-Book Problem - © We have often noted in Canada that history text books vary beyond recognition according as they. are written in English or French, and the problem of préducng a book that will be even reasonably accept- able to the two main divisions of Canadians has never yet been satis- factorily solved. % --Halifax Chronicle. Only The Rest Jap night spots recently noticed a slump in food business when a report circulated that poisoned Theat had been sold on the black -- market. One placa: that specialized .in."beefsteaks" put up a sign stat- ing: "Absolutely safety guaranteed, for our beefsteaks, We are using horsemeat as héretofore." "i --Variety. - i. \_ Better In The Open It may actually be much safer to let the Communists Operate in the open in' North America.: That way, we shall at least have some idea of what they are up to, And there will be less chance of the public grow-- ing complacent and imagining that Communism is dead and buried,. merely because it has been declared illegal, --Edmapton Journal, Ll Certain types of deafness can | Or, There Aren't Any As one pessimist remarked, the hasn't been decided on yet is un- available in most colcrs. --St. Thomas Times-Jourgal. Office Boy Not Extinct An M.P. says that 'the office boy is as extinct' as the dodo." We disagree; they call them "junior executives" now, and pay 'them more, but their capacity is just the sanie. --Peterborough Examiner. Why Bother? | More men are wearing plain knit ties, we learn from a press report. This brings up the question, why wear ties at all> One of the most foolish customs is that otf men who bind: their necks almost to strang- ling point with various kinds of fabrics. Some of the gaudy 'ties that the women's haty that "strike your eyes in the Easter parade. Men who laugh at the things women' are pleased te call hats might do well to take a second look at their ties. : --Chatham News. What About the Pork? Farmers throughout "this district are being urged to grow more beans for canning purposes this year. What about the pork? Have you noticed they don't even print "Pork" on the labels of the cans any more.? There was a time when -you-could find a tiny squire of pork . among the beans, if you had good eyesight. : . --St, Thomas Times-Journal. First Billionaire Henry Ford, the world's first billionaire, was the King Midas of all time. = Conipared to Ford, Croesus, the last king of Lydia and from whom we get'the phrase "rich as Croesus," was a piker. Ford started life as a $2.50-a-- 'week mechanic and died with a for- tune estimated at more. than a billion dollars. . His - wealh has never been equalled by any ruler or potentate in history. - car you can't get in a model that ° one sees are almost as ridiculous as™ \ Russia Showing To ovies GG . Stereoscopic A new stercoscopic scieen for three dimensional films is being built in Russia, Tass, the official Soviet news agency, reported, - Moscow's first stereoscopic movie theater recently opened but only 180 spectators can be accommo- dated. . When 'the new "integral" screen is completed it -will be possible to show three dimensional films in large theaters, the Tass agency said. The Soviet Government has pro- vided funds anjounting 10 about $4,000,000 for further research in the. field of the stereoscopic "movie theater, according to Semen Ivanov, an inventor of the stereoscopic screen, , is in serious mood as he vehem- ently answers questions of news- men concerning his alleged leftist leanings and failure to become an - American citizen. At New York interview he declared he is a "'pay- ing. guest" of U.S. Communism: World Conspiracy , Odd the woolly arguments that are being made against the United States barring Communists' from government departments, comments the Ottawa Journal, For example, . that this is an -interference with conscience, aimed at a nian's right to think as he pleases, States is not making it a crime for a man to be a Communist, It merely "says to. such a man: "If you are a Communist, or subscribe to what Communism is today, an attempt to overthrow demacratic government; then we can't provide you with facilities for your work. You may think as you please; we are not going to make easier your revolutionary acts." - Communists, it is argued, are he- ing made into outlaws. Commun- ists are already outlaws--have put themeslyes outside the law by their creed that they owe' allegiance to no dutharity outside of Moscow. To speak of Communism today as a party, as an economic creed, is to abuse language. Communism isn't a party, and isn't an economic creed--it is simply an international conspiracy, As such, strictly speak- ing, it can claim no rights. Liberia is the only independent: republic on the continent of Africa. bY FOR FULL PARFICULARR: 'Tune in" CKOC, 1160 on your d through to' May 10th Inclosive. The Voice of 'Mr. ¥ T Wan", DAILY throughout that week along R "i SEIT Tx. ~ - Ia xX 5 WATTS," well - known Canadian Radio Pérson- ality. ial, commencing Soniday May 4th, 'will be broadcast at various times wih complete détails of the Contest, Celebrating its 25th Anniversary -- May 4th to 10th, pa POP Same OW Story _ = By J. MILLAR WATT Al 2h call uP MA | : GANT = "t'M TIED UP il BF : AT THE i ANYTHING wn PPICE! 7 wrk ES ORIGINA fen rg 4 2 Screen comedian Charles + Chaplin | The Government of the United "rdentify "MRR Too. .