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a - EAE 7 ER Lr HERB SHORT SToRY "4 The Young Old Folks By Matthew F, Christopher "There!" Dave said. "The ceiling's finished. Now, you've got new stairs, new walls in the liviig room and 'bedrooms, and a new norch." He lifted his chin defiantly, and something like a cold glint entered his hrown eyes as he gazed down at. his mother. "Anything else vou going to do?" Drusilla glanced at him warily, clutched his arm. "Dave!" She sounded so weak, like a child. His mother stared up at him with a soft flame burning in her cheeks. She was so short, thought Drusilla, so small against her son. "Why? what's the matter? Dad cand I--we were talking about put- ting in a new kitchen floor, too." Dave shook his head. "There you go! Ever since you bought this place that's all you and Dad have been doing--fixing and fixing. For a couple of old people you're certainly throwing vour money around." "I'm only fifty-five," said his father solemnly, puffing quietly on an, old, black-bowled pipe. Dave ~laughed _ drily. Don't you think that's along?" After lunch he took a nap, and Drusilla sneaked quietly out of the kitchen door and started back across the field to Mother and Dad Parsell's. « "I didn't have anything to do," she explained, "so I' thought I'd come back and visit awhile. Dave's sleeping. "Mother said you're going to put in a new kitchen floor. What kind? Oak?" "Oh, no, Mother, did not mean that. We just want to sand the old floor, then put on inlaid linoleum. She left soon] for fear Dave would get up and not find her there. Wheii"he woke there was still time for supper, and Drusilla sug- gested a httle ride "through the country "The road down toward the lake," she said "We haven't seen the Acklings so long! And Mrs Ack- ling has been so sweet to mel" "Oh, Drusilla -- and Dave! It's so good to see you! Come around the house. John is back there, work- "Well? getting ing on the terrace." tot b They followed her. Drusilla stop: ped and stared suprisedly at the _vari-colored flagstones that made up. the terrace. At one corner, which was not quite finished, a white- haired figure dabbled with a trowel. He looked up, his red face critkled in a smile. "Well!" he exclaimed Lave had hurt them. She 'd s-e that in the soft tears in thir eyes, and their mouths that hung, limply, at- the cor- ners." "Look who's "here! Hew 'are you, Drusilla? Dave? My, you're 'both loo':ing so young you .caoke me feel old! Hows the folks, rave?" "Good, Mr Ackling, thanks." "Doinz any more on that house of theirs?" "Some. Just fimshed--" "Mrs Ackling!" Drusilla exclaim-' ed. "What's that down below here? A- flower bed? Ol, it's beautiful! Dave, look!" ) ' After work the next day she saw Dave drive past the house, and from the back door she saw him. stop at: his- mother's. She waited for the sound of the car's motor to start up agaih, tor hé should Be coming honie to cat. Minutes went by. What was Dave doing? She heard the motor. She stared at the car, waiting for it to move. Suddenly, she realized it wasn't the® car. And then, hurriedly, she ripped off-a sheet of wax gaper; covered "the food on the table, and started' running across the field to Mother and Dad' Parsell's, - ' When she peered through the door of the kitchen, the noise that came from within-was so loud she could barely think. But she could see Mother Parsell sweeping one side of the old floor that was slowly changed to new, her round, rosy cheeks puffed up in a smile. And Dad Parsell, his mild, contented face in the center of his own smoke fog, holding. an electric cord, so ° that Dave wouldn't run it over with the sander, All Ready To Sign The Newfoundland Union Bill--Viscount Alexander of Tunis, Governor General of Canada (seated) prepares to receive and sign the much discussed bill relating to. Merms of Union with Newfoundland. Attending the ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa are seen, left to right, Dr. Arthur Beatchesne, Clerk of the House of Commons i Senator Wishart Robertson, Government Leader in the Senate; Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent; His Excellency Viscount Alexander; Dr. Gaspard Fauteux, Speaker of the House; Senator J. H, King, Speaker of the Senate; Major General H, I*. G. Letsou; L.. C. Moyer, Clerk of the House. "THE FARM FRONT TL Now I don't really know if this information will be of use to any of you, but I'm passing it along just on the off chance. A Canadian firm that manufactures a brand of 2-4-D has put out a movie film, which sounds--from the word I've re- ceived about it--as though it might be both interesting and instcuctive. . « os . S " ~~ Filmed in full natural color, and with sound, it's an authentic.pres- entation of what weeds cost the farmer in terms of yield, dockage, and cash. It shows how the weeds suck the land dry of moisture, nour- ishment and fertility, and how they choke to death the"grasses which hold the soil in place. The location shots, by the vay, were made in the fields of western Canadian grain farmers during last spring, summer and fall : * ¥ * After showing how those weed losses have cost Canadian farmers more than rust, grasshoppers and all other pests and diseases com- bined, the film goes oh to show how--under the impetus of World War Two--the research facilities of all Government and commercial agencies were stimulated to find the answer to the problem. * * * The film -- it's title is' "The Triumph of 2,4-D"--is described as being of vital importance to every Canadian farmer and his family. It was produced only for 16mm sound projectors, and runs for a little over "half an hour. 'And it is available-- without charge--to farm organiza- tions and other interested groups. Ano. if YOU happen to be inter- ested, just write to BENOGRAPH, 100 'Adelaide St. West, in Toronto FE Ba Now for a little assorted informa- . tion about this, that, and the other. Around. about this time of year what is known as "ringworm" can give your livestock a lot of trouble. It shows up as small bad spots covered with lifeless, wrinkled grey scabs. * * * Actually "ringworm" isn't "a worm at all. It's a fungus which grows best when animals are in damp, dark barns or stables. There are two things you can do to knock out this fungus. One is to keep your stock where there's plenty of light, ventilation and clean bedding. The other is to treat the disease if it develops. LJ * * whi with a mild soap and a medium stiff brush. (This softens * the covering which protects the fungus.) Then use tincture of iodine, or phe- morol, lime-sulphur dip or Whit- field ointment for a few days. When the scabs are unusually thick it's best to use an oil antiseptic, as the oil will help to loosen up-the-scabs. * * * en he fungus starts, you can And as "ringworm" is very coa- tagious, be sure and separate the infected animals from the rest, also be careful not to touch, with your bare hands, any diseased areas. * * * Now here's something that might be worth the attention of hog raisers. Specialists at a big Ameri- can university have just proved, by a carefully conducted test, just how important good legumes can be in a sow's ration, and what an effect they have on the size of litters. * * * These experts have just finished feeding two groups of gilts from the time they were 57 pounds weight right through their first litters. One group was given alfalfa, either as * pasture, or as alfalfa meal on dry- lot. The other group was on dry- lot and got no alfalfa. * . » The balance of the ration in both cases was made up of grain, soy- bean oil meal, mineral and concen- trated cod liver oil. Five of the mem-------- x New Type 'Chick Hatch- ery--As Harold Duggan lay in a hospital, bored with life and weighted 'down with a heater for his ifjured foot, . a visitor: remarked that the contraption looked like: a chicken brood- er. So Duggan decided to breed chickens. For 3 weeks he kept some eggs next his foot and four chick- ens were hatch- ed.- The chicks were doing very 'well too, until the doctors 're« fused to 'let Duggan keep them longer.® ~ "it by washing the dry scabs thirteen gilts that got no alfalfa lost ALL their pigs within a few days after farrowing. Altogether this group weaned only thirt-nine pigs. - « * . On the other hand, the group that got alfalfa weaned seven pigs apiece! The moral would seem to be that if your sows aren't getting plenty of legumes, you're tossing away a lot of potential profits. . 0. And when I start pointing out morals, it's a sign that it's about time to pipe down for the week. ITEMIZED! An artist who was employed to renovate and Yetouch the great oil paintings in an old church in Bel- gium rendered a bill of $67.30 for his services. The church warden, however, required an itemized ac- count, and the following was duly presented: For correcting the "Ten Commandments" .:....... $ 5.12 For renewing heaven and ad- justing the stars .......... 7.14 For touching up purgatory and restoring lost souls ... 3.06 For brightening up the flantes of hell, putting new tail on + the devil and doing odd jobs for the damned .......... 7.17 For putting new stone in Da- vid's sling, enlarging head of Goliath ............ vee. 6.13 For mending shirt of prodigal son and cleaning his ears .. 3.39 For embellishing Pontius Pi- late and putting new ribbon on his bonnet ............ 3.02 For putting new fail and r cotnb on St. Peter's rooster 2.20 For repluming and regilding left wing of the Guardian Angel eli oni A - $5.18 For washing the servant of high priest ............. .. 5.02 For taking the spots off the son of Tobias ............ 10.30 For putting earrifigs in Sar- ah's ears ............0...n 5.26 For. decorating Noah's ark and new head on Shem ... 4.31 TOTAL ......o..... $67.30 P.S. He got the money. Newlywed husband: "Do you mean to say there's only one course "for dinner tonight? Just cheese?" Newlywed wife: "Yes, dear, You sge, when the chops caught fire and fell into the dessert, I had to use the 'soup to put out the fire." WHEN HITLER WAS A JUMP FROM VICTORY Fifty years ago the invasion of England was a favorite subject for boys' thrillers. Even as late as 1922 the "Champion" published a story entitled "Germany's War of Re- venge," This told in detail how a German task force landed in East Anglia and captured the whole of London north of the Thames, de- stroying St. Paul's and the Houses of Parliament, only to be thrown back by our gallant defenders. It was all great fun and nothing more. No foreign invader had set foot on English soil since 1066. Well, we all know what happened. In 1940 the thriller all but came true. By June 4th the British Army had been driven out of Europe. After seemingly impossible efforts 337,000 men were brought back; but they were exhausted, disorganized, un- equipped. Oa June 17th France cap- itulated, and Britain was left alone to face a triumphant Hitler, master of 'the whole of Western Europe north of the Pyrenees --a Europe from which we were separated by only twenty-one miles of water. One Jump to Victory It was obvious what his next = move would be. In the opinion of all observers he had only to cross the Channel to win the war. Iu fact, he didn't cross the Chan- nel and so he didn't win the war. But the question everybody asked at the time, and has gone on asking since with such persistence that it has become 'one of the great ques- tion-marks of History is: Why not? Most historical questions of that importance take years to answer, * But owing to the fact that we cap- tured nearly all the German docu- ments we can rely to this one right away. Por from the documents a book has been written giving an excellent account of how the Ger- mans regarded the war at seca * It is the German view of sea-power which is the clue to the puzzle. We were accustomed to despise the German Navy. [It was, in fact, by no means contemptible. Render- ed virtually ineffective by the Treaty of Versailles it was not revived un- til 1935. In 1940 it was only a small force compared to the Royal Navy. "A Surprise Crossing" But it was eflicient, and its Com- ander-in-Chief, Grand-Admiral Er- ich Raeder, knew his job. Because he did he had ordered his staff to investigate the problem of invading England as carly as November 15th, 1939. At a conference with the Fueher on May 21st, 1940, Raeder mention- ed his plans. "But Hitler," says Mr. Martienssen; the author, "jubi- lant over his victory in France, paid scant attention." ) Nothing daunted, Racder raised the subject again on June 20th. This didn't go much better, for it was not until July 2nd that the staffs of the three Services were ordered even to investigate the possibility. The truth was that no one in Ger- many (nor anywhere else, for that matter, 'outside our island) imagin- ed that the mad British would con- tinue so unequal a struggle." Raeder himself said to Hitler on July 11th: "I consider that an invasion should .be used only as a last resort to force Britain to sue for peace. . . . The pre-requisites are complete air superiority and ....a mine-free area for transport and disembarkation." However, Mr, Churchill's defiant broadcasts did not sound like some- one suing for peace, and two days later. Hitler ordered the three Ser- vices to prepare for "Operation Sea- Lion," which was to be "a surprise crossing on a broad front from Ramsgate to a point. west of the Isle of Wight." They were also to consider the preliminary occupation of the Isle of Wight or Cornwall. The Navy On Guard : Immediately the trouble started. Within three days Raeder was 'moaning: "The task allotted to the Navy is out of all proportion to the Navy's strength, and bears no re- - lation to the tasks that are set the Army and the Air Force." Among the difficulties he listed were the damage done to invasion ports during the Battle of France, and the fact that the Royal Navy would certainly intervene in full strength. This does not seem to have occurred to the rest of the 510 SCRATCHING) y, Relieve Itch in a Ji Religry | d ules tf ot ie to abl eo SE Bho at ; axtra strength), Gr of , A Doctor's thes nd la AEA rg It--0r_ money b: d uf fr oD. Prosoription. Yom cruz) Supreme Command, who "consides- ed the landing quite a simple opera- tion." The Army chiefs, indesd, wore completely ignoring the implications of the faot that they had to cross a sea dominated by the enemy. They demanded transport for 40 divisions (800,000 mien) attacking on a broad front from Ramsgate to Lyme Bay, Raeder had no proper landing craft and he pointed out that to take this number of men in barges would paralyse German internal trade, de- pending as it did so much on water- transport, The Army then reduced their re- quirements to 13 divisions, but in sisted on a landing on a broad front, This resulted in an Army v. Navy deadlock at the beginning of Aug- ust. Both sides were right. If troops were landed on a broad front the British would be forced to disperse their forces and a German break- through would be easy; conversely, a narrow front landing would con- centrate all the defenders and invite annihilation, On the other hand, Raeder with his small navy could only protect a small section of the Channel; any attempt to take troops across outside this small section was bound to end in disaster. On-August 27th Hjtler reached a compromise between the broad and narrow front policies and issued orders for four main landings in the areas Folkestone-Dungeness, Dun- geness-Clifi's End, Bexhill-Beachy Head, Brighton-Selsey Bill. The first objective was to be a line from Portsmouth to the mouth of the Thames. Meanwhile, Goering, confident that his Luftwaffe could both sweep the R.A.F. out of the sky and para- lyse the Royal Navy (a view -not shared by Admiral Raeder), had started the first part of the opera- tion with odds of 2 to 1 in his fav- our. But in spite of the fact that all his first reports were favourable, on September 3rd the landing was postponed to the 21st. The barges were difticult to col- lect and the R.A F. and R.N. would insist 'on destroying them. More- over, German Intelligence Reports were not encouraging. There was apparently a menacing cancentra- tion of tanks on a mythical golf- course called "St. Joseph's". The British- Army consisted of 39 di- visions, of which 20 were completely operational. -(In actual fact there were on paper only 27---mostly re- cruits with no equipment.) The area of Tonbridge-Beachy Head was "a labyrinth of defence." "Tonbridge must lie on the coast . . . but this cannot be confirmed from the charts in our possession." (It is - roughly half-way from london to the coast!" With this sort of information be- fore them it is not surprising that the Supreme Command became a little uncertain. While junior staff officers were painstakingly dividing occupied Britain into six commands and fixing an exchange "rate of 9.6 Reichmarks to the £ the high-ups were becoming increasingly doubt- ful of "Sea Lion." In spite of Goering's reports the R.A.F. were still painfully in evi- dence. On September 14th, Raeder again refers to the invasion as "a last resort--the risk is very great," and asks for a postponement till October. He had noticed a meanac (right, poi y "Do People Really Call Me Crabby?" Do you sometimes feel that people are beginning to think you are high-strung ~-- always tense and nervous -- so that' you fly off the handle easily ¢ GARDEN NOTES: TIME TO PLAN The experienced gardener dosing walt untll the sun snd wll are waeal before starting ot ready foe planting, No matter ©. the weath- or is like outside planning cam commence anytime, and there ls fua and value in this planning, too. A good Canadian seed catalogue and a Government bulletin or two will prove Invaluable. Despite all the time-worn jokes about the sced catalogue, these publications are packed with real and vital informa- tion, With the bulletins, they will tell you when the various flowers bloom, the colors, and whether they are hardy or tender and safe to plant in your neighborhood. Heights are also given and the type of growth. Only with sucl, informatioa can one go ahead and plan real borders and other layouts, can be sure there is something in bloom right through until Fall, and that the little ings will not be hidden by the tall.. i With the vegetables, the cata- logues and bulletins will help la the planning and also in getting sat- isfaction when the garden starts to yleld, One will learn from the des- criptions whether certain varieties are hardy, half-hardy or tender, and how many days from planting te maturity. All this is vital informa- tlon, One will also read about brand- new discoveries in the vegetable line, improvements in old stand- bys. . . * ¥ FIRST JOBS There are some outdoor jobs that can be started almost as soon as the ground is bare. One of the first will be lawn repairs or the starting of new ones. Grass seed makes its best growth in cool weather. Sweet peas also must go in early for best results. They need to develop their deep growth before. the soil gets warm, . ing number of H.M. ships within striking distance of the Channel. Rinal Postponement Hitler hedged for a few days, but on September 17th he ordered an indefinite postponement of the op- eration. On October 12th it was postponed till the following spring. Everybody forgot about it, but it wasn't finally cancelled until Janu- ary, 1942, Now Hitler and his top boys, great rogues though they may have been, were men of first-rate ability, Why did they make such a poor showing in this operation? Because (with the exception of Racder) they were land-minded, not sca-minded. Bred on a continent they did not wnderstand that in a global war con- trol of the sea will enable its pos- sessor at least to avoid defeat in- + definitely, while such control is ah- solutely necessary if victory is to be won. Goering thought that air-control alone would be sufliciént; thanks to "the Few" he was unable to achieve even that. 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