Ll { ~~ Old London Church Partially Rebuilt The new carillon of eighteen bells which row rings out from All Hal lowa by the Tower across the- City of London Is the gift of a Canadian} and it is fhanks mainly to the gen- FMOsiy of friends from overseas and 0, the energy of the vicar, --the--] \ Puke P. B. tof Toc-H) that this ancient church Clayton (founder [ B "othe oldest parish church in L ondon, Js now being rebuilt. bd The foundation stone of 'the new church was laid by (H. M, the Queer almost exactly a year ago, and on that stone is carved the dite .of the church's original faundation "A.D. 653. That was Saxon England, and when Hitler's bombs hit AH : Hallows by the Tower, behind the ° . panelling of' the great organ there came to life sonrething Lb Ca © ox. x er' Saxon, arch~built from a Roman WT pa KN : = ruin, which experts say goes back Goin' My Way?--This jeep, owned by a. medical supply Aish tries: to the later. part of "the seventh almost came to the parting: of "the ways The right--wheel ! Land | «round the earth is as flat as a pan- They Believe The Earth Is Flat Four-and-one-half centuries three tiny ships under the command of Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain to prove that the world is round. A few months ago two "American planes flew over a care' fully charted route of 3,000 miles to prove that-Columbus--was wrong. t----Theairborne expedition. did not come back with some. statement @Rat instead of being cake; "Yet "it did provide mathe-~ . matical "proof that lit is "not round - in the sense that we assume a tennis ball to be round. Instead, they tectared: the earth' is "a. very rough sphere, flattened at both-ends." They added: that due to the odd and irregular surface of "the earth, po instrument yet de- _ vised can 'measure acgurately the distance between cities and 'coun Dut there are thousands of in-- Hops atso~f RRTCME Bg Saxon monument, "tliought"to--be--a. cross erected jo a SAxon warrior, at the - time of St. Duhstan. Of course, the main fabric of the church is not nearly so ancient; it dates (or rather dated, because the blitz left only three walls and. the ehurch tower standing) from the Se fifteenth century. "The -great;--brick--|- "i - tower built in 1657 by Oliver Crom- : well survived the Great Fire of: - London in 1666. So did the church. Te fos s "wanted to turn right, the left wheel wanted to go left, and the chassis leaned just a little left of center. ~off in-all.directions.- the driver had the b .and disappeared down a one-way street. 'Before dashing madly roken tie rod repaired \PORT itself, --thanks mainly to the efforts of a group of sailors' who blew up the adjoining houses with gun- powder, and enabled Safiuel Pepys,- the diarist, to watch the fire from the church fower. BN fers And beneath the pavement of the sentre nave--still open to the skies --is the. fourtcenth-cenfury crypt ° and_ undercroft. There, beside the crusading altar from Richard Coeur de Lion's castle in Palestine, burns ~ the parent light of maintenance from "which are 1i all the Toc-H lamps round the "world; for All Hallows' i& the guild church of the movement. And there; too, is a Roma boudoir and a Roman pave- " ment--evidence of the great archae ological value of - the site. At the re-opening: ceremony---at ~ Gubbins, let a plain statement sufe Mice. For various reasons it is neces- "sary for this eolumn to be written some days in advance. Furthermaors,... | while the conductor of same is not a resident of Toronto, that fair city, ED 'be roughly known as his spiritual home. (And if the printer spells that "spirituous" there'll be trouble.) : . * * * To get on with our tale of woe, "this particular eolumn was started immediately after the following: un- toward happenings in the realm of *. sport; EE * * (1) 'The' Toronto Maple Leafs Baseball Club "had been knocked" out of the International League playoff series by--of all people- sight créeping up the valley is. precious again, EAT UP One who has lived with a garden all summer comes now to the time when a sense of 'immediacy begins telligent - people who "still believe [that 'the world is flat, and. that it 'bears na resemblance to a sphere or a ball..An American, Wilbur Glenn Voliva, has even.offered five thous- "and 'dollars to anyorte who cai prove without "doubt that the world is a.spheré¢, floating. in space, turn- _ing on its own xis, revolving round the sun and moving with. the sun through a universe. surfeit. when 1d the immortal words of Captain | yo" toe ir frac shorten. the. frost shall Grow th slackens, The garden is still full and overflowing with plenty, but one Knows that it may be the last full- ¢ season * ¢rop. The scason grows late. At planting time * th .stretched ahead almost witho ut limit. The first fruits were precious, garner from: the_fertile soil. summer brought bounty. - Mid- Then so "much came at once that there was Buf 'now; with an end in come s, the A Corn is at its peak,' "but will the Early lettuce. bolted <in tl EET ------which-H: M: Queen Mary was pre | sent--the Bishop of Londen eon": " 'ducted the service, after travelling fiom Fulham Palace to Tower. Pier by river, a thing that hs pot i happened since Foss. Only- 140 people could get into "the recon- structed north" aisle--but- the-service was relayed 'to a gfat marquee in . Pe 1 i Re ~Montreat- Royals. Ty ; * * (2) The Toronto Argonaut Foot- ball Club had taken, not just a beat- Ing but a real shellacking, at the hands--and feet--of the haces; Ot- taws Rough, Riders, .. ! * a) The a "Balmy Beach. Football Club had raised a vast lack beets. the cauliflower--will it, frost, win out? late corn have time to mature its eark? "heat; will, the late~lettuce, now be- ginning to hgad, make its way t to the salad. bowl? Wii the sc attered--{--ver-yo --you--will sfind -that- every -geog--- 1€ ""blossonis on thé limas make pods, or is this present crop to be the last? 'And what of the string beans and the summer squash? What - of or the One picks the pods -and the: ears, "One w atches the pulls the carrots and appraises the winter squash, and looks for signs of blight proved the belief that the sun, in- stead of Heing. a comparatively vast ball of fire- more than ninety mil- lion miles away, is really an in- significant affair, perhaps only 27 to 30 miles in" diameter and abont three thousand miles above the earth. : . The three commonest proofs that the carth is 'a sphere are these. First, as it sails.over the horizon, the hull vanishing first and the masts last Seconil, the curving shape of the earth's shddow on the moon during an eclipse. Third, the changing * latitudes, some stars disappearing and "others apeparing. "There is not an atom of truth in any of tiem," reforts Voliva, "And raphy book rsepeats them like a parrot." The flat earth theorists 'Maintain that the disappearance of a ship over the horizon. hull first. is an optica] - illusion of perspective, no different from the apparent merg- ing of railway tracks in the distance. } A man- at the foot of a tree a couple "of miles across a plain may be.in- ago fantastic' Nor has aifyone absolutely dis: the disappearance of a ship .- aspects of the heavens "in different -- | AGENTS WANTED CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING. OILS, GREASES, TIRES losecticides, Electric Fence Controllers. and Barn Paint Roof Coatings, eto. are wanted. Writs Wareo Grease. & Limited, Toronto. E eli: 'DYEING AND OLEANING HAVE YOU anything needs: dyeing or clean tng? Write to us for Information™ faa to answer your questions, Street, "Toronto, Ontdrlo * We are Department Payker's Dye Works Limited 79] Yonge FOR "BALE : 12 ,000 PULLETS ° 18. Weeks $1.20 each? ivered New * Hamp, Barred Rock-New - Hamp are Fisher. Bros. Ayton strain; « Phone 6271W2 Dundag or write Ray Connell, RR; 2 Dundas, sito more. Cross-Crimped Corrugated and ribbed styles. 6 to 10 ft. lengths stock. Distributors Limited. 500 Cherry 8t.. Toronto 7000, 8 weeks J8be In "Ontario for oraéra J0t-100 or _Wyandotte-New Hamp, 'available . of ALUMINUM ROOFING & SIDING | Immediate dellyery 'trom " Write for samples and estimates Steel FOR SALE x 80 "ACRES LAND, 156 acres cleared, Tet standing timber, spring creek. House and large henhouse, No, TA Highway, Apply Frank Henry, R.R. 1, Cavan. has FOR BALE ii 8 Font HALE, garage Gnd chopping mill, Teed mixing business, diesel power and good bigh-_ way, ood district. Apply Bex €5, Port Perry, Ont, DON'T MISS THESE OPPORTUNITIES $16,000, ROCERY. STORE, cooked meats, foreign fruits, ice cream, soft drinks, etc. Dwelling (8 rooms and bath; hot and/ cold water. Turgover approximately $20,000 yearly, All stock and gqWpment Influded. Location in ¥ood large town. Elderly couple wishes to retire, i $14,000. GENERAL STORE In village. Very large #fore with 6 room dwelling. Approxi- mately $25,000 yearly turnover. Groceries, meats, drygoods, hardware, "soft drinks, ice cream, 'ete, A real bargain.; A. M. Colville, Broker. ..Phone 785J1- 2, Newmarket. : gi) SHALL LOW? (WELL "PUMPS 360 GALLONS 'per hoor capatily, complete with.80 gallon pressure tank. pressure gauge and mountings. Either 25 or 60; yele motors. Made In CAnn#a {or the past ye: as, Reg- ularly priced at $119.50 now for only. $95.60. J. F. CROWLEY LIMITED « - : - Dundas, Ontario. SUFFOLK RAMS for sale. -Gaod strong breed- ers. Price reasonable. Francis Poxell, Clinton, Ontarlo, 4 BATH stubs, toilels; washbasins, sinks, naces, "bollers, - water also installed. Galvanized pipe, ft, % inch . 18c¢ ft, Write for prices Phillip 'Verheyden. Ont. i HAMSTERS: labs. Pair $5. Send 'money order 63 Alma, St. Thomde.: Ontarlo. HAY PRESSES FAMOUS Moody 'Steel Queen"" Presses dvail- able for prompt delivery, bér tires, also potato {iggers. circulars. MATTHEW MOODY & SONS, Com- pany, Terrebonne. > Quebec } inch on farm. Cheap for cash, | part payment. Earl Daley, Selkirk, Ontarlo. $2000. 50: ACRES, '6 room house, large barn, raspberry patch good garden' land. Trenton nine miles. $4000;. 50 ACRES, 6 room house, good barn, hen houses, Hydro throughout. Frankford § miles. Neil Nelson, Real Estate. Broker, Wooler, Phone 11. Arthur Scott (Salesman) 30 Bpring -Strect, Trenton, Phone 1184M. GERMAN shepherds: Males and fémales," 4 months, by 'Champion Steel of Barrimore' ex "Visa of Sandorea" by "Champlon Nox of Ruthland" ex "Champlen Yola of Sapdorea.' Prices from $30. Mra. C. P. M, Francld, The Two-Bar Ranch, Routledge, Manitoba, 100 ACRES hard wood timber, evaporator, 560 pails and equipment. - Track type Tractor, Power Saw. Four-wheel drive truck, B&-ton equipped for -logging® Apply Box 68. Port Perry, Ont. FORD - and Ferguson Tractor Owners--when you require a loader you want the best. Horn hydraulic loaders and attachments made by the world's largest manufacturer of loaders offer you the latest improvements. Write us for literature. H L. Turner Co., Ltd., Blen- heim, Ontarjo. : : fur: ressure systems sold, 16¢c |. Articles sent everywhere. «Aylmer, wonder, animals from Syria. Pets Poole. mounted on rub? Write for free (Established 1845). r | AD CLE ETRAC Diesel Crawler, Used 60 hours Take wheel tractor seven TaylorF REGISTERED - pure bred, Yorkshires weeks, Females $15. Write Wilfeld 1226 4 Mrande Cote, Rosemere, Quebec. SAM'S GARDEN TRACTOR A NEW MODEL, definitely superior and a very. much reduced prices. Come to Scarboral Stop 23, Kingston RA.,_and have a prope demonstration or send for catalogue befdre yoy buy any' tractor, less than $150 with tools. Budget payments If required. : GARDEN POWER TOOLS WEST HILL, ONT. ASBESTOS SHINGLES & SIDING MILL SECONDS' Shingles. Siding" and Roof- tng Papers.' Send. for our price lists David W. Armstrong. 129 Van Horne Ave . Montreal i LTD RECONDITIONED = TRACTORS--Z Massey- Harris *'10], Supers' on rubber: 1 MH Pacemakef on steel: 1 10-20 Internationa! on rubber: '1 used 10-20 on steel; also 1 slightly" used 6 H.P. Empire Garden Tractor with 'im- plements Priced to sell, See fhese at 67 Yonge Street Richmond Hill' - Harold W Mortson, Massey- -Harrls Dealer. Telephone 93. * . 7 'PLANTS FOR SALE RESERVE now -for deal Autumn planting) Chinese Elm Hedge--12 inches to' 20 inches high when shipped--will grow 2 feet the .first year--25 plants for $2.98--sufficlent for 25 fect. Giant Exhibition Flowering Paconles In colours red. white or pink -- 3 for $1.89 Brookdale-Kingsway Nurseries. Bowmanville Ontarle HOMESPUN YARN Made of selected long virgin wool--very strong. extra long wearing, suitable for socks, swesters and other wdollen garments, 2-3-4 ply, white, grey, 2-3 ply royal blue, paddy green, scarlet, maroon. yellow, brown," heather, black, fawn, all suitable fér Siwash sweaters. $1.98 Ib. --10 lbs. or over $1.80 Ib. del'd. Northland sweater patterns 2fc each. Adults--deer, bear, Indian design. ~ Child's--deer, bear, dog and | HARNESS: Buy direct from factory and save, We can pow ship harness and parts im diately, Write for our. new complete 1949 catalogue. North West Mail Order Company Limited; 170 McDegmot Ave. East, Winnipeg, Manitoba. HELY WANTED Assistants required for {.ady Minto Hos pital, Chapleay Ontarjo Avply Superin- tendent, < ' ry BLIC HEALTH NURSES ONE STAFF NURSE. wanted immediately. on Main Office, Court House, Woodstock, Working conditions geod, For further Information apply Pains or" Neurltis -should try Dixon's' Munro's Drug Store Pos tpaid $1.00 z @ CREP UM TAKE CC "& H 'ronic fablets tor vitality, nervous and general debility and $1.00 at druggists TRY (T! Every suf mtie Remedy Ottawa low 40s (T! Every sufferer of Rheumatic "Paine or Neuritis should try Dixon's Remedy Munro's Drug Sjore 333 Elgin vafd $1.00 - PAVBNTS FETHERSTONHAUGH & (Company Patent Solicitors Establishea 1890." 350 Ray Street. toronto, Hooklel of information on "request. ORTUNITES BE for" TEN 4 ant WOMEN ~ BEA HAIRDRESSER" 10IN CANADA'S LEADING SCHOOL Great Oppartynity leafn a f- y 'Hairdressing : : Pleasant aignifled profession <uuv0 wages thousands successful Marvel graduates. Americaie greatest system . Illustrated cats - . - logue free Write ar Call MARVEL HAIRDRESSING SCHOOLS % 1%) Bloor St W l'oronto Branches 44 King St, Hamilton & 72 Rideau Street. Ottawa EARN MONEY AT HOME--Spare or full-time mohey- making. Learn to make c¢andy at home; earn while learning. Free equipment , furnished... Corresponiénce course. National Institute of Confectionery Reg'd., Delorimier P.O. Box 152, Montreal, Qué. , C7 TTTWANYED TE GENERAL. or retail store want town or village, with.' m n living aparters. Full) - particulars. W. FE: Town, 29 Columbine Ave., Toranto. - squirrel, dancer. Mary. Maxim, Sifton. Manl- toba.. ISSUE 39 -- 1949 'Néw and Useful Too -- : = -AVOID- SHORT "CIRCUITS "Battery Circuit Breaker" pro- tects your car against short circuits. Unit "is-attached between: the bat- tery and grdund-to break the cur- rent, thus preventing short circuit in wiring System, Is controlled by push and' pull switch from instru- ment panel. Lasysto install, will not harm motor," Ty -of wiring. sys- REGISTERED NURSES and Certified Nurses' "the Oxford. County & Tngersol) 'Health Unit, Murgdret Grieve; Nursing: Superyisor, Court House, Woodstock, - Ontario. Medical Director DFO; Co Powers... Liss TORONTO family feeds Mother's Help. Nice home, Rosedale digtrict, Four CHildren--2 of school age. Good wages.« Mrs. Griffin, 219 i Read >. 5 un! GOOD BEsSy LTS "Every sufférer from Rheu- 335 Elgin 9 ina Ag Mtawa Post. _ - LIVEN WAIST 30" - "Take ONT fabric and this Make a ¢lassic oes with Easy sew ARD of Jdinch easy-sew pattern! simple skirt that dress-up-blouses, * suit- sport jackets, sweaters! skirt - Pattern 4856 in waist sizes. 24, 25, 26, -28, 30. It takes ONE vard of 54-inch fabric. "Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS (25¢) in coins (statps cannot. be accepted) for this patférn. Print lainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, TYLE NUMBER: Send your order to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. ; .CURE-ALL "After sending a parcel 2] Euro- pean relatives, a farm family, re- to aeeived a very grateful letter with this paragraph: - those Jittle pills. We didn't know what they were until Cousin Leoni came -- she has studied" LEnglis - you know -- and read the name for #8. Then we gave them all to Uncle Paul, who suffers from rheumatism, "Me feels much batter now, and says it Jé the bebt medicine he ever took. A If you don't remeinher the name of "a8 the place where they really run _stone_spelled 'wrong. "If you can, please send. more , of |, money from home"--was a filly named "Flying Alice," favorite in the Grey Stakes at dear .old Wood- bine Park, known to all horse-lovers to form. Breezing homeward well in front the young lady suddenly, got the idea that.her name was 8wimming Alice," headed for Lake @ntario, and pulled up acdovely last. So it is ios hoped that the customers will understand: why, to- day, this column is of necessity brief and tinged with gloom. Some genius onc® said that one picture fs worth a thousand words -- so here' s- the picture. a The ane thing wrong is that the artist got the name on that tomb- It_should. be ha I- "DOUGH" not "DOE." - HIS ERROR' A " "How friend asked. My Wife "Your wife? ve not hadi bombastic man pecked friend, 'whose face suggested a recent accid acquired maried bliss. with my wife. from her." "Neither have 1!" the other sighed. "That's the trouble. met that % " Ah, happen?" there will be neither pod fior pome. in the garden but only dry stalks and frosty ground. Eat up! The end is in sight, with carly fall upon us. his hen- his "evidently you the secret of I never have a row ONCE BITTEN and' | I have no secrets A lawyer -was walking along the street when he met a friend to whom he had recently given some simple ,legal advice and to whom he had senit his usual sizeable bill. "Nice day, isn't 1t?" remarked, the 'friend, then added hastily : I'm dil-~ "But I'm not asking you: 3 ing you; --~-He was tried for the murder--of shadow of 'an eclipse is the shadow of the carth. They maintain that fierc have been several - eclipses. within . historical' times - in which both sun and moon were visible at the same time, so that the eclipse could not have. been due to-the earth's shadow. In answer to the third point, they say the stars are set in a hemispher- ical domé so 'low and .close to the earth that not all "stars can 'be "visible from any one point.. 'Unless a future space- traveller some day anchors his rocket-ship &~ few thousand miles out in space and makes a film of a spherical world turning on its axis, that five thous- and dollar prize hasn't much chance of being collected. | "He Poisoned Them Wholesale Thomas Neill Cream was almost ideally equipped for the enterprise' of murder. He was a qualified medi- cal man and he was mentally un- stable, his instability manifesting itself in the taking of drugs and a distinctly sadistic tendency in mat- ters of sex. four women, but it is probable that he had murdered 'many others; for he confined his attentions entirely to women of loose morals, whose peculiarly to their discreet elimina- tion. --- CARDBOARD, IN SUITCASES, SLOTS YOU CUT IN THE STIFF CARDBOARD WILL, OF COURSE DEPEND ON THE. 'NUMBER op TIES YOU" WISH TO CARRY. OF PLASTIC OR PLYWOOD IF YOU WANT SOMETHING MORSE PERMANENT, YOU CAN MAKE THE, RACK OUT . TIE RACK FOR SUITCASE HERE'S A SIMPLE RACK MADE 'oF WHICH WILL ANSWER "JHE PROBLEM OF WRINKLED TIES THE NUMBER OF IF YOU WANT TO STEAM - "THE WALLPAPER OFF A WALL WITHOUT RENTING, A STEAMER TO DO SQ : JUST USE A HOUSEHOLD IRON. DAMPEN A CLOTH AND FOLD IT INTO A PAD THEN 'HOLD THE IRON AGAINST THE PAD TO - STEAM THE PAPER LOOSE, KEEP DAMPENING 'THE PAD the plils, they're ealled 'Life Savers' « # ¥ Tame iiins | Tate at night. They were admitted, two women, with one of whom he The Crown based their case on the murder of one Matilda Clover, and the circumstances which were elicited during the trial were as follows: Creanf had just landed in England from Canada, being aboirt forty years of age at the time; and 'while looking for lodgings he met "stayed the night. "A few days" later one of these women recgived a let- 'ter from Cream sayi that he would come and see her about five o'clock. He told her not to destroy the letter, but to give it to him when she saw him, ° . This woman and her friend. sat in the window of the former lady's house in a drab street in [hAmbeth; and being on the took-out for their, patron they were not unnaturally' interested to see him following an- "other lady of their calling, who was plainly _not averse to his attentions. . hour with no- result, went home This rival was Matilda Clover. They left the house and followed, saw 'the cotiple enter Miss Clover's house apd, having waited half an About ten days 'later Miss Clover brouglit a. man home to her house ho was able to ness of m by. the servant give a a furtive mode--of--life--lends--itself--------"-- S % a er Ds of enthusiasm In the bosoms of thelr |" on the tomato ~plants, wondering visible, while "the: tree-itselfstands- Heh maker 8 3 Ts te Ye ers of All Hallows by the Tower, most ardent supporters by. failing which of the green tomatoes -will | up against the sky and is visible for ordinarily Taso haticry. . seepage Ne fish-porters fram Billingsgate, dock- to score even once while the Wind- ripen. And the flavor, once the gar---- miles. Earth curvature of eight tioogir oli itlug, Flisidnotes ers, and members of Toc-H, listened sor Rockets were tallying a jolly 35 den comes to the table; is almost luches: tg the mile js not sufficient embarrassment when horn button : ta the service points . = as good as it was when the first..| to, explain the visit of the efi : . ik * rot, small peas were eaten. The season man. |. gels. shortened. (4) The best thing of the season | that: was going to last forever be- As for the second point, they say * t ; pent. . --"just like oil in the can, or gins to fade; days lie-ahead when there is no proof that the curting AIR CONDITIONER i Portable air conditioner which works on evaporation principle. has two fans with water in bottom of unit. Regular fan drives perforated fan; chain on perforated blade: which revolves in ater, picking up par- ticles of water. Fan blows through these particles causing evaporation, which in turn brings about a cooling effect. . . ps CHERRY PITTER bors A light- weiglit - plastic 'mechdni- cal cherry pitter for "the home is designed to take, cherry pitting out . of the heavy-handling equipment class. Its precision parts include a feeding trough and a smooth cylin- | __der_ trimmed with-round-sockets--to- catch the cherries and discharge the- pits as fast as the crank is turned -- at rate of one quart of cherries a minute, maker claims. Said to be easy to wash, light weiglit to handle, may be clamped to counter or table. + * ro & PLASTIC BINDING Colorful - plastic binding being manufacturetd by Toronto firm can be slipped off for withdrawal or insertion of -- pages --as necessary. -- - Designed for. use as a 'binder for business letters, catalogues, school | « notes, price lists and many other items, ' he - gives little Christine Paul a "task lighter, _.__FOOLISH QUESTION A 'high- school graduate was filling out an application for employment. The personnel director, noticing that the ' young fellow seemed, puzzled, went over to help him, The first entry that caught his eye was the answer to the question "Salary. desired?" Beside it the "youth had written this answer: "Ves, " "ve And 1 Grashiog Of Teeth--Sa isyinterrupted witli a" special bulletin: - "Xa_pave a splendid b no door, you can get me ewer wholesale!" ' x 4 asa public service the gnashing od sag x > FP ., sol ; L RR Cute Cutter--A oar r seat suspended from a homemade support chance to make Walter Paul finds the- and Christine, age one year, thinks fun than a meiry-go-round. ' daddy's mowing 'babe's eompany pleasant, cutting the grass is 'more y your favorite quiz program "And now we bring you of a baby alligator's teéth." The chances are the station is testing a new type condenser . microphon ~ alongside a onventional nik c. 20 to 15,000 vigations per , a model of wlich WS seen The now mike J, far greater than types. now in use." Orchestr: {ade Ray Hae! self the mike's abili to pick up an on the piano at right, ? 1as a range of cit, thove, checks for him" + al gators togth<gmashine. 3 " t Re Ee, S. ET ove Sp