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ir) AL RR aaa One Woy Of Making A Parking Problem In the old barn, third step down from the top as you went the grain room to the tie- p, there was a loose board, The barn had been around a good deal longer than I had, and the board was probably loose most ot that time, so life on the farm was geared to it. 1 believe this Is important. There are people In this world who, having a loose board, would set in motion & great program of restoration, and would fix the board. How much easier it was simp- ly to make mental note of the matter, and in all goings and comings to allow for it. Coming up or going down stairs was not Impeded, and so long as you con- trived to miss that particular spot affairs proceeded in orderly fa- shion and no harm done. We all knew about the loose board, and had known all about it for years. Perhaps you are anticipating me, An uncle who was neat and orderly came home after many years in a far place, and the first time he used the stairway he no- ticed that a board was loose. He got a hammer and a couple of nails, and he fixed it. As a result my dear old Grand- father, passing that way in the evening to fondle a cow, miscued at the repaired step, not being aware that my uncle had fixed things, and fell the length of the stairs, ramming his head into the milk pail and dumping three uarts of meal inside his shirt. his was the first time anybody had ever tripped and fallen be- cause of this board. The cow, ac- customed to the gentle approach of my Grandfather, became al- armed when he arrived at her side in this precipitous fashion, and climbed up in the manger and put her head under her rms, and refused to be consoled. his necessitated. milking her in Gem Among Cloths It's rare to find a design so graceful, so beautiful--truly an heirloom of the future. Lace-stitch mesh in filet cro- chet--superb setting for roses, tulips, pansies. Pattern 537: chart; directions cloth 72x90 in string; 54x68 inches in No. 50. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and AD- DRESS, said, what something of a horizontal posi- tion, which is difficult even with co-operation, and she was not co-operating. And, after all this work, it was disheartening to find that Grandfather had milk- ed her with his hat still in the pail. So, what with this and that, the evening was strained, and my uncle promised he would never fix anything again. 'The other day I stopped in the village to see if the merchants were trading, and an unhappy gentléman atiracted my atten- tion. He was holding a parking ticket in his hand and he said to me with a forced smile, "I stop three minutes to spend eight dollars and your policeman says 'Welcome!""" : Our town needs parking rules and regulations the way Athens needs history, and the hard-times merchants along the main street need customers and friends, so I took the ticket from the man and said, "Go with fond memor- ies, sir, and return another time in confidence -- this is a wretched mistake, our policeman is young and ambitious, and he has just fixed the barn step." I remember one time Grand- father stepped into a new store to look the stock over, and it was a lovely store with a good stock, and the proprietor was proud. They shook hands and the proprietor said, "How do you like it?" "You won't last a year, Grandfather, "Oh? Why not?" "Because there's no place out front to hitch a horse." History bore Gramp out; the store folded up within the year. Anyway, I talked to the police- man about this business of pick- ing on strangers in our midst, and found the police have an odd philosophy about the functions of society. In the first place, it was clear he had some kind of feeling that a motorist is by nature a heinous criminal, whose presence leads only to 'viola- tions," and that stopping an automobile in the village in or- der to pursue the business for which the village is set up is per se suspect. Parking, to him, ap- pears to be some kind of game in which he wins or loses ac- cording to the number of tickets he can give out. There is now a "problem." "You know," I said, "I've seen Main Street on a Saturday with more horses and wagons parked on it than you have autos park- ed there now on a Saturday. There was no problem. Coming to town was a pleasant event that everybody looked forward to. We had more stores then, and they did good business and made money. You don't know that be- cause you aren't old enough. What would you do if some farmer came in here now with a team of horses and parked a hayrack in front of the cobbler shop?" Anyway, I gave the lad some- thing of a lecture, on the values of being nice to people, and how important it is to have friends who want to come back. 1 gave him the ticket he had given the man, and he told me I'd have to said pay the 50 cents charge, because it had been entered in the books and there was no way to "fix" it. "How would I know this man was a stranger?" he said, He said if I didn't pay the 50 cents he'd have to go find the man and bring him in. Besides, he difference does it make if the man is a stranger or a resident if he still parked with his wheels more than eight inches from the curb. Yes -- I paid the 50 cents, and I don't know why. But I had something of a som-- ber feeling that a nice back country little town which has been negotiating its barn steps safely for many years has had a board fixed, and we've just taken a header.--By John Gould in the Christian Science Monitor. AT BYSTANDER: This girl was one of 10 members g party injured when an SAO bomb exploded at I of Courbevoie, outside Paris. "IN Topi COMMON(ER) TOUCH--Jor- dan's Prince Hassan, 15-year- old brother of the king, at- tacks farm work like a son of the soil at Daret Al Khair. Tobacco First Used As Medicine Parisians are now flocking to a fascinating exhibition called "Tobacco in Art, History and Life," which celebrates 400 years of French addiction to tobacco, and 150 years since making and selling tobacco in France became a state monopoly. There is a splendid array of pipes, ancient and - modern, drawn from more than sixty mu- seums and private collections throughout the world. Nineteenth - century creations include pipes with their bowls shaped like women's legs. One pipe, as a gesture of irony, has its bowl modelled on the head of Queen Victoria, who frowned on smoking. No one dared put a pipe to his lips In her presence. It was Jean Nloot, when French ambassador to Portugal, who introduced tobacco to his native country. He forwarded, under cover of secret dispatches, a few leaves to Catherine de Medici, wife of Henry II of France, as a cure for her head- aches. Their magie worked. The new panacea took Nicot's name, and eventually was classified as Ni- cotiana tabacum. - Though it was soon smoked with delight, early devotees also sniffed it. In Paris and London, 300 years ago there were "Professors of the Art of Whiffling." They ground their tobacco In finely carved wooden or ivory graters, then used the powdered leaf as it it were snuff. They said it was effective against flatulence, tooth and stomach aches. In Britain today. there is a craze for smoking quaint pipes. Old - fashioned churchwarden pipes may be resurrected if a re- vived Danish fashion catches on, In "Denmark, the four-and-a- half-foot-long soldier pipe, priz- ed by foreigners as an antique, is reappearing. This has a decorated porcelain bowl, six inches deep, and an inch wide at the mouth. Fuelled with specially manufactured to- bacco, it is regarded by Danes as an ideal companion for watch- ing television, ' The smoker rests the pipe be- tween his knees, with the bowl lying on the floor at his feet, and puffs away contentedly with his eyes on the screen. His wife or daughter lights the pipe and keeps it fuelled. Danish soldiers used to smoke such pipes in their barracks -- to steady their nerves. WHEN PLANES HAD TO CARRY HORNS! According to the new regula- tions, all airmen in France must be provided with navigation cer- tificates and with permits for their aircraft. Each = machine must carry a visible registered - number, and must come to land when invited to do so by sig- nals, which are to be arranged su uently, ights over cities or crowds are prohibited. No explosives, cameras, or radio apparatus may be carried without special per- mission. In the near future all aircraft will be expected to carry three lights --a white one in front, a green one on the right, and a red one on the left, A horn must be carried for use in foggy weather, Aircraft are expected never to pass within 400 ft. of each other, -- From "Tit-Bits" January 1912, Katie's Romuar.-u Ended By Gunfire One day last August, Ira Travis Sutton, 35, and Walter Lee Han- ey, 46 -- two holdup men -- sawed through the bars of their cell in the Natchitoches, La., jail, ) and fled to Atlanta, At almost exactly the same time, slender, blue-eyed Katie Ruth Gladden quit her job in Birmingham for another in Atlanta. In Atlanta, Katie moved in with her cousin, L, D. Gladden, and his wife, Martha, A couple of weeks later, on the sidewalk in front of the Gladdens" apartment building, Katie met two men. Cue of them, a slim, dark-haired man, introduced himself as Joe Patterson Jr. and his friend as Leo Hanley. These were Sutton and Haney. Sutton told Katie they were salesmen for a home- repair firm, and that they lived in the apartment next door. Just before Christmas, the ra- diant Katie accompanied "Joe Patterson" to a justice of the peace to be married. The newlyweds set up house- keeping in "Joe's" apartment. "They'd come over for dinner every now and then," said Mrs. Gladden later, "and he always insisted on washing the dishes. He'd light' your cigarettes for you and everything, just like a real gentleman." One night recently Sutton told his bride, now two months preg- nant, that he was wanted by the police. She begged him to sur- render, but he and Haney fled. With tears streaming down her cheeks, Katie knocked at her cousin's door. "I married some- body who was in trouble with the law," she wept. "I love him and I tried to get him to give up, but he wouldn't" The next day, after telling the FBI' what had happened, Katie went home to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Gladden, who live on a small cotton farm near Gadsden, Ala, She made the trip with another cousin, Gerald Jones, and his wife, Linda, in the gaudy, pink and coral 1956 DeSoto Sutton had been driving when Katie met him. Katile told her story to her parents, then decided to go to RUST IN PEACE -- Looks like a pair of old burnt-out televi- sion sets, but it is a sculpture called "Enclosed Space" ex- hibited in London. Leesburg to visit an aunt. As she packed, a tall, sandy-haired FBI agent named W, H. (Bill) Major stood on a knoll near the home, with a .30-caliber carbine under his arm, keeping the house under surveillance, ; When the Joneses, and. Katie came out and got into the car, in the gloom of a rainy twilight, Major mistook Jones for Sutton. As the car started, the FBI man leaped into the road in front of it and tried to stop it. Major, who said later that he thought he was being. run down, jumped aside and opened fire. Twenty-four slugs tore into the car. Wounded, Katie screamed: "It's a crazy man and he's got a shotgun. Keep going." 2 A short distance down the road, Jones careened to a halt, Not until he had caught up with the car did Major realize his fatal mistake. Katie, shot six times, was dead. Mrs. Jones had suf- ferea a slight wound in the thigh. Later, Katie's father pressed a first-degree murder charge against Major, and the FBI agent - was released on $3,000 bond pending grand-jury action. A father of three small children and an FBI man for six years, Major was obviously stunned. He told authorities he thought he heard shots from the car, per- haps a backfire, but a relative of Katie who had witnessed the shooting, Mrs. J. C. Gladden, said she heard no such sound, Two days after Katie was buried, Ira Sutton and Haney were captured by FBI agents as they were driv- ing a stolen car on an Aflanta expressway. Not a shot was fired. mre ---- ISSUE § -- 1962 @ -- ~33 a aa Roe +44 "a el Aor SWINGING -- Using the mo i vie props for her latest film, "The Children's Hour," actress Shirley MacLaine entertains herself with a swinging session near Hollywood. uO pit Ross {3 still In the Sick Chil- dren's Hospital but I imagine he will be out in a day or two. Joy has been staying at Dee's place s0 she could see Ross every day from three to six-thirty. In be- tween she was visiting the den- tist and finally came down with an awful cold so at the week-end she and Cedric went home and Bob came along to keep Ross company during visiting hours over the week-end. And we have been busy too. ° Tuesday was our wedding anni- versary. Besides cards and good wishes we got a phone call coy Montreal -- from former neigh- ~ bours whose anniversary was the same as our own. Generally we _ get together but J -- now has a government job and was leaving by air next day on a special as- signment in Britain. So that was that. Next day two other friends dropped in to spend the day with us so we celebrated all over again. We were so glad to see them as they, too, expect to be on the move in a few weeks. Thursday I got a bit of work done on my Tweedsmuir history. In the middle of that one of our W.A. members came along and wanted some sewing done for the church. That same night Partner was "baby-sitting" and I had the pleasure of watching a hockey . game on TV which ended in a two-all tie for Toronto and Bos- ton. Ever since I can remember the Leafs and - Bruins have al- ways had a battle royal in every game _ they played. There must be a psychological reason for it.- We can understand the Leafs los- ing to Canadiens but to the lowly Bruins . , . that's anothér story. However, we had "Ben Casey" to watch afterwards so we did get some pleasure from our TV _ viewing. Friday . . . well, Friduy was one of those days . .. you know. The phone started ringing at eight-thirty in the morning and there was one call after another for the rest of the day. We also had a couple of friends drop in for afternoon tea and before we had {finished supper a young mother came in to let off steam about how awful it was to be shut in with two children all day long! During the evening neigh- bour Bill came along for a visit. So now, who says life is dull in -a sub-division? Saturday morning, inbetween chores, I was on the phone chas- ing a few leads for local history. After lunch I thought I would lie down -- just for a little' while -- but I slept until three o'clock! My eyes were still tired and my voice had almost given out, after a busy but most enjoyable week. But COLD! {Morning tempera- ture below zZéro every morning except one. 1 didn't go out at all but Partner took Taffy for a short walk every day. Saturday night I had quite a time doing my weekly accounts because with so many" counter-attractions I had omitted several dally entries and found myself five dollars short, RONICLES INGER FARM Gwendoline . Clarke Did I hear someone say -- "But why keep' accounts? I couldn't be bothered." Well, I agree it is a bit of a chore but believe me it is well worthwhile. However, our accounting is not too rigid as we don't attempt to keep a bud- get. We spend according to what we can afford and by keeping track of where the money goes we know pretty well what we- can allow for extras. At the end of the year we know exactly what it has cost to heat the house, run the car, pay taxes, keep food on the table and so on. The difference between income and expenditure during any cur- rent year is our guide to what we oan allow for home improve- "ments the ensuing year. The fact that we don't budget doesn't mean we are against it, It is wonderful for those who can do it. But we haven't enough pro- tection to make it work. Natur- ally we have hospital insurance but we are not eligible for P.S.I. which means our medical ex- penses could be- $10 or they might be $500. If they run high that means less money available for home improvements, Heat, food and clothing has to be pro- vided for no matter what, but a paint job can always wait an- other year. I am telling you this so that anyone who doesn't keep ac- counts may be tempted to do so. "They don't need to be complica- ted. Just get a three-column ac- count book and make up a sys- tem to suit yourself. Summarize your -expenditure -under specific. headings each week, then you can get your totals at the end of the year with very little trouble. I just use a scratch pad for every day use and then at the end of the week copy it all down into my account book under the pro- per headings, it's work -- but it's fun too -- and saves many an argument. Until you see it in black and white you may not realize how much you spend at the beauty parlor, or, if you smoke, on cig- arettes -- or Father on tobacco. Believe me, start keeping ac- counts and you'll get quite a few surprises -- both kinds, good and bad too! : Why can't life's problems hit us when we're eighteen and know all the answers? SALLY'S SALLIES "If you don't eat your cereal You won't grow up to be a big men like Daddy," Something The U.S. Shouldn't Forget! Whatever the Administration recommends and Congress de- cides to do about tariffs and trade, with their eyes on the ex- panding European Economie Community, they had better nos lose sight -of our trade with Canada. No other single country comes close to equalling Canada as a U.S. trading partner. This is one of the reasons, ne doubt, that five U.S. cabinet sec- retaries met in Ottawa (recently) with four Canadian cabinet min- isters. "No two countries in world history have ever had the same tlow of goods across their com- mon border," we are reminded by R. A. Farquarson, press offi- cer for the Canadian embassy "I don't think it is generally realized that trade with Canada has been greater than U.S. trade with the six countries that form- ed the Common Market. It is only with the proposed entry of Great Britain that the Com- mon Market Group equals the sum total of Canadian trade with the United States. Canada is also a larger market for U.S. goods than all 20 countries of Latin America put together." Canada is a better customer for U.S. goods than all 20 na- tions of Latin America, although overall U.S. trade with Latin America is slightly higher than that with Canada. Over 50 per cent of Canada's exports go to the United States, and over 63 per cent of Canada's imports are from the United States. Canada's half - billion - dollar deficit in trade with the United States is a problem which must be correlated with such regional complaints as those in the North- west against Canadian lumber imports. The President asked for authority to make across-the- board changes in tariffs, rather than to negotiate changes item- by-item as under the existing re- ciprocal trade act. We must be informed what effect such au- thority might have, not only on * our regional industries such as lumber, but on U.S.-Canada trade relations as a whole.--The (Port- land) Oregonian. Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q. When a man is invited by a woman to escort her to a dance, banquet, or some such affair, is it proper always for him to bring her a corsage? A. Only it the affair is to be a formal one, and he knows she - is wearing an evening dress. Q. Is it considered polite to refuse a cigarette someone has offered you, if you prefer your own brand? A. Yes; but refuse graciously, saying, "Thank you, but I have some." For Sunny Days PRINTED PATTERN A-B-C EASY -- just a straight fall of pleats swinging out from the shoulder yoke. Let daughter wear this. gay style sashed at the waist or free. Flower em- broidery is simple, so dainty. Printed Pattern 4958: Child's Sizes 2, 4, 6, 8. Size 6 takes 1%. yards 39-inch. Transfer included, Send FIFTY CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern, Please print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. p Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont, a --_--------