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Pi by HERS ENJOY IONIC OUTING LJ) Picket line worries were fi the striking employees Du» te, Canada, Limited, last Satur day afternoon when they took their families to the annual picnic spon sored 5 the Duplate and Sports Club at Lynbrook Park, Pere foot weather and the knowledge fcket duties were being by union members other plants combined to make the outing a huge success. In the feature event of the afternoon the Plaios % py a | He Also the Boneham, G, Hudson, Buck, F. Beavers, W, J Aoaon, C Miller and okt and 8 us) rs has as- t this will pext month's 14) b Fide Church and aad girl ibe Sepleaber *| Another was ered cleanser though it Te | ough' subs musioal next, most. 17, at eight welcomed everyone to the park and thanked everyone for their co-opera~ tion and help during the summer, the Kinsmen Club thelr playground which had presented "to Westmount, Mr, Thomas then introduced "Doug" Chees , president of the Kinsmen Club, In addressing the le he con- U The gratulated the community of West mount for the remarkable work they had done during the summer. He also praised the interest and co operation shown the citizens of the district who had made the parks and their operation a complete suc- cess, The only fault he found was the way his ball team had been beaten and then the people turn around and fill them up with all kinds of con, uare dancing and community § took up rest of the ev- ening and this was really enjoyed old timers of the commun- the dancing and the singing was supplied by Harold Godfrey and his band, It also fea- tured Jonge by the Godfrey Broth ors. g the aing-song many of the old songs were sung along with some of the later numbers, A large bonfire was lit and this add- od atmosphere to the singing, The Westmount Scouts also sang a couple of for the gathering. Mr, Godfrey and his band are to be congratulated the way they handled the program At the end of the evening's pro- gram Mr, Pascoe, supervisor, thank- od all that had attended and h he would see them out to Fernhill park next week for thelr open night, This ended the program ex- for the praises which lasted a long time after, {BRITAIN SEEKING SOAP SUBSTITUTE Believe Fat Shortage May Make Soap Scarce Sev- oral Years By JOHN DAUPHINEE (Canadian Press Staff Writer) London, Aug. 234 -- (OP) -- Manu- facture of 'soapless soap" on a big soale may be Britain's answer to a which recently brought a one-sev- enth out in the country's already- meagre soap ration, An inter-departmental committee has been appointed to plan expand- ed production of soap substitutes, including vision of more raw materials, in the bellef the world fat shortage may mean that soap is scarce for several years. Dr, Edith Summenrskill, parlia- mentary undersecretary to the food ministry, sald that the ration re- duction was caused by a fall in the supply of fats for the refineries and because supplies of tallow and palm oll Hom overseas has been dr pointing. . "We're literally search the world for fats," she sald, 'Mean time, we'll do everything in our power to encourage the develop- ment of products which can be used in place of soap." tty alcohols which, like soap, enter minute cracks in the skin and . out dirt are used in LB some soap titutes, but some of the raw materials from which they are made are scarce. Other substitutes Were developed on the continent during the war and might prove iP make oid cheaper, government attaches at importance to the question rr Subitltsten," ald Minister But one businessman who a licence for manufacture gd alcohol-base substitute said he has been able to make so far only en- ough for experimental purposes. making a Jowd. 3 :] ou d at could turn out alone on- ttute to meet the soap no cardboard ounces of tollet and Jol four ounces 3 ep laundry shortage of normal washing. agents] Beach Picnic Held By Pythian Sisters The annual picnic of the Ontario Temple, Pythian Sisters, attended by its members and their friends and children, was held recently at the summer cottage of Mr, and Mrs, H, Lewis, Squire's Beach, Bister Bva McCabe conducted the games and the children's and adults races, Prizes were distribute ed to the winners, Pails Brechbill, son-in-law of Mr, Mrs, , took the ladies and children for motor boat rides, which were enjoyed greatly. At 6 pm, tables were set on the beautiful and spacious lawn, and 66 people sat down to the delicious meal, The hosts, Hurst, Most Excellent Chief, sisted at the tables, . The Pythian Sisters wish to thank Mr, and Mrs, Lewis for their kind hospitality, Power's Model Stars In New Fashion Film The filming of the first fabric and fashion movie in sound and color to be producer in Canada by a fabric house has been completed, The fashions, all designed by leading Canadian manufacturers, were photographed on » Bf, Law- rence cruise and at Murray Bay, Quebec, Jean Welsh, Power's model and cover girl for Life, Glamour, and other leading fashion maga- zines, 1s the feminine star with Montrealer Ross Graham Playing in the male lead, All industrial shots, from yarn to finished fabric, were photographed at the Bruck Silk Mills plant at Cowanaville, The film, entitled "The Fabric of Our Story" is now in process editing, It will be distributed to schools, department stores, women's clubs and other sales and consumer groups for both promotional and educational purposes, "Y" Workers Train Now At McMaster U. YW.CA,, staff members across Canada, numbering 31, have regis tered for the orientation course at McMaster University, Hamilton, which opened yesterday, Sponsored by the National Council, this two- week course is designed to aid in the professional development of qualified staff members employed, or to be employed, by the "Y", Miss Rae Abernethy, national personnel secretary, will be assist- ed by Miss Winifred Wygal, for. mer religious resource secretary on U.8.A. national staff, in conducting the course, Lecturers will be Miss Lillian Thomson, general secretary; Miss Agnes Roy, assistant general secretary; Mrs, Margaret Robert. son, executive secretary, program department; and Miss Margaret Helllg, Hamilton secretary, Subjects will include the "Y.W.0, A. a8 a Social Force," "Budgeting," "The Secretary--a Professional Per- son." "Structural and Pattern of Work," and Miss Thomson will out= line her recent visit to the World Executive Conference and trainin course for Y.W.C.A, secretaries a Geneva, Switzerland, WOULD REVIVE LASH Sydney, Australia -- (OP)~--There has been talk in Sydney of revive ipg use of the lash to punish men responsible for the wave of thuge gery that has swept the olty, No sentences of corporal ponishment have been imposed in New Souch Wales, of which Sydney is the cap- ital, since 1908, Come in today. iter Beatrice ] Sisters Olff, Gillard and others, as- | | Wed in St. " Andrew's Chapel i a i MR, and MRS, WILLIAM DICK whose wedding" Rose Marie Crandell, is the Crandell and the bridegroom is the son of Mr, and took place on the afternoon of Saturday, Aug. 17, in the chapel of St. Andrew's United Church, ughter of Mr, and Mrs, Clarencq W. The bride, the former Yvonne Mrs, M, R, Dick, ~Photo by Hornsby Studio o« TAUGHT TO MAKE WORK ORIGINAL Arts Co-operative of Que- bec Provides Outlet For Handicrafts . By KAY REX (Canadian Press Staff Writer) Trols-Pistoles, Que, Aug, 24 -- (OP)=-The habitants of Trols-Pls- toles realiss their tourist trade de- nds on their ability to keep one oot on the threshold of the new world's advantages and at the same time to hold the door of the past 0 for the historical and acquisi- ve~minded, That's why *the Domestic Arts Co-Operative of Quebec, formed two months ago to provide an out- let for the handicrafts of the rural women in the province, has become 80 popular in this small Quebec town miles north of Rivere-du- Loup on a bluff overlooking the blue Bt, Lawrence, Needlework of every description, hand-woven window-drapes and hooked rugs in myriad-colored pate terns, leather purses and carved wooden costume jewelry, filled part of the Trols-Plstoles town hall as women from the surrounding area displayed their handiwork in the Co-Operative's first exhibition in this district, At the close of the display the exhibits will be sent to several large department stores in Montreal, Tor= onto and Winnipeg, where eventu- ally they will find their way into the possession of tourists anxious to Ry samples of Quebec handi- oraft, During the long winters women in isolated farm communities through= out the province pass their time making rugs, sewing and tatting-- all the handiwork so typloal of SHR ro SUHOO FROM 1.99550 Get the Children Here are the shoés your children will wear when they go back-to-sehool. Before school begins is the time to outfit your youngsters in footwear-- and these sturdy, serviceable shoes are ideal for active, growing children. The BURNS CO., Limited CORNER KING & SIMCOE ST. French Canada since the days of the fur trader and the log cabin, Neither the spinning-wheel nor the loom has become an antique in these rural centres, And the wife of a French-Canadian farmer would never think of lining up at the nearest store to buy socks for her husband, She knits them herself, Just as she weaves her own bed- spreads and hooks her own rugs, It was a wise group of persons which decided to form the Domes tio Arts Co-Operative, The aim of the organization is to teach Ita members the atlvantages of the co= operative movement and to further the sale of French-Canadian handi- oraft outside of the province, Above all it seeks to instil in thte women of Quebec the necessity for originality of design and perfection of work, In the socks they knit and the scarves they weave they are urged to make their pieces as typle cal as sible of the province in which they live, Shower In Port Hope Given Ruby Dayman A miscellaneous shower was held last week at the home of Mr, and Mrs, Norval Dayman, Port Hope, in honor of their niece, Miss Ruby Dayman, who is to be married early in September, The room was decorated attraote ively with pink streamers and white bells, Bouquets of gladioll and phlox completed the setting, The bride-to-be received many lovely gifts and, although complete- taken by surprise, expressed her thanks and appreciation fittingly, Some useful and humorous bits of advice, written by the guests, were presented to her, The serving of dainty refresh ig brought the evening, to a close, COINED BY DOCTOR William Gilbert, Queen Elie. beth's physician, coined the word electric, MN 4 TEL. 248 ANYTHING GOES | = 1S LAHP-MAKERS TRY NEW STYLES Weird and Wonderful Com- binations In Exhibit of Post-War Projects New York, Aug. 20 -- (OP) -- The nation's lamp makers wh gathered in a New York hotel for their first large-scale post-war exhibition demonstrated t anything goes in new styles, Three hundred exhibitors were on hand to show again the well-known porcelain, 18th century English re~ oductions of ums eather and plaster, and to intro- duce the things that have been added--new plastics and & fluores- cent tube for illumination, It has been a long development to the modern fluorescent, plaster and plastic lights from the first Ameri~ can ofl burning lamps, We have progressed circuitously and whimsically from candle to kervisine to gas to electricity and back to candles, For candlelight is popular, Today's holders are made of a dozen different materials and some | han are glitter copies of the 18th~ century crystals with tear-drops (a few of whose prototypes can be found in antique shops), The newest thing in lamps is one which uses a fluorescent tube rather than an incandescent bulb, These lamps are being manufactured with classical bases and other convene tional forms, In a room they look very much like any other except that they jioduce a more diffused and softer light, : In designs the manufatturers are trying almost anything, There are bases and shades In leather for libs rary or den, There are painted paper shades, and imitation parche ment hand-hammered copper ones and plaster bases of the sort origi~ nally introduced by the queen of rococo decoration, Dorothy Draper, There are reproductions of the so-called Cone - with = the - Wind lamps which actually came out too late (around 1886) to have been in Boarlett O'Hara's last mansion, Oll- burning, they became a rage in an era of gas and now are being re- vived in an era of electricity, They have round globes decorated with flamboyant, embossed roses and are eagerly sought for Victorian rooms, n the plastic lamp fleld, designs 80 from classical columns to abe stract spirals which could be part of an automobile assembly line, For home decorators who are tired of rods and spirals and blocks piled on each other, there are al- ways the genuine antique lamps, Antique lamp buying has taken on a weird trend in recent years, The kerosene burning lamps of the 1880-1000 period are selling at prices which amount to a dollar for every five cents of the original in- vestment - lamps once $198 now and bowls, | or chy cost from $20 to $40. The student lamps with brass bases and green opaque glass shades which once sold for $2.50 to $7.60 now cost be~ tween $35 and $1580, Whether gunning for a modern lamp or antique, select style and design carefully or you'll come home with something not unlike the novelties given away on the midway at a country fair, BC OLEAN OUT BEGGARS Johannesburg = (OP) ----A "hobo squad" of the South African police is SKS 'out raids against Joe n urg's beggars mated to "an average of £16 (360) a month with some getting more than £60, FALL who are esti | RICH ISLANDS AID DAIRYMEN Auckland, N.Z, Aug, 26=(OP)= New Zealand's production of dairy Dioduce bir be Sreatly Sasisied | by eo resumption of phospha ments from Nauru and Ocean 5 lands two rich Picophate islands near the Fquator, which were cape tured by the Japanese during their advance in the Pacific, Prom the enormous deposits of "| finest grade phosphate on the two islands about 1,260,000 tons were shipped every year before the war, Farming economy in both Australis and New Zealand rested very large A extensive use of this phos P ate as fertilizer to keep the pas ures in good condition and permit heavier carriage of stock, TERM Tuesday, Sept. 3rd, 1946 a All Commercial Subjects Gregg or Pitman Shorthand Rehabilitation Courses OSHAWA BUSINESS - COLLEGE 18 SIMCOE STREET N. PHONE 1314W Dining "corner™ Congoleum. You'll be Make It easy for yourself! Eat right In the kitchen i 3 i In front of a cool "herb garden" window. Use a dining table" that drops down out of the way between meals : 3 : And then == most important of all -- put down a sparkling bright Gold Seal Congoleum rug! ths smooth surface Is easy fo clean with the swish of a damp cloth, And durable! Why, Its wear-layer of heahtoughened paint and baked enamel Is actually equal In thickness fo 8 coats of best floor paint applied by hand, But == when you buy your Congoleum rug -- look for the familiar Gold Seal. Without it -- remember! = it isn'p surprised how much quality you can buy for so little money. Gold Seal Congoleum Rugs : :. product of Congoleum Canada Limited, Montreal, Your dealer may be temporarily out of Congoleum because supplies are still very short. Please try him again; as he receives Nimited shipments from time to time. NN NSN i