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SATURDAY, JUNE 25 to Wales The Land of Comradeship UNION 1E:¥:\"2 38 SERVICE 9A QUEEN ST. HIGHWAY HOLIDAYS Our Full Programme of Motor Coach Vacations FLORIDA CIRCLE 14 Doys -- Your chance to see the Sunny South, including highlights of Florido, Silver Springs, Marineland, Miomi Beach, 1 35° up Deytona Beoch, ete. . . ......... ATLANTIC CITY 9 Days -- Enjoy the mony sights of World Famous Boardwalk City. Trip includes oll meocis during your stoy in Atlantic City. MIAMI BEACH 10 Days -- Visit Fabulous Miomi Beach ot a price you can afford. Take odvontage of low Spring ond Summer rates in the ployground 105°° wp of America Included in Highway Holiday tour is round trip transportation, hotel accommodation (ccean front at seaside resorts), and many other features. Send HIGHWAY HOLIDAYS to: Name and Address LTD. E. TORONTO, ONT PHONE EM. 3-3264 coming to TORONTO 0 ANYWHERE -. Depend on the N E w The new King Edward Sheraton is the only hotel in Toronto offering to registered overnight guests. 24 hour FREE inside parking together with the friendliest possible service and rates FROM 6.50 per day For reservations cell: TORONTO: EM 8-7474 HAMILTON: JA 7-5071 GUELPH: ZEnith 10350 TIMMINS: AM 4-4241 FAMILY PLAN AVAILABLE THE NEW KING EDWARD SHERATON HOTEL RAND McNALLY ROAD ATLAS ROAD ATLAS WAM MENALLY CITIRO FINTES ReNaDA meee 8 @ covers all 50 states, Canada and Mexico @ full colour maps make roads easier to follow, places easier to find ¢ shows population figures for 24,000 places and special large scale maps of 170 important metro- politan cities @ with mileage tables and driving time charts, the RAND McNALLY ROAD ATLAS for 1960 is indispensable for business trip plotting, for pleasure driving and for vacation planning $2.49 N the map Wales appears to be no. more than a western peninsula of England; but those who have been there, have walked through the green valleys and over the lovely hills and spoken to the people, know that this is certainly not the case. Wales is a separate country, where the people speak a different language and think in a different way from those living in neighbouring England. The Welsh are the descendants of those original "Ancient Britons" -- the Celts --who retreated into the mountains of Harlech Castle inspired song after 1468 siege. the west before successive invasions by Roman, Saxon and Dane. In the high- lands they were safe from all attempts to bring them under control. As a result, they preserved -- and have succeeded in preserving to this day -- their own customs and out- look, their own manner of speech, even their own distinctive language. They call themselves Cymry which means "comrades" and their country is Cymru "the land of comradeship". In the early centuries, in a constant struggle against invaders -- Romans, Saxons, Danes and English -- the Welsh people found solace and inspira- tion in the elemental music of the rivers and sea, in the timeless poetry of the mountains and valleys. Their own poetry, oratory and song grew out of the land in which they lived and their spirit expressed itself in religious rites, congresses of bards and musicians, historical pageants and cul- tural and physical contests -- a pat- tern which is still recognisable in the Royal National Eisteddfod of today and in the many "small eisteddfodau held each year in towns and villages through- out the length and breadth of Wales. The Royal National Eisteddfod is held each year alternately in north and south Wales. It is attended during its week's course by many thousands St. David's Cathedral is shrine of patron saint of the Welsh. of people, who either want to parti- cipate or be entertained in the competi- tions in art, crafts, music and literature. The Eisteddfod pavilion is specially constructed to hold 10,000 people, but this is never adequate to accommodate all the enthusiasts. As equally famous as the Royal National Eisteddfod, though much younger in years, is the International Eisteddfod, which is held each year in July in the lovely little Denbinghshire village of Llangollen. To this village on the banks of the River Dee come folk- singers and dancers from countries all over the world to compete with each other in a spirit of friendly rivalry. The Welsh at Llangollen are outnum- beed by their guests, yet the whole occa- sion is, in some strange way, so typically Welsh. :