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\» Europe's Homeless Ease Bri» tain's Manpower Worries â€" More than 200,000 persons from all over Europe, left homeless by the war, h^lte', found haven in England and have started a new life of li- berty and happiness. In ex- change for this, Britain gets the benefit of their work, which helps relieve the serious manpower Shortage on farmr and '.in factories. Known as European Volunteer Workers, the former DP's enjoy most of the rights of the average Bri- ton. These pictures show typi- cal activities among them. With a song of freedom in their hearts, volunteer farm workers march off t<?i' ^Coii^'ds. Former DP's learn to operate looms in a textile mill. Latvian refugee, right, gets instruction in mill packing department. King "Business" Pays off Royally The king business itill is about the best payinR occupation in Europe. Even tlie smallest countries pay their monarchs liandsomely, compar- ed with the ?7.\000 annual salary drawn by the President of the United Slates. Figures on the royal incomes were gathered after a recent dcl)atc in the House of t'ommons turned attention to the amounts paid to Britain's Royal Family. The Commons agreed to increase Princess I'.h'zal'Clh's allowance to £40,000 ($160,000) and to pav her "husband. Prince Philip, £10,000 ($4- 0,000). But the decision was reached over tlie protests of a larRP sector of the Labor Paifv. Best paid of all was Britain's Royal Family, which r( ccivcd more than $2,000,000 In 19'!.''). Lowest Paid Kin,^ r.owest iiaid monarch appc;ircd to be King I'.tuI of Greece. The entire Greek Rov.'il Family's nnniml income is $279,000. Out of this the King must niaint.Tin the entire Royal Fam ily, pay all servants, entertai?!. and men his own travel expenses. KinR Hnakon of Norway also ap- peared to be in the "low income" bracket. His annual stipend is 1,- 000.000 kroner, about $200,000. but he also receives an undisclosed a- mount for Palace expenses. Before the war, the Dutch House of Orange was considered one of the wealthiest Royal Families in the world It is not known to what ex- tent the war affected the private fortune of Queen Wilhelminn. The Dutch Queen's annu: I income from the State is 1,000,000 nuilders, â- bout $.377,000, plus a maxiinum of 100,000 guilders ($.17,700) for Pal- ace maintenance. She also receives the proceeds of Crown estatei. There was no estimate of her income from private sources. Juliana x'aid In addition. The Netherlands ,pay« Crown Princess Juliana and her hus- band. Prince Remhard, 200,000 guild- ers ($7.';,4O0) each. State grants to Sweden's Royal Family last year, including 950,000 •rowns ($263,889) to King Gustaf, totaled 1,393,000 crowns ($386,940). The Belgian Civil List provides for an annual appropriation of 12,- tm,«X) francs ($274,285) for the Royal Family, "for the duration of IGng l^eopold's reign-" T^e King aow Is in Switzerland and his brother h Regent. For th« past two years, there has been a supplementary ap- propriation of 12,000,000 francs for other expenses. Belgium's Queen Mother Eliza- beth receives 2,000,000 francs a yesr. In addition, there art unestimated personal Incomes from estates at home and in the Belgium Congo. Denmark's Royal Famil:. gets a total of 2,200,000 kroner ($440,000) a year from the state. The King re- eelves l,7.S0,000 kroner ($3.':0,000) from which he pays all household expenses. The roy.il incomes look treincn doiis, but they're not all hay. Stat' and social oliligations of the kinfrs entail ei'oriuous expenses, and lar(!c froporlions of the Stale grants are at asi'Ie to meet the costs of enter tainiiif! and maintaining the regal li^Bdor their subjects expect. ,smm STdl<V The Rebel Leaves at One By MARION WALLS "It isn't that I don't love you, StanI I want to do something else before I settle down to marriage â€" I want to learn how to design, 1 â€" oh, what's the use ! You won't under- stand it." Reaching up, Stan broke off a twig from the chin.^bcrry tree. "No, I guess 1 c.in't," he admitted. "I guess I belong to the old-fashioned school which thinks tiinrri.-ige means every- thing to a girl." The girl touched his arm. "1 do love you, Stan ; and I want to marry you. But not now, I want to amount to something first, be somebody." Unexpectedly, she laid a swift kiss upon his cheek. "Rim along back to your farm, dear," she advised. "The Rebel leaves at one in the morning and I must finish packing. But I'll be looking for vou tonight." * ' * * Anita raced up the steps to her room on the second floor of Mrs. Petrillo's 'joanling house. It was sever.il hours later that Mrs. Pctrillo called: "Miss Havileno! Telephone! And hurry, please." Fuming, -Anita disconnected the iron. She had no time for idle con- versations this day. "Hello- Stan?" Her breath n"ickcned. "Antlo, ran vnii help mc out for a Uttit whilcT Kntin's boy. Pen. rut himself ivith <iii are and Joe had to take him In the hospital. Mom's slill in bed, and that leaves me in a lam â€" Katja's baby is here to. Jim Ilaq- garly said he could bring yon out." Anita's response was immediate. "Sure, I'll come Tell Tim I'll be ready in 1.") minutes." Anita was relieved when Jim's truck Inrned into the Dusak's drive. Stan was sitting on the porch hold- ing the baby. * • * With a relieved smile, he laid the child In Anita's arms. "He's teeth- ing, the little rascal won't let you put bim down." "Run along," she encouraged. "I'll put the baby to sleep." Going into the house, Anita put the cWld to bed and went in to see mbout Stan's mother. She was sleep- ing, sunshine spraying across the quilt. Drawing the shades, Anita went out noiselessly. Anita wandered back into the big" room. On the wall hung an oil paint- ing; bold splashes of color about a tnlll and a rushing brook. Puzzled, Anita was still staring when she heard quick steps upon the porch. It was Katja, worn hut with tri- umph in her eyes. "Ben's going to siof* SCRATCHING R«lievt Itch m a My iZ/Velitvr luliinx du* lo erjcinii, liimilM, â- thlrl.^"i (ii»)tâ€" »inl minor H.li IroiiM,?. Uw CBnllnK mflicatrd D, D. O. Prncrliitlon tprdilimy itrcriglb ur extra itrrn,:lh). Graft*rlM-i, KiinlrM. Scxtlhr-S ind rjmi lattns*- ittti!n(gul<kly.J.Sctful Imtllr ptovr« H'-or ni< nrv titck. Aik your drumMt lur D.D.D. PraMrllKlMI. be all right!' shecried, taking Anita's hand. "I stopped by and told Stan. How's Mom and the baby?" "Your mother is still sleeping," replied Anita softly. Her eyes went again to the painting. "Katja, there's something familiar about that scene. Where did you get that picture?" The older woman's eyes went briefly to the wall. "Oh, that's ^the old mill down near Stonewall.^ I painted it one summer. Let's hajji a bit of teaâ€" I need a pick-up." In amazement, .^nita said: "You painted this! Why, Katja, it's beau- tiful." Following the other woman into the kitchen, she probed ; "Kat- ja, it's a shame you didn't try to develop your talent. You might have created something beautiful for all the world to see!" K:itja was thoughtful. "I'll admit that in the beginning, I did wonder . . but after Joe and I were mar- ried . . . no, Anita, I'm never sorry any more." .Stan came tramping up the steps. "Say, I'm no tea drinker," he called, "but you cm pour me a cup now." T.eaning against the cuplinard he She was in his arms now said to Anita: "I .an run you back to town now that Katja has come." "There's no hurry," she said, not looking at him. "But your packing- and the Rebel leaves at one," he reminded her. She smiled, "Maybe some rebels just start to leave, ^tan. and don't evtr really go." She was in his arms now. Katja had left them but it was to Katja she was really speaking when she whispered, her mouth against his, "I'll never be sorry any more." New Way To Fisrht Dangerous Enemies The great annual in\'asion is on â€" an invasion just as dangerous as one by a foreign enemy. Millions of rats in grey furry hordes are sweeping in from the great outdoors where, during the summer months, they glutted them- selves and multiplied. Now they've invaded cities, towns and farmyards to find quarters for the winter in barns, granaries, kitchens and cellars. Even although home-owners wage personal wars against this great in- vasion, it will be a losing fight unless taken up by the community as a whole â€" and the destruction will go on to the tune of millions â€" perhaps billions of dollars damage. For centuries rats have plagued mankind by pilfering his food and spreading death-dealing disease. The pied piper was but a figment of wish- fid thinking in the mind of some mediaeval fiction writer. Cats have been tried to eliminate this sneaking enemy. Inventors have utilized tons of grey matter in an attempt to de- vise a foolproof rat trap. But the rats continued to multiply. Now chemistry has come on the scene with a super rat killer â€" .\ntu. Tested in both Canada and the Unit- ed States over a period of three years, this poison has proven plionom enal as a rat exterminator. Employed as a weapon in rat driics where householders and pest control opera- tors worked hand in hand, it has cleared whole communities of the pests for as long as two years. Antu is available to the public in several coniinercial forinulas which may be used witli bait or dnslcd into burrows, tracks or. any place fre- quented by the rodents. The rats pick it up on their feet and fur. L'pon licking their feet or fut they swallow the powder. The poison retards their breathing and experience has shown that in many instances in «n attempt. to get fresh air, they crawl out. into the open and die- â-  • ii'ii..) i.ji . .. Profit and ,^oas A successful city biisiness man took up farming;^ as a side line. After two years a friend asked him how things were going. "Well, 1 made $10,000 on the farm last year," the luisincssinati said. "$10,000?" repented the friend increduously. "Yes, sir," said the businessman firmly. "I lost., only $22,000. The first year I lost $38,000. When The Poor Prince of Wales Had To Stay Home From The Race Track After a dusty plunge into the files of just half a century ago, we came up with a few of tlic things papers found worthy of notice around the start of the year 1898. Royalty The great ones of tlie ear'h come in for considerable attention and in one issue there is a nio'.;ra|!iie;il Sketch of His Roy.-' }r'j:bt!ess the prince of Wales j^lfj ^'jjg W^i "Ward Seventh.) TTic marrleff life of the Prince and Princess is de- scibed as "ideal'-' ; and there is a note about the Prince's fondness for reading, also race-hprscs that would. we imagine, to he .about fifty per cent in accordance with the farts. which is a pretty fair average. The Prince was said to he rigid in re- fraining from any sports on Sunday, although once he was sorely tempted by Marshall MacMalion, durint; a trip to France, to go and see the Grand Prix run on that day How- ever, a wire to his mother. Queen "Victoria, soon settled the matter, and the Prince didn't go to the race track but, we presume, ffnved home with a good book. Famous Authors Rudyard Kipling had just publish- ed, in the current issue of St. Nich- olas Magazine, the second of his "Just So Stories". It was entitled "How the Camel Got Its Hump" and was illustrated by Oliver TTere- ford. The Canadian Gilbert Park- er's "The Battle of the Strong" was just starting to run as a serial in the Atlantic Magazine. And another fa- mous author was in the news, but in a somewhat different connection. He was Dr. Conan Doyle, creator of "Sherlock Holmes" who was said to be one of the pioneers of a sport called ski-ing (pronounced shee-ing) which was rapidly becomin.g popular in Switzerland, and attracting many winter visitors to that counry. It was explained, however, that the new sport was rather a clumsy one; in fact "ski-ing cannot for a moment compare with either snow- shoeing or toboganning" â€" which might cause somewhat of a laugh up around Happy Valley and other favorite haunts fff the ski addicts. On Stage One of the foremost actors of his time â€" Richard Mansfield â€" was in the news through just having ad- ministered a thrashing to his valet. The cause â€" wlien Mansfield was dressing to go on sta.ge he foimd a button missing - from his costume. Robert B. ^fantcll â€" and -how he could turn on the tragedy ; â€" was appearing at Toronto's Grand Opera House, with a coming attraction at the same house announced as "The Wedding Day" starring Lillian Rus- sell, Delia Fox and Jefferson De Angelis â€" and what a cast that must have been! Madame Nordica, greatest soprano of her time, was coming to Masscy Hall, and the prices ranged from fifty cents to a dollar and a half â€" with no mention of war t.ix evtra either. Russian Confidence On the world scene we find that Russia had just made known the re- sults of the first census ever taken in that Fmpire. Based on the then prevailing rate of increase, within twenty -jMrs "a pbpflHfion on7.=i million was expected which â€" ac- cor^ipg ,to the Editor -- "explains the i confidence. \\\\\\ , .wltich ,. Ryssi^ns loolj Jforjvaril to the future^' "The balance of the sexes in Riisstn seems to bave been rather different then. as it was noted tliSt in some Russian eonTmnnities there was such a short- age! of the fair sex that "a marriage able young woman seldom sojourns in qne of those towns for more than four or five weeks before securing a partner for life." Even then the world was beset by labor troubles, one hundred thous- and English machinists being report- ed as on strike or an eight-hour day with extra pay for overtiine. The wages thev had been getting were said to average ",\round e-'ght dollars per week". Chewing Ct..m An item which would haveâ€" well, at least interested Mr. Wrigley was headed TIIF, DANGER' OF CHEWINC^ (niM, which was de- scribed as a "filthy compound"â€" "flavoured India rulibcr" and the "cause of inurh dy.si^epsia". The perils of chewing gum for the young â€" because of the danger of swallow- ing i)t-r7|\Ycrc also touched u))on. In fact we rather felt thot the writer of the article really disapproved of chewing guin<K''ifhd we jtist wish he could be here to see some of the kids in our neighborhood performing on the "bubble" variety. Stiong i.'.ink Tlie evils of strong drink were forcefully illustrated by the tale of a Great Lakes captain who over- stayed liis tiniis of sailing lo do a littjp extra elb^, vbcnding. Because Cif nliis delay 'the •sfeamcr got frozen .Ib'-the ice. and a tb.^jand tons of coal aboard lailed to reach the Silver Islet Mine on the north shore of Lake Superior. Lacking coal the pumps which kept the mine clear of water couldn't be kept going. The mine filled up and at the time of the report â€" 13 years after the event â€" was still filled. Up to the time of the Cajjtain's error the mine had pro duced three million .junces of silver and was tagged, by the writer of the report, as "the richest spot on earth." SAFES I'rolci-t !uur UOIIIis and CASH trom FIRE anil TIIIKVES. 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