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the georgetown hwld wedn evening september 3rd 1941 m with the date line changed to september ones thoughts natural ly turn to school opening and we wonder if the boys of today dislike going to school as much as we used to twm the old parody comes to mind breathes there a boy with soul so dead who never to himself hath said as on nia bed streamed morning- right i hope the school uurned down last night f but the school didnt burn down in fact it still stands as solid looking as ever and we really didn t want it to burn down either we merely thought that we did looking back at those school days makes them look different now they werent such bad days at that we had ror games at that time duck the rock and pump pump pull- away and antiover the woodshed and we had a pond for shindy in the win ter time hockey was a otranger in our neck of the woods at that time at least baseball dldnt seem to make hit then either any more than it seems to be doing in many places to day snowballing was quite popular even the teacher would join us in that game and we also did the old fas hioned square dances on a platform that ran along the front of the school outside oh yes we studied a little as well as all these other subjects that we have mentioned about the only game we missed was that of pitching horseshoes and we are unable to re call even seeing that game played in our school days v v v there must be a correct way to commence a radio address start off with the usual goodevening ladies and gentlemen another gets into high gear with good wednesday evening everybody and still another that drew quite an audience started off something like this i thought you would like me to tell you some thing about the voyage i made across the ocean to meet our friend the president of the united states there really ought to be a ruling as to which of these ways is correct we find the stame trouble with pub- bile speakers some start on with my subject tonight is another may do it this way fellow citlaens and stjll another may use the time honored ladles and gentlemen sometimes they even get that far without having made an error or suppose that we arc writing letter of course we ill use these two words dear sir no matter how little we think of the person that we are writing to following the dear sir some use your letter of the 1st inst to hand while another may word it this way in reply to your favour of the 1st inst we think that the train has to go anyway and we might as well send a letter on it would be as good as any of them perhaps it is merely a matter of taste- v v v we who lite outside the cities would have quite a respect for a city the size of toronto we would likely conclude that it would be quite honor to be elected to the board of control or of being an alderman and to be elected mayor of a city that size would be something to relate to the grandchildren but we forget that the folk that live in toronto may not always have lived there and that large percentage of tbem no doubt came to the city from some small vil lage town or perhaps from the back concessions of some township doubt many of these city folk at one time belonged to the council back home comparing the city council to the one that they belonged to they might conclude that the two councils would hare very little in common the affairs of the township council would seem to be trivial looked back upon hawk in the wind by hln topping miller to the problems that the city council would likely have to deal wlto it might have been the filling up of some bole on a blind side road that caused so much comment or maybe it was whether it was wise or not to spend five dollars cleaning out these catch bfasins again that fall they would remember that hot words followed these debates and they might won der what there was about it all to cause tbem to get excited then comparing the problems of the city council they would think that noth ing so ordinary would ever cause a city councillor to become grey head ed ahead of bis time but they might be wrong at that recently we noticed quite a lengthy account in the morn ing paper of a discussion that the board of control had in the city as to whether they should lnstal loud speakers in the council chamber jin order that the onlookers could hear what was being said at council meet- weve heard debates in council that needed no loud speaker the article then went on to tell about an other problem that was discussed at some length it was as to whether thf windows of the chamber should be left open at nights in order to air the place or should they be kept clos ed somehow reading it over we won dered if there was very much differ ence in their ideas of important mat- ters for discussion as compared with the rural councils debates mentioned above even if it was necessary consider these problems we wondered what there was about them so import- tent as to require writing up for a dally newspaper it all seemed like a waste of tune of space and of news- ju perhaps a city is merely tillage fullgrown coteoamu km thtnrji j old chum chapter xvi branford wills stared at the car that waited in front of the clark nate so you camel he said marian morgan snapped the gear in place yes i came but dont let your ego expand im not doing it tor you im doing it for my mother he climbed in pulling his hat down overkis eyes i want m see some timber for merly belonging to tom pruitt on hazel pork he said i suppose you know she kept her eyes away and her chin up that the roads are likely to be bad over that way we may get stuck ill look over the area on foot i have some corners to check all part of the great mystery she was scornful they drove in silence mountain men in clean shirts bound for the village store walked the roads indifferent to the raw chill marian spoke to each knew all their names do you know personally every man in this end of the state he asked i was born here most of these people sell pulp wood to mother when my father was buried four thousand people came to the fu neral there was wills thought some thing fine and feudal and tremen dous in that something that went back as the traditions of these peo ple went back to the old countries none of them had ever seen but which had stamped upon them as the mark of all life is stamped upon the cell the magnificent aloof pride of tall celts of the wicklow and the carrantual of highlanders from the shadow of ben nevis something ut the old countries in the way these men put their feet down in the half bold half feral glint in their eyes in marian morgan this defiant separate thing was fined down to the cameo cut of her profile the auda cious tilt of tier chin the smoke of old peat fires was in the husk of her voice there was something val iant about tier that was like the ring of hunting bugles under grampian cliffs something of the resolute courage of men who had faced a new land from the icecoated prows of sailing ships they passed the power lake and wills remembered it they stopped at the gallup house sally was reading the paper in pajamas she opened the door only a chink heavens youre early oont bring him in yet good gracious marian i thought dont think im not bringing him ki im taking him across the w k ridge mothers orders i want a from that distance that is compared bucket even as cold as it is thia l an nut to ciomtrnsk car will heat on the grades how heavenly then you xan sit back and look at all the pretty mountains while it cools dont be an utter idiot lend me a bucket and well have to post pone the plays i dont know the intent of this expedition but moth er thinks its important marian i dont own a bucket only a terrible old huge thing el vira uses to scrub could you use a stewpan tha road around the slope of the ridge was rutted and narrow but from its twisting height wills saw below him the tangled country through which on that last day be had stumbled agonizingly to vir- gie morgans door with a map- makers eye he plotted the route saw where he had turned off the high road and beyond that the fire- scalded wilderness grown head high vith rhododendron and tangling vines where through a night of sleet he had wandered he had dewn a dozen maps of this region he had plotted it from nenal photographs and every line f these was engraved on his mind there were the tremendous sum mits to the north and west there was this ridge sloping southward and eastward where hazel fork went splashing down to meet the river it all had form it fitted in with the thought that had entered his mind when he studied the little map in virgie morgan s desk so many of the surveys had been hap hazard so much had been done i hat had to be done again stop here a minute he said just here ill walk a little way he unfolded the map again he had drawn it sitting up most ot the night drawn it from sketchy bits in the no that remained in his roehe mi h ma had g 1 to washington bt he felt that he ad enough slowly he walkea studying the terrain below above on the nar row road where first virgie mor san had seen the two men in the lack cat marian sat now be hind the wheel looking small and lonely for an hour be scouted the crest and the tun climbed higher icicles melted on tha southern slopes and the faces of the crags began to drip down the gullies little streams ran clear finding their way through a lacy network of ice on a muddy bank where he leaped across was a deer track lately made cleanprinted and plain he returned to the car and mari an sighed patiently as she set jthe motor going again now where can we get down under down there where the big- trees are well have to go far around some of it will be rough but 1 know the way 1 used to come tn here with tom she fell silent as they followed the rough woods track thinking of tom just down there hemilst have hidden those two dayq and below through the cathedral trees ran the abandoned road where cragg and the others had come in a heavy pain bothered her when she thought that tom probably would never see his beloved trees again never see the i hills again perhaps or the shabby old mill that he had loved never hear again the crows shrill defiance or the answering insolence of the mountain raven it was noon when they reached the lower slope of the ridge and the sun had warmed and gilded the rocks with a false promise of spring look here you must be starved wills exclaimed suddenly is there any place near where we can get some sandwiches or something lossie made sandwiches thev re back here and then ome coffee saved i wa a hump not to think of it myself the coffee wa not hot would the lidv w ho owns stewpan mind if we blacken the bottom of it wills isked i can nake a fire lossie tan scour it if only things were dilltrent m in thought wistfulh what fun this ould be if only he were not si ur ant and so cold il only she did it detest him wills buill a sm ill re expertly between two up endt d jks then he thrust a stick into i crevice and hung a white hand rchief on it truce he announced the war v temporarily suspended while the nbdtants are fed only one cup said marian so f do we do pour your half back into the boi then you drink from the cup d i imbibe from the stewpan it s hot in camps where i ve dined we jsed empty bean cans gives a rich tk and catsup flavor to the brew winter sparrow tame and tee red on a sumac bough making nail inquiry as to whether anv tumbs would remain the sun la ndcntly on the face of the rock nd marian held her palms to it sterling the warmth in cupped pink mgers her head was cocked like the lrd s her eyes were cool and re note wills looked at her and hi eari gave a savage hurting clutch i spine straightened and a gr m ne hardened around his mouth h os not defeated now she was a- ar from him as the moon but whet d man had caught a precious drean in his heart it was not easy to 1c it go today she was the daughtei if the morgan mills and he was a mployee in corduroj pants tomor row he clamped his teeth and lung a challenge to tomorrow and suddenly he cleared his throal 1 oughly intolerable td sit here in a tor est silence with her disdain with her eyes on him in cool indiffer ence he hung the crust to the waiting sparrow stood up you needn t speak he said marsely i know how you feel- now you despise me but i m go ng to tell you this if i never say another word to you as long as we ve i fell in love with you the rsi lime i ever saw you 1 haven i hanged i realize who you are- rf who i am just a tramp thai nur mother rescued from a moun tin thicket i knou what you ve een thinking it doesn t change othmg will change me ever and 1 m not giving up she stood up slowly lei hei eyes me up slowly there was an odd itie heating at the base of her mai and foi an instant her eve dt trembled mistily then she gave a choky little sound im going home she said and turned and ran without looking back the car door slammed the mo tor roared and she tore down the rutty track jolting and bouncing for a hundred yards wills sat still on the rock turning a cigarette slowly round and round in his fingers then as suddenly as she had started marian stopped the car hacked it slowly get in she ordered he gathered up the stewpan and the thermos bottle get in and don t talk to me she repeated huskily keeping her ees straight ahead her profile was as unyielding as the line of the distant mountains she was david morgan s daughter and she wa finding it hard to surrender it b doubtful iff in any other line of business the man at the retail end render as technically expert and helpful service to his customers at so low a cost as does the local implement dealer this while it has always been so has greater significance in these days of more highly mechanized mrarming calling as it does for training and experience in the servicing of modem machines his experience with machines enables him to give time and moneysaving service in the speedy furnishing of the correct part when repairs and replacements are required for delays in seed ing haying and harvesfing may result in substantial loss to a fanner m those critical seasons his warehouse is open practically at al times and he is untiring in playing his part to prevent fanners suffering from delays hb accumulated knowledge of methods- being used and of the experiences of the many farmers he calls on and associates with makes his advice helpful and valuable since the early pioneering days through all the vicissitudes of farming the implement dealer has shared hie hardships as well as the fortunes of farmers rendering a worthwhile service and establishing a wellfounded place for himself in our economic setup masseyharris company limited the service arm of the canadian farm lanyou answerthese every man woman and child in this community benefits from the pulp and paper industty it is canadas greatest industry here are some questions about it see how many you can answer then try the questions out on your ramily friends and neighbours 1 the area of canada is roughly 3j mfllloa square miles how many square miles are forest 2 which is the larger forest lands or lands used for agriculture 3- how much of our standing timber is suitable for the manufacture of pulp and paper 4 what are the chief enemies of our forests 1 roughly one and a quarter million square miles of canada are forest 2 forest lands the accessible and currently produc tive forest areas alone are three times the area devoted to agricul ture 3 over 80 4 fire fungus and insects they destroy more than half as much wood as all canadas forest industries use the pulp and daper industry of cajiada iii svs iiri sritpiro loniiii