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editors note roy shaver of fincli ont past president of ontario plowmen s association accompanied douglas s rejd of brampton ont- and algie wallace pf north gower ont canada champion plowmen on their trip to the british isles eire and prance this is the fifth and last of a series of weekly articles ikrhten by him as team manager about their experiences and ffn pressions i 11 probably never be able to go to a cattle show again without thinking of fog and london for it was there on our last full day in england that we visited the smith field show in the gloom of the worst fog of the city s modern his tory the swirling billowing clouds of dense smutladen fog turned the into a weird twilight and the night into spooky nlackrrt for the three of as doug reid of brampton champion tractor plowman algie wallace of norm gower champion horse plqwrnan and myself roy shaver of finch ont r team manager it was an experience ve will never forget we arrived in london on the wednesday night flying in from paris where we had spent a brief two days visiting the war graves fortunately our first two days were fog free and so we were able to visit canada house to meet can ada s high commissirfner norman robertson and then ontario house to meet ontarioju agentgeneral major jsp armstrong at can ada house we renewed acquain tanceship with prime minister st laurent who was then in england to attend the commonwealth prime minister s conference he remem bered us all from the ontario plow ing association banquet after the match doughm 8 rcfd soldiers our ingham palace mr roberten placed car t our dlapowlmd that day strange ly enough in t quite bright sttn we saw st paul cathedral the tower of lon don and watch ed the changing of the guard at buckingham palace only machines i am sure could match the clockwork precision of the visit to buck provided an un expected thrill for while we were standing there the little princess anne came to the window and waved perhaps she too liked our western hats we visited our second house of commons in less than three weeks while in northern ireland we were shown through the house of com mons and senate by mr a wil son deputy to ulster minister of agriculture we of course sat in the speaker s chair in london we spent the best part of the fri day morning in the british house of commons it was unfor tunately private members day and only thirteen government supporters were present with se ven members of the opposition one of whom was opposition lea der clement attlee in the visi tors gallery with us was a former canadian russell ubear now liv in in london that afternoon the fog started to come down and it got progresalvely worse until at night one could not see more than a few yards ahead we were staying at tne cumber land hotel- at hyde park corner usually one of the busiest spots in london but that night and the next sat it was quieter than toronto s king and bay streets are supposed to be at 3 oclock on a sunday morning an american who was staying at the cumberland with us had his own car with him saturday night he wanted to drive five blocks to the hotel garage to do it he had to pay a man to walk in front pf the car with a flashlight while his daughter walked along the curb w ith one hand on the car s left jrortt fender it took them more tlwi an hour to make the five mocks believe me it wafl- dark outside the usually brilliant west end street lights looked like tiny can dles even when you were standing beneath them you could hear peo ple and vehicles passing you on the street but you couldn t see them it was like moving in a void if you opened your windqw to let in some fresh air wtthih thirty minutes what looked like a cloud of smoke would be hanging from the ceiling however the londoners native senbe of humor came to his rescue ind some very amusing tales came out of the fog i cannot guarantee them but i think some are worth prince alexander of yugoslavia was driving his aunt the duchess of kent through- london but be came lost in the fog a constable approached his stranded car and asked if he could help i should be glad to know the way to buckingham palace i have to get my aunt there the prince replied dont be sarcastic im only try ing to help replied the cop it apparently took quite a time to persuade him it was not a bad joke just around the corner from us at marble arch a movie house dis played this sign owing to the fog the management cannot guarantee the clarity of the picture the fog got everywhere all surface trans portation came to a halt several times and only the tube london subway was running- but the fog even reached the platforms far be low ground there was no escap ing it on the sunday we mad our way across the city to the vast earls court arena where the annual smithficld livestock show was to open the next day officials at ontario house had arranged a pre view for us norval pastoral charge united church rev c c gilbert home church 11 00 am nerval 2 30 p m glen williams 7 00 pm 1m3w iitmmimr m to x w the georgetown hkba1j wednesday evening feb w 1933 page 3 the fog got there first tho by then several of the prize an imals were suf fering from sev ere respiratory ailments caused by the murk eventually i un derstand two of the animals died and one big ex- algfewabao hibitor fitted his animals with his own patent gas masks or should it be fog masks he poured bottles of whisky over sackcloth nd t ed the cloth around the animals noitnljs i was cllec- tive too for the aiumals stopped coughing smithficld has been compared to our royal winter fair bu it is not a fair comparison for smith- field is a fat stock show only the royal is a retailers exhibition with the exhibitors eye fixed on the farmer smithfield is a wholesaler t show machinery and excellent mach inery at that was on show for for eign buyers rather than domestic farmers doug and algie were par- ucularly impressed with the mach inery exhibition on jhe machines every part that could possibly be kilded had been chrome plated so the whole area glinted and glisten- ed in the are lights q ua company had a model with an all- plastic body so the engine and the frame was exposed to view the next day our last in eur ope the fog lifted long enough for us to catch the boat train to south ampton and then the queen eliza beth 1 could write a book about that shup but i will spare you i would like to say one thing if you are thinking of going to eur ope by boat it is a wonderful ex perience we all appreciated the plane trip over but it could never compare with the return journey on that beautiful craft i f a whj i v the fir w- vll 1 uu u on i vital is ftcn he6iw prl diwi llii slr ki i lull h pourl fm mi s s if la r iir s it mil us l rj of vkii o 111 tsg ywkh r wii s i d s icm vr hllu1 rfaoi ru l rpc city t t erected trsrt in the fiftytwo years since the first canadian aluminum plant opened at shawinigan falls canada s aluminum in dustry has grown to be the second largest in the world and canada now exports more aluminum than any other country still the need grows both at home and abroad for this light strong modem metal of many uses and lummum company of canada is puttmg m in power and money and engineering brains and imagination into the job of keeping up with that demand aluminum is packaged power the electricity needed mir h 4t polltui- lfl sfe tcrs prod fi reds worjd to produce one ton of alummum w ould light the average home for nearly a generation by making use of canada s abundant low- cost pow er this canadian enterprise has created emplo ment and income for tens of thousands for the men who build and operate the dams and powerhouses the docks and smelters and power lines it needs and for the more thin one thousand independent canadian companies who turn aluminum into countless forms important to industry and our own daily living aluminum alcam- h company of canada ltd producers and processors of aluminum for canadton and world markets ptantfat showinkjon falls arvtda isle malicjne shipshaw peribonka port alfred beauharnots wakefield kingston etobicoke church news st johns united church rev john m smith minister norman laird director of musio sunday school 10 a m come to ss and slay for church morning worship 11 am the everlasung god nurseiy 11 am child care w hilc parents worship junioi worship 11 am bible btorits and pictures evening meditation 7 pm tho tolouied sound movie the kings m m vv ill be show n in memorial hall si george s church archdiicon w g o thompson hector second sundly in lent sunday school 10 a m holy com numen wa cor porate communion 1100 im ev ensong 7pm lenten ser vice on thurstjay evening at 8 30 st alban s church glen williams second sunday m lent sunday school 10 308 m evensong and litany 8 00 pjn lenten service on wednesday evening at 8 00 georgetown baptist church rev a j barker ba bd sunday march 1st 1953 10 00 am chotcrr school 1100 am what christ does for men today 1 forgives sin 7 00 pm interviews with jesus 2 by a well communion service norval and union presbyterian chmehes rev g lockhart royal union 10 a m sabbath school 11 am praise service norval 2 pm sabbath school 3 pm praise service knox and unehonse presbyterian chnrches rev uexcawer minister 10 a m sunday school 11 am public worship lbnehoose 1 30 p m sunday school 230 pm public worrtiip norval hornby stewarttown charges church of england rev j e max well ba ltb st pauls choreh norval 130 pm evensong except lest sunday of the month 1 1 00 am holy communion st stephen csurch hornby 1100 am morning service except 1st sunday of the month 3 00 pm evensong st johna choreh stewarttown 3 00 pjn evensong except 1st sunday of the month 730 pjn evensong