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‘THE OAKVILLE RECORD-STAR Thursday, April 6th, 1950 Page Sixteen : B P good, but owing to the remote G : d F id ‘p gier, bathrooms, refrigerators and 3 ood Friday ‘Pops’ |» ecisnisea washh trol, mpletely mechanised washhouses. Europe Revisited ea ae, ee 2 Raita seas eey GENERAL ELECTRIC Travelling Through Sweden In the Province of Smoland, Sweden, the inhabitants of this country are so hard working, that they say they could find an existance’on a completely barren desert island. The factory workers start at 6 a.m.; go to first lunch from 8.30 to 9.30; work until 12.15; have 45 minutes for thé’second lunch; comeback to work at 13 o'clock, and are through at 15.15 — sell really Also Rostrand's china, but they glass. One big living room is cheaper than several small rooms. than England. Yet in a few of the Cooperatives || fine lines, like}! generally it's the cheaper lines.| Taxes are assessed by the room.|/ Taxes are heavier than in Can- ada or the U. S., but much less)) One man said}j “My taxes are 30 per cent of my] ern city, yet it contains mahy ed- ifices of medieval splendour, Most impressive of all is the celebrated “Storkyrka”, the.-Great Church, built on the crest of a hill, amidst narrow and cobbled streets.. In the wonderful structure, which posses- ses a beauty of its own, Sweden's Kings are crowned. Swedén is a country that OIL FURNACES | BURNERS Commercial Refrigeration which means that their day’s work is over at a quarter past jabounds in works of art and in : ie thacae . in ding + t marl E t salary, but if my boss gave me an||~, memorials to those great figures Authorized three in the afternoon: ccording to accounts, they £0 lO/inorease of one or two thousand that glovity the pages of one of x A Dasler bed at 9 o'clock at night and if you see one of these small Swedish towns, you can well understand why. A liquor permit is tied up with In a restaurant, with a meal, a the income tax authorities — all|man can only have 7% centilitre hard liquor is rationed into var-|of hard liquor at lunch, but jous classes. If you have to en-| double this amount at dinner. A tertain and. are in the monied|lady is only aHowed. half this class, you can get up to a gallon} quantity — the theory being that a month — wines are unlimited | she might push her portion over but are entered into your odes Ba the boy friend and if she is The main object seems to be to} only served with half, it’ isn’t try to discourage a man on a low) worthwhile, so she drinks it her- salary from spending money on self. : hard liquor: | Weak beer is- used in the same There are no bars in “Sweden. | way we use iced water — but it lis so weak it has no authority. } Of course one could order a : ; E. D. GREEN |sandwich and a drink at one cafe |and throw the dog the sandwich, Repairs Made To All Makes | and go to another-restaurant, and Tractors * |so on, but it’s a very expensive International Harvester way of collecting a headache. Tractors & Machines |= _ Soulless Organization Parts & Service | In Sweden the Co-operative is GOODYEAR TRACTOR AND generally a soulless -organization, IMPLEMENT TIRES jhaving no personal contact with 8th LINE |the customers. The staff changes : +1)./ often. When they start up in a Phone 350 Oakville sown, they are generally fairly © 1 LIE’ S..... CLEANERS -- DYERS Quality Workmanship and Service For the Past 28 Years. To The Citizens of Oakville and Vicinity FREE PICK-UP AND DELIVERY 66 Colborne St. E. Phone 588 per cent.” — literally — the book costs 40 Kroner (about $8.40). One can buy the book with a list of names and addresses of all the contribu- tors. Like all other European countries, the man with a small shop. has avery comfortable _liv- ing providing he keeps his own books, No Rationing While in Denmark there is food rationing, and no nonsense about money — fifteen-minutes away — flying timé, in Sweden, there is all the trouble of filling in forms for the money you carry, yet they have no food rationing. The great difference between Danes and Swedes is similar to the sophistication of a town person against the stolid type of the country person. The Danish language has been re-inforced by words from other languages, English, French, Ger- man — while the Swedish lang- uage is older, purer perhaps but has little similarity to any West- ern European language, and prac- tically no imported words. I’m writing this in a small mod- ern hotel, spotlessly clean. The hot water is only luke warm; not a soul here speaks English, French is a hotel catering to foreigners. They just don't care. You either speak their language or else. The Porter, this key man in every Buropean hotel, is a total loss. He seems, in answering you, Kroner, I would have to pay 55|/ Income taxes are an open book|/ or German, only Swedish, yet this ity A special Good Friday program under the direction of ‘Sir Ernest |Macmillan will be the feature of the Toronto Symphony “Pops” con- cert this week. Edwin Steffe, shown above, will be guest soloist. Mr. Steffe is an American baritone first heard in New York in Radio City Music Hall. Station CBL, 8:30 P.M. to 9:30 P.M. there who must have had their hands full. Later the girls were repatriated and a full platoon of armed-to-the-teeth British Military Police, delivered-them — Austral- ians were in the vicinity. Rule in Sweden Sweden is still ruled by Gustav, now well over ninety years old, who has occupied the throne for over forty-six years and is still loved. Greatest claim of Stockholm is that it has no slums. Sweden, where serfdom was abolished over a thousand years ago, is a true democracy — a country where la- bour troubles are conspicuously absent, where there is real equal- More tha fifty thousand Stock- holm families live in model gar- den settlements. Sixty percent of the city’s workmen dwell in new and thoroughly up-to-date flats, the most dramatic histories in the hworld. Here reigned Gustavus Ad- olphus, who died in battle in the hour of victory, and Charles XII, the monarch who brought both ruin and glory to his impoverished country. Founder of Modern Sweden The most impressive statue is the one erected to the memory of Gustav Vasa, the warrior who lib- erated the Swedes from the Dan- ish tyranny’ and laid the founda- tions of modern Sweden. This fig- ure is erected on the spot where Vasa appealed to the people of Mora in 1520 to rise against the Danish usurper who had just mur- dered seventy of the leading cit- izens of Stockholm. Vasa was 24 years old at this time. Yet in 1523, three years la- ter, he was elevated to the Swed- ish throne and built himself Swed- en's most beautiful Renaissance Castle at Vadstena — that boy made good fast! Even quicker than some of our generals in the last war. This statue is a masterwork of Sweden’s greatest artist, Anders Zorn, painter, at Upsala, the Un- iversity city, less than an hour's journey from Stockholm. The Cath- edral, whose soaring twin spires dominate: the entire countryside, has stupendous height and length (the nave is 352 feet long and the west tower 395 feet high). Daylight streams through the windows, the cathedral has no touch of the melancholy that characterises so many other sacred edifices in other with central heating, laid-on hot wa- parts of Europe. Phone 1 --94 MAPLE AVE., OAKVILLE Act on April Ist re they operate. ia Farmers and any other persons whose main occupation is non-insurable need not be insured if they work in lumbering and logging for 60,daya or less a year and apply for exception. C. A. L. MURCHISON Commissioner LOGGERS and LUMBERMEN ! As from April 1st your employees are in- sured under provisions of the Unemployment Insurance Act. This means that contributions must be paid for them beginning on that date. If you employ anyone in lumbering and logging you should :— 1. Register with your National Employ- ment Office; 2. Obtain insurance books for your employees; 3. Get instructions about making tributions and about rates, ce for full information. COMMISSION J.G. BISSON Chief Commissioner con- < Your National Employment Office is ready to assist you with all necessary information. All sawmills and planing mills come under the gardiess of how many weeks Call at the nearest Nationa] Employment & : UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE R. J. TALLON Commissioner to be just making noises like a hen, When you try to make him understand, he couldn’t do any- thing but make bird noises. please, also clucks like a hen when spoken to. When we asked her for toast} the conversation went like this: “Toast” “Cluck”, “Warm Toast” opm “Cluck,—cluck, CLUCK-VARM!" Wagging her head and _ still clucking she galloped out of the room and triumphantly returned a few minutes later with a dish of cheese sandwiches — the Swedes just don’t bother to learn lJang- uages. ‘ Bicycle Fever Everyone has a bicycle and there are so many that at certain times of the day, it would be im- The chamber maid, anxious to] Alberta oil has. changed his future The boy doesn’t know it yet. Many a grown-up doesn't realize it—but th: new oil fields of Alberta brighten Canada's future. Western oil is saving 100 million scarce U.S. dollars this year, dollars we don't have to pay out for oil imports. -This means money to buy othe imports we need—things that cannot be grown or made in Canada. Nex year Alberta oil should save 145 million U.S. dollars! HoseIbYe to CFOSE A etrext until the Then, too, the search for oil is making a big new market in Alberta fo: light changes : things the rest of Canada has to sell. The oil industry is spending $3 1 There are lots of-contrasts in millions a week in the west. Acrosa the nation this money is fostering new Sweden; it is surprisingly modern industries, expanding plants, creating. jobs, paying wages, building homes. | and civilised, and yet curious sup- : il ih y — erstitions have lingered for cen- And in the prairies petroleum product prices are lower than they would i i} = turies. Fifty years ago, an entire have been if oil had net been found. Prairie consumers saved more than - | ! i = community in a spirit of religious $30 millions last year. Anything that helps prairie prosperity helps He =— ecstasy emigrated to Jerusalem. all Canada. int ! ‘a \ = Sweden is a happy as well as a ha pe Oil is important to ns all. More oil means a higher standard of living. jf i lovely land — a land that almost a ase or apr aps — The search for oil is unending, a costly business, ctten disappointing. Bu! Ye"\\ f hy. Zz : the job is pressing forward. And new-found oil is changing our future... i sine Swedes have been generous en- : , 4 z ough to feel the urge to help their promising a better, brighter future for Canadians—man and boy alike! Vth | less fortunate neighbors, although Swedes themselves grumble at the Communistic Foreign Ministers : i, and a 15-year trade pact with ® ° ey: .-_: A Russia, they seem content and Bringing you oil is G big job A : <A ee. and a costly one DON’T BE A MUD SLINGER! This is a season of changing weather. It’s grey and cold one day—warm and bright . the next, with snow melting into grimy slush on the roads. As a motorist, it’s nice to drive through the puddles without a care —but it’s tough on pedestrians when it means an icy bath and soiled clothing. Don’t be a mud slinger—slow down when you near a slush patch. Passers-by will appreciate your courtesy—and courtesy of this kind is proof of “Good Citizenship”. are definitely well fed. Out of the Past — One of our party is an “Eighth Army” man, taken prisoner sev- : eral times by the “Eyeties,’ but s he got away from them comparat- 2 ively easily. About Canada’s Oil—at the end of 1949 potential oil On the 27th of November, 1941, production in Alberta was more than one-third of Canada's requirements. in an enveloping movement, Tob- Three years earlier, Canada produced less than one-tenth of the oil she used ruk was recaptured by the Eighth : . Army. Many prisoners were taken More than 240 companies and syndicates are searching for or producing — the young lieutenant’s sergeant ofl in western Canada. with a section of carriers, came g back to report that he had cap- It is estimated that the ofl industry will account for almost 10 per cent ef all new business capital invested in Canada this year. tured a large Fiat truck with trail- BRADING’S In 1949 Imperial Oil bought a total of nearly $40 millions of equipmen: | | +.¢.% 2.0 5%5%, This was an Italian travelling brothel. In it were 6 or 8 young, gaily dressed, highly amused girls. er, both fitted up as a caravan. and supplies from more than 3,000 Canadian firms. Capitai Brewery Limited Their services were only for It- » , = alian non-commissioned officers of TT good behavior, who paid a strict- 2 A ly nominal fee to the equivalent ‘ ==. eth of our NAAFI. : ; = Such a capture was not covered ant ae by Army regulations, so it was Sent under heavy guard back to the citadel in Cairo. 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