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t TUR SDAY DECEMBR 8. 1949- Strictly Feminine. By Margaret Farmer ANCIENT TREASURE HOUSE . The other day a fourteen year old of aur acquaintance remarked with ail the longing thet a child- ish imagination can provoke, "Wouldn't it be wonderful ta go through ane of thase mysterlous aid English casties?" We confess that we-and many athers-have oiten ]ongcd for a glimpse af some af those ancient Engiish buildings, remnants af an elmost forgotten era of pomp and glory. One of these fascinating build- ings which bouses irreplaceabie treasures ai painting, wood-carv- Ing and sculpture is Petworth, a thirteenth century building that is a mecca to tourists ta Great Britain. The vîsitar is shawn inta the l3th century chapel, ail that is beft toa Petworth as it existed in medievai days. The pointed arches are set in carved limestone, whiie baskets of fruit, musical instru- mients and quaint birds cluster around the portraits ai Henry VIII, Charles I and his Queen, lienrietta Maria. Lord Leconfieid bas one ai the finest private collections af pic- tures in Britian. Such famous painters as Van Dyck, Gainsbor- ough, Reynolds, Romney and Hoppner are ail represented. The Marbie Hall was given this riame because ai its black and white marbie floor. It was for- merly the entrance hall, and in- teresting historicai pictures on the wall show the arrivai at Petworth of the Ailied Sovereîgns in 1814. The wainscotting is painted a duck egg green and the carvings are execu!ed by Gibbon's assist- ant, Seiden. The Marble Hall leads into the Beaiity Room where there are portraits ai the mast beautiful women who appeared nt the Court ai Queen Anne. On "hi =ý-i 11 the ceilings and walls near the grand steircase are immense peintings whieh portray scenes in the life ai another femousi Englishwoman, -Elizabeth, Duch- ess o! Somnerset. ARTIST TREADS STONEY PATH TO FAME After seven years in the Wo- men's Auxiliary Air Force, a comeiy young English girl, Su- zanne Pugh, finds that her ambi- tions ta be an artist in Canada are taking a severe beating. Since her arrivai in the land o! the mapie she has worked at numer- oua jobs-everything fram log- ging camp "flunky" ta mousetrap- maker. Since she lIeit the J. Arthur Rank cartoon studios i England twa years ago ta take up residence in Vancouver, she bas been a bus conductress, photographer, wait- ress, cook, berry picker, apple thinner and gardener. She hitch-bjked as far aiield as Queen ChaMotte Island, where she worked in a logging camp peeling potatoes. The mousetrap-making was a sideline ta fruit-picking in the Okanagan Valley. Mice plagued orchards this year so pickers started making traps. "They were big mice, like rats", says Suzanne, "They sat under the tree in families saying 'eek' ". Suzanne kept up with ber car- taon work by drawing for chul- dren in homes where she worked. "They --love imaginative things ...like same sleepy aid bees under daîsies, around their beds, and some fat ducklings in the bathroom." She would like ta see haspitals, schools and homes make more -use ai whimsy. 'lhaugh she loves ta doodie fat The Leslie Bell Singers FOURTH ANNUAL XMAS CONCERT Leslie Bell Singers in TRINITY UNITED CHURCH Saturday DECEMIER 17th, 1949 8:30 p.m. ADMISSION $1.00 _Sponsored by Bowmanville Lions ClubJ Phone Phone g 4 STOVE OIL N EROSENE waddling beeties and bad-temper. ed ow]s, tshe bas to admit that though they are 9R)d comPany, they stiil keep her hungry in Canada. WIPE AWAY YOUR TEARS kon something else, since it oosas if this may be the lest year you wili be able ta send the customary imported, hand-em- Ibroidered prettily gift-boxed, in- expensive handkerchiei! And you can blame it an the Chinese Communists. They have now reached the area where the sew- ing is done. Unlike most imparted goods, the mElterials do not came from the country where the articles are made. The materials for these handkerchiefs are sent ta China, wAhere labour is cheap. from the U.S.A. and at the moment Ameni- can importers are afreid ta take a chance on sending any more materiai ta China. ORIGIN 0F CHRISTMAS%- CARDS One ai the nicest things abouti Christmas ia the joy af recîevingi greetings fromn far-away friends,j and in ail probability it is the4 only season ai the year that we hear any news at ail from same af aur acquaintances. Wouid you like ta know where this cherming custom aof exchanging Christmas carda originated? Christmas cards were first printed in London more than1 ninety years ago, but did flot be-1 came popular until seventy-six1 years ago. The first Christmas card was only a visiting card an which was written the greeting, "A Merry Christmas" or "A Happy New Year". Snow scenes, hoily branch- es and robins appeared later oni embossed cards, probably pictur-i ing English Christmas scenery. i as the robin ia known in Engiand1 as the Christmas bird. Today cards for everyone in the famiiy, from Grandma ta the new baby are availabie. You meay also find one suitable for yaur minister, your boss, far someone who has passed thraugh sorne recent sorrow, for «the folks at home, or for friends across the miles. And there la fia end ta the variety af greetings either. For those wha like a touch ai humour there is a wide choice. Then there is the good solid friendiy greeting. oi, the elaborate]y decorated sen- timental type. Card manuifactur- ers dlaim that each year there ia a greater demand for the 'relig- ious" cards which includes an ap- 1 propriate acripture text .* perhaps this topsy-turvy, con- J fused aid worid ai ours la iearning ail aver again, the real meaning- af Christmas. ANGEL SONG OVer white expansea sparkling pure, December marna unfoid;, The solemn spiendors ai the night Burn brighter through the coid: Lufe mounts. in every throbbing vein, Love deepens round the hearth And clearer sounds the angel- hymn, «G OOD WILL TO MEN ON EARTH." Lif e Has Its Contradictions (By R. J. Deachman) Life bas its contradictions, many ai them sa strange they aeem far beyond aur ken. We move in circies. came back ta the same place feeling wiser but flot knowing where we were, how we got there, nor how we return-i ed ta the same aid spot. Over fiity years ago an agree- ment was made by which the C.P.R. gave a very low rate for the movement af wheat, lower than exista ini any ather country in the warid. It was called the Crow's Nest Rate Agreement. The rates were later extended ta caver the C.N.R. ines. It was an uniortunate bai-gain for the rail- ways. It seemed wîse at the time1 but since then the price of wheat l bas doubied, costa af railway ap- eration have risen sharpiv. If costs continue ta rise freight rates wili go up unless we make up aur minds ta junk aur reilways. That, af course, is impossible. Our reibways must live, Cen- ada, more than any other cou ntry in the worid, depends upan its raibways. Crow's Nest rates wenti into eifect September 1899. The rate applied ta the movem'ent of wheat wes 20c per hundred paunds ta the head af the Lakes. Wheat was cheap then, somewherei in the neighborhood ai 90e a bush- el, less than bal! the present price Time plays strange tricks with men, governments and prices. The things which seems reasonable today may be dangeraus tamor- row. Adi ustments ta new candi- tions are always slow. If rates feul in anc commodity they will rise ini anather. Total gains ta, the fermer may be amail but it:s alI great pietîorm on whîch ta fight an election. It's one o f these things in wihich the gaping type of politicien can put up a bold front, even win elections-he can do it without eniagonizing many voters. On question ai more im- portance he can be as sulent as a clam. Let us see what is happening now. There is a move on foot for pensions af at least $100 a manth when the worker reaches the retlning age. This is flot a cantrib- utory pension. it is ta be paid by industry. Industry, however, can- flot afford ta take this sum out o! carningsanmd will ot do so. Prices wiil risc, the consumer wili pey. Ta a certain extent the resuit wili be inflatîonary-morc trouble for the basic Praducer. We wil Corner Kint and Brown Sts. Bamanvile -Ç ..-<~ ý -.K TE-CANADIAN- STATESMAN, EoWMANv!LIP. ONfTARIO wait long before the farmer will cansider the impact upon hie" own Mfe. Nevertheless-day by day he :wml be contributing -ta the- pen- sions af others. He bas done it in the past ta a limited extent. In ,the end it.will be bis main task. Sometimes prices a! farm prod. ucts will 18a1, cost of living will remain high. It will be tough times for the farmer, labar wilI take his punishment in unem- ployment. Ail these efforts ta Tilacate la- ,bar must inevitably fail. They are flot in the interests o! labor. They tend towards inflation, they re- strict production, they imit con- sumption. They lead to the servile state. If this program. la carried out it will hot be long before its repercussions wiil appear in our basic industries. We see a beauti- ful example af it in England, 40 % o! aIl incomiý goes in taxes. How far cen we go along this line? It cames in the end ta this: we lose aur right o! choice in the disposal of our income. The gavernment, If this condition develops, will take 40 cents out af every dollar we earn for governmpnt expend- itures, give us back 60c. 1starts with a group of planners iwho, in ordering tble affairs of state, take from us a larger share a! our incarne than was ever tak- en before. No gavernment o! planners will ever be as economni- cal as an ardinary gavernment, democratic style. What cauld be mare prafoundly ridiculaus than the common phrase: "This is an age o! plenty". Yes, mn limited areas. for a limited time but for the world-ridicu- lous beyond wards! Nine-tenths o! the world la hungry-always is. It lacks the beasisof progress. It is flot merely a question of de- velopment o! resources. In many countries resources are very limit- eed, nat even the fullest develop- ment will assure a normal stand- ard o! living. Populations tend more- and more ta irnpinge an the means af existence. Sa beware of slogans. Look at thema in the light o! facts. When %e do this we clear aur vision, escape from dreamland and consider things as they are. Compulsion, is the means by which. little people who have gained great power force others Slogans exercise a vat influ- "The idea that 1f. is a vale of ence an the humen mind. Plan- tears la just as false as the idea ning la a great word. We think a! that lufe is a place of entertain- it as a careful method of ardering ment. Life la a place o! Service." aur own lives. We forget that it -Tobstoy. Haldimand School For 3rd rune Wins Forestry Prize Sehool Section No. 12, Haldi- mand, in Northumberland Coun- ty, with Mrs. I. B. Nelson as teacher. bas again been awarded first prize in the Provincial School Forestry competition spon- sored by the Ontario Horticultur- al Association with the co-opera- tion of the Ontaria Conservation and Reforestation- Association. This school bas won the prize on three previaus occasions althaugh net conseéutively. The cantest is heid each year to encourage establishment af achool forestry plats and the study of rarestry. The province is divided into district for the contest and the winning schoai is in District 4 which takes in the counties of Victoria, Haliburton and Peter- bora. A. B. Wheatiey o! Lindsay la the District Forester. 1First prize in the competition is $50. Second prize of $25 was won by S. S. No. 11, Woolwich, Waterloo County. wîth Mrs. Mary E. Brohman as teacher; third prize af $15 went ta North Wal- singham Public School, Norfolk County, with J. F. Lawless as teacher; fourth prize of $10 went ta S.S. No. 2 Faraday, Hastings Couhty with Mrs. Ena Vance as ENTE teacher. Fifth was S.S. No. 10 Roseville, Uxbridge Township, Ontario County, Miss I. Hackner as teacher and sixth Athens Pub- lic School, Leeds County with Mrs. Connel as teacher. Real Facis Back 0f, Social Security Social Security is a fine phrase, used effectively by ail Canadian political parties at election times. But, when carefully examined, it loses much of its meaning. Securi- ty of the country from war is something that no party can guar- antee. Financial security for indi- viduals from cradle to grave is usually thought to be denoted by. the phrase, but such social securi- ty plans as have already been put into force do not appear to have lessened the need for private char- ity an a large scale. Arithmetic and politics do flot coincide when it cornes to spend- ing public funds. To an arithmet- ician it seems that if you tax everybody for a social service and spend the money so collected, nothing bas been added to socle- ty's wealth. Some individuals may have benefited-notably the civil servants who get jobs col- lecting or spending the money. Even they might have been better off if they had jobs outside Il1w s PÂ<1'. VTVU civill irvlce. Frhe remainder of the popu- lation,, ven for those who pay nlo direct . xes and receive goverri- ment hàhdouts, s&cial security à a costly 4delusion. The estimated cost of the Baby Bonus for the Iatest complete fiscal year is $271,- 000,000. The estimated receipta from the Dominion sales tax foi,' the same peraod are $391,400,000. Thus if the Baby Bonus were wiped out, or even restricted to those familles who really need if, the sales tax could be eut to about three per cent, with no net re- ductiQn of Fedetal revenue. The consequent reduttion in living costs would ease the struggle of earners of small incomes. The Baby Bonus makes their struggle harder. The arithmetic of this is simple enough for the average sixth- grade pupil. Einsteint himself would be baffled by the arith- metic o! those politicians who preach that taxation and living costs can be brought dow*i at the same time as ail the costs lumped together under the head of social security are going up. British fisher folk'consider that to dreamn of keeping money )t shoe is a bad omen. 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