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~'ETJESDAY, M&RCH ZOth, 1050l 'i l CANADIAN STATESMAN. EOWMANVffILE. 6N'PAm~ A f !W 'INounains.Out of NoieHish" Subjeci of Address ai Rotary Club Ouilining History of T.C.A. Ues The fictional Mr. Barnaby vis- Ited the Rotarians at their wcek- ly club meeting at the Balmoral Hotel Friday and kept theni chuckling ail through the film~ in which he made his appearance. He was the main actor in the film which was shown to describe the service and activities of Trans Canada Air Lines, and was ably 'assisted by the speaker, Travel- lin g Traffic Representative H. D. Harling. After guest AI Witherspoon, teacher at the Bowmanville High School, was introduced, Editor George James of the Canadian Statesman was complimented on his thoughtful reply to an ar- ticle in the Rotarian magazine on the subject of Banking. Special Meeting Geor ge Moody was presented with a birthday bouquet. Presi- dent Walt DeGeer, Morley Van- aýtone, Sam Henderson, Jack Eas- taugh and Dave Higgon were ab- senlt due to their attendance at Toronto Rotary Club where In- ternational President Percy Hod- gins was the speaker. The speaker, Herbert D. Harl- .ing, was capably introduced by Rotanlan Ross Stutt. He was born and educated in London, England. He "served in the Royal Army to become the slxth largeat among the wonld's air Unes. The firat TCA commercial flight took place on Sept. lst, 1937, betwcen Van- couver and Seattle, a distance of 122 miles. The TCA "fleet" then consisted o! only twa 10-passenger aircraft with a total seating capacity of 20. Thene werc only 70 employ- ces in the company at the Urne. Great Progress It can be justly claimed that TCA has made mountains out of mole hills. For today your airline flics routes totalling more than 16,000 miles daily, op- erates more than 50 aircnaft with an aggregate o! 1400 seats, and bas neanly 6,000 employecs. In 1949 more than 690,000 pensons f lew with TCA, an increase o! 23% from 1948. This is dlean evidence of public confidence in TCA's personnel, equipment and maintenance. Aircargo and air express ton mileage together cxcced 3,600,600 -an increase o! 55%. Over 3,900,000 ton miles o! mail wcre flown, an amount almost double that o! the previous yean. Al told. TCA's aircra!t flew more than 84,000,000 ton miles of air transportation, an increase of 25 % over 1948. They crossed the Atlantic approximateiy 1,000 times duning 1949 in routine fa- shion. "Mountains Out of Mole His"l His talk was entitled "Moun- tains Out o! Mole His." A little mare than a century ago, Sir George Simpson, Governnr o! the Hudson's Bay Company and Canadian pioneer with a reputa- tian for fast travelling, le!t Mon- treal on a necard-breaking 3,000 mile jaurney ta Van c o uvcr. Tweive weeks laten, a! ter an an- duous trip by canae, ax-cant and an horseback, he arrived at the Paci!ic Coast, a little warse for the wear, but triumphant. In Simpsan's time, that was fia amail achievement. Neither was the much later !eat o! onganized ground transport in neducing the transcontinental cnossing ta four days. Yet now an ailine-Trans Canada Air Lines-bridges that great distance in just 14 hauirs and sets standards a! its awn. The cantnast is a measure a! the swi!t transport pnogress a! aur times. Immense Potentiai In the same way, aviation throughout the globe is shrinkîng distance, opening new fields o! commence and pnoviding broaden horizons for more people. AI-1 thaugh it bas already accamplish- ed much with the immensity o! its potential it is still on thc thrcshold o! public service. Yet fan ail its vitality and trans- !arming energies, air transport is mature. It ia no novelty today, but proven and estabiished. In eveny corner o! the world, 24 hours a day, flights are plying the air lines in a methodical, mattcr-o!-!act pattern.c Slxth Largest In Warld Canadians have good neasan ta be praud o! Trans Canada Airt Lines, which bas grawn !romr the smallest o! beginnings in 1937r the job in 80 days look like a piker. Entertaining Film Harvey Britton moved a vote o! thanks, and Vice-President Howard Rundle passed on the vote, giving ta the speaker the Rotary pencil. Following the talk an excep- tionally entertaining film was shown. The film aimed to dispel the fears which many people have of air travel. The Rotarians le!t the meeting chuckling. ~.-Gordon L1nd3ty Srniwh- Medical Corps and Royal Air Fonce in Worid Wan I. He senv- cd with the R.C.M.P. in World War Il. Long Service With TCA He came to Canada in 1920, commcncing at that time his transportation cancer of 30 ycars in Kingston, Ontario, with the C.P.R. After 18 years with the C.N.R. he entered the service o! Trans Canada Air Lines in 1938. He has occupied various ne- sponsibie positions with T.C.A. in variaus cities in bath Canada and U.S., and is at present the Trav- elling Traffic Representative. 0v- er the past 15 years Mn. Hanling has flown close ta haîf a million miles, and bas a son who is a pi- lot. Trinity Young People To Hear Address By National Leader Trinity Young People are look- ing forward ta cntertaining a vcry special gucat at their meet- ing on Monday, April 3, in the person o! Rev. Lloyd Shonten, o! the United Church head office staff. Mn Shorten, who has just neturncd !nom a tour of Western Canada is in change of Y.P.U. prognam work from coast ta coast. The executive wenc very fortun- ate ta have been able ta make special arrangements with this vcny busy staff member ta come ta speak, answer questions and help plan the senies of programa for the remainder o! the season. Since this is Mn. Shorten's regular work, he will be loaded with ideas and this promises ta be the meeting o! the season. The regular meeting last Mon- day evening turncd out to be a season's record for low attendance due ta a combination o! play practice and high school examina- tions. Nearly ail students and many of the aider members wce absent.. Ncxt week, howeven, with exams and the play bath aven, and with Mr. Shorten as the speaker, it is expected that the nuniber present will exceed even the regular large attendance. *The worship service was con- ducted by Misses Gladys Brooks and Betty Sisson. On the programn, Miss Ulva Green favouned with a vocal solo, "Whispering Hope." The remain- der o! the evening was spent in games. Goodyear Employee Received Litchfield Award of Merit An act of courage and heroism that pnevcntcd the Noronic dis- aster in Toronto last September fnom becoming even more horrip- bic, was given funther recognition recently whcn Don Williamson, a Goodyear cmployee of New Toronto, was awarded the P. W. Litch!ield Special Award of Mer- it at the Goodyear Tire and Rub- ber Company o! Canada, Limited, New Toronto plant. On that fateful night, It was fortunate-for many who ulti- mately escaped the flaming ship -that Mn. Wiiliamson was in the vicinity and necognizcd the ship's fire signal. He immediately drove ta the dock, and without thought of his personal safety or weif are (Don le! t his pay envel- ope in his jacket on the wharf) he plunged int the water. Pushing a raf t before him to where people werc struggling in the water, Don and Police Constable C. E. Cale were able ta pull six exhausted pensons onto the raft. Then, they nescued two men and two womnen as they suid down nopes into the waten ta escape the inferno that was raging from bow ta stern. In honor of Don Wiiliamson's valiant li!e-saving action Good- year's Chairman o! the Board, P. W. Litchfield, Akron, Qhio, at- tended the presentation ceremony at the Company's New Toronto plant. In presentîng the medal which nepresents the highest honor that can be won in Good- yean's World-Wide Organization, Mn. Litchfield said: "It is particularly worthy that in these times a man should com- pietely forget self and go ta the aid o!fother pensons. I want ta congratulate you, Don William- son, on this great service and the great part that you played at the time of the Noronic fire." The Special Litch!ield Award o! Menit has been given anly five times in necognition of Life-Sav- ing heroisrn; Don Williamson is A m..xaa c. V - the first award winner living out- aide the United States, and the first person to win it who la flot a United States citizen. Don has been with the Tire Company for more than five years and at the time of the fire aboard the Noronic, he was cm- ploycd in the Testing Laboratory% More than 1200 of his feilow cmn- ployces watched Don Williamsoft being prcscntcd with thia award. such. When the season la ready for these, It lsaiase the beat timne for the m&in plantinga of corn, tomnatoes. Pathu and Driveways Where the layout ia of fair size and the traffic l1ight moat garden- ers find that good healthy grass will stand a fair amount of wcar even from an -occasional car. In many of the big parks and the grounds a! the Expenimental Farms the flower beds are sepan- ated by six ta twclve feet o! well- kept grass and there are few banc spots. But for connecting the front doar with the street or the back door with the vegetable garden, traf!ic is too heavy and some other matenial will have ta be provided. Dcpending upan availabiiity anc can use flag atones, bricks, gravel, crushed cinders or some of the patent matenials which when rolied down arc like the blacktop o! the surfaced highway. Fnom the gar. dening standpoint the point ta keep in mmnd la that these must be built so as ta interfere as lit- tic as possible wlth grass cutting. Wherc properly laid and gnaded anc should be able to run a mow- en right oven them, and save a lot o! handcutting. Ncxt Wcck-more about paths, ganden tools, cultivation. TCA Girdies World Canada's Maple Leaf routes now carry ever-increasing num- bers of passengers and volumes of cargo to familiar ports of caîl on the Wonld Air Map. They visit the Barbados, Nassau, Ja- maica, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Bermuda. These latter con- nect with South America. The giant North Stars are wel- corne visitors at Shannon, Ircland, Prestwick, Scotland,-and London, England. There they connect with air lines going to Europe. At Vahicouver they connect with carriers bound for Hawaii, Aus- tralia, New Zealand, Asia and the Orient. "On Tirne" Flight Performance At the beginnîng there were only two kinds of passenger fanes; one way and round trip. Now there are as many types of fares as there are needs. Operationally, TCA has made comparatively great strides. Per- haps the outstanding achievement of the year 1949 was in the field of "on-time" flight performance. With over 100 flights planned daily, 98% oof ail scheduled mile- age was completed. In some months more than 90 % o! al flights operated precisely on sche- dule. Rigid Maintenance Standards This outstanding record is due ta improved flight training and modernized methods and equip- ment. TCA's Skyliners are equip- ped with the latest devices aero- nautical science can provide, and modifications are made from time to time in order that the safe op- eration record can be maintained. Aircraft are subject ta nigid in- spection and overhaul at specified periods, upon compietion o! which they are certified as air- worthy by competent govern- ment engineers. Weathen is no longer the ser ious risk it once was. There is a close teamwork between the TCA and the Canadian Department of Transport, the latter of wihch operates over 200 recording sta- tions for the purpose o! ensuring that ail required data is compiled before flights are made. Fly Above Weather 5 Flying is now a yean-round op- j eration. You can fly high above 1 the weather, where the !lying is a smooth in dlean air. There you i run into sunshine or starlight, and he temperature in the cabin is a thermostatically controlled. i TCA speed is also something ta s vnite home about. Just a short t- time ago a certain passenger tra- tý velled around the world on sche- c duled airliners in 4 days, 23 hours m nd 47 minutes. This makes Jules t( rerne's famcd traveller who did n Argument of Absurdity (by Joseph Lister Rutledge) In the recent annual convention o! the Ontario Federation o! La- bon, there wene many demanda for social betterment. About the only question that could be naised against some o! them is that dis- counaging one, "Can we afford it? " That is a question that seems ta be. steadily lasing in favon in these days. We arc living in an ena a! boundiess optimism and credulous arguments. Mn. Sam Lepedes a! the United Gar- ment Wonkens pnesentcd anc o! the favorites amang such argu- ments. It is anc whose plausibility serves ta c]oak its utter lack o! cammon sense. But Mn. Lepedes is nat the first anc ta use it, non will he be the last. He unged, "If we could spend billions ta win the wan, money can now be faund ta provide jobs for everyane." How pleasant if every crucial expenditure did build up a bank o! callable nesounces. But it is rathen like arguing, "as we have spent al aur money sending mo- ther ta hospital, we should cen- tainly be able ta buy sister a sable coat." lb is very truc that we did spend billions for war, something} veny close ta !i!teen on sixteen billion. We bannawed much of it, and obligated ourselves ta pay it back, and ta date we have paid back very littie. Instead we have built up this debt till it now stands samewbere in the neigh- bourhood of $21 billion. Thene s a little item o! $400,000,000 that come up annually, nat for iiquid- ating this debt, but just ta keep it sweet. Thene is another item, ust about twice as much, for the social developments that have gnawn up very largely since the beginning o! the last wan. These nre standing between us and aur liquidation o! aur incunred debt. This la a land o! great nesounces nd a! even-broadening opportun- ity, but, if we are ta use these ne- sources and profit by the oppon- tunities we must somehow came to realize that only production ran create the weaith out o! which aur hoped-for benefits are to came. Spending money doca ot set up neserves, and the fact ýat we have spent hugely in the ?ast dazen yeans daca not, by any .easonable manner a! thinkîng, ;ggest that we can still apend what we haven't produced. The )est way ta assure jobs is not ta oak hope!ully tawands govern- Lent deficit spending but ta pro- lce mare gooda at iowcr cost s0 hat wc can netain and impnove he foneign markets upon which ir industrial security resta, «'First-Footing," a Scottish cus- om, means that the finat pen- on ta visît yau on New Year's ày must brîng a bottle and give u a drink for good luck. YOU GET NEW BEAUTI New styling inside and outm by Raymond Lae*y. New Target Do.. Latcli with finger-tlp action. 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HIL i ETERS EXAMINED lrurt Plantngs Seeds, buib. and other things we set out or plant in Canada are gl'ouped under three of four main classifications. In the first are those that go in just as eariy as possible. Frost wil flot hurt them at ail, may in fact do them gaod. In this tough class are swcet peas, flursery stock and grass seed, also practi- cally anything else of a perennial nature. The second graup includes those that like ta grow early and will stand some frost. These are most- ly vegetables like lettuce, radish, spinach, -garden peas, perhaps a short row or two of beets and carrots. One can risk the first sowlng of these about as soon as the soul is fit to work. True, a real hard frost wlll damage them, but a few degrees will flot. Tender and Semi-Tender In the third category are plants usually described in the seed cat- alogue as semi-tender. They will withstand some pretty cool weathen, even a degree of two of frost, but they don't like it. They should not be risked outside until practically ail danger of frost is over. In this group will be most of our annual flowers-cosmos, zinnias, marigolds, petunias-and ail the vegetabies mentioned in the preceding paragraph, as well as beans, potatoes, corn, cabbage, perhaps even a few tomato plants. Last of ail we have the rcally tender things. Frost is fatal to these and they don't like and will not thrive in cool weathen or cool soul. Among the flowers are the cannas, gladioli, dahlias, and in the vegetable category cucum- bers, melons, squash, peppers and /9S0d Optometiist - GLASSES FITTED OFFICE HOURS ti Monday to Saturday - 10 arn. to 6 p.M. t] Closed Wednesday Ail Daym - EVENINGS BY APPOINTMENT -ti 22 DIVISION ST. PHONE 2024 V, d ai v'*1 e The stellar *vent wa« the froditIonaI 10-mil. mura- thon. ln brdght toques and blenket cents, Canadions and Ansericans swepî acreus them course. 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