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I '7h.~nadIa State ewmuen,.Apr. 13, ilm l' swer questions or miss tinie froni their own work or play. III didn't think it was any of my business." This was what a Toronto truck driver testified at an inquest into the death of a man in a construction accident. He did not report that the hook on a crane lacked the required saifety catch and was unsafe ta use. Apparently Workers are reluctant ta repart saféty hazards because they feel they may be branded as "trouble- makers." If the men feel this way, then it is the duty of their employers ta make it clear they want ta hear every singl1e safety suggestion from ail of them. No detail should be too small for attention. Fortunately there are stories, too, about people like the Ottawa heroine wha gave ber 111e sitting at ber switch- board alerting the occupants of the hotel where she worked while it went up in flames. And the littie girl who died under the wheels of a train, push- ing her friend to safety. There are Good Samaritans. But, alas, they are too few. T7h. United Church of Canada, et o Evangellsm & Social Service) »:-How aten do we read ln the paper, «Orles of a policeman being beaten up While a crowd watched, or children droWning while men stood on the river- qu~it and did nathing, or men dying IXa construction accidents because no «Me icît it his responsibility ta repair dm obvious hazard. What i. wnong with aur saciety if people just can't be bothered ta get iiyvolved in someone else's woe? lu it - 1eeause everyone is sa burdened witb troubles of bis own that he just can't 'take on anything mare? Or is it because people have such puny social conscien- ceu they don't react? lu fia one responsible for anyone else? Is it indeed eveny man for him- self? What a terrible treadmili it is if N'orth Arnenicans are so ai raid ai .bcoming involved in someane else's WU ble that they will stand by and ith a complet. lack ai buman dignity $atch a fellow human being faîl by ;m1~ wayside - the fear being that tbey "iIht have to appear ln court, or an- jMacDuff Ottawa Report Every Man's OTTAWA - A few years ago if the average wage and salary eamner realiz- ed there was sucb a thing as an Estates Tax Act (then Succession Duties Act) he' viewed it as sometbing out ai bis realm and ken. Even if be were earn- ing a fair saiary the chances ai bis building up an estate ai morre than $60,000, the minimum on which bis widow would pay succession duties, were remote. The Federal Government, for its f rt, put littie importance on the tax. rsomeone like Sir James Dunn died - Ën event which threatened for a wbile th American takeover ai Algoma Steel 'Z adyDunn sougbt cash ta pay the xgovernment revenues gat a real .11ip. Otherwise it was a minor source. .80 little importance bas been put on ~that. Ottawa 'bas witbdrawn from 75 ercent of this. fax field in favoun ai the provinces and retains the rest only »~cause the estates tax retunns supply eluable information on future income lax. Bs ut suddenly a great many people ; -aIbecome awane ai the tax and are itring wbether it is going ta follow ~~ninto the grave., In a few years %* etates fax,_ the level ai exemptions 4t-adinkistration .eli1kely.ý f0. - -4mome ofi- prime poitical importance.i liThis yean the Canadian Labour 7 ~ient ignored income tax and con- ~ntrated on its attention on the Estates &xAcf, caliing for major amendments d ointing ta inequities. It was sa un- *.1sua that the CLC itseli mentioned that ntlnow it had bad anly an acadcmic jtere 5t 1in the estates tax but that witb he coming ai the Canada Pension Plan Sbas assumed practical importance for té wage canner. Group pension plansi .it whicb employer and cmployee paid ADontributions (sometimes only the eni- lyer) are ai relativeiy recent orngin .d the average employce, aside inomn .vague realization that he was saving1 ~psomcthing for bis old age and for1 'lesurvivons, is only just waking up ta he fact that he may be building ani - estate that wiil interest the tax collec-i Th e Giants 0f Canada's Early Yêéirs (Olxth Of A series) Dy WALT McDAYTER lllatory hau rspatedly proven that a nation eau, only be au great as ts leaders, and the. giant strides Canada bu made hu leu thon 100 yeuru reflects thefact that we have had more thon our share ci strong Ipader- ship. Of Canadas 14 prime minis- tenu, the first, John A. Macdon- ald, la probably the. most fond- ly remembered; Macdonald znay have been a notorious op- portunist, a procrastinator, and sometimes utterly unscrupulous ln his political dealings, yet pou- tenity has merclfully forgiven him ailttus. Why? Because he was also the imoat delightfully colorful char- acter our history has produced. More ulgnificantly. however, John A. was the rlght man for the times. A compromiser and a conclllator, hi. fatherly coaxlng and wheedllng were needed te guide the infant natioa's first few faltering steps taken on her owa two flet. It is'highly unlikely, for exam- pIe, *that the Canadian Pacifie Railway would have reached the Pacific coast by 1885 had iL not been for his prompting. Without this railway, eritish Columbia would have withdrawn fromn Canada, and settiement in the prairies would have been dras- tically delayed. But it must be remeînbercud il was Macdonald who was em- broiled in the scandai that ai- most endcd in the shelving af o u r f i r s t transcontinental railway! In 1873 the Liberals proveci that he and his Quebec colleague, George E. Cartien4 IS Y~oungman s Column John A. Macdonald becaine Canada's first prime minlater befure the. nation actually exist- ed. Governor General Monck formally appointed hlm prime minister on May 24, 1887. Can.- ada did mot beeme *a nation* officlily until July 1. lied *qceMcàmpw uhn&i *from MHugh. AU"an84-àabribe LMr the weste r rmlway contract. But voters have short mnemo. ries, and though Macdonald had been forced to realga ln 1873, lu 1878lh.wua ré-elected prime minster. Rallway construction, halted ln his absence, wus re sumed.. la the period of Macdonald'& disgraee, L l b e r a 1 Alexander Mackenzie became Canadan second prime minister. Faced wlth a depresuion, lhe attempted te perk up th.e eonomy with a Iower tarif policy. Aller Macdonald and Maekeo- xie came a serles of four Con- servative prime minustera, wlth- ln a five year period. They were: J. J. C. Abbott, ffrst Canadian-born to hold 'that of- fice; John Sparrow Itompson, tirst Raman Catholic PM; Mackenzie Bowell; and Charles Tupper« who won the dubious distinction of holding office the shortest timne in Canadian histo- ry, a total of four. months. Wilfrid Laurier and his Liber- ais won the 1896 election, brlng- who introduced secret ballots la Toronto ToI.grom News service îF clections. - CLIP AND BAVE - Bell Addsl18O Phones Here Bringing Total to. 3,921 K m i J IDITORIAL COMMENT Good Samaritans - -' Sugar Est afe Tax pose, after long years of participation in a private plan the busband bas also built up a survivor benefit ai $200 a month. If the widow is 45 the value ai this benefit in tbe eyes ai tbe Rýevcnué Department is $30,000. Take another case ai a widow ai 65 wbose survivor benefit is $500 a montb. The value for tax purposes oi ber pension is $47,600. If the Canada Pension Plan survivor benefit is added ta this she is aven the $60,000 imit and pays tax. Even in the case ai pensions ai less value if there are other assets sucb as a bouse, passibly a car, a substantial life insurance policy, the estate on thîs basis can soon build up ta the $60,0 00 level. The pension value bas been 1commuted for tax purposes aven the period af 111e expectancy. There is no sucb commutation in the case ai the tax. Tbat muet be paid witbin six months. Tbe rcsult is that the bouse, on car may bave ta be disposed ai or the procecds froni the lii e insurance policy paid aven ta the state in spite ai the fact that the busband's prcmiums througb the ycars bave been subject ta income fax. In addition toa ah this the widow ii- ha-ocert±aillty oaig~sti41g out -bern.span ai expectancy. She may die witbifi two or tbmee yeàrs ai, hem husband in wbicb case tbe Revenue Department shanes the benefits witb the insumarice coni- pany since the annuity can't be passed on further as an inheritance. For illustration take the case wbere the rest ai the wîdow's estate is valued at exacthy $60,000 and in addition ta this she is drawing a sur- vivon benefif from the Canada Pension Plan. If she is aged 45 and dies a yean aiter ber busband she wili bave paid $1,800. in fax and received $769 in pension payments. Tbe Canadian Labour Congress bas a simple and apparentiy equitable solu- tion. It suggests that if tbe pension is ta be valued an the basis ai lufe expec- tancy the tax sbould be paid in instal- ments aven the same period. Ottawa officiais wbo bave examined tbis pro- posai bei are refuse ta differentiate befwcen a pension and any other asset leit in an estate. They will not concede that if the widow dies soan aiten ber busband there bas been any overpay- ment ai estates fax. One reason ion this rigid attitude is tbat civil servants are probably the worst sufierers froni the present sys- f cm and would be tbe geatest bene- f icianies of any cbange. The civil service pension plan provides a widow with bal ber busband's pension wbicb, in the case ai a number ai senior civil servants, could easily mean as rnuch as $500 a montb. They bave been ai raid ai accusations that tbey weme discrim- inating in their awn fayor. Now that the ie bas been broken by ftle CLC and applications ai the estates fax widened by the caming af the CPP they may feel tbey can take a different attitude. with ber mother, Mns. E. S. Harnden. Miss Norma Searle, Mac. donald Hall, Guelph,, with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. D . Searle. Mr. Ernie Dickens, Toron- ta, star af Toronto MarI- boras junior hockey tearn, with Mr. and Mn:. Chau. 1>0uv. J.ng relatives in Michigan. Mr. James Milligan, Ca- balt, wau Easter guest of Mr, B. Dumnas. Enniskillen: Messrs. Frank Dorland, Gardon and Francis Werry attended flhc Boys' Conference at Oshawa. Enfield: Mn. Rap }Iealy, Bunketon, vlsited Old friendo la tia vlclnlty MEMORIAL HOSPITAL WEEKLY REPORT Week af April 4-10 inclusive Admissions --- ------------ 68 Births-3 mal., 2 femaie 5 Discharges On9 Major operations .15 Miner operations ..... 31 Em.ergency treatinents ..39 VlsItlg hou"g 8.8 p.M4dahl Hie meets hem in the garclen - Mary of Magdala. 'Raboni", ber beant leaps, "IYeu are alive." "Haste, fell the neuf, and Peter." (Especially pon Peter) "How happy ho wlll b. 'Z-am, a1iv." and s pic e By Bill Smiley tate alyl vas ong hey nbs Lep- îhat fa. the if o rld, re- ing ng; hly, iud ve. ey th. Ing he ies, )n't tnd in ýel the ing as ose in- ing a ing uf- air. It's ley nre k- Por nre Ill A man who lsn't working ln only haîf à man. For the housewife, .pring in cour.- bination of the agony and thi.ecsetasy, There's the agony of choosing the. r' kt paint and wallpaper, the ecstasy of tacking the house liii. the. AUs coming down on the fold. Gandeners are bappy. Gloves oil, fbey go ouf in the back yard and joy-9 ously muck about. They squall aven the first crocus, inhale with delfght the rot- ting sfencb ai long-buried eanth, plan gioniaus gandens in the mind's eye. Golf ens are giddy witb gladness. The last sfreaks ai snow are sf111 under the pines. The course is muddy, fthc wind chilling. But the finut day fthc flags are up, thcy're out there. Yeu sec, this le the year when tbey wil ulice not, nom wili they hook. They feed if in thein bones. Anglers are snaoping the country- side, looking ion new beaver damis, checking last yean's choice spots. Open- ing day is sf111 not bere, but thcy'ro dreaming ai that first speckled beauty, caughf an the ufitcast. Merchants are optimisfic. People are caming into the store fan somcfhing besides keeping wanm. Building booms, and the carpenten, electrician, plumnber, bricklayer, feel a surge ni hop@ miter a slow winter. Where's the agony, then, If every- body is so happy about apring? We've run almost the wholo gamut, and ne- body is suffering. Wbat about tb. universify student? There are hundreds ai thousands of tbem. Tbey are chewing their nails, puiiing ouf their beaufiful bain in hand- fuis, sweating cold wifh fean. Outside beckon the sun and soIt wind. Inside beckon biear-eyed grind, despain, guilt And what about the ondinary, mid- dle-aged codgen like me? Bursif lu bebav- ing badly in the cruel winds ai ApriL. Incarne fax loamning like an iceberg. House needu p aint in g. Backyard looks like an exhibition oi Pop art. Car en Ifs laut legs. Christmnas presents net yet p aid for. 1-airlîne receding .wap4iy# Flarder and harder fa get out afiÀà ln mamning. Kids getting more difficRnft. For us, spring iu fer the birds. And you should bear the littîs stinkerg, about five a.m., juut when we're flnally falling into a sound sleep. ~for £Po ets H-e seeks out James, His brother. How consistent iu Hm love. This ane must b. convinced Ne ln alive, Behold, He lu clive, Coakln breakfast by the shor. And gnuleved hearti grasp fthe truth- "If is the'ILard," Resounding down the ages, Giad seuls join in flhc antheni: "Our Captain, Brother, Prient 18 sfill aclive." -4L 3hýt» It was Alexander Mackenzie m 'ho establ ished th. Supreme SThe Canada Pension Plan towands zh' h he nd bis employer must con- fibute wbetber tbey like if ornont bas .brougbt this possibîlity much dloser. k fb serin 500aya r maore bis widow, aiter the CPP mes ta niaturity will be entitlcd to pension ai $64.06 af age 45. This as- unes fia dependent cbiidren. The ~cartfment ai National Revenue looks ~tethis pension and calculates ifs lump umn value an the basic ai the number i4 years she may expect fa receive i. is iu an actuanial f igure ai lufe ex- ectancy f aken inom tbe gavernment nnuify fable. The capital value ai a PP widow's pension at 45 is about 14,00 ta wbich wouid be added the 500 deafh benefif. This $15,000, admittedly, 15 quite way below the $60,000 exemption she allowéd ironi fedenal fax. But sup- Ing stable governnuent back to Canada. Ibis political glant re- mained ln power until 1911. Silver-tongued and with a ra- sor-keen intellect, iL was he who led the revoit af the Dominions at tie 1897 colonial canference, when Britain tried ta establiah a central goverament to directly rul. over the whole ]Empire. Laurier.knew fMitwoi t t Brit. ain wouid dominat. th& pro. posed central govsrnment, &MK that the Empire nations Would b. deprived of Mheir har-won autonomy. Similarly, Laurier had no pa- tience with French-Canadian parochialisin. Ne ably checked the growing Quebec separatism fanned in that province by Hen- ri Bourassa. Laurier's faith in aur nation was immense and unlimîted, ex.- pressed in the oft-quoted phrase, "The nineteenth century b.. Ionged ta the United States, but the twentieth century belongs to Canada." His prediction may have been proven a bit exaggerated, but it does neflect accurately the tre- mendous pride he had for Cana. In its 1965 Annual Report, of 264,996 telephones, the in service to 4,578,000. issued Tuesday, Feb. 22nd, The greatest annual increase in its This expansion was reflerted Bell Telephone Company of history. This brings the total in Bowmanville, where a total IT'S A STATE 0F MIND Canada shows a net growth number of telephones it has of 180 telephone. were added ________________________________________to service. J. W. Lowry, Bell Spring is flot a season. It's a sta Canada mranager -:or the reg- P , iion, said that 3,921 telephones of mind. To Browning, wriitlhg mn Ital were in service here as of it was, "Oh, To Be In England, Nc In t e D M December 31, 1965. That April's There." To Botticelli, it w -wThe company's net income delicate, long-legged ladies in li * iafor the year 1965 totalled ngtonsatrn easa h a d$86.5 million, equivalent toaa ihowssatrngpalasf -- -rate of return of 6.6 per cent danced. To Beethoven, it was lam i.) t 1 ast on total capital, or $2.92 per gambolling ta the notes of the she D isant P s share. This compares to a rate hr' ie - aI~~ return of 6.3 per cent and hr' ie From the Statesman Files earnîngs per share of $2.71 in But in these parts, it's a time ________________________________________1964. After payments of divi- agony and ecstasy, depending on wi dends ta the company's 214,000 aeyuae n htyuaeu 25 YEARS AGO 49 YEARS AGO shareholders at the annual rate aeyuae n htyuaeu (April 17, 1941) (April 19, 1949) af $2.20 per share, the balance Ecstasy for little kids. Off with ti of 72* cents per share was re- snowboots, and snowsuits hurled in A unique privilege was Mr. W. E. Jewell attend- tained and used to expand and a corner. Out into the wonderful worl enjoyed by a Bowmanville ed the Executive meeting improve service. 0f Bell Can-frnsolgaothycnsrel girl now attending the Uni- on Tuesday of the Canadian ada shareholders, 97.5 per cent fo oln g hycnsacl 'versity of Toronto, recently, Hackney Horse Society at live in Canada and own 94 rnember: wading puddles, buildir when Selma Bartlett in the Caris-rite, Toronto. per cent of the stock total. sinky rafts, shooting marbies; skippin company with another stu- A jolly family gathering In 1965 the company reached ikn puswlo .Ad lve dent flew ta Ottawa to meet was held on Friday when foretmrne on revised contracts pic xng sofsyil lws. Andlve i and interview G e ne ra Mr. Win. Richards, a respect-fo he unions representing bon ot iksugsie Waladyslaw Sikorski . The ed rcsident of this town, was 30,000 employees. As a result, everywhere. Heaven. General, who is Prime Min- called home from work at wages increased substantially. It's ecstasy for the young in 10V ister of Poland and Coin- the Goodyear and ta hîs The 1965 total payroll wasFoth istmenfv otsti mander-in-Chief of the fight- great surprise was greeted $200,236,041. As of Decemnber Frtefrttm nfv otst ing farces, is in North by his famnily, gathered there «Il, Bell Canada employed 38,- can hold hands, bare-handed, on tl America to discuss with ta celebrate his 65th birth- 320 men and wamen. way home from sehool. They can har Prime Minister King and day. Master Willie West-: Capital expenditures ta im- around the girl's back door, or tf President Roosevelt plans lake, on behaif ot the com- prove and extend telephone for the post-war formation pnpeetdhsgad services amounted ta a record- corner, for an hour, talking inanitie of a Pol ish- Czechos lova k father with a nice purse ofbekn 225mlindrn jyU ntecranyte v state. Selma is associate money. 1965, including the establish- freeze to death. editor of the c'oller mag- ment af 12 new exchanges, azine Acta Victori*a Lieut. Reginaîd Jlifmn fte nrmt ra Could anybody be happier, ai Mr. John Welsh ha. re- son fla the late Rev. T. W. which had formerly been with- cockier, than the younig mathersi turned from working with Jolliffe, formerly of this out local service. pigTrm ilsatflthywe the Hydro in Ontario's town, has been in France The report also stresses the shiprin? rm girlstlast auteynw Northland. some time, having gone importance af co ns i ste n tly terpasdw h teto Mrs. E. S. Ferguson was overseas in September. good communications in the first sunny day, three abreast, pushir in Toronto this week attend- Chief Jarvis is active these non-urban areas served by Bell honest taxpayers into the gutter, ing the Ontario music days rounding up men who Canada. "In a mobile society te ipa ihums rd h Teachers' Association con- work a few weeks in the such as ours, people tend ta hydslvwthums rd h vention at the King Edward Goodyear, and then step out expeet the same high level of miracles they produced during the wil Hote]. at night, skipping their service wherever they may be. ter. They are women this spring. D. H. Burc'hill, Buwman- board bill. Chie? Jarvis In vlew of this, the company For aur senior citizens,- sprin ville, was amunlg îthe i an bagged one ln Montreal, an- mrade siginifiv.alt progress i n to rteceive liis 'wings" at No. ütlierin 1 Toronto, and lias Illjo,.r îo,,Ials de.signed to brings another kind of happiness, 1 Bonibing and Gunnery ordered the arrest of a thJji-d ext*end the aâ'ailabilit.y of quiet, deep one. They have been dicin School, R.C.A.F., Jarvis, un in Montreal. Police Magis- tirban-type telephione service witli deth ail winter. They have su Satuday. trate H-orsey will put the In non-urban areas. Business expansion Is be- screws ta such culprits whien "In the five years from- 1960 fered loneliness and pain and despai Ing enjoyed by the Glen Rae they corne before hlm. through 1964, the company That f irst balmy day af spring warxr Dairy. Due ta the purchase Messrs. Philip Tilley, How- spent $136 million on service their aid hearts and their aid bonies. It of equipment not anticipat- ard Joness, Gardon Morris, îrnprovements in nan-urban ed when the original pas- J a mesà Nicholîs, Stanley areas, and it plans ta invest a promise of 111e, renew cd, which the teurizing plant was erected Hardy, W. Metcalf, Jas. even more in the next five- need badly. srnie years ago, it is now Egerton, Percival Muirhead year period." 1 think farmers and sailors ai necessary ta construct a and Herbert Van Nest at- The report points out that wing addition ta the west. tended the Boys' Conference Individual and two-party ser- happy in the ýspring. For the former, Easter Visitor. ln Oshawa last week and vices were made available in means another eight months of bacl Mrs. R. M. Cale with her repart interestin g and help- 255 communities which previ- breaking labor with saal return. Fe nephew, Mr. Gardon Phîl- fui meetings and a pleasant ously had only multi-party the latter, it means back ta work ofte lips, Montreal. gatherini. service as the standard offer- Miss Kathleen Sisson, Messrs. J. D. Stevens, N. ing. Many lacal calhing areas duil, often dirty, and the loneiinessc Montreal, with ber parents,,I. Mtcalf and L. C. Snow- were extended and 16 exchan- absence from families. But bath ar Dr. and Mrs. E. W. Sisson. den attended the Belleville ge. converted ta dial. Mare ready for it, after being underfoot a Mr. Donald Williams, af District Friesian Breeders than 99 per cent of the coin- winter. It restores purpose to1hie. Barrie, with bis parents, Mr. Club annual sale and pur- pany' elephanes are naw dial W and Mrs. Frank Williams. chased several fine animal.. operated and conversion of Mr. Ernest Ward, Uni- Miss Vera Samnerville, Part the remaînder la planned for versity af Toronto, with hlm Perry, and Mr. Orville Hend- the near future. J o n parents, Mr, and Mrs. W. F. erson, - Fenelan Falls, were Bell Canada alsa plans to ,ï C o n WarcI. recent guests af Mr. W. H. Introduce Touch-Tane tele- Miss Margaret Hutchinson, lienderson. phone service in saine 30 addi- RN.. Toronto, with ber Miss Jenningi of Bawman- tional cominunities during EASTER mother, Mrs. M. J. Hutcb- ville visited her brother, N. 1966. Equipped with pusb but- inson. ~E. Jennlnfis, Port Hope, dur- tas- Ha Ite aiire riscs - leaves the gloom Miss Marion Warder, Tam- ing the aster holidays. dial, Touch-Tone sets wiîî And shadow of the tamb. warth, with ber parents, Mr. Mr. and Mrs. R. Arthur eventually provide a varietY' He walks past boulder, into sunlight. and Mrs. R. H. Warder. Wright, Oshawa. vislted at of new ana useful customer He is alive. Miss Evelyn Harnden, Mr. A. W. Pickard's. telephane services. Normal Schonl, Toronto,. Mrs. Fred R. Folev in visit- Q~4~ a~â*~ CANADAS CENTVRY ~AJg ~4WWUI5 ~I4~-W Durham County's Great Family Journal Est ablinh.d 112 yeorsa go in 1854 Aho ncorporettiag The. Eowmanll. News Tii. N.wcastle Jadependent The Orono News Autb~l.a a d Ee m ui hi' the Post Cul e D.t..Ottaxwa, end tu poymeal et postage la ceuh Produc.d every Wednésday by TrHE JAM PUEISHING COMPANY LIUME P.O. 'BOX 100 62e66%ga St. W., Bowmanvill., Oniarlo jOhNK M. JAMES GEO. W. GRAHAM GEO. P. MORRIS CPuELI5NAZ>YGM ANAGER BuanusMon. 9opyrlqhtcade.s o.rty ulgstes ubisa t u lb.Iage app.arinq en Iis proot. Permissionm le SapMdusela wbia eor panl nd tina«r'torii whbl.i paalerly by photographie or ellsaI ineetapol atmi à» hoobéiaomd tousIb»publilahe r aud lheprinter. Amy unauthoertud èreceurue linw. OP E8CRWTON RT $&W Yar0ctyla a4vm= $83.50 ca Yomrla the United states weq M bu ta. he .avoLd atm The Canadtiqu itateames compte adveria. la tM wi mot ho fable ter amy er t acamy odv.rdameat a Weigadvettimn ltgruquasled la wrillag hi'the adv.rtls.r hlxmss aBudut- sIgnabyIbo h.advemuttae nd wllb uck **bd à wd*%bowo aMi b' hot cm te u ae.semot.d w mot Wm lsbWtg salumt eem uec uoba lon etthe amtire met "'Ile 9103m OMMhd hi' lb. d arhuis W".l»Pue emouis Most people are familiar with the wonderful gadget knawn as "Telstar", a device ini outer space, for transmitting pictures and spoken messages from anc continent ta another, but how many oi those sanie people know about a couple ai local -youths who had, roughly, the same idea, in a much more modest fanm, thirty years ago? Their plan was, ta inf late a large rubber bail with gas, and suspend it over large gatherings such as rural fairs. Attached ta it, wauld be ampli- f iers, electrically regulated at ground level, througb whicb announcements, or speeches couid be relayed within beaning af everyone regardless of where they might be an the f air grounds. The balloon was purchased, but the would-be operators ran inta a snag when the hydrogen gas dispensers re- fused ta seli their inflammable product ta be used in this venture because the gas-bag would be havering over, and might prove highly dangerous ta, large crowds ai human beings. Thus, an ex- cellent, revolutionary idea had ta ne- main undeveloped for more than a quarter of a century. The same young gentlemen invent- ed something along the genenal idea ai an eiectric eye for automatically open- ing doans, devaid oi buman hands. As an automobile would approacb a garage door, the front wheels would pass over electrically charged steel plates which would activate a device ta raise the doon without the driver dismounting from the vehicle. During preliminary trials, everything worked satisiactorily. Then came the day ai the "officiai" demonstration. One ai the inventors barnowed a nice new car, and while the onlookers watched, with eagen an- ticipation, the car was driven at a smart pace towards the garage. It missed the essential plates, and '-nashed thnough the door because the latter had not ne- ceived the electrical message ta open up. Needes ta add, the whole front of the car was badiy smashed, resulting in anothen potentially lucrative in- dustry dying, aborning. Ana ther enterpnise "thunk" up by 1 Court of Canada in 1875, and da. this brace ai rctarded electrieal wizards,- came te naught, when they deeided te procure dew warms for sale te pista. tonial angiens, by the novel mnethoelof changing the worms' stamping gr6und with el'ectricity during their per* d of exercise on the lawn, then, wh the poor old '"woims" were in a o shock, the "worrmers» would cap re them. Things werc gaing along qutte w-ell except one hundred and ten volts wasn't quite strang enough so the boys doubled the voltage which not anly stunned the worms, but also blew out ail the lights in a nearby store whil, it was crammed with custornen. Net only that, but the wornis that wene se heavily shocked, died, and thus wene useless when placed an the iishermen's hooks - wouldn't wiggle. Even Orono youths got tangled in the electronics skein when, at a mas- querade party, one budding Edison dressed up as a docton, and in his "docton's bag", rigged up an unseen electrical device wbeneby he could shake hands with other unsuspecting masqueradens, and give themn a shock, but he quit when the darn thing back- fired, and gave him a sevene joît under his awn arm-pit. The same cbap, when attending high school, was in a group who acquir- ed an aid chicken bouse which they tunned into a club bouse, installed a. radio, and feit quite grown-up, but some girls in the sanie age bracket b. came curiaus about the Club's activities and occasionally paid the boys a visit, which annoyed the lads ta the point where they rigged up an electrical gad- get on a bench, which wouid give a mnild shock ta any sittens. One day, three girls barged in, and sat on the "hat" bench; when the> switch was f lipped, two ai the girls leaped madly into space, with loud sereeches, and disappeared through the open door, but the third female was unaffected, Ieaving the boys quitc mystiiied as te the reason until, aiter prolohged debate they neacbed the logical conclusion that she must have been insulated by wear- ing rubben panties.