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By Lill-iaca MfontýgOmery Mitchell Joe vient into thie elevator, of Sal- Ii's apartment building, settling bisg coat on is shoeulders wittb a sat- isfied smnIle. After al!, one mniglit as well li've lu- style! Sallie probably paid no, more for hier room in this building than Rita did ini that walk- UP fIat ,wherc s'he bad roomied for three yairs.. "Rt s a good sort," he told hm ~,Clf with ainote of alog9y even ilu thie tiouýglit. bt ale-athere's a girl wvith dash teber. Sallie lba.d rusbced in witl a wrap over beir armi: "Oh, Joe, Fim s- glad yo happened in. The.-,y'r e th3rowin-g a dance Over at Kity's 'anàd-" "Buit, say, atter thie way l've worked al day, Salie, -1 abscolu-tel.y cani't dance al iigbit! -! ust hougbt we'd have a quiet evenjing anid-anid talk-" He did nioi go on tao saýy thtat he hiad wanted te talk over srlous poblems with bler such as th)e burning question as tâ whlethler two côuld live as cbeaply as onle. "A qiet evening?" she repeated. ~Woin beaven 's namne wants a qiet eveing?" Her- piquant little face ulpturnled to bis, Joe allewed bisef t h buirried from the room n)21d down in the elevator "Howv far 's it to tis-Kitty s? W7as that thé name of the girl?" askede, C Sallie nodded '-You -met ber îa inonitb ago-the samle Iigbt you meCt mie, Joe. Oont youL remember ber. -agirl tb "cde(j hair-na wave at ail and long green arig? "Imnot goinig,"ý said joe, stub- Sall'e !looked uIp at hlm, !ber foot cri th, runnling-board of thle taxi. 'O-cyon, are," she sýaid. "Yes3 .-youareJoe Marsha(lll" "htsthé adIdress?' Joe asked He repeated it to the cab driver. HI-ow mchi-abouit?' aisked Joe. "Bouýtt fouir-sixty," aniswered the yWian. Joe handed hlm a five-dollar bill. -Keep the chiange," lie said, closing ti- door. FNe tured down thle treet in Rta's direction mcblanîcally. Fivýe dolrs is lunch miloney for daya Froni the sanse and wisdom behind Riîta's eyes, ha might aven learn goodness, too. goana. !He sbrugged; aftor ail, a ici' low could flot expect to take out a girl like Salle withauit spendiug. He had thouglit that lie would visit witb ber ail evcn*ing as lie bad docnc so fteatRita', Lut Ibis girl-strictly miodem, ha told hiniseif, Ne bad thougilit ta buy a box ai candy for. ber aud this was yat in bis pocket. It was a fancier box than ha bad evar takeni Rit,-j hatlhau-glit. Rita herseli openaed the door. "Hell,"die said, wa-rml.y. "Y wO'asn'texpecting you, Joe. Nol- camne back bere ta the dining room. Mrs. MaIson had to*go ta the dan- ist's aid IPm taking care. of the youngsters. Mary is at ber home- "Maybe Mary'd like sanie of Ibis canidy 1, broughLt," said Joe. "Anid 1 was wonidering, Rita, about- abouit that furnàireý we were taik- ing abot-»" Naw t was Joe's turn ta flush. "Arc yon propasing 10 ber?" de- mauded Mary. The kid naeded a spauking., But lie maagiltagel out, "Aniy ah- jectians?" 11 was bopiuig thaut Rit'd marry a godo in ani, ratorîed this surprising youngsfer. Joe etared ai Mary. Then,, faint- h, ha 'began ta sec the bumor oh th iuainn e 1 iooke,ýcd drc îito Rt' eycs. hi themî , he thouiglit, ha miiglit h godiok ing. And frani the sense and wis- dom belind Rita's ýyes, lbemight ave lamn goo-dness, too. "Ys," haid ýý ta the younigster, dlirctlýy answering bier que-stiotn, "aIanproposing." The End Ontari o Hydro Supplies Additional Power for Mining- Cam ps-This is a gener-ai view of the cpower hiouse at Ear Falls wh lere a fourth unias be broughti nto production, )oosti ng total capacity to 25,000 h.p. Ear Falls serves mïiing -camps, Siou1x L-ookout, Dryden and othecr commUflities in owsen Ontario., Canadian Scientists Seek Magnketic Pole ,Not long ago a group ai natural scienlists fiew from !O-ttawa and beaded for the. Arctic Archiipelago. Their purposa was ta cl-art the exact position of the Magn-etic North ae Duriug tbe past docade the posi- tion. af titis pole, ait which, the needie of a magnotic compass ai-. ways points, bas been elu ive. ,- Before that, ils site appeared to bc as definilely detormined as that' ai the geograpbic paie itseii, It was an the west sida of Boothia Pen- insula, the neck af land Ihat juts juta the archipelago irani the Arctic mainîand ta the nort w'estaf Hud- son Bay It would naw appear that the manîcpale bas sbifted in sanie incomprebensible way by itsaif or that eariy caîcuistionis wera aui, for it is na longer there. LasI ume an expeditian irorn Otta-wa - "Operation Paico" - l0' cated the pale in the nortb-western part ai Prince af Wales Island. The igeneral arca lu wbich experts have naw placed it is aboutI 200 miles fron itis formeýr location on Boothia Peninsuua. lui recent years aI least tbrea different positions bave heeni suggested for it, and au idea was advanced thal thora might be more than aona conter af magnetie attrac- tion. Vite abject oi tbe preseut, survcy is ",fa determina witb greatar exact- ness lte position ah the Northi Mag- netic Pale." Il wilI aiso, it, is stated, complote the first reliabla magnetic charts af Canada's Arctic regions. Magnetic observations will ha taken froni saverai islauds iyiug betwean 70 and 80 degrees nortb latitude and between lte 100 and 125 meridians aiý west longitude. Instruments designed by Ithe leader ai the magnetic Party Paul H. Scr- son, wbo taok part lu tbe expedition last yaar, will ha used la assisl in the cbarting of the pol's position. Maguetic compasses neyer bave provad an inifailibie guide ta the polo. Auywbere near it, magnetie campasses are erratic and unreliable. The gyroscope is tbe only really satisfactary compass for navigatian in Hudson Bay. Her Version His car and ber car met itead- an. Bolli drivers got ont aud, witb Ibat fine caurtesy s'0 characteristie ai malorists naowadays, bath bagan ta apologize profusely. "«I'm sarry," said tae woman; "It was aIl my fauit." "Not at ail, madani," tbe man re- sponded with. a gallant gesture; "I was ta blama myself." "But I insist the fauît was mine. 1 was ou your sida aifte iad." "That may ha truc; but, my dear madani, 1 amr esponsible for the collision. I saw you camning blocks away,-aud 1 bad ample apportunity *Mbat stetLk better be tender, for 2?m bavinUW jeu and oir Wu* ta oky houa. for' aimer lm4ht." Last week, ln this coiluniin, 1. bad souiething to say abot cobalt de- ficiency in th su,0 and about wbat it could me.-n in its cffect on the, heaith and wel-being of your cattie and sheep. Howc;ýver, the îmi-prt- ance of thiscommion minerai1 is Sc vital-and of esuch recent wide rec- ognition-that a litIle mlore. on the same uine mligbt rnot be out of the way. It was nmore than hlaif Pa century ago that agricuitural scientisîs be' gani the îinvestigationis wbich fin- aliy resulted iii h great discovcry. It al started "Down î ýtnder" wbere huge areas in Australia and New Zealand were fo-und te be turning cattie and shiep-pkut ont ta graze ontbmswy but surely sick. This îillness wats variouisly cailed bush sickness-, coastal disease, and "the knne" Aftor considerabie investigation the root of the trouble was dîaignosed as lack of iron ln the sili, causing ani-ca. Buit then ilwas fouLnd tbiat-whIiie ant addedc supply of pure iron did nu good-' impure iron turned the trick. After many oxperimeiits it was discovered that tis miracle-working "impur ity" was cobalt. It is only within the past ten years or so, however, that a great deal lias been donc along the liuýes of minerai deficiency conî this cont- iriet; but already it is being bailed as one of tbe most revoliutionar.y discoveries in the entire bsoyof agriculture. One ofni te most strikirtg of mnany cases repjortedl comes froni a sec- tion of Wisconsiu heesbecep owners 'had bcen hvn terrible iuck w'itb thbeir fiocks. Losses of 2C, to 50 per cent of ;amswre flot unlcommiion. -One m1-an saw i/ s1 fiock--wbich mbored 1300 alter the lambing season iu tbe sPrinýg af 1944-dwiudle ta less than, 200 by the fali. At first parasites werebamd but careful te sts anid treatmentfa proved that it wasn't tbose para- sites whicb miade the sheep se au- emic-ioolçing. They just badn't any apptit-woid,'t at-and se be- came wcakened ta sucli en extent that tbey were easy prey, for pnecu- monia, parasites, or anytbing that came along. But as soon as thc animais were supplied witb cobalt, te difference was realiy am-aziug. Death lasses in the same farmer's !lock during the next, pasture seasn-1945- were reduc.ed ta na)thing, anrd al but tbree of that crap of lambs brought top- market price. And sui- ilar resuits Ihave beenre rparted fram sixteon differentWsosi coun tics. The value of sufficient cobalt ta Cattle lias bea -prven .iuteas con- clsvi.even iffloît quite v50 cx- tesey s Ià has been wih sheep. And t best part of it is tlhat sup- plyiug this vital! necessity is bath ceasy and ch-eap, as-,inerahized isait ig beciu,ýr-g availabla ta famrmars zt fittIe more than, the priCceaf reg- lastcsafit And as anc widecly known animai-nutritionist puts it- "It's- the best insuiranice l knowi", Of course there are mnany atreas where the nectssary minerais, in- ciuding cobalt, arce suppiied by the natural pasturage. In sncb Places, of course, no addlitional am-ounts would be, require-d. Buat farmers- no matter whec tbey live-who-1 are flot fuliy satisfied with thec way ýtheir cattie and shicep are do- ing, miglit be wcil adývisecd to look into, this matter of cobalt realiy thoroughiy.. And mentioning the word "u surance" a couple o& paragraphis aga remindcd me of someithing cisc it wouid be weli for al farmiers- and ail other homec-owners too-to givesnme thoughit tùa .C lt' te mîat- ter of fire insurancc-and No, !Î11 niot trying ta sdi .you a poliey. Aýwf-ul Toil Taken .~y odem Warf are If anytbing cani possibly bring home to '0tho eople of Ibis Continent the julil horrors af nodcYru warfare, ;t is thbe report nthie cost aI1 the1 Second World War by Ille Re vu.1e Du roit, of Geneva. Airigta tIhe estirnate-s of the Swiss journial. bumaniii oss vwas 7,000,000 iv- moreihian six tuies the poplation ofCaaa Somle 32,000,000 m1en1 were killed aon tIbebattlefields; 26,- 000,1000j men, womeni and chuîiidren were mutrdered in conicentration campsj and 20,000,000 persans were kîled by air bominlgs. As for mnaterial loss, the figure ,is beyond tIbe imagination of mnosl people. It is estimiated at$350, 000,000-about ten limes lte value of ail gold] cxtracte-d from Ihe Earth since the days af the Pharalms Add 10 'Ibese costs tbe miserty oc' casioned ta illions-, during the war, the 15,000,000 ta 210,000,000red- cd destitute, anid tbe cou-ntless moral aud physical wrecks left aover as a legacy, aud il is niighit-ma,-rish 10 îhink1 about ibe possibility af a- allier outbreak. The Asiatic aclepliant bas a dis- like for strong snlight and lives lu thene forest during tlie hot F.O-RlI. Q. SONG QUIZ Here arce somie questions. ail based on weli-known songs -- sowe- kaýtýiwn tat you shoulldn't thave ainy tobe ansýwerin-g tbemi.Afr yo'efinishied yoiücani cbeck It the correct aniswvers whicb wiil be foud pside dwnbelow. .What lis thie title of the sanig whosechorus begbna "Ust a sn at twilight"? 2. In what famous waltz do you "h-ear sweet msic softlyiy saing love yu" 3. Who was taken homne fro Aunt Dinab's quiitNg party? 'l. on atriver CdO the old f olk, 5Wbtsog begins "Seaed one day at thle organ, Iws er1ad k et1 t eae"? C6. H-ow is theliast rose ai surmer T , l]uxiat song does th,,e second verse begin "I sent telte arosy hymuii was compirosed becauise anl or- ga1i roedown 11and a siple1tue had to be compoirsed for guitar a-c- compaiment? ". What do the herald angels ing? 10. ýHow does the song LONG LONG AGO begin?. il. lu the song jINGLE BÈ-] LS one person 15 mentioned by name. WhV1o is b-rshie? 12. What uÉlie of dayý was it wben a youtb bearing a anner passed throunlgh an i Alpfine village*? M. What was thýeccptinof "darlinig ClemYen1tinýe's" fthler? Il. %Wbat Song begis-iïn Eng- 1îlsh-witb "Somie thlink thewod is miade for finln,' rol -ad se, do J? Aniswers Q-W IP-L, '01 uus 10 mDN a UTL lIM ýÀ[110DINT01 ,iUucJ'L :muole buluoo1g 'q :paoqj ;1-1 9 Brighit Boy Then there wvas 'the 5schionlk) whio was as1ked to wvrite a sentnc conitaîing the word "in1tense": wrote: "W e peoplego 1 à!to 4---Y thley sleep intenlse.", One of a series of aderism tsintri eo those Canaidians in the srieoft he public