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Orono Weekly Times, 27 Oct 1938, p. 7

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Mews Parade By Elizabeth Eedy A ROYAL VISIT: It is some- thing to be thrilled about that the King and Queen are coming' to Canada next year. Something that has never happened before . in our lifetime. A marvellous gesture of good , feeling between Great Britain and the United States will be their visit to President Roosevelt. In- cidentally it will give the Euro- pean dictators ample food for re- flection. Only one thing about their trip to Canada that disappoints us â€" they are not bringing' the little princesses with them. DAYLIGHT SAVING: We’re back at it again. Daylight saving and the Canadian farmer. A cou- ple of weeks ago in this column we asked to be enlightened. Why don’t farmers want daylight sav- ing? Here are two suggestions that have come in. Firstly, a farmer must wait till the dew has dried each day before he can go to work on the landâ€"if he gets up by daylight time, it means he has an extra hour to put in, waiting for the fields to dry. Secondly, since the farmer works by the sun, he finishes his chores by the sun, doesn’t get into town to do his shopping till they are done (in- advertent rhyme). If the town is running on 'daylight saving, Mr. Farmer then arrives to make his purchases just as. the stores are being locked up for the night. Very interesting arguments, those. But we still wonder how the entire continent of Europe can go on Summer Time- for six months every year, and never a sqawk from anybody? MORE BLACKMAIL: Great Britain doesn’t like Hitler’s sug- gestion that she limit her air force to one-third the size of Germany’s. Can’t blame her for not liking it, but what can she do about it ? Turn Hitler down flat? It must be remembered that Great Britain in 1935 asked Ger- many to limit her navy to one- third the size of the British, and was accepted.. If.. Britain now re- fuses to accept a percentage limi- tation in the field of air arma- ments, German denunciation of the 1985 naval treaty would be an unpleasant consequence. And the British Government heads know it. Germany could begin at once building new types of ships which would render whole sections of the British Navy obsolete. â€"oâ€"- 10,000 “VOLUNTEERS": Con- siderable cause for rejoicing- was felt in some quarters over the withdrawal by Mussolini last month of 10,000 “volunteers" from Spain. It was hailed as a peace move of the first magnitude! Not taken into account was the number of Italian “volunteers” still left in Spain (some say it touches 80,000). Again, who were the 10,000? The wounded, the in- capacitated, the no-good fighters. Fresh troops may replace them in Spain, at any moment. THE WEE... u QUESTION: What is the “Rosenberg Plan," and why is Europe afraid of it? Answer: It is a plan of cam- paign followed by Germany which calls for the Hitlerization of the Continent, the formation of a Nazi “Continental Empire" of 100,000,000 people. The plan prescribes the liquidation of Switzerland, the seizure of Silesia, the disintegration of Belgium, the incorporation of Scandinavia within the “Empire.” It claims the Baltic States, Flanders and Lor- raine for Germany. United, this empire (according to the plan) will proceed to its second taskâ€" the conquest of Russia and the road to Asia. Recovers Medal He Lost In War KINGSTON, Ont.â€"William Bellinger, veteran of the Boer War and World War, proudly displayed this week a medal he lost in France more than twenty years ago. The medal, a silver one bearing eight bars, is one of two is- sued. The British War Office recently returned it to Bell-, ringer. He received it for gal- lantry in eight major Boer War engagements. Extra Money For CM* $10 In Prizes For ike best Christmas or New Year’s Dinner Menu CONTEST RULES: 1. One entry to a household. 2. Write plan of menu, it is mot necessary to give recipes for each individual dish. ' Recipes will be accepted, for not more than three items on the menu. 3. Print your own name and address plainly. 4. Write on one side of paper only. 5. Contest closes Saturday, November 26. 6. Address your entry to Contest Editor, Room 421, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. A Prominent Dietitian Will Act as Contest Judge Prizes: First, $5; Second, $3; Third, $2. A SPECIAL PRIZE will be given for the best recipe for an individual dish. Mail Your Entry Early Forecast Bigger Tourist Traffic In Canada For 1939â€"-Travel Bureau Chief Predicts Gain Although Canada’s tourist traffic during the present season had shown a decrease compared with that of 1937, the tourist industry had, “within the last 12 months, displayed a greater resistance to the current recession than any oth- er industry being operated within the country,” D. Leo Dolan, chief of the Canadian Travel Bureau said last week. “Despite the fact that traffic this year in Canada was not as great as a year ago, 1 venture the prediction, now, that our tourist industry in 1938 will show a monetary value of approximately $270,000,000,” he said in an address before the annual meeting of the Maritime Board of Trade. More Automobiles Coming The Travel Bureau head esti- mated the decrease was about five per cent, for the first eight months of 1938 compared with the corre- sponding period of the previous year. The total of 3,019,875 auto- mobiles which entered the country this season, however, was an in- crease of almost eight per cent, over 1930. Fellow Workers Malicious males in Esther Brown’s office, Brooklyn, N.Y., persistently opened the window in 1 cold weather, turned the electric fan directly on her, and even tore out the radiator near her desk. This “atrocious, wicked, and ex- tremely criminal” conspiracy, .she complains, caused her to "catch cold and lose her ,'35-a-week clerk’s job, which she’d held for sixteen years. She is suing for $50,000. A film of “The Mikado" is being made in England. â- 6 r " S â- ## m R NOON in ONTARIO is TEA-TIM E in BRITAIN is 5 P.M. TEA TIME i»Hie OLD COUNTRY That is why you read TODAY'S # Old Country news-the SAME DAY / in the TORONTO DAILY STAR* The five-hour difference enables the Toronto Daily Star to receive, sum- marize and print, the same day, the news from England, Ireland, Scotland and the Continent. That's why sub- scribers to the Toronto Daily Star read the news from the British Isles the same day it happens. Do you know that over two hundred and ten thou- sand people buy the Toronto Daily Star? More people read The Star than any other Canadian newspaper!

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