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WHAT GOES ON IN THE WOULD iy Nor man Blair Mr Great Britain In London it is being whispered that there's even a chance of the King abdicating in favor of the Princess Elizabeth -- and that His Majesty's illness is much more serious than was at first given out. There is a real danger of his losing one or both of his legs. Both legs are affected by the disease--called thromboangiitis--which causes a continuous contraction of - leg arteries and obstructs the blood supply to the feet. The greatest peril fa that this supply may be altogether tut off, causing gangrene. It has been revealed that the King was first afflicted as far back as last October. While shooting at Sandringham he remarked on the numbness of one of his feet. Passing by a stone wall he kicked his boot against it and was surprised to Snd that he could feel no sensation. But he delayed letting his doctors know about it, and insisted on making several tiring public appearances late in October. His last such appearance was when he walked for two hours, sometimes over ploughed fields, at a Farm Engineering Show. Just before the royal birth, doctors were visiting him frequently, the crowds gathered outside the Palace imagining that they were there to see the Princess. Every effort is being made to make King George take plenty of rest, but he's a stubborn patient and it's said he has even refused to give np smoking. From time to time he has visited the royal baby, and he insists on keeping up with his work, such as carefully scanning all state papers before signing them. Just how it will all come out nobody--even the physicians--can do more than guess. But millions, in all parts of the world, when next they sing "God Save the King," will do so with more fervor and meaning than in the past. In the meantime other members of the Royal family --including Prince Philip--are taking over the scheduled' engagements of His Majesty. Japan It isn't many months since certain United States interests--the Hearst papers especially -- were boosting General Dauglas Mac-Arthur as the next President of the United States. Judging by he General** most recent actions. Americans may feel themselves lucky that they escaped such a fate as MacArthur acts pretty much as auch dicators as Mussolini and Hitler once did. In other words, what he says goes. As supreme commands in Japan, MacArthur was the sole reviewing authority on sentences passed on S5 Japanese war criminals. He confirmed all of these in a memo calling his action an "utterly repugnant" duty, and urging the Japs to mark the seven hangings with a day of prayers of peace. But just what that day was to be, MacArthur wasn't saying. Reporters were barred.as witnesses to the executions, and even personal appeals to the general, asking that the bodies of the executed men be returned to their families went unanswered. Of course, those condemned to death included former Premier Tojo and several high ranking Jap military men. One cannot help wondering whether--had the executions been those of common privates, the General would have acted in quite auch an "up-stage" manner. Some Juicer!--If you plan to iold open house this New Year's,* how about a "fruit twicer" like this. It will take a pretty big house to accomodate it though, because the *juicer" is really a 60-ton needle valve which will help rontrol the flow of millions of gallons of water. Not A Worm, But A Kiss--This "early bird"--a pet canary owned by Alice Simpson of Winnipeg, gets a "Good mowiing" kiss from the family spaniel. The dog seems unafraid, and vice-versa. Dog's, name, by the way, is "Manitoba Red Queen" which is- why we omitted the name of the Province after "Winnipeg." w.A SixbitG: otic '"The most outstanding thing about Canadian - foaled horses," spoke up a trainer of Hibernian ancestry, "is that they do continually a-beating of one another." Sometimes, when on a Monday morning we scan the National Hockey League weekend results, we cannot help thinking of that opinion. The boys "do continually be a-beating of one another" and no mistake, and the form reversals-- sometimes overnight -- would be highly shocking if they occurred on the race track. But, of course, in hockey nobody pays any attenion to such things. With the scramble stuff they call hockey nowadays, anything may happen--and usually does. The way the schedules are arranged--so as not to miss any of those highly lucrative Saturday and Sunday crowds--isn't what you might call conducive to formful playing. And when, recently, the Maple Leafs had to play no less than four games In the space of five days -- we'l, what could you expect? Those same Maple Leafs still seem to be--rat this time of writing --to be suffering slightly from too much success in the past. They can't seem to get out of their minds the fact that they were world champions for two years in a row, and that their mere reputations should be enough to make some of these "Johnny-come lately" outfits throw up hands and say "Uncle." This the opposing clubs just plain refuse to do -- the upstarts! -- with the result that many loyal Maple Leaf fans, those of the radio variety in particular, have been going around since the season opened, wearing a slightly dazed and bewildered expression. However they're probably doing a lotof unnecessary worrying. Taken on mathematical percentage alone, it's easier to get intp the National playoffs than it is to stay out of them; and and we have no doubt that they'll be there or thereabouts when the real shooting starts, they're too good a club--with too much reserve strength in back of them to be in any real danger of elimination. Still, when playoff-time arrives, we feel that the Leafs are in for much stronger opposition than they met last year, or the year ->e- That Detroit club looks as if it would cause any of them plenty of grief, and Les Canadiens and Boston Bruins can neither of them be left out of your calculations. And as long as Roy Conacher and one or two more of the Black Hawks last there's even a possibility of the Chicago team being up there st season's end--which would doubtless be the biggest shock Windy Caty folks received since Truman K.Oed what-was-his-name? In the meantime--or so they tell us, as we do not often have a chance of hearing him in person--Foster Hewitt remains in good form and voice. And so long as that is the case,, what more can the millions of long-distance M.L. fans wish for? So long as Foster can keep up that pitch of excitement--so long as he can sound as though the Leafs have a chance, even if four goals behind and with ;four seconds to go-- all is well with those who believe that big-time hockey is an exclusively Saturday night affair. There are plenty of them, too, more power to them. In fact if we ercised the greatest influence in Canadian hockey during the past couple of decades, it wouldn't be a star player such as Syl Apps we'd name; it wouldn't be an owner such as Conny Smythe; it wouldn't be a coach such as Dick Irwin or Jack Adams. It would be Foster Hewitt-- the voice of hockey--whose word-pictures of the game may lean slightly to the sensational, but who has built up for the Leafs a following that is probably unique in all the world of sport, with the exception of the Notre Dame Football Team. that anywhere would be a :, but t for i Doi team representing what is probably the most-disliked city in Canada-- Hogtown!--well, it's no wonder our vote wouldgo for Foster H. as the outstanding hockey figure of the year--any yearo We never heard him broadcast a chess game; but we'd bet he could make it sound as though the ringsiders were hanging on the ropes with their elbows. The Winner!--After a one day bloodless revolution a Venezuela military junta seized control of that oil-rich nation. Former Defense Minister Chal-baud will serve as President, the army announced. SALLY'S SALLIES Protected by Law Moose do Comeback It's odd to reflect that the lordly, heavy-antlered moose, once the boldly through the woods--right j a*,i'\v;i'!i'v" p;ist red-jacketed hunters with their j ery. t«. as one great bull moose did the • other day, and romp about in a man'» garden while the house-holder helplessly says "Shoo" and wishes the ungainly visitor with the misguided sense of humor would go fact, did go away finally, but halted in the middle of a street and brought traffic to a standstill while it figured out which direction was back to the woods. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING . Protected By Law Moose can be indiffeftnt to humans these days because they have ■ been protected by law in New Brunswick ever since 1937, and no one seems to know it better than the animals hemselves do. At that time, the loss of life caused by hunter's rifles and the tick had seriously thinned out the moose population. The surviving animals were retreating away from timberlands where extensive lumbering operations, had destroyed much of the natural cover. Food was harder for them to get, because of the ravages of plagues, and the decrease in the number , of beavers meant fewer dammed-up streams and lily ponds for the moose to browse in. Predictions were heard on all sides that, like caribou, which were seen in herds of ISO to 200 in New Brunswick during the last century, moose would soon be extinct as far as that province was concerned. So moose-hunting was stopped. Since then, year by year, the huge creatures have been making a slow but steady comeback. About three years ago a census taken by game wardens during the Winter, when moose are concentrated in "yards," estimated there were about 7,720 in New Brunswick. This scounds like a lot, perhaps--but actually it is less than half the number of deer shot each Fall in the province. Last year the annual report of the Department of Lands and Mines commented with satisfaction that the moose population was continuing to especially in the northern ■ntral areas. Father of Railways The lives of millions of people all over the world have been influenced by the life and work of a Northumberland pit-boy, George Stephenson, the centenary of whose death was celebrated this year, Stephenson's first job was underground, and he would not read till he was eighteen, but before his death at Chesterfield, when he was rich and successful, he had ensured great and lasting fame by his invention of his steam locomotive, the Rocket, forefather of the great locomotives of today. His first money was earned by the princely sum of twopence a day, but in his spare time he made clay engines and used hemlock for SEWING MACHINE PARTS all Makes We Convert vour Ola TreadJ lo Electric. 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The'little cottage at Whilan where he was born .'s to be bought for the public and may possibly become a Stephenson museum Stephenson's was a wonderful example of the success story. No triumphs can have been better deserved than those of the "father or railways" and they were won by hard work and perseverance allied to genius. But no one ever carried himself more modestly in the face of world wide fame. MODERN MAIL ORDER guaranteed refund SPECTACLES from I SAWMILLS $295.00 UP hairdressing ' ANYTHING" YOURSELF f FETHERSTONAUGH * Company. Pat. Langfleld Drive, Buffak ^ t<YOUR FIRST ROLLB 20c SAFES J.6CJ.TAYLOR LIMITED TORONTO SAFE WORKS HARNESS & COLLARS Farmers Attention -- Consult your nearest Harness Shop about Staco Harness Supplies. We sell our goods only through your local Staco Leather Goods dealer. The goods are right, and so are our prices. We manufacture in our factories -- Harness, Horse Col-" lars, Sweat Pads, Horse Blankets, and Leather Travelling Goods. 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