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on Nr A FI od i a al en st Shum et The man, who was about the same . said, "We were so young , , you you were the most beautiful thing laughed, his voice decp and reso- nant, "And you're still pretty nice!" They "were each these memories brought up, Finally AN SIAR NATO : BARAT OME LIRR VE ER es ATR AN TRE RRR SEDRALL SALSA SNR RE SE 08 ORT SRY By JOHN ROWLEY They were sitting on a bench in the park, the man and the woman, and the sun, shining through the pattern of leaves and branches above them, formed a network of light and shadows almost like sone gossamer fairy lace. The woman was about thirty three or four, blonde with dimples, and a wide, good humored mouth. age, dark with .good features and graying hair, leaned towards her. "Do you rementbe,, Jean, the first time we kissed?" he asked tenderly. The " girl laughed a little and there was a faint haze back of her eyes, "How could 1 forget," she and shy! | didn't know what I would say if you asked me . . . and I was on pins and needles for fear wouldn't. They were good days, George, Happy days." LJ * * George reached over and patted her hand. "They were," he said. "They were wonderful days and 1 was so much in love with you, . , . It spoiled my appetite! To me down to earth," He ever come silent for 'a moment, "Well, goodby, Jean," he said. thinking the thoughts that "Do you school the man laughed again. remember our last high dance?" out ovér the green expanse of the park. "The man, -lost-in- thought, gazed _ gasped. buildings rising out of a sea of bil- lowy gren, but he wasn't seeing any of that. Instead he was seeing a tall, old fashioned building in a 3mall town a long way from the city. There was a blare of music com- ing from the building , . . dance music, a number popular at the time. He saw couples.getting out of cars and some arriving on foot. Inside the huge floor of what was the gymnasium swelled and heaved with couples packed close together, He remembered the laughter and the music and something came into his throat and he wanted to cry. The woman sensed it too and she put a slender, graceful hand on his arm, . » v, ha "Do "you remember' that danee . .. our graduation dance? I can see you now. You had on a light blue evening gown that came all the way to the floor and you wore a corsage of some kind of white flow- ers. The light in your hair made it look all gold and you were the most beautiful creature in the world," She laughed, entered into the spirit of the thing, "And Mr. Weeks, the assistant principal, asked me to dance and I let him have onc dance . after all, he was the assistant principal." "And after the dance," he went on. "The rest of -the crowd went down to cat, but you and I went to the little lunch counter around the corner and had some coffee and afterwards we walked home, Jt was exactly three blocks away . . . I think I can remember every step .. . every depression in the side walk. And when we got to your house we stood on the steps a long time, not saying anything, just looking at the night |, , and every- thing was golden around us." * » * He paused for a moment, staring straight ahead. "And then you said you had to goin , . . and you kissed me, . .." He laughed agam and turned to look at the woman beside him.* "1 floated liome on a cloud that ~night!" : ---She---smiled-and- they sat there, silent, for a time, contemplating the memories they had conjured up out + of the past. At last they got up and the man looked at the woman beside him. and smiled. - "Welt; goodby, Jean -he---said--14-- was wonderful . seeing you . again, but ri have to be runmng along now. I'm supposed to micet my wife in front of the Metropolitan in about 10 minutes." She looked "at her. watch and "Me, too," she exclaimed. "Why, it's almost five o'clock and I haven't finished my shopping yet." I'm afraid my husbdnd's supper will be late tonight. Goodby!" They hurried off across the park ° Far off he could. see tall ix With London's dustmen on strike, the sity's ) [ places from which the refuse wis collected. Carts, like that, pictured abové, manned by volunteer crews, made rounds of the hospitals, ignoring dverflowing garbage bing o other buildings. in opposite directions! hospitals were the only On The Home Front RE » LOOK, AT HIM YOU'D NEVER THINK. HE USED To: BE A RACE HOSS | By C. Kessler WELL, } DUNNO, | useg To Be ny " architect, "offer X Grr 2d 1947 Pontiac--A striking character-study is this photo of «44 0 Jint Pontiac, great-grandson of Chief Pontiac, mighty 18th century Ottawa Indian warrior of the Michigan wilds. Although 95 years old, he still hunts, fishes and does all his own chores at his home, even to wood-cutting. 80 Displaced Persons Arrive In Britain to Start New Life Half a gale was blowing the rain clouds 'eastward, and the at- tacking sun of spring darted in. and out .like a fencer's sword, "as 80 women came ashore at Tilbury, on London River, to set foot for the first time on British soil, writes the London correspondent of The = Christian "Science Mbnitor. 8 There --was--no---ceremony-- of -- greeting, Only a few officials met them, welcomed them, and guided them to their night's resting place .--no fashionable hotel; but a dor- mitory in a London County Coun- cil hostel. So they came to England--80 womén without a country, 80 women with memoriés they hope they can forgét--80 displaced per- sons from the camps of Europe." They are the vauguard of 3,000 who will come to these shores by May 5. And the 3,000 themselves are the vanguard. of 100,000 ex- pected this year. Most of the 80 once were citi- zens of Baltic countries to which they cannot or daré not return. This one on¢é was a teicher in a village school! that one was an the other a concert singer. : Now they are to cook and sew and scrub floors and help prepare hostels for others. 7. Seeking Jobs They are coming to England to give their help to England during . its time of difficulty in exchange for a job, a roof, a good wage and new hope. They decided to come to Eng- land after reading notices posted in displaced persons camps. These notices were 'very official, rather cold, and plainly honest. : They set down Great Britain's to volunteers. The D.P.'s were told they would live in camps or hostels, They would have the same. rations, the same wages, dnd the same Hours-of work as British workers. ex] hey also were told: "Werkers: will - enter Great Britain . for an initial period of 12 months, sub- ject to good behavior and to the specific condition that they un- dertake only employment selected by the Ministry of Labor. Among the first- 80 was Velfa Maurins. She was rather sad. She had been - married - three -days be- -fore to another displaced preson. He was landed that same day with 60 other men at Hull, and she. didn't know when. she would see him again, Families Separated * For they were all 'told - that while every. effort would be made to find married" couples work fo- gether or close at hand, there © in Berlih, could as yet bé no guarantee. Whole families could come over, _but they were told it was unlikely they "could be "accommodated in the same building or even in the same district, The 80 pioneers understood this, - for they had been told about the housing problem here: | ____If there is_no hint in the official" work "or - instructions that good good will can lead to British citi- ~ enship or "permanent home, they believe in England and their belief permit them to read between the lines, . Their thanks for the present and their hopes for the future were clearly implied in a simple' phrase by Dr. Maia Zirk. Her husband once was a flourishing barrister, and now has 4isembaked at Hull to be a store clerk, 'She herself, forgetting her doctor's degree, will cléan floors, Th "It is not a very high 'price for freedom," was what Dr, Zirk said. British Officer's uest For Birds eads to Arrest rd The New York Tintes in a Berlin" dispatch said that Brig. W. R. N. Hinde, British commandant jn Ber- - "| lin; ~was" arrested recently on a 'charge of spying on an girfield. in the Russian zone, but was eventu- ally released after questioning. -It was all a case of .mistaken identity and a vigilant sentry, the Times reported, ' Hinde, an ardent ornithologist, was taking advantage. of a sunny spring, day. to pursue his hobby in the woods near the Russian zone where there is a large number of bitds, He changéd info civilian clothes; armed himself with a pair of binoculars and began walking through thé "woodéd 'countryside. A Soviet army sentry challenged' him, "I arh looking for birds," said the British commandant, »"You are looking at odr airfield," retorted the sentry, Lay £ The Times then quoted Hinde as' saying: "Uttér rot, my dear fellow. I ani' Brigadier Hinde and I have not the sliglitest interest in count: ing your planes. I am looking at irds and you are frightening them away, dash it" . : : ""The- British "officer "was whisked away to the Soviet Kommandatura A phon call was put through to Maj.-Gen, Alexander G, Tikov, the Soviet comtnandant, the Times said, : What does he look like?" the newspaper said Kotikov asked: When he had been told, Gen! Koti- kov shouted: : : "For God's sake apologize and turn him loose; that is Btigadier Hinde." : -- \ - and costs only $130, "receiving set is mounted on the Canada is, spending more and more on the weather, but still does not seem able to do anything about it, --Brandon" Sun. Clock Watchers ; © Fifty-three per cént of office . employees have visual problems, Too much. watching the clock? - --Hamilton Spectator, A' Rally: Is. Needed: General Charles, de. Gaulle is de- finitely back in politics, Having: an- nounced himself as leader of 'a new "alignment he calls' the Rally of 'the French Peoplé, + May He prove able to rally thefti rirore than' most parties have done in the recent past, y -- Brantford Expositor, It Paid It is said that Henry Ford never objected to the jokes which people made about his car so long as they said something about it; Advertis- ing, he learned, was better than silence, --Lethbridge Herald. - Lots of Hard Work Net income of Canadian farmers reached last year a record figure for all time--$1,267,400,000. A very great deal of hard work went into that 'substantial achievement. --Ottawa Journal Device Will Keep Pilot From Flying Into Mountains Such a succession of flying acci- dents of this type developéd a few months ago that grim jokes began to be made about mountains' re- fusal to duck from the path of . blind-flying airplanes, says the Sault Daily Star, Now the noted pilot and designer, Howard Hughes; has eliminating these shattering crashes of irrestibile force against im- movable objects, ~ * * * The Hughes gadget is a small, simple radar Warning, soon to be _ installed in all' Trans-World Air- come up with' a device which he thinks will go a long way toward | VOICE OF THE PRESS x ------------ ite Problem Too Big Wise Words "It is high time we stopped try- ing to get along with Rugsia," Jay N. Emerson is quoted' in Kiwanis Magazine, "It is time Russia began to try to get along with us." ~--St, Thomas Times-Journal. » Defined A gossip is one who tells you all the fiews that's fit to hint. Ns --Kitchener Record . Chinese Inflation In Shanghai, China, the municipal government has outlawed $100 bills, following the issuance of new $10,- 000° notes. The smallest bill cir- culating there will now be $500, which is worth about four cents in U.S. .morey. - That's inflation== when a $100 bill is a worthless nuisance, , --XKingston Whig-Standard. Whistler Was Shrewd ne of Whistler's rejected paint- , ings was accepted later by an a t gallery when he submitted it upsio\ down, = --Coronet, American Royalty ¢ Mrs. Jones, a Londen lady, was, proudly discussing her new Ameri- can son-in-law with a neighbor. "My Gwendolyn has done very well 'for herself, I must say," ghe boasted. day a young girl American lord." "An American lord? Why, I ain't ever 'eard of such 'a thing in>all my: born days!" * 3 "4 "1 wotilldn't tell you a' lie," said marries an 'Mrs. Jones. "Ain't you ever 'eard- of the American 'ousing shortage? That'st why: Gwendolyn's husband! is" so hoity-toity. He's a real American lord--a landlord!" thingd FAST RELIEF fram / HEADACHE. "ony 25°F DRVGSTOR ES Z ONLY lines planes; "which Hughes thinks is "foolproof", but subject to still' fur- ther development out of practical éxperience. Among the most strik- ing features of the device, a refine- ment of wartime radar equipment, are that it weighs otly 16 pounds. A combination: transmitting and ! underside 'of the plane." Two small antennae on. port and starboard fol pulses at the rate - of 40 a' second in all directions except back- ward, Travelling at the.raté of 500 feet in one millionth of a second, the pulses bounce back from any . object they strike and actuate a warning light and signal bell, - * * * Present equipnient is_reégulatéd to warn the pilot when' he is 2,000 feet 'and again at 500 feet from any ob- ject. The procédiire for the pilots ~ when the lights glow 'and the bell' rings is to pull the aircraft up intg a 180-degree swing has been made. . The plane has just flown over the rearward course anid the pilot knows there are no obstructions there, . The: 500-foot warning light and proaches to a landing field in bad weather. . If the plane has not brok- en out of the weatlier at 300. feet, the device will tel] the pilot accur- ately that he is that far above thé= 'ground and He can pull up'ahd go to an alternate field, * * * Hughes recéntly - took néwsmen on a flight over rugged mountain terrain; in which he flew in and ot of tight little valleys, heading his big four-engine plane straight at mountain peaks until the warning. . "device flashed and sounded, then ivcreasing power and pulling sharp. ly up and around in a 180-dégree tirn, ; : n He is confident that the device "will be of great assistance in ef- dent which; received so much pub- licity last-lyear." HEMORRHOIDS 2 Special Remedies by the Megéa Pifé Remedy No. 1 fs Protrudin| Bilin ie. endl old In Tobe, ilk ia Remedy N 0. 2 is for External Itchi: al nl cr le ot Jit, and is f only, P Irder by or Fra Drasyist. : ee sides of the plane send out powér- ers of Mucca Ofntwieht | "a climbing turn and 'continue until" | bell also are for use in-blind apf _ forts to eliminate the, type of acci- | Mother Love -- Courage born of the maternal instinct impels the ordinarily timid tern: in REN A a photo: above to stand guard over its three-egg nest, despite the presence of ~--humans, such as comely Patty covey. Bird laid eggs in sand of public beach and seems determined to see them g a as Bad News for Burglars--Ed keyless door lock which can tions. Absent householder, buttons on dial seen at right a set in connection with an alarm so that through the 15-day incubation period. td mond Micleél shows his. new be set to\any of 764 combina- upott return, pushes proper nd door opens. # . Lock can be pushing wrong buttons rings a loud bell, or device can be hooked up with telephone alarm system, POP--Mighty Cateless Zr 18 RUN LAR stk < | OVER EVERY 8 ies! POOR i 'FELLONY & - ~. \ badd \ °°. BY]. MILLAR WATT i | ! | | "Hafter all, "tisn't every