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Canada's "Orson Welles"--Winnipeg-born Markle, 26-year-old writer-actor-producer, has just signed a 3-year confract with CBS. Fletcher Following outstanding radio and movie successes in Toronto, London, New York and Hollywood, . Markle, is writing and directing a one-hour dramatic program for CBS which will replace Arthur "wr Godfrey's "Talent Scouts" World Flight." and Norman Corwin's "One ' Machines Rout 'Man With The Hoe' The super-high cost of labor is spreading ia epidemic of machine- .- mindedness among United States farmers. . With record and near-record crops coming up, farmers now have an estimated labor force of. only 7.2 million workers--about two million less than six years ago. With the "hands" flocking to city jobs, a Wisconsin 'farmer now pays $1 an hour for labor he got at $30 a month plis room and board a decade ago. To meet the rural clamor for machines, new battalions of mech- ------_anical-marvels--will-elank-over the country's farms this Summer. They will begin the final rout of the man with the hoc. They. will round out the job already well started by such mechanized lahor- saving pioncers as the tractor ands the threshing-machine----------=21 Spearheading the blitz will be : such relatively new machines as the beet harvester. -It has a be- wildering complement of tools that first snip off the. beet's crown and leaves, then dig down to bring up the vegetable itself, This machine will harvest six tons of beets an hour in a field producing 20 tons to the acre. New types of 'potato harvesting machines lack human discernment, They are apt to mistake rocks for the genuine 'product. But other- .wise they can shame a crew of men by the speed with which they dig, partly clean and load spuds. Most of the.mechanical "soldiers" being" marshaled for the mass in- vasion of U.S, farms aren't entirely new. But they've not -been in + general use before because the average. farmer "couldn't afford them, Now, his pockets are bulging with cach realized over the past few years. from his high-price. crops. And he's getting the "equipment for more efficient farming. oR ERTS ow oe - 5 io 1 Costly New Plane Such: devices 'as the posthole digger, the corn picker and the hay baler are becoming the property - of~.the run-of-the- mill farmer . as well as the bigger operators. These their names suggest. ~Another popu- 'lar machine is the forage cutter, It rolls down a hay. field, chops up the feed suitable for the 'dairy cows and loads it for delivery to the silo or barn mow--all without benefit of human hands. : The extent of farm equipment of mine major agricultural areas. It showed that orders are so heavy manufacturers tan't promise some types of machinéry sooner than three years hence. © - . . Built for Chiangs ed and crying -to other nations for help, Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek continue all right for themselves, comments the Windsor Star. They have just acquired a .new C-54 plane. . Its interior decorations and furnishings have "cost 'between $1,000,000 in United States money. The plane has two beautifully upholstered: berths, each with tele- phone at the bedside; special dress- ing room with electric razor; an ~ office with four desks;- a 30-tube radio receiver set, which provides the passengers with recéption; and a drawing room with specially built and curved gray sofas. : ~~ It's quite a plane and quite a lot of money. But, even though China and the Chinese people suffer from poverty, General and Madame from their grasp. . | | Pra Ne J > '-Hceme-Town Echoes Sr By C. Kessler: - . ' ar ' Veer ty ee Even though China is impoverish- $750,000 and Chiang have never let luxury slip machines do mechanically the tasks* buying. was measured in a survey to do' |. STUFF AND THINGS. -- %, Field, Ohio. Army's New Tractor Landing Gear May eliminate pilots' present: Preliminary tests, in soft mud a Engineers foresee the tractor gear outmoding in military aviation is seen, as tractor-equipp revolutionary landing gear. A loaded Douglas A-20 attack bomber, sand, took off in 1100 feet of similar mud-sand terrain and landed under the same conditions. 4 Hs worries over landing ode Airports--The ne ed planes will not be handica A fan oni SE fan) PEAS ah "bogies." enfe Satie wly unveiled tractor landing gear seen on the bomber pictured at left, above, will on ground that'is soft, rough or' deep sand, according to the Air Technical Service officials at Wright nd loose sand, where a normal plane would have bogged down helplessly, were completely successful, today's huge airdromes whose surface has to be "just so" to accommodate large, heavy planes. A new era pped by lack of airdromes in remote areas. 1p 'equipped 'with the tractor gear, taxied speedily through soft mud; revved up in soft Gear is simply a continuous smooth: outer belt rolling on At right is a closeup of the Nice Old i Girl : By : MARGARET COBB When Sally Carter spied the crisp green of the bill lying against the white of the sidewalk that bordered the engineering building, . she dropped the handle of the baby carriage and swooped down upon it, "Look, Richey, look!" she cried happily to the cheerful bright-eyed boy in the carriage. "A ten-dollar bill--a real, brand new ten-dollar "bill T found it mysef, and 1 can" spend it any way I pleasel" } Turning the "carriage briskly to return the way she had come, Sally sped. her son- back toward the, trailer camp that nestled at the foot of the hill, a haven for married student veterans, Once inside her trailer home: she «hurriedly hung the pinafore in_the' tiny clothes closet and reached for her best skirt and sweater. "Do you know what I'm. going to do with this money first thing, Richey?" she cried happily, "I'm going to get you a play, pen, so you can stay out in the fresh air all day long-and-have plenty of room to wiggle around in." TN Sally dropped the sweater to give the baby a quick, impetuous hug. "We'll get * Daddy, that pipe he wants, and maybe there'll. be enough. money left over to get me some dress materiall" Speeding joyfully across the cani- pus toward town, her hand straying often to the money in her pocket, Sally. suddenly. slowed her pace, her facersober.i ooo L0G iE "Oh, dear," she thought, "I've been s0 happy about having some money all my own that it hadn't even oc- curred to me that it belongs to some- one 'else. Oh, dear!" ~ Parking 'the carriage at the 'door to the engineering building, she entered, hesitated a moment outside - a door marked "Office," and went "in. The secretary looked up as [OUT OF THIS WORLD a JS a Ba i * ohn hl re Li oy Fy _ grateful grin, Le Sally laid the bill .on the desk. "I found this\outside the building, Miss Hanson, so I guess it belongs * to someone in here," She was talk- "ing fast, turning to leave, "Wait a minute, Mrs, Carter," the . older woman called. - "You may as well 'keep it. I don't see how we can ever find oyt who it belongs 'to. 'Finders keépers', you know. - Now you just run along downtown" and see what you can find to buy." LJ * » "Do her -good to , have some nioney all her own," Miss Hanson muttered as the door closed. ."Of course I should have held it a day or two in case anyone asked about it, but that child probably hasn't had. a-dollar-to--spend--as-she likes since Richard entered here!" In_mid-afternoon, about the time Sally was unwrapping her néw pur- chases at home, Richard Carter was frantically going through his pock- ets, 2 gril "I 'know -I brought it-with me," he muttered 'as he searched one - pocket after another. "Good grief, --what'll Ida? It's all the money we had left for the rest of-the month --a nice new ten-dollar bill. I must have dropped it when I opened. my- billfold sometime today." * A moment" later, as he was ex- plaining his plight to the secretary, he was relieved to see a quick look of comprehension in her eyes, "You haven't had it turned in, have you?" he finished slowly, i * * L } . } "Why, yes," she replied slowly, 7" 1 have. At least, a young lady gave me a ten-dollar bill this morn- - "ing and told me she'd found it out- side, It must have been yours. Wait a minute, I put it in my pocketbook for safekeeping." : Reaching. into a drawer in the --~desk,- Miss: Hanson pulfed----out- a: well-worn black bag. After a - moment's-search she found a bill, tucked away with several one-dollar ones, that was crisp and new and had the. numeral "10" in'its corner. "Here it is," she said, handing it over with a smile. =~ 7 The boy took the money with a "Well, thank good- ness--we can eat for the: rest of he. left the office. "Thanks a: mil- lion, Miss Harison |" "More People Needed 3 To Open Up Canada There has been some talk of hold- ing down on immigration until every - last person in Canada is working or until we have what some so glibly define as "full employment." "Wheth- er sich a thing is. possible, outside a slave state, is highly, doubtful, but even reasonably close to it is simply |=-out of . the dfiestion so long -as.-our.- «country remains only partly devel- oped. Until we open up far more mines, land, fisheries and other natural wealth and build the second- » ary 'industry to go with it we. will have no idea of how many people . this, Dominion can employ. -- Finan-= cial Post. \ : . Bees 'are not the only. insccts that make honey. Some specics of wasps. . ¢ month, anyway," he said as Military Survey | Shows World's Troubled Spots Nearly two years after V]-Day, almost '19,000,000 men are under arms throughout _the world and -- about. 40 'nations are spending at least $27,400,000,000 a year on arma- ments, it has been revealed by Han- son W. Baldwin, military expert of "the New York Times, as the result by that newspaper.; ! "The. survey reminds us fhatein this second - year of "peace," three large- scale colonial or: civil wars] involving millions of men, are raging in the * world, and at least 2,000,000 troops are occupying, or garrisoning--terri--- tory outside their - own national _borders, says the Sault Daily Star. Civil War in China . The great, civil war in China in- ' volves 4,000,000 to-5,000,000 men on the Nationalist side and 1,000,000 to - 1,500,000 on a Communist side; in addition to millions. of civilians taught up in the bitter strife, Gen. Baldwin estimates. And as an un- ~happy corollary, it is estimated that, . 80 per cent of impoverished China's" national budget is* devoted: to the military--a pércentage far exceeding that of any other nation in the world. In Indo-China, the Viet Nam has a force of about 100,000 in the field --chiefly of guerilla nature, but with some artillery and backed by perhaps 1,000,000 - irregulars and a "Self De- fense, Corps." Seeking to crush the , Viet' Namese are 90,000 to 110,000 French. troops, Small French forces in Madagascar also are struggling * against the guerjlla attacks of island insurgents. SS In the Netherlands Indies 100,000 . men of the Indonesian Republican Government's army, backed up by perhaps. 250,000 native guerillas and "irregulars, oppose something over 100,000 troops of the Netherlands | army. ; oS ~~ Other Troubled Spots The survey lists other troubled spots. 'Several regiments of troops are involved in a revolution in Para- guay. In India 87,000 British troops plus' perhaps 1,000,000. men of the Indian, Army--the latter 'rapidly. be-. © ing demobilized--are attempting to ..keep order: Palestine is garrisoned by. about 65,000 - harassed British _ troops. In the Philippines several "thousand insurgent 'Hukbalahaps are battling some. of the 25,000" military police who are the first unit of a new. Philippine army, i Russian armed forces," according to the survey, remain the largest in the world, except for the ill-armed Chinese masses. But 'even' small na- - tions, bowed beneath érushing taxa- tion and many of "them 'wrecked by the war and struggling. under. major - economic, burdens, are shown to .be allocating major parts oftheir: bud- "gets to military expenditures and at- tempting to. maintain large military + foréed--cven though these "could do little ~against' the, 'strength of any major, power, © Sk New Weapon of War The- survey indicates that the na- tions are spending 'perhaps *$10,000,- 000,000 more on armaments than and the honey-ant also make it. . of a world military survey conducted 1 1 Voice Of The Press _ In Persia In Persia, during his spouse's spring cleaning, the husband can carpet and beat it. --@uebec Chronicle-Telegram The Dove of Peace It appears that -a new type of + sitter is now needed, viz: Someone to sit up with a sick dove. --- ~--Kitchener Record Courage Siok Looking in on the boxing cham- pionships, the thought came that it calls for some unusual kind of "courage to travel half way across _always take hold .of the magic 7 Didn't Need One % The famous psychologist had just delivered a- most 'interesting lecture, and was now conducting a question' session, = d A timid little man down" front held up- his band and was recog- nized, £ "Doctor," he said most respect- "| fully, "did T understand you to say that a good poker player could suc- cessfully handle any sort of execu- |" tive job?" _ "That's exactly awvhat I said," was the confident reply. "Tell- fme, Doctor," - asked : the little: man, "what would 'a good poker player want with a job?" - You "Will Enjoy Staying At J ---a-¢ontinent merely to be punched in the face for three to nine min- ~ utes before taking thie train back home, SORES Sn --Port "Arthur News-Chronicle Theatre Need Another thing greatly 'needed is non-crackling cellophane for those _vho ~disrobe confectionaries in theatres. = --Kitchener: Record English . The foreign chum in our midst must have some trouble getting the hang of our language, How * can he know. for instance, that a' cowboy isn't a bull calf? y --Ottawa Citizen Want To Worry? of a"business establisment is this bit' of advice: "Work faithfully for eight hours a day and don't werty; then in time you may become boss and work 18 hours a day and: lave all the "worries." y --XKitchener Record a French Exports ~~ Le Prapes, like: Britain, has heen en- 'gaged in a great drive to increase exports, and like Britain has achieved a great measure of suc- cess. At the end-of 1946, it has been. "announced, French exports stood at 61 per cent of her imports, a figure nearly 'as, good as the 66 per cent average in 1938, : --Ottawa Citizen and probably have. more men in wuni-~ form than: they did then, although part "of the increased cost is a "paper" ome, . _ i ~ More disturbingly, the statistics in- dicate a. parallel between the present era and the post-World War 1 era of 1919-22, when an armaments race threatened. Then, however, the race centred on naval construction. To- day, Gen, Baldwin: estimates, mil- lions, perhaps billions of dollars in concealed funds--only part of them indicatéd in the sdrvey--are being _Spent_on' research and development- in connection: with: the atomic bomb, siles," jet planes and other new weapons, pi Obviously, no nation. feels it has attained the security which was its hard to see. any immediate . proba-~ bility of an assurance of security which would relieve the world of the they did 'on the eve of war in 1938, survey. 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