Pages THE STRATFORD MIRROR Friday, February 8. 1946 AIR SERVICE TO BRITAIN NOW THREE FLIGHTS WEEKLY Montreal, Feb. 8--Schedules on Canada's air service to Great Brit- ain have been increased to three flights weekly and fare-paying pas- sengers are now able to book pas- sage from any Canadian city, ac- cording to an announcement made by Trans-Canada Air Lines, oper- ators of the service for the Govern- ment. Accommodation, both east- bound and westbound, has been set aside for business men and other travellers, whereas the service had! been confined in the past to priority ticket holders. Effective immediately the big Lan- eastrian four-engined aircraft will leave Montreal Airport on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for Prest- wick, Scotland, the passengers ar- riving in London and other United Kingdom cities a few hours later. Westbound departures from Prest-| wick are made on Wednesdays, Fri- | days and Sundays. Mails and express | are being carried, as well as pas-| sengers, and the express shipments may be forwarded from any point in Canada. Conveniences now installed for the passengers include modern heat- ing and ventilating systems, fluor- escent lighting and kitchen units heated electrically. Dinners of roast chicken, steaks or lamb chops, with vegetables, are prepared at the Montreal Airport and at Prestwick and served hot to the passengers over the ocean. Salad lunches, after- noon teas and coffee are also served during the air voyage. Magazines and newspapers are provided for the passengers, as well as cribbage boards and other games. "It is our intention," says D. R. MacLaren, superintendent of pas- senger service for T.C.A., "to de- velop a distinctively Canadian ser- vice, friendly but reserved, which will be the best on the North Atlan- ic.' HOURS OF WORK Within the lifetime of many Can- adians, the customary working hours of urban workers in shops, factories and offices have been appreciably reduced. The 48-hour working week is now a recognized standard and | many establishments have even! shorter hours, besides giving their employees vacations with pay. There are still some exceptions to the rule. Farmers have not yet been able to adjust their operations to a 48-hour week, while cows are unreasonable enough to demand morning and eve- ning milking and weeds continue to grow without respect for human leisure. Now the ideal seems to be the 30- hour week. It has been seriously sug- gested by some labor leaders. One suspects that the advocates of this standard are not so much concerned with securing more leisure as they are with securing more pay at over- time rates. Although the demand has not yet been made, it is only logical that if the working week is reduced, the time given for holidays should be increased. If a man gets two weeks' holidays with pay under a 48-hour week, he is away from work for 96 hours of working time. Then, if the week is reduced to 30 hours, his hol- idays must be increased to a little more than three weeks if he is to retain the same benefit from his em- ployment. One point to which labor leaders might give some thought in their agitation for shorter hours and high- er pay is the ability of the consumer to provide the benefits they seek. The disparity between urban and rural hours of work and rates of pay is even now sufficient to cause some grousing from the farmers. If the disparity is increased, the market for products of the city may be ser- iously curtailed, simply because the farmer and his employees cannot af- my RS RESTO Pressure Cooker Cooks at Almost Unbelievable Speed. "Preste"' cooks by steam under pressure. Made of heavy cast aluminum, beautifully finished and polished, fitted with hard- wood handles. 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Refreshments and a social hour brought the evening to a close. STRANGE MURDERS AT THE LAKE CABIN The brawny mother of four child- ren used a doll to deceive her ad- mirer--but the time came when she needed more than a doll. Then ter- ror and death struck. Peter Levins, writing in The American Weekly with this Sunday's Detroit Times, tells about one of the most fantas- tic crimes. Get Sunday's Detroit Times. REPORT TO THE NEIGHBOURS Its the Glitter and Glow Show of the Year -- A Wonder of Laughs...Love...and Lovelies ! oe ce cmmebennunoottarr:" Rev. F. W. Norwood, D.D., told a with women's club in Montreal recently VIRGINIA MAYO that Charles Dickens had instituted VERA-ELLEN more moral reforms than any other . author to date. Dickens did it by DonaldWoods'S.Z.Sakall Allen Jenkins ¢ Edward Brophy laughing and weeping at them with Otto Kruger » Steve Cochran a savage and sardonic humour. 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