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0ftecLoeke Silais Henbuiry, wedged into a Chair tilted against the counter, was slipping into his regular affer-dinner *srooze when the door opened. The customner was an' elderly wornan. Sulas rose and the chair creaked its relief, He clumped behind the coun!iter and said: "Good evening, Yra'amii. Somnething I can do for "WhJy whiy, yes, 1 suppose S. At least, JI hoe so." "IAninig witbin reasoni. Tbat's- ,whiy FJ' called 'Uncle Silas.' My cuistomiers are jusft like relatives to mne."1 "Thaït maýkes it easier. 1 neyer had ta pwî nytiîg before. But . ." Hler voice tr-ailed into slici.>e. Silas ke that wbeun she contintied, throuighoit lher story would mun the Samle fthemle as counltless others to ýYhiçl, ie çhdlitndduring hig 4i year i ý nt0e pawnbroker hbisiness. lie no(IIdded is he1ad encouragingLy, "This goldlckt' she saidà, un- folding her hands ta reveal the trink-et, «was presented ta me by mry husband when we were trarried. No matter haw off er we mioveçl, trying ta, better our circumrstances, they never inproved. After his death last year things becfime woýrse. 1 sold most of my valu- ables. But this . . . 1 just couldn't. 1 only want a bar on this lockef, for somne day I shal' redeem it. "Buit to every pawn shop 'I've goneu, they refuse to lend me any nmoney. Tbey say it is flot valuable cinough f0 be helld as security. "W'lsoon see," said Silas. He lighitly scratched the surface of the lokftha penknif e. lntQ that shallow furrow be let faîl a few drops of acid, then shook his head as a greeniish tinge appeared, 'say- îng "'mi sorry, but t4is- locket's only] valuie is as -a keepsake. It's lie \womian Iooked bewildered. , .. i can'f understand it. There mutsf be somie nmistake. Look here," Sherecied,.fastelýing fthe trinket. Jt's twvo heart shaped balves swung ope)n anid shie pinfed to metal that cncircled two iniiature portraits. "Scec how brighit and solid that is?" Tatpbiotographl favors you, xna'm, venthouigh itàwas taken whnyuwere 3youngegr." 1 "ory yar youniger, to be exact, when jI was îmarried. Thie opposite onie 15 of my hiisband,. It favors 'm sue if does. Looks like hee was a finec mani."' "Hle was., Folks said he was un- reliable and immresponsible. 1 Sup- pose Henry was, in a;iwaýy. Buýt tbey wvere blis onfly faillis'" "Pardon rny askiuig, bu1t, youý Ioved him a, greatt deal?"I -Yes, anid, 1 still doe" sbe nser ed. Thien, regarding himi with s1 qulizzical look, s;aid: "Why did you "Wll1 just kinid of thougbt s womlan wýouldni't stay mamied fomfy years iunless she loved ber bs baud a gi-est deal." "Yon ake me feel nioble," she replied. "Now canicerning ijbis Suas gave bier die mouey she meu- que(stedl and closed the deal. Hem fervent tbanks mnade bim glad that ;le hand gonie itrongh with the de- ceptioni. For, lie lid recognized Agnes Trurnbuîl's picture, That was haw she lied looked wbenx she had re-- jected im ta marry hie cousin, Henry, wbose phofograpli appeared li the lockef's other haif. Silas lbad I kuown Hdenlry was tun- reliable asud irresp)ousiibl buthe did k3ot rtcz biimfo lber. Le'avinig hoe,13 e bad neyer wriften or re- turlned. Thuts, Silas biad losf ail tra!ce of Henmry andj Agnes unfiil f0- nigt welie bad reco--gnized berý pictire ini Cie locket. Silas kuiew Agnies still loved H1enry sutid mwonl D'2be hurt ýf0eamn- the( tuth. And, Slsstill loved 'hem 11111-11 thiaf he bad crcafed a ce-r- tainivay fainsure lber -rmaining igorn4o Huy' eception. That w a, t adanc solarge anl amounlt on he ockt taf hewoUld inever I "el 5 UraniniIe Fjnid in Haliburton-Northern Hall burton County is experiencing a rush of pros- pector- jc thç proving Q4 a commercial ore body of uiraninite at Wilberforce, on the prop- erty of F._.sson MVines 'Ih is property may be producing uranium by the end oýf the year. Radiumi Lake (above) is on the Fission Mines propertyý. Grave! and suit on thie lake bottomn have been found to be radio-active. The o(-re is fluirospar and uiraniumï, 'the ighiterý ore wt purplish- tinge indicating the presence of fluori te, irom iw'hich fluirospar is obtainedl. Argentine Kee-n Comp7,etitor In Catle Market Tbose wbo have been sarguing that Canada is chasing a will o' tbe wisp in trying to bold any part of the British market for surplus Can- adian beef Will find their argument strengtbened in a Buenos Aires dis- patcb stating tbaf a new bigh for Argentine caff le was establisbed flhc other day. The price was 58.6 cents vos as against an average of 38 cen- tavos in 1945-46. Whicb according to the Lethbidge Herald, means that the Argentinians are uow get- ting 6.3 cents lîve weight per pound for their beef cattle as againsf a former price of four cents. Alberta cattle producers, who are felling us that tbey cannot feed coarse grains af present, prices ta 15-cent beef and make ends meet, will wonder bow Argenfina ranch- res car sel for 6.3 cents a pound. Argentina is a South American country of just over 13,000000 people, mosfly of Spauisb descent. It is a greaf livestock producer and bas some 33,000,000 cattle and 44,- 000,000 sbeep as againsf oui- 8,000.- 000 cattle and barely 3,000.000 sbeep. Being in the norfhern part of the South Temperate zone, if bas no Winter fceding poblem 50c far as ivestock are concerned, poducing themn very cbeaply on native grass of the range lands, called the Pam- pas, on alfalfa, and on ye and oat s cereal pastume gmawn for winter pas- turc and used in rnncbflic same way as we use our cover crop wbile the native grasslands are resting, The first Spanisb cattle weme taken fa Argentina fom Spain in 1552 and the firsf Briish Shomtbomîî sire was sent in 1826 sud. today the Argentina ranch berds are mostly Hemefords and Sborthomns of s vemy finetype. The late Miss' Coma Hin, wben she was agricultumal editor of the Winnipeg Vrce Press, visitcd Argenltins a eIarn tbeim ranching, packing and sbipping metbods, and she Icît no doubt that wben if comes f0 beef, the Canadian rancher bas't a chance to compete in the Bitish market with the Argentine poducf. Last yçam Argentina sbipped more than 70,000,000 pounds of beef ta Britain, Canada, only 35,000,000 pounds. The only point wbere Canada migbf even begin f0 compete witb Argentins is in the realm of canned mneats fromn low grade caffle,, can- fiers and cutters which we want fa et ouf of the way and, as a con- seuec,,would be willing ta selI very cbcaply. We cannot begin fa comrrpete in dressed meats. for the IBritish fable, and we may as well iknow if uow and flot go on knock- îng aur'beads up against a stone Cauada's oîîly outlet for our sur- plus of good beef animaIs is the United States. Uncle Sam bas of- fered us a quota of 400,000 bead a year at a duty of 1' cents a pound livweibt.We ad better forget deamis of the Briti'sb maret f or býeef-And get down f0 a realistic consideration) of tbe only woreli- nwlile market wi s availabie fo Us. Troda'y is wbat yau were looGklng farward tf0 yesterday. Enjoy it wfhlle you have it, frif Aon't be heret- morrow. Some Notes Fromk The Farmn Front 0f Special Interest To Rural Reacers By John Russell If you want more eggs on less feed - and he.thiie, liens f00 - keeçi yc.nm layems confined in sum- mer as well as in winfer. At least, tbat's wbat an expert at a State Agricultural Collcge says. Ex, eriments recently caried ouf showed that coi fined flucks laid 13 eggs more per biri, ste a pound less feed per dozen eggs, eturned 18 per, cent more rofif and had 1.5 rer cen-, less morfality than flocks that wec-e tumned ouf during the summer. The fresh air and sun- shîne the birds get when outsidc are n if eno--gh. f0 offset the discases fhey )ick up, Her,-'s s tip for orchardists wbo grow peaches or pears. How the same stunt woulo ork wîthý apple o. otù. fruit frees we cannûf say. 1Most orcbardists fi-y fo keep thieir frees as low as possible, consistent wifh good yields, in order fao make spi-aying sand pickiug casieýr. But a man ouf on the n'est coasf bas gone even further. His fi-ces have p3ractic- ally no trunks af al When hie plants a pear or peach tree h 'uts if off, heading if back so thzf the tfiree fo five leaders sît--ed are about eigbtecn inches firn the ground. Then, wvheii the fi-ces i-ature, they ai-c îcver 50 high that lie can't pick th,. fruit with cîght- foot ladders. 'iIow about yields? Well, be bas feu year old peach fi-ces bcaring 18 tons tu the acre. Therc's no casier wsy of starfing au argument 2lnost anywhcre than fa mention Government price con- frols-and farmerq bave more eason f0 tak- dccp-interesf in sncb fbings than most folks. So 1 thougbt that you mnigbtfiud worth-wbile rcading in the followiug quofatiot. fmom sn article' Henry Hazlitt sppearing in News Wcek Magazine. However, before You starf, I migbt watin you that both t' magazine. and thte wmter a r ead set agaiast every sf of Govcmnmeu1nt conitrocl or int1er- iercnce ,wýith "fre enrrs" The Ar-gentîine Gvmnetselis wheat for export at $5.0 ' or mare per bushel in United States, dollarp - Mr. Hazlitt says. It pays tjîi. Argentine farmeIr the equivalent of $1.59 f0 $1.83 a bushel and pockets the uifference'. The Canadia armeris allowed ouly'$1.35 a bushel plus aàprii pation certificat e" worth about 20 cents. The United Stte 1frm-er L ýs a free mar-ket price of about $2.80 a bushel. (Prices cltedl are those p. vailing wben tbe article was wiffen.> Wbst bas been the conseq'uenve of these policies? - the writer goes on f0 ask. In spife of tbe desperafe world shortage of wheat, the 1947 acreage of wheat in Argentins jias 22 per cent below the 1935-1939 level. In Canada the 1947 acreage of wbeat was down 7 per cent below prewar. Neitber decrease can be blanied on, the wcafh ci- in botbl coulnties flic acreage for the fwa plcrecding years was also below thie prewar leveL. n the United States, on flie other baud, wbecat acreag-,e epanded as pi' es rose, iu 1947 if was 29 per cent ah-" the prewa-r level. In bni - tht writer sums if up - fammers in bis bieisphere e- spouded fa price incentives or their asber rather fluan to verbal ex- hortations. The farmers obliged fa fake lov wheat prices contracted their acreage. The lai-mers permit- ",igl priies i cressed thieirs. aud wbetber the w,,riter is i-gjit or wrong when* e intaiý,ins thaf G-vernment cont roIs sp)eil "dis., aster" 1 arn nof )repaýed fa even gness. Certainly hbe neglects f0 men- tion wbat would bappen f0c a]' those U.S, lai-mers wh have stunk lthieir cveryfhing into incrcascd wb-est acreage sbould .h',cre' be Pa suddcîn snd drastic slunîp in prices At al event fhere's foo, for fhngt.sd maferial for agmni htb says. Pmobably, af fI _ ,the soluiItionI f0 the coutrol pobei ta¶ ould come cl,-sest to suiiïigng osf of US wonld be thle ont pjrop)osed by vthe old farmner. "I believe in price CO- t mol oni everyti'I, banýve fa bny," be s id. "And noue waee-o auiyfbing I've got sI, It Paid to Ifl8Ure In Those Days Back i'n Colonial days, the Cie insurance comipanies are said fe, have enjoyed a profitable"fe" witb somne of the ealy ire Brigades. Wbhen at bouse was reported fAbe on1 fire, and the fbrigade came asb ing to the Scenle, thec brigade leader would examine the front of the burnng buseand takIe a glance at neamby poete.Thenl, as like ais 11ot, lie and his mlenrul just sif down pand wafclt he 1bouse hum"rnte the grouind. Theýse ,doings wrecauised by a system nown Imilas "Hlouse YMaýrks". Metali plates býearing tbe emblcm of an insuIranjce comipaniiy wcre pla(c onl tbe fronts Of ah bous-i'es an'd a platte wason tue bumnîng buiding, the fire brigade wen t into action. And if fot-flot. 'Very offen te riad ladrwas himself an insumarnomn and if the bilding was flot insuired by bis own or. a finl omayadif hfs bumning did not endanger the property of any nan in tbe brigade ...t1he firem-an simply w o n 1 d ni 't bother to fghbheflames. There was a young l-ady ,nmed Banker Wvho slpt wbNlle be bplay zat anchor $he awokýIe in dsa When 2she hbeard thie mate aýay "Ehi huea up the top poee and Fôrhai a entryWiliam Shep.. herd, as sextoni, bas helped mamry, people of the parish oýf Enville, la England. B'ack ýit 1913, thichuchCounicil gave bi nohe yrd t ted, ai-id began conideing a pay boosf for Rýcentljy, 35 years later, be got. thie r ise t was eight sbilingg, (aout $160 a week - doublingý bis pay. "Thelse tbiings -fake a blit of tohnký- igot"said Mr. Shepherd. "Tbey ReaIIy Big B'usi-ness ODver four anid a hl ilosof Canaians o1ii sometbin g like twvelve billion!s of Iinsurnceand anniuities, This miueo total popultion basis, am nd 9'50 per capita or $3800 for a %aQlyOf Here is, e,~a I !e ' i1n rating antisoeto ohthat bringasi eyrejIef from the itching and dise4omfort,. Net onlU dors this beallug :anti,.etie ohl Promote raold and healthy, healýýg i, uo pen sors and wvends but boils sum dul aiceers are aise relievecd. InSkia affeetions the icige szm isj qlic>kiy stoppcd. Pipe-sf ruffttons dIri ne )and ScAle off in a rosfwdays. The, same is true of Bre'src.sait Rhâelm, [tehias Tues ail Feet su other Inflaimat.ory sinisodes Yei n o obtain -Moone's Eeald Ou hfa the origlnasi offle et ans moem rai oxer Dreveu moi Flamime te]Re5cue -C, i WINI DDWAWARD ARMAND SAVOIE 0F MACKAYVILLE, QUE., risks life to rescue 3-year- old from burning home Th ire had st-arted between the walls of the two-storey bouse in Macksayville, s few miles from Montresi. The Bernes were aI-' ready spreading rapidly by the time Mrs. Prince lied succeeded in getting four of lier children ta safety. Five of the others were et school -- but 3-year-old Gisele wss trapped upsta,-irs. DASI4ES INTO BUILDING Running into the house the instant lie heard of the child's pliglit, Armand Savoie climbed up the stairs tbmrouigh the heavy, hot smoke to the bedroom. The little girl lied hidden hersýelf in cerror behind a buýrea.. . and Savaie lied to crawl undemneatb -be 1ed, whicli wss blazi-ng, and then gmab the youngster frorn hbind tlie smoulderïng fur- nuture. The smoke lied becorne almost impossible tu bear... and bath Savoie and the çhild were cboking by the time tbey gar downstairs and outside. The boxer quickly applied artificiel respiration - .,ut, in spite af bis and the bospital'e efforts later, -le Gisele died the next di The gallant 1 8-Yearî-old boxer, a member of Griffintown Club, wliolias jnust wom) the Quebcc Golden Gloves finals in bis weight class, and ani Olympic candidate, d eserves great praise for bis heroic ïand unselfisb action. We are proud ta psay cribuce ta rmndSavoie of Mackayvillýe, Que., chniouh the -rs~s~n ofThe DowAwar-,l Hearing that 3-year-old Gisele Prince wss trapped in e second-.qoor bed- room-, the young boxer daslied into- chie burninig bouse and climnbed the stairs dlirougli dense, bot smoke. Armand Savoic, after crawling under s blazing bcd, managed ta grasp the terrîfied cbi!(d and carry hem, cboking and alm-osc sulffocated, outside. citaon jfor orscatn!og hero'ý ism and :cludJe,, as a tanýgible' .$soo anada avîngsbond. aîn rc i- F, ccd ythe Dow Aad-Cnmrca gi-u aofedTs of iead;iag Can aien nwspaer LISTEN TO VI~E 130W AWARD R~D'~ SMOMf S~TURDAY 8.30 P.M, - i