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Battle Over Steel The big battle of the eoming Farbanient in London will be over RY 8 bill to nationalize the British steel le fedustry. . . . : In the case of British steel, it is oid that six big firms make half the total greel and, ergo, they have a monopoly, Until recently three companies made a majority of our automobiles; £5 2 va: y seven companies accounted for a y practically all of it. We have heard £3 TN = J 1» argument that 'this makes a UR ¥ monopoly, eliminating competition. BY Well, not so many years ago one 5 eompany dominated the low-priced field. Another company eame along with a better car and wrested the top spot, and now the original lead- « is battling hard to regain the market. The result has been better and better cars for the public and vo lack of competition. Recently several new companies have entered the field, one of which dr already 8 major contender. We have no idea whether they will suec- eced or fail, but the sole test will be whether they can make a car the public wants at & price it will pay. Since man began to swap goods - instead of living on what he could make himself, men have been try- Ing to corner markets, to get a monopoly. 'There is no record of a puccessful monopoly without the help of the political machinery of government. The cartels of Eurdpe sre nll government sponsored. aa Monopoly 3s not inevitable in the ' wteel Industry or any other as long © se people are Iree to get in or out of Jt. The truer statenient is that monopoly is impossible €xcept by government or with its help. The Labor Party's pamphlet also ' pays: "Control of steel carries with H control of the economy." "This #¢ probably too broad a statement but it expainge the real reason why the political leaders want control of stecl. } : A IE: Nd ~~ AIA? of Jo" PAT wed OCTET - 3 Pride = I a ; es! dE » EE 5 =, They Can't Grow Them, 8o They Make. Them Instead-- This was the start of the Den- ver hand-made Christmas tree. It'samade by boring holes in the trunk! then inserting ever- green branches, Down the Drain Siw Ralph Richardson, one of Britain's brightest stars of both stage and .screen, was interviewed recently on his return from making 8 film in Hollywood, He spoke of his admiration for the people with whom he worked and went on 10 describe hi. delight in lesser things in America, such as the gad- ay = gd gets in American homes, which . Sr) ts ier 7 a 'were excitingly new to him, There .was a maéhine for electrocuting flies and a garbage disposer In the house he lived in. A seman) magic contrivance which Sir Ralp aa described for listeners' benefit, say- i ing, "The drain in the sink is, twice 2 ge large as the average English sink : : hole 'and everything is put into jt-- bones, scraps, cartons,. anything you can imagine, and a thing under the sink grinds everything up Into powder. "You can turn on the tap, and wash it all away as liquid--no mess, no smell, no flies~-nothing. When 1 expressed surprise they ° raid, 'Well, what do. you do wi your chop bones in England! eaid, 'Sir, in England, we 'eat ovr . "chop id : " bones for supper', "Windy og 4) is. Right--Winter gales whip up wild waves lic trom Lake" higan. . With gusts of wind almost a mile-a- "minute velocity providing the power, waves dash over the wall Chicago where 'dward Nowicki is--of all things--fishing. "WHAT GOES ON of OTTER The Paris Round-Up On December 11th the third re , Jukt session of the United Nations » eneral Assembly came to an end. At the beginning of the Fall, -82 days before, delegates of 58 nations had gathered In the Palais de Chail- Jot. More than six hundred meetings were held. The delegates spoke something around seventeen million words. Each day minograph opcr- ators used 1000 reams of paper-- and that's a heap of paper--just to record the proceedings. And what was accomplished through all 'these lengthy -- and wordy goings-on? Well, only time can finally tell. Perhaps some seeds were sown that will, at some future date, burst forth Into a harvest. "But, from this angle, it Jocks very much as though the whole affair-- # it benefited anybody at all -- did good only to Paris hotelkeepers, gouvenir-sellers, and entertainment merchants. With the Russians "no-ing" every proposal made by the Western allies-- and vice versa --Mhopes for a final world settlement somehow. seem even more remote than they did the day when peace 'was declared -- and we all looked forward to "no more war'. Great Britain There Is not much comfort 'in looking into a future," wrote Win- ston Churchill to Joseph Stalin, "where you and. the countries you _ dominate, plus the Communist part- jes in many other states, are all drawn up on one side and those who rallied to the English-speaking - nations and thelr associates are on the other." : The letter, which the former British Primé Minister read to an attentive House of Parliament on Dec. 10th was written to Stalin an Juding. "Hot Shot"--Clarence tou, sensational 17-year-old rentice. jockey, has been rly "burning up the tracks" ely } with a mark of season close to I) winning mounts. and will finish his first. IN THE April 2911 J945, just ten days before the finish of the European war. In comnienting on the letter Churchill said that it marked the highest point in his relations wjth Stalin. ~ How well the great British war- leader foresaw what was likely to be the course of future events, how eloquently he pleaded for a better understanding between the Soviets and the rest of the world, is seen in .another_paragraph from the same letter. - "It is quite obvious that their' quarrel would tear the world to picces and all of us Jeading men who had anything. 10 do with it would be shamed before history. Even embarking on a long period of suspicion, of abuse and counter- .abuse, and of opposing policies would be disaster hampering the great development of world prosper- ity for the masses which are attain- able only by our trinity. (The Big Three). "I hope there is no word or phrase in this outpouring of my heart to you, Mr. Stalin, which un- wittingly gives offense. If so, let" m know, but do not, I beg of you my friend, underrate the divergen- oles which are opening upon matters which yeu may think are small but which are symbolic of the way the English-speaking democracies look - at life." Prophetic words and np mistake. "Suspicion" -- "abuse" -- "counter- abuse" -- "opposing ~ policies" -- we've seen them all come to a point where they threaten "disaster hampering, the great development of world prosperity." Whether or not Mr. Stalin ever even answered the letter does not appear. In all probability he mut- tered something into his moustache about "bourgeois swine", then toss- ed the epistle into the waste basket. « Palestine On his return from 4 quick trip - to Palestine the acting United Na- tlons Mediator, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, reported that prospects for "a permanent peace in the Holy Land are better than ever before. - He said that nowhere in his tra- vels through the. Middle Last did- "he hear any talk of resumption of full-scale hostilities between Arabs and Jews, and that both sides are showing marked rcadiness to nego- tiate a peacciul settlement. All of which sounds very hopeful and promising. However, there are other authorities who do not take quite such an optimistic outlook. According to British delegate Har- old Beeley the situation in Palestine remains highly "explosive", and he accused the\Jsraeli armed forces of having made two "incursions" into Trans-Jordan ferritory in defiance of the Security Council's orders. He gave warning that any Israeli at- tack on that territory might "oblige Britain to take action invisaged in its treaty with that Arab country" which means, in plainer words, that there Is a possibility of Great Bri- - tain being forced fo fight against 'Terael. That, of ¢ourse, dould mean a flare-up which might spread to world wide proportions, Nor is everything peace and quiet among the Arabs themselves. King Abdullah of Transjordania has de clared that his Government eonsid- ers all of Palestine as its "security gor..." Other Arab leaders feel that Abdullah's head is getting a Nttle too big for his fez, and threaten to take steps aimed at reducing the swelling, . . words, in their so-called "speeding Most people like to keep a pet, Preos Pres LSA ialdge, Tweddle Chick ; atcheri JAmited, Fergus, - Ontario. . up" of the game the moguls have, but usually some tractable beast of CANADA ACCREDITED HaTohen Tt = our ig Suan, plied up a moderate size. Charles Grosse also " o.P. Sired chicks, Barred Rocks, White eap oO uture tr or 'them- Ary n en? z Leghorns, Approved Cross-breds. Free cata- i. 1 Pp A . Aro le b likes to keep 2 pet, but Isn't so par logue, price list, McQuigge: Poultry - Farm, selves. ttendances have not be- ticular about what it is and once, in | Ancaster, Ontario. 80-year-old dowager, and simply "His greatest joy in life was his : X . "stayed away and went to the movies. bath. This took place in a shallow Appropriate : * * * dam that fed the coffee-factory, and ARE We don't think anything as my natives had constructed a mud- p 4 drastic as that will-happen to slide for him, down the bank. Onc At the "We Have ». Card for "looking at their hockey dollars just . the rarities they've been for - CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING BABY CHICKS =H f IT'S TIME TO ORpER Bray Chicky for Jan.- Feb. delivery, 949 pricelist is ready and catalogue will be shortly, We've dayolds and some started for reasonably prompt shipment. Bray Hatchery, 130 John N., Hamilton, Ont AGRICULTURAL COLI E statistics prove that carly hatched chicks are from §1 per cent to 78 per cent more profitable than late oe ' » 5 chicks. Thit"s a lot of extra profit. Start I'he day hasn't arrived yet, but raises to a roar--and some of the [chicks id can depend on them {o give we imagine it's coming--the day younger generation look at qe an- you chicks July this Jear n January, . } 1 " , fi 2 ebruary an March, Star Top Note when the professional hockey Top other in amazement, as if saying, | you. bish ess production. Also laying and Brass will regret that they sver in- "Well. what do you know about |sad¥ v 57 Pils Jor immagiste 2 ivern. A 4 i . ree Con baloy . op 8 Old } Mile Naies, troduced the center "red line" which that"--where did the guy ever. learn | Guelph, - Ontario. y towed along with it the hectic tot act that way?" ~ | BABY-CHICK BUYERS--oider - yaar 197: is 5 J ns : 4 baby chicks now and be sssured of delivery p ramble they call' hockey nowa- : * + . date also: bred you desire. All our breeders ays. | > 4 are govegroment banded "and pullorum-tested * . . All of which should be enougn Write for 1949 catalogue and price list, Dis count given on all early orders Monkton | Poultry Farms, Monkton, Ontario z WE DON'T KNOW what egg prices will be in 1949 but we do" know this that , 9c | a dozen for eggs is of liftle benefit to you If your flock ia not in production. We have customers who have been buying .chicks from a8 each year for 25 years. We think this is the best proof that Tweedle chicks are profits able chickd#t to purchase. Also laying and ready to, lay pullets for immediate delivery. Free catalogue. Tweddle Chick [Tatcheries "Limited, Fergus, Ontario, . regarding hockey -- or about any sport--for the time being. Maybe we're all wet in what we've just been predicting. We've been wrong before--in fact, all our lif¢ we've made something of a hobby of pull- ing boners, so once. gere won't make much difference. * A J We freely admit that this style-- when played at its best--provides the cath custoiners with more con- tinuous action than ghe old form, which put a premium on skill, stick- handling and trickery. But that's just the trouble, A modern genera- tion of hockey onlookers has come FOR SALE MODERN MAIL ORDER 4351 City Hal Ave. Montreal 18, Que. FREE WITH EACH ORDER POSTAGE PAID GUARANTEED REFUND : Cotton Print Patches dara iba. 4 Beautifully Printed Silk Patches 3 lbs, $1. Assorted Pleces Silks. Spuns, Crepes, 3 lbs. $1.80 ...8 lbs. $1.60 all over § in. wide 10 yds. $4.35 Assorted Flanuelette Patches Fine White Broadcloth CHAIRS folding, all types. Write for catalogue. MILLCON CHAIR AND TABLE CO. $15 BLOOR ST. W., TORONTO FOR SALE--Accordians 8 to 120 bass, write for catalogue, tering arranged, "also all other tustruments. H. A, Tiete, Hagersville, Ontario MEN'S PURE WOOL SUCKS, extra long wearing. Grey or white. Med- ium welght §1.16 pr. or $12.00 doz, pre. wool mitts §0c pr. dellvered. Mary Maxim, Light welght 95c or $9.60 doz. prs. Men's Sifton, Man 2 HOME-SPUN, YARN. Very warm, extra long wearing: -Grey, White, Brown, Heather, Scarlet, Royal Blue, Paddy Green, Black ~-- 2 ar 3 ply $1.98 1b, 10 lbs. or over $1.80 Ib. delivered. Mary Maxim, Sifton, Man, 'SNOW FENCE Write Model Fence Co opus Street To Very warm, 196 River along that wouldnt recognize skill and stick-handling if they met it on a platter--and they're the folks Anyway, we take this opportunity of wishing to all our readers--the whole three of them--best wishes lished for 25° years wanfs some one in your district ta take orders for baby chicks. Lib- ertil commission paid, Poultry®Buyers, Nursery wh ar 12 de: i AD: : be men, Watkins and Rawleigh agents and 9 2 t Hh at deadly CLAL for a very Happy Christmas--and Farmers make excellent agents, Write for CLAP-CLAPPING and shouting full information, Box No. 12, 123-18th Street, may 1949 be the best year you've ever had--and the worst you ever will have. for "ACTION" whenever there is a half-minute of let-up. * * * Ngw Toronto. MARTINDALE'S CANADIAN CHICKS Barred Rocks, New Hampshires, '| Light Sussex, White Leghorns, New Harmp- shire X Barred Rocks, Light Bussex X New '1 Hampshires. Over 25 years experlence.. Price list and folder on request, Martindale's Farm APPROVED And with the over-lengthy sea- sons they have these days, no team ; ; ; Grosse's Pet Elephant |iatciers. Caledonia, oni ¢an continue to give the clients what . $ PROMPT DELIVERY on laying and ready they have come to expect, In other | ---- to lay pullets; White Leghorns, Barred Rocks, New Hampshires, Light Sussex, Cross gun to fall off, as yet, to any appre- ciable extent--but some of our "friends" who do a bit of ticket scalping 'on -the side tell us that suckers are getting a bit more choosey--and it isn't nearly as easy Africa, he kept a- baby "elephant. n Jojo only lived for two years but by that time he was larger than was manageable. "He seemed to be all over the place, like a fat friend in a telephone box," says Grosse. j BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES AN OFFER to every Inventor--List of inven- tions and (ull information sent free. The Ramsay Co. . Registered Patent 'Attorneys, 273 Bank Btreet, Ottawa. DYEING AND CLEANING HAVE YQU anything needs dyeing or clean: to get top prices for the pasteboards, iJon t-month old Jojo had belong- BL EAL i aor mation, Je are except when two. top teams are ed to Grosse's predecessor and H, Parker's Dye Works Limited. 701 Yonge playing. " . lumbered,_ everywhere, both in and Sireq), Sotoute. Ontario, " al ee eo a out of doors, with gverwhelming FARM FOR BALE Something similar occurred in the curiosity. "He was very well house- | #99 ACRES of &ood bushiot, in Dalhousie Twp., Lanark county, fncluding camps and contents. . Camps well built, and of good lumber. "Buildings: 12'x60', and 12'x40', and a stable accommodating 12 horses. A good A buy at $3,600.00, sport, if you can call it that, of six day bicycle riding. In the early days it- was simply a grind, with the trained," said Grosse, "and used to stand at the table at meal-times, n ' \ strokingrand blowing moistly, first [truck road to camps. pedallers going round and round one neck, and then the other, as he LE LoL, eatite Sraverty." 4093 to, Val. until *-- at lengthy intervals -- one era . . ' ' " x blarneyéd us in turn, for a hand- HELD WANTED team would try to "steal a lap". 1 H 'as forbidde ] iL NTE Te h db ld hull out. ¢ was forbidden to touch FARM HELD - : ig + A . sen there would be a wild hulla anything on the table, but when he* | For experienced immigrant farm help from baloo, until the "jamming" was thought he had us lulled into a Holland arriving spriifg 1949, apply "Dutch ended by the exhaustion of the mood 'of warm sentiment, he would Coin TL td PO. Tamer 24, athletes, and the crowd settled down stick out his little trunk, and, with FOR BALE® to wait for another. ' the uttermost tip, gently stroke the "HI-POWERED RIFLES * ¥- grapes or bananas, in the centre Write for new. lists and prices. Then the promoters--astute fel- dish. If T glanced at him when NE Ques i SALES 00 ies. Ont; lows, ,as they thought--figured that thus engaged, I would find him posi- ARMY HUT WINDOWS if one or two such "jams" per even- tively squinting, in his efforts to |4,000 sash, approx. 3 ft. x 8 ft., used, also ing could get the crowds on edge, watch both of us at once. new frames and sash. York Wrecking Co., 2 Blackthorn Ave., Toronto. MINK-WOLF-FOX TRAPPERS cash in on the high Mink Prices and Wolf Rounty, trapplhg the' Scientific Way, using Fishers Course and Scent made 'from Animals' Glands. Write for particulars to Fisher, Box 420, Calgary, Alta, more of them would be even more likely to draw customers. So they started offering "lap prizes" --sumsg_ of 'money of varying sizes for any "The time came when he touched each side of the door as he entered, and thereafter, his entrance became more and more difficult. He was all RX Cr tri p . 7 AFRICAN VIOLETS, most popular house team that stole a lap on the others. vighe dor Sa ne his Sen plant "6 varieties and. instructions for * * * and his bulging little tummy be- raising, - $1.00, immediate shipment. = Ruth gg < hd Campbell, Wales, Ontarlo. came appreciably wider than the doorway. The time came, of course, when all the 'breathing-in' in "the world didn't help him. He accepted So we had "jams" every hour-- then every half hour--until finally the spectators began to show bore- BOYS, GIRLS. 'Your choice of our wonderful premiums for only a few sales of Delightful Perfume to your friends. Write today for Sales' Kit and Premium List. Ross Sales, Apt. 'C., Box 266, Hamilton, Ont.. dom any 'time the boys wesen't LO] 3 2 3 3 % CLOVER & BUCKWHEAT HONEY, ice riding one another high on the the fact with. resigned . common rE EAT HONEY, choicest $9.00 65-1b. can. F. B Minor, Smithville, Ontario. - NEW. «+ factory-built snowplows, différent sizes: hand hydraulic. Immediate delivery. Craig Equipment Registered, '21 Chamberlain Ave., Ottawa jo . sense and took up his position at the window, where he would stand, with his head inside, grumbling squeakily, and nodding hike a mech- anical toy. boarded turns--sncaking through on the rail--and whooping it up. Then, almost inevitably, the customers got tired of something which was just as artificial as a hennaed wig on an would go down, and find him play- ing all by himself, but he did like an audience, and he was lavish in his encores. He would try that slide all ways, laughing, vou might al- | most say, until the tears ran down his face. - vo "Poor Jojo met his end in front of a three-ton lorry. He had come down the drive with me, stopped to investigate something intriguing, |. rand then, suddenly fearful 'that he. had lost me, he came galumphing out into the road, just -as a loaded three-tonner swung round the bend. It broke Jojo's shoulder. He was stunned, too, and he remained that way, thank God, for as long as it took my boy to run to the House and return with a rifles' hockey. But. when "the honeymoon is. over'--when the folks stait Every Occasion" counter of a large department store, the clerk asked' the woman standing beside me what he could .do for her. [8 "I'm afraid you haven't anything that will do," she said.-"I've look- ed all these cards over." 3 "Madam," said the- clerk, "we have grecting cards for everything. What kind do you want?" =~ The woman hesitated, then leaned forward 'and said in a low voice, "My brother has just been sent to jail, and 1 want to send him a card expressing my regret." - The clerk thought a moment, then reached among-the cards "For the Sick" and handed her one. It read: "Sorry to hear -you're a shut-in. Hope you get out soon!" as critically as they are beginning to look at their movie ones--we predict that empty pews in Big League hockey-arenas will not be the past few years, 5 * * * Then, we think, the tide will turn. Possibly the center red line will be eliminated, "and trickery, smooth skating and stick-handling "vill come back to their own, It is quite noticeable that when Max Bentley --one of the very few left who knows ho ' to handle a stick--gets out on the ice and does some of his tricky stuff, the crowd-noise often # Vier, OMT IR > Sharks to Worry About, as Well as Rough Seas--T his shoto picture shows Survivors of he C-54 transport plane, which was forced down in shark-infested Pacific waters, as hey ; oat in their jam-packed emergency raft just before being rescued. Thirty-three perdoifs a wat 1 Bell, in two rafts were picked up by an aireraft-carrier. Four others were missing. -y =p - LEADER TRACTORS Lmmediate delivery before heayy Spri mands. "With'2 furrow Lift Ploughs, Plows, Disc Harrows," Mowers, Snow Plo Hydraulic Loaders and other Implemn Write P.- J. 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Orders and tions urgently needed, payable to Mely Tove Komoka, Ontario. (All news please copy as news story.) FARMS, country homes and country nesses wanted immediately for clients. Some with all cash. What bavi to offer for sale? N. H. Dinnlck, R 1134 Yonge Street, Toronto. ISSUE 52. ~ 1948