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1947 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE NINE MONDAY, MARCH 10, i oday's Short Story POSTMAN'S HOLIDAY By John Rowley W LOOKED grim ... she had THLE fon there a e not say- bo Ag fg iD ig bregth, because this argument nt a lot to us. much about it, being only ten and our sister Sue didn't remember it Rat all for she'd been too young the last time we had been there. She was just turning six. Paw said: "Now see here, Beth. It ain't goin' to do no good to take on 50. My mind's made up. We ain't goin' up there ... don't you think I see enough cows at milk- ing time to last me the rest of my life ... and potatoes and chickens and corn? Why I can go down here to my own barn and 'see the same things they'll have at the Fair ... only difference is that they'll be prettied up with ribbons and such. It's all a bunch of non- sense!" "But it's the kids I'm thinkin' about," Maw told him. "They'll enjoy it so much ... and there's other things besides animals. There's the sideshows and the rides and the people. You're just stubborn, Tom, You'd enjoy it as much as the rest of us." "It'd be a Jos 's holliday," Paw said, 'And I don't crave that. I'd rather just sit here by the stove of an evening and smoke my pipe and read my paper." "There's lots to see besides the animals," Maw ins . "You wouldn't have to go near the farm exhibits." Paw shook his head and young Tom couldn't keep still any long- er. "There's merry-go-rounds," he said. "... and ice cream and side shows. Can't we go, Paw?" Paw glared at him and he shtank back wishing he had kept :» Maw said: "You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Tom,.acting this way. It won't hurt you ... and the kids'll have such a good "Paw rubbed the stubble on his up his mind and we all sal holding our breath and th our rs crossed. That is 'us kids did. Maw got up and went and stood behind Paw like foci good and put pen _jhey put her or his: shoulders. Her, voice was soft when she said: "It would be almost like when we were courtin'. Remem-: , ber how we used to go to the Fair / in those days in that light buggy your father had ..." She was silent for a minute and I could se¢ Paw's eyes soften. "Whatever become of that old buggy?" Maw asked. Paw laughed quietly to himseli and I wanted to shout out loud because I knew that when he laughed that way we were going to the Fair! "My father sold the buggy after he got his first car..." He chuckled 'I've been sorry sometimes that I didn't t him to keep it," he went on, HThere were a lot of good mem- ories tied up with it." Maw laughed and bent down and him. { "All right," he said. "You win. We'll go to the Fair ... but I'm going to have a good time ... see the side shows ... and the girls. And we won't go near the farm We didn't restrain our shouts then as we slid down from our chairs and ran to get our coats. Paw was smiling as he went out to get the car. The Fair was better that year than ever before ... it was like being in fairyland. Maw took us around because Paw had drifted off soon after we got there with some friends he'd met. We had rides on the merry-go- the ferris wheel and how many other things. And there was ice cream... lemonade .. and games. Tom won a prize toss- ing rings. It was a bracelet and he gave it to Sue. It was after eleven when we headed back to the car, dead tired ... and happy! We just piled into e back seat and went to sleep. Maw set! herself to wait as our father hadn't got back, I kept waking up every little while to listen to the sounds of the Fair being put to bed, The round I don't know "Remember how we used to go to the Fair in those days." side-shows and the concessions wee closing up by Just Hine an most everyone was goi ome. heard a clock strike somewhere and Maw said, half to herself: "It's twelve o'clock!" And her mouth began to tighten up and she started to drum on the win- dow. I could see that she thought that Paw and his friends had got into one of the side-shows where the dancing girls were. She didn't think much of those kind of shows and she usually made sure that she steered Paw away from them. I could see that she was getting pretty mad. I dozed off and didn't wake up until I of footsteps. Half asleep I heard Maw's exclamation and then the voices of the men. One of them was my father's and he was talk- ing excitedly and laughing. Maw said. "Tom Wilson, where have you been, We've been wait- ing here almost an hour!" Paw laughed a little sheepishl and my mother's lips tightened, and I knew that she had a pretty idea of where he had been. en one of the men broke in. "Didn't you know where he was all evening, Mrs. Wilson?" he de- manded. "He's been over to the other side of the Fair grounds ... at the stock exhibit! Old Joe to talk him into it," he went on, "And we just about had to drag him away when they got ready to close!" I could hear Maw laughing as I dozed off to sleep again, (Copyright) "esse Canadian Masters Cornish Language Saint John, NB --(CP)--E. A. tebone, 32, principal of La x school here, has the distinc- tion of being the only Canadian the Cornish Gorseth, a society of less than 100 members who know the ancient Cornish language. Prac- tically all are in the United King- dom but one member now lives in " Califernia, 'When he learned the oid tongue, the =bullt teacher, of Dutch y Was in Cornwall as an | win. R. CAP. leading aircraftman at- tached to an R.AF. radar unit. "It all began when I tried to fig- ure out the derivation of place names there," he recalls. "They don't mean anything unless you knov' the language. It died out in M the last 100 years, and now is used only by students. Mr. Whitebone began study of the language in the latter part of 1043 and was elected to the society in the spring of 1945 after writing a thesis in Cornish on knights of King Arthur, some of whom had in | actual existence. King Arthur is be- lieved by some to have been a Corn- ishman. A few members of the Gorseth known as bards by honor, have been admitted for accomplishments other than proficiency in the language. Each has the Cornish equivalent of his name. Whitebone's is Ascorng- With a flair for languages, he studied Greek in high school and also is familiar with Hebrew, Ger- man and French. He is working on Celtic languages and hopes to com- pile a grammar on all these tong- ues. East to West OGDEN'S Rolls Best Red Press Hits At Ont. Professor London, March 10 -- (CP) -- The Soviet newspaper Izvestia this week again attacked Prof. Watson Kirk- connell of McMaster University, Hamilton, on the grounds of being a "pro-Fascist" and of "trading in all kinds of fabrications about the and | Soviet Union." The head of McMaster's English department, who has sharply criti- cized Russia from time to time, was linked in the Izvestia article with Randolph Churchill, son of Britain's wartime prime minister, and Bever- ly Baxter, Canadian-born Conser- vative Member of the British House of Commons, ' At Hamilton, Prof. Watson Kirk- connell, commenting on Izvestia's criticism said he anticipated the "bad-tempered outburst" following a speech hem ade at Ottawa Feb- ruary 23. "When I spoke in Ottawa to a packed theatre exposing some of the tyranny of Stalin's regime," he said, "men from the Soviet em- bassy were in the audience. busily taking notes and I rather looked for a tirade of Soviet abuse." Car Under Drift, Not Aware Where Duanesburg, N.Y, March 10-- (AP)--Highway superintendents re- ceived this note from a farmer: "When the snowplow opens the road past my place tell the men to be careful, There's a drift about 10 feet deep and 50 feet long just before you come to my house. My car is under it somewhere. I'm not quite sure just where." Order Mental Examination Peterborough, March 10--(CP)--A tale of discovering six dead cattle, and 17 horses and 19 cattle in an emaciated condition on the farm of Thomas Heatherington, three miles north of here, was told by Huiians Society officers in police court. Heatherington was remanded to March 14 and a mental examination ordered, Bus Driver Has Guilty Complex Springfield, Ill, March 10--(CP) --City buses are strikebound in the Illinois capital and the mayor has asked motorists to give lifts to pedestrians, So George B. Casey picked up a dejected fellow plodding through deep snow, "Glad to do it," said Casey. "Feel sorry for people who have to walk." "Better let me out," said his pas- senger. 'I'm a striking bus driver." Vertical Mill For Peacetime Atomic Applications Looking at a vertical mill used for the production of big metal parts for the cyclotron, atomic pile and other atomic equipment, are: Dr. Philip M. Morse, director of Brookhaven National Laboratory; Edward Reynolds, president, Associated Universities, Inc., and Dr. I. I. Rabi, Columbia university, LEFT to RIGHT. The three men were pictured during a tour of the 24, Brookhaven National Lab y for Atomic research, a government owned, government-financed project operated by Associated Universities, Inc., under contract with the U.S. Atomic Energy commission, which is under comstruction on the 6,000-acre site of Camp Upton, Long Island, New York. Given 3 Years, To Learn Trade Halifax, March 10--(CP)--Ernest Fitzpatrick wanted to be a plumber, 80 he is getting three years in "col- lege" to learn the trade. Ernest, convicted here yesterday on charges of breaking and entering a Nova Scotia Liquor Commission store and stealing whisky valued at $51, asked the magistrate for a "long term" if he was going to get a penitentiary sentence. He said he wanted to learn the plumbing trade. He received a three-year sentence, Penitentiary prisoners, it was stated, are faught trades only when their sentneces are for more than two years. Get a Summons? Look Again Chum Toronto, March 10--(CP)--Got a summons? Look closely. It may be an invi- tation to a ball. The York County Police Associa- tion mailed 3,000 invitations to their first annual policeman's ball in the form of summons envelopes. The invitation is packaged in a blue envelope similar to the official one used by the police. Picketing Of Token Nature Only Glace Bay, NS. March 10 -- (CP)--Only "token picketing" will be carried out in Halifax by & group of 10 pickets sent by District 26 United Mine Workers (C.CL.) in connection with unloadthg of Amer- ican coal there, it is learned. -A spokesman said that what would likely prove the most effective ac- tion would come out of discussions between striking miners and mem- bers of the Canadian Seamen's handling the coal. Meanwhile, at Halifax, the Rock- wood Park, a collier owned by Do- minion Shipping Company--a sub- sidiary of Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation--had unloaded and re- turned to the U.S. It was reported that no other American coal ship- ment by water was expected dur- ing the coming week. Freeman Jenkins, spokesman for the 13,000 miners now in the midst of a thrge-week-old Maritime coal strike, lier this week protested a Provincial Government plan to pro- vide for coal imports should the strike continue for a lengthy period. Song and Dance Earns Freedom Chicago, March 10--(AP) -- John Peterson, 29, sang and danced his way to freedom when he appeared in municipal court. Arraigned on a disorderly conduct charge, Peterson told the judge he had imbibed too freely but, he ex- plained, customers in several tav- erns insisted on buying him drinks because they liked his singing and dancing. The judge asked him to display his talents. Peterson complied. "Discharged," said the judge. RURAL WOMEN'S COLLEGE London-- (CP) -- About 300,- 000 rural women in Britain are to have their own college endowed with money raised by.themselves. They are members of the Nation- al Federation of Women's Insti- tutes which has purchased exten- sive property near Oxford to be renamed Danman College, SHARKING INDUSTRY Melbourne, Australia -- (CP) --In South Australia shark-catch- ing is quite an industry, For some time after the beginning of pro- fessional sharking, the record for a single haul stood at 140. But 230 were taken last year, a record catch that seems never likely to be attained again, P.C.s Won't Split Vote In Cartier Montreal, March 10--(CP) -- The Progressive Conservative party, "in view of its desire not to aiviae fur- them the anti-Communist vote," will not enter a candidate in the Montreal-Cartier federal by-elec- tion of March 31, it has been an- nounced hy Ivan Sabourin, provin- cial leader. The federal seat, formerly held by Labor-Progressive Fred Rose, now serving a six-year sentence after his conviction for espionage activities, was declared open by Act of Par- liament. Three candidates have filed nom- ination papers. They are: City Councillor Dave Rochon, Indepen- dent Niberal; City Councillor Mi- chael Buhay, Labor-Progressive nominee, and O. L. Gingras, who thus far has made no mention of political affiliation. $ Maurice Hartt, M.L.A, for Mnt- real-St. Louis, has been named as candidate for the Liberal party and Paul Masse as Bloc Populaire stan- dard bearer. FINED FOR JILTING ,Castleconor, Eire--(CP)--Da- mages of £75 ($300) were award- ed against a Sligo farmer who ad- mitted he jilted his fiancee when he found out she was 40 instead of 34, as she had claimed. AIR SERVICE GROWS India's air services are expanding rapidly. When plans are complete, 146 airdromes will be in use, oper- ated by 14 transport companies. Hotel Business Is Easing Off Toronto, March 10--(CP)---Toron- to hotel keepers have reported an easing off in the wartime and post- war boom which used to keep would-be patrons in room-desk queues for hours, : Though all hotels continue to run at near capacity, it is reported eas- ier to get accommodation, Only one downtown Toronto hotel sald its business is keeping up with wartime levels and reported 50 to 60 turned away daily. Ralph Haffey, secretary of the Hotel Association of Ontario, said "The situation is much the same all over the country. Word from Western Canada shows an easing off in Calgary, Vancouver and Win. nipeg. 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