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nine huge engines hauled presi party to winnipeg few places are less inviting on a blistering hot night than the union station in toronto with its steaming humanity jostling- for position at the various exits that takes one to the trains we found ourselves in the midst of such a throng at the end of one of the hop test days this summer seeking to reach our quarters on the cnr international limited for we were bound for winnipeg to attend the warvention of the canadian week ly press association once a train man checked our train and berth tickets on the platform we were never called upon again during the whole way to produce those tickets at intervals we were checked and doubledchecked by a conductor who would ask us our car and berth numbers the answer was always the same car 91 berth lower 8 and that was our pass word until winnipeg was reached to persons travelling in the first class section of the train air condit ioning is the great modern invent ion in fact if it were not for this airconditioned system there would be a lot of people staying home who are now travelling as folks who travel on night sleepers will know the interna tional limited leaving toronto at that late hour has the berths made ready for occupancy and most people go right to bed perhaps most of them are old dogs on the trail but to your reporter it was different and we had no sleepy eye lids consequently we proceed ed to the observation car after shedding some of our clothing and once in this comfortable parlor which fortunately for us was locat ed right next to our berth car we were soon among friends for there came aboard shortly mr harry nicholson editor of printer and publisher r kelly publicity man ager for the canadian red cross the man behind the scenes who directs the big annual campaigns that rolls in millions of dollars annually also other newspaper men we had heard a great deal about the crowded condition of these crack trains that cross the contin ent but this situation cannot pre vail in the first class section since only the berths can be filled one person to a berth people often have to wait for days to obtain a berth but once you get it that space is gone and there is no actual over crowding on the train we had even been told that you would like ly find a soldier in your berth and we confess that our disbelief was shaken in this yarn the very first night enroute proceeding to our berth from the observation car around 1 am we stumbled along the curtained isle of the i coach seeking out berth 8 which we located without difficul ty despite the now feeble light of a foot lamp switching on our wall lamp behold you there on my pil low lay a womans skirt and tunic on the arm of which the letters wren were too plain stirring up our black porter i protested that it was current gossip that you might find a soldier in your cot but nothing was ever said abouta wren he never even smiled those black chaps dont smile much on duty but he hurried to the berth and picked up the two pieces of feminity that gave me such a start and pushed off without any explantation only to say that i was to take over the berth yea sar get right in sar next morning the rascal consent ed to explain things he had been pressing or brushing the garments for the young miss and when called on to wait on a passenger laid the articles down where they later caused such an alarm and forgot to remove them many people travel west and to long distance points but few think to gather any statistics about the trains that carry them for inst ance the run from toronto to winnipeg 1257 miles calls on th resources of nine of the second largest engines of the cnr sys tem that means nine divisional points at the end cf each of which there is a change of engine driver fireman and brakeman your con ductor stays with you as does the porters and dining car crew these big engines are supposed to be do ing their full duty when they haul 17 steel coaches but we had nine teen we happened to ride in the second to last one so far from the engine that we never saw its smoke or heard its whistle at any time in fact the two last coaches with the observation and- dining cars form what is know as first class and it differs only from second class which is the centre section of the train in that it is ircondliioned both classes carry berths up front is the tourist section there folks sit up at night cook their meals or live on cold ones brought along with them a small store sells a few items need ed at meal time such as tea fruit and some victuals we passed through the tourist cars and found many people apparently enioying themsplves but they all looked ttr ed and dirty from the soot that was blowing in with a hot breeze it is a much cheaper way to travel and since it only lasts a few days folks do well to save their money by travelling tourist there is another class who enjoy the best the rail way can provide and they mean to have it all told our train carried 450 passengers the first time we had a time to leave the train after go ing abroad in toronto was at foleyet 474 miles westward on the journey and still 783 miles from winnipeg at armstrong nearing the bord er between ontario and manitoba one is expected to move their watch back an hour since man itoba does not recognize fast time they operate on standard or west ern time we forgot this little de tail tuesday night about the time and as a consequence we were first out next morning in our car mr j maclaren head of the biggest advertising firm in canada also made the same omission in the next car so we had the observation quarters to our selves and were first on deck when the call for breakfast was made at winnipeg we found the weather delightfully cool a great relief from the pressing heat in ontario threshing had not been general in manitoba although thousands and thousands of acres of grain stood in stook ready for the labor that at that time was not available the big cpr hotel where the warvention was held witnessed some 300 newspaper men in sess ion at various times complimen tary dinners were tendered by the government of manitoba at which the attorney general was the chair man and premier stuart s garson delivered an address another dinner by the winnipeg grain ex change for which the speaker dr jos davis was brought all the way from california by plane to speak those westerners stop at nothing to obtain a good speaker com plimentary luncheons by the t eaton co and others were so many that on two occasions we were guests at breakfast time of the toronto type foundry co and on another occasion the cana dian red cross society of canada who gave us a great insight into their work by way of a demon stration of acting at headquarters in winnipeg great evangelistic campaign 4 to be held in the town hall markham beginning on tuesday evening sept 5th at 830 and continuing until sept 17 with meetings every evening excepting on mondays and saturdays special speakers rev fred mccarthy radio pastor mt dennis rev a noseworthy radio pastor evangelistic centre rev o e sproull radio pastor elm street church all men of god with a dynamic message of full gospel preaching special singing assisted by gunner knudsen danish soloist also special music by evangel temple band of elm street church instrumental music on the saxa- aphone accordian etc hear the mcduffcopeland singing on the opening night good lively congregational singing all are invited all are welcome this is your personal invitation you cannot afford to miss this preaching canada needs people by lewis milligan is canada overpopulated that might be a good question to ask in approaching the subject of post war immigration looking at the map of the dominion and glancing at the census figure of only eleven million people who are scattered over that vast area the question would appear to be utterly redicu- lous and yet there are those who are firmly opposed to any large scale immigration after the war one of these is prof kirkconnell of mcmaster university who con tends that the economically habit able parts of canada are pretty well crowded and that the country could not hope to absorb from abroad more than a million immi grants in the next twenty years on the other hand we have prof griffith taylor of toronto univer sity who goes so far in the op posite direction as to declare that canada will support forty or fifty millions before it is saturated even if we keep our present high stand ard of living the settlement of that number of people of course would take well over a century says prof taylor it is common complaint among industrialists that we havnt got the population in canada to pro vide a home market for production on a large scale consequently we must have foreign markets for our surplus products another com plaint is that we have too many governments in canada for the size of the population and that we are proportionately overtaxed to main tain these needless public services take the first complaint we havnt got the population to pro vide a home market and we must have foreign markets for our sur plus products the remedy for that situation is to get population by means of immigration and thus increase the home market in other words invite the foreign market to come to canada and save the ex pense of exporation it may be argued that immigrat ion will flood the labor market but this would be more than offset by an increased demand for all kinds of products every immigrant family that arrives in canada has to eat food wear clothes live in a home and will consume more and a greater variety of canadian pro ducts than if it had remained in its native country as a consumer of rjlltamm carnival and dance sponsored by markhamunionville lions club to be held at markham fxlr grounds 5300 in valuable prizes including electric washing mach ine suit of clothes ladies or gents set spbcte dishes 20 pieces trilite floor lamp and many other prizes draw to be made on the night of the carnival billy holes orchestra in attendance proceeds for war charities adm draw 25c 6 for 100 ottici ifll unioxviliie junior farmers dance markham arena fri sept 8 ross creighton and his orchestra proceeds for a markham fair grain show admission 50c per oex iroquois commander our exports for this reason can ada has always enjoyed increased prosperity when it was increasing its population by immigration the complaint that we are over loaded with governments is quite justified in view of our small popu lation for the second time in less than a week hmsc iroquois commanded by commander j c hibbard pictured here went into action off the germanheld port of st nazaire helping to sink or damage eight enemy vegetable growers not complaining while the local tonnage grown to cauliflower this year is just about one quarter of the original estimate due to the plants failing to mature the price is one that compensates very well and will to a large extend make up for the poor production caulies are sell ing at from 150 to 2 per dozen and since the labor charges to the grower will not be anything like a heavy crop would mean his net result will be so good that it will not be necessary to call in the bailiff cabbage on the other hand is a splendid crop and prices are good too running around 18 per ton hundreds of tons are now finding their way to oakville for process ing from the growers around stouffville during goebbels official broad casts germans in restaurants are supposed to stop eating hard on the digestion ear it on your arm see that gs badge on his arm that meant hes volunteered to fight anywhere in the world the army needs more men like himmen who can take it men with the courage to fight so that their home their loved onesveryrliw they cherish may be free por this war is riot over yet westffl haye alotof fighting to do xnd our boys who are fighting over there will need the help of every red blooded canadian who is fit to fight arid willing to fight it will take months of thorough training to make you fightingfir thats why canadas army needs you noband needs you for overseas service join the canadian army for overseas service vvyi x l