Sherbrooke daily record, 27 décembre 1948, lundi 27 décembre 1948

[" 1948 DECEMBER 1948 S M T 9 W 1 8 TES 3\t3\t4 9 10 11 13\t13\t14\t15\t16\t17\t18 19\t20\t21\t22\t23\t24\t23 36\t27\t28\t29\t30\t31 WEATHER LIGHT SNOW I cht fnow prulinj» thii evening, cloudy toniirht.Tuc-l.iy cliHir with littU chunar® in tompertturo Wind* «outhwwt 15.T«mp®r»turwi ye*terd*y i Maximum )5i minimum Ifl ( tmlow).I'car atfo: Maxi* mum 21, minimum 0 low 1.77/£ PAPEK OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS Zatablished 'rV.PRICE: 5 CENTS SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, MONDAY, DECEMBER J7, 1948.World News U.N.Palestine Observers Shades Of Pre-War In Brief Tokyo, Dec.27\u2014\u2014The Japanese government today called for a general election Jan.23, and 598 candidates immediately filed for the 466 house of representatives seats.Newspapers expected nearly 1,500 more to get into the political races.The election was precipitated by last week's dissolution of the diet at the climax of a long political battle.Dissolution means, however, vacating only the seats in the lower house of representatives.# * * Toronto, Dec.27\u2014(CP)\u2014A penitentiary convict who escaped from the Ontario mental hospital here was the object of a city-wide search by police today.He is William McTamney, 21, of Toronto, brought here for mental treatment from Kingston penitentiary where he was serving a three-year sentence for housebreaking.# * * London, Dee.27\u2014(/P)\u2014Britain had its coldest day of the year today.Temperatures sank to a low of 28 in London and to 18 at Mildenhail, northeast of London.Two hurdle race meetings were postponed because of the frozen ground, and several rugby and soccer games were called off.Forecasters said higher temperatures and rain are on the way.* * \u2022 Santiago, Chile, Dec.27 \u2014 (-d5) \u2014 The state telegraphs office said a strong earthquake shook Antofagasta in northern Chile at 3 a.m.yesterday.No casualties or damage were reported.>it ijf si* Tokyo, Dec.27\u2014(A*)\u2014Netherlands ambassadir Hendrik Mouw said today the United Nations has become \"suckers for Russian propaganda\u201d in dealing with the Indonesian fighting.In a press conference, Mouw, head of the Netherlands legation here, said the U.N.was \u201cplaying the Russian game'' by its cease-fire orders.\u2022 V * Tokyo, Dec.27.\u2014(/P)\u2014Gen.MacArthur today ordered all Japanese - produced staple foods, except what farmers use, delivered into the controlled market.Heretofore quotas which farmers must deliver have been fixed before planting time.The new decree means that agricultural officials will be required to demand delivery of all crops except amounts needed by farmers for their own use.The black market has absorbed much of the surplus over quotas in the past.# * £ San Jose, Costa Rica, Dec.27.\u2014 (Reuters)\u2014Costa Rican sources today claimed that invaders \"apparently from Ni-caragua made a surprise attack on the 64-man garrison of the Costa Rican border town of Port Soley on Saturday night and set fire to the town.The report shattered hopes that the invasion had been ended by the cease-fire ordered by the five-man committee of the organization of American states that paid a visit here one week ago.Accuse Truce Israel Of Breaking ||l By Negev Assault Rearmament In Germany To Be Curbed Security Council Will Discuss Mediator\u2019s Report Which Supports* Egyptian Complaints That Jews Reopened Hostilities.By JOSEPH K.DYNAN Paris, Dec.2 7\u2014(fP)\u2014United Nations observers in Palestine today accused Israel of breaking the Holy Land truce by attacking Egyptian forces in the Negev desert.1 he charges were contained in a lengthy report to the U.N.Security Council over the signature of Ralph J.Bunche, j mi H taryIjUgov^rnôr Nn ' ÛZZ\u201d acU\"*L' N\u2018 m*diat0' in\t.I he report, slated for discussion by the Council today, supported Egyptian complaints that Israeli forces reopened hostilities in violation of the Council\u2019s truce order.Bunche declared \"I have no knowledge of any incidents been working on creation of such which could be claimed as a provocation for the fighting in the : a board.The discussions heretofore m v ¦> | bave been top secret.\t, *\t!\t, Other sources disclosed that the\tI he Council will hold a private meeting at 3 p.m.to Berlin, Dec.27\u2014(Æ*)\u2014A long-: range plan to prevent German re-' armament is reported to have I been agreed on by Biitain, the United States and Fiance.i said last night the three western occupation powers had reached \"substantial agreement\u201d oh creation of a \"military security board.\u2019 Clay disclosed in a radio inter-j view that the westein powers have '.ediate future.I intended duties of the board are determine its schedule for the j to make sure that Germany remains disarmed after the military L faces challenges to its author-government stop functioning.ity in Palestine and Indonesia.As the military governments of TK Council has ordered Nether-the three western powers in Get, landfi authorities to halt the fight-many are red'uc-ed, the military .\t, .security hoard will take over many in- m Indonesia and free repub-of their functions.The board is ex- Lean leaders captured by Dutch posted to have military inspection forces.police who will search for viola- An official spokesman at The tmns of ffisarmament regulations H Ra,;d VeSterdav the Nether-The British-American air lift ,\t,\t' yesterday completed its first six ores government had not ordered i months of operation,\t'a cease-fire in the East Indies.The , to Greenland A statistical survey showed that spokesman said the Dutch position ed almost to ^e^a^,eS f*0'vr' ,' ¦u have he, u j i evv York together since before th I mas w nr.Negev Fighting Rsges With intensity of food, coal and other over the Soviet blockade in period.The daily average 3,805.3 tons.Clay set 4,000 tons Security Council.daily as the target when the operation .started.Nine fatal accidents have been reported; seven of them American and two British.A total of 17 Americans and seven Britons lost their lives.Aboard U.S.S.Saipan en route Dec.27\u2014*(/P)\u2014Slo'W-a snail\u2019s pace by lashing winds, the carrier Saipan hoped for fetter weather today as it ploughed on toward Greenland to attempt the rescue of 13 strand-\tTV* or»?** ed air force men.\tA Ojlis.Âr5 JLjLlR'l, Il s i'i : j firsa v Sc! T Tel Aviv Christm?3 By JAMES M.LONG The Saipan, which left Norfoi Berlin, Dec.27 '(fP) Eastern E t demanded an emersenev '' inds uip to around 100 Germany is learning the hard wav\tPC uunanuca an ciiicigcucy\tvesterdav how to live like the Russians.\thearing of its complaint.A Coun- \u2018 TheJ Vpner,\u2019 Gant J During 31i* years of occupation cil majority decided it could not Kane, first ordered th- The new\u2019 Holy Land conflict was brought to the Council\u2019s attention by the Egyptian government which ki.iiu.n.i.g point :\t,\t,, .\t.with improved weat.ier, however, charged in a cabled message that i (fere is doubt that it can keep Israeli troops had begun wide-1 that schedule.spread attacks in violation of the The Saipan was moving a Ion Council\u2019s truce order.\tat 27 knots until it encountered 100 miles an «vSLX.\u2019Ss: In Canada the Soviet Union has stamped its discuss imprint on 20,000,000 Germans between the Elbe and Odor rivers.Loyal pro-consuls of Moscow have transformed the politics and economy o.this war-shattered horidquaAers here this morning, land.Dressed up in a teutonic accent and playing lip-service to na- Joseph i.the carrier the Palestine situation slowed to 22 knots, until official information was re- fhc storm roared on and at (i cciv.ed from U.N.observers on P-ni., Kane reduced speed to 15 the\tspot.\tknots.Still later he cut down to 10\t¦ expected to\thit its peak tonight\tas The report\twas\treceived at\tU.\tN.1 knots.\t; Canadians\tlooked back on\ta \u201e\t.\t\u201e\t-T\tM\t.\t.\t, Better weather was expected\tto-\tChristmas\treplete with turkey and Fawzi,\tEgypt\ts\tU.\tN.\tdele-\tday.But it seemed likely to\tger\t^ By The Canadian Press It.most Canadian centres the Christmas holiday continued ( day with celebration of Boxing Day and eastern Canadians being cheered by forecasts of milder weather after the cold snap.The homeward trek of thousands by road, rail and airways was Tel Aviv, ! The battle , .in-' observe other genera vroerled ragi led;:;.A .b plane of Tel Aviv went into ils I! witn new nur: A ,, Td.nker Is dnipp.amhs east ast night as Israel eccnd night of total 'ulackout.No damage was reported n V'] Split In Two o rn\u201e Fifty-Second Year Santa's Visit Is Followed By Death Big Bear, Calif,, Dec, 27, u-P) I'ho table was un for Santa t laus, but death came instead for .voulu: Dr.leiome G.Schnedorf, iwo^of h.s chiUlien, and his mojicr.1 heir bodies were found ye.-ter* tfay among t drisBua.s decorations an I unopened pu cnis in tiieir loined moun.ain earin, While tho i.une of death temained an official mjs.eiy, tiieoric,- of po-aibiu \u2018¦aibon moiioxi .e poi-oning ti\\>m a g is In .tie:- or tm-.t the healer burned up (lie oxygen su, uy weie ml-i anced, \\ i.*! Hits ol tile Yuieii.ie tragedy \"ere 11'.Schmukui, 3(i; bus son unny, three ; hi.- daughter, Judv, cigii; ; and hi.- mother, Mr.-.Jo.opii-un' Schnedorf, (it.I lie Inn;ins were discovered by Hie dacioi ,¦ wii e.Mi -, Mai v Mar.guet.Bchnedorf.37, when she awoke trom a coma of nuire thaï; 30 hour-.She and Die elde-t child ¦\u2019err.), 10, were found in a roar «\u2018oom and thus narrowly eseap el Hie fate of the others, (\u2019n a lal e, in keeping with ui World Glu i.-Dnas cuntoiii, u \"\u2019.s set for Santa Glaus, - Next to it w as a note in an eu* velopc addle ed to (he three children It read : \"IKur Judy, Jerry and Tom, it >us too cold to bn,g a bubv girl, kitten and femi la canary to Big I Bear Lake.With this letter you can get.a laird and kitty later if I Vou are good.i 'V' tell year mother and dad, uul ta all a good night.Thank you I u the milk and ttrak.It was eery good, .Santa Chiu.''.\u201d Preliminary autopsy by Dr.G, S.Small di-closed no evidence of , oionoxii.o \"or any other poison-| .njV \u2019but chemical analyses of v\u201e0 iioda's t n ay was expected to rliod.i l a t on t ie mystery.Sheiilt ; Deputy Kendall Stone oii l he found a butane ga.s healer huriling, but added that the high-banlted snow may have stopped i;,i one or more of the vente/ Uhl plate Catholic Primate Fas Been Arrested M ate, r canwhile, changed in a let- W\u2019orse again when the Saipan Gonalisin, Communist dogma ter to the Council that the Jews i passes Cape Race, possibly \u2022TM'Vrxe r K rx n/\\r\\n .«x f i nn i* i i-f 11 o ' 1 -it + * ^.\t.i ., .\t*\t' 1\t^ grips the population virtually from the cradle to the grave to- were following a \u201cpersistent pol-1 night, , r> i i \u2022\t¦\t, ¦ ic*y\u201d of violating the Holy Land | While the Saipan took a fierce i 1-i-v\ts now a;e ^ a:n- tiuce \u201cin defiance of the Security \u2019 i They mcliUiae:\tCouncil\u2019s orders and decisions.\u201d I one-party state;\tsuper- He complained that the three- j strong ponce foico; liquidation of power conciliation commission ap-1 private enterprise; creation of pointed by the Council to imple-kolkhoz (collective) farming; un- ment its truce order thus far had swerving obedience to Russia in failed to present a report to the i foreign affairs.\tj Council despite \u201cnew violations\u201d j the The cold war has dispelled much | of the truce.surtounding Russia\u2019s aims in ; Fighting in the Negev, mean- ail the trimmings, probably more varied gifts than since before the war, and celebrations of all kinds from coast to coast.battering, five helicopters and two\tf afi#»?,.>.»,aSiSs'fc?', '\t» »«-¦».¦v.^wS-s w.i Garion Poirier, Roland Raymond, | Philippe Proulx, and Paul Filteau.; Danville Boy Win» Championship Lionel Jack Findlay, son of Mr.and Mrs.L.E.Findlay, of Dan-; ville, recently won the cingles ! championship in badminton at Me-j Gill University, Montreal.He is.in his third year of the engineer-j ing course.\ti1 General Notes Mi** Maude MacLeay has returned to her home, after spending two months in Calgary, Alta., with with her niece.Many friends of Mr.Clifford ! Gale were shocked and saddened | j to hear of his suckfen death.The! remains were brought here for i burial in the Danville Cemetery, Rev.C.W.Fogg officiating, on the arrival of the noon train on Saturday, December 11.BURNS ?THEATRE * NEWPORT, VT.Ends Tonight! In Technicolor \u201cLUXPIRY LINER\u201d Tuesday Mat.1:45 - W ednesday Eve.7 and 9 WAirpISiveyS IftoMtfrt COLOt «V IICHMICOIO» m plff All of us at Dominion Stores extend our Best Wishes to you and yours for the New Year.We realize the responsibility that you Canadian housewives have in keeping within your budget for food.Dominion is doing everything possible to enable you \"to get more for your money at Dominion\".We promise that all merchandise sold at your Dominion Store will be unconditionally guaranteed to give 100% satisfaction.\u201cDcmino\u201d Dry GINGER ALE 30-oz Bottles Special \u2014 Mi!k-Fed \u201cA\u201d Plump and Meaty ROASTING CHICKENS\tlb.WW Fresh-Killed Grade \u201cA\u201d BOILING FOWL\tAverage 3 to 4 lbs.\t».47s Choice Steer\tTender and Juicy BONELESS BLADE Cut to any weight\tlb.SIC Choice Steer MINCED STEAK\tLean and delicious\tlb.VJW Choice Steer\tAlways Tender BONELESS RIB ROAST and Reliable\tib.88° Choice Malpeque OYSTERS\tIn Shell \u2014 Fresh In\tdoz.4SC Golden Cured\tThe Family\u2019s Favorite SMOKED FILLETS\tib.31c Sunkist\t6% ORANGES\tJuicy\tSize 252 §a\t Golden Ripe BANANAS\tib.18c \u201cBarker's\u201d CRAX WAFERS \u201cCrawford\u2019s\u201d\t16-oz.SHORTBREAD BISCUITS Tin ^ \u201cGîenv/cod\u201d Lemon or Vanilla EX1RACTS\t2-oz.Bottle \u201cBrodie\u2019s\u201d Self-Raising XXX FLOUR \u201cMcNair Wiley\u201d SHELLED WALNUTS o-oz.\u201cMcNair Wiley\u201d MIXED NUTS \u201cMargherita\u201d Large QUEEN OLIVES McIntosh APPLES \u201cAylmer\u201d Pure\t11-oz.TOMATO CATSUP\tBottle \u201cPhiladelphia\u201d Assorted CREAM CHEESE Top Quality\tl-lb.RED ROSE COFFEE\tBag d-qt.Basket Carton \u201cHarvest\u201d FRUIT SALAD Emperor RED GRAPES Cluster RAISINS 20-cz.Tin lbs.\u201cHarvest\u201d Choice PEAS & CARROTS Fruits, Vegetables and Provisions Subject to Daily Market Price Changes \u2014 I p or Down 15-oz.20-oz.Tin 1 ' I [i S M\u2019S k CLa Bt, Values Effective From Monday, Dec.27th to Friday, Dec.31st at 58 Wellington St.North 3 To Cull \u201cTHE RECORD\u201d ?PHONE 6262 ?ONE NUMBER Connecting All DepartmenU Œïje Cttp ^agc SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, MONI'AV, OEV'KMIB'RR 27, UMS.Eicluri»» Wholwsle Diatrihutora I'aftorT Apthortf-ed Service AUTOMOTIVE EUECTR1C - CARHURETOH8 -MAGNETOS - SPEEDOMETERS - SHOCKS \"A Growing Organliation\" SHERBROOKE AUTO ELECTRIC INC.Two Deaths In Townships Are Among Death Claims 54 Canadian Fatalities At Week-End Mrs.Patriquin At St.Lambert Seotki's Christmas HAS BIRTHDAY Fires and traffic accidents helped swell the all-C«nad« toll of violent deaths during the Christmas holiday week-end to 54.In addition to the 16 persons who lost their lives in five*.19 died in highway mishap*, four from asphyxiation by gas fumes and the others from such causes as drownings, shooting, railway yard accidents and falls.Traffic victims included Mrs.Ubaid Cyr of Dontreal who died in a crash near Sherbrooke.At Millington, Oscar Cyr, 5i>, was struck by a tree branch Christmas eve.He suffered a skull fracture and died shortly afterwards.Mr, Cyr was working in the woods a.one about a mile from his home when a small falling limb pierced 1rs cap and inflicted a severe head injury.When he failed to return at his usual time, Mrs.Cyr became alarmed and sent a neighbor in search of her husband.The neighbor found him in a semi-conscious state in serious condition due to loss of- blond and exposure to extreme cold.After returning with the team, the injured man was brought home, where ho died at 8 p.m., before medical aid arrived.Born on April 30, 1899, son of Mr.Antoine Cyr, and the late Mrs Cyr, he is survived by his wife, the former Evangeline Broulotte, an aged father, four brothers and three sisters, as well as several nephews and nieces.Funeral sevrices were held this morning at 9 a.m.in the Roman Catholic Church in Millington, with interment in the local cemetery.Mrs.Cyr, 31, was a passenger in a ear driven by her husband who is a patient in St.Vincent de Paul Hospital suffering from lacerations to the face.Mr.Cyr was headed towards Sherbrooke when he hit a parked truck near Lake Park the track, unoccupied was owned by Ulric Dion, of Montreal.Both vehicles i were damaged, An inquest will be held either today or tomorrow.The accident was investigated by Provincial Police traffic officer Vital Lemire, lleiu \\iears REDUCED RAIL FARES FARE AND A HALF Good going: Until noon Saturday, January 1st, 1949- Return Limit: Leave destination not later than midnight, Monday, January 3rd, 1949.CANADIAN NATiO NAL QUEBEC CENTRAL BUY TICKETS EARLY.\t/IjAfi AVOID CONGESTION Ask any Agen/ for\t/MJtzjfD Royal Bank Figures Reach All-Time High Special to the Record Montreal, Dec.27.\u2014New high records in the field of Canadian banking are revealed in the annual balance sheet of The Royal Bank of Canada for the year ending November 30, 1948.Total assets show an increase of $128,846,567, and now stand at $2,222,487,786.This is an all-time high.Total deposits are over the two billion dollar mark for the first time and now amount to $2,067.488,996, an increase of well over $133,000,000 for the year! \u2022 Indicative of the ; degree of public saving is a healthy increase of nearly $89,000,000 in : total deposits bearing interest.Increases are also shown in loans.As a result of the greater volume of business, profits are moderately higher than in the previous year.Current loans have increased by $37,557,656 and total $591,870,-411.The steady upward trend of commercial loans in Canada, which began three years ago, has continued, the total under this heading being $468,845,763, an increase of $33,191,187.Investments in government and other public se-1 curities are shown at $918,420,-522, a moderate increase over the i figures for the previous year.The i liquid position of the bank continues very strong, the percentage of i liquid assets to public liabilities being 74.03.As a result of the increase in the volume of business, profits are moderately higher.After the usual deductions for staff pension fund I and contingency reserves, profits amount to $9,517,433 as compared with $8,724,519 the previous year, j Of this amount $3,150,000 has been set aside for Dominion and ! Provincial taxes, an increase of $300,000: in addition $808.887 has ; been provided for depreciation of bank premises, leaving a net profit of $5,658,546.This compares ! with $4,981,832 in 1947.Out of net profits $3,500,000 was paid in ; dividends and $2,058,546 carried ; forward to surplus, resulting in a i balance of $5,532,792 in this account.From this amount $4,000,-000 has been transferred to the Reserve Fund, which brings the latter up to $44,000,000, leaving a j balance of $1,532,792 carried forward.REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS St.Lambert, Que., Dec.27\u2014-® \u2014Mrs.Sarah Craig Patriquin.widow of Charles A.Patriquin, died here yesterday at the homo of : their daughter, Mis, D, C.Gordon.A native of Wolfville, N.S., shi .came here last year.She is survived by a son, Gra-; ham, of the Bishop's College sohool staff, and two daughters, 'Mrs.Gordon and Mrs.Roger | Lohnes of Woburn, Mass.Funeral service will take pkn\\ at the First Baptist church, Wolfville, on Tuesday.Quarter Century Club Is Formed rr Week-End FiresTake 16 Lives, Cause Si,000,000 Loss; Three Fires Here ( I.IFF BUY \\N l\\ who is roooiv-ing congratulations today on the occftsion CANADIAN PACIFIC William Dobb to Henri Bedard of lot 2-f and 3-d, Range 12, Ascot.Leo Paul Perreault et al to La Cite de Sherbrooke of part of lots 1-14 and 15, North Ward.Magog, Que., Dec.27.\u2014A special banquet for the employees of the Industrial Specialty Manufacturing Co.Ltd., was held at the Lantern Inn in Magog, on Thursday, December 23.This marked the inauguation of a Quarter Century Club, when watches were presented to those who had 25 years or more with the mentionad company.Mr.John Peters, vice-president' and general manager of the company, opened the meeting by giving a descriptive detail of the logging and subsequent industry, and complimented all of his old employees on their \u201c25 years and over\" service with the com; any.Mr.Peters mentioned that on this particular occasion of the inauguration of this club, most of the directors am! all of the officials of the company were present, including the president, Mr.John Gordon, the secretary, Mr.A, F, Anderson, treasurer, Mr.Oswald Brand, sales manager, Mr.Spensor Clark, and one of the directors, Mr.Sydney Webster.Mr.Peters made full stress on the loyalty of the representative gathering, following which presentations were made to the fol- j lowing: (The date mentioned is the date of entry to the company).Wilfrid Carrier, Aug.0, 1918.Thirty years\u2019 service; Arthur Carrier, Aug.6, 1918.Thirty years\u2019 service; Pierre Robert, Aug.20,1 1918.Thirty years\u2019 service; Carl O.Buzzell, Jan.20, 1919.Twenty-nine years\u2019 service; Phillipe Gaud-reau, Dec.30, 1919.Twenty-nine years\u2019 service; John Implante, Jan.10, 1920.Twenty-eihgt years\u2019 service; William Powers, Jan.10, 10, 1920, Twenty-eight years\u2019 ser-Clint Hopps, Jan.12, 1920.Twenty-eight years\u2019 service; Cecil Powers, Feb, 16, 1920.Twenty-eight years\u2019 service; Millard Powers, May 23,\t1920, Twenty-eight: years\u2019 service; Percy P.Catch-paugh, Nov.19,\t1920.Twenty- eight years\u2019 service; Harold Bul-i lard, Jan.10, 1921.Twenty-seven Happily.Seotki tpi doesn't know she is so ill with tuberculosis that Saturday >wis lier last Christmas, one spent hundreds of miles from her home in Santa Claus land.Here the Kskimn girl whose name means \u2018'l ittle Knr,\" is shown receiving Red Cross gifts from Medical Superintendent .1.M.Couillard of the Canadian Government hospital in Quebec, while her nurse looks on.Fearing Seotki would not live until Christmas, children of St.George's school in Quebec, moved it ahead a few days and presented her with clothes and a doll that gives her much delight.(CP Photo) birthday.Sdtcol Britain To Stage .Most Spectacular s ; Festival Since New York World Fair' The largest and most spectacular exhibition since the New York World Fair of 1940, will be held in London in 1951.Kvery village and town in Britain is being invited to go gay during the 1951 Festival, which will last from May to September.It will tell the story of Britain\u2019s life \u2014it' work and play, in discovery, invention and design.It will present a coherent and imaginative picture of Britain's achievement past, present and to come\u2014and of its contributions to the world in science, technology, culture and industrial design.The central exhibition will be sited on the south hank of the River Thames, across from the Victoria Embankment.Here will rise a bright and gaily coloured modern city, made of fabric.The concentration of all Britain\u2019s building materials in her tremendous housing program, which is making le mes for people at the rate of 80,000 families a month, will make it possible to build permanent buildings on the 27-acre site.fined to London alone, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will play a full part in the Festival of Britain.A series of smaller festivals will break out in centers already famous for their gala annual shows\u2014Shakespeare at Stratford-on-Avon; contemporary music at Cheltenham; the Welsh Eisteddfod; modern United Kingdom opera at Aldeburgh; classical music, folk dance, drama and ballet at Edinburgh; and other festivals with a traditional \u201cflavor\u201d at Bath, Brighton, Canterbury and Worcester.New Festivals of Art each do-voted to one particular aspect of the .arts\u2014will also he staged at Bournemouth, Liverpool, Norwich and York.A travelling exhibition -a microcosm of the London show will fill in the gap: by visiting Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Plymouth and Southampton, And every other town and village in Britain will capture the spirit, of A £2,000,000 ($8,000,000) \u201cbwiu-1 Merrie England 1951 with flood ty treatment\u201d will transform the ! lighting, decorations, musical shows blitz-scarred face of the south bank.Work has already started on this immense face-lift to convert an ugly mountain of bomb debris into a Culture Centre with formal public gardens and a £1,250.000 ($5,000,000) concert hall seating 4,000 people.A new National Theatre will be erected on this site later, The Festival of Britain is being held on the centenary of the Great Exhibition planned by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.Novel structures made entirely of new HISTORIC MEDICAL HIGHLIGHTS\u2014No.17.SEAWEED TO MEDICINE IODINE was discovered in 1811 by Bernard Courtois, a French chemist.It is obtained from seaweed, burned at a low temperature, which forms into heavy blackish scales with a violet lustre, giving it a metallic appearance.A solution of these ashes of seaweed, or kelp, make the iodine antiseptic so commonly known today.Used on external injuries as a counter irritant, it has strong antiseptic qualities.Although the medicine is poisonous when taken internally, minute proportions of it are found in many foods and are essential to health.Ts your medicine chest up to date?Keep poisonous remedies out of reach of children.Keep only recently filled prescriptions.Keep a complete first-aid kit.Call your doctor at tlm first sign of illness.Star Pharmacy Reg\u2019d j, ' ^ .n | Permanent, full-size buildings will i great past and our promii twenty-! g)10w a cross-section of a residen- ture, let ourselves go.\u201d \u201e I rt ,\t.types of fabric, now being design- years\u2019 service; Forrest Humphrey, e(i for this century.s Festival City, Jan.12, 1921.Twenty-se\\en years are as ,|arjng jn conception as the service ; V\\ rlham Legault, May , famous Crystal Palace built for | 192! Twenty-seven years ser-.thr mi Exhibition.1 vice; J.Norman Pe,eis, Dec.1.- ., qu another bombed site near the Twenty - seven years service, ^ Centre of London will be staged a Gordon Bates, Jan.10,\t,.|jveii architectural exhibition.Twenty-six years\u2019 service; Ralph Humphrey, Oct., 1923.Twenty-| gilow a cross-section of a residen-l\u2018five years\u2019 service.\t| tia! neighborhood with houses, | Mr.Peters called on the.pre.si- apartment blocks, shops, commu-dent, Mr.John Gordon, who made nity centre, schools, factories, a the personal presentations of, church and a \u201cpub\u201d.This exclu ! beautiful 17-Jewel gold j He wnas assisted by Mr.and Mr.Anderson.Following this, Mr.Gordon made a personal presentation to Mr.John Peters.The progress of tne company was then reviewed by Mr.Web- and other entertainments.Important dates on Britain's calendar will tie in with the official Festival program\u2014the British Industries Fair, the Chelsea Flower Show, the Royal Agricultural Show, the Royal Horse Show, the Highland Games and the annual meetings of many societies such as the\u2019 British Association.Oxford, Cam-: \"bridge and London Universities will offer special vacation courses during the summer of 1951 in subjects' allied to the Festival theme -open alike to United Kingdom citizens and visitors.\"We envisage this as the people\u2019s show, put on by us all as an expression of a way of life in which we believe,\u201d explains Lord Ismay, Chairman of the Festival Council.\u201c1951 should be a year in which we can, while soberly enjoying our ng fu- Eiros, which took the lives of sixteen persons across Canada and caused more than $1,000,000 damage, struck three times in Sherbrooke during the Christmas weekend.The most serious blaze was at a three storey, wooden construction duplex on High Street where fin men fought the flames for nearly 10 hours on Christmas Day.This spectacular fire, believed to have been caused by a defective heating pipe in the cupboard of a second storey hedryom, was in the house owned by M.W.Parkinson.Mr.Parkinson and his family lived, with hoarders, in one half of the duplex while the other half was .occupied by Aime Roy and his family*.IsxtMisive damage was caused to the building and firemen, coated with iee as the water froze to their eh lit in the sub-zero weather, spent most of their Christmas afternoon and evening bringing the flames under control, Two alarms were sounded.Smoke poured from the house making conditions dilfieult for the firemen, two of whom were injur oil.Fireman G.Gauvreau stepped on a nail which pierced his fool and fireman K, Fournier out his hand on broken glass, Firemen from the No.1 and No.5 stations under the direction of Director Percy Donahue kept the fir ¦ from spreading to the lower fioor.The two top floors w heavily damaged while the main fioot suffered extensively front smoke and water.Director Donahue wishes to thank those who gave hot colfee and sandwiches to the firemen.Two other fires broke out on Cl.iistmns Day*.Firemen were called to the home of Wilfrid Do autels on Alexander Street but this blaze was extinguished within an hour and loss was not serious.This fire was believed caused by a directive wire.Light damage was caused by smoke and water to the cellar of J.n Mitchell Company situated on Wellington Street.The fire started as a result of an overheated pipe in the heating system.By The ( anadian Pres s Sixteen Canadians lost their lives and property damage in Christinas holiday week-end flic totalled upwards of $ 1,000,000.Five persons died in a Christmas morninug fire at.(lient worth, Sash., 130 miles south of Moose Jaw.They were Frank Kaschuler, his wife and their three young children.At.Estevan, Sask., four died when flames raced through a building housing 16 families at an airport.The dead: Mrs.Pat O\u2019Brien, 35; her daughters, Lornn Jean, two, and Leo, six months; and her sister-in-law, Joyce O'Brien, 24, of Regina.A young couple and their tiny baby were burned to death on the outskirts of Sauk Sic.Marie, Out., when fire levelled their new home.The victims were Donald McCulloch, 21-year-old steelworker; his wife, Jacqueline, 18; and Kenneth, seven months.A Christmas tree fire at Rich- Johansson, 45, of Kalmar Sweden.At Brantford, Ont., Mary O'Rourke, 75, died of burn* suffered Tuesday night when her clothes caught fire from n kitchen stove.Damage estimated at more than $600,000 altogether was caused by fi ur major fires and a series of minor outbreaks in Montreal.The big Mazes swept a freight shed on Yietoria pier, a two storey departmental store in suburban Verdun and two night clubs.Other outbreaks in which no lives were lost hut damage was estimated at $25,000 or more were: Toronto Truck and Tractor Equipment Co.Ltd., plant just west of the city.$300,000.Ottawa hVurnior Van and Storage, l.'d., watcltouso and garage, $200,(100, V.t i veil vet* Furniture factory, waro' u-c ami two homes total $100,000, Sydney, N.S.-throo offices on $\u202210,000-3125,000.Polerbcreugh, Ont, \u2014 Windsor hotel, two top storeys gutted, two other fleers damaged by water, $40,000, Mattiwaki, Que, Lumber supply house 25 miles north of Mattiwaki in liatbieau district, $25,000.Drug store and the main street.The annual Christmas concert and dance were held in the Ascot msolidated School at 8.30 p.m.on Friday, December 17th.\\n Interesting program was ptesenlod with Mr.E.Dennison, Principal of Lennoxville High School, acting ns chairman.The program follows; \u201cThe First Christmas,\u201d a selection of Bible readings and carols by the school; \"Christmas Exercise.\u201d by Grade 1; \u201cAway in a Manger'\u2019 and \u201cUp On the Housetop\u201d, enrols by Grade t; \u201cA Christmas Lesson\u201d, dialogue by the school; \"The First Christmas\u201d, recitation by Billy Parnell; \u201cWhile Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night\u201d, by Grade 2; \u201cMellerdrammer\u201d, play by Grades 3 and 4; \u201cChristmas Time for Teddy Bears\u201d, song by Grade 2: \u201cHighland Fling\u201d, by Doreen Rolfe, Dora May Rolfe and Corrol Brown; \u201cGood Christian Men Rejoice\u201d anil \u201cSilent Night\u201d, carols by Grades 3 and 1; \u201cA Mock Quarrel\u201d, Swiss Folk Dance by Grades 5 and 6; \u201cDeck the Hall\" and \u201cWhat Child Is This\u201d, carols by Grades 5 ami 6.Before the close of the concert, Wendell Sparkcs presented Professor Havard with a gift from the staff and pupils, a small token to voice their appreciation for the help so kindly given them by the professor with the concert.Professor Havard expressed his thanks, and added that he had derived much pleasure from his work at Ascot.The singing of the National Anthem brought the concert to a close.Dancing was then enjoyed the remainder of the evening, and a gratifying sum was realized from the proceeds.This will he used to furnish the pupils with hot lunches during the winter months.Much credit is given Mrs.Fearon and Miss MacDougall, who were in charge of decorations, and Mrs.mon,| Hill, Ont, just north of To-( rawford.who coached the school t ronto, snuffed out the lives of two.:: Department Gets Thy Place New York, Dec.27.AV Ottawa y este: ray was named winner among Canadian municipalities of the 25th annual fire prevention week contest.Second place went to Arvidn, Que., and third to Sherbrooke.Entr; s were judged on the basis of records, clippings and photo-graphs concerning fire-prevention programs, and on descriptions of activities during tire prevenfiou week last Oct.2-9.play ed.which was very well present- Oor Congratulation* to: L.W.Dixon, who is observing bis birthday today.little boys in a foster home.Har ; old Slater, five, and John Blytli, i nine, suffocated in the smoke.In the engine room of the Swedish freighter Salem in dry dock at Saint John, N.B., a flash fire I Christmas Eve took the life of Karl Man Uninjured When He Drives Car Into Train Magog, Dec.27.Wilfrid Ouel-lettr.of .Montreal, escaped uninjured Saturday night when he drove h i s car into the dining car of ths C.P.R.Montreal to Saint John train at a crossing in Magog.The train was stopped at.tha station and Ouellette, apparently lading to.see it.crashed right into the standing diner.The steps had to bo taken off the diner before (lie Car could be removed.Damage estimated at.$600 was caused to the diner while the damage to the ear, a Buick, was placed at $1,000.Another holiday accident here i ivolve 10-yi.ar-old Howard Hopps, son i f Harold Hopps.t he boy wa.s trying out his Christmas present ki on Christmas afternoon when he fell and one of t no poles pierce i his eye.He was taken to Sherbrooke Hospital and will lose the sight of the eye a.-, a result of Ine injury.watches.! Webster sive neighborhood will demonstrate town-planning and building research, wdth some sections of the buildings exposed to show structural technique.The \u201ctown\u201d will form the nucleus of a new London suburb.At the end of the Festival, demonstra-' setr, during which he' referred to : ^on buildings will be completed and .i many humorous incident* that i the e,ntire ueignborhood handed have taken place since the forma- over ^ People to live m perma-.ter** Gi.V-XV -wi and Staff of Their Ktany Friends and Customers tion of the company.Driver Loses Case From Car Compartment Someone, possibly from Sherbrooke, who is looking for a bag containing clothing and a sum of money will find it in Montreal.Donald McMahon, of Montreal, driving to Sherbrooke on Christmas night, saw the bag roll across the highway near Waterloo after apparently falling from the rear compartment of a car heading towards Montreal.Mr.McMahon attempted to signal the other driver to stop but he continued.The bag and its contents can be obtained from Mr.McMahon at 5859 Park Ave., Montreal, telephone Crescent 1750.nently.London will also have a Festival , of the Arts lasting eight weeks.I Theatres and movie houses will run special programs to co-ordinate the ' best in music, opera, ballet, drama, music-hall and films.Open-air cafes, fireworks displays, fountains, multi-colored floodlights, pagean- j try and sport will all add to the festival spirit in the nation\u2019s capital.The gay picture is not to be con- 65 Wellington St.North Telephone 1232 Arguin | Injured In : Car Accident Mrs.Adelard Arguin is a patient I in Hotel Dieu Hospital this morn- : ing suffering from a fractured shoulder and lacerations to the face, received when a car in which she was a passenger collided with a city grader, The accident occurred on Friday afternoon in front of 177 Drummond Street.A car driven by Mr.Arguin was 1 headed west on Drummond when it t J hit a parked grader.Both vehicles Bishop-1 were damaged.Irving The condition of forty-one-year-j old Mrs, Arguin, who lives at 8 \u2014y\u2014;\u2014\tI Croteau Lane, was reported by Dr.Horn\u2019s Clinic will be closed | hospital attendants this morning as good.Constable Arthur Hamel investigated the accident.BRIEFLETS Rebeka'a holiday dance, ton Town Hall, Dec.28th Richard\u2019s Orchestra.until Jan.4th.Dance at St.George's Ch.Hall.Lennoxville, Tues., Dec.28th.at 9 p.m, Les Beaulieu\u2019s music.Adm.: 60c single, 75c couple.I J & < RLS< O 111 IU DOMESTIC lb.Sunkist ORANGES 31 Us 2 doz.MIXED CANDIES 39 89 tfmr m Sts ë M m **TZ»» Have you read the Want Ads lately?Perhaps there is something I advertised vou would like to buy! 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V PW - StlcrbrooKcDailgBccocri The Oldest Daily in the District Established Ninth Day of Febiuuiy, 1897, with which is incorporated the Sherbrooke (Jazette, established 1837, and Sherbrooke Riaminer, established 1878.The Record is printed and published every week-day by the Sherbrooke Daily Record Company Limited, of which bdna A.Beerworth is Secretary-Treasurer, at *.he office, 69 Wellington St.North, in the City of Sherbrooke, incorporating the news service of The Canadian Press, The Associated Press and Reuters.The Record is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation, its circulation being regularly audited and guaranteed.Subscription Rates: Carrier delivery in Sherbrooke and Eastern Townships: 25 cents weekly, $13.00 per year.Mail subscription in Canada, Great Britain or the United States: 1 year $6.00,\t6 months $3.25,\t3 months $2.00, I month $1.00.Single copies 5c.\"Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa.\u201d AN EDUCATIONAL SALES TAX The great development of the educational system of the Province of Quebec, and elsewhere, in recent years has been remarkable, the services of the public school system being expanded to the point where they enter every branch of ordinary life.But to carry out these increased functions costs money and the various school boards have been in financial difficulties more or less constantly for the past several years.Like many other public bodies, they are caught between the upper millstone of restricted revenues and the lower stone of steadily growing expenses.Special assistance has been 'granted from time to time by the Provincial Government but the fact remains the school boards still look for the major portion of their revenues to real estate taxation.In the early daj's, when educational budgets were modest, and land ownership fairly evenly distributed, this form of taxation was as equitable as any.But conditions have changed.The combined municipal and school taxes have placed a heavy burden upon the property owner and it is doubtful if the average home-owner could meet the increased tax rate required to balance the combined budgets under the new conception of municipal and school board duties.To meet the deficits, present and prospective, the local school boards are seeking the imposition of a retail sales tax to be collected along with the existing provincial and proposed municipal levies.This proposal provides one of the most realistic proposals to the school finance problem yet advanced.The sales taxes is one of the few universal levies, although it affects the average man on his ability to pay, it being based on the amount of his luxury and semi-luxury purchases.It means that everybody helps pay for the educational system, which is only fair in view of the accepted doctrine that education is everybody's business.And it means that the property owner will still have an opportunity of receiving some return on his investment rather than have everything drained off to meet taxation charges.It should be efficiently collected as it is proposed to have the existing provincial sales tax service gather in all three levies\u2014provincial, municipal and school\u2014and distribute the proceeds proportionally.Until there is some general reorganization of the whole taxation system insofar as local governing bodies are concerned, the sales tax seems the most logical and fair method of gathering the additional revenues required.A BASIC UNITED NATIONS\u2019 WEAKNESS Events of the past few days have only-served to prove the contention of many qualified observers made at the time of the organization of that body that the United Nations would revert to little better than a debating society owing to the lack of means of enforcing its decisions and recommendations.One of the basic ideas of the proponents of the United Nations was that it should have control of an international force which could be despatched, with sufficient strength, to any threatening area to prevent acts of aggression.However, differences over the manner in which the force should be raised and directed prevented any action toward the fulfilment of this idea and the Security Council was robbed of the teeth required to make its words effective.It has been defied almost with impunity by comparatively small states.At present, cease fire orders have been given in both the Palestine and Indonesian fighting but in neither case do the parties concerned appear very much impressed with the order.In bdth cases, aggression continues by one side or another.And there is nothing the Security Council can do.In Palestine, a troubled peace was maintained for many years by the presence of British troops, the support of which cost Britain much in both blood and treasure.When, for political reasons the major powers within the United Nations decided that the British should withdraw.Whitehall gladly accepted the proposa] that it be relieved of its thankless anrf costly task.With the removal of British troops, active fighting broke out and the Security Council had no means of stopping it.Negotiators were sent out and periodical truces were arranged, but these lasted only until such time as the more radical elements on one side or another gained their second wind.In Indonesia, a similar order has been issued with almost the same reaction.The fighting continues, Unfortunately, there appears little hope of providing the Security Council with the force required.Certain powers seem intent upon aggressive action, and as one of them still possesses veto power in Council proceedings, it seems unlikely that they will approve any action which might tend to curb their activities, Thieves generally do not favor an increase in the strength of the police force.SHERBROOKE DAILY RECORD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1948.The Mirror of Thinqs to Come VVasfiing\u2019on Coinmn By PETBK EDSON GOVERNMENT-OWNED RAILROADS POSSIBLE IF TREND CONTINUES (jovernment owneivihip of the railroads may be what ultimately lies ahead if the transportation industry continues its present cycle of wage and rate increases.This hard conclusion is the off-the-record opinion of Washington transportation authorities not connected with either railroad management or railroad labor.Probably no official would allow himself to be quoted on this trend at this time.But private observations to this effect were made freely following announcement of the special Presidential Mediation Board\u2019s recommendations that on Sept.1, 1949, nonoperating railroad employees should be granted a 40-hour week in place of the 48-hour week, with seven cents an hour wage increase.Recommendations of this board are not binding on eitrher management or labor.Either or both may turn down the finding*, as unacceptable.The recommendations were intended bo head off threat of a strike next January, but a strike is etill possible.Another possibility is that if the board\u2019s recommendations, should be accepted by both sides ae a basis for negotiations, there will be nine months of arguing over how to put the 40-hour week* into effect.& I fia\u2019-.vAic h From The Record Files Pr ess Comment 1 ers, H bound up with production.\\ That is our only sure security, the only thing meaning prosperity, ' It is good to see Mr.St.Laurent understanding and stressing it.LAST MAJOR INDUSTRY NOT ON 40-HOUR WEEK The railroad industry is practically the only big ! industry in the country which is not now on the i five-day 40-hour week.It will be recalled that when this schedule was being generally adopted I during the 1930's, there was much argument that ¦ steel and other basic industrie.: couldn\u2019t operate | that way, and would he ruined.They weren't.Tran-| sition in the railroad industry may therefore be a j lot smoother than is now anticipated.Increased operating costs imposed by the re-| commended wage rate and rule changes would be j something else again.Estimates vary, but the total ! increased covots to the railroads if all the board\u2019s j recommendations are adopted will be $450,000,-! 000 to $650,000,000 a year.These increases cannot be absorbed by any ! freight or passenger rate boosts which the railroads 1 have received or still have in sight from Interstate j Commerce Commission.Petitions for a 13 per cent i increase in freight rates now being considered by IOC would be the \u201csixth round.\u201d Four inereaaes in j freight rates have been received since the end of ; the war.In addition, passenger fares, mail pay and express rates have been raised.Railway labor has received three full rounde of wage increases for both operating and nonoperating i personnel, and is now starting on its fourth round\u2019.In addition, the carriers claim that coal and oil coi-ts are up nearly 100 per cent above prewar, while all material and supply costs have gone up ' about 70 per cent.This spiraling of wages and rates obviously can't j go on forever.Sooner or later it must reach a van-! killing point of increasing return.The railroads will simply price themselves out of business.HIGHER RATES WOULD CURB TRAFFIC Passenger fare increases granted this year have ! already the effect of cutting total passenger-miles travelled.In ICC freight rate hearings just concluded.many shippers of coal, lumber, fruits and ! vegetables, livestock and other commodities claimed freight rates were now as high as they could go.If passenger and freight rates are forced still higher, more traffic will simply have to be diverted to ; competing services.This has happened in some degree to railway | express business.If the railroads are headed toward government ownership, it will apparently have to be this kind of an operation.Rates will be kept low enough by law » so that people can afford to travel and ship by rail.Government subsidies will take care of losses.Escapes from this eventual outcome are considered limited under present trends.The railroads might possibly change their operation so as to cut down overhead.Unprofitable .services would be dropped.Railroad passenger service for all Class One railroads is now operating at a loss of $400,-000,000 a year.Trains and even routes that do not pay expenses might have to be taken off if deficits rise.The other alternative, of course, is to let the i railroads go bankrupt.That might bring on another i depression.Rut it* would enable them to write off their indebtedness and etart all over again at a lower capital valuation and lower carrying charges.It would of course mean the ruin of many investors.The government would probably be asked to step in and take over to prevent that.BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.\u2014Lamentations 3:30.* * * He had such a gentle method of reproving their faults that they were not so much afraid as ashamed to repeat them.\u2014Atterbury.MR.GARDINER'S SHRINKING STABILITY Montreal Gazette In Benjamin Disraeli\u2019s novel Sybil there is a character who is described as having only one idea, and that idea happened, unfortunately, to be wrong.There may be a certain parallel here with the Rt.Hon.J.G.Gardiner and his policy as Minister of Agriculture.His one big idea has been that of tying up Canadian foodstuffs in the British market.In pursuing this policy Mr.Gardiner lias been determined, despite considerable lack of enthusiasm both in the Canadian producer and the British purchaser.But his policy has now arrived at a crisis.The British do not have enough dollars to keep up their purchases.It is true that even now he does not admit his idea was wrong.But he docs admit that it has been \u201cdashed to the ground.\u201d Mr.Gardiner\u2019s insistence upon committing Canadian foodstuffs to the United Kingdom arose from his belief that his policy would provide the Canadian producer with a secure market of long prospects.In following this policy he has imposed upon Canadian agriculture prices lower than could be obtained in other markets, notably in those of the United States.* * * But it has been Mr.Gardiner\u2019s contention that by foregoing the temporary advantage of selling elsewhere, the price of foodstuffs would he kept at a lower level in Canada, and the Canadian producer would come out well in the end, because of the stable demand which the British market would provide.It now appears, however, that the Canadian producers have not only been committed to lower-than-free-market prices, but also to a market that is notably shrinking.The insistence with which Mr.Gardiner has clunB to his idea appeared very strikingly a year ago when the Canadian Government, of which he was a member, negotiated the United States-Canada trade agreement.This pact was hailed in some quarters as being the greatest stroke of Canadian trade policy since the Reciprocity Agreement of 1911.The tariffs of the United States were cut in two on cattle, wheat, coarse grains, dairy products and other foodstuffs.The quotas on Canadian exports were notably enlarged, and in a few instances wholly eliminated.The agreement came into effect on the first day of this year.But the door was opened only to be closed.By orders-in-council, based upon a law enacted by Par-liameni in the spring of 1947, the Government imposed certain prohibitions on the export of foodstuffs to the United States.Then by means of contracts on bacon, beef, eggs, and cheese these products were channelled into the overseas market c^f the United Kingdom.It was a soniewhat drastic method of committing Canadian producers to one market.And Mr.Gardiner\u2019s argument that this was justified on the ground that this overseas market would be stable was from the first somewhat odd.It is now a year ago since the British financial weekly, The Economist, pointed out that Britain was, and would be, far from a willing customer, at least as far as Canadian cattle and hog: and dairy products were concerned.As The Economist put it, the Canadian Government had only \u201csucceeded in forcing ihese products down unwilling British throats.\u201d And The Economist thought that nothing could he more strange than Mr.Gardiner\u2019s confidence that the British market, of all markets, should be thought of as being \u201cstable.\u201d In his spebch in London on Fri- ! day Mr.Gardiner, in deploring the I lessened British purchases, declar-1 ed that it is the currency difficul-! ties that have dashed his hopes of a long-term stable agreement to t the ground.This is, of course, true.But these difficulties have been neither unexpected nor unpredictable.The specific warnings have been many.* » * The situation that has developed is not one that concerns Canada alone.What Britain is doing with | regard to Canadian foodstuffs is i only part of the same policy she is ; following in the general attempt 1 to curtail her purchases from the \u201chard\u201d currency countries and to expand them with other markets.The shift in British purchasing is toward Scandinavia, Europe, Australia and some Latin American countries, and even the Soviet Union, where the dollar shortage does not restrict payments.It is all part of a wide program.In following this program the British have not left Mr.Gardiner in the lurch.Indeed, he admits that warnings were given by the British as long ago as 1943, and even 1940.It appears, in any event, that Canada\u2019s biggest industry may be due to suffer a good deal of dislocation from the unfortunate fact that Mr.Gardiner\u2019s one big idea may have been wrong.WE\u2019VE GOT TO PAY THE PREMIUMS Ottawa Journal Putting aside for the moment the permissible politics in Prime Minister St.Laurent\u2019s radio address of Thursday evening, there was one thing he said which should be stressed more often, and which might have received more attention from Mr.St.Laurent\u2019s party in the past.This: \u201cSocial security is very like individual insurance.We all know if we want life insurance we have to pay premiums,\u201d That is exact truth.The trouble in the past has been that so few seem to have understood this truth, seemingly imagining that the Government had some secret fund of its own, some bank account on which it could write cheques endlessly for anything that anybody might want.Unfortunately, the Government itself, by its promises and commitments, encouraged this fallacy.There can be no social security, no total of payments for family allowances.nor for old age pensions, nor for health insurance, nor for any other like benefits, beyond the capacity of a country to provide wealth to provide for them.In other words, there can be no superstructure without a foundation; no permanent social security, nor indeed security of any kind, unless there first be production, employment, jobs, purchasing power.Nor can any government provide money for social security by merely taxing more.A tax scale may be as high as Haman's gallows; unless there be production first, with people getting money from such production to pay taxes, the higher taxes must fail.A tax rate is like a high wage scale; if there is no work the wage scale is meaningless; if there is no production, no wealth, the high tax scale is meaningless.Equally meaningless, equally nonsensical, is talk about providing money for social security by \u201csoaking the rich.\u201d If tomorrow we had an income tax which took the total of all the incomes of all the rich, the aggregate amount wouldn\u2019t be enough to pay a fraction ofsocial security.And if this were done, an act of confiscation inconceivable, the result would be that all of us must be worse off than before.The truth is that the well-being of all of us.this whether we he producers, or business people, or work- CANADA'S CASE Windsor Star I Before he left Ottawa for Lon-I don, Minister of Agriculture Rt, Hon.J.G.Gardiner made it plain he intended to place \u201cCanada\u2019s I Case\u201d before the British people in \u2018¦respect to the food eontracts.This he has done in his address to the Canadian Chamber of Commerce J in, London.All through the war years and since, Mr.Gardiner had annual ! negotiations with Britain on food contracts, wheat, bacon, cheese, 1 eggs and poultry, and sometimes ¦ apples and potatoes.He knows the amounts of food Canadian farmers 1 produced for Britain; how they agreed to sell it at lower than world prices\u2014often much lower.He knows also the British negotiators were tough traders.They wanted as much as possible of the best for the lowest expenditure of money.Throughout the war, Mr.Gardiner got the co-operation of Canadian farmers in respect to production and lower than world prices, partly because of their hope that they could retain a large British market after the war.Now Mr.Gardiner sees the food eontracts being reduced, while Britain is \u2018 seeking to get as much food as 1 possible from other countries, including some unfriendly countries in Eastern Europe.It tends to make him a bit mad.Mr.Gardiner knows all about Britain\u2019s dollar shortage, and her need for great care in the expen-! diture of what dollars she has.But, what is less easy for him to under-I stand is that Britain is making 1 deals with Russia and other Eastern European countries \u2014 trading tinplate to Russia, for instance, for foodstuffs.He implies that it should be possible for Britain to send some of these exports, now going to other countries, to Canada i to buy the food here.He also implies Britain should do this for Canada, after this country\u2019s assistance during the war and since.I He also is inclined to resent suggestions in Britain tha Canada has been falling down on her contracts., Canada could have done better,1 j with bacon for instance, if there | had been longer-term contracts 1 such as Britain is making with Australia.Farmers would have had j more assurance that if they in-1 creased production it could be marketed.Mr, Gardiner is indulging in plain talk.It won\u2019t do any harm.I And, the Minister of Agriculture! i wants to secure the, best price pos-! sible for the 1949 wheat crop.THIRTY YEARS AGO Heavy casualties are reported in street fighting between sailors and troops in Berlin, the seamen being in open revolt against the government.Officers elected for the W.M.S.of the Windsor Mills Methodist Church were: Mrs.Ferguson, Mrs.Huxtable, Miss Greenlay, Mrs.Samson, Mrs.Otis Caswell, Mrs.H.Moore, Miss Varney, Mrs.Hutton and M rs.R.Farquhar.The Entente powers have decided that neutral nations will not be admitted to the great peace conference.TWENTY YEARS AGO Heavy damage was caused when flames swept through the Ottawa Hotel at Cowansville.Help from Granby and Farnham was needed to restrict the extent of the flames.Taking part in an entertainment at Waterville were: Doris Fecteau, Caroline Moir, Alberta Blier, Alene McCormick, Tommy Fecteau, Velma Wharram, Bertie Bli er, Victoria Higgins, Mary Fecteau and Stuart Blier.A special committee of the Pan-American Conference is reported near a solution of the Bolivian-Para-guayan dispute.TEN YEARS AGO Trustees named for the Ayer's Cliff Cemetery Association were: J.N.Hibbard, L.L.Clough, V.A.Davis, J.E.Bayley, W.P.Berwick, \\V.G.Keeler, J.M.Martin, E.H.Chadsey and Mrs, C.H.Libby.Premier Daladier of France has ordered a display of military strength in Tunisia in the hope of warding off a military coup by Italy to seize the colony.Taking part in a cantata presented at Lennoxville were: Miss Jean Campbell, Mrs.Malcolm Green, Mrs.Frederick Fox, Miss Thelma Crawford, Miss Hazel Crosby, Stanley Pergau, Graham Ferguson, Douglas Hadlock and Charles Greenfield.FIVE YEARS AGO Lt.-Gen.A.G.L.Mc> «laughton has retired as com-mander-in-chief of the Canadian Army overseas.Lt.-Gen.Kenneth Stuart has been named as his temporary successor.The following officers were elected for the Women\u2019s Association of the Lennoxville United Church: Mrs.Ethel Seale, Mrs.W.J.Lane, Mrs.R.S.Lipsey, Mrs.R.W.S.Nutbrown and Mrs.A.E.Abercrombie.Directors elected for the Brome County Horticultural Society were: C.L.Horner, W.E.Hawthorne, B.G.Mizener, W.T.Knowlton, William Crawford, G, M.Perkins and A.W.Harvey.McKENNY ON BRIDGE By Wm.&.MaKenny, America\u2019» Card Authority SUCCESS DEPENDS ON CORRECT PLAY There are a great many people to whom I would like to extend my best wishes during the Christinas holidays.A very happy and prosperous New Year to Mrs.Leon Radier, of New York City, for her wonderful volunteer work for the children\u2019s unit at Memorial Hospital.She devotes many hours every week for the benefit of the children there.Mrs.Radier is not the bridge-playing member of her family.Her husband, Leon plays a good game of rubber bridge.Many tournament players might miss today\u2019s hand, but when Leon made the right play, he said that a good rubber bridge player never should miss it.He won the opening lead of the five of spades with the ace.He couM count three spade tricks, four diamonds, and a club\u2014eight tricks.How should he play for the ninth ?I am sure that a good many players would make the mistake of leading a club and finessing the ten, figuring that nc great harm could be done, as they could come back and finesse the clulb again.They would not stop to consider A K8 V 10 7 3 A K J93 AAQ103 J 9 7 5 2 V A Q5 ?874 Deale A 10 4 3 « 98 62 ?10 5 A K J 9 6 Radier A A Q 6 « ICJ 4 ?\tA Q 6 *\t8 7 5 2 Rubber\u2014Neither vul.South\tWest\tNorth East 1 N.T.Pass\t3 N.T.Pass Opening\u2014A 5\t27 , that the king-jack-nine of clubs ! could lay over the cca-queen-ten.; Needing only one more trick, Leon decided to establish a heart i trick and laid down the king otf ' hearts.West won and came back , with a spade which was won in j (.lummy with the king.Now he led :a heart to his jack, and when West won witn the queen and retui ntd j the third round of spades.Leon j won with the queen.He had his I nine tricks now, without bothering I to take a club finesse.Actress Screen A tiNwrr TOKYO HANGINGS RECALL HONG KONG Montreal Gazette The hanging in Tokyo of wartime political and military leaders j of Japan has visited stern retribution upon the key men found ! guilty, after due trial, of responsibility for launching and waging j an unprovoked war of aggression j in the Pacific.A tribunal representative of eleven aggrieved nations ; convicted and sentenced them, after j hearings extended over several | .years, not only of directing this! war with its countless atrocities' and staggering casualties, but of deliberately conspiring to start it.While fully sensing the broad justice of the fate of Tojo and his associates, Canadians will also take a direct and special interest in the executions as helping to avenge the calamity of Hong Kong.For a Canadian expeditionary force of some 2,000 officers and men formed part of the garrison at Hong Kong when Japanese forces attacked it and other U.S.and British outposts in the Pacific in December, 1941.And close to 450 Canadian soldiers were among the dead, missing and fatally wounded among the defenders when the Hong Kong force was compelled to surrender on Christmas Day of that year.HORIZONTAL 1,5 Pictured actress 12\tTelegraphic messages 13\tLively 15\tFootless 16\tCereal grain 17\tFatigue 18\tLair 19\tMost wan 21\tFolding bed 22\tPlural suffix 23\tLaughter sound 24\tMeasure of type 26\tFnench article 27\tSet of steps 29 Tropical ungulate 31\tAnger 32\tBeverage 33\tEnchantress 35 Approaches 38\tBoy\u2019s nickname 39\tStreet (ab.) 40\tPronoun 41\tAtop 42\tIgnited 44 Impresses 49\tGreek letter 50\tLearning 52\tRussian czar 53\tShe is a motion picture 54\tSurprised 56\tTstk 57\tGhos t 58\tRefut* VERTICAL 1\tMost mature 2\tMetal 3\tSpread 4\tWhile 5\tPrison 6\tOne time 7\tHurries 8\tNew Mexico (ab.) 9\tRested 10\tOf the ear 11\tEssential oil 12\tWalks in water 14 Hold back 16 Egyptian sun god 19 Ancestors l*rcYfoii* MARTHA GRAHAM T!S MIL 3 AIC A W 20 Lockjaw 23 Employs 25 Men 28 Ventilate 30 Vegetable 33\tVends 34\tMental defectives 36\tTurning 37\tTrap 43 Pitfall 45\tTip 46\tState 47\tCreated 48\tPromissory note (ab.) 49\tEnglish scho 51 Before 53 That girl 55\tTierce (ab.) 56\tCadmium (symbol) \t1\t2\t3\t\t\t5\tb\t7\t8\t4\t10\tn\t ii\t\t\t\t\t\t13\t\t\t\t\t\t\tW 15\t\t\t\tIP 2X6\t16\t\t\t\tW'\t17\t\t\t i*\t\t\tÆ\t19\t\t\t\t\t20\tÜ\t21\t\t It\t\t\tn\t\t\t\t\t\tdl\tzi\tW'-/\tIT\t zi\t\t1%\t\t\t\tI\t\t\t29\t\t30\t\t \t\t31\t\t\t\t\t\t\t32\u201c\t\t\t\t ii\tDr\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t35\t\t\t3b\t37 jï\t\t\tïi\t\t\t\t1\t\t40\t\t\t4l\t ill\t\t\t\t94\tHS\t\tH7\t4S\t\t\t49\t\t \t\t\t51\t\t52\t\t\t\t\tS3\t\t\t 5H\t\t\t\t55\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \tii\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsi\t\t\t27\t * SHERBROOKE DAILY RECORD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 27.1048.Five Police force Is Needed Bv l.N.DEWITT .MACKENZIE Associated Press News Analyst Lojç the blame for the current Indonesian republic upheaval against the Netherlands.or assess it against the republic, and you still haven't covered tne ground.The fact is that the world is paying for the failure (or perhaps one should say inability) of the United Nations to set up an international police force to handle such situations.Thus far the U.N.has been simply a sounding-board for heated arguments pro and con regarding peace violations.If you\u2019re going to stop armed action with words, you must have a big stick back of them.Of course it\u2019s easier to name the shortcoming than to cure it.The U.N.is divided into two nostile camps which are the direct reflection of the \u201ccold war\u201d between Communi-ism and democracy.Up to now it has been impossible to get co-ordination of effort on any issue vitally affecting either side.The Indonesian trouble is particularly unfortunate.The republic is part of an archipelago of S.OTO islands with a population of 75,000,000, This huge group lies in the heart of one of the last-ditch stands of imperial rule.There is the gravest of danger that out of such quarrels as the Indonesian affair there might grow an Asiatic bloc which would be hostile to the western world.There we would have the makings of a world disaster.Mighty India, for instance, is siding with the Indonesian republic against the Netherlands.And it is only a few days ago that the president f the All-India Congress, Dr.B.Pattabhi Sitaramayya, declared: \u2018\u2018The process of eliminating imperialism from Asia cannot be stopped and must go on.Every foreign power that holds dominion in Asia must depart.\u201d \"Every foreign power\u201d means not only the Netherlands.but France and Britain.Jawaharlal Nehru, Piime Minister of India and her most powerful political leader, took a similar stand long before his country gained its independence from England.Nehru has urged Asiatic unity, \u201cnot for aggression against Europe or the west, but for the freedom of every country in Asia.\u201d The danger to the western world doesn\u2019t rest in anti-imperialism.The days of empires arc numbered.The ma-jjrity of nations recognize the right of self-determination for all peoples.What the west has to guard against is the continuance of a situation which might produce that hostile Asiatic bloc.Should that develop It would eventually produce the horror of a war between east and west.The position is made much more critical by the fact that Communism is taking advantage of the unrest in the orient.Life Insurance Sales Announced ~ For November Toronto, December 27.\u2014 New life insurance protection put in force in Canada for November amounted to $119,(129,000 according to figures compiled by the Life Insurance Agency Management j Association and announced by the Canadian Life Insurance Officers Association.The figures designate only the i ordinary life insurance put in fotce and do not include dividend additions, reinsurance acquired, pension bonds without insurance, annuities or group business.British Continued from Page 1 r~gjL 1LD.A.SCHOOL REVIEW Weekly news, views and reviews of the schools in Richmond -Drummond - Arthabaska and information en education in general 1 QUEBEC mREPORT No Early Sales Of Livestock Are Reported Montreal, Doc, 27\u2014® There iv \u201e I,, i.\u2019\t,\twere 161 cattle, 818 calves, 95 \u2019 , iv 1\t1\t'j*\tpneu- hogs and 268 sheep for sale on the .nonta at his home m liranbv.\ttMontra! livestock markets to- very successful candy sale, There were no early sales of Victorious in each case.1'hc sen-\triassroom cattle registered anil salesmen tors dealt with the topic, \u2018Resolved '\t, lth*\t«^ing up $2 higher ns that, all data oi atomic energy ^ b «aided 10 the Junior Kcd bu>ei- were bidding $1 higher.MELBOURNE Home and home debates were held on Monday afternoon, December 20th, between Asbestos- 1'an-j ville and Drummondville junior I and senior teams.The juniors debated the topic \u2018Resolved that 40', | of a pupil's time in school be devoted to organized athletic activities!' These debates resulted in a ^\t.*, «ffirni.lin- .«*\tJIT\u2019 George's and the First United (Tun ches.St.Francis Uollegc High rite greetings of the season are extended to Jimmy Xoi : :* of Grade Mr.and Mrs.C, O.Buzzell, of Magog, spent the week-end with Mr.and Mrs.Fred J.Newell.Mr.John Nixon and Misa Muriel Nixon, of Lachine, were guesta of Mr.an Mrs.I).D.Nixon.Miss Doreen BilWn has complied her hair dressing course and received her diploma.Reader nolle** In country locals, I Sc par lin* of 5 words Ltnnos-aille and City Brieflets 20c per lin*.should be nations! made available to ttll|-*J>vadquarte».The Asbestos teams sue-, *\t> t «.Kis cessfully upheld both tin aff vmti-| 1 hr!s.tma?Deis which were decor By RICHARD DAIGNAULT Canadian fress Staff Writer Dec.27.\u2014 ®\u2014Christmas .tml'lal?'Cits'Vgifts' have come''and\t^bestos teams to five and negative sides of the resolution to win a clear-cut decision! in the round.Miss E.Cook nc- ucd by the pupils.There i.s hope that the school rink will be in operation during Christmas holidays.A \\ eal calves were firm.There rooms had w.ri no good quality veals offered.Common to medium kinds sold ! field 28-27.(irassors ranged from 0EATHS th the pow- gone for most Canadian children But for many of the children of French Canada, who have had their traditional religious Christmas, the gifts are still to come on Le Jour de L'An- New Year\u2019s Day.l.o ,1 our de L'An, merriest day of the yean in rural Quebec, is to Drummondville while Mr.St.Jean \u2018\"an ,w boen '\"*de 'be wvek in ¦\texplain, but are none erful for good.\u201d \u201cOur Commonwealth\u2014the British\t, \u201e , \u201e - , , .Common wealth\u2014has been subject much of 1'rench Canada the gtft-to the laws of evolution -we would da>' équivalent of Christmas else- ¦\tnot have it otherwise.But it is where.stronger, not weaker, as it fulfills It is on I.'Jour ae L'An that the its ancient mission of widening the kids got their toys and candies and bounds of freedom wherever our families gather round the paternal neople live; and for nyself, 1 am tables for the tastiest and biggest proud to fulfill my own appointed meal in 365 days, share in that mission.\tLe Jour de L\u2019An is a religious In referring to \u201cour Common- jay too.It starts with holy mass.After the religious service the old travelled to Asbestos Drummondville teams.Commissioners A.G w 11 a l le 15-1 There were good hogs.Lambs were steady Sheep were 7-10.50.atly sales of at >i .1*\t1 »i V g.I» .Thompson HENDERSON VAl.F proparintf the ice surface :\tRichmond Hiu'h School played bucket hall at th