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RONICLES
Nohods i' grumbling, of course
but isn't this the craziest weather?
Here we are, just into the beginning
of December and no sign of winter
yet. Now for goodness sake don't
be a spoilsport and say—"We'll
pay up for it later onl" Maybe we
shall, but we don't need to let it
spoil our present enjoyment, do we?
And it won't if we don't set out to
meet trouble half -way. And no
doubt you have heard that scientists
are repeatedly telling us that our
seasons are changing.
If that is really so then we might
just as well get ourselves accustom-
ed to thinking of long open falls
and late springs. Tirne was if a
farmer didn't sow his fall wheat by
September 15 he figured it was no
good putting it in. Now *heat sown
that early is in danger of having
more top than is good for it. I
even noticed a farm advertised late
in November which read —"Land
ploughed for fall (wheat!" That
seems to be expecting a little too
much of Mother Nature, don't you
think so? But maybe the agent
was just doing a little wishful think-
ing.
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And speaking of wisbful thinking
—we had been guilty of that too—
but along rather different lines. Our
wishful thinking concerned taxes.
Round about this time we generally
look for our tax bill to arrive.
Naturally the had been thinking
about it and allowing for it on our
expense sheet. And since every-
thing else is up we thought the tax-
es certainly would be. Oh brotherl
Were they upl In our own minds
we allowed them a boost of around
'120. When the bill came in, to
our dismay they were $50 over and
above what we paid last year. We
haven't recovered yetl
However, we sort of managed to
dissect it, as it were, and we find
that over one-third of the total is
for education. Of course, we want
to see all children given an opport-
unity to get a good education. But
what is a good education? Isn't
education supposed to be a means
of training a child to adjust himself
to life along with what knowledge
he can absorb from the usual school
curriculum? But is it good training
when children are raised on a spoon-
fed systetn of education? Is it kind
to children' to relieve them of any
trouble or hardship in regard to
getting to school? Adversity de-
velops character, then what chance
have present-day children to develop
character—or muscle, or physical
endurance? How can they when
a bus comes along, picks them up
and drops them at their school
door?
Merry Menagerie-Byw,lr Disney
'"I've told you a hundred time,,
",s the ones with lights are
LAMPPOSTS!"
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Do you know 'what? We are glad
we haven't got any school age chil-
dren now because we 'amid hate to
have then( grow up robbed of their
independence by having transporta-
tion provided for them day after
day. "They don't need to ride in
the bus," did you say? Oh come
now, you know children ... not one
of then( likes to be different from
the rest. If one rides the rest must
ride too. Our children walked one
and a half miles to school in every
kind of weather and I don't think
they were ever any the .worse for
it.
Oh well, let's talk about some-
thing else—my collar is getting a
little warns.
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Maybe the Royal Winter Fair
might be a safer topic. The three of
us went down on the last 'Tuesday
to the night performance. Last year
we looked around at all the live-
stock. This year we didn't go near
them at all. It seems impossible to
do everything in a few hours, We
did enjoy the Musical Ride and the
horse jumping, also the showing of
the magnificent horses. There was
one part of the programme I haven't
seen mentioned in the papers .
after, the heavy six -horse teams had
been in the ring the announcer said
—"One team of horses was not
ready when the others came in but
they insist on coating in non—so
here they arel" And with lots of
fan -fare t '
oam
c ea miniature r
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drawn by six Shetland ponies which
the announcer called "The Mighty
Mites". ley, how they raced around
the ring — and we noticed the dray
was fitted with a brake on one
back wheel — and I am sure the
driver needed it.
Of course we saw the Flower
Show—and I never saw one I liked
better. There was a beautiful ex-
hibit of roses put on by several nur-
series co-operating to make one
big showing instead of individual
exhibits. It seemed almost im-
possible such perfect roses could be
real—and not the least bit wilted.
The Best System
What is "justice" in an economic
system? Is it the equalization of
rewards regardless of the contribu-
tion that anyone makes or fails to
make to the social product? To
many of us a system under which
the talented and skilled and indust-
rious receive no more than the in-
competent and shiftless and lazy,
and which equalize rewards ir-
respective of effort, would be not
only unjust but, what is worse, un-
productive. Most of us, if we
thought that were the only alter-
native, would prefer an enormously
productive if not ideally just' sys-
tem to one which provided a per-
fectly "just" distribution of scarcity
and poverty.
Fortunately, a free capitalism not
only provides both more liberty and
welfare than any other system, but
more economic justice. Under it
most of us, in spite of exceptions,
get approximately the economic
value that we ourselves contribute
to the total social product. That is
howthe system provides incentives.
Keep improving it, certainly; but
don't "reject" it.—Henry Hazlitt..
Appearance Deceptive
Mother: "Willie, you will make
yourself ill if you eat so much pud-
ding."
Willie: "It's alright, Mum. I'm
not so small inside as ,look out-
side."
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REAM OUT THE EYE.
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Pretty Swanky, Don't You Think?—A classic suit and match-
ing coat fashi •:ed, in this picture, from a worsted type gabar-
dine made by blending nylon staple fibre with wool. Addition
of the nylon is said to impart greater strength and crease
resistance.
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If your children are like most
youngsters, there's probably nothing
they enjoy more than gathering in
the kitchen to make candy. This
is eepeciatly so at this season, when
there's a spirit of jollity in the air.
Here are some recipes they might
try—easy to make but really grand
to eat, 1 can assure you.
Honey Crisp
1 cup shelled walnut meats
2 cups honey
Break or chop the nuts into small
pieces and spread them in a med-
ium-sized, well-oiled dripping pan,
Put the honey into a saucepan, place
over gentle heat and let it boil for
five minutes after it reaches the
boiling point, stirring occasionally.
Pour over the nuts, set aside to
harden, then crack into pieces for
serving.
Vanilla Caramels '
I cup sugar •
cup corn syrup alight)
134 cups cream
small pinch of salt
Put sugar, corn syrup and cup
of cream into saucepan. Stir until
sugar dissolves, then boil to soft-
ball stage, Add another half -cup of
creast and boil again to soft -ball
stage, than add remaining cream
and boil to firm -ball stage. Do not
beat, as candy may become gran-
ular. Pour into oiled pan, 8"x8"x2',
10 become cool, then cut into small
squares and wrap in waxed paper,
Popcorn balls are altvays popu-
lar, especially at Christmas. Here
is an old recipe, using molasses:
Molasses Popcorn Balls
5,5 cup light molasses
! TEST YOUR 1. Q.1
BRAIN TESTER
Here's a quiz that shouldn't give
you much trouble, However, in
ease you miss out on some of the
questions, the correct answers are
printed —upside -clown to prevent
snooping" — elsewhere on this
page.
1. is rice -paper made ,of rice?
2. What does S,P.Q,R, stand for?
3. For daylight saving, are clocks
put on or back?
4. What did Mark Antony want to
borrow?
S. In witat well-known school
story was Flashman the bully?
6, How many sides has a hexagon?
7. Do you notice anything particu-
lar about the sentence: "The
quick brown fox jumps over the
lazy dog"?
8. What is a saraband?
9. Where would you look for "fif-
teen men on a dead . man's
chest"?
10, How (nay stars are there in the
American flag?
11. What is the fourth horseman of
the Apocalypse?
12, Is the age of a racehorse reek-
oned from the day of its birth?
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Y cup of sugar
34 cup of water
4. teaspoonful of vinegitr
teaspoonful 05 salt
1.4 tablespoonfuls of butter
'6 cups of popped corn
Combine molasses, sugar, water,
'vinegar and salt. Cook slowly,
without stirring, to the point where
a small quantity, dropped into cold
water, separates into heavy- threads.
Remove front heat, add bntter,
stirring only enough; to mix well.
Pour mixture over popped corn.
stirring constantly. Shape lightly
and quickly into balls.
Peanut Butter Marbles
• 34 cup peanut butter
14 cups shredded cocoanut or
crumbled cornflakes
1 teaspoon vanilla
Mix ingredients thoroughly and
mold into small balls. Chill until
firm and roll in powdered sugar.
(Add more peanut butter if mixture
seems too stiff,)
And I know that :oma of you
would like the recipe for this gen-
uine
YORKSHIRE YULE
SPICE CAKE
Two-thirds cup lard
cup butter
% teaspoon grated nutmeg. Grated
rind and juice of one lemon
14 cup butter '
6 ounces currants
8 ounces sultanas
3 ounces candied shredded fruit
peels
4? cups sifted cake flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
3 eggs
1 scant cup milk
(1) Cream shortening, sugar, mtt-
meg
uffy. mail
tenor rind and juice ail
light and h
(2) Dredge fruits with some of
the flour, Sift remaining flour with
the. baking powder.
(3) Separate eggs. Beat yolks
till thick and yellow, Arid yolks to
creamed mixture.
(4) To the sante mixture add
blend of baking powder and dour
a little at a time, alternating with
milk. Fold in fruits.
(5) Beat egg whites till they
stand up in peaks but are not dry.,
Fold then( into the cake batter.
(6) Pour the mixture into two
bread tins, which have been greased
and lindd with paper. 'The paper
should be greased, too. Bake one
hour and a half to one hour and
forty minutes in a slow oven (300
degrees F.). Note: Tops of loaves
may be decorated with blanched
almonds, maraschino cherries, pine-
.apple
ine-.apple and so on. In this case, place
sheet of paper over the loaves while
they are baking.
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are prrttt .inert, he always look,
coruful and starts raving about
testes Nigi,bor and
the like. 1 ,oppose Mother
Eve used rrmarl, tots grand the
43arden n ldrn wa: lo• 4 ug, Adatt,
,tout ,,e, , doan by telling
iter-,�..'s' cur, lovelier tsar; he-
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my
own hail: t1[out-,•<ten'matt
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sleep down n d. :nn,, t4,uk- :hat
HE—if ht only had .t chance—
would cake the aeric, t "Hamlet".
ao when we got Tome from the
shoe 1 could hear ti,r Character
pacing nu and dolt!, in another
room. Muttering to himself, "Tis not
alone my inky cloak, good mother"
over and over again. So I just
h-llered out "That s,ould be a re -
mimics for you to 'take your winter
overcoat to tate cleaners tomorrow—.
it's simply filthy." Hamlet's final
speech fitted what followed perfect -
!y. It is, as you probably remem-
ber, "The rest is silence."
5o he sure and see the Olivier
"Hamlet". It's honestly worth
while—even though I must confess
that, for steady fare, I'd prefer Red
Skelton or Clark Gable. Whoever
it was that first tagged The Prince
of Denmark as "gloomy" was cer-
tainly quite a woad -painter, You
could clock all the laughs in the
show withanhour-glass.
A utak or so ago the papers were
making quite a fuss over the "dis-
appearance" of Bobby Breen, who
a lot of you will remember as a
"child singing star" twenty years or
SO ago. He and the pilot of his
t:omin, suddenly vanished and it
plane. off on a hunting trip in Wis-
was feared that they had crashed.
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Now it looks very much as
though it was all a publicity stunt,
Breen was discovered comfortably
stowed away in a hotel, and the
plane found undamaged not far
away. "Tire whole thing smells"
said the Captain of the State Patrol
which had sent parties searching for
the missing pair in sub -freezing
weather. I sometimes used to think
—When little Bobby was starring—
that a good spanking wouldn't do
him any harm. Now, maybe he'll
When our BACK
Begins to Ache
REACH FOR
BECAUSE --
Backache is often due to
an upset kidney condi-
tion; and for ever half a century Dodd's
Kidney Pills have helped bring relief from
backache by treating the kidneys.. Get,
Dodd', Kidney fills today et any drug
counter, Cook for the blue box with the ted
hand. You can depend on Dodtd's. tits
Stet on, "If it was for publicity, it's
1• mor to take a ,chole lot of ex-
piai.t urn' says one angry official.
mp ago 51011 Of t tc bog radio
to ticorks put "Ames 'n' Andy"
sonnithiag like two kind a heli
minket dollars for the full lifetime '
1911 to .heir show and similar
deal: are pending with Edgar Bet-
gcn and lack llcnny, the latter re-
I,„rtcd to be getting three million
:or his corporation stock.
Elie zeason for such deals is
generally explained as the :tars'
frying to escape the very- heavy
"upper Bracket” income taxation.
By forming themselves into corp-
orations, they get off much more
lightly than when working for
straight salaries. But there might
possibly be something else behind
it all--tltc threat of television.
Here in Canada we have little
idea about the way 'television is
going ahead south of the border;
movie people are beginning to rea-
it:e that the "honeymoon is over"
so far as those huge salaries ars
concerned. Within a year there
win be plenty of stars, both on the
air and in fnmland Working for
only a fraction of wltat they receive
note—so maybe Messrs. Bergett.
Bengt' ft al are jOet "getting rail
while the getting is P' •,:.i "
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Anel although it's pretty late o: it
telling any gags about the 1:. S.
erection, here's one you !night like
Happening to say to t:o aforemen-
tioned Character that I wondered
Inas Dewey was feeling, lits told of a
man who ran for Reece in au Or.-
taxi() small town many years age.
Maybe McCarthy wasn't the name,
but we'll call hint that.
McCarthy made an t:ttttts:ve per •
so:tat canvass, and o:: the eve of
polling day was certain of winning.
It turned out that ht eras very
badly- beaten—swamped, in fact.
\Viten the results were known.
somebody asked the defeated can-
didate how he felt. "There are more
liars in Teeswater," said McCarthy
sourly, "than there are it hell." So
probably Mr. Dewey's, feelings are
greatly. similar to that S•• long frt.
cow'
Economic Regi ientation Threat
To AD Canadians B of M Head
FLEXILE INTEREST, MORE EQUITY CAPITAL
ADVOCATED BY B. C. GARDNER AS
STABILIZING FORCES
General Manager, Gordon R. Ball, Reports Record
Deposits — Loans Levelling Off
Montreal, Dec. b.—B. C. Gardner, president of the Bank of
shareholders
told at the 131st annual meeting that
doctrinaire socialistn was attacking the moral and economic
foundations of the nation. No Canadian, he stressed, can hope
"that it will be possible to establish in this country some form
of selective economic dictatorship that will apply to others but
leave him unscathed. The experience of other countries makes
it perfectly clear that once regimentation is established, no
interest or class in the community; can escape its toils."
Such an attack, Mr. Gardner as-
erted, (Vas a challenge to all Cana-
dians, but it placed a particular re-
sponsibility on business Wren. "I
hold no brief," he said, "for any con-
cern that in this day and age oper-
ates without regard to the public
interest." Good business practice
was the first essential, and, to
achieve more effective public rela-
tions, business had to tell its story
more completely and in terms more
readily understood by the man in
the street.
Weapons Against Inflation
Chief corrective to the present
"wide disparity between the supply
of money and the things that money
buys," Mr. Gardner stated. was in-
creased productivity, which in turn
depended ultimately upon more rap-
id technical advance. There had
been a boom in capital expenditure
on new plant and equipment in Can-
ada during the past two years, an
encouraging development, but. un-
fortunately this expansion had not
been matched by an offsetting in-
crease in saving. The result was
competing demand for capital and
consumer'goods and a strong impet-
us to the upward spiral of prices
and costs.
After expressing his approval of
the Government's policy of oper-
ating at a substantial fiscal surplus,
Mr. Gardner questioned whether
sufficient attention was being paid
to the control of expenditure. Gov-
erning bodies night well be expect-
ed "to give a lead in the elimination
from the public budget of all but
absolutely necessary outlays."
This point, the speaker coptinued,
took on added significance in that
existing levels of taxation had a
direct and adverse effect on the sav-
ing capacity of the public, particu-
larly that portion of the commun-
ity which might be regarded as a
substantial source of venture capital,
The president referred to the pos•
sibility of using a flexible rate of
interest both to stimulate saving and
to retard the rate of capital outlay,
The policy of easy money had been
developed in a period of deflation
and unemployment, and he felt that
there would be a definite advantage
in introducing a further element of
flexibility into the interest rate
structure.
Further, he said, it was highly
desirable that an increased propor-
tion of corporate financing should be
done in equity form than through
the issue of additional debt.
General Manager's Address
Gordon R. Ban, jteneral manager,
reported that the hank's assets stood
at $1,991,000,000, total deposits at
$1,877,000,000, both tat the highest
level in the B of M's history. The
volume of banking transactions had
continued to expand throughout the
year: special services of tete war and
early post-war years had been re,
placed by the larger volume of more
normal banking business.
The staff of the Bank of Montreal
now numbered 9,300. Referring to
journeys he had made across the
continent, in the course of which he
visited 135 branches in Canada as
well as the bank's offices in the
United States, Mr. Ball said, "This
was a most inspiring experience ...
I cannot speak too highly of the
fine spirit of teamwork, enthusiasm
and devotion of which I found evi-
dence on all sides."
The rapid increase of personnel in
recent years had brought special
Problems of staff training. Schools
for entrants were now operating in
Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg and
Vancouver, and senior staff courses
had been instituted at head office,.
while intermediate courses were in
contemplation for the coining year
Mr, Ball noted that tete upward
trend of commercial loans. which
had reached a peak in November,
1947, was now levelling off, and he
regarded this as a "constructive de-
velopment", In view of rising prices
'and costs many customers were
adopting a more cautious attitude
in their conunitmettts. Turning to
other aspects of the bank', loan
Policy, he showed that advances to
the grain trade, as well as loans
to farmers and primary producers.
had increased over the past year.
The batik found great satisfaction in
the fact that loans under the Farm
Improvement I,oans Act had risen
almost 50 per cent.
99 of Every 100 B of M Loans
Approved Locally
In its general leading policy use
B of M had been particularly anxi-
ous to meet the requirements of
small business concerns andutdivid-
ua! borrowers.
"Despite this," said \1r. Ball, "it
has been alleged from time to time
that, because of a concentration of
financial resources in the larger
centres, Canadian business concerns,
and small ones in particular. are at
a disadvantage in dealing with
branch banks in the smaller centres,
the inference being that only relat-
ively few have access to credit.
"'With this view I emphatically
disagree The full facilities of the
entire bank are placed at the cus-
tomer's disposal at all of our branch-
es anti the number of b,)rrnwiug
accounts on our books is to us a
clear indication that Our cnstmter''
requirements are being t,roperly and
promptly met.
"I may say that as at September
30th last, of the total number of
loans on the books of this hank, .,ver
90 per tent were Made directly by
and at the discretion of our branch
'runtimes( and Intal •uperitttold
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