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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1941-05-29, Page 7THURSDAY, MAY 291 194t THE SEAFORTH NEWS PAGE SEVEN Luxurious Informality On Great Lakes Cruises One of Canada's most delightful 'V holiday attractions Is a Cana- dian Pacific Great Lakes Steam- ships cruise, an iulaud sea voyage from Port McNicoll through Geor- gian Bay, Lake Huron and Lake Superior to Fort William, It is an ocean voyage in minia- ture — the word "miniature" being used in a comparative sense only, because the trip is 512 miles one waY, the ship is completely out of sight of land at times and shipboard life and all entertain- ment are patterned on ocean - cruise style. Canadians and Americans in increasing numbers have fouud joy in Great Lakes cruises iu re- cent years, spending their entire vacations on cruises or using the lake route as a link in a longer trip. Sailing and arrival times of the ships are planned to eoincide- with train times on .the Canadian Pacifies transcontinental line. Or,, reduced rates Jrfcarrying au- tomobiles make the lake cruise a• delightful Interlude in a Wag motor tour. The regular pa'seu„er ships, the •Neew'atin and the Assin1boia, fine Clyde -built steamships with a 4rusa tonnege t 3,eid and speed or 15 knat,s, have been outfitted especially for Brut e service. They make 27 westbonud and '27 east- bound tripe in the summer months, westbound sailings being on Saturday; and • Wednesdays from Port eleNlcoll and eastbound sailings being on Saturdays and Tueadaye from Fort William and Port Arthur. The round trip takes four days and a night. Half the trip, a return cruise between either terminal and the Soo, af- fords a pleasaut two-day hotlday. Special boat trains are operated between Toronto and Port Mc - Nicoll. Another carefree cruise of more than 1,00,1 miles in five clays can be made on the SA. vfanitoha, 2,616 -ton steelesonstrueted .hip. Thecruiseis from Owen Sound to Fort William and return, with calls at several interesting porta. The route is via the North Inside Channel of itanitoulin Island. Alt three ships are equipped and staffed to make cruising easy and enjoyable. The cuisine is of a high standeed, social entertain- ment iucludes dancing, moonlight parties and afternoon teas and ship sports include shuffle -board, deck quoits and other popular pastimes. Informality and luxury are found on every hand. The World's News Seen Through THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR An International Daily Newspaper is Truthful—Constructive—Unbiased—Free from Sensational- ism —Editorials Are Timely and Instructive and Its Daily Features, Together with the Weekly Magazine Section, Make the Monitor an Ideal Newspaper for the Home. The Christian Science Publishing Society One, Norway Street, Boston, Massachusetts Price $12.00 Yearly, or $1-00 a Month. Saturday Issue, cnctudinr Magazine Section, $2.60 a Year, Introductory Offer, 6 Issues a5 Cents. Name Address SAMPLE COPY ON REQUEST THE MIXING BOW ey ANNE ALLAN Hydro Homo Sc000mist FUN ON WASH DAY Hello Homemakers! Do you re- member when washday was Blue Monday? That's because It was the accepted thing for laundry to be done in a gloomy basement; clothes rubbed 00 an inefficient board; wrung out by hand and carted wear- ily upstairs in a heavy basket. And ironing was every bit as toilsome. sheets and pillow cases aa go oat. In this way—washing and morning ftoesrwork c. an be dope up by ten oe leek. Go a#p)u per ironing with plated d:Maher all t t, e e r re In ties knowledge tear. with the ems -rolled heat of an eleetrie ironer you eau iron a shirt. Per instance. in seven ntruutee fiat. Do the cuff, then the sleeve, frouts, the yolk and lastly tate back. Or your electric iron, with its five haat con- trol, featherweight—will zip around tlae buttons with no danger et snap- ping them off. A rod and KPrtng keeps the. cord out of the way—and a fold -away ironing hoard means time and effort and even disposition saved! In this way "Blue Manday" le banished for good! * 5 5 5 Dishes that can be prepared and cooked in "short order" on washday: Lima Bean Skillet &leaf 2 tins of lima beans 1 tin of tomato soup 1 lb, pork sausages (pricked with fork) 1. green pepper (chopped) Put everything in a skillet pan. Cover and place on electric element turned High. When the product he - gins to steam (about 10 minutes) turn the closed element off Leave on another 15 minutes. Serve as a com- plete main course. !sleeked fish Fillets 1 lb. boned fish fillets 1 cup chopped cooked spinach 2 tbsps, minced parsley - le Cup minced green onions 1 cup tomatoes 3 tbsps. butter Place the fillets on a buttered oval platter 8" x 12", Mil the -spinach, persley, onions. salt and pepper to taste. Put on top of fillets. Pott' on tomatoes. Sprinkle beret fish and tomatoes with crumbs. dot with but- ter. Bake for '.10 minutes. at 4d0 de- grees F., in a preheated electric oven. Serves six. Omelet With Chives • s tbsps. butter 4 eggs. slightly beaten to cup milk le, tsp. salt tea rsp• pepper I tsp. chopped chives Heat batter -in skillet. Mix eggs lightly with milk and seasoning,' and pear into skillet. Cook on electric element turned Low. While cooking, lift ?dee gently with spatula. allow- ing uncooked portion ro run under- neath. Continue until the mixture is creamy. Turn element to High for h> minute. Fold carefully and serve - at Bane. Serves two. Tangy Supper Dish 8 weiners # tbsps. butter 3 tbspe. flour 2 cups milk ?V2 tsp. salt t. test. peeper ✓ tsp. Worcestershire sauce 11,4 cults cooked or canned green • beaus ,5 cup grated cheese crumbs Drop welters into boiling water and boll 5 to 6 minutes. Cut au 1 inch pieces. Melt butter in saucepan, add flour and stir until thickened. Add seasonings. Fold in green beans and weiners. Turn into buttered baking dish. Sprinkle with cheese and crewels. Bake in hot electric oven - 100 degrees F. for 15 minutes, Serves 6. * 5 * * Homemakers—you can thank your lucky stars for modern methods of washing and ironing. and the, com- forting aid of adequate equipment. You can now plan your work— schedule. your time—and call in your electrical dedter to install any addi- tional "help" you need. Here are a few helpful hints for easier wash- days.—The recipes are simple and easy to prepare. just the thing, when you want to get a meal in a "jiffy." But well begin with the washday rules: o * 5 RULES TO REMEMBER Have your laundry in a summer porch—or a room convenient to your Phone and door. Put your white clothes to soak ou Sunday night—the electric washing machine can be quickly filled with an abundance of hot water from the Hydro flat rate water heater early Monday morning, Add water softener and soap flakes and put the clothes in while the machine is operating, to be sure that not too many things are put in at once. You can be preparing breakfast while the faithful machine works away for about 20 minutes, Even before breakfast the first batch of clothes can be wrung out and put into warm rinse Water. Yeu'll real- ize the value of your water beater when you remember how a ..soapy garment put into cold rinse water Used to look. (The fat in the soap left a discouraging yellowness:) Breakfast over, the white clothes can be wrung out of the first rinse water into the second, with the swivelelectric wringer. By this time the second batch of clothes is ready for rinsing. While the bed linen is hung out to dry' on an umbrella type clothesline—the first installment of * * f N TAKE A TIP — if you're malting chocolate fudge far sverseas—be sure Yours just wits. For a smooth creamy texture nt€x the chocolate. flour and milk wail aard let it stand for about three !viers before putting on the small element tl,f tate electric range (tm•n- ed to medium). BRITISH FILMS RUN THE BLOCKADE FOR ,SUPERIOR B'FJ(INq RESULTS USE MAGIC Air Vice -Marshall L. S. Breadeer, D.S.C. Chief of the Air Staff, Royal Canadian Air Force. r THE WORLD WATCHES PORTUGAL From the Canadian Institute of. Internatloual Affairs Dependable for 3 Generations —stili! MAGIC 'AXING pkif October before the latter's meeting with Franco at San Sebastian. Sal- azar is believed to have met Franco and determined on a united front. thus killing the Nazi game of turning one country against the other. If Spain. however. proves stubborn Hit. ler may eeek to try the outflanking strategy used against Sweden and. now against Turkey by arranging a coup in Portugal. Much of Portugal's strategic Im- portance depends upon her empire. The large African colonies of Angola and Mozambique are closely linked to the Union of South Africa and surrounded by British, Free Belgian. and Free French territories. In the Far East Portugal shares the small island of Timor with the Dutch; and Japan. which has eyes on the Dutell Lisbon, formerly cnnsldered one 01 Indies, etas begun test flights for a the remote European capitals, is now "trans -equatorial airline" from Tokyo described as the "Grand Central to Portuguese Timor. Just off the Station of the world." The only con- French West African coast are the tlnental port from which passenger Portuguese Cape Verde Islands wttt:h ships regularly sail to the Americae , dominate tate approaches to the vatel. it IS alto the terminus of air routes port of Dakar, Stili more important to North and South America and of are the Azores 900 miles front Porte. the feeder lines to Germany, occup- gal ori a direct line between Lisbeu led Europe, and England. Because it and Washington, where Europe controls an important stretch of the comes closest to America. In Ger' Atlantic coastline and :1o:ulnates the man hands the Azores. whiter are approaches to the s'raite of Gibral. self-sufficient in water and food area tar, Britain has always recognized have good harbours and air faciii7le.i, Portugal's vital importance to her. Could play a dangerous part in the Hence tine Anglo -Portugues., alliance war en tale British sea routes rowel which dates from 165#, the oldest al -r the Cape and to the oil stores et Mance between any twat, countries, Venezuela. The Azores are only This alliance binds Britain to .0010 1.12 miles front the United Staves, to the aid of Portugal against ex. whereas Hawaii, the main Amerlean rugal attack and Portugal to assist naval bate in the Pacific is M2>,91 Britain in war if asked to do so. In miles from home. The px'ee nt Amer - the war against Nupeleon Portugal kart naval patrol probably extends proved the wedge 1' ' which Britain almost- re the Azores. Consequently gained a footing ou 111- continent and Senator Pepper has suggested, wt*b. gave the Emperor his first derisive some backing, that the United Statse defeat in the Peninsular War. In the should occupy those islauds. There Great War Portugal sent two diva. has been a report out of Liebon titat stens to the Western Front and 70,. in the event of a German invasion; 000 men to the African fronts to ald Salazar would take his government her ally. to theAzores and call upon tate Sri. At the outbreak of this war Prime tislt navy for support. Whether or elinisten Salazar declared that his not he took such steps. Britain—or country would remain neutral. at. the United States—would be forced though Ilie re.affh'med itis tidelity to by reasone of vital self-interest to the British allia.nee. As Britain did forestall Nazi occupation of the Por - not ask Portugal for help, the latter tuguese islands. was not bound to declare war. Pub. lie opinion has supported this posi. "LIGHTHOUSE" LANTERNS tion. Portugal is not a democracy. Dr, Salazar is a dictator with few For Australia's 'Great New Bridge ire fascist characteristics, He is primal, Brisbane fly a financial genius who has given Lanterns s,nmewitat sine: V' do stability to Portuguese politics and these used fir terlithouses are a t; economy after years of turmoil torr „f Australia eernt trTM-' There is, therefor,,. little ideological span bridge. the new titer ; Bidet affinity with the Axis and a good in tr:s'tane. deal of devout detestation of the new It 14'' ,i,,'l it 'Ra 'r ';'r: paganism of Hitler whose aggression c 1 t.p're i 1.411 _t its sedium t Inas been publicly d,-uoaucetl. The ways of neutrality have not been easy. In January the Lisbon (•orres- pontlettt of the London Tigers was expelled for charging tlaat. German agents were active in Portugal but in February six German aviators from a bomber which landed in Por- tugal were promptly arrested. Portu- gal cannot afford a breach with Brit- ain because British trade is vital to her. Portugal's considerable empire and her connections with that empire depend for security entirely on the British navy. It is true that the blockade has severely curtailed col- onial trade, for Britain does not too readily grant navicerts for produce from the Portuguese colonies which might eventually find its way into the wrong hands, but Portugal's pos- ition is Very much better than that of her starved neighbour. Spain. Portugal is also under the shadow of the Axis, fol. Spain is a non- belligerent ally of Germany and Italy, Against Spain Portugal cannot be defended. Its peace -time army of 35,000 could make no stand against mechanized forces which would filter through the long valleys to the coastal cities in less than 25 hours. The Gestapo has been active in Lis- bon and some of Spain's 180,000 tourists have recently become inter- ested in the Portuguese scenery. Portugal's frontier is the Pyrenees; as Spain goes, so goes her neighbour. Hence Portuguese foreign policy since the collapse of France has been to support every element in Spain opposed to collaboration with. the Nazis. The Portuguese government supported Franco during the Spanish War, and relations with Spain have never been closer than at present. Axis strategy instigated the Spanish Falangists to demand the whole pen- insula for Spain, seeking thus to gain victory over Portugal without the shedding of German blood. But Doctor Salazar is generally credited with having forestalled Hitler last George Formby Packs the European Blockade .British mints are still finding their way into the cinemas of 'blockaded Europe. Thanks to co-operation .be- tween the authorities and the British filet distributors, audiences in Scandi- navia continue to enjoy the films of British comedians like George Form- by and "Big-hearted" hearted" Arthur Aekey. Formby, who has just completed a deal for showing his filers in the Un- ited States, is also a ,great favourite in Europe, despite his extremely loc- alised 'L'ancashire humour, and it is one of the .oddities of the ententain- ment ,world that he should export so snecesseully. The strong demand for his Elms, however, hail naw and ;be- fore the ewer, leaves no dotibt of 'his popularity in 'European 'countries, Other oountries in the war zone to which 'British.' piotnres 'are agoing. in- clude Swvtzeriend l(ivia -Lisbon). Tur- key,'Egypt, 'Mal'ta and Palestine. Empire countries are also sheeting a keener interest in British 'films es- ,pecially those w'itb a war 'interest. `SCon'voy". the 'Clive 'Beook ftiim, which 'brought to Empire soreens the hazard and 'thrills of the sttlbmarine war, has been doing. tremendous bus- iness, having already !netted over 11510,000 'from overseas ;mankets alone, In Australia it broke all records, :with an eighteen-weetks' mumat the Metes -tic Theatre, Melbourne. ' India, always s ,g!ood market !for British films, will soon be seeing such 'films as 'Neutral Port." 'Gas- bags" t(a ",Crazy Gang" tailm) and °The 'Ghost Train," while Canada is also asking ifor snore war 'films from Britain, char.e lamp,, the tat',,. •ra"' n iiihti't installati,'t A:ie rale'. '1'',, lantern ri natal 'ry a. British are 'nsed .en reale 111 :-••t'-- hoey .a system ,r_ hetet eontr1'- ,v scientifically .les treed sri-:t1' •iistritn'e the light eveai" .i1-'> e tie. roarlu•ay exactly where it quite 1. The- lank,; sive eight times the 1iatt of ordinary 100 watt lamp; used f.,- domestic purposes. The first road lighting scheme ao come within ,Grea t Britain s Trunk Road: Act of 1936 was equipped with these lanterns which have been usel since then in Singapore, India, Australia and New Zealand. The Bri- tish makers exported more in 119140 than in 1939 .and the ,prespects for the present year are even abetter. A doctor asked a your hearing bother drive a car?" To which the car "Does it! Why I can my wife says." motorist, "Does you when you driver snapped, hear every word cernmemorreermaerosoordreensereseenteer D H MdINNES CHIROPRACTOR Office — Commercial Hotel Electro Therapist — Massage Hours—Mon. and Thurs. after- noons and by appointment. FOOT CORRECTION by manipulation—Sun-ray • treatment.. Phone 227. BUS TIME TABLE Leases Seaforth for Stratford: Daily 5.15 S.M. and 6.16 pen. Learns Seaterth for Goderich: Dally except Sunday and 1tiol.• 1.9ti 5.ta. and 7.49 p.m. San. and hot., •1.06 9.91. end 9.20 p,in, Connection at Stratford for Toronto. Hamilton, Buffalo. Landon,. Detroit, Tavistock, Woodstock: Brantford 'Apnea: queen's, Commercial, D1ek Doane t Duplicate Month' t\„I ; - Statements sa®®sl�e We can save you money on BMII and Charge Forms, standard sizes to fit Ledgers, white or colors. It will pay you to see our samples, Also best quality Metal Hinged Sec- tional Post Binders and Index The Seaforth News PHONE 34 THE MIXING BOW ey ANNE ALLAN Hydro Homo Sc000mist FUN ON WASH DAY Hello Homemakers! Do you re- member when washday was Blue Monday? That's because It was the accepted thing for laundry to be done in a gloomy basement; clothes rubbed 00 an inefficient board; wrung out by hand and carted wear- ily upstairs in a heavy basket. And ironing was every bit as toilsome. sheets and pillow cases aa go oat. In this way—washing and morning ftoesrwork c. an be dope up by ten oe leek. Go a#p)u per ironing with plated d:Maher all t t, e e r re In ties knowledge tear. with the ems -rolled heat of an eleetrie ironer you eau iron a shirt. Per instance. in seven ntruutee fiat. Do the cuff, then the sleeve, frouts, the yolk and lastly tate back. Or your electric iron, with its five haat con- trol, featherweight—will zip around tlae buttons with no danger et snap- ping them off. A rod and KPrtng keeps the. cord out of the way—and a fold -away ironing hoard means time and effort and even disposition saved! In this way "Blue Manday" le banished for good! * 5 5 5 Dishes that can be prepared and cooked in "short order" on washday: Lima Bean Skillet &leaf 2 tins of lima beans 1 tin of tomato soup 1 lb, pork sausages (pricked with fork) 1. green pepper (chopped) Put everything in a skillet pan. Cover and place on electric element turned High. When the product he - gins to steam (about 10 minutes) turn the closed element off Leave on another 15 minutes. Serve as a com- plete main course. !sleeked fish Fillets 1 lb. boned fish fillets 1 cup chopped cooked spinach 2 tbsps, minced parsley - le Cup minced green onions 1 cup tomatoes 3 tbsps. butter Place the fillets on a buttered oval platter 8" x 12", Mil the -spinach, persley, onions. salt and pepper to taste. Put on top of fillets. Pott' on tomatoes. Sprinkle beret fish and tomatoes with crumbs. dot with but- ter. Bake for '.10 minutes. at 4d0 de- grees F., in a preheated electric oven. Serves six. Omelet With Chives • s tbsps. butter 4 eggs. slightly beaten to cup milk le, tsp. salt tea rsp• pepper I tsp. chopped chives Heat batter -in skillet. Mix eggs lightly with milk and seasoning,' and pear into skillet. Cook on electric element turned Low. While cooking, lift ?dee gently with spatula. allow- ing uncooked portion ro run under- neath. Continue until the mixture is creamy. Turn element to High for h> minute. Fold carefully and serve - at Bane. Serves two. Tangy Supper Dish 8 weiners # tbsps. butter 3 tbspe. flour 2 cups milk ?V2 tsp. salt t. test. peeper ✓ tsp. Worcestershire sauce 11,4 cults cooked or canned green • beaus ,5 cup grated cheese crumbs Drop welters into boiling water and boll 5 to 6 minutes. Cut au 1 inch pieces. Melt butter in saucepan, add flour and stir until thickened. Add seasonings. Fold in green beans and weiners. Turn into buttered baking dish. Sprinkle with cheese and crewels. Bake in hot electric oven - 100 degrees F. for 15 minutes, Serves 6. * 5 * * Homemakers—you can thank your lucky stars for modern methods of washing and ironing. and the, com- forting aid of adequate equipment. You can now plan your work— schedule. your time—and call in your electrical dedter to install any addi- tional "help" you need. Here are a few helpful hints for easier wash- days.—The recipes are simple and easy to prepare. just the thing, when you want to get a meal in a "jiffy." But well begin with the washday rules: o * 5 RULES TO REMEMBER Have your laundry in a summer porch—or a room convenient to your Phone and door. Put your white clothes to soak ou Sunday night—the electric washing machine can be quickly filled with an abundance of hot water from the Hydro flat rate water heater early Monday morning, Add water softener and soap flakes and put the clothes in while the machine is operating, to be sure that not too many things are put in at once. You can be preparing breakfast while the faithful machine works away for about 20 minutes, Even before breakfast the first batch of clothes can be wrung out and put into warm rinse Water. Yeu'll real- ize the value of your water beater when you remember how a ..soapy garment put into cold rinse water Used to look. (The fat in the soap left a discouraging yellowness:) Breakfast over, the white clothes can be wrung out of the first rinse water into the second, with the swivelelectric wringer. By this time the second batch of clothes is ready for rinsing. While the bed linen is hung out to dry' on an umbrella type clothesline—the first installment of * * f N TAKE A TIP — if you're malting chocolate fudge far sverseas—be sure Yours just wits. For a smooth creamy texture nt€x the chocolate. flour and milk wail aard let it stand for about three !viers before putting on the small element tl,f tate electric range (tm•n- ed to medium). BRITISH FILMS RUN THE BLOCKADE FOR ,SUPERIOR B'FJ(INq RESULTS USE MAGIC Air Vice -Marshall L. S. Breadeer, D.S.C. Chief of the Air Staff, Royal Canadian Air Force. r THE WORLD WATCHES PORTUGAL From the Canadian Institute of. Internatloual Affairs Dependable for 3 Generations —stili! MAGIC 'AXING pkif October before the latter's meeting with Franco at San Sebastian. Sal- azar is believed to have met Franco and determined on a united front. thus killing the Nazi game of turning one country against the other. If Spain. however. proves stubborn Hit. ler may eeek to try the outflanking strategy used against Sweden and. now against Turkey by arranging a coup in Portugal. Much of Portugal's strategic Im- portance depends upon her empire. The large African colonies of Angola and Mozambique are closely linked to the Union of South Africa and surrounded by British, Free Belgian. and Free French territories. In the Far East Portugal shares the small island of Timor with the Dutch; and Japan. which has eyes on the Dutell Lisbon, formerly cnnsldered one 01 Indies, etas begun test flights for a the remote European capitals, is now "trans -equatorial airline" from Tokyo described as the "Grand Central to Portuguese Timor. Just off the Station of the world." The only con- French West African coast are the tlnental port from which passenger Portuguese Cape Verde Islands wttt:h ships regularly sail to the Americae , dominate tate approaches to the vatel. it IS alto the terminus of air routes port of Dakar, Stili more important to North and South America and of are the Azores 900 miles front Porte. the feeder lines to Germany, occup- gal ori a direct line between Lisbeu led Europe, and England. Because it and Washington, where Europe controls an important stretch of the comes closest to America. In Ger' Atlantic coastline and :1o:ulnates the man hands the Azores. whiter are approaches to the s'raite of Gibral. self-sufficient in water and food area tar, Britain has always recognized have good harbours and air faciii7le.i, Portugal's vital importance to her. Could play a dangerous part in the Hence tine Anglo -Portugues., alliance war en tale British sea routes rowel which dates from 165#, the oldest al -r the Cape and to the oil stores et Mance between any twat, countries, Venezuela. The Azores are only This alliance binds Britain to .0010 1.12 miles front the United Staves, to the aid of Portugal against ex. whereas Hawaii, the main Amerlean rugal attack and Portugal to assist naval bate in the Pacific is M2>,91 Britain in war if asked to do so. In miles from home. The px'ee nt Amer - the war against Nupeleon Portugal kart naval patrol probably extends proved the wedge 1' ' which Britain almost- re the Azores. Consequently gained a footing ou 111- continent and Senator Pepper has suggested, wt*b. gave the Emperor his first derisive some backing, that the United Statse defeat in the Peninsular War. In the should occupy those islauds. There Great War Portugal sent two diva. has been a report out of Liebon titat stens to the Western Front and 70,. in the event of a German invasion; 000 men to the African fronts to ald Salazar would take his government her ally. to theAzores and call upon tate Sri. At the outbreak of this war Prime tislt navy for support. Whether or elinisten Salazar declared that his not he took such steps. Britain—or country would remain neutral. at. the United States—would be forced though Ilie re.affh'med itis tidelity to by reasone of vital self-interest to the British allia.nee. As Britain did forestall Nazi occupation of the Por - not ask Portugal for help, the latter tuguese islands. was not bound to declare war. Pub. lie opinion has supported this posi. "LIGHTHOUSE" LANTERNS tion. Portugal is not a democracy. Dr, Salazar is a dictator with few For Australia's 'Great New Bridge ire fascist characteristics, He is primal, Brisbane fly a financial genius who has given Lanterns s,nmewitat sine: V' do stability to Portuguese politics and these used fir terlithouses are a t; economy after years of turmoil torr „f Australia eernt trTM-' There is, therefor,,. little ideological span bridge. the new titer ; Bidet affinity with the Axis and a good in tr:s'tane. deal of devout detestation of the new It 14'' ,i,,'l it 'Ra 'r ';'r: paganism of Hitler whose aggression c 1 t.p're i 1.411 _t its sedium t Inas been publicly d,-uoaucetl. The ways of neutrality have not been easy. In January the Lisbon (•orres- pontlettt of the London Tigers was expelled for charging tlaat. German agents were active in Portugal but in February six German aviators from a bomber which landed in Por- tugal were promptly arrested. Portu- gal cannot afford a breach with Brit- ain because British trade is vital to her. Portugal's considerable empire and her connections with that empire depend for security entirely on the British navy. It is true that the blockade has severely curtailed col- onial trade, for Britain does not too readily grant navicerts for produce from the Portuguese colonies which might eventually find its way into the wrong hands, but Portugal's pos- ition is Very much better than that of her starved neighbour. Spain. Portugal is also under the shadow of the Axis, fol. Spain is a non- belligerent ally of Germany and Italy, Against Spain Portugal cannot be defended. Its peace -time army of 35,000 could make no stand against mechanized forces which would filter through the long valleys to the coastal cities in less than 25 hours. The Gestapo has been active in Lis- bon and some of Spain's 180,000 tourists have recently become inter- ested in the Portuguese scenery. Portugal's frontier is the Pyrenees; as Spain goes, so goes her neighbour. Hence Portuguese foreign policy since the collapse of France has been to support every element in Spain opposed to collaboration with. the Nazis. The Portuguese government supported Franco during the Spanish War, and relations with Spain have never been closer than at present. Axis strategy instigated the Spanish Falangists to demand the whole pen- insula for Spain, seeking thus to gain victory over Portugal without the shedding of German blood. But Doctor Salazar is generally credited with having forestalled Hitler last George Formby Packs the European Blockade .British mints are still finding their way into the cinemas of 'blockaded Europe. Thanks to co-operation .be- tween the authorities and the British filet distributors, audiences in Scandi- navia continue to enjoy the films of British comedians like George Form- by and "Big-hearted" hearted" Arthur Aekey. Formby, who has just completed a deal for showing his filers in the Un- ited States, is also a ,great favourite in Europe, despite his extremely loc- alised 'L'ancashire humour, and it is one of the .oddities of the ententain- ment ,world that he should export so snecesseully. The strong demand for his Elms, however, hail naw and ;be- fore the ewer, leaves no dotibt of 'his popularity in 'European 'countries, Other oountries in the war zone to which 'British.' piotnres 'are agoing. in- clude Swvtzeriend l(ivia -Lisbon). Tur- key,'Egypt, 'Mal'ta and Palestine. Empire countries are also sheeting a keener interest in British 'films es- ,pecially those w'itb a war 'interest. `SCon'voy". the 'Clive 'Beook ftiim, which 'brought to Empire soreens the hazard and 'thrills of the sttlbmarine war, has been doing. tremendous bus- iness, having already !netted over 11510,000 'from overseas ;mankets alone, In Australia it broke all records, :with an eighteen-weetks' mumat the Metes -tic Theatre, Melbourne. ' India, always s ,g!ood market !for British films, will soon be seeing such 'films as 'Neutral Port." 'Gas- bags" t(a ",Crazy Gang" tailm) and °The 'Ghost Train," while Canada is also asking ifor snore war 'films from Britain, char.e lamp,, the tat',,. •ra"' n iiihti't installati,'t A:ie rale'. '1'',, lantern ri natal 'ry a. British are 'nsed .en reale 111 :-••t'-- hoey .a system ,r_ hetet eontr1'- ,v scientifically .les treed sri-:t1' •iistritn'e the light eveai" .i1-'> e tie. roarlu•ay exactly where it quite 1. The- lank,; sive eight times the 1iatt of ordinary 100 watt lamp; used f.,- domestic purposes. The first road lighting scheme ao come within ,Grea t Britain s Trunk Road: Act of 1936 was equipped with these lanterns which have been usel since then in Singapore, India, Australia and New Zealand. The Bri- tish makers exported more in 119140 than in 1939 .and the ,prespects for the present year are even abetter. A doctor asked a your hearing bother drive a car?" To which the car "Does it! Why I can my wife says." motorist, "Does you when you driver snapped, hear every word cernmemorreermaerosoordreensereseenteer D H MdINNES CHIROPRACTOR Office — Commercial Hotel Electro Therapist — Massage Hours—Mon. and Thurs. after- noons and by appointment. FOOT CORRECTION by manipulation—Sun-ray • treatment.. Phone 227. BUS TIME TABLE Leases Seaforth for Stratford: Daily 5.15 S.M. and 6.16 pen. Learns Seaterth for Goderich: Dally except Sunday and 1tiol.• 1.9ti 5.ta. and 7.49 p.m. San. and hot., •1.06 9.91. end 9.20 p,in, Connection at Stratford for Toronto. Hamilton, Buffalo. Landon,. Detroit, Tavistock, Woodstock: Brantford 'Apnea: queen's, Commercial, D1ek Doane