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of Canada. Veterans received colors from Mayor Saunders.
TEEN -TOWN TOPICS
By BARRY MURKAR
"Well, it's about time you got
here," snorted Susie, as I calve to
a stop at her front veranda.
"I had to pump up the tire on
my bike," I shot back, "Are you
kids all set? I've got the weiners
and the buns."
Susie, Gwen and
Don got up off the
step and proceeded
to tie the bags
containing t h e
lunch to their
bikes.
"Do you think
it will rain?" ask-
ed Gwen. "It's
getting a little
dark in the west."
"Nab," I replied, "I can tell by
the clulmulus, or whatever it is."
'Just what are you trying to give
us now?" scoffed Susie.
"An air force guy told me all
about it. You can tell the weather
by watching for the cold fronts.. ,
I think. No rain today, kids. Take
it from an old weather prophet."
"Huh and pooh and huh," chor-
used three voices.
We ,started out north of town
-with everyone convinced there
would be no rain. It was a beauti-
ful day. One of those cool fall days
—that make you feel glad to be
alive. The bright sun brought out
all the autumn hues of the turning
leaves, and the brown stubble in
the fields beside us looked lonely
and forgotten.
"Let's go up to the 7th, along to
the Brock Road and down to the
4th," I suggested, "We can cook
supper over an open fire in the
bush; and I know just the spot."
Everyone seemed satisfied with
this idea and we rode gayly along,
singing and talking. Three miles
north, my back tire went down and
I slowly bumped to a stop.
"It's beyond me how you do it,"
groaned Susie. "If anyone can
louse up a plan, it's you."
"Now don't get your braids tan-
gled," I cracked. "It's only a
valve."
"Look's like a hole in the tube,"
offered Don. It was. And there
we were.
We hailed a kind-hearted motor-
ist and hoped that he would have
some patching equipment. To our
surprise he did have. We soon had
the tire fixed and were on our
ev ay.
Four miles and eight conces-
sions later, Susie was chinning the
handlebars from exhaustion. Gwen
groaned with every push of the
pedal, while I tried to • cheer them
on. And me with calluses on my
calluses.
We reached the bush at last. A
path winding off the roadway to
-the right led into the heart of the
-tall green trees. Digging a hole in
the ground in a nice clearing, we
soon had a crackling fire going.
Gwen and Susie sprawled out on
the ground, weary and sore.
"Reminds me of my boy scout
<days, Don, If we had time, I'd
start this fire with just two sticks
-of wood."
"We have to get home tonight,"
moaned Susie. "Make with the heat
and get those hot ,dogs roasted."
"There's a woman for you, Don,
They don't get the feeling of the
woods like us ntcn. No sense. of
• pioneering, no feeling of being
alone in the bush to survive or
die and only your bare hands to
provide. They want it just like at
home. Served up on a plata—"
"Oh, for goodness sake, shut up
:and get those hot dogs on," filter -
ruin cd Susie aeg in,
In a few minutes, the smell of
hot dogs, mustard and roasted ap-
ples permeated the air.
"My gosh, it's starting to sprin-
kle," warned Gwen,
In a platter of minutes, a wild
and windy thunderstorm broke all
.al•otmd us, Running through the
Sports - } nd
or not .
ne Thing
r
By FRANK MANN HARRIS
("A Sixbit Critic")
Down in wartime Washington a
couple of reporters, just as a gag,
cooked up a highly imaginary yarn
about the Emperor Hirohito having
made a hush-hush flying trip to
Allied headquarters for the purpose
ol talking peace terms. They confided
this piece of "information" to just
one man, swearing him to secrecy.
Inside of six hours that identical
story, having taken wings to itself,
was back to Washington as an
authentic piece of "news" from the
Pacific Coast.
* * *
This was cited, by the newspaper
from which we copied it, as a start-
ling instance of the speed with which
gossip gets around in time of war.
Iput to anybody at all familiar with
the way rumors travel at a race-
track, it will seem comparatively
snail -like. We recall an afternoon at
Thorncliffe when a couple of guys,
for no good reason except that they
had nothing better to do, decided to
fabricate a red-hot "tip," start it on
its rounds, and then see what would
happen.
* * *
They selected a steed we'll call
RUMP ROAST—the very worst
horse in the race just coming up.
Getting together in a secluded por-
tion of the paddock, but taking care
there was a single bystander within
earshot, one of them murmured con-
fidentially to the other, "I just got
word from the stable that this is
going to be a shoo-in for RUMP
ROAST—every jock in the race will
torrent of rain with what food we
could grab, each of us stood under
a tree.
"I'm soaked and my hair has
all come out," wailed Susie.
"I'm cold, wet and I ache all
over," sobbed Gwen. "Some week-
end this is."
Three pair of eyes from under
three different trees turned—and
the burning gaze of all three
stretched across to the tree under
which I was standing—with the
ram dripping down my neck from
the branches above.
"There now, smarty," sneered
Susie, in my direction, "my week-
end guests are sorry they came,
and it's all your fault."
"Stay here and I'll run down the
road to a farm house and phone
to town for a taxi," I offered,
"Forget it, we'll all go," said
Don. "We can't get any more wet
than we are."
So we started off, splashing our
way down the muddy road. Pant
legs lost their creases, sweaters
turned color from red to pink and,
a we walked, each of us could feel
the water oozing .out of our shoes.
Riding home in the taxi, I could
hear the muffled voices of the
other three in the back seat. I
think it was Don who said: "well,
if he didn't know how to prophesy
the weather by looking at the sky,
why didn't he shut up?"
"You could ask that question
after a lot of things he says," an-
swered Susie.
And so we finally arrived home
after a bike hike and picnic in
the country,
ow to trlat
UMI'IN
Rheumatic pains may often be caused by
excess uric acid, a blood impurity that
should be extracted by the kidneys. If
kidneys fail, and excess uric acid remains, it
may cause severe discomfort and pain.
Treat rheumatic pains by keeping your
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have a ticket on it, and the owner
has wired away five frand on its
nose." (This owner, by the way,
didn't have five thousand cents to
bless himself with, let alone that
many dollars, and everybody knew
it.)
* * ,i,
Having thus sown the good seed
the two conspirators proceeded, in a
leisurely manner, through the
crowds. Before they had travelled
the length of the grandstand they
had received no less than seven
different tips on RUMP ROAST,
one good pal even dashing down
from the press box to let them in on
"the hottest thing of the meeting";
and the probable odds on that steed,
which had opened at a legitimate 50
to 1, now stood at 9 to 5. .
* * *
The sequel? Well, by the time they
reached the Club House lawn, news
of the coming "killing" had reached
such proportions, and bore so many
earmarks of authenticity, that it ap-
peared to be an opportunity too
golden to be overlooked. And you
needn't peg this as merely a flight
into the realms of fancy either,
seeing that we were one of tIle pair
that started this wild rumor—and
ended up by betting on our own
fabrication. As for RUMP ROAST,
he finished a bang -Up ninth in a field
uf-ten, one of the others pulling up
with a bowed tendon.
* * *
Our educational and church auth-
orities are continually deploring the
evil effects of sensational "comic"
books, lurid movies, and crime- fea-
turing radio dramas on young and
growing minds, and wishing our
boys and girls would take greater
interest in literature of the better
sort. Such being the case, why is it
that they still insist on building Public
Libraries which, from the outside,
are just about as attractive and glam-
orous as some Morgue or Isolation
Hospital? In these days of modern
merchandising, packaging is almost
as important as contents; and if we
ever saw a Library that was even
one-tenth as inviting to youthful eyes
as an up-to-date Soda Bar or Movie
House, we would have greater hope
for the success of the "better read-
ing„ movement.
Sing Sing prison gets its name
from the Indian words "ossine os -
sine," meaning "stone upon
stone."
Good for
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