The Seaforth News, 1948-02-19, Page 6Europe's Homeless Ease Bri-
tain's Manpower Worries
More than 200,000 persons
from all over Europe, left
homeless by the war, have
found haven in England and
have started a new life of li-
berty and . happiness. In ex-
change - for this, Britain : gets
the benefit of their work,
which helps relieve the serious
manpower shortage on farms
and in factories. Known as
European Volunteer Workers,
the former DP's enjoy most of
therights of the average Bri-
ton. These pictures show typi-
cal activities among them.
With a song of freedom in their hearts, volunteer farm workers march off to the,,fields.
Former DP's learn to operate looms in a textile mill.
Latvian refugee, right, gets instruction in mill packing
department.
King "Business"
Pays off Royally
The king business still is about the
best paying occupation in Europe.
Even the smallest countries pay
their monarchs handsomely, compar-
ed with the $75,000 annual salary
drawn by the President of the
United States.
Figures on the royal incomes were
gathered after a recent debate in the
House of Commons turned attention
to the amounts paid to Britain's
Royal Family.
The Commons agreed to increase
Princess Elizabeth's allowance to
£40,000 ($160,000) and to pay her
husband, Prince Philip, £10,000 ($4-
0,000). But the decision was reached
over the protests of a large sector
of the Labor Patty.
Best paid of all was Britain's Royal
Family, which received more than
$2,000,000 in 1940.
Lowest Paid find
Lowest paid monarch appeared to
be King Paul of 'Greece. The entire
Greek Royal Family's annual income
is $279,000. Out of this the King
must maintain the entire Royal Fam'
ily, pay all servants, entertain. and
meet his own travel expenses.
King Haalcon of Norway also ap-
peared to he in the "low income"
bracket. His annual stipend is 1,-
000,000 kroner, about $200.000, but
he also receives an undisclosed a-
mount for Palace expenses.
Before the war, the Dutch House
of Orange was considered one of the
wealthiest Royal Families in the
world. It is not known to what ex-
tent the war affected the private
fortune of Queen Wilhelmina.
The Dutch Queen's annual income
from the State is 1,000,000 guilders,
about $377,000, plus a maximum of
100,000 guilders ($37,700) for Pal-
ace maintenance, She also receives
the proceeds of Crown estates.
There was no estimate of her income
from private sources.
Juliana raid
In addition, The Netherlands pays
Crown Princess Juliana and her hus-
band, Prince Bernhard, 200,000 guild-
ers ($75,400) each.
State grants to Sweden's bRoyal
Family last year, including 950,000
erowns ($263,889) to King Gustaf,
totaled 1,393,000 crowns ($386,940).
The Belgian Civil List provides
for an annual appropriation of 12,-
009,000
2;000,000francs ($274,285) for the
Royal Family, "for the duration of
King Leopold's reign." The King
now is in. Switzerland and his brother
is Regent. For the past two years,
there has been a supplementary ap-
propriation of 12,000,000 francs for
other expenses.
Belgium's Queen Mother Eliza-
beth receives 2,000,000 francs a year,
In addition, there are pnestimated
personal Incomes from estates at
home and in the Belgium Congo.
Denmark's Royal Family gets a
total of 2,200,000 kroner ($440,000) a
year from- the state, The King .re-
ceives 1,750,000 kroner ($350,000),
from which he pays all household
expenses.
The royal incomes look tremen-
dous, but they're not all hay. State
and social obligations of the kings
entail enormous expenses, and large
proportions of the State grants are
sea aside to meet the costs of enter-
taining and maintaining the regal
splendor their subjects expect.
The Rebel
Leaves at One
By
MARION WALLS
"It isn't that 1 don't love you,
Stan! I want to do something else
before 1 settle down to marriage -1
want to learn how to design, I—oh,
what's the use! You won't under-
stand it."
Reachingiip, Stan broke off a twig
from the chinaberry tree. "No, I
guess I can't," ise admitted. "I guess
I belong to the old-fashioned school
which thinks' marriage means every-
thing to a girl."
The girl touched his arm, "I do
love you, Stan; and I want to marry
you. But not now, I want to amount
to something first, be somebody."
Unexpectedly, she laid a swift kiss
upon his cheek, "Run along back to
your farm, dear," she advised. "The
Rebel leaves at one in the morning
and I must finish packing. But I'll
be looking for you tonight,"
Anita raced up the steps to her
room on the second floor of Mrs.
. Petrillo's hoarding house. It was
several hours later that Mrs. Petrillo
,called: "Miss Davileno 1 Telephone!
And hurry, please."
Fuming, Anita disconnected the
iron. She had no time for idle con•
versations this day. "Hello—Stan?"
Her breath quickened.
"Anita, can you help inc out for a
little while, TCatja's boy, Ben, cut
himself with an a.re and Joe had to
take him to the hospital. Mom's still
in bed, and that leaves Inc in a -lam
—Katja's baby is here to, Jim Hag-
garty said he cool bring you out."
Anita's response was immediate.
"Sure, I'll come Tell Jim I'11- be
ready in 15 minutes."
Anita was relieved when Jim's
truck turned into the Dusatc's drive.
Stan was sitting on the porch hold-
ing the baby.
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With a relieved smile, he laid the
child in .Anita's arms. "He's teeth-
ing, the little rascal won't let you
put him down."
"Run along," she encouraged. "I'll
put the baby to sleep,"
Going into the house, Anita put
the child to bed and went in to see
about Stan's mother. She was sleep-
ing, sunshine spraying across the
quilt. Drawing the shades, Anita
went out noiselessly,
Anita wandered back- into the hig
room. On the wall hung an oil paint-
ing; bold splashes of color about a
mill and a rushing brook. Puzzled,
Anita was still staring when she
heard quick steps upon the porch..
It was Katja, worn but with tri-
umph in her eyes. "Ben's going to
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be all right!' shecried, tak ng
Anita's hand. "I stopped by and told
Stan, How's Mom and the baby?"
"Your mother is still sleeping,"
replied Anita softly. Her eyes went
again to the painting. "Katja, there's
something familiar about that scene.
Where did you get that picture?"
The older woman's eyes went
briefly to the wall. "Oh, that's the
old mill down near Stonewall. I
painted it one summer. Let's have a
bit of tea—I need a pick-up."
In amazement, Anita said: "'You •
painted this! Why, Katja, it's beau-
tiful." Following the other woman
into the kitchen, she probed; "Kat-
ja, it's a shame you didn't try to '
develop your talent. You might have
created something beautiful for all
the world to see!"
Katja was thoughtful. "1'11 admit
that in the beginning, I did Wonder
but after Joe and I were mar-
ried .. no, Anita, I'm never sorry
any more.'
Stan came tramping up the steps.
"Say, I'm no tea drinker," he called,
"but you can pour the a cup now"
Leaning against the cuphoarrl. he
She was in his arms now
said to Anita: "1 _an run you back
to town now that Katie has come."
"There,'s no hurry," she said, not.
looking at him,
"But your packing—and the Rebel
leaves at one," he reminded her.
She smiled, "Maybe some rebels
just start to leave, Stan, and don't.
ever really ga."
She was in his arms now. Katja
had left them but it was•to Katja
she was really speaking when she
whispered, her mouth against his,
"I'11 never be sorry any more."
New Way To Fight
Dangerous Enemies
o
The great annual invasion is on—
an invasion just as dangerous as one
by a foreign enemy.
Millions of rats' in grey furry
hordes are sweeping in from the
great outdoors where, during the
summer months, they glutted them-
selves and multiplied. Now they've
invaded cities, towns and farmyards
to .find quarters for the winter in
barns, granaries, kitchens and cellars.
Even although home -owners wage
personal wars against this great in-
vasion, it will be a losing fight unless
taken up by ,the community as a
whole—and the destruction will go on
to the tune of millions—perhaps
billions of dollars damage.
For centuries rats have plagued
mankind by pilfering his food and
spreading death -dealing disease. The
pied piper was but a figment of wish-
ful thinking in the mind of some
mediaeval fiction writer. Cats have
been tried to eliminate this sneaking
enemy. Inventors have utilized tons
of grey matter in an attempt to de-
vise a foolproof rat trap. But the
rats continued to multiply.
Now chemistry has conic on the
scene with a super rat killer—Antlr.
Tested in both Canada and the Unit-
ed States over a period of three
years, this poison has proven phenonr
¢nal as a rat exterminator. Employed
as a weapon in rat drives where
householders and pest control opera-
tors worked hand in hand, it has
cleared whole communities of the
pests for as long as two years.
Antu is available to the public in
several commercial formulas which
may be used with bait or dusted into
burrows, tracks or any .place fre-
quented by the rodents. The rats
pick it up on their feet and fur. Upon
licking their feet or fur they swallow
the powder. The poison retards their
breathing and experience has shown ,
that in many instances in an attempt
to get fresh air, they crawl out into
the open and die.
Profit and Loss
A successful city business man
took up farming asa side line.
After two years a friend asked him
how things were going. "Well, 1
made $10,000 on the farm last
year," the businessman said.
"$i0,000?" repeated the friend.
increduously.
"Yes, sir," said the businessman
firmly, "I lost only $22,000. The
first year I lost $32,000.
When The Poor Prince of Wales Had To
Stay Home Frown. The Race Track
After a dusty plunge into the' files
of just half a century ago, we came
up with a few of the things papers
found worthy of notice around tete
start of the year 1895
Royalty
The great ones of the earth come
in for considerable attention' and
in one issue there is a Biographical
Sketch of Iris Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales (later Ring Ed-
ward Seventh,) The married life
of the Prince and Princess is de-
scibed as "ideal"; and there is a note
about the Prince's fondness for
reading, also race -horses that tvould,
we imagine, to be about fifty per.
cent in accordancewith the farts,
which is a pretty fair average. The
Prince was said to he rigid in re-
fraining from any sports'on'Sunclay,.
although once lie was sorely tempted
by Marshall_ Macil'Tahon, during a
trip to France, to go and see the
Grand Prix run on that day. I-Iow-
ever, a wire to his mother, Queen.
Victoria, soon settled the matter,
and the Prince didn't go to the race
track but, we presume, stayed home
with a good book.
Famous Authors
Rudyard Kipling had just publish-
ed, in the current issue of St. Nich-
olas Magazine, the second of his
"Just So Stories". It was entitled
y"-tv the Camel Got Its Hunip"
and was illustrated by Oliver Here-
ford. The Canadian Gilbert Park-
er's "The Battle of the Strong" was
just starting 10run as a serial in the
Atlantic Magazine. And another fa-
mous author was in the news, hut in
a somewhat different connection.. He
was Dr. Conan Doyle, creator of
"Sherlock Holmes" who leas said to
be one of the pioneers of a sport
called ski-ing (pronounced shee-ing)
which was rapidly becoming popular
in Switzerland, and .attracting many
winter visitors to that counry.
It was explained, however, that
the new sport was rather a clumsy
one; in fact "ski-ing cannot for a
moment compare with either snow -
shoeing or toboganning" — which
might cause somewhat of a laugh
up around Happy Valley and other
favorite haunts of the ski addicts,
On Stage
One of the foremost actors of his
time Richard Mansfield — was in
the news though just having ad-
zujnistered a thrashing to his valet.
The cause — when Mansfield was
;dressing to go on stage he found a
button missing- from his costume.
Robert B. Mantell — and how he
could turn on the tragedy; — was
appearing at Toronto's Grand Opera
ITouse, with a coming attraction at
the same house announced as "The
Wedding Day" starring Lillian Rus-
sell, Della Fox and Jefferson De
Angelis — and what a cast that
must have been! Madame Nordica,
greatest soprano of her time, was
coming to Massey Hall, and the
prices ranged from fifty cents to a
dollar and a half — with no mention
of war tax evtra either.
Russian Confidence
On the world scene we find that
Russia had just made known the re-
sults of the first census ever taken
in that Empire. Based on the then
prevailing rate of increase, within
twenty years a population of 175
million was expected whirls — ac-
cording to the Editor -- "explains
the confidence with which Russians
loot: forward to the future" The
balance of the sexes in Russia seems
to have been rather diffcreut then,
as it was noted that in some Russian
co:nmmmiti s h
c there was such a short-
age of the fair sex that "a marriage
able young woman seldom sojourns
in one of those towns for more than
four or five weeks before securing
a partner for life," -
Even then the world was beset, by
labor troubles, one hundred • thous-
and English machinists being report-
ed as on strike or an eight-hour day
with extra pay for overtime. The
wages they had been getting were
said to average "around eight dollars
per ween,"
. Chewing l"r.:m
An item which would have—well,
at least interested Mr. Wrigley was
headed THE DA N G E R OF
CHEW -Inv, GUPI, which was de-
-scribed as a "filthy con-mound"—
"flavoured India ruhhel had the
"cause of miich dyspepsia o The
perils of chewing -gum for the young
—because of the danger of swallow'
ing it—were also touched upon. In
fact we rather felt thot the writer'
of the article really disapproved of
chewing gum—and we just wish he
..could be her' to see .some of the
kids in our neighborhood per forming
on the "bubble" variety.
Sttonb .:.ink
The evils of strong chink were
forcefully illustrated by the .tale of
a Great Lakes captain who over-
stayed his time or sailing to do a
little extra elb. vbending, Because
of this delaythesteamer gut frozen
in the ice, and a thouaud tons of
coal aboard failed to reach the Silver
Islet Mine on the north shore of
I,ake. Superior, Lacking coal the
pumps which .kept the.mine clear of
water couldn't be kept going. The
mine filled up and at the time of the
report 13 years after the event
was still filled. Up to the time of the,
Captain's error the mine had pro.
duced three million ounces of silver
and was tagged, by the writer of the
report, :is "the richest spot on
earth."
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