New oliainnaa of Ontario Hydro-Electric commission will be To- unto’: Mayor Robert Saunders, it is announced from Queen's Park. Toronto. Ho will assume his new duties March i. First information he Wu being considered for the post came only two days ago. the mayor lllﬁ. "I accepted the position because I believe I can render a public oervice to the entire population of Ontario." l\-iayoi~ Saunders said. He intends to "clean up any loose ends of oivic business first." Next mayor d Toronto will be chosen by members of council and many of them feel that Controller H. E. McCallum will likely fill the post.

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As gold is hidden in the earth. Likewise is hidden greater worth.| —0ld Mother Nature.

A bud iirme is easily gotten and hard to got rid of. Yes. liree, it ll lo, Nothing la harder to let rid of than n had name. This is bl- eause bad things about Iolks are easier to remember than good things, or so it seems. it shouldn't, be so but it is. ' I

Just consider the case or Sammy Jay. To hear some folks you might, think that Sammy is all had. Hal isn't No indeed he isn‘! He has his faults. but who is there whoi tloesni’! And it is the faults that? are remembered. I

Sammy is Iiandsuiie. lovely blue coat trimiined with ivhiie and black. and that pointed cap he vi-enrs so jauntily. makc_ him casy iii i001: at. But some iolks seem to think that his look is all flint is good about. him. Tiiis_ isn't so. Of (‘nurse not. lI is never true to anybody. Perhaps this is because the good is hidden but the bad is riisily sccn. Or is it because many folks seem always to, be looking for the had, and seeing what they look for they overlook and miss the good?

SarnmyJny has n harsh voice‘ and delights to scream as loudly and unploasnntlyr as lie can. Every- hody knows that. harsh voice. But~ how many know that Sammy also has notes as sureet and clear as a fairy hell? Mrs. Sanaaiy knows‘ ln love-time he rings that hell‘

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specially for her. And Sammy ezin

and often does. sini: the songs 0f other feathered singers. Islc may not. sing them as loudly, hut he’ sings them as clearly as they do, and they get the credit tor the singing It appears that few folks‘ know this hut. it. is true just as ii is irilo of Siwckles ilic Starling anti Kitty the (Jathirri nnri Ytlovkei"

the Mocking Bird. Not all Jnjis do. hut some do. l Sammy does srrnn had '

like stealing: eggs of other hlrds, and somciirnrs lllg hnhies of his. ncizlilinrs. He nlixrurs gets lho full‘ blame {or those things. But ho also does many good turns, like destroying IlﬂYVYllUl worms and in- sects planting trees by burying nuts and acorns in the cnrili. wnrniiig hi5 neighbors of danger. More than once hr- savezl the life of Liizhtfoot the Deer from the dreadful guns of hunters by warning him in time. And more. times than he or they can rememn her he has vrarned his feathered lwiillibﬂfs of dangers they were‘ unaware of.

Sttnmy Jay has the thin-pest of shary eyes. None in llic Grlecn Forest are sharper. And he never forgets to use them wherever hr- may be. It. is sometimes said o! folks who are so watchful that, they almost never‘ are taken by! surprise that they seem. to hovel eyes in; the baeks/ of their heads; It Is so with Sammy Jay. That is how it is that no matter what mischief he may he engaged in he}

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afmoat always manages to keep‘ out. of trouble. I Sammy hurl come from the.

Green Forest ovcr to the Old Or-l chard on his Way to get at leastf part of his breakfast at the fcedingi shelf of om- or Fnrnim- Bi-orwnls‘; kitchen windows. Hr: had stoppedl in a tree on the edge of the Old Orchard to use those sharp eyes, 0f hi! to make sure that all waal well before crossing the d0oryard| to the feeding shelf. It was a coir] mornintt. A few SIIFYWIIJIUFS wore floating down from heavy gray! clouds overhead.

"If Mother Nature shakes than. rlouds hard tlicrr- will br- i; 19g m0rrh" thought Shimmy. "Other,

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Sammy Jay has a harsh voica and delights to scream as loudly and tiiiploasantly as he can

folks Lhink so too, to judge by the number I-YOIiIIlK their breakfast. They must tliiiil: tlierc is 30in: to h» a storm and are making sure o! flill rinps iimforvlluiitl. If ls a good iilcn. I'll do the same thing while the getting is good."

lie was just about to spread his blue wings to join tho Sparrows and Jiincos and Cliicadees and

sire-if, on the ground beneath it, and in the bushes near ii. when those sharp (‘Yes of his ‘saw Butch- rr the Shrike alight in a tree in tho flOOl‘_\'t’ll‘(l Sammy kept still. He u-atclir-rl Butcher uiitil he was sure that Butcher rwas making ready to SWOOp down into the midst of that happy breakfast. crowd to catch rinr- (if them for his own break- fast_ To save that one there was just one thing to do and'he did it. Ho screamed like a llawk. Like magic the happy crow] scattered and disappeared.

Bllltllffl‘ the Shrike looked over _ .7:iy angrily “Thief! ., Thief!‘ Ft‘l‘€lli'l“if‘fl Sammy in his own harsh ‘vice and

.T:i_\- flew hack to the Green Forest.

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Eeuih was just a little too cnthus. instit- in the bidding of today's deal and. as a consequence, reached a slain contract that was decidedly ill-advised. However, with the cards lying as perfectly as they did lie, he should have cashed in on his own optimism.

South, dealer. Both sides vulnerable. North-South 60 on score

QKS pas 0.17642 ‘axes qqo gun Q0543 910512 QQ1083 0X96 41097 ‘Q13 aaiosraz QKQ.‘ QA .5542 Thebidding: Booth Welt North Ball. 1Q Pass 2Q Plll 2‘ Pass 1Q Pall a. Pass s; Bu! Paaa Pass Although, as nlrtarly indicated“

Souths lPlld to five evades W" pxflllllbly questionable -— "DBSSIIIB the buck" hack to North by blddllll Mlv {our spades would have been quite sufficient for South's iiold- ing, and North probably would have passed - it ‘is also true that North's raise to three spades on the dotihlctnn king was a mis- leading action, Certainly,‘ North was entitled to make a mild slam try, hut. t-xo noirump would have bten more descriptive. W535i opened a rluh. Declaror wan “hi1 lhr- ace. then, perhaps with the superficial thought that his nnly chance was i0 find ""1"" with the blank Q-J of trumps. cashed the spade king and 195d I-° his own ace. After that there was no possible chance t0 "Old the loss of a trump and a club. Admittedly. south‘: -pI‘05D9¢IJ ware not good, but with the curd! lying as they did. he tbultl h!" snatched victory from defeat, At the second trick he should cash the diamond ace, than lead low to U10 spade king and ruff a dlcmond. Now hack io tho heart ace and ruff n second dlrmonrL Now (‘ash the heart king. rut! n good heart in dummy. and return another din: mond for a ruff. East would be help -less. and finally South would merely cash the spade we. than go to dummy with a club and discard a club on the fifth diamond.

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