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I Helen Topping Miller

CH.AP'1'ER X (Continued)

"I can take care or nlddman Harper. He owes me mane)"

"I wouldn't talk to too many people about this well. Mr. Mason. Gary advised. ”If you EM 3 l'”Id' est down and it turns out to be 5 producer, the wise thing to do would be to shut it. down and keel) quiet about ll. You might want to get leases on the other land that touchas your pool."

OI don't want a lot of land All I wum I. 5 good oil well. And Pve got a fat chance to keep this well quiet. Everybody in the county knows about it aircad)-"

”That's because you'ie talked too much." Mona Lee said. "If you Re, ,1 com an 3 little toe. every- body in town kIi0Ws' about it in fifteen minutes."

"Nmii you know it isn't that noon, Mothcr it take A C0111”? Of hours, anyway"

”Ii you don't lease this border-

Lng land,” Gary reminded mm. .mm.. om. else will You rnay SP1 neighbors you don: want And If you control the lcriscs you mil probably interest some of the bill companies."

"I tell you I taunt to keep Th'-5 for myself. I dont want a "lot of speculators mixed up :n it

"Maybe, "Gary said patiently. "there? is a iva.l' "3 K951? SWCUIP tors away from oil -- but I've llf?YFl' heard of it being done. And if the speculators don't hear about gt, mg ghyster lawyers will. They're the fellows who have made the

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Fleet continues To llwindle

MONTREAL (GP) - Canada's. dwindling ocean-going fr:-ighterl Iliaet fell to 19 vessels Thursday--l iowmt since 1939. -

Officials of Montreal shipping Ltd, announced sale of the 7,159-t ion freighter Mont Clair to uniden-

tified Italian interests, Sale price. i

was not disclosed. I

Officials sairi the vessel will bcl delivered at an unnamed European port this week i

The Mont. Clair. which sen-rd) during the war as a supply ship to the United Kingdom. follows two sister ships into foreign regi. . The fr:-ighters Mont Gaspr l Mont Alta were sold to British IHIPFPSM two months ago.

The sale was made under red-L PTRI government regulations thst' pmcppdg from the transaction bet

placed in ii fund for the canstrii"-I these advances must not delude

tinn nf new Canadian flag vc-est-1.1.1 aiiynno into thinking that death Harbor soiirccs here also rn- from tuberculosis can be wiped

ported the sale Thursrl.-iy of the; nut without wiping out the dis-I

Canadian ocean tanker Impnrlallensc.

Qiiebnc, to Italian interests. - Another dangerous pitfall to be Officials of the Impcrial 0ll' svnicieci 1. the me. that given

("ompnnv. the ship's owners. rc- i'lS('CI to confirm the sale but said negotiations are under way fnri lirr disposal. i

The t-mknr has been put on they msrknt because of high operating r-nd labor costs.

most money out of the oil busi- ness so far."

'"Well, I'll tell you, son - you get me somebody to get me a der- rick up and a drill contractor that knows his Job. and I'll tend to the law business and the rest."

"You send that wire off to Jun- ior now. Harvey. right away. We're not going to have these children ruined just because you think maybe there's oil out there in that: old pasture. And you'd better seal about getting those calves unload-I ed when they come in. too. Slim'sj having a duck fit all over the! place."

"All right. all right. Mother. don't shove me! I've got about ii. thousand things to see to - I cari'll be in forty places at once."

"If you could be in just one place and keep your head on your shoulders, it would help s lot,” said Mona Lee dryly. i "would you speak to Adelaide before you go to Austin about taking me over to the oil fields in the car, Mr. Mason?" Gary ask-

"My gosh, aren't you kids speak- ing? What's wrong With you?"

"Nothingls wrmig." Mona Lee put in quickly. ”You know how Addie is - always tearing amund places. If she didn't want to both- cr with taking Gary. she'd just say so if he asked he-r-but if you tell her you want. her to do it, she'll listcn"

"Well. if she thinks I'm keeping up that car Just to haul 3. lot of boys from town around in --"

"Oh, Harvey, you don't have to yell! Just tell her what. you want her to do."

"You want me in go now, air?"

"Why, sure --- the quicker the hc'tci'. Hey Addie!" Harvey raiscd his mice in a whoop as he went

l control.

T. B. Death Rate: continue To Fall

(Health week News)

If it is true that there are two sides to every story the story of tuberculosis in Canada is typical. It is at once cheering and sober- ing. The cheerful side is that death rates continue to fall. The 1952 rate of 17.0 per 100.000 is the lowest Canada has ever Md. and t is only a third of the rate ten years before.

But each year there are. still more than 10,000 new cases. and notwithstanding the new low in 1052 there were more than 2.400 dvsths. This is a grim reminder that as long as tuberculosis ex- ists it will cause many deaths. it is true that earlier detection of cases, enough beds to permit prompt treatment, new develop- ments in siirgery and new drugs have combined to restore. health to thousands who would once have been doomed, but thsnkfulness for

time tuberculosis will automatical- ly disappear. The gsins recorded year aftor year are not due to mere. passage of time but to the hard, persistcnt. efforts which go into programs of tuberculosis Year after year these programs have been intensified and broadened so that more Cans- dians are reached with better services. There sre more sans- tnrltim beds, more clinics for diagnosis. more mass surveys to find unknown cases, more special xiirvcys of high incidence groups. more rehabilitation and more edu- cation conrerning tuberculosis.

Such expansion has called for increased outlay both of taxes and voluntary donations raised through tlin Christmas Seal Sulc. Cana- dliins are spending 318,000,000 more annually on tuberculosis con- trol lhan they did ten years ago. What, tlicy may wonder. have thny bought with the money.

Had the 1042 TB death rate rnniinund there wotilrl have been

4.900 more deaths from tuber- culosis in 1952 than there were. 'TlWlSP Who ludite h.V humanitar-

ian standarrls are struck by the riciiness of the return from the in- vostnic-nt of the extra 518,000,000 for thov see it in terms of homes saved from the hleskness of be- in: moihcrlcss or the privstion which gent-rally attends loss of the breadwinner. But what of

I those who take a "practical" view?

To thom the answer is that the nvnrage cost of saving lives was loss than 54.000 per person, A brief stiiriy of the value of life as compiiicrl for insurance ptir- ipnscs will tit-nionstrate the sound- Irrss of tho outlay.

Tiihort-iilnsis is going but it i.sn7l gone. The ndvancas so far have lirr-n it-nil worth the effort and nznnr-,v nninilcrl and this will hold for rnmnirie eradication - when no got it.

and storm and the untamed power that lics under the earth - un- tamcd and unpredictable."

"I didn't know you were a poet, G:ii'y."

P "Not with words - but there's down the stairs. p rhvmm m A scene mu mu. H Adelaide was waiting in tho Wm Climb to H m f i I Mr iihen Gary went down "All ihnw hunt” I 0 Yme! 91 riizlit, mister," she said. "Here's mg W,” neg "me wuzg 5:6 smut mm trcinor of the earth under you

"Thanks a lot. I hope I didiit inlvrfcre with any of your plaiis?"

"I was supposed to be playing lirirlge st Grace's. but she can just find somebody else. Sheis being siiippy aiiyway. and Oliver goes a- rniiiid tellinrz people that Dad's cr:i7.y and will probably go broke."

CHAPTER XI

G'lZ,V looked st the prairie and the swampy places where lazy. shallow rivers ran and spiky white IIIIPS turned their faces up to the sky, looking angelic to hide the fact that they wore a thousand snniy thorns. He lookcd at the whitc-fact-ti calves staring over iPl1:'("5, and a pear orchard in bloom - and then siiddcnly a- head the rolling iaiidscape was piincttintcd with a hundred steel cxrlriinatioii point.-., making a staccato fringe against the sky. ”'rhcre she is." he said. "There's your oil."

"They always give me a thrill." Adi-liiide said. slowing down as tlir Ifil'f'Sl of lIP1'l'l!:I(S fringed thr. hori- win all -ai-ounri. ”LlI(P. sailiiig ships . nr flags waving. They're so dra- mwtir I know they'rc Just steel nt'.'i that down under them iirrasy. black oil is blubbering up out of a dirty pipe -- but they do look like a siaue settiiig."

"'rli:it'.s br-cause they're like sky- s.'”rnilCl'S -- and bridzes ---and big HHDS. Drama vicnt into the build- mg of them - human drama. Pride and ambition and greed and cruci- tr; little men working with llicir

bmins, figlitinit stress and wind”

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You can almost feel the old world breathe and mutter down inside hcr fiery bosmn, and when she lilmis mil ii blast of her rage. and your ucll turns iiitn a fiery cris- tcr or a spouting, shrieking demon I of gas that no man can come near i- tlicn you know what force it - imd how little men know about it."

"The-y look quiet enough now, but. so proud. They know how tall they are. the shining things. Gra- cious. there are a lot of them, arciitt t.li9rr'? Look down that way - lhcy go for. miles!"

”Too mriny." Gary said. "Ten wells could pump all the oil that now fectis a LIlOilFflild. But every ll'lIlll who owns or leases a little patch of yzrotind wants to go down i by himself. And the waste has been something that all men don't like to think about now. Millions in by-products thrown away because ml was in a hurry and greedy for wmlth, and couldn't. wait for SCIPHCC to catch up with it."

(Continued)

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L. M. Montgomery chapter Hold Annual Meeting

The annual meeting of the Lucy Maud Montgomery Chapter at the I. O. D. E. was held at the home of Mrs. Ron Smith. 011 Monday evening.

Mrs. Ron anlth. Regent, was in

the chair. The meeting opened with prayer, The Regent etsted her up.

preciation of the co-operation of the officers and various com- mittens during the year. There fol- lowed reports of the oiiflcers and committees.

The following are the highlights given in the report of Mrs. Frank Andrew, secretary.

A new project was started in the form of aiding the Cerebral Palsy Association with donations as seen needed .Two walkers were presented by the Chapter, and also toys that would aid in the de- velopment of the children. At Christmas time the Chapter gave some of the children s Christmas party which included gifts and re- freehments.

Other projects carried on by the Lucy Maud Montgornery Chapter included aid to adopted schools, nurses scholarship. picnic for children at Mt. Herbert Orphan- nize. layettes for Save the Children Fund, crates for Greek Earthquake victims. Money for flood vtctlms in Holland. scholarship in the P. E 1', Musical Festival Amociatlon.

The Chapters' donations during the your were the Shipping and Cigarette Fund. Westminisior

Tim Boil!!! Yam

Continued from page I

..M.......::.e- my but many of us fail to see that illness of the individual is a con- cern of the community. We may fail to realise this until some epidemic strikes the community.

"When he is sick. the individual creetee a social vwuum which sf- fects othem than his immediate ia.m.ily. Certain other individuals must spend some of their time caring for him. The cost of his ill- ness must be paid for somehow. Illness of the individual. there- fore. like fire. flood, or other des- tructive processes. is always an ac- onomic loss to the c onununlty.”

Illness of the individual is not. therefore. a "family" affair.

Dr. Means reminds us that the great health campaigns of the twen- tieth cexitury waged both by gov- ernmental and voluntary fort-cs against tuberculosis. venereal dis- ease. pneumonia and poliomyelltis and more recently, against cancer. heart disease, and rheumatism are evidence of the growing realiz- stlon that the illness of individuals may vitally affect all of the peo- ple.

U: If. Conservative " Leaders Woo Proieciloiisis

By ALAN HARVEY Olnsdhn Press em: writer

DONDON, (uh)-kltoiifs 0on- servstlvie leadership is quietly try- ing to convince an important nee- tion of the party that the grant days of imperial preference an

over.

In the pi-ocesl. R. A. Butts. chancellor of the esiohequer. snd his spocistes undoubtedly hove the heady blessings of the Osnsdisn government, and the implacable opposition of Canadian-born Lord Besvemi-ook.

The Oonservauve party hu long contained elements with a throng hankering for protectionist trading. Now the heads M government have the task of persuading these ele- ments to support the more liberal pollsles wihlch meceuivvs Britiii administrations hsve followed since twigs Bretton Woods sereement of 1 . I

Broadly. the Bl"IIII.lI'l government is pledged to move back so quickly as it can to a tnidinx Iylern free of financial restrictions wherever the money position makes that pay sible. But the movement often col- lides with e deep-rooted Conserva- tive fmpluse to strengthen hnpgr- isl pet-fererices-to i'congeal" trade ale gt were. within the sterling-sres c u .

Imperial system Appeal!

The Imperial system has consid- erable appeal for British manufac- turers. It means that whenever British goods become hard to sell in world markets. exemptions within the Oommorvwoslih and col-

onles. and tariff her: outside, f'llIgI';L. be manipulated by the "clu " ,

There are signs tine government is trying to immunize its followers against such alluring theories. These are the portents:

i. In a. House of Commons speech Tuesday, Butler said the recent meeting of Commonwealth finance ministers at Sydney, Aug- tralin, confirmed the common- wealt.h's decision to work toward a freer system of trade snd pay- ments.

"Indeed." Butler added, "I know of no other decision which would keep the policies of the old and

DorothrDIx's column-

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six months to act the role of a conscientious wife and mother. Drop the melodramatic part of a lovesick heroine for at least that length of time. By the time your self-probation is over, I bet you'll have decided home. husband and baby are enough to fill your life.

You certainly have no guarantee your friend will break up his home, even if you abandon yours. and I'm sure it takes little imagina- tion iio iorsee your future in that case. Minus husband and lover. you'll face a hostile world alone. Isn't it better to settle for the certainties of the present even though they may not be as alluring as you like? The icallties you have are certainly enough for most women.

DEAR MISS DIX: I'm a girl of 1'! and have quite a few data. but

Abbe-V AWE” Flmdr "W WINK "'4 suddenly my mother doesn't seem to trust me. She appears to have 5

Sunset Dodge. Christmas party at Legion

"W 0111341305 fear that something will happen to me. I try not to cause her to worry. HOME Now, she won't trust. me to be sloiie in the house with my boy friend,

"id 3 mm W 5 SW59” '0 emble wso is a. very polite, considerate young man.

him to take s. course in Social ser- vice Work.

Their fund raising nroiects were a aqusre dance. talent among the members. sale of candv play and sale of cnok books

cakp sale.

successful.

The Chapter was honored to have Miss Katherine chosen to be National Councillor.

The treasurer. Mrs. Ian Rankin, gave her report.

The election of officers follow-

Honnrarv Ronenf. Mrs William Ernhaut: Regent. Mrs. Clive stew- i'll'L' lst View Recent. Mrs. H Pi. Miller. Jr.: md. Viva F4-gent, Mn. Frank Alldl'eW' Secretary. Mrs. Don Mscl -rid: Trensuror. Mrs. V-in Rankin: Ehicntlonsl Rs-c',v. Kathcrine. Rethuiw: Echoes Scotc- inry. Mrs. Ross Down; Htanriavd FOHFPT Miss Miriam Mv-Uh-iv: Councillors Vrs. Ron Fmlih rid Mrs T D, Dolilols. i

Timich was s-.rved. Wit. 1......" ., for the evoninv were KIIt,V3”IhllH(' and Ann'Rnnkln,

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ilurgess Bedtime

Cnniiiiiied from hnczr in

to try to catch me." Then he be- gan, In walk back and forth a- round her. bobbing and bowing. and making lnve as only a pigeon can.

Meanwhtc. plans were being made for a very long pigeon i'IN' in which Farmer Brown's Bay had entered Homer the Rosmer. It would be a race so long that only thr strongest. rlyera would

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ANSWER: Your mother is right in not iaishuig you to be alone

Cmfrfst in the house with a boy. The situation, for one thing. could easily :-

rouse ugly gossip. Mom's anxiety is quite usual for teenagers parents.

at Little Tl1eai.r:- Looking back we can see lioiv needless most of the worry was. but Rt, watching our youngsters grow up. and realizing the many pitfalls into Green Gables. All projects proved which they may fall, is bound

to make us concerned. Continue to show that you are i.rustwoi'tii,v, and Mom will get. over her worrying.

lilliui Nlsst-n cannot reply personally in readers but will answer

problems of interest through this column. ..

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