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The United Stator first sculptur- ed "man on horseback" was execu- ted by Clark Mills (i815-N33). a green country boy who. after a hard youth as lumberman, farm hand. millwrlght, and what not. reached 9. piece in the sun when he sculptured General Jackson (Washington), fittingly cast of old British cannon the hero had taken ln' the battle of New Orleans. I? brought Mills 012,000, 5. heap of money for those days.

Otis Arbuokle of Paris, Il1.. thought more of his 12 dogs than he did of his relatives. So when he died recently he willed his pets an estate valued at 340,000.

Now the relativeaennt the dogs -are doingv the howling. Trier maintain that the will's provisions are invalid and reveal incompetency. The strange will provided that n caretaked gets the Arbuckle home- stead in Paris rent free while tak- ing care of the dogs. when the 12 animals named in the will are dead the estate goes to the Democ- ratic National Committee.

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Joseph Griffins and J. 0. Madison of Waco. Texas. are growing their third set of teeth.

In northwest Florida there is A community named Two Eggs. The tiny village used to be oaled Allis- ton, but the name was changed

trips to the general store at Allis- ton. The youngsters always tool: along two eggs to pay for the sweets they purchased.

The boys' bartering habits were common enough in this province not so very long" sec. 'I'hei' had to have candy end as there was no extra. money in those days for such luxuries, the farm liids put a- side I few eggsyhlch they .traded at country stores for the sweets.

A news item from Wisconsin says that persons in that states jails are let out tp work during the day but they must sleep in their cells at night.

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Working by day and spending the nights in jail was quite a common thing among prisoners in our own C-eorgetiowri jail up untliil oom- paratively recently.

I can recall the time when xi friend of mine and I called at Georgetown jail to see one of its inmates.

You can imagine our surprise when the jallor informed us that our man was out working his farm, but would be back come niglit to spend his sleeping hours in the jug. That's the way our bootleg- glng friend served out his sen- tence ot nine months. Just why this leniency was granted to prison- ers of our local Jail I am not pre- pared to say. but I do know that work dirrlng day and in jail at night out down Jail expenses.

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Although George Washinzlon

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by a couple of kids who made daily

House and lived to see the billion-

lng completed he never occupied lt. -

The White House owes its name to Martha Curtis Washington. his wife. For it was :na.mcd "The White House" after the old.oolon- lal mansion home. where the first president of the U. 8. A. claimed his bride.

The first lady" of the White House was Mrs. Adams, who held the first New Year's reception there in 1001. Ever since the home of the president has been a palace of wives. The old palaces of Euro- pean royalty have only too often been palaces of mistresses.

The Crystal Palace in London, England is made of glass and iron. From its high towers I. wlendld view of the great city can be had. It is 1608 feet by 384 feet wide across the transepts. and was opened when it was put up for the great London Exposition of 1815, when Queen Victoria opened the great hall in person.

What with the human life span increasing steadily, the time may eventually come when a person may live long enough to reach the a;e of discretion.

We owe 'OLE custom of eating .three meals ii day to the English during the reign of the first Queen Elizabeth.

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WINNIPEG A. ICPl.-Winnipeg lschool Board officials have decided Ito standardize the art of letter- writing in elementary grades. The 'move was made to avoid confusion lcauwd by each teacher having a ldifferent style.

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PARIS. Dec. 0 -(Reuters)- Defence preparations of the North Atlantic Pact for 1952 will fall slightly short of the goal let a year ago and will probably drop still further in 1953.

NATO's top permanent military body. the standing Group. met here today to draft the official progress report.

A slirvey in all pact capitals shows that much of the commit- ted strength of the pact has been diverted to combat Communism in the East.

The pact will hit its target of 25 active army divisions based in Europe and will have its re- quired 25 reserve divisions. though these will be underman- ned and under equipped. The call for 4,000 planes of all types will not be met. though the defi- ciency is expected to be small.

By 1953, the gap between goals and actual strength is expected to be about 16 per cent.

Main reasons for the shortcom- ings are increased diversion of Allied strength to the East, es- peclally to Korea and French Indo-China; economy cuts in the rearmament programs of many member nations; and over-assess- merit of production possibilities when the plans were drawn up at Lisbon last February.

The Standing Group-represem latlves from Britain, the United States and France-will have its report ready when the staff chiefs of all 14 pact nalions go into conference here Wednesday. The staff chiefs will in turn re- port on progress and other mat- ters to the full session of NATO Council which will meet Dec. 15.

' reliable .breaks down like this:

The over-all picture of NATO achievements, given by the offi- cial statements or reports from government s o u r c e s,

NATO Defence Effort Will Fall Short This Year, Survey Indicates

all fields, she has supplied six divisions to Supreme Headquart- ers of the Allied Powers in Eur- open (SHAPE) and eight air wings, totalling about 500 planes. She plans no increase for 1953. Her over-all defence appropria- tion for the current year is 60 per cent of her total budget. Britain -her five divisions. three of tliemearmored. complete her ground force commitments to SHAPE and she will not increase them next year. Though the larg- est European air contributor to SHAPE, her quota will not be met this year or next. Her de- fence expenditure consumea about 35 per centvcf her national budget. Francewtwelve divisions, includ- lng reserves. will be under SHAPE and two more active div- lslcris will he raised next year, fulfilling the quota. I-for air

increased to 29 next year. She spends 40 per cetn of her budget on rearmament.

Canada-in addition to the 6.000-man Canadian brigade stu- tioned in Europe, she has assign- ed two air wings to SHAPE and plans to add two more by early 1954. She spends about 50 .per cent of her budget on defence.

Italy-A near miss in fulfilling all NATO targets is claimed be- cause of shortcomings in de- llveriel of equipment promised by the U. S. She expects to have the strongest land army in West- ern Europe by next year, when she increases her 12 divisions to 15. Her air force is up to 275 planes.

Benelux-land contributions of these three states. Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, will be slightly unclerstrength because Belgium has cut military service from two years to 21 months. and

The United Slates-by far the hlgizest contributor to NATO in

he 2 314 divisions will not be f y supplied.

Scandinavia - Denmark could

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easily mobilize three divisions and has a large militia force. Norway. with no standing army and only a small corps of permanent offi- cers, will not reach her NATO target until 1954. Iceland. the

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