Page 16, The Guardian Thurs.. April 26. 1956

IEDTIME STORIES

-.The Difference

By Thornton W. Burgess

when one ig "lg mother may, that it doesn't harm the trees at to guy or danger be the prey, all for man to draw off some of -Old Mother Nature. the sap. and "he does make the dos it was so with Peter Rabbit and licioui maple syrup md 5ug”' Whitefoot the Wood Mouse. They '""S '5 WW F,"m9l' WOW" 3.” were together in the liltl.'- sugar Farm" B""”"5 my were dmng house of Farmer Brown over in ""59 d”y5' . the maple grove in the Gwen For Peter was afraid they h would est. Of course. neither of them had mm” bfick mid he W5 afraid may

Business Failures Continue Climb

OTTAWA 1CPl e Business fail- ures continued their post-war climb in l9a5, the bureau of statistics rc- poited Tuesday.

Number h of failures recorded under provisions of the Bankruptcy and Winding Up Acts rose to 2.446 from 2.278 in 1954 and their tie faulted liabilities to 358,597,000 from 553142.000. Average liability per failure was about three per cent higher in 1955 than in the preceding year.

As in previous years. the greatest r.umoer of failures occurt'ed in the

didn't belong there. Peter was . there hecahse it was the only hhme and do him some harm. lie really for him to go (0 escape from Red, should have known better than dy Fox. Remh. hadhvl dhred (01. that. They really were Peter's best low him in mere. whheghm was friends. The trouble was that Pet- wasnt sure of it.

h v (it b. 9' , ii: ttifhrte hzecigiemzhrhznihis h',,me,, lie was afraid not to have them

lh there come back. because if they didn't. This was the season when the Wm W0"ld "P9" ""5 d0i"'- H "19 maple Sap was running up in the door wasn't opened. how was he to trees from down in the roots. it E91 01117 if he did get out. would was a busy season for Farmer Reddy FOX 1” Wmmlg for him?

Brown and Farmer Brown's boy. Pei" W35 5W3m"E down "i 3 Maple trees have very much sap. 'J0m9l' "Eider ihl bl” h"”k- He much more than they many need. was making himself as small as lh the We tau .1 an goes down he could. If no one looked under

from out of the branches and the "THE. he WWW be 811 Yltzhl ANY- little twigs and the trunk down into war. he hoped he would. But he the mots in ,he ground when it 55 was a worried Rabbit. it was all noted an wihm, very well for Whitefoot tohtell him

In the short season between the V101 10 be afraid? W W" Tum "'9" going of winter and the coming of was nothinz W b9 afraid 05; in spring when the days are warm tell hem that he. Whitefoot. was and the nights are cold, the sap not afraid even though he was so is drawn up into the trees during much smaller. But there was a the day and goes down back into big difference between Whitefoot the roots at night. That is the map- and Peter. Yes, sir. there was a 1, syrup season. There is so much big difference. it was a difference

ll ededi .'ze.

mm up than is M y "9 nUislually it is true that big folks have less to fear than little folks. The bigger they are the less reas-

Big Search For Missing U.S. Soldier

had reason to be more afraid.

been missing since Saturday.

trade sector but bankruptcies in this group fell to 878 last year from 973 in l954. Bankruptcies of service osizihlisliments increased to 452 from 408 insolvencies of manu- facturine ostziblisliments dropped substantially to 306 from 416. But failures rose in the construction and transportation fields.

During last year. 1.786 of the 2,446 insolvcnries occurred in Que bro compared with 1.645 in 1954. Bankrnptt-ics in Ontario rose to 438 from 414. in Saskatchewan to 39 from 30. in British Columbia to 75 from 73. in Newfoundland to nine from four and in Prince.-Edwdrd Island to three from two. Figures were unchanged at 44 in Alberta and 27 ill Manitoba There were decreases to nine from 19 in Nova Scotia and to 16 from 20 in New Brunswick.

OVER DOSE OF PILLS

G. Robinson Jr.. 23. son of the movie actor. took an overdose of

on they have to be afraid. But there are times when it is just the other way. Peter was many times bigger than Little Whitefoot and it was just because of this that he

sleeping pills early Tuesday, police reported. (lfficvrs found Robinson lying on the lllIllL' room floor at his apartnirul llllll an empty pill bottle on a table and 14 pills scat- tered on the floor. An ambulance took Robinson to hospital. where Dr. Joseph Well punipcrl his stom- ach and pronounced his condition fair. He said Robinson was in n

Whitefoot really wasn't afraid at Coma when l)IWLlill in. all. He was so small that he could hide in a dozen places without the

VERDUN- Fm”? (R9"'"5l-t least danger of being seen. More- Am9”C3n "my englneen Wmkd over, he didn't have to stay there in 3 813” 9f n00d"3m5 W955” unless he wanted to. There was a night W 9”” 3 ""bble'mled 5”" certain small hole under the env- leading 7'” W '"'d"gm""d mrtwss es through which Whitefoot could Wile" 3" America" -"Mal" h” go outside whenever he wanted to. So Whitefoot wasn't afraid. The

ONE TO COME

lilONTRlCAI. ICPt e '1'rniis-Can- Ida Air Lines accepted delivery Monday of its eighth Super-Con- stellation plane. which arrived after a non-stop flight from Burbank. Calif. It will be used on trans-con- tinentai and trans-Atlantic routes. The ninth Super-Cnnstcilation-and

Three days of frantic digging - "um 15' he would be Very End to the last in the ciirrcnt TCA order -will be delivered next month.

cleared one shaft into which Pie. h F B d F serum vunntzan. 22. was first be silt...-f'J.?;'....'.Z”i'.f3 n.2y".".f.'.

l' ved to have fallen but there was -

ii; sign of him. Workers then en brought good mm” m can switched to a second shaft which leads into the first

Hopes rose Tuesday night that he may be still alive. lost in one of V the maze of subterranean pass- ages. While squads of soldiers dug on the surface. the search was in-

feet underground. g

tenslfied 80 The missing man's wife. Mrs. Barbgra Louhtbulpnlgiip, tsleeplehsls and istraug . as ep an - most constant vigil at the site. I Last Saturday, hfhehulgunnigcgils . d th ' t ma c ren. ' h Ogle Redl:in.m,15s months. and Bar- barn. four months. visited the an-

cient Tavannes fortress outside

Verdun.

Saying he would look around and be back in ii few minutes. I?unni- gan left his wife and the children

sitting on a hillock. It was half an gwhile he! pg to keep

hour before his wife realized some- thing had happened to him.

The task of the underground

searchers is colossal. The galler- ies branch off in all directions in the darkness. Part are ep under water. The fortress w s built about 1745 and added to in each succeeding year.

...MA.IOR. TRADE PARTNER. . . TOKYO (AP)-George Mclvor. chief commissioner of the Can: dian wheat board. referred to Japan Saturday as "one of Can-

LOS ANGELES MP) -- Edward.

By B. Jay

the following hands?

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opening bid which is playable in

McGlLL FOUNDER HONORED Q GLASGOW ICP) e Dr. Cyril;

new school near here.

James, principal of McGill Uni-l er versity in Montreal. Tuesday un- 1 day that more radar units to mens- veiled a memorial plaque in honor ure of James McGill. founder of the will be put into oper university. The plaque is on stem Ontario soon. Stretches of high- building near the birthplace of Mc- f way where radar had been used Gill. Later. Dr. James opened nhfor the last eight months have shown a reduced accident rate.

CONTRACT BRIDGE

iBcckor Hop Iihid-Holder In Momn' Individual Chciiiplomlilp Play)

Partner bids one spade. next hearts next time around. you player passes, neither vulnerable. partner would be justified in What do you bid with each of visualizing only I tour card hurt suit, which could easily lead utxt: ii the wrong contract. In most I 1 TKJ7 .KQ 9 2 contrs.ct.sthogos1isforthepsrt-

ncrshlp to play in the suit when :" Q K 9 Q 10 6 33 0 A K J 6 4 the combined trump holding is 4 3 5 longest. not necessarily strongest.

Q3. One notniinp. The impulse

to bid two clubs should be re- sisted. The chief objection to the 4- 0593 95 OK10937 latter bid is that. being I new , 4-86 6 2 suit by the responding hand. it at we on :::".'::.”::”.:'.:: sponse states to partner: "I have hand dogs n'ot wumn: mm ac. the values for an opening bid of mm A one mmm res on” one notrump (16 to 18 points): h ,' P P ' . . . - p - owever. carries no such compul- :;.dxi:":;:i;:3:e ':t:e:;'h3o?s:o4- sion, and simply states we have per; in the remaining three szntps. ba'w9e"b6l M 9dp;:l"tg gig pavbh If you have anything su'i;:tr.iit:al- Earljlnari 'n':)cte as "gfeh Maeuegd ly above a minimum openinv bid. , Y . by .u mean. Mn 30 mam & as 'vue would like them to be, but slam If on have s minimum we" 1”” M” m "R" Mm ' V ' wlxrtt fate dealt us.

Q4. Two spades. It is best to

xtmmga 2"” I” .33 Kg”? 3; S39”: avoid the problem of being faced hand 5;: a gigugyxgghng i; 33;; with a two spade rabid by part- . ner. which might come up it I uhy” M” W” "ugm m M " ” two diamond response were ::::1:o?:”ct& "hi? fvfhgd ma chosen. The immediate raise to ulna), m i) Wu” the two level in partner's suit denotes 6 to 9 points. including Q2. Two hearts. some players adequate trump support. By bid- have I. tendency to bid according ding two spades directly, the des- to the strength of I suit rather tiny or the hand is put in the than its length. The principle opening bidders lap. which is that should govern is generally to right where it belongs. It is true bid the higher ranking of two that there usually are four suits of equal length, despite the trumps for the direct raise, but disparity in high card strength. it is better to accept this new If you were to respond with two than to subject ourselves to s diamonds. intending to bid the subsequent bidding problem.

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