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‘PS CHRISTMAS TIME A GA! N

so be an angel. Don't give that poor defenoeiessmale a gift he'll have to rack his brain to use. Buy his gift in his favorite shop . . . Buy thegiits he'd like for himself. As a. matter of fact, we'd bet our last wild necktie he’d approve ofthis “Researched Gift LiBt"_ij

TIES, TIES

Nothing like a favorite Tie to make his day go right. Wools. Foulsrds and Silks in smart de- signs. Prices:

$1.00 “$2.50

Men's Parlcas

In assorted shades. Sizes 36 to 44. Prices :

12.511.27.00

mall's FUR LINED

GLOVES

In Cape Skin. Price :

$5.50

MUFFLIRS

All wool & silk Muﬂlers in patterns and solid colors. Prices : '

$1 .50 “$3.00 sens

Genuine Coro Hide Lea- ther Belts. Prices z

$1 .00 “$2.50

Boy's Parlcos In assorted shades. Sizes 28 to 36. Prices:

1 1.50 “. 1 5.00

Men's Sport SHIRTS

Geilxy of bright plaid Sport Shirts to bring out the outdoors_ in him. Percales and Broad- cloth. Prices:

$1 .75“.$2.50

‘Men's Gloves Genuine Pig Skin.

Natural color. Price :

$6.75

Canadian Leaf colors. Sweater, stockings and cap. Sizes 8 to 14 years. Prices:

Lounging ROSES

Broeeded Silk Robe M his luxurious lounging. Full out shawl collar, blue, brown & maroon.

Prices 1 I and up

Boys’ Hockey Sela

and Maple

$6.75

sovs' a PIECE snow surr $7.00 “. $10.50

sovs‘ ski caps $1.25 “. $1.75

In a nice assortment of pat- terns. Sizes 3 to 6 yrs. Price

And Fur Trimmed Helmets.

-j All sizes. Prices

' Boys’ Suits and ‘Overcoat:

Make a very appropriate Gift. Look over our large stock. Your are sure to ﬁnd something to

please you.

Men's Suits and Overcoats are here in a large assortment of patterns.

How about one of them for Christmas. Look over our stock. Our prices are right. -

The Storeifor Men —

Where Women Like to Buy."

firs Proofing 51:71!!!“ Trees

Ohrlsimsa trees of themselves My be firs hasarrls. While freshly out 1m not mm won and eons e a fire haasrd o? account oi the unount o! resinous substances they main. at the same .time. the danger qt fire may be obviated. if not entirely prevented. throilxh chemical treatment. On the other hI-nd. Ohrlstmsq trees are marketed Ispidly after being out. o0 that chemical treatment is not always practicable,

However, it has been proved that

l wood and pine needles of Christ-

~ trees may be mode fire-resist-

t if treated as soon u possible lilo:- the tree has been cut down.

his’ cut trees have a water sh- Wblnr power which permits the nimduction of either calcium krride or ammonlrgn sulphate into

e free in‘ solution for-m.

QUICKIES

ite easily they

The meiihod. is s; follows: the stun of the tree is freshly sawed. preferably at an oblique allele or "v" “we and placed in a recept- sble containing the solution and left in s room of moderate tem- perature (55 to t5 degrees Fah- renheit), until the tree is in be used. The quantity o1 the chemical required, either of the calcium chloride or the ammonium sulnillw should equal onequsrter of the

isilt of the tree. Dissolve 1M chemical in water at the rate of 1

‘m; degree of fire resistance de- pend; on the amount of the 001M101! taken up by the tree. and freshly out trees respond reacliiY i0 11'9"‘ merit. the quantity oi the chemical argon)"; varying with the freeh- nees of the tree. A prollﬂiy "ﬂied m“ will not burn even when 0X- posed to a large flame-

There wss a time when w» was told that the surface to be pnini- ed should always be perfeclly fiTY before the paint went on. Thai seize advice still stands in many 0-1“?! but them i; n; least one exception -ln the aiiilli-cntlon of cI-mehl water paints.

By Ken Reynolds A

wows; n.

‘IOU-per-cent reconverslon to peace-

14 pints p91- pmmd of chemical.‘ ftlon for export or the Cﬂllﬂiiiv Wiii

‘iwhen multiple shortages handicap iindustrlsl activity and the British i people, after seven years’ aurteritvp

110mm prisenerewf-wrr ,1»;- in

$110M. Uriel

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Big Problemi Face Britain 1941

By JOHN DAUPI-IINEE

clhldllll Press 5C8" wllﬂl‘ IDNDQN. DOC. 1H ~—(CP) --Bl‘\i~ lsh industry is near 1'18 808i 6!

time output but enters 1947 with the waming it must boost proiuc-

"come a real crapper" in n W" or two.

This dire prediction. from Bil Stafford Ori-pps, Prerldent of Board of Trade. comes st a rims y

clamor for more goods at home.‘

"We are short of materials short of coal. short of timber. short of labor." said sir Clive Baillie-hi president o-l’ the Federation of Brlf-' lsh industries. '

And while lllf‘ manufacturing trades resume their normaiopers-lj tlons, agriculture sill] Ir on a lull

world food shortage. British fann- erl still must concentrate on grow- ing grain Instead of tumlnc hick to cattle. hogs and poultry.

Government spokerme. have termed the over-all labor short- age their greater; problem - so pressing that manpower. like fi- nances. are goinc to be budgeted next year.

From o toirsl working papula~ lion f about 20.000000, the name as i ﬁnd twice as many men hr the forces end peacetime conscription and raising of the school-leaving ego will keep youths out of indus- try. women are quitting their iobs in largo numbers to go haul: into the home end elderly-persona who lrept working through the critical wer- years new are retlrin .

Already the export Industries. with 1300-000 Workers. have sl- most so per cent more staff than before the war. ‘rluv need at least 000.000 mus to reach the country's export goal Antes-ovarian more by volunlI than ‘in i938.

Llftine of wartime labor con- trols has eempiieeted the problem ma. workers so longer can b0 di- rected into essential obs. Per in- stance. agriculture mun rely on

per cent of its isbenmte. den to an incresea in the farm-war minlmum were to 4 pounds, i0 shillinn I018) q week. critical Ieel shortage elm-use of m: is aritiul. not

spread factory

.nine months of 1946 than in same period nf 1945. But Britain has avoided the dislocation exper- ienced by Canada and the United States through strikes in basic in~ ﬁillltfiel. '

manufacturing industries ipesk levels. The average weekly earnings oi‘ all

tllsili ios_ bo ran . Paced with an acutﬂc“: n 3 a o" ° P"

were discharged from the forces or from war production Jobs in i5 months but large-scale unemploy- ment he: been avoided. The molf serious feature of the country's un- employment "pockets" is that they are mortly in the rc-called depress- ed arses where unemployment was heaviest between the wars.

prices by the National Farmers‘ i089, the government muri m. Minister Attire‘: ment promised an early review of the inequalities.

their own work and that of their; in measuring the level of agricul-

THE STORE 0F SATISFACTION

Minister Emanuel Bhlnweil has pre- dicted s 3,000.000-ion gap bet-ween production and demand. cutting the nation's stocks fsr below the Safety level. Arthur Homer, general sec- retary of the National Union of Mineworkers. has predicted wide- shutdmvns unless output goes up.

Among materials, steel ls lire

danger-point. strikes in the United

States slashed expected imports

from that country and lack of stool new is being felt in a dozen d1- rectlons. The motor trade zlrcsfly has had to reduce its 194.‘ gram. British steel exports have been brought down to rock-hovom.

pro-

‘Lebor disputes have become more

"'5 numerous and 300.000 more work-

ng days were lost during the first the

Wager of manual workers in the reached

workers now an‘ usr over O20 compared wHh only

Almost 7.000.000 men and w-omcn

A threatened revolt ever farm

Primr- [OWE-

lon was averted when Labor

price structure to iron out Farmers won the concession that wives will he taken into ecceun

tursl profits.

lilll lllliilll» 5i - eumrm. seeesleo . -. rm us»:

senile... relief w“: Jmaedm‘ We

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See Servicewomen Valuable Assets- in Givilian Jobs

By KAY REX Canadian Prose staff Writer

OTTAWA. Dec. ill-fill’) - Ar.

Canada set her sights for pence the year 1946 ssw thc 24.000 wcmen left ih the armed services puck their uniforms in mothhalls sndf either head into the busy world of‘ civilian industry, or trek to sci-mo‘ or university classes for further- training Although n number were either married before enlistment or married while in the services, and chose to retire to private llic of- ficials of the Department oi‘ Vet- erans Affairs say the figure is not as high as has been generally swi- posed. Today demohillzsiion n! Ontario's 48-000 servﬁcewomen is practical- ly completed, although some nurses have remained in the permanent forces and there arc still a women dietitians in tho Air Force. D.V.A, officials report that across Oinads employers have recognize-i the woman veteran as a zalunbie asset to any organization.

" women veteran lr showing the same sdapic-blllty. efficiency and dependability she showed in the services." said one officiaf. “All employer who has found she pays this hn been recognised bv the him a good dividend as an em- piovee."

For those now in the employ- ment field the Natleml Implov- ment Service report: that up un- iil but l more than 10.090 for- mer servicewornen were placed in tempieyfneiit. It ll believed wen a larger ﬂilmber found work with- out ihe aid of the NIB. Many were re-lneteted with former em- ployers. Home set up businesses of their own such as gift rhopr secretarial bunsux. and dru- lhope,. Others choso speciilzeri branches of fanning - everything from chicken raising to Iron-farm- Jmbf the total sumiwr who en- J appmrimatq 5.000 were nurses or physicians. most of whom have returned to thQi-ivilisn prr» fusions. lane women veterans new are holtliﬂl Nlbonslble poni- tlenl in all mm of the world, in UJI- -. in various government deperillents- sndin large bUQIIiQP homes.

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few‘ book-binding.

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unemployment is "considerably" less among former servicewomen. than it is among former service- men, ssid D. V. A. officials. , The women have gone back into the civilian stream more smoothly than .the men.

Within the next year D. V, A. ofilcisis expect the total number of women formerly in the Armed Services, who avail themselves 1r’ the government's provision for training of veterans, may exceed 20 per cent of the Women who en- listed. At the present time more ihlin 8.000 are trained, or underag- in: training, for more than 100 different occupations.

Approximately 6.000 look voca- iionai training under the D V. Ii iliﬂﬂ. 811d more ihlln 2.000 cho=e university training or nth?” pro- fessional or semi-prcfessioilai irnm- "H! in various non-universiry schools or collcgos_

A D.V.A. report reveilg (my women veterans in universities zrr» Killfiyinii evcryihing from 11w ar- chitecture and mvrlirino. in jour- nalism and social work. Manv arc training as nurses. On tho vow- tionni side ihcyrn inking szrrh iiliiiils as imlrdrossiirg. sienogrhlvhn- linutype operating and nhoiozrnphy.

Although no exact records are available it ls understood tho.‘ a little more than 30 per ceni of the women were married at fir» time of discharge, A ‘numlwr qf these are neither employed. inr taking iraininii- However, official: Isl’ to "wishful thinking" the 0cm. clonal newspaper report that moot former servlcswmnen are married "iii mt interested in training or emnlnymeni.

"Mlllly 0i ihosc who are married must work to aupnlomang 11mg;- husband's earnings," paid one M- finial. "Others have abilities mp1 skills which are as urgently need- Ki ill peace time as in war."

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The annual meeting of Prince- wwn Rood W.M.8 was held at the home o! Mrs. Hamid Proude on Tﬁiesdsy evening, Dec. 3rd“ with seven members and one visitor pre- sent. . The President. Mrs. Sentner open- ed the meetln and ltd in the beautiful can lelight Christmas program which was’ very effectively carried out with all members tak-

ilI part.

Riliow-ing this, the mlnuta of the last regular and 1m annual meetings were read and roll call

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Whatever his job is you can be sure to

ﬁnd something here to suit.

Treasurer reported that our si- locoiion had been met. The lollowing is the list of offic- ers for the (IDililng year; President, Mrs. Benjamin Sentri- er, re-elccied. Vice-president, Kent. Rec-Sec‘); Mrs. Dale Prcude, Treasurer. Mrs. Harold Prqude, Community Friendship, M15,

Mrs. Emmerson

Murdoch MacSween.

Christian Stewardship, Mrs, on.“

Neill issionsr Month! seep, My, Riﬁsril PYCYJGL‘. y s

sillYiliy S6c'y.. Miss Alice Dollar, re-elecied.

Sick Committee, Mrs, Enron Dollar and Mrs. Harry You-nicer.

Associate Helpers: Mrs. Chas. Proude, Mrs. Hans. Peterson.

Press. Mrs. Austin Sentner.

Our next meeting to be held n, lile home of Mrs. Ben]. senmer, Roll call to be answered with verse of scripture containing the mp4 kingdom.

liiueting closed with benediction. Lunch tho hostess.

the Mizpah was served by

(Patriot please copy)

"sire her Christina joyful ‘with e gift ofgiowing ﬂowers, or e pisnr in bloom. Bu: please, phone or visit your Florist early . . . it helps to give you a ﬁner selection.

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Aiilib IIOHIISTS AND 000W!!! 0F CANADA. I06

Oxnlyeouﬂuguterete of

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