TRADE MUST FLOW

TWO WAYSsays Canada

And. in fact, Canadian trade does Aow two ways. Totalexports and total imports are closely balanced in value.

To sellers abroad, Canada affords a large and varied marketfor imported goods.

To buyers abroad, Canada offers a broad range of bothprimary and manufactured products.

If you wish to buy or sell in Canada, consult your nearestCanadian Trade Hcprescntativc. lie is at your service in anyof the following countries:

ARGENTINA • AUSTRALIA • BELGIAN CONGO • BELGIUM • BRAZil. CHILE •

CHINA • COLOMBIA. CUBA • EGYPT. FRANCE • GREECE. GUAfEMAlA • HONG

KONG. INDIA. IRElAND. ITALY. JAMAICA. MALAYAN UNION. MEXICO

• NETHERlANDS. NEWFOUNDLAND. NEW ZEALAND. NOIlWAY • PAKISTAN'

PERU • PORTUGAL • SOUTH AFRICA • SWEDEN • TRINIDAD • UNION KINGDOM

• UNITED STATES. VENEZUELA

THE FOREIGN TRADE SERVICE

ATTEND THE

CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIRToronto, Canada, May 31-June 12, 1948

See and ellamine the trade afferings af the warld---on display in Canada

in 1948. Compare the finest goods of many nations---of many industries.

Plan now to attend the Canadian International Trade Fair, or to send a

representative. Get full details, induding information on travel and accom­

modation, from your nearest Canadian Trade Representative.

The Magazine that puts Newfoundland on the Map

ATLANTIC GUARDIAN

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1948CONTENTS

Volume IV.

Number 6

Ewart Younq, Editor and Publisher Brian CabUl Assistant Editor

H. N. Haken. Production Manager J. H. Saunders, Business Manager

Picture Credit., PO<;le S. top- R.C.A.F Photo.. bottom- -Dally News. Photo byFrank Kennedy. Page 14, lop----Stall, boltom Joo Holliday. Paq. 15. lop--­Frank Graham. centre- f.rn Maunder bottom Statl, bottom right Joe Holli·day. Page 30- C. F. Ruggles

Cove. Picture: Most colorful personality identified wilh the capllal city of 51.John's, which Is tealured In this lssue, is Us veteran Mayor. Andrew G. Cor.nell, C.B.E., now in his tourth telm. Moyor "Ancy". as he IS popularly known,Is jovial, friendly, explosive, unpredlctabl&--ln fact almost every adjective inthe book C<:ln be applied to him. He loves his city and his record of electionshows that his city thinks pretly hlqhly 01 him Canada Wide Photo, byLouis Jacques

The Seal HUl'l II on!

FICTION FEATURE

30

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DEPARTMENTS

1 Boo'" and Su~h

21 K.OlY Kro..word

Cont,ibvting Editors

GENERAL ARTICLE

SPECIAL FEATURE

Reprinl 01 the Month: The Twilling-al. Sun

NEWFOUNDLAND ALBUM

NEWFOUNDLANDERS ABROAD

The Newllel 01 PaUrey HillBy H. Cranston Lawton

The Broken MirrorBy Frederick Chafe

St. Joh,,', Gllla lhe "New Look"By Eric Seymour

Guardian Angle.The Stamps 01 Nnd.

A. R. S"cunmell

• It was an Irish M.P., we believe,who w"s told at ant' time that he andhis party should work and think notfor thcmsc"es but for posterity.

"Arrah, g.·t on with )T!" h,' ...·plied,with spirit and rea~m. "Why shouldwe do anything for posterity? Whatdid poslt'rit\, ewr do for m?"

Visionary, artistic t,·pes from wayb1H;k,we on lhismagazinc have neverput our ponibJe relationship with pos·H'ritY on SO severely practical a basisIndeed, as we, while our companionssleep, art· toiling upward in the nightwe oftimes pause to wonder anxiouslyhow def'p and how permanent are thefootprinls which, Mr. Longfellow a,·sured us, such activity is guarante"d10 leave in th., sands of lime

To hand this morning, however, isa leuer which make. our minds (""as'on that scorr. "good fri"nd of ours,Charks .\. Brett, of Joe Batt'~ Ann.has taken care of posterity for uslie ha, immortalized Allamic Guard­ian in word. mure deathless lhan en­durin~ hronze, morr timek.s than th..pyramid•.

He- has, in short, written a pot:ll1

ahoul usIt ,,11 Gu"t' about apparently as a

dirt'ct result of the recent ehan~e inlh,' sizt· of lhe magazine.

"In our home in JO(" Bau's .\rm,"writ,-, .\Ir. 8n·1t in his eowrin\!; ktt(""r,"w.· han a fin("" big bookea$<'. One ofth.. ,h.,lve. i. now fillrd with R"ad"rsDio:e't and Coronet. It was 'ny am­bition to fillanoth"rshdfwih \tlantieGuardian hut mr plans were all ruin­fd when\. G. Kn'w too lal1 for the.helf. J wonder what 10 do now forI am afraid they will nOI sland ninetyyear. on the floor."

AllanIte Guardian's PlallormTo make Newfoundland better

known at home and abroad,To promote Irade and travel In

the IslandTo encourage development of the

blllnds naturlll resourcesTo foster good rel""ons between

Newfoundland and her neIghbors

E. C. Booft•• Board 01 Trade Bldq. A. S. OaTld....n. 23 Hold.n Road.SL John',. Nfld.-Newfovndland Monage'. B.lmanl, Ma... 80010n ltepr..ento!lve.

Atlanl1c Gl1ordlon II pl1bUlhed monthly by Gl1ardlon A..oclat.s Lid.. 1172 Sherbrook.

Street Welt. Monlreal. Ql1ebec, Canada. Authorized a. Second Cia.. Mail. Peat Out".Department. Ottawa. Sl1blcription rat.., $1.50 per year anywhere In the world.Slnql. coplel 25 cent.. Printed by The Tribune Pr.... Limiled. Sack"me, N. B.

.o\danli( Guardian il a wdcom~ gU~lt,

Com~s to our hom~ and adds a zell,For on !'\Y'ry pag~ then:'" somelhing

grandADout Our lIome in Newfoundland.

Ir anyone would like to knowThe thingl thai ='lcwfoundland

show,JUII n.-ad Atlantic Guardian throughIt 'un.-I) will enlighten you.

POilerity! Hen:' Wt: come!

• Our kindly PlXt Mr, Bn:'u (seeabo~) Iivel, III we hal'c said, at JoeBatt'l arm. He wrote us, howcvu,from nearby Liule Seldom, which isiud( nol (ar from Seldom Properwhich il pn:'tt,· hand)' to &Idom.Come-B)"

Tbt"se an.- nalllt"l that hal· for usand (or all Xewfoundland rs away(rom hom... a special noslalgia, P...r­haps it is bt"cause they roll so usilyand familiarl)' from th~ tongue. Noth.inK bring, hOlnt' more sharply k> thcNt"w(oundlandt'r abroad the convic­tion that he nands lik... Ruth amidth... alitn corn than thr faCt that wh~nhe caJIuall)- mentions a name like &1.dom-Comt-By, or Random Sound or51. Jones Within, someone or oth... ralnonf!: his lin~no:rs is almost bound 10sav something likt", "~{y, isn't Ihat acutt" name" or a strange namt" or afunny name.

To the Newfoundlander it's jUIl ..name, a (amiliar emin ntly luilablrname wilh nothing t"UI , strang... or(un 'IV about it. It has to biOi a lIl:oodhomey sound about ii, It n:'minds himof "qui... t homt"s and first beginningl"and if ht' has a pencil and Jlap...... near:lnd is surt' that his readt'rs will un·dcrSiand what he is trying 10 say itsomelime. inspin.-I him 10 a few per·haps poinde" but h... hopt"1 non... th...

All the arliclel prinl~d then:\n.- n"ad b)' nch with th~ gn:atell

U~,

And ~ITry pictun"-no.. understandMak~s us mon: proud o( our ~cw.

foundland.

So gn"a1 was his n"gud for th~ hull'ma8.l.~int', Mr. Bn.-tt wnlt on, Ihal hI'had written a PlXm about il and, just10 show Ihal despile his difficult;",with the largt'r edition, he harboredno ill f.'f'lin~ h,' endOSf"d it with hiskner.

II follows'

GUAR,DIANof the Home

SI. John's, Newfoundlond

e Department Stores. Shipping

e Expo" Dept. elnsurance

• Wholesale Division

lJ",I'ec1

ST, JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND

The Standard ManUfacturingCo., limited

MATCHLESS is a paintspecially suited to rigorousclimatic conditions, Thou­sands of Newfoundlandhomes are protected by it.

Carriage Factory Funeral Homes

ltd, ESlabli.hed lao.St, John's, Gonder, In(arparoled 1937

Corne, Brook

The Fifth Generation giving the same First Class ServIce

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less pleasant paragraphs like these.

• However, to get back to work again,speaking of place names reminds U$

that we have this month letters fromat lean two places that ring strangdyand romantically on our own unaccus­tomed ear.

am: is lrom Limas$Ol, an ancientcity on the storil,d island of Crpus.

It comes from our good friendRichard Mouland, a far-ranging N("w­found lander who is now, he tells us,"'on the fint leg of a world trip withAtlantic Guardian"

Foot-loolC Mr. Mouland is a manof wide interests. He started life ,\$

a fisherboy in Newfoundland, and isnow a seaman with a ~1:aster's Ticket(coastwise) and a Mate's Ticket(deepsea). He once worked out aspecial method of curing fish and dida brisk business for a time selling hi~

Sunray brand of dried codfish whichhe delivered to nearby markcts in his9-ton lChooner. Sunray.

He joined his present ship, the10,000-ton Gull Pride, as third officerin Mont...,al last September and is offon an eight month cruise around theworld,

• And lrom the exotic tropical islandsof the Caribbean Sea~from Aruba inthe Netherlands West Indies--comesaletter,naycolllethreeletten,wriuenus by Anne-Lise Senior to ask for asublCription to Atlantic Guardian andfor copies of various other publicationsabout Newfoundland,

"I am very much interested ineverything regarding Newfoundland,"says Miss Senior, "as, although Euro­pean, I loved and love that island asmuch as Newfoundlanders thelIUt'"lvescan love it, I have only been theretwice during a short stop on a flightto and from Europe. But if all goeswell I hope to spend next year severalmonths there and asked al...,ady theNewfoundland Tourist Office forfurther information. It is a fine workyou do making in )·our AtlanticGuardian $0 much propaganda lorthat beautiful country."

Why, thank you Miss for rour com­pliments to uS and "that beautifulcountry". We hope that you will beable to visit Newfoundland at $Ollielength $O()n and that your present en­thusiasm will, if possible, be increased.

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MARCH, 1948

eH"odquortersin Newloundlondlor fire, 'ro/fie ond induslriol.ol"'yequipment. e

UNIVERSAL AGENCIES, LTD.c. H. J, Emerson, Pre.id"nlReid8ldg. _ St.John'sCorrespondcnce Invited

CALL, WRITE, PHONE OR WIRE

YOUR ORDERS TO

Newfoundland's GreatMail Order House

and LargestDepartment Store

If you reside outside Newfoundland, your ordersfor delivery to friends anywhere in this country canbe filled with complete sotisfaction, both to you

and the recipient.

AYRE & SONS, LIMITEDWATER S1. ST. JOHN'S

Ser"ingTh" Public

Sinn 1859

ARCHITECT

Cabot Building.Duckworth Street . St. John's

Some tim. oqo "AI" Davidson, Atlantic Guardian', alert representative InBoslon, com. up wIth the Inlereotinq Inlormation that there was a slreet in Water.town occupied, with on. exc.ption, by lb.. fomHie, of former Newloundlond.rs.In orronqinq the story about Polfrey Hill (whIch oppea... elsewhere in this illuel.Al qot to know them oll, Indudinq Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Moore, shown here withtheir son Wendell. his wile, ond dauqhter, Potrido.

T.SM. WINTER LTD. St.John'sWholesale ProvIsionsAGENTS IN NEWFOUNDlAND FOR

Stondord Brand. limited.Maple l.of Milling Ca. ttd.

(Taranlo,Ont.)Guardian ......uronu Co. ltd.

(tandon, Eng.)

ESTAlllISHED IN 18711

A reunion of lour brother. alter a .epal"<ltion of 42 yea... wa' brouqhl aboulby the arrh'al in N.w We,tminl,t.r. B. C. of Joe Marshall Irom Bay Roberts,N.wloundh2nd. Mr. Marshall Is a brother of lames Marshall, head of the roofinqflrm of Marshall iii Son, and 01 Dick Mar.hall. local .hipbu15der. Also lolnlnq hisbrothers lor the reunion wa. Leonard Monhall. Voncouv.r. Joe Matlhall I' mok.Inq hi. first trip to British Columbia. where he wlll spend som. tim. belore reoturninq \0 his home In Bay Roberls. Still onother brother, I. MorsholJ. also r.sides In the Newfoundlond town, where 1. & I. Mo..holl ore in partnership asqeneral merchanls. Left to riqht or. L.onord Morsholl. Voncouver: loe Marsholl.Boy Roberls: Dick Mo...holl ond 10mes Marshall, New We,tmin,ler.

-From "The Brtti.h Columbian", New Westminster, B. C.

Pictures about PeopleP.O. Box 501~E

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inl It i, mil10d f,orn ,I>t ~nn' tLo,d ~nl

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The First Time You BakeWith

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St.John's

Gets the

"New

Look"Aerial view of SL John's shows mag­nificent harbor surrounded. by hillswhich in the days when the city firBtlook shape, and was rebuilt follow­ing several major fires, made townplanning somewhat diliiculL Today"The Oldest City in North America"is enioyin;- the biggest buildingboom in its history with a Q'Teat dealof re-construclion along modem linesbeinq undertaken along with newconstruction inside the boundariesand in the surroundinq neighbor­hood,

by ERIC A. SEYMOUR

~URING the last decade.

and particularly sinc.:'the end of the war. St.

John's has undergone a face-lift-ing which has brought touchesQf modernity to the ancient cap­ital. The many new buildingswhich have gone up in variousparts of the city stand outagainst a background of charm­ing old mansions, durablewaterfront department stores.and close-packed wooden build­ings. which have characterizedSt. John's for hundrl.'ds ofyears. In the process of mod­ernization the capital city ofNewfoundland has lost none ofthe old-world charm for which

it is noted. but the city as it istoday is better for its new­world architecture.

The war had an enormousinfluence on the growth of St.John's. Along the waterfront.especially in the west end, pre­war premises were literally downat the heel and wharves an un­sightly pile of tumbling rottingshores, When St. John's becamean imporlant "east coast port".the Canadian Govl'rnment. onBritish Admiralty contract,built magnificent piers on whichwerl' erected maintenance andadministrative buildings for useof the Allied navies, Some oftht'Se buildings are now occu-

A city within a city islaking shape in SL John'sas a result of the proqrambequn in 1945 by the SLJohn's Housinq Corpor­ation. So far 242 dwell·inqs have been con­structed under this prolectand eventually it is hopedto have several modelcommunities established.within the area. Picture atlet. shows &Oms of thehouses of th'!t Cc.rporationin the course of construc­tion. Houses may be ob­tained on the down·pay­ment plus rental plan andapartments are rented at$75 and $85 per month.

g.:E tS pied by government and busi-- 0'0 ness offices.

]:g,~ Similarly on the south sideV;a < whm m'ny old bus;n," house,..a 'E ~ had been storing coal. curing,2,] CJ fish, and manufacturing seal oil11 ~ g for a long. long time, the watcr-

~ ~ j ~~~~:fo:~~J a;;sno~ef~r ~r~~~~'~.s a mile there is one long pier em-"8'§ .2 bracing over half a dozen busi-::s l: ness establishments. anotherffi ~.~ transformation effected under~ : ; the urgency of wartime defense.

~ ~ -a bo:~t~:r:;~:~no:~~e~~t~~: ;~~-f! .~.~ fishing population lived. the

: ~~ Unitl'd States authorities, neecl-] _<tl ~ ing elaborate docking facilities._ c: erected large warehou.ges and a

~ ~.S magnificent pier. which im-ron ..... e proved greatly the appearance of

~!J: that section of the historic har"

~ i ~ bO~uch war jobs as these. to­~ f:] get her with U. S. and Canadianc §:s arm y construction projects.

~ i~. ~;~~g~~[ p:r~;k:;nthe ~~s~~::;~i go a~ causing an influx in the city's~ ~ ~ ~ population and an almost im­,~ ~ C >0 mediate housing shortage. St.Jl ~ ~..Q John's in 1915 boasted a popu­"0 "@]-aulationof35.000andbYI945c 6 tJ ltl it had risen to around 45,000.

~] ~ ~ ~at~ °c~t~h:f:~rck:~p~;~:~n:~'s~i~ the war jobs. finding employ-

-g a-; g ~~~t ~::~r~~~:'~ea:1 :~;~~b;e al .. ~.! ] oS:a bases held on 99-year lease.-a tl t a The building boom that fol­~] g-: lowed the wartime influx and

~ ~:a;§ ~~wexinan~;: ~~:~nc~e;~.tiv~;~~ ~ :i broken a[1 records in the long

~ ~ ~ j ~~~;:as iO

: I ~hi~ t~~~~~~o~~~~s ~ ~ a; Municipal Council re<ordcd the~ =25 ~ value of buildings ere<tcd as9-=28 $395.970. in 1947 the figurevil o'" f:z; tl:c G) had jumped to a staggering'" oJ • § $2.786.395.Q;i-:!..o In large part this sp<'ctacular

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T. McMURDO & CO.. LTD.-Pictured above is the home of Newfoundland's oldest and larQestWholesale and Retail Drug- Company. T. McMurdo & Co•• Ltd.. were established in 1823 and sincethat day have been leaden in their Held of businesa. McMurdo's Wholesale Department occupiesan area of approximately 16.000 square feet. while the Retail and Restaurant Departments arecombined in an area of 4.200 square feet. All of the Departments are equipped with the moatmodern facUities in order that service may reach its maximum efficiency. The buildinQ is of steeland concrete construction with a brick front coverinQ the top three stories. and a Vitrolite Storefront 01 QTeen coloring- is to be installed as soon as the weather wUl permit.

ADELAIDE MOTORS LIMITED-This new buildinq construded in 1946 and located in the businesssection of St. John'. is ODe of the most modern of its type. The outstandinq feature in this maC)·nificent construction is its showroom. This important aspect of automobile salesmanship was notoverlooked.. and its effectiveness is apparent because it has contributed qreatly in the boostinq ofsales of the various products which this firm represents.

MARCH. 1948

ST. M1CHAEL'S SCHOOL-With 12 classrooms. a music room. library, Domestic Science room.Science laboratory, playroom. principal's office. St. Michael's Anqllcan School is tastefully finishedinside and the decorations are of the finest. All floors are of asbestos tilinQ.

ST. PATRICK'S HALL SCHOOL-This building is 160 feet square except that the eastern part isbuilt in the shape of a U. It is 01 the most modern design built in strict accordance with specifica·tions lor a building 01 this nature. It contains 20 large. modem classrooms. Library. Faculty Room.Clinic. Principal's Office. combinaion Auditorium and Gymnasium.

CURTIS ACADEMY-Thb is a composite Elementary and Hiqh School with classes from Kinder­garten to Grade XL There are twenty-odd class rooms. staff room. offices. handwork room. lunchroom. household science room. science room. qym and auditorium with seating capacity 01 700.

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New Divisional Office

IMPERIAL Oil LIMITED115 New Gower Street. St. John's

FEARN LIMITED-This finn. located at 284 Water Street. hastaken the lead in effective shop-window desiqn by reducinq thesize 01 the windows which make a very appropriate settinQ fordisplayinQ the Hosiery. Silverware. Wools. Jewellery. Handbags.and Notions. the principal wares of this proqresaive firm.

ing and the more rc<ent CabotBuilding. housing offices theAvalon Telephone Company·snew h{'adquarters. the SunshineDairy. Motion Pictuft, Supplies

possibilities of St. John·s. Builtmostl}' of re-inforcoo canerI'll'the new buildings incorporaumodern trends in ,u.:hitecturc.Thcre is th~ Duckworth Build-

upping of real esute touls isdue to the opnations of the StJohn's Housing Corporationwhich is in effect cruting ahund new city within a cily.Since 1945 the Corpor,lIion hasbuill 242 dwellings. of whichthzre are eight containing fiveapatlmenlS each and two buildings with twenty-six apatlmentseach

Modernly designed and finedwherever possible with the latesthousehold appliances, the s I'

hom{'s are being eagerly soughtafter by the housc-hunj:try pub­lic although rhe price has beenfathl'r high due to abnormalproduction costs. Most of thehouses art' occupied, the arrange­ment of ownership followingIhe rental payment plan over along period. The apartmentscannot b{' purchased and art'rented for $75 and $85 permonth which inc1ud{'s healingand janitor servicc

The housing project is locatedin tht' immediau north-westernsuburbs of St. John's and isadmirably situated with greatpossibiliti{'S for beautificationwhen thl' landscaong is complet­ed. When finished the Sr. John'sproiC<t will compare favorablvwith th{' best of the plannedcommunity hous;nll: proiects inCanada and thl' United States.

Despite the high cost ofbuilding. many homes of equal­ly modern design have beenbuilt on main highways leadingout of S1. John's, and there isquite a bit of re-building on old~itcs. Some of Ihe remode~ling

Jobs, {'Specially on bUSinesspremiSo?s where in some casesenlire frontages haw bt'enmodernized. are as nOll' worthyas the new constrUClion projl'ctsJohn Clouston Lid _ on Duckworth Str~l't, have done a notabl~ job of renovation and nowhave ant' of tlK most stream­lined store-fronts in Newfoundland

It IS In Ihe cily pro~r thatIht, bUSiness houses have concentrated the current moderni7ationprogram. and their efforts andexpenditurl'S for this purposereflect a grt'atly expanded tradeand firm confidence in the future

MARCH. 1948

COOK'S MARBLE WORKS-AtNo.1 New Gower Street. in thevery heart of St. Tohn's. is thisbuilding, classic in its simplic­ity of design, which is the homeof Cook's Marble Works. Alltypes of Memorials are shownin the spacious show-roomswhich as can be seen occupyan entire Door. From the work­rooms in the rear Cook crafts­men are producing an ever in­creasing volume of Cook Mem·orials for all parts 01 Newfound­land.

MacCORMAC'S DRY CLEAN­ING LTD.-On April 22. 1946the firm of MacCormac's DryCleaning Limited. opened forbusiness. Situated in the heartof the city of St. John's, this con­cern has made amazing strides.and in the short space of twoyears has expanded. until todayit rates with the most modernDry Cleaning Plant on the con­tinent. Serving as it does thecity of St. John's. with a popu­lation of over 50.000. MacCor­mac's also operate a tri-weeklyservice around Conception Baywith a population of 45,000.10

MOTION PICTURE SUPPLIES­Located on an historic and wellknown site overlooking theharbor and city of SL John's isthe new and modem quartersof MOTION PICTURE SUPPLIESLIMITED incorporating threedivisions-MPS ELECTRONICS,CHRYSLER AmTEMP SERVICEand MODERN THEATRE SUP·PLIES. Many famous productsof American and Canadian en·gineers and manufacturers aredistributed wholesale and retailthroughout the Island.

STUDEBAKER SALES AND SER­VICE-The photo, left showsthe partially complete home ofthe world-famous STUDEBAKERcars and trucks in Newfound·land. This building is com·pletely modern in every respectand when finished will be oneof the most modern garages inSt. John's. It is equipped to givefast, friendly and efficient ser­vice to all makes of cars andtrucks.

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the Paramount The a t r eMammy's Bakery. McMurdo'sDrug Store. Adelaidr ~IOIors

and Ford Sales and Service gar­ages. to mrntion only a few

Valuable asslstance has beengiven to thl!' local building tradeby Concrete Prooucts INrwfoundland) Lid., which has anever-prrsl'nt supply of readymixed concrete and concret.:blocks on hand for deli\'ery to .1

job no matter how large. Thisconcern is an outgrowth of theMcNamara Construction Com­pany's building of Torbay Airport and other war projects, inNewfoundland,

A further step in the modern­ization of SL John's is the in­stallation of the dial telephonesystem by Ihe Anion Telephone Co. British electrical en·

gineE'rs are now in St, John'ssupervising the operation and itis E'xp«ted that the transforma­tion to thl' automatic exchangE'will b", dfi."Cted by September.At the pres.:nt time thrre are[weln thousand telephone sub­scribers and when the new sys­tem is installed this number maybt" increased to fourtet'n thou­sand.

But the progress of 5t John'shas not b~n due solely to theefforts of private entl'rprise. Theprogressive Municipal Councilheaded by Mayor Andrew Car­nell has made some extensiveimprovements during thl' lastfen years. Paved surfaces havebeen added to the streets untilnow there are O'er eight milescO\'l.'red. and miles and miles ofribboned concrete sidewalks

make it easier for people walkingup and down the many streetswhich run from "the higherle\'e1s" 10 the waterfront.

Th.. necessity of spreading theboundaries of the cit)' called foradditional water mains andothcr extensions The snow­clearing plan has also bet>n moo­ernized with the acquisition oflatest type plows and snow­loaders \Vhereas a few yearsago most Sc John's car ownersput their machines away duringthe winter. now they can usethem in relative comfort.

SI. John's has inderd enjoyeda building and modernizationboom unpr('(edentl'd in its his­tory. and visitors coming intoNewfoundland's capital lodayare impressed b~' th.. "new look"which thl' old city has acquirrd

THE CITY FATHERS-The present Municipal Council of 51. John's is shown above in session at CUyHall. left to right. John P. Kelly. Councillor. Oliver L. Vardy. Councillor. James J. Spratt. DeputyMayor. Grant R. Jack. City Enqineer (standing). Andrew G. Carnell. C.B.E.. Mayor. Miss M. Ruby.Secretary, J. J. Mahoney. J.P" City Clerk (standing). H. G, R. Mews. Councillor. William P. Ryan.Councillor, and Eric Jerelt. LL.8" CouI'JcUlor.

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CITY OF ST. JOHN'SNEWFOUNDLAND

•Facts About St.John's

The following facts concerning the City of St. John's ure of interest:First elected council took office in 1888.Present JXlpulation of City: 50,000.The City has a Property Valuation of $60,000,000,00.Annual Rental Valuation: $2,900,000.00 (on whi~h taxation is based):Fire Insurance Premiums collected within the City amount to approxlmately $500,000 annually.

The City Bonded Debt, $2,100,000 maturing 1969; jpterest rate 3 1h%. Bank Loans amount to $400,000.

Imperial Tobacco o.Lawrence's CarrIage FactoryNewfoundland Boot & Shoe FactoryNewfoundland BreweryNewfoundland Butter Company Ltd.Newfoundland Clothing Company Ltd.Newfoundland FurnIture & MouldIng Co. Ltd.Newfoundland Lime Mfg. Co. Ltd.

Factory

".Company Ltd.ompany Ltd.

White Clothlng Company Ltd.Head offices of the United Towns Electric

Company and Avalon Telephone Company, Ltd.,are situated in St. John's.HARBOUR and SHIPPING

St. John's harbour is one of the best on theAtlantic sea-board.

All steamers must pass S1. John's on the wayto and from Canada, the United States andEurope.

EDUCATIONAl,The following are ~ome of the City's well­

equipped educational institutions: - MemorialUniversity College, Bishop Field College. St.Bonaventure's College, Prince of Wales (UnitedChurch) College. Curtis Academy, Bishop Spen­cer College, College of Our Lady of Mercy, K.of C. Memorial School, Presentation ConvelltSch~ls, St. Patrick's Hall and Holy CrossSchools, S1. Michaels Church of England Acad­emy.l\lAl'OUFACTURING

Some of the leading industrial firms are:Bennett Brewing CompanyBrowning Harvey, Ltd.

Co, Ltd,Faetory

POWER AND GAS

Hydro-electric power is supplied by the ~ew­

foundland Light & Power Company in conJunc­tion with the United Towns Electric Company.Ltd., at a low rate. Ample power is availablefor future development.

St. John's Gas Company. New capital hasbeen acquired to increase the scope of the com­pany's activities and to supply gas to residencesand for power purposes.

STREETS

Fifty miles of macadam roads; 8 miles pavedroads; over 15 miles of concrete walks. Bothconcrete walks and paved roads will be increasedin the very near future.

BAl'\'XS

Branches of the following Canadian banks arelocated in St. John's-Canadian Bank of Com­merce, Bank of Montreal, Bank of Nova Scotia,Royal Bank of Canada; also Head Office of theGovernment of Newfoundland Savings Bank.

WATER SUPPLY

The water supply is secured from WindsorLake, situated five miles from the City of St.John's. The elevation of the lake is 500 feetabove the City Area of watershed: about twentymiles. A practically inexhaustible supply cffirst-cIa'l::s water is available for all requirements.Water preswres all over City are moint3ined at80 to 130 lbs.. which e':1surcs ample fire protec­tion. Althouvh the suoply is capable of givi"q20,000,000 gallons per day, the average dailyconsumption at present is only 8,000.000 gallons

In adcition to the main water supply, an au);­iliary supply is situated at George's Pond. This,however, is only used in case of emergency.

ST. JOHN'S MUNICIPAL COUNCILMayor: ANDREW G. CARNELL, C.B.E. H. G. R. MEWS

Councillors: O. L. VARDYJ. J. SPRATT (Deputy Mayor) W. P. RYAN

J. P. KELLYE. JERRETT

City Clerk: J. J. MAHONY, J.P.

SI~t;r:ls t~ef ~~~~:de;:tiot:,~little else has been talked of,Opinions differ somewhat butthe general consensus is thatCanada in presenting these pro­po!ed arrangements by whichNewfoundland may enter intoConfederation has made pro­posals which merit very carefulconsideration. To say thatthere has been a definite swingtowards Union since the release.may be an exaggeration. It veryprobably is. Deep down insidemost Newfoundlanders is astrong sense of independencewhich has caused them muchneedless hardship in the pastand may do so again. Perhapsit is more an individualism butwhatever you may call it. ir isthett'. still strong and virile de­spite the battering of centuries.And linked with it is a certainscepticism, born of countlessbroken promises in the past.which focuses on every newpromise or proposal a keen andcritical scrut:ny. And the Cana­dian proposals arc the object ofdeliberate searching study by allthinking p:rsons. not n~ccs;arily

only those who hale had theadvantages of academic learning.

The ordinary man toda y istrying to make up his mind on<In issue which directly concernshis own immediate future. He'seager and hungry for the otherfellow's views but he doesn'twant to be side tracked by bed­time stories of lands or govern­ments where there are no taxes,no lack of remunerative employ-

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ment, all kinds of bonuses andallowances. Common sense tellshim that you get nothing in thisworld unless you pay for it, eventhough there may be timeswhen actual payment is not anobvious and readily recogniz­able procedure. Experience tellshim the same thing. And hisindependence--or individualismif you want to call it that­tells h;m that it is only rightand proper that payment shouldbe made.

And your ordinary New­foundlander, realizing all this,is looking around for just onething and one thing only. He'slooking for the form of Govern·ment which will give him not abargain (bargains have a habitof showing up in a less advan­tageous light after they havebeen sealed) but the best valuefor his hard earned dollar. Ifthe members of our NationalConvention. elected by that or­dinary Newfoundlander and hisfellows to examine into the con­ditions of his country and rec­ommend forms of Government,will cease their flow of oratoryon such subjects as "our price­le:s heritage" and "baby bon­uses," keep down (by s:uingdown) that urge to rise on a"point of od:.>r" if they willani y do this. it is possible thatour Newfoundlander may findthe answrrs in its di;cussion;,

Newfoundlanders are pre­pared to pay for their entertain­ment but when that entertain­ment takes the form of cheapbickering on points of order.playing to the gallery and othertwaddle and when the paymentmay be permanent loss of theopportunity to make a hardearned dollar go further, thenit is time to call a halt.

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Th. setf·poueued and handlome lallor, mOre at home in waterlrontla"ern•. was not prepared for whal happened when h. met an atltac!i"eqlrl named Halet In a SL John'. cafe.

by FREDERICK CHAFE

~HAT. Curt wondered.

stepping off his grimyship and plodding

across the old, greasy pier. doesone do in a town like this on anight when it's too warm tothink of doing anychmg?

As he scuffed up across thedusty slope. caked with a ~ix­

ture of oil and horse droppmgs.and moved slowly down the de­serted sidewalks of \Vater Street.his mood was one of quiet frus­tration-a tinge of remorse notstrong enough to be oppressive.but the kind dlJt makes youwant to do something. Any­thing at all, as long as it is some­thing you can really occupyyourself with so that you arenot conscious of the slowness ofpassing time.

It comes as quite a shock,Curt reflffted. when a man isjolted into a pl'rspcctive of him­self for the first time in his life.When you look at yoursl'lfthrough your own eyes, youonly sec what you want to andnever what is really there_ Thepicture that Curt had been seeingof himself for the twenty-fiveyears of his life was about asperfect as he could make it.which was natural because theego wipes the botches from itselfthe way a portrait photographerremoves the undesirable blem­ishl's from a picture. The resultis flattering but not very repre­sentative.

What Curt saw in himselfwas a powerfully built. six-fOOLsailor with handsome rugged­ness in his face. curly black hair.and grey eyes which could rad-

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iate friendship and hate withequal facility. That was true.bffause his mirror confitml.'d itHe also saw a will that was en­tirely his own, a complete ab­sence of feeling or at least theability to control it. The mas­ter of his fate. He had readthat in a pOl.'m in school oncrand liked. When he put it alltogethrr he made it add up to asl'nse of power, of completedominance over men andwomen, and that was the de­lusion-the ddusion on whichhe had been living.

A delusion is abstract andempty but powerful enough tosupport a life if it is nourishedenough. Curt's had been nour­ished well in the past five years.After that long at sea you arclikdy to become accustomed tothe moving around and the im­permanence of it. and Curt, upto now. thought that he had,It was a simple and undemand­ing life and he liked it becauseyou didn't have to think muchabout it. Drop in at a port.have a good time there. maybemeet somebody and maybe not,and then leave and that's that.There was no chance to knowpeople or to care about peopleand that had been fine for Curtbecause he wanted no responsi­bilities. He ruled himself andeverybody else and wanted notrace of fl'ding to hamper hisinitiative. There was no caringabout women br-cause that mightmean falling in love. Love wasan emotion and Curt belil:ved insquelching emotions.

But what had changed it alP

It was strange the way it hadhappened so suddenly. and thefirst he could remember waswhen they pulled out of Bostonone day and as he stood on thedeck watchi.ng the city disappearhe found himself feeling lonely,when he was supposed to befreling flippant. He tried to tellhimself that it was just anotherport. with the same people asany othrr place. and why shouldhl' worry about leaving it? He'dbe at another in a week or so.Nobody there knew him and heknew nobody. He'd done thesame thing a thousand times be­fore and there was nothing toII. SO he shrugged his shouldersand went below.

But after two days at sea heknew that wasn't all. Standingwatch at night, he saw thewater boiling under the hull andlistened to its seething and it nolonger meant anything to him.It was nor freedom nor powernor strength. It was just ase~seless. aimless mass floatingwithout direction and withoutpurpose and taking him with it.He stood on the bridge betweenthe water and the black sky,detached from both. feelingempty and alone. and hating thefeeling because he could not un­derstand it and it was the firstem orion he could ever remembernot being able to undrrsrand.He wanted to talk to someonefuriously. but there was nobodyto talk to because if he said any­thing to his shipmates he wouldbe embarrassed and he could notquite stand embarrassment.

And then he was in St.

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"Do 1 know you?" .he .aid, ''I'm alraid I''''e fol'tiollen your nome:'

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looking little place, all shiny inchromium and fluorescent light­ing. He sat at an unoccupiedtable in the far corner, feelinga little bewildered. He reddeneda little when the waitress cameover and he ordered a milk­shake. Cripes, he thought. ifthis gets back to the boys on theship you'l1 never hear thr end ofit. You haven't been in thiskind of place in a long lime.And now that you're here. whatdo you do? The empty feelingwas there again.

After he had got accustomedto drinking through a straw, heleaned back in his chair andfished out a cigarette. He blewa cloud of smoke in the dirf'c­tion of the bar and lookedthrough it at the people sittingthere. The girls he saw seemedunfamiliar; they were mostlyhigh-school kids. fresh-facedand gathered in small groups.laughing and talking loudly. Ifit's a change of atmosphere youwant. he was thinking, you cer­tainly have come to the rightplace. They were entirely un-

overtones of Irish, The girlshad fuzzy hair and a carelessway of walking, but some ofthem were not too bad lookingand many had fair figures. Aftera while he got up and startedto walk casuall y westwards,taking plenty of time, It waslate dusk and the street lightshad just winked on. There wasno reason to hurry because hedidn't know where he wasgoing.

He passed the ParamountTheatre, its modern geometriclinrs looking somehow out ofplace in the surroundings. Peo­ple were beginning to pour Oul

of it and into the different res­taurants and soda bars thatlined the street. This wasn'tCurt's usual sort of hangoutwhen he went ashore. Therewere taverns in St. John's, allright, and the boys had told himwhere to find them. But to­night he didn't want any moretavrrns. He smiled a little.Maybe a change of atmospherewas just what he nreded.

He found himself pushingopen the scrren door of a nicr

John's and it meant nothing tohim. He should have goneashore with his fnends andlooked for a waterfront tavernas he had always done every­wbere else. Only he didn't wantto go ashore and the taverns, in­stead of muning fun and free­dom. meant only drabness andpeople talking and he could findno more pleasure in it. So hetold them he had a headache andlay on his bunk. staring at theceiling and hating Ih(' ship andthe stifling heat and even hatinghimself.

After a while he couldn't takeany more of that, so he washedand combed his hair and wentashore. All he wanted to dowas get away from the ship andfind something to do and try,somehow, to keep from think­ing too much.

Now, where to go? He want­ed to head for the bright lightssection, because rhere seemed tobe nowhere else to go. But thiswas a crazy town, because theredidn't seem to be any sectionsof any kind. Business houses,stores, residences. all chopped upand thrown together like tutti­frueti. If he could find the en­tertainment spots he might findsomeone to talk to.

He began to wander uptown.A row of steps took him toDuckworth Street. Anotherone and he was on Gower Street.and one more brought him to

/' Harvey Road. When he stoppedclimbing he was warm andsweating and his clean shirt wasbeginning to cling. This blast-ed place is worse [han the

tropics. he thought. It was the ~~~Ilr-~middle of July and the hottest "'i

night of the summer. The airwas damp and full of moisturewhich made it seem like a Turk­ish bath. Why didn't theskipper find a cargo for Grren­land or the South Pole?

He was a little out of breathfrom walking uphill and he saton a rail for a moment. Peoplewere milling about on thr side­walks, walking slowly back andforth and talking. Teen-agedboys were sitting on the rail atthe south side overlooking theharbor and shouting to passinggirls in a peculiar accent with

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The SealHunt is on!

Into the vast white wilderness ofnorthern icefields plough sturdy New­foundland ships each spring. Goalof the tannuaI hunt is the herd ofseals which come down from thenorth on the ice floes. A hundredyears ago four hundred ships andthirteen thousand men were engagedin this industry which produced amillion'"<loUar harvest. With the pass­inq of the windjammers. Newfound­land sealing firms acquired a fleetof ice-breakers which put the indus­try on a modem basls. but the risksand hardships remained for the menat the "front", During World Wax nthe sea1fishery suBered a series ofsetbacks in the 108s of steamers. andin 1945 the fleet dwindled to twoahips. Now the smaller poweredvessel is cominq into its own andputting new life into an old industry.In 1948 one steamer and II motorvessels. crewed by 367 men. broughtin 34.605 seals. In 1947 threesteamers and IS motor vessels, with684 men aboard. accounted for105.725 seals. This year it is expect­ed that an even larQer number ofships will take part in the hunt.Another innovation in recent years isthe seal-spoltinQ plane which direct3the ships to the "main patches". Butlife aboard the "wooden walls" re­mains basically the same and themethod of kUlinQ the seals, with 10nQwooden "Qaffs", hasn't chanQed any;the catch still has to be hauled to theship by hand. For the hardy New­foundlander, who takes thinQs asthey come, the seal.6.ahery representsa chance to make a Qood month'spay in the slack season. Regardlessof the risks. there are always moremen offering' than can be aiqned on.

Fa, o.er a hundred,.eon -.-linq .hi~

ba..e .o.lled. from the port of SI. John'.Gild other Newfoundland harbors In.-n:h 01 the HG.I hCln'..1 <mI0llq thenortheruic.lI.oe..

Sharlnq In the N,.'i'I'aJ oJ the -.-1l.nqh.duaby k>da,. (lfe a dCM.en 0' CIIoteCIIolor .._ .. u.ed lor the NCllaiaderof the yeor In eoastal frel",btlllQ', TIm.I. the "Beuie MClrie". h~dlnq oul theNanow•.

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Th. _lfIeb.lT l.I 0 hallcm:loue cw;a1J>C1I1011 ID .hlo;:hthe m.n .ho qo "o".r the ald." on the Ice J>CIlISmatch th.lr ,treaqth cmd .its aqmllSt th. ,1.m.nlLGraphically W...trG1ed abo". I, CIIl .".lTdll]' _I'.In the iii. 01 CIIl 1c,..hllDl.r .nqoqed ID q.lllnq the_I.pelts bcc:k 10 the wp.

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In dap qoo. by d.pa:rtu... 01 th. Hell.IDq flNt from SL JohD', .as marked by,uo;:h IQIn.. a l.I qro;rphkcilly pict\lredobo1r•• TocIll]' th. Ic. rarely bloc:b upth. harbor .lltraACe, but th. "ron meaIn .ood... Ib.lp"· catcb up with th' Ice........r or later for It I, CD th. polo;uO_thcrtth._t.a... I<lk....

lack ID port th. "oIuabl. carqo I, ua·loaded CIIld the "cotch" l.I ..nd.red. IDIo_I-ol! .hlo;:h .... 1941 Iololled -.thlaq o".r 400.000 qollon.. Seal oil I,uNd CIS a base In the manufacture 01a .art.1]' 01 procluets.

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(Continued from page 15)familiar to him. the kind of girlh~ had forgotten long ago. thekmd of girl you don t meet inwaterfront taverns, the kindwho. don't get very easilyacquainted With sailors, Hewanted to talk to OAe of them,but none of them seemed to bealone,

He caught sight of his ownreflection m the corner of themirror behind the bar. It look­ed all right. His blue suit fittedwell and showed hardly awrinkle, the white shirt wasclean and neat at the collar. theblue tic well knotted, He re·fleeted with satisfaction that hewas about as well dressed andgood looking as anyone in theplace,

Then somebody moved outof a seat at the far end of thebar and he saw for the first timea girl who was sitting aroundthe corner of it where it turnedin an L-shape and met the wall.She was pretty and had longbrown hair over her shoulders,with a white silk band aroundit. It fell down over her jacketand broke into little curls, Herleft foot and a couple of inchesof ankle showed around thecorner of the bar, and it wassmooth and clean and creamyand stockingless,

Look, he thought. why notgo over and sit beside her andget acquainted? Maybe you can

~{thh;~u~o~~u ~~~'tS~~~;;~e;~thing to lose, If you don't talkto somebody soon you'll gonuts.

He started to get up but re­strained the impulse. Better totake it easy. to wait for a while,There might be someone elsewith her, and you don't wantanything to happen now.

He waited five minutes, butshe seemed 10 be alone. Shewasn't looking around for any­one, just sitting there and star­ing at the glass in front of herwith her face expressionless andher eyes averted so that hecouldn't see them, He wonder­ed what color they would be.Probably brown, consideringher hair and skin. Any way, itwas about time he found out.

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He slowly pushed back his chairand picked his way through thetables and sat at the empty seatat the end of the bar. \\'hen helooked for a cigarette he sawthat his hands were tremblingslightly. and the pit of hisstomach felt hollow. He bit hislip. Good Lord. he thought. isa high school kid doing this toyou! Where are all your idl.'asnow! Nothing or nobody hasany e-tTl.'ct on you. remember'Relax. you fool! He was sud­denly aware of having comedown a lot in the world.

He concentrated on the ashtray in front of him until hishands became steady. Thatmade him the boss again. oncemore the man with thl' over­pow('ring will He felt prett ygood about that. Sure. he couldstill do it. He could do anything.

He was de-liberately casualabout the whole thing. and hadgiven no sign. as he crossed thl'floor and sat on the stool, thathe had even noticed the girl.Probably she wouldn·t like it ifhe immediately gave her thl.' im­pression that he wantro to getacquainted This wasn·t awaterfront tavern. So h(' satqui('tly and studied h('r reflec­tion in the mirror behind theb.ar. Sitting diagonally oppo­Sltl.'. h(' had a good view of herprofi.1('.

She was still looking at hl.'rglass. seeming almost a littlesad. Yes, hl.'r eyes were brown,all right. He could barely makethat out. They were brownand downcast and disinterestedand not ex~ctant. There WdS

no doubt that she was alonl.'Not once did shl.' look up at thecrowd of boys and girls at thetdbl('s or glance toward the door.Maybe she was a little lonely,too. That would mah it easierBut if sh(' had e\·l.'n noticed himsitting therl.' at all. sh(' gave noindication of any kind. Curtb('gan to fl.'cl a little puzzled,but shook off the fl.'ding becausehe didn't want any doubts ham­pering him.

Now or never. Curt thought.·'Hello there," hl.' said.She looked up suddenly, sur­

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your pardon!" she said."1 said hello," Curt repeated."Oh," she said, He tried to

look straight into her browneyes, but they avoided him.They ran swiftly, hesitantly,over his neae clothes, his heavybrown wrists and powerful fin­gers clutching a cigaretre, thenback over his face and hair, butskipping over his eyes almosttoo quickly to follow, That'sbad, he thought. How is shegoing to see me if she looks thatway?

"00 I know you~" she sa;d.''I'm afraid I've forgotten yourname."

"No," hesaid, "you probablydon't. Ever been to NewYork?"

"No.""Boston! South America!"''I've nevet been outside of

Newfoundland." she said,"Then I guess maybe you

don't know me, This is myfirst time here. But I couldhave sworn I saw you some­where before." Say, he thought,that's a pretty poor approachfor a guy who's supposed [0

know his way around. Haven'tI seen you somewhere before?Why don't you [elf her shelooks just like Margie or some­thing ~ She wouldn't laugh,She'd think you were deadlyserious. She almost looks likeshe really thinks you did makea mistake.

She had looked away fromhim again, and was intentlytwirling the straw around in herglass. He saw that it was empty,

"Look." he said, very quietlyand seriously and trying toinject a note of pleading into h:svoice. "I don't know a soul herrand don't have a thing to do topass the time, Mind if I talkto you for a little while?"

Her face relaxed a little andsomething resembling a smileflickered across her mouth, Hereyes seemed to brighten a tinybit too, but he couldn't be sure.They were raised a little to­wards him, but her long lasheswere downcast as if she wereafraid to let him sec them.

"All right." she said. Hervoice was low and husky be-

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cause she was trying to hide ashade of nervousness with en­forced carelessness, "But I'mafraid you'll find I'm pretty dullat conversation,"

Good, he thought, this isn'tgoing to be hard at all Shereally wants to ulk. Just J

matter of taking your time.that's all

·'Fine." he said, car('ful not tosound too ('ager "But I'm alittle hungry myself. Howabout a mall ,,,

"Thank you," she said, "but1"'1.' already had one,"

"Well. have another, They'regood for you Energy food andall that"

"Thank you." she s.aid, "Ip:uess I'll have one if you want .Thank you very much."

He ordered two malts. Whilethey wailed he looked at heragain. She wasn't saying athing. JUSt silling there withher eyes averled. \Vhat's shethinking now ~ he wondered.She's probably wonderin~ whoI am and whv I'm do:n" thi~

The more c1nsnlv he looked themore he re~I;7cd that she wa~

lK-autifuJ. I( onlv she wouldlook at him and smile or snrnr­thing. He kept his eyes gJundon her face until his cigarett·:burnt his fingers and he jumpedinvoluntarily,

He mashed it out on thebottom of the glass ashtray. thrnreached into his pocket and tookout a crumpled packa~e and heldit out to her. "Smoke?" hesaid,

"No. thank you," she said,smilin~ a little. "I don'tsmoke."

CUrl lit one for him~elf, '"thought all girls smoked thesedays. 1 like a ll;;r1 who doesn'tsmoke," he added.

She said nothing,The waitress p1<lcl.'d two

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'What's your name'" hzsaid suddenly.

She laid the straw carefullyin the lliass. "Why do youwant to know that?" she asked.

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wit,h the music and it gavr himan Idea.

"Tell you what," he saidbrightly. "Let's go dancing.Know any places around herewe could dance~"

She didn't answer at once."Yes," she said, almost lookingat his £acr. Then her eyesmoved away again and herlashes dropped. "But I don'tcare much for dancing."

"What?" he said, disbeliev­109 :'1 thought all high schoolgirls liked to dance.

"What makes you think I'ma high school kid?"

,,' don't know." he said.puzzled. "But you are, aren'tyou?"

"Yes," she said, "but I don'tlike to dancr, Some' of myfriends do. If you want todance, maybe some of the otherkids here would go with you,"

That was thr longest sentenceshe's spoken, he noted. Thetrouble was that now she sound­ed almost eager to get rid ofhim. If this keeps up. he toldhimself. shl"S going to drive younuts. The great Curt goingoverboard for a school kid! Hewanted to drive the toe of hisshoe into the front of the bar,good and hard. and feel theplaster crumble.

He sighed. decided to lry once

acquainted." he said. "Myname's Curt."

"Mine's Hazel." she said.Maybe she didn't want to

talk after all. Could she beafraid of him ~ Obviously shewas nervous. Shr kept puttingher hands on the bar and theninto her pockets or at her side orfidgeting with the little plasticornament on her lapel. Nowthat hI' had gone this far. hr wasnot sure what to do. Forgetrhe whole thing and go back tothe ship~ That was what hehad always done before. Buthe couldn't keep walking ourforever, because he had reachedthe point where he could nolonger walk out on himself.

"Look," he said, when shehad finished her drink. "it's anice night outsidr. Suppose wego for a walk~"

He thought shr seemed tostart a little at this. but whenshe spoke her voice was con­tr?lled. "No. thank you," shrsaid. "I don't think I'd like towalk right now,"

He didn't want to give upnow. She was just a scared littlehigh scho:>1 kid and he couldn'texpret too much at first. Some­body punched some nickels intothl' juke box and a bouncy tunrC,1me out over the babble. Aftera few seconds her shouldersnarted to mo"" rhythmically

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grabbed the check and walkedover to the cashier,

As he pocketed his change. helooked through the plate glasswindow and noticed a car pull­ing up outside. A grey-hairedman got out, came th ugh thedoor. and walkl'd o"er towardsthe bar. Around the end of it.the part where the girl was sitting and Curt couldn't sell'. hepickl'd up a pair of crutch1"S thatwere leaning against a stool. Hegave th('m to the girl.

Curt stood still, his handsgrasping the brass rail in frontof him until the knuckles turnzdwhit('.

The girl took the crutches,the man hdped h{'r off the stooland she hobbll'd painfully acrossthe rcx>m to the door. carefullyturning her ('yes away from thecashier's tabl'. Her I('(t anklewas smooth and clean andcreamy and stockingk;s. Herright one wasn't there at all

The man helped hu into th.:c'r and drov(' away Curt pulledthe d-:>or open and walked outinto the street. It was stillwarm and clammy. The str{'etsw-ere full of people, walkingback and forth under the Ii,:ht~,

and in the little park at the in­tl'rsection the benches were fullof peonle, just sittin<,z and talk­ing. Buse-s were moving in andoul of the terminus and the airhl.'1d the faint odor of gasolinefumes.

Curt walked slowly backHarvey Road to Cathedral HillThe skY W;lS hazy. It milZhtrain. He didn't know. Hedidn't care.

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more. ··Look. Hazl.'1,'· he said,sounding tired, "there's a bowl­ing alley down the street. I~aw it as I came up. Suppos~

we have a try at that~"

She said what he was expzct-mg. ''I'm afraid not. 1"-1'never bowled in my life."

"Well. it's about time yOllstarted. II's a good game. Ibet you'd like it "

"No, thank you," she said.He squashed out his cigarette

viciously. then dropped his armslimply to his sidl's. "For Pete'"sake." he said. irritatl'd. "youdon't dance, bowl. and youdon't want to talk. What thedevil do you want to do~"

Her eyes lookl'd right at hisfor the first timl'. They weremoist and her face was coloringand she looked very, very tired."I didn't ask you to do any­thing, did I~" she said hoarse­ly.

"Well. no. but"And I didn't ask you to sit

with me or talk with me, either.I'm tired and I want to gohome. My folks are calling forml' here." She turned her headand seemed to shiver a littk"\Vhy don't you go away andleave me alone?" she said finally.

Curt started to say somethingand decided not to, This. hethoughc. is what comes of yourcrazy ideas. Get back to thewaterfront where you belong.There's only one kind of lifefor you and it's no good foryou to try to get serious withanvbody, School kids! Whatwill you be trying next ~ He

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Neat homes of Mr. and Mrs. K. C. Minty, in foreqround. and Mr.and Mrs. Fred C. Moore. right. are typical of the dwellings whichthe Newfoundlanders of Boslon's Palfrey Hill have erected.

---Mr. and Mrs. K. C. "Chet" Minty are shown with their daughter.Mrs. Lois Pierce. in front of the Minty home. Chet Minty camefrom Twilling-ate in J908, married Annie Hutchinson of Newton.Mass.

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~HE story of Palfrey

Hill in Boston is notunlike thar of allAmerica.

Forty years ago a youthfulNewfoundland immigrant stak­ed out a homestead on its wind­swept summit. His was thefirst. seemingly like a beaconbeckoning to others in hisnative land. Now. clustered onits slopes are the homl's of ado zen such Newfoundlandpioneers.

There are others on PalfreyHill. which reaches skyward tothe northwest of Waterlown.seven miles from Boston pro­pt"r But Newfoundlandersfound it tamed its woodlandswith sturdy homes and neatlawns. and today they occupymost of its area.

First settler on Palfrey Hillwas Fred C. Moore. now thewhite-haired superintendent ofBoston's famed Morgan Mem­orial. Born in Twillingate.Fred Moore first came to theUnited States before the turn ofthe century but returned homein 1902 to marry his boyhoodsweetheart. Caroline Minty

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Back in Boston. Moore tookup his work with the MorganMemorial. a nationally-knownsocial agency benefiting handi­capped persons. serving first astrlaSUrl.'r. then assistant supl.'rint~ndent and. for the last five}~ars. superintendent

In 1910. Fred and hisbroth..r. William. laid the foun­d(ltion of the two· family dwell­ing where the former still lives\V,lIiam later built anotherhome for himself farther downthe hill and their parents.Samuel and Mary Moore. Wl.'rE·brought from Newfoundland tospend their last }'l?ars in thl?other half of Fred's house. To­d~y this part of the house isoccupied by one of Fred's sons.Wendell. who has followed inhis father's foomeps and is trea­surl.'r of Morgan Memorial.

A trul.'r Yankl.'l.' never trodNl.'w England soil than WalterWilliam Knl.'ll. another Twill­ingatl.' native who came to theUnited SUtes at the age of 16 inth2 days preceding the firstWorld War. Walter Knl.'l1 wentto work for Twillingate-bornH. H. Hawkins as an apprenticecarpcntl.'r. Upped to foreman

I' eight years later. hI.' will com­p!l.'tl.' 38 years of service withthe construction firm this year.

\Vhl.'n Knell returned from15 months service in Francewith thl.' Aml.'rican Expedition­ary Force. he met Summerford­bred Annil.' Elliot[ who hadcome from Newfoundland towork in the Moorl.' home In1925 Walter and Annie weremarried and a year later \Valll'rbuilt their home on Palfrey'ssummit Here the couple raisl'dsix sons and two daughters.whose ages today range from 22to (hue yl'ars

Sl'Cond to join the I ew­foundland colony on PalfreyHill was William Henry Wise-

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Mr. and Mrs. William Wiseman of Palfrey Hill will celebrate theirgolden weddinq anniversary in J948. Af left is Charlotte Wise­man. sister of Mr. Wiseman. who left Newfoundland 48 years ago.

Dr, and Mrs. Adolphus Linfield are pictured on the steps of theirattractive home on PaUrey Hill. with their son, Paul. left. TheLinlields frequently visit Newfoundland during summer.

The Knell lamily, left 10 right back row. Mr. Knell Mrs. KnellRichard. 15; front row, Warren 10: David. 3: Irvinq, 9. Mr. Knellis a carpenter and has worked lor the same firm lor 38 years.

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Bill Wiseman's wife is theformer Olivia Oxford of LittleBay Islands. One of their sons.Grorge. answered the call to be­come a Methodist minister inMassachuu-us. while the OIht'fson. Edwin. entered the paperbusiness. Their daughter. Min·nie Louise. is married to JosephCampbelL another onE'-1 i m eLittle Bay Islandl.'r.

In the plot of land bl.'twl.'enthe Moore and Wisrman prop­erties. the Rev. Dr. AdolphusLinfield er«trd his homl.' in1921. Born in Twillingatl.'

where he was ~ schoolboy cbumof Fred Moore. Dr. Linfield leftNewfoundland in 1895 andcame to Palfrey Hill <lfter hestarted ttaching at Boston Uni­versity where hI' is now a pro­fessor in tht department oftheology. Of all Palfrey's New­foundlanders. Dr. Linfield isprobably the most conversantwith present-day conditions inhis home land. having madefr!.'quent summer trips to Twill­ingate and other parts of New­foundland.

A distinctive Sl'Ction ofsprawling Boslon, becaUSt of theview it commands of Water­town and Belmont. Palfrty Hillforms J unique Newfoundlandcolony where the hospitabletradition of the homeland isvery evident. It might well becalled Little Twillingate formost of its residents came fromthere.

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take of the general austeritv in -;::;....~_-_... .•_'.:':'$f;-_t7t0~~-'post-war Britain. the royal wed-~ _ding. which drtw the eyes ofthl' world and r:apturl'd th~

romantic intl'rest of peopleeverywherl'. was carrird outamid the traditional grandeurand pagl'antry so dear to Ih~

hearts of Britons. Very possiblythe color of such ceremoniesoffered a wdcome relief to thl'drab austerity which the peoplein the British Isles have sufferedso nobly. while the ancientrituals. daring back for centurie...~rrved to remind them of theirlong and honorable hi.. toryIncidentallv. ewfoundland ha..honored Princl'ss Elizabeth bythe issuancl' of stamps bearingher likeness: the latl'sl one beingissued [0 commemorate her 21stbirthday.

Newfoundland's ProgressAlthough two devastating

world W;lfS occurred during thenign of Ge:)fge V. it was in thisperiod that Newfoundland ma:Jl'many important advances soc­ially and economically Forsome years prior to 1900. Nl'w­foundland had enjoyl'd a con­..iderablr measurl' of prosperityowing to the progressive broad­(ninS'! of econo_mic life throughfarming and mlnln~ and also tothe stimulus of railway build­ing. And of course the prevail.ing high prices and ready marhts for dried codfish was a greatfactor in thc general prosperity.

At this time the capitalisticenterprises of the island werl'locally managed and financed.but after the turn of the centuryforeign enterprise increasinglv

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Coronation Stamps of 1911recall era of Expansion andDevelopment in Newfoundland

qp>0RTRA ITS of the twomost recent ~rgi;an

kings of Britain. ap­peanng 0 n NewfoundlandCoronation stamps of 1911. r('

mind us how well these mem­bers of the Royal House ofWindsor have served the vastEmpire they have ruled. Someearlier Georges sought to servetheir own rather than their peo­ple's inl('n'sts. and, possibly forthis reason. it was announcl'd onJuly 17. 1917 that King Georg!'V had abandoned all Gumantitles for himself and his family.At the same time a proclamationwas issued to the eff«t thathenceforth the Royal house ofGreat Britain and Ireland wouldbe known, not as the house ofSaxe-Coburg-Gotha. or popu­larly as the house of Hanover orBrunswick. but as the house ofWindsor. Britain was still atwar with Germany. but hcrsovereign. although of Germanancestrv. was at heart complete­ly British.

Although living simply intheir private lives, both Georg"V and thl' present British kin~havl' continued the cl'rl'monialsnll'ndors of the Edwardian era.The Coronation at \VestminsterAbbl'y. in 1911. was attl'ndl'dbv reprl'S(>ntatives from all parISof the Empirl' and other coun­tril'S. who wishl'd to honor thenew hl'ad of a beneficent Empireas wl'lI as to witness the page­antry surrounding his assump­tion of the royal authority.

Latest in the long record ofnotable cl'remonies associatl'dwith members of thl' royal

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labor. The pay roll of the newindustries is impressive, and th~

rise of the wage system createddemands for greater comforts.and for better facilities in educa­tion and in public health.

Momentous Decision

1t would be interesting andinstructive to trace thr ups anddowns of Newfoundland's soc'ial and economic life since theturn of the century, but such ahistory is outside the scope ofthis article. During the reignof George V, Newfoundlanddevelopment followed a cons.st­ent pattern. at least until theearly 1930's. when, as a conse­quence of the world deprrssion.Newfoundland got into difficul­ties for which a solution wassought by suspension of respon­sible government in favor ofgovernment by a British com­mission,

\Vhat the future form of gov­ernment will be in Newfound­land. and indrrd its economicdestiny. is now being discussedand short! y will be decidrd bythe people of the island. Thisdeci..ion is of great philatelic aswell as economic and social sig­nificance, and will be watchedwith interest by stamp collectorseverywhere.

Incidentally. it may be ofconsiderable value to any reader..who wish to sell odd lots orcollections of Newfoundlandstamps to ascenain how to ob­tain thr best cash prices forthem. A letter to the StampEditor, in care of this publica·tion. will bring this informa­tion promptly.

In repl y to queries concerninghow to start a stamp collection,we would suggest that you pro­ceed as follows: First procure analbum-;t may br illustrated orsimply contain blank pages.Then get a packet of hinges.which are used to fasten thestamps to your album pages.Instructions on how to mountstamps usually are given on thepacket. and it must he empha­sized that stamps never shouldbr pasted or glurd tight downon the page without the use ofhinges.

If you want to collect New-

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Following two financial dis­a~ters in the early 1890's ~th.::

~20,OOO,OOO fire lo~s in St.John's, and failure of the twoleading banks-the Newfound­land governmrnt in 1899 wasinduced to transfer to Sir RobrrtReid. a financier and railwaybuilder. virtually all the island'scommunications, shipping lines,railway and trlegraph, as well asthe St. John's dry dock and ex­tensive timber and miningrights. The more obj('("tionablefeatures of these monopolisticrights were amended two yearslater. A little later. outside in­terests began to drvelop Nrw­foundland's pulp and paper andmineral rrsources, and as timrwent on these resources con­(inlled to be developed more andmorr extensivrly by p:Jwcrfulinterests.

As a result of capitalist:c en·terprise to Newfoundland, askilled class of workers hasgrown up. dependent uponwages and accustomed to steady

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cinating stamps of Newfound­land. it will doubtless bt> foundnecessary and desirable to in­clude historical and descriptivesketches of the events and per­sonages which the stamps depictor with which they are in sam\.'way related.

foundland stamps only, arrangl'them by issues, ke<,ping eachissue together on one or mar"album pages. Should you wantto collect stamps of all countries.mount them by countries, andin chronological order, Thus.if you are forming a collectionof Newfoundland s tam p s ,mount the first one issued-ifyou are lucky enough to possessa copy--on the first page ofyour album, and fill in laterissues. year by yrar, until youcome to the present issue. Pro­cred along the same lines withthe stamps of rach country youcollect.

The condition of stamps isimportant. as it affects theirdesirability and saleability.

Five New Faces

Five persons never bdore por­trayed on the stamps of New­foundland wrre included in theKing George V Coronationissur. Values and portraits areas follows: Ic.-Quren Mary;2c.-King George V: 3c.­Duke of Windsor, thrn Princeof Wales, at the age of 17; 4c.-King George VI, then PrinceAlbert: Sc. - Princess Mary,now Countess of Harewood: 6c.-Prince Henry, now Duke ofGloucesur: 8c.-Prince George,became Duke of Kl'nt. died in1946: 9c,-Prince John. diedin 1919; IOc.-Dowager QueenAlexandra: 12c. - Duke ofConnaught: I Sc, Seal of thzColony.

Much could be written aboutthe above mentioned membersof the royal family, and aboutthe numerous historical eventsin which they participated orwere closely associated. Con­siderations of space however pre­clude any further reference tothese subjects at this time. In

future articles ab~o;ut~th;'';b.''••••''.~!i!!!iii.1

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REGIONAL L1BRARIES- Pouch Cov,.

SI:;~e~~de::~:~::tll:Cl:~;:' l;;~h ~e~:~:~~o:1~O:hm::;ea:a~thOUlond books a month il hal lonq oulqrown ill pr..enl premilel.

a ..acanl room In a dwellinq. A new building. mealurlnq lwenly·livefeel by thIrty feet, erected at a cost of four thousand dollars will nowle",e III on. tho....and population. With the opctning 01 thil n.w build.Inq the link belween Ichool and adult eductllion hal now been com·pleted lor the building will le",e nOI only al a library but allo <II tI

meetinq place for all educatlonol grou~.

The presenl Chairman and Secretary are Mr. A. Grouchy. ond R....W. P. SulU.. t1n. P.P. relpeeli ..ely. Mrs. G. Crowdy I. the presentIlbrarlan.

Confederation of Newfound­land and Canada.

Lord knows there is needenough in Newfoundland for afresh approach to editorial writ­ing. In trying to follow manyof the editorialists to their pointthrough the forest of "fine writ­ing" and obscure allusion whichis their usual habitat I havestrained my eyes and my poorbrain sufficiently to be highlyappreciative of the fact thatwhen Mr. Sullivan wants to saysomething he says it in plainlanguage that I or anyone elsecan understand.

There is, however. reason inall things.

One can be a plain. bluntman without being a shouting.ranting man.

One can. or should, be able todiffer politically or otherwis~

with another person or group ofpersons without assuming and.what is worse, loudly and pub­licly proclaiming that your op­ponents are at the best congenitalidiots and at tlhe worst mercen­ary traitors to their country.

The privilege given to edi­torial writers of putting theirideas of right and wrong beforethe public and of possibly in­fluencing that public towards aparticular course of action carrieswith it the obligation that theadvice given be carefully thoughtout and sand y and undogmati­cally presented.

Mr. Sullivan docs not alwayshonor this obligation.

In an editorial written sometime ago he said. (after firstcarefully accusing all those whodisagreed with him of "chican­cry. expediency and emotion . .sheer bluff and broad. unfound­ed idiotic statements") that hisarguments on the matter of Con­federation with Canada wer~

"based on reason and justice".When I read that my mind

shuddered back to a previouseditorial headed "Johnny, GetYour Gun". This was a crude­ly irrt'sponsible summons tocommission merchants and OIherNewfoundlanders whom Mr.Sullivan believed would losemoney if Newfoundland joinrdin Federal union with Canada to

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gives me to sec the right.However even if the A. B.

Sullivan listed on the mastheadof the Advertiser be someoneI-lnknown to me [ do not think.in view of the plain. blunt lan­guage which he uses in his edi­torials. that he can accuse me ofunfairness or exaggeration whenI tell him in language equallyblunt that many of his edi­torials in the past year have con­sisted of utter. irresponsible and.in at least one case. dangerousnonsense.

I refer particularly to his edi­torials on national affairs inNewfoundland and specificallyto his attitude on the possible

• Tut! Mr. Sullivan

~T IS time that some­

body or other called toorder the chap who

writes the editorials for theGrand Falls Advertiser and I tagmyself herewith for that littlechore.

If, as I believe. the chap inquestion is myoid friend ArtSullivan. I approach the taskwith a lighter heart than Iwould were the editorialist un­known to me. Art. I am sure.would understand that what Ihave to say is said in the line ofduty and. [0 paraphrase a noblesentiment, with malice towardsnone. with charity for all. con­fident in the right only as God

Watch out for the April Atlantic Guardian!

It will be smaller in format but bigger in

number of pages and better in content.

WE BOW TO POPULAR DEMAND - Somany of our readers have expressed apreference for the former pocket-size thatwe have decided to go back to the old size,starting with the April issue,

THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT - Ingiving our subscribers what they want weare happy to be able to promise that themagazine will have a larger number ofpages than it used to in the old format, andtherefore there will be no sacrifice ofeditorial content,

BUT THE PRICE WILL BE LOWER - Beeou,eof the change-over we will be able to effecta saving in production costs which will bepassed on to the subscribers. With theApril issue single copies will sell for 20cents, as formerly, and the subscriptionprice will be $2.00 per year.

in opposing factions.These. however, are minor

points. The job as a whole was,to repeat, a valuable and inter­esting one for which all handsare to be congratulated.

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accuracy. Mr. Perlin in his re­view of the year had distributeda little more fairly his blame forwhat we all agree was the un­fortunate division of the New­foundland National Convention

spring to the defence of theirinter.ests.

That .editorial, like manyothers before and since, wasbased neither upon reason norjustice. It was a great andalmost criminal abuse of privi­lege.

The Grand Falls Advertisrris a good newspaper. TheBlackmore brothers who own itare men of standing and re­sponsibility in the communitywhich it serves. I am sure thatMr. Sullivan himself is a manwho basically has only the goodof Newfoundland at heart. It isa pity tmrefore that the reputa­tion of a good newspaper andthe intentions of good menshould be spoiled by the mis­taken belief thar shrill. hysteri­cal ranting and abuse is the al­ternative to stuffy and obscureeditorial writing.

There is a middle way whichI sincerely hope the Advertiserwill soon find.

• The Daily News MakesHistory

This is a good place, I shouldthink. to express sincere if some­what belated appreciation to thepublishers and staff of the St.John's Daily News for theirgiant end-of-the-year edition ofthat newspaper.

The annual job of reviewing.condensing and preserving for

, posterity the events and opin­ions of the year past is a tre­mendous one. It is a job. never­theless, that the News has donesuperbly year after year for agood many years now and onewhich has proved interestingand valuable to Newfound­landers and others in and out­side the country.

The News deserves everyword of congratulation and ap­preciation which is always its[at on the appearance of the'edition. which this year ran to96 pages.

Lest anyone should thinkthat I am running over entirelywith sweetness and light I willsay that I do wish that in theinterests of aesthetics the Newshad tahn the advertisements offthe front page for this one edi­tion and that, in the interest of

MARCH. 1948 31

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For fu.-ther information write:THE NEWFOUNDLAND TOURIST OFFICE,St. Joh,,'s, Nfld.

• lOCATlON-C.. Newfoundlond"s EIIII COOl', .",plying into Gonder Bo/.Notre Dome 110'1'.

• ACCESSIBILITY_O.'ro;" ot Glenwood, 1.. ",i'•• I,om Gonder Airport, 230mil". from SI. John'., at 317 ",il•• Irom Po".ou~.lolque•.

• ACCOMMODATION_Th••• or" Iwo hol.l, 01 Glenwood_Mr•. T. It. MII.phy'"Appleton, Gle"wood, wjlll accommodation for 8, Qnd Mr. R. G. R;<hord~, 01"".wood wilh occommodolion for 15. In addition Ih••• is a (ob," 10' 4, situatedbelwun fourth Pond and Jotl Bolli Brook. Arrong.",,,nh for th. renlol of tlli.cobin (on b" ""ode wilh Ih" Worden, Gonder River. Mr. I.en Sound"", GonderBoy, con 10k" cor. of polll•• for th" lowe' pools 01 the Ggnder.

• SEASON_fi.h enter Ihll ';v.. Ihe lo.t wuk in June, and the but flohing ilto be hod Irom July hI to AU:lu.t 3hl, though ordinarily the H\lling i. good totheendoflheleolon.

• GENEIAL IEMAIKS--Thil il one 01 Ihe 1.lond'l 10rge.I river.. There urefour norrow pond. or "eodie. on Ihe Main li.er. The .olmon pooh ore numerOUI,ond camping lilel ",e r.odily found in the 25 mil.. between Glenwood and Ih.mouth 01 the ri••r. Salmon Irook now. inlo Ih. Main li••r oboul a mile b.lowGlenwood.Ther. il .",eU.nl .eo Irout fllhing on thi. liv.. from July ht ollwordl.The ru .. 01 fI.h il nol lorg., ond Ih. w.igh! of Ih. o••roge fi.h lohn run. oroundSibl.Procticoliy oU ·h. fi\h;ng on Ihil riv•• il don. Irom a ri••r bool or conoe.Th. 19.. 6 Reporl onlheGo..d.rilol 101l0wl_240 .oeb lor 960 I"d doy. took 21 '''h O'.r 6 lb•. , and 1053 fi.h u..der 6 lb•.The o••rog. weigh! of the fllh woo nol record.d,"or wo.lh. weisht of the 10rge.1fI.h.

One of a series of advertisements presented by

g'oetta~ NEWFOUNDLAND PULP AND PAPER MILLS LIMITED Com" I ....

In the interests of Newfoundland's Tourist Industry