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What von should know about Christmas
EVERAL States of the Union have laws against interfering with belief in Santa Claus. (In France, a father,sued a teacher for do straying a child's faith in Santa, and won the suit.)
Coveright, 1949, King Postures Dyndicate, Tra
Truman speaks on peace essentials
Washington, December 21. President Trumon declared today that there would be eternal peace if the world rejected dictator- ships and turned to God.
"It man could achieve self-government, and friend- ship with his God throughout the world, peace would not tremble in the constant dread of war, "Mr. Truman said,
He was making a speech of dedication to the World War dead at the Arlington Na- tional Cemetery here.
"Mankind is exhausted. 110: the ardent of conflict." Alr Tru- man guid. "All men
sick f blood-letting
1 hunger sund weary of the troubles suffered for so many years.
"If we could mobilise world opinion among all men who walk the earth, there would ever be another war."
Mr. Truman emplated 114 he United States woulet armed until its after or friend. ship had been necepte by the peuples of the totalitarian Stutes,
"While they are made to res- pand in me hand-clasp with a mailed dat we have an choice but
To start ready in self-defence.
"Much as we prize peace and friendship we prize freedom more.
Trust in oursolvos
"And much we trust in God, while he is rejected by
so many in the world, we must trust also in purssivos.
"In an age where pence must be protected we must resort to our own strength to hold aggres- sion at bay.
and
"When goodwill prevalls pence enues to the earth i wil pome because we have had the resolution to hold fast through perilous times and we huve had "Unt the emptive unter for the courage to share our resources. he world merge Dom farkass with our nations who believe they cannot see the hun we told to freedom," he declaresi.
fiendship," he said.
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After the President spoke, Eng- sh chimes and Flemish belly rang But with "Nearer My God To Thee."Reuter and United Press.
Xmas CARPET SALE
10%-30%
DISCOUNT OFF ALL CARPETS
UK ONLY RATIONED COUNTRY IN WEST
seon on a Briton's table about four or five limes a week,
Unlike most European coun tries, Britain has never rationed coffea. There has always been a plentiful supply of the beans throughout the war and the post-war period.
Gania, such as goose, poultry,
London, December 21. Britain is today the only country Wast of the Iron Curtain with a general rationing scheme still in effect, four years after the end of the war. Week in and week out the British housewives crowd the shops and grocery stores to buy their weekly rations, which are, in may cases, less than they were at the height of the war. Planning a meal is still a big war a jam. Bread was rationed headache for a. British house and potatoes were allocated-za- wife, especially, one with a limited budget, for unrationed foodstuffs are often beyond her means and a man can, and often does, eat his weekly
A week:
Sugar right ounces, Meal, 1/8d. meat ration at one sitting.
Rationing of certain foodstuf, worth, Butter, four ounces, Cook
ing fat, two Brat started in January, 1940, and four ounces, Bacon, four ounces, Dunees, Margarine, today, almost 10 years later, the
Cheese, two ounces, Milk, three original butter and bacon ration pints for adults and three and s of four-ounces per head per week half pints for children between the ages of five and 18 years old In 1040 the sugar ration was 12 and a pint a day for children un- ounces, today it is eight ounces.
Ment has the sorriest tale to teller five, soap, roughly a amali ta-
blet a week; Ten, two and a half) Ment was Aral rationed in March, ounces. Eggs are allocated, about
partridge and pheasant, are not tions vary in each district since sive and nearly always beyond rationed but are extremely expen-| the war but unlimited supplies of the means of the average British each are now in the shops.
housewife.
are still the same.
1940, at 1/10d. worth a week. In March it year it fell to only 10d. worth.
Today, a housewife gets 1/0. worth on each buff-coloured r)- tion book.
Many years
A Ministry of Food official waid that it will be many years before Britain returna 10 ite normal pre-war meat consump
tion,
A Briton today gets the follow- ing amount of rationed goods once
one egg a week in the winter months and between two and three in the summer months,
A Briton ' gels 24 points month to spea
A tin of meat, enough for four people for one meal, costs about 12 points; pound of rice takes eight points and costa 10 points.
Fish plentiful
One of the few basie foodstuffs
A chicken for four
persona
generally costs about 15 shillings.
drops are ratloned to four ounces Sweets, chocolates and sugared a weekmur two small bars chocolate.
Earlier this year sweets were de-rationed but the demand was sweet shops so long that many so great and the queues at the people got no sweets at all.
onlng was re-introduced after only two months-United Press.
SHIP FIRE
Ra-
."
Rice pla for Africa
"
London, Dacambor 21...
A long-term plan for rice production for export in Ext and Central Africs, was' org• ed. In a report published by the Colonial" Office- today..
The report stated that tho exportable rico from Burma, Glam and French Indo-China had dwindled from the prev war figure of five to six mil- lion tona to just over 2,500,- 000 tons, and called for fresh efforts to rales the standard of living of the rising po. pulation of the optontal em pire by the expansion of rice production.
of
The raport was the result five months' survoy by the East African Rice Mis- sion. It called particulariat. tention to the vast areas o
land swamp
In Northern Rhodeala, and urged the, sat- ting up of a central rice ra search station in Tanganyika. -Router.
BOAC INCIDENT
London, December 21, Two passengers and one of the Copenhagen, December 21.
when a British crew were hurt Two Danish workers were kill- Overseas Airways Corporation ed and several others were in- Constellation airliner landed with jured hero today when tre broke a jolt near Reykjavik, Iceland, to- out on Iceland's new and biggest day, the Corporation
the Gullfoss here. passenger motorship (11,700 tons).
The fire was the second shee
announced
The plane, with 20 passengero
The only basic foodstuff that) which has never been rationed is the ship was launched here on on board, left London this morn- has come off the ration since the Ush. Cod, herrings and sola are|December 2.-Reuter.
POP
POP!
- FOR THE LAST
GET UP!
TIME
Ing for Montreal,-Reuter.
Tiresome
AND
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ON THE
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Your DINNERS
COLD -
OURN.
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THE BARONESS WANTS YOU ON THE PHONE, CHIER
ANY NEWS ABOUT MY STOLEN TIARA, CHIEF?
I HAD IT IN
MY HANDS BUT IT
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
IT WHAT? YOU MEAN TO SAY--
OA--HERE IT IS NOW -- FLOATING THROUGH THE AIR--
THE TIARA'S
I'VE GIVEN UP
BEEN RETURNED GUESSING ABOUT --EVIDENTLY
HIMCHIEF. I
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THE--BUT WHY?
RIP KIRBY
THERE'S
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HOME AND WIFEI CASE.
IS CLOSED!
I HOPE THа POOR CHAP /DOESN'T DIE... I'M OFF TO THE HOSPITAL, SHERIFF,
·TOMORROW - THE REASON
By ALEX RAYMOND
|HG HAS BETTER THAN
| AN EVEN CHANCE, MRS..
SMITH,
OH, DOCTORI HE MUST LIVE!
KE MUSTI
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THAT DOCTORED PORT WING REALLY "ROCKING / JUST A.
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JANE
HOW DO IN THAT CUPBOARD AND' STÂY. GIN IT TILL FURTHER
ORDERS!!
THERE/THAT'LL" "SERVE THE DOUBLE
· PURPOSE OF LOCKING, SUHIM” IN SAND STUFFING UP THE KEYHOLE WHILE":" PASSO A
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JANE
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