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Pare 2 THE EVENING CITIZEN, OTTAWA, CANADA' Thursday, November 10, 1949 IIy Austin Crosn A Geography Lesson Fi oin Today's Times Comments from This Morning's London Times cabled to The Evening Citizen from its News Bureau in London Riding Four Neiv Railivays In A Day If, any time in the last couple of years, I had been given Alla- din's Lamp, and told me to rub myself any place I wanted to go, where do you think I would want to go? Samararkandx? Venice? Kashmir? Rio? No, a hundred times no to all of them. The i I -iW A most cordial official, W. J. Riordan, assistant general passenger agent of the Illinois Terminal Railroad, rushed me out to Morton so I could ride the crack electric liner Mound City into Peoria. These electric trains are not only streamlined, but they contain dining cars, and observation parlor cars.

Moreover, they move along at better than a mile a minute clip. Their main line is from Peoria via Springfield to St. Louis, and they are one of the last surviving electric lines that provide such de luxe passenger service. It did seem odd to place I wanted to go was Peoria. Peoria was my dream town.

Why Because there were more rail day. Even so elegant a connoisseur as Lucius Beebe embodied a sentimental word about its sister No. 502 in his $12.50 book. Again, ail too soon, I was off the. and CL and it remained only to take my fourth bastion of the day.

the Peoria and Pekin Union. Purely a switching road, the and PU as it is locally called, proved easy to tackle. I went to H. R. Hooste.

he flagged down Engineer D. H. Stambaugh and his switcher, and in a trice I was away along some of the and PU's tracks on No. 404. That made it four new railways in one day.

brought my lifetime total up to 140. Who says life has not its glorious' rewards? In my next. Mark Twain's home town, then on to The Ozarks. ways in Peoria on which I had not ridden than at any other one center in the world. Peoria was my Pin Up Place.

Judge then with what enthu siasm I was up witn tne dawn, to begin my Big Day. I had earlier is clearly a disposition to make concessions to Western Germany if there are sufficient guarantees of security from the German side. The Hong Kong correspondent reports the most spectacular defection of the civil war, in which eleven transport aircraft of the two leading civil aviation companies in China took off from Hong Kong and apparently landed in Communist territory. Nine of the aircraft belonged to the China National Aviation Corporation, which is partly owned by Pan-American Airways, and two to the Central Air Transport Corporation. They left ostensibly for destinations in Nationalist China but not one arrived.

It is taken for granted that the aircraft flew to airfields in Communist China, probably Shanghai. Canada has placed with Nuffield Exports Limited the largest single order for British cars ever received from the dollar area. The order is for $6,750,000 worth of Morris, Riley and MG cars, and shipments will begin hext week. LONDON It is believed that the three foreign ministers ol Britain, the United States and France now conferring In Paris will discuss the implications of the recent appointment of Soviet Marshal Rokossosky to his new command in Poland. The Paris correspondent writes that the new appointment cannot be explained away completely as a Russian precaution against "Titoism" in Poland, and it has caused some anxious speculation One theory is that the Soviet Union is consolidating its military position In Poland as a preliminary to another Council of Foreign Ministers, at which it would pursue a settlement based on the neutralization of Germany, in the military sense, as between Russia and the West-em Powers.

The unification of Germany cn the Western Powers' political terms might not. in the Russian view, be too high a price to pay lor the withdrawal cf the United States army across the Atlantic. With this background, there appears to be urgent desirability to establish greater co-operation between Western Germany and the Western Powers, and there sit down and have a ham sandwich and a cup of tea deftly served on a glorified tram, but the, way the big electric ate up been in touch with Harland H. Best, general superintendent of the Toledo, Peoria and Western the miles made me wish that the nine mile trip could have been nine times nine. Their menu, -my- containing such things as clam i JJCalilS JLCSlcrCiay chowder1, choice steak, chile con! CLEVELAND Russell Weis- Railroad, and had lined up a trip from Hollis to Peoria Yards, a distance of 10.6 miles.

You may recall that the TP and was featured in Life Magazine ft while back, and that it was this road whose president, George P. Mc-Near. was assissinated. This came in the midst of a destructive strike, for the TP and was ciuue, lancy aaiau, pie a la muue, man. Sn rhipf -HUnHal iWVi JX the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

and iced tea hardly suggest the kind of electric cars I know. The ITC goes all out for speed and (luxury, really gives you a run. strike-bound for months and interior will be completed by Christmas. Services have been held in the church for the past two and a half months under the direction of the Rev. K.

W. Opperman who was also the pastor of the old tabernacle. In the picture are: Rev. R. W.

Battles of Gospel Tabernacle; R. J. Bur-chill, D. E. McKechnie, K.

W. Offerman, pastor: W. Homeyer, A. A. Jackson, M.

K. Dawson; back: L. H. Shibley, E. de Rainville, H.

Hiebert and R. Dceks. Re-Build Tiielr Own Church Out of the ashes of the old Overbrook Gospel Tabernacle which burned last March arises the new Riverview Community Church. A monument to the 'enterprise of the congregation, the new church is being built entirely by volunteer labor from the members. At the corner of Prince Albert and Russell Road in Overbrook, construction began on the new edifice last May and while the exterior won't be finished until next April the With Austin F.

Cross Cross Toicn NEW YORK William M. Sea-bury, 71, lawyer and writer and brother of Samuel Seabury, famed investigator of corruption in New York City during the early 30s. TORONTO Harry E. Simons, 80. retired mining broker.

MONTREAL Isaac Harry Wol-ofsky, 73, founder, editor and publisher of the Jewish Daily Eagle. MONTREAL Nahim Silver, 80. prominent in Montreal's fur trade. QUEBEC Mrs. R.

A. Benoit, wife of the clerk of the Quebec Legislative Council and a niece of former Premier L. A. Tascher-eau. MONTREAL Walter Lewis Jones, 64, member of the composing room staff of The Montreal Star.

TORONTO Col. Edward Charles. Dean. 81. active in the Canadian milita for 38 years.

NEW YORK Margit Bokor, 44, I caught a cozy bus over to Pekin, about ten miles away, and got a warm greeting from Carl Dunlap assistant agent of the Chicago and Illinois Midland. Once part of Insull's empire, the and IM later became part of Wendell i 1 1 1 e's Commonwealth and Southern. A coal line, it still runs two passenger trains daily between Pekin and Spring-field both in Illinois, and extends a freight line to Taylorville. The main line mileage is 85.2 miles. Out Of Yesterday Mr.

Dunlap whisked me out to Powerton, where I boarded my inbound train. It Jias been years since I rode behind a little eight wheeler, one of the old fashioned kind with two drivers on each side, and two small wheels under Our Sympathies Willi The Geneva College Kids turing to American audiences to months. The murderer, who was never apprehended, was not believed to have had anything to do with the striking railroaders. Moaned Around Curve I went out with Special Investigator Kipling to Hollis, where within sight of the utilitarian skyline of Pekin, I sat and waited for my TP and morning train. At last it moaned around the curve, and twin diesels 202-201 stopped far enough ahead to let me get aboard the caboose.

Conductor S. R. Dilley collected 29 cents cash fare from me, and said with a sheepish grin that I was the first cash business he could recall carrying in five years. He was not even sure that 29 cents was right, but that's the closest he could recall it. The TP and puts down a green strip of plush on the ordinary hard wood of the bouncer's bench, and there you may sit and appreciative.

Some students who were there apparently to play football or be in the orchestra were restless, but it seemed to me I started my fall lecture tour the other day at Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, when I addressed 800 students at Geneva College. This rtern, old fashioned Presbyterian institution gave me a warm welcome. I got there in the through Pittsburgh sleeper, after a go as you please run on the day milk train between Ottawa and Toronto. Before I began my lecture, I got talking to a Mrs. J.

V. Downie, who it turned out. was born in- Rmxm. dauchtpr of a Presbv-. they do not know the important the front.

But and IM 501 was former leading lyric soprano at something straight out of yester- the Viennese state opera. facts about Canada, how could they know the Canadian equival ent of Governor Dewey, Republi break down this false impression. That we are bigger even in population than many countries in Europe surprises them. Their general attitude' to Canada is of extreme friendship, and an abstract love of us. But we are to them as Greenland Ijs to us; it is there, we know where it is, we wish it well, but we don't care too much if we don't know too much about it.

I was cordially treated by the university authorities, and cannot speak too highly of them. I was driven to the train by Mrs. E. E. Reagle, Dean of Women, who re-enacted in real life, the movie theme Mother Was A Freshman.

When her family were grown up. her husband came to Beaver Falls, she enrolled as a freshman, loved college, and finally, when offered that nine tenths of the Geneva College audience was appreciative. Certainly they were responsive, and I was delighted with the applause. This is not designed to tell Cross Town readers about my speech. I have only one purpose in writing this, and that is to say that there is a lot of missionary work to be done yet in United in educating them about Canada.

Most of them have no real idea about us. I think too that the fishing and hunting business has been overdone, and we are depicted in the eye of the average United States citizen as a wild and savage country. I paid no at Sweden Begins Jet Production STOCKHOLM Sweden was reported today to have begun regular production of a new arrow-shaped jet fighter plane which can fly more than 650 miles per hour. The new plane, which has been designed to form the backbone of Sweden's air force, is said to be faster than any other aircraft presently built in numbers in Western Europe. The newspaper Dagens Nyheter said the new single-seated fighter, with swept-back wings and a pressurized cabin, is being built by the Saab Aircraft Company in an underground factory blasted into the rock at Linkoping, 120 miles southwest of Stockholm.

It has Deen unofficially reported that 500 of the new planes called the Saab-29-have been ordered for the Swedish air force for delivery "between and 1954. can candidate; such interesting personalities as John Foster Dulles, Harold Ickes, Sen. Vanden-berg. Sen. Taft and others? The plain answer is that the Americans not only don't know, but don't care.

The thing that seemed to surprise them most was that while we spent in 1948, the per capita sum of $140 or thereabouts in terian minister. Her maiden name was Janet Metheney. Since this Is a small world, it turns out that fhe knew well, Rev. Mr. Mac-Lachlan.

father of Bruce and Grant MacLachlan. both of whom were here during the war; and Ian MacLachlan, who was with me in Arts' 23 at Queen's. The lecture proved interesting to me. I started off with the asking of three questions: Who was the president of United States? Wriat was the U.S. capital? How many states are there? I answered them thus; Truman.

Washington. 48. Then I asked the Geneva College students these questions: who is Canada's prime minister; what is our capital; and how many provinces have we got? The capital of course was easy this time, since my introducer made it plain I came from "Ottawa the Capital of Canada." But on the other two, these Kinsmen Free Chest X-Ray Survey for Tuberculosis SPECIAL NOTICE Kinsmen Chest Clinics WILL NOT OPERATE Friday Morning, Nov. 11th Due to the observance of Armistice Day. The Clinics will resume operation in the afternoon at 2 p.m.

PLEASE BRING APPOINTMENT CARDS Keep Your X-Ray Appointment to Fight T.B.! tention whatever to that phase. United States, the Americans spent in Canada a per capita total of $10 in round figures. It seemed to nettle some when I suggested that it wasn't much. They wanted if you are a passenger. But I was also invited to go up into the cupola, and from aloft I took in the sweet air of Peoria till we crossed the river and over into Peoria Yards.

I have a feeling that I am not making enough of this trip, but I wanted to save space for a few lines about the railway itself. It picks up a lot of freight from the Santa Fe at Lomax, and hustles it through to the Pennsylvania at Effner, Illinois. Thus highball freight avoids the inevitable delays of the congested Chicago terminals, and the TP and makes a good thing out of this short cut. Conductor Dilley told me that he took out the first train after the strike, and that due to slow orders over the rusty and long disused rails, he averaged six miles an hour over his run. He was out about 16 hours.

Today they do it in less than four hours. My second trip was delightful. tried to concentrate on what might be called urban phases of Canada. Few of the Americans think of us the post, she accepted. So today this lovely woman with her prematurely gray hair "presidences" over the destinies of hundreds of young ladies.

Russell Rosenbur-ger, chairman of the speakers' committee, said my talk on Canada was what the student needed and as a country, having cities over a the aggregate figure, which of course would Indicate that million people are being compared with 12,000,000 (before million like Montreal, and Just under a million like Toronto. The burgh area of steel and coal, a dull paralysis seems to be over the land. Night threw charitable mantle over the scene, and it wsn't too long a time before that dark patch across the river indicated that we were close to Canada, the land where there is no light at night. emphasis should be our cities, our manufactures, or mode of life, our universities, and the kind of civilization we have. A cross section of far too many U.

S. minds shows Canada as a land of moose, backwoods, Indians. Mounties, and the Dionnes. It will take a lot of lec Confederation with Newfoundland.) Even at that, I think I could get figures to show that our spending in United States is enormous compared to theirs with us. The 800 students were eager I hoped he is right.

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