four fine Canadians is fitted to be
something plus a sailor. And they get
along together not because they have
to, but because they are the kind of
men who would make a success of
living anyway. They love life, and
respect their neighbors.

Up and down the Other Side of
the Island there is nobody who is
not their neighbor. And in nine cases
out of ten—rather should I say in
nine hundred and ninety-nine cases
out of a thousand—that unspectacular
name “P.M.L. 16” is spoken with the
admiration usually reserved for a
family favorite. The four men I have
told you about are welcomed in the
homes of the West Coast as regular
callers who have long been friends.
The fact that they happen to be
Mounties hardly occurs to anyone.
And that, when you think about it, is
no small tribute to the Royal Cana-
dian Mounted Police. * *%

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Page Fifty-four

SIXTY SECONDS FOR KISS—
THEN “TIME PLEASE!”

Americans in Britain on holiday
this year have complained about the
difficulty of getting a drink just when
they want one, and of the by-laws
which say that certain articles must
not be sold after a certain time, or
on a Sunday.

They refer to the freedom of the
citizens in America. But after a study
of some of the by-laws enforced in
American towns, there’s a lot to be
said for the freedom of the British
Isles, says an article in the Royal
Ulster Constabulary Gazette.

“For instance, if you were a woman
living in Huntsville, a town in Ala-
bama, you would never be allowed
to set foot inside any billiard-room—
there is a by-law against it.

There is a by-law in Cartersville,
Georgia, which says that any man
wishing to drink beer in his own home
must be seated before he does so,
otherwise he can be heavily fined.

“Freedom! Here a man can still
please himself whether he stands up
or sits down to drink his beer.

“If you lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
you would have to kiss your girl friend
good-night inside her home and not
at the garden gate, for it is against the
law in that town to kiss anyone out-
side for longer than a minute—either
one kiss or a number.

“A policeman seeing a couple kiss-
ing is empowered to time them, and
after sixty seconds they can be sum-
moned on the spot.

PHOTO BY BILL MCCUSKER

Courtenay R.C.M.P. honored radioman Constable A. H. Muskett prior to his departure for

the Winnipeg detachment. Cst. Muskett was presented with a plaque and a traveling bag.

From left: Cpl. Peter Smith, head of the detachment, Cst. D. H. Ashbee, Cst. Muskett,

Magistrate George Pidcock, Cst. C. E. Ennalls, detachment secretary Mavis Graham, Cst.
Cst. Harry Bonner, Cst. G. A. Pelton.

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“At Anchorage, Alaska, they have
a carnival which lasts several days
every year, and it is a law that any
man who appears in public during
that period without a beard can be
charged with indecent exposure.

“If you have a mean nature you
will approve of the law operating in
Illinois which makes it an offence for
any man to offer his cigarettes to any-
one.

“And how would people react to-the
one in Topeka, Kansas, which makes
it an offence to walk through the
streets at night-time without having
a red light attached to your back.”

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