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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1955-02-09, Page 3He• .Believed In isles The Story Of A famous .Author • FRONT TUFA Grand is the hIsterY of the Fifth Royal Inniskilling Dra- goon Guards. In case you are not up on these things, a dra.., goon is a cavalryman; and in the last three centuries the Fifth Inoiskillings In scarlet, green and silver have charged across, many a battle-field as though it were not more than a parade ground, The regiment, hOwever, has not had a hOrse for almost 20 years. These days its 70Q men are stationed on the Yorkshire moors with 45 Centurion tanks. But time, should not be allowed to change things that way be- lieves its commander, Col. Richard DeC. Vigors. Sp he Is ,-,,urging his men to devote their spare time to fox hunting. Horse troops, you know, must not forget horses. But here's a bit of difficulty. No matter how well it thinks of them, the War Office does not issue, horses with tanks, A ne- glected polo fund, however, has been used to buy eight hand- some steeds and a , few more ' have been borrowed. The 700 will have to take their turn, but that's just a bit of austerity which an Englishman takes in his stride. Also most of the men have never worn a scarlet jac- ket„ let alone a pink coat. But, for the time being they will make do with a tank man's overalls, even if a bit grease- stained. The big thing is that regimental tradition. is being honored again. The Fifth In- niskillings are mounted once more. Ah, there will always be an England. — St. Louis Post-Dis- patch. REPULSIVE DRIVER NO. 1: The egotist thinks the world re. waves around him,,Cartoons are from AAA's "Sportsman, like Driving.° Rate your own °accident proneness" by scoring per- OW zero to Die ea, the following habits: ( ) I boast of breaking traffic laws. ( ) I race with drivers on the highway. ) break a traffic law on a dare. ) I demand the right-of-way Whether I need it or not. ' ) I beat everyone away from the stop-light. (, ) I show my dust to smaller and older care. If you score yoUrself zero you're a geed driver. Up to six points makes you a repulsive driver. Six to 12 points makes you a repulsive' driver who% be dead within six months. Over 12 points means you should have been a deed repulsive driver six months ago and are just living en borrowed tinie. fishing Sunday school texts, And it was accepted, Neither Douglas nor the publishers ex. pected large sales, and they didn't even bother to sign A contract. No one even expeeted the initial edition of 2,500 cop. ies to be sold out, and no. .at tempt was made to interest the general fiction reading public it. The first edition sold more rapidly than had been antic.... pate& So a second edition of 1,500 was printed. A went in luL time. So did it third edition of 5,000. The sales snowballed at an astonishing rate. Orders began .to flood in. The small publishing firm couldn't cope, There was One period when every member of the firm, from managing-' director down to the office boy, working right into 'the early hours of the night, struggling to the books out. In the end the task proved too much, and the printing rights had to be farm- ed out, -Sales went up and up and up, until they topped the two-mil- lion mark, and at no time was there any from of advertising or publicity. Readers discovered the book for themselves. The Middle-aged clergyman became famous. Other novels flowed from his pen, many of which were filmed. "The Robe" provided one of the oddest quirks of all to the Lloyd Douglas story. „ He was' paid $75,000 for the film rights on it before he had even com- pleted the story, and when the picture was first visualized, Douglas and the producers agreed on the form its treat- ment should take. "We have agreed," Douglas announced, "that 'The Robe', shall be Made as an intimate picture." If only he could have seen how it fi- nally reached the screen! As with the publication of "Magnificent Obsession," it looked for a long time as though "The Robe" might never reach the screen. Production was orig- inally planned for 1944, but it• was postponed at least a dozen times. Three different directors were signed for it. The purchas- ing studio eventually sold the rights to 20th Century-Fox, and the film was not made until after Douglas' death. Douglas was so disgusted with the way Hollywood treated him over this picture that lie ,stipu- lated that' his next novel, "The Big Fisherman," was never -to be filmed, broadcast or serial- ized. Which, in some ways, is a pity, because many people consider it to be the best of his novels. Lloyd C. Douglas: died on February 13th, 1901, in a LOP Angeles hospital, and almost the last thing he did was to tell a funny story to the hospital or- odxerylge n y w ho his whled bedside, atank of H 1 aste avvriclas a the story-teller ost at °grtehaet novelist when heart trouble took him, off at the age of seventy-thre wasn't e. until he was fifty-two that he wrote his first novel. He had been a clergYnlan up till that time, Swift fame came to him as a novelist, and it is rather ironical that, since his death, his fame has spread even farther. The sheer chance that his book, "The Robe," should be chosen as the first film to be made in Cinema- Scone brought his „„„name into focus. Now filmgoers can see an- other of his books on the screen, with the general release of "Magnificent Obsession." It fe the second time this story has been filmed, It was produced for the first time in 1937, with. Irene Dunne as the feminine star, and It turned Robert Tay- lor into a leading dramatic act- or. Jane Wyman and Rock Hud- son play these roles in the new productipn. Lloyd Douglas wrote roman- tic stories about miracles. This, no doubt, was because he was a man who believed in miracles. But his own story was as ro- mantic as anything he ever wrote. It was extraordinary from start to finish, and "Mag- nificent Obsession" was the most dramatic chapter in it. He had written articles and texts before this, but he hail never theught of writing fic- tion. He had two reasons for writing "Magnificent Obses- sion." One was to amuse him- self. while taking a holiday. The other was the hope that it might earn him a little• money. He needed the money badly enough. As a clergyman, he had always found it difficult to make both ends' meet, especially with a wife and two children. His daughters recollect his once re- marking: "If you are ever cue ions to know what kind of a place hell is, accumulate a mis- cellaneous assortment of un- paid bills!" His hope was more' than ful- filled. "Magnificent Obsession" earned him a fortune and turn- ed him, into one of America's highest-paid writers. How the novel came to be written is a story in itself. It began when he read a news- paper report of a doctor who died from a heart attack when the machine which he always kept handy in case of such at- tacks was being used to revive a drunken playboy who 'had fal- len into a lake. Douglas based a sermon on this report. He then wrote up the sermon as an essay under the cumber- some title of "Personality Ex- pansion Through Self-Invest- ment in Philantropic Rehabili- tation of Other People's Lives." Which was not exactly a best- selling title! When he wrote his novel, using the theme as a plot, he first of all called it "Salvage," and it was not until it was accepted for publication that it became "Magnificent. Obses- sion." was rejected by publisher aftIetr published. One top pub- lisher sent it baCk with the comment that it possessed a great message, but that its fic- tional value was negligible, An- other equally eminent publish- er turned it down because he didn't like the message, al- thought ,he though the story value was good. Eventually, in desperation, Douglas sent the book to a small' firm, Willet, Clark and Colby, which specialized in pub- proved, by selective breeding, and by elimination frOm the flock of birds producing poor quality eggs. * • « Great Actress Pays First Theatre Visit TEMPER! TEMPER! Over-emotional drivers who lose their tem- pers lack presence of mind in emergencies, are accident prone.• Due to the unprecedented wet Weather during late summer and at harvest time last year, there will be a drastic shortage of good quality seed eats, red clo- ver and, alfalfa in most Cana- dian provinces this year, says a well-known expert. 4. 4, 4, Weather conditions were par- ticularly bad in. Quebec and it is estimated that close, to one- third of the province's require- ments or nearly 1,000,000 bushels of seed oats may have to come from outside the province to provide for normal planting. Supplies of registered, seed will be much below normal in the Maritimes, Ontario and western. Canada with Alberta being par- ticularly hard hit. 4. 4, 4. Since this year's harvest will depend in no small measure on the quality of seed grown this spring, farmers with good qual- ity oats are urged to clean their supplies early and avoid feeding of any oats of good. commercial `seed grade. • * * Production of alfalfa and red clover seeed in Canada in 1954 fell, much below the 1953 level. Alfalfa seed production was re- duced by 70 per cent ,and red clover by 65 ,per cent. "". To ensure the best possible results from this year's seed, more widespread treatment of both grain and clover seed with proper seed disinfectants' is re- commended, also giving more attention to the fertility needs of existing meadows and pas- tures next fall to compensate for the pending reduction in new seedings resulting from short- age of clover peed. * * E g g quality is affected by heredity as Well as the feeding and environment during produc- t-ft= even though the major cause of poor quality eggs on the consumer table is poor han- dling practices after the egg is produced. Are YOU In This Contest? The Prize Is Highway Death! * * • The breeding .behind a flock is an important factor in deter- mining the quality of eggs at the time they are laid. For- tunately both the shell and in- terior egg quality can be im- World Convention Churches Of Christ "2. Test drivers for certain mental and emotional weakness- es before' they have accidents. "3. Show individuals how to recognize and correct traits in themselves that cause, accidents." On the other hand, AAA claims, if you're not the type to qualify for the "repulsive • driv- er" contest, you probably possess the qualities usually found in top-notch drivers. In that case you accept re- sponsibility. You have self-control. You show good sportsmanship. You display forethought. You control your attention. You show good judgment. You have a good sense of hu- mor. Plans for the fifth. World Con- vention of Churches of Christ, to be held in Toronto from Aug. 16th to 21st and which will be attended by representatives of 30 nations, were discussed re- ce,ntly at a dinner meeting in the hall of Hillcrest Church of Christ in Toronto. Dr. Jesse M, Bader, General Secretary, New York, told the gathering it was anticipated more than 12,000 delegates would be registered. Prinie objective of the con- vention is to bring about a greater unity, of the church and to enlarge and enhance a fra- ternity of World Brotherhood, All genera*1 sessions of the con- vention 'will be held at Maple Leaf Gardens. Features will in- clude a mixed choir of 500 voices, a pageant of flags as a tribute to the various nations represented, addresses and dis- cussions by world leaders and a world communion- service. 4 By DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA. Staff Correspondent Will you be "Mister Repulsive of the Road for 1955?" It's ridiculously easy to get in on this great contest which was so popular in 1954. Just observe the following simply, rules, and if your men- tality is warped in this direction improvise from there: 1. -Be the complete egotist. Cut in close after passing. Never signal when stopping. Park double. Use "pull" to fix a traf- fic ticket. 2. Be the show-off. Prove to everyone on the road how much horsepower your car has. Pass all possible cars on hills to prove how lucky you are. Go through red lights with a gay "air of bravado. 3. Be over-emotional. Lack , presence of mind in emergen- cies. Lose your temper with any driver who challenges your right to the middle of the road? Cuss out traffic officers. 4. Be a rationalizer. Figure out how every other driver is wrong but you. Explain why all traf- fic signs are wrong. Tell your- self that speed limits are for the other guy, not you, 5. Never be thwarted. Get even with drivers who pass you. Make pedestrians jump for safe- ty. Beat a guy into a parking place which he found before you. IT IS BIG — This young Pariiienne seems fascinated by the size of this boot, used by 18th Century mounted mail car- riers. It's part of a postal ex- hibit in Paris. A good team of Arctic sled dogs, pushed by an expert driv- er, can cover 100 miles a day with a light load. "He was expecting you—he' just left!" PIN PAL—Craig Steen, 7, has no bowling pins to spare as he strikes it rich in a give-away program at a !oral bowling al: ley. So many takers showed up for souvenir used pins that three moving vans were needed tia Move in more replacements for the 50,000-pin give-away. . . WINTER'‘ . TOY4Oakitig like a toy Village ono waulei.expect to ski by. the side of a boy's model rafted layout, thirds. actually a few, homes and an auto storage 'lot in Fort. Scott; Kan., buried 06440'4E. Inches.of.Inli*: NatIOnal tiard troops were called out to dig out Fort ScOlt in the Wile, if ielttit"weitherrneticall the, 'molt 004 storm to hit the area in yedeii , * * * Beauty of this contest IS that every conscientious entrant can be a winner. The prize, natural- ly, is glorious death on the road: Your family and any number of innocent by-standers might be prize-winners along with you. ' As a bonus you'll be immor- tally enshrined as a traffic sta- tistic for 1955. Last year there were 36,000 winners. Will we beat it this year? These charming personality characteristics which give a person a head-start toward hav- ing an autoniobile accident have been isolated by the Anierican Automobile Association and are revealed in a brand new edition of the book "Sportsmanlike Driving." It explains: "The psychologist, the physi- cian, the' Itidge, the traffic en-. Omer; and the enforcement offi- cial .have all been• studying what it is in, a person's make-up that gets him into traffic troubles. It found that some drivers.. are hind-I:Mere likely than others tO accidents: They are balled 'accident-prone.' Their wrong at- titudeS . and their. eiriotiondi Weaknesses make, them bad risks ,at driven;" The book makes these recoin.. ,mendationi on" &AV to, handle such People: "1. Sott out iceident-prone drivers' and' revoke their driVing privileges until their Weakniasee 'are corrected. TRUCK WITH MANY .USES—This is d cfraWing'af a new eXperirrterital.trUck created by General McitOri. The 011-purpoSe delivery truck, with a 1 8 O-horiepoWer engine, Will be called "C'Univerpelle." According cOmpany officials it can easily be Converted into a bus taxi,` station. Wagon or spertiman's car. It is ten inchei lower and ten inches shorter than Current' pcinel delivery trucks, yet greater capacity: A piMorcimic wildshield 4 one of the many .paSierigo-rfiatures of the unit. Part Of truck's ,sichiebackgioiinil,°Catihe 'Opened foe lOading, How Repulsive a Driver Are You? Putting The Cavalry flack On Horses Feed is the most important faetior affecting egg quality dur- ing produetion. Variations in the quality of feed results in varia- tions in egg quality. Work con- ducted at Nappan has shown that feeds high in oils are par- ticularly objectionable since the oily taste of the feed is fre- quently imparted to the egg. Ex- cess feeding of fish liver oil may result in eggs with a fishy taste. Other quality factors such as albumen height, yolk colour, and blood and meat spots, are also affected by the feed. The colour of the yolk can be varied from light to dark, depending on the amount of pigment in the ration. A large quantity of corn or cereal grass in the ration will result in dark coloured yolks. An excess of highly col- oured feed such as grass, may result in yolks of such dark col- our as to be unacceptable to the consumer, * * The environment of the lay- ing hen is invariably reflected in 'egg quality. Hens kept in clean surrounding& with lots of fresh air, water, and good feed, will produce eggs of better qual- ity than hens kept in a ,dirty environment, lacking clean wa- ter and forced to forage for their food. The consumption of dirty, decaying food• is reflected in poor quality a n d off-flavour eggs. • ° • Most poor quality eggs pro- duced as a result of poor breed- ing and feeding are removed in the grading and candling pro- cess. Poor quality eggs reach- ing the consumer's table are generally the result of poor han- dlinet after „the eggs• are pro- duced. Failure to cool eggs pro- perly and keep them under re- frigeration, is the major cause of loss of quality from the nest to the' table. Eggs •held in an unfavourable environment tend to become watery, with soft spreading albuthen, flat yolks and stale odours. • My first play! It was an epoch in my life, of course, but it was a rare adventure, too. My small brother and I for some mis- conduct had been condemned to „ the coal 'cellar and its door was locked. . . . Meanwhile my brother climbed on top of the heap of coal and, using the shovel, pushed up the lid of the coal hole which opened on to the pavement. I ran to his as- sistance. As much inflamed by a sense of injury as I, he pro- posed that we escape into the outside world. He helped''me up first and, then, by the aid of acrobatics, emerged himself. Now we were free, my brother suggested that we go to the theatre. Through dealings in bottles, rags and old paper, he had the price of admission, so off we dashed hand in hand to see Madame Morlacchi in The French Spy. Breathless we reached the theatre and bought two gallery seats for ten cents each. . . • For me these days were a time of fruitless Yearning. I never knelt down to say my prayers that I did not pray for books, for, opportunities• — that I did not' long for, beauty and romance. I have read lately that some practical people wish to eliminate fairly tales from chil- dren's reading. Ah, never do that, whoever you may be, but let a child's fancy roam at will through wonderland. I was a child . whose dark days and nights were gilded by visions, whose drab life was filled With colora of the rainbow and' whis- pera from the stars. . . , Then- one day, as if 'in answer to my prayers,' a' book agent came to our house in Cincinnati. His wares consisted of a family Bible, copiously illustrated, 'and - a large volume of Shakespeare with engravings Of many cele- brated actors and actresses tin' their best-known roles, My mother bought the Bible. But I had opened the Shake- speare and seen the portraits of Fanny Keinble as Isabella in Measure for **MecistCre, Edwin Forrest in the character: of Richard III, 'and Barry Sullivan as Hattlet, with the Ghost in the background. fervently, I promised my mother I would wash more dishes and Make mare' beds and help hard- er with all the housework if only I could have that book of Shakespeare, We CoMprernisect the.thatter On, My Mother's ef- ter, "We'll let .your twenty-fife dents a Week- allowance be the Weekly,installinerit paid On the book." To that I joyfully agreed- Sacrificing MY Weekly ptirehtta aS Of lellipepp. And so I Caine by Vitt 'Shakespeare. . Whenever I 'had a Moment free froin school' heiirg ancriny' tasks, I reed' the tilitYS, the garret MY reading reel* and refuge. While i:inade bede and shook out the Pillowa, I deelaiined .the beautiful Veld- t! Froth: "jitlia Marl6WeA Story," by K H. Setters. Edited by Fairfait 156WheY,.