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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1955-07-27, Page 3It began when Harold If Herd Ernst saw an ancient cannon in a West. Coast, museum. The instrument engineer decided then and there to make a miniature of it from metal. lie did, and ever since has been building, 'shooting and selling what he calls the "world's smallest real cannon." Public demand has turned his hobby into a business. kle's even had to supply kits for hobby shops, OPPORTUNITIES FOR MIN AND,: , WOMEN SPEED QUEEN — Fleet - footed Mrs. P. Perkins doesn't worry about male Wolves. She can Outrun most of them. 'The Bri- tish housewife is pictured'cibove, winning the two4nile team race. in the Ladies Inter-Club Athletic meet at London. Her time of 11:27.2 set a women's record for the distance. END DUST, with CALCIUM CHLOBIBB MECHANICAL SPREAD= Available For Large Areas The Toronto Salt Works Limited 196 Eastern Ave., Toronto BE. A HAIRDRESSER 40IN CANADA'S 44A4ING 1$01901- Great Opportunity Learn Hairdressing Piga:lent, dignified PrOleseicno good wages. ThoUsanda of atieeeSsfld - Marvel graduates; America's Greatest System Illustrated catalogue Free write or Cali EVE'. stamnaessiNG SCRUMS, 358 Bloor St. W; Terellte Branches:, 44 King St., riainnten 12 Rideau St., Ottawa PA TENTS PERSONAL $1,00 rR1AL offer. rwenty-five deluxe, personal requirements. • Latest cata- logue Included, The Medico Agency., Box 124, Terminal "a" Toronto Ont. rEACHER5 WANTED °SUDBURY DISTRICT" Two new mod, ern two.room schools, 4 miles from Sudbury require princiPnls ogractes 4.6e approximately 30 pupils each. Salary in accordance with qualifica- tions. Duties to commence in Sep- tember 1955. Please send applications to Mrs. D, R, Forbes, Box 315, SudburY, Ont." — • WANTED; A qualified. Protestant teacher for• 1955.58 term. Salary $1,300.00. Apply to: Lester Draper, Sec.-Treas., R.R,2, Graccfield Que. 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Reconditioned and ready for use. Prices reasonable, satisfaction guaran- teed. We deliver, Ralph E. Shantz, Alma Ontario, Phone Drayton 607R23, MEDICAL SATISFY YOURSELF — EVERY SUFFERER OF RHEUMATIC PAINS OR NEURITIS SHOULD TRY DIXON'S REMEDY MUNRO'S DRUG STORE, 335 Elgin, Ottawa $1.25 Express Prepaid POST'S ECZEMA, SALVE BANISH the torment of dry eczema rashes and weeping skin troubles. Post's Eczema Salve will not disap- point you. Itching scaling and burn- ing eczema acne, ringworm, • pimples and foot eczema will respond readily to the stainless, ordorless ointment, regardless of bow stubborn or hopeless they seem. POST'S REMEDIES PRICE $2.50 PER JAR Sent Post Free on Receipt of Price. 869 Queen St. E., Corner of Logan. TORONTO Dying Wishes Can Be Costly "When I die I want you to bring me here!" So said the pretty Scots girl as she spun around an Edinburgh dance hall to the dreamy strains of a waltz. And when she fell desperately ill she made her husband prom- ise to scatter her ashes at the spot where he had romantically proposed to her—On the floor of the Palais. Gruesome, maybe! But it was truly the last waltz when the young man turned up ' at the dance-hall with a casket—and duly scattered his wife's ashes on the gleaming floor while the organist played "I'll Walk Beside You!" An Australian rancher express- ed a last wish to have his ashes scattered from the air over the land he owned and loved. A friend who ran an air-taxi, Mr. Stanley Porter, of Brisbane, per- formed this last rite . . . and took his two sons with him on the trip: It was a dying wish that brought death—for the 'plane crashed and Porter and one of his sons was killed. When Francis Covell, the New York painter, expressed a wish to have his ashes shot from a gun on a hilltop overlooking his home, there were technical dif- ficulties. The family comprom- ised by attaching the ashes' to. coloured balloons, which were then shot down! In Rome Fannie Lepetit di- rected that she should be buried with all her jawellery and she went to the tomb—a vault with steel doors—with $300,000 worth. But since then there have been so many 'alarms of midnight in- trudes at the cemetery that the police are demanding Fannie should be exhumed' and the jeweli returned to her family. ,Sentimental eccentrics have asked "to be 'buried With family photographs, sheets of music and even tape recordings. su% mutt* itstautstats 14,777 Canadians were ern—, ployecl as butchers or meat cut- ters in 1.951,'an itiereaSe of more than 889e Over the 9,485 in this occtinatieti -iii 1931. Cohen's customers rub the cor- ners off 90,000 pairs of dice a year, at $1.50 the pair. It costs about $19,000 a day to operate the Sands. The slots are to the Sands casino what a bargain base- ment is to Macy's, clanking out dependable $20,000 weekly gross. The payoff, Cohen says, runs about 35 per cent. Only the slots can be adjusted but the casino has little to fear from its other gambling gad- gets. At the crap table, the house has a 1.41 per cent edge; "21" favors the house by 4 to 5 per cent; the roulette wheels by a little over .5 per cent. SEES SEA DAVY — A seagoing Davy Crockett. That's what 7- year-old Bart Howard found at the Maritime Museum in San - Francisco. Young Bart's hero was the figurehead on a clipper ship named for the King of the Wild Frontier. Ai Earlier Ballad Of Davy Crockett The present vogue Of "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" remids the student of balladry that this bet the first time Davy Crockett has been romanticized and wide- ly Sting in popular song. A hun- dred years ago or more, another .-song about him was going the rounds, another "Ballad of Davy Crockett," a piece still alive in tradition in the South and West, where' versions of it have been recovered in West Virginia, Ken- tucky, Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas. It all began with a blackface minstrel song called "Pompey Smash, " a name popular enough in the 1840's to be parodied by Old Dan Emmett as "Pompey O'Sniash," with a bow in the direction a" the stage Tristan's,* In thit blustitering piece Of mite. steel horseplay, Pompey' Smash, like Davy Crockett, is a "nrind- Pia statesman" who, without his head, weighs half a tan. He is ,hi'egrOlninstrel parody 011 ' Davy Crockett and the myth Of. . the fire-eating frOntiersrnan. This ininstrel song _deals with - three of Davy dreekettl folk exploits, all recorded In the; ptib. -11c prints of the 1830'S. •and " 1840's, One. describes the thythes 101101 battles Davy had With ,MISSISSippi boatmen. When he OLtCHI Waldo Corthes thOeiriii even clinCh his fists as a Afolkii wcioori Cinin 'rUtii Over his pilloW,OOVered ,head in Wiesbaden,. Germany: Of course,-a Volkswagen is not the biggest car EirOind, but Wauld yoU like to fey thii trick? locked horns with these crgters, he yelled seven times as )ouch ns a whole drove of Injuns:aalshis eyes stuck out two inches( like the Irish champion Cuchulain's in his battle rage. The second incident rose out of Davy's reputed discovery that he could• grin a coon out of a tree, and thus save powder and lead. One night he attempted to grin a 'coon out of one of the highest limbs of an old tree. He grinned but nothing happened. Frustrated, he went back to his house, got an ax, cut down the tree, only to find that the coon was not a coon but a knot in the branch. He felt a little bet- ter when he discovered he had grinned all the bark off the branch. The third bit of business took place when he was campaigning for his seat in Congress. He went down to Hay Hollow, caught an alligator, bridled him With a bridle of panther hides, and then got on his back and rode him up to Bear Clearing, right to the 'stump where the other candidate was speaking, The other candidate left in a hurry, and t h e votes were Davy's. ' In the natural courses of folk- lore, folk incidents like these could have gone directly into a folk ballad of Davy Crockett. But they didn't. A minstrel man got in between the incidents and the ballad. Out of these inci- dents he made a minstrel song, in which a Negro named Pom_ pey Smash meets Crockett, watches him attempt to grin down a coon, and fights with him when Crockett fails because the coon is made of wood. The epic fight results in a draw and Porn- pey goes on to other adventures with fallen stars and an alligator. In turn, the folk straightened the minstrel man's satire, turned his parody into a folk ballad, started a shift in the emphasis of the ballad from Pompey Smash to Davy Crockett, where, of course, it had been originally, Out of this minstrel song, the folk imagination made the first ballad of Davy Crockett, The folk extracted the single main incident of the coda eniSode and consequent fight, and dropped out the less interesting material, as time and transmission have cut and concentrated many a ballad before this One. The folk also worked over the punch couplet, full of the exag- geration beloved of those who exploited the frontier, until it emerged in this, its most concen- trated and effective version, from Arkansas: Come to s'ai'ch heads, both heads was rnissin', He'd bit off my head, an' I had swallered his'n It was this memorable couplet that made the incident, the min- strel song, and the ballad. THREE TIMES AS MANY SAWYERS Iii the 20 years between 1931 and 1951 the number of saw- yers in Canada tripled from 4,- 124 to 13,257. MERRY MENAGERIE "My Wife Weighs the seine tti the day I married her Skeet* I,y one ten!"' He Gets a Bang "' Baseball's Best-Known Screwballs CLASSIFIED ADVERT SING Harold Herd checks the scale of one of his tiny cannon. His working miniatures 't a n g e from 15th Century French bombards to the ear-splitting Rodman gup of the Civil'War. The "little big shots" can be fired just like a real cannon. Powder, paper wad and ball are rammed into the muzzle and the charge is touched off with a smouldering punk, They have amazed artillerymen with their accuracy. One-inch bulls-eye's at 200 yards are commonplace. Two of Herd's cannon are beiug fired at targets in above photo. there's something in my shoe." He sat down, removed the shoe, and shook out two tees, There was the spring when. Clark Griffith took his Washing- ton team to, camp in charlottes- Ville, Virginia, and made each player deposit; all his money in the hotel safe on arrival, This was to protect them against temptation, Confident that none of his heroes was able to buy his way into trouble, Gruff was prepar- ing for tranquil rest one even- ing when, musing ,at his win- dow, he saw two men tottering out of the hotel under a weighty burden. He recognized Eddie Ainsmith, his catcher, and a playmate toting the safe away in a quest of a cracksman, There was also, in fairly re- cent times, a feur-eyed pitcher named Walter (Born-Boom) Beck whose earnestness was not always matched by his effec- tiveness on the mound. He was working for Brooklyn in. Phila- delphia's Baker Bowl, a tiny playground whose tin-faced right field fence resounded res- onantly when batsmen like Chuck Klein or Lefty O'Doul flogged line drives against it. Hack Wilson; playing right field for the Dodgers, had de- voted the previous evening to pursuits of his own taste, and was hung over like a poste- cochere. He grasped and heaved and floundered chasing down hits that ricocheted off the wall. Max Carey, the Brooklyn man- ager, made several visits to the mound to suggest that Beck re- linquish his place to a, relief, pitcher, but each time Boom- Boom begged for and was grant- ed another chance. Bang! went the line drives. Boom! And Wilson huffed and puffed and panted in pursuit. Again Carey called time, and Hack took- a breather, feet wide, hands on knees head hanging low as he sucked in deep breaths. Firmly this time, Carey told Beck he was through. • In furious protest, the pitcher flung' the' ball away, toward right field. Where Gambling Is Big Business The late Uncle Wilbert Iteb, „Inson's Brooklyn Dodgers (call- ed the Robins then) had been taking their spring exercises in Jacksonville, Florida, for some- thing like three weeks when a rookie inquired idly ef his roommate, "Hey, what's the ;seine of this town, anyhow?" "you mean to tell me," the roommate demanded, "that you been here all this time and 0111 know what town you're in? Or gosh sakes, don't let Robie hear you say something like. that." "Who's Robbie?" the rookie asked, "They don't have characters like that in baseball these days," Old-timers often complain, wist- fully and inaccurately. "The game 'hasn't got the color it used to have." Fact is, the harle- quins and gowks and chowder- heads are still with us, and probably as numerous as they ever were. Trouble is, there are nO Ring Larclners or Charley Drydens to make them memor- able in prose. After all, there never has been more than one Rube Wad- dell or Ossie Schreckengost at a time. (It was Waddell whose contract provided, at his room- mate's insistence, that he must not eat crackers in bed, and it was Schreck, the . roommate, who once nailed a steak to the hotel dining room wall in elo- quent criticism of the delicacy.) Over the years, the zanies and characters have come along in single file, and they're still corn- hig. Before the 1955 season, is done, there'll be tales told about some worthy inheritor of the cap and bells worn successively by Waddell, Bugs Raymond, Van Lingle Mungo, Dizzy Dean, Bobo Newscim and, if you like, , Yogi Berra,, writes Red Smith hi "Home and Highway." Perhaps the most imaginative raconteur of them *, all was. Harry Steinfeldt, infielder with the old Reds and Cubs, though that claim may be disputed by anybody who has had a dish of tea recently with 'Al Schacht or Lefty Gomez. Steinfeldt told admiringly of a second baseman in the Texas League who was spiked making , the putout on an attempted steal. He limped about' for a moment, resumed play. He han- dled every fiding chance fault- lessly, `made' a home run, a double and two singles in four times at bat. He and Steinfeldt started off the field together after the game. "Wait a minute," said.the second baseman. "Feels like Hack heard it slam the tin wall behind. him. He lifted his head, wheeled-in panic, scooped' up the ball on first bounce and fired to second base = the best throw he had made all day. We still have 'em — the Becks and Wilsons, Steinfields and- Waddells -.but it requires --a little time to appreciate them.. It was only last fall, for ex- ample, that some of the news- papermen covering the World 'Series heard from. Branch Rickey, Jr., what it's like to be the employer of one of these baseball whacks. A newspaperman had been recounting how Branch' Rickey, Sr., who could give William -Jennings Bryan twenty pounds and outdo him in persuasive eloquence, had been talked to the edge of despair in a' wage discussion with a rookie named • Dizzy Dean. Young Branch chuckled. "I wonder if that was the same day a little thing happen- ed at, home," he said. "I was still a young fellow. Dad came home for dinner one night and he wasn't like himself, He was always a handy man with a ' knife and fork, you know, but this night he just picked at his food and he kept muttering over -his plate. "I ' heard • him say, 'But I'm an intelligent man.' I said, 'What did you say, dad?' But he kept talking to him self. 'I know I am," he said. 'That's what worries me.' I said, 'Huh?' but he went on to him- self. "'I'm as intelligent • as the next man,' he said. 'Why, I'm a Doctor -of-Jurisprudence, I read, 'I think, I discuss weighty mat- ters with great men. I know I'm intelligent, but—' "'Listen,' I said, 'what's go- ing on, anyhow?' The old man slammed his palm down on the table and all the dishes jumped. "'But he said, 'I spend five hours talking to a Dizzy Dean!" ONLY FOR DUMMIES — Looks like an amusement park high- ride, but it's something the bravest thrill-seeker would hesitate to tackle. It's a dum-' my-occupied ejection 'seat which was displayed at the recent Paris, France, air:show to dem= onstrate*power behind the blast that hurls a pilot from a crip- pled jet plane.' it's for real-life , use only in emergency. IT MAY BE' YOUR LIVER Gambling on race horses, in the considered judgment of the Arkansas Supreme Court, is a game of skill. Gambling in gen- eral, in the opinion of Carl Co- hen, casino manager of the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, Nev., "is a business pure and simple. We sell a chance to win money." Crowded bingo parlors in New Jersey, jam-packed horse and dog tracks all over the U.S,, the eager groups around the Reno slot machines and 'crap tables, Were sure evi- dence this week that Anieri- cans—skiliful, greedy, or both —were ready, willing, and able to buy a chance to win money. The stakes are staggering. \Last year 30 million hungry horse players pushed: between $2 billion and $2.5 billion through the thutuel windows. Besides the billions bet 'in the 24 - states where.' pari-mutuels • are in business, an estimated $3 to' $5 billion ,sinere, passed through the hands of bookmakers. The remarkable thing about the gambling dol- lar is its apparent indestructi- bility. The horse-player and slot-machine .fan were among the first to recover from the 1929. depression. The net (re- ceipts less payoffs) from pari- mutuel machines and slots had sunk to $10 million in 1932. The next year, it was $15 million and by 1941 it had soared- to $147 million. War fanned the fever, and by 1952 these two forms of gambling alone were netting $419 million. The 1929- 50 gain added up to a whopping 1,775 ' per cent for slot ma- chines, 2,330 per cent for horse racing. 'The fantastic rise is by no means due to the rapid growth of the Jaguar, and Dior set. Ac- cording to George. Gillett, op- erations director of the Ameri- ean Totalisator Co. of Balti- more, maker of the country's mutuel machines, per cent of the mutuel tickets bought are of the .$2 .variety. Those countless $2 bets (Gillett fi- gures it takes 200,000 to 250,- 000 wagers to add up to $1 million) are the ,tip-Off to the mass-market nature Of tOdly's gambling.. They also help ex-' plain the kindly attitude that more and more state' egislatOra are taking toward the sport of Gambling's newest El Dorado is, of Course, Las Vegas, whose inultimillion-d011ar temples of Chance stand as monuments tO the frailty of man's will. There is a race track, but it is .sel- dom used. - Soinehow, Nevada's visitors are more attracted by -the click . of dice, the -silent wheel, the sharp crack -of a card in expert hands. Last year '10 million travelers visited Les • Vegas; 7.5 Million stopped .:there —and bet about $50 million in the casino's. In essence, Nevada's gamb- ling industry 'fellows exactly the same ptincisial as, the Super- Market. The item tor sale, as the sand' Carl Cohen explainS, is inoriey, The" odds invariably` favor the house hence a litiilt4ri profit margin. All the Operator has ter •Ile is bring in traffic, The flashy dollar • hotels and $40,000-a-; Week: „entertainers attract the playets;:litiman nature and the TAW of !mirages do 'the rest. To handle its share -of' the freesflOWitig Money, 'the' 'Sands' must spend' freely. itself. 'It has five Crap tables '(at g cost of $1,100 each);• Six $400 "21" 100100,. three .roulette set-iipS ($1,700 enike), and. 102 slot triadliiriet Jranging franci $375 for the niakeh•eatera to $626 tor. the 'silver-dollar Variety), Carl rit it salty' bi your lit el 11611 iii.flario RP ii two pieta If hei NIA i de ' kelp yeaudivatiy• Wok hit Sop Hasikil II jtItrr liver bile le aol Soviet NINO four teed: leaf itrit Mien eteniielt 4, yea feel: 'constipated sad, a It* ter and 'epode to out of - *Ma III, Mod' mild reette Carter'S. . LIverfluti. TheiSfewrione v.eaetabla Pills help itheislate the lies -II liver bile; Borin-Yinz, dianatIon itertai funitiOnina Properly. and yin' I tliat happy days are her again, nee't 'of" a dunk. -Abratbi keep Carrrr'S 1,1111.r User Flits .0 hand. 870 at vein &mak •