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The Brussels Post, 1955-11-09, Page 7Some Odd Whims Of Will-Makers itaddsupto a lot when YOU to, around with, two OI three 111414r dred of theirs, The automobile association'‘ sugggestion that more time an ;Ingenuity be laut forth to deitLie vehicular safety gadgets shoukt be hailed from here to Pork.' land, Me, Three hundred hOr00- poWer will put man througk a windshield faster and farther than two hundred horsepower and these are the sort of re cords that we are splashing all over the front pages of our newspapers from coast to coast. The trend may be stylish, but it is alse pure murder, A safety belt here and a revised .dash- beard there, coupled with seine- what less "soup„ at the acceler- ator, could add many happy years of living to many people, In the meantime--,-at the risk of appearing stupid—we might, ask; why more horsepower? `,Chat is, unless we want our glistening Betsys to leap over walls from a standing start. And another thing—why not special driving tests for the people who, demand the higher horsepower? OarelaY Warren, KA I IBM. Jesus Teaches Bow to Live Luke 6: 37,38 Memory Selection; AS ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise Luke 6:31. "WATCH OUT FOR THE BOSS"—Three `secretaries" hustle through a mid,morning "coffee break" from the. Feline catering., service before hurrying back to business — mischief-making Curiosity may not always kill the cat, but ilmakes kittens prime subjects, for an alert phot ographer. 4 FAIR WARNING In our lesson Luke gives us part of the sermon of the mount which Matthew gave in greater. detail, Chapters 5-7, Luke gives other portions of this teaching in 11:9-13 and 12;22-33. Luke, writing especially for Greeks unacquainted with the Jewish law, does not give the portions where Jesus gave an Old Testa- ment quotation and then pro- ceeded to interpret it in the light of the Gospel. The command to "Love your enemies," seems impossible of fulfillment It cannot be kept by the natural man but it can be by the spiritual man, Jesus him- self set the example. He prayed 'for his enemies, as he hung upon the cross. Indeed he died for us all while we were yet sinners. So great was his love, The 'disciples of Jesus shared his love. As the enemies of Ste- phen gnashed on him with their teeth and then with loud shout- ing hurled stones upon him, he cried, "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge," Acts 7:60. Yes, the love• of Goa Shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost shines forth in love to •Our en- emies. With this love it is easy to keep the golden rule which is our Memory selection today. This is a, handy rule to carry and will help us in any specific situation. It makes for honesty and purity. It can be practised in the law courts, toci. On little thought One might think every criminal shoulld be let off. But, no, this would not' be good for the criminal who would only go from bad to worse were there no deterrent by' way of punish- ment. ItNwould not be goOd for Other potential, criminals nor society at large. The golden rule does not make for •softness. It Makes for righteousness. The way that' Jesus taught is practical. We' can only live it ,as we confess onr Sins• :and be- lieve on Him for on"- salvation. Down East In Potato Country_ A group of world leaders in the'Presbyterian Church met in Scotland for a conference and, on a warm summer's afternoon, went off to explore the beautiful. counutryside. Coming to a tem- porary bridge that spanned a swift-running stream, they start- ed confidently to cross it. When they were half way over, the bridge keeper suddenly appeared and hollered that the bridge had been declared unsafe. T he spokesman for the church party didn't quite hear the keeper's admonition and called back, "It's all right, my friend. We're Pres- byterians frciin the conference." The bridge keeper replied, "If ye. dinria ,get off the bridge this min- ute t'e'll all be Baptists!" American pork prodncers are puzzled, not to say worried, about the falling-off in pork sales; and as what happens south of the border is frequently reflected over here,. the follow- ing should be of interest, writ- ing from Washington to The Christian Science Monitor, Jo- sephine Ripley tells about it. * * A mysterious and nnexplain- ed change is taking place in the meat-eating habits of Ameri- cans. Pork, the "poor "man's turkey," is found far less frequently on. American .dinner, tables these, days. * * No one .as yet' has heen.'able to state definitely just why this change in inenil'haS' taken place. Lsss Horsepower More Horse Sense Officials at the Department of Agriculture are greatly puzzled. * • * The industry itself is more than puzzled; it is deeply con- cerned over the recent slump in pork consumption and pork prices. Members of the industry are here now in conference with Agriculture Department author- ities trying to 'solve the puzzle and reverse the trend. 41 K, 9 There is, to be sure,' a'larger supply of pork and pork pro- ducts in the market this year than last — a factor which often forces price declines. But in this case, the supply is only slightly larger — fou'r pounds per per- son per year — and the pork suply is not considered out of line with consumer purchasing power. As authorities here see it, the problem is not so much one of "overproduction" as""under-con- sumption," Obviously consumers are pur- chasing other meats, and that meat is beef. Americans with plenty of money in their pockets are undoubtedly eating steak more frequently than, ever'bec fore in history. * But many factors enter into the change, according to the speculation of authorities. More people are living in cities where residents traditionally,'teatt less pork than do country, families.. More people are living in the West today where beekrather, than pork, is the popular fare. Fewer people are livifig"." the South where pork, is tradition r, ally an enormouslypo;pular • meat. T h e American., Automobile Assn. has come up with a reso- lution asking car manufacturers to stop emphasizing higher horsepower an d concentrate more on safety devices for mo- torists. With some of the newer models sporting in the vicinity of 300 horsepower already, the resolution would seemto be past due. Nothing that we have seen in print has argued successfully that there should be more horse- power under the hoods of auto- mobiles than there is "horse sense" under the hats of their drivers. In fact, traffic tolls show a deplorable slippage In the ratio of horse sense to horse- power as more and more high speed vehicles take to rural road and expressway, Whether you define horsepower as the steam generated by a single equine or a unit of power numerically equal to a rate of 33,000 foot pounds per minute, TASTES LIKE MORE — Rita Holm- berf, packing - house employe; ,has no beef about this bacon. Sliced from a smoke-cured rib cut ,of beef, it fries up like pork bacon, is said to resemble Cana- dian bacon in taste. PublIcation of President Eisenhower's break- fast menus at Fitzsimons Army Hospital, brought the little- known delicacy to nationwide attention. t • TIPTOE , TIME — Roseniary Gilli- gan, 1955's Tulip Queen, has her :toe tibs :sntiggled against some of the tulips bulbs in the season's first shipment from Holland. he later told a friend that it was "the finest thing that ever haPpened." A testator can legally Make all kinds oD queer conditions in, his will, The can lay clCoWn that his heir or heiress ,must live in his own country, He can pre- vent his heirs from flying, or from changing their religion, Yes, powers under .a will are very wide, yet they have thew limits, For instance, a hunch-backed French waiter nicknamed Napo- leon left $10,000 to his nearest relative, a nephew, on, condition that within three months he married a woman who was also a hunchback. It happened that the nephew was already engaged to a lovely little French shop girl, He op- pealed to the courts and was at once relieved of the condition. Judges often frown on posthu- mous spite when it is revealed in wills. An elderly and very rich American married a young and pretty girl and tortured himself with jealousy whenever she was out of his sight: He died suddenly. His will be- queathed $180,000 to his wife on condition that she never ap- peared in public unveiled. The young wife appealed to the law and in five minutes the judges declared that the cruel, condition must be void. A strange posturnons prank was played by a Brooklyn man, who, in his will, left seventy-one pairs of trousers which he said must be sold "for the benefit of the poor of the parish." There was a condition that no buyer of one Pair should be permitted to bid for another. This odd condition excited no comment at the sale, but some.. days later one' of the buyers was examining, the trousers when he faund a small canvas bag sewn in the waistband. Opening it, he found ten $100 notes. He spread the news of his find. The other men who had bought .trousers eagerly exam- ined them. Sure enough, each found $1,000 which had been `carefully conCealed by the maker. , Attempts by will-Makers to ' prevent- their heirs from marry- ing have often been set. aside by the courts in this country,,•yelfen ,, such conditions are ;,,obviously' motivated, by spite or, against the publie, good. But abroad this is not always the case. Two German brothel's 'were left an annuity of $2500 each, long as they remained 'Single. Whoever , Married first :WoUld forfeit his. annuity to 'the other brother. They decided that money was preferable to love and tried to look the other way every time a pretty girl ea/tie along. But .while 9n, holiday, at the seaside., iOgether, they fell for two charming twin sisters and re- turned home' engaged. Each brother wanted the other to marry -first. The girls became tired of the 'delay' and demand- ed that the brothers should'-"take the plunge," As a result the bro- thers quarrelled in public and were brought before a magi- strate fOr disturbing the peace. Each was fined. But love did not triumph] in, their loase. They shook hands and jointly vowed never' to 'inerrY , the girls, or anyone else. The twins are to-day happily mar- ried to, twin brothers they met sdon after being jilted. And the brothers they might have mar- ried, now in., their sixties, are still bachelors. In the field where Arthite 4041 played as a boy stead en old vvindmill. It fascinated him.. And he VIM to love it, AS. he carved gUt.a successful career he never, 'forgot all that the windmill 'had meant to him, NeW the People Of the Leicest- er=shire. village of Woodhouse Eaves, on the edge of Chaim- wood Forest• have learned that Arthur Billsoni was still think- ing of the old windmill there .when he died aged seventy- seven In his will he left it a legacy of $3,1)90 which must be used to rebuild and restore the wind- mill ""so that this landmark might become a county land- mark for all time." The whims of will-makers ate endless. At Somerset House, London, home of Britain's wills, a diligent searcher could, if he had sufficient time and paid the fee, spend countless hours read- ing wills containing fantastically curious clauses. For instance, there was a .Pitn- lice, London, upholsterer who hatedMbustaehes. Nobody knows Why, but when he died he left $25 to each of the men in his employ provided, they did net wear a moustache for the rest of their lives. Those who refused to shave off their existing moustaches were to receive only $10, In his will provided three years'ago an, ex-naval officer left generbus sums to a number of people but 'laid it down that anyone who drank, smoked, gambled or used lipstick or face powder should receive nothing. He also added a clause which barred those" who "fail to ob- serve the proprieties of good breeding, courtesy and friend- liness—particularly relating to this 'Wilk" ' Fancy, a man 'losing a fortune .1,0 of $,01id beeause he does not want to be a father! That hap- pened in 1948. A rich old lady who was always fond of child- ren left this sum to her, only son "on condition that he be- comes a father in wedlock." • But it chanced that the son, at/the-time the will was proved, was living apart from his wife, so he rejected the $150;000, say-' Mg: "There is little possibility. of,„, my having a child in wedlock," . A Leeds man, who died in '• 1931 leaving a $40,000 eState, was devoted to telephones and throughout his life :never. lost an opportunity Of using them. He therefore left a big sum on trust to the widow of a friend of his on condition 'that she pro- mised to have a telephone in- stalled in her home for the rest of her life. An ex-soldier fell secretly in love with a blue-eyed pretty blonde ,who was in love with another Min. He knew hiS lOve was hopeless but he,.,cle,eided i to ensure that she ' tokens of his love even after his death. In his £3,5,00, will he request- ed that "one PetfeCcrose" should be seat to thei ,girl each Saturday. before 'ten for the regt, of her life. "Shell'S'never to hti told who sent the ;'roses: She is•' only to have the pleasure of receiving them," ran the clauie in the,Will. When .the ex-soldier's farnily heard of the unusual legacy, they successfully„contested the will in the courts, '', never received any roses. But by that time she Was happily married,. Just imagine ghee feelings' of a rather lazy young' American some years ago, who was left. . $100,000 by his uncle, on di condition. "HerrinSt recOivc, the., whole of this. legacy iii till; form of*firewooti' which. he inus,tChen up and 41)1 will sail. As he WaS nearly., nennileSs, the young than fulfilled the Con- dition. It cured his laziness and One Tail, Two Ears A publisher's t wife told Irving Hoffman, "It's 5.161:. true that .1 married d,millionaire. I made him one." "'What was he before you, married',him?" asked :Irv- ' ing. The wile answered; "A I checked out. of the Vaughan House in Caribou three times to catch one train on the B, & A,, and it was three days before I finally did catch it. The first time I checked out and went down to the station with, my bags,. I stepped up: to. the, agent's window, bought my ticket "and blithely inquired when the train was leaving. "Its' five hours late,'.' the man at the window said. "WHAT!” I howled, .but I should have known. better. It was February and the weather had been stormy and cold, and there was a lot of snow piled up all over Aroostock. I handed back the ticket. "I'll take a bus," I said. "You'd better keep it, miss," he grinned, "all buses can- celled." I •picked up my bags and went back to the hotel. Five hours would make it late at night and I didn't enjoy travelling that well. I checked in again at the hotel and the wind blew and it snowed all night long. The next morning I called the sta- tion to see when the morning train would, be in. That one was eight hours late so I rolled over and went back to sleep. When the allotted time was up, again. I checked ;out of the hotel and went down to the station. I ar- rived just ,as the train was, pul- ling out "I thought the train was eight hours late?" I asked the ticket agent. "It was," he said, "but it came in twenty minutes early." By this time I was getting used to the B. & A. winter schedule so Went back td the hotel. The next, train was• six ,hours late so I passed that one up, having a p,reference fox sleeping, The next time I checked out of the :hotel,' I was at "the 'Ration two hotirs . early 'arid had Only to threa*burs. „One of the travelling saleilnen had seen at the hotel. Was,'Perked on. the ..,bench ..;. He. said, "can't any- one get out of this country?" " doh, yeS` I calmly' answered. ' "I've'beeit Waiting two days," he; a' ,cvoem pbleaei been e d. waiting three," I ,answeredont y even 'Plough the roads' up 'here? You can't get a buSodt rt* taxi tie take you over .„these highways. Eight hours yes- terday! You couldn't run a rail- , yea,c1„Like that .:anywhere else and get away with it." "They don't have the snow we aiave, either," I said, jumping to the defense of Aroostook. Ev- erybody else joined the conver- sation, and before, they were through telling the Bostonian traveler about being marooned in snow drifts for twenty-four hours, he was glad to be sitting in a dingy railroad station. "And besides," Soineone plained, "if it ever did come in on time we'd probably miss it" "One thing about the Old B. &.A.," someone else said, "even . though you can't get anywhere on the roads, you can always get' there by railroad," Nobody really expects: the Bangor and Artiostobk Railroad 'to be On tithe in the Winter. Everyone brags abbot how late it can be and refers to . it as "the old B. & A„" knowing that it always Cornea through mote regularly and of tenet than the Motor traffic. It is the 'only rail- read running into the county froth the southern part of the state, and the Only railroad that Offers passenger accomModa- tions. From "Pine, Potatoes and People," by Helen * „ The growing pepu),arity, of.the family food freezer where fresh beef may be kept for long peL nods under refrigeration is . also considered to have had an in fluence on the changing meat-" eating habits of the nation. * Another possible facter is the beef industry's own beef-eating promotion campaign when the, cattle industry hit a slump dur- ing the early days of the present k administration. * It is considered probable that the hog and pork industry may launch a similar promotion drive as one way of Putting pork products back ,into' normal din- ner table campetitidn. * x For the Eisenhower admini- stration, the Situation presents another troublesome "forth prob- lent" The American Farm Bu- reau Federation has Proposed a seven-point program for don- sideration including industry promotion, a stepped-up export program, the inclusion of pork in school lunch programs, and adoption of a system of quality rating for thog,s , and pork pro- ducts. REASON FOR IT 10.first rireetirig with :taffies Joyce Was on the spectacular side, found hiin in Sylvia" rteeeh .., with one. AIM in a tlirig, a bandaged foot. propped up On a 'stool arid .a Patch Over One eye, Noting My dismay, Mist Beach hastened to assure me, "nth* think he al- .-WAYSl000ks this way, He's been overliiti Wee NS Week by taXicabs!" Diamonds FrOM (note'', Space biamonds Once fell from Outer spade. They were effibedded hi, a tinge meteorite Which, pltinged to earth at ArizOna, ill 180L It is* only 160 years ago that scientists beeline convinced 'that, Meteorites ,from the sky. The t.,largeSt meteorite ever' - Seen to. fall ClifYielkWit iii thin. gory ninety Years. ago. It weigh. ed just 'over A quartet' of„ti ton, „ Three itifidred year's age a Men Wet' tilialrineteerite Which Crashed on iiiiii,,as Cie walked through a Milan greet, Thel largest meteorite On liibition which Weight 26% tent, is' iibW iti the Atiteriedit , MU:tenth of Natural' `History,. NEW SM ELL. -- The thiell Of bit WOW With the odors frOin the' beirnyOrd Oh the Itirn; of Frank ,Hrige,. the Well is worth $74.50. a dor , fa ,the tifite struggling' farinet, §htiee-, Of the 4596 the well 's '201 day .produce., 'Klondike- Petroleum' tomOatiy, of :MUikeggn? plani to drill -two more. well tin Hoge's land' and 'another 40. or 50 let the area, reported one of 'the rielteit oil field's f.tiottd, i19 MiChtgari, In years, Not -'many North Americans have taken to bullfighting. Cer- tainly note many girls have at- tempted this dangerouS spett. But shapely Texas-born. Patri- cia;VieCorinie is ,exception: She. dict it the' hard Way and has got herself tossed all over the Mexican bullrings, Recently she got-her first bull, and was pre- Senfed, With its ears, the token Of the bullring president's es- teem. NOW she has bought 20 larger "oiiiineta arid. is .going in for the sport,iii a big way: t he may get some coMpetitiOn from her narnesak-e; 28-yeat.. Old „Petrie:1a , Hayes, also from TeXaS; Who gave' 'tip studying the ,bassoon Texas 8tate lege for' Worriers thte'e years ago in order to fight' fulls, tuilfthtitig .is,ra strenuous: Ott,. as Pat discovered at a fight_ at AeeptIleb time ago; The blonde Matedeka Wet badly gored And suffered *brain tericussioni several broken ribs and severely cut Bit she recovered,, Mid re, Gently'put an .an appearaike at Chided ACttne. After taking six Hisses and* literally fighting Off attendants' who Wanted her to leave the she killed her second Skill that the; 'Wet Pretented riot: only with` the bull's ears but With its tail a-tore award. RIDING THE' 'kW liStL"Vistater meter readers lhave it easier` In Atlanta 'suburbs If the City's WaterWorkS departrnent,given the nod la ittit three-Wheeled motor vehicle. Instead of walkiii0 long diStaliCet between homes they'll jut!' scoot right up to each Meter 'Enid record the consuitiption WithOtit leaVirig the scooter', Guy Garner is denionstrating how if Will be done — if tests prove sUedessful:'