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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1956-07-11, Page 3OPPORTUNITIES FOR MEN AND WOMEN TRADE me your old worn and broker! jewelry for new 50 year Solid Stain. less Tableware Sets. Free pattern Circular, Write J. Malone, 3370-N 53 Street, Milwaukee 16, Wisconsin. DIGNIFIED, leisurely home work for women. Age no handicap. Income commensurate with determination, Write Hans A, Hoffmann, 880 Glen Drive, San Leandro, California. PATENTS NOW IT .CAN BE TOLLED - The latest -advance in automation is an automatic toll-taking ma- chine on Kansas City's new Paseo Toll Bridge. It takes the place of three men over a 24- hour period and eases the strain on both toll takers and motor,- ists. After the correct toll is de- posited, a tape-recorded voice thanks the driver. turn had become afflicted. All over France, chemists, geOlo- gists and biologosts have been feverishly trying to arrest the choicest works of art. Besides Notre Dame and the am- phitheatre at Arles, the famous cathedrals of Rheims, Amiens and Chartres, the 'Chateaux of the Loire Valley, the palaces of Versailles and hundreds of less well - known Freheh'inaStetworks are threatened With 'disfigurement, Stone, exposed long enough to the elements; naturally becomes. Worn and ' eroded: But normal stone decay. scarcely explains what has been happening in 'France. Notre Mine; a miracle of Gothic art, was one of the earliest suffer- ers. Almost overnight, the grinning gargoyles and other' sculptures 're came spotted with Open sores..RISe Where there appeared liege .blisters or evil-looking black crests. Shine ,of the renowned flying buttressesi supporting the cathedraPS aide Walla, were found to be as eleSe to collapse as are the beams of a ter- Mite-ridden ,house, At Rheims the Sitlitithin. was even more dramatic. Weather, nit and war had Scarred bet failed to destroy beattiful thirteen th come:try cathedral, Now the famous statues over the Mein eldeatree are' emaciated to the point of ghOstli, iiess„ "They appear to have been al- Most bled to death," said an epert.' Superstitious Frenchmen say that mankind is being penished for ita works of evil : the Virgin et itheitila is wasting away ,111 sorrow for the sins of the amide age, And now the disease has spread to America, toed ail effort to tract"! Where the consumer's: food dolier aettatily goes, the Milted ,States 0th been Making n serieS of studies eoncere-. immg remit teed costs: A report scour months (Igo ShoWed .that; In• gen- eral, prttCeSaillg and mathethig costs take a large share of every dollar spent for food, Some Witt etiticerithig costs involved in getting a Mel 'of broad from Caere to tablo have been Issued by I United Watt Department of Agri eulluie, Agricultural ,l[ arketing Service', iii resent report "Market- ing ".1fargitit for While 11.;1•4 ,A," '1' * Of flit, 17,7 colas Orlin' by Mit- Atillier$ for it polled of white breed, Says report, the fir:'' is eel' alma eeels anti the" retailer. gs. 1!3. I ro0 • • FARM IMPLEMENTS NEW and used Threshers. Lowest w prices in ntario, any- here. WriteO GEORGE SOUTH, Delivered Heath. cote, Ontario, MEDICAL , la.. 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Fortunately he chose a small 1001 144',, ,consumed some . of it; then put out an S 0 S, to a hospital to ensure that this fare ,had, done ,him. Pe harm, When an ALP, wagered .that, he would eat his hat,' he, tut hat made of white ,e,f ,egg and consumed it in front of his con, stituents. In Paris,. a model. vowed that she and, her halt*, dressing partner would win a. hair'-styling competition or she would eat her stockings. She failed to win the contest --and dutifully ate her way through a meal of pulped and sugared silk mesh made from one of her stockings,. The pic- tures of her -engeged in this feat, oddly enough, started a feininine stampede for a poif- %feur like hers-and. so her hair-, dresser friend won favour after all. Tell-Tale Hand- prints CAN'T FIND IT, CAN'T FIND IT . . WOE IS US - Some dark moments for these boys as Billy Klaus, Red Sox third sacker, couldn't find the ball, and Wall. Moryn, Cubs' outfielder, •knew where it went, but couldn't do anything about it. In Boston, a hard grounder hit by Bill Tuttle of Detroit disappeared, and by the time Klaus found it - in his jersey, above - Tuttle was, safe at first. Moryn, below, had noth- ing else to do but yawn, as homer by Pittsburgh's Dale Long sailed into the Chicago bleach. era, SHE'LL TROLL FOR SOULS - The lugger Enterprise makes port in the Church of Saint Nicholas, Hastings, England, which has been used for years as a museum of the town's 1,000-year-old fishing industry. Deck of the Enterprise will become a pulpit when the church building, dedicated to the patron saint of fishermen, again „becomes a place of iorship this summer, gets about 2.0 cents, What happens tQ the remaining 11.7 (TOO Here is the way .the USDA has* it figured out;. Bread prices, they say, :have in, creased every year assists 1946. Toe present average, 177 -tents per pound, amounts to. 70 per cent more than the 10.1 vents peld 10 Years ago. "Uest ot the Ilse 14 retail. bread Khali since 1910: bas come frolic creases Iii eharges by the bakers, The Ow teek place without any signifiernit eleingee lit services, In a number or ether _food items," the report etates. Actually, according to this study, the farmer's share 'in the price of bread has shrunk, from 25 per cent. la 1046 to 1I per cent in 1055. Time farmer received only one - half cent of the 7.3 (vet 'increase per loaf since 1910. "The slight widening of the prim spread oat 2054.5, was doe to higher eosts at the bakery," says rime I'SDA.. "Hourly earnings In bread. bakeries in 1955 were approvi- niately 7 colts high.er than 14 1051. This increase was smaller than the years Immediately preceding, but like the earlier ones appears to have been .paesed on to the con- sumer." Even if the wheat farmer "had • donated his wheat, white bread Would still have cost consumers about 14 cents per loaf," the Vg.' port discloses. "Between the farm gate and the consumer's table, a number of band- ling and processing steps take place and each must be paid for," In- cluding marketing charges covering storage, insurance, transportation, and milling and other processing. Here is the breakdown, show- ing the average amount received. in 1055 by each one involved in get- ting a loaf of bread from farm to consumer ; Per Cents Mg Farmers 3.1 18 Grain elevators, transportation agencies, flour mills, and proces- sors of nonflour ingredients 1.9 11 Bakeries 9.8 55 Grocers 2.9 16 In an effort to diesover the killer of a woman on the Potters' Bar golf course the police some time ago took paint prints of about 9,000 people. After the murderer had been caught, anyone whose palm prints were taken could collect them from the police. Paint prints are by, no means new in the investigation of crime. Nine- teen hundred years ago a blind Roman lad was accused of having stabbed his father while the old man slept. The case against him was strong, because the walls bore the imprints of a blood - stained hand as though a blind murderer had felt his way after the crime. Furthermore, the lad's step• mother, who bated him, swore that she had awakened to see him kill his father with one swift stab. The lad was defended by the famolis Roman lawyer, Quintilian, First Quintilian proved that the boy loved his father and, had, in fact, lost his sight when he rescued his father from a burning house. Then the lawyer showed that a blind man could not, stick a knife Into anything in one swift stab; he had to feel for it first. Quintilian also reminded the court that the handle of 'the knife, ''' was perfectly clean, yet It the h6 r,;.' Made the blood marks on 'the walk; his stained hands should have' fO•titl ed „the handle.14,;.`17.rrrli ^Quintilian then turned to -91.g-e• . stepmother, and under his dei , cross '••• examination she wet* dieted herself, and finally admitted" that she was the murderess and had made the palm prints on the wall to "frame" her stepson. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Flout r Other ingredients Wrapping 'Jabot', production Selling and deliVery : Sales and commissions .... 1.73 Other expenses (includ- ing vehicle expense, ad- vertising and staling) 2,11 Administrative and mis- cellaneous, including purchased goods 2.52 Profit before taxes .83 44.80 These figures, reminding every- one that hundreds of workers play it part in getting that sandwich into the lenchbox or that plate of bread on the dinner table, won't reduce anyone's food budget by a fraction of a cent. But it may help coil- stlinera view the oft misunderstood anti maligned farmer in a More . Charitable light - and also to atm- preeiate more fully the unprece- dented services which are available to consumers for few paltey eentS. It will remind them; too, that some pOrtioe of, the increase in allnost every commodity price can be tree. ed to higher Wages or Increased beeefita being paid to workers. Labor leaders Soinetinies resent having this fact pointed out, bat it is a fact nevertheless, In the booming economy, Only the fanner and perhaps some white- collar workers and teachers still tag behind le iilemee. 17.7 100 But bakeries, which have the largest take from the retail price of bread, apparently are not rol- ling in profits either; for, according -to the USDA, "Profits of whole- Ode bakeries have fluctuated in re- cent years., Judging from a sample of six major national firms the trend In profits after taxes has been downWard since 1046," but figures. Or the first nine months of 1955 indicated an upturn for the year. When the elements which make up the wholesale price of bread are tabulated, as has been done by the USDA in this stedy, it is difficult to put the finger on anyone who is getting a lion's share of profit: Cents 3.90 1.20 .81 1.70 to 12,000 feet, then hurled down in a whirlwind. Rattled like dice in the gondola, none could think or act. Then two cords snapped . . Now it was impossible to reach the valve to deflate the gasbag. Helplessly the whole thing pitched earthwards and crashed violently. Three people were flung out. Up leapt The Giant. Then, crashed again, bouncing for half an hour in monstrous thirty-foot leaps 'ac- ross twenty miles of town and country. Nadar suffered a broken leg. His injured wife was in bed for months. Others, receiving brok- en arms, sprains, cuts, contu- sions and nervous breakdowns, sent the bill for damages soar- ing, •to 125,000- francs. Nadar paid, then declared, imperturb- ably: "I was right. Balloons are no good at all. I shall found an International Society- -for En- couragement for the..:-Study Hof Aviation or Aerial .Locomotion by Means of Apparatus Heavier 'Than the Air I" He did found this society and published a forthright book whose translated title is "The Right to Fly." Among men at- tracted to his magnetic vitality was Jules Verne, who immor- talized Nadar by using him as ."Michael Ardent," fictional hero of the Verne balloon books. Nadar lived until 1910-to see the Wright Brothers fulfil his belief in heavier-than-air ma- chines and his countryman Ble- riot fly the Channel, so justi- fying his astonishing Society of Encouragement! You Can Get Blood From a Stone AGENTS WANTED the instant flash photography by electric light, More startling still, Nadar took camera and lights deep in- to the Paris catacombs to pro- duce the most dramatic phetps ever seen of that eerie under- world of the dead, Then the. art of ballooning at- tracted his attention, "But aero-.. nauts do nothing except float where the wind takes them," he complained, To show what he could do, Nadar booked a bal- loon and sailed over Faris at 1,600 feet, leaning perilously front the frail basket to take the world's first airt photographs! Just a century ago, In all, he made thirty flights taking photographs, then pub- lished them in an album explain- ing at the same time that aerial photography would be valuable for military strategy, civil town planning and map-making-for all of which it is standard tech- nique to-day. But even while he made prac- tical use of them, Nadar attack- ed those who believed that bal- loons could conquer the air. 50 years before their time he de- clared: "There must be engine power - and heavier-than-air machines! The more powerful the apparatus, relatively the lighter it will be. The force of a 2-horse-power engine weighs 'less than two forces of one horse-power each." To show that size could not aid steering, Nadar ordered the world's biggest balloon. A gas- bag 210,000 cubic feet in 75,000 square feet of silk, with a wick- er gondola built like a two- storey house. Named "The Giant," it cost a fortune of 200,- 000 francs. Knowing the public would not subscribe, Nadar set to and earned it himself by ex- hibiting and selling his most out- standing photographs. His first ascent on Octpber. 4th, 1863, 'ended four hours later -the gas valve had ben left open! Was it because Nadar de- fied superstition by having thirteen aboard? Two weeks later,, with his wife, nine pas- sengers and Eugene Arnold, the first air reporter,' he set off again, with *.:200i000 Parisians paying to wave 'farewell. Am- ong them wasIgipiffleon II, whom Nadar - Danger threatened when The Giant began to fall towards the stormy North Sea. "Land be- fore it is too late!" yelled the frantic passengers. Instead, Na- dar stopped them from reaching the gas valve by brandishing a loaded revolver. Luckily sea winds blew them inland. They drifted over Bel- gium and Holland, began to des- cend into Germany when the wind rose to forty-five miles an hour. Rain slashed down. The Giant was flung up like a leaf A. century ago a man was fly- ing over Paris taking photo, graphs from the air that could tot be bettered to-days. He was the fantastic French- man, Felix ToUrnachon, a jack- ft-all-trades who succeeded in t dozen brands, of business and endured a hundred adventures ay land and air. Bern in T.YOna 31 1820, he found fame and for,- tune under.. his nick-name of War. Leaving school to become a medical student, but not having li private income to pay for his DO, board and books, Felix :ound a spare-time job as a newspaper writer at the age of sixteen. Qualifying as a doctor in Lyons and Paris, he gave up medicine to turn painter and caricaturist. He took on another lob as secretary to a member of the French Parliament. But this was too dull for live-wire Felix. Tall, robust and resolute, he marched with cocksure confid- ence into a Paris newspaper of- fice and promptly landed him- self an editorial post on the per- suasiveness of his tongue. With lively zest Nadar, as he now called himself, wrote ar- ticles which were avidly read, In this spare time he drew car- toons of continental notables, etched with such acid wit that they were at once admired and feared. He wrote a short book, "La Mort de Dupuytren," that was published all over France and translated, it was said, into every foreign language. No few- er than 600 editions were pub- lished. Nadar might have settled into authorship as his major profes- sion; but the Revolution of 1848 broke out and he turned free- lance fighter on the boulevard barricades. Civil war was widespread all Over the Continent, Typically, Nadar made himself odd man out by showing sympathy for the Poles. He tried to join the Polish Legion. Arrested, he escaped, only to be arrested again in Germany and imprisoned for months in a German jail. Released at last, he returned: to France as a po- litical journalist determined to defeat the election of Prince Louis Napoleon as president. But Napoleon got in. So Nad- ar got out. . 'Politics - journ all s m - pooh!' cried the irrepressible Nadar. "I'll do something dif- ferent!" Unexpected as ever, he open- ed a photographic studio with himself as cameraman. 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