HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1957-12-11, Page 7Suried Alive.
rhea Arainwashed
mot !,.14tor,. to th, Tower of
i.ontlen, or the Bastille
shudder at the .sient of the old
instrument; of torture desinned
to loosen the tongues of those
suspected Of treasonable activi-
ties. "Thank Cod, people in
VIV1117.E'd to-clay," they murmur.
But are they?
In Hungary, whea the More
usual methods of "softening" a
;suspect's resistance have met
with failure, he is liable to be
taken before what he believes to
be a secret Court of Justice,
'Here the president tells him
• that despite his denials, his guilt
is known and the verdict of the
court is that he is to be buried,.
alive, The unfortunate prisoner
is then dragged away . to the
dungeons below the Secret Po-
lice headquarters and is shown
a catacomb, with niche after'
niche of named coffins,
Be is then compelled to select
his own coffin and to paint his
name and the date on the out-
side. A guard "persuades" his
colleagues to "let the poor devil
have enough brandy to knock
him right out." But the liquor is
drugged.
One sip, and the prisoner is
out cold for about half an hour.
When he recovers consciousness
he finds himself in the inky
blackness and utter silence of
he sealed coffin. It is useless to
struggle as his hands and feet
are tied.
Imagine the agony of mind in
such circumstances as a man
realizes he is to die slow as-
phyxiation!
But fastened to the outside of
the coffin is a glass tube, like a
thermometer, in which the fluid
changes colour according to the
oxygen content of the air in-
'Side. When the -oxygen falls to
a certain percentage, •-a further -
supply is secretly pumped in,
and the prisoner revives. Then
the mental torture begins all .
over again.
After the third infusion of
oxygen, 'and asphyxiation, .point
approaches for the fourth time,
the coffin is opened. By this time
even ,the strongest character,
sessurning that he is still sane,
is usually Willing to confess any-
• ""'thing "trite or false; • .
The mediaeval practice...of
bricking-up . erring nuns and
their' .illegitimate babies within
the 'Convent 'walls Was 'more
nelsiiiizedi°Arleast they'Werenals
DIFFERENT=It's Sputnik, not St.
Nick; charming French children
in this Pads department store.
Keeping close tabs on current
events, Santa Claus is display-
ing an earth satellite toy and
a little dog representing "Laika",
Russian space dog.
lowed. to, die riese conse.lousness
wee lo t. They troll' net revived
periodically to prolone, the tigtirly.
fiirm of tor -
tun, known as "The Widow," in
praeti ;1 to,elay in the prisQ-11,5
and concentration vamps bee
hind the Jinni Curtain. The Wi-
dow is a roan, each wall
of which hits a swiftly revolving
whorl attached to it, To the
essokee. of the wheels are fixed
scores of powerful electric lights
of violently contrasting valuere.
The prisoner is fastened to a
chair, his eyes are Injected, with
atropine to enlarge the pupils
and make them more than
usulaly sensitive , to light, The
lights are switched on and the
wheels are set revolving at e
terrific speed. Closing the eyes
brings no relief as the lights are
bright enough to pentrate the
thin flesh of the lids.
In addition to appalling pain
in the optic nerves, The Widow
produces hideous nausea. Few
prisoners subjected to this form
of treatment have been able tb
resist questioning for more than
an hour.
An equally devilish contrap-
tion is called "The Bee" because
it produces a faint, persistent
buzzing through earphones
clamped ..to the prisoner's head,
Such is the peculiar pitch of
the buzz that it results in the
most agonizing headache.
Even the inquisitors realize
that questioning is useless until
the victim has been prescribed
a certain quantity of heroin.
The threat of a second session
with The Bee is generally suffi-
cient to make a prisoner talk,
Unlike the tortures inflicted
during the Middle Ages none of
the more scientific modern va-
riety leaves any permanent
physical trace - crushed bones
or deformed, dislocated joints -
to bear witness of man's in-
humanity to man. There is, how-
ever, one method of "soften-
ing" a prisoner in Central Eur-
ope which produces effects not
easily distinguishable from rheu-
matoid arthritis.
The prisoner's hands are
forced into ."gloves" not unlike
those worn by deep-sea divers.
By means of a machine the at-
mospheric pressure is slowly in-
creased - and then suddenly
lessenede to below normal. In-
, . creased, again, and' again sud-
leseened, the' prooe'SS be-
ing repeated fdr about ,a quarter
of an hour.
, Only those who have suffered
(or Witnessed) theepains•of,"Div-
er'S' Crampe" can, imagine the
agonies-=produced by queh,:a dia-
bollecleselee.
Is; the world 'more eivilized
s theri -st was 500 ;hundred Years
‘ago?.'"Or has the'kno.wIdege that
"ierogresif f Thas bemeeht made it
'even -less -se?( s,.
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dinq, ti- Spent
Gold sovereigns are still being
made in small numbers at Brit-
ain's Royal Mint, although the
minting of gold coins for public
circulation ceased in 1917.
They are being made so that
the Mint can preserve the in-
herited s knowledge and crafts-
manship of gold coining which
requires a different technique
from coining in other metals and
greater precision in workman-
ship. There is no question of
issuing these sovereigns for cir-
culation; they will remain part
of the gold reserves.
When the sovereign was first
issued during the reign of Henry
„ VII its value was sometimes as
high as 30s., but under Charles
II the value was fixed at 21s.
The sovereign, which our par-
ents and grandparents used,
dates from a royal proclamation
of 1817 "that certain pieces df'
gold money should be coined'
which should be called `saver-
eigns of 20-shilling pieces'."
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FARM FRONT
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egg candling" if this system of
candling is adopted bY the in-
dustry in • the future, But it
should also be recognized that the
meat salvage value of the Leg-
horn is generally lower than
that of the heavy birds (current.
ly amounting to about 50 cents
per bird in the Xentville area),
and small egg size can be a prob-
lem with some Leghorn stocks,
particularly when the price • dife
ierential between Large and Me-
dium eggs bet.ornett as wide as it
was this past summer, .Leghorn
chicks ilk() appear to be more
sensitive to adhere' brooding.
.temperatures than birds. of the
• heavy breeds and more atten-
tion must be given to this detail
of management.
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intensive breeding ttechniques
are being used on some large
populations of the heavy breeds
as well, but, in most instances
the emphasis is on the develop*
ment of stock for the production.
of broiler chicks. As in egg pro,,
auction. stock, the commercial
broiler stock is also usually the
progeny of crossbred parente,
of crossbred parents.
It would seem that heavy and
light poultry stocks are each be-
coming more specialized, with
the heavy breeds being develop-
ed. mainly for meat production
and the Leghorns for commercial
egg production.
MITE AND MANE-Dwarfed by
a lion-like "big brother" this
toy ,poodle musters „just as much
of b fierce. attitude as its pro=
tector in London. The giant
French poodle, named Tzigane
Angah, and tiny but tough
Tzigane Dee, are awaiting the
beginning of a kennel club
show in the British capital.
Painted A House
In Four Minutes
Painters in a German city ac-
cepted a challenge to show how
quickly and efficiently they could
work recently by painting an
eight-roomed house with one
coat of paint in an hour and a
quarter. Ten painters were em-
ployed on the job.
A record? No. In 1949 a nine-
roomed house in Omaha, Neb-
raska, was painted in 4 min. 14
secs. by a gang, of 110 painters.
Swift work records make fas-
cinating reading in 1957 when
there is so much controversy
concerning whether men and
women are working hard
enough. Some critics say our
grandparents worked much fast-
er and better.
Are you a fast worker? Not
long ago a Bristol man was call-
ed one when he proved that he
could strip a car wheel of its
tire and inner tube in 19 sec-
onds. And there's a Hampshire
girl who used to plant 5,000
cabbages in a day. She worked
like a machine and got through
the job without ovvrtiring her,
t'l':ears ago there Was friendly
rivalry between Britain and the
United Statee in railway engine
building. In 1778, at Crewe, a
standards freight engine was
erected in 25 hours, 30 minutes,
Ten years later the Americans
beat this record by erecting an
engine in 111 hours, but their
feat was put int the shade by the
old Great Eastern Railway Com-
pany which, in 1899, assemblet1
an engine and tender in 9 hours
47 minutes. Eighty-five hands
were employed on the job; 39
fitters, 44 boilermakers and two
boys,
Pretty Chirsti Hofer, an Aus-
triantrian housewife, claimed. to
be the world's fastest typist in
1946 after achieving the fantas-
tic speed of 640 letters per min-
ute - and no mistakes, George
L. I-Tossfield, an American, typed
8,656 words in an hour, making
only 31 mistakes. He tapped the
keys 43,282 times in all, A good
average tying speed is 60 to 70
words a minute.
Other fast workers? In the
Midlands a pair of shoes has been
made in 20 minutes. A man
named Webb,• at a cookery ex-
hibition, peeled 28 lbs. of pota-
toes in 9 minutes, 18 seconds,
Visitors to the Royal Academy
of 1932 saw a portrait in oils
which took the painter exactly
one hour to complete. Another
artist, C. Goldesborough Ander-
son, was also timed to paint an
excellent portrait in one hour,
five seconds.
Barbers occasionally claim re-
cords for very swift work. An
Italian, Allessandro Costariele,
shave a customer and dressed
his hair in a minute and a half.
The self-styled world's cham-
pion shaver, James Churchill, of
Virginia, U.S., removed a cus-
tomer's whiskers eleven years
ago in exactly one minute.
"You women make me laugh,"
remarked a husband to his wife.
"You say you've,. been shopping
but you haven't bought a single
thing,"
"It was only yesterday; dear,
that you said you had been fish-
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The Canadian sheep industry
has had a checkered career, part-
ly because it ha's never 'adopted
a standard practice for the pro-
duction of high quality market
lambs similar to that long fol-
lowed in Scotland, and other
sheep-raising cotiritiVed. The tied
of cross breds by breeders in
these countries Obtain the
maximum" 'of hybrid vigour •is
probably the. chief factenicontei-
buting to a 1:1T0fit91?), ,eheepe in-
dstry- * *
At `abOAt 'thV"gilti !the la*St
war, 'tCanad'a'S sli6ep poptilatiOn
was retfghlyn four .millioieehead.
syery shoelly af terwarassithis
uee dropped to about ,one ai1~d-
• ene-11alf million. In addition, 544
per Cent "Of the" lambs' earnhig ▪ from the 4urrounding ferritbry
"to Montreal, oireibt the country's
largest-sheep and. lamb market-
ing centres, ,were grading "cull".
This ,Wns ,an, economic loss pot
easily overlooked,
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As the first step in initiating a
program to -"reduce the large
number of culls,, J. W. Graham,
of the Livestock and Poultry
Division, Canada Department of
Agriculture,. went to Scotland in
1949 and purchased a small num-
ber 'Of sheep ^for use in cross-
breeding. This was followed by
-a joint program with the Quebec
.Department. o f Agriculture,
Since *then, increased interest
has been shown in liOth that pro-
'. 'gram and industry generally.
4 E''o'r example, a high level of
performance was revealed, by the
recent annual inspection of the
• North
'
County Cheviot sheep
flock at P4. This
fibek; *owned by the' Canada 'De-
' partment of Agriculture; is used
to multiply breeding stock for
the Quebec cross-breeding pro-
gram, Ram lambs used last fall
for project testing had not only
developed into excellent shear-
buie 'had also indicated
their worth as. sires. A similar
program is being followed with
top performers for the current
breeding season. Selections of,
ewe stock were made for the
breeding flock, which now con-
thins 87 females, with the' objec-
tive of 100 head to be attained
next year,
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Satisfactory progress with the
use of cross-bred ewes for im-
proved market lamb production
is reported froin the many dis-
tricts in the province where the
program is developing.. Several
selections' of rams Were made for
breeders outside of Quebec and
the balance-Of the current year's
ram crop will be sold to the
Quebec Departinent of Agricul-
ture to augment the program.
Increased interest in sheep in
Saskatchewan, is indicated by
inquiries from furthers wishing
to buy ewes. The first 4.11 sheep
club in Saskatchewan, consist-
ing of 18 members, was recently
formed. Each member willre-
seen ',tense I
FOUR YEARS IN FIRST-'like the. fellow who got tossed out of
school'for not shaving when, he'was in the third' grci'de, "Susie",
an English springer Spaniel, is haying a tough iime getting
past the first grade at Blessed Sacrament School. The pooch,
patiently sitting alongside Martha Donnelly, first visited the
school by following his young master, Martha's older brother,
John. But when John moved on, Susie decided to stay in the
first grade, and though she's had , an almost perfect record for
attendance, she just can't seem to master those doggone
lessons. It seems she'll never be promoted.
ceive 10 taiige ewes: The ,Cana-
dian Co-operative Wool Growers
are financing purchase; of e; the
sheep, and rams pill be loaned
by the Department' thiouglisthe
Sire Loan Policy,
,e -
In the Bluffton and Rimbey
districts of Alberta, a new ram
club has been organized. This is
a marginal farming area and
sheep production is important -to
the econennYeibf Ithe'Veea .L413010 7
20 farmers have sheep flocksand"
dePOsitsewereereeeived for eight
rams of' -th'el'"North Country
Cheviot and Corriesdale breeds
for use in crossing with the ewe
flocks, which .are predominant-
ly Suffolk. These farmers had
been convinced, at a meeting
held earlier, of the value Of
cross-breeding in. market lamb
and wool production.
* *
Members of a ram club or-
ganized in Sangudo, Alberta, in
1955 were pleased with cross-
breeding results. Corriesdale and
North County Cheviot rams
were used on grade and pure-
bred Suffolk ewes. Most of the
lambs from this cross went to
market at four and one-half
months, weighing an average af
95 pounds. Some members of the
club are now exchanging their
rams among themselves or with
farmers in the surrounding dis-
trict.
The "broiler-fovil" competitive
price relationship hae. tended to
focus attention on the wider use
of the Leghorn breed for egg pro-
duction in the Maritime Provin-
ces. Comparative egg-production
performance tests conducted by
the Kentvilie N.S., Experimen-
tal Farm, have shown some
strains of Leghorns to be clef-
finitely superior in egg-product.
tion. These superior Leghorn
stocks are not pure strains but
are crosses of one kind or an-
other, which have been develop-
ed by crossing specially bred
pure strains. These special heed-
ing methods for the production
of commercial stock are being
conducted by relatively, few
brectlerse'all of whom are work-
ing with large poultry popula-
tions.
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In the test work at Kentville
unculled flocks of these superior
Leghorn stocks gave, perform-
ance records of 240 eggs per hen
housed, in 350''-days, with a feed
efficiency of 4.5 pounds of feed
per dozen eggs laid and laying
house mortality in the vicinity
of 5 per cent. Admittedly these
birds were kept tinder 'good
housing and management con-
ditions; nevertheless these rec-
ords should be attainable under
commercial production condi-
tions.
Some of the other advantages
of Legliorns are that they re-
quire less floor space per bird
than birds of the heavy breed*
and their white shelled eggs may
be more adaptable to "electronic
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UNDAY 9C11001
LESSON
Rev.
;arre Living'
n
1s ills. ,'Cory
Philippians
elemery Selection; My G061
shall supply ail your need ace
cerding to his riches in glory IVY.
Christ Jesus, Philippines 4ao,
I said to a ,l(2c1,01.' friend as w
drove to the hospital, presuznit
many of your patients are psy-
chosomatic." His reply was,
"About 90%." Perhaps his estinvo
ate was high. At any rate, many
of the illnesses today, - real ant!
imagined, - are emotionally in-
duced. People become sick be'
cause they are unhappy and they:
remain unhappy because they,
are sick. But the origin of theft
illness is in the mind rather thall
in the body, Their stress tOlare
ance is low, Small frustration'
upset them,
Our lesson is one of the finest
Scripture portions to read when
life seems to be getting too much
for you. Remember that Paul is
chained to a Roman guard as he
writes from prison. He calls for
the workers to cooperate. Failure
to do this is one of the main
causes of mental uneasiness.
Then he calls for rejoicing in all
circumstances and for sweet
reasonableness, To say to people,
'Don't worry," only aggravates
unless you say or do something
further. Paul urges prayer with
thanksgiving. The result is God's
peace keeping heart and mind.
We must carefully guard our
thinking. We should concentrate
on the things that are true, hon-
est, just, pure, lovely and of good
report. That will free us from
the sordid and obscene that is
featured in many magazines and
on the radio and TV.
We need to learn contentment.
It takes constant learning but
Paul was enjoying this state of
restfulness even in prison.
But how can we achieve this
happy tranquil state. The answer
is, `I can do all things 'through
Christ who strengthcneth me.
We need Jesus Christ, We need
Him to redeem us from our guilt
and our sin. We need Him to
Cleanse us from impurity of
heart. We need His strength mo-
ment by moment. He will give us
His joy and we can live happily
in the midst of a troubled world.
Jesus Christ is the answers to our
need,
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GIVE IT TIME
Neighbor-"How is that incu-
bator doing that you bought?"
Mrs. Newbride-"I suppose it's
all right bUt I'm a little worried
about it. It hasn't laid a single
egg yet."
t• provides a nice contrast to
pauses in native costume by
Medellin; Colombia. One of
was erected long before the
tribal chieltain.ef the Andes,
WHO IS THE FAIRER?-Ancient at:
the beauty of Olga Orozco, who
a relic of pre-Spanish culture in
many, in the Country, the statue
Conquistadors, as a memorial to a