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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1958-11-05, Page 7ee • 1 ,e e.fteee '', • ee',%.,, e e . i.,,,t:-.,,-, IN THE GROOVE — Fifteen-year-old Helen Morrison surveys the field being judged the best lady "plowman" in the North. On- tario Plowmen's Association matches beta near Beaverton, UNDAYS01001 LESSON 11111111111111iNillIitiglIMINI 1111111111111111t1111 111§4111111111 MIIIIIIIIIIIIMMIIIIIIIN11111111 igakliall1111111111101.111111111111111 IIIMIIIIIIIIriiiiillMilf:NVIIIIIIIII ;.,.... ...,:e 'se% V.. eke :t:ee :tee?. 111111111114:;.till1111111111111111 II" 111111E1111111111111111i1 WIWI" illiiiiii1111111511111111111111 11111111111111iligillii11111111V::::; 'T'AVV,r,,VAVVI'evAbis .eleVeselsesseese stesereseseseeee „„ e.:.seeseeeeeee..esesese... N. n. itOOD LANOt — This is On air view of a &eve Of feem houses a few Miles Southwest MeitaillOreei. Mexico, which were Inundated by the fldedweters Of the MO_Grande Thee.- ietide of tetiderite• wets evacuated froth -lust lCtulii Of the river. Famous Lovers Still Remembered In the picturesque eld• Italian city of Verona the town .council ere putting -.a marble Plaque on the scene .of the world's most celebrated love Affair, Where's •that? under the tra- ditional balcony where 1'3,meg and Juliet fell in love. gls.p, where there will also be tablets,:,,, 10 mark where these legendary lovers stayed and the tench where they are said to be buried, The question, however, is be- ing asked; Did liereee• 411C1 Jebel ever enact the 'famous balcony' scene in Verona? No, say ,mast of the modern historians.. They point out that Shake- speere probably borrowed the theme from a romance invented by an earlier writer called Masuccio. But this theory • won't stop sentimental young women teem continuing to droll, love letters into the tomb of Romeo and. Juliet or leave their sweethearts' photographs' there, an Italian. correspondent tells me. . One young man who was jilted by his girl five years ago goes to the tomb every day to meditate over her fickleness. The lovers' tomb is situated in an old disused monastery. Veer the benefit of sightseers it is . uncovered by a guide from time to time, When the visitors re- mark that Romeo and Juliet cannot be seen inside it the guide says: "They. are under- neath." Some scholars claim to have found historical evidence in fav- our of this 'statement, but nobody really knows. avg", AfteeteeMe....e. teeeeee.eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.- THE WINNER — A tree that won a "beauty" contest, this tower- ing white spruce will grace Rockefeller Center during the Christmas season. The 64-foot- tall tree, was selected as the perfect spruce after a search of nearly six months. it will be decorated with 1,000 plastic globes and 3,000 bulbs for its appearance. Don't Invite Theft Automobiles, for various rea- sons, are the form of property most favored by thieves in the United States. In,, round num- bers, about 300,000 are stolen each year, And the total has been increasing. Most of this is altogether unnecessary. stolen each year, And the total has been increasing. Most of this is altogether unnecessary. The simplest way to reduce the number of automobile thefts is to make use of the ignition locks with which all cars are provided — and have been since about 1006. The earowner Who leaves his ear on a public street or in his own garage with the keys in the lock may not be An accessory to the crime Of theft in the eyes of the law. He May not be guilty of cottributory negligence in 4 teehhieal sense, 13ut the fact remains that he Ia inviting a thief to drive off in his car. In Many jutisdictiOhs. Melte:ling Cincinnati, this hae been recognized by the l'a'w and it has been made a legal of- ferise to leave a eat unlocked on a public etteat, If there' was any doubt as to Whether leaking oars helps pre- vent thefts, t eeettit, flI., hos supplied the proof. After a year of ticketing motorists who leave keys in their cars, Decatur prig Ike Cut automobile theft by 86 bet' tent. triquireie One thing abeatt tot elatitiree tometeee is that it it's' good year your' neighbor will give You scene from his surfelete, and if it's a bad yam', Yen evotildiet Have 'thy eineeeYe When A Hoop Was Company The amazing thing about the Hula Boon is that a man "in- vented" it, and manufactures it. tt hadn't occurred tee me that the opportunities for hoops bad sa completely evaporated as the years took their inexorable toll on the pleasures Of my youth, The gay Hula Hoop, in the store, is , no doubt the only thing, a youngster could find today to ON if he'd a mind to roll a hoop, This Is sad. The hoops of my youth came from a number of sources of supply, the simplest being a bar- rel, or a !earl, which contributed very fine hoops, and now realize that the hoop had gone out of existence because the barrel has, pretty much, Some of the old hardwood barrels had really fine hoops on them, and they would stand up to be rolled again after you had batted them all around town many times. Since almost all products came in barrels then, there were many kinds and grades of hoops, de- pending on what cask was seated. But for a really high- class hoop, the best was the iron tire off a front buggy wheel. Buggy wheels, too, have passed. On reflection, I realize that the first automobile tires, which rolled rather well if you didn't lose them on a down grade, have passed. The old. 30x31/2 went out with the development of balloon tires and oversize cords, and none of the improvements were hoop material. To heavy and cumbersome, One of the best hoops 1 ever had was a bicycle wheel. I took off the tire and removed the spokes, thereafter replacing the tire and filling It with Neverleak. I had a pneumatic hoop, and when it hit a curbstone it would bounce 20 feet. But most of the impulses and habits that made an old- time hoop an essential of boy- hood, are long gone. We never went anywhere but we rolled a hoop. Please, I can't tell you exactly what the age group was —things kind of roll into ne along about there. There must have been an age when we stop- ped rolling hoops and thought of something else. But I can, in my mind's eye, see us calooping down the scene lickety-split, a whole charging caboodle of small boys, each with a hoop. I can see hoops on the grass by Asa True's brook, and I can see them standing against the brick foundation of the school- ' house. I can see, too, my own hoop stabled for the night, put away like a horse, so it would be ready to go in the morning: I can see myself batting a hoop to the store for some item Mother needed for supper, and I can also hear her — when she want- ed something that was consider- ed breakable — calling, "Now don't take your hoop!" Putting the hoop away for the night was partly husbandry, but mostly it was a parental edict. Hoops were dangerous. There was an uncle who made his home with us, and he discovered one morning that the litter in the henhouse had become ig- nited, It was smoldering, and to save the firemen a trip he ran for the rain barrel with a pail. He scooped out a pailful of water and was well on •hi$ way to the henhouse when he found my hoop Ain the grass where I had left it to graze. The hoop clattered about 16 times on his heels and ankles before it leaped up and ern-, braced hie knees, pail and all. Uncle went head over heels into the asparagus bed, lubricating hit passage with nice wet water, and ended in a heap with the hoop around his neck and a look of complete disbelief in his glaz- ed eyes. Then the firemen came and put out the fire, and I was in- strutted in completely compre- 1, Stein, cola 6. Quill for r 9, Ma Wititinfal.ding silk 12. f)ivell 13: Veneration 14. Creek letter 15. Pebble/MA-tat& li berso 16. Legislator It, Tofy, 20. Pielt 21, 0:alit 23. Footlike 01'6 25 Lenore Is. Lyric 27: Dleek0 29. Slietiherelik (Sept,)lull 31, Bed eaneis1, 35 AntMctie Voldittio 32, De6M, 43. eteretiait 41, Title 42, Liied.tleii 49. More recent 45. Oeblin 49. Social •positioyi, it ii 53, flitrote orbit' eictot.e. tot.,etiltivritote 6k drags hilt *7, Cut, .of• rheat DOWN 2.41atttialt hensive terms that I wes ,:,tot leave any hoops lying around. Afton that 1 stabled it Well, When we could come by a Trent buggy tire, we really had eomething. These had a limber- ness to them, so they'd spring up and down as they went. You could also fit a wire loop around them, winding on a wooden handle, and propel them by pushing on the wire, This was much better than whackingsaath a stick, although there was 'hive the technique of using the stirs.% as a pusher, too, Another thing you could do was use the wire on ahead, so the hoop followed you instead of going on before, This some- times bothered if you made a sudden starboard tack, for the hoop would cross under your heel and ride up on you. You could turn away all right, but i* \vas tricky to turn in. I think a younger generation, which may possibly be hearing of this old-time hoop business for the first time, will think it all sounds silly. I'm inclined to think maybe it was 13ut a hoop was some kind of company. zed you went high-tailing it off about your business with a cer- tain guarantee against being alone. If you decided to go down and see if the neighbor's pubs had come, you picked up your hoop and rolled it along with e you., There was even an absent- minded boy in my set who oc- casionally would come running up the street rolling a hoop he had forgotten to bring-. He'd lope along, making thrusts with his right hand, steering, and there wasn't any hoop. There was a difference in hoops, too. When a boy show- ed up with a new kind of hoop, everybody teased to try it, and we'd feel it out on turns and decide if it was an improvement. One boy, whose father worked in a cotton mill, showed up one time with a hoop made of spindles. He, had shoved 'the small ends into the big ends, and by continuing this had com- pleted a circle about six feet across. The thing made a won-' derful racket as it rolled, and was well balanced. But some- times it would hit a rock and disintegrate, leaving the boy to pick up about a bushel of spindles all over everything, while the rest of us sped on. Then we used to whittle hoop sticks — some of them turning out fancy. I Nobody could ap- propriate one of these and get away with it, because the crafts man's style identified it. When you leaned your hoop 'against stick on top, it would be there the school and put your fancy after classes. And so on, and thus it was. Now comes a man who "invents" a hoop! — By John Gould in The Christian Science Monitor, Annoying Noises What noise annoys you most hi this age of noise? Scientists now making a special study of noises say that the worst are those of an aircraft taking off, a motor- cycle exhaust and a woman's piercing scream. Recently there were com- plaints about the noise caused by the giant new American jet, the Boeing '707, when is landed at London Airport. An acoustics engineer in New York says that the elimination or reduction of noise in offices arid factories always results in increased efficiency among staffs. In one office reduced noise, led to 30 per cent fewer typing mistakes. A busy city restaurant was soundproofed after many complaints from diners, After- wards the customers actually thought the plate was cooler. " Why grieve because all your beautiful dreams haven't come true? Neither have your night. mares. 4, implementS Si, Btironean clef 9. Climbing 33, Devour pepper 10. Mex. Malt ill, 'Cereal grass C 11. ArreWs 35. te,arger 17. Collect 38, Conflict 19. Frolics 39, Wireless 21. African 45. Make limo ;ids antelope 42, sting 22, .Artificial 44. Fissure langunt, 0 45, Wood sorrels2a. ?lank 49. Late (comb. 27. Ventilate form) 25, Affirmative 50. Beverage 30, Chopper Si. Wild animal Two-thirds of Canada's popu- lation resided in urban locali- ties in 1956 as compared with' 63.5% in 1951 (excluding New- foundland), and 37.1% in 1901, thus continuing a sharp con- trast between rural and urban population growth which has characterized population move- ments in Canada since the turn of the Century, according to an analytical report based on 1956 Census returns released by DBS. The report shows that ur- banization has been gathering • momentum in recent years. * * * Canada's total urban popula- tion at the 1901. natio* Cen- sus was less than 2,000.000 and by 1956 it had grown to more than five times that number, The accumulated addition to the urban population over the 55- year period exceeded 8,500,000, representing as much as 83% of -the total growth for the nation as a whole. Over the same period the rural population increased by only 52% from about 3,400,: 000 in 1901 to 5,100,000 in 1951. * • In 1956, 10,714,855 perspns were reported as residents of urban areas, and the remaining 5,365,836 persons as residents of rural areas. Between 1951 and 1956 only 174,144 persons were added to the rural population and the rate of increase was 3.4%. Over the same period the gain in the urban population amounted to 1,897,218 persons, which accounted for almost 92% of the total growth in Canada's population. The rate of urban growth was as high as 21,5% in five years, or almost 4% per annum, Reflecting this remarkably rapid groWth of the urban population, the proportion of the total population reported In the urban areas rose from 62,9% hi 1051 to 66.6% in 1966, * Ontario was the most urban- ized province in Canada in 19511 (as in 1951), with More than three-quarters of its population residing in the urban areas. Bri- tish Columbia and Quebec Close- ly followed Ontario in the order given, Oath with more than 70% of its population classed as bate Ins Prince Edward Island and Saskatchewan, on the other hand, the bulk of the populetioti in 1956 still lived in the ratal areas, although in both pro- vinces the rural population ac- tually decreased between 1051 and 1956 — by 6,1% in the former and 3.6% in the latter. at 4, 4, Ill the 1951 56. period the tate of teelette growth was 'Meet pree nettneed in the three Weeterti provinces of Alberta, British Columbia a n d Saskatchewan Particularly notable ryas the in- crease of incite than 1'40%, duo largely to tepid growth the Edmonton end Calgary micas, Alberta's arisen popUiatibti. Nova Piety Brunswick end Manitoba, terbenittitien letee teeded Mitch more elowlY than. iii the test of the eonntry. The mates of urban graWth for Otte- bee arid New fop n d Idea Were also eniteethat lower than the- ha, tiotial `average. * v * The trend towail airbenite- tion in Canada is further demon- strated by the fact that in 1901 there were 324 incorporated cities, towns and villages of 1,000 'or more• persOns, with a com- bined population of 1,858,000, accounting for only 34.6% of the total residents in Canada. With- in 55 years, nearly 500 places joined this class to bring the total riumber of 1956 to MI while die population in these places multiplied to more than IMPATIENT — With Halloween just around the corner, 3-year- old Allen White, seemed to be growing impatient for "carving day." The pumpkin an Which he sits 'rips the scales at 66 pounds, almost twice Alien's weight. ° 131790,090' or 1.7 times the. -pep*, latien in Mil,. Correspondingly 1 the preeertien of the Met population of C• anada found ins these places rose to 55.1%. Particularly spectacular hes 'been the population increase In places of 109,009 population, and over. In .the 1901 Census, vIons treal a11.4 Toronto were the only cities in this: size ereup, Meet their -combined. populetlell 9f 470,170 was loss then g% Of Canada's population, By 1921, Montreal became the first .city to exceed the 500,000 mark, and by 1951 it 'had more than 1,000,e 000 population. ley 1956, 9 other cities had moved up into this size group, and. together had al- most 1,900,000 inhabitants by 1956. The population of 11 cities. reported in this size group In the 1956 Census thus accounted. for '23.4% of the total popula- tion of the country and as much as 34.2% of the urban total, On Top This Season? Who will win the television popularity sweepstakes this sea- son? In the current issue of the trade magazine Television, James H. Cornell of N. W. Ayer ,& Co., who bases his study on such factors as past perform- ances, competition, and trends, predicts the rating prizes this season will go to these shows; Danny Thomas, "Wagon Train", Perry Como, "Desilu Playhouse", "Gunsmoke", Garry Moore, "Price Is Right", "This Is Your Life", Ann Sothern, "Wyatt Earp", "Restless Gun", "Mark of Zerro", and Phil Silvers, Carried Sun Dials To Tell Time Why is it, that the older we are the faster time seems to pass? Scientists are trying hard to find out. Exhaustive studies by a French expert show that, in one hour, a child lives physically and psychologically as much as a five en hours. of 65 lives in iv That's why it's hard to hold a child's attention for more than a few minutes, he explains. To the child, 10 minutes take as long to pass as 50 minutes for the older man or woman, Many witty and profound things have been said about time. "The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in," said Lord, Chesterfield. Somebody else said that "everything comes to him who waits — except the precious time lost waiting!" In olden times the most popu- lar sundial motto was ''Tempus fugit" — "Time flies". In Eliza- bethan days men often carried pocket sundials to tell the time, How old is your watch? If it's an antique and has gone con- tinuously for 100 years it will have ticked 15,042,456,000 times. But be careful when you go into a garden. The scent of roses can stop a watch by penetrating the case and causing a change in the composition of the lubricating - oil, The sun and moon are often bad timekeepers. Sometimes the sun loses 10 seconds and then goes on to gain 14. The moon is sometimes 30 seconds slow or 30 seconds fast. Strange tricks have been play- ed with time. To pass the Budget in 1937, which had to be ap- proved before the end of the year, the French Parliament de- liberately prolonged December 31st by 43 hours. An official solemnly stopped the Parliament cheek until the Budget was ap- proved. At the Cape in 1892 16 minutes were "lost" after midnight one day so that a uniform time Could be -adopted for South Africa. And Chile also lost 20 minutes in rearranging its ealeeder at the end of 1902. An earlier gap in time oc- RI 4ey.„ B. Barclay Warren 13,0, The Narks of e, Christian Matthew .5:1.-12. Memory Selection; Ye are the salt of the mai. • Ye are the light Of 'the world. Matthew -4: 13.14, The world's recipe for hapPie ness is something like this; Be confident in yourself; insist on egluf .for rights, t h it iatke e; dceanre't ol fet yaonuff: one put it over you but get your full share and a little bit more, even if you have to fight for it; Keep up a good appearance, don't get caught in wrongdoing, Be popular, Haw different is the way of happiness as set forth by Jesus in His Sermon in the Mount. Ilere happiness is pronounced upon the humble in spirit, the meek, those hungering after righteousness, the merciful, the pure in. heart, the peacemakers and those persecuted for right- eousness' sake. The way of sin- ful man is not the way of the Christian. The sinner does not like the Christian way. "The carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of. God, neither indeed can be," Romans 8:7. There must be a change in the heart of man, The ideals set forth in the Sermon on the Mount, including that of the Golden Rule, are too high for the sinner to achieve. His nature must be transformed. Provision for this is made through the death of Jesus Christ on Calvary. "While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8. If we confess our sins to God and forsake them and believe on Jesus Christ, we are made a new creation. "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; be- hold, all things are become new." 2 Corinthians 5:1.7. Then by faith we can walk before God in righteousness fulfilling the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount, ory selection reminds , us of our responsibility to others. When Christ tag came into 91.3 lives it not only that we May' be saved -but that we may help to save others. Men and women are lost until they find Jesus. Christ. We must point the way to Him by our lives, Our hap- piness shall increase as others come to know Him, too. curred in England in 1752, when the old Julian Calendar (invent- ed by the Romans) was changed to the Gregorian Calendar, the one we use today, by the sacri- fice of 11 days. This loss of time was so great- ly resented that riots occurred in many parts Of Britain. At Bristol several people were killed. "Give us back our 11 days!" was the cry of the people. 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