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Irish—As A
Second Tongue
They don't call the strange,
Biting language they often speak
in, Ireland instead of English,
Gaelic, They call it Irish, Pet,
call it What you will, the Irish
people still speak much more
English.
Yet the government's Irish
language campaign has served a
most useful purpose, ' It has
helped make the Irish of the
Irish Republic think of them-
selves as a nation with a tongue
of its own. The propagation of
speaking and reading the Irish
language was and is a nationa-
Este move in official recognition
of Ireland's ancient heritage,
Prime Minister Eamon de Va-
lera speaks Irish by preference,
although he was born in New
York City of a Spanish father,
and it is said he had to learn the
ancient tongue as an adult.
Few deny that Irish is awk-
ward, and that only a few west-
ern Irish speak it today as their
normal, or first tongue. Many
Irish don't yet speak it at all,
Yet it is required in schools in
certain subjects. And I was told,
perhaps accurately, that a stu-
dent could get a higher mark in
a mathematics exam if he could
read a line in Irish at the bot-
tom.
In Belfast, they told me a man
had to speak Irish in the South
to get a government post. In fact,
all professional men in the Re-
public (with the curious excep-
tion of bankers) must pass a test
in Irish—although passing a test,
one suspects, can be perhaps less
demanding than learning the,
language.
Irish as a language is credited
with having served its purpose
of boosting the morale of dedi-
cated. Irish patriots. But, frankly,
there seems little enthusiasm for
continuing emphasis on Irish in
most circles. Mr. de Valera makes
* point of using Irish, not to
American visitors of course, but
in telephonic conversations with
other officials.
Among the language's short-
comings, however, is the fact it
contains no modern words such
as "airplane," "telephone," or
"radio," which have to be syn-
thesized, with some attendant
confusion. The word "airport"
reportedly is spelled four differ-
ent ways on the way to the Dub-
lin airport. Parking signs for
motorists in some places are. only
in Irish, and motorists overpark
"MOST VALUABLE" — Chicago
Cubs' Ernie. Banks is one big
smile after hearing that he's
lite National League's "Most
Valuable Player of 1958." Nom-
ination Is made annually by the
Baseball Writers' Association,
because many literally don't
know the time limit imposed.
Dublin police apparently are al.
terriately understanding and ri-
gorous in such cases,
In Dublin nowadays, some
schools are taught entirely in
Irish. Officials admit it entails a
sacrifice to revive the language
for children take longer to learn,
But they maintain the delay is
worth, while to emphasize ria-
Uonality dietinetion. Eventually
it is hoped Irish will be the first
and official tongue, with English
second. At present,' both are of-
ficiaL
In justification, it can be ar-
gued that Irish was the native
tongue of the areas from which
the greatest Irish emigration
took place — and that the re-
establishment of the classical
language is merely resupplying
what would have been on hand
normally if so many Irish-speak-
ing persons had not emigrated,
writes Harry S, Hayward in The
Christian Scieece Monitor.
The Prime Minister, moreover,
regards the language as funda-
mental to nationhood, as a valu-
able form of mental discipline,
and as stimulating the Irish urge
to learn,
In Mr. de Valera's view, Irish
should be like Norse. The Nor-
wegians usually understand Eng-
lish but also speak their own
ancient tongue and have a strong
sense of unity as a consequence.
In Northern Ireland, however,
I encountered high officials who
regard the formal introduction
of Gaelic, as they call it, or Irish,
as the Southerners say, as a fail,
ure. Ulstermen claim the Irish
language cannot hope to compete
with English, even south of the
border. Eniigrants, they say,
quickly leave it behind as im-
practical. They suspect, more-
over, that it may have been in-
troduced chiefly as a diversion
for the Irish, to keep their minds
off other problems.
Some claim it is silly to try to
bring an .almost dead language
back into general use, and that.
Irish, young 'and old, would be
better advised to learn a modern,
European language al their sec-
ond tongue. -
Others recall how sad it -is to
find a living tongue passing out
of usage, as Gaelic is on the de-
cline in Scotland and Northern
Ireland. On the Scottish island
of Skye, for example, I remem-
ber hearing parents grimly say
they would have to teach their
children Gaelic in the, home now
that it no longer is taught in the
schools. Courageous Dame Flora
MacLeod is one of those' cam-
paigning for a restoration of.
Gaelic. So perhaps the Irish are
not entirely wrong in stressing
the need for Irish. '
• On this, as on so many other
issues, North and South are not
in agreement. But even in the
Irish Republic one finds little
enthusiasm for a' tongue that may
be long on lyrical beauty but
which in this day and age seems
short of practicality.
Yet the Irish are a proud race
—and doubtless will not quickly
set aside the language of their
Celtic forefathers.
How Can 1?
By, ,Anne Ashley
Q. How can I remove flakes
of soot from a light felt hat?
A. Do not try to rub them off,
nor wet the spots. Merely. cover
the spots with some dry salt,
then remove with a stiff brush.
Q. How can I decorate a
plain flower pot to make it
more attractive?
A. Wrap the pot with crepe
paper, but before doing this,
cover the pot with about two
thicknesses of oiled paper; this
will prevent discolored marks
from water that may overflow.
TAIL-HEAVY — Tiny Cocoa, a
need more than that apple to
home. Suffering, a broken leg
have to wear that heavy , cast
and his helpers and hurling in-
sults across the ring at them—
an odd pastime which they kept
up practically throughout the
contest,
The early rounds produced
little of.note, and it was not until
the fourth round that the fight
suddenly exploded into life.
Dempsey, Unleashing= a series of
blows, drove Tunney back until
the champion's knees buckled.
He. looked about to go down, but
unexpectedly produced a heavy
, right to the' jaw which stopped
Dempsey's advance. Now it was
his 'turn: to go lorward, and be-
fore the end of the round it was
Dempsey who was nearly down.
The "fifth round was fought to
• similar pattern, Tunney being
out-fought at the start arid fin-
' ishing strongly as his rival spent
his strength.
Caine the sixth, the,' round in
which,DempseYhad. promised to
end it. He nearly` sticceeded, too,
when after landing a dozen
heavy ptuiehee -he had Tunney-
hanging_ on desperately as the
bell went'
Immediately the seventh round
began Dempsey threw every-
thing into attack.. Tunney was
driven back under a merciless
hail of blows and this time was
unable to land the counter that
got him out of trouble before. As•
'he stood against the ropes, Dempe
sey moved in for the kill. A left
turned Tunney round, and the
follOwing .right dumped him on
the floor.
The timekeeper began to count
and Dempsey stood looking down
at his victim. Then he realized
the referee was motioning' him
away to the far corner of the
ring. Under the rule, not until
he was there could the ,referee
begin counting; The' timekeePer.
called "five" as "the referee said
"one." As the timekeeper reached
ten Tunney was still down, but
the referee went on. Six .. = sev-
en . . . eight. . .
At nine Tunney climbed to his
feet, and as Dempsey rushed
across the ring he was able to
wrap his, arms round his oppon-
ent and hold on. He survived the
round, and though still weak in
the next his strength gradually
returned.
His recovery was made to look
more complete by his challen-
ger's rapid decline. Dempsey had
suddenly become old and tired,
and as the bout wore on to the
end of its allotted ten rounds
there was no doubt that Tunney
would keep the title.
Had Dempsey really spent him-
self in that desperate seventh
round? Or was he so disappoint-
ed at seeing the title dashed
away from him that hie spirit
gave up? No one, probably not
even Dempsey himself, knows
the answer,
As for Tunney, though he cut
it fine, he was fit to continue
according to the referee's count.
Whether he could have done so
by the timekeper's "ten," if
Dempsey had retired to the far
corner as soon as the knockdown
occurred, is again something no
One knouts;
But two fade are beyond ar-
gement: the referee's statement
that the count had reached a to-
tal of fourteen seconds, an
Dempsey's laconic comment: "I
had iffy golden chalice in the
seventh round, *ind I blew it"
Pwo Men Sat the blood
bank of a town.' ifl Arizona, One
Wee a battiest; '"-the other an
Apache Indian. -
The tourist Ivrea curiously;
then, leaning forward, asked:
"Are you a Ihilebliatitled Ins
The Apache thought deeply;.
then said:. "Well, acttuillyi 00,
I'm a Pitit short."
Pulled A Bus
With His Hair
If somebody, hung you upside-
down with four bicycles tied
to your hair, you'd probably ex-
pect it to come out in handfuls,
But it has been done — by a
muscular Indian, who also by his
hair pulled a fully loaded 'bus
600 yards along a Bombay street.
You'd be surprised at the
strength of human hair. For in-
stance, there was a Man who
hung by his hair with the great-
est of ease Shortly before the
war. Ile was a daring New
Yorker named Eddie. Polo,
With his hair fastened to a
pulley, he used to slide down a
1,000 ft. cable et forty miles an
hour, plummeting at the end of
the run into a river,
By his hair Eddie once pulled
a car, with his wife at the wheel,
for nearly a quarter of a mile.
Another time he hung by his hair
from a pulley with his wife dang-
ling from his legs.•
Few men with their hands
could lift a barrel of beer weigh-
ing 140 lb. But a German named
Seethe did it with the forelocks
of his hair. He would also stand
on two stools with leather straps
attached to his hair in front and
behind and suspend friam these
two big cans of sand weighing
176 lb. He could do this for five
minutes.
An American scientist invent-
ed the pilometer, a delicate in-
strument which measures how
firmly hair is attached to the
head.
He found that a pull equal to
one ounce is enough to pull a
single hair out of the scalp. But
Chinese hair, strongest of all hu-
man hair, needs three times this
force.
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Other Oddities
It's what every golfer dreams
of doing at least once in his life-
time: the "ace" — or hole-in-one
shot: But few would care to
experience the sort of aftermath
that befell Mr. George Scott
when playing the short seven-
teenth at Aboyne,
He hooked his tee shot left of
the green but, to his joy, saw
the ball kick violently into the
air, hit the flag and drop —
plonk! — into the hole. As he
howled with delight a grounds-
man rushed up carrying two
quart beer bottles, "Did ye jilt
get an ace, sir?" he asked.
"I did that!" retorted Scott
proudly.
"Then, sir," replied the old
Scot, "I reckon, you deserve a
drink."
"Thanks," said the triumphant
golfer as he grabbed one of the
bottles and took a long swig,
Unfortunately, he discovered —
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ISSUE 52 1958
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Four Seconds
Full Of Thrills
The heavyweight champion of
the world was in; teouble, pinned
against the ropek by a relentless
challenger who, had sworn , to
knock him, Out,: he was trapped'
under a mreciless hail ,of ;blows,
A left hook smashed against, his
jaw and spun him round, While
,
`
he was still off' balance, a right
thudded into 'his face. The, force
of the blow' lifted him ;off his feet
find he' crashed to, the fleet-,. He
struggled to• rise, but`fell back.
There . Was ab rief, moment of ",
awed silence as the vast crowd,
watched, Then Pandenionium
broke out: The, challenger stood
exultantly over hiS fallen' ,
confidenelhatathe title was about',
to,,,change hands. Four seconds
passed before fie notibeethe
feree frantically" Waving him to,
the , far' side of the ring.
Four seconds. A tiny slice, of
time, yet they altered the course
'of boxing history and 'became
the most famous four secpnds in,
the, annals:. of the aring.
Because of, them, Jack Demp-
, sey failed to break, the tradition
that "they never come back." No
dethroned world heavyweight
champion had ever managed to•
regain his title, and none has ..
done so since then.
Yet Dempsey, when he faced
Gene Tunney, his conqueror of
exactly a year earlier, that stif-
lingly hot night at. Soldiers' Field,
Chicago, in September, 1927,
came nearer to achieving the
"impossible" than any 'other ex-
champion, before. or since The
irony of his failure was that he
had only himself to blame—by
breaking a rule he had suggested
himself.
This was a sequel to a previous
fight, with Luis Firpo, when
many critics claimed he had
fouled by hitting Firpo while his
opponent was still rising after
being boored. So Dempsey sug-
gested that when a boxer was
knocked down the man still on
his feet should retire to the far-
thest corner of the ring. This
way, he reckoned, there would
be no risk of a foul or disquali-
fication.
The rule was brought into
operation when Dempsey, having
lost his title to Gene Tunney af-
ter a three-year absence from
the ring, was given the chance
to win it back.
The circumstances boosted the
return fight into one of the most
important of the century. Many
experienced judges, shocked by
the ease of Tunney's first victory
(on points Over ten rounds), We're
sure he would never do it again.
ao was Dempsey, who said he
would score a knock-out in the
sixth round,
Tunney in turn declared that
having won the first fight by bet-
ter boxing, he would now demon-,
strafe his complete superiority
by proving himself the better
fighter as well.
More than 100,000 people paid
Well °Vet a million and a half
to watch the bout, though most
of their must have needed tele-,
scopes. Tunney received. S606,00
and DerripSey just under half
that Sinn Tex Rickard, the pro-
Meter, Cleated $2 0,000. No one
giardged a Pettily of 'these vast
Stints, fot was dile of the few
big lights that lived Up to its
ballyhoo, tight people died from
ekeitertientaWhild listening to the
broadeaSti three of them during
the drarklatie "long. count" Sett-'
*hilt
Tunney waged a nerve war
front the start by keeping Dent-
seY waiting in the ring for ten
minutes before lie appeared.
Then his wends immediately
began pulling faces at beintiseY
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