HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-01-08, Page 6TOWERING TRIBUTE - Towering 101 feet above ground near
the U.S.A. Capitol is the Taft Memorial Bell Tower. Construct-
ed of marble, it was erected in memory of the -late Sen. Robert
A. Taft. Cost of some $900,000 was met with voluntary con-
tributions.
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"Dear Anne Hirst:
I wish you would write a
piece straight from the horse's
mouth about those Mothers who
insist on living with their Chil-
dren when they marry. It may
clear the way for an engaged
couple I know who foresee
trouble with a capital T.
fear for the poor man. His
fiancee's mother, who is wells
off, is planning to live with
them!"
"Even now, he and she don't
get along too well. She is with
ihem every chance she gets; she
tries to go along every time they
leave the house, and when they
don't, she sits in the parlor until
he leaves. Besides, she talks too
much,
"She lavishes expensive gifts
on the girl, who dares not de-
cline them. It makes her fiance
furious; he takes it as a personal
reflection on his slim income.
"Another couple, married nine
months, live with his mother,
but if they stay there they won't
be married long. They are in
their late 20's, and both want a
family. His mother is literal] a
appalled at the idea, but if they
suggest leaving she throws a
dramatic scene,
"We all need our mothers,
their affection, their advice, of-
ten their help; but most of the
mothers I've observed are born
bosses, they stick their noses
(and their tongues) in where
they're not wanted, and only
make trouble. Why don't they
stay in the background where
they belong? INDIGNANT"
* Here is a true story:
* A dear friend of mine lost
* her husband two years ago.
* Their only son had been mar-
e ried less than a year After
4` the funeral my friend Ind me
4' excitedly that she was going
* "They really want me, Anne,
* to move in with the children:
* and they mean it. I can do the
* marketing and have dinner
ready (the wife still teaches)
and relieve them in so many
* ways. Aren't they wonder,
* ful?" And tears ran down her
* cheeks,
* I was appalled, I slipped
* into another room where the
e son and his wife were. "You
* two can talk to me, you know.
* Now, the truth!" They looked
* at each other, and the boy
* said, "We do want Mom, of
* course, but you know we'd
* rather be alone,"
* Mom and I had a long talk.
* I recalled the trouble her own
* mother - in - law had caused,
* and I knew my friend's tern-
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ISSUE 1 1959
perament. I left her with,
* "You'll decide for yourself, of
* course." - Some weeks later
* she was sharing her apartment
$ with a woman friend and had
$ got herself a good position that
* employs her many talents, The
* children come to dinnee once
4' a week, she visits them now
* and then, Meantime, she lets
* them alone.
A few months later she told
* how beautfiully things were
* working out: "I'm so relieved
* that I decided to stay here, 1
just bet I couldn't help trYinit
• to boss thorn:"
r. What a pity more mothers
4` are not as wise. Children do
* need their mothers, as you
s say, but they are the ones to
* decide when.
"Dear Aene Hirst:
Congratulations on tat article
you wrote about grandmothers-
in-law. Everything you said is
so true! It would be well it
young mothers would read it
more than once,
"I am happy to say that t
does not reflect on me; the
grandchildren really love and
trust me, and I am grateful to
be just a good friend they can
turn to when things go wrong.
but I have seen and heard so
much about the other kind that
1 must thank you again for giv-
ing the topic space
"So often it seems to me that
the only time in-laws are want-
ed is when the youngsters need
money, or a babysitter for free.
ADMIRER"
* * *
If children. are old enough to
marry they are old enough .to
run their own lives. Don't move
in unless you must - and then
don't dominate them . . . Anne
Hirst's counsel is at your service
Write her at Box1, 123
Eighteenth St., N e w Toronto,
Ontario.
Problem Drivers
Americans tend to seek simple
answers to complex social prob-
lems on the basis of merely pass-
ing a law . .
This tendency was plainly at
work the other day when a
group of members of a special
committee of the Utah Safety
Council, meeting at the Capitol.
recommended a number of
changes in Utah's driver license
laws „ •
These are all questionable re-
visions of Utah's driver license
laws for the simple reason that
they do not get at the heart of
the problem. •
The essence of the driver con-
trol problem is not the great
mass of good drivers.
Most drivers are responeible.
Mpst usually obey traffic laws
and follow sound driving prac-
tices. They make mistakes, of
course. They are guilty of some
violations. They do have acci-
dents.
But they are not dangerous,
problem drivers, and they do not
need specialized enforcement
and 'control.
Problem drivers, on the other
hand, do need special.attention.
And they're not getting it-or
not getting enough of it-in Utah
today.
Far too many of them are get-
ting slap-of-the-wrist punish-
ment for frequent misdeeds be-
cause of police or prosecutorial
or judicial laxity.
Far too many, despite sus-
pension or revocation of the?r
licenses after serious tnolatione,
are receiving "reetricsed" driv-
ing privileges,
Far too many, despite loss of
license, continue -to drive,-
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It (Mount .Kilimanjaro) has
been climbed many times by a
large _variety of people and is
no mountaineering feat, but it
has its own fascination, not least
of which is to find snow on the
Equator,
It is perhaps surprising to find
this phenomenon in all three
East African 'equatorial territoes
les, Tanganyika Territory, Kenya
and Uganda, Tanganyika takes
the honour of having the high-,
est mountain in Africa .and the
fourteenth highest in the world„
Mount Kilimanjaro,
it was first sighted by Euro-
pean eyes when seen by John.
Rebmann, a Church Missionary
Society missionary, in 1.8.48,
Next year, his more famous col-
league, Ludwig Krapf, visited,
what he called his "East African
Alpine land." He was fascinated
by its deep green forests, snow-
cooled rushing streams and clear
sparkling air,. It was on 3rd De-
cember 1849 that he "observed
two large horns or pillars, as it
were, rising over an enormous
mountain to the 'north-west of
Kilimanjaro, covered with a
white substance," These were
the snow-capped peaks of Mellon
and Batian of Mount Kenya, ris-
ing to a height of 17,040 feet in
the intense blue sky.
It is strange to find that these
discoveries were received with
incredulity and even abuse by
English geographers! It was
contrary to prevailing theory to
find snow-capped mountains on
the Equator. Kropf and Bele.,
mann were discredited in many
quarters even by Livingstone.
They were believed in France
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and awarded a medal by the
Paris Geographical Society, for
their stories renewed those
strange legends which had drift-
ed through the centuries con-
cerning the existence of the
Mountains cf the Moon, whence
the River Nile was reputed to
have its source. .
In the tropics you get used to
odd and strange things. Mount
Kilimanjaro is ceretainly rio ex-
ception. It is a very unusual
mountain altogether, To begin
with it is just below the Equator
where you would least expect to
find snow, ice and all the accom-
panying freezing process. Yet
here is the highest mountain in
Africa and one of the highest in
the world (19,700 ft,), And you
do not have to climb in the strict
eense of the word at all. True
mountaineers scoff at this noble
mountain mass which looks from
a distance like a Christmas pud-
ding with white sauce on the
-top. But its strangeness is uri-
(tenably fascinating,
The ascent of a snow-capped
mountain in the tropics is like a
journey in miniature from the
Equator to the pole, Front the
banana groves and dense lush
rein forests at the base you pase,
through the various belts of
vegetation until you reach the
eternal snows,
It should be added by way of
explanation that Kilirhanjaro
has two peaks, the taller Otte
Mount Klbo, the lesser one
Mount Mawetiti. rt IS Mount
Kiho whose majestic snow-cap-
ped dente arrests the eye for
hundreds Of Miles around.
!'suti, sand and Safari,"
by I. 13, Carson,
The old year is practically
gone; 'the New Year is almost
.with us and so it is time to ex-
tend to you my very best wishes
of sthe season. I hope, too, that
you had a most enjoyable
Christmas; that it will be one
more happy memory to carry
.long into the new year.
December 31 and January 1
are two days close together in
time but worlds apart in sig-
nificance. At the end of the old
year inevitably we realise that
a lot of things we worried about
never really happened. We tried
to cross many bridges before
we came to them. Looking back
we see how foolish we were.
But, by and large, it wasn't such
a bad old year, was it? But we
naturally hope the New. Year
will be even better. To the old
year belong whatever there was
of good and bad; to the New
Year belon, as yet, only hope,
determination and opportunities.
For what? That depends on our-
selves, doesn't ,it? We don't all
hope for the same things; we
don't all recognise opportunities,,
when they arise, but we all have
a certain amount of determina-
tion. Oh, yes, the New Year is
a wonderful time so let's greet
the little fellow with a cheerful
grin and make, him as welcome
as we can, Might as• well, he'e
going to be around for another
twelve months anyway.
Of course I am of necessity
ahead of time in my writing.
This column has to sort of pro-
ject itself into space for pub-
lishing requirements. So, as I
write we haven't even had our
Christmas and that makes- it a
little awkward - in more ways
than one. But we're getting
there and no doubt when the
New Year dawns I, too, shall
be able to look back with a
spirit of thankfulness for a
Christmas of ' joy and gladness
and look forward to a New Year
that could quite easily be better
than the last.
As I write I know it is going
to be an eventful year. In fact
it is a safe bet that an years
from now on in this nuclear age
ore bound to be- eventful. Quite
apart from world affairs we may
see a lot of changes in various
localities. There are bound to
be, with so much road work in
progress, mushroom towns, sub-
divisions and shopping centres.
Time was when a faxen\ was a
farm and likely to be for years
to come. It might change owner-
ship but it still remained a farm,
Fields were ploughed; cattle pas-
tured, pigs bred and raised,
chickens up With the sun, dili-
gently laying eggs as their share
in Providing a living for the
farmer and his family. Prides
were rarely what they should
be but there was a permanence
about the old farm that gave the
family a feeling of security, Now
in the more populated areas that
permatienee has all but disap-
peared, Many a hundred-acre
farm, which, likely as not dates
back to the Crown, has now an
uncertain future. In a few years
time it could be e cloverleaf,
gas stt,tion or maybe the site of
a new factory, dbpcnding On itir
location. Old buildings disap-
pear, new ones come into being
and each time that happens
something very precious is often
comple.ely lost. By that I mean
the early history. Nothing is left
to remind those who come 'after
that they are travelling roads
that were once Indian trails, and
later the early roads of the
pioneers - those valiant souls
who braved wind, weather. and
sickness to wrest a living from
the soil and to pave the way for
generations to come. Progress is
desirable and inevitable but it
seems to me every township
should do something to nreserve
its own history. There should
be a printed pamphlet available
at cost to all those who are
interested - and certainly for
' use in the schools. It need not
be elaborate - just an outline
of the district, the names of its
first settlers;s the location of old
mills, churches, taverns and
pioneer industries. So much is
being lost.
Even now construction has al-
ready started on a new bridge
on No. 5 Highway in Trafalgar
Township - at one time called
Dundas Street, or sometimes
Governor's Road, as it was
originally intended as a military
road by Governor John Graves
Simcoe. The bridge ,will span
a huge ravine. Motorists will
S LLY'S SALLIES
"I'm going honie to Mother to
learn how to cook."
Land of Potriqr;hs .
If we draw a line from EgYpt
through the Mediterranean lands
of Palestine and Syria, the;
following the Tigris and Euph-
rates, through Mesopotamia to
the Persian gulf, the result is
an unmistakable crescent,
Four thousand years ago this
mighty semicircle around the
Arabian Desert, which is called
the ".Fertile Crescent", embraced
a multiplicity of civilizations ly-
ing side by side like a lustrous
string of pearls, Rays of light
streamed out from, them into
the surrounding darkness of
mankind, Here lay the center of
civilization from the Stone Age
tight up to the golden age of
Greco-Roman culture.
About 2000 B.C., the farther
we look beyond the ,Fertile
Crescent, the deeper grows the
darkness, and signs of civiliza-
tion and: culture decrease. But
over the eastern Mediterranean,
already a light is shining. It is
the heyday of the Minoan kings
of Crete, founders of the first
sea power known to history
In the Fertile Crescent and to
Egypt . . cultured and highly
developed civilizations jostled
each other in colorful and be-
wildered array,
Peace and .prosperity must
have reigned in this world of
Nile, Euphrates, and Tigris, for
we have never yet discovered an
inscription dating from this
period that records any lieges'
scale warlike activities.
Then suddenly from the heart
of this great Fertile Crescent,
from the sandy sterile wastes,
of the Arabian desert whose
shores are lashed by the waters
of the Indian Ocean, there burst
in violent assaults on the north,
on the northwest, on Mesopo-
tamia, Syria, and Palestine a
horde of nomadic tribes ,of
Semitic stock. In endless waves
these Amorites, 'Westerners" as
their name implies, surged
against the kingdoms of the
Fertile Cerscent.
The empire of the kings of
Sumer and Akkad collapsed
in 1960 B.C, under their irre-
sistible attack . .
Meanwhile one of these tribes
of Semitic nomads was destined
'to be of fateful' significance for
millions upon millions througe-
out the world tip to the , present
day. It veep a little grbup, per-
haps onlifea: family,, as unknown
and unireportant as a tiny grain
of sand in a desert storm: the
family of:Abraham, forefather of
the patriarchs . . .-
"Now the Lord had said unto
Abram, get thee outof thy
country, and from thy icindred,
and from thy father's house,
unto a land that I will shew
thee. (Gen. 12;1.)"
The' country of which the
Bible is speaking in this case
is Haran. Terah, his son Abram,
his daughter in law Satai, and'
drive over it, as they do over
the present bridge, and few will
lrnow that down in the ravine
there was once a thriving
pioneer village called "Proud-
foot s Hollow", Heye William
Lyon Mackenzie is said to have
hidden and evaded his pursuers
after the disastrous Battle of
Montgomery's Tavern. The Tril-
ler residence where he once lay
hidden in the attic while soldiers
played cards on the ground
floor, still stands overlooking the
ravine. Dundas Street is steeped
in history and Proudfoot Hollow
ehould certainly be given recog-
nition as, an historic site before
its history is completely for-
gotten, Already much has been
lost. One of the earliest post
offices - "Postville" was re-
cently demolished and a gas sta-
tion erected on the site. Cars
are now serviced where the
Stage Coach changed horses be-
fore making the, perilous journey
through ProudfoOt
Modern' progress speaks for it-
self; History depends •upon • us
for its preservation. Shall we
sit back - and let the past be
mote • and more obliterated?
Surely riot:
his grandson Lot 11*d there,
Sien, 1.1:31,)
What was actually meant by
Horan was until recently almost
.entirely unknown, We knew
nothing of its eary history, All
the old Babylonian docurneots.
were silent about the middle
reaches of the Euphrates, 'Mese,
pctainia, the land between the
rivers, where Baran once stood,
A chance find led to eXcaYa,
tions in. 1903„ which here also.
gave rise to a great and exciting
discoyery end added consider-
ably to our knowledge, They
brought the Haran of the Bible
and the kind of life lived by
the patriarchs quite unexpected-
ly into .a historical context,
.-.From "The Bible as History,"
by Werner Keller, translated
by William Neil,
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The eldest of the 12 regular
sediarii, the plodding men who
bear 'the Pope in his portable
throne, is Pio D'Eusebics a gray-
ing, 52-year-oId Romans One of
the great honors which came re-
cently to Signor D'Ensebio and
leis colleagues' was to- carry Pope
John XXIII from the Sistine'
Chapel to St. Peter's and back
again,. a circuitous trip' of nearly
une-half mile, on the occasion
of the coronation.
Last month the popular Pontiff
took note of their labors. Re-
portedly regretting that his
weight (about 200 pounds), was
greater than that of his prede-
cessor (about 140), John• grant-
.' ed the sediarii bonuses of 15,000
lire ($24).
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carried five Popes, and who him-
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recall any precedent for such
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