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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-01-08, Page 700.444$ Grand 5cIttne. Is Canecia next on jimmy linfra's unionization timetable': Yes, says Peter C. Newman in current issue of Meelean's maga- eine. • In an interview, the rough, and - tumble boss of the racket, prohed International Brotherhood of Teaineters told Newman; —"The continued growth, ef Our union in Canada . . is of vital importance." •e-"We reserve the right to organize anything that's not organized, regardless what ii in." ---"We're going to epend what- ever dollars are necessary for this job," • "Hoffe'e ambition," says New- man, "is to enlist a quarter of million Canadians in his Brotherhood within the next ten years. He is prepared to pay $3 million to get them." Where does Hoffa stand now in Canada? The Teamsters Brotherhood is the country's sixth-largest union. "Its more than 40,000 members," says Newman, "drive most of Can- ada's intercity . transports, in, elude more than half of the country's 8,000 breadmen, the majority of the milkmen." They also include the girls who fill chocolates at the Moirs plant in Halifax, N.S., and the disk joc• keys at station CFCO in' Chat- ham, Ont, In Montreal, Team- sters' organizers are getting into a new field: They're signing up. the city's hearse drivers. "To Jimmy Hoffa, a teamster is anybody who sleeps on a bed. with movable casters," one unionist explained. "The ultimate plan of the Teamsters. Brotherhood," says Newman,. "is to establish a U.S.-• Canadian power bloc of 50 trans-, .portation-union alliances. That would give Hoffa effective con- trol over the • movement of everything on wheels, in a continent that moves on wheels." • To spearhead his Canadian op- erations, Hoffa has chosen I. M, (Casey) Dodds, a deceptively mild-mannered former Windsor, Ont., bus driver' who has been mainly' responsible for doubling the number of Canadian Teams eters in fiVe years... Dodd's first target: The warehouse a n d transport workers along the new, Sts Lawrence Seaway and the. Great LakeS: He is preparing to launch in March a massive cam-, paign that "will make a lot of eMployert lose a lot of pounds." —From NEWSWEEK. The Bright Army The flowers that bloom in the Spring Tra la Have nothing to do with the case, sang Gilbert blithely. Not this case, •perhaps. But they, have everything to do with ours. London at this' time -of year would be in a sorry case ,svith- Put' them. A thin yellow fog seems 'to hang permanently ,over the city. Daylight creeps into ,its kennel like a flee& dog' earlier each afternoon. A rawness sweeps across the open parks, , and in the streets people huddle deep into their overcoats. Even the dogs shiver, and. a few ,are pushed unwillingly into: absurd little coats and jackets. Cats have withdrawn from doorsteps and are fleeting 'their claws sleepily on fireside rugs, The last American has spread his jet wings for New York or the sunshine of California. Eng- land is in the grip of winter's siege. Except for the flowers that should ordinarily bloom in the spring, but have been coaxed by clever florists to bloom now, Like a reliaeing army they rush :nto shop windows at Berkeley Square, Baker Street, arid South Kensington, The top end of North Audley Street is ablaze with them. They fling ,down th.e gage in Piccadilly, and Wigmore Street has seen their bright challenge slashing the drab of traffic, Even little local streets have felt their impact. Sedate ranks of chrysanthe- inems are pierced and scattered by mimosa. Azaleas, forced tc perfection, spread their lovely little branches in miniature shade. Prim 'violets in tiny bunches wait to be pinned onto a lady's coat or to nestle on her dressing table. Multifarious Col- ored polyanthes toss lightheart- ed heads, and daffodils are trumpetiit gloripusly that they have done it again, earlier than, ever. Narcissi droop modestly but smell more sweetly. Stiff hyacinths parade like guards• men, blue 'and red and purest white. Roses, are, royal all the year round, gracing- only gala occasions, Writes. Rosemary Cob- ham in The Christian Science Monitor. The flowers that bloom in the spring are the secret agents of the antiwinter warfare. They can capture a heart singleherid- ed; roll up' an 'army of gloomy thoughts; tear doevn winter's, blackout and fling color into every window: They liberate the captive dullard,' and cause children to laugh with glee: EVen the baby will pause in his pri- vate confabulation with himielf and, clutch' greedily at their bright banners. Winter is no longer an enemy, but a backdrop to this glorious pageant. This, is London's vie-. tory parade; its army of libera- tion anticipating the armistice. These early' spring flowers are both the diversionary troops and the assault troops. They take Winter by surprise each year; arid 'they take us by Surprise also: They are the re- curring miracle 'that smudges the seasons into one blur of happiness. Pushing back the chair from our desk, we stuff the housekeeping money into our .pocket and make for their stronghold. For' what can keep house better than a massed bat- talion of anemones, and what more delicious to geast upon than daffodils at dinnertime? ISSUE 1 — 1959 ALL BALLED UP—Balancing neat- ly on one leg, a crane tucks its head among Its feathers at a zoo in Chessington, England. Could be the bird is shy, or else just doesn't like to be photo- graphed. Is The Cat A Walking Compass ? Standing in a.skiniet country lane in' Devon recently, a school- teacher„ frOm. Middlesex gave a peculiar Whistle. 'Out 'from hedge, boundeds a lean,'s grey'eat , . . . the family petethe school- teacher had lost, in that lane a Year earlier. Last 'year, when his car had overturned there he 'and his son were injured, and had to spend weeks in hospital. Mitzi-, the cat, fled from the 'car and vanished. This year the school-teacher went back to the lane;:after mak- ing vain inquiries elsewhere for the missing., Mitzi. The cat an- swered his whistle and is 'now safely back home. It is' believed that it-fed on scraps Provided by kindly' householders living near the scene of the crash, which it was reluctant to leave. Cat experts are puzzled by this incident. They say that most' cats have strong homing instincts and will usually attempt to yeturn to their old homes, 'however great the distance may be. A famous British naturalist votiches for the story of Snooty, a four-year-old black and white car who was born at Winder- •mere, who went with his owners when they moved to Sandbach, in Cheshire travelling by, car, and after three days hi and- bach, disappeared. That was in September, 1952. The •following February, Snooty arrived back in Windermere. His 120-mile walk had taken him tive months. Fabre, the great 'French na- turalist, records that a cat be- longing to him was carried fonr and a half tniles in a basket. Upon arrival it was confined to the house for a `week in the hope that it would become used to its new home. But directly it was released the eat returned to its old home; when it arrived it wee wet to the Ain, and its body Was smeared with red earth, evi- dence that it had crossed a river which had barred its way and afterwards gathered up the dust of the fields. When Professor Hetricks, an- other naturalist, tried to Probe the mystery of homing cal he Came to the conclusion that nei- ther sight, smell nor heating enables a cat to return to fa- iiilllar strteutidings. "Instead of any of these senses, the cat's inevitable return is due to a inyetkions power of Me/Miry Of its lunacies," he decided, "It Is RS though Withini the' muscles of the cat there is a compass whose needle points steadily homeward, no Metter hoW Many twists and fifths the aninial dergoog iti its edterriey etvay- ri bill hOttfe.' Memories of Two Great Players For one travelling the Ameri- can League with the Red Sox, it. was always a pleasure to in- vade Cleveland's Municipal Stadium or Detroit's Briggs Stadium a couple Of hours be- fore the game, because there was the chance you might run into Tris Speaker or Mel Ott, Sitting on a photographer's bench on the field or in a front- row box during batting prac- tice, Speaker loved to talk about the young players of today and, for those who could remember, about some of the great games and stars of a new forgotten era. Eating a piegrame snack or playing a friendly card game at the downstairs press room at Briggs Stadium, Ott was of the. same mind. He would talk, fOr hours about his days with the Giants, under McGraw, and it was a feather in the cap of any newsman who could get Mel and Ted Williams into a dis- cussion of hitting. „cr. Tris and Mel — baseball was their life. They could have stayed away when their playing days were over, but they pre- ferred to come back — preferred to mingle with the young men now playing the game and, oc- casionally, to run into a friend •wlio had been a part of , their playing generations. There will be something miss- eng in Clevelanel.Pind 'Detroit, something that warmed the heart of a visiter:'Whe admired these two gentlemen, and their feeling . fors, basebsdh Ott; of course, went several weeks ago, but Speaker's passing has just ' now . saddened-, the. hearts of all who knew him. Before settling into a scout- ingscoaching post with the Cleveland club, Speaker, like - Ott, wrote one of the really great stories of baspball history.- Tris was a center fielder, and the standard he set at that key 'outfield position has been used as a .yatdstick down through the years. There have been the defensive skills of such ' as Terry Moore, Jimmy .Piersall, the Di Maggios and a few others, ,but those who saw Speaker" in most of his 22: years With the Red Sox, Indians, Senators, and Athletics say that, there'.. has never been his equal in all-around performance. Tris could go and get the ball and he ,could throw it, but he could also swing a potent bat .344 for -22 big league years. He , posted such -averages as .366, .386, .388, .378, .380, and .3119, and would have won string of batting crowns instead of just one (in 1916 at Cleve- land) if 7.1'y Cobb had not been around, writes Rumili• in the Christian Science Monitor.. Speaker broke in with the 'Red Sox in 1907 and was still active while managing Newark in 1930, He played on three world championship clubs, at Boston in 1912 arid e15, and Cleveland in '20. He managed the Indians from '19 to '26. Tris had a .306 batting average for World. Series play, Noted for his shallow position in center field and his ability to go back for a fly ball, Speaker was the middle man on what is still considered by many to be the greatest outfield of all timee With Duffy Lewis in left and Harry Hooper in right, Tris was part of a unit which Fenway Park still. talks about. In recent years, though it has never been written, Speaker did much to help Jimmy Piersall walk the comeback trail. At every opportunity, while the Red SoX were at Municipal Stadium, Tris would sit down with Jim, talking like a big brother, build- big Up his confidence, Jim would listen like any eager kid would have listeterl to the counsel of the great Speaker, absorbing every Word, every gesture. Tris always had time for a' young player, to praise his strong points and atig, gent ways of overcoming his weakness, ,of his teat fit the press leek oiled the gaine,got Under way, Tris often added Weight to the gales of the Sallies. Goat Kills A man.ratiag Tigr If yeet had visited the little village of Saingu, about 4Q miles I from 1Vraymye in Upper Btirree, in the years just before the Japanese invasion, you would have been taken to see its most honored inhabitant - a billy- goat called. Rhaka. He lived in a shed adjoining the priest's house, and every day villagers would come to of- fer him food and adorn him with earlande of flowers. Reake had net always been popular, He had first arrived in the village some years earlier, a big aggressive creature from_ the wilds, lie would wander al/ over the rice fields, eating the crops. He would even enter the little huts and gobble up do- mestic food supplies * or the washing, He would playfully butt the villagers into the Why had they enddred this instead of killing him? The priest, whose word none dared question, had declared that Rhaka was the reincarnation et a long-dead hero. A time came when the district was plagued by something more dangerous than a goat — a man- eating tiger, Most mornings the villagers would find the bones of cattle, sometimes of children, in the fields. In despair they sent news of their plight to the authorities, and in due course a safari of two white hunters and attendants came to the village of Sairtgu, The white men were Captain Roy Powell Browne, a hunter of nearly 20 years'. experience, and Mr, Clive Yeomans, a school- master on holiday from Rangoon. How was •the tiger to be trap- ped? Live bait was necessary and someone thought of the goat Rhaka. If he was tethered to a tree ancP the tiger was attracted to him, the goat would be killed by the big cat and the hunters would have a chance of shooting the tiger."' That way they would be kilt, ing two birds with one stone. And the villagers would not be guilty of killing the goat; for the guilt would be the tiger's. The priest's permission was Rhaka. But it needed more than pbtained for the capture of permission; it needed craft and courage. 'The': whole village population was' called up for the enter- prise. The idea-was to,surround a man skilled with the rope Rhaka and corner him so that could lass& ,hiM. But he was agile and fierce and 'most of the villagers were—scared to come near him; hid. 'sadden charges repeatedly broke the circle. Un- aware of the debt he owed the priest, •Rhaka made a dash at the holy man and butted him into a well. But after some hours he was lassoed. Bleating and struggling he was. led .away to the edge of a nullah = a dried-up water- course, 'narrow but about 15 feet deep':— which separated the cultivated land from the fringe of the dense jungle. A little way from the brink of this hollow there was a mango 'tree. To this Rhaka was tethered. Nearby on another tree a platform had been made and thete, with guns in hand, Cap- tain PoWell Browne and Mr. Yeomans waited. For a long time the goat uttered heart - rending bleats. Then 'came a more. fearsome sound from the very long and thick grass on the other` side of the nullah — the roar of a tiger. Suddenly a great striped form sprang through the air and landed on the goat's side' of the gap. The tiger turned towards the goat and crouched for at- other spring. The hunters had him in their sights; each squeezed the trig- ger. But there was only one shot, for Powell Browne's gun had jammed, Mid Yeomans missed. Could they `reload before the \great cat turned on them? But this was unnecessary, Bleating furiously, Rhaka ran almost to the end of Ms tether, straight at the tiger. The beast was off his balance,, He stagger- ed backwards trying wildly to regain a foothold — and slowly toppled into the nullah 15 feet below. And there he lay, Silent and still. After some time Powell MERRY MENAGERIE AGENTS WANTED GO INTO BUSINESS fer yaltrsell. 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Rhaka himself was unhurt. The follow-through of his charge had taken him almost to the edge of the nullah, but there he had been checked by coming to the end of his tether. News was sent to the village and, led by the priest, a crowd assembled. Solemnly the priest declared that Rhaka was the re- incarnation of one of the Nets, the good spirits of the locality, and he adopted the goat as a sacred animal. - As the 'years passed,'Rhaka became a, tame and contented creature. The only 'danger he ran was that of over-indulgence. He grew very fat 'on the food offered by the villagers and a "harem" of 10 female ghats was found for him. ,Hi's offspring, also declared sacred, populated the country for miles around, Whether it was coincidence or a sort of snit-par -telepathy, no tiger dared show itself again in the neighborhood of Saingu while Rhaka lived. How Can I? By Anne Ashley. c.-. Q.How can I prevent the ink from spreading, when marking linen? A. 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