HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-02-19, Page 7now Chips had heard that bell
.days and nights before anyone
cise, Sir James comments in
Airritie amount of his first six
veers ender sail: "Sail lice,
written in Collaboration with P
It. Stephenson. Was the dis-
covery of the real bell--a mil-
liongo-one chance in mid-ocean
—just a coincidence al the very
time he'd gone off his head with
a touch of the sun and imagined
Le could hear bells?
Another strange thing happen.
d on the voyage bank, 900 miles
off Africa, when the masts and
,'arils were given a fresh coat of
white paint, The mate noticed a
drift of reddish dust swirling
in the corners of the poop deck,
then discovered that the wet
Paint on masts and yards was
completely covered with it, "A
ruddy dust storm, sir, during the
night," he told the skipper in-
credulously.
"Dust storm?" said the cap•
tain. "We're nearly a thousand
miles from land!" But he went
aloft and saw for himself that the
unbelievable had occurred, A
whirlwind from the Sahara had,
presumably carried a dust-cloud
high in the air for 1,500 miles or
more, to deposit it in mid-ocean
on that new paint!
Sir James says he's never
heard of it happening to any
other ship. He's never heard,
either, of a ship with burst seams
making port safely, held to-
s.gether with cable, until a ship-
mate, Mick Mulligan, told him it
happened to the fully-rigged.
Kingsport when he sailed in her
on her maiden voyage from Saint
John's, New Brunswick.
Wooden built, she hadn't
enough iron bolts and tree nails
to hold her hull- together. But
the owners decided she was good
enough to sail to England to be
finished, with a cargo of sawn
baulks, boards and battens which
had been frozen hard, lying out
in, the open.
When she reached warm Gulf
Stream weather the timber thaw-
ed, swelled, and as the hull
wasn't properly fastened, burst
her seams; she began leaking
like a basket and became water-
logged. Pumping couldn't keep,
the water back, so Captain Mut.
,cahy ordered a length of the
anchor cable to be unshackled,.
hauled under the ship's, bottom
on a line and up the other side,
and made fast to the capstan
with wire lashing.
In nine hours they put one
length round her by the fore-
mast,. one by the main, and a
third by the mizzen, and thus
trussed—with' rails under, only
poop and forecastlehead show-
ing, galley washed out and fo'-
c'sle belly-deep in water—made
Holyhead after a forty-day voy-
age, and were towed into Liver-
pool by a Mersey tug.
The hands got nothing extra,
but the underwriters gave Mul-
cahy a gold watch and purse of
sovereigns for holding the ship
together.
Cdr. Alan Villiers, an author-
ity on sailing, calls "Sail Ho!"
great stuff. It will delight, with
its salty yarns and old-time
sailor-lore, all lovers of sea ad-
venture.
Football That Is
Real Rough Fun
Football on a Shrove Tuesday
has been a custom 'for centuries
in England. In the year 1175 a
Canterbury monk, one William
Fitzstephen, during an account
of life in London during the
reign of Henry II, made refer-
ence to Shrove Tuesday and "the
fam6us game of ball." This is
a clear indication that the game
was very well established in the
capital city as early as the 12th
century,
Nowadays the football funp-
tions, many of them associated
with local traditional rituals and
folklore, are celebrated in doz-
ens of places up and down the
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slightly more than enough to
meet its „demands, according to
a study by, Dr. R. G. Bressler of
the Giannini Foundation of
Agricultural. Economics, Univer-
sity of California.
In terms of total dairy pro-
ducts, however the region has a
deficit equivalent to some 2.2
billion pounds of farm milk pro-
duction, roughly equal to, two-
thirds of the butter consumption
of the, western states. Shipments
of butter,"cheese, and other pro-
ducts from the Mid-west make
up the deficit.
Bright Ideas
There was a time when many
companies who paid .any atten-
tion at all' to 'their employes'
ideas, paid a $10 bonus for im-
provement suggestions. And they
got ideas worth only $10 in too
many instances.
Since World War II many com-
panies have upped the bright-
idea ante. They pay off a per-
centage of the savings that can
be made on an employe's bright
idea. And both the companies and
the employes have beep cashing
in handsomely.
Latest such cash-in is that of
two employes of the Gary Works
of the U.S. Steel Corp The steel-
workers, Oscar M. Dansler, 61,
and Salvatore Lumella, 39, each
received $10,000 for figuring out
a way to separate molten iron
from slag as it flows from the
furnace. Dansler was quite frank
in' admitting he put his mind to
the problem only when the com-
pany announced the suggestion
contest 18 months' ago.
Since then the Gary plant has
paid out $67,000 to 1,500 em-
ployes. This shows that when
management is willing to leaPn
from the workers on the job,
employes can be inspired to think
in terms of the company's pro-
blems. That is, if the employes
have the same incentive that
management has — namely,
money. Hundreds of companies
are learning this lesson and are
paying out millions for bright
ideas. — Chicago Sun-Times.
'HE'S NOT EMUSED — A dim
view of all that snow' is taken
by this baby emu in the Vin-
cennes zoo near Paris, France.
Emus, birds resembling the
,ostrich but smaller in size, are
native to Australia. Their chief
purpose: to fill three - letter
blanks in crossword puzzles.
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In Mid-Ocean
eThe bells! The hells; The.
PONS!" Chips, the ship's var.pen-
ter, whispered hoarsely in the
s'uite's ear, "twat" them bells,
Mister? The hells o' the sea, ring-
ing for the dead!"
The Mate grabbed Chips'
shoulders and shook him, "You
are going balmy," lie said, "The
heat has affected Your brain!.
One more word from you about
bells, anti you'll be to,cked up
until we reach Melbourne!"
But the next clay Chips was
at it a gain, Bunning from his
.'loop, eyes staring, he sang Out
to the dockhands. "Listen, mates,
listen! Hark at them bells, the
lls o' the seal We'll never
reach port, I tell ye! We're all
dead men!"
With a screech of horror, he
climbed on the bargee's rail,
holding on to the fore shrouds,
'pointing ahead.
"Pull him down!" the mate
roared, "Grab hire' before he
xoes over the side, and lock him
in his shop!" Locked in he was,
'but he stuck his head out of the
port, singing out in a voice of
doom: "The bells o' the sea fore-
tell death and destruction I cao
'hear them ringing!"
Sir James Bisset, ex-Cunard
Commodore, says it happened in
mid-Atlantic doldrums in the
'County of Pembroke, the first
'barque he.sailed in as apprentice
'in '98. The sequel was as strange
'as any in sea annals. For, next
the lookout man, Rhys Davies,
came bounding down from the
•forecastle, eyes wide with fright,
.crying: "Mister! Mister! I hear
hells , . on, the port bow, ring-
ing over the water, and there's
eio ship or land_ in sight!"
"Have you gone mad, too?"
the mate demanded But he
ordered all hands forrard to lis,
ten, and himself heard a bell's
deep note tolling over the empty
,expanse of sea on the port bow.
"Holy mackerel!" he gasped.
"'Nothing in sight, and we're
hundreds of miles from land!
Call the captain!"
The captain came, focused his
telescope in the direction indi-
cated. "Indeed to goodness," he
•exclaimed. "It's a bell buoy/ I
.can see it, very rusty, with no
top light, but the clappers are
working well enough. What's a
'bell buoy doing in the middle
•of the ocean? It must be adrift.
Bear up for it, Misters"
Fetching a rifle from his cabin,
he sank the buoy with a number
shots, ignoring Chips' frantic
appeal: "Don't shoot, sir! It's
'bad luck!"
What puzzled them all was
EXOTIC — This tumblerful is one
of seven rare Egyptian Galgos,
believed to be the first ever
born in the United States. Their
owner says they're big, grace-
ful dogs when full grown. It
is believed that, Galgos were
used as models for the stone
dogs guarding ancient tombs
and temples in Egypt.
country. But perhaps the best
known, and the one which gets
the most mention because of
what journalists and photogra-
phers know as "color," is the one
at Ashbourne in Derbyshire.
There. the annual maul is a meal.
that extends from lunchtime to
midnight.
At Ashbourne, near the his-
toric city of Derby and where
they have preserved civic re-
cords showing that football was
played in Derbyshire at the time
of the Roman legions in AD 217,
they start the proceedings in a
meadow known locally as Shaw
Croft. The assembled company,
somewhat ominously perhaps,
sing the valedictory number
"Auld Lang Syne." Then the
gaily colored ball is ceremoni-
ously tossed into the air. That
is the signal to end all cere-
mony. From then on it becomes
what our historians have des-
cribed so elodUently as a
"friendly kyede of fighte."
The' rules, like the play, are
rough. The duration of play de-
pends upon the energies of the
participants. These are never
known because it is never
known just who or how many
are going to join in. Apart frbm
all the mobile population of
Ashbourne, who open a special
fund beforehand to defray the
cost of any damage that May
accrue, spectators a r e often
wont to take part. Which side
you take depends on whether
you live north or south of the
swiftly floWing Heniriore River
that separates the goals three
miles apart. If yeti are north
you are an "Up'ard" and if south
a "Dol,vn'ard." If you happen
to reside temporarily in between
as so may of the contestant do
in their efforts to secure the ball,
yott are unfortunate.
The I-tenth-Ore Plays a strategie
part he the ASiibbUrile game.
When it is in fell spate, as it is
expetted to be this year, it, is the
smart thing for the "Dewris ards"
to get the ball into the river
because it flews toward the
erietriy's. goat Conversely it is
smart for the "tiVarcis" to keep
it away and shove and thrust
their way overland. the goals
are thiliS and the Method of
tetting the ball to theth may' be
by kicking the ball freiii foot to
foot, passing it from hand to
hand, or by Sheer stealth like
concealing it beneath your jeeket,
Just because five of the larg-
est dairy products companies in
the country have their operat-
ing headquarters on the West
Coast is no sign that the smaller
firms in the region are being
crowded out.
Far from it. In the last four
or five years some 250 smaller
concerns have started up in Cali-
fornia alone, and one equipment •
supplier was bidding on 12 jobs
simultaneously a few weeks' ago.
* • *
The rise of these new, smaller
concerns located, close to the
large centers of population is
one of the outstanding trends in
the western dairy industry, ac-
cording 'to Mrs. Virginia Jones
Baker, publisher of Western
Dairy Foods Review.
Many of them are drive-ins,
where women using the family,
car for jitneying children to, and
from school or for shopping ex-
peditions can easily swing by
and pick up ,the family milk for
less money.
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One of the newest and largest
of these "producer to,consumer"
dairies, located in 'Hayward, in
the San Francisco Bay area, has
four service lanes, 3,000-car
daily capacity, for expeditions
handling of cash and carry cus-
tomers. A large sign centrally
located between the service
lanes lists merchandise, complete
with prices. It is the outcome of
an idea of four active dairy far-
mers producing Jersey milk.
* * *
One reason for the ability of
the smaller producers to com-
pete is the "feed-lot" system,
where pasture is dispensed with,
cows are penned up in as small
an area as possible and fed
store-bought hay and supple-
mentary nourishment.
This brings its results in milk:
California's annual output of
milk per cow is reported as 8,000
pounds, compared to Wisconsin's
7,600 and the national average
of 6,000. For the Los Angeles
County dairyland, or "milk
shed" as it is frequently called,
figures of 13,600 pounds per cow
Ere reported. The country's milk
volume is the greatest in the
country and greater than 22 of
the states.
* •
Another reason is truck trans-
portation, which permits a small
plant to process milk from
groups of farmers located a con-
siderable distance away, With
the development cf refrigerated
transportation, milk can be haul-
ed many miles; in fact, it is
trucked from California's San
Joacjuin Valley to Phoenix, Ariz.,
a good thousand miles, with only
two to three degrees change in
• temperature.
*
The so-called small mills oper-
ation is nevertheless a good-
sized business. It must have from
80 to 100 fresh cows to be pro-
fitable, according to Mrs. Baker.
and must be highly Mechanized.
Today's ultimate is piping the
milk direct' from the milking
Machines attached to the cows
to holding tanks, and thence by
pump into the truck's tank.
* . *
This is part of the picture of
the growing West; Whose Milk
predectien for the 11-State area
is expected to' increase from the
14.3 billion valume of 1955 to
20.2 billion Petinds 19775--arid
still not be able to meet the de-
mand. Despite this' 87' Per p0fit
climb fel- m i I it, the eicpeeted
population IncreaSe is '67 Per
cent.
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At Pitaent the West precitide*
BY Bev K. Uarela,y Warren
BA, MP
Jesus wwhes about the Vgd
of the Age,
Memory Selection: Take ye
heed, watch and pray; for ye
know not when the time is, Mark
13:33,
Many who used to scoff at the
idea of the destruction of this
world have changed their mind
since the coming of the atomic
age. The following statement
from 2 Peter 3:10, doesn't sound
so fantastic now. "But the day
of the Lord will come as a thief
in the night; on the which the
heavens shall pass away with a
great noise, and the elements
shall melt with fervent heat, the
earth also and the works that
are therin shall be burned up."
The destruction of Jerusalem,
including the temple, happened
in 70 A.D. just as Jesus predicted
it on our lesson. His personal re-
turn is still delaye d. Some
would-be prophets have set the
date for our Lord's return. "But
of that day and that hour
knoweth no man, no not the
angels which are in heaven." It
is not for us to speculate as to
the time of His return but ra-
ther to take heed, and watch and•
pray,
The prophecies with regard' to
the first coming of Jesus were
minutely fulfilled.. So will the
Scriptures concerning His return
in glory be fulfilled. Our business
is to receive Him now Into our
hearts as Lord and Saviour. Then
we shall 10 ready to meet Him
when He returns.
An old Rabbi used to say to
his people, "Repent the day be-
fore you die."
"But" said they, "Rabbi, we do
not know the day of our deaths."
"Then", said the Rabbi, "Re-
pent today." That is timely ad-
vice.
We should, live today with the
full awareness that it may be
our last day. For, even though
Jesus Christ may not C01110, (1014
;MY eome. Let. us therefore walk,
with 00.. mg we walk in the
light, as he is In the light, e.
have feilowship, one svith_PIt-
other, and the. blood of 4,40
Christ his .Son; cleaosetit us ,frown
all 41.4 2 John 1:1, If you are.
not on speaking terms with some
member of your family or your
community, do ,your best to clear
the misunderstanding,, Let us pre,,
pare to meet God.
English Becoming
The World Tongue
The important change in the
postwar years is the extent to
which English is spoken, and as
a form of communication be-
tween those of other nation-
alities, In Palermo a French
woman speaks to hotel employes
in English, In Florence, Cubans
haggle over price in English.
In Hamburg, an Indian and a
German argue politics in Eng-
lish.
To stimulate this trend, the
Ford Foundation has announced
grants of $600,000 to expand and
improve the teaching of English
as a second language. This mon-
ey will be used to upgrade the
quality of instruction, chiefly in
Africa and Asia,
It is now being predicted that
only extreme national pride 01
a complete collapse of the econo.
my, both unlikely, can prevent_
(the English language) from be.
coming the accepted secone4
language in most countries of
the world.
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LESSON
. NOR IRON BARS A FENCE — Edward Harris bites his cigar
in chagrin as he examines a conquering tree in the front yard
of his home. The iron, fence was gobbled up by the tree which
was only five inches in diameter when Harris moved into the
house 25 years ago.