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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-03-26, Page 2► Wayward Son and famous Father The big man sat in a wheel chair in his New York home and asked a question that he'd often asked before "Why?" This time, though, he was asking the question not as a Valiant national' celebrity cam- paigning against juvenile delin- quency but as heartsick father, doI‘'yani: algoemd tsTreoTt,t6tmheo b ewais ac- cldent t a year ago which ended his days as one of major league baseball's greatest catchers, fun- nier Brooklyn Dodger Roy Campanella talked of his 15- year-old son David, oldest of three boys, in a family of six children. "I've lectured in schools and before youth groups all over the country. Whenever I spoke to boys who had been in trouble. I asked them to think why. I made them think about them- selves and about why they did these crazy acts. "Now I have to ask Dave why. Why?" David's explanation, after admitting to police that he and a 16-year-old buddy burglarized a Queens drugstore: "We were acting a little crazy." T h e Campanella boY' s troubles began on Washington's Birthday when he and five other boys squared off in a vacant lot far a fist fight. As other boys gathered to watch, rumble- conscious police swooped in, David was found guilty of juvenile .delinquency, given .„a stern warning, and ordered dis- charged in his mother's custody. The police, however, weren't satisfied. They questioned David about, a Valentine's Day drug- store burglary — and David re- portedly admitted That he and George Deimos kicked in the plate-glee's door aod.ran off with $9; .35' packs of cigarettes, and two tubes of toothpaste. Why? His mother, ,Ruthe, mentioned "the constant, teasing . . . Others are always asking whether the 'boys expect to be great .baseball men. Dave was very sensitive about that. He ,wanted to be a , singer." .1 His singing 'career is over, for a while at least, and if. David Campanella escaped ,a,detention home.when his case came up, he might be sent to a strict board- ing school. - One Punishment-he ,might be glad to get but never, will is a spanking feom,.his, father who cried in angUished protest: "It's a lucky 'thing for you that I'm in ,a wheel chair." From NEWSWEEK. ee ee tine 0-`,...,54174.tt, agismiiii3.1.11 dallitallkultri iia --Alianixtemlii. iviiiiiikuppviL laiiiiiiiimoolt isiiiiRietsiturn w7 , 011_44 Ili ;:,*--- inutit Ad v•••• lit:rill Caiana;aillitiell_. .....-i.mmiiiiin tritgiaturai 4ii,ii ttoci!...; Of. 117bt. itelvtr 9 ,A Ceatti ravel sea with- Cunard tomorrow . . new lands, tICW feed and old friends only a fcw enchanting days away. For the most delightful,. most -relaxing way of making your holiday at • • ',-dreams'ceme true) nothing tan surpass the thrill ;of a Cunard ocean voyage to Eureka • -or A sunlit cruise to far-off lands.. ' Whereveryou go, whenever you travel` with.Curiard,all pleasures talcc'otiocygelcirthit- difitCtisionS: I. tirious staterOciffigAtrrolnedht-t Standing service tetertOtillietit to suit ;every taste a in siab"rtStfire 'erfect tetieg fee a fiolida.y c you '£1041 ' 40- 7" See Your. LOOal Agent-- One toi1 S riie You Better 461/Wfistr - 114 , 4c:4, ,r raspday: 4 *sal atom- Sos,.; ANCHES I Sent John Monifeal 'Torontoosr wissipaj Ednionloii r. ► ► ► ► ► ► ► i. ► ► ► Modern Etiquette by Roberta Lee Q. I've heard that it's now proper to pick up bones at the table to eat off them. Is this true? The hard 'and 'fast rule against picking up bones in our fingers ise teeterieg precariously under the, pressure:of modern us- age. My best advice regarding this, however, is not to tick bones in a restaurant or at a formal dinner party. 'Anywhere else, go ahead' and. pick them -up but delicately, and only after cutting off most of the meat. Q. How should a divorcee sign her name so that she will not be mistaken for the second Mrs. Charles Caintele.' A. By prefixing her maiden name to her former husband's surname; as, '"Mrs.a Joyce Smith Canfield," • ' • - Q. What Is a"goocl'eloshig for a . ,friendly letter from a-man to a .woman?. — A. You 'can never be. out; of place with "Sincerely yours," HIS 9THER HAT, Exchanging his now-famous. lambs-.wool Russiani,headpiece .for ,q, sport- ing cap, British Prime ,Minister Harald Macrnitlen„appears , in London. Little Adolf Needed Spanking A few whacks on the back- side of a small child named Adolf and the world might not have had to suffer World. War IT. This thought apparently has never occurred to Mrs. Paula Wolf, the still ever-loving sister of Adolf Hitler'. Now 64, she spoke out publicly recently for the first time since .der Fuhrer committed, suicide in. 1945. Re'- miniscing on a British- '1'y docu- mentary entitled "Tyrennny,' her worde'were glowing -ea And reveeling: sWhen, we children played 'Red Indians' my brother ,Adoif ,.. was always the _leader. .All ,,the others did ` Vithathe told them: they' muSt'liairb' had an instinct that' his will was stronger," "When (he) was 2 years old he once climbed up a ladder to the top rung. Mother . . "Dear ,Arne Hirst: Will you etry to save my friend before it is 'WO late? We are classmates,. tiled I have her very dearly. She Won't listen to anyone's advice, but she always reads your eela umrs She is 17, and has been dating a boy (who is worthless) for eight months. He has no ambition, never holds a Job long, he has a vile temper and no self-control. He is dread- ful to his family, he's even been arrested! "I am frightened nearly to death. I'm afraid he is dragging her down to his own level, and she genies from, a fine family and is both talented and popu- liar. Whet she stopped seeing other boys I'll never know, but she has taken his ways for her Own. She is at loggerheads with her family because they can't stand him; they are scandalized at the flours she keeps, and she rows with them all the time. Her mother is getting really sick about the whole thing, but my friend doesn't seem to see it. "Yesterday I heard that they expect to elope! How they will live I've no idea, but I am help- less and almost distracted. What can be done to wake her up before she ruins her life? FRANTIC FRIEND" TRAGEDY AHEAD • * See that your friend learns * this fact immediately; In your " state she cannot get married to anybody without her par- * ents' consent until she is 21. * If she tries it, they can have • it annulled. * That may •give her pause. * If' she is so positive'the boy * is worth marrying why hasn't " she put him nn probation for • a year to prove' it to others? * A few ideas: • He is to get a job and show " he can keep it; * Begin earning his ,family's * respect, and that of other • worth-while people, giving up * entirely his dissolute corn- *• panions; Make himself one of a group * of young men of good repute * pursuing constructive activi- * ties, if they'll have him. * —Or is the girl so: blindly • in love she is -afraid' to put * him to the test for fear he. * would laugh in her face? • You and. I shudder to plc- * Lure her future with him. * Tied to a weakling who defies * morality, thuinbs his nose. at "'the law, who has no means to * support her, she will pay the * price of her folly. She ,might * find herself deserted and tar- " nished, to creep back home * and beg forgiveness. * She has read my counsel to • other deluded youngsters who * have strayed from the right Week's Sew-thrifty PRINTED =PATTERN Quick, Whip tip these sun 'n' fun separates in a jiffy—daugh- ter will -gibe ire play in, love' there. Make several versions of smock, shorte, pedal Outliers ie no-iron cdtton or seeesticker, Printed Pattern 4707: Child's Sites 2, 4, 6, 8. Size 6 meek and shorts lakeilh yards 35-inch. Printed directions on each pate tern part. Easier, accurate. Send FORTY CENTS (stampS cannot be eecepted, Use postal note frit safety) foe this pat, tern. Please print Plainly SIZE • NAME, ADDRESS, S TYlbt NUMBER., Send order to ANNE AA DAMS; , box 1, 123 Eighteenth St*. New aton tel., brit, • 4' path. To purue her, desires, She scorns the tenets of her * Church and family training. '0 It is not likely she would fin- ish reading this column today, * I am sorry tor her„—More * sorry for her family, for ym4 and ethers who have loved * her and who stand helplessly by, watching her plan her * own ruin. "MY LIFE IS. CRUEL!" "Dear Anne Hirst: You are my last hope. I have lived with any husband for 11 years and it has all been dreadful I cannot bear it any longer, — "He loves his drinking and so do the friends he has; he has stayed out overnight and left me alone with the children, and to them he is no father, He never takes them anywhere. I have to nag him about their clothes. He does buy food, and that's about all. He has even struck me and says he has the right tog "How can I see that the chil- dren are cared for, how can I protect myself against him? He makes enough money, but it is not for us. "His family are lovely, and are humiliated by his conduct—and very fond of me. My life is real- ly cruel. I'll do whatever you advise. AT TIIE END" - If your husband spends the * money the family needs on * himself and his pleasures, you " can take him to court for non- * support. le he strikes yqu " again, call the police. * You have endured too much * for too long. He needs, a man * to handle him. The Court of * Domestic Relations (or a mag- * istrate) can throw the fear * of the law into him, and I • hope you will not hesitate any * longer. He will not like you * for it, but he will learn there I are ways to protect women * from such abuse, " Would his, people Jake you at and the children for a while? • A trial separation might startle him so that he =sees his * marriage has reached a crisis. • He will not relish the attend- •a ing publicity, either. a I wish you had written me * during the early years of your • marriage. Now it may be too • late, but I hope you will try. * You will feel better for the * effort. * Clandestine meetings, thril- ling as they seem, can 'lead to years of deception that destroy one's very character. Stay on the right path, it is your best insurance for happiness, . . . If you have been tempted, write Anne Hirst about it and let her straighten you out. Address her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Potato Chips Big Business If Louis. XVI had had his way, we might be eating "Parmentier Chips" instead of potato chips these days. It was his intention to re-christen the potato "Par- mentier" after the agricultural scientist who introduced the vegetable to France during the 18th century. It was also Par- mentier who overcame the op- position of the Frenbh peasares who believed that eating pota- toes caused leprosy!, When he gathered his first harvest, Par- mentier invited prominent guests (including Benjamin Franklin) to a banquet at which potatoes in one form or an- other appeared in every dish.. Even the liqueurs were distilled from potato mash. Canadians, quite unlike the French peasants of that day, are quite fond of potatoes, The average annual consumption in Canada is 193 pounds per per- son, Many of those pounds con- sist of crispy potato chips, fa- vorites with nibblers across the country. Canadian produetiert of chips is handled by about 30 companies which gobble up tons of potatoes at a great rate. Production of chips is a highly mechanized process. In fact, the potatoes are never handled froth the time they begin the cycle to the time they are eaten. The potatoes are first peeled by be- ing rotated in large, Steel drums Which: have eleraerve Then conveyor belts carry the potatoes to a cutter where whirl- t frig blades slice them into chipa one-twentieth Of art inch in thiekness, Moving along another conveyor belt, the uncooked chips pass through water baths and then into long, enclosed leyere. Three minutes latex' they entette as golden. potato thin!. Then they ere automatically sprinkled with salt and moos .totheepaeleagieig machines, An electric' scale weighs the Prole& tineetitit of chips acid a blast Of coMpressed Rik MOWS them into the bag Or petkegei which Ate sealed and: packed in i3nte1. This is Monday ..morning — blue Monday-.or white Monday — which? .Sdaybe both. Yester- day I had this column written in the rough and for once' I hadn't mentioned 'the weathere . There was no need, had .been a lovely day and there...was every indication 'of the_ ice and flood_ patches would get away nicely._ The roads had been graded 'and. it looked like fair-driving condi- tions for awhile. At five o'clock this morning I looked out of the window and it was still fine. But three hours later ... wow! -Part- ner woke me by exclaiming about the snow. So here we -are, back to a white world --- and I don't mean maybe. Four inches of loose fluffy stuff covering the ground already and coming down as if it has no intention of -stop- ping. So much for 'the -weather record "whatever will be, will be" and there's nothing we can do at the moment except make the best of it. And I wanted to go shopping this morning. But not now — I know when to stay put. I guess I'll put on an Okla- homa record and listen to "Oh, what a beautiful morning" — just to get in practice for when we can sing it ourselves and really mean it. For we shall sometime—you'll see. Some day we'll wake up and find the ro- bins singing and the crows fly- ing -- and that will be a beau- tiful morning. In the meantime there is one news item that overshadows all else — even the weather. The shutting down of the Avro plant at Melton. Thousands of skilled workmen and technicians thrown out of work from towns, villages and farms. We shall see the full impact of it' where we are living now as we are right in the middle of the districts most affected. Even four of our close neighbours — young mar- ried men with families, work at Melton and we can't think -HER HERO Patricia Rojas, 4, cuddles a 1,eaeded doll in her arrits in London. it's clearly a likeness of t Lilian rebel hero Fidel Castro. The doll is conies. plate to the arintvand of the "I& Julio" m oven, e nt, Oat titi a's fa- what on earth, they will do. We feel just sick about the whole tragic ,business., Whether the Arrow should ,or should not have been continued is natural- ly a matter beyond our under- seanding although .we have our own opinions on the. mat- ter. But we do tlank,t,leet An, alternative_ wort program 'should 'have been provided." And of cotifeeWe ddiet'like the idea ,of beingeedependent -on . the Unitedl States:, to supplement , our,' defence program - When have skilled men in' Our own. coun- try who `could handle it. 'How- ever, whoever- is -right • or wrong makes little difference .now, the, thing is how we are ,,going to cope with "we"'' present, situateon. I 'say` "we" because it is likely' to affect everyone 'of *us Indi- reYetelysterdaY we listened and watched a. News eMagazine and This Week TV, and, we were certainly' not reassured by any- thing we heard — nor by the news-story -by Philip Deane in this morning's paper. Maybe I listened too much yesterday as last night I had qute a dream. I thought I was trapped in a field, I don't know where, and there were low-flying planes coming at me from every direc- tion and. I didn't know how to get away from them. I tried to yell and couldn't -- you know 'the nightmarish feeling • that gives you. It all seemed so crazy when I woke up I guess the reality we abreally face is just as confusing '657 the planes of my, dream. Let's see DOW', what happen- ed earlier in the week. Well, I was trying to figure out most of the time why people talk of a nasal condition as being "just a cold". Because that is what I had — just a cold — the first I've had in about three years, But if I don't get them in quant- ity and when I get one about all I can do is grin and Bear' it as I seem to be alletgic to both aspirin and penicillin and' I never take a chance on trying the many cold remedies that are so freely advertised. So all I do is go from room to room, tarrying a box of kleenex along with me. Oh, but for two morn- ings I did have breakfast in bed. That was really something!' I hate meals in bed at any time but it seemed like the easiest way of keeping warm when the outside temperature was hoVer- Mg around zero, The rest of our household, is full of Pep, including Taffy and Ditto. They are up to their usual tricks, chasing each Other around the house, kicking up the scatter Mats -and..causing terefusiotO geeerally; I think the person 'tithe originally gatee loose mats the name of "scat- ter mats" Must ha4eliad d few dogs end Cats around the plate. Pot. the mats can sure. scatter' all right. In the...hall 'letter know where find them next. If it were not 'for bur .animals this would realty, be a quiet hintSe except; Of, course, when the grandsons eoitie atetind.• It is nice to at tihieS` joelattut who wants tO be toe coaxed him to, come „down but lele'eestf4ryigelaltepreepd t•htdoeCt. eaa,ntild... was ver pleased with himself," y said any- i.y brother loved Mother es- 13117.1104.11?;; When. Mother when Fa• tiler said anything he was al- ways against it r "lie had a. real dislike of the female SPX , « when Mother .wanted him to get up in the Morning she had only to say 'Go and give him a kiss' because just couldn't stand he wasout of bed in 'a MO ,,,as.. Others interyiewed on the same prOgram included klitler'ro former aide, s..S. Obergruppen- fuhrer Julius Schaub and Frau Schaub, his chauffeur, Erich. Kempka, and his personal pilot, Hans Bauer, who performed "the difficult. moral duty" of burning the bodies of. Hitler and his newly wed wife and long- time mistress, Eva Braun, All impressed pr o gr a m producer Peter Morley with their still. stoutly held belief that Hitler "was a normal man in every way and absolutely marvelous." How others 'felt was expressed in the show's closing Tines: "Thousands of loyal Nazis are dead, but the bond of the brute lives on . . . " — From News- week. Keeping husbands in hot water won't make them tender. Cute and Cool a lt, f4ten n W14 Daughter looks so pretty in this whirl-skirted pinafore. Colorful embroidery trims neck. Button front! — she can dress all by herself I Pattern 866: em- brodiery transfer, pattern chil- dren's sizes 2, 4, 6, 8 included; directions for sewing. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern to LAURA WHEELER, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly PAT-0 TERN NUMBERE your NAME and ADDRESS. Send fin. a copy of 1959 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft• Book. It has loVely designs to order: embroi- dery, crochet, knitting, weaving, quilting,, toys. In the book,• a speCial surprise to make a little girl happy — a cutout doll, clothes to color. Send 25 cents for this book. WHOSE IDEA WAS IT? — Spotting her fashion, etpubleaeuppoeedly throws milataly Infot qfedebfine cured only by a new and different ensemble. These sisters, however, aren't 'chagrined 'at the similarity in their dress, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, right, arrive of a 'charity film performance in London, 'each wearing a black velvet •dress and fur stole. Cher is the new tUlion ornbeIS- • sador to EnQianci Sergio' Rdjos. ISSUE 195 co. a w.