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The Brussels Post, 1959-07-02, Page 703 1 :l 11v3:t:P8 3N0783,0Y NVS S~D 021 d 011111111 rgt'v h S41T71 '73 N001 :131'11 • 11S' 11 S 71110" tfti3eV • 9t10..L I-a sr ..aein , 1901 d33S 717VS 3 / a r.) N A 0 a a O V 3 Fu Manchu Said ""l .,,Shall, Live" Through the fog that shroud- ed London's Limehouse district, a young reporter saw a limott-,., sine glide to a stop at a dock- side slum, "I saw a tall and very dignified man alight, Chi- nese but different from any. Chinese I had ever met. lie wore h long, black topcoat and A. queer astrakhan cap, He strode into the house , , fol- lowed by an Arab girl," Young Arthur Sarsfield Ward never found out whether the Chinese was the narcotics smug- gler he was hunting. Instead, his imagination turned the rills- ty figure into Pr. Fu Manchu, the "evil genius" who was plot,; Ling to conquer the world, With just such panting phrases, and under the pseu- donym of Sax Rohner, Ward himself conquered the world of popular fiction, In early a halt' century since "Dr. Fu Manchu" was published in 1913, the green-eyed villain has slithered through ten books and, scores of stories. An estimated 500 mil- lion readers shuddered as well- shaped ladies — and ill-shaped sentences — writhed helplessly under the spell of magical drugs that Dr. Fu concocted. The tales of blood and incense were trans- lated into 25 languages, includ- ing even Chinese, and into sev- eral gong-filled movies (Boris Karloff, in the role of Dr. -.Irv, is shown with Rohmer in the photo montage). Dr. Fu found an elixir of orchids that kept him young and wicked, but Rohmer was only mortal. After a stroke this spring at his home in White. Plains, N.Y., he retired to Eng- land. Always secretive about himself — nobody knew when he was born (about 75 years ago) — Rohmer fell into a coma that his wife described as "mys- terious . . . almost like • the things he wrote about." Last month, when Sax Rohm- er died — a millionaire several time over — fans recalled that he once quoted Dr. Fu as telling him: "It is your belief that you have made me; it is mine that. I shall live when you are smoke." True to his word, the evil genius will reappear next fall in "Emperor Fu Manchu." — From NEWSWEEK. Boy "Billy Graham" Out of the pulpit, the Rev, Don Johnson is soft-spoken. But when he preaches before a crowd of erring teen-age souls fn his home town of Memphis, Tenn., the 22-year-old Baptist's dark pompadour spills across his brow in damp profusion at the very fervor of his words. He hotly describes the "smoke fill- ed pits and the everlasting tor- ment" of hell; and calls out that "Christ died for all men and women and fellas and girls who were lost in sin." Ordained at 18, the slightly built Southerner started fighting youthful sin six years ago when he founded Teen - agers for Christ, a loosely knit organiza- tion which sponsors a Memphis radio show and revival, meet- ings. By last month, he and his colleagues had travelled 80,000 miles, spoken to more than 90,- 000 people, and delivered about 5,500 "decisions for Christ." Don's mission really began when he and eight other Wet- school students scraped Op $30.60 to buy fifteen minutes on a Memphis radio station. The evangelical. prevent has been thriving ever since. Open. re- vivals 'billowed, the big Christ- mas ones sometimes clearing $1,000. As donations piled In, the Teen-agers Sought a 'permanent home, and,' after one failure to win a zoning clearance (mern-• bers burst into'tears at the hear- ing), bought a Modest $6,000 prayer. denter. Don johnson was named God's Man of the Year in 1956 by ,a lodal Bible Society: With new demands on his time, he leaves some of the .day-to-day running of the center to otherS, While he 'studies at a Fort Worth (.Texas) seminary, dash- ing home for Weekericlk• and re- vivalS. During vacations, he Ira- eels as far as Chicago arid New York to 'preach; this May in Clarksdale, Miss., for instance,. 1,100 gathered 10 hear hint. When feted with a Choke of where to go for Oh evangelical meeting, Deis praya for old- ante. "Ultimately," he 'eve, "a peace and. Certainty come and we just move ahead. When We're. undecided, We jitet Wait?' Lest re. 0 n t h he was seeking guidance about going to "As We have kridetrii each other so long, doctor'," said the rich patients "I de hot intend to insult you by paying my hill But / have left you a hand- sense, legacy in thy will." "That's find. Er, by the way, 101 hie have the P'resctisition again. There's a slight. Change I Want to' make in it.:" SHEER JOY — At six Months of age, sniffing a tiover blouseeti is cause for joy. 40 43 AN EYE FOR AN EYE — Marilu. Saint Georges is an honest-to-goodness Easter Islander. The 16-year-old left her native South Pacific island to become an artist's model in Rome. Cat- eyed, portrait of her was done by Roman painter Novella Parigini. TINFARM FROM J NDAY SC11001 LESSON By Bev Aarcia, Wallet; B..., PecIsionS Doter/nine 'Destiny Deuteronomy 30; 1$,I,6; 31: 7-13. Memory Selection: The loord, he It is that cloth go before thee he will be with thee, be will not fait thee, neither forsake thee; fear not, neither be dismayed. Deuteronomy 31:8. Our lessons includes the last address of Moses to the Israel- ites east of Jordan. Ile sets be- fore them a blessing and a curse. But how great is God's mercy! Even though they should diset bey and he scattered among the nations there is this promise to, them that if thou "shalt return unto the ..,ORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; that then the LOILI) thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scat- tered thee," The same principle applies to us today. "All have sinned and sortie short of the glory of God." But if we will re- pent of our sins and believe ott Jesus Christ, we shall be for- given and restored to the favor of God. "The Story Of The. Reluctant Drake They say this is. a man's world, but I don't know, and the remainder of the time will be Passed in considering the facts, 'This is my annual report on nay foolish' ducks, and it is both happy and sad. Sad, beeeUse when I let the flock out of the palatial quar- ters I provide for their winter ,habitat, the time coincided nicely with the arrival at my neighbors, just up the road, of a jolly and active pup high- lighted, with the name of;Pansy. Pansy for some reason I have not to this late hour ascertained, Pansies are for thoughts, and if this alleged dog has a brain in his pumpkin head, he has suc- ceeded handsomely in hiding .said asset. Pansy came over and surreptitiously undertook the .systematic abolition of my .ducks, Not with any animals, .of course, but in a playful was intended to be only amusing, The ducks had come through the winter in fine shape, four hens and two drakes. The hens were heavy with eggs and all ready to go to work. The drakes were of brilliant hue. The mal- lard drake still holds my ad- miration as one of the prettiest birds in nature. And with laud- able bravery the drakes stood up to Pansy while their hens .scooted for the drink and swam .out on the billowing wave, .quacking like all possessed. Pansy struck twice and my hens were widows, at which point I arrived and Pansy took off up the highway in great voice, pro- testing something I must have .said to him. I do not recall what I said, but I am led to believe it must have been good, for he hasn't been back. Anyway, what had started as .a happy forenoon in the spring- time of my ducks was now a hollow and forlorn occasion. My ducks are pets and pets only, and I donot look upon them as .expendable. Upon the bosom of .our barnyard lake the hen ducks swam in circles, protesting their grief, and asking who would now sit on the bank in the sun and protect the property while they stole away to incubate the -future. Some people think a hen does all the work, but they neglect -to observe how the rooster, or drake, bides his empty time and takes care of everything when nobody else is around. The mallard, of course, is a wild bird, Here in Maine they- have been domesticated a long time, probably since the earli- est settlers found that they would forsake their natural Anatomy of a Hit Disk jockeys all over the U.S. and Canada have been touting "La Plume de Ma Tante" as one of the songs from the current Broadway show of the same name. You can hardly blame them. The prize-winning French comedy revue has been a hit since it opened last November, and it seemed only natural that a hit musical should have a hit tune. Oddly enough, the same thought occurred to songwriters Al Hoffman and Dick Manning when they saw "La Plume de Ma Tante," and so the composers of "Takes Two to Tango" and "Papa Loves Mambo" wrote their own "Plume." Released only a few weeks ago, the bouncy tune was already zooming on, popularity charts, and RCA Victor was hap- pily filling a deluge of orders. "If 'La Plume de Ma Tante' hits No. 1," Hoffman mused, "I won.. der if anyone will realize that it's the only hit song from a Broadway show to make it big this year and it's not even in the show." Robert Dh4ry the effervescent writer, director, and, star 'of the real "La Plume de Ma Tante," doesn't mind the song at, all. "Even if you have a hit," he philosophized, "every little bit of publicity helps. It may even keep me in the U.S. a while longer." Dhery was just being nice. "La Plume" is booked for an indef- inite run on Broadway. The handing over of the lead- ership by Moses to Joshua Is it memorable scene. Moses, after leading Israel out of the Egyp- tian bondage and for 40 years of wanderings in the wilderness will not have the privilege of leading them into the promised. land. He forfeited this honour through his impatience and pro- vocation at the waters of strife. Ps. 106:33, Numbers. 20. There is no word of complaint now. In the sight of all Israel he en- courages oshua for the tank that will be his. He showed a great spirit. Decisions determine destiny.. This si illustrated, in the history of Israel. It is shown in the life of Moses.."By 'faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of •Pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather to suf- fer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleas- ures of sin for a season—." brews 11.24,25. This decision not only shaped his own destiny but also the destiny of Israel. Our decisions affect the destiny or others. Someone has said, "Sow a thought, reap a word; sow a word, reap an act; sow an act, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character sow a characted, reap a destiny." How true! Let us ponder our decision, "My wife has threatened to leave me unless I give up play- ing golf," remarked Fothers to his friend at the club. "That's serious." "Yes, I shall miss her." "Did you do all you could to avoid the accident, miss?" a constable asked the young wo- man car driver. "Oh, yes," she replied. "I shut my eyes and screamed as loud as I could!" MERRY MENAGERIE Upsidedown to. Prevent Peeking flyaways and become Pets, Other waterfowl may appear tame, but come fall they will wing away if they can, The mat, lard is different In this respect. So in the Spring of the year with the wild flocks of water- fowl coursing our sky, it is pos- sible to obtain replacements if you know how and where. I thus came into possession of a fine drake never before feted at a barnyard hopper. Ile was smaller than my late drakes, for wild birds forage in the fens and swamps and don't have the tame duck's chance to get big- ger and fatter at a full hop- per. Grain from a bag was news to him. He quacked a good deal as I trimmed one of his wings with shears, and their I car- - vied him out by the pond, strok- ing his neck gently and whis- pering sweet nothings in his ear My four hens, thinking I was bringing the customary corn, as sembled to meet me, and I placed him on the ground among them. IJp went the heads of my ducks, and they wharked and wharked, and bespoke them- selves favorable of this arrange- ment. They called me a gentle- man and a scholar, remarked on the intelligence showing in my handsome face, and said they would support me gladly in any endeavor. The new drake, however, eyed them warily and seemed reticent. He did not' know that ducks fraternized with human- ity, and he surveyed the work laid out and decided he wanted no part of it. He flopped his wings, as if to take off for Baf- fin Bay, and with his one abbre- viated wing he flopped over and landed in a heap at his ladies' flat feet. He was not at his best. He scrambled up, made profuse apologies, and trottled around in circles as if looking for a way out. Having found one, he swam across the pond and went into the bushes on the farside where he stayed out of sight for three days.. I could hear his small comments now and then, as he talked to himself in his perplex- ity, and described the tough go- ing through the Dire Straigts. He was unhappy. He was the victim, he said, of a dirty trick, and he told of the joys of an Arctic summer. But now and then a hen would swim over and look up under the bushes, and would go whark-whark. Also, the pangs of hunger built up in his little gullet, and one morning he came out to see what he might de- vour. That evening he came out again, and afterwards he went to the hopper and ate with the hens, and soon he was call- ing everybody sweety-pie and deary and lovey-dovey, and fawning and carrying on. They made a monkey out of him. He could have held off and named his own figure, but no — he was enticed into matri- mony. Just another husband subservient and enslaved — a man in a woman's world. He sits on the bank in the sun, minding the store, biding his time until feet patter in the mud and the peep. of small mallards is heard in the weeds. And he seems perfectly hap- py now. He doesn't trust me al- together, yet, but he seems to have forgotten the wild Baffin Land shores where he would now be doing exactly what he is doing anyway — if It hadn't been 'for Pansy. — By. John :Gould in The Christian Science Monitor. farms sounded just the same as those of one's childhood, when farm wives carried on a little egg business for pin money. But everything else, it seems, has changed. Grandmother took her eggs to the store and traded them for groceries. Now most farmers pack their eggs in cases and sell them to the wholesaler who in turn sells them to the city distributor. At present, with eggs selling around 37 cents a dozen in the chain stores for their best grade, the price at the farm averages about 25 cents a dozen. This is 12 cents a dozen lower than a year ago. Whether a farmer can stay in the egg business now depends upon the efficiency and scale of his poultry operation. Some big operators, highly mechanized and possessed of the advantages of large scale purchases of feed and supplies, can produce far more cheaply than others. They expect to weather the low price period. But many small produc- ers who lack these advantages are expected to get out of the egg business. For the general farmer who raises hens on the side this may not make much difference, but for the small . producer who does nothing else it can be exteremly serious. * * * - W. Glenn Stiska, a Chicago distributor who handles the out- put of about 150 farms, .buying directly from the farmers, said he has obseryed changes due to price shifts. Higher prices of previous years, he noted, brought more farmers into the egg busi- ness and increased the number marketing through his organiza- tion. At present the number is up about 18 per cent over a year ago. But some farmers have in- dicated to him that they intend to give up hens and go back to raising hogs. In the trade, these people are known as "In-and- outers." Mr. Stiska says most of his customers who expect to remain in the business hape the gov- ernment will keep hands off at the preseht time. * * Dr. Kenneth tiood, head of the COmmodity Division of the Ameritan Farm Bureau Fedora= tion, says that his organization expects adjustments to Occur that will bring prices up again. There were 13 per cent fewer eggs in incubators May 1 of this year than a year before, and he ex-, pects this downward trend to continue. BLit the current sur- plus will hang on for some time and the Farm Bureau is carry- ing on a campaign in ceopera- tion with chain stores to ericont- age the use of more eggs. The Poultry and Egg National Boatel is doing promotional work aleo. Statistically' the surplus is not- of serious proportions The in- creese iti egg production over the last decade has been Tess in percentage than the gain in pop- ulation: But unfortunately Otis surtiption has fallen off. This is blamed in part on ,the rise of the "coffee break,," a deterrent to bacon -'and s egg breakfasts. More good breakfasta, more SOW- flea, more angel food, Cakes tnade from! scratch, end, the surplus Might very well vanish. A nation of cooks with egg' heaters in hand could be at leaSt a Partial isiasiver id the egg'Pride problent "Sometimes I feel like I've got the world by the tal17-and sometimes *lee versa!" NO STRINGS — Handiome and young (29), King Baudoin flashes the charm that has charmed other than Belgian ihearts alone. In Southfield, Mich., High School Teacher Richard Welken- bach keeps discipline by writ- ing on the black board. "I'm in a bad mood today," and adding a drawing of a bul1Whip. Canada is not the only country where over-production — or under-consumption — of eggs has become a serious problem to those in the business. This will be seen in the following dispatch from Illinois written by a Staff Correspondent of the. Christian Scfence Monitor. * How serious is the egg surplus which is causing prices to hit new lows and is sending con- gressmen scurrying about for a program to help poultry farm- ers? Here in the Chicago area distributors, farm organizations, and the farmers themselves are considering the matter calmly. Most of them expect adjust- ments to occur, but meantime many farmers are taking heavy losses. Mrs. A. G. Holste, who gath- ers eggs from a flock of nearly 1,000 white Leghorns four times a day, seven days a week, in- vited me into her century-and- a-half-old farmhouse. Would I ask my questions while she got lunch ready for her husband? Yes, she regarded the price situation as very difficult for many. She and Mr. HOIste sell direct to suburban consumers on a ('route," obtaining premium prcie.s Even so, said Mrs. HoiSte, they were just about breaking even. But farmers who sell by the case wholesale were having. a difficult time of it, she said. "It's really frightful for them. I've been talking to some farm 'people from Iowa. They're actu- ally losing money for all their work." The figures bear her out. Ac- cording to Dr. A. W. Jasper of the Poultry and Egg National Board, an industry organization, the best grade of eggs is selling in some areas three dozen 'for '89 cents. This means an aver- age loss of 10 cents a dozen to the farmer. The current surplus is blamed. * * * "What can be done to remove the surplus from the market?" Mrs. Hoist* thought a bit. "It isn't easy to say. People don't seem to buy any more eggs when prices are low than they did when prices were up. It Would help if they did. If every housewife Would use just a few' more eggs in her cooking and baking or if families would have them more often for breakfast, it would certainly help." "Should the government sup- port prices?" Mrs. Holste was definite in her negative reply. Her husband, she said, had nev- er aceepted subsidy paymenta and felt the need was for less governnient rather than more of it, "He thinks' our freedom is worth more then anything else," she explained. "I guess he's right, We don't want the goVe ertunerit to get into this." Of- One thing the was certain, hOwever Individual farniers can- het afford to reduce the scale of their operation in egg produc- tion. "You've got to do it in Voluine or You don't make tiny.; e:arnd also'a partner in the ea6sinnrimietoneatrgr,hsp. i Louis Werharidi wife of poultry farmer in this rise, gave me •a similar' opinion-. "Either you raise eggs oil a bigger scale than you steed to, or you don't Make money," * 4, 4, The quertilani cluck clucka froth the hen houses ens theed ISSUE 27— 1959 CROSSWORD PUZZLE I. 8V:45.11k. 82 3. Singing 1Bower voices imOlethent 34: Style of hair 9, !Milan race' cut 10. Painting 88. Primate 11. Pootlike part Hundred 17. Hundred 19 Laughing birds (comb. form)'' 40. Serlotta 22, Exiated 2 24, Sostem of 444.. G Smallba3+ sienala or Inlet 25. Egg ,illuined 45. Body, Joint VI. Dispatchh, nickname 47.• Use 30 Across 27. Land measure 49. Beverage 29. Appeal 49. 'Cl 29 English river 50 SnriOs4 2 Drooping on one side Pitch of a matter_ 4. Mournful Bound; 5. Take the evening meal b. iliihher 7. 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