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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-04-21, Page 5MASQUERADE - Surreal 'sue masks are the thing in Paris, One at left represents bees on a honeycomb; center is called, n,herrnaphredite," right, an owl. 8. Pays a bill 9. Extra part 10. Lame 11. Observes 18. Ignited 20. Award for valor 22. Help - 23. Display 24. Walk In water 25..Remnant 26. Speed contests 30, Examinations 81: For fear that 32.Units „,34:;Exterieivis, Woods , PORTRAIT 60 THAI Whloh' figure t o this ctUre ti really the artist? Creedne Waite portal. holding' atit In Rani*. Painting Is in a private exhibition. , NDAYSC11001 • • JIM LAS MONTH - IN HISTORY Most of northern U.S. battered by late winter snowstorms. Khrushchev begins tour of France; warns of German MillIOCe. American lishopJames Walsh, 13 other prieste,sestencid to prison by Chinese Redslor alleged espimusge. 19 firemen killed rn explosion of burning Oisky warehouse in Glasgow. ay Hey. R, Br Warren, D.A., B.D. 8-47 jet bomber explodes in flight, crashes int knits section„olk ASet residential rol killed and injured, Two earthquake seismic wave and fire destroy Moroccan resort 4111 14 4{4G 10,000 Intimated hod, MAR i 7 4idiner croak ' .4 kills 63par Till City, led. MA• R I 11 killed when passenger train, 'oil truck collide it Bakersfield, Calif. "Ad MAR 26 411 sh Prime Mi litrifstir to Macmillan arrive , for Eisenhower, R Screen Actors Guild strike shuts down Hollywood studies, UMW 72 Africans killed, over209veciunded by polio In riot at Sher ills, South. Africa. South African government declares state of emergency to combat rising Negro unrest. MAR. 29 Spring thaw brings severe floods in 8 prairie states; hundreds evacuate homes. French ammunition ship blows up in Havana Harbor; Castro accuses U.S. of sabotage. 18 men trapped in coal mine at Logan, W. Va.; rescue attempts fail. Newsm' op • y• ,•••• ',•:i..-•: ,:,,:••••• • How the Pacific Might Have Been The Pacific Ocean in modern outline is an insuperable barrier to the kind of over-water tram- portation known to primitive man, but we are predicating not fact but an insufficienecy of it if we insist on an ancient Paci- fic as impassable as it is now, or if we cannot tolerate the possi- bility that Santa Rosa was a California coastal headland 30,- 000 to 40,000 years ago. CAMEL CHORES - Ships of the desert are turned into plow pullers. in the Canary Islands, off the coast of Africa. FARM FRONT J ohn Loose smut infection in barley can be reduced by seeding only large kernels, Department of Ag- riculture scientists have deter- mined. Experiments were conducted with bulk barley screened into small, medium and' large kernels. * * The world in which we live is nowhere stable and in no wise fixed: the forces that have shaped it are not quiescent.... The only certainty we can know about yesterday's world is that it dif- fered, somewhere, significantly from today's. We know a great deal about many regions of yes- terday's world; we have pre- sumed a state of ignorance to be a state of knowledge in vast areas, like the Pacific, and have said that we know this or that much without the fair and hon- est acknowledgment that so much is next to nothing. Among the facts that have long been known is the exist- ence of the west-flowing South Equatorial Current, the current which bore the Heyerdahl expe- dition from Peru to Polynesia. What was not known until the project vessels of the Scripps. Institution and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service return- ed and reported in June. 1958, was that this was a weak countercurrent, a sort of back- wash, of a much mightier and faster current that flows east- ward beneath it, 250 miles wide, with the force of a thousand Mississippis. It extends from a depth of one hundred to eight hundred feet below sea surface and is at least 3,500 miles long. What this current must have meant to the Pacific when the world ocean was 400, or 200, or 100 feet lower than it is now, and all Pacific islands were con- sequently enlarged, we cannot yet say, but surely we must be excited enough to dream hy- potheses. - From "No Stone Un- turned," by Louis A. Brennan. Q. What does a young man de about the offering when lie is accompanying.a girl to her place of worship? A. She, of course, makes her own contribution - and he also makes one. In a one-year test with Mont- ' calm barley, relates M. L. Kauf- mann, the smallest seed resulted in plants with a 30 per cent in- fection, medium sized 12 per cent, and large only two per cent. Unscreened seed from the same bulk lot gave a 15 per cent infection in the crop. The Gateway and Husky varieties gave similar yields in a two-year test. ISSUE 17 -- 1960 Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking How A Playwright Took The Plunge It was a Sunday afternoon and I remember it well, The moment was not accompanied by any such sensible thought as, "Why, I could write a better play than any of these myself." I was simply bored to distraction by the trash I had been thumbing through all day, and without thinking too much ,about it, I simply sat down at a battered typewriter that I had rescued from the ash-heap of a Brooklyn relative's largesse and wrote on a piece of paper, "Act One. Scene One." By twelve o'clock that night Act One was completed and the next morning I took it into the office with. me. Some demon of mischief was already at work, however, for on the title page I did not put my own name, but instead strung to- gether the first three names of some of the boys on the. block and listed as the author of the play "Robert Arnold Conrad." Candor compels me to reveal that the title wag The Beloved Bandit'. , The next morning I handed the act to Mr. Pitou, and with a proper edge of the casual in my voice, "I read' an act of a 'play last night that I think is very good. You ought to read it.' "Who wrote it?" asked Mr. Pitou. "A fellow named Robert Ar- nold Conrad,"• I replied. "He's a friend .of, mine." . . I was utterly unprepared for what happened the following morning when Mr. Pitou entered the office. With his hat still on his head, he slapped the act down on the desk, turned to me triumphantly and said, "We found it. Don't have to look any further, This is it, If the second 'and third acts hold up anything like as well, we're home. When can I get the second act?" "Tomorrow morning," I re- plied, too stunned to know what I was saying. "Great," said Mr. Pitott. "Take a letter to Mr. Conrad - will you be seeing him tonight?" "I guess -so," I replied, truth- fully enough. "Well, if yOu don't," said Mr. .Pitou, still under the spell of being out of the woods at last, "mail it special delivery so that he gets it first thing in the morning. I want to point out P. few things he ought to do in the second act." Still stunned, I sat down at the typewriter and solemnly took the long letter to Robert Arnold Conrad that Mr. Pitou poured forth, Why I did not tell Mr, Pitou the truth then and there escapes me even now. Per- haps I was too startled by hie completely unexpected 'enthusi- asm to puncture the bubble so quickly, or it may be I was sud- denly titillated by the idea of carrying the joke through to the end; but whatever it was that possessed me to keep silent in these first few minutes set in motion a chain of events that I was powerless afterward to stop. By the time lie signed the letter and handed it over to me, I kneW I was doomed to go on. - From "Act One," An Atitobiog- raphy by Moss Hart. MPMB 0 00 OWD MOD MOB EVO UMW U00 00E7 BOO DEMBWO OBOODBO MOB HMO ;mum MUM 00NOM OOD OW ORBO9 MOM 00B00000 OBOUB3 ©I510 OWO HOU WOBOM MOM UMOB MUM UWO OMNI BWOM * All commercially grown var- ieties of barley are susceptible to loose smut and the disease cannot be controlled by chemi- cals. * * * In view of the results of the experiments, says , Mr. Kauf- mann, it is recommended that only the large kernels be used for seed in areas where loose smut is prevalent. The large seeds used in the tests were those which passed over a 7/64 inch by z/fi inch sieve. They represented about 20 per cent of the bulk lot. Hence, about 500 bushels of grain would be required for 100 bushels of seed. Reduced losses from smut would more than compensate for the extra trouble and cost in screening. "If this were put into prac- tice by farmers over a wide area," says Mr. Kaufmann, "the number of smut spores in the air would be reduced and the infection would decrease gen- erally." A passenger aboard a pleasure boat asked the captain why they had stopped in mid-stream. "The fog is so thick that we can't see to proceed up-river," he replied. "But, captain," the passenger persisted, "I can see the stars." "Yes," he replied, "but unless the boilers blow up, that's not the way- we're going." Rigbteou Mercy sia.--ess Ma -a tthew l ea5 :6" s aln; 3 t 1tolb4 6h.;411:18;273 you approach the table .for good meal. But to hunger dar after day on very meagre rations, as many did in prison camp; 141 very distressing. The words or ijeeestui os oar; en, i n 4g`bloeusrsedinelaTirerYtheie.; which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled," Matthew Here is the promise of complete satisfactiort for those who have good spirit- ual appetites, They shall be fed, even "fattened' as the Greek abundance ndanscueggwesitths. GoTdhearned Heis de an - lights to give to those who seek Him. Great is the joy of the man who discovers a treasure in a field, and having sold all, suc- ceeds in buying that field, So the merchantman who sells all that he has that he may obtain the pearl of great price is well satis- fied. h e Jesus illustrate the value of the king- dom of God, There is nothing in world s uses these parables to to compare Mt s he souuld be wing withit. to i t surren- der anything that he may enter. Jesus said, "Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy." The parable in the les- son emphasizes the point that only the merciful shall obtain mercy. The King forgave his servant the great debt he never could pay. But the man who was forgiven had no mercy on his fellow who owed him but a trifle and who promised to pay if given a little time, The un- merciful man wouldn't wait and cast him into prison. This was so unjust that the neighbours told the king who took prompt action against the servant who had re- ceived such mercy but would not show any to another. God has been so merciful to us in giving. His Son to die tor us that we might be saved from our sins. We ought' to have mercy on our fellows. Only thus can we show forth God's loVe and enjoy His blessing. As I write, race relations im South Africa are holding world attention. The U.N. delegate from India made a timely re- mark when he quoted, "Love thy neighbour." Mercy flows from love. Harvesting, Ice • In. Bygone Days It was real fun ti sit in the comfort of the fireside and watch the Olympic ski. jumpers; know- in I had no responsibilities, "La chute est magnifiquer said. Bert Ivlichand with equal respectful regard. All I. could think of was the way the ice used to come back now and then when we went filling the Weston icehouse on a deliciously cold winter day. (The temperature in Squaw Val- ley was reported as a brisk 40 or such, which we sometimes at- tain on a good summer's day if the wind is right.) An ice harvesting crew was certainly motley. Word would go. out that the depth had reached the 14 inches desired and the ice- house would be filled. Anybody who could attend would there- fore show up, and everybody bad plenty to do, You'd find the Baptist minister working with a chap who trained sporting hors- es, and the superintendent of schools bandying words with the village ignoramus,. If the nights held cold, once the pond was un- covered those 14 inches could stretch to 28 mighty feet, and. then vou had trouble, It didn't matter who worked with whom; the jeh 1 to ree1 the house fill- ed, There were no machines in the days I speak of. The ice was grooved by horses, sawn h hand, and stored by brawn. The run- way from the pond up to the house on shore had a steel frame that just fitted over two . double cakes -•. four cakes, that would -be, •The clevis on the righ end. fitted a rope leading through pulleys to a team of horses on the bank. The nigh end, nearest the pond, was turned up like skis so it would come sliding down and ride up over the next four cakes. Inside on the aft end it had teeth, to bite into the ice and• prevent slipping. So, when you got four cakes lined up in- side the frame, the giddap went out, the horses strained, there was a creaking Of blocks, ' and'. the cakes went coursing up- the runway toward the house, There is no way to tell Squaw Valley Olympiacs how cold it used to be on an ice pond, hut it was closer to 40 below than 40 above. Bundled heavily, a bin- der-twine cord about the middle (for a belt retains more heat than you'd think) and the feet well . protected, an - ice - pond worker couldn't count on exer- else to keep him warm. It WAS too cold. fer hearty sweat. And there was always that close post sibility that you'd get xvet. Falling into the drink was standard Practice, Bven with creepers an, you'd plunk in, close ing the door after you and ex-- periencing the most awful ablu- tion known to man, You'd come up and the next man would loop an, ice hook into your mackinaw collar, jerk you back on the ice, and you'd have the afternoon off. They didn't pay you for time lost, either, The longest trip you'd ever make in your whole career was from the water's edge to the shanty, The shanty was merely a shed to keep the tools in at night, and it had a stove to make lunch- time congenial, Wires were Strung oyes the stive to dhy clothes, assuming that during the day somebor" e --•" find them useful. But the gayest t on an ice pond was whenever the steel frame lifting cakes up the run- way slipped, and the four cakes came back down again. It made a most pretty descent, if you were at a distance, The teamster was the first to know this had happened, for his horses would. lunge ahead when the weight was %lost. He would let out a yell that echoed on the frost with a flat, frigid tone, and it would be picked up by everybody. The yell was a signal for the men working at the loading place to execute a swift departure, for when these cakes came down. freestyle and whoomphed into the narrow slit of water, the explosion was a monumental event. Anybody anywhere around was inundated with a devastating drench which froze immediately. The least suggestion that, the frame had slipped prompted such foot racing as would win Atal- anta without apples, even, and a checrine from the pond quite worthy of that contest. If all went well, there was a resound- ing alarm, and vast cry of "Kout!" a scramble for distance, and then the hilarity of congrat- ulations. If things did not go well, somebody would clink to- ward the shanty to sit in the steam, The day I felt in and was deft- ly jerked back onto the ice by Diddy Howland, the shanty real- ly looked good. Nobody went up with me, the falling-in business being too routine, so I stuck some _sticks in the stove, chattered to myself while I undressed, and found it wasn't too bad at that. I exposed myself to the little stove, which was fairly hopping, and in no time my wet clothes were steaming away fine, It was fun to sit in the warm shanty, whose only window gave on the woods away from the pond, and listen to the muffled activity of ice-cutting - the creak of ropes, the bumping of ., ice blocks, the calls of the men; and the upping and downing of the great steel frame, sliding in the guides. Then came the tumult. From, up back, a wild shout, and then the chorus from the pond. The frame had slipped! Silence, dur- ing which I presumed the men around the runway ran. I was wrong. They started to run, but mischance saw them all go flat - three of them fell on their faces before they could get dis- tance,-and there they were when the thunderous tidal wave came, down, The crowd on the pond cheered and applauded, vastly amused, and the three men pick- ed themselves up and ran for the shanty. In they came, off they stripped, and I helped them hang their clothes. And that afternoon, in the steam, we four ice cutters sat on 'wooden boxes, comfy though unclothed, and had one of the greatest cribbage games in the annals of winter sports. -By John Gould in the Christian Science Monitor. CROSSWORD PUZZLE 58. Dispatch 59. Three-spot DOWN Swab. 2. Salutation 3. Hindrance 4. Bartered 5. By 6. Statute 7. Anthropoid , animals TOUGH GUYS Two bear cubs seem unhappy about their Nutria n Surroundings; They were found in a holloW tree by loggers, and turned over to a zoo. How much does the Canadian a farmer net' from every dollar of gross income? A Canada Department of Ag- riculture economist, studying financial statements of 13 groups of farms in four western prov- inces found that the average return to the farmer for his labor and capital was about 40 per cent of the gross income. * * In other words, explains C. K. Varkaris, for every dollar of gross income, ,the farmer had a return of 40 cents. One group of farms in Alberta showed a negative return in a year when crop yields were low. * * In British Columbia, farms surveyed in the Rocky Moun- tain Trench area averaged a 40 per cent return on gross income, with mixed livestock farms lead- ing with about 50 per cent. In the central region, farms sur- veyed averaged 47 per cent of gross income. Livestock -crop farming had a return of 64 per cent. Sixty-five Fraser Valley dairy farms had returns amount- ing to 43 per cent of gross, and on Vancouver Island, another 29 dairy farms showed returns that were 40 per cent of gross, * • * In'Alberta, two types of farms in the Parkland area were sur- veyed. One was general livestock farms and the other grain farms. The first group was the excep- tion to the general rule, show- ing negative returns to labor and capital. The grain farms record- ed returns that were 38 per cent Of gross. ,„ Three groups were studied in Saskatchewan. Two involving large and Medium farms show- ed returns that amounted to '74 per cent of gross. The third in- volVed small farina that return- ed 67 per cent Of gross to the farmer for his labor and capital. Located west of Swift Current, the farms were in five munici- palities. In Manitoba, 58 livestock farina in the Interlake Area had an average return of 45 per cent of the gross income and rang= ed from a low of per cent for the farina that kept 15 :to 34 cattle to a high Of 48 per cent for farms' that, kept 50 Or more cattle'. Another group, Compris, Mg 54 mixed faring in the 8it- toneFerk River area, had an lev- erage return Of 47 per cent Of gross indOtte., A third group, composed of 82 grain-liveateek' farina, ShOWed an average return. of 45 per cent Of gross. Fifty-two grain, farms hi the Red RiVer Valley area returned On erver ago of 56 per tent gresS. •• "heading between' the continent§ Economist Varkaris "it is evident that a Mibstatitial volume of butineSS is 'required` in order to provide tin adequate: level of living". 11111111111M1111111111Mill1111111 illilli111111111111ili1111111110111 ill1111111ifigill11" 111111111tililiii111111111111161111111 iilliiiii1611111111111Eill11111111111 ACTORS 1. Distilling grain 5. Alack 9. That girl 12. Finished 13. Finish line 14. Liquidate 16. Leaf Of a Corolla 18. Malt drink 191, Not bright 21. Leads 23: More melo- , diens 27, Uritruth APplause 29. Old-, fashiOnd 21, Behold SS, UneVen SC Confronts Mother ehIcken SCOurselV:os„ 117. Extremities' of earth's axis iii. Quantity of medieitte 8$. Sailor 40.,ThoCoirEch ,, tares 42, Avalanches 45. Held a session 46:Ballboo basket 47. Weep alvely 49. Tares , U. COnsitinted 1 4. Sincere, . Go byO .water 7, Bliisbitt In the Alps McPherson had hired a taxi at the station to go to his hotel. On the way the taxi skidded downhill and the driver yelled. "MY brakes have gone. I can't stop the car! What can I do?" For a moment McPherson `leas upset, then he rallied. "At any rate, mon," he called, "stop the Meter!" 35. Garden tool 37. Stuff 38, Abhor 39. Weary 41. Damp and chilly 4 .1, Cicatrix 43. Dilatory ' 44. Inflained place 48: Style Of half dreas, 50. Attention 51. Gaining oube 52. StitrePtitloirs 50.Fast.tense ending WIIATI NO CRIME? A British expert on crime was amazed, during a recent visit to Jecida, in Sandi Arabia, to .see Peieter 'Jagging along the citY'i. bitalest street with a large bag on his hack bulging with bank notes- worth several thousands of Pounds. The Man, unarmed and tin, guarded, made no Secret of his load as he journeyed front one' bank to another. "Aren't you afraid of 'being: robbed?" asked the amazed thg, itahaiao. But the parter letet sinned and answered. "The Salle' di crime rate is the lowest iti the wOrld." (Pitztletli the Visitors Called at the local police post to make further inquiries and learned that the harShneSs of the law has cleared the tetVit Of . all crooks. The pen altY far Stealing is hatr• ink hand chopped ' oft Answer' elSeWhkee' On this page` • ••