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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-05-19, Page 3TIRING WORK -- Worker lays clown hundreds of rubber tires on a rooftop. The old tires and plywood sheeting are used cis protection against Falling debris from the adiacent building being torn down. females for several hours eaels • day. Now And then one of the. females suddenly stopped feed- ing.fiew up with a curious loud. buzzing of the wings and, calling a harsh, staccato "whit-whit- whit," flew some ten, or twentY. yards low .over the surface Of the water and, alighting again, called something like "wedo- wesist-wesitt," swimming with its neck stretched and looking round intently. At first we saw this ceremony on rare oceasions only, but soon each female beganend , 'to do this frequently, every five minutes or so, for hours on The males, which arrived soon. after the females, never perform- ed in this way and there seemed little doubt that the ceremony was the song of the species, and that in Phalaropes song is an attribute of the female,-From "Curious Naturalists," by Niko Tinbergen. Copyright, 1953, by Nike Tinbergen, The Secrets Of Water Safety Ernest Taylor, director of the Outdoor Recreation Division of the Ontario Safety League, says the secret of water safety is this: Don't be rude. Many of the Federal Rules and Regulations for -small ves- sels simply spell out in legal form the principle of consider- ation for others. All the rules of boating safe- ty have their foundation in three qualities of good seamanship, These are alertness, common sense and courtesy. But the greatest of these is courtesy, For the sake of self-preserva- tion and good seamanship, and incidentally to avoid fines up to $500, all who take to the water this summer should read the Small Vessel Regulations, avail- able by mail from the Depart- ment of Transport, Ottawa. Canadian Power Squadrons offers an extensive system of night courses in safety, naviga- tion and seartsanship. A corre- spondence course for small boat operators is available from the Canadian Boating Federation. 1.-Know your boat. Know what it will do, what it won't do and how it reacts, 2,-Before leaving mooring check your boat. Note wind, waves and current and consider emergency harbors. 3.-Never overload your boat. Always remember children and non-swimmers. 4.-Carry 'federally - approved life preservers for every person on board. 5.-Carry fir e extinguishers, lights, signal equipment and ground tackle according to the law. 6.-Never turn at high speed, and always approach clock or mooring against wind or cur- rent - whichever is stronger. 7.-Slow down to 4 m.p.h. in har- bors and always avoid swimmers, sailboats and large vessels. 8.-Keep to the right when, meeting another boat head-on. Give the right-of-way to all ves- sels approaching from your right. 9.-When filling fuel tanks of power boats do not smoke. Turn off all gas fires and electric- equipment Close • all hatches, ports and doors. Hold nozzle firmly against 'fill pipe. Wipe up spillage. Ventilate engine com- partment and all enclosed spaces before restarting motor. 10.-Never stand, clown or change positions in small craft. 11.-Always look where you are going, Remember your wash and what it is doing to smaller craft and the shoreline. 12,-Never overpower an out- board boat. BUMPY - Making like a bump on a log, Dixie Graves graces the seaside at Sarasota. What follows doesn't legiti• mately belong in a farm column at all. But with. Capital and La- bo'ur hollering their heads off about how badly life treats them, some farmers might 'get a laugh cut of this. I hope you are one of them. a Anyone reading labour news reports closely in recent weeks might have noticed some inter- esting parallels in the issues in- volved in scattered disputes, In Chicago, for instance, a union picketed a motion-picture theatre for 10 days, until picket- ing was enjoined, to force its management to employ stage- hands that it insisted it did not need - to test the theatre fire curtain and do other routine be- hind-the-screen work now per- formed by regular theatre em- ployees. * In Tulsa, American Airlines, worried about the labour-cost uncertainties in a period of tran- sition from piston planes to jets, took steps to exercise a tighter control over costs; it ordered ground crewmen to take over other duties in the slack time in their regular jobs. The ground crewmen's Transport Workers Union reacted immediately with "speed-up" charges, one-hour work stoppages, later a sit-down strike and slowdown activities. AA had to go to court for relief. * In Milwaukee, two breweries were closed by wildcat strikes:- walkouts not 'authorized by the United Brewery Workers - be- cause they tried to increase the efficiency and cut the costs of truck loading and unloading op- erations. * a In Portland, Ore., two daily newspapers struck by printing trades unions almost six months ago are now operating with *re- placement employees, and are finding that they can get the same amount of work 'done as before with 25 per cent to 50 per cent fewer employees-be- cause traditional union work rules can be ignored. - a a a These are only four examples of many that could be cited. The common thing in each is the management desire to exercise a tighter control over its work force and costs and the union desire to expand or hold onto its jobs - regardless of costs. For management, it is a fight for profitable operations` and ef- fieieney; for unions, a bread- and-butter matter, It is hard to sec the union side of most of the disputes, although the union spokesmen. are extremely vocal - and al- most persuasive - about what the unions are doing, This 'is particularly true of the railroad unions, * a a In the American Airlines situ- ation, ground crewmen are fre- (silently busy by spurts; between times, there's little for them to do. To tighten up on operations, the company ordered baggage handlers to SWeeP ramps and do other rotitino Werk in their slack periods, It gave other groups of workers similar SeCon* &try assignments. The workers. and their Union resisted the orderst many of the men flatly refused to do lowly rated jobs. , its the breweries dispute, operators of forklift 01111)1110M resisted orders to handle pallets stacked With seven' layers of empty Cases and to assist, truck UNDAY SCII001 LESSON rades sad successfully defend ed the bridge across the Tiber„ while the Roman citizenry. hew., ed down the bridge behind them, Herminius and Laritius escaped back across the bridge just bes fore it fdl. 17.s.ssflos waited a mom .-nt longer I:1 a'ase of any mistaise. The bridge 1e:1, heaving bins on the wrong side, "Alone stood brave Iferatius hit constant still in mind, Thrice thirty thousand roes before Anet the broad flood behind." Summoned to surrender, he turned his back on his: foes, prayed to the Tiber to support him, and plunged into. the 110ed fully armed, It was a hard swim in the rushing turbulent stream; he was -weary and wounded; but he made it, Sir Richard Grenville was other who did not insist that the odds be in his favor, In the reign of the first Elizabeth a small English squadron of the Azores received news that a Spanish fleet of 53 galleons was Ap- proaehing. Making discretion the .better part of valor, the squad- ron hastily withdrew,. but Sir Richard in the Revenge remain- ed behind, He had . sick and wounded lying ashore, whom he was not prepared to abandon. By the time he had. taken these aboard, the Spanish, fleet had. come up with him. He gave the order to engage, one against fifty-three. Let Lord Tennyson take up the tale! THEFARM FRONT Joku quality of maintenance work by ground crews. That's about the same as say- ing don't cut out those repeated passages in the music, an anal- ogy American Airlines won't ac- cept because it contends that there's time enough for more quantity and full quality. Quite Different From Loneliness a... we roared a hurrah, and so The little Revenge ran on sheer into the heart of the foe . . For half of their fleet to the right and half to the left were seen, And the little Revenge ran on thro' the long sea-lane be- tween Thousands of their soldiers looked down from their decks and laughed, Thousands of their seamen made mock of the mad little craft Running on and on ..." Sir Richard held his foes at bay for a day and a night. He did not, like Horatius, live to tell the tale in spite of the court- esy of his Spanish victors, but he left an example of heroic aloneness maintained in the cause of compassion. - By Peter J. Henniker-Heaton in The Chris- tian Science Monitor. Aloneness is something quite other than loneliness. Indeed, he who has the capacity for alone- ness is of all men least likely ever to feel lonely. He is too aware of the stars in their courses fighting for him, of the universe, out to the uttermost galaxies, marching at his side; and, ultimately, he is best fitted for that kind of togetherness which approaches brotherhood. Fortunate are those who, as children, have learned aloneness from poetry and the poets, espe- cially from those simple poets whose vigorous music appeals to the youthful ear and makes learning by heart comparatively easy. Such a poet was Thomas Bab- ingten Macaulay. My brothers and I, well. coached by my fa- ther, learned The Lays of An- cient Rome by heart long be- fore we could read them. Hora- this was inevitably our favorite. After Horatius and his two coin- Clipping The Boss By Rev, 11, B, Wwen, t3, c, BM, sincprity its geligiens Practice% Ma tthow Memory Selection: ',Me L.ort‘ seeth ndt as man Seeth; for moo looketh on the outward appear- once, but the Lord token) on the heart. 1 .Samuel How much of present day macs giving is for the sake of prestige among men? Jesus says that such giving has no heavenly reward. Many gimmicks are used to make people give. Some are shamed into it by being shown the substantial gift of a neigh- bour, Some are told what they should give and threatened, in a gentle way, with exposure it they don't respond. It beddfne2 more of a tax than a gift, "But," says someone, "yet1 have to use pressure and guile to make some people give." Well, if people de not give freely, it really isn't Christian giving, "God lovetli a cheerful given." 2 Corinthians 9 :7. What about business firms giving with a view to fostering good public relations and thus securing more business? Well, that is an effective form of ad- vertising and is often so classi- fied in their accounts. It has its reward in this life. Only sincere praying is effec- tive. This is well illustrated int the parable of the Pharisee and the Publican. T h e Pharisee "prayed thus with himself."' Such a recital of his own self- righteousness, uttered in pride and saturated with contempt for his fellowman, was not a pray- er that could in any wise reach , the heart el God. But the Publi- can was justified when in humil ity he smote upon his breast, crying, "God be merciful to me a sinner." The prayer which Jesus tau " His disciples sets forth the proper spirit of prayer. We come to God as to our heavenly Father. We come reverently with the interests nceresetosr, We submit ofnHiskidom ourouirs wills and realize our utter de- pendence upon. Him. We come in a forgiving spirit. We only hope for God's forgiveness in the same measure as we forgive others. We trust God to give us the victory in the hour of temptation and close in triumph, "For thine is the kingdom, and the power and the glory, for ever, Amen." I was thrilled to hear 20 inmates of Collins Bay penitentiary in a sacred concert. Their conclusion of this prayer in a grand crescendo seemed to echo a confidence in their hearts that God would help them to re- establish their lives and live happily and for the good of mankind the rest of their days. Amazons The, World Of the numerous interesting ,experieneeS we had during this wonderful summer I will discuss only one more in some detail- our meeting with Bed-necked Phalaropes, "the Amazons of the bird world," Phalaropes are small waders living in the. arctic and subarctic zone, They are' one of the few groups of birds in which the fes. males are much more brightly coloured than the males, It had been known for A long time that the males, which have the $7.111Q kind of camouflaged plumage as, for instance, Snipe, do all the incubating and guard the young. alone, The females jest lay the eggs and have none of the tradi- tional motherly chores. We were aware of the possi- bility that we might see these birds on their breeding grounds and that, with luck, we might see something of their court- ship, When, therefore, at the end of June we happened to see some Phalaropes in a little pool near our Snow Bunting area, we de- cided et once to cut down a little on our Snow Bunting program- me and instead to give some attention to the Phalaropes. These first birds we saw were all females and were extremely tame. Their back was .a beauti- ful grey, with two parallel .yellow lines along it. The sides of the neck were .a warm chest-. unt• brown, 'fading towards the head into dark grey • The chin. was white and the whole 'under- side very light, with grey mot- tling. The females, we soon saw, isolated themselves in the way the male Snow Buntings had done; but the habitat .they chose was the marshy flats and . the - ponds there. Here they spent most 'of their day, usually feed- ing. They swam in the curious Phalarope fashion, floating as high on the water as a cork and, with quick, jerky movements, picking up one mosquito larva or pupa after another. Or they would "stalk" an adult mosquito, swimming with their head flat on the water, slowly and smooth- ly, then Making a sudden dash at the .nrey. , • We observed those isolated It is the time-honored way of messenger boys, when things are quiet, to seize the nearest diver- sion; and it is the time-honored way of offices to supply the di- version in the form of paper clips and rubber bands. But what if one backfires and hits the office boy in the eye? Can he collect compensation? He can, said New York's high- est court which recently upheld a decision in favor of the mes- senger boy, James Johnston. The court made allowances for John- ston's "youth and recklessness," adding weightily: "The act and the instrument, when co-joined to cause the injury, have a some- what closer relationship to the employment than those in the ordinary case involving horse- play." Johnston collected $228.64, *which, a cautious employer might note, would buy a lot of stapling machines. ISSUE 21 - 1960 Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking ©1©0' I©© EIEIMEICC1HISICIEBB CISME ®DE CUM- KII:11011110-,E11311 0E1 'CI0EID0EIEL.C1C. COMO EII1I • ram BONI -113EBEIZEI -121moneem 1111E INSEI lalOCIIS • MID Ililli41110 nE11121113111E1 ,EIE11913111113 1011311E111i1111111,1111BOLUDIM "I must find another tailor. This one reads too much." "Reads too much?" "Yes. Every 'letter he writes to^ me begins: 'On going through my books .. . !'" BEAMING - Dick Clark flashes a big smile as he takes the stand to testify before a House committee investigating payola in television. PUZZLE 34, Brags 85. Kind of wool 8'6. Capital of Philippines 17. [footless , animal 89. la teilwiSt again 10. SI)ark les 43. Babylonian god of healing 44 Nappy places 11. Choose • 49..4Vithnot moisture S i Topaz hummingbird 88 Philippine , negritrl 56, of hositat lull 67. Exclamation, t)1 surprise drivers in loading and unload- ing. The lift operators argued that no more ellen six layers of cases could be handled safely, and that the seventh layer ought to be moved by hand. They also argued that truck drivers and 'helpers should do whatever there is, to be done on the trucks; it's their job, a a a Regardless of what reasons they give, the real concern in a refusal to take on more work- by sweeping ramps in spare time or handling more cases with a fork lift - is over the possible elimination of some jobs. There was no question of this in the breweries situation. The workers in two plants admittedly are con- cerned over'the effects of in- creased mechanization. Ordinarily, dispute issues such as these lead to charges of "featherbedding" a n d "in a k e work" practices. The first im- plies laziness where, frequently, there is none if only the given duties of a particular job are considered. The second, often more apt, refers to the activities of unions and union-minded workers to require the hiring of workers not actually needed - as the stagehands in Chicago. * The whole area of disputes in- volving jobs - whether more work can be done in paid-for work hours - is a serious and emotional one, But, at times, it has light moments. For instance, the labour press currently is carrying a story, reported to have come from a' British labour paper, fancifully headed "Time- Study Man on Music." It's how a time-study expert might evaluate a -symphony or- chestra at work: e "For considerable periods, the .four oboe players had nothing to do. The number should be re- duced and the work spread more evenly over the whole of the. concert, thus eliminating peaks of activity. All the 12 violins were playing identical notes; this seems unnecessary duplication. The staff of the second section should be drastically cut. If a larger volume of sound is re- quired, it could be obtained by electronic apparatus. "Much effort was absorbed in the playing of demi-sesni-qua- vers; this seems to be unneces- s a r y refinement. It is recom- mended that all notes should be rounded out to the nearest semi- quaver, If this were done it would be possible to use trainees and lower-grade -operatives more extensively. "No useful purpose is served by repeating on the horns a passage which has already been handled by the strings. It is esti- mated the whole concert-time of two hours could be reduced to 20 minutes and there would be to need 'tor an intermission." * a American union propagandists are playing this straight. They're hot trying to apply it directly to management moves in plants, to reduce the number of worker's needed in certain operations, to spread work t31.1t. More evenly, or to avoid unnecessary dttplita- liana of efforts, However, the Transport Work- ers Union in Tulsa tetetted to American Airlines' More •,Wstisk• order; Workers May lye ibid to the 'company for the quantity of work they do,• but they're responsible to the Fe- deral Aviation Agency ee- and to the flying public s-• for the` Apostles 26. I/ruins, cymbals, etc, 73. Perched Clarden too 33, Female horse - , 6 LineVen , CROSSWORD 7 Shaped like a ,cabbage cabbage S. No. Syrian deity 9. :Permit 10. Bacchanalian ACROSS 24. Make a cry 1. Roof of the journey it. Cuddle Month 58. Favorable 12. Shaped then a t. Capital of attention handle 63. winged fruit 11. Increase In Montana 69, Otadations Prides 13. 'Click beetle of Color 20, Wild buffalo 14, Football team DOWN or lritlitt 15. Cover the 1, Coat of a 21. 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