HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-09-01, Page 2esverAolin.e P. Ctealf„e
PRINCE ANDREW --With royal detachment, Prince Andrew
observes -preparation for his family's departure for Balmoral,
Scotland. He is 'five months old.
Teachers. To Teach
',—cl''prk* To Clerk
T•••••.,7
The notional teacher shortage
calf only be solved. if high
schools, start acting like colleges,
a leading educator recently told
eonferen.ee Pa' the problems of
secondary education at the Dni-
vergity of San Francisco.
Let the teachers do the teach-
ing; let clerks. do the clerking
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by Tom A. Cullen
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
LONDON—From Africa comes
news that should gladden the
hearts of tune-smiths.
Africa's newly - independent
nations desperately need nation-
al anthems; they offer cash
prizes for the best tunes:
Among those recently in search
of national airs are the Congo
Republic, the Mali Federation,
Somaliland and Sierra Leone.
For Tin Pan Alley's benefit,
the anthems need not be long—
nothing like the 158 verses of
the Greek national hymn, for
example. Nor need they be par-
ticularly African.
Tom-tom effects are out in
favor of simple words that stir
up patriotic sentiments, (No
emergent African nation has yet
seen fit to follow the examples
of Afghanistan, the Vatican and
the United Arab Republic whose
anthems are wordless,)
Speed also is essential. rode.
pendence. Cannot wait for poetic
inspiration.
The national anthems adopted
by Ghana and Nigeria are unx
likely to make anyone's hit pa-
rade. They are either jingoistic
or tend to extoll the nation's
agriculture and its meteorology,
Ctititia is called a "bright star
shining in the sky."
The Re Public Of Guinea, (tor-
VnerIy French Guinea), on the
other' hand, goes in for revolu-
tionary gongs Praising Sekon
its ,Marxist-trained pre-
mier, 'Sample:
"Sekou Teure, 0 gift divine
and let machines help, aut as
learning aids, the educator sold,
Many surveys have coneluded
that the current teacher short-
age is due to a lack csf effective
utilization of teaching talent.
within the high schools them-
selves where teachers reported-
ly spend One-third of their time
Performing clerical tasks or su-
pervising student activities.
Future high schools, the (-len.
fOrnia assemblage was told, must
be set up along the general lines
of a large university' with em*
phasic on teaching specialists
arid a reduction. of the time a
student spends in elasa to allow
for more individual research
and directed study.
It has been suggested that ste..
dents should spend forty per
cent of their time in large classes
taught by an experienced pro-
fessional and the remainder of
the day in small diseussion
groups led lay 'general teachers'
and in individual study super-
vised by 'instructional assist-
ants,'
This combination would take
the burden of unnecessary work
!from trained teachers and there-
by • eliminate a duplication of
effort and waste of teaching tal-
ent that is a basic element in
the teacher shortage.
Too much togetherness in
schools was alsoseitesi as a dis-
tinct liability in the teacher-.
learning process.
All of which brings us home
from San Francisco.
The plan outlined, at T.ISF was
originated from findingS result-
ing from the Ford Foundation
experiment now being conducted
in Jefferson County schools,
,nova in its third year. •
-"The entire experiment has
received wide acclamation from
leading educators and school ad-
ministrators from around the
country.
Things are being done. Our
Showntneighbburhood is partaking
of a program promising bounty
for all. ,And even in the early
stagesOur program is becoming
a model of endeavour.—Outlook
(Golden,: Colorado)'.
THIRDsTIME UNLUCKY
Caught siphoning g a s from
a. ear parked in :a Pittsburgh
street, John James was put tin-
sders arrest.... *
At the police station he gave
his reasons for the theft. He had
stolen 'a" car", but it later broke
He -Stole a second car to
tow the first one but it ,ran, out
of gas. He was in fact,'"stealing
gas from the third car to put into
the tank of the second vehicle.
An old timer' is someone who
remembers when pickets were—
lusepart of a wooden fence.
to Guinea, hail to your Be blpss-
ed, thou benefactor of Guinea,
apostle of the good cause, infant
prodigy!"
Nigeria solved the problem by
offering $2,800 for the catchiest
tune and throwing the contest
open to corners from all nations.
The winner was Mrs. Charles
Kermot, a London piano teacher,
"Nigeria, we hail thee" will
swell from the throats of 35 mil-
lion Nigerians after independ-
ence day, October I.
Mrs. Kermot claims that it
took her only ten minutes to
compose the winning tune. She
denies that is sounds like the
boating song of a well-known
girls' boarding school.
The fact that their national
anthem was written by a Briton
has incurred the ire of Nigerian
students, who threaten to boy-
cott the tune.
"No self-respecting, nation per-
mits foreigners to compose its
national anthem," writes a pro-
fessor from the University Col-
lege at 'batten, Nigeria, "It, will
make us the laughing stock of
the African world."
Ghana offered an $8,400 prize
for its national anthem, but
restricted the contest to Ghanien.
nationals. Winner was Philip
Gbeho, a member of the musical-
ly-minded Ewe tribe, whose stir-
ring entry begins, "Lift high the
flag of Ghana."
"Martians are like the Brit-
ish," a student from Accra said.
"As soon as the national anthem
is played, everyone halts for the
floor."'
Rip Van Winkle
in Russia
Slowly, unortainly, Pyote Vet.
roV opened his eyes and stared
at the curious faces around his
bed. His lips twisted as he
struggled to speak, And then,
miraculously, the words came
out,
"GO ya (Where am. D?"
in a hospital.
"What am I doing here?"
You were knocked out by a
sheliburat,
"How long have I been here?"
Then came the incredible ans-
wer': Eighteen years,
For Pyotr Vetrov, time had
stopped in December 1942. Hit-
ler's Wehrmacht was hammering
at the gates of Moscow, and.
Pyotr, a Red Army truck driver,
was taking part in the capital's
defense, Pyotr, then 29, could
remember the gnawing cold, then
the roar of the shell, then noth-
ing. Medics at the Dobrynilcha
Psychoneurological Clinic had
identified the body from his
documents, but Pyotr's family
had been notified that he was
missing, so no one ever came to
see him,
Recently, after a suecessful
series of electric-shock treat-
ments, the Dobrynilcha clinic re-
ported that Pyotr had regained
consciousness. The eyes that had
closed in 1942, reopened in 1960
—and what they saw was enough
to derange the mind. Pyotr found
that his once strong boby, kept
alive by force-feeding, had be-
come gaunt and flabby. He was
a middle-aged man. Beyond that,
there were changes in the world
around him that confound many
people who have been perfectly
conscious for the past eighteen
years,
From the sister 'els ) visited
him recently, Pyotr would have
MISS INTERNATIONAL BEAUTY
— Stella Marques of Colombia
is suitably happy and astonish-
ed in long Beach, where she
was named Miss loternational
Beauty.
to learn that Russia and its
Western allies had won the war,
overrun the Germans, crushed
the Japanese with"a strange new
thing called an atomic bomb. But
as soon as Pyotr picked up
Pravda, it would tell him that
the Americans and the British
were no longer "heroes," as
Pyotr had thought in '42, but
"warmongering enemies,'" As for
the Germans, 'same who lived in
the Eastero half of the defeated
country, were now "loyal allies."
The rest, however, were still
"Nazis," but instead of being
crushed, they were now more
prosperous Ulan
Russia, Pyotr would learn, had
won many victories. "Under the
inspired leadership of Nikita S.
Khruelichev,u Soviet' rockets-had
hit the re0011, "Khrushchev?'1
Pyotr might ask, "Who's he?
What happened to Marshal Sta-
lin?"
"He's dead, and so Is She trai-
tor Beria" Ca "beet," when Pyotr
blacked out),
It would not be easy for Pyott
to change his former idols into
devils. tut he.w6tild not lack for
help in making this eighteen-
year leap. All he had to do was
to turn the knob of a mysterious
new box in his room, blink at
the burst of light, and Watch
while a TV announcer told hitt.
the latest news of the great cold
war. Ifighteen yeasts ago,' Pyotr
had hoped that World War TI
might be the last; • now he had
awakened to find the world close
to the edge of a far greater cata-
clysm. At that, Russia's Rip Van
Winkle might well wonder whe-
ther lie ever should have awak-
ened at all. Prom NEWSWEEg!
:Dgrkig WITH 'CARL.
When we have an unusual
experience I like to share it with
you. It might help some time.
So here is our latest. We have
two. cheques lost in the mail —
Ontario government cheques —
interest due on several bonds
that we own. The bonds are ful-
ly registered; the interest pay-
able twice yearly. Up until now
the cheques have always arrived
absolutely on time, This time sev-
eral days went by; finally a
week. Still no cheques. So I made
inquiries at our local post office.
We have rural mail delivery in
our district so I thought it pos-
sible the cheques had gone to
some other family by the name
of Clarke and' would eventually
turn up. Two weeks went by. No
cheques. So I looked up the
Treasury Department for the
Province of Ontario in the tele-
Far East Allure
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SIZES
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4411,
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NUMBER,
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TOronto, Ont.
phone book. Attar the usual
switch from one person to an-
other I eventually got through to
the right official. He looked up
the records and found the
cheques had• been mailed at the
proper time. He suggested con-
tacting our post office again and
if the cheques did not show up
with a day or two to notify the
Department in writing. This we
did and got word back that the
cheques had not been presented
for payment by any unauthoriz-
ed person, therefore the bank'
had been notified to stop pay-
ment. In due time duplicate
cheques would be sent to us --
that is, in about six weeks! In
all, that means a two month's'
delay before we get our money.
It could be quite inconvenient:
The big question is — where
did the first cheques go? The
post Once suggests they might
have gone to an entirely differ-
ent town or village bearing a
similar name. I know it can
happen, When our address was
"Milton" quite frequently mail
was sent to "Wilton" — some-
times because it was addressed
that way. Now' our address is
"Erindale" we come up against
Erin, Evansville, Erinsville and
Elmvale. Sometimes it is the
result of a typist's error. We
have yet to get mail correctly
addressed from, one insurance
company with whom we deal.
Anyway, if you get cheques or
important documents lost in the
mail, contact the office from
which they were sent, The mat-
ter will eventually get straight-
ened out. In the old days, accord-
ing to a time-honoured saying,
"the mail always gets through".
But these are not the old days.
There are now more people,
more places, more time-saving
machinery — and more mail.
But it is questionable Whether
there is more efficiency.
We experienced another little
inconvenience last week. It was
good drying weather so I un-
dertook to do some extra wash-
ing -- blankets and so on. May-
be you can guess what happen-
ed. Yes, in the middle al things
our washing machine gave up
the ghost. After resting a while,
it would go for a few minutes,
then blow a fuse and quit. We
thought it must be the motor
although the machine is only
three years old, However, the
repair matt said the trouble was
in the drainage pump, .B'y acci-
dent, it was half turned on al-
though not in use. This caused
lint to collect and plugged the
works, We paid the service
charge but did not have the
pump repaired — for the sire-
pre reason we don't use it, Pail-
net drains the water rote pails
and Uses it to water the garden.
That way it saves water and
keeps the septic tank free of de-
tergents, Detergents, as you may
know, can play havoc with sep-
tic tanks — also sewerage dis-
posal plants. But froni now oil
we shall watch that pump,.
Well, what you you think of
this little story? We were hav-
ing a cup of tea on •the front
porch When the paper-boy came.
I offered him a cookie.
"NO 1/1 30kS," Vatila. the (in-
2Wer.
4,wi w t 'Use .coUts.
ik.•s?" .
°Yes,. I like them alt right
but they make Me "perspire"
too muehl"
Ye gods, since when did teen ,
year-old boys start. worrying
about perspiration? Incidentally
he .even had„quite a time to• pro-
mu:ace, the .word„ .1 remember
when boys thought it sounded
"sissified" to say perspiration.
Good old honest "sweat" was
more to their liking. Years ago
I was trying to educate our son
Bob Into using the more polite
term for excess body moisture,
What answer do you suppose I
got?. "Gee, Mum — don't try to
make me a sissy. Girls pers-
pire, boys sweat! Don't you
know that?"
Whichever way it is, we have
done quite a bit of it the last
few days. But now it is cool
again. Maybe too cool in the re-
sort areas, Daughter sent word
home that if we planned a visit
to the cottage to take an elec-
tric blanket. However, s
doesn't say anything about cant-
ing back to Toeonto. To all ap-
pearahces She intends staying to
the very last day • of the school
holidays, The boys are still hav-
ing a wonderful time.
HEAR, DEAR!
An eccentric old man invested
in one of the new hearing aids
that are almost invisible. A few
days later he returned to the
shop where he - had made his
purchase to express his delight,
"I'll bet your 'family likes it,
too," said the 'salesman.
"Oh, they don't know I've got
it," said the old fellow. "And
I'm learning things! In 'the past
two days I've changed my will
twice!"
The are of printing was first
introduced to the Americas in
Mexico in 1536.
A LIGHT and airy look is ach-
ieved in this double-breasted
turquoise coat by Michel Goma
in a shaggy surface fabric.
Semi-fitted wit the front, it has
high waistline with slightly
flared skirt.
THE "RUSSIAN LOOK" prevails
in fhe collection of Nina Ricci,
designed by Jules Crdhciy, Typi-
Ent fit this evening gewri Of pale
dray satin bonded in sable, The
high waistline is another &a-
hoy trade-mark for everillitj.
How Abovt A .H.P.00.,
Built Qf Ice
The possibility. of usine ice re.0
large-scale building projeet,
being inve.Thgated by the M•r4s:),
ehusetts Institute of Technology,
whose chief researcher, Pr. W.
David Kingery, foresees a great
future for ice-built ihvelling.
What is now the most plants..
Jul and, so far least useful ;0).
stance on earth may soon
valued very differently, he says,
To him, ire is a metal, Ciie. Which
melts at about 32 degrees Fah-
renheit,
As a rectal, in its natural state,
it breaks tinder a pressure of
merely 300 lbs, per square inch.
But the professor and his team.
have found methods of remedy-
ing that weakness.
Their experiments prove that
ice can be turned into a metal
alloy by adding quantities of
glass-type fibres. This binds the
ice, and ice metal, so made,
reaches a tensile strength of
3,000 lbs. a square inch. That
give a durable alloy, a piece of
Which, merely a quarter-inch
thick, can support the weight of
a 200 pouted man.
Modern Etlauette
By Anne Ashley
R. When eating with the fork,
is it all right to spear the pieces
of meat with the fork held
prongs-down?
A. While it is all right to spear
the meat with down-pointing
prongs, you .must be certain to
lift the fork to the mouth with
the prongs upward.
Q. When I have borrowed it
needle and thread front the at-
tendant in a powder-room, in or-
der to make some minor repair,
am I supposed to tip the attend-
ant?
A. Yes, this is expected,
ISSUE 36 — 1960
THIS SPORTY and casual suit
has 'jacket with srnool,h fit,
high pockets, cravat tie and
saucer buttons, It's designed by
Jean Patou. It's shown here in
d new, light-weight tweed.
THIS IS THE PARIS version Of
the flamenco dancer's costume(
done for evening by Castillo Of
tonViti. The enormous ruthing
at the Na rivis typically Spanish!,
Body of, the dress k slim and
sirriple. This design is done in
0 tool, Cairn shade' of tiray.
Enjoy the beauty of roses all
year with, this chair set — adds
e touch of elegance t8 any ret.m.t
Precious filet crochet — lovely
chair or buffet . at,, scarf ends.
Pattern 975: charti; direCtithii
for chair back 16 x 12V2, armrest
6 x'12V2 inches in No. 50 cotton.
Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS
(stamps cannot be ,aceepted, use
postal not for safety) for this
pattern, to LAURA WHEELER,
Box 1, 12'3 Eighteenth St., New
Toronto; Ont. Print plainly
PATTERN NUMBER, y o u
NAME and ADDRESS.
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You Song-Writers, Here's Your Chance
African Nations Search For Anthems
First Photos of New Paris Fashions
NEW YORK—(NEA)—The first pictures through from Paris show
fall •and winter fashions to be feminine and wearable, not at
all drastic. Hems are just below the knee and, for both daytime
and evening, get the luxury of fur trim. Many coat collars come
up to the ears 'only to be met by hats reaching down to the
ears. We show here daytime and evening clothes from the top
French couturiers, all of them very flattering. — By GAILE DU-
GAS, Newspaper E`nterprise Women's Editor,