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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1961-10-12, Page 2HRONICLES INMREANel itiftwAk &az Pays. For The fence. After tga Years How these Welshmen stick together! After 183 years :Lloyd the Money pays up for Williams. the. Fire, We mean of course, Selwyn Britain's 'Chancellor of the Exchequer, who has sent a personal check for 4.6 8s, la ($18) to pay for a church fence burned by order of .Maj.s. Baw ward Williams of His Majesty's Royal Artillery in Philadel- phia,. 1778. The 'wooden palings were around St, Peter's Episcopal Church on Society Rill in the city of the Liberty Bell. George III's "redcoats" were cold. The major ordered them to take the wooden slats to make a fire. He wrote the rector he would get "a reasonable allowance" for the fence, Chancellor Lloyd is an ex- gunner from the Royal Artillery. He served as an officer in the same unit as the men who warm- ed themselves round the. wood fire. He„ too, is a Welshman. When the Rev. 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There is no sales tax on the patterns. wrote saying he had found the unpaid account When clearing up vestry records In preparation, for the churoh bicentenary on Sept, 11, sown Lloyd sent a Piere sonal check .fgr tha current ivalent of $1.43. In regard to the clergyman's further claim for upward of $750,000 interest at 6 per cent per annum, the Chancellor whimsically, refutes this by suggesting the rector should see what he could get from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or perhaps Douglas Dillon, United States Secretary pf the Treasury, as representing the federal government of the ex- colonies, according to Melita. Knowles in the Christian Sci- ence Monitor, C. J. Carey, Mr. Lloyd's pri- vate secretary, gently recalls "that as this is said to have occurred before the Treaty of Versailles in 1783, Pennsylvania was at that time a British colon- ial territory. The convention is that claims by citizens of col- onial territories against the government, which have not been settled by the date of inde- pendence, lie against the succes- sor government unless a special arrangement is made to the con- trary." in reply to the rector's pro- nouncement: "An officer's word should be his bond, even though it was a long time ago," the private secretary, e q u al 1 y tongue - in - cheek, observes: "Claims lapse by passage of time according to. English law," In more serious vein, how- ever, the Chancellor sent his personal check "as a token of his deep regard for the Ameri- can people." The letter con- cludes with the Chancellor's wish to commend to the Rev. Mr. Koci the words of St. Paul in I Cor. 3:15: "If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire." The rector reportedly has said he considers the account closed, and that "he will forget the $750,000 for the sake of Anglo- American unity", which was no doubt received with sighs of re- lief in Treasury circles in England. Rarely can a national debt have been settled with such finesse. The only criticism is from economic pedants who wonder if the Chancellor has contravened his own Treasury- exchange control regulations. To. Reign In Spain Someday — Maybe! In sailing races on the Medi- terrian last month, blond-haired Spanish Prince Juan Carlos teamed up with an Olympic yachting champion, Crown Prince Constantine of Greece. From now on, Juan Carlos will team up with Constantine's sis- ter's, 22-year-old Princess Sop- hia; news of their engagement came recently from Lausanne, Switzerland, where Sophia, her parents, and her 23-year-old suitor were on a visit. (A some- what nonplussed royal Greek physician, pressed into service as a spokesman for Sophia's family, described Juan Carlos's • exuberance: "He was so delight- ed that he seized me and kissed me on both cheeks, and I'd never met him before.") Raised in the Greek Orthodox Church, Sophia will turn Roman Cath- olic to marry Juan Carlos, who is expected 'to occupy the Spanish throne if Generalissimo Francisco Franco ever gets around to restoring the mon- archy. DRIVE WITH CARE ! We are as happy as sandboys. Why? Because the weather has finally changed. Gone is the heat and humidity. in its place we have cool, breezy, bracing weather, The outside tempera- ture dropped to forty-eight dur- ing the night so this morning we had to step up the heat considerably. Now I suppose fruit farmers and home garden- ers will be worrying in case we get a frost some time that may nip late garden produce. It just seems that if one person wins another loses. Well, folks, put your thinking cap on I have a problem for you to consider. , . that is if you live in the country or far -enough out from your nearest town to make rural mail delivery necessary: It is this. Are you satisfied with the way in which it is de- livered? Are your papers, mag- azines and advertising circulars stacked one on top of each other and your lettere wedged in be- tween? Or are your letters slipped into whatever magazine happens to be delivered that day? Have you ever lost any mail that you know of? Generally we have no com- plaints as we have a morning paper that comes by post and the mailman puts our letters just inside the folded paper so when we open, the paper we immediately see the • letters. However, one week there some mix-up in paper. delivery so when we got our mail there was just a magaiine . or so we thought. It came in just at noon so naturally I was busy and threw the magazine down on the hall table. It was a wo- man's magazine so Partner wasn't sufficiently interested to pick it up. Later in the day I found time to look at it and lo and behold when I opened it there were three letters en- closed—one a business letter, the other two personal, Before our paper was delivered reg- ularly again the same thing happened on two other occa- sions. i said to Partner—"Well, I don't like getting mail that way—letters could so easily be lost," Time passed and I forgot the incident. Then at our W.I, meet- ing last week one member ask- ed our President how many members had signified their in- tention of accepting the invita- tion of a neighbouring branch to visit them at their next meeting the following week, "What invitation?" asked Madam President. "I haven't heard of any invitation!" Well, it turned out a written invitation had been sent but she hadn't received it, But she did recall One day getting a maga- zine and no other mail, She was going away for the week-end so the magazine was put on one side. The point is, this parti- cular lady is in a difLrent rural area front us, liar mail is seht out from a different post office but apparently mail carriers in her urea do the seine thing as our mailman— tuck the letters inside papers Or magazines. We never had it delivered that way on the farm, Is this casual way of treating mail spreading. and what do 11.1111 boxholders think of it? I suppose you might say if we know what is being done with the letters it is a simple ;natter to look for th..-11. r.i.,•ue, but in some families it is the children who pick up the mail. Can they be expected to realize how im- portant it is to check over what is delivered? Or maybe if you get the mail yourself it some- times happens to be a windy day — and you know what can happen in a wind — almost any- thing. Or , there might be a parcel 'to carry home. or bulky mail order catalogues. In which case letters could easily slip out unnoticed. In fact it is easy to think up a dozen situations to complicate picking up one's mail. So what is the answer? I suppose having said this much you expect me to say what I think should be done. Well, would say letters should be placed in .the mail box separate- ly — either: on top of papers and magazine or underneath them so they can be seen directly the mail is lifted. Still better would be to have the letters held to- gether by a rubber band. In that way there would be little danger of invitations not being received — a truly embarrassing situa- tion. Letters sent through the mail are a public trust. It is the duty of postal authorities to see that all mail is safely delivered in post office boxes, rural mail boxes or remain in charge of geheral delivery at the, post of- fice until called for. There should be a definite ruling at local post" offices as to how rural mail should be delivered. If you have reason for complaint con- tact your local postmaster. If that does not work write to the Postmaster General in Ottawa. Never lose sight of the fact that your mail is, important to every- one concerned. Artist Used Paint In Too Much Haste Artistic temperament can be amusing or annoying *to others—. but sometimes it rebounds on to the artist. It happened to Pedro Gon- zales, Spain's leading landscape artist, a Madrid correspondent states. He sent two of his paint- ings reecntly to the annual art exhibition organized by the Town Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands. The judges did not care for his work, and ignored his "mas- terpieces" when allocating' the prizes. This rejection maddened Gonzales. When he got the paintings back he picked up a pot of white paint and showered each canvas with the stuff until it was spattered beyond eecog- salon. A few days later the exhibi- tion organizer rang him up, "Remember those "two `Sunny Andalusian vistas' you submitted for our exhibition'?" he asked. Gonzales remembered only tea well, "Good," said the organizer, "I now have a buyer for you. An art collector here wishes to offer you $1500 for the paintings." Gonzales gasped, flut, being a practical man at heart, he swallowed his pride and, in a' mood of penitence, set to work to clean the white paint off his Canvases. all, you don't give a titt,1:.r the bru4:h off, she walks TIME PIECE — This figure of an old. Puritan clockmender of the 1 8 30s was part of a historical curiosities display at Kensing- ton Town Hail in London, Eng- land. Vaccine Victory Over Measles There is little doubt that the measles vaccine developed by Dr. John F. Enders, Harvard Nobel Prize winner, is effective. Since 1958, thousands of chil- dren in the United States, Rus- sia, Nigeria, and Panama have been inoculated in mass tests, and results show that the End- ers vaccine, made of weakened live viruses, produces immuni- ty against measles in almost 100 per cent of the cases. The ;trou- ble is, the shots produce side effects. In one group, four out of five children ran, fevers, some as high as 106 degrees, while half developed rashes. In Philadelphia last month, re- searchers, announced that they have found a way to .wipe out these side effects, in ' what could be a major step toward a government - approved vaccine. Dr. Joseph Stokes Jr., physician in-chief of the Children's Hospi- tal, and Dr. Maurice R. Hilleman of the Merck Sharp and Dohme Research Laboratories gave about 300 children the Enders live vaccine in one arm, and a shot of gamma globulin, a blood derivative, in the other, The globulin fought against the virus hard enough to keep down the fever and the rash but not hard enough to kill all of the vaccine's measles virus. Only a few children had any fever, only one out of 50 any rash. What's more, the 300 children (mostly from Haverford Town- ship, near Philadelphia), went through two measles epidemics • without getting the disease, While among 300 other. Hever- ford children who were not given the live vaccine 64 got measles, Dr, .Stokes said last month.: "Every child ought to have vaccine and globulin at seven .months," - The two-shot method of pro, 'tooting against naeasleS be available t..() American children in looz, wooing to Dr, 214- lenlan, A. final decision on this and twelve other vaccine taste being conducted by universities and drug companiee Waits the results of a conference in Wash- ington in November, Some. time later, the U,S.. Public Health Service will 'license one or more vaccines, which could cost pa- tients up to $5 a shot. Whatever. the cost, the vaccine should eradicate a disease too often re- garded as minor, but one which causes. 4,000 brain-damaging encephalitis cases and 4,000 deaths a year, Elegant Bandit Finally Trapped The short, profitable reign of "The Elegant Bandit," as his victims in Mexico City describ- ed him, has come to an end. Se- cret Service operators closed in as Alfredo Quiroga Gonzalez at- tempted to rob his seventh vic- tim in less than two months as the latter left the offices of the Bank of Mexico. Nattily dressed, giving the impression of a university gra- duate rather than a ruffian, Gonzalez, aged twenty-four, told the police how he operated. He concentrated on halt a dozen main banks in the city. His habit was to enter a bank, and on the pretext of obtaining change for a high-value note, mark a victim who was with- drawing what seemed to be a "profitable" amount of cash. He usually selected a man or girl aged about eighteen to twenty- five; someone who could be bul- lied. Gonialez would step smart- ly out after his intended victim, flash false credentials inferring he was a bank investigator, and frighten the person with a fanci- ful tale of a transgression of banking rules. He was — and had to be — a fast, convincing talker to fluster and frighten his intended vic- tim. Skillfully, he would guide his prey into a quiet alley, out of public view. Then his charming manners would drop for, at pistol or knife point, he would order his victim to turn over the with- drawn funds. When Gonzalez successively robbed two senoritas in this way, the firms employing the girls insisted on stepping up po- lice action. Till then, because of the wide area over which he operated, he had escaped police traps. The robberies brought, pomparatively minor financial rewards with amounts never exceeding $250 or so. Gonzalez freely admitted that he did not want greater hauls. He thought the smaller losses would be written off by busi- ness firms and forgotten. He sold.or gaVe away personal valuables of his' victims in case they •led to his identification. The youthful trickster, who %thought he had found a way of having a plentiful supply of funds without working, told po- lice that he spent the, proceeds in houses of ill-fame, in drink- ing, and in holidays in Acapulco. He will be "holidaying" in the Lecutnberri penitentiary f o r some time now. And as guest of the city he -will 'not be provided with the fine clothing or expensive toilet preparations he used "to gain the confidence" of his victims. ISSUE 4o — 1961 Modern Etiquette fly Anne Ashley 14, Its It really had manners fora woman 10 file her nails in the presence of a guest? A friend and I are having an argUmPetti 09* th44 A. To file a broken nail, t id catching on things is all ri — but to give yourself a maul?, cure in the presence of gnu* is in extremely bad taste, Q. A couple called at our home. A few evenings ago, and the wo- man had her hair set in pin curls with a scarf tied around her head. Am I right in thinking this was poor manners on, het part? A. You are more than righli Q. My wife and I have re- ceived an engraved card from distant relatives, announcing their golden wedding anniver- sary. What obligation does this impose upon us? A. Your only real "obligation" is to send them a message of congratulations and good wishes, Q. When a man meets a wo- man on the street and walks with her, and she is carrying packages,„should . he „offer .to carry thm for her? A, Only if the packages are of considerable size or seem heavy. Otherwise, this is not necessary. Q. Is a person really obligated to give his reason for declining an invitation? A. Although not exactly obli- gatory, a logical reason does have a way of softening a refusal of this kind. So simple, a child can help you with this handcraft! Use the gay Swedish designs for quick gifts of towels, potholders, mats, b a g s; larger articles for your own home. Pattern 566: charts, directions for Swedish weaving 4 different designs — on anything of huck. 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. Tor- onto, Ont. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. FOR THE FIRST TIME! Over 200 designs in our new, 1962 Needlecraft Catalogue — biggest ever! Pages, pages, pages of fa- shions, home accessories to knit, crochet, sew, weave, embroider, quiet. See jumbo-knit hits, (sloths, spreads, toys, linens, afghans plus free patterns, Send 254. Ontario residents must include 14 sales tax for each CATALOG ordered. There is no sales tax on the patterns. A PIA IN A P615 There's power hi this pod, and it fokes t form of the Center' "pea," Actually; it is no pea at all, it a 4i1Vor oxide, battery tytteni used to power electric 'watches and hearing aid instruments, tile new battery *filth Maintaini if pief6rerldfide in both cold and hot weather *Ste roContli.• re-elez."1frs- LEAD DOG — Frisky little mongrel named Lady Jessie plays the "lead role" as a great big Great Dane named Romah around their garden in Kent, England. CHURCH ON THE MOVE The Progressive BO concrete structure, k being inched id 0 new 16 Chicago,• on taili goerifiCalfy beilf .for pflif Church building,, a 000-ton steel and totion, one blook front its original lite is vy moving' Ioi