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The Brussels Post, 1962-01-04, Page 4MIGRATION TO WEST GERMANY 3 (Monthly rote per year in thousands) - 5 20 "eerseattse nneereS-is Reds. Recognize Value of Publicity One Man's View Of The Negro Problem' ALMOST HUMAN — Alexander the Orangoutang puckers his lips qs ha finishes off his orange ice on a stick. He was trying to refresh at Regent's park Zoo In London, England. The Mystery Of The Magic Box HE MADE IT — Ray Weaver, 39, is sitting tlepht in his 16-foot boat, circle, as it bobs in the rapids .beneath Niagara Falls. He was trying to prove that the craft which he built was safe enough for rescue work. He landed ashore safely,. as likely as not, a new and beau- tifully constructed piece of fur- niture would make its appear- ance. But Annie was not pleased when, after tea one day, he sum- moned Joe and Tom to help "carry it in" — because "it" was a carefully fashioned coffin, Old George ordered it to be stood in the corner, "I'll lie easy in that," hit said, rubbing his hand's. "Good 'sound wood. I'd not trust these under- taker chaps nowadays -- they can't make a job of it." Annie began weeping silently. "Eli, what's matter, lass? Why pay out good brass for a poor job? Dost not want to be proud of me, at t'funeral?" What he was making next was also a mystery, for about a week. Then he came in carrying a very beautifully carved wooden box, about eighteen inches by twelve, by six deep.. He put it on 'the mantelpiece, "What's in that, now?" asked Annie, trying to open it. But it was locked, "Sunarnat very, very valuable," said George gravely, "I made that box special," Like any woman, she was in- tensely curious,- and for the next few days he- teased her about the box, and his sons about the workshop and the will, They bore it cheerfully, because they could all see the change in him. And one morning, for the first time in his lite, he made no ef- fort to get out of bed but lay there, staring at the ceiling. "I'll rest a bit," he said. Annie Negro leadership irt this McoournetiznaglelltotirnegyobuentatoNr egrgipt f°besesoi 19111 nig Ind eedni aat dd tohme en ri ghts, welfare and improvement of their own people . 13tit Negro leadership is Still far below its proper level, Too many Negro policy wheel kiege, who have -robbed their people shamelessly, are vocal supporters of "Negro rights." Too many met- ropolitan Negro newspapers, nweltirciNt esgpreoalat igenclitt;,rid'alyelltigeof thtelti: readers with sex, sensatismalism and phony eharm, dreamboolt and aphrodisiac ads, . The right to vote may be exer- cised badly once it is won, but it can never be exercised well until it is won. It is ridiculous to permit a man to ride through Mississippi on a Pullman car if he has a white coat on, but not if he has a tweed coat on, There are many barriers that must be up- rooted. But beyond the legal squab- bling, beyond the fever over seg- regated buses and Jim Crow waiting rooms, there is 'something much more fundamental. And that is the right of a white col- lar mind to a' white collar job, regardless of the color of the skin above the collar, It is ridicu- lous to set up colleges for shoe. shine boys or give graduate de- grees to sweep-up men. This opening of the doors is primarily the moral responsibil- ity of white employers. But mere opportunity is not going to guar- antee competence or satisfactory performance. That will be the Negroes' job. , No amount of "fair employment" legislation will make second-rate workers sought after. Montgomery and Jackson get the headlines, The picture of the bloody picket mars Page I. It is easy to overlook the joyful fact that never before in America have so many citizens, white and black, been puzzling over reason- able routes to decency, Basically there are three pos- sible solutions to the "race prob- lem": American. Negroes can be shipped back to Africa. They can be kept in subservience, Or they can join the team, The African so- lution is' too late. The semi-slav- ery scheme 'is both immoral and impractical, There is Only the third alternative. It is not a simple alternative. It will be solved quicker if both races take a long, searching look at the condition of their souls. There'll be no jubilee-jubilo. There'll be no night for fireworks and a dance. Evolution creeps up on you, But a new generation is coining on fast, The old order is dying fast, And that's wonder- ful. -- Jenkin Lloyd Jones, in the Tulsa Tribune, took a long look at him, end sent for the doctor. The doctor told him firmly stay in bed, and wrote out 'pres- criptions, Annie was ordered to bring the wooden box upstairs, acrd put it on a table near his bed-. ."Siontnet of great interest and. value," he would mutter, strok- ing it gently'; and he would smile :and fall asleep, Joe and Torn were both .geeo. inely concerned about him. They felt, dimly,, that there was noth- ing to be done, But they eat with him for long periods, mostly in silence. One morning he made Asmie fetch the •".1.treever chap." When he had been and gone, George ,said: "Just telling him about that box, Very important." They were all three by hie bedside, Annie, and Joe and Toni, and he looked at them and grinned, "Ye'll we wanting to know what's in it?" he said, "Well, mebbe you'll not have to wait long," They had to wait three weeks, In the end, old George died peacefully in his sleep; but it was as if the light and warmth had gone out of the house. In dumb silence they waited for the funeral; and when George bad been buried, In his own cof- fin, the lawyer came back with them to the house, and accepted a cup of tea. - "You'll be wanting to know about will," he said. "He asked me to explain, First of all, could I, have the wooden box?" Annie went and fetched it. The lawyer turned to Joe and Tom. "The instructions in the will," said- the lawyer, "are that one of you is to have the workshop, and the other is to have this box — and you are to toss' a coin to de- cide who gets which." In silence, Joe produced a coin, "Heads you get the workshop," said Tom. "Tails I get it," It fell heads, Joe's face was as expressionless as Tom's. But An- nie, who knew him so well, could see a little muscle twitching urn der his jaw as Tom .came• for- -ward to take the box, The lawyer produced a key ants Torn opened it. Within, on a velvet lining, in lonely' state and clearly labelled, lay the only key of the workshop. door, Ever afterwards, Annie swore that at that moment she distinctly heard old George's ghostly chuckle. From "Tit-Bits" A Complete Story by CHARLES IRVINE Old George came originally from the North, where some peo- ple have a queer premonition of the ending of life and a grimly humorous approach to the onset of death. Annie, his wife, who was much younger than he was, knew this, and she felt uneasy when he came in late one afternoon and said he had been to see "yon lawyer chap" and had made his will, Once before,- and only once, she had raised the subject of wills. He had rounded on her, and said he was good for another twenty years yet and if she didn't believe him she could just wait and see. Ten of the mars had passed without the subject ever being mentioned again, So now she felt uneasy. Old George, however, did not. Apparently he intended to get some quiet enjoyment out of this will of his. Over tea he gazed with satisfaction at • his two grown sons, Joe and Tom, as they sat silently consuming fried eggs and baked beans, and at length he chuckled, "I know what ye're thinking," he said, "Ye're wondering which one of yer will get t'workshop, in my will." • "Don't talk daft, George," said his wife. "You'll not die yet," "I'll die in ma own good time," he informed her. "And ye'll get house, and furniture, and in- surance, and anything that's in't bank, And one of these least get workshop," He got up and stumped out, and they heard him unlock the door of the workshop and go inside. The workshop was a shed in the back gardee. All his life, George had been a carpenter and a craftsman; arid when he retir- ed he had laid out a tidy sum of money equipping this workshop with the best tools obtainable. He had trained his two sons to the same trade, and they were earning good money, but only rarely Were they allowed inside the workshop, They did not really resent this, for teeey knew that a craftsman likes to keep his own toolt for his own individual. use. But — being good craftsmen themselves — they sometimes cast longing. eyes on the Workshop. As the days went by; old George Would frequently tease his soils about this workshop. "Yon might try bribing yen lawyer chap, happen glace yer my Will," he Would Say. Annie was puzzled. She knew he had always treated. Scie and Tom with absolute inipartittlitY, taking greats care to show no fav °utilises: yet she also kiseW that you cannot divide a workshop in• to tveo parts, 'Wag lie now 'going to show a signal Mark of faVout to One of 'thorn,; by the gift of the workshop in his Will? And if he did, what Would the other !kin thiSilhke?tackled George On the.stabs jeot one evening, and Was retied- ly told'that he knew Whet he Wag at arid she had best tilled her own busiitees. She eald no Mete, She had Heed how easily, nowadays, he' beta-tile tired, and haw' hardly ever smoked that 101 pipe of his; and how te he lay In bed In the qttiet of the night he some. times seemed to be struggling to breathe prof:101Y,• Anti atie felt More and Mord eineasSe . lido • One ever" line* What George *Me Making fri his Wotitsliep, tiro tit le kild firilihed 14 and• the* Don't Stop Work Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is a habit lost, a habit easy to aban- don, difficult to resume, -2VICT.OR HUGO, The first photos that value Out of Moscow after Maj. Oberman $, Titov's epic space flight were snore corny than cosmic. In marked contrast with the relatively few pictures released on Yuri Gagarin after his pi- oneerieg orbit of the earth last April, the Soviets quickly sent out a packet of pictures of the stocky Titov that, would have made a Hollywood press agent Proud, There were shots of Titov hunting, reading poetry to his 24-year-old wife, 'Tamara, and even helping her mop the kiteh- err floor, Obviously, the Soviet Got eminent was avi are of the Propaganda hay to be cut from his remarkable achievement. More important, it was clear that the Russians had been stung by the favorable reaction to the U.S. practice of letting the Whole world watch and learn the re- sults of its two recent suborbital flights. The hard facts about Titer's 25 - hour, 435,000 -mile journey through space came out much faster than details on Ge- garin's. For instance, it was almost two months before the Soviets categorically stated that Gagarin rode Vostok I down rather than ejecting himself and parachuting to earth. At a conference for 1,500 scientists, diplomats, and newsmen at Moscow University last month,' Titov revealed his landing method, and it was a surprise, He elected to leave Vostok II and land 'by paraehute. "I felt well," the cosmonaut ex- plained simply, "and I decided to test the second landing sys- tem," The spaceship, said Titov, landed safely nearby. At times during the flight — one hour after blast-off and in his seventh orbit—Titov control- led the spaceship manually. He said he could orient it in any direction and could send it on any course he desired, "If the need had arisen," he said, "I could have landed it myself." Some worrisome news was also disclosed at this press confer- ence. A medical specialist re- ported that during his seventeen orbits around the world Titov had trouble with his "vestibular sense," which controls a human's ability to orient. Abrupt move- ments of his head — resulting from the weightlessness — the doctor said, caused "discomfort" (probably dizziness and faint- ness). But after Titov slept eight hours in space, the discomfort went away. At the conference, Titov said he was feeling well and that doctors had found no changes in his physical on men- tal condition, It was reported that Vostok II had been equipped to sustain life for a ten-day trip. The 26-year- old cosmonaut ate three meals, but did not relish the first two. "I had no particular appetite," he said. "This was probably due to the sustained weightlessness and ,excitement." One final note at the confer- ence was most heartening. Ma- tislaw V. Keldysh, president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, said that foreign newsmen would. be invited to watch some future launchings—but he didn't say when. "You realize carrier roc- kets are • not only peaceful in- struments," he said, "and if the Americans had such advanced rockets they wouldn't be show- ing them either," From NEWSWEEK A Now peat ha .0othing, Alter measuring 4,000 Dutch- MA01 frean head to toe in all thia. 11. pr'o'vinces of the Netherlande„ end then trying eta an experts anent with "2iQ°0 more by offer" lng them free suits, the Dutch tens elgthing int:1;444'y hail evolved a new clothing measure- ment system that is, being•rapid- ly taken up by other European .tiountries. Lt is celled 4-D, the 11 standing or "dimensions," and it works entirely on letters and figures, so that it is universe! in alert- ing and naming, The sole idoa of the eighteeeaa research has been • to devise a system which will reduce to the minimum the amount of altera- tion necessary when buying clothes, for men and boys "off, the peg." Moreover, it seems to have .succeeded, as preliminary results Show that it has more than halved . the normal shorten- ings and lettings-out when coats,. pents, or overcoats are. bought ready-made. It does :net, however, imply standardization of style or fash- ion, but only of sizes and meas- iireimenee, It is based on four basic di- mensions: waist .gfrth and height, broadness'. of hips, and, slope of boulder: The waist measure- ments have led to 18 basic sizes and the other two dimensions to 16', giving a total of 34 different sizes covering all except really • outsized individuals: The 18 waist standards provide for four different lengths for each of four of the girths and two lengths for the largest one. Alihengh the number of men ine• eluclee in each of these basic sizes is widely varied; the eight Moe: important basics cover estet fone-fiftlas of the male pop- • :ten:pared with the small ne-reer included in the traditional system which en- comp asesed less then oneedaof of the 'reale customers, Caret-V-1y tested and checked investigation, has shown that this system will provide well-fitting ready-mades for practically all the men in Holland with almost no alterations. It has also shown that until this plan was started there was no statistical data available about the measure- ments of the Dutch male.,--or even of men and boys in other 'European countries.. Well over 500;000 measure- ments were then made and as- sembled, and later analyzed by punched cards in an electronic computer. From there the 34 basic sizes were produced, To design the suits for these 34 types of men another scienti- fic investigation . was made to translate the size chart of body measurements into a size chart that could be used by the tailors, N x t, extensive verification rests were carried out with a full series of trial suits given to men selected at random. And because the average man is "easy to please" in off-the-peg buying, 2,000 were arbitrarily chosen each to wear the suit that best fitted him and then to appear before a jury composed of tail- ors, salesmen, and housewives for an opinion on the fit, These men, incidentally, also wore suits bought in the traditional style, without the jury being given any indication as to which were 4-D suits. The verdict was unanimously in favor of the "new deal" for men. For suite. "saleable without alterations" the verdict was 65 per cent greater for the 4-D types, while for "unsalable even errith alterations" it was 55 per n- lower for the 4-D suits than r ordinary ones, writes H, G. Franks in the Christian Science Monitor. But even that did not satisfy the clothing industry, It next set up a sales test of 8,000 4-D suits in a restricted number of shops all over the country, but vrithetit any form of publicity or advertising. This showed that 56 per cent of the suits were sold without any alterations at all, and the remainder needed only minor changes, at small cost. Backed by these results, the whole Dutch ready-made cloth- ing industry has started the changeover to the 4-D system, beginning this spring and sum- mer with suits, sports jackets and pants, and following in the fall with topcoats. Interest outside Holland has also been fostered because the system is truly international. The new tape measures use neither centimeters nor inches; or are any words required. The entire system is operated in letters and numbers, with basic sizes read- ing like 22-4-VO or 22-8-00. Tailors in other European countries have already started their own private measuring polls among their customers, and preliminary figures show that men in other countries are little different, on the average, from those in Holland, So before long this new deal introduced by the Dutch to en- sure that men are dressed bet- ter at less cost, with a minimum of trouble and a complete ab- sence of that sloppiness which so often goes with ready-mades, is almost certain to be offered to the men of other countries. 'Yet another example, perhaps, of European integration and unifie cation! Obey the traffic signs — they are placed there for YOUR SAFETY. Q: How can I remove some paint spatters from window glass? A, A strong solution of baking soda will usually do a good job of this, 1950 1951 1952' 195 HO 1956 1957 1959 1959 1960 1961 WESTWARD TREK Willi the East Getirian goVeleartietit dosed avenues tifOrit Shari' 150,060 refegeet fled 16' West beetriany id the- fast' Seven months 6f this year. MOWS-. eider, above, traces the rate Of East West tettiged flow from 'I 950.. 'High peat Wat 'daring' of aleortiVe• revolt in 1953. TO eitted, hut three million persons delve te000d, wits" derittein g•Overnident estimates 75,00 heedinigtated 'thie olePetite ClirettiOrt lit 1966 iiti•thie' Years, 4.44 THOSE WHO StAND AND WAIT » An Eitt- d'otifiati botitiid o 6tiebod wleti fence throw cicecisg, the flue separating Eeet Redid front the .Allied tettale o West' Bitiffini 1N4i, members of the deineriteniet' Peoples Peiltee' #tarts isUard• Of, fhb' tofi•leodii-,