HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1962-05-03, Page 6,SeeeseS*
aza-,
OilliNG BONNET Theme bonnet is
ehticks. It's worn by Stefanie. Powiirt ri Hollywood,
Stupid Rules• That
Embarrass The Queen
• - 4T11,4x- •7777.
xi..., • Used to -dry blueherriea
too, berries they did not sell;
They dried the blueberries and'
cooked them in the winter time,
The blueberries were boiled with
dried corn and I used to think
this was delicious,---From "Moon-
tan Wolf 'Women," The Autobia
ography of a Winnebago Indian,
edited by Nancy Gestreich Lurie
court so y$ It Wasn't
An' '''Act Of -God" ,
In March, 1958, a snow-laden
telephone pole fell on' a Pennsyl-
vania motorist's automobile:
When the driver sued, the' Chi,
umbie Telephone Co. countered'
that the pole fell because' of an
"act of God,"
Decently, in what was believed'
to be an unprecedented ruling;
the Pennsylvania Supreme Churl
ordered the utility to pay Rod-
ney M.'Bowman $10,830 for per-
sonal injury and property damage
and Justice Michael • A. Mus-
manno wrote in the majority
opinion
"There is something shocking
in attributing' any tragedyli
holocaust to 0-od. The ways of
the Deity so surpass the under,
standing of man that it is not the
province of man to pass judg.
ment upon what may be beyond..
human comprehension . .
any event, no person called into 0.10'isa
court to answer for a tort may
find exoneration from the act of
negligenee charged to him by
asserting that it was not he but
the Supreme Being which, inflic-
ted the wounds and the hurts, of
which the plaintiff complains."
In effect, the high court up-
held a ruling by a Lancaster
County court that the phone com-
pany was at fault for not inspect-
ing the pole in 15 years. — The
National Observer (Washington,
DEC.)
RCM The Indians.
Pried Their Food
When various foods were ripe
the people dried, them. They
also steamed things underground._
They harvested a lot of corn and
carried it home on their hacks.
When I was a' little girl our 'fam-
ily was largo,. I was the young,
est and I had three older brothers
and two' -older sisters, Another
order sister and I were the
ones, When they hare,
estod the gardens, they harvested
it great amount. They steamed
the- corn. In the evening they dug
a, pit. and heated stones there in
a big firei They' put the stones in
the- pit and when' the stones be-
came reci hot they took out all
the' wood' and' embers and put in
the fully ripe corn and covered it
with corn husks. Finally they
covered it with earth that had
been dug out. They covered'the
pit bdt they left four holes in
which they poured water. We
used to hear the red hot stones
Make a rumbling sound,
- Then, very early in the morn-
ing-, they opened the pit with
great care. They removed the
earth very carefully and finally
when ...they reached the husks
they.. took them out. Eventually
they reached the corn and it was
thoroughly cooked. It was really
hot! They took the corn out and
put it on the husks.
Sometimes other people heard
about it and worked with my
family. The helpers came and
spread out .a big- piece of canvas
on which they put the corn. Then
they used metal teaspoons or
clam shell's to scrape -the corn off
the cobs„ They used to dry it and
after it was' dried -you epuld see
sackfors of corn .standing- here
and ther6. They dried' the, corn
in the' sffrr and put it in' white.
flour -sacks; Some corn was al-
lowed.. to remain •,orr the, stalks'
after, it was ripe. This they saved'
for seed.. In addition to` saving
seed• they made -hominy of the
dried corn. They mixed it with
ashes and popped-it to make,
•homirty. ,.„
Squash .,was also dried. The•
women pared the . squash, cut it
in two Sliced i t to form rings.
They .cut" down I o r k e ,d trees,. • -peeled - them, and strung the
squash on poles they /aid across
the forks. _A lot of, squash hung
on' this -framework. The Indians
generally, dried 'squash in this
way andesaved 'it for winter.
GREAT GERMAN CITY — Yew of Homburg's C ty Center, show rug c ty hn I at -the left
and the commercia harbor in the background. The well known ''''Arster" River with; Lorm
bard's Bridge is in the foreground. Photo Courtesy 1.MTIIAN$A. C'ermank Alrlines t
invited to certain tune • at
livekinghani Palace. The can
accept the WWII'S privat., inSii-
tatione to the Ascot he u.. '
at Windsor Casino,
But the,. wander en
the emerald strip of the 'Quveres.
Lawn at the where'
divorceu.s area bale
When a top-ranking R.A .P.- of-
ficer retired recently-'-after win-
ning three wartime detiorstions
for valour—he discovered that .ht
was net qualified to go to a roya.
garden-party, A lett,. r from hire
Air Ministry bluntly zalvisod him
that guilty parties in divorce
cases were not eligible..
The flying ace pointed out that.
although he had indeed been a
"guilty party," his ex-wife had
been dead for some years.
Back came the veto. It was
regretted that his name "could
not be submitted for the honour
of an invitation."
Although he could be invited
to receive three decorations from
his Sovereigns the hero didn't
merit an invitation to strawber-
riesand cream with 5,000 other
guests.
The rule apparently isn't made
to he broken—,but it's clearly
made to be bent. •
When Mr. and Mrs. Douglas
Fairbanks strolled the Queen's
lawns, though both divorced
from earlier partners, it was
pointed out that they held U.S.
diplomatic passes.
When the Queen went to a
Fairbanks' dance on one occasion,
criticism flared — and officials
delicately pointed out' that an
American couple were not bound
by Church of England tenets on •
divorce.
Strangely e n o u g h, divorces •
have already occurred in the •
heart of the Royal Family itself.
Until her recent death no Court
function seemed complete with-
out Princess Marie Louise.
Queen Victoria's grand-daugh-
ter was a dignified representa e
tive of the old regime,. Yet her
husband complained that life
with her was intolerable and the
marriage was dissolved.
• Queen Mary was one of the
strictest of royal ladies: On one
occasion, nevertheless, she stout-,
ly_ befriended a ..young cousin,
who fell in love with a married'•
footman and had a baby by him.
Old Queen Victoria was not
above ordering a divorce . when
marriages • among her innumer-
able German relatives went
astray.
Prince Philip, as the husband.
of the Defender of the-Faith, is
less encumbered. Indeed, five of
his first cousins have had their,
marriages dissolved, including
'Helen, Queen Mother of Ruma-
nia, and Lady Iris Mountbatten.
Prince Philip, however, felt the
cold touch of the divorce laws
when his congenial. secretary,
Lieutenant-Commander Michael
Parker, had .to resign from his
staff.
There are times when the
Duke of Windsor is invited to
lunch at Buckingham Palace, But
not the thrice-divorced Duchess.
And only too often, the hypo-
crisy of divorce protocol clashes
with the Queen's own integeity,
Thus vociferous minorities raised
a storm around Prince Philip for
hobnobbing at a charity function
with. Frank Sinatra and Ava
Gardner at the height of their
divorce crisis,
Yet the Queen is expected to
attend an annual film "command
performance," shaking •h a n
with sultry film stars in low-cut
gowns, some of whom have been
involved in' divorce actions as
guilty parties.
• To, get over' this one, the pie-
sentations are made in the thea-•
tre foyer—before or after the
performance!
The retiring Archbishop of
Canterbury recently indicated his
sympathy with the Queen in. her
divorce perplexity.. We can surely
do better for royalty than- this'
morass of excuses. From "Tit-
Bits"
Modern Etiquette
By Anne Ashley•
An Alternative
To Fluoridation
Utah communities which voted'
on fluoridation Nov, 7 turned
down use of fluorine. in water
supplies, as a tooth ulecay pre-
ventitive.
We doubt very much if the re-
sounding defeat of fluoridation
in Utah cities can be interpreted
as opposition, in a degree pro-
portionate to the vote, to the
actual use of fluorine in water
as a deCay preventitive. Many
people, we feel,' would like the
protection this ingredient pro-
vides but oppose-putting it in the
water, supply for various reasons..
Some of these reasons, cited by
opponents of fluoridation, have
included: the, cost involved; the
uneven distribution of fluorine
inasmuch .as some' persons drink
two or three times the- volume,
of water which others in the
same family .-:might drink; the
fact that there'is no use for fluor-
ine ,in the-,-Ihrge quantities of
water that" are used for sprinkl-
ing. and for industrial users; and
the "compulsory" aspects of,
fluoridation in which people who
don't want it must have it any-
, way.
One Provo physician has point-
ed out that fluorine tablets can
be purchased for $4.50 per
thousand, a three-year supply.
'This gives rise to the question:
Wouldn't the medical and den-
tal association and public health
services be rendering a fine pub-
lic service if they were to dissern-
Mate information oh- how, other
than through fluoridation, fluor-
ides can be used — for example
in tablets and tooth paste? The
people simply don't want fluori-
dation, judging by their response
at the polls.
If there are ether ways to get
the fluorides, in correct ,concen-
tration for the optimal value to
the individual, then it seems to
us the professional people in the
field of health might well rec-
ommend alternative, methods to
fluoridation for getting the com-
ponent if the individual family
desires it.
Such a program could accomp-
lish lintoId public, good and prove
an excellent public' relations ges-
ture arm the part, af its sponsors.
—The Sunday Herald (Provo,
Utah).
?.„My, parents are planning an
engagement par ty fon' Inc,.
ShouitE my fiance present my
shig to, me at; this: party;, on be..
A. This; i's; a; personal marten,
and your fiance sliouidl priesenii
you with yizur rasp beflarei the
party-
it, necessary; that. alit tam
znew:sland” at a dilmer
all *ie. women have -been, setteeti'?
by HELEN CATHCART
Anther of :'Her Majesty"—
a eaattOVerSial biography
of the Queen
Affectionate messages paured
into Buckingham Palace iateetitly
when the Queen celebrated the
tenth year of her reign. Among
them were greetings from friends
and relatives whom the Queen is
officially forbidden to meet.
As Defender of the Faith, the
Queen must uphold the Church
of England's ancient principle
that marriage is indissoluble. The
Church does not recognize di-
vorce.
Hence the acid fact that 24,000
people a year join the band who
are banned at Buckingham Pa-
lace,
Now one of Prince Philip's
nieces, Princess Christina of
Yugoslavia, faces the risk of ex-
clusion, following recent divorce
proceedings, as does Captain
Oliver Dawnay, the Queen Moth-
er's former secretary. And the
Earl of Onslow, former Captain
of the Yeomen of the Guard, fig-
ures in, present divorce lists,
Divorce protocol, in fact, con-
stantly leads the Queen into a
series of public, private and so-
cial embarrassments. Add -to this
her position as Head of the Com-
monwealth — and the situation
tilts into sheer craziness,
As Queen of Canada, Her Ma-
jesty can formally shake hands
with a man who beats up his
wife, But the sQueen cannot in-
vite him aboard the royal yacht
Britannia — technically a royal
palace—if he's been found guilty
of adultery and divorced,
n England, however, t h e
Queen continually has to remem-
ber that handshakes with wife-
thrashers—or with women who
run away from their husbands—
are out.
-For cruelty and desertion are
both grounds for divorce in, Eng-
lish law.
When the .Queen dined with
the Shah- of Persia, the compli-
cations were enough to give beer
advisers diplomatic 'indigestion.
For the Shah's two divorces,
though admittedly Moslem, have
been among the world's most
public disentanglements.
When the King and Queen of
Sweden were given a state ban-
quet at Buckingham Palace,-three
divorced Cabinet Ministers had
to be omitted from the list of
guests.
Yet they were considered elig-
ible for the corononation! By a
glorious wangle of words, the
Queen meets them only in their
public capacity.
The Queen traditionally -heads
-the aristocracy. But-a rollcall of
at least fourteen broken marri-
ages among the twenty-seven
duekdoms makes her task even
more invidious.
Officially, it's stressed, the
Queen cannot meet a divorcee.
Yet on political recommendation
she had to appoint Lord Listowel
her Governor-General in Ghana
—although he had been the guil-
ty party in a divorce suit,
The Queen could comfortably
sign his warrant of appointment,
He had not actually married an-
other woman while his first wife
was still living.
Imagine the Palace perplexity
when he suddenly married a
blues singer whose first marriage
had also ended in divorce! The
bombshell dropped just when
plans were being made for the
royal tour of Ghana in 1959: The
Queen's advisers faced a position
where she would be entertained
privately by a Governor-General
and his wife whom she couldn't
meet publicly.
Luckily, the expected birth of
Prince Andrew caused the tour
to be postponed and saved the
situation,
When Ghana became indepen-
dent in July 1960, this tricky
problem was resolved.
A divorce in the Armstrong-
Jones family was one reason why
Princess Margaret's wedding was
supposedly a private affair, not
a state wedding.
The innocent can, in fact, be
BEATS DEADLINE Truck
crane lifts a 7,000-pound gold-
and-iron cross 293 feet to-the
top of the new St. Joseph's
Cathedral in Hartford, Conn.,
in time for Easter. Crane was
outfitted with a special booth,
SHE GOT HER 'CAKE AND SHINER, TOO — Clementind
O'Day, 7 months, laughs •off her black eye in Los Angeles.
When her grandfather told her not to,.touch.d ,birthday.cake
she showed her displeasure by banging her face` ors the
highchair. She came .up With the shiner and grandpa came
through with the 'cake.
Bon't.ever question your wife's
judgment. After all she married
you.
The fire disaster that killed the
greatest number of-- persons in
the United States %MS the forest
blaze at Pesittigo, Wis., on Oct.
9,' 1871, in which 1,152 persona
perished.
.you can imagine we had plenty
to talk about. This visitor came
from a snowbelt area and was
amazed at our bare streets and
roads. For which we are thank-
ful. Imagine having to shovel
snow in the middle of Aprilt Any
snow we have now the sun soon
takes care of. Among the high-
lights of last weak were the two
first games in the hockey finals.
(And before this column is mail-
ed there will have been a game
in Chicago, which I have a feel-
ing the Hawks will win.) Also
in the middle of last week I had
a birthday. So what . . every-
one has birthdays, says you! I
know, but I have a different feel-
ing now about birthdays — that
is insofar as Partner and I are
concerned, I feel that after a
certain age every birthday is an
important event; a time for re-
joicing and thanksgiving, espe-
daily if one has a fair percentage
of one's mental faculties and
physical abilities. Possibly I feel
this more strongly since my stay
in hospital where I saw quite a
few patients, with very little
hope of ever enjoying really
good health again. And yet the
ones I am thinking of were quite
young, with several small chil-
dren at home. They were still in
the hospital last week when I
Went back for a check-up.- So•
considering e v e th i n g why
shouldn't I feel that our birth-
days— Partner's and mine— are
now occasions for rejoicing? Just
so long as our family feel that
way too. And up to the present
they seem quite satisfied' to have
us around.
Well, that's all for now,. My
two youngest grandsons are
watching me type, and I can't say
they are particularly 1101311.111
HRONICLES
6L INGERFAIIH
if (!eveci.d.oarce D Ctet-eiks
At this time of the year it is
light at five o'clock in•the morn- '
ing and dark at seven o'clock'
at night. All that good daylight
being wasted — and it could so
easily be put to good use. All
that is necessary is for' those who
set the date for daylight saving
time to give the matter a little"
more consideration. They might
then find it would be a better
policy to start D.S.T. earlier .in
the year and wind up sooner in
the fall. From the first of. April
to the ende of September would,
I believe,: suit everyone better.
Spring is a natural' time for re-
juvenation—almost everyone is
willing to get up a little earlier
when the sun streams through
the windows making one feel it
is- time to be up and d.oing. But
in the fall, when the days get
dull and dreary, who wants to
get up an hour earlier just for
the sake of an extra hour of
daylight after supper—light that
is mostly wasted anyway. Of
course we can. please ourselves
what time we .get up and go to
bed but it really doesn't pay to
be too far out of step with other
folk — especially at mealtimes.
There has to bee-a certain amount
of conformity with the neigh-
bourhood to avoid domestic con-
fusion.
Maybe I am in a critical mood
because I have another "beef" to
air. And here it is. For the past
five years we have dealt almost
exclusively With one particular
bread 'company, whose delivery
truck has been calling Tuesdays
and Saturdays a little before
noon, week in and week out. We
were always well satisfied with
both the products and the ser-
vice. So what happens? Sudden-
ly deliveries became very irreg-
ular — any time after five o'clock
at night. I asked the driver the
reason. He explained that his
company had taken over- part of a
route from another company so
he had twice the number of calls
to make. Last Saturday it was
6.45 before the man called.
I watched him get our of the
cab, go to the back of the truck
for his basket and then walk
stiffly up the walk to our house,
"Look," I said to the fellow,
"I'm not blaming you but I don't
like these late deliveries, How
can I be sure you haven't forgot-
ten .me? The stores are closed
and I've got visitors coming to-
morrow — I was beginning to
wonder if I would have enough
bread to feed them. Besides that,'
you're so tired you're just about
dead Oil your feet
"You can say that again — I've
been going since 5.30 this morn-
ing."
"I can believe it. Well, you cart
tell your company that some of
your customers have been coma
planting and that either they re-
sume normal deliveries or I
change my baker,"
I was really annoyed, Here we
are with all kinds of men out of
work and yet those who have a
job are being made to work, all
hours — and afraid to complain
in case they should be fired.
aril not in a position to know who
is really at fault, labour or man-
ageinent. Hut I ant sure there IS
a. nigger in the woodpile. some-
where. The result is chaos and
Very unsatisfadcity to the aver-
age housewife' td say nothing
of the wives deliVerynleri,
anxiOusly waiting at home, Wen-
derin g if their litislatifidg have had
ari accident on this
Well, last Week We had A VIA,
Ittit tiVerliight., We hadn't seen
eaofi Other for nearly it yem, So
DRIVE, CAREFULLY, The
iICC Yon gate may be our oti;41. 8tuderits horn behind picketing teachers at C.:third!' Carri-P
High thauSt-ri: of New York school teachers went on strike for
higher Wages. True 1e-c. e1.7:Iniod the strika utiS 90 per cent
were
Ofedisie and 700 -
schools "hot worki ng:'' 188Cli; 1962