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The Brussels Post, 1962-07-19, Page 2• TAKES CENTER STAGE — Flanked by the Presidents of two North American neighbors, Adolfo Lopez Mateos, left, of Mexico and John F. Kennedy of the ti,S,„ Jacqueline Kennedy takes the center stage away from them ie Mexico City. 3 . r. ► ► 10- ► ► 11. ► 11. ► 11. 11. 10. Sternly 'pays ..For Magazines Between the title "Frozen Corpse, in Levere Lane" and the subhead "The watery grave fur the 'teen-ager turned to lee end pro v e cl a trap for the lust bludgeoner," Startling Detective magazine catered a photograph of the pretty victim and of a. shifty-eyed suspect. The story recounted a erime which had .shocked Chicago newspaper readers four months. before, on Nov. 30, 1957. That the story appeared isn't startling, tart ling Detective eaul the dereen magazines like it have been running true crime • accounts for years. What was. unusual was the reaction of the victim's mether: She sued, 'claiming invasion of privacy. Last month, a Federal court of a.ppeels reversed an earlier ,r.o- eision, and. .se:d that Faweott Publications, tar, (Startling De- tective), and T.D. Publishing Corp, (True Doteotive) had in- deed invaded Mrs. Mildred Wag- ner's privacy, She is asking $2,4 ntillicn dvmages, The decision, which comes two months after Life Magazine lost la similar suit, threatens the existence of both the lurid "true crime": magazines and of seri- ous b o oks like "Kidnap: The Story of the Lindbergh Case," .According to the ruling, it con- stitutes, an invasion of privacy to print accounts of a crime when the crime is no longer news, "When the news media have served their proper function in reporting current c :eats," Judge Elsner J, Schnack.... berg wrote for the three con 'ring judges, "private inclividuas involved . . (in) matters which were, at the time of the occurrence, news- worthy . sink back into. the solitude which is the right of every person, That solitude in- volves a privacy which no pub- lication has a right to thereafter invade solely for the purpose of selling to its readers lurid ac- counts of tragedy." When is a story no longer news? "We're a monthly maga- zine, and we printed the facts as soon as we could," said Faw- cett's editorial director •Ral ph Daigh. Fawcett will petition for - a rehearing, They talked of go- ing to the Supreme Court, claim- ing the protection of freedom of the press. The talk may be serious, for — deprived .of the grisly' the true-crime mills. may shut down.. If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a com- mittee working on it. C. F. Ket- tering. SALLY'S' SAWSS can live within your means, dearie, if it takes a lot of money." One fprichRuctic Every Six super sensitive, seismo- graphs, part of a- world-wide chain of instruments to study the interior of the earth, have been installed this year An the vault of the seismograph station at Keiburn„ Wellington, New Zealand, .This $30,000 worth of equip, ment is a .gift of the . United States government, It will allow •seistnelegists to evaluate earth tremors and improve man's knowledge ofnatural earth- quakes. The New Zealand seismo- graphs form part of the most im. pOrtant earthquake research pro, gramme ever carried out, And all the information obtained will he available to. all nations, Earthquakes have been taking place ever since the .earth solidi, fled, On average, one occurs every day somewhere in the. world, :but they are confined chiefly to two main belts one encircling the Pacific, the other running through the European Alps and the laimalays. Geologists say that Britain is never. likely to have a serious earthquake,' despite the fact that about 2,000 have been re-. Ales gad the Himalayas. Most of the shocks occuring in Britain have been caused by masses of rock "sliding" • over one another, These landslides have taken place along- certain lines of well-known faults in the geological strata, Scientists still don't know the exact predisposing conditions for• these rock movements, but it is. known that they are influenced by atmospheric pressure changes.. The day may be coming, • due to modern research methods, when earthquakes anywhere in the world will be forecast with considerable accuracy, say some seismologists. Students of animal behaviour believe that knowledge of earth- quakes before they .happen has long been the prerogative of some animals. There are many authenticated stories of dogs which howled, horses which stampeded and birds which .pan, icked mysteriously before trem- ors even started. How The X-Ray Was Discovered Mere chance led Professor Rontgen to the discovery of the X-ray. A large tube, through which a current of electricity was passed, was suspended over a table, and in a drawer beneath there was a pasteboard box con- taining one dozen unexposed photographic plates. Some keys happened to be on the table, just above the drawer. When an attempt was afterwards made to use the plates for photo- graphic purposes they were found to be "fogged" but on each one of them was a fairly clear imprint of the keys. Thus it became apparent that rays of some kind had penetrated through the wooden table-top; and had been so far interrupted by the keys .as to make a shad- ow-picture of the latter on a photographic plate. During further experiments a dead frog was put in place of the keys, with a fresh photographic plate in the dratver beneath. The result was a revelation, for the shadow-picture made was not of the frog, but of its skeleton, No history column this week again. For one lesson I left my notes behind, another reason it took me nearly a week to get over five days away from home in the heat. You see I got a .dose of laryngitis and a neck so stiff I couldn't turn it at all. Just fine for driving a cart But I have myself to blame. The hotel room we had was a corner room and very hot. The manageress -tent in an electric farnand the la night we were there I slept with it .go- ing all night just behind my head, So was asking for eouble, wasn't I? But when I get too hot I'll do anything to cool off, no matter how foolish, Well, I still have plenty of things I can tell you about our trip. For one thing you might like to know the places we pass- ed through and many where we stopped briefly, We went by the 401 and while it gets you there in double-quick time it isn't the best way to see the country. Coming back we took the old roads so I was able to make the acquaintance of many lovely old towns and villages, formerly just names on the map to me. We stopped at Kemptville, a delight- ful old-fashioned little town. From there to Merrickville and then on to Smith Falls, all in sight of the Rideau River, At Smith's Falls we visited the huge Hospital School for the Retarded. My friends knew one of the girls there and we called to take her out for a picnic lunch. We saw some of the bays and girls out for a walk and' at first glance many of them looked so normal ;one wondered why they were there at all, except that they. seem to lack co-ordination and had an awkward gait. Thus the, "crocodile" line was very strag- gling with children of all ages and sizes. The girl we took out had been totally blind since birth. Her main passion was classical music. Wherever she went her transistor-radio went with her. About three o'clock we were taking her back and ran into a terrific rain and thunder- storm. We waited outside the school for thirty minutes before the rain let up enough for us to leave the car; During that time four girls about 12 - 14 years of age were chasing up and down the .sidewalks in the pouring rain. They seemed to be having a grand time and I don't suppose it would hurt them just so long as they got into dry clothes aft- erwards — but I hardly think normal youngsters would have considered it much ftin, Once we were' on our way again we stopped at "The Cabin Restaurant" for coffee, This was they junction of 7 and 37 arid it boasts one big attraction . live bears! An old lady of 29 Was in a cage by herself and two Younger, sprightly bears In a cage together. Believe nit, they Were well-fed by the public arid were ready for anything—sand- wiches, cake, cookies, chips and ice-cream. One time I saw thefie chasing back and forth along the front of their cage, quite ob.- viously tercited. l leaked for the teason and there, corning towards them, was a man with two bot- tles of pop. The bears stood up on their hind legs and gulped the pop straight from the bottle just as neat as you please. What amazed, me was the fact that they knew what the man was carrying. We continued our way through Madoc, Marmora: and Havelock but we by-passed Peterobrough and went on to Lindsay and Ornemee and from there to. Sund- erland, Greenbank, Uxbridge and finally Newmarket. I know there are readers of this column in many of the districts we passed through. I wish .I could have met a few of you. Naturally we saw many beautiful inland lakes, all looking very peaceful and attractive — water and trees ap- peal to me at any time. By the time we got to Newmarket peace- ful scenery was a thing of the past. The traffic was a sure in- dication we had reached central Ontario. Almost as soon "as we reached Newmarket I phoned Bob to ask if he could come and take me home. He did, but after driving with bumper to bumper traffic along the four-lane high- ways he decided to take all the back roads coining home — through Kleinberg, Bolton, Mal- ton, Derry West and finally Erin- dale. I didn't know' where I was half the time but. Bob seems to have a sense of direction like a homing pigeon. One funny thing I must tell you. As we approaChed New- market Lillian started hunting for her house key. She couldn't find 'it. What she did find was the key of our hotel room at Prescott! Of course her husband had his own key and opened .up the house. Then he called from the kitchen — "Come here, I 'want to show you something!" We went and there was Lillian's key still on the OUTSIDE of the back door ,and had been there for four days. Would-bp burglars missed an easy touch that time. 'Bye for now. The rest of the family has gone to Orillia and I am almost on my Way out to meet Klerni Hambourg, my ziephe ew who has just returned from England. See you neict week. Long Lost Rivers `Underneath London At •an nriusuAl joint convocae time of York and Center-bitter in the Ohio& Houte, Westminster, the dlerice were Puzzled as to 'whose jurisdiction they Were Meeting under. Was Church House under the Dean and Chap- ter of Westminster or under the Bishop Of London? It all deperid, ed on a long-fongetteri Medieval etreani, probably the Tyburn. Brook or a tributary, which marked the boundary of West- eninsten Only a consultation of old maps could decide the issue, The publication of "The test Rivers of London'' by Nicholas Barton shows this to be no isolated itigtatee. Well illustrat- ed with maps, plates and draw- ings, it proves how much the past history and the present de;,' velopment of London have been dictated by the course of its riv- ers, Details of the original Aild prescqt 'course of the Streanil xp,ola xr.u.:it of London's to- pearapity. ,0'or example, the winding ceurs.o of AlarylchOne Lane was originally the left bank of the Tyburn Brooks the. 4ip in Oxford Street is. Where the stream crossed it. Another, explanation clears up the mya* leq of the huge iron. pipe cross- log the tracks in Sloane Square gtitmay station — it carries the Westbourne on its way from the Serpentine to, the lover 'Thames et Onelsea Bridge. A -Mit-eel-dm Londoner des., ,cribed iris city as "delightful in, deed" with streams "'raid glis, telling pebbles gliding playful- lee." Mr. Barton's painstaking study anows, these rivers still silently flowing along beneath the feet of Londoners though for the most. part deltieeted into pipes, The rivers make their presence felt occasionally when for the most part deflected into the wall of a house resists all efforts to dry it out, or crystal water gushes up into the day- light. The names of the rivers live On, in the names of roads and. boroughs, graves, and ter- races, and.a even tationssoc fish bar.. lis, compan- ies Best known of the rivers„ • per- haps, are the Weileeleole and, the Fleet which "flowa beneath the City of. London, and the West Frid, but south, of the Thames the 'heverley Brook, Wangle, Falcon, and Effra. are, among, ethers. which, except for an oc- casional sally above ground,. flaw beneath. streets often bearing, -their names, The source of the; Fleet River on the Hampstead heights en- gaged. the attention of one' of London's distinguished literary figures,. The transactions; of the Pickwick Club: for May la,. 1827 e 'recorded "that this Association. has, •heard. Teed,. the paper communicated by Samuel Pick- wick,, Esq., G.C.„ M.P.C., entitled, 'Speculations on the Source of the Hempstead Ponds„ with some observations. of the Theory of • Tittlebate.a" Mr. Barton'a book quotes fas- cinating; passages. on. old London- from early chronicles.. In, these days of heavy roaring, traffic it is. pleasing to read of north Landon as having "field's for pasture . interspersed with flowing, streams, on which stand. mills. whose clack is, very pleas- ing to the ear." It is no longer possible . to hear clacking, mills. The influ- ence of the 'underground rivers,. however, is felt by all who. use London roads and railways, pay taxes to one borough rather than another, or simply walk or bi- cycle along its streets. The book has a good street map of London with the rivers superimposed. A Woman's Frank Opinion Of Women "Today's career women are be- coming the equal of men," writes career woman Eve Merriam. author ("Figleaf: The Business of Being in Fashion")"and one-time Glamour magazine copy editor, in the current issue of The. Na- tion—setting up, with this placid banality, her article's 47th con- secutive knife thrust. is," she eaddsn"one of the greatest nega- tive achievements of all time. They can now be almost as rutin, less, almost as selfish, almost as unpublic-spirited:" An attractive, 45-year-old New Yorker, Miss Merriam - wrote her piece on "The Ogress. in the Office" from personal experi- ence in the fashion and advertis- ing industries, both jungles of pearly tooth and, lacquered claw. She makes it clear that the ca- FURRY TALE..-. Long vest is designed for chilly fall days, it is done in orlon fabric qt a London, England, preview. reer women she is talking about are not secretaries, switchboard girls, or just any females work- ing, outside the home, but wbmen "in the professions, arts, and sciences, and at quasi-responsible levels of government, business, and, industry," And all the basic charges against these driving, competing females, says Miss Merriam, are true. They (I) neglect their hus- bands and families, preferring "dry Martinis ... to wet mops," (2) insist on being treated as, equals by men, yet use their feminine curves and prerogatives to get a leg up on the ladder, (3) are secretly frigid and man-hat- ing (Miss Merriam's title for the article: "The Abominable Snow Woman"). Even the Hollywood prototype, commonly played by such as Eve Arden, Bette Davis, or Rosalind Russell, has a ring of truth„ the author suggests — the woman living in a "cold- hearted penthouse with wire mo- biles and abstract paintings and (despising') her warm - hearted, husband'," For every decent ca- reer woman, she concludes, "there seem to spring up at least two dragon-toothed ones." Yet having cat-clawed her sex, Miss Merriam promptly springs to its defense. If career women are cold and cunning, "what of their male counterparts who must step on the body below in ,order to reach the higher rung?" she asks. "The man who makes it to the top," she charges much too categorically, "is not friend- ly, lovable little Mickey Mouse; he is Brother Rat." If career wo- men use their sex as a weapon, what about men "using the steam room, old university tie, or golf course to promote an inside track?" Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q. When are the bread and rolls served at a dinner? A. As soon as the soup is served, the rolls or bread are passed. Most popular container nowadays is a shallow wicker basket that has a fringed napkin laid in it, and several sorts of bread displayed. Q. When a man is walking along the street with two women, does he walk between them? A. Not usually, He should walk on the curb side, to avoid turning his back on one of the women while talking with the other. • ISSUE 29 190 Slept Every Winter While Wife Worked row perple realize that we spend About a third of our inert hi hod. Nor is it gvnorany kmoort: 'that there are some poopte load of bed that in whiter become human groundlloP for several months — never gong eat,, elthough they are par ally A Mau In Wisconsin spent twenty-seven winters in .hed, emerging hale and hearty .each spring to Ve,open his country tavern.- • When; her died — in bed. it' came to light. that, his wif e carried on. the household chores and. other' duties, white he hiber- mated,, and that tics had never caught a. oak',. His neighbours' called this man "The Groundhog," But,. during his prologned • stay in. bed, his fathful wife! made' sure That he had, one good, meal day. A doctor revealed eeeenely that his patients included, an, old couple who "went to. bed. in, November and got up, in. April," Their daughter called. at theirs, flat to feed theM. When a Belgrade builder' de- cided to hibernate in 19$7. he. barred and shuttered his wood en but and left this notice out,- side: "Please don't knock, as I'm in the midst of deep dreams, "I don't intend to wake until the spring begins, I shall sleep , like a bear until then," The builder's alarmed neigh- bours did knock. There was no reply so they forced the door. They shook him, but he drow- sily declined to get up — so they finally had to rouse him with cold water. Later he explained why he had "hibernated," He had been unable to get some money that. was owing to hint, so he de- cided to sleep until the bright days of spring when he thought his creditors would be more likely to pay up. Some years ago a South Afri- can solocitor hibernated during a prolonged "legal slump," Finding that no clients were coming to him as winter ap- proached, he bought six pairs of pyjamas, laid in a stock of books and settled down to read, and sleep until better times, came. • He wore his pyjamas for three. months — and only got up 0, re-make his bed, eat, on see it' there were any letters. Too Many Swans For British Farmers Britain's 19,000 swan. popula- lion is multiplying so Last that farmers are worried, because od 'the great damage these lovely birds are doing on their farms. Hungry swans in southern England fly in f r om nearby rivers every day and eat and trample on. young grass reserv- ed for the farmers' dairy cows. Three swans can eat or lay waete as much grass as a cow. In one day a swan has been known to eat its own weight in grass. Early this spring fifty swans were flying in daily and feed- ing on. a Wiltshire farmer's fresh pastures. He calculated that ha had to spend at least $600 in providing alternative foodstuffs for his dairy herds. One farmer f o un d recently that there were swans' nests every 100 yards along the banks of a river adjacent to his land. He tried vainly to ,scare the birds from his grass by firing a gun over their heads. Under the Protection of Birds Act, 1954, it is illegal to kill swans or destroy their nests and eggs. Elsewhere in southern E n g- land, one or two farmers took the law into their own hands and went out at night armed, with the idea of shooting down the raiders as they came over. In Australia, one of the great- est pests was the wild rabbit, millions of which have been killed by myxomatosis, But today,. ironically, Austra- lia , cannot satisfy outside dee mends• for rabbit pelts,: although she is rapidly expanding her doe inestie rabbit indnstry. Ameri- can interests are ready to pay millions of dollars for her rab- bits. Ftir trade operators NeW York are, in fact, negttiating for the entire output of Aus, treas.'s white doitestic rabbit pelts for the neitt ten years, America is rabbit-hungry for three main ,reasons: She needs Millions,. 6f pelts annually to Keep , her fur - processing firnist busy, Rabbit meat adds vari, ety to the U.S. Mod market, And U.S, research institutes are bidding heavily for live rabbits for their clinical investigations, Australian aninial.loyets say that Americans should nee either their own native stocks or their own native people as test-pieces for medical experiments. It fiftymillion'peeole :say ei foolish. thing, it, is stilt n thing, •Ailatele. it, • - MAN,MADE 'MiLKY WAY' Spectacular display of fire. Works lights up sky over Hudson River during a Manhattan department store's salute to Nee,/ York's 'ninth dneiUol Wal- ther music festival, EVER SEE A MOONBOW? Ivor the uninitiated / a moonbow is a nighttime phenomenon similar to the rainbow by day, it IS claimed that only two of the world's Waterfalls boo* hlootiboWS ViOtorid Falls in South and Cymbetland Falk, pictured kentUcky's Cumberland Falls State Park; southeast of Mammoth Cave National Park, The shim- .rneririg moohbow becomes visible when moonbeams ploy on Way rising ft(51.11 the lacy -falls, -..""1.111 7.1••••••