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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1962-12-20, Page 2ISLAST-OFF .--,- Hooded masks are worn for protettiori while 'working. Meri air-blast railroad freight cars clectii at a Nuntingtori t industrial plant. The space-like gear protests them against fine steel grit that fills the air when they blast., 40 the' dare with powerful blasts from air hoses. EVtit HAPPEN TO YOU? tay Blake PRE-cHRisi-mA5 (1-r6 THE, I.AuNPRY FAcKAGE —SA-1i6r10? INsPecio; Fashion Hint i.e. J.. . Britain's First Angry Young Man He Was one of Britain's first Angry YOtan' Men. ge started Z'OVolution — not to win personal power, but to make England, and eventually the whole world, a better place, His methods were simple. He aimed to reform people by talk- ing to them in condemned cells 4ACI over crowded hovels. His name: William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army. Though he died fifty years ago, his great crusade lives on — memorial to the man who be- friended. criminals and attempted to destroy the outrageous social systems then in existence. His followers today resemble in many ways those early found, ers of the movement. They can still be seen standing at the street Corner in all weathers, preaching devoutly and singing heartily, They are unmoved by the noises around them, The sneers of some and the fact that many others ignore them, walking hur- riedly by, are simply challenges which they readily accept, It is said that the Army has penetrated to almost every corner of the globe and that there is no place where they are fright- ened to go unarmed. All crimin- als, no matter how savage or un- couth, are an automatic target to receive their attentions, "There is no duty or task which their courage will not force them to tackle" is how one Salvation- ist admirer described theist-,' At the time of William Booth's birth, at Nottingham in 1829, the world was at a period of history when the most disgraceful social conditions prevailed: Some men died of poverty after lying destitute in the streets for long hours, without boots to cover their feet or sufficient clothes to protect their bodies. Booth always remembered the time when Queen Victoria came to the throne. He was only eight years old, but the horrors of that time — old age in distress, children cry- ing for bread and the widespread depression that resulted from the poverty — left an imprint on his mind. He wrote in later years how, as a boy, he remembered once seeing a man, near the sheep pens at Nottingham's market place, offering his wife for sale. He had led her by a rope that was fastened round her neck; the Price he was asking for her was 2s. 6d., a fair one, he considered. But he finally let her 'go to a navvy who offered him a shilling! These were the conditions dur- ing the period when young Wil- SOPRANO DIES — World- famed Wagnerian soprano Kirsten 5logstad died in Oslo State Hospital at the age of 67. She hod been ill for some time, liaama Booth, or Wilful Will AS he was affectionately called, was passing through the difficult stage of adolescence, , It was a time when his opinions were beginning to form and when his very outlook was start- ing to take shape, And, he re- coiled at what he saw around him. His people were Methodists and it was among them that he first decided to go to London to teach. But it was difficult to live, He could not get sufficient money to buy food, He turned pawnbrohing — and loathed it. A great source of strength to him --- in fact, often an inspira- tion — was his wife, Catherine. She was a girl of determination, In her early teens she had seen a criminal being dragged to jail with a crowd jeering and throw- ing mud. at him, She liad walked at his side, so that he would feel there was one person who sympathized, It was she who persuaded. Booth to become a minister. William Booth was not a strong man physically. And he had suf2i fered increasingly from digestive trouble. But at the age of thirty-six, when his fifth child, Eva, was born, he started the Christian Mission. The open air was. to he his cathedral. The new mission flourished and after thirteen years he re- christened it with a name that has since become world-famous — the Salvation Army. Uniform- ed, with its flag flying, this first little band went into the great wide world to preach its message to all who would listen. Its leader was perhaps the greatest of all generals — he formed the largest private army, but never fired a shot, writes Ursula Bloom in "Tit-Bits." At first this new idea shocked public taste and he met with stormy interviews. On one occasion Booth found men sleeping on the bare stones under one of London's bridges. The sight so stirred him that he began collecting money to build sheds to house them. Women played their part in the movement, too. In their famous bonnets they would enter many of the dens of vice and by their purity help to dispel much of the darkness and shame around them. Then Booth found another way of attacking the disgraceful con- ditions of social life in England. He published .a book, In Dark- est England, which sold 10,000 copies on the first day. One month later, another 40,000 were sold, with his Army claim- ing all the profits. The death of his wife in 1890 left William Booth in a state of great grief and personal anguish. She had refused morphia because of religious scruples. When her body lay in state, enormous crowds queued to walk past her — the first great in- stance of the tremendous power of the Army. William himself was suffering the effects of old age — he was marching into blindness — al- though he fought on without complaining. In 1908, when he was operated on for cataract, Queen Alexandra inquired after him daily, He died at the age of eighty- four. And famous people through- out the world sought news of the gentle revolutionary during those final hours of his life. Many were annoyed he was not to be given an Abbey burial — but this was the biggest funeral London had ever seen. A commercial traveller in jail for being drunk was bored—so lie carved his name on a bench. Result: Another 60 days—in San Pedro, California—for disfigur- ing state property; Migrating. Birds Cause Air Crashes The crash of a passenger plane in Maryland on Nov. 24, •follow- ing collision with a large bird has intensified research on the flight patterns of bird migra- tions. There is a great deal of in- formation on the time and place of such migrations, but very little as to the altitude at which various birds fly. This information is difficult to come by, according to all author- ities, including experts in the Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior, The reason for this mystery lies in the fact that most migra- tions occur during the night. They cannot be seen visually, and it is only recently that at- tempts have been made to pick up bird flights on the radar screen. Even then it is hard to tell whether the specks are actually birds and impossible to tell what kind they are or at what alti- tude they are flying. Altitude is, after all, the im- portant thing, as far as pilots are concerned. The pilot of the Unit- ed Airlines plane involved in the Maryland crash after collision with a swan had been informed there were flights of large birds in the area. Obviously he did not see them, and the assumption is that the plane, which was descending at the time, dropped into the lower flight path of the birds without either the pilot or the birds being aware of each other. The plane is reported to have been flying. at about 6,000 feet at the timb of the encounter. Larger birds fly at altitudes between 3,000 and 9,000 feet, One pilot reported observing a duck flying at 21,000 'feet. This is the "alti- tude record" for birds so far as known, in the • United States, at least. There have been seven plane accidents in the past 11 years in- volving encounters with birds, In one instance a blue goose crash- ed through a window of a plane, at 4,400 feet, injuring the copilot. This was the only case of its kind. The plane was not affect- ed and continued on its course. In another, instance, a plane tak- ing off from Boston ran into a flock of starlings causing it to crash shortly after being air- borne, This accident touched off a nation-wide drive to clear air- port areas of bird populations by eliminating feeding areas and filling in the ponds which attract the water birds. Birds in migration pose an- other kind of problem. Pilots are informed of migrations and ree port the whereabouts of the lea- thered air travelers wherever they spot them, The swan — the bird which crashed into the tail section of the piane in this latest collision — is one of the largest of the . migrating birds, weighing from II to 14 pounds. Other large birds for which pilots are on the , look out are ducks, gulls, and. pelicans. They fly at speeds of froth 35 to 60 miles an hour. Although most -migrations' oc- cur in the spring and fall, the actual time of flight is governed by weather, according to.' tali and wildlife authorities, It is always possible, they Say, to predict a heavy 'Movement of birds fellbWing the pasSage of a told front. the. direction of the wind is also a governing latter. Birds generally fly' When they have a tail wind or what is call., ad "St wind wind," that is, a whit" ft'ot'n the side'. They do not 'fly into a head Wind.. They fly higher or lower de- . •- (Sa l:] S1 1962 BUCKSKIN — This model is not a pioneer, she is a sleep- er She's set for bed in slim pants with matching gold leather overblouse. Costume was previewed in London. pending on weather conditions and may even change their flight plan because of it. 'When it -is foggy or overcast, birds 'fly under the weather'. Or they may be forced down to a point where they seek a , convenient lake :for refuge until skies are clear, This may throw the whole flight off course and cause a re- routing of the migration, There have been numerous cases where night-flying birds have become confused and forced down to lower altitudes where they crash into flashing airline beacons or lighted buildings. Birds have collided • with the Washington Monument in the United States, In one case some years ago a flock crashed into the Empire State Building in New York, writes Josephine Ripley in the Christian Science Monitor. It is possible in these cases to gauge the flight altitude by the mark of contact, but authorities dare not go by • this since they believe that the birds may have changed altitude before the col- lision, Different birds have their own. formations. Some fly in fairly small groups. Others fly by the thousands in single formation strung, out for miles. Thisfa has been established on bright moonlight nights when they can be seen silhouetted against the moon. Most daytime flights can be detected by the naked eye, but telescopes are needed to pick up the flights of smaller birds. As- tronomers looking for .sunspots have occasionally been confused by small objects finally identi- fied as birds. Studies with respect to prob- lems of bird ingestion into plane engines, and ways of preventing this, as well as the strengthen- ing of airplane windshields against colliding birds have been going on for,many years and are continuing, They will now in- clude investigation into methods of strengthening the tail section of planes to prevent accidents such as the recent one in Mary- land. Did It All With His Ballpoint Pen For Howard Lee White, jour- neyman forger, the pen is might- ier than the state pen, White started off this year — as he has spent most of the last sixteen years (of his 33) — be- hind bars as a result of having a ball with a ballpoint pen, Under sentence from - Criminal Court Judge J'. Fred Bibb of Knoxville, he was in Tennessee's Fort Pil- low State (Prison) Farm, 50 miles above Memphis near the bank of the Mississippi. He. worked quietly as a clerk in the deputy warden's office, eschew- ing such flashy scholarship as he had displayed during an earlier term at the Federal Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kans,, where he rewrote the entire prisoner education program. White was busy on something else. One day early last month, pap- ers arrived in the mail bearing what purported to be the signa- ture of Judge Bibb and stating that Federal. time served earlier should count against White's cur- rent sentence, Thus, White rou- tinely donned the state's. new suit, pocketed its $1.50 in going- away money, and disappeared. "As far as we can find out — and we are only guessing," said War- den W. S. Hunt,'sounding a de- layed alarm, "he forged, these papers and used an •old envelope from (the Central Records Office in) Nashville to slip them into the mail." White was still at large at lat- est report leading police a brand- new paper chase. Forged" checks are bobbing up all over West Tennessee, all of them passed by a mart fitting White's dark-hair- ed description, and all drawn against the. Fort Pillow prison at- count: A Warning About "tomb-Salt" Diets • The Committee' on Nutrition Of the Illinois State Medical Society finds it necessary, as a public service, to sound an emphatic warning "'salt-free," "salt-pwr". or "loan-sodium" diet, when un- dertalcen on the basis of st3lf- diagnosis and self-administration No individual should attempt to maintain such a diet except undet close, constant supervision, by a physician, It is dangerous to disturb the salt balance of the body. • The only persons who might be benefited by such a. diet are those seriously ill of heart or kidney disease, who should there- fore he under the constant care of a physician, • This danger is .especiaily men- acing in hot weather. The in- creased loss of salt through ex- cessive sweating in summer heat can cause a severe reaction, which might even be fatal, in a person whose salt or sodium re- serve is already depleted by an unsupervised low-salt diet, Any person who succumbs to the popular fad in the hope of losing weight or reducing blOod pressure may be sadly disap- pointed, since the effect of sodi- um restriction is largely the loss of water, not tissue, from the body. The water is quickly re- placed because of the resultant thirst. Sodium and chlorine are ele- ments which are essential to nor- mal body function, Every cell in the body requires sodium in some way; a proper balance. among • sodium, potassium and calcium, for instance, is essential to normal heart action, Chlorine is also required for health; for instance, an adequate supply per- mits the body to manufacture hydrochloric acid, a component of the gastric juice which is nec- essary to digestion. The usual American gets much of his daily requirements of these two elements from his meals, but part of it is taken in the form of extra table salt, which chemical- ly is sodium chloride. • Moreover, in area such as the Great Lakes basin, the soil is de- ficient in iodine, which is essen- tial to proper function of the • thyroid gland. Iodine is usually added to table salt in order to prevent that type of goiter which is due to lack of iodine. When table salt is removed from the diet of the citizen, theraOre., lie or she may be den- gerously deprived of these three elements essential to life—sodi- um chlorine and iodine. Thus there is a great deal of risk in the low-sodium .or aait- poor diet. Oeeasionally a physician will tako that risk in order to relieve rho symptoms of certain patients Aiihring from heart or Ridney disoo vong ea t v e. heart Ore, for instance, water can ac- cumulate in this tissues, 'a condi- tion known as edema or, pop- ularly, "dropsy," That imposes a treraraidotis extra strain on the already vaakened heart, so the • physician ith.s to release much of the water, by reducing the intake of sodium, which tends to hold water in the boda.. This is a calculated risk, taken deliberately in order to relicve more immediately dangerous con- dition. The patient must be con- stantly watched to see that his sodium reserve does not drop be- lbw the minimum .essential to health, even to life, The physician must also be ready to increase the sodium in- take immediately in case of any sudden additional loss of sodium, such as that due to prolonged heat and excessive sweating, Perspiration c o n t ain s sodium chloride and the loss of the chemical via the sweat glands can be severe. That may occur even in normal persons exposed to extreme heat—with weakness, nausea, cramps, collapse, coma and even death ensuing, unless the sodium deficiency is quickly corrected. • It is clear, therefore, that any- one subjecting himself or herself to a low-sodium diet, on his own initiative and without medical supervision, may invite disaster. • BILLY GRAIIAIVI TO INVADE JAPAN A crusade of "unmatched scope and magnitude" will take evangelist Billy :Graham to Jap- an next March. Accompanied by • 600 Southern Baptists, most of them Texans, Graham will try to increase the tiny Baptist colony of 15,000 in a nation of 95 mil- lion. According to plan, Gra- ham's forces will be split into four-man teams, spreading out to evangelize 147 Japanese cities, The cost of the Baptist invasion effort, announeed last week: $300,000, Obey the traffic signs — they are placed there for Y 0 U R, SAFETY, GRIM MONUMENT — Shattered tail section of Eastern Airlines plane stands as a grim monument to the persons who lost their lives in the crash ut fog-shrouded Idlewild Air- port in New York