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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1947-11-5, Page 2The Barrier Collapses By JOHN ARLINGTON The Rev. Mr. Jones claimed that the stronger the relationship between two men, the wider the rift if any- thing happened to break the bond. He said it was human nature, and be liked to tell about Frank Holly and George Clyde to prove his point. The two men had been neighbors and the closest of friends all their lives. It was the same with their wives, and when Jim Holly and Betty Clyde came on the scene, the two youngsters grew up as much at home in each other's houses as in their own. It didn't seem possible that anything could come between the two men. Yet they did fall out, and the cause was so trivial folks couldn't believe it. * * * The Clyde farm and the Holly place adjoined each other, sort of back to back, and the line fence be- tween them was an old rail affair that a new-born lamb could have climbed over easily almost any place. So one spring just before seeding time, the two men got together and decided to replace it with a brand new wire fence. When they had fin- ished both men stood around telling each other what a neat job they'd done. "She's as straight as a gunbarrel." says George Clyde, squinting down the row of posts. ."Sure is," agreed Frank Holly, taking a look. "But your place has grouted a little Ti'e•'re over about a foot too far on my side." He said it joking like, and if George had let it pass, there would have been no harm done. But one word led to another, and the first thing they latew both men were yelling and shouting at the top of their voices. When each of them finally grabbed up his tools and headed for the barn, the most beautiful friendship in Reefer coun- Everybody could see the way it was with Jim and Betty. ty was busted wide open. And no one could do anything about it. Their wives tried hard enough. But it was no use. The truth was both knew they were acting like idiots, but each was too stubborn to mat -e the first mor. After the quarrel they both got so cranky there was no living with them, And they took it out on the two young- sters. But human nature is human nature, and before the year was over Jim and Betty were meeting in town on Saturday nights, and sor of hanging around together a f e r church. Everybody could ace the way it was with tlwut, except their fathers, The Rev, Mr. Jones tried to get in a word with Frank and George on the matter, but it didn't do a bit of good, and there's no telling what way things would have gone if it hadn't been for Frank's old bay mare. George Clyde was at the barn doc- toring some shoats when his wife and Betty came rushing in, "Mrs. Holly just phoned," said his wife, all out of breath, "She says she was down the lane when she saw their old bay mare on her back, all tan- gled up in the line fence. Frank and Jim are in town, and she's afraid the poor thing will cut herself to pieces time they get back. She. thought maybe you'd do something about it." * * * "Holly can look after his own stock," says George. "Why Dad!" says Betty horrified, and the next minute she tears out of the barn as fast as she can. She stops long enough at the drive shed to grab a hammer and a pair of wire cutters then disappears down the lane. It doesn't take long for George and his wife to follow her. By the time they reached the bacic pasture, Betty had released the poor beast that had caused all the commotion. Mrs. Hol- ly was there, too, fussing over both of them. And that's the way it was when Jim and his Dad rattled up in the truck. It was George who rose to the occasion. "Frank," he says, a bit os the shaky side, `.'This Banged fence broke us up, but rev'd have less sense than that dumb brute yonder if we let it keep these youngsters apart." For once, Frank seemed at a loss for words but he contrived a grin. His Excellency, Viscount Alexander, Governor-General of Canada, officially opened the Na- tional Hockey League season at Maple Leaf Gardens, dropping the first puck between Capt. Syl Apps of Maple Leafs, and Capt. Syd Abel of Detroit Red Wings. Savage Fish Tales of horrors in which men and animals have been speedily torn to shreds by savage, l0 -inch long fish, are told by Christopher W, Coates. The most dangerous fish in the world, Coates avers, are the South American piranha, which become so excited by the taste of blood that they often destroy each other. The only photographic record of piranhas in action, he says, shows these tiny fish completely skeletoning a 400 - pound hog in 10 minutes flat. Automatic Mechanical Brain Guid Airliner Across Atlantic Ocean A Douglas C-54 Skymaster with a mechanical brain has crossed the ocean all by itself. To be sure, fourteen persons were on board, but they were only observers or emergency crew. Not a hand touched the controls. It was not the first flight of the kind made by the Skymaster, but, according to the New York Times, it was the longest, and hence the sever- est test of its automatic mechan- ism. No doubt the delegates to the meetings of the United Nations made a note of the performance. If a large plane can fly automatic- ally across the ocean with fourteen men, it can do as much with an atonic bomb and with nobody on board. It is such uses of great in- ventions that must be thwarted, an end that can be reached only if the United Nations will boldly face the problem presented by atomic bombs, high explosives and the eventual abolition of war. * * Meanwhile this remarkable me- chanical brain will undoubtedly be further developed for peacetime use. What this use may be, Col. - James M. Gillespie, who pushed the button that started the Sky - master, indicated when he arrived in England. "This mechanical brain leads us a long way down the road to the 'visibility zero' landing," was his way of putting it. His meaning is plain in the light of what happened when the Atlan- tic had been all but crossed, A hundred miles off Ireland the me - STEVE YAREMKO Contest Winners The winners have been an- nounced of a recent series of con- tests sponsored by The Wilson Fly Pad Company of Hamilton, Ontario. Winner of the First Prize of $100 in the first of the contests was Steve Yarentko, a schoolboy re- siding in Tangent, Alberta, Steve lives of a farm near the school he attends, and his favorite school subject is arithmetic. He consi- dered using part of his prize win- nings to buy a bicycle but our second thought, he has put the MRS. LAURA MCKALE money in the bank for the day when he may really need it. Winner of the First Prize of 8100 in the second contest was Mrs. Laura McKalc of Calumet R.R,1, Quebec. Mrs. McKate is a farmer's wife and the mother of twelve children, six boys and six girls. Aside from looking after her large family, Mrs. McTCale finds time to do crocheting, embroidering, knitting and sewing, Mrs. McKale claims she has been using Wilson's Fly Pacts for thirty years and would not be without them. Pictures of the two contest win- ners are sten above. chanical brain received from below orders in the form of radio signals. "Bear to the East," carie a radio order in the form of a code that the brain could understand, and the Skymaster promptly steered East for Brise Norton, forty miles from London. There more radio signals were received. "Drop to" a thousand feet," waa one. The Skymaster obliged. And then, in response to more radio signals, Skymaster, all by itself, lowered its landing gear, cut off its engines, struck the run- way and put on the brakes. * * * With such a system, night and fog should lose what few terrors they still harbor. Equipped with a mechanical brain like the Skyntas- ter's, a commercial airliner could be brought to the ground in any weather with complete safety. The pilot need assume no responsibility. Everything can be left to some supervisor on the ground. And Why not? The airport supervisor of landings may be seated in a swivel chair in lis office. He need not even sec the plane. Winking lights on a panel in front of him tell all he needs to know. He pushes but- tons—one to tell the radio operator to send out a beam of the proper frequency,,, another to make the mechanism on board guide the plane down, a third to bring the landing gear out of the nest where it has been tacked away like the legs of a bird in flight, a fourth to cut off the engines, a fifth to apply the brakes. The development is in- evitable. 'When research has cross- ed the last "t" and dotted the last I , we shall hear less of airport accidents of the kind that have been making headlines of late. The Man Who Bowed To Hitler in Austria A gray-haired man, his face etch- ed with the memories of seven years in Nazi concentration camps, walk- ed down the gangplank of due Itali- an liner Saturnia. To newspaper- men he said he wanted only "to live a quiet life." "I am just an- other displaced person," Ile added. Tlee sea passenger was Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg, the schoolteacher who became Chancellor of Austria at the assassination of Dolfuss and bowed to Hitler and Anschluss in the Spring of 1938, says the New York Times. In his person, Dr. Schuschnigg is a symbol of the battered, beaten country that has been through two wars, a pawn on the chessboard of European politics, and is still that today. Among nations Austria is one of the `displaced," as her for- mer Chancellor is homeless among millions of homeless people. There is a lesson lit the fate of Austria and of Dr. Schuschnigg if it can be read correctly, It is the lesson that there can he no com- promise with principle. Between wars Austria's leaders could not make up their minds just what they wanted to be—democrats or dictators. They tried being a lit- tle bit of each—and both leaders and country ended up as prisoners. Or Lonesome? Her knock was unanswered, and the neighbor was about to leave when six-year-old Bobby appeared. "Hello, Bobby," she said. "Are you here all alonei" "Yes," said the youngster. "Mam- ma's in the hospital—and me, and Daddy, and Jennie, and Edith and Edna are here all alone." Let's Forge▪ t • About It " A Mr. Harmon—or Marmon— called and said you're to meet hint tomorrow on the corner of Elm, I think he said, and West or North Street, I believe, about eight, or nine, I think it was, and that if you can't conte you're to 'phone him, Sycamore 6-49 something 8, it's very important." Truce on Leopold King of Belgium A 12 -month truce seems to be settling on the bitter 'debate which has raged about the provisionally exiled -]Sing Leopold. HI of Bel- gium. The truce, if it is effective, will be governed by the coming of age, in September, 1948, of King Leo- pold's eldest son, Crown Prince Baudouin, Under Belgian law, he comes of age at 18, . During the three years since the liberation, Belgidm has. been gov- erned by s Regent, the 'younger brother of King Leopold, while the King himself has, since shortly after his delivery from captivity in Germany, been "frozen" in temporary exile by a vote of the Belgian Parliament. Exiled In Switzerland He has so far spent his exile with a small court in a villa on the .shore of Lake Geneva, and has from time to time, through the Secretariat which he maintains h1 Brussels, made sensational, but effective irruptions into Belgian, politics. • The Socialist Prime Minister, Paul Henri Spaalr, undertoolc to try to bring the political parties into line on some compromise which would restore a monarch to Belgium's throne. He has worked in complete se( crecy, and has maintained it so long that public interest in the matter has flagged. The various parties remain on their positions: the powerful Social Christians, re- flecting the Roman Catholic, con- servative half of Belgium, de- manding the King's return, or at least a referendum of some sort on the question; and the other par- ties—Socialist, Communist, and Liberal ---refusing both return sad referendum and demanding outright abdication. 02 -Month Delay S,,1neo the. Goverment, the sixth and most stable since the war, is made up of Social Christians and Socialists, there seems, little chance, of the problem being seriously meld- ed without danger of a new anti un- wanted Cabinet crisis, It is there - fire,, 'widely believed that nothing will Ike• done openly ;drift Prince Builouili's,i8th birthday forces the %ae dent:'into, the open again. Host to Kings Egypt now harbors three European former kings -77 -year- old Victor Emmanuel of Italy, who as Count Polenzo lives in retire- ment, indulging in his favorite sports of fishing, shooting and cycl- ing; 57 -year-old Zog of Albania, who is writing his memoirs, and 9 -year-old Simeon of Bulgaria, a student at the preparatory school of Victoria College, in Alexandria. I HERE'S a rule in Canada which appears on 110 statute books, yet it is engraved in the hearts of the people. Constant, day after day observance of this rule is what makes Canada a country where freedom of thought, word and deed is truly respected and practiced. kt's the Rule of Moderation—moderation in all things. And moderation, as The House of Seagram has frequently pointed out; includes temperate enjoyment of the luxuries of life. Also in the use of whisky is the observance of the Rule of Moderation a credit to the Canadian people. On the list of the world's most temperate nations. 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