HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1948-1-21, Page 2King "Business"
Pays off Royally
The king business still is about the
lest paying occupation in Europe.
Even the smallest countries pay
Mlleir monarchs handsomely, compar-
ed with the $75,000 annual salary
'drawn by the President of the
United States,
Figures on the royal incomes were
gathered after a recent debate in the
House of Commons turned attention
to the amounts paid to Britain's
Royal Family.
The Commons agreed to increase
Princess Elizabeth's allowance to
X40,000 ($160,000) and to pay her
husband, Prince Philip, 210,000 ($4-
0,000). But the decision was reached
over the protests of a Iarge sector
of the Labor Patty.
Seven of the eight European
countries which retain the monarch-
ial system spent well over a total of
$4,500,000 on their Royal Families
in 1947, The size o' state grants to
Ring Mihai of Communist -dominated
Romania were not available.
Best paid of all was Britain's Royal
Fancily, which received more than
$2,000,000 in 1946,
Lowest Paid Kin;
Lowest paid monarch appeared to
he Kine Paul of Greece. The entire
(:red- P.'vat Family's mtnual income
is $279,000, Out of this the King
must maintain the entire Royal Fam-
ily, pay alt servants, entertain, and
meet his men travel expenses.
Haalron of Norway also ap-
peared to he in the "low income"
Bracket. His annual stipend is 1,-
000,000 kroner, about $200,000, but
he also receives an undisclosed a-
mount for Palace expenses.
Norway a!sn pays Crown Prince
Olav 300,000 kroner, about $60000
a year.
Neither King Haalron nor Prince
Olav is known to have any private
income.
Before the tear, the Dutch House
of Orange vas considered one of the
wealthiest Royal Families in the
world. it is not known to what ex-
tent the war affected the private
foetune of Queen Wilhelmina.
The Dutch Queen's annual income
from the State is 1,000.1100 guilders,
abort 0377.000, plus a maximum of
100,000 guilders ($37,700) for Pal-
ace maintenance, She also receives
the proceeds of Crown estates.
There was no estimate of her income
from prit ate sources.
Juliana ..'aid
In addition. The Netherlands pays.
Crown Princess Juliana and her hus-
band. Prime, Bernhard, 200.000. guild-
ers (+75,400) each.
S'nte erents to Sweden's Royal
Family last year, including 950,000
crowns 10263.089) to King Gustaf,
totaled 1,393,000 crowns ($386,940).
The Belgian Civil List provides
for en annual apnrnpriation of 12,-
000,000 frenes ($274285) for the
Royal Family, "fur the duration of
King Leoaold's reign." The King
now is in Switzerland and his brother
is Regent. For the past two years,
there has teen a supplementary ap-
propriation of 12,000,000 francs for
other cctprnses.
Belgium's Queen Mother Eliza-
beth reevi%es 2,000,000 francs a year.
In addif on, there are unestimated
personal incomes from estates at
home and in the Belgium Congo.
Denmark's Royal Famil; gets a
total of 2,300)0 kroner ($440,000) a
year from the state. The Ring re•
ecives 1,7"0,(',00 kroner 1$350,000).
from which he pays all household
expenses.
The royal incomes look tremen-
dous, but they're not all hay. State
o t c, c
and social obligations of the kings
entail enormous expenses, and, large
proportions of the State grants are
set aside to meet the costs of enter-
taining and maintaining the regal
splendor their subjects expect.
Puerto Mira is inhabited by more
than 2,unn,00o people and is one of
the earth's most densley populated
areas,
Europe's Homeless Ease Bd.
tain's Manpower Worries —
More than 200,000 persons
from all over Europe, , left
homeless by the war, have
found haven in England and
have started a new life of li-
berty and happiness. In ex-
change for this, Britain gets
the benefit of their work,
which helps relieve the serious
manpower shortage on farms
and in factories. Known as
European Volunteer Workers.
the former DP's enjoy most of
the rights of the average Bri-
ton. These pictures show typi-
cal activities among them.
With a song of freedom in their hearts, vola nteer farm workers march off to the fields.
Former DP's learn to operate looms in a textile mill,
Latvian refugee, right. gets instructiotl in mill packing
department.
Salmon Migration
Covers 2,000 Miles
Salmon have been marked in
Scottish, Norwegian, Baltic and
Canadian haunts to find out how,
when and whither they migrate.
From studies made by J. W. Men-
zies it seems that European and
Canadian salmon have a common
feeding ground in the North Atlan-
tic near Iceland . The only area
where the salmon has been traced
from the river of origin to its feed-
ing ground in the sea and then back
to the river as an adult is the Baltic.
Here Swedish meriting experiments„
showed that the smolts left the
northern Swedish and Finnish rivers
in spring when only five inches
long. When they reached the
southern Baltic, six hundred to eight
hundred miles away, they weighed
just over a pound, but they did not
apparently pass out of this belt into
the North Sea.
Salmon marled in the Gulf of St.
Lawrence and off the shores of
Scotland and Norway migrate in
two ways. In one migration they
have been recovered after having
nearly completed their homeward
journey, when they remain off the
river until a flood induces them to
ascend. In other migrations salm-
on narked off southwest Newfound-
land, western Scotland and western
Norway made long journeps to the
place of capture, the record being
a St. Lawrence salmon caught as
a clean fish in sea nets 2,000 miles
away up the Labrador coast, while
from near the north of Norway an
easterly migration has been traced
to the River Petchora.
Numbers of (narked salmon have
traveled between Scotland and Nor-
way but not across the Atlantic so
far as recoveries show. All salmon
seen to return to the river from
which they came as smolts.
LIFE'S LIKE THAT
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weight I ! 1"
The rebel
Leaves at One
By
MARION WALLS
"It isn't that 1 don't love you,
Stan! I want to do something else
before I settle down to marriage -1
want to learn how to design, I—oh,
what's the use! You won't under-
stand it,”
Reaching up, Stan broke off a twig
from the chinaberry tree. "No, I
guess I can't," he admitted, "I guess
I belong to the old-fashioned school
which thinks marriage means every-
thing to a girl."
The girl touched his arm. "I do
love you, Stan; and I want to marry
you. But not now, I want to amount
to something first, be somebody."
Unexpectedly, she laid a swift kiss
upon his cheek. "!Run along hack to
your farm, dear," she advised. "The
Rebel Leaves at one in the morning
and I must finish packing, But I'll
be looking for you tonight"
Anita raced up the steps to her
room on the second floor of Airs.
Petrillo's hoarding house. It was
several hours Inter that Mrs. Petrillo
called: "Miss Dat•iteno! Telephone!
And hurry, please."
Fuming, Anita disconnected the
iron. She had no time for idle con-
versations this day. "Hello—Stan?"
Her breath quickened,
"Anita, cat you help me out for a
little whileP Katfa'.e boy, Ben, tut
himself raids an a.re and Joe had to
talee him to the hospital. Moat's still
in bed, and that leaves me in a taut
—Katja's baby is /acre to. Jim Flag -
,arty said he could bring you out."
Anita's response was immediate.
"Sure, 1'11 conte Tell Jim I'll be
ready in 15 minutes."
Anita was relieved when Jim's
truck turned into the Dusak's drive,
Stan was silting on the porch hold-
ing the baby.
With a relieved smile, he laid the
child in Anita's arms. "He's teeth-
ing, the little rascal won't let you
put him down,"
"I2un along," she encouraged, "I'll
put the baby to sleep."
Going into the hotasc, Anita put
the chile! to bed and went in to see
about Stan's mother. She was sleep-
ing, sunshine spraying across the
quilt. Drawing the shades, Anita
went out noiselessly.
Anita wandered hack into the big
room. On the wall hung an oil paint-
ing; bold splashes of color about a
mill and a rushing brook. Puzzled,
Anita was still staring wizen she
heard quick steps upon the porch.
It was-Katja, worn but with tri-
umph in her eyee. "Ben's going to
be all right!' eberriecl, taking
Anita's hand, "I stopped by and told
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Stan. How's Mom and the baby?"
"Your mother is still sleeping,"
replied Anita softly. Her eyes went
again to the painting. "Katie, there's
something familiar about that scene.
Where did you get that picture?"
The older woman's eyes went
briefly to the wall, "Oh, that's the
old mill down near Stonewall. I
painted it one summer. Let's have a
bit of tea—I need a pick-up."
In amazement, Anita said: "You
painted this! Why, Katja, it's beau-
tiful." Following the other woman
into the kitchen, she probed; "Kat-
ja, it's a shame you didn't try to
develop your talent. You might have
created something beautiful for all
the world to see!"
Katja was thoughtful. "I11 admit
that in the beginning, I did wonder
but after Joe and I were mar-
ried .. , no, Anita, I'm never sorry
any more."
Stan came tramping up the steps.
"Say, I'm no tea drinker, he called,
"but you can pour me a cup now."
Leaning against the cupboard, he
" She was in his arms now
said to Anita: "1 eta run you back
to town now that Katja Inas come,"
"There's no hurry," she said, not
looking at him.
"But your pacing—and the Rebel
leaves et ane," he reminded her.
She smiled, "'Maybe sonic rebels
fust start to Woe, Stan, and don't
ever really gob'
She teas in his arms now. Katja
had left then' but it was to Katja
she was really .speaking when she
whispered, her mouth against his,
"P11 never be sorry any more."
New Way To Fight
Dangerous Enemies
The great annual invasion is on—
an invasion just as dangerous as one
by a foreign enemy.
Millions of rats in grey furry
hordes are sweeping in from the
greatoutdoors where, during the
summer months, they glutted them-
selves and multiplied. Now they've
invaded cities, towns and farmyards
to find quarters for the winter in
barns, granaries, kitchens and cellars.
Even although home -owners wage
personal wars against this great in-
vasion, it will be a losing tight unless
taken up by the community as a
whole—and the destruction will go on
to the tune of millions—perhaps
billions of dollars damage.
For centuries rats have plagued
mankind by pilfering his food and
spreading death -dealing disease. The
pied piper was but a figment of wish-
ful thinking in the mind of some
mediaeval fiction writer. Cats have
been tried to eliminate this sneaking
enemy. inventors have utilized tons
of grey matter in an attempt to de-
vise a foolproof rat trap. , But the
rats continued to multiply,
Now chemistry has come on the
scetie with a super rat killer—Ants.
Tested in both Canada and the Unit-
ed States over a period of three
years, this poison has proven phenom-
enal as a rat exterminator. Employed
as a weapon in rat drives where
householders and pest control opera-
tors worked hand in hand, it has
cleared whole communities of the
pests for as long as two years.
Antu is available to the public in
several r commercial formulas
cc which
may be used with bait or dusted into
burrows, tracks or any place fre-
quented by the rodents. The rats
pick it up on their feet and fur. Upon
licking their feet or fur they swallow
the powder. The poison retards their
breathing and experience has shown
that in many instances in an attempt
to get fresh . air, they crawl out into
the open and die.
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Profit and Loss
A successful city business man
took tip farming as a side line,
After two years a friend asked him
how things were going. "Well, 1
made $10,000 on the farm last
year," the businessman said.
"010,000?" repented the friend
increduously,
"Yes, sir," said the businessman
firmly. "I lost only $22,000, The
first year I lost 082,000.
When The Poor Prince of Wales Had To
Stay Home From The Race Track
After a dusty plunge into tate files
of just half a century ago, we came
up with a few of the things papers
found worthy of notice around the
start of the year 1898,
Royalty
Tice great ones of the earth come
in for considerable attention and
in ane issue there is a Biographical
Sketch of His Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales (later King Ed-
ward Seventh.) The married life
of the Prince and Princess is de-
scihed as "ideal"; and there is a note
about the Prince's fondness for
rending, also race -horses that would,
we imagine, • to be about fifty per
cent in accordance with the facts,
which is a pretty fair average. The
Prince was said to he rigid in re-
fraining from any sports on Sunday,
although once he was sorely tempted
by Marshall Mac?sfahon, during a
trip to France, to go and sec the
Grand Prix run on that day. How-
ever, a wire to his mother, Queen
Victoria, soon settled the matter,
and the Prince didn't go to the race
track but, we presume, stayed home
with a good boolc.
Famous Authors
P.udyard Kipling had just publish-
ed, in the current issue of St. Nich-
olas Magazine, the second of his
"Jost So Stories". It was entitled
"How the Camel Got its Hump"
and was illustrated by Oliver Here-
ford. The Canadian Gilbert Park-
er's "The Battle of the Strong" was
just starting to run as a serial in the
Atlantic Magazine. And another fa-
mous author was in the news, but in
a somewhat different connection. IIe
was Dr. Conan Doyle, creator of
"Sherlock Holmes" who was said to
be one of the pioneers of a sport
called ski-ing (pronounced shee-ing)
which was rapidly becoming popular
in Switzerland, and attracting many
winter visitors to that counry.
It was explained, however, that
the new sport was rather a clumsy
one; in fact "ski-ing cannot for a
moment compare with either snow -
shoeing or toboganning" — which
might cause somewhat of a laugh
up around Happy Valley and other
favorite haunts of the ski addicts.
On Stage
One of the foremost actors of his
time — Richard Mansfield — was in
the news through just having ad-
ministered a thrashing to his valet.
The cause — when Mansfield was
dressing to go on stage he found a
button missing from his costume,
Robert B. Mantel! — and how he
could turn on the tragedy; — was
appearing at Toronto's Grand Opera
House, with a coming attraction at
the same house announced as "The
Wedding Day" starring Lillian Rus-
sel!, Della Fox and Jefferson De
Angelis — and what a cast that
must have been! Madame Nordica,
greatest soprano of her time, was
coming to Massey Hall, and the
prices ranged from fifty cents to a
dollar and a half — with no mention
of war tax evtra either,
Russian Confidence
On the world scene we find that
Russia had just made known the re-
sults of the first census ever taken
in that Empire. Based on the then
prevailing rate of increase. within
twenty years a population -of 175
million was expected which — ac-
cording to the Editor — "explains
the confidence with which Russians
look forward to the future". The
balance of the sexes in Russia seems
to have been rather different then.
as it was noted that in some Russian
communities there was such a short-
age of the fair sex that "a marriage
able young woman seldom sojourns
in one of those towns for more than
four or five weeks before securing
a partner, for life."
Even then the world was beset by
labor troubles, one hundred thous-
and English machinists being report-
ed as on strike or an eight-hour day
with extra pay for overtime. The
wages they had been getting were
said to average "around eight dollars
per week".
Chewing Gam
An item which would leave—well,
at least interested. Mr. Wrigley was
headed THE D A N G ER OF
CIIEW-ING GUM, which •was de-
scribed as a "filthy contpoutnd"—
"flavoured India rubber" and the
"cause of mach dyspepsia". The
perils of chewing -gum for the young
—because of the danger of swallow•
ing it—were also touched upon. In
fact we rather felt tltot the writer
of the article really disapproved of
chewing gum—and we just wish he
'could be here to see some of the
]rids in our neighborhood performing
on the "bubble" variety.
Strong ill ink
The evils of strong drink were
forcefully illustrated by the tale of
a Great Lakes captain who over-
stayed his time of sailing to clo ;t
little extra elbow -bending, Because
ofthis delay the steamer got frozen
in the ice, and a thouand tons of
coal aboard failed to reach the Silver
Islet Mine on the north shore of
Lake Superior. Lacking coal the
' pumps which kept the mine clear of
water ,couldn't be kept going. The
nine filled up and at the time of the
report — 13 years after the event —
was still filled. Up to the time of the
Captain's error the mine had pro-
duced three million ounces of silver
and was tagged, by the writer of the
report, as "the richest spot en
earth."
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POP—Out Of The Picture
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By J. MILLAR WATT
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