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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1952-10-22, Page 3•r [ Calvert SPORTS C'OLURN 4 &wit 9,90400 • At first glance, you get the idea it would have been a greet thing for ;port in America, a fine thing to cement interne- tional friendshipe, if Emil Zatopek, the champion runner of the Olympic Game, had accepted an invitation from officials of the government of the United State, en- thused by President Truman, to vielt this continent and show the citizens of democracy the unmatched speed and endurance that swept him to three Olympic crowns, Now we're glad Zatopek didn't accept. For, as it turned out, be it a mere tool of the Soviet's ellen& to seize even upon the Olympics at a medium for propagaada, For the Olympic flame that burned so brightly • above Hel- sinki was barely extinguished before Zatopek was in fropt of a microphone making propaganda for the Russiaos—who had used their ruthless technique to eend his feliowicountryman John Masaryk to death through a high window and to convert Mas- • aryles—and Zatopek's—once proud and free Czechoslovakia into a virtual slave state. In commenting on the Games that had so signally honoured hint—Games to foster international co-operation and global sports- manship, Zatoptic asserted: "It is too bad the American interven- tionist generals in Korea would not even stop fighting for the Olympic Games." And when he refused to accept the invitation to visit the United States, he sneeringly stated he wouldn't be a party to "a circus," So we can get along very well, without Zatopek. He has auto- matically barred himself. It is regrettable Soviet Russia should use international sport foe political purposes. It is doubly. shameful that it obtained the help of Emil Zato- pek, native .ofiln.country that once held its head high among the free means .3hat world. And quite as shameful that Zatopek consenteiro ede to such a shameful role. In 1the 5000 -meter, 10,000 -meter and marathon races at the 01 ernes, this 29 -year-old Czech Army officer proved himself ,cloubt one of the most magnificent athletes in history. e • This remarkable man is the P. T. Barum of track and field. He puts on a show that would be the envy of a John Barrymore. He runs with his head hitched over his left shoulder, his face wrapped in agony, his fists clenched, elbows bent in a fighting position. His tongue hangs out of his mouth and he appears to be gaspieg desperately for air. But all this while hie muscular legs are pounding off a steady beat, He staggers and struggles from the waist up, but he is poetry in motion from the lupe down. A great athlete. But a very poor citizen of his own unfortun- ate country, ' Your comments and suggestions far hEI column will be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yong* St., Toronto. . „ %,atviert DISTILLERS LIMITED AMHER3TRURO, ONTARIO SPORT, A StxarrCtc Ever play the game of. Pa- chinko? Well, don't let it worry you, because neither did we. Nevertheless, millions of folks are playing this simpleton's game and losing their shirts—and Id - =ones — at it. For pachinko has grown from a rash into Japan's By Archer Wallace A New Inspirational Book The AUTOGRAPH of GOD "For at least a dozen years, discerning laymen and minis- ters alike might say seriously, 'If Archer Wallace stops pub- lishing his inimitable stories I must become pedestrian againl' . If there are any citizens of civilized communi- ties who have not discovered this Canadian wizard of heartening tales and essays, let all such get this book forthwithr —David A. Mac- Lennan. $2,00 THE RYERSON PRESS PUBLISHERS, TORONTO national craze. What's•more, it threatens td become, according M Ray Falk in The New York Sunday Times, an export item into all the rest of Asia, * * So, in case it ever spreads to Canada, we're going to give you the low-down, so that you'll be able to get in on the inside right from the start. * * Pachinko is the poor man's copy of the pinball machine. It has lured men from mah jong tables, kept them away from the Mack and ponies, supplanted the lunch hour, lowered student book purchases and marks and made housewives neglect their babies. It has led to suicides and petty crime. It has become a vital soc- ial issue discussed by Japanese psychologists, doctors, teachers, tax collectors. Tt is a subject of Diet debate. And still it grows. * Pachinko machines stand up- right to save space in crowded Japan. A lever kicks a steel ball, a quarter of an inch in diameter, around the board. Ti the ball falls Into one of the nine 'winning cubicles the player gains ten new balls, An array of nails protects each cavity to make the game more difecult. The operation is entirely manual — no electronic devices, no blazing lights. And the Japanese have yet to learn the Canadian technique of Jnflu. ening the course of the ball by swaying from aide to side In the local pinball addicee crouch * The japan IVIoreipoly Cerpera- Non, the sole makers and distri- butors of japeneee cigarettes, es- timates that there are 28,458 pa- chink° Pallet's. with 927,999 m o ce a- chinin the untry, or one ma- chine for every ninety citizene. Tokyo • leads • the A nation with 7,903 pachinko i„ xeetabliehMente and 201,971 machinee, followed by Osaka, with over ,3,000 par - lore. And the game le only now inundating the rural regions. There are some 300 machine manufadturers. The machine sells; for $20. A day does not pass that a ca- baret, candy store • or sundry goods shop does not close to re- open as a pachinko parlor. In downtown Tokyd tavern keepers have surrendered to the pastime and converted Here welt -heeled company directors may be seen flipping the lever from specially reserved seats while being fan- ned by pretty girls. In Osalca, a cabaret dropped its hostesses in favour of 1,000 games, * 5 * Tokyo has 100 special pachin- ko balls for' children only. The children play for sweets, pen- cils and notebooks. Adults gen- erally turn their extra balls in for cigarettes, soap or 'canned - fruits, A ball costs half a cent, Tile Monopoly Corporation fig- ures that 113 per cent of its cig- arette output is now being sold through the pachinko housee' * The police favor the game. It occupies the citizenry, prevents them from getting into trouble elsewhere. Tokyo police,who make a fuss over closmg meri- can imported roulette wheels, dice tables and one -arm bandits as unlawful gambling 'denims, permit pachinko because "it is not gambling as it onlypays off five to one et best.", • * • • Pachinko has made other soci- ological news. In 'Aomori prefec- ture physiciah installid a 'pin- • ball machine in his office for his patients to- entertain themselves while waiting. The Ka.nsei Steamr shiji Company furnished its ship lounges with pachinko. • * Doctors report cases of sprain- ed thumbs resulting from an over -indulgence. This affliction has become known as pachinko- tie. * * Two teen-age boys, after sell- ing their personal belongings to play pachinko, sold their blood to "gamble." The authprities,took them into custody, too weak to talk. * * * A 26 -year-old wife was granted a divorce from her tailor hus- band en the grounds that he,lost their savings to pachinko. A hus- band in Osaka gained a divorce because the wife had turned into a pachinkomaniac. * * 5 A clerk committed suicide be- cause of the game. Police found him dead, his hands tightly clutching tiny steel balls. Which is all we know, up to • * now, about paohinko; end it cer- tainly sounds like an ideal game —for suckers. Wonder what' the chances would be of"getting the exclusive rights for, gay, To- ronto? It ought_ to do right well, there! • Travel at 'Thrift:Season' Rates The merriest Christmas ever awaits you in Britain this year. Travel Cunard to,your Iced ones ...rejoice again among wairdy-remeinbered scenes...hi the company of those dear to you. 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For practical purpeees this IS wasted time, since it contains net conscious thmight and no actione. 'Yet scientists have found that a part of the brain shin alert While the rest of the body sleeps When the blankets elip on * cold night we pull them back without knoWing. A housewife will sleep peacefully through the, noise of traffic outside, but she wakes instantly at the cry Of her , • *AG For a 104' time doctors have known about this "warning area", of the' biain. Bately they have been arguing that Since it la alert to danger, it might also be alert to new ideas. Thus a machine has been de- veloped to implant thoughts into the wakeful area of the brain. Wheri it was tested a record re- peated a Meaningless list of words to a group of sleeping students. Over and over again it spoke fifteen three -letter words: boy, egg, say; run, sir, not, leg. • On awakening they were able to Mariecirieevtliiliet almost twen- ty per cent faster than normal. The neXt eXperiment went farther by tryineetiggestion, For this test ,tyventy boys were select- ed who all had the habit of biting their fingernails. While the her slept -the record repeated one sentence: "My fin- gernails taste terribly bitter. My fingernails .taste, terribly bitter . . " These' words were re- peated six hundred times every night „ . Five weeks after the experi- ment started one boy stopPed biting his nails. A fortnight later two more had given up. Another week added five to the list. Eight out of the twenty had been broken of a deep-rooted habit. • One psychiatrist tried the sleep -teaching machine on a problem child, who quarrelled so much witleihis classmates that he had tVlie 'Withdrawn fOrn scWool. The psychiatrist drew up points he wished' to impress the child and made a recording of them. Under influence of these stfg- gestions, repeated night after rant, the boy began to straighten out Evenutally he accepted the ideas expressed, and began to adopt them as his own. Thus the idea leaves the ex- perimental stage and enters the practical. Aldcus Huxley, in his book "Brave New World," predicted that the children of 600 years hence would learn lessons while they slept. It looks as though we may not have to wait so long. Button, Button — Birmingham has been capital of the button industry for half a century, but during the past few years Cyprus has been offer- ing serious competition. Last year Cyprus sold 1,300,000 gross of buttons, worth approxi- mately $480,000. There are two button factories in Cyprus, and their raw mater- ials range from skimmed milk which provides casein, to sea- shells, which yield pearl buttons. Experts say there are hundreds of thousands of different button designs, and some craftsmen do nothing else but think up new ideas for fresh shapes and colors. The so-called "ivory" buttons are not made from elephants' tusks, but from a "vegetable ivory" obtained from the South American vorozo nut. One type of button used by the R.A.F. during the war had a more important use than as an ornament or fastening, it looked • like an ordinary R.A.F. uniform button, but the top unscrewed (clockwise). Inside was a minia- ture compass. It was used by air- crew men to find their way about when shot down over enemy country. For quite a number of cen- turies the button was an outward sign otprosperity, and was made of precious metals, finely worked and encrusted with jewels. 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