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• The baseball seasoli isin full swhig
on all fronts, A thousand wordy battles
have boon fought with empires on
diamonds the with[ of the continent,
For, as in an Sports Where 'the contacts
are chose and' split •seconds divide the
'setter ,Ito two persona Irene sce a close
play alike.
Baseball hasn't made many chafbeeeof .planing rules in
half a century, . But in .one. T spece,tpe ,getrle,il' eesince 1912,
undergone some notable imProvemelite.That' in its um-
piring. .
Fancy, in these days of from tee 'to fou?''umpires per
game, the job of the single umpire in;:19.12, 'helhllydy official
Of that era began his arduous day's toil bej 1' d the plate,
calling balls and strikes. Etue who men we ear
on base, he
hurried out from behinds the] bateencT� took hi g$tand behind
the pitcher, calling the' dim mess(, froin, distances of sixty
feet or more, • :: nate e ,'••::' .
For, he also had to decieler the plays felt ale the bases.
'Not having eyes in the rear (le his. :ran ulp .»��had to turn
when a fly ball was hit, so thatune cduld' iv tell the fielder,
turn to call a slide into the plate ell, t elAfet^
He had to run out to the foul iftlesl'toDv latch whether a
fly ball was fai1„or,fpul. And he had to make a long range
judgmentete'taewhet•hadPened td the batterdd ball when it
was ordwasn't a homer because Of various ground rules,
eiv ;leIn some games decisions were so many and so • difficult
that it was certain he- could make only snap judgment de-
eidieme- hien•ehope^`-for the best, knowing that he had tried
to be fair.
After it was all over, the umpire made his troubled way
to the dressing -room. En route, the players abused him, the
crowds baited him and quite often attacked him. He didn't
have anythiifglike,lthe Supreme al;hthority,gi, today's, umpires.
; ere:E r ell,hie 4roppbles he�•• received around $2,000 and ex-
penses per year. Ximee hale ehd lgect for umpire$- and um-
piring, and all for the better. ,, ,..r
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by Elmer Ferguson,, c io, Coker Wine, 43l_Yonge St„ Toronto.
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AMHERSTSURO, ONTARIO ? :h41 lit
.e PLAIN HORSE SENSE ..
By F. (BOB) VON
Canada is one of the lucky
countries which still have free-
dom of the press. Their number
is slowly but steadily diminish-
ing.
According to a report in Unes-
co News by Salvador P. Lopez
there are 50 countries in the
world today which are censor-
ing or controlling news at the
source, 19 countries are banning
foreign newspapers and 13 are
banning correspondents.
Up to the end of the last war
the majority of states with a
fettered press were those under
Nazi or Fascist domination,
Since the overthrow of Hitler's
and Mussolini's regimes, how-
ever, Communism is easily the
leader in the suppression of civil
and human freedoms including
the freedom of the press.
In country after country, with
the fall of the iron curtain the
light of free information goes
out, the press is subjected to
government control and the dis-
semination of news permitted
only to strengthen the existing
order.
Atheistic Materialism
Based on Marx's doctrine that
there is in the world only One
reality, matter, the blind forces
of which evolve into plant, ani-
mal and man, Communism de-
nies any difference between
matter and spirit, between soul
and body. It strips man of his
liberty, robs human personality
Of all its dignity and does net
recognize any right of the in-
dividual in his relations to the
collectivity.
Man is a mere cogwheel in
the Communist system Which is
geared to one end only: the pro-
duction of material things.
Keep The Light Burning
Canada's press is free. Cana-
dian publishers and editors have
the right to print what they
like. No restraints are placed on
them except the law against
PILLS
libel and blasphemy.
But every right carries with
it a corresponding duty. Not
only have our newspapers the
right, they have kisot F duty
to print IAL!; the new . that's
fit t0 print.
Freedom of the press does not
mean that those in control of it
may release or withhold news
according to their whims. There
are usually two sides to a story
and both should be published.
The owner or editor has the
great privilege to ail his views
on the editorial pdtee. And sot'
have his readers. Communis
make good use of this privileg r
others should do the same.
This column welcomes 'criti-
cism, constructive or destructive,
and suggestions, wise or other-
wise; it will endeavour to an-
swer all questions. Address alit
mail to F. Von Pjiis, Whitby
Ontario, ei C. cEFF
Bee Stings
A bee stings to protect itself
or the hive from danger. It is the
worker bee which has this duty
of protecting. the comnaunity. the
stinger'a 1 e, .tjellowjjtube with
a barbiat t eietegro out from
the re en f the i ecteer body.
When 411e Med to"protec
itself, a; dr of'pois i ores
down the e,'e rb driv
en into the foe and the poison is
discharged. A bee can sting only
once, as a general rule, for when
the insect tries to withdraw the
stinger, the barb usually breaks
off. Sometimes the stinger is so
roughly total from thetbee's body
that it d'es. ° Tile q ehrf :bBtre,e'h
stinger dries, eagttiieget a,, [bath,
and so she can use it again and
again to sting rival queens. The
drone has no stinger. There.a e,
several stingless bees. Some have
a sharp bite; others, instead, drop
a,poison on their enemies.
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Tear as Features
Wedding Party
Far worse things can happen
at weddings lean the bride
keeping, ,the , erootn waiting ap
the heSe, man toeing the rind
Some} of the hltche thatrbave
oceurer].''have ben more- in tune
with a elepstielt film than a
solemn ceremony:
The minister* at an Tstaehatta.
church stopped the 'sereiee [tale
way thi(qugh "to, tiing' a
book at sna>te which was
wriggling ,cr10Wid ,'tl�'g o�ikle, The
snake was e even tiall�' • ttille
with a stone, A ,
Some".:weddi igs leave”' beetle a
stagger ng; success,:. At ,Sande -
fjord, ,'itorway, last :Year; a
ypung ,.couple Jetere et -mile ttie-
fore the 'elfar when tie lei ide-
gr o o m fainted, Water Was
,splashed on his face( but mean-
'white i his; trig' had pees d Aute
'too, When' both Thad' tette ;l;
vived, they were allowed to re-
main seeded for the rest oe, the .
, ceremony.
In two other cases, one in
Sweden and one in Plymouth,
bridegroom andebest, man faint
ed, but the bride stood firm
The Plymouth wedding was
ineleferch last year. First the best
man collapsed, then the groom
began to totter. The minister and
the guests took the best man out
into the fresh air and• thep ,re-
turned to -the chu}ch, But the
ring was in 'the, best man's
ppiketr.so once again there was
a hitch. .
All ended happily,,, the ging
was found ands the: groom was
fit' enough • tp • carry, his bride
',over the threshold of his plarent's
home.,,rl , , •:
, Anothr wedding ceremony
which took, longer, than .it, should
was that between, a doctor and
a nurse at Ki3ig's Lynn in 1952,
Before they could walk up the
aisle they, had, to-,,ggive first aid
to two, oqf the guesfs^'who had
broken 'b'one$" ewhen their car
overturned'-oivlfege way to the
chere ir, ,1 x r „•
Oecasiena,Jly the ,_hitches are '
just plain ' ejiibt.r1' stsing, One
bride was all ready for church
she etleoughteeHer lartheeettelp _..
.ed Iieteente*-."the.:dle ' .n;'' i?ier
journey she shrieked and point-
ed to her feet, They were still
in her bedroom slippers.
The taxi turned round. Her
father made for the door of his
home. It was locked and the key
was in the pocket of another
suit. Once again father and
daughter set out for the church,
borrowed a key from the bride's
mother,. returned home and at
last Elsie's . wedding outfit wale
correct`'in every detail.
An absolute riot of a weddbi
took place in Boston, Mass., last
year. Five of the guests, includ-
ing the '!'our brothers of the
bridegroomee were arrested ',ler,
assault anti battery. IWhe t
policeman arrived other gusts
joined in the melee and pinned
down the cop. He had to fire
his revolver'es an SO S signal.
Fighting broke out among the
guests at a wedding at Carri-
zozo, New Mexico, too, and po-
lice had to use tear gas
OccasionaTl•;5., the groom him-
self has become violent. After
Agatino Basile had slipped the
ring on to his bride's finger in a
VCa`lai 4rh ,. (Skelly) church, he
kick , slapped her face• m}d
tOl'en r out! The explanation?
He wasn't satisfied with the size
of the girl's dowry,
Another Italian who jilted his
bride before the '`kith`* Vs fogty e
four-year-old dglie'lmd! Edn /
denti. Only a moment earlier
had he discovered that the
L !twenty -year-old bride's mother
; — now a widow — waela former
girl friend of his. Hal decideg
he still loved her, so e cence
i w ith e dais
led the wedding v
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his o "`-act' er .
ter,and s r s
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m his bride.
in-aw became
We have all felt desperately
sorry for the young couples who
make al;rangemer sr: athe's,i�
weddings- o»ly to md,'t ee,fllatvk
to be postponed because some of
the necessary formalities have
be eng •D.j for ottoi5l �
s,
ft .
Bee
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'iv 'e . thus
ary's fault lwli n `hey d i'}ls
bride had to postpone their
i1�oneymoan�n becalm the near-
' i'inge lidodumAtis ;w