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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1954-10-20, Page 7„-d • "Lost" Makuuserip A ThrMktg 'Tale Ose sunny moraltig at the be ginning of the lest centeryg a sreeh-faced ato I01111 ell by MMus was strolling the streets Of fiarWlell, teeth% on top Of the Mad. He Was riling, he lied „Wet Weenie engaged, and to crOWn everything lie had sec- ured e berth as a mate in a West IncHamm. Having said goodbye i0 liJs 0 fianceesesaioM he would Marry On his next leave -he •NVOS en ' youte to 'Pin his new ship at Londe». Should 1i travel there by road or by Sea? e chose the gei1 , and thereby condemned himself to adventures, Ordeals and triamphs that were to last many years. It was the heyday of the press gang, the brutal Yet essential arrangement 'whereby inen were kidnapped and compelled to serve in the Royal Navy, then fighting against Napoleon. As itt luck had it, the press gang ,was out when Jam Wetherell sailed to London, A warship was sighted . . . boats alongside • . cutlasses winking in the sun . within five minutes W.etberell and the crew had been overpowered and impreased as seamen in the Fleet. Years afterwards he• wrote his life story, whichwas lost. Book collectors the world over earch- ecl lor the inanuseript-searched for nearly a century -then, quite by chalice, a few years ago, an American woman discovered it in New York, among second- hand books belonging to a sea - lover. Today this amazing and en- thralling log of a Jack Tar has been published as "The Adven- tures of John Wetherell" with a preface by C, S. Forester of "Hornblower" fame. Olin Wetherell had a grim in- troducticIn to life in the fleet 150 years ago. Almost on his first day he saw a defaulter lashed .to the mast while bucket after bucket of sea -water was forced down his throat through a fun- nel, Afterwards, the poor wretch was left naked in an exposed Part of the ship's rigging. Not long after, as can of a boat'a crew, Wetherell rowed with muffled oars to an unsus- pecting French ship at anchor. He was prepared for a grim and bloody battle, But the enemy were so taken by surprise that the whole crew surrendered without firing a shot. His next adventure was less fortunate. While Wetherell was below decks a fellow seaman disobeyed an order for which, by an incredible miscarriage of justice, Wetherell was held res- ponsible. When he protested his innocence, they gagged him with a pump bolt while he received 48 lashes With the dreaded "cat." He was then told to go below. His injuries were so terrible that he could not move so he was flogged again for disobedience. It is only fair to say that rank injustice was very rare, and al- though discipline was stern (it had to be, for the impressed sailors included jailbirde), Weth- erell pays remarkable tribute to the gallantry and fairness of the vast majority of his officers. Not long after that he sur- vived yet another ordeal while attacking an enemy warship. In hand to hand fighting the slaugh- ter was so terrible that the dead were piled knee-deep among the survivors, and Wetherell's own shoes were filled with blood, In- ert 'ible though it sounds, he fought on despite the fact that his left leg, right thigh and shoulder breast bone had been shattered by bullets. They were certainly tough in those days! A semi.comedy was his next adventure, for his ship struck a reef off the French coast, and the survivors -hungry and half. drowned -found themselves on a small enemy island. Undaunt- ed, they recovered some small At 13 Months, She's Newspaper's 'Constant Reacterl Like many en older person, 13.month-old Linda Kay Thorn. lo reading it in a most realistic manner. Her eloquent facialburg, burg, Is 'lost" without her dolly nawspnper, White no one expressions suggest something like the comments undar the claims she can pass on examination on what she "reads,"' she odors,. Linda also has a favorite book that she hiss devised a charming little game of her own. It consists Of spending o great deal of time with the paper, playing that she around and "reacl". "Now there's a character for your "Beats heck what's In the news, though!" "Just get a load of that politician's guff "Aft Nothing like your newspaper and an easy chair!" cannon from the wreckage, wad- ed gallantly ashore again, and -.having captured the governor -seized the island for King George. Unfortunately the capturers were very soon captured, and poor John Wetherell found him- self a prisoner of war for the next ten years, But not even then did his adventures end. He was force -marched hundreds of miles across France .. witness- ed a public torture was near- ly burned alive when the jail caught fire ... fell in love with a French girl who gave him money to ease his captivity . . saw Napoleon face to face . . and in the end reached free- om. His story has a happy ending. Back in the Merchant Navy once more he rose to the rank of skipper, married an American girl from Connecticut, and lived to a good old age in New York City, little guessing that his sailor's log would make him the talk of literary London in the year 1954, FANESTAIONG TOIROLAR A thief with a great sense of tidiness recently paid a visit to the home of Jesse Blanchard in Waterbury, ponn. He neatly removed a pane of glass from the street door through which he gained entry. Just as carefully he replaced the pane of glass after making his exit, With him went 5 sheets, 2 pillows, 24 lbs. of flour and two 1-1b. packets of baking powder. 11. 5tettsh CROSSWORD 18.2\=1:41 20. AMOUla o modielne 22. Amanda 14, Part tit flower ,1,11to M. Vase . Chafe 17,f,ate (numb 7, Lock openers .torrn) . Venerate H. TRAL . Ire lam 811,1.t mud -al. Poottike part PUZZLE 41.0110SS 1. P, °tense 5. Manley boat 8. Repose 12. llorachank horkeY 13 law 14 Leslie 10. 1,r1^:ht 17 rind 18. Vicine lit, Triad 21, ultra 13 ("root ql 2.0 Alti,rathe 20. noon 29 Harvests 81. l'omerlo 94. Tlestralt MI. Turn right 87. Voting:Melted sa. Senile 41. Pi ;work butterfly 41. Fintwitio 49. Unit rutting a ritevo 47 A tinoenlierlo illeturhanee el. Street urchin lill. Mx let CC Shan 80, Peri 0011 door rie Miro 58. idnelfell unbent V% Tree rty 011. 10015 11. Hirt+ nowtt 0. nailer 2 tietforttilen 3 Marie 4 /Inman being 32. Wittman 93. Agee 35. Likely 40. More orderly dd. Girdle 44. Silkworm 43, summon 48. Not exciting 4R, Garry d$. Smooth 50. Conner coin MD Inking vessel 37, aeonimilleh ir Am 56 IllelliME 7 1,,415 9 re 11 MEM' ' UM m.' MEI 19 i zo M Z/ a t• _ 23 24 . EN 1$ Isms 27 ia 28 • 1 129 ill 3‘ 3a II•Mill II WOMME "MM" WWI Idill smomws g mmg -mg mit ME Man MMEMW 11 HUM' '..5111111111 I*$d INIMIUM Ans ver Eisele acre oi TI is Page GLASS INSTEAD OF SOIL - Sprouting kidney beans grow in glass beads without benefit of soil or sunlight at the Hanford, plutonium plant. Water, a mixture of chemicals, and strong fluorescent light, cause the beans to sprout, anchoring their roots in glass beads. In 25 days each plant had the same num- ber of blooms, and 10 days later each plant had same number of beans. Saw Their Future Looking in Mirror Something rather odd happen- ed in a little school at Amine, Switzerland, near the Swiss - Italian frontier the other day. To introduce novelty into a drawing lesson for nine-year- old boys and girls, their teach- er asked them each to bring a little mirror, - When thirty-six mirrors had been propped up an the little • desks, he told the children: "Now gaze into the mirrors and then draw a picture of your re- flection." Tie youngsters set to work. When they had finished it was time to go home. Off they went with their mirrors, leaving the drawings on the desks, The teacher had intended to wait till morning before giv- ing marks for the drawings, but curiosity impelled him to in- spect then) closely before he left. What he saw amazed him. Each child, he found, had un. consciously drawn his or her face not as it is today but as it will probably appear ten years or more hence when the chil- dren have grown up. It gave the teacher 90 al2. canny feeling to study the drawings. They all portrayed adults. After peering into the mirrors, some common impulse had caused the children to draw themselves as the grown-ups they are destined to be. The little girl who wanted so much to grow up and marry drew herself as a housewife and mother; the little boy whose run- bition it is to be a business meg. nate had portrayed himself as one, and so on, Was it an astonishing instance Of second sight which had mum ed the children to draw their future portraits se effectively? Was it a rase of mass telepathy? Their leacher does not know the answer to these questions. NDAY SO1001, LESSON Rev. R. 8, Warren, fs.A.,B.D The Dignity of Work Proverbs 6:041; 18:9; 24:80-34 . - Memory Verse: Seest thou a man diligent In his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean 8000. Proverbs 22r29 Employers are doing consid- erable complaining. One said, "You can put a D.P. in the back there and he will work away from 8 to 5. But the others - they see that 1 have come and sat down so they think they should sit down too." Some peo- ple complain that the new im- migrants are getting jobs while those who were born in this country are out of work. One employer said, "They (the in - migrants) are the only ones who - want to work." Now, of course, general state. 'silents such as those are not true in all rases. It must be remem- bered that the workers in their twenties have only known the boom years of our country's ecoreny. Many of them start- ed to work in the war years when employers were desperate for help. They never knew the seriousness of the hungry thir- ties, Should the present reeks. sten deepen there will be a rips - tic revision of the general at- titude toward work. It is thoifled to work. Man can only have what man pro. . Mama The distribution of the produce is not always what it should be. Sometimes the man who does the least work makes the most money out of it. Com. Munism is not the answer to this problem. A more unselfish attitude on the part of employer and employee will help. When a dispute arises and a strike follows it is often because of selfishness and pride. The lead- ers on either side have made such strong statements that they feel that they rennet afford to lose face. We need more of the spirit or esus Christ that will enable us to love one another and earn- estly desire the welfare of each other. When the spirit of greed, selfishness and pride .disappear, it will be a better day for us all. Conscience Cleared With Knife and Fork It used to make Karl Epstein, an ex- German Army private, feel worried every time he ate his lunch with a certain knife and fork in his home in Bavaria, For on the knife and fork was stamped the name of a hotel in Jersey. Karl took them away from the hotel in Jersey where he was billeted for two years during the German war -time occupation of the Channel Isles. Karl took his "souvenirs" later to the Russian front, where he was wounded. They were in his lathes when he was drafted to hOspitr1 in Gianniy and in due course, upon his de- mob, he took them to Bavarle. The years passed and the sight of the looted knife and fork continued to worry him. A few weeks ago he made up his mind to return them to the owner - personally. Off to Jersey he went, fotind the owner, Mr. E. B. Arthur, and said: "These are yours. So sorry I kept them so long, but many thanks for the loan." NICE FATHER - POOR HUSBAND Jean Bretonniere, a singer, of Paris, was recently elected, the "Nicest Father in France" be. cause of the love and devotion he lavished on his daughter, joelle, A couple of weeks later he was fined $150 ler abandon- ing his wife. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeki a a VW W 1 L. I bt, a s a 3a9 ,s,LN'91 1Ia atia a 9 8 n s V s 01 o ItIVLHS IF TIIIiSMM FROlir !Atheism er a buyers inerket replaces a s,ellers' 'market we become aware of thPneed for more research in the field of marketing. Through mechan- ization, fertitition, plant and animal breeding, and better farm management, Canadian ag- riculture increased Its volume of production by more than 50 per cent in the last dozen years. Now supply has caught up to demand and emphasis is turn. ing again to marketing and the related business management aspects of agriculture, writes Professor D. R. Campbell of the 0 A.C. Results of a recent survey in California indicate the possibili- ties and practical advantages of planned economic enquiry in this direction. Examhiing ways to reduce the cost of handling and processing pearl in just One district, the California study revealed that more efficient methods could produce an an- nual saving of $600,000. s * Comparable research here in Canada would undoubtedly un- cover similar opportunities for improvement. Within the lim- its imposed by the amount of the Canadian consumer dollar spent on food -at the preserd time about 11 cents of it pee to the f arm e r and abOut cents to agencies between farm- er and consumer -there are several ways of increasing the profitability of all phases of the agricultural industry. s s One is to reduce the costa of the farmer by research in tech- nology and farm manageinen# a second is to induce consum- ers to spend more on foOd and services; a third is to reduce the cost of services between pro- ducers and consumers. • s A Research institutions, b o th public and private have under- taken the first problem; salter promotion is handling the sec- ond. But the third --the stream- lining of all parts of the agri- cultural marketing machine -la a field almost untouched by Canadians. If our farming in. dustry is to continue along the path of progress, it is a subject that must receive 11101.4 and mar e serious attention at all levels, both now and in the future • A Broiler producers, faced with the problem of raising early. feathering birds and thereby reducing picking time, loss through cannibalism and the possibility of chilling if a brood- er fails, can take heart from re- sults of the latest studies con- ducted on their behalf by scientists The studies show that early. feathering chicks can be select- ed at broiler ages; that feather- ing is affected chiefly by a sex- linked factor; and that a simple breeding program can remove all late -feathering chicks from a flock in from one to four gen- erations. The length of time de - Stands upon how many early - feathering birds are in the flock and whether a breeder will use cockerels from an outside source in this breeding program. +4 4 If a substantial number of a flock already are early -feathers ing birds. then true.breediag, early -feathering stook is a -one- generation program. .10 notie oC the parent steels is earlysfeath- ering, the theft can be establish- ed in three generations by Mi- tre d e`c in g early feathering mates. A pullet gets all her inheritance from her father, and passes it on only 10 her sons. A ceekerel gets half Of his front each parent and passeii it on to both sons and daugh- ters. That is all one needs to know to select early -feathering birds and breed thein for early - feathering characteristics. * 2 * How to select true early.. feathering birds at broiler ago had not been known, however, recent studiesbygydet Muejler and aisOciateB at Xmas* as S t ate College. Their find- ings, reveal that early -feather- ing birds begin molting tall feathers when ate weeks old. The molt spread e from the centre of their tails Outward of both edges. s s Each juvenile feather sets 410 clear shaft and hardens before* it is forced out by the post - juvenile feather that replaces it Some early -feathering birds be- gin showing short centre tall leathers when six to 12 weelot old, The short feathers are the postjuvenile feather that nes places it. Some early -feathers ing birds begin showing shorit centre tail feathers when six tis 12 weeks old. The short bath- ers are the postjuvenile (second. ;set) of feathere. Upon examina- tion the two sets are easily 'dle- tinguished because the posts jirvenile feathers on birds she to 12 weeks old have softer shafts, larger in diameter, and not to clear at the base as juvenile (first set) feathers. • * A new seed disinfectant now available to Canadians virtu- ally has eliminated the duet that used to be a necessary ao companiment to the treating of seed grain and forced fanners to wear masks for protection, * s s The new disinfectant is ap- plied in liquid form and dries tin the seed without "dusting off" during the treating opera- tion or later when the seed La bagged and handled. s * Seed disinfectants are designs ed to control seed -borne and soil - borne d is e ase affecting smell grains such as wheat, rye, barley,. oats and flax. When used according to recommenda lions, they prevent seed decay and reduce seedling blights caused by destructive organ- isms at a cosof cells a few cents an acre. s s The protective (homiest: now are available in a variety of forms and strehgtga liquid, for use in ready -mix treaters' a standard dry formulation; and the new dustiest: powder which is dissolved in water and mixed with a special slicking agent to en sure complete eitverage of the seed. Indieative of the widening in- terest in better seed is the eon struction of a new seed re- search Mersey y at the Ont io Agricultural College, Guelph. Work has begun on the $285,000 Wieling whicli. will eontejr.i._ plant breeding lahoraiories tor the tnejor field crepe as well as a modern seed-eleaning plant where foundation seed and the V1301000 selectiona used in plant breeding will be teemed and treated. A special course iti seed 01013nmg, is ;11n planned. DUCHESS ORtETED - Arriving in Washington for a weekend visit, Britain's Duchess of Kent is greeted by British Ambassador to the U.S., Sir Roger Makins.