The Brussels Post, 1949-6-8, Page 7Something ,
Of
Value
By ANNA 1i. WILSON
'I be 1,01'411 was broad and sunny,
and Elsie placed the big•eltair where
I.),.1 could see the people passing
and acro... !uto thrn,', grorery store.
"1 ou see, Duel," she said cheer-
ulls, "you'll be hippy here in the
suulwht, and you can watch what
gone on over there in the store—
it'll he no time at all until you forg'et
about the shop—Goodness knows, a
man who's worked unlit he's sixty -
111,• years old has earnest a rest,"
f)atl sank back in the chair and
sielted wistfully, "1 know, Elsie, and
the company was real nice, I'Lr.
'1'willinger presented the with a
wau'h, and said they were real sorry
about my eyes, and hated to let me
go. Watch making is such fine work
and," Dad finished carefully, "there
WAS no other place open in the shop
where they could work me in. Mr.
'fwilliuger explained about it all be-
fore 1 came away,"
"Yes," Dad'tried to settle himself
uneasily, "but sitting here isn't going
to help pay for this house, and I
did hope to see you settled in a home
of your own before 1 died."
lie was glad when Mm's. Frisby
stopped to talk. She was gossipy
and friendly and liked a chat.
"Glad to see you taking a rest at
last, L'tad. Goodness knows it was
time, I see you've been looking at
the sketch for the new Memorial.
Isn't it wonderful that a great artist
like Iel.r. Bonelli's been engaged for
the job, They say he's been asking
for medals to copy ou the figures
of the war veterans and I'm hurry-
ing right down with this one of
11Vhlie's."
Dad stared at the sketch of the
Memorial, thinking of what Mrs.
Frisby had said, Something of value.
Dad,sitting on the porch chair --
tried to interest himself in the paper.
Dad went over all his meager pos-
sessione and they weren't much,
just his clothes. neat and dean, the
watch Mr. Twilingcr had given him
and that ole] coin.
Dad was confused by the noise
and bustle when he catered Isis.
Bolelli's studio, but Mr. Borrelli
smiled at Dad and took him into a
little oflice in the rear,
"It's about a coin," said he hum-,
bly, and took out his lucky piece,
"Where did .you get it and why
do you want to sell it, Dad,"
It was easy to talk to Mr, Bonelli,
and Dad explained about this home
and Elsie,
The artist sighed—"it might have
been valuable once, but it's too de-
faced now for restoration—I'm
sorry," he looked as if he really was,
"I wish I could tell yob that it's
worth something hilt 1'111 afraid it's
tire,"
]tad thanked hint, but as he got
up to go, &1'.t', Bonelli spoke.
"1 have a friend coating tomorrow
and if you drop in you can talk It
over with km."
Mr. Bonelli was talking to another
nau, when lte saw Dad he beckoned
,rim in. Dad took out the coin and
the stranger glanced at it, hut he
was really 'ooldng.at Dad,
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Dad in itis heat wort] clothes, was
worth looking at, He had lived a
flood life and all this good living
Mimed in his wrinkled face and
atean blue eyes. Mr. Bonelii's own
eyes twinkled,
"We find you have something of
value, Dad, after ail," he said softly. '
'Dile coin was worthless," he col-
kitetl, "We Want t0 use you as a
Model for 0111' of the figures on our
Memorial„We want to employ you
in the studio to keep hack of vela-
ahlcs loaned to us. M r. .[ utlhugcr
says We couldn't get a better matt.
The pay is good, well over five ltttn-
drrd dollars for the year's work," he
said gently. "You see, Clad, the thing !
you hive of vah0' is ,(‚11(11. II, Yag,
1,4'411 i1 good c•1 ewe en 111-
rlght in your faro.'
1'•1n> Toronto Anglers' and Hunt-
ers' Association has just started
something which sounds like a
really good idea—a predator con-
trol campaign lasting front June 1
to December 1. It is designed to
interest hunters in helping to rid
the country of harmful pests,
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Prizes are being offered for in-
dividuals and for five -man teams
who do the best in the proposed
clean-up; with foxes being rated at.
50 points each; crows 20 points;
skunks 15 points; starlings 10
points, and groundhogs 5 points.
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A special note on the entry
blank is rather interesting, It reads:
"Our predator control campaign is
of considerable value and benefit
to the farmer in the saving of
crops and other farm products,
However, it is recommended that
members first obtain permission
front 'the farmer before entering
his land. The development of good
farmer relations is in the interest
of all."
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Just in case any of my readers
are interested in hearing more
about the proposed campaign, the
address of the Toronto Anglers'
and Hunters' Association is 16
Gould Street, Torontq, I ant sure
that if you write to that address,
you will receive full details,
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Not long ago, I was re -reading
a poem of Kipling's—I forget the
title, but some of you will probably
retnemher the verses I refer to.
They tell of how, down through
the centtnries, native Britons—Hob-
den was their name—kept giving
advice on the management of a
eertain piece of land to the differ-
ent "conquerors" who temporarily
possessed it , Among them was a
Roman, a Dane, a Norman and so
on.
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To one of them who was 50n1-
plainittg that this field "didn't look
no good," this particular Hobden
answered, -"Have it jest as you've
a mind to, but I've proved it time
on time, if you want to change her
nature, you have GOT to give her
lime."
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That line came back to me on
looking over a. release front the
Ottawa Department of Agricultus'e,
one item on which was headed,
"Litre Will Correct Soil Activity."
The article goes on to say "It is
not generally known, but in some
areas, even virgin soils require
liming,"
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Canada -is now using lime et a
rate of 450,000 tons a year, but
much more than this should be em-
ployed if our soil is to be kept at
a satisfactory level. Before lime is
applied, the soil should be tested
to determine 11 it is required, as
high alkaline soils may be jest as
harmful to certain crops as acid
soils are to others.
o * *
Just in case some of you don't
already know it, the Dominion and
Provincial Departments of Agricul-
ture have a joint lime subsidy
policy, so that lime can be deliv-
ered very cheaply on the farm.
The Provincial Governments ope-
rate this 'policy through their agri-
cultural extension staffs, and farm-
ers interested in pus'ohasi'ng agri-
sultural lime should contact their
local agricultural represetntative.
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Front many parts of Canada
conte question about the growing
of beans for human consumption.
While about 80 per cent, of the
oomutercial crop is grown in South-
western Ontario, field beans are
grown successfully in a great vari-
ety of eons. They require about
She sante climatic eonditions as
COM,
i. * *
Rut great care is required to pro-
duce a crop of Al quality, Planting
should not take place till all danger
of damage from spring frosts is
past, Harvesting should akar at get-
ting the crop in as clean and dry
as possible. And in threshing, no
matter whether you use a combine
or an ordinary machine, care must
be taken that as few beans as pos-
sible are broken or split,
4, 4, *
The small white pea bean is the
type in greatest demand for come
menial canning, and in Southwest-
ern Ontario, the Mieltelite, because
of its yield and superior quality,
has largely replaced the Robust
variety, once' extensively grown.
The Corvette variety has a little
larger seed that ;tlfichelite, and oc-
cupies a Hutch smaller acreage.
* ,
In some areas, where earlier ma-
turity is required, the Burbank
variety is 'frequently grown—it is
very popular, for example, in the
irrigation -districts in Alberta. The
brown seeded Norwegian variety is
earlier than any of the white seeded
kinds, It bakes well and can be
recommended for areas where real-
ly early maturity is essential,
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Several varieties with colored
seed are grown, and of these, the
Yellow Eye is the most popular. It
is highly regarded as a baking Kean
bean, Unfortunately, the yields are
tow as compared to the common
white pea type, Which will be
enough of beans—and of this col-
umn—for a week,
An Idea Many
Places Might Copy
"The joint committee," writes G.
Y, Clement, which sponsored the
Wallaceburg plater Safety Drive,
have desired me to write to you
to express our appreciation of the
assistance given by the Red Cross
in our campaign. This campaign
was instituted due to a tragic series
of child drownings extending over
the years, probably due to the dan-
gerous situation in our town, We
have a very deep river here, and the
town is built around its forks, and
it seems to constitute a regular trap
for young --children.
"When the last drowning occurred,
in January, the Iocai Kinsmen Club,
Rotarians, Optimists, and Junior
Chamber of Commerce, formed a
joint committee to deal with the
problem, and worked closely with
the town council and school boards.
This has been done, and an inhaler
has been p archased, and 25 life-
saving posts, complete with ring
buoys and gaff poles, have been
erected at strategic points along the
river banks, and time town has pur-
chased an aluminum boat and a fast
pick-up truck. Classes in the Schae-
fermethod of artificial respiration
have been set on foot, through every
organization in the town, as well
as the factories, and we hope that
several hundred people will receive
instructions within the next week
or ten days," — From the Salvation
Arany "News Bulletin",
It now becomes a race for towns
to increase their trade territory and
at the same time to know what to
'do with the cars when they cone,—
Knoxville Empress.
BY TOM GREGORY
WHETHER OF THE MANUFACTURED
OR HOMEMADE VARIETY YOU CAN
INCREASE THE USEFULNESS OF'
YOUR METAL PAINT -STIRRING
PADDLE BY SIMPLY BENDING
THE END OF THE PADDLE AN0
SHARPENING THE SENT EDON
YOU'LL FIND IT'S EASIER
TO SCRAPE LOOSE THE
PIGMENT THAT SETTLES
Al' THE BOTTOM.TIIE BENT
EDGE ALSO MAKES A HANDY
MASHER FOR LUMPS AL
t.. READY LOOSENED,
01,
STEEL''
TO AvOtO GETTING PAINT ON YOUR HANDL,
WHEN 001149 000 4059 OF PAINTING A-
ROUND YOUR HOM8., MAKE A HANDLE
FROM SPRING BRASS OR STEEL WITH A
PLAT SPLIT RING TO HOLD IT TOGETHER
L u 1. A CLAMP ANO MAKE IT ADJUSTABLE
,'t IARIOUS 512E0 CANS,
Home Made Lie-Detector—Chicago's Crime 1.aboratory wanted
a new lie detector, but learned that a factory -trade machine
would cosi the city $1295. Policeman Joe, left, and John Price,
econonn--timincted Brothel's, thought they could do better than
that. With an O.K. from the commissioner, they built the
detector above, using some old parts and some new ones.
Cost: $100,
Is It The Lost
Loot of Lima?
An American expedition equip-
ped with the most up-to-date treas-
ure -hunting instruments that sci-
ence can provide, claims to have
found the long -lost treasure of
Cocos island, said to be worth
$750,000,000. The expedition, led by
Mr. Ellis Patterson, used electric
metal detectors and high explosive.
The real-life treasure island of
Cocos (not to be confused with the
Cocos or Keeling Islands ill the
Indian Ocean) lies in the Eastern
Pacific in latitude 5° 32' North,
longitude 87° 2' West. Owned by
the Central American republic of
Costa Rica, but uninhabited, it is
four miles long and two miles wide
For over a century, adventurers
have been looking for three sep-
arate treasure hoards, said to lie
hidden 011 Cocos Island, For it
served as a remote safe-deposit for
the men of the skull and cross-
bones who pillaged and plundered
up and down time west coast of the
Americas during time seventeenth,
eighteenth and early nineteenth
centua•ies. Pirate loot was landed
there from the crammed holds of
marauding ships, to be "deposited"
by bloodthirsty crews who. wished
to sail away once more to pillage
and kill.
Tlhe Welshuman, Captain Edward
Davis, was one of the first pirates
to "invest" in Cocos Island, His
ship, the Bachelor's Delight, a cap-
tured Danish gunboat, terrorised
the seaboard towns of the Carib-
bean for four years,
He. buried this loot in Cocos and
for 14 years lay low. Then he set
out in a 36 -guar whip, named The
Blessing, to returct and collect the
treasure. He never got to Cocos.
On the way, 110 turned pirate again,
sacked the City of Tolu on the
Spanish Main, and was killed by a
Spanish musket ball.
Cocos was also tite favorite de-
posit box of Benito Bonito. A
Portuguese pirate, be had earned
for himself the unenviable title of
"Benito the Bloody Hand,"
Just how many hoards Bonito
buried on Cocos will never be
known, but in 1819 he landed the
suture contents of two Meetioan
treasure ships. On the beach he
divided the spoil into four separate
heaps, then hid each is a separate
place. This loot included 40 tons of
silver dollars, eight hundred gold
bars, hundreds of gem-studd ed
weapons, and caskets of jewelry.
Harried by pursuing shins, Boni-
to left Cocos and headed south to
round the I-Iorn, Off Tierra del
Fuego . he was intercepted by
H,M,S. Espiegle and with 1110 ex-
ception of one then named Chap-
pelle, he and his crew were killed
In tine fighting,
Fate of the "Mary Dear"
Chappelle never returned to
Cocos, but before he died, he drew
a rough chart to show where tate
treasure had been buried, But it
was never found,
In 1820, while fleeing from the
liberating armies of Bolivar, the
Spanish Viceroy placed on board
the Bristol brigatine Mary Deer all
Peru's gold reserves and valuables
worth several millions of pounds
which had been taken from Livia,
Captain Thompson, in command of
the Maty Dear, was ordered to
stand well out to sea until Spanish
warships could convoy him to
Spain,
Instead, Thompson seized the
treasure and headed for Cocos
island, 'there he and his crew
placed it in a cave which they had
excavated from the cliff -side.
Then Thompson turned traitor.
While his companions were inside
the cave, gloating over the treasure,
he exploded a charge in the en-
trance and sealed them all itt.
Half a dozen well-equipped ex-
peditions have since been to the
island to find that cave, including
one led by Sir Malcolm Campbell,
All carte back empty-handed.
Perhaps the American expedition
Inas had better luck, though it may
be one of Oho other buried hoards
that has been discovered. For no
mention has been made of elle gris-
ly guardians of Thompson's treas-
ure,
Perhaps they at'e still waiting - , ,
Broken Leg or
New Ladder
How can a fellow tall when a
rung on hie ladder is going to
break? On bine list of farm injuries
are a number of broken legs, arcus,
shoulders, heads that came when a
rung broke.
it makes a difference whether
you're on the third rung from the
bottom or the third from the top.
Maybe every farmer ought to
figure out the life of each ladder,
and throw it away a couple of
years before the breaking point.
But how do you tell?
Alt! we are sure of is that most
farmers ]seep ladder's around too
long. A new ladder Is cheaper than
a hospibal bill for a broken kg.
How k Was Done
English society was agog wizen
a duke married a blonde from time
Music Hall chorus. It was even
more agog when a Bond Street art
gallery exhibited a life-sized por-
trait of her in the altogether, The
duke was furious, "1 don't know
what's biting you," said time wife
"Believe me, there's nothing wrong.
He did it from memory."
If You're Asked
To Make A Speech
Offhand, you may never have eon-
eidered extemporaneous speaking as
a particular skull you needed to
acquire. You may have been a head
table guest, but not the principal
speaker. You nney have received
a gift or a special recognition in
public and have accepted It with
having only to say thank you. You
may have been seated out the plat-
form because you accompanied the
honor guest.
None of these ()cessions called for
a speech, but there may be an-
other time when you will find it
necessary to speak extemporane-
ously. It is important that you be
able to speak well, even though you
are not the main attraction. There
is no special technique to learn,
for the ntatuter in which you talk
informally is definitely yours and
not one for another person to itne
tate writes Carol Biba in the Chris-
tie!' Science Monitor.
But there are a few guideposts
to follow along the speaker's road,
Once yott securely stake them down,
you will find that speaking without
preparation can be an interesting
and sometimes delightful experience.
provided always, of course, that you
have something to say!
Your attitude has notch to do with
putting yourself and your audience
at ease, once you stand before theta.
You may be able to give this
variety of names; we shall call n
poise.
There are easier jobs than stand-
ing up before a group and speak-
ing intelligently as well as amus-
ingly, especially when you have had
no previous notice. Nothing is so
disconverting to an audience as to
have a speaker obviously unpre-
pared, not in words, but in how to
get them outl Here's a lip from
an experienced head -table guest,
who is often called upon for the
well-known "few words." 'He picks
out one person in Itis audience and
imagines that he is talking with
him alone. The rest of the crowd
fades into the background. 1i Le for-
gets that he has many listeners;
they become just one.
That is one way to gain poise,
You may figure out a. deviate that
will serve. you equally well.
Keep your head up—and thin,
too—when you are talking before an
audience. This goes for talking over
the radio, also, as any of you know
who have ever broadcast. You
have all seen the speaker who grasps
the back of a chair with his hands
and talks into the tablecloth or to
the platform floor, sompletely obli-
vious of the people out front. Look
your audience in the eye. They will
immediately decide that you heffa
something to say. Note ale() she
value of a smile and a pleasant ex-
pression, That counts more 9hast
anything else, when you are mea-
suring favorable audience reaction.
Once you have risen to your
feet and have, we hope, your audll-
enoe with you, remember bo be
brief. Extemporaneous , speeches
sometimes assume the major, pro-
portions or a reasonable facsimile
of a full-fledged speech, If you
are asked to say a few words, re-
member the definition of few. It
is, according to the dictionary, not
many. _
Some speaker's like to put in a
plug for a favorite idea of theirs,
which may or may not have a point
for what is being discussed at the
meeting.
Your third guidepost then is
Stick to the Subject. Neither spend
your time telling several funny
stories, For a short speech, one
story well told is sufficient.
Choose your words carefully
There art many persons who speed
several mhlutee telling itnw num.
uuetomed they are to mnaking
9peeetiee Ur Iiow they happened to
be at the meeting and at what hour
they were asked to speak. I3xplan-
atfone of this sort are usually bur-
ing to one's audience unless there
is an excellent reason for going into
such detail. If you have been asked
to speak on short notice, the their,
man or master of ceremonies will.
probably say so in his introduction..
If thea you make a good speech,
your audience will not have to be
reminded that you were unprepared.
That will be so much to yor credit,
Sometimes you are called on to
speak from the floor. This is in-
deed a test of your ability for ex-
temporaneous speaking. Remember
to acknowledge courteously the re-
quest that you speak. Try to speak
loudly and clearly, so that uo one
is unable to hear you.
And. above all, never refuse so
opportunity to speak even though
it be for only a few minutes. Ex-
temporaneous speaking is best des-
cribed that it is being yourself.
And if you can become skilled in
this kind of public appearance, you
will discover that you have a most
useful talent,
Where Ha Learned
Four young heroes whose ages
ranged from ten to 15 years were
being honored by the local Lions
Club for rescuing a comrade who
had fallen through the ice. One
of the Club members asked, "Did
the idea of making a human statin
to pull your friend out come to
you intuitively or did you learn.
the method in Boy Scout or YMCA.
work?'
"Naw," replied one of the heroes.
"I saw that in a Comic."
Strike Leader — Carrying a.
strike sign, Tommy Thompson,
president of the UAW -CTO
Local 600, takes a place in the
picket line- surrounding the
Ford Motor Company's River
Rouge plant in Detroit. More
than 62.000 workers walked
out over an alleged asset:0.1
litre "speedup."
Three New Faces at Paris Parley—Three new faces will appear at the enuferenc . ethic !n
Paris wizen the .Big, Foto- Council of Foreign Ministers tries again to unsnarl til' tern to
problem. I eft to right in this photo montage are U.S, Secretary of State Dean Acheson:
British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin; French Foreign 1M1inister Robert Schuman ,Inti
Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky. Only Bevin was,present in London in Ileeemlt',•, 1''
when the Big Four last considered Germany,
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