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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1949-6-22, Page 3FOR A few Mao Slh Eft E e BV 4�1i1 Shakespeare Out of Doors Plays staged outdoors in the beautiful quadrangle of Trinity Col- lege, 'Toronto, are planned for Canada's first Shakespeare Festival, to be held from June 27 to July 16 by the Earle Grey Players. Three of the best loved cotihedies have been picked by Mr, :Grey for this first festival so that the Sumter evenings in the open air may be a carefree holiday, "As You Like It" is scheduled for the first week: "A Midsummer Night's Dream," for the second week; and "Twelfth Night," the third week, It has not been forgotten that Shakespeare's day was the golden age of English music as well as demur, and an important feature 0f this festival will be the concerts of Tudor music, both vdcal and in- strumental, to be given in the Great Hall of Trinity College, free of charge to ticket holder's for the plays. These concerts will be un (ler, the supervision of Profesen Leo Smith and will he given on the two Sunday evenings of the festi- val period, July 3 and 10, In addi- tion, incidental music for the playa themselves will be provided under the supervision of Godfrey Ridout. R'laat shakes this festival unusual is that it brings together three special advantages in re-creating the snood of centuries ago—a direc- tor, Earle Gray, who is a specialist in Shakespearean production; Pro- fessor Leo Smith, who is a special- ist in old English music; and the setting of Trinity College which is recognized as one of the finest modern samples of Tudor design• on this continent. When actors in their costumes move from the ter- race to the outdoor stage, the whole setting seems natural and one can imagine one's self back.in the old world of Shakespeare's day, Several professors of the various colleges and men and women in- terested in the heritage of our Eng- lish culture are contributing their time as members of the committee, e Ihiclt is headed by Provost R. K. S. Seeley of Trinity College. Al- ready reports have coupe in that tourists from several parts of the United States as well as Canada are coming to the festival. From the first, both Earle Gray and the committee have insisted that the price of admission be kept low enough to be within reach of all who want to attend. Earle Grey had his early train- ing with the Irish Players, Dub- lin; the Stratford -on -Avon Festival Company, the Sir Frank Benson Company, and the Ben Greet Com - pans-. 1 -Ie has played leading roles and has directed his own com- panies in Great Britain and Cana- da, as well as writing radio plays and adaptations. The company un- der his direction. for tire' festival in Toronto includes actors of long professional experience, nationally known radio players, and members o' the university, On The Griddle—David E. Lilienthal, above, chairman of the U.S. Atonic Energy Com- mission, was subjected to severe criticism by senators for his handling of the situation arising ottt of the loss of a small amount of Uranium -235, Although most of the material isms later recovered, some sen- . ators demanded Lilienthal's re- signation, others called 'for complete investigation of his atomic stewardship, for not re- porting the matter to the FBI as soon as the loss was discovered. Taking Chances Most amateur gamblers have !fi- de knowledge of probability. And a good deal of what they think they know is wrong. Take, for example, the theory of the maturity, of the chances, which tells you to bet out hails when heads has conte up eight or 10 billies running. Now the aver- age citizen will tell you that in tossing a coin it is extremely inhl- probable that heads will come up 10 times running (which is mid, and that therefore it is almost a sure thing to bet on tails (which is false), Actually, the chances of !heads showing up on any toss of a coin are one 111 two, no neater what the coin has done on the pre- vious tosses. As the French meths. inatici an 1. T.. F. Bertrand, said, "A coin has no memory.," $78,000,000 By-Pass—A sketch of the proposed world's largest suspension bridge spanning the ' Narrows entrance to New York's harbor is superimposed over an aerial photo of the area. The six -lane, 6540, foot crossing will connect Brooklyn and Staten Island, making it possible for traffic between New England and the midwest to bypass congested Manhattan. The bridge will hang on cables 42 inches in diameter supported from two tot'.'ers the height of 72 -story buildings and will Bost an estimated $78,000,000. It will take four years to complete. Many Uses For Pine Tree Waste Turpentine and resin are ob- tained front the sap that exudes front a southern pine tree when its bark is cut or Injured. The natural, sticky mixture of turpentine and resin is called `oleoresin." Anomalous as it may seetn, the natural oleoresin does not contain certain • chemical compounds (fat and sterols), whereas the sapwood does. Apparenkly these chemicals are necessary to maintain growth and keep the tree alive, This is also true of the changes that occur in- side the tree, where resin and turpentine are continuously depos- ited in the dead part around the pith to forts brownish heartwood. Turpentine and resin are import- ant industrial materials, and so is the wood of the pine tree, In the production of cellulose by the usual pulping processes, more than half the wood is dumped on unoccupied land, lost or burned. Extracting Waste Matter Cellulose chemists here and abroad are trying to utilize this waste by extracting its fats, sterols, natural insecticides, fungicides, vit- amins, hormones and other values now obtained from less abundant sources. The inter bark of the pine tree, for example, is a good food, Nonni American Indians used to eat 1t, and from It the Finns snake a palatable flour which has 45 per cent, of rye flour's nutritive value, 1)r. Torsten Hasselstrom, of Philadelphia, has been investigating these pine tree potentialities. He reaches the conclusion that the waste is an untapped source of raw material for She ahenhical industry. To make the most of these poten- tialities, he would settle the relation between plant chemicals, such as resin acids of the pine trees, and essential oils of certain shrubs, vit- amins A and E and phytol. The last is au alcohol component of Chlorophyll, the green coloring matter of foliage. Resin and Leafing Are the formation of resin and the leafing of the pine tree varia- tions of the same process? Per- haps. Why is there a sudden burst of life -energy when hardwood leafs In the spring? This vernal biolog- ieal activity seems to be much the sanne as that which causes oleoresin to exude when a pine tree's bark is cwt or scarified, The leafing of pines is a slow process, It looks to Dr. Ffasselstrom as If the pine tree is diverting phytol not needed to produce chlorophyll and other clhenticais to form resin acids which are deposited In the heart- wood or which exude as oleoresin when a tree tries to heel its wound when scarified, Such problems must trust be solved by systematic research if industry is to make the most of pine tree values that are now wasted. "You'll have to hand to Venus de Milo When it comes to eating." "Why?" "No hands." SAL Y'S §AIAIfiS I suppose that's whet the Army might call; Operation Huddle," TIIEL&IN FRON A noted poultry specialist sounds a timely note of warning to egg producers and even although his suggestions were primarily for "be -- low - the- border" consumption, I think that many in these parts will find them helpful. 1 e * Reports from egg buyers, he says, are already pouring in about the lower quality of eggs produced during the first ware of summer heat; and producers are warned not to get 'caught by hot weather. If eggs are not handled right, heat will eat into. your egg quality and cut your immediate as well as your future profits, Heat is the chain reason demand for eggs goes down in summer. Most summer eggs just aren't as good as eggs housewives can buy at other times of the year. m * Or do you reason as did the farm woman who said: "There just isn't enough difference in price between first and second grades to get hoe to pick tip tray eggs three times a day and put them in the basement to cool." • * * The question is this: Will con- sumers of premium eggs find what they want in farm -produced eggs, or will they go where they can get quality? . # 5 e Summer heat takes a heavy toll in egg quality. It takes extra time to prevent this loss. Maybe the price difference doesn't pay for the labor of frequent gathering. It probably won't on the small flock that is producing only a few eggs. * * * But what about the profit made the rest of the year? Can that profit be depended upon if we fail to satisfy the consumer who is willing to pay for quality eggs? And what about the years to come? A * * Any farmer or business must in- vest both money and labor to reap the harvest later. This applies to eggs as well as to crops. The pro- ducer may have to wait a little be - for his diligence will pay off, but it will pay good dividends eventu- ally. O * * Preserving good flavor and keep- ing quality in your summer eggs will increase demand and help sell the larger production expected from this year's pullets, It will as- sure producers of a higher year- round price for eggs. Theu our eggs can be sold in premium mar- kets, * * * Finally, the producer of quality eggs can expand his operations, resting sonlident in the knowledge that the eonsnrihel' will want his product as long tie It is good, Neither the profits nor the aeaat'- ances are available to the producer of poor -quality eggs. * * * Eggs that lie in the nest for eight (tours on hot days won't come out of storage In good conditlolt and many will not be edible. Even lour flours of su1111ne1' heat suhteaate lot of that c0111e-011 flavor. filet your eggs Into a cool basement or cave. * * Don't stake the chart harder to* do by gathering eggs in a tight bucket in which eggs can't cool quickly. Transferring them to an open tray takes unnecessary time. But gathering eggs in a rubber covered wire basket allows quick cooling with no extra handling. * Don't put your eggs in the case until they are cooled down. Eggs gathered in the basket one day should be cased the next morning. Put the little end down in the case, to permit the air cell to remain in place. And sell your eggs at least twice a week. * * Nests are important, too. Pro- vide one nest with deep litter for each five hens. Use dark nests to reduce crowding and breakage or soilings of eggs. n. * Nests are now being manufactur- ed which allow the eggs to leave the nest immediately, so they are not in contact with the heft's hot body. That type of nest will also reduce !teat spoilage, breaking and soilage. Butch Comes Through -:-Three- year-old Butch Kriebis wanted to do his part in the annual clean-up campaign in Chicago, so he grabbed the fancily broom and tools: off, He was picked up several hours later and escorted to a police station to await the arrival of his parents, Watch For Those Hidden Hazards es tele' mouths ago, 16 -year-old Jame.; Smith made a farm !home safety survey. "1 was shocked." Jinn writes, "at the number of potential accident muse; I discovered at my home. I hail always felt my how was relit-. tiv, l r safe to live in. "esu the hack porch. a broken board was removed and a new one nailed down. Their I noticed a email pile of wood near a lightning wire that runs into 111e ground. I cleared away the woad and piled *settee around the wire. "in the kitchen, 1 found butcher knives and other sharp knives all tegetlrr in a drawer, staking it dangerous to reach in and get one of thhe knives. I made a wooden knife holder of plywood and hung it on the kitchen wail. "Sly sister, getting ready to go bark to college, was using an in- flammable cleaning fluid to clean a wool skirt, while near by the fire burned merrily in the stove. lVhett 1 mentioned the danger, she _took her cleaning to the hack porch. "Another glance at the stove showed that dinner was cooking. The handles of the pans were turned toward the front of the stove. Mother listened as I told her how easily soi neone could rush by and upset the hot foods. "On the barn floor, I found a corn cutter and a pitchfork. I found a wooden box and put it in the corner, with a sign, 'Pitchforks here.' I also put up a sign where thecorn cutter should be placed. Two five -gallon gasoline cans, used for carrying gas to the tractor or h . •n car,were stn on the floor, 1 8 cleaned the cans, painted them red, and in black letters printed, 'Gaso- line, Be Careful!' "On the scheool bus, we came to a dangerous intersection daily. I suggested to our teacher that we do something, because here was no warning sign. "The creek we use for swimming has deep holes in some places. We put up signs calling attention to the deep holes and telling where It was safe to swim. "Our family has become more safety minded now." Enslavement Of Men of Enterprise Britain's Socialist Government is trying to perform the miracle of making progress by driving the two horses of the productive team in opposite directions, For capital, it offers a myriad of n•egintentations and orders. The threat constantly overhanging Brit- ish business is more orders and laws, and if that doesn't work, then nationalization. How, in sober moments, do the British Socialists actually believe that businessmen under those circumstances are go- ing to put the necessary sweat and toil into their jobs, to do the fierce and intense work needed for in- spired designing and aggressive programming, to invest their own and other people's savings in the new machinery and equipment which British industry needs to compete in North America? The then of Whitehall can ex- hort till they're hoarse, but at the same time, they keep cutting down the horsepower of their economic machinery. And for the other element in production, labor, the Socialists are reaping the harvest of their half century of indoctrinations that the way to the millennium is less work and more pay. As The London Economist ob- serves: - "Labor costs are by a wide mar- gin the largest element in total costs of production, and though It may still be reasonable to say that wages need not come down, it is absolutely essential that labor costa irhould conte down if the British economy is not to strangle itself In its own coats of production. The only way in which costs can be eat without cutting wages is by In- creased productivity." No aanoultt of sobbang about Britain's tribulations, no amount of sentimental well-wishing fox the Mother Country, no trick schemes like ourrency revaluations, Dant overcome the fact that the enslave- ment of a community's When of en- terprise and the indoctrination of a people with the gospel of more pay for less work is not the path to progress or security. Safety name: Even with nine Yves at its disposal, the average oat Is more careful than its 041,1100.— Mason. City Globe -Gazette. Bitteheard's Bet By Liiliaee M. Mitchell "1 ev're all curious," insisted Ar- thur Jordan, "There never lived a W01na 1 who wasn't 99-44/100 per cent curiosity. I could quote you a dozen bits of poetry proving the fact—' "p'or goodness' sake, don't!" urged Clem 'fate. "I'll take your word for t. Honestly. But Elsie isn't that way. I'm telling you." "You're the kind that would never be happy with your wife asking you this and looking over mall and root- ing about in your desk when you're out of the house. I know you." "Don't speak of. Elsie Lyons as 'rooting', if you please," Clem Tate said coldly. "I'll tell you what. I'll lock the office door and give her the key—since you mention Blucbeard— and then you and I will go out. I'll keep the key of the corridor door, however, and we'll come in again and sit here. I'll tell her not to use that key at all. See? Then if she is as curious as you say, she'll come bouncing in a la Mademoiselle Blue - beard or whatever her name was and we'll be sitting right inside hers" "O.K. with me," said Arthur Jor- dan. "She'll be in here and don't you forget I told you so. I'd as soon have a homelier girl and one who wasn't so careless anyhow. She's de- corative but she'd forget her head 1 it weren't for the curls there." Now Elsie Lyons was pretty. She knew that fact as well as anyone else Fluffy golden hair framed a heart -shaped face with a pointed chin below a widow's peak of hair . at the upper edge: Her great grey eyes turned to pansy -color at times. But looks and business efficiency do not always go band in hand unfor- tunately and Elsie ran about ninety- ninc.and forty-four one- hundredths per cent efficiency. "I am locking the door to the pri- vate office, Miss Lyons," said Clem Tate distinctly. "I want no one to go in there. No one. Is that clear. Miss Lyons. Here is the key." "Certainly, Mr. Tate." she said demurely, placing the key in her desk drawer. The two young men walked re- solutely into the outer corridor a rd the outside door swung to gently behind them. "Well, Bluebeard, how about it?" asked Jordan when he put the key into the door to the private .office A's the door swung open they bout looked in eagerly. They heard the telephone in the outer office. Silently they sat down and Jordan gave his partner a poke in the ribs when Clem Tate loolced too triumphant as the moments passed. At the end of a half !tour Cleat Tate rose to hs feet. Jordan followed him and they made their way silently into the outer corridor again. "Well, was I right, Jordan?" asked Cletn, "You win, Bluebeard—er, I mean, non-Bluebeard," said Jordan. "Say, I've got to have a breath of air after that self-imposed silence. I think maybe we both like talking a little better that we thought we did. I had a thousand things I wanted to tell you while we sat there. But as for your charming little Elsie—she's the real thing all right, all right. Never even clicked the key is the lock, did she? Or looked through the key-1tole at us?" Jordan ambled towards the eleva- tors with a wave of his hand. Clem Tate stood an instant at the outer door and then entered the suits of offices. He hurried through to the door of the private office and tried the knob, "Oh—" he said, "Miss Lyons, I forgot that this door is locked. Let me have the Ivey, will you, please?" "I—I'm sorry, Mr. Tate. But E simply can't' t thunk what I did with that key. There was a telephone call the moment you left and I looked for the key so tha I could—could—sr— lay the message on your desk, "But I. said not to go in." She laughed gently. Dimples peep- ed in and out charmingly. She bent again and then with a sigh she mur- mured: "Ohl Here it fel I'm so care- less 1" are-less!" .e 11IISS E:.liti t C. SHIPMAN Brookline. Massachusetts Incontintr President of The First Church of Christ, Scientist. in Daughter Knows Best?—Young film star Margaret O'Brien. center, put up tearful objections when her mother, Mrs. Gladys Sylvia, left, married bandleader Doti Sylvio, right, last February. Now Mrs. Sylvio will seek an annulment, but says that Mar- garet, although happy at her decision, had nothing to do with it. "It just hasn't worked out. You night say Don and I have been separated ever since the wedding," By Margarita " SEEN WATCHING MY COW AND CALF, REGGIE YEP -AND I FINALLY FIGURED SOMETHING OUT..,. THE BIG OW 1$ FOR QUARTS AND THE LITTLFt ONIE f'OR. PINT'S 1 Jh.