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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1949-8-24, Page 6• Great River From '4Back of Beyond" Through valleys between these compressed ridges flow three of the world's great rivers: the Mekong, the Salween, and the smaller hut commercially more important Ir- iawaddy, This is the glamorous river im- ,nortalized by Kipling as "the road to Mandalay," beloved of the Bri- tish Tommy , .. Movie travelogues have also familiarized the western world with its sampans and rice boats, it lush jungles and fabulous retina, The Irrawaddy is the great river of Burma, Its headwaters tap the borderlands of China. and Tibet, where they approach within a few :miles of the Salween and the Lu- hit branch of the Brahmaputra . . The headquarters of the Irra- waddy penetrate that little-known hill country which British resi- dents near the seacoast call "the back of beyond." , The Irrawaddy is an important artery of commerce. To the tour- ist a flotilla of rice boats with tri- angular sails drifting down the rivers is an unforgettable sight. So, too, are the water taxis or sam- pans, unstable craft resembling foreshortened gondolas, in which the boatman stands up and pushes on the oars . . Still more primi- tive are the craft resembling Arab dhows, the canoes, and thr great rafts of teakwood from upcountry A novel feature is the floating mar - het, a barge loaded with frurts,'ve- getables, and other commodities, towed up and down the river and stopping at various villages along the rotate. "The Irrawaddy," says Sir Harcourts Butler, "is a beauti- ful river" -and he particularly ex- tols the sunsets which flame above She jungle and dye the current a gorgeous crimson , . , Among the cities which still adorn t'he Irrawaddy, Mandalay, some hundreds of miles from the sea, is known by its musical name and Kipling's tinkling verse, But the metropolis is Rangoon, with more than half a million people, some twenty-two miles from the month of the Rangoon River. Visit- ing steamers anchor off the shoal- ing delta to await a pilot. The voy- age upstream is a continuous pan- orama of grotesque fish traps and lush rice fields, with gilded dago- bas rising above the more distant vegetation. Rangoon itself is proud of the Shwe Dagon, perhaps the most famous temple in Asia It is covered with plates of bur- nshed gold and flaunts a metal banner encrnated With precious stones. Resplendent in the neon - tide sun, it is scarcely less impres- sive in the darkness when illu- minated bt- tier upon tier of elec- tric arc light. Day and night it dominates not only Rangoon but a wide arc of fertile delta, a visible expression of the riches of the Irrawaddy Valley and of the glit- tering but bizarre cultures that have flourished there. -From "Earth's Grandest Rivers," by Ferdinand C. Lane. SALESM.A • "Excuse me, sir," said a shabby taller at a City office "al e you sat- isfied with the amour.' of your prigs eat life insurance?" "Yes," replied the manager shortly. "Could I interest you id a morocco - bound edition r•f the works of Thackeray?" "You could not." "Would you invest in a good second-hand cornet if you could get It cheap? ' "No!" "Just sol Would an offer to sup- ply you with first-class imported H' vans cigars at ten dollars a t4,nvtred appeal to you?" 'trot a hill" 'That being the case, said the caller, "w•lnld you be willing to buy a tir c,f shoe polish, just to ger rid ,;f me," "tin eat Scot! Yes." "hanks! Good day I" IFE IN THE OLD BOY YET -As he neared the all-time record for number of games played by a shortstop, veteran infielder Luke Appling of the Chicago White Sox posed amiably for a photographer to prove that the old rockin' chair hasn't got him yet. Luke was gunning for the record of 2153 games set by Rabbit Maranville. Bobby Locke, after winning the British Open Golf Championship last month, decided to take part in some exhibition games over there, At the same time he expressed the hope that such affairs. wouldn't keep him in England too long, * * * "There's a lot of sugar over in the United States," the rather cock - Sure South African is reported to have said, "and I certainly hope to get back there by Fall." * * * But right now it looks as though Bobby could take a allow freight in- stead of a fast plane across the Atlantic, and still not do his bank- roll any too much harm. Alleging ftnat Locke had been guilty of with- drawing from "numerous" events in the United States after eomrnit- ting himself to participate, Bobby was ruled ineligible for any future tournament sponsored by the Na- tional Professional Golfers Associa- tion. And that means practically every United Staten tournament worth Locke spending time over. * * * Now it is no intention of ours to get out the crying -towels over Mr. Locke's plight, We gave up attend- ing golf tourneys as soon as we saw them developing into one of the most over -publicized rackets in sport, and that's quite some years ago. And we understand, from those who have been more or less closely associated with him, that Mr. Locke is -well, somewhat hard to take. "Bobby Locke's all right," was the way one golfer of our ac- quaintance expressed it, "if you happen to like Bobby Locke." * * * Still, to give everybody his due, we don't think that the National Professional Golfers Association of the United States comes out of the affair with flying colors exactly. In fact,, to us the whole thing has a rather smelly atmosphere. The nub of the matter lies in the statement that, since he first started paying visits to "God's country" back in 1947, Bobby Locke has packed away "sugar' to the amount of .4,50,712. .Aerial Trickery --The world's aerial acrobatic champion, lb Icy Skelton, 22, thrills the crowd at an air show in Gatwick, Eng- land, as she cuts a tape with the wing of her plane while flying only 15 feet from the ground. If that figure had been five grand, instead of fifty, do you imagine that those greatsportsmen, the American pros, would have been so ready and anxious to bar his further entries? If you do -well, go right up to the head of the class as one of the world's great be- lievers. * * * Just what the harness -horse game has developed into during recent years is seen in some facts and figures regarding the recent meet at Westbury, N.Y. in which GRATTAN McKLYO stepped two miles in the record-breaking time of 4,16 and 4/5ths-which is some stepping, at that. And when you read those facts and figures, you won't wonder why Canadian Thoroughbred racing men shudder every time somebody mentions opening a big -tine harness track - with night racing -on this side of the Border. * * * The crowd that watched GRAT- TAN MCKLYO pace his two utiles numbered 29,619 - and they wag- ered, during that one evening over a million dollars - $1,076,601 to be exact. That is a lot of people, and a heap of money, and you can bet all the tea in China, plus all the coffee in Brazil, that a lot of Canadian sports promoters are studying them long, longingly, and with intent to act. * * * They have ntttuels instead of books on these modern American tracks, of course; and the winner - highly favored by the crowd -paid his backers $6.80; $5.10; and $3.60 across the board. (With the books, we imagine he'd have been about 2 to 5, out, out). The second horse, $19.90 and $10.10; while ROYAL MAN, finishing in the third slot, paid $3.20 for show, coupled with two others as an entry, 8 * * Canadian horses didn't do so well. DR. STRATTON - which went to t'he post favorite in the same event a year ago - did a lot of pacing in the first mile but ap- parently ran out of gas after that. With his veteran owner, "Lindy" Fraser of Forest, Ont., in the driver's seat, DR. STANTON stopped to a walk and eventually ,wound up fifteenth, Only one other Canadian side- wheeler faced the starter. That was STEWART DIRECT from Hugh Stewart's Peterborough, Ontario stables. He gave a most creditable performance, finishing fifth -which, in a bulky field of that kind, isn' . doing so badly after all. * * * Finally, lest some of you might think that big -tinge harness racing call's for a mile or better track, we might say that Roosevelt Raceway is only a half -mile affair. That is to say, the horses in the Nassau two- mile pace had to travel four -times - around the racing strip, which makes GRATTAN McKLYO'S performance more noteworthy. Answer to Crossword Puzzle JAPAN P v ©b! WHAT GOES ON 1N 11IE WORLD _ dyNormanBlair PALESTINE Some fourteen months ago Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden said that the chances of restoring peace between the Arabs and the Israelis were about 100 to 1. In the interim ten administrators and soldiers in the service of the United Nations died violently in tate attempt, But the "long shot" seems to have come off, Just recently Berna- dotte's successor -Acting Meriator Ralph 5. Bunche-was able to re- port to the Security Council that The mission of the Mediator has been fufilled." This was Bunche's final Palestine report, With armistices arranged between the Arab States and Israel covering the entire fighting front, he said that the job of negotiating a definite peace settlement should be left to the three -power -(France, Turkey, the United States) -Con- ciliation Commission at Lausanne in Switzerland. The commission's talk with Jews and Arabs had bogged down last Jenne over the question of returning to Israel the six or seven hundred thousand Arab refugees put to flight by the war. But under prod- ding by the United States, Israeli negotiators recently returned to Lausanne prepared to make a definite offer aimed at breaicing the jam - the acceptance of some one hundred thbusand of the refugees in return for the Arab States' ac- ceptance of a final- and definite peace treaty. GERMANY As chaplains read out the names of 39 British and 31 American fliers who had lost their lives in the great .Allied airlift to Berlin, the strains of "The Last Post" and "Taps" floated across the airfield at Fess - berg. in the British zone of Ger- many. This Allied memorial service marked the beginning of the end of the unique operation. Since the end of the Russian blockade last May stockpiles of food, gasoline and coal in the Ger- man capital have grown to nearly one million tons, and are becoming too large to handle, So the 30,000 British and Americans who were operating more • than 300 airlift planes are being gradually rede- ployed. By the end of October less than half the original number of transport planes will remain in Germany. Just for the record: since June 26, 1948 those Hires carried some 2,220,000 toms of supplies 010 nearly 275,000 flights totalling over a hun- dred million flying miles. One one day alone - last April 16 - they flew in 13,000 tons, But there's always a drawback, it seems. In Berlin, the discharge of thousands of freight handlers will add to an already serious unemploy- ment problem. And those Berliners who remain deep in the Russian zone of the city are likely to miss the familiar, reassuring sound of those friendly airplane engines sounding from above. GREAT BRITAIN Were tine 'good old days' really so good, after all? was the question brought to many British minds when Prime Minister Clement Att- lee raked over some between -wars history in an electioneering speech toward the end of July. In it Attlee flung at the Conservatives Winston Churchill's recent blast at the "dis- astrous rule" of„the Labor Party. "How disgraceful it le to try and snake people believe all our difficulties are clue to Socialist mis- management." Then he quoted the Conservative Party Chairman, Lord Woolton, as having admitted that, before the war, ."not less than 25 per cent were suffering from m'al- nutrition-or improper feeding," and that between 1922 and 1939 Britain had a71 average of 1,700,000 MI employed. "As for Mr. Churchill, I have never been slow to acknowledge his war service, but during The past four years he has had a bad relapse into irresponsibility and party spite," quoth Mr 'Attlee. JAPAN General Douglas McArthur has ordered the Army to return local Government to Japanese control by the end of the year. At first the Japanese welcomed the news, but now they're beginning to realize that the new autonomy will bring = CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING AblEN'rd WANTED OILS, GREASES, TIRES ineemieldoe, Eleetrie Fence Controllers, House and Barn Paint, Roof Continue, eto, Donlan are wanted, Write waren Grease & 011 Limited, Toronto TiTte ONE CHANCE of your llfotltlei Four- day wooly, 85% commiseloo. 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