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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1950-2-1, Page 6Curious Clocks On of tate most curious Clocks in the world is in Benares, India. .At noon twelve skeletons leap in the air and strike the hour on a huge metal gong. After the hour le *truck, the wires controlling the enechanis4n slacken off, and the skeletons collapse. The bones are those of the men who originally made the gong. The clock itself, which has no lace, is tended by priests, who re- gard it as one of their most sacred possessions. In Biarritz, Southern France, is a clock with a face but no works. The face is sixteen feet across, and the minute hand is moved every minute by an old man who checks the time by his own watch. America too, has a clock with a face and no works. It is operated by a geyser. The geyser spouts at exact intervals of time, and each lime it does so the minute hand moves on. One of the most famous and at the same time one of the most wonderful clocks in the world is at Strasburg. The time is shown by s revolving globe. Other parts show at calendar, the revolutions of the planets, and the phases of the spoon; while a series of figures in &harlots indicate the days of the week. The first quarter of the hour is Bounded by a chid with a rattle, The half-hour by a youth with as arrow, the third quarter by a sol- dier with a sword, and the full hour by an old man with a crutch. A procession of the Twelve Apostles moves slowly past the figure of Christ, bowing as they • shove, whilst a cock, on the top of a turret, crows and flaps hie wings. Finally the figure of Christ stakes the sign of the Cross. Probably the most peculiar clock in the world is in Morocco, and is worked by flower pots. Protruding through a wall are twelve wooden beams, and the hour is denoted by the number of beasts holding a flower pot. The and subsequently removed by a man expressly engaged for that purpose. In Britain, one of the best-known clocks is in Wells Cathedral. Three concentric circles on the face show the twenty-four hours of the day, the minutes and the days of the lunar month. Above the dial plate is a tower, around which knights on horse- back revolve every hour, whilst a figure known as Jack Blandifer, seated some distance from the Block, strikes the hours, half-hours and quarters by kicking his heels against bells. In addition, on the outside of the 'cathedral, two armoured knights strike the quarters on bells by metes of battle-axes. Coningsby Church, in Lincoln - alike, has a clock with an hour hand but no minute hand, as has the clock at St. Margaret's, West- minster. The exact time has to be .guessed from the actual position of she hour hand. Comeback—Ben Hogan, play- ing his first golf tournament since his almost -fatal accident 11 months ago, checks his scorecard after 72 holes of the Los Angeles Open at Santa Monica, Calif. Champion Grandpa One of Belgium's proudest and irppiest men is Mr, Josef Gybele, Orf Meldert, in the province of Lim- burg. Why? Because—himself the father of 14 children, 12 of whom aft married—'he is the country's (perhaps the word's) champion grandfather. btr. Gybele' married children have presented him with no fewer than 65 grandchidren, of whom 58 ate living. They in turn 'have presented him with 11 great- grandchildren, of whom 10 are liv- ing. New Kind of Pole-Sitter—No food, no water, nothing for a week —that was the experience of this cat in Windsor, Ont., when chased up a hydro pole by dogs recently. The maze of live overhead wires stopped any attempt to rescue puss from the narrow crossbar 25 feet above ground—too dangerous, the hydro ruled. But the ending was a happy one. Coaxed by hunger, the cat finally inched its way through the wires that stopped man, to earth and safety. THE PM FRONT k lG.lisseit In a fashion magazine, of all places, I ran across these verses, by an anonymous author, which I think will appeal to all fruit growers who rsed this column, and maybe some of the rest of you as well. The title le A FRUIT GROWER'S WILL and the versee go like this: When I am dead Don't amid me, please To a place with white erecter And sad little trees, Put nee in the orchard, Two splite deep, ' Where the worms coma and go And the rootlets creep: Where the salts and the acids, The phosphates and lime, Will melee good apples At apple -picking time. And when pickers come On an autumn day, "That tree's a good one" Is what they'll say. * 5 • * Down in Tampa, Florida, bug - fighters from eleven different coun- tiras recently attended the joint ses- sions of the American Entomolo- gical Society end the Association of the Economic And right now I'd like to say I'm glad I'm not the Mayor of Tampa—not if he had to get off those titles in his speech of welcome. * * * But in spite of their mouth filling taste, these scientists came out with some intereating facts about the never-ending fight against insects. Here's what one observer reported: * * * Men who study insect control are something like plant breeders. Theirs is a constant battle to stay one step ahead of nature. Now and then nature wins a round, By the time Clinton oats were re- leased, plant breeders had better verities well on the way. But nature grossed up the research men with Race 45 rust. Race 45 got here ahead of the better oats. * * * So it is with entomologists. This year, the European corn borer won a round. But plant breeders and en- tomologists win their rounds, too. It is always a see -saw battle. For example, none of the entomologists were surprised at reports of DDT - resistant flies and mosquitoes. They knew that insects : many kinds have always built up a resistance to most poisons. * * * So entomologists and chemists dared not atop with DDT. They kept on looking for something better. It is well established that many strains of flies and some mosquitoes have built up a terrific resistance to DDT in some areas. • * 5 For the moment, they can be hall - died with other chemicals which have not been to widely used. Nor used quite mo long. It takes several generations of exposure to build up a resistant strain of bugs. * * * Ent in the Department of Agric- ulture laboratories at Beltaville, Frank H. Babers has one strain of house -flies that resist the action of DDx And five other chlorinated hy- drocarbon chemicals hi current use --dike lindand and chlordane. * * * So it is to be expected flies will become resistant to lindane and the other chemicals now used. What will we do then? Go bade to the fly - swatter? • Those resistant flies were bred so entomologists could work toward new killers, And new killers are coming. Already they have been tested, and work fine on flies. It remains to determine their danger to people. es * * One thing will work for sure, En- tomologists at Tampa, Fla., who work with flies all agree on this. It is more important than chemical control. Fly control begins with effective sanitation. Destroy breeding places. "Fly prevention is always better," in the words of Dr. S. W. Simmons. * * 0 What about other insect pests? Corn borers, wire -worsts, cut- worms, sweet clover weevils, and so on? Do we have the answer yet? The answer has to be "No." In corn borer research, it could be said we have come along far enough to now know how little we really know. * * * Maybe born borers will build up a resistance to DDT like some flies. Then we will have to use something cele. One thing, however, is sure. No resistance is going to be built up until DDT corn borer control treatments have become a general practice for several corn borer gen- erations. Maybe by that time something better will come along — a new chemical, a resistant strain of corn, or a mechanical a Ical method. * * * One new approach appeals to some entomologists fighting plant - eating bugs. That is the use of brand-new chemicals that "translo. cate." Now we put the bug killer on the plant. In the new method, you' use a bug poison which will be ab- sorbed into tate plant. It can go into the roots or through the leaves. Then it translocoates—moves into the circulation system of the plant. The bug takes a nip at the plant, or starts to bore into the stalk, and he gets a bellyful of poison. * '8 * But such a poison must not be harmful to animals or humans. That is also one of the problems facing DDT and the chlorinated hydrocar- bons. Enough tests have been made so scientists can tell you about how much DDT, chlordane, lindane or toxaphene you will find in meat, milk or eggs if animals are fed grain or roughage treated with a given amount of the chemical. O ,l * But uo one can tell you what happens to humans who eat such meat, milk or eggs. They know what happens to a rat's liver if the rat eats too much DDT. But no one knows what will happen to you or to kids that drink too much DDT in milk. Nor when it will happen. Nor how much is too much. k * * There, the Food and Drug Ad- ministration has to operate solely on the best opinion that can be Inua- tered in the industry—and on the thesis, "if it ain't naturally in an apple, it ain't good for you," For example, many research men are loaded with DDT they have ab- sorbed. Probably spray operators are, too. Find a plump research chemist who has worked with DDT a lot. Gently slice a slab of fatty tis- sue front him, analyse it, and you will find DDT, * * * That gives you a rough idea of the problems facing entomologists, Chemicals have become vital tui cons tinned food production in many caeca. These research men have to figure out something that will kilk the bugs and still not hurt the people,. And it must be low in coat, easy to use. it's some job e MU' SMITC LC ;`Was Joe Louis the Greatest?" is the intriguing title of an article in a recent Colliers Magazine. In it the author attempts—or at least starts out to attempt—settlement of tthe vexed question of who was the greatest heavyweight of all time. (And, by the way, no men- tion is made of a guy named San- son although, according to Cecil B. DeMilie's latest opus, Swingin' Sam packed quite a wallop, at; that. Still, Samson carried "the differ- ence" openly, in the forst of an ass's jawbone or some such, where- as more modern heavies concealed theirs in their mitts.) We said "starts out to attempt" advisedly because; when we get to the end of the piece, we find the question still more or less unsettled. However, the author is a man whose opinion must be respected, even if not accepted, being none other than Gene Tunney, himself a pretty fair sort of leather -peddler and one of the few champions— you could count the others on the toes of a timber leg—to quit the ring with practically all his earn- ings intact, and Itis mental eggs unscrambled. . Not to keep you too long in sus- pense, Mr. Tunney quickly boils down the "greatest of all" contend- ers to a mere two—Joe Louis and Jack Dempsey. And surely it was merely by coincidence that we no. ticed, a couple of weeks after the piece hit the newsstands, that the Brown Bomber and the Manassa Mauler are due to "battle", some time this summer, in a movie en- titled "The Battle of the Century". It wouldn't be that .[r. Tunney —and . Colliers—are sort of bally hooing that epic in advance, would it? Perish the thought! 0 k * Tunney's method of brushing aside all fighters other than Louis and Dempsey is simple—almost too simple, We'll quote just a bit of what he has to say about one of these; "By scratching out - `Bliar jack' Johnson too, 1'11 probably e earn the lifelong scorn of a small but vocal coterie which .still in- sists that Johnson was the lad who could have leveled Joe Louis. A more or less accurate line on John- son's real ability can be gleaned from a record book. In three of his outstanding contests, he did not register the effectiveness required of a great champion. * * * The three that Gene goes on to cite are Johnson's tilts with Tommy Burns, Stanley Ketchel and Jim Jeffries, pointing out that the first two were much too small to be real contenders, and that Jim Jeff- ries was a mere shell of his former self. But Tunney forgets to men- tion that „ in those three engage- ments, in fact in practically every fight 'he ever had, Jack Johnson was in effect fighting in hand- cuffs. Because of his color, and because of his out -of -the -ring an- tics, feeling against Jack Johnson ran so high that there are those who believe that never once, in all his career, did he dare to—or'bother to—cut loose with everything he had. * * * "You don't have to take my word word for this apparently arbitrary dismissal of battlers whose names we were brought up to revere," continues brother Tunney. "And you don't even have to compare written records or refer to excellent treatises on the subject. Television has settled the argument definitely. Recently the coaxial cable moguls have disinterred ancient filmsshow- ing every great fight since Jeffries surprised the world by kayoing Bob Fitzsimmons. These flickers, in- stead of supplying thrills and ex- citement, sent specs' -A into con- vulsions. They howled at the ridicu- lous -looking pork-and-beaner stan- ces, the windmill swings and Don- ald Duck footwork, not to mention the beefy spare tires flopping over their trunks. Even Jack Johnson, who had a genuine touch of great- ness in him, looks far from im- pressive in his best bouts when compared with the finely developed ring technique and clever footwork' of Dempsey, Louis and others." Gene Tunney is known, not only as a former heavyweight champion, but as something of a Shakespear- ean student as well. We suppose that if he should happen to see some old, scratched -up film taken oC John Barrynnore back in the days of the silent movies, he would conclude that .facie must have been a lousy l'Iantlet,'Gene never happeli- ed to think that filet technique ;night have unproved considerably too with the passage of the years, rlid he? But no—"Television has settled the argument definitely." * * Tunney describes at great length what he calls "one of the greatest ring battles of all time" --the Dempsey -\Villard thing at Toledo on July 4111, 1919. 'Then, later on, he admits that he wasn't there personally but" has seen since in movies of the bout." Dempsey's long-swhining left hook, which smashed Jess \Villartl's cheekbone into fruguleuts is. in his opinion, one of "the three mightiest blows delivered during the last three decades of boxing„ * * 8 Now surely — although Gene Tunney never condescended to mingle much with the rude char- acters of ringdom—somebody must have told him about the very shrewd suspicion, which still per- sists, that Jack Dempsey, when he cut big Willard to pieces that swel- tering July day, was carrying a teeny utile of illegal assistance. Some say that his bandages had been dipped into concrete which, after water had been poured over, quickly hardened into rocklike solidity. Dempsey himself has ad- mitted that he had two or three tones the legal amount of tape. There's no doubt that Willard took a terrific beating. But if his hand- lers had been as shrewd as those of the present day, we doubt if Dempsey would have flattened him in any tierce rounds, or even twice • that many. +r Space will not permit ass to go much further into Mr. Tunney's very thought provoking article— but it is interesting to note how the goes out of his way to belittle most everything Joe Louis clic) and the majority of the opponents he fought. This is llcw he finishes the piece; "The answer to whether or not Joe Lotus was the greatest ever gets dowit to what one thinks about Dempsey. For if Dempsey was not, surely Joe Louis was." * +r * Tunney leaves little doubt in the reader's mind that his vote would be for the Manassa Mauler, if it came to a vote. Provoking the thought that, as he wrote those words, perchance Mr. Tunney (night have been just toying with the idea, "1 wonder if anybody will remember the lad who licked Jack Dempsey not once, but twice in a row—a lad by the name of Tun - n ey." 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