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The Brussels Post, 1950-2-22, Page 7FOR QUICK RELIEF BEYOND BELIEF... rot relief from the pain of ARTHRITIS, AnauMATISM, NEURITIS, 01 SCIATICA ... get n bottle of DOLCIN Tablets today, DOLCIN has relieved the pains of thousands of sufferers, DOLCIN Tablets are nor harmful, easyto•take, seasonable In cost - 100 tablets for 02.39; the large aconomysize bottle of 500 tablets, 310, if your ;t druggist cannot supply DOLCIN write to DOLCIN LIMITED, Toronto 10, Ont. .: DOLCIN rABLGTS ,,tamed 1040; 007.010 10 Ih. no. IWknd trndcmnrx of Ih1. product. Malliallflallf MEIN Sweeping Up 39,000 Mines Mine laying in coastal waters is an essential part of naval defence warfare and in the last war, mines were laid in vast quantities, Ever since VE -Day, British naval ex- perts have been playing a large part in the International Mine Clearance Board, whose task it is to sweep the seas clear of stray (nines. This has entailed the greatest mine :weeping operation in history, ac- cording to Lt. Cutdr. P. G. Sharp, of the Royal Navy, one of the technical advisers to the board. Of the 600,000 mines laid during the war, many have "died," due to a deterioration in the material from which they were made. Others have broken from their moorings and drifted with the tides or current, but fortunately, they are fitted with a device to stake then safe when they break away. The remainder, some 'scheduled as dangerous until ]957, have had to be swept, by an operation controlled front London by Great Britain, the United States, France and Russia. At the peak of this operation, 1,900 nine sweepers from 15 countries were taking part, not only Allied ships, but those from Germany, Italy, neutral Sweden, Turkey, too. Thirty-nine thousand mines have been swept since the war and the board has been able to open up again to ship- ping areas which have been closed, in 001110 cases, for 10 years. Brit- ain's coasts are now clear except for one small field off Northern Leland which has been swept, but cannot be checked to make sure as sweep wires break on the rocky sea bed. Norway's coasts are free, too, and the Italians and Greeks expect to have cleared all mines in their waters by the end of next Bummer. On the Belgian, Dutch and German coasts, where ,nines were thickly laid and where sweep- ing is hampered by sandbanks and islands, work has been largely con- fined to sweeping wide, safe chan- nels marked by buoys and these channels are being constantly wid- ened and improved. The same rules apply to Denmark and the Kattegat, where hundreds of miles ,of intricate channels are being straightened and made safe for shipping. In the Baltic and Black Seas and off the North Cape the Russian sweepers have done their full share and have cleared many mine fields. The rewarding aspect of this work is the lessening toll that mines take of shipping. Two hundred and fifty ships have been sunk by mines since the end of the war, but only seven of these were lost in the last six months and as the work goes on, it is safe to look forward to a time when the mine danger to ship- ping is no more BOORT • Sn(B1T This item has nothing to do with sport, but we think it le worth. noting in print, for all that. For on a Sunday evening a week or so ago we chanced to hear what struck us as one of the finest pieces of unconscious humor we have run across in some time. * * * It was one of these big network orchestra programs and the leader, in a solemn voice, was introducing a number. We didn't happen to take his remarks down in short- hand, possibly for the reason that we cannot write shorthand, but they went something like this: 'tomorrow marks the 40th anni- versary of the founding of the Boy Scout Movement in America. 1 personally used to be a Boy Scout, and I have three sons who are going to be Scouts when they get big enough. So now I would like to dedicate our next number to that great and worthy organization." * k ,k Came a brief pause, during which we wondered just what fine, stir- ring outdoor or patriotic piece we were about to hear• Then the orch- estra blasted into—of all things— "Thee..Lullab* 'of kBroadway." That leader—we didn't happen to catch his name—certainly knows how to pick the appropriate ones, If he had to play a piece in honor of Joe Stalin's birthday, chances are he'd select "Peace, Perfect Peace" or some such. * * +k To the surprise of almost nobody, the sports writers and sportscasters have acclaimed John Harrison "Jack" Dempsey and George Her- man "Babe" Ruth as, respectively, the greatest fighter and the greatest ballplayer to appear, up to now, in the Twentieth Century. « * Just a column or two ago we took a shallow dive into this 'greatest fighter" business, coming up with the strictly personal opin- ion that Mr. Dempsey ranked no better than third behind Jack John- son and Joe Louis. However, as the Romans used to say, "de gusti- bus non est disputandunt" which ran be roughly translated as "when arguing over box -fighters it's every man for theirself." * a *- The Manassa Mauler had more color—not the skin pigmentation kind—than the other two put to- gether; and it's box-office color which stakes the turnstiles get red- hot bearings. Even at his worst Jack Dempsey was a more mem- orable figure than either Johnson or Louis at their best, which pro- bably had more titan a little to do with how the voting went. - * * * The baseball ballotting turned out to be strictly a two -horse race —and not much more of a race than the one when Man O'War ran away and hid on a Sir Barton; and the Fact that Sir Barton was in such shape that he should never have been allowed to go to the post, that long -ago clay at Kenilworth, has nothing to clo with the rase. * * * It was bound to be either Babe Ruth or Ty Cobb, and when the returns were all in and I counted, ft .was discovered that these two had drawn all but 24 of the 393 votes . cast. Final results showed the Bambino with 253 votes—more than double the number marked for the Georgia Peach, who had a total of 116 � +k Lou Gehrig finished third, attrac- ting a grand total of eight votes, Walter Johnson, "The Big Train"— and the only • major league pitcher except Cy Young ever to hurl over 400 victories—finished in the f,fth slot with seven votes, Five experts voted for Joe DiMaggio; two for Hans Wagner; and two .for Christy "Big Six" Mathewson. No other player got even a call. FI F1 — By Harold Arnett gam' , ae Deoefulet HERE'S A WAY TO DISPENSE POWDERED AND GRANULAR SUBSTANCES IN YOUR PANTRY MOUNT SEVERAL EMPTY FRUIT JARS UPSIDE DOWN ON A RACK. A HOLE IN THE CENTER OF EACH JAR LIP IS PROVIDED WITH A PIVOTED TIN COVER, CUT AS ILLUSTRATED, FOR MEASURING OUT THE CONTENTS OF EACH JAR. IF THE BRUSHES OP YOUR VACUUM CLEANER HAVE WORN SO THEY DO NOT TOUCH THE CARPET, AND THERE iS NO ADJUSTMENT FOR LOWERING THE BRUSH) IT CAN 8E MADE TO WORK 8Y LOWERING IT WITH PiECES OF RU88ER THAT ARE CEMENTED 1U THE CLAMP,. .urrepOrkorroortrogroprorrorenorrookairmor *mom • Hollywood Visitor—Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, making one of her rare night-club appearances, chats with actress Janet Blair, who ,is a friend of the former first lady. Mrs. Roosevelt asked that her party be given at a table in a quiet corner. J t TABLE TALKS qr II�IYS / oy ekme, Andrews, 3dsylie the groundhog saw his shadow, and maybe not. In our part of the Province the sky was overcast most of the day, and if the little weather prophet ven- tured out of his hole, he wouldn't be scared back again for the pro- verbial forty days, or whatever it's supposed to be. Still, judging of the future by the past, chances are we'll have quite a few chilly days and nights before Spring is actually here; and some of the recipes I have for you today are especially good in cold weather. For example, this one for making: CORNBREAD cup flour 1 cup yellow cornmeal Vs teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking powder IA teaspoon soda 1 tablespoon sugar 3/4 cup soar milk 1 egg 2 tablespoons bacon. fat Method—Melt the fat in a bak- m pan. Sift the dry ingredients. Add the beaten egg and fat to the milk Combine the two mixtures. Bake in a 400 -degree oven for 25 minutes. instead of soar milk, sweet aline with a teaspoon of vinegar added may be 00511. „ s . Careful attention to your season- ings makes all the difference in creating a meat pie that's just so-so —and one that brings loud cries for 011 encore. The following recipe Possibly the funniest thing about the whole business is the Hans Wagner vote. We've heard dozens of arguments among old-time base- ball men 'who 'saw the immortal Dutchman at his best, and the gen- eral consensus always seemed to be that if Ty Cobb wasn't the greatest of all tithe, the bow-legged Pitts- burg shorts:op undoubtedly was. Yet Wagner draws the imposing total of two whole votes. "Out of sight out of mind" might be the oslution; for it couldn't be that sports experts, just like ordinary mortals, are pretty much like a flock of sheep in their reactions. u However, nobody's go:ug to put up mucic of a squawk over the vote for Ruth. Like Dempsey; The Babe had scads of color. His personal popularity had a lot to do with saving the gauze when it was in a very bad way following the Black Sox sdandal. He was one `of the two or three best left-handers that ever toed the rubber—how good he might have been if he'd stock to pitching nobody will ever tknow. He took a' tint at the horsehide that was positively •thrilling even when he struck out.; ,And -best • of all from the standpoint of some—he never was the sort pointed out as an example of What pure living and pstrictlylfshmoral conduct could•accom- , . * k * Whether or not we personalty agree with the ranking that put Ruth first and Ty Cobb second is a matter of little or no importance, However, , since nobody asked us, we'll tell you. Let's put it this Way. Shoelld we be offered the pie!, of the bin, and were a clubowner chiefly interested in big gates and bigger profits, we'd choose Babe. Ruth without the slightest hesita- tion. '0,. * But if we were a club manager, whose salary, job and future pros- pects depended 011 winning a pen• sant, we'd grab Ty Cobb first, Hans Wagner second,--ancl after we hhcl them safely roped and tied, then maybe we'd statrt considering agent called Ruth, is one that has been tried with many successful variations—for ex- ample, mushrooms may be added, when available. Make it in a large - size flat glass balking dish. Serves four. 1, MEAT VIi:GETAI LE P113 2 cups diced (not c :cope!), leftover roast beef, lamb, pork or chicken 1 cup leftover gravy, thinned with 1 cup water or 1 cup canned consomme diluted with 1 cup water and thickened or 2 cups stock thickened to make gravy Salt and Pepper 1 cup cooked, leftover vegetables or 1 cup celery, carrots and onions, diced and parboiled 1 cup diced, boiled potatoes (optional) BISCUIT TOPPING 2 cups flour 4 to 1)007 s baking powder tet 1)001 :at 3 t1 dlerpoons shortening 1 cup milk j teaspoon Worcestershire sauce . Method—eflutter baking dish, and arrange meat and vegetables in it. Cover with gravy. Top with dropped (not rolled) baking pow. der biscuits made as follow,: mix shortening lightly with salted flour, add liquid slowly, stirring to make soft dough. Drop biscuits on top of meat and vegetables. Bake 30 minutes at 375 degrees F., longer at slightly higher heat if a very brown dish is desired. k k * Although this recipe comes ori - g rally from the deep South, it'e a favorite supper dish with lots of Northerners too. It's for: CREOLE RICE CAKES 4 silces bacon, chopped 3 tablespoons chopped onion 3 tablespoons green pepper, chopped 1 teaspoon salt IA teaspoon pepper 3 cups rice, cooked 1 cup flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 can tomato pulp Method—Fry bacon crisp, leav- ing fat in frying pan. Courbins bacon with onion, green pepper, and rest of ingredients. Mix thor oughly. Shape into cakes and ft) these in bacon fat. s- re 117 v "CHILDREN should be seen but not heard" was a popular saying In grandfather's time. But today the youngsters hail with noisy delight that scrumptious, TWO•GRAIN cereal, POST'S GRAPE -NUTS FLAKES. They love its crisp, sweet-as:smut flavor... its may goodness of sun. ripened wheat and malted barley. Easy to get — easy to serve — easy to digest — POST'S GRAPE -NUTS FLAKES are wholesome and good for all the family. They supply nourish• went both young and old need daily ... useful quantities of carbohydrates, protein, minerals and other food essentials. Ask your grocer for POST'S GRAPE -NUTS FLAKES today. GF•2s9 • K_ 13 fa, CastuAtcmTm y1 VrlvR/e4 rrimiduteem Tteeke THE STRENGTH AND VITALITY of any nation stems from the character of its people. Canada, stalwart champion of democracy, draws its strength from the peoples of many nations and its variety and colour from the blending of their racial and cultural heritages. Rich in natural resources, Canada has enriched herself culturally by interweaving the •national charact- eristics of these many races, whose .common bond is citizenship in thr Canadian Family. Greece, cradle of democracy in Cah'rr the Old World, has fought and suffered through the centuries to retain democratic freedoin. Today, many Greeks enjoy the security and privileges that Canadian citizenship affords, Inspired by their natural love of independence, many have started their own businesses and built them into successful enterprises. Greek literature, architecture and philosophy have contributed much to Canada's culture and the thrift and progressiveness of her people have won the respect of all Canadians. DISTILLERS (Canada) Limited AMHERSTBURG • 0 tai ARIo Calvert, Secretary of State to King Jamas 1, and head of the famous Calvert family, founded one of Canada's first colonies in Newfound. land In 1622. Calvert and his descendants fostered the principles of religious tolerance and democratic freedom and thus helped sow the - =W fertile seed of democracy in the New World.