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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1951-6-27, Page 3!;Y 1 1 i`i fly ' iclined 11, 1,4 il:cinson Ohio nth 51,o! Sties 1 nein Mitgih .intoll Irani'•. For two yealh. he had v, eked as. clerk in • the :.e, moi! dcp;u'Itueut of Mag. - Mart 01 al - nilirr01 Films, lee., alil ih1l thought up Klett, fo} pM lure, - W 111111 ec'eu- arin writers wrote hitt ,OOliptt, ,and dieemort. produced' fit -(1' (11-111 pro:. ' tit. "Lady lawk," hl:agiilieent', Most Nem `itccessr had netted the house something over a million dollars, .Noel Norbert. who. wale the script received $2000 ted'Oba- dials, who thought up •the idea; rihl- lected his ?u0 pee week. Ada Adams, who occupied a desk next to Obadiah's and who earned $50 a week reading stories, knew' what was going on and told Oba- dial' in no uncertain terms What she thought of him. „Barnum was right." she • said. "How a man can he such a sucker and still live is beyond nes" Obadiah blushed to the roots of his hair. "\VhY, shucks, I didn't do any• thing, It was just: an idea 1 had that I mentioned to Mr. Norbert," "Arad Mr, Norbert collected $2000 for it," A month later Magnificent began work on "Love's Appeal." Noel Norbert had turned in the script after taking Obadiah to lunch, A week after that Ada Adams cause 'into the little restaurant on Sunset boulevard -where Obadiah was eat- . ing• hatch. "Welt, how'e Magnifeent's 060 a week sucker today?" she asked. "They tell me Mr. Norbert has turned in another box-office success that you thought ftp for hint. He's asking $2500 for it," • Obadiall's face went while, \Vith- out knowing it Miss Adapts had -aggravated a wound that she had 'inflicted five weeks previous with her first scathing comment on 01:0. - Nelson's lack of what it takes to • get ahead. She was, therefore, as- tonished when Obadiah suddenly rose without a word and. left her. Outside, his cheeks still rather pale, Obadiah was hastening to- ward the Magnificent studio.;. "Mr,' Maurice." began Obadiah firmly, "I. want to know why it.. is that you pay $2000 to Noel Norbert for writing scenarios 'flute I think up, No, don't answer. I know why. It's because you think I'nl a sucker Without enough backbone to steed up for my rights. Well, let me tell you something. 1 mean, you eau drive a horse to water but you can't make hint willing ---1 mean, drink, Or something. Anyway, I'm quitting. The Pacific studioshave offered amt a thousand a week to.' work for them." Obadiah paused, breathing heav- ily, and mopped his brow. "Well," he said, 1''f guess that's "1s that sq?" said `'Mr. Maurice. "Well, young" matt,: you're.- wrong, That ain't half of it. And he punched a bell butt0u on his desk. Ada Adams• was eathlg':dinner in the same little restaurant on Stulset that evening when Obadiah cause in. "Well, he said, "I've bee! raised from $110' a Week. to $1000."' -' "So I heard," said Ada; "Congra- tulations i'Il bet you could have go a age thpwever, 1f you'd gotre; bat Sal&clfaadiid toide;eltem 81.1 Ivfatiried waft, llleetill1 ,their price." "I couldn't," said - Obadiah, "be- cause Pacific never o1eeed anything in the first place.'" - Ada stared in open-mouth won- der. "Well, well, we'll,',', she saidr • "And likewise, [yell," ,,. . "Even if they'had," said .Obadiah,, "I couldn't have thought -up 111005 for Pacific anyhow," "Why?" asked Ada. ' "Because you wouldn't have been there," said Obadiah, "Alt those ideas I thought 1111 were about you and .011. Jest seeing. yon pert thein into my head, \Vitltotit You 1. could- n't think of anything. In feet," he added, "sometimes i can't think of anything with you," Alia swallowed a scallop whole, "For goodness sake!" she exclaim- ed. "Obadiah Nelson, I didn't think you had it in you to propose mar- riage." "Propose?" said Obadiah, "Who's proposing? net it's not It had idea , at tial." A 12 -year-old boy 111 Miami wag astonished when he was notified that an old 111at he !tad known only casually had left hint a tttousantl dollars, The titan's will - explained the ihny had been kind to !tint, "Can also be a Point Where People Meet" 1."p in the north at. • tern point of w l orb. :state the "l. Lawrence later is the i,reen and living hull dal., between Canada and the tinn- ed stale. Curr -the two countries, .are More than a mile apart. From . the .111011 \nlerie:ut village of Oboe. 1'1,lOw'n a ferry rens every hour acro„ to the. Cut:uliau town of L'rttekvi111', - reputedly the richest 'WWII 'fag' e':Iplla in the entire Bri- tish .ri-ti 1 l?mpire The ferry is a trine lilt1 .lip lin11 the; both the Anleri•` "Nil! and Canadian flag on both side., of the river it 1111, the sial• plest of slips. At each 'place cus- toms and immigration officers check the passeligel',. Jhe Itorder between the United • Stalest ani! Canada is, cell clic 11151), ...a thht .]lite El 'Change of printers'.. ink distinguishes one land from .. the other. '1'Ite bu•der.is unguarded all :hlong its thousands of -miles, There 'are hundreds of entry points along it, brit at no 'one of- them, including Brockville and Morris- town, 1, there one single soldier 'stationed. The traffic that crosses back and forth on the ferry at Mor • - ristown, with never a passport to. a hundred passengers and none ask- ed, offers an even better example of how the people of two lauds can live side by side and commingle u'i111 a minimum of red tape and no armed guards. Labour laws prevent any broad interchange of Americans and Ca- nadians going back and forth to jobs in either country. Customs laws prevent any great amount of cross-border day-to-day shopping, although, during the meat shortage a few years ago, many American housewives used to go over to Ca- nada for the day's pork chops and bacon and, as long as they brought in small amounts, the customs men were lenient. But there is a lot of business crossing back and forth on that ferry—salesmen from both countries, heavy trucks laden with assorted freight for Canada and crates of ;medicine, hatbands, and electrical parts for America. Now and then the ferry carries a load of sheep or cattle across for the Amer- ican market, All ,.clay long, particularly of weekea,ds, there is a large. amount of social i ieiting across- the river —going over fo'rt''Ttinch With Cana - dean' frieiltis or having Canadian relatives come over for dinner, for on both sides of the border there has been a lot of international marrying. And, until Coast Guard regulations made it difficult, the ferry used to carry as pleasant a united nations group as ever rode frons one land to another: house- wives from both sides used to take advantage of the offer, ""Thirty-five cent, round trip or as long as you want to ride," and sit atop the ferry all afternoon of a pleasant summer day, riding' back and forth, not getting off, knitting and chat- ting in a sort of international ferry- klatscil. Of a weekday evening the larger number of passengers are y ouig people, mostly young leen, heading over to see their Canadian girl friends or coating this way to take their American girls to the American movies. As the immigration officers pass a hundred ferry Passengers in live minutes, they scent casual and care- less. To a stranger, little border stations like these towns appear to be the best of all possible places for sneaking into either country and for bringing in r0utreband. 'Phe -truth is that the:officials know pereoually almost all the regular • passengers. Let sonxe.stl'auger come and their' casualness vanishes. 'flee stranger is -detained a' -few more • >tlinutee and asked a few questiosif and' that ie usually 1111.'But, as osle oftieer said, ':T\vohese are the )t sort 01 sort corner -planes to. get away with •aliytIllllt, 'A..bll, station has -dilly a flew oli3cers'to check' Menet entries aid ;ill ' in a short, chic. Here there's, I -fist fee, mister, acid l ru hl ul)1 huuy t,Wltenevem t Gill a strangle w110 seems suspicious; T can to e nll•dttO%. And 1 do." The diplomats of the two couw- This young woman carefully secures with cellophane tape the stems or three perky daisies which she'll wear at her throat fora fresh and flowery look, BY !iDNA MILES • IFyou'd like to keep that fresh -as -a -daisy look despite the sweltering heat of summer days, try perking up your costume with newly -cut flowers, straight from your own garden. Perhaps you've been nursing the idea that the only flowers theft florists'may be worn are ome th t note n, oryou'll be corsages—preferably m nf g arbeauty cid-thathids. tmay over- come you express your own personality. Professional corsages are thrilling tor special events, but for casual occasions your own favorite yard or field !lowers will work just as well. Wear one particular blossom all summer long, and it's likely to be regarded as your own'personal trademark. It's a nice distinction to be thought of in' connection with roses, pansies, verbena or what- ever, To Innate yule noral arrangements appear .hand -made: rather than home-made, it's a good idea to avoid grabbing up a, bunch of blooms as you dash with whatever through your front yard andpia you happen to find in icking m to your collar your purse. If you wear flowers, they're worth a bit of planning. DeJote a few minutes to choosing the handsomest blossoms your garden offers, then take them inside for ttte couple of seconds it'll take to arrange them artfully and attractively, Bind their stems with, cellophane tape to hold the flowers In their correct places. Then pin them with pride—and a long bat or corsage pin—to the spot on your hat, suit or dress where they'll show off to best advantage, FARM FRONT Jo Qussea Probably a lot of you dairymen get sick and tired of writers on farm subjects eternally harping on the subject of mama milking -machine operation. Still, the care you took in crossing a busy street or high- way yesterday isn't going to get you safely over today; and the sante applies in this case too. So perhaps another reminder .won't do any harm. x ' k, For there is no doubt about it, improperly cared -for milking ma- chines often add billions of bacteria to milk. Rubber, because of its por- ous nature, is naturally hard to keep clean, and during milking, some of the milk solids get worked into the pores. * 0 * The butterfat causes the rubber to softest and lose its shape, while the outer Milk solids provide abund- ant food for bacteria. In the pores of the rubber where they are out of reach .of brushes and sterilizing rinses, these bacteria are able to multiply enormously. At the next milking, as the liners are contract- ed and relaxed with each pttlsation, these bacteria are squeezed out and washed away in the milk. Many of these bacteria are not killed by pas- teurization, and their presence in large numbers in the milk leads to trouble. 5 ' $ Numerous methods of raring for -the teat cup assembly have been re- commended, says Dr. K, C. Johns, Division of Bacteriology and Dairy Research, Ottawa. Probably the simplest, and certainly the cheapest aid most reliable, depends upon fill- ing the assembly with a weak (0,5 pet' cent) lye solution after first rinsing out the milk residue. Lye dissolves the casein and saponifies the fat, while at the sante time de- strcying 111051 n1 the (arteria pt•e51'lI ¢, '5 At Tor long tube milking machines the lye solution is best used in a tries may get into their own diplo- matic knots and make speeches about the good or bad state of Canadian -American relations. That never troubles the people who live along the boeder, They go back and forth, in full friendliness, as simply as a elan rides a ferry front Man- Ihattan,10 Hoboken, to show that a border need not be a line where people, divide. It can also he a straight lisle that marks the point where people meet. -From the New York 'limes. TO RESET LOOSE PICTURE-FRPbM iN PLASTERED WALL, WRAP NAIL IN NARROW PIO, A. OW DAY O.L"IWO PUP CSL U NAIL. IN O il, L- P. solution rack; this roust bt set up perfectly level,- and tilt )ve solution must make contact with the entire inner surface. Thi lye solution may tock he prepared by making up a stock solution, dissolving one can of lye in 1 gallon of cold—prefarbly soft —water, then diluting 4 ounces of this to 1 gallon for use. An alterna- tive method is to add 2 heaping tea.--• spoonfuls of lye to 1 gallon of water, stirring thoroughly to dissolve it. Dr. Johns cautions that unless the lye solution is up to strength, it will not do the job properly. The life of the liners can -be great- ly extended by laving two sets and using them alternately, After being used for a week, they should be boiled in a 2 per cent lye solution for 10-15 minutes. Directions for this procedure can be obtained from the Division of Bacteriology and Dairy Research, Science Service, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, 1: 0 01 ,. Some -farmers are afraid 10 use lye solution, having heard that it damages the rubber. This is not true. Just the opposite is the case. Instead of harping it, lye solution, especially when blot, extracts traces of fat, and prolongs the life of the rubber. It is true that when old liners are boiled in lye, they may give off an unpleasant odour, but this is simply because the lye is removing the decomposing milk solids and bacteria hiding ill the pores and crevices of the rubber. If - boiled weekly, Dr. Johns points out they will never get into such a stale, and they will retain their shape and last Much longer. * 5 e. News of interest to honey pro- ducers—and honey lovers ---comes in a recent dispatch from Over 'Ole. ed + c 1-ieavily- blitzed in a warehouse when Liverpool suffered its great- est air raids, a quantity of Canadian honey purchased in 1942 has recent.= ly been marketed in England. Be• cause of more urgent reconstruction jolts, the consignment retnained for some time literally supporting the roof and one wall of the badly damaged warehouse, The honey sur- vived both the explosion and the elements, and has shown no deteri- oration or loss -of flavour during 1110 last eight years. a r, * Dollar shortages have severely limited the quantity of Canadian 11011ey 011 the British Market. 111 re- cent years. The blitzed honey was sold to retailers and not to process- ors for blending with honey from elsewhere. In this way, many ran- stuvers were able to taste the Can- adian product in its original forum and become re -acquainted with it against the time when it is freely obtainable in Great Britain once again. PERHAPS IT WAS SNAILS The customer had waited half an hour for the fish he had ordered. At fast the wailer appeared'. ' ' "Your fish will be here in five minutes," he said. Another quarter of an Hour passed -and then -the customer summoned the waiter. "Say," he inquired, "what kind of bait are yoe using?" "A gardeu is a maddening thing, God wot; Snails, leather jackets, ants, slugs, blight, anti roti" —Anon. Uydt�ryQrEl1:'��y],•y� S Gordon Snaith The modern. gardener has ample reason to he confused by the treat- ments prescribed for keeping his plants healthy. The technical terns —insecticides, fungicides, all-pur- pose sprays and dusts, DDT, 2, 4-D, etc,—are apt to seen as myster- ious to the novice as does a pres- cription written by his doctor. Yet they do have a definite relationship to the enemies that may mean ruin for 11 carefully planted garden. The insects that attack garden plants are lumped into two divi- sions: those that chew and eat the leaves or plant parts, and those that suck the juices from inside the plant or foliage, Chewers lu- clude caterpillars, grubs of beetles and the beetles themselves, wasps, ants and maggots, and worms such a the cutworm and canker worm (not earth worm). Iu this divi- sion also are the borers, like the corn borer and various tree borers, which begin their lives on the out- side of the plants, generally as cat- erpillars or grubs of beetles. q, 1 * All of these chewing insects are controlled by chemicals that actu- ally poison their food—the insecti- cides that are known ae stomach poisons, Lead arsenate, cryolite, dutox, pyrethrum and rotenone are only a' few of the many kinds now on the market. They are used singly or purchased as 00mbina- 11011 sprays. c o w In the sucking group are aphids in all stages, leafhoppers, green fly, mealy bug, tarnished plant brig, spittle bug and the lace bug that attacks azaleas and rhododen- drons. Since these pests penetrate the surface of the plant to draw out the juices, surface or sttomacll poisons are - of tittle quse. The chemicals that control them, called contact insecticides, act by smoth- ering, and are applied under pres- sure. A favorite is Black Leaf 40 (nicotine sulfate). Pyrethrum and rotenone are used as contact insec- ticides as well as stomach p015ot18. In some cases DDT is effective, though not against aphids, a * a. Almost microscopic in size, the thrips and Writes are the most dif- ficult to control. Red spider (or . red spider mite) spins a web on the thulerside of evergreen foliage and that of other plants. Protea ted by the web, the spider sucks the juices and tures the leaves a rust color. Before the insect is reached, the web must be broken. Sulphur is then applied as a dust; and kotue new insecticides have been developed for better' control. y'.. * * The cyclamen mite attacks del- phinium, African violet and be- gonias, stunting leaves and deform-- • ing •buds, Sulphur. dust or • diorite- - gives control, but DDT docs not, In fact, DDT increases the red spider Write poptilatiolt, because it (rills the insects that prey on this ntieroscopie pest. DDT will con- trol thrips, however, which deform roses, asters, gladiolus and other flowers, Faced with the problem of ae- lecting chemicals, the'- gardener is inclined to overlook the most im- portant factor of all in insect con- trol --that of tinting, If insects are attacked at the period in their life cycle when they are most vul- nerable, a good control is assured. • a n The corn borers, for example, which also attack dahlias and cos- mos, hatch as tiny worsts from eggs laid on the under side of fol- iage, Moving slowly along the leaf, the borers' goal is the inside of the stalk, While on a journey, they readily succumb to almost any dust or spray. But once inside the stalk, no spray can reach theta. 5, k !, Added totheimportance of tim- ing is the fact that there are two to several generations of some'fn- sects—which doesn't lighten the task of the gardener. County agents, agricultural schools or col- leges and botanical institutions in the locality have information on infestation dates. e * + Fungus diseases are initiated by mla•oscopis spores. These alight on leaves, flowers and stems, then germinate lilcc seed and send a tube into the plant's interior. There the tube branches and rebranches in all directions, breaking down and destroying the plant cells. In its next stage it produces more spores to set tip re -infection. ✓ e: a The principal factor in the spread or control of disease is weather. Moist, muggy conditions, fog and continued wet weather are all fa- vorable to disease, and during such periods, Mildew, black spot of. Cts. ,e1, emittersandvarion5, leaf ills•• '101,1 spread repidly. a 4' ilk The eherlhirals used to cotttrOt these disease's are , called futigl" ides. Dusting ,ulphul; 11(115 sulphate borcleaux mixture (a combination 01 topper sulfate and lime), fot'M olaldellyde. irrnhate and erlate at'0 uuuug 110• common rhenlirats used, 1,i6c I I ,• inseeticilles, fungicide(( 5 11 .d sin ;l1' or in compil, '1'1+, liatrri l need, to b/ ltin-appatlieOtd to the plante before the spores ar- rive, or within -a very short 'period thereafter. "I' he critical time to just before ,,r immediately after rain :rm,l during moist weather, They Have No Choice Ie still mother field the,Socialist Government of lireat Britain has finally admitted telt. private enteh• - prise can do t better jhl. This time it as the tet hu,iue'-i For over Ni year, the Government - hes been the sole buyer for all the tea cuu,ulue d iu the country. Gigan•' lir deals were made on a hulk basin as with many other eoiunodities handled by the stale. Note the nothoritie, have decided t,* get out of the tea business. In doing so the ministry- of food issued this significant statement. "The Government considers the .l -tem et government - urchascs I lues ,tot on the whole give the e005nhller, - the widest possible n r .Of elhuice of teas. especially theme finer qualitt not due, it ire present circumstances. assure ade'tu:rte stip• ply.,, Socialists the 51(r1d over could study, that cent€es iom with profit. it reveais a fundamental weakness mf state trailing. Though .it. never' workc mit il) actual practice. in theory at least because of volume, there should be lower 0os'', when a government 000tracts to buy all the tea or the wheat or the bacon that may be available in a p.1'dueing country for a substantial length of time. But there will be no lariety at all. For the length of the. contract a14 the tea or.whatever is.be'e.;1 bought will conte from otte source and be. of general standard. Carried through to all foods it would be like putting a whole nation on army rations, which while they might be nourish ing enough, '1011ld get 7w41,1iy mon- otonolts. • That's wily there is so much com- plaint about the food hi Greats Britain today. it's not lack of quan • tity but lack of variety that really hurts, Where people who once had a choice of food front every corner of the wor111, the present restrictions result in sheer misery.—Frohn The Pinancial 1'011. When the County Sheriff died in C'alusa, Calif., the sorrowing in- mates of the county jail contribute a handsome funeral wreath wttleit bore this inscription: "To our be- loved Sheriff—from the prisoners."' Grade Robins -A blase city bird 'ignored a construction company's deadlines and built her nest right smack in the middle of scgffolldq- Ing for an apartment house. Before anyone could say Jactt Robin -son, Mrs. Robin had laid four eggs. Fuming foremen wait- ed 24 hours, then moved the nest with its two baby robins and two eggs to a safe place. Mama Robin followed along, deter- mined to let nothing interfere with her maternal duties. JITTER By Arthur Pointer ..%'M 711M14;(913ti HOuse�ApeR getiaemeaticSe 1541140 MORNINg, oke ittR 1r'4 MY inntYtooM.