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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1951-7-11, Page 3Spine Curvature Quickly Corrected When the spins' is curved to One side, physicians call 1t a ease of tho• rarie scoliosis, in the operation known as )lir tcuplasty, ribs art removed wholly or in part to col- lapse the chest wttll. ITsually it hap- pens after the operation that the spine is pulled to one side; with the convexity toward the side Dont which the ribs were removed. These well-known facts gave a N.Y. surgeon, Dr, 11. Leslie Wen- ger, an idea, Ile found that spines did not curve after operations in which the transverse processes of the vertebra, that is the lateral bony outgrowth, remained intact with their attached ligaments. Evi- ilentlythe spine had been pulled out of place after operations in which the transverse processes of the vertebrae were removed. All this being so, why not delib- erately remove thetransverse pro- cesses in a case of curvature of the spine from the side opposite the convexity and thus pull the spine into position? In the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Dr, Wen- ger tells how he performed the operation on a number of patients. One of these was a 16 -year-old boy whose spine was curved 28 degrees. Five transverse processes were re- moved as well as sections of ribs where they joined the vertebrae. The boy went about his business with no plaster-of-pnris cast or any other corrective apparatus. Sixteen clays after the operation, X-ray pictures showed a correction. More pictures taken months later showed that the correction has been maintained, The longitudinal axis of the spine was not what it would have been in a normal per- son, but a permanent reduction of curvature from 28 to 16 degrees was an achievement of importance to the boy. Curved spines are corrected in about a month by Dr. Wenger's method, When the standard meth- od k carried out, the patient stays in a hospital for a year, most of the time in a plaster cast, Bone - grafting is also resorted to. All of which means loss of time and great expense. (Tram) Bone Dry — One of the 2200 trombone players meeting for their 12th annual Congress at Bayreuth, Germany, donned his horn like a cap when rain put a damper on the giant "slushpump" session. Salesmen Must Sell Restriction on credit is not the only reason for the slump in car sales. Lack of salesmanship is also a potent factor. That blunt opinion conies from G. W. Harriman, of the Austin Motor Co. A great many will agree with him and not only on cars but on a lot of other merchandise as well. As Mr, Ilarriman further point - c,! out to Au'stin's Canadian dealers r' ntly, for years we have be- come accustomed to goods almost 'moving themselves. All through the war it wasn't necessary to sell as customers were willing to line up for the dwindling supply of goods available. Theta with the end of the war carte ilte greatest demand for merchandise this country has ever seen. Sales- men simply became .order takers as customers waited weeks, months and sometimes ' years ' for cars, houses, radios, refrigerators and almost everything else. Goods flow- ed straight from- the factory to the consumer with hardly a pause at wholesale or retail level.' Now with. the abnormal war- time backlog filled those lush days are over. :Salesmen are going to have to learn to .sell again,—From Tire Financial Post, GLAD TIDINGS King Abdullah of Jordan receiv- ed a telegram from itis son, Prince TaUal, in Europe, assttring Itim that the younk fellow "continues to obey the will of his father." This doubtless itas some political sig- nificance. llut many another head of a household world be glad to receive such an assurance even if it referred only to when Junior Would finish mowing the lawn. .:1 Love Finds A Way—Four-year-old Judy Ann Geral loves her Grandpa. He's her pal and has spent most of his leisure time building her a swing, a playhouse, a merry-go-round and she has for- gotten how many toys. So, when he had to go to the hospital on the eve of his 62nd birthday, Judy was upset. She tried many times to visit him, but her age barred her. Finally she went home and, with an assist from her mother, worked out her inspiration. With it she rushed back to the hospital and, as seen at right, was able to wish him a happy birthday after all. Looking down at her from the hospital -room window Grandpa said: "That's my girl." River of Grass There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth, remote, never wholly Known. Nothing anywhere else is like them; their vast glittering open- ness, wider than the enormous visible round of the horizon, the racing free saltness and sweetness of their massive winds, under the dazzling blue heights of space. They are unique also in the sim- plicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life they enclose. The miracle of the light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slow-moving below, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Ever- glades of Florida. It is a river of grass... , The English from the Bahamas, charting the Florida coasts in the early seventeen hundreds, had no very clear idea of them. Gerard de Brahms, the surveyor, may have gone up some of the east -coast rivers and stared out on that end- less, watery bright expanse, for on his map he called them "River Glades." But on the later English maps "River" becomes "Ever," so it is hard to tell what he intended. The present name came into general use only after the acquisi- tion of Florida from Spain in 1819 by the United States. The Turner map of 1823 was the first to use the word "Everglades." ' ' ' 'The word "glade" is of the oldest English origin. It comes from the Anglo-Saxon (glaed," with the "as" diphthong, shortened to "gla." It meant "shining" or "bridge," perhaps as of water. The same word was used in the Scandinavian languages for "a clear place in the sky, a bright streak or patch of light,' as Webster's International Dictionary gives it. But most dictionaries nowadays end a definition of them with the qualifying phrase, "as of the Flor- ida Everglades." So that they have thus become unique in being their own, and only, best definition.— From "The Everglades: River of Grass," by Marjory Stoneman Douglas. Front now on we don't believe anything we see in public print is going to surprise or shock us— no, not even if Colonel Bertie Mc- Cormick of The Chicago Tribune should start printing a picture of King George at his masthead, or The Toronto Globe and Mail should hail the Hon. C. D. Howe as the greatest Canadian living or dead, * * * For, believe it or not, we have just finished reading an article in an English journal of wide cir- culation in which the sacred sport of CRICKET is most severely criticised. Cricket, mind you! Why, that's mutiny, that's what it is! Or firing on the guards! Or something! k * Writing about one of the current Test Matches between South Africa and England, the author, one Jef- frey Wyndham, says "The crowds will go because of the natural at- tractions of a Test Match and the knowledge that every player is a star. But although a five-day gate, when eventually shared out, may be a good physic for county trea- surer's sick balance sheets, these five-day marathons are ruining cricket as a spectacle!" * * * Fancy that! Ruining cricket, egad) Wyndam may be an English name, but we suspect, the man must be a Sinn Feiner at heart. * 5 * But that is by no means the worst, Brother Wyndham is merely warming up. "Five-day matches are a modern fetish," he goes on to say. "They were started because England and Australia, scared of losing to each other, declined t0 show boldness in play . . The only means so far devised of finish- ing a game was 10 stretch playing flours," * * * (Here we alight say that the rrs '1 i Rl�s j� l t . 9� HAROLD ARRNEiI KEEP POTTED PLANTS WATEREP WHILE ABSENT FROM HOME BY PLACING PLANTS IN A LARGE BOWL ANP WEDGING TWO INVERTED QUART SIZEP COTTLES OF WATER BETWEEN POI" AND BOWL. stretching was done to the extent that instead of getting three sell- out gates they now grab off five. Which might be an idea, at that, for our hockey moguls who object to playing overtime. When the re- gulation 60 minutes end in a tie, tell the customers to kick in with the price of another admission and stop to see the finish.) * * * But back to Brother Wyndham. "When this happened the first prin- ciple of cricket was cast aside— that it's the game, not the result, that matters: Soon other cricket playing countries regarded them- selves as slighted unless they, too, were given five-day Tests." * 5 * "Five -clay Tests arc defeating their own object, They were de- vised to bring about results and maintain' interest, avoiding the frus- tration of a draw. But players have conte to regard then as an exten- sion of their lease of the wicket. In- stead of making sure they finish the game, they try to stay in as long as possible," * * * Now the warm -ftp is over, Mr. Wyndham is out of the bull -pen and starts really flinging. Hearken! . 5 5 5 It may be a grim business for the player, who is obsessed with the idea that he is engaged in a life - or -death struggle for his cricketing reputation. But spectators who pay to see a cricket match are not in- terested in a player's personal am- bitions. They ,want to be enter- tained—after all, they do pay enter- tainment tax in their admission money, 5 * * Cricket offers either the most delightful relaxation or the most boring spectacle. I know one cynic who frequently declares that coun- ties are encouraging boring cricket in the hope that it will drive spec- tators to drink and so increase the bar takings) But not even that excuse will last much longer. The most patient will evventually realize that they can get a cheaper drink outside the ground and cave admission money as well. .. ,. At heart, practically every Briton lilies to watch a game of cricket, whether it is played in- the sanctity of Lord's, the smoke -grinned ats mosphere of 'Manchester or Shef- field, a tree -fringed village green, tit just a bump pitch in a public, park. But however much he may of- fend the purists, what he really wants to see is the ball being hit. Crack it away to the boundary and ;he will raise a cheer; pat it back to the bowler and he re- mains dumb, or else applauds ironi- cally—if he hasn't gone to sleep, * r * It may be hard on the bowler, but it is the batsman who really matters from the spectator's point of view. Everyone can see what he does; but even with binoculars 'it is sometimes difficult to discover what type of delivery the bowler is trying. Even in the Pre, s box, where cricket writers are supposed to be neutral and unbiased, 1 and my cof- leaguee have often breathed a fees' vent "Thank goodness he's goner when a particularly stodgy batsman. has at last been removed. b * The crowd go to see runs scored. or else in the main they won't go at all. They will applaud the clas- sic strokes like the majestic off - drive, the graceful cut, or the al- most contemptuous pul. But they will also applaud a snick through the slips or a blacksmith's swipe. It may be sacrilege to suggest that the public are mainly inter- ested in seeing runs scored—but it is very near the truth. For con- firmation, look to the prosperous league clubs in the Midlands and North, where, even if small grounds do make fours easy to get, the crowds roll up to applaud quick runs—and make handsome collec- tions for the man who gets them. 5 * * Crowds went to see men like Hobbs, Woolley and Bradman be- cause they knew they would score plenty of runs, and usually get thein quickly. Woolley, from whom, in the eyes of many small boys, anything less than a six was a mishit, was the most graceful bats- n-sn in modern memory. Hobbs also was a supreme artist. Brad- man cared little about the arts, but he got the runs—and quickly. We still have Hutton and Comp- ton, who are first-rate craftsmen as well as ground -filling entertain- ers. Men like these are rare indeed. But players with far less talent will quickly get a crowd -pulling reputa- tion just by trying to look enthu- siastic and going for the quqick singles that so many orthodox batmen disdain. Call it tip -and -run cricket if you like, but that is my remedy for cricket's ills. Quick runs at almost any cost, even if we have to lower the standard of batsmanship. As a lover of the arts of cricket it is against my inner wishes to say so—but rather Iively decadence than a genteel corpse, There's too much sauntering on to the field and when changing positions between overs. To_o many players look bored. b * * The public do not want to wait five days to know a match result. Three should be ample even for a Test. There may be ways to enliven cricket by artificial means, but for a start let's try more keen- ness and entusia' m among the players. A cricket ground is no place for bored players or bored spectators. If clubs remember that and act accordingly they will be a long way towards solving their problems. Butt sufficient of such a sad sub- ject for the time being. More than sufficient, probably, as we know that our readers' hearts must haze been wrung, even as ours was, at such a sad talc. Just to think that there are cricketers who actually itnagine that their personal batting averages natter a tinker's (hunt Just to think that there are cricket writers who consider that the cash customer—the guys who keep the game going—are deserving any consideration! Still, if the top brass of cricket are really worried, the have a couple or three suggestions to make. If they really want more and faster scoring why don't they call strikes on the batter or bring in the fenc- es closer to the pia—we mean the wicket? Better still, why not in- ject a small amount of rabbit into the ball? The Department of Agriculture regretfully discloses that there arc only 2,000,000 horses left in the United States. In the peak year, 1915, the equine population was over 21,000,000. 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