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The Brussels Post, 1951-8-1, Page 31,41 Hard Chrink fly Richard H. WiHeinen), Chuck Wallace was hard boiled, Women didn't bother taint such. Flying did. 11e owned his Mill plane and specialized in doing free-lance ,jobs for private interests, and per- forming rescues for reward utoney. Ile had quite a reputation. When, at the annul pilots' ball, he was presented to rest -heated Alma Mal- lory he wasn't impressed at all. Alma was. She had heard of -Chuck, Alma was very modern, very sure of herself, used to getting what she wanted. She wanted Chuck, Chuck wasn't quick to catch on. \Vhen finally he realized shat site teas up to he had almost fallen into her trap. Ile was glad when news mune in that a young flyer had been lost in the uroods. it gave him a chance to get away. The fact that the young lost 'flyer was Don Mallory, Alma's, brother, didn't .bother him at all, This was business. Old Man Mallory, through his law- yers, had offered a fat reward. Chuck Wallace loaded up and took off the next morning in 'his seaplane. That night he set down on a little wooded lake, 150 miles from , the nearest habitation, and estab- lished a base. The next da,' he be- gan systematically to comb the country. In the afternoon he returned to his base,. and received a shock. 'there was another plat riding •on the surface of the, Jake. He saw a figure standing un the shore. It was \Ina Mallory. "\Vhat's the idea?" he asked. "What do you think? Don's my brother." She had brought along a lot of the things Chuck hadn't thought necessary. There was nothing he could do about iter being there, so he set up one of the tent,: and ate the supper she cooked for him. The next day he flew west and Alma was very modern, very sure of herself, used to getting what she wanted. And she wanted Clack. covered a strip 25 miles wide. But he didn't sight anything, and was genuinely worried when he returned to the base that night. The next horning, just before noon, he sighted a plane on a lake 50 miles east of his base and set down, taxi-ing up beside it. A Ulan stood on one of the wings and called to 11101. Chuck stcowlecf. He didn't like this. Not a bit of it... At 2 o'clock Inc returned to his base and found it deserted. Alma and her plane had gone. Ile swore and packed up his equipment, The next morning he reached his home landing. He went home and shaved and bathed and got into bed, 1 -Ie was dead tired, but he couldn't ,sleep. The next morning lie took a taxi do the Mallory home and asked for Alnma. A butler told flim that site 'had gone down to Briarsfield to visit friends, The friends' name was Hauscomb, Chuck caught a Wain for Briarsfield that afternoon, Ide arrived. at 5 o'clock and located the Hanscom 110010. Alma, they told him, was out horseback riding with a chap named Rodney Nuys. Chuck rented a horse and went looking for het.. Two miles from the Hauscomb homehe came up to a spot where the bridle trail widen- ed. There were two horses in the clearing, standing close together. Rodney Nuys Was • trying to kiss the 'rider of the other, a red-headed :girl. Chuck rode up close and clipped the gent so hard he fell out of the saddle. Then ho grabbed hold of the.: girl and shook her roughly, "What's the idea?" he barked, "I found your brother in a little lake 50 miles east of the base. He was looking for us, He said he didn't think it was so smart for his sister to give out that he was lost, when he really wasn't—just so she could send Chuck Wallace up into the country and -then follow. What's the idea?" Alma looked at him defiantly, "What do you think?" sloe said, "You big indcfferetnt lummox! And why do you think I gave -'up and came home?" Chuck blinked, but maintained his hold on her arum. roc the first time when, looking at this girl, he • grinned. "Do you leant nue to tell you what 3 think?" he asked, "Yes," said Alma. .�Y Gordon Slain. When the spring pageant of bloom 1500 passed in the rock gar- den, it is time to give attention to problems of sunnier maintenance, Supplying" water and a proper top - dressing, besides giving care to individual groups of plants, is neces- sary for the future growth of the garden as well as its immediate ap- pearance, • * * St is of utmost importance to wa- ter the rock garden thoroughly at regular intervals during the autrimer months. Hot sun and drying winds draw a copious 511100151 of seater from the soil. If the rocks are of a porous, absorbent nature, they too attract their share of moisture away from the roots of adjacent plants. The more elaborately con- structed rock garden will probably have an underground watering sys- tem, making the job of watering consist merely of turning on a fau- cet. The humbler garden will re- quire the use of a hose. If the spray is directed skyward, the drops will fall gently on the plants in a semblance of rain. 1t is best if the watering is done at night and the entire area thoroughly soaked. * * The older rock garden especially will benefit from a topdressing of a nutritious soil. The compost heap will provide better material than ordinary topsoil because of its high organic content. Put through a quarter -inch sieve, it should have a quart of bonemeal mixed into every basketful. * * * Rock garden plants will, in fact, appreciate a top dressing annually. If the prepared soil is distributed between the plants and lightly cul- tivated into the surface, rains and waterings will carry its elements to the roots where it will be used to advantage. * * * For plants that are exacting in diet, such as the azaleas, rhododen- drons and others that demand an acid soil, a good topdressing can be collected in a wooded' spot where the leafy soil has been broken down to a fine texture through years of slow decomposition. If such leaf - mold is not available, haled peat can be substituted, * w * The lime -lovers, on the other hand, notably the saxifrages, need a dressing of lime, The encrusted types show a marked lime encrusta- tion at the edges of their leaves when they are satisfactorily fed. • Mortar taken from old buildings that are being torn down makes an excellent dressing for them when crushed fine and put through a sieve. Second choice of material is ground crushed limestone, * * 5, All of the hard -leaved saxifrages look most at home when the ground between the plaits is covered with three -eighths -inch bluestone such as is used for pathways. The color of the stone gives a pleasing effect as a background for the leaves. The bluestone also aids in conservation of soil moisture, * * * The mossy saxifrages will re- spond best to a mixture of leafmold and sharp sand. Established plant- ings from such dense mats that it is necessary to part the rosettes in order to work the topdressing .into the soil, 5' Some of the rock garden plants which flowered in early spring, such as adonis ansa the various kinds of corydalis, will soot be losing their foliage completely. It is there- fore wise to mark the spot before they disappear for the season, lest the planting of bulbs in those seem- ingly vacant places result in injury to the hidden roots, * * ' * Spring -flowering bulbs themselves New LoWpop Cloth Can't Acetate Tablecloth Is Easily Laundered ISY EDNA'MILES THE alert homemaker, always on the look -out for fresh JI accessories to brighten ber home, may well east her eye in the direction of a new damask tablecloth and napkins recently introduced by a well-known firm. This cloth, which may earn her interest through virtue of long-lasting brightness and laundering ease, should re- ceive a vote from the junior department of the family as well. Lollipop stripes in red, leaf green, yellow, blue, mint green—all on a white background—are sufficiently gay to appeal to all age groups. Made,of acetate rayon yarn„ the cloth lends itself well to either party occasions or simple family meals, depending upon the formality of the table setting. There's no need to worry about accidents, either, makers claim. Lipstick sparks or fruit stains on cloth and napkins rinse right out with a gentle sudsing, they say. need attention now, As soon as their foliage Inas turned completely yel- low—but not before—it may be cut . off. By this time the leaves 11,i11 have served their usefulness in the manufacture of food and the de- velopment of a tiny bud inside the bulb for next year's growth. Their locations also should be marked, unless they have been growing up through the mantling green of such plants as arenaria or Phlox subul- ata where they will not be disturbed. * * Flowers which have passed their beauty should, for appearance's sake, be cut off unless, like the pasque- flower and -ryas, they have decor- . ative seedheads or unless the seeds arc wanted for propagation. Pods of the little alpine poppy, for ex- ample, can be left to ripen, and the seeds then scattered in the vicinity of the parent plant, there to sprout and mature. Going Much Too Far Just what are labor unions *after anyway? They scream about high prices, Yet they demand higher wages. They want price control but no wage control. Now Winnipeg provides a situa- tion which if it weren't so serious, wood border on the ludicrous. A Food store has been selling bread below its competitors. The CCL Bakery Workers' union in- stead of cheering for something they've been loudly demanding, ordered its drivers not to deliver to the store! 'Why? Because, says the union in a letter to its members, the store is practising "unfair competition" by cutting the retail price and thereby jeopardizing the earnings of unionized salesmen. What's more, the union has told the major bakeries not to supply bread Eo the price -lowering "offen- der." Not asked then(—warned them not to. Knowing what would hap- pen if they didn't, the bakeries knuckled under. We have had many cases of unions flouting the law in the mat- ter of strikes, but this sort of thing goes even further. IIere we have direct and totally unjustified inter- ference with the ordinary citizen in the smatter of buying bread. And recently we had the same sort of • interference in Toronto with the buying of milk and earlier with the disposal of garbage in Hamilton. In addition to being a dangerous misuse of power the unions Con- cerned are demonstrating a callous disregard for the general public and making a mockery of their national leader's plea for lower prices and lower costs.—Prom The Financial Post. Social Note. In North East, Pa., the Breeze announced that "Dick Campbell, son of Mr, and Mrs. C. P. Campbell, has accepted a position as private in the . U,S. Arany." BY • IARDLD ARNETT NQOKS AND EYES° .SCREWED INTO BOTTOM OF VENETIAN BLINDS AND IN WINDOW SILL AT BOTTOM, PREVENT BLINDS FROM RATTLING. Licked At this season of the year, farm- ers—except the "gentlemen" kind— haven't ntuclt time to discuss mat- ters political and economical. But when two or three of them do get together the conversation is almost bound sooner or later to drift around to the matter of price con- trols. " * t' In a column of this nature, it is hardly my place to take a definite stand, either pro or con, regarding controls or ceilings. Of course, the ideal condition would be to have everything I buy strictly controlled and everything 1 produce with the sky as the limit; but that's too much to hope for 111 an imperfect world, I imagine. But as the pop- ular song puts it, "1 can dream can't 1?" * * * Seriously enough, there's so ninth to be said both for and against that it's hard for the aver- age brain to come to any definite conclusion. But perhaps an idea of what is happening in this re- gard far away in Australia plight be a help; and the following is taken from a recent dispatch—sent by an observer with no axe to grind—front Sydney. Ile starts by saying that public confidence in the present Aussie system of partial price control is definitely slipping, and that this type of control over the national . price structure 5001115 unworkable. * * t, Potatoes, for example, which are presently controlled at six cents a pound, are openly priced on the streets at 16 cents, But nobody re- ports this flouting of the law. e' * s, The reason is that many Aus- tralians feel that the present par- tial control system is doing more harts than good, actually curtailing production which would otherwise exert its own control of prices un- der supply and demand laws, * * * At least, the Potato Marketing Board for New South Wales and the Potato Growers' Association convinced of that argument. They are buying newspaper space telling why. These advertises% h 01 d that "New South Wales potato growers fear and distrust the present price control system, They are clearly demonstrating their unwillingness to produce for unpayable returns, by abandoning the industry at the rate of many scores per month." * * +, Such claims are supported by the fact that potatoes have been scarce for some time. Some stores keep them as a "prize" (at a price) for customers placing large orders for other goods, But this news is pub- licized only in whispers. * * * "These facts," declares the potato industry, "least inevitably to the question that price control in its laudable aim of keeping down the cost of living, makes profitable pro- duction of potatoes impossible and unduly increases the weekly house- hold food bills," * * * The potato control story is just one nwre instance o what happens when controls opera e in a discrim- inatory fashion. In the potato in- dustry's case, uncoil rolled and ris- ing wage costs, for example, are borne by profit margins and can- not be transferred to consumers because of price control roadblocks. Result: profits shrink and encour- age black markets, �* * * Another instance of price control boomeranging on the consumer it is supposed to protect is seen in the big Australian cattle industry. * * * Price control on the sale of hides, for domestic use and for export, was originally made with the idea of keeping down the price of foot- wear to Australians. Consequently, as general production costs climbed in the cattle industry, hides became unprofitable to handle. But the re- sult was to force up the price of beef in industry attempts to recover its losses under hide control. * * * The alleged injustice of the con- trol position was emphasized by industry sources who demonstrated that less than half of Australia's leather production went into foot- wear. The major balance was used in the automobile, handbag, and other leather -using industries, These sources pointed out it was never intended that the hide control law should "subsidize" these leather users in this way, Thus expensive beef also can be traced to cheap handbags and car cushions. * * * From their experiences with con- trol of hides and potatoes, many Australians have drawn the con- clusion that partial controls can get out of hand in the strangest ways, with the consumer paying dearly for the experiment. * * * This situation has led to sharp controversy in the federal Legis- lature. The Labour Party is press- ing for a national referendum to write permanent price control powers into the Australian Con- stitution, The Liberal government, how- ever, is against the plan. It has now proclaimed a new control measure in the name of national security, a power already within the Constitution. * •k " This means that Labour and Lib- eral views on the need for "com- prehensive" controls differ only in the time facto'. The Labourites would introduce a "permanent" setup; the Liberals a "temporary" one, The Liberal's approach, thus is born of "private enterprise" and the Labourites' that of doctrinaire socialism, w: * * But with the Liberals in power, it boils down simply to a ques- tion of "how comprehensive" should be the new "temporary" federal control system. The degree must be dictated by the scope of Aus- tralian rearmament, a question as yet' unsettled. This young. another plans x gay steal for her family,. Lollipop -striped: tablecloth and centerpiece of fresh daisies help make a feast of the pimple fare. Forges Signatures For Her Living Ingenuity seems to be the fem- inine characteristic when choosing a job, finlike most of the male sex, women seem unwilling to enter the stock professions. Talce Madeline Lee, for instance. This 27 -year-old New Yorker is producer of baby language. An ac- complished actress, she spends most of her working day emitting coos and gurgles over the radio. In order to be sound perfect, she has sat for long hours in the -park listening to children prattling and crying in their prams. Another American woman, mid- dle-aged Felicic King, is a forger of film star's signatures. Many celebrities of the screen receive so may requests for autographs, that they would suffer from writer's cramp if they fulfilled them all. That's where Miss King comes in. She can imitate anyone's sig- nature. Miss King lends her hand to notabilities in many fields. She even signed 'gift portraits for the late President Roosevelt during his first election campaign. Also in the United States lives the Baroness de Vries Doesburg, who is a professional finder ormiss- ing heirs. No research is too long or too difficult for her. Once the only clue to a bene- ficiary under a Canadian million- aire's will was that he had hawked brushes from door to door. The Baroness wrote to all the leading brush manufacturers in Canada, U.S.A. and Great Britain. At last the reply came from the head of one of these firms, 'ef expert you Mea11 me," This matt. was 1n uo nerd of a legacy; he had made- good himself. Americans, of course, have als. ways been good at thinlcing up new and unusual occupations. A Miami hotel now has a corps of "wale -up girls," who replace alarm clocks and the shrilling of tele- phone bells, When guests wish to be called in the morning, these girls sing outside the bedroom door. If a heavy sleeper continues to snore, the girls have a nice line of patter about how wonderful the weather is and how pleasant it is to be up, 900 -Year-old Turtle Believed to be the largest in the world, a 900 -year-old turtle has been caught by two Australian deep-sea fishermen. It is seven feet eight inches long and was caught off the New South Wales coast near Bermagui. Previously the record for size was held by a turtle which is now in the Sydney Museum. This is six feet seven inches long and estimated to be more than $00 }rears old. Best-known species of turtle is the Green Turtle, which conies mainly from the •\\'eet Indies for staking turtle soup. There are several ways of catch- ing it, but the usual one is for a diver to be lowered on a rope to scour the bottom of the sea and the sandy beds. Most ingenious way is used by natives, who lower a large sucker fish into the water and hope that it attaches itself to the turtle's shell. The turtle's habit of floating on top of water, sound asleep, also gives natives a chance to harpoon them, or to catch the female when she conte on shore to lay her eggs in the sand. Mother turtle finds some quiet island with a sandy shore, then waddles ashore just far enough to be safe from the high tides. There she digs a hole in the sand; using her hind legs as spades, and deposits her eggs. The sand -nest is usually about thirty inches 'deep, and after the eggs are laid the mother carefully fills in the hole with dry sand, and smooths the top. so that no marks give away the nest. Then she returns to the sea and her eggs are hatched by the sun. The young turtles are very small —about the size of an ordinary frog—but a steady diet of fish and seaweed transforms them into en- ormous monsters weighing 300 lbs, and more. Turtles are helpless when they are overturned on to their shell, or "turned turtle". Those used for the turtle soup at banquets are usually about twen- ty years old and weigh 200 lb. each, Facing Up To It --New among toys being readied for next Christ- mas is the "scribbles" doll, which literally can have a thousand faces. The molded plastic face has no features. These are ad- libbed in by the doll's young mistress, as five-year-old Christine Du Rona demonstrates. The doll was shown at a recent preview of outstanding toys. ATA BOY.JITTER - PADDLE OVER TOTEM MOORING BUOY. �—.-- GEE J DOESN'T SHE LOOK SNOOTY SINCE WE PAINTED NRR? Y-YES,.BIIT 5 REG. HAYING A PEELING THAT WE 1ORGOT SoMETNtNU ,w , nsa • i3y Arthur Pointer IT' WASN'T CALKING 'Ile SEAMS WA5 Ip POP?