The Brussels Post, 1951-11-21, Page 3By Richard Hill Wilkinson
There has probably never been
a greater hatred than that which
existed between Barney Craig and
Dan Chester. It all started because
of Barney's eagerness to become a
member of the local lodge. As one
ofthree candidates he was intro-
duced to Dan at the September
meeting, Imbued with the feeling of
good fellowship which the brothers
always emanate, • Barney assumed
at once a familiar attitude and took
liberties, Jovially, he made a crack
about Dan'e cars, which protruded
from the Chester head horizontally,
instead of perpendicularly, as is the
case in normal man, The blush
which mounted to Dan's cheeks
provoked guffaws of amusement
from the delighted Barney. •
After the meeting in which Bar-
ney's name was voted on, Dan pub-
licly announced that he would have
shot any ratan who had blackballed
him. Every one knew what he
meet, Barney's initation would last
for two months and would involve a
good deal of horseplay. Dan was
out for revenge.
And he got it. During the two
months of initiation, Barney suf-
fered all the humiliations, indigna-
tions and unrestrained paddlings of
a college freshman.
When it was over. the night that
Barney received the ritual and be-
came a full-fledged brother, Dan
grinned at him good-naturedly,
"You sure can take it, Brother
Craig. Of course it was alt in fun."
"Yeah," said Barney. "And now
that, I'm a full-fledged member I'm
as good as you? Is that right?"
"Absolutely, brother," said Dan.
"Good," said Barney, "because
for a long time I've wanted to do
this," And he hauled off and let Dan
have a smart one on the point of his
jaw. "All in fun, you know," Bar-
tley grinned savagely.
Dan picked himself up and
nodded. "O.K.,.Brother Craig, sup-
pose you and l go outside."
They went outside and removed
their coats. Ten minutes later Bar-
tley was lying on the ground staring
up at Dan through the one eye that
he could still open a crack.
"All in fun, Brother Craig. Come
around again some time when you
feel in a playful mood."
Barney spent most of November
and December in a gymnasium,
Shortly after the first of the year
he encountered Brother Dan again.
"Hello, Big Ears," he remarked,
"suppose we go outside?"
Dan was willing. They went out-
side, and to nine and one half min-
utes Barney decided that Dan must
have practically slept in a gymnasi-
um,
Barney went norne and cursed
himself to sleep. He decided that
_he'd lick Dan Chester if he died
trying which by the feeling of his
jaw he thought might happen any
minute.
Barney hired K, 0. McManus to
train him, K. O. was pretty rough
and Barney suffered `a lot, but he
acquired knowledge. On the first of
March he invited Brother Dan "out-
side."
The battle lasted 20 minutes this
time.
Spring was in full bloom when
Barney again sent word to Dan to
meet him outside. There was quite
an audience on hand this time.
The fight lasted 25 minutes. Both
participants were pretty groggy,
They were swinging wild and with-
out much zip. It began to look like
a draw, when suddenly it occurred
to Barney that for the first time
Dan wasn't beating him. The
thought gave him a feeling of ela-
tion and a burst of energy, He
poked a neat one at Dan's chin and
It connected. Barney, thrown off
balance, too weak to steady him-
sell, fell across his opponent's pro -
striae form and lay there.
It tool. an hour to revive the bat-
tlers. Barney came to first and
looked at Dan thoughtfully, Pre-
•sently Dan stirred and opened his
eyes. He saw -Barney and propped
'himself up on an eibow,
"Well, well, Brother Craig, Con.
•yratulaiionsl"
"Thanks," said Barney, and
grinned to. "Ail you know,"
"Sure," said Dan. "all is fun,"
And ihe extended his hand,
Barney gripped the hand and
acted to stake a crack about Dan's
n,i;t cuts, but changed his mind.
How the Cotten "Ginn
Came 'Fo Be invented
IT WAS AN alien green world,
heavy with dark mystery, into
which 'Ell Whitney tante bringing
his Yankee knack with tools. Ile
had left itis 'tome in Westboro,
Massachusetts, in the melancholy
autumn he knew and loved, But
here, about the mouth of the Sav-
annah, Nature sported bereel£ still
in the bright garments of May, , . ,
It was one of thise happy, or un-
happy accidents --as you choose to
regard it—that brought Eli Whit-
ney to linger at Mulberry Grove,
and another that led hien to sit
down and devise the cotton gin. He
had met Catherine Green on the
ship that was taking her back to
Savannah from Rhode Island, al-
ter visiting her people there, while
Whitney was going south to fill a
teaching post at the then almost
brand-new University of Georgia.
Jirotn the casual meeting aboard
ship, there developed a warm friend-
ship in the long days at sea between
twenty -seven-year-old Whitney and
the older woman. She invited hien
to visit Mulberry Grove while he
awaited further word from Presi-
dent Baldwin. , .
There was a great deal of talk
about cotton. For the first time, the
Yankee learned about this plant.
The visiting gentlemen kept say -
that, if only some way could
be found to separate the plaguey
seed from the fiber, some more
efficient method than the old-fash-
ioned rollers that were so clumsy
and slow, then they would have a
new and valuable crop for this
region.
Mechanics againl How he had
to put all that behind him, out of
sight and out of mind. But Mrs,
Greene was sweetly insistent and he
agreed to try his hand. After all,
he was a guest Isere, and the lady
had been most kind to hint, He
could do something for her is re-
turn. But he did not share her calm
assurance that he could turn the
trick. He knew too much about the
problems involved. Other clever
men rust have tried.
He locked himself away in his
room with a few bolls of cotton and
some tools, and again he was lost
in that world which so few could
enter with him, once more a lonely
fellow, moody and unsociable. The
stories vary about how long it took.
Some have it a matter of ten days;
some weeks. One story is that he
almost gave up and that Mrs.
Greene, herself, suggested the very
simple way out of the dilemma. He
had contrived a roller with teeth
which would extract the seed from
the fiber, but some of the fiber
clung to the teeth and clogged the
machine. The widow, informed by
him of his problem, looked at his
handiwork for a few minutes. Then
her face lighted up. She went over
and picked up a clothes -brush. All,
he' got the idea at once. A brush
revolving in the opposite direction
would do it. He devised one, and,
fol he had the new cotton "gin" a
word then applied to the crude rol-
lers then in use, a corruption of
"engine."—Front "The Savannah,"
by THOMAS L. STOKES.
Heir-Apparent—Every inch the
diplomat is Anthony Eden,
deputy prime minister and :for-
eign secretary in the new
Churchill government, seen re-
porting to the Foreign Office in
London shortly after taking of-
fice. Eden, Churchill's fdFeign
secretary in World War 11, is
regarded as the man who
would head the Conservative
Party if Churchill should step
down for reasons of health or
age,
Sometinnes it's the balcony usher,
not the censor, who keeps the tor-
rid love scenes out of the movies.
Some weeks ago I passed on to
you sortie information about the
success of a large-scale experiment
in rat control out in the Middle
West. The article caused so mach
interest that I think you'll possibly
welcome something further along
the same line, And the following
is borrowed—or perhaps I should
s a y 'stolen' — f rout Waldemar
Kaempffaert, famous science com-
mentator for The New York Times.
n * *
At last week's Boston meeting of
the National Pest Control Associa-
tion, Walter W. Dykstra, United
States Department of the Interior,
described a new phase in the con-
stant war waged against an esti-
mated rat population of 300,000,000
and a mouse population that is
probably larger. Anticoagulants are
now used, said Dykstra—chemicals
that retart or prevent blood from
clotting. They are mixed with food,
* * 4
When a rat or' mouse eats bait to
which an anticoagulan has been
added, chemical changes associated
with clotting of blood can no, longer
occur, Animals, especially rats and
mice, which have a very small
volume of blood, are weakened.
Lack of oxygen and shock bring
about death.
* * *
Wafarin is the most dramatjcally
effective of the anticoagulants, It
will am ]till overnight no matter
how strong the dose is. Between
five days and two weeks must be
allowed. In one unusual case as
many as 550 rats were killed in.
Texas with fifteen pounds of war-
farin—each rodent consuming only
the minimum amount. Usually lar-
ger doses of warfarin are neces-
sary.
o * *
Rats feedupon warfarin right up
to their death—except those so
wealccned a day or two before that
they are unable to reach poisoned
food. Few dead rats are seen. Other
evidence has confirmed their death
in concealed locations. Some rats
are smart. In the laboratory they
refuse to eat much anticoagulant
bait if there is untreated food
around.
The possible danger to pets is
slight. A house cat would probably
have to eat several warfarin -poi-
soned mice daily for a week or more
before 1t fell sick or succumbed.
Among farm animals, the greatest
danger is to hogs, but there is little
effect on chickens or turkeys,
* * *
No poison will kill all rats and
nice in a community or even in a
large building. Sanitation must be
improved.
Credit for the introduction of
anticoagulants for the control of
rats and mice goes to ant English-
man, J. A. O'Connor. He used di-
cumarol on the ilsand of Malta in
1947. Warfarin was subsequently
developed and released for sale on
July I, 1950. Approximately a mil-
lion pounds of the 0.5 per cent
concentrate have already been sold
in the form of powder and finished
bait under about 300 different trade
names.
Launching into tate spelling les-
son, substitute teacher Esther
Smith asked the third-grade class,
"Wouldn't your teacher be pleased
if you all got 100 on the test Fri-
day?"
To her surprise, one small boy
spoke up. "I don't know whether
she'd be so pleased."
"Why, what do you mean?" ask-
ed the puzzled Mrs. Smith.
Explained the little boy, "Well,
you see, she promised the whole
class a treat if we got 100."
Brains At Work—A common sight during noon recess at Swedish
schools is groups of students like these Stockholm youngsters sums
playing chess, others kibitizing. Mystery is how, with only an
hour and a half for lunch and recreation, they manage to finish
a game.
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PERFORMANCE NOT PROMISES IS THE KEYNOTE,
PROGRESS IS THE GOAL -OF ALL PROGRESSIVE
CONSERVATIVE POLICY
2,000,000 Horsepower
added to Hydro output.
Trans -Canada Highway
under construction.
St. Lawrence power develop-
ment to commence.
$150,000,000 extra for vast
highway extensions.
VP 1,150 new schools to ac-
commodate 150,000 pupils.
,/ 109 new hospitals or exten-
sions provided.
New farm markets
developed.
Forest wealth preserved as
part of vast conservation
program.
thei $100,000,000 in municipal
grants to relieve local tax-
payer.
85 % of Ontario's farms
electrified.
Premier Leslie Frost is the only ,Provincial Treasurer in Ontario's
history to introduce 8 consecutive balanced begets,
YET -ONTARIO HAS THE LOWEST PROVINCIAL
TAXATION IN CANADA
No Sales Tax—No Personal Income Tax
Ontario's Credit has been kept Bright and Clean under
PROGRESSIVE .CONSERVATIVE MANAGEMENT
ENSURE CONTINUED GOOD GOVERNMENT
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