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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. od - emment sfkrnqT . 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 e