HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1951-12-19, Page 6Snow After 7 Years
Leaving the MothtT Lode town
of Auburn and climbing the long
grade of highway 40 toward the
Sierra Divide, the car began to
pass snow at the 4,000 -toot level,
or about at Baxter's Camp. It lay
M patches beneath the pine trees
where the sun couldn't reach it,
and along the side of the road
where the plows had pushed it af-
ter the storm a couple of days
before.
It had been seven years since I
had seen snow, and it was a lovely
thing to see ae l:n, There were
others who must have felt the same
way. A pretty girl in slacks and a
mackinaw and a knitted cap,
brightly red, had stopped her car,
got out, and scooped up a double
handful, and when I passed her
she was getting back into her car
eating it. She was smiling.
maybe site was just thirsty, but
I do not think that people who
live in the snow and see it every
clay for five or six months take a
drink of water like that, and senile.
You do that when you're seeing
snow for the first time in a long
while. You do it when you remem-
ber how you ate snow when you
were a kid in Connecticut or Wis-
consin, before you went to Cali-
fornia or Sacramento or any one
of a hundred other places where
it never snows.
Riding with Ise were two hitch-
hikers, a discharged paratrooper
named Tom and a young merchant
seaman who never mentioned his
name. They had been bound across
the mountains alone and were try-
ing to get home by Christmas, Tom
to St. Louis and the seaman to
some small town hi Georgia. I had
picked them up, one right after the
other, on the outskirts of North
Sacramento.
Three feet of snow lay over the
Donner Summit—the winter was
mild this year and not like that
winter of 1846, a century ago—and
as we drove through the pass and
down the winding road on the
eastern side of the divide, all
around us were granite peaks and
boulders.—From "California Called
Them," by Robert O'Brien.
Fussy at Fuessen—Two feminine
Austrian tourists Iearr, the fine
art of dipping their feet into a
vat of disinfectant without
splashing their nylons at the
Fuessen, Germany border. All
visitors crossing into Germany
are forced to undergo the sole -
high bath to prevent them from
possibly spreading the foot and
mouth disease among cattle in
Bavaria by carrying the germ
on their shoes. Already, large
numbers of livestock in the Fues-
sen area have been infected
with the death -dealing sickness.
Better Than A
Geiger Counter
A successor to the Geiger coun-
ter is announced by the University
of Pennsylvania. The instrument is
called a "scintillation counter" be-
cause it utilizes a property of some
common crystals which emit visible
light when exposed to the emana-
tions of radio -active substances.
Sodium iodide, anthracene and
even naphthalene, of which ordinary
moth balls are composed, are crys-
tals of this type.
The visible light that comes from
a crystal after irradiation is direct-
ed upon the light-sensitive surface
of a photornultiplier tube which,
like a photo -electric cell, converts
each burst of light into an electrical
pulse. This electrical pulse is am-
plified'and fed into an electronic
counting device which adds up the
number of rays ^isorbed by the
crystal. The number of rays count-
ed in a minute is a measure of the
quantity of the radioactive mater-
ial.
The scintillation counter permits
the use of one -twentieth, or only 5
per cent, the dose of radioactive
material ordinarily required in diag-
nostic procedures. The use of the
sane doses in conjunction with the
scintillation counter leads to more
Precise results, but the therapeutic
(lasage cannot be reduced.
..yaw Can it
By Anne Ashley
Q. How can I remove the dry,
roughened skin on the elbows?
A. This may be removed by using
cuticle remover from the manicure
set. Moisten the elbows thoroughly
with the preparation, wash with
warm water and pure soap, and rub
with a Turkish towel.
* * *
Q. How can I cause playing
cards to slide easier?
A. If a thin coating of liquid
wax . is applied to each card, both
face and back, they will slide much
easier and will also be protected
from soil and wear.
* * *
Q. How can I make a good ce-
ment for broken china?
A. lvtix plaster of Paris with the
white of an egg until the consist-
ency of cream. Apply and allow
to harden before using.
* * *
Q. What is one of the biggest
factors in the laundering of
clothes?
A. One of the biggest factors in
the whiteness of white clothes and
the clearness of colored clothes is
thorough rinsing. Rinse until the
water is clear and absolutely free
of any suds.
* * *
Q. How can I remove an obstin-
ate cork from a bottle?
A. Dip a piece of woollen cloth
into boiling water and wrap tightly
about the neck of the bottle. In a
few minutes the cork can be re-
moved.
* * *
Q. How can I prevent chapped
hands?
A. Apply glycerine and rosewater
or lemon juice, several tines daily
. and at night before retiring.
* * *
Q. How can I lengthen the life
of candles?
A. Take each candle by the wick
and give it a good coating of white
varnish. The varnish will keep the
grease from running down and
will thus preserve the life of the
candle.
* * *
Q. What can I do when I have
discovered too much salt has been
added to cooking food?
A. Stretch a clean cloth tightly
over the vessel and sprinkle one
tablespoonful of flour over the
cloth. Allow it to steam for a few
minutes and the flour will obsorb
the salt.
* * *
Q. How can I remove white
spots on furniture caused by hot
dishes 'sew water?
A. Rub the spots with a mixture
of machine oil and soda,
* * *
Q. -How can I induce sleep?
A. A small dose of soda taken
in a glass of warm water before
retiring will often induce sleep in
restless persons.
Cobalt "Bomb"
A radioactive cobalt 50 ,cancer
"bomb" similar to the two "bombs"
recently made in Canada and in-
stalled in hospitals of Ontario and .
Saskatoon now goes from the Oak
Ridge Institute to a Texas cancer
hospital. The cobalt had to be seal-
ed in a small air -tight container
and transferred from a 6,000 -pound
lead shield into the 2.000 -pound
"bomb"—all under ten feet of wa-
ter. And the cobalt had to be
absolutely dry before being sealed.
The loading was carried out with
long tongs under water because of
the cobalt's radioactivity., The unit
was then housed in an underground
building, with thick concrete walls,
to be tested on animals. When the
testing phase of the program is
completed, the unit will be moved
to Texas for treatment of cancer
patients, It can be used as a bomb
to take the place of much larger
and more expensive X-ray machines.
Meet The Champ—Framed by assorted cuts of meat, James Barry,
celebrates his winning of the meat -judging contest at the inter-
national livestock show. Barry scored 932 out of a possible 1040
points, trimming his nearest opponent, Robert Kreiter, by three
points.
It isn't very often that you see
anything like real critiicsm of pro-
fessional hockey in the Toronto
dailies. This may be because the
klaple Leafs most always have a
team that is up there or there-
abouts—or because the owner of
two-thirds of the Queen City dailies
is supposed to have quite a senti-
mental and financial interest in the
Leafs—or because Conn Smythe al-
ways had a shrewd appreciation of
the value of publicity—or a com-
bination of all three: You pays
your money and takes your choice,
* * *
Anyway, it came as quite a sev-
ere shock to many when they read
in a recent column written by Jim
Vipond, sports editor of The Globe
and Mail, the following paragraphs:
• * *
We hear, indirectly, that the Nat-
ional Hockey League governors will
meet in New York Wednesday. One
of the topics on the agenda is said
to be relations with the press. This
has been written before, but it
bears repeating: We do not think
National Hockey League head-
quarters yet realizes the press is
the life -blood of professional sport.
Newspapefs spend vast sums to
keep readers informed, yet fail to
receive the co-operation necessary.
The very fact neither President Cla-
rence Campbell nor his publicity
chief, Ken McKenzie, has seen fit
to advise the newspapers of this
week's meeting, points up a glaring
weakness.
We suggest the NHL governors
should take a cue from their major
league 'baseball brethren who are
meeting in New York this week.
Commissioner Ford Frick and his
associates appear to have a much
better working knowledge of the
importance of keeping the press
abreast of baseball times.
Naturally the govenors of both
baseball and hockey have problems
concerning their business which
have nothing to do with the pub-
lic, but at least there should be
some effect to keep the Fourth
"Way Back For "Layback"-Sixteen-year-old Sonya Klopfet prac-
tise this back -breaking routine for the Olympic tryouts, The figure
she's executing • is the traditional "layback" in which she bends
far back and spins in one spot,
Estate informed of trends, directly
and not through a house organ.
rn * 'I'
To which sentiments a whole
lot of hockey writers—even if they
do it under the r breath --and an
evert larger number of fans, will
add a heartfelt "Amen" and "Thank
you, Mr. Vipond." icor more and
more, in recent years, professional
sports of all kinds in North Ameri-
ca have come to resemble that
critter in the Scriptures which,
after putting on a lot of weight,
started to kick its stall to pieces,
(We just disremember the exact
quotation but most of our readers
will recall it. We hope!)
* * .,
In other words, processional sport
has swelled up to the point where
it thinks itself bigger and more im-
portant than the forces which Blade
it—said forces being the press and,
to a minor degree, radio.
* m *
There are folks still alive who
remember when the late H. J. P.
Good, working on a Toronto daily,
first grouped all the sports news
on WIC page, instead of scattering
the items throughout the paper as
had been the custom. This, we be-
lieve, had never been done before
anywhere, and marked the birth of
the "Sports Section." (And, Lawd,
look at the darned thing nowt
* * *
This grouping, which was widely
copied, naturally tended to make .
the public more sports -minded --as
onlookers, that is—and as more and
more high-class reporters were as-
signed to sports, park turnstiles
spun and box-office receipts mount-
ed. Team owners and promoters
prospered, and professional athletes
became not only respectable but
highly sought-after. In those clays
a prize-fighter wouldn't dream of
seeking accommodation in a Grade
A hotel, or a ball team of trying
to eat in a high-class restaurant.
Today, even our "best" people get
a bang out of stopping under the
same roof as Jack Dempsey, and
Toots Shor's New York place is
jammed to the doors any time
there's a chance of Joe DiMaggio
dropping in.
* * *
Not that there's anything wrong
about this. We've known thousands
of athletes in our tame and, with
a few exceptions, we're all for them.
But what gets us is some of the
"higher braes" of professional sport
trying to high -hat the press and
radio, forgetting that the salve
forces which made them could, as
easily as not, destroy them.
* if 1'
Newspaper publishers—a fairly
hard-boiled lot mostly—have been
remarkably soft and lenient with
professional sport which is, after
all, first and last a business propo-
sition. They have given sports free
publicity in quantities which makes
then in other branches of the amuse-
ment business -movies, for example
—wring their hands in envy. Of
course, the newspapers have gained
readers and reader -interest by such
extensive sports coverage, But—
and this is the point that those
engaged in professional sport should
by no means overlook -- if such
coverage were to be cancelled,
which would suffer the most, sports
or the press?
* * *
Some years ago we happened to
be talking to a man who had made
ISSUE Sl .» 1951
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Plastic camera features built-in
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ounces, has fixed shutter speed and
pre -focused lens to shoot pictures
from four feet to infinity. After
12 snaps, user sends unit to manu-
facturer, who develops, prints, and
returns the finished photos,
* * *
Mamma Pig Outmoded
Mamma pig may be on the way
out. New synthetic sow -milk al-
lows farmers to take piglets with
usual stickling period of 56 days
away from sow 48 hours after
birth. This prevents new -horns
from being crushed by clumsy
mother and is said to cut down
infant pig mortality 22 per cent.
* * *
Stain Boot Polish
hard texture composite wax shoe
polish is said to turn out more
durable shine with single brush
stroke. Easy to use, will not cake
or dry, covers scuff marks. Will
be marketed in six shades,
* * *
Cold and Hot Pack
Chemical solution scaled in plas-
tic pack will retain heat or cold
for half an hour. Shaped like or-
dinary hot water bottle, pack needs
no refilling and can be wrapped
around swollen arms or ankles.
Immersed in boiling water for
warm application, or placed in re-
frigerator before cold treatment.
Makers claim continual folding or
flexing will not cause peeling or
cracking,
* * *
Picture „Hanger
Adjustable wire -locking hanger
permits •lowering anti raising of
pictures at will. Capable of holding
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ant hanger has nails described as
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—anti was continuing to nlake—
a lot of money out of a certain
line of professional sport half jok-
ingly, he remarked on how soft
sports writers had it, getting good
seats for nothing, travelling with'
teams for free, and so forth.
* * 5
Somehow or other the remark
happened to get tinder our skin,
Maybe one of the kids had kept
us awake the night before, or we'd
batt a battle with friend wife.
"Listen," we said to him, "If it
wasn't for tate-sports reporters all
those highly -paid athletes of yours
would be starving to death. What's
more, if the newspapers treated
you like other businesses and only
gave you the advance publicity your
advertising entitles you to, within
a year, you, yourself, would be
looking for a job,"
* * s:
For a moment we thought he was
going to pop us one, but that's the
advantage of wearing glasses.
There's a law against it. Then,
after a moment or so, he cooled
out. "You know, Six," he said, "Now
I conte to think it over, you're pro-
bably dead right. But don't tell it
to anybody elsel"
* * *
And now that we've got rid of
all that spleen, we're in a good
enough stood—and have just suf-
ficient space left to wish a Very
Merry Christmas to one and all,
professional sports included,
Creating Life
In Laboratory
• Meat is one of those things you
can't keep out of the headlines.
If it isn't in short supply, it's too
expensive.
Why is it so important, apart
front the fact that there are fewer
dishes more tasty than tender meat?
What we get from it is protein—
the body-building food that makes
our muscles and flesh, hair and
skin.
The question scientists are try-
ing to answer is whether they can
manufacture synthetic protein and
so make the need for neat less
desperate, Can they, in fact, make
• protein?
Proteins are the most complicated
of all chemicals. They are the
basic chemicals of life itself, and
we've only just begs to understand
theft,
New Dr. Robert Woodward, a
young American research chemist,
has succeeded in staking a protein -
like substance in his laboratory.
Woodward has talten tis a step
along the road towards the solution
of the mystery of living matter.
Many of the chemicals and secre-
tion that control our body pro-
cesses are also protein. What pos-
sibilities await the chemist who can
matte such things synthetically in
his laboratroy, Synthetic steaks
would .be only a minor outcome,
Some of the viruses are proteins,
These tiny organisms are respons-
ible for many plant and animal
diseases. Inside the body they
can reproduce anti multiply to give
us diseases like infantile paralysis.
Proteins are a lints between the
living and the dead—and they now
come within the scope of being
made in t test-tube,
Who knows what the outcome
will be?
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the hogs answering false alarms,
made them run off several hundred
pounds of precious pork, threatened
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CHRISTIAN TRUTHS
Recently a leading Lutheran Bi-
shop, Wilhelm Stahlin of Olden-
burg, Germany, Blade this remark,
"If a man believes that he can
sacrifice the fullness of the Christ-
ian revelation to some vague form-
less religious feeling or vague be-
lief in Providence, he :nay hold him -
shelf to be a good Protestant,
but in the true Reformation sense
of the word, he is s'mply not a
Christian,"
No, Christ did not teach a vague
belief in Providence. He was exact,
specific. He came from another
universe into this world to explain
to man the destiny that lies ahead
of him, But more than that. IIe
arranged to help shut fulfill his
purpose, Knowing the human ten-
dency to falter and fail in mind
and will, Christ arranged to pre-
serve both His truth and alis help
in the world for all time. "I am
with you all through the days that
are coming. until the consummation
of the world."
The mind of Christ is revealed in
the actions of the Apostles. Note
the feeling of St. Paul. "Friends,
though it were we ourselves, though
it were an angel front heaven that
should preach to you a gospel other
than the gospel we preached ho
you, a curse upon hunt (Gal. 1, 8).
And St. John too is equally severe.
"If you are visited by one who
does not bring this teaching with
him, you must not receive hint in
your houses, nor bid him welcome,"
(II John 1, 10).
When reading the Bible one must
not read into it. Nothing must be
added to what lie taught and
nothing must be taken away. What
does the Master mean? The Apos-
tles knew. And those whom they
trained knew for how otherwise
could they go to ALL nations; to
teach ALL He taught; to teach for
ALT.. time?
This is one of a series of
messagea by Father V. McGivney,
Parish Priest, St. Francis Parish,
Pickering, Ont.
From Switzerland cotncs the re-
port that a kitten made the ascent
of the famed 14,780 -foot Matter-
horn, then was seen climbing clown
the other side toward Italy.
Gerald Gant of Plymouth, Eng-
land, sought an eviction notice
against a tenant who owns a parrot
that barks like a dog from 9 to 11
o'clock every night.
Buy OI' Butterfingers --The window display man just go+ one
letter wrong in this store, but the resulting sign was a shocker,
1s you probably guessed, it's a dishwasher—not a dishmashe'-
that's on display,