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O Even the proximity of death and
disaster from overhanging black clouds
of Armageddon cannot completely wipe
out an inborn love of sport. For this
dips down deep into the roots of man.
Last summer we saw one of the
finest examples of the fashion in which
sport can set aside the terrors that may suddenly plunge
a country into chaos, when all of Europe outside the Iron
Curtain practically went berserk in celebration of West
Germany's 3-2 victory over Hungary for the world soccer
championship.
Hungary's team from behind the Iron Curtain hadn't
been beaten in four years, The Hungarians were regarded as
a certainty to win again. Early in the going they led 2-0,
which in soccer is tantamount to a 4-0 lead in hockey. But
the West Germans rallied and eked out a 3-2 triumph. An
Associated Press story from Frankfort declared the reaction
was "like the World's Series, a heavyweight championship
and the Kentucky Derby rolled into one.'
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer sent a congratulatory tele-
gram to the team. Theodor Reuss, President of West Ger-
many, announced theta a silver laurel -leaf medal awaited
each member of the team upon arrival , home. On their
return, the conquering heroes of the soccer field were given
a reception of which royalty wouldn't be ashamed.
Perhaps this outburst of enthusiasm was promoted by
the fact that a team from behind, the Iron Curtain, an arro-
gant, unbeaten favorite, had been plunged into defeat by
a team that represented freedom, Perhaps it was the tra-
ditional reaction that accompanies victory for the underdog.
But whatever political significance may, have attached to
the result, it still was a tremendous tribute to the deep-
rooted appeal of sport.
Here are the West Germans and the Hungarians, both
practically sitting on the H-bomb. Whatever their political
philosophies, these peoples have had a roughime for gen-
erations back. For them, it has almost alwdys been war,
or threat of war.
If anybody should be nervous, continental Europeans
are the ones. Yet they declare a holiday with complete
equanimity when a soccer team wins a critical game, and
there is dancing in the streets with the trot -too -distant
threat forgotten, temporarily at least, as sport enthusiasm
chases away the nightmare of an uncertain future.
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Hockey Should Be
Peaceful Now
An era Of hockey is about 10
end.
....Feb. 1 of this year will be the
date. At that time J. Conn
Smythe will retire as president
and managing director Of the
Toronto Maple Leafs. He was
preceded in retirement on Sept,
30 by Arthur H. Hess, vice-
president and general manager
of the Boston Bruins.
They were next to the last of
the old guard of hockey.
In the early days of the Na-
tional Hockey League there
were many other dominating in-
dividuals such as Col, John S.
Hammond and Lester Patrick of
the Rangers; James Norris, Sr„
and Jack Adams of the Detroit
Red Wings; Charles F. Adams
-of the Bruins; Jimmy Strachan
Of the defunct. Montreal Mar-
oons; Leo Dandurand and Cecil
Bart of Canadiens; Maj. Fred-
eric McLaughlin of the Chicago
Black Hawks; William V, Dwyer
Of the New York Americans and
Tom Gorman, leader at times, of
the Americans, Maroons and
Chicago, writes Webb Morse,
Sports Editor of The Christian
Science Monitor.
When Smythe retires only
Jack Adams, general manager of
the Red Wings of Detroit will
remain. The era will be at an
end because there will be none
left to fight with Adams.
It used to be that the above-
mentioned names were as prom-
inent in the hockey news as the
games and players.
It tools very little, and some-
times only imagination, for one
or all of these esteemed gentle-
men to drop their cloaks of pro-
priety and verbally storm the
bastions of hockey dignity.
Feuds, real and fancied, were
frequently invented against one
another to make headlines in
press and radio.
Probably the greatest purvey-
ors of public attention were
Ross and Smythe, generally be-
tween the two. Not tar behind
in the art of commanding not-
ice were Charley Adams, Col-
onel Hammond, Lester Patrick,
Major McLaughlin, Tommy Gor-
man and Cecil Hart.
One needed but a question or
a hint to anyone of these hard-
ened old characters and they
would fire away at anyone or
all of their fellow league mem-
bers. For years the then league
president, Frank Calder, a mild-
mannered little man, was con-
stantly in the role of peace-
maker. It reached such heights
in later years that owners and
members of the board of gov-
ernors were warned to call a
halt or face imposing fines.
Possibly the most spectacular
stunt of the times was the night
Conn Smythe appeared at a
Bruins -Leafs hockey game in
Boston Garden arrayed In full
dress of top hat and tails. An-
other was the night in Ottawa
at a play-off game a Bruin play-
er, Billy Coutu, assaulted Ref-
eree Jerry LaFlamme after the
game and was barred from
hockey for life, but later re-
ports claimed Charley Adams,
Bruin owner, as the attacker.
Most of the times, however,
the attacks were only verbal and
of a personal nature for the pur-
pose of inciting feuds in print.
No question about the response
either, for the papers and radio
commentators ate it up and box
offices were kept busy filling the
demand fo_ tickets to the games.
I don't believe too many hockey
fans or any of the press really,
adopted many of the feuds as
bona tide, but they certainly
contributed to the popularity of
the sport at the time.
In those days hockey games
:IDE FREE FOR THREE—Salesman-inventor W. Hiozenburg, right,
all wound up over his clockwork motor for bicycles as he
explains the device to a prospective customer in Amsterdam,
The Netherlands. The 20 -pound device stores energy in a 20 -
yard -long spring during one mile of normal pedaling; is said to
drive the bike at over 25 miles per hour for the next three miles.
BOSSIE REPLACES VIN ROUGE—Joking abovt Premier Mendes -
France's antialcohol drive, a Paris cabaret has installed cows in
its wine cellar. Falling in line with the milk -drinking premier, two
Parisians hold out cups lo bar milkmaid Lucienne LeGrand,
right, who works the "tap."
at Boston, New York and Chi-
cago were sell-outs night after
night. I doubt that any attempts
to resume those paper feuds
would attract a single ticket
buyer, but they were lively in
pose.
With Ross gone and Smythe
going, Jack Adams has no one
left to fight with and hockey
will have: to rely on just plain
hockey for public attention.
Why We Call It
"Portland"
Portland cement is the most
important part of every con-
crete sidewalk, highway, bridge,
building—anything you see that
is made of concrete. When it is
soaked with water and allowed
to dry, cement becomes as hard
as some stone, • Mixed with
stand and water, it becomes the
mortar with which bricks are
sealed together in building con-
struction. Mixed with water,
sand, and gravel or rock, it be-
comes tough and durable con-
crete, The cement was invented
in 1824 by an Englishman, John
Aspdin, who burned limestone
and clay together and ground up
the mixture into a fine powder.
He called it Portland cement be-
cause, when hard, it resembles
A type of building stone found
on Portland Isle, England.
Beauty Contest
For Bald -Heads
Everybody living in a pleas-
ant little town in Northern Italy
stopped work one sunny morn-
ing recently to watch a number
of the local workers converging
on a restaurant in the main
street.
Every member of the proces-
sion was a man and each wore
his best Sunday suit and a black
top hat. Into the restaurant they
filed and sat salemnly at a long
table, still wearing their hats.
A bell was rung for silence.
Then, at a given signal, the
men slowly lifted their hats and
laid them on the table, each re-
vealing a shining bald head. The
men were there ao that a jury
could decide who possessed the
town's finest and most attractive
bald head. The winner of the
$300 prize proved to be Signor
Pastegglio, a roadsweeper, whose
success v -es very popular with
the admiring spectators. But
he only won by a hair—the little
hair which one of the jury had
spotted growing over the left
ear of his nearest rival! The
runner-up was awarded a conso-
lation prize, which he promptly
handed to his wife, saying: "You
can find better use for it than
I can." It was a comb.
fie PIMA
HORSE SENSE ..
By F. (BOB) VON PILIS
The Ontario Milk Producers
Coordinating Board has made a
recommendation to the different
dairy groups in the province to
levy 13/2 per cent of the factory
price of their production. These
'contributions are to be paid into
a fund to be used for the stabili-
zation of producer prices.
The main purpose of this fund
will be the subsidization of ex-
ports which have to be sold a-
broad at lower than home mar-
ket prices.
Also included in the 1112 per
cent deduction will 'be the June
set-aside for the Dairy Farmers
of Canada. Advertising Fund and
an unspecified share for a re-
search fund.
The amount so collected is es-
timated at somewhat more than
two million dollars per year.
As the Coordinating Board
does not have powers to make
decisions binding the different
producer groups, the recommen-
dation will come before the con-
ventions of the producer organ-
izations for discussion and con-
sideration.
Ministerial Approval Needed
If the scheme is accepted by
the producers in full or in part,
the matter is referred hack to
the Coordinating Board and each
association has to petition the
Minister of Agriculture for its
approval. It is then in the dis-
cretion of the minister to bring
thescheme before the cabinet
to have it enacted by Order -in -
Council, or ifhe considers it as
not desirable or necessary to re-
ject it.
One association already has
approved the plan, although
leaving open the extent to which
they will participate. The others
will discuss it within the next
few weeks.
General Approval
In view of the wide spread
discontent of dairy farmers with
prices and marketing conditions,
the pian should find general ap.
Invention ideas
'Ind 'Their Origin
proval as a first step towards a
more stable and orderly market-
ing of milk and milk products.
Any discussion is likely to cen-
ter around the extent of partic-
ipation and amounts to be col-
lected.
AU too often farmers are apt
to be penny wise and pound
foolish as the controversy that
is raging around the hog mark-
eting scheme is proving, where
a 20 cents per hog deduction is
a bone of contention.
Important Considerations
Only by cooperating, individ-
ually and collectively, can farm-
ers prosper and asset their
place in an economy which is
ruled by Bigness. Being human
we are all subject to errors and
mistakes, but can learn and
progress by experience.
The recommendation of the
Coordinating Board is sound in
principle. It should be taken
to the national level though,
lest Ontario carry the burden
for the whole country and be-
come a most lucrative market
for the surpluses of the other
nine provinces,
Lastly but not leastly an ex-
planation is needed why all the
important decisions rest with the
provincial government if it does
not contribute to the scheme.
If Ontario farmers want to
produce milk for sale abroad at
lower prices and want to raise
funds to spread the difference
evenly over the group as a
whole, the decision is theirs and
not the government's.
Let's beware of paternalism in
government.
a e #
This column welcomes Criti-
cism, constructive or destruc-
tive, and suggestions, wise or
otherwise; it will endeavour to
answer any questions. Address
mall to Bob Von Pilis, Whitby,
Grit.
ISSUE 2 1955
There are countless gadgets
and devices founded on simp-
licity itself. Take the crinkly
hairpin, for example.
The inventor who thought this
one up, explains Professor A.
M. Low in his enlightening and
interesting book "Thanks To In-
ventors" was spurred to activity
by his wife complaining of the
number of hairpins lost by fall-
ing out. His answer was a "hair-
pin with waves in the arms.
It was only fifty -odd years ago
that carpets were mechanically
cleaned by beating. At the be-
ginning of the century a new in-
vention was introduced from
America whereby a powerful
blast of air blew dirt from the
carpet into a container fitted
above the nozzle. Some of the
dust escaped the trap and set-
tled back on the carpet.
H. Cecil Booth watched the
process, and then thought up a
better idea. Why not reverse the
procedure — suck instead of
blow? His completed vacuum
cleaner, chiefly consisting of an
electrically driven fan to induce
a partial vacuum, was mounted
on a van and driven round to
houses, the hose being run out
to rooms where the carpets
were.
Inventions can involve a great
amount of thought and candle -
burning; but it often happens
that chance, too, brings some-
thing out of the bag.
Thomas Blanket watched an
article come from his loom en-
tirely different from what was
expected of it. The weaving
loom was at fault; but Blanket
thought "this is not what we are
trying to make, but for a differ-
ent purpose it might be better
than anything else."
From thoughts sprang ac-
tions; and the answer was the
blanket.
High up on the list of pub-
lic benefactors is George Ste-
phenson, the creator of Britain's
railways. This brilliant engineer,
although he did not originate
the steam locorhotive, used
other inventions and improved
them so completely as to make
them peculiarly his own,
Even in his early days, while
he was being paid twopence a
day for minding cattle, young
Stephenson displayed his apti-
tude for construction, spending
some of his spare time in mak-
ing aninature mining engines.
He knew that to get on he
must be able to read and write,
so for three nights a week, after
doing a twelve-hour shift, he at-
tended night -school at one pen-
ny a night. On his nineteenth
birthday, states John Rowland,
in an inspiring and comprehen-
sive biography, " George Ste-
phenson" he could scrawl his
name. •
Stephenson's first big chance
to prove his worth came when
a new pit was to be sunk at
Killingworth. A great problem
of the times was the difficulty of
preventing water seeping into
the workings, A pumping -engine
designed by the engineer Smea-
ton proved a failure,
George's forthright opinion of
the machine was such that the
management asked if he could
put matters right. "I could alter
her and make her draw; in a
week's time you would be at
the bottom of that pit." He was
given the job.
At the end of the three days
of concentrated labour the ma-
chine — looking as if it had
been tied together with pieces
of string — was ready to be
started up, In two days the shaft
was free of water; at the end
of the third day men were work-
ing at the bottom in compare-
tively dry conditions.
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