HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1952-08-14, Page 2Iartxse In Britain Cracking Up
Because Of Incurable Soil Trouble
01 over Britain hooses are crack -
la; up faster than folks can build
them, foundations settling, doors
jamming, ceilings crashing, as the
Jesuit of a newly -discovered in-
curable soil trauhle. Heavy repair
Dills mainly 'incurred by ordinary
:Itottseholdere, are wonting to up-
wards of £10.001 tl00 a year.
In many areas whole streets and
eubttrhs are affected, k ricks and
plaster split, wa11s bulge. plumbing
and expensive fitments fracture
anti as fast as owners repair the
damage dell strange Nita ltatpeas
Again
in black spots from.
to Rugby. -Luton to Harwick,
broken draft's and road fissures
lutea a new biller on the retepayere.
Pietcry machinery is flung out of
true, church spires tilt. and in one
close buildings- were found to be
ttlipping clean off .their foundations.
According to. scientists of the
Building Research Station, Wat-
ford, the trouble is "shrinkable
clay." Entire suburbs of Landon
and many ;tett' housing estates
throughout the• eastern counties
have beet: burst en clay of large
shrinkage r,.peeitr which swell er
arrinks with the season.
Heavy rainfall over the part six
years has increased these mittature
earthquakes. :once houses have
dropped into pre-shrunk pockets of
soil overnight with drastic effects
on the structuee. There's no easy
sernedy. Sect tree: as poplar, wil-
low and eine. when close to a )rouse
can. however. aeighten the peril.
And this is just one of Britain's
bus'•';in • 1:anteing trottbks this
year, 'stake problems that are
baffii''` '.orae a;:tl.o:hies. In Sht.p-
shire.ainstance. disused clay
quarries have flied with water and
now a landslide threatens to carry
the eiaa.;e of Jackreld into the
Severn. Five hundred people hear
the earth groaning aning at night and
find their : see tilting. under them,
Set 'c aamities have been evacuat-
ed. " vc t t^e passim service has
steppe,:. Neurits warn the public
Mat the}- eee the yawring vel:age
read '...' their ewn .risk and peri."
taee5•-se starts, surveyors
cannot free ast what may happen.
Near Wigan. are ergire driver was
bacsitie h s ietaled cca1 train when
he earth ore -.ed beneath hire. and .
somal:: ac, ahri rtes
Tae engine art; thirteen t arks
wee eng1;77td to a deeth of over e
100 feet e driver was killed.
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scree .v, t' line. he
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Shortly' after the turn of the
century a 'quake north-west of
Derby stopped scores. of public
clocks. At one time Connie, in
Perthshire, received no fewer than
143 tremors within three months.
Comparative stillness has made
many people believe that earth
tremors never happen in that coun-
try. But perhaps they're in for a
rude shock
—From "Tit -Bits".
SO NEAR, AND YET
Victor Berge, the clever Danish
raeenteur, told a banker, "A man
yea really should finance is my
uncle, who was determined to in -
Vent a new soft drink, He worked
on a formula for a whale year,
and came up with something he
called '4 Up'. it was a failure, but
my uncle was not discouraged. He
worked another year, and produced
a new eoncection which he named
'5 Up'. Again it failed to sell, but
my uncle persevered. He took all
the rest of his money, secluded
himself for two years this time, and
turned up with still another drink
that he called '6 tap,' Alas, it failed
like the others, and my uncle, dis-
cc.uraged at hist, gave up in dis-
gust"
"The point of your story eludes
me,"" said the hanker, "Why do
you tell me all this;"
"1 ;net wanted you to know,"
$aid Borge, "how close my uncle
came to inventing '7 1.p !"
Malayans Believe
In "The Third Eye"
There is a strange boons these
days in Malaya which does not
seem to be affected by the bandit
warfare.
On the Island of Penang, for
example, the Chinese appear to
have become more inclined to mys-
ticism than ever. There are to -day
more than a dozen new "religions"
whose leaders claim that carious
gods may be appeased, so that the
sick may be cured and evil spirits
vanquished.
The names of the cults -that seem
to be the most flourishing are: The
Cult of the Monkey God: The Cult
of the Three Mountains; The Third
Eye Cult,
Although these crate have differ-
nt titles, the methods of starting
them varies little; and the drive for
members seldom changes. The
method a -,,
collet. st bs r ri tens
rent t ewers in r aS v displays
he enterprise Ie-, whir° the Ci:i-
ese are famous.
A cult is launched by some Chi--
ese getting an idea and giving it
name. The Cul: tef the Third Eye
zy taken as an exan:p:e.
"Divine Sight"
Iu s case it was a Chinese bey
claitne•d that
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same to ,,L . :,e nit
en the name of "The
-• was • Eye" and followers s had to
ain: an extra eye on their fire
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at cost
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g a,, c s a u,. u ass
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All Puffed Up—Jimmy Wingo, 5, has a quiet smoke with his good
friend Frank Wilson. Jimmy was given a cigar by his father,
C. N. Wingo, at the age of two to cure him of picking up and
smoking cigaret butts. No cure resulted, but the cigar business
has a steadfast customer,
told to burn, then to mix the ashes
with water and drink it.
The medium meets his disciples
in various temples.
Not all cult leaders retake claims
to powers of claireoyance in any
form; indeed, some have been
heard re, declare that almost any-
one can acquire the power to serve
the gods by practising concentra-
tion and making sincere efforts.
Although there is such an up-
surge of mysticism and new cults,
there are still others practised,
both in Penang and the mainland,
by Chinese whose forebears
brought the r:tuais from the home-
land in China, mystic rites whose
origins are deeply buried in antiq-
uity.
Such a ritual is the Chinese
"cure" for sick children, The ar-
ticles necessary for such "cures"
are temple joss sticks, green beans,
a piece of pig's fat, a pair of paper
shoes, cut-out figures to represent
the sick child. a scroll of red rice-
paper,and a duck's egg.
All the articles except the egg
are burned during the ceremony.
Nothing happens to the egg, but it
is net seen again. Rumor has it that
the medium makes a meal with it.
"Top Billing" Made
Life -Time Enemies
That aro Otilliant genie es cauee
engap.e er, by feea over a
childchildisa dieerete save a e,a
geeat e±tss s be entgo
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the,theeet 7.7:7!
was to be written by no less a big-
wig than Ben Jonson, the famous
playwright and poet,
Ben wrote his masque; and Inigo
designed the sceaery (the first
morabie stage scenery ever used in
England) as well as some gorgeous
costumes. And now we come to
the cause of the great quarrel that
made all London town laugh at
the two giants. Inigo Jones's name
was put above Ben Janson on
the programmes 1
For years after that Ben Jonson
pursued Jones with amazing venom.
He poked fust at him in his famous
cotnic poem, "A Tale of a Tub."
He went shout maligning him
everywhere.
Once Johnson said to the King:
"If I Wanted words to express the
greatest villain in the world I
would call him, an Inigo."
Rich but Not Popular
But the King took Jones s side
and Jenson never again wrote a
maegese for royalty. He neither
forgave nor forgot this, and the two
men remained titter enemies for
life.
It was Inigo Jones who intro-
duced the Italian style of archi-
tecture into England. He built
tine mansions and chu:cies. He
died ;est three hundred years are,
on June 1st, vie; but nos popular,
He was valn. p and in-
t::e.a:ea. B,:• he had his virtues.
He was very very generous and
gate freely to ail who asked ssan-
a. it.....
Dutch Go in For
"Hopped -up" Bicyciss
The modern-day "Flying Dutch.
man" is a middle-aged gentleman
riding a hopped -tip bicycle which
makes a noise varying between that
of an overgrown mosquito and a.
wartime V -bomb.
With motorcars difficult to get
because of high prices and ,small
import quotas, there has been it
big switchover from ordinary
bicycles to what are called there
buzz bikes, or bicycles fitted with
a wide variety of small auxiliary
motors.
Holland has about 5,000,000 bi-
cycles, In the past 18 months the
number fitted with motors has
grown from 50,000 to about 180,-
000. The total is expected to reach
225,000 before the end of the year,
and 500,000 by 1956,.
License Not Required
An increase of 50 per cent in
highway accidents in the Nether-
lands during the past year has
,been attributed to the "buzz bikes,"
The government regards them as
it bicycle—which means no license
is necessary, and riders use both
highways and the special bicycle
tracks provided alongside every
Dutch road.
The Dutch bicyclist has long
been known as a sort of circus
rider because of his amazing dex-
terity and speed—and the many
traffic risks he takes.
As long as he was using ordi-
nary bicycles, motorists and pedes-
trians could estimate his speed
fairly accurately and get out of
the way. But since the bicyclists be-
gan attaching motors to their bi-
cycles, winch gave them a remark-
able variety of speeds, the accident
rate has risen alarmingly,
Confusion Increases
By behaving sometimes as
cyclists and eontetinte, as motor-
ists, the motorized cyclists befuddle
traffic policemen as well as motor-
ists, The confusion is increased by
the fact that fete of the "buzz
bikes" look any different from or-
dinary bicycles. Some of the motors
are so small that they cannot be
seen except at close range, while
those tucked away at tl:e rear of
the machine give no indication that
the "bicycle" is not an ordinary
bike.
\iotorists in Holland are accus-
tomed to droves of ordinary bi-
cyclists bearing down on them at
the peak hours. when every second
Dutch parson rides a bicycle.
But when several buzz bikes
suddenly loom out of a phalanx of
bicyclists and dart alongside or in
front of cars without any warning
other than the normal bike bell—
it's a terrifying experience for a
driver.
The problem of what to do about
then is unsolved,
The bicycling organizations ob-
ject to the "speed demons" using
the bicycle paths.
The automobile associations say
they are cess of a menace an the
bile paths than on highways.
red the government, after a
r's careful consideration, has
d they are bikes, which means
can go anywhere.
Consequently, Hollanders ,calk
and drive with their ears cocked
for a noise like a refrigerator
ntetor with a shot bearing.
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rale
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shows
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gn.ssaing Agnes. asfaePateras :first
name. housewife walked
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clopor. "Whatls the r ng
yes a sa g so do with 5 'nen-
eyi' gurgled, the delirious M.C.
Ce said the 7..r-t:fer•-ife
Another show '6 t e.. -ed in
rrapying Cheats it: deceiving and 1
..n7.17;7,7:::',17e package: and pre-
senting tot the first ire ether
studio e..:e w'::o7 con:d
The a., ae. step-
ped
int:aam reth on
stage to .e: the l., c.._.e:se tt7
an the sae -see
Edwin O't'rnner wee present ane
lay s*.7.!en the aero res_ rep;ed
.. .. _ : heldnp to
t.iew a ' :kaze big enough to con-
tain a
ser of the Enoyclapedia
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UNMY SCHOOL
LESSON
Jty Rev. R. Barclay Warren,
God Prepares A Leader
1 Samuel 1:20, 24-28; 5:1, 16-21: 4
Memory Selection: The child
Stormed grew on, and wait in favor
both with the Lord, and also with
men. 1 Samuel 2:26.
A famime man when asite4 how
early in life the training of a child
should begirt, answered, "With his
grandparents." Well, we don't
know about Samuel's grandl,.rents
but we do know that both his par-
ents were godly, His name, which
means, "asked -of -Gad" reminds us
of Hannah's prayer for a child.
Before his birth her prayers ascend-
ed for him. She knew the first rule
of sound vocational guidance, a
dedication of her child to God, The
home in which he was reared while
young put God first. The prayers
he heard were marked by a warm
and lively devotion, creating an at-
mosphere where reverence, that
highest emotion among men, took
precedence over other passions.
The pleasant, courteous spirit of
the mother would never be forgot- o
ten by the boy. The same high
quality which enabled her to reply
graciously to the unjust censure
of Eli was no doubt observed by
her son on many occasions, and as
a lode star held him to the teach-
ings of home.
While Samuel was still a boy,
God revealed Himself, Samuel
missed out on the guntoting,, crime -
comics, movie gangsterism which
most boys have today. But he
heard God's voice and he obedi-
ently responded. For many years
he was destined to be God's great
and good leader in Israel.
FANNYISRf S
The late Fanny Brute (Baby
Snooks to you) displayed her pers-
picacity at a tender age when she
was helping out in her aunt's candy
store. Her aunt had stocked up
heavily on peppermint sticks. but
though the price seemed right (a
penny a stick) the neighborhood
kids weren't having any. The ten-
year -old Fanny borrowed a ham-
mer, broke the sticks in twelve
pieces each, and put a hand -made
sign in the window: "Big bargain
today only) A dozen pieces of pep-.
permint for a cent" The entire
stock was cleaned est: in three
hours.
Miss Brice's advice to young
ladies: "Never marry a man for
his money. The thing to look for
in a husband is a gentle, even dis-
position. Of course, a man without
a big bank account is always
grouchy and bad-tempered. Re-
member, girls, every household
gets the same amount of ice—but
the rich get it in August and the
poor get it in January."
I owe my own success," confi-
ded ?hiss Brice, "to the peaceful
home life I enjoyed as a child.
Anything my mother wanted to do,
Pop let her, saying that she had
a perfect right.". \fess. Brice
thought for a moment an,i added,
"She had a pretty goad left foo."
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Flow Ham I Charles?_ Following actor Charles Laughton snarl
for snarl, former heavyweight boner Lou Nova gets c lesson
in emoting from the fatuous thespian at a Hollywood studio.
Both are featured itt a forthcoming movie.
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