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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1960-08-11, Page 3Fool Sunday Laws In Groot Britain Cilc ,agger whpeetot Was en- joying 11 ?I-tor/loon stroll down the v i • i g • ;frost when he saw small a n;merge from a cafe sucltint se lee cream cone and clut:�hilt.� 1 packet of tea. "Just ;>r•;i,;llt that, sonny?" the irspecter irked sternly. "Yes," said the boy, "We've get eom- pally 1111(1 Mini's run out of tea," "You shouldn't buy that on Sunday, yslu know. The cone's all right - but not the tea," So a .mall boy had his first lesson in the mysteries of the ehaotic Sunday trading laws, and a woman shopkeeper was ]prosecuted. Though she was le- gally open to serve meals and the shelves were packed with merchandise, at least three-quar- ters of it she was not allowed to sell. Farther along the road was a big hospital. At the gates stood e mobile shop doing a roaring trade hi candy, biscuits, and ci- garettes. Now and then a cus- tomer was served with deter- gent, tea, bootlaces - anything on the packed shelves. This was not illegal, A care in 1958 proved that a shop is a permanent structure. The laws about shop trading on Sundays do not apply to shops which move around, Isn't it high time that such a ridiculous situation was ended? Let's sweep away all these silly laws and bring Sunday up to date. At present we might as well be living in t h e Middle Ages! Though our Fantastic laws about Sunday activities are so involved that virtually everyone breaks then there are do's and don't's which only a lawyer can remember. You can buy a meat pie and mashed potatoes in a cafe but not fish and chips in a chip shop. You can sell partly cooked tripe but not raw liver. You may buy a can of clotted cream but not a can of fruit to go with it. Fresh mackerel may be dis- played for sale before and after the times of church services, but not while they are in progress. The chief reason why moun- tains of ice cream are .sold on Sundays is that a court back in 1916 solemnly decided that ice cream was not meat so its sale was legally in order. But if you run out of methy- lated spirit for the picnic kettle don't try to buy any. The sale is banned from 10 p.m. Satur- day to 8 a.m. Monday, and in- iiringement of the law carries one of the biggest of ail Sunday trading fines - £100. If Sunday turns out wet and mother yearns to keep her fin- gers busy with some knitting she must not attempt to buy wool. The knitting pattern, so long as it is in a periodical, can be legally bought, but a 600 -year- old law forbids "the showing of wool for sale" on Sundays. The repressive laws about drinking and eating, buying and selling, meeting for games or discussions. were made for poli- tical reasons quite as much as from religious motives. They were designed to curb freedom way back in the seventeenth century. No one worried very much that the Sabbath of the Bible• was the seventh day - Saturday - and that biblical rules did not apply to the first day. A law is bad when even the law-abiding innocently break it. The most blameless maiden aunt regularly runs the risk of ap- pearing in court for her mildest of Sunday activities. If she travels out of her par- ish and plays croquet with an- 'ISSVE 32 - 1960 SONE-ANZA1 -• Jill, a New Malden, England, Dalmation, guards what ve y well night he the biggest bone any dog ever had. other old lady she has broken the law and could be fined 3s. 4d. You can indulge in sports and pastimes on Sunday, but only in your own parish. In the City at London, where parishes are small and congested, a caretaker of one of those blocks of offices could play ball with his child on one side of a courtyard quite legally, but if he crossed it to pick the ball up he would be committing an offence. Since 1932 Sunday cinemas and concerts have been legal, But while you may watch, say, Peter Sellers with a false mous- tache on the screen you must not see hint on the stage with any make-up or props, or in a play even without them. Of course, if you dress up actors, half strip showgirls, give your comedians red noses, and fill the stage with props for a Sunday show, this is quite legal so long as you let the audience in for nothing. You are, of course, producing a TV show writes George Kay in "Tit -Bits." Who are the people who fight every move to make the Bri- tish Sunday a time when physi- cal recreation can take its place alongside spiritual activities? Certainly not the leading re- ligious groups in the country where modern views are that forced religion is a travesty of belief. The obstinate and bigoted Sab- batarians w h o insist that the majority must acquiesce to the minority are grouped in the Lord's Day Observance Society founded in 1831 by a Bishop Prom India, The L,D.O.S, used to be helped in its campaign, though it did not use the method itself, by a money -making racket open to anyone who "told tales" about illicit Sunday activities. This was the reward paid to a Common Informer, One man was alleged to have made £1,500 by taking proceedings against shopkeepers, sports organizers and so on. In 1951 this profitable regard for a gloomy Sunday dis- appeared when the law was changed. Today the L.D.O.S., by con- tacting the local police or au- thority when Sunday fun is an- nounced has prevented hundreds of events, often for charity, from taking place - and it has stop- ped efforts to alter the law. When, in 1953, a Bill was pro- moted in Parliament to permit theatres, variety shows, and sports meetings, the L.D.O.S. organized a petition and encour. aged members to write to their M.P.'s. The result was a defeat Tor the Bill. A further attempt in March, 7958, to get a Select Committee to study the anoinalies of our Sunday laws came to nothing, It's time our legislators took positive action about Sunday laws. Everyone knows that they don't and won't work in the mid - twentieth century. Men who give in if wrong are wise; men who give in if right are married. c °SWORD PUZZLE At"itt 1, soma U a ago 6, how 9. Incren'.a 12. Vnwuve, cloth 18. Not Rol. 14. Supnor, ear tnrnh,r 10. Very (Mg.?? 16. nine added ifs Insree,o, 18. Dneneotic fowl 19. Dosire) 50. Plower 21 7ineva. With nr'! 26. Pine, :. rotting S0. Brown,* 00. nrtrni ,.- r.40 81. ('harp .ter 1n "Peer tent." 82. w u,r erers 66. w tnr ince part of 88.73 fore 88. Narrow roadie 39. Clothe! Irnlloq.3. Al.CSangev 49.7 -Tanner. 48. 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Peterson of the Guelph entomologist lab- oratory, many chemicals (insec- ticides and repellents), have been tested on this insect, and al- though a few show some prom- ise, further testing must be done both in Canada and the United States before specific recommen- dations can be made. e: * * Face flies are active through- out the summer, becoming abun- dant in clear, warm weather, and are troublesome to stock only in the daytime, They feed on vari- ous secretions from the bodies of cattle, horses, sheep and other animals. Since the eyes and nose offer the most constant source of food, the *lies are commonly noticed on the face. Annoyed animals attempt to evade the pest by standing huddled to- gether or tossing and shaking their heads. The adult face fly is similar to the house fly in both size and appearance but their habits are quite different. The face fly is found on pastured animals but not on those in the barn, as it seldom enters buildings during the summer. Eggs are laid in fresh cow manure and develop into adults in about two weeks. e P 0 Persons feeding garbage to swine are required to comply with certain regulations under the Animal Contagious Diseases Act, Dr. K. F. Wells, Veterinary Director General, points out that all garbage and kitchen waste collected from commercial estab- lishmeets and fed to swine, must be cooked, and all persons col- Iecting such garbage for swine feed, must be licensed by the de- partment. 0 0 0 Licences are available free of charge from the Canada De partment of Agriculture. These precautions are impor- tant in the prevention of hog cholera and certain other swine diseases. t * 0 Periodically, federal veteri- narians check local hotels and restaurants to find out how they dispose of their garbage. Oper- ators receiving such refuse are instructed on feeding regula- tions, and licensed premises where collected garbage is being fed to swine are inspected at least once a month, For the past 45 years person, collecting garbage for swine feed have been licensed under the Animal Contagious Diseases Act. At present there are 650 licensed persons collecting and feeding garbage to swine. 4 b b Ever have a bout with food poisoning? It's an unpleasant experience and common enough to stress the need for proper processing of meats and non-acid vege- tables, and the careful handling of left -overs, says food tech- nologist George Strachan. The only safe method for can- ning non-acid vegetables and meats Is by pressure eoolting ac- cording to recommended times and temperatures. P 4 0 Left -over canned vegetables quickly become contaminated with the ever.present house- hold micro-organisms, and un- der favorable conditions they in- crease rapidly to produce poison- ous or toxic substances, Storing contaminated foods in a refrig- erator does not eliminate the danger. Low temperature merely retards the development of mi- cro-organisms. Left -over meat and vegetables should be used only for dishes that require high cooking tem- peratures warns Mr. Strachan, a 4 Processors do not recommend refreezing vegetables after thaw- ing. Frozen food is not neces- sarily sterile when packed, al- though micro-organisms if pres- ent, are inactive. However, et mild temperatures, organisms originally in the food or those introduced through contamina- tion, will begin to mutiiply and cause off-fiavore or of -odors. Others may cause illness if not destroyed by subsequent cook- ing. When only portions of froz- en vegetables are to be used they should be removed in the froz- en state and the unused por- tions immediately returned, un- thawed, to the freezer. 4 n * Under most conditions there is little danger of the acid types of fruits and vegetables spoil- ing, but occasionally they will ferment or become mouldy. This type of spoilage is rarely, if ever, toxic, He's Free --- But For How Long? "Put any one 01 them in a room with me - I'll come out." With a matching look of scorn for the eight men in the dock of a Boston courtroom, Joseph J. (Specs) O'Keefe proceeded in cold, incisive tones four years ago to give the evidence that sent his associates in the great Brink's robbery to prison for the rest of their lives. Last month, as the gray, 52 - year -old -informer walked out of the Massachusetts jail where he had been since trial, there was considerable speculation as to how long Specs O'Keefe would remain a free man. The state of Pennsylvania wanted O'Keefe on an old burglary charge, and the underworld was equally interested in "The Bos- ton Songbird" for violating its unwritten code. Specs claimed he had been justified in turning state's evi- dence. Although he had taken his share of the risks in the Brink's robbery, and supplied his share of the skills, he had been "shorted," as he put it, out of his share of the loot. Like his confederates on that night of Jan, 17, 1950, he had donned a Navy pea jacket, leather gloves, and a Halloween mask, and staged the raid on the Brink's headquarters which net- ted $1,219,000, biggest haul in American criminal history. But less than six months later, Specs was picked up by Pennsyl- v anis police on a firearms charge and jailed for three years. When he came out, the $95,000 he had left with associates was gone. Stolen, they told him. So, four days before the statute of limita- tions ran out, Specs sang to the FBI. Strolling out of East Cam- bridge jail last month, Specs said he had only 11 cents in his pock- et but was not concerned about his future. Ile had a couple of offers, one froin a Hollywood producer to serve as technical adviser Inc an upcoming picture on the robbery, another for tele- vision. And, in his own words, he was "very, very happy," But there was one flaw in Specs' rosy picture. The under- world would never forget; and the Brink's robbers who are still inside the jail all have friends on the outside. As Garrett H. Byrne, prosecutor of the Brink's case, put it: "Spects is a sitting duck for murder.' Atli Arctic Owl resent r1ep iii fled Wood.., now rang' a s1U.4nd +Milch commanded lny 1 -Mention. It lues a cry 1 1111(1 never heard before .__ nor have 1 heard it sine's, In quality it was liketheliet quack of a duck but had back of it the power of se larger rile:lu1'e. It was given at regular interstate, and obviously its author was corning closet', for it ,grew stronger. ()there awaken- ed in the cabin et the urwsl.lel sound, and questions Were flash- ed hack and forth, but none could identify the voice, The cries were now coming from a point very 11811r the lake, high in the treetops. I hurriedly dressed and found a flashlight. Next the call was directly over- head. The creature, which must be winged, was perching in our tall white spruce. I slipped out the door and made -my way down the shadows, atremble with ex- citement -- nature lore offers no greater thrill than the finding of a new creature, Soft but pow- erful wings whirred directly over me, and a " inst the starlit sky I saw a bird of tremend- ous size. Uttering again its eerie cry, it alighted on our boathouse. I worked my way toward it as slyly as possible and then sud- denly caught it in the full ray of the flashlight. For only a mo- ment I saw it - it took wing at once - but what a marvelous sight it was, A pure white bird, obviously of the owl family. I gasped in admiration as it spread its great wings and took to the air. Out into the night I traced its flight by the rhythmic harsh cry: for a moment it paused on the island, again at Brown Hill; I could hear it in the swamp be- yond, and faintly on in the di- rection of Seven Mile Lake. I am not yet sure of its identity but believe it to have been the great arctic owl, which occasionally is seen this far south, - From "Na- ture's Messages," by Sam Camp- bell. The Little Bass And His World In a quiet cove of the pond, a small bass, swimming about in the midst of pondweeds and waterweeds, lives in a world en- gagingly different from our own. The leafy stents of the tall sub. merged plants are his forest. Within it there are no trails that we could recognize, but the lit- tle bass has his preferred path- ways to food and safety. Over his treetops a glassy surface, like a strange kind of window, sepa- rates his realm from the distant sky. The sunshine that reaches him is tempered, and the shad- ows that it casts are subdued, The clouds that drift overhead are soft and vague. His leafy forest is a place of translucent vistas. Within his world he moves freely in every direction, up and down, right and left. He may linger in the crowns of his small trees or may visit their base, rooted in the ooze, In ail of this he moves with effortless ease. If he so elects, he may thrust his head through the glassy window above the treetops and glimpse a different world. When cold weather comes, when seeds are detached from the waterweeds and sent float- ing upward when the submerged forest silently bows to the in- evitable cycle, when the surface of the pond becomes a locked door, the world of the little bass does not cease to exist. In the deeper part of the cove his life goes on. His forest landscape is • el -est, as til:Mite" of 1c# suint:: 1.w 11;ht 1.4 the cerl'1doee.. +119 sip. n l uk .11.4 wil,•n st st(t91' is flat•ltelled while nen, scenery is moved into liaise. time -returning $un 11 in anct' 1110('3 shine through 0 .,poesy window and send it.; sul':lued rays In E0 subulergi.A fore t where a small_ bass sw1111s 111)out, -.- From "Be.. yorel the ellen Door," by W»1t.'r Conine (')'li:ltle. DAY SCI1001 LESSON fly Rev It. &trelay Warren 11 A., B.G. d Yearns for His Wayward People Hosea 11:1-9 Memory Selection: Behold, what manner of love the Fe- ther hath bestowed upon us,, that we should be called the sons of God. 1 John 3-1. When I think of 'love' I think of 'God.' For "God is love." Hall. patient He was with the Israel•• ites in bringing them out of Egypt. His steadfast love is evert more manifest in His dealings with them during 40 years in the wilderness and the final set- tlement in Canaan. But in spite - of His love, in the days of Ho- sea, they have become a way- ward people. They have turned to the worship of images. Stilt God's love is extended to them. God's love is not weak and, anaemic. It goes forth in power to subdue rebellious hearts. tint. remember, God due's not trespass en man's Own right to make his morel shotes,. Man must open his heart to God', love. Ile meet consent if he is to be convertc3 from his evil ways, Lille the prodigal, he must turn frolr, his eiti W God, We must not forget that God is just. Despite His expressions of love in this lesson, He pro- nounces severe judgment upon Israel. "The Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return. And the sword shall abide on his cities," The note of Divine judgment has been dropped from many pulpits but it hasn't been dropped from the Bible. Let man say that there is no hell, if he will. The fact of hell as revealed in Scripture, and by Jesus Christ Himself, re- mains. If we are wise we will accept God's word without dis- puting and govern our lives ac- cordingly. God's yearning love is ex- pressed in such strong expres- sions as, "I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: - "How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? How shall I de- liver thee, Israel?" How sense- less and ungrateful it is to turn' our backs on God's love. It is dangerous, too. Israel's plight to this day is evidence of the folly of rejecting God's love. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking Tilt victim's head all the way beck to °pee ate r ossage. Try 10 keels head tower than ahs rest of the body, if passible. • Blow through se or mouth, making tight seal over both with lips. Or { blow through mouth only, " closing nose with fingers. If chest does not in - (Q y flats at first attempt, �i quickly chock to see if it. throat is blocked by for - ohm articles or tongue. Inflate chest about 'ID times a minute --inhale while the victim exhales. Place a handkerchief on the mouth, if desired, BREATH OF LIFE - Rescue breathing - fha use of a person's breath to revive someone who is unable to breath for himseltt - is the oldest and most effective form of resuscitation. An improved technique is shown In sketches above and is recom• mended by the Red Cross and medical organizations. Absence of breathing movements, blue color in lips and fingernails aro danger signs of lack of oxygen in the blood. When in doubt, begin rescue breathing; no harm can result from it. The air you breathe Is not "used up." It contains enough oxygen t,b ,guts a person's Ilfe. Two added notes: If victim's stomach fills with air, gently press it with your hand. And for infants, use small Inflations, about 20 times As minute.