The Seaforth News, 1961-01-26, Page 7Went To Jail For
Smoking in. Street I
When a bus company recently
allowed smoking on the lower
deck, it was stated that on one
• occasion a riot ensued when the
conductor ordered a lower deck
smoker to put out his cigarette.
But smoking has caused more
exciting,. incidents than that ---
it once saved a ruler from losing.
his throne.
It occurred in Prussia in the
year 1848, when smoking in the
istreet was forbidden on pain of a
fine and imprisonment for a sec-
ond offence. For a third offence
the culprit might find himself in
prison for five years.
Prussian workmen decided to
stage a revolt in defence of their
right to smoke in public. A vast
crowd gathered outside the royal
palace and shouted "Liberty to
smoke in the streets!"
Officials wanted to call out
the troops, but young Prince
Liehnovsky realized that a mas-
sacre might develop. He ordered
a footman to drag a table on to
the balcony ` overlooking the
courtyard where the mob was
shouting,
Jumping on the table, the
prince motioned for silence. Then
be shouted: "Your liberty has
been granted." And then lit a
cigar. Smoking as hard as they
could, the mob dispersed to their
homes.
Exactly the opposite sort of
thing was happening in another
European city, and at almost ex-
actly the same moment, The peo-
ple in Milan, who at that time
were ruled by Austria, decided to
annoy their rulers by refusing.
to smoke at all. This deprived
the Austrians of a huge revenue
from tobacco tax. Overnight the
city was placarded and scrawled
with the warning: "Only Ger-
mans or spiessmoke tobacco."
The Milanese didn't content
themselves with sign -writing.
They snatched the cigar or cigar -
tette from anyone seen smoking—
even from the Austrian occupa-
tion forces!
When news of the revolt reach-
ed the Austrian commander -In -
chief, he showed a fine sense of
humour. Having ordered a free
Issue of cigarettes to the troops
and cigars to the officers, he then
sent them all round the town
smoking like the proverbial
chimneys.
The revolt spread to the town
of Pavia where ugly Incidents oc-
curred. One student who had
knocked the cigarette from a sol-
dier's mouth was shot on the
spot. What had seemed like e a
• childish gesture now spread like
wildfire throughout Italy. It
reached Venice where Virginian
cigars were stored. Then Lom-
bardy revolted, and at Pied-
mont the whole population arm-
ed themselves and declared war
on the smoking Austrian troops.
The commander-in-chief was
forced to evacuate all his troops
from Milan and the matter only
ended when crowds seized mil-
lions of cigars in warehouses and
made them in a bonfire,
In some early American colon-
' les the Puritans banned all smok-
ing, drinking and kissing in pub-
lic. A few hardy spirits retaliated
by building bonfires round the
municipal headquarters. When
wards were sent out they were
tltttacked:'In the end smoking was
lkllowed, though the ban on
drinking, and public kissing re-
mained.
Just over a century ago there
was a tobacco riot in Edinburgh.
again touched -off by Puritans
who wanted to forbid smoking in
the streets on Sunday. By way of
protest, more than fifty students
TANKER COMPETITOR — This draaone is designed to carry
large quantities of liquid — water, wine, oil, etc. — across the
seas, It's made of extra strong nylon fabric. This one, off
Southampton, England, can carry 20,000 gallons of 'liquid
at the end of a ship's towline.
and young people marched
through the city with torches
made of substances that gave off
a very unpleasant odour. -
After a couple of days of be-
ing smoked -out in their own
homes, the leaders of the anti-
smoking campaign agreed to drop
the ,notion. Unhappily, the pro-
test march caused a fire that cost
thousands of pounds and the lives
of seventeen people.
These Greetings
Were Untimely
For a governor - who person-
ally opposes capital punishment,
California's Edmund G. (Pat)
Brown has had more than his
share of agonizing involvement
with the death house, First, there
was the dragged -out, furor -stir-
ring case of the late Caryl Chess-
man. And now, by a cruel stroke
of misplaced efficiency, Brown
is on record as having sent his
"best wishes for a joyous holiday
season" to a 20 -year-old youth
awaiting execution. Last year,
Brown got a Christmas card from
one Alexander Robillard III of
450 Bradford Street, Redwood
City. In what the governor's
press secretary later termed a
"tragic error," the name automa-
tically went onto Brown's 1960
card list. However, Robillard's
card was apparently intercepted
at his 1959 address — the San
Mateo County Jail — before it
could be forwarded to San Quen-
tin Prison, where he faced the
gas chamber for the murder of
a policeman.
Smart Tip For
Winter Motorists
Here's an idea f- or getting out
of icy spots this winter: Carry a
50 pound bag of chick grits in
your trunk. The grits are cheap
— only about 80f a bag — and
don't freeze like sand frequently
does. Also grits are easy to clean
up if some get spilled in the
trunk and, because of their
sharpness, allow better traction
On ice,
Have you noticed? The more
articles written explaining the
gold situation the more confused
the average reader gets.
PAS DE TROIS — This modern dance step was only accidental.
Three basl,etball players - from left, Ron Olender, Jerry Ludas
and Hank Gunter watch the ball sail out of bounds during
the Ohio State -Seton Hall game.'
Improving Fishing
A Costly. Business
Wisconsin is a state where
fishing is looked upon as a final
bastion of individuality.
A man may spend all week
punching a button or pushing a
pencil. But on the weekend he
can return to the frontier, way
of life — fishing through the ice
as the Indians did in the winter.
In the summer, he can prove
he is somewhat smarter than a
smallmouth bass in any of sev-
eral thousand Wisconsin lakes,
No real fisherman will admit
that it is slightly absurd to spend
hundreds of dollars on equip-
ment — rods, reels, boats, and
the rest — in order to take home
a few fish, After all, he can
point out, the fish themselves
are free, no matter how much it
may cost to make their acquain-
tance.
But now it develops that even
this belief is illusory. A recent
budget hearing in Madison, dis-
closed that some of the fish
which -Wisconsin anglers pull in-
to their boats have cost the tax-
payers as much as $180 a pound.
Gov. Gaylord A. Nelson's com-
ment, though short, sums up the
reaction of nonfishing Wiscon-
sinites, to this disclosure. When
he was told by the state Con-
servation Department that it
costs Wisconsin 95 cents a pound
for trout and from $20 to $180 a
pound for muskellunge used in
stocking the lakes, he declared:
"Wow."
In a state where more than
1,000,000 fishing licenses are sold
annually, even though anyone
under 18 or over 65 years of age
can fish without them, politi-
cians are hesitant to criticize
either fish or their pursuers.
Still, Governor Nelson allowed
himself an observation.
"That's a lot of money," he
said, "to spend for a legal size
trout for somebody to catch who
doesn't know how to fish any-
way."
Wisconsin maintains 22 hatch-
eries for the propagation of some
of the 150 varieties of fish that
swim in the state's 8,500 lakes
or 1,400 trout streams, Some of
these state -produced fish are
turned loose to take their chances
when they're in the fingerling
stage, but others are fed with the
taxpayers' money until they
(the fish, not the taxpayers) are
of legal size, writes Robert W,
Wells in the Christian Science
Monitor,
It is the latter variety that
costs the most money. The mus-
kie, which is the official state
fish by act of the Legislature, is
especially expensive. He has a
voracious appetite. Over the
years, it has cost the Conserva-
tion Department an average of
$29 a pound to raise its muskies,
but in a bad year the figure has
climbed to $180,
When you consider that the
largest muskie ever caught in
the state weighed nearly 70
pounds, you can see that the fish
is worth his weight in tax re-
ceipts. Those used for stocking
stay well below this record level,
of course. Still, at the prices
given in the budget report it
wouldn't take many schools of
muskies to equal the cost of re-
placing some of the one -room
schools for humans that still dot
the Wisconsin landscape.
In defending the program,
George Sprecher, deputy conser-
vation director, said that the
percentage of fish caught is much
higher when those of legal size
are planted than when • finger-
lings are used for stocking a
lake, But Governor Nelson said
that is not the point,
A conservation Department
crew Can dump legal sized fish
into a pool, and, at soon as the
truck pulls away, the fishermen
can haul them out again, the
Governor said. There's a serious
question in his mind whether
such "mit and take!' fishing
makes sense.
Mr. Sprecher admitted the
point is debatable. But when-
ever the Conservation Depart-
ment tries to 'cut back on the
planting of legal -sized trout, he
said, the Legislature overrules
the cutback.
And that, it would seem, is the
fundamental reason for all the
expensive fish. A million fisher-
men, plus thousands of resort
owners and others who need
good fishing to attract tourists,
represent, a lot of votes.
And so few politicians in Wis-
consin are willing to say a criti-
cal word about his majesty, the
muskie, no matter how much
the pampered fellow may cost
peer pound.
Makes Clothes For
The New President
As the first U.S. businessman
to really size up Sen John F.
Kennedy, president Samuel Har-
ris of New York's H. Harris &
Co. can make two positive state-
ments: The President-elect is
"ultra -conservative" -and his elec-
tion is going to be good for Sam
Harris's business. A custom tailor
who has been fitting flannel to
the Kennedy frame for twelve
years, Harris last month was
working on his biggest single or-
der from the senator — a cut-
away, a black topcoat (both for
inauguration), and a batch of size
22, $225 business suits to pre-
pare his client for the sartorial
ordeal of the White House, It was
Harris who advised. Kennedy on
the proper uniform for the in-
augural — Oxford gray coat,
light pearl gray waistcoat, and
worsted gray striped trousers —
although hat -hater Kennedy per-
sonally made the ticklish de-
cision to wear a top hat (which
may force Homburg -lover Eisen-
hower to do the same).
The role of Presidential tailor -
elect fits snugly on Sam Harris,.
who came close to landing the
job in 1948 on the coattails of
customer Thomas E. Dewey
(still a regular client). A plain-
spoken, 60 -year-old craftsman,
Harris has probably fitted as
many celebrities as anyone out-
side of Savile Row, but exhibits
none of the publicity hunger of
some of his zootier, more flannel -
mouthed contemporaries. He gets
all his business on personal rec-
ommendations, has assembled an
unzooty client list that includes
the Duke of Windsor, Anothosly
Drexel Biddle Jr. ("best -dressed
man in the country," says Har-
ris), and Senator Kennedy's
brothers Bob and Ted.
Harris and his staff of 37 tail-
ors operate at a posh address just
off Fifth Avenue but in strictly
workaday surroundings, w i t h
piles of wool swatches on the
tables and the snipping of back-
room scissors plainly audible in
the front room. Harris executives
snake periodic trips to Washing-
ton, Palm Beach, and Nassau to
take new orders and check new
measurements on old clients,
keep an eye out for all fancy-
dress occasions. Harris's latest
social coup: Cutaways for groom
and best man at last monthis
wedding of former Jones &
Laughlin chairman Ben Moreell.
His biggest order came. from an
Afghanistan potentate who or-
dered 38 suits in one fell swoop
during a visit to New York a
few years back. But Harris's all-
time best customer was the late
banker -philanthropist Otto Kat -f,
who had b standing order for six
dozen white dress vests every
year.
Like most of Harris's clients,
and Harris himself, Senator Ken-
nedy will have no truck with
Continental or other extreme
male fashions, prefers conserva-
tive styling with only slightly
narrowed trousers. In fact. Her-
s'is would be happier if his top
customer weren't quite so conser-
vative. The senator, he says, nor-
mally wears nothing but dark
blue or dark gray, although
"we've gotten him to brighten up
a bit." From NEWSWEEK
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By Roberta Lee
Q. How can I speed up the job
of whipping some cream?
A. To whip the cream in re-
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of lemon juice per pint (two
cups) of cream. Use an eye drop-
per and count the drops. since
too much lemon sours the cream.
Q. How can I remove the yel-
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or bathtub, caused by the con-
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A, These spots can be removed
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