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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1954-08-05, Page 6HARP ) L, CK REACH A •craek can the jaw can mean betaine :for a boxer. But when It comes to the question of fight- ing life's battles a really hard blow can be the tonic that sets a man on the road to success. Too much is heard today of rowdyism in boys' clubs. A vast amount of inspired youth work it thus by-passed. Dr. Clifford Martin. Bishop of Liverpool, was still in the callow youth phase Himself when he founded a boys' elub in Islington Green, London. They began by treating bins 'rough". Buying a bicycle on the instalment plan, he left it one evening on the stairway outside the club rooms Some bounder tole it. Yet . . 'but for the club and the lessons it taught lime .•' he said, 'I would probably ,-er have been ordained." How kept shining through tars ordeals. Once. as he helped to carry a two -stone barrel of gin- ger beer up the stairs for a club spree, it burst. The future bishop - though engulfed in laughter. was dripping with pop juice! Yes, examples are numerous and uplifting of mishaps on the stairways of first-class careers. How rewarding they proved. Hew free of claptrap they made oxen. In 1891 George King ar- rived in London from the U4A. lie wanted to hop along to that golden land of promise 'down under," Australia. To further his schemes, he bribed a deck -hand to stow him away on an Australia - bound boat. But sailing down the Thames, he was discovered and dumped ashore at Tilbury. "So that's Australia, that was," he ruminated. Now, penniless, Jobless and homeless, he tried to get work as a dock -hand. But the dockers, hard hit then by unem- ployment, protested. 'Want no bloomin' upstarts 'ere!" was their cry Soon he was in the thick of a fight. hostile fists flayed round his ears. His own were busy, too, The courage of young King impressed a watching ganger. "Hi, youngster!" he shouted, "I've a job for you, if you want it," So King stayed in London's Pool, knuckled down to its ways. did well and finally launched his own firm. Today that firm, really founded through the dockside fight, counts 1,000 employees, its business being crane, hoist and conveyor manufacture. And the proudest emblem in the direc- tors' board -room is . the hook used by King as an up-and-com- ing dock labourer, That womenfolk the world over should be indebted today to a Canadian mother's tragic be- reavement may seem strange. But it is' true. The Women's In- stitute movement owes its con- ception to Mrs. Adelaide Hood - less, of Hamilton, Ontario. She lost her eighteen -month-old son, and through her grief con- ceived the idea of self-help for isolated countrywomen. The boy had died because he drank im- pure milk. He would not have died, his mother recognized, had she been more knowledgeable. :1 -ler lecture of February 19th, 1897, delivered at Squire's Hall, Stoney Creek, marked the birth Of the first Women's Institute. Her entreaties turned the 101 women and one brave man who listened to her into crusaders. It was the tragic death of a child which recently gave the Abbe Pierre his long-awaited chance to revolutionize France's Post-war rehousing programme. For months, this bearded, toiling crusader had campaigned in vain against hideous slum conditions which 'were causing loss of life, disease and untold suffering. Successive governments sympa- thized, but did nothing. Then a baby died of exposure In a disused 'bus, "home" of the parents. The Abbe, his indigna- tion finally controlled, wrote now to the Minister of Reconstruc- tion and invited him to the fun- e?ral. The Minister came, was touched by the piteous scenes he HELPED Mi THE TOP witnessed, sed so set in motion the much-needed springs of gov- ernment action to rehouse France's needy families, Experience emphasizes that there is no sort of disaster over which the human spirit cannot prevail, Those, indeed, who pass through the .tire are often hard- ened by it, to their own and the world's advantage. Still short of sixty, Mr. Stan- ley Swath, managing director of Woolworths Ltd., ranks as one of Britain's most highly paid ex- ecutives. Thirty years back he started worked in the firm's Ox- ford Street store. And meteoric as his climb proved, from assi- tent to manager, from area su- perintendent to director, the driving force behind it drew power frons an earlier ordeal and triumph. While fighting in France during the 1914-18 war he was wounded and blinded. E v en surgeons thought it improbable that he would ever regain his sight. But he did! Through sheer will -power, he fought his way back to clear vis- ion. The bursting of a blood vessel in one of his lungs proved the escape route for a struggling draper's apprentice. It launched hind on a lifetime of titantic lit- erary labour, which imprinted his name on the world's mind, and on history's enduring pages. For, as H. G. Wells himself said, "I had an exceptionally hard time of it when I was trying to gain a footing in journalism, I could get very little printed .. A lung went wrong and while I was lying on my back it was imperative that I should write articles and sell them or go to the parish infirmary." Had H. G. Wells lived in a modern welfare state, would he have been so goaded? An accidental setback turned, too, an athletic young chap into a prodigiously successful and world-famous cartoonist. Millions know Robert Ripley's "Believe it or Not" series. Yet for all the incredible facts he dug out and cartooned, his greatest "Believe it or Not" story was him- self. A scratch golfers first-class ten- nis player and useful boxer, he was also a brilliant baseball pitcher. But one day he over - pitched and broke his arm by the throw. The accident sent him back to the drawing -board, a school- boy hobby of his. Slowly, he be- gan to prosper, then through a happy thought he decided to re- title a series of sports oddities called "Champs and Chumps." That's a goo d heading, he thought, but "Believe it or Not" is better. It often best to be born with- out a silver spoon in your mouth if you're going to fight your way to success like John D Rocke- feller did. His critics described him as an aged dodderer, paralyzed by chronic dispepsia, living in dread of his life, and condemned to a daily diet of bread and milk. If that's millions, they said, give me dimes. But the picture was a lie. Even aged ninety-eight, he had remarkable physical vigour and dined out on anything but bread and milk! As he once preached to a Bible class (all his life he remained a devout Baptist) : "I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and hon- estly, and to give away all you can. What is success? It is mon- ey? Some of you have al) the money you need to provide for your wants. Who is the poorest man in the world? 1 will tel] you. The poorest man I know is the man who has nothing but money." True to his creed, he gave away a clear £150 millions before he died in 1937. He was a man, fun- damentally, after Billy Graham's own heart. CROSS 71' i` Z LEL 10. Genus of 81. Location ORD MITE 33. Vicarious 71. I{find of meat government 14. Border 30, Full of briers 10. High body 38. Enemies 10. Thin coatings 42.OlSword ive genus handle 20. Soft drink 43. Play a trick 4. Kind of cheese 21. Singing voice 44. Gave for a 0. Near 22. Look time 0, 8'7owering 84, hely 46, Male child plant 27. Grow less 48. Silver coin 7. Algerian severoab,) seaport 28. Land measure 49. Individual 8. Allow 29. Informal 51. As far as 9. Concerning conversation 52, Like ACROSS 1. Organ atop 0. Done alone 10. College degree 12, To the ]eft 10, Introduction 15. Hindu queen 16, Command 17. Insect 18. English river 30. Breaking waves 21. Philippine volcano 23. Night before 24. Dowry 25. Constellation 20, Approaohed 28. Alternating current (ab.) 20. Tighter 82. Greek bishop $4, Alternative 38, Complement mortar 37 t..i' 38, In favor of 89. cowl 40. Resolve 41, Derisive cry 43, Caress 45. Beverage 47, VVPithtn feomb, form) 150, Garland 2, ;P71bow 80. Symbol for tantalum 84, Sole 35, PaDOWN 1. lrresh-water fish 2. Brazilian t.re* a. Heasnnal Wind aoxieese &flower Elsewhere ark This Page Reaching Skyward -- David Spinney has a bumper corn crop in his back yard. Given the seeds last Hallowe'en, David planted them early in March with this seven -foot -high result, Despite the excellent results, five-year-old Dave would rather be a pilot than a farmer. Every farmhouse should have "If they're sick enough,' 1 al downstairs bedroom, is the agreed. "So maybe I send Dan contention of Dr. Paul H. Pluck, to the hospital with appendicitis. writing in the Farm Journal he In five days, they ship him home. has some interesting things to That insurance you're talking say on the subject. about keeps hospital beds in de- mand, Nowadays you're expect- ed to convalesce in your own bed- room." So we got down to business. We cut a door from the convert- ed den into the hall bathroom, and we gave that bathroom a * My friend and patient, Dan Foster, was full of house -building plans. At last, after ten years on the farm, the Fosters could have a new home. Dan and Martha asked me out to dinner, so they could show me the blue, closet for sickroom; accessories- prints. ,els" .hedpan, heating pad, hot : water Dan hung over me, pointing out '`` bottle, rubber sheets, even extra the details: a playroom for the bed linen. We also planned a youngsters, picture windows, a special medicine cabinet -with a dishwasher sink, and storage lock -in the bathroom wall. closets galore. They'd thought of . We widened the bedroom door everything -almost! to 36 inches, so that it could ad - 'Well, there's the castle!" Dan mit an ambulance cot of a wheel crowed, waving the plans in my chair. And we relocated the tele - face. But right away he detected phone, handy to the bedroom and a flaw in my enthusiasm. "What's on a long cord, so Dan could talk wrong, Doc?" business while convalescing. I was remembering other times . 1 held out for a big, bright cell - I'd visited the Fosters -and not ing light. When the architect de - for dinner. The time Dan sprain_ murred, I asked him: "How can ed his foot jumping off the I spot measels at midnight -by a tractor; those two months we had bed lamp?" He threw up his to put Martha to bed before little hands. First time he'd ever had Dan was due; the spring the kids to mix measels with blueprints! had mumps and gave them to their dad. Martha nearly blew up when I I said: "This plan doesn't show meddled with her furnishing plan. a first -floor bedroom, A bedroom I ruled out a broadloom rug, downstairs makes a mighty handy flossy draperies, and the big sickroom." double bed. But when they in - Dan bristled up. "Look, Doc, cited me out to see the finished we're planning a home, not a room, she and Dan were as pleas - hospital." ed as if it had been their idea, "Even so," I said, "you need a Twin beds provide for patient downstairs bedroom for guests, and nurse (or mother), They're and for a daytime nursery." not hospital beds, but they can (Martha's new baby was schedul- be elevated on blocks during fill- ed for April.) nese, The rug is washable, and Dan argued: "What's wrong Martha put up good, plastic draw with using one of upstairs rooms curtains as cheerful as chintz. if anyone gets sick?" That downstairs, homey guest room has already done siu Stairs - that was what was several times. But in spiteckdotyi' * wrong, I told him. "Just because waiting on flu, measels, and the Martha's been used to running up slipped cartilage in Dan's knee, and down for ten years, to tend Martha's varicose veins have im- the bunch of you, doesn't ]Wean proved. she should go on doing it. No , What's more, Dan's mother, wonder she has varicose veins. who hasn't walked a step since And what about my legs? A she had that stroke, paid them a doctor ought to charge a double long visit recently. She wheeled fee when the sick room is up- her chair comfortably in and out stairs." of that bedroom a dozen times a I won my point. Dan and day. Upstairs, she'd have been Martha crossed out "Den" on the cut off from TV and the tele - first -floor plan and substituted phone -and Martha would have "bedroom" there and then. (They had to carry up meal trays. switched the den to one of those 'Even Al, the architect, now upstairs rooms.) agrees that nothing (except may - My next bout was with Al, the be an automobile) can save as architect. "What's this I hear many steps as a well-planned about Dan's den being changed bedroom ----downstairs! to a bedroom?" he demanded. I had a tough time convincing him that a downstairs bedroom ---pro- perly planned to take care of sick- ness --was necessary I told him: Even the average healthy per. son is laid up three to five days a year. - with colds, sore throat, diarrhea, and the like. To say nothing of mothers coming home', with new babies, patients conval. escing frorn operations, end child- ren going to bed with everything frons the thicken pox to sour. apple tummy ache, By now, Al was shouting: "Hold it Dool That's why people' carry hospitalization insurance- So they can be sick its the hos- pital." MODERN ART The night porter of the house • where artist Salvador Deli, the extreme modernist, was staying while in New York, helped police catch a burglar by remembering the man's appearance and making a quick sketch of it. Dali was so impressed that, when his own place was robbed soon after, he observed the ban- dit who tied him up, and later did a painting of the man, which he .gave to the police„ Guided by the sketch, the police promptly rounded up two hundred people; A lsorse, a hearse, a canary, a pair of crutchesand a Swis' witch.. mea INDAYW ElN It. Barclay Warren. B.., B.O. Choosing The !fleet Matthew 0:25-33; Philippians 1:9-11k 4:17 Memory Selection: This 1 pray, that your love may abound yet macre and more in knowledge and in all judgment; that ye may approve things that are excel- lent. -Philippians 1:9-10. e * * Canadians have a standard of living second only to our neigh - Wars in U.S.A. Our homes, automobiles, clothes, TV sets and innumerable luxuries classify us as a prosperous people. This is fine. However, when people become absorbed in the getting of 'things their lives become off- balance and they are unhappy. Jesus said, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His right- eousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." These things refer to food, drink and clothing; the things which our heavenly Father knows we need. Here is a gracious and comprehensive promise. If we take this way then our worries for the present and future are over. It is -a simple recipe. Put GOd first in your life. Let His grace !make your life right and then do your best that others may know Him, too. Life will take on its proper perspective. Paul prays that our love may so abound in knowledge and judgment that we may approve things that are excellent. There are many good pursuits in life. `Where are many good books to read. Let us choose the best. Let the good give way to the best. Our mind should be a garden of beautiful thoughts. Here we should entertain only the true, the honest, the just, the pure and the lovely. Then our speech and our actions will be beautiful too. When we yield our life to Jesus Christ, confess our sins and believe in Him as our Lord and Saviour, we have chosen the best. Then it is natural and easy to choose those things which please Hiri1- Fiy Rev. Odell Honeymoons Honeymoon ie a word which eon mean vastly different things to different people. Lest year the director Of a firm specializing iia sports diving equipment attended lei an engaged couple They bought a diving outfit. With this they planned to go tat St. Ives aiid catch lobsters under the surface of the sea. Other newly-weds have been equally energetic. After their marriage on top of 8,000.foot Swuaw Peak, in, California, one bride and groom skied to the bot- tom, She wore her vredding dress;, he a' dinner -jacket. Sometimes one of the newly- weds has had to honeymoon in hospital. A Northumberland man, injured at work, had to return to his sick bed by stretcher. A Wilt- shire bride went straight from re- ception to hospital, having been given four hours' leave for the ceremony. It's no unusual thing for couples to be parted practically the second the knot has been tied, A young Portsmouth soldier, absent from his unit without permission, de- parted from his bride with the police. Voluntary partings on the wed- ding night have occurred, At a Devonshire court last year it was stated that a young soldier had waited until his bride was asleep, Then he had crept out of the house to commit a burglary. On her wedding night one American b r i de had to go in search of her husband. He was on his own, downing two bottles of whisky won from friends who had bet him he'd never marry, Upsidedown to Prt.r,urn MIL PnA11110 NRIEDIRVICHO .6 kJ !MEV 8112/13P lid\'; N t3'f1` VI O. 33 , . , i ( p 32 .431dci; ;.! 417 . ®•'3 D SAW re's co Ce . ffi,,:t Jsire F lrnmet-s' r N.,; sure - There's No Cease -Fire an Farmers' Warr With Nature - Despite drought early in the growing season which threatened wheat - belt crops, a bumper harvest is combined at the Kenneth Doug- las farm (above). With wheat -belt farmers expecting a more than bountiful harvest, acreages for 1955 plantings will be cut sharply by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, to reduce ci further increase of grain in storage. Failing to knock out the farmers with drought, Mother Nature has sent her insect' cir'my into the field. Waiting to get in their licks, the advance guard of a horde of grasshoppers perches on wheat stubble in a field before going on to more tasty cornfields and gardens. Fruit growers fear a ravenous invasion of peach and apple orchards, and have started spraying as a control precaution.