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Zurich Herald, 1953-06-18, Page 2C' W/HO is 1111' AND WHAT IIS )T7 Looks like the photographer .made a squeeze ,play on a pretty well-known young lady. Yep, you know her, ell right. Maybe, you can even figure out who it is from this goofy photo, .although there 'Isn't much figure there. So, okay, you DO recog- nize her. But do you know how she got that way? No, She hasn't been on a diet. You can learn the answer by look-; .ing elsewhere on this page. Charged 5 Guineas For Night's Sleep 1 Have you an idea for making money? Most people have at serrie time or other, and many :have "cashed in" on the most fantastic brainwaves imaginable No fortune was ever made by a more extraordinary method than that employed by a certain . quack who lived in France. He declared that he had the power lo raise the dead, and that he was going to prove it. The day before the event was to take place he was besieged by people imploring him not to exercise his "powers." The peo- ple consisted of beneficiaries un- der wills, the heirs of misers, and even wives who had no wish to :meet their husbands again Many others in official posi- tions were afraid they would :lose their jobs, and all were will- ing to pay handsomely if the quack would withhold his pow- ers. He did - and made a for- tune. 'But money does not always come quite so easily. A watch- • maker who lived in the reign of George II wanted to make him- self known, and he hit upon the idea of cleaning a watch on the spire of Salisbury Cathedral. At the dizzy height of over 400 feet he sat for an hour while he cleaned his watch and put it together again. But all he made But of that was a few pounds which he collected from a bet- ting friend who had imagined The feat to be impossible. Many people have made money from oysters, but the way a certain Drury Lane oyster dealer cashed in on one, single shell -fish was a firstclass brain- wave. It was last century when this dealer found amongst his stock an oyster that had a small hole .in its upper shell. The actions of respiration forcing moisture through the hole caused a shrill whistling sound. This specimen became known as the "Whistling Oyster," and its fame spread throughout London, drawing large crowds to the oyster shop. The dealer exploited his lucky find to such good pur• pose that he soon retired. One of the most gruesome :Ideas for making capital was hit upon when eight people were drowned in a flood of beer. This disaster occurred in London about 140 years, ago, when a great reservoir of beer in Ban- bury Street, JBloomsbuey sud- denly burst. Its contents, equal to 3,555 bar- rels, cascaded in a huge wave un- der which walls and whole dwellings collapsed. Crowds visited the spot, and some of the relatives of the vic- tims actually charged for admis- sion to view the dead, which they had grouped together in a nearby house. This disgraceful exhibition drew so many people that the police had to put a stop to it. In London in the eighteenth. century a place called "The Tem- ple of Healing and Hymen" was set up. The proprietor claimed that he could not only cure ill- ness, but ensure his patients beautiful children if they slept in the temple upon his celestial bed. The charge was 500 guineas a night! The records do not show if he found any takers. All The World I Pepper -Hungry It Peter Piper picked a peck of peppers to -day, he'd be har- vesting a fortune. When thieves stole a ton of white pepper from a London grinding mill recently. they snatched nearly half of Britain's available supply, a haul worth over $8,000. Before the war, when the world had a stock -pile of 50,- 000 tons, pepper sold at 60 an. ounce. To -day it has soared to 40e an ounce. All the world is pepper hun- gry. Not long ago the Customs seized an illicit shipment worth $45,000 at the London docks and put it on sale - hut not to the home market. The pepper was bought by the United States for $90,000, representing a spicy profit for. the British taxpayer, Speculators once tried to cor- ner the world's entire pepper supply. One man bought 12,000 tons in a year, and. then failed to find the necessary $4,000,000 cash for the purchase. To -day's crisis,. however, be - You Smoke That Thing? -Yes, that is a pipe, and a prize winner at that. Mrs. Elizabeth Weistrop, the housewife sculptress, won $1,000. The pipe was entered in a national contest sponsored by a pipe manufacturer, The bowl of the pipe is in the rooster's puffed-up chest and the stem runs along the tail feathers. The prize money will be used 'to buy a home in the country for Mrs. Weistrop, her two children and her husband, on ex -soldier working his way through law school. gan twelve years ago when the Japanese overran Indonesia and upr toted the pepper vines , in favour of short-term crops. Because the pepper plant takes from five to seven years to reach fruitful maturity, the world has been living en its reserves, though the pepper famine is al- ready breaking. Pepper smuggling by air has become big business between Sumatra and Singapore. Chinese smugglers are cashing in on the precious pickles from which pepper is made, and which were put in safe hiding shortly before the war. Whole families invested in pickle berries as a safe means of investment. A Sumatra merch- ant stuffed a mattress with thein and recently exchanged the mat- tress for a house and motor -car, laiii Horse S 11131; EUS On March 16, 1953, the Inter- provincial Farm Union Council presented a Brief to the Federal Cabinet dealing with all aspects of Canadian agriculture. Largely concerned with mar- keting and pricing of farm prod- ucts the union farmers believe "that in a world of increasing population where more and more people are going hungry, the problem of food production is of primary importance. There are those who would attempt to shrug off the fact of hunger for food by saying the world has long had vast numbers of under- fed people, many on the verge of starvation" "This at any time is a cynical attitude. In the light of modern technological and scientific de- velopment it can be none other than an unethical ,degrading ex- pression of defeat, dangerous to humanity as a whole." The farmers, therefore, request "that our government earnest- ly consider suggestions advanced by this delegation and other in- terested bodies sincerely trying to offer constructive proposals regarding the provision of a greater measure of security and well being for those people in our society who produce the much needed foodstuffs essen tial to human existence." Marketing Policy Discussing the question of ag- - CROSSWORD PUZZLE AC 0, S 1. irregular 0, Play on wn,•.•ts 9. Clamor '48. Sweetheart 13. Beverage 74. Small fish 15. +4enus o! rate 18. Denies 18. Biblleal •har•acter 19. 'Cakes a seat 91. Command to acat 12. interpret iamb.) 23. By means of 84. State of the Delon 87. Ronan date 89. Dine 22. Small restaurant 84. Department le Uruguay 80, Artifiela). language 97. Short jacket 9. Article 48. Went first 42. Tableland 44. Scheme 48, Joke 47, Philippine' ne rito 40. Odious 52, Decorate l6. Poem before 46. Part of e. wooden joint 57, Marry 53. Obtained 48. Growing not r)owl 9 Dssh 9, Wander 3. Across 4. Japanese ,:ain 5, F),tlb out 4. Separated 7, Rubber trees 8. Clock in the form of a slily 9. Prudent 10. Notion 21. Cozy home 17, Utilize 20. Fool 22. Decay 23. Greek loaner 24. Japasrese ea.-,!, 25. Concealed 26. Alone 28. Sea e8;lee 311. JSxis 31. flat Bap 33. Colo • 15. lav n:.c :8. Egg than 41 Compass point 43. Assert 44. Eselama+taus. 45. Bathe 44. Art of sei:e. defense with - oat we0.p0n,1 47, licbridrq i.wland 48. Jogging taut 49..t:ngl)sb IiF,'Y4 Mist here on This A»op f2111 rise.. ricultural price stability the, Brief sets out • that "in industry,, as in - many other major lines;, much. of the hazard in this res- pect has been eliminated by controlled production and by a system ' of price rigidity and other means of price fixing, tariff protection and a combination of devices and practices which have become quite common procedure and in some cases almost com- pletely accepted as part of the system under which we are liv- ing. This position has not yet been attained, however by the agricultural industry." Objecting to the argument of certain groups "that the fanners should sell their produce on the competitive market under the so-called law of supply and de- mand" the unions would consi- der this a fair basis of equality if it were the practice and policy followed by the other groups mentioned. But since this equali- ty does not exist the obvious necessity of price stability for agriculture is pointed out to en- sure the future supplies of food- stuffs, Under the present system fanners are going out of produc- tion of certain- lines of agricul- tural. products for Iack of stabi- lity of prices thus creating out- standing variations in supply. These fluctuations with the re- sulting insecurity are "neith.er healthy for the farmer nor the consumer." The unions are, therefore, asking for "s01nw more equitable plan of price ;stability for the primary products of agri- euture in Canada." Accepted in Principle By putting the A.gricu:ltcu•ai Price Support Act on the Sta- tute Book, the federal govern- ment has a•».know (edged in prin. ciple the necessity for price sta• bility, but the unions are of the opinion that it has not made full use of the pro 'isinns made under the act. The uniane further demand clarification of the very confuse ing picture in the field of juris- diction between the pr•ovi.nciar and federal governments so far as the operation of marketing plans for agricultural product are concerned, and urge that a conference be held of the pro- vincial and federal governments at which agricultural producers should be represented. Domestic and Export Markets It is further proposed that dis- tinctions be made in the Wi- cks and prices for domestic and export markets, in a way that "domestic requirements should be priced and sold on a basis of exrmparahle vanes to the costo of the goods and services farm- ers must purchase," while ex- portable surpluses should be handled by producer controlled marketing boards. The brief says that "farmers have often been penalized by even small temporary surpluses and the export prices of their products have determined the price on the home market." All -Out Production The union fanners are very outspoken in their opposition to the suggestion. made "that far- mers should produce for a known and profitable market and that we ought to think more in terms of limiting our production, particularly certain products, to the requirements of our own home market." They also believe that "such a restrictive and backward step is not only unacceptable to farmers, but is quite foreign to the very nature of those of us who make agriculture their life work." They continue to express their belief "that as long as there are •billions of people in the world 'who are underfed, as evidenced 'ter reports of F. A. O., that every ;encouragement -even emphasis <'-' oughtto be :placed on an all- out production program to bol- ster dwindling supplies of much needed foodstuffs." And they demand that "if as a result of such a program sur- pluses are built up, then provi- sion should be made that such surpluses - be they long or short term - are not allowed to interfere with the prices on our home market." This column weicomes sug• gestions, wise or foolish, and all criticism, whether constructive or destructive and •will try to .answer any question, Address your Letters to Bob Ellis, Box 1; 123 - 1.8th Street, New Toronto. Ont. Upsidedown ro Prevent Peeking TA LE TALKS JaneAws '.there's lots of rhubarb .around, and by the time this appears, strawberries should be plentiful. So why not combine these 'two Spring favorites and give the folks a treat with these individual "coblerettes"? Served hot, with Bream, - they're simply delicious. Recipe serves 6. II , Rhubarb -Strawberry Cobblerettes 2 camps sliced strawberries, " 2 cups diced rhubarb 1 teaspoon vanilla. 2 cps sugar 2 cups water Cobblerette topping 8 teaspoons each butter or margarine and sugar. Make -sirup 'by cooking sugar and water together for 5 minutes. Add vanilla. Mix together the diced rhubarb and sliced straw- berries. Divide fruit equally be- tween 8 well -buttered individ- ual baking dishes. Pour sirup over fruit. Drop a mound of top- ping (recipe given below) on each eobblerette. Make dent in each mound and drop teaspoon each butter and sugar in each dent. Bake at 450°F. 15-20 min- utes.. Cobblerette Topping z cup sifted flour 2 tablespoons sugar /z teaspoon salt 11/2 teaspoons baking wetter ti cup butter or margarine lee Cup milk Sift together flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder. Cut in but- ter. Add milk, stirring only until flour disappears. - $ K 1. For a Spring birthday party -- or any other sort of party --you'll find this Strawberry Meringue cake hard to beat. Matter of fact you don't even have to wait for a party as an excuse. The quan- tities given are enough for 16 servings but can be reduced pro- portionately for ordinary use. * « F Strawberry Meringue Cake Sift together into a mixing howl 2-% caps sifted cake floor 1 cup sugar 3 tsp. baking powder. 1 tsp. salt Make a well in the dry ingred- ients and add .1 cup salad oil 5 egg yolks, unbeaten elt cap cold water 2 tsp. vanilla 2 tsp. grated lemon rind Beat with a spoon until smooth, Measure into a large mixing bowl 8 egg whites X'z tsp. cream of tartar Whip until foamy. Add, a tablespoon at a time lh cup sugar Beat until mixture forms stiff peaks. Gradually fold egg yolk mix- ture into whipped whites until just blended. Line 2 (8 -inch) square cake pans with waxed paper. Pour batter into pans. Bake in moderate oven (350°) 40 to 45 minutes. Remove from pan. Cool. Place on 2 cookie sheets. Frost with - Meringue: Beat until foamy 4 egg whites r/2 tsp. salt 1 tsp. cream of tartar Add, a tablespoon at a time 1 stip sugar Continue beating for 10 to 15 minutes or until meringue forms stiff peaks. Spread over cakes. Place cakes in a hot oven (425°) for 4 to 41 minutes -just long enough to brown peaks -if you like a soft meringue. Or place them in a slow oven (250°) 60 to 70 minutes, or until dry, if you want a crisp meringue. To serve cut into squares and spoon strawberries over the top, e 4' * Prune whip, of course, is "as old as the hills" -or almost. But making iib this way, with crushed corn flakes, gives it a nutty flavor that makes it different. 41 1, ll 4 c�twp prune puha ll teaspoon lemon bice 2/2 cup heavy cream, whippedl Y cup confectioners' sugar »adh salt °4 etap i'inely crushed corn. flakes (measure after crushing). Whip cream until stiff;. add . sugar and salt. Combine pruner and lemon juice and fold into cream. Chill. Top with crushed corn flakes just before serving. BOOKS it's millions to one against your book selling over 2,000,000 copies, but alphabetically these are the tomes that did; Alice in Wonderland, Carroll Ben Hur, Wallace Christmas Carol, Dickens Gone with the Wind, Mitchell How to Win .Friends & Influ- ence People, Carnegie In His Steps, Sheldon Ishmael and Self -Raised, South- worth Ivanhoe, Scott Last. of the Mohicans, Cooper Little Women, Alcott Mother Goose One World, Willkie Shakespeare's plays The Robe, , Douglas Robinson Crusoe, Defoe See Here, Private Hargrove, Hargrove ' 'Story of the Bible, Hurlbtat Tom Sawyer, Twain Treasure Island, Stevenson A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Smith Uncle Torn's Cabin, Stoia,e In case you didn't recognize the -er, face, it's screen star Mari- lyn Monroe, which isn't hard to figure out from this photo. The "squeezed" picture you saw is shown the way it looks through a CinemaScope lens, used for the new 3-10 movies, But don't fret, on the screen, a compen- sating projector restores her to, normal proportions, twice as large -and twice as dose --- as before. Vigil for a Young Master -Waiting patiently beside clothing of his master, Lobo, a pet dog of l5 -year-old Ronald Bivens, keeps a mournful vigil while police grapple for Ronald's body in e1 pond. The body drowned while experimenting with a home-nnstde underwater breathing device.