HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1947-10-30, Page 8s.
The Barrier
Collapses
By
JOHN ADLINGTON
The Rev. Mr. Jones claimed that the
3L stronger the relationship between
two men, the wider the rift if any-
thing happened to break the bond.
He said it was human nature, and
he liked to tell about Frank Holly
and George Clyde to prove his
point.
The two men had been neighbors
and the closest of friends all their
lives. It was the same with their
wives, and when Jim Holly and
Betty Clyde came on the scene, the
two youngsters grew up as much at
home in each other's houses as in
their own. It didn't seem possible
that anything could .come between
the two men. Yet they did fall out,
and the cause was so trivial folks
couldn't believe it.
The Clyde farm and the HoIly
place adjoined each other, sort of
back to back, and the line fence be-
tween them was an old rail affair
that a new -horn Iamb could have
climbed over easily almost any place.
So one spring just before seeding
time, the two men got together and
decided to replace it with a brand
new wire fence. When they had fin-
ished both men stood around telling
each other what a neat job they'd
done.
"She's as straight as a gunbarrel."
says George Clyde, squinting down
the row of posts.
.."Sure is," agreed Frank Holly,
taking a look. "But your place has
growed a little We're over about a
foot too far on my side."
He said it joking like, and if
George had let it pass, there would
have been no harm done. But one
word led to another, and the first
thing they knew both men were
yelling and shouting at the top of.
their voices. When each of them
finally grabbed up his tools and
headed for the barn, the most
beautiful friendship in Reefer coun-
Everybody could see the way it
was v ith Jim and Betty.
ty was busted wide open. And no
one could do anything about it.
Thar wives tried hard enough.
But it was no use. The truth was
bosh knew they were acting like
idiots, but each was too stubborn
to mnq:c the first move. After the
quarrel they both got so cranky
there was no living with them, And
they took it out on the two young -
put human nature is human nature,
and before the year was over
Jim and Betty were meeting in
tour' on Saturday nights, and sort of
hanging around together after
church. Everybody could see the
way it was with them, except their
His Excellency, Viscount Alexander, Governor-General of Canada, officially
tional Hockey League season at Maple Leaf Gardens, dropping the first
Capt. Syl Apps of Maple Leafs, and Capt. Syd Abel of Detroit Red Wings.
opened
pack
the Na -
h etween
fathers. The Rev. AIr. Jones tried
to get in a word with Frank and
Gcorgc on the matter, but it didn't
do a bit of good, and there's no
telling what way things would have
gone if it hadn't been for Frank's
old bay marc.
George Clyde was at the barn doc-
toring some shoats when his wife
and Betty came rushing in. "Mrs.
Holly just phoned," said his wife,
all out of breath. "She says she was
down the lane when she saw their
old bay mare on her back, all tan-
gled up in the line fence. Frank and
Jim are in town, and she's afraid
the poor thing will curt herself to
pieces time they get hack: She
thought maybe you'd do something
about it."
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"Holly can look after his own
stock," says George. "Why Dadl"
says Betty horrified, and the next
minute she tears out of the barn
as fast as she can. She ,stops long
enough at the drive shed to grab a
hammer and a pair of wire cutters
then disappears down the lane. It
doesn't take long for George and
his wife to follow her. By the time
they reached the back pasture, Betty
had released the poor beast that had
caused all the commotion. Mrs. Hal-
' ly was there, too, fussing over both
of them. And that's the way it was
when Jim and his Dad rattled up in
the truck.
It was George who rose to the,
occasion.
"Frank;" he say, a bit on the
shaky side, "This danged fence broke
us up, but we'd have less sense than
that dumb brute yonder if we let it
keep these youngsters apart."
For once, Frank seemed at a loss
for words but he contrived a grin.
Savage Fish
Tales of horrors in which men and
animals have been speedily torn to
shreds by savage, 10 -inch long fish,
are told by Christopher W. Coates.
The most dangerous fish in the
world, Coates avers, are the South
American piranha; which become so
excited by the taste of blood that
they often destroy each other. The
only photographic record of piranhus
in action, he says, shows these tiny
fish completely skeletoning a 400-
pound hog in 10 minutes flat.
Tradition places the castle of
"Old King Cole" of the nursery
rhyme in Colchester, England.
STEVE YAREMKO
Contest Winners
The winners have been an-
nounced of a recent series of con-
tests sponsored by The Wilson
Fly Pad Company of Hamilton,
Ontario,
Winner of the First Prize of $100
In the first of the contests was
;Steve Yaremko, a schoolboy re-
siding in Tangent, Alberta. Steve
lives out a farm near the school he
attends, and his favorite school
subject is arithmetic. He . consi-
dered using part of his prize win-
nings to buy a bicycle but on
second thought, he has put the
MRS. LAURA MCKALE
money in the bank for the day
• when he niay really need it,
Winner of the First Prize of $100
in the second contest was Mrs.
Laura McKalc of Calumet, R,R.1,
Quebec. Mrs. McKale is a farmer's
wife and the mother of twelve
children, six boys and six girls.
Aside from looking after her large
family, Mrs. McKaIe finds time
to do crocheting, embroidering,
knitting and sewing, Mrs. McKaie
claims she has been using Wilson's
Fly Pads for thirty years ant.
would not be without them.
Pictures of the two contest w
ners are seen above.
Or Lonesome?
Her knock 'was unanswered, and
the neighbor was about to leave
when six-year-old Bobby appeared.
"Hello, Bogby," she said. "Are you
here all alone?"
"Yes," said the youngster. "Mam-
ma's in the hospital—and me, and
Daddy, and Jennie, and Edith and
Edna are here all alone."
Let's Forget About It
" A Mr. Harmon—or Marmon—
called and said you're to meet bun
tomorrow on the corner of Elm, I
think he said, and West or North
Street, I believe, about eight, or
nine, I think it was, and that if
you can't come you're to 'phone
him, Sycamore 6-49 something 3,
it's very important."
4'
Tense on Le
gold Kin6, e gium
A 12 -month truce'seems to be
settling on the bitter debate which
has raged about ;the provisionally
exiled Ring Leopold IN of Bel-
gium.
The truce, if It is effective, will
he governed by the coming of age,
in September, 1948, of Ming Leo-
pold's eldest son, Crown Prince
Baudouin. Under Belgian law, he
comes of age at 18.
During the three years since the
liberation, Belgium has been gov-
erned by a Regent, the younger
brother of King Leopold, while
the Ring himself has, since shortly
after his delivery from captivity
in Germany, been "frozen" in
temporary exile by a vote of the
Belgian Parliament.
Exiled In Switzerland
He has so far spent his exile
with a small court in a villa on the
shore of Lake Geneva, and has
from time to time, through the
Secretariat which he maintains in
Brussels, made sensational, but
effective irruptions into Belgian,
politics.
The Socialist Prime Minister,
Paul Henri Spaak, undertook to
try to bring the political parties
into line on some compromise
which would restore a monarch to
Belgium's throne.
He has worked in complete se(
crecy, and has maintained it so
long that public interest in the
matter has flagged. The various
parties remain on their positions:
the powerful Social Christians, re-
flecting the Roman Catholic, con-
servative half of Belgium, de-
manding the King's return, or at
least a referendum of some sort on
the question; and the other par-
ties—Socialist, Communist, and
Liberal—refusing both return 'an'd •
referendum and demanding outright
abdication.
12 -Month Delay
Since the Government, the sixth
and most stable since the war, is
made up of Social Christians and
Socialists, there seems little chance
of the problem being seriously tacicl-
ed without danger of a new and un-
wanted Cabinet crisis. It is there -
fire widely believed that nothing
will be done openly until Prince
Baudouin's 18th birthday forces the
question into the open again.
Host to Kings
Egypt now harbors three
European former kings -77 -year-
old Victor Emmanuel of 'Italy, who
as Count Polenzo lives in retire-
ment, indulging in his favorite
sports of fishing, shooting and cycl-
ing; 57 -year-old log of Albania,
who is writing his memoirs, and
9 -year-old Simeon of Bulgaria, a
student at the preparatory school
of Victoria College, in Alexandria.
FON EAST, SURE awn
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HERE'S a rule fir Caitatla which appears on no statute books,
yet it is engraved in the hearts of the people.
Constant, day after day observance of thisrule is what makes
Canada a country where freedom of thought, word and deed
is truly respected and practiced.
It's the Rule of Moderation—moderation in all things.
And moderation, as The House of Seagram has frequently pointed out
includes temperate enjoyment of the luxuries of life.
Also in the use of whisky is the observance of the
Rule of Moderation a credit to the Canadian people.
On the list of the world's most temperate nations,
Canada's name stands high—and bright!
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