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4P Even the proximity of death and
disa.ster from. oveellangin.g Week .cleilds,
of Armageddon cannot completely wipe
out an inborn love of spurt. Fur this
dips down deep. into the roots., of man,
Last summer we saw one4 of the
finest examples of the.. fashion in which
sport .can set aside the terrors. that may suddenly plunge.
a country into chaos, when all .f , Europe Outside the Iron
Curtain practically went berserk in celebration of West
Germany's 3-2 victory .over Hungary .for the world soccer
championship,
Hungary's team from behind the iron Curtain hadn't
been beaten in four years. The ;Hungarians were regarded as
a certainty to win again. Early in the going . they led 2-0,
which in soccer is tantamount to a lead in hockey. But
the West Germans rallied and eked.. out a 3-2 triumph. .An.
Associated Press story from. Frankfort declared the reaction
was "like the World's Series, a heavyweight championship
and the Kentucky Derby rolled into one,'
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer: sent a congratulatory tele-
eram. to the team. Theodor Reties, Preeident of West Ger-
tunny, announced thata a silver laurel-leaf medal awaited
each member of the team upon arrival home.. On their
volute', the conquering heroes of the soccer field were given
a reception of which royalty wouldret be ashamed.
Perhaps this outburst of enthusia.sm was promoted by
the fact that a team from behind the Tron Curtain, an arro-
gant, unbeaten favorite, had been plunged into defeat by
a team that represented freedom.- Perhaps it was the tra-
ditional reaction that accompanies victory for the underdog,
• But whatever political significance may have attached to
the result, it still was a tremendous tribute to the deep-.
rooted appeal of sport.
• Here are the West Germans and the Hungarians„ both
Practically sitting on the H-homb. Whatever their political
philosophies, these peoples have had a rough time for .gen-
orations back. For - them, it haS almost always been war,
or threat of war. .
If anybody should be nervous, continental Europeans
are the ones. Yet they declare a holiday with complete.
equanimity. when a soccer team wins a critical game, and
there • is. dancing in .the - streets with the not-too-distant
threat forgotten, temporarily at least, as sport eothusiasm
chases away the nightmare of 'an uncertain future.. '
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Richard Harrington makes it
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Hockey Should Be
Peaceful Now -
An era of hockey is about to
end.
Feb. 1 of this year will be -the
date. At that time J. Conn
Smythe will retire as president-
and managing diredtor of the
Toronto Maple Leafs. He was t
preceded in retirement on Sept.
30 by Arthur H. Ross, vice-
president and general manager
of the Boston Bruins.
They were next to the last of
the old guard of hockey. ,
the early days of the. Na-
tional, Hoekey League there
were ninny other dominating, in-
dividuals such as Col'. John. S.
HaMmond and Lestee Patrick of
the Rangers; James Norris, Sr.,
and Jack Adams of the Detroit
Red Wings; Cherles F. Adams
of the Bruins; Jimmy Strachan,
of the defunct Montreal Mar-
oens; Leo Dandprand and Cecil.
Hart of danadiens; Maj. Fred-
'eric McLaughlin Of the Chicago
Black Hawks; William V. Dwyer
of the New York Americans and
Tom German, leader at times, of
the Americans,. Maroons • and
Chicago, writes Webb Morse,
Sports Editor of The Christian
Science Monitor. e -
When Smythe retires only
Jack Adams, general manager of '
the Red Wings of Detroit will
'fel-nein. The era will be at an
end because there will be none
left to fight with Adams.
It used to be that the above-
mentioned names were as prom-
inent in the hockey news as the
games and players.
It took very little, and some-
times only imagination, for one
or all of these esteemed gentle-
men to drop their cloaks of pro-
priety and verbally storm the
bastions of hockey dignity.'
Feuds, real and fancied, were
frequently invented against one
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.0 In those days. hockey ,games
at Boston, New York and Chi-
cago were sell-outs night 'after
night. I doubt that any attempts
to resume those paper feuds
would attract a single ticket -
buyer, but they were lively in
pose.
With. Ross gone and Smythe
going, .Tack Adams has no one
left to fight with and hockey
will have to rely on just plain
hockey for public attention.
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For Bald-Heads
proval as a first step towards a
more stable and orderly market-
ing of milk and milk products.
Any discussion is likely to cen-
ter around the extent of partic-
ipation and amounts to be col-
lected.
All too often farmers are apt
to be penny wise and pound
foolish as the controversy that
is 'raging around the hoemark-
eting scheme is proving, 'where
a 20 cents per hog deduction is
a' bone of contention.
Iniportent Consitietations
Only by cooperating, individ-
ually and collectively, can farm-
, ers prosper and assert their
place in an economy which is
tuled by Bigness, Being hutnan
we are all subject to errors and
mistakes, but can learn and
progress by experience.
The recommendation of the
Coordinating Board. is 'sound in
principle. It should be taken
to the national level though,
lest Ontario parry the burden
for the whole country and be-
come a most lucrative market
for the surpluses of the other
nine provinces.
Lastly but not leastly an ex-
planation is needed why all the
important decisions rest with the
provincial government if it does
not contribute to the scheme.,
If Ontario farrners Want to
preclude milk for gale abroad at
lower prices and want to raise
funds to spread the difference
evenly &Vet the group as a
Whole, the decision is theirs and
not the governinerit's.
Let's beware of Paterealisin in
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Otherwise; it will endeavtair to
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Invention Ideas
and Their Origin
tions; and the answer was the,
blanket.
High up o4 th9 "list Of Pub.,
lie benefactors is George Ste.,
pliensori, the creator' of Britain's
railway% This brilliant engineer,
although he did not Originate
the steam locomotive, used
Other inventions and improved
them so completely ee to make
them peculiarly hie own.
gVen in his early days, while
he was being paid twopence a
day for minding cattle, young
Stephenson displayed his apti-
tude for construction, spending
some of his spare time in mak-
ing minature mining engines.
He knew that to get on he
must be able to read and write,
so for three nights a week, after
doing a twelve-hour shift, he at-
tended night-school at one pen-
ny a night, On his nineteenth
birthday, states John Howland,
in an inspiring and comprehen-
sive biography, " George Ste-
phenson" he could scrawl his
name,
Stephenson's first big chance
to prove his worth came when
a new pit was to be sunk at
Killingworth. A great problem
of the times was the difficulty of
preventing water seeping into
the workings. A pumping-engine
designed by the engineer Smea-
ton' proved a failure.
George's forthright opinion of
the machine was such that the
management asked if he could
put matters right. "I could alter
her and make her draw; in a
week's time you would be at
the bottom of that pit." He was
given the job.
At the end of the three days
of concentrated labour the ma-
chine — looking as if it had
been tied together with pieces
of string — was ready to be
Started up. In two days the shaft
was free of water; at the end
of the third day men were work-
ing at the bottom in compara-
tively dry conditions.
Duel Fought With.
Green. Apples
"There are. countless gadgets,
and devices founded, on .alinP,
licity itself, Take the crinkly
hairpin, for .example.
The inventor who thought this,
one up, explains -Professor A.
M. LOW in his enlightening And,
interesting book "Thanks To In,
ventors" was spurred to activity
by his wife complaining .of the.
number of hairpins lost by fall-
Nis answer was a heir-
pin with waves in the arms.
, It Was .only fifty-odd years ago
that carpets were mechanically
cleaned by beating, At the be-
ginning of the century a new in-
vention was introduced from.
America whereby a powerful:
blast of air blew dirt from the
carpet into a container fitted
above the nozzle, Some of the
clust escaped the trap and set-
tled back on the carpet,
H. Cecil Booth watched the
process, and then thought up a
'bettee idea. 'Why not reverse the
procedure suck instead of
blow? His completed vacuum
cleaner, chiefly consisting of an
electrically driven fan to induce
a partial vacuum, was mounted
on a van and driven round to
houses, the hose 'being run out
to rooms where the eatpets.
were.
Inventions can involve a- great
amount of 'thought and candle-
burning; but it often happens
that chance, too, brings some-
thing out of the bag.
Thomas Blanket watched an
article come from his loom en-
tirely different from what was
expected of it. The weaving
loom was at fault; but Blanket
thought "this is not what we are.
trying to make, but for a differ-
ent purpose it might he better
than *anything else."
• From thoughts sprang ac-
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right, who works the "tap."
Although duels have long been
outlawed in most countries, men
still sometimes cross swords, as
two did in Cornwall recently.
But no duels as strange as some
Of those of past years are ever
f ought
.1°-d ay In 1878,while cholera; ,was
raging in a small American
town, a Colonel' Hunt challenged
a Mr. Bright to a duel and the
choice of weapons was left to
Bright, who arrived on the duel-
ling-ground with some green
apples,
are my weapens,,”
Bright declared. "Cholera is rag-
ing through the town and one
of us will surely die after din,
ing off this dish. Sit down, sir,
and let us cross forks. On
guard!"
Col. Hunt swiftly beat a re-
treat, calling that form of duel
ungentlemanly and refusing to
proceed with it.
A duel which was almost
equally as strange took place in
Finland in 1808 when Count
Dolgoronky challenged Lieuten-
ant-General Zass to a duel dur-
ing the siege of Nyschans.
The mode of fight was for each
man to stand erect in the em-
brasure of a battery of field-
guns and to wait until an enemy
bullet should knock one or other
off his feet.
To ensure that there Would
be no retreat, the -Vicomte d'-
Allemagne and the Sieur de la
Roque fought to the death with
daggers, their left hands tied to-
gether.
As recently as 1929 two Hun-
garians fastened themselves to
a tree trunk and 'fought to the
death with stones, both dying of
their wounds.
In Poland, one of the grisliest
of duels was fought when two
men were each armed with an
army revolver and shut up in a
huge furnished room which had
been completely blacked out,
Then they began to stalk each
other. One ,was killed after the
third round of shots was fired.
The modern duel is complet-
ely different from the old,. how-
ever, as shown by a recent
,United States instance where
two young men, each driving a
fairly new car, drove to an open
field, where• they began chasing
each other in the cars, -and ram-
ming one another' as hard as
they could.
Eventually the one car was,
completely out of commission
and the owner of the other,
which wasn't in much better
condition, Was pronounced the
winner.
In Johannesburg, two men ar-
gued about the affections of a
woman and one slapped the oth-
er's face. Instead of fighting it
out there and then, they decided
on a duel and, left together for
Durban with their two seconds.
There they hired a motor-
boat and went three miles out to
sea. Then, dressed in swim-
pants, they dived overboard to
swim back to shore!
The &lel ceded when both
men were. fished half-dead out
of the Water and called it quits.
Where Did Husky
Dogs Come From?
In that silent, bitter wilder-
ness of ice and snow they cell
the Far North, a man's best
friends are his •dogs. The rug-
ged husky is probably the
toughest fighter and the most
unfriendly dog the world has
ever known. Yet he is also the
bravest, hardiest and most will-
ing of workers, obeying spoken
commands with complete faith-
fulness.
He sleeps outdoors at tem-
peratures of sixty below zero,
not asking for affection, not
getting any.. In the summer his ,
meals are pitifully few.
In 'winter he is often called
upon to go without food for
days on end, pulling and slog-
ging through the snow, battling
blizzards, growing thinner, more
savage . . . yet, strangely, still
faithful, till he drops exhausted
in his tracks. His reward?' A
bullet—for more often than not
his- master is also starving.
Back from the Arctic, Richard
Harrington has written an ab-
sorbing book, "The Face of the
Arctic," in which he says that
it is very difficult to trace the
ancestry 'of the wonderful
husky, though he does seem to
be related to the Samoyed dog
of north-eastern -Siberia. How
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another to make headlines in
press and radio.
Probably- the greatest purvey-
ors of public attention were
Ross and Smythe, generally be-
tween the two. Not far behind
in the Fart of commanding not-
ice were Charley Adams, Col-
oneleHammond; Lester Patrick,
Major McLaughlin, Tommy Gor-
man and Cecil Hart.
One needed but "a question 'or
a hint to anyone of these- hard-
ened old characters and they
would fire away 'at anyone or
all of their fellow league mem-
bers. For years the then league
president, Frank Calder, a mild-
mannered little man, was con-
stantly in the role of peace-
maker. It reached such heights
in later years that owners and
merebers of the board of gov-
ernors were warned to call a
halt or face imposing fines.
Possibly the• most spectacular
stunt of the times was the night
Cer" Smythe appeared at a
Bruins-Leafs. hockey game in
Boston Garden arrayed in full
dress of top hat and tails. An-
other was the night in Ottawa
at a' play-off game a Bruin play-
er, .Billy Coutu, assaulted' Ref-
eree Jerry LaFlamme after the
game and was barred from
hockey fdr life, but later re-
ports claimed Charley Adams,
Bruin' owner, as the attacker.
Most of the times, however,
the attacks were only verbal and
of a personal nature for the pur-
pose of inciting, feuds in print.
No question about the response
either, for the papers and radio
commentators ate it up and box,
offices were kept busy filling the
demand for tickets to the games.
I don't believe too many. hockey
free or any of the press really
ac 'eel many of the feuds ,as
bon. !fide, but they certainly
canteleutel to thc popularity of
the snort at the time,
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