The Brussels Post, 1955-05-04, Page 6E TALKS'
dam Anclmvs. .PLAIN.HORSE SENSE
When we were reading up last
Week in Morrison's 4‘Fe0s. and
Feeding" theeffects
.
of
fluorine fedtofn
coals in their mineral -supple-
ment,, we were struck by his
statement that '"repent investi-
gations have eshOven,;. that even
Very small moments of this mine
eral have a poisonous effect if
these amounts are • steadily .con.
tumrn:/:1, over a. long period of
e
(MMOO) VON PM'S
Once the precedent of compel-,
sissy mass medication is estab-
lished, a government could do
practically anything. Research
is under way now for a contra-
ceptive, to be administered oral-
ly. If and when it is discovered,
would a government; be permit-
ted to control the number of
births in a given district? Or
would the majority, decide
whether the minority may have
children or not?
3 teesettan salt
Salad greens
Orange sections (or other
fruit)
Pit prunes and, arrange a row
of the whole prunes in'bottom.
Of an piled 8-inch ring mold.
Chen, remaining prunes, Allow
cheese to drain 10-15 rnintiteal
blend with celery, pepper, orange
rind, salt, and chopped prunes,
Pack slightly over whole prunes
and chill 1 - 2 hours. Unmold on
greens; fill center with ereena
and orange . sections,
Ships That Vanish
Without a Trace
DiamOnd Smugglers
Use Odd Methods
too early in the year tee
sok about salads Made With
fresh vegetables out of the gar-
den, Still, a meal without some
alert of salad just doesn't seem
suite complete, and here are a
ifew that you can make now
Or any time.
The first is pne supposed to be
especially for television viewers
se We all it bite-sized pieces.
Naturally, you can use left-Over
chicken or turkey in place of
The canned variety. * * A
SALAD TRAY
1 package cream cheese
(3-ounce)
Ya cup finely chopped celery
1 tblsp. chopped pimiento
1 can boned chicken or tur-
key (6-ounce), diced
14, cup finely chopped walnuts.
Combine cheese; celery, pi-
miento, and chicken. Chill in
refrigerator about 1 hOur. Shape
chilled mixture into balls the
size of large marble's, Roll in
chopped walnuts. Serve on tray
with seedless grapee, pineapple
cubes, and orange sections.
Seldom photographed in recent years, former, Vice, President John Nance (-Cactus Jack) Gar-
ner appears in his favorite role in this recent camera 'study. It was taken on his farm in
Uvalde, Tex. The 86-year-old Democrat who served two terms under Franklin D. Roosevelt
may yisit Washington for the first time since, his retirement in 1941 to attend a testimonial
dinner for House Speaker Sam Rayburn. - •
NEITHER RAIN NOR—It ,isn't that
Postman Edward Ouffy is bash-
ful. He's making his rounds in
a paint-sprayer's ,mask to battle
the dust which swirled through
Albuquerque at' 50 miles per
hour.
The "Ada Cummings" during
eighteen months travelled at
'least 6,000 miles before break-
ing up off the coast of Colum-
bia. This ship had a fantastic'
journey, from the coast of New
Jersey to Ireland, then down
south passing France and Por-
tugal towards the Equator. She
was then driven west again to
her •destruction.
PINK PEAR SALAD
12 pear halves (fresh or
canned)
8 maraschino cherries
1 package cream cheese (3-
ounce)
1 tblsp. maraschino cherry
liquid.
Dash salt
cup chopped pecans
Chill peeled pear halves. Cut
cherries into small pieces with
scissors or sharp knife. In a
bowl, soften the cheese. Add
cherry liquid, cherries, and salt;
blend thoroughly. Add pecans;
mix well. Heap cheese mixture
in hollow of pears; press 2
halves together. Tint and serve
on crisp salad greens. Serves 6.
This variation of the ever-
popular Waldorf salad requires
a special dressing, the recipe for
which follews.
WAra,DORF SALAD
3 - 4 unpeeled apples, cut
in bite-size pieces
21/2 cups pineapple tidbits,
drained (No. 2 can)
34 cup walnut meats, broken
1 cup celery sliced
1 cup salad, dressing,
Combine all ingredients ex-
cept celery (pineapple keeps ap-
ple from from discoloring). Add
celery just before serving. Serves
4 - 6. * *
HAWAIIN WALDORF
DRESSING
34 cup vinegar
1 tablespoon butter
1 egg, or 2 yolks
1/2, cup pineapple sirup (drain-
ed from tidbits used in
salad)
IA cup sugar
2 tablespoons flour
alt teaspoon salt
3h teaspoon dry mustard
Heat vinegar and butter in top
Of double boiler. Beat egg with
pineapple sirup; mix in sugar,
flour, salt, and mustard. Stir into
hot vinegar; cook over boiling
water, stirring constantly ,until
smoothly thickened, Cool. Makes
1 cup.
Fears that diamond prices all
Over the world may _fall because
of the big increase in diamond
smuggling have recently been ex-
pressed by diamond chiefs.
Urgent talks about a vast
diamond smuggling racket in
Sierra Leone have.been -held with,
the object of deteeting it:* And
Sir Percy Sillitoe„ former head
of M.I.5,' has submitted a report
On the smuggling.
The diamond smuggler often
uses women to carry these "black
diamonds," as the trade calls
these gems. They have found
that plain, homely women — not
the traditional beauties of fiction
— are most suitable for this work.
These women travel with the
gems from the diamond centres
of the world — South Africa, Rio,
British duiana,
;Some hide, stones in their hair
or in the hollow heels of their
shoes,, ,Other diamonds have
been found concealed in' bath
sponges, cakes of soap, the milk
in a baby's bottle and iii grow-
ing plants.
One woman, a regular passen-,.
ger to, and from the Continent,
always carried and fondled a
small dog., One day the, dog gave
the' 'Show • away by coughing up
several valuable diainonds it
had been trained to conceal:
This dog faithfully did his duty
for a' long time — until that em-
barrassing moment„ The woman
was
In a single year the United
States Customs seize up to $1,-
500,000 worth of smuggled dia-
Mends. •
Official's there have found dia-
monds concealed in a casually-
smoked cigayette,, in the stem of
a pipe and kr a false toe-cap.
One smuggler, nearly got away
Withe-dia .minidheworth $1,500,0'00
fitted neatly, at the end of a dila-
pida'tedAimbiella.
In spite of their ingenuity two
digniond.Sniugglers ,were 'caught
on the Canadian 'herder seine
years' 'age. eTlibee -were ' carrying
fifty unset diamonds worth
$180,000 and had a sleeping com-
partment on a , train.
One of the men had a 'wooden
leg, and when customs officers
arrived -they expected to find
diamends in that leg. Vainly
they poked and tapped it. No
stones were there, Then one offi-
cial had .an idea.
He inspected the train's elec-
tric light bulbs and found the
fifty diamonds carefully packed ,
in one of them.
Informers sometimes give dia-
. mond smugglers away. When a
man who was trying to smuggle
$50,000 Worth of precious stones
into France landed at. Calais, he
was searched. All the stones
were found sewn into the lining
of his trousers. The informer's
reward in this case was $12,000,
There is no reason to doubt
the word of F. B. Morrison, one
of tire most eminent ,agricultueal
scientists on the North -Ameri-
can continent. If an authority
of his standing says that even
"very small, amounts" of fluorine
have a poisonous effect if
"steadily consumed Over a long
period of time", such, a state-
ment should have a dampening
effect on the zeal of all those
enthusiasts who want to help
their neighbours against their
own free will.
Hot Campaign
The campaign .fqr the fluori-
dation of drinking-Water for, hu-
mans is being waged with con-
siderable heat over, quite some
time. Who is behind it?
Some doctors have spoken for,
others against fluoridation. No-
body has yet presented a- scien-
tific report on research and ex-
perimental work done with re-
gard to all aspects of the use
of this highly dangerous poison.
It is claimed that it will re-
duce caries in children up, to ten
years, that's all. But has it been
competently and scientifically
established that the continued
ingestion of fluorine, even in
,
minimal amounts, will not ad-
versely affect the heart, the
arteries, "the,'- kidneys or the in-
testinal and reproductiye or-
gans?
It has been proven that cows,
which had received fluorine
over some years, produced smal-
ler than normal calves: It is
therefore conceivable that this
poieon, which,is cumulatiVe and
cannot be eliminated by the
body, may affect the child bear-
ing ,;capacity of the human fe-
male.
A number of reports from all
over the United States indicate
that bad reactions to fluorine
have occurred and that. some
people are allergic to it.
Moral Objections
Under these circumstances it
seems, to say the least, unwise
to advocate the mass admini-
stration of this mineral to whole
populations. We are net im-
pressed hy the "expert opinions"
Of a String of doctors and
dentists, which in all likelihood
are mostly based On second hand
information. Too well do we
remember the a r d r, with
which some of them propagated
and applied the sulfa , drugs
when they were first discovered,
and the losses we suffeeed in
our Jersey. herd.
Quite apart from these factual
considerations, t h e question
arises whether any doctor or
politician has the right to com-
pel medication against the will
of the patient, unless the' pa-
tient, by refusing endangers the
-health of other people.
There cannot be an objection
to the chlorinatiOn of water, for
instance, because a person con-
tracting typhoid would be a
threat to , others. But dental
caries is neither infectious nor
contagious. It is everybody's
own personal affair.
All sailors know of the dan-
gers to life and ships caused by
derelicts, those ghost-like aban-
doned ships that sail aimlessly
over the seas. The records of
Lloyd's contain all the possible
case histories of these ships—
and of other obstructions' like
the film company's huge plastic
whale that, went adrift off the
west coast of Britain last year.
Some saw in that story, well
publicized. in the newspapers,
an amusing piece of advertis-
ing; but as soon as the informa-
tion reached Lloyd's of London
the news was passed by radio
to all ships, so that possible ac-
cidents might be avoided.
Day and night throughout the
year a. ceaseless watch is kept
in order to reduce sea accidents
to the minimum, And yet,
despite it all, there have been
ships that have , disappear
without trace. Could they have
collided with drifting and dere-
lict vessels?
Take, for instance, the "Mar-
onic," which was last heard of
in February, 1893; the "Geor-
gia" which disappeared also in
February, 1897; and the "Hur-
onion" which vanished likewise
in February, 1902. All those
three ships were certainly A-1
at Lloyd's; and when they van-
ished their owners naturally
claimed and the underwriters of.
Lloyd's had to pay.
Sailors are superstitious, and
because all three ships men-
tioned disappeared in the month
of February, during a peridd of
nine years, that was enough to
heap superstition on super-
stition,
What was the cause of the
disappearance? There being a
total lack of evidence, nothing,
but reasonable surmise at-
Lloyd's and elsewhere, one must
fall back on the evidence of
what does happen when a liv-
ing ship meets a ghost or dere-
lict.
A ship named "Dunmore"
was a bit of a mystery ship.
Her crew set her on fire and
abandoned her. Nothing was
heard of her for a year. Then
„ one bright moonlight night the
watch aboard the steamer "St.
Louis" gave the alarm and the
crew came scurrying on deck to
see a Ship. She proved to be
"Dunmore" bearing down on
them.
Only cool seamanship averted
a head-on collision. "St. Louis"
steamed on, leaving the ghostly
"Durnore" drifting on uncon-
trolled, a perpetual danger to.
shipping,
It is a fact, vouched for by a
Lloyd's official, that most dere-
licts are ships carrying a cargo
of timber which may keep them
afloat for years.
Take the case of the Ameri-
can schooner "W. L. White." In-
1888 her crew abandoned her
when in a sinking' condition off
Delaware Bay. During the en-
suing year Lloyd's received
nearly fifty reports of the •
schooner having been sighted in
various places,. In the dark and
* * *
Here is a salad ring that is
molded without the use of gela-
tin. All you do is pack the fruit
An the ring in the order given,
chill, and unmold on crisp
greens to serve.
SELF-MOLDING SALAD RING
3 cups prunes
2' pints cottage cheese
1 cup chopped celery
94 cup chopped green pepper
(sweet)
2 teaspoons grated orange
rind
with trembling fingers she tore
off the wrapping-to reveal a
large piece of rump steak.
By mistake she had handed
an unknown customer about
$1500. A newspaPer recording
the error headlined its story:
"What ..A Misteakl" The money
was never recovered.
Some quite' small mistakes
have' had disasteous results. •
The sculptor of "an equestrian
statue in a north of England
town was so pleased with it that
he challenged experts to find
fault in it. They could not.
But on the day it was unveil-
ed a country lad among the aud-
ience shouted out as the statue
stood revealed: "Look! He's for-
"gotten to put the stirrups' out"
It Was true.
The sculptor was so distressed
that two days later he commit-
ted suicide.
Mistakes sometimes have
funny side. Some time ago
people were surprised to see
cabbages, broccoli and tomato
plants springing up all over a
Yorkshire playing field and 'a
border of nasturtiums lining the
touch-line. -
Yes, somebody had made a
mistake, Groundsmen explained
that seeds had accidentally been
mixed with the ashes dug into
the clay. foundation of the new
playing field,
A biscuit- firm erriploys a man
at a good salary to do nothing
but look for mistakes. Every day
this eagle-eyed individual tours
the various departments „in the
faetory, looking for misspellings
on the labels, letters printed up
side down, and so on.
He lives by mistakes, and is
so 'keen that he occasionally
routs out some biscuits whose
edges are not symmetrical, The,
mistakes he spots are only small, '
but the firm-, knows;' that .such
minor errors, can make all the
difference between. 'commercial
success and failure,
Builders have bear; known to
make sorrie odd mistakes, In
1950 an Anstrian, building con-
tractor completed a fine block
of flats and the buildings seem-
ed ready for (lamination until
someone Pointed ?tit' that he had
forgotten tcrinchide arty Stair-
- cases:. -
A 'Manchester builder who
erected a small row of "desir-
able residences" years ago put all
the fire plecee carefully in posi-
tion, but doriapletely, forgot to
install chimneys.
One of the luckiest mistakes
ever made over a horse-race net-
ted a fortune for king Edward
VII when he was Pethce of Wal-
es, He wanted to back a horse
called Orvieto at 8anclown and
asked a friend to make the bet
for hint,
The friend misheard him and
put the Money do another beige,
Ortrie, which came in first: The
Prince throught he had lost Un-
til his friend annottrited that he
had war; $40,000. . •
Where is the life we. have lost
in living? . Where is the 'wisdom we have
in knowledge?
Where Is the 'knowledge we
have lost in information?
The Cycles of heaven in twenty
centuries
Bring' tie farther trent God end
nearer id the Dtiat,
t.
The 'beautiful is es useful. ins
the tidefuli and donietimos more
—146411di Bettaiiii4d*ardi
Queer Mistakes
People ;Make
Many queer mistakes, some
having far-yeaching coneequene-
es, are constantly being made.
Two hours after leaving 'Lon-
don in an areOplane not long ago
an Irish farmer' aeked the air
hostess What time. they were due
at Shannon Airport, 'She looked
surprised.' He `waS told the next
stop was ; Iceland,
In the wrong 'plane the farmer
had to fly on to New 'York, He
WAS given two* days there at the
air -company's expense and then
taken back to Shannon.
Within a few minutes of the
Opening of fine new post of-
fice, costing three million dol-
lars, in Pennsylvania a few years
ago, people began 'complaining
that there was no letter-box at,
tathecl to the Magnificent
The dismayed postmaster got
in teeth with the' architects who
shamefacedly confessed that
they had forgotten all about that
important, item' in the building.
The Mistake was quiekly reett,
tied,
The pretty cashier in a htit-
cher's shop in 11/Iirtheepolieo used
to wrap up the takings every day
in brown paper before taking
the money round to the bank.
She was always busy. 'One day'
not long ago she was thinking
More of her boy friend whom
She Was going to meet that eve-
iiirig than Of her work, Which hie
eluded wrapping rip Meat for
enstoiners es well as taking their
Cash. -
doling tithe Carrie, She paw=
tiered her nose and pleked up
the ;parcel to take to the benk,
She dropped it like a red-hot
brick, fearing tit* Woratl Their
foggy weather she must have
been a perpetual menace to
other ships during her 5,000-
mile uncontrolled journey across
the Atlantic.
Finally, 'news reached Lloyd's
that the "W. L. White': had, run
aground on the Isle of Lewis,
in the Hebrides, so that there
is no doubt that she did travel
that long, ghostly voyage. Then
the ghost was laid; and Lloyd's
underwriters were relieved of a
risk over which they had no
control.
Then there is the mysterious
story of the "Golden Rod," a
British schooner. She was fre-
quently seen by passing ships
that had avoided collision with
her. Time and time again sea
captains gave orders to get as
near as possible to • "Golden.
Rod" and set her on fire:
But somehow, the abandoned
vessel escaped every time and
turned up again and again,
often hundreds of miles from
where she had been last seen.
There came a report that she
was off Delaware breakwater,
floating bottOin up. At that
time the British and Americans
were both doing all they could
to combat the ghostly dangers
to shipping. The Americans had
a warship, "Atlanta," specially
fitted with a ram to deal with
derelicts. "Atlanta" happened
to be in port not far from Dela-
ware, so a telegram brought
her on the scene.
"Golden Rod" was effectively
bottom-up; with` the forepart of
her keel on sea level, but her
rudder rearing some ten feet in
the air. "Atlanta" was brought
to, her gunners opened fire, and'
with each round the target was
hit, "Golden Rod' rolled vio-
lently as each shell struck her
But she did not sink.
Firing Ceased. Then "Atlanta"
charged with' her ram, and rip-
ped off the stern of "Golden
Rod." But still she,did not sink.
For the third time "Atlanta"
charged and 'rammed "Golder;
Rod" Rod" amidships. This time the'
British schooner, 'as if mocking
the American ship's attempts to
send her, to the bottom, righted
herself -and settled down, riding
the ram of "Atlanta."
The stricken sailing vessel
and the man-,2 o-war now rode
side by side, jammed together:
It was as if the schooner was
clinging to the mighty warshiee
in her desperate struggle for
survival. Finally, the "Atlan-
ta's" crew managed . to shake
her off their ram; but she
wouldn't go down and they had
to ram her yet again,
The fourth blow' almost rent
the schooner in two, But still,
Miraculously, she stayed afloat.
The fifth attack turned her
right over so that she seemed
in good fettle and ready once
again to ride the seas,
But that fifth blow Wag really
the death blowi "Golden Rod's"
cargo Of empty barrels, that had
kept her froth her watery grave
began to Slide out through a
gaping hole in her hull, Doomed
She went down like a stone.
Lloyd's records hold the stor-
ies of Many other ghosts. Of the
sea, Sailers hate these derelicts
and there- are many stories of
hoW they have risked their
liVeS trying to' get aboard them
arid act fire to thetre
In 1899 ti British derelict,
named "Siddarte was the tar-
get of Many such atteitipts,all
unsuccessful. At lest "H.M.S.
MelearriPtis" e. a pi r e d "Sid-
darthw 'and towed her to port
to, be' broken up:
, .
Old Time Coiffure Stiff Good Enough
Nautical, hairdo'cif right vVrni a $5600 gold cup at a London
tantett, although It wds actUally launched 1778 by
France's Queen Marie Antoinette, left, Seems contemporary
designer, M. A. Willie, had reason to believe in the "good el'
Clare
PASSENGER PUP—When Policernan. Johann Muelleraf.
Germany, went modern and replacect.hiS pedal pusher With
Meted:Ake, police dog. Attar had trouble keeping' up with
Vehicle., So: he'dtioched 0 aide-ear, and noW the Mb are abatit
the faitett pate tediti Adhibtird'o,