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The Brussels Post, 1957-08-21, Page 7Finding Lost Dogs In Holland Lost dogs in Holland are for- tunate creatures. They are sel- dom lost for very long and when they are found they are swiftly returned to their owners. For their good fortune the dogs and their masters have to thank a national voluntary or- ganization that is 25 years old this year. Holland possesses many welfare services but the organization known as. Stichting Amivedi (Animal Lovers' Foun- dation) is perhaps unique. It provides the human link be- tween the owner of a pet, the police, the animal protection societies, andd the finder of a stray. I found out how it,works when I met the Baron van Pal, landt in Hilversum, the nation's radio city. He has been working. for the Stichting in. Hilversum' for a year and he has found 50 dOgs during that time and re-' turned them to their owners. The Baron explained that a group of people in Utrecht 25 years ago decidede that a great deal of unhappiness was caused by the fact that though lost ani- mals were often found, there was no organization to return them to their owners. The ani- mals were brought to a protec- tion society's kennels and re- mained there unless the owner made constant visits to see 'if he could spot his pet. So the Stichting Amivedi came into being. Over the years it has created new branches in nearly all the large cities in Holland and it has earned praise from the public and from the police. Its work is especially impor- tant in a country with large city populations but it is made es- ,sential by the fact that Dutch law provides several statutes that protect the domestic pet. In the first place an animal that has strayed cannot be killed unless it is severely injured. In the second, the finder of a dog must immediately report his find to the police. If he fails to do so with 24 hours he may be heavily fined. A third statute safeguards the property rights of the owner of a stray. If a stray is given to a new owner it must be given up if the original owner comes forward to claim it, writes Ian Rodger in The. Christian Science Monitor. Such regulations mean that , there is a great deal of work to be done that cannot be done by the normal organizations that . exist in other countries. They create the need for the dog- hunters of the Stitching Amivedi. The Baron told me that he often spends a whole day look- ing for a dog. On less difficult days he usually starts by tele- phoning the police for the latest reports.' When he has checked his list of found dogs with the list of dogs reported missing he begins his regular rounds. These rounds include visits to people who have been given strays that cannot be traced to their owners. Once a month he calls on them to make sure that the animal is in good health. On some of his calls he gives advice about the care and feeding of pets and he provides pamphlets and some medicines without charge. He has a car of his own but the Stitching gives him a travel allowance and pays for his cleri- cal and postal work. But his time and his labor are given free. For his reward he has the satisfaction of playing a very necessary and human role in Dutch society and there is no doubt that he, like the other members of the Stichting Ami- vdi, thoroughly, enjoys his work. As a true animal lover, he de- rives as much pleasure from re- turning a mongrel to a small boy as• he does from rescuing a pedigree prizewinner. "I always go to these• fancy dress balls as Napoleon," said a young, man to his friend at a ',dance. "I like to keep my hand on My,,wallet." WEEKLY EDITOR HONORED—Horace V. Wells Je., right, editor of the Clinton, Tenn., Courier-News, receives the 1957 Elijah P. Lovejoy Award for Courage in Journalism. 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This is that the parliaments which existed under a half cen- tury of British tutelage — and which, with whatever faults of corrution or zeal, permitted ex- pression of more than one Egyp- tian point of view — do not count. Such a reading would imply that one-party government eontrelled by an originally mili- tary junta is regarded as a per- manent pattern. It appears true that the Nas- ser 'regime has substantial ac- complishments to its credit in at least two fields — land re- form and school construction. One could wish that these efforts and initiation of the Aswan Dam had gone forward without 'the, accompaniment of Soviet-bloc =as purchases and Suez Canal nationalization. Only Egyptians can judge whether their inter- ests might be better served by still more attention to internal improvement and less to the stirring of external antagonisms. But the question Is whether even now, with the possession a a National. Assembly — which President Nasser could dissolve at any moment — Egyptians will et an opportunity to express such judgments. From The Christian Science Monitor. THE LAST DROP Among bathroom gadgets is a push-button toothpaite dispen- ser said to deliver an exact brush-length of paste with the Rick of a lever, The Financial Post report's. Fitting to the wall, le is designed to empty com- pletely any tube whatever brand or size. Selling in the U.S. at about $2. Great Flocks Of Flying Jewels Deep in the great caves of Trinidad, high up among' ,the moaning pines of Haiti, and now / again here between' the cold mangroves and the sea of mud, we have found ourselves in places that were strangely un- real, unearthly, and apart, as if they were on another planet. Such other-worldly places need not be grim and forbidding; they may be places of absolute- ly pure, soft beauty. This shell bank by the, sea was one of these. Lying there under the even- ing sun with the fresh mellow winds puffing at our faces, we could not belive it possible that there could be any other peo- ple in the world, or that a town of even the size of Paramaribb was less than seventy miles away. From being an austere and lifeless bit of mangrove., haunted mud facing an endless . stretch of muddy sea, the place had -become a distant paradise. How can I say this of an area that is entirely covered with mud and mangroves? ',will tell you, but first let me make sure of one thing: do yott know a bird called the red ibis? It is essential to describe this lovely creature before .I ,try to give you any impression of the coast of Surinam that evening, because the mud flats as far as the eye could reach in any di- rection were covered with countless multitudes of these birds. They are long-legged wading birds with the charac- teristic down-curved bill of the ibises. . . The entire plumage is, right enough, red rather than green, blue or yellow, but in it are mingled all the salmon- pinks, roseate reds and brilliant flames that any artist could ima- gine. Under the warm light of the evening sun these natural jewels came sailing across the rich blue sky in unending flocks, landing among their brethren on the mud. With them came great flights of snow-white egrets, beating the air with laboured difficulty, their thin black legs trailing behind them. Every now and then bevies of brown bitterns or bright blue herons would come out of the two little creeks like flights of arrows. ... As the sun sank lower, there came a raucous screeching., mingled with insolent cries, shrieks, whistles, cat calls and all the other uproar that only parrots can produce. By tens, by hundreds, they came along the coast, blotting out the sky, fill- ing the air with their yelling, and driving the wheeling vul- tures and hovering fishing- eagles lar, up into the higher air. Whet makes parrots such friendly creatures? I believe there• are two answers to this question: first, because they are 'never ashamed of proclaiming themselves, and, secondly, be- cause they always fly in pairs, the little husband and. wife beating along wing-tip to wing- tip. After tea we strolled round to the little creek that backed our shell spit. Here the setting •sun ,reade an orange' mirror of. the still water as it twisted among billowing waves of vivid green inatigreVeS. Above, flight after flight of flaming ibialea and snowy egrets and blue herons kept passing, Front bean Treasure," by Ian T. San derson. RADIO TRANswittitit PILL Pill to swallow` before icing May contain a radiO-traristriit, ter ann, a batch Of instruments beneath the 'sugar coating, states The Financial Post, Such a 'pill has been developed by scientists in Sweden „ It transmits data on the temperature and pressure inside the patierit'S atorrieth. ivory ,Hunters • Qt The Diamond Probably bnebairs most under- paid operatives are its "ivory hunters" — its scouts — who beat the bushes from early spring until late fall in the hope of flushing some real talent. It is a profession which has been likened to buying oil stock by mail, with the saving grace that it needn't cost the scout any money however, etnploy- ment often ceases with the same abruptness with which a base. ball can lose itself in Yankee Stadium's late afternoon shadows, and the hours are long and arduous, of the gaMes's MoSt suc- cessful scouts have been former big leave players, although not all have been so personally tal- ented. Perhaps the two 'best known in recent years have been Paul Kirtchell of the New York Yankees and Wish Egan of De- troit. Kirtchell always gave the im- pression of being the hard-hit- ting businessman, intent on land- ing his quarry at any price. His No. 1 find was Lou Gehrig. Egan was the more fatherly type, al- though he too knew the value of the dollar, His chief claim to fame was Hal Newhouser, a ,strong-armed southpaw who won more than 200 games while wear- ing a Tiger uniform. Kitchell and Egan. may not have been the two best scouts of all time, but if they weren't they are so close to rating that distinction that there' are few baseball men around who will argue the point. Nearly 20 years ago the Bos- ton Red. Sox sent its former gen- eral manager, Eddie Collins, to the West Coast to scout a prom- ising infielder. As far as is known, it was the only planned scouting trip Collins ever made. While Eddie was there his trained baseball eye caught sight of a gangling outfielder who swung a bat with rare authority. Collins recommended that the Red Sox but not only the in- fielder, Bobby Doerr, but also the outfielder, Ted Williams. Un- doubtedly, it was one of the most profitable scouting trips of all time. However, they don't all turn out that way. Ed Rumill once talked about a scout' who visit- ed Frank Lawrence a few years ago, when that gentleman was owner of the Portsmouth, Vir- ginia, club of the Piedmont League. A southpaw was pitching for Pettarnotttfrlhat afternoon and doing a whale of a job. Lawrence offered to make a deal with the scout for the youngster, but the ivory hunter decided the boy was too small. Lawrence then directed his at- tention to the club's second base- man, who was having a great day both at bat and in the field. It was the same story — too small. The following year Lawrence sold his second baseman to the Macon club for $500 and he later got $2,500 from the St. Louis Cardinals for the pitcher, You may recall the names — Eddie Stanky and Harry (the Cat) Brecheen. Ted McGrew, a much-traveled big league scout, probably was as much responsible for the Brooklyn Dodgers winning the 1.941 National League pennant as any of Leo Durocher's regu- lars. Three of the Dodgers key players — outfielder Pete Reiser, shortstop Pee Wee Reese, and pitcher Whitlow Wyatt — were the result of three separate scouting trips by McGrew. Without scouts, there probab- ly wouldn't be any' ball players. And without players there would be no baseball — at least not the way we know it today. May- be that's an oversimplification, but boiled down it makes sense.. The scout's lot Is not an easy one. Let one big fish get away and he's looking for a job. 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