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The Brussels Post, 1960-08-25, Page 24""--4 -t"v#,/faiar4r,,, HRONICLES ~CIINGER.FARM Far East Allure PRINTED PATTERN 4645 SIZES 12-20 PRINCE ANDREW — With royal detachment, Prince Andrew observes preporation for his family's departure for Balmoral, Scotland. He is five months old. eiveadoline P. CtexIce 'Teachers,To Teach erks To Clerk The national teacher shortage. can only be solved if high schools . start acting like colleges, leading educator recently told. conference en the problems of secondary education at the Vale. Ver$itY Of. San Praneiseo. • Let the teachers do the teeeh- in.g„ let clerks do the clerking Hostess Favorite 6.1 4WLA Enjoy the beauty of roses all year with this chair set — adds a touch of elegance to any room. Precious filet crochet — lovely chair or buffet set, scarf ends. Pattern 975: charts; directions for chair back 16 x 121/2 , armrest x 121/2 inches in No. 50 cotton. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal not for safety) for this pattern to LAURA WHEELER, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont, Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. New! New!, New! Our 1060 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book is ready NOW! Crammed with exciting, unusual, popular de- signs to crochet, knit, sew, em- broider, quilt, weave — fashions, home furnishings, toys, gifts, bazaar hits. In the book FREE — 3 quilt patterns. Hurry, send 25 cents for your copy, by Toni A. Cullen Newspaper Enterprise Assn. LONDON—From Africa comes news that should gladden the hearts of tune-smiths. Africa's newly - independent nations desperately need nation- al anthems; they offer cash prizes for the best tunes. Among those recently in search of national airs are the Congo Republic, the Mali Federation, Somaliland and Sierra Leone. For Tin. Pan Alley's benefit, the• anthems need not be long— nothing like the 158 verses of the Greek national hymn, for example. Nor need they be par- ticularly African, Tom-tom effects are out in favor of simple words that stir up patriotic sentiments.• (No emergent African nation has yet seen fit to follow the examples of Afghanistan, the Vatican and the United Arab Republic whose anthems are wordless.) Speed also is essential. Tiede- pendence cannot wait for poetic inspiration. The national anthems adopted by Ghana and Nigeria are tin- likely to -Make anyone's hit pa- rade, They are either jingoistic or tend to extoll the nation's agriculture and its meteorology. Ghana is called a "bright star shining in the sky," The Republic of Guinea, (for- Merle, French Guinea), on the other hand, goes in for revolu- tionary' songs praising Sekou Toure. its Marxist-trained pre- miere Sentplet "Sekou Toure, gift divine and let machines help out a.; learning aids, the educator seid. Many surveys have concluded that the current teacher short- age is due to a lack of effective utilization of teaching talent within the high schools them- selves where teachers reported- 1,Y spend one-third of their time performing clerical tasks or su- pervising student activities. Future high schools. the Celt- fornia assemblage was told, must be set up along the general lines of a large university with em- phasis on teaching specialists and a reduction of the time a student spends in class to allow for more individual research and directed study. It has been suggested that stu- dents should spend forty per cent of their time in large classes taught by an experienced pro- fessional and the remainder of the day in small discussion groups led by 'general teachers' and in individual study super- vised by 'instructional assist- ants,' This combination would take the burden of unnecessary work from trained teachers and there- by eliminate a duplication of effort and waste of teaching tal- ent that is a basic element in the teacher shortage. Too much togetherness in schools was also cited as a dis- tinct liability in the teacher- learning process. All of which brings us home from San Francisco, The plan outlined at USE was originated from findings result- ing from the. Ford Foundation experiment now being conducted in Jefferson County R-1 schools, now in its third year. The entire experiment has received wide acclamation from leading educators and school ad- ministrators from around the country. Things are being done, Our own neighbourhood is partaking of a program promising bounty for all. And even in the early stages our program is becoming a model of endeavour.—Outlook (Golden, Colorado). THIRD TIME UNLUCKY Caught siphoning g a s from a car parked in a Pittsburgh street, John James was put un- der arrest. At the police station he gave his reasons for the theft. He had stolen a car, but it later broke down, He stole a second. car to tow the first one but it ran out of gas. He was in fact, stealing gas from the third car to put into the tank of the second vehicle. An old timer is someone who remembers when pickets were just part of a wooden fence. to Guinea, hail to you! Be bless- ed, thou benefactor of Guinea, apostle of the good cause, infant prodigy!" Nigeria solved the problem by offering $2,800 for the catchiest tune and throwing the contest open to corners from all nations. The winner was Mrs. Charles Kerrnot, a London piano teacher, "Nigeria, we hail thee" will swell from the throats of 35 mil- lion Nigerians after independ- ence day, October 1. Mrs. Kermot claims that it took her only ten minutes to compose the winning tune. She denies that is sounds like the boating song of a well-known girls' boarding school. The fact that their national anthem was written by a Briton has incurred the ire of Nigerian boy- cott the tune, "No self-respecting nation per- mits foreigners to compose its national anthem," writes a pro- fessor from the University Col- lege ttt lbadan, Nigeria. "It will make us the laughing stock of the African world." Ghana offered an $8,400 prize for its national anthem, but restricted the contest to Ghanian nationals, Winner was Philip Gbeho, a member of the muskal- ly-minded Ewe tribe, whose stir- ring entry begins, "Lift high the flag of Ghana." "Ghanians are like the Brit- ish," a student from Accra.. said. "As soon as the national anthem is played, everyone bolts for the door." Rip Van 'Winkle in Ru”ia Sluwly, anumtainly, Pyotr Vet- coy opened his eyes and stared at the curious faces around his bed, His lips twisted as he struggled to speak. And then, miraculously, the words came out. "Ode ye (Where am II?" In a hospital, "What am I doing here?" You were knocked out by a shellburst. "How long have I been here?" Then came the incredible am- wer; Eighteen years, For Pyotr Vetrov, time had stopped in December 1942, Hit- ler's Wehrmacht was hammering at the gates of Moscow, and PYotr, a Red Army truck driver, was taking part in the capital's defense, Pyotr, then 29, could remember the gnawing cold, then the roar of the shell, then noth- ing, Medics at the Dobrynikha Psychoneurological Clinic had identified the body from his documents, but Pyotr's family had been notified that he was missing, so no one ever came to see him, Recently, after a successful series of electric-shock treat- ments, the Dobrynikha clinic re- ported that Pyotr had regained consciousness. The eyes that had closed in 1942, reopened in 1960 —and what they saw was enough to derange the mind. Pyotr found that his once strong boby, kept alive by force-feeding, had be- come gaunt and flabby. He was a middle-aged man. Beyond that, there were changes in the world around him that confound many people who have been perfectly conscious for the past eighteen years, From the sister -e) visited him recently, Pyotr would have MISS INTERNATIONAL BEAUTY — Stella Marquez of Colombia is suitably happy and astonish- ed in Long Beach, where she was named Miss International Beauty. to learn that Russia and its Western allies had won the war, overrun the Germans, crushed the Japanese with a strange new thing called an atomic bomb. But as soon as Pyotr picked up Pravda, it would tell him that the Americans and, the British were no longer "heroes," as Pyotr had thought in '42, but "warmongering enemies," As for the Germans, same who lived in the Eastern half of the defeated country, were now "loyal allies," The rest, however, were still "Nazis," but instead of being crushed, they were now more prosperous than ever, Russia, Pyotr Would learn, had won many victories. "Under the inspired leadership of Nikita S. Khrushchev," Soviet rockets had hit the moon. "Khrushchev?” Pyotr might ask, "Who's he? What happened to Marshal Sta- lin?" "He's dead, and so is the trai- tor Beria" (a "hero" when Pyotr blacked out). It would riot be easy for Pyott. to change his former idols into devils, But he would net lack for help in making this eighteen- year leap. All he had to do was to turn the knob of a mysterious new box in his room, blink at the burst of light„ and watch while a TV announcer told him the latest news of the greet cold war. Eighteen years ago, Pyotr had hoped that World War II might be the last; now he had awakened to find the world close to the edge of a far greater cata- clysm, At that. Russia's Rite Van Winkle might well wonder whe- ther he ever should have awak- ened at all, From NEWSWEEK, DRIVE Witt4 ..CARES When we have an unusual experience I like to share it with you. It might help some time. So here is our latest. We have two cheques lost in the mail — Ontario government cheques — interest due on several bonds that we own. The bonds are ful- ly registered; the interest pay- able twice yearly. Up until mile the cheques have always arrived absolutely on time. This time sev- eral days went by; finally a week, Still no cheques. So I made inquiries at our local post office. We have rural mail delivery in our district so I thought it pos- sible the cheques had gone to some other family by the name of Clarke and would eventually turn up. Two weeks went by. No cheques. So I looked up the Treasury Department for the Province of Ontario in the tele- Sew it now — wear it now and on through fall! This strikingly Slim dress has an exotic, hi-lo neekliee, midriff theme, Basic for day in black or navy — daz- zling in Oriental eolore. Printed Pattern 4645; Misses' Sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, Size 16 takes 3 yards 35-inch fabric. Printed directions on each pat- tern part. Easier, accurate. Send FORTY CENTS (404) (stamps eannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for thts pattern, Please print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER, Send order to ANNE, ADAMS, BoX 1, 123 Eighteeoth St., New Toronto, Ont, phone hook. Attar the usual switch from one person to an- other I eventually got through to the right Oficial. He looked up the records and 'found the cheques had been mailed at the proper time. He suggested con- tacting our pest office again and if the cheques did not show up with a day or two to notify the Department in writing. This we did and got word back that the cheques had not been presented for payment by any unauthoriz- ed person, therefore the bank had been notified to stop pay- ment. In due time duplicate cheques would be sent to us -- that is, in about six weeks! In all, that means a two month's' delay before we get our money. It could be quite inconvenient. The big question is — where did the first cheques go? The post office suggests they might have gone to an entirely differ- ent town or village bearing a similar name. I know it can happen. When our address was "Milton" quite frequently mail was sent to "Wilton" — some- times because it was addressed that way. Now our address is "Erindale" we come up against Erin, Evansville, Erinsville and Elmvale. Sometimes it is the result of a typist's error. We have yet to get mail correctly addressed from one insurance company with whom we deal. Anyway, if you get cheques or important documents lost in the mail, contact the office from which they were sent. The mat- ter will eventually 'get straight- ened out. In the old days, accord- ing to a time-honoured saying, "the mail always gets throhgh". But these are tiot the old days. There are now more people, more places, more time-saving machinery — and more mail, But it is questionable whether there is more efficiency. We experienced another little inconvenience last Week, It was good drying weather so I un- dertook to do some extra wash- ing — blankets and so on. May- be you can guess what happen- ed. Yes, in the middle of things our washing machine gave up the ghost, After resting a while, it would go for a few rniinites, then blow a fuse and quit. We thought it must be the motor although the machine is only three years old. Ilowever, the repair man said the trouble was in the drainage pump. By aeci- dent, it was half turned on, al- though not in use, This caused lint to collect and plugged the works, We paid the service chatge but did not have the pump repaired — for the sim- ple reason We don't use it, PArt= tier citable the water into pails and ruses it to water the garden. That way it saves eyeler atici keeps the septic tank free of de- tergents. Detergents, as yoti may know, can play havoc With sep- tic tanks — also sewerage dis- posal plants,- But from now on We shall watch that pump. Well, what you you think of this little story? - We were hav- ing a cup of tea. no the front porch when the paper-boy emit, I offered him a cookie, ,,No thaoks," vame the an- swer. `Whet -- don't you like coUlt.. ies?" like them, alle right but they make me "perspire" too mueht" Ye gods, since when did tern- year-Old boys start worrying about perspiration? Incidentally ire oven,hadquite a time to pro- flounce the ward„, rerneMber when boys thought it sounded msiseified." to say perepiratien. Good old honest "sweat." was more to their liking. Years ago I was trying to educate our son Bob into using the more polite term for eXceSs body moisture, What answer de you suppose got? "Gee, Mum — don't try to make me a sissy, Girls pers- pire, boys eweat! Don't you know that?" Whichever way it is, we have done quite a bit of it the last few days, But now it is cool again. Maybe too cool in the re- sort areas. Daughter sent word home that if we planned a visit. to the cottage to take an elec- tric blanket, However, a he doesn't say anything about corn- ing back to Toronto. To all ep- pearencee' she, intends staying to the very last day of the school holidays. The boys, are still hav- ing a wonderful time, HEAR, HEAR! An eccentric old man invested in one of the new hearing aids that are almost invisible. A few days later he returned to the shop where he had made his purchase to express his delight. "I'll bet your 'family likes it, too," said the 'salesman. "Oh, they don't know I've got it," said the old fellow. "And I'm learning things! In the past two days I've changed my will twice!" The are of printing was first introduced to the Americas in Mexico in 1536. A LIGHT and airy look is ach- ieved in this double-breasted turquoise coat by Michel Goma in a shaggy surface fabric. Semi-fitted ot the front, it has high waistline with slightly flared skirt. flit ''RUSSIAN Litiok't prevaltt In the collection' of Nina kicci e, designed by Jules teohoy: typi- ea lis this evening gown of pale g ray satin banded in sable, the high waistline is another Ct'd- hay freCleenork for evening; How .About A Tripps.o • aunt Of Ice The possibility of using lee. for large-scale building project • a 'being investigated by the Meer'. chuselts Institute of Technolorne„ whose Chief researcher, Dr. David KingerY, foresees a great future for ice-built dwellings. What is now the most plenti* tut. and so far least useful sub, stance on earth may soon 1: valued very differently, he says. To him, ice is a metal, one which melts et about 32. degrees Fah-. renbeit, As a metal, in its natural state, it breaks under a pressure of merely 300 lbs, per square inch. But the pro2essor and his teem have found methods of remedy- ing that weakness, • Their experiments prove that ice can be turned into a metal alloy by adding ..quantities of glass-type fibres. This binds the ice, and. ice metal, so made, reaches a tensile strength of 3,000 lbs, a square inch,. That give a durable alloy, a piece of which, merely a quarter-ieeli thick, can support the weight of a 200 pound man.. Modern Etiauette Be Anne Ashley Q. When eating with the ..fork, is it all right to spear the pieces of pleat with the fork held. prongs-down? A. While it is all right to spear the • meat with down-pointing prongs, you must be certain to lift the fork to the mouth with the prongs upward, Q. When I have borrowed a needle and thread from the at- tendant in a powder-room, in or- der to make some. minor repair, am I supposed to tip the attend- ant? - A, Yes, this is expected. ISSUE 36 — 1960 THIS SPORTY and casual suit has jacket with smooth fit, high pockets, cravat tie and saucer buttons, It's designed by Jean Patou. It's shown here in a new, light-weight tweed. tHis IS TI-It PARIS version of the flamenco datiter's costume, done for evening by Castillo Gf Lanvin. the ertOrnioUS• ruching' at the hem is typically Spanish: Body of the dress is slim and This design is done it d toot calm'shade of ijeoyo, You Song-Writers, Here's Your Chance ! African Nations Search For Anthems students, who threaten to First. Photos of New Paris Fashions NEW YORK-(NEA)—The first pictures through from Paris show fall and winter fashions to be feminine and wearable, not at all drastic. Hems are just below• the knee and, for both daytime and evening, get-the luxury of fur trim. Many coat collars come up to the 'ears only to be met by hats reaching down to the ears. We snow here daytime and evening clothes from the top French couturiers, all of them very flattering, — By GAILE DU- GAS, Newspaper Enterprise Women's Editor. r.