The Brussels Post, 1960-11-10, Page 6"What Is success -but getting:
what you,'want?" poses an ad-
.vertisement. And what is happi-
fleas but wanting what you get?
One. Sure Thing
That Turned Sour
Shortly alter Alulli4n, a
tall, lithe leilerni (Ohio) Univer-
sity student, won thex.00-meter'
breast stroke at the Olympics,.
the'-pt otid American was show-,
ing off his gold medal, Jehrt
Thomas, the high-jumping'
stylist, took a long look. 4$0y",
said Thomas, "I sure hope fori
one
Mulliken smiled, "You
mah," he sea "Everyone knowet
that."
Thomas grinned. "Give rite
yours, Bill," he suggetted, "andl
I'll give you mine when I sorh,
it"
"Why not, Bill?" said a team-
mate. "Thomas is a sure win."
But John Thomas, the sure.
winner, became a loser, On a daY •
that quickly became known aa.
the "Black Thursday" of U.S.
track-and-field history, Thomas's,
defeat was the most, startling of
three shocking setbacks:
In the 800-meter run, won by
the U.S, every year since 1932s.
all three American entries—Tom
Murphy, Ernie Cunliffe, and
Jerry Siebert — failed to make'
the final. The winner: New Zea-
land's obscure Peter Snell.
In the six-man final of the 100-
meter dash, won by the U.S..
every year since 1028, Ray Nor-
ton, the pre-Olympic favorite,
finished - dead last. Dave Sime,
who barely made the American
team, matched his best time of`
the year -- 10.2 -- but just miss-
ed catching Germany's cocky
Armin Hary, also timed in 10.2..
In the high jump, which the
US, has won eleven_ times in,
fourteen previous Games, Thomas
who holds the world record of 7'
feet 31/4 inches, was rated 'a safe
bet. Even the Soviet coach. Harry
Korobkoti, conceded a U.S. vic-
tory. "Thomas is unbeatable,"
Korobkov said. „
In practice, Thomas jumped 7'
feet consistently and easily,
amazing the Russians who watch-.
ed him. "I psyched 'em", Thomas
said, after the workout.
Then, in the competition, three
Russians matched Thomas in-
jumping 7 feet 1/4 inch. At 7 feet
1 inch, one Russian missed, but
the other two, Robert Shavla-
kadze and Valeri Brumel, made:
it = 'with the highest jumps oil'
their lives. Thomas missed hit
first two 'tries. The crowd of •76,,a•
000 suddenly fell absolutely'
silent. On hit third and last at-
tempt, he' took short, deliberate •
steps, leaped ,.— and failed, Gasp.
echoed through the Olympia.
Stadium: Shavlakadze, with few'',
er misses, won the gold rnedalt
Brumel was second, and-ThomaL
third: "If -ThoMas psyched any
said a 'Soviet ,reporter "It'
was himself."
psopu ROTATION -- Little fallow on David.:Sevillo`a ahoy-Mot
is his candidate for president. Seville (Ross Ragdasarian) la tho'
erector-mentor-voice of Alvin;',tho record-happy chipmunk, Alts
ong the critter's campaign ftplirdissl: rotation of people' inflect,
of crops; city folks to filo country, country' Cousins to the' city::
TABLE TALKS
kmeArtdrews.
2 tablespoons fat
2 cups water
3 tablesPdons mixed pickling
spices
1 cup dried apricots or
prunes
,Brown roast in fat in heavy
skillet. Add water and spices.,
Cover tightly and simmer 3-3%
hours or' until fork tender. Dur-
ing last hour of cooking, add
apricots or „ prunes.
"Well, it the rubber part is tight,
maybe the steel rim lealcsi lie
gave me the timer look, but he
was kind enough to patronize
me, and when we splashed some
water on the Vim es, lol the steel
rim leaked;
I paid, "Maybe we can setieeze
it some Never,Leek,"
He said I'd have to buy a 'hew
wheel, So I bought one, and
OW- that I got the shimmy, And
there is semethie; about this
which bothers me. The rubber
industry has worked its head to
the bone to" develop a tubeless
tire, budgeting heavily to pro-
mote public aceeptapce, and the
automobile people have been go-
ing right along making wheels
that need tubes. They've got the
rubber tight, hut metal Is still
poroua And haying subscribed
to this absurdity by buying the
wheel, I'm back in 1923 shimmy-
ing all over the road.
So when he said he'd have to'
balance the wheel, I said, "Do
you mean you sold me a crooked
wheel?" The gave me the look.
The timer look. I'm so out-of.
date, "why didn't you balance it
before you sold it to me?" I said.
"You do it after,"- he said. He
'has a ,machine, which he insists
cost him $375, just to balance
wheels. So I got a tire, with no
tube, a steel rim' that leaks, and
then have to :buy an unbalanced
wheal. All the years of progress,
and "I'M no better off than I was
in 1923.
He balanced me all right, and.
I refused to pay him. I told him
to send the bill to the tire people,
or the auto people, or somebodY,
I said it was time we automobile
owners, stood our ground. Lop-
sided rims, and who knows what?
He said it wasn't lopsided. And
I said then why did you have to
balance it? And he gave me the
old timer look — that withering,
pitying, disgusted look they al-
ways give' me when I'-come' in
and say,, "She's huMping on the
hills, you better ' titivate the
timer."
• Oh, he'll put it, on the bill, all
'right. He'll get his money. But
he' knows better than to itemize
it as "wheel balancing.w I have
a notion what the bill will gay,
all right, when It comes the first
of the month. My whole .foray-
against the tire, rim, and -balance
program will be reduced to: "To
adjusting timer, $38.40." That: he
knows, pay, by,.,4,1hn Gould
in The, Christian. Science; Moni-
ter. -
JUST CUI110101'.
A frttstrated motorisilitad been
trying to pass a truck for many
miles. 'Every time -he tried to go
around, the truck driver in-
creased his speed or swerved to-
ward theriniddle of the, road. Pin.
,ally, at a stop sign, the motor-
ist pulled alongside the truck
driver's window.
"Will?" growled the truck
driver, glaring viciously.
"Nothing important," was the
'motorist's reply. "I know what
you are — I merely wanted to
'see what one looked like," ,
of the diamond fields Old and
re-told the story of Cecil Rhodes
just sitting tor hours and ,lours
and letting 14 cascade of die*
mones run through his fingers.
For pastimes "Barnato played
poker, raced, horses and made
big bets. Bets were, made on al-
117 e s t anything, Millionaires
se-Quid play What was palled
"fly loo," The players would
each put a lump of sugar on the,
We and bet that a fly would
alight on, his lump before any
others,
The players would bet, say,
000 each so the winner collect-
ed WO from each of the other
Players, Enormous bets were
also made on races between
Kaffir children.
Barney also went In for ama-
teur theatricals in a big way.
Later he decided to go in for
politics and he stood as a par-
liamentary candidate for Kim-
berley.
His campaign carriage was
really impressive, perhaps bet-
ter suited for a circus than for
an election. There were huge
B.B,s on the doors; the carriage
was drawn by four matched
grey horses, with a red-capped
postilion on each, and there were
two footmen wearing cockades,
green livery and gold braid.
Barnato wore fancy dress and
a. curly-brimmed grey top hat
when he rode out in his car-
riage. All this apparently paid
off, for he won his seat and sat
In Parliament Then he, deter-
mined to cut a dash in London.
Already his fame had spread
there. In a musical comedy of
the period, ' "The Girl front
Kay's," the actor, Willie Edouin,
impersonated a South African
millionaire named Max Hoggen-
hemmer; everyone whispered:
"That's Barney Barnato, you
know."
But. Barney knew what was
what; he started to build a man-
sion. in Park Lane, in the 1890's
the smartest street in. London.
His mansion was to be a stone',
throw from his sister Kitty's at
No. 6, Marble Arch, 'where• the
Cumberland Hotel no •wstands.
Sister Kitty had also come 4
long way for she had married
a man named Joel who owned a,
fried fish shop in. the Mile End
Road!
From diamonds Barney , Bar-
nette turned to gold, and soon
had 120,000 men working' for
him in. the. South African gold
mines; but he still had his dia-
mond mines.
Then came a slump in the
Kaffir market, and people be-
gan whispering: "Barney Bars
nate is going mad!" He behaved
strangely but had lucid inter-
vals when he was quite normal.
Then came the notorious Jame-
son laid in South Africa, when
a handful of hotheads tried te
seize power front the Boers.
Rhodes and Barnato were said
to have been behind it, which
Barnato denied. But, probably
due to the anxiety, 'his fits of'
madness, returned, His family
and friends persuaded him to go
to London to see how his house
was getting on. It was June,
189'1, Queen 'Victoria's Diamond
Jubilee. Who knows, they told
him, maybe the' old. Queen will
confer a knighthood on you.
Barney Barnette embarked on
the s.s. Scott at Cape Town. His
family aboard kept a watchful
eye on him; but one day he
broke loose and jumped over
board. A ship's officer dived af-
ter 'hint and tried' to save his
life, but failed.
So died Barney Barnato: Cer-
tainly money wasn't everything
-to him.
Poor Boy **comp *41.- wing Qf Piatriorods"
The little boy who roamed, the
toots of London's East god
4 1nore on his mind than, tilde-
4144 end hopscotch. ,Au the
a he was eniteting an
heroes to make moNmr, He
tutas determined to become a
PMAIAX before he Was
erY, irtich elder,
Not many years were to pass
before those dresme of wealth
Hied Into realitY, For Barnet
ca the little boy who roamed
squalid streets, grew up to
orete world-famous as Barney
ato, the "King of Dia-
Mends."
Born in 1883, Barney changed
name to Barnet° when he
d his elder brother, Harry,
Pent on the music halls as con-
rs, and illusionists, They are
Id to have been the first act
le Perform the famous "missing ,de
trick.
, Harry Barnette father of the
late swell-known racing motorist
Barnette
man'.about -town, "Babe"
Barnette broke up the act and
went to South Africa to seek
his fortune there. Later Barney
went out to join him and took
tel,with him.
s favourite nephew, Sony i
Barney arrived in. South Al..
rice in 1873 when he was twenty
*ears old; his total capital was
43,000. He tried to earn. his liv-
ing at all kinds of trades, buying
end selling ostrich feathers,
wool and vegetables, long before
turning his attention to dia-
inonds and gold.
Apart from buying and selling,
he taught boxing and once tried
to start a cabaret, but he began
his march to real riches when he
"went on the road," calling on
the diamond diggers and buying
•the diamonds their labour had
brought up from the earth.
A mere seven years after
landing in South Africa he form-
ed the Barnato Diamond Min-
t: Company; he had astutely
bought up a lot of Miners' claims
in strategic positions.
' Another man had left Eng-
land to join an. elder brother.
ilis name was Cecil Rhodes
'd ater Cape Premier) and he and
Barney Barnato- were destined
to become sometimes friends
end sometimes enemies,
In 1887 Rhodes and Barnet°
were the biggest men in the
South African diamond industry.
Rhodes was thirty-four; his
rival, Barnette thirty-five. But
Rhodes was, for the time being,
spore firmly established than
Barnato.
Then . Rhodes wanted to con-
trol the prices of diamonds, to
put just enough on the market
to keep the prices up. But the
twin diamond kings were hav-
ing great trouble with the illicit
diamond buyers, the so-called
I.D.B., who bribed the Kaffir
miners to hide diamonds about
their person and smuggle them
out of the mines.
Barnato had the idea of, mak-
ing the Kaffirs live in the mines,
in compounds. He took this idea
to Rhodes, who accepted it. The
two men joined forces and de-
feated the I.D.B., but later it
was said, without proof, that
Barnet°, while pretending to de-
feat the I.D.B., was hand-in-
glove with them.
Rhodes was. delighted with
Barnates brainwave and asked'
his new friend what he could
do for him. Barney replied
promptly: "Take me to lunch at
the Kimberley Club!"
The committee of that club.
had banned Barnato. Rhodes not,
only took him to lunch but forc-
ed the committee to accept him
es a member. Then Barnato
wanted to do Rhodes a favour
and asked him what he could
do. Rhodes said: "Show me a
ita.tful of diamonds!"
Barnato procured st top hat
and filled it to the !nee with
-uncut diamonds of all sizes. For
years afterwards the old-timers
When painting a ceiling, work
across the width rather than the
length of the room, This enables
you to begin is second .1aP" befdre
the' first has completely , dried.
Never try to paint a strip more
than two' feet wide or the dry'
edges of your' overlaps may mar
the final effect.
A Fow Mild Soofs
From A Motorist
To us old tin-lizzie people,
progress does seetn. to he baffling
at times. The way My garagerrtan
turns end looks at me, as if, X
had lust arrived from Lapland
• and asked him to shoe a rein-
deer, is what I call the "timer
look" X don't remember when,
the timer :cepied to, be part of
an- automobile, and I can't
remember what take its place, I
just knows that my practiced old
ear can listen to a- motor and
tell you when the timer needs
tinkering, whether it has a timer
'or not
I got the, timer,look again the
other day'- ;when •I drove in and
told my garagernan, "I'm shim.
myingt"
"Sure don't look so from thli
'The old • tin-lizzie used to
shimmy: It was a recognized part
of highway locomotion
'
and was
caused by the informal nature of •
automotive construction. There
was a thing underneath called
the wishbone, and when It ag-
gravated a clayicle, or something,
"the front wheels would. wobble,
'On a 'good dirt road this would
set you sidewise, and while the
brakes 'were taking you'd go off
into somebody's oat field.
There was no' particidar shame
in this —a person whoShimmied
was 'free, to 'admit it. It went
with motoring. lt wasn't as bad
as a jack knife. Jack knifing was
when the wheels, turned a-port,'
suddenly .decided ,to go a-star-
beard. They would do this in
the grand manner, digging ire
and throwing •gravel skyward,
and jerking the' occupants out of
their shirts. •
Both shimmying and jack knif-
ing were caused by short takes
and long stress in the steering
. department, and had a salutary
effect in keeping the speed down.
At 'one time there was a fine
device offered which attached
somehow 'and caught up the
loose ends that caused shimmy-
ing. It had long springs on it,
and; a prudent'motorist, who had
invested in • this precaution- got
high-strung 'vibration that ac-
companied him down the road
`like a -concert on a harp. Some-
: times one ,oethese'springs would
pull loose, and with;a towing.;-
,noise would.shoot off into space,
;C utting 'down daisies as it went.
But mostly, Since in those times
, ,most everybody- - was his 'own
,;mechanic,shimmying' was con-
trolled by lightening nuts now
and' then, keeping around the
high twenties, and remaining
alert.
'When my '''fairly new vehicle,
out of a -clear' Sky, shimMied 'the
other day and, danced, me side-
wise into, hooray,' 'an oat field,
it was like meeting up •With an
old high-achoOl clasaMiter Noth-
ing like-that had happened since ,
1023. felt young egain.' With
something of -,a fond,',delighted
'expression I Wined to my seats '
mate and said; "We shimmied!"
He ':said, "If you taken notion
;to rhumba, lerme out;" '
Ansetsthen'idrove in to see my-
,garagerhan 'and 'told him I had
'shimmied; gave%me: the old
timer lopkandssaid, ."You- got to
have that' new wheel ,balanced"
Note,- this ,May be 'herd to be-
Reties but 1,:load a tire that' kept
.,going 'pies• ands•the'filling
-tort speoPli,kipt-
didn't have ariyshole in it-They'd e
say it :Was,' alt', right and put It
back on, and the 'next' day' it 1
would-be: soft ,At leegth I look-
,ed '''''over" 'the ' man's ,shotilder
while he was working on it, and
, •said,, 'They ain't no thither
SO he explained that' this .was'ile
tubeless tire.
'I. wasn't •ready for this, be-
cause I -can remember how' •We'd
put a tube over a mud-guard'
-and patch' it, and after we got
'patchea'on the patches, we'd still
estpect '100,000:miles. When' they
began 'making automobiles with-
out running- boards and mud-
,guards, they had to begin doing
something about patches, I Sup-
pose, and the tubeless tire' was
`.essentiarSo ,I Said to the men,
SITE -SIZE Safely on ,the ether side of o glass window, '.
moray eel displays his 'hardware at the :Seaquarium. The, sharp-
toothed creature is known as the "rcittlesnake Of the, see
ISA* 40 I GO
Handful .0f Soft
Soo. His vim. For
Between the 'town and airport.
of Ithaca„ New York, there is *-
road -made of salt which, it ,Is_w,
claimed, lessens the 'danger• of
oar crashes.
A. -salt road wears better than
asphalt, doesn't get muddy or
slippery and costs only )1 third as
much as an asphalt road, says -111's
road 'works expert. '
'Surprising stuff, salt, As Brl-
tone sprinkle it' on their eggs
they might- spare st ,thought.-for
• 'the salt *nisi:leers -Whose intend- s
ty •and 'skill, bring -it „gip, un-
touctied 'by 'hand, 'from a bed Of
'rock salt 100 feet thick and 1,000
feet deep on the nortia:west'coast
of ‘England. It's pumped to AM
surface. That salt is several mil-
lion years old. $pecial'equipment
similar to that used for oil wells,
was used to drill for, It. It comes,
from Britain's, chief •ea1e mine
in, Cheshire.
Britain produces 5,000,000 'tons
•of stilt every years* The annual
world total l"produced is ,about
25,000,000 ' tons. 'Underground,
deposits of ,salt show nossigns of,
giving out,:butlf they do, there's,
salways. the sea. '
A ' ctibie , mile of sea water;
'yields about 130 million tons: et
salt — and there are 300.Millieri
culaic'tnilessef sea,
Yoti can't live without salt.
Every s- man, woman and child
.consuMee, about a '12' lbs. of it'a
year.-'.Because; of its 'Value as a
fertilizer fartners 'use many tons
_of if the',1arid.
Roman soldiers were giyen
,"sale as pale esf,' their, wages
• hence the word "ealary."' In
'Spain there's a mountain of .salt,
near Cardona, in Catalonie.' Ws:
nearly three ,miles round and..
about 400 feet high — a, solid
'mass of salt.
At certain seasons the Anted-
Ran buffalo used to stampede in
vast herds,,driven by some blind,
instinct to, parts of the" ranges'
Where the ,earth:threw'-up salt
In the forests' of . Central' and
'South America, end parts of
India, may be seenedeep pits and
grooves gouged out -of the solid
rock face.. They are the. tongue
Marks df millions of animals' who
since time began have liaised out
the life-giying salt
. A Sierra Leona native sold his
wife for a comparatively strieli
qtientity of salt. Cakes Of salt
have sometimes been tised for
Aetna' money.
Deprivation Of salt Was e form
Of severe pimishinent in Holland
and Sweden many years egoj,a
Man Se sentenCed often died, Yet '
•Frenchman. „twho lived to the
age of ninety-eight claimed that
he had never touched salt. Seep,
tics' had his story with a pinch
of. edit
tale hoed 'e'en Will never be
tasted again 'e,i• it Ode was
Britain. When the 'Government
was forced in 1825 to al3olish the
dripPlirig tax on salt, a htishel
Worth 12 cents WaS taxed at
$1.50.• It wad Calculated that one
Side Ol it Pig was needed tit PIO
'for Skit to Mal the Other aside.,
There's nothing more tempt-
Ing, when the autumn winds get
a bit nippy, than a tender, well-
000ked potroast. But even. that
grand old standby can, stand a
bit of change or 'glamorizing
once in ,a while; and the follow-
ing recipes, may give you. some
ideas,
CREOLE POT ROAST
I pounds beef pot roast
tablespoons fat
11/2 'cups tomato puree
Vi cup Olive liquid
X- cups sliced 'onions
BA cup sliced stuffed olives.
Melt fat in a skillet and brown
meat well on both sides, Slip a
low rack under Meat. Add tomae
fa puree and olive ligeid. Top
the meat with onions and olives.
Cover tightly and-cook over low
heat for 11 hours or 'until meat
L tender. Serve .with hot, fluffy
`rice in true Creole style.
If gravy' id Made with this
oast, use o nly 1 tablespoon
flour Mixed, with. % cup cold
Water for, each cup of broth.
'A teaspoon of .curry ' powder
mixed with 1/4 cup water, a few
shohoe • of -_f_oPPer etauce and a
dash of Worcestershire sauce
Will- make your dish taste even
more as if It is truly Creole. * «
This ' version of the Polio Is
,Sztufada uses bacon, for. flavor
instead of ,the salt pork that was
tucked into slits made in. the •
beef pot roast. Use either blade
bone, rump roast, or round:.bone.
roast of beef ,for this pot roast.
POLISH POT ROAST
4-5 pound round bone beef pot
roast
a slices' bacon
it tablespoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon, salt , teaspoon ,pepper
4 medium carrots, pared and
qusirtered
I medium onions, peeled
,4 peppercorns
1/2 cup water
Cut bacon into small pieces. ,
CoOk bacon in a heavy skillet.
Remove bits, of bacon front
skillet..Pour off all but 2 table-,
spoons drippings. BrOWn roast •
in drippings. Slip rack under •
roast in. skillet. Add the bits of
bacon arid remaining ingredi-
ents. Cover tightly, and simmer -
2-3 hours or until fork .tendee.
Make gravy by thickening drip-
pings in pan with flour. * * *
ITALIAN POT ROAST
2-4 pounds top• 'Oland steak,
or Chuck or pot, roast
2 tablespoona fat
1 clove garlici fftitely minced
34 cup chopped onion
1% teaspoons salt
teaspoon pepper
teaSpOoh basil
1 can {1 pound 3 ounces)s
tomatoes, drained (save
juice)
1 medium green peppers gut
in strips
ntedieht onion, thinly sliced
Brown Meat on all sides
hot fat in electric frying pan or
Dutch oven, Add garlic, chopped
onion, salt, pepper, tIz teaspoon
basil, Add lie cup tomato;juice-
to Meat; cover and cook -slowly
Until meat is almost tender,
about• 1-1 1/4 hours (add Mere
luide it needed, during cooking):
Add 'tomatoes, green peepers
sliced onion and reirlaihilig,
teaspoon besil. Cover and 'teak
just until Vegetablee are tender
about 10,12 minutes- thicket
..gravy, if desired. Serves
• * e.
inititTEn SPICED POT ROAST
0-4 Peitinds beef roast (chuck
,Or 'run*
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electionit student desk,. WhiCit It oUttina high
school ttudent bavid Rupp, 16, thr'oug'h a test,•Pietinned by
*taint kitattritt Corp. to replaced teacher`; the device
has' a sound inotiOn ,Olcture screen on which a tetithek*
pears, licturinti ,..Pricit-quiiiinn the student, in :response to 'geese
tient, .pupil pushes briSwer bUtiOriS tihil It deteinefleathe
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records -accuracy' Of the antwerS,