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The Brussels Post, 1960-12-08, Page 7FORECAST: CLEARING - Onion-shaped domes of Pokrovsky Sober Museum (formerly St. Basil's Cathedral) contrast with modern snow-removal machine in Red Square. Clean-up detail is on the job in the frigid Russian capit al. At right is a portion of the Kremlin. 4 Tilt.FAIN FRONT joku. .143,e4gir.` a 1INDAY Kllool LESSON 01d,Time School Oratory Contests invitation comes to be a je:it.,re at the '68 Prize Speaking at Bowdoin College, which I ehall surely do, for it is a vine dicatien of sorts. I, who was el- ways a bridesmaid, never won a ep;.alcing contest in My notable career, but was the one who, at the door on the way out, Was lways greeted with, "You ehoulcla won that, the judges were puddingheads!" It has long been My conten- t= that Demosthenes, Cato, and Cicero, competing irt one of our routine speaking eontests, would finish in tenth, eleventh, and twelfth place, while the contest would be won by a squeaky- voiced young lady, who rendered "The Old Violin" in tearful jubi- lation at the sound of her own voice. Soule of this stems from my own firm belief that at times I did about as well as any of them, but that the judges were swayed away from me by some quirk of destiny I could never quite overcome. I didn't have a heavy voice, ;but expression was my middle name. I could read lines. Every- body applauded, and said I should have had the prize, But I never got one. I do think "modern education" is poorer because the speaking period has been dropped in fa- vour of something they call "participation," They tell me youngsters never memorize a piece any more, and never know the horror of arising to repeat it with' gestures, before a silent classroom that couldn't care less. Instead, they get out of school to find how ill-equipped they are, then sign up for a charm course, or personality develop- ment, where they pay good money to learn haw to talk be- fore an audience. According to present lights, we never really learned anything of consequence in s c h o o 1, in my time, but we did know how to get up and speak a piece. There used to be books called "speak- ers," which were compiled with all the old favourites present, and from which a pupil could select something to repeat. POr.;',' the most part, these books avoid- ed "humour," which w,as undig- nified, and not worthy of public presentation. Teachers told us it 'would be better, for a contest, if, we avoided anything which might amuse the audience, and - turn them to laughter. This is true - I never knew a "you- mourous" piece to win a prize, and any tendency toward levity RUNNETH OVER - Boxer pup Pancras Chocolate Soldier bor.- lows a loving cup bigger than he is to get away from it all cif a dog show in Reigate, Sur- rey, England. CROSSWORD PUZZLE: • stated fllgaleri, 17, Moeleth head, , . 13: Edible tabor 1, HOrizentiti 4. Ae eteeeey 1. Fastener . Medievet stripe' money ACROSS 58. Plaything 55. Pigpen 61. Sneak 1. Arundel L Baby food I. /den 4. Chore,..,., language Cadintis Eaughtor 02 DOWN dress . Y., Climbing vine I... I ). Ertindaifieti tett .Perttee Comrade 4: Ereetiv* 7.16 able ' I. Reettietton 9,47iarit ,. 0.1eoeeetetneetle 1, Dried lenthet ' 4: Seed container 48. At HOMO 1 84.:1,26ohatileiti .: Men 33, witeeid *Aide. . 377 Golf itiStrithter' 33,149014.. „ itiiiphiblen 31). Plant seed 1 . ntltop 1.,'Centelsn nate, ' 3; Drob hitt . ligh0„ 44„ Eltild Pail a . bleed 4k reettiere tile, 49. Blear ei . nartic ei„ tee, ISli rilittliiii , „ O ortistaeWein / ._-, . St cittuttriti sir' 'Able and the frivolous was immediate- ly ignored by the judges. I later Senna somewhere in, the famous observation: that making gentlemen laugh is a strange business, and found that in any act the clown is necessarily the best and Meet accomplished member, It's liar,. der, But the difficulty of come, cly was neatly diverted in my time by the simple insistenee, that it wasn't worth trying. The closest I over came to win- ging a prize was the night I "gave" The Man. Without a Country, This was quite lung, and it took weeks to commit it, I laboured with my little yeller cow, who was .always my best coach, and as the milk strummed into the pail I would, pursue the lamentable career of Philip Nolan until my little row fairly bawled. There was some amaze- ment about the village that a piece of this length should be attempted, There was an awe about mem- orizing things, and this suggest- ed a tax on any one person's mental facility, But the evening of the contest came, and the prograth had it right down there in black and white. When my turn came, I arose and faced the incredible audience. I knew the simple question of being able to do it was more intriguing to them than the matter of how I did it. They stared back. My little cow, had failed me. I thought she had coached me well, but this was not true. I stood in front of that audience, with the greatest opportunity to make a fine impression, and I couldn't remember how The Man Without a Country took off. Not a word came to me. l'rn sure if somebody had just said the first word - the first letter - I'd have rattled the whole thing off without a hitch. But nobody did, So, I did what any gifted public speaker does when in such unhappy circumstances he finds himself, for any reason, foiled in his plans. I found myself saying, "In connection with the war in Cuba, there is one incident that stands out in rtly mind like Mars at perihelion!" I then went ahead and repeated "A Message to Gar- sia" (which is naturally pro- nounced gar-sha) and which I guess is fully as long, and at least a good deal more uninter- esting. You may wonder how I hap- pened to know "A Message to Garcia," and I can only answer that I have no idea. The switch confounded the audience, it was impossible to believe that a boy who might have forgotten "The Man Without a Country" would cover up such temporary lapse by going through '"A Message to Garcia." But again, the sheer physical prowess involved in this made no impression on the judges. They retired to the ante- room, and after three selections by the orchestra came back to announce that the prizes had been won by (1) "The .01d Vio- lin"; (2) "Farewell `to Benedict Arnold"; and (3) "The Paalm of Life.'! At the door, everybody told me I should have won. , When Professor, Thayer of Bowdoin dropped me an erudite but small note, 'inviting my pres- ence to judge the elderlyest of the Bowdoin declamation con- tests (the college still retains a few ancient goodnesses) I read- ily accepted. I may pick out the obvious loser, and vote for him enthusiastically, on the grounds that somebody at the door 'may wring my hand and say, for once, that the prize went where it should. I may, and then again, may not. Only I shall ever know. By John Gould in the Chris- tian Science Monitor. Most people don't mind early hours - they just sleep right through them. I. Paint lily 7. Suin 4. Burden Credit unions in Canada a po- tent force in the rural economy, continued to expand throughout 1959 and reported a membership ,of 2,347,317, or 13.3 per cent of the country's population, This' was a seven per cent in- crease over the previous year, according to the report of Ver- non Leighton, Canada Depart- ment of Agriculture economist. * * e The trend in growth was to- ward the occupational type of credit union which formed 34 per'cent of the total in 1959 com- pared with 16 per cent in 1949. Rural credit unions still domin- ate the Atlantic Provinces and also the Province of Quebec, whiCh reported more than one half of the all-Canada member- ship. * * e Savings, which include shares and deposits, increased 13 per cent to $1,056 million, Quebec accounting for about 90 per cent of total deposits and 61 per cent of total savings. The average assets on a per member basis for Canada totaled $492, Credit Unions granted $470 million in loans, 20 per cent more than in 1958. Assets also were up by $145 million to $1,009 million. The balance sheets show a big difference in the distribution of assets and liabilities in Quebec compared with the rest of Can- ada. Quebec credit unions reported four times as much money in mortgages (for homes) and four times as much in investments as the rest of Canada. * * Rural home-makers are not being provided with home-mak- ing infer/nation thrOugh all of the many ways and means they would like to receive it, Dr. Helen Abell of the Canada De- partment of Agriculture, dis- covered from a recent survey of Ontario farms. The specialist in rural soci- ology, studying the answers of 352 typical farm women, half of them mernbers of the Woe men's Institute, said the col- laboration of husband and Wife on a farm as partners in deci- sions emphasized' the, need for educational policies and pro- grams at all levels. "Economics" in ' the Home Economics and "Home" in the Home and Fenn Management programs should be stressed. Those interrogated said they Would like more home-making information . through: three ad- ditienal media deinonstea Lions; information On labels of 'articles they wish to Purchase; and Herne Economics classes for Children in school. Media Most employed for gete wig homemaking information average One or foe each hoUseWife qteried,. These are, in bidet of popularity, magazines and newspapers, television and radio, and short courses,• chiefly these &Nen by the provincial Hothe. Edeticithics Service. * "The need ,or Continuous ef- forts to amply fartil families With knowledge and inforniatiert relating to both iteinernaking and tei farming id clearly dollen, ettated in thiS'Sttady," • Although few fatinets'' sons Work away' from tiered as hired Men arid there are practically` no hired girls on farms today, Canadian farm children still learn farming and homemaking at home. In addition a whole new range of tuition is open to- day to the farm family through formal courses at primary, sec- ondary and university levels, ex- tension services, 4-H, Junior Homemaking Clubs and Infor- mation Services. * * Most interest in homemaking information centres around the technical aspects of clothing and textiles and food preparation and, on the farming side, wo- men say their menfolk would like more information on live- stock and crops, soils, farm man- agement and machinery. * * In most families where there has been contact with home- making or farming training, or experience, through the school system or government-sponsored rural youth organization and short courses, the benefit of such training is recognized. The skills have been of practical applica- tion in farm and home operation and have helped in the personal development of the family and made them more receptive to new ideas. Most Pedestrians Ask For It! It is neither fair nor factual to assume that when a pedes- trian is struck on the street or highway the driver of the car is at fault. The police of Kansas City (Missouri) have found that in two thirds of the pedestrian traffic fatalities this year the person on foot was mainly res- ponsible. The upshot of the matter in Kansas City is a redoubling of . traffic law enforcement efforts as' they apply between walkers e and riders. The rule there is that within a central or down- town traffic area it is illegal for a pedestrian to cross a street ex- cept at a crosswalk. Elsewhere a pedestrian may cross in the middle- of a block but must• yield to vehicles. A driver must yield to the pedestrian 'in any cross- waTlhicis is essentially the meaning of ordinances In many American cities. A considerable and in- creasing number require obser- vance of red and green traffic lights by pedestrians as well as motorists. Probably the most backward of any large American city In this respect is Boston. Pedestrian traffic control is in the interest of safety for pe- destrians as well as of fairness to motorists. He Photographs Hummingbirds Crawford H. Greenewalt, who earns $600,000 a year for run- ning E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. with a clean desktop On ciency, was being kept waiting. Moreover, he was aching for coffee, as only the hungry and cold can ache, Suddenly the waiting was over. A blue blur flashed near by. Larapornis clemenciae, a hum- mingbird no' bigger than a child's hand, whose habitat is the moun- tains of South Texaco and Ari- zona, had come to feed in Ari- zona's Ramsey Canyon. And Greenewalt, whose habitat is, du Pont's president's chair in Wil- mington, Del., was there to pho- tograph him. It was, he recalled, "worth all the agony." Lampornis clemenciae, caught in all its glory, is one of 100 high- speed color photographs of hum- mingbirds that Greenewalt will exhibit this month at New York's American Museum of Natural. History. Also this month, a port- folio of his exquisite color pho- tographs with explanatory text has been published, titled "Hum- ming birds." Many others, of course,* have stalked the bright-plumed hum- mingbird with camera, trying to freeze the flashing whir some hummers fly at 80 wing beats per second - in their true iri- descent colors. But no one has ever approached the subject of humming birds in quite the way that Greenewalt has. Aided by the tools of modern science, Greenewalt has solved long- standing problems of classical optics and aerodynamics theory. The work, the museum's curator of birds Dr. Dean Arnadon writes, "is destined to become a classic of natural history." Leisure Fever: For his part, Greenewalt, a relaxed, white- haired, man of 58 who could fit into the same suit he wore as an MIT freshman in 1918, didn't intend it that way. In the past, his leisure activities had been eclectic: Tennis, the clarinet, the cello, orchid photography. Then, one day in 1953, his wife, the former Margaretta du Pont, in- stalled a bird feeder Outside the Greenewalts' fifieen-room stone house. He took his first hum- mingbird photo, stopped 'the wing-beat action, and "caught the hummingbird fever," "I knew vaguely that there were about 300 species," Greene- watt told a visitor Idet week as he leaned back behind that clean desk in his modest du Pont office. "I also knew that the best- known hummingbird illustra- tions were over a century old and had been made from dead skins. Since I am a museum trus. tee, I wondered if they'd be in- terested in having me do some modern high-speed humming- bird photography. "I just thought I'd go to the bird department and 'ask, them! 'Where do I go?' Boy, was I wrong; they y di ' dn't know they're not field people," As it turned out, the most t veluelee hummin I and hummingbird fancierswere in south America. Accompanied by his rife, who "liked the birds but cliclitil care too much for the technical side," Greenewalt traveled 100,000 miles over sever, years. Becann he presides eece Wednesday at du Pont executive committee meetings, the longest time he felt he could take away froM the ()Mee was two weeks, The shortest trips were what he called "long weekends" in Cali- fornia; "I'd fly there, rent a ne drive-it, set up, photograph, and go home," Through trial and error, Greenewalt hit upon the best photography techniques. A month or so before a South AMe- rican trip, for example, feeders were set up by local friends to entice the hummingbirds to a selected spot, The camera is a Swedish Hasselblad, motorized so that an electronic circuit auto- matically moves the illm for- ward. This means Greenewalt need not reset the camera for each shot and perhaps frighten the bird away. A. scientist by profession, Greenewalt's interest in hum- ming birds soon went beyond simple photography. "There are two striking things about them," he explained, "The hummingbird has all the colors of the spectrum literally, This iridescent brilliance is related to the positions of bird, sun, and observer, But how do the colors get so bright? You worry, read about it, go back to Newton and relearn optics. The same thing with this hovering. How in God's name do they do that, you won- der. So you're off on another subject." Greenewalt has offered scien- tific explanations of both phe- nomena, His solution to the old iridescent puzzle is published this month in the Journal of the Optical Society of America, The Philosophical Society of Ameri- ca's Transactions will carry his monograph on, the oscillator the- ory of hummingbird flight. "I'll tell you one thing," he said, "I never could have done this alone if I had all the money in the world and all the time. I had help all along -- the boys at the du Pont engineering research station would cobble me up the equipment I needed, When I needed to know something about flight theory, I could call up and ask (White House Science advis- er) Jim Killian for the names of aerodynamicists." Had Greenewalts mind ever wandered from corporate affairs to hummingbirds during an exe- cutive cornmitee meeting? He laughed. "I've had an inspiration or two during work hours, but I can turn my mind off and on pretty\ well. The only bird I see from this office is an occasional pigeon that lights out the win- dow. And so far, no irate let- ters from stockholders." From NEWSWEEK. BIG BUSINESS! According to a United States Agricultural expert you can make a rough guess of annual sales in any local supermarket , by multiplying the number of check-out lanes by $400,000. If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers. By Rev. It, II, Warren, Tr% The Greatest Promise alai 9:24; Galatians 4:4-e , The Memory Selection, RA contains Cod's Promise of a Bavioup, which is indeed airs greatest promise. "For unto res s. child is born, unto us ,a son is giv- en: and the government shall be upon. his shoulder; and hlsi name shall he called 'Wonder. ful, Counsellor, The mighty-, God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." Isaiah, though an Temente, saw that the coming Messiah would bring blessing to all na- tions of the world. "Of the increase of his government and. peace there shall be no encl."' We don't all recognize it, eat: this is really the,. fundamental longing of the world today. We want the peace that can cernee only when jesus Christ rules- We want security and happy tomes. But to a great extent, we are trying to achieve the end. without the means. The hum- ble way of the cross is still des- pised. We are trying to build a tower that will reach to heaven. We form organization after or- ganization and talk in loud sounding terms. Jesus Christ, said, "I am the way, the truth and the life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." We must repent of our sins, And repent-, ance doesn't mean just feeling a, little sorry for them. It means confessing and forsaking them. Only when we have made up our mind to this, can we have faith in Jesus Christ; faith that brings salvation. In the second portions of out lesson, Paul writes, "God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons." We have all broken, God's moral law and hence are all under condemnation. But Jesus Christ can deliver us front this condemnation and restore his to 'a sense of sonship. Many sincere people do not know that this delightful sense of assur ance of sonship can be ours here and now.' We can experience the New Birth' and know that we have passed from death Unto life. Then we can sing, "Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine, 0 what a foretaste of glory Divine." ISSUE 50 -- 1960 Upsidedowne to Prevent Peeking & ©MOM© UDE WOW MWOOM MDR @MU M OMWOW5: DOD MUM MEMO' ODO QOMM DOD 000 MUM MO EOM MOB UM MUM MWM ©OE MOO MOM 001210 EU000 UWE MUM= OBOUOM 000 =BMW ODD DOU MEMO NW A 81. Roman garments 32. Handle roughly 95. Sdience of 9. American , plants ovildcat. 36, ca bed 10. :Macaw 87: Sehelars 11. Operated 80. Tangle 16. Topaz 40. Baseball club hunliningbird 42. Little &YRS '' 18. Inflexible 43. Dip deughnute 30. interdict in coffee 21.,lituffle 44. Coat shaft- 22. &hall drum 45: Old ca di Same 28. 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