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The Brussels Post, 1961-02-16, Page 7„against the.cruelty in the home Sean F. Lemsss, the Bepublic et Ireland's Premier, stated, "This is the kind .of campaign in 'iNhich the more sensational type of British, itewepeper likes to engage." (Mr, Leneass wee re- ferring here to the mass-circula- tion Daily Mimes. which Was in the forefront of the campaign pvinst the livoliorn Some Irish senators denetmeed the campaign as a product of the `gutter press." But this charge .was etontrae 13iztea by the last that several e'f :the most responsible Britishh, neWspapers like the Daily Tele- graph and the Guardian, of Man- chester, Were themselves ceons paigning against the live-earee trade from the Republic, of lee- , leed, writes Peter Dyne in the. .Christian Science Monitor. However, it was the Deily Mirror team of pbotogra?hers cud reporters who were in the lorefrent of the actual battle which was fought on the quays of southern Ireland and contin- ental channel ports. They literally fought for their pictures and stories against the. agents of the vested interests. And now, with, a major victory eschieved, readers are writing in to pay tribute to the courage arid determination reporters and cameramen in the battle for the veteran horses. Just how long this battle against cruelty to old horses has been going on is shown by the reprinting of a cartoon publi-in ed 50 years ago in Punch, Bri- tain's famed hanneurous The cartoon shows a gaunt horse shipped from England present- ing itself at the customs counter al -Antwerp. The Belgian customs official says, "Have you anything to de- clare?" To which the horse re-, plies, "Only this - that I am ashamed of my country." Britain eventually made the traffic in live horses for use as meat on the continent unprofit- able by setting an age limit of under eight years, and a high minimum value (now 2100, or - e280) for any horse exported from. Britain, Credit .for• the victory is due to . others, including. animal lov- ers in the Republic of Ireland who picketed the qUays to try to prevent the horses for slaugh- ter.-being driven to the ships. In London the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals secured more than 1,250,000 signatures to a protest petition. One of, the many letters to the. Daily Mirror says, "The success of the campaign against the horse trade ; waged by millions of British animal' lovers proves. once and ifor7all that good 'causes can be won if enough people shout loud enough and long enough." How Can 1? By Roberta Lee Q. How can I clean white telt bats? A. Mix ,equal parts of corn- meal, salts and flour, and rub the powder well into the white hat. Let stay overnight, then brush out thoroughly. Or, make a paste out of plaster of paris and benzine, rubbing over the hat, and allowing to remain for awhile before 'brushing off. Q.- .How can I make a substi- tute maple syrup? 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It lot. )1 44 ttlYANIA Fell. 24, Mat 11 MEOli, Mar. 3, 31 *SAXONIA ,hiat. l'', JO . ,, L 01411. 10114iikitto day tioin,l+,1Atific _ -Y,14ettEMITatt REGU LAR SAILINGs, ieRibM.:McINTREAL toMip#,...tiVitic Tels EMol.ie 0.. . tiebrie Mitintreat Toronto a Witinfisig '` Vent:400i a.: Ala i .4‘,. TICa a. :dri: X s • AT LEAST a feW American boys are trying to stay fit. say than the American college freshman, The newspaper also claims that it is possible for an Ameri- can to go through four years of high school without ever writing an original English com- position. Contrast this with the young- sters in Nottingham who claim they are fed up with TV' and beg for more homework, head- master Walter Bond says in the Times. And if the American young- sters want to melee something of it, let 'em put up their dukes, the British say, and that will decide who is smarter. Of course if Americans read the result of tests conducted by the American Assn, for Health, Physical Education and Recrea- tion, they wouldn't dare tussle with the British. Even the British lassies beat American boys of the same age - 10 and 11 - in "endurance for sustained activity." In "leg pow- Small British -boys in light clothes play soccer in the rain, sloshing around in the mud, Altogether, there is much more emphasis here on physical education in the schools and such. outdoor activities as camp- ing. "Most British children like to get out into the country even if they live in: town," says Dr. Dalzell Ward, medical director of the Central Council for Health Education. "But in the U.S., even young people drive cars and a coun- try walk would probably seem a bit odd to many of them." Dr. Ward says a British com- mittee was set up in 1904 to .examine the "physical deteriora- tion of the nation" while "it is only in recent years that the Americans have gotten, around to talking about this. That could mean we have a 50-year lead" in physical fitness. So ya wanna make sumpin' of it, huh? Could I. Costly >Bit lly for sIfebn Bay Whitney t The retiring .American. •apaleares zador to Britain, in a farewell .sPeeCh, linleaeted :broadside at the `"extraordinary picture .of a trigger-happy. Amerlea" Which Many Britons harbour. \7011.0 happy .that "J.eck" White evet;lenee for his ambassadorial 11CY 1141" nationwide British veledietoey„ The pseudo concept. of the United States' desire to itee force in the Laotian crisis rIceevves to be destroyed. ger, thinly nothing is further' 'Irern the truth,. Britain, of course, seeks to re, activate the International Con- trol Commission .as a solution to the problem in Laos. In short, Britain has not supported the American .position in the tiny, landlocked country, Beyond the Laos question, Bri, tons are miffed because the United States' economic course has steered clear of -the Euro- pean Free Trade Aesn,, prefer- ing to back the European Econos mic Community. Let's keep the Anglo-American friendship free of petty criticism. The erroneous portrayal of. Uncle Sam as a "warmonger" .o n 1 y vexes some Americans to coun- ter with "John Bull is an ap- peaser," And Americans would do well. to study seriously the editorial comment of the Manchester Guardian: "You have to convince the enemy that you may intervene,. but at the same time, not fright- en your friends." Distorted caricatures of allies cut a cruel swath both ways across the Atlantic. America and Britain must continue to be 'united against the common- ene- my, international communism. • It's time 'Whitehall and Wash- ington realize the folly of mean- ingless .bickering while Krem- lin agents are I:necking at the Tree World's gate. - Daily Sun (San Bernardino, Calif.) Rats, Flee From Ultrasonic Waves Ultrasonic waves broadcast by an ingenious, new device are the latest method of banishing rats from large office and factory buildings in the U.S.A. The device sends out vibra- tions at a frequency heard only by rats and mice. The sound is so nerve-shattering that the rats, which often infest buildings in large nurnbers, flee and. during flight they can be poisoned. Cats and other pets in the buildings 'are completely unaf- fected by the ultrasonic waves. Different countries have dif- ferent ways of dealing with the ever-present menace of rats. At London's ,Law Courts rats once forced their way through a bookcase into the dignified at- mosphere of a Chancery Court, eating a path through thick law books. A professional rat catcher was engaged to keep them down. During an earlier plague of rats at the Law Courts forty eats were kept there to deal with the invaders. These rats were so ra- venous that they ate the parch- ment tabs off the lawyers' gowns so that the owners could not identify them. Thousands of rats, migrating fiom Siberia, swept through northern Mongolia and western Manchuria thirty years ago, even attacking human beings. He Was A Happy Millionaire At 28, Alfred Carlton Gilbert had already .accomplished more than most men achieve in a life- time. frail• as a child, he had punished mind and body to be- come Yale's outstanding all- around athlete, an Olympic pole- watt champion, and expert hun- ter, an accomplished physical culturist, a top scholar ' with a medical degree (although he never practiced), a sleight-of- hand artist, and a successful manufacturer and retailer of magic gadgets. Then, ;in 1912, while riding home on the railroad one day,, he watched fascinated while a' etrew of workmen constructed a "'4 . CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING British Boys And. Girls, They Say, Tougher Than American Youngsters By TOM A. CULLEN Newspaper Eenterprise Assn. London -r" American youths are "soft" the British say, And the British have the muscles to prove it. Even sortie 'British girls, with one hand tied behind their back, presumably could liek American boys of comparable age, and size. And the girls have the figures (mathematical) to prove it. To Put it simply, the Ameri, can lads flopped in a recent series of, fitness tests given to 10,000 on both sides of the At- lantic, It aleo indicated that the Scotch and Welsh, who took part in the test, are tougher than the Americans. To acid insult to enjury, the London Sunday Times says that the average 14-year-old British schoolboy can write a better es- network of steel girders into a high-tension tower, From that fascination sprang the idea foe the Erector Set - a collection of miniature wheels and girdeia from which a boy could build almost anything. The sets had a universal appeal (the designer of the World War II Bailey Bridge used one for his original model) and supplied a solid un- derpinning for the A. C, Gilbert Co. The company has sold more than 1P million sets, last year grossed about $13 million on everything from electric trains to "atomic energy" labs. Gilbert himself became one of the happiest millionaires, en- titled his autobiography "The Man Who Lives in Paradise," Still active as chairman when he died in Boston last month, Gil- bert, 76, had already written a suitable epitaph: "I've never worked at anything that wasn't fun. If I had my life to live over I don't think I'd change it, Ex- cept Maybe to take up mountain climbing." MEV PLAYED WITH MATCHES - Howard (rancher, 42, sobs in his New "York after, he dearns that his„„Wife • Rind six Chilcken perished ih a fire, He tilree'othei:"chiP! Oren, the laicize began Vskeri one of the tots (played with Matches in the apartriteril. wet)" the lassies from 10 to 13 outscored. American boys of the same age. The British boys were ahead in six out of seven, contests; the Americans only proved su- perior in arm power because they did More ball throwing , than the British. On an. average, the British lads were 14 per cent fitter, Britishers interviewed claim America's affluent society weak- ens the American youngeters, While children in Britain gen- erally walls or pedal bikes to school, American high scheol students too often are driven or drive their own cars, An American mother probably would be horrified at the sight of school girls with dripping hair after a swim in a public bath go- ing out into the cold. It is com- monplace here. Animal Lovers Win ,,Irish Victory Animal lovers in Britain look hack on 1960 as a year in which •a' notable victory Was won in the battle against cruelty to horses. It was a, year of fierce clashes between the humanitarian forces and the vested interests in the Irish horse trade with continen- tal Europe: But the year has ended With new regulations announced by the government in Dublin. Henceforth, live horses will not be allowed to be exported from the Republic of Ireland un- less they are taken immediately to abattoirs near the ports of arrival. This is to avoid the, cruelty of rail transportation on the continents. A new abattoir is to be built lit the Republic of Ireland to work in close cooperation' With the government in order to avoid the export of live horses for use as trieat. When the new abattoir is built - its completion is expected by tire spring of 1961 - it is in- tended that no horse over the age of seven Will be exported ex- ported except in special cases, 1 ,. ,,,,,, Now that the beineeriiterien forces haVe won this big gain, it is appropriate to recall hoWt. it was the yoke of public opin- ion expressed through several newspapers, and through aid-, final protection tocitieS, Which played the biggest part in Writes mg, about a change in the, hot* trade conditions.. ‘ It WaS led goVettitnerite which fought the Major battle for the I ", litirsek In 'fact, great indignation was 'eXpreSSed in the Dail and In' the.Senate in Dttblin about the oehipelgti in the British press