The Brussels Post, 1961-05-11, Page 2HRONRIES
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Early printed editeete include
the first complete Bible printed
in English, the Coveedale
the translation made “out of
Putehe (i.e., Ogrma n) and
1411.Yn," and drawing on the TYm.
dale and other versions,
Cormis Christi College, Oxford,
114' loaned a copy of the King
Janes Version printed by B. Bap»
ker of London in 1.61,1, and other
slightly later editign$ some from
the British and Foreign BM*
Society;
Brand New Export
From. Scotland
Scotland has a brand new ex.,
pQrt, It comes in bottles, It it
water — plain, straight, uncli*
luted, pasteurized Scottish. water,
A firm in. Glasgow called Aerat-
ed Waters bottles the potent bey-
erage and sells it abroad. They
get about ten cents a bottle, Idea
is the stuff is a natural mix for
another bottled Scottish product,
which shall be nameless here.
Now, any keen inerchanclis.er
•
will instantly realize that there.
is an angle. Sports car manufac-
turers could , supply. specially
packaged air for inflating the
tires of their little gems, Canadit
an snowshoe makers could sup-
ply, at slight. extra cost, plastic,.
wrapped bundles of real Canadi-
an snow (an extort that might
well be subsidized). The New-
foundland dried codfish trade
Could' work up a neat little side-.
line in bottled Atlantic, packaged
seaweed and recorded seagull
squawks. A vacuum cleaner firm
might peddle tastefully-wrapped
bags of just plain dirt, for house-
wives in air-conditioned apart-
ments. There's no limit.
lose their mittens. Mrs.
of items school children
. THEY LOST THEIR. MITTENS Kittens aren't the only ones who
Theodore tekas of Harrison School, Minneapolis, shows a collection
lost in lust one winter,
Dog tifOgvards
in The
gNIllting, in the crisp InOun-
tain air, the skiers flashed down.
the slope. Then, one of them,
happening to; glance b a c 14
screamed
anelsei"'
It was too late. 'Within seconds
the fifteen skiers were com-
pletely' engulfed by a gigantic
wall of snow and ice. -
The catastrophe was seen from
the nearby Swiss resort of Mut..
ren. Rescuers hurried to • the
scene. Probing carefully into the
snow, they dug out fonrteen of
the victims but were unable to
trace the other .men, ,
•• With night .and .a blizzard coin-
ing on, the rescuers were about
to abandon the search. Tbcn
Moritz, a mongrel dog they had
brought with them, began to
bark and paw at the snow fifty
yards., from where the rescuers
were working,
The men ignored him, but
Moritz made well a commotion.
that his owner and. a few other
men began digging at the spat
Twenty feet down they found
the fifteenth mmn — alive, but
only just,
Moritz didn't know it, but he
was indirectly respansible for
the foundation of a mountain
rescue service, for a .newspaper
report abotit his Teat' was reed
by Ferdinand SChmutz of Bnene,
an expert on dogs,
Schmutz was deeply imereesecl
and he experimented, that wine
ter of 1933, using dogs to trace
objects buried in the snow
The second world wee broke
out and Schmutz was appointed
consultant to the Swiss army on
training of patrol, messenger
and Red Cross dogs, He suggest-
ed that .dogs should be trained to
find avalanche victims.
The army was not very inter-
Jacket of One Piece
Q. Should a woman call on a
new neighbor in the same apart-
ment building?
A, An offer of friendship is
never out of place. In fact, the
fine old custom of calling on
new neighbobrs is done too in-
frequently these days, and I'm
heartily in back of anyone who
tries to revive it..
ARABESQUE — This beachside
ballerina, J u d y Lowenthal,
maintains a strict exercise
schedule even when on vaca-
tion in Bermuda. This' ara-
besque is part of her reper-
toire as a member of the Corps
de Ballet of the Metropolitan
Opera Co,
pa's here!" I'm telling you It
makes it worthwhile being
grandparents when you get that
kind of welcome.
While the boys were having
their afternoon nap Partner and
I visited former neighbbours and
it was with mixed feelings that
we passed Ginger Farm on the
way. Our grand old house is un-
occupied now and looks very dif-
ferent from the days when we
were there, Naturally we like
to think of it as it was and not
as it is. A good deal' of farm
land in that area has been re-
zoned industrial, Fire razed a
barn and a lovely old house
across the road from. Ginger
Farm so now the place is the
headquarters of a trucking out-
fit, Green fields will soon be
a thing of the past. Truly "the
old order changeth.". But the old
neighbours whom we visited had
not changed — they were Still
as friendly as ever, and not so
busy but what they could sit
down and talk to us, And what
a treat it was to have a cup of
tea in a good old-fashioned farm
kitchen, with the tea kettle boil-
ing over a genuine wood fire in
the kitchen range, Sometimes we
wonder why we left it all. But
yet, When we got back to our
present location, it, too, seemed
liked home. After all, we have
a comfortable house and good
neighbours so what more can we
want? Actually Wherever you
live life is what you make . it.
Everything's Big
In Texas ! ! !
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When Queen Elizabeth II visits
the Chapter House at Westinin...
ster Abbey on May 16, she will
see MA scholarly exhibition, "The
Bible in Britain," a Greek New
Testament which belonged. to her
ancestor Queen Elizabeth I,
This crimson, velvet-covered
testament, loaned by Queens -CO, •
lege, Oxford, bears on each side
the arms of the first Elizabeth
and the initials "B,B,"
The testament is a syMbol of
the continuity of the story of
Christianity in Britain in which
the Authorized (or Xing James)
Version of 1611 is an important
landmark,
The exhibition marks. both the
800th anniversary of the publi-
cation of the King James "Version
and the recent publication of the
New Testament of the New Eng.
lists Bible, the work of. scholars
representing the major churches -
of the British Isles except the
Roman catholic,
An introduction to the exhibie
tion shows the "visual aids"
which brought the scenes of the
Bible story to the eyes of the
people before printing made the
Scriptures available to the lay-
man, These include stained glass
panels, alabaster reliefs, . and
painted wood panels.
The exhibits, well set out on
purple backgrounds under glees.,
show the beginnings of Christie
anity in Britain going 'back to
Roman times When Britain was
the most remote province .of the
Western Empire. Little remains
from those days, and nothing in
the way of a written Bible text,
There are just a few pictorial
representations of Biblical scenes
on silver, a treasure which is
thought to have been the booty
of barbarian raidets.
After the withdrawal of the
Roman legions in 410 the pagan
Saxon invaders drove the native
Christians before them into the
west country and to the moun-
tains' of Wales. Gospels from cen-
ters in these Celtic areas of Brit-
ain include the beautifully dec-
orated. Book of Kells, copied in
Ireland, and the Lindisfarne Gos-
pels, written in Northumbria,
soon after 687 in honor of Saint
Cuthbert.
Thousands of people visited an
exhibition of the originals of
these two gospels shown recently
at Burlingtem. House in aid of the
library fund of Trinity College,
Dublin.
Those who did not, now have
opportunity to inspect facsimiles
of the illuminated pages of the
gospels at the Chapter House, set
in the context of the 'history of
the Bible from the seventh to the
twentieth centuries.
Another early treasure, and
one not seen in London before„
the Chad Gospels, is a manuscript
from Lichfield Cathedral dating
from about A.D. 700. This is writ-
ten in bold script, possibly at a
Welsh center following the Irish
style of calligraphy, writes Mel-
ita Knowles in the Christian Sci-
ence Monitor.
But the main emphasis of the
exhibition is on English versions
of the Bible, Copies are shown
of all the major versions from the
first translation of the gospels
into Anglo-Saxon, made before
the Norman Conquest, to the lat-
est, the New Testament of the
New English Bible published in
March, 1961.
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SHE'S TOPS — Pretty Mai)/ Sue
Roach, has been named the
1961 Betty Crocker All-Ameri-
can Homemaker of Tomorrow,
Blonde, blue-eyed and 18,
Mary was selected from' a field
of more than 400,000 gradual.»
ing high school girls across the
country. She receives a $5,000
scholarship.
tasted --- until Sehmutz provkd
that during the first war, avid-
=lies, accidental or* deliberate,
had caused 50,000 casealtiest
then the army allowed him to
train fifty man-and-dog revee
teams.
Even so, he had little eo.opeta.
tion, from the diehards, who had
always searched for avalanche
victims by lining Up as many
ten as could be mustered and
equipping each Man with a long
rod with which to probe the
snMost shoulder to shoulder
the men then advanced across
the snow. It was a painstaking
busniess.
Then Schmutz had. a bit of
luck, fie was working; at Inter-
taken in the winter of 1939.40,
when an accident occurr.'d on
the Jungfrau
A platoon of soldiers was be-
ing trained in the old technique
of how to find a buried man. A
volunteer, well protected again-
st the cold, had been put in a
spot too deep to extricate him-.
self. He had a breathing appara-
tus and was reasonably comfort-
able under the snow,
Flags marked the area to he
searched by the troops; if they
did not find the guinea-pig with-.
in a certain time then the offi-
cer in charge would call off
the stunt and the man would be
dug up,
Then drama overtook the ex-
ercise. A sudden, violent blizz'ird
hit the mountain and the troops
had to fight their way to shel-
ter.
, When at last the storm sub-
sided, half an hour later, the
marker flags, were buried by
snow.
Officers quickly put in new
o n e s, but not in their right
places. Now they had really lost
their guinea-pig; his oxygen
would be running out, and dusk
was Tailing.
Then Schmutz, accompanied
by his favourite dog, Gallix, ar-
rived on the spot to see the ex-
ercise. Told of the emergency,
he immediately put Gallix to
work.
The dog raced to a point far
outside the marker flags and
began to dig.
The officers in charge said
that their man could be nowhere
near that area, but soldiers be-
gan digging feverishly and
found their comrade. He was
still alive but in desperate
straits.
Publicity given to the Incident
convinced Swiss people that
there was something in the idea
of avalanche dogs after all and
by %the end of the war Sehmultz
had trained nearly 200 of them,
the majority Alsatians.
After many experiments re
found that only alsatians had the
strength, skill and incredible in-
stinct needed for the job.
Knowing his dogs, Schmutz
didn't even consider the famous
St. Bernard. The St. Bernard
uses his eyes, not his nose, to
find people, and after an aval-
anche there is nothing for the
eyes to see.
The nose and sixth-sense of a
trained Alsatian can find a man
in minutes, often after human
rescuers have been searching for
many hours.
Last winter a policeman was
buried for nearly ten hours be-
fore a dog could be brought to
locate him. The man was soon
dug out and survived,
The dog's master is almost as
important as the dog itself. He
must be a skilled skier and
mountaineer, an expert in snow-
craft and first-aid—and he must
know his dog and what the ani-
mal is trying to tell him. The
harmony between some men and
their dogs is astonishirigly sensi-
tive.
Sometimes an emergency is so
acute that a dog team is flown
in to find buried people. In this
way, three years ago, a dog
found three schoolchildren buri-
ed in a deep drift,
The dogs differ as much in
personality as their owners.
Some regard their work as fun,
others take it very seriously;
one must be forced to concen-
trate on the job, another is de-
votedly eager.
H041UM Nothing beats 46 Winks iii warni Po,
filtOrt sun,Little Jo feels cts he goes info a Idly reverie iri the
Vincennes too bear pits.
MAN WitH OttokitiVis Charles OdUlle Cifalatlat4 In Patie
With french Prirrie Minister Michel Dela* left, liefbi-b
dti enlettencyk intetinj ta deal .with the Agertain
These days if you want to do
anything or go anywhere in good
weather you have to make up
your mind on the spur of the
moment. That way we took
advantage of the only two nice
days we had last week, sand-
wiched in between dull, rainy
weather. On one of those days
I went to Toronto and had quite
a day — the hue was in sight
when I ran into the office to get
my ticket.
My main object down town
was shopping — and what a bus-
iness that turned out to be. You
ksteow, shopping is easy when you
start out with an open mind.
But when you know exactly
what you're looking for then you
often wind up on a wild goose
chase, I wanted drapes and a.
throw for our bedroom-den but
none of the ensemble I saw were
suitable so I walked my ice's cis
for nothing, However, during
my exploring I passed through
the millinery section. Seated in
front of a mirror was a lady try-
ing on a hat. I took one look at
her and immediately wanted
that hat, It was an off-shade
colour, exactly right to go with
the blue gold-flecked suit I was
wearing. There wasn't another
hat on the floor that was suit-
able. I stood in the background
in a dither of suspense while the
lady experimented with "my
hat", trying it this way and that.
Finally to my great' relief she
got up and walked away but
still with a backward glance. I
moved in fast. Sure enough the
hat was just right for me — in
size, colour and even the price.
I'm telling you I knew that hat
was meant for me directly I saw
it, Have you ever had. a similar
experience? Possession is nine-
tenths of the law, so I wore it
home — after getting gloves to
go with it, And that. too, entail-
ed quite a hunt.
That done I went to visit a
friend who has been a semi-prix
vate patient in a large Toronto
hospital for five months. She is
getting every attention but I
thought, "oh dear, this place may
be all right for emergencies and
for those with a short but seri-
ous illness but it is no place for
anyone with a chronic com-
plaint". After seeing the small,
dull rooms with no outlook other
than the grey walls of the next
building I realized how lucky
people are who can enjoy the
facilities of a modern hospital.
And I do mean' "enjoy" because
even a sick person Must get a
lift of spirits amid bright stir-
roundingse Of course there is one
drawback — getting a bed is
next to impossible — a condition
which prevails in every district.
On my way to the hospital I
got another glimpse of life, My
taxi-driver Was a nice young
fellow and while we waited for
a traffic light to change I said to
him — "Don't you get tired of
driving all day long?" "I sure
do," was the immediate reply.
Then he went on to tell me he
had beets with a telephone coin-
pany for five years arid quit to
take what lie thought was a bet-
ter job with the A. V, Itoe Coin-
patsy. What happened after that
is COMMon knowledge. Itovit as a
taxi-driver his take-home pay is
half what it used to be,
Next Islay the weather wad
good so Partner arid I went to
IVflitott for the day, We stopped'
at Bob's first and what a reCep,
ten we got. Ross 'was playing
in the yard and called oat elt-
dtedly "Grandma,. arandpat"
Then he went rushing int6 the
house balling t as lie -went —
"Mummy, Grandma and Grand,
The passion for states' rights
burns as hot as a branding 'iron
throughout Texas—but, ironical-
ly, the Texas lust for a Federal
handout is equally intense.
That is one dichotomous con-
clusion of writer John Bain-
bridge, who has spent three
year studying our second largest
state and is now patiently re-
cording his observations in a
long series in The New Yorker
magazin e, Bainbridge, a big-
state man himself (Minnesota);
calls his enormously detailed re-
port "The Super - American
State,"
The Super-American who in-
habits Texas, Bainbridge wrote
in the fifth installment, has per-
fected the American talent for
self-deception to the point where
"the doctrine of states' rights
like 'Mother' or 'The Alamo,'
can make moist his eyes."
Bainbridge points out that
while Texas stands sixth in,
population and seventh in the
amount of Federal taxes paid,
the state ranks third among the
50 in the amount of money it
accepts from the Federal govern-
ment, It leads them all in ac-
cepting Federal grants for agri-
culture experimentation, hospital
construction, road building, flood
prevention, and child welfare,
And while Texas takes more for
children than any other state, It
pays out less for their assistance
than all but six others, according
to his New Yorker report,
Not that the state especially
discriminates against youngsters,
Texas ranks second in the
amount of money accepted for
old folks, 40th in the amount it
spends, "An American accustom-
ed to dualism in the native
grain," Bainbridge suggests its Et
tongue-irischeek aside to this
finding, "might be moved to
wonder how much Federal aid
Texans would be willing to ac-
cept if they approved of it."
In the matter of crime, Bain-
bridge concedes, Texas does lead
all. Consistently in the top ten
states in all major tategeries of
Violent crime, Texas can really
pride itself bit murders, a classi-
fication in which it led every
gate in each of the last four
years. Texas murders number-
ed 1',b94 in 1.60, more than twice
as many as in New York, a state
with about 7 million tribt6 peopid.
It takes but 3 ounces of baby
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