The Brussels Post, 1961-08-17, Page 7A
REFUGEES FLOCK INTO WEST BERLIN—East Germans at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin wait for
flights to West Germany. The Allies have arranged for the evacuation of about 1,000 refu-
gees per cloy by air to cope with the heavy influx of refugees. Refugee centers in the divid-
ed city are overcrowded by the unusually large number of persons crossing the border because
of the threat by The •Communists to sign a' treaty with the East Germans and seal this last
opening in the line between free Europe and. Communist countries.
almost like being offered
one of Greeldrnia's Warm old-fa-
shioned buttermilk cookies to
hear talk of theme-writing and
stiffer homework assignments
for epace-age
The public elementary schools
in St. Lettis have jelet received
notice that they are, going to
have to dig in on homework
next school year. There also
Will be more compositions, And
the compositions are to be care-
fully corrected, They are not to
be just a pupil's evening busy-
work that the teacher shuffles
into the wastebasket after school
the next day.
The policy statement from an
assistant superintendent calls
for fourth graders to receive a
nightly budget of approximately
30 minutes of homework. Fifth
and sixth graders will be asked
to put in 45 minutes on home
assignments and the seventh and
eighth graders may eXpect at
least an hour's extra work every
• day.
As for the composition-writ-
ing, there will be an essay or
other form of theme every two
weeks, or about 20 a year,
Says Assistant Superintendent
William C. Kottmeyer: "Because
the bulk of testing in the last
10 years has involved the mul-
tiple choice type of question
which lends itself to machine
scoring, actual writing has been
minimized. Now we are getting
complaints by colleges that the
high school students they see
getting are unable to write sim-
ple. English. The new emphasis
on essays and compositions is in-
tended to meet these complaints.
"Every semester since 1957 has
se en an improvement in our
teaching technique here,"' ex-
plains Mr. Kottmeyer. "Now we
think it is time to place more
emphasis on the student's work
outside of school hours. Suffi-
cient homework teaches- the stu-,
dent to work on his own, some-
th i n g he will need -in high
school and college. It also
teaches him to organize his
time."
In these times of teaching ma-
chines and airborne television
classrooms (and cookie mixes)
the sturdy accompaniments of
once - honoured classical educa-
tions many more than 20
themes a year and more like
three hours of homework for an
eighth grader than one — must
be struggling to survive, writes
Robert Colby Nelson in the
Christian Science Monitor.
Even the current hubbub
abOut rapid reading, highlighted,
one recent week by the perform-
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking,
Hospitality is the art of mak-
ing people feel at .horne when
you wish they were.
Ho:I1UM all ,h1"Otfth-old
lion cub in Portland. zoo"Opened •
her mouth to growl for the
cameraman. But all that came
out was a' big yawn'.
A woman near Belleville,
brought up on a farm, told her
husband that she clidn't,like the
taste of the butter she had
bought at her neighborhood
store. He agreed if hera§ a little
off the usual high quality of
Canada First. Grade Creamery
butter so they called' the local
representative of the Canada De-
partment of Agriculture's Dairy
Products Division. He took the
butter for laboratory examina-
tion.
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From that point on things
moved swiftly. There were phone
calls, inspections, checks back to
the factory, checks on indiVidual,,
churnings and on :plant,several'
more analyses, and the provin-
cial dairy authorities Were ,also
brought into the picture.
In• the' end, the • trouble was
found. and the , housewife's com-
plaint was remedied. Thanks to
her initiative and" the energy
with which the dairy - products
division ,went into action, 'a de-
terioration in standard had been
checked before much loss was
incurred.
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According ,to Dr. H. A. Derby,
director of-the division, there are
few' cOmplaints because .the qual-,
ity of Canadian butter is gen,
erally very high. But he wants
consumers to be 'aware' Of their
right to submit to the divisioh
any dairy. product which is con-
sidered. below standard.
Fieldrnen 'of .the division are
instructed . always tO foil:Ow up
, coMplaints, and 'refer them. to
the head office where -further
investigation made.
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While provincial graders su-
pervise, grading of the cream and
Milk from which butter is, made,
the federal department is re-
eponsible for enforcing quality.
regulations for the finished pro
duct. Officers grade for certifi,
cation for .export and "for inter-
provincial trade:, Grade checks
are taken at all levels of trade
manufacture by Dairy Products
Division men, dairy produce gra-
ders and inspector's of the Con.,
solidated Retail. Inspection Unit.
Plaiiitenanee of the quality
standard is essential if butter
sales are to' be sustained in the
face of keen coinpetitieri froth
othet spreads. • 4, 4
Measures to ptetect the con-'
ettiner, Dr:, Derby. said, also safe-
guardthe manufacturer by giv-
ing him a double' check On his
operation;, Most pitviricee have
adopted federal regulations and
all cteatrieeite Must conform to
the 'same standard.,
Dairy division ()Meet's spot-
check boitsiiiner paelcages.
frOM retail stores' for labelling,
Weight; correct marking and'
moisture aria 'fat Content, If the
product does riot Meet the stand-
ards, its sale can be halted Uetil
the discrepancy is rectified:
Thiotigh the inentifeettiterja
' code, Patkagedbtitter can
ly be traded right back to a per.,
titular elitirnifig.
Canada First Grade Creal ery
COlitairia more then 16 per
dent Water and not less than. 80'
Per dent *Milk fat, no Other fat
being` allowed, It tintiat occire. not
, leas'than '92 points, 39- et that,
fee flaVer, Commercial Otte
generally scores ,g3;, 'of *hid),40.'
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are for flavor. Flavor is influ-
enced by the quality of the raw
milk and cream used in the
make. *
The dairy inspector expects
butter to be clean, with no ob-
jectionable flavor; and of firm
texture, close and waxy with the
minimum of free moisture, The
color should be practically true
and even, and of a desirable
shade. Achieving this by artifi-
cial means is not illegal. Where
used, salt must,be well dissolved
in the butter and' the product
should,be packed solidly in clean
boxes, neatly and cleanly lined,
branded and finished:
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Butter adulteration is punish-
able by court action, but policing
of the' manufacturing end of the
butter industry is 'a matter for
the provnicial authorities.
Federal, provincial and com-
mercial co-operation is, at a high
level -and consumer representa-
tions are readily investigated.
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A new potatce top 'killer that
is safe for cattle .and other ani-
mals which may 'actidentally pat
the treated plant tops, is being
introduced in Canada.
The product, oalled "Reglone,"
is a, •potent, water-soluble herbi-
cide described technically as a
"quaternary ammonium com-
pound." Unlike the arsenical
compounds still widely used in
this country' for potato topping,
it has low toxicity.
It was tested last' year in po-
, tath growing areas of Ontario
and the Maritimes and results
• showed it to be an effective po-
tato top killer in seed and main
crop potatoes., Leaf kill is rapid
(three to four days) with kill of
stem, taking place gradually (10 .
to 14 days) giving conditions that
closely approach natural" ma-
turity,
The highly poisonous nature of
arsenical compounds used for po-
tato top killing has long been a
source of concern to farmers and
conservationists. (Their manu-
facture was recently banned vol-
untarily in England by the as-
sociation of British manufactur-
ers of agricultural chemicals),
Extreme care must be taken
when applying it to crops to keep
livestock away from the fields.
IneVitably, some accidents have,
occurred that re's'ulted in injury
to humans and liveetook. Even
when a small amount of arsenic
spray has drifted into a neigh-
boring pasture, symptoms of poi-
soning have been observed in
the cattle,
Applications of "rtegIone," On'
the other hand, have heee tree
of these lietiliftel effects. In, fact,
on one firth in the Maritimes --
Where Minty tests were carried'
out — Ntirtlearie Donna lag year
blew "itoglorie" treated tape, on
to ati adjjacent pasture iii' suffi-
cient Ittatitity to kill 'all the
tattle there if arsenic eerripotted&
had been usedt biit belie Was in-
jured,.
Carry a handy tube of rubber
deinetit With"yOti oti your` Caren-
ing trip ft! will-bel0 Start a' fire
Very' fast, just put d few squeezes
Of this rubber liqiiid under or on
the Wood; match, and „,
You'll ;have a' hot fire friend. tiree
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LESSON
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BIEFARM FRO
John
ance of a young man at an edu-
cation.convention who zipped
through 120 pages in mere min
utes with apparent total com-
prehension of all the facts he
had read, has set• some to wor-
rying about appreciation for
writing style, structure, and
mood, etc.
Steps such as the homework-
composition edict just issued in
St. Louis may help, keep balance
between the best education tech-
niques of the past, and the new.
It laces time-honoured perils,
of course. Principals here are
reminded to make their purposes
clear on one of the rustiest of
the old-fashioned educational
techniques in most homes. The
new quota of homework is to be
done by the pupils not by
their parents.
School Boards. Love
To Dish It Out !
Already the highest salaried
school official in the' country,
Benjamin Coppage Willis, 60,
Chicago's able, energetic superin-
tendent of schools, last month
became the 'third highest paid of
all U.S. public servants, The Chi-
cago Board of Education (after a
month's deliberation) voted to
give Willis, who once worked as
an auto salesman and hotel clerk,
a new four-year contract 'at $48,-
500 a year — a $6,000 raise. Am-
ong public officials only Presi-
dent Kennedy ($100,000) and
New York's Gov. Nelson Rocke-
feller ($50,000) earn more.
,By ROY- liw WOW' Warren
B,A., MD,
Making Good After Failure.
Acts 1.2;3$l 13:4-5, 13: 15; 36 49l
Colossians 4:10; 2 Timothy 4:111n
1 Fetes 5:13
Memory Selection; 7E n d 711 r •
hardness as a good soldier Of
Jesus Christ, a Thridthy 3:3.
We incline to remember this
failures of people more than,
their successes. Are we trying
to make ourselves feel more
comfortable about our own fail-
ures?
John Mark's home was one of
prayer. It was here that the
saints were praying when Peter
was miraculously released front
prison, Thank God for praying
homes,
Mark went with his uncle. Bar-
nabas and the apostle Saul, on
their first missionary journey;
The Holy Ghost had appointed.
Barnabas and Saul to go, Mark
did not have such a Divine ap-
pointment, When they came to
Perga in Pamphylia, Mark left
the party ,and went home. When.
Paul (formerly known as Saul)
and Barnabas were preparing to
go on their -second missionary
journey they disagreed with re-
gard to taking Mark. The result
was that Barnabas took his nephe
ew Mark and Paul 'took Silas as
his companion in travel. Hence
there were two missionary
groups instead 'of one.
Mark proved himself as a good
soldier of Jesus Christ. Later he
was sought by Paul as one who
was profitable to him for the
ministry. Mark also laboured
with Peter in Babylon. His great-
est work was in writing a-record
of the life and ministry of Jesus.
It is believed to be the first of
the four records. It is thought
that much of the information
was received from Peter with
whom he laboured,
We 'have all had our failures
and we may all, under God,
achieve success. I am thrilled at
the success of some of those I
taught during my sixteen years
in. Bible Schools. One of them In
a recent letter said, "Thanks In
being so patient and understand-
ing of me when I was growing
up." I needed patience, too. But
he is making good and I rejoice
in it. I think of another who
went home, determined to give
up all thought of the ministry.
There was no use of trying to
pressure him but I'reasoned with
him and prayed with him. 'To-
day he is a successful minister.
I am thankful, too, to those who
were patient with • me when I
was growing up:
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Want To Rent
A Kangaroo?
You are a Cree Indian visiting
New York City on your vacation.
You want to• write to the braves
back home, but you don't have
a typewriter that *writes Cree
dialect. Where do you go? The
answers is the Tytell' Typewriter
Co. at 123 Fulton Street, which
rents such machines for $15 a
month. The source of this and
other hint 'is Elizabeth Squire's
"The N e.w Y o r k Shopping
Guide," published recently. The
,fruit Of five years' burrowing
along boulevards and back al-
leys i, Miss Squire's compendium
is proof that in New York you
can buy ,almost anything. Sam-
ple's:
Kangroos (rented) — Animal
Talent Scouts, Inc., 331 West
Eighteenth Street.
$50,000 Russian ,Easter Eggs—
La Vielle Russie, 781 Fifth Av-
, enue.
Human Skulls George M.
luergens, 1100. Third Avenue.
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Bad Timing
Of Holidays
didntehFi sou yretahrolon"iTY'
u efalling
lass ita
sharp reminder of the way we
cheat ourselves Of real, long hell,
days by our refusal to adapt the
calendar to our best uses, There
is nothing sacred about the calen-
dar, It is man-made, and should
be flexible enough to suit our
needs. The same, can be said of
most of the holidays that are eb
served on certain dates, These
dates are, for the most part, ap-
proximations. There is es much
good reason to observe the
Fourth on the second or the third,
And there is no reason why other
holidays, sacred or profane, can-
not be on a floating, basis, as
EaSter5ancl Leber Pay and others
are,
This 'year many employees,
away for the weekend, will have
to come back to work on Mon-
day and will then take off again
for the Tuesday respite. Some
employers will give their em-
ployees ,Monday off, but <not all
are able to afford to, The result
of the slipshod condition will
mean a disruption of many busi-
nesses through absepteeism, Even
worse, in terms of numbers, is
the deprivation of many people of
a nice long weekend holiday. In
Britain production and clerical
employes get four bank and gen-
eral holidays a year: caster Mon-
day, Whitmonday, the first Mon-
day in August, and Boxing Day,
the first weekday after Christ-
mas.
Congress in 1059 granted an
extra holiday to government
workers whenever a legal holi-
day falls on a Saturday. The law
already provided for a free Mon-
day for them when a holiday
falls on Sunday. But only one
state thus far, Virginia, has de-
clared July 3 a holiday for state
employees. But then this' is to
take the: place of Veterans' Day,
which falls on Saturday.
It is sheer human inertia that
robs 'us so often of three-day-
week-end holidays. This Fourth
is a prime example — Hartford
Courant. -
(Canadians also have similar
troubles).
No End In Sight
for 'fair Lady.'
Disregarding the gallantry
which usually prohibits. ,diselts-
401 of a woman's age, the Man-
agement of "My Fair .1,,ady"
proudly !noted laet month that
the Mark Hellinger Theatre hit
has become the longest-running
niteeleal comedy In Broadway his
tory,. The record was established
on the warm afternoon of Wed-
nescley, July' 12, when the Alan
Jay Lerner Frederick Loewe
version of Shaw's "Pygmalion"
gave its 3313th performance, It
thus paesed "OklahOrhat" by
Richard Rodgers. and Oscar gem,
merstein, II, whiCh was .acted.
2,212, times in New York,. Like
"My Fair Lady," it was an adapt-
tation (from "Green Grow the
Lilaea;" by Lynn Riggs),
Three principals — .011 v
Reeves-Smith, Gordon. Dilworth,
and Rod McLennan — and nine
members of the chorus have been
in "My Fair Lady'!•eince it open-
ed on March 16, 1956, The pro-
duction now stars Margot Moser
(the first American permanently
assigned to the part) as Eliza
Doolittle; Michael Allison as
Henry Higgins, Melville Cooper
as Colonel Pickering, and Ronald
Redd as Alfred Doolittle. •
On the afternoon that "My
Fair Lady" became the new long-
run champion, the. national corn--
.pany was. giving its 1,774th per-
. formance (currently playing the
Biltmore, Theatre, Los Angeles).
The London production is in its
167th week at Drury Lane, Other
overseas duplications have been '
gieen. in Australia, .the Nether-
lends, and: Sweden, A German
version is scheduled to open at
the Munigh Opera ,Hottee, Berlin,
in October.
And the end is nowhere in
sight.
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Deficit Spending
By Governments
The bolder advocates of defi-
cits are usually honest. They can-
didly contend that the money can
be more wisely spent by officials
than by ' citizens. They frankly
go a long way toward more
powerful government. But polio
ticians who find it expedient to
lure votes by spending are More
deceiving about deficits. They
talk about tax intentives for pri-
vate enterprise but instead take
more money for government pro-
jects. They try to get the people
to look at "pie in the sky" instead
of new debts under their feet.
They destroy not only fiscal in-
•tegrity but political integrity. —
an editorial in The. Christian
Science Monitor.
And two shortstops, Ray Chap-
man and Lennie Merullo, each'
made four elvers in one inning.
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Plenty Too I
Americans are not 'only paying
billions to send missiles' into.
outer space, but they are also los- -
ing millions each year on the
purchase ofunusable inner space.
That was the, gist of the recent
testimony in Washington 'before
aSenate Antitrust and 'Monopoly
subcommittee, Deceptive pack-
aging and labeling were:bitterly'
denounced by' housewives, in-
cluding. Senator Maurine Neuber-
ger of Oregon. Mrs. Neuberger
declared deelared she had received com-
plaints of 'slack-filled packages, "
hard-to-find statements of tiet
contents and weights, and sug-
gested "best letjers" by oversize
packaging and misleading ter-
minology.
All this will, of course, find a
. responsive chord in the hearts of
all who purchased what appeared
to be a king-size package of hair
tonic, only to, find that when ,
the 'cardboard and other 'stuff has
been removed from the contain-
er the bottle 'had shrunk to
pigmy size: In fairness 'to menu-
Jecturers• it must be pointed out
, 'that many packages do print
:plainly that even though a pack-
age's contents may shake down
.;in transit, they are priced on the'
basis of weight, not bulk,
One of the principal causes 'of.
coreplaint, and a justifiable .one;
As the lack of uniformity so far
,as weights are concerned. There
,seems to be no rhyme or reaeon
behind the weight of the 'majori-
ty Of, food packages, The house-
wife has to decide between two
brands of oral:Meat, for example,
one weighing five and one third
ounces, selling for 69 dents, and
another weighing six And one
eighth ounces selling at `75 cents.
Unless she is a pretty good
inetherriatieian, arid prepared to
work it out I•iiith Pape4 and
pencil, the decision of the house=
Wife as to Whieh is the cheaper
may be hard to Make.' itoW do
you figure it?
A great many itiduetries have
developed standardi2atiori of
Sites and i,the development Of
uniform labeling, It should not
be difficult for the principal food
niatittfaeturers to get together
on such 4 program, Those who
growl abOtit government inter-
fereriee ehould have learned by
now thati unless needed things
are done" voluntarily, they are
Often MAO to bd done by-federal '
atithority, One large Chain did
eeide years • ago embark on a
4ratil,. fee nes t.disclosure
Weights and other Pertinent,
material on all cahnedgeOcia. But •
for' Seine reason; probably be,
cause othert took advantage of 1t,
if. abandoned the practice, It roust
be a trade-wide development. All
the, Simla. and . Portents are that
unless it IS done
edial legislation • will be ask-
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about the: things that at one time
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