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The Brussels Post, 1962-07-12, Page 4A Modern View of the Sea of G lWWWee Seine hundreds of feet below the hotel, which stands on the brow of the hill, ties the ancient town hot, dry, and dusty in summer, hut in spring enjoying a perfeet climate. Probably the saline baths, which resemble those of Carlsbad, were the rea- son for its founding, Pliny men-, 0000 them, Vespasian and his sell, Titus, were fond of coming here Herod Antipas founded the town, removing his capital from Sepphoris in the hope of gaining favor with the new lrmperpr after his sycophancy Of Augustus, In this he succeeded, Tiberias was pleased with his; minion and sent hint back to the shores of the Galilean Sea with his head still on his shoulders. But the significant thing is that this is one of the holiest Parts of the entire Holy Land, PMI's your vantage point above the lake where you are, in fact, about at sea level, you may turn about and mark the ancient road that leads to Nazareth, the road of the caravans, the imperial messengers, the armies, and tra- velers between East and West. Beyond the road is Old Testa- ment Judaea, On this side is New Testament Christianity, Here the Master walked and talked, yonder is a bare brown hill looking down on the Galilean Sea, the hill, so it is claimed, of the loaves and fishes and the thousands who partook of them. Cana is not far away, though now only a huddle of Arab huts with the name Kefr Kenna. A saddle-shaped mountain called by the Jews the Horns of Hat- tim overlooks the plains where Saladin defeated the Crusaders, The blue Galilean Sea itself is one of the treasured memories of all travels. Titus compared it to Lake Neuchatel in Switzerland. It is generally as tranquil, but there may upon occasion arise swift storms, swooping down through the hills and the gorges into the deep pit of the Galilean Sea, as when Jesus was in a small boat with Peter and the others. Behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep." (Matt. 8.) Today the Galilean Sea is dis- puted water. Patrol boats, both Syrian. and Israeli, are constant- ly alert lest the fishermen of one or the other encroach upon the areas allotted by agreement, en- deavoring to prevent the clashes that have more than once occur- ed here on the waters which knew the footsteps of the great preacher of the dictrine of good will among men. In the evening, from the hill- top, you can see the lights flicker- ing along the shore as the Gall- lean fishermen prepare to set forth, 'even as they did two thou- sand years ago. "Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing." (John 21.) But the fishers of these days are mostly Arabs, and to them the Master was only another mortal who went about doing good. Nevertheless, they area friend- ly lot, and it may be that you can make arrangements to go "a fishing" with them, though you must be prepared in some way to satisfy the patrols that keep an eye upon every Israeli fishing boat, writes Marc T. Green in the Christian. Science Monitor. The boats — "ships" of the Scriptures — are no more than wide-beamed, blunt-bowed craft 18 or 20 feet long, constructed for utility and not beauty. The oars are thick and heavy, but a sail Q. How can I prevent my 'white leather gloves from tern- ine yellowish after several clean- ings? A. By adding a teaspoon of powered borax to your clean- ing fluid, REHEARSAL? — Parachuted cargo for support of some 1,000 82nd Airborne Division pares troopers drops at Camden, S,C,, during the largest U.S, war games since World War II. "The spirit off liberty Is the. game protected in the genie re- Great Hurnon Beina Serves, Now, however, it IS the land- Passes spirit which is net too diree that it is right. . ." From Sight These words, from one of Judge Learned Hand's Most fa- inous utterances, could have been applied as well to the spirit of justice that guided him through half a century on the Federal bench. It was a spirit reflected in the 2,000-odd opinions be wrote over the years. Should the pro-Bolshevik ma- gazine The Masses, be suppress- eel (at the end of the first world war)? No, said Judge Hand. TS do so would be "to disregard tin tolerance of all methods of poli- tical agitation which in normal times is a safeguard of free goy. ernment." Should the conviction of tin top U.S. Communists, under the Smith Act, be upheld (this war In 1950)? Yes, wrote Judgt Hand, "The advocacy of violenct may, or may not, fail; but ie neither case can there be any 'right' to use it." It was for opinions like those — the opinions of a man "not too sure he was right" — that Learned Hand came to be known as "the judge's judge." Many considered him the most brilliant of his time, When the late Supreme Court Justice Ben- jamin Cardozo was once asked whom of his colleagues on the Court he considered the greatest living American jurist, Cardozo replied: "The greatest living American jurist isn't on the Sup- reme Court. His name is Learned Hand," e 4 Born in Albany, N.Y., he was christened Billings Learned Hand (Learned was his mother's maiden name), he attended Har- vard, both the college and the law school, and received his ap- pointment to the Federal bench when he was 37. In 1951, he for- mally retired — at '79 — but continued to serve when called upon. Just two years ago he celebrated his fiftieth anniver- sary as a U.S. judge in Neve York's Foley Square C o u r t- house — with Chief Justice Earl Warren among the well-wishers, Last month, at 89, Judge Learned Hand died peacefully in the New York home where he and his wife had lived since 1902. Many would recall the words that ended his "spirit of liberty" speech: "The spirit of liberty is the spirit of Him who, nearly 2,000 years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned, but has never quite forgotten: That tilileerleeamstaysh'baell abeKhienagsdelolanndwhcoenre- sidered side by side with the greatest," Some women claim to keey Secrets to the bitter end Which is usually the spot Where they meet a woman friend. Perhaps we should ?fart paying diplornens ,o a peacetime base. Wito(594' 'OrittbOM a window of 0 house in onto ..the sidewalk, which was Made ;just' after she the divided An ',East-Gel-nil:4i ebuold eescepe from Consteunist-tentr011ed sector of Berlin lies in the Western sector: This photo communists eedleti off the, abcrder hungry Africans who are press- ing in on the fertile grasslands of the Urnfolozi Game Ileserve, An one point along the reserve's boundary, beyond which new African squatters were building new huts, Mr. player and 1 came upon stake marks within the game reserves and knife cuts upon trees, apparently indicating the site of a kraal actually inside the game reserve which some Africans intend building. And already there have been clashes between African squatters and white and African game rangers, On several occasions during the past two days we have stalked white rhinos at close quarters on foot in the bush, On each occasion when they scented us they retreated and did not charge—most different behavior from that of the black rhino which is likely to charge at the slightest provocation, Clearly these huge, shy, mag- nificent animals will fare badly if the encroachment of African squatters continues. Just as clearly, the land-hungry Africafts have grounds for frustration and resentiment at their removal from lands on which they might have lived for many years be- fore being compelled to "squat" near the Zululand game reserves, It is a delicate and difficult problem, and an unenviable one for those who must do justice to the needs of the overcrowded humans on the one hand, and the preservation of a priceless piece of natural history on the other. Upon the imagination and wis- dom of their decision may de- pend the fate of those "living fossils," as they have been called, the world's last, rare, white rhinoceroses, Hard Going For Soft Drinks In a nationalistic fervor, Unit- ed Arab Republic President Ga- mai Abdel Nasser decided eight- een months ago that the time had come to produce a soft drink made by an Arab company for Arabs and drive the "imperial- ist"-made colas out of the Arab orbit. Last week, Nasser was a rbig step closer to his wish, In London, an Arab trader named Abut Abclullah unveiled a bottle containing a brandy- colored liquid made of the carob, or locust bean, of Greece and called Sidrob. The soft drink, which has a sweet, nutty flavor, will be made by a new govern- ment-formed company at six plants in the U.A.R. The first two will be completed near Cairo by Feb. 1, the anniversary of the founding of the U.A.R. "With this beautiful drink," boasted Abdullah, "we shall drive Coca-Cola out of the Mid- dle East." U.S, soft-drink companies sell- ing in the area had not heard of their new competitor and were unwilling to comment on its • prospects. But one Arab execu- tive gave warning that Sidrob might yet be a name to reckon with. "If Sidrob is a success," he said, "we intend to extend sales gradually all over the Mid- dle East and eventually hope to launch it in the British and European markets," There was, however, one touch of irony in the. Arab world's new drink. Its "secret formula" was concocted in the "imperialistic" laboratories of Manchester's Bar- fos group, one of Britain's larg- est suppliers of essences for fruit juices. ••,••,•:, • 'TALK ACROSS THE 60116ER IN Beerielle — tonverside ateeset toartkacie,. tneenberi 4this East German PeopiVs police ley to exploits' the sieucitiert lei West Berliners Offer the Reds tioteti en East-West border eretelha point in the city Auo. is carried in case, theee is a possibility of using it, The nets, square in shape and weighted with leaden pellets, are probably much the same as those used by Peter and his friends, Certainly the fish, almost all of one kind and called in Arabic •"enteht," are the same as then. They are flat, with a large head, and sur- prisingly edible. After their labors the Arabs build a fire on the beach and roast the fish, accompanying them with the flat brittle Arab bread that resembles a large griddlecake. The Galilean Sea is a part of the Valley of the Jordan which is, in effect, a great rift valley, a deep tropical trench between Palestine and Arabia. The Jor- dan, winding and twisting like e frightened snake, enters the lalse at the northern end and leaves at the southern, continuing on its way to the Dead Sea, In the rift valley, bare and sun-baked as it is, men have built cities through the ages. What brought them here? Perhaps it was the ready growth of many varieties of fruit, or the useful bamboo and the palm with its many benefits to man, likewise the sugar cane. Anyway, ruins are all about some nothing more than sun- blackened rocks that hint of the doings of men in an age long predating that of the Master. Up the lake a few miles are remains that are accepted as those of Capernaurn where Jesus lived and taught for so long, but this is not certain. Nearer is the supposed site of Bethsaida, and a group of dust-covered. Arab huts called. El Medjel may be the site of the village of 1Vlagdala. But I do not think the proven, or otherwise, authenticity of the sites themselves matters so much. The important thing is that they are, in a manner of speaking, symbols.,They remind you that here the Master walked with his companions, that here he taught, and here perhaps felt himself more certainly in the company of friends, and his leadership less questioned, than in any other part of the Holy Land, Here definitely it was that New Testament Christianity had its birth. Jesus of Nazareth, the great Galilean, was at home here. Here, around and in sight of the Galilean Sea, many of his most notable acts were recorded. Shifting Problem In Modern Cars Remember way back when automobiles .all had different gear-shift patterns, and the posi- tion that might be "reverse" in one car was "high" in the next? If you do, you're much older than we, or us. Those too young to remember can take our word for it that such was the state of affairs until, the triumphant adop- tion of the standard shift pat- tern. Today most cars have automa- tic transmission, but with this additional progress the car makers seem to have reverted to the confusion of the days before the standard shift. What we are talking about is the fact that the automatic shif t position for "park" in one car may be that for "reverse" in another. It may have been all right for cars to have different shift posi- tions in the old days. Familiarity with the various systems was something to brag about, especial- ly if one knew nothing else, But confusion between the "park" and "reverse" positions in these days of teeming traffic may easi- ly be disastrous. Matters are not helped by the tendency for one family to own two cars, whose shift patterns may differ, The time is here for another great meeting of minds on shift patterns, in the interest of safety, Furthermore, such standardiza- tion would very likely save the car-makers money. — Pasadena, (Calif.) Sun-News. Trying To Save The White Rhinoceros Here in the heart of Zululand is the last refuge of one of the rarest large animals in the world. This is the white rhinocs eros, the fascinating, bulky pre- historic creature which dates from the Eocene era, and which attracts visitors from as far afield as the United States and Australia to view it. Most people, when they think of a rhinoceros, conjure up a picture of the black rhinoceros which is found in various parts of Africa and in zoos throughout the world. But the white or square-lipped, rhinoceros is in quite a different category. This is a rare and valuable animal, only a small number of which are left. The commercial value of a single white rhinoceros is between $15,000 and $40,000. The terms "black" and "white" rhinoceros are used simply to distinguish between the two types, A black rhino is in fact not black, and neither is a white rhino white. Both are the same basic gray color, which varies in hue depending upon the color of their last mud bath. However, there are important differences between the two. The rare white rhino is far heavier and bigger than the black, weigh- ing about three tons and stand- ing 6 feet high at the shoulder. Most prominent feature of the white rhino is its square lip, in contrast to the prehensile point- ed upper lip of the black rhino. With its square lip the white rhino is able to graze at ground level off grass, whereas the black rhino browses from shrubs and bushes at head level. The black rhino is an aggres- sive and frequently bad-temper- ed animal, likely to charge any man or vehicle within range, By contrast the white rhino has a much more agreeable tempera- ment, and is almost a shy animal for all its great bulk and armor. Upon your approach it is more inclined to retreat than charge, and when a white rhino does charge it is more likely prompt- ed by panic than malice. Once the white rhinos roamed Africa in relatively large num- bers. But with the coming of white hunters and the later availability of fire arms to Afri- cans the rhinos were slaughtered on a major scale. Today these rare animals exist in two pockets. One is in the northern part of Africa, ranging from the former Belgian Congo across Uganda and into part of the Sudan. With the upheaval of the Congo, the fate of the white rhinos there is uncertain, and poaching is rife in Uganda and the Sudan. Game experts say there are HAPPY SCOUT — Dressed in full scout uniform, Burmese Prime Minister U NU tosses a salute at a Boy Scout encompienent near Rangoon. probably less than 1,000 white rhinos left the world today, and of these the bulk—about 600— are there in the -second existing pocket, in Zululand, Zululand, however, is not es- caping the change and upheaval of the rest of Africa, and with the pressures and politics of modern days, the last great pre- serve of the white rhinos is seriously threatened. For the moment, the rhinos are centered on the Umfolozi Game Reserve, which is located, about 30 miles up a dirt track from the nearest little Zululand town of Mtumatuba. Of the total of 600 white rhinos in Zululand, about 250 are inside the 72,000- acre Umfolozi Reserve, while a further 20 are in the nearby Hluhluwe Game Reserve of 52,- 000 acres. The remainder of the rare white rhinos, although pro- tected by law from being hunted and killed, roam adjoining gov- ernment lands outside the re- serves, lands which have not yet purpose. The for any specific The game reserves are control- led by the provincial adminis- tration, or government, of the province of Natal. The land sur- rounding is owned by the central government. And the two bodies are currently locked in dispute over this surrounding land, the outcome of which in the view of game experts might decide whether the white rhino is to continue to exist or become ex- tinct. The dispute is •overshadowed by the fact that Natal is the stronghold of English-speaking South Africans and is a province which has consistently opposed the broad political policies of Prime Minister Hehdrik F. Vet- weerd's central governMent, Basically, the plea of the prov- incial authorities which adminis, ter the garde reserve is for abed another 80,000 acres of land, cur- reetly owned by the goverhment, to be turned over for game pre- nervation,. Part Of this land forms a cor-, tidier between the existing Utile foiogi and Hluhluwe Caine fie- serves. Its allocation would eon- solidate these two reserves into brie big new One, the rest of the land liee to the south and west of the Umfolozi Reserve, end is land over Which the white thliede eleeady roam. tame eiteeette argue that if they had this eldtit land, they coteld fence elle Emits game reserve and compel the white rhinos to remain protected within it. At present, they say, the. Um- folozi Reserve is confined within a triangle formed by the route' and ultimate confluence of two rivers, the White Umfolozi and the Black. Umfolozi, These rivers, with a rise and fall of 30 feet, are impossible to fence, and the game men declare it is essential that the reserve's boundaries be extended beyond these rivers to include land al- ready roamed by the white rhinos, writes John Hughes in the Christian Science Monitor. Their argument is that it has always been understood that this land should be proclaimed as a white rhino reserve but that the proclamation has been postponed over the years for various rea- sons. All this is in itself enough of a problem to pose serious doubts about the future of the white rhino. But now recently events have taken an even more de- sperate turn. For thousands of African "squatters"—Africans who have no legal right to settle on the 'land they are presently occupy- ing—have moved into the un- allocated government lands sur- rounding the Umfolozi Reserve. This is land which the game men say is essential for preservation of the white rhino, Thus has developed a serious clash of interest between the African squatters on the one hand and the guardians of the rare white rhinos on the other. Legally, the position of the Africans is clear. They have no right to be on the unallocated government lands they are oc- cupying. But these are Africans in the same plight as thousands throughout South Africa. In terms of various govern- ment segregation laws they have been uprooted, perhaps from white-owned farms, or urban areas, where they may have lived for many years, and are being sent back "to the. African re- serves," or country areas, Their numbers have been swel- led by thousands arrested by police in a series of "clean-up" sweeps throughout South. African cities, designed to weed out Afri- cans whose various documents and papers qualifying them to live in urban areas may be tech- nically out of order. From the point of view of the authorities in charge of the game reserves, the issue is clear. They pay that other land must be made available for the African squatters currently crowding the game ereserve borders and that these buffer strips must be pro- claimed as game ,..reserve if the white rhinos are to be preserved. A spokesman of the central government, however, says that although the African squatters are on government land illegal- ly, they will not be moved until the government dedides whether the land is to be used for African settlement or proclaimed as game reserve. In other words, there is no guarantee that this land— which the game experts say is essential if the white rhinos are to be preserved—will in fact be made available as gaine reserve. In past years, there have been Other pressures upon the Zulu- land gable reserves. 'There have been white farmers who have campaigned for their abolition on grounds that wild animals carry disease to cattle and do- Mestic animals, 8otne -have urged that the game be shot and the land handed over for:allocation at farms. efeWeVet the conservationists' etnenaign :against antagonism by local White farmers aPpearS largely won at this- stage, and some fanners have swung their support behind the local wilds We association which Is vitally interested le preservation not only of the' White rhinos but of the Metier other types of wild :rzonce wit