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The Brussels Post, 1962-10-25, Page 2SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTHPLACE; Or is it? aseeeese esee LAST RITES FOR BLAST VICTIMS A priest bends over the bodies of .gids killed i New' '''4ri,.:e.:7-ArrAcri of a telephone business office: Wcm There Ever A William Shakespeare? The Ancient Controversy Stilt Goes On TWINTYPES — Twin couches, twin lamps, twin sisters and twin brothers form the house- hold of the Chases who live in a jointly-owned home in Thornton, Colo, Left to right: Herbert Chose, son Maurice, wife Jean; Emmajeon, mother Jane, father Delbert, Credit Unions Expanding Fast by TOM 4a,.0.4stIgN. NeWspepee gliternelee STRATFOR,PsOli-AVON — shall sit on the grave day •and• night if these people come and try to disturb, Shaiseeeeare's nest, ing place," said Fred Baker, beadle and town crier of this historic .conemlnelt.Y. Baker i' like many Stratford- Rees, le disturbed by the actions of a group which doubts that Shakespeare was Shakespeare. Stratford's prosperity is built on the fact that WI Shakes peace was born here in 1564, Very year 170,000- overseas vis- itors, of whom nearly half are American, make a pilgrimage to this literary shrine. More important still, they spend $11/2 millions in Stratford's restaurants, hotels and souvenir shops. But now all this prosperity is threatened by the Shakespeare Action. Committee. Not only do members of the committee. doubt that Shakespeare's plays are his but they are demanding that the Bard's grave be opened in order to prove their point. The committee makes much of the fact that none of the manu- scripts of Shakespeare's plays has ever come to light. "It is ridiculous to argue that authors. rin those days did not keep the 'Manuscripts of their plays and and poems," the committee man- Resta declarea. Therefore, if Shakespeare real. it my bishop were in .faVer opening it, I would not allow the tomb to be disturbed," To do so would be to commit sacrilege; he Maintains. Other :Stratfordians recall the curse inscribed on Shakespeare's tombstone: "Blest be the man who snares these :stones, And. curet be he Who • moves ray bones." • That the deMand to' open ShaisesPeare'S grave is merely the opening shot in a general campaign against • the whole Shakespeare cult was admitted to me by Francis Care, sounder of the Shakespeare Action Corns mittee. The committee also challenges the authenticity of the timbered house In Henley Street, which is shown as Shakespeare's birth- place. "There is absolutely no proof that Shakespeare ever liv- ed in the house, let alone being born in the front upper room," says Carr, who is among other things a magazine publisher and a tutor in Russian history. Carr is what is known as a "Baconian"—that is, he believes that Shakespeare was Francis Bacon—but his committee in- cludes all shades of anti-Shakes- peare opinion. There are, for example, some who believe that ShakestSeare was Christopher Marlowe. One prominent member of the com- mittee is Christmas Humphreys, brilliant criminal lawyer, whose. tion, upgrading and. training, The credit union people think there is sill much room for organization, ,despite the feet that many or even most large natural groups have been organized. In the United States credit un- ion activity varies greatly from slate to state, Moro than 17 'per cent of Hawaiians 'belong, while less than 3 per cent of Arkan- sans do, Though the movement didn't start here, more than .90 -per cent of the world's credit union activ- ity is centered in North America, Sixty-seven nations each have one or more credit unions, but nonetheless most of the, free world is still virgin territory, Their origin is usually traced beck to Germany during the lib- eral mosement of 1848. In North America, a Freneli journalist named Alphonse Desjardins or- ganized the fist one in 1900, in a poverty-stricken Quebec village named Levis, The first contribu- tion per member was a dime, and the new financial institution . started with. total capital of $26, Later Desjardins went to the United States and organized the first United States -credit union in 1909, in a parish at Manches- ter, New Hampshire, Then Ed- ward A. Filene, the great Boston merchant prince •and public ser- vant, took it up. He and Desjar- dins are regarded as fathers of the movement, and. CUNA head- quarters at Madison are in Filene House. State by state, laws authoriz- ing credit unions were enacted, and in 1934 the original federal incorporation act was passed. The story since then has been one of quiet but continuous expansion. Actually, most of them really are started by people without much experience, and thousands of smaller ones are still staffed by members working in their spare time, either "moonlighting" from their regular employment, or doing it "for free." The larger unions have profes- sional management, and some have good-sized staffs. But one fundamental, need remains—that for skilled managers, of whom there are never enough to go around, writes Roscoe Fleming in the Christian Science Monitor. So CUNA recently held a four- day meeting at Denver which was for managers and other person- nel alone, and was in effect an intensive seminar on all the problems that might confront credit union people, At this meeting was organized CUES Managers' Society (Execu- tive Services) which is for such personnel exclusively and will, like any other professional so- ciety, devote its efforts to educa- Wain Boilers Can Be Deadly Toot By the time it reaches the nprth,,eastOrn tip of Manhattan, the Great White Way beeentee just plain Broadway, a family street characterized. by middle-, class apartment •houses, some small shops — and the tidy, yellow-brick uptown district ac- counting and •commerciel offlc0 of .the New York Telephone Co, The air-conditioned building is only six years old; its brightly. lighted interior is painted with eye-resting pastels. The nearly 500 employes — mostly women, many fetchingly young — need only to deses-rei to the semi- basement cafeteria for lunch, At 12:07 p.m. one day recently there were about 100 entailers there, Suddenly as a waitress said afterward — "it sounded as though an atom, bomb had ex- ploded." One of the three ell-fired low- pressure boilers had burst, Like a space-bound rocket weighing nearly 10 tons, the boiler shot through a wall into the cafeteria. Deflected upward by the strue- eural steal girders, the 15- by 6- foot missile tore into the ceiling, collapsing a 20- by 12-foot eee.. tion of the steel and concrete floor of the accounting room above. The boiler caromed oaf a steel beam in the roof, reduced 'another interior wall to rubble, en,d came to rest against a prumpled 14-inch steel column, some 150 feet from the boiler room. Running out of his West 213th Street apartment, Francis Hon land said: "It was terrible „ we pulled two women out, then we were forced back by the heat and the steam. We could hear people screaming; "Help me! Help met" The bodies of the dead and injured --were strewn around the vapor- and •smoke-choked cafe- teria, tangled in twisted tables and chairs.. The final toll; 21 dead, 95 in- jured. A s the inspectors sifte4 through the wreckage behind boarded-up windows, the neigh- borhood barber Paolo Brune looked cue of his window and Sadly shook his graying head: "The building is nothing," he said, "You can always 'build building, It's the lives of the people." ENGLISH PEACH—Her name is Mary Peach, a curvaceous British import and co-starred With Rock Hudson in his new- est film, "A Gathering of Eagles." Girl watchers will like her water skiing perform- ance in the movie. Down In The Magic World Of Fish ly wrote those plays, chances are that the manuscripts of some of them will be found buried with his remains in Holy Trinity churchyard, Stratford, the com- mittee argues. To say that the proposal to dis- inter the bones of the immortal Bard has created consternation here is to put it =idly. "Grave robbers, body snatchers, ghouls —" these are some of the more polite epidthets hurled at the committee, Before Shakespeare's grave can be touched, permission must be obtained from the Bishop of Con.ventry, in whose diocese Stratford lies, and from the vicar of Holy Trinity Church, the Rev. Thomas Bland, So far the bishop has remain- ed silent in the controversy, but Rev, Bland leaves no doubt as to where he stands. "Over my dead body," he eays, in effect. "Even if I wore given proof that there were manuscripts in- tide," declares the vicar, "even DEATH DINED HERE — The interior of a telephone company business office is in shamb- les after a boiler exploded, killing and injuring scores of persons, many of them young wom- en who were eating lunch. candidate for the Shakespeare stakes is Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, • The bond that unites these men is their determination to expose "the great Shakespeare hoax," and thus to end Stratford's ex- istence as a literary shrine. Says Francis Carr: "Stratford is a fortress well defended by the walls of inertia and vested interest, but we think we habe found its weak point, and that is Shakespeare's tomb. That is why we intend to press for the grave to be opened." EDITOR'S NOTE; Washington Irving is the authority for the statement th at Shakespeare's grave was actually opened in 1796 by the sexton of Holy Trin- ity. While an adjoining vault was being dug, the sexton took the opportunity to peek info Shakespeare's coffin, but he found only dust, according to Irving. This had led some scho- lars to believe that the grave may have been robbed earlier. One of the nation's fastest- growing and most constructive institutional groups is striving to make itself both better, and bet- ter-known. Its members are the credit unions. These are self-help co-op- eratives, organized to aid mem- bers to pool their savings. The co-operatives then loan to mem- bers — to meet emergencies, to buy appliances or homes, or to start small businesses. Thus credit unions free their members from total, dependence on private moneylenders, or com- mercial loaning institutions. They also pay modest dividends, and inculcate savings habits. The U.S, nation's first was or- ganizer' in a Manchester, New Hampshire, parish in 1009, By 1950 there were some 9,000 of them with combined assets of about a billion dollars, By mid- 1962 there are 21,000, with 13,- 000,000 members; and their as- sets have grown to $6,500,000,000, or by six and one-half times in 12 years, In Canada, where the first North American credit union was organ;zed in 1900, there are an- other 5.000 with 2,700,000 mem- bers, and ac•ets of nearly $1,500,- 000,000. By percentage Credit Unions are increasing more rapidly in numbers, membership and assets than any other United States fi- nancial group; though their total assets are very small compared with those of the general finan- cial world, Almost all United States credit unions belong to the Credit Union National Association, directed by la Vance Austin, and with head- querters at Madison, Wis. It is working to establish credit unions throughout the world as well as nationally — there are now one or more in 67 nations, It is a consultant for United Nations agencies such as FAO and UNESCO, and recently signed an agreement with AID (Agency for International De- velopment) to foster, South Am- erican credit unions as part of the program of Alliance for Pro- gress. A similar plan is contemn- plated for Afriba. Credit unions are fine boot- strap-lifters. Mr. Austin says that in his own home town in Color- ado the credit union 'helped more young fellows returning home from World War II to start their own businesses, than did the town's banks. And he tells of an Indian on the shores of the world's loftiest lake, Titicaca in Peru, who used a credit union loan to start his own business in making sandals from old tire casings. Credit unions take advantage of natural groups of people. They have been started in thousands of industrial plants, usually with labor - management co-operation; in labor unions themselves; in church congregations; teachers' organizations; in compact neigh- borhoode. Them are even credit unions among employees of big financial institutions — 30, in fact, among trilled States banks alone. And they are "naturals" for the membership of co-opera- tives organized for other pur- pTest. they' are little known at large. A recent pilot "public opin- ion" survey authorized by CUNA showed that most people, includ- ing many members, have only a nebulous notion of what eredit unions are, or what they do. The word "union" masks eaten for many people as hav;r4 thing to do with Wrens, !nee epees len seems tes be etren.g.:y leek a person's feeling 'unions. Some banisene eeiteree, theft ag amatewish, e ISSUE 43 1363 Our other cove had a beach of sand as fine as talcum powder and the color of gold. This we called Golden Cove, and it was here we put up a beach cabana with a thatched roof, as head- quarters for our swimming ac- tivities, Between our sandy beach and rocky peninsula we found to our great joy a coral garden as beautiful as any we had seen in our travels to tropi- cal shores. Here was staghorn coral, moosehrorn coral, star cor- al and brain coral. In motion round about were lovely speci- mens of sea fans in pastel greens and lavenders; also five-foot- high sea whips swaying and trembling with the motion of the seas. With snorkels and glass-bot- tomed boxes we were soon spending not two hours ae day but half the daylight hours swim- ming around our sea garden and gazing on the mosaic of coral. spread below. At first there were a dozen or so email fish to be seen poking in and under the coral formations, But as our eyes became accustomed to the depths and the fish became ac- customed to us, we gradually came' to know a hundred varie- ties„ . Word soon got around the fish world that some hazard-free feasting was possible in our coral garden, and before a week had gone by I had a aro all army of fish of all sizes awaiting me each time I appeared with my shiny fork, I had become a sort of Pied Piper of the sea and dis- covered that, I could wave my fork like a magic wand through a series of figure eights and pro- duce a kind of underwater ballet in which fish of every color in the rainbow followed the pat- tern. . — The smaller varieties who join- ed the underwater aquacade in- cluded butterfly fish, angel fish, file fish, sergeant majors (so- black hash marks) and tiny beauties whiels were riot listed in our fishhooks. Several of these had bodies of blue and lavetider with a pattern of sparkly dots like light blue sequins upon their baeke. Unidentified feeders two and three feet long eventually joined these little Ones at eating tithe. Strangely enough there Wes ad animosity between big and little. The scene was appet- ently 'such, an underwater peen total that bottom feeders like the big parrot fish, who did not eat urchins, like the company Well enough to nibble seaweed at My feet While I fed the others. -ea From "Orchids on the Calabash Tret;" by George T. t gglestoit PILTER Realizing that the taste really was difittenti This young lady opened her cigarette to discover a five-dol ar hill rolled tightly inside With just d hint of tobacco at each Of the cigarette's endt.