The Brussels Post, 1948-8-25, Page 3Great Britain
Just a few months ago there was a
feeling in the United States ---also in
certain sectors of Canada—that the
"Old Country" was "down and our"
and practically bankrupt, The "view-
ers with alarm" who took such a
stand have had good reason lardy to
revise that estimate.
o First there was the success of the
Olympic games—at which the British
pcupie proved that they could come
back from the battering of the war-
time: years and pat this great spurts
event over 111 a rammer which made
any past efforts --even those of the
United States at Los Angeles—look
somewhat feeble.
Then, newly released figures are
showing that tate United I' iegcbnn is
in the midst of a business boom of
astounding proportions.
In July its record in export of
goods—taking 100 per cent as stand-
ard for the year before the war -.was
138 per cent. The value of those
goods was the equivalent of $536,-
000,000—the highest figure in 28
years and only 12 million dollars
short of the all-tinte record made in
July 1920, right after the First World
War and when all the nations were
calling loudly for British goods.
Afore than that, if prices in the
"dollar countries" ---the United States
and Canada --had not risen so ex-
travagantly, Great Britain would by
now be in sight of balancing her
overseas trade account, and thus
shoving the prophets of calamity how
absurdly wrong they were. For the
volume of British exports for the
past six months is 30 per cent above
pre-war—the volume of imports 20
per cent below it. Indeed, if times
were normal, the United Kingdom
would today be regarded as high up
on a wave of prosperous production.
Rule Britannia! There's life in the
old gal yet!
Germany
Almost three years after the Lon-
don agreement establishing the basis
for such action, the Nuremberg war
crime trials are nearing theft- end,
although such top+ranking Nazi
Field Marshals as von Rundstedt,
Walther von Brauschitsch and von
Mannstein have still to face their ac-
cusers. And as the results of the
trials are made known, and the sen-
tences imposed on the criminals an-
nounced, the attitude among Germans
generally semis to be something like
"So what?"
During the past eighteen months or
so German feeling toward the trials
has undergone a striking change.
Right after their colossal defeat, and
full realization of what went on in
the horrible concentration camps
came upon them, that fes ling was one
of revulsion against the entire Hitler
system. Now it has cooled out to
indifference,' even apathy.
The strength of the German people,
both physical and moral, has been
sapped by after -war conditions. Their
greatest concern became one of satis-
fying their daily needs—of finding
enough to cat, some roof to shelter
under, a 301) that would enable then
to keep on living.
In the heginning there were some
who adopted the attitude that top-
ranking Nazis — such as Goring —
should have been shot without trial.
But there were very few Germans
who dal -or do—accept the fact that
the general run of industrial and
military leaders should he tried or
punished. At the trials "tlte defense
of necessity" is frequently pleaded—
and it found an echo among the
German population, Only too well
they remembered and understood
what open opposition to orders from
higher tip would have meant daring
wartime, 5
Then, again, the Germans say,
although not always openly. "Why
talk about human rights when we
know what goes 0d right now in the
Russian 00110? Why speak of horror's
of German concentration camps when
thousands of our own menfolk are
now inmates of those same concen-
tration camps, receiving the same sort
or treatment the Nazis gave—and
this in what is supposed to be peace-
time?"
Such views --which have become
all too general during the past few
months—have deprived the Nurem-
berg trials of much of their moral
value as far as the Gentians are con-
cerned, Those trials may have been
a landmark in the development of in-
ternational law. They may, at some
day in the Inc future, prove to be of
great benefit to mankind, 13trt deep
down inside hint the average German
has the idea that possibly the only
real. crime their leaders were guilty
of teas -losing the war.
So it is donhtful lE there are very
many who will really take to heart the
warning given ; by Charles La-I:+ol-
leite, chief prosecutor in the recent
trial of 15 top-ranking members of
lite Nazi 'juiliciaey--a trial which
brought about an especially violent
�yNortuanBLato
anti-American campaign of slander
and insinuations. Mr. LaFollette
warned his hearers, "not to be nmiseld
by those strident voices in America
or In Germany who, loving fascism,
despite the misery It has wrought,
covertly seek its restoration. The
world will not accept, trade with or
deal with an uncontrite German peo-
ple who brazenly hold themselves out
as a nation in which the majority of
the people still revere the old heroes.
—Those of us who are true friends
of the Gentian people and Who want
to stand beside the best liberal forces
in Germany in their fight against this
danger must speak and act now or
forever hold our peace."
Shakespeare once wrote "tile evil
that Wren do lives after them." From
what goes on in Germany now, it
might almost seen that he had Adolf
Hitler in mind,
Spain
Spain is to a large extent politically
isolated from the rest of the world,
and does not bulk to any great extent
in world news. But that docs not
mean that nothing is happening there
behind the scenes—or that Gereralis-
simo Francesco Franco can be con-
sidered a "back number," a leader
who no longer natters very tntich.
Not long ago Franco—through the
Spanish Minister to Egypt—signally
honored the President of Lebanon by
awarding hint one of the highest of
all Spanish decorations, the Grand
Cross of Charles the Third. Ten days
later General Franco was awarded
the Lebanese Order of Merit.
Spain is the only European power
that has no obligations toward the
United Nations, and feels not the
slightest duty to give even Hp service
to UN resolutions regarding Pales-
tine and the Middle East. For years
Franco has been pursuing a more -or -
less secret pro -Arab policy; and it
has been a matter of common report
that Spain has sold considerable
amounts of rifles and other war ma-
terial to the Arab armies opposing
Israel. Now this "friendship" may be
coating out more openly.
There could be either or both of
two motives for Franco's actions,
Should a new war break out it Is
almost certain that the Mediterranean
region will play an all-important part
in it; and the more harmonious
Spain's relations are with the Arabs,
the better are Franco's chances for
exercising a decisive influence in that
region.
The second motive is the near ap-
proach of the United Nations fall
meeting in Paris. Spain wants to have
last year's anti -Spanish resolution re-
scinded and the road prepared for
its own admission to the General
Assembly. For that purpose Spain
needs friends — and the Arab vote
could be of good service. So there
may be a lot more back of. Generalis-
simo Franco's recent moves than
appears on the surface.
Fifty Years Of
Profit Sharing
in Batley, Yorkshire, lives The-
odore Taylor, proprietor of a large
and prosperous woollen still. He is
98 years old yet is remarkably fit
and attends to business every day.
More than fifty years ago Tay-
lor instituted a system of profit
sharing with his employees and not
long ago he journeyed to London
to address a large gathering of in-
dustrialists with a view of urging
them to adopt some such system
not only as an antidote to Com-
munism but as good business pol-
icy too,
Since the introduction of the
system Taylor has distributed about
810,000,000 among his worlcers, but
he does not regard it as a loss. He
feels that his employees have put
the money to better use than he
Would himself. It has made each
man and woman a friend, and when
he asked thein to work three more
hours a week for export they as-
sented immediately. Employees in
adjacent mills did not. "My people
work with me," he says, "not for
ale,"
Profit sharing was tried first of
all about 100 years ago by a
Frenchman who employed hundreds
of painters and decorators. The
principle of it is that workers re-
ceive bonuses or shares in the
company over and above their reg-
ular trade union rates of wages.
The idea was quickly adopted In
Britain, and today there are hund-
reds of factories and hundreds of
thousands of workers wino partici-
pat€.
In the early years stockholders
suffer loss in dividends, Later that
is claimed to be overcome by great-
er proelurtion byesatisfied and int-
erested Workers, which means ht -
creased profits,
The fox wraps his tail about hien
like a comforter when he goes to'
sleep,
He Makes Golf His Life's "Work"—One of the most unusual and interesting figures on the
sporting scene is frank Stranahan, mightily -muscled golfer who, although he has no need to
do so, works far harder at golf than many of those who make their living by it. Son of a very
wealthy father—it is rumored that Frank has an "allowance" of more than $1000 per week—his
chief ambition is to emulate the example of the illustrious Bobby Jones and hold, at the same
time, the four major golfing titles — British Amateur and Open and American ditto. This
exclusive picture shows Stranahan in action during the Canadian Open tournament at Ancaster,-
near Ilamilton, which he won. It is said that he plays or practises golf 365 days a year, except
during Leap Year w hen he makes it 366.
With humble apologies to any
Turf addicts among our clients, we
wish to confess to a very grave
error. For years, like many other
sports cobblers; we have been
preaching to the text "you can't
possibly beat the races". Now, at
long last we learn that this is a mis-
take. It IS possible to make a profit
betting on the horses; and to make
up for misleading you iti the past,
we now disclose just how to go
about it.
* * *
Well then, first of all you manage
to pick out—right at the very be-
ginning of its career—some such
skate as the one called STYMIE.
You might find this considerable of
a chore seeing that STYMIE —
when he was retired from racing a
few weeks back—had amassed by
far the largest winnings in the
history of the sport, amounting to
between 900 and 950 thousand dol-
lars. However, even if you have to
do a bit of searching, that's how you
commence — find yourself a STY-
MIE to follow.
* * 5
Once found, you then proceed to
wager a flat stmt to win each time
he goes to the post. With STYMIE
you'd have had to visit the mutual
ticket windows—or phone your
bookie—exactly 126 times over a
matter of five and a half racing
seasons. That would represent quiet
a lot of time, to say nothing of
wear and tear on the nervous sys-
tem, But think nothing of it. What
would you care, so long as you were
bound to quit winner? •
Do we hear you asking "How
great would those, winnings be?"
Hold tight to your seat nowt In
his 126 starts STYMIE headed all
opposition on exactly 35 occasions,
(He finished second 32 times, third
26, and on 33 afternoons ended up
what is crudely known as "ht the
can".) And with a two dollar bet
on STYMIE'S distinguished snoot
every thne he entered the starting
gate, you'd find yourself with pro-
fits totalling—believe it or notl—
slightly' over seven dollars.
* * *
So there now, our secret is out;
and don't go around saying we fail-
ed to tell about our guaranteed,
foolproof system, Five and a half
years; a capital invesment of $252;
and a tidy seven bucks profit. For
piling up wealth that's almost as
good as making a career of selling
smoked glass for watching eclipses
of the sun,
* 'M *
The question is occasionally ask-
ed as to why Canadian sports writ-
ers do not pay more attention to tate
noble game of cricket. The answers
really fall into two categories. First,
itt the districts most of us haunt
there really isn't very match cricket
to which we could pay attention.
But the real reason is that we sim-
ply, haven't got the necessary voca-
bulary. Aver reading some of the
things that have recently conte out
of Australia regarding Don Brad-
man, we realize more than ever
that the sports writing dodge "down
under" must be largely different
from what It is around here.
* * *
Don Bradman, as you probably
know, is widely acclaimed as the
greatest cricketer of all time—al-
though there are some who might
still hold out for the late Dr. W. G.
Grace tvho must have been a mag-
nificent sight as he strode toward
the wicket with, floating in the
breeze, one of those beards that
looked as though it night be con-
cealing a couple of robins' nests.
* * *
At all events Bradman occupies,
in cricket, a position similar to what
Babe Ruth used to have in baseball.
Now, like the afore -mentioned
STYMIE, he's retiring from active
competition. (Whether for the same
reasons we really cannot tell you;
we know that STYMIE has a chip-
ped stifle -bone but haven't heard
about Bradman's). Anyway, after
21 seasons, he's quitting. Anel as we
previotuly hinted some of the things
that are being written about him
should cause sports columnists on
this side of the water to blush for
shame, and resolve to take a corres-
pondence course in language. IIere,
for your enlightenment, are just a
few samples.
* * *
" . none ]las approached the
prolific searing achievements of the
mighty Don."—"Fastidious in all
his actions on and off the field ...
he has been dubbed a `clam' because
of his reticence ... "—"But none
can deny the fulsome expression
he gives to his magnificent ability
Intellectually the Don ranks
with the greatest in cricket ... "
—"The culmination of his genius
was his remarkable captaincy of
world championship teams."
Which should be enough to give
you a general idea—and we take it
that no Australian fan would think
of delving into the sports page with-
out a good dictiotfary beside him.
However, we manage to get just
a notion that Mr. Bradman must
have heel, quite a willow wielder—
one writer says that he had a
"broadcast bat", whatever that may
be—and well worthy of the testi-
monial game which is being cooked
up in his honor.
* * *
And Bradman will probably col-
lect more than just a little honor
and glory from that same game. It's
being planned for Melbourne where
the Crcket Grounds can accomo-
date a mere one hundred thousand
cash customers. It will be a four
day match, which means four dif-
ferent gates, each likely of the cap-
acity" variety, Yes, indeed when
it's all over, and the receipts tallied
up, there should be quite a neat bit
of take-home money for the man
"whose name is writ largest of all
In tine annals of world cricket".
But we do wish that Ted Reeve,
Jim Coleman and the rest of the
boys woud get around to decorating
their prose a bit with such phrases
as "fulsome expression of magnifi-
cent ability" and the like. Hot
dogs 1 !
7i
It All Depends ...
A woman was putting her little
girl to bed early one evening after a
very trying day with the child. The
girl had been in mischief all day and
the mother was a bundle of nerves
as the day ended. Rebuking the
little girl for having been cross and
ill-tempered, the mother received
the following reply:
"All I've got 'to say, Mummy, is
that it's temper when it's me and
nerves when it's you;"
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