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The Brussels Post, 1949-1-5, Page 4Fifty Grand A Year ny• FREDERICK MEDLIN They still wonder why Johnson went mad so suddenly after he got tint of stir, That is, all but Leo, the fence, Johnson remembered it all as he strode f everishly, through the hot, breathless night. The .black curtain of darkness that pressed upon every side could not hide those things that had gone before. Even. their memory Increased his furious pace, and it was an effort not to cast a furtive glance over his shoulder as he drew near the spot on which the great oak should stand, tie remembered the night of ten years ago that he had stolen the Alsmeyer jewels, It had been a desperate thing to do, and he had half expected to be caught, His mind's -eye saw himself crawling up those precarious tracers of i'vy on the high hack wall of the Alstneyer mansion. He recalled how cautious- ly he had opened the window with a glass -cutter and a file, how care- fully he hal placed the clun'ge of .explosive against the cleverly -con- -reeled wall safe, how feverishli iie had hurried through the acrid sinoke to. the battered. door after the muffled explosion had shaken the room. Then down that seep of ivy again to the ground and over the wall and along the hard road as the uproar behind him steadily grew • the. car with the fingering sjarch- light darting down the road', his dogged flight across the field -to the momentary haven .of the huge oak ... His fingers trembled CO0VU1SiVe- ly again as they had when IT had tumbled the jewels quickly into the leather bag and buried it safely, far hack under the uncurled root. He heard again the deep -throated bay- ing of the, hounds, growing always • De had half expected to be caught. closer, as he had heard it that night, hour after hour, twisting and dodg- ing and hoping, knowing in his own heart that he would be caught, and fearing it with hysterical terror. And that capture! The quick shots , . . the rapid whine of the bullets . , the huge dogs dragging hint down . tut they had never found the jewels. He had hidden thein well, and for that he had been grateful for ten years. He came quite suddenly upon the clump of trees. -They seemed in the thick darkness to be the same stand of ten years ago.He moved about quickly with the ashlight until he found- the peculiar root thatcurved outward and looped upward slightly, . just as it had so long ago, He dug back through the loose earth under it; his fingers tingled 'as they touch: ed rotten leather, and there were the jewels Spread out. They: were dull—hitt theywere the A lsmeyer jewels. An hour later they were shimmer- ing on velvet in Leo's back room that he used for business of secrecy; and Johnson was trembling with ' excitement Johnson paced the floor. "Five . hundred grandl" he•gloated. "That's fifty grand a year in the big house, and stilt they say crime don't pay. Why, Leo, I know lots of big guys that don't make fifty grand a year. • I'm up in the big money toe and it feel's wonderful.' "Von know what these are wor,h?" "Yeah, Sure I do. So do you." Perhaps he only wanted to bargain. Some of the dread died in John- son's heart. "Ain't you the hest fence? That's. why I came to you,' You know that I'ta honest?" Leo's query was very grave and very earnest. "Sure. You always have becu, "The Msmeyer jewel," said Leo slowly, almost sadly, "are .just imita- tions, They might be Worth five hundred `dollars," '1.'1y 'still wonder why Johnson went Mad sp shortly after 116 got out of stir, that is, all but Lco, of course, Leo would -know, Inc lie is a very shrewd judge of human Psychology—and lowelS, it is said, by those who kno-;, that male almost Half a mfillion dollars 011 the Alstneyer jewels. .. • ONLY A YEAR AGO Someone once coined the phrase "a old And forgotten as yesterday's IlOWS". How true this is you may discover when you attempt to fill in the blanks ill the following quiz, Each of the ten sentences below deals with an item that made head- line news during 1947. Can you fill in the missing -names? 1, In jauuary 1947 the British Roy- al Family left for an extended trip to (name of Country), Z On April 21, 1947, (name of man) bettered the re- cord of service as a prime minis- ter of an Empire Commonwealth previously held by Sir Robert Walpole, 3. It was in April of that year that a chemical blast started a series of fires and explosions that razed (name of place) in one of the worst disasters on this continent in recent years. 4. The spring of 1947 also witness - ad another great loss in the pass- ing of (name of man), former head of one of America's great industrial enter- prises. He died peacefully in Michigan. 5. A world champion, . (name) was given a car by home -town enthusiasts; had to give it back to retain amateur status. 6. The Arctic supply ship (name of ship) went down in July 1947 after running aground near Cape Dorset, 7, Britain ended her 150 -year rule 111 (name of Country) in August 1947, when that coun- try was partitioned. 8. On October 5, 1947, Russia an- nounced the formations of the nine nations (name of orgatization) osten- sibly to block the Marshall Plan. 9, In December 1947, under pres- surefrom the Communist Party, (name of King) abdicated his throne. 10. And 'twas just about Christmas time a year ago that (name of city) had its record snowfall of 25.8 inches, crippling the city for days and costing in the millions. Score ten points for each answer. Answers will be found printed up- side-down to prevent "peeking" un- derneath, QUIZ ANSWERS )I•10.A. eeaN 01 .enrettiou to impost stutx 11.10301003 .8 •stpus -s .atdoassx tusas taw, sascpsa •pacta Ames./ 1, AD sexej, •E •Butx atzuanaultr no)' -1 tuctiom .v313JV '1 •sman .543 ut 'tauten .103 Saoutaut.poo2 ATrepiell -.tad u meg no& '„utaosunnoD„' pus „aleloarsx,, soF nor( 31 ell -to atieut 004 PiP„At0H 'MT 30 gnilinatt am 01 sp.rom Aast sq; ate alai.' Costly Fishing • — A magistrate in New Westmin- ster, 13.C., fined a fisherman $29 for fishing in his sleep. Ed, Simmons of Stevenson told Magistrate H. 3, 'Johnston he set his net at 8 am, and set an alarm to awaken him at 6 a.m. The alarm failed to awaken him and a fisheries patrol found lylt. Simmonds, still asleep and with his net still itt position, at 7,50 a.m.—an hour after' the fishing season *sett. The magistrate disregarded • Mr. Simitionds' plea that "there was no consclotts violation," Off On her Way To Claim Eighteen Million —Ursula Bauer, seen at the extreme left • of the picture, enters a snow white bridal coach in Berlin with her American bridegroom. She had never been able to leave Germany to claim the S8,000,000 fortune left by Henrietta E. Garrett of Philadelphia, but the marriage made it possible for her to cross the Atlantic at last, SIX CROPS A YEAR Boil each acre of soil on your farm with steam for 85 minutes, then get ready to plant—and har- vest—from -six to eight crops a year. The method might be worth the trouble even for a "victory garden." It has proved practical and payable on an 11 -acre farm neat' Edinburgh, Scotland. Steam -heated pipes pass about two feet below the surface to give the soil a warming glow, but far- mer David Lowe and his three brothers have to work hard to keep the crops on their way. They are probably the most successful truck - gardening experts in' the British Isles. They boil their soil in December, killing all vestige of weeds. David Lowe calls it "soil sterilization." Each year, every acre is given no less than 100 tons of fertilizer and decomposed matter. The 1943 crops that resulted from the intensive treatment were greater than those for 1942, but the latter seem im- pressive enough. Here they are: A total of 343,695 beads of lettuce, 945,000 turnips, 1,102,800 carrots, 46,000 heads of cauliflower, 1,500,- 000 leeks for transplanting, 21,950 bunches or radishes (25 to the bunch), 271,320 heads of celery, 560 pounds of onions, 7,517 marrows, 1170 pounds of cucumbers, 518 pounds of .French beans, 480 bunch- es, of mint, 2280 pounds of tomat- oes, six tons of rhubarb and 284 twentrpourid bags of brussels sprouts. This year the production of 'celery and radishes has been doubled, The plot is broken by by wooden frames. As the days grow colder, these are covered with glass and the heat from below is intensified. Lettuce, turnips, carrots and. cauliflower grew together. The car- , rot seed is first broadcast, then the ground rolled and the lettuce plants placed. Six weeks later, turnips are planted in every remaining avail- able space. As soon as the lettuce heads are cut, the carrots jump sun- wards. Simultaneously, cauliflower is planted, and at about the same time the turnips mature; followed, shortly afterward by the carrots, Surveyors have been working to map out 40 acres which tyill be added to the original eleven, MOPSY by6LADYS PARKER WHAM THE MATTER, THEODORE,DON'T YOU THINK In POLITE TO POINT ? • The hot waters of Iceland are the only ones found in any abund- ance in far northern regions; a large proportion of thein are hot springs rather than warm; they are located in the most populous and best agricultural areas, and what is of prime importance front the stand- point of utilization, they carry a smaller percentage of dissolved mineral matter and gases than is ordinarily found in springs of this type. This is most important be- cause it minimizes the amount of mineral scale which would be de- posited in the plimbing systems, and decreases the obnoxious odors so often attendant in snit types of underground waters. Twice as large as Nova Scotia, Iceland is a vast volcanic pile of over 40,000 square miles. It is a. young land, having been built up for the most part during the last ice age by outpourings of tremend- ous lava flows, TWenty of its 200 volcanoes have been in eruption in modern times. The greatest of these occurred in 1783 when lava streams from,Laki covered an area of 218 square miles and spread a volume of three cubic miles over the, land. The youthfulness of its volcanic activities indicates that there exist widespread and numerous pockets of molten tnatter which have not yet reached the surface. This insures a permanency of subterranean fur- naces, Freshly stoked with white- hot Molten rock, these fiery pock- ets will heat the underground waters for a long time to ome, As geological susseeys are made, hot waters of a higorr -emperature then those now emerging at the sur- face will soon become available to transform this paradoxical land of ice and fire into an Arctic oasis where subtropical fruits and veget- ables will be raised the year round, interrupted by the vagaries of seasons, Before long the day may come when Iceland will' become the hot- house of the world, and the only country where fuel will be as free and plentiful as the itself. • Business Getter An old Italian who was blessed with that certain spark that distin- guishes a great merchant decided to open a' shoeshine parlor near the gates of Camp Upton. His friends did all they could to dissuade hint, pointing out that there were already six shoeshine emporitims on that self -same street. "1 fix,".said the little Italian—and did, Within two weeks five times as many soldiers were patronizing his little stand on their way to New York for a beg weekend as all his competitors could muster together. Directly over his stand was a sign with big letters that read: ''One shoe shined feee." In 1907 the United States Mint coined eagles and double eagles fat- ter in the middle than at the rim, with the result that they would not stack and had to be withdrawn. Profit Drop It is always possible to find in- dividual companies which appear to be making an abnormal profit. (It's equally easy to.point to those which, are losing money.) On closer ex- amination the excessive profit often springs from a temporary and non- recurring condition, or represents the peak years bf a feast and fam- ine industry. At other times*. it is merely a statistical phenomenon. For in- stance, a man may start a small business with a capital of $5,000 and within.a few years (or decades), by dint of hard work; may be earn - that much in a prosperous year. To say his profit of 100 per cent on the original investment is excessive. is meaningless. Yet that is often the basis of the distorted slogans which are flaunted by those who embark on witch hunts for profiteers. In their haste they ignore those enter- prises which have fallen by the way- side. The Canadian sdanufacturers' As- sociation recently examined the re- , cord of profits in Canada and found in the figures published by the De- partment of National Revenue that 6,278 corporations reported losses in 1945 against 20,951 which made a profit. Also, total profits' after taxes in 1939 reins...witted 11.4 per cent of the national income, while in 1947 they were only 94 per cent. Shnilarly, dividends in 1939 amounted to 6.7 per cent of the national income. Last year they were a mere 18 per cent, In other words, stockholders' share of the national income had shrunk hy almost half since 1939. Converted Cactus Cactus doesn't grow by the side of the road to be a friend of man. An yet—! Cactus blossom honey, cactus candy, .jam, jelly, and conserves are sugar saving dainties of growing appeal. Commercially they're mark- eted by mail and sold difect to tourists. So are many plant species on a scale running well into thous- ands of dollars annually. Cactus canes and oddity souvenirs are an old story, but not to be scorned. Nor are the fresh aad dried cactus fruit displayed at Spanish-American markets, Cactus pulp•affords cough syrups, a heart medicine, and strong alka- loids which may have a big future in medicine. Near home cactus has long serv- ed as very protective hedge fencing, fuel, and building material. Dust bowl years proved its value as nu- tritious fodder; then cactus on pas- ture lands enabled grass to make a welcome come -back. Rope and binder twice come from hennequep, a cactus. Prickly pear is host to cochineal insects, which yield a standard red dye. Silky cac- tus cloth, too expensive now, is a possibility .for the future, Perfume, soaps, cleaners, water softener, and boiler compound are chief among the modern , cactus products from which we benefit "all unbeknownst." It stars at soften' ing water and cleaning the innards of radiators, heating systems, etc, TIIISARM FRONT jokt*umsveti rpm - This is the time of year when most of us make good resolutions for the coining year, even though we know quite well that they're liable to last about as long as a snowball in—well, you know where. Personally I never hear of "good resolutions" without thinking of old Sandy MeTo-h, back in Bruce County many years ago. • * * Sandy's chief weakness was "the drink" until one day, when he was in a repentant mood, "The Meen- ister" got hold of him and gave hint a real talking-to. And Sandy, whose head was aching terribly-, finally broke down, said he'd been an- aw- ful fool, and solemnly resolved never to take another drink. * * * Full of pride, the next day, he walked down the main street of the village, passing by the door of his favorite tavern without so much as a sideways glance. Fifteen or twenty steps farther on he suddenly stopped'short and said, "Weel done, good.resolutions, ye deserve a drink for that" Whereupon he turned back and went into the tavern. * * However, Sandy and his resolu- tions havaet much to do with farm- ing, which is what this column is supposed to be about. So let's see if 'I can't scare up a few items which might possibly be of some interest and service. So here goes. * * It's said that comparatively few hatcherymen or producers of broil- ing fowl realize the extreme impor- tance of large size hatching eggs in obtaining big and profitable broilers at 10 or 12 weeks. Under exactly the same conditions chicks from eggs weighing 26 ounces or more per dozen will actually weigh a quarter pound more apiece when sold as fryers than chicks hatched from eggs weighing ?I ounces per dozen. * is 0 This extra quarter -pound could many times mean the difference be- tween a fair return for one's labor and no labor income at all. Size of eggs—also size of day-old chicks —should be taken into considera- tion by broilergrowers as a really important factor in profits. * 0 0 According to an American writer that old joke about putting green spectacles on mules and then feed- . ing them on sawdust may not be so far off the beam after all. Success- ful feeding of poultry on chemically treated sawdust has been reported from the States of Washington. * * The new feed ingredient is a form of molasses produced by an acid treatment of sawdust. It is said to contain around fifty per cent of sugar, and has been added to chicken and turkey diets as a substi- tute for wheat and corn. From here it sounds sort of like a foul deal for the fowl—but maybe the diet isbetter than the pun, at that. * * * Right around now might 'be a good tine to start repairing any farm machinery that may be in need of a little fixing. Foreign aid as well as military defense programs are putting the squeeze on steel —and there's a chance that it may beiquitenext yearao bit lraiardoer to get within tie * No doubt you already know it— but thick frost o the walls or ceil- ings of your live,tork buildings is a sign that they're not properly ventilated. Slot' type ventilators work best on low -roofed buildings. F1) itiYg tirlcitniitilartnoortslgahre hOeig.Kht. forokeep air moving up the flue. * 0 If this is true -..-and its told as a fact — it looks as though farsners ought to strike out for even higher prices. For it's said that one hun- dred years ago one farm worker produced e.sough agricultural pro- ducts to support himself and only three other persons, whereas today the average farm laborer produces enough to feed hinvelf and thirteen and a half others. * Just how you support a half -per- son I, really wouldn't know—but possibly that represents the amount of food that would be raised by a lot of persons who write telling farmers how to run their business, present company NOT excepted. * * * According to tests made by a big packing house, carcass lo'Sses from improper treatment of hogs aver- age around 48 cents a head from bruising alone; The tests were made in over a thousand good and choice hogs selected at random and thirty- nine per cent of them were found to be bruised. • ,t, * What is even more important nearly half of this bruising occurred on the farm before the animals were loaded for shipment. Forty - eight cents may not sound like a whale of„a lot of money—but multiply it by fifty or a hundred. and it mountg up. * * Which should be about enoqgh of this for one week, don't you think? And you don't really need to shout that chorus of "Yes's" quite so loudly. QUICKLY BREAKS COUGHING SPELL Fast Action of Lymoids Leaves Man Grateful "Ihave used LYMOIDS for cough relief for many years,"writesa Brantfordreeident, "and their guiok notion, almost always relieves ration." CarryLTMOIDS always with you, With its conoentrated medicinal oils, LTMOIDS usually bringinetent relief in throattickle, coughing and hoarseness. Most stores eoll LYMOIDS, but if unobtainable, send 10o in stamps or coin, to LYMOIDS,I19 Pearl St.,Toronto. cs-1 TRY irt&o, FOft MISTANVIARCKT RELIEF Battling A japanese Black Market—In Tokyo' black marketeers have been getting. from 5;000 to 8,000 yen for second-hand panfs. To combat this condition, the Tokyo City Government con- ducted a 10 -day public sale, with all items sold at officially -set ' prices. laps waited all day to purchase clothing at about half black market prices. Sign at right advertises men's trousers at about 2,000 yen. 40 TELEPHONE By Harry Haenigseo