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The Brussels Post, 1949-9-7, Page 6Islands Play Hide -and -Seek Pacific islands are always playing hide-and-seek. They seem to ries and fall front -the surface of the ocean without apparent cause. Some are born and unborn in vol- canic eruptions. Slowly submerg- ing, for example, is Ponynipete, in the Carolines, where you can still reach the ruins of a deserted town by boat and see the waves washing over the ground floors of ruined and deserted homes. In 1687, Davis, a pirate, reported that he had seen a "high, fair land" in latitude 27 about 500 miles off the coast of South America, Taking his word for its existence, the map - makers marked it on the charts as Davis Land, but other mariners failed to find it, The Dutch admiral, koggeween, in 1722 decided to settle the prob- lem of its existence once and for all. He sailed along the 27th parallel, and on Easter Sunday, 1722, sighted what is now known as Easter Is- land. Never Seen Since Thus it turned out that there was land on latitude 27 deg., ,but it was 60 far from the position given by the pirate that the admiral decided it could not be Davis Land, and to this day Davis Land has never been sighted again. Strange tales began to come from this part of the world. In 1802 a British captain reported that the islands of Sala -y -Gomez, 250 miles east of Easter Island, had been wrongly charteted. Unabletoofi nd them at theiriven location, he had $ C discovered them 300 miles farther west. Other ,..mariners discovered Sala -y -Gomez in its old position, and no land at all in the new local- ity. In 1912 a British freighter sighted land not far from the South Ameri- cancoast where no land had been seen before. Well aware of the con- fusion this part of the ocean had caused, the captain had his figures• ehecked carefully by the first offi- cer. A warship was sent out to look over the new island, and not only Sound no land in the position re- ported, but discovered there were 33o soundings less than 10,000 feet for miles around! Then just a few years ago a modern liner reported that she had passed directly over the position of Easter Island without finding any trace of it. The officers, all fully qualified men, had "shot the sun' daily, and each one made his cal- culations independently, comparing ahem later with the rest, so that there seemed to be no chance of error. A short time later a gunboat from Valparaiso found Easter Is- land in its accustomed position, and the natives reported that there had been no disturbance of any kind. The position of Bouvet Island, in the South Atlantic, has been doubt- ful ever since M. Bouvet, a French naval officer, sighted it in 1739 and gave it its name. Since then many shipmasters, including Captain Cook, have searched for Bouvet. Many of them missed it altogether and few sighted it, but no two navi- gators agree on its latitude and longtitude, Bouvet became known to seafarers as a mystery island, vanishing and reappearing and jumping about on the chart like a troublesome flea. Two Names—One Place That is why it received several names. A captain from Liverpool named it Liverpool Island, and the name appeared on the chart for a long time until someone found the mistake. Another captain discovered an island which he called -Thomp- son Island, and marked it on the chart forty-five miles north of Bouvet. Thompson Island and Bou- vet Island were later found to one and the same! One of the most amazing cases of hide-and-seek islands was one sixty miles long and thirty wide that could once be seen off the coast of the British Isles. It was the Island of Brasil (not Brazil in South America), and it is marked on maps published as late as 1860 in a position a few miles from the coast of Connaught, Ireland. An "Island Of Brasil" No doubt at all was entertained as to its existence until the middle of the last century. It was inhabited. There were cattle, horses, and sheep living on it as well as humans, One Spanish Ambassador to Great Bri- tain got into a panic because he thought we intended to colonise it. He sent dispatches to Spain, giving details of every ship that left Bristol for the Island of Brasil! There is a long shoal tinder the surface of the sea where Brasil is stated to have stood. It is known as the Porcupine Batik. Some mariners say the bank is getting higher and higher, and that one day Brasil, too, will rise again. Speedy Fame The landlord , was making one more attempt to collect rent frppi his tenant, a poet. After the tirade the poet spoke "Why, sir, you ought to pay me for living here. In a few years' time people will ise looking up at this miserable attic and saying: 'That's where Miller the poet used to live.'" "Well, they needn't wait all that tune," answered the landlord, "If yon don't pay me by 11 o'clock they ram say it to -morrow." Downtown Ducks—Soule establishments have skeletons 111 the closet, some have bats. in the belfry, but this retail store keeps ducks on the roof. The ducks lead a happy life on the roof- top of the downtown building. Their purpose is toa,keep fungi out of water used in the store's air-conditioning system. WRATGO S ON 1N THE WORLD GREAT BRITAIN "Two world wars — neither of which reached your American shores and both of which benefited your economy—have drained the life- blood out of Britain. Now, with American aid and our own pro- digious effort we are busily pump- ing the lifeblood back again." This is just one paragraph, and by no means the most bitter one, from a recent article in the London Sunday Pictorial—which sells five million copies each week through- out the United Kingdom. Under the heading "We British are tired of Yankee Insults" the maim circu- lation tabloid lashed back at United States criticism of the British post- war effort. As an example of this criticism the Pictorial published a reproduc- tion of an American cartoon which showed- a tattered John Bull beg- ging a copper from a well-dressed Uncle Sam at the door of a "So- eoalism Saloon". Complaining that this cartoon was typical of hundreds of others ap- pearing in the U.S. press, the Pic- torial invited American visitors to Britain to post a copy of the issue to friends at home, "since they might like to hear the other side of the ease." "We in Britain are d— tired of being written off as good-for- nothing beggars," the Open Letter went on to say. "Does Uncle Sam imagine his dollars have bought soul and sovereignty of the Marshall -aid countries—and of Britain in par- ticular." Bitter words! But possibly justi- fied by the provocation, which has been great, especially in some sec- tions of the United States press. Still, the British needn't go outside their own shores to hear real criti- cism, Speaking in Edinbuirgh about the projected 1951 British musical festival, Sir Thomas Beecham pounded a table with his fists and declaimed "We are going to cele- brate fifty years of the most abom- inable misgovernment by having an exhibition and festival at the ex- pense of the United States' money." Maybe it's the weather. When temperatures drop, possibly tempera and language will also drop to less feverish levels! AUSTRALIA They had ten -foot snowdrifts in Australia during July, and in August a new cold front swept in, threaten- ing even worse blizzards. And for a Cooney Up — Johnny Cooney, former major league pitcher and outfielder, will pilot the Boston Braves for the rest of the season.. The Braves' man- ager, Billy Southworth, has taken a leave of absence be- caus4 of i11 healon. Cooney' had been one of Soutllworth's coaching staff. NormanBlaiv almost two months Australia had been in the grip of a coal -mine strike which cut off fuel for heat- ing and cooking, tied up transporta- tion and left homes, streets, shops and offices in darkness. The Australian walkout was an open challenge to a Labor Govern- ment by a Communist -led union. The 24,000 members of the Coal Miner's Federation had never reject- ed a recommendation by they lead- ers; and when their Communist leader, Idris Williams, called upon them to by-pass the 50 -year-old government Arbitration Court and strike, they struck without asking questions, The Labor Government met the challenge by impounding union strike funds. Williams and other leaders who disobeyed the order were jailed. The miners then refused to nego- tiate, and other . Communist -led unions, such as the dock workers, supported them with token syn-. pathy strikes. But still the government, remained firm. "We will use the army against them, the navy against them, and the air forceagainst them," -stated Information Minister Arthur, Calwell. Not long after that statement was made, victory was with the govern- ment. The miners voted by more than 2 to 1 to accept arbitration and shouted down union- officials who urged them to continue strik- ing. Badly beaten, the union cen- tral executive issued a back -to -work order for the middle of August. GERMANY ;On August 14, for the first time since 1933,.Germans in the Western Reich enjoyed free and secret elec- tions; and in spite of a rather dull Campaign nearly 80% of the eligible voters turned out. When the votes were counted, Germans had chosen free enterprise and a conservative government by big margin; and tits conservative victory probably means that the country's economic policies will be more in tune with American occu- pation tendencies than with the British. But expert observers say that the outstanding feature of German feeling today is a bitter, personal hatred not only of the Reds, but against all Russians, Poverty- stricken refugees from Russian - occupied areas in particular cherish the idea of sometime, somehow -or - other, regaining the lands taken from them by the Soviets. As one German put it, "They would fight the Russians with knives and forks if they got the chance." As a result of this feeling Com- muttisnt in Germany is said to be as dead as Nazism, Even in once - Red Hamburg the local Commies are regarded as agents of a foreign power. Nor in the opinion of most think- ing Germans is there any real chance that a deal of any kind could be made with the Russians— a possi- bility that has caused many misgiv- ings in London and Washington. "The only people who may ever be in a position to make a deal with the Russians are those who now moat bitterly oppose them—whether Socialists or Ruhr industrialists", a German spokesman commented. "They know perfectly well what would happen if they made any deal that would turn Germany over to Communism. We know that the Western Powers may beat us. But we know that the Soylets will cer- tainly shoot us; andfranklywe pre, far to be beaten than shot.' Which sounds like • pretty h:i7 reasoning, at that. SFORT StxatTC They used to tell the tale of a character out West, in the bad old days, who was found by some of his friends sitting cut the edge of the sidewalk with his head buried between his hands and looking ex- tremely disconsolate, • Somebody asked him just what seemed to be the matter, * * * "It don't seem a bit fair, in fact it's enough to make a guy sick of life," was the mournful reply. "Here's me, that's played poker, shot dice and pegged keno all my lif e, yet Nobody never called tie a gambler. I've drank pretty near every kind of liquor there is most all my life, yet nobody never called ale a drunkard, I've got into plenty of fights and ructions, one way •or another, yet nobody never called me a brawler or a rough neck. * * 5 • "But now," he continued, "but now—just because I stole one e meaaley little horse —everybody in the world calls me a horse thief, and it ain't fairl" * 5 * And there are, ball players who, when their playing days were done, must have felt in a similar mood to this Western gentleman. For they knew that they were destined to be remembered, not by all the fine hitting they had done, not by the wonderful catches they had made — but solely on account of some men- tal or physical lapse which won for them the name of "bonehead", 5 * 1s And some of then deserved noth- ing of the. sort, as Arthur 72aley recently recalled. One of the best known of all such plays was the one that has gone down in history as "Zini'a boner", It occurred in the 1917 World Series between the Philadelphia Athletics and the New York Giants; and it saw Heinie Zimmerman—no ball of fire afoot— vainly chase the speedy Eddie Col- lins all the way from third base to home plate, failing to tag 'hint by several feeet as the A's captain scored a highly important run standing up. * * * It so happened that Zimmerman was doing the only thing he could under the circumstances as the Giants' catcher, Bill Rariden, had left home plate unattended. "Who was I gonna throw the ball to—the unlps?" inquired Zimmerman after- wards — a fair enough question as umpire Bill Klein was the only per- son in the lin-mediate vicinity, Yet, as we -said before, it has gone down in baseball history as Zimmerman's boner. * 5 * Then there was Fred Merkle, still known as "Bonehead Merkle" in certain circles — although he only did what 999 out'of 1000 ball players of that era would have done under similar circumstances. But the Merkle incident is still too well re- membered to require a re-creation here. Personally we think the Giants' 1st -base coach was the guilty person, as Johnny Evers of the Cubs had pulled a similar play, nulli- fying a run in exactly the same manner, in Pittsburgh just a week before, 5 * 5 But there have been "boners" which honestly earned the name— and no mistake. Del Bissonette, who has just led the Toronto Maple Leafs through a highly successful season — at least artistically and financially — was closely concerned in one of the best lcnown— although don't get the idea that he was the sinner. * * * The very remarkable -Babe. Her- man of the old Brooklyn Dodgers was the "hero". The Babe was standing on first base when his I LC team elate, Bissonette, blasted out a terrific drive to deep centre. Her- manlawdled about halfway to sec- ond ' base, then &topped to admire the speed and trajectory of Del's hit. Bisonette, head down and anxious to get all the distance pos- sible out of his hit, passed the Babe without even noticing him; and Mr. Herman thus became an automatic out, while poor Del's inside -the -park homer was reduced to a measly single. * * * Turning a two -base hit into a double play was another of Her man's triumphs; and if there hadn't been one out at the time, he would have gone one better than that and turned it into a triple lcilling. * * * Chick Fewster was on first and Dazzy Vance on second when Her- man took his "Sunday swing" and connected solidly. Fearing that the ball would be caught, Vance held up at second for a space before getting into motion. But Fewster was off with the crack of the bat, and so was Hernias, both tearing along with such disregard for surround- ingsthat, when the dust settled all three — all an Fewster and Vance—were all trying to occupy third base at one and the salve time, * * * That was the occasion when "Uncle Robbie" Robinson, the sorely tried pilot of the Dodgers, sourly remarked, "It's the first time those three guys have been together all season. "The Chicken Of Tomorrow"—Today Some three years ago the national poultry research director of a great chain of food stores spggested to the poultry industry that a real effort be made to improve chickens grown for meat, in the same way that tur- key growers had improved their product through the development • of the broad -breasted varieties. With the suggestion went the offer of a $10,000 prize fund. The result was the formation of a national "chicken -to -tomorrow" committee. A breeding and feeding program was set up, with committees in 44 states. So successful was it that a new program of competition was launched this spring. As a result, at least 20,000,900 bigger and better birds will reach the markets this year. And this number is expected to be greatly increased next year. Under the stimulus of this pro- gram breeders in many states from coast to coast have been able to pro- • duce in quantity, and to reproduce, chickens that weigh from. 4 to 5 pounds at 12 weeks of age, as com- pared with the former average of two to three pounds at this age. Less feed, smaller cost and better quality—such is the picture. Be- fore the inauguration of the "chicken -of -tomorrow" program, emphasis was on the production of eggs. Now the broiler industry has become a billion -dollar business. The remarkable results have been attained both by selective breeding within standard breeds of poultry and by cross -breeding. They bear witness again to the fact that oppor- tunities for pioneerin are not dead. 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