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The Brussels Post, 1950-3-29, Page 3w'— Albert Einstein, Man and Theory if you are old enough to remem- ber 1922, you may also remember that - There was a young lady named Bright, Who travelled much faster titan light, She started one day- in a relative way -- Antal arrived on the previous night. In those distant days the news- paPers were full of a mysterious man and his mysterious theory. The man was Albert Einstein; the Theory, that of relativity. All over the world articles were written at- tempting to explain this incredible theory; bttt as only about ten of Me world's .greatest mathematicians could comprehend it, the fact that "popular" explanations failed is not surprising, About all the general public could understand was that Ein- stein's theory of relativity proved That space was curved; and when a famous eapediment was made in 1919 by astronomers in South Africa, Einstein's theory forecasting that light from Mercury would not reach this earth yn a straight line, but in a cnrve, was proved correct. Persecuted because he was a Jew, and hating the growth of Nazi -ism, Einstein publicly renounced his al- legiance to the country of his birth and retired to England, Later he went to America, becoming natur- alized in 1940, and accepted a post on the staff of the University of Princeton. When the war came, and Amer- ica eventually joined in, it became elear in certain c a 'entificircles scientific e that the atonic bomb was a prac- tical possibility. Einstein was consulted, and it was his advice which persuaded the late President Roosevelt to initiate the building of a scientific labor- atory at Las Alamos at a cost of millions and millions of dollars, and which resulted in the construction of the first atomic bomb. And now, at 70 years of age, this famous man has recently pro- duced twenty typed pages of e mathematical formula which may provide a key to the problem of the universe. This work is entitled "The Generalized Theory of Gravitation," and it sets out in four mathematical equations the laws which govern the two fundamental forces of the universe — gravitation and electro- magnetism. According to newspaper reports, some of the greatest scientists in the world believe that it may take two:sty-five years for practical re- sults of Einstein's new theory to appear. And, indeed, Einstein hint - self has sent a message to news- paper reporters who want to know about these possible results, saying: "come bark and see me in twenty years," Only one man in the world can yet clearly understand this new theory—and that man is Einstein himself. Other scientists say: "We have no continent to make because we need to study it thoroughly before we can comprehend it" What Einstein has been trying to do in the last thirty years is to find a formula which will explain the workings of—everything. from atoms to stars, "Within its framework," said one of Or Einstein's associates, "all im- portant perceptions of the world and of abstract intuitions of reality —matter, energy, force, space. time —merge finally into one. What it is said Einstein has done is to bridge the gap between very big and very little, between stellar space and the micro -world inside the atom." Amd that is about all the layman can expect to know about his latest theory, evolved by the greatest brain working in the world today. Net Result ---Take• some wide - meshed woolen lace, drape it hereand there over a lovely model and the net result is this cocktail outfit with a peek-a- boo bodice. Parisian designed A.lbotty created the filmy out- fit, which is worn over a strap- less black bra and a sparkling tnli-iniiie and rhinestone necklace, UNDAY SCHOOL LESSON By Rev. R. Barclay Warren THE CHURCH IN ROME Romans I:I, 7-12; Acts 28:14b-13, 30-31. Golden Text: I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ; for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. —Rom. 1:16. Paul was commissioned of God to carry the light of the Gospel to the Gentiles. His first head- quarters was Antioch, the hub of Syria. Then it was Ephesus, the center of operations in Asia Minor and eastern Europe; and finally, Rome, the metropolis of the world. Rome was capital of the last great world empire. Its mighty armies even conquered Briton. But the power of Ronne did not daunt Paul for the message of the Gospel of Christ was more powerful yet. It would not destroy but save every- one who would trust in Christ. Paul was unashamed of such a Gospel. lie longed for the oppor- tunity of placing its banner at the heart of the empire. Paul did not know that he would go to Rome as a prisoner. When a group of Christians learned of his conning, they went down the road about forty miles to meet hits: "Whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage." The thoughtfulness on the part of the little band in Rome did much to help Paul. If Paweould w t l re- member that little acts of kindness can have great significance, we would do more of them. Paul had written in his letter to the Romans, "We know that all things work together for good to them that love God". 8:28. Now he had a chance to prove it. He was allowed his own hired house where s Hen. Adopts Guinea Pigs—Betty Jane Robb kneels down to feed her motherly pet hen who is a busy biddy these days. The hen has adopted 20 fall -grown guinea pigs and treats them as she would her ow I brood of chicks. he could receive all who came. He preached the Gospel. Later he wrote from prison to the Church at Phil- ippi, "I would ye should under- stand, brethern, that the things which happened ed mrtome have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel; so that my bonds are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places; and many of the brethern in the Lord, waxing con- fident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear." You can't lose, being a Christian. Fiddling with music—During the first rehearsal of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at Tel -Aviv, Israel, Conductor Serge Koussevitzky, left, and screen star Edward G. Robinson talk over Robinson's "unparalleled" technique with the violin. Dr. Koussevitzky, apparently enjoying the horse -play, is on a world tour, A Railway Line Run By Childen One of the world's most popular railroads doesn't connect any cities, has only a single track; and runs little more than two miles. Yet, despite these disadvantages which would bankrupt any other line, hundreds of persons, including visitors from all over the world, flock every day to its main terminal on Szechenyihegy hilltop above Budapest to take a ride. On the Hungarian railroad called Uttoro, Vasut, Pioneers' Railroad, itt Eng- lish, the employees, rather than the right-of-way, accotmt for its popu- larity. Prospective passengers buy their tickets, which cost one forint (alloit 10 cents), from_ a young lady who still counts sums higher than five on her fingers. While waiting for -the next train, they peer through - the windows of the dispatcher's of- fice to watch a freckle -faced lad wearing his first pair of long trousers, part of a spruce blue -gray uniform, tap out messages on a telegrapher's key. On the platform, the stationmaster, a pigtailed blonde, signals the train to start. Budapest's children's railroad, which opened in 1947, is run en- tirely by youngsters between the ages of nine and; 14. Boys and girls alike, they handle every job—sell- ing tickets, working as conductors, telegraphers, and stationmasters; operating signal towers, coupling and uncoupling locomotives and care, and even selling candy and souvenir post cards aboard the train. The only adults besides the pas- sengers, are the mens who drive the two bine-and-white Diesel -powered loeotnotives' and * patient, soft- spoken man named Ferenc Nemeth. who keeps a fatherly eye on the "employees." A veteran of 14 years on time Fiungarian railways, Nemeth says the children are the best workers he's ever seen. The locomotives and cars, rough- ly two-thirds of standard size, are exact replicas of full-sized trains, right down to baggage racks and high-pitched whistles. There's a pic- nic ground at the end of the wood- ed, scenic, two -toile route. Busapest children try out for jobs on the railroad by attending two weeks of classroom training during which they • learn all the fundamentals of railroading—teleg- raphy, signals, mechanics and ticket selling. There's also a post office at each of the three stations along the line, so the children are also taught how to sell stamps and di- rect letters. Only the best students get jobs on the railroad. They work six hours every day for a month, get- ting their lunches free, Their jobs change every day, so that each child gots all-round knowledge of the )fine's operations. They also learn how to use and respect authority; today's stationmaster may be to- morrow's candy merchant, Cow Towels Progressive dairymen wash the udders and teats of their cows with warns water before nmilking A ster- ilised cloth towel is used to dry the udders. Despite this precaution bacteria are carried from cow to another. Individual paper cow tow- els need once only reduce this chance of spreading infection, The cellulose cow towel is made from special wood pulps and chemicals. It remain strong when wet, and it is soft and lint -free. Bees Great Part In Flower Pollination Flowers did not appear till some 150,000,000 years ago. At that time beetles were the onlypollinating p g insects, The modern descendants of these original flowering plants—the mag- nolias and their relatives—are still pollinated by beetles. The magno- las are composed of numerous, spirally arranged, colorless petals, stamens and seed -bearing organs. Unlike bees, beetles do not stick to one variety of plant. Probably the earliest flowering plants were insufficiently pollinated and prob- ably they did not reproduce abund- antly. All this changed when bees ap- peared at the beginning of the Ter- tiary period, about 60,000,000 years ago. Bee pollination is more effi- cient than beetle pollination, With bees doing the pollating, flowers tended to develop petals in the form of a deep tube or cup, with nectar stored at the base. This relieved the plant of the burden of • producing excess pollen and num- erous stamens, the flower's pollen - bearing organs. Since bees habitu- ally land on flowers when they suck nectar or gather pollen, the flowers tend to form the lower petals into a long lip to serve as a "landing platform." Time color of the flowers was af- fected too. Bees can see blue or yellow, but they are color-blind for red. Most flowers that attract bees, therefore, are some shade of blue or yellow or a mixture of these two colors. So the appearance of many flow- ers today (color, shape and sym- metry of petals and number of sta- mens) is an evolutionary adapta- tion. Plants developed tubular flow- ers, reduced the number of stamens and concealed nectar at the base, where it is available to the long - tongued bees but not to the beetles. The tubular petals carried out a screening process which gradually eliminated the visits of beetles to many flowers and favored the visits of bees. Use Live Steam As A Cooler Use of live steant to cool fresh vegetables seems a paradox, but the method, based on well known physical. laws ingeniously applied, has been used commercially by California lettuce shippers for more than a year and tested by the De- partment of Agriculture. Vege- tables can be cooled even after they have been packed in plastic bags. Bulk containers of vegetables are placed in an airtight metal cham- ber and the loading opening is a sealed High-pressure steam creates a vacuum and sticks the air out of the cooling chamber. Water evapor. ates from the surface and tissues of the vegetables. Changing the water from the liquid to the vapor form requires heat. This is drawn front the vegetables within the chamber and results in their quick cooling. TABLE TALKS kv., Andrews.. Back in 1907 a man went to Washington as Senator from Min- nesota. His name was Knute Nel- son, and his favorite eating was bean soup, He liked bean soup every weekday and Sundays as wee; and when he found that the Sen- ate Restaurant didn't serve this deli- cacy, he made a terrific squawk. So before long it appeared on the Menu. What's more, it has been ap- pearing there every single day for almost 34 years, just because thousands of others, besides Mr. Neeson, went for it in a big way. "Famous Senate Restaurant Bean Soup" is the way it's always listed; and it has probably been eaten by more noted people than any other single dish. Perhaps you'd like to know how to make it. Here is the recipe as handed out by Paul Johnson, the restaurant's head waiter for half a een tury. FAMOUS BEAN SOUP 3 lbs. small navy pea beans 1% lbs. smoked ham hocks 1 onion 4 quarts water A little butter. Salt and pepper METH OD: Take three pounds of small navy beans, wash and run through hot water until the beans are white again. Put on fire with four quarts of hot water. Add 154 lbs, smoked ham hocks, Boil for 234 hours. Braise one onion, chop- ped small, In a little butter and when light brown, put in the soup. Season with salt andP!Per e t , then serve. Do not add salt till ready to serve. (Serves eight.) * a 0 When Lenten appetites begin to lag, it's time to treat thein to some- thing different in the line of fish re- cipes. I'm sure your folks will en- joy these: FISH CHOWDER CASSEROLES Cook....1: cup chopped onion in 'a cop butter or margar- ine Blend in .i tablespoons flour Stir In. , .134 cups milk %a cup liquid drained from vegetables Cook until thick and smooth, Add 134 cups cooked fish (hali- but, whitefish, or perch), flaked 1 cup coolced, diced pota- toes 44 cup cooked, diced car- rots t'q cup cooked peas 1 teaspoon Worcester- shire sauce I1,z teaspoons salt 34 teaspoon pepper Pour. into 6 greased, individual cas- seroles or one 3 -quart casserole. Top each one with a round of t, ANECC 7}9rii NTMENI AND MUSTARD POULTICE Don't mice chances on a Chest Cold— It may become very serious. A yonittce made up of two tablespoons of Mecca and a teaspoon of Mustard brings excellent result'. It relieves conges- tion and reduces inflammation—prevents blistering. In severe cases change the poultice tatoe daily. Mecca Ointment is cold by all drug ivte-85e, 500 (lube), 70o and 91.40. =baked biscuit dough Bake at 425 deg. (hot oven) 20 minutes Serves 6 n * * With meat prices as high as they are I' don't need to offer any apologies for the following three recipes, all of which use the cheaper cuts, and yet are both tasty and nourishing. SAVORY LAMB SHANKS 4 small lamb shanks Flour 2 tablespoons lard or other fat 1 cup meat stock or water 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce PA teaspoons horseradish 1 tablespoon vinegar 14 teaspoon salt Few grains of pepper Method; Roll lamb shanks in flour and brown in hot fat in a skillet: Remove to a large casserole, Stir 11 tablespoon flour into re- maining fat in skillet, add 1 cup water gradually, and stir until thickened. Add horseradish, Wor- cestershire sauce, vinegar, salt, and pepper. Pour over lamb shanks and cover casserole. Bake at 325 deg. F. for about 2 hours, or until tender. Four servings. * a LIVER AND ONION PATTIES 1 pound beef or pork liver 1 medium onion 10 crackers 2 eggs 54 cup milk 1 teaspoon salt 54 teaspoon pepper Method: Cover liver with boiling water and allow to stand for 10 minutes. Put meat onion, and crackers through fine knife of meat grinder. Add slightly beaten eggs, milk, and seasoning. Drop by table- spoons onto hot fat. Flatten with a spatula and 'fry each side until crisply brown. 6 servings. * k k GROUND BEEF STEAK 1 pound ground beef 34 cup fine bread crumbs 1 egg, beaten 1 teaspoon salt t/g teaspoon pepper 3 tablespoons minced onion 34 cup chopped celery 1 can mushroom soup 54 cup water Amss Method; Dilute the mushroom soup with 34 cup water and blend until amooth. Combine ground beef with crumbs, beaten egg*, salt, pepper, onion, and celery. Shape into an oblong about 1 itch thick, Brown in a skillet in hot fat. Care- fully turn and brown on outer side. Cover with mushroom soup and cooly on top of stove at simmering temperature for 25 minutes. 4 sero Ings. 1117 NEKS QVICIt "t And the RELIEF is ""` LASTING Nobody knows the cause of rheuma- tism but we do know there's one thing to ease the pain . , . it's INSTANT/NE. And when you take IN6TANrtNS the relief is prolonged because INsTANTINE contains not one, but three proven medical ingredients. These three ingredients work together to bring you not only fast relief but more prolonged relief. Take INSTANT/NZ for fast headache relief too ... or for the pains of neuritis or neuralgia and the aches and pains that often accompany a cold. let Instantine today and always `.'O+e.,c keep It handy a hstantine 12 -Tablet Tin 250 Economical 48 -Tablet Dottie Gp • ' 410 0 Folks sure favor a MAGIC cake! ITl i2$ tit SELF -ICED SPICE CAKE Mix and sift 3 times, 23;, c. once -sifted pastry flour (or 2 c. once -sifted bard -wheat flour), 235 tsps. Magic Baking Powder, X tap. salt, 134 taps, ground cinna- mon, 3,5 tsp. each of ground oloves, ginger, allspice, nutmeg and mace; mix in 35 c. washed and dried seedless raisins and X o. chopped walnuts. Cream Ft o. butter or margarine and blend in 135 c. lightly - packed brown sugar; bent in 3 well -beaten egg yolks and 35 tap. vanilla. Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture alternately with Fs c. milk and spread bat- ter in 9" square pan, which has been greased and the bottom lined with greased paper. Beat stili, not dry, 8 egg whites and a few grains salt; gradually beat in 1 e. lightly -packed brown sugar and spread over cake; sprinkle with 3X c. chopped walnuts and bake in a rather slow oven, 325', 134 to 134 boars; cover lightly with brown paper for last half hour. 9 Brent t d In olden times they started the day with a juicy steak and a tankard of foaming del Today the aee-high breakfast dish is Posts Grape -Nuts Flakes ... rowdy to,ent; easy-to.digest .. , mode not from one but TWO grains — sun -ripened wheat and malted barley. That famous Grape•Nuts flavor in the forst of delicious, honey.golden flakes is scrumptious, Poet's Grope -Nuts Flakes are nourishing, too ... provide useful quantities of carbohydrates and proteins for energy and muscle; phosphorus for teeth, hones; iron for the blood, So taste - so good—so convenient. Ask your grocer. GF -119 137 Arthur Pointer