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Downtown Ducks --Some establishments have skeletons in 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 to keep fungi
out of water used in the store's air-conditioning systel'i.
W1IATGOES THEON
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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
Anerican 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 Pictorials— which sells five
million copies each week through-
out the United Kingdon!. Under
the heading "We British are tired
of Yankee Insults" the mass circu-
lation tabloid lashed back 'at . United
States criticism of the British post-
war effort.
As ail 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-
coalism 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 Mee
been great, especially in some sec -
tons of the United States press,
Still, the British needn't go outside
their own shores to hear . real criti-
*ism. 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 -
bate fifty years of the most abom-
inable iniel overnment by having an
exhibition and festival at the ex-
pense of the United States' money,"
Maybe it's the weather. When
temperatures drop, possibly tempers
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
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, Lilly Southworth, has
taken a leave of absence be -
r nue of ill health. Cooney
ha:I 1 cell one of Southworth's
coaching staff,
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Normca,rt8ktty
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 ther 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 clock workers,
supported them with token sym-
pathy strikes.
But still the government remained
firm. "We will use the army
against them, the navy against them,
and the air force against 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 this 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 Riissians. Poverty-
stricken refugees from Russian -
occupied areas in particular cherish
the idea of eometime, somehow -or -
other, regaining the lands taken
fromthem 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 Coni-
• munism 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 chane
that a deal of any kind could bt
made with the Russians — a possi•
bility that has caused many misgival
ings in Landoll and Washington,
"The only people who may ever bA
in a . position to make a deal with
the Russians are those who now
Most bitterly oppose them—whether
Socilists or Ruhr industrialists", p
German spokesman commented.
"They know perfectly well what
would happen if they made any deal
that would turn Germany over tt
Communism We know that the
Western Powers may beat ria. $til
we know that the Soviets will cer
tainly shoot is, aiid frankly we pre
for to be beaten than shot,"
Which sounds like pretty fair
reasoning, at that
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 on 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,
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"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
life, yet nobody never called me a
gambler, I've • drank pretty near
every kind of liquor there is most
all my life, yet nobody never called
xne 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.
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"But now,' he continued, "but
now—just because I stole one
measley little horse — everybody in
the world calls me a horse thief, and
it ain't fair!" ,
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 oxephysical lapse which won for
them the name of "bonehead".
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And some of them deserved noth-
ing of the sort, as Arthur Daley
recently recalled. One of the best
known of all such plays was the
one that has gone down in history
as "Zim's boner". It occurred in
the 1917 World Series between the
Philadelphia Athletics and the New
York Giants; and it saw Heinle
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 him by
several feet as the A's captain scored
a highly important run standing up.
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It so happened that Zimmerman
was doing the only thing he could
under the circumstances as the
Giants' catcher, Bill Rariden, had
left hone plate unattended. "Who
was I gonna throw the ball to—the
umps?" inquired Zimmerman after-
wards—
fter-wards— a fair enough question as
umpire Bill Kleni was the only per-
son in the immediate vicinity, Yet,
as we said before, it has gone down
in baseball history as Zimmerman's
boner,
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Then there was Fred Merkle, still
known as "Bonehead Merkle" in
certain circles — although he only
diel 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.
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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 known—although
don't get the idea that he was the
sinner. ,
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The very remarkable Babe Her-
man of the old Brooklyn Dodgers
was th,e "hero". The Babe was Ij
standing ell first base when his
team mate, Bissonette, blasted out
a terrific drive to deep centre, Ber-
man dawdled about halfway to sec-
ond base, then stopped to admire
the speed and trajectory. of Del's
bit. 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.
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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
killimg, ,.
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Chick Fee/stet- 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 Herman, both tearing along
with such disregard for surround-
ings that, when the dust settled all •
three —Herman, Fewster and
Vance—were all trying to occupy
third base at one and the saine time.
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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 suggested 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 unproved their
product through ' the development
of the broad -breasted varieties.
With the suggestion went the offer
of a $10,004 prize fund. The result;
was the formation of a national
"chicken -to -tomorrow" committee:
A breedingand feeding progl'a-rri ""
was set up, with committees in' -44" -
states. So successful was it that a
new programof competition was
launched this spring. As a result,
at least 20,000,000 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 pioneering are not dead.
Hits The Haccent
Hal Block met a little cockney
Who enthused over a cruise he had
made to South America. 'First," he
reported, "we stops in Cuba, and
thn we puts in at Haiti," "And
wthat comes after Haiti?" asked
Block politely. "H'eighty-one," said
the cockney.
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ISSUE 36 - 1949
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