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§ in?" & MONDAY, MAY 12, 1947 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE 'NINE "| Today's Short Story BELOW THE SURFACE * By Kathrn Bemis RA DUSSENBERRY'S fork tested the turnips boiling on the kitchen stove. 'Hard as bul- lets!" she spat out. berry slid into the J a "How © come yuh're home early? Can't * yuh never larn to shut doors? © Lettin' all the flies in creation The child halted, then obe- diently closed the rickety door. SS "Get a gait on now," ordered i Cora. "Yuh ain't too good to set | table yet with all yore city school [% larnin'." A : " Lily snatched off her jacket, © hung it on a nail behind the stove. She opened the cupboard door, © began taking out dishes. i "Mind them cups now!" cau- tioned Cora. "First thing yuh . know, yuh'll break them to smith- ! ereens!" She added, testily, "For pity sakes--cat got yore tongue?" "Yes'ur: -- no'um," Lily said, depositing her load on the table. Cora scowled. "What'd they arn yuh today «-- or is yore 'schoolin' a waste?" "Oh no, ma"m!" came appre- hensively from Lily. 'Teacher ' says maybe I'll skip a grade if I study hard." "Mind yuh do! More'n likely it'll try a body's patience to put {up with yore tony airs if yuh ever i do git to teach school." Lily's lips quivered. She burst i out irrelevantly, "Sadie Hemp's got a birthday -- an' -- an' pink- i frosted cake with 'leven beauti- ful pink candles!" "So that's what ails yuh! Bein' twelve years old tomorrow! Pink- frosted cake ain't fittin' fer us no more'n Sadie"s folks, what with the high cost of livin'. Pink- frosted--hump!" "It's -- it's sure pretty, Ma." The bell-like voice was wistful. "So! Yuh stopped by Sadie's-- run home to make up time--even got here ahead of time. Look at yore face--red's a beet." Heavy steps sounded on the porch. Elmer Dussenberry's boots came off with a kicking and scuff- ing. He lumbered into the kit- chen with that ox-like strength, once fascinating to Cora. A sharp gist of wind slammed the door hind him. "Yuh sure give a body a start ~--bangin' doors!" ted Cora, scowling into a kettle of boiling i said nothing. He flashed an affectionate glance at his small daughter, strode across the bare floor to wash up in the woodshed, odor of sweat reeking acridly behind him, He returned to the kitchen, saying, "Plenty news these days. 'Seems like gettin' back to Jan Hvin' after war ain't easy, Guess we got lots to be thankful for." He dropped a folded newspaper on the shelf by the clock. "With plenty news on radio, it's waste of to buy" ," complained dish- Pe steaming potatoes. Elmer sighed, yanked a chair up to the table, planted his bulky figure in it. Sometimes he wished the old days were back when Cora didn't snap her words so easy. Made it tough on Lily. jHow'd anything so pretty as Lily ever come from his mating with Cora? As Cora and Lily sat down at the table, Lily burst out dar- ingly, "Pa--Sadie Hemp's got a birthday--with pink-frosted cake an' -- an' 'leven beautiful pink candles!" | days. "Cookin' smells right sh The shining light in s eyes hurt something down p in Elmer. He slowly, "I recol- lect--my Ma put fancy frostin' on birthday cake--in th' old coun- try. Candles, too--burnin' gen- tle-like." a "Daydreamin' 'gain!" Cora's disgust was cutting. "Fine chance I got of settin' stylish table-- when a man can easy break a leg, git laid off work--like yuh done las' winter, Elmer Dussen- berry!" Elmer stuffed his mouth with potato, wished he knew how to get around things without stir. ring up a hornet's nest. Lily choked on a piece of turni Ma never would be dif- erent. Anyhow, it was fun rid- ing. to school mornings on Pa's garbage truck. Pa was a lively one when he got away from Ma, Next morning with her fami out of the way, Cora wash scoured and tidied up the cottage. She pitied herself for all she had to put up with. Lily -- wanting birthday cakes -- Elmer Tinging money around! As she snatc up newspaper to dust the sink-shelf, a headline caught her glance. Her hand tightened on the dustcloth. She read on, re- placed the paper, with a near- sob. When Elmer came at nqon, she flung open the kitchen door with, "Never mind yore boots, Pa--git in outta the rain." "My boots is muddy, Ma-- they'll track up yore floor," said the puzzled Elmer. "Floors is meant to be tracked. Git in--'fore yuh ketch yore death o'cold." She tugged on his wet sleeve. ' The light on Cora's face re- minded Elmer of their courting tasty,' aised, making for the wood- Cora snatched the newspaper from the shelf, "The awful pity of it!" she - muttered to herself. "Those hungry folks across the sea--babies dyin' like. fleas! I--I can't bear knowin' it--can't bear doin' nothin' to help!" She lifted a stovelid, shoved the paper under burning wood. Anyhow, it would help make a hot oven and it takes a hot oven to bake a birthday cake--one fit for pink frosting and 'beautiful pink candles. y (Copyright), Swiss City Is Gateway To Utopia For Britons Basle, Switzerland, May 12--(CP) --This is the Britons' gate to the land of dreams come true. The British tourist arrives here after infinite difficulties --long queues in London's dark Victoria Station, similar waits the French customs and passport office, a tiring rail trip across France, another queue here as bags and passports go through the French and Swiss offices. They see, first, that the Swiss have more paint than anyone in Europe and that everything about the station is bright and clean. Then a girl in white walks towards them pushing a wagon. Incredible! It carries bottles innumerable-- vhisky, brandy, wine, sherry, gin, schnapps. A second wagon follows. Cigarets, cigars, pipes, matches, lighters, piled in a glittering heap. And a third, with oranges, bananas, dried fruits, chocolate, caramel, soft can- dies, hard candies, candies in boxes, candies in transparent paper, can- dies in abundance. The cigarets--English-brand cig- arets--cost less than a third of their price in London. Children look at the fruit with awe and say: "Can we really buy that, mummy?" At first no one buys lavishly. They marvel. From Basle the tourists scatter through the Switsarland, their only reminder of hard times in a wrack- ed world the little blue food coup- ons the Swiss ask them to present when they purchase meals in fes- taurants or hotels. Helpful Hints To 'Sheep Shearers As a means of increasing the yield of high-grade wool, great care should be taken when the sheep are peing shorn. By following the recommendations of the National Sheep Committee for handling fleece wool at shearing, the) yield and profits may be increased through the prevention of damp, wet, and dirty wool appearing in the clip. 5 'These recommendations are: (a) Shear on a clean floor and avoid second cuts. In the case\of sizeable range flocks, the ho! . pens should have slatted floors. (b) Keep all short, hairy leg and face clippings away from the fleece. If there is any quantity of these |- clippings pack them separately in a small sack. (c) Spread fleece, flesh side down, on a slatted table or on a clean surface. (d) Remove all tags, dung locks - yey muddy bellies, Pack separ- ly. (e) Remove any bellies that are very burry, chaffy or strawy and also any other such badly affected fleece parts. Pack separately, §) Fold fleece twice from one side to bring back portion upper-: most. Roll from brit¢h to neck. Tie each fleece with one strand of paper twine. Never use binder or other sisal twine, (g) Any reject fleeces or fleece portions such as black, dead or Samaged should be packed separ- ately. MODERN ALARM SYSTEM ° New Westminster, B.C.-- (CP) --New Westminster is to have a new burglar alarm system fea- turing detection devices which "hear" explosions, "see" intrud- ers in the dark and even "smell" smoke, Silent alarms will regis ter in city police station, By STUART UNDERHILL Canadian Press Staff Writer London, May 7.--(CP)-- Millions more people seem to be doing mil- lions more things in London than ever before. Wherever the average Londoner goes he finds other aver= age Londoners ahead of him, be- side him and behind him, Last year, for example, the Lon- don Passenger s which operates the subways and buses and trolleys, carried an aver- age of 11,700,000 passengers daily. This compares with an average of 10,400,000 before the war. Rolled 000 ed with 3,782,008,000 in 1938-39. Millions Visit Zoo Last year a fair portion of travellers--3,000,000 to be found their way to the zoo at gent's Park. is again was a cord; 500,00 more visitors than in the best year before the war.' Sunday afternoon jis the faverite visiting time for the zoo on a fine day a queue of several hundred i reds. It's a corner of the main zoo apd is forbidden 3 adults unle: are accompanyled by children Strangers to the set-up get shock when they walk through th gates and are nearly bowled over by an attack from the boisterous goats or shaggy sheep that trot about at large, skilfully evading the pursuits of clutching youngsters. All around are pens, molstly oc- cupled by domestic. animels al- though in one cage a wistful-eyed fox named Freddie runs endlessly As the afternoon wears on more ai.d more people abandon their curious rounds, queueing for tea or soft drinks, or dropping onto | benches and delvinging into shop- ping bags or little suitcases for sandwiches and buns. Amid 'a certain amount of tear- fulness and impatience the trek for home begins and the clean- ers start their hopeless task of col- lecting litter. They know it will be Just as bad next Sunday, Pope Pius Makes Flicker Debut Vatican City, May 12--(Reuters) a Susrtly take the unpri en 8 of appearing in a film in which he has studied a part, it was autthoritatively learn- ed here. He will make an appeal for world peace at the end of a film called "War Against War" produced by the Roman Catholic cinematrop- graph centre. No Purple Prose In Dragoon Saga Ottawa--(CP)--* Royal Canad- fan" Dragoons, 1939-1946" is the story of one of Canada's senior permanent force regiments in the Second World War. It starts with the early train- ing at Camp Borden, Ont., moves to England in 1941 and on to Sicily and Italy in 1945, conclud- ing with victory in Holland and the final, long-awaited home- coming, Compiled by a small group of officers and men from 'the dry bones of statistical record" and not an official history, it is de- signed as asource of 'pleasant recollection for those who served with the regiment." The authors tell the Dragoons' tale in measured, unexciting sen. tences avoiding heroics and pur- ple prose which burdens so many regimental histories. It is privately printed by the Southam Press of Montreal, Col- orfully-bound ard well - {llustra- ted with mays, photographs and sketches, it sets something of a precedent as an approach to regi- mental history, a welcome inno- vation to veterans and collectors who top often have had to wade through dry data. BOSSTES WERE SHOCKED Fearn, Scotland -- (CP)--Forty- four Ayrshire cows went wild at milking time. Not until the farmer touched a feeding trough did he learn the reason: a short-circuit in the electricity supply was running current through the metal stan- Babs Drives Auto Back To Ottawa Ottawa, May 12 (CP).--Barhara Ann Scott, Ottawa's world figure skating champion, arrived back in the Capital last night from To- ronto, driving the yellow coavert- ible auto she accepted as a present from the city and which caused an international hulabulloo over her amateur status and qualification for the 1948 Olympics. Barbara Ann, who celebrated her 19th birthday in Toronto Friday, was accompanied by her mother but peess interviews were strictly taboo. It learned, however, that she still plas to return the controver- sial car to the city. A friend of the family said that "the Olympics mean more to her than any automobile she might ever own." Since the skater has been advised not to make any more per- sonal appearances, the family friend said she will probably "get back to her piano, do a little riding and a little flying and just be herself for a while." Blind Vet Wins Crib Tourney - Minneapolis, May 12--(AP)--The winner of the annual cribbage tour- nament for patients at the Min- neapolis Veterans' Administration Hospital used a deck of marked cards. But none of the contestants protested. He was George Klym, 27-year- old Minneapolis blind war veteran. The cards he used were marked in Braille. Fish-Spearing Costs Man $50 Peterborough, May 12--(CP)--For | taking two muskellunge illegally-- he speared them--in Indian River April 26, William Parcells, a farmer from nearby Warsaw, was fined $50 and costs. 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Admitting he wants "to beat the drums as much as is possible for Canadian plays," the actor-news- paperman has definite ideas on the Little Theatre movement, on plays and on criticism. "The Little Theatre is inclined to be self-defeating in some ways un- » less something happens to give it new ideas," he said. Little Theatre amateurs little opportunity in the on to see the professional theatre from which its inspiration might spring. "The greatest duty of the press is to develop better criticism," Mr. Davies said. "This is not easy-- we need the co-operation of the readers. They are usually most re-. sentful of criticism. As long as. criticism is regarded as a personal attack there will be no intelligent criticism. You can't have good art without good criticism." Criticism now is on the level the public demands, Mr. Davies said, In reference to play, Mr. Davies' particular interest, "considering the lack of encourage- ment, I think it is surprising that: we have any Canadian drama at all. But what there is of it is very good." Scientist Probe Nuclear Lore Edmonton -- (CP) -- Edmon- tonians need have no fear of an atomic explosion that might wipe out their city, but youthful phy- sicists at the University of Alber- ta now are working on nuclear physics under the supervision of r. G. O, Langstroth, professor of physics, and Dr. H, B. Scott, as- sistant professor. Dr. Scott stressed that the uni- versity - will carty out pure re- search only, specializing in the study of phenomena of behavior of certain nuclear particles as yet unexplained, The problem tackled by the scientists here is also being stud- ied at the University of Zurich in Switzerland and at Ohio State College, Contrary to popular belief no outstanding qualifications are re- quired for the work, beyond the usual standards required to gra- duate in physics, say Dr. Scott. He spent -several months last summer working on atomic enr- gy research at Chalk River and' found it *very interesting." Short-Wave Radio To Aid Television London--(CP)--Short-wave radio links now being considered by Brit- ish radio engineers may hasten transmission of television programs in British provincial towns. At present reception is limited to a 30- mile radius from Alexandra Palace, North London. 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