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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT. MARCH 14, 1957 Smugglers Curse Irish Terrorists Irish terrorists are being cursed heartily these days -- for an unusual reason. They've wrecked the best racket in all Ireland -- cattle rustling -- just when folk on both sides of the border were getting rich through two-way smuggling. But now there are too many For over thirty years the clash between smugglers and preventive men has been fought out non-stop along the 180 mile line that divides Eire and Northern Ireland. During the war and just afterwards Dublin, jammed with luxury goods, was regularly invaded by weekend visitors from Belfast and Britain, seeking cigarettes, chocolates, nylons, clothes, cameras, watches and jewellery. Nowadays the amateur smuggler confines himself to this small stuff, but the professional goes in for large-scale cattle rustling and the import of fertilizers into Eire. It is highly prosperous, thanks to the ingenious two-way system that could only happen in Ireland! The Eire farmer hands his cattle over to a professional smuggler. Along the whole frontier line that crosses mountain and bog and much desolate country, there are only eighteen routes by which people are permitted to pass from one territory to another, via customs control' points. But there are scores of tiny roads crossing and recrossing the border. The penalties for being caught on these roads are extremely heavy, but the smugglers generally know how to evade the customs. Some fifty cattle, say, are taken across and sold at auction in the north. Each animal collects a government bonus of up to $30, depending on its quality and the price it reaches. Once sold, the animals are EYE CUTE - Gagging it up with a pair of trick spectacles, Ralph Santos, TV cameraman, takes a turn in front of the lens. The specs are weird enough at first sight (top) but when Ralph turns on his "zoorrtar" lens (bottom), he really makes folks jump. promptly turned round and smuggled south again, to be resold in Dublin! By this system an animal can realize $300 for an expenditure of about $90. With a herd of fifty the profit is hefty. Another two-way racket con-sissts of filling a large lorry with any goods more expensive in the north at that time, running it over the border and selling the contents. The lorry makes its return trip loaded with fertilizer, which is enormously more expensive in the south. A lorry full of cigarettes can go north and be back with fertilizer in two or three hours, maybe making several trips on a dark night. Smugglers are glad when the ■hordes of tourists start flocking in and out, tying up the customs in routine checks on major traffic routes. These checks are always a battle of wits. It was rather a pity one ingenious fellow was caught. He used to smuggle a quart of whisky at a time in the inner tube of his bicycle -- but had a puncture outside a customs station! Only the very stupid woman now smuggles butter into the north concealed in her clothes. At Dundalk railway station she is liable to be taken out of the train and into a small room where generally there it a blazing fire, whatever the weather. Stood casually in front of this, she can be kept in conversation until the butter threatens to betray its presence, when she will invariably give in! The customs men can be very tough. They've even taken genuine engagement rings from girls, as well as watches anj "bracelets. And if the amateur smuggler does get past the customs man, let him beware of leaning back and relaxing as the train moves off again for Belfast. For that good-looking girl sitting opposite is liable to invite him sweetly to ancompany her to the guard's van, where he finds that she, too, is a customs officer, left to trap him. Biters Get Bit One type of criminal who does not often get into the news is the gentleman who specializes in robbing the robbers. There was once a footman who had his eye on some jewels belonging to his master. One night, as a first attempt in crime he decamped with $50,000 worth Of gems bulging his pockets. But a professional cracksman had also had his eye on those sparklers for a long time, but couldn't get at them. He waylaid the absconding footman, stunned him, and removed the loot with the comment: "Let this show you that honesty is the best policy!" In New Zealand this year a man stole $10,000 from the police payroll. The money was found in a schoolboy's satchel. The boy said he saw a man hiding the money in a hole in a wall and when the man had gone he helped himself. In Paris, at one time, there were three gangs specializing in waylaying crooks homeward bound with the proceeds of a night's "work." When arrested the gangsters could not understand that they were doing anything wrong in stealing from thieves. Some months' ago a man was sentenced to death for stabbing a shopkeeper in the East End of London and stealing clothes. Before he was arrested he met another man and this man stole from him the clothes for which the murder had been committed. "How is your son getting on with his medical studies?", inquired Mrs.. Green of her "Very well, thank you," replied the" proud mother. "He can already cure small children." PUZZLE PLOWING IN THE PARKING LOT-This striking contrast between the ultramodern apartment house and the age-old plowman behind his horses presents itself in West Berlin, Germany. The "city farmer" is actually a gardener who took advantage of the warm weather to turn up the soil for spring planting in the apartment house yard. THEFAEM FRONT |orw12usseU Answer elsewhere on this page. HUMANE TRAPPING By Donald Baillie Vice-President Canadian Association for Humane Trapping. Are you interested in trapping? Perhaps you don't do much of it -- just the odd mouse or rat around your own house or barn. The trap you use probably has a striking bar attached to a strong spring. When the spring is released the bar strikes the animal, crushing it to death pretty quickly. A trap like this, which kills almost instantly, is a fairly humane way of destroying mice and rats. The kind of trap I want to discuss with you today is a different story altogether. It has a very powerful spring, but instead of a crushing bar it has steel jaws. These jaws will try to clamp together when the spring is released. If something tries to stop them from clamping right together, they bite into that something. By no stretch of imagination can these traps be called humane. When the jaws spring shut on the leg or paw Of an animal, the pain he feels is only the beginning of his sufferings. At the best they may be ended fairly soon by drowning, if he is a water animal, and if the trapper has taken the trouble to arrange a drowning set, which will hold him under the water when he dives for his natural cover. Even then, drowning is a fairly slow business for a beaver, or otter, or mink, or muskrat, equipped to stay under water for a long time. If there is no way for him to drown, he must either gnaw off his paw, or twist it off, or endure the trap as best he can until death releases him. He may struggle till he is dead -- he may freeze till he is dead -- another animal may kill him -- or at last the trapper may kill him. A fur trapper in Canada will do well to get around his trap lines once in a week. He may have five or six hundred to visit. In bad weather a trap may be left unvisited for nearly a month. I mentioned that the animal may gnaw and twist at his leg until finally the flesh and sinew and bones are all severed apart and he is free -- free to hobble away with a raw stump, or the gangrenous remains of a frozen paw. Some trappers have estimated that they lose as many as 20% of their catch by these "wring-offs", that is, 20% of several million wild animals may be amputated this way each winter in Canada. Each year we Canadians kill about nine million animals for their fur, and the great majority of these are not raised on fur farms. They are trapped'. Some are caught in wire snare-s around their necks, but most in leghold traps. This means that one or more steel traps-snap shut every minute of our long winter. While you are reading this, two hundred or more of our Canadian animals are being caught in the leghold trap, and several thousand already caught are dying. Apart from the numbers we kill, let's think about the unnecessary pain we inflict in catching them. It seems to me that higher mammals must feel something pretty close to what we humans feel. Most of the biologists I've met agree with me on this. You all know that your dog or cat certainly doesn't like to have his paws trod on. If you want a rough idea of the leghold trap, just imagine that the door of your car has been slammed across the fingers of your bare hand. Imagine that the door is jammed shut -- and imagine that you are then left with your hand so caught until you either starve to death, or freeze to death -- or tear your hand apart. You are probably asking yourselves right now -- "If this is such a painful business, why doesn't somebody do something about it?" Well, some countries have done something about it, Norway, for example. The leg-hold trap was outlawed in Norway over 50 years ago, yet Norwegians manage to trap about half a million animals in humane traps each year. I understand that Sweden, Finland, and Germany, have outlawed it too. In 1949 the British Government appointed a committee of inquiry to investigate charges of cruelty to wild animals in Britain. The tone of their report, issued in 1951, was far from fanatical. They stated quite strongly, "Nobody can doubt that this is a diabolical instrument, which causes an incalculable amount of suffering." Incalculable is the right word, for 30 million rabbits alone are trapped in Britain in one year. They added -- "We recommend that the sale for use in this country of the gin trap, and the use of the gin trap, should be banned by law within a short period of time." By the Pests Act 1954 the use of the gin trap will become illegal in Britain after July 31, 1958. Thirty years ago the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Britain offered a prize for an effective humane trap. In 1947 a rabbit trapper named Sawyer finally won the award. His trap has two arms which snap up, and together, and break the rabbit's neck instantly. Even if we ignore the question of being humane, we can see that such a trap has two great advantages over the leg - hold type. First, there is no loss of animals by the wring-off; secondly, the animal makes no noise that will attract other animals to attack it, and spoil the fur or carcass before the trapper arrives. About 30 years ago a national organization was formed in Canada with the object of abolishing the cruelty of the steel trap. It is called the Canadian Association for Humane Trapping. Its headquarters are in Toronto, but there are members from coast to coast. This Association is endorsed by Humane Societies across Canada, since it tries to do for our fur bearers what the Humane Societies do for domestic animals. Until recent years we devoted most of our association's energy and income to telling people about existing conditions in Canadian trapping. You may have seen our advertisements in magazines and newspapers. We have distributed thousands of pamphlets, and we have operated demonstration booths at the Canadian National Exhibition. We have also kept in touch with the latest practices in fur farms, and in the development of substitutes for natural furs, such as the nylon furs recently developed. We do these things because we want to conserve some of our wild life resources in a natural balance for the people who some after us, and because we just don't like to see unnecessary suffering going on right here in Canada. In 1951 we interested the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests in importing from Eng- land 200 Sawyer traps -- the trap which kills instantly and which I mentioned earlier -- and the Department distributed these to Ontario trappers for testing. Their reports were so favourable that we imported another 1,000 which we sold at cost to trappers across Canada. Then in the Spring of t#52 we sent out a questionnaire to each purchaser asking his opinion as to the effectiveness of the Sawyer trap in Canadian conditions and asking him to suggest improvements. There was a good response to this questionnaire, with many valuable suggestions. Since then we have continued to sell these traps at cost to the trappers. In 1954 we imported another type of instant-killing trap, the Bigelow, from U.S.A. and have sold many hundreds of them also. In 1956 we sponsored the manufacture of a trap invented in Canada called the Wil-Kil. This trap is made in two sizes, the smaller one is used for mink, muskrat and animals of similar size while the larger one is for beaver and otter. As far as we know, this is the only instant-killer that will hold these large animals. We are now selling all three of these traps and each Spring the purchasers are issued with a questionnaire so that we can find out the reactions of the men who use them to the different type of traps. In British Columbia the Association for the Protection of Fur-Bearing Animals is testing another type, the Conibear, also invented by a Canadian. World's Biggest! Plans are being discussed in New York, for the publication in 1959 of the second issue of the world's largest newspaper which appears only once every century. This monster publication was first published in United States in 1859 and measured 7 ft. long and 4 ft. 6 in. wide. The first issue of The Illuminated Quadruple Constellation, as it was called, consisted of. eight pages each containing thirteen closely printed columns. It took forty people eight weeks, working day and night to bring out this gigantic newspaper. The contents included news about stars and the universe generally. Preserved in London, too, is another oddity in newspapers, a small yellowing sheet head "The Daily Citizen, Vicksburg, Mississippi, July 2nd 1863." It was printed during the American Civil War on wallpaper. THAT NEEDLED HIM The boss was accustomed to being out of the office a good deal on business and was rather worried about the behavior of his new typist while he was away. Sending for her one morning he asked: "I hope you don't just sit and twiddle your thumbs while I'm not in the office." "Oh no, sir," the girl replied, "I get on with my knitting. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking cede eee EHEfcJ BDHII gijc EftEJE □EBB BEEB&EEE ESDEE EEBEBHB BEQB bui] BED EED EEBEK □DEB bee EBEft beeoe EDO ebb dde beeb BEHEEOE EBEEE RHnEnEOE cbec] □DEIE bcd bubo aaaa ede beqb «M)f SCHOOL JQpson The Authority of Jesus Matthew 21: 23-32 Memory Selection: The people were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one having authority. Matthew 7: 28-29. Jesus was the great teacher. He skillfully asked questions which focused attention on the important point. In this lesson he asked a question in answer to a question. The chief priests and elders angered at his cleansing of the temple the previous day, demanded to know the basis of his authority. He in turn asked if John's baptism was of heaven or of men. They wouldn't commit themselves so Jesus did not answer their question. But his question exposed their unbelief in John which premised their, unbelief in Jesus. Those who were disciples of John, the Forerunner, readily became disciples of Jesus. Then Jesus went on to tell a story which added to the condemnation o'f the questioners. They were like the son who said he would work for his father but failed to go. They gave lip service to God but failed to do righteously in their every day living. Thoir rejections of John who came in the way of righteousness demonstrated their real attitude to God. On the other hand the publicans and harlots made no profession of being religious. But under the preaching of Jesus many of these wicked people repented and believed and began to love and serve God. The lesson is clear. Religion is a practical every day affair. We must all repent of our sins and believe on Jesus Christ if we are to enter the,kingdom of God. Our do-it-yourself way of being respectable won't do. We have all sinned and come short of the glory of God. We all need to repent and turn from our sins. Then we can believe on Jesus Christ for His deliverance from our sins. Jesus Christ's authority is based in the fact that He is the Son of God. CALM -- The graceful prow of the S.S. United States is mirrored in the still surface of New York's North River. Ship and reflection join together to form an illusion of startling streamlining. The luxury liner, third largest i*i the world, docked recently unaided by strikebound tugboats in an operation regarded by experts as an amazing feat of navigation. NOT-SO-MYSTERIOUS EAST - The smiles of these children's faces would be understood in any language. The youngsters, in Bangkok, Thailand, are sampling American milk which has been "disassembled" and then shipped to the Far Eastern country where the solids and fats are recombined with water to make wha*» milk.