MAY 7. 1951

Strange But True

I: I. ll. MacArthur

why was the name Jackass giv- .n to the blackfooted penguins of south Africa? The name "Jack- .g;" was given because the noise mgdg by the birds has a remark- able resemblance to the bray of a donkey-

Ii you desired to enter the Gov- unment service of China you'd have to familiarise yourself with chm”. poetry which has been handed down unaltered for 2500 yea”. all f- Ohinamen are able to compose verses in accord- ance with ancient rules. In other words you'd have to master the contents of mo volumes of the chineee encyclopedia which would be much worse than doing research work for a column such as this one. -

Not all the swift and dazzling changes which General Douglas MacArthur has brought about in the Japanese nation since he be- came the chief reformer, has al- tered the theatre. Their dramatic an, is very ancient and intensely national. and the actors and act- resses wear the old-time costumes of long-dead royalties and cele- brities. and remind visitors of the splendor of their little Empire in days gone by-

Japanese actors begin their stuff in youth. They use no "make- up" - a thing no western actor could do - and to change his features and expression according to the part he is yplaying, he merely contracts the facial mus- cies. Japanese actors possess marvelous memories as well as great physical endurance, for most of their plays last nine hours!

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Libya has puritan ideals far sur- passing anything known to the Quakers. The people of Libya Just work, eat and sleep. Five times every day every adult prays in the open. A curfew drum orders every- one indoors at sunset Their motto is: Man is born to fight, women to work. Man carries the gun -- wo- man the child and the sickle.

When it comes to smart animals the Llama. pi-onounced "Yams." is tops. These curious creatures of the high sierra are used as beasts of burden. Their. load capacity varies from so to loo pounds. But. strange to say, an animal capable of carrying a maximum of 80 pounds will refuse to budge an inch if loaded with 100 pounds. The only way to make him go is to reduce the load to the regulation quantity.

Another strange and curious fact about the llama is that no amount of persuasion can make them tra- vel more than 8 or 10 miles a day: when this has been reached he

"M15415?-O37 lies down and calls it I day.

Yet another-,Coeuliarit.y is that the llama will only work half a month. Sounds like some sort of union, and strange but true, all llamas belong to it.

Too much radio and too much strutting about his home by his wife. caused Richard Price of Bethel, Maine, to leave home and head for the wide open spaces - the American prairies.

It was not till the reign of Ken- ry IV that f and mechan- ics were permitted by law to send their children to school; and long after that they cared not educate a boy for the church without a license from the lord.

The last slaves in England were ananoipated during the reign of queen Fmzabeth. but slavery still existed in Scotland at the end of the lath century. Before then, miners and salters were consider- ed a part of the soil. They were bought and sold with it. Like the slaves in the southern states of America, they only got enough food to keep them in good work- ing condition. -I-ienrys History of England. Book V.

Here's a rather curious epitaph dated A. D. 1579 Who -- who - who's here i. Robert of Doucaster That I spent, that I had. That I gave, that I haw That I left. that I lost."

Of every hundred thousand persons born in Canada. it has been ascertained that a fourth of them die before reaching their 5th year, and one-half before they have reached their 90th year. One thousand will attain their 90th year. but only two persons out of the hundred tbousand -- like the lost barks of a mighty convoy, will reach the advanced and help- less age of a hundred and five years.

Those that complain about the slow progress of social improve- ment should remember that it took four centuries of persecutions and martyrdoms to enthrone Christianity and two centuries of civil wars to bring about the Re- formation. The emancipation of the slave was only reached through long ages of misery. and the rights of the working classes have been more fully recognized in our own generation.

80, when we consider the gen- eral picture of our social struc-

ture, we cannot fail to see the wide difference between living standards then and now. How

gratifying the oontrastl While there is still much that is wrong in our world. it ought not to be beyond human power to banish future wars. which would be the first step in ushering in the

Brotherhood of Man.

murder is Forgetful

By WILLIAM BOGAET

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Johnny stood up. walked over to the Great Dane. bent down and rubbed his ears. He looked up at the girl. "what about that book or something she was supposed to be writing?"

"None of us ever knew anything about the book mother was writ- ing," said Kay. "We haven't been able even to find it."

Johnny's eyes were thoughtful. "People with a real story. they want to get down on paper. are like that". he plained. "It's sort

of a personal thing they don't want people prying into." Johnny said, "Who was that

young fellow who was on the beach with you?"

"Oh, him?" She smiled. "'I'hai.'s Ralph. Ralph Dunkirk. He lives over in Northport. I've known him for a long time," she said. "He works in his father's garage over in town." and the brief smile swept from her face.

"Anything wrong in that?" ask- ed Johnny. Her 'change in man- ner puzzled him.

Kay said stifily. "That's where they took father's car after the accident. It's there now."

"Of course. He held a lighter for her cigarette. "Is Northport far?"

"It's quicker going right across the harbor. We have a speedbost. Use it any time you like." she in- haled deeply. and reached down to pat Michael's head as the dog stood up and nuzzled against her slim figure. "I'd better change."

"Kay..." Jollmy delayed a moment,and the girl turned,look- ing at him. "Kay, there's one thing...Your mother and father ...they got along all right togeth- er?"

He thought her unusual green eyes flickered. "Mother loved fath- er intensely It was always that way."

She met his eyes and there was something taut about hermanner.

"You've noticed it, haven't you? You've noticed the way I act when I speak about father. Don't say

you haven't. I can tell!" The pitch n

of her voice raised slightly. "Well. I'm not afraid to "tell .you. He's dead now and I have...no regrets! Mother neverknew. She loved him the way few women ever love a man. She trusted him. And yet he was deceiving her all the time. Now do you understand. Mr. sex-

on?" Kay's eyes were dark green with sudden fury. "I despised himl”

Johnny watched Kay disappear toward the butler'a pantry. Then, mounting the stairs to the second floor. he kept thinking of her re- mark, "I despised him!"

He was still thinking about it

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wing of the mansion. The hallway ended at e screened doorway but led out to a balcony. Glaneing out. Johnny could see numerous

facing on this balcony.

Johnny closed the hall door be- hind bim and went into the bath- room. Moe was beneath the show- er, his round, eherubic body red from the cold needle spray. liyes closed, he had his face pushed up into the cold blast and was slap- Pins his chest like a baboon. Each slap was accompanied with a yip.

"A deal mum could find this room." called out Johnny.

Grinning, Moe stepped out or the tub and yanked a heavy turk- ish towel from a rack. "This sure is a swell piece to work," he said with pleasu a. He rubbed himself vigorously. Though round and pudgy looking. he was solidly built. He nodded beyond Johnny. "Have a drink."

On a bench in the large. tiled room was a round silver tray con- taining bottles and glasses. There was a tall square bottle and sev- eral bottles of beer.

"Homer brought it up." ex- plained Moe as Johnny , himself a glass of beer. "You sure get service around here.”

Moe wrapped the large towel around his midriff and led the way back into the bedroom. "They've got everything in this house." he told Johnny. "Ail 3'01! have to do is flick the right switch." lie poinicd to a boxlike affair built min the front of a table between twin beds.

The gadget was like the inter- office speaker systems used irt

' houses. "Kandy. huh?' said Moe. "Some day we'll install one at the office. It must be nice to have money." .

Wooden hnndlles rattled within a roomy clothes closet somewhere in the big room. Then Moe a voice, somewhat muffled within the clo- set, said, "Do you think it's an act?"

Johnny stirred himself. "llklnz orf drowsiness. "What do you mean-act?"

"I mean...with Irene?"

"Of course not." Said Johnny. "

"Then she's really 809 Emnan” asked his partner. coming out of the closet. He was wearing lille blue shorts and an undershirt

ow.

"l'here's no Cii-105'-'0"-" 53” Johnny. "she's been examined by one of the best doctors in NEW Yer ."

"What did Irene tell you?''

"Nothing. she doesn't know what it's all about. It's almost like a. person walking in their sleep...but talking at the same time."

"Then she doesn't remember a thing about her husband being shot?" Moe carried some more clothes into the closet and hung

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them up. He came back. noted the whiskey which filled the bot- tom of the tumbler in Johnny's hand, and helped himself to a similar drink from the tray. "Doesn't she know that her hus- band was murdered that night?"

n husband." he said.

"She doesn't even know she hail

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(To be continued)

Report for the Primary Depart- fact."-a smile flickered me"! 01 A"8"5'-int Cove across Johnny's face-"she thinks mwm 0' AW"-

rm someone named Bart... Grade V Sr. - 1. Ralph Dawson.

2. Vernon Peters. 3. Ruby Clark. Grade V Jr. -- 1. Brenda Mur-

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