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A At I 5 Tel OmwAJouBNia Pubiuhad by Th Journal Publishing Co. of Ottawa Qosea SL 234 Sparks Ottawa, Ontario. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 14. 1967 Friday the Thirteenth Well, yesterday was Friday the Thirteenth and it seems we have all survived.

Churchill and others have often said that their worst fears never materialized. The passing of Friday the Thirteenth should be proof of the pudding that we have nothing to fear but fear. That today is Saturday the Fourteenth seems to suggest, too. that we don't need to legislate against trouble. ists and such who feel state planning will eliminate all our troubles would have argued that the calendar should be changed to exclude all Fridays falling on the Thirteenth.

It would have required all manner of costly civil servants to work out the wording of the Bill, and an army in the office of the Registrar General to see that all old calendars were called in, even those whose naked women bring the only warmth to garages, boa tho uses and bachelor's bedrooms. No siree, this country will not march on to its rendezvous (no significance in use of the French term) with destiny if it shirks its fated Fridays. The idea that we can all keep an ostrich on our-desks to eat away the desk calendar sheet when Friday the Thirteenth looms up is intolerable and unCanadian. to think of itwhat this country needs and may get is a month of Friday the Thirteenths. The above solemn deliberations on the Canadian scene seemed to the writer entirely adequate and appropriate, but along came a seriouser colleague who asked: "Why don't we tell the readers what Friday the Thirteenth means?" Well, the short answer is that Friday is often counted an unlucky day, and the figure thirteen is often counted an unlucky number, and when the two fall together hide.

Our Dictionary of Phrase and Fable invariably useful for writing political editorials is extremely helpful on the subject for it allows you to think what you want. Thus, on page 489: "Friday was thet day on which Adam was created and our Lord wa, crucified. Friday was regarded by the Scandinavians as the luckiest day of the week. Fairies and ail the tribes of elves of every descrip- tion, according to mediaeval romance, are converted into hideous animal, on Friday. "Sir William Churchill said 'all my best accidents have befallen me on a Friday 1 was born, christened, married, and knighted on that "He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday," wrote Racine.

So much for Friday, save to add that it ttras on a Friday that Columbus started on his voyage of discovery of America which dear readers may mark as a good or a bad thing as they choose. Now as to the figure thirteen. (We spell the word out throughout in this piece lest by bad "luck the printers make it 31.) Our book on fables again: "The Turks so dislike the number that the word is almost expunged from their vocabulary. The Italian, never use it in making up the numbers of their lotteries. In Pari, no bouse bear, the number, and persons called Quatorzienne, are reserved to make a fourteenth at dinner parties.

"Sitting down thirteen at dinner in old Norse mythology was deemed unlucky, because at a banuet in the Valhalla Loki once intruded, making thirteen guests, and Bal-' dur was slain. "In Christian countries the superstition wa, confirmed by the Last Supper of Christ and hi, twelve apostles." So much for thirteen, save to add that the wage of a hangman in Britain used to be thirteen-pence-halfpenny the half-penny for luck, no doubt. The Paper Boy' Saturday is National Newspaperboy day, honoring those boys and girls who bring the news to thousands of Ottawa and area homes. Sure, the paper arrives late some days but even newsboys have trouble tearing themselves away from after school football games. We take them for granted like the newspaper itself and they let us down less frequently than the paper itself, when a winter wind chills small fingers.

More than a delivery boy, the boy with a bag is a businessman and shouldering all that responsibility every day teaches him good discipline." On ordinary days he meets the indifference of 50 closed doors. On pay day it costs nothing more to give him a smile. The Price of Fame Hits Canada! Canadians think themselves likeable souls, a little dowdy and conservative, but nevertheless, a friend to all nations and a respected member of world councils. We keep telling ourselves how much Europeans love us compared to "vulgar" Americans, ological Association will orbit up to sjx satellites by 1976 to keep track of world weather. All this attention is very nice for thost people planning 1972 outings in the South -Seas.

But what's in it for usHow's chances of our being able to count on the local weatherman who says that Indian Summer picnic in the Gatineau won't be, rained out? Or)tnat his forecast of the back of a coldfront going to spoil skiing doesn't prove to be a ten-inch snowfall? Lady wef know says the weather forecasting was better around here in World War II because the RCAF put its mind to it; another lady' says the old almanacs put out a year in advance were still better. Those are old wives' tales, surefliut there's enough truth in both of 'em to make us hope these world met boys have something going for them. Saturday's Notes What if Quebec decides to join the nuclear club? One attrarjtion of winter is the low incidence ''of deaths by snakebite. In these of frenetically changing fashion, it is comforting to reflect that the earmuff has changed little. All those demonstrators bent on changing the world seem to forget their causes when the weather gets Sterling silver keeps going up in price and hope chests are filled with stainless steel.

Behind lcry famous man there stands a lcratled bandwagon. The only difference between the Ontario election and Hallowe'en is two weeks. The Soviet government has budgeted for record high expenditures during the coining year. Even paradise has its penalties. Tne man who invents the bctterx mousetrap will not be nearly so famous as the man who discovers how to use it without getting (lis fingers caught.

Archimedes said that a body Immersed in a fluid loses in apparent weight an amount equal to the weight of the fluid displaced. The way bartenders add ice to that little bit of fluid makes one think they have profiled from -Artnimedes. Tea: Good Habit From China By H. E. SIR IAUTA RAJAPAKSE High Commissioner for Ceylon in Britain very young hirsute -Scot of tremendous determination and marvellous foresight, by name James Taylor.

He bought tea-seeds from Assam and planted 20 acres in an estate near exist Kandy, Loolecondera, Of which Fran the Commonwealth Journal I i Greatest of Clowns By NEVILLE CARDUS WrH far ra.rl.a aa4 1 which he produced by rolling quarter, that these manifest I ETTERTrom a young reader: guage. but could be extremely, wjth over Ubles and monopolistic tendencies, and A few weekj ag0 you appealing, and communicative drying clay Moves over that some C0Pnie wnh wrote an article asking: "Who by means' of onomatopoeia. charcoal fires, was delicious a uuie Tkh then Mold us Only once in his performance decide the prices. The con- k. nwir i-inhrM ia Little Tkh then Mold us Only once in his performance Ti.p.-,eu.w sriss rrftrt 55 35 v.

wa, uuurci, uai uccu ma us' the tea-drinking habit is ing a lew years ago. mere was ucraa of the Munsinger we reaped a few headlines out of that one. And Expo! Everybody talks about us now. Having thrown off our swaddling clothes and donned maple leaves some nations think they have a right to dis- 49 .1 .1. mains rAntt.nt i.n urk.n baskets slung over their backs i i ikwa u.

in was when his mimm t.nvVT" "nartner Imnatient tn rjeeun urucar one Crock was the neatest of sonata Grock at the piano tea sent to London in 1887- Jj- cwnTlaU wi5T.e! usuaUy concerned 'with Tea had been drunk there ctly 100 hundred years ago. ure enter hP forehead, and a long something or other which wa, urging the government to enter 'oreneao. ana a long IhrM nr fmir thniuunH vm muuw thJ to prevent the which he would stick out hGn7- wS, control of the agency houses. determination or of the Grand control of the agency houses. before it was introduced to 3S- 8a- Puna- Mtttw i mwtM cnvneaL to the D0W woereat Grock.

rooking Europe by the Dutch and" the ,1 .,.7 circumsunces in "whh he over hi, ahoulder with a jerk. 'n little markets with barter, bilateral, circumstances in wnicn ne over 1.000 acres, Portuguese. A century later. L. found himif Th fln im.

ahouted "Come tar icn years idler uw icicdgv pa uimuis agiccuKiiia auuuiu during the Ume of Oliver Crom-. increased a hundredfold. In be sought.1- pression be gave well, the British xtarti to isik it sr nnn tnW tk. deed, of much coyness, as he paruier was a like us or. at least become annoyed at drink jt.

habit there are 590.00b acres of tea mou, dividends, and over the idled on to the auge wearing "jj U. in other matter, with the in the isld. coding an year, the capital ha. been paid ctlouTf with bow. and lone obviously having serious larger man' me county oi several times over.

Unlortun county 01 several tune, over. Unloi Take the Americans. Thev used to oassine of vears. the standard. Leicestersnire.

ine output nas ately, during the colonial era enjoy hunting and fishing here, calling have improved and the tastes kept pace Wuh the acreage the greater portion of the in- us "a nice quiet bunch." Now we're became refined and the growth. come was drawii out of Ceylon running a pinko haven according toIndian teM. M1 Uter the in 1875 the quantity of tea and not utilised to build in- Ceylon teas, have completely exported from Ceylon wa, vestment there SOme- rvnlarnt thm rhmm t. 10 pounds. In 1885.

the On the other side of the canal the Bwr Mtionai "Kwas CEYL0N is p-mtin VirkpH nut because we Pounds; in 1895 it wa, 98.581,- proai back, of tea in the world. u' aaa ouu naa reigneu sup- QOO nounds. and today it is a coat-tail, inten- oblong boots. He came before violinist, but finding us staggering under the weight Grock not collaborator, of a flddlease big enough to A Problem arose at once, contain a contra bass. After he oon "Prtner" PIre had removed an apparenUy in- to Jln Grock 00 ue- A supportable burdenfrom his position of he opened the case, "rc oroducine the smallest fiddle They tood yards apart, Grock.

porter un with all the goodwill and kept things, peaceful. In retrospect they reme for centuries, but even about 500.000.000 pounds. Over her life-blo n1 ThU was no obvious trick ta hj: to the did us a favor so we won't be harsh on them. It's the same story, with the Cypriots. they take the odd pot shot at us seemingly from pure cussedness.

France seems to be in a real huff too. They senior -ministers to it had to yield the pride of the ashes of coffee the wo.Tfmyh.K ct f. i an place to tne new tea. Tea naui i -exDOrt revenue Cevlon ia the her victories no less renowned to hve I hope for the "rt-Cey'n audience. Crock wa from the.

"Steinway-; strove, might and main. to push it towards the stool. I--" winy uiuiiuv in mo wuriu i nnm ira aivcr. tvudk than beer. whose economic existence de- "Luc" OI "partner" rather condescend- The growth of the tea in-; pends on tea.

Even her greatest h7 tally lifted the stool and dustry in Ceylon reads like an THEld order chin rivl. IndU cm survive with-' ,0 r-nir rvinn fnr and S'ven waV new. out tea. Britain is am krvely smile of illumina-epic Ceylon was famous for streamlmed have chief mlrket Ne, ce-third red m0.uthJ';fm more Uon spread over Crock-, Its cinnamon In the eighteenth Tjvlor.s verandah, and of the" tea taYerted countenance. He aho no Quebec City and don't advise our-century and for it, coffee in giant rollers do the work done sumed by Britons.

Every embarrassment at the exposure embassv in Paris. Their president went tne eany part or tne ninteenin. oy ine nanas or nis men. ine memocr ui uie popuuiuon in of his error. home Tn a huff halfway through his en ovFr by the Crown wmg "-nuUct urmgof -g Canadian visit.

Maybe he got jealous uer vanous enactmenu were operations. Two ten- year. It is a remarkable fact hocause we had become so famous at pnceS 116X1 der leaves and a bud which that the. British and Chinese, because we naa oecome so lamous. Qf cQff grow together are p.cked dissimiIar habju (nd JteJateslJdoKiwmeksUPJCt when Nationalist China almost can- returns, the keenes, to-plant Dy.

deft fingers of ambidex- out so prominently the tea- ctoto tn fnruirta some- trbus females, collected in drinker, of the world. thing about our policy. rush for gold. If we keep losing' friends, the world The early pioneer, were the jnay "take bur fame seriously. We're old enough" Old Wives and the Weather A veritable task force of planes, boats, buoys and balloons will be deployed in the South Seas by 1972 to improve weather forecasting.

If all goes well, the revised edition of the Global Atmospheric Research Plan under auspices of plans associated with the World Meteor Grock, in fact, was constantly finding thing, out for the first time. From the moment he came into the scene he was unmistakably a being from another. the less, visitant to our logical universe willing to learn. He sat down at the piano, the ana tanen to ine lactones. if in A joint oroer or tne war- "n.rt,,,r" ui Here, they eo throush a time Price, Board and the Rmrk ran hi.

hardy Scots. Coffee lived up cess of oxidization, and under- in sooth is fine." Tea not Munition, Department 1,200 xlown the keyboard. The execute its reputation, but soon a go a metamorphosis. They shed only a good drink, but it pulp and paper workers In tion of Kale, seemed not to blight attacked the trees and ar green color and assume good for you. Thomas Garra- Ottawa and Hull were to work satisfy his ear.

the tone was ruined the enterprise. Some of hue that is "WY brown- way. who first advertised it on Sundays. undoubtedly rather short of the British nlanter. fell bv ly 300 years ago In BriUin.

Pilot Officer Beur- brilliance. Then he saw that he tne oniisn planter, xeii oy Orange Pekoe. Broken claimed that, it could cure of. Verdun. was WM wearing thick woollen the wayside, but those of the Orange Pekoe, Fannings, giddiness, weakness of the to have shot down gloves.

So he took them off and hardy breed fought back, de- and are sent to the port of stomach, agues and fevers, three enemy aircraft over Malta played the scales again. His spite heavy odds, and planted Colombo, the capital city, and That is why it was sold by yeterday. smile was now beatific. tea. The China tvoe of tea inncomaiee, me iounn chemist, then and not by Lnanes A.

Hellord was. ap- I have had been grown in the Bot- "rr hv wiv nd otiier countries which by way of an experiment, but it was the Asm -variety of consume 11,15 ueen of drlnks- India that was tried as a com- the tea reaches the mercial proposition. consumer, there intervenes an llIlLrUIUtlll pciSUIIdgC L4IICU UlC miHHlman is nnf a ivvrcnni a tvcrvKfr? mvyi, u.b wuu muxu grau as such, and has been re to accent aeieat wa, a form) tn in unrnmn imratn onrl unfait tormo a "mi portant role in the industry. 4 onsin Claims Tnm tk. aimtn Mnul a recollection that pointed transport controller for.

once iust once he lost his- Ottawa area. temper- with his "partner" Cesar Romero, U.S. actor, (whom he called, endearingly, joined the coast guard. Charley), picking up the lid of Rev. Louis Collignon.

Bishop the piano, and threatening to foamy. It UublOUS. of Haiti, a former pupil at the him with iL But annov. CfMil Uaart AiwA v.wa ance aissoivea mto widespread vtin.tiiu site." But he is a necessary JT IS quite appropriate to raise intermediary, and plays an im a foamy annual huzzah for so' ZZ Trcaf airument jana oown it at squadron, RLAr. an incredible soeed without Once again it leads r.

Without him the trade cannot tne nation in per capita beer consumption 27 gallons for many facets: the V.7 he wa, superintendent. broker, the merchant7 and the in tne sUte- It was a signal success. He wholesaler. The -packages of Other thing, change. No extended his tea clearing till tea are auctioned Ui Colombo longer can Wisconsin claim it covered the entire area.

Many and in Mincing Lane, London, more cows than people; the came to him and profited by The broker, MilTor the sellers creatures are badly outnumber his advice. "Go thou and do and buy for the buyers. The ed. Urban sprawl, accompanied likewise," he said. Tea in merchant, who make the pur- by people, marches across great Ceylon was on the march, and chase employ tea-tasters to swath, of America', Dairyland.

true to say it has never looked sample the tea, and thereafter No more is colored oleo banned Daclc- blend them' into different cat- in the land. No longer is this He improvised the outer egories. The wholesalers cause the home of the Braves, verandah of his bungalow as them to be packed into at- though a rather competent the nucleus or a factory. Like tractive parcels which ulti- some great men, he had no mately reach the shelves -of time for that permanent social the retailing grocer who hands structure a wife. He there- it over the, counter to the fore had no problem, of keep- customer, ing his house tidy.

The tea There a feeling in some professional football team remains. i In this world of change and shifting values, our annual beer quaffing title is something solid, if sudsy, to have and to hold. wiin inenas at Ottawa umver- Mtisfv rh.fW sity. that he hadn't meant anything Wing Commander W. C.

violent or unfriendly, he reared (Merv) Fleming, of Ottawa, the piano lid against the in- urntai In awtmenaM nf than Uaac. and Today With Ben Wicks 'warning. CHARLEY now left the stage to Grock an JTTconcertina. Crock climbed on a chair, an ordinary cane chair, and sat on the curved back, of it, knees crossed, a most precarious position. He leaned, forward to the footlights and.

taking a deep breath, blew them out. left to right With.V single "Ume" on hi face, he prepared' to play the concertina. His finger, pressed the keys, and we heard, very faintlyA the beginning of the quartet from "Rigoletto." What Is more, Grock was hearing it too; he listened intently, looking around, high and low, seeking the source. When he traced it to his own linger, and to the concertina, which he held far from his body in the approved manner. his chuckle of enchanted surprise wa, more and more onomatopoeically registered.

Next he indicated to the conductor that at last he really was 'ready to play seriously, with full orchestral accompaniment. The conductor raised hi arms and baton. And before the. orchestra could begin there was a a splitting noise, not merely of wood and of -cane, but of an entire universe, with the bottom of it dropping out. Grock had fallen clean through the chair at this moment of his, the conductor's, the orchestra's, and everybody else's, suspense.

wa the traditional Continental clown in apotheosis, but without knowing it. Clown have from time inv memorial sat on their own hats. Grock sat on hi own violin, exactly a he fell through his own chair. The- traditional clown played practical jokes on other folk, scoring over them because of superior knowledge. The clown', traditional "booby traps" were played on Grock himself but they didn't score over him.

He was delighted to run into them. He found the tiny fiddle the enormous case with a gurgle of pleasure, like a child finding it little toe for the first time. He brought to the traditional clown's trick and "gimmicks" good temper and geniality. Ha made the fantastic and the grotesque companionable. In a strange and complicated world he was rather at a loss but truly willing and eager to team.

In private life. Crock nil Swiss. He broke off engagements in Britain because he -objected to our Ideas about income tax. He was. at anyrate.

not going to be. taken In by that. i ZTCt Is mmmmm. ry.