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The Montreal Star from Montreal, Quebec, Canada • 19

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The Montreal Stari
Location:
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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19
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THE MONTREAL STAR THURSDAY APRIL 12 162 Burgess Bedtime Story New Nickname For Anti-Castro Cubans IHMf HnczsssznOTCTVxcsnnvTvssnvanESvmnr seemed to have been bora In jlhese habiea for that very first day they would hide at her signal juat as if they had been trained for a long time It was well that thii was so for on the afternoon of that very first day Mrs Longbill discovered Mr Blacksnake slithering along as he hunted through that little swamp Instantly she gave tha "hide" signal aad Instantly aha was obeyed It wu then that Mrs Long bill made a mistake She went to meet Mr Blacksnake and she began to pretend that something was the matter with her She pretended that she was hurt and couldn't fly By fluttering along tin ground just beyond him she hoped to lead him away Her plan didn't work No air it didn't Mr Blacksnake was too old and wise in such matters In fact she told him by her actions that she had babies somewhere near He paid her no attention whatever but at once began to hunt for the chicka Do you wonder that Mrs Longbill was worried? The next stary: Mrs Lang-bill's Trying Time -'tnjjrti toi xmuo ll Enflp ti Eeb ftl xwiHTOr ED- 5BdUw r3M9it $39- 33219 WM- ititM lili AnafH tji0 lfrn iiiiilfcilf ryomiifiiiUilf MRt IOmASS-' "6 3S5HJ''fc3ni (ill liJUSY 1M (ini' CShi) i Shu Snack IJLrtrtJJV idi1 (J I5U- a)j Ufft iO1 na folSR Mrs Longbill discovered Mr Blackiaake ROSE R) THORNTON BIRIESS Pride and Worry Ymfll Umi if frw mrr iit Thtt nairf eio wifi ariSf 014 Mather Nature It is true that worry and pride often go together and often the greater the pride the greater the worry Some people are proud of what they possess and are eonslaatly worrying for fear they may lose some of it Son people arc proud of their appearance and worry lest something may happen to spoil their good looks Foolish but all too true Moat parents are proud of their children and worry worry worry lest some harm befall tbejn 1 It was Just that way-Ssith Mrs 'Longbill the Woodcock Out of the precious eggs on which shs and Longbill had taken turns in patiently sitting for three long weeks had coma four downy babies like four tiny chickens Was Mrs Longbill proud of them? What do you think? you ever see such fine strong healthy babies in all your life?" she demanded of Longbill Without waiting for an answer she continued seemed as If they were hardly out of their shells before they were strong enough and ready to leave the nest" Longbill Mid nothing Perhaps down inside he chuckled Every spring since he and Mrs Longbill had had their first family he had heard similar statements from Mrs LongbilL He was himself proud of those children Not as proud as their mother perhaps but proud just the him If Mrs Longbill strutted little as she led the babies away from the nest il is not to be wondered at The first lesson began right sway Children who leave home almost aoon ai they are born like the Grouse children and the Woodcock children have to learn lessons while they are still babies The first lesson aboard an airliner leaving Cuba To arrive at Havana Airport carrying one of these Gusanos is tantamount to a public an- nouncement that the traveller has a one-way ticket to Miami But recent new government regulations which limited these would-be exiles to one pair of shoes and three changes of clothing when they left reduced the value of the bags Since it is strictly forbidden to take even a few loose coins out of the country and since the maximum amount of jewelry allowed is one watch and one ring or their equivalent many Cubans bought new suits and dresses in tnrier to be able to take something of value into exile For many months outside of the gloomy Spanish-built fortress which is Havana's Principe Prison a small group of Cuban women would be seen every day This was Gusaneria" another made up of wives and relatives of the 1180 prisoners captured after the abortive anti -Castro invasion of Plays Giron last spring Each day before the trial of the prisoners this spring the women kept watch in case their sons and husbands suddenly be moved to another prison The prison guards were tolerant of this humble and undemonstrative Gusaneria and rarely asked them to move Street-sellers with Icecream and soft drinks included them in their regular rounds But like Its literal counterpart the Cuban Gusano some times turns and if the name is somewhat bitter joke by the good revolutionaries against the counter-revolutionaries it would bo oddly un-Cuban If there were no counter-thrust Key rings with green plastic worms attached are aold openly on Havana streets and are in great demand among self-styled and defiant gusanos By JOHN BLAND lfm HAVANA April 12 In pment-day Cuba the accepted epithet for that lowest form of political life the counter-revolutionary li liter ally worm" Like many other popular ex-prvssiona here it waa coined by Premier Fidel Castro in one of his marathon speeches when he spoke of "shaking the tree until tlie worms fall out" In describing a campaign against the counter-revolutionaries A year ago he came up with the name cow eaters for the anti-Castro Insurgents in the Escambray hills a term that recalled tba cow-killers with which he dubbed the Americana after part of a rocket find from Cape Canaveral allegedly fell on Orlente Province and killed a cow But few of Castro's coinages have caught on as strongly as Cartoons In the government-controlled press normally picture tha Cuban exiles in Florida ax caterpillars or worms usually obeying the order of a top-hatted node Sam The morning paper Revolu-cion carries a daily column beaded by a drawing of a worm and titled "Gusaneriaa" or "Wormeries" This column describes with soma glee activities of the anti-Castro exiles as well as reporting stories about certain rightwing leaders in Latin America The word Gusano has grown In meaning sines Castro first used it Canvas Bags In Havana it has been ex tended to cover a type of bulky canvas bag with a ripper designed to carry the maximum 66 pounds a Cuban can taka HOLLAND GROWN nil have to learn is to hide when mother gives the hide AigiuL They must learn to hide under the nearest things a leaf some dead grass a bit of bark If then is nothing to hide under they must flatten themselves on the ground and no matter what happens they must keep perfectly still until mother signals for them to come lo her Did you ever see a magician make things disappear before your very eyes? Well that is ths way those babies could disappear One instant they would be running about looking for something to eat and the very next instant mother having aignaled they would simply vanish Of course they wen right then all the time They disappeared by simply squatting among the leaves on the ground and not so much as winking an eye Then their little coats just sort of melted into Uie surroundings so that it wk very very difficult to see one even when looking right at it No one knew better than did their mother the many dangers that would beset these darlings of hen while they were learning to look out for thenuelves She worried She couldn't help it Fortunately obedienee State Honors Press Pioneers CONCORD NH April 12 -(UP1) New Hampshire has made a generous donation to the journalism field For example: Uie first newspaper in the waa founded by "Lcn? John" Wentworth a native of the Granite State and Charles A Dana editor of tho 'New York Sun for many yean wu born in Hinadsla Horace White editor of the New York Tribune and New York Evening Post for many years was born in Colebronk and Charles Miller long-tini" editor of the New York Times was born in Hanover Charles Farrar Browne better known as Ward" spent his newspaper apprenticeship on the staff of tho Coos County Democrat in Lancaster rV I i ft a trtf rZ ft liU 1 lr TEAEOSES-RED varieties Scr Imian Cleryi trimihn w7 grading 7KTCa tnwnv 1 J' sS 1 -T Qpa KirW Enb I MifaW tHwwqr Korlnt S'- -Jr Suns! 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