The Bermuda Recorder

              page five saturday september 8 19;5<3 . the bermuda recorded weekly your feature page three pals chemicals turn plants into giants the bermuda work shop the suez canal crisis egyptians rally to their leader as nation takes a short story by althea wilson by june pitt new substance now identified two of bermuda's most en terprising young business women are miss stephanie irant and miss ivy smith who operate the bermuda work shop where they produce finely made clothing for the entire family it is located in dundonald street near the former stop and shop build ing and managed by stephanie crisis in stride eleanor barbara and i we're born and practically reared in the same home town in the good old sunny south i came to new york city some many many yea_-s ago to live with my sister dora barbara came a few years later to live with her sister jimmie eleanor was the last one to come she shared barbara's apartment and a few years later she set up housekeeping tor herself and kept it well rented how is my old trash pile friend in our little town we had what you would call a city dump we would get a great big kick out of going to the city dump to see what we could find and sometimes w would make a dime stot.p.s conn sept 3 — scientists reported last week chemical identification of a substance that can overcome heredit ary growth defects in some plants and make giants of others less tli 11 one hundred billionth ot an ounce painted on leavs by geoffery godsell in the christian scienci fcrence the janitor and ins ii lends gathered round me at the entrance to my apartment building questioning me about what president nasser had will : i cause dwarf corn plants to grew normally bring to bloc m in the first year biennial flowering plants turn bm-li bians into pole beans make a sturdy geranium plant into a daddy-long-legs double t v monitor known since 1598 to be caus b a fin.gus — a m id then a few years later we all met new mates eleanor could only keep a man for a ghotrt while barbara let her ii 11 it always kept two men in reserve at all times i never had too much luck myself but work goes to a formosan e peit on plant disease by ih n a m e of kir .. ■ cairo there is a timeless feeling about this great city ihe nile the pyramids an 1 tiie sphinx have seen so many centuries of recorded history and are still here un moved to remind us of what they have witnessed these two charming and friendly ladies discussed yes terday some of their plans or should we say dreams for the future — dreams which can easily come true if they could only get the full support of the entire community said sense of purpose will this interest i think com.s from a measure of national pride of national dignity that colonel nasser has managed to give the great mass of egyp tians for the first time in modern history they feel now they have a stake in what is going on size rose brushes a id smashed the mold and filtered ii the filtered extract he found produced the unusual growth in the rice from th n on japanese scientists to _; up the seareli and identified one of the gibberellins tomato plants we lived in what you ailed the heart of harlem and what made it so nice we all lived in walking distance of each other i go back home to visit quite often and when i do i never wait on my loved ones to come to see me i just put on my every day clothes and away i wouid go barbara hasn't ever been back to visit her home town because her family moved to jersey city new jersey eleano'r has been back several times on a visit but not as many times as i have i managed to hold him for a while anyway one of the scientists making the report said that there was some indication that the actual yield of plants measured by iiy weight could be increased but there was no definite evi dence yet perhaps that is why cairo seems to be taking the suez crisis in its stride on the surta.ee at any rate life con tinues calmly and normally the influx of correspondents from abroad is the only imme diate sign that the eyes of the world are on this city then one day i met a man and fell madly in love with him and he was in love with rue his name was edward ben son i called him ed for short barbara had seen ed many times but every timr elear.-r came to see me ed was out be cause he was a terrible gambl er so one beautiful sunny day i decided to call up the gang and throw a party i had about 12 people and among those 12 people were two of my best friends eleanor haw kins and barbara higgins at the dinner table that night eleanor saw ed for the first time she could hardly eat for watching him i didn't let it bothet me too much because i knew eleanor was tit 1 crazy and ed ws just an or dinary man it never dawned on me that eleanor would be glad to get any old thing that came her way graduates of the girls insti tute of arts and crafts they would like to know that they had sneh good public support that they could justifiably call their establishment a clothing fatcofey employing several of the graduates of their alma mater tmiss grant said they had received support from their former teachers and she thought that all things being considered we aren't doing the importance of the chem ical for plants was emphasized hy dr b o phinney of the university of california l •■• colonel nasser is no ataturk and whether he has achiev-d enough on the home front to avoid being overtaken by egypt's awesome economic and social problems is another question the effect of the material a combination of three chemica's called the gibbcrellins after angeles who told of experi ments in a dozen universities tiiat have brought out ma iv weird and potentially econom ically important effects the concern of most persons here in recent days has been cairo's longest heat wave this year the temperature reach 1 '.* the 90's here almost every day in summer but we have jus had a spell with the thermo meter reading nearly 110 de gress day after day tiie mold that makes them could be likened to that of a chemical painted on the arm of a brown-eyed baby thr would make him grow up in.o a blue-eyed adult most of tie things in the plants affeetvj by he gibbcrellins are like eye color in human beings that is i ncy are strictly controlled by heredity however there is no doubt if the increased growth of tiie plants which also include wheat barley and encumbers that he has achieved some thing for the first time egyptians feel they hav a man at their head who is too badly i was the oldest one of all eleanor was the youngest but she looked older than barbara and i put together we were all college graduates and were not jealous of what type of j.-b either one was holding — we simply said to each his own eleanor was the only one of the trio who worked at her p'ro means an actual increase i lain or fruit then the gib berellines with their profound eiieets in small quantities m iv bling about a minor revolution in agriculture because of i f ■> ability to explode the growth ol plants it might also have i;se as a weed killer more potent than 2-4 d amongst the outstanding or ders that have been turned out by them since opening in march this year include uni forms for bermuda high i 1 t i f /-*• l __ _ r __ _ _ there has not been even the faintest breeze to stir the tall and slender palm trees on the banks of the nile the anur.r.l muddy flood waters of the mighty river gathering force on their way from the re mote mountain fastnesses of pjthinpia to the sea ha^e added humidity to the heat honest and who brings a sense of purpose to the direction of their affairs perhaps that lias not per meated all layers of the ad ministration so clogged wi_h numbing bureaucracy but tha man in the street feels things are beinnr better run than they were he feels too that colonel nasser is trying to run things for the good of egypt as a whole and not for the benefit of a privileged and effete oligarchy dr frank ii stodolia of id • united states department of agriculture station at peoria 1 ii reported how he and his colleagues had isolated two of tne three substances and how workers at imperial chemi.nl industries in britain had worked out a tentative chemi cal structure of one of them school for girls the super mart also shirts skirts dresses men's apparel and various oth er items which have proven their ability to accomplish things out of the ordinary anything one may require in the line of wearing appalrel these talented ladies hope to be of service and what is im portant prices are reasonable though we were former school teachers in the good old sunny south when the time ame for us to seek our future lite we all had different ideas eleanor was title crazy so much so we called her the pencil lady barbara was money crazy so much so we called her the eagle i was love crazy so much so they called me love crazy be cause 1 loved what i could get out of life with a mail i loved eczema eating our ice creams it groppi's or taking long drafts of cool fresh lemonade at lappas we cairenes have for once sympathized with those washingtonians whose sum mer theme song is • it's not trie heat it's the humidity after eleanor saw ed sue fell desperately in love with him she would call up my house most every day trying to catch ed here but she nev er had any luck a few months later ed went to a dance and eleanor was there she 1'an up to him and said rashes to help bring swift soothing relief from the awful itching and irritation of eczema and other skin rashes try dr chase's medicated antiseptic ointment a safe home treatment for over 50 years 36 the scientists made the dis covery by studying a strange disease of rice plants which causes them to grow tall anl thin and then die before fruit ing the japanese call th ! ailment he foolish seedlin disease and it has h i can imagine after seeing the magnificent work done by them what personal satisfac tion they get knowing thd'r skillful hands created the out standing ensembles worn by their customers the egyptian man in the street takes pride too in the revitalized army that colonel nasser has given his country dr chase's a splendid new scenic high way that sweeps along the east bank of the nile through the center fo the city may not be the answer to the country's pressing economic and social problems but it gvies egyp tians a feeling that at long last something can ge done — and done in record time antiseptic ointment foreigners impressed remember me ed answered and said it seems like i have seen you some place then eleanor said remember the dinner party and he said oh hy the way yes j do then eleanor wanted to know how is your better half ed answered and said as sweet as ev*r eleanor kept stand ing there waiting for ed to ask her to dance to get rid of her he had a waltz with her in order to take her back to hei box so he could go back to his bunch that were waiting for him foreign residents of long standing are impressed even puzzled hy the restraint and calm of the egyptian man in the street under shadow ■ f the suez crisis of course egyptians do ask themselves are the british and the french goinjr to invade us yet there is no sign of pani or of hostility to individual westerners eleanor married a doctor and he soon dropped her like a hot potato barbara married a musician with loads of money and some other woman won his heart i married a hard work in man and loved tin very earth he walked on some other woman also won his heart bu he eame back 24 years later to remarry me however i de lided too much water had flown under the bridge emvm^i i have heard egyptians criti cize colonel xasser but not since the full fnry of the west descended on him for national izing the suez canal company give a fair test to the pro ducts that just bid about whiteness . • • then try omo the blue washing powder that really gives you white results . > . rome of these hot evening i have sat under a clear strii sv at sidewalk cafes patron ized b no other westerners and have neve failed to ge the most cordial treatme.t 1 and nolite attention do a wash with any of the old powders • • . he has never succeeded in building a ca__?7 ir.sed poli tical organization to support hi regime his system of srov ernment is authoritarian ther <_ is military and police control tn effect there is censorship and the weight of government propaganda is stultifying we were three grass widows almost at the same time an j we three had to go out to seek new companions and to start a new life for ourselves all over again once a month we three would get together and have a ball and whenever we would meet out code wan i b '* * 01 y w sa^.,:iiv y»;a:i s.^ssgi | , lll . . .. ,■■■-- ■■ , w . haws at the dinner table one night ed said to me oh by the way i saw one of your friends at the dance last week and she wanted to know how around me were egyptians nubian and sudanese — a f»w of them in traditional ankle length ealabiyas and wearing on their heads skull caps licrht turbans or tarbooshes traditional dress incidental , is graduallv giving way to western clothes and ed then said to me i mean that great big one and what a load to waltz around with then i said oh you mean eleanor ". and he said oh yes you were i named quite a few but tiie suez crisis has made egyptians put to one side any reservations about colonel nasser and rally to his sup port as the defender of their dignity and rights as the man 5 ii______i^p ________________«/ j * f h ba vv t _________________ * hp9 ___-_-_■- that sounds like the name every evenntr egvptian men folk turn out in heir thous ands leaving their wives at home as is moslem custor and gather at cafes to gossip sip their refreshment or plav dominoes or trick-track _ _■ _■» i a few weeks later eleanor called me and told me all kin s of lies on ed she told me he had another woman out to the danee then ed said to me your biggest trouble in life is you don't get out enough to continued on page 6 yes try the lot-and youm verdict will be^^l omq^ivesyoj the whitest wa9 in the world m 111 vss worthwhile in everv cafe you find a portrait of president nasser almost certainly you find a radio turned on full wast so that the oriental music coming from it sounds harsh and raucous at the appointed time the music is interrupted for a news broadcast a hush falls over the cafe and every body listens _ * 1 1 reading . ♦ • learn more about women and why is eleanor so interested in what i do she must want me for herself want you don make me laugh eleanor wouldn't have a cheap gambler like you ed said i never lost a bet yet and he also said i am going to show you . . for your whole fomfly in the world-famous pages of tbe christian science monitor enjoy erwin cx canham's newest stories penetrating national and in ternational news coverage how-to-do features home making ideas every issua brings you helpful easy-to read articles what some women ate really made of and also there are all kinds of women in the world some you dance with some you eat with some you p'ay cards with and some you g out with we just kept on quiftreling until we decided to call it a day some persons abroad m.y t'nink world affairs are aljove the head of the humble egyp tian t have not found this sn at least among egyptian cilv dwellers egyptians with little formal education lisf.n avidly to the news broadcas+s which are understood even by those who cannot read _ _ _ ■» • t j * - „ you can get this interna tional daily newspaper from boston by mail without xtra charge use the cou pon below to start your subscription *» aim boras bru-ma aara mad str mj msirn b-h-j-wfcn i_i j r u h w tur-tr a«_in 4___wr rfl__w eywb tar____r itv i_mh hi etn m i — *-•-' mmmm f iii l mr throat 9 i challenge to every woman in the country ! take any washing powder you think will make a good job of your white wash give it a fair test and note i the results then do a wash with omo — the '; fragrant blue washing powder and don't leave out \| a thing toss the dirtiest clothes you can find into 1 omo's gentle glistening suds s when the ironing stage is reached compare the ® whiteness by then you'll be ready t<j agree that ■ omo whiteness outshines anything you've ever ■ seen before yes whether omo has to deal with 1 just plain all-over dirt or stains — it gives you the 1 whitest washing in the world * a barbara was not a cheat but was an awful big liar when ever it concerned her love affair if a man gave her 5.00 she would always tell you it was 125.00 and she would never let you think she was ever alone if you called her up over the telephone barbara would say to you hold on for a few seconds darling would you please bring me in broadly speaking egyptian city dwellers of modest station have a surprisingly keen in terest in international develop ments sometimes in my kitchen t find my servant read in aloud from a newspaper to his friends who cannot read ofi aug 12 when i return h from president nasser's news conference at which he an nounced egypt's reply to the invitation to the london coq tha christian scienca monitor ont norway strtat i locton i 5 mas u t a ymu / om fbllhiai waajbaj 00 irmmm r plcoia nod th monitor te w for period chockad j40ttmo a 1yman oo u"t roeowto canada c i to l d * monthi 8 q ■ s month 4 q lnama continued on page 6