HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1955-12-07, Page 7Mary Pickford
1918
R. Barclay Warren, B.A.,
Who Is My Neighbour?
Luke 10: 25-37
Memory Selection: Thou :shalt
love the Lord thy God with
thy heart, and with all thy so
and with All thy strength, a
with all thy mind; and the
neighbour as thyself, Luke 1k'
Harold Lloyd Richard Barthelniess
1921 1921
"GEORGE" WINNERS .7 These famous stars of the silent screen
are among 20 winners of the first "George" award for "Distin
guished contribution to the art of motion pictures, 1915-1925."
The awards were made at the First Festival of Film Artists. The
winners were selected by the persons they worked with during,
their film days. The festival is sponsored by the George Eastman
„House of Photography. The award, named for. George Eastman,
is a medal bearing his likeness, set in an eight-ifich-block,of
transparent plastic. ^
In our Christian life theor,r,
and practice must be prOper*
coordinated. The lawyer was 14
On his theory but not so Cleat
On its everyday applicatidn. 041
knew that 'to love God with .alt
one's being and to love one'*
neighbour as himself was the
way to inherit eternal life. But
he also knew that he had not
lived up to this law of love and
so he asked, "And who is al'
neighbour?" The point Of the
parable of the Good SarnartiaR
was unrnistable, The essence• a
neighbourliness is to show
mercy on the needy regardlesf
of colour,1 race or creed. The
priest looked at the unfortunatar
man and passed by on the otlier.
side. The Levite who perform.
ed more ordinary duties arounili
the temple looked more closely
but went on, But the Samaritans,
despised by the Jews because
he was a descendant of those,
Jews who had intermarried with
the colonists brought in by the
Assyrians, eared for the man.
He proved himself a neighbour.
He even left the wages for five
days' work with the innkeeper
to insure his continued care and
promised more if "it were re-
quired.
Our well-Organized welfare
agencies leave us lots of room
to be good neighbours. 'There
are needs about us among our
citizens and among immigrants,
There are the little deeds which
we may do that say so much_
Nationally we are cOnsiclering
our less fortlnate neighbonrs.
The Colombo plan is an example
of our effort here. Many of our
trained young people are catch-
ing the vision of going to those
parts of the world where they
are most needed, I asked one of
my former students what were
his plans when he graduated
with his M.D. "Oh, set up
practise here and make a pile
of money," he replied. I saw
the twinkle in his eye. "No," he
said, "I'm thinking Of going to
North Africa?' That is the spirit
of the Good Samaritan.
Potato growers, "both north
o'ancl south of . the Border, Cott-
tinually lament the fact that
folks nowadays don't eat AS
many "sppds" as they used to
do a few years ago. Dieting to
keep the weight and waist-line
down is generally blamed for
this sad condition, but there are
4 good* many who believe that
the real reason is that potatoes,
although vastly Improved in appearance, simply do not taste
as well as their predecessors.
My meaning will be made clear-
er by this dispatch by John
Gould to The Christian Science
Monitor, written from the State
of Maine, one of the greatest
potato-growing areas in the
United States.
The lady made quite a rash
remark, for these parts, She
said, "My goodness, if I could
only get a decent potato, even
If it was Idaho, I'd cheer and
carry on . . ." Such a remark
certainly requires sympathetic
analysis, With Maine full of
potatoes, and the market de-
pressed, and the farmers like-
wise, the high treason of the re-
mark mustn't be lightly, con-
strued.
• }
Yet it's a reasonable remark.
f am reading a report by the
United States Department of
Agriculture which tells about
the government developnient of
10 new potato varieties in the
past .20 years. It also says that
by 1973 the average Yield per
acre will go from the present
350 to 300 or more bushels. This
news is imparted with a note of
jubilance over the obvious ac-
nievement. Yet last winter Sec-
retary Benson told the Maine
potato , growers they were -
crOwding the market, that they
should plant fewer acres, con-
centrate an selling, and work
toward quality. They didn't pay
my attention, of course, but
most of them know he was
right. *'
With potatoes, plentiful, why
does •,said lady lament?
'When I was a lad we had two
real potatoes looked when you
burst the jacket and laid on a
cut of butter. By 1973, they tell
us, it will be even more so.
* *
It is an interesting deVelop-
ment. Of course, a lot of modern
people tell you they're satisfied
with this or that potato. In fact
I've tried new kinds myself and
opined they were pretty good.
The Kennebec is about as good
as any, and has won many
friends. But most of that is by
comparison with other modern
kinds, and it still a long distance
from what I'd call top-notch.
MERRY MENAGERIE
dins, Kennebecs, Chipppwas,
Ontarioi, S eb a g o s, Homes
(pronounced .Homers)- and
Cherokees; and' other ^33 others
of like stripe, and the horizon
is obssureci„with an, excess, crop,
and We 'have .a little woman
plaintively longing for a good
potato. You name a. blight or a
bug and we've got a potato' that
will lick' U. You propose a trade
difficulty, and we've got a po-
tato that takes care Of it. The
Colorado Beetle has been licked,
we are up to 275 bushels to the
acre, we keep making new va-
rieties to plant—and we sit
sit around remembering how
"Most frustrated turtle I know
He's 'subject to spells of wan«
derlust, but 'never gets to where]•
he's gOinfel"
unit' naturally exist and are
capable Of retaining rainfall
rufeeTn4: 1 1/1:4 runnylta is then,ndied,s sedprany t
irri-
gation equipment which, can be
...towed about the farm by at tract
.tor to irrigate pastures,
The Badgery's Creek ram
was well-suited 'to the Geddes
"water harvesting". plan, It
comprised about 400 acres Of
difficult land with steeply un-
dulating relief, shallow and in
fertile soils, plus an unreliablO
rainfall. It was hard to see any
advantages in the thin native
pastures. In fact, it was just the
type of place where a farmer
With a, typical 50-cow dairy herd
would be hard pressed to make
a living,
Walking around this experi-
mental farm One rainy day, Mr,
Geddes noticed how the rainfall
slid Off the steep relief after a
sharp storm. It was then that he
got the idea Of storing this run-
off for spray irrigation of pas-
tures.
Today, after a year's dam-
building, Mr. Geddes has some
half dozen or so strategically
d dams which take advan-
tage of the natural relief. Total
capacity is about 40 million gal
Ions,
-
One of the dams is a "turkey
nest" unit, meaning' it was built
on flat land, by bulldozing a cir-
cular embankment This dam
was not excavated (which would
be an expensive' process) and
was built as a demonstration fOr
the benefit of visiting farmers
whose land is generally flat. It
holds eight million gallons,
The spectacle of so many dams
On the' place gives the visiting
farmer the idea that a lot of
money has been spent. Actually,
this is not so, as Mr. Geddes
stresses. Total cost of bulldozing.
the dams was abOut $4,500. But
the resultant income from the
70-cow dairy herd now exceeds
$17,000 a year, a figure which
could never have been attained
on this formerly run-down farm.
"We are so placed now," said
Mr. Geddes, "that after one good
fall of rain we are safe for
another 12 months. We can have
a complete' drought until this
time next year and still have
good grazing."
The dairy herd is permitted
to "strip-graze" each pasture in-
side a portable electric fence.
When the herd has moderately
grazed 'the strip, it is moved to
the next strip and the spray
lines are dragged in by tractor
and the grazed strip is intensive-
ly spray irrigated from the
nearest dam. This technique en-
sures a high carrying capacity
of beasts to the acre and also en-
sures a rotation of lush growth.
"The fertility of our soils
doesn't seem to matter greatly,"
said Mr. Geddes. "With water
and fertilizers, pastures can be
grown on almost any soil type."
The fact that this "water hare
vesting" plan can be entirely
self - financing —,,through the
economies it effects in fcidder
bills and in added income
earned—is a major reason why
farmers regularly visit this uni-
versity farm to see for them-
selves.
What they see is a series of
dams in the main valley of the
farm, set at intervals like a
staircase. Water which would
not ordinarily run into these is
led off' the higher slopes by a
'series of contour drains cut with
a plow. These divert water into
the dams' so that about 80 per
cent of the total run-off is
stored.
Some of the pastures are re-
served for natural fodder crops
and stocks are stored kir winter
use. • These reserves provide a
second line of defense against
drought should the clams be
taxed to their limit,
Upsidedown to Prevent Peetune
I raised my eyes, A, dasZlittli
scarf of white mist at the 1.500,-,
foot level girdle$ the volcano
Ifuelplai, whose top Is hid. In
rain.
I clouds Nowgrasp a, hammer in, one
hand, .and screwdriver In the
ether (for why dull a wood
chisel on bone?), and dive for
coral.
Down again in the watery
world of muted color, huge eor-
al heads spring around me like
gigantic% tinted cauliflowers.
Bed t rust, blue, purple, mustard,
pink—they blossom, at my fing-
er tips,
PrOwling among this seem-
ingly petrified, but yet a forest
Of living creatures, I spat a,
smaller head, the size of a
basketball, with perfectly form-
ed branches, and a brilliant
blue in color. Surfacing far, air,
I resubmerge, place the screw-
driver against the stern under
the branchingi head and give
one knock of the hainrner. The
head breaks neatly off. This
carefully bear to, the surface
and place the brittle shape, yet
slimy with living polyps, in the
outrigger.
By the time I have surfaced
with another, the first one has
turned mauve. In the strong
sunlight, it will be pink by the
time we return to shore,
In the meantime my two
Filipino companions have not
been idle, bringing up beautiful
heads and branches to add to
our collection. There is branch
coral, brain coral, finger coral,
antler coral, fire coral (for this
they must wear canvas gloves),
and an assortment of shells. One
of the boys proudly adds a hel-
met shell, complete with heavy
orange lip and living mollusk,
which he, spotted crawling along
on the deepest place of all.
There are also blue-black
spiny urchins, a.native delicacy
when broken open and the roe
eaten -raw, like marine caviar.
To,this wealth from the deep I
ad some recl-spined urchins,
just to make the collection pret-
ty. These brilliant red spikes,
like pieces of 'chalk with blunt
ends, will turn purple and then
brown, as the sunlight dulls
them.
A white satiny eel has been
spatted, covered with lavender
„dots like a bird's egg. He darts
from one crack across a puka
to another, but not before we
have seen,his gorgeous coat, fit
for a princess to wear.
We spy a turtle's hind-legs
sticking out from a cave, .where ,
he has repaired headfirst to
sleep. We -grasp him and pull
-him out, and then have merry
sport trying to "ride" him to the
surface, the poor creature all
the time trying to swim down
to those nether realms that he
calls home.
We finally let him go, and
rest and catch our breath on
the surface. You* would think
we would have had enough, but
I can't keep my eyes off the
bottom. Peering through my
face glass, I suddenly see a .
small tiger shark meandering
among the coralheads. He has
a streamlined nose, a long
oblique tail, and six feet of gray
lithe steely strong body. Now
he circlet my lava anvil direct-
ly beneath me. His little eyes
roll up to me, but he keeps On
his circuitous course.
The picture is complete. The
shark in the coral, sleek,"-Weau-
tiful in his effortless motion;
the reef fish, darting in and
• out of their crevices or dancing
in pairs in the sheer joy of live
ing; the sun shining &Own,
warming the world; the waters
lapping the boat; the trade
winds, blowing fresh and free;
me On the surface—' peering
down in wonderment and peace,
the surf against the shore, the
shore against the 'mountain, the
mountain against the sky.
I leisurely climb aboard the
outrigger, where my two' corn-
paniens had 'quickly repaired at
the first breath Of "shark," and
We' paddled shoreward, Out boat
heavy With our trophies of the
"deep. We are in brilliant' sun-
light, made even more intense
by contrast with thotlivauntain
we are Paddling to*ard, datk
With rain. As we move into the
quieter, waters of Keauhou bay,
a dazzling rainbow arches the
sky,
Harvesting Rainfall
"Water harvesting," a simple
-technique which can add mil-
lions of dollars to fanners' prat-
its, is Swiftly gathering inerrieri-
tuin 'in rural Atistialia,
"Water harvesting" Was de.
veloped by the Univertity of -
SYdney'S IVEcGarVie Smith Ani-
mal ktisbandrY Farm at Badge
ety'a Creek, NeVe South Wales.
It Was the idea of the farm
director, :T.. Geddes, agricul-
Witt scientist and Settler lec-
turer in animal husbandry at
the University of Sydney,
IVir, Gedclee. basic problem
was to devise a IOW = cost,
, dietight-clefeating techniqUe lot
Wets in areas of unreliable
rainfall. He Caine 110 With via-.
ter harvesting.
This technique consists in
Utilising the natural relief 01
farmland by bulldozing eartlieri,
work Walla across gullies Cit
other features Where three sided
of the pitential water storage
Skin-Diving Off The Coast of Kona
kinds of potatoes we grew, One
was the Early Rose, and we'd
have them, big enough to eat by
the tll'aurth or July. The other
was the Green Mountain which
came along in the fall and went
into the cellar and to market.
Unless he's been there, nobody
knows the unequaled excellence
of the Early Rose potato—we
liked to cook the little new ones
right in with the green peas,
with a srnall".chunk of salt pork
assisting. It was a haymaker's
delight. The. Early Rose, burst-
ing its pink jacket with mealy,
mellow goodness, was tops, But
commercially it is a lost cause.
4, 1,
My grandfather used to dig a
wheelbarrow full every morn-
ing, wheel it to the kitchen door,
and Grandmother would pick
out in her apron what she need-
ed for the day's supply. Then
he'd wheel what was left over
and dump them to the pigs.
Then in the fall the Green
Mountains would get harvested
and the only Early Rose we
stored would be seed for the
next year.
111 **
When the. USDA began its re-
search 20 years ago and turned
out 40 new varieties, they com-
promised the standards, The po-
tatoes they produced were "bet-
ter"—but what did they mean
by better? They resisted blight
and bugs, they yielded more per
acre, they ripened sooner, they
kept better in storage, they
looked smoother, they shipped
better, and they did several
other wonderful things. They
also left milady wistfully leng-
ing for a good old potato:, * *
A friend of mine has a bro-
ther who farms a few hillaides
in Aroostook County, the potato
empire; and he was up'there' on
a visit one fall just as the dig-
ging started. The hillsides were
busy. Great lumbering ma-
chines were rolling the potatoes
out of the ground. Swarths' of
pickers were gathering them
into Aoarrels. Flat trucks, that
hold 40 barrels, with derricks,
were speeding the harvest to
the bins. There were mountains
of potatoes. My friend said to
his brother, "Looks like a good
chance for me to lay in my win-
ter potatoes!" "Sure thing," said
the brother. "The hoe's in the
_garage."
"Hoe?"
"Eyuh. We ought to have one
Of them potato rakes, like a
clam hoe, but we never bother-
ed to get one. We use a hoe."
"But what do you use a hoe
for when you've got all that ma-
chinery?"
The brother laughed. "We 4
don't eat those potatoes—those.
are for market and seed to go
to Idaho and Florida and Long
Island. We eat Green Moun-
tains. The outside row, along
the road, is Green Mountains.
You got to dig them by hand,"
*
So my friend got the hoe, and
he had to walk a long way, be-
cause , the farm family had al-
ready eaten about three quart
tees of a Mile of Green Moun-
tains, and he dug three grain
bags full and then went with
his automobile to' get them. Of
course they were wonderful pre,
tatoes. So .you've got to. ponder
bn the curious industrial cus-
toms of the modern farmer, who
grows hundreds of acres Of pota-
toes to sell to the unwitting
public, but plants some good
potatoes for himself.
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QUEENLY LOOK — PictUre of
regal "beauty is Queen Eliza-
Oeth H on a recent night out in
London. She was atteriding a
benefit performance at Vic-
toria Palace.
black and yellow banded 11/dor-
ish idol. Now a trigger fish,
which natives take the pains to
call "huinuhurnunkunukuopua-
a." There hesitates a butterfly
fish With a long delicate nose
and an even longer name —
"louwilievilinukunukupeoe" — a
name which we doubt if he ever
answers to. And now, before I
have to leave, a fish I don't
know the name for. He lies in
a cave entrance like a melted,
lump of tallow, and surveys the
,world through disenchanted
'eyes, writes Chaffee Castleton
in The. Christian Science Mgnie
tor.
I surface, gasping for air, gain
my, breath; then go down again.
This time, grasping the lava I
stare into another puka, or hole.
In it is a puff et. After a few
flouriahes of trepidation he '
settles down to outstare me,
and we remain nose to noSe,
both raptly fascinated.
What a comical creature! This
marine Pagliacci has a long
pointed delicate snout which
slopes back to a dish-shaped
face and a body the shape of
an anginal. cucumber. The most ,
intricate deaign of royal bltle
and black pattern hit sides—
it .would thrill a couttirier. His
back is orange polka dots . on.
Velvet black, and his comical
face is ringed in canary yellow,,,
. I surface again, and rest on
the yaku, or arm, of the out-
rigger', looking across dappled
Water to the mid-Pacific isle
that We set Out 'from,' Here •
white cornbere gnash on black
laVa but three years cooled, ,
There a Windmill rising Out of
a kiaWe jungle marks a huirian
Higher yet, the klaWe (Mos-
quit known as algeroba); 11
broken by deeper bands of
green that mark the coffee
Weis. Pdckete of yet deeper
green marls the. dark lustrous
inagtiolialike leaves of kaniane,
Broad bands Of 'lava striate the
xnetintairiSide, their ,black fields
of a'aS Or broken ptlrnice, 'soft_
bled by Straggling 011ie' trees
the first to grovi on lairei and
the 'yellow-green of ktiktil, or
tatidleilut trees. Lend gene are
the tainfilicir trees Which sweet,
erred' the air far out to sea,
DENTAL DESPREATION Josef Schneider is down in the Mouth
over his work most of the tirne—Cind he's not a dentist, The
'childreri'S photographer has found this a sure way td' COax
stifle from almost any baby--Iskt you Must be quick. Schneider
began Cr. -Career as one psycholOgiit, but found that thu
taihierd, riot the coutR, Weti his true medium.
Our outrigger lies like a dark
arrow on the sunlit bay. We
are in tropic waters which
dance and dazzle on the sur-
surface, • gleaming turquoise
over sand, cobalt, over coral,
and gun-metal over lava out-
croppings. Farther out,the pur-
pie patches mean cloud ”sha-
*slows, and On the horizon a tum-
ultuouS pile of pearly clouds
hide 'volcano Haleakala and its
island Maui.
Looking down over the side
of the narrow boat, there are
thirty feet of, pure salt sea
water between us and the bot-
tom. It is this lambent world' of
"fantastic colort, shapes, and tex-
tures that we will penetrate.
For we are, after coral, Two of
us dive Tretn the outrigger; an-
other surface=divet, Wearing
rubber flippers and glass face
masks, we each are on our own.
Fifteen feet below the sur-
face rises a lava shelf shaped
like an anvil, startlingly black
against the white sand bottom,
Around this dart and dance
brightly-colored reef fish:
I plummet down. Then, grasgi.
ing the lava anvil with both
hands to steady myself against
the strong coastwise current,
lie still, outstretched, a few
moments,. The fish, which have
darted into crevices, now came
Out again, as curious as their
Visitor.
Each is more startling in
1hape and color than the last.
Thete are green 'fish with red
stripes, red . fish With green
stripe's, Silver fish with black
stripes, `black fish with silver
4tritie, blue on silVet, silver On
blue, dote oil ,stripeS, stripes on
dots,. Fish that are long and
thin, like anithated drinking
straws. Fish that. are fat and
grumpy at goblins., Fish with
facee that laugh end say, "Isn't
this a delightful world?'" end
fish 'with big turned down lips
that mutter, ,"Ain't it sit awful
Plade to be!" '
There are fish that dart like.
arrowa. Fish that dance "their
long sea` dances"-- either solo
Or in PairS. Fish that loll, se-
&Ire hi the doetway df\their
watery'caves"
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suttfish.:niere ties A stately
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