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The Brussels Post, 1956-03-14, Page 3a. Poets, from the time of Solomon down, have sung about the beauties of Spring, I have a feeling, however, that few of theni did their singing while trying to dig a bogged-down tractor out Or a gully, or watching' an. early-April freeze ruin a crop that should have been blanketed with snow for another couple of weeks. however, there isn't much percentage in always looking '" backward and any time you hear some nostalgia-smitten; gaffer moaning for the "good old days," just ask him "Like whet?" • • • Like back in 1900, when, more than 500,000 infants under a year old would die each year? The present number is 100,000, with promise that science will continue to reduce the death toll, hi 1900 travel was by horse and wagon or coal-dust dirtYt drafty, trains. That's when food distribution was so limited that fami- lies lived On a narrow, mentonotts diet and a single organge the toe of his Christmas stocking was: a, great treat for Junior. Well — you get the idea, The graphs below tell more Of th• story, So when you meet that nostalgic gaffer just tell him— ins the slang of his day — "Go 'way back and sit down:" PERSONS SUPPORTED BY PRODUCTION OF •ONE FARM WORKER. 1020 ABUNDANT FOOD—North Americans are the best-fed nation in all history. The rapid development of farm mechanization, de- velopment of new fertilizers and scientific agricultural skills give us enough food to feed ourselves, to give and sell abroad and still have a tremendous surplus. TOTAL NONFARM UNITS STARTED, IN HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS. 15 A • • BETTER HOUSING—And more of it. Homebuilding now is re- treating from the peak of 1950, but it is still hundreds Of thous- ands of units above a decade ago. And the new homes being built are more healthful, more comfortable and more convenient to live in then ever before. ready provi d e d something equally gOod right at his door, Virtually eh plants, annual or perennial, big and especially lit- tie, porter what the experts term an open rich loam. now, this simply means a soil that is Pose, that will dry fairly quick* fly' mid without baking hard, This petinits the roots to.. go. down: easily arid well, and it also holds moisture and absorbs sunshine. If one eart.dig the soil easily, if it crumbles when clug, rather than. packs, we simply make it more open by digging. in manure, or green mulch like gcil:oaps. 8 ocfliPrPyien Po, rw eoeadtss ror b°otiveleci:. wheat or almost anything that will eventually, decompose and mix with the Soil, If,' on the . ether hand, our gar- den. is sandy, we follow almost the same course and dig in lots of green stuff and manure to Provide some body and water holding ability, Of course ene does not create ideal garden soil overnight or even ever one season. It may take a year or so, particUlarly if the original is hard sub-soil, clay or something similar. In this connection it would be ad- visable, to. speed matters with an application. of one of • the soil conditioners now on the market. These Will • open . up even the. toughest clay if applied proper- ly. The main. thing with garden soil, as with, regular farming, operations, .is to keep plowing or digging in all the vegetable refuse we can get hold of, It is also an excellent idea to have a compost heap. Fined For Tooting His Own Horn ! WARMHEARTED - Singer Mar- guerite Piazza has a warm heart, all right. She broiled the heart-shaped hamburger as a .resturant inaugurated service of the "hearty" 'burgers as its conrtibution to the annual Heart Fund drive. wood, shirting material and piano wire, his coat-tails flapped along the flimsy fuselage as he lay . , . in the prone position, The Wright Brothersof course, knew nothing of the effects of "G" on a pilot during fast manoeuvres. How could they, considering their speed during initial flights was a mere thirty-five miles an hour? They adopted the position tO cut down wind resistance and be- cause their plane was too fragile, to take a seat. In his fascinating biography of the famous brothers, "First Men To Fly", Laurence Meynell tells how their dream of flight was first kindled. "Our interest first began when we were children," Or- ville Wright revealed in 1920 when giving evidence -in a U.S. court on the question of patents. "Father brought home to us a small toy actuated by a rubber spring which would lift itself into the air. We built a number of copies of this toy which flew successfully." To their astonishment they had actually seen something take to the air under its own power. If a top—why not some- thing much larger? The idea obsessed them, .even as children. A remarkable instance of how' a man's whole life—and in this case, surely, the whole history of the world—can be influenced by some trivial incident in his youth, Belated Fame For Vaudeville Actor Back in the eighties a young actor named Frank Bacon was playing in California vaudeville with his wife. They had a baby, and like many young couples they needed more money than they had. But then he had an idea — and idea that might make enough money, and win enough fame, to solve all their problems; an idea for a play about a hotel on the state line, half in Nevada and half in Cali- fornia, and combining . . . the best features of both; He finally got it written — with what ef- fort and what joy, only the amateur writer knows — and sent if off to a producer (or maybe an agent) in New York. And nothing happened. It made the rounds of the New York producers, and noth, ing continued to happen. Mean- while Bacon and his wife con- tinued to play in vaudeville, and made a living; but baby grew older; with pain, Bacon cut down the play that embodied the Idea into a vaudeville act, which, kept them afloat. But it was a long way from California vaudeville to the glories of Broadway; he still hoped for better things, still kept sending the play around and at last a producer took it He gave it to the bedt play doc- tor of the time, for J'eworking: it was produced on 1Broadway, With .Bacon playing the laed; it ran longer than any play had ever run in. New York up to that time, ,and he made a mil- lion clollatS out of it—when he was sixty-four. — From "But We , Were Borg Fite." by Elmer Davis. Wash old powder puffs and, keep thin withelour cleaning ,equipment to 'ttke" in applying wax polish tot,-41gniture and kitchen surfaces, '1 UpSideri.OV Peeking 20M WHO OB000 OM CO n O NOME umoonoomnuno coma mmu unu mon Moo mom nom owm MODUO MUM MOB @MOW OWN UMO MOW EJOU OOMB NM OM MIMED UNOMUMUNOWWWEi WREWW OWN onti emmu J Ili amu • : „ !,r5„:4...,v,4404,40..„„- • 'Sometimes I.feel you are grew- ing away from me.' STARTED WRONG Two fathers Were discussing Of, Children, "VeS,"' said one, "a great deal depends on Mid fOtMatieti Of early4habitS," alt does," ,agreed the other, "My Mother paid a Waihaii Wheel me 'abarit when I Was "a, baby, and, Tiro been pushed far itietiey ever sinee:" R OF AN INFANTRY DIVISION, OF STEEL FIRED' PER MINUTE. 80% 11,‘04.,4 GREATER 610 WORLD WAR i l 'TODAY STRONGER DEFENSES—Western defensive' weapons am:lc...tech- niques of Warld War II astonished the world. Today most of these marvels are obsolete,. We live in the jet age and are rapidly irt017- irli 1 he o9 rietilmd era that was only a fiction,: sciet a I.1tI1.~go, AticiN tit LiFt AT' i3IRTH. 69,8, YEM15 LONGER' tit'18-Medical Welke and techhology have tOritftidted trianY diseases that Mite took terrible toll of life. Medical research brings nearer the day When the let. undefeated "killer" diseaSei remaining will meet their Waterloo: Th average baby both tOtia, tan eitpect to live neatly nine .years longer than one born, hi 1900, • * ('-/vz, THUMB 6Ordon Child's Toy Changed History Bead and elbOws supported by shock.absorbing cushions, Squad- ron Leader Brie Franklin, 1).F.Q., AX,0,, lay flat on his stOtnach as he' lined tip his specially converted jet On the manoeuvres before coming in to riaunadw, ay. Opening the throttle, he roared into the Sky and per- formed a series of 'high-speed That was in February of 1954. The reason for the test was to prove that a pilt't in the 'prone position could not Only fly 4 plane but also was less affected- by "blacking out" dur- ing, high-speed turns, It was bight), successful: and as a re- sult it's almost certain that our fighter pilots of the future will lie face downwards to fly their • \l.,000-plus m,p.h, jets. tlibOTIN' FOR KEEPS-No child's play is lhis game of marbles, . , All the more ironic to recall played at an aircraft plant. ,"Glassigs" ore thumbed into molds , that, fifty-two years ago — on before final forming of certain parts. Their presence i.,s said to ' December 16th, 1903—when Or- villa. Wright first staggered ten reduce shrinkage, and strengthen the molded items. Costs ate feet into the air at Kitty Hawk said to have been reduced some 80 per cent by use of the milas., in his strange contraption of. ~4:aEvtt Work. hither in new lawns or re- pairing, we sow grass seed early, Grass thrives when the weather is cool and damp, Grass seed usually comes in packaged mix- tures. The reason is simple. We want some early seed that will germinate and grow quickly to provide some green and will also provide some shade for the slower germinating, finer and. more permanent sorts. Also it is a well known agricultural fact that a mixture of grasses or- clovers will give a thicker stand usually than a single variety sown alone, Of course, for very specialized purposes such as bowling or putting greens we may use a single variety, but for ordinary lawn, mixtures are best. Lawns, of course, should be as level and the soil as fine as possible before any seed is sown and that job is best done on a windless day. Directions regard- ing the amount of seed should be followed carefully. Too many people seem to forget that grass is a crop and it will appreciate fertilizer and watering just like any other crop. A well fed lawn on good soil, will soon crowd out most weeds. The Real Foundation Good seed is the very founda- tion of any successful garden. In this matter it is well to re- member that we live in Canada and in this country we have our own sort of climate, soil and weather. For that reason it is most advisable to make sure that we get seed, and nursery stock especially selected for growing in Canada, hardy and vigorous and that will mature or bloom in our own particular climate. If we stick to the Cana- dian seed catalogue from any reputable. house . we cannot go wrong. Because.-every seed or plant that is listed ,there has been actually tested in Canada, has been grown sticcessfully in our own climate and is especial- ly suited to Canadian • condi- tions. Tailored Soil Thousands of words have been written abOut, the ideal type of garden soil and much more will be written. But it's a simple matter .really, hi spite' of some of the .big• technical words that are often used.. As a , matter of fact almost anyone, unless -he lives 1.15,Ore rtheperma- frost, can build up an 'ideal' garden soil if nature has not al- NDAY SC11001,- LESSON Mr. Cyril Callow, chairman of the bench, said, "Well, er, yes." (Almost immediately afterward he wished he had not.) The sound of an electric horn rang round the walls of the court. It was an electric horn to end all eletric horns. It was also an electric horn to end all courts. The terrible sound rushed out of the room and ran echoing eerily through the cor- ridors. There was then a long silence, for which all present except maybe the defendant were pro- foundly thankful. The magistrate decided that while Mr. Brown could indubi- tably make a noise like a horn, he was not in fact or in law himself "an instrument giving audible warning of approach." So they fined him ten shillings. The London Daily Mail, sens- ing a human story behind this case in a hitherto dusty court, sent a reporter to interview Mrs. Brown. "Just the sort of thing he would do," said •Mrs. Brown, as her husband went his rounds in ' the Birmingham area. "He claims it's a better warning than anything manufactured. "It's like the Worst kind of Klaxon horn, I've heard it many times—never got used to it. "Before we were married we did a lot of motor-cycling. Sometimes I'd be on the pillion, and he;c1 do his Klaxon imita- tion. It nearly frightened me off the back. "It certainly cleared every- thing out of the way. "He has elaborated it since he was a boy. We thought that as he grew more middle-aged he wouldn't do this sort of thing. But he has." Mr. Brown's son and daugh- ter have never copied their father's tricks. Mrs. Brown sighed. "There's a grandson, though," she said, "We've done everything we can to stop him, but his imita- tion of an electric horn shows promise of being worse than his grandfather's." A whole new generation of electric horns may be growing up. Many of them are going 'to be tourists in Paris. They may teach Parisians to hoot. If I were M. Dubois I'd- make cer- tain that Gallic logic changes the law so that what counts there is not the instrument but the noise. — John Allen May in The Christian Science Monitor. PAID PASSENGER MILES (IN BILLIONS). 50 VARIED TRAY traveling to ne more country wheels. The the earth. xpanded horse-and-buggy to circulate farther, see. °biles put a continent on r horizons to the far ends of Andre. Dubois, the Paris Pre- fect of Silence, had better look to his laws to see that there are no loopholes in them. I have to report an alarming development. While Prefect Dubois has banned the automobile horn from Paris, it is still the law in England that every car must have fitted to it an instrument capable of giving audible warn- ing of its approach. The other 'day this law,. led to a strange occurrence in a Yorkshire court. And that in turn led to a new legal ruling about automobile horns. In, effect this ruling is that legally the horn is the in- strument itself or casing and not the noise that comes out of it. If this should also prove to be -the law in Paris, the most formidable disturbance could ensue, Were Parisians to learn ,how to. produce a sound like that ,of an automobile horn without any mechanical instru- ment they could hoot with im- punity. I leave the consequence to • M. Dubois' imagination. For that is what Mr. John Lawrie Brown learned to do— he learned to make a noise like an 'electric horn without .ac- tually 'having an electric horn. He. did not, however, hoot with impunity. Mr. Brown in fact was pre- sented before the magistrates at Dronfield charged with hav- ing no warning instrument , fitted to his truck. He entered a please of not guilty. When it was' time to- present the case for the defence Mr. Brown rose and stated that he kept beside him on the driving seat "a piece of an old horn," consider," he said. "that this complies with the law." And then he launched his thunderbolt. "Tor," ha declared with studied emphasis, "I myself can imitate an electric horn. And I have been able to do this perfectly, since I was a small boy." The court seemed taken aback. So Mr. Brown, driving home his "advantage as he would his truck, asked if the court would like an example of his talent, . by way .of proof for his case, 'UNIQUE HONOR First . U.S, woman entrant ever to win the , Olympic gold Medal 'for figure skating, Tenley-,Albright poses in Cortina, Italy; *holding her medal and other Olympic Ii. Bitrelay i ert 15-A, O.D. Jesus Institutes the Lord's Supper Luke 22: 7-23 Memory Selection: As often as ye eat this bread, and drink this 'cup, ye do shew forth the Lord's 'death till he come. I Corinthians 11.26 This is a very appropriate les- son as we approach the Easter reason. It Was the last evening before the crucifixion. There were some saddening circumstances. There was a strife among the dis- ciples, "which of them should be accounted the- greatest." Per- haps that is why no one of them offered to wash the dusty feet of his companions. That was the Office of the lowest in rank. No one was going to thus compro- mise his chances for position by doing this menial task. Jesus laid aside his garments, girded himself and washed their feet. It was a lesson they would never forget. The way to' greatness is the way of service, At the table that night Peter was rebuked for his boldness and self-sufficiency by the pre- diction that before the cock crowed twice he would deny Jesus., three times. Peter didn't believe it till it happened. Then he went out and wept bitterly, Judas Was there, When Testir had identified him as the be- trayer he went out to do the 'fiendish deed, It Was, not a hap- Py evening.. .* But the, occasion liVes in the hearts] of Chistians around 'the the world -fen, More iniportant ..reason then any of these. Jesus instituted a lasting memorial of liis death. The broken bread syin- bolized his body that was ;broken for us and the wine, his blood that was shed for us. As we Partake of these our hearts are humbled. Why did he love us, so" We are ranked for our isle ambitions and our ',self-still-1- ciency. We are led to rely Mote fully On his sacrifices for us. It is not enough to believe that Jesus Wes a good 'Man, the best that ever liVed, in the supperS we are remanded that he *as the of God. That'S Why` "RiS blood stories for all the race, and Winkles hoW the throne o! grace." In Rini there IS forth/rel.:Ida and cleansing frent Sin. 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