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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1956-09-12, Page 3SALLY'S SALLIES AIFLUNEA. ! -y Etlb MERE REMEEWO EEC/MENUS ifiallElE HUM MOO milmn ECM KRIM!! MEEOU MEE OME WUMB moo EMEM MME EEU MMEM9 EEEMEI ammn MPRIMO RUM PPU OREM PENUMMO EKE© OWO Knox MMOU EBE0 N SCHOOL ESSON Without Sleep , For 15• Yeam TIE FARM FRONT We hear so much these days about modern methods on the farm •that sometimes it comes .as a pleasurable chage to recall the times when fariping wasn't quite so efficient, perhaps, but they "got there juste the same", Writing i n The Christian 'Science Monitor, John Gould tells about how his grandfather used to farm. DOCKSIDE-ENGLAND - Paratroopers stand by on dockside at Portsmouth, England, as material is loaded aboard a British carrier before she departi -for the Mediterranean to stand by pending outcome of the Suez crisis. Catch The Big Ones In The Fall The not-too-fond farewells each duck season became tiresome and, one bright day as her has, ,band was about to depart, Vera announced that she was going too. The fact that she didn't hit, or even come near hitteng, any ducks in that outing was not enough to discourage her. In stead, Vera took lessons at the Calgary Gun Club and today she it one of the best women marks- men in Mirth America, Vera was a member of the All-American teams of 1952 and 1953 and three years ago placed third in the United. States women's Champ of Champions' match. This year, at the first Canadian Trap shoot, held in Calgary, she became the Canadian ladies' singles champion, And in a shoot-off for the class C doubles title Vera won out over three men competitors. Vera's thirteen-year-old daugh- ter, Maureen, isn't taking any chances on being left behind by a possible duck-shooting hus- band. She has already competed in her first trap shoot and, al- though wind, rain and a field Of experienced shooters presented obstacles for her, she managed to hold her own. Vera's nineyear-old son Ron, is just learning to handle a shot- gun and has yet to compete in his first shoot, When asked if she had any hobbies, Vera's reply sounded as if it came straight from the mouth of the famous "Annie Oakley". "With two kids and a shotgun, I have enough to keep me busy!" (Ce4` It B. Warren. G.A..8,O. Deinocracy in Christian Fellowship James 24.-13 Memory Selection; My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of eorre With respect of persons. aanie$ 31. The ground is very level around the cross, Your talents, social standing or wealth de not place yott above yOur brethren in Christ, Any minister or church which sets itself to cater to any particidar class of people to th,e exclusion of others is not Chris- tian. A card just received from friende travelling in USA has, a picture of Mopdy Memorial Church, Its main auditorium has Over 4,000 seats On the picture are the words of D. L. Moody; "Ever welcome to this House of God, are Strangers and the. Poor," James writes, "If ye fulfill the royal law accordng to the scrip, ture, Thou shalt love thy neigh- bour as thyself, ye do well: but if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as teansgressors." In larger towns where one relig- ious denomination has two churches there often develops a social distinction. The well-to- do are linked with the one church and the poorer people with the other. This it unfor- tunate. There should be no caste system in the Christian church. The poor should be welcome and feel at home in any church. James asks, "Rath not God cho- sen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the king- dom which he bath promised to them that love him?" Jesus was the friend of the poor. He deliberately chose to be or into a poor home. He could have turned stones into gold for himself but he didn't. Jesus had no envy or antagonism toward the rich. He loved the rich young ruler and he dined with rich Zacchaeus. He was ac- cessible to all. We should fol- - low his example. To show deference to the rich is to evaluate men on the basis of what they have and not of what they are. It is to put material and temporal things above human character, which is eternal, "Is there any regular helicopter' service into, and out of, Fort Knox r Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking GOING IX How much Sleep should you have? One doctor's view is that adults need. nine hours, but most people probably get less, An old rhyme much quoted by our fore„ lathers says; Nature for sleep five hours requires, But custom. makes, it seven; Dull, idleness full nine desires, And wickedness eleven. Now long Can we keep awake? A famous surgeon, when asked for a cure for sleeplessness, brusquely replied that his ques- tioner ought to go three nights without sleep as he himself had done frequently in hospital, Three nights is more than most of us could manage, but in a test among U,S. university students two stayed awake for eighty- five hours. They declared them- selves "wide awake" and even wanted to 'go without sleep for another day. It was said that a Hungarian, learoly Otlik, who died in 1937,, had not slept for fifteen years, He was shot in the head during trench fighting in 1915, but for Seven years alter his discharge from hospital he felt no ill ef- fects. Then one night he could not sleep and from that time he knew no rest, He became quite Iambus in Budapest for his in- somnia. Night after night he was found reading in restaurants and cafes and nobody ever saw him drowsy. When the cafes closed after midnight, he took long walks to pass the hours. He was a tremendous eater and he drank two. pints of black coffee and two pints of milk every day. After his death his landlady declared that his bed had not been slept in through- out the fifteen years. Some famous men have re- garded sleep as actually injur- ious except when indulged in in brief spells. The great philoso- pher, Immanduel Kant, used to say: `'Sleep is an enemy that shortens life and saps a man's vitality." Sir Julius Benedict, who liy- ed to be eighty-one, claimed that he never slept more than four hpurs, ,Sir Hermann;Weber, an authority on sleep, said: "Too much sleep is the cause of pre- mature decay and the waning of brain power." Burglars have revealed that if they go through a house after the occupants have been asleep only an hour, there is far less chance•of waking the sleepers than at a latertime.' Later in the night we are all easier to waken. The auction was interrupted by one of the bidders having a whis- pered conversation with the auc- tioneer. At the conclusion of the sale the auctioneer announced: "A gentleman present tells me that he has lost a wallet contain- ing five hundred dollars. He of- fers a reward of fifty dollars for its return." There was a short silence, then a voice mumbled: "Sixty." She!s a .Modern "Annie Oakley" First, he had to unhitch, the team because the jolt had frightened them and they Were standing on their hind legs and pawing the air and squealing - not an uns usual routine for Gramp's style of horse; He hitched them to a fence thee studied his situation. He had a choice - he could unpitch the load and fit the wheels together easily,, thus de- ferring the work over a whole afternoon, or he could fit the wheels back with the load still on the rack, making a quick burst of strength save him all the Work with the fork. He decided to do it the fast way, so he rolled a rock about the size of a washtub from the wall, and went over to his fence post project and brought e couple of stout spruce poles. He put in one pole and pried the rack up, holding it up by standing on the pole. Then he fitted in the other pole, and found he could brace the front wheels back into line 'all right, If anything had slipped my grandfather would have been catapulted three farms away, but nothing slipped. He eased the two poles off and walked up to the house, where I was sands papering a crate of eggs, and had me come down with him and fit the pin in. I asked him what he'd have done if I hadn't, been handy, and he said my proximity dissipated any neces- , sity of pondering the matter, but probably he'd have made out by working a third pole with his teeth. Nowadays, with newer ideas of organization a n d cooperation and specialization, a simple mat- ter like putting a hayrack to- gether could involve a dozen men, and no tricks. It isn't so ,necessary any more to do things alone, because nowadays people will work out. Every so often I find myself at some absurdity which makes me think of some of Gramp's old ideas. He' got his jobs done by using the facilities he had and improvising for those he lacked. One time he felled a tree into another tree, and when he hook- ed the oxen on to pull it free the thing gave a twitch and stood on the other end and jerked the oxen off the ground by their necks. I might point out that this was not necessarily an ten- usual situation. It may be more drastic, but it isn't essentially different from things that hap- pen on a ferm all the time. If Gramp had been off working for somebody else, it wouldn't have happened, but it did hap- pen, and it posed a problem that needed immediate solution. I have no idea what I'd have done, or what anybody else would have done, but Gramp grabbed his cant dog and rolled some logs in below the dangling front feet of the cattle, and he had them standing up like trained elephants on circus tubs while he went up the tree and• sawed the butt off. When the butte fell free. he, had to. jump clear, and he showed me the jump and it was a dandy, about thirty-five feet into a blackberry ' jungle ;and after that he had an awful time convincing the oxen it was all right now to back down. He finished the job he was at before he came up to supper. Anyway, Gramp never worked a day off his own farm, and, was always his own boss and his own security - and his own philoso- pher. Although the song says, "You can't get a man with a gun", there is one Canadian woman who kept up with her. man be- cause or a gun. -Vera Holdsworth, a 38-year-old sharpshooter from Calgary, was encouraged to -take up a shotgun by her .duck-shooting husband. Gramp used to say that a man couldn't work out and farm, a statement which, in spite of some modern evidence to the contrary, I believe to be so. This didn't include "changing work" or working out • your taxes -- for that was merely helping yourself at the same time. Gramp would wag his head when he heard thht somebody had gone to teaming, or was off cutting wood by the cord. It took all your time and all your energies to keep your head afloat .on your own place, and every day you spent away from it cost you, and you'd never earn it back, Gramp didn't believe that you could rationalize cash in hand as profit when it took you away, from your own interests to` get it. There is a great deal to mull over in the old fellow's attitude. Except by changing work he neyer labored a day off the old farm, .and his days were long. He: kept laboring when he was old and there were no demands on him, He could have relaxed his latter ten years and given the rocking chair a good ride and nobody would have said a word. But he had a way of looking at things, and he wouldn't see any .security in working for some- body else - not for him, any- way. He might see some secur- ity for the other fellow. I've never known anybody who worked harder than Gramp, although he sometimes did things the hard way and bull-horsed through in spite of himself. Many a time, when daylight was still a brand-new experience to the morning, I'd be ticking them off under the covers and• wake to hear Gramp saying, "Now, I've milked and put out the cows, and had breakfast, and I'm going up to cultivate the peas, so you lay abed as long as you want," It was so, and I'd get up after a time and along about float would have dinner ready when he came in from the field. He never had too much luck inculcating into me the great principles of his program, al- though I did my share when jobs were to be done, and learned much that he probably thought I missed. One of my greatest services to him would be with that extra pair of hands so often needed. A man can work alone up to a point, and then he'll. find him- -self devising some way to do a thing that would be easy if he had help. Nobody• would know, unless he's done it, how helpless 'a man is when he's trying to fit a kingpin . in „and can't line the holes up. It happens to, me 'with the tractor hitch, and to every- body who does such work. You strain one .way, and brace an- other, and push and pull, and then when you get the place ready you can't do anything about the pin. One time Gramp went up in the far field for a small load of scatterings, and he turned the horses too sharply and sprung his front wheels loose. The load was really quite good-sized and he was up' against a problem. autumn, feeding as they go, the panic is on. One day last Octo- ber two surfmen on the beach at Wellfleet, Cape Cod, took 96 stripers to a 45-pound top. Here are some records kept by a Cape skipper on last year's results:' "Bluefish arrived in mid- August and by the 27th were overrunning the bay, continu- ing into the late fall. . . . Tuna late, first one caught August 29th. Starting the first of Sep, tember, tuna, bluefish and srip- ers were all hitting hard and continued 'to do so well into October." Charles Church's 73-pound stripped bass, still a world's record on rod and reel, was caught off Cuttyhunk on an Oc- tober day back in 1913. And so it goes, That's why I say it's too bad that so many fishermen end the season on• Labor Day and miss the big autumn round-up. Act- ually, Labor Day should be con- sidered the mideteason marker; a soil; of: Second Opening day, signalling the start of some fast and futidus sport. I. CROSSWORD' ,PUZZLE 9sA BARK IS WORSE THAN THEIR BIKE Cycling members of West Berlin's police force are putting on the dog. Specially construct- ed pillion seats on bicycles make a fine perch for the ccPeine cops, as they ride out to take part in training exercises. Cops- put on their 'annual show in the'Cllympic stadium to impress Berliners with their skill, efficiency and discipline. Acnoss DOWN 1, thurch recess 1: Aleck S. Implore 2. Cornmeal S. Coarse dish hominy 3, teggirigt 12. EasY gait 4. Conger 13. Topaz S. Foundation hummingbird Malignant 14. Woody plant 15. Summary 3T, Recorded 26. Pale 23. Anima 80, Author of "The Raven" 31. Salt 31. Oreek letter 34. Slam 3G, CoVerings for the feet 27.1-Intry 32. Ring 39, Prevalent 41. Sacred irnag-- 42. Inclination 44. ,TaelsdaW 45. Unit of reluctance 7, A eriform fluid S. Declare 9 OfIlice of a church dignitary 10. Transiently brilliant 11. Fruit 16. Pronoun 20. Metal 22. Possessed 23. Affectedly shy 24. That woman 25. Fivepoirited figure „ . AiiS*ne •e on this pet* shore In the late afternoon, and you'll find 'errs," ' I'll he there! The same thing is true "of bass. In many states, especially in northern sections where, these fish spawn in May or Juoe, the bass season doesn't opep till July 1. The fishing is good for the first week or two, and then deteriorates, not because the bass have 'been caught, but be- cause they become logey and listless during the hot summer. But since bass are 'by nature „wenn water fiish, they continue to feed actively through the warm months, especially large- mouth bass, which are partial to shallow, weedy , waters. But largemouth and smallmouth, too, seek the cool depths during !muggy summer weather. That's why night is the best time to fish for bass during this time of year. But even then the fishing is slow compared to that in the fali Cool autumn waters perk up the bass's appetite and put an edge on his fighting spirit. You'll find,him along the shore- line all day, feeding heavily on frogs, minnows, crawfish and insects. Fall fishing is especially good in the South, where summer temperatures wilt both fisher- men and fish. Since fish spawn earlier and grow more rapidly there, many southern states have no closed season on bass. But this doesn't mean that the fishing is equally good thruogh the year. Winters. is the pOorest time. Then in spring there's a feed- ing spree which makes for a period of fast fishing. In July and August come the doldrums, followed by the cooling autumn, which, as any guide around the Florida creeks or the TVA lakes Will tell you, is the top season. The pike family, though a warm water species, is espe- cially susceptible to heat. You- can catch pickerel and northern pike through the ice with some regularity, but it's a tough job coaxing them out of. the pad -.beds on a torrid August day. The pike's lack of appetite in summer stems froth the same feeling of inertia and listless- ness which overtakes sweltering htumans, hut during September and October he makes up for his summer layoff by chewing up everything in sight. Fall is when the big, fish come to net, too. , Last September a companion and. I fished a local lake along with two other frineds in an- other boat. -In less thah an hour a big pickerel hit iny partner's trolled spinner'. It Weighed 51/4 ponds, a good-sized pickerel in any water, We kept quiet, in- tending to surprise our feiends et lunch, but they surprised ter instead, They had a 54-pound- el'! It's the saind with muskies. They go' n a hunger strike dur- ing the summer so that you can only tease a few of them but Of the tule beds at dawn and heat dusk with plugs and spoons. But year iii and year out the heavy catches come in JUhe and again cluing: September and Inhere whee the biggest fish come to gaff. In salt Wee? It's tDt sa The inicl-summer ol- Slereying vele fast Sune .and early fishing, are well knaviii to euefeesterse..eild ••••Cheitei heat ' skippers out for striped beast, mackerel, bltieflehe and, tuna. These are all migratory. fish, flpd when they turn southward is I If Labor Day marks the end of your fishing season, you're making a big mistake because early September raises the cur- tain on some of the best' fishing of the year - in both fresh and ,salt water. You may pick July and Aug- ust "to get -away from it and cool off, but for the fish it's s hot, and these are the poorest months to catch 'em for the scorching sun has warmed up the lakes and streams, and the fish are off their feed, lying in the shade of rocks or seeking the cooler , depths. Even in the ocean these are the doldrune months. Of course, yon can catch 'em then; might even be a fair catch, too - if you've' got the right tackle and' know the tricks of hot-weather angling. But at- best, it's spotty and you've got• to have a lot of patience. But come the crisp Septem- ber nights, the waters cool off, and ,the fish come to the sur- face, ravenously ' hungry after the summer layoff and biting like crazy' to put on fat for the ,lean winter days ahead. That's why I've been an autumn fisherman for years, and when I see the hills flame crim- son and gold, I know that the trout and salmon have come up from the mid-summer depths to cruise the ricky shoreline in search of smelt. They, have run up the Kennebago and Cupsup- tic Rivers; South Bog and • Rangeley Stream. In Steep Landing Pool, Screw Augur, Gravel Bank and a score of pools besides, they are rising eplashily to dry flies, something you'll seldom see in spring - and never in manatee: Maybe you can't take a fall vacation, but there's sure plenty of fishing around anybody's, home at this seaeen. It 'doesn't matter what Ahe local .species are - trout, bass, pike, wall- eyes, muskies -- they all feed acvtively in autumn. Tiout fishing, for example,. is so good in the fall that practi- cally all state fish and game de- partments now have extended the season well into October. The seasonal trout fishing cycle in Long Pond on Cape Cod is typical. In spring when the ice goes out, the anglers rush in, some days poor, and so it goes some days poor, and it goes While trout and anglers gradu- ally . tepee off till early June. By late June the warm waters have sent the' surviving trout into the cool depths. A feW are still creeled by die-hard anglers dragging a series of metal flash-, ers on wire line 80 feet' below the surface. but eluting July and August, when the vacationers are many, the catches are -few and far between, writes Ted Janes in "The Pollee Gazette." Comes Labor Day. The Vasa- boners depart, and the local anglers break but their tackle. They know that during the text two 'Menthe the, trout will be Back hea' the stisfeed, chasing schools of betey herring through the shallowt. On spinning lures and streamers, east Or trolled along,the shoteline they'll catch bright-spotted brown trout and vividly,-striPed.: rainbows up- th 6 pounds in weight. And they'll have the lake pretty nitteli themselves! Just last week fished there and took tom§ fair,sized trout. But., the 618,i seasoned big: fish r were' OnSpieubutly., alitent. ",Cotrie .back in. OckOb'et if you , , want,, to them" 'a' local expert told me. 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