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The Brussels Post, 1957-03-06, Page 7ed her water and made her like us. The4 we'd cut Pp potatoes. Only these who have done it know what it's like to go into the vegetable. cellar in winter, With a lantern, and sit. on 4 boX while you cut up two pails et. potatees, Xou have to cut them, up, as whole potatoes will choke. A_ cow, The banking boards and the snow shut out all light and sound, and the weather-tight cellar had its own flavor and climate, More than once the oxygen burned low and my lan- tern. went oUt, leaving me to ,grope ray way up again with a pail in each hand. Sometimes we cut up turnips, but you could only give a cow so many tur- nips or the milk would taste. Mother ran tests on this,, and she could taste turnips when nobody else could, But cows like tur- nips, and they, were always glad to see some coming, Of course, they didn't produce any milk'. which would pass our stringent modern requirements, but we didn't complain about that. We didn't know any better, ,WOMAN RULED WELL. Outstanding amongst the early rulers of Scotland, was Mar- garet, who served as regent for her son when King Malcolm died in battle in 1093. She en- couraged foreign trade, abolish- ed many injustices and did all she could to help the poor and weak. Some say that she intro- duced the clan plaids into Scot- land. SEA ANIMALS LARGEST ' It is interesting to learn that of all the different forms of ani- mal life the largest creatures dwell in the sea. Bulkiest of all is the blue whale, which reaches 100 feet in length and weighs more than 100 tons. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking LIEIRIO:ciUMEJ GLIPM,'ECEI ..,E111212110 EIGINEE21811111rigicima CIFIBIZEIEEIEICIEM • IHRIEUECIE1 E1121:31010 Ellii/g1 ADO Elea EllilEICIO EMSEIERAILIIMICI - ElEillE1131111i110171131E1 ®RIME C®©I11:1®©0 EKED II1EIE EIDEN _ MOM A PACK AT A PUFF-Here's the answer to any chain smoker who wants to smoke up a pack of 20 cigctrets at once, as dem- onstrated by French comedian Robert Clary. He found the gadget during a visit to an $250,000 antique pipe exhibit. 2s 31', REALLY SHOCKING the shocks suffered by cr• contairite"r during shipment' re duplicated this "hazard machine" of the Forest Products Laboratories of Canada: Containers are tumbled haphazardly Within this 14-foOt diameter revolving drum to- 'Simulate the rough use they will receive While being shipped. In this photo, a wooden crate of teinS has broken apart in the hazard machine and a technician records' the details of how it broke Up. The large crate in the Sling will be tested next. Such research by the rordit Products Laboratories helps provide Cana, diari industry With strOiig and Serviceable Containers, to move Merchandise, The labiirdioriet • are part of the Forestry Depottnieht of Northern Affair's and National RetoUttes. Going to Market Ohinese: Fashion;. 1INDAYSCII001 LESSON SWEET AND SOUR - One's a peach, the other's a lemon and both are tops of their kind. The 1peach is Carolyn Stroupe, aquamaid, She's holding a huge Ponderosa lemon. Charcoal Burning Business Booms There's a beeen in one of the world's eldeat industries - wood .charcoal burning. More than. ..$00, Charcoal burners are at work in the forests of Bri- tain., producing charcoal by the , same primitive methods used by Britons in the first century When they were fighting the Beinans who had invaded, Today, the charcoal that is produced as the blue smoke rises from the kilns and pits of burning, wood goes to make ny- lons, medicine and sketching pencils. Mixed with saltpetre and sulphur it makes gun- powder for fireworks and other purposes, Charcoal is also used to produce drugs and chemicals, steel fabrics and, filter beds. Charcoal burners will tell you that the smoke from charcoal burning prevents indigestion and wards off asthma. When at work the burner must always keep the air supply low and the temperature high and must watch his conical fire night and day. This modern revival in the charcoal-burning industry means that quantities of waste tim- ber which lie to hand in British forests can be profitably util- ized. Few people know that a great portion of the land now covered by London's southern suburbs was once a charcoal district from which the wholee of the City's fuel came. In the four- teenth century it was forbidden to burn coal, because the smoke was considered daneerous to health. One bishop, who had his palace-at Croydon, was greatly annoyed by a charcoal burner wile lit his fire right under his lordship's windows, filling the palace with the fumes of the smouldering wood. which were to buy goods through exchange heusee. Today, half a year after these changes began to be introduced, Communist officials claim that "the planned change-over to, the free marketing of nenetaple goods has been successful 'nation- The elneunt and variety of consumer „gods on, the market have increased, and Prices have remained stable, a New China News Agency dispatch Jan. 30 claimed, About one-third of all China's agricultural commodities, are now said to be bought and -told on the free market, The free market, it was claim- ed, reduced intermediaries be- tween the grower and the user. In Shanghai, up to four proces- ses were cut out of the handling of vegetables and dried fruits, The transit time between the sel- ler and the buyer was reduced. from -seven days to one day - which meant, in the case of ag- ricultural produce, less spoilage. The new dispensation has also brought unwelcome trends. Some peasants are trying to leave the cooperatives and to become in- dividual entrepreneurs again. There has been speculation on the free market and "some de- velopment of capitalist forms." But the Communists claim these are only temporary phen- omena, and "measures are be- ing taken by the state to cope with them," Meanwhile, Mrs. Wang picks her way between the tight-pack- ed, stalls of an expanding mar- ket area, savoring the smoke of roasting peanuts, poking at bas- kets of querulous ducks, in de- termined quest of that elusive but everibeckoning bargain. Costly Swallows DY irtev. Barqay -Warren B.A., B.D. Xrni,ttnited Tgiveness lviattheW 314$ 'Inemory Selection; Lord, how oft shall my brother sin agabolt me, and I forgive hint? till Sevell times? Jesus saith unto higr say not unto you, Until sevc* times; but, Until seventy limo* seven. Matthew 1$: 31-23, When Jesus said we ehoulol forgive the offender 'until seventy times seven' he took the question out of the legal setting and put It in the love $ettingt He was saying, "There 4hoult11 be forgiveness without limit to-, ward those who truly .repent.* Then Jesus told a story illustrate ing how utterly ridiculous it id for man, to refuse forgiveness to his fellow. God has forgiven u$ when we were hopelessly * debt. Why then shouldn't we fore give our repentant brother who owes us only a trifle? In face Jesus made it very clear that. God will not forgive us unless we from our heart forgive our fellowmen. Recently I listened again to my 'Friend Jacob DeShazer, one of the Doolittle fliers who dropped the first bombs on Tokyo. Jake? spent 40 months in a prison camp, most of the time in soli- tary confinement. As he saw his companions die from rnalnutrie tion his anger and hatred against the Japanese mounted more and more. Then one day the guard gave him a Bible. As he read it he saw his own sin and he saw that. Jesus Christ had died tO• save him. There in the prison he was born anew. He became a Christian. Hate gave way to love. As he prayed he determin- ed that when the war was over he would prepare himself to come back to Japan to tell the people of God's love. He has • been doing this work. IVIltsuo Fuchida who led the attack of Pearl Harbor is one of the thou- sands who has been influenced to surrender to e Christ through this miracle in Jake's life, Mitsue is now telling the message of love in the U.S.A, When we experience.God's for- giveness for our sins it is the 'natural thing for us to forgive those who have sinned against us, •01,9`e,e,..ee. ••••.'4,1, , • Careless parents put more than one toddler a day in hos- pital with poisoning during the past summer at the Transvaal Memorial Home for Children at Johannesburg, South Africa. Because parents left harmful chemicals *lyieg within reach, youngsters admitted to this hospital swallowed these things during the year: Caustic soda, benzine, as- pirins, disinfectant, ear-drops, cigarettes, fly-spray, mothballs, freckle cream, carbon tetra- chloride (dry-cleaning fluid). Of the 404 cases treated, eigh- ty-five of the youngester under three years became ill after drinking household coal-oil, and sixty-four got sick headaches from taking overdoses of as- pirin. The coal-oil figure was so high, 'say hospital doctors, be- cause so many people keep the colourleSs liquid in lemonade bottles, - and casually leave the bottles where a child can get at •them: CHIPPER WINNIE-Chewing his characteristic cigar, Sir Winston Churchill is shown on a recent isit to Nice, France. Apparently not trusting the balmy climate at the Riviera, the soldier- statesman - author wears a heavy Overcoat. He spent a few days as a guest of a Swiss editor. As a compromise, therefore, the concept of a limited free mar- ket was evolved. The market was to sbe :.free• because. prices would be arrived at by the buy- ers and sellers themselves, ex- cept in cases of purchasers such as state shops and supply and m ax keting cooperatives, "So .you 'suffer froth: indiges- tion," said a helpful friend. "Well, what can be better than drinking a pint of warm water • after every meal" "Indigestion!" was the reply. Is Mrs, Wang, of Peking, or flankow, Chengtu, interested in buying vegetables out of $ea- ean? Rare herbs? Wild fruits? Tender fowl? All she has to do is to go down to the free market and in, Bulge in some good old-fashion- ed capitalistic bargaining with the vendor: But if she wants a staple meat like pork, chances are she will have to queue up in front of a state-run butcher shop, and perhaps go home empty-handed. And if she needs cotton cloth or mosquito netting, she will have to take her ration coupons with her - even if she is buy- ing as little as 5 inches of mat- erial, Six months ago, after a three- year whirl with rigid state con- trol over both production and sales of consumer goods, Com- ' =mist China's economic ollicials decided to reintroduce a free market in certain specified. goods. The change-over began, grad- ually, in the second half of last year. It was encouraged by such top-ranking officials as Deputy Premier Chen Yun, who told the Eighth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party last September that "measures taken by the economic departments of the state in the past few years, par- ticularly the past two years, to restrict capitalist industry and commerce have now become un- necessary." Mr. Chen said that when. capitalist industries started pro- ducing almost exclusively for the state, they become less in- terested in the quality of their products. In turn, state - run wholesale companies were so large that they lost touch with local requirements. Certain places were overstocked and other places understocked. Likewise farmers, after being herded in cooperatives, lost in- terest in "subsidiary rural pro- ducts" because these no longer enabled them to earn the extra income they needed. Prices offer- ' ed for agricultural produce were too low. In fate Mr. Chen said, "There is in our present price .policy something unfavorable to • production." .But the Communists were caught in a dilemma, for they had to hold both the price line and the supply route so far as major commodities were con- cerned. The government had to have an assured supply of grain at fixed prices, for instance. Among manufactured doode*, cot- ton yarn and cotton piece-goods were in short supply and had to be rationed-. PHILANTHROPIST AT 10 - Chalk up a second triumph for Logan Dawion, 10, of Rix Mills. Five years ago he fought through infantile paralysis without lasting defects. Now he's going to repay the polio foundation for its aid With a generous act. One of Logan's dreams is to have an entry in the county fair as a 4-H Club project. After he started raising an Aberdeen- Angus calf, he discovered he was too young to enter this year. Hut he had an inspiration. Now, he'll sell the calf at maturity and donate the proceeds to the polio fund. Appropriately, the calf's name is "Poly." referred to this skimmed milk at "nonfat," but that's what it no doubt was. But. I wanted to speak about the grain. If modern milk is 37 per cent grain, I can see why we didn't get it in the olden days. During the summer, when a cow could get all the green grass she wanted, and by breach- ing could _pick up a few carrot tops, pea vines, and petunias, we didn't feed any grain. In the winter, when the mows gave down field - cured sweetness, packed away with about .005 per cent machinery, we used to give them a little. When a cow dried off, being about to freshen, we did give her a couple of hand- fuls of bran night and morning. This .was supposed to "make bones," but probably research has since exploded this. I think we chose bran because it was cheapest, and we usually had a bin of it for the pigs anyway. The 0 other cow, still giving milk, would get two boy's hand- fuls of "dairy ration." This real- ly cost money, sometimes as much as a dollar and a quarter a bag, and I think it was just run-of-the-mill sweepings with low-grade molasses added so the cows would eat it. . An adult gave one handful, and the.grain had to be scattered well among the orts of the manger so it would take bossy quite a time to find it and clean it up.. This is when you milked her. Our grain program must have gone to one tenth of 1 per cent, conversion factors and all. But our cows were not ne- glected. We were able to Offer numerous pamperings not pos- sible in the assembly-line milk factory of today. We would take out a candy bucket (wooden) of hot water from the stove, and mix it with the cold pump water so bossy would have a" warm drink. Winter water a scant, notch above freezing would make a cows teeth ache so she'd stick her snout in the air' and turn her lips back, so we warm;' • CROSSWORD PUZZLE •ekee 19 eeeetee.. 24 27 '4 29 18 12 5 ' 20 4 16 13 5 6 21 7 9'. AWal tee 31. Tierra del 10. Wing Fling-van 11. Legal action Indian 16. Misforttines 14. Olt l's name 19. Sort • 22. Sharp taste 16. Put forth 23. Lateral 27: Fight • boundary 39. Turn up 24. Profound ground 22, Sp. Jug • 10. So. Atner. 26. One who rrionkey 44, ' 27. B gives right ear 41.1 O ry eel-tan/Wan c 10. Exterior 42. Bondi* 11, AlloWecl as 43. Cat's cry Madura 44, Yellow bii*ie 29 30 sg 34 ACROSS 3. Turk. Standard 4'. Genus of 6: Remote 'linseed 8: Apparel row tth oli ng `•.Wh bOl e t 0:Extent VY 7. RePtiratiOri, 16r Rather than 8„Th in weed 14, Spindle 16. Ptiblisbed again, _ i7. PoiSoobs tree, 18. BeCaine ancitiainted • . 20,• Lorigetandin 21.'Clietine0 24. Thinnetis 27. inquire 28; Porgy, • 29, Ohittl8 , 30, Harvest goddess 11, Tear apart 32, 'High, rallwaY8 13, Not in, 94. Corn griei 35. Open • 37, Fairy. queen 311, infuriated 43, Not yours 41, Inferential 46, At any time 47,-remale deer 48, English school 49. Sniall,ekin T0*th 90, Sheep,. 51, Course of Sating., , , bintiR ii•SlaYe 011V6 Y . 97 35 e,teeeeete ee",•'1: tie: 17 14 a 9 10 II 22 r 23 ••• 400 41 '42i eee.: eee ee Leek, 38 45, 46 ee 45 51 47 COINS MAD* LONG AGO The use of toles Made Of Pre- clOuS Metals began in Lydia, a srriall nation on the shores Of the IVIediterraneari, about 800 Reading Begins' at- The English department of a New York city vocational school has resurrected the prob- lem adolescent who > can but won't read. In fact, a majority of the students are "reluctant readers," and less than 50 per cent. of the bays showed in writ- ten reports that they had ever made an effort to read a book. Involved in this problem is the 'forcible feeding" of kiiow- ledge in a system where disci- pline has been obsolete for some time under the progressive theory of education. Undoubt- edly, the reading habit and the taste for good books are ace quired in the early years. But they are gained in the home that has fine literature on its shelves rather than in the school. It is doubtful that the school can overcome this deficiency' in the family. There dare end have been many homes in .America where there is not a single book or, if any, only "trash" without any lasting merit. Youths of all eco- nettle groups May lack the fire "side oppertunity, to learn from the written wisdom and art of the paet-43eeaUse their paients are „net interested in reading. But even to such youths; "for, bidden ftifit" in letters is Usti- Ally at a PreiniUM. The NeW York schodl, how- ever, has had thedest success 111 capitalizing Uplift the curiosity, tastes and other Prediteetions be studeets-although it Is pi off- that they were Arens, formed into readers in the'pro= Per sense of the term. That iiittal come 'Ittirt the horrie. Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegearki. In this column I have already reprinted one or two articles written for the Christian Science Monitor - under the general heading "A Dispatch from the Farm" - by John Gould. Now, entitled "Our Cows' Were Not Neglected",• comes another from the same source. I cannot guar-. antee that any of you dairy farmers will fret anything of vast scientific value from it - but I can say that is is good for a few real laughs. Read it and see what I mean. • * 4, One of our professors recently made harangue on a farm radio program and said good milk is 37 per cent grain, 21 per cent machinery, and 9 per cent hard labor. Malcolm MacCormick, veteran radio farm editor, there- upon thanked him, and he no doubt returned to his experi- mental station to discover fur- ther mathematical relationships. In view of many memories and wide experience, as well as close association with the old- time production of what we mis- takenly called milk, I can sea that times have changed. We used to get 100 per cent milk, composed. of 98 per cent hard labor and .2 per cent cut-up po- tatoes, and grain was something you gave boSsy so she'd stand still while you milked her. This was pretty much so. We had to keep two cows, so one would be milking while the other was dry, and when they were both milking production was more than ample. We never sold any milk, since everybody around about also had two cow,s, at least, so an important adjunct of every two-cow family was the big molasses puncheon into which excess milk was dumped for the pigs. Pigs went with cows, and you might as well keep two as one. Our milk•had nothing added, and was used in its native con- dition. A gallon pitcher would be filled, we had several such, night and morning for family use, and "stirring the milk" was a pre-meal ritual along with seating Grandmaw, grace, and taking the' napkins out of the :rings, I can xemember that at times Mother would get seated, and then would jump up with an, "Oh, I forgot to stir the Milk!" She would bring the long-handled fork used for fry- ing doughnuts a n d turning bacon, and whisk it around in the milk jug until the risen cream was again throughout the whole and, we could hour our glasses full. If one of us pour= ed a glass Without first stirring the pitcher, we'd get a riele heave., el:Most-curd result which Was a Mite too thick for drinking, Since such milk has beet de, Glared" unconstitutional, perhaps I should explain that the cream content then was considerably more than the law' now dilevve. The Milk We didn't use upstairs Was put in pans on the CoOl del, lee floor, and after about two days • the cream would be Skil*, ided off for buttet. The skimmed itilk,thus accumulated was used;: irr our Unenlightened fashiteee for feeding pigs,cottage cheeee, and occasionally painting a 'hen- Muse, When modern Cheinitts. discOvered 'casein paint it eel., tainly astonished a lot of old- tuners *lid had 'been . using it fee gerietatione and didn't knew it. Can't recall` that we ever 50 . • =24 Answer .diedethere on this page,