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beelsete that we thought we'd
educate them, We spread out our
routine I1aiue woods aside's out
fit, and dispatched neat invitee
liens to certain tents and trails
ers where we had picked up
friendships, and they all cattle
with their appetites banging
down about two, feet..
WQ. had. a quarter of an ,acre
of plump chicken breasts we had.
bought about 10Q, miles, back. I
made gravy, and .cream-tartar
biscuits,, and gingerbread with
whipped cream, and creamed:
some onions, and larruped, the
potatoes. into smooth joy, 'and
even stomped up a turnip. It .wae
a notable. ceesion at Iselse.
Thus I offered to „repeat, and
on this particular midwinter
Afternoon I loaded my gear on
a toboggan, laced on the .snow-
ehoee, and proceeded to the
clearing in the tar piece, where
the January sun was slanting in,
with more pretense than effect,
and. the tall pines were decked
in snow, There was no wind, but
the air was sharp and friendly,
I started up a whopping fire.
of dry pine' and. spruce limbs,
and whaled .artindsto provide, a
couple of logs to it on. A big
fire makes you stand 'se far back
you can't get warm, but this one
would, dwindle to a.. comfy bed
of embers by the time my friends
arrived, and I lit a smaller fire
. to cook over.
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Some came on snowshoes, some
on skis, and some wallowed
through the deep snow puffing
like porpoises. Each, at a point 's
in the road, paused to sniff the
woodsmokes as I expected they
Would. I had things under con-
trol when they came up and sat
on the logs by the fire. No picnic
should begin until the guests
have had sufficient time to make
wise cracks about the 'delay,
They wouldn't be happy, if all
they did was start to eat,
I threw some biscuits at them,
but they complained because .f'd
omitted the butter. The butter
had been frozen solid on the way
from the house, so I 'moved it
nearer the fire. It was jolly, I
kept looking through the pucker-
. brush, wondering if some ,glam-
orous movie star might li'appen
by, so we could wave, but 'hone
did,
I always get in trouble when
I mention fried chicken, but
must make it clear this is a
Northern Fried Chicken, and
good to eat. I do not wishseto s
impugn any other kind, but"sl%
will say that when I cOciSeri see
batch the' entire region lights eepee s
with almost a hallowed glossies's:
and people talk in whispers
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as, evnerqin the presence of awe
and' majesty.
I kind , of slap the chicken
around, keeping it moist and free
from the indolence of sedentary
living„ I let it brood a bit, and
then wake it up by moving it
to a hotter spot. The chicken,
responding heartily, sizzles and
sends forth a glad report. To one
side I attend the livers, which
on one of my good days are
worthy of being framed and
hung on the august' walls of the
Smithsonian Institution, Excuse
me, I am carried away.
It was a wonderful picnic, in
deep snow and in a chill winter
temperature .which kept t h e
glamorous personalities' away, as
well as mosquitoes and ants. We
devoured the. assorted sundries
down to the .after-dinner mints
I had stowed in the flap pocket
of my mackinaw, and discovered
the sun had passed over the
knoll and on to his early bed-
time. The evening star was
peeking through the spruce tops,
and her points were bright and
sharp.
"We must dot this often," " I'
heard somebody 'Say through the
crunch of snow .. as we, walked
back to the farmhouse. I'd like
to do it sometime for a bunch
of these Californians who write
about their:wonderful weather,
shirt-sleeves ',and personalities;
jUst to see if they'd eat, Or sit
there ariTtinooneeSeper,h-Orne. —
By John Gould, in the Christian
Science Monitor.
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Way back in 1897, when Queen
Victoria reigned, a young man
living in Sussex bought himself
a pair of boots. Smart boots they
were, too, just the thing for a
go-ahead yOung business man to
wear in'thiele clays.
Today he is an octogenarian—
and he's still wearing those boots.
That 'is probably a record, al-
` though there are a good many
men still owning and occasion-
ally; wearing boots made by sti-
' perb craftsmen more than fifty
,yeers ago. It's on record that the
the sleet Tennyson made a pair of
shoes last forty years — and he
was a great walker. ,
A man belonking to Whittle- '
soy, in Cambridgeshire, who al-
ways walked to the October fair
- in •Peterborough, used to,, boast
of having worn the same pair of.
boots for this fourteeri-mile
tramp: for forty-seven years in
successibri.
Another man claimed that he
had worn the same bowler hat
for fifty-two years. "I've raised
this hat to four English kings
and an English Queen," he said,
Then there is the Haslemere
(Surrey) man who wrote to a
newspaper that he still wore
Welsh Woollen coat made for` his
father in 1865. He said he hoped'
to pass this heirloom on to his
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1INDAY501001
LESSON
By Rev It, Barclay Warren
110.,
Who Church's Influence on So-
clely (Temperance Lesson.) Mat-
thew 5:13-18; 1, Thessalonians 5;
4.8; James
Memory Selection: TA earn
maintain good works. Titus 3:141.
Influence can't be accurately
measured. Hence there are vastly
different opinions as to the
church's influence on society to-
day, Some say that the church
has become so worldly that her
voice is no longer heeded. At any
rate, it is not t h e pronounce-
ments of ecclesiastical bodies
that have the greatest impact for
good but the everyday living of
holy men and women,
Jesus said to His disciples, "Y*
are the salt of the earth" and "Ye
are the light of the world," As
salt preserves food and makes it
palatable,"so the disciples are t*
purify th society in which they
move, setting a good example
and counteracting every corrupt
tendency," As light they are t,01
dispel darkness and by their
lives and their words bring en-
lightenment to those who are in
sin, Their faith will find expres-
Sion in good works,
The committee which sets up
the Internaitonal Sunday School
Lessons designates one lesson in
each quarter as the Temperance
Lesson. Same Sunday School
commentaries ignore the refer-
ence. Do you wdhder why? Our
guess is that it is too touchy a
subject in many churches today.
Many parents don't want tem-
perance cranks telling their chil-
dren that ther e is anything
wrong with drinking. They feel
it disturbs the children and may
undermine their esteem for their
parents who have drinking par-
ties in their home,
Drinking reached an all-time
high in Canada last year. Alco-
holism is on the increase. So is
the number of highway accidents
and crimes in which liquor has
beep a factor. In this matter the
greater part of the`church has
lost its voice. How can people
who drink help those who hap-
pen to get into trouble on some
occasion when they drink? Paul
says, "They that be drunken are
drunken in the ngiht." But if he
were to attend many of today's
conventions) political and other-,
wise, he would find drunkenness
long before nightfall. When wilt
we waken to the evils befalling
society through the use of strong
drink? Drink increases our
troubles. Jesus Christ can cure
them.
SAFE •
See ,
FOR`NOVV—Seated comfortably across the trolley tracks,
this snow bear seemingly isn't worried about the possibility
of being run over in Kansas City. Streetcars were discontinued
in the city several years ago, so friend bear is in no danger
of destruction—at least until the weather worms up.
as far..4.3 la known here .441:014gli
State Agriculture Commissioner
Baiientine says that some
inquiries are received from time
to time.
* *
In the first Ave years of the
program, the nickels grew into
a tidy sum of snore than three
quarters of a million dollars.
That figure doesn't inelude the
1957 collections, Commissioner
Ballentine estimates the pro-,
gram costs the average Indivi-
dual farmer about 30 cents a
year.
For one thing, of course, the
research conducted in North
Carolina on problems directly
concerning the North Carolina
farmer, and it is done by trained
researchers who know the prob-
lems of the state's farmers. The
program has, of course, involved
almost every conceivable phase
of agricultural research and en-
compassed every crop of any
consequence in the state,
An important and significant
part of the "Nickels for Know-
How" plan, however, is that
marketing programs are actively
supported in all major commo-
dity areas, with the objective of
expanding the market for all
farm products and reducing the
costs of market.
For instance, working both
with farmers and marketing
firms, specialists engaged in the
program are constantly bring-
ing the know-how of marketing
methods to the processing, pack-
aging, and sale of the state's
farm commodities.
This is considered perhaps the
primary objective of the pro-
gram—to get the abundance of
farm commodities into the hands
of consumers, to make them
more enticing and serviceable
and, for the farmer, more pro-
fitable.
The real strength of the unique
program, according to Mr. Hal-
lentine, is that it allows research
specialists at the state college
to move into areas of needed re-
search without having to wait
for federal or state appropri-
ations,
But he notes that there have
been some interesting outgrowths
of the program. One, he says,
is that there has been an in-
crease in private contributions
for agricultural research. Also,
he Says, it is a matter of past
experience that a state legisla-
ture feels more inclined to help
a segment of the economy that
is already trying to help itself.
Rat's Tails. As
Movie Tickets
Most of the cinemagoers in the
town of Gapan in northern Lu-
zon are now expert rat-killers!
Basilio Manuel, mayor of Ga-
pan, couldn't persuade his towns-
people to help kill the numerous
rats in the district. But the
people love going to the pictures,
so Mayor Manuel had an idea
and offered a free cinema seat
for every ten rats' tails deliver-
ed to his cinema, one of the big-
gest in the town.
There were so many rats' tails
within a few weeks that Mayor
Manuel had to set aside a special
night for those holding rats' tail
cinema seats because the cinema
couldn't cope with the crowds.
Rats in the meantime are swiftly
dwindling in Gapan.
Intellectual: Someone w h o
knows when to quote what some
bright fellow once said.
Midwinter picnic
A brilliant idea came to me
recently, and wrote to a friend
In California suggesting he ptie
a black and white float in the
Tournament of Iteses Parade
next year — for people without
colour television, did not men-
tion weather in: my letter, but
my friend's reply is now at herid,
and he mentionelweather, Why is
this?
lie doesn't indicate my sug-
gestion prompted overwhelming
'enthusiasm; in fact he doesn't
mention my suggestion at all, He
just spends his time on the
weather, telling about a shirt-
sleeve picnic they held on the
beach, where they luxuriated
splendidly, and kept waving at
glamorous celebrities who chanc-
ed to pass.
I get the idea that he felt I
would like to know about this,
since Maine's more rugged 'cli-
mate deprives us similar pleas-
ures. There is something about
'the California mind, seemingly,
which thus implies nobody can
have any fun anywhere else, and
I certainly am not going to write
back arid explain that I don't
even go and sit on our lovely
Maine beaches in the glad
• months when said beaches at-
tract paying customers. I think
I won't write to him any more
at all.
Nonetheless, it so happens that
we had a picnic here on the
precise same day he had a picnic
there, and while no glamorous
personalities passed by, we didn't
!Miss them much. Of course, a
Maine picnic, when arranged by
somebody like myself who knows
what it's all about, is not just
the usual, rough - and - tumble
thing generally presumed about
picnics:
I've seen these articles in
magazines telling how to cook
frankfurters 150 different ways
so you can have variety at your
cook-outs, and I are: not talking
about that kind of delusion.
Cooking is done by the cook,
and not by the fire, and when
we say "picnic" we don't just
mean for everybody to rush up
and burn a hamburger, Anything
You can do in a kitchen for a
best-silver and linen show-off
party can be done by a woods
cook, if you get say woods cook.
Just to loll on te sands and
wave at celebrities and thaw on
sandwiches has no appeal in
my circle. When we picnic, we
do indeed.
So „about midweek, when my
kitchen help asked what might
be gOod for Sunday dinner, I
said, , and I quote, "Remember .
that feed of fried chicken we hasl-
et Lake Helen?" She said she did.
We Were, camping out across On-
tario, and we sae- so many peo-
pie picknicking out of lunch
GETTING READY—Elvis Peesley,
in a move to prepare Himself
for an impending Army hair-
cut, shows how he has had his
locks trimmed to a "normal"
length, including abbreviated
(for him) sideburns. Presley,
photographed in Hollywood,
will report for "Army duty in
March after completing a
'movie.
Of ilex
To The Onlion
In these days of high running
costs 'plane designers would do
w.eil to. study the humble bum-
ble-bee, .ror a. U.S, • scientist,
Profssor Brian hocking,
inventing with a delicate "flight
nas".discovered that a bee,.
cruising at •..a steady 7
manages to ,c(ber 4,000,000 milee,
on a gallon 'Of fuel (nectar),
Dr, Rocking's "mill" consists of
a tiny .arm which is attached to • .
the insect concerned andPrO-
yelled by it as the creative
buzzes round and round,
photo-electric cell records the • •
revolutions the insect makes and.
thus its speed, power and mile-
age can be .computed,
When the insect's nectar tank ,
empties, it becomes - exhausted,
The doctor then refuels it with
a measured amount and. the
whole business begins again,.
Most efficient of -the tiny flyers.
(they all operate on nectar). are
mosquitoes, which manage . 450
million miles per gallon at a
steady .2.3b - miles an 'hour. eFlieee
get . only shelf that mileage. but'
cruise ." censitlereb.y fasters
ten m.p,h.
BAD BUSINESS
A beggar. had taken up his
stand near a railway station. He
accosted a well-dressed man,
"Sorry, I'm in a hurry now,"
said the man, "but I'll give you
something tomorrow."
"That won't do," said the beg-
gar. "You can't imagine how
much money I lose giving cre-
dit."
Through their "Nickels for
Know-How" progr.am Nor t h
Carolina farmers voluntarily
foot the bill for a substantial
part of the research which af- ,
fects their business —, the busi-
ness of farming. They are well
along on a hefty program to
help themselves to pay the bill 4
—or a part of the bill, anyway—
for the' research which contri-
butes to their welfare, just as
big industry does,
North Carolina is relatively a
large state in area and popula-
tion, and the moefs industrialized
in the Southeast-It is a state,
however, without any great
cities. Here more people depend
directly and indirectly on the
farmer's welfare for their own
living than in many other states.
This is, primarily, a state of
small farmers. The average size
of farms in North Carolina de-
creased from 100 acres in 1900
to 68 acres in 1956, while the
national average increased from
140 to 242 acres. Presently, how-
ever, mechanization and other
factors are considered to be re-
versing the trend in the Tar
Heel State, *
What prompted North Caro-
lina, farmers to start helping
themselves?
In 1951 a group of "dirt" far-
mers, farm leaders and busi-
nessmen went into a huddle to
discuss the future of the state's
agriculture. They were agreed
on what constituted the main
problem: research. Yet just
what could or might be done
about it beyond what federal
and state appropriations were
doing?
* *
From' these deliberations the
bold and daring "Nickels for
Know-How" idea took form, The
name—and the program—stuck.
It involved calling a statewide
referendum of farmers to' vote
on whether or not they would
pay a nickel extra for each ton
of feed and fertilizer they
RELIC OF tFit GiUlETINd BEE—Thit is One. Of .the, quilts on display
in the (Vt.). MUseurtif -Where' hioretheih 300 bed .eaver,
leirgeset rdisolsiy AnierleCieehOve been ddthered 'foe
geiher Watson Webb, founder dnet 'head of the
museum. covering, in d pdtterie called ."fiehitete Feather",
dotes beck to. about 1 835. The CoVeringe. are relics of the
.4quilting.. bee, so pop:fide 10141-tehtLity- America but rarely'
seen
- NOR ERN. BANANA S—R onald F. Lauer, of .1-1orfh Olmstead,
examines the fruits of his home-grown ddhitttid tree.
Lau ` "grower of Orchids, picked up a :haticirio
bulb 'WhIle in Florida several years h00 and now the tree h
lett aboo Crowded everything else out .,of his gt'eehtiO.Use.
'Ohte each year the. 'teed. bears a stalk of ,bdifitifidt like the'
ne dIdeVe. This year ,Lauer, his foliiity told friends enjoy'
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MADE TO LAST—Cotton stock-
ings that have stood the test of
time ore proudly displayed by
7-year-old Kathey Gwynne. The
stockings. are 118 years old
and have been worn by five
generations of brides in the
'family, beginning in 1839 when
Frances Buricheit Taylor (pic-
ture) made the stocking herself
for her marriage. They are still
in excellent condition and prob-
ably will be so when Kathey is
ready to wed.
bought over a three-year period.
The .plan was that this money
would be turned over to the
North Carolina Agricultural
Foundation at North Carolina
State College in Raleigh, which
in turn would channel it into
vital research and educational
proj ects.
Farmers' voted virtually unani-
mously for the program, and
have seemed to like it from the
beginning, The referendum, en-
compassing every one of the
state's 100 counties, was conduc-
ted with voluntary help and not
a penny of taxpayers' money
was expended. At the end of the
initial three years, the farmers
approved the program for an-
other three-year period.
In 1957 they voted overwhelm-
ingly for it again. And this time
the program for the next three
years was broadened to include
also a levy on cotton-10 cents
for each bale. In this latest re-
ferendum, 34,074 farmers voted
for the program and only 2,633
against it, writes Henry Lesene
in The Christian Science Moni-
tor.
The "Nickels for Know-How"
levy isn't, in the accepted sense,
a tax. It is entirely voluntary.
Any farmer can file for a refund
of his contribution and receive
it_ Yet in six years there has
not been a single request for a
,refund. * * *
In the beginning, representa-
fives of the American Feed Man-
ufacturers Association strenu-
ously opposed the whole idea.
They raised the point as to
whether such a program was ac-
tually legal. They feared, too,
the idea would spread..
"It's a matter of principle
with us," they argued. "If this
tax goes unchallenged, it will
go into every state in the Union
and it won't stop at'a nickel. It
will become a dime, and then a
dollar."
No other state, incidentally,
has yet adopted such a program,
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