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SHE SINGS; HE WRITES-Veteran trouper Judy Garland gives
it her all as she winds up a song in MinnOcipolis during State-
hood. Day ceremonies. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles,
far right, appears to be missing Judy's song as he concentrates
on notes for his speech.
the lid on the shelf, dump her
kitchen oils in the.. sluice
everything •down with some hot
water and skimmed milk, and
the pig down on the receiving
17nd was fed lazily in a manner
acceptable .Charlie, who was
intelligently and perennially tir.
ed., it wee just as good a rig
as. anybody ever had in Narwhl,
Indeed, . Charlie's is a much
better story, because the pig
soon ,fathomed the. source of his
benefaction., and would clamber
ep in the chute to meet Mrs.
Footer more than halfway, She
would hoist the cover, and be-
fore she could contribute the
pig Would run his snout up into
the .kitchen and speak al some
length about his approbation of
-the arrangement. Mrs. Footer
would bang him on the proboscis
with a skillet and he would re
treat.
People who At tend certain.
social congresses at the Footer
home, such as the Friday Circle
or the Moon Valley Extension
Association, would come away
discussing he Footer pig chute
with some merriment, but not
enough so ward got out to 41;
editor somewhere, H.esides, Char-
lie was not an astronomer, of:
anything like that.
•The time naturally came when
cne of Charlie's pigs, just as he
was big enough to get in but too
big to get out, got stuck in the
chute. The poor creature called
attention to his predicament at
once, but was too well in for
Mrs. Footer to. help him by ler-.
raping hitn on the snout with
a plate. For three hours she did
her housework in this din. I
euppose• editors and laboratory
scientists would not know what
it is like to have an unhappy
pig wedged under your sink
ehelf while you are ironing shirts
and applying the frosting to a
cake. I cannot believe that Noe-.
wich, N.Y., understands such
things,
When Charlie came up from
the field he dismantled the con-
traption and recovered his pig,
but the attendant porcine hulla-
baloo was. such that for three
Months Charlie said, "Hey?"
whenever anybody spoke to him.
However, there still Was. no story
about intelligent laziness on
Charile'e,farm, s •
Farmers are the world's finest
practitioners of research and ex-
periment. They like to spare
themselves. • They frequently
have.so -many labor-saving ideas
they hesitate to let go. They'
figure things out soonest. They
are past masters at "rigging a
scheme." Show them a job, and
each will figure out 10 ways to
do it easier. Laziness is a farm-
er's best asset, a boon, an urge, a
drive. No other class of people
has ever practiced intelligent
laziness with such success and
prOfit. But farm laziness was
,never news until a laboratory
scientist tried it, and then the
reportere came around and said
"Oh" and "Ah'.
This is a great injustices
—by john Gould- in
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Art to show you how enslaved
e have become to Ibis great
mdern mutt of the equation and
n' feeler, the isotope and the
ill-out, the slide-rule and the
:bit, notice this story in a no
tonal publication about a labor*,
ory scientist in Norwich, New
n'ork, who runs a 40-acre farm
with 'nntatligent leteinese", t
wonder they didn't call it au
"agricultural establishment"; or
at least a plantation or Osten-.
but I suppose they need thorns,.
words for heedlines.
Anyway, on this vast 40-acre"
farm he supplements his labora-
tory activity by a well-ordered
program of doing things the easy
way, arriving methodically so
a feature writer singles him out
as a phenomenon. Yet his con-
tribution is simply that he is
(I) a laboretery scientist in the
full up-stream surge of modern
thrust and push, and (2) he
operates a farm lazily.
My contention is abrupt, vie:
that this lazy farmer did not.
receive this attention-because he
was a lazy farmer, but because
he is a laboratory scientist, and
in this day and age laboratory
scientists are news. whereas
lazy farmers are not. This is a
severe rebuke to . our way of
thinking, and goes to' show,
If somebody had wanted a
really good story about a lazy
farmer, without emphasis on his
status in the scientific world,
it could have been provided long
ago and it' would have been a
much better story. We can only
conclude that journalism, has
deserted certain principles, and
is trying to be popular with the
ascending physicists and chem-
ists and mathematicians of the
new era.,A lazy farmer who is
nothing .lse except lazy farm-
er wouldn't have a chance.
Yet the fact that this man in
Norwich).:N.Y., is a scientist first
and a lazy farmer afterwards has
nothing to do with the matter.,
Comes to mind, for instance,
Amos Dolluff over at Purgatory
Mills, who never had his name
in thee paper until. now. Amos
always cut his firewood in eight-
foot lengths. Most cordwood
comes four feet long, so Amos
thus saves himself one complete
cperation per stick. This was in-
telligent laziness just as good
-as any in Norwich. •
After Amos got his wood
home, instead of sawing it in
atove-length chunks as other
people did, he permitted his in-
telligent laziness to continue, and
pMed it in the shed so it pointed,
at the 'kitchen door. His 'wife
could step out in the shed and
get wood, bringing it in the way.
Anybody would carry a flagpole,
and she .would steer it into the
side door of the range about the
way a knight of olden yore ran
hys lance into ye ringe on ye
string to edify ye cheering
throng.
Then Mrs. Dolluff would rest
the nether, or handle, end of
the eight-foot stick on a chair,
and as fast as her fuel was con-
sumed she would move the stick
And the- chair nearer the stove,
You could tellefrorn the position
of the chair hew. near done the
beans were. But poor Amos was
-no laboratory researchist, was.
never interviewed for the press,
and .his numerous instances of in-
tellectual disinclination to labor
were of purely local fame.
This man in Norwich,, N.Y.,
has a special hopper for his hogs,
and gets hie name in the paper`
because he fills it only once
week, proving that laziness pays
off. But nobody ever did a
story on Charlie Footer and his
hog chute, which was born of
equal aversion to effort but
which had no scholarship or
degrees to embellish it.
Charlie cut a hole in the kit-
chen sink shelf and built a chute
out through the wall to the pig-
pen, His wife could thus lift
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HOYT HIM.
After holding out one winter
for twenty-five thousand dol-
lars, Waite Hoyt decided to go
up and see' Jeke Ruppert, the
fabulously wealthy Yankee own-
er,
"Well, Hoyt, so l'm going to
have trouble with you, too." old
Sake greeted him, Noting that
Hoyt was looking at all the pies
tulosO,on the wails depicting the
various Ruppert properties, Iltto-
pett ekpanded,
"Some properties, - eh?" he
chortled,"eThat one there—My
country .estate, cost nib $600,000.
Nett iS building en Forty-.
teeelid.Stteet, eneet hie $1,000,000.
See, that brewery, $2,500,000.
NeRt tny place' on 'Fifth Avetitte,,
1500,000," Then they started iris
oto the office arid Ruppert asked
'Hoyt what fie wanted. Hoyt told
hint
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Editor's Note: The following
article, written by the Farm
Editor of the Christian Science
Monitor, refers to conditions be-
low the border. But I think that
a good deal of it should provide
food for thought to many of us
Canadians as well.
• • •
Most Americans agree that
since we all depend on farmers
to produce the food and fiber we
need, we must somehow keep
enough farmers in business 'to
meet this need.
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This general recognition of the
farmer's essential status has fos-
tered wide belief in two theses
which possibly merit acceptance
but which, considering present
economic pressures on the citi-
zenry, seem to call for fresh
scrutiny and evaluation., Much
of the political campaigning on
farm issues now building toward
November congressional elec-
tions centers around these two
theses.
The first-is: "Farmers are en-
titled to their fair share of prof-
its' in the nation's economy."
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The second: "Because the 'ram-
Hy farm xepresents certain moral
values which have contributed to
America's greatness, it must, at
whatever cost, preserved in its
traditional entity."
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At the risk of sounding brutal„
honesty demands a second recce"- °
nition before the theses can be
evaluated — the recognition that
America is struggling not only
with a surplus of certain basic
crops, but also, with what some
economists define as a surplus of
farmers. The technological fact
today is, that fewer farmers than
ever before can produce what
Americans need, and still have
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This recognition, involving
drastic changes in the agricultur-
, al structure, is hard, to face, es-
pecially for farmers who, be-
cause of.lack of capital or know-
how, have been unable to keep
up with the all-out mechaniza-
tion that has taken over Ameri-
can farmlands with incredible
speed. They need •help. But what
will help them most?
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Considering the first thesis:
'Just exactly what is agriculture's
"fair share" of the nation's prof-
ilts? (Think of the imponder-
ables involved,— such points as:
Should everyone's share be the
same? Or should personal effort
and success be takin into ac-
count? Who is to decide such
fundamental questions?)
If 500 farmers -- or perhaps
100 — can today. turn .out as
much •as 1,000 could produce SO
years ago, should government
subsidize the thousand just to
perpetuate the way of life they
are used to?
This leads into tht 2nd thesis,
concerning the family farm
which today is generally defined
as a farm where the family
makes all management decisions
and does most of the .work. With
all the mechanical help now
-available, some family farms
have become big Operations bear-
ing little resemblance to yester-
day"s few acret worked by
man and a mule and a plow.
Many others have remained too
small to prosper, and their plight
does indeed cry out for aid.
But manly people are now ask-
ing: To What extent should all
citizens be taxed to keep un-
successful farmers on the land
simply because that is where
they happen to be and because'
Americans feel sentimental
about a romanticized but some-
what-out-of-dote picture of "the
family farm" as grandpa knew
it?
We have yet to heat' anyone
question what would happen to
the -moral values usually asso-
ciated with the institution known
as the family farm if that insti-
tution could be preserved only
by the federal dole.
Would it be better for the
farmer and the whole nation if
government should confine its
role to providing disaster itietir-
ance and to offering something
like industry's unemployment in-
surance for a designated period
to help struggling fat -hers find
jobs in industry or adjust their
operations to more profitable
methods?
It is not the purpose of this
column to try to allsWer these big
questions, nor to support or re-
fute the thesis, it is Meant only
to urge study of these tieteial
issues, Whiell Will In some tetetit
be decided'.. iitt 11 Americans go
to the polls titOt tall, end Vote'
into office Men who do ardently
Stutert or fetal to seees these elee0
premiseS.
Heart Operation
On Television,
"Five of our cameramen hack-
ed out of this because they felt
too squeamish," said Milton Rob-
ertson, executive producer of
Du Mont Televisitn's Station
WASP, taking time out frein
supervising New York city's first
live telecast of a heart opera-
tion, "In all, we had a 25-man
technical crew.spend three weeks
of intensive work, reading up
on heart surgery, watching color
films, and attending an actual
operation,"
Robertson fussed 4bstracted13
at his green surgical gown, sim-
ilar to those enveloping his as-
sistants and the ten-man surgical
team which was mending the de-
fective heart of Mabel Chin, a
Chinese-American girl aged 3,
at the New York University-
Bellevue Medical Center. The
TV screen before Robertson
showed him — and an estimated
2.1 million New Yorkers — the
deft hands of two surgeons as
they worked with the precision
of 'a corps de ballet en a pulsing,
living human heart.
One of the rubber-gloved
hands pointed to the heart, The
voice of the chief surgeon, Dr
Jere W. Lord, explained: "Here
is the problem. A short slender
tube called the ductus arteriosus
is connecting the aorta and the
pulmonary artery. It should
have closed' at birth. It didn't."
As Dr. Lord began to tie off
the duct, with surgical thread,
Robertson said: "You know, I
don't think the public would be
able to stand watching 'a color
telecast of this." The unspoken
corollary bothering Robertson, of
course, v)as: Would the public
be able to stand watching even
a black-and-white telecast of a
heart operation?
"Although 250,000 Americans
have had successful heart opera-
tions," said a spokesman for the
New York Heart Association, in
explaining the •association's spore,
sorship of the television show,
"another 300,000 who need oper-
ations are holding, off because
of fear and ignorance. We feel
that a live telecast will show
them how safe a heart operation
Is." The association's faith on
this score had been considerably
bolstered by the recent ,success
of two other live telecasts in
Detroit and Seattle.
"We hope," The New, York
Journal-American's TV santie,
Jack O'Brian, had bristled on the
day of the telecast, "that, the
*ming of "Live" bet. °nue- 6eese tioni mt television nut Jl
trend".
Next day, however, critic
O'Brian rewarded the Heart As-
sociation's faith by changing his
mind: "The performance . • was
astoundingly impressive, a vast
and tender visual ad for the
Heart Association's stubborn
progress.'
—From Newsweek,
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A Peoltie Must Choose
Joshua 11:16-20, g4:14.1$
Memory Selection: rot •avow
the strange gods which are
among you, And incline Your
heart unto the Lord. God of
Israel. Joshua 34:23,
The coliquest of Canaan took
place quickly. God rniraculous.y
stopped the flow of the Jordan
when the priests hearing the ark
stepped 1%0 the waters. Joshua
set up twelve stones in the bed
of the Jordan and on its west-
ward hank as memorials, Then
he renewed the rite of circum-
cision, The fortress of Jericho
was taken in a manner which
notably demonstrated the power
of God. Then came a setback at
Al because of sin in the camp,
Earnest prayer and punishment
of the culprit. brought God's
favor again, A g r oup of five
kings led by the Xing of Jeru-
salem met Joshua and were de-
feated. Another group in the
north were similarly overcome,
Some mopping up operations
One may incline to be sorry
for the Amorites. But their ini-
quity was full. Genesis 15:16. We
therefore bow to the justice of
God. Later when the Israelites
continued in their . rebellion
against God they were taken
from this land by the Assyrians
and Chaldeans. Nations, as, the
individuals of which they are
composed, are accountable to
God, •
Joshua's farewell appeal was
an urgent religious appeal,.
"Choose you this day whom ye
will serve . but as for me
and my house, we will serve the
Lord," It is refreshing when a
political and national leader un-
ashamedly acknowledges God
and calls upon his people to
serve Him. Joshua had set the
right example and would con-
tinue to do so. He spoke for his
family, too. Happy are the par-
ents who are serving the Lord.
Happy are the parents who see
their children following their
example.
In this day of world tension
and lax morals we need sober,
God-fearing leaders. We need
men and women who will lift up
a righteous standard by precept
,,and •example. God bless our'
leaders at every ]levee of gov-
ernment,
KELLEY GREEN
Lefty Gomez once got involved
in an argument with Jim Dykes
on how to'pitch to a hitter with
two men on base. After a heated,
discussion, they decided to gel
Mike Kelley, one of the most
respected technicians in the
game, to settle the argument.
The pair found. Kelley in bed.
"Wake up, Mike," Gomez yelled,
"we want to ask you a question."
"Go away," Kelley replied.
"Wait till tomorrow."
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Who Was First?
Who first made element 102„
the tenth synthetic: substance
man has created out ul :Cranium,.•
element 92? • •
It has been generally agreed
that the honor belonged to a
team of Swedish,t3 nglish, and
Ameriean scientists,. : July.
they renorre4" they
had produced "30 or 40" atoms
of element 102 in the accelerator
of Stockholm's. Nobel Institute
They They ripened it Nobelium,
Recently, at a nuclear meeting
in Catlinburgs ..scientists
' from the University of Cali-
tornia sounded a politely dis-
senting note when they claimed
"the.. definite discovery" of No,,
helium, As Dr, Albert Ghiorso
reported it, the California re-
searchers repeated the meticu-
lous Stockholm experiments and
found they were unable to create
1.02 without changing techniques:
drastically.
The reaction of the original
'discoverers was one .pf stiff up-
per lip, Dr, J. A. Milsted of
Britain'a Harwell . atomic station.
said; "I would like the scientific
world to keep an open mind,...
until we have had an oppor-
tunity to recheck our work.' In
Chicago, Dr. Paul R. Fields of
Argonne National LaboretOrY
added uncertainly: "We are
still not sure whose report is
correct, but I am, certain science
will come up with the right
answer,"
Canadian Comics
Make New York Hit
A little fellow with wildly
rolling eyes and a nattily draped
toga asked the bartender of an
ancient Roman bistro for a
"Martinus" in a skit on "The
Ed Sullivan Show". "You mean
Martini," corrected the togaed
ask for them," replied the little-
ask for them,' replied the little
fellow snappishly. The audience
roared and the madly irreverent
take-off on "Julius Caesar' car-
eened on for 14 deslirious min-
utes. Its creators and stars were
two exceedingly funny Canadian
types named Johnny _Wayne and
Frank Shuster.
The first talent ever signed
to a 26-appearance contract' by
Sullivan, Wayne and Shuster are
the
favorites north of.
the border and the happiest thing
that has happened to. U.S. com-
edy in many months.
"In Canada, we've been sacred
cows for years. (25 On radio and
TV)," the pair admitted. The,
Wayne and Shuster specialty:
Slapstick sketches with strong
literary overtones. Both gradus
ates of the University of. Toronto
with half a master's degree
apiece, Wayne, 39, and. Shuster,
41, teamed up to produce Boy
Scout shows in their teens,- have
been together ever since.
Their second go at the classics
on U.S. television, was a take-oft
on Baroness Orzcy's story of the
French Revolution, "The Scarlet
Pimpernel", which in the Wayne
and Shuster, version on the Sul-
livan show recently was entitled
"The Brown Pumpernickel".
"Every time an aristocrat is
whisked away a large loaf of
brown bread -is left, in his place.
This thing requires 500 .1oaves
of bread. We have a friend who's
a baker."
Speaking of bread, the sort of
thing that has made Wayne and
Shuster the toast of Caanda is
their satire on the Trojan War
which required a "very expen-
sive" wooden horse large enough
to contain six men. "Nhen
Menelaus is wounded," the com-
edians explained enthusiastically,
"he staggers up to the horse,
puts his head inside, and yells:
'Is there a doctor in the horse?'
'That's our favorite line. We .
had the horse built just for that
one line."
The Canadians have found no
need to tailor their material for
other nations. However they did
confess deleting one character
from their U.S. Julius Caesar
:"He was a Roman sales-
man who is trying to peddle a
used chariot that had been driven
only by an elderly vestal virgir.
We weren't •sure we should use
'thee Word 'virgin' on 11,S. TV."
—From Newsweek,
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