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UNE SCII001
LESSON
ground. This prevents choking
of . mechanism,
Work sideways along ter„
laC0s. A power mower '..driven
up an incline may slide back:
on the operator.
Disconnect sparkplug before
working on a hot motor, Other-
wise the movement of the blades
Might start the ,motor.
Stop motor before lifting
mower from one level, to an- -
9ther,
Road Safety Rules
From 'The Bible
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Highway safety rules in the
Bible? The National Safety
Council's Church Safety Activ-
ties Division says, "Yes, many
of them."
At a recent regional meeting
of the President's. Committee for
Traffic Safety, a long list of
Bible references was passed out
to persons who attended one of
the citizen leadership group ses-
sions. The idea was to furnish
useful material to the clergy
and lay • leaders who, came, to
the session to learn ',what they
could do to help -reduce casual-
ties on streets and country
roads.
Some references were to pas-
sages promising God's guidance
to those who seek it.
"In all thy ways acknowledge
him, and he shall direct thy
paths." (Proverbs 3:6.)
"If any of you lack wisdom,
let him ask of God . . , and it
shall be given him," (James
1:5.)
Others called upon individuals
to do more constructive think-
ing. "Be ye all of one mind,
having compassion one of an-
other, love as brethren, be piti-
ful, be courteous." (I Peter
3:8.)
A number of references stress-
ed the need for thinking in
terms of brotherhood, all lead-
ing up to the Golden Rule.
One reference handled the
problem of the drinking driver.
"Wine is a mocker, strong"
drink is raging: and whosoever
is deceived thereby is not wise."
(Proverbs 20:1.).
Other, useful Bible references
were given out in a leaflet pub-
lished by the Central Security
Mutual Insurance Company,
which offers 'preferred rates to
„non-drinkers. :Distributed also
was a reprint of an article by
William' N. Plyinat, founder of
the Preferred. Risk. Mutual In-
surance Company, in which the
writer 'states, "A religion that
makes you, 'a good neighbor
makes you a good driver," and
"It is the breakdown of human
relations more than mechanical
breakdowns, which causes au-
tomobile accidents.".
I FARM FRONT
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tension service at the land grant
colleges and who would advise
the 'farmers on individual Fob-
* *
The advantages of such a farm
supermarket aren't. yet available
today, because so many of the
innumerable items required in
„, successful or modern farming are
sold through different and, in
many cases, widely scattered
outlets. But it's a possibility to
be .watched.
Thousands of people drown
each year because they lack
something nature gives to every
three,rponth-eld PUPPY — panic
,controls
Thrown suddenly into deep
water a long way from shore,
the average person begins thrash-
ing about wildly, trying to stay
up and swim toward shore.
Within minutes, sometimes quick-
,er, he is, exhausted and sinks
beneath the surface.
A puppy in the same predica-
anent simply submerges all but
:his breathing apparatus, lie be-
,gins an almost effortless paddle
toward safety,
The puppy survives because he
reacts on the instinct nature in-
stilled in him.
But all, too often the human
being dies because of the fear
and desperation. and panic he
cannot control.
Swimming coach Fred R. La-
moue at Georgia Tech has de-
vised a system for putting into
,humans the control that can save
them from drowning. He guar-
.antees anyonewho learns and
,practices this simple method will
become "drownproof" in all but
'the most extreme situations,
His method demands two main
factors: A cool head and con-
trolled breathing.
Thousands of Tech students
'leave learned it and Coach La-
noue vows 99 per cent of them
,could make shore from 10 miles
,out in the ocean — even with
,one or more limbs disabled.
"Exhaustion and improper
breathing cause most drown-
ings," Coach Lamoue said. "Elim-
inate these and you , eliminate
a majority of drownings,"
But how can you eliminate
.exhaustion when everyone knows
how much effort it takes to keep
your head above water? The
head weighs about 15 pounds and
keeping it out of the water will
use up a strong man's energy in
a hurry.
Yet Coach Lanoue has trained
.nonswimmers to stay in deep
water for eight hours and to
:swim more than a mile. Seine of
'them had their hands and feet
-tightly bound to simulate injur-
ies to the limbs.
The secret is that no effort is
made to keep the head above
water except for the few seconds
needed to breathe. Instead, the
person assumes a position face
down in the water, arms and
legs dangling freely, with the
'back of, the neck on the surface.
In water, this is quite restful/
.and uses no energy.
Every few seconds, depending
on the individual's air capacity,
-the head is raised slowly as he
exhales through the nose. When
the mouth clears the water, a
new breath is taken. At the same
time, arms or legs are used to
thrust down slowly to m tintain
bouyancy during breathing.
Lungs full of air, the head is
dropped forward into the water
and arms or legs thrust down-
ward and backward slowly. The
body relaxes as it moves for-
ward underwater.
"People who can't swim a
;stroke — in the popular concep-
tion of fancy or recreational
swimming — can perform this
feat with an- hour's instruction
Growing Roses
Big Business
To the poet, the rose is in,
spiration, to the botanist, a dis-
tant cousin of the cactus, but to
the four Perkins brothers of
Newark, N,Y,, and points West,
it is big business. Last year,
their 86-year-old Jacksop
Perkins Co. plucked a fragrant
$9 million sales harvest from
6,500 acres ' of roses scattered
from NPV... Y9rW6 Finger Lake
country to California's San
,Joaquin Valley. During the next
two weeks, the brothers again
will demonstrate the fascina-
tion their products hold, when
they open the $500,000, 17-acre
Jackson & Perkins Rose Garden
—and an expected 200,00Q rose-
sniffing tourists inundate New-
ark, normally a placid city of
10,00,0 ,
. zz ling as they are, the
36,000 bushes going on display
at Newark are little more than
an outsize window box for
Charles, Clarence, Carroll, and
Ralph Perkins. At his Newark
headquarters, Charles, a hearty,
cigar-chomping 68-year-old who
heads both the, clan and the
company, oversees an .operation
that last year shipped between
10 million and 11 million rose
plants—two-thirds of them di-
rect to back-yard rosarians who
ordered by mail. From his
Pleasanton, Calif., base brother.
Clarence, the grower of the
family, keeps an' eye on a 100-
acre outdoor rose laboratory,
1,000 acres of flowers at nearby
Newman,. Calif., plus a vast
3,000-acre spread 15 miles north
of Phoenix, Ariz.
The Perkins business put out
`its first shoots in 1872 when the
original Charles, a Newark law-
yer and uncle of the present
owners, decided to swap Black-
stone for Burpee. After getting
a„ start, Uncle Charles imported
his four nephews from Michigan.
The quartet bought out the
founder's son in 1928.
Growing as leisurely as their
own prize blooms, the Perkinses
didn't get into retailing—now
the bulk of 'their• business—until
1940 when their display at the
New York World's Fair started
rose-fanciers demanding direct
service.'
Despite the assembly-line to-
tals it now grows, Jackson. &
Perkins, like the rankest back-
yard putterer, must rely on the
bent back and, the sure hand to
keep' producing the new roses
its customern demand. The com-
pany's 'chief "hybridizer," Eu-
gene S. Boerner, who has 100
patented roses to his credit, fig-
ures that, with luck, he will find
ten new salable strains in 100,-
000 seedlings. Even then, it
takes time. to develop a 'new
strain for market. Boerner hit
upor his Golden Masterpiece, a
huge yellow number, in 1947. It
didn't get out of the test beds
until 1955, at a cost of some
$50,000.
Naming the new beauties is
as painstaking as developing
them. Some names are little
more than descriptions—such as
"Orange Delight," "White Bou-
quet," and "Gold Cup," Some
are frankly commercial—J&P's
All-America rose for 1940 was
titled "World's Fair" and when
Walt Disney's movie "Pinoc-
chio" was revived, the Perk-
inses were ready with 1955's
"Jimmy Cricket." Naming one
rose "Mary Margaret McBride"
(a 1943 entry) and another "Ma
Perkins" (1953) gave nursery-
men bouquets of radio promo-.
tion. The "Floribunda" name
used on the most successful.
Jackson & Perkins creation
(Charles Perkins figures there
are more than 100 varieties of
this now on the market) was
coined by a visiting magazine
writer, but it took a contest and
a $500 prize to create 'the name
for the best-selling "Blaze."
Nor will a rose by any other
name necessarily sell as sweet.
In 1944, J&P's All-America
winner was the "Mme. Marie
Curie," named in honor of the
discoverer of radium. For a
while, it flourished—but then
'sales withered. The Communist
Party card held by Mme, Cufie's
daughter apparently wrecked
its chances. "The lady,", says
Charles Perkins sadly, "belong-
ed to the wrong party."--Prom
Newsweek.
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
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Stop Grousing
About The Rain
Next time you're tempted to
grumble about the rainy weath-
er, remember what happened. in
the Seychelles Islands in the In-
dian Ocean a short time• ago. A
rainfafl of 19 inches was record-
ed there in 15 hours.
But for real rain, consider.the
record of Cheraptinji; Assam,
which has been called the wet-
test place in the world:As much
as 272 inches- of rain has fallen
there in eleven. weeks — ten
times the average rainfall in the
British Isles in a whole year.
Some years ago the rainfall
recorded at one point in the
Hawaiian Islands was 562 inches.
The heaviest recorded single
downpour in Britain fell on Bru-
ton, Somerset, on June 28th,
1917, when 9.56 inches were
recorded.
Scientists estimate that 125,-
000 cubic miles of rain hit the
earth annually. An amazing
thing about rain is the unequal
way it visits different areas.
Parts of India have 400 inches
yearly, but there are some .ereas
of South America where, on an
average, there 'is only one light
shower every six years.•
Yet some of the rainiest coun-
try in the world is •along the
upper branches of .the Amazon
River, in South America.
One of the most rainless
places in the world( is the
Sahara. Yet only a short, distance
south of this rainless region,
near the mouth of the River
Niger, lies another of the world's
wettest spots, a region 'so damp
and rain-dreriched that leather
shoes and woollen clothes grow
crops of green mould.
our Puppy-Or Drown
"BY using it properly a
Child Cllil stay afloat for hours
and travel long distances in the
water,"
By comparison, even a strong
swimmer attempting to swim to
share with standard swimming
strokes would be exhausted with-
in minUtea. He wuoldn't be like-
ly to maintain the strokes fel'
more than a few hundred yards,
Recreational type swimming,
even the easy strokes, uses up
lots of energy,
"Recreational swimming is fine
for fun, but it won't help you
much if you, are in the middle
of a big lake with a swim of
several miles in front of you,"
Coach Lanoue said.
"Strength doesn't count, I've
had big football players in sea-
son who were exhausted after
two lengths of the pool wim-
ming at full speed," he went on.'
Drownproofing can be effec-
tive even for the man or woman
in eoor physical condition, since
the skill doesn't deteriorate with
the, years. A cool h ad and. con-
trolled breathing are the main
requirements.
As a demonstration of how
drown woofing will work even
with all four limbs disabled, Tech
students are required to stay in
deep water for 45 minutes with
hands tied behind-their back and
feet tightly bound,
In a real emergency, the tem-
perature of the water you are
in will have a bearing on how
long you can survive. Cold water
exhausts a swimmer quickly.,
Rough waves, common in the
ocean, would have little or no
effect — except in a real storm,
of course.
"Self-discipline is vital to •this
method," Coach Lanoue explain-
ed. "Anyone could learn it and
practice it in a swimming pool.
Being familiar with it and know-
ing from experience that you
can do it will go a long way to-
ward eliminating panic when
you get in a tough spot."
Swimmer or non-swimmer,
everyone should learn this
"drownproofIng" method, Coach
Lanoue belieVes, 'It -is 'the only
practical means of saving your-
self in the type situations where
most drownings occur, he said.—'
By Homer Meader& in The At-
lantic Journal and Constitution.
1 bags his nose!'
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TRUCKS ON DOWN
Virgil Trucks was laboring
Mightily on the hire,. but things
Weren't going too well. The bat=
tees were hitting them back at
the infielders, who Were booting
'cm all over the diarnorid,
Trucks was willing to condone
errors on bad, hops; and nodded
knowingly when the offender
.aPelogized after each boot, "Bad
botitice, Virg. 8orry."
The ninth inning found the
score 44, an opponent on third;
and two out. The batter lofted a
towering pop fly that the short,
stop circled under, rescued
—.and dtoppedi The runner Ott
third scored and Trucks lost the
game.
As the shortstop plodded into
the iduitita; Trucks beat him to
the pundit "Bad bounces' tin
there, too, ye
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Does what might be called the
farm supermarket lie in the not-
. distant future ? Some farm ex-
perts and agricultural economists
think so. They tend to view it, as
one of the really big develop-
ments in the marketing of farm
products in the next decade.
• * *
A precedent along somewhat
the same line -has been set by
the suburban shopping centres
that have been springing up vir-
tually everywhere and which
have been so generally success-
ful. * * *
The farm supermarket of the
future is usually envisioned as •
following the same pattern. It
would simply. mean one-stop
shopping for all farm supplies.
* *-
Everything would be avail-
- able, from tractors, other heavy
farm machinery and power
equipment to such things as
seeds, feeds, hardware, fertili-'
rers, various chemical products
and other things which are used
in producing food and fibre crops
and livestock,
* *
Adjuncts to such a farm super-
market also might include bank-
ing facilities to handle farm-
type financial requirements, and
also an auction house where far-
mers would be able to move
some types of products directly.
4:
A marketing concept along
this line was expressed, recently
at a farm exposition by. C. D.
Sifverd, general manager of the
farm and home division of
American Cyanamid Company,
who said that the changing na-
ture of farming and farm living
brought about mainly, by tech-
nical and sociological factora,
make a big rural trading centre
a distinct possibility.'
* * *
Farm economists point out
that succeseftil •farming now re-
quires knowledge about highly
specialized products, implements
and methods and that'the farmer,
like any professional business-
man, must keep abreast of cur-
rent trends. * 45
As an illustration, he must
know how many different arm-
ing, aids work together in cotn-
binatiett or if, on the other hand,
they are incompatible, a word,
farming has become increasingly
a highly speeialized business.
*
Fanning is also becoming,
more and more of a large busi-
ness operation, While some as-
pects of the trend are not un-
dnitnously viewed as altogether
desirable, the fact remains that
the huinber of small farms is di-
nanishing even while produeti.
vity increases,
* 9
In the early days of the re,
public, it has been estimated.
about 85 per dent of the popu-
lation produced the food 'arid
fibre requirements the the whole
population, whereas today the
job is done by lase than -15 per
rent of the total population.
4,
The farm superniarket of the
future' seems now tO be Vietfal ,
ited as staffed by consultants or
experts .such as make up the
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San, Colo., where' an inveiticiii of the bugs threatens to destroy what had ,been expected to
be One of the finest area. crops in a decade. Federal 'kited control experts Were 'i-iligpicitched,
fa the, Scene,
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WILL NEVER RACE AGAIN — Trainer JiMmy Jones, right, closes
his eyes as veterinarian Dr. William N. Wright prepares to
X-ray the right foreleg of Tim Tam, the Kentucky Derby and
Preakness winner. who was soundly thumped in the Belmont
Stakes by Cavan,
By Rev. R. Barclay Warren
B.D.
The Justice and Mercy of Goil
Deuteronomy 10:12-15; 11-4;
;la; ItiPm4nS 0;6-V.
Memory Selection: The mercy
of the Lord Is from everlasting
to everlasting upon them that
fear Him, and His- righteousness
unto children's children, Psalm
103:17.
For our summer quarter we
have a series of lessons upon
Biblical principles of social jus-
tice as they, relate to current
problems. These problems arise
in homes, in the business world,
in communities, and in national
and international life. We are
all interested in the administra-
tion of justice, If it breaks down
in one area, the effect of the
collapse may spread rapidly and
we shall all be affected. This is
true even on the international
scale. When justice fails, anar-
chy takes over and no one can
predict where it will stop. Our
United N a, tions Organization,
while not as effective as we
would like, does help to focus
world opinion on many of the
outstanding injustios of our
world.
Moses in his farewell address
reminds Israel that their God
is a just God who "regarcleth
not persons, nor taketh reward:
He doth execute the judgment of
the fatherless and widow, and
loveth the stranger, in giving
him food and raiment. Love ye
therefore the stranger: for ye
were strangers in the land of
Egypt."
Themistocles was once told
that he might rule the Athenians
quite well if he would do it
without respect of persons, and
his reply was, "May I never sit
upon a tribunal where I.cannot
show more consideration to my
friends than to strangers." It is
fortunate that our judicial sys-
tem permits appeals to higher
courts. Under the burning light
of public opinion, private prej-
udices that often impede the
course of justice are removed.
The taking of rewards or bribes
is occasionally uncovered at the
police level. If it is discovered
at a higher level it is dealt with
very severely. It is important
that confidence be maintained
in our judicial system.
Justice must be seasoned wits
mercy. God has been merciful
to us. "While we were yet sin-
ners, Christ died for us." With
this example of mercy before us.
we must show mercy. By re-
penting of our sins and believ-
ing on Jesus Christ who died
for us we are acquitted in the
sight of God. We receive eternal
life because of God's great
mercy. How thankful we are that
God is both just and merciful.
Q. How can I make candles fit
into the holders, when the can-
dles are a little too large?
A. Hold the candle in hot wa-
ter for a short time and it can
easily be pressed to fit the can-
dlestick. This is better than
shaving it with a knife,
ONLY ONE — Elaine Garrigan,
was the only girl to receive a
degree from Rutgers University's
College of Agriculture. Three
calves, like the one sho tvldi
here, financed part of her
schooling. She raised them for •
a 4-H project, then sold them,
Power Mowers
Can Be Dangerous
The power mower, a popular
time and effort-saving , device,
is taking a serious, toll of fingers
and toes. The number. of acci-
dents is causing concern to the.
Industrial Accident Prevention
Associations.
Injuries have been caused not
only by the blades, but by small
'stones and broken pieces of the
cutter blade flying from the
machine.
The IAPA recommend this list
of do's and don'ts for power
mower users:
DON'T
Use mower where ground is
littered with stones, wire or
sticks.
Make adjustments while mo-
tor is running.
Allow children to operate the
mower or even stand close to it.
Work, on electric mower while
power is connected.
Leave metor unattended white
in operation.
Refuel gasoline-driven motor
while it is running or still hot.
Operate mower barefoot or
while wearing thin shoes.
Allow domestic pets near the
mower while in use.
DO
Set blades at highest cutting
point and proceed slowly when
working on rough or weedy
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