The Brussels Post, 1958-09-24, Page 7MAY SC11001
LESSON
174.•
WOOL ARGYLES Playing a joke on city slicker visitors to the
Wisconsin State-Fair, farmer William McKenrow paints, a color-
ful Argyle plaid pattern on his Shropshire ewe Iamb. He says
one in ten visitbis forthe gag, Maybe they think that's how
Argyle-patterneci socks grow.
!Chop It Down—
Yank it Out !!
Of the mall that comes he-
7.ause of these dispatches, one
rind, or sort, is becoming more
and more common—enough SO
It makes a category, and I call it
the What-can-be-.done • Nothing.
It is the letter which pretests in
vain, which cites some outrage
tq sensitive perceptions, and
then indicts the rest of us, some-
!how, for not rising up in righ-
teous wrath to correct a •wrong,
I am just now in receipt of such
.a letter from a fellow Maineiac,
wherein enough of the gist of
'the category is found to war-
rant wider reading:
"What can be done to save the
rustic setting of this little cur-
lier where three roads meet,
named Little River Corner, in
down-East Maine? We live four
miles straight north from. Route
1 ,,at Columbia Falls. A quarter
or a half mile of the road run-
ning past my house is to be re-
built right away. The "builders"
down this way adapt the big,
-through-route ideas to our coup
'try lanes and byways, laying
waste the little gnarled crab-
apple, trees daring to.grow close
'to the roadside.
"An pld gristmill stone has
lain near our roadside for over
a hundred years, telling the
chance passers-by that it used
to be in the business world of
this little town long,, long ago,
It will, of course, be moved —
bumped and pushed away by a
heartless bulldozer driver, with
a certified engineer waving his
arms in whichever direction it
is to be pushed.
"There are only two or three
families left here now at our
torner. Trees have made quite a.
growth along our road, shading
us in summer, joying us when
they releaf in spring-wand show-
ing their colors after autumn
frosts. A small stream runs
'through here, too, with falls to
delight the eye, a purr for the
.ear, and foam on the„ ledges.
That's our 'little river.'
"This is a Most secluded spot,
.and this is its charm. It should
be kept serene, left serene, and
bettering it will spoil it The
roses grow almost to the road.
Trees, shrubs, wildflowers—what
are they worth? Where is the
road commissioner who sits down
• '
FULL MEASURE — Tailor Max
Danchik inches his way along
one of the tallest fitting jobs .
ever to walk into his Hollywood
tailor shop. She's Patricia Hop-
kins, six feet, three inches tall
and a member of a local "tall
club." By one of those Holly-
wood-type coincidences, a pho-
tographer just happened to be
hiding in the steam presser.
CROSSWORD
ACROSS'
1, Burn - 8, Drug dons (coiloq.)
18 'Oeereases It. Kind of nut
'15. Plgibles .15 Tlicpirite 77 Viger. 18. Crtieh 20 (,raw 21 'indigo plant
23. SvilOnYm 24 Catrierit4s eye
25. Private
ion offer'4 4ktedleVal Norse Tierra- lye 29 Teeter at, OuthrerikS
fear 35, Geriiint's be,
loved 87. Ancient bits, In Trans-3-orden se, ','reamed by 41.. Corded Cloth.r
43 Sow 44. Steep 46. Ecclesinitical Cennell 47. Rarife. n.h.) 48 Sheeplike 90 Set apart '52 Filbert 53 Leaded prop-erties 54 Broad tlitek pieces ' prefettritt
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1. I cis I Stilt.
calmly and computes tire value
of one ieseinesh, wild, to a high-
way line? Engineers have slide
rules and compass lines, and
whore the line runs, they go
roses or not, Machines have no
gentle touch, no taste, no feel-
ing—and men who operate them
become as mechanical parts,
They damage so much,
"Our little road is wide enough
and hard enough. It doesn't need
rebuilding. But there is nobody
to say so, .nobody to cry stop,
nobody to distinguish the rose
from the cold statistics of ap-
propriations, contracts, profits.
Money is provided, money will
be spent, wally-Dilly. Whom can
I turn to, to explain that like
roses and country lanes and old
millstones that haven't turned
in a century? Am I so alone?
Isn't there anybody else?"
There you have it. There is
more to the letter — the lady
wrote to the highway commis-
sion, and the letter, was turned
over to the underling who an-
swers such letters and does
nothing else about it. She got in
touch with this one and that
one, and shoulders were shrug-
ged. The Chamber of Commerce
man told her it would take 'pull'
And so on,
In the end, she has written
her letter to me, and I have
merely observed that as time
runs on I get more and more
of similar letters. It isn't always
a road—but it is some kind of
encroachment always, a tread-
ing, on sensitivities and intangi-
ble's by the great forward strid-
ing era that, in a nutshell, no
longer cares about roses.
'Here in Maine, and in other
states 'too, we have an active
organization known as the 'Good
Roads Association' It has work-
ed, hard to further a program of
bigger and better highways, but
it has neither constructed nor
preserved any. 'good roads"
through quiet, .shady, rustic vis-
tas, with ,crooks around knolls,
little bridges by foamy falls,
past recumbent millstones fes-
tooned with wild roses.
The reason is factual and mo-
dern—the membership is com-
posed of contractors
'
machinery
salesmen, transit interests, poli-
ticians, bonding outfits, compen-
sation insurance underwriters,
and others dedicated to mighty
avenues of commerce, the more
expensive the better. They are,
in short, a pressure group, al-
though they won't like this blunt
description any more than my'
correspondent will like their
misappropriation of 'good roads'
They are the people who push
millstones out of the way, in the
interest of long hauls between
major , cities. They have banded
together in common cause against
millstones and roses and coun-
try corners and front-porch
views down shady lanes. .I men-
tion them specifically because
their name might invite dissen-
ters, like my correspondent, to
appeal to them in this present
consideration. Just what is a
'good road'?
Just what can tree lovers and
brook listeners do? Nobody on
the side of the, roses is ,permit-
ted an opinion any longer. If
you even mention a rosebush to
a highway engineer, you are pe-
culiar and odd—to be brushed
off deftly by any of the several
accepted ways. You are protest-
ing against the bulldozer, which
is here to stay. Y6u are senti-
mental, and sentiment is absurd.
Chop it • down; yank it out;
level it off, Anybody who doesn't
see the mighty Wisdom of the
great program is a crank, to be
bulldozed over with the satne
relentless insistence. Stand aside
—we're, coming' through!
, And yet—of course—it's only
a rose, only a millstone long
idle, only a country lane •by a
waterfall. Let us not be Silly.—
By John Gould in The Christian.
Science Monitor.
Drive With Care
Frail Fairs
Large And Strait
Now is the time when the
voice of the calliope is heard.
in the land. All over North Am-
erica, in the next few weeks,
more than 40 million 'people
will click through the turnstiles
at some 2,000 fall fairs to gaze
upon the latest preducts of farm
and. factory, to take in. gaudy
Midway sights, show off prize
Holsteins or hooked rugs and
taste the wispy pleasure Of pink
cotton candy.
The Canadian National Exhi-
bition at Toronto may be the
greatest, of all our Exhibitions
if size counts for much
but the lively little Hants Coun-
ty Exhibition in. Windsor, Du.,
ranks as the granddaddy of
them all. Founded in 1765, more
than a century before' Confed-
eration, it's still going strong
despite several lapses, still pack-
ing in four-day crowds of 20,-
000 or more and still serving as
the show window of one of this
country's oldest and lushest ag-
ricultural areas.
For the farm folk who work
the dikelande around Windsor,
a normally drowsy little river
port of 3,000 people on the edge
of the green Annapolis Valley,
the Hants exhibition is a social
and occupational highlight of
the year. "When it's fair time,"
says agricultural representative
Don McKay, "the whole county
heists loose and comes to tpwn."
They come in from outlying
places like Hennigar's, Upper
Falmouth, South Rawdon, East
Noel, West Gore, Newport Cor-
ner, Walton and Wentworth
Creek. There's Harley Kilcup,
from Three Mile Plains, with
his Herefords; Freeman Lepold
and his prize ox team from New
Ross; and Howard Smiley, who's
been showing hotees and cattle
in Windaor for more than 60
years., There's Mrs. Mary, Gill,
who brings goats 4rom Avon-
'dale; Bill Taylor and his son
Leon, from Martock, both cham-
pion walking plowmen; and '
Murrille Schbfield's boys from
Gaspereaux, who take part in
- the $100 tug-of-war. There are
men with neat sheaf s of grain to
put on display . for the judges
and jugs of apple-jack for the
old friends they'll be meeting;
women carrying pies, golden
loaves of bread and needlepoint
to enter in Household Arts; and
children bringing hogs, white
mice and a dozen other kinds of
animals for the big Pet Parade
on 4-H Day:"
Many other fall fairs may be
strong for industrial exhibits
and carnival tents, which bring
in money. Not• Hants County's.
"This is the most farm-minded
fair 'in the business," claims
Watson Maxner, the stocky,
grey-haired secretary-treasurer
of the sponsoring Windsor Ag-
ricultural Society. "We haven't
becOme a sideshow yet. Never
will, ' either."
Accordingly, the Hants fair
has a distinctly rural flavor. It
features big displays of farm
• machinery and livestock, usual-
ly about 400 cattle and more
than.100 horses, as well as sheep
and swine,' For prizes totaling
$5,000 there are always scores
of entries in the competitions
for field crops, garden veget-
ables, fruit, flowers, poultry and
home handicrafts. Revenue-pro-
ducing industrial exhibits are'
confined to one building, to
leave plenty of 'room for farm
exhibits, and the midway ,is re-
lagated to the rear of the 42,
acre park.
Until, 1951 the Windsor fair
was' always,held in the grounds
at Fort Eward, the historic
, blockhouse where the expulsion
of the A.cadians was, planned in
1755. When .the site was turned
into a golf course the Agricul-
tural Society bought an aban-
doned army camp and build-
ings, including, a 3,000 - seat
arena, for $125,000.
Today the society's silo*
sometimes attracts 1 a r r
crowds than 'even the Nova
Scotia Provincial Exhibition at
Truro. At 50 cents a head for
adiniesion — kids free on open-
ind 'day — it usually grosses
about $17,000 and turns a profit
'of about $2,000.
One reason for its success is
that folks 'with a day or a dole
lat to spend never lack for
something to de at the fait. Be-
aides all the exhibits to see,
there are plowing contests, fiX=,
and tractor-pulls, tugs-Of-war
that can whip 3,000 people into
breathless excitement, and a
horse Show that sends many .
winners to TerOnto's Royal Whi-
ter Fate and is generally time
sidered the best in Nova Scotia':
And When fair time
'round, Hants' County's ferniere
all dress tip in their Stinday
best, pile their families' into
cars .,arid 'trucks and light out
for indsor., The the streets '
are decked• With' flags and
crowded with people in a gay
holiclay MOOd, On opening: day
bands parade down the Main
street, peat old loort Edward,
Where 'it all began so long rage,
and out to the exhibition
rounds. In a. small town hke
this," says postmaster John'
Hughes, t'it's a Woridetful time
for all," By bon Davidson itt
Iiiiperial Oil Review:
The really up-to-date farmers
among my readers — those of
you who havef the very latest in
equipmeni -t•-• may not be so
greatly interested in thii.article
by. John Gould 'which appeared
in The Christian Science Moni-
tor. Still, there should be enough
"old timers" among you to recall
the days John writes about, and
get a chuckle frem his memo-
ries of same.
* * *
Haymakers no longer rake
scatterings. As an accredited
scattering ' raker from away
back, into whose fiber the an-
cient adages were inculcated
that I might succeed and pros-
per. I'm aghast at •discovering
this change in a basic economy.
I can't remember that anybody
said so in just that many words,
POWER PLANT — A tomato that
apparently didn't know its own
strength is admired by young
Charles Acerra in the garden of
his horne. The tough tomato
grew right through the loop
atop the metal stake which Was
used to support the plant.
but I came along up with the
idea that dismal doom and
downright despair would des-
tend on the untidy and profligate
fernier who neglected to rake his
scatterings,
True, I was inwardly rebel,
licluS° all the time, and I never
loVed scatterings riti-theWo but
that didn't get ine anyWhere
I raked scatterings Sleet as if I
believed in them; I was told that
the scatterings would feed en-
'Other heifer, which was the fru-
gal and utilitarian approach and
forced on the growing boy that
atiOthet heifer was a good idea,
I didn't think so', "personally.
Heitera eat itiOte thaileYeti think,
oiled ,they get Stattetd,
«
Then there was the aesthetic
argtinient e-e, that people adriiited
a well raked field arid WOttid
take notice that you Were neat
This totild also be benighted as
nasty-neat, grid t think 1 So con-
strued' it.
The difference 'between 'then
and 'now is the same old story
mecbanical ,pregress. Hay is
made' today untouched by, hu-
man hands or feet. A side-
delivery rake .makes windrows
continuously, and the 'baling
machine passes over the wind-
rows and consumes them. Bales
are then hove •on a passing truck
which never stops, and nobody
ever looters, back.
a ,* ' *,
In zy time the rake was tt-,;,
durriP•fr46; a, jack-rabbitlike de-
vice -*eV tathered up its capa-
city and then dumped it be-
fore gathering again. You made
windrows by dumping always
in the same relative line. After-
ward, you could run the rake
along the windrow and manu-
facture "bunches" — which is
Maine, for they are called other
things in other places.
A bunch was Jnore or less
what a strong Man' could pitch
onto the rac10..in,Y;one
Sometimes the' 'bunching was
done by.hand, With a fork. And
after the bunches were'', hoisted
onto the rack, which always
' stopped for that exercise, the
loose hay left was known as
scatterings, and, had to be gar-
nered * • .*
Of course, in earlier tunes rak-
, ing was done by hand, and in
later times they got hay loaders.
But until the baler there was
always an effort, whatever the
method, to rake the leavings be-
cause they were valuable and
because they made the, eld look
unkempt.
We had two ways of raking
scatterings. The first one made
the horse mad, because he had
to keep turning-turning to bring
.the horserake over the scatter-
ings, passing needlessly over
great areas he had already raked
in the morning and scattering-
less now. No horses ever liked
to rake scatterings, because he
thought the driver had lost his
reason and didn't know what he
Wanted. ,t; •
The second method was with
a dragrake, or bullrake,, and that
always made me mad. The bull-
rake was an infernal machine
if there ever was one. It would
climb' up your back and excori-
ate you. It was, of course, de-
signed for a man about sit.,
lour and weighing 240 pounds --
but such paragons were • too
valuable to use oil scatterings
and always pitched on, built
load, or stowed in the itioW. It
was the little fellow,like. me,
Who got to rake scatterings and
had a bullrake riding behind.
You could =tell a real ferne boy
in those days by the way he
'Walked as if he thought some,.
thing was sneaking up on him.
« I
A bUllrake had a Curved hane
die, arid one grasped it in the
nianner. Of Mr. Diseobrthis of old
— one hand above the neck and
the other behind the belt. This
Mit the long teeth hi such a
tesitibri they could ride hush'
With the grotirid, and keep cliP-
ping ..yott on 'the ankles. By aetu-
al count, 28 to 30 times per wisp
is the usual average. Thus ac=
COnteted and postured, the tikei.
Walked and walked,end Walk,
ed and Welked, in te hot• tub',
picking up any and loose"hay
the harvesting crew had neglect•
ed to hoist to the load. * 4
,Occasionally the rake. would
have gathered enough to call for
dumping, so. you would hike
Meer to the rack and deposit it
on the ground, One of the men
would spear it and lift it up,
always leaving a straw or two
as a nucleus for your next batch.
Thus, the field was shortly clean
as a whistle — the bay was in
and nosy neighbors could see
that you were a frugal and cir-
cumspect husbandman with your
scatterings raked. * 4.
Nowadays, the scatterings in
a field wouldnt make a bale, and'
what the cam-operated teeth of
the baler miss is left, and no-
body tries to raise up that extra
heifer, That heifer was the sub-
tle • difference between plain
getting by and the luxury of
success, Small boys are no doubt
left to delinquency, and I feel
sorry for theth.
As for the aesthetic considera-
Vona, it is probably just as well
that modern traffic goes down
the road so fast you couldn't see
scatterings if they were ten feet
deep. I doubt if some of them
can, even •see if the field is mow-
ed at all, Thus we take care of
our own, and the poor lost extra
heifer isn't missed. If some mu-
seum somewhere wants a drag-
rake ,
Mind Like A Sponge
Teddy Nadler, the diffident
man with a Univac for a mind,
had already won $242,000 crank-
ing out answers om the CBS quiz
show "The $64,000 Challenge."
But before he .faced his' ques-
tioner recently and won $10,000
more to boost his winnings to
ancall-time record, he was fret-
ting like any beginner. "I might
black out," he muttered. "It
•could be my Waterloo. I know
enough about histo4r to know
what can happen to people.
Robespierre = was a big man one
day—the next day they shot his
jaw off and guillotined him."
Back home in suburban St.
Louis, things were a little dif-
ferent with the Nadlers as a
result of Teddy's late-blooming
good fortune. Clara Nadler,
whose husband had never earn-
ed more than $70 a week be-
fore he got into TV, was bustling
about a new, 615,000 brick 'home
.1yhich is fairly squirming: with
"--erectrical appliances.
""You should put, dowriabOut
the electric bill," she said re-
cently. "Whooee! Everything's
electric."
Pests had forced the Nadlers
to acquire an unlisted telephone.
Teddy, in a new income bracket,
had quit his clerk's job because
there wasn't any sense in driving
to work to make 20 cents on the
dollar." Otherwise there was no
change. .The neighbors took it
in stride. "Do the Nadlers still
live down the street?" asked one.
"They're very quiet," said an-
other. "We never see them."
"Come what may," says Mrs.
Nadler, "I'm still the same old
Clara."
Teddy was the same old
Teddy.
As a bookworm of a boy in
the Jewish Shelter Home in St.
Louis, where he had discovered
that he had a "mind like a
sponge," he had shown off ,his
brain as the other boys did
their biceps. Last week he still
felt that compulsion.
"You know Tchaikovsky was
born May 7, 1840, and died Nov.
6, 1893, don't you?" he abruptly
asked a reporter.
"You know Beethoven's sym-
phonies, don't you? I mean all
37 movements by heart? I 'can
hum 'em all. I do it in a mono-
tone, of course, but you start
any one of 'ern anywhere and
I can identify it for you within
a tenth of a second."
"You know all the Roman
emperors, don't you? Sure you
do. First there was Augustus,
and then there was Tiberius, and
then there was Caligula . . ."---
From NEWSWEEK.
ily Rev it. Burcia) warren
B.A., 8.1)
Justice for People to Necd
Isaiah 58:64;
Luke 4:16-22; Hebrews 1344.
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this world's good, and ape* his
brother, have need, and ..gbytteth
Pp his bowels. of compassion
from WM, how fiWeltetb the joy°
Of . God in lam? 1 404.347.
The Gospel of Jesus Christ is,
in a very real sense, a social
gospel. When people are for-
given of their sins they become
forces for good in society. They
are the' leaven for the Kingdom
of God, They not only live good
lives themselves but they are
concerned about helping: ethers
to find their Savious that they
may live good lives, too.
The righteous have always
worked for a better society, The
ancient prophets were the re-
formers of their day. Religious'
rituals, such as feasts were sec-
ondary to the practical aspects
such as relieving the oppressed
and breaking every yoke. Jesus,
in his first service read a pasSage
from Isaiah which emphasized
that he was continuing the work,. .
of the prophets. He would give
good news to the poor, heal the
broken-hearted and set the
bruised at liberty. No wonder
that the common people heard.
Him gladly.
"Let brotherly love continue,"
is a good slogan for every age.
We have a responsibility ttp help
all that are in trouble of any
kind. The- art. .of• hospitality
which our grandparents prac-
tised in simplicity rieeda
ing. Abraham did not realize
that the , men ..he :entertained:
were angels. There are always
a few transients who seek hos-
pitality hi order "to, rob .;their
host then or later. This has made
'people very canny, perhaps ton
canny.
Farmer •Harry Holt of Cres-
well, Oregon, has shown his
understanding of 'the ,social
plications of the Gospel by bring-
ing hundreds of rejected Kor-
ean orphans to NSA and finding
good homes for them. These
children were born of American
G. L'a and unvicil-Korean moth-
ers. In spite „of failing health
and countless obstacles, this re-
'markable Christian layman has
dedicated his life to finding
happiness and opportunity for
these youngsters, unwanted in
their homeland because of their
mixed blood.
If you are not one to whom
people in trouble readily turn
you should pause and ask, "Why?
Have I not the spirit of Jesus
Christ?" We need to have the
spirit of Jesus Christ that we
may' live like Him, if we are to
be worthy of bearing the name
of Christian.
A tourist in Cornwall over-
took a young man running rap=
idly along the road. He stopped
and invited the perspiring run-
ner to get in.
"An emergency, I suppose?"
the driver asked.
"No," puffed the young man.
"I, always run like that when 1
want a ride. It seldom fails:"
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