HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-01-08, Page 3ORNAMENTAL — Surrounded by hedge apples, Pamela Thorp,
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be painted, making unusual Christmas tree decorations.
THEFARM FRONT
John
Wooer They Come
Everyone says that automo-
biles are getting too big, but
parking lot operators — bless
them — are doing something
drastic about it. One Washing-
ton operator is cutting rates by
about, one third for customers
with small ears. L, B. Doggett,
Jr., president of the Washington
parking Association and opera-
tor of 17 lots, makes eminent
mathematical sense when he
points out that 42 half-pint autos
can be fitted into the space now
required for 20 of the behe,-
moths which some people in De-
troit waspishly term a "normal"
size car.
Now, there are several honor-
able and energetic exception!, to
the trend among manufacturers
to make the huge even huger;
and the, indecision among the
big companies which must
"freeze" models several years in
advance deserves some sympathy
along with the scoffing, But it
is melancholy to note that the
infatuation with size as a symbol
of something or other still pre-
vails; many 1959 models even
outspan the mammoths of 1958.
Add to this growing length the
problem of the fragile new
equipment which adorns some
models—it has almost come to
stereophonic headlights a n d
switchblade fins—and the deter-
mination of parking lot opera-
tors to revise rate schedules is
understandable. In New York
one group of 400 operators has
voted to raise fees for most 1959
models by 15 to 30 per cent.
Thus if esthetic considerations
fail to shrink the dreamboats,
economics—and the sheer im-
possibility of providing enough
road space if the size of cars in-
creases with the volume—may
yet curb the length. Sooner or
later it may cost more to park
these monoliths than to keep up
the payments, and the family
garage may loom like an air-
drome over the house where
mere mortals dwell.—Washing-
ton Post.
Royal Flower
Britain's lavender acres are
shrinking, every 'year, but there
are signs that its . oldest and
sweetest flower — the finest in
the world for making perfume
— is returning to front-rank
popularity.
The Queen loves lavender. The
late Queen Mary was so fond of
it that she frequently visited
the fields near Sandringham
from which the spikes are
gathe.r0, k9r blending and pre-
paring lavender water.
It is said that King George
IV devised a special formula for
lavender water. The laadies of
his court invariably wore it. If
the current love of lavender
continues to flourish perhaps we
Shall see again in London full-
gowned street sellers crying as
they did more than two hun-
dred years' ago: "Who'll buy my
sweet blooming lavender — six-
teen branches a penny?"
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Memory selection: All things
are possible to him that be-
lieved), Mark 9;23.
In this quarter we continue
the study of the life of Christ
as recorded in Matthew, Mark
and Luke. We are dealing almost
exelusievly with the closin4
scenes of Jesus' earthly career.
After the healing considered in
this lesson Jesus takes his final
departure from the northern
province of Galilee to proceed
to Jerusalem.
The event in today's lesson
took place After Jesus came
down from the mount of trans-
figuration with Peter, James
and John. When they came to
the other disciples they found
a multitude of people A man
had brought his son who was
deaf and dumb to be healed. The
disciples had tried to cast out
the evil spirit but were un-
successful. The critical scribes
were watching. The father of
the boy was disappointed. The
crowd was interested. They
brought the boy to Jesus. The
boy fell to the ground and
frothed at the mouth. Jesus ask-
ed the father. "How long it it
ago since this came unto him?"
The father replied, "Of a child."
and proceeded to describe the
ailment and then plead for corn-
passions. It was the practice of
Jesus to let people confess fully
their needs. Then Jesus chal-
lenged him to believe, saying,
"If thou canst believe, all
things are possible to him that
believeth." He answered, weep-
ing, "Lord, 1 believe; help thou
mine unbelief." He had a mea-
sure of faith but was struggling
with doubt, which was due in
large measure to the failure of
the disciples. Giving expression
to his faith would help to
strengthen it. The Jesus rebuked
the foul spirit and raised up the
boy.
Then Jesus had a lesson for
the disciples. They asked, "Why
could not we cast him out?" He
replied, "This kind can come
forth by nothing, but by prayer
and fasting."
It is still true that one reason
for the church's weakness rs its
failure to pray. In most church
the 'prayer meeting has died. No
wonder we are so powerless• in
meeting the evil forces about.
It a spiritual awakening comes,
there will be a renewed desire
to pray. It is likewise true that
if there comes a, renewed desire
to pray, a spiritual awakening
will come.
ISSUE 1 — 1959
VORACOUS — Suggesting a giant housefly, the jagged metal
sculpture, called Animate Orgcinico, gobbled up third prize of
$1,000 at a Pittsburgh exhibition. The creation is by French
sculptor Cesar.
the timbers began popping up in
the swirl of the tide, the ways
spread before us, and we could
see the hundreds of men stand-
ing• there with long-handled
mauls, gazing up at the prow —
perhaps some of them saying,
"This, my ancestors did; and man
may never do it again!"
The Sintram was not what was
called a "lucky" craft. She was
outfitted, her sails and rigging
making a brave aspect against
the sky when she put to sea some
months later. She hauled coal a
few trips, and was lost in a storm
off a southern coast.
It didn't matter, much. The
building and the la'nching had
been successful—the rest was in-
cidental. To have stood in the
mast-rigging of a five-masted
schooner while she slid into the
drink was, in itself, eomething,
, That cold morning was colder
still when the fun was over. Peo-
ple on the beach went home, but
the la'nching party stayed aboard.
.They sent a dory out for us, and
one by one we went down a
line override, ladies and all, and
came ashore again,
I do remember, besides the
cold, that I lamented the delay
in gettingys ashore—for I had
to get home 'in time to.milk.—
By John Gould in The Christian
...Science Moniter.
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"Your girl,. friend '':phoned.
Said she wouldn't be able to see
you to-night after all."
"Well, that's a wait cff my
mind."
- - As we were water-borne and
day, built right thole on the
semi' slope, and this flew Sin-
tram should be no
They didn't bei up at
wartime speed, but there reline a
time for la'nehing, and it was on
a full moon tide in the forenoon.
About three inchee of snow had
fallen the night before; and a
cold sun shone an the harbor
Men wore mittens, and grasped
the la'nching hammers, Thwe of
ty, f v!..c(4 I- t0 s'neheig
party climbed the ecieffolds to the
deck, and 1 lAnCnea 44,007 41 U, the
mizzen stays to overlook every-
thine—from the blue hills be-
yond 'to the open sea and the
sunny shores of Spain. . . She
was a beautiful vessel, flags on
every line, but it was a cord
morning and it took, imagination.
The men assembled under the
hull, and there came from the
la'nching master the order to
strike. The empty hull, echoed
with the gigantic thunder of
hundreds of hammers pounding
on the blocking, and this con-
tinued until every support was
out except those, actually hold-
ing the great vessel to her ways,
Suddenly the noise stopped
and the silence was emphasized
by expectancy, The la'nching
master came forth from under
the giant belly of the ship and
looked up at the christening
party under the rostrum. The
bandmaster took his cue, and
there was a sdlemn hymn, after
which a prayer was offered, and
then the band struck up a riot-
ous medley of longshore tunes.
The lady in the white dress,
over her heavirs3t coat, clutched
her beribboned bottle and struck
an attitude. The band suddenly
ceased, and the la'nching master
waved to his men under the hull.
Then — once, twice, thrice! —
there were three solid raps in
unison, as hundreds of men all
struck in count at the shorings.
Then there was utter silence
again, and we felt the vast fash-
ioning of timbers under us
amove. It was imperceptible, al-
most—but the Sintram had be-
come a living craft, and was al-
ready smoking the grease under
her keel. The taste of salt would
be there by the stern.
I heard the lady, her thin
voice carrying on the chill air.
She swung mightily to splinter
the bottle 'against the rugged
bow timbers and' shouted, "I
christen thee Sintrarn—and may
God sail always with thee!" And
the stern was in the sea, and the
band was playing again, and
whistles blew and the thousands
of people cheered.
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women , outside agriculture is
shown in figures supplied this
correspondent' by Dr. Lowell S.
Hardin," head of Purdue's depart-
ment of agricultural economics.
Of this country's labor force,
about 8,000,000 persons work in
farm production, and from eight
to ten million in 'strictly non-
agricultural occupations. But
there are an additional 16,000,-
000 persons working in jobs re-
lated to agriculture. They are
either in farm' supply industries
and service or in the marketing
end, including ,''food processing
and retail food sales.
• The changes in the Purdue
curriculum are aimed to meet
the needs of those who go into
these fields related to agriculture
as well as those who intend to
farm.
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That great French 'VatielY
artist 'Maurice chevalier recent•
ly acquired half a dozen new
straw bats for use in his act;
during a new tour of Britain,
end the United SWIM
Straw hats have always .been
an essential part of his wardrobe
and; he always buys.. them, in
Britain. At the age of 5q.V.g4t71
Chevalier still has that ,etierveee,
cent gaiety which has made -him
famous es an entertainer all over
the world. The very thought
retirement bores him,
He has said that' when he
achieved outstanding success he
became "almost afraid of my
own fame," Ths, publicity be re-
ceiyed scared him. "Would you
like it if suddenly a shaft of
fierce light was thrown on every
aspect of your life, as it was
cif mine, turning you into a.
kind of living waxwork figure
that twisted and turned for the
entertainment of the public,"
Many stories have been told
of why he first began wearing
straw hats in his shows. But the
truth is that many years ago
while he was appearing in a
touring show at Deauville he
met a man wearing one with
evening dress on the local prom-
enade, . .
"He was sueging a straw hat
at a cute ariti)e,r, says Chevalier
"I never lchew his name. I
never saw tem. again. But he'
gave me the idea of wearing
straw hat with evening dress
and I've been wearing one pretty
well ever since."
KEYBOARD — With a keyboard
similar to a piano's, instead of
the usual holes, this German
miss tries out a new flute, call-
ed "tatelodica," manufactured
in Munich.
900-Year-Old
"Strip Cartoon
Twelve men and women at
Aubusson, France, have begun
the mighty task of weaving what
Will be the world's largest tap-
estry. Measuring 74 ft. 8 in.
high and 38 ft. wide, it will
hang behind the High Altar of
the new Coventry Cathedral
and has been designed by the
artist Graham Sutherland. The
work will be completed by 1961.
This great tapestry, in the
Byzanthine style and showing
"Christ in Glory", will cost
$60,000 which is behig provided
by an anonymous donor. It is
icing woven tender "the direc-
.., tion of world tapestry Authority
Madame Cutrelli on a 12-rnetre
loom which was specially built
for the purpose.
It was Madame Cutolli, who
was chiefly responsiblg for the
modern revival of the Frenca
tapestry industry, The priceless
Bayeux Tapestry, the most fam-
ous example of weaving art in
existence, which is 230 ft. 9 in.
long by 20 in. wide, was woven
in France and is said to have
been embroidered by William
the Conqueror's. Queen Matilda.
The Bayeaux tells in 72 scene:,'
the story of the life of William
and the Norman contluest of
England in 1066 — an ancient
counterpart of a strip cartoon.
Six hundred and twenty-three
people ,are depicted in it with
202, horses and mules, 55 dogs
and 505 other animals in each-
tiOn to many buildings, ships and
trees.
It was feared at brie time
during the war that this tapestry
had fallen into Nazi heeds When
danger was first threatened the
tapestry was placed in a lead
case and removed to a newly
tonstrueted shelter in 18ayeati
itself, Later it was taken to a
country house svith other nee
tirstal treasures- of France. At
the liberation of Paris, it was
discovered undamaged in the
Louvre.
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Howard Johnson Jr,„ at' left, Answer elscwhei e on tl is page
Farming has changed so much
in recent years that U.S. agricul-
tural colleges are finding it
necessary to give their curricula
a thorough going over. They are
adjusting courses of study to the
trend toward "agribusiness."
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Purdue University, which pro-
vides an example, of the changes
underway,' has just completed
the' drafting of a new agriculture
curriculum, following a twei-year
study of the needs' of tbday's
students. It places much more
emphasis on basic studies in the
natural ,sciences, in economics, in
languages, and in business ,sub-
jects, and less on "how-to-do-it"
courses.
The boy who goes to the uni-
versity's agricultural school now
isn't attending what he used to
call a "cow college," judging by
the changes already in effect
here. He is spending less time in
the college farm feedlots, more
in the laboratories.
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He will come out with a greater'
ability to understand what re-
search has to give him, will have
greater ability to understand the
behavior of prices, will have
learned some of the fundamen-
tals of business management so
necessary today on the farm.
As a result of its new empha-
sis on these basic strides, Purdue
University's agricultural school
is growing fast. It had the larg-
est percentage of new admissions
this year within .the memory of
its administrators—a 21 per cent
increase, The new curriculum,
which will go into effect next
fall, is expected to stimulate
further the grciwth of the school,
The rapid changes in agricul-
tural technology now occurring'
encourage this approach. It is not
just a case of not doing things
the way grandpa did. Progres-
sive farmers today read experi-
ment station reports, attend con-
ventions, confer with their sup-
pliers, take short courses, and
constantly update their methods
in the light' of new research
findings. Dean Butz says the new
curriculum recognizes this fact.
"If we teach the best practices
today," he said, "the student may
find them obsolete by the time
he graduates and has th'e oppor-
tunity to use them. It is better
for him to learn how to find out
these developments for himself." *
Another factor enters into the
heed for the basic studies The
largest proportion of students at-
tending agricultural college come
from Mons, but many do not re-
turn to them after graduation. A
study of the cartel's of Purdue
students after graduation shows
that only 10 to 15 pet' cent of
them return to the farin.in-une-
diatcly after graduation, Another
10 per Cent go back after e de-
cade of work in an off-farm oc.
eupation. Another 20 to 30 per
tent filially get back to farming,
perhaps atter a career in tile
city which has been sufficiently
successful to permit each to buy
and equip a farm according to
his heart's desire. (It takes around
$100,000 to do that, they say.) * * *
This leaves around 50 per cent
who will "never returh. But it
does not indicate that the non-
fermera made a mistake in tit-
tending agricultural College. Dr.
D. C, Plendler, assistant dean,
who made the study, points out
that many went into branches
of work closely allied to farming,
where agricultural education was
extremely valuable, writes Doro-
thea Kahn Jaffe in The Christian
Science Monitor.
Some went into the govern-
mental service as farm advisers
or workers in the Department
of Agriculture. Some went into
agricultural education; others in-
to farm research. Still others
became agricultural editors, one
an agricultural missionary.
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ftecent scholarly thesertetions
here,, employing the several spe.
eies of imitation, in pleasing
language, have dwelt on matters
maritinse, until the question has
arisen as to what. this has to do
"with the farm, anyway. „ It is
too bad that so much of our rural
heritage is highlander stuff, and
the sea plays so little part. With
me it has not been so,
Here on the East Coast the
highest perfections of husbandry
were on what Rob Coffin made
famous as a Salt Water Fertil—
e clam fiat connected by a rocky
bloesorn-bestowed path to a corn
patch, with a little white house
that looked forth upon the sea
and was shaded behind by the
forests of spruce and pine, The
best farm land in Maine was
never by the tide, but the best
farm living in Maine was.
My own farm is ten miles back
from mean high water, but such
was the union of affairs that even
we grew up with much of the
sea in our affairs.
One of my father's earliest
memories is of driving a rating
eight miles over winter snow to
the smelting at Abagadasset
Point, where fishermen were
hauling their nets and tossing
away the tomcods that had no
market. Every time they drew
they would get a peck of smelts
and five tons of tomcod, My fa-
ther, off on his first errand of
consequence alone, was instruct-
ed to offer the men a few cents
a bushel if they would load his
pung, and• he brought the tom-
cods home for hog food,
In my own recollections, the
launching of the Sintram, was
anachronistic, but very real. She
was a five-masted schooner, the
last ever built, and why I was
bidden to the la'nching party is
unremembered, but I was. The
time was either 1919 or 1920.
either February or March, and
there has never been such a
la'nching since, and never will
be.
During World War I the wood-
en cargo vessel for the Emer-
gency Fleet was built by the
hundreds wherever land sloped
to the sea. The prints were sup-
plied from Washington, and the
boats were all alike, The most
wonderful feature of this pro-
gram was the ability of Mrs.
Wilson, wife of the President, to
think up names for them. Hap-
pily, most of the names have
been forgotten,
When the war ended a half-
built hull was on our ways, and
suddenly there was no need of
her. We had just la'nched the
second-last one, which Mrs. Wil-
son had called something like the
Manuposcunoggatrass, and which
was christened by the well-set,
sturdy, able wife of our harbor
master. The lady held the local
clam shucking record and used
to cook on a trawler. She whang-
ed the ,stem of the Manuposcu-
noggatrass with the festooned
bottle and shouted, "I christen
thee whatever the thunder it is."
But the half-built vessel be-
came the Sintram. Local men
cashed their Liberty Bonds and
formed a corporation that took
her over from the government.
They tossed away most of the
government blueprints, and fin-
ished her up traditionally, con-
verting her by rule-of-thumb to
a fairly well lined clipper—not
too extreme, but sea-worthy and
There was a good deal
more sentiment than good sense,
and the Sintram was mesele a
.„ present day symbol of past glory.
The world had no use for a
five-masted schooner, but every-
- body who worked on her be-
lieved. The , back pastures of
Maine no longei had any mast
timbers, so they had to bring her
sticks in by rail gom the South.
But Charlie Dunning "het" his
forge and made all the rings and
blocks, as he'd done in olden
times. There had once been a
famous Sintratn, holding numer-
ous transoceanic records in. her
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