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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-03-12, Page 7talk about SOMe such boyhood, deal as this, and find myself pro- testing that it was fun The. whole thing is so far gone, pleasure at working an as sounds ridiculous, But I used sit in school all week looking forward to Saturday, and I'd be up bright and early to get the chores,done so we Could strike Out, There were some mornings that winter it was altogether too cold to try and we didn't go, but it the thermometer was anything above zero we'd hike out right after breakfast, carrying our tools and lunches, We always took a bag of apples from the cellar, and we'd eat the whole 'bag during the day, First thing to do on arriving- is kindle a fire. Not a big one, bet a little blaze against a stump to keep the lunches• and apples from freezing, and to work the frost out of the wedges and axes Well-tempered steel has been known to crack against frozen wood, but the better reason was the action of cold metal on the trees. If you try to drive a frost- ed wedge into a kerf (we called it a scarf) it may bounce back and brain you. But if you leave it by the fire a moment, it will cling in the crack and hold true. But we'd have had a lire any- way, because it does something to the clearing. It is good to smell smoke, We never went to sit by this fire, except at lunch time, but it kind of made a central point for operations, and we kept aware of its location as we worked. As the winter wore on, we moved our fireplace along as the piles of wood accumulat- ed, Chopping wood is not really hard work. Many ordinary farm jobs are much harder. True, a man who doesn't know axes and trees can bounce his heart out, and many experienced choppers have 'fought the grain all their lives. But a good chopper relies first on sharp tools, properly set and honed, and then he finds the proper balance and rhythm. I've heard men say to "put your back in it!" This is wrong. If the axe is swinging true, with good balance, there should be a slight but deft twist of the wrist at a particular point in the arc, and it will do more than a strong back. Most of all, a man needs to know how the grain of a tree is laid up, and work with it. Too, he needs to be pinpoint accurate. Thumping "like an old woman" is bad. Some women have been excellent choppers. but mostly they "chew". To make every stroke easy and accurate is the way, and rt you can do that with balance and grace, you can chop all day and be back tomorrow. Oh, this doesn't come easily - but when you've got a Pa who does it, and you are eleven or twelve and the thing is fun, it comes soon enough. You don't do his work, for you haven't the height and the spread, but you do get the balance and the strike. Then lunch, and in the twilight we'd douse the fire and start home. On a good day we'd put up two or two and a half cords, and half of it belonged to Yim. And how good supper smelled when we got-to the house! Half of the wood, of course, was ours, and it would warm us a second time a year hence when it was dry and the night was cold. Seems, too, as if it has warmed me many times since as I recall it, but it's been a long-long time now since I've heard of anybody cutting wood at the halves, -By John Gould in The Christian Science Monitor. "If one and one make two, and tWo and two make four, how much do four and four make?" the teacher asked little Johnny. "That isn't fair," came the re- ply. "You answered all the easy ones yourself and leave the hard one for me!" factors are adjusted according-ly!, Production of cheese should be the highest in several years, he said, with consumption at least maintained. The export picture appears better but the current high prices are not ex- pected to hold for the year, Exports of evaporated milk may be higher than for some time and this, coupled with an anticipated maintained or some- what higher domestic usage, suggests production should be moderately higher than last year. * With dry whole milk, the export market is all-important. "The first company or country to develop a satisfactory instant dry whole milk will have a tre- mendous advantage in export markets - markets which to me will be more important than our home market for this pro- duct." While consumption of dry skimmed milk has doubled in six years, added Mr. Goodwillie, it will be years before consump- tion can approach present pro- duction capacity. Last year's production w a s 186 million pounds. Britain's Lords Hear Note Of Faith A new poem by Soviet poet Boris Pasternak describing his "agony of mind" at being pre- vented from accepting the Nobel Prize for literature has just been quoted in Britain's House of Lords. The occasion for the quota- tion was a debate on nuclear disarmament in which power- ful voices like those of Earl • y3 0 -I C 1 , • . $$$: LEFT HIGH AND DRY --- T h e Wabash River' rase to flood height, froze and then receded, this large chunk .64 ice hanging an a Slender sapling In' Wabash, Ind', In two days, the river dropped five feet from OW, highest 20 28. Placee robbed out 29. Compelledobedience ill . Negro Of Mister') Slide Ti SS, bilnest 33. Orchestra conductor 40, Con-ipan or pletY ors. 43. Pail In drops guess frig gains 40. A Party 48. Tilt 49. T'ri'm "0' 40 ,t..., 10 Conodion.s. feel That Way TOO The American public is fed tip, with the steady push up in price* for homes, appliances, .aitternO, biles, rent, professional services-. and everything which goes to make daily living. Every trend Indicates that, Americans want better-quality • products, at lower prices, They do not understand why the -benefits of their society and their in- dustrial system are not paeaed. on to them in better products at low e r prices, The search for better products at lower prices goes on, It is increasing not degreasing. Once the public is aroused by the price prebem it may strike out blindly in consumer rebellion at prices, More sophisticated stu, dents of the problem believe that it will bring demands in the Congress for a public voice in every major, mass-industry labor-management contract, and/ or a cooling-off period Ifefore contracted wage-increases could be passed on to the public in in- creased prices, writes Nate White in The Christian Science Monitor. The consumers have never tried to face or solve the prob- lem, They have simply accepted it. They have resorted to time- payment plans to counteract it. Talk now that new auto loans may go to 48 months indicates the trend. This period of bland acceptance of the rising-price trend may be TLIE FARM FRONT nearing an end, Consumer dis- content .seems to be .everywhere apparent. TAKING NO CHANCES - One one-point landing on ice-glazed streets was enough for Walter Steitz. 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The home farm was mostly in pasture and hayfields, and part of the wood was timber; so we had to look elsewhere for the hardwood that went into the shed, There was more to it than that, Folks in town and city still burned wood, and after he'd cut his own supply a farmer cou'd pick up some cash by hauling a few loads of cordwood to them. And there developed the custom of "cutting at the ha.lves". I have done it, and at least in reminiscence it was fun, You hunted, up somebody who owned a woodlot, and if he agreed to do business with you. you went to cutting wood on his land, piling it in two equal piles as you went, He took half; you had half. It was a way fur a wood-poor farmer to get his fuel, and it was also a way an unoccupied man 'could support himself, for wood was always saleable, And the landowner got wood to burn and wood to sell without lifting a finger. There used to be a good natured Swede had a farm near us, and the back end was pepper- ed with new growth hardwood, stuff between three and six inches on the stump, and he re- marked one time that he'd like to find somebody to cut on the halves. My dad took him up on it, and the year I was eleven or twelve we spent almost every Saturday up there cutting Yim's wood. His lot was closer than our own, and cutting was easier. Three or four whacks with an ax, and you'd have one of his trees down, but in our woodlot we had to saw and saw to get the bigger birches over. Besides, we had to saw our birches in four-foot lengths to handle them, whereas Yim's wood could be handled in "sled lengths", Eight feet long or better. You could rack it up faster. It does seem a little odd tp SUPERHEN ictnelle Dunn, 6, shows what a hen can do when she puts her mind 'to it. The lass holds a normal-size egg In her right hand. The one in her left hand is a whopping six and one-half inches in cir- cumference. CROSSWORD PUZZLE CAN'T GET DOWN - Harold Lovely looks down a ladder to find his eight-month-old pooch, Wayde, following close behind. Wayde, who might be a Labra- dor retriever (nobody knows), has a penchant for climbing but unlike cats, he can't get down. The 60-pounder hauls himself up to the most unlikely heights and owner Lovely has to climb up and bring him down. "Can't hardly keep Wayde off roofs, anymore," comments Lovely. Caught By Chance Chance is sometimes unlucky for the. criminal. Last November an American in New York was arrested when he hailed a• taxi. Twenty mintites earlier he had robbed a taxi driver a short dis- tance away of a wad of hill's. It was the same cab driver that he hailed, but this time the pas- seoger was a policeman! Some years ago a police super- intendent was sent from. Scot- land Yard to help unravel the mystery of a woman whose naked body was found in a seek in the River Lea near Litton. The face was so disfigured that identification was virtually im- possible. For three months the police continued their inquiries, without success, -Eventually, the Superintendent and his assistant chanced to walk through a Luton side street where they saw a small..dog playing with a piece of cloth, Moved by some instinct, they tear the teinbant. It bore a dyet'S Mianber Which, when traced, was found to cotheofrom a coat belonging to a woman With en address id the atreet Where they bileMilitate" the dog. At the house, they interviewed a Mail Who saicl that his, Wife We§ away in Lerideiti - and then the Same little, deg walked in, - The Oblide began a thetetigb ozainination Of the hoUse, and fingerprints objects' the lipitte Wert foetid to Mateli those taken froth the body in the ,Sack,. The than confessed that he had killed hit' Wife quarrel Although rabies is causing concern in Ontario, it is signifi- cant that less than three per- cent of all confirmed cases last year were dogs. They were practically all farm dogs. Vaccinating dogs establishes a buffer of immunity 'between in- fected wildlife and, the human population, explains an official of the Health of Animals Divi- sion, Canada Department of Ag- riculture. * In recent months 95,000 dogs have been vaccinated at about 340 clinics throughout Ontario. Out of a total of 2,024 cases of rabies in Canada between April 1 and December 31 last year, (only 57 were dogs - a mere 2.7 per cent.) There was not one case of transmission of rabies from dog to dog. Should rabies become estab- ' lished among dogs, it would create a serious problem be- cause of the possible exposure to humans. While vaccination is important in the fight against rabies, even more vital is the control of canine movement in infected areas - particularly strays. * * • Health of Animals Division veterinarians quarantine dogs which have been bitten by other infected animals, such as foxes. Quarantining is authorized un- der the Animal Contagious Dis- eases Act and imposes a six, month confinement. Owners are instructed to keep their dogs confined inside a building away from all person§ except x. those responsible for feeding and caring for them. If necessary the dogs 'should be tightly secured. When dogs are badly bitten owners are urg- ed to, destroy them. "Vaccination is an caficient adjunct in the control of rabies," says one veteritiarian, "but it is felt that the regulatory control measures of dog quarantine play a vital part in rabies outbreaks." * "What lies ahead for Canada's dairy products? Will production contioue to outrace cotisump- tion? These questions were para- mount in talks by D. G. Good- Willie, Canada Department of Agriculture, to Western Canada dairymen. He felt that "there is reason to believe" milk production will be slightly "(ewer, because (1) There are fewer cows; and (2) No libprovement in feed add producing conditions are fore- seen. Mr. Goodwillie predicted a' levelling off trend in the fluid milk Market would continue.. He said, too, that competition is slight between fluid, evaporat- ed end' dry skin-treed Milk, and that the use of all three procluctS in rile home probably increases conturoptiori of Milk. te looked for less butter this year; after 1958 SAW production 34 'billion'pounds higher than ever before, but he daittiated that' "it looks at though We may have a butter problem the same as a few year's ago, which Will not be solved Until the nebilettilti. Russell (PhilesoPher Bertrand Russell) advocated that Britain should set an example by uni. laterally renouncing nuclear Weapons. The British Government's re. jection of such a policy was given by the. Earl of Dundee on. the grounds that there is 510 evidence as yet of any change of Soviet policy or actions. But Lord Dundee ended on a note of hope by quoting this new poem of Mr. Pasternak, He said, "It is the voice of one Russian who loves his country, who wants to be loyal to its present government, and who does not believe that war be- tween capitalism and commun- ism is inevitable. If more of his countrymen could be persuaded to believe as much as that, then there would be a real hope of world peace." This is the Pasternak poem quoted by Lord Dundee: I am lost like a beast in an enclosure. Somewhere there are people, freedom and light, Behind me is the noise of pursuit And there is no way out. Dark forest by the shore of the lake Stump of fallen fir tree, Here I am, cut off from every- thing. Whatever shall be is the same to me. But what wicked thing have I done? I the "murderer," and the " I, who force the whole world to cry Over the beauty of my land. I am near my grave, But I believe the time will come When the spirit of good will conquer Wickedness and infamy. Lord Dundee spoke of the posi- tive course which the British Government seeks to *follow in breaking down the cultural and intellectual barriers of the Iron Curtain. This is known to be one of the objectives of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in his 10-day visit to Moscow. Mr: Macmillan believes that, whatever else may or may not be achieved by his personal visit to the Soviet Union and his contact with the leaders and people there, it should be possible for him to help in break- ing down barriers, writes Peter Lyne in The Chirstian Science Monitor. This is how Lord Dundee de- scribed the British. Government's purpose, "What we want to do is not just to have controlled visits, some of which are prob- ably for the purpose of propa- ganda sponsored by one govern- ment or-another; we want to have real •freedom of intercourse between the leaders of educa- tion, industry, and science, and between ordinary travelers and tourists; we want censorship to be abolished; we want the Rus- sian people and our own equally to be able to read each other's literature, to visit each other and talk to each other." Lord Dundee deplored the fact that the people of the Soviet Union under communism had been indoctrinated with the idea that war between communism and capitalism was inevitable. But he said the British Govern- ment believed that through establishing better contact with the Soviet people the old mis- understandings and misappre- hensions could be resolved "be- cause the Russian people are as amiable and as capable of love as any other people in the world." In the meantime, however, the British Government's answer to Lord Russell and other unilateral disarmers was, "We will not low- er our guard." NDAY SOON LESSON 1.17.1411. R, 0.; Warren, What Will: You. Do, ;ewer 10;x.-10:. Memory Selection: He was Ink pressed, and he was afflicted, Yet he opened not his mouth. Isaiah 531. We make many important de- cision in life, Choosing our voca- tion and our companion for mar- riage are among the most signi- ficant. But life's most important question is, "What will you do with Jesus?" Each of us must an. swer this question for himself. We can't remain neutral. We are either for Jesus Christ or we are against Him, Before Pilate an- swered this question he had a private talk with Jesus, His con- clusion was, "I find in him no fault at all." John 18:38, If we carefully read the Gospels we reach the sante conclusion. Sure- ly, here was the perfect man. We may find fault with many who profess to be Christians. Their- daily living may be out of har- mony with their profession, But Jesus lived what he taught. There is no fault in Him. Pilate tried to evade making a definite decision by sending Jesus to Herod. But Jesus came back. Pilate had to take his stand. Then the Jews cried out, saying,. "If thou let this Man go, thou art not Caesar's friend; whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar." Pilate recognized that this was a veiled threat to report him to Caesar and Pilate's record would not stand up under the keen scrutiny of the Emperor. That settled it. Pilate decided to protect himself rather than do what was right concerning Jesus, It's that way with us, too. The case simmers down to choosing for our sinful self or choosing for Jesus. Jesus said, "If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me." Matthew 16:24. We must say "No" to self and forsake our sins and surrender our will to Jesus Christ, Saul did just that when he met Jesus on the road to Damascus. He said, "Lord, what wilt Thou have me do?" Acts 9:6. He yielded his will to Jesus. And what a life he lived, The trial of Jesus was a farce. Pilate knew that the priests hated him because of envy. But he him- self, through selfishness and cowardice, issued the death sent- ence. But Jesus will have the , last word. One day the priests, Pilate and every one of us will stand before the Great Judge and it will be, Jesus Christ. We should accept of His great salvation now, that we find life at its richest meaning, and stand be- fore Him in the last great day, Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking N V/ D 3 0 3 d S SV 213 211W 3 0 CI 121b'1 CI 3S S 211 a N 3 3 V 3 3 a Es ISSUE 11--- 1959 30 a 16. aerated 16. Divulged ,18, .20. Root ease 21. Waste 23. Royal Star-shaped30,,FAShioti, 31. Paddle rlulf82. in the Medi- , teriatheatt 2. 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