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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-05-21, Page 5A A 1 A 4 4 4 I I I 1 , 4 I 4 I 4 4 4 I I I 4 .4 4 I I I I 4 4 0 4 41 4 4 '4 4 4 1 I I I of 4 I FORECAST; BUMPER CROP — Wheat shoulder-high to a pup in early spring is an omen of a bumper crop. Weather per- mitting, this will be the second record year in ,a row, It was too chilly for 3-year-old Pam Franklin to go without her coat when this picture was taken. fish 'chit siernPfrefe,' 'only` 12 poiinds' of ?fish:- per" perbon Per year; is a soerge, or amazement to a Chi- nese, brOught up on a fish diet, Dr. Ling says that as the Popu- lation grows, there will, be a greater, drne end. for food. -, • e),* e . This increased need, coupled with the fact that,the seas. are getting "flailed out," apparently_ has- convinced him of the advis- ability 'of' starting ,ar new fa id- producing-industry irr.the United States. At the jee'esent time, fish farth- ing in-the Uniteci.States -is'eon- : fined, to raising., game fish to stook i'Ivee,S, and ',streams for sportsmen, Expanding this prac- tice, the edible buffalo and cat fish which come to rice paddies naturally, could be raised as well, Dr. Ling- believea. In time, othei species might be added and new- kinds of fish from other parts or the world could even be introduced and cultivated, he says. Prettiest tight — Our 'Own Home It was in the faIlyou'it own tomato crop had not, been very good, and I kept seeing bushels of beautiful tomatoes at roadside *stands for sale cheap. • •• "Those are wonderful 'tome- . toes; I'd like to get some," I ven- tured. "Welt I don't know where We'd put them, you.but if yo want them, let me `knOw in „time and I'll step." "You'll have to watch, too; It's For some reason this made him very angry, "You didn't tell me," he said, "Why didn't you?" didn't think you really wanted to step," I said, too frankly, "It's all right—I won't ask you to stop for anything again," lie gritted his teeth and made a number of remarks, none com• plimeptary, ending with; "You're going to get those tomatoes!" He was turning around as he spoke ' and my protests that the tomatoes were a matter of the utmost difference to me made no impressidn on him. We drove back, some twenty-five miles. The 'tomatoes were large, red, ripe, and they cost a dollar; also there was plenty of room for them in the car; but of course they were not worth the• extra, effort and wear and tear invellyed, Particularly the wear and tear. We did not speak for perhaps two hours. 'It was a het stipky day, there was a lot of traffic; even getting home did ;not make us feel less cross with each other. At last, however, we ran into A shOwer, a good wet, 'cool rain. • opened the window, not caring that my shoulder and arm were getting soaked, "We certainly needed that rain," the Professor said. I agreed hastily and happily, He did not, sound mad any-more, and I wasn't. I Then we turned in at the foot r. of air road; •there is the shingle cottage where the old couple used to live, now cieCupiedby a young • `couple and their three children; ithere is my mother's cottage, • which John and Mira live, in during the summer; there is the • 'hilt, with the .gnarled apple tree On the left and the pine on the right. And at last there is the white barn, the last rise, • the woven wire fence around, the yard, and our own l'Ouse, the prettiest sight to pureyes that. any trip can offer. I am sorry for people, if there ° are any such, who are not glad to get home.—From "The Pro- , fessor and I" by Dorothy Van Doren. 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Not too long afterward I dis- covered what must be the very old housewifely pleasure of laying sheets, pillowcases • arid white clothes (washed in cold water also) in the morning sun and seeing them take on an al- most miraculous whiteness by noon. That summer I lived on a diet consisting iof all manner of combinations of eggs, potatoes, tomatoes, fish and fresh' fitilt. At night I could see the lights of the sardine boats from ,my porch, loW4grig, stars in the outer'readheS of the harbor. Our village was truly a fishing vile lege. In the daytime the women on my street would set out their chairs in „the doorways,, chat- tinge:together and. Mending the large2webbe4 fish, eietp,„ In al,;- mond season, they would sit out with neighbors and relatives, a roomful of nuts behind them, pyraminded to the low ceiling,. 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Answe eise*ti tee 'on Attie 2, .1('Ing A t ti lance 34, 'Mist derim/t1 number 18, 'Brook. 39" "rtiibbub Patten, 44: Girl • 45, To the , inside or 97. Bold, 40. Motion of the sea 60. s IWO 51, eeeresstue F arvest goddess 04 1 oilorl ol Ugh/ 9„ 10 II 14 Acezoss I. second 5. Darien step S. Dissolve tS Elltptleat 13. Tttritieh title 14. Orandtoki of Esau _ 15, Prima tiOrins 18. fliceleee 18. Cant 20, Unexploded Obeli 21, 13utmope eat spirit 22. Cl pted Oct A 24. City on the Tiber iTVet 28. glevritor carriage Andre p9t1lier, a-factory work- er employed in ItOuen, France, accepted' the challenge of his workmates that he couldn't drain thirty glasses of wine in tee — minutes, He succeeded in drinking the wine in the stipulated period, but barelz,had :tirrie ,to collect his, winnings before lie fell dead. Want to knew much paint td buy for, refreshing a room? Simply retiltiply 'the length Of• the eeeeeto, „lee -coveted by the height and divide this result by 550. This gives .the nuinber of gallons required. (Calculations should be in feet.) ISSUE 21 — REMINDER -- Poster, pictured above, is the, Humane Associa- tion's reminder to all a its mission. Poster was issued', In connection with the 45th an- nual observance of Be Kind to Animals Week. their hands rapidly splitting off the green fruitlike covering - of the almonds, writes Sylvia Plath in The Christian. Science, Moni- tor. When August came, I looked longingly at the field of corn, tassels waving outside my pan- try window, arid thought of, the fresh buttered corn-on-the-cob my friends in America would be biting into.' But corn in Spain fattened the pigs end, chickens; I never did see the harvest of that neighbor's field appear' in the market place. My prize kitchen accessory that summer was neither sail- boats arid gulls nor robins and roses but a fig tree, 1 would step out of my kitchen door, in the cool of "the day before sun- rise, when the mountains be- hind our house, half-wrapped still in a pale, raveling mist, took on the pink and orange tints of the sun rising over the see, or when the Spanish wo- „men walked out in the white, glitteeing radiante of 'high noon under the shelter of big black taribtelfasarid there .the fig tree .r,ould be, offering me its own umbrella of broad green leaves with the green fruit lied among them, beginning to purple. Later; in the season I would go out and pick my des- sert froth the brandies and eat it from the natieral plate of the I ea When the time came for me to travel north, beck to the Kit- chen of Doors and the wintry larder, Widow Merigede stopped me on: the front porch., "One minute, senorita;'” 8aioncir,41; Herself with fine dexterity iri Mier • voile lindue , blade- skirts, she climbed onto the seat of the .1big 'rocking chair, reaching U p -to pick Inc the first clusters ripe grapes frail the green, leaf- tapestried lattice ?shading the , hf ever asked to digitise Milting lily 'kitchens the Mit Where I would spend the rest of my cooking days, I think' I would ask for a derrieibeite kiteheri, made up .'Of the best of all of these, Hilt if that Were impOssi, WO, I hatre a suspicion that. *Mild the kitchen of end Make h rate arrangement with the ferrite edit • door ter it tithe of his corn Olen it came in Cason.s UNDAYSellia LESSON 't titMAX .OF A DREAM '- Ike- Canacitati Itebrecticor er. e,tyil ihipe(c9forAr8 inter- tiatiOncil fleet tliroiigli St, L'aMbert lock near kMehlrecit formally-opening the St, Lawrence 5i0s4 • • • 0 4 • •• • 4,.`iXefi• • • • tgits1 „ • • • . , 'spelling sees Modern $tyle Culture beckons Ire with her chubby finger once a year, and. I go forth to be "beernaster" at the annual county spell-dewn. happen to belieVe in spelling bees, more than I do in, evaleated IQ's, so am happy to give my time generously to this event. We locate the county champ, who goes on to the state finals, and may some day eompete in the national contest. " The usual routine is to line up eight or ten grammar-grade pupils, hand me the offleial word list which none of up has seen before, and the contest Is oat It's fun. I emit a few pleasantries and witticisms to get the youngsters eased off, aed then, we go around with cat, ease, able, dare, crowd, swamp, and such-like simplicities. Occasionally we lose. a contes- tant on some of these, but usually we go around and around and , •everybody has fun, and, before we know it abalror Three-clear- ters of an hour gone. After, ward we cornea° the old"favorites such as supersede and clarify, and the line sAirns down, until wee,. get to lascivious, and we have ay,,. winner. That's the way it has been. But this year they had r,Some.e kind of a spoil-sport on the com- mittee of arrangements, for the first word on the list was bacil- lus. The entire assemblage,• in- ,eluding all the teachers who had come to root for their pupils, looked blank, and the young lady .at the head of the line paled and said, "Would you use that in a sentence, please?" Now, I don't know if you have ever run a spelling bee, biit it i's` .not the easiest thing in the world to think up a sentence containing the word bacillus. As your mind begins to mesh, and you seem to have a line on it, you find your- self wandering off with the thought that, a single bacillus is .a smallish thing to be causing all this fuss. Then you have a sneaky doubt, for a moment, that somehow they don't use the Latin plural any 'more, and you can't be just sure If bacilluses exist. By this time the total congregation has the -notion that here you are giving ,out bacillus, and you don't even know what it means. I recovered to tell her that a bacillus is a bacterium, of which .the pural are bacilli and bacteria, any of microscopic vegetable or- ganisms. So she said, "What?" This year's contest didn't last too long, The spoil-sport mis- judged our grammar school po- tential, and with bibliophile, ,consanguinity, daguerreotype and .eleemosynary raging like the Le- gions through Gaul our contes- HE'S 75 --: Pornier President . Harry S. Truman, 75 this yecir, makes with his famous Trumah smile in offices of the Truman Library. tants excused thernselees and sat One word was feraminifera, Which i had never seen before, and do not care to again, and which I do not know how to pro- pounce. it had taken about ;twee min- utes to bring this contest to a ci4riclueion,wheretiPen I was at. itickod eri masse by the assein- bled teachers, Who, PrOtP$ted match', and ,cried fen]; tried to explain that I had nothing to do , with it except• call out the I,vercle , provided, but I didn't get far with that. 4 M g', The' gist;igs ce4iAlaint, as I got it, was that no spelling MOO• should be oPeratectrutlesa It used' word the schelar's had learned' how to spell, To spring a nevcreeeeed eibt •lieretelfelle po,' litely introduced was unfair organized pedagogY,' and would cause e seye roqintellePtualiblew, to a child. A' child, they told rte,'has the' right to presume the words given will permit an exhib'iti'on of prowess. TO. hatil off and. give . him- a weed' he never heard be- fore is,,underbandedi,A beethaster is duty bound, .under ,some: kind of implied warranty, to stick- with • easy Words; I de hot 'know how these leather; 'eXPeked 'to spell dowp.411 .bet,the„winnepr ender_ „. 'bet' l're sure 'the'Y'd "1104 "ekplained it if I'd hung around. As I get it, the peculiarities of English orthography,long con- sidered .adaptable :le;::this cul- tural sport, must now' be con- formed to the established aver- ages of present-day school af- fairs. The purpose of a-spelling match, is not, to find a winner, but to keep' all the children standing so „they Vean demon- strate,e their accomplishments without embarrassment. Any word which ils too hard is a tor- pedo in the. hull of education. One of the teachers said, "Why -what you hive done to "these poor little children is' a terrible thing!" About the only thing I had , done, seems to me, was prose that none of them could spell monocotyledon. -Since I couldn't, either( without the,sheet, it seem- ed to me I was as ignorant as anybody. My guess is that we've put the spelling bee on the blink, I think these teachers will not make too r much effort to send their, hope- fuls next year. do not wish' to make a public spectacle of my-' self endermining the expensive projects of modern „schools. True, I feel there..ar'i- faults, both ways. I think ,the contest director who prepared this word list was far over the heads of modern eighth graders, and that he could have given us some less controversial words. He might, too, have begun easy and worked up hard. But I still can't go for the other idea—that a spelling match `„should be designed to keep ev- erybody standing forever. If the word is tentaculocyst, yoe are going to come to it some time.— By 'John Gould in The Christian Science-Monitor. DOWNED.— THEN OUT A Chinese expert is bringing ancient Asian knbw-how to far- mers In Arkansas, helping them improve their techniques 'of fish farming: The United States -- in a very 'rare departure frem cus- tom is receiving technical as- sistance from the United Na- tions' Food and Agriculture Or- biologist. * Rice farmers in - Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, California, and Tennessee may be able 'to de- velop• a new „industry and add considerably to their farm In- come as if result of this teChni- cal advice. Working with the United Statei rrish; and Wildlife Service, ,Dr.'''Sliira;Wen Ling, the ,'FAO's fish=faindeig expert, has'-devel- oped: ways. in which AMerican rice :paddies ,can be Aisedeefer raising. fish. asVeil as rice. Dr. 'Ling has taught biology and Worked for the Chinese Nationalist` Government in .the field of fish, culture. He fled 'China In 1937 after the Japan- ese invasion ana went to Rong Kong, where -he worked , for the 'British Goverpment as fisheries hioglogist. • S • At ,the end' of:World Waf he returned to China to organ- ize a national fisheries research institute.' In 1940 he joined, the FAO. He has advised the ,gov- ernments of Thailand, CeYlon, Indonesia; and Burnia on fish- eriee and fish' farming under the. FAO's technical=assistance pro- gram. Dr.. Ling, outlined the: main .steps in 'setting-. up. an experi- mental fish farming station in a news. conference at the United Nations.-- e„„ First: eV all, there Must, be a supply of :proper roPet kind of fish to static thelleioded ,rice 'fields, These fish must be bred to grow to maximilmo_sr on the food available. Next, the fish must be harvest- ed at just the -right time to ill in with the rice-growing cycIe. Later, they Must be proceaeed -- freezing, cannirig, curing;and salting facilities must be (Aeedily available—and, finally, of -Aourse, the• end„prduct must be iiitteket- ) ed. The idea .!of fish, farming oc- ceirred to -ired,:faxmei it Arkan- sas when they 'found that fish, ;filled their rice fields during the flooding period. These, fish were so-called "trash",fish undeeir able for eating,- Rice growers thought :it should be possible to have food fish in- stead, and applied to the Pish and Wildlife Service for advice. Experience and leno‘viedge in fish farming was' lacking, so the farmer); applied to Sentitor J. W. Ptilbright (D) of Arkansas for hid. He. introduced a bill in Con. gress to SO up, a research Arid eXperintentatieri.8tht1011 to study fish' feritilikin conneetiori with ride The bill wae dee proved, and $990,000 e eppeopti. ated. And Dr, Ling" through the FAO, was hired. to *oriel with the Fish and Wild Life SeeVice lb eetting up. Dr, Ling says that all the tie- Merits for alticCeSSfut Ash fettl- ing iridestry tire_ present in the "United gtateS, There is 'plenty of land and WateriThe points out; there, is to lack,:of eiltiipmerit; the climate ie 'suitable, and the amount of Bah eaten can Well be increased,, • io tie 'United Statea'S lineaget .01 Itev It 4 Warren The ICingdont Divided I Kings 1.2;1240 Memory Selection; If a king" dam be divided against Itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And. If a nonse be divided against it- Self, that house cannot stand, Nark 4405, "The LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel, which bad appeared unto .'him twice," Ile told Solomon. that he would rend all the king», dam except one tribe from his son, So our lesson illustrates how the sins of the fathers are visit-, ed upon the children. Also, the prophet, Ahijah, helped to pre- pare for the kingship, Jeroboam, a widow's eon, who had been ap- pointed by Solomon over all the house of Joseph. Ahijah, meeting Jeroboam alone, rent his new garment in twelve pieces, giving ten of them to Jeroboam and told him that he would rule over ten tribes of Israel after the death of Solomon, The prophecy of events does not cause the events, It simply foretells them, It does not take from, men their freedom of ehol4e. But God knowe all things. He sees the end from the begin- ning. Sometimes he die-edges to people the knowledge of events that will takerplace in the fu- ture.. On Solomon's death, his son Rehoboam went to Shechem to be made king by all Israel. Jero- boam, who had fled to Xesypt, was sent for by the congregation of Israel. He led Israel in a plea for a lighter yoke than they :had borne under Solomon. But Reho- boane .brought up in the lap of, luxury, took the adivce of his young friends and .answered the people roughly. There was no spirit of conciliation. Whereupon the ten tribes led by Jeroboam, rebelled and the kingdom 'was divided politically. Jeroboam proceeded to divide the kingdom religiously. He saw that if the people continued• to go up to Jerusalem to do a sacri- fice .in the Muse of the Lord, they would return unto Relio- boane. ,So s be 'made a substitoe religion. He set up .two calves of gold, one,in Bethel and one in Dan. He called the people to worship these gods. He made priests of the lowest of the peo-' ple who were not of the sans' of The kingdom was divided. Is- rael, the northern kingdom, vas to have a succession of dynasties. It was to be peeled into capttye ity by the Assyrians. The south r ern kingdom, Judah was to he ruled by the line ,,of David till carried into captivity by the Babylonians. "Did you get home all right from the party last night?" asked a man of his colleague. "No trouble at all,' was the reply, "except that just as was turning into my street, some fool stepped in my fingers." always too late by the time I get to tell you," "I'm driving,' the Professor. said, "If you want me to stop tell time to stop," We passed several likely stands, always leaving them be- hind before I had theta to men, Lion them. Then -there were 09 more, „See any places?" the Profes- sor asked, "Not now."