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The Brussels Post, 1960-02-18, Page 3Off SCHOOI LESSON .... .GIVE ME LAND, LOTS OF LAND-Just a step or so. ahepd ,of disaster, c, .Freesciecon, MOT' hurdles a wire fence , to escape ci.charging. bull at the Mission San Antonio near Monterey, t.Calif, Friends gave xhe. mi sion two full , ' grown. buffaloes to supplement the livestock but the onimols.. didn't co-operate with the Franciscan's' plan to tame them with kindness. NEW CRAZE? thidenfs 'TUN uravoisify iiave thrown down the gauntlet" they thihk they have made the wo'rld's longest 41 feet, They treated it by slOWly Pouring green-Colored Wciterieniii a &W." rnitciry Fancy free The Grocer calls for: -Free maps and compasses to supermarket shoppers, to cut the cost oil sending out search parties for customers' overdue at the checkout. -Collision, personal and pro- perty damage insurance policies for shopping cart pilots, with, understandably higher rates for'. those who shop Thursday or Fri- day nights. -Drug stores that sell only drugs and prescriptions. e. -..'Formation of a special 'brans& of the philatelists socie- ties to include savers of trading stamps. Members can tradeetrad- ing stamps if they should hap- pen to have wandered into the wrong store by mistake. -A good five-cent cigar. -A Space Program for re- tailers. That is, a program de- signed to show retailers how eto get twice as many odd-shaped and sized packages into the existing space. -An electronic device on shopping carts that calculates how much money the customer has, then gently but firmly guides the cart to the checkout before the customer's last"dolar is spent. ens conveniently overlook the reasons for the supports as they yearn and shout for freedom in the market place. The. Western Grocer, in a fit- ting. mood, talks of things to come in 1960. Minute.liond: Got People Ticking: ny.WAXP CANNEL NeWspepee Entprpriee Aesn. New lOrk -(N44) - Comes. now the anniversary of a need,- leas. little invention Which eta] • gripe the world in a dreadfiel. headache. . For it is .rieW 300 years since some logg.foegetteri. ',Meet-Week clock maker invented the {rte hand--opening the sluice eittes of eivilization for. the in. evitable invention, of the time- table, the elcer..end a legiop, of billion dellar industries. Now, as. short a time age as 1660, historians say, .most.-people were still telling. time as they had since' time was invented; sun-up, sun-down, rain, snow . and thaw, -A- day- _or tVeseeWAS . Accurate enough, for most arriv- els aepartures. And a' deck no more than•tWo 'hours Ott 'was . considered .a monument of pre- • • Then came the minute; heed. Within a century everybody in civilization was counting min.. utes. Another century and pre- cision machines. were making ireciSion;"Watelies.. It :eves, ofe course, too much - precision.eBy 1360, the strain- on • the ,u,,$. wes. more, than any nation' couldstand. Every solid citizen could tick off the average 1,443.5 minutes it takes the earth to go from sunrise to sunrise, However: • The sun rises five minutes earlier in New York • than in .. Philadelphia because Philadel- ,phia is farther • west. • the sun rises five min- utes , - earlier in Philadelphia than. In Baltimore because of • Balti- more is farther west. 'And that's' the way it was, going, west-more than 300' lime], - time zones in the U.S. -To -"remedy this • complication, the railroads drew up their own. timestables. A different table . for each line. And, moreover, a different one for each -division: That added another 100 tine zones. By 1872, the railroads couldn't stand it any longer and began to consider a new plan, namely four times zones for the entire nation. But as time ,.,changes . take time (1117a);•ethe plan was not put into effect until 1883. It was a .wonderful day. All • CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS - 58. eii@ent 1. Baking • Persian necessity 59. First garden 5 Goddess of 1. Titplegwil strife 2. Indian the railroad men with their min- ute-hand watches moved them forward or backward-some as much as e30 minutes-4o fit the new zones. Tt is still remember- ed by' ol'd' men with watches ,as "the day.of the two noons. Anyway, the following year the nation followed the railroads and adopted the four time zones so that everybody, everywhere would know what minute it was forever - except for revisions which are made every 10, years. In the meantime, more precise measurement of the minute was being invented all over the place. In GreenWich, England, they were calculating the earth's movement in relation to -the sun. In Paris, France, they, were do- ing it by the stars. Happily, the two times were not, the.eatne ,('a „star.-day, iee.beut four minutes, shorter than a sun- day). And just to keep the pot boiling, other people were keep- ing, Daylight, Saving iTiree,` Mili taryeTime and Mean Solar Time. But it's all child's play, now that the space age is here. Bell Laborateries tell erie that it's "an experimentally verified-fact that clocks appear to run more slow- ly on swiftly moving objects." The example they like to use is a set of twins. One stays on on earth. The other travels to the stars at almost the', speed of light. And when he gets back, his watch will have ticked off one year. But his earth-brother's watch mill have ticked off 10 years. This is further complicated by the fact, readily available from clock makers, that rid clock has been invented-from the sundial to the atom-which tells the same time 'as any other clock. SAFETY FIRST ! A man who was suing over a e motoring accident was being 'questioned by the defendant's 'latter. "Did" 'you, 'or did you not,' at the time of the accident when asked if you were hurt, reply you weren't?" "I did," said the plaintiff, "but it was like this: I was driving along the road with my old e, horse and wagon when along comes this fellow and knocks us into the ditch. You never saw such,a mess in all your life. "This motorist gets • out of his car and looks at, us. He sees my horse has a broken leg. He goes back of his car, gets a gun and shoots him. Then he turns to me, still lying there and says, 'Now, what about you? Are you hurt?'" Oh, give me fast friends Who are kind to abide with, But not the fast kind Who are too fast to ride with. The recent publicity and con- fusion incidental to the ban on cranberries ,has focussed .atten- tion on the use of drugs and chemicals in, the production and preparation for marketing of, fruits and vegetables. It all leads, to .one sober conclusion - that too many .growers refuse to exercise 'la self-rearaint and' selfspolicing tesentiai .te the cor- rect use Of tmariy'of the' insee- ticides and fungicides now in use, states a writer in The Grower. It is known that often Canedian;„growers find, 'fault,, with the conservatism expressed in the actions of 'many of our scientists who prefer to play it slowly when it comes to the adoption of a new chemical. Of- ten comment is made on the speed with which the American experts 'move in with a new pro- duct and. the delaying tactics erriployed by Canadian.scientists who"Prodeed on the basis 'that they prefer to have all the en- ewers. But, the fault, in either case, is not always with the sci- entists. The various industrial concerns seeking new products and a bigger share of the,market are not free of responsibility. They often move before all the end results are established. But' of even greater import is the established .fact that many grow- ers are careless in application of the various products; that they fail to follow instructions and thus, build up for • all, the trouble which leads to. an em- 'bargo such as the U.S.A. cran- berry growers experienced. There will always be those, who refuse to wait for the final ap- proval on any chemical. To such people the warning is clear and loud-follow the manufacturer's instructions. - r- ,,. * * Perhaps the most illtiminsting feature of :the report of the Roy- , al Commission on Price Spreads is to be found in the conclusion that whilst the price index for food at retail level rose 20 per cent between, 1949-1958 and the food marketing costs between farmer and consumer rose 84 per cent in . the same period the level of farm prices in 1958 was the same as in 1949. There are a lot of other conclusions to be found in the report but, in the estimation of The. Grower, they are secondary to the above find- ngs.. Actually, the Commission was established to prove or' dia.- prove the contention of farm organizations that prices of farm produce had lagged behind as costs of distribution , spiralled. What will be done about the situation, now that an independ- ent b o d y has ascertained the faets, is anybody's guess. That something can be done is Obvi- ous but it Will take courage to impose the controls which are essential if the balaribe is to be restored. In the meantime the free enterpriser* Will debate other phases of the' report tuchei as the yardstick to be usedIree: measuring profile. Actually the uninhibited free enterprisers Were at it almost befOre the ink," * en the report, was edrys Thee ;;people aren't,interested in the plight of anybody their only' interest being complete freedom to exert the pressures Which 04, Sure long profits -se measured• by any yardstick which some purveyors of foOdettiffe are telt ., Init., This limited interest haa but' bne result the. imposition Of . the very Control and regulation the- free enterprises abhor. Per- haps the irafieSitien of theSe con trigs would do away With noces- ety for the costly price supporta Indulged in during the past cou- ple of yeare. The 'free eliterPria-, Farming And "Book-Learning" The assertion is made that a young man, today, cannot ,expect to be a successful farmer with, out a college education, This is interesting as we work into an era when a farmer can little at- ford to send his boys to college any more, and suggests tough times ahead. Yet, how different from the old days when the farmer was one adjunct of so- ciety an which an education was wasted! He was an unrecover- able hick, muddling along in his iggerant .way only becauee ehe didn't ' have intelligence and, knowledge enough to • be. any- thing .else. I reine,mger, a , few did-time farmers who had an edliCation- although they were cultural-arts boys and in those days agronomy, .as such' was "a neglectedecurricu- lum. One of these fellows was a Harvard man, which in Maine doesn't mean just -What"it means on State Street. Jimswas tall, ,lanky,eand gaunt, and in his be- dreggle,d, ,overalls would never • to tagged as Ivy league. His: di- ploma hung on the grain-room wall of his lienhoute,slestooned, with spider webs ' and milling ' dust, and if you mentioned it Jimewould ,say, s"I Went through Harvard to please my pa, and, I took, up poultry to please my- self." jim would come to town with a wagon of Crated eggs to put on the 'evening train, and to "Poole at him you wouldn't Ahink he knew beans. But there was a quiet dignity to his speech, and he had an aplomb the other fhrmers lacked. One year, mov- ' ed by his interest in affairs, he arose in Town Meeting and made a speech. Town Meeting 'harangue is usually . a homespun thing, not what'yoffevotild call in the clas- sical ' style. but Jim started a speech that came 'right ,out of Demosthenes and Cicero. Point by point it developed into , an 'articulate'unit 'of' great art. He began long, involved,- sentences that hung fire until.he dropped in the key 'word; then he 'would 'shift to bright, staccato phrases that clipped' the air off in epee 'flute.. His voice ,rose or fell' as some ancient Harvard professor of-rhetoric' had ,inculeated. „ Arriving at the conehisithi, he summed up lucidly, and reached the 'final word with one hand- held high; a single finger erect- ed, and an appeal in his ` voice which would ,melt, a stone. He sat down in a tumultuous silence, every man in -,the hall holding hi's 'Mouth 'open ,in aMazement. The offect was total. 'Jim car- ried ,his" case without ei dissent- ing. murmur, and, the -town tAlk- • id about it der years. It was beautiful.'That's • how the town came to 'build a' plank culvert On Middle Swamp "Brook on the Maple Hill-road.. Another educated farmer I re- tail went in more for playing the eharadter, He didri't have his diplorria'fieugiug ,anywhere, lest somebod3 see it. Onee rt, year he Would dress up and:.go to .coitinieneernexit, looking like a eninoeity Senater making a call et the White Retie% but the rest 'Of the tithe tie liVed in distil:Ai- :fable old farm elOthee. One year he evastored badly: by his, bull. A monstrous great anthill, the 'bull had .evetybody frightened,- Mid nobody eVat surprised when word cattle Out that Win, had been 'second-'best iii tussle." After Win' got back in action,, he • use6 to -sit around and tell Of this adventure, hanging .On all the details with relish, and. Mak- ing all he could Of it. One after- noon' he waYtellirig the tale to a summer-lady, and.stiitabiklipe -palled she . said, "Why, WhateVer: did you de With the vicious. beast?" Win straightened tip, struck a' pose of magnificent' tatiateetion, -and 'said with firialitY; "I, it hiMi" :But the .sti5rY I like Akita. . Win, shows the tibia' Of- iskms 00 an education to a farmer, has to do with the time he "salvaged"' faarrnbu,s,soWhen'sitnwewas tah e aS s ITTV'aetreYr well, to and One night about three a,m, a knock came at his door. It was a bus driver from, Boston with an odd tale. His bus has beep chartered to deliver load of cOastgliardsmen to the station at Rockland, and on the way through town he had mis- chanced and made a wrong turn. lie had got off on the country road past Win's. In trying to reverse himself, he had got mired in the lane to Win's pas- dttetreep, ainnd.mud, there his bus sat, hub- Ile had come to inquire if Win might extricate him, Win pulled on his pants, started up his heavy farm tractor, and drove over in the dark to have a look. He attached a chain to the bus, drew the chain taut with his tractor, shut off the engine key, and dismounted. "Now," he said. "About my paTyh'e" bus driver said the com- pany would pay all right; there was no need to worry about that, ain't worrying, exactly," said Win. "I just don't want to go through a lot of red tape and folderol. Suppose you pay me now", The 'bus driver said he didn't have any money with him. "You better get it," said Win. "I don't budge until you do." The bus driver Asked how much, it would be, and Win said he figured it ought to be worth $5 a ton. So the bds driver said he gueseed they'd better forget the whole thing. Said he'll call the Boston Office and let, them worry about it. "Just unhitch," niheensatsil; "I'll make other arrange- "Can't do it," Said Win. "Laws of salvage: I got my 'line on her first. •She's my prize." e"Greciooe. sakes,," said the e driver,,er, words to that effect. "This ain't no boat'!" "Th'en wit?* the' loaded with sailors?" asked Win. So he stay- ed hitched, arid got "paid, and that shows what 'a.it-education can do. By John 'Gould in the Christian Science Monitor. . „ M1 8.)' Rev, R. Barclay 'Warren 8.0# l'Ortralt 9( a ra4tOr AdOMW21,210$ lleniory Selectiom The, grace of God that hringeth salvation bath appeOre41. to all men, teach, log us that, denying ungodliness and wend!) lusts, we should live ,soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world. Titus 2;1142. Paul had spent three years as Pastor at EpheSue. In our lesson he is bidding his last farewell to the elders of the church there. It is an intimate picture portray. Mg the love which should al- ways exist between a pastor and his people. Let us examine t/he record of Paul's service to his people that formed the basis of such mu- tual love, Paul was, first Of all, servant of the. Lord, He wasn't trying to win friends to himself but to the Lord. He called for repentance toward, God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. Paul was not, guilty of that besetting sin of so many ministers, narrielf,'tiiiat of with- holding a truth evhich he knows will be offensive to some mem- ber of his congregation. Paul could say, "I have not shunned to declare unto you all the coun- sel of God." "'- Paul was tender-hearted. He said, "By the"spacer of three years I ceased not to warn every one night •and day with tears." In him the prOrnise of Psalm 126;6 was fulfilled. "He that goeth forth and weePeth, bear- ing precious teed,,,, shall doubt- less come again with rejoicing, bringing*his4sheaves.With him." Paul. wasAself-sacrificing. His knew that bonds and afflictions lay ahead, if he went to Jeru- salem, but he declared, "None theseethings-move me, neither sot:int Itepy life dear unto my- self," He wasn't in it „„for the iiiVne§r* The fact that "he had helped ette4isupport hirnself by enanual .labour ` illttstrated .the truth of, his statement that, 'I have coveted ne man's 'silver, or gold, or apparel." "Every 'minister should read elhis leCson every three month. Here eiseee, -portrait of ,a true shepherd, a man with a pastor's heart. Ife *as not content to preach and work in the church office. He taught from door to door. He loved his people with a pure heart. He loved His Lord more. To win others to be fol- lowers of Jesus Christ was the dominating passion of his life. $ words remove all doubt: some three thousand years before the birth of Christ a fleet of forty vessels slipped their moorings, sailed out of a Phoenician har- bor„ and, shaped a course for Egypt to bring there a shipment of Lebanese cedar. It is the world's first articulate record of .large-scale overseas commerce. IlPsidedown to Prevent Peeking PROUD STEPPER - An indomit- able spirit showing through his smile, John Kemp doesn't let the fact that he vfos born with- out arms or legs keep him down. With his artificial limbs, 10-year-old' Johnny can do al- most anything a. normal boy can. He's been chosen the 1960 U.S. Easter .Seal child. 18: Eilet 494,Grawing out. 21. Competitor 33.• Snakes of a I. 'Certain kind .119. Lubricant 27. Seaweed '28iTairittr .30:,Pi,,Mbol. for 32. cover with etara - EtigliSh . „ stirgeon ThitS $7: ShitkeapearS4 nn character IC extol*. ;40. Chart 42. 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Carrying Cedar ' "Bringing of forty ships filled with cedar logs." So wrote an ancient scribe in `listing the-ac= coMpliihments of Pharaoh Sne- trui ruler *Of 'Egypt about :2650 B.C." This handful of words brings ,one across the threshold into the period of history pro- per. The dim tracks of potsherds and other like objects are still important giVing them up is a luxury that the' student of the 'history of shipping cannot af- ford at any stage in the ancient peripd, - but now there •exists, for the first time, the strong light of written words to serve as a guide. As in the case of many phases of civilization, the record begint in Egypt. 'Very little wood grows in the -valley of the Nile. Cedar most certainly does not, and to get it Snefru had to look over- seas. So he -sent to Phoenicia where a famous stand grew on the mountain slopes of Lebanon. Snefru was blazing no trailelcir Egypt had been in touch `with' this area even before his time. Archaelogists h eve found in the t o rn b s of pharaohs and 'nobles in earlier dynesties jam and flasks and pitehers which Were made in Palestine and Syria, and they have dug up in the latter countries objects that unquestionably came, out of Egyptian workshops. Were 'these carried Overland or by boat? before the time of Snefru there is no ,way of telling. But his MUCEPUOUM MOE MUM ULEUENDUE DIDUOM ©UM© BE =OHM OMMEE GOMECOOD MUM ODU MOOD= ELI DERMEM OUSEuu OB BOEHM EDO MMO OCOMBEME EIMED MOM HO DEMO MEDD UMMEBOOM OMEE MOO DMOU MOM MAkING A ,PINCH - Practicing the fine art of pig-pinchinj; poutorricm. John Burkhamer subdues a 5007 Paund porker. The pre wandered into a residential section of Monroe, Wis. Burlo flamer pinahed its tail like 4 garden hose, slipped e noel* ever Its heed and led it boa itii itli form: