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Ping up. Japan was virtually cut
off from trade and culturea
all natione from the time of the
edict of 1637 forbidding foreign,
ers to set foot on Japanese
Dot .then during the Year of
the Mouse, 1852, COMMOdOre,
Matthew C. Perry was entrusted
to .set sail for the Orient and
with a fleet eif four ships entered
Yedo Bay on July 8, 1853. lie
negotiated a treaty to open Japatt
to Vatted States ships which was
rataied March 31st; 1854.
Also, 1-00 years ago and he.,
yond, the mouse -"started time"
or 'began the hour" of Japanese
timekeeping. Instead of figures,
animals were used on the."elock"
and the mouse (Ne). started
night. Every two hours apart
came the ox (Ushi), tiger (Tema),
rabbit (U), dragon (Tatou), snake
(Mi), horse (Uraa), sheep (Hit-
suji), monkey (Sam), eoek
(Tori), dog (Irs), and wild boar
(I).
Each two hours, or the lime
between each animal, was equal.
to one told. Each Veal was divid-
ed. into four qpartere of 30 min-
utes each. Half-past 12 midnight,
for instance, would be one quar-
ter toki past mouse.
Somehow there must have
beer. a charm and quietude with
the tiger and rabbit and the
dragon dividing the day. It cer-
tainly is a far cry from the press
entsday tick - tack count - down.
The mouse and the horse and the
sheep were not in such a hurry.
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BIRD DOCTOR - Puffing out its chest, a pigeon gets a check-
up from Dr, L. M. Graves, Memphis health officer. He is out
to find whether the birds actually constitute a health menace
to the city.
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This is the Year of the
Mouse" as marked by the old
Japanese .calendar. It will be Is
year of abundant food and much
activity, according to my jape
enese friends here in New York.
Equal. to the traditional charm
and lore of the Japanese is the
practical fact that 1900 .0emmern,
Orates the 10th anniversary of
the signing of the Treaty of Am-
ity and. Commerce establishing
commercial relations between Jaa
Pan and the 'United States.
This is the year when the Jap-
anese expect great things in com-
merce, culture, and delicacies,
for the mouse is the Japanese
symbol of "Daikoku," which is
one of the Japanese seven gods
of good fortune, their customary
god of wealth, and also the guar-
dian of the kitchen, Wherever
these is a mouse, there is also a
food and well-being, -
In the early centuries when
the Japanese enjoyed the more
delicate charm of inner appreci-
ation of nature, there was the
time - as the story goes - when
Buddha was in distress. His
followers - people and animals
alike ruched to him to express
their sympathy..
But of all the species of ani-
mals, only 12 appeared: mouse,
ox, tiger,,. rabbit, dragon, snake,
horse, sheep,- monkey, cock, dog„
.end wild boar, Because of their
devotion each was selected to
symbolize important factors: in
Japanese life and played a mean-
ingful role in the nation's af-
fairs, writes Harry C. Kenney in
the Christian Science Monitor.
Since this is the Year of the
Mouse he will be exposed to
many activities during the
months ahead. During 1960,
radio, television, and newspapers
will put special emphasis on in-
terviews with. "mouse-year cel-
ebrities."
But' what .about the mouse?
How did he become number one?
Legend has it that though first
in place in the journey to
Buddha, he gained - his position
by trickery. It was really the ox
that deserved this position, but.
the mouse, being the clever fel-
low that he is hitched a ride
on the ox's back. When the ox
arrived at its destination, the
mouse jumped off and entered
first, and the ox was denied the
honor.
.Althougen the official signifi-
cance is minor today, each •Jap-
enese new year is always cele-
brated in honor of these animals,
The mouse is honored in a num-
ber of ways by the Japanese. The
Japenese Y Post Office is now
feattuang a special mouse stamp,
It is patterned after the "rice-
eating mouse" which originated
about 1830. There is a replica of
this fellow as a toy, and the Jap-•
anese saying le that whoever
plays with it will have wealth
and prosperity.
All through 'Japanese history
and part of American history, the
Flight of Pigeons
In Old Mexico
- Our pigeons live in a Mexican
village reared high up on thick,
long posts. I love the expres-
sion of their frame houses, that
have been added to by Jose for
years. They lean strangely in
all directions, and look like a
settled community... .
All day long they are cooing
and roucouling, and as their
feathers resemble the cats' fur,
so they seem to be purring like
contented kittens. One has to
pick one's way among them on
the flagstones from the house to
the gates. They feel they own
the place and I guess they do.
We never let cars drive in be-
side the portal any more as they
used to do because the pigeons
wouldn't move away fast enough
and they were always being run
over. Finally I put a sign on the
gates and closed them. It said:
"Please don't drive in. The
pigeons don't like it."
This seemed enormously funny
to an art dealer from Chicago,
and he plucked the sign off and
took it with him. If he'd ever
lived with pigeons he would
have understood. Poor fellow!
What, in Chicago, can give him
the unfailing feeling of wonder
and bliss the pigeons thrill one
with year after year and several
times a day when, at their regu-
lar hours, they rise and fly low
over the place in a calm, even
circling and circling, when the
indescribable soft rushing sound
of myriad wing-feathers, swift
and 'exultant, sweeps by, show-
ing the lovely color of the un-
derside of the stretched wings,
veering and slanting like a sail
against a blue morning sky, or
a mauve evening sunset? What
picture in any art-dealer's rooms
can give one such an immediate
joy' as the flight of the pigeons
when they take their happy
exercise morning, noon and
evening? It is the very quick and
core of living.. ..
And not only the beloved blue
and gray and white and leaf-
brown pigeons - but at different
times in the year the others who
come and go and come again, -
From "Winter In Taos," by
Mabel Dodge Luhan.
The horned toad is not a toad.
It Is a lizard. It does not lay eggs,
but it gives birth to living young.
A new treatment for milking
machine rubberWare that elimin-
ates troublesome boiling is re-
commended by the Canadian De-
partment of Agriculture.
The treatment requires two
sets of rubberware .alternated
'weekly, one set soaking in five
per cent lye solution at room
temperature for a week at a
time. *
This method keeps the rub-
berware relatively free from
fat, and the length of service
of both sets is more than double
that of one set when used con-
tinuously, states J. A. Elliott.
The concentration of lye is
important. Solutions stronger
than five per cent by weight
cause some types of rubber to
harden and weaker solutions do
not remove all the fat. Soft water
should be used for making lye
solutions, as the minerals from
hard water may form a scale, or
milkstone, on the rubber. *
Iron, steel or pla,stic con-
tainers with close-fitting covers
are suitable for the lye solution.
Aluminum and earthenware 'con-
tainers are damaged by lye. A
perforated plastic pail makes a
convenient container for putting
the rubberware into the lye
solution and transferring it to
the rinse water. To avoid burns,
rubber gloves or metal tongs
should be used and care exer-
cised to prevent clothes from be-
ing damaged.
* * •
The five per cent lye solution
may be used continuously for
three months. The Initial cost of
a second set of rubberware and
containers is compensated for by
convenience, saving in lye, and
longer life for rubberware.
A supplement to Publication
627 of the Canada Department
of Agriculture describes the
procedure and is available at Ot-
tawa on request.
* * *
An enterprising Toronto high
school student ran afoul of the
law when he attempted to add an
international flavor to his home-
work.
Entering with gusto a
"science fair", sponsored by
Rotary International, he sent a
letter and a vial to the Depart-
ments of Agriculture in each of
ahead 70 countries, requesting
that the vial be filled with soil
from the local area and returned
t°. Hh'
eim envisi * envisioned an exhibit of
soil samples representative Of
the millions collected by soil
scientists• the world over,
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This misguided sagecity
brought an immediate reattion.
Tokyo and Landon both wrote
advising hint that although they .
WoUld be pleased to Oblige, soil
fram their countries was pro-
rebut
hiited entry, to Canada tinder
gations administered by the
Plant Protection Division, Can-
ada Department of kgrittiltUrd.
1' r 0,
Ait official of the division
visited the youthful importer,
a grade 12 student, to explain
the regulations and obtaiii any
soil samples Which Might haVe
eSdriped detection by
Might„
Ctisteme.
- cy
Samples from Eire, Spain,
Philippines, Gkeece, Hawaii, Ice-
land, Denmark and Switzerland
were confiscated with the full
co-operation of the student and,
as a matter of interest, turned_
over to nematologists for exa-
mination.. *
These parasitic nematodes
were found: Eire soil - Tylen-
chorhynchus sp.; Greece soil -
Criconemoides sp.; and Switzer-
land soil - Longidorus elonga-
tus, Gottholdsteineri sp. and
Heteroderidae.
While his initiative was some-
what thwarted, the student
learned a valuable lesson about.
plant protection policies that
will long be remembered.
* a *
If you had a choice, would
you select a luxury automobile
costing about e6,500, or a pound
of hybrid petunia seed?
Ridiculous, you say? On the
surface, perhaps, but oddly
enough, there would be little
difference in value.
* *
At the Central Experimental
Farm in Ottawa, R. W. Oliver
explains that Fl hybrid seed
is produced by cross pollina-
tion between certain female and
male parents - a skillful opera-
tion and an expensive one.
Consequently, he says, a pound
of the seed would cost as much
as an expensive car.
* • •
"Fortunately, there are about
200,000 seeds in an ounce so
that small patches of the hy-
brids are within the reach of
most of us," adds Mr. Oliver.
Petunias provide more color
per square foot of garden and
bloom longer than any other
flower in Canada. Seed com-
panies have spent large sums to
develop many showy varieties.
Things Are Good
In Hungary?
Last month's favorite story cir-
culating among the badly dress-
ed but extremely clethee-cont-
eibue women of Communist Hun-
gary:
Three cadavers rise up from
their churchyard burial plots to
get a breath of fresh air. The
first is wearing a satin sheath
with velvet trim; the Second
swirls past it a gown made from
window drapes and the remnants
of a Nazi flag; the third wears
gray flannel slaeks and a torn
but tight-fitting sweater.
"When did you die?" the first
corpse is asked.
"In the good old days of 1925,''
IS the answer,
"And you?"
"I died in the last days of World
War II," says the second.
".1 died during the revolt In
1956," the third explains.
deist then a fourth fignre,
clothed in rags and tattere, bootee
up before them,
"When did you tile,, deer?" the
three ghosts. ask.
"Die! exclaims the fourth fig..,
tire. "What do you Mean diet
I'm just on my way lionie from
a workers' meeting at the State
salalrii factory14
A "Mayo Clinic"
For Animals
Seen from New York's East
'River Drive, the new $3 million
hospital w111 be a worthy neigh-
bor to s,:ch renowned medical
establishments as the Sloan-Ket-
tering cancer-research center and
the Rockefeller Institute. Inside
the air-conditioned, seven-story
rectangle of glass and brick, four
operating rooms will boast the
roost modern array of equip-
ment. To aid diagnosis, (lectors
will have the latest X-ray Ina-
cbines and well-equipped path-
ology laboratories,
But mose intriguing is the fact
that this citadel of medical
once will count its Capacity in
cages (207 of them) instead of
beds, and will have as its patients
assorted dogs, cats, and other
pets,
Ground has been broken for
the hospital which is to be
known as the Animal Medical
Center, and when it is completed
by 1962, it will be the world's
biggest and most modern veter-
inary hospital and research cen-
ter - a sort of Mayo Clinic for
pets.
The new Animal Mediae. Cen-
ter will be the direct descendant
of a tiny dispensary opened 50
years ago by the New York
Women's League for Animals.
At present the center occupies
two buildings in Lower Man-
hattan, Its main emphasis is on
finding new cures for diseases
rather than merely treating ani-
mals.
But treatment is still a big
part of the center's activity, and
most concern, of course, to the
owners of suffering pets. "I'd say
that 70 per cent al our patients
are dogs, 20 per cent cats, and
the remaining 10 per cent exotic
pets - monkeys, birds, turtles,
honey bears, and an occasional
skunk," said Dr. Robert J. Task-
jian, the 29-year-old medical
chief, last week. Saturdays are
our busy days; that's when the
children bring their pets in . .
three or four to one dog."
Meanwhile, research is pro-
gressing on several fronts. "We
plan to start work shortly on
lymphoma, which resembles leu-
kemia in people," Dr. David L.
Coffin, the center's 49-year-old
director of research, reported.
Many animal ailments are
similar to human diseases, Dr.
Coffin explained, and can serve
as models for the study of human
diseases. "In the long run," he
said, "our research is based on
two points: Fighting disease in
animals and fighting disease in
human beings."
-From NEWSWEEK
This Woman's Hobby
Really Blossomed
A gift of a dozen gladiolus
bulbs to a young mother 30 years
ago started her on the way to
eventual recognition as the fore-
most woman hybridizer of gladi-
olus in America, with recogni-
tion in the 1960 issue of "Who's
Who of American Women."
Mrs, Mirl Vawter, then living
in Mansfield, Ohio, needed ex-
pense-free recreation when her
four children were small In 1929.
Her husband, George, worked
nights and slept days; money
was scarce; and none of it was
available for baby sitters. So she
made a flower garden.
A neighbor gave her a dozen
"glad" bulbs. Drought the next
year proved the glads' stamina,
and she felt they deserved spe-
cial attention. New introductions
piqued her interest, but she still
had no money to buy.
She began to hybridize the
glads she had. And this she con-
tinued to do for 18 years.
The family moved West to
Waterloo, Ore., in 1948, taking
along Mirl's prized glad bulbs.
She planted them in loamy soil
along the South Santiam River
at the western edge of the Cas-
cades Mountains, and the result-
ing blooms decided her to turn
her hobby into commercial en-
terprise, writes Doris K. Gunder-
son in. The Christian Science
Monitor.
Four years later she intro-
duced 1010', a Miniature
variety In deep violet. .shades,
• It proved to be a landmark in a
trend toward smaller flowers.
Since then she has introduced
25 new yarities,
To Mirl Vgwter, the glaalojui
is the most practical 4f qirirg:
She fashions the blooms into
corsages and arranges them
containers varying in .Sizetv.and.
style from .mail abalone ;hello:
to large. baskets.
"You can get glads in any size,
form, and color,' she .declares.'
She was rated Oregon Show-
man of the Year in 1958.
The Vawters appreciate the
international aspects of horti-
culture and exchange bulbs with
growers in the Netherlands and
New Zealand, They exhibit their
gladiolus in every show possible.
As a qualified. judge of flower
shows and glads, Mirl was an
honored guest and judge in Oan-
ada last fall at the Pacific Na-
tional Exhibition in Vancouver,
B.C.
The Vawters have transform-
ed fields once roamed by Kale-
puya Indians into masses of hor-
ticultural *color. They have
named their acres "Timberland
.Gard-ens" from the giant - Doug-
las•firs that border the gladiolus
fields.
Over In Sweden
They Don't Fool !
Increased drinking has result-
ed in a sharp rise in the num-
ber of accidents resulting from
drunken driving. They jumped
from 7,332 in 1954 to 12,092 in
1958.
In an effort to stem this in-
crease law enforcement authori-
ties have cracked down unmer-
cifully. The result is that in Swe-
den "if you drive you don't
drink." The police have obtain-
ed this degree of respect for
their campaign by making a so-
briety test mandatory in all ac-
cident cases.
A Swedish motorist, convicted
of a drunken driving charge, has
his driver's license automatically
revoked for a year and, in case
of a first offense, is fined on a
sliding scale, according to his. in-
come and the seriousness of the
accident. A second offense means
a minimum sentence of one
month in prison at hard labour.
To add a library to a house is
to give that house a soul-Cicero.
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UNDAY SC11001
LESSON
By Bev. It, II, Warren, RA.,
The Risen Pie
Colossians 34-1$
Memory Selection: any ma*
be in Cixriet, lie is a new creel-
lure: old things are passed avian
below, An things are beeome
new, g Certailaians 5:17,
The resurrection of Jesas
ObrISt is the greatest miracle o4
all time. We sing triumphantly,
"Death cannot keep his prey,
Jesus my Saviour!
Ile tore the bars away,
Jesus my Lord!"
Bishop J. Paul Taylor com-
pares the seal on the tomb with
the futility of cap-stoning an
erupting volcano; the heavy
stone might as well nave been
rolled out to the east to prevent
the rising of the sun; and the
guards are like so many match
sticks stuck in the ocean shone
to hold back the flooding tide.
The enemies of Jesus were be-
wildered when the soldiers at
the tomb reported what had hap-
pened, They would do anything
to try to nullify this unexpect-
ed development. But the truth
of Christ's resurrection could not
be nullified, His friends had
seen Him and talked with Him
after He arose from the dead.
It was the fact of His resurrece
tion that brought new under-
standing and new confidence to
the original group of disciples.
That, together with the outpour-
ing of the Spirit, inspired them
with zeal to live and die in the
service of their Lord. The term
"risen" attained such signifi-
cance that it was applied by
Paul even to conversion. That
was a rising from spiritual
death.
Paul, in our lesson, describe*
the new way of life of those
who, are risen with Christ. Last.
Sunday I saw a woman abandon
the old life and become a child
of God through faith in Jesus
Christ. Hee employer said twe
days later, "I've never seeit such
a change in a person." The man
in charge of the department of
the store where she works, said,
"There's a great difference here.
There's to be no more ,smutty
stories by anyone. This is a
much better atmosphere." The
woman is very happy in her
Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
A man said, "Ever since I re-
turned from overseas, I have
been longing for the peace which
I have found tonight. The devil
kept patting me on the back
and telling me that I was doing
alright. But now I have met
Jesus Christ."
Do you know the power or
God to raise you from the death
of sin to the new life in Jesus
Christ?
ISSUE 16 - 1960
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