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The Brussels Post, 1960-08-11, Page 7IIEFAIIMFRONT J0,6 4111.116,. 'r -4 • liAltitti 'OF FUN?' no' fun Wing a fall guy di slits POtkeninirt Noon. in Nuernberg, Geffnainy: 'He Is competing hni barrel ebti di the interndtiOnal Petite Sport Show: As. the Worm Tyros 1tobirts: Hear Him Raving read most of the pro- ltiotion material supplied by the Angleworm. Lovers of America t I guess they call them "earth- worms") I'm still in doubt as to what hind of noise the worm] eaakee when he turns. He does make a noise. Of that I am sure, because my robins hear hitn. I can't, but they •do. And until America is ready to accept a Down - With Robins crusade, I don't see much point in being a worm around here. Early or late, This year a large and capable robin brought his blushing bride to the maple outside my window here, and they selected the limb right by the sill. They financed a house, then came the eggs and the patience of incubation, and one day the little beaks stick- ing up, each looking like a Sumner Tunnel, and after that the insatiable search for worms. I don't mind telling you it takes quite a bit to subdue one of my worms. They are rugged, developed specially to inhabit the blue clay terrain. Come August, you couldn't stick a crowbar in our lawn - it would be like shoving a toothpick in- to cement - but the worm toots along through it like nothing. I don't intrude; I leave them to perform their clandestine af- fairs. I figure if I leave them alone they'll leave me alone, and the last thing I want is worms reciprocating. But this old room is equal 'to them. I 'sit here sawing and splitting the vocabulary, and this Bull Robin is right at my shoulder. I have a good chance to watch him, and I suppose he can watch me, too. Sometimes I could use a little help, But he cocks his head in the other di- rection (thatis why they call him a cock robin) and now I know he is listening for worms. Bird and worm fanciers may both doubt this, but it is so. You mustn't go by birds and worms YOU have known - these are MY birds and MY worms. What I see from my window is mine. Anyway, -he'll sit there a-cock with his little ones squawking in his off-ear, and the other noises of a rural summer are going on as usual. The drone of chain saws in yonder copse, the yammer of tree frogs drum- ming up a shower, the yak of ducks from the pond, the exu- berant cries of children who have found a dog that barks, the rich hubbub of roses a-scent, and the heavy din of lumber trucks grinding up the highway - all mingled and jingled. In the midst of this some incauti- ous worm in my lawn will make whatever noise it is that worms in my lawn make. I can't hear it, but my robin does. He launches himself off the limb, flies directly about seventy feet to a precise spot, makes a lunge with his beak, and brings up one end of a worm, There is no chance about it; it happens all the time. At first, I thought the robin was luCky, like a boy finding a cent in the grass, but afterwards I knew that the robin was foreknowledged, and descended• on purpose because he was well aware of what he would find. The possibility that it was sight instead' :of sound occurred to me, but I have evidence to discredit 'that. Sometimes the pussy cat will stroll 'across the lawn. If . a robin had eyesight to see a worm, he'd' have eye- sight to see a pussy cat. But he doesn't always see her. When he does; he'll set up the touse robins with nests always set up when they see, a cat. But some- times the cat will get halfway across before the robin sees her. So, I conclude it is sound. The worm makes some kind of noise CROSSWORD PUZZLE AC11OSS. 1,.. Military', Ottident. 2. Adage 9. Seat in church 12, Honor highly 13.. rItitter 15, More rational 18, Papal palitat IT. Pereetiallty 18, TId, 20.. Ptirlt 21. Potidentin 22. 'Afresh ' 25 Small number 27.. Continue 20,13ttitiliiie 21: Control 84 Arranged 25, Ahittlfrarriiite 28..fletti'rer22 117:;COttton seeder 2i traek of e.• *denial eta Pitcher: 44. table' support 4A.. Ceremony , 43. salatittlett . 4,, • 1 S. ]natured .! . roe's 'atait ' ,eritaltea Deputy 1 , Dash*, ' • (slang) 1 11 ii, ;Cake ._ • I t. Particular ttraaria: _ _ DOWN, 1, Otitittitii et* IL rittivetb which is either above or below the normal range of the human ear. it is Perceptible to robins. believe it is a low„ =Moue, irKrarcd noise, myself, rather than a piercing shriek, This is just suspicion. But the robin hears it and attends. This robin doesn't have any easy time of U. Just because you can hear a worn it doesn't mean you oWn' These• Werms of mine fight' back, They ore hard to subdue, When the „robin, fetches up one end of them, the Other end is about a foot inside the State, of Maine, and they hang on. The robin will stretch one of them some, and gain, but they frequently re- trench. When they do, they snap the robin ahead so his forehead plunks the ground with a thwock, and often the robin gets punchy and lets go. Then, I seem to hear a subterranean ha-ha, but probably I imagine it. The robin will stagger around some, and seem to have lost his bearings, and will twitter. But I've noticed II my robin manages to last through the sixth round, he'll usually take the fight. He'll have his feet braced like a heifer in the first halter, leaning far back with his head held high, yanking away, when the worm will lose his tail-hold, and everything lets go with a twang. The robin pitches over backward in a heap, and the worm lashes like a bull- whip. Then the robin jumps up and down on the worm and refers to him in terms I can- not publish here. Then he winds him up for transport. I've been watching this so closely I'm late in my commit- ments, but I'me sure of my con- clusions, I never heard anybody advance the theory that earth- worms make a noise, and if it is important I should like to be the first. - John Gould in the Christian Science Monitor, Abraham Lincoln Loved Gadgets Despite the lack of success of his own venture into the field of mechanical innovation (a de- vice for buoying vessels over shoals), a 'fair case might he made out for Lincoln as a 'frus- trated inventor:... Patent liti- gation invariably excited his lively interest. . . . Lincoln's bent for gargets was understandable. His father was a competent carpenter and cab- inetmaker, and as a boy Lin- coln helped- him in this work. There are letters and accounts of lawyers who rode the judicial circuit with him that tell of his habit of .pausing to inspect and draw his own shrewd judg- ment on any new piece of farm machiniery he happened to come across. He was known to have delivered a lecture in 1859, at the Congregational Church in Jacksonville, • on thesubject of "Discoveries and Inventions," His consuming interest in the subject was later to prove of great service, to the nation. Countless communications were received at the White House, from inventors, promoters and cranks with sure-fire devices for destroying• the Confederate armies. Lincoln studied many of them carefully, and in a num- ber of instances personally supervised the testing of., weap- ons in back of the. White House. But for Lincoln's insistence, John Ericcson's Monitor, the ironclad which defeated the Merrimac, would never have been built. On the whole, his judgment regarding the tech- nology of warfare was sound, even though there were occa- sions when his support was' en- listed on behalf of contrivances backed by crooked politicians,- From "A. Lincoln, Prairie Law- yer," by John J. Dul'. 33. Used in bowling 34. Saucy 36. Lase 39. Island in 14. Tilt Mediterranean 19. Comfort 41.. vacillate 22. Deflated 42. Incident 24. Texture Of a 43. Leases fabric 98, 26. Depottse 47. Periods of 28. Seasone time 30. DeStiny 99. Electric fish 31: Earthen*are 50. Downy sur- face of cloth II tild 52, PAM A City That Grew Almost overnight Currently maritime bueinese and industrial people are get- th18 a taste of what it feels like to advance on a new frontier. Within the last few months the airplane has begun to carry them and their products into one of the fastest-growing, richest'.' areas in the world - Sept-Iles, Quebec, Ten years ago these same business people would not have thanked anyone for a free ticket to the place, Located on the North Shore of the St. Lawrence River, the community of Sept-Iles is at the terminal of the railroad bring- ing iron ore from the rich Que- bec and Labrador deposits. ft has no road or rail connections with the rest of Canada and therefore is accessible only by sea and air. It is far from attractive and offers 'a rugged and barren ex- istence to those who live there. But with all of that, local peo- ple can boast a phenomenal growth that is attracting atten- tion the world over. Where wily 1,200 people in- habited this bleak outpost in 1951, in less than a decade the population has jumped 10 times to over 12,1)00, From 19 new .refidences built in 1951 at Sept- Iles, by 1958 the figure was 746. 1951 saw the establishment of two new industries,' while 1958 saw 50 new industries set up. Along with this the retail busi- ness has blosomed from a gain of one in 1951 to an addition of 64 new businesses in 1958. And the growth goes on unabated: Although the Maritimes were somewhat slow to move into this area, all that began to change about two years ago when Maritime Central Airways, along with the Atlantic Pro- vinces Economic Council, began to eye the area commercially. The result has been two trade fairs at Sept-Iles. This year's fair has just ended with mnay business and indus- trial firms proclaiming out- standing results. New boats are being chartered to carry goods to the area. The airline is pre- pared to carry perishable goods such as strawberries. The range of products being sold is from ,furniture to processed cheese. ,And no one would guess at what the limit or potential may be. Sept-Iles became a city' in 1959. First visited by Jacques Cartier in 1535, it became a township in 1895. It admittedly stood still for, half a century' until the problem of diminish- ing iron ore on the Mesabi range reared its head, and, min- ing companies began to look for new ore fields. When the Un- gava deposits (felt by many to be the richest in the world) w e r e found, the discovery changed the whole of the, St. Lawrence area. • But nowhere has 'the change been so marked as at Sept-Iles which suddenly • became the ter- minal for the 357 miles of rail- road lines that •haul. the ore. During the summer trains a day, carrying 10,000 tons of iron ore, are arriving at Sept- Iles. Maritime businessmen •do not dare venture, a guess at the eco- nomic possibilities of this area. The best forecasts that can ob- tain indicate 'that the 1957 value of industrial and mining pro- duction of .$200,000,000 will reach a total ..of $700,000,000 by 1970, an increase of 250 per cent. And they ' know they awant to con- tinue to be a part of the growth. Right now the field is clear. The rnaritimes are closer by sea and air than many points. But the day is not far oaf when - 'roads and railroads will make- their ways into Sept-Iles. The visitor has a little trou- ble realizing how great the growth has been. Twenty-five years ago all that would have been seen were stnall sawmills and pulpwood plants. Today there are 25 miles of streets in the city. T e r e are seven French - speaking schools and two Erigliefi - speaking school's. There are churchee, stores, and a civic auditoritiin, plus hotels and recreational facilities. Sept-Iles is 31/2 air hours from Montreal. Despite its backwardness for years it tanks second iii Eastern Canada, to Montreal, in the Mat- ter of ten exports - 14,000,000 toils annually =From the Chris- Science- Moniter. JAIL LOCKED. Ilk TO KEEP •PEOPLE UM • The talkie' jail in Granville,. Ohici, is kept 'reeked - to keep people out! Thete ate only Iwo cells in the prison; and at they are rarely Wed, wandering have been in the habit of making the building a Port of tall iii theft travels. ToWli authe critics hate- titi‘v ordered that the jail be kept perearietitly locked to keela vagrants out. After all, is there any reason why a laying hen should sit in a square nest with a flat bot- tom, where she can kick or push the litter aside and then deposit her egg on a bare board? No reason at all, even though the square nest has been tradi- tional since the jungle fowl of India was 'domesticated to evolve into the chicken of today, says Richard Lowe, assistant to Su- perintendent Burt Heywang at the United States Department of Agriculture's Southwest Poul- try Experiment Station, * * * On the contrary, it is logical that the hen should sit in a V- shaped nest where she can't dis- place any litter except that right' on top, and her egg • always falls on soft straw. Since the "trough-nest" idea first occurred to Mr. Lowe, experimentation h a s proved even more advantageous than he foresaw. * There is an .initial saving of about a third in lumber. Litter, instead of having to be replaced every few days, lasts at least two months before it is "worn to tatters." The big, saving, though, is in virtual elimination of cracked and soiled eggs, a heavy loss in all commercial poultry - esta- blishments. * * * Another gain is that it is al- most impossible for two' hens to crowd into one' trough nest. Hens are sociable creatures and three or four often squeeze into one square nest, where they start fighting for room. * To make a battery of nests, Mr. . Lowe takes two pine boards one inch thick and 12 Indies wide, and nails them together to form what would be half of a foot- square tube if it had two more sides. For ends and separators he nails in 12x12 square's, a Toot apart. The "trough," of course, is set on edge. Any siinple framework will support One eec- tien above another, clear to the roof of the laying 'house. This size is for heavy hybrid hens weighing seven or eight pounds. When Mr. Lowe begins to make nests for light 'White Leghorns, he will use eight-inch lumber. Chatting over the farm gate, Mrs. Lawrence .Wehrman,ex- plained wyh her husband eaves his 200-acre farm at three-thirty in the afternoon five or More days a week to work the swing shift at ford Motor Company's plant iri a near-by town in • Re does it so he eat buy the labour saving machinery neces- sary to make farming pay in this day oil thechanizatioti, An Matte- trial pay envelope is a big help when it conies to raising the 0,600 matt needs for a new tractor plus all the additional costs of farming today. * Mr. Wehrman is one of a number of farmers in that area who have found SOW in industry' an answer to theproblem el ihsufficient Capital for modern farming. The story Mrse Wait- than told ine was by no means Unique, but it is still novel. Her hUeleand, for the last four years Or so, has been working as materials handler for Ford at Chicago Heights, about 12 • miles distant. He does his farm work in the morning, continuing until about three in the afternoon. Mrs. Wehrman, a neat, dainty woman, often helps. "I'm the hired' man," she says,, smiling. "L run the tractor or moye machin- ery or use the disc." * At three •in the afternoon Mr. Wehrrnan comes in from the field, eats his dinner• and is off in his car in time to punch a clock at four. He works until midnight. "He keeps real busy," Mrs. Wellman says. "But usually he has', weekends. Sometimes, though, it's a seven-day week. "But you've got to do it if you want a little bit for your- 'seal. We don't get as much as we used to get for our corn, but everything we buy costs more. Even groceries. If you sell your eggs for 25 cents a dozen it would cost you 45 cents to buy them back." Mrs., Wehrman's b e a u t if ul white leghorns were clucking in the barnyard. She says she doesn't really make money on her small-scale poultry business, if she figures cost of feed, la- bour, and all, but she enjoys it. She sells direct to customers and likes her contacts, but most farmers she knows are getting out of poultry because it doesn't pay unless it's done on a big scale. * * 5 The story of t h e Irving Schrneckpepers is similar. The Schmeckpepers, like the Wehr- mans, rent their land, Their farm measures 160 acres, a small farm in this day of Mechaniza- tion, but one which requires al- most as much costly machinery as a larger unit, writes Doro- thea Kahn Jaffe' in the Christian Science Monitor. In the mornings you don't catch this farmer at home. He's out as a driver on a milk route from seven until noon, earning the cash, needed for his farm. Afternoons and evenings he's working in his fields. -Usually lae's on the land until dark, but in periods of emergency he stays on the tractor until mid- night. LaRue, his wife, helps. She runs the tractor. * * * "It's not hard work, it's a pleasure," she told me: She grew up on a farm. "I: used to help my dad like a boy," she said. "My husband and I both grew Up on farina. We wouldn't want to do anything ,else, Out hard 10 make money HOW.; When We bought that tractor it test $2,400 and corn was bringing $2.24 a bUshel. NOW a treater like that costs around $3,500 but corn , is selling for only about $14 a btithel, The price varies a. little according to quality. Some- tunes, if there's too much Mele., tire iii the writ, we get less. You Can tee how touch harder' it is to Make a profit than it used to * Tile biggest farm - industry operation we liaVe heatd at in that neighbourhood is that of ternard, Suittenante Mr, Sure preheat, raises corn, oats, and, wheat on 600 acres with only the, help, of his 11.year-old sone Jathet, Mid he works the tWitig shift at Victor 'Chetitteal dent- 1JNOAY,SCI1001 LESSON aey feev.Onrplay Warren 8,1),„ ifsainit's VISiott of the holy 04 I in thia,stahleallf16:41-o1: five les-, Sens from the prophecy of Isaiah, we have an account of his ca-IL to Pe .a propbet. It was in the year that King died For fifty-two year. InIzzhi4isil lallsat.dyeraerigsnheed w"a4sr4 a jl4ep*er.. In pride he had entered the holy place reserved for the priests. In vision, Isaiah saw the 14ordi, a greater king, upon his throne. The angels exclaimed in the words of our memory selection, "Moly, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory." (6;3). In this awe-inspiring hour when. Isaiah saw God's holiness, he also saw the uncleanness of his own na- ture. He confessed it. One of the angels laid a live coal ott. his lips, saying, "Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine in- iquity is taken away, and thy sin purged," In that hour of conscious in- ner purity, Isaiah heard the Lord say, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" He responded, "Here am I; send Me." One of the fruits of inner cleansing is the desire to serve. We are no longer self-centered but Christ-centered. When the disciples were purkfied in heart on the day of l'entecost, (Acts 15:8,9), they also received pow- er to witness. Paul exemplified that spirit when he wrote, "For me to live is Christ." The super- intendent of a large hospital for mentally ill people, said that after senility the next, maid cause of mental illness 'was sel- fishness. If more people were, meeting God in a soul-changing experience as Isaiah did, there wculd be more witnesses for Jesus Christ and fewer people would have "bad nerves. We wouldn't be • so foolish as to Sug- gest that everyone with bad nerves was selfish. But we have passed on the thoight of a skilled physicianae Isaiah did not raec---' eitre an easy assignment, The!i:reSult of his iptrezayehreinkeis cdaeus; clit as though; Instn bornness they would go In their sin until they would be carried into captivity. However, some would heed the truth. God never leaves Himself without a wit- ness. Oh! that more people would see God, see themselves . and re- ceive forgiveness and cleansing, and then go out to tell what great things the Lord has done for them.• A person with charm is one who can make another feel that both of them are pretty won- derful people. ISSUE 33 -- 1960 Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking OB000 OUM nnm minima mannnon mmon MUCEMEn IEU©©MOM MOE mon mom MEO MONO MOM 0OBOUGI GOO= MEMO MOB mu man ninnm in MAO© pm MUMEIMUM MS000 NUMMI nnonn um MOO MOOR DOESN'T ANYBODY SIT? - If you look closely, you'll see why this crowd of people is lined up in fairly precise ranks. They're racing fans standing on the benches ae Belmont Park to watch the finish of a race. Nobody stays sitting down when the race is on. pany in Chicago Heights. If you look at, his, neatly cultivated corn eields as you drive along the Dixie Highway, you find it hard to believe that all this, is handled by a so-called part- time farmer and a boy. Mr. Suprenant's hours in the plant are from three to eleven o'clock. He has been on, this job for the last four years. He owns 160 acres and until this year he rented 280 •acres. But to get the best return from his machinery, he found it advisable to rent more land. This year he rented another 160 acres. His machinery is all designed for large-scale farming. It includes a big diesel tractor and a combine, both costly pieces of equipment. * 5 * Most farmer - industrial work- ers do not attempt to farm so many acres as this. More com- mon is the man who finds his farm too small a unit for to- day's agricultural practices and who therefore feels a need to supplement the family income by taking` an outside job. Martin Witte, retired farmer living here, told me that his son finds his 50-acre farm too small, He has taken a job in town, continu- ing to manage the farm but leaving most of the work to his young son, Mr. Witte's grand- child who carries on with mo- dern machinery the, father .in able to buy. * It is not only in Beecher but in other. Midwest farming sec- tions within easy reach of in- dustrial plants that you find farmers going to factory jobs. Census 'figures will doubtless in- dicate a growing trend 'toward this practice. Everywhere in this area farmers and their small- town suppliers are saying that you can't make grain farming pay unles you have enough land to carry the overhead of a cer- tain minimum of machinery. It is said that a man must have from 250 to 320 acres to be on a sound economic basis. The outlay to equip ,such a farm • is substantial. The equipment list may include two tractors (one Diesel .and a smaller one), a five-bottom plow and a three- bottom plow, a wheel disc, a six-row cultivator and a six- row planter, a drag, and a self- propelled combine. List price of the combined list, $19,000 ac- cording to an _estimate by In- ternational Harvester, Of couree, a farmer gets trade-in allow- ances and such. 3. Ghat 4. notate 5. Thtee, meg numbers In lottery IL Min of learning 7. Chalcedony 8. humor 9. Conciliatory 10. Whatnot 11, Small tumor Oi ly 12, Oily 1 I I 1 1 I I I lil A i 1 I NI b Mil I MI 1 ° 11 1 I ummuntimmunms MINIM 1411111111111111111111111 111111111211111111111111E611111111i 111111111111111111111111111111111111111 4.41. iiimN T on, l ii I Id 3° il imdomw,, 6111111111111111161111111111% 1 iillillahillill 9/ 40 M®.®©11.11 MI JIM MIMI ME ill 111111111111111111011 III 6111111111M11111111M111111111111 Ati3Wof el's'ewhere tin th s *age