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CENTENNIAL PORTRAIT .- Artist Grandma Moses celebrates
her 100th birthday with this presentation of her portrait. The
painting is by Dean Fausett, president of the Southern Ver-
mont Art Centre.
THE FARM FRONT
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sympathy for' the masses have
not spurred the colonial powers
to granting greeter privileges. et
self-expression. and self-govern-
ment to the. peoples under their
rule. Colony after c o I OP re,
especially in Africa, Is gaining
its independence.. We sPealt
paragingly of the communist. agi-
tator. We tend to forget the .de,
sire of. all men, ev•erywhere
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be free. .God flay be using thAS
communist for His purpose, littb,
the communist, if he continue* •
in his denial of God, will bjnl-
*elf' be broken as was the Assy,
riari.
Any Volunteers
For Skeeter Bites?
Four young Australian medt.
,cal research workers recently
exposed themselves voluntarily
for three weeks to dangerous
mosquito bites, They sat on the
banks of the Mitchell River, irk
Queensland gulf country, invit-
ing mosquitoes to attack. them.
As the mosquitoes bit them the.
scientists sucked off their at-
tackers with plastic hoses coy-
ered at the mouth with gauze.
Eleven thousand flies sus-
pected of carrying a deadly dis-
ease, encephalitis, were thus
collected.
Packed in dry ice they were
flown to Brisbane, where they
will be used fel. research work.
EXperts hope to isolate from
their bodies `the encephalitis
virus which, from time to time,
ravages riverside settlements in
Queensland.
It is thought that the virus is
brought from Asia by migratory
waterfowl. The Australian mos-.
quito then 'feeds on the water-
fowl:
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RARE TWINS - Cha•rmeuse, a six-year-old mare in Hanson,
France, surprises the animal experts and proudly shows off
ks Wu fools. Twins are an extreme rarity in the horse world.
'Tills MODAL Nessie was constructed On the basis of descriptiatit ,tilvtift by those who hciviti
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A Hard Way To
Get A Grindstone Ge t A
said Jimmie Griffin the
other day. "We don't touch a
hand-scythe at all."
"Then I don't suppose you'd
want to buy a good grindstone?"
asked my friend, Flats Jaekson,
in the tone of voice be likes to
adopt when be assumes a pbilan-
thropie role, and hopes to stick
some Innocent bystander with a
tough trade. Jimmie said he
guessed not.
"That's too bad," said Flats, "I
got the best grindstone anybody
ever had, and it's legally Mine,
and it's available at a young and
tender price,"
"I suppose it's a coarse stone,"
I said,
"No, it's not," said Flats, "It's
coarser than medium, but it don't
draw on the metal, and it's a
quick cutter without being flinty,
if you know what I mean,"
"How did you ever come to
own a grindstone legally?"I said.
"I bought it. I bought it from
old man Guppy up above Fair-
banks."
Nobody said anything, so Flats
added, "The mean Guppy"
Nobody said anything again,
so Flats said, "I suppose this'
Guppy was the meanest man
that ever set a foot on the State
of Maine. He had an ingrown
belief that nobody under 15
should ever have any fun at all,
and that over 15 you out-lived
the desire for it, I can't tell you
all the mean things that man
did. But we boys around there
used to like to work on his dis-
position when we could think
of anything, and sometimes the
more agile-minded were able to
contrive a situation that should
have reformed him.
"Anyway, come Fourth of July
night, I took it into my head to
. do something that would reform
Mr. Guppy in a complete and
helpful way and I took it out
on his grindstone. It took a little
doing, because a grindstone is
heavy, and I was closer to the
ground then, and I wanted this
to be a big surprise.
"Today, naturally, I don't have
an idea why this was supposed
to be funny or nice, or why it
was supposed to reform Mr.
Guppy, or what possessed me to
work so hard for such a little
possibility. But I stole up behind
his barn, and went into the shed,
and with the strength of ten
men I lifted that great gorm-
ing grindstone down out of the
'BEARING. UP - Ivan Kudryavt-
sev doesn't seem to mind this
sort of thing as a performer
With a Russian troupe • appear-
Ing in Wembley, England. Ivan
found the bear as a cub and
trained him.
CROSSWORD
PUZZLE
ACROSS
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6. Small beds
9. Weep
12'. Ancient
Asiatic region
13. Off
14. Tint
15, Eire
16. Sweat
18, GossiPed
20, Soft Metal
21. Goddess of
healing
22 Mendicant
25. Clearly
defined
23..Yagme
29, Untruth
20. AlloWe
31, 1-Itnnoreme
nereolt
32, Placcet of
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33, Wile
24. Month
35. Besiee g .
86. Railroad
employee di. Chrtati.
39, Ventilate
40, Reinoto
44. Aceepted,
47. Gertnen riVer
43. Ibeetit
49, Docile
50, Cleave
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10. Iludge
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DOWN
1. Two-wheeled
Vehicle „
I, 'Ns tent of
stand and got it On the grotilld,
"It was a hand-crank stone,
The kind that sat on four rollers,
and the shaft caw out with
two bends on. Funny nobody in
the old days of Yankee ingenui-
ty never figured a clutch on a
grindstone, it you had a good
bearing for it, you'd kick up
quite some momentum, and the
handle would fly around like
windmill,
"Well, that's neither here nor
there, I had in mind to roll this
grindstone clown, post IYIr. Gup-
py's front porch, where he was
sitting in his rocking chair
thinking up new things to be
mean about, and while I say I'm
a little hazy now on just what
effect this was to set up, it seem,
ed at the time like a good thing
to do. Roll it, you know, like a
hoop. So, I got it rolling all
right, and I was cuffing it with
a little stick, and away we went,
"We went by Mr. Guppy's
front porch, and he sat up and
took notice. We went across the
yard with the crank flying free,
on the other, side, and we wound
up about 35 yards of hog fence
on the handle, pulling out some
stakes and taking them with us,
and then we hit the soft ground
of the sink-drain area and come
to a muddy and final conclusion.
Quite a run, Was,
"So Mr. Guppy came down
and says, 'That looks like my
grindstone!' I now realized deep
inside that whatever it was I
had in mind at first hadn't pan-
ned out 100 per cent. Anyway,
he looked at the edges of the
grindstone, and se said I'd chip-
ped it beyond repair, and would
have to pay for it.
"I have never known, then or
now, what a grindstone is worth,
new or secondhand. Money, then
was just something you touched
on in the eighth grade under
'Banking & Currency,' so after
Mr, Guppy and my father had a
summit meeting I agreed to hoe
corn for Mr. Guppy until the
grindstone was paid for.
"It took two weeks. His corn
patch ran from the main road
down to Sandy Stream, and while
I suppose it's half a mile, it
seemed like the same distance as
Utah. Every night he'd tell me I
was doing well, and at the end of
two weeks he said, 'There, now
I figure the grindstone is paid
for. Let that be a lesson to you,.
and you ought to be glad I was'
kind and lenient instead of try-
ing to make things hard on you.'
"So that night I hitched. Old
Meg into the wagon, and I drove
up to Mr. Guppy's and began to
load the grindstone into the wa-
gon. He came out and said, 'What
do you think you're doing?' I
said I was taking my grindstone
home. He said I couldn't do that.
I said I could, that I'd paid for
it, and I wanted it,
"He appealed to my father,
and I remember my. father spoke
very slowly, like a judge with a
weighty decision, and lie said,
'Now, Mr. Guppy, I don't want,
to appear to be defending the
boy, but it seems to me you have
exhausted your discretionary
powers. I'm inclined to think yOu
were 'worrying more about the
price of the grindstone.than you
were the rehabilitation of a way-
ward youngster. In that cross-
wind of motives, you have been
hoist on your own bargain. I
suggest you, take what it would
cost to hire a man for two weeks,
and go buy a new grindstone --
and I'll take on from here and
handle the boy.' '
"That's what happened. He
drove in and bought a new grind-
stone for haying season, and I
still have the one I bought from
him. It's the best grindstone 'we
ever had, and every time I use it
I dodge the chipped edges and
reflect on my misspent youth and
the iniquities thereof." - by
John Gould in The Christian
Science Monitors
A Wolff A guy who knows
all the ankles,
Amendments to Canada's fruit,
vegetables and honey regulations
have just been put into effect, the
most significant of which deal
with potatoes.
They call for greater uniform-
ity in sizes of potatoes, especially
for those sold in consumer-size
packages weighing less than 25
pounds. Size limits are specified
for both round and long varietes.
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Seriously misshapen potatoes
are to be excluded from Canada
No. 2 grade. However, a slight-
ly larger proportion of below-
minimum-size potatoes in both
No. 1 and No. 2 grades and pro-
portionately more potatoes with
hollow heart in Canada No. I
Large grade will be permitted.
The provision dealing with
various types of damage in po-
tatoes, such as maturity, clean-
liness and sprouting, have been
re-defined to bring potato grade
standards more in line with pres-
ent-day market demands.
The sale of new potatoes which
have special size requirements
and no maturity requirements
has been extended from August
31 each year to September 15.
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Of the importance for export
sales to points other than the
United States is the provision
that a heavier weight of• bag-
ging must be used so that it will
not tear during shipment.
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Some revision in grade stand-
ards have been made for cher-
ries, peaches and pears. They
relate to cleanliness and permiss-
ible aamage at time of sale. They
also lower the box count for
peaches to prevent inclusion of
under-size fruit in graded con-
tainers. Cherries meeting the re-
quirements of Canada No. 2
grade may now be marked Can-
ada Domestic when packed in
any of the standard containers.
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Other changes included re-
wording some sections because
of a recent re-organization of
the agriculture department and
several additions to the 'sched-
ule that sets out the dimensions
and capacities for standard pack-
ages for fruits and vegetables.
The regulations come under
the Fruit, Vegetables and Honey
Act, which is administered by
the Fruit and Vegetable Divi-
sion of the Canada Department
of Agriculture.
A devastating disease of ,.poul-
try known e; Chronic Respira-
tory Disease (CRD), is consider-
ed the most important respira-
tory disease of chickens and tur-
keys in Canada.
CRD is believed to be caused
by the pleuropneumonia-like or-
ganism (PPLO), and according
to Dr. S. E. Magweod and Dr.
G. L. Bannister of the Health of
Animals Division, Canada De-
partment of Agriculture, the
clinical disease is commonly ag-
gravated by secondary bacterial
invaders.
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A CRD control program should
aim at the establishment of
PPLO-free flocks, as the rearing
of PPLO-free chicks is depend-
ent on the parent flock being free
of the bacteria. The organism is
transmitted through the egg to
the chick.. *
If flocks are known to be in-
fected, the transmission cyPle
can sornetimes be broken by
antibiotic injection, although this
method has not been Uniformly
Slidcessfa The Use of PPLO-free
flocks is the most tellable method
of securing disease-free chicks
but it is a very exacting proced-
tare.
When laboratory diagnosis
has confirmed the presence of.
PPLO as the principal agent in
art outbreak of respiratory dis-
ease, the course of action to fol-
low should depend on the poten-
tial clue of the flock.
Improvement environment
is always essential, Alsbi attert-
tion should be given to ventila-
tion, possible crowding, sanita-
tion and nutrition,
With broiler and production
flocks, oral medication with anti-
biotics may be helpful only by
improving the appetite. Anti-
biotic medication of flocks of
average value may often be un-
economical, but good nursing
will minimuize the fianancial
loss.
Valuable breeding flocks may
be given more prolonged anti-
biotic medication and antibiotic
injection might be considered.
Obvious symptoms of the dis-
ease are: nasal discharge, con-
junctivitis, respiratory rales,
"snicking" sounds and coughing,
followed by loss of appetite, loss
of weight, and in laying birds,
lowered egg production.
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To reduce insects and mites
that persists in crevices, empty
farm granaries should be cleaned
and sprayed before new grain is
stored, advises E. A. R. Liscombe,
Winnipeg Research Station, Can-
ada. Department of Agriculture.
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Granary walls and floor should
be swept thoroughly before
spray is applied, and the sweep-
ings buried or burned, he warns.
Waste grain around the exterior,
of the building should be treated
similarly.
Insecticides recommended in-
clude one per cent lindane, three
per cent malathion and five per
cent methoxyclor. Any one of
these may be applied with a
garden sprayer at one gallon
per thousand square feet, or to
the point of run-off.
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All interior surfaces of gran-
aries should be treated and grain
should not be stored in them for
seven days after application,
Two Of Everything
- Even Mortgages !
There has been a good deal of
talk lately about our lack of
national purpose and the need
for putting an end to what has
been rather lyrically described
as our drift and indecision.
If they mean me or the fellow
down the street, they have a
point. But if they mean Ameri-
can business, they couldn't be
more wrong. If there's one thing
American business doesn't lack
it is purpose. 1,1 there's another
thing it is totally innocent of
it is the merest hint of drift or
indecision. I know. And I've got
the bills to prove it.
As far as I am concerned,
American business has charted a
clear course with the express
purpose of providing me with
an abundance of things I didn't
know I could not do without
until their gray-flanneled min-
ions opened my wife's eyes to
the virtually primitive life I
have been forcing her to lead.
It began with the two-pant
stilt. The clothing industry
pointed out that with a two-
pant suit I would always have
at least one pair of neatly
pressed pants. And they were
right. My trouble is with the
one jacket. The spore trousers
look neat all right, but the jack-
et tends to take on a slept-in
look unlesa I wear the baggy,
impressed other pair of pants.
Actually, this bothers my wife
more than it does me,
What does bother me is the
latest and most disturbing phase
of this two-in-one national-pur-
pose drive, It conies from the
Douglas Fir Plywood AssOcia-
tien.
They think I should have two
houses.
And, I proStune, two ineWhing
mortgages. It's bad enough hav-
ing one litinSe With no closet
i•oom for thy two-pant suit, ima-
gine having two houses with
twice as little closet room,
The two-house gambit Was,
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,suppos e) inevitable. For years
,now; the automobile industry
has been after me to buy gt,
second car, I could then sport
two high lieense plates and lack
twicn the status I do now. And
the t. !ephone company 'has been
urging me to have at least two,
telephones-- not a telephone
and an, extension, That was be-
fore the stock split, Now, ex-
tensions' are as fundamental as
a roof on your two houses, Not
baying extensions is equivalent
to milling your own flour„ The
thing today is two telephones,
each with its own, number. And.
they should be in colour, yet.
Next thing I Imo*, the paint
people will be after me to re-do
my rooms to match the tele-
phones. If I were to suggest that
I could re-do my phones to
match the rooms, the paint peo-
ple would sulk, And, doubtless,
so would the telephone people,
If my wife finally convinces
me that we must 'have two se-
parate telephones, I think I'll
hold out for letting them clash
with the decor. My two-pant
suit does already, she tells me.
To help me do my part in fur-
thering our national purpose, the
banks are urging me to use more
of their services. Commercial
banks and loan companies keep
falling over one another in an
effort to lend me money. On the
other hand, the saving banks
wag admonitory fingers my way,
urging me to put aside some
money every week for the things
I need, writes J. Norman Mc-
Kenzie in the Christian Science
Monitor,
And I do. But the money I
put aside every week is for the
things we already have. These
are the things the nondrifting,
decision-makers convinced me
we needed last year. They in-
clude a big-as-life TV screen
that enables me to be exposed
to suggestions for the other
necessities I lack such as swim-
ming pools, refrigerator-freezers
that loom like skyscrapers in the
kitchen and hold a year's supply
of TV dinners, a dandy boat and
trailer I can hitch on to either
of the two`' cars I ought to own,
and other basics for ordinary,
everyday living.
Incidentally, the boating in-
dustry is the only segment of
American business that is miss-
ing - of all things - the boat
in this national purpose move-
ment. They're only trying to sell
me one boat and trailer. This
attitude is as anachronistic as
the Corn Laws that Adam Smith
grumbled so much about. And
it may well be the chink in our
shining national armour. It is
from backsliders like the boat-
ing industry that loose talk of
drift and indecision can -- and
probably does - arise. They are
interfering with the national
purpose.
What do they take me for
a second-class citizen? What
about that other house I may
buy? Is it to have that barren
look with no boat and trailer
parked in the front yard?
One boat and trailer, indeed!
This is America, I want two.
And I mean to have them, oven
if I have to put in that other
telephone to place my orde.-.
Many men have acquired an
education just by reading small
print.
By TOM A. CULLEN
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
London--Nes.sie, the Loch Ness
monster, has reared her fascinat-
ing head again while American
tourists are flocking to Scotland.
The monster with the six-foot
neck and headlamp eyes has
been turning up regularly ever
since she was first discovered 27
years ago. Usually her appear-
ances coincide with what is
known here as the "silly season,"
when newspapers are short of
copy and the Scots are short of
American dollars. But this time
she has been filmed,
Those who have seen this re-
markable film made by Timothy
Dinsdale, a 36-year-old aeronau-
tical engineer, say something
funny was going on in the depths
of Loch Ness while Dinsdale
held the camera to his eye.
The "thing" on celluloid first
appears as a triangular hump
above the Water not unlike a
submarine snorkel.. it is motion-
less, with no head or neck vis-
ible.
Suddenly ripples appear and it
beins to move, faster than the
lay .rev, ft. Barclay Warren
ILA., 18,19.,
God's Valid in History
Isaiah 10:5.7, 1245 14: 24-27
Meinery Selection; The t•oni
of hosts bath purposed, who shall
disannul it? and his hand is
stretched out, and who shall turn
it back? Isaiah 14:27,
"I am rich, and increased with
goods, and have need of noth-
ing." Revelation 3:17. This, the
spirit of the Laodieean church, is
strongly reflected in this age.
But there come occasions to all,
of us, when our self-sufficiency
dips sharply. A young friend,
whose capacity rated close to the
genius level, is doing his stint
of service in the United States
navy. He wrote to his father,
"I'm beginning to realize that I
haven't got the world by the
tail."
To us all there are times when
we stand in awe as flashes of
light reveal to us that there is
a higher Power over the destiny
of our lives. We see God's hand
in history. A, friend missed his
plane by a few minutes. It was
well that he did, for that plane
crashed, killing all -on board.
As we grow older, we can see
how events that seemed insignifi-
cant at the time, were really dis-
plays of God's hand in history.
The acceptance of my Christmas
article by a newspaper in 1941
didn't even get mention in my
diary. Now I can see that it was
one of the most important events
In my life.
In our lesson we see how God
used the heathen Assyrian to
punish Israel, The Assyrian, with
lust to conquer the world, was
not yielded to God, Nevertheless,
he was the rod of God's anger
against Israel. In time God used
the Chaldean to break the power
of the Assyrian. Then in succes-
sion came the empires of the
Medes and Persians, the Greeks
and the Romans. God is still
above the affairs of man.
I have no leanings whatsoever
to atheistic communism. But I
wonder if Russia's professed
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All agree that she is about 40
feet long with a long neck that
swivels from side to side, a bar-
rel chest, humps on her back,
four flippers and a tail. Some
claim that she has nostrils on
top of her head like the blow-
hole of a whale.
Ever since a local circus of-
fered $90,000 for the capture of
Nessie dead or alive, diving en-
thusiasts have been combing
Loch Ness in search of her.
But recent plans to track Nes-
sie in teams with Bren guns and
even bombs have brought, pro-
tests from the Scottish Tourist
Board and the Society for the
Prevention Of Cruelty to Ani-
mals.
Nessie has one serious them-,
pion in Dr. Maurice Burton) de-
puty keeper of zoology, at the
British Museum. He believes
that Nessie may well be a Sur-
vivor of the pm-historic plesio-
saur, a water-living reptile
thought to be extinct.
Although the age of reptiles
ended 70 million years ago, Bur-
ton thinks that the geographic
and climatic conditions of Loch
Ness might be such as to pm-
Serve the plesiosaur.
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9. Acute viruo 29. Periodight of
disease ,
10. Of us 31, Open hostility
11. Meeting of 12. Improves
neighbors 34. Is worthy of 17. Hog
10, Snort open 05. Public carrier
surface 37. Cravat
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moinent 41. Entrance assietant Derry used 24. Caesura 42: Russian river
in Maces 43. Three-spcit 25. Ildury to
G. itad pride 44. Beam
obligations 26. Central male 44153:1Calommpentsastilein1
7, Oriental lute character
Nessie The Monster Back In The Swim
motorboat which chased it. Dins-
dale, who first saw it with bin-
oculars at 1,300 yards, says that
it was reddish-brown in color
with darker splotches.
Dindsale, a former Royal Air
Force pilot, discounts the usual
theories that the phenomenon
was a shoal of eels or a midget
submarine. "It was definitely a
living animal, and it was be-
tween 40 and 50 feet long," he
Says.
Dinsdale admits that he read
up on Loch Ness lore before
stalking Nessie with his tele-
scope movie camera, and that he
had made a drawing of the
monster from eye-witness ac-
counts. Certainly, he seems to
have known just where and
when to rendezvous with Nessie.
John Rankin, a Labor Member
of Parliament from Glasgow,
earlier this year predicted that
Nestle would soon be surfacing
again, and that this time she
might be accompanied by others.
Nessie was first sighted in
1988, and Since then over, 2,000
people, many of them sober,
claim to have seen her.
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