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The Brussels Post, 1962-02-15, Page 3Hor$e Open Sleigh Wont Work, Not Fun After another Christmas season. 'in which the non-christmas m- ole of "Jingle Bells" was foiSted 'Upon us generally as a fine old earol, It is philosophically pleas- ant to wonder what Jingle. Bells can possibly mean to a jingleless population, anyway, Why does Jingle Bells appeal to us in this horseless era of jingling ignor- ance? For something that was never any fun to begin with, the sleigh- ride has a strange hold on: the people, It is thoroughly improb- able that dashing though the snow in a One-horseopen slei'q t, would ever beeeme tradltionallt, popular, even vieariettSIY, and it' is certainly abStud to find a eOok about it hoiSthigh Saito the 000 4'; gory of holiday music, Yet, there it is, and it is so, Bells, as attached to the winter harnesses of horses, were suppos- ,,ed to be a warning devieq,:: Wheels on wagons clattered and bumped, and hoofs of horses.; pounded the hard highwayi PI* when snow fell these sounds were muted, and bells had to be attached to warn folks of your coming, If this is true then we have: the intLlectkial assume,.. oghspn . gong on •trouti,V Or had ,1#''; same beceih ' Christroai nigsi,eitodited*:ir , body 1,01i6r6dif ndu pleasures oft sleighing the. oddsX would be abOot the same...2 I would like to take alrinem.;.:' bers of the-musicians' unied fora , nice old-tiMe 'ride in a set-over pang, o'er the fields we'd go, laughing the way. The set- over pang was a realistic answer to somethigg the song-pluggers wouldn't know about—it permit- ted you to =pass with some sem- blance of eaie over roads' that were owiTed. by :teams. was incidental, for the business of the country- side was cendUcted on double runners - hitched horses. Never, by any stretch of the fancy, did a sleigh ride over a country road.? erktailffriVelity with dash, zip, verve and hooraw, Ti 'you :daringly touched the horse up, throwing caution ,..te the, winds, you would rotnid a bend and meet a logging rig loaded high with tour-to five-thousand feet and a driver on top. who couldn't care less. The sleigh turned out, and,at high speed or low speed it usually lipped OYer., Then the bell's 'on Bob-tlil Fang,' for Bob-tail uthally took fright and ran away, The set-over pang had its whiffletree and .cleyis errenge,d, so the horse,: 'could Walk in " orie of the team paths, but the* sleigh would track with the logging ruts. It was cleverly pondered and built, but the advantage it had for straigliit going, was „e dis- advantage when you tried to CUrn out, The hork made out fine, but the runners of the sleigh now responded on the bias, and with Your horse sensibly, trying to get out of the way 'of tivo" approach- Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 1 V Y. Pc IVO\ El Mr -II , lilliifflo BO ' o 1 _ • Oil i_i_ pis 8 a MUNE lallam vonin9 ,cy,:..;,: • rgagjv glom IENUM . vbmo .1An •d .., aElin121ffla avqv v SN s b c r_ w o Mo 111101ou • 0 SEI ura MD A. V 0 qr.-% 4.1rV •••.:01'.1•;&-v • • • UN Y SCHOot LESSON O. v" 1OOld better' on the looks, but. Secretary Freeman Nolo more accurate system of •account- tog. (The storage bill for fiscal 1.001 came to $4(4,000,,000.) But no matter how you figure it, the total spent for price-sup- porting farm commodities, and resulting surphres, seems .00r. bitant. White House economists, riding herd 0.11 the budget, are said to be disturbed over these billions being poured into the farm program and hopeful that somehow the figure can be pared down. ICY TREAT Curtis Schuh, 2, goes to work an oversize icicle.; WHERE TN. A WHEEL .—A Minneapolis industrial design class assignment: Design a locomotion device to move a rider across 150 yards of ice, cost not to exceed $2.50. .CCUTAhlberg came up An old wicker rocking chair ':.mounted on wide, four-f4:5ot 'wheels that revolve by pulling crtciSh -card Ahlberg-Prove-S: it. works by taking himself for c trial run On 'Lake Harriet, Minn. Mushrooms Need ci "White Thumb" One business you won't find on every earner is that of rais- ing mushrooms for the whole- sale market, It is true that Americans have eaten them for many generations, but originally they ate wild mushrooms gather- ed in the fields, Mushroom cul- ture started in this country about OM The growth has been slow, The. ancient Greeks, Egyptians; and', romans knew mushrooms and:Tegerded them as a delicacy. The;Romans called them "food for the gods," But it was not un- til around 1700 that they were produced •in any quantity in Eu- rope, Louis XIV at this time en- couraged their growing,. The French, since. theo, have. been foremost in producing theme ui- ing eaves and wrries around Paris in whiCh to cultival?fhene, Most American mus hr o o m farmers 'construct special build- ings designed to produce great quantities and providing the ex- - act growing conditions mush- rooms demand, They are harvested, placed in baskets, and trucked to the- pack- ing plant, Girls in the plant examine them for imperfections; separate. according to size; box; weigh 'and seal :the container. They then are placed on the shelves of the retail markets. The grower of mushrooms needs •a 'white thumb" instead of a green one. The Mushroom does not behave like green plants which absorb carbon dioxide and release waste oxygen. They in- stead "breathe" oxygen and ex- hale carbon dioxide, They have no chlorophyll. This lack of green coloring matter makes their white, The growing houses are dark. The mushroom farmer wears a miner's lamp. That is the only light the mushroom has. Growers scoff at the phrase "grew like a rdeShrobin, over- night." Menths."of preparation and cultivation are required be- fore pickers can take off the first crop. Just What Are Those Piostip Bombs? The, French language has ac,,, quired several Ominous new words from the plastic bombs that rock Paris every night. The, men who plant the •explosives ace plastiqueurs," and what hap- pens to the victim is called be- leg “Plastic06." But what exactly,' is this .dcadly "plastic?"- Developed daring World War II by the tr,S. Army, which air- dropped quantities to French re- sistance fighters, the standard plastic explosive is a puttylike mixture of 'TNT end hexogen, though French terrorists also use several Other materials, such ..aa, a mixtUre of nitroglycerine and:. nitreeellulose; It's light brown ht coley: and .'sMells, .slightly tear apart, Si normally comes in .• slabs about 8 inches long, 2 inches wide, and 1 inch thick, and such a chunk is about right for blow- ing an apartment to bits, The plastic bomb is ideal for terrorists because it never goes off by itself—throw: it, step on It, carry it around in your pocket with perfect safety. It's also ideal because it can be shaped to fit any • target — wound around a gatepost or stuck to a window- sill. The simplest way to set it off is with a tob:#;'ehaPed,'deto- oator, which ,eah'lek:.4trtek•iipto it• like a pencil ',d1W!'ettedlied to an ordinark:,gtiiipowder::,fuse, cut to anyjength .neededefor getaway, There is :ne;Comrriercial Mar- ket and rig fixed price for' "le plastic," Which is• apparently etolen from'vmilitary.-warehooSes and channeled'. into the `black market, But its- cost to France :is described by,:.an 'raid weird for blackmail, "le chantage." ' HE FARM FROM Jokuuszea. Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose on friendly level. Warren, ILA., .4,1110 . „„.. ea , T•bo Vin '10,1Xodus. 20:14; Mark 1:7 Memory Selection: :Kcep thy heart with all .diligencei for Out "of it arc the issues. of 111e, Pro* verbs 4;2$, Various surveys indicate that more than half the adults have broken the seventh eornmand# ment. Many are :doing it ill their teens. A woman staying In a hotel wrote to the editor of the local newspaper after last New Eve. She was surprised that So many of the guests corn: ink to,:a party there, were in their earlyAeen$, When she and her AUSband returned to the hotel after midnight she was Shocked at the obscene language. A girl from one of the bedrooms was screaming, calling, "Mother, moo 'tiler," A boy started down the corridor shouting, "I'm a nudist" Someone called to. him to come back and get on some clothes, Every city of considerable size has its houses of prostitution and its hotels with the call gill:rack- et. The Bible says, "Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed b u t whoremongers Geri will judge." lej7Leivs 1$:4. Homosexualism, is becorning more prevalent, Jesus said, "Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her bath. committed adultery with. her already. in his heart." Matt, 5:28. Sin begins in the mind, SaladlOtis:literature, sexy movies and TdMinodest deportment, all help--to prepare the way for the outward:•sin.,. Nature"..jUdges those who break God's law, - Some have nervous breakdowns,.. some incur vener- eal. diseaSe 'and all miss out on the pure clean happiness that God designed for His creatures. The prophets reproved Israel for adultery when they forsook God and worshipped idols. Thin was spiritual • adultery. When people who have given them- selves to the Lord and may be 'sold JO' be married to Him, turn' from His love to the pursuit of 'things and pleasures, they are spiritual adulterers, Al4dultery• is sin. The marriage-e--eroWlis sacred. To break it is •• A small-town telephone oner- ator answering a call With the 'usual "Number, please?" heard. a voice reply: "Dustin:" "What number, Dustin?" asked the operator. "No number. Just Dustin," re- - plied the voice impatiently. And. then, since the operator still to understand, the voice add- ed: "I'm dustin' the telephone." NOT A MIRAGE — A work- man enjoys a •raft ride on a • man-made lake in the Sahara Desert. Engineers created the lake to feed fire hoses to fight the blazing' gas well. Soon We'll All Be. Eating Grass! CROSSWORD PUZZLE lag chunks well :forward in their collars, you might have all the horsemanship in the world and still find yourself headfirst in 'a snowbank. Whether to get out on the high side or the low side was moot; the high-siders leaped farther, but low-riders had everybody else fall on them. On any sleigh ride along a well-used road, wherteqogs, cordwood, hay and ice were being handled by a busy dommuoity, a pung was upside down` as often as net, and spirits aVere never quite so-bright as the $Ong'saYs. .T Possibly a "pung" needs• defin- ing. 1t was a "box sleigh," orig intally. being a box on runners. Some say the word derives, somehbw; from the Indian tobog- gan.., It was lower slung than a sleigh; .and the runners were of- ten wider in the iron. It was pre- ferred by farmers and had a utilitarian aspect—although that word didn't occur then. When it tipped over you didn't have so far to fall, and it was cheaper to repair if it got smashed up, By-. erybody had • a piing, but the sleigh had a high check-rein con- notetien, And nobody, really, ever look- ed, forward to a pung ride. The horse,,,,,leaSt of all. He was comfy` in his stable, and he always hated bells, becausb they meant work, -When he was backed ,out of the stall and into the Shatters, a sad- -bees settled upon him and the -mood was' communicated... There were really only two routine jobs for him in the., win- ter—the trip to town with butter and eggs, to fetch the staplei, and the Sunday sortie to serviCes. This latter' was a devotional or=, few peoples have ever developed' in their dogmas. But while humans could ride cold to church, eggs_ had tabekept warm , with blankets and a lantern And while humans could get dumped out, eggs had to ride straight, ,and: the paradox: ef this , was that little heavy teaming , was done on Suo days; but market day was busy. On market day, after a wary drive to town, with the eggs safely swapped off, , we'd ap- proach the ride home. The best way was to yell giddap dt the -horse -so-it frightened him into a wild dash for his own dooryard; and then we'd hide down under the blankets with the ianternand hope for the best, The' sweetest sound the bells- made "was" the silence when they stopped jingl, ing, and=,ffi-e •Iie'rsd !steocr by the 4 kitchen door. We could blow out the lantern, then, and go in the house and thaw out —By John Gould in the Christian Science Monitor. • DRIVE CAREFUL' — The life you save may be your own: 28. Comptrollers 30. Warriors 34. Deer track 27. African antelopes 41. Old fashioned 43. unitary officer 46. Jester 47. Entice 48. Peruvian Indian 49. Fuel 50, Dandle roughly 51. Narrow inlet 62. Cotton seeder 7. Vein ,Lat.) 8. Follow 9, Rural 10, Mr. Lin kietter 11. Word of affirmation 17. Toward and ACROSS -59:Actual ^ witnin 19. Foray Miroleki'd . 22. Fiber lant 2, Domestic 24. 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But the problem is a comparatively . small one as compared to what,., 'faces the' U.S. Departnient of- Agriculture, as will be seen from the following article. *4. ,;,i,'«; The White House is reported deeply concerned• over the cost of . the farm price support program., The 'cost As, noti, b,eiing reduced; it is largee tha4 ever: , The. government ,t'iais.1.peid out some $900,000,000 rniee` ine*fatin subsidy payi,o„esite„this,year than last. In other Words, the Free man program to date is more costly than ,the Benson program. Not that Secretary Freeman got,whet, he wanted in the way of a farM prograih`.—Cellgress did not give it to him—with the exception of a new deal on -feed grains. Most of the farm subsidy increase, however, is due to that program. Secretary Freeman admit that the new program accounts for $768,000,000 of The farm subsidy increase, but claims the program has actually saved the taxpayers at least $500,000,000. .4, •I• ,!•• .Even. ,,the. Budget Bureau has estimated that all federal 'subsidies for farniers' in 'the' rent fiscal year, ending June 30, 1962, will total a fat $4,700,- 000,000, The fact is the farm price sup- 'Port' progfam -is becoming ever more costly despite valiant ef- forts by Secretaries of Agridui-- tare to trim it down. Secretary Freeman is paying higher pride supports for the crops which are raised under the laild'-'retirenderit "agreernerit, and he is offeringemore4er,,the...-1and.- retired, In return, however, he requires that this be land on which these crops have been grown ,previottsly,..and not just ean,ye lancl,, as „under, the old soil bank program, The new wheat program is ex- pected to bring about a 10 per cent acreage cut. All these are the problem grains—the grains which have been grown in tre- ..mendous surpluses because of guaranteed price supports. * But it is obvious from results so far„that while Secretary Free- man is achieving some success in reducing the amount of land. planted to the problem-crops, it is, costing money to do it,,Virites JO,Seplitoe-gipley in the Christian Science Monitor. Secretary Freeman may argue that if Congress had gone along with him on his over-all pro- gram, with its more stringent production curbs, he could have brought the problem under con- trol. Another costly price support operation is that under which farm exports are subsidized, This comes about when the govern- ment, which has taken over surplUS grains and other products at the: high domestic support prices-, Offers them. for sale on the world market at the lower world price. The write-off on this operation came to $311,100,000 in 1960, and $305,100,000 in 1961. Much the same thing happens under the Inle'i•national Wheat Agreement. . .This generally entails a govern- ment subsidy on wheat prices of over $70,000,000 a year. 4, Since corning into office Secre- tary! Freeman has taken a look at the books and instituted a new system of figuring the value of surpluses in stock, The last re- port, tinder' the Old system on May 3-1, .1961, showed $8,598,013,- 000 tied up in surpluses in stor- age sand under loan, 01 this $1,450,787,000 was out- ' standing in loans, with the inven- tory v.altied at $7,147,226,000, The new system Storage and handling' costs- are written off separately, es:a:ksetierate loss item. Thus, . aS of September the value of the inventory (that is, • the -stock of surpluses, on hand) was only $5,496,812,000. It not •.• 1, Sunken fences 5, Rant 9. Compensate 12. Johnny cake 13. Happy place 14. Guido's second note 15. Flow out " 16. Comprises 18. Affectedly modest 20. Sister of one's parent 21. Brace 23, Short jackets 26. Sing with , closed lips 29, Marsh elders 31. Spoken 32, Danish money Si. Cr. common-.. all ty Ancle-nt . ,-shaping form 36, SharP,Pain 32. Kind of pickle 39. Played the first card 40. Mr. antelope 42, icsau 44, One. of the Marianas 46. Type used to emphasize 50. Renown 53. Jupiter's wife 54..Tune 55. Mohammedan prince 5G. Killer whale 57, Had being 68. Lairs Ansmar elsem here on this page Taking all these, things into consideratiOn; tedietary Freeman ' figure's, oft foaper; that the goy-' ' eminent Would have hatt to -pay. out some!' $500,000i000 moreldu - price - supporting crops which would have been grown on this, • teed if it had been planted, N i Plot, n Addition,to teed grains, Secretary Freeman is taking on 'Wh'eat, Moder a Shinier pregratif. In other words he is paying farm- ire to take wheat land out of production in return for higher price supports on wheat. * * Under the feed grain program, support price for corn was upped from $1.06 to $1.20 a bushel, Barley went from 77 cents a btohel to 93 cents. The support price for rye went from 90 cents a bushel to $1.02. Oats went from 50 cents a bushel to 62; and grain sorghums from. $1,50 per bun- dyed-weight to $1,93'. In return corn am age was reduced from'71,413,000 acres to 58,',;75,000. cirain sorghum acre- age' tante; down- from 11.5,430t,000 licres.,to 1(101;000. • 1.96t Food made from leaves and grass may soon be on the menu. Already there is machinery to make protein from leaves and commercial development can be expected shortly, the British As- sociation for the Advancement of Science has been told by its biochemistry department at Rotharristed, Herts. Yes, grass ' and leaves, And very good for you they are, too. Government research experts have been carrying out experi- ments for years, working .out ways of making .grass palatable. This has baffled scientists, but now they believe they have the ansWet. Grass contains many essential Vitamins, proteins and mineral salts which can be extracted after being subjected to mocha*. Cel and chemical processes, British doctors in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps used a grass extract on patients suffer- ing from a deficiency of Vitamin r B, Resulting' from this, scientists believed much of Britain's pro- tome riee.d could be supplied from grass. And experiments began, The problem was how to pro= duce it in appealing t rill t• public, A number of solid cakes r of compressed grass have been made and eaten by some volun- 14•0:17 On bread and, margarine. Dr. Barbara Nfoore, the mara- thon walker, has eaten grass in its natural state for years. When she liVed UV C1011, she used to colladt 'ber:,supply of "groceries" from Kensington Gardens and Ryan Park every morning. She claims it will help her live to a 'gteat age. t A "grass her" was prepared for use in Canadian army food is- ues, but it was to sweet to gain iflunch -popularity. They also toil a the coverieg-up of the dtill taste of grass a problem. By 1945 the Icei.1 government was ordering edible grasses to •ea ten. 41s- Vfge. ee n cl-th '.E'' WO; The government believed, grUss and leaves were extremely' bene- ficial to, health. tfIAMil.COURSEI',-t..Itti0Pnesepte ifege studenis don uniforms, of '',/cipc:in iS, national: ralPOa.c1 Service' toaci•'''at pusners;''' • loading commuter coaches to sardinelilce rapacity hi Tokyo. It's one way to odd td funds necessary to their education. ease- re' embling giant inner tube will. chnor,tel..Voter into power generator of Oahe Dam on. Missouri dbov6 Severrof,the:Z),foot diernoter uses Will be uted in Oahe, the World's largest rolled earth dam. 1t %ATI be 9,300 feet fon% 242 foot high The wa:r “,hich backs up will create e lake 250 miles long.