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The Brussels Post, 1962-07-19, Page 7nlar tractor to _demonstrate tip, .011.40i I darned near killed my- golf. The remote control model is safer to use, and, teaches the same lessons." Wright end a friend took. over two months of nights. and weekends to build their large-sized Dinky toy, "and It Was. worth every minute," 4 * 4 Wright, whose mind seems O. bubble with fresh ideas on farm safety procedures, also developed a demonstration on dust explo- sions._ "Our survey showed that we lose 10 to 20 barns a year through dust explosions,. Loss of a barn can mean loss of Income for that year, and sometimes a farmer's life," Wright built a small wood- en box with, a glass window In one side, sprinkled flour Inside and attached a lighted candle to the floor. When the box was. shaken, and the dust flew in the air, the resulting explosion blew the box to bits, "Dust explosions occur when threshing takes place In a barn, and there's faulty wiring Sortie, where In the bending, or per- haps a spark is thrown off by the threshing machine itself, In Ontario, we also lose 15 to 20 barns a year through spontaneous combustion (of hay, for instance) and careless safety practices:" (To be concluded next week) SPITE FENCES In 1961, heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson and his family moved into a $90,000 house in Yonkers, N.Y, becoming pioneer Negro residents of a plush sec- tion known as Beech Hill, Next door lived a dentist who, as Pat- terson interpreted it, went out of his way to be unfriendly by erecting a 6-foot fence between the two backyards, Learning that his neighbor planned to move, Patterson last week paid $300 to have the fence extended to the front, where its jarring presence might easily lower the market value of the adjoining house, The dentist fumed. "Touch on my property," he warned the fence-builders, "and you better have a court order for It." When he heard that, Patterson grimly told the workmen: "If he touches anything over here, he'd better have an ambulance." How long will the fence stayup? Patterson said frankly: "As soon as the new people move in, I'll take it down." 11$y• ttev-,it{. Warren,. B,4 KR, Jeremiah Sees ffope, 110y0114 beAltire cf!orYvetSiT;t:111:17 tYrI iti5 shall] Jeremiah 41: 044 .34; 14,46. wilt. stake. with the house of Israel; After ,Ittogoydaiyase w l artittlitiellirtailLtwor4,altvw4oll, and write, it in, their 'hearts; 's.Iliall i4. it114 mty people.h°1r(1 And re' they mlak 3rniu"s bear heavy 3; .ler , messages ezniah has been called the weeping prophet, But those . God's impending hope, peendTiirtags ji4nclagpmpeanrte,n .ta1 ill the record of the prophets. Jeremiah. encourages the .exiles to build houses, raise families and seeic the peace of the cities in which they lived. Seventy years must elapse before they can return. That Means that many to whom he writes, will not return. But • the captivity will be turned and the temple. will again stand in Jerusalem. Jeremiah foresees the new' covenant. • Whereas the law of the first covenant was written on tables of stone, God will now write His law in their hearts, Be also foresees Christ, the right- eous Branch, a descendant of David according to the flesh, The prophet of doom has come the messenger of hope. We are living in troublesome. times around the world. Most • people close their ears to the prophet of doom. We believe what we want to believe. But despite the turmoil there are some things over which we have a right to rejoice, A Bishop in a letter just received, about to. discuss an alarming situation,. lists the Jesus Christ, f o ll ow 1, ;the same yee- terday, and today, and for ever. Heb. 13:8 2. We receiving 'a kingdom which cannot 'be moved. Heb. 1•2:28 • 3, He that believeth on Hint shall not be confounded'. 1 Pet. 2 :6 4, But we all, with .open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to- glory, evecnor.18 as 3b:yt.he Spirit of the Lord. 2 God is still Sovereign. He an- swers .prayer. Let us not fear but haye faith in Him. He has given His .Son for us. In Him we may have eternal life. Not A Publicity Stunt, Jerry Says For comedian Jerry Lewis, it was no laughing .matter —' at first. Missing from his Manhattan hotel suite, Lewis told . was $185,000 'worth of jewelry which he and his wife had lugged from Hollywood, The stuff was insured, of course, "but you can't measure what it was worth in heart value." To a newsman who tried to cheer him up with a small joke, Lewis said somberly: "I can't be whimsical or irrespon- sible about a tragedy like this." Then, too, his wife happened to be "a very emotional Italian woman who takes these, things seriously." But network .time is a great healer, and by the next night trouper Lewis was gallant- ly twitting his own loss •on TV, as host of the "Tonight" show, One thing he wanted to make dear, though, was that the rob- 13ery was no publicity stunt. As Jerry put it: "There are people who think no real things happen to people in our business. They think eirerything is phony." ISSUE 29 — 1962 opinion of agricultural engineers, would like to see legislation- passed in Canada like that of a recent United Kingdom law, which forbids the operation of tractors by children under 13, He says, "Personally, I have known farm people to be prose- cuted and jailed for endangering the morals of a child but I've never known charges laid against anyone whose child was injured or killed operating or riding a powerful machine made for the use of adults." Smith deplores the kind of ac- cident which resulted in the death of a two-year-old Mani- toba boy. The child was put on the tractor, alone, to amuse him- self. His small, exploring fingers accidentally pressed the starter button and, as the machine had been wrongly left in gear, it lurched forward and hurled the boy from the seat. "Adult ex- ample and adult behavior have a tremendous bearing on children's safety," he says bitterly. "Con- sider the little farm boy who tried, to quicken a bonfire with gasoline„as he'd seen grownups do; he turned into a flaming torch, dying in his tracks as he ran around the yard." Smith is by no means the only safety- conscious official on the farm scene. ,In Alberta, a provincial safety council, with hefty sup- port from the provincial govern- ment, does a steady year-round job of accident prevention. 4 4 * The 4-H clubs, with contests, poster s, demonstrations and talks, are trying to make Can- ada's young farmers safety-con- scious. Trophies and cash awards to some $500 have been 'given to, teenage 441 *members for the best safety programs of the year, for winning posters and scrap- books. In 1959 73,000 4-H Club members took- part in a national sample survey, instituted by the agricultural committee of the Canadian Chamber ' of Com- merce, and involving 49,000 farm people, The Ontario department of• agriculture, during 1959 and 1960, conducted for the first time in North America, an accident survey in all parts of the prov- ince at the same time. An "acci- dent reporter" was chosen lo- cally, and any rural accident was reported in, all its grim detail, including location of accident, time, place, cause, age of persons imlolved. After the statistics were all in, each county was sent a program of safety educa- tion. As a result of Survey find- ings, the Ontario Farm Safety Council was formed in 1960. * * * Hal Wright, a' agricultural en- gineer and sec ry-treasurer of the council, bt„ .'es that educa- tion is fe. most important Step en the long road to safe farm operations. He backs Up his be- lief with action. He built a three foot long re- plica of a tractor, weighing 256 pounds, which he uses' for tree- tor-tipping clemonetratiolis at ell the inteenational plowing' illatchee,. on CBC-TV farm broad• casts, and TV shows in Quebec and New Brunswick: The tractor Model has received sonuch pub- licity that 21 American states have Written the Ontario depart, anent of Agriculture for more in- formation about it, "Once Or twice when I Was using a reg.. NDAY 501001 LESSON Nowadays when Harley Street regarded as the home of the great medical specialists, It Is hard, to associate the district with a sordid murder. But before This famous street became exclusively medical, all London was startled by the die. covery of a body in a Harley Street cellar, The occupant of the house, a Mr. Henriques ' a very well-known and respected individual, had lived there for about twenty years and was quite above suspicion. The first sign that something was wrong was a disagreeable smell coming from the vaults underneath the pavement, which had been noticed for some eight- een months or so, Workmen came to re-lay the drains, but this did not remove the odor, which in due course became so bad that a footman— Mr. William Tinapp, a German whose job it was to clean the boots in the cellar — complained to the butler, Mr, Spendlove, Ile decided to investigate, Un- derneath a large galvanized iron. Cistern supported on a brick staging he found a barrel that seemed to be filled with empty bottles and old paint pots, When 'the barrel was pulled out into the light and examined, Spendlove received the fright of his life — there was a body in it! Police took the barrel and its gruesome contents to the mortu- ary, where Home Office experts discovered that the corpse was that of a woman of about forty to forty-five, four feet nine inches in height, and dressed in cheap underclothes, They estimated that she had been dead. for about two years. There was a stab wound near her heart, and traces of chloride of lime both on her body and in the cask, writes Philip Gaute in "Tit-Bits." When police searched the cel- lar„they'found a table-knife, two old pokers; pieces, of rag and some rope, Inquiries revealed that a but- ler named Henry Smith, who had left the occupant's employment in November, 1878,, had asked the odd-job man, John Greene,' to re-lay some bricks' in one of the cellar floors, When Henry Smith was called to testify at the inquest, he appeared in the uni- form of the 3rd• Surrey Regi- ment, which he had-'since joined. He stated that' he. had been dis- charged for drunkenness about three, years 'before the, discovery of the body, Actually, as evidence showed,, it was only a little' over eighteen months. ' Why had he wanted the,bricks relaid? Well, he answered, he had got a man to dig a hole in the cellar,' but''-this was to bury a, mass of stale bread. A.Mrs.' Jewry, ,however, who had :been cook at the' time, de- nied that there was ever any waste. bread.- The, jury returned a verdict of, murder, the Murderer, unknown • and the name of the victim ,un-- known, too, ' All this happened in 1880, but even today relics of the crime` can still be seen in Scotland 'Yard's jealously guarded "Black" Mu- seum. There in a glass,case, are ' pieces of ,--the underclothes, 'to- gether with'-plaster casts of the 'jaws and teeth taken in the hope that • some 'dentist might have been able to help in the identifi- cation' of the victim., • 1" A email group of business executives and professors of business administration dined together at the Harvard eltfb• of Boston the other evening, and lingered around the dinner table until 11 pen. The discussion topic that held them op to that late hour was "ethics in business," it was a private session among friends, Many of them had gred- uated together several years ago 'from Harvard Business School's Advanced Management P r o, gram, and were gathered in Boston for a class reunion. 12a the quiet, relaxed exchange they probed for answers to a prob- lem that usually seems gray and ill-defined, "Who of us is not, guilty of giving gifts because a. eonepeti- tor has done it?" asked one exe- cutive, "What do you do if a superior asks you to do something you feel is not completely honest? I tried standing for my principles and it got me into trouble," said another, Gordon Burl Affleck, pur- chasing agent for the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City, Utah, and past president of the Na- tional Association of Purchasing Agents, had been invited by the group to speak, He reported that his church, which, he said, has business interests in Many fields, no longer accepts gifts from any salesmen. He said this had been welcom- ed with increased respect from the sales people involved, Fur- ther, Mr, Affleck reported, a survey published in Purchasing magazine in December, 1957, in- dicated that 75.6 per cent of the purchasing people and 76 per cent of sales people polled "would like to see gift-giving eliininated entirely," Sales and purchasing people who have eliminated it have not suffered, he said. "In most cases, the vendors appreciated the at- titude (against gift-giving) and determined stand against this unsound business practice." According to the same survey, Mr. Affleck said, business gifts in the United States are esti- mated at $500,000,000 to $1,000,- 000,000 a year. "And that is big business!" the speaker exclaim- ed. Mr. AEC eel< lashed out at ' firms which disguise gift-giving by informing a customer that a gift to "a- worthy cause" has been made in his name. Often 'the notification comes in a ,Christmas card "filled with good will and high sounding words" of the season, writes Richard Neff' in the Christian Science Monitor. Whether the causes are worthy or not, "I (cannot) see why these firms should use my name, your name, the name of my firm and the names of your firms to gain good will and public acceptance by this devi- ous method of making a gift. . . The so-called 'givers' are not contacted in advance, They do not make the gift. . . The ven- dor makes the contribution and decides how much. He decides "to whom it is to be given, when, and how," he stated. Mr, Affleok told of a well- established purchasing agent More Gifts From Salesmen To. Customers had been with his company over '45 years. An officer insist, ad one day that lie ask for 'a substantial favor from another firm as the price of giving bus, !fleas to that -firm, The purchas, lag agent refused, left his job,. and now has a new position •."where honesty and integrity are appreciated and at a much better salery," But the policy of "accept no gifts" and "just be, honest" is too simple, said one member of the dining group, To-day's bus- iness world is so complex • that it's.often. dlffieult to determine what is "honest". anti what. isn't. Is it proper; for- instance, to ac- cept an invitation to lunch to diecuss. business? Mr. Affleck said he doesn't accept such gestures. "I'll tali; business in my office,' he stated, Somehow, said another exe- cutive, businessmen must evolve. a. code of ethics the way doctors and lawyers have, A code doesn't assure eompliance, of course, but it does establish standards, (It's difficult to expand on the Golden Rule," said one of the businessmen, wryly,. after the discussion ended.) A professor in the groUP noted that 90 per cent of business is in repeat transactioes. In these cases, improprieties are "not ex- pedient." Only in one-time deals. does it seem worthwhile to "pull a fast one," Thus were ideas traded among friends who daily face difficult. ethical decisions in what is a most competitive field, of human • activity. They agreed that quiet. discussions of this type are help- ful, and they seemed also in-mil- city to agree that much more clear thinking and plain talk on the subject is still necessary. U.S. White House !s Public Property Murderer Unknown —Victm Unknown Too 41,...,efarkM1 WHO'S BEEFING? — It's hard to tell if the cows are beefing about the people — or vice versa One thing's sure — some- one is intruding on a picnic near Huntington, England, TINFARM FROM J06 Between the hours of 10 am. and twelve noon, five days a week, the President and First Lady are reminded that their home is public property. On Sundays the mansion is theirs; on Mondays it is taken over by the cleaners who prepare it for the next week's onslaught, Dur- ing the ten hours a week when it is open to the public, the White House is invaded by an endless procession of tourists for whom it is history, government, Wash- ington, and patriotism all rolled into one. At the height of the season they number more than ,:',10,000 a day in a . queue that winds outside the East Gate and halfway along the eight-foot steel fence that encircles the grounds. The number of Ameri- cans ,who tour the White House each year is now greater than the total population of• the United States when the man- sion was first tenanted. These touring visitors repre- sent the widest possible extremes of Americana. They come in mink coats and sweat shirts, they come in Daks and blue jeans and cashmeres, and they come in sneakers, But however different their dress, they have a common , denominator in their possessive pride and open awe. Whether they be one-time -tour- ists or nonpartisan' employees of various administrations, there is a lump in the throat of the most sophisticated with the realiza- tion that part of this is theirs. In five 'years I could' never become blasé enough to be un- moved when the, big gates' open- ed for me each morning,—From "Eighteen Acres Under Glass," by Robert Keith Gray. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking .4 BIG JOB—Brod Alexander, 2, is sure that his dad has a big, job now that he has seen it. Bob, Brad's dad, drives a new 80-ton ore carrying diesel. The tires are six-feet high. We are part Of what has gone, before. ParcelS of the past guide us.' What we call the present is' only a suburb of the past, Oliver St. John Gogarty. E110019 WW1 Mii1C111 liE101:10€119C1r1 OCJIDEI CilEICIIMEICI ME M pli1U MOM 1211:It2 MEM lif1131111:i EMI PEWEE EICEIEICl WOO 131ElEi 12112112U €1001:11 EllEICEIELZIKIE MEM ESNEI Why admire a rose as an aris- tocrat? Admire the democratic potato, For centuries it has nour- ished 'nations. Jienirich Heine. 9, Drum call CROSSWORD- 10, temp e irleld PUZZLE - Domestie foWls 13. Boils slowly 19. Jewel 20, Seaweed ' 21. Small barrel 22:Chinese Pagoda 23, Stimulated 24, CeleStial 25, Ugly old woman 27. Beast of DOWN 1. Freetes 2. Sleeveless garment 3. Drop 4. Brownie 5. Wise counselor 6. Lietiors 7. It Is so E. White poplar 80. Play on `words 32, Beat 33. City in Montana 35. Prepared 36, TimlYer Stained by decay 37.11indu woman's garment 33.•Stiare 39. It, river 40. Prevaricator 41. Run away 43. Harvest goddess 44. Worthless bit burden 19, Nothing ACROSS 1. Sacred image 5. Utter 8. Glinted structure , 12. Woman's un- dergarment 14. Uncovered 15, Letters 16, Jacket 17, Harden 18. DECNVII goddess 19. Mirror 20, POS8CsS 21. Retains 21 Pinafores 25. Surround 28, Grazing ground 18. Feed the kitty 29, Old hereto 30. Refuse to bid 31, Timber tree 32. Periike A rats a bade. ball fleetly' 34. Danger 38. Press rot' parmant 87. Alarm is. Ltotal child 89. White yet tinent 4l.Region 'Sacred cont. poSitle f 48, Peruse ,„ 46. rather g 47. inetto bele 48. Watch tedtetlk 0 0 i IN ' , iV 1 tiry 2 3 11 10 , 9 • 8 .7 . Machines Can Make Mistakes' Too To the quiet satisfaction of many a mere man, the relentless' onslaught of automation got a few dents in the old machine last :month. In' a civil case in a District of Columbia court, a Dicta- phone recorded the testimony of the litigants- — and, also of a sand - blasting machine outside the hearing-room windows, A rehearing of the case, was ordered — this time with a hu- man court stenographer in charge. The Justice Department re- vealed why the Attorney Gen-' eral's report on identical bid- ding in government contracts is now more than three months late: Its lawyers fed the infor- mation into the electronic com- ptt ters and something went, Wrong, "We had to do a lot of it,-ever again by hand," said antitrust thief Lee Loevinger. At the Census Bureau a twelve-year-old goof came to light, Solt e m.ispunched IBM cards, processed through compu- ter systems, showed that the U,S, had a record number (1,320) of divorced 14-year-old males, and a staggering number (1,670) of •I4-year-old widowers, A discarded match,. :a sinould- ering ember, a puff of stoke, a burst of flame, a roaring inferno — then, black, silent ruin, Don't let this happen in Ontario, Pre- vent forest fires. 12. The following is a continua- tion of article "Death on the Farm — the Crop That Never Fails" by Thelma Dickman and taken from the Imperial Oil Re- view." Sofar, at least three provinces are providing a well-rounded program of accident prevention for farmers Alberta, Ontario and . Saskatchewan. The pro- grams differ, because local con- ditions differ, but the objective is the same. Saskatchewan's Christian Smith lists' four needs in. the fight for farm (and-urban) acci- dent prevention. 1. Comprehensive and detailed national accident statistics, by age groups, sex, place and type of accident and occupational ' groups. "You can't light a prob- lem without understanding it fully," Smith says, • 2. A-national voluntary safety •organization with a comprehen- sive 'program for ,all accident prevention, similar to the, Na- tional Safety Council of the U,S. (Not all'provinces agree on .this, however. Some feel that the pro- gram must be geared to local conditions and that, in the, final, analysis, safety must become a family. project.) 3. Support and leadership by the Canadian government, through health and agriculture departments. 4. Provision of safety educa- tion materials, films, national TV and radio programs about_ accident prevention, not just traffic accidents. (Imperial Oil now distributes Farm. Tractor Safety: a Family Affair. The film portrays dramatically how one farm community got together to combat accidents.) Smith, Who gets hopping mad when he describes sloppy- safety practices, was the moving power behind Child Safety Day, start- ed in Saskatchewan in 1954. It's held on the first Sunday in May. Last year it was adopted as a national day in Canada, Some 'U.S. organizations think it should be held internationally. A few years ago, Smith and his department saw from their hospital insurance statistics that 50 per cent of all farm accidents in their province happened in barnyards — and half of these accidents indicated poor house- keeping. For instance, a four- year-old, left to play alone in a tbolhouSe, knocked over a liar Of weedkiller that was more than 60 per cent carton tetrachloride. Two Weeks after inhaling „the poisonous fumes, she Was dead. Smith's department promptly instituted an annual spring farmyard cleanup campaign, - * Realizing that farm mothers, With more responsibilities than most city mothers, are often too busy to oversee young children, Smith's department also offered farmers free sketches of inex- pensive Playground equipment they mold Make during the win- ter, They suggested a play area, fenced off from the rest of the yard, in sight of kitchen win, dows. So fat, more then 2,000 plans have been Mailed, It'S too late to save the sight of a little boy who last year in a barnyard had his ey•e pecked out by a rooster, but it Might prevent this Happening to some ether little boy, Christian Smith, echoing the 14, 13 ;$;:: 16 17 18 19 :0400-40. ,14K0444% 20 21 22 25''24. 26 25 27 28 29 32 85 34. 36 ' 35' $7 98 4o 39' 41 44' 43 44 4V r of iron scissors, an antique d pictures took 'the `place of is presented to Williani J r soc iety iii Pennsylvania.,• 61.15 BLADES — A yard-long poi of the aid days when symbols On words on signs outside 'stores,. Wilcox, president of cl historical 41i3 49 61/ Answer elsewhere Oti thid pigs