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bait it Ethiopia
t. WIN toll
itogitit Werkers in Addis
b report that the
famine crisis is
Slowly, but about 50
POO* *till die of starvation
every weet.
The epidemics induced by
IttalltUtrition rather than
*Mid hunger are the overrid-
problem in the crowded
comps now. — CNS
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Do you remember the days
-when the back of a schoolboy's
Scribbler was an education in
itself? Do you remember when
every notebook in a lad's school
bag had the multiplication tables
on the back cover along with
various other weights and mea-
sures?
In my day that back page short -
course in mathematics and agri-
culture was so constant a fixture
that Lhad somehow supposed it to
be as unchangeable as the
teacher's Bible or her yardstick.
But I find I'm wrong about that.
Tonight when I came in from
looking at the bin where the hired
man is dumping our seed oats
this year, I asked myo, t2 year olt
granddaughter how many cubic
feet there are in 'a bushel.
"I don't know!" she replied, as
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if it wasn't really important any-
how.
"Well let me see the back of
your scribbler then." I said.
For a second or twushe didn't
even seem to know what a scrib-
bler was. "Oh You mean a note-
book, do you?'
So the handed me what looked
to be a scribbler gone extra-
vagant, but there was nothing. on
it but a lush fabrikoid binding of
some sort. I looked et another. I
looker) at them all — and there
were at least ten of them. They
were all sizes, colors and prices
and nota piece of everyday arith-
metic on any one of them.
Well I'm a stubborn sort some
limes,, and I Just wasn't going to
give up, so I went to the attic and
found the old slatted trunk where
I keep a lot of souvenirs I don't
want my kids to laugh at — things'
_like love letters tied in binder
twine and third prize ribbons I
won 30 years ago for doing the
low hurdles and old report cards
that I generally signed myself.
And sure enough, I found a scrib-
blgr with the back page printed
like it ought to be.
And right away I discovered
that five bushels occupy four
cubic feet, approximately. I also
discovered how you measure .the
number of board feet in a log, the
dimensions of a cord of ,stove
wood, the weight of &cubic foot of
water and 57 other mathematical
gems' that the modern School-
room sins to have blithely for-
gotten.
Do you remember how many
pounds there are in a bushel of
corn, for *stance? No, it isn't 60,
but 56, the same as for a bushel of
rye or artichoke*. And back in
those days when you used to keg
bushel baskets Of turnips .to the
pulp*, how much did those
bushels weigh?' Well, they hefted
as if they weighed at least 160
pods, but actually a bisshel 01
apps weighs but half' of that.
Just two pounds more than .a
bushel of barley or buckwheat or
timothy seed,
This seriblikarl have in trent Of
me 'low doesn't give me ;tary sure
clue as to its age, but it must at
/east date back to the days before
the baker began to come up the
road because it carries the in-
formatibn that a barrel of 'flour
weighs 1S pounds. 11 obit de-
clares that the official weight for
a bushel tif oats is 34 potaids„ al -
*SO the vscieties of oats we
thresh nowadays will probably
nm eloSer to 46 pentds.
I see ba that there are cagy L1
ounces 6) pourid tn the western of
weights a droggiSt or jeweller
u Crroy)„ as np ed Ito 16
ounces in the yrs grocer's
weld. VirUch proves once and for
vissihandallotea „tiat. oral pecaxifealbeeste gatdoes
Pew ounces more,
Bova eon* that all these vital
Statigics have &appeared from
sieralibler backs ewe fkrw ovine
you can't even find them in most
cif the new asid highly enligh' ttned
aetlxtuetk tests we bin ter oar
younggives today!? I can't think elf
any good answer at all unkss it is
simply prod of the fad that a
farmer"s problems ate of no
triteresit to anyone anymore: Not
even to school leadrers.
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wanted to play rock and roll Uii
tar. She is a very god guitarist
and once they found that out it
might hurt their egos. f,am not
saying that all male Musie141111
are like that, but many are."
"It is a lot easier," she elm-
tinued,. "to be in an all*irl group
because we 'are all sensitive to
what women musicians go
throtigh. W have all been
CATHIE: "I studied music for about a year and a half in
university in New Brunswick and I've always wanted
to make it a career."
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through it."
I. it difficult to find Material
that isn't makorieated? "A lot of
songs are sesist but UMW aro not
so pinpointed and we try to Mate
our material, reflective of- our
feelings. Sometimes it inight be
slight change in lyrics, but not
very often."
Do they like songs like "I Am
Woman"? "We hate that song.
It's not a song. We don't have to
scream it out. I think it is quite
obvious that we are women,"
replies Joanne.
The group has no particular
musical influence although they
do like much of the material by
Stevie Wonder, the Roiling Stones
and Bonnie Rae. "I don't think we
have one basic 'influence," says
Joanne, "and there are not
enouglilemak bands around to
have any definite rapport with a
specific counterpart."
"Our musical taste ranges
from country to Japanese folk
music, to swing jazz, to Cana-
dian folk music, and we try to get
it all together by choosing sounds
we can all play honestly without
disliking what we are doing."
WON'T SELL OUT:
The band gets paid °about the
same amount f� i a week's work
as a male group in the same cate-
gory. Joanne says if they had an,
agent who pushed the group as an
all -girl band and found the rooms
that would buy the image, "we
would then have to dress up in
gowns and put on all kinds of
makeup and do a show.
"They wouldn't really want us
as musicians as much as five
women up on stage. That isn't
. what we want. That is selling
out.".
"Times are changing," says
Linda. "This female image
business is uteless unless the
cash register is ringing. ,And it
doesn't ring if the people are not
hearing good music."
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