HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-01-30, Page 3•
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Subway Strike And
Mud -Stuck Tractor
Whenever 1 go to the big •city,
have the chastening feeling
at all the hullabaloo and hoo-
raw is going on just the same on
days I'm not there. It's scat of
hard to believ.e this, now, as I
iit her& with the morning sun-
light streaming in my window,
One foot on the ,wastebasket and
the other shoved into the book-
case between Butler's History
of Brownville Junction and Nine
Orations of Cicero—the com-
panionable. Muse perched on my
shoulder to tell me how to spell
the hard words—for this morn-
ing New York seems distant and
uoreal.
The last time 1 was in New
York I didn't leave the train,
but sat in my seat and thought
about this. I looked out the win-
dow and saw the crowds milling
and pushing, reflecting that this
unbelievable to-do Qontinued
all the whilst I would 'be up in
the woods and alone. Since the
train arrived thirty minutes late
but left on time, New York thus
gave me back fifteen minutes
otherwise gone 1 orever, and I
thought if just these fifteen
minutes , could be distributed
equally among the folks on the
platform they could all slow
down a little.
I commented on this to a man
across the aisle, and he said that
in traveling this route twice a
week for eighteen years the
train schedules hadsimilarly
restored to him the rough equi-
valent of about fourteen months,
but that since he had never left
his seat he couldn't really say
that he had ever been in New
York.
Of course, while 1 discharge
the daily duties of my up -coun-
ty career, nobody in New York
knows about it, if he cares. This
was beautifully demonstrated
by the widespread disinterest
when I got my tractor stuck in
thei,mud the same day the New
York subway strike took effect.
The result of the strike was con-
fusion, inconvenience, and hard-
ship --and things were in bad
shape here, too. The great dif-
ference was that all the news-
papers devoted front-page space
to the subway strike, and the
great turmoil of the erstwhile
patrons, whereas nobody asked
me how I felt, and no photo-
graphers sloshed up through the
ooze to see how I was making
out.
It was a lovely morning here.
A. thick rinie frost had formed
in the night, and the rising sun
hit it with unerring accuracy
and distributed beauty over all.
I climbed on the tractor seat,
pulling the trailer, and rode
pleasantly down behind the
barn, up through the hayfield,
TONGUE-TYPED—Blond, but not
fair-haired as far as the photo-
grapher is concerned, is this lad
in Melbourne, Australia. The
barefaced boy with cheek ap-
parently refused to say 'cheese'
for this picture.
beyond the orchards, •and into
the black growth.
I was after some Christmas
trees. I like to cut a few and
set them by the •road in hopes
of a sale. I, never sell any, much,
but this way I can control the
giving away. If I leave them up
in the woods, people come from
great distances to carry them
offi and I have no way of know-
ing who gets them.
So, like all the New Yorkers
•on this same morning, I went to
business, riding along with a
goOd feeling for all, and some-
thing of the pre -Christmas spirit
dominant. The big ' *actor
wheels crunched on the light
snow or the hoar frost along the
woodroad, and here and there
broke through the thin ice of
the wet spots.. Shortly I arrived
and put the ax to work.
I don't just cut Christmas
trees at sucha time. I knock a
few limbs off pines, and cut out
spent Gatchell birches, and tip
over defunct specimens of all \
kinds. There's a lot of cleaning
up around a woodlot. I look for
beanpolessaand grape arbor ma-
terial, and maybe hack out a
hardwpod piece here and there
for firewood. I could have cut
my Christmas trees in fifteen
minutes and gone home, but it
wouldn't have been so much
fun. The forenoon moved along,
and the weather warmed.
When at last I started for
home, the big tractor wheels
surged as I released the clutch,
gave a deep sigh and settled in-
to the mud. The frost had let go.
I got off the seat to see how
things stood, and must have felt
much like a New Yorker when
he got ready to go home and
found there was no subway. I
considered arbitration and medi-
ation, and pondered the juris-
dictional questions. I wondered
if I could get a writ of manda-
mus.
Of course, as I 'say, I didn't
know about the subway strike
in New York, any more than
those, folks knew about me. We
experienced this thing separate-
ly, without collusion, but we
must have both had that same
let -down feeling that comes at
the other end of the run when
your transportation has been
annulled. '
I understand the New Yorkers
ran for the railroads, and that
the alternative failed from over-
emphasis. I has' no alternative,
unless you cc_ 'der myself as
such. I dug the shovel from un-
der the Christmas trees, got out
the length of chain, and then sat
on a stump to think things over.
This is a good way to begin,
really. You can often do as much
good sitting on a stump as you
can digging, such as mud. Then
I brought some rocks, and shov-
elled a little, and climbed back
on the seat to see if the strike
was over. It was not.,
I then walked home. It was
dinnertime, and 1 was hungry.
It's a little over a mile, and it's
hard walking on the early win-
ter inch or two of rain-sogged
snow. I had my dinner, read the
mail, watered the hens, and re-
turned to my problem.
Now, it's a curious thing, but
being stuck in the mud is some-
thing you can often get out of
by going home to dinner. By the
time I got back the ooze had
settled itself under the wheels,
somehow, and when I got on
the seat and gently let out the
clutch, the tractor came walking
out of the mud, trailer and all,
as if it had never been stuck. I
drove on up to the buildings,
and thus ended the adventure.
I itemize the details, because
I see no essential difference be-
tween my being stuck and the
New York. subway strike. There
were more peOple involved, but
that is purely relative. New
York wasn't buttoned up and
rendered immobile any more
than I .was. Yet the subway
strike was treated as big news,
and nobody knew about me. I
merely demand equal time.—By
John Gould in The Christian
Science Monitor.
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STONE AGE UP-TO-DATE — Their use almost as old as civiliza-
tion, stones that become rounded when tumbled in revolving
drums to serve as grinding agents are contrasted with a pre-
cisioned nose cone made primarily of basic, stone-like ceramic
materials for use in a supersonic fissile. The contrast between
the ancient and modern was provided ot the opening of e
research center. It will be devoted to projects affecting .for-
ward-looking operations of the nation's ceramic tile industry.
TIEFARM FRONT
No method has yet been de-
vised to eliminate the bacterial
ring rot organism from the po-
tato seed piece, but according to
Dr. D. S. MacLachlan of the
Science Service Division of the
Canada Department of Agricul-
ture, the disease can be pre-
vented from spreading by the
disinfection of all handling
equipment and storage bins, and
the use of certified or founda-
tion seed.
Bacterial ring rot, an ex-
tremely infectious bacterial di-
sease is possibly the most seri-
ous of all potato diseases known
today. Infection takes place
through the seed piece, the only
known way in which infection
can occur. There is no evidence
that the organism overwinters
in the soil or can be spread by
any insect. To a large degree
the cutting knife is responsible
for a high percentage of ring
rot infection. As many as 50 to
100 potato sets may be contam-
inated by the knife following a
cut through an infected tuber.
For this reason the knife should
be dipped in a disinfectant after
each potato is cut.
*
Studies on the extent of di-
sease transmission to potato sets
from contaminated bags, indi-
cates that from three to six per
cent of ring rot infection may
come from this source. This can
be eliminated through the use
of fumigants and heat treat-
ments, but the search for a more
rapid and efficient method of
disinfection is continuing.
*
Over the past three years, re-
search in Ottawa has shown that
certain newer type disinfectants
are much more effective than
older conventional types such as
formalin or copper sulphate.
These newer materials pene-
trate more rapidly through jute
strands of potato bags and into
cracks and splinters of storage
rooms. Most of these newer ma-
terials such as Teramine, San-
o-fec 25 and Ocean 101 are reas-
onably priced and readily avail-
able.
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The development of resistant
varieties is the obvious solution
to the ring rot problem and for
several yeara_ now research on
this aspect of control has been
done in both Canada and the
United States. The variety Te-
ton, developed a few years ago,
and the Merrimac variety, a re-
cent introduction from the Uni-
ted States, both show some re-
sistance to the organism. Unfor-
tunately these varieties are not
completely hnmune to ring rat
and therefore present a certain
hazard as symptomless carriers
of the disease.
* *
Although sound, uninjured
potato seed pieces very seldom
give rise to the bacterial disease
blackleg, studies by the Science
Service Laboratory, Canada De-
partment of Agriculture, show a
considerable reduction in the
incidence of blackleg when
whole tubers are planted in
place of the 'usual cut seed
pieces. In these tests, tubers in-
oculated with the organisms and
planted whole, produced no di-
seased plants. On the other
hand, seed pieces from inocu-
lated tubers produced a 20 per
cent infection. When the indi-
vidual seed pieces were inocu-
lated arid planted the infection
increased to almost 30 per cent.
*
In areas where potato black-
leg is a constant problem, the
disinfection of seed pieces in-
volving a ten minute soak in
streptomycin sulphate is recom-
mended. Seed treatment tests at
Charlottetown also indicate that
acid mercuric chloride and a
mixture of Semesan Bel and the
anti -biotic Agristrep will give
reasonably good results.
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If possible, potatoes should
not be planted in fields that are
low and wet during the early
part of the season and crop ro-
tation should be practised. Pro-
per •disposal of decaying tubers
and cull piles will greatly re-
duce the possibility of blackleg
spread by the seed corn maggot.
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The blackleg organism sur-
vives from year to year in the
soil, or in infected seed pieces.
The organism enters the stem
from the seed piece and causes
a softening and blackening of
the lower portions of the stem.
The branches become more up-
right than normal, and the shoot
becomes pale and yellowish. The
newly formed tubers may be
invaded by the organism, caus-
ing a soft rot of the central por-
tions of the tuber starting at the
stem end.
, Many certified seed growers
are now planting small, whole
seed, but seed' of this size is
scarce.
Metric Measure
Japan has added itself to the
list of countries which gradu-
ally, or more so, are pushing
the use of the metric system of
weights and measures as against
English yards, quarts, a n d
pounds.
In the Orient the need for
uniformity is extreme. Custom
employs a mixture of Chinese,
Japanese, Korean, or Hindu
units as well as English and
metric.
It metric measure does eventu-
ally displace traditional English
units a number of familiar say-
ings will have to be revised —
or read as children now read
of cubits and farthings. ]For in-
stance, "An ounce of prevention
is worth a pound of cure" will
become rather ponderous if
translated into 28.35 and 453.60
grams. And 2.4 kilometers will
hardly fit the poetic meter for
"Half a league onwardl"
Of course, there always has
been a wide variety of measures.
Such as that of the Southern
"mammy" who tried to describe
how much molasses she used in
her gingerbread. Mentally lis-
tening to the gurgle of syrup
!from the jug, she reckoned" it
would be "about two gullollops
an' a drip." The engineer deal-
ing with fuel injection into an
internal combustion engine at
4,500 r.p.m. doubtless will prefer
to deal with ten -thousandths (or
less) of a cubic millimeter at 20
degrees centigrade. — From The
Christian Science Monitor.
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
UNDAYSCI1001
LESSON
By Rev. ft,13archly Warren
B.A., HD.
Organization of the Church
Romans 12:3-8; 1 Timothy 3:1-10
Memory Selection: •Take heed
therefore unto yourselves, and
to all the flock, over which the
Holy Ghost hath made you over-
seers, to feed the church of God
which he bath purchased with
his own blood. Acts 2028.
All genuine Christians are one
body in Christ and every one
members one of another. This is
an intimate relation. Each at
us has different gifts and hence
different functions in the church
of Jesus Christ. It is important
that we exercise to the full our
God-given gifts to the building
of the body of Christ. We must
maintain that beautiful oneness
of spirit with God's children re-
gardless of their colour, race or
religion denomination.
Professed Christians belong to
many different denominationt
with different patterns of or-
ganization, We must not confuse
membership in the body of
Christ with membership in a
denomination. We may belong
to a church and not belong te
Christ. Ananias and Sapphira be-
longed to the church but were
really hypocrites. There are still
many hypocrites but that is no
reason why we should not asso-
ciate ourselves with a church.
In the beginning of the church
the organization was closely pat-
terned after the synagogue, each
of which had its elders. But the
choosing of deacons was some-
thing new and was done to meet
a need that arose. There was
no divine command involved, but
the use of common sense,
In the first century while each
church had its elders, frequently
one would stand out in promin-
ence above the rest. We find this
in the church at Jerusalem when
Paul reached that city at the
close of his third tour. We read:
"Paul went in with us unte
James; and all the elders werif
present." (Acts 21:18), jams,
of outstanding personality, • was
their leader. Later Paul told
Titus to appoint elders.
Paul sets forth a high stand-
ard for leaders in the church.
They must be proven Christians
before becoming deacons or
overseers in the church. More
men with these qualifications et
godliness and leadership are
needed today.
Handkerchiefs decorated with
road safety slogans are to be
given youngsters, aged 5 to
in a London, Eng. suburb, in oak
effort to reduce road accidents.
Where There's A
Living proof that stick-to-it-
iveness pays off is Edward
Emeigh, 31, of New Alexan-
dria, He wanted to be a truck
driver, but standing only four
feet, two inches, and weighing
101 pounds, the odds seemed
to be against him. However,
with the assistance of Walter
Ramaley, owner of an equip-
ment and supply company in
his home town, Ed set out to
overcome his difficulties. He
own so that he could drive one
added a few refinements of his
of the trucks — a mammoth 24 -
ton concrete mixer. On the job
he finds his short stature is no
handicap in climbing over the
truck to inspect the concrete
mixer. He's been driving for
several years now, and has a
perfect safety record.
Will There's
A Way
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Ed uses power steering, pillow, tool box and elongated pedals,
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Big climb for little kfilow. Driving is pleasure — either in truck or his own automobile.
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