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The Seaforth News, 1958-03-06, Page 3• Don't Want Britain. To Get Credits (Editorial Note: What follows, strangely enough, is not from a British, Canadian or any other Commonwealth Nation paper. It ,appeared on the front page of The Christian Selene° Monitor, published in Boston, which in our opinion - gives it all the more force.) ZETA is a rather remarkable piece of machinery - remark- able primarily because within it half the temperature of the sun can be achieved. ZETA is also remarkable as a case example of a problem in alliance relations which is going to have to be resolved, or at least reduced substantially,' if the Western alliance is going to be held together.. The story behind the problem - and ZETA' - goes like this: In the early postwar years nuclear theorists in the United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain all - almost simultane- ously conceived the abstract idea of insulating a circular elec- tronic spark by a magnetized blanket of gas. This makes the temperature of nuclear fusion controllable. Otherwise any container would be melted by the heat, which has already reached half sun tem- perature and must go to roughly 10 times the temperature in the center of the sun if the in- exhaustible supply of sea water is to become available as a fuel, But only the British succeeded elmest at once in producing a physical machine which applied the theory in practice. In 1956, when nuclear exchanges between Britain and the United States were resumed, Harwell had its third thermonuclear assembly in operation and had started build- ing ZETA - the fourth and larg- est in the series. No such assem- bly existed in the United States at all. Announcement of the process was held up at the irate by mutu- al agreement because of the pos- STOOPING STONE Bent with age, a granite tombstone sags against a wall after it was re- placed at the St. Dominic ceme- tery in Breese, Ill. Workers at the cemetery said that condi- tion, which is very rare, came about because one side of the monument was exposed to sun- shine while the other remained in constant shade. sibility that the Soviets were also.. behind Harwell. But when published works by Soviet physi- cists indicated that there was no longerany secret to hold back, the question of declassification of the existence of an operating as- sembly arose. It took many monthsto conn- `plete the process of declassifica- tion leading to this week's joint announcements of progress to- ward the harnessing of fusion. It is contended in Washington that the delay was in no way due to jealousy and : British physicists, staunchly support this contention in all their public. statements. However, the effect of the delay is to prevent Britain from getting any credit for the firsts it has achieved...., It was first in perfecting the machinery - and the United States equivalent was copied from it. It was first in reaching a measured half sun temperature, but the Washington announce- ment claims a slightly higher temperature which, however, is only "estimated." The only British first which ?merges clearly from comparison of the two announcements is in Britain's ability to keep the pro- cess stable. The United States record is stated to be a "few millionths of a second." The British have maintained that theirs is "five - thousandths of a second," But what, layman is going to be im- pressed by the difference be- tween thousandths and millionths of seconds? Had Washington wanted to be really generous toward its ally, it would have allowed the British to announce their achievement first and then quietly announced that it had successfully copied ZETA and was in the process of building a larger -than -ZETA as- sembly. Such a method of hand- ling would have produced a warm glow of pride in a country which has had a long series of bitter and tragic disappointments. during the past decade. Instead, the appearance is pro- duced of a jealous attempt to belittle those successes Britain has had. How many people know that Britain pioneered radar, nuclear weapons, the jet engine, and the harnessing slid thermonuclear energy? The tidal wave of distrust of Secretary of State John Foster; ' Dulles which has swept Europe' - particularly Britain - is a manifestation of something far deeper and more fundamental than any reasoned analysis of actual Dulles policies. Eighty-three per cent of Brit- ish voters in a Daily Express poll favored a summit confer- ence with the U.S.S.R., not real- ly because Mr. Dulles is against it -their own Foreign Office is just as much against it -but be- cause of a widespread 'feeling that Washington is unfair in its attitude t its ally. Washington has scored enough first of its own to be able to afford the generosity of granting credit to an ally that achieves some remarkable firsts, Such action would go a long way toward reducing the pres- ent sense of being belittled. It could dissolve the present wave of resistance to United States missile bases in Britain. It might head off the summit con- ference -even at this late hour. Generosity can pay big divi- dends. It doesn't really cost anything. It could be a better good -will ambassador than any propaganda. It seems to be in short supply in Washington just now, PAY NO ATTENTION "I see that tips are forbidden here, waiter," said the stern- faced dinner. Bless you, sir,' so were apples in the Garden o' Eden." CROSSWORD PUZZLE A C'I:OSS DOWN 1. Peculiar 3, Jewels 4. Fairy 2. Ship's crane 7. Fragment S. Impel 15. Nominal 4, Shield value 5. Parcel ref 38. Sticky stu7t gromnd 14, in that place 6. Lobby 30. (ireedlnesa 37. Picture stand 18. Resides 19, Puff up 2.1. Stalls 22. Re by earrlagr 23, Knoell 26. Shoshonean 12 15 7. Cooking 29, Holilo bark vessels 30. 'Tanith resort & Informal 21. Tablet conversation 22, t..aun i •y 0, Plants again machine- ' 10. Exist 30. Kind of 1 a 11. Fencing sin I:e 40. Lift 16. dlodest 41. Crane ro1•t b and sober 42,. Compound 20. Room for ether storing -` 44. Relieve provisions 45. Seize tightly 22. Caressed 411, Ilatel 24, Legal artien 47. Instrumental 23, Indefinite duet amount 47 Old musion! 27. (Irnale utile 4 5 6 16 Indian 29 Rlunh 70. Ila ray 81 Stylish 84. Father or mother 55- Stlperledlre ending 86. [Ina11e. 87. Burn • 88. Amer. lake 43, Requires 44. flreen herbage 40.. VtaionarY 48, I:eep at it thing 80. At tetldant on ale sick 51. Rib -lima( Oriest 57Listilute salt 50. 10011., n•ed,by 4ret11 44.:bore sleep . 50..Always (von lr.) 18 1 7 9 10 IA 17 20 21 27 . Y;I_ 25 25 24 26 27 28 29 • 31 37 33 34 35 36 37 39 Min 42 40 41 43 44 47 80 53 1 45 49 51 52 54 2-6 55 Answer eiuewl ere on this page, HUNTING A HOME -Sniffing around for a new master at the Animal Protective League is three-year-old Sheba, purebred Great Dane. She wants prospective owners to know that she's house-trained and gentle with children, despite her size, Sheba and 200 more dogs,'rate, kittens and puppies are being cared for by the league. Two avenues of stored -grain. insect control are open to farm- ers and their choice should be influenced to a large extent by the condition of the grain. F. L. Watters, Head of the Stored Products Insect Laboratory, says fumigants will control stored -grain pests provided the grain has not become spoiled to the point where gas cannot pen- etrate effectively. If grain, . ,,through heating and the accum- tiulation of moisture, is an excep-` tionally bad condition, the grain should be moved to a new loca- tion to stop further damage, Most of the insects can be re- moved if the grain is cleaned during transfer. * * * If the transfer method of con- trol is used, crusts of surface grain that have heated and spoiled, should be taken out and destroyed at the beginning of the operation. The remainder of the grain should then be cleaned and moved to a clean weatherproof granary. If no granary is available the grain should be loaded into temporary 'outside storage bins. A snow fence lined With paper is an inexpensive type of storage, During the winter, small bulks of grain stored in the open, cool rapidly to temperatures at which most insects die or become in- active. * * * When fumigants are used for insect control in cool grain, dos- age rates must be increased be- cause they are less effective when grain temperatures drgp below about 50 degrees F. Mr. Watters says fumigants should be applied only to grain stored in soundly constructed buildings. otherwise the poisonous gas will escape before it penetrates the grain. * * * According to Mr. Watters, the safest way to apply fumigant is to spray it evenly over the grain surface from a doorway or ventilator, A stirrup or power - operated pump may be used for this purpose, he says, the object being to apply it as quickly as possible. The fumigant should be applied by two mon equipped with gas masks. Dust masks give, absolutely no protection from the poisonous gas, * * * Dr. K. F. Wells, Veterinary Director General for the Canada Department of Agriculture, told the Dairy Farmers Association at their annual convention re- cently, that sound herd man- agement is one of the greatest single factors affecting the pro- duction of high quality milk This factor, he said, includes environment, handling and feed- ing, and if the problems involved are efficiently dealt with, a herd should remain relatively heal- thy, or at least free from the more, common diseases detri- mental to milk production, * * * In commenting on some of the most important livestock di- seases and their control, Dr. Wells pointed out that a tuber- culosis eradication program was started. in Canada in 1922 and *said that the majority of areas in Canada have now been accred- ited with less than 0,2 per cent infection. In the very near fu- ture, he said, Canada, for all practical purposes should be free from bovine tuberculosis. * * * Turning to brucellosis, Dr Wells told the dairymen that this disease like many others has been prevalent in Canada for many years. The evolution of control, he said, has progres- sed slowly but has finally reach- ed the point where an eradica- tion program ha been initiated similar to the one used in the eradication of tuberoulosis. "It is hoped that this program will eliminate another of the bar- riers to sound economical pro- duction of high quality livestock and livestock products." * * * Dr. Wells emphasized the fact that the use of medicinal con- trol Of biologicaltests are not in themselves the final answer to quality milk production. Real success lies, he said, in the un- derstanding and application of sound husbandry disease control principles. These, he pointed out, cannot be bought and laid down on the farm, but rather require constant work, constant vigilance and constant determi- nation by milk producers, * * * Roughage in the form of sil- age or hay can be fed with equal success to beef calves be-, ing wintered for growth. W. A. Jordan of the Central Experi- mental Farm says corn silage or grass silage is equally suit- able and the choice between these roughages should be gov- erned largely by which one the farmer can produce best and most economically in his farm- ing program, A. 1. At the Central Experimental Farm fall -weaned calves which received either grass silage or corn silage to appetite, along with 4 pounds of mixed legume and grass hay and 2 pounds of meal daily, did equally well. Both rations produced an aver- age daily gain of 8 pounds. Ap- proximately 80 per cent of the dry matter consumed was sup- plied by the roughage. * The Lennoxville' Experimental Farm reported similar gains when rations of mixed legume and grass hay, grass silage, and meal; or hay and meal were fed to beet calves. They also found that grass silage and rneal pro- duced a slightly higher gain, indicating that good quality grass silage can be the sole roughage when fed with a small amount of meal. The gains made by the calves in these various tests were very satisfactory for growth and de- velopment. and, in all cases, were obtained by making max - mum use of roughage and mini- mum use of grain. Einstein Looked Like His Picture Like nearly everyone else, I suppose, I was more than eager to see and talk with Professor Einstein, for if ever a man truly deserved a place on anybody's list of the world's most distin- guished citizens, it was he . , . It may have been partly vani- ty (a desire to open a conver- sation with, "Oh, yes, As I was saying to Professor Einstein the other day-") that made me pur- sue this interview doggedly, I couldn't possibly imagine my saying anything interesting enough to get this man to listen; and if he did listen and reply, I was just as sure I wouldn't be able to interpret his answer, We set the time to March 5, 1952, at 4 p.m. A few minutes before the hour, my wife and I drove up to the modest cottage at 112 Mercer Street in Prince ton, My wife came with me be- cause, a soon as she heard I had a definite date with Profes- sor Einstein, she laid down the law.. , By then, I should have been quite calm about meeting im- portant people, but I admit that when I rang the Porfessor's door- bell my heart was pounding wildly, and my throat was so dry and constricted I could hard- ly speak. My wife, an interior ,decorator, carrying a gift of brigtly colored fabric, which she knew the Professor enjoyed, fol- lowed close behind , The front door led into a tiny vestibule, through which we took one short step to enter a small living room that looked as though it had been plucked from the Europe of a century or two ago. The furnishings were scant - a table, covered with a non descript crocheted cloth that hung so low it touched the bare floor, was in the center; scat- tered here and there were two or three chairs,,one of which was an old-fahsioned German rocker. An unlit fireplace on one side made the ruthlessly austere room seem almost colder, although a few good, cheerful oils hanging on one wall tried hard to create a slight impression of warmth .. . We had no chance to look around, because after a moment or two the Professor ... in bed- room slippers, padded softly down the narrow steps leading from his second -story study to greet us. He was so fragile he seemed almost like porcelain , . , His white, flowing hair was m wild disarray, and he appeared so much like the mental drawing I'd made of him that I could hardly restrain myself from blurting out stupidly, "Why, Pro- fessor, you look just like your pictures!" -From "The Aarons- burg Story," by Arthur H. Lewis. Human beings are growing taller but they're still up to their necks in trouble. Off OOJ LESSON By Rev. R. Barclay Warren B.A., B.D.., One in Christ Ephesians 4: 1-7, 11-16. Memory Selection: He is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the mid- dle wall of partition between us. Ephesians 2:14. It refreshing to turn from the apparent rivalries frequently present between denominations. to consider the oneness of the members of the body of Christ. We don't think that denomina- tionalisns is necessarily bad. In the history of the church some important phases of truth have been saved from dropping into comparative obscurity by groups of people who ultimately form- ed a new denomination. Unfor- tunately, not always have new denominations been raised up for the preservation of truth but to satisfy the ego of some strong individual. In our loyal- ty to the denomination of our choice (or more frequently, the denomination of our parents) we must not forget the oneness of those who are in Christ Jesus. I have been privileged to be guest speaker at union services sponsored by ministerial associ- ations during the Week of Pray- er and Holy Week. These occa- sions have been stimulating and refreshing. I have •noted that where fellowship among the ministers is at its best, the meet- ings are most successful. The shepherds set the example far the flocks. We cannot and need not abolish denominationalism but we must endeavour to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. We can all learn some th'ngs from others. If we think we are more spiritual than our brethren then we ought to be more humble and eager to help, Before Billy Graham agree* to hold a campaign in any city he insists that the invitation be extended by a high percentage of the clergy and that they ars prepared to work together fox its success. He knows that 1i. this attitude is present among the clergy it will develop among the laity. Spiritual unity is more evident among missionaries. Is it be- cause they are more spiritual? Is it because that in the pres- ence of heathendom they place more emphasis in the central truths of Christianity and less on denominational differences! Ip any case, let us remembeic that if we are to work effec- tually in the body of Christ, we must not only honour the Head but we must work with the other members of the body. The body grows by love manifest among the members. CAREFUL BUYER "I want to buy a television set on the instalment plan," said a customer in a radio shop. "Certainly," replied the dealer, "Can you give us a reference?" "Well," he replied, "the lase dealer will tell you there wasn't a scratch on the set when he took it. back." Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking THIS IS SUMMER? -That it is, at the Little Ame rico ,tation in the Anturctic. Naval ac ;ts take time off from studies being made in furtherance of International Geophysical Year re- search to dig down to the roofs of their buried 9ualters to prevent the run-off of melted snow from leaking into their dwellings.