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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-04-17, Page 3Give Delinquents A Calf To Raise! Somebody used to tell about a novelist who was asked by a doting mother what her boy should, study .in school to make him a writer. He said, "Teach him to read Homer in Greek!" The mother, of course, backed away thinking she'd been given a flippant answer to a serious question, but the novelist sun - ply felt the boy would accumu- late certain judgments and per- • ceptions along the way until Greek would be merely the ex- cuse for general equipment. I think it was a good answer, al- though not the only one. So, I was thinking about these wayward boys who are causing the ruckus in the city schools, and I would like to suggest they be taken out into the country somewhere and given a calf to raise. The calf would be an ex- cellent probation officer, and during his growing up would inculcate certain virtues. Calves come in two styles- bull calves and heifer calves. The latter led to Eph Prout's old remark that "a heifer calf is better'n none at all," to which he added, "but a bull calf is worse." In the actual raising, it doesn't make ,much difference, although a heifer calf who shows a straight back, thin tail bone, and other optimistic traits will become a permanent member of the herd and you favour her somewhat. The veal calf, whose tenure is short is another thing. There are various times in a boy's life when he measures up and advances. When he could htand in a bushel measure and old two bushels of meal he was \supposed to be a man. When he horse -rake big enough to leave t h e and build load he was that much ahead of the time he could just rake; and when he could come down off the rack and pitch on, he was really get- ting someyvhere. All these moments were im- portant, but none was any more important than the day his fa- ther said, "Well, Son, there's a likely - looking crittur, how'd you like to raise him up?" If in later years, some board of directors should say, "How would you like to be president of the company?" it could scarce= ly mean more, A calf to raise! A fellow was really growing up! A fractious high-school stu- dent who is yanked from his de- linquency to nurse -maid a bull .c if wit at once be amazed at reD OS CANCER "CURE"? - Major eventual breakthroughs envis- ioned by scientists may lead to better understanding of the nature of cancer, and may open paths to drug cures and point the way to widespread pre- • vention of cancer through im- munization. So says Dr. Leroy E. Burney, U.S. surgeon general and head of the public health service. He cautions that the ultimate cure of cancer will not be found overnight. the animal's precocity. A newly arrived calf doesn't waste time languishing and being waited upon. He takes over the com- plete operation of the world, and bases his whole career on food. He can at once outrun the wind, outpull the tide, and outmaneu- ver a jackrabbit. A boy, pitting bull strength against bull strength; soon finds he is in second place. By the time a bull calf has jerked him the length of a tie-up he will decide to exercise cunning and strategy. He should begin to see why delinquency is unapplaud- ed. Standing on one end of a rope, the bull holding the other, and both boyand bull depicting obstinacy with their eyes bulg- ing like cucumbers, will soon strike the boy as a poor way to pass the time. The boy will see that brains are superior to force. The boy will thus take a turn of the rope around a stanchion, which will make the bull calf do a flop -up, and after two or three such manipulations the bull calf will tend toward docility. The boy will also learn to grip the bull calf by the nose and steer him, and will thus learn what a bull's nose feels like in the gray quiet of a country morn when the question of who's boss is in dis- pute. One morning the bull calf stands for you and you have won a great decision. A boy with a new bull calf is better than a circus act. The family usually assembles to watch, and laughs and carries on as if it was funny. When you start for the mother cow with your calf, and wind up by being slapped against the wall until all the harnesses fall off their pegs, the hilarity of your rela- tives seems unkind - but it does determine you to avoid such awkwardness the next time. A purpose is inculcated, and you greatly enjoy that pleasant morning when they come to laugh, but see you walk slowly down the barn, your calf will- ing and clever at your side and the halter rope loose and dangl- ing. This is a tremendous mo- ment. Teaching a calf, next, to drink from a pail is exciting. You put some warm skimmed milk in a bucket, stir in a handful of calf meal, and hope for the best. A call doesn't know what a bucket Is, so you put two fingers in his mouth and deceive him. Gently you lower your fingers into the warm, glutinous mess, and if he keeps sucking and gets a taste you may wean him in- stantly, More Often he will blow, which throws milk and meal up your sleeve under your armpit, and makes you feel sticky. Then he will slat his head, which 'louses the interior of the barn until the beams drip. You wouldn't believe one quart of warm milk could make such a loess. Then you go to the house and mix up soma more. Weaning a calf often means weeks of living in an atmosphere of warm milk and wet mash, and teaches patience. Your overalls will dry in the shed while you're ni school and flakes of calf meal will drop off them until the floor is brown. But one day you've won again, and the calf eats from a pail, even chews some hay, and there is much satisfaction when Father ob- serves, "You're getting some heft onto him, no doubt about it!" This is success! It's fun to go to the barn slid see how he's coming. You conte in from school -that is, you used to - and change into your barn clothes, and rush out. He knows you, of course, and runs his snout up your chest, and you scratch his ears or rub the little buttons where his horns are coming. Then when you get old- er you think back on all the things he taught you, and you think maybe more boys ought to raise a calf. - by John Gould in The Christian Science Moni- tor. CROSSWORD PUZZLE Amoss 1, Tax 6 Cribbage score 8 147nd of dog 12 11 .11an coins 13 Arctic -ex- plorer . 14 A ineriean educator 15. Sweeten! 1(t flagle l7 Towardshelter 78. Obscure 28 water-Inelte:1 land 22- Ilerrnil 24. Companion 27 Plfferent 31 Town In Ohlo 32.Mnre raven' 84. ("bailee 35. Salt dia- meters 87. Dutch. scholar 39. 1,1gatnre 41. Put in a new inner covering 44. Croner house 48. Creeily 49, Contend 51 Stone god. 52. Prod 53.13e wrong, 54. 1 Arks up 66. Appear 50. 1 ng'nl matter 57, lance port In P8.. T8OWN 1. rang. D. Ha Wailan 30, Oriental dance commander 10. 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It means that only qualified mechanics can poke into the car's inner workings. 11JLFAIM FRONT wawa While some spokesmen are be- wailing the "disappearance" Of the family farm, others are stout- ly insisting that the family farm is holding its own in the chang- ing economy. Which is true? The discussion of this question will be better understood if the term "family farm" is defined. A composite definition would describe the family farm as one in which the family depends on the farm for most of its income, carries the management respon- sibility, and does the work, ex- cept for occasional hired help at peak periods. Many such farms are included in the U.S. Department of Ag- riculture's classification of com- mercial farms, whose sales range annually from $1,200 to $25,000 or more. Not all commercial - farms are family farms, but ob- viously, a large farm family can swing a big operation. While family farms have been increasing in size ever since the tractor replaced the mule, they have been decreasing in number, although it is reported that they are remaining in the same pro- portion to the whole taros popu- lation. The Department of Agriculture estimates that 4,855,800 farms were in operation during 1957 - a 2.3 per cent decrease from 1956, or 17 per cent under 10 years earlier, representing the loss of a million farms in a dec- ade. s • M To those nostalgically inclin- ed, these statistics have over- tones of sadness. They embrace some individual failures and tragedies. Yet it is the steady trek of workers away from the farms into industry that has made possible the tremendous output of modern conveniences that have transformed Ameri- can living' habits - including those of farm families. Everyone seems in agreement that the family farm -epitomiz- ing the wholesome environment which Americans like to feel nurtures men qualified to be- come Presidents of the nation - must somehow retain its iden- tity in society. But can it do this? "The trend toward larger commercial farms has been viewed with apprehension by many who fear its effect on the family farm structure," states an Agriculture Departli'ent re- port on "Family, Farms in a Changing Economy." "In creases in farm size are taken by some persons to for - bode an increase in the use of hired labor in farming and an associated increase in a farm population without equity in farm ownership or management decisions. This would conflict with long -held social values of the American people, who re- gard the family farm as one of the bulwarks of a stable and prosperous rural economy." Actually, the report shows, en- largement of a farming opera- tion nowadays is usually ac- companied by mechanization which sometimes enables a fam- ily, that formerly had to hire labor, to handle the work them- selves -thereby earning classifi- cation as a family' farm, states a writer in The Christian Sci- ence Monitor. In any case, economists hold that the tide of technology that has revolutionized American farming ,overnight cannot be. stemmed. One might as well have tried to oppose the earlier transfer of families away from owning their hon=es in sinal! towns to apartment living in crowded cities, on the grounds that living in one's own house close to the out-of-doors held social values that families -and the nation -could ill afford to give up. * * • The position of small family farms today in some ways is like that of small businesses which have sometimes had to struggle to keep their footing during the era in which industries have grown into giants and given the little fellow some rough elbow- ing. Yet despite problems, many have survived and prospered. Most observers expect that fam- ily farms will, too. But it will not be the family farm of 30 years ago. 4. • N. And some that remain family farms in character may lose that classification by definition. Some family farmers are choosing to keep their operations small, and are supplementing their income by taking off -the -farm jobs in nearby industries. These, by of- flgial classification, become "Part-time" farmers. Each farm family is having to work out for itself the plana that best solve its own problems and provide the income it needs. • e * The farmer's compelling urge for income comparable to that of other citizens, stems in part from the delightful taste of prosperity he had during World War II, With incomes zooming then, many fanners enjoyed for the first time luxuries and con- veniences which had become commonplace to urban dwellers. Farmers have, in fact, im- proved their material standards of living as fast as they have improved their farming tech- niques. In 1956, reports the De- partment of Agriculture, almost all farm families had electricity and mechanical refrigeration in their homes, two-thirds had houses with running water, half had telephones and television sets, two-fifths had home freez- Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 0101 ©©©° 'I2 1 1EJ ©�©� ©©❑ '.©®ArJ gmw ©©um a ©wouvumw004© i liaN©E . gmiziLI 0©Q •0052©w gue u Eurimpei "' s iF1:111219 IDOII IL J J G7Iffi'�EI©H [W L2 ©©E1© ®©€1 ©®©0 ©©©L ®�Q3IJLII0III1 rb1Ce]©E:r"�7©B , f9S©® era, and three-fourths owned automobiles. , • * • To maintain the income that will assure continuance Of these' things that so quickly became necessities; many farmers aro having to make the adjustments already indicated. These adjust- ments are counted as one small piece of the whole great pat- tern of progress that moves people forward in the continu- ing effort to better their lot. Such progress is not without its, pangs. Sometimes it comes hard, in terms of human values and the human displacements involved. But it appears to be inevitable.. Publicity Stunts Despite a century of gastro- nomic renown, a famed Paris restaurant was no match for the twenty -year-old gourmet w h o selected a splendid three-hour meal, determined that his con- noisseur's choice - and the se- quel - should get his name in the headlines. With the prettiest girl he could find, he ordered wines and dishes with superb discrimination. Two dozen snails were followed by three lobsters a I'Imperiale, three chickens and flaming crepe suzettes. Then he politely con- fessed he couldn't pay. "Give me a chance to make money to play," he begged e magistrate. "I'm expecting a for- tune from a gramophone record." And all Paris laughed, for Fern- dy Poulenc was drawing atten- tion to a new disc he had re- corded, which might otherwise have been lost among the scores of new issues. Something similar happened when handsome Bob Lewis, baker's roundsman, was found stowed 'away aboard Mayflower II. A bucket of pig swill and a tub of water followed him over the side. But maybe it was worth it, for that evening baker Bob was singing on TV. You can't always tell where fame will follow. In France a theatrical agent discovered a priest strumming a guitar in Dijon cafes, accompanying his own hymns and spirituals. The agent persuaded him to maks a record of "Lord, my friend," and it became an instant suc- cess. Th. sequel was that when Father Aim4 Duval, the singing priest, appeared at a Paris thea- tre• excited teenagers stormed the doors and filled 5,000 seats. The Father's records sell like hot cakes. His earnings are in the top class. Yet he still feeds frugally on fruit and crusts and keeps not a penny for himself. He has taken a vow of pov- erty and all his earnings go to his religious order which in turn passes the cash on to the poor. Obey the traffic signs- they are placed there for YOUR SAFETY. NRAYSQI001 SON By Rev. 1t. B. Warren, B.A., i1.161. God's People in Bondage Exodus 1:7-22' Memory Selectlo!a: Tho IL.a' Le on my side; I will not foam what can man do unto me? -- Psalm 118:6. The seventy souls of Jacob'so family which went down into Egypt in the days of Joseph had become a multitude. The Shep- herd kings who had ruled Egypt in Joseph's day were not real! Egyptians •but invaders from Asia with their capital in the north east part of the Delta. They were expelled about 1500 B.C. by a native Egyptian, the; first king of the 18th dynasty,. This new line of kings tried to curb the growth of the Israelite but every attempt failed. Harsh taskmasters forced the Israelite* to bear heavy burdens in build- ing two treasure cities for Pharaoh. "But the more they af- flicted dflicted them, the more they mul- tiplied and grew." The midwives of the Hebrew women were bidden to kill the male children, That failed because the hardy Hebrew women were delivered of their children before the mid- wives arrived. Finally, in des- peration, Pharaoh charged his people, saying, "Every son that is born , ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive," But one of these very male children, con- cealed in the home for three months by his parents and then put in a little ark in the flags by the river's brink, was destined to be found by the Tyrant's daughter, raised and educated in the Egyptian court, and later„ under God, to lead his people out of their bondage in triumph over the Egyptians. Of him it is written, "And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face, in all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all hie servants, and to all his lar and in all that mighty land, and in all the great terror whicoi Mose; showed in the sight all Israel," Deuteronomy 34:18- 12, Men who defy God and Hip laws of truth and right always; lose. Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin have had their little day. They have left their trail of blood but have finally goner down in shame. The path of the Christian le not always strewn with roses. Neither was the path of our Sa- viour. Why should we complaint Let us bear our cross and fol- low Him. We shall triumph al- ways when we are on Godes side. ATTENTION -GETTER -This elaborate shoe, fashionable in 1680, gets a lot of attention in Offenbach, Germany. Part of the collection in the town's show museum, it's made of several slices of leather glued together and nailed to the shoe. Well, of course, they're looking at the shoe! SERVICE RIVALRY -An alert Frankfort Morning Pentagon attempts to dispel charges of inter embarrassing example in these 'billboards at Navy poster had been put up by mistake, ex picture appeared in ,the newspaper, the Nav oneto stop the "competition" between the s T ' m e s photographer, conscious of current service rivalry, found an unintended and an intersection near that city. Ironically, the plainest the billboard owner. The day the y advertisement was replaced by o commercial ervices-and a flood of kidding telephone calls.