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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-04-24, Page 5Teachers And Tooth Wigglers The other morning I took time off to visit school, something we taxpayers are told we ought to do, and my schoolteacher friend said, "I don't know why it is, but every time I schedule as- sembly the men come to fix the roof." It thus befell we spoke of such matters, and I suggested he shunt his academic duties down a 'sidetrack long enough to write a readable article on what teachers put up with. teaching -but fOr enforced tooth watching. But I have never seen this phase of public education pre- sented as a reason for higher wages. They tell me about cost - of -living indices, summer -school expenses, papers to correct at ' home, and all such as that -but never do they dwell on thepa- tience, endurance, and stamina of the woman who sits, day in and day out, trying to get Mis- souri bounded on the West, and sees no future beyond watching a roomful of tykes wiggling their front teeth. I will personally speak in favor of a mill increase in taxes any time an educator gives me this argument, skip- ping for the time being all the other great arguments so ad- mired. "This could be important. For long years now the great homo- genized educational system has been belaboring various points, • o doubt with rectitude, and we taxpayers have been subjected to great arguments designed to enlist our sympathy and sup- port. We hear how the poor teacher studies herself into a finished product, lingering long hours with the midnight oil, preparing herself in privation and want to be underpaid. This logic, truthfully, doesn't impress me, for 2 always get fO thinking that these poor crea- tures didn't labor at their tasks any more than I did, and that their security on the public pay- roll is an advantage I've never enjoyed. True, some years I may have salted down more cu- cunebers than they did, but most- ly that is because I elected my way and they theirs. You can't blame me for that. I don't wish to leave this thought unroundod, however, and am touching it in passing only to get at the next point. The next point is that I would not be a schoolmarm for any- thing, because I wouldn't like 21, and nobody has ever approached` me on behalf of education with telling arguments on my own feelings. Nobody has ever given me a loud pitch about the other things teachers put up with. For instance, why doesn't some school superintendent, after in- creased appropriations, get up .in Town Meeting and ask the tax- payers how they'd like to sit all day in front of 35 youngsters who are wiggling their loose teeth? I believe all teachers who teach those grades along in that period of juvenile development are underpaid. I think every one of them, from East to West, ought to get four or five times as much money, plus fringe benefits, vacation expenses, every other year off with pay, and au old -age pension which will let them live in opulence and glory. They ought to get this whether they're any good or not -not for L A N D HOI - Navy Quarter master Charles Lyons might be looking at an uncharted land as he enthusiastically sticks his head through a porthole of the USNS Towle. Well, he's spot- ted potted Brooklyn, his home, which must have looked very good after service in the Antarctic. The workmen who carie to fix the roof is a similar thing, really. Just as the bell rings to summon the scholars to the assembly we saw some men ascend a ladder outside the windows. As the pre - gram started, commencing with a violin solo, there was a great banging above and somebody shouted, "Hey, Charlie, push it this way a foot!" The little girl played on, strok- ing her fiddle with youthful care as if she were frugally trying t0 avoid wearing out the strings, and the roofers whanged on the building with flailing hammers.. Integument" contr actor s and music have little in cOmmon, un- less you abuse the definition of counterpoint, Then came the little boy 'who had memorized a declamation, and he thrust Ms chin into his chest and began. While he ex- emplified the inculcations .of hire voice teacher the following col- loquy was heard from above: "Joe, bring up a twallyhist!" "What's that, Hank?" "I say, bring up a polterstarnl" "They's one up there," "I want a big one." "Okay!" "0, never mind -I got one!" My schoolteacher friend look- ed drawn and tired. He had gone to college and accoutered his stature with degrees. He had dedicated himself to culture and instruction. He was up early in the morning and stayed late for PTA. No taxpayer, urged to aid him in his financial paucity, was ever told that the schoolhouse roof is fixed regularly on as- sembly day. My friend said the roof wasn't as bad as the furnace repairs on music day. While the youth- ful musicians master their in- struments, and work up gradual- ly to a concert number, the ' plumbers work in the pickle plants and shoe shops. But when Mendelsshon's Spring Sone is Of age and ready for rendition, then come the furnace repairmen and. pound on the pipes. Once, he said, they got a fine movie on the cocoa industry, and just as the show started, the power failed. Electrictians had come after long last and had pulled the main switch while they worked. So it goes, he said. So I suggetsed to my friend that he compose himself with as much relaxation as a man in his job could muster, and sit down to tell the great American taxpayer what it's really like to be a schoolteacher - over and over above the commoner argu- ments already heard so often. He said he thought this was an excellent idea, and as soon as the plasterers got through in his office he would undertake it. So if you ever read such a piece anywhere, you'll know how the idea started. 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Goodwillie, told the On- tario Concentrated Milk Produ- cers at their annual meeting that there is little doubt what the price situation for concentrated milk products in Canada would be today if import controls were not in effect. World prices, he said, are just about half of those prevailing in Canada. • e • The concentrated milk indus- try is now well on its way to- wards the three-quarter billion pound production target. The big increase occurred in the by- products which were up 33 per cent, however, the whole milk products also showed a • 5 per cent increase. With more milk expected to be produced this year plus increased facilities for processing this milk, Mr. Gogd- willie said it is very likely that production will once again be at record levels. * * * According to latest Informa- tion there will be at least four- teen new plants in Canada mak- ing powdered milk for human consumption in 1958. Three of these are spray and eleven roller. Five are in Ontario. one in Mani- toba and eight in Quebec. In ad- dition, some eleven plants have installed, or are in the process of installing additional equipment with the view to handling larger quantities of milk than in for- mer years. • * * With the exception of dry whole milk, Canada's exports have been decreasing each year and 1957 was no exception. Ex- ports of evaporated milk and sweetened condensed "milk were the lowest in over 30 years, Mr. Goodwillie said, and dry skim- milk the lowest since 1945. The chief reason for this, he pointed out, is that Canadian prices have been substantially above world levels. a * Domestic usage of concentrated milk products in' 1957 was at record levels. This is not surpris- ing, Mr. Goodwillie said, when the higher production, heavy im- ports and lower exports are tak- en into consideration. However, he pointed out that the outlook for any substantial increase in domestic usage of all concen- trated products in 1958 is not as bright as. it has been in some of the other years. Nevertheless, there is no reason to believe that consumption will decline unless something unforeseen develops, he said. For the past three years the relation between crop sequence and root infection of cereals has been studied in selected fields near Edmonton, Alberta. Dr. L. E. Tyner reports that the lowest infections on barley seedlings were from soils that had been planted to one or more crops of oats during the three year study. * 5 * Oats is a resistant crop to root rot, infection. This cereal does not provide food for the root rot fungi so they decrease in num- ber. On the other hand wheat and barley are susceptible to root rot fungi in the soil so whenever they are planted the ' fungi tend to increase rapidly. The three Acids in the tests near Edmonton with the most severe infections had been cropped to wheat or barley for three succe- sive years. Infection inthese fields ranged from 44 to 52 per cent. The severity of root rot in- fection was assessed by actual observation of the plant roots in the field and a record of the crops grown was obtained from year to year, Other factors such as type of soil,' tillage methods, elevation and moisture condi- tions, were also taken into con- sideration. s • • In the late summer of 1957, samples of soil were secured from each field and thesewere placed in pots in the greenhouse and planted to barley. After three weeks growth the root rot symptons on the seedlings were estimated. Seven samples pro- duced infection ranging from 31 to 52 per cent, and with only one exception these soils had been cropped to wheat or barley for two of the three years since 1955. * • • In view of consumer demand for lean and tender beef the prac- tice of tenderizing meat has de- veloped into a valuable asset to the industry. Without question the most popular form of tender- izing is the famous mechanical tenderizer ... the meat grinder. In the United States, nearly 45 per cent of the total beef supply is thus tenderized. HoweverIt is pointed out that great strides have also been made in this field through the use of enzymes. It is reported, that packers in the United States, are new using about 20,000 gallons of enzyme tenderizers a month. This is suffi- cient tO tenderize about six mil- lion steaks. This whole process represents a change from the tradition of tenderizing beef through grain feeding and aging the carcasses in coolers. Because of this development it is possible to up -grade steaks from steers off grass, and cows. V • * In the United States the en- thusiasm for grilled beef out- doors has substantially increased the demand for high-grade beef. In Canada, the barbecue is a very popular outlet for steaks during the summer months. around him he wouldalso be.. talking to London or Johannes- burg or possibly to his bookie, Even in the midst of his fierce gin -rummy games -at which he was said to have lost as much as $25,000 at a sitting -he would be barking into the telep'lione. He could be one of the most persuasive talkers in the world. In one breath he could be suave- ly convincing Noel Coward -by phone, overseas, of course -that Coward should play a bit part, and in the next he could loose a barrage of billingsgate that would curl a dock walloper's hair. When he spoke of Eliza- beth Taylor he sounded like a lovesick schoolboy. When he was listening to somebody else, which wasn't of- ten, Todd's mouth would shut trap hard. For turning the speaker down, he said: "How do you want your 'no' - fast or slow?' - It was largely his gift of tong- ues that brought Mike Todd the'. long way that he came. He was born Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen, the son of a onetime rabbi from Poland and one of eight children. ("Todd" emerged from a child- hood nickname and he made it official when he was 21.) He started working at odd jobs when he was 5 and whenever a carnival came to Minneapolis he would wangle some kind of job with that.. But if show business was in his blood, it was in Chicago real estate that he made his first fortune -and before he was 19 years old. When that business collapsed, he went to Hollywood and made another fortune -his first mil- lion, he called it -building early sound stages. Somehow that mil- lion got lost in the shuffle, too. "I've never been poor, only broke," Todd once said philoso- phically. "Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation," In 1933, he was back in show business -this time at Chicago's World's Fair where he produced an act called "The Flame Dance". This involved a girl dressed like a moth gyrating around a candle until her costume appeared to burn off, leaving her the way Todd always liked his showgirls dressed -barely. "I burned up four girls perfecting that - act,' Todd once recalled dreamlbt,;:and while some of his friencleW,eett sure he was joking, some weeenft' completely sure. ' .. `.• Then came Broadway and 1te disastrous flops, then a hit. ' - Hot Mikado" with the late Bill Robinson. More hits followed: "Star and Garter" with Gypsy Rose Lee, "Something for the Boys" with Ethel Merman. "I be- lieve in giving the customers a meat -and- potatoes show," Todd liked to say. "Dames and come- dy. High dames and low comedy - that's my message." Ten years ago he was bank- rupt again, - he cheerfully ex- plained in court that he had gambled away "maybe a quar- ter million dollars" - and a couple of years later he had made another million out of "Cinerama" (which led to his own three-dimensional process, Todd -AO). Such was the fabulous figure who, if he had lived to attend the weekend dinner in his honor, would have heard George Jessel toast him in these words: "The wiry, dark, dynamic thing that calls itself Mike Todd is a combination of many emo- tions . . the pleadings of a pushcart peddler ... the chutspa (gall, in Yiddish) of a Roman emperor . (He rose) from conman to connoisseur. At the Chicago World's Fair, he cried: "Step right up folks, see the pretty girl ..: Within two de - Mike Todd, Showman Extraordinary A friend of his once tried to sum up Mike Todd in a sentence. "He definitely belongs on a run- away horse," he said. That was Todd, almost from the day of his birth in Minneapolis half a cen- tury ago, to the day of his death recently in a flaming airplane in a mountainous region of New Mexico. He was killed at the height of a career that had gone up and down like a fever chart. His. greatest success, the movie "Around the World in BO Days", was coining money in theaters all over the world ($33 million grossed to date). Mike Todd was a man who could never stand still or keep silent for any length of time. Of medium stature and lithely built, he was forever buzzing around restaurants and confer. ence rooms while the staccato words poured out of him. In 0110 gesticulating hand there would always be a cigar; in the other, ' 3e would good of the tin deal , be a telephone on a cord long enough to follow his peregrina- tions. In restaurants 13e would have a phone brought to his table even before the menu, And while ha" talked to the people NDAYSCH00I LESSON By Rev. R. B. Warren, Q.A., B.D. God Prepares a Leader Exodus 3:1-7, 10-15 The book of Deuteronomy closes with these words, ''And there arose not a prophet since) in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face, in all the signs and wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land, a and in all that mighty hand, and in all the great ter- ror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel." But for those forty years of outstanding lead- ership there had been eighty years of intensive training.. First there were parents with faith who nurtured the child in the early years. They made the most of the brief time they had. It was a period of great tribu- lation for the Hebrews. Suffer- ing and reproach have helped to mould many of the world'a greatest leaders. During the years in Pharaoh's court he be- came learned in all the wisdom of the ‚Egyptians, and was mighty iwords and in deeds, At the age of forty he made the great decision stated in the Memory Selection: "By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; esteeming the reproach. of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect un- to the recompense of the re- ward," Hebrews 11:24, 26. One day Moses slew an Egyp- tian for smiting a Hebrew. "He supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver theme but they understood not" (Acts 7:25.) One of them rebuked hire when he tried to . settle a dis- pute between two of them and asked, "Wilt thou kill me, as thou didst the Egyptian yes- terday?" Moses, realizing the% his crime was known fled to Midian where for forty years ho tended sheep. Here he developed patience and learned many les- sons. A later exhibition of int - patience cost him the privilege of entering the promised land. The meeting at ;the 'burning bush was a memorableexperi- ence, Here Moses 'was -'commis- sioned for the great' task. He humbly accepted the charge. This was the most important phase of his preparation. Hs stood in the presence of. God and talked with Him. Good par- ental training, formal educa- tion, learning in the school of hard knocks are good. But these will not make a prophet. There must be the meeting with God, And for successful Christian living we must all meet with God day by day. s cedes in Monte Carlo, he said: 'Thank you, Picasso, I'll take those six paintings, it's a Sun- day present for my wife .. , ' " Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking OM ©©M O©VD! 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