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The Seaforth News, 1958-10-02, Page 3Real Clambake Down -East Stye What makes a clambake? people! Young people and old people digging clams, catching fish, shucking corn, and melting butter. Menfolk gathering seaweed, laying the fire. Womenfolk boiling onions, peeling 'taters. baking pies. Little folk hustling sizzling food from the steaming bake to table. And hungry folk making a lip -smacking New England banquet disappear. "Never been to a clambake!" exploded Julius T. Smith jovial- ly. "Where've you been all your life!" Bakemaster for 15 years for Allen's Neck Friends Meeting clambake in Dartmouth, Mass., he paused a moment in the dap- pled sunshine of an oak grove across Horseneck Road from the white frame Quaker Meeting House, "Look at 'em crack with the heat," he said, pointing to stones turning white hot in a heap of smoldering timbers. "They just crumble apart. That's why wa can't use 'em a second time," he explained. But a bakemaster's got no time for standing around gabbing with strangers when 11;15 a.m. has struck, stones are hot, and it's time to rake the coals. He hurries over to the fire. Suddenly the place is alive with action. Every eye is on the bake. From all sides men attack tho fiery mound. Wielding shoveis with handles ten feet long, they grapple with the heat to separate burning stones from flaming logs. One after another the wood ambers are dragged aside. As a boy sprays them with a cosi hose smoke hisses into the air, eyes smart, and faces grimace at the wavy heat. At last the blackened pit (a shallow one this time) is cleared. As the first fat white stone rolls back into the hollow, someone looks up and shouts. "The clams, here come the clams." Timed as if by magic, up rolls a truck with 25 white sacks full of them. Watching the pit fill up with stones like an Indian mound, one. wonders if they will still be hot enough to cook th bake. "Never fear," someone murmurs, "they'd still be hot tomorrow morning." Like a well -drilled army, men suddenly pitchfork onto the neat bed of stones rock weed (sea-. weed) piled nearby. Steam bursts forth with a wild crackling that snaps and pops like an amplified version Of children's breakfast cereal. The race is on t� get the CATOOSE - Caroline Walker, 11, carries her Siamese kitten in the hood of her coat, papoose style. The hood serves her more conventionally as protection •against rain and smog in Lon- don, England. food on the fire before the steam escapes. "Now the clams! Now the clams!" a worker yells. The moment the white bags lilt the steaming seaweed, a suc- culent fragrance fills the air, hinting the feast to come, Steam is rising 10 feet high now. "I've got one more clam that's got to go," shouts one man excitedly throwing on another sack, "Don't need eyeglasses for this job," says I41r. Smith dryly as he walks out of the cloud of steam. A clambake, it seems, is really a rainbow. Under the heat, sea- need turns brilliant green. On top of white elam sacks come orange yams in bags of chicken wire; then hundreds of little brown paper bags of homemade sausage, tripe and fish (rolled ie salt and "peppah"); then green corn husks and topping it off arepans of dressing with white cloth caps. "Say when!" comes the shout, "We're losin' a lot of steam." At exactly 11:45, a drenched brown tarpaulin is laid on top, and steam puffs out through little holes. Then comes a second tar- paulin and finally a third until every escape hatch is battened down, Over near the cookhouse an open pie rack under the trees is filling up with 70 mouthwater- ing pies, "Nowhere in creation do they serve homemade pies at a clam- bake but here," says clambake chairman Mrs, Arthur Smith of Dartmouth. How long has she been coming to clambakes in this grove? "Well," she says with a sweet smile, "they say the first clam- bake was held here the day I was born. And that happens to be 54 years ago." But Mrs, Mary I. Gifford of Westport can remember back further than that. She was a teen-ager 70 years ago when the first bake was a Sunday School party down on Horseneck Beach. "We peeled onions by the bushel," she reminisces. "How cur eyes did smart! So I say we had a smart time," she quipped. A cool breeze rustles the leaves overhead as the sunny grove fills up with talking, happy people. The bake is the big affair of the year for the Friends here and a family reunion for many. Always the jokester, Bake- master Smith picks up one of the smaI] stones holding down paper plates on the rows of long tables, "One of the biscuits my granddaughter baked," he said, his eyes twinkling, Finally comes the real drama of the year: tasting the bake, On the dot of 12;55, a corner of the tarpaulin is thrown back, a knife is plunged into a sack, and the first clam is handed to Bake - master Smith, He cracks it open. pops it in his mouth, looks sky- ward a minute, and announces, "It's done!" But before excitement reaches a climax a sudden hush falls upon the grove. On the far side the voice of the Reverend Ernest H. Weed, minister of the Meet- ing, is raised in prayer: "Our Father, we thank Thee for this day, for the beauty of this place and for this fellow- ship ... Amen." "Amen and let's go!" some- body shouts. And the rush from the bake to table begins, to feed 250 mouths. Everywhere a hand is needed to do a task, it is there without asking. "This kind of 'cooperation is wonderful for the church," one member says. "How many clams can I eat?" echoes one ticket holder. "If yon don't just stand there watching, I can put away two baskets full'" After the clams, the pie, and after the pie, yes, watermelon! But with all deference to this luscious feast, somehow even the eating seems secondary to the friendly spirit of working to - CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACI1OSS 1 Beard of grain 4. Plower 9 Obstruct 12. Constellation 13 Worship 14 !leverage 16. Cereea 111 Ferre 17 Fish 15 n.!nm Rn nlaolcened 2" Foreman 134 Traveled by Sir 26 Crust 27, Dv 20. Musical rem. poser S2. Dock eon tate• fog metal 83. TClnaly 86 Crafty 80. x:rninent 30. Printer's nure /0. Wwithout a mate tee'scut- cop 42 You and .43. Past 48'Ta . Norse 48. warp of a warp 18. Clan 82. Conjunction 35. Cap 39. Silently un. derstood 87. Menagerie S3. Pipe fitting' 39. Signe ro, Veneration DOWN 1 rtl'rh-moon" 2. Shed tears 3. Famous per- sons 4. Iltnding fabrics 5 Ancient Donlan ).0511 8 Soft 7 Anger 3 12 15 4 8. Langer 33. Public. enter - 9 Water thrown tamtnent bank tdvm 34. Young wi Id paddle wheels- animate. 30 ldiylllce Slant 32 Drees up 11. Separate 43. 43. Woodworking{ 1VoIod 14rot 7 nrlwm'k ing ual 19. Bashful 45. Pnl eetine sea - 40. 1pertalamantler 47, Born "t. Beak 23 Payout 24. Deceit , 9U. Shue 26, was milled 41 Winter porn 330. 'UrgeRe 2, Wein nil 51. Coal recap - 31). Ball )11 r,}thread tante 81. Park In Lon. 63 lnnnodiateiy don 54 Female rabbit 6 7 9 13 10 II 14 16 17 18 19 20 22 25 32 36 26 Ps 33 23 27 28' 24 29 30 31 34 37 38 39 43 40 41 35 S3; 45 47 49 .: 40 i• 6 57 • 42 ' g! 53 59 05,� .trisyrCr elaewl r-. 'r thi > . Cage gether that has kept this congre- gation happy for 70 years. "Soon's they start to drift," says Mr. Smith aside, "we work- ers'll head for the bake." Just then a departing guest comes up and says what every- body is thinking: "It was a wonderful b a k e, Mr. Smith. Certainly is a treat for city folk." - by Emily Tavel in The Christian Science Monitor. How He Writes Those Song Hits Robert Alien is a sherry -eyed, puckish young songwriter whose name almost never gets . in print - except in the one place where it counts most: On the best-selling lists of the enter- tainment trade papers. One re- cent week three Alien compo- sitions "Enchanted Island," "If Dreams Came True," and "Everybody Loves a Lover" - were listed and, even more re• markably, for the past two years not a week has passed without an Allen tune being present . among the top sellers. .At 31, he has composed four songs which have each sold More than a million records - "Moments to Remember" and "No, Not Much" in 1955, and "Chances Are" and "Not for Me to Say" in 1957. Since his first hit, "My One and Only Heart" in 1953, Allen's ballads have sold approximately 18 mil- lion records. Allen did not begin his career as a composer, He migrated to New York City from Scotia in Upper New York State to be a pianist. Then he worked as an arranger and met Perry Como, "Como was the one who gave me the break," Allen re- minisced last week. "He did My One and Only Heart,' and he uses my 'You Are Never Far Away' as his closing theme. He's a giant." When he is composing, Allen does not use a piano or put any- thing down on paper until he has arranged it all in his head. '1 walk around anywhere," he confesses: "I've worn a nice big furrow in the rug at hone. I drive my wife crazy, so I usually write outside. I even compose during social conversa- tions. I don't know exactly what happens, but friends tell me 1 get a vacant stare." Science Takes A Look At Love Can love be reduced to ob- jective analysis? If so, are the cold, scientific facts about man- kind's great urge left unreveal- ed? These questions were raised and answered recently by Dr. Harry F. Harlow, a witty, 52 - year -old psychologist from the University of Wisconsin. Speak- ing in Washington before the American Psychological Associa- tion, Harlow was by turns out- rageously comic and chilling. Though precious little Is known (professionally, that is) about adolescent and adult love, the psychologist said, even less has been scientifically dug out about the origin and development of love in the infant. To fill the lack, Harlow and his Wisconsin associates .decided to subject mother -child love to the rigorous conditions of a controlled labors - tory experiment. The use of newborn human babies was not practical becaues of their "in- adequate motor capabilities". Harlow found better subjects in more than 60 big -eared infant macaque monkeys, who have tate same feelings of affection as humans. The Wicsonsin experiment was carried on by the construction of artificial monkey mothers - doll - like, sponge - rubber, and terry -cloth models with painted wooden faces and bicycle reflec- tors for eyes. Some of the "mothers" wre built to supply milk; others were bare wire models. When the newborn monkys were variously exposed to differ- ent mothers - milk -giving cloth ones, cloth ones without milk, milk -giving wire ones, and wire ones without milk - Harlow carefully observed the reactions. Ile was startled to find strong evidence that love is based on togetherness: In 165 consecutive days of testing, the macaque monkeys persistently preferred the soft, padded mothers to the wire mothers, even when the latter gave milk. While psychologists had long suspected that "contact comfort was an important basic affec- tional or love variable," Harlow noted, "we did not expect it to overshadow so completely the variable of nursing." Harlow was quick to see the disturbing human implications of his work. As more and more American women go to work, he said, "it is cheering , to realize that the American male is physi- cally endowed with all the es sential equipment to compete with Amrican women . . (in) the rearing of infanta" - From Newsweek MAGIC NUMBER'S "20" - More unusual than the fact that the women pictured, above, represent five generations is the knowledge that they all were born 20 years apart, Stemming from the Louis Zdoncyk family they are: Mrs. Louis Zdoncyk, 81, seated; behind her, at left, Mrs. Frank'Pasko, 61; at right, Mrs. Fred Burdick, 41; in center, Mrs. Ralph DePonte, 21; baby is Laura Ann DePonte, 1. Holstein -Friesian steer calve; can be slaughtered at 12 weeks of age for veal, but feed tests at the Experimental Farm have indicated that it is more profit- able to keep them for 32 weeks. The faster growth after 12 weeks and the lower cost of feed per unit of carcass pro- duced, results in a bigger profit. In the studies made all calves received a high level of whole milk from birth, reaching a maximum of 20 pounds per day Voile nine to 12 weeks, plus good quality grass -legume hay and a balanced grain ration fed free - choice. The calves not slaughtered were limited to five pounds of grain per day for the next 12 weeks then were given grain and beet -pulp free -choice until they were 32 weeks old, it was f o u n d that the first group of calves gained 2,01 pounds per day and produced a cold carcass at 12 weeks of 137 pounds. Those slaughtered at 32 weeks gained 2.51 pounds a day and produced a cold car- cass of 335 pounds. * * * In marketing live poultry, me factor takes on financial importance: Long hauls mean excessive shrinkage. Lending weight to this con- tention were tests made last summer at the Melfort, Sask., Experimental Farm. Out of 1,400 broilers, one lot of 950 were picked at random late one afternoon, crated and loaded. During the night they were trucked 160 miles to a plant, where they were killed the following morning. * * * The other 450 broilers were not fed but were left in . their pens until morning. Then they were crated and transported three miles to a local plant. At the outset, average weight of all live birds was 3.83 Ib. Average dressed weight of beoi]ers hauled the 160 miles was 2.88 Ib., compared to 3.2 lb, for those that welt killed locally, At an average price of 25.6 cents per pound, loss suffered because of the lona marketing haul amounted to $0.22 per 100 birds. But it didn't stop there. Transportation charges, usu• ally billed to the producer, totalled $8.25 per 100 birds. * * * Thus, the marketing of birds locally meant an additional 216.57 per 100 birds. Or, put- ting it another way, an average price of 31.3 cents would have been needod at the distant mar- ket to break even -an increase of 5.7 cents over local prices. * * * Concluded Mr. McLachlan: "A producer must look into the matter of shrinkage seriously before deciding to take advan- take of higher prices offered by central markets, and it is an influencing factor in the locat- ing of broiler industries." * * * It is generally agreed that poultry should be fed grit for efficient digestion of food. But what is grit? The word is often used loose- ly to apply to both the insoluble and the soluble grits. There is a difference. Insoluble grit includes silica, sand, quartz and granite .- fed because of the apparent need of the birds for some hard ma- terial to grind the feed in the gizzard, Soluble grit takes in calcium - bearing materials such as cal- citic limestone and oyster shells -fed primarily for their high calcium content. * * * R. E. Smith, poultry nutri- tionist at the Experimental Farm, Nappan, Nova Scotia, con- cluded from tests that soluble limestone grit is just as effec- tive as insoluble quartz grit as a grinding agent. * * * Nor is there a difference In their effect upon egg produc- tion or egg quality, provided the birds are given enough cal- cium to supply their bone and egg shell requirements. He did find, though, that sol- vble grits were not retained in the gizzard as long as the in- solubles. Thus a greater amount of soluble grits would be needed. Soluble or insoluble? Take your pick. Both give birds the "teeth" they need. How To Silence Church Coughers To many an otherwise charit- able vicar, wheezing, hacking, coughing worshippers (and tit- tering tots) almost seem like in- ventions of Satan. London's City Temple, how- ever, has found a way that ser- mons can be heard and hymns can be sung without noisy in- terruptions, even during the grippiest time of the year. When Lord Mottiston and Paul Paget, t w o distinguished architects, were asked to restore this fam- ous Congregational Church which was destroyed by Nazi bombers in 1941, they came upon an unusued area in the building plans. In a moment of inspira- tion they decided to create a "cough or chatter box". This LINDHHSC11001 LESSON By Rev ft. Barclay Warren B.A., 33.1) Justice and Judgment Isaiah 1:10-20; Amos 7:7-9; Micah 2:1-3; Matthew 7:15-27; 25:31-46. Memory Selection: The Lord knoweth the way of the righte- ous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish, Psalm 1:6. All men have some sense of justice. There is even honour among thieves. Novelists and dramatists recognizing this uni- versal desire for justice empha- size the moral that the wicked are punished and the righteous rewarded, One story writer failed to punish the wayward in her conclusion. She received a flood of protest letters, The Gospel presents a differ- ent picture. Here, those who re- pent of their sins and believe on Jesus Christ are forgiven. The law of Divine justice which says, "The soul that sinneth, tt shall die," has been satisfied through the sufferings and death of Jesus Christ, He had nc sin for which He must die, for He never sinned, But He died for our sins. Moreover, since He is the Son of God against whom all sin has been committed, He is able to bear the penalty for man's sin, "He was wounded for our transgres- sions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed." If we reject Jesus Christ and His grace so freely offered, the are open to the full judgment of the law. There is no escape. God judges men to some extent in this life. But at the great white throne judgment, when all the evidence is in, He will deliver His ultimate judgment. Then we shall understand more clearly the significance of the question, "How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salva- tion?" We shaII be judged for the evil we have done and for the good we have left undone. It is a solemn thought. If we live for ourselves and ignore the reeds of those about us, the Judge shall say in that great day, "Depart from me, ye curs- ed, into everlasting fire, prepar- ed for the devil and his angels_" But if we trust and obey Jesus Christ, He will say to us, "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." room is equipped with a plate- glass window and a system of loud -speakers so that cacophon- ous worshippers will not disturb their quieter fellows, yet need not miss a syllable of prayer. Although they modestly admit that it is indeed "rather novel", members of the recently reopen- ed church are surprised that their sensible arrangement has attracted attention. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking [FJ '• © E t €JEIr GC®- ©rIEuEE17© GOD MIME: op..ri ©OL190M©©RFA riq ENE IiiagglE;VginE, p 1Q. © 0-. Gif-ritA49 i r0N©EYmME2"'El l CASUAL ROYALTY - Meet Queen Boxcar Betty, right, some. time resident of Baltimore, Md., and King Arizona Bill, of Cylinder, Iowa. They're this year's king and queenof the. fraternity of the open road, and were elected during the hobo convention in Brit, lov-e.