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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1955-01-27, Page 7Those "Secret" ra lots Not eallOy Secret? Lord Melbourne, that, most conservative of Wing statesmen, was opposed to the secret ballot because, as he said frankly, the secret ballot enabled "subver- sive people to express them- selves more freely." He wanted everyone to stand up and be counted, and . heaven help the man who didn't vote the way the people in power wished him to vote. Full. circle. A good many labor leaders don't want the secret vote. It isn't even secret when they profess it to be. The Lord Melbournes of today are labor leaders. There is convincing evidence that recent strikes have been against the wishes of the major- ity of the strikers, although there have been hypocritical claims that the votes were ac- curate reflections of the opinions of the workers. The democratic world has been fighting for at least 150 years to obtain and keep a truly secret vote. Election machinery, after generations of efforts to perfect it and to prevent fraud, Is still not perfect, But it is a fact that, except in rare instan- ces, the wil' of the people is expressed in municipal, provin- cial and dominion elections, It is a fact that no man needs tosay how he voted and his vote, when cast, can be and usually is hon- estly counted. Until unionvoting has reach- ed that stage, an announcement that a union membership vote has been 77 per cent in favor of continuing a strike (when the whole town and all the neigh- bors know that the striker want- ed to get back to work at his regular job) must be viewed with deepest suspicion. Who usually counts ballots in a un er.n vote? It is a union offi- cial. Are there scrutineers? No. Are there pcll clerks who keep track of the names of people who have voted in order to pre- vent repeats? Are there num- bered counterfoils on ballots to prevent the issuance of extra ballots to "safe" members of the -*union? Some people argue that union votes should be government supervised. There is a "govern- ment supervised" vote in British Columbia and it cannot be said that, after several years of ex- perience, labor difficulties in • HE HAS THE "FLUE" - Inventor Sten Norling of Stockholm, Sweden, locates covered fur- nace flues in houses 'with his electronic finder, which picks up signals generated by a trans- mitting unit when they're re- flected from the hidden metal. The invention won him a gold medal at the recent Interna- tional Inventors° Show in Paris. New Cheese Bread Bubbles Over With Tasty Nutrition BY DOROTHY MADDOX Here's a big value in home baking -cheese bubble loaf. The extra milk solids and the cheese that go into it add lots of extra nutrition while making it taste better, too. Cheese Bubble Loaf (Makes 2 loaves) Three-quarter cup milk, 3/4 cup sugar, 21/4 teaspoons salt, 41/1 tablespoons shortening, % cup warm (not hot) water (lukewarm for compressed yeast), 1 package or cake of yeast, active dry or compressed; 41/2 cups sifted, enriched flour; 1 tablespoon melted butter; 1/2 pound Cheddar cheese, grated. Scald milk; stir in sugar, salt and shortening. Cool to luke- warm. Measure water into a large mixing bowl (warm, but not hot, for active dry yeast, lukewarm for compressed yeast). Sprinkle or crumble in yeast; stir until dissolved. Stir in luke- warm mixture. Add half the flour. Beat until smooth, Stir in remaining flour. Turn out on lightly floured board. Knead until smooth and elas- tic. Place in a greased bowl; brush top with shortening. Cover. Let rise in a warm place, free from draft, about 1 hour or until doubled in bulk. Punch down and turn out on lightly floured board. Divide dough in half. Form each half into a roll about 12 inches long. Cut each roll into 24 equal pieces. Form into balls. In 2 well -greased loaf pans. about 9x5x3 inches, place a layer of balls about 3/4 -inch apart. Brush lightly with themelted but- ter. Sprinkle with half the grated cheese. Arrange a second layer of balls on top first. Brush with melted butter and springl4' with remaining cheese. Cover. Let rise in a warm plane, free from draft, about 1' hour or until top of dough is slightly higher Than edge of pans. Brush with more butter. Bake in moderate oven (375 degrees F.) for 30 minutes. * 0 Here's a delicious vegetable dish for your winter menus: Fresh Snap Beans and Tomatoes (Yield: 4.aervings) Cheese bubble loaf is eye -appealing, taste -tempting and nournishing. Ii's delictoum with coffee at breakfast. One pound. fresh snap beans, 3 strips bacon, 2 cups canned whole tomatoes, 13/4 teaspoons salt, ye teaspoon ground black pep- per, lee teaspoon sugar, 2 tablesoons boiling water, Wash beans. Remove tips and cut into 1 -inch pieces (set aside for later use). Broil bacon until brown and crisp in a heavy skil- let, Remove bacon, drain and set aside for later use. Add snap beans, tomatoes, seasonings and water. Cover. Cook slowly un- til beans are tender (15 to 20 minutes). Remove to serving dish. Crumble bacon over top before serv- ing. British Columbia are less than elsewhere in Canada. There con- tinue to be foolish strikes in that area with theresult that the Pacific coast province, subsist- ing largely on an export indus- try, has attained costs in its lumbering and fishing indus- tries that are out of line with costs of their competitors in other countries. It must be noted that organ- ized labor never has been able to deliver the labor vote in gen- eral elections but it seems to be that labor's vote in a union dispute is pro -union leader. This is a phenomenon which perhaps can be explained main- ly by the fact that union nego- tiating committees regularly urge the rank and file in ad- vance to authorize a strike. They do this on the plea that authority to call a strike streng- thens their hands at the bargain- ing table. What is the explanation for a 70 -odd per cent vote in favor of continuing the Massey -Barris - Ferguson strike when everyone was sick of it? This was not a case of strengthening the hands of the bargaining committee in advance of bargaining. - From The Printed Word. (This is the conclusion of an article "The Fanner and the Fisherman" begun last week). The use of seaweed in agri- culture is a very old and wide- spread practice wherever rich supplies of this plant are read- ily available. In England, Scot- land, Ireland, Norway, the Pa- cific and New England States, New Zealand, Australia, Indon- esia and Japan, seaweed is eith- er carried from the beaches to the fields or dried to a powder to be used as fertilizer or feed- stuff supplement. Its fertilizing value is considerable and, in ad- dition, it acts as a natural soil conditioner. Its nutritive value is caused not so much by a high content of organic matter than by relatively large amounts of vitamins and minerals, especi- ally trace minerals. It is, there- for, not surprising that a really small addition of dried pulver- ized seaweed to the feed ratio greatly improves the growth- of fowl, the egg production, as well as the milk yield and fat con- tent. These beneficial results are most prbbably due to the com- bined action of small amounts H. Idolises CROSSWORD 00.Femntne PUZZLE ACROSS 1. Insect's feeler B. Cistern 8. Southwest wand 12. Fragrant herb 13. Suss 14. Real out 1.. Of father and mother 17. 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It is easy to understand why fishes, whose main food consists either in marine plants or in animals feeding on such plants, show such a profuse growth and reproductive capacity and, as big fish eat little fish, the con- centration of minerals and vit- amins in the fish body becomes ever greater. The chemical in- teraction of these substances plays an important part in the production of organic matter and, ' therefore, fish are also a rich source of fat and protein. Why not use this wealth of mineral and organic matter, if not for direct human consump- tion, at least as a food for plants and farm animals? This ques- tion the Indians of the Atlantic Coast asked themselves long be- fore the arrival of the White Man in America. Since fishes were plentiful in the inshore waters, they could be, easily caught with haul seines and car- ried- to the fields. It was espec- ially one species that was par- ticularly abundant and, - there.. fore, used as a natural fertilizer. The Indians called this fish " Munnawhatteaug " w h i c h 'means literally in Indian lang- uage "that which manures" and from which name the first col. onsets who adopted this . prac- tice derived the name "menhad- en" which even at the present time is our most important source of oil, fertilizer, and feed supplement. Originally the most valued product of the menhaden indus- try was fish oil which was used as a cheap substitute for whale and linseed oil in paints, lubri- cants, - tanning, etc., while the fish meal was only a by-product. As early as 1812 a crude pro- cess of oil recovery was in oper- ation in Rhode Island and around 1860 the menhaden industry fn New England reached for that time sizable proportions. How- ever, when the American farm- er produced large amounts of fats and oils from animal and vegetable sources, the demand for fish oil declined and it was not until the feeding and fail. lizing value of fish meal was re- discovered and more efficient re- ducing equipment became •:avail- able that the menhaden industry regained and even by far sur- passed its original economic im- portance. When the fish reducing plants resumed large scale operations, the water fraction obtained from the steam processing of men- haden, called "stick water," was let into the rivers and it was not until the Second World War, when fish meal manufacturers were forced to do something against this public nuisance, that they discovered the enormous food value of this "waste pro- duct." It contains all the water soluble substances ensuing from the reducing process such as mineral salts, vitamins, soluble proteins, amino acids, etc., and is presently our richest source of the growth promoting vita- min B-12 and other yet unknown growth factors. Consequently, it is no more wasted, but care- fully recovered, condensed to 50 per cent solid content and used as "condensed fish solubles" for the enhancement of the nutritive value of fish meal or other feed mixtures. There is also another aspect of this former "waste product" that should be most fascinating and challenging to the young farmer. It has always been tak- en for granted that young mam- mals are absolutely dependent on mother's milk. This scienti- fically unproven assumption is responsible for an immense and quite unnecessary loss, since millions of farm animals, espec- ially little pigs and lambs, per- ish every year either because their mothers have not enough milk to nourish their broods or they are killed by crushing or suffocation while suckling. A few years ago agricultural sci- entists conceived the idea of raising pigs on an artificial "milk" composed of all essen- tial nutrients and fortified with antibiotics. A considerable part of this "milk" consists of fish sol- ubles and this explains its ex- tremely high nutrient value. For piglets raised on this artifi- cial food reached a weight of 50 pounds after the normal nurs- ing period of 56 days, while those suckled by the sow attain- ed same period only 22 pounds. In fact, we are standing at the threshold of unimaginable de- velopments in agriculture for the benefit of all mankind, as the cooperation of farmers and fish- ermen becomes better coordin- ated. • For it will bring back to the soil and ultimately to the dinner table the nutrients that have been carried away by the leaching, eroding, and flowing waters. However, while farmers throughout the centuries have made, great progress in food. production, it is now up to the. fishermen -to bring man's oldest industry to a modern level of efficiency, economy, productiv- ity, and conservation of re- sources. Here we cannot deny that great things are in the offing. Heli- copters spot the schools of fish- es; radar, sonar, and'• other elec- tronic devises show their exact location, depth, and even the number and type of fish; mod- ern fishing gear hauls the fish on board and recently it has been shown that electric currents can:. be used to attract and catch the fish since they usually wander. or swim to the anode; immer- sion freezing in the ship bottom. prevents the fish from spoilage, while reducing plants installed On the ships start immediately converting the non -edible part of the catch into fish meal, fish oil, and fish solubles. How large the fish resources of the oceans are nobody can tell. While it is true that several heavily exploited fishing banks now show signs of depletion and the fish in the inshore waters are no more as plentiful as they used to be, it goes without say- ing that the amounts of nutri- ents produced by marine plants, fish, and shellfish in the wide expanses a n d unfathomable depths of the oceans will ex- ceed for centuries to come the needs of a rapidly expanding mankind for direct consumption and agricultural use. Balding 'alter Than Ewa Ore State Soon the Empire State Build- ing may lose its title of the tall- est skyscraper in the world, which it has held for twenty- three years. An eighty -storey building that would rise 1,500 ft. above the street - twent-eight feet higher than the Empire State's televi- sion tower - is being planned by a railway financier at Grand Central Terminal, New York. And the cost? $100,000,000. Engineers are working out means of checking the `sway" such a gigantic skyscraper would have, Greatest "swing" ever recorded in the Empire State was 2.5 inches, when the effect was so slight that no tre- mor was felt. The greater height of the pro- jected new skyscraper will raise many engineering and building problems. In recent years there has been much research into the effects of earth movements or blast upon lofty buildings. Sky- scrapers have steel frames which support the roof and are welded to it and to each other. Experts say they are perfectly safe and will resist any earth- quake or gale. New York now has more than 500 -buildings of twenty or more stories. Seven have sixty or more stories. The Empire State has 101. l DA,1 SCHOOL LESSON Rev. R. B. Warren, B.A., 8.1). Man's Nature and Need Genesis 1:26-31; Romans 3:231 Hebrews 2:6-9 Memory Selection: What 1s Iran, that thou art mindful el him, and the son of man, that thou vlsitest num? For t11Rn hast made him a little lower than the angels, and haat crowned him with glory and honour. Psalms 8:4-5. The idea that man is just an animal who has evolved a lit. t1e farther is still held by some people. Students of zoology note thesimilarity between the phy- sical structure of the bones of a bird's wingand man's arils and see a more general similar- ity between a rabbit and a man. But while he wonders at the physical similarities of man to the higher mammals he marvels yet more at the mental differ- ence. Even the ardent evolution- ist must admit that if man came from the ape, he certainly came a long way. But evolution is only a theory. Until proof is forthcoming it cannot be regard- ed as scientific fact. The Genesis story of man's beginning is very simple. After God had created life upon the earth, herbs and fish, birds and animals, he said, "Let us make man in our image, after our like- ness." Yes, here is the differ- ence. Man was made in God's image. He not only possesses superior intelligence but he is e moral being. Though he has sinned and come short of the glory of God, the divine image has not been completely effaced. He needs a Saviour. God gave his Son in the likeness of sinful man in order to save man. He was made a little lower than the angels and tasted death for every man. When man believes in Jesus Christ, God's Son, as his Lord and Saviour, a great change takes place. He is re- stored to the favor of God. Ile lives with cleanness of life be- coming to one of the redeemed children of God, "Being made free from sin, and become serv- ants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end ever- lasting life." Romans 6:22. Man has a great destiny, Let us fulfill it. Let us glorify God in our souls and bodies which are his. PARROT GOT THE BIRD! A parrot has caused an uproar in the children's section of the Wellington, New Zealand, zoo. It was presented to the zoo by an old sailor and it delighted the children -for a few hours, until the keepers discovered why Percy the Parrot was causing such a lot of laughter. It was h i s highly -flavoured nautical language! He was quickly removed to join some noisy macaws until he "unlearned" the language of the Seven Seas. a Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking aaae Sig SAME OLD CORN 1S NO JOKE -W. R. Olney, 80, canned the corn he's being fed by Granddaughter Susan Olney, 13, while work- ing as a tannery hand 63 years ago. Still perfectly preserved, the vegetable was sealed in a hole -and -cap container, fore- runner of the modern metal can. e• .