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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1955-03-17, Page 7They Bought "Junk" That 1 urned To Gold Those who spotted a grimy plaster head in a shop in Char- ing Cross Road smiled as they read the label: "Straight from the Temple of Mithras-los " The dealer had at least a sense of humour, One afternoon the ballet star, Lydia Sokolva, passed by and was intrigued. She recognized It as the head of her former partner, the mad genius Nijin- sky, and bought it out of senti- ment. After cleaning it thor- oughly she took it to her friend Richard Buckle, an antique ex- pert. "This," he pronounced, "is the original head of Nijin- slty modelled by Lady Iron- bridge in 1911 It is worth $3,000." Tlie idea that bargains can't be picked up at auction sales and in junk shops is quite wrong. Despite the fact that experts scour these places, val- uable antiques sornetiines es- cape them. Some years ago there was a sale of old theatrical junk, Among the props lay a battered helmet for which no one would bid. It was almost given away by a desperate auctioneer. The buyer took it home, cleaned it and found it was covered with superb decora- tions of nymphs and cupids. Below them, in gold. was the inscription: "Thou walkest proudly before the stars." He consulted an expert who identified it as the 10th -century work of the brothers Pasco and Filippo Negroli, of Milan. To- day, worth a four -figure sum. it is one of the most prized exhi- bits in the armour gallery of the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge. Some years ago James Du- veen, the art expert, was ex- amining a picture at a sale and had just made .up his mind that it was quite worthless when someone behind bumped into him by accident. As he was off his balance his weight split the ancient frame from top to „rills bottom. The auctioneer smiled mali- ciously. Here was a chance to get rid of a worthless picture. "Can't go damaging property like that," he warned with mock severity. "Shall we say e pound?" Duveen was in no position to haggle. He paid up and took the wrecked picture home. It looked fit only for firewood. But with the dealer's hatred of being caught, he hopefully cleaned it and, having removed innumerable layers of grime, discovered it to be a Franz Hats. It later sold for $6,000 Before the war Mr. A. C. Pembery, holidaying in Devon, went into a farmhouse at Bide- ,e-ig ord for a cup of tea. As he sat there he noticed that one of the doors looked as if it came from a church. Examin- ing it more carefully he found that it looked more like a man- tlepiece than a door. "Queer door, that," he re- marked to the farmer's wife. "That ain't no door." she ex- claimed. "That were a mantle - piece my great-grandfather built into the farm. "I like it," said Pemberry; and made a handsome offer. "Naturally," he added, "I'll buy a new door to replace it" The farmer and his wife thought him mad. But the door never really fitted, so they sold it. Pembery took it 'up to Lon- don and sold it for $4,500. The next day an American rushed round to his flat and -too late -offered him $12,000. In 1045 Mr. Jack Ellis was browsing around old junk - shops when he came across a drawing called "Vauxhall Gar- dens." He liked it, and handed Meal -'in -a -Pot Saves Work, S 1!S' DOROTHY MADDOX Moretime to "enjoy your family and just as much good eating ---that's what .this one -burner, one -pot dinner offers.- Meat and potatoes (lots of them), plus vegetables, tender and flavorful. This meat Waalegatisfy the heartiest of family appetites. Sundti Denner in One Pot (Serves 6 or 1 generously) Three and one half to 4 -pound piece eye -round of beef, small piece of fresh pork fat, 2 onions, 1 teaspoon chopped garlic, 1/4 teaspoon black pepper, 1 bay leaf, Ye teaspoon thyme, 3/4 cup tomato sauce, 1 tablespoon salt, 12 to 15 3 -inch stalks celery, 5 carrots, cut in /-inch rings; 5 large potatoes, scraped, peeled and cut in two; water. ' Start this meal about four hours before dinnertime, or cook meat on previous day to point where vegetables are to be added. Cut pork fat diced small, and heat in Dutch oven until brown and crisp. Add beef and brown well on all sides. Now add onion, garlic, seasonings and two cups of water. `Cover tightly and cook over low heat,. turning meat occasionally to permit even obsorption of flavors. After 21/4 hours add potatoes and enough water just to cover. Fifteen minutes later add carrots and celery. Make sure all vegetables have a chance to cook in liquid for a time. When vegetables are tender, pour liquid off into saucepan. Skim off fat. Reheat and serve as gravy. Arrange meat and. vegetables on one large platter. * * When friends drop in for Sunday supper, try these chece. - burger snacks. Cheeseburger Snacks (Yield; 8 to 10 servings) Two and one half pounds ground beef, Y3 cup chapped onion, 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard, 8 to 10 slices processed cheese, butter, 4 or 5 hamburger buns. Combine ground. beef, onion, salt and mustard. Mix to blend fishes Heartiest Appetites Out of the pot and on to the table, a whole meal at one cooking. It's hearty, delicious fare for the "can't -&1l -'em -up crowd." well. Divide into 8 to 10 portions and form into flat patties. Place on baling sheet and broil until well browned on both sides, Cover :each patty with a slice of cheese. Broil a minute or until cheese is hot. Serve each cheeseburger on a buttered half bun. over a pound, The dealer ob- viously thought lie was "green." Ellis took the picture to a number of experts, all of whom were certain that it was the work of Thomas Rowlandson, the caricaturist, It was put elp for sale at Christie's where they said it had been exhibited in the Royal Academy of 1784 and was without question the finest- Rowlandson in existence. It was knocked clown for over $5,000. Most fortunate of all is the man who can dream where an- tiques are to be found. This happened to a Mr. J. Reilly, of Battersea, who worked for an antique dealer. His employer had picked up a valuable vase for a few shillings in the Cale- donia Market. "For three nights," Reilly told him, "I've dreamt .1 saw the fellow to that vase in a shop in a country towel,' • IIis employer paid his fare to the town and told him to buy it. He went straight there and bought the vase which stood in the window on sale for ninepellce, exactly as in his dream. The pair were then put up for auction and an Ameri- can paid $5,000 for them. Mr. Reilly was given $600. In- Capetown some years ago a 200 -ton schooner, the Protea, which cost ,$30,000 to build feched $5 at an auction. Her timber alone was worth hun- dreds. An American three - masted vessel, the J. O. Web- ster, of 431 tons, went for $15. And about 1932 the German gunboat Tsingtau was knocked down in Canton Harbor for one Chinese dollar (then worth 30¢). .. PLAIN HORSE SENSE tSy i . (BOB) Contemporary events lead us to link a planned economy with the notion of dictatorship. 'In- deed the beginnings of planned economy have in the eyes of the defenders of human per- sonality been somewhat com- promised by the totalitarian use made of it, or rather by its abuse: e.g. in Germany and Russia. The fact that planned econ- omy was made to serve anti - individualist regimes must not be taken to mean that it can- not serve a personalist society. It is a technique making for efficiency. There is nothing in the airplane to determine its being used for transporting bombs or medicine. So also a planned economy can be used for aggression and defense, or for improving the lot of man. It should be used to free man from hand-to-mouth economic insecurity, to allow him to rise above the Level of animal life, to give him leisure from economic activity, so that he may give himself over to cul» time, arts, science, philosophy. That is the personalist and human purpose in answer to the why or whither of planned economy. The concrete content of the plan must be directed to this end. But a further question arises: "Planned economy, yes, but di- rected by whom?" CROSSWORD PUZZLE L l:7awr 8. l0reek poet" 38. Ac any tum 38. Ancient Coltlo Priests 38, Court orders 39. Draws 40.1tend liner 1. Sea eagle 2. Look slyly 44, Narrow opening 0. Cross 0 Transmit. 3. 1102 ACROaS 1. Serpent 4, Girl's name 8, Persia 12. Tloman household god 12. ('.oars- grass stem 14. Solitary 10. Mooch 18 .Acquaintance 12 Meals 00, Aurlrutate 21. 10xist 12 wife of (laratnt 84 San BRNO 20. mango plant 27. Took a nhxir 30. xrm,ntaln nymphs 02. African t1y 00. Rlvcr bottom 25. Ana1chlsts 27 dripping instrument 31 Re afraid 39 "'enaing dummy 40 Risk 0!•51"0 5Oler 48, A4nney lenders 47. 114130 worked by horses 49 Did,: 80. nnl3oed mdse god 51 2000 pounds 51. smiled fo0rles. 04, Thnso who do (suffix) 25. Strang* DOWN 1, winglike 2. Wise 3, Ready 4. Obliterate 5. Pi r tear that 8. D Olt 9, Bellow 10, Poker stake 11, Require 17, Plasters 10. Open court 23, Insect eggs 24. Weep 25. Native metal 28, On he ocean. 2T. Pointed knife 28. Donkey ".». time 1750411 i 3 1 o 4 5 4 7 `y;, A. 0 f4 II 13M.,.- 13 Yip 14 5 IG 17 } 44..i 31 •s23 33 '`Sd• ..6*, � 34 34 .,ti 368 3e 30 " 31 tck. az a1.43 34 1.1 3;,7 : 'w�s�. \Ret, a 8 110 •See ee YR. 40 41 42 43 44 4G 46 47 18 ''.. .p 80 tti5 fit 3 .511 154 Answer olnewhere on this page, VON PILLS Planned economy must be linked - up, not with dictator- ship, but with political democ- racy. In a capitalist economy the desires of consumers are ex- pressed by purchases, indicat- ing to producers what to go on manufacturing. Each purchase is a vote ratifying a decision made by a producer. The vote is imperfect because falsified by advertising, Yet in ideal realization this system would best attain maximum satisfac- tion of consumers and safe- guard their freedom of choice, which is an attribute of person- ality. in a planned economy, the plan predetermines the quan- tity and quality of goods to be produced. Thereupon it is ne- cessary to oblige the consumers to use the goods in the proper - tions foreseen in the plan. De- cisions thus come from above. The planners wield economic sovereignty; while in a capi- talist economy the paying con» sumers wield it. The latter re- gime is more democratic. This is true if we treat ot- the capitalistic system of the first half of the 19th century. Then there were numberless small producers who were in touch with consumer demand. Mod- ern technique and monopoly .have changed all that. A long time intervenes between pro- duction and final sale and pro- ducers decide long before knowing consumer wants. The consumer not being consulted till after the article is produced -how can he still be sovereign? There is t1.o doubt that in the capitalist economy sovereignty has passed to a considerable extent from consumers to the directors of large enterprises, In a planned economy the con- sumer will be dispossessed still more of all say. Planned cool'- omy is long-time planning. And once the planning has determined operations and these are begun, they must be pushed to completion (to final consumption of the planned products) under pain of a total upsetting of economic activities. If planned economy is pushed to its extreme in the disposses- sion of consumer sovereignty, the latter must be restored in another way, by transforming the former purchase vote of the consumer into universal suf- frage. In other words the new directors of the. planned econ- omy must be, not private capi- talists, but public servants of the common good, elected by the people to the government THEFARN FRONT ok 12usseLL Fourteen management prac- tices for brooding poults from hatch to eight weeks of age have been recommended to turkey growers by the Nutrition Coun- cil of the American Peed Manu- facturers Association. The re- connnendations, which deal -with feed, water. housing and general management practices were de- veloped by the Nutrition group after an 18 -month study of all research available from the 48 land grant colleges, the U.S. De- partment of Agriculture and the feed industry, The recommendations de- velloped for brooding poults from hatch to eight weeks in- e elude: 0 a N Housing Management 1. With hover brooding Of poults, temperature at edge of hover three inches above the floor should be 95 degrees F. at the start. Drop temperature 5 degrees 00011 week to six weeks, considering at all times the be- havior of the poults. Room tem- peratures preferably should approximate a range of 60 de- grees to 70 degrees F. through the first six weeks consistent with good ventilation. Where room temperatures fall below those recommended, hover tem- peratures should be increased by 5 degrees. After six weeks, room temperatures should be as cool as possible, provided the„ pnults are comfortable. 2. For hover brooding, a mini- mum floor space of. 12 square inches per poult should be pro- vided lender the hover. 3. No more than 300 poults should be brooded in one unit. 4. Battery brooders are satis- factory for starting poults up to 14 days of age. Provide 25 square inches of battery floor space per poult. 5. Where poults are confined to the brooder house. provide 1/ square feet of brooder house floor space per poult through eight weeks of age. Where a sun porch is used, provide one square foot of brooder house space and one square foot of sun porch space. ! h 4 Peeding and Watering 6. Fouls should be fed and watered as soon as possible after hatching. preferably within 24 hours. (CAUTION: Be sure both feed and water ere being con- sumed.) 7. The following minimum feeder spare should be allowed for each 100 poults: with this function in mind. Only in that way can the will of the consumers remain en- tirely safeguarded and effec- tive. Thus the older money -vote of the consumer would now be- come ecome a real vote having power and authority. The result would be a true democratization of industry, with economic issues and aims decided in the public arena of electoral voting. This would substitute the present monetary evaluation of pro- duction by a human one deter- mined by the people express- ing their needs and demands and preferences effectively by their ballots. N * N This column welcomes criti- cism, constructive or destruc- tive, arid suggestions, wise or 'otherwise; 'it will endeavour to answer any questions. Address mail to Bob Von Pills, Whitby, Ont. (a) First two weeks --16 linear feet* (b) During 3rd and Oth week -24 linear feet* (a) louring 5th and 6th week -32 linear feet" (d) During 7th and 8th week -40 linear feet" 8. The following minimum drinking space should be al- lowed for each 100 poults: (a) First two weeks -3 linear feet* or two 1 -gal. foun- tains, (b) Third and fourth week - 6 linear feet* or four 1 -gal. fountains. (c) Fifth through eighth week - 8 linear feet* or two 5 -gal. fountains. Additional space should be provided during hot weather. 6 a 0 General Management 9. A confinement ring (or guard) at least 12 inches in height should be placed approxi- mately two feet from the edge of the hover when poults are started. Gradually increase the distance to three feet. Remove at seven days. The guard should be solid except in hot weather when a wire guard may be used, 10. Provide at least two inches of suitable litter at the start. The litter used should be free from injurious materials and reasonably free from dust. Stir and add fresh litter as needed. 11. The use of roosts is Op- tional during the brooding per- iod, If used, four to six inches of roosting space per poult should be provided from three weeks on. 12. Night lights of 7','2 to 10 watts per brooding unit should be used during the brooding period to aid in prevention of crowding and piling, 13. If and when picking starts, debeaking or other preventive inetohds should be used. 14. Where it is desirable to prevent fighting, wing clipping or wing notching should be done early in the brooding period. *Linear feet -One foot of feed- ing or watering space. For ex- ample, a 4 -foot trough open on both sides has eight linear feet of feeding or watering space. PROVED THE POINT "Your heart is quite sound," the doctor told the elderly man. "With an organ like that, you should have no trouble living till you're 80." "But Doctor," protested the pa- ' tient, "I'in 82 now!" "There!" exclaimed the doctor. "What did I tell you." SCHOOLla LESSON By Bev R. Barclay Warren B.A.,, B.D. Christian Living (Temperance Lesson) Colossians 3:5-10; 1 Timothy 4:12; 1 John 2:1-6 Memory Selection; As he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner oft conversation; because it is writ- ten, be ye holy; fat i am holy. 1 Peter 1:15-16, Statistics say that Canada is about 98% Christian. But when we examine Cotern society in the light of the New Testament standard of Christianity, we see that 'Christian' in statistics and 'Christian' in everyday living are much different. Immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, covetousness, anger, wrath, mal- ice, slander, foul talk and lying have no place in Christian liv- ing. Yet what common sins these are among us today. Paul even calls upon Timothy, the youth, to be an example in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity. John makes it clear that a mere profession is not suffi- cient, He writes, "He who says, `I know him' but disobeys his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him." The Bible condemns sin. John write, "I am writing this to you that you may not sin." But we dare not stop there, He says, "If any man sin, we have an advo- cate with ' the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." If there is sin we may find forgiveness by coming to God through Jesus Christ who died for us. We ought to pattern our lives after the example set by Jesus. Drunkenness gets more head- lines eadlines than any other modern sin. This is because it figures in so many murders, sex crimes and motor accidents. I helped remove three bodies from a car wrecked when being driven dangerously at a high rate of speed. Another occupant died later in hospital._ As we pried open the doors empty liquor bot- tles fell out. No one was sur- prised, The accident was clearly the result of the reckless yet dulled mind of a man who had been drinking. We need not just statistical Christianity but applied Chris- tianity. How happier people are when they turn to Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour. PAIR QUESTION A small girl was entertaining her mother's visitor. "How's your little girl?" the child asked. "I'm sorry to say, my dear, that I haven't a little girl," "How's your little boy?" "I haven't a little boy, either," "Then what are yours?". r,, 4, '0 "What's up .- has she turn- ed you down?" "She has." "Rough luck, old man -- but don't take it to heart too much. A woman's 'No' often means 'Yes.'" "She didn't say 'No' --- she said 'Rats!'" Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking ago::,susr 5.d CCI©.13 N ©©©�U® ,de ji ©©OM©©. ©0I 1 0 ! illaz: �© Tibip Q 5 13 N �a 1v NO ii 2i d7 59 d ds LUCKY ON TOPSIDE ONLY -Good Tuck for the destroyer, bad luck for any lurking submarine, that's what this gigantic shamrock in Mediterranean waters signifies. H. M.S. Barrosa fashioned this pattern of destruction with a new depth -charge IaunchinSi device, "The Squid," which flings depth charges ahead of the, attacking vessel instead of dropping them behind it.