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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1955-12-22, Page 3We all lcnow that the farm problem in Oanada, especially in regard to the mounting stock- piling of surplus and possibly on saleable products, is certainly an acute one. But what must it be south of the border where they already have .SIX BILLION DOLLARS WORTH of such sur- pluses on hand, with the possi- bility of the total reaching the staggering total of TEN BIL- LION before there is any easing off. The following dispatch from Washington gives an idea of how some of the leaders over there view the problem. The three big farm organiza- tions are in disagreement over the development of a proper program, the ,National Grange still holding out for commodi- ty -by -commodity approach, the Farmers' Union insisting that a broad, over-all approach some- what similar to the Brannan Plan is the real answer, while the American Farm Bureau Federation feels that, with cer- tain limited changes, the pre- sent program can be made to work. The disunity among the "big three" is further emphasized by the recent Grange attack on the present administration farm program, a Senator Aiken, in talks to farm groups, is stressing the optimistic side of the farm pic- ture as well as its darker as- pects. Farm credit is still high and the rate of farm fore- closures which averaged 7,000 a year for the last 10 years, is now down, to 60 in 1954. While farm problems may be "alleviated or aggravated by man-made laws," the senator believes that in the main these problems will not be met in the halls of congress or in state capitols, but "must be solved in the laboratory and on the farms and by greater unity of effort among farm people." PUZZLE How did barber Al- phonse Secinaro spend his time over a recent weekend? Hint: ' He didn't attend an Elk's con- vention. Sorne of this unity, he feels, might be accomplished through farm cooperatives. He believes that the public will support cooperative efforts of farmers to share fairly in the national income. But Senator Aiken does not believe that the public will long support "a policy of guaranteeing high- level farm income through fed- eral largess, except during emergencies." He points to the potato and egg programs of a fere years ago as indication of that. The peak of the govern- ment's gigantic holdings of farm surpluses probably will be reached this winter. and "then should taper off," in the opin- ion of Senator George D. Aiken of Vermont, ranking Republi- can farm leader. This tapering off period may be slow, but he feels that "from the long range point of view" the future of the coun- try's two million commercial farmers is a promising one. e1 * In the meantime, the govern- ment has nearly 6 billion dol- lars worth of farm surpluses on its hands. Department of Agri- culture authorities estimate that by the time the "peak" which Senator Aiken forsees is reach- ed American taxpayers will be remote -control owners of some 10 billion dollars worth of these surpluses, a „ o The senator's belief that the tide will begin to turn at that point is based on the fact that domestic demand for all farm commodities is increasing. and exports now are running 20 per cent over last year, The Vermonter has been tak- ing to the platform lately in an efort to refute the gloom -and - doom talk about any American "farm crisis." What he is saying from these platforms represents what will, in all probability ,constitute the administration answer to mounting political attack on the farm issue. As he puts it: "The so-called farm crisis is political. The farm problem is economic." Neither the Senate farm lead- er nor the administration, how- ever, has put forth as yet any definite program of farm legis- lation. 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After a day of healing Jesus rose early the next morn- ing and retired to pray. Before he chose the twelve disciples he spent the night in prayer. While praying on the mount he was transfigured before the three disciples and Elias and Moses appeared to talk- with him. So beautiful was Jesu& pray- er life that on one occasion af- ter he had ceased praying his disciples besought him, "Lord, teach us to pray," He then set forth the proper spirit inwhich we should approach God in the model prayer commonly called the Lord's prayer, . It is a trite saying but it 'needs repeating: if Jesus, the Son of God, needed to pray, then so do we. Most of us will confess that prayer -is too readi- ly crowded out of our daily pro- ' gram. There are so many things to do and so many places to go. One missionary friend said, "We haven't time to pray; we must take time."- It would startle most of us if we kept track of how little time we spend in prayer in a whole week. If we would live radiantly and triumphantly we must wait upon the Lord. He will renew our strength. The fruitfulness of the Billy Graham crusades is largely due to prayer. When hundreds of thousands of people are earnest- ly seeking God's blessing upon a given effort - well, some- thing is sure to happen. Tenny- son well said, "More things are wrought, by prayer than this world dreams of," We must pray more for our daily needs, our families, the church of 'God around the world and for peace among mon, The brown -skinned, lissom women who live in villages in a 400 -mile -square area of north-west India are reported to be in revolt against their centuries-old custom of poly- andry, which permits each wife more than one husband. They live in a woman's world known as Jaunswar-Bawar, where India's far north meets Tibet. Sri their mountain -locked villages men outnumber women by four to one and the total population is 60,000. Some of the women have five husbands. One, Mrs. Gumani, who is slender, graceful and shy, has six and seems quite content. They are brothers and everybody lives snugly on one room. But many of the other women do not thing polyandry is so wonderful and have re- cently been obtaining divorces from their husbands. Divorce there is cheap and easy. Oddly enough, there is no such thing as a jealous husband Legend says that it was a queen -ancestor of these strange people who introduced poly- andry. She instructed her third son that the wife he won far himself by his skill as an archer must be the equal bride of Itis four brothers, too, and so the custom began. STRINGS ATTACHED - Anybody lost a hand ? That's what Hin- ton, W. Va., police want to know. They found this human hand, with a string attached, on e sidewalk. Displaying it is Capt. H. C. Shirley. RUSSIAN SCI E; MIS TAMING THE SUN Soviet natural scientists are planning to build the biggest sun power plant in the world. The description of their plans, as part of the final paper read recently at the 1st world sympo- sium on applied solar energy, wound up this 36 -nation con- ference' on an optimistic note. For the first time, this con- ference held recently in Phoe- nix Arizona brought over 900 experts from six continents to- gether in one place to discuss how to develop one of the most abundant resources of mankind - the incredible energy of the sunshine that falls freely around us. The Soviet project was by far the most ambitious single project described at the con- ference. The highlight of the Soviet paper was the descrip- tion of the proposed solar power Baum's estimates, it will be able Baums' estimates, it will be able to turn out 750 to 1,000 kilo- watts of electricity and, at the same time, 19 tons of ice or 44 cubic meters of fresh water an hour, as a by- product. In the winter, his paper said, the plant could heat a settlement of 17,- 000 to 20,000 people. This Soviet scheme goes far beyond any other project in the solar power field that has been presented at this conference. The consensus of other papers on the subject was that any use of solar power on the scale of the Soviet project was un- economical at this time and only a prospect for the fairly distant future. There is nothing in Professor Baum's paper to suggest that his projected plant could compete economically with other forms of power, even with the rela- tively expensive atomic power. However, his paper carefully pointed out that this plant is "designed for a specific region of the southern part of the Soviet Union." Thus, it looks as though it will be just an expen- sive large scale experiment, un- derwritten by the Soviet gov- ernment as a developmental project and having some prac- tical value for a remote area, far from supplies of ordinary fuels. But even as an experimental project, this scheme, if it is pur- sued, will be a big step forward in solar energy utilization. By and large the most that has been proposed in other papers here has been involved solar cookers, small-scale solar stills,and individual home water heaters and heating and cooling systems. The Baum project was the only specific plan to use the sun on anything approaching an industrial scale with the excep- tion of source fairly large solar furnaces described by the French delegation. But the really unique feature of the Soviet plan is that it is an attempt to use the sun to generate sizable amounts of electric power. There are three fundamental- ly different ways of doing this, as outlined by various confer- ence speakers. One is to use the sun's heat to run a more or less conventional steam generator. A second method, called "photo- electric," turns sunlight directly into electricity. The Bell Tele- phone Laboratories solar bat- tery is an example. The third method, called "photo -chemical," uses sunlight to create chemical fuels which ' can be burned to produce pow- er. Some experiments now being carried out along this line use sunlight to break ordinary wa- ter into hydrogen and oxygen gases which can then be burned to give an intense "Seat, Professor Baum's paper agreed with the estimates of the other experts here that both photo- electricity and photo -chemistry, as sources of sizable amounts of power, are still in the very early laboratory stages. But his proposed t h e r m a l power plant indicates that he thinks this kind of sun power is much closer to being prac- tical than the others here haves indicated. One of the biggest drawbacks to such a plant, as discussed by other speakers here, is the hig cost of the ` large area of the mirrors needed to focus the sun's rays on the steam boiler. Professor Baum's paper says. that this cost can be cut con- siderably by using a battery of small mirrors instead of a few big ones, since the cost of a square foot of mirror goes up steeply as the size of the indi- vidual mirrors is increased. As dscribed in his paper, the Baum project would have "twenty-three concentrical rail- way lines . , situated around a central tower with the boiler, along which trains of platforms move on each platform, there is a flat reflector 3 by 5 meters consisting of 28 flat mir- rors fastened on a metal struc- ture." Taken together, these mirrors will add up to 20,000 square meters of reflecting surface. They will be kept trained ora the sun by automatic photo - electronic devices that will also keep them focussed on the cen- tral steam boiler. By this means the description says, enough heat can be generated to deliver superheated steam at 350 de- gress centigrade and 16 atmos- pheres pressure at the rate of 13 tons of steam an hour. "If you are going after pow-. er, this is the way to do it," e leading American solar author- ity commented. "The Russian plan is ingenious," he said, "it shows real vision." .Although this American dele- gate did not want to be quoted by name, presumably because he had not yet had enough times to study the Soviet paper care- fully, his offhand estimate re- flected that of many of the other delegates as well. Professor Baum is known, bolt by reputation and person- ally, to many of the solar en- ergy authorities. They respect his work, which they say is on a par with solar energy research in other countries. Thus, even though he has described only a "paper power plant," they take his plans as those of a project that will in time produce ex- perimental hardware. The Soviet scheme is vision- ary and ambitious, but, at the same time, it has a very practi- cal ring as a developmental re- search program. 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