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The Seaforth News, 1952-03-20, Page 3"Twenty -Five Lashes For Profanity"... Lord Byron said to jack Sky - scrape: "And as he knew not what to say, he swore." Now, as then, it seams that there are those who cannot express themselves without "swearing," And •'svben legitimate language falters, they fill in with oaths and profane utterances, In his widely -read work on George Washington, Douglas Southall Freeman lists some of the penalties that a soldier of the Virginia Regiment might expect to pay for certain offenses, among then!: ". . twenty-five lashes with a cat-o'-nine-tails for •profanity, fifty for feigning sickness, 100 for drunkenness, 500 for fighting with another soldier , , ." Twenty-five lashes for profanity( If the order were in general force and effect today, uncounted multitudes would be; beaten and bruised --in the army and out of itl These words are credited to General Washington, as having been directed to his Continental Artny; "The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it," * * It would seem to be 'seriously significant that in the. Ten Com- mandments which the Lord God gave to Moses, the prohibition against profanity was thought to be a subject of sufficient importance as to be included in this limited list: 'Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain." (Exodus 20:7.) And yet profanity is eo prevalent that it sometimes seems to have become almost .as commonas con- versation. But being common doesn't assure acceptability. Disease is also common. Corruption and moral decadence are common. And the fact that they are prevalent doesn't mean that they are proper or permissible. * 5 5 One reason, no doubt, for the prevalence of profanity is because we often unthinkingly accept our- selves as we are, and we don't hear ourselves as others hear us "'any more than we see ourselves as others see us. But if we were to hear a record of some of our re- marks—and listen as if we had never heard ourselves before— there are times when we would surely be embarrassed, I heard a man the other day -- a "substantial citizen" shall we say? who apparently knew only one kind of adjective, writes Rich- ard L. Evans in The Sunday Pictorial. And no !natter what he was attempting to talk about, every third or fourth word was n profane expletive or a foul ad- jective. With 'him it had become so habitual that he wasn't aware of what he was saying or how he was sounding. 5 * * Quite apart for the question of commandments, there is a purely -- practical side of the problem: Language is an effective tool if wisely used. But if overused it loses much of its force and effec- tiveness. And the constant use of so-called "strong language is like someone shouting all the time. It soon becomes commonplace and MERRY MENAGERIE "With inflation and income taxi, a figure it's worth about $271" doesn't add any emphasis— but only offense. And if the real need should arise, the shouting would already have lost its force, and effectiveness. (Lille the boy who cried "Wolf! Wolf!" too many tittles, and didn't have anything to add when the real occasion carne.) * * M, We commend the code to which the television board of the Nat- ional Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters have re- cently committed themselves, and from which we quote: "Television, and ail who partici- pate in it, are jointly accountable to the American public for respect for the special needs of children, for community responsibility, for the advancement of education and culture, for the acceptability of the program materials chosen, for decency and decorum in produc- tion, and for propriety in advertis- ing. This responsibility , . . can be discharged only t h r o u g h the highest standards of respect for the American home, applied to every moment of every program pre- sented . "Profanity, obscenity, smut and vulgarity are forbidden, even when likely to be understood only by part of the audience . , . "Reverence is to mark any men- tion of the name of God, His at- tributes and powers." Any man, on or off the air—any man who appears in public or in private—should think of the in- fluence and atmosphere he is im- posing upon other people,, and should have the decency to protect all others against offensive speech. * * * The final fact is that crude com- ment and oaths and irreverent utterances are proscribed by the commandments of God, which fact cannot lightly be considered even by those who mean no offense by their loose language. Perhaps the essence of the sub- ject is suggested in that phase of the dictionary definition which re- fers to profanity as "irreverence." A Helping Hand—One of the numerous services provided by the Ontario Society for Crippled Children, which makes its Easter Seal campaign for funds March 13th to April 13th, is transportation of treatment cases. Here driver Jack Doherty is ready to take Mei Marwick, aged 20, to the Occupational Therapy Centre, Toronto. Wouldn't it scent to be inconsis- tent to pray for health and hap- piness, for peace and protection, and for "our daily bread"—and then irreverently use the name of Him to whom we pray? The opening utterance of the Lord's Prayer presents the key to the question: "Our Father which ...art in heaven, HALLOWED be they name." (Matthew 6:9.) TIILFAIZN I'1?ONT Jokt Coarse grain crops can be made practically strut -free if proper methods of treatment and the most effective disinfectants are used, re- port scientists of the Federal Lab- oratory of Plant Pathology in Win- nipeg who have completed a three year survey of actual farm seed treating methods for smut control in barley and oat crops, * * * Their survey showed that old standby disinfectants. such as cop- per sulphate (bluestone) and for- maldehyde are not satisfactory for treating seed as they sometimes cause seed injury, 4, * * Modern organic mercury disin- fectants gave touch better smut control, particularly when an un- even distribution of disinfectant through seed grain was obtained with the shovel or loading auger method of application. The most efficient disinfectant was found to be the organic mercury compound, "Ceresan" • M. The laboratory report noted that the mean percentage of smut in 166 fields. sown with seed treated with "Ceresan" M. was 0.49 while in 103 fields sown with formalde- hyde -treated seed the mean percen- tage of smut was 2.20. The percent- age of smut in check !,lots of un- treated grain was 225. 5 .,. 5 The survey further revealed that ,:---ili'' • HAROLD ARNETT HERE'S A STUNT TO TIDY WHEN YOU NAVELINT . ON YOUR CLOTHES : WRAP SOME CELLULOSE TAP!" $77cie,vs t our AROUND A PIECE OF WOOD AND SRU51•1 THE LINT OFp WITH 17; ea Lulinkixp grains treated with organic mer- cury disinfectants could be stored much longer than those treated with older types of fungicides. When treated with copper sulphate or for- maldehyde, seed has to be sown a day or less after treatment. Organic mercury compounds, on the other hand, control seed -borne diseases more effectively if applied four or more days before seeding, and treated seed can be stored without risk of injury. This en- ables the farther to complete his seed -treating operations during the slack pre -seeding season. * * * Methods of applying seed disin- fectant are an important factor in smut control, the investigators found. Machine -treated seed' gene- rally produced crops with less smut than shovel or auger -treated seed' but only about 55 per cent of the ' farms that treated seed used a treating machine. 3, * Pasture and hay occupy over 50 , per cent of the total crop acreage in Ontario. Approximately 3 mil- lion acres of arable land and 3.4 million acres of rough land are in pasture, while hay is grown on approximately 3;4 million acres. * *: * The extent of this acreage and the significance of sante in the economy of production speaks for itself. Because of the large areas avail- able and the low cost price of land, we have unfortunately, down through the years, been inclined to seek the line of least resistance by increasing our acreage rather than the carrying capacity per .acre. Until recently, we dict not concern ourselves about the .re- lationship between soil fertility. 'hay and pastures mixtures, and the management of same. Today, we consider pasture planning and management in all of their aspects as being of vital importance as re- lated to profitableness of enter- prise. Notwithstanding this fact, it is considered safe to suggest that our live stock producers across the Province are not as hay minded as they are pasture minded. 4, * * High quality hay is made from legumes and grasses, cut at the proper stages of growth, leafy, green in colour, free from moulds and weeds and dust and as nearly as possible fine -stemmed. * * * The stage cf maturity affects hays because the dry matter con- tent increases up to full maturity. As timothy approaches maturity, however, there are !narked decreases in protein and, in fact, all useful ingredients, and in their digesti- ;,. bility. For best quality grass hasas,aa cutting should be made at the. earliest heading or beginning Woollie- s tage. loom.stage. t, * * Time of cutting is important with legumes, although probably not as critical. as with grasses. With alf- alfa, the first cutting can be made at the early bloom stage. Red clover and alsike should also be cut at early -bloom or one-half ' bloom stage for the best quality of hay. * * * Mixtures of legumes and grasses should be cut when the legumes are at the proper stage of develop- ment as described above. * * x, The weather conditions at the time of cutting exert a greater • control on nutrient preservation than does time of day. If a person has proper standard modern hay- making equipment on hand, and if one sees fit to take advantage of the facilities which are made available to agriculture today with re% Cct• to the forecasting services pgovernment through radio sta- t<ous, and to use one's own baro- -*ter, there remains opportunity . er-one to make high quality hay 3z the field, provided that it is 'Olt at the proper stage of matur- ity. * * * Windrowing of hay after it has lain in the swath for two or three hours, preserves the quality by re- ducing the amount of hay directly exposed to the sun, and permits of better circulation of air through the hay. There is also evidence that it is easier to cure mixtures of grasses and legumes than legumes alone because of the fart that the grasses aid in aeration which makes for more rapid drying. * * • x The pick-up baler can have its limitations in the harvesting of high quality hay, This is especially so if hay He harvester) by contract. There is a tendency for the opera- tor to wait until the last possible minute before cutting the crop. This makes drying much more rapid and baling much easier, so that frequently baled hay is a more mature product than what is con- sidered to be average mow hay. * * * Hay, properly field cured under Ideal weather conditions, is .high he vitamin D and may contain se appreciable quantity of carotene. Leaf lons is reduced to te tninimunt and the overall feeding quantity is well preserved. * * Unfortunately, if adverse weather conditions prevail, there is a con- siderable nutrient loss. When hay crops are fully cured in the field under such adverse conditions, losses in original feeding value are very considerable. Bleaching and leaf shattering can account for losses amounting to between 30 and 40 per cent. An acre of alfalfa that will yield approximately three tons of hay per season coutaining 50 per cent or thereabout of leaves has as !much feed value in terms of digestible protein and total dig- estible nutrients, when properly fed, as one ton of linseed oilmeal, plus one ton of dried beet pulp. * * * The tripod curing method is satisfactory when the volume of hay to be harvested is relatively small. By this method it is possible to make a high quality product at a relatively low cost, * * Mow drying and curing of hay, either baled or chopped.—This method serves to make for a better quality product. Getting hay into the mow sootier after it Is cut tends to reduce losses from weath- ering and also reduces leaf loss, especially during unfavourable hay harvesting weather, with the result that more hay, cat at the right stage of maturity, can be saved and the protein and carotene content will be higher if curing in the mow is completed in a satisfactory manner, Doubtless there remains consider- able information to be discovered concerning this method of preserv- ing hay. However, whether the hay is baled or chopped, this method of curing, combined with better "Just like a man( Must have everything in black and white! harvesting equipment, are all steps toward the goal of better hay. Such methods should serve to shorten the time between cutting and a safe moisture content for perman- ent storage. * * As for this initial moisture con- tent, present information is to the effect that hay can be put on the drier at a moisture content of from 40 to 45 per cent with no danger of spontaneous ignition, provided that the fans are kept running. * * * Extensive cooperative research is being conducted at the Ontario Agricultural College in connection with mow curing of hay. 1 NDAYSC11001, LESSON By Rev. R, B. Warren, B.A., B.D. Lydia, Who Opened Her Heart ., And Home Acta 16: 6-15, 40. Memory Slection: A woman that feareth the Lord, she shall ba praised, Proverbs 31r36, It is remarkable how God guider His children. Paul and Silas, ac companied by Timothy from Lystre journeyed through Asia, a western province of Asia Minor, being fore bidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word there. They they thought to go to the north of Bithynia, but the Spirit suffered them, not. Where would they go? But when God closes some doors, He always opens another to his faithful chit- dren. In a night vision Paul re- ceived a call to Macedonia. The record reads, "Immediately we en- deavoured to go." In the Roman colony at Philippi the evangelists attended an open- air prayer meeting by the riverside. Apparently there were not suffi- cient Jews there to build a syna- gogue. Among those present was tk Gentile woman, Lydia, a seller -of - purple, who worshipped God. Tide woman, "whose heart the Lord opened," became a Christian. She and her household were baptized. Then she opened her home to the evangelists, Paul, Silas, Timothy and Luke. That it continued to be their hone while they were in Philippi is seen from the fact that when Paul and Silas were released from prison they proceeded to the house of Lydia where they met with the brethern and comforted them. There are still some Lydias who not only have received Christ into their heart but who are labouring fervently with heart and hand to help on the cause in every way. The church needs more Lydias, The High Cost Of Getting Rubber Better appreciate the elastic fat that new girdle, the rubber in those new tires. Much of it comes to you through barbed-wire enclosures, past Com- munist guerrilla fire from the jungles of Malaya, where one of the world's great dramas is now playing. A close-up of the life of a rub- ber planter and his family in Malaya is given by a pretty Eng- lish girl, Rhona Connery, now vise iting the United States after three years as news and special events editor of Radio Malaya. During her stay in the heart of the jungles, whence conies some 90 per cent of the world's natural rubber, Miss Connery witnessed blood -and -thunder dramas that rival the tales of America's early frontiers and Indian warfare. Says she: "The average English rubber grower in Malaya lives in a bun- galow in a barbed-wire enclosure, from which his family dare not stray. Every time he rides his jeep around his acreage, he is itt constant danger of attack front ambush. To have even a slim mar- gin of safety be must take a differ- ent route every day." All Socked Away—Paced with a critical housing problem after her collie, Pippin, had 11 puppies, Mrs. Theo Rubbright solved it by hanging up the pups its socks. JrrrER OtHT WISGLINe...TPE AItT sgtowL. %WN?lls YOLI TO PO% I'OOA tnKAI7t 14 CLASSMD I WANT 7DNIBHT VOU 7U LAO( 1CIIIR 1ST THAT ROOM IS ouR mew. IN HERE WE PAINT STILL LIFE YOU kNOW.,.RRUOT, FLawsscs AND VASES!