HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1952-08-21, Page 3They Live at Other
Animals" Expense
Living at the expense of some-
body else, and iu turn providing
for another parasite, is ns common
in the animal world as among men.
An outstanding case is that of the
flying fish. Pursued by its enemies
in the water, it leaps into the air
and is often caught by the pelican.
When the pelican has got its
pouch full of fish it wings its way
to land and starts to eat. The
pooch is a bag of skin hanging
from the under -jaw, and in order
to get a fish out of it the bird must
open its mouth, and by a toss of
the head throw a fish out of the
pouch.
The seagull, knowing this, and
being a lazy fellow, watches tate
clumsy pelican until it flies ashore
to feed. Then the gull, with the
impudence which comes ao natur-
ally to villainy, actually purches on
the long head of the pelican and
waits.
Stolen Meal
The great mouth yawns open, the
tasty fish is flipped out of the
pouch, and in another instant it is.
in the gull's beak!
But the sharp eye of the light-
ning -like frigate -bird has been
watching, and the moment the gull
leaves its perch on the pellican to
enjoy his stolen meal, it sees a
stronger and faster bird hurtling
towards it like a rocket,
The gull opens its beak to scream
in fear, and with a graceful swoop
the failing fish is caught by the last
thief of all.
It must be said for most animals
that they rob or murder solely for
the purpose of getting food, but
here and there we come across a
thoroughly depraved creature who
steals for the fttn of it.
All Bait Gone!
One of these is the North Ameri-
can wolverine. It will follow a
trapper at a safe distance, and af-
ter the trapper has carefully baited
all his traps it will steal all the
bait quite as carefully.
Sometimes it will wait until a
ombitiationfieater
Warms Small Home Areas
BY EDNA DOLES
V,the new electriettl appliances that make like easier and,
as a result more fun, there is one utility fixture that'
gives a niaxifnunt return for the money spent. And to the
family fighting the battle of the budget, this is indeed wel-
come news.
A new combination all -electric ceiling heater, overhead
light and air circulator is designed to eliminate the hazards
of the ordinary wall or portable auxiliary heater. ft's in-
stalled in the ceiling for the utmost in service.
This places it, of course, beyond the reach of children's
hands and eliminates the chance of burns or shocks suffered
from backing into an ordinary heater.
A. fan draws the air from the ceiling, pulls it through the
unit and thus heats it and forces it down into the room
where it is circulated for uniform comfort from floor to
ceiling. Thus, it's ideal for bathrooms, bedrooms, nurseries,
recreation rooms or other small areas requiring heat, light
and air circulation, •
Besides all its other advantages this utility appliance fits
into the decor of a rt#nn, unobtrusively lending beauty to it.
fox has been caught and then cool-
ly walls up and kill it, It then tears
the fox from the trap, eats as much
as it wishes, buries the rest, then
goes on to inspect other traps.
Trappers hate the wolverine,
which seems to be able to avoid the
cleverest traps available. One trap-
per spent a week making an elab-
orate and complicated series of
traps, laying cords about the ap-
proaches to the bait, so that the
most wary animal would have been
sure to stumble on one and pull
the trigger of a gun placed so that
it would shoot the disturber.
The next morning the trapper
visited his "foolproof" wolverine -
catcher and found every cord bit-
ten through and every scrap of the,
bait gone!
I wouldn't even try to make a
hcess as to how long wild oats
ave been a problem—and a serious
one—to farmers. Just when you
think you have the pesky things
licked for keeps, they're back again,
worse than ever. They remind enc
of what a little niece of mete once
said about the weeds. "Wouldn't
it be grand" she said, "if things
like strawberries were as anxious
to grow as the dandelions?"
* * *
But, according to Prof, L. B.
Shebeski of the university of Sask-
atchewan, wild oats would be
easier to control if farmers would
help nature to crack the seed coat
in order to provide germination and
growth at a time when the plants
could be killed off by tillage. Wild
oats, by the way, were especially
bad in many north Saskatchewan
fields this Spring.
* * *
Farmers knew that wild oat seed
sometimes lay dormant for years,
but did ,not realize this dormancy
could be broken if the oat seed
coat was cracked to allow germin-
ation.. Unless the seed coat was
cracked the seed would not ger-
minate, Prof. Shebeski said. Nature
did this job of cracking the seed
coat by alternate freezing and
thawing in the fall and alternate
wetting and drying of the soil in
the growing season.
Prof. Shebeski advocated wild
oat control be started in the fall
with shallow fall tillage to bring
as many seeds as possible near the
surface for the alternate freezing
and thawing process. This seed
would germinate its the spring and
could be eliminated by tillage.
* * *
Isiany farmers found their low
spots badly infested with wild oats
because they had followed a policy
of leaving tillage until this land
was drier. Prof. Shebeski advised
farmers with low, waterlogged
land _to till it as soon as possible
in the spring. To germinate and
produce a plant any seed needed
three things — temperature, mois-
ture and oxygen. The low land had
the moisture and the temperature
would come as the spring advanced,
but lacked oxygen. The low spots
should be worked as early as pos-
sible in the spring to aerate the
land. This procedure would give
the wild oat plants the best chance
to grow enough to get their second
leaves and beat the proper stage
for killing by further tillage.
* * *
The sowing of the proper crop
should be delayed until this pro-
cedure had been carried out and
the maximum amount of wild oats
grown to the stage when they
could be killed off and not infest
the crop.
Young Ancient Mariners—Tried and tested sailors, Inge Wand-
schneider, 11, and her brother, Bernd, 9, right, scrub the cabin of
the 87 -foot ketch, "Optimist." In which they crossed the Atlantic in
43 days with their parents and a craw of two.
Needless Dollar Fuss
One cannot help feeling sorry for a lot of Canadian hotel managers,
tourist resort operators and store clerks in these days of the depreciated
U.S, dollar, Cor fusion and resentment have been generated, especially
at border points where American money is circulating almost as freely
as our own legal tender.
And all this fuss is unnecessary.
When the shoe was on the other foot no thinking Canadian expected
to have American hotels, or storese accept our dollar at par. Most
Canadian visitors to the U.S., as a matter of course, had their money
changed into U.S. currency before they crossed the border. It's a pity
that our American visitors would,not adopt the same practice.
Where they don't and insist on using their own currency here we
should not hesitate to discount it and we should tell them this:
"It may have the same name but our dollar is not the same as your
dollar, For a long time you took 10 cents off each of our dollars before
you•even started to do business with us. Times have changed. You and
a lot of other people (nave been buying into Canada, have been investing
in our oil wells, our mines, our industries. That investment has made our
dollar scarcer, more valuable. It is the old law of supply and demand."
—Frohn The Financial Post
The experimental station at
Lacombe, Alta,, bears out this pro-
cedure as the best for control of
wild oats. "Shallow tillage and de-
layed seeding, plus the use of fer-
tilizer and an early - maturing
grain," was the recommendation of
the station.
* 5 *
On the station a field has been
in fallow -grain -grain rotation for
38 years, yet developed a serious
wild oat problem. Sifting the wild
oat seeds the station technicians
found 70:7 bushels of wild oat seeds
per acre.
* * *
In the fall of 1949 the field was
given a shallow tilling with a one-
way disc, and in the spring of 1950
with a duckfoot cultivator and
cable weeder. Seeding was delayed
until June 2 while an adjacent area
was seeded May 8. The grain seed-
ed June 2 was practically free of
wild oats while that seeded May 8
was polluted.
U MY SCIIOOL
LESSON
By Rev. R. Barclay Warren,
B.A.. B.D.
By R. Barclay Warren, B,A., B.D.
"THE TRAGEDY OF SAUL"
1 Samuel 15:17-22; 18:6-9; 31:3-4.
Memory Selection: To obey is
better than sacrifice, and to heark-
en than the fat of rams. 1 Samuel
15:22,
The tall young king to whom
God had given another heart (1
Sam. 10:9) and whoshad prophesied
(10:10) had a sad ending. In im-
patience at Samuel's late arrival he
assumed the office of a priest and
offered sacrifice. Then he was diso-
bedient in sparing Agag and the
best of the flocks of the Antale-
kites. His effort to lay the blame.
on the pdople showed further weak-
ness. If the blame had really rested
on the people then it would show
weals leadership on his part. Jea-
lousy was the next sinful trait to
appear. Then came malice and an-
ger against the youthful David, An
evil spirit from the Lord troubled
this sinful king. On occasion Ile
would seem to be about to revert
to the good life. When David
showed him how he had spared his
life he said, "I have sinned—behold,
I have played the fool, and have
erred exceedingly" (26:21). But
the apparent reformation was short--
lived.
hort-lived.
The last scenes of Saul's life are
particularly distressing. The Philis-
tines are arrayed against him. In
his plight Ile resorts to the witch
of Endor. In earlier days he had
been zealous in ridding the land of
these impostors, What an array we
have of them today: fortune tellers,
tea cup readers, palm readers, med-
iums, etc. But "should not a people
seek unto their God?" Is, 8:19,
Wiles eked boy t figure Samuel,
"Wray hist thou disquieted me, to
bring me up?" he replied: "—
God is departed from me, and an-
swereth me no more, neither by
prophets, nor by dreams." The news
he received was evil. He had gone
too far from God to return. In
despair he fell on his own sword.
His light went out in darkness.
"Let him that thinketh he stand-
eth take heed lest he fall." 1 Cor.
10:12.
Arrival In Alaska
A bush pilot, flying a makeshift
plane that could rightly be called
a "crate," tools us to Bristol Vil-
lage. On our way in we flew over
herds of caribou and moose .
We soared over the heavily -wood-
ed mountains and then over the
fiat and treeless t u n d r a, snow-
covered and glittering in the bril-
liant
ritliant sun, and down to the shore
by the lashing waters of Bristol
Bay. As the heavy ground fog
below us lifted, the pilot set us
down on a lake two miles from
the schoolhouse. It was the twenty-
third day of our journey.
The sound of an intoning plane
is rare and wonderful in the North
and on this occasion, as on every
one, all of Bristol Village carie to
meet the plane. No word had been
sent ahead of our corning, but the
news spread through the crowd
and we heard eager cries of:
"Teachers! Teachers have come!
We have school novel"
Around us were the smiling
friendly faces of Aleuts and Eski-
mos broad and welcome, Bill and
I were overwhelmed by the warinth
of their cordiality as we introduced
ourselves and exchanged hand-
shakes.
The fact that teachers bad come
made it a gala day for the village.
Children climbed over the plane,
the men helped 13111 unload, and
the women gathered together in
a circle to one side, chattering
gaily. One of them, Esther, an
Eskimo mother, walked over to
me and said timidly; "We want
you to like us here."
Mashing across two frozen lakes
and two miles of crystal white
snow, we finally came to the
schoolhouse. It was a long white
clapboard building, something like
a covered bridge, with a front
porch along the length of it. We
had expected a one room log cabin
and were overcome by the "grand-
eur" of this school.
Thanking our drivers for tak-
ing us and our luggage to the
school, we asked then to come and
see us when we were settled. Sev-
eral children _ plainly wanted to
stay and one little Eskimo boy
asked hopefully: "School tomorrow
maybe?"
We told them It would take us
a few days to get the school ready,
but to drop in for a visit any time.
The next morning at seven o'clock
they were there.
The schoolrooms and teachers'
*lying -quarters were all in the
same building, connected by a long
hallway.
As we stepped out on the front
porch, we flinched in the glare
of a white Iand. It stretched out
to the North Pole and somewhere
on the way merged with a bleached
sky, the ivrosty glitter broken only
by shreds of smoke creeping out
of the chimneys below, like soiled
remnants of an old fog. For as
long as sten could piece metnories
together, Bristol Village had been
a permanent settlement, and so It
was not an igloo town. Winding
trails laced homes together, join -
Ing two separated clusters of
houses nestled in the snow. Down
in the vill e, w legrp tjjt the
Eskimos live o`t
to e roti¢ and
the Aleuts in the other. After
many centuries of sharing the Arc-
tic, the two distant cousin races
had become close neighbors in this
one spot in Alaska.—From "Hearth
in the Snow," by Laura Buchan
and Jerry Allen.
Precious Glass
The study of glass may he coot -
pared to a window which opens
backward to the most remote pee.
iods of recorded history. There 1e
for example, the legend of the acct•
dental discovery of glass by the
Phoenicians, A group of Phoenicia's
sailors, tate story goes, built a hon -
fire on the beach. Having no stones
upon which they could rest their
cooking utensils, tliey used cakes
of soda which they happened 10
have with them. On completion of
their meal, they were amazed to
find that the soda had disappeared,
In its place was a hard shiny sub-
stance which proved to be the first
glass made by man.
Or tet us glance back into tilt
history of the ancient Egyptians.
In the museum at Cairo the modern:
traveller sees all the priceless pos.
sessions of King Tutankhamen.
Among these is a marvellous gold
necklace with a hundred gold pea.
dents inlaid with turquoise, lapie
lazuli and cloisonnc of glass. Be-
cause glass is so common in the
world today, it strikes one as odd
that this material should form part
of these exquisite adornments of
ancient Icings, but our surprise ends
with the realization that in those
ancient tines glass was so rare
that it was valued above precious
stones.
Anyone who becomes interested
in the history of glass, will be de-
lighted with many of the archaeo-
logical exhibits he will find in Egypt,
In a tomb of one of the old Pha-
raohs near Thebes, for example,
paintings on the walls show Innen
blowing glass in very much the
sante way and with very much. the
same tools still employed in glace
making at the present time. Stilt
preserved is a glass piece found in
the tomb of Thutmose IT, who
reigned about 1500 B.C.
Anyone who studies the old mo-
saic glass beads of the Egyptians
will find in them the designs wlticle
served hundreds of years later to
give workmen their ideas for the
so-called "cane" patterns used lit
sowehtso.f the early glass paper..
eigm
Many centuries alter, the art of
glass -snaking spread to Venice and
Rome. In the 12th Century, glass
factories were so numerous In
Venice that they became a fire ha-
zard to the city. As s result, they
were moved to the Island of Mu-
rano, where the secrets of glass-
makers were guarded under penalty
of death. Glass-makers of those
days ranked with the nobility, and
a daughter of a count could starry
a glass-maker without losing caste,
At Altars, the seat of the glass-
makers' guild in the 13tH Century,
glassworkers were eventually hired
out to other districts—much to the
distress of Murano. As a result,
the art spread to Bohemia, France
amend Fng1 fl • two
ce rlgj I t .r
to the muted States, There Is no
reference to Venetian glass manu-
facture before the 13th Century„
although it is noteworthy that by
this time St. Mark's in Venice,,
built in 1159, had mosaics through-
out its interior, and the Venetians
of the 13th and 14th Centuries were
already complete masters of the use
of enamel.—From "Old Glave
Paperweights," by Evangeline H.
Bergstrom, «� ,
Eleven O'Clock Break
Combination hot c o f f e e- cold
water dispenser is ideal for offices,
Coffee cars be taken "with" or
"withou't" by pressing appropriate
button. Beverages served in sanat-
tary paper -cups.
"She's A Honey"—This new Lockheed F -94-C Starfire, jet -fighter
interceptor climbs to 45,000 feet in a twinkling and zooms along
in all weather "in the 600-m.p.h. class." Its "bubble nose"
houses instruments that electronically track down enemy air-
craft. The "almost automatic" Starfire is the first fighter plane to
have all -rocket armament, carrying 24 rockets, 2,75 in size, Said
test pilot Tony Levier after landing, "She's a honey,"
JITTER
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