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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1960-04-21, Page 3Year Of The Meuse Ear The Japanese Tilts is the "Year of the Mouse"' as marked by the old Japanese calendar. It will be a year of abundant food and much activity, according to my Jap- anese friends here in New York. Equal to the traditional charity and lore of the Japanese is the practical fact that 1960 commem- orates the 10th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Am fly and Commerce establishing ,commercial relations between Ja- pan and the United States. This is the year when the Jap- anese expect great things in com- merce, culture, and delicacies, for the mouse is the Japanese symbol of "Daikoku," which is one of the Japanese seven gods of good fortune, their customary god of wealth, and also the guar- dian of the kitchen. Wherever those is a mouse, there is also :food and well-being, In the early centuries when the Japanese enjoyed the more delicate charm of inner appreci- ation of nature, there was the time - as the story goes - when Buddha was in distress, His followers - people and animals alike - rushed to him to e:(press their sympathy. But of all the species of ani- mals, only 12 appeared: mouse, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, cock, dog, and wild boar. Because of their devotion each was selected to symbolize important factors in Japanese life and played a mean• ingful role in the nation's af- fairs, writes Harry C, Kenney in the Christian Science Monitor. Since this is the Year of the Mouse he will be exposed to many activities d using the months ahead. During 1960, radio, television, and newspapers will put special emphasis on in- terviews with "mouse -year cel- ebrities." But what about the mouse? How did he become number one? Legend has it that though first in place in the journey to Buddha, he gained his position by trickery. It was really the ox •that deserved this position, but the mouse, being the clever fel- low that he is hitched a ride on the ox's back, When the ox arrived at its destination, the anouse jumped off and entered first, and the ox was denied the honor. Although the official signifi- cance is minor today, each Jap- anese new year is always cele- brated in honor of these animals. The mouse is honoredin a num- ber of ways by the Japanese. The Japanese Post Office is now featuring a special mouse stamp. It is patterned after the "rice - eating mouse" which originated about 1830. There is a replica of this fellow as a toy, and the Jap- anese saying is that whoever $lays with it will have wealth stud prosperity. All through Japanese history and part of American history, the 'Year of the Mouse keeps pop- ping up. Japan was virtually cut c'..sat'sesstss sits. ,, e ` n •s`Stt FLIPPED - Harold Ulseth, of Minneapolis, can't get the lic- Osloplate on his car right Oslo up no matter what he does. off from trade and cultures el all nations from the time of the edict of 1637 forbidding foreign- ers to set foot on Japanese soil, But then during the Year of the Mouse, 1832, Commodore Matthew C. Perry was entrusted to set sail for the Orient and with a fleet of four ships entered Yedo Bay on July 8, 1853. He negotiated a treaty to open Japan to United States ships which was ratified March 31st, 1804. Also, 100 years ago and be- yond, the mouse "started time" or "began the hour" of Japanese timekeeping, Instead of figures, animals were used on the "clock" and the mouse (Ne) started mid- night. Every two hours apart came the ox (Ushi), tiger (Torn), rabbit (U), dragon (Tatsu), snake (Mil, horse (Uma), sheet) (Hit- suji), monkey (Saru), cock (Tori), dog (Int), and wild boar (I), Each two hours, or the time between each animal, was equal to one told. Each toki was divid- ed into four quarters of 30 min- utes each. Half -past 12 midnight, for instance, would be one quar- ter toki past mouse, Somehow there must have beer. a charm and quietude with the tiger and rabbit and the dragon dividing the day. It cer- tainly is a far cry from the pres- ent-day tick - tock count - down. The mouse and the horse and the sheep were not in such a hurry. Flight of Pigeons In Old Mexico Our pigeons live in a Mexican village reared high up on thick, long posts. I love the expres- sion of their frame houses, that have been added to by Jose for years. They lean strangely in all directions, and look like a settled community.... All day long they are cooing and roucouling, and as their feathers resemble the eats' fur, so they seen to be purring like contented kittens. One has to pick one's way among then on the flagstones from the house to the gates. They feel they own the place and I guess they do. We never let cars drive in be- side the portal any more as they used to do because the pigeons wouldn't move away fast enough and they were always being run over. Finally I put a sign on the gates and closed them. It said: "Please don't drive in. The pigeons don't like it." This seemed enormously funny. to an art dealer from Chicago, and he plucked the sign off and took it with him. If he'd ever lived with pigeons he would have understood. Poor fellow! What, in Chicago, can give him the unfailing feeling of wonder and bliss the pigeons thrill one with year after year and several times a day when, at their regu- lar hours, they rise and fly low over the place in a calm, even circling and circling, when the indescribable soft rushing sound of myriad wing -feathers, swift and exultant, sweeps by, show- ing the lovely color of the un- derside of the stretched wings, veering and slanting like a sail against a blue morning sky, or a mauve evening sunset? What picture in any art -dealer's rooms can give one such an immediate joy as the flight of the'pigeona when they take their happy exercise morning, noon and evening? It is the very quick and core of living.... And not only the beloved blue and gray and white and leaf - brown pigeons - but at different times in the year the others who come and go and come again. - From "Winter In Taos," by Mabel Dodge Luhan. The horned toad is not a toad. It is a lizard. It does not lay eggs, but it gives birth to living young. ISSUE 16 -1960 CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1. Perfume 0. Haystack 8, Malo deer 12. limanation 19. Italian dny brooze 14. Shout 16. West Indies island 17. Hoarfrost 18. ugly 01,3 woman 12. Jap, soldier's 20. He rtbeat 21. araln passage 28. Marble 04, Dynamo 27. Ohio college town 80. loan's name 21. Old weight for wool 82, Declare to bo true 23, Wire measure 34. (;leanlne substance 3e, Bobby 87. Loud noise 38. Mist from hroak)ng wavos 41. Common logarithm or ton 12.'rrenole 06, lttensll 40. Print (tit,* 48. Trees 49, Corrode D. Hebrides island 1. )30 cliaplrltod 7' felons 22. DIlsre,i 8. Appmndaga 10. Charity 11. Mirth 16. Tributary of the 2llbe 20. Mohammedan DOWN saint 1. Ritualistic 22. First decimal declaration number 2. Brain covering 23. State of being 3. New new 4. I7%tended 24. Sehoci of whales 26. Samuel's mentor 26. Small drink (11r11 fah) 6. Presided over 0, Algerian seaport 7. Soft mass treed 27. Repugnanoo 28, Scouting group 29. Painting 3/ Turkish officer 84. 24 hours 88, Mahogany streaks 86. Incorrect 38. Cheek 85. Horseback game 40. To frolic 41. Of the mouth 41 A;nglish Prioress 44. Fuel 46 Vigor 47. Aunt (Sp.) 3 4 4 7 9 10 it 12 13 14 19 16 17 16 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 30 31 33 31 45 40 61 39 ' 40 36 34 37 032 35 • 27 20 29 41 46 32 47 42 43 49 52 50 53 Answer elsewhere on this page BIRD DOCTOR - Puffing out its chest, a pigeon gets a check- up from Dr. L. M. Groves, Memphis health officer. He is out to find whether the birds actually constitute a health menace to the city, A new treatment for milking machine rubberware that elimin- ates troublesome boiling is re- commended by the Canadian De- partment of Agriculture. The treatment requires two sets of rubberware alternated weekly, one set soaking in five • per cent lye solution at room temperature for a week at a time, „ 4 This method keeps the rub- berware relatively free from fat, and the length of service of both sets is more than double that of one set when used con- tinuously, states J. A. Elliott. The concentration of lye is important. Solutions stronger than five per cent by weight cause some types of rubber to harden and; weaker solutions do not remove all the fat. Soft water should be used for making lye solutions, as the minerals from hard water may form a scale, or milkstone, on the rubber. * 4, 4 Iron, steel or plastic con- tainers with close -fitting covers are suitable for the lye solution. Aluminum and earthenware con- tainers are damaged by lye. A perforated plastic pail makes a convenient container for putting the rubberware into the lye solution and transferring it to the rinse water. To avoid burns, rubber gloves or metal tongs should be used and care exer- cised to prevent clothes from be- ing damaged. * 4 4 The five per cent lye solution may be used continuously for three months, The initial cost of a second set of rubberware and containers is compensated for by convenience, saving in lye, and longer life for rubberware. A supplement to Publication 627 of the Canada Department of Agriculture describes the procedure and is available at Ot- tawa on request. 4 n 4 An enterprising Toronto high school student ran afoul of the law when he attempted to add an international flavor to his home- work. Entering with gusto a "science fair", sponsored by Rotary International, he sent a letter and a vial to the Depart- ments of Agriculture in each of about 70 countries, requesting that the vial be filled with soil from the local area and returned to him. e o 4, He envisioned an exhibit of soil samples representative of the millions collected by soil scientists the world over. e c e This misguided sagacity brought an immediate reaction, Tokyo and London both wrote advising him that although they would be pleased to oblige, soil from their countries was pro• hibited entry to Canada under regulations administered by the Plant Protection Division, Can- ada Department of Agriculture. An official of the division visited the youthful importer, a grade 12 student, to explain the regulations and obtain any soil samples which might have escaped detection by Postal Customs. Samples from Eire, Spain, Philippines, Greece, Hawaii, Ice- land, Denmark and Switzerland were' confiscated with the full co-operation of the student and, as a matter of interest, turned over to nematologists for exa- mination. s e * These parasitic nematodes were found: Eire soil - Tylen- chorhynchus sp.; Greece soil - Criconemoides sp.; and Switzer- land soil - Longidorus elonga- tus, Gottholdsteineri sp. and 1-ieteroderidae. While his initiative was some- what thwarted, the student learned a valuable lesson about plant protection policies that will long be remembered. 4 * 4 If you had a choice, would you select a luxury automobile costing about $6,500, or a pound of hybrid petunia seed? Ridiculous, you say? On the surface, perhaps, but oddly enough, there would be little difference in value, * 4 * At the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, R. W. Oliver explains that F1 hybrid seed is produced by cross pollina- tion between certain female and male parents - a skillful opera- tion and an expensive one. Consequently, he says, a pound of the seed would cost as much as an expensive car. 4 4 4 "Fortunately, there are about 200,000 seeds in an ounce so that small patches of the hy- brids are within the reach of most of us," adds Mr. Oliver. Petunias provide more color per square foot of garden and bloom longer than any other flower in Canada. Seed com- panies have spent large sums to develop many showy varieties. A "Mayo Clinic" For Animals Seen from New York's East River Drive, the new $3 million hospital will be a worthy neigh- bor to such renowned medical establishments as the Sloan-Ket- tering cancer -research center and the Rockefeller Institute. Inside the air-conditioned, seven -story rectangle of glass and brick, four operating rooms will boast the most modern array of equip- ment. To aid diagnosis, doctors will have the latest X-ray ma- chines and well-equipped path- ology laboratories. But mose intriguing is the fact that this citadel of medical sci- ence will count its capacity fn cages (207 of them) instead of beds, and will have as its patients assorted dogs, cats, and other pets. Ground has been broken for .the hospital which is to be known as the Animal Medical Center, and when it is completed by 1962, it will be the world's biggest and most modern veter- inary hospital and research cen- ter •- a sort of Mayo Clinic for pets. The new Animal Medical Cen- ter will be the direct descendant of a tiny dispensary opened 50 years ago by the New York Women's League for Animals. At present the center occupies two buildings in Lower Man- hattan. Its main emphasis is on finding new cures for diseases rather than merely treating ani- mals. But treatment is still a big part of the center's activity, and most concern, of course, to the owners of suffering pets. "I'd say that 70 per cent of our patients are dogs, 20 per cent cats, and the remaining 10 per cent exotic pets - monkeys, birds, turtles, honey bears, and an occasional skunk," said Dr. Robert J. Tash- jian, the 20 -year-old medical chief, last week. Saturdays are our busy days; that's when the children bring their pets in .. three or four to one dog." Meanwhile, research is pro- gressing on several fronts, "We plan to start work shortly on lymphoma, which resembles leu- kemia in people," Dr. David L. Coffin, the center's 49 -year-old director of research, reported. "We're also working on an organ- ism in dogs related to the one in human beings which causes syphilis. It is prevalent in most animals and is transferable to humans. And we are doing work on distemper, a complicated virus which is thought to be related to measles in humans. Perhaps some of what we learn will have future applicability to measle;." Many animal ailments are similar to human diseases, Dr. Coffin explained, and can serve as models for the study of human diseases. "In the long run," he said, "our research is based on two points; Fighting disease in animals and fighting disease in human beings." -From NEWSWEEK This Woman's Hobby Really Blossomed A gift of e dozen gladiolus bulbs to a young mother 30 years ago started her on the way to eventual recognition as the fore- most woman hybridizer of gladi- olus in America, with recogni- tion in the 1960 issue of "Who's Who of American Women." Mrs. Mir] Vawter, then living in Mansfield, Ohio, needed ex- pense -free recreation when her four children were small in 1929. Her husband, George, worked nights and slept days: money was scarce; and none of it was available for baby sitters. So she made a flower garden, A neighbor gave her a dozen "glad" bulbs. Drought the next year proved the glads' stamina, and she felt they deserved spe- cial attention. New introductions piqued her interest, but she still had no money to buy. She began to hybridize the glads she had. And this she con- tinued to do for 18 years. The family moved West to Waterloo, Ore., in 1948, taking along Miri's prized glad bulbs. She planted them in loamy soil along the South Santiam River at the western edge of the Cas- cades Mountains, and the result- ing blooms decided her to turn her hobby into commercial en- terprise, writes Doris K. Gunder- son in The Christian Science Monitor. Four years later she intro- duced Parma violet, a miniature variety in deep violet shades. It proved to be a landmark in 4i trend toward smaller flowers. Sincethen she has introduced 25 new varities. To Mir] Vawter, the gladiolus is the most practical of flowers. She fashions the blooms into corsages and arranges them in containers varying in size and style from small abalone shells to large baskets. "You can get glads in any size, form, and color," she declares. She was rated Oregon Show- man of the 'Year in 1958. The Vawters appreciate the international aspects of horti- culture and exchange bulbs with growers in the Netherlands and New Zealand. They exhibit their gladiolus in every show possible. As a qualified judge of flower shows and glads, Mir] was an honored guest and judge in Can- ada last fall at the Pacific Na- tional Exhibition in Vancouver, B.C. The Vawters have transform- ed fields once roamed by Kala- puya Indians into masses of hor- ticultural color. They have named their acres "Timberland Gardens" from the giant Doug- las firs that border the gladiolus fields. NOM SCI1001 LOSON By Rev. R. B. Warren, 13,1#., LD, The Risen Life Colossians 3:1-15 Memory Selection: If any man be in Christ, he is a new crea- ture: old things are passed aways beheld, all things are become new, 2 Corinthians 5:17. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the greatest miracle of all time. We sing triumphantly, "Death cannot keep his prey, Jesus my Saviour! He tore tine bars away, Jesus my Lard:" Bishop J. Paul Taylor com- pares the sea! on the tomb with the futility of rap -stoning an erupting volcano; the heavy stone might as well have been rolled out to the east to prevent the rising of the sun; and tho guards are like so many match sticks stuck in the ocean shore to hold back the flooding tide. The enemies of Jesus were be- wildered when the soldiers at the tomb reported what had hap- pened. They would do anything to try to nullify this unexpect- ed development. But the truth of Christ's resurrection could not be nullified. His friends had seen Him and talked with Him after He arose from the dead. It was the fact of His resurrec- tion that brought new under- standing and new confidence to the original group of disciples. That, together with the outpour- ing of the Spirit, inspired them with zeal to live and die in the service of their Lord. The term "risen" attained such signifi- cance that it was applied by Paul even to conversion, That was a rising from spiritual death. Paul, in our lesson, describe* the new way of life of those who are risen with Christ. Last Sunday I saw a woman abandon the old life and become a child of God through faith in Jesus Christ. Her employer said two days later, "I've never seen such a change in a person." The man in charge of the department of the store where she works, said, "There's a great difference hero. There's to be no more smutty stories by anyone. This is a much better atmosphere." Tho woman is very happy in her Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, A man said, "Ever since I re- turned from overseas, I have been longing for the peace which I have found tonight. The devil kept patting me on the back and telling me that I was doing alright. But now I have met Jesus Christ." Do you know the power of God to raise you from the death of sin to the new life in Jesus Christ? Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 13 MO 3 N 1 N d J. V N 3 3 v9A 0v 351 2WI r aya£NIvPJ '1 7bJ{'Vd0 4V?JI1t1 VDs 4iJo' b aoCO d 3d'OZ' 3 :'y bit 73 PUBLIC NOTE TREE - Bearing notices instead of leaves, this tree trunk serves a bulletin board for University of Chicago students. It carries personal announcements.