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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1960-08-04, Page 3British •Gai"t efflu liur 'eon Anew Flowers are busting o u t all over in this effluent era through which the. British people are passing. England was always a country at magnificent baronial floral vistas and beautiful little cottage gardens. And today an appreci- able portion of the nation's new wealth is being turned to flow- ers, shrubs, trees, tools for mak- ing gardening easier, and fas- cinating modern garden furni- ture in which to loll and admire the fruits of digging, weeding, mowing, pruning, and tying up. This seems to he an admir- able counter to the pessimistic talk about the materialism of this age. The simple fact is that the quest in Britain for beauty through flowers and gardens is spreading by leaps and bounds. The realization of the sense of fulfillment t h r o u g h growing things is more and more appre- ciated by all classes and most income groups, Evidence of this is seen in the expanding plant advertisements in the newspapers, in the in- creasing space given up by de- partment stores to garden equip- ment, in the new periodicals ca- tering for gardeners, in the cre- dit buying being introduced for garden aids. But perhaps the most convinc- ing evidence of all is the fabu- lous success of the flower shows up and down the country. The high spot of them all - the Chelsea Flower Show - has just been held in London. It sur- passed all records and in doing so presented the problem of how to contend with the ever -mount- ing enthusiasm for gardening. The Chelsea Flower Show is held for four clays near the cen- ter of London in the grounds of Chelsea Hospital, which is the home of those colourful Chelsea pensioners -- veterans of Bri- tain's bygone wars. This year the total attendance fur the four days was around 250,000. This really requires tome tight packing considering the total area of the site is only ODD BiRD - Joseph Welteroth Jr. holds a strange bird, "Goofy" hos long pigeon legs but a hooked beak Like a chicken, gray pigeon tail feathers but White chicken wing tips, a gray pigeon head but many white sand blue chicken head feathers, one pigeon eye and one chick- en eye. Scrambled egg, maybe. RAMBLING RAMP - Spiraling gracefully upward, this circular ramp was built especially for cyclists and pedestrians at Dusseldorf, West Germany. Much easier to ascend with n bike than the traditional stairs, the ramp leads to the lofty Dusseldorfer Rhine Bridge, 20 acres. But the tightest crush of all takes place in the central flower tent, which claims to be the biggest tent in the world covering an area of 332 acres all under one big top. Specially magnificent was the display of orchids given top pro- minence in honour of the Inter- national Orchid Conference, held in London immediately after the Chelsea show, More than 600 stems of orchids were flown from Malay a. French, West German, and Ken- ya orchid societies also sent some of their finest products. The great massed orchid stands included dendrobiums, odonti- odes, odontoglossums, and pha- laenopses, writes Peter Lyne in the Christian Science Monitor. Next in magnificence were the roses -- the traditional flower of England. Each year lately has seen startling new variations on this traditional flower. The cen- terpiece novelty this year was Harry Wheatcroft's "Super Star." Mr. Wheatcroft is one 01 the world's greatest rose growers. The exceptional quality of the bushes he sells to the ordinary run of his customers shows him to be also an honest and genu- ine trader. In addition to all this, he happens to be a master show- man. He has whiskers as luxuriant as his roses. He looks like a stage version of an Edwardian bicyclist. He dresses in immacu- lately cut tweeds. In short, ha is a splendid advertisement for the English rose, His "Super Star" was produc- ed this year with all the eclat of a theatrical first night, On a pedestal in the middle of his stand it flashed out the signal, "Here I Aml" in dazzling ver- milion. Its catalogue description reads "pure self -vermilion, unfading, with matchless texture, Lull, fragrant and very long lasting." Almost as absorbing as the ex- hibits and exhibitors at the Chelsea show are the people who have paid to go in. There look• Ing at the sweet peas is a weil- known English duke with his gardener. Jostling him are pony -tailed girls and delightfully old-fash- ioned country cousins up in London just for Chelsea. There are greenthumbed housewives and city businessmen with fin- gers rough from gardening. 7. Name lis, .19 nice paste Athena 28. June bug 8. Hanging 24. 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While western Canada's broad agricultural empire always has been a strong attraction to Ame- ricans, the interest of American capital in larger ranching opera- tions there has shown a marked upswing recently with the level- ing out in values of the Cana- dian and United States dollars. 4 4 ww The former premium of 4, 5, and 6 per cent of the Canadian dollar over the United States dollar had a tendency to dis- courage purchases of vast ranch- ing spreads in this country. Now that the two dollars are close in value to each other, transactions are encouraged. Also strongly promoting Ame- rican interest in ranching opera- tions there is the fact thattens of thousands of western Cana- da's original ranchers and farm- ers went there in the early years of this century from various parts of the United States. They maintained their ties with their former places of residence, in- vited old friends and relatives to visit them - and thus uncon- sciously set the stage for future land purchases as large proper- ties in the United States be- came scarce and costly. Many of western Canada's original settlers never did give tip their American citizenship In fact, it is estimated officially that more than 87,000 of the 1,300,000 residents of Alberta alone today are full-fledged United States citizens. Western Canada's phenomenal petroleum and natural gas de- velopment boom since 1047 also is a major factor in attracting American Interest to cattle, sheep and thoroughbred horse ranches here. This boom has been financed largely with American capital. It has been directed and ex- panded by thousands of execu- tives and skilled workers who went there from the oil and gas fields of the United States, often from states having extensive ranching operations. t1 4' These petroleum industry workers have been fascinated by the ranching possibilities in western Canada, particularly in the Province of Alberta, which is recognized as "the cradle of Canada's cattle ranching" And with prices in western Canada's ranching operations substanti- ally lower than for those in their home states, many oil workers started investing in sprt:nds to this country. All these pertinent factor. now have produced a snowball- ing effect in the demand for ranching operations in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, in that order of preference, from prospective buyers, Hundreds of real estate deal- ers across western Canada have been commissioned to litre up promising ranching properties for would-be American buyers. This has had the recent effect of owners boosting their asking prices even when they decide to sell. Despite the unprecedented de- mand for their spreads, few ranchers are in a selling mood Most of the younger and middle- aged ranchers regard meat pro- • duction as the brightest star in the world's agricultural picture and are determined to continue producing cattle, lambs, and hogs. Older ranchers prefer to keep their spreads in their fami- lies by passing them down to their childrLa and grandchildren. • a M Nevertheless, some ranches do come onto the market in cases where their owners decide to retire and have no children to take over and in cases where the properties trust be sold to settle large and complicated estates. There is always a rush of buyers for these ranches, and none of them remains on the market for long if the price is reasonable. Many of them are acquired by American interests, writes George A, Yackulie in the Christian cience i'1onitor. W Y 0 Inlicativa of the stampede for available spreads was the ex- perience of one elderly couple in Alberta's foothills country who decided to retire this year and let the word out that their 12,- 000 -acre ranch might be avail- able as a going concern. The word spread like a prairie fire throughout Canada and the United States, and prospective buyers began overwhelming the couple with rising offers. The ranch, located in some of the world's best cattle -ranching country, attracted offers ranging from 0500,000 at first to almost $1,000,000. When such amounts are in- volved, (he purchasing party usually is a syndicate, partner- ship, or corporation. and cash deals are possible. That `vas true recently for the transaction in which the Casorso Ranch, built up in the Okanagan Valley of interior British Colum- bia by the late Joe Casorso, was sold to a group of United States businessmen for more than $400.- 000 „ 9 M. This ranch consists of 10,000 acres of deeded lands, plus leases and forest grazing permits on which '700 head of cattle and 2,000 sheep are maintained. It was bought by Jack Stewart and Associates of New Mexico. The spread is continuing as a cattle' sheep ranch, with Mr. Stewart as resident manager for his group 9 e 1• One of the largest Canadian ranch properties involved in sell- ing negotiations for years in the 100 -year-old Chilco Ranch near Williams Lake, 200 miles north of Vancouver, 13.C. This proper- ty consists of around 1,000.000 Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking acres and includes seven original ranches. It is so large that lite 250 miles of fencing don't be- gin to enclose it all. In 'recent negotiatiorls $2,500,- 000 was being asked for the ranching operation, the price in- cluding 4,000 head of Hereford beef cattle. The ranch also to noted for its production of lum- ber and Christmas trees. Like most available spreads in Western Canada, this vast prop- erty attracted much attention from American interests. Laugh aA Lot To Keep Fit Laughed a lot lately? If so, you're probably feeling pretty At and in good humour. Who says so? A team of laugh- ter research scientists in the United States. Laughter is one of the best possible exercises, espe- cially for people with sit-down jobs, they tell us. When we laugh we exercise scores of different muscles which in turn "have n massaging effect upon the body," they have found. Sad -looking people who rarely laugh can never be truly happy, they say. At the same time they recognize that some folk find it almost impossible to laugh heart- ily. They're like the German general, Helmuth von Moltke, who when he died nearly seven- ty years ago was said to have laughed only twice after he was twenty-one. Let's face it -- the older we grow the less we laugh. You've probably noticed that children and teenagers laugh much more than older people. There are people who never laugh. A small outcast tribe in Ceylon known as the Veddas, for instance. When asked why, they usually retort: "What on earth is there to laugh at?" The answer, of course, is: 'Plenty." A Paris psychologist, who be- lieves that the relaxed feeling that laughter brings help to prolong life, gives lessons in laughter. Sounds silly, doesn't it? But don't laugh at the idea until you learn how he makes his pu- pils laugh. He plays a laughing record en an old-fashioned phonograph, forerunner of to -day's gramo- phone. They are soon splitting their sides! Litterbug Puzzle Litterbugs are the target of a New York police drive. In a single clay, 1,000 of these rub- bish -spouting humans were ticketed. The litterbug is a per- son we simply do not under- stand. If in the process of lit- tering sidewalks and roads and fields and parks with his rubbish lie injured only other people, we could understand it . . . this would be comprehensible human misbehavior. But such is not the case. The litterbug hurts himself. He has to live in the litter he creates. He fouls his own nest. The necessary and unhappy con- clusion is that millions of Ame- ricans don't care --- or don't even know -- if they are living in littered ugliness. Hence littering has been made a crime. That is the only way to get at litterbugs. We don't understand them. - Democrat Chronicle, Rochester, N.Y. Efficiency experts At least those I've known - Can cope with my troubles But not with their own. ISSUE 31 - 1900 TAn ME JJSSON 93y Rev. IL. ttarolay Wart'en I3,A B.D. Luxury and Idolatry fault x Nation Rosea 10: 1-8, 12 Memory Selection: Sow Le yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your falleve ground: far it is time to seeks the Lord, till He come and rain righteousness upon you. Ibsen 10:12. Under the 41 -year reign of IQng Jeroboam I1 Israel experienced its greatest era of prosperity since the reign of King Solomon, But there was a serious spiritual decline. More and more the peo- ple turned from the worship 0f God to idols. Then they forgot God's commandments and be- came cruel, adulterous and given to Lying and stealing. Since the beginning of World War II most people in this coun- try have had more things and handled more money than ever before. A higher percentage of people have joined the church, too. In view 0f these facts we might dispute the suggestion that luxury and departing from God go hand in hand. However, an examination of statistics on such things as drunkenness, adultery, fornication and thefte prove that the nation is deteri- orating morally. It is easy to join the church today. If one church will not receive you an- other will. In the scramble Inc mare members churches seem willing to lower the require- ments. Some people use church membership for prestige and a camouflage for shady living. The message c': Hosea in the memory selection is applicaoie to us today. It is time to seek the Lord. Prosperity can be dan- gerous. Agur's proverb (Pro- verbs 30: 8,9) is a wise one, "Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food con- venient for me: lest I be full and deny Thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." Here is a wise saying of our own day: "When a man begins to get wealth, either God gets a steward or the devil gets a soul" When we hear of the desper- ate poverty of millions in Asia and Africa how can we be happy in selfishly bestowing on our- selves so much that we do not need. One of these days we shall give an account of our steward,. ship. We should think more al ethers and lees of ourselves. The Unblessed A four -car highway accident that killed nine people in New Iberia, La., in a season of many shocking accidents in the region, moved the Roman Catholic Bish- op of Lalayette to extraordinary action last month. The Most Rev, Maurice Schexnayder issued a harsh disciplinary order which could bar Christian burial tet Roman Catholic drivers who die in accidents in which they are declared criminally negligent. While the order has nothing to do with the deceased's salvation, Bishop Schexnayer explained, "to deny Christian burial Is about the most serious and dis- gracing punishment you can in- flict on the family of a Catho- lic - especially in a rural area like ours." ata COMES TUMBLING DOWN - This is the crack of doom for the toppling steeple of the 74 -year-old St, Paul Lutheran Church its Wausau, Wis. The 110 -foot spire and the rest of the church were razed to make way for a new one.