HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-06-29, Page 3Camping Out Was
Different Then 1
As the bats fly again. over 'the
pond in pursuit of the raging
Mosquito, and other signs are
Propitious, my mind turns to the
summer prospects of life afield,
and I am grateful for a small
book a reader has contributed,
He found it in the back !mune-
lottla, under some desuetudes, and
It is called, "How to Cams Out"
The publisher is Scribner, Arm-
strong & Company of New York;
the date is 1877; and the author
is John M. Gould,'
On the title page he is describ-
ed as the historian 'of the First -
Tenth -Twenty-ninth Maine Regi.
merit, but the office of the Ad-
jutant General of Maine informs
me that no biography of him is •
available; although his service
record shows that he enlisted as
a private in 1861, and in 'two
years was a major. The regiment
he chronicled was one of those
with frequent reorganization and
replenishment, and it would seem
he converted the march and biv-
ouac of conflict to a postwar hob-
by. His camping out has over-
tones of Government Issue
In terms of today's great in-
terest in the cookout and camp-
site,a perusal of Major Gould's
hadbook is exciting. He lists, for
instance, 114 things you should
take with you, one of which is
a currycomb. His camping trip is
done with a wagon, and he warns'
against pitching the tent too near '
a highway, as it would fr.ghten
passing horses. Currying, t h e
horse, he adds, should be the task
of the captain's. assistant.
On our camping trip last sum-
mer, when seven of us made the
beautiful Allagash canoe voyage,
we had seven captains and no
private, andetat 'this point I lost
Major Gould. I also found on
his list: clothesbrush, biacking
• and brush, broom, paper collars,
song book, and watch, I have
the feeling that Major Gould
perhaps still wearing his medals,
organized his camping parties so
he was usually the captain, and
that brushing his clothes and
polishing his boots fell, again,
to
the captain's assistant - as did
sweeping out the tent, laying .out
the formal attire, leading the eve-
ning songfest about the campfire.
On the Allagash, it was 'won-
derful to see the Seven captains•
retiring in utter exhaustion
shortly after. the evening feast
their wet sneakers drying in
the smoke, their clothes laid
largely over a canoe (to catch
the morning sun if any), the
time rounded. off at about sun-
set, and the idea of a commun-
ity sing fully repugnant at that
time.
The military perfection with
which Major Gould organized
his camping trip is distasteful
to experienced oampers. It is al-
ways fun when one station -
wagon load of happy excursion-
ists arrives hungry at Maddy-
gumpus Rock while all the food
and other participants have gone,
as the direction said, to Gaddy-
mungus. Beach. The captain's as- -
Blatant, in such a routine situ-
ation, could grab the broom
and sweep. Somehow I am, glad
I never went camping with
Major Gould.
We had three ladies on our
trip, too. Major Gould, his boots
aglow, his paper collar tidy, 'and,
a song on his lips, says that is is
thoroughly practicable for ladies
make camping trips, but' they
must certainly, have .a wagon to,
ride in, and be relieved of -heavy
work. It is well, he. says, ,to ac-
complish, tir day's march, pitch
the tents, and then send the
wagon back for the ladies. They
should root be led as Jar, as men
from the comforts of It
'is well, he adds, to carry a stove
I'! ladies are, along. He says
their gowns must not quite reach
the ground and all their cloth-
ing must be loose and easy A
flannel dress is ideal, the skirt
coming to the tops of the boots
and with a blouse waist. Nor
should they be expected to pass
their time in a shelter tent, but
must have area enough to stand.
Two blankets are insufficient for
them, and if inclement weather
strikes they should 'be tenderly
sheltered in a deserted Intne,
schoolhouse, sawmill er
I recall our three camping
ladies, 1960 version, hunched un-
der a spruce in a driving rain,
playing' cribbage, and how they
fixed a togue 'for supper and
said it was good to get away
from bite house for a while. We
laid the 52 cards out in the sun
Upsidedown to Prevent Pei -king
It's Chust
V!utki4N4U1
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luny, papa's half et already" chust (pardon) just means
that dad is halfway through a stick -to -the -ribs meal at the
12th annual Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Festival at Kutz-
town, Pa., July 1 through B. Treasured heirlooms vie for
attention with craftsmen demonstrating old-time skills -
water witching, soap making, whitewashing, photo at left/
hex sign painting and threshing, right photo. Alla gabut.
(every so often) stage pageants depict the life of Gay,
Plain and Hook -end -Eye Dutch, For the gourmet; seven
sweets and seven sours, butt bol (potpie), schnitz and
gnepp and shoo -fly pie. Accent is on hospitality. "For-
sooch's mull" (taste it once) is •a bid to savor not only
toothsome food but also the 300 -year-old folklore the
Dutch display with pardonable pride.
IIEFARM FRONT
J06..
Well -stocked and serviced new
supermarkets are paying thou-
sands of American customer
owners to learn about commu-
nity cooperation while' they pick'
up .the family groceries,
"COOP" signs mark handsome
shopping centers where even a
casual customer can see the eco-
nomic principles of .organizet
cooperative societies put into
practice. New coop stores are
found from Massachusetts to
Virginia, through the Midwest
and Canada to California. With
a striking 85 per, cent member-
ship growth among leading coop
retailers these last seven years,
more of the big customer -owned
supers are on the way.
Hard-pressed farmers a n d
workers were the first consumer
Cooperators in America as in •
Europe, but today 's fastest
growth is urban or ex -urban. If
you remember some coop as, a
dull little place 'for penny pinch-
ers, these supers may amaze' you.
In Palo Alto, .a California so-
ciety which started, with a 14 -
family grocery -buying club in
1935 now owns two modern
supermarkets.» Their new Sunny-
vale branch expects a $3,500,000
yearly business.
Near, WaShington, D.C., 11
prosperous retailing complexes
make up the leading nonfarm
coop in the United States. Sev-
eral have their own. Virginia or
Maryland shopping 'center acre-
age. They house a variety of
coop stores and services--bven
import modern Danish' furniture..
Outdoor sculpture graces the
original Greenbelt. store's new
Maryland super. It, has done
nothing but grow 'since 1939,
when Edward Filene,•a coopera-
tive enthusiast, financed its be-
• ginning... •
The oldest and largest group
of American consumer coops is
in the Midwest. Close-clanned
FinnblivSefflers in the 1870's
started what'. is' now a -network
the next morning. The ladies we
had with us make•Major Gould's
ladies particularly unattractive,
and they wil tell youhad more
fun jumping' in and out of the
river Tor, two, weeks than they'd
ever, have riding in a• wagon. As
to clothing, any observant male
will agree the present arrange-
ments make camping m es e
agreeable, 'although .our women
said bathing suits and shorts
were . no good while 'frying
doughnuts on a campfire - long
pants were better to ward off
the spattering fat.
A good part of Major Gould's
advice ,is good - that which con- v
cerns diet, fire -making, sanita-
tion, and similar wilderness
truths that change not, The fun
comes in his 1877 attitudes., His
army regulations and strict'man-
agement ar e understandable,
but I doubt if they contributed
to enjoyment so much as our
later practices, Anyway, when
our seven Captains go again this
suratner, as we shall, I'm going
to stick the book in the wagon,
and some evening around the
campfire it out and read
parts,. of it aloud. I think this
will cause riotous hilarity to
rend the quiet of the wilderness;
and contribute largely to the
fun. - By John Gould in' the
.Chrislian Science Monitor.
of 28 supers and several -hun-
dred lesser coop stores. The
four -state area, they serve,
around Superior, Wis., becomes
less and less rural as population
continues to explode.
Sound 'capitalization and train-
ed management last year put 33'
Americancoops into the super
supermarket class of stores which
sell•well over a million dollars
a year in groceries.
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'Goods exotic and earthy stock
today's coops. From Sweden'3.
pale pink hip pudding to the
Deep South's chitterlings, if
enough people like it, coops
gladly sell it. Then they return
all earnings beyond operating
costs to the 'members, first in
dividends on' owned 'shares of
the business,, second in what
stoops call patronage ,refunds.
Shared earnings are' only part
of the coop retail., story, though.
Money evidences the activity
shared by,shopper m'Cinbers. For
these prosperous coops combine'
some features of a progressive
adult public school in better
buymanship with ainodern ver-
sion of the old-time crossroads.
grocery, where local action could
start from, talk around the
cracker barrel. Some members
find in coops a place where
-'neighbors working together can
take an influential part in shap-
ing their -own community life.
• • •
HOW do you join? Shares sold
right in the stores usually cost
less than 'a family, bag of week-
end ' greceries. Buy them from
the cooperative society that
manages the store, and you be-
come an owner -member' of both.
Just being a consumer qualifies
you, regardless of race, creed,
politics, occupation, or other
status. Some members jciin for
the earnings, others enjoy hav-
ing a voice in coop's business of
supplying' their consumer needs, -
states a writer in the Christian
Science Monitor.
Well-established is the fact
that being a good neighbor pays
off at the coop cash 'register.
From, such ' beginnings, other
members 'find themselves led to
take an increasing part in local
or world community affairs. '
Coop members publish regular
WATCH THE BIRD - Subjects
for this. Paris photographer
• will have no trouble watching
the "birdie"con a sunny day in
the French coital.
newspapers, free to shoppers,
about what goes on in their
stores and societies. Evergreen
is the six-page, twice -monthly
paper of the remarkable Hyde
Park Coop in Chicago. Its regu-
lar calendar of committee and
board meetings, store, demon-
strations, and members' outings
runs next to reader comments
which reflect the progress of in-
tegration in this triracial com-
munity.
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Both Japanese and Negroes
have been elected to the society
board and, appointed managers
of store departments. Grocery
ads appear along with notices of
the neighborhood Bach society,
Kenwood garden tours, and the
$9,30 a coop second-hand book
sale netted CARE to' buy fruit -
spraying machines for villagers
, in the Philippines.
A story on proposed bills for
"truth in advertising recalls how
coops pioneered for grade label-
ing, too.
Evergreen is published as part
of the coop advertising and edu-
cation program of Chicago's big-
gest supermarket. Hyde Parkers
find this way of keeping inform-
ed about copp•worth while. They
had already outgrown two stores
- itt 'five -years when they moved
to their beautiful shopping cen-
,ter location a year ago.
Organization here as in other
coops provides for an education-.
al director and a home econo-
mist. Stores employ them to help
all customers -and keep them
aware of coop principles. New
supers often include attractive
homey test kitchens. At Ithaca,
N.Y., where membership grew
'from 700 to 3,000 in 10 years
recently, the executive secretary
has broadcast a regular morning
homemaker program from .her
coop kitchen, Meeting rooms
built into new stores, like Hyde
Park's lower level ausikoriurn,
are open for both coop and com-
munity use,
* *
The Natick, Mass., coop plans
an outdoor playground and pic-
nic area for parking shoppers
at their new Framingham Center
store. Chatty, snack bars, or even
tables and chairs in valuable
sales Boor space, invite friendli-
ness in a ,number of coops.
When members vote, it may
be on what to do with patronage
refunds, the earnings left atter
dividends are paid on shares. For
these, one presents one's sales
slips on a year's coop purchases.
Some societies divide refunds
with nonmember shoppers, who
often use them to. buy their Ant
shares. In other coop stares', re-
funds may help supply local
housing, or an American jeep for
an agricultural cooperative in
India.
Q. How can I preserve the
gloss on white -painted furniture
and other articles?
A. By washing these articles
with a mild soap and some milk
mixed in.
NDAYSC11001
By Rev, R Barclay Warren
13.A„ 13,1).
Tim Fruits of Faith
/tones 2:8-17; 5;77-8, 11.
Memory Selection: Faith, if it
hath not works, Is dead. James
2:11.
Paul declared "that no man is
justified by the law in the sight
of God, . , for, The just shall
live by faith." Galatians 3:11.
Tames said, (2:24), "Ye see how
that by works a man is justified,
and not by faith only." There
is no contradiction between Paul
and James. The works which
James commends are really "the
fruits of faith" as expressed in
our lesson title. They are also a
part of "the fruit of the Spirit"
of which Paul speaks in Gala-
tians 5:22, 23; "Love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, gentleness, good-
ness, faith, meekness, temper-
ance." If we "walk in the Spirit"
as Paul enjoins us to do we shalt
obey the Spirit's prompting and
perform the kind of good worlds
which are commanded not only
by James but by Christ and Paul
as well, We enter the Kingdom
by faith in Jesus Christ, Having
received the Spirit, we shall de-
light in good works,
The royal law of Scripture is,
"Thou shalt love thy neighbour
as thyself," Do we do it? Do we
show the same consideration foe -
the penniless widow as for the
aged rich uncle who has no chil-
dren to whom to bequeath his
fortune? Some excuse them-
selves by saying, "I don't love
for money, I just love where
money is."
Helping the needy calls for
great care. I have been fooled a
few times. Now I investigate
before I invest any of the money
which God gives to me. Some
beggars have been found to be
wealthy. Some so-called needy
are crooks. Just to prove that
people were very gullible about'
their giving one chap went down
the street and in half an hour
collected $30 for 'the widow of
the Unknown Soldier.' Having
proved the point, he took the
money back. When we give Just
to get rid of the one who asks,
we may be encouraging him in
deceit. If we give for Jesus' sake,
we have a reward. If we give to
gain prestige, 'well, we may gain
the prestige. We have no reward
from God. If we give under pres-
sure of men, we may give very
reluctantly. God loveth the
cheerful giver.
ISSUE 25 - 1961
CROSSWORD
PUZZLE
ACROSS
1. Labor for
breath
5. Turf
I. 'Venetian
blind panl
19. Copycat
13. Equality
14. Buddhist
sacred
taunting*
15. Rashness
17. Sour
Is. Gr. grave-
stones
19. Delicacy of
taste
One who
replies
EL Raccoon -like
mammal
55, Inquire
27. Past
90. Poker stake
51, Siamese coins
85. Pack
92. College cheer
54. Cremona
35. Stove
stealthily
50, Happy eound
EP. Attractive
C'S, Yellow and
black bird
45. Wheeled
vehicle
40. Confirmed
again
45, Was in a
reclining
position.
49. Included (ab.)
60. Maul
61. E. Indian
groom
7. Lack or
interest
S. Room
5. Tear
10. Dismounted
11. Neat
it. Hindu
Princess
60. masa king t�. Vez
53, Ireland se. Guard
DOWN Si. Balloon
1. Ship channel. basket
5. Hippo -headed 24. Duegtom
godliest' Indian
°swot IS. Physically
II. scattered active
(heraldry) Si. Tibetan
4. Bishop casein,
5. Scouts 29. Nocturnal
O. Edible grain bird
21. Discoloration
of the skin
as. Grooved
24. Not at home
55. Withered
(var.).
$7. Make
reparation
it. Opera by
Puccini
59. Intimate
friends
40, Weight.ot
Rangoon
42. Swan genus
43. Islands oft
Timor '-
44. Paradise
47. Abstract
being
Answer elsewhree on this page
MAY :2 Pro -Reds proclaim Looseeoso-
five; some fighting aoes on.
Geneva conference on Laos
begins.
U.S. charges Laos cease-fire
is broken.
Astronaut Alan B. " MAY 5 Hands off
Shepard rides 115 miles into Berlin, U.S. warns
41'11' Redstone, racket. :i1'.11!!,, Radt at NATO
specs le meeting.
in two hours 48 minim's.
Jet crossos U.S.
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,MAY 13
MAY 16
MAY ,30
President Kennedy !..!
visits Canada.
Kennedy off for
talks with De Gaulle,
Khrushchey.
MAY 1
Rod World
celebrates May Day.
Navy
balloon climbs
21.5 miles.
Military junta seizes
control of South Korea.
South Korea political
arties abolished.
U.N. regains Control
of South Korea army,
U S, steps up&
Viet Huns arms aid:
•,'",•SEle;invsrnap
r4AY l4' Alabama mob burns bus
carrying whites and Negroes testing
segregation laws.
Freedom riders beaten in
Montgomery, Ala,, roce riots.
Martial law proclaimed in
Alabama.
Freedom riders invade
Mississippi; 21 :ailed.
'MAY 20
School ship sinks
in Caribbean; six die,
V /
'U.S. !nigh Cuba
fuliflatiged Rod bloc
member..
At, 20 ,..Castro offers
exclianne of invasion
prisoners for 500 trate:11
$eat
F Tna:
,r ,
begin peace talks.
French
airliner ;alb is,
Sabers; 79 die.
MAY 30 SsutlAtrIcbecosses