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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-01-25, Page 7When They Painle l The Schoolhouse October was a good month in .our little Wisconsin village. Even the boys who had thought the opening of school something of a catastrophe were getting recon - ailed to it now, and most of us welcomed it after the long va- cation, especially when we found that Miss Ellen Anderson,. the new primary' r o o m teacher, wasn't going to be so bad after all, All over our little farming community, people had been very busy getting the fall work done. Deer Forest kitchens were !fragrant with grapes being made into jam and jelly. It was fun to come in from school and find Mamma filling rows of jelly glasses with clear purple liquid that Miraculously would turn in- to firm, sparkling jelly in an hour or two, But now came a lull in all this activity and people began to think a little fun would be in order, - "I wish we could think of something new," Mamma said ene evening at supper, "We've done the same old things over end over - box socials and har- vest socials and church bazaars .and-" "Miss Ellen's got an idea," I - ventured. "She thinks it would be nice if everybody got together and painted the schoolhouse" There was a moment's almost stunned silence, Papa, who was on the •achoolboard, didn't seem at all pleased.."The schoolhouse doesn't look so bad," he said. "Had it painted just-" "It was over five years ago," Mamma said. "It does look pretty shabby, but it hardly seems a new teacher's place to mention it. Did Miss Ellen say that right out in class?" "Oh, no," I said quickly. 1 really liked Miss Ellen, and, it seemed I had said the wrong thing, as I realized I often did. "I heard her talking to Miss Crabtree.' She said the place her sister taught, the whole village got together and. painted the schoolhouse, and made a kind of picnic of 'it." "And what did Miss Crabtree think of it?" Papa asked. Miss Crabtree was our principal, for whom he had great respect. "She -said that was quite an idea and maybe it would make .the big boys take more interest in the sdhool, as if it kind of belonged to them, and Miss Ellen said yes, it did, and did Miss Crabtree think maybe we could do it here? Our buildingcould use a coat of paint and it might be tun for a fall .get-together. But Miss Crabtree said no, she was afraid not." "I wonder welly not," said Papa. "Well, she said paint and things were expensive, and the board had spent a lot of money on new desks for the upstairs room last year, and anyway they might not like to have the teachers act- ing as if they weren't satisfied and-" "Mm -him," said Papa thought- fully. "Well, maybe I'll drop Over and talk to Miss Crabtree." I went flying back to school that noon, eager to report to Miss. Eller.. But to• my surprise she looked alarmed instead of pleas- ed. "Oh, Alta!" she exclaimed. "You didn't go home and tell your papa I thought the school- house needed a coat of paint, did yah? And how did you know about it, anyway?" "Well, 1 -just kind of heard j"ou and' Miss Crabtree talking," I faltered, "and I thought maybe fff Papa knew he could do some- Ishing about it. And I guess he's rmingto school this afternoon," added, feeling very much de- eted. "Oh, Alta!" said Miss Ellen again. "Well, it was my own fault, but I just didli't realize-" I 'saw' Papa walking into the ichoolyard,as we went out, and waited at home somewhat anx- iously for word of •his visit. To my great relief he was GONE 'TO HIS 'HEAD - This chimpanzee seems to be tak- ing the success of his brethren Wilt+ are successful artists too' seriously. Named "Gentle - Dan Jim," he hos free run of Southampton Zoo, England. smiling when he came up to re- port, "I guess Alta wasn't very popular at school this afternoon,"' he said. "At first Miss Crabtree and espeeially Miss Ellen, didn't want to talk about the painting at all. They said it was just a lit- tle chat they were having that Alta happened to overhear, and they certainly hadn't made any plans. But when I said it wasn't a bad idea, 1 could see they'd been thinking and talking about it some," "How about buying the paint; bad they thought of that?" ask- ed Mamma. "Yes, that little Miss Ellen is full of ideas. l ran see why the children like her, This will give a chance for people to get better acquainted with her," "That might be' a good thing, Folks seem to think she's a little 'citified' or even a little stuck- up. I think it's more likely she's a little shy." "Well, anyway, she said now the ladies have all been Making jelly and jam. Why not have a pancake lunch and let -everybody bring some of their fresh jellies, and make a small charge and-" "Goodness, we couldn't make pancakes for a crowd like that - hungry as bears!" exclaimed Mamma. "Ori, no! The ladies would have to bring baked beans and ham and things. The pancakes would be for dessert. I think the teachers would bring jelly too," "We'd better have the lunch in the town hall," said Manlma. The village was a little dubi- ous about the plan at first.. As Mamma had said, people were not at' all sure Miss Ellen was going to fit into our little town., But Miss Crabtree was highly respected, and her approval of the plan helped, Mamma talked about it at Ladies' Aid, and Papa talked about it in the store, writes Alta Halverson Seymour in the Christian Science Monitor. The idea spread. It would save the town money, and be fun too. Finally someone said, "Why not have it next Saturday while the good weather holds?" The Ladies' Aid took charge of refreshments. Mr. Sakrison at the hardware store undertook to supply paints and brushes at cost; Uncle Martin at the lumber yard promised planks for scaf- folding, "What's Miss Ellen going to do? She's the one who thought of it" I asked, "She's promised to keep you children busy - and out of the - paint," said Mamma. "If she suc- ceeds in that she's going to win the respect of :the town." Miss Ellen kept us busy all right. She let us help decorate, and first we had to get the leaves, and there were many er- rands. ,We had a busy morning. ;Did you bring jelly too, Miss Ellen?" I asked her, hoping she had "Oh, yes, I did;" she said proudly. "Mrs, Malum, where I live, let me use her kitchen, and 1 brought a big jar." The pancakes were a great suc- cess and the jellies were handed around and high complimented. 1 was not the only one who look- ed on with interest when Miss Ellen's tall jar was brought out. Papa was the first to put a spoon into it, and he looked a little surprised. For instead of a good firm jelly, out carne a spoon of syrup. "Oh!" exclaimed Miss Ellen in dismay. "It didn't jell, after all; And I thought I did'everything right. Aunt Rachel, who made -the best jelly of all, spoke up quick- ly, "Well, you know, I think grape syrup is awfully good en pancakes," she said. "Me, too," said one of the farmers, "My mother used to make it, and I haven't had any since. Could I have a little of that, Gilbert?" Everybody wanted to try the syrup; everybody said how good it was. Insteadoflooking flushed and embarrassed, Miss Ellen began to beam, When the ladies polite- ly asked for her recipe, she made such a funny story of it that•she had everyone laughing. "And by the time I was through, I had it all over my arms, and it was so sticky, 1 was just sure it would jell," she finished. "Well," said Papa that evening. "the schoolhouse surely looks nice. And the paint is all paid for. Some folks think it was so much fun we should arrange a day to puton another coat: But we might wait till next year, for, that," "Yes," said Mamma • thought- fully, "and one.of the best things, about it is the way folks took to. Miss Ellen, Some of them thought . she was - well, you know, 'may-' be justa little too smart." "Well, she is smart," 1 de- fended her quickly. "Yes, she is," Mamma agreed, "and I kind of think one of the smartest things she ever did was to make that jelly that didn't quite jell." • "He never smokes, drinks,, swears, plays cards, he's never Married, He's going to celebrate his 89th birthday." "How?" TIIUA2..M F1ZONT Ingenuity teamed with mechonizution have made Ed Ander- son, 61; one of the largest cgrlot potato merchants in the United States. This fall, he harvested 250,000 bushels frem his fields on Washington Island, off the northeastern tip of Wisconsin. The spuds were transported across Lake Michigan to Benton Harbor, Mich:, aboard two old auto ferries. Enroute, processing machinerysorted, graded and packaged them so that they were ready for customers' trucks. Anderson owns 1,800 acres on the island, which was once divided into many small, marginal farms, He removed the stone fences and opened the acreage for large-scale mechan- ized farming. The stones went into o dock for the ferries. An- del son plants about one-third of his kind in potatoes every year; rest is rotated in oats and red clover, Pictures courtesy of Harvester World magazine. Long rows of Anderson island farm y eld up to 600 bushels of potatoes an acre with help of much modern machinery. Potatoes are loaded. on converted car ferry: Jetty, 600 feet out in lake, was built partly from old fence stones. Farm manager Jim Hanson inspects cargo hold. Conveyor belts carry potatoes to processing machinery on main deck. Dissenting Voices .On Eichmann Few could dispute Adolf Eich- mann's guilt, but there were some w h o disapproved of the /smell court's decision to exe- cute him. Most prominent of these was 83 -year-old Martin Buber, Israel's . world-famous philoso- pher and author of the treatise, "I and Thou," who planned to appeal to President Yitzhak Ben - Zvi to commute Eichmann's sen- tence to, life imprisonment, "I don't think killing Eich- mann will impress anyone," Bu- ber told NEWSWEEK'S Curtis G. Pepper, "The death sentence has not diminished crime - on the contrary, all this exasperates Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking ��©© ©1DA DOD ❑• C`J©G7 ©©00 ©EE BEIM D©OOMINEM ©poEIEW MUM ,. lama MEM onomormaiumn one o©oo© ©lam gancilammomupp ©©fr7©. p7 b© nInO© nnowdm DIEINNot•1y5111 4a'!)Ba the souls of men . , , Killing awa- kens more killing I don't think it's possible to keep the Commandments in all situations, but, as far as it depends on us, we should not kill, neither as indiyiduals nor as a society." Buber was in a minority, but he was not alone. "No country, no state, no authority has the right to put another person to deah," said Hugo Bergman, for- mer rector of' the Hebrew Uni- versity in Jerusalem, "'Thou shalt not kill' applies with equal force to the state and the indi- vidual." "The trial was a lesson for many," said Israeli -born Ido Gilboa, 24, secretary of the uni- versity's student association. "Now punishment is secondary. Above all, death will be no an- swer." Perhapsenly one person could still believe that Adolf Eich- mann should actually have been acquitted, and that was his wife, Veronika. "Dear Adolf could' never have killed," she said in Munich, in a copyrighted, inter- view with Colin Lawson of The. London Express. "I'm convinced my Adolf is not guilty, I am absolutely sure he will cone back to me and the children." a ISSUE 1 - 1962 The Deadly Game Of Espionage It was not the sort of situa- tion usually faced by middle- aged department -store cashiers from Karlsruhe, West Germany, and plump Frau Hermine Wer- ner plainly was not up to it. Clutching a white handkerchief, she looked up at Maj. Gen. Peter Arkhipovieh, the court president at last month's Soviet military tribunal, and sobbed: "Yes, I am a spy - but I did not know at the time I was one," Sitting next to Frau Werner in Kiev's bare -walled House of Architects was her husband, Adolph, 61 an ex -sergeant it the Nazi Waffen SS and a shoe salesman in the same Karlsruhe store. The couple had been ar- rested and charged with espio- nage while touring the Ukraine; now they told the courts they had been recruited by two Americans named "Johnson" and "Dan" to photograph Soviet in- stallations during their vacation tour. Mueh of the testimony had a self -degrading Kafkaesque ring about it. "The capitalists," Wer- ner said, "found one more fool (himself) to pull chestnuts out of the fire for them," Werner also admitted dictating notes to his wife which he then wrote in a notebook in invisible ink, The court sentenced Werner to fifteen years' imprisonment, his wife to seven (American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers got only a ten-year term). Werner obligingly commented: "T h e Americans themselves are too cowardly to spy - they' would rather use Germans," The emphasis on "Germans" was typical of recent charges made at Soviet spy trials. Since ' September, no fewer than seven alleged. "American agents" have been tried in Russia - and only one, Marvin W. Makinen (eight years in jail), a student from Ashburnhaln, Mass., has been identified as a U.S. citizen, All the rest were "hired Europeans" among them two Dutchmen (thirteen years apiece), one of whom confessed to. spying on So- viet ports for the past five years. . Only a few weeks ago, two other 0 srmans, Peter Sonntag, 22, and Walter. Naumann, 27, were sen- tenced to twelve years' impri- sonment after telling a Moscow court that U.S. agents identified as "Mark" and "Olsen" had re- cruited them in the Red Ox tavern in Heidelberg. The most intriguing case re- vbaled by the U.S. document concerns an American girl work- ing for the U.S. military in Ger- many. "Eleanor," as the docu- ment named her, met an "Ameri- can" named "Paul" at the Em- bassy Club in Bad Godesberg, a favourite hangout for diplomats and military personnel working in Bonn. Soon they were having an affair, Eleanor received an urgent message that Paul had been injured in an automobile accident in East Berlin. All this happened before the Berlin wall went up, and Elea- nor rushed to visit him. On her second visit, Paul asked her to to take out a roll of film. She was seized by East German po- lice, and the films turned out to be pictures of Communist military equipment. Allowed to speak to her for a few minutes, Paul told Elea- nor that he was a Western in- telligence agent. Deeply in love, Eleanor promised to help him. At this point, the American girl was taken before a Soviet offi- cer, a man later identified as Yevgeniy Alekseyevich Zaos- trovtsev - formerly Second Se- cretary at the Soviet Embassy in Washington who had been asked (unofficially) to leave the U.S. back in 1959. Zaostrovtsev offered lo re lease Paul if Eleanor would steal coded documents. She signed a statement binding herself to tile. services of Soviet espionage, But when Eleanor got back to West Germany, the State Department says, she spilled the whole story to her boss. Ile checked up at once and found that Patti was not American, but a fast-moving Soviet intelligence agent. Double agents, of course, are by no means unusual. Yet there are few spies to compare in ver- satility with Ernst Ascher, who was arrested last month when the police caught him crossing the Austro-Hungarian border wear- ing plastic covers on his shoes- to cover ep his tracks, Ascher, &11 ex -Nazi who escaped frons Russia during World War II wearing a Red Army uniform, confessed he was working simul- taneously for the Czechs, the Hungarians, the West Germans, and the U,S, - and as such, was doing no harm. Each of the four countries was paying him, he said, to find out what the other three wanted h i m to do, - From NEWSWEEK. TT' NDAY SCHOOL LESSON By Rev. R. Barclay Warren B.A., B.D. ONE GOD Exodus 20:1-3; Deuteronomy 6;4-9; Matthew 6:24-25a Memory Selection: No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Fe cannot serve God and mammon. Matthew 6:24. Heathen religions are charac- terized by their many gods and goddesses. But the Bible, Old and New Testaments, asserts, "The Lord our God is one Lord." The first commandment follows logi- cally from this truth, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." A person can only have one God. To think of having two or more is to reduce the status of God. There is no God if there are many. Only one Being can be supreme, almighty. There isn't room for more than one such Being. Only one can command the love of all our heart, soul, mind and strength. Any other who enters the life claiming such whole -hearted devotion, is an in- truder, an enemy of God, Arnold's' Commentary points out that Pittrim Sorokin in his American Sex Revolution cites scientific data to support conclu- sions that those who deal loosely in platters of sexual behaviour, yielding themselves to many partners likewise hold a poly- theistic (many gods) view of divinity. The correlations in the study indicate that the two ir- regularities go hand in handl polygamy (more than one spouse) and polytheism (more than one god) are found to be embraced by the same people. His study further cites the fact that by changing the behaviour pattern of savages and limiting them to one spouse (monogamy) a second change immediately follows. The persons rise to a concept of one god. A proper view of God is essential for the potential be- liever. A person, new to the Christian message, may ask, "What do you mean by the Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Ghost?" Jesus Christ is God come in the flesh. He de- clared, "I and my Father are one." "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father." On Christ's ascension He sent the Holy Spirit to dwell in the hearts of believers. He convicts sinners. The blessings' procured for us by the death and resurrection of Jesus are given to us through the ministryof the Holy Spirit. Ono God in three persons. • CROSSWORD 11. Conatella. 29. Sequesters tion's mai, 33. Make muddy star 17. Roman tyrant 38. Completely PUZZLE 19. Color of aempty space horse 40. Sublime 52 Phoebe ;8, Moved ACROSS 5. Reckoner &4. Danish violently 1. Ivory (Lat.) 6, The kayo, weights 45. Nine (comb. 5. Sp, household 7. Business 25. Obser'vee form) 9. Grampne 26. Congh So. 46. Frees 12. Glut getter atteaot 47. Portico 13. Elliptical 8. Sprightly attention 48. Water resort 14. Brazilian 9, Establish 27. Open-mouthed 49. Size of Seaport 10. Meadow stare writing paper 15. Pine -Brained barley 28, Indoctrinate 50. Mtndrance rock 10. 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