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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-05-10, Page 7Scive'The.Tree Plan That Really Works 13 a e k in 1604 or something like that W was before my time) a chap named George Weymouth chopped the firet tree over cut in Maine. At that time Maine had about 18,000,000 acres of standing timber. Since then lune • ber and forest -based products have been the major economy of the state. We have also persuad- ed not quite a million people to snake their homes here - in consequence of which they have laid out roads, built Sellouts, erected their businesses, and have left Maine with about 17,- 000,000 acres of standing timber, Foresters tell us that because of proper woodlands management we have more trees now than then, and that growth not only exceeds use but will continue to 'indefinitely - in spite of the many multi-million expansion programs of the pulp and Paper people. This is all important, because as we increase our demands on our forests from one end, we are increasing our pleas for de- dicated wilderness areas where people may play and nobody may cut. There is something spurious, if we can locate it, in the preservationist theories, for the long -customs in Maine deny the premises, The Pine Tree State does stand in an odd and unique position. Just lately one of the bigger newspapers had a stirring editorial, pitched on the Wash- ington park proposals, urging that Maine's famous Allagash wilderness be "saved for the peo- ple before it falls into the hands of private interests," This, multiplied many -fold, is a current popular t o p s c, and since it has an altruistic sound it becomes a little difficult to an- swer without sounding anti- human, B u t Maine's Allagash has been privately owned for generations, under which own- ership it has survived practic- ally unchanged as the longest unbroken stretch of wilderness still left in the nation. The private ownership which the rest of the country deplores with much wringing of hands is, M Maine, a state policy under which we believe this is the best way to save, perpetuate andt use' our valuable timber resources. Who could be expected to -pre- serve the timberlands any more. faithfully than those who de- pend on them for corporate sur- vival? The last thing a pulp mill is going to do is foolishly des- troy its own tree farm. But, there's more to it than that. From the earliest days the people of the state have retained rights in these lands. The Wash- ington philosophies make a big thing of "multiple use," whereas this is old stuff in Maine. Maine pioneered the vacation. business among the states, and could suc- cessfully do so because the pub- lic has privileges on privately owned wildlands. This is basic in Maine common and written law. We have what we call The Great Ponds law - under which use of and access to the vast waters of Maine are public. Not long ago in Acadia Na- tional Park, where federal re- trictions greatly annoy Marne folks, a fellow was ice fishing and he had his little dog with him, A dog is a pretty good thing to have along no matter what you're up to, and the dog was frisking around and adding to the occasion when a park ranger came along and arrested the poor fellow because he wasn't keeping his dog leashed on federal "proppity." It looked for sure like a nasty United States District Court case, with special counsel coming from Wet shington to prosecute. Perhaps even a filing squad. But the Mahler, long aware of "multiple use," recalled to the ranger the Great Ponds L a w and invited him to begone ere he got into trouble, It was true: the ranger departed and the Maine man was right. At Lock Dam, where a power company has diverted the natur- al flow of river water, canoeists find a man with a hearty greet- ing and a tractor, This man helps you load your canoe and gear on a trailer, and then he totes you overland to deep water on the downside, The power com- pany pays him - the canoeists can't even tip the man; and the power company does this be- cause water flowage belongs to the people and they cannot law- fully close oft the stream against recreationists. I get the same thing here on the farm. 1 find strangers roaming my back bush with shotguns„ or looking for mushrooms, posies, berries and nuts. I pay the taxes and I own the land - but Maine custom gives the beauties and bounties of the outdoors to everybody. If tourists wish to look into this, they can apply to our state- house and get a printed bro- chure that tells of the hundreds of miles of wilderness roads built and maintained by private owners which are open to public use. If the tourist' wants to see lovely Baxter State Park, dedi- cated forever to non, multiple_ wilderness and including majes- tic Mt. Katandin, he will find his best route is over lumber company roads, across the lum- ber company dam at• Ripogenus - and that he can use these - private roads cheaper than he can his public roads at home, for he pays no taxes for their con- struction. I dwell on this hoping to ex plain that Maine is unique, and that too many people are assess- ing this Maine wilderness issue in terms of what • they know about Minnesota and Nevada and possibly British Honduras, Drop around next summer for a Maine vacation, an d at usual • fees (guide's license no. 909) I'll go into details. - by John Gould in the Christian Science Monitor. Chimney Grows As Family Increases The chimneystack of an old farmhouse near Petwork, Sussex, is getting taller. Every time the first baby of a new generation is born in the family, an extra course of bricks is added to the chimney top. Twelve new courses have been added in the 100 years since the custom began. Some families have stayed in the same house for centuries. Nunwell, a house on the Isle of Wight, has been occupied by the same family for at least 800 years. A total of twenty-seven generations has lived there, a col- league discovered on a recent visit. The tenancy was threatened in the seventeenth century when a young wife was taken seriously ill. She became unconscious, and was thought to be dead. She was buried. A sexton heard her moans and rescued her• In the great Domesday Book, completed in 1085, the Shirleys of Ettington, Warwicks, were listed as tenant 'farmers. The family still farms the same acres, . CROSSWORD MAW ACROSS 1. Scar: of fur 7. Starts aside 12. Como 14. 15, iatiocit Monatrocity 10. Stung 17, Dfor:o Moe 18, Tiro 80. Llgi:t moister• 22 Groove 27. Laat 29.]rtr.or. 31 Pc rn 32 C:i:,Csing device 84, c rte: 80 t/ttidcas of in fa.ta:atton 87. suety 89. Bitter eynlo 40. 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TIIEFAJZN o J. Apples can be safely thinned by spraying the trees with Sevin or Amid Thin two to three weeks after bloom, reports Dr, D. V. Fisher of the Canada Department of Agriculture. This operation reduced the fruit set on trees at Summerland to 60 per cent below that on un- sprayed trees and only one in- stance of overthinning occurred -on Delicious trees sprayed with Sevin, Only Sevin was used on Delicious but both chemicals were applied to McIntosh, Wine - sap and Newton. Particularly good results were obtained with Newtown, which is noted for very heavy setting. • 6 Sevin and Amid Thin are not necessarily preferable to dinitro- ortho-oresol. In fact, spraying with dinitros at full bloom is considered the best treatment for thinning most varieties, especial- ly if pollinating conditions favor over -setting. But Sevin and Amid Thin are handy as supplemental sprays for later use -for instance, if the fruit has not been thinned enough by dinitros and parti- cularly if at blossom time, the weather is such that dinitros might cause leaf burn and over - thinning. Generally if humidity is high and rainfall heavy during bloom period dinitro sprays should not be used in Eastern Canada. Instead, post -bloom hor- mone sprays are recommended for thinning. e « 4 Sevin at six pounds per acre, and Amid Thin at 1.2 pounds with a surfactant emulsifier, are effective as either dilute or con- centrate sprays. The surfactant is an additive that aids in the distribution of the chemicals; Ceencentre.te sprays are applied at 50 gallon of water per acre and dilute sprays at 600. « * .x By 1970, it is predicted that Canadians will each use more than 35 pounds of processed po- tatoes annually - boosting the potato processing industry to the position of a giant among Cana- dian food manufacturers. Canadian farmers will be able LESSON By Rev. R, Barclay Warren, B.A., R.D. Christians In a Pagan Societe (Temperance) 1 Peter 2x1-20 Memory Selection: And be not conformed to this world: but be ye, transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, acceptable, and perfect will of God, Romans 12;2, The Greek word for 'chureh' is 'called out', The church of Christ is made up of people who have responded to the call to come out from their sins and live holy unto God, They are differ- ent from the world which they left or there would be no signifi- to buy living bacteria for pest control this year for the first time, W. S. McLeod, of the Plant Products Division, says the Can- ada Department of Agriculture has registered two products con- taining living spores of Bascillus thuringiensis Berliner (B.T. for short). „ « Distributed by a Vancouver firm, the product is available in the form of dust and wet -table powder and can be used to com- bat certain caterpillars on tobac- co and vegetable crops. The bac- terium is a very accurate worker, killing only a narrow range of insects and leaving honey bees and beneficial parasites and pre- dators unharmed. The experts still don't know for certain how B.T. does its deadly work among the caterpillars. They do know that immediately the insect has eaten the product, it stops feeding and death follows ina few days. They also know that despite its fatal effect on caterpillars, B.T. is perfectly harmless to humans and animals and that it is one of the few products used on food crops that does not have a residue problem, 6 * * Additional studies on the effect of the bacterium on mammals are being conducted by the reg- istering tompaiiy. According to the label, plants should be Sel erect With a uniform deposit at the rirsi sign of infes- tation. Application should be re- peated weekly, as necessary, to maintain control. Cabbage loop- er, imported cabbageworrn and tobacco hornworm can be con- trolled in this way. ISSUE 11 - 1962 canoe in their being 'called oat'. Peter referring to , the, old life. said, "Then you lived in license, and debuachery, drunkenness, riot, and tippling, and the forbid- den worship of idols. Now, when you no longer plunge with them into all this reckless diesipetion, they cannot understencl it, and they vilify you accordingly, but they shall answer for it to him who stands ready to pass judgment on the living and the dead," (NEB). Drunkenness is one of the most prevalent sins of our day. For the year ending, March, 1001, in Ontario, 42,084 people were con- victed of drunkenness, 19,451 were jailed. Sales by the Liquor Control Board were $360,806,- 545.98, an increase of $10,660,- 292.30 over the preceding year. Alcoholism is our major social problem. The cure for this rising tide of drunkenness is a turning. back to God. Receiving Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour will enable us to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul. Cigarettes is another menace. The report of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons com- mittee in England has declared that heavy cigarette smokers have 30 times the lung cancer death rate of non-smokers, Dr. Joseph W. Peabody, a chest sulk geon of Washington, D,C., said, "My work would be reduced by 90% if nobody smoked. There is no doubt that lung cancer is closely related to cigarette smok- ing. Furthermore, smoking is also a causative in most other chest diseases, heart disease, and other health problems." No wonder that cigarette advertising has been banned in Italy and in some papers here. Some people stop the habit in their own strength. Others will need to be converted to Jesus Christ before they will have the will to stop the habit. Paul wrote, "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God de- stroy." 1 Cor. 3:16-17. DRIVE CAREFULLY - The life you save may be your own.. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking '®®0g• i - "1 • al Ei !MEEI R WW1til EI000 ADO ED©': N O ri ` 0017 ©O W2131 town ©®© ill ®LI' SIO, MEI i L r 1'ME ©©©EI 1 EP., ©O911351E glign13A I12t23k4 tJ 9 diOld 1r3;didilll 1ID 4 ll� A' 1 SAW IN RED CHiNA kind of travel permrr3 Thep Page achieved their goal b discoura By FERNAND GIGON Written for NEA NEW YORK - When a Chi- nese meets a foreigner he sees in him either a possible future agent of his propaganda or an enemy of the people, The Chi- nese cannot shake off this dual vision. He therefore tries to win him over to convince him, but usually he ends up irritating him, There are in present-day China only a few hundred Westerners -diplomats, engineers, business- men, professors. These men find it incredibly difficult to get hold. of Chinese reality. For, reality in China is as fluid as • water. One thinks he understands and bolds it, but each time he finds himself empty-handed with mul- tiple contradictions dashing his original beliefs, * * s How do ambassadors and mis- sion chiefs live in Peiping? I found during my extended visit to Red China in recent months that they do not meet their Com- munist counterparts except on national holidays, And thettl._ around a glass of vodka or a cull; of wine, the most intimate confta- dential talk does not go beyoniet discussing the weather.- Westerners are forced, as a result, to meet among them- selves. Thus, rounds of diplo- matic dinners are held for r.he same men, the same women, around the same tables: Even the food is monotonous in this closed circuit society, But, Westerners more easily tolerate the monotony of the menu than the monotony of the conversation. Nine times out of 7.0, information comes to an em- bassy via translated Chinese newspapers and magazines. The diplomats try to discover under the flood of. Chinese writing a parcel of. Chinese reality. This is a staggering task. When, by ehance, a piece of information crops up in the closed circuit of the embassies, it stirs all foreign diplomats, Who dissect It and feed it into their reports. This produces a half-truth which floats in the minds for some trek and fin- ally becomes truth. These truths exist though they have little to do with real China. * ♦ * Other sources of information for foreigners are servants, driv- ers, cooks, helpers and messeng- er boys, lured through the Chi- nese ministry. For instance, if the wife of an embassy secretary needs a nurse for her children, the ministry sends her one. Wages and hours are set in ad- vance by Chinese officials. This employe is forbidden to eat meals with the foreigners. A young Scandinavian couple insisted that their Chinese nurse should eat dinner with the chil- dren she was taking care of. rhe nurse refused. However, one day she had to take the children to a hotel, and dined with them, On the following day, she left her post. During the night, a lo- cal official had called on her and punished her disobedience w'th dismissal. The information game works both ways. Chinese servants of foreign residents frequently ap- pear before their oficials to re - .late in minute detail, hour by lour, the activities of their em- plGyers. Thus, each foreigner `s I.w•ays accompanied by an eye an ear. A microphone was once found in the bedroom of a foreign em- bassy, with the loudspeaker set up among the pans of the cork, China's foreign guests new play the game. They have learned how to be silent and to hide their eetiens. The Cis ', -s e meet this game with sim:lar skill. * Foreigners are not permitted to go past the city limits of Peiping, unless they go to the beautiful valley of the Ming tombs or take a visiting friend to the Chinese wall via a specified. route. But 20 miles outside the city they run into a sign posted on each highway which tells them: For- bidden zone for foreigners ex- cept for those carrying special passes. The text is in three lan- guages - Chinese, English and. Russian. Today the Chinese government Uses all its skill to refuse polite- ly, but without compromise, any ing foreign initiative. No one demands permits anymore, Chi- nese reality is the one presented by the government and by no one else. If, by chance, a tourist pays his own way in China and wish- es to travel the "milkman's route" from Canton to Peiping via Wuchang and Shanghai, he is accompanied by a guide -inter- preter who never loses him from sight. The only exception is meal- time, since he is not entitled tc eat- with his client. The travel authorities finally authorized one guide to take one meal a day with a foreigner who protested about eating atone, The Chinese guide emptied the dishes to the last grain of rite on the first. day. At the end of the third day, the foreigner no- ticed an expression of excite- ment on the face of his guide. When the meal was finished a large amount of food had been left. He saw his interpreter pull out of his pocket a cellophane bag, look around carefully, and with the skill of a juggler sweep in the remnants of a chicken, rice, cooked bread and fruit. • * * I remembered this story of the desperately hungry Chinese guide on the day that three girls invaded our hotel dining room. They came from East Germany on an athletic team. Their blonde hair was clipped close, and their shorts revealed sturdy legs They talked and laughed' with animation. They were bursting with health. And although they were from the eastern section of Germany, they still were West- erners deep inside a strange Or- iental land. They represented a contrast that cannot be forgotten. (Last of Series "NOW HEAR THIS"t Regular workers. 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