HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-09-06, Page 7Who Said Pis And
Water Won't Mix?
Dear Leone 1YIeDonald:
I have here your cryptic carol
on which you impugn my ver-
acity. This distresses me. for in
a long association with the un-
varnished truth I have never be-
fore been challenged. As I un-
derstand it, you took my recent
dispatch about Pat Sawyer and
the homemade fex'ris wheel and
submitted it to the critical analy-
sis of a mechanical expert, and
he said it would be impossible
for a wheel to make three free
revolutions, as stated, before
pendulating,
This is important if true,
Wish Pat Pat had known that, it
might have spared him some
rotating, When the vagaries of
human nature come up against
the physical and mechanical
facts of pure seience, we do get
into binds, don't we?
I was interested in reading,
for instance, that you can't find
water with a forked stick, the
way Edgar Youland does, be-
cause it won't work. All these
people who are drinking good
water that Edgar found with a
forkedstick are mistaken. Edgar
keeps on doing it, but it can't
be done.
1 remember some years ago
the subject of old-fashioned paint
came up, and a simple explana-
tion here touched off a rowdy-
dow with the experts that went
on quite a time. It seems that
oil and water don't mix, and
everybody knows this is true,
I have heard it stated frequently.
It was impossible for the old-
timers, thus, to have any paint.
In the early days of our pion-
eers, they made their own paint.
The pigment, or color, was at
hand, because the Indians hacl
long used red and yellow ocher
for warpath cosmetics, and the
history of this is exciting. True,
we don't know much about it,
but what the archaeologists have
found is curious. Here in Maine
out earliest population was what
we call the "Paint People." They
were some kind of forerunner of
the savages found by the first
Europeans. They left their kit-
chen middens along the coast,
and must have liked seafood.
There must have been a lot of
them, too, and for a long time.
One of their oddities was an
esoteric symbolism with red och-
er, which they brought with
great labor from far away to Iine
their graves. We know they did
this, if we don't know why, and
because of this use of red ocher
they became the "paint" people.
Do you suppose the habit of
smearing the face with color,
done by the Indians in our his-
tory, is a survival of this older
custom? A transfer, somehow,
of the paint fetish? Why should
we, a more sophisticated people,
regard this as odd? What about
the notarial seal? Just because,
long ago, a seal was an accepted
identification, lawyers today go
on year after_ year sticking gum-
med seals on documents, just
,as if the seal meant something
still. Ponder on that - the fact
is that we don't need a seal: the
truth is that we keep using
them,
Well, with paint already his-
torical, the pioneers proved in
and wanted to protect their new -
sawn boards against the weather.
All along our coast easily ttc-
eesaibio, was flab oil from the
tnonbuden, or pogey, and they
smeared dart on their buildings.
A little yellow or red ocher from
the vld Indian paint ?nines gave
theta color, But pogey'oil didn't
dry too well •-- it remained
"green" Ira years.
So with that uncanny inven-
tiveness which often distinguish-
es the pioneer from the later ex-
pert, they added casein to their
paint, They didn't know it was
casein, they thought it was skim -
erect milk from' the old red caw,
This tended to "fix" the color
and harden the oil, and this was
the whole factual explanation of
the reel barns of New England,
which often were yellow. Ours
was yellow, and the paint mine
where the ancestors got their
ocher is about two miles from
here, and may still be seen.
This paint was homemade,
They drove a wagon to the mine
and shoveled in their pigment.
They put their fish oil and milk
m a tub, added the clay, and
stirred it with a paddle. It didn't
have a homogenized smoothness,
and they didn't use a nylun
brush, but It covered, bad color,
and penetrated the grain In
after years they found coal -oil,
or kerosene, penetrated better,
and although for a time it teed a
pungent ardor it dissipated rap-
idly, and certainly wasn't as pun-
gent as fish oil, It dried better,
too,
From the mechanic's stand-
point, oil and water won't mix,
and you can't stir up pogey-juice
and fat-free lactic fluid. Since
everybody knows this, there is
only one logically positive ans-
wer: the pioneers had no paint,
This stuff remodeling suburban-
ites try to scrape off the wide
pine boards in the old farmhouse
they are restoring is a mirage, a
figment - untrue and fmuer-
sible. The unanswerable fact
has stared down truth.
I guess something of this sort
of thing has interfered with
Pat's orbital flight. Pat though
he olid it, and those of us who
watched in a kind of horrified
amusement were similarly in-
clined. But we were mistaken.
It could not have happened, so
it didn't. This will be a most
sorry world, Leone, when there
are no longer a few assorted im-
possible things to do before
breakfast.
Yours truly,
-By John Gould in the Christian
Science Monitor.
Weather is No
Respecter. Of Trees
One of the charms that first
strikes the visitor to New Or-
leans is that it is a city of trees.
They are trees to be proud of -
the live oak and magnolias shel-
tering the columned mansions of
the Garden District, the patens
spaced along broad Canal Street
and in the patios of the Vieux
Carr&, the camphor and hack -
berry lining the centre strip of
St. Charles Avenue uptown.
"Only an act of God," a resident
of the old city once said, "could
make us cut any of them down."
Last January, a record cold
spell (low temperature: 12 de-
grees) laid a killing touch on
some 200,000 trees. The sight
et their leafless branches. this
summer was bad enough, but
another problem loomed. The
brittle trees, toppling when trop-
ical storms roar ln, could snap
power lines, block streets, Now
New Orleans is preparing to fell
the thousands of dead trees and
lop bare branches off thousands
more, hoping to finish before the
hurricane season hits, The city
of trees had had its act of God.
Minds are like parachutes:
they function only when they're
open.
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NATURAL TEETER-TOTTER - Visitors to Natural Bridge
State Pork at Slade, Ky., are awed to silence when they come
upon this balancing act of nature. Their concern is ground-
less, however, for Balanced Rock hos held its precarious
position for centuries, according to geologists.
You may before long be read-
ing your morning news from
newspaper made partly of wheat.
The use of wheat along with
pulpwood in making paper is
only one of numerous develop-
ments which have been under-
taken to find additional ways to
use the staggering abundance of
wheat,
When wheat is used with
woodpulp in the ratio of 45 per
cent to 55 per cent, the pulling
strength of the paper is increas-
ed nine times, the folding
strength four times, said W. W.
Graber of Pretty. Prairie, Kan„
administrator for the Kansas
Wheat Commission which has of-
fices in Hutchinson.
�. *
This new wheat -content paper,
it is hoped may be in commercial
production within a year, Mr.
Graber said. Tests have proved
the process to be economically
feasible for various kinds of
paper, with wheat expected to
be cheaper than woodpulp,
"We could easily use 200,000,-
000 bushels of wheat in paper
proeessing," said Mr. Graber,
"and it could be low -quality
wheat." He pointed out that the
United States now imports much
of its pulpwood from Canada
and that Americans are using
their own wood supply much
faster than replacements can be
grown.
Americans use about 450
pounds of paper per capita each
year, and this is expected by
1975 to increase to 000, he ex-
plained. * a *
Out beyond the edges of the
city, the wheat was reaching sky-
ward, turning from green to gold ,
as it neared the time of harvest.
Here in the heart of traditional
bumper -crop wheat country,
talk about new ways to make
wheat growing profitable had
special meaning.
Like other regional wheat
commissions, the Kansas Wheat
Commission is exploring new
market possibilities with vigor,
seeking not only new ways to
use wheat but new outlets for
wheat and wheat products.
* * *
Possibilities for export have
greatly expanded with the de-
velopment of bulgor which mov-
es into overseas markets where
people are not accustomed to us-
ing flour. Bulgor is wheat
in dried whole -cracked -kernel
form. Much of the export pro-
gram, of course, is carried on un-
der Public Law 480 which per-
mits certain sales overseas of
surplus farm commodities in ex-
change for "soft currencies."
' a *t
But wheat growers want also
to recapture some of the domes-
tic market which during this
generation has been lost, During
the past half century, the com-
mission reports, wheat consump-
tion in the United States has
declined from 240 pounds per
capita to 118 pounds,
One "comer" in this drive for
new acceptance is a product call-
ed Redi-Wheat, a- canned, cooked
whole -kernel wheat which, after
about five minutes of simmer-
ing with water, can be used as a
side dish with a meal, or for
breakfast cereal, or, combined
with other foods, may be served
in desserts, meat loafs, soups,
and salads, Prepared as a party
dip, it provides- a chewy texture
and nutty flavor.
This new wheat product re-
sulted from a research program
started in 1957 at the Western
Regional Research Laboratory,
Albany, Calif.
After careful market testing,
Redi-Wheat is being sold in re-
tail stores in Kansas, -Colorado,
and Missouri writes Helen Hen-
ley in the Christian Science
Monitor, * * „
Wheat also is being made into
"survival wafers" which Mr.
Graber reported are being stock-
piled at the rate of 30,000,000
pounds a year for the next three
years. These wafers could pro-
vide emergency rations for civil-
ians in of enemy attack.
Imaginative research, financ-
ed in part by wheat commissions
and in part by government and
private industry, is steadily seek-
ing new utilization for the an-
nually burgeoning crops of
wheat, Wheat growers in Kan-
sas pay one-fifth of a cent per
bushel to support the activities
of the state commission. which
co-operates with other states
agencies and regional wheat com-
missions to expand wheat con-
sumption, * a
One of these regional groups,
Great Plains Wheat, Inc., points
out in a recently issued leaflet:
"Market development activities
of wheat growers are relatively
new, especially in comparison
with other commodity groups. As
a result, much of what is being
done today should have been
done 5, 10, 15, or 20 years ago.
We are doing 'yesterday's work,'
and every project has an 'urgent'
tag attached to it."
Still, commission people are
proud of what has been accom-
plished. As Mr. Graber pointed
out, "Six hundred and sixty-two
million bushels of wheat export-
ed last fiscal year are evidence
of the success of the efforts if
the wheat commissions," al-
though commission representa-
tives readily acknowledge that
theirs is only part of a vast ef-
fort in which the aid of everyone
concerned is needed.
This year's Soviet fur auction
should be the cat's miaow,
Included in the widely rang-
ing variety of furs to be sold at
the Leningrad International Fur
Auction are the pelts of 10,000
house cats, says .Andrew Stew-
art, chief of the fur section,
Canada Department of Agricul-
ture.
"For those who look on the
fur industry as consisting of
mink and Persian lamb with a
few beaver, fox and squirrel
thrown in for good measure,"
says Mr, Stewart, "the announce-
ment by Sojuzpushnina of the
ter types and quantities to be of-
fered at Leningrad will come as
somewhat of a surprize." Sojuz-
pushnina is the Soviet fur trad-
ing organization,
In addition to the usual furs
and the house cats -. the
Soviet list includes 100,000 mar-
mot, 100,000 hamster, 10,000 each
of black and white fitch and 50
snow leopards.
■ * *
In recent years Canadian buy-
ers at Leningrad have purchased
large quantities of the everpop-
ular Persian lamb - one of the
few fur types not produced in
Canada. It is expected that re-
presentatives of this country's
fur industry will once again be
on hand for the auction.
Mr. Stewart estimates the
value of the total offering at
Leningrad at between $8 million
and $9 million,
Lure Of Mountains
Still Takes Toll
It was a treacherous slope of
45 degrees. Its surface was pack-
ed ice, covered by the snow, loos-
ening under a hot sun. The four
climbers, two Britons and two
Russians, had conquered the
peak, Mount Garmo, 19,785 feet
high in the rugged Pamir Range
on the Russian-Afg}tanistae bor-
der, Then, on their way down,
one man slipped and took his
rope partner with him.
Some 1,500 feet below, another
Briton saw them corning. "They
passed us 200 feet away, eart-
wheeling," be recalled later. "We
could hear them bouncing off the
mountainside below. It was
horrible."
The broken bodies of poet Wil-
fred Noyee, 44, and philosophy
student Robin Smith, 23, were
buried by their comrades where
they landed in the ire and snow
of a shallow crevice. Noyee,
one of the world's great mount-
aineers and member of the Brit-
ish team that first scaled Ever•
est in 1953, had written before
the climb that "this shapely
Mount Garmo seems to have
secrets in store."
Ile and Smith were nut the
only Britons to die recently on
mountainsides far from their
homeland.
In the Karakoram Range of
northern Kashmir, two army of-
aicers, Maj, E, J. E. Mills and
Capt. M. R. Jones, were within
5,000 feet of the summit of one of
the world's highest unconquered
mountains, Kinyangrhis (25,762
feet), when a snow ridge gave
"way and the elunged thous-
ands of feet into a glacier below.
The bodies were never found.
A cross of stones marked where
they fell.
Another young British climb-
er, Stuart Allen, died on a Nor-
wegian glacier. Graham Evans,
22, slipped while working his
way up Itaav's Mount Lavared°.
He clung to his rope for seven
hours, then died just after he
was rescued.
On the sheer face of the Eiger
North Wall in Switzerland, a 22 -
year -old student, Barry Brew-
ster, looked up for the next hold
and was hit by a pebble the size
of a dime. He tumbled 100 feet
to the end of his rope. "It
took me a quarter of an hour
to turn him the right way up,"
said his climbing companion,
Brian Nally. "He was terribly
injured." For seventeen hours,
the two clung to the side of the
Eiger Wall before Brewster mut-
tered, "I'm sorry," and died.
Despite such a toll of British
mountaineers, there would be
no lack of newcomers, "There
is a streak of madness in these
men and women whose eyes are
fixed on the stars;' Noyee once
wrote, "but it is a divine mad-
ness."
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
LESSON
By Ber. R. Barelay Warren.
B.A., 13.I1.
Rebuilding the Homeland
Ezra 1:1-3; 0:1-5, 10-13; 7:0-10
Memory Scripture: Ezra had pre-
pared his heart to seek the law
of the Lord, and to do 9t, and to
teach In Israel statutes and judg-
ments, Ezra 7:10
Three great world powers
dominated Eastern Asia during
a period of less than a century.
Assyria had been the dominant
world empire for 300 years, In
600 B.C., the Chaldean or Baby-
lonian Empire obtained suprem-
acy. For as soon as Cyrus, king
of Persia, conquered Babylon,
he granted the repatriation of
the Jews and other subject
peoples. Zerubbabel, grandson
of King Jehoiachin, led some
50,000 of Benjamin, Judah and
Levi to their homeland. The
temple was rebuilt although
much of the city remained in
ruins. On arriving, one o£ their
firt acts was to rebuild the al-
tar on Mount Zion where the
temple had beet. located. They
kept the Feast of the Tabernacle.
One great lesson which the Jews
learned from their captivity was
never again to worship idols.
Eighty years after the first
repatriation, Ezra, a scribe, re-
turned to Jerusalem with 6,000
people. As a priest, his chief
concern was to rebuild faith in
the worship of God. This is in-
dicated in our memory scripture.
He deplored the mixed marriag-
es. "Naw when Ezra had pray-
ed, and when he had contessed,
weeping and casting himself
down before the house of God,
there assembled unto him out of
Israel a very great congregation
of men and women and children;
for the people wept very sore.'
One of the men, speaking for the
assembly, said, "We have -tres-
passed - against our God, and
have taken strange wives of the
people of the land: yet now there
is hope in Israel concerning this
thing." It was a drastic step for
the men to put away their
strange wives. Had they not
done so, the Jews would not be
the distinct race which they are
today.
The prophecy of Jeremiah that
his people would serve the Baby-
lonians 70 years, (25:112. was
fulfilled. The archaeological dis-
covery of the Cyrus Cylinder
confirms the Sacred record of
the decree of Cyrus. God moves
in mysterious ways. We should
obey His commandments.
Gossip -A vehicle of speech
that runs down more people than
motor -ears do.
Obey the traffic signs - they
are placed there for YOUR
SAFETY.
DUCK SOUP FOR IT - Over
o weed bed and into the water
is no chore at all for this
"Terra -Gator." The pot-bel-
lied, low-pressure tires do the
Erick for the amphibious ve-
hicle
ISSUE 34 -- 1962
DAINTY AS A PIG - An aquatic sow and her family entered this rein -swollen pond on
the Merrit Musick farm near Lawrence, Kan., to start their busy day with a cool bath.