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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-09-13, Page 7St-v.:age Tale Of \ Nurse Trade ,Mir!. "I get along fine eriew tleme z +:lera, , and they let me etrietly Ak.,r),% Used to be a time tires catemil rare seine trou- ble; lll`=irgui.t:.r r„ f, and carrying out wh.ii: they thought was jokr:s; bet .siert the 19tH of eloyenalber i s tett: gear 1J38 they have welkod a Ort aght line and knee their disteeee. We get sulotg "The thee steins so precise," trail: the et;:anger. "I wonder do you have the hour and the min- ate, too?" "%yah 'Twas ten -eighteen, ex- acler, in tee for•eaiaon A lovely tray.. "etme e.)ntinue," said the err algee, "Weil, they aline much to it," he said, "I was /uniting the store hone; tryring to do an honest hue -Mese ani putting out full rnetemet and good quality with proper detroiion to any' publie Obligations, and ,;hese fellows. 'moved in with their garage and $filling . station bnsinees, and I guess tbey had a low opinion of :ne or something, because it did seem they went out of their ways 3,0ne to be mean" "Like what?'" • aenallish things, bat' ag- guwat'ating, They was hardly worth recollectir_ng, but at rile time they used to peeve me, ,and I did get riled at times 1 athaeldn't of, and I guess they lenew it, 'Firings like that do dis- tract you, and maybe I did shoe it." ";:'ell, west happened on the 19ta of No: ember in 1938 at eighteen ininute2 after ten?" ": cold 'em a hoss. This fellow Cram up to East Minot comes in that nepenthe with a hoss and he Pays, 'What'll you give me?' I said I wouldn't give him noth- ing. You rierer see such a hose. He 'arms swaybacked and. hump- ed 74, all at •once, and stringy from: Meg years of toil, poor keel; and hones lack,. I said I did et wand rto toss, leastways the; one. But the fellow said winter waS corning on and he dict:_', h.tea. no ban and no hay either, t,nci at! wanted was d beast to get e gout [: .:•_ liar _;: winter. and to east snake him an offer. He sett: the an_ortn! ems beside the point, lie see jus: interested in a token of guod faith and hon- ett !mien I c;aict tie hoss warn't waren even a Meta. "6- lie ea s, 'Well, give me soinethblg iii -Made. My old lady's liee:_ wi.iaing a new churn. Hoc abree giving me that chars there" "I did haze a few churns to carte over. They r:ost me eight- fifty and they .•e:ailed for fif- teen; "h I didn't cave much in thein. I said, 'Okay, 1'11 take the hoss and you can nave a churn.' Which we did. He leaves the hoss tied to a rail out front, and while I was cl-ondering what to do with him, he puts the churn up on his shoulder and strikes out en fuo, for East Min- ot, and I suppose it was one of the _•u.riousest trades I've made, man and boy." ""?neve must te more," said the e?trareger. "O:i, yes, the: -s. They most certainly is," he `said, "Those fellows acmes the street at the garage had puller, a couple Of UNFAMILIAR TERRAIN - These pictures are not of the surface of any distant planets - they are simply magnified moth ball crystals photographed in polarized light by Edward Gelus, noted amateur photographer of scientific subjects. mean little things on me that morning, I forget now just what they was, but I was put out at them and I admit my mind turn- ed on some unworthy thoughts in their direction. A possibility had messed my mind, you might say. So I said to Buster Phil - brick that we had just acquired an opportunity, and I thought those fellows had built them- selves up into a let -down, and the melon was getting ripe enough to pick. Busty was a cute little fellow,' and he didn't miss no tricks, so I could see he took hold of this one and was thinking about it. I kept wait- ing on trade, but I had one eye on Busty, and pretty quick I see him go over to the garage. "What he done, was -he went over to the garage laughing away to himself, and one of the fellows asked him what was so funny, 'Old Larrabee,' he says. 'He got himself a sticking in a hoss trade.' 'How do you mean?' that beat -up, run-down, limber - legged plug he's got tied to the rail? Well, he got caught good on him, You wouldn't believe the amount of money he's got tied up in that pore old hoss. Got caught good on him. Nobody never took such a trimming! You know what?' says Busty. 'What you Fellers ought to do is go over and offer him fifty dollars for that hoss, and see him go right up in the air! He'll be so mad he'll just go to pieces. Hee, hee, hes, hee,' says Busty. "Well, they done just that I see them coming, and made as if I was surprised when they got here, and I says, 'What can I do for you:' as if I 'spected then to buy a few things. One of them says, 'Mr. Larrabee,' he says, 'I like the looks of that noble steed you have by your front portal, and I was wonder- ing if you'd take fifty dollars for him?' "'Why,' I says. 'You insulting whelp, ofering me a paltry fif- ty dollars for that hoss. Do you know what I got tied up in him?' Then I got cozy, and I says, 'I don't believe you've got fifty dollars!' He says 'I sure have,' and he pulls out two twenties and a ten and holds them under my nose long enough far me to take them. It was the 19th of November, 1938, and I've had no trouble with those fellers sense," - by John Gould in the Christian Sci- ence Monitor, 7. That thing ClRit08. Caretakers 5, Indications L11, Mar YOnt 10. Rational 10. AaHO>y 5U.11';,nranee r. Passiil 51. Rnther than castor: DOWN 4. Ars Non 1. evergreen tribal 'I'ler • One (Scot.) 0. A it act. h•0 9. Most onNtl3 stitches 4. Stood ottt 32. Ann n -Sar -on - 5, Skein of earn ION; 0. S-shaped 43. 1 lrgen=Y chive 14. '3.1/6 15, Thinks loa•[eat.Y t7.1414 sed •s, Ronde, 20. Whirled 81. Part o.: a PlaY 23. foods nada from curds 54, lnnau,co -,. is rose,. ' til oval:.e nirliett'1.0/3 28. sumer., (e.h.) 29. From ;. turn et bat 20, nnpndaat children 81 GIN'S name 2 You and mo 9 Navigates t, Copgent 0utn toatij noshes,,,y 8. 0, Conceitsat0 e^. 40 14nchnr.t 9, VVraraet: oil 7 melts P.020.•l . Pila'rlcn mother: 48. )fit 116,1 80, Ncokt, unela 3 30. west Jodie* islands 31. Letter 13. 21.12 4, Cupid 30. Puff up 37.17eputY 9. Level 18. Fees 40. English 20. Injections letter (slang) 41. Poor actor 21, Reconnoiter (eolloq.) 22. Reason 42. Summer drink 23. Fuels 43. 4t•119e of 24. Roof edges hearing 25. Marks of 14. sanlln wounds 47. Lotter of 27. Having less ere lit mnir:ture (ab.t 4 5. 7 13 14 Ib 17 10 eette etee 22 19 23 2 20 30 31 33 34 94 37 30 39 42 43 46 47 Answer elsewhee a on this page In our battle with the weeds and insects, a rethinking of basic strategy is long overdue. There is aboundant evidence that the massive use of poisonous chemi- cals has serious drawbacks, Its side effects, in many cases, have been disastrous to wildlife. Often, it has backfired, evok- ing a tougher more poison -resis- tant form oison-resis-tantform of a pest than was pre- sent to begin with. It also may hold danger for then. Many of the chemicals are as poisonous to humans as to plants and insects. Their widespread use and their accumulation in our environment is a growing and as yet poorly understood hazard, Few would deny a vote of thanks to the chemists, entomol- ogists, and herbologists who have made the chemical oontrol techniques practical. Especially since World War II, these tech- niques have yielded great bene- fits to mankind. They have helped create the fabled abundance of modern ag- riculture. They are credited with relieving much human suffering through control of disease -bear- ing insects. They are a boon to suburban gardeners, But while the chemicals are a potent tool for pest .control, their value, as with any tool, lies in the wisdom with which they are used. „ 4, „ Modern science and technol- ogy enables men to make sweep- ing changes in their environ- ment, with widspread conse- quences for the comnrurfity of living things of which mankind is part. Unless the use of this new power is based on know- ledge of what these consequenc- es may be, great damage could be wreaked within that com- munity almost before men were aware of it. This self-evident rule of wis- dom is virtually ignored in the fast-growing use of pesticides, Out of enthusiasm for the bene- fits they have brought, men often are using the new chemi- cals indiscriminately in ways that government and industry testing programs do not take into account. They are causing what the well-known wildlife biologist, Dr. John L. George of the Pat- uxent, Md., Wildlife Research Center calls "a new type of chemical pollution , . . (in which) the trend is toward more highly toxic materials and heav- ier dosage rates." A public awakening to the danger this implies may be in the making in the United States. If it comes, we will have Rachel Carson, fanned author of "The Sea Around tis," to thank for bringing the growing issue to a head. * She has sent forth a clarion call in a series of hard-hitting articles published in June by the New Yorker magazine and drawn from her forthcoming book, "The Silent Spring," to be published by Houghton Miffin Company. She explains in de- tail the poisonous properties of insecticides and herbicides, and vividly documents the dangees of their misuse. The following few examples illustrate the damaging side ef- fects the new chemicals can have. These typify the cases re- ported by Miss Carson although they have been gathered from independent sources, The following case was re- ported last June by two zoolor• gists at the 13th International Ornithological Congress. They are Prof, George J. Wallace and Dr. Richard F. Bernard from the University of Michigan. Elm trees on the university's 110 -acre campus had been at- tacked by Dutch elm disease, a fungus malady spread by bark beetles. As el done in many other places, tree surgeons tried to control the fungus by controlling the beetles, Both bark and leavers of the trees were heavily spray- ed. The zoologists reported that, over several seasons, the bird population was virtually des- troyed. Birds that picked bugs off the trees were poisoned directly. Ground feeders, especially ryb- ins, were poisoned by an indi- rect route. The spray (DDT dissolved in oil or kerosene) is very hard to wash off with water. It remain- ed on the leaves. These eventu- ally fell to the ground to be eaten by worms, which concen- trlted the poison in their bod- ies. Robins that ate the worms were poisoned in turn. The Wallace -Bernard findings parallel those of ornithologists of the University of Wisconsin. They studied bird populations in three treated and three com- parable untreated communities during Dutch elm disease cen- tral programs en 1959. -Songbirds averaged 410 pairs per 100 acres in unsprayed coin- nkunities, while in treated areas their populations ranged from 31 to 90 per cent lower. In par- ticular, there were 50 times as many robins in the unsprayed as in the sprayed regions, House sparrows, on the other hand, seemed to be little affected, * Here is another illustration, this time from New Brunswick, Canada. A program to control spruce budworm by spreading half a pound of DDT per acre caused the loss of up to 9 per cent of young sahnor in the Mir- amichi River in 1954. Fish and other aquatic ani- mals are especially sensitive to DDT. The Mirarnichi case is of- ten cited as typical of what niay happen when insecticide gets in- to rivers and ponds either direct- ly through runoff or through fallout re dead insects and veg- etation. A third example can be drawn from experience in Englatnd. Seeds and young plants of cer- eal crops can be protected from insect attack- by treating seeds with insecticide before planting. This has become a very wide- spread practice in England, writes Robert C. Cowen in the Christian Science Monitor, It has greatly increased crop yields. But large numbers of birds, digging up some of the planted seeds as they do, have been poisoned, Foxes and other animals that eat the stricken birds are said also to have suc- cumbed. Such harmful side effects have been found both for insecticides and for the weed -killing chemi- cals popularly and erroneously thought to be harmful only to plants. Even when immediate clf- fects on wildlife have been mild, the long term reproductive abil- ity of birds and animals often has been impaired. Furthermore, at least one of the chemicals, DDT, seems to bsi spreading widely throughout the environment in low concentra- tions, In the United States, DDT had been found in rivers far remov- ed from any spraying area, It is coming through on food both to humans and to domestic ani- mals• What is more, only a fraction of the food supplies can be checked by government inspec- tors to ensure that official lev- els of tolerance are not exceed- ed. To this one might add that chemical c o n t r o l techniques have, at times, been self-defeat- ing, The malaria mosquito was no sooner thought to be wiped out in some areas of the world, than it began to stage a come- back in a DDT -resistant form. Agricultural pests, house flied, even body lice have similarly used the processes of evolution- ary change to produce varieties that resist the poisons meant to exterminate then. One could go on and on in this vein to build a black, and very unfair, case for never using an insecticide or weed killer, again. That would be as shortsighted as an unthinking dependence on these chemicals now is proving to be. It is the misuse of chemi- cal control through human ig- norance or willfulness that is the danger. In the battle for insect control, men need every weapon they can find in their arsenal. Chemi- cals properly used are one such weapon. But biological methods, including the use of natural ene- mies of pests, are also powerful aids. (To be continued in our next issue.) When a ratan puts his foot down his wife has probably fin- ished sweeping under it. NDAY ti aCllOOi LESSON By Rev. it. fearelay Warren, 11,11,., 11.11. Faith to Rebuild Haggai 1:1-6: Zechariah 4:6-10 Memory Scriptures Let us go speedily to pray before the Loral, and to seek tiee Lord of hosts. Zechariah 8:21. In last week's lesson we noted the rebuilding of the altar, The people rejoiced. Some wept as they thought of the glories of the temple before. Fifteen years were to pass before any addi- tional work would be carried out on the temple. The altar remained during this time in the open, without a building to cover it. The problems were not materials, but morale. Haggai began to prophesy. The people were obviously pleading their poverty as an ex- cuse for not rebuilding the house of God. They agreed that it should be rebuilt but were not willing to make the sacrifice to secure its completion. Haggai pointed out the inconsistency of this position. They had ade- quate money to spend on them- selves, but little to dedicate to God. Today we spend far more on chewing gum than we do on missions. Haggai said, "Consid- er your ways." When people fail to be good stewards of what God gives them, they are never satisfied, no matter how much they have. Haggai's statement has a wide application: "He that earneth wages earneth wages to put into a bag with holes." God also caused the heaven to withhold fid dew and the earth its fruitful- ness. In the second chapter we sea that some of the people were stil feeling badly that this build- ing was inferior to Solomon's temple. Haggai brings the mes- sage of the Lord, "I will fill this house with glory." This is the most important thing about God's house. Zechariah began to prophesy a little more than a year aftel Haggai. He joined with Haggai in encouraging the people to complete the work. He pro- claimed the word of the Lord te Zerrubabel, "Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit." The temple was finished in 4% years after Haggai had stirred the people to action. Days of fasting became days of rejoicing. Thus two prophets helped to quicken the people in their spiritual life, so that the temple was finished. Llpsid•' ` • n to Prevent Peeking A 4A tiff 3 J. N N3,9~a-3w3 3011' .LVa X13 A wb Y 9 00 3 V l HL a5 3 5 n ti r3 0 4325 N17416 V el a 9O3:;:SNO5vali 3>4 l ft 3J:SyH t.aN r ISSUE 35 1962 SALT HARVEST - Specially designed harvesters and con- veyor equipment scoop thousands of tons of salt each day from '130 -acre crystallization beds of Dry Creek, Australia. There ore no natural salt deposits in the entire continent. During their spring (our fall) sea water is allowed to come into great basins, then moisture is dried out by summer sun.