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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1955-01-27, Page 3Those "Secret" Ballots Not Really Secret? Lord Melbourne, that, most conservative of Wing statesmen," was opposed to the secret ballot because, as he said frankly, the secret ballot enabled "subver- sive people to express them- selves more freely." He wanted everyone to stand up and be counted, and heaven help the man who didn't vote the way •the people in power wished him to vote. Full circle. A good many labor leaders don't want the secret vote, It isn't even secret when they profess it to be. The Lord Melbournes of today are labor leaders. There is convincing evidence that recent strikes have been against' the wishes of the major- ity of the, strikers, although there have been hypocritical claims that the votes were ac- curate reflections of the, opinions of the workers. The democratic world has been fighting for at least 150 years to obtain and keep a truly secret vote. Election machinery, after generations of efforts to perfect it and to prevent fraud, is still not perfect. 'But it is a fact that, except in rare instan- ces, the win of the people is expressed in municipal, provin- cial and dominion elections. It is a fact that no man needs to say how he voted and his vote, when cast, can be and usually is hon- estly counted. Until union voting has reach- ed that stage, an announcement that a union membership vote has been 77 per cent in favor of continuing a strike (when the whole town and all the neigh- bors know that the striker want- ed to get back to work at his regular job) must ,be viewed with deepest suspicion. Who usually counts ballots in a union vote? It is a union °fit- cial. Are there scrutineers? No. Are there pelt clerks who keep track of the names of people who have voted in order to pre- vent repeats? Are there num- bered counterfoils on ballots to prevent the issuance of extra ballots to "safe" members of the tution? Some people argue that union votes should be government supervised. There is a "govern- ment supervised" vote in British Columbia and it cannot be said that, after several years of ex- perience, labor difficulties in HE HAS THE "FLUE"- Inventor Sten Norling of Stockholm, Sweden, locates covered fur- nace flues in houses with his stlectronic finder, which picks up signals generated by a trans. mitting unit when they're re- flected from the hidden metal. The invention won hirn a gold medal at the recent Interna- tional Inventors' Show in Paris. ew Cheese Bread Bubbles Over With Tasty Nutrition BIZ DOROTHY MADDOX Here's a big value in home baking -cheese bubble loat. The - extra milk solids and the cheese that go into it add lots of extra •leutrition while making it taste better, too. e. Cheese Bubble Loaf (Makes 2 loaves) Three-quarter cup milk, cup sugar, 2% teaspoons salt, 4% tablespoons. shortening, 3/4 cup warm (not hot) water (lukewarm for compressed yeast), 1 package or cake of yeast, active dry 03? compressed; 4% cups sifted, enriched flour; 1 tablespoon melted butter; ½ pound Cheddar cheese, grated. Scald milk; stir in sugar, salt and shortening. Cool to luke- warm. Measure water into a large tnixing bowl (warm, but not hot, for active dry yeast, lukewarm for compressed yeast). Sprinkle or crumble in yeast; stir until dissolved. Stir in hike - warm mixture. Add half the flour. Beat until smooth, Stir in remaining flour. Turn out on lightly floured board. Knead until smooth and elas- tic. Place in a greased bowl; brush top with. shortening. Cover. Let rise in a warm place, free from draft, about 1 hour ,or until doubled in bulk. Punch down and turn out on lightly floured board. Divide dough in half. Form each half into a roll about 12 inches long. Cut each roll into 24 equal pieces. Form into balls. In 2 wellegreased loaf pans about .9x5x3 inches, plape a layer of balls about 3/eLinch apart '' Brush 1igbtly 'With the melted but- ter. Sprinkle with halfthe grated cheese. Arrange a second layer of balls on top first. Brush with melted butter and springli with remaining cheese. Cover. Let.rise in a warm place, free from draft, alecut Idhour or until top of dough. is: slightly, higher than edge of 'pans. Brush :with more butter, Bake.in moderate oyend(375 degiees F.) ' for 30 minutes. * e * Here's a delicious vegetable dish for your winter menus: Fresh Snap Beans and Tomatoes (Yield: 4 servings) Cheese babble loaf is eye -appealing, taste -tempting and nournishing. It's delicione with coffee at breakfast; One -Powid. fresh snap beans, 3 ,strips bacon, 2 cups canned whole tomatoes, 11/2 teaspoons salt, 3/4 teaspoon ground black pep- per, 3k teaspoon sugar, 2' tablesoone boiling water. Wash beans. Remove tips and cut into .1. -Inch pieces (set aside for later lesa)... Broil ...bacon- until brown andxrisPrin a:heavy skil- let, Remove bacon, drain and set aside for later use. Md snap beans, tomatoes, seasonings and,weter. Cover. Cook slowly un- til beans are tender -(15 to 20 .minutes). Remove to serving dish. Crumble bacon over top before serv- ing. British Columbia are less than elsewhere in Canada. There con- tinue to be foolish strikes in that , area with the result that the Pacific coast province, subiist- ing largely on an export indus- try, has attained costs. in its lumbering and fishing " indus- tries that are out of line, with costs of their competitors in other countries. It must be noted that organ- ized labor never has been able to deliver the labor vote in gen- eral election: but it seems to be that labor's vote in a union dispute is pro -union leader. This is a phenomenon which perhaps can be explained main- ly by the fact that union nego- tiating committees regularly urge the 'rank and file in ad- vance to authorize a strike. They do this on the plea that authority to call a strike streng- thens their hands at the bargain- ing table.' What is the explanation for a 70 -odd per cent vote in favor of continuing the Massey-Harrie- Ferguson strike when everyone was sick of it? This was not a case of strengthening the hands of the bargaining committee in advance of bargaining, - From The Printed Word. (This is the conclusion of an article "Tlie Farmer and the Fisherman" begun last week). The use of seaweed in agri- culture is e very old and wide- spread practice wherever rich supplies of this plant are read- ily available. In England, Scot- land, Ireland, Norway, the Pa- cific and New England States, New Zealand, Australia, Indon- esia' and Japan, seaweed is eith- er carried from the beaches to the fields or dried to a powder to be used as fertilizer or feed- stuff supplement. Its fertilizing value is considerable and, in ad- dition, it acts as a natural soil conditioner. Its nutritive value is caused not so much by a high content of organic matter than by relatively large amounts of vitamins and minerals, especi- ally trace minerals. It is, there- to'', not surprising that a really small addition of died pulver- ized seaweed to the feed ratio greatly improves' the growth of fowl, the egg production, as well as the milk yield and fat con- tent. These beneficial results are most probably due to the com- bined action of small amounts CROSSWORD- 1:0:, Fre°°,1','7,1:71„7. *. PUZZLE 04.1.. 11. Bobbin II e 16, Part of SI - church 20. Two halves 28. Posiiessed 24, Small fish 26. Fixed 27. 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Card game 48. tinameited metal esnesseestseee cesteieeleen/ 1E1E1 Answer elsewheie 091' this page, of, essential minerals and min- ute quantities of growth pro- moting vitamins such as .B-12, the presence of which in marine algae has been established. It is easy to understand why fishes, whose main food consists either in marine plants or in animals feeding on such plants, show such a profuse growth and reproductive capacity and, as big fish eat little fish, the con- centration of minerals and vit- amins in the fish body becomes ever greater. The chemical in- teraction of these substances plays an important part in the production of organic matter and, therefore, fish, are also a rich source of fat and protein. Why not use this wealth of 'mineral and organic matter, if not for direct human consump- tion, at least as a food for plants and farm animals? This ques- tion the Indians of the Atlantic Coast asked themselves long be- fore the arrival of the White Man in America. Since fishes were plentiful in the inshore waters, they could be easily caught with haul seines and car- ried to the fields, It was espec- ially one species that was par- ticularly abundant and, there- fore, used as a natural fertilizer. The Indians called this fish " Munnawhatteaug " w h i c h means literally in Indian lang- uage "that which manures" and from which name the first col- onists who adopted this prac- tice derived the name "menhad- en" which even at the present time is our most important source of oil, fertilizer, and feed supplement, Originally the most valued product of the menhaden indus- try was fish oil which was used as a cheap substitute for whale and linseed oil in paints, lubri- cants, tanning, etc., while the flah meal was only a by-product. As early as 1812 a crude pre - cess of oil recovery was in oper- ation in Rhode Island and around 1860 the Menhaden industry in New England reached for that time sizable proportions. How- ever, when the American farm- er produced large amounts of fats and oils from animal and vegetable seurces, the demand for fish oil declined and it watt not until the feeding and ferti' fixing value of fish meal was re- discovered and more efeeient re- ducing equipment became avail- able that the menhaden industry regained and even by far sur- passed its original economic im- portance. When the fish reducing plants resumed large scale operations, the water fraction obtained from the steam processing of men- haden, called "stick water," was let into the rivers and it was not until the Second World War, when fish meal manufacturers were forced to do something against this public nuisance, that they discovered the enormous food value of this "waste pro- duct," It contains all the water soluble substances ensuing from the reducing process such as mineral salts, vitamins, soluble proteins, amino acids, etc., and is presently our richest source of the growth promoting vita- min B-12 and other yet unknown growth factors. Consequently, it is no more wasted, but care- fully recovered, condensed to 50 per cent solid content and used as "condensed fish solubles" for the enhancement of the nutritive value of fish meal or other feed mixtures. There is also another aspect of this former "waste product" that should be most fascinating and challenging to the young farmer. It has always been tak- en for granted that young mam- mals. are absolutely dependent on mother's milk. This scienti- fically unproven 'assumption is responsible for an immense and quite unnecessary loss, since millions of farm animals, espec- ially little pigs and lambs, per- ish every year either because their mothers have not enough milk to nourish their broods or they are killed by crushing or suffocation while suckling. A few years ago agricultural sci- entists conceived the idea of raising pigs on an artificial "milk" composed of all essen- tial nutrients and fortified with antibiotics. A considerable part of this "milk" consists of fish sol- ubles and this explain i its ex- tremely high nutrient value. For piglets raised on this artifi- cialfood reached a weight of 50 pounds after the normal nurs- ing period of 56 days, while those suckled by the sow attain- ed same period only 22 pounds. In fact, we are standing at the threshold of unimaginable de- velopments in agriculture for the benefit'of all mankind, as the cooperation of farmers and fish- ermen becomes better coordin- ated. Foe it will bring back to the soil and ultimately to the dinner table the nutrients that have. been carried away by the leaching, eroding, and flowing waters. However, while farmers throughout the centuries have made great progress in food production, it is now up to the fishermen to bring man's oldest industry to a modern level of efficiency, economy, productiv- ity, and coeservation of re- sources. Here we cannot deny that great things are in the offing. Heli- cOpters spot the schools of fish- es; radar, sonar, and other elec- tronic devises show their exact, location, depth, and even the number and type of fish; mod- ern fishing gear hauls the fish on board and recently it has been shown that electric currents can be used to attract and catch the fish since they usually wander Or swim to the anode; immer- slot.' freezing in the ship bottom prevents the fish from spoilage, while reducing plants installed on the ships start immediately converting the non -edible part of the catch into fish meal, fish oil, and fish solubles. How large the fish resources of the oceans are nobody can tell. While it is true that several heavily exploited fishing banks now show signs of depletion:and the fish in 'the inshore waters are no more as plentiful as they used to be, it goes without say- ing that the amount e of nutri- ents, produced by marine plants, fish, and shellfish in the wide expanses a n d unfathomable depths of the oceans will ex- ceed for centuries to come the needs of a rapidly expanding mankind for direct consumption and agricultural use. Building Taller Than Empire State Soon the Empire State Build- ing may lose its title of the tall- est skyscraper in the world, which it has held for twenty- three years. An eighty -storey building that would rise 1,500 ft. above the street - twent-eight feet higher than the Empire State's televi- sion tower - is being planned by a railway financier at Grand Central Terminal, New York. And the cost? $100,000,000. Engineers are working out means of checking the "sway" such a gigantic skyscraper would have. Greatest "swing" ever recorded in the Empire State was 2.5 inches, when the effect was so slight that no tre- mor was felt. The greater height of the pro- jected new skyscraper will raise many engineering and building problems. In recent years there has been much research into the effects of earth movements or blast upon lofty buildings, Sky- scrapers have steel frames which support the 'roof and are welded to it and to each °the's.. Experts say they are perfectly safe and will resist any earth- quake or gale. New York now has more than 500 buildings of twenty or more stories. Seven have sixty or more stories, The Empire State has 101. sse Off SC11001 LESSON Rev. R, B. Warren, Man's Nature and Need Genesis 1:26-31; Romans 3:23i; Hebrews 2:6-9 Memory Selection: What is man, that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man, that thou ViSiteSt htlit? or th* hast made him a little lower thee the angels, and bast crowned him with glory- and honour.. Psalms 8:4-5. . - The idea that man is jut en animal who bee . evolved ai lit- tle farther is still held by some people. Students of zoology note the similarity between the phy- sical structure of the bones of a bird's wing and man's arm and see a. more general similar- ity between a rabbit and a man. But while he wonders at the physical similarities of man te the higher mammals he marvels Yet more at the mental differ- ence. Even the ardent evolution- ist must admit that if man earn* from the ape, he certainly came a long way. But evolution. Li only a theory. Until proof is forthcoming it cannot be regard- ed as scientific fact. The Genesis story of manes beginning is very simple. After God had created life upon the earth, herbs and fish, birds and animals, he said, "Let us make man in our image, after our like.. ness." Yes, here is the differ- ence. Man was made in God's image. He not only possesses superior intelligence but he is is moral being. Though he has sinned and come short of the glory of God, the divine image has not been completely effaced. He needs a Saviour. God gave his Son in the likeness of sinful Man -in order to save man. He was made a little lower than the angels and tasted death for every man. When man believes in Jesus Christ, God's Son, as his Lord and Saviour, a great change takes place. He is re- stored to the favor of God. He lives with cleanness of life be- coming to one of the redeemed children of God. "Being made free from sin, and become serv- ants to God, ye have yeur fruit unto holiness, and the end ever- lasting life." Romans 6:22. Man has a great destiny. Let us fulfill it. Let us glerify God in our souls and bodies which are his. PARROT GOT T E IRD: A parrot has caused an uproar in the children's section of th Wellington, New Zealand, zoo. It was presented to the zoo by an old sailor and it delighted the children -for a few hours, until the keepers discovered why Percy the Parrot was causin such a lot of laughted. It was h is highly -flavoured nautic language! He was quickly removed te join some noisy macaws until he "unlearned" the language of the Seven Seas. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking ti2tifildiei,,,13t11311121afilE1.1.11101 f11!;0„ :ill ,,,1911:1„,,,,, 11000111 vt '',.. 0191117 21 1 p 5 8 V a 0 iglu 19011E1 a o, (J flk ElliZ100.a a Wan 1111R BUM v IJ!NI Iii1011001:11iil :.:191111121titari 1E1E00 Alr121111Z121v Iowan - . Duo- tlEIDNICE flIPIElv .-E1119 ; diiii:1#i SAME OLD CORN IS NO JOKE -W. R. Olney, 80, canned the corn he's being fed by Granddaughter Susan Olney, 13, white work., Ines as a cannery hanti 63 years ago. Still perfectly preserved, the vegetable was sealed In a hole-and.ccip rentain'er, fore* runner of the modern metal can.