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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1955-06-16, Page 2Stranded'a rn rs Beath of thea% harming, it has often been said, is not just a way of making a living; it is a way of life. It represents, probably, the . chief survival of personal business en- terprise. Anything, therefore, that takes people off farms does a good deal more to a nation than effect a change in jobs. Farm population has been dropping in the United United States since 1916 (by over 5,- 000,000 ;€t00,000 in the last 10 years) -- dwindling in its ratio to the whole for more than 100 years. And White House recommenda- tions just sent to Congress, if carried out, would accelerate this trend. If these proposals would re- sult simply in taking families indiscriminately out of farming they certainly should be ques- tioned. But they have to do with farmers who, because of sub- marginal soil, climatic conditions, lack of capital, or of skill con- stitute one of the lowest income groups in the country — less than $1,000 a year. Such people this program would help off the farm into more lucrative vocations, or would help them on the farm — where conditions justify — by expert guidance, or by encourag- ing part-time employment in de- eentralizing industries Such people, says Secretary Benson, are helped little by price -support programs. Their production is so small per farm that price supports add only a few dollars. They are not the ones who pile up the big sur- pluses. A good deal of price - support exploitation comes from so called corporation "farming." Yet it is consideration for these "little people" that has supplied a good deal of the humanitarian steam behind high -support degis- lation. DISCONNECTED CLUES — Police Chief A. C. Mistier puzzles over "bodies" found in an abandoned hearse in Leavenworth, Kan, Two men are believed to have made a getaway — from no one„. knows what — in the vehicleloaded with dismembered depart-: merit store mannequins. Helping the chronically un- economical farmers on the dry plains to move elsewhere or to other callings wouldmake some contribution to relieving dis- tress in the Dust Bowls. Many of the bigger operators are suffi- ciently well financed to weather droughts. or to cut their Iosses and start up again on their own. But the recommendations, as the President's message stresses, are of a "long range nature." They are not substitutes for things that must be done to meet emergencies. — From The Chris- tian Science Monitor. \ tt T� TABLE � a ,, j n A a?.tlgi ;rte.',i-,la oJave .c�tews. Let's talk about strawberries for a few moments. As far as myself and family are concerned we're satisfied to eat them either one of two ways. Plain, with sugar and plenty of rich cream poured over; or as part of a shortcake—and I mean the old- fashioned kind made with biscuit dough and not the fancy structures that masquerade as strawberry 'shortcake in these effete days. Still, there are occasions when. you :want to serve something more elaborate—and the follow- ing three recipes are just what you need at such a juncture. a * * For this strawberry Heart Meringue, the berries can be hulled and sweetened, ice cream made or bought and the merin- gue shell prepared, all before- hand The scoops of ice cream could be taken from your own freezing tray, for the second recipe is a delicious combination of chilled evaporated milk, melt- ed marshmailovrs and crushed strawberries frozen to a velvety smoothness. a spatula, building a wide rim around the edge of the heart. Bake in a slow oven (300° F.) for 45 minutes or until shell is dry on the outside. When shell is cool, remove brown paper and chill in refrigerator. Slice fresh strawberries and sprinkle with sugar. Chill in refrigerator. dust before serving, remove meringue from refrig- erator and fill centre with gen- erous scoops of strawberry ice cream. Top with fresh, sliced strawberries and serve imme- diately. * * * STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM tMakes 8 to 10 Servings) - 1 cup evaporated milk, chilled 24 marshmallows (Ye pound) 2 cups fresh strawberries Pour cold evaporated milk in- to freezer tray and chill until ice crystals form around edges. Melt marshmallows in top of double boiler over hot water. Mash strawberries and add to melted marshmallows. Cool. Whip icy cold evaporated milk in a chilled bowl until stiff. Add STRAWBERRY HEART MERINGUE (Makes 6 to 8 Servings) 3 egg whites Vs teaspoon salt teaspoon vinegar 1 cup sugar y2 teaspoon vanilla red food coloring (optional) 1 pint fresh strawberries 2 tablespoons sugar 1 brick strawberry lee cream Combine egg whites, salt and vinegar. Beat until soft peaks are formed. Add 1 cup sugar gradually, about 1 tablespoon at a time, beating well after each addition, Continue beating until all sugar is dissolved and mix- ture is very stiff. Add vanilla and several drops of food color- ing. Beat well. Line a cookie sheet with un- glazed brown paper eut to fit. ace are 8 or 0 ineh heart on isr e brown paper from a card- board pattern or heart -shaped eake ran. Pile meringue in ten- iae of the heart, then smooth out to the edgeof the pattern with strawberry - marshmallow m i x t u e e and beat until fluffy. Pour into 2 refrigerator trays and freeze, with control set at cold- est spot, STRAWBERRY CREAM TARTS (Makes 8 Tarts) 2 (4 ounce) packages plain cream cheese 2 tablespoons cream 3 cup sugar 2 teaspoons grated orange rind or lemon rind 1 quart fresh strawberries 5 tablespoons icing sugar 3/4 teaspoon cinmauaon 8 baked pastry tart shells Beat cream cheese Until. smooth. Add cream, sugar and orange or lemon rind. Bat un- til fluffy and . smooth. Wash, drain and hull strawberries.. Slice in half. Combine going sugar and cinnamon, then mix with %#iced strawberries. Chili.' Before sierving, spread 4 of cheese mixture in bottom of tarts: Cover with strawberries. Tap with a daub of cheese mit- ture. Serve Immediately. Island of Montreal treal The Island of Montreal is set like a giant emerald in 'a Me- dallion of elaborate Florentine silver work, for there he's :all about it a network of turbulent. and celebrated waterways that throughout its history have been beautiful, dramatic and tragic es man attempted their conquest:. Great as the St. Lawrence River, in the days of the French: 're- gime its navigation west of Que- bec was always troublesome. The ships from France were•not able to sail to Montreal. Travel- lers and goods of trade all had to be transferred to arnali, specially constructed vessels which could make . their way through the shallow waters be- tween .the low lying islands in the river and could be rowed, or pushed, or tugged from - a towpath o n the bank,up through the famous St. Mary's Current which guarded the Is- land of Montreal. from ;antru- cion... The waters of the Great Lakes and of the north country "tribu- tary to the Ottawa River tum- bled on towards Montreal in many, many miles of "white water" The St. Lawrence and the Ottawa flow towards one an- other at an angle, which nar- rows the land between them to a slender wedge. At, the tip ;of this wedge the Si.wo great -.rivers- meet in Lake tLouis. The Ot- tawa flows through the Rapids of Ste. Anne where Moore wrote his famous Canadian Boat Song, and the St. Lawrence through the rapids which feed power into the dramatic Beau- harnois generators... . The port of Montreal is the greatest inland port in the world, Yet it is nearer to Liver- pool than Boston, Portland, New York or Philadelphia — nearly three hundred miles nearer than New York. It is also nearer to Central Canada and the Ameri- can Middle West than any other seaport. Montreal is not a port for the show ships such as the Queen Elizabeth, but is planned for the economical ship which is built for efficiency in fueling and in loading and unloading. There are only a dozen or so ships of the big tonnage, 35,000 tons and over, but the chief fleets of the world's commerce range from 20,000 tons down- ward. These are the ships for which the port of Montreal is planned. The Port of Montreal occupies sixteen miles of waterfront on both shores of the St. Lawrence. It begins about three-quarters of a mile upstream from the old Victoria Bridge and ends at Bout de 1'Ile opposite Varennes. The St. Lawrence ship channels cover two hundred and ten miles, from Montreal to South Traverse, fifty miles below Que- bec City, The man-made chan- nels represent a very important engineering feat.... The best place to see the Port of Montreal is from the magni- ficent bridge officially named for Jacques Cartier but known as harbour Bridge. -- From "Quebec: Portrait of a Prov- ince," by Blodwen Davies. FOLLOW YOUR NOSE. You can now find your way about Paris underground sta- tions—by perfumes. All that lost passengers have to do in future is to use their noses. A spraying device on the rear of trains will spray perfume on station plat- forms, and the perfumes will vary from one platform to sm- other. The main track which runs from under tine. famed Champs-. JElys4es will be perfumed -with eau•de-Cologne and in the Latin Quarter lemon,. rose and pine perfumes. are to be used. Paris railways hope to *Moot more passenger%, Fell Madly la Love With Old Painting • Officials at a Rumanian art gallery were intrigued until re- cently by the daily appearance there of a young man who acted very strangely. He would stand in front of a full-length portrait of a lovely woman by an unknown artist, obviously rapt in admiration. Sometimes his lips would move as he uttered words of love — all addressed to the scantily -clad girl, the original model for whom lived more than 300 years ago. It was clear that the romantic: - looking stranger had fallen in love with the picture. One day he stopped coming to the art gallery, but the authorities re- ceivers .a letter from him -- a love -letter addressed to the wo- man in the picture. In it be poured out his devotion, pray- ing that one day he might meet her in eternity, A strange story — but no stranger than others of people who have fallen in love with . beauties immortalized by the old masters. Titian, the great Venetian art- ist, lavished all his skill upon his beautiful picture •of "Laura de Mardi." Her figure is sump- tuous, her face of wonderful purity and innocence. When this portrait was first exhibited in Italy, a young French count spent forty days sitting before it. And the gallery authorities took swift .action af- ter en official had had to re- strain hien while he was trying to ,kiss the lovely Laura's left hand when he thought he was alone with her. The love-sick count's parents were tolti of his infatuation for the picture. They were alarmed - by his queer behaviour, but found he was quite sane. At the same time, they made sure he paid no more visits to the art gallereet Love -letters and even gorge- ous bouquets .of flowers were sometimes surreptitiously thrown on the floor in front of Leonardo Da. Vinci's master- piece, "Mona Lisa," at ,.the Louvre during the first years it was displayed there. Even the great Napoleon fell a victim to Mona Lisa's haunt- ing smile. When he became Em- peror he found the picture in the palace at Fontainebleau and had -it removed to his bedroom. It hung there until his fell, when it was taken to the Louvre. AT LAST — The lefties have won their point. This left-handed pen point is ground from the right side to the left to accommodate writers who twist their hands as shown above. Now let's waif for the proverbial left-handed mon- .key wrench to hit the market. . T . Hundred Dogs Conte lily PHIL CA -1 SCALLEN Frobisher, Sask., literally .goes to the dogs in September. Less than 20 miles .from. the U.S. border and about 60 from the Manitoba boundary, Frobi- sher normally has a population of about 200 people and 50 dogs. During September the census jumps to 300 people and some 250, dogs. The sudden—and vocal—in- crease in canine population her- alds the beginning of one of the continent's top hunting dog trials—the Border International Field Trials—which start on Labor Day and continue for about two weeks. The dogs — mostly from Georgia and Alabama—include some of the finest pointers and. English setters anywhere. The trials are big business, not only in Frobisher but in in- ternational dogdom; first prize money can run to $1,800 or bet- ter. They are held around Fro- bisher because .its flat, gently countryside is ideal for hunting prairie chicken. There is little brush and not too many fences. The Sunday before Labor Day a weird assortment of trucks, some big, some small, but all --fitted with dog cages, starts to arrive in Frobisher. By five o'clock that night the town is in an uproar. . • The 50 town dogs come out to howl, yip and bark a welcome to the• 200 caged visitors, who yap right back. Trainers, han- dlers and scouts, some of them with their families, crowd the small hotel lobby and overflow on to the board walk of the main street. "Bud,' Hassard, his 14 -room hotel bursting at -the seams, marshals, the towns- people to take care of the over- flow. The hotel lobby and the dining room are headquarters for the dog men. It's dog talk for breakfast; dog talk for din- ner; dog talk all the time—all in southern accents and drawls. A Canadian in the cz'owd sounds like a foreigner, The trials are important to dog owners because they prove the worth of the dog and the trainer. Let's say you are one of the 50 -odd Americans who has a training, camp in southern Manitoba o r Saskatchewan where you bring your dogs every July, August and Septem- ber because it's too doggone hot to train dogs clown south. You have a very expensive dog — perhaps worth as much as $5,000 —with a fancy name like Satil- la Wahoo Pete. You've trained him since he was a pup and he's ready for the all -age stakes. You enter him and the owner pays the shot, $30. If it were a championship the entry fee would be $50. The Sunday night before La- bor Day you crowd into Fro- bisher;s Canadian ' Legion Hall with all the other trainers for the draw. All the dogs' names are put into a hat, and are then drawn in pairs The dogs run in pairs or braces. Pete's name is in the hat. You sit there just a-prayin that he will be paired off with a good dog.. and that Pete will get one of the good courses. You were at the Eor- der International last year and know which courses have lot of birds and which haven't. You're lucky. Pete's name is drawn along with that of an- other good dog. The course is One of the best. Now all you have to worry about is weather, 'deer, rabbits, porcupines, and hope that Pete feels like working and not "just rattling his bones," The 15 or more trial courses, each three-quarters of a mile wide and two Miles long, are arranged . by the Canadian Le- gion which apbnsor's the Border International, The . Legion also %applies the marshal to guide the party and thedog wagon to follow the "gallery"- with the dogs for the succedding runs. It hires saddle horses for specta- tors aid looks after the judge's expenses. To a professional a dog trial makes sense; to the uninitiated it's confusing. It looks to be about 49 percent horses . and 2 percent .dogs. Trucks carry the horses and dogs to the courses; they follow the runs by driving along the side roads; they're never out of sight. Everyone fol- lowing the dogs is on horseback. So there are lots of trucks and horses. • But the only dogs in evidence are the two running in the brace, The rest are cooped up in cages on the dog wagon. or the trucks. To Town looking for more birds. The dogs are judged for know- ing what to do; for their bird. work, finding and pointing birds; on class, for the way they carry themselves, speed and stance in pointing; and for handling, way they will range but still obey the trainers' com- mands The dog has 30 minutes to show his stuff in a stake and an hour in a championship event. By the time rhe fourth or fifth brace is on the run it's 9 a.m. and the less hardy have arrived. The horse gallery has grown to quite a size and the truck gal- lery is in full array. There is no standard design for the trucks; they are of all shapes? The trials start at 7 a.m. To see the first brace run you have to rise with the sun, the train- ers, scouts and judges at 5:30. Breakfast is on the run. The first course is six miles south of town and the small cavalcade is there by 6:30. Horses are sad- dled and the dogs are readied. At 7:00 the first two dogs are let loose. Behind them, riding like rodeo cowboys, are the two trainers and their scouts. Each trainer controls his dog by yell- ing and blowing a whistle. When he isn't doing that he's bellowing a chant that sounds as though it originated in darkest Africa, This is so the dog "will know whar he's at." Following behind at a more leisurely pace comes the gallery, all mounted; the marshal, the two judges, other trainers and scouts who will follow on the next two or three courees, and any souls who are brave enough or interested enough to follow the run. The dog wagon, some- times pulled by a tractor, brings up the rear. The dogs range back and forth at the commands of the trainer looking for prairie chick en. When One scents a bird or a covey he comes to a point. Them there's action! The trainer, the scout and anyone else who Is handy, raises his cap in the air and yells, "Point!. Point!" The judges and the gallery gal- lop up, The judges look the dog over, snake notes and then nod to the trainer to flush the birds to trove that one of these smart .dogs isn't 'trying to pull a fast one. Then off the dog goes again, sizes, makes and vintages, Some have the trainers' and scouts' horses up front and the dog cages behind. Others have the horses' at the back and the cages upfront. And there's still room for the dog food and hay. Some are just pickups with portable • kennels in back. Trainers, their dogs and horses, range the con- tinent in these odd-looking ve- hicles, covering dog trial after dog trial from Frobisher 10 Texas, to Georgia to New York from September to April. There's one thing missing at the dog trials — the dog own- ers. A few come, maybe half a dozen out of 160. They are the -incongruity in the business. They own the dog, paying sdme- times as high as $5,000 for him. They pay the training fee of $50 `a month, plus an extra $50 for the three months in Canada. They pay the entry fees for the stake trials and championships. In return they get nd cash what- ever. All prize money goes to the trainers. If he's Iucky the owner might be allowed to shoot over the dog, if he comes to the trainer's camp and Iets the trainer super- vise the shooting. The best he can, hope for is his name in the blue book of dogdotxt. "The Ame- rican Field," or perhaps a tro- phy to keep for a year and the prestige of owning a champion. .Chet'• must consider that's re- ward enough, for the next year the dogs will be back and Fre- bisher will Once again, echo to dog barks which sho' nuf sound like "bow -wow you -all, --- Front The Imperial Oil Review.