HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1951-04-26, Page 7'SALESMAN TART NEW CAREER
SELLING TEN COMMANDMENTS
W. R. (Bob) Price has been a
salesman for a quarter of a century
—selling appliances air conditioners
and a hast of other thugs. And his
sales records show that he has been
a .good .one, too,
Bob, like many laymen, has been
te;tchieg a Sunday School class—
a large class of nnen who come from
all walks of life --for that salve 25
years,
As a salesman Bob has seen much
of the wor'ld's ugliness and need for
.spiritual uplift, and as a Sunday
School teacher he has endeavored to
remedy this as far as possible.
But in the bark of his head he
W, R. PRICE: "It hit me like a
bolt of thunder , , ."
PRICE'S P22ODUCT: "With
God's help ... in every home."
has had a feeling for a long time
that there must be some concrete
plan to bring men closer to God.
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He got on a specific train of
thought when he heard an address
about the great good that can come
front the efforts of onlya few men
working in the right direction.
Then he read a book pointing out
that the pillars of civilization rest
on the Ten Commandments—God's
law for men. Later he read another
booklet—this time an FBI publica-
tion—in which J. Edgar Hoover
pointed to the need of a return to
these fundamental laws of God to
make America a nation such as our
pioneer forefathers established..
Then- it came. Bob was driving
home from a busy day of selling.
He passed a sign on the street—a
sign that he had seen hundreds of
times.
It hit me like a bolt of thunder,"
Bob explains. "It was a sign which
advised you to 'Refresh Yourself'
with a soft drink."
That Was It
He went to work, Last September
he engaged G. Edwin Shofner, coin»
'niercial artist, who worked for six
weeks to produce exactly what Bob
had in mind.
It was a. pen etching of the Tea
Commandments, with Moses and
the Children of Israel gathered
around Mount Sinai as God gave
his law to than,
This Bob had made into an 18 by
24 inch imitation parchment suit-
able for framing.
"That," said Bob, the salesman,'
"with God's help, should be hang-
ing in every schoolroom, every col-
lege room, every library, every
church, every business house and
every home in America.",
Then he went to work in_ earnest.
He quit his selling• of` other things
and these parchments began to ap-
pear in many places in and around
Memphis.
But that's' only the first step of
Bob's goal. From the profits from
the sale, of these parchments, he
wants to see the Ten Command
inerts in stone or bronze in all of
the parks, town squares and play-
grounds of America.
And that's not all. He wants a
great international shrine—some-
thing like the Lincoln. Memorial—
erected with God's laws inscribed
in stone or bronze so that people
from all over the world would come
to see that (America . has honored
.God's last
New And Useful
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Three -Way Protection
Industrial safety goggles are of-
fered with three purposes in con-
struction: Frames, made of plastic
and resistant to acids, alkalies and
chemicals, are made with regular
vents for general use and impact
protection; with screened vents to
guard against splashing; or no
vents for protection against fumes.
One-piece lenses are optically cor-
rect; goggles can he worn over
regular glasses.
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Be Your Own Redcap
A novel attachment takes the
lug out of luggage; consisting of
a wheel carrier, rubber - tread
wheels, a strap and handle. The
device is easily attached to suit-
case without Sharking or damaging
—luggage can be opened without
removing carrier.
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Light Without Effort
No more fumbling for a light
switch in a dark cupboard. no more
Peevish children turning lights off
and on. They'll be awed by the
automatic light, going on when door
Is opened, off when closed. Heavy
bakelite adaptor of new device
screws- into standard sockets.
Useful and Decorative
Manufactured in Canada, cellu-
lose sponges now come in four
colours to blend in with decorated
kitchen and bathrooms. Sponges
can be sterilized by boiling and are
said to float when saturated. Soft
as chamois, sponges are also
Colourfast
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Sprays Burns
Corning in a hermetically sealed,
light-resistant bottle, tannic spray
cools, soothes, is said to heal minor
burns, scalds, cuts, sunburn and
poison ivy. A non -greasy substance,
spray relieves pain and dries to a
thin, transparent coating protecting
the skin so that no bandaging is
required. Bottle's thumb -pressured
automatic closure and built-in noz-
zle which prevents clogging. easily
eject the acid solution,
Aids Erasures
A typist's erasure problem; can
be solved with new gadget making
it possible to erase neatly without
smearing carbon copies, Device is
plastic with two shields and a
handle. Top shield has several sizes
of openings to place over erasure
area.
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HAROLD
ARNETT
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HAIRPIN
CELLULOSE
PLATE HOLDER HAIRPINS, BENT
AS F ICTURE1DJ AND HELD IN PLACE WITH
CELLULOSE TAPE, WILL HOLD PLATES ON EDGE
AGAINST SACK OP OUP1SOARt,
Problem in Arithmetic Homework --- "Name 'em? I can't even count 'err?" exclaims five-
year-old Donald Sandler, Jr., while the causes of his predicament blandly go about their busi-
ness, They are 14 pubs born to the Sandlers' German short -haired pointer "Aldwinicles Sky -
acre Melia," -known around the house as "Wally." Besides trying to think up .names, Don
helps bottle-feed the newcomers three times a day,
"The time is past when you can
put on one spraying of DDT and
then forget it in full confidence
that flies will be killed," says a
well-known entomologist. "There's
no insecticide so effective that you
can neglect garbage, manure and
debris disposal."
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This expert recommends that
dairymen and other farmers launch
programs early this spring with a
clean-up program that eliminates
breeding places, The second point
in control is "know your flies."
:Resistance, so far confined to the
common housefly, is not universal.
It is greatest in Southern areas
where flies breed through most of
the year. People living farther:
north have not encountered resistant
strains and find DDT still effective,
There are no reports of blowfly
immunity. Entomologists say fail-
ure to control this fly is clue to
failure to understand its habits.
During the heat of the day it rests
in the shade of trees and shrubs
Where it is vulnerable,
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Observation is necessary to de-
termine possible resistance, After
a spray of DDT, trait a week and
tltell check the kill. If fly popula-
tion still is high, try one of the
other insecticides. Lindane, toxa-
phene, methoxychlor, cbordane and
benzene hexachloride will hill flies.
A •new one, dieldrin. has given ex-
cellent results and will be on the
market this season. ]dies resistant
to one of these may fall before
another.
Dairymen ar'e' limited in the uge
of insecticides. For inside spraying
in dairy buildings or wherever food
i handled, methoxychlor is the
only' chemical on the approved list.
Heavier outside spraying is re-
commended this year by the ex-
pert..ile suggests that shrubs. trees,
grans and weeds around I,uihlings
he covered. From sC(era! centres
fly -control researchers report that
resistant flies 'have changed some
of their habits. They have aban-
doned roosting places on insicjc reit-
ings and walls in favour of outdoor
locations,
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Once a resistant strain gets
started it does not appear to lose
immunity, A strain kept by the ex-
pert for three years is as tough as
in the beginning of the test period.
Other researchers have found that
when flies are resistant to one in-
secticide they can quickly develop
resistance to another. This may
necessitate -several shifts in control
measures to curb 'a strong strain.
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If y011 have some late -cut hay or
a cutting spoiled by rain, a shall
amount of molasses can greatly in-
crease its palatibility and consump-
tion by dairy cows states d writer in
"County Gentleman." },xperitiients
have shown one of the highest
values of molasses can be realized
when it is used to get cattle to eat
roughage of mediocre quality and
with less waste than world other-
wise be the case, Fed in this way,
molasses is often worth as much as
corn of even 01000.
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As an example, the dairy herd of
1�'illiatn Codington shied away
front a late cutting of orchard
grass. He poured a quart of ordin-
ary feeding molasses in a watering
can, filled with hot water and
sprinkled the mixture over orchard
grass about 12 hours before feeding.
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There was good penetration into
the hay,s and its strawiness was
minimized • by the hot water, while
molasses increased palatability mark-
edly, Almost no dust was observed
as the hay was spread into the feed-
ing mangers.
"I hacl better than usual success
getting my cons to eat a lot of
low -quality hay with little or no
waste," Codington said after feed-
ing 400 molasses -staked hales to
his herd.
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flays of different degrees of dry-
ness or coarseness require varying
amounts of the mixture, but by ex-
perimenting a little, i dairyman can
find the amount that seems neves.
s:1ry to increase tray consumption.
Benzene bexachloride, used as a
grouted spray, got some astonishing
results for 1)r. 1?d win Gould last
year. On special apple and peach
tree test plots it not only gave
complete control of soil -born woolly
apple aphis. but apparently helped
produce an unusually- heavy and
w•ide-spreadillg root system in the
tree. And the top wood growth in
these frees last year was over four
tines that of check -plot i-ree: wvhich
didn't receive the 11111' g+•„und-
spra} trey Wien t.
Iurtw•cliately fulloging th( 1-1111
application, 1"ould began to notice
a quirk kill of the cover 000lr. 111(11
as 111e, season progressed. the trees
began to show some spectacular
growth ditferenres over those where
n , E 1IC had (wen applied to the
soil directly under the trees.
showers wishing 11.r'try this treat-
nunt to boost the growth on their
young trees should proceed with
rantion, however. Gould suggests a
mi.: of 20 pounds or 10 per cent
mma Isomer BenrMre Hexa•
chloride per 100 gallons of water.
The material should be applied to
the surface of the ground tinder the
droop of the branches at the rate
of one gallon her tree.
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Apparently, the chemical has a
place where replants are made in
established orchards of apples and
peaches, Results will vary with
• soils and climate but the possibility
of multiplying first -season growth
and of suppressing weed and grass
competition i n young orchards
makes it a promising development.
Titanium -- Metal of
Vast Possibilities
Titanium the earth's fourth most
abundant structural metal, may take
its place among the other tonnage
metals tvithin the next five years,
thinks Dr. Tulian .Glasser, research
metallurgist, '
Though they element was dis-
covered more than 150 years ago, it
was not recognized as a workable
metal until about 1910. Its attractive
properties have only been known
for the past few years. Titanium is
lighter than iron, stronger than alu-
minum, more corrosion -resistant
than stainless steel, more abundant
in the earth's crust than copper. It
is still difficult to extract pure titan-
ium from its ores economically, but
smelting and refning.difficulti's will
certainly be overcome.
If titanium were used in frames
and engine parts of commercial air-
craft, larger payloads could be car
tied. Because it is highly resistant
to salt -water corrosion, titanium is
eminently snitable for the hulls of
ships, drive shafts and propellers,
The melting point is more than
twice as high as that of aluminum,
Hence titanium or one of its alloys
can be used for exhaust manifolds
and other "hot .spots" that now re-
quire steel.
A GOSHEN, IND,, HOUSE-
WIFE told authorities that maga-
zine salesmen were getting so bold
that two melt practically forced their
way into her home recently and
that while one gave her a sales talk,
the other turned the potatoes she
had been frying on ..the kitchen
sin te.
GARDEN NOTES
Spread Them Out
• The season may be short in most
parts of Canada but this does not
prevent a succession of vegetables.
The trick is to make several sow-
ings of such things as beets, beans,
lettuce, radish, carrots, etc. It's a
good plan to sow about a third of
the seed a week or so earlier than
usual, then follow with a third
about the normal time, then a fort-
night or so later plant the rest, This
will spread the Harvest out over
many weeks. A still greater spread
can be obtained by using early,
medium and later varieties.
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Tools
One can do a lot of gardening
with just a rake, a spade and a hoe.
With a little more equipment, how-
ever, rnuclt labor can be saved.
Digging forks, cultivators, special
weeders, dutch hoes, etc„ will Snake
the work easier and more interest-
ing. They are designed for special
jobs. No matter how few or how
many tools are selected it is im-
portant to keep their edges sharp.
An old file is excellent for this.
Sharp tools will save many a back-
ache and blisters.
For larger gardens a small gar-
den tractor that will cultivate, plow,
cut the grass and do other jobs
might well be considered. These
are now coining on -the market free-
ly. They are not expensive and are
very cheaply operated. A quart of
gas will keep them hustling for
several hours. A wide selection is
also available,
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A Cutting Garden
Often a corner of the vegetable
garden or some place at the back
of the lawn is set aside to grow
flowers especially for indoor bou-
quets. Sometimes when a large sup-
ply of blooms are wanted for this
purpose it leaves the regular bor-
ders a bit shy. Any of these flowers
suitable for cutting purposes will
thrive on the same sort of cultiva-
tion, etc„ that the vegetables get.
Certain flowers, indeed, like glad-
ioli, sweet peas and others of which
the foliage is not very attigctive
are best grown under these condi-
tions.
onditions.
'My new boss says this job hetis
a future. Arhere any ypurmg
bachelors Working here?"
Women In Canadian Cancer Research—A-1iss .'hitt .13rittan,
M.Sc., measuring' tadioaciivity in plasma samples inside. a
f me cupboard.