Zurich Herald, 1951-05-10, Page 7"Guelder" Country
Of Holland
'A :Dutchman i!: r'ight)y proud of
his dikes, of his polders alit! of
his fine harbour., 17uwevcr, it he
wishes particularly to shorty olT itis
country to n stranger, he leads him
into tite (iuelder country.
It is 0 country of gentler slopes,
fresh streams, aged trees, and gen-
tle, slow -flowing, sinuous rivers.
There are plenty of hills, and the
scenery is ever-changing; it is up-
hill and downhill work all the time;
nine hills are more than 300 feet
high and the region has therefore
been :natnecl "The Dutch Switzer-
land,"
All Dutchmen who can afford to
do so come to speed their holidays
in the Guelder country. Thus, in
the region there is a multitude of
hotels, of villas and of castles.
Queen. Wilhelmina, to set an -ex-
ample, spent as much of her time
as possible in her property at :Loo,
near Apeldoorn, It lies out the edge
of the Soeren forest.
But the Ciuelder parks no longer
pride themselves on box -trees in
mosaic designs, with beds packed
with short -stalked flowers such as
one ,sees in the artificial gardens
of the Gooi country or in Friesland,
The trees are tall, the woods are
thick. There are vast and irregular
stretches of lawn, and hushes of
syringas and privet cast a perfume,
The roads are lined with bushes.
Those which line the Middagallee
stand out, resembling columns of
-jade. and the castle stands in the
depths of the woods -behind its
moats, much resembling a fairy-
tale . palace.
There are water -mills on the
rivers . These mills did not
saw wood nor did they drain canals
like those of•the Zaan or the Rhine-
land; they crushed linseed, oil -cakes,
which were consumed by cattle, and
especially paper pulp, which is made
from rags, that 'magnificent Hol-.
land paper especially reserved for
luxury editions. The house, the
village, the press and the ofd bridge
have been reverently preserved in
the heart of this country:
The park shelters among -its
copses of elms and pines the Krol -
ler Museum. The rich art galleries
of The Hague, of Amsterdam, • of
Haarlem and of Rotterdam possess
their masterpieces of the great cen-
tury. But the inland towns also
tried to assemble a wealth of arts
in accordance with the stage of
-prosperity they had -reached, whilst
they built their working-class set-
tlements, their fine schools, their
factories. Eindhoven. the Philips'
city in Brabant, and Enschede, the
spinning -town in Overijssel, have
each their museum of modern paint-
ing. The Guelder country at Otter -
loo has 137 paintings by Van Gogh.
";Yes, but have you seen the
Guelder country?" the Dutch ask
anyone who speaks about Holland.
And one understands the affection
they hold for their country, when
we meet sumptuousness and rigid
simplicity sick by side.—from "The
Netherlands," edited by :Dore Og-
rizek. Text by Suzanne Chantal,
IDENTIFIED
A confcriued bachelor and an
elderly spinster found themselves
seated side by side at a coucert.
The selections were apparently un-
familiar to the ratan, But when
Illendeissolt's "Wedding March"
was played he pricked up his ears,
"That sounds familiar," he ex-
claimed, "I'm not very strong on
classical pieces, but that is very
good. What is it?"
The spinster cast down her eyes,
"That," she replied demurely, "is
the 'Maiden's Prayer'."
SrightIy C..:4irs L)ance
'White ynth ti Yarns`lye Beautifully
Br Brom 1OW ES
"VVITETBER you're living in a new -as -tomorrow dream
Tv home or keeping house with hand-me-downs from
somebody's attic, there's a carpet this season to suit you.
New yarns and new
weaves have made it possi-
ble for carpet manufactur-
ers to offer an extensive va-
riety of patterns and colors.
Particularly important this
spring are synthetic fibers,
which are being used in 100
per cent nylon or rayon car-
pets, in various combina-
tions with wool, or as plastic
reinforcements.
Since the synthetic yarns are
pure -white like cotton and -take
dyes equally well, the same clear
fresh colors are available in these
carpets that homemakers have
come to expect of cotton rugs.
One interesting all -rayon car-
pet features a new weave of
vari-length interlocking loops,
This makes for a heavy, luxuri-
ant pile that offers eye -interest
as well as foot -comfort. It is
available in four color combina-
tions—all of which are - in the
Either modern or traditional
furnishings take on a bright out-
look when complemented by the
fresh floral. pattern of thin carpet.
Spring Carpet Sce
This young woman attends to her household menvlang, lounging In
comfort with feet outstretched upon a luxurious, deep -trite csrp4
of 100 per cent rayon.
soft muted tones so popular this
year.
The textured effect which con-
tributes so much to the beauty
of this carpet is one that is
achieved in various ways in
many new designs. Both weave
and pattern are directed toward
converting today's carpet from
the flat, plain floor -covering it
once was into a handsome room
accent -that beguiles the eye.
Even florals have undergone a
change. If you like dowers
abloom on your doors all year
long, you need not duplicate
grandmother's parlor -rug in your
living room. One design that
fits particularly well with today's
easy living scatters its blossoms
around in "beds," thereby avoid-
ing the monotony found in some
repeat -pattern fiorals.
This fresh design by noted
American d e s i g n•e r Edward
Wormley adds a note of bright
cheer to bedroom, dining room or
wherever you, wish to use it.
llEFA1N
Jokz
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At last, •folks, somebody has had
the entrails to speak up, in no un-
certain tones, for the farmer. Our
own papers have b.eeu so busy with
headlines regarding Rita Hayworth,
General McArthur and the like that
they couldn't be expected to notice
anything so unimportant as farming
and its profits—if arty. But when
I saw that Charles F. Brannan,
Secretary of Agriculture in the
United States, had said thaf
"FAR1vIE'RS ARE EARNING
LESS FOR THEIR LABOR, IN-
VESTMENT AND MANAGE
MENT ABILITY THAN ANY
OTHER CLASS IN THE COUN-
TRY" I sat up and started to pay
attention, And here, in part, is
what Secretary Brannan told the.
folks down in Washington. And if
Washington is anything like Ot-
tawa, Mr. B-rannan probably might
have saved his breath to — Oh,
what's • the use? Anyway, here's
the report: -
Rather than- beiug overpaid, the
secretary told the House Commit-
tee on Agriculture, farmers' earn-
ings for 1951 average around 90
to 95 cents an hour. - This is well
below current estimates of hourly
earnings of all factory workers
which in .February amounted to
$1.56.
Committee members praised Sec-
retary Brannan for his statistical
analysis of current farm economics.
They agreed that he had given them
valuable information with which
to defend the nation's 50,000,000
farmers .when the subject of farm
prices and income and their rela-
tionship to the price of food and the
Portrait Of An Old Soldier—Here is a new camera study of
Genet,a1 of the A.rniy Douglas Um...Arthttr, the "old soldier's
It w•as taken as the general stt.rvcs'ed the throngs gathered to
greet hint its Washington, T),C,
defense stabilization program comes
up for debate in the House.
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Secretary Brannan said that an
hour's earnings in a factory may
buy less of some things now than
it has in the past, but it will buy
more food.
The witness picked over the con-
sumer's market basket item by item
to show Congress that this was so.
Average returns from an hour, of
factory labor will buy about as''
many loaves of bread now as it
would in 1949, one-fourth more than'
it would in 1939, over one-half more
loaves than in 1929, twice as many
as in 1919, and 2% times as Many as
in 1914, Mr. Brannan said, -
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An hour's factory pay, he added,
bought almost as much round steak
in February as it did in 1949, and
only a sixth less than it did when
beef was selling at hargain--base-
ment pries 111 1939.
.An hour's work in the factory
bought as much butter at. the start
of 1951 as it would in 1949 or 1939,
and also will buy more milk, eggs,
oranges, potatoes, and bacon than
it would in 1949, 1030, 1920, or 1914,
Mr. :Brannan said.
Speaking of milk, .Representative
August II. Andresen (R) of Min-
nesota said he thought some of the
propaganda representing farmers as
profiteers originated among people
who did not quibble about paying
60 cents for a cocktail, bur kicked
like a steer at paying 24 cents for a
quart of still.
Secretary itrauuan said that "1f
we had hero satistird with the sante
kinds and quautities of food we
bought in 1035..1039 with 23 per
cent of our disposable income, it
would hate c(lst us only Its I'cr cent
of our 14:0 income,"
.But Americans are eating a high -
Cr quality dies than they did in that
former period and they are eating
about an eigl.tih more food per per-
son, Mr. :Brannan said, and buying
more services along with their food
—better processing, better packag-
ing, all of which costs money.
The secretary of agriculture told
the committee that in .1947 farm
people were getting two-thirds as
much income per capita as nonfarm
peottie, but in 1950 farm people got
only about half as match as other
people, .
He said that the rise in farm
prices over the last year, if main-
tained, will mean a substantial in.
crease in farm earnings, bringing
them back to about what they were
in 1947.
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Rapid as the rise in food prices
has been 'since April, 1950, the wit-
ness said, farmers' prices did not
catch up with the prices of steel
products until January of this year.
Go Easy On That
Scrubbing Brush!
Now that Mom is about to cap-
tain • the ,paint -up, clean-up. squad
for springtime house cleaning,
apeciatists from the New York Ex-
tension . and Experiment Station
.are offering a . word of caution.
Paint is not .impervious to all soap
preparations. If you get- too busy
removing the dirt, the paint may
come off tool .
If scouring of painted surfaces
seems necessary, one of the best
aids is finely powdered whiting,
inexpensive by' the pound, and
procurable at paint, hardware, and
often at drug stores, It is an abra-
sive, but one of the finest varieties.
, If you.plan just to' wash the paint,
a mild neutral soap should be satis-
factory, -kit even such soap con-
tains some alkali that will eventu-
ally affect the paint if left on it.
Directions for commercial paint -
cleaning preparations suggest no
rinsing is needed: but this is a
misapprehension as the alkaline
content of soap does weaken paint
surfaces if left on thein. just be
sure td rinse carefully every area
yon wash. To be -sure of doing this
it is wise to wash only a small
area at a time: then rinse it well
before moving to the next area.
Another caution concerns rub-
bing your paint surface overmuch
while using a cleaner with which
you are not too familiar. Paint is
softened by souse cleaning • solu-
tions when it gets wet; then rub-
bing eats damage it. For this rea-
son it is highly important to use
only the amount of cleaner sug-
gested in the directions so that the
paint won't get too soft for rou-
tine rubbing,
"Sticky Business"
New adhesives made from syn-
thetic or artificial resins ;ae elim-
inating the use of thousands • of
rivet per aircraft, and are sticking
together even metal components of
our latest Civil and military jet
planes.
They are reducing the weight: of
the aircraft and increasing the pay-
load or weight that the plane can -
safely lift. They are leaving' the
tr ing and fuselage surfaces stream-
lined and unblemished by rivet
heads, enabling the onrushing air
to slide smoothly over then, thus
increasing speed and reducing fuel
consumption.
,These synthetic resin glues are
so strong that two metal parts
joined by them will not break nntil
a pull equal to 'two tons has been
applied.
Some 'are hardened by heating,
ant by cooling, as with animal
glue. They are applied under, pres-
sure at a.ltigit temperature.
Microscopic examination shows
that a continuous film is formed
between the two surfaces being
joined, and that this film penetrates
deeply into the pores, producing
the special adhesive effect.
The synthetic resin process is
being used in the building of the
turbine -powered Brabazan 2, the
new Britannia airliner, and the twin -
engined Bristol 175 helicopter.
Free From Trouble
These "modern glues bear no re-
semblance to the messy substances
we use occasionally for household
repair jobs. They are made -imper-
vious to humidity, water, germs,
climate, insects and white ants.
Aircraft on which they have been
used have given trouble-free beha-
viour in climates ranging from the
intense heat of the Sahara Desert to
the freezing tundra "of Northern
Canada.
Before the last war we were using
glues which had not changed in
essential composition since the days
of the Pharaohs. They were made
from by-products of industries deal-
ing with skins, bones, and animal
tissue.
The action of steam on the in-
soluble matter found in these by-
products produced animal glue,
This is still used in woodwork,
for gummed and abrasive paper,
and far book -binding. Another type,
marine glue (made by dissolving
robber or shellac in naptha or
benzine) is still used in ship build-
ing because it resists water well.
But between the two World Wars
the Germans discovered how to
nialce sy,ithetic resins with mira-
culous "sticking" properties,
GARDEN NOTES
Order of Planting
Most garden things in Canada
divide themselves into Lour groups;
hardy, semi -hardy, semi -tender and
tender,
In tate first are those that go in
just as early as possible. Frost will
not hurt them at all, may in fact
do them good. In this tough class
are sweet peas, nursery stock and
grass seed, also practically any-
thing else of a perennial nature.
The second group includes those
that like to grow early and will
stand some frost. These are mostly
vegetables like lettuce, radish,
spinach, .garden peas, perhaps a
short row or two of beets and
carrots, and the first potatoes. One
can risk the first sowing of these
about as soon as the soil is fit to
work. True, a real hard frost will
damage then, but a few degrees
will not.
In the third category are plants
that will stand some pretty cool
weather, even a degree or two of
frost, but they don't like it. They
should not be risked outside until
practically all danger of frost is
over. In this group will be most of
. our annual flowers—cosmos, zin-
nias, marigolds, petunias — and
beans, potatoes, corn, cabbage,
perhaps even a few tomato plants
among the vegetables.
Last of all we have the really
tender things. Frost is fatal to
these and they don't like and will
not thrive in cool weather or cool
soil. Among the flowers are the
vannas, gladioli, dahlias, and in the
vegetable category: cucumbers,
melons, squash, peppers and such.
When the season is ready for these
it is also the best time for the main
plantings of corn, tomatoes.
Must Have Room
A most important job, after the
plants are up, will be thinning and
spacing. This is vital work and
applies to either flowers or vege-
tables. Crowded flowers will grow
thin and spindly, will not bloom
freely and the biggest plants will
topple over in the first storm.
They should have half as much
room between as they will grow
tall. This means about 5 to 5 inches
for things like nasturtiums, less for
alyssum, much more for tall mari-
golds, cosmos or spider plants.
With the smaller vegetables, a
couple of inches between plants is
sufficient. This applies to leaf let-
tuce, early carrots, beets, etc. Beans
and peas should have from 4 to 6
inches between plants, and as all
the seed usually germinates it
should be planted about this far
apart. Rows should be from 15
inches to 2 feet apart. Corn is usu-
ally planted from 3 to 6 seeds to
a hill, about 18 inches apart em ch
way, or rows 2 to 3 feet apart.
Tomato plants require at least 18
inches each way; melons, squash
and cucumbers three plants to a
hill, and hills about 2 to 3 feet
apart.
DoublingUp—Russell, at left, and Ralph Logan, six-year-old
twins found their double persuasion ineffective against the
double stubbornness of these twin donkeys. Tire boys needn't
be toot surprised at their failure, for they were up against a
special pair, The owner of the animals stated they are the
only twin donkeys itt Texas,
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