Zurich Herald, 1952-03-20, Page 3"Twenty- Ave Lashes
For Profanity"..
Lord Byron said to Jack Sky -
serape: "And as be knew not what
to say, he swore,"
. Now, as then, it seems that there
are those who cannot express
themselves without "swearing.'
And when legitimate language
falters, they fill in with oaths and
profane utterances,
In his widely -read work on
George Washington, Douglas
Southall Freeman lists some of
the penalties that a soldier of the
Virginia Regiment might expect
to pay for certain offenses, among
them: ". . twenty-five lashes with
a cat-o'-nine-tails for profanity,
fifty for feigning sickness, 100 for
drunkenness, 500 for fighting with
another soldier . , ."
Twenty-five lashes for profanity!
If the ,order were in general
force and effect today, uncounted
multitudes would be beaten and
bruised—in the army and out of itl
These words are credited -to
General Washington, as having
been directed to his Continental
Army: "The foolish and wicked
practice of profane cursing and
swearing is a vice so mean and
low that every person of sense and
character detests and despises it"
* * *
It would seem to be• seriously
significant that in the Ten Corn-
mandments which the Lord God
gave to Moses, the prohibition
against profanity was thought to be
a subject of sufficientimportance
as to be included in this limited
list: "Thou shalt not take the
name of the Lord thy God in
vain." (Exodus 20:7.)
And yet profanity is so prevalent
that it sometimes seems to ••have
become almost as common as con-
versation. But being common
doesn't assure acceptability. Disease
is also common. Corruption and
moral decadence are common. And
the fact . that they are prevalent
doesn't mean that they are proper
or permissible.
* * *
One reason, no doubt, for the
prevalence of profanity is because
we often unthinkingly accept our-
selves as we are, and we don't
hear ourselves as. others hear us
any more than we see ourselves as
others see us. But if we were to
hear a record of some of our re-
marks—and listen as if we had
never heard ourselves before—
there are times when we would
surely be embarrassed.
I heard a man the other day—
a "substantial citizen" shall we
say?—who apparently knew only
one kind of adjective, writes Rich-
ard L. Evans in The .Sunday,
Pictorial. And no !natter what
he was attempting to talk about,
every third or fourth word was
a profane expletive or a foul ad-
jective. With him it had become
so habitual that he wasn't aware
of what he was saying or how he
was sounding,
* * *
Quite apart for the question of
commandments, there is a purely
practical side of the problem:
Language is an effective tool if
wisely used. But if overused it
loses much of its force and effec-
tiveness. And the constant use of
so-called "strong language is like
someone shouting all the time. It
soon becomes commonplace and
MERRY MENAGERIE
YCe414h M.,.nl • eel
"With inflation and income tax,
.1 figure it's worth about $271"
doesn't add any' emphasis -- but
only .offense. And if the real need
should arise, the shouting would
already have lost its force and
effectiveness. (Like the boy who
cried "Wolf! Wolfl" too many
times, and didn't have anything to
add when the real occasion came.)
* * *
'We commend the code to which
the television board of the Nat-
ional Association of Radio and
Television Broadcasters have re-
cently committed themselves, and
from which we quote:
"Television, and all who partici-
pate in it, are jointly accountable
to the American public for respect
for the special needs of children,
for community responsibility, for
the advancement of education and
cultui e, for the acceptability of the
program materials chosen, for
decency and decorum in produc-
tion, and for propriety in advertis•
-
ing. This responsibility . , . can be
discharged only t hr o u g h the
highest standards of respect for the
American home, applied to every
moment of every program pre-
sented • . .
"Profanity, obscenity, smut and
vulgarity are forbidden, even when
likely to be understood only by
part of 'the audience . .
"Reverence is to mark any men-
tion of the name of God, His at-
tributes and powers."
Any man, on or off the air—any
pian who appears in public or in
private—should think of the in-
fluence and atmosphere he is im-
posing upon other people, and
should have the decency to protect
all others against offensive speech.
* * *
The final fact is that crude com-
ment and oaths and irreverent
utterances are proscribed by the
commandments of God, which fact
cannot lightly be considered even
by those who mean no offense by
their loose language.
Perhaps the essence of the sub-
ject is suggested in that phase of
the dictionary definition which re-
fers to profanity as "irreverence."
A Helping Hand—One of the numerous services prot,ided by the
Ontario Society for Crippled Children, which makes its Easter Seal
campaign for funds March 73th to April 1,3th, is transportation of
treatment cases. Here driver Jack Doherty is ready to take Met
Horwick, aged. 20, to the Occupational ;Therapy Centre, Toronto.
Wouldn't it seem to be inconsis-
tent to pray for health and hap-
piness, for peace and protection,
and for "our daily bread"—and
then irreverently use the name of
Hin eto whom we pray?
The opening utterance of the
Lord's Prayer presents the key to
the question: "Our Father which
art in heaven of HALLOWED be
they name." (Matthew 6:9.)
TllflA1N RONT
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Coarse grain crops can be made
practically smut -free if proper
methods of treatment and the most
effective disinfectants are used, re-
port scientists of the Federal Lab-
oratory of Plant Pathology in Win-
nipeg who have completed a three
year survey of actual farm seed
treating methods for smut control
in barley and oat crops,
* * *
Their survey showed that old
standby disinfectants such as cop-
per sulphate (bluestone) and for-
maldehyde are not satisfactory for
treating seed as they sometimes
cause seed injury.
* * *
Modern organic mercury disin-
fectants' gave much better smut
control, particularly when an un-
even distribution of disinfectant
through seed grain was obtained
with the shovel or loading auger
method of application. The most
efficient disinfectant was found to
be the organic mercury compound,
, "Ceresan"M.
The laboratory report noted that
the mean percentage of smut in 166
fields sown with seed treated with
"Ceresan" M. was 0.49 while in
103 fields sown with formalde-
hyde -treated seed the mean percen-
tage of smut was 2.20. The percent-
age of smut in check plots of ue-
treated grain was 2.25.
The survey further revealed that
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HAROLD
AIRNETT
grains treated with organic mer-
cury disinfectants. could be stored
much longer than those treated with.
older types of fungicides. When
treated with copper sulphate or for-
maldehyde, seed has to be sown
a day or less after treatment,
Organic mercury compounds, on
the other hand, control seed -borne
diseases more effectively if applied
four or more days before seeding,
and treated seed can be stored
without risk of injury. This en-
ables the farmer to complete his
seed -treating operations during the
slack pre -seeding season.
* * :h e
Methods of applying seed disin-
fectant are an important factor in
smut control, the investigators
found. Machine -treated seed gene-
rally produced crops with less smut
than shovel or auger -treated seed
but only about 55 per cent of the
farms that treated seed used a
treating machine.
* * v:
Pasture and flay, occupy over 50
per cent of the total crop acreage
in Ontario. Approximately 3 mil-
lion acres of arable land and 3z
million acres of rough land are
in pasture, while hay is grown
on approximately 3J:'t million acres.
* * * -
The extent of this acreage and
the siguiticance of sante in the
economy of production speaks for
itself.
Because of the large areas avail-
able. and the low cost price of
land, we have unfortunately, down
through the years. been inclined
to seek the line of least resistance
by increasing our acreage rather
than the carrying capacity per
acre. Until recently, we did not
concern ourselves about the re-
lationship between soil fertility,
hay and pastures mixtures, and
the management of same. Today,
we consider pasture planning and
management in all of their aspects
as being of vital importance as re-
lated to profitableness of enter-
prise. Notwithstanding this fact,
it is considered ,safe to suggest
that oirr live stock producers across
the Province are not as hay minded
as they are pasture minded.
* * *
Hig` quality hay is made from
legumes and grasses, cut at the
properc stages of growth, leafy,
green,;w colour, free from moulds
and weeds and dust and as nearly
as pos,tible fine -stemmed.
* * *
The stage of maturity affects
hays lecause the dry matter con-
tent i:tcrcases up to full maturity.
As timothy approaches maturity,
howevr, there are marked decreases
in protein and, in fact, all useful
ingredients, and in their digesti-
bility i'or best quality grass hays,
cuttirij should be made at the
earhesf heading or beginning bloom
stage.
* * d:
Tirne of cutting is important with
leguzes, talthough probably not as
cr1 'with, grasses. Withalf-
aift . rst cutting can .be made
at flag;';`early bloom stage. Red
clover, anct alsike should also be
cut at early bloom or one-half
bloom stage for the best quality
of hay:
* * *
Mixtures of legumes and grasses
shouldbe cut when the legumes
are at the proper stage of develop-
ment as described above.
* * *
Thee ` weather conditions at the
time .of cutting exert a greater
control on nutrient preservation
than does time of day. If a person
has proper standard modern hay-
making equipment on hand, and
if one sees fit to take advantage
of the facilities which are made
available to agriculture today with
'respect to the forecasting services
of government through radio sta-
tions,.and to use one's own baro-
meter, there remains opportunity
for one to make high quality hay
in the field, provided that it is
cut at the proper stage of matur-
ity.
* * *
Windrowing of hay after it has
lain in .the swath for two or three
hours, preserves the quality by re-
ducing the amount of hay directly
exposed to the sun, and permits of
better• Circulation of air through the
hay. There is also evidence that
it is easier to cure mixtures of
grasses and legumes than legumes
alone because of the fact that the
grasses aid in aeration which makes
for more rapid drying.
The pick-up baler ran have its
limitations in the harvesting of
high quality hay, This is especially
so if hay lis harvested by contract.
There is a tendency for the opera-
tor to wait until the last possible
minute before cutting the clop.
This makes drying much more
rapid and baling rune(( easier, so
that frequently baled hay is a more
mature product that( tvhat is con-
sidered to be average prow hay.
* *
fay, properly field cured under
ideal weather conditions, is high
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in vitamin D and may contain en
appreciable quantity of carotene.
Leaf loss is reduced to a minimum
and the overall feeding quantity
is well preserved.
* * *
Unfortunately, if adverse weather
conditions prevail, there is a con-
siderable nutrient loss, When hay
craps are fully Cured in the field
under such adverse conditions,
. losses in original feeding value are
very . considerable. Bleaching and
leaf shattering can account for
losses amounting to between 30
and 40 per cent, An acre of alfalfa
that will yield approximately three
tons of hay per season containing
50 per cent or thereabout of leaves
has as much feed value in terms
of digestible protein and total dig-
estible nutrients, when properly
fed, as one ton of linseed oilmeal,
plus one ton of dried beet pulp.
*. * *
The tripod curing method is
satisfactory when the volume of
hay to be harvested is relatively
small. By this method it is possible
to make a high quality product
at a relatively law cost.
* * *
Mow drying and curing of hay,
either baled or chopped,—This
method serves to make for a better
quality product. Getting hay into
the mow sooner after it is cut
tends to reduce losses from weath-
ering and also reduces leaf loss,
especially during unfavourable hay
harvesting weather, with the result
that more hay, cut at the right stage
of maturity, can be saved and the
protein and carotene content will
be higher if curing in the mow is
completed in a satisfactory manner.
Doubtless there remains consider-
able information to be discovered
concerning this method of preserv-
ing hay, However, whether the hay
is baled or chopped, this method
of curing, combined with better
"Just like a man! Must have
everything, in black and -white!'
harvesting equipment, are all steps
toward the goal of better hay. Such
methods should serve to shorten
the time between cutting and a
safe moisture content for perman-
ent storage.
* * *
As for this initial moisture con-
tent, present information is to the
effect that hay can be put on' the
drier at a moisture content of from
40 to 45 per cent with no danger
of spontaneous ignition, provided
that the fans areekept running.
Extensive cooperative research is
being conducted at the Ontario
Agricultural College in connection
with mow curing of hay.
JJNDJtY SCllOOL
LESSON
By Rev. R. B. Warren, B.A., B.D.
Lydia, Who Opened Her !Beam
And Home
Acts 16: 6-15, 40.
Memory Slection; A woman that
feareth the Loid, she shall be
praised.
Proverbs 31:30.
It is remarkable how God guides
His children. Pant and Silas, ac-
companied by Timothy from Lystre
journeyed through Asia, a western
province of Asia Minor, being for-
bidden
orbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach
the word there. They they thought
to go to the north of Bithynia, but
the Spirit suffered them not. Where
would they go? But when God
closes some doors, He always
opens another to his faithful chil-
dren. In a night vision Paul re-
ceived a call to Macedonia. The
record reads, "Immediately we en-
deavoured to go."
In the Roman colony at Philippi
the evangelists attended an open-
air prayer meeting by the riverside.
Apparently there were not suffi-
cient Jews there to build a syna-
gogue. Among those present was a
Gentile woman, Lydia, a seller -of -
purple, who worshipped God. This
woman, "whose heart the Lord
opened," became a Christian. She
and her household were baptized.
Then she opened her hoine to the
evangelists, Paul, Silas, Timothy
and Luke. That it continued to be
their hoine while they were in
Philippi is seen from the fact that
when Paul and Silas were released
from prison they proceeded to the
house of ,Lydia where they met
with the brethern and comforted
them.
There are still some Lydias who
not only have received Christ into
their heart but who are labouring
fervently with heart and hand to
help on the cause in every way.
The church needs more Lydias.
The High Cost
Of Getting Rubber
Better appreciate the elastic in
that new girdle, the rubber in
those new tires.
Much of it comes to you through
barbed-wire enclosures, past Com-
munist guerrilla fire from the
jungles of Malaya, where one of*
the world's great dramas is now
playing.
A close-up of the life of a rub-
ber planter and his family in
Malaya is given, by a pretty Eng-
lish girl, Rhona Connery, now vis-
iting the United States after three
years as news and special events
editor of Radio Malaya.
During her stay in the heart of
the jungles, whence conies some
90 per cent of the world's natural
rubber, Miss Connery witnessed
blood -and -thunder dramas that
rival the tales of America's early
frontiers and Indian warfare. Says
she:
"The average English rubber
grower in Malaya lives in a bun-
galow in a barbed-wire enclosure,
from which his family dare not
stray. Every time he rides his
jeep around his acreage, he is in
constant danger of attack from
ambush. To have even a slim mar-
gin of safety he must take a differ-
ent route every day."
All Socked Away—Faced with a critical housing problem after her
collie, Pippin, had 11 puppies, Mrs. Theo Rubbright solved it by
hanging up the pups in socks.
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