Zurich Herald, 1950-09-07, Page 64
TII FARM UK
'Writing a column like this, which
appears simultaneously in, a large
number of Ontario, papers, I am
somewhat at a disadvantage regard-
ing the time element. Over a week
,must elapse between my writing
this and the time it appears in print.
That being the case, if I try to
comment on any current happening,
the whole thing may be over and
forgotten when you read it,
For instance, as this is written all
Canada is ill the grip of the rail-
way strike. When you read this,
the strike may be—and I sincerely
hope WILL BE settled. But even
if it is, I doubt if it will be for-
gotten. The automobile has come
to play such a prominent part in
our daily lives that most of us
had entirely overlooked just how
dependent we are on the services
of the railroads. But now we have
had a very rude reminder.
Who was originally to blame for
the strike is a matter on which I
wouldn't care to express an opinion;
but I think the Queens' professor
vrho tried to act as mediator wasn't
.far off the target when he said that
both labor and management acted
Childishly.
However, even should the strike
o be settled by now, the problems it
presented were so serious that it
deserves deep consideration from
every thinking Canadian, and espe-
cially from those who derive their
living directly from the soil. So here
is an Editorial—published while the
strike was in its first week—from
the Financial Post. I'm passing it
along to you without any comment
except to say that The Post's atti-
tude, on most matters, is that of
Management rather than Labor.
This Editorial was headed FARM
LABOR GULF WIDENS, and
ran as follows:
"Any hopes of a better under-
standing between organized labor
and Canadian agriculture were
blasted by the railway strike this
week.
"Of all the innocent sufferers
from a transport tie-up, as a class,
the farmer is by far the hardest
bit. Virtually everything he pro-
duces is of a perishable nature—
some of his crops must be marketed
in a matter of hours—and a very
large proportion of his production
normally moves by rail.
"Most ordinary manufactured
goods can be stored for weeks or
months with no deterioration in
quality or appeal. The same applies
to the great bulk of our raw ma-
terials, like metals, lumber, coal,
etc. But it is a different story
entirely when we consider agri-
culture.
"True, wheat and other grains,
when matured are not of perishable
nature and can be held almost in-
definitely in proper storage. But few
farmers who make grain -growing
a business have facilities for long
holding. In any case, grain -growing
is confined to only one area of
Canada. Elsewhere it is mixed or
specialized farming and prompt
,marketing by rail is vital.
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"With even meat animals, and
before they have left the farm, there
can be no long delays. Hogs, sheep,
cattle and calves are all marketed
at certain definite weights. The
whole schedule of farming is based
on them being marketed at those
weights. If held beyond that, the
cost of feeding increases sharply
-while quality and value deteriorate.
To matte first-class bacon, for in-
stance, a hog must weigh around
200 Ib. and reach that size at six
months old. Once there, however,
he must be slaughtered within a
matter of days or his quality slumps.
"The CCF's hope of marrying
into one party, labor and farmer,
is as hopeless as most of their
.4msIP
Eyes Right!—That arrow on the picture is intended to guide
your eyes over to the right, to notice the beautiful 20 -karat
diamond engagement ring. Well, okay, if you insist on looking
to the left, that's French movie star Denise Darcel. The ring
came from her fiance, Peter Crosby, real estate broker. They
plan to marry in October.
One of the most amazing sports
novelties of this or any other sea-
son has turned up in the persons of
the softball quartet known as "The
King and His Court." (Actually
it's a quintet, but as only four of
the players appear at one time,
there's no use quibbling over such
a matter.)
When word first got around
Toronto and its environs that foils
would have the chance of witness-
ing a softball foursome playing
against fully -manned teams, there
was. considerable shrugging , of
shoulders among the fans. The
folks take their softball very seri-
ously in those parts—almost, al-
though not quite as seriously as
they do their pet hockey team. In
fact there are those who argue that
the grade of softball played in and
around what is someti111es tag -led
"The . Queen City" is better and
faster, as a whole, than it is any-
where else on earth.
That, of course, is taking ill a
whole heap of territory. But it's too
hot, right now, for any heavy argu-
ing; so we'll just say that Toron-
tonians know good fastball when
they see it, and let it go at that. So
it's not too surprising that when
they saw the advance notices of
"The King etc." they tools it as
being something strictly for laughs
—a bunch of clowns who would put
on trick stuff between regular
games, or something of the sort,
But as for the notion that four
men—any four mien—could get in
there and even hope to make a
showing against mighty outfits such
as Tip Tops, Peoples, Robertsons
and others of that ilk, it was just
too ridiculous for words. "A smart
promoter's brainstorm and maybe
not too smart, at that," as one by-
stander put it. "They might get one
fair crowd, just as a novelty, but
after that they'll be playing to
empty pews!"
However, as the ancient ditty put
it, "Ain't it funny what a difference
just a few hours make; and before
Eddie Feigner—"The King"—and
his cohorts had been in Toronto two
days, they were the talk of the
town. Prospective fans by the thou-
sands were turned down, solely be-
cause the parks where the games
were played weren't half big enough
rea.
The Old .And The New—A French farmer. carrying a scythe,
watches a modern harvesting machine at work in a farm dis-
trict outside of Paris. Unusually good weather and abundant
rainfall have combined to get; France's harvest operations off to
an early start this year.
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to accommodate triose wishing to
attend. And when you saw' season-
ed newspaper nun—even sports
writers! believe it or not—trying to
spend their own personal money for
tickets, and unable to do so, you
may be certain that something ex-
ceptional was going on.
That "The King and His Court"
are something more than just clever
comedians is best evidenced by the
game with the Tip Tops. The lat-
ter, in case you don't already know,
are Champions of the World. And
you may be certain that there's
nothing they'd have liked better
than to have crushed the opposing
foursome', and driven them clear out
of the park into Lake Ontario.
And the result? At the end of
nine full innings of ball the -score
stood TIP TOPS — 0; THE
COURT -0. The world's champions
champions had made three hits and
committed one error; the visitors
had played errorless ball and made
four hits. And of the Tip Tops' trio
of bingles, only one of thein had
cleared the infield.
So you play take it from us, gen-
teel reader, that this Eddie Feigner
is really something out of this
world, and his teammates aren't
far behind him. A lot of Eddie
Feigner's truck stuff is slightly over
the borderline of illegality. But
when he's in there pitching for
keeps and sticking to more -or -less
straight stuff, lie has the other fel-
lows fairly breaking their necks
trying to get even a loud foul off
of him.
Just what permanent effect "The
King and His Court" might have
on the game is interesting to think
about. For one thing, within a year
or less there will probably be half
a dozen outfits trying to copy the
.act. We'll be invited to see three-
man softball teams, two-man soft-
ball teams and even, possibly—al-
though Heaven forbid—one-man
ball teams, until the public finally
turns sour on the whole thing.
But another effect might be that
the softball solons, both here and
south of . the border, will give
some prayerful consideration to a
matter which, in our opinion and
that of many more, has been too
long -neglected. In regular baseball
they're looking for some way to
give the pitcher a little better break
—too many base hits, too many
home runs, show pretty clearly
that the batter has too much of an
edge under the present rules.
In softball, just the reverse is
true. The success of "The King
and His Court" -99 games in 105
days -75 wins, 22 losses, four ties"
points up, all too vividly, the fact
that the pitcher has 'too much of
an advantage to make for good all-
round sport... For several 'reasons
we personally never` did develop
into anything like a real, dyed-in-
the-wool softball bug; and the prin-
cipal of those reasons was that we
very soon got tired of seeing batters
come up to the plate, make feeble
gestures in the direction of the ;
ball, and then go out on strikes. A 1
little more latitude for the pitcher f
in baseball—and a little less of the `
same in softball—would, we really 1
believe, ,mean an improvement in ;
both sports from the standpoint of '
the: customer.
.Sitones That Grow
When British settlers first penet-
trated into Southern India they
found that .in one place the natives
worshipped a huge figure of a bull,
carved from solid stone.
At frequent intervals special cele-
brations were held when the priests
annointed the image with oil, and
pilgrims rubbed it in much as if
they were massaging a human
being.
The British were amused when
the priests told them that the stone
bull was alive and that every year
it grew bigger. Since then it has
found that the bull has, in fact, in-
creased in size.
Mr. William Barber, of Iken
Cliff, Surrey, does not find this the.
least bit amazing, for there is a
boulder near the place where he
was born which, as a lad, he has
often rocked by ,land.
To -day it has grown so big that
even with a man's strength lie can-
not budge it.
He Waters Them
Mr. Barber is quite sure that the
boulder has grown; that it is not
imagination, because for the past
quarter of a century his hobby has
been growing stones.
He takes as much care of- them
as a gardener does of a sensiitive
plant. At regular intervals he
waters them and periodically turns
them over. Through the years he
has noted the measurements of
each stone, and says that the aver-
age growth is oat -sixteenth of an
inch every four months.
In Arizona there are trees which
have turned to solid stone. They
are among the oldest things on this
planet,
They belong to the period when
prehistoric animals roamed the
earth, before the first man appear-
ed. There are thousands upon thou-
sands of them, piled up in heaps or
lying singly, in an area of ten
square miles which is called the
Petrified Forest.
London's Fossils
When the last Ice Age receded
huge floods covered the earth and
these trees stood. in the way. So
powerful was the surge of water
that they were pulled up by the
roots and submerged.
They lay under the water for
thousands of years until they be-
came completely petrified by the
gradual absorption of minerals in
the water. Today they lie in the
middle of a desert, a reminder of a
cataclysm greater than any atom
bomb.
There are stones in London
which are as old as those trees.
They are the walls of Bush House,
St. Paul's Cathedral, the Bank of
England and the Cenotaph.
The stone for these buildings was
quarried at Portland.
At one time Portland was at the
bottom of the sea and often, when
cutting the stone, traces of fossi-
lised fish and shells of species that
are extinct today have been found.
Some of these fossil marks can
still be seen in the walls of the
buildings.
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George H. Dowty had a new
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Y a young mcrcan ca i ISSUE 36 — 1950
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