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The Brussels Post, 1956-09-05, Page 7TiltFAINITONI J0174‘.. .eleeee . • eee rr ":4 NO MERMAID CATCHER, but actually a delicate scientific instrument used in oil and gas exploration,* this weird-looking device, an underwater gravity meter, has nevertheless mana. ged to come up with a shapely bathing beauty. These pictures were taken on Lake Erie, where Radar.Sxploration Co, of Toronto is taking readings of, the gravitational pull of the lake bed. The work is being done for Imperial Oil, as part of its exploration of the lake bottom, A survey crew .member (left) guides the gravity meter as it is lowered to the lake bottom for a reading. Edith Parker (right) of Erieau, 'Ont., proves that the device can be a handy resting place , between swims. NW SCHOOL LESSON upsidedown to Prevent Peeking Stkl .1 N 1'00M SNa13.1 H I A 1g 0.0 a SYM, .L W S 0 a n.k 3 sac iii w I latax H E 1 3 '. '-, V U A 5 Lill N iTriii CargEr WK. ElF10917( ISSUR 35 -- 1931 S3 0 S MIM S' 0 11V N W • Ow Car Driver's Pass The Buck here ijt 0.11Xatea we think we *14,Ve the worst, most ignorent suns rudest motor car drivers in. the world. However. over 3ritlein„ they seem to heYe few nitwits too, From the .emin- ettt .01elteitestee ,P.lettellee, we eee pelet t b e following ,excerpts. keen actual. Insurance elettne made over there, 4. 4.: consider that neither ve- eicle. was .to blame but it either Nere to blame it was the ether • I knocked over a. man, irle ad- mitted it was his fault as he tact' been run over before, One wheel went late the ditch, my feet jumped from brake to accelerator pedal, leapt across to the other side, and jammed into 'the trunk of a tree, I remember nothing after pasting the Crowne Hotel until I came to and saw P,C, Brown, The '•accident. was due to the ether man narrowly-, missing , me, • I collided with a stationary tram-car coining the other way, The .car occupants were stalk- ing deer on the hillside. I left my Austin Seven out- side, and when I came out later to my amazement there was an Austin Twelve.- To avoid a collision I ran in- to the other Car, The water in my radiator ac- cidentally froze at twelve mid- sight. Car had to, turn sharper than ems necessary owing to an in- visible lorry, After the accident. a working gentleman offered to be a wit- ness, in my favour, I collided with a stationary tree, There was no damage to the ear as the gatepost will testify. The other man altered his, mind so had to run into him. Dog on the road applied brakes. causing a skid I told the other idiot what he was and went on. I can give no details of the accident as I 'was somewhat concussed at the time. Wilful damage was done to the upholstery by rats. A pedestrian hit me and went under my car. I 'blew my horn but it would not Work as it was stolen. I unfortunately ran over a pedestrian and the old gentle- man was-taken to hospital much regretting the circumstances. I thought the side window was down but it was ,up as I found when I put my head through it. Cow wandered into my car. I was afterwards informed that 20W was half-witted, if the other driver had stopped few yards behind himself the accident would not have hap- pened, She suddenly saw me. lost her head, and we met. A lorry backed through my windscreen into my wife's face. . I bumped a lamp-post which was obscured by. pedestrians. I ran into a shop • window and sustained injuries to my wife, I misjudged a lady, crossing the street, I heard a horn blow and was struck' in the back — a lady was evidently trying to pass Me, • Coming home I drove into. the wrong house and collided with a tree I haven't got. Three women were talking to • each other and when two step- eped, back and one stepped for- ward I had to have an accident. • A lamp-post bumped the car damaging it in two places. The .car, in freht stopped sud- denly and I crashed gently into his • luggage grid, • I left my car unattended for a minute and whether by acci- dent or design it ran away, The Other, car collided with mine ierithout gieihg any warn- ing of its intention. TIME FOR A. CHANGE' For fifteen years Foreski had been eating his lunch at the Bon Ton Grill and tor fifteen' years he had 'get at the same table; in the same chair, served by the seine waitress, and eaten the same thing fee ltinch—veee- table soup,. beef stew and coffee. For fifteen years 1.-• has arrived at the same moment, eaten the same foit4 left the sae tip and, departed—Until 'yesterday, Yesterday instead of eegetable getup he ordered tomato juice. ihe Waitrela NOS, &it:the:bun- deel„ she. .was almost speechless, and she"rtiShect. titS'to the ,eash teglater and told Gedite, George itithiediettly Went"'eVer' to the table Where Mr; ,POrealti *OS , seated and said: "Tell 'Me,: Me, Peeeski,-ie there eceriething Wrong With the settpL—a fly may-, ee)e eNce' said lVIr, Fereski, ''no- thing • wrong 'with the eavetre you heatd r variety is the ;pica: tad" Wive, With 'A map ehows how to save a great valley development prg- ject front erosion,' Sounds like one of the blurbs we get from south of the Bor- der or even—occasionally—from right here in Canada. However, as this dispatch in The Christian Science Monitor by Saville It, Davis comes. from the Damodar Valley in far-off India it shows that Kipling was maybe wrong. East and. West can meet—trying to repair mu- tual foolishness. * Prom up here on the early slopes of the Damodar Valley you can look out with the mind's eye over one of the greatest prides of the new India—a uni- fied, valley development of dams, power plants, industries, and vast spreading plains with con- trolled irrigation where some of the worst floods in history raged, before, From this point of van tele you can see something else, too. Unless something drastic and large scale is done, this whole proud assemblage of the works of men will have its usefulness wiped out in a few generations.. The dams would be as impotent as if some violent flood achieved the impossible and knocked them down. In 50 years this pro- . cess of reversal would,. begin to pinch; in 100 years the millions of people blessed with irriga- tion water in the lower valley would see it begin to thin out, * ,A0 Two, or three generations later the old extremes of drought and destructive flood would rule again—unless something really big is done. The reason is to be seen on all sides of us up here in the hills where the waters originate. While men are still pouring concrete downstream, rearing factories, and spreading the 'nets of irrigation canals, other men up here are unwittingly but sys- tematically destroying the cover that holds down the soil. Great masses of silt and dirt which ought to be nourishing and crops are being torn off the top of the earth by the torren- tial monsoon rains each year, and. are pouring down the streams to fill the new reservoirs. Once lull they are useless. "This is some of the worst soil erosion I have ever seen," said a veteran soil conservation ex- pert who has seen plenty. That statement ends the first chapter of this story: the analysis of the problem. The second is more difficult to relate. It is the account of how a great country like India which is becoming a great modern na- tion copes with a huge problem like this, in 'spite 'of its inex- perienCe. India may not fully under- stand the problem or know e in every detail what to do. But it took two steps which inevitably led toward a solution. First it setup a separate valley author- ity called the Damodar Valley Corporation -= or locally the DVC. It is reasonably free of government bureaucracy and is run by men who are topnotch administrators. These men brought together, a team of tech- nicians who know the primary job of building dams and power systems andi irrigating lane. Then with remarkable fore- sight in the very beginning it e set up a soil conservation divie lion Within thel)VC, It organized CROIS*ORD PUZZLE this unit to conduct a coordinated effort by competent soil scien- tists, agronomists, biologists, for- esters, and engineers, It is this second step that* is *doing the trick because they invited to India an expert to see what was right and what was wrong, * This ends the second chapter, which is a tribute to good oega, nization. Turn good men loose on a problem and they will either find a solution or find son-leen& who can lead them to it. The third chapter is a very human story, Wilson Hull is a pleasant, friendly, soft-spoken man from Mississippi. He is also a tribute to the human race. It would embarrass Mr. Hull greatly to dress him up in ad ejectivee until he looked like a plumed knight galloping to the' rescue on a white horse. He knows that India brought him here, that he is surrounded with excellent and devoted conserve- tionists,and that whatever the merit of his recommendations, it is his Indian colleagues who al- ready have caught the idea, are pushing ahead with it, and will be the ones to carry it out, He insists, properly, on the :fullest credit to them. Nevertheless they are entitled to their say, too. And it was one of his Indian opposite numbers who told me when Mr. Hull was not around, "Mr. Hull found us going at the problem in the wrong direction. He turned us around and started tie -in the right way." Mr. Hull will just have to look the other -way while we conclude there is something epic about this. He may be just a good conservationist. But it just so happens that at one of the key points where the renaissance of Asia is beginning to move, he appeared on the scene and knew how to say, "Not that, way; over here!" 'And so a turning point was passed. It doesn't fall to many men to have this kind of opportunity. The final chapter is what Mr. Hull and his associates planned and did, and in many respects 'it is the most •absorbing of all be- cause it is absolutely" simple in design and almost impossibly complex to execute, But, once begun, it has the capacity to mutiply itself and roll up a mas- sive solution to so big and baf- ' fling a problem, Mr. Hull looked at what was being done by a small band of zealous men with limited budget on' the limited acreage of land which DVC owned or could ac- quire. He said this wouldn't be- gin to touch the problem. "You will have to enlist the entire mass of men who are tin- wittingly destroying the soil in the drive to save it." These were, the farmers, all of them, and. their herds of cattle. Easily said—if you know how —and almost impossible to exe- cute. Mr. Hull himsele had never seen anything like this before. Countless herds of cattle, (which are considered sacred in India of course) and goats and sheep are allowed by custom and ancient law to range freely over the great upland stretches of al- leged forest and alleged grass- land, The owners of the cattle and goats do not own the land oil which ethey graze, so no farmer 32. 1,:xp erionce :1,11. Horse 34. 001or 36, Ice otenru freezer part OS, 1111, o's arch merino 35, Vc*itge 40, 42, Occalrenee 44, .1%1 otlen of 46, Alneticitti it 11 11 P1' 45, Tit14. 60, e.;0 thie 11"41 ix S is responsible for the land which his animals are denuding. The animals simply eat off the gras- ses that would bind the soil, and they eat the seedling treesevhich alone could keep the forests go- ing. This is one cause of the terrifying erosion, Then as for cropland,. Apart from paddies where waer con- trol is automatically required, the upland farms are fraction- alized and dispersed, as genera- tion alter generation divides its land among its children,„ to the point where efficiency deecomes a fraction, too; and then they are cultivated in straight plow lines up eenci_dewn the' slope of the land, so as to encourage- the maximum of quick runoff and erosion, which in a monsoon country is something extra ter- rible to see. On a typical' slope which I inspected, a solid band of gullies on both sides were greedily eatingeinto the central land at the rate of two feet per year. ,What could be done? From the beginning Mr. Hull knew that nothing could be done without the farmers them-, selves. He didn't have to be told that an earlier effort in: which the DVC itself did the ,work in a demonstration area with big machines made no impression on the farmers. Mr. Hull knows farmers are pretty much the same theworld over. They are not knidled to repeat• things done for them, in which they do not participate, to which they did not contribute or com- mit their thought, time, labor, desire and pride. He also knew that nothing could, be done by sitting in an office, which is Asia's, great shortcoming, and either direct- ing others or making plans on paper. In the solid tradition of good farm extension work, he and his colleagues went to a vil- lage which had asked for help, and there began one of -those tactful, .patient persuasive, slow, and persistent efforts to induce farmers to want to help them- selves. * * ' So an- upland field of 17 acres was given the full treatment. There were 10 registered own- ere and 24 more who shared with them. All their holdings were consolidated and laid out on an entirely new conserva- tion pattern — in contour curves; with safe water dsposal at terrace ends into grassed Meadow areas on both sides of the long slope. Gelb/ heads. Were sloped and sodded and runoff chutes were provided where necessary, I was shown the maps from which they worked and could only steee at them. The tiny original plots were so dispersed and subdivided that One 'of them might be e three-foot- wide strip running up and, down the elope. Later I saw such strip and straddled it With. my two feet. HoW these lines — so close they could scarcely be drawn on the. chart — were turned into neer tOeitettreci, tee essehibeld holdings teeth a &inv., Man access road dawn the mid-, Ori land given by the faith- ars and a Safety strip on each side„ so that each fernier was eatiefied With hie hew land was a pure "democratic' revolutien." * The first four contour terrace Were built by the conservation team to show' how. The fartneNS built the other 13 pleitited. for the shine; , using - theie bullocks 'With -simple hidigettetie Wooden , plays, and beet-CI scrapers, 'called katiate (eentethilig like a drag= Paii), dketaiiig them by hand. They Were jeet as good teteracee,:, Said I#uflr as 'the' experts had built Aerie IWO for thiii first trial year. Improved seed on a 50-50 basis, Then began the familiar - to Mr. Hull and his co-workers — and totally unfamiliar — to the farmers — round of good farming. Rotation of crops in- cluding legumes and cereals. Perennial forage ,,grasses on the steeper land, to be cut but not grazed, * * The first job was done and proved, Now the farmers could grow a crop every years on their land, instead of using it only two years out of five, which was as much as the poor soil had previously followed. Next the team tackled an even more remarkable - job of reorganizing and persuading in another area. Some 37 acres with '32 original owners and 238 shares were put through the same process, a task of such intricacy that they themselves called it a miracle. But it work- ad,; and -next year ,.both areas were on their own, with less DVC support,-and' all going well. This year there are some 1,000 acres in 20 'villages being im- preyed in the same way, The process slowly begins to pick up .speed. How They 'Eat' On The Stage Miss, Dorothy Toth not long ago described her Plight, one evening in I am a Camera, when the play required her to make and drink a 'prairie oyster' in full view of the audience and each egg as she broke it proved to be bad. There was no oppor- tunity to leave the stage to pro- cure something better, so the only thing for a conscientious actress to do was to pull herself together and drink the horrid concoction. Miss Tutin's experi- ence, though peehaps an extreme Crse, is not essentially different from the kind of thing with •evhich actors up and down the land have to put,up nightly. Stage food, alas for illusion, is no, more like, real food than the people in plays are; as, a rule, like people in real life. It is therefore a callous, if not actual, ly malevolent, dramatist who calls upon his actors to eat on the stage. For one thing this im- poses certain strain on their technique, The novice, we sus, pect, will have. considerable dif- ficulty in uttering such a cry as PoisonT in the proper tone of mingled surprise, dismay and in- dignation when his mouth is full; arid, althoeigh the old hand will net fall into so obvious a trap;. if he is to avoid it he will need to work out. beforehand pretty precisely at What points to take a bite. He is also likely to have strong views on what food goes down most easily, and this will Seldom be found to coincide with what the character he plays is supposed to be eating. A ecpiere Meal On the stage has a Way of turning out to be ''apple. Slices of apple, cut as late a$ possible 16 avoid browning,. 'serve \*rerY well foe chicken or any other While Meat, but sonie- fifties slice's of bread ate used instead. Fortenate actors may be given a choice, Thus the 'prop' list for the supper scene in The Sleeping Peine.e calls for 'two portions of chicken (one apple, one bread)', front which it might be inferred that one of the players wee either More con- ventional than the other or else mitre featfUl of putting on weight. Red meat is riot to be tOuriteMited so' 'ingeniously. arid lenclibon meet must therefore be used for minute steaks and other etfeli imaginary ' titbits, `8O far, it may lie 'objected, there IS little 6f. that Vocational hardships to which MisS Tutitet Ordeal lad starkly dee* attention. SO fate it is true, it has been Ytierely a *Otter of the awkward'- liege: Of hieing to eat eft 'the Stage at all. The testing time begins when we come to kippers. The standard substitute for kippers is dates, which are flattened out and cut to shape. Fancy the sen- satory imbroglia in which the actor finds himself, when his palate startles him with news of something sweet whereas his im- agination — if he is 'living' the part, as the innocent phrase has it — is all keyed up for some- thing very different. Those who frown on self-in- dulgence may be glad to know that stage caviar can be very- very nasty. In the West End, and when supplied free by the mer- chant, it may be genuine, but farther afield what is substituted for it will depend on the ingen- uity and the kindliness 'of the stage management. Instances have been known of the com- pany having to consume, partly for reasons of economy and part- ly because the stage manage- ment had been more than usual- ly inventive, cold boiled sago tinted with gravy browning. Grayy browning is a great help in theatres where thrift must be- come second-nature to those be- hind the scenes. Burnt sugar, as everyone knows is the classical foundation of those strong spirits which the personages of the play can afford to drink so much more freely than their counterparts in life. Burnt sugar and water does for rum, for whisky, for brandy — for anything, in short, that is brown, except beer, which is generally actual beer, But there parlaecte.heatres where one must save even on the burnt sugar, arid there gravy browning takes its For the preparation of red- dish-coloured drinks cochineal is looked at askance, and some kind of red cordial is the usual sub- stitute. Champagne is, when presented to the theatre by the importers, champagne, though not necessarily the best quality. Otherwise it has a way of being cider or some other fruit drink, and-many are the devices in use off-stage to make a convincing report when the cork is drawn from the same bottle for the third or fourth time. Tea, for which foreign hotels have a hun- dred cunning substitutes, on the English stage is considered ini- mitable, and tea is what the ac- tors drink when you think you see them drinking tea. A good stage manager sees to it that everything is made as easy as possible for the players. When chocolates have to be eaten they are usually cut in two, and they must always be ones with soft centres. Grape- fruit are scooped out and the halves filled with pieces of grapefruet out of a tin. Crum- pets, which may prove particu- larly awkward, are cut into quarters. Certain things the ac, for must .see to himself, Thus, on, the infrequent occasions on which he has to eat fried eggs on the stage, he will be rash if he attempts to rat the yolks; pru- dent men make much play with the whites, Soup, which must also be neither too hot nor too cold., presents a problem of its owit, how much to serve out. If the auclierice laughs a great deal the actor Will have tithe to con- suthe quite a lot. If, en the other hand, it is a bad Matinee and there are no such welcome ruptions; which is incOnverileht for Whichever character bas to clear the table,-..-From the Len- dolt (Englated) Times, ! cleat the table, Vor several days a woman called an early-Meriting bill- 'billy disc jockey on a Bichinend "station to'ask the time, Recog- biAing her Voice the nett call, the announcer told her the heel' and added, 'We give it, Over the air after every cOttple of red= ords." 'Yes, I know,'! she interrupts etil, "but I can't stand hillbilly' In le.:9 Strength Throught Trial Jaraes 1:148 Memory Selection; Blessed the man that ,endureeh tentlItte- tion; foe when he Is tried, As shall receive the crown of Mel which the Lord bath ,promisen to them that 'eve hi nt. Jatoe3 saw the proving ground of one of Our automobile manu- facturers, What a road! What hills and bumps! Here the weak- nesses of a new chassis or axle would $ o on be discovered. Improvements would, follow. Thomas Edison tested over 1,800 types of materials for filament use before he perfected the electric light. Testing is neces- sary in industry, Life is a constant series of tests. $onie things we can change to suit us, TO others we must adjust. The Christian is not exempt from trials. 'Job wee the greatest sufferer. Yet in the midst of it he exclaimed, "When he bath tried me, I shall come forth as gold." Job 23: 10. God never tempts us to de evil. We may hasten our down- fall by playing with temptation. We need to earnestly pray, "Lead us not into temptation''". Then we cooperate with God ii helping him to answer ow' prsufayetre.ring is one of the temp- tations which come to us all. This trying of our faith is at great developer of patience. The business executive chafed under his enforced hospitalization. In his mind he was going over all the work he should be doing. He was restless and fretful. H. wasn't improving. This worried him more. Then he realized b.* was taking the wrong attitude. The work was going on without him. He might as well relax and' enjoy himself as well as a sick man can. He immediately began to improve. Soon he was back to his work. The lesson he had learned in patience will prob- ably add ten or fifteen years to his life. A friend was going into the hospital for a major Operation. She wrote to her sister, "I find that when I am trusting the Lord, I am not worrying." We gain strength through trials if we have faith. Radio Boners Radio Guide ran for years program known as "Radio Bon- ers." Here are some of the gems: The doctor remained under the farmhouse roof all night to pull the babies through. In answer to a request,we will hear "What a Beautiful Place Heaven Must Be" for a party of four. Here is a young lady with het hands full of packages and red hair. Go to McDonald's for your next pair of shoes. There you can be fitted by expert men ha all widths and sizes. Just add emilk and water td Pillsbury pancake flour and you'll be ready to bake. That is why you bake a. cus- tard standing in a pan of water. Search is now being made for two girls who escaped from an Aurora cemetery. As I look over the audience. I see many laces I should like to shake hands with, Anyone who has listened to me has had occasion to use as- pirin. Borden's brings you the world's best cheese. Tonight we present some of Hollywood's outstanding stars, If you have trouble sleeping, fill your mug with ovaltine. • • FOLLOWED ORDERS Before a dinner at his htnnt for fellow gourmets, John M Weyer gave his maid specific ire structions in serving the dishes "I want the fish served whole; with to il,and head," he said, "and serve it with lemon in month." "But that's silly, leinon in mouth," she protested, "That's the way it's done al the best dinners in Europe," her employer insisted, The maid reluctantly agteed. She served the fish, complete„, with tail and head. 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