The Brussels Post, 1960-03-10, Page 3EVEN QUEENS GET TIRED — Azalea Trail Queen. Susan Gisclard, 18, center, and her maids-
of-honor, Jacque Warren, 18, left, and Anne Blackwell, 17, take off their shoes and relax
in Cleveland. The Mobile girls are travelling around the country to, different pageants spon-
sored by junior chambers of commerce. They were hostesses at a Miss Junior Ohio fair in Akron
earlier. The junior Miss America Pageant will be in Mobile in March.
THE FARM FRONT
Joktuwea
Scientists from 21. different
countries visited the experimen-
tal farm during 1959. One not-
able visitor was the Crown
Prince of Ethopia. Another at-
tractive guest was the Dairy
Queen of England.
Mr. Belefleur stressed that the
officially recorded visitors do not
include the hordes that turn the
farm's slopes in to a winter-
time playground with ;heir skiis
and toboggans.
He urged all grottos interested
in touring the farm to make pri-
or arrangements to facilitate
planning,
What Corn Meant
To Civilization
From remote antiquity the In-
dians of all parts of Mexico have
had a common heritage; that is,
wherever maize will grow — and
it will grow everywhere save
in the out-and-out deserts and
in the water-logged places I have
described — their -staff of life
is the tortilla, that flat, leathery,
not pleasant thin cake which is
the Mexican bread, as well as
the simple instrument for con-
veying to his mouth such drip-
ping and delectable
'
messes as
bean soup, fried beans, and gua-
camole.
The dry maize is prepared by
soaking it overnight in a solu-
tion of lime or wood ashes,
which removes the tough skin.
It is then ground into a wet meal
(masa) with a stone rolling pin
(mano) on that curious three-
legged washboard contraption
known as a metate.... Its prin-
cipal use is in the making of
tortillas, which are baked on an
eathernware griddle (comal).
From one end of Mexico to the
other the grinding of the masa
and the patting of tortillas is the
morning song of life. It has been
going on for such countless gen-
erations, and it is so thorougly
a part of immutable customs,
that I suspect that the vendors
of labor-saving gadgets and
those kindly people who would
emancipate the Indian woman
from her ancient drudgery will
not 'soon disturb the rhythm of
the tortilla makers.
It will be objected that not all
Mexicans are Indians, but to
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STAND TALL This ft-defer on Stilts Was built by the Russians
lei Kharkov for cuitivation of tall corn, The body of the tractor
is. five feet higher than the-. It can also be used far
whisk euttiti,Q rind !skint polliii.dliorts the kossiOni •Say:
AFGHAN BOOTEES Christina Simpson takes good care` Of
her pet's tender tootstes with this pair of warm knitted booteesi
The Afghan hound, Achired of Otetrnill, was competing In the
Landart 4464 thew,
That Old Lombard
Really coul‘l
Some fun was generated here
a while back by the claims and,
counterclaims about Paul Bun-
yan, the woodsman and lumber-
jaek of MAC, whose birthplace
on the coast of Maine has fre-
quently been denied by states
to the west'ard. Since the gentle-
man's birth certificate was late-
ly discovered, attesting finally
that he was a Pine Tree native,
there is nothing more to be said
on this score, but somewhere al-
ong the line as Paul Bunyan fig-
ured in the discussions, some-
body mentioned the "Lombard,"
and here is a topic worth ex-
ploring,
In Maine, occasionally, you'll
hear the word Lombard used for
something huge, powerful, ir-
resistible. Gargantuan, "An old,
Lombard of a hog:" The word
'usually gets a down-East tone
much like "Iumb'd." And, al-
thought a proper researchist
could soon enough dig up the
facts, the word has already been
obscured by foregettings.
The Lombard was a steam trac-
tor invented and manufactured
by the Lombard family here in
Maine, and for a generation it
was the standard engine for haul-
ing long trainloads of timber out
of the forests to the river or to
the mill. Like everything else
that dealt with lumbering, the
Lombard also moved west, and
was important.
The essential thing about a
Lombard was its traction. It did
not have wheels, but had so-call-
ed caterpillar or cleat-track con-
tact, so it could grip on ice and
generate great pulling power.
The modern bulldozer uses this
device, and here in Maine we
understand there were industrial
disputes over who owned the
idea.
By 1914 the, old steam Lom-
bard had been brought up to
.date so it logically became the
prototype for the British "tank."
The story is that a maneuverable,
armed and armored vehicle was
projected by the British, and to
keep it secret from the enemy
it was referred to in all respects
as a tank. A tank to hold water,
or milk, or something like that,
for the word sounded harmless
enough.
It worked, for when the "tank"
went into battle it came as a
surprise to the enemy, and it also
gave us a new word.. The tank,
as a machine, was nothing more
than a wartime version of the
Lombard that had been hauling
lumber out of the Maine forests
for a long time.
In the beginning, the Lombard
was a horizontal steam boiler
mounted on t w o caterpillar
treads. It looked off-balance.
They had trouble steering it, so
almost at once they mounted two
pony sleds under the front end
and built on a cab where a man
could sit and steer with the sleds.
This give it an even more gro-
tesque look. It had the appear-
ance of a mongrel railroad loco-
motive made by a local black-
smith from odd items, and the
front cab was utterly ludicrous.
They found they had to run a
steam hose forward to keep the
helmsman from freezing, as all
Lombard work was done in the
winter.
But the Lombard would pull.
Stretching back into the forests
for miles were carefully made
log-hauls. They were graded
like railroad beds following the
contour of the land, and in
swampy places they felled trees
to make corduroy, These log-
hauls were engineering feats in
themselves. When winter came
they were rolled with snow
rollers, and then a special icing
crew got out before dawn and
sprinkled them with water. The
log-haul was a glare of ice.
Instead of railway cars, the
rolling stock was heavy sleds
tvidelt would rack up great
weights of lumber and pulpwood,
When a Lombard hooked on, the
appearance was of a long freight
train moving majestically out of
the forest, its locomotive shroud-
ed In smoke and steam.
An interesting bit of lore con-
cerns the sleds, which were made
so they could he "knocked down."
After the sleds were unloaded,
all but one would be disassem-
bled and the- pieces would he
loaded on that one. The Lom-
bard would trek back into the
forest with its train all piled up
on one sled. This was because
, a loaded train was tractable, but
the empty sleds didn't follow too
well. Back in the woods, the
train would be made up again
and loaded,
Somewhere in the Maine wil-
derness, long forgotten and long
since covered with moss and
forest debris, is a complete Lom-
bard train. The story goes that
the St. Croix was cutting, and
had a big operation under way.
The log-haul was iced, the train
was loaded, and the Lombard
started for the distant mill. But
it was payday, and the pen-
pusher brought word that funds
were not forthcoming, and the
eagle wouldn't scream on sched-
ule. The crew thereupon quit,
and the long Lombard train was
left right where it stood,
Winter broke up, the snows
were gone, and the Lombard re-
mained as was. The summer
rusted the boiler, and successive
seasons rotted away the sleds
and heaped fungus on the loaded
wood. Occasionally some cruiser
or hunter would wander by, but
it got so you wouldn't recognize
the thing for what it was unless
yott know. Before long people
had forgotten the Lombard any-
way, and it didn't matter.
A couple of weeks ago the
Great Northern, biggest of our
independent paper companies,
announced that all of its Aroos-
took County wood, from now on,
would be hauled from the woods
on trucks. No more log trains,
no more river drives. The Lom-
bard steam tractor, mighty and
magnificent, has lent its mech-
anical prowess to the new diesel
caterpillar, and the bulldOz,er
now builds roads into the for-
ests so Lombards are no longer
needed
Indeed, the tracked gasoline
tractors had long since taken
over the hauling job anyway —
great-grandchildren of the Lom-
bard, but riding on the same
kind of pick-up-and-put-down.
It's interesting to think on all
the uses man makes today of a
traction device invented to haul
logs in Maine. —by John Gould
in The Christian Science Monitor
In The Days Of
Real Politeness
The good old days — extracts
from The Golden Rules of Eti-
quette, 1900.
Do not be slighted if your fair
companion does not invite you to
enter her home on returning
from a Ball. If she does invite
you, decline.
One hundred men or over`con-
stitute a Ball.
At parties, gentlemen should -
take elderly ladies in to refresh• -
ments. '
On the street, when a lady is
desirous of ending a conversa-
tion, she should bow slightly,
and the gentleman must instant-
ly take his leave.
At dinner, do not use the table
cloth to wipe ' your mouth.
Never cry out when you per-
ceive something dainty.
At a baptism, praise the baby
under all circumstances,
When travelling by rail, ladies
will thank gentlemen who raise
or lower windows, coldly but
politely. A man remaining seated
while a woman stands is abso-
lutely hoggish.
Familiarity, they say, breeds
contempt.
With this in mind, farmers are
warned that the contents of old
pesticide bags are potentially
dangerous.
Says J. Marshall of the Can-
ada. Department of Agriculture
Research Station:
"You can't tell from the color
of pesticide, or from its smell,
whether it is a gentle thing or
a bad actor". * • •
He explains that some with
a vile stench, like malathion, are
not very dangerous; some, like
parathion, are, in their way,
more dangerous than dynamite.
Lead arsenate, one of the most
insidiously poisonous things that
ever went into an orchard, is
white and practically odorless,
while Sevin, one of the safest
insecticides, is also white and
practically odorless.
Mr. Marshall notes that a busy
farmer is likely to turn at once
to another job, after finishing
spraying, leaving the sprayer
parked with empty insecticide
bags lying around.
• • •
"A single bag may still con-
tain enough insecticide to liqui-
date a whole family," he stresses.
The packages should be burn-
ed and` anyone nearby at the
time should keep to the wind-
ward. Some of the dangerous
pesticides are vaporized by heat
and the smoke from the burn-
ing bags may be harmful if
inhaled. * * *
Some acutely poisonous com-
pounds such as TEPP may be
as likely to prove fatal from a
single dose as from repeated
but limited exposures (a single
drop of TEPP in the eye may
be lethal). Compounds such as
lead arsenate, although capable
of killing humans in a single
dose, are more likely to kill by
repeated small doses. The or-
ganic phosphate Guthion, if
taken by mouth, is almost as
dangerous as parathion, but it
is a safer insecticide than para-
thion because there is less
danger of absorbing it through
the air. , s
Mr. Marshall's final shot: "It
is not safe to trust to luck
when you tangle with a chemi-
cal bug killer; eventually the
odds will catch up." * *
Visitors flocked to the Central
Experimental Farm at Ottawa in
unprecedented numbers in 1950.
The farm, only one in Canada
completely surrounded by a
city, played host to 207 organ-
ized groups that consisted of
10,513 persons.
In addition, the annual Chry-
santhemtim show at the green-
houses in November attracted
over 12,000 in one week. When
the tulips were at their "bloom-
ing best", upwards of 3,000 peo-
ple toured the farm on week-
ends.
Another Major attraction, re-,
ports L. J. Bellefleur of the
farm's public relations staff,
comes in April when the pew
lambs arrive. This is a 'Popular
event with children and grown-
ups alike,
In 1958: there were 234 Organ.- .
Tied groups, but they made up
Only 9,508 persons. bitting the
preceding year there Were 126
groups con's'isting of 7,402 'peo,,
pie. * * *
Majority of the groups Were
made tip of Scheel' children',
there Were many 4sH Club
grottPS and fernier' 'delegatieria,
from as far as WeSterti
eniteit States and even the
United kingdont
May arid Stine were the bitSi,
eat Months of the Year; With iItitie
breaking all rent* With: 4,782
Visitor§ id 72 gra:IP&
LITTLE WHEEL — Hoda Nasser,
eldest daughter of Egypt's "big
wheel,"' President Gamal Abdel.
Nasser, pedals with girls' cyclist
group during Cairo's third Fes-
tival of Youth and Future Or-
g a nizations.
most country people except the
fairly well to do the Indian tor-
tilla is bread. In the cities, to
be sure, and wherever electri-
city is not too expensive, the
motor-driven molino de nixta-
mal supplies masa for those who
can afford it, but this factory-
made substitute has to contend
with a popular usperstition that
masa does not taste' quite right
unless it is ground with mano
and metate.
This all-pervading heritage
goes back to that distant day
when the wandering seed gath-
erers of the highlands of Cen-
tral American (or perhaps Peru)
found a luscious grass, with
edible seeds growing in a single
small ear. No one has any idea
how long ago it was, nor do we
know how long the' gatherers'
were content to collect the wild
seeds, until one day the acci-
dental sprouting of a lost ker-
nel or two gave some forgotten
scientist the idea of planting
them. From that moment dates
the civilization of the Western
Hemisphere. The Inca, the Maya;
the Toltec, the Zapotec, the
Mixtec, the Tarascan, the Aztec,
all the numerous cultures of pre-
white Middle America. in short,
owed their existence to the dis-
covery of corn. That discovery
was one of the most important
achievements of man kind any-
where. —From "Many Mexicos"
by Lesley Byrd Simpson.
How The 'Tipping
Habit :Started
if you wanted "to insure
Promptness" of service in Lon-
don's eighteenth-century coffee
houses, you put extra money In
boxes marked with those three
words. This was the origin of the
word 'lip," and the custom has
beCorre so universal that an
estimated two billion dollars
changes hands in tipping every
year.
It is a fallacy- that millionaires
tip the heaviest, Some are quite
the reverse, Nathan :Rothschild
once refused to pay ten dollars
to have • an aching tooth re-
moved, but agreed to give the
dentist three dollars to loosen
it a little.
Some people have gained
reputations for their fabulous
tipping, the late Aga. Khan was
one of them; he once gave a
chauffeur a ticking-off for being
five minutes late and the next
day gave the man $250 for good
service, Van-Lear Black, the
"Flying Millionaire," once tip-
ped a band-leader $750 for play-
ing a request tune. He left $500
to be shared among the staff of
a Glasgow hotel where he stay-
ed for one night.
An Indian prince tipped a
nightclub hostess $250 for the
pleasure of a dance. Another loss
dian maharajah left a bag of -
sparkling jewels to be shared
among the staff of a French hotel
A waitress in. Illinois profited
from a tipping duel between
two rvial businessmen. After
finishing a snack one of the
men boasted that he would
double anything the other left
for the waitress. When they de-
parted there was a total of $360
under their plates.
Miners who "struck it" rich
in the Klondyke gold rush were
generous tippers. One gave a
shoeshine boy a bar of gold
worth $5,000. Another left a bar-
maid a bag of gold dust worth
$7,500.
After helping an old lady into
a train and receiving threepence
for his efforts, a railway porter
rushed to the aid of a heavily-
laden American tourist. He car-
ried the man's luggage about
fifty yards and saw him into a
compartment. The reward he re-
ceived for this five minutes work
was a wallet containing $6,000 in
English bank notes!
Not- all tips are in cash. An
ocean liner steward was once
given an entire fruit store by
a bad-tempered Australian busi-
nessman. It was in recognition
of the steward's tolerance.
A New York taxi driver was
tipped a three-year supply of
free cigarettes by a tobacco mag-
nate.
When a fire broke out on a
Norfolk farm one of the labour-
ers bravely led all the cattle to
safety. The farmer rewarded
him with twenty acres of land,
a house, several cows and a
horse.
Yet another farmer tipped in
kine rather 'than cash. He was
so pleased by the way a police-
man kept a busy Yorkshire
thoroughfare clear for his cattle
to pass through that he pre-
sented the constable with two
fine milking cows.
"And what is a synonym, Wil-
lie?" asked the teacher.
"A synonym," replied Willie,
"is a word that you use when
you can't spell the other one."
ISSUE 11 — 1960
IINDAYS01001
0), Rev, A. 0, Warren, DA., 1.1.0,
Oefore Governors and Rings
Acts 26: 1, 19-3d,
Memory Selection! God hat*
not given us the spirit of fear
hut of power, and of love, ,and oT
a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:17,
Governor Felix and his Jewish
wife, Drusilla, heard Paul's wit..
nesa for Jesus Christ on many
Occasions over a two year per-
iod, Felix trembled as Paul rea-
soned of righteousness, temper-
ance, and judgment to come.
Like multitudes of people in
every age he postponed making
a definite decision to follow
Jesus Christ, saying, "Go thy
way for this time; when I have
a convenient season, I will call
for thee,"
Then came Festus as governor,.
He rejected the plea of the
Jerusalem Jews to have Paul
brought to Jerusalem for trial
without a preliminary hearing at
Caesarea, When Paul was ask-
ed if he would go up to Jeru-
salem for trial he made his ap-
peal to Caesar. He could expect
protection and a greater measure
of justice in pagan. Rome than
in religious Jersualem. When
people reject Jesus Christ, a
blindness comes over them. Re-
ligious fanatical zeal can be very
malicious.
Festus must send with Paul
some declaration stating the
charges against him. But what
were they? Nothing had been
proven. When King Agrippa and
Bernice were visiting him he
brought Paul before them. Paul
excelled on this occasion. He re-
lated the story of his personal
surrender to Jesus Christ. His
commission to the Gentiles was,
in the words of Jesus, "To open
their eyes, and to turn theca
from darkness to light, and from
the power of Satan unto God,
that 'they may receive forgive-
ness ' of sins, and inheritance
among them which are sanctified
by faith that is in me." Agrippa
was moved, exclaiming, "Almost
thou persuadest me to be
Christian." Some think that
Agrippa was speaking in con-
tempt, meaning, "With but little
persuation thou wouldst fain
make me a Christian." But whe-
ther his reply is to be under-
stood as an evasive cynical sneer,
or whether he spoke in sincer-
ity, it is clear that he had been
forced by Paul's logic into a po-
sition where he e01.0 offer
counter argument to Paul's con-
clusions concerning Christianity.
Paul's answer shows that he ac-
cepted Agrippa's words as sin-
cere, and who could--be a better
judge than Paul who saw and
heard. Agrippa's conclusion con-
cerning Paul was, "This man
might_have been set at liberty, If
he had not appealed to Caesar.
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