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it's a pasture flooded by a sudden spring ,rain, Sun appeared
after storm to add silver to this watery field.
THE FARM FRONT
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Hunting For Eggs
In. The Haymow
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I~lesys -that 10,000 Texas chits
deen hunted for 40,000 Raster
Eggs. May help establish the
Magnitsidineue proclivities. of the
Lone Star State, but it serves
also to pique my memories 'about
hunting for eggs, I suppose 'I've
found 40,000, eggs, in my time,.
many of which had vacated their
rights through extended denies
tude in Reset repository.
One of the jobs falling to the
youngster on. the farm .was . to
find eggs, and the poultry had
the job of hiding them, I refer
to an era when roads were not
paved, and the occasional auto-
mobile that chugged by was
watched to see if it made the
hill, and hens enjoyed a Treed=
pow lost to them, even as you.
and I. Ali the animals had this
freedom, more or less, although
pigs were usually fenced in be-
cause they were harder to catch
and they loved gardens, The
hens roamed the acres, and dust-
ed under the petunias by the
front door, and laid as they list-
ed,
True, there were nests in the
henhonSe, but when you had 85
laying hens and the nests gave
up six eggs, you were free to
assume the game was on, Hens
sought out the oddest places to
lay, Once I found 11 beautiful
eggs on a buggy seat. We nad
a patent leather buggy which
Grandfather had acquired in a
lavish moment, and while it
made a horse feel proud, it was
a mean one to ride in. The old
buggy had comfort, but this new .
one had none, It was kept in • the
carriage shed under a cloth, and
one morning I caught a hen com-
ing out from .under the cloth,
She jumped to. the floor and
lifted her. joyous song, but then
she saw me and tried to tell me
that she was a liar. She skirted
the periphery and made an exit,
after. .wheih I investigated, and
I found the eggs on the seat.
How a hen could collect 11 eggs
there is a mystery. It is doubtful
if human hand. could. lay them
out without having some roll off.
I naturally looked on the floor
of the buggy to see if she had
overshot, but she had not. There
they were, and small as I was
I had already learned enough
about human . nature so I ran to
get Aunt Aibbie, who came out
and saw them, She looked at me,
as if surmising that I had set
this up for effect, but Aunt
Abbie knew hen; too, and she
admitted the premise With her
as a witness, my veracity was
unchallenged,
Hunting for eggs in the hay-
mow was always fun.. Once, very
young, I started dawn the lad-
der with a hatful of eggs, and
missed a rung. If I am vouch-
safed any honour in. this world;
'from first to last, I think I merit
fame for falling 10 feet with a
hatful of eggs, and landing in
a heap on the barn floor with
the eggs intact. This is not an
easy thing to do, and I have.
never -done it but that once: Btit
on the old farm an egg was
held in respect. It was a, day's.
work for a hen, and as good as
coin .in any exchange. One did
not lightly destroy eggs, and if
occasion arose one too k their
part. So a boy's making an or-
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
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child hi the way he shQuld got
and when ,he Is old, lie will not
depart from It. Proverbs 32:6,
I saw a group of about 75 ex-
cited children, Was it a ganfit
war? Two girls of Grade VIII
were fighting over a boy. They
had fought the night before, Ont
young spectator explained, it,
"Their mothers don't care," Buk
some mothers of the neighbors.
hood did care and called the po-
lice. The crowd, now more than
a hundred, scattered and the
girls and boy were taken to the
police station.
A fifteen-year-old who had to
quit school and marry and whose
marriage is proving to be very
unhappy, said, "My mother didn't
s care. what I did or how late it
was when. I came in at night. I
wish she had," The philosophy
of a few years ago that the full
and free expression of children
should never be hindered, bee
played a significant part in in-
reasing our prison population
and decreasing the average age
of the prisoners.
Children need discipline. "Ho
that spareth his rod hateth his
son: but he that loveth him
chasteneth him betimes," But
parents must remember that ex-
ample is the greater teacher. If
they are deceitful, the children
will be more influenced by that
than by teaching by words.
While some parents are toe
soft with their children, others
are too hard. They go to pieces
in casual anger and the child's
welfare, if not his life, is in.
danger. This is tragic, The scars
on the body may go away in
time, but not the scars on the
soul. If the parent hasn't got self-
control, how can he expect to con-
trol his children, Every parent
should be a devout Christian, "The
fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
peace, long suffering, gentleness,
goodness, faith, meekness, self-
control." Every parent can see la-
ter how he could have done bet-
ter. But if he has walked close
with God and done his very best
In the light of the Scriptures, he
need not accuse himself. Better
parents make for better children.
ISSUE 19 - 1961
stylists of yesterday, and today,
in this memorable, spur-of-the-
moment session.
Bad these Old masters lost a
little of their skill with their
Advancing years? If so, we didn't
notice it. The greatest in jazz Is
where you find it, and to those
of us assembled on St. Peter
Street that sunny raster .after.
noon, this was---;we knew-the
greatest. The very greatest.
English Is Taught
Much Too Poorly
111.
All those complaints about
Johnny being unable to read -
or spell -'- now have come to a
head in a report by the National
Council of Teachers of English.
The nub of it is that Johnny real-
ly does have a shaky grip on
what might be grouped under the
heading of language skills, and
that drastic action is recommend-
ed to correct the situation
Row American schools'ever got
into the fix where too many stu-
dents fail to learn how to express
themselves effectively we can
only guess. Clear self-expression
is, after all, the key to learning
in all fields; even in mathematics,
it is necessary for communication
between the student and the
teacher. When this principle hae
been lost sight of, there is rea-
son to suspect the efficacy of
education generally. . . ,
Students are still spending
more time on English than on
any other subject, but they are
emerging with little to show for
it. The report of the National
Council of Teachers of English
tells, among other things, that
last year, of 600,000 students who
took college entrance examina-
tions, 150,000 flunked English,
and that more than two-thirds
of the country's colleges and uni-
versities now find it necessary to
offer remedial courses in English
to incoming freshmen,
The council's studies showed
also that qualified teachers of
English are in short supply, and
as a consequence, many teachers
handling classes in that subject
are poorly prepared, About half
of them do not have a college
major in English.
English, as we have indicated,
is not so much a subject as the
key to all the others. It is easy to
understand the attention given to
the basic ability to read; it is the
first skill of any consequence that
the student acquires. But students
are not being prepared to follow
up on it. The object of reading
is the ability to assimilate facts
from the printed page, and pres-
ent training does not equip stu-
dents to comprehend what they
read.
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ic'ertibt000r.sduatiff ive li(degroodwa.S oe,
carried them all into the house;.
and complimented myself on
having avoided a reprimanding,
Hens astonish you by the way
they keep: tabs on each other.
You will chance' upon a not
sonic sly biddy has established,
and the two eggs, in it inform
you that she has been using it
for .only two days, 'This lion has
pioneered in a pew direction,
has. established an outpost no,
body knows about except you
and the hen„ You were lucky to
find it, and mark • the spot in
yoer memory, It sort of pleases
you to realize that the hen went •
• to ee much trouble to find •Cnis
place, and is going to return to
it every day under an illusion
that she has a secret. Se, the
next day, having given the hen
time to come back to • the nest
and make her contribution, you.
approach the thing, and you find
37 eggs in it. During the day,
eomehow, 36 other shens have
penetrated the secret and have
joined in the cooperative yen
Lure, and each has come and
gone furtively, motivated all by
a uniformity of ptirpoee, and the
secret nest can hardly be called
a secret any more,
There is a certain element of
time involved in the egg hunting
business. Most knowing people
agree that a new egg has more
chance of popularity. Thus, the
randoM manner of the poultry
department on the old farm
sometimes erected doubts. These
eggs that were brought to tne
house by the jubilant egg hunt-
ers .- were they young and ten-
der; or had the jaded attitudes
of experience settled upon thm?
You couldn't tell from the, barn.
In the recesses of the haymow,
under the high eaves, a .clutch of
beautifully brown eggs looks
about the same in May as Sep-
tember.
One must remember that the
hen who lays an old egg has
actually • contributed just as
nobly as the one who is more
up-to-date, It isn't the hen's
fault. The egg hunter's, maybe,
but not the hen's. The women
had some way to float a dubi-
ous egg in a brine and find out
if it could be trusted. If the egg
hunter chanced to find' a hatful
of questionable eggs and didn't
keep them separate, the floating
of eggs would go on all afternoon
until they were sure the cases
for market were respectable.
Somehow the floating of eggs
seemed to show the women
didn't always trust the egg hun-
ters, or the hens.
Deep in the Heart of Texas,
Where jumbo egg hunts bring
status to the augmented frame of
mind, 40,000 eggs may seem like
quite a decent Easter outing. But
I wouldn't swap a single one of
the haymow eggs in my mem-
ory. - By John Gould in the
Christian Science Monitor.
ellarvest goddess CROSSWORD
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Secretary of Agriculture Free-
man is asking the 'U.S. Congress
to take a new look at agricul-
ture,
He has placed before the legis-
lators a program which is prob-
ably more comprehensive, and
more complex in its application
to the farm economy, than any
yet considered,
Not that any farm legielation
is simple. The problem itself is
complex. It is, not one problem,
it is many.
. •
This is basis of the administra-
tion's approach. That is, to deal
with each problem or commodity
independently. In many ways it
is an approach long advocated by
the National Grange. It is also in
line with the policies of the
National Farmers Union.
It is contrary to the policies of
the American Farm Bureau
Federation. In philosophy and
procedure it is also contrary to
the farm policy of the previous
administration under Secretary
Benson. s
Few at this point are brash
enough to predict how it will
work out in practice. Even
Secretary Freeman says, "it is no
panacea - just a license for hard
work,"
Actually most of the devices
for production and marketing
control are already available un-
der the present law. It is just
that they have never been ap-
plied so comprehensively or on
such a wide scale as contemplat-
ed in the new bill.
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PIPE DREAM - Nothing more.
than ordinary pipes and a lit-
tle imagination produced this
striking structure at the 50th
Rand Easter Fair in Johannes-
burg, South Africa, The fair
is an annual event to display
the nation's cultural and indus-
trial achievements.
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SWITCH. - PLAYER
-One of the strangest deals ever
made between two .major-league
ball clubs took place a good
many years back, The Chicago
Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals'
were engaged in a Memorial
Day doubleheader, It was one of
those morning - afternoon af-
fairs. The Cardinals had a left
fielder named Cliff Heathcote
who played with them in the
morning contest, During the in-
terim between games the Cards
traded Heathcote to the Cubs,
and the nightcap found him
playing against the same team he
had played for that morning,
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able" things in the new bill, as
the Farm Bureau sees it, is that
"it takes away from Congress the
power to legislate and sets up
committees appointed at the dis-
cretion of the Secretary of Agri-
culture to take over the role of
Congress." „
The bureau has reference to
the farm advisory committees,
representing various commodi-
ties, or groups of commodities,
with whom the Secretary would
consult with respect to policies
and programs. The programs so
shaped Would be submitted to
Congress. If approved, they
Would then be submitted to the
farmers concerned in a referen-
dum.
The Farm Bureau views all
this with alarm, doesn't believe
Congress would want to dele-
gate this kind of authority to the
secretary of Agriculture. • .
The National Grange, on the
other hand, has long advocated
the committee system of farm
consultation. "In general, the bill
Carries out many of the Grange's
objectives," e c c tyr d i,li g to a
spokesman here,
An earlier draft of the bill
would have put the proposed
program up to producers by tef-
etenduni before it Went to Con-
gress, giving Cengreee last look
and veto powers The Grange is
glad that this order of ProCeduees
was changed, with .Congress' to
review the plan before it goes to
fanners,
The Partners 'Onion sees the
new prograM as hi line with its
official policy, but expects to
"lieve some suggestions for ath-
endrisente Which WO think would
improve the bill from the stand-
' point Of interest of feent Nine
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The bill's commodity-by-com-
modity approach,is seen ,as open-
ing up an entirely new vista in
farmer relationships-one which
will draw certain groups of like
interests together and probably,
by the same token, bring some
divisions. '
In other words, the new system,
would tend to draw producers to-
gether, as distinguished from
handlers and processors,
What effect this would have, if
it comes about, IS hard to predict,
But there is little doubt that
much controversy will revolve
around the legislation.
The administration is eager to
"get the show on the road," That
is, to have Congress hold hear-
ings immediately on the legisla-
tion, s ,,
Farm organizations are losing
no time in an intensive study of
the 70-page bill, preparatory to
public ' statements of policy and
the development of more detail-
ed and lengthy statements to be
made by farm organization offi-
• cials before congressiodal com-
mittees.
In fact the Farmers Union and -
the National Grange promptly
and jointly sponsored a meeting
in Washington of some 20 repre-
sentatives of commodity and
other general organizations.
Some see this as indicative of
a new line-up among the farm or-
gaiiizations. If so; it suggests the
possibility of a rise in influence
of the National Grahgq-Farmers
Union combination and perhaps
a corresponding decline hi the
longsterm 'predominance of the
American Earth Bureau,
The Perm Bureau has beers
close to farm leaders on Capitol
Hill for many years and Wag
dontited among the top advisers
to farther Secretary Benson. It
is the latgest of the faith
izatieris, writes Scieephitie Ripley
in the Christian 'Sciehee Monitor,
The new bill "is not anything
We w ll support„," accoeditig to
seetikestiten Of the bureau, "It
regiments agriculture and dOuld
result in lower farm inconte 'oii
a per fatuity basis.°
One of the "most Objeetion ,
Suburban soliloquy; It's the
time of year when the suburban
lawn takes on a friendly green
hue-then later on in the season,
flourishing under constant atten-
tion, takes on a belligerent rate
of growth, requiring frequent
whittling down.
Wonderful' Day
For A Jazz Lover
The jazz buff would have
been envious; I was just stroll-
ing down St. Peter Street in the
Old French quarter of New Ore
leans on an Easter afternoon
When T came upon this group of
veteran jazzmen, playing an im-
promptu session In the front hall
of the Associated Artists' Gal-
leries,
You ableidn't really believe it,
the way it happened, I was the
first passer-by to poke his head
in the door and watch this un-
distinguished-appearing group as
it assembled and unpacited the
most battered and ancient instru-
ments I had ever seen. These
were some workmen from the
neigleorhood, I thought, who
were just having a little holiday
fun,
But (it couldn't be!) wasn't
thats the great jazzman, George
Le*is, on the clarinet? I asked
the proprietor and he said, "Yes,
that's George Lewis. And all of
those men you see here have
been recording stars, They're all
old-tinsers who like to get. to-
gether now and then just for, the
fun of it,"
Public appearances of this
group were few and far between,
This was, indeed, a very special
occasion.
There was Kid Thomas on first
trumpet, Punch Miller on second
trumpet, Emanuel Paul on tenor
sax, Louis Nelson on trombone,
Sammy Penn on drums, Joseph
Butler on bass, Emanuel Sayles
on banjo, and George Lewis on
the clarinet.
I walked across the street to
talk to Bill Russell, accounted
quite an authority on jazz. Said
Mr. Russell, as he stood at the
doorway, polishing and cleaning
a clarinet: "This is the best real
New Orleans jazz in town."
These veterans, of course, had
been playing as youngsters when,
jazz seras being born, right here
in New Orleans, And they still
play this music as it was played
years ago, when the sound and
the beat of Africa were being
molded into a new and truly
American art form.
"This clarinet," said Mr. Rus-
sell, "is one I'm fixing up for
George Lewis, It's an Albert
system. Did you knew that all
these New Orleans jazz clarinet-
ists played an Albert. Why?
Because they were able to get
such a fine tone out of them."
This was interesting, I told Mr.
Russell, since I, as a youngster,
had played an Albert-but only
to begin on. Later I bought a
Boehm system. I had always
thought the Boehm was much
better, writes Godfrey Sperling
Jr. in the Christian Science Mon-
itor.
"Most people thought that,"
Mr. Russell said. "You started
on the Albert probably because
it was cheaper. Years ago you
could get an Albert around here
for $10. That's why the Alberts
were bought by the jazz men in
New Orleans. But they kept
them because they preferred
their tone,"
How about the big names in
jazz in New Orleans? What did
he think of Al flirt? Mr. Russell
had heard that Al Hirt: was quite
an accomplished trumpet player
but lee said he would not go to
hear him play. "He does not play
authentic New Orleans," he said.
He said that Hirt's jazz was his
own-more commercial, perhaps,
but not the real thing,
Pete Fountain's new brand?
"He's h little closer to the old
New Orleans jazz than most of
the bands that are here,"
Jazz, authentic New Orleans
style, was now in the air. Little
Negro boys struuted by, keeping
timeto its beat, A few couples
started dancing in the street.
Two little toddlers kept the beat
with their feet and hands. It was
time to go back to our concert,
time to find a place in the front
row of the gathering crowd. For
five solid hours we heard these Answer elsewhree o i this page
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