The Brussels Post, 1962-05-17, Page 3Corduroy Roads Art
Not or Springtime
• One of the automobile clubs
has just warned ne. that • the
Maine Turnpike will. be rated
"second. Class" this summer un-
less the 43 miles of patches are
smoothed up before the tourist;
season starts, It so happens I
had just driven Over those 43
Miles Of patches the day before,
and I came home to tell people
the road wasn't bad at ell. The
ALA must have a road teepee-
tor who never saw a mud sea-
son,
Here in the northerly :climes
we invite some of this spring-
time trouble by scraping off the
,snow all winter. Snow protects
the ground against the penetra-
tion of frost, and if you clean
the snow off you're going to get
bad heaving, , The Maine Turn-
pike will smooth out amazingly
in a few warm weeks, and with
necessary grooming will prob-
ably be ready for the paying
guests when they come.
and other crops to sell them At
Pr9fit. It J. estimated that
Sarin-ere with less than five lanbo
do not have such A .0111.49e) sines
they do not grow ellOugh rice
even to feed themselves, for this
reason, individual loans will be
made only in the range- Of .30,000
to. 100,000 hwan. They will carry
10 per cent annual interest. •
s. .4! •
Can the combination of free
fertilizer for submarginal farm-
ers, . low-cost crop-production
loans for commercial-scale farm-
ers, and higher rice • purchase
Prices for both, replace • or nearly
.replece the• funds formerly sup-
plied by the moneylenders? If
the government can pass this
test, it will have broken the
power of the moneylenders, per-
haps forever. If it cannot, under-
ground moneylending, 'already
said to be going on in many vil-
lages where farmers are despe-
rate for funds, is likely to in-
crease and the regime's ambi-
tious Five-Year Plan for eco-
nomic development will expert,'
ence a setbaek in the crucial
rural sector, where 65 per cent
of. South Korea's 23,000,000 peo-
ple live and work.
it was a stenderd Maine way
of getting across wet land,
We used to use this coestrue-
tion for bridges-running heavy
logs tieress the stream and
"paving" them with other logs.
The ridges in corduroy cloth, of
course, suggest the name. In the
whiter s a o w smooths up the
chinks, and sometimes they
spread gravel for the same pint-
pose. Indeed, after a time such.
a bridge gets to be pretty good
going, and after a while some*
body may even forget it is a
corduroy,
So this early-bird tourist came
and thought he: would see if the
trout had wintered in Cox's bog,
end be drove his Model T onto
this stretch just at the season
of the year when he shouldn't,
Big trucks had been hauling
lumber out over it all winter,
so why should anybody suspect
a Model T would get in trouble?
So the ends of some of the
cross-logs snapped off, letting
the wheels of his car down into
the abysmal slough, and the
framework and housing perched
cozily on the highway. The
lengthwise stringers were just
right so he straddled them. He
tried to pry himself out, after
he found churning the wheels
only filled the sky with mud,
but there was no place to stand.
He felt around in the swamp
with a 20-foot pole but couldn't
feel any bottom, and things look-
ed bad.
Afterward, Charlie Hunnewell
came with a truck. He didn't
dare put the truck on the cor-
duroy, so he kept it up on high
ground and. ran a rope out to
the Model T, When he got tied
in he said, "All right, steer!"
So the tourist got behind his
wheel and stuck his head out
through the period side-curtains
for the pack-up. Charlie had had
three cords of birch on, so his.
traction was good, And when he
began pulling he kept right on
going. People three miles away
heard the tourist yelp, but Char-
lie didn't pay attention.
What he did was pull the
Model T up onto some unbroken
logs, which promptly broke and
let the Model T down again.
Then he pulled it up onto some
more, which broke, and log by
log the tourist was jerked back-
ward in a motoring experience
the ALA has probably never as-
sessed. After they got the. thing
up on dry ground it' stood there
and jingled for 10 minutes.
This was the end of that road-
way. You can't go there now.
For a few, years the town had
a sign up which said, "Notiss --
This stretch decontinued, per
order selectmen," .apd right by
the sign was a big pile of mud
that had dripped off that Model
T. But that's gone now, and the
road has grown up to trees, and
we are spending our money on
patch 'for the Interestate: You
can hardly find a decent stretch
of corduroy any more,
My point (and there should
always be a point) is that we
expect too much these days, and
as tourists we don't know how
to make-do. Frost breakup and
mud-time, in Maine, make the
going a little slower, and the
tourist clubs shouldn't get impa-
tient. Things will dry out. They
always have, - By John Gould
in the Christian Science Moni-
tor.
SCI1001
LESSON
By Rey R. narciay Warren,
15.11,# MO.
Proofs of Paitn
1 1oliu 1:5-10 ; 211-17
Memory Scripture; Prove ail
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Jesus said, "I am the light of
the world; he that felloweth me
shall not walk in darkness, but
shall have the light of life
John Bel This conception of
Jesus as 'light' impressed the
apostle John. In our lesson John
declares that, "God is light";
also, "If he walk in the light,
toe he is in the light, we have
fellowship one with another, and.
the blood of Jesus Christ his
Son cleanseth us from all sin."
Sin is associated with darkness.
He that beteth his brother is in
darkness,
John is very specific in his
statements with regard to sin.
All have sinned. "If we confess
our sins, he is faithful and just
to forgive us our sins, and to
cleanse us from all unrighteous-
nese A young friend was try-
ing to point me to Jesus Christ.
I confided to him the fear that
I might confess my sins to God
and He would not forgive, My
friend quoted to me the above
verse. I saw then, that if I did
my part, God would not fail to
do His. He is faithful and just.
One Sunday, as the claims of
Jesus Christ were presented I
was moved by the Spirit of GO
to repent of my sins. Then this
verse came to my mind. I took
God at His word. I believed. He
forgave. My burden was gone,
John writes, "My little chil-
dren, these things write I unto
you, that ye sin not." Christians
ought not to sin. But what if a
Christian, under pressure, does
sin; is there hope for him? John
goes on to say, "And if any man
sin, we have an advocate with
the Father, Jesus Christ the
righteous." Don't despair. Go to
God in prayer. He will forgive.
But if we keep repeating the
same sin, we shall come to doubt
our own sincerity. "Whose) keep-
eth his word, in him verily is the
love of God perfected!' We will
never be free from error in this
life. But if our love to God is
perfected, He will see that in-
tention is good, even though the
word or deed may not be wise.
Jesus
Ciehrisso important, t ir6asforrris aWlinfee.
the love of the world gives way
to love for God and our fellow-
man. God's love manifest
through the life is the disting-
uishing mark of a disciple,
COSMONAUT GREETED IN WASHINGTON - Soviet Cosmonaut Gherman Titov is the
centre of attraction after his arrival in Washington from New Yolk, At right, holding
flowers, is his wife, Tamara.
In extreme instances we have
a program of a quick-shot pave-
ment treatment which costs the
state a minimum of $5,000 a
mile and is made necessary en-
tirely by this winter plowing,
lit is, of course, an expense
the more southerly states don't
have, and if a similar job were
necessary otherwheres it would
last longer than the single sea-
son we usually get from it.
.A good frost heave, along in
March and April, affords some
merriment, A gentleman from
New Jersey was up here last
week selling ceramics whole-
sale to our florists, readying for
a brisk Feaster trade, and he
took the Pond Road from West
KettIebottom o v e r to Pepper-
mint Corner and hit a thank-
you-ma'am near the Davis place.
He had his little vases and
pots laid out in the station wa-
gon, and was meditating plea-
hantly about many things when
e took off in a wild flight half-
way between a ski jump and
a polar orbit. The. Devises said
it sounded as if the shelves had
collapsed in a restaurant k i t -
chen. The gentleman paused
here in town long enough to
get his springs replaced, and had
some harsh words about the
pod commissioner. No doubt
he will tell people the Pond
Road is a bad one, whereas it
is really a very good road as
noon as the frost comes Out.
Years ago we had a corduroy
road over the beaver bog in the
borough. They laid long logs,
like the tracks ote a railroad,
across the bog, and then put
shorter logs crosswise of them
to drive on. In the rough, this
kind of a road is bumpy, but
1.
Jewels In The Large
Non-Economy Size THE FARM FRONT
Jokz
"This is the era of great
pearls," gushes the April issue
of Harper's Bazaar, "Big, big, big
is the key word now for brace-
lets and pins." Extravagantly
sized stones and settings, agrees
Neiman-Mareus in Dallas, are
indeed selling at a sparkling
pace, And Eugenia Sheppard,
spightly women's feature editor
-of The New 'York Herald Tri-
bune, notes the trend, too. Her
comment: "Whoopee,"
Along Fifth Avenue, among
such bejeweled bowers of reti-
cence as Cartier and Tiffany, no-
body was openly admitting the
new urge to splurge. But one top
jeweler recently sold a $250,000
diamond necklace, and another
agreed that torsade• bracelets
"a massive hunk of twisted
strands joined by a big clasp," as
one saleslady put it-were sell-
ing briskly. Van Cleef & Arpels,
in turn, has, no difficulty at all
hawking such items as wide
ropes of emerald-bead bracelets.
The trend isn't confined to just
the welleheeled either. In more
modest times, the typical engage-
ment ring added up to a ,crawny
quarter carat, But affluence, and
presumably fashion, have raised
the requirements. The all-suffer-
ing male now shells out for a
diamond of almost half-carat
size.
No matter where you go, the
world over, there seems to be a
farm problem of one sort or an-
other. The following account
accentuates this fact and shows
that, except for the amounts in-
volved and the crops grown,
there ie little difference between
South Korea and North America.
* *
The Korean winter is over, but
as barley shoots and spring vege-
tables relieve the brown mono-
' tony of the eroded fields, the
two-acre farmer and his family
face the most difficult period of
the year, when rice stocks har-
vested in the fall' run low and
the crop has barely begun to
grow.
This is the time of year when,
traditionally, the farmer must
turn to his family moneylender,
who, having .frequently known
him since childhood, needs no
documents to determine exactly
bow much he can repay, and
when, Interest rates, at around
8 per cent a month, come to 96
per cent a year. Both the farmer
and the moneylender have long
been used to this cycle of borrow
and plant, reap and spend, and
borrow again.
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This year there is a difference,
A new government came to
power in Seoul 11 months ago-a
government headed by army of-
ficers determined, among other
things, to break the moneylend-
ers' grip over the countryside,
and accustomed to taking drastic
meaeures.
So, since last May, when the
military government' ousted the
elected civilian Cabinet in a
nearly blob dl es s revolution,
moneylending at interest rates
higher than 20 per cent a year
has been outlawed.
One would think that such a
bold and sweeping move would
have made the military govern-
ment the Most popular adminis-
tration farmers had ever known.
Such has not proved the case, at
least so far, And this year, as
the farmers enter the season of
their greatest teed, the regime
faces Its first real test among the
rural population.
For the primary question to-
day, as in years past, remains
one of credit, Where Will the
farmers obtain the loans they
need in order to grow heir crops
and meet expenSes until the har-
vest? The outlawing of usurious
Moneylending has created
shortage of money iii the down-
,
tryside, and government re-
sources, though bolstered by
American aid, are as yet inade-
quate to fill the need.
In one village near Taegu, for
instance, a hamlet comprising 60
families applied for government
loans of 30,000 ,hwan per family
-a total of 1,800,000 hwan. But
only 150,000 hwan actually came
through-or 2,500 hwan (less
than $2) per family. The h hamlet
chief had great difficulty decid-
ing how the money was to be
used, He finally allocated it
evenly among the 60 families,
though he well knew that such
atomization was tantamount to
throwing the entire sum away.
The new military government,
in the first weeks after it seized
power May 16 last year, outlaw-
ed usurious lending, ordered bor-
rower and lender to register
debts, and canceled all amounts
owed in excess of 150,000 hwan
($113.85). A new credit organ,
the National Agricultural Credit
Fund, absorbed the Agricultural
Bank and issued five-year de-
bentures bearing 20 per cent in-
terest to the former moneylend-
ers. Debtors were to repay the
recognized portion of their debts
'at 12 per cent interest, with the
government paying the differ-
ence, writes Takashi Oka in the
Christian Science Monitor,
In the autumn, South Korea
reaped a bumper rice harvest
totaling 18,902,870 suk (2,739,546
metric tons), As an additional
gesture to the farmers,,,. thegov-
ernment raised the price at
which it purchased rice by about
40 per' cent,
This year, the government will
,supply free fertilizer hi quanti-
ties sufficient to meet the needs
of submarginal farmers - those
who cultivate less than 5 tanbo
(1,25 acres). It also will step up
crop-production loans, with the
help of 36,266,000,000 hwan from
American-aid counterpart funds.
Added to money the government
itself has committed, plus carry-
over from last year's program
and whatever may be realized
from return payments on pre-
vious debts, a total of between
60,000,000,000 and 70,000,000,000
hwan probably will be available
for new loans to farmers this
year.
Aid officials hope the loans
will serve a productive purpose
by concentrating on farnisrs who
have a chance of commercial
success - growing enough rice'
SEED SPRAY - Large turret
gun mounted on truck shoots
out's seed mixture in a new
method used to plant grass
near San Antonio. Spray mix-
ture contains special wood cel-
lulose fiber mulch to hold the
grass seed in place.
The human v o i c e never
changes more than when a wife
stops scolding her husband to
answer the phone.
Like Hot Needles
Through Your Head
Headaches, an occasional nuis-
ance for most people, are a re-
current nightmare for more than
10 million Americans who reg-
ularly suffer from migraine at-
tacks. Possibly by the severest
form of headache-its intensity
has been compared to a hot
needle thrust through an eyeball
- migraine commonly puts its
Victims flat on their backs,
The acute pain ,of migraine is
cuased by extreme dilation- and
distension of blood vessels
around the skull, exerting pres-
sure on nerves, Doctors have
used ergotamine tartrate, which
constricts blood vessels, to treat
acute attacks, But ergotarhine
has not proved satisfactory for
coritieuous use as a preventive.
In their search for a drug to
stop migraines before they 'start,
doctors have prescribed literally
hundreds of agents- from tran-
quilizers to vitamins-all with-
out success.
But last month there was a
report of encouraging results
with a new drug. The drug,
methysergide, is a distant chemi-
cal cousin of ergotareine, but it
is less tome and can be adinini,
tered daily, Dr. Arnold P. Fried-
man
'
director of the Headache
Unit at New York's Montefiore
Hospital, reported that methy-
sergide had sharply reduced the
frequency, Or severity, of mi-
graine attacks in 70 per cent of
325 patients who had serious
Migraine Problems, "In 20 per
cent," Dr. Friedman told the
American Academy of Nettrol-
o g y, "headaches disappeared
completely" Before treatment,
the patients tegularly had suf-
fered et least two migraine
headaches• a week, or experi-
enced one weekly attack severe
enough to put them in bed.
The nentologiet warned that
side effects such as nausea can
ocettr, ""requiring careful control
of the dosage," (It varied in Dr.
Priedmati'S patients from two to
five tablets per day.) But despite
the Side effects, Dr. Friedinart
Was Opthenstio; "Over the years
I've appraised about 80 drugs
and Methysergide is the most
effective reiiiri preventive
I've even Seee
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
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