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need. The word "steal" llardly
suits in id& inst ince„I.Jr un (acca,
sion thejcorpninte owtiers of
shipyard might like trs Make a
bomb too, and could go so far as
to, call the watchman to help. lug
the oakum out. Perhaps some of
the congenial arrangernents of
small-town life have been for-
gotten. So many things which
Youth has thought up to take the
place of old-blue tan have had
names, Life is so complicated
Well, our bombs were simple
enough, A half-stick of dynamite,
capped and fused, would be
wound in oakum, until you had a
thing about as big as a. basket-
ball. This was safe, because the
oakum protected the dynamite
and you could bounce it if you
Wanted to, It wouldn't go off
until you lit the fuse. Oakum
had a way of confining the dy-
namite, so it really had to strug-
gle to get loose, I don't know if
the AEC knows about this or not,
And by the time we bad the
needed number of bOmbs wound,
everybody was covered with tar
—bands, shirt, pants and face.
The evidence was there.
At midnight, as the joyous
holiday opened, the bombs would
be touched off. In a ring around
the village, from ledges, hilltops,
gravel pits and open fields, we'd
let them go, and they'dbring the
townspeople right up in bed'.
They knew right away that it
was the Fourth of July, To us,
oat doing this notification, the
explosion of each bomb was a
rich experiment in the dispersion
of tar. There was no smell of
explosives, as such—just a waft-
ing that suggested the China Sea
and the Horse Latitudes, and
little fuzzy pieces of oakum
hanging on the trees and drifting
down in the dark. Ears rang, so
it sounded flat and far away
when everybody said, "Boy!!
That was a good one!!"
I have no idea of the actual
shock power of these devices.
They would probably lift away
the first ten stories of the Em-
pire State Building -if mischiev-
ously applied. But such mischief
never entered our heads. We
took great care to explode our
oakum bombs where they would
do nothing but make a noise. We
would come home smelling like
John and Sebastian Cabot, tarred.
with all the proof of our employ-
ment, and the best yellow soap
wouldn't \trash clean,,,our little
hands.
At breakfast the bacon and
eggs' tas te d ifth e:kitch-
en had just,beeri payed, but no-
body asked'us if 'We had been out
bloWing uP7ISonribs:. Indeed, we
would hurri through' breakfast
so,,We."cehld get to the village
for the parade and 'speeches.
There, by listening to peope
talk, we Would learn that the
traditions persisted; and that
once again some boys had man-
aged to get a few sticks of dyna-
mite from the quarry shed, and
a bale of . oakum from the boat-
yard, Reports of this, it seems,
had been well circulated. You
could look at the hands of any
boy 'in, town, .and a good number
of the men, and tell exactly who
had and who had not taken part
in this.
But nobody ever bothered to
look,, and the midnight welcome
to American Independence seem-
ed fitting and proper. The dlori-
our Fourth once had a:soft over-
coat of tar, a midnight welcome
of merit—by John 'Gould in the
Christian Science Monitor.
Father:. "Now do vitt under-
stand the difference between a
king and a president?"
"Yes; a Icing is the son of his
father, but a president is not."
NDAY 50001
_LESSON
Cly ItOv.13*,13 /3ritlay Warren,
1,LA,, %At
MELTING HEAT--"Whot's it
doing out there?" says Chris-
tine MorcionO, 2, whose hat
plsa serves as a melt-resistant
umbrella for ice cream cone.
The Story No Paper
Thinks Of Printing
MATTER OF TASTE—Mick. Mycheyl uses her plate instead
of her palette to put the finishing taste touches on her entry
in a Paris restaurant, The singer's 's oils" were a very artistic
mixture of ketchup, mayonnaise and salad oil.
THEFARM FRONT
.. jokuvuszeii es 1.„
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Sown Itca• wind, and Itillteeyy,
r eap the .whIrlatitiett., Hosea 8:7»
The Word •of Clod standeth
.114'w% ..c.o.Qndt'sinttneIertcoY diilOteeyatlitunt,
His wrath will ultimately b0
poured out, Neither the first or
second deportaticlns of people
from Jerusalem were sufficient
warnings to the inhabitants,
Then, ten years later, Zedekiah,
the last of the kings. of judah4
having made an alliance with
Egypt, dared
'whose
too rebelsem againstdoina o the
reigned. Nebuchadnezzer and his.':
fierce warriors were quick to
accept c0.irethde ethhaelleonugtel„yinTgh.
and surrounded the weayirlesri000n4t
Jernsalem, ,There was great suf-
fering during the eighteen month.
long seige. Jeremiah in his Le-
mentatiens describes it thus•
"The tongue of the sucking child
.cleaveth to the roof of his mouth
for thirst: the young children.
ask bread, and no man breaketh
it unto them, They that did feed
delicately are desolate in the
streets; they that were brought
up in scarlet embrace dunghills,"
• (4;4,5) Again, "The hands of the:
pitiful women have sodden .their
own children: they were their,
meat in the destruction of the.
daughter of my people." (4:10).
The conquering army was en-
raged by the stubbornness of the
defenders. When. the city finally
fell, no quarter was „given, nor
mercy was shown. Zedektah
tried to escape but was caught
and taken before Nebuchadnez-
zar. Zedekiah's last sight on
earth was to see 'his children
murdered. Then his own eyes
Were put out and he was bOlind-..•
in chains and carried to Baby-
lon, The women were ravished
and princes were hanged up by
their hand....
jererniah's book of Lamenta-
tions reveals how heartsick he
was at - seeing his • own. predic-
tions fulfilled.' By the rivers of
Babylon others • were, weeping.
Their harps were silent. When '
,,teased to, sing :one of their songs
they refused, saying, "How shall
We sing the Lord's song in a
strLaentgeusladlnear?" n. from
history. Our
callous disregard for the simple
moral principles .set forth'in the
ten 'commandments will bring_
judgment upon us. Let us turn
to Christ and receive of His,
grace and walk in His love,
•
When xuiy The .Fourth
.$mpflott "Qf iTctr •
:112;xed-np wOri where
4t0:11Ic explosions are routine
and. everyday, but firecrackers
have heen outlawed; the occasion
of The GloriOus Fourth makes
me think of oakum. We use:i to
make bombs out of oakum and
we'd blow up the Midnight with
them until everybody knew it
was Independenee Day. Oakum,
makes a very 'fine bomb, but you
sort of had to live in a down- •
eas7, waterfront community to
come by the stuff,
Oakum is hemp in strands,
well soaked in tar, it is a messy,
gooey, sticky product that gives
a Epe and traditional aroma to
laznets„ boathouses, docks, coas-
tal sheds and workshops, and is RS familiar 'around tide Mater as
dovs,ih in a bakery. Oakum is.
used, and was used,. to calk, 'or
chink. the seams in the construc-
tion of a vessel. It was done
with a calking tool and a' mallet
by workmen who knew just how
much. of the fiber to drive- into
the cracks between timbers to
gain a watertight situation, The
rhythinie tapping by a crew of
calkers was a sound that dis,
tillgn:shed a shipyard, and was
evidence that a launching would
not be far distant, No matter
how finely the carpenters had
fitted. the joints, the tightness
naine 'from oakum,. •
On the decks, after the calking..
bad been done. there came a
shipbuilding job known as "pay-
ing." Modern ears misjudge this
sometimes, and even folklorists
ponder the term, This is a special.
meaning of the word pay, and
bps. to do with pouring hot tar
IMO the calked. seams, to run
down against the oakum and
makea weather-tight whole, You
can's shingle a deck.
The tar, or pitch, was heated
on little stoves fed with chips
from the hewing shed, and one
rnan had the job, of . keeping
enough tar hot for thoSe who.
e;oureci. The37 would run right
along the % crack with a ladle,
.putting in just enough 16 So,
by a poetic extension of ideas
„known as simile . and metaphor,
the 'old-timers drew a compari-
son from this. When any job, a-
,sea - or a-shore, seemed insur-
mountable and challenged the
• ability _of the doer, 'the expres-
sion ran, "All Hell to pay and
no pitch het:" Hell, here, was a
non'-secular assumption " tre-
mendous expanse, even from .in-
finity to. infinity, where ia.,:man
facing the task, would.: need,
above everything else. an ,ample
supply of hot tar. • Unless the
folklorists know the special wa-
ter-front meaning of "pay" they
miss the point,
But I digress. The oakum
supply in a shipyard was ample
at all times. It came in -great
bales, and on any warm evening
in late June the watchman was
expected to forget to snap the big
padlock on the storehouse so pa-
triotic small boys of all ages.
-could acquire as much as they'd
No paper carried the story,
Can't understand why, It was
good material—packed with hu-
man interest,
It happened this way: They
had planned the vacation for a
long time, The children had
counted the days till it began.
Then they started off on that
long trip they had planned so
well,
The days went quickly, as
vacation days do, It was on the
way back—only an hour's drive
from home—that the parents be-
gan talking about the Hine they
had had. They agreed that it was
the most wonderful trip of their
lives. They said they would
never- forget it,
Here were four people with
everything to live for. And they
did live. There was no accident.
They were among the millions
of people who every day drive
automobiles without an accident,
They were among the millions
of motorists who never make the
headlines. They had a vacation
the whole family enjoyed and
will always remember. Their
happy days had a happy ending.
The moral of the story no pa-
per carried? It's just this: Safety
doesn't make headlines. The re-
sults of common-sense driving
. are evidenced by accidents that
never happened — by 'headlines
that were never printed. That's
the big safety story. It's a story
that happens so often it isn't
news to the public.
But it is news—and good news
—to those it happensAnf Ancrit's
the best reason in the world for
driving like an e'xisert . all the
time, every day. Safe drivers
make safe. highways. — Minutes
Magazine (Nationwide Insur-
ance)
Upsidedown to 'Prevent Peeking
country," ruled members of the
Rabaul Town Advisory Council.
Salesmen have reported that
the government in Port Moresby
has checked all samples of calen-
dars arriving there, and when
the orders themselves arrived for
distribution to retailers, it was
found that they had been opened
for inspection.
One indignant resident com-
plained: "Let's hope the United
Nations Soviet-Afro-,Asian bloc
doesn't get to hear about this.
It would be called an old 'coloni-
al trick to interfere with liberty.
"Furthermore, it would be con-
tended that the said subject
should be permitted to look at
pin-ups if he wishes—and get
ideas if he must,"
Big Spenders in
Britain And Europa
In Paris, the walls of the
globiny Metro stations last month
were piki..$tored w ith posters tout-
ing lowecost vacations in Pore
tugal, along the beaches of the
Adriatic, and in the Middle East.
In West Berlin, subway trains
were decked with advertisements
of Af3C Warenkredit (a credit
company), featuring a smiling
man saying: "I'm well off. I have
credit"
In Vienna, the famous, adver-
tising kiosks were circled with
pictures of a happy housewife
mopping floors with a new de.
tergent --, "a foamy, active uni-
versal cleaner."
In Munich, a sign in a big dee
partment store touted the bless-
ings of installment buying while
wincleW 'CnlaYs showed off
washing machines with marked,
down prices 'i#b e,4,301qek letters,
An these, and many more,
plainly were signs of the times—
signs of the new afflahce; of the
new' Oairesr.kfiti of the 'trans-
formation of centuries-old shop-
ping habits now sweeping Europe
from John o'Groat's to the Med-
iterranean,
Britithers are forsaking the
traditional little family shops for
giant new super-markets — and
each week there are ,seventeen
new ones to. clime Prn-
dent Swedes in Stockholm are
taking to installment buying des-
pite the fact that down-payments
on cars, washing machines, and
TV sets run to AO per cent and
higher,. Even in the Eternal City,
Italian men can be seen pushing
shopping carts in supermarkets,
a striking invasion of the historic
province, of Roman women.
At die time, 'the huge back-
log of pent;--up wartime demand
kept 'Europe's manufactUrers
manufacturing, its retailers sell-
ing. That backlog has been large-
lydissinated. To fill the gap has
come' Etirope's new consumer,
forSaking his traditional frugal-
ity, He's a big spender demand-
ing sometthing more, better, and
newer. And he has the money to
get it. Since 1950, hourly earn-
ings have jumped '132 per cent
in Gerinany, 102 per cent in Bri-•
taro and 69 per cent, in Italy.
Spending Spree: Such earning
power, and the spending that fol-
lows, have kept industry on the
move. In the past decade, ac-
cording to the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and De-
velopment, output of goods and
services for each European has
doubled, to nearly $1,000 per
persona And as their incomes
grow, Europeans are spending a
smaller portion for food' and
other essentials, a bigger share
on other consumer goods and
services. In France, for instance,
food expenses have fallen from
one-half to two-fifths of the typ-
ical family budget since 1950.
And in most countries, with la-
bor in short supply and the job
outlook bright, workers are more
willing to go into debt to buy
what they want, In the United
Kingdom, Consurner - installment
debt has :nearly 'doubled `(-to
about $50 per head) in the past
five years.
`;This prosperity," explained
Loud van Kranencionk, 42-year-
old executive of °'Holland's Bijen-
korf (Beehive) departinent-store
chain, "has resulted in a social
shift on the part of, the buyer.
People earning more money first
start, buying scooters and tele-
vision sets. But soon they want
to :live in better surroundings,
with more conveniences."
New' Way To Splice
Blood Vessels
"No woman will ever say she
is perfect," says a columnist.
True, she expects someone else
to say it.
Pin-lip Calendars
Banned Down There.
Calendars featuring scantily,
clad glamour 'girls have been
banned in Papua and New
Guinea—because it's feared that
such pictures may be a danger to
native morals.
Tom Hennessy of Rabaul, no-
ted throughout these territories,
'for his colourful and zingy calen-
dars, has had to call, in all the
new ones that were distribUted
early this year—to put sun-suits
on the girls who wore less.
"These pictures are a slur on
white women black man's. ISSUE 30 — 1062
cRO,S$WORD
PUZZLE
Here follows the conclusion of
the article "Death on the Farm
— tlie Crop that Never Fails"
by Thelma Dickman. Sincere
• thanks to the tmperiat Oit Re-
view for permission to repro'
• duce it.
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One of the major drives of
the Ontario Safety Council this
year is the distribution of .100,-
000 sets of posters (five in a set,
brilliant yellow, with black let-
tering) to as many of Ontario's
-- 120,000 farnis as pdssible. Wright
feelsothat- a set ,of- these thumb-
strategie,spots argund
:• farms ,will provide a continual
reminder to farmeits of the dan-
gers lurking in
around machinery.
F9r .although r16. per cent of
• farm accidents happen „to in-
• fanta' and''OldarS,, the remain-
' '&60'1'0,5:lire a'ative, 'uSit61 'Work-
s ensebetWeeri the !ages `of 14 ,and
,Ofi these .accidents ,.to the,
.„,"acti,ye" ,group,„ 65 yer ,cent hap-
„yin in the fields and involve
ammala and equiPment.
Safety officials lean toward
"'the'beliefthat a Person's emo-
tional 'state has a rot to dO with
causing accidents. Farmers who
drive tractors and combines
when they're anxious, worried
or just plain mad are more of-
ten in accidents than calm, hap-
py people,
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One farmer, fresh from a
shouting 'match -with- his wife,
stomped out to the drive shed,
started his tractor and lalindly,
drove through the back of the
building. ,AsQuebec, farmer, an-
noyed by his son's poor report
card, let ,fly with a kick at a
stubborn cow, slipped, and broke
his leg.
A cool head and constant cau-
tion are essential: in i handling
both machines and animals, but
constant exposure' to these two
things tend- to create a' contempt
for danger that promises nothing
but trouble for Canadian farm-
ers,
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nipeg, tractors often rattle and
along at midnight, A man who
has been driving a bucking,
tu_sting tractor since dawn is
often too exhausted by dust,
fumes and the continuous whine
of the motor to care about safety
procedures — and another two-
line accident item appears in the
local paper.
All safety officials, incidental-
ly, agree that a 10-minute coffee
break in the morning and after-
noon would help. A short nap
after lunch would help even
rf19.X:F;
Falun implement manufactur-
ers spend research time and re-
search money incorporating safe-
ty features into their machines,
but Saskatchewan's !Chriatian
Smith:sighs when he remembers
the implement dealer who lost
a salertb a farmer who "wanted
a tractor that was faster on the
highWaY than yours". A tractor
doing only 15 mph on the road is
about as safe as a car at. 80 mph.
Sudden braking of such a heavy
machine (and, remember, tractor
'brakes operate on each wheel
c,an, slew the
tractor dangerously or roll -it
Smith Mentions the "floating
power-take off" shield, now on
tractors, It's, a safety guard
which covers the power-take-off,
a. rapidly rotating shaft linked
directly with the tractor engine.
When it is on, it effectively pre-
vents accidents, and it can't be
easily removed. But inevitably,
some farmers leave it off when
they make repairs.
Rubber flanges have replaced
metal' flanges in combine 'straw
spreaders to prevent loss of
hands, arms and lives if farmers
reach into machinery while it's
in gear. "But why was it left in
gear in the first place?" demands
Smith.
Saskatchewan's department of.
agriculture, using hospital insur-
ance statistics, draws up a yearly
accident fact book, first of its
kind in Canada, Its 90 pages
cover every phase of Saskatche-
wan's accident picture-like a hos,
pital blanket.
However, Christian Smith feels
that legislation, as well as edu-
catien t;should be used.to,protect
children of farmers who won't
allow.themselves to be educated.
He mentions the case of a Sas-
katchewan fernier whose' six-
and eight-year-old' sons were put
to Work 'hauling Rohe 'with a
tractor, Nottj;oks,ly,„ was,the older
boy seriotialY hot arNiceident
during the job but police report,
ed t ha tanAlolp,minalixetin e
child had suffered in' a ktiactbr
accident 10 days earlier had
broken openligtilti.
Until education, legislation
and understanding do. begin 1t0,.
WO* ,partriershin for faith
safety, Canadian farm farnillei
can count on a bttmper croli of
deAll'and injtity every Year, It's
the one crop that never fella
and the One the _farmers, very
well could do without,, „
,
W4.E.p'6 , city dweller would
give a' tvide berth to 'anything
with horns, farmers become so
used to livestock they sometimes
„forget ,that animals get.mean and
they forget gets mean arid
cranky, One Quebec farmer who
forgot:',this didn't get a second
chance' With an ornery bull — he
t riled his beak on' tile animal
an d te as gored, to' 'death,
4 hapisy. animals .can be
dangerous • :to humans, as Mrs.
Gerald-WOods, en Ontario house-
wife, can testify, Mrs, Woods was ,
Walking ,aeross the barnyard
.when; ;..a 'playful cow bunted her
•=zin,:t14 back and' kitOcked her
doWyr. She bent over to pick up
'a stick' to chase the animal, and
another :cow' butted her clear
over a Wagon tongue and into hospital' bed, with a cracked
kited We and torn ligarrient
Atit*er-.1.4e*here, page
A unique method of splicing
tiny blood vessels has been de-
veloped which could eventually
be used for the complete surgical
replacement of body organs, arid
the repair of accident and war
injuries.
Blood vessels supplying body
organs at a distance from the
heart are so tiny -.L.-sometimes
only one Millintetre ill diameter
—that it is impossible to sew
them together by hand,
Some method of joining these
vessels together is needed if
whole organs are ever' to,bo re-
placed, or if blood vessels dam-
aged by adciderits are to be re-
paired.
The Canadian approach was to
find a Method of tying together
the tiniest vessels in a way
which could be readily learned
by general surgeons,
The Method 'need "toy the Ot,
taws surgeons, Drs, I, J', Vogel-
fangdr Ohtt-W:G.' leattie, is first
to Clear ,the.vesgei- of blood, and
measure its, dianleter. by, special
precision ,inStruments developed
by the surgeons and engineers. „
Specially constructed split
bushings 'are then 'applied to the
blood Vesael, the vessel it cut,
aid `the new one joined t0 it by
Means Of thirttite staples Of tan,
talinin wire as small as on five,
thOttaaridth tti! irichipproxi,,
y ,dialtetet of ,htiiitati
flair
there 10 no danger or bid6a,
clotting; and it takes no Mot*,
than five irilittiteS to make
a joint,
have uliwuy out
WOO in 'Your bare"
"I have, the bad 'habit of drUM4 thioe the table Whit tiny finger*
and I ettititiot, hear 'the noise I
Wak' • .
Is a farmer Who's even,tentp-
Cahn and Not
'compietelY Safe? Not really, say
the eXperta,,beCattse of the prob-
lentof” aLigtie,
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Farmers' during sPririg seeding
or harvest 'Sohiettites' Work 10
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