The Brussels Post, 1962-09-27, Page 3liNDAYSCHOOL
LESSON
TIE FARM FRONT
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High Prices For
Old VVash-Benches
fix .Its 11. ti, Waxiete.
Why Do Pellets Metter?'
Matthew 1St 144 John 3; 11,14,
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Memory .Scriptorm Be ready
always to give an answer to
every, man that asketh you a res.-
sou of the hope that is in ye*
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HORSEPLAY — Bob Taul, 11, foreground, just couldn't resist temptation to "accidentally"
spray his brother Torn, 14, while they were washing their Hereford steer at the Future
Farmers of America Fair.
rm weary of hearing people
say, "It doesn't make any differ-
ence what you believe as long at
you are sincere." Religion is the
only area of life of which such
a silly statement is made, What
disasters would follow if we fol.*.
lowed such advice in medicine,
business or aeronautics.
What are we to believe? The
Word of God, of course, Nor are
we to meddle by adding to or
taking from, what God has giv-
en to us through writers inspired
by the Holy Spirit. The Phari-
sees of Our Lord's day made the
commandment of God of no ef-
fect by their tradition. They
taught for doctrines the com-
mandments of men.
We break God's command»
meats because we are by nature,
sinful. "Qut of the heart pro-,
ceed evil thoughts, murders,
adulteries, fornications, thefts,
false witness, blasphemies." We
need to be awakened to the sin-
fulness of our own heart. If we
do not believe that adultery and
stealing are sins against God, we
can continue these sins without
much compunction of conscience,
We must accept God's Word for
it. Then we ought to repent of
our sins and ask in the Name of
Jesus Christ for forgiveness. As
we believe in. Him, we shall be
partakers of eternal life,
The third portion. of our les-
son reminds us of the fruit that
follows from a life that has been
transformed by Jesus Christ, God,
bath chosen us to salvation
through sanctification of the
Spirit and belief of the truth,
If we follow in this high and
holy calling, God will establish
us in every good word and work.
We will be ready to give a rea-
son for the hope within us; a
reason from God's Word, And.
our lives will• be patterned after
the Divine Word. We will de-
light in serving our fellowmen.
in pointing them to our Lord.
Jesus Christ.• As pilgrims trav-
elling through this world, desir-
ous of reaching heaven, let 1L9
• study the Bible, our road map.
changes in which the. birds have
been living. Por instance, it;
seems that the length of day has
a lot to de. with migration, writes
Harry C. Kenney in the Ch ristian.
.Science Monitor.
It is also widely believed by
many that birds navigate by the
sun and stars: That they der see
enough light to fly this. way.
They are suspected too, of hav-
ing a timing mechanism which is
very helpful in Migration selle.,
Jules and navigation.
The birds use mountain ranges,
valleys, and the .sea-coast in their
migration flights—this is A long-
established pattern. But they are
pretty cute about why they so.
often return to the same spot or
area, The experts are still pttz-.
zied by this,
The experts are turning,
to the tracking of fish, AC-
Wally, ultrasonic signals have
been successfully used for the
first time in. tracking the move-
merit .of large marine fish,
Dr. C, M. Breder, chairman of
the department of ichthyology
of the American Museum, said
that an initial test of the method
in the sea near .Palin Beach, Pia.,
resulted hi tracking movements
of a 300-pound sand shark at
distances up to 13/4 miles. The
new system is the first to operate
with relatively high resolution in
the open sea,
The shark, taken by rod and
reel, was; tagged with an alit,
minurn capsule containing a
miniaturized transmitter which
automatically sends a supersonic
signal,
It is expected that the device,
when perfected, can give data
that no amount of simple tagging-
could provide, covering such
matters as detailed trajectories of
the fishes,. their depth move-
ments, and the speed and direct-
ness of their transit.
"Married men make the best
soldiers because they are used to
fighting'," says a humour column-
ist. Yes, but on the other hand,
they are conditioned to surrend-
ering.
ra.,hy 4,y, "And Oh: See those
beautiful old drawer pulls!"
Most of them compliment me
on my wonderful job of "res-
teration'' One "expert" who
wasn't fooled a bit said I had
truly done a careful job of copy-
Mg, but. it was a shame I put
those flUSh-bandles on, since the
really Old benches naturally had,
wooden pulls, "Naturally," I
said.
Anyway, if there's merit in
having a cobbler's bench in the,
living room, to. hold up bon-
qUets and magazines, we've got
one, It does not mean that we
peg shoes in the parlour.. And.
think, apart from the adoration
of age, it is better to have a
clean, neat one with fresh fin-
ish on it than to have an old
one that is scarred and bent.
The ancient wash bench was
hardly designed for a thing of
beauty and a joy forever, It was
not so long ago I can't remember
it, Plumbing on the old farm is
still of recent d a t e, We had
three wash benches — two in
the "laundry" and one by the
back steps. The one by the back
steps was for casual ablutions of
the sweaty, dirty anatomy of
the agronomist, who came up
from the fields after labour to
cleanse himself sufficiently to
sit at table. The function of the
bench was, you might say, aes-
thetic, but in a special country
way that doesn't seem to me to
point ebvieusly at present-day
delight in owning one. Just be-
fore meal time somebody would
dip a pail of warm water from
the tank on the back of the kit-
chen stove, and with a pail of
cold water beside it, would set
it on the bench. There was a
clay flower pot there with ends
of soap in it — the hole in the
pot offering a drain so the soap
wouldn't go mushy, and also it
let you run a finger up through
to help get a good "holt" on a
piece. A' good rough towel
would be provided, and a basin
and dipper.
I will not say there was noth-
ing artistic about the bench. It
was a tender experience to
stand and watch a hired man
lave imself. The water splashed
about a good deal, and he slap-
ped it over his neck, and he'd
puff and glow, and you could
see that it felt good, Dusty from
threshing or grimy from pulling
weeds, he rejoiced in the cool-
ing. Soil in rivulets ran off him,
and he came forth sweet and
pure, shining like a bottle, and
his hair brushed as for a wed-
ding. Grandfather judged hired
men by the wood they could
chop; Grandmother by their
work at the wash bench.
The other wash benches, in
the laundry, were for clothes
tubs. I can't remember anything,
in particular, which surrounded
these which would make them
prized in retrospect, If Grand-
mother had been told that some
day her old benches would fetch ,
a fancy figure, I'm sure she'd
have hooted at. such nonsense.
Hers was an era• that looked for-
ward to set, tubs and a length
of hose, and the happy time
when the wash bench could be
hove on the dump. If she could
have, by second sight or powers
of imagination, contrived to
foresee automatic laundries and
driers, I think she would lament
the loW intelligence of a wom-
an who, haying, these miracles,
Would go on a vacation up in
Maine and pay good .money for
a wash ,bench to carry all the
way back to your province or
state, — John Gould 'in the
Christian Science Monitor.
t_: ',wr. to Prevent Peeking
IDENTIFIED — Cereal leaf
beetle that attacks all cereals
and some grasses was identi-
fied in the United. States for
the first time this year by the
U.S. Department of Agricul-
ture. The insect, which has
done damage in Europe for
many yeurs, has been found
in parts of Michigan and In-
diana. Its favorite crops are
oats, barley and wheat, One-
quarter inch adult is shown
above;
The antique business .baffles
me,. because a piece of Old fur-
Alture. is a lovely thing, and
adorns- the domestic nook, but
why do the summer people from
Wow Jersey leek so pleased
,w1lert they get an Old. 'Wash
bench to strap on the -top of
their automobile? I always
watch thorn. drive by, wondering
how much they paid for it, and
if a brand-new one at the .same
price wouldn't be a better
somehow, I feel the processes Of
thought aren't balancing off the
imple ,facts: That the bric-a-
brac and, arts accumulated to
edify the tourists are the same
that sOMe family, Somewhere,.
just cast aside as expendable,
The wash benches now moving
out are not going to be used as
wash benches, of course.
I happen to Possess the luthe
ber, facilities talent f o
malting wash benches, I could.
do it. They would he clean,
sturdy and improved in design,
although I could make them like
old wash benches if I wanted
to, If anybody wanted just one,
and I had to tool up for it, the
price would probably be com-
parable to the going tab today
on an old one, but if I could
get an order for 500, I could.
make them very cheap indeed..
And it's a little disturbing to
think that after I made them,
and 150 years went by, they'd
be antiques, too.
I have made antiques, I made
A cobbler's bench, for instance.
We were visiting somebody
who had an old one, punched
full of sparables, and as we
talked I idly took off the mea-
surements and .e jotted them
down. I did a close job, so every
detail of the thing was on paper.
Then I came home and made
one just like it. It was fun, The
old bench had three drawers,
and they were fitted with what
we call flush-handles, They are
'brass, recessed into the wood,
and you can buy this kind of fite-.
tint at any marine hardware
store, or chandlery, today just
as well as you could in olden
times. They are standard for
cuddles and hatches, so I went
and bought `six of these, identi-
cal with the "antique"• ones, and
put them on my three drawers,
When I got the beech to my
liking I gave it a rinse with.
lignophol, and buttered it up
good with a hard wax, It is
handsome, and all who see it
pause to admire it,
But I get varying reactions.
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Just How Fast
Do Birds. Fly?
Man for centuries has been
trying to find out the secrets of
birds, and the birds have been
tporoetntylueghood about not "telling"
But, now along comes radar to
give the answer on how fast they
fly.
This question puzzled orni-
thologists for years until they
tracked a ring-necked duck at
66 miles per hour recently—and
you can't argue with radar,
Dr. Wesley E. Lanyon, assist-
ant curator in the department
of ornithology of the American
Museum of Natural History has,
said this unique way of check-
ing flight speed was attained in
a cross wind of 8 m.p,h. Next
speediest among the birds tested
were a black duck, with 55
and a quail, with 44.5
m,p.h.
A museum spokesman said the
system consists of a Doppler
radar unit similar to that used by
the police to measure motorist's
speed on highways.
Actually radar echoes from
moving targets are shifted in
frequency in a manner that is
determined by the target speed.
By detecting this shift, a direct
measure of the target's speed
may be obtained.
The radar equipment operates
on batteries and can be carried
about with ease in fields and
woods. One succsesful way used
to time the birds has been to
release them near a radar unit
and then track them.
The museum experts said that
the radar frequencies, recorded
on the spot on tape, must later
be translated into miles per hopr.
Speeds achieved by other birds
were: coot, 37 m.p.h.; blue jay,
26 m.p,h.; black-capped chick-
adee, 17 m,p.h; house finch,, 21.5
m.p.h.; white-throated sparrow,
17.5 m.p.h.; wild turkey, 31.7
m.p.h.; pheasant, 38.2 m.p.h.; and
herring gull, 29.4 m.p.h.
The birds now, are in migra-
tion and here too they have been
holding their secrets well. For
instance: How do birds know
when to leave? How do they
navigate? And why do many of
them return year after year to
the same general location and
often to the same spot?
Museum experts say it is prob-
able that birds start migrating
due to physiological reasons or
changes in the body. Another
major factor is environment
Q. How can I remove •shine
from dark suits?
A. Often you can remove the
mirror-like appearance by rub-
bing the fabric lightly With very
fine sandpaper. Dampen a navy
skirt or pair of trousers with
-bluing water,• and press while
still damp. Shiny suits may also
be sponged with vinegar before
pressing,
EDITORIAL COMMENT -- The Olsons of Blanchordvil e,
report that the junk mail receptacle is a failure. Their 5-year-
old son doesn't know the real stuff from the junk and brings
it all home, Nevertheless, they tried.
SUCCESS STORY ,-Three
men,' armed "with hedge clip-
pers and equipped with a
specially-made ladder,' give
the Cirencester, E n g I a n d,
great green wall a trim which
takes about 10 days.
land are gobbled up around citi-
es each year in California, as a
result, says the council, of "such
taxing practices." It cites two
major reasons why city residents
would profit by voting Yes on
Proposition 4:
(1) It will add to the enjoy-
ment of city living by tending' to
preserve open spaces and visual-
ly aesthetic "green belts" around
suburban areas.
(2) It will assure city dwellers
a continued abundance of low-
cost, high-quality foods produced
on lands near metropolitan areas.
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The California Labor Federa-
tion is just as certain that it is
in the public interest to vote No
on Proposition 4. "No special tax
relief should be given to persons
who have enjoyed a great in--
crease in land value," says or-
ganized labor's spokesman. "Lo-
cal government can ,scarcely af-
ford to provide services in new
growth areas as it is, Special low
assessments on large blocks of
-farm land which are held off the
market would make the situation
worse, .. , Rather than aggravate
urban• sprawl and contributing
to a hodge-podge of local assess-
ment practices, the voters should
turn down this unjustifiable tax
exemption."
By the time the voters start
x-ing their ballots on November
6, they will have done their
homework on Proposition 4. It
is such a hot issue in metropoli,
tan California it will have been
pretty well debated. The losers
can hardly say that this question
slipped by. 10. Secure 34. Low
CROSSWORD Rviirviciedrvimo
PUZZLE Everything's NOT
Up-to-date In Paris
Despite the popular belief that
the Common Market boom has
lif Led Western European living-
standards up ter or near the t.T.S,
level, a recent survey showed
that it wasn't necessarily so. A
new law demanding that Paris'
landlords install running water
in their buildings turned up
some pretty startling figures',
Of 1,204,157 dwellings in the
Paris metropolitan area, 475,000
(mare than one-third) have• ho
running Water at all.
972,531 dwellings (five out of
six) have neither shower nor
bath, 81,
(three out of Tour)
have no Central heating,
205,935 (one eut,of four) have
no gas installation,
Half Of the city's 5 Million lit-
habitants, living in 623,421 abert=
inerits, have no 'private toper
two or more &venlig shame
the same latilities),
A tax issue is boiling up in
California that is bubbling in
other states, too, to say nothing
of sections of Ontario. The issue
is whether to let "farmers" on
the urban fringes get out of pay-
ing their full share of property
taxes by assessing their land on
the basis of its agricultural use
rather than its fair market value.
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The question known as Propos-
ition 4 on the November ballot
is being hotly debated, It will be
interesting to see whetlitr Gov.
Edmund G. 'Brown and Richard
Nixon will take a clearcut.stand
on this proposed tax favor to
"farmers," or whether these two
rival candidates for Governor
will sidestep it. Perhaps if they
are wise they will.
Any time a proposition gets
on the state ballot for direct
voter action, it more than likely
is because the Legislature was
willing to "pass the buck" to the ,
voters. A gcod deal of grass-
roots "legislating" is done in just
this way. It is nothing to see 15
or 20 complex issues come up
before the voters in the form of
ballot propositions that would
floor a convent on of Philadel-
phia barristers.
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Proposition 4 would authorize
local government to enact ordin-
ances permitting holders of
close-in land to receive assess-
ments based on its agricultural
Use instead of a housing subdi-
vision, industrial site or whatever
else, Back payment of the dif-
ference in tax levels plus ,6 per
cent interest for the 'preceding
seven years would be required
when the land is converted from
agricultural to other use.
*
Right here, no matter how
simply you try to explain this
bloc action ,for preferential tax
treatment, by the time the aver-
age voter has studied this and
some 20 other compliCated pro-
positions on his ballot, he is apt
to be a little vague if not down-
right befuddled. The voter in the
city the size of San. Francisco or
Los Angeles doesn't get out of it
this easily, either. He may have
a raft of municipal propositions
to vote on, too. By the time you
string the two lists, end to end,
they stream off into the electoral
cosmos like a frigate's home-
ward-bound pennant.
Our home-grown political sci-
entists could see all this coming
and some of them spoke out
pretty clearly about the need to
simplify our electoral methods
around the time we were redraft-
ing the California Constitution
in the 1870's. To call upon the.
average citizen to vote at each
election for a string of candidates
about whom he can know no-
thing unless he makes a business
of politics, it is even now argued,
is to relegate choice to riaged
nominating conventions, and po-
litical rings. The same applies to
the ballot propositions Which
often are espotised by special in-
terests and put over with well-
heeled propaganda drives, writes
Harlan Trott in the Christian
Science Monitor.
The Council of California
Growers is making a very ap-
pealing case for the close-in
landholders. This spokesitan for
blie derporate farmers points out
that farm lands adjacent to cities
ire taxed "not oft the basis of
return's from crops" but rather
on. their "potential value for sub-,
divisions, factories or shopping.
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VICTIMS OF EARTHQUAKE At MontecOlvo, a group Of pecikints stand in front of a
home battered by one of two ecirthduakei which racked southern Italy. At least 15 persons•
were killed and thousands of other' persons fled to the ounttyside, too frightened to return
to their hornet.•
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The council asserts a farmer
has rio alternative but to sell his
land when his taxes become
greater than his income 1~ ill
beare Some 65,000' acres of faint