The Brussels Post, 1954-11-24, Page 7TIIL FMM: FAINT
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Bursting of old upright or
tower silos when filled with.
grass silage has generally been
considered as caused by the
greater weight of this silage
compared with that made from
corn, The Chemistry Division,
Department of Agriculture Ot-
tawa, suggest it may be the ad-
ditional factor of gas produce
tion by the plant tissues that
results in the almost explosive
disintegration of the less rug-
gee but apparently Atight silos.
* A preliminary test, made by
packing a small quantity of a
fresh, green, timothy - brome
grass mixture in a tightly stop-
pered flask, showed that at the
end of the first day gas pro-
duced from this green plant
material produced a pressure of
3.8 pounds per square inch with-
in the flask. At the end of three
days the"pressure has increased
to 6.8 pounds per square inch
and by the end of two weeks
to 17.4 pounds.
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The difference in the chemical
content of the•twottypes of silage
and the greater density of the
grass wih consequent closer
packing, may account for greater
gas pressures in tower silos
filled with grass than when fill-
ed with cont.
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It's a trite saying that "the
best time to stop a lire is before
it begins." Pumices and other
heating and cooking appliances
are just as efficient and fool-
proof as the manufacturers can
make them. But if the smoke
pipe or the chimney becomes
faulty an obvious fire hazard
has arisen. Replacing a length
of smoke pipe costs a few cents;
it could prevent immense prop-
erty damage or even loss of life,
An hour or so checking on heat-
ing and cooking installations
and on electrical equipment,
extension cords and the like, is
time well spent. And don't over-
look the oily rags and those.used
for 'waxing or painting. These
can cause fire from spontaneous
combustion; they are best being
thrown out.
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Another danger spot is under
the stairs leading to the base-
ment. Often it is crowded with
a miscellaneous collection of
h i g hl y combustible material,
papers, boxes, firewood, even
coal. Experts point out that
should fire get to this spot the
draught will cause it to spread
to othehr parts of the house.
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Fire is the worst hazard on
most Canadian farms, particu-
larly those that are not serviced
by electricity, for of necessity
inflammable liquids must be
used for ilhunination and wood
must often be used for cooking
and heating, During the years
"You are in love with two hand-
some men, You can pick out one•
endsend the other to me."
1940 to 1949, 321 rural homes
were destroyed by fire, making
an average of 80 farm homes
per year lost through fire. The
death toll in rural fires during
this four-year period was 576
persons, something over half Of
the victims being children. To
tal property loss from fire in
Canada' in 1953 amounted to
$83,561,100 .
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Over caution is certainly jus-
tified where fire hazard$ are
concerned.
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The paat few years have been
very bad ones for barley dis-
eases and 1954 was One of the
worst, Of course, late seeding
and lots of moisture are ideal
for the growth of many diseases,
but it is sad to see new varieties
with so many good characteris-
tics struggling to do their best
against several vicious attack-
ers. The combined and concen-
trated efforts of many individ-
uals, both, plant pathologists and
plant bleeders should enable the,
barley plant to win the strug-
gle, but it will require much
work on the part of many peo-
ple. There is particular concern
over a series of leaf diseases
which seem to have become
more widespread and serious in
recent years.
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The barley jointworm which
caused much damage in Prince
Edward Island since its dis-
covery in 1946 shows signs of
being curtailed somewhat, prob.
Built -In Threader Eases
ler t3fl84 TM"'
One of the best things that
could happen to'a housewife is
an automatic needle' threader,
And it's here. Ready to act as
an aid to the homemaker who's'
in a hurry, to the impatient and
to home sewers ,wit11 3. thutn a
is the first autoreetic 'needle
threader on a home'setving ma-
chine.
Actually, 'a great ,stumbling
w
block for omen who are just
learning to sew is the: needle -
threading operation, even 0=411
needle -threading skill and cre-
ative sewing ability are not link-
ed.
Secret of the n ew device,
which is built in as a part of
the machine mechanism, is.a tiny
preeision•built 'steel^ hook. The
home sewer need only flip_ a
switch and the steel hook drops
down automatically, seizes th e
thread and draws it through the
needle eye,
Other important innovations
featured on this new machine
include concealed lighting f o r
clearer vision, collapsible thread -
holders for double -needle stitch -
Nerves
Saves Time
First automatic needle threader
hooks thread (inset); hook draws
ing and a removable top that
permits all oiling parts to be
protected within the machine.
Sewing tension is improved to
the degree where it's possible to
on a home sewing machine
thread back through needle eye.
sew any thickness (from sheer
synthetics to thick, carpet -like
textures and even leather) with
the same medium needle and no
tension adjustment.
ably by natural predators. The
plant breeders at Charlottetown
have, in very short order, dis-
covered sources of resistance,
and in 1954 many jointworm
resistant hybrid selections were
being field tested,
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Barley has passed through
another yearmarked both by
successes and disappointments,
The,attention being given to the
crop by farmers, by industry, by
the export trade and by the
plant scientists should certainly
help to keepthis. famous old
crop in the limelight.
Bet Their Shirts
And Everything Else
Pepi, a young Austrian officer
captured by 1. h e Russians at
Stalingrad, waited his turn for
bath -house parade at the cri-
minal transit camp of Karabas
- and got a surprise. The staff,
including the barber who had
to shave him, were all women
fellow -prisoners.
The girl wielding the razor
was about twenty-five, with
dark hair, dark, deep-set eyes,
painted 1 i p s, finger -nails and
toe -nails, peeping out from her
sandals. She wore a short blue
skirt and white blouse with
apron over it.
"What is a man like you do-
ing in a hell -hole like this?"
she asked.
"And what is a girl like you
doing here, if it comes to that?"
This was the beginning of an
astonishing love affair between
the two prisoners, described in
"I Survived," by Godfrey Lias,
who met Pepi in Vienna last
year and wrote his remarkable
story.
"In my grandfather's days, a
lover sometimes pounced on a
girl . and carried her off on his
horse without giving her time
to open her mouth to say "yes,"
the girl, Masha; said. "But in
this inferno, if 'a girl sees a
man she likes she has no time
to wait to be courted or carried
off by force. She must make sure
of him the moment she sets eyes
on him or she may never see
him again."
Her voice was low, soft, thrill-
ing. He drew her to him. In a
moment her arms were round
his neck.
"The present is s h or t, my
sweet," she said at last, "And
waiting is always too long. I
will send you word as soon as
I know how we can see one
another agatit. Till then, think
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of me often, And I shall think
of you always."
-Back in his quarters, a strange
thing happened to Pepi. Three
young criminal prisoners were
playing cards. Suddenly one of
them brandished a knife in his
face and shouted: "Off with your
clothes, Fritzi. I want them.
I've lost mine at cards, as you
can see."
Habitual lags in Soviet pri-
sons often stake a newcomer's
clothes on their game, and if
they fail to get them, lose face
with their fellows. Peps "knew
what would happen if he re-
fused, for the other two had
knives, too. Shivering with rage
lie took o_ff his coat and trou-
sers and donned the rags they
threw him. Then he went to
Kolya's hut -- his friend and
fellow -prisoner - told him
about it.
""I know them," Kolya said
gruffly. "Wait here. I'll be back'
its ten minutes."
He returned with face, hands,
clothes covered with blood, and
bleeding from a" gashed cheek.
"There are your, clothes," he
said., "They will not be taken
from you again." Then: "1 bid
you good-bye. I. have t3 leave
here. Masha will take care of
you. Give her my love." He
walked out into the snow. Pepi
never saw him •again, but learn
ed .later that he had given
himself up to the ,wards, and
been transferred to another
camp. Back in his hut, Pepl
found two of the card -players
dead, with their throats cut. The
third had been stabbed as he
had iron, away,
Two days later Masha sent a
message saying that Pepi had
been chosen to take a bundle
of clothes to the .wash -house to
be disinfected, She :met him at
the door and heckoned him in,
telling the guard to wait in
the disinfecting room, Then she
threw her arms around his neck,
burst into a torrent of weeping,
and between sobs and kisses said
she knew all that had happen-
ed, blamed herself for not tak-
ing better care of him, and
promised that he was now under
her special protection,
"1 held firmly to those preci-
ous minutes spent with her as
a drowning man clutches des-
perately at his rescuer," he says,
"I know they saved my reason,"
They met many . times after
that, and after another bloody
affair in which a head prisoner
beat another to death with an
iron rod, and in turn had his
head bashed in with a hammer
by three masked avengers,
which led to a blood feud and
more killings, Masha arranged
for Pepi to be transferred to
the convalescent ward, where
he could live under less horrible
conditions and meet her more
often.
Thanks a ks to her, he stayed four
nnonths at Karabas instead Of
the normal few weeks, before
he was transferred to a penal
camp,
THE NEW "400" -It's the "Blue
Overalls/' not the "Blue Book"
for Mrs, Martha Schubert. She
is one of 400 union card-carry-
.ing women carpenters in the
Los Angeles area. She uses a
gunpowder -powered device to
fire three-inch steel pins 'that
attach wooden framing to con-
crete flooring of new homes.
Slot -Machine
Movies Coming
Back?
It's no secret that it can cost
Hollywood well over a million
dollars to turn out super -colossal
Technicolor movie qualifying for
a fanfare of trumpets and the
blurb: "This is the' greatest
thing in the history of motion
pictures." ("The Robe," in
CinemaScope, actually cost five
millions.) But how long does it•
take to get back the production
costs from the pockets of movie-
goers?
In the past it has taken
months and sometimes years.
Now there are big plans for re-
covering the cash in one night.
The motion picture industry,
which not long ago faced ruin
at the threat of television, is
to -day expecting boom not doom,
as had been forecast. ,
Not content with the momen-
tary breathing space granted
them,by the success of Cinema -
Scope and 3-D, the' studios are
planning to fight TV. With TV.
- the coin -in -the -slot variety
that's catching the imagination
of the public.
It works like this. An attach-
ment known as the Telemeter is
coupled to a conventional TV.
set, adapted to receive the alter-
native Telemeter channel, When
the viewer switches on, the
screen is blurred and the sound
gives out a continuous pro-
gramme parade, with the vari-
ous prices for each show. When
the appropriate number of coins
are inserted the screen focuses
properly and the "What's On",
sound track is swopped for that
of the programme chosen.
It is hoped that the Telemeter
system will spread throughout
the United States. If and when
it does, Hollywood will put on
films before the world premiere,
'and with all America looking in
and paying, the production costs
will he more than met on the
first night's showing,
This will not, however, mean
the end of the local magic -
house. The film moguls firmly
Relive that people will still want
to go out to the pictures; young
people especially, for no gim-
mick can replace the romantic
"back row" of the einenna.
Nudists' Paradise
The millionaire playboys and
girls who make their headquar-
ters at fashionable hotels in
Cannes or Eden Roc are scares-
ly. aware of a grey, humpbacked
silhouette on the horizon nine
miles out in the blue Mediter-
ranean. It is known as the "Isle
Where Nothing Matters."
In the guidebook it is describ-
ed as "Extremely wild. Rocky.
No cars. NO roads. Fishing ham-
let at eastern tip. Total area
three square miles. Population
26, Occasional boat service to
the mainland."
To reach this island, which to
the initiates is famed as the love-
liest nudist colony in the world,
it takes ninety minutes. Here
nothing matters much and dress
least of a11.
The village of Heliopolis, ded-
icated to sun lovers, the simple
We and fresh air, is now the
Mecca of some 5,000 people every
year, though there are rarely
more than 300 people on the is-
land at one time.
There is no electricity. Vis''; --
tors go to bed at nightfall and
get up with the sun. Nudism on
tate beach' is universal. The local
custom, however, insists on a
certain minimum of clothing
when walking in the village or
down to the harbour.
A G-string is the required uni-
form for men and women alike
- a few square .inches of fabric.
It is known as "le Minimym"
and is seen in a variety of col-
ours.
The only hotel is called the
"Adams Apple". Its proprietors
Monsieur and Madame Dumas,
run it for the vacation period
only. They are not nudists and
have never been known to go
near the beaches.
Clients of the hotel merely
eat there. Along the winding
tracks of this hilly island there
are tiny two -roomed huts, sparse-
ly furnished with' the essentials
- a sitting -room and bedroom,
with a bed, wash -bowl, chair,
table and a candle.
There are also a few unpre-
tentious villas, most of them
owned by French people who
live on the mainland. They are
lovers of the simple lie.
You can live on this lotus eat-
ers' paradise for about $12 a day.
The visitors are a mixed crowd
-professional men, artists, hon-
ey.mobners and holidaymakers
from European and English pun
clubs.
There are many campers, too.
Mostly youngsters in their teens.
They come from Belgium, Hol-
land, Switzerland and the Scan-
dinavian countries. They pay
about 2s 6d. a night for a camp-
ing site. A small store supplies
meat and groceries.
Once or twice a year the auth-
orities on the mainland send out
a couple 01 representatives to
see that the proper decorum
reigns.
Wearing heavy official blue
serge suits, they solemnly march
ashore from the little steamer to
effect their ritual inspection of
the beaches.
They find the older generation
taking their siesta. Bronzed
young people are swimming -
in bikinis and trunks like those
worn on the distant shore. The
tiontelephone is a wonderful inven-
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CANNY QUARTET
William J, Pickerill, t h s
South African mustc composer,
who recently composed "Cape
Town Suite," has inchtded in it
a scherzo entitled "The South -
Baster" -after the summer wind
which always whips through
South Africa's Mother City.
In this scherzo he has Includ-
ed a quartet Of coal -oil cared
The score calls for the cans to
be kicked from the top of the
choir steps to the bottom,
Sea Elephants
From Hawaii I returned to
the coast Of Ittexleo whore. I
chartered a boat and cruised to
Guadalupe island, the only place
in the Pacific where sea ele-
phants still live. Here i tried
10 identify the beach where
these creatures gather. My only
clue was a photograph to a
magazine published in 1923
(unluckily, the photograph had
been reversed in publication, so
we passed the spot without rec-
ognizing It.)
We cruised along under one
of Guadalupe's two thousand -
foot cliffs, crowned with a
fringe of tall evergreens, the
foggy abode of wild goats,
Weird -shaped piles of rock stood
isolated in the Pacific swells,
far away from the small beaches
along the foot of the island's
precipices. So steeply do the
sides of these extinct volcanoes
plunge down into the ocean
that it is very difficult for a
vessel to get a hold on the
rocky bottom with Its anchor.
Returning, I sighted a small
beach near the north tip of the
island, on which lay some
t w en 1y -five gray, seal -like
forms Of immense size, These
must be our sea elephants! We
succeeded In getting an anoher
to hold fairly well close to the
breakers, and I rowed for the
shore in our tender." On the
stern seat was a large green
duffle bag tightly tied, with all
my photographic equipment in-
side. The small boat held only
one person.
At the edge, of the breakers I
held the dinghy for several min-
utes with the oars, waiting for
the heavy surf to calm a little.
Finally, I pulled in toward the
beach on the crest of a wave.
Down the shore I saw the head
of a sea elephant t h r u s t up
above the surf, his mouth open
in a yawning roar. He was as
big as a whale and his long
snout, curled down Over his
mouth like a caricature of a
hooked nose.
Then the boat spun sidewise
on a steep wall of water and in
an instant I was in the water
under the dinghy. I felt the
seat pressed against the top of
my sun helmet. The gunwhale
of the dinghy rested on my
shoulder. So I swept at a fear-
ful speed under the little boat
toward the beach. Then my feet
grounded in the rocks. I gave
a heave and lifted the boat Haat
was holding me down under the
chocolate -colored water.
Standing up, I staggered onto
- the beach, carrying the dinghy
-that should have been oarrying
me. As the surf swirled about
my legs I saw the duffle bag
containing the camera and film.
Making a dash, I rescued them
before water could get inside.
A colony of some twenty-five
sea elephants lay on the beach
and flipping dry sand over each
other's backs. At times a bull
would rear up and give utter-
ance to a weird bark, sounding
like bubbles coming up from
the water of a deep welt' Two
or three of the heard made off
into the sea as I approached.
Others merely looked up and
yawned. -From "The World Be-
neath the Sea," by Ottis Barton.
NO WONDER
The man was whimpering.
The dentist was firm. "Now
come, Mr, Poppele, you're not
even in the dental chair yet and
you're crying."
"I can't help it, Doc," he
moaned. "You're standing on
my aching care
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LESSON
Rev. 15. 0, Warren, t*,A.t18J0,
In Time of Trouble
Psalm 1.42; 46:1-3, 10-11.
Memory Selection: Gott is 010r
refuge and strength, a vat
present help in time of trouble.
Psalm 46:1.
Trouble comes to everyone,
It came to Joh, a man "perfect-
and
perfectand upright, and one that feared,
God, and turned • away front
evil," It came to David in the
sins of adultery and murder am-
ong his children: echoes of 11240
sins of his ofn former We. Thy
sins of his own former life. Thy
repeated in the livesof thele
children. In this respect we may
invite trouble. Trouble came to
Ahab after he married the
Wicked Jezebel, a worshipper o$
Baal: Disagreement on the mat.
ter Of religion by husband and
wife can cause a heap of trouble*
Our troubles are never as bad
as they might be. One has said:,
"If all our troubles were hun
on the line, who wouldn't choos4
hie own?" If you are tempt
to feel sorry for yourself, stare
visiting the hospitals.
Trouble is a test of characte .
Then you see what inner ree
sources you really have. Mani
of the psalms were written cue
of experience with trouble. 114
today's lesson the writer cries
out, "Refuge failed me; no matt,
cared for my soul." Many a per-
son has felt like that. But that
Psalmist goes on to point out
the way to victory: "I cried
unto thee, 0 LORD: I saint
Thou are my refuge and my
inpgortion in the land of the lie
Happy is he who can say in
faith, "God is our refuge and
strength, a very present help in
trouble," But it is well to ae-
quaint yourself with God be..
fore trouble comes. Then yore
will not be sowing to the flesh
and later reaping corruption
But trouble of sickness, bereave-
ment, disappointment and died
aster knock at the door of al$;
Then it is good to have an abld.
trig faith in our loving heavenly
Father who cares.
GOOD ADVICE
The dentist, is more than u
salesman of health. He is the
friendly counselor at all times.
Take the time Eddie De Marc
bounced into the office, waving
a ticket in the air.
"See this ducat, Doc? Twenty
five smackers a plate, Big din.
ner at the Waldorf tonight
Some class, eh? I'm finally
dining with the upper set."
"The steak may be tough
Eddie," advised the dentist. "II
I were you I'd take the lower
set, too."
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Trip to Sweden is in store for See Tran, 37, of Claremont, Ont.,
as result of his victory in Canadian championship .competition
for Esso Silver Plow, held by Ontario Plowmen's Association
at Ballanitrao, Ont. He and runnerup, Ivan McLaughlin, 50, of
Stoutfvitle, Ont., will travel to Sweden next year as guests of
Imperial Oil to compete against plowmen front other countries
in the third annual world championship plowing match,