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The Brussels Post, 1951-2-7, Page 3Ever Eat A Watch? tact !lit i.r, ', Iv:welters ti, ,Swit r.erland tvho pent rated the watch - knitting tally, of the Jura found II strange herologicad sideline_.-th malting of chocolate watches. fhc confectioner.-hnroliigi;1 is 45• ye,,r-old 1'atti 'Morro. He live; in Le Lucre, one of Switzerinnrs cen- tres for lhr nianefacture of preei- .fun-built, jewelled, Icvet watche. Moretti renew of a rtuulymeiking fatuity, ;mg lits most of his friends in Le Locle cr.ite of watrhmaltiug families. Tdn•ce years :ago he dti• riled to d„ something different, tont in trihu.e to the Jura watch c•,anp:tide-. lie made. Ills first Gaudy timepiece. The idea i'aut,rllt un. \\'able t'sectl- livrs leased of i\loreau's new idea, com mis...t eel hint to reproduce their own prrtturts in Steins ehuco- late, and gave thein away as souven- irs to customer., and associates, Moreau reproduced ftunoun Swiss watches right down to tete Planets, (tial decorations and :rade luarks, In Order To Survive We Must Sacrifice One of the most thought pro- voking newspaper columns written in Canada today comes from the able pen of Richard J. Needham, whose column 'One Man's Opinion,' p appears in the Calgary Herald, Mr, Needham writes trenchantly and realistically, Isis ideas and words are challenging and must ring un- comfortably in the ears of the smug and complacent. "Look what is happening," says - i\Ir. Needham in a recent column, "the richt nations of this world are appallingly weals in the mill- tary sense; the poor- nations are appallingly strong. The low-income half of humanity Is pushing around the high-income half. The low- income half, which obviously can- not afford to maintain and equip a large force, is maintaining and equipping then; the high-income ' half, which obviously can afford to, is not." In the same column, 'Mr, Need- ham reaches the following con. ;Austin; "\\'c of the western world glace comfort above survival, We have forgotten the truth so well put by Somerset linugltatn: If a country values anything more than freedom it will lose its free- dom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it %aloes more, it will lose that too.' These are hard times. They are harder than they need to be be- cause throughout the west, the seats of power are occupied by men who—sincerely or otherwise— wench the false and decadent doc- trines of corn fort, leisure and iccirity and who have persuaded 'oolish millions ihat those things zee dttc to them by riglt1" Thee is ample evidence that this viewpoint is shared by others. Plac- ing the matter squarely on Canada's doorstep, 1. Norman Snaith, Asso- ciate Editor, the Ottawa Journal, in a recent speech is Montreal,. said: "Don't let no think we can ;ell our dumor m y or build oar world with only half an effort, To ; all C tanto s shore thus far more than half an effort is surely to C lgl el aI e." -Froin �"The News Letter," • Well Uttedt Mouse's nest Built of • eight C1 notes Inas been found in the roof of a Berkshire eoraysn, TllLFA1M FRONT "Re-examination" tion" is the big word ar,nurl Ottawa, Washington, Lon- don and various other points; and ',crimps 0 spot of re-examination right at home. and right Dune, might not he a bad thing for many Cana- dian farmers to iurlul::e in. \\ley not sit (been ant give, a felt' holiest thoughts to coot way or farming? Ask yourself Such ques- tions as these; "hue: ni method of .farming suit my type of land; hoes it make the best 11,1 of my time and labour? I: it bit line with sty ability also icy lite, and dis- likes, Farming successfully simply de- mands such re-examinations of old methods. Von won't naaite money just because you faro, as you always have done. Plenty of people found that out thirty or ; o year, ago. u "1 went along losing a thousand or more dollars a year," :.ay, re farmer, recalling the years which followed World War One, "llu'. I figured that It was just the de- pression, and that things were hound to get better before long," But that depression lasted close to twenty years; and as you'll recall thousands went broke white wait- ing for old farming methods to start staking stoney again. "\\tell, timcs finally did change," that saline. fanner says now, "and for ten years you just couldn't help making stoney." But from the tone of his voice, a listener could pretty well tell that he thniks tinter may very Well Ire -changing once again. *• * The exact methods which made plenty of money in the last ecu war years may fail You baldly now, as costs continue to rise. The fact is shat comparatively easy times may very well have introduced some mighty poor business methods into farthing, So why not take time this winter to scrutinize your pre- sent methods? It may tape a day. It may take much longer. But it also may serve to keep you pros- perous and out of financial trouble in the years to cone. Are you a dairyman—a cash grain farmer—a cattle feeder—or do you go in for raising pigs? Let's try taking each class separately. x: * * FOR THE DAIRYMAN: The dairy cow is a huge consumer of high-quality rough feed. Therefore, dairying is perfectly suited to farms that have lots of grass, with small fields that eau be planted to corn or other crops for silage, It's the sort of farming for the s tall farm with plenty of year-round labour, For the farmer with that kind of place—and tine necessary buildings —there is no question about, the sort of farming. Neither grain, pigs or beef cattle would be as profitable. But dairy farming i5 not limited to one type of place. Any fans with good land can be trade into a dairy farm. A large place with rotation pastures can produce the bulky feed. But -and it's a big but—you trust have the labour. m ,' * The. 'problem the dairy farmer should give greatest attention is milk and butterfat production per - animal, Recent studies 'prove that one cow producing 400 pounds of butterfat makes more profit over feed cost than four cow's producing 200 pounds 61 fat -per animal. * * * So production per cow is some- thing to tltinl over when your management phut is being studied, Dairy Farming is a poor side -line. Hitler do the job well from breed- ing to feeding, or go into i4nnelltillg tlse--.-even if you have to find an- other farm on which to do it, d' . .. FOR Tltl?, GRAIN F.\R:\MKR: Richt level land is bestfitted for grain raising, It may be almost au essential on farms with no build- ings for livestock. It suits the man who has no particular love for franc animals, or much Week in handling 'acne, Alec who like to plots under big crops of sweet clover or other green fertilizers rut stake it pay and still keep up their land, • if you and your fame do not lit these Qualifications, you should consider some change -such a; pig raising, evlaich is easily started on grain farms, lion have the. hog feed. Mut- tiplicattion and expansion fs rapid. And it requires less capital than other livestock projects, FOR TFIi? Hob RAISER: Raising hogs is bent suited to fauns which produce lots of oats, corn and legumes. Hogs mostly eat ron ecu 1 rat ti foods. Success re- quires a certain amount of capital to invest in fences and proper equipment, Good hog raisers like the animals, and so 00011 -learn how best to take care of them. V,• it * If your farm produces hog feed, and you have fairly good luck ,,with pigs, think deeply before going out of that line. For it Is estimated that good hog raisers get front $.120 to $150 for each hundred dollars' worth of feed consumed. * However, not all hog raiser's ntalce that sort of money --or nearly all of then,. Suppose you only raise four or five pigs per litter, or are pestered and plagued by disease seasolc after season. In that case, consider some outer sort of live- stock before you are sunk. r' * f The hog farmer, like the' grain farmer, can shift to either beef cattle feeding or to dairy farming. The switch to cattle feeding is not too disturbing. But, in either case, more grass and less corn will be needed, Things Were Bigger, Brighter, Tastier Then My earliest recollection is of „the garden and orchard of my grand- father's house. The outstanding fea- ture in this memory is the tallest tallest apple tree I have ever seen, apparently of a patriarchal age, but bearing in great quantities wonder- ful apples, the like of which I have never found; =c golden yllo win color, pear-shaped and of an unparalleled sweetness and flavor, I have sought in many marieets for *the lineal de- scendants of these apples'oF Hes- perides. At times I have c secn some nearly as goldeu in kite and pear-shaped somew'itat; but the first , bite destroyed hope. Good apples they height be, but not the sante. In this comparison I ant not like the German woman who, living in her old age in America, complained that in this country the mirrors were very inferior to those she had • used years before in Gertitany. Others besides myself have remem- bered those apples and sought vain- ly for • their equals. Wound all around this venerable tree was a grapevine with eoils climbing and clutching it from trunk to top branches, and this vine' bore quan- tities of hiscious grapes, Perhaps the grapes and the apples worked out some sort of Burbank process Syra's Sad Saga Syra Marty, who says site wag a "becg dance star" in Swiiaet'taid where 'pipple.5 itt opp lay . numbcr,e' is very much oppsct. Playing fen lured roles in Ifolywood, She's burning at reports she was formerly a stripper lit a l,o, Angeles burlesque show. A wily agent, she laments,. signed her by mail to at one sear contract ia, dance in 'Plc toll's' 11 urn ed out to be 0 Zicgfchtlian affair, hitt a peel • balaec, Nil she to fulfill Ili mttii'Irh Rare Beauty—Yost eau travel the seven seas for a long time these clays without seeing this Beautiful sight --once so 00111- tnon. It's the square-rigger Eagle standing out to sen. The Eagle was formerly the German navy's sehoolsltip Ilorbt \'Vessel. of their oten, accoarit'eg for the unique flavor of both. A lung loop of this grapevine formed a swing by which one :night explore the tie to what seemed a great and perilous height. My grandfather's home was like a New England farmhouse, sur- rounded by a ga -den of old-fashion- ed flowers, and there were. maty Irere traes. There t'✓u•c black ox- heirt clterriet and, if memory plays lite no tricks, dtcrries, to be at the'r best, would he eaten in the tree on which they grow. 'There were hashes of red raspberries. What f have said of the apples compared to ordinary apples ap- plies also t0 the raspberries; but this comparison of ancient and mod- ern pontology may be influenced by theformer's adeantagd in having -its specimens go direct„ to the consum- er. I will concede that the flowers in this garden may have been no more beautiful than the flowers of this present day and generation, and that the butterflies then were not touch larger or more brilliant in color. The bees, however, •1 ant sure, were bigger and more threat- ening, and 1 affirm without hesita- tion that modern caterpillars and grasshoppers are unworthy of their sires. Apparently there have been changes in the floral kingdom, too. I never• see nowadays such things as fuchsias and bleeding-hearts. What they tell me is honeysuckle growing. around the cottages in summer -resorts, a yellow flower well enough in ' 'a • th e c u its w is not e g 3, honeysuckle of childhood's happy hour, The latter was a cluster of small trumpets red and pink, super- ior in every way to the pallid sub- stitute. Modernists may claimth at the sunshine t e u ne of the resent is not n inferior to the nticl-Victorian article, but in our garden and orchard it had exceptional material to reflect, upon and consequently appear at its best. The sunshine in that garden • of many colors as seen from the branches of a cherry tree or from the higher altitudes explored in a grapevine swing was displayed to great advantage and I diffidently express tine opinion that it was sttperior to any that is now offered. It is possible that I. ant prejudiced, but it is all quite vivid in memory, only sixty-five years having passed. —From "First Nights and First 73dilions," by I -Tarry B. Smith, Baby Comes Through Nightmare Journey To conte safely through a 15,000 - mile journey—front the desolate wastes -of the Gobi Desert to the hustle and bustle of London—over towering mountain passes, through insect -ridden swamps, travelling alternately by lorry, train, bus and boat, is always something of an achievement. But how mucic more of an ach- ievement if the traveller turns ottt to be an eight-months-olcl baby) Little Michael Spencer had been born only five weeps when Itis parents, New Zealand doctor Rob- ert Spencer and his young wife, set out from Northern China—where they had been establishing a hos- pital—on what proved to be a nightmare journey to :England, • They stayed in tiny stud -hut vil- lages, endured fierce extremes of heat and cold, lutnbered in lorries over dusty mountain roads and were jam-packed for countless utiles in overloaded, evil -smelling buses and trains that crawled through lands of mystery. Once, Michael went , for over 150 miles clasped in his mother's arses 00 a truck carrying gasoline drtuns—and cause through his reek- ing ordeal with a'stetile. Ott another dramatic occasion, when staying !I overnight in tl primitive native vil- lege, his mother was bitten by a scorpion as he lay beside her in their squalid bed, and, straight away, with an amazing and cour- ageous grasp of realities, she dis- cussed with her husband how he would best be able to continue feeding their baby—after site was dead, as she fully expected to be! Fortunately, it wasn't necessary. After Eve Weary months the little fancily reached England safely .and Ilr. Spencer lost no time in seek- ing a home for them. Ife is there to study surgery. And no doubt one day, when little Michael has grown to manhood, he will speak with pride of that pilgrimage he made with his parents, and of those first few weeks in his life which he spent in a mud hut with paper windows, in a remote Chinese vil- lage where his mother was the only ' white woman for hundreds of miles. BONE KNITTING NEEDLES If your knitting is suddenly halt- ed by a broken bone needle, slip the needle into a pencil sharpener and give it a new point. A few twists and your needle is probably better than when you bought it. You can use the office -type shar- pener or the small handy ones you buy in the five and ten cent stores. These are just as helpful and can be toted around in your knitting bag. UNDAY SCHOOL LESSON by Rev. R. 13. Warren, B,A., B,D. Jesup Meets Iluntan Need Memory Selection: And Jesus was moved with compassion to. ward them, because they were aa sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things, Mark 6:34. Jesus was moved by any type of human need. Sickness. bereave• mens, hunger—all called forth His compassion, But before Jesus did any mighty work, Ife tried to draw out faith on the part of those to be helped or their friends. The les- son of trust in God is one which we all must learn. In Matthew 13:55 we read, "He did not many mighty works there because of their tutbelief." Jesus worked in response to faith. Now He pro- posed to feed a multitude of five thousand Wren besides children, With it 1ac1'n lunch of five loaves and two fishes. Science would say "Impossible." But the disciples made the necessary preparations. We should like to think that here was more than blind obedience on the part of the disciples and the expectant multitude, There was at least a measure of faith. Everyone had plenty to eat and each disciple filled his basket with unusual frag- ments. Have faith in God>M He can meet your every need: spiritual, physical, financial, social. He cares for you. "Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass." Psalm 37:3. We must learn a lesson, too, from the lad's lunch, The boy had only enough for himself but be un- selfishly gave it all to the Master. Jesus took and blessed and brake and gave. The multitude was fed and God was glorified. Truly "little is much when God is in it." If we will consecrate our all to God, He can use us to bless marry. • Many Features At Sportsmen's Show Among the highlights of this year's Canadian National Sports- men's Show, to be held March 9 to 17 at the Coliseum, Poronto,'will be a stage and water revue, a con- servation show, cottage show, dog show, boat show, motor • show, travel show, an Indian village, May's tropical exhibition and a hobby show. In addition there will be a sports demonstration area where all sports such as golf, ten- nis, judo, badminton, archery, box- fag, fencing and so forth will be demonstrated by experts and champions. Again this year the four floors of the Coliseum will house hun- dreds of commercial exhibits includ• ing all the most up-to-date equip- ment for fishing, hunting, boating, camping, golf, skiing and other sports. One of the focal points of interest during the eight day show will .be the big stage and water revue 'u the arena of the Coliseum. The p"o- gt•ant herr will again feature Shat- key, the amazing seas, as the star. The program will also include canoe tilting, log rolling, swimming, diving, dentoustrations of fly and bait casting, trained horse,, per forming dogs and other thriFliug acts. During the last foot days of the show two dog show, will'he held for the benefit of the ilsutae. So- ciety. Some of the most outstand- ing canines in both Canada and the United States will be on display. Profit., front the :how, as has beett the erase in the .past, will be used by the '1'orruu„ 10ugbers' and hIun(er'' As,oe:iatiou a, tarty nn rata extensive toed varied t i gran! It' conserve nttr natural r.•'.'urres and • our wildlife of frit 0,1. f'el'l tint stream. Notice in hotel: Chapermic your lighted cigarettes. Don't 1c them go out, alone. 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