The Seaforth News, 1955-06-09, Page 3A
Silent, crewiess ships with no
tlestinatioil are being loaded
with millions of bushels of
wheat, also going nowhere.
These are the ships of the
"moth ball" or reserve fleet of
the. united States Maritime Ad-
ministration, more than 450 of
which are being stuffed with
government-owned sur plus
wheat acquired under the gov-
ernment's commitment to sup-
port the price of wheat.
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Groat rivers of grain are flow-
ing from the Midwestern plains
to bath, coasts where these gray,
ghostly sentinels, their armor
concealed from the elements by
spun plastic covers, await their
xnai•Ite'tless cargo.
By the time the government
tairee over•, the 1954 surpluses,
some 100 million bushels of
wheat will be heaped into the
holds of 217 "moth ball" ships
in the Hudson and James Rivers
on the East Coast, and 235 an-
chored at Astoria, Ore., and
Olympia, Wash.
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The, is the largest number of
ships, ever to be requisitioned
for each storage, representing
the .*.recent addition of 135 in an-
ticipetinn of the new wheat crup.
Thee ships have the advan-
tage of providing free storage
facilities for farm surpluses in
cnntrest to commercial and
other space for which the gov-
ernment is now paying nearly a
million dollars a year, writes Jo-
sephir e Ripley in The Chistian
Science Monitor.
Permission to barter some of
these surpluses abroad in return
5USeeENSE IS GONE -- A new
method of washing windows
eliriinates safety -belt suspen-
sion. William Mueller and
James McDermott try it on the
University of Illinois College of
Pharmacy Building. Basket-
type car hangs from a unit that
runs on a track along edge of
roof.
for strategic materials needed
by the United States was given
the Secretary of Agriculture by
Congress last year.
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Since then more than 82 mil-
lion dollars worth of surplus
commodities have been export-
ed to 23 countries in exchange
for imports valued at 53 million
dollars—the difference in value
to be inade up by cash deposits
or irrevocable letters of credit.
Large quantities of wheat are
being moved out of storage un-
der these contracts, although the
list also includes corn, flaxseed,
grain sorghums, cottonseed all,
barley, oats, and cotton,
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Nonstrategic materials which
are being obtained in this way
include fertilizer and raw silk.
No information is given out with
respect to the strategic materials
being acquired.
They are coming from coun-
tries such as Belgium, Denmark,
Germany, Greece, the Nether-
lands, Norway, Portugal, Spain,
Sweden, Turkey, Yugoslavia,
England, Ireland, Scotland, Cy-
prus, Egypt, Israel, India, For-
mosa, Japan, Korea, Columbia,
and Peru.
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These represent some of the
deals under which the govern-
ment is striving to unload its
ever -mounting farm surpluses.
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Another is through sale of
wheat under the International
Wheat Agreement. These sales
are made at less than the price-.
support level, the government
making up the difference in
subsidy payment to the Commo-
dity Credit Corporation which
is the agency handling these
surpluses.
Such sales will involve subsi-
dies of at least 175 million dol-
lars for the current crop year.
Thus, while the United States is
pushing wheat -disposal pro-
grams to the hilt, it is often
forced to do so at a loss.
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Surplus wheat also has been
shipped abroad for famine re-
lief under the auspices of the
Foreign Operations Administra-
tion, This avenue of disposal is
now closed, with the imminent
termination of that organization.
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Although wheat exports have
been boosted somewhat during
the current crop year, there are
limits to what the world mar-
ket will take even at the lower
wheat -agreement price, or un-
der the new program which per-
mits sales abroad for foreign
currencies.
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As for selling government
wheat at home, legal restrictions
prohibit its sale in the domestic
market at less than 105 per cent
of parity, plus carrying charges.
This means that any wheat the
government puts on the market
would be considerably higher
than that sold by farmers.
The way appears now that
the government's wheat stocks
in 1955 will reach the all-time
record of nearly one billion
bushels.
POWERFUL STUFF
Three blood trnsfusions were
necessary to save a woman pa-
tient's life at a hospital. A braw-
ny young Scotsman offered his
blood. The patient gave him $25
for the first pint, $10 for the
second pint—but the third time
she had so much Scots blood in
her that she only thanked him.
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has a bodice that is intricately cut in a V shape and filled
in with a flange of the fabric. Hand embroidered flowers in
tones of pink deepening into purple, are scattered over the
voluminous skirt and decorate the decollete. This fashion was
among those presented by members of the Association of
Canadian Couturiers at the "Panorama of Canadian Fabric
and Fashion" at the Montreal Mount Royal Hotel.
Giant Pandas
Rare and Hungry
The first mann ever to set
eyes on a giant panda was a
French missionary in Tibet; he
was also a naturalist. He saw
the animal in 1868. No white
man ever saw ane again until
exactly sixty years later, when
Mr, Kermit Rossevelt and his
brother Theodore 'Roosevelt,
sons of the famous "Teddy"
Roosevelt, shot a reale pandit.
In 1938 there came to light
the romantic story of the cap-
ture of a giant panda by an
American woman, Mrs, Will II,
Harkness, Jr, Her husband
spent years in China looking for
giant pandas,' but without suc-
cess. His widow, with very little
money, set out for China with
a Chinese interpreter. She cap-
tured the first live giant panda
ever. She and the interpreter
wore only a minimum of cloth-
ing when they arrived in
Shanghai with their prize. All
their sweaters, fur coats and
blankets had been given up to
the delicate giant panda, named
Su -Lin. To get the shy animal
to take food from a baby's bottle,
the Chinese wrapped himself in
a fur coat and pretended to he
the cub's mother!
Su -Lin was. sent to the Chi-
cago Zoo, where he lived only
nine months,
In December, 1938, the first
giant pandas ever to reach
Europe arrived at Tilbury
Docks. There were five in all,
captured by an American ex-
plorer on the Chinese -Tibetan
border. Three were, sent to
New York Zoo. The London Zoo
bought the other two and paid
$5000 each for them. In order
to get the giant pandas out of
China—where they are rigorous-
ly "protected" -- the owner had
them dyed so that they looked
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like brown bears.
On their way to London the
giant pandas ate bread made
from rolled oats and flour ,and
they drank milk.
It is untrue that unless a giant
panda is fed on bamboo shoots
it will die. But it is true that
in their natural habitat they eat
30 ib. of bamboo tips daily.
They are very fond of thein.
The London Zoo consulted the
New York Zoo as to how the
giant pandas should be fed. The
diet was most elaborate and in.
eluded milk, eggs, honey, fish -
liver oil, green corn stalks, wil-
low sprigs, celery, lettuce, man -
gel tops and baked potatoes.
The Zoo's giant pandas were
named Tang, the male, and
Sung, the female, The London
Zoo did not followthe
o llo Americ-
an
an diet chart closely. We do not
know whether that made any
difference, but Tang and Sung
are dead, whereas the giant pan-
das in New York are still alive.
Although the Zoo paid $10,000
tor the giant pandas, the public
never saw them. They , were
placed in the sanatorium, where
they stayeduntil
they died,
In 1938, Ming, a baby giant
panda, arrived. She cost the
Zoo $4,000, but in March, 1939,
it was announced that Ming had
already "paid back $1,500 of the
purchase price." She attracted
thousands more visitors than
normally. In 1939 the Zoo ac-
quired another giant panda
named Grumpy. Like Tang and
Sung, Grumpy was never put
on show. I doubt whether the
public ever knew of the exist-
ence of those three giant pan-
das.
After being on show for some
months, the authorities gave
Ming a rest, but telephone calls
piled up on an average of 100
a day, so Ming had to be put
on view again. She had Rex, an
Alsatian dog, as a playmate, and
also a woolly replica of herself.
People said to one another:
"Isn't she sweet? Pandas must
be so tame!" But they - aren't.
One reason why the public never
saw Tang, Sung or Grumpy was
because they were dangerous as
well as delicate.
At Eastertide, 1939, when
Ming was put on show in the
Lion House, her postcards earn-
ed $500. Tht Easter, despite ris-
ing war tension, people paid
$20,000 to see her. A film cent-
pany engaged the services of
Ming for two hours a day, and
paid the Zoo $250 a day,
By June, 1939, Ming had
grown all her teeth. Then she
bit a boy visitor, and her girl
attendants were told to wear
thick leather gloves.
Ming died on Boxing Day,
1940, Although Britain was at
war, the Zoo tried very hard 10
find a successor to her. After
long and delicate negotiations
with the Chinese Embassy in
London, permission was granted.
.Although the Province of Szech-
wan of China was invaded by
the Japs, and despite the 'fam-
ine, an army of 200 profession-
al hunters set out to search for
a giant panda After a hunt that
lasted two months, one was
finally "treed."
She was named Lien -Ho, and
was Sown to London. She was
only eighteen months old when
she arrived in 1948. Bamboo
shoots were brought from China,
and the Zoo procured others
from Wales, Cornwall and the
Scilly Isles, Lien -Ho was said to
have cost the Zoo $5,000. She
died of pneumonia in February,
1950. Then, after an inquest,
Lien -Ho was found to be a male
and not, as had been believed, a
female.
l"IHIS NAME
Enthusiastic an g l e r s will
travel the world over to fish for
unusual specimens; but the ex-
citable variety of fisherman is
warned against a visit to the 'Eiji
Islands. In the waters just off
the islands abounds the fish with
the longest name in the world —
a real tongue. twister unless
calmly and methodically pro-
nounced. Ready? Here it is:
Humuhumunukunultuapuaha.
A good enough test for sobri-
ety if mine host is able to glas-
case aspechneu and hang it over
his hart
DRIVE
WITH CARE
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
NAY SCHOOL
SON
ft. Barclay Warren, R.A. tt•1l0
Manasseh's Sin and Repentance
2 Chronicles 33:9.20
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ll'lernory Selection: Teach rue
to do thy will; for thou art eety
God; thy spirit is good; lead rata
into the land of uprightness,
II'sahn 143:10.
Hezeiciah's good reign was fol-
lowed by the longest and most
wicked reign in the history of
Judah -- the 55. -year reign of
Manasseh. He even built
heathen altars in the temple. He
"shed innocent blood very
much." He seduced the people to
do evil.
The Bible does not state if
intoxicating liquors were used
to aid this seduction or not. We
do not know that modern se-
duction to evils of various kinds
often begins when one's concep-
tion of good and evil have been
dimmed through the effects of
alcohol on the brain. This is es-
pecially true of immortality
which was an important part
of the Baal worship which
Mannessah set up. Many a girl
has sacrificed her virtue under
the influence of liquor who hats
wept bitterly far it when she be-
came sober.
Word has just come of the
critical injury of a young widow
with two -children. A drunken
driver disregarding traffic laws
was the cause of the accident.
How long will our legislators
tolerate this needless toll of
death and injury! Of course our
legislators often set a poor ex-
ample. Cocktails are the accom-
paniment of their social gather-
ings and so often of their serious
deliberations. No wonder there
is so much muddling. When will
we awaken to this monstrous
evil?
Because of Manasseh's sin God
sent upon him the king of As-
syria, Manasseh was beaten,
fettered and carried to Babylon.
There he humbled himself and
prayed. God heard and forgave:
and Manasseh was restored to
his throne. "Then Manasseh
knew that the Lord he wets
God." The genuineness of hits
repentance was indicated by his
earnest effort to undo the eviX
he had done. The strange idols
were removed and the altars of
the Lord repaired. He command-
ed Judah to serve the Lord God.
of Israel. But people do not be-
come devout on command. The
movement to God on the part ot
the people was pretty shallow as.
indicated by the trend following
' Mansseh's death. Mansseh saved.
his own soul but could not 1.124 -
do all the evil he had done in his
earlier years
Flying Saucers ARE Re
I3y ItALrI3 IVIONCRILF
NLA Staff Correspondent
Flying saucers hold no terror
for 51 -year-old Roy P. Friddell.
He manufactures them.
Friddell, father of 10, has no
intention of taking off for some
planet itt outer space in one of
his "saucers" — it is the only
item ever offered parents for
the muscular development of
their pre -walking infants, and
is manufactured for the pleas-
ure' of the small fry set.
Eleven years ago Friddell, a
former vaudeville magician -
comedian, was watching his
new son, Ruv David. do push.
ups on the living room floor.
The idea came to him that he
could somehow -harness the
"baby power" that was being
expended and bring it under
control,
With . a far away look in his
brown eyes, Friddell went to his
work shop and constructed an
"airplane wing" with casters.
The youngster took to the wing
with such enthusiasm that it
lasted all of three days.
;Next Friddell fashioned a
' wing with a cockpit and lined
the front of it with a soft cus-
hion on which the baby could
be placed with its feet barely
touching the floor. He added an
adjustable to any size baby.
"It was a wonderful ma-
chine,° Friddell recalls. "but
unsafe. Those casters in the
landing gear weren't the an-
swer."
After Roy David passed the
"saucer" stage. Friddell -set the
machine aside, but it was never
very far from his thoughts. By
the time his tenth child, Roland,
t
carne along, he got line idea that
a
ball -bearings might be the so-
lution.
Today he has a "landing gear"
fool -proof and safe. It is next to
l] out
impossible for a baby tc fall
of the "saucer," If the. "saucer"
does start tipping, the direction=
al ball -bearings are so designed
that they roll toward the weight -
shift, pick up the "saucer" and,
set it back in its normal posi-
tion, 11 operates as well on car-
pets as it does on wood or tile
r e
Run On Baby Power
RO)LAND FRIDDELL AND SAUCER: Pop got junior off the 'loom
floors.
"The origin of the 'saucer'
didn't have a commercial aim,"
Friddell explains. "I built it in
an attempt to aid one of my
children- in his mental and phy-
sical development. I.t succeeded
far beyond anything 1 ever ex-
pected, I'm only sorry it sat in
a corner while two of me chil-
dren were born and grew past
the 'saucer' stage. Roy David
and Roland were mgr 'test pilots:
and I'm ashamed to say I can
see a difference in their lives
from the rest of my children.
"Tbe 'flying saucer' 'puts baby
y E; p
strnctly on his own. Placed in.
the 'cockpit' on Inc stomach he
soon discovers, quite accidental-`
ly - that a foot movement will
send .the 'saucer' leer' g5, g idin •aei'o5S
the floor.
"Mother no longer has to
worry about junior," Friddell
says. He is up off the floor
where he stays clean, he canlloi.
fall and hurt himself, and
everything he does, be learns,
is being done by himself. Ile
soon becomes such a proficient
'saucer pilot' that he can glide
anywhere in the house without
bumping into walls and furni-
ture. But best of all. the motor
development that is the coord-
ination of the muscles, is being
developed by the baby himself.
The sense of freedom be has
give. him an incentive to ex-
ercise and -he happily takes ed -
vantage of it" -
The age range of a 'saucer pi-
lot' is from three to i months,
The best time to start a 'pilot'
on his training course Friddell
at. titre months. His
sans, 1s e
graduation tvnnes whenhe
crawls nut of the 'saucer' and
walks off and leaves it some-
where between 11 and 14
rnullihS
rhe greatest los ['riddt-II gets
from hie `sim1ate is the pn sibili-
ties it has Inc lidine handicao-
ped children i`rom all over the
nation he has received lettere
from mothers telling hien what
his'flvire seucees are doing for
their babies;_