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The Seaforth News, 1937-07-22, Page 7• THURSDAY, JULY Z2, 1937 THE SEAFORTH MWS PAGE .S137VEN' s--� new a—��.r.�■�+n..—weu�p:s�.u,.�-rr�.� u+�+.m�o 1 1 1 •1 1 i I 1 The Seaforth News I Phone+ 84 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 I uplicate onthlly Statements We oan save you money an 'Bili and Charge Forms, standard sizes to fit ledgers, white or colors, It will pay you to see our samples. Also best quality Metal Hinged Sec- tional: 'Post Blinders and 'Index. ---r -.,,,-- -. ,-�,..a,-- 0 ..0.19--ymem■0 BLIND SCULPTORS An ;unusually intereetdig eollee"- tian of sculptures is :kept at the In- stitute for the Blind at IHohe Warte, in Vienna. The sculptures are clay statues modelled by pupils of the In- -stitute; children of ,110 to 1116 who were either born 'blind or lost their eye- sight at so early an age that -they have not retained any memories of the invisible world. Yet these statues and Ibnsts, states the M'anc'hester IGuardiani, express ideas and emotions in a way that makes •a .tremendous impression on the beholder, who cannot fail to be struck by the affin- ities with the work of 'Jacob Epstein and IRodin. Again, there is an un- canny resemblance to the force of expression in primitive sculptures in the •works of these children, who have •never seen or touched any mo- dels. The -resemblance is not imita- tive; it is purely the tangible ex- pression of the. same emotion. This unique collection of sculp- tures of blind -children is the result of experiments conducted since MEG by Dr, Victor Lowenfeld, teacher of drawing, who has conceived the idea of encouraging blind children to mo- del in clay, He gives his blind pupils a centain amount of technical instruc- tion, but does not influence them as to their mode of expression. Dr. Lowenfeldt has found blind children, on the whole, far more gifted For modelling than the average child with normal eyesight. After two or three years of practice and tuition, the children do the 'best work of which they are capable; usually there is no further artistic development after the sixteenth year, They find great pleas- ure in the work. Blind children do net model in the usual way with the statue 'facin'g them, but :parallel to themselves, as it were, with the face ,of the statue turned in the sante direction as the face of the 'worker. The reason For this is .that the impressions of the outer world do not reach them as they reach the normal eye, in a ntir- nor-like projection. Their eicperieuce is 'primarily derived from the forms they observe upon themselves. Ac- cordingly, the sculpture is formed in the sane direction, the blind sculptor working upon the face of a statue in the attitude -of embracing it, The children use no tools and work solely with their fingers, The • plastic conception of these blind child artists in entirely con- structive. The elementary shape of a head or a body isfirst formed, all the features are added afterwards by putting on further lumps of clay formed to represent nose, eyes, hair, and so forth, In modelling a mouth hey 'first make a cavity, form teeth and a tongue, which are placed in- side, then add the outward 'shape of the lips, Which sometimes covers the construction, but thee • teeth are there inside just the Baine. 'When the children were taken on a steamer trip, and were later required to model a ship, they first constructed fhe en- gine -room, the hold, and ethe cabins, and then covered the entire structure with a layer of clay. The purpose ,of making .something beautiful does not enter the mind of ,the blind sculptors. They do not use sculpture as a means to- reproduce their conception of the visible world, but onlyr as an expression of :thein feelings. Longing is expressed: by a pair of oversized, outstretched hands, agitation 'by modelling a mouth in a wavy line. This accentuation of feel- ing is what they seek to achieve in all their work. The blind children are aware that their sculptures are hot like those of people who see; they do not strive to make them so Dr. Lowenfeld and Dr. Ludwig Munz, who make a study of the ex- periment from the point of view of the aesthetic and the art historian, have jointly published a 'book on "Sculptures of the Blind." The most important inference drawn, they con- sider, is in "the negation of the cur- rent theory that those born blind have no simultaneous sense ,touch"— that is, are unable to co-ordinate the single details of the tangible -world- of which they grow aware. The sculp- tures prove the contrary. Campaign Against Weeds '1'lie provincial authorities are leav- ing -no stone ,unturned in their cam- paign against weeds. Many of the highways have the usual prolific craps along the sides of the road. Some of the farms throughout the country, have crops of weeds which will soon be ripening and spreading their seeds to the ,four winds. Delin- quents in this 'respect will be given an opportunity to explain the reason 'for their contempt of the late as soon as the weed inspector makes his rounds. FOR READERS OF THIS PAPE : FRIENDS ! We are combining our newspaper with these two great magazine offers, so that you can realize a remarkable cash sav- ing on this year's reading. 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Weld', evidently the 'Government of tFiou'ador 'believes there is, for it has just set up a rule than anyone want- ing to hunt around For what they can find among its 1'%11,087 square mile's of wild territory ,never yet vis- ited by white men must (a) present evidence that they are ,gene nc ex- plorers and not just dilietabtes out for a lark and that (b) the genuine explorer must pay a license fee of 111110 'far himself and $215 for each m'embe'r of his panty For a six month permit. These conditions came about through the (Government conviotion filet the iEaquiadorean had come to be 'altogether too full of improperly equipped expeditions of people ,who were just looking for excitement, ra- ther than serious findings. True, the mountains and the Lndiana offer many opportunities for adventure and worth while study, but the Fiquador- ean Officials think it is -time there was some revenue for the laboratory. IProba'bly Dr. and Mrs. :Richard - T. Cox and their iAhnerican Museum of Natural History party, investigating the upper reaches of the Amazon did not tell ship's news men when they left on the expedition, Shat .they were going to see i,1 they could find eels so electric that they could generate as much power as ratan can produce in a modern power plant by using several tons of coal; but that, believe it or not, is what they found. - They found a very Man -Mountain Dean of an eel which 'could meet any attempts to disturb his, private life wby discharging 5'.00 volts, and a mere baby eel, less than a foat long, which could put out one one-hundredth horsepower of electricity each thous- andth of a second --energy enough every second to 'hoist a four -pound weight four inches in the air. in the United States, evidence has been found in caves which are tucked away among the cliffs that rise •510109 feet albove Lake Mead of prehistoric residents; at one end of the lake mounds have been found which con- tain the foundations of well -ordered homes; no one knows yet who the people were, or where they went, when they just dropped their basket- ty, pottery, household implements and went off, but the fact remains that these things have been found, and that, so, the answer is emphatic- ally, yes, when the question is rais- ed, "Is.:there arything deft to exp- lore?"' xp-lore?" - The Museum of Northern ,Arizona has just had the satisfaction of hear- ing one of its returning- expeditions, back from fhe Grand Canyon area, report on the footmarks of prehistor- ic sloths, 'Three caves have disclosed evidence that the sloths lived there, oh, 10,001) or '115;000 years ago. People lived in the caves, too, whether amic- ably with the sloths is yet to be det- ermined, .for their cooking utensils were scattered about. But the lower tunnels of the caves were worn :rnooth by the crawling gaits of the sloths, and the sidewalis were found to be worn, as though the great ani- mals had used them perio4ically for a bit :of com'fortab',le back ,cifatfliing. At a dinner of -the Explorer's' Club. not long ago, :Admiral Byrd,spoke of his next expedition to the Antarctic region. .Before be is prepared to go, Sir Hulbert 'Wilkins -will have made another effort to travel under the south pole in a. submarine. All these things mean new marks en maps.,Almost any schdodboy these days can give you sensible reasons for believing that, some day, the Ant- arctic region may be settled, as ter- rain areas well within what :we call civilization now, were once part of iceeage country. Daring explorers of the recent New ,Guinea expedition of the Ameri- can Museum of Natural History, headed by Riewhard Archbold, have lately :filled large, hfthento- ;blank spaces in the map of that vast ,tropi- cal :island, one of the last strongholds of cannibal and head hunter, nearly 3010,000 square miles' in area, One airplane maintained their line of 'supplies; where landing were im- possible; paokages were dropped from the air and the explorers could give 'their whole thought to penetrat- ing 'the sources of the Fly River which is deep in the mountainous backbone of the island. There Shore are peaks rising. 116,000 feet high, to support snow fields and glaciers -all within. a ''few degrees of - the equator. There, -ton, are tribesmen who never even heard of white men before, much less saw them. The expedition yielded its quota of excitement Drs own airplane crashed in a storm at -Port .Moresby. The ad- vance party was left stranded on the fly River• SW miles front the coast. A rescue party hitstied. boats and borrowed all airplane and extricated the advance :party. Hunt up a• member of the E'xplor- ers' Club and ask hunt why explorers explisre, 'Choose, say, Dr, Leonard. Outhwaite, .who used. to ,be with the 'Rockefeller 'Foundation, and who is a consultant in the planning of new museums and 'halls, or the revision and modernization of old ones. Born in Sierra Madre, Calif., he waseduc- ated at Hil•1 S:ohoo'J and Yale, taking graduate work at the University of California and honors in anthropolo- gy, English and philosophy. His awn first expedition he took out in :1916, to Santa Cruz Island for the Univee- city of California department o'f an- (hro'pology. He lives in New York, now, in an. enormous apartment clinging ` to a cliff overlooking the Last 'River, where a good deal of the .lighter as- pect' of life is contributed 'by one, Buttons, a kinkajou, who sleeps all day and leaps all night, and is a very 'jaunty individual indeed. "The explorer might almost be de- fined," Dr. Oouthwai•te says, `as the man who undertakes ,humiliatimg, ar- duous, torturing tasks :with little cer- tainty of economic or social 'reward. "Why, then, do explorers keep on? Those of experience, • and new ones, by the dozen, springing up to cast in their lot too with exploration. 'Well, history gives a :number of answers and they are, at least, super- ficially true. Alexander and the Ten Thousand "Greeks .went For conquest, In modern times there has been ex- p'lora'tion for 'conquest or military advantage. "The adventures of the i'ortugjese and Spaniards were based on :the idea. of plunder,• or extraordinary'cdmmer. cial,advantage. 'IEmerging from the motive of Forced trade there has come the pur- pose of establishing or strengthening a real 'trading relationship -by which both parties may 'benefit. 'The Cana- dian and Aneeriaao -fur traders; the miners, prospectors, Whalers and scores ,of .others illustrate this, "Then, growing out of the econo- mic motive, and sometimes joined - to it, there has developed'12fe scientific motive • for exploration. "The explorer is .usually inanticu- late about' his deeper purposes. He says, `I want to fill in a place: on a map,' or 'I have heard -.of an unbe- lievable tribe or a trace, , of a lost age, and I must see if I'ceii find 11'; but such statements leave' un'eaid the philosophy chat explorers are able to sense and, somehow, to live, .but, like most men of action, are seldom able to pint ,into words, "O'f course many of the -'specified objectives of exploration seem unim- portant or unnecessary to the public, and wholly out of pro -portion to the cost, the effort, the lives put into them. It is not easy in our own day to credit the urgency that has sent men to the north and south poles.: But the .poles are; great and import- ant because ;centuries of effort went into their congiiest, and because ,Peary and Amundsen captured ulti- mate citadels, set new markers in hu- man accotnplishntepts; "The chief meaning of exploration, its chief vindication undoubtedly lies in the human by-products probably far more than in its immediate ob- jective or accomplishment; in the ac- cej>'tance of challenge, the stirring of imagination, the development of character, idle conquering of difficul- ty. A tltotisand social forces are .put forth to 'keep man contented. well fed, to make him manageable, tie him. to safety and to home. But man seeks .till .further goals more exuberant life. The essential feature of the whole man is the capacity for growth. "ion exploration has discovered not only recesses of a physical world, ,but the very character of mate"- • Roosts For Young Birds Teaching ,chicks to roost at an ear- ly age tends to promote feather growth and •helps materially in car- rying the chicks over ,the critical per- iod when they are most likely to crowd and smother. Ott is desirable to get the chicks to roost just as soon as they no longer need ;heat to keep them comfortable. Ode of the 'best ways of getting chicks to roost is ,to build a sloping roost to the ,rear of the brooder house or to one side of the house ,and enclose the underneath side of the roost with a fine :mesh wire so that the ,chicks cannot get at t'he droppings. They ,wilt take to these temporary roosts in ,no time. The Turnip ,Aphid - ,lin - connection with the control of the turnip aphid, entomologists ad- vise the :planting of two rows of white turnips in a field of swedes as a ''trap" crop For this insect. These aphids, which cause ,seriOtt, injury to young turnip plants through feeding on the leaves, commonly reach Can- idii!i Points in the late stirrer, but tltry may be expected earlier this year :int 'pro-bably to eattse ,.;'reaper i t;'. -y. :Piet experience hat :Shown that thisinsect ;prefers white to swede turnips, and may •gather in uta• numbers on .a :small number of white turnip plants, leaving the swedes hut lightly infected. The IR. Mains s O11)reolprau Ssw Electro Therapist — Massage Office -- Commercial Hotel Hours—Mon. and Thurs. after noons and by appointment FOOT CORRECTION by manipulation—.Sun-ray treat - meat Phone 20,7. planting of a ror two of white turnips in with he main crop at- tracts the aphid to 'the "trap" plants so Shat they cap..tbe destroyed easily with spray or dist or by 'being plow- ed undai, The turnip aphidsor plant lice make themselves apparent in a field through individual plants be- coming stunted in ,growth and sickly in appearance. Potpie blotches :may appear on the surface o'f the leaf and these indicate Large colonies on the under surface. 'These infested :plants should the pulled and removed' at once. Possibly one of the wneost satisfac- bey im'pl'ements for the control of weeds Ln a growing grain crop is what is known as the •finger weeder. This. implement consists of .a series of long' slender teeth which form a very light harrow,. The 'finger :weeder may be used to advantage on annual weeds, shortly atter ,germination, both :before and 'after the grain crop has emerged and until the erop is some two to four inches high. Egg Shortage 'Coming In Ontario andQuebec provinces, ecording to statements made by of- ficials of the poultry services, there is reason to believe ,that laying stock is now below normal. There leas .been no great run in any one week, .but the steady movement wreek iby week over a long period has ac- counted for many more thousands of birds than is $-eneraley recognized. This condition conebine.d with re- duced purchases of-ba'by chicles is causing real concern over 'the poss- ibility of an egg shortage next fall. The impression now is that eggs will• be scarce from ,Septen(ber,to ljaaivary and that poultrymen will do well to get their.thirds in lay by that time. +S'ome authorities are advising ipro- dticers to raise every chick bhat they can this spring. While the 'cost of food is rather :high,, prices of all. commodities .are rising and it is rea- sonable to expect that wvhen •condi- ions adjust themselves eggs and poultry will also the 'Higher. The egg''market at Eastern Gen- res is -now ewe to three 'cents above he -corresponding period of a year ago, and, 'with some recent reduc- ions in feed prices, the prices of ggs and feed are :coming. more in ine'°'with 'each other. t45u, Henhouse Ventilation The removal of moisture is a major problem in poultry houses. 'Poultry have no sweat glands, but they -give off relatively ;large amounts of vapour to respiration and through the skin. It was found at one experimental tation that :maximum egg produc- ion was obtained -when temperatures were not :permitted to fluctuate wide - y. A.h'enhhouse temperature -at' 510 de- grees 1F. is too high to be maintained on most Harms in winter :without ar ificial heat. Hence a lower tempera- ture held. uniformly would be desir- able. Increasing numbers ,of' 'poultry- men. have had success with artilfi•cia'l heat properly regulated, but failure has cbntmotily resulted when temp- eratures were allowed to go too high or fluctuate widely. VARIETY 11N POETRY :QRsview from Western Weekly News, of 'E'ngland.t 'A 'Thought For Every Day," by Innes 'McInnes .(IA'rthur 'H, 'Stock- well, Ltd., Is. net). Rhymed poetry is a happy medium for the expression af-simple :philoso- phy and appreciation of everyday life. lefx. IvIcInnee in "A Thought nor Every Day" moralizes, 'but in cheer- ful vein, as for example in "The Value of a .Friend," he starts off: "IIt's grand to be independent and paddle your own canoe, to have con- trol of the lever andbe the entire crew. But when your boat capsizes and you're stranded on a reef, it is great to 'have a friend who can swim to your relief ' Mr, McInnes covers a wide field and treats as to, some splendid prose in "The Loss of the l3ronclto 'Crew," - "The School •Circ," .and "Balance, the :Books." \T have no, hesitation art recoanmending this work, wit iuh.'cer-.• airily w� tm-td make en :dead and Mee- ,peneive pit foe the invalid -or those Melhtee to believe life .is nothing bet t depression, Ionen M.cTnne's- is' the pen -name of .Mir. D. H, McInnes well known lit both Clinton and;Sealorth.