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Remember The Old
"Turnip" Watches?
Thoughts leap e-rom bough to
bough, and it oceers to me that
today's growing children
wouldn't know what a watch
chain Gs - sot lice way we used
to be conversant with them. The
vest is gone, the watch is gone,
and the whole thing came to my
mind when I read that Masonry
in Maine is 200 years old this
year. My first aoquaintanee with
this ancient order came, of
course, when T sat as a half -boy -
half -baby on my Wild West
uncle's lap and fondled the vast
watch charm that hung from
the heavy -linked gold chain
across his expensive (and he
said expensive) proscenium.'
The 0, L was :old, stood for
gimlet, and the cryptic letters
around the reverse reminded us
that, "King Solomon Had Twen-
ty Wives, Some Say Thirty." 1
had plenty of uncles, and all of
thein had watches, and all of
them had equally mysterious
watch charms dangling from the
same kindof heavy gold chains.
The Odd Fellow uncle wouldn't
tell me much about the three
links, but the Knights of Pythias
uncle freely confided that the
F. C, and B, stood for Fresh
Country Butter,
Well, nowadays the growing
child doesn't even know what
fresh country butter is. The
watch that went with this iron
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tae adornment snuggled in a vest
pocket and bore little relation-
ship to one of the timepieces
advertised today. It w a s not
waterproof and shockproof, you
couldn't get along without wind-
Ing it, and it was of a size that
)properly prompted the use of
the word. "turnip" in describing
The old turnip told no time
any nicer than story -time, which
saw a couple o3 young ones up
on the knees of one or another
of these uncles, A small head
could lean over and hear the
turnip ticking in its pocket.
Since the long chain on it was
hitched securely, it was permis-
sible to bring the watch out and
look at it, because it couldn't be
dropped. The chain ran through
one of the buttonholes in the
vest. On the other end a gentle-
man could snap any of several
possible adornments, a favourite
being a penknife. Whatever it
was, it served to keep that end
of the chain secure in the other
pocket, so the whole hting look-
ed like a barrier over a drive-
way.
A beautiful silver chain which
I have here, relic of one of the
uncles, has a smooth Swiss silver
watch on one end, a fingernail.
clip on the othe,, and in the
center the beauti=,illy fashioned
head of a mastiff. This encle.
used to say this was his watch
dog.
Another chain, also a relic, is
thick gold, heavy enough to
tether a real dog, and the watch
is the sort of thing prosperous
prospectors wore as a badge of
their success. Stem wind, it has
a little lever you must pull out
before you can se, it. The lever
disengages the spring and
throws the hands into gear. The
dial is covered with a lid which
pops open when you depress the
stem, Both back and front were
once ornately engraved. with
t h r e e_ rippling initials on the
front, but all those years in e
vest pocket wore the soft gold
and you can't tell what the tilt -
gree was or what the initials
were, The knurls on the stem
have long since worn smooth,
and it takes a firm grasp and a
dry Finger to v ind it now.
I learned to tell time by that
watch, as my uncle let me fon-
dle it on condition that I would
memorize the numbers and tell
him when it was bedtime. My
bedtime.
You may be interested in
knowing that sentimental use of
these watches today is impracti-
cal, for reasons of repair. The
experience I have had is that
watch shops either don't want to
fiddle with them, or don't know
how. In general, they take the
cover off, peer in through their
little glass knotholes, and quote
you a cleaning price that is larg-
er than the cost of a new watch
which is shockproof, waterproof
and self-winding, LP any major
work is necessary, they beg off
on an estimate at all and go
into a cost-plus plan, Long ago
I took both rrty uncles' watches
to a shop, had them put in good
coidition, and then laid them
away for future times to decide
what to do with thein. At about
that time the vest began to lose
_ground, and I bought some pants
that had no watch pocket at all.
This brings us to the fob. The
watch fob might be an ornate
item, or it could be a piece of
rawhide with a bullet tied to it,
It was a kind of handle which
hung down, and by grasping it
you could draw your watch from
the watch pocket of your pants
and see what time it might be.
The fob was to those watches
what the bracelet is to a wrist
watch, sort of, and it could be
a shoestring chain -knotted, or it
could be tooled leather with an
embossed initial or the seal of
your college.
The lodge emblem, the Phi
Beta Kappa key, and the utility
items like jackknives, gold
toothpicks, nailelips, and ear -
spoons, watchdogs - these
things have clearly been affect-
ed by the changing watch cus-
toms. The Elk's tooth, for good-
ness' sake! What does a child
do when story -time is at hand,
and beddy-bye beckons, and an
uncle's lap needs attention, and
there is no watch to . hear
through the pocket, to 'dangle;
no secret emblems to .have ex-
plained? G also stands for gim-
let, even if future ages, finally
find out the right, but you, need
an old uncle with a belly -watch
for such esoteric knowledge,
and time runs on and it is late.
- by John Gould in the Chris-
tian Science Monitor,
Troubled Times
In Hollywood
For trials and tribulations,
there was no business like show
business one week recently.
Singer Rosemary Clooney and
actor -director Jose Ferrer aired
their differences in a California
divorce court, Main difference:
• The monthly allowance Rose-
mary wants ($8,104) as against
the amount she was temporarily
receiving ($1,500), Busty Jayne
Mansfield netted t w o days'
worth of headlines, first by dra-
matically heading for Splitsville,•
and then by calling off her di-
vorce action against muscular
Mickey Rargitay. Trouper Judy
Garland and film producer Sid
Luft kept their lnarital flare-up
tablaze from New York to Lon-
don. And then -there was the
London nightclub owner who
charged Belfast -born actress Si-
obhan McKenna with clawing
him during anargunlent. Siobhan
denied it by holding up her
hands and saying: "These are
Irish hands and they are clean,"
Accuser Peter Cook retorted:
"This is a British face and it is
bleeding."
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CHARGING
HOT METAL
HOD OXYGEN LANCE
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STEEL MAKING SPEED-UP - New type oxygen furnaces
are increasing the speed and efficiency with which steel is
made, Sketches show the process. Jets of high purity oxygen
are directed onto the surface of the molten pig iron, burn
out the impurities and convert it Into steel. The oxygen pro-
cess also expedites production from open hearth and electric
furnaces. U.S. mills now turn out 4 million tons this way, a
fraction of the 9$: million yearly tonnage.
TIILL&'2N FRONT
JokilPuLL
A firm market is in prospect
for Canadian wheat, Canada's
exports of wheat and flour will
likely equal or exceed last sea-
son's total of 353 million bushels.
Stocks in Canada were 482 mil-
lion bushels on March 31, 1962,
compared with 750 million a
year earlier.
The price in March, 1962 for
No. 1 Northern wheat at the
Lakehead was $1.9094 per bushel
-14 per cent higher than a year
earlier, Prices will remain strong
this summer and fall.
4= * *
Canadian farmers intend to
seed 24.8 million acres of all
classes of wheat in 1962, up four
per cent from ' 1961. Based on
recent average yields, produc-
tion may reach 500 million
bushels, an amount about equal
to both domestic and .export re-
quirements in 1961-62, Accord-
ing to reported intentions spring
wheat acreage, excluding durum,
will be the same as sown in
1961. „ *
Ontario winter wheat acreage
is reported at 484,000, a drop
of 12 per cent below 1961. Price
levels in 1981-62 have been si-
milar to those of a year earlier.
With planted acreage smaller
in 1962, prices may be somewhat
higher. * * x
Available feed grain supplies
in Eastern Canada are ample to
meet prospective spring and
summer requirements, with do-
mestic supplies being augment-
ed by imports of United States
grain, especially corn. Feed
shortages have and will continue -
to occur in local areas in the
Prairie Provinces until the new
crop is taken off this fall.
* * *
Total supplies of both oats
and barley will be at low levels
by the end of July. Farmers
pian to sow five per cent more
oats and about the same acre-
age of barley as in 1961. Aver-
age yields on this acreage would.
no more than meet requirements.
Prices have risen sharply dur-
ing the past year and will re-
main strong throughout this
summer and fall.
* 4.*
Corn acreage in 1962 may in-
crease slightly if farmers' in-
tentions are borne out, but with
average yields, production will
be about five million . bushels
smaller than t h e record 1961
output of 37 million. The price
of corn in 1962-63 will be deter-
mined to a significant degree by
marketing policies in the United
States. * , *
Milk production in 1962 is ex-
pected to exceed the 19.2 billion
pounds produced in 1961, given
average pasture conditions and
a continued growth et the na-
tional herd.
Effective. May 1, 1962, the
Agricultural Stabilization Board
dropped the selling price of but-
ter from 84 to 52 cents a pound.
The retail price is expected to
range around 58 cents per potuod
and sales shoult expand.
Butterfat prices to producers
aro expected to remain the same,
since the Agricultural..S•tabiliza-
tlon Board will buy butter at
the same price as 10 1981.
* * *
Payment of 25 cents per hues
dredweigh't for milk utilized in
manufacturing will continue to
be paid, exclusive 0f surplus
milk from fluid milk producers,
as in previous years. Cheddar
cheese prices will continue to be
supported at',32 cents per pound.
(SS CIE 21.'- 1962
The domestic market for. Ca-
nadian made cheesewill con-
tinue to expand in 1982. The
export market is expected to
take the same amount as last
year, namely 20 million pounds.
* * *
Fluid whole milk consump-
tion per capita has declined
slightly in recent years, A small
increase in total usage, to 5.9
billion pounds, is expected in
1962 as a result of population
growth.
Ice cream sales should be
strong in 1962.
Skimmed milk powder pro-
duction is likely to be lower
in 1962, as a result of low world
prices and diversion of milk to
casein. Domestic consumption is
expected to increase further in
1962.
Swans Are Lovely
--Also Deadly
Evergreen Lake is a smell, 6 -
acre pond behind West Mcreland
Road in the placid, residential
.Cleveland suburb of Parma. It's
owned by twenty or /so residents
in this community ci $40,000
homes and it is supervised by
an association -which also owns
its two swans.
Tizzie, the cob, lost a devoted
mate about two years ago, killed
by trespassers; last month Tiz-
zie's new mate was nesting in
an inlet along the lake's shore.
Now, for all its serene grace, a
swan in the mating season can
be as vicious as a ravening tiger;
the savage snap of the bill -
darting in and out at the end of
the striking neck -.can lacerate a
beakful of flesh, the savagely
beating wings can break the leg
of a full-grown man.
One evening recently, Mrs.
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Vita Street, a widow and one of
the owners of the lake, had four
friends over fqr supper -and for
a leisurely glide on the lake in
her brand-new, 16 -foot alumin-
um rowboat, It had been a humid
day with temperatures in the
80s, and the prospect of a boat
ride was appealing to the guests:
61 -year-old Waldemar Rupp and
his wife, Estelle of Parma, and
63 -year-old Gus Stobbe and his
wife, Leona, of nearly Seven
Hills Village.
At about 6:30, the five climb-
ed into the beat. It wee a full
load, and the craft moved out
into the lake with a freeboard
of only 2 or 3 inches: As they
laughed and chatted away, Tizzie
appeared.
What happened next, in Sto'b-
be's words, was this:
"We saw the swan swimming
around and thought nothing of
it, Then it came over behind the
boat where Mr. Rupp and his
wife were sitting in the rear."
Suddenly, Tizzie attacked. Hiss-
ing furiously, his great wings
flapping, his beak darting in and
qut, he drove himself right up
into the boat itself,
"Mrs, Rupp became frighten-
ed,"
righten-ed " said Stobbe. "She screamed
and dropped to her knees on the
bottom of the boat. Mr. Rupp
stood up to protect her , .. He
fell .. , The boat went over and
we were all pitched into the
water, We were all pretty good
swimmers except Wally."
A Parma patrolman and two
firemen, alerted by an eyewit-
ness who saw the boat capsize,
pulled the four survivors from
the water, But Tizzie's attack
had cost Rupp his life.
Maybe You Can
Solve This Mystery
Awaiting discovery somewhere
in Britain or elsewhere are sev-
eral of the original copes oe the
world-famous Magna Carta (or
Great Charter) which the barons
of England forced King John to
sign on a June day at Runny-
mede, on the Thames, 747 years
ago. Some historians feel certain
that'one day these long -lost cop-
ies will come to light. Others
believe they are lost for ever,
King Jahn "signed" the Magna
Carta, a priceless piece of sheep-
skin that has affected the lives
of more people than any written
document except the Bible, by
affixing his seal to it - yellow
wax embossed with a replica of
his own figure on horseback in
full armour.
The king could not write his
name, nor could he read. So the
Charter was taken away to be
copied by monks in order that
every • important town and city
should have its own.
Today, only four of these orig-
inal copies are known to be in
existence, but what happened to
all the others? It's a mystery.
The four are so treasured that
they are closely guarded night
and day. Two are in the British
Museum, one is in Salisbury
Cathedral and one in Lincoln
Cathedral.
The most perfect copy is the
Lincoln one, It was loaned for
exhibition at the New York
World Fair in 1939 and remained
in America f o r safekeeping
throughout the war. While in the
U.S. it was seen by 15,000,000
people.
The box in which this precious
copy travelled to and from New
York was "proof against bullets.
thieves, 'fire and water."
On each trip it was locked in
the liner's bullion room with a
special guard stationed outside.
One of the original copies now
in the British Museum was near-
ly lest to the nation in a strange
way.
It was bought for fourpence
by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton. -
fanlous centuries ago as a collec-
tor of rare manuscripts and
books -from a tailor who was
about to cut it up.
IIN AYSC11oo1
LESSON
By Rev 13. I.:arclay Warren,
11.1).
The Fellowship of Love
1 John 3: 11.18; 4:7-5:3.
Memory Scripture; Let us not
love in word, neither in tongue;
but in deed and in truth, 1 John
3:18.
John, in his Gospel record tells
of Jesus' emphasis on the new
birth in his conversation with
Nieodemus (chap. 3). This truth
of the needed change in man's
nature is basic In John's teach-
ing his epistles, .He writes, "He
that comenitteth sin is of the
devil; whosoever is born of
God doth not commit sin." Much
of today's teaching speaks glibly
of sinning Christians. One won-
ders how he might distinguish
between a sinning Christian and
a Christian sinner, Again, John
says, "Whosoever is born of God
overcometh the world."
Another note struck by John
in this lesson and often over-
looked today is that of assur-
ance.
ssurance. "He that believeth on the
Son of God hath the witness in
himself," Many people fee] that,
at the best, our hope for happi-
ness in the future life, is pretty
much of a gamble. This is not
John's viewpoint. He believes in
the witness of the Holy Spirit
with our spirit. Supporting this
is the outer expression of obodi-
ence to God's command, moti-
vated by love. This does not ex-
clude the possibility of error but
it does ensure proper motivation.
This love is subject to tests
and proofs. It cannot reach up-
ward to God unless it reaches
outward to man. And there is a
double cheek on this double up -
reach or outreach, Beginning
with love to man the proof is
"if we love one another, God
dwelleth in us, and his love is
perfected in us." Approaching
from the opposite direction, the
proof reads, "By this we know
that we love the children of
God, when we love God, and
keep lis commandments." Again,
love has the proof of practical
deeds. "Whoso hath this world's
goods, and seeth his brother have
need, and shutteth up his bowels
of compassion from him, how
dwelleth the love of God in
him?"
God wants to perfect our love
that we may have boldness in
the day of judgment. Let God's
love prevail in our lives inner
war ceases, We have peace.
Canadian: Our companies allow
us two coffee breaks a day, how
about that? Russian: Just a cap-
italist plot to keep workers a-
wake.
PUZZLER -- Wilfred puzzles
experts at the San Diego Zoo.
A gift from Borneo, he re-
sembles a civet cat, a genet
and a mongoose, but has not
yet been identified.
FREE ENTERPRISEI Chines. peasants are urged to raise their own livestock and vegetab
- and to keep the profits,