Zurich Herald, 1956-01-05, Page 3TIILFMN FRONT
We all know that the. farm
problem in Canada, especially
in regard to the mounting stock-
piling of surplus and possibly on
saleable products, is certainly an
acute one. But what must it be
south of the border where they
already have SIX BILLION
DOLLARS WORTH of such sur-
pluses on hand, with the possi-
bility of the total reaching the
staggering total of TEN BIL-
LION before there is any easing
off.
The following. dispatch from
Washington gives an idea of how
some of the leaders over there
view the problem.
The three big farm organiza-
tions are in disagreement over
the development of a proper
program, the National Grange
still holding out for a commodi-
ty -by -commodity approach, the
Farmers' Union insisting that a
"broad, over-all approach some-
what similar to the Brannan
Plan is the real answer, while
the American Farm Bureau
Federation feels that, with cer-
tain limited changes,. the pre-
sent program can be made to
work.
The disunity among the "big
three" is further emphasized by
they recent Grange attack on the
present administration farm
program.
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Senator Aiken, in' talks to
farm groups, is stressing the
optimistic side of the farm pic-
ture as well as its darker as-
pects. Farm credit is still high
and the rate of farm fore-
closures which averaged 7,000
a year for the last 10 years, is
now down to 60 in 1954.
While farm problems may be.
"alleviated or aggravated by
man-made laws," the senator
believes that in the main. these
problems will not be met in the
halls of .congress or in state
capitols, but "must be solved in
the laboratory and on the farms
and by greater unity of effort
among farm people."
PUZZLE - How did barber Al-
phonse Secinaro spend his time
over a recent weekend? Hint:
He didn't attend an, Elk's , con-
vention.
Some of this unity, he feels,
might be accomplished through
farm cooperatives.
He believes that the public
will support cooperative efforts
of farmers to share fairly in the
national income. But Senator
Aiken does not believe that the
public will long support "a
policy of guaranteeing high-
level farm income through fed-
eral largess, except during
emergencies."
He points to the potato and
egg programs of a few years ago
as indication of that.
The peak of the govern-
ment's gigantic holdings of farm
surpluses probably will be
reached this winter and "then
should taper off," in the opin-
ion of Senator George D. Aiken
of Vermont, ranking Republi-
can farm leader.
This tapering off period may
be slow, but he feels that
"from the long range point of
view" the futures of the coun-
try's two million commercial
farmers is a promising one.
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In the 'meantiine, the govern-
ment has nearly 6 billion dol-;
lags worth of farm surpluses on
its hands. Department of Agri-
culture authorities estimate that
by the time the "peak" which
Senator Aiken forsees is reach-
ed American taxpayers will be
remote -control owners of some
10 billion dollars worth of these
surpluses.
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The senator's belief that the
tide will begin to turn at that
point is based on the fact that
domestic demand for all farm
commodities is increasing and
exports now are' running 20 per
cent over last 'year.
The Vermonter has been tak-
ing to the platform lately in an
efort to refute the gloom -and -
doom talk about any American
"farm crisis."
What he is saying from these
platforms represents what will,
in all probability ,constitute the
administration answer to.
mounting political attack on the
farm issue.
As he puts it: "The so-called
farm crisis is political. The farm
problem is economic."
Neither the Senate farm lead-
er nor the administration, how --
ever, has put forth as yet any
definite program of farm legis-
lation. That changes and addi-
tions are needed to present laws
is not denied.
Senator Aiken sees."a dozen
major suggestions for improv-
ing farm programs that merit
serious study and considera-
tion."
onsidera-tion. "
Reports from the hinterland,
as travelling congressional com-
mittees tap grass-roots opinion,
indicate that farmers them-
selves are sharply divided on
just what steps should be taken
to bring the farm economy back
into even balance.
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days the more they cost."
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Jesus, Man of Prayer
Luke 3:21-22; 4:42; 5:16; 6:12;
9:18; 28-29; 10:21-22; 11:1-4
Memory Selection: Ask, and
it shall be given you; seek, and
ye shall find; knock and it shall
be opened unto you. Luke 11:9.
From the eight passages in
our lesson it is clearly indicated
that Jesus was a man of prayer.
It was while he was praying af-
ter his baptism that the Holy
Spirit descended upon him as
a dove. and the Father spoke
the words, "Thou art my be-
loved Son; in thee I am well
pleased." After a day of healing
Jesus rose early the next morn-
ing and retired to pray. Before
he chose the twelve disciples he
spent the night in prayer. While
praying on the mount he was
transfigured before the three
disciples and Elias and Moses
appeared to talk with him.
So beautiful was Jesus' pray-
er life that on one occasion af-
ter he had ceased praying his
disciples besought him, "Lord,
teach us to pray." He then set
forth the proper .spirit in which
we should approach God in the
model prayer commonly called
the Lord's prayer,
It is a- trite saying but it
needs repeating: if Jesus, the
Son of God, needed to pray,
then so do we. Most of us will
confess that prayer is too readi-
ly crowded out of our daily pro-
gram, There are so many things
to do and so many places to
go, One missionary friend said,
"We haven't time to pray; we
must take time." It would
startle most of us if we kept
track of how little time we
spend in prayer in a whole
week. If we would live radiantly
and triumphantly we must wait
upon the Lord, He will renew
our strength.
The fruitfulness of the Billy
Graham crusades is largely due
to prayer. When hundreds of
thousands of people are earnest-
ly seeking God's blessing upon
a given effort - well, some-
thing is sure to happen. Tenny-
son well said, "More things tire
wrought by prayer than this
world dreams of," We must
pray more for our daily needs,
our families, the church of God
around the world and for peace
among men.
How To itie Happy
With Six Husbands
The brown -skinned, lissom
women who live in villages in
a 400 -mile -square area of
north-west India are reported
to be in revolt against their
centuries-old custom of poly-
andry, which permits each wife
more than one husband.
They live in a woman's world
known as ' Jaunswar-Bawar,
where India's far north meets
Tibet. In their mountain -locked
villages Hien outnumber women
by four to one and the total
population is 60,000.
Some of the women have five
husbands. One, Mrs. Gumani,
who is slender, graceful and
shy, has six and seems quite
content. They are brothers and
everybody lives snugly on one
room. But many of the other
women do not thing polyandry
is so wonderful and have re-
cently. been obtaining divorces
from their husbands.
Divorce there is cheap and
easy. Oddly enough, there is no
such thing as a jealous husband
Legend says that it was a
queen -ancestor of these strange
people who introduced poly-
andry. She instructed her third
son that the wife he won for
himself by his skill as an archer
must be the equal bride of his
four brothers, too, and so the
custom began.
STRINGS ATTACHED - Anybody
lost a hand ? That's what Hin-
ton, W. Vii., police want to
know, They found this human
hand, with a string attached, on
a sidewalk. displaying it is
Capt. H. C. Shirley.
RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS
TAMING THE SUN
Soviet's. natural scientists are
planning to build the biggest
sun power plant in the world.
The description of their plans,
as part of the final paper read
recently at the 1st world sympo-
sium on applied solar energy,
wound up this 36 -nation con-
ference on an optimistic note.
For the first time, this con-
ference held recently in Phoe-
nix Arizona brought over 900
expert? from six continents to-'
gether in one place to discuss
how to develop one of the most
abundant resources of mankind
- the incredible energy of' the
sunshine that falls freely around
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The Soviet project was by far
the most ambitious single
project described at the con-
ference. The highlight of the
Soviet paper was the descrip-
tion of the proposed solar power
Baum's estimates, it will be able
Baums' estimates, it will be able
to turn out 750 to 1,000 kilo-
watts of electricity and, at the
same time, 19 tons of ice or 44
' cubic meters of fresh water an
hour, as a by- product. In the
winter, his paper said, the plant
could heat a settlement of 17,-
000 to 20,000 people.
This Soviet scheme goes far
beyond any other project in the
solar power field that has been
presented at this conference.
The concensus of other papers
on the subject was that any use
of solar power on the scale of
the Soviet project was un-
economical at this time and only
a prospect for the fairly distant
future.
There is nothing in Professor
Baum's paper to suggest that his
projected plant could compete
economically with other forms
of power, even with the rela-
tively expensive atomic power.
However, his paper carefully
pointed out that this plant is
"designed for a specific region.
,of the southern part of the
Soviet Union." Thus, it looks as
though it will be just an expen-
sive large scale experiment, un-
derwritten by the Soviet gov-
ernment as a developmental
project and having some prac-
tical value for a remote area,
far from supplies of ordinary
fuels.
Buteven as an experimental
project, this scheme, if it is pur-
sued, will be a big step forward
in solar energy utilization.
By and large the most that
has been proposed in other
papers here has been involved
solar cookers, small-scale solar
stills,and individual home water
heaters and heating and cooling
systems. The Baum project was
the only specific plan to use the
sun on anything approaching an
industrial scale with the excep-
tion of source fairly large solar
furnaces described by the
French delegation.
But the really unique feature
of the Soviet plan is that it is
an attempt to use the sun to
generate sizable amounts of
electric power.
There are three fundamental-
ly different ways of doing this,
as outlined by various confer-
ence speakers. One is to use the
sun's heat to run a more or less
conventional steam generator. A
second method, called "photo-
electric," turns sunlight directly
into electricity. The Bell Tele-
phone Laboratories solar bat-
tery is an example.
The third method, called
"photo -chemical," uses sunlight
to create chemical fuels which
can be burned to produce pow-
er. Some experiments now being
carried out along this line use
sunlight to break ordinary wa-
ter into hydrogen and oxygen
gases which can then be horned
to give an intense Meat.
Professor Baum's paper e,reed
with the estimates of the other
experts here that both photo-
electricity and photo -chemistry„
as sources of sizable amounts of
povwer, are still in the very
earlylaboratory stages.
But his proposed thermal
power plant indicates that he
thinks this kind of sun power
is much closer to being prac-
tical than the others here have
indicated.
One of the biggest drawbacks
to such a plant, as discussed
by other speakers here, is the
hig cost of the largearea of
the mirrors needed to focus the
sun's rays on the steam boiler.
Professor Baum's paper says
that this cost can be cut con-
siderably by using a battery of
small mirrors instead sif a few
big ones, since the cost of a
square foot of mirror goes up
steeply as the size of the indi-
vidual mirrors is increased.
As dscribed in his paper, the
Baum project would have
"twenty-three concentrical rail-
way lines . . . situated around
a central tower with the boiler,
along which trains of platforms
move . . . on each platform,
there is a flat reflector 3 by
meters consisting of 28 flat mir-
rors fastened on a metal struc-
ture."
Taken together, these mirrors
will add up to 20,000 square
meters of reflecting surface.
They will be kept trained on
the sun by automatic photo -
electronic devices that will also
keep them focussed on the cen-
tral steam boiler. By this means
the description says, enough
heat can be generated to deliver
superheated steam at 350 de-
gress centigrade and 16 atmos-
pheres pressure at the rate of
13 tons of steam an hour.
"If you are going after pow-
er, this is the way to do it, .r
leading American solar auth6f-
ity commented. "The Russian
plan is ingenious," he said, "it
shows real vision."
Although this American dele-
gate did not want to be quoted
by name,• presumably because
he had not yet had enough time
to study the Soviet paper care-
fully, his offhand estimate re-
flected that of many of the other
delegates as well.
Professor Baum is known,
boh by reputation and person-
ally, to many of the solar en-
ergy authorities. They respect
his work, which they say is on
a par with solar energy research
in other countries. Thus, even
though he has described only as
"paper power plant," they take
his plans as those of a project
that will in time produce ex-
perimental hardware.
The Soviet scheme is vision-
ary and ambitious, but, at than
same time, it has a very practi-
cal ring as a developmental re-
search program.
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LUNAR LOTS FOR SALE - Robert R. Coles points to "allotment"
on plot of the moon's Crater of Copernicus. Area shown is an
enlargement of circled area on telescope picture of moon, at
left. A former chairman of Hayden Planetarium, Coles has in-
corporated "The interplanetary Development Corporation!' Ho
hopes to sell moonscapes at one dollar cin acre. Buyer supplies
his own transportation if he wants to "inoonstead" his land.
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