Zurich Herald, 1956-03-15, Page 3GREEN
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Lawn Work
Either in new lawn,s t.t re-
pairing, we sow grass seed early.
Grass thrives when the weather
is cool and clamp. Grass seed
usually comes in packaged mix-
tures. The reason is simple. We
want some early seed that will
germinate and grow quickly to
provide some green and will
also provide some shade for the
slower germinating, finer and
more permanent sorts. Also it is
a well known agricultural fact
that a mixture of grasses or
clovers will give a thicker stand
usually than a single variety
sown alone. Of course, for very
specialized purposes such as
bowling or putting greens we
may use a single variety, but
for ordinary lawn, mixtures are
best.
Lawns, of course, should be
as level and the soil as fine as
possible before any seed .is sown
and that job is best done on a
windless day. Directions regard-
ing the amount of seed should
be followed carefully. Too many
people seem to forget that grass
is a crop and it will appreciate
fertilizer and watering just like
any other crop. A well fed lawn
on good soil, will soon crowd
out most .weeds.
The Real Foundation
Good seed is the very founda-
tion of any successful garden.
In this matter it is well to re-
member that we live in Canada
and in this country. we have our
own sort of climate, soil and
weather. For that reason it is
most advisable to make sure
that we get seed, and nursery
stock especially selected for .
growing in Canada, hardy and
vigorous and that will mature
or bloom in our own particular
climate. If we stick to the Cana-
dian seed catalogue from any
reputable house we cannot go
wrong. Because every seed or
plant that is listed there has
been actually tested in Canada,
has been grown successfully in
our own climate and is especial-
ly suited to Canadian condi-
tions.
Tailored Soil
Thousands of words have
been written about the ideal
type of garden soil and much
more will be written. But it's
a simple matter really, in spite
of some of the big technical
words that are often used. As a
matter of fact almost 'anyone,
unless he lives upon. the perma-
frost, can build up an ideal
garden soil if nature has not al -
UNIQUE HONOR - First U.S.
woman entrant ever to win the
Olympic gold medal for figure
skating, Tenley Albright poses
in Cortina, . Italy, holding her
medal and other Olympic
awards,
ready provided something
equally good right at his door.
Virtually all plants, annual or
perennial, big and especially lit-
tle, perfer what the experts
term an pen rich loam. Now,
this simply; .earls a soil that is
loose, that 11Gi1] dry fairly quick-
ly and without baking hard.
This permits the roots to go
down easily and well, and it
also holds moisture and absorbs
sunshine. If one can dig the soil
easily, if it crumbles when dug,
rather than packs, we simply
make it more open by digging
in manure, or green mulch like
grass clippings, weeds or a cover
crop of rye or oats or buck-
wheat or almost anything that
will eventually decompose and
mix with the soil.
If, on the other hand, our gar-
den is sandy, we follow almost
the same course and dig in lots
of green stuff and manure to
provide some body and water
holding ability.
Of course one does not create
ideal garden soil overnight or
even over one season, It may
take a year or so, particularly
if the original is hard sub -soil
clay or something similar. In
this connection it would be ad-
visable to speed matters with an
application of one of the soil
conditioners now on the market.
These will open up even the
toughest clay if applied proper-
ly. The main thing with garden
soil, as with regular farming
operations, is to keep plowing
or digging in all the vegetable
refuse we can get hold of. It is
also an excellent idea to have
a compost heap. '
Fined For Tooting
Has Own Horn !
Andre Dubois, the Paris Pre-
fect of Silence, had better look
to his laws to see that there are
no loopholes in them. I have to
report an alarming development.
While Prefect Dubois has
banned the automobile horn
from Paris, it is still the law in
England that every car must
have fitted to it an instrument
,capable of giving audible warn-
ing of its approach. The other
day this law led to a strange
occurrence in a Yorkshire court.
And that in turn led to a new
legal ruling about automobile
horns. In effect this ruling is
that legally the horn is 'the in-
strument itself or casing and
not the noise that comes out
of it.
If this should also prove. to
be the law in Paris, the most
formidable disturbance could
ensue. Were Parisians to learn
how to produce a sound like
that of an automobile. horn
• without any mechanical instru-
ment they could hoot with im-
punity, I leave the ,consequence
to M. Dubois' imagination..
For that is what Mr, John
Lawrie Brown learned to do -
he learned to make a noise like
an electric horn without ac-
tually having an electric horn.
He did not, however, hoot with
impunity.
Mr. Brown in fact was pre-
sented before the magistrates
at Dronfield charged with hav-
ing no warning instrument
fitted to his truck. He entered a
please of not guilty. When it
was time to present the case for
the defence Mr. Brown rose and
stated that he kept beside him
on the driving seat "a piece of
an old horn.".
"I consider," he said. "that
this bon - Oka with the law."
And ;then . he launched his
thunderbolt,
"For," ha declared with
studied emphasis, "1 myself can
imitate an electric horn, And
I have been able to do this
perfectly, since I was a small
boy,"
The court seemed taken aback.
So Mr. Brown, driving home
,his advantage as he would his
truck, asked if the court would
like an example of his talent,
by way of proof for tris case,
CROSSWORD
PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Jeer
4. Consumed
7, Specter
12. Sin
13. Rumen
14. Card game
16 Act of
surging track
18. openmouthed
19. Spread to dry
20. Seaweed
21. barge
weights
22 Misery
23. 1;mpinyer
24 Abstract
being
25 1•;levatnr
narriaa'e
26. Frock
27. Strain
22 meat
29 reaom
A'+ 'voting_' moat
38 r• ntang'le
33. Wrfn of a lord
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42. nicttibuttana
45 h'nllow
48 1P' 3f
47 "t• birth
43 madam
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DOWN
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2 Seaver state
3 Musical
instruments
4. Land measure
5 Pull hard
6. Supervisor of
a magazine
1, Happy
8. Very warn
9. Indolent
10, Shops
11. Photographic
bathe
16 Prosperous
times
17. !'inial of as
pagoda
22 r,rnnw strong
28 Vase
25 1;ccentrlc
piece
26. Accmnnlish"il
27 Dal y
14 Pnrnkr
19, Spears of
grass
80. Plunder
81. City on the
Black Sea •
32. Sunflower
state
93 Irish 'eholar
84 ;lin Ices
amends
85 Verb forms
87 Biscuit
38 Taro paste
40. Perceives
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SHOOTIN' FOR KEEPS -No child's play is this game of marbles,
played at an aircraft plant. "Glassies" are thumbed into molds
before final forming ofcertain parts. Their presence is said to
reduce shrinkage, and strengthen the molded items. Costs are
saidto have been reduced some 80 per cent by use of the mibs.
Mr. Cyril Callow, chairman of
the bench, said, "Well, er, yes."
(Almost immediately afterward
he wished he had not.)
The sound of an electric' horn
rang round the walls ' of the
court. It was an electric horn
to end all elctric horns. It was
also an electric horn to end all
courts. The terrible sound
rushed out of the room and ran
echoing eerily through the cor-
ridors.
' There was then a long silence,
for which all present except
maybe the defendant were pro-
foundly thankful.
The magistrate decided that
while Mr. Brown could indubi-
tably make a noise like a horn,
he was not in fact or in law
himself "an instrument giving
audible warning of approach."
So they fined him ten shillings.
The London Daily Mail, sens-
ing a human story behind this
case in a hitherto dusty court,
sent a reporter to interview
Mrs. Brown.
"Just the sort of thing he
would do," said Mrs. Brown, as
her husband went his rounds
in the Birmingham •area. "He
claims it's .a better warning
than anything manufactured.
"It's like the worst kind of
Klaxon horn. I've heard it many
times -never got used to it.
"Before we were married we
did a lot of motor=cycling.
Sometimes I'd be on the pillion,
and he'd do his Klaxon imita-
tion. It nearly frightened me
off the back.
"It certainly cleared every-
thing out of the way.
"He has elaborated i1; since
he was a boy. We thought that
as he grew more middle-aged
he wouldn't do this sort of
thing. But he has."
Mr. Brown's son and daugh-
ter have never copied their
father's tricks.
Mrs. Brown sighed. "There's
a grandson, though," she said,
"We've done everything we
can to stop him, but his imita-
tion 'of an electric horn shows
promise of being worse than
his grandfather's."
A whole new generation of
electric horns may be growing
up. Many of them are going to
be tourists in Paris. They may
teach Parisians ' , hoot. If I
were M. Dubois I'd make cer-
tain that Gallic logic' changes
the law so that what counts
there is not the instrument but
the noise. - John Allen May in
The Christian Science Monitor.
STARTED WRONG
Two fathers were discussing
the upbringin of children.
"Yes," said one, "a great . deal
depends on the formationof
early habits."
"It does," agreed the other.
"My mother paid a woman to,
wheel me about when I was a •
baby, and I've been pushed for
honey ever since."
Belated Fame For
Vaudeville Actor
Back in the eighties a young
actor named Frank Bacon was
playing in California vaudeville
with his wife. They had a
baby, and like many young
couples they needed more money
than they had, But then he had
an idea - and idea that might
make enough money, and win
enough fame, to solve all their
problems; an idea for a play
about a hotel on the state line,
half in Nevada and half in Cali-
fornia, and combining . the
best features of both. He finally
got it written - with what ef-
fort and what joy, only the
amateur writer knows - and
sent if off to a produoer (or
maybe an agent) in New York.
And Clothing happened.
It made the rounds of the
New York producers, and noth-
ing continued to happen. Mean-
while Bacon and his wife con-
tinued to play in vaudeville, and
made a living; but baby grew
older::; with pain, Bacon' Cut
down the play that embodied
the Idea into a vaudeville act,
which kept them afloat.
But it was a long way from
California vaudeville to the
glories of Broadway; he still
hoped for better things, still
kept sending the play around -
and at last a producer took it.
He gave it to the best play doc-
tor of the time for reworking;
it was produced on Broadway,
with Bacon playing the laed; it
ran longer than any play had
ever run in New York up to
that time, and he made a mil-
lion dollars out of it -when he
was sixty-four. - From "But
We Were Born Free." by Elmer
Davis.
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,M.LESSON
tt. t6arrlaWarrrrl, Y,,i O.1).
Jesus Institutes the Lord's
Supper
Luke 22: 7-23
Memory Selection: As often as
ye eat this bread, and drink this
cup, ye do shew forth the Lord's
death till he come. I Corinthians
11.26
This is, a very appropriate les-
son as *e approach the Easter
season. It was the last evening
before the crucifixion. There were
same saddening circumstances.
There was a strife among the dis-
ciples, "which of them should
be accounted the greatest." Per-
haps that is why no one of them
offered to wash the dusty feet of
his companions. That was the
office of the lowest in rank. No
one was going to thus compro-
mise his chances- for position by
doing this menial task. Jesus
laid aside his garments, girded
himself and washed their feet.
It was a lesson they would never
forget. The way to greatness is
the way of service.
At the table that night Peter
was rebuked for his boldness
and self-sufficiency by the pre-
diction that before the cock
crowed twice he would deny
Jesus three times. Peter didn't
believe it till it happened. Then
he went out and wept bitterly.
Judas was there. When Jesus
had identified him as the be-
trayer he went out to do the
fiendish deed, It was not a hap-
py evening,
But the occasion lives in the
hearts of Chistians around the
the world for a more important
reason than any of these. Jesus
instituted a lasting memorial of
his death. The broken bread sym-
bolized his body that was broken
for us and the wine, his blood
that was shed for us. As we
partake of these our hearts are
humbled, Why did he love us
so? We are rebuked,for our self-
ish ambitions and our self-suffi-
ciency, We are led torely more
fully on his sacrifices for us.
It is not enough to believe that
Jesus was a good roan, the best
that ever lived, In the suppers
we are'reminded that he was the
Son of God. That's why.
"His blood atones for all the
race, and sprinkles now the
throne of grace." In Him there
is forgiveness and cleansing from
'sin. Let us partake of the bene-
fits bought for us at so great a
cost.
Wash old powder puffs and
keep them with your cleaning
equipment to use .in applying
.wax polish to furniture and
kitchen surfaces.
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Poets, from the time of Solomon down, have sung about that
beauties of Spring. I have a feeling, however, that few of then
did their singing while trying to dig a bogged -down tractor out of
a gully, or watching an early -April freeze ruin a crop that should
have been blanketed with snow for another couple of weeks.
However; there isn't much percentage in always looking
backward and any time you hear some nostalgia -smitten gaffer
moaning for the "good old days," just ask him "Like what?'
•
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Like back in 1900, when, more than 500,000 infants under a year
old would die each year? The present number is 100,000, with
promise that science will continue to reduce the death toll. Ili
1900 travel was by horse and wagon or coal -dust dirty, drafty
trains. That's when food distribution was so limited that fami-
lies lived on a narrow, montonous diet and a single organge in
the ioe of his Christmas stocking was a great treat for Junior
Well - you get the idea. The graphs below tell more of the
story. So when you meet that nostalgic gaffer just tell him is
the slang of his day - "Go 'way back and sit down!"
PERSONS SUPPORTED BY PRODUCTION
OF ONE FARM WORKER.
1920
8.27
1954
18.35
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ABUNDANT FOOD -North Americans are the best -fed nation in
all history. The rapid development of farm mechanization, de-
velopment of new fertilizers and scientific agricultural skills give
us enough food to feed ourselves, to give and sell abroad and still
have a tremendous surplus.
TOTAL NONFARM UNITS STARTED
IN HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS. 15
epPjam.,
4 .
•
BETTER HOUSING -And more of it. Homebuilding now is re-
treating from the peak of 1950, but it is still hundreds of thous-
ands of units above a decade ago. And the new homes being built
are more healthful, more comfortable and more convenient to live
in then ever before.
PAID PASSENGER MILES (IN BILLIONS).
50
li 1920
0
'40 '50 '54
VARIED TRAVEL -Railroads . first expanded horse -and -buggy
traveling to new horizons, enabling us to circulate farther, see
more country, meet more people. Automobiles put a continent on
wheels. Then airplanes expanded our horizons to the far ends of
the earth.
FIRE POWER OF AN INFANTRY DIVISION,
POUNDS OF STEEL FIRED PER MINUTE,
80%
= 44 • GREATER
6100
WORLD WAR 11
TODAY
STRONGER DEFENSES -Western defensive weapons and tech-
niques of Warld War II astonished the world. Today most of these
marvels are obsolete. We live in the jet age and are rapidly mov-
ing into the "intercontinental missle" era that was only a fiction -
science authors' dream a few years ago,
,EXPtt.tAilvN OF LIFE AT 81RTH.
69.8
YEARS
LONGER LIFE -Medical science and technology have conquered
many diseases that once took terrible toll ox life. 1Vledical research
brings nearer the day when the few undefeated "killer" diseases
remaining will meet their Waterloo. Th average ,baby born today
can expect to live nearly nine years longer than one born in 19011,