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a ------ ] { "~ N il ! ' i » \ a co da ) a ¥ '. . is that doesn't like a key, and wouldn't this be a splendid place THE MID-EAST? 'carries 12% million pounds of What's The Sense Of Locking Doors? A gladsome tidbit leaped at me from the printed "page, and I learned that the American public keys in its pockets and purses each day -- and loses three tons of them a week. Something there if nobody ever had to lock any- thing up? The American public would weigh 12% million pounds less, and everybody could laugh at locksmiths, id ~ We don't lock up here, at all. The old house, that burned, didn't even have locks on the doors; and when we hung the entrances to our new home I put the keys on a brad in a summer kitchen beam, and there they are. They've never been down, Well, if some- body comes with malice afore- thought, he'll get in, locked or unlocked. Besides, if we locked the front and back doors he could come by the shed, and if we lock- ed the shed door he could come by the cellar. There's always a ladder in the barn, and the up- stairs attic windows don't have locks. One time we had some city guests here and as we all started up for repose the lady said, "Aren't you going to lock the door?" I said we never did, and she said for goodness-sake she'd not steep a wink all night if she thought a door was unlocked. What would we do if a neighbor decided to walk in, she said. I said he'd think it funny if we had" a door locked on him. But I went down and made is if to lock the front door, and she said she never slept more sound- ly than she did that night. Of course, I'd left the back door open so 'the dog could come in and out, it was summertime, and she didn't know that. Some of the old-time stuff has been under- mined, but there is still a philos- ophy in Maine that being put to forcible entry is inhospitable. The woods camp is traditionally left open should somebody get . lost or caught in a storm, and a proper owner will leave the woodbox full, the lamps trimmed, and at least some flour in a tin can. ) Sometimes the 'bears get the flour. In bear country the man who locks up a camp, shutters the windows and props the shed door is inviting destruction for bears don't like to be locked out. They'll leave a place looking as it a couple of sticks 'of dynamite went off. Best thing to do is tie the doors open with a rope, so the wind can't: blow them shut, and leave a bear feeling wanted~ A hungry old black bear, coming : out of his den in the spring, doesn't lift latches and swing hinges -- he just whales on through. I suppose our old farm WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT philosophy is much the same -- that if anybody comef he has .some reason for coming, and it looks unkind to make him stand on the cold steps while you un- lock. Summer people, with a deep sense of possession, don't always understand this. Back during the war a lobsterman hove on his trawl warp and found he was tied into something he couldn't budge, It turned out to be a sub-' marine which was just putting out to sea, so he jumped over- board. Almost at once he perceiv- ed this was a January mistake, , for the océan was even colder than it is in Maine in July, but he kicked himself over to an off- shore island where Mr, and Mrs. Moneybags from Highnose Sub- urbs had a cottage which they had carefully locked up before they went home. This fisherman shook in his clothes so the ice jingled like a glockenspiel and surveyed the situation. To him, lock and key were cold and dismal words. Then he went down to. the beach and got a rock about the size of a. clam basket, and he caine back.. and smashed down all four doors to the cottage. He found this ex- ercise warmed him. up a good deal, and gave him time to make a careful 'decision about which portal he would finally enter. He. selected one, went in, kindled a fire, found some Brooks Bros. yachting clothes in a closet, deck- ed himself out splendidly and warmly, and was able to find a _ few things in the butt'ry to eat. After that he broke three locks on the boat house, trundled out a dinghy, and made his way to the mainland, where he generated quite a bit of comment about the summer people who lock cottages. When the summer people came back in the pleasantness of late June they reported to the police that their cottage had been broken into, but all the police- man said was, "Eyah, I know." I might add that when the sub- marine came up the next morn- ing .they found a ring of lobster - pots around the conning, with a nylon line to a 36-foot Hampden boat, and that after a few days the Coast Guard brought the fisherman his- craft. I thought you'd like to know. Oh, I know another thing that bears on this: I had an uncle who sailed as ship's carpenter for some years, and upon retirement he used to make diddy-boxes for people. Silver chests, tool chests, jewelry boxes -- any kind of little box. He'd make a box and carry it around for a gift, and 'although he always built a lock intg the lids he never delivered a key. He told them if they lock- ed the thing then they'd lose the key some day and be in trouble.. So he had all these keys hanging on nails. in his shop wall, each a' souvenir of some lovely box he' had made, and little tags on them telling whose boxes they fit. Well, amongst many dozens of keys on that end of the shop he had a couple of tags hanging .up. that _ looked a mite different and at- tracted attention, and when you looked: at them one of them said "I-thank-you," and the other one said, "If-you-please." ta Wasn't that nice? -- By John Gould in the: Christian Science Monitor, : ADVICE TO BRIDES Ministers often give guidance to prospective brides, but the Rev. Charles Grice, a 38-year-old' Church of England parson in the coal-mining town of Armthorpe, England, offered some unusual advice in a recent issue of his! "parish magazine. Young women, he urged, should forsake plung- 'ing necklines when they select wedding gowns: "The person who gets the benefit of your décolleté is the minister -- and he doesn't . want it, Bear in mind that it is a wedding you are arranging, not a 'chorus line-up." DRIVE CAREFULLY -- The life you save may be your own. CROSSWORD PUZZLE 9. Request 1. Membranous - 18. Dog's ory ouch : 2. 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Peralan.sect 48 Turmeric « Sd fikwerm = Aoswer elsewhere on this page Ee) ¥ SAILING A EE EX ALONG--When the how! of a brisk wind f «RN ills the - air, Copenhagen, Denmark, men don their ice skates and strap kites on their back for a rousing race on the ice THE A lot of old-time hog farmers are going to shake their heads over this one but it's a fact -- The muscling and leanness of pigs can be increased by passing a mild electric current _ periodically through the live animals. = In other words: stimulating the growing pig's muscles regularly with a simple electrical machine increases the proportion of lean meat in the carcass. LJ LJ [3 Dr, H. M. Cunningham of the CDA's experimental farm at Nappan, N.S, made the tests in electrical stimulation on the theory that animals; like human athletes, can build up muscles just as effectively from a few minutes of strenuous activity as from several hours of mild exer- cise. Electrical stimulation en- ables exercise to be taken with little loss of energy. - In the Nappan tests, a mild current was passed through the left side of each pig by attach- ing the electrodes to the left rear leg and left front leg. This permitted comparison of the left side muscles with the muscles: on the untreated right side when the carcass was examined. It was found that stimulation had increased the size of mus- cles by as much as 20 per cent, the average per cent. It was further estab- lished that the growth was the result of muscular development increase being 10- FARM FRONT 2 ' iG Oa § APYYIRAL 2 - hod wrod and not due to greater "intake of water. The stimulated mus- cles were darker than the other muscles. This darkness is usually considered an indication of de- sirable quality in pork. The animals examined had been given a 20-minute daily electrical stimulation for several weeks. Dr. Cunningham thinks that more frequent stimulation over a longer period might have led [to even greater muscular development, and therefore a still higher proportion of lean The electric current was gen- erated by a special machine de- signed to send impulses through the pig at a rate of about 60 a second. Electrical stimulation is often used clinically to exercise and sti- - mulate circulation of injured muscles 'in humans, Muscular exercise requires expenditures of energy which, in turn, has to be renewed by feed. Electrical stimulation, on the other hand, calls for very little extra energy on the part of the subject being stimulated. In one experiment, the stimulated pigs grew just-as rapidly on the same amount of feed as the non-stimu- lated pigs, and at the same.time, laid down greater store of pro- tein in their muscles, Dr. Cunningham concluded 'that the technique for electrical stimulation is not yet ready for general use on the 'farm -- and a lot of old-time hog farmers will go along with him! J But the animal nutrition ex- pert says his technique might be simplified; or it' might lead to simpler methods of stimulating .-the growth of muscles to produce |. one of the major requirements ~ in successful hog raising - car- casses with less fat and more lean, . . . : An Ontario businessman was recently fined $25 and costs when he pleaded guilty in Magistrate's . Court to selling in Canada a her- bicide not registered. under the Pest Control Products Act of Canada, # ' - Evidence was given that Chem. ical Specialties Association of Sarnia had sold 480 pounds of an imported product, Atrazine 80-W, . to John Stewart & Sons of Alisa Craig, Ontario, ' The Crown lawyer said that to be legally sold in Canada, pesticides must be registered with the federal government and be sold under a label bear- ing the registration number. oe ° * The compulsory registration requirement prior to sale is one of the principal means of assur- ing that a pesticide will be use- ful and safe to use and properly labelled when it is offered to the Canadian public. The Department of Agriculture considers any at- tempt to sell unregistered pesti- cides a most serious matter. At- razine 80-W is an espepially high concentrate weed killer which, if improperly used, could perman- ently impair soil fertility. =, * LJ] * For 'Max Propas, owner of the defendant company, it was stated that the 80-W product| was sold inadvertently for Atrazine 50-W, a less concentrated herbicide which is registered in Canada "Secret Eyes" In Hospital Wards! Patients in a new hospitat-are being watched by television -- in an attempt to help doctors diagnose illness. For however soothing his bed- side manner, a doctor, as he goes through the wards, undoubtedly unnerves some patients. In his presence they become ~tongue-tied, jittery or helplessly overwrought, and so cannot really help him with his diagnosis. He can sometimes, therefore, gain a muth 'better insight into their troubles if the hospital pro- . vides "secret eyes" -- in the form of a closed circuit television sys- tem. Then he can sit at a screen and "examine" individual pa- tients 'while they are performing ~ remedial exercises or just sitting a in their beds. The patients knows that they can be seen, yet they behave much more normally. than when - the doctor is actually present. Already, in the new Llanfre- chfa Grange Hospital; "near New- port, Monmouthshire, such a sys- tem, installed by Pye of Cam- bridge at a cost of about $10,000, is paying healthy" dividends. Here, the doctor, sitting at a master control desk, wafches a screen, He can study patients during visiting hours and equally well, without embarrassing . anyone, watch their reactions to the nurs- ing staff. This system must not be re- garded as spying on'patients, for it provides .doctors with invalu- able data for their recovery. Research into its most effective usag. is stlil progressing. But experience gained in Mon- mouthshire has helped doctors to ~ assess the effects of certain tran- quilizing - drugs on mental pa- tients; In some cases, as the TV screen showed, their effects last- -ed very briefly indeed, . Nurses at first disliked the idea of being watched by unseen eyes, 80 now they are warned by three buzzes on a ward telephone, action, and the doctor, keeping strictly to 'his seat, begins his round of unobserved diagnosis. Perhaps before long, as a logi- cal development, we shall walk into our own doctor's consulting room and find, to our amaze- ment, that he has already diag- 'nosed our complaint. The 'possibilities of television As an aid to healing in the future are unlimited. Perhaps soon, specialists hundreds- of miles away,' even on the other side of the Atlantic, will: be consulted simply by a patient stepping into a television studio." : or thirteen miles from the Pole © we might overshoot it. Several - After that, the cameras go into By Tractor To Thg South Pole Station At 7 pm, 1 considered we must be something over twelve and started keeping a very good watoh on efther side for fear miles farther on I still hadn't seen anything--it was 8 p.m, and time to change drivers. I was just about to signal a halt when 1 noticed a black speck far in the distance and a little to the right of our course. I blinked, and looked again and it was still there. Almost with= out thinking I swung the tractor over and headed towards it. "Surely it's a flag?" 1 drove a few more hundred yards with growing excitement, and then stopped my tractor, jumped up on the seat and signalled furiously to the others. Then I ran madly back to the caboosé to get my binoculars. A flag it was, and soon we identified a whole line of them streaching 9 out to the left and to the right. My primary feeling was one of enormius relief that I'd found the Pole and that all my worries about navigation and petrol consumption were over, I don't think any of us were thinking very clearly--we'd been driving for twenty-four hours and had covered exactly sixty miles. Completely ignoring the fact that according to my plot we were still more than ten miles from the Pole we started excit- edly discussing where we where. Through the fog and murk Peter was quite convinced that he could make out the Polé Station on a mound some miles away to the left. I felt sure that these flags marked their airstrip, and our imaginations quickly peopled the place and filled in any missing links--all helped along by the ground fog that was drifting in around us. "The flag is good enough tor me!" I said. "I'm going to bed and we can worry about where the Pole Station is in the morn- ing." There was hearty agree- ment from my companions, and already the strained looks were disappearing from their bearded countenances and leaving instead an air of weary satisfaction. At 9:30 am. on the morning of January 4th we drove on again: The mist had now dis- persed and the sun was shining Upsidedowr to Prevent Peeking lo] I] Ilv]L 37 |] Nvi3 3|8[/ __INliol 7 al 3 / 3/30 78/8|viall.L] / o|7 y) Al9]9 b) owl7|2Mlal/ 3 7 NIL 7 o| To olVIlL|3] alz|al/ O|S|NIv|][4 Ell) dv ZR VIOIVIS 33TH 37 xv d| 73] A JS JvI3|LISIVIHIOI » wager en Ln INTERIOR DESIGN--This cos- tume is made of interior de- sign fabric. Features a flared A-line ski jumper, with hood, stockings and long sleeved shirt of the same material. brightly -- and with the mist had gone our imaginings of the of the night before. Our eagerly searched the horizon for the first glimpse of the Pole Station. The snow was still soft and loose and we climbed labor- iously up and down over a series of great folds. At 10:30 am. we reached the crest of a larger fold and there, far in the distance and a little to the left of us, we could see a round dome on the horizon . . . the South Pole Station.--From "No Latitude for Error." by Sir Edmond Hillary. SWEET TALE Beekeepers in Russia are col- lecting honey from thorns and wild grasses growing in deserts. Trials prove that desert grasses give good yields. In the deserts of Uzbekistan, roving beemen transport their hives by camel, and trek from site to site to col- lect nectar stored in wild: blos+ soms. The hives are covered by tents, which are sprinkled with 'wafer to keep the bees cool. - Q. How can I improvise a sub- stitute hot water bottle? A. Pour salt into a skillet and heat it in the oven until it's al- most at the smoking point. Then pour the salt into a bag, and you'll find it will serve as well as a rubber hot water bottle. - eyes: iss pe ata By Rev. R. Barclay Warren, B.A, B.D, "Thou Art the Christ" Mark 8:27-38 Memory Scripture: Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself," and take up his cross, and follow me. Mark 8:34. In our strong belief in Demo- cracy and toleration, for many people, "Christianity is anything anybody says it is!" It is in- creasingly difficult to define au- thentic Christianity. However, there 'are presented in this lesson two .definite characteristics; a Christian can be identified by what he believes and the way he behaves. To acknowledge Jesus as the Christ (Messiah or An- ointed One--with sonship and deity understood) is a fundamen- tal to faith; to adopt the cross- bearing life as men enroute to Golgotha is basic to behavior Both are essential. There can be no varying from these two points. If Jesus be not the Christ, then He is an impos- ter, the Bible is false and we are duped. If the disciples had reason to believe that He was the Mes- sinh, we have more. We who have believed on Him and exper- ienced the New Birth, cannot for 'a moment question the fact that He is really the Son of God. We share the sentiment of Paul when he said, "For I know whom 1 have believed, and am persuad- which I have committed unto him against that day." We must bear the cross. Many who profess to be Christians hold back at this point. They want the name "Christian", but . not the way. There were many such in our Lord's day. When Jesus emphasized the necessity of identification with Him, many of His disciples went back, and walked no more with him. John 6:66. Visitors at the' Philadelphia mint were told that a: small quan- tity of molten gold which burn- ed its way instantly through a thin piece of wood could be tak- en in one's hand without burning- it, if the hand were first dipped in water. Only one lady in the . group was willing to take the test, receiving the molten gold in her hand. Can you, in a practical way, go farther than a verbal acceptance of Christ and thus experience and demonstrate the power of Christ in your life? Witt you bear-the cross? COFFEEBREAK REAL A girl office employee in Vienna told to brew coffee, added - sleeping pills instead of saccharine. Everyone fell asleep, including the managing director. The girl, charged with assault, was-sent to prison for two davs: hat's in the 'Black Box'? -- .- --- :Yibration- Free Floating SM International inspection on check for underground tests, and moni- toring for explosions with the much - dis- cussed black boxes." How to make a monitoring system foolproof against tam: rincipal problem. Set up in the United' States, Britain and Russia, each of the so-called "black boxes" would be an underground laboratory for record- tremors. Sketch, above, com- bines known facts with artist's conception how such an Installation could be made foolproof. ® Time - locked door te the vaultlike station would remain sealed pering Is one ing earth as to Two major points in nuclear test ban talks which resumed in Geneva Feb, 2 cone - x ye --g_ Antenna Picks Up Three Separate Signals Which Operate The Elevator Ny aS "Propane Gos lectric Generating Unit woul different oviet soil to matically. @ Subsurface Rock ows Graphic) 4 . until time for periodic_inspection. @ In this version, elevator in armoured shoft opérate only on receipt of three signals. 2 tional inspection team would place coded device in a transmitter located on an in- spection truck (at left), to provide tha "Open sesame!" for elevator's operation. Any attempt to tamper with mechanisms could be recorded and broadcast auto- Presumably, interna: AE Operation of earth tremor recorders (seismometers) could be by bat- tery, generator or power line. '® Visiting Inspector, shown in vault, would remove tapes, Install fresh ones, and take record- | Ings to agency headquarters for analysis. - ed that he is able to keep that