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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT. JULY 8, 1954 PLAIN HORSE SENSE.. . By F. (BOB) VON PILIS With the seventh ordinary meeting of the International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP) ended a short while ago in Nairobi, Kenya, it should be Of interest to Ontario farmers to learn of its origin and background. The following historical sketch of IFAP and appreciation of its significance in international affairs is taken from the British Farmer, official organ of National Farmers Union, published in London, England. Holding the Stage. Today the farmer is in the centre of the international stage. He is important to the world, for he feeds the world. Without him the giant industrialized countries could not exist, because factory workers have to eat. The farmer needs an international voice to make sure his problems are clearly appreciated in the councils of nations. That voice is the International Federation of Agricultural Producers. This world farm organisation has no connection with government or with politics. It is a non-governmental, non-political body representing the farmer on the international stage. IFAP tells governments Of the world, through the United Nations, what farmers are thinking, what they Tjrant. It is recognized by the UN and the Specialized Agencies as the authoritative voice Of the farmers -- the voice of about two-thirds of the population of the world. Born in England IFAP is comparatively young. The proposal for a world farm organization had been voiced many times since the war, but it was not until 1945 that the idea took hold. In that year a group of British farm leaders, headed by Sir James Turner, toured the world and discussed, the proposal with farm organizations in many countries. Thier suggestions met an enthusiastic reception. An international conference was held in London in May, 1946, and at that conference IFAP was born. The farmers of thirteen nations brought IFAP to life. Today 27 nations are represented through 38 farm organizations. IFAP enjoys the highest consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council, its Regional Economic Commissions, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the International Labour Office. The IFAP European Committee, of which Mr. F. R. Scott, of the NFU is Vice-Chairman, is recognized by the Organization for "Agatha! You've been gardening in my flannels again". European Economic Co-operation as the authentic spokesman of European farmers. Citizens of the World In the past five years hundreds Of young farmers have visited and farmed in new lands through IFAP's sponsorship of the exchange of agriculturists, young farmers who have taken back to their homelands not only valuable information on new farming techniques, but an international outlook as well. It takes patience and persCver-rance for an organization such as IFAP to become influential in world affairs," but seeds have been planted which are bearing fruit. Today, 25,000,000 farmers are represented by IFAP. Through its agency the men of the soil have taken their rightful plase as citizens of the world. This column welcomes criticism, constructive or destructive, as well as suggestions, wise or otherwise. It will endeavour to answer all questions. Address mail to Bob Von Pilis, Whitby. Ont. Blind Golfers Play At Lambton Now that the long sun beats down on neighborhood golf courses, Canadian blind golfers are stepping up their practice in training for the International Blind Golfers Team Championships, which are to be played at the Lambton Golf and Country Club, Toronto, July 21-23 inclu- Teams composed solely of blind golfers will represent Canada and the United States in this first international team championship competition, which is being sponsored jointly by the Royal Canadian Golf Association and the House of Seagram. Each team will consist of seven players (six and an alternate), and in completing the 36 holes of tournament play the blind golfers will be competing simultaneously in three separate contests. The lowest scores for each country will be totalled to decide the International Blind Golfers Team Championship. The same individual scores will be entered in competitions for separate International and Canadian Individual Blind Golfers Championships. The international competition has the blessing of the Canadian Blind Golfers Association and its U.S. counterpart. Both these organizations have a voice in selecting team members to represent the two countries. Members of the Canadian team will be announced June 21 on the basis of inter-club competition now going on. Selections for the American team will not be announced until a few days before the international tournament. Despite their formidable han dicap, several of the Canadian and American players have recently gone around 18 holes with scores ranging from 105 to 112, and two or three have been known to break the hundred. Because the three trophies and all tournament expenses are being met by the House of Seagram, gross proceeds from public sale of tickets will be donated to the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. Well Stacked! A 40-foot section of the funnel of the new Cunard lin position by one of the giant cranes at John Brown's yard, Clydebank, Scotlai section of the big vessel's ultra-modern smoke stack. It will be surmounted by i /ill keep smoke away from the liner's upper decks. Its parison with the workmen below. Now being prepared for I Sept. 2, the 22,000-ton Saxonia is the first of three new Cunai Canadian service. the lower domed top l best be judged by c maiden voyage to Montreal s being built for the company's How Can I ? give starch Q. How can brilliant luster? A. Soak for five or six hours, one ounce of white gum arabic in one quart of water, then add two ounces of borax and heat to the boiling point. Now add one ounce of glycerin. When cool, strain and bottle for use. Stir one tablespoonful of this mixture into every three quarts of starch used. Q. How can I make colored icing without artificial coloring? A, By using orange juice or egg yolk for yellow, spinach juice for green, blackberry juice for lavender, or red beet juice for pink. Q. How can I keep a clothesline from stretching? A. Boil . the new clothesline before using. It will make it last___t&Ued with longer and prevent it from stretching. Q. How can I make a high polish for furniture? A. Use equal parts of lemon oil and turpentine; saturate a cloth and go over the surface to be polished. Then dampen another cloth, wring almost dry and wipe off excess oil Polish with a woolen cloth. Q. How can I serve ice cream quickly when dishing it from containers? A. The ice cream can be placed in the dishes quickly if the spoon is wet with cold water each time before thrusting into the container. Q. How can I easily clean bed springs? A. Place the springs in a sun and turn the hose on them. The sun will dry them within a very short time. Q. How can I prevent callouses on the hands when using a broom? A. This can be prevented by covering the upper part of the handle of the broom with any soft material, sewing it firmly, tacking the lower end of the material to the handle Q. How can I keep olive oil from becoming rancid? A. Place two medium - sized lumps of sugar in one quart of olive oil, as soon as it is opened, and it will prevent the oil from becoming rancid. Q. How c: from knives? A. The majority stains can be quickly rubbing with a piece of "Beauty" Lecture Fooled The Ladies Dr. Glen Walker is a scientist who has done much va^able research work in the field of cosmic rays--the very energetic radiation which falls On earth from outer space and which consists chiefly, if not entirely, of charged particles. The origin is not known with certainty. Dr. Walker spends a lot of his time lecturing to schools, institutes, community centres and the like on his findings. He usually finds a large audience waiting for him, and generally they listen appreciatively to his talk about alpha and gamma rays, high-energy electrons, and imaginary space travel. He recalls arriving at a little town in the mid-West to find the hall in which he was to lecture entirely There were even girls and women still trying to push their way into the crowded buildings, while some were standing with their faces pressed to the windows. Dr. Walker never realized so many women were interested in cosmic rays. And he began to have further doubts when before he was half-way through his lecture the hall began to empty. It was not till afterwards that he found out the reason for his bumper audience. The subject of hi 3 lecture had been advertised throughout the town as "Cosmetic Rays." Many women turn out to learn about cosmic rays, of course, but they're a different type. How Herman Fooled The U. S. Customs Q. How can I clean dull and dingy-looking gilt picture frames? A. Cover with a thick paste of sifted whiting and alcohol and rub off with flannel before it hardens; or rub with a cut lemon and sponge with water containing one tablespoonful of baking soda to the pint. This is good for gilding done only with gold leaf or Dutch metal and does not refer to frames painted with powders. UP-TO-DATE ROMANCE Maud Mullei light. i sumiwr Beating The Heat -- Summer is here and the water looks nice >ugh for a dip. But these two cuties in Helsinki, Finland, seem a trifle hesitant about dunking themselves all the way. Turned down the only parlor light. The judge, beside her, whispered things Of wedding bells and diamond He spoke his love in burning phrase, And acted foolish forty ways. When he had gone. Maud gave a laugh And then turned off the dictograph. As in every other walk of life, the great ideas in crime are usually simple ones. And sometimes their very simplicity baffles the men who think they are searching for some fiendishly clever scheme. The American authorities were puzzled and alarmed by the scope of the diamond smuggling racket. Some person, or, as was more likely, persons, had found a way to beat every precaution that the Customs were taking. Systematic work soon narrowed the suspicion down to four men. Herman was one of them. Soon after,, one of them died a natural death. Ot the thsee left only Herman showed signs of lush prosperity. So, they decided, Herman was their man. At this time, it was Herman's habit to cross and recross the Atlantic about five times a year He carried on a business as a jeweller and watchmaker in New York, and when'questioned about his trips, was able to produce irrefutable evidence that he travelled on honest business. The Customs had tried the gentle way: now began Herman's rough passage. Each time he stepped on to the dockside in New York he was ushered into a special examination room-There every stitch of clothing, every ca s e and valise was probed, prodded and, if need be, ripped open. As each attempt proved fruitless, so the efforts grew more elaborate. Herman's cases were echo-tapped for false bottoms, X-rayed and electric-eyed Herman himself was grilled and grilled again. Still the Customs men found nothing. Still Herman protested his innocence. After one trip he came ashore, signalled to the waiting Customs men and told them he wanted to declare some diamonds. They almost tore them out of his hand. The stones poured out of the little wash-leather bag and were promptly sent away for independent valuation. The bill of sale that Herman had obtained in Holland was worked over for everything, including invisible ink. Herman paid the duty, the tax, and was given his receipt. The Customs officials were more baffled than ever, and after another conference they approached Herman with a proposition. They agreed to give Herman a clean slate, guarantee no prosecution for his past offences if he would agree to, (a) stop smuggling; and (b) tell them how he did it. After some thought Herman agreed. He was tired of being questioned and mauled about and, anyway, he'd made enough to satisfy his wants for the rest of his life. To a roomful of Customs men Herman told this story: "I buy diamonds in Holland. I also buy a bit and brace, some plastic wood, some quick varnish and brush. "When the ship sails from Holland I bore a number of holes in the panelling of my stateroom. Into these I put the diamonds. Over them I pack in the plastic wood. Over those small spots I smooth varnish-- the right colour, of course. Then I throw the tools overboard. And that's that." "Whaddya mean, that's that?" snarled a Customs man. "How do you bring them ashore?" "I don't," replied Herman cheerfully. "I leave them there, then the next time that boat comes in from Holland I book the same stateroom. I throw a bon voyage party. One of the guys picks up the rocks and walks ashore. You never check people who've come to see others off." "You mean to say that for Treasure Trove Under The Sea There are finer treasures in the Mediterranean, waiting within range of the (aqua) lung. She is the mother of civilization, the sea girt with the oldest cultures, a museum in sun and spray. The grandest of undersea discoveries, to our taste, are the wrecks of pre-Christian ships on the floor. Twice we have visited classic wrecks and recovered ri c h e s beyond gold, the art and artifacts of ancient times. We have located three more such vessels which await salvage. No cargo ship of antiquity is preserved on land. The Viking ships that have been found buried in the earth and the Emperor Trajan's pleasure barges which were recovered by draining Lake Nemi in ' Italy, are splendid evidence ot noncommercial vessels of ancient times, but little is known of the merchant ships that brought nations together. My first clue to the classic ships appeared in the Bay of Sanary, where forty years ago a fisherman brought up a bronze figurehead. He died before I came to Sanary and I have never been able to learn where ne Years later Henri Broussard, leader of the Undersea Mountain-Climbing Club of Cannes, came up from an aqualung dive with a Greek amphora The graceful two handled earthenware jar was the cargo cask of antiquity, used for . . oil, water and grain. The cargo ships of Phoenicia, Greece, Carthage and Rome carried thousands ot am-phoras in racks in the hold The bottom of the amphora is conical. On shipboard it probably fitted in holes in the cargo racks. Broussard reported that he saw a pile of amphoras in sixty feet of water. He did not guess that it indicated a wreck, because the ship was completely buried. We dived from the Elie Mon-nier and found the amphoras tumbled and sharded on a bed of compacted organic matter in a dusty gray landscape of weeds. With a powerful suction hose we tunneled down to find the ship, A hundred amphoras came out of the shaft, most of them • with corks still in place. A few had well-preserved waxen seals bearing the initials of ancient Greek . . . merchants. For several days we siphoned mud and amphoras. Fifteen feet down we struck wood, the deck planking of a freighter, one of two ancient cargo vessels that have been found. We were not equipped to carry out full-scale salvage and our time was limited. We went away with amphoras, specimens of wood, and the knowledge of a unique hydro-archeological site which awaits relatively simple excavation. We believe the hull is preserved and could be raised in one piece. What things that wreck might tell of the shipbuilding and international commerce of the distant past!--From "The Silent World," by Captain J. Y. Cousteau, with Frederick Dumas. something like a month those rocks are tucked away in a stateroom wall?" "Yes," said Herman. "And nobody ever swiped them? You put some trust in people's honesty!" "No," said Herman, "just in-their lack of observation." In Rio de Janeiro police have recently been experimenting an armoured water carrier for dispersing rioters. High pressure jets of water would be shot at the trouble-makers --' and it would be coloured so that they could be identified later. "Who's Going to Make Me?"--Not this young rider, at any rate, if Patch III has anything to say about it. Patch had just knocked down the bar on an obstacle course during the Cheshire Hors» Show in London, England, and immediately decided to sit out the rest of the event.