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-- £ § A H en Drop of Oil Starts Fond Memories A drop of oil on a troubled , and the memories of yes- terday fade from the mind, It's as easy as that. I found I was being misled by some curious .. deflection of thought, and 1 couldn't figure out what went on, This has been going on for months. Of course, some all-wise student of the inner recesses of preoccupation could easily have told me, but it was much more fun to find out for myself. It came without warning, un. related and remote. I would be sitting here at the typewriter, perhaps, trying to share my natural passion for joy with the multitude and all at once { would Jump up with, I sup- pose, a glazed eye and faraway mien, and I would be thinking about a dozen cup custards, nut- meg and gold and their ebullient "| enthusiasm bouncing off the -ceiling, Or, I would be in the rocker * by the back window, examining the erudition of the local edi- tor, who has never been beyond Portland but has some marvel- ous schemes for the perplexing intricacies' of the Far East, and all at once I would have a lovely vision of four blueberry pies. This was disturbing, and I - began to worry about it. I get a fair feed here, as those things go, and am: not nderprivileged in the calorie department. Fur- thermore, the ordinary disci- plines of a stable intellect dis. approve of such big jumps. It { were going to set up some . kind of a hanker, in which I would be ruminating 'on the in- ternal problems of the plumb- Ing trade, and decided to shift all this to an unwarranted con- templation of a custard, I would have just one custard. There was a plurality to this thing which baffled me beyond the matter fisel!. Why custards, indeed -- but why a dozen custards? "There's an old pair of shoes in the shop closet that look good enough to wear some more," she had said, and I went and got them and for the time be- dng I was completely absorbed in this discovery. They were, or it was, a pair of heavy Scotch- grain Oxfords I had been fond of, the kind .of shoe you find occasionally which never feels new when it is new, and when they disappeared I was put out. 1 never could imagine what be- ¢ame of them. 'So. now. I had them, and I Flied them on, and 1 was glad ,see them, as with an old friend from away back, and I bad one of them up on a chair out in the summer kitchen ap- ag a dose of ox-blood pol- This is typical of the one- track situation I have been in shen the gustatory mirage ap- plied itself. Suddenly I had a = ms vision of four loaves of high- crusted home-baked bread, quite likely oatmeal bread from the appearance. This sort of thing is fun, in a way, 'I gather plenty of peo- ple in this world have things to think on which are not so love- ly as loaves of home-baked baked bread, but why four all at once? I stood there with the dauber poised, and wondered why my absurdity couldn't be content with one slice of oat- . meal bread, perhaps anointed + with some sweet butter, and then lightly. sprinkled with brown sugar? It was the molasses cookies that finally gave me the tip-off. I conjured up a splendid vision of about two acres of thin molas- ses cookies while I was pound- ing down a couple of persistent tacks in the kitchen rocker, and I figured out the whole thing. Just before I had this won- derful vision, she had inserted the last of the dishes into our dishwashing machine, and had pushing the button. And the hinge on the dishwasher had made a gently protesting noise, sort of an ernk sound. "You put a drop of oil on that hinge and you'd be surprised how quiet things will be around here," said, and then I knew. My mother's ancient Wood & Bishop kitchen range had an oven door which all 'my boy- hood made exactly the same sound whether she opened or closed it! : The realization of what a trick had been played on me occu- pied me all morning. I fondly saw, all over again, the tin pan of custards, an even dozen in heavy crockery mugs, coming forth as I had seen them so many exactly as they had been. The bread, I could now see, was authentic -- for of the four loaves one was a small one, Mother's" bread mixer made enough for three big loaves and one small one, so we always had a. small loaf. It was even so. The pies and. the cakes, the pot of beans, the: cornbread and the blueberry: muffins. Every time the dishwashing machine had ernked, my bringing-up thought, I'll oil it for youl" "Getting kind of domestic "I can oil a hinge. I just didn't hear it squeaking, I guess." the ernk was too much of a good thing. No one person de- serves such pleasant thoughts as I was having. It was too rich a diet. Besides, it was becoming critical, for after one hot-day lunch of crackers and milk, she washed the dishes and I had a ternoon. You can't go on living that 'well. By John Gould in The Christian Science Monitor. mim Venus Says No! Venus is signalling. What does she say? She says, and rather rudely, "Keep away!" "Can't you," she cries, "Leave anything alone, And have you got no trouble of your own? My flying saucers have described with mirth The kind of thing that happens on your Earth. Why spread your mess and muddle to the stars? I don't want motor-bombs or atom-cars, I don't want: rocketfuls of crazy kids, All talking poppycock in planet-lids. Our life is healthy here: and I am told You'll bring consumption, and the common cold. Our life is quiet: but my saucer-boys Report that everywhere you cause a noise. And then -- it's rather delicate.-- but -- well, They say your planet has a nasty smell -- The smell of blood, the smell of sweat and toil, The smell of smoke, and alcohol, and oil, So kindly cancel anything you've planned: No earthian will be allowed to land. I'd have an Englishman or two to stay: But then, the Russians would be here next day." A. P, Herbert CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 85. Decay 1. Engineer's 4. roth" 1. Pithota | 8. Exhort . matter 12. 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"On second about this, aren't you?" she sald. I oiled it, anyway. Sort of felt. roast goose on my mind all af- A WINNER -- Five-year-old on EL WLR) Woy Danny Slivka showed up with the broadest blossom and the widest smile at a sunflower contest. Danny's flower measured 17% Inches across. "THEFARM FRONT A tractor and a furnace may not seem to-have much in com- mon, but did you know that a tractor radiator normally re- moves as much heat from the engine as is produced by the average household furnace? * * J] J. L. Thompson of the Fed- eral Experimental Farm at Swift Current, Sask. emphasizes that the cooling system in a tractor or engine requires good main- tenance to keep it performing at a high level. Dirt, he says, is the worst enemy of the cooling system -- both Inside and out. * * * Scale and rust slowly close the tubes and plug water pas- sages in the cylinder head and block. This coating, besides slowing circulation, reduces heat transfer and, in time, espe- cially under heavy loads on hot days, the tractor overheats. - Where water is used as a cool- ant, anti-rust additives are re- commended to retard rust and - scale formation. When a radia- tor becomes plugged, it should be cleaned by a shop speclaliz- ing in radiator repair. Leaves, insects, straw and soil on the outside. of. the core may cause overheating. Air pas- sages in the radiator core should be cleaned periodically. with an alr hose. Fan belts should be adjusted frequently during the operating season. 'Thermostats and hoses should be checked" when heating occurs, and re- placed if faulty. * * * - Anti-freeze is needed for late fall and early spring tractor use, Besides preventing a crack- ed block and radiator, anti- freeze contains additives which keep the inside core in good condition. "Proper care and periodic checks of the tractor cooling system will prevent delay in the field during the busy sea- son and avoid serious damage to a high priced machine," com- ments Mr. Thompson, * * * Barley kernels and the far- mer have. something in common when malting barley is not threshed properly -- they both get skinned. * * * Malting barley buyers will not pay a premium on barley when skinned and broken kernels constitute more than five per cent of the sample. When this occurs malting barley reverts to feed grades. * * * Agricultural engineers have studied the threshing problem and come up with a few sug- gestions that will reduce dam- age to a minimum, These are: 1, Set cylinder speed just fast enough to thresh barley from heads. 2. Adjust concave clearance to properly match 'eylinder speed. 3. Keep cylinder and concaves In good repair and. alignment, 1 Russell 4. Use plenty of wind for se- paration o! barley from chaff and straw -- keep sieve openings free from matted beards that tend to clog the screens, 3. Keep tailings return to a minimum, 8. Operate blower elevator at proper speed. 7. Minor adjustments may be necessary during the day to compensate for changes in temperature and moisture content of the straw and grain, * LJ * To implement these sugges- tions, the operator of the thresh- er will have to exercise consi- derable judgment and may of- ten have to do some experi- menting. * * LJ Benefits from inclusion of an antibiotic or an arsonic acid derlvitive In chick rations may hinge on the degree of expo- sure to disease infection, It was indicated in nutrition studies at Brandon, Man. Chicks were reared to six weeks of age in cleaned and disinfected battery brooders. Supplementation of their ration with an. arsonic acid derivative (45 grams per ton of 3-nitro-4- hydroxyphenylarsonic acid) or aureomycin (15 Boar's ton) had no influence'on body weight gains or feed efficiency. * * * Both compounds, however, im- proved the weight gains and feed efficiency of chicks reared on old litter in floor pens, where the degree of disease infection presumably would be higher than in the battery brooders. LJ * * Arsonic acid and aureomycin were equally eflective and no further improvement in growth was noted when the two com- pounds were fed in combination. It would appear that the growth stimulating - mechanism might well be the same for the arsonie acid compounds and the anti- biotics. Further tests are in progress to determine whether the re- sponse to arsonic acid may be influenced by ration composition, Nobody ever got the better of Judge .-Roy Bean, although one convicted criminal lit out from hig- Jersey Lily courtroom in Langtry, Texas, thinking 'that he had done so. Tom Wendler, caught réd-handed with a print- ing press and a stack of coun- terfeit bills, was jailed but man- aged to wangle his freedom by slipping five hundred dollars to guilty man was well out of the state did the anguished jurist examine the bribe and realize that he, himself, was a victim of the counterfelter. A helpless victim? Not for long That week, by Judge Bean's judicial order, the only legal tender acceptable in Langtry was counterfelt moneav, the right party. Not until the . 'The Day The Earth Stood Still And They Saw The Stars Dance' EDITOR'S NOTE: For those who helped to liberate Parl from the Nazis, Aug, 25, 1944, . will always he "the day the earth stood still , ; , and they saw the stars dance," say Rich- ard Hollander, writer of the fol- lowing 15th anniversary reminis- cence. Hollander entered Parls by jeep on the morning of Lib- eration Day with a team of psy- chological warfare speclalists, of which he was one. He is manag- ing editor of the Washington Dally News. by Richard Hollander Written for NEA Service Washington -- (NEA) -- Late summer in France is lovely in- deed. And on this day of Paris' liberation 15 years ago it seemed even lovelier than usual. There was a hush on the coun- tryside as the jeeps sped over the cobblestones to awaken Paris from a past that was dead, to begin a future from scratch. This countryside hadn't been churned by artillery. Except for the pitted paving and the wreck- ed belfries where German snipers had lingered you might have thought there hadn't been a war at all. The poplars in parallel rows curved toward Paris. The nearer you came, the more excited the people, In Rambouillet, southwest of the city, the excitement mount- ed. Tanks rumbled. Gen. de Gaulle waited in the chateau to make his triumphant entry, grumbling, people sald, because Gen LeClerc would get there ahead of him, . At the outer gates of Paris the people put on what was left of holiday attire. The champagne and the cog- nac and the kisses, all the tangi- ble gratitude intended for mil- lions of fighting men, was pour- ed out for the handful of Brit- ish and 'Americans fortunate enough to be in on this greatest day in the long history of Paris. Suddenly, the speeding jeeps veered into the Boulevard Ras- pail. All was ominously quiet. Behind those blank facades there were still snipers and the whine of the bullets echoed around your ears. The jeeps went faster and then they were swinging in front of the Chamber of Deputies and heading across the Seine Bridge that leads Into the Place de la Concorde. The bridge is called the Pont de la Concorde, and it was there at an American captain from Cambridge, Mass, hauled. his Jeep to a stop and began bang- ing away happily with his car- bine at the Hotel Crillon across the Place where a few Germans were holding out, It wasn't until later that the captain remembered that it was at another Concord Bridge that an ancestor had helped fire the shot heard 'round the world. Even after 15 years, it's still probably a good dining-out anec- dote. That night the boulevards, packed from wall to wall with all of the people of Paris, ex- ploded with singing of The Star Spangled Banner and God Save the King and the Marseillaise and Madelon and Tipperary. Near the Madeleine, a GI stopped in a doorway to light a cigarette. In the flare of the match he saw a middle-aged couple approach. The man tip- ped his hat and said, uncertain- ly: "You are an American?" The GI nodded. "Then," said the Frenchman, "will you please kiss my wife?" The mood lasted through the next day. There was a. parade and de Gaulle went to Notre Dame to give thanks, In the narrow road- way 'of the Rue di Rivoll be- tween the shops and the gardens of Louls XIV, the snipers begah again, But the people joked as they rolled in the gutters to hide. The firing continued, even into Notre Dame itself, like a half- remembered, unbelieveable movie, : In fact, after 15 years, that's what 'the whole long clvic up- heaval seems like to those who were there. On Saturday night, the dream came to an end. German bomb- ers ranged low over the city and dusted it for hours. Paris had been an open city, had no anti- aircraft defenses. We hadn't brought any. To the people, the little hand- ful of token liberators suddenly seemed just as Insufficlent as 3 Vs PARIS LIBERATION DAY, 1944: "The cha E---------- i A ee RP LASS a -- they really were. By 8 morning, the chastened Pa eyed the liberators with h Why were they so few? Was the end or only the beginning more trouble? In their minds, the people of Paris had somehow linked th own liberation with the end the war, It hadn't occurred #4 them in their first flights of um» bounded joy that there might by another long winter of war, fat to the north and east. oc sad mention the island hopping jungle rot and Kamekazis way across the world. Sometime during that Satum day night the world had begua to move again. From there on, it moved tos fast for most people. After all who In this generation was bors to digest the implications and the actuality of nuclear wea of two world wars that didn] seem to solve anything at all? AER 2 mpagne and the cognas and the kisses, all the tangible gratitude . , ." TE Open Season For Ducks And Geese DUCKS, GEESE, etc. -- Open seasons and bag limits, as an- nounced by the Department of Lands and Forests. Ducks, Daily limit 6 (exclusive of mergansers, of which not more an one may be a wood duck and of which not more thap ¢ may be canvasbacks or fed- heads). Possession limit 12 of which not more than 8 may be canvasbacks or redheads, Geese, Daily limit 5 -- Posses- sion limit 10 (persons resident more than 235 miles from James Bay may not kill more than 13 geese within 25 miles bf James Bay during the 1959' season.) Coots, Rails and Gallinules daily limit 8 -- possession limit 16 -- Woodcock daily limit 8, posses- sion limit 16. OPEN SEASONS this year are: In the Northern Distrid¢ Sept. 15 to Dec. 15th. In the Central Dis- trict Sept. 19 to Dec. 15. The Southern District -- 12 noon Oc- tober 4 to Dec, 15 except that in Essex County the open season for geese is from 12 noon Oct. 3 to Dec. 31 inclusive. 1. The open seasons Include the opening and closing dates; except that in the Southern Dis- trict the opening season com- mences at 12 noon, local time, on the opening date. 2. (a) The Northern District of Ontario comprises the Territorial Districts of Kenora, Patricia, Rainy River, Thunder Bay, Cochrane and Timiskaming, and those portions of Algoma, Sud- bury and Nipissing lying norther- ly of highway 17 between Mat- tawa and Sault Ste Marle and Northerly of the International Boundary between Sault Ste. Marie and Lake Superior; (b) The southern District of Ontario comprises: those parts of Muskoka _District and Simcoé County lying west of Highway 69; in Ontario County, those parts of the townships of Rama, Thorah, Brock and Reach lying west of Highway 69 and 12, an the townships of Scott, Uxbridge, Pickering Whitby and East hitby: In Durham County, the townships of Darlington ang Clarks; and the counties of Brant, Bruce, Dufferin, Elgin, Essex, Grey, Haldimand, Halton, Huron, Kent, Lambton, Lincoln, Middlesex, Norfolk, Oxford, Peel, Perth, Waterloo, Welang, Wellington, Wentworth an York; and (c) The Central District of On- tarfo comprises all that part of the Province which is not in- cluded in the Northern District or the Southern District. In Hartford, Conn., upon be- coming a U.S. citizen in federal court, Turkish-born Haroutious A. Aprahamian changed his name to Haroutious A. Abraha- mian. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 3 SAFE AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE -- A group of residents wip * H from Bringham City, Utah prepare fo leave Bozeman, Montana after spending the night at special Red Cross dormitories at Montana State College near the earthquake disaster, River when the earthquake dammed the river and They were trapped along the Madison aused considerable damaae, ' ol Wg So 20 Wate og 0s 4 : A hy = « we on pe, Liha ' ron Si Eons 0H