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RE I ER Sa ETE ATI Th | exact intervals of t Curious Clocks One of the most ourious wind a the world is in Benares, Indie, At noon twelve skeletons "leap ia the alr and strike the howr od @ huge metal gong. After the hour J struck, the wirel eontr mechanism slacken . off, the skeletons collapse. The bones are those of . the: men who originally made the gong. The dloek: itself, 'which 'has wo Jace, is tended by priests, who re- gard it as one of thelr most sored _ possessions, « In. Biairits, Southern" Franee, is clock with a face but no works. he face 1s. sixteen feet across, and Whe minute hand is. moved every 'minute by an old man who checks "the time by Ms own 'watoh, America too, has a slook with a "face and no works. It js rey by: a geyser. The eyser- spouts o, and each time #t does s0 the minwee hand Moves on. . 'One of 'the most fomous and a Whe same time one of the most wonderful elocks in mn world js wt Strasburg, The time ls shown by 8 revolving globe, Other parts show eo eslendar, the revolutions of the o Planets, and the phases of the gaoon). while a series of Agvres Jo shatiote indicate the days 'of the week, o The fret quarter of the' Howé is sounded by a ehid with a rattle, the half-hour by a youth with aa. . .srrow, the third quarter by a sod dor with a sword, and the full hour by an old man with a erutch. A procession of the Twelve Apostles "moves slawly past _ figure of Christ, bowing as they move, 'whilst a cock, on the top of a turret,- crows and flaps 'his "wings. Finally the figure of Ohrist makes the sign of the Cross. Probably 'the most peculiar cloek- in the world is in Morocco, and bh worked by flower pots. Protruding through a wall are twelve wooden beams, -and hour: is denoted by the number of beams holding a flower pot. The and subsequently removed by a ""Tman expressly engaged for that purpose. In Britain, one of the best-known clocks is jn Wells Cathedral. Three concentric circles 'on the face show nty-four hours of the day, the 'minutes and the days of - he; Q lunar 'month. 2" "Above the dial plate is a tower, "= around which knights "on horse- | back revolve every hor, whilst a 'figuFeknown as Jack Blandifer, peated some distance from the -elock, 'strikes the hours, haH-howre and quarters by. kicking his heels ragainst bells. In addition, on the outside of the _- 'emthedral, two _armoused knighte- "strike 'the quarters on bells by. meas of battle-axes. Coningsby Church, in Lincoin- thir has a clock with aa hows © hand but no minute hand, as has the clock at 'St. Margaret's, West- minster. The exact time has to be essed from the actual' Position. of ¢ hour hand. : Comeback--Ben Hogan, play- ing his first golf tournament since his almost-fatal accident 11 months ago, checks scorecard after 72 holes of the ' 'Los Angeles Open at Santa 'Monica, Calif. { Champion Grandpa "One of Belgium's: spplest men is Mr. of ~Gybels; of Meldert, in the province of Lim- urg. Wh f] Because--himaelf the ther of ia children, 12 of Whasy are married--he . is: the country' (perhaps the world's) champ A grandfather, Mr. Gybels' married shildren have presented him with 0 fewer than 65 grandchidren;- of whom 78 are living. They In turn have presented him with 11 great-- grandchildren, of whom 10 are Ilv- ng. he . he the hie proudest and' "knew that insects _ulture New Kind of Pole-8itter--No food, no water, nothing for a week ~--that was the experience of this cat in Windsor, Ont., ehased up a hydro pole by doge recently. The maze of live - overhead wires stopped any attempt to rescue puss from the feet above ground--too dangerous, the hydro ruled. But the endin ng Barrow crossbar wig, the eat finally inch =... _stopp was a happy one. ite way through the wires that -man,-to- earth-and-safety-- Coaxed by _when A BLT C LN - "Was Joe Louis the Greatest!" ie the intriguing title of an article in" a recent Colliers Magazine. In 'it 'the author attempts--or at least starts out to attempt--settiement of tthe vexed question of who was - the, greatest heavyweight of all time, (And, by "the way, mo men- tion is made of son although, "according to . Cegil B. DeMille's latest opus, Swin in' , Sam packed quite Still, ence" ass's jawbone or some such, where- as more modern heavies concealed theirs in their mitts.) a gty. nanfed. Sant- allop, at (hat, Samson carried "the Aiffer- openly, in the form" of an "1 Pinca aa, Seg 'We said" "starts-out to attempt" - advisedly because,' when we get to the end of the piece, 'we find the question still more or less unsettled. However, whose opinion must be respected, even if not:-accepted, being none other than Gene' Tunney, himself a pretty fair sort of leather-peddler . and one of the few champions-- you could count the others on the toes of a timber leg--to quit the ring with practically all his earn- ings # _unscrambled. the author is a man intact, and his mental eggs In a fashion magazine, of all places, I ran across these verses, by aa anonymous author, which I think will appeal to all fruit growers who vead this column, and maybe some - of | the rest of you as well, The title #8 A FRUIT GROWER'S WILL -_smd the verses go like this: When I am dead ! Don't send me, please To 'a place with white 'eronses _ And sad little trees. Put me in the orchard, Two splits deep, : Where the worms: come and [7] And the rootlets creep: Where the salts and the 'acids, ~The phosphates and lime, Will make good apples : ~ At apple-plcking time, - And when pickers 'come ~ On aa autumn day, "That tree's a one" Ie what th sey. Jie Down in Taio, Florida, "bug- fighters from seven different coun- tires recently attended the joint. ses- sions of the American Entomolo- gleal Society and the Association of the Economic Entomologists. And- right now I'd like to sa I'm glad I'm not the Mayor of ampa--not « ¥ he had to get off those titles in his speech of welcome. * But i in ite of le mouth filling" tage, these scientists came out with some interesting - facts about - the asver-ending fight - against insects. Here's what one Observer reported: Je Men who ade, Jotont control are breeders. - something like plant Theirs is a constant battle to stay one step ahead of nature. Now and then nature wins a round. By the time Clinton oats were re- leased, plant breeders had better varities well on the way. But nature erossed up the research men with Race 45 rust. Race 45 got here ahead of the better oats, * * So it is vith entomologists. This year, the European corn borer won a round, But plant breeders and'en- tomologists win their rounds, too. It is always a see-saw battle. For example, none of the entomologists were surprised at reports of DDT- resistant flies and mosquitoes. They . many kinds have always built up a resistance to most poisons. * * * "80 "entomologists and chemists dared not stop with DDI. They kept onc looking for something better. » It is well established that 'many- "strains of filles and some mosquitoes ave built up a terrific resistance to DT in some areas, * * iL] : For the moment, they can be han. dled with other chemicals which have not been so widely used. Nor weed quite so long. It takes several _ generations of expostre to build up a resistant strain of buge, . But in oe Departtient of Agric- Jaboratories. at Beltsville, Frank H, Babera has one straln of houtse-flies that resist the action of DDT and five other chlorinated hy- drocarbon chemicals In ourrent use Hike lindane and chlordane, = So it is os vapected flies will become resistant to lindane and the othpr chemicals now used. What will we do then? Go back to the fiy- swatter? | 7 ---- : : : Those resistant flies were bred so FARM FRONT entomologists "could work toward i of And new killers are ha Already they have been new killers. confing.. tested, and work fine on flies. remains to determine their danger to people. J One thing will work for 'sure, En- : tomologists 2 Tampa, work with control. Fly control begins with effective sanitation. Destroy breeding places. "Fly prevention is always better," in the words of Dr. S, W, Simmons. * What about other 'insect cea? wire-worms, worms, sweet clover weevils, 'and --so on? Do we have the answer yet? The answer "has to be "No." In eorp borer research, it could be said ~we have come along far enough to Corn borers, now- know how know. * - Maybe born borers. will build up 'a resistance to DDT like' some flies, "Then we will have to use something . One thing, however, is sure, No resistance is going to be built until DDT corn borer control treatments have become a general .practice for several corn borer gen- up erations. * Maybe by that time something better Will come along -- a new chemical, a resistant strain of corn, or a mechanical method. One eatinig bugs. - * . * * * new approach some entomologists fighting plant- That 'is the use of brand-new chemicals that "translo- cate." Now we put the bug killer on the plant. In the new method, yom - use a bug poison which will be ab- sorbed 'into the plant, 1t .can go into. the roots or through the leaves. Then it translocoates--moves into the circulation system of the plant. The bug takes a nip at the plant, or starts to bore into the stalk, and' * Fla., lies all agree on this. It is_more important. than chemical - FY little we * * * he: gets a bellyful of poison. + * x But such a poison must not be harmful to animals or humane. That is algo one of the problems facing and the chlorinated hydrocar- DD bons. Enough tests have been made so scientists can tell you about how much DDT, chlordane, lindane or toxaphene you will find jn meat, milk or eggs if animals are fed grain or roughage treated with a given amount of the chemical. * * But no one¢ can tell you what happens to humans who eat such * meat, milk or eggs. They know what happens to a rat's liver if the fat eats too much - DDT. But no one knows what will happen to you or to kids that drin too much DDT in milk. Nor when it will happen, Nor how much i is too" much, * There, the Food and Drug Ad- ministration has to operate solely . on the best opinion that can be mus- "tered in the industry--and on the thesis, "if it ain't naturally .in an * * apple, it ain't good for you." For example, many research men are loaded with DDT they have ab- sorbed, Probably' spray operators Find «-plump research chemist who has d with a lot, Gently s "sue from hi iA analyze it, are, to will find pp " That gives you a rough idea facing Chemicals have beconie vital to eon- ~ tinued food production in many cases. These research men fave lp figure out something that" will and, still not. 'hurt the people. And'it must be low in cost, problems 'the bugs a slab of fatty the- and you | * * entomol .easy to use. It's some job! appeals 1t who cut- really i] to* ov] DDT » the iste. pense, down the "greatest of all" contend- + ers to a mere two--Joe Louis and Jack Dempsey. -And surely it was ' 'merely by coincidence that we no- ticed, a couple of weeks after the piece hit the- newsstands, that the Brown Bomber and the Manassa. Mauler are due to" "battle", some time this simmer, in a- movie en- titled "The "Battle of the Century". _It wouldn't "he that Mr, --and Colliers--are sort of bally- hoding that epic, in advance, would it? Perish the thought! * Fe * Not to keep you too long in sus- Mr. Tunney quickly boils Tunney * * x Tunney's method --of ~brushing -- aside all fighters other than Louis and Dempsey is simple--almost'too simple. We'll quote just a bit of what he has to say about one of 'these; "By scratching out 'Black Jack' earn the lifelong scorn of a small but vocal coterie sists that Johnson was the lad who could have leveled Joe Luis: more or less accurate line oir John- son's real ability can be gleaned from a record book. In three of - his outstanding contests, he did not register the effectiveness required of a great champion. . Johnson too; I'll. 'prebably which still in- A » > x. The three that Gene goes on to © gite are Johnson's tilts with Tommy Burns, Stanley Ketchel. and Jim Jeffries, pointing out that the first . two were much too small to be | real contenders, and: that Jim Jeff-~ ries was a mere shell of his former self. But Tunney forgets to men- / tion' that in 'those three engage- 'ments,' in fact in practically every 'fight he ever had, Jack Johnson was cuffs. because of his out-of-the-ring an- ig feelin in effect fighting in hand- Because --of --his--color;--and-- against Jack Johnson --g0---high- that there 'are those ! ee) believe that never once, in all _his career, did he dare to--or bother to--cut loose. with everything he had. * * * . "You don't have to take my word word for this apparently arbitrary dismissal' of battlers. whose names we. were brought up to revere," continues 'brother Tinney. you don't even have to compare written records or refer to excellent 'treatises on the subject. Television has settled the argument definitely. Recently the coaxial cable moguls have disinterred ancient films show- ing every great fight -since Jeffries surprised the world by kayoing Bob - _ Fitzsimmons. 3 "atead of supplying thrills ;and ex- citement, sent speci: yulsions. They howlcu. at the ridicu- lous-looking pork-and-beaner stan-: ces, the windmill swings and Don- ald Duck footwork, not to mention the beefy spare 'tires flopping over their trunks. Even Jack Johnson, who had a genuine touch of great- ness in him, looks . far from im- pressive in his compared with the finely developed ring technique and 'clever footwork "And These flickers, :in- rs- into con- best bouts when 1 have . of Dempsey, Louls and otfiers. " Gene Tunney i is known, not only as a.former heavyweight champion, but as something of a Shakespear= 'ean student as well. We suppose that if he: should happen to see . ' some' old, scratched-up .film "taken .of John Barrymore back in the days of the silent movies, he would conclude that Jack must have been a lousy Hamlet, Gene never happen- ed to think that film technique might improved considerably - too with the passage of the years, did he? But no--*Television has' gettled the :argument definitely." Ww * x J Tunney describes at great length "what he calls "one of the greatest ring. battles of all time'--the Dempsey-Willard thing at Toledo on July 4th, 1919. Then, later on, he ::admits® that he wasn't - there personally but" has seen since in 'movies of the bout." Dempsey's long-swinging . left hook, -- which smashed Jess Willard's cheekbone into "fragments is, in his 'Opinion, oné of "the three mightiest blows delivered 'during ' the last thres decades of boxing". 7 ; * x : _. Now. surely -- althoiigh Gene _ Tunney never condescended t to mingle much with the rude ohar- acters of ringdom--somebody must have told him about™ the wery- shrewd: suspicion, 'which still per- sists, that Jack Dempsey, when he '- cut big Willard to' pieces that:swel- tering July day, was carrying a teeny mite of illegal. assistance. Some say that his bandages had been - dipped into . concrete - which, after water had been poured over, quickly hardened into rocklike' solidity, Dempsey himself has ad- mitted that he had two or three ~ times the legal amount of tape. There's no doubt that Willard took a terrific beating. But if his hand- _lers 'had been as shrewd as those =} for our. 1950 catalogue and prices. M '| weekly year vound {1 AGENTS HOUSEWIVES necessities; reasonable - prices, premiums; quality .and SERVICE, Become & rosperous business man by usingiand selling AMILEX - yroducts--write today and we will tell you HOW.---FAMILEX, 1600 PelorimbsA MONTREAL. ATTENTION: Agents] where, name plates of plate-glass and metal. Sells for $1:76. Costs you. 78c. 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