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AS SRT LS i ri, EE ET Vi age RM TIAA TR a EE TE RNRIET a a 6 - Salty Farmers 'Way Down East 'Recent scholarly dissertations here, employing the several spe- cies ~of 'imitation, in 'pleasing language, have dwelt on matters maritime, until the question has arisen as to what this has to do with the farm, anyway. ... It is too bad that so much of our rural heritage is highlander stuff, and the sea plays so little part. With . me it has not been so. Here on' the East Coast the highest perfections of husbandry were on what Rob Coffin made famous as a Salt Water Farm-- a clam flat connected by a rocky blossom-bestowed path to a corn patch, with a little 'white house that looked 'forth upon the sea ' and /was shaded behind by the forests of spruce and pine. The best farm 'land in Maine was never by the tide, but the best farm living in Maine was. *My own farm is ten miles back from mean high water, but such was the union of affairs that even we -grew up with. much of the sea in our affairs. One of my father's earliest memories is of driving a pung eight miles over winter snow-to Abagadasset where fishermen' were hauling their nets and tossing away the tomcods that had no market. Every time they drew' "they would get a peck of smelts and five tons of tomcod. My fa- ther, off on his first errand of consequence alone, was instruct- ed to offer the men a few cents a bushel if they would load his pung, and he brought the tom- cods home for hog food. In my own recollections, the launching' of the: Sintram was anachronistic, but very real, She was a five-masted schooner, the last ever built, and why I was bidden to the la'nching: party is unremembered, but .I was. The time was either 11919 or 1920. either February or March, and there: has never been such a la'nching since, and never will the Point, smelting at be 'been forgotten. When the war ended a half- built hull was on our ways, and suddenly there was no need of her. We had just la'nched the second-last one, which Mrs. Wil- son had called something like the Manuposcunoggatrass, and which was christened by the well-set, » During World War I the wood- en' cargo vessel 'for the Emer-- gency Fleet was built by the. hundreds 'wherever land sloped to the sea, The prints were sup- plied from Washington, and the boats were all alike. The most wonderful feature of this pro- gram was the ability of Mrs. 'Wilson, wife of the President, to think up names for them. Hap- pily, 'most of the names have sturdy, able wife of our harbor master. The lady held the local clam shucking record and used to cook on a trawler, She whang- ed the stem of the Manuposcu- noggatrass~ with the = festooned bottle and 'shouted, "I christen thee whatever: the thunder it is." - ANE 3s RETR Rd BONE Od Wt a'. ¥ re RLS as SAS 4 GREENS RP IRSA SERRE GIA Tot fa ' J] . EE day, built right there _ tram should be no less. Men wore mittens; and on the same slope, and. the: new Sin- They didn't finish her, up at wartime speed, but there came a time for la"nching, and.it was on a full moon tide.in the forenoon. About three inches of snow had fallen the night before; and a cold sun shone 'on the harbor grasped the la'nching hammers, Those of * us favored to be in the la'nehing party climbed the scaffolds to the . deck, and | perched myself in the yond to the open sea was a beautiful vessel, Suddenly the noise by expectancy. The over her heaviast coat, an attitude, The band waved to his men under unison, as hundreds of struck in count at the ioning of timbers most--but the Sintram be there by the stern, bow. timbers and of peoplc cheered. ing there with ; mauls, gazing up at the "This, my ancestors did; called a "lucky" craft. the sky when she put to 'sunny shores of Spain. . . mizzen stays to pverlook every- thing=--from the blue hills be- and the She flags on every line, but it was a cold morning and it took imagination. The men assembled under the hull, and there came from the la'nching master the order to strike. The empty hull. echoed With they gigantic thunder of hundreds of hammers pounding on the blocking, and this con- tinued until €very support was * out: except those actually hold- ing the great vessel to her ways. stopped- and the silence was émphasized la'nching .master came forth from under , _ the giant belly ofthe ship and looked up at the christening party under the rostrum: The bandmaster took : his 'cue, and there was a solemn hymn, after which a prayer was offered, and then the band struck up a riot- ous medley of longshore tunes. The lady in the white dress, clutched her beribboned bottle and struck suddenly ceased, and the la'nching master the hull. Then -- once, twice, thrice! -- there were three solid raps in men all shorings. Then there was utter silence y again, and we felt the vast fash- | under us | ¢ amove. It was imperceptible, al- us had be- come a living craft, and was al. ready smoking the grease under her keel. The taste of salt would I heard the lady, her thin + voice carrying on the chill air. 'She swung mightily to 'splinter- the bottle against the: rugged shouted, "I christen thee Sintram--and may God sail always with thee! And the stern was in the sea, and the: band was playing again, and whistles 'blew and the thousands - As we were water-borne and the timbers began popping up in the swirl of the tide, the ways spredd before us, and we could see the hundreds of men stand- long-handled prow -- perhaps some of them saying, and man may never do it again!" ~The Sintram was not what was She was outfitted, her sails and rigging making a brave aspect against sea some months later. She hauled céal a few trips, and was lost in a storm 4 composition Plain Eats away . Broud . Fragrant . Meridian, . Wing . Petition ' h munion table neo around TA 1 i$ part $1. Rise of rete etrtetrtrdil ads ted 4 8 npen fot delate 1. Road fee Frost": 2S) . Football tenm Ont Play the lead thie Answer elsewhere on this page i But the half-built vessel be-- : . : off a southern coast, came the Sintram..Local men It didn't matter, much. The cashed their Liberty Bonds and. | pyilding and the la'nching had formed a corporation that took |- heen successful-the rest was in- ae over from the government. | (igental. To have stood in the hey tossed away most of the mast-rigging of a five-masted ig blueprints, and fin- | schooner while she slid into the shed her up traditionally, con-" | giink was, in itself, something. verting her by rule-of-thumb to # That cold morning was colder 2 ae 2 5 en Lined clipper--not | gi) when the fun was over. Peo- Tikely: Ther ut sea-worthy and. | p1e on the beach went home, bit y: "here was a good deal | tha a'nching party stayed aboard. more sentiment than good sense, They sent a dory out for us, and and the Sintram was maerelv. g one by one we went down a present day symbol of past glory. line overside, ladies and all, and The world had .no use for a came ashore .again. Bve magia schooner, but every- | "I do remember, besides the hy hii Werke on her be- | cold, that I lamented the delay eved, e back pastures of | jn getting us ashore--for 1 had Maine no longer had any mast to get home in time to milk.-- timbers, so they had to bring her By John Gould in The Christian sticks in by rail from the South. Science Monitor. But Charlié Dunning. "het" his = I, ' forge and made all the rings and "Your girl friend 'phoned. blocks as he'd done in olden | Said she wouldn't be able to see times. There had once been a you to-night after all" ° famous Sintram, holding numer- "Well, that's a wait off my ous transoceanie records. in her mind." boa , iid z 8: Father 41 Suneriutive CROSSWORD foie. a fondo 10. bone alone u Whole re 1 11. Revugnizea 39 Paddle % 'PUZZLE 17 Affirmative 41 Arithmetie - vote wrohlems + © ACROSS 2.0 1 32. Soi' 3 iflesnity 1 Poli os Honrkened 24 Fish troma {5 Part of a+ "stature \ pi Bnlk moving boat , church Annax shinment 26 Plaintiveery 1 Away from 8. Offloa "8. Afr (comb 26 Tork nume windward "furniture form) 27 Entered 1% Chart 12 Madley 6. Fears 29 Visionary 60 Attention 13 Kindotaflx ~~ 7:Contestea ~ 30 Humane. 76) Owos | 14. Author unknown (ah) 16 Was defeated 16. Prenare for ~ riding again 8 Rent 9 Sndsy » 0. Scatfer meen 1 Perio ; 3 Musical The First Straw That great French variety artist Maurice Chevalier recent- ly acquired half a dozen new straw hats for use "in. hig acts during a new tour of Britain - and the United "States. Straw hats have always-been an esséntial part of his wardrobe and he always buys them in Britain, At the age of seventy, Chevalier still has that efferves- cent gaiety which has made him famous as an entertainer all over the. world. The very thought of retirement: bores him, He has said that when he achieved qutstanding success he became "almost "afraid of 'my own fame." The publicity he re- " 7 ceived scared him. "Would-yon like it if suddenly a- shaft of fierce light was thrown on every aspect of your life as it was cn mine, turning you into a kind of living waxwork figure that twisted 'and turned for the entertainment of the public." Many stories have. been told of why he first began wearing straw hats in his shows. But the truth is that many years=ago while he was appearing in a touring show at Deauville he met a man wearing one with evening dress on the local prom- enade. "He was wearing a straw hat: ut a cute angle," says Chevalier "I 'never knew his name. I never saw him again. But he .gave me the idea of wearing ¢ straw hat with evening dress and I've been wearing one pretty well 'ever since." . KEYBOARD -- With a keyboard similar to a pianos, instead of the usual holes, this German miss triés out a new flute, call- ed "Melodica," manufactured in Munich. . 900-Year-Old "Strip Cartoon Twelve men and women at Aubusson, France, have begun the mighty task of weaving what will be the world's largest tap-. estry. Measuring 74 ft. 8 in. high and 38 ft. wide, it will hang behind the High Altar of the new Coventry = Cathedral end has been designed by the artist Graham Sutherland. The work will be.completed by 1961. This ' great tapestry, in the Byzanthine style and showing "Christ in Glory", will cost $60,000 which is being provided by. an anonymous donor. It is being woven under the direc- - tion of world tapestry authority Madame Cutolli on a 12-metra loom which was speciaily built for the purpose. EE. It was Madame Cutolli who was chiefly responsible for tha 'modern. revival of the French tapestry industry. The priceless Bayeux Tapestry, the most fam- ous example of weaving art in existence, which is 230 ft. 9 in. long by 20 in. wide, was woven . In France and is said to have' been embroidered by William the Conqueror's Queen Matilda. The Bayeaux tells in 72 scenes the story of the life of Williara and the Norman conquest of England in 1066 -- an ancient counterpart of a strip cartoon. Six hundred and twenty-three people are depicted in it with 202 horses and mules, 55 dogs and 505 other animals in addi- tion to many buildings, ships and trees. ' . It" was feared at one time during the war that this tapestry had fallen into Nazi hands 'When danger was first threatened the tapestry was placed in a lead _ case and removed to a newly 'constructed shelter in Bayeau itself. Later it was taken to a country house with other na- tional treasures af France, At the liberation of Paris, it was discovered undamaged in the Louvre. SA LH RA, ORNAMENTAL -- Surrounded by hedge apples, Pamela Thorp, had an eye toward the holidays. The hard, inedible fruit can be painted, making unusual Christmas tree decorations. THEFARM FRONT opis Farming has changed so much in recent years that U.S. agricul- 'tural colleges are finding it necessary to give their curricula - a thorough going over. They are adjusting courses of study to the trend toward "agribusiness." LJ ° ® Purdue University, which pro- vides an example of the changes' underway, has just completed the drafting of a new agriculture curriculum, following a two-year study of the needs of today's students. It places much more emphasis on basic studies in the natural sciences, in economics, in languages' and in business sub- jects, and less on "how-to-do-it" courses. LE The boy who goes to the uni- versity's agricultural school now isn't attending what he used to call a "cow college," judging by the changes already in effect here. He is spending less time in the college farm feedlots, more in the laboratories. LJ LJ LJ He will come out with a greater ability to understand what. re- search has to give him, will have greater ability to understand the behavior of prices, will have learned some of the fundamen- tals of business management so necessary today op the farm. As a result of its new empha- sis on these basic studes, Purdue University's agricultural schéol is growing fast. It had the Jlarg- est percentage of new admissions this year within the memory of its administrators--a 21 per cent increase. The new curriculum, which. will go into effect next. fall, is expected to stimulate further the growth of the school. * LJ The rapid changes in agricul- tural technology now occurring encourage this approach. It is not just a case of not doing things the 'way grandpa did. Progres- sive farmers today read éXperi- ment station reports, attend con- ventions, confer with their sup- pliers, take short courses, and constantly update their methods in the light of new research findings. Dean Butz says the new curriculum recognizes this fact. "If we teach the best practices today," he said, "the student may find them obsolete by the time he graduates and has the oppor- tunity to- use them. It is better for him to learn how to find out these developments for himself." * » . Another factor enters into the 'need for. the basic studies. The largest proportion of students at- tending agricultural college come from farms, but many .do not re- turn to them after graduation, A/ _ study: of the careers of Purdue students after graduation shows that only 10 to 15 per cent of them return to the farm imme- diately after graduation. Another 10 per cent go back after a de- . cade of work in an off-farm oc- cupation. Another 20 to 30 per cent finally get back to farming, perhaps after a career in the city which has been- sufficiently successful to permit ea¢h to buy .and equip a farm according to his heart's desire. (It takes around $100,000 to do tliat, they say.) J LJ L This leaves around 50 per cent who will never return. But .it does not indicate that the non- farmers made 'a mistake in at- tending agricultural college, Dr. who made the study, points out that many went into branches of 'work closely allied to farming, where agricultural education was . extremely valuable, writes Doro- thea Kahn Jaffe in The Christian Science Monitor, - Some went into the govern- mental service as farm advisers or workers in the Department of Agriculture. Some went into agricultural education, others in- to farm research. Still others became agricultural editors, one an agricultural missionary. - . . LJ How great is the need for agriculturally trained men and women outside agriculture is shown In figures supplied this correspondent by Dr. Lowell S. Hardin, head of Purdue's depart- ment of agricultural economics. Of this country's labor force, about 8,000,000 persons work in farm production, and from eight to ten million in strictly non- agricultural occupations. But there are an additional 16,000,- 000 persons working in jobs re- lated to agriculture. They are either in farm supply industries and service or in the marketing end, including food processing and retail food sales. The changes in the Purdue curriculum aré aimed to meet the needs of those who go into these fields related to agriculture as well as those who intend to farm. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 31s 3(3 S| n 'D. C. Pfendler, assistant dean, Bigger They Come Everyone says that automo- biles are getting too big, but rking lot operators -- bless them -- are - doing drastic about it. 'Offe Washing- ton operator is cutting rates by 'about one third for customers with small cars. L. B. Doggett, Jr., president of the Washington Parking Association and opera- tor of 17 lots, makes eminent mathematical sense when he points out that 42 half-pint autos can be fitted into the space now required for 20 of the behe- moths which some people in De- troit waspishly term a "normal" size car, Now, there are several honor- able and energetic exceptions to the trend among manufacturers to make the huge even huger; and the indecision among the big companies which must "freeze" models several years In advance deserves some sympathy along with the scoffing. But it is melancholy to 'note that the infatuation with size as a symbol of something or other still pre- vails; many 1959 models even outspan the mammoths of 1958. Add to this growing length the problem of the fragile new equipment which adorns some models--it has almost come to stereophonic headlights and switchblade fins--and the deter- - mination of parking lot opera- tors to revise rate schedules is understandable. In New York one group of 400 operators has voted to raise fees for most 1959 models by 15 to 30 per cent. Thus if esthetic considerations fail to shrink the dreamboats, economics--and the sheer im- possibility 'of providing enough road space if the size of cars in- creases with .the volume--may yet curb the length. Sooner or later it may 'cost more to park these monoliths than to keep up the payments, and the family garage may loom like an air- drome over the house where , mere mortals dwell. --Washing- ton Ppst.: Royal Flower Britain's lavender acres are shrinking every year, but there sre signs that its oldest and sweetest flower -- the finest ir the world for making perfume -- Is returning to 'front-rank popularity. gi? The Queen loves lavender, Thy late Queen Mary was so fond of RK {hat she frequently visited the. fields near Sandringham from which the spikes are gathered for blending and pre- paring lavender water. It 1s said that King George IV devised a special formula for lavender water. The laadles of his court invariably wore it. If the current love of lavender continues-to flourish perhaps we shall see again In London full- gowned street sellers crying as they did more than two hun- dred years ago: "Who'll buy my sweet blooming lavender -- six- teen branches a penny?" something DAY SCHO01 _LESSON R. barclay Warre B.A, B.D, * By Rev Jesus Calls Forth Faith Mark 9:14-29 Memory Selection: All things are possible to himi that be- lleveth, Mark 9:23. In this quarter we continua the study of the .life of Christ as recorded in Matthew, Mark and Luke. We are dealing almost _exclusievly with the closing scenes of Jesus' earthly career. After the healing considered in this lesson Jesus takes his final departure from the. northern province of Galilee to proceed to Jerusalem, - The event in today's lesson took place after Jesus came down from the mount of trans- tiguration with Peter, James and John. When they came to the other disciples they found a multitude of people A man had brought his son who was deaf and dumb to be healed. The disciples had tried to cast out the evil spirit but were un- successful. The critical scribes were watching, The father of the boy was disappointed. The crowd was interested. They brought the boy to Jesus. The boy fell to the ground and frothed at the mouth. Jesus ask- ed the father. "How long it it ago since this came unto him?" The father replied, "Of a child." and proceeded to describe the allment and then plead for com- passions. It was the practice of. Jesus to let people confess fully their needs. Then Jesus chal- lenged him to believe, saying, "If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth." He answered, weep- ing, "Lord, 1 believe; help thou mine unbelief." He had a mea- sure of faith but was struggling with doubt, which was due in large measure to the failure of the "disciples. Giving expression to his faith would help to strengthen it. The Jesus rebuked the foul spirit and raised up the boy. Then Jesus had a lesson for the disciples, They asked, "Why could Wot we 'cast him out?" He replied, "This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting." It is still true that one Féi3oh for the church's weakness Is.its {allure to pray. In most churches the prayer meeting has died. No wonder we are so powerless in meeting the evil forces about. It a spiritual awakening comes, there will be a renewed desire to pray. It Is likewise true that if there comes' a renewed desire to pray, a spiritual awakening will come. ISSUE 1 -- 1959 pres VORACIOUS -- Suggesting a giant housefly, the jagged metal sculpture, called Animale Organico, gobbled up third prize of $1,000 at a Pittsburgh exhibition. The creation is by French sculptor Cesar. AUK above, brought $25 a po Chuck, 17, in white jacket. Pa Howard Johnson Jr., at left, od a NEES TALI IRANI TET A. LSE GRAND CHAMP -- Grand Zhampion steer of the International Livestock' Show, at Chicago, to co-owners Gregory Wood, 8, on steer's back, and brother 1% SONA ying the $23,125 for the Aberdesn-Angus is restaurant man ¥ 3 ag i NS are A L a, iu on ote Ge So i a I nn ly Se - ~ ny as