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an i 1 'When Church Suppers Were The Real Thing It has come to my alarmed attention that Maine may take a 'church supper" to the up- goming world's fair, as part of * the advertising aspect of such expositions, and I've scarce slept a wink since I heard it." The term "church supper" is used loosely; it could also be called a Grange supper, or a lodge sup- per--it means one of these com- munity collations put on by a committee, much or all of the food coming by hand from those "asked to contribute. The postal cards announcing the event used to say, "All those not solicited please bring cake." One time Harry Blackstone had two pots of baked beans for the annual installation supper at Acacia Lodge, A. F. & A. M,, and his wife drove him over in the family automobile. Harry got out and picked up a pot in each hand, He had old newspapers wrapped around them so they weren't too hot to handle, and he said, "OK, I'll catch a ride home with Joe," and turned toward the meeting hall, About an hour later the boys inside began saying, "Where do you suppose Harry is with the beans?" and didn't know he was down at the outside door kicking it first with one foot and then with the other, trying to attract attention to the fact that he had no hand for turning knobs. It is impossible, with an eight-quart pot of beans in each hand, to set one of them down. You can only get rid of it by passsing it to someone. If they'd been-quieter- they might have heard him sooner, but when they heard him they let him in and Harry was a bit petulant. Thinking of Harry, and ten thousand other things about church suppers, I wonder if this solid aspect of Maine life can be successfully duplicated at a world's fair. World's fairs are al- ways dedicated to progress and the future, and church suppers reach back. They may find a suitable bevy of home-bodies in hand-sewn ap'ns to serve the open, shut and. cross-bar pies in decent variety, but would those world's fair pies be baked from prepared crust mix, and would the goodies inside be brought in No. 10 cans? The institutional cans? They might have the 1,001 cakes, but would each have the ICE WALL _ Watching one of his students climb up a wall of ice. Douglas Ball shouts instructions to Thomas Berg. Berg practices double rope method for climbing out of a crevasse as part of his study in McMurdo, Antarctica. infinite gusto of the down-east kind from its own kitchen and oven? At the little church in Union, where the Union Fair always feeds the lovely candidates for Maine Blueberry Queen, hot bis- cuits come to the table by leagues and hectares, and when the lady who bakes them was asked for a '"receet" she said, "Oh, goodness--I wouldn't know. Flour and baking powder and melk (sic) but I guess it's mostly the good hot oven they got here." Would they bake Maine hot bis- cuits at a world's fair by any such rule as that, or would they contract for crowd-size deliveries by truck? There's a strawberry festival here every year, and lke Coombs brings the cream in a 40-quart can, He "sets" it, which is whol- ly illegal, and skims it with a skimmer, and you could pick up one edge of It and spread it like a napkin. If the State of Maine ever tried to serve such cream at a world's fair the Board of Health would shut them off be- fore anybody sat down. Up at Brewer they have a Con- servation Association that always serves boiled turnip. I do not know if the aroma of boiling turnips would enhance the public interest at a world's fair, but when you step in the door of this clubhouse you are glad. This turnip is worth driving long miles. I've asked, and. the only "secret" they have is an unusu- ally strong-armed member who believes in conservation so much that he patiently larrups the delectable fruit into submission, adding a quantity of butter for smoothness and charm. I have not inquired if he would be free to mash turnips at a world's fair. He might not be able to get away, Another aspect of the church supper is the time. The annual bean-hole bean convocation of the average Maine country church is usually set for five, seven and, if there is still an overfiow, nine. It might just be that some non-Mainers, attracted to a bean-hole bean supper at a world's fair, would miss the five, feel the seven was likely to be oversubscribed, and before nine would go down the midway to a hotdog stand. Back home, we wait it out, because on the night f the church supper there often fmt any other place to eat. Grange suppers also have a time element. Before Ceres, Pomona and the spirit of new mown hay have delivered their charges to a large class of candi- dates the hour is often late, The rich effluvia of beef stifle and boiled onions has intruded upon the esoterics for some time, but the Worthy Master must see the work of the day to laudable fruition. The stampede to the dining room downstairs when at last the labors are over and the implements have been secured is the natural reaction of six- o'clock appetites that have been kept waiting until midnight. If such can be duplicated at a world's fair, I'm all for it. But as a lifelong devotee of the pub- lic feast, I envision the attempt with doubts. I surmise the Maine church supper would do well to stay to home, -- by John Gould in the Christian Science Monitor. COLD SCOTCH Numbed by Florida's wintriest wave since 1888, golfers in a $30,- 000 Haig & Haig Scotch mixed- foursome event donned trench coats between swings. As tem- peratures . dipped, Sam Snead quipped: "This is the only place in the world where you can pick frozen orange juice." Co-winners: Magon Rudolph and Kathy Whitworth, each netting a cool $2,225. Poise is the quality which en- bles you to buy a new pair of shoes when your socks are in holes. CROSSWORD | PUZZLE ACROSS DOWN Mel f Ma. 1. Port ~ §-inquire 2. Fatty fruit . AT fos 12 Substance in 3. Halt-peter Portland . gr, letter cemont i Shei bark clinker ad Rent title . Ups . On the briny ft Anfazamant . Deoapitate ' f ROOK Fusaian n 8. ole! 8 Beverage : Yor ua 1. Orrin Brother tr, Weil tte vi ad ------ Retain 34. Last queen of onveyance Spain ead covering 35 Dwelling rol iy 37, Understand d 1 7. Yarn measure 40. Be consistent , Contribute 42. Rather than . Be indebted = 45. 8torms . Determine 46. Bevel . Addition to a 47. Behind time building 49. Handle - Malt beverage Fy nterrogative . Rowing Posaessive implement adjective 3 Knock 64. Born 33. Pendulum 86. Institute sult weight 87. Wine vessel Answer elsewhere on this page i on Toe hig Wp AER WADDLE WE DO? -- Seven duck 2 TY w S, at Memphis, Tenn. test their footing on unfamiliar ice. about to quacks up over the i "hard water" in their pond SNOW SHOOT--VYvette Barts- chi makes sure there'll be skiing no matter what the weather as she triggers some- thing of a blizzard near Lau- sanne, Switzerland. Sno w- maker spits out mixture of compressed air and water which freezes. ' Death Of Jocko Stirs Things Up How do you prevent water- ways from becoming so polluted that a sea lion starves to death in Lake Ontario? You can't, unless the public is determined to clean up Canadian rivers and lakes, D. S. Simmons, a director of Imper- ial Oil, pointed out recently. "Speaking to an international gathering of water pollution ex- perts attending the Water Pollu- tion Control Federation confer- ence held recently in Toronto, Mr. Simmons recalled the case of Jocko, the sea lion which escaped into Lake Ontario from a resort zoo, lived in the lake for several months and died from malnutri- tion shortly after recapture. Water pollution had wiped out so many fish that Jocko could not get enough to eat. "In general, industry is devot- ing a considerable amount of time, effort and money to pollu- tion control," Mr. Simmons said. "Our governments, as well, have accepted their responsibilities to regulate, research and combat water pollution." But the efforts of government and industry are not enough, he said. Public awareness and education on the problem and costs involved form 'an essential step in any plan to preserve our water resources. "This is particularly true now when the big problem facing us is not so much industrial wastes but domestic sewage," he contin- ued. "Every day, from Canadian households alone, more than two and a half billion gallons of raw or partly treated sewage is dump- ed back into our rivers and lakes. The water we drink from our taps may already have been used, we are told, up to six times." Mr. Simmons said that it is es- sential that the public at large be educated to the dangers of un- controlled water pollution and the costs necessary to combat it, because it is the public that pays whether the problem is brought under control or allowed to con- tinue unabated. "If there is control, we as in- dividuals pay for the measures which clean up our water sup- plies, no matter how this is done," he continued. "If there is no control, we as individuals pay for it when instead of going to Lake Ontario to swim we have to drive our families 100 miles north to find clean water." "Today, when man is reaching for the stars, let us hope he does not forget the rivers and streams that flow by his door," Mr. Sim- mons said. "It is an unnecessary irony of our society that when we are probing outer space for other forms of life, we are ne- glecting one of the foundations of our- own existence." -- From Imperial Oilways. Birds capable of being taught to talk include parrots, niynas, crows, ravens, jackdaws, and some species of jays--all without understanding the words, pS ---------------- ISSUE 2 -- 1963 FARM FRONT oha A visitor to one of the federal agricultural Research Stations may walk around the buildings and fields and look at the live- stock, then pose the question: Does this place pay its way? It's a fair question, acknowl- edged Herbert Chester, associate director of the Lethbridge re- search station, and he adds: The answer is "Yes." LJ * Ce Of course it doesn't pay its way In the sense of a private busi- ness making a profit in dollars which can be estimated at regu- lar intervals. But it does help others to make dollar profits. In fact the success of a research station is based on the informa- tion it can produce contributing to the success of those working in agriculture, directly and in- directly. " . Take sugar beets for example, - a main cash crop in the Leth- bridge area. The research station with which Mr, Chester is associated, researches problems on crop pro- duction on dry land, irrigated land, and range land. < The work with sugar beets il- lustrates how research helped develop a profitable operation. The first work with sugar beets was reported in 1908, It was found that a variety seeded in early May yielded 14 tons per acre with 16 per cent sugar. In the following 16 years research on cultural methods including use of barnyard manure, and ir- rigation, clearly indicated that the crop could be grown profit- ably in Southern Alberta. The . accumulated information led Ca- nadian Sugar Factories to build the first successful sugar beet factory in 1925. . »" LJ In the meantime research con- tinued and expanded. The crop was grown on field scale in a station rotation for 30 years using good practices available to all "farmers, Average production gradually went up to 23.3 tons for the last six years. Another experiment on the value of barn- yard manure and commercial fertilizer, resulted in an average yield of 21 tons of beets per acre over 33 years. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking L Wi njo NI3|LINLI Ald | S| |v dil VINO a H|3 al |v d N|3|d Lv] 13d 1A 31d Li 17 AlSly N Although many farmers have had yields as high as those on the Station, the southern Alberta average for the last 30 years was 12.3 tons per acre compared with the Station 19.2 tons. L * * The southern Alberta average improved to 13.7 tons for the last siX years. It is obvious, said Mr. Chester, that research information avail- able to growers has not been fully utilized although recent re- sults were encouraging. He added that agriculture in all its phases could use new in- formation, especially to combat, current high costs of operation. In that way the Research Station itself could show a "profit." . ¢ . Many poultrymen are now raising their chickens in confine- ment, rather than on the range. Leonard Griesbach of the Can- ada Department of Agriculture says the feeds now available make it possible to raise good birds this way. Usually less labor is involved and there are fewer losses from predators than would be the case when raising the chickens on the range, he explains. * * 3 The cost of housing for con-' finament rearing need not be higher than that of maintaining good range conditions, Unused brooder houses or other unoccu- pied buildings can often be used with very little remodelling. Suitable protection can be pro- vided with a pole-type barn at no higher cost than predator- proof fencing shelters and other equipment required on range. Tests have shown that there need be no difference in egg pro- duction, egg quality or bird mor- tality in the laying house, be- tween flocks raised in confine- ment and those raised on range. The latter are lighter when housed but catch up in body weight in the laying house. Ll * * Broiler strains have been raised in confinement at Fred- ericton for two years. The floor space per bird during the rear- ing period was a little more than three square feet, yet the pullets developed well and had better bloom than most range - raised birds. Debeaking to control can- nibalism was not necessary until the pullets were in the laying pens but it may be necessary to perform this operation earlier under some conditions. . . » Knowing more of the nutri- tional requirements of chickens has facilitated the successful rearing of chickens indoors. For instance, disorders some- times arise from nervous excita- bility among pullets raised in- doors when moving them to the laying houses. These have been overcome by giving them a feed fortified with an antibiotic for a few days after moving, Confinement rearing is not re- commended where farm grains are cheap and good grass range free from predators is available. When part of the flock has to be hatched too early or too late to take full advantage of range rearing, full confinement rearing might be the answer. * . LJ Herdsman H. D. Brannen, of Canada Department of Agricul- ture's Animal Research Institute, Ottawa, has hit a $320 suggestion award jackpot. His prize wine ning idea: a way to boost rev- enues from sales of surplus eggs in flock breeding research pro- grams, About 2,000 dozens of eggs are sold weekly by tender to egg grading stations in the Ottawa Valley and Mr. Brannen's plan is expected to Increase the de- partment"s revenues from this source by $5,500 annually, * * * Mr. Brannen's yuggestion; that tenders from the department stipulate that, prior to grading, the eggs be washed by machine to remove wax pencil {dentifi- cation marking used in the breeding programs, The eggs produced in the breeding programs are of top quality, But because marks on shells are a factor in grading, the Identification markings re- sulted in them being classed as Grade C. As a result of Mr, Brannen's suggestion, the bulk of the eggs will be eligible for classification as Grade A, thus drawing a partment. Costs Big Money To Keep Thames Clear Every year more than 4,000 tons of flotsam is collected from the tidal waterway of the Thames -- the sixty - nine - mile stretch from the mouth to Ted- dington Look -- at a cost of $43,- 000 The Port of London Author- ity says that its scavenger boats pick up debris such as timber planks more than two feet long, old boilers, trees, tires, motor car bodies, ang sections of boats and barges. All these items are a threat to navigation, stresses the Authority, the lar ge baulks of timber being a particular men- ace to small craft such as plea- sure launches. Recently, a discarded beam, studded with bolts and nails, splked a pontoon which had set- tled on it at ebb tide. The pon- toon was punctured and at the next tide it collapsed and sank. The result: a very costly repair job. Legal action is not sufficient to deter the Thames "litter louts," says the Authority. The real answer lies in educating river users about its importance to shipping. higher return in sales by the de win By Rev. R, B. Warren, BAA, B.D, Resistance to the Work of Chriss Mark 2:1-3:6 Memory Scripture: And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that en- dureth to the end shall be saved. Matthew 10:22, It is a strange thing that the people who criticized Jesus the most were the people reputed to be the most religious. The Phari- sees were the straightest sect of the Jews. The scribes were espe- cially learned in the law. When Jesus said to the paraly- tio, "Son thy sins be forgiven thee," they scribes considered it blasphemy. By proceeding to Jesus proved the validity of His Jesus proved the validity of hia work in forgiving sin. They heard the word of forgiveness. They saw that the man was heal- ed, The healing was a sign of His power. The people were amazed and glorified God. Jesus called a publican, Levi, to be one of his disciples. Levi called his friends to a meal and had Jesus and his disciples as guests. The critics grumbled be- cause Jesus ate with publicans and sinners. Jesus said, ". ... I came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance." Is it not true today that the church is spending too much time trying to please the so-called righteous and not enough time and energy reaching out to the confessed sinners. The critics found fault because the disciples of Jesus did not fast. They fasted out of a slav- ish adherence to traditions added to God's law. Jesus was not op- posed to fasting, but it must be done from a better motive. Hea predicted that His disciples would fast more after His departure, If you are a disciple, would you say that they really do? Feasting rather than fasting seems to be the order today for most of the Christian church in our land. The scribes objected because the disciples shelled a few grains of wheat when they were hungry on the sabbath. Jesus said, "The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: there- fore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath". Modern practice seems to be to leave the Son of Man out and use Sunday to con- centrate on pleasure and enter- tainment; even for work if the rate of profit is higher. Jesus was angry, being grieved for the hardness of their headt because they even resented his healing a man on the sabbath, But Jesus continued his good work in spite of the critics. designations. COLLECTOR'S ITEM -- No, they're not licensing the things, yet. The plate is issued to William Squire, who works for an East Hartford, Conn., aircraft plant. More than 47,000 Con- necticut motorists have special, eye-catching plates of various | CONNECTICUT a a A i Studies of airport runway lighting under Tow visibility conditions are made in this fog chamber. i 2 fbi Za Shape of building permits 7 i cockpit on overhead tramway to follow simulated landing course ovar fogged-in run- way. gS Cockpit, left is about to "fly" through heavy artificial fog in a simulated high-speed aircraft approach to run- way Bad-Weather Factory They're making pea soup fog to order. Studies of airport runway lighting on conditions of low visibility are being made by the U.S. Federal Aviation Agency in a new fog chamber. The chamber, 800 feet long and 30 feet wide, provides a laboratory for lighting research in fog condi- tions. A mixture of compressed oir and water produces fog comparable in every way to natural fog. Experiment - al airport lighting patterns are laid out on the model-run- way floor o the chamber on a 10 to | scale. Overhead, a three-passenger airplane cockpit rides under steel rails from the 30-foot end of the chamber to the 10-foot end, simulating aircraft approaches from 4,000 feet at speeds up to 130 knots.