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the tribune stouffvihe on thursday februarv 3 194s whitchurch farm proving ground for pumps for punjab r n tl n oldtime ontario farm machine tre is a major feature of the the horsepower seen in cen- uriique pump especially designed pump is being tried on a whitchurch farm to test its capabilities for a small farm in whitchurch twp near pine orchard has been the testing ground for a pump design ed to irrigate some of the millions of acres of arid farm land in the punjab india the pump itself is simple deliberately designed and built that way for almost without excep tion the average farmer in india knows nothing about machinery this is no electrically or gasoline- driven water life the motive power is something familiar to most every older farmer in ontario old- fashioned horse power the story behind these pumps for the punjab is a bit more com plicated and it started over 7000 miles away when f a peter associated with missionary society of the church of england in can ada reasoned that no man on the verge of starvation could be very receptive to religious teachings the story involves a kindly widow living at alcona beach lake simcoe the formation in 1916 of technical services association india the anglican mission in the punjab and eventually all protest ant missions there technical advice from the ontario research founda tion and the untiring interest of gordon wallace coowner of the aalus engineering co of toronto it also involves george styles sr owner of the small farm in whit church township who put his deep well at mr peters disposal for testing the speciallydesigned pump a subzero wind whipped across the styles farm the other day when mr peter and several workmen from the engineering company made further tests on the pump it was a tough day for testing a machine to be used on the hot use in india at right is f a peter missionary engineer and designer of the pump stand- been spotted as easily one of the most stoical members of the party was miss elizabeth peter who ground away at a motion picture camera during the subzero testing these films will be taken to india along with the irrigation pump and shown to the backers of the technical services association and the punjab govern ment with the idea of turning the pump out on a mass production basis miss peter has been associat ed with her brother in the mission work for some years peter the pumpmaker as you might call him appears to be a man of many parts he studied theology in england obtained an engineer ing degree on the continent and also studied medicine in europe knowing that something had to be done for the indian farmer he was largely responsible for interesting the anglican mission and other pro testant missions in the punjab in the formation of a tecnical associa tion such an association was formed in 1946 with some financial backing by the indian government in his territory he is serving full time with the association on loan by the anglican mission the most pressing problem in the punjab according to mr peter is irrigation vast areas are irrigated in many instances by the use of the ing with him is george styles sr owner of the farm telegram photos only solution was to design a tube well pump using the fanners pair of bullocks as motive power coming to toronto a few months ago mr peter set about to find a horsepower in working order he scoured york county for this old- time piece of machinery and finally found one in fairly good shape and it was donated to the work of the mission by mrs 1 thompson of alcona beach he then sat down at his drawing board and designed a compact tube well pump keeping in mind that all working parts had to be of the greatest simplicity the pump he designed is some what similar to those used in oil fields but much more compact his main problem was the heavy lift from 200 feet through a fourinch tube but he got over this by having the weight of water in the tube balanced by a dead weight at one end of the pump certain difficulties were ironed out in the engineering department of the ontario research foundation and the plans were then taken to the aalus engineer ing co the pump being made there from his blueprints a vital feature of the pump is the inclusion of a belt which by throw- ing a lever and engaging certain simple cogs can be turned about 200 revolutions a minute to this primitive persian wheel used in middle east and india to draw water is not practicable for any great depth slow mov ing oxen turn the primitive apparatus a he we evolving ok devolving by lewis milligan whether we believe in the dar winian theory of evolution or not superficial enquiry into the na- belt wheel the punjab farmer old persian- wheel other huge j woul attach his other implements areas cannot be irrigated this way requiring power the motive tural processes of nature is suffici- as the subsurface water lies too u tne same as in theent to reveal the working of a uni- deep from 150 to 200 feet drill- case of tlle pump the pair of buljversal intelligence and an overrul ing tube wells in india is a com- htched to the shaft of the ing will in this world the term paratively simple matter but gett- horsepower and plodding steadily evolution means to unroll or un- ing water up from a depth of 200 around in a circle fold like the unrolling of a mo- feet is another problem i tne irrigation pump is only one tionpicture film or the unfolding electrical power in india is very of tne projects mr peter as head of a rose both of these ideas im- scarce and out of the question for the technical association has in ply existence of the thing unrolled the punjab farmer also out of the minci rut in tne years to come if or unfolded a seed for instance question was the use of a gasoline the basic welfare of the punjab is a plant folded into a minute plains of india but it was all to the motor to raise water simply be- f lettered it is altogether package which given the right good for certain defects showed up cause the average farmer cantl ilk tnat tiie tests now being environment soil and season- which might not otherwise have afford it mr peter decided that the the sma11 farm wl11 nave evolves into a duplicate of its par played a major part gormley mill now operating the longfell need for a grist mill and grain elevator at gormley again is now fulfilled with the opening of our new mill now in full operation we have installed modern machinery hamniermill grind and can do your chopping in quick order this will be a great convenience to the dislrict which we again intend to service our elevator enables us to slore grain and we ask to be given a chance to quote on your grain for which we guarantee best market prices the gormley elevators f harvey prop telephone 7302 ent the same reproductive process goes on in all forms of life up to man and it went on for millions of years before man appeared upon the earth ever since man arrived he has heen more or less dissatisfied with the world in which he found him self he first of all moved about from place to place as a nomad as though he were loking for some thing he had lost when he got tired of wandering and settled down he was still dissatisfied and set to work to improve his environ ment he has certainly improved it since the cave days having pro gressed through the stone the bronze and the iron ages to the present age of numerous metals coal gas oil electricity radio radium and the atomic bomb in all of these things he has proved himself a master mechanic in his struggle for existence and his curiosity he has created for himself a new environment and ac quired an immense amount of knowledge and experience man has accomplished all this not only in spite of but because of unfavor able circumstances rndeed he has made the greatest progress in those parts of the world where he had to struggle for his existence against the elements he would never have if he had not been in desparate need discovered the deeplaid beds of coal of fuel to keep himself from freez ing his discovery of coal led to the discovery of steampower and all the subsequent mechancial and scientific inventions which we en joy today but has man with all these great achievements attained to a higher intellectual spiritual and moral stature undoubtedly he is better educated in the mass and know ledge is more widespread but are we really producing greater intel lects poets musicians artists phil osophers and spiritual leaders than those of a hundred or even two thousand years aeo julian huxley i in a lecture delivered in the early twenties claimed that there was no evidence of any upward change in the higher level of intellectual during the whole historic period artistice or ethical possibilities einstein said mr huxley has no better or worse mathematical brain than had newton darwin was not a better biologist than har vey any more than was beethoven a finer musician than bach rodin a better sculptor than praxiteles fox or wesley greater or less great ethical teachers than the hebrew prophets kant possessed of greater philosophical abilities than plato or even bernard shaw a greater writer than shakespeare the gen eral run of human capacity has re mained the same for thousands of years poets artists and musicians of the modern schools might not agree with that verdict bernard shaw at least regards himself as a grea ter dramatist than shakespeare and the freeverse writers think their cryptic effusions superior to the poetry of wordsworth the surrealists have apparently convin ced themselves that their chaotic daubs are finer art than that of the old masters while there seem to be hosts of people who have no sense of harmony and who prefer the dis cordant noises of a warsaw con certo to a moonlight sonata so far from showing an evolution to loftier forms of artistic expression there are definite signs of devolution back to the art of the cave dwellers the tomtom beaters and the wild war- whoppers in these products of the modern schools send 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