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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1955-10-12, Page 2COUNTING' HIS EARS:--Farmer Dale Davidson holds up two fingers becaue. tnat's how many ears of corn he has on one 'stalk. at his, farm. Although drought ruined most of the corn in his• area, Davidson 'expects to• harvest nearly 100 bushels per. acre. But only one stalk will have two well-developed ears, as that is an unusual growth for a dry year. ADMITS RIDNAPPING -- Mrs. Betty Jean Benedict° nervous- iy fingers baby diapers in a Stockton, Calif., ,jail after she confessed kid napping the in- fant son of Dr. and •Mrs. San- ford Marcus from a San Fran- cisco hospital. .'1. , .... i NEVY'SUIls SEEKS RECORD DEStiNt4Vitit ihtS-.-Spetiai. su bs n- Venter. Edit/Mid r Martine, 'checking porthole, hopetto travel , into hidden underwater valleys • and caves which lie' deetiet' than mon ,fidt ever been, The 5O4on "Cetacean"' ifi deSt4nect , to cruise cilonj the . ocean- 'floor more than five miles deelk- lf is equipped with bright' lights' and Ccirneeds, riettlidlet eaei, silt of 12-inch-thick, optically ground -glass: "' ' Those eng4ed,in ecientific, .re- search wort, must 'always mindful of the delicate balance • of • nature when dealing with sell, vegetation- and fauna, An- • tually *Nature's. way' Weee diee turbed when ,pre-historic Man first undertook to cultivate the soil and penetrate into the forest.. Since that time the •balaric:4 has • been upset many times. and of , ten only corrected after' serious • damage bad been done, The untimely and drastic de- forestation of mountain slopes, • for example, has resulted in flooding and consequent erosion. of good farm lands. Even the use of chemicals for insect. con- trol can be an unmixed blessing, for the chemicals frequently eradicate the useful insects which often keep the harmful. ones in check. And so the scien, tist must be watchful for the immediate results and for the aftermath. The June report of UNESCO gives a number of examples showing how the balance of na- ture was upset by what at first sight appeared quite logical ac- tions. In 1859, twenty-four rab- bits were brought into Australia. Since that time that country has been plagued by, millions of these rodents destroying both natural and cultivated vegita- tion. Today, Jamaica is troubled by the mongoose, introduced orie ginally with the object of de- stroying rate which were pillag- ing sugar 'cane plantations. The mongoose, however, also attacks domestic animals and destroys harvests. * * In Africa, the destruction of the leopard has resulted in art enormous increase in baboons and wild pigs which eat up the vegetation. In other countries the eradication. of the eetter has brought about the disappear- ance of fish. The otter for some ,peculiar reason enjoys a diet of diseased fish and thereby pre- Alberta Now Second In Mineral Output Alberta ranked second to On- tario in value of mineral pro- duction for the first time in 1954. In the two previous years I. plac- ed third after Quebec, and in 1951 it was in fourth place be- hind British Columbia. More Bowling And Billiards In the 1941-51 decade the num- ber of billiard parlours in Can- ada increased frorri 1,140 to 1,341 and the number of bowling alleye from 175 to 428, Combined bil- liard parlours and bowling al- leys decreased by two to 146. PUZZLE 25,12ong litre 39. Metri▪ c 27, Parts of a ear measures 28. Civil War 42, Of that girl general 43. Dowry 29, Notwith- 47. College 'standing Degree London .Papers. most SeaSational SPY case of the past four, years reached a new climax as the Foreign Office here issuect an official white paper recounting all it was willing to say about the disappearance of Donald "MacLean and Guy Burgess. A welt61 of unanswered tions remains. The consensus; here is that although the For- eign Office went about as far as was expected, "in addiitting certain. glaring ehorteeminge; ex, plaining officially most of the known circumstances behind the case, and defending both what it did and What..it failed to do, the white paper' report was still far from satiefactery; The Lon- don press was virtually •unaiii- mous in condemning the.eepert as too little and tocelete, and, in, , calling for morel;thoilough'invee- tigation, The official chronology of in- cidents leading .up,, to, and. fel- /owing the flight: 'of. British diplomats to 'Communist territory in 1951 ecid'ed -littie to what has already 'been uncov- ered unofficially by' newspaper stories in the interim; despite tight lipped Whitehall efficjalse reluctance to comment. - Defending its own reticence and denying that flee -Sept. 23 white paper was published as a result of disclosures 'by Vladi- mir Petrov, the Soviet official who defected in Australia, the Foreign- Office declared: "Espionage is carried out in s e c r e t. Counterespionage de- pends for its success upon maxi- mum secrecy of its methods. "Nor is it desirable at any mo- menteto let the other, side know how much has -been discovered or guess at what means have been used to discover it. Nor should they be allowed to know all steps that have been taken to improve security. - "These considerations," the White paper continued, "still, ap- ply and must be the basic cri- terion for judging what should or should not be published." A Foreign Office spokesman later announced that no further questions arising from the white paper would be answered:since the report now has been laid be- fore Parliament, which recon- venes late in October and is con- sidered certain to debate Foreign. Office handling of the contro- versial case: The. Foreign Office position is 'the traditional one that addi- tional questions should be an- swered by Cabinet ministers' in the House of Commons. The report, meanwhile, has reviewed in detail the service records and -conduct of Messrs. Burgess and MacLean, and the gradual build-up of suspiCiOn against them. Security investi- gations of espionage leaks com- menced in January, 1949, the white paper says, and by May, 1951, had narrowed down to MacLean as their 'Principal tar- get. "There was, however, even at that time no, legally admissible evidence to support prosecution under Official Secrets Acts," it asserts. This is at least a partial an- swer to those who cannot un- derstand why preventive action was not taken against the two men. Some here frankly find it still unsatisfactory. Despite elaborate precautions, Donald MacLean apparently be- came aware that he was under surveillance. Certain of his secret papers had to be cut off. And, although there is no official comment here, one claim given credence is that the two con- epirators took flight after an American report on their ae- tivities somehow found its way onto Mr. MacLean's desk. Two points were singled out for special comment by the For- eign Office white paper - How Messrs. MacLean and Burgess remained in the. Foreign Service so long, and why they were able to get away, The answer to the first ques- tion is that despite some flaws and slips both men were re- garded as competent officers Until about one year before their flight. Only six months before they fled Mr. MacLean was ap- pointed as head of the Foreign Office's American Department. Their escape despite security efforts the white paper credits to "a calculated risk" thet was takeit,--the risk Of holding off action hi the hope of Obtaining further evidence, Thus Mr, Mad- Lean was Watched in Undo/i f but not in hii isolated, country honed whence the flight Cott- mended. -Mrs. MetLeatee 'subsequent disappearance, peesuitably to Pile her husband, the white f5a, per . dismisses as; unpreVentable siii0 no legal means Of' detain,. ing her in thd thited Kingdom "existed. Wow if *Salt, Burgess' and; MacLean follow the, Pattetn• Of another British Meddle atomic'' scientist trurio POtiteCcirVA they someday will give their own *Orden. of what happened-front Mosetite. HERE'S HOW-Dress uniform's for ceremonials such as the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace feai.:re these 20-inch-tall shakos, not worn as part of a British ser- vice uniform since 1880. Near- ly as old as the. traditional headgear is the question: "How can the guards see while wear- ing those things?" Maj. Alistair Ritchie of the Queen's Own Scots Guards, now making a United States - Canadian' tour, reveals the secret. There's plenty of vision between combed-out hairs which fall across the eyes. Not-So-Weak When a mouse crept into a fire siren, terror stalked an En- glish village, recently. The pre- sence of the mouse altered the note of ,the fire alarm just enough [ to make it sound like the warn- ing of an escaped criminal, from •Broadmoor Asylum, five miles .away. . • Villagers barred 'their doors. The police 'phoned an escape warning to the local school. In fact, everyone was jittery until the mouse mix-up was finally solved. , Even Big Ben was silended for several hours when a mouse gummed up the works by get- ting under one of the quarter- hour bell hammers. A _mouse nibbled a hole in a gavpipe in a Lincoln safe. Then a customer Struck a, match and the place was wrecked.- In a farming region of France a cat sat So close to a stove that its fur caught fire. Diving into a pile of hay the scared cat started a $10,000 blaze, In Paris a rabbit escaped from a pet shop and three cars crashed when drivers jibbed at the, odd. Sight of a rabbit running across the Chatrips-Elysees. When lesser creatures ihter- fere hi human affairs, in fact, results can be freakish. Not long ago, questions were 'asked in Parliament bedaiise Of a Weep that stung an ambulance driver-. While he was- brushing' the wasp. away, , the aMtihianee hit a telephone Pele.The driVet was given the alternative of resign- ing oi being sacked ' "His titan took tip' the /natter and the wasp eVentually eqUaed einninittee meetings and court action, At dGlade; : SPidera interferetrwith the phone SeiViee Stan/big WebeerOtenci the lines, causing trouble on damp daya,0oW phone rates are rising: because 'of the Cost of exiatloYing a seecial squad; Of Web-sWeenets,.. then Who' Clean the wires 'With long-handled brooms Dancing Girl Was Doctor's Fee • In this country we are apt to take the medical profession pret- ty much for granted. It is quite otherwise in' some other coun- tries - a fact vividly brought home to the reader in the re- cently published book "A Cure for Serpents," by Alberto Denti de Pirajno. Alberto is an Italian doctor who served in the African parte of the Italian Empire prior to and during the last war. For the most part he- looked after--the health of the local tribes, but more `than that he lived among his patients; -and grew fully, to understand them as *"few •white men ever do. Two stories he tells of the gratitude shown by patients illustiate how success- ful he was in being accepted, as a friend by chiefs of two proud tribes. The first story concerns Fat- tun/a and her father, head of -the Qouafi tribe. The Qouafi had been in, revolt against the Ita- lians, but had recently with- drawn from the conflict to see how the land lay. It, was, there- fore, with some curiosity and trepidation that Alberto set out on receiving an urgent summons from their chief 'to ge and cure . his daughter.. .- The Italian was expecting to find an arrogant and "violent chieftain. Instead, hertaw,an old mane bowed doWn with worry and fear. On a mat on the floor lay his daughter, scarcely re- coeered froin 'a' night of- delir- iuni; her: :glazed, dark-ringed. eyes staring .sightlessly into AlbertosPace bent to examine her she •a. ," 'she m U. in r'e d' through cracked lips; 'and as added: "My head hurts " Her mother gripped, the, doctor's arms and told hienhOW Fattuma had lost a lot of blOod fedin the nose. She couldn't under, stand, she said,. how, it ,was -that the evil spirits -hadn't left With it, Dr. de Pirajno, soon 'came to the conclusion that 'the .evil spirits in this Case ,were the germs of typhoid or paratyphoid fever. Thd• girl Was treated ac- cordingly, She recovered. The mother wept, the father raised his hands in 'Prayer. "Praise be to God, Lord of the werlds! The ConipaSsionate, the Merciful . . ," Allah had willed that his daughter should- live, and five cainels waited outside Alberto's tent to take him back to the city, The sequel came three years later. During siesta time in the hottest 'part of the year, Dr. di Pirajno was awakened one day by hiS manservant; who told hint that there was an Arab to see him, 'Wearily he got up and received his visitor, a tall, lean Eledotiin warrior with delicate feattires and dark, Velvety eyes. The iloWery greetings common to the Arabs were exchanged. Eventually the warrior got round" td giVing Alberto a, jetter frOin the chief. Greetings' to our Lord the PhYsidiaii. • May Gold' have hint in his keeping. Arndt', - With regard to the following SO that yaw health IS good; by the.mercy' God. and His blese sing, we ask a good *Ord fedin Yeti by your graces Who brings you this is Our honoured friend All Of the Iliad Slefmati soh ' of the pilgrim 1Vransur,!docl'Pkoteet hi& Now he-desire§ to marry my daughter, who is One Only is- We are satisfied, and may God's will be done. But although 'Allah gave us a daughter, he also permitted you to give her a second life when death was upon her. So we ash that you listen to the request and tell us if the prayer for the betrothal may be said, And we wait for your decision. And God be with you. Dl Pirajno was touched. What doctor had ever been rewarded in so princely a manner? He gave his blessing and a wed- ding present, The warrior seized his hand and kissed it with ve- hement gratitude and rode off. Di Pirajno had had official dealing with him, and in course of conversation had mentioned that he was a doctor, whereup- on the aged prince had embraced him most enthusiastically and somewhat uncomfortably, A month later the prince's inter- preter arrived at Alberto's of- fice with a message saying that his master was dying and wished to see him before be breathed his last. The doctor rushed to the prince's palace, to find him lay- ing almost naked on a couch. A girl was curled up behind him to serve as a bolster, another' held his head up, while a third and fourth massaged his fore- arms vigorously as though they 'were kneading bread, Quickly Alberto diagnosed lo- bar pneumonia, and soon the Prince w a s unceremoniously wrapped in blankets and on his way to the local hospital in an ambulance. Within a few weeks he had completely recovered, and then di Pirajno had to ex- perience the prince's gratitude. It started off tamely enough with an invitation to a banquet. Fortunately the doctor had a prodigious appetite and a weak- ness for zighini, the Abyssinian stew made with red pepper. Half-way through the meal the dancing-girls came on, and a • gueet called on one of the girls to sing in honour of the doctor. She came before him and im- ,peovised a song. She trembled , before a lion, she, sang, a gentle lion, because he smiled at her, but a lion• nevertheless-because he had been eating for four hours without ,a pause. , Dix Pirajno need• not have been embarrassed; big eaters earned respect -in Abyssinia. He rose, and in the flowery language of the region thanked the singer, complimenting her on her beau- ty and 'on her voice. That's where he made his mistake. The next day he re- ceived a gift from the prince -the• singer. Regretfully Alberto declined; the Viceroy *didn't allow wom- en in, his residence, he said. Three weeks later he, returned home to hear a shattering roar which vibrafed all 'his windows. In his houSe, held by two'keep- ers, was a leopard, • another gift from the prince to keep him company. He disposed of that by calling in the police chief to put the leoPaid and keepers into an empty shed. Later he pre- sented the animal, to a native battalion as a mascot. . Obsessed with the doctor's supposed lOneliness, the prince next sent. him a repulsive mon- strosity of a deformed hunch- back-who went under the name of "My. Joy.," He was the prince's own court jester, and sang in a high voice, jumped on" the fur- niture, grabbed Alberto to make him dance with him. snapped at his legs under the table, and generally went to all lengths to make him laugh. But di• Pir- ajno couldn't bear to be near him, and ordered him to b' kept in. the servants' quarters. Alberto Was saved from fur- ther marks of the prince's grat- itude by returning home to Italy. But he had gathered a wealth Of amusing and toeching stories, and a great insight into the strange ways of the people of Italian Africa, all Of which he has set down in "A Cure for Serpents." It, Payola,' Warren B.A., B.D. The World Into Which Jesus Came Luke 2:I8.14 Memory Selection; Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.. Luke 2:10, For the next six months we shall he studying the Gospel of Luke, and for three months more the book of Acts, These books were written by Luke, the physician, a companion of Paul, The Gospel, of Luke gives us our most complete picture of Christ. It is e little longer than Matthew. Sixteen parables and six miracles are peculiar to this Gospel. Luke was writing for a Gentile official, and no doubt with a larger Gentile audience in view. Luke himself was a Gentile of Greek culture. He passes over those elements in Christ's teaching which, had particular reference to Jewish ideas and interests and dwells upon the aspects of Christ which Gentiles can readily un- derstand. The little country to which Jesus came was about 120 miles in length from north to south and with an average width from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River of about 40 miles. The people were. ender tribute to the Roman Emperor. The Greek language was widely known and it was in this lan- guage that most of the New Testament writers wrote. The life of Jesus here began as a miracle. He was born of a virgin, He was literally the Son of God and the Son of Man. This is most important. If we do not grasp this truth We 'may well doubt the record .of mira- cles -which follows. But know- ing that Jesus was the Son of God is a firm basis for faith; faith not only to accept the rec- ord as true but faith to accept Jesus Christ as our personal Saviour. A learned professor of philosophy said recently that "It is too broad and empty a propo- sition to say that through a crucified peasant, eternity is, re- vealed in a unique way." He made this statement because he has not had the glorious revela- tion that this particulat peasant was the Son of God. His unique entrance to this world was the first evidence of it. His resur- rection from the dead was the climaxing, proof. Jesus Christ is the Son of God, ALL FOR HIS CATS A venerable French. painter , sat in a roadside cafe in Mont- parnasse stolidly munching bag after bag of potato chips. His luncheon "'companion watched disapprovingly and finally, con- sumed with curiosity, asked, "Why do you eat so many potato chips?" The old man carefully shook out the crumbs, folded the Cel- lophane bags in which the po- tato chips had come, placed them in his pocket and said: "I do it for my cats, They just love to play -with Cellophane." Upsidedown to Preven, Peeking 1E100E1E1 ©U0111 131111LI00E1 111€1117EI0E1 EMU CILICIDEIC1121€113 0®E1 roam 191EMI 1311113EI IMMO 1101:11013111E1 IWDL DEM 15121111 131319 121121 1712111M31311 ©0111C] EJECIEI !DV 13121E1 EICIEICIE101113121 121E1E1 8€112101:10 11E1121,1 El CILIUM vents the spread of fish epi- demics, * # Most people who move about in the Canadian bush in sum- finer are painfully aware of the black fly. Few have any knew- ledge of what happens to these flies in the winter or how they are able to re-appear in such numbers summer after summer. * L. C. Curtis, of the. Canada Department of Agriculture In• - sect. Laboratory, has made a study of the biology and control of black fliea and other biting insects effecting livestock. He describes them as quite small, heavy-bodied flies, mostly black, but some red in colour and gen- erally with a hump-backed ap- pearance. * * They begin to emerge in mid- June and are on the wing until the frost in the fall. He estimates there are 30 different species of black flies in British Columbia. rte * * Black flies invariably require moving water, often rapidly moving water for part of their cycle. Eggs are laid in late sum- mer on leaves, trailing vegeta- tion, or rocks. The eggs hatch in the spring into worm-like lar- vae and remain attached to the rocks, feeding on minute par- ticles which they strain from the water. When fully developed they spin a little slipper-shaped silk cocoon attached to twigs, or rocks. After some time is spent in this stage, the fully developed adults split Open the pupa case and escape to the surface in an air bubble, then fly off in, search of blood. « * For control purpose's, the lar- val stage in water is the weak link in the insects life cycle for the larvae can be easily killed by adding DDT to the water at the rate of one part in 10 million for 15 minutes. • * C For example, a stream one foot deep, 20 feet wide, and 500 feet long could be treated with one ounce of DDT, and this body of water passing downstream would kill all larvae that it con- tacts. Care must be taken to regulate the dose of DDT to avoid harm to fish. The fish, however, can stand `about four times the dose required to kill the black fly. * * Field men applying control measures• must measure the stream flow and apply the pro- per amount of DDT. Each tribe- tary of the stream must be treat- ed right to its source, sometimes difficult in rough country. Blanket treatment by aircraft is effective, but quite expensive. 1 Move . 5:•13rewIng * •,vesiselif atidden18, &Is furious 6: Blideorlike 7, Endourage carnivore . 8, Thrice 1.1, InfatiVe/shoe rfix) 12. White.PrePlah? -7, La i lforth 14: Shade tree 15, fruit ' 1 7, "Little- .7" .. 8, Bard 9, AtiternOblle O. Animal' ilator: f1. Movable beds 21, Tube pa, Eidadild.int. . Of ESaii p'Bii-, 6,POSSeaSiiii i,lleite.,.. . nroliet it._ it Eiiergreet1 • 416, French river ,i 81, OPPoelte • 25', Dash 116;, Source Of 'sugar' 0. Greek letter' . :IL German to composer'114, Dr*. 40,VOOtti" °ail: 41,,DePOSed 44'. EkiSt _ 46,,,Misa parrello, . singer'. ,48i'Sltiging birds" 411, 0:Metier 49.,Gete DOWN ,. .1.. Worked bill,: 1.4.,(ive nipple' &Neat, , ACROSS ., 4. Soak. tip 24, Gopher State 36. 11g18+ old • • 10, boawara naby's toy CROSSWORD - • 31. Shower 331qencl 11, Slaughter steer 33. 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