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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1955-11-30, Page 3T. JWS01001 LFSSON Neintire Selection: If any niam Come after me, let Mr* deny himself, and take up his cross Li:lily, and follow One, Luke 9:23, doily average of heti spent outside was 2.3 hours.' It was observed that .aleileels would go • outside even an cold days, how- ever during, stormy weather they looked, for shelter else- where, During the trial tempera.. titres 'dropped as low as 25 de- grees below zero, e • * The question as to whether or not beef calves can be wintered with a limited amount of Shelter. ,.without seriously affecting their growth and increasing their feed requirements has been dis- cussed by cattlemen and agri- culturists for years. The trials at Kapuskasing and other re- search centres across Canada. are sUpplying valuable informa, tion on the subject * Artificial lights to maintain egg production der lag the shorter days of the winter months, will make a laying flock more profitable. However, the effectiveness of lights will depend on their proper use, re, 'port poultry officials at the Brandon Experimental Farm, Lighting should commence in time to maintain a 12-hour day. once daylight alone is inade- quate. This is sufficient while • production is on the increase but should be stepped up to a minimum of 13 hours, when production levels off. * * Once started, the lighting schedule must be regular. An abrupt reduction in either length of time or strength of light may cause egg production to stop. A time switch - is con- sidered essential to in s u r e against forgetfulness.. W h e n lights are started in fall, there is nothing to be gained by 0, • ing this gradually. However, • when they are discontinued a gradual 15 minutes per week reduction is recommended. • • 3"•'•1. t ,trkP trx •3, .',r +1. /' 5.'41T "MOUTH-PAINTED BY _togRIE! - Two years ago, Merle Chisholm, pretty, ”-year-old wife and mother, was a commercial artist, Today she js polio-paralyzed from the neck down. But she has wasted no time in self-pity. She, set about to learn to draw and paint again with a pencil or brush clenched in her teeth. She won that battle and has built a new artistic career with a collection of exclusive "mouth-painted-by-Merle" Christmas cards and personal note paper. Her husband, Robert, is also an artist. Here their fou r-year-old son, Gary, watches in fascination as his mother draws a picture. Jesus Christ did not gain hie followers by making rosy pro- mises. It was a call to self-denial and eross-bearing, "Fer whose-- will save his life shall lost *It but whosoever will lose his lire fOr my sake, the same shall fin* it." SO the self must die if we are to follow There is something very beau- tiful. about the crucified Pride Its absent and Christ is seen, The :desire is to lose ones life for Christ's sake, Dr. Albert. Schweitzer is a modern example, Now in his eighties this great philosopher, theologian and mu- sician is riot resting en his laurels but is ministering to the needy in his leper colony •la Africa. There is so much self- seeking today. It is refreshing be meet and hear these who have said 'NO' to self arid are bearing the cross for Jesus. It isn't by chance that Luke follows these words on disciple- ship by an account of the trar4- figuration which took place eittlii days later. It was a heavenly experience to see something eti Christ's glory. Moses and Mimi talked with Jesus of his decease but it was in a heavenly atmos- phere. The cross is always lightened when we think of the coming glory. First the cross,—then the crown. That is why Christian: are willing to suffer for their faith, A native teacher in Kenya was called out of his house by. Mau Mau adherents who profes- sed to be police. They said that if he did not take the Mau. Mau oath they would kill him. He replied: "Everyone must choose which world he wants. You have chosen this world, but I have chosen the world of Jesus and his kingdom. Come and kill me if you will, and I shall go ta him." Thereupon he was shot and went to be with his Lord. "If we suffer, we shall also reign with him." 2 Timothy 2:12, KANGAROOS LED TO URANIUM FORTUNE if embedded below a foot of rock or three feet of soil. So many a man may walk over riches, as thousands of Austra- lian war-time airmen, did around Batchelor in the war years. Lately the Federal Govern- ment carried out am aerial sur- vey of 4,000 square miles of this territory for radioactive mineral deposits, Twelve areas were found worthy of ground pros- pecting, mostly in the Rum Jun- gle vicinity. And in these areas the surveying aircraft's atom detector, or scinntillometer, made 900 strikes. The Government still Offers substantial rewards for fresh uranium ore discoveries. Where a commercially exploitable lode is found, the full $75,000 will be paid. Spurred by such induce- ments, Sam Macumber, a 59- year-old brewery worker, and his yOunger brother Bill, a rail- way gate-keeper, spent last win- ter's evenings studying the symp- toms of uranium-bearing reeks. Then recently, acting on a hunch, the two began a search at Mount Kangaroo, near Ingle- wood, a small township some thirty miles from the famous old gold-mining town of Bendigo. They took Out a mining licence. Prespectors are also attacking Mount Isa in Western Queens- land in a spirit as lively as any shown during the Klondike gold rushes. Here One group Of eight men, headed by taxi driver Cle- ment Walton, hit on a hillock, 200 feet wide by 400 feet across, which they now call Mount Atom. It appears to be solid with radioactive ore. The Australian Oil Exploita- tion Company has bought out their claim for $750,000. But, wisely, the lucky eight have contracted to receive a share in the mine's gross profits as well. The excitement Of sudden riches proved nearly fatal for taximan Walton. He collapsed after a severe heart attack. But fortunately he pulled around. Now, regaining his strength In a first-class convalescent home in Adelaide, he's smiling afresh. He sees happy daYs ahead in which to enjoy his astounding uranium luck. About 2,000 horizontal silos were in. use in Canada at the beginning of 1955 according to a preliminary survey condueted, by the Field Husbandry sion, Department of Agricul- ture, Ottawa. The majority of these silos were in the provin- ces of Quebec, Ontario, Ma:111W, ha and British Columbia. Most of them were of the ground Surface - type, requiring no. ex- cavation, Experimental' work on this method of ensiling crops, particularly for grass and le- gume silage, was started et the. Central. Experimental Farm in 19e1, • Results of this work have been sufficiently encouraging to secure growing adoption by farmers of the horizontal silo. * • Beef calves with only an Open shed as protection from the wind appear to make as rapid and economical gains as ani- mals wintered inside a barn, L. A, Charetter of the Ex- perimental Farm, Kapuskasing, reports that twenty shorthorn steers were placed on test in the fall at an average age of seven months and continued on test foe 196 days. At the end be this period They were put on pasture. One group of steers was wintered inside a dairy barn while another group was placed in a shed where the doors remained open. all winter. The animals in the shed had access to outside ,paddocks at all times. During these trials the steers in the open shelter made an average total gain of 174 pounds compared to 191 pounds for the steers wintered inside the barn. 4 4! Th calves wintered outside consumed a daily average of 5 pounds of hay, 18.7 pounds of grass silage and 1.4 pounds of grain while the calves inside the barn consumed 5.5 pounds ..of hay, 18.8 pounds of silage, and L4 pounds of grain. * * • Since the steers were watered ' and fed inside the shed, this limited the number of hours they would spend outside. The that thie might welt have hap- petted, fOr the Fuyughes (as the .natives that live in these parts are called) have gone to the Gabe* or Great Dance -- a fek tival of abandonment that Is held by a single tribe not more than once or twice in a genera- tion, and demands preparation extending over months and sometimes years. In a village a few miles away, their oiled bodies gleaming like statues of bronze, ruyughe dancers, weary frotn many days of dancing, stand watching dais On which are Piled the bones of those who have died in recent years. The Gabe is an opportunity for paying them a last tribute before they are cast into the earth and into oblivion, The golden rays of the setting sun eparkle for" the last time in the aureole of bird-of-paradise plumes above the head of the dancer-chief, and with nightfall an intense atmosphere of mourning descends upon the village, A group of natives walk sil- ently towards the dais with their axes and rain vigorous and savage blows upon the plat- form without a word, Skulls and bones go rolling over the red earth. Then, like a pack of dogs baying 10 the moon, an awful cry of lamentation goes up from the natives. With moon- light playing through the trees on this macabre scene, men scoop up armfuls of the seat- tered, bones and hurl them into a common grave, Andre Dupeyrat, a mission- ary, was preseritat one of these fanatical dances and in his ab- sorbing book, "Festive Papua" he ""rites vividly of his unique experience. "What does it all mean?" he asked an elderly native seated close to him at the bone-scatter- ing ceremony. "We are driving Out our dead," was the fierce reply. "We have kept their bones with honour so that their spirits should not persecute us. But now they have seen the dance of the great chiefs, and that is the end. Let them leave us in peace!" After a while one of the dancers shouted gaily: "We are going to trample on the bones of the dead." Arid so it went on, the drums and the majestic chant by the light of flaming torches until white fingers stretched across the sky, back- lighting the mighty peaks of the mountains and heralding the d a w n. The near -.exhausted drummers thundered out a last roll. There was the sun! The dance was over. The massacre was to follow, Slaying the pigs, for whom so much had been sacrificed by so many for se long, was a repul- sive scene that lasted for several minutes. The rule was that the animals should be kept scream- ing with pain for as lung as pos- sible, spattering the frenzied warriors from head to foot with blood to a hysterical ereecend0 let rip by the onlookers. "Here," writes Andre Dupey- rat, "was human bestiality dis- played in its full horror." Because of the ceremony, the people think only of the pigs— that they should be fat and not disgrace them when neighbour- ing villagers come to the Great Dance. The children may die of hunger; but ne one cares, it is the pigs that matter. Women are worked to death. Men fast to make' themselves elegant, un- dermine their health, and often die as a result of the festival, No one bothers. The women go off with stxangers, homes are destroyed, murder and war follows — yet eve.i that does, not matter. The pig is the thing ... and the wild splendour of the dance. Andre Dupeyrat'i book is an impressive 'account of the Fu- yughee —loins and is illus- trated ODD WAY OF GETTING EVEN Many, many years ago there existed a feud between the people of Little Basle and those of Basle, in Switzerland, Sepa- rating the two quarrelreg towns was the Rhine River, spanned by a bridge. The people of Basle hit vox an idea for displaying their con- tempt in a manner easily un- derstood. On the bridge, facire,, their rivals, they erected a huge ugly stone statue. To the hide- ous face of the statue was fate( an automatic device white every fifteen minutes caused the figure to stick its ion; tongue out at Little Basle. .4 4 Upsidedown to Prevent Peekirei • 4 1'4; 4 Dance of Death 5 1., • MaA0-25a0,4000E a1910.00M 000 Man ES MOUOaM saivb lanvaig jaaa- SO© • 000010aM00 OUM OMAN nOW OaM0 MUs BIN0M00AuP afl sUWa Ma- o I.:MHO MIME 0MUBMOw UWOU EMI= 000 10(10 MOM 30s 0900 Laying houses should have one 40-watt bulb for each 200 square feet of floor space. When all-night lights are used, this intensity may be reduced to one-third. The location of the lights will depend on the type and width of the house, In houses not more than 24 feet wide, the lights should be placed in a single row at intervals not exceeding 10 feet, midway between the roost- ing quarters and the front of e the house. In wider houses a double row of lights is neces- sary. The lights should be sus- pended about 6 feet from the floor, The greatest light inten- sity should fall on the water fountains and feeders, with a lesser amount on the roosting quarters to induce the hens to leave them. * Aside from convenience there apparently is little difference in the various methods of supply- ing light. If morning light is provided, feed and water must be available at the time the lights come on, When the birds are receiving light and feed in the evening, it 5 necessary lo have a dimming device to in- duce them to return to the roosts, NEEDED FIXING Bang in the middle of her first driving lesson Mrs. Williams complained to her husband: "Albert, that little mirror up there isn't set right." "What's wrcing with it?" "Well,. all I can see in it is the car behind." CROSSWORD PUZZLE 7 /Cent 111, 23. Pearly 8, Steal (slang) 29. Born 9; Stringed 32, Cori trlited, instrument 34. Old 10, Slaire 35. Alwa3,i; 11, Headland (contr), 11, Seim 28,, Abuses 19, Proper 38, Jog 22, Those Who 39. Interpret import, (arch.) , illegally 46.0n the ocean 2. 516,10 sheep 41. Large knife 25. 'Finial 8. Grafted 28, Blunder (her.) ' IT, A.nuterioas of 44. WitnesSee mind 48, rilake leather _ , . it , DOWN 1. of an Ode 2.14 urry s. Credited 4. Iranian ed 5. "Uncle Drinize a 3.....14 (0 5" 8 la 12 15 14 20 13 . , 1 91 4 Nt4 21 ACROSS 1. Glebtiti 5. Pouch 8. Norwegian name 12 Composition for two 13. Bother Sagabieue, 15. Small Wand 16. Speaks et 38. PrintiOnl, 20, TWO-P011ited tacks •21. Greek 'Province AO. Anger 24. tRveatial lning. 27. Err so. rmitatel 31. Urug'u'ay (Abe es Draft alitivia1 38. Among 84,PireaSing .128, urge on 18, Jcitiriteke 42, Beeflitetor'y Seilnde' 4s. 1)Weller 47 .14taseulin4. istcl name 48: irtdolibld Okla CliAt•-.)' 49. !turmeric 45; erldiiig Afternerift Bart; es Ise:se:die 23 22 27 25, 25. 28 29 31, 30 • 32- New Guinea, vast arid, colour- ful island north of Australia, still keeps most of its secrets hidden fierei the outside world; strange customs and beliefs that have withstood the changing tide of Western war in the Pacific. Iii the south-eastern part of the island, its tropical beaches washed by the cool Waters of the Coral Sea, lies Paette -- a strange, shut-away world Where even the prettiest native girl might envy the lied of a pig, Arriving by sea, you scan go up-country to the wild central mountains by one of the twist- ing revere that cut through the tangle of forest, their waters OVetgeowet with great creepere and climbing vines, Beaetiful butterflies litittet‘ among the trees And giant grasses grow tall froth the terrific storms that. sweep the valleys in the rainy season, The' earth seems alive With the hum of Millions Of in. sects. You pass a village, deserted and dead. Not a Soul stilt. Soiree Mike farther be another village eptieere through the ttees Oh the bank of the river — also ttheantilly quiet and empty, as though seine thestetiOtte evil power had laid its hands On Papue and Oiled the fordst people. to :it, the teissiOneriese Will telP you 37 ••. 44 38 4Z Uranium fever now grips Australia. Not so long ago, milling experts rejected this radio-active ore as dross. Now, as the raw material of atomic fission, it is more coveted than gold and, when stockpiled, im- measurably more useful—and dangerous. Uranium is bound shortly to revolutionize the world, wheth- er used for power generation, transport or defence. Sources fit for mining are far scattered. Canada struck one of the rich- est fields 'beside the Great Bear Lake, but lying within, the Art- tic Circle, 800 miles north by air of, the nearest railhead, its inaccessibility impedes rapid development. 4 The Belgian Congo's mines are more advantageously plac- ed. Apart from that, small, but valuable ore beds of high radio- active yields have been lo- cated in the United States and Africa. Yet now, with Australia's. en- try into the production field, the picture of uranium distri- bution changes. For no one can accuse the Western democracies of irresponsible ,„optimism iri suspecting that "down under" contains the earth's richest strata of this coveted ere. And, as in so many remark- able enterprises, it was left to 'a single individual, a man of very Ordinary attainments, to set Australia's atomic prosper- ity moving. Jack White, a brawny prospector of the pick and pan school, has spent a life- time amid' the Northern Terri- tory's alternately sun - beaten and rain-drenched wastes. Always he lived rough. Some- times he fiessicked for gold, keeping himself alive on kan- garoo meat, and sometimes he farmed until white ants devour- ed his buildings and pests de- spoiled his crops. Then one day, in 1949, driving his ramshackle jeep, he set out from Darwin to hunt kangaroos in Rum Jungle, a waste land of green mangoes, broken hills, gum-tree scrub and crumbling, ant-eaten R.A.A.F. hut encamp-, molts, The 'rocs Were scarce. 'But while searching for them, White chanced to stumble On some green and canary-yellow lamps of rock lying on the site of some leng abandoned copper and tin workings, Ureniurri ore Oxidizes a bright yellow when exposed to the atmosphere. That he knew. ,And he knew too that the eolours Of the rocks at hie feet fitted in with des- criptioee of the new ore he had read in a Bureau of Mines Pam- phlet. Putting clOwn his gun and fetching a sack frit= his jeep, he filled it with rock lunips, then flung it carelessly Oil the jeep's floet, Back at his shack., Jack post- ed oft hiS samples to the Mib- ing Btiteen'S offices at Alice Springs,: 900 Mires distant. He didn't libpd: for much. "After twenty yedea in the scrub." he afterwards .remarked, "one gets , tired Of looking for new things. I just picked 'ein tip. nOt Patti- , culat But when the expert At Alice Springs ran his tleteetee eVee these sainples it vibrated as if smitten with hysterics. Sobil, SWatin of scientists descended On RUM Jungle, probing it With geiger COunters, Then, it; tonditiOrie of Secrecy, eXpeti-, inental shafts Were sunk. Ma- nion& drillii gs disclosed how extensive WeS the Jack Wiliteo. fitted eta d 45 47 46' 49 ' 48 30. "see • :,x.•:7•92. 51 53 Aetswer eteetehere Ott tliti to dIr ..nateteY Warren, 0-0*. Meaning Discipleship )eeke 0:3340 e Man FRONT OUCH I — Just looking at Julia as she and her partner rehearse their act in London can make your bones ache. But Darvas and Julia, specialty daricers, have trained for this sort of_ of thing, which is why they dp- peered before Oueen Elizabeth in the Royal Variety Perform- ance at Victoria Palace Theatre. eiel4e4kee took y; . Irut kind oT edrthyr is errs OPtiltOltuipturedl by ridture to look like d bird. it was found by Jesse iledweli, above, while dig§' hi§ potatoes Oh aratidoother's farm, The only thine Bedwell, '25, added' fat thhipiele_ 'the' :Helper ;elle lea 36 39 scurity, blinked irritably on dis- covering himself to be a cele- brity, a national hero, Grizzled and slow-speaking, he neVer- theless pecketed the Govern- ment's maximum reward for his find, a.cheque 'for $75,000. Yet when invited to join disting- uished guests at Rum Jungle's opening ceremony, in Septem- ber, 1954, Jack White stayed away. At the very moment that the Australian Prirrie Minister, Mr. R. G. Menzies, pressed the switch, setting in motion one of the world's greatest and most costly uranium oxide extraction plants, Jack was enjoying, a quiet drink in the bar of the Adelaide River Hotel, Darwin. Despite his fortune, he dwells still in a simple galvanized iron 'cottage. He is without running water, electricity, or any Of civ- lization's domestic amenities. When atomic power opens up this corner of Australia he'll probably be the last to use it! But he has equipped himself with a new jeep. And, when re- porters pressed him to disclose his new ambitions, all they got out of him was, "What I want is to be left alone by you guys, and, grow peanuts." So the mighty atom has transformed him from a casual propector in- to a full-time peanut farmer. Now, at Batchelor, the old R.A.A.F. township in Rum Jun- gle, a new town on stilts has arisen. All the new buildings, shops, messes and primary schools stand on stilts. They are also "louvred," or heavily shuttered, so that internal air temperatures can be easily con- trolled. The spot has the great ad- vantage of being Only sixty miles from•a port and of lying on 'the main highway from Darwin to Alice Springs. Australia has started off her premier produc- tion plant with tremendous phys- ical factors in her favour. Formerly, in this wild terri- tory, many adventurers and tough breeds lived OM the court- try. PrOvided they could shoot, they need never fear starvation. And with a little prospecting knowledge they sometimes stum- bled across geld, copper, tin, wolfram and Other useful min- erals. ' Now, since ,Jack White's ter- rific luck, these wiry old pros- pectors have a new look and new teals. Instead of the fa- miliar gold washing pan and sluice-hoX, the more go-ahead have equipped themselves with four-wheeled trucks, g eI g'e r counters (these alone cost about $300); ultra-violet lamps end modern camping equipment, lAttt keen, eyes, patience arid energy are still the prospector's. stock-in-trade. Uranium oxide does not cause geiger reactiOns epee eeteice' 'Su rents postage dtic? I know Wito•tes from and it's tiot worth tliatle •