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MARINES CONQUERED-The Marines have landed-but Mitzi
Gaynor has the situation well in hand. The situation is the
Hawaiian island of Kauai, where "South Pacific" is being film-
ed with Mitzi as Ensign Nellie Forbush. l'he Marines are some
of 4,000 who hit the Kauai beaches from Navy transports in
an invasion maneuver.
MIAMI FRONT
About Sparrows
Some people maintain that they
can do without sparrows. Take
'QM or leave 'ern. Preferably the
Atter. Or, better still, be left by
them. Be left quite alone. And
quiet,
To these people the dawn
chorus of the sparrows is strictly
for the birds, They don't want to
hear it, They don't even want to
hear about it. They've had it.
One has to admit that the
aoise that a heclgeful of sparrows
makes at break of clay is not that
of a chorus or choir, in either the
Greek or Welsh senses, but of a
;ootball crowd — a football
crowd composed entirely of small
boys.
And this is not because the
sparrow cannot sing. Sparrows,
when they want to, can sing very
well. I mean not only song spar-
rows but chirping sparrows too;
hedge sparrows, house sparrows,
town sparrows, the lot, Clar-
enet Kipps, the most uncom-
mon London sparrow, who en-
tertained in air-raid shelters dur-
ing the blitz, could sing splendid-
ly and was fond of piano music
as an accompaniment. If the corn-
mon sparrow does not sing it is
because, as a rule, it is, frankly
well , . common.
To be common is not a handi-
cap This is the century of the
common bird, And personally I
find sparrows, common or not,
most sympathetic,. Afthough not
as wise as owls, for instance,
sparrows are a good deal cleverer.
The owl got his reputation for
wisdom by continually asking
questions, ("Huh?") Anyone or
anything, bird included, that does
this often, let alone continuously,
is likely to find himself up a tree,
sunk in perplexity. And you
know what owls are like. Spar-
rows, on the other hand, don't
bother with the questions. They
get along simply by knowing the
answers,
Every bird at the breakfast
table tends, for a sparrow, to be
a bigger bird. Yet this does not
deter the sparrow. He is right in
there, pinching. He will pinch
anything from under the nose or
beak of anything on two legs.
The sparrow knows what the
bigger birds don't know. He is
aware of Aesop's Law. Which
is that you cannot, if you are a
bird, both have your bread and
eat it — when the beak opens
the bird-cake will fall out.
It does not bother a sparrow
it all' the bread and bird-cake has
been taken already by bigger and
earlier birds. All the sparrow
does is to 'find a bigger bird with
.MIRRORED DESTRUCTION,--1 The
fiery destruction of ci -:Sinece:
,pore Warehouse is reflected %in
the quiet ‘',.vbters in foreground.
The blaze forced 11,500::resi-
dents to flee their horites'qnd
destroyed 500 tans of 'rubber.
CROSSWORD
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a. simetble &lee in its beak and
follow it. Poi the sparrow,
surnmine the situation up in a
wink, realizes that as soon as the
bigger bird apt is its beak to
peek 11w bind it will inevitably
drop it on the ground. In the
confusion - for the bigger bird,
when it sees the bread on the
ground, is confused and does not
at first get it - the sparrow
steps in underneath the open
beak and does get it.
The odd thing is tha although
one often sees sparrows do this
one rarely, if ever, sees the big-
ger bird follow a sparrow and
do the same thing back. Yet,
obviously, Aesop's Law applies
equally to sparrows. Sparrows
have to put bread down before
they can peek too. It may be
that the trick only works one
way because sparrows are built
so very close to the ground ,(when
not flying). But it often looks to
me as if the bigger bird is too
busy bothering about why life is
so unfair to get busy and do
something about it,
A Lambeth sparrow, working,
in the airy riverside cafeteria,
under Waterloo Bridge, by the
Festival Hall, came the other day
and sat on my plate and waited
for me to unwrap a sandwich, I
knew what it was waiting for, So
I held grimly on to my sandwich
even as I unwrapped it, over-
coming the temptation to put
it down even for a moment on
the plate. Instead I offered the
sparrow some crumbs. It looked
me straight in the eye (the right
eye), raised its beak in the air
18Q degrees and flew off. That
sparrow knew I knew. It aimed
to get the whole sandwich.
A Lambeth spar,row is more
sparrowlike than any other kind.
Lambeth, of course, where the
Walk is, is a famous Cockney
borough. And the sparrow is
frequently described metaphori-
cally as a Cockney, just as the
Cockney is often likened to a
sparrow. The terms have got
pretty well interchangeable.
The Cockney is traditionally
small and wiry — although in
fact a short tour of London now
will convince you that we are
in for some enormous Cockneys
in the future — and he is cheeky,
chirpy, and cheerful. Also he will
sell you anything that will go
on a barrow, including, if you
insist, London Bridge. But the
most accurate and lasting quali-
ties attributed to the Cockney
is love of family and a lively hu-
mor. And in - these ways the
Cockney certainly is sparrowl
like, and vice versa.
Sparrows fly about in family
groups. They chase each other,
grumble at each other, complaii
to each other, peck each other,.
share each .other's food, sing to
each other, protect each other,
and together pull all the other
birds' legs.
I have reported before now
the spring's baby sparrows came
'and copied the sunbathing antics
peculiar most of the time to.
J. B. Blackbird, actually sitting
beside him and in front of him
in and around his own special
sunbathing place and fluffing
when' he fluffed.
Well, the other day I looked
out of the dining-room window
and there was J. B. standing on
the very edge of the lawn look-
ing up at the window in his cus-
tomary manner. Beside him, in
a dead straight line, "dressed"
like a line of guardsmen on par-
ade, were five young sparrows.
They were all looking up at the
dining-room window too. J. B.
moved. The sparrows, as one
bird, all moved. J. B. hopped: The
sparrows hopped. They 'must
have been mimicking him. I
don't think he thought it • was
funny, but I must confess I did.
It is my hope that one day
they will mimic the blackbird's
„song. Then everything in the
garden will indeed be lovely.—
By John Allan May in the
Christian Science Monitor. *.
Changing Clima te:
Threatens Musk-ox
One of tint world's rarest ani-
mals, the 4-foot high musk ox,
is in danger of extinction before
the end of the century, Many
of these animals, that have dark.
brown hairy coats which they
shed in spring, have perished of
hunger in recent months in the.
Arctic regions 'of Greenland, •
their chief breeding place.
The main cause of the animals'
Plight is believed to be the
changieg climate. In recent
years warm winds after the, first
snows, followed by cold weather,
have caused the snow to melt
and then be replaced by ice,
As a; result, the musk oxen
have been unable to scratch their
• way down to the vegetation on.
which they live,, Greenland
authorities are also alarmed he-
cause no calves under cum year
old were observed last year in
the Danraarkschavn area Of.
north-east Greenland-the only
area left in the world where
music oxen, were relatively •
plentiful, They also survive in
a few places in the Canadian
arctic, but there, too, their num-
bers have been steadily declin-
ing.
To try to prevent the animals
becoming extinct, the Greenland
• authorities are placing new re-
strictions on hunting them. The
animals' name is derived from
the musky flavor of their flesh.
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CAMERA MAGIC Jack
Hess , of 'Haeriburg, Germany,
demonstrateseheiti to .tell a "tall
story" as she reaches over to,
,
place a bouquet in a modern.?
istic "flower vase". The "vase',!
is actually a 150-foot water
tower' under construction In the
distance.
Puritan Living
For Lucy, life in the old gray
stone house at Weymouth was
as great a change from life at
home as studying at the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts differed
from lessons at the- Kalamazoo
High School. . . . The Weymouth
house had remained unchanged
since its establishment fifty years
before.
The big drawing room was
crowded with heirloom furniture
and kept closed behind its two
pairs of paneled double doors
during the time that Lucy lived
there. Anne Howe 'observed her
widowhood by. denying herself
all formal entertaining and when
the drawing room doors were
opened once a month to air and
clean the room ,'Lucy felt choked
by the musty Odor of •it:
The small sitting room across
the hall was warm and full of
things. The long mahogany din-
ing table, in the room beyond,
that, had cushions against its
legs lest the family kick and scar
it in drawing up. On this table,.
Florinda, the family retainer, set
a lighted kerosene lamp, its trans-
lucent shade fringed with pend-
ent .crystals, at exactly quarter
before seven every winter week-
day inorning. At this moment
Aunt 116We and COusin Hattie and
Lucy could be heard coming
downstairs. Simultaneously they
sat down to a breakfast of cold
muffins and hot tea. In fifteen
minutes or thereabout Lucy got
to her feet and hurriedly grail-
* ered the edible remains of break-
fast for her school lunch, ad-
ding a doughnut or cold pie or
pieces of cheese according to
what Florinda suggested. These
she put in a tin box and strapped
it to her schoolbooks while she
said her merry or saucy or re-
luetarit goodbyes. She usually
left just as Florinda brought in
the dishpan full of hot water,-
and a rinsing pan, and put them
before Aunt. Howe, Who sat at her
place ana 'Washed the china and
silver after every Meal, Each
piece was then put back in the
ettpboards by Cousin Hattie, and
the service was still unnicked
and beautiful after fifty years of
use„ — Front "Fve Among the
Puriten8,9 by Eleanor tills Per-
]tills.
Is it possible to produce a
70-bushel or more yield of fall
wheat per acre on land which
averages only 35 bushels or less
— as it does in Ontario?
According to Darrel D. Dolson
of the farm advisory service of
C-I-L's agricultural chemicals_
division, this is not only pos-
sible but many Ontario farmers
are doing it. And here's his for-
mula for 70-bushel wheat;
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Choose suitable soil. Land
must be well drained as stand-
ing water in either fall or spring
destroys plants and 'evert
yields. Tile drainage of in-
adequately drained areas is is
good practice for nearly all
crops. For wheat, benefit can be
obtained also from plowing open
furrows through low areas im-
mediately after sowing.
4, 4, 4,
Prepare a good seedbed. This
should be carried out in such a
way as to conserve moisture,
destroy weeds and prepare the
soil for planting. A good seed
bed for fall wheat is one that
is well aerated, has plenty of
moisture and is firm below a
depth of 114,, to 2 inches so that
soil will be well packed around
the seed.
*
Choose seed wisely. Because
of the apperance of dawrf bunt
in Ontario, only registered
grades should be purchased for
seed. If home grown seed is
free of this disease, it is quits
satisfactory. It should be clean-
ed and treated with mercurial
seed disinfectant for control of
common bunt.
* * *
Sow enough seed on time.
Seeding rate recommended is
seven to eight pecks per acre
although this may vary with the
district. Date of seeding should:
be adjusted to avoid the insect
injury period but permit de-
velopmeet of a strong root sys-
tem and top to withstand winter
cold, Too early seeding may lead
to winter kill or attack by the
Hessian fly. For correct rates,
and dates of seeding, the farmer
should consult his local agricul-
tural representative. .
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Fertilize well. Fertility re-
quirements of fall wheat are
not complex, The mineral plant
foods — phosphate and potash
— should be applied usually at
the time of seeding together
with some nitrogen. This stimu-
lates moderate top growth and
development of a strong and
large root system.
So that correct amounts and
analysis of fertilizer may be
used on a particular • field, the
soil should be tested. If for any,
reason it is impossible, to have
a soil test, the following gen-
eral fertilization rates will Meet
requirements in most cases:.
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Light soil: '500 pounds of 2-12-
10 per acre seeded down, 400
pounds not seeded: Medium soil:
400 pounds of 3-18-15 per acre
seeded down, 350 pounds hot
seeded. Heavy spilt 500 pounds
of 3-18-9 per acre seeded, down,
400 ponds not seeded.
*
It the field is manured or if
YP
wheat is following a plowed
clown clover crop, a no-nitrogen
analysis such as 0-12-20, 0-20-20
or 0-20-10 may be used, depend-
ing on type of soil.
Peaceful Valleys
These are delightful days in our
valleys. Of new-green meadows
where the hay was cut, and the
clustered red of eldefeeeey eees
fireweed blazing in the clearings.
Most any road will do — up the
Wishkah, the. Hoquiam or Johns
rivers, the Cloquallum and the
long reach of the Hump-tulips.
Everywhere canyons 'crease the
hills and folds of alder and sec-
ond growth lie to the sun or
darken in the shadow of cloud.
These are rare, homey valleys, of
intimate patches of ,fields and
houses beside old orchards, of
cattle'by 'the streams and a gar-
den behind the house.
The everlasting flowers are
blooming. The goldfinches are
at work and the thistledown is
flying. There is a peace in our
valleys, a sense of security and
well-being, and the quiet charm
that can come Only to seclusion.
The valleys are sweet with forest
smells; and hay and the wisp of
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.Weed smoke, and roses •anct,
honeysuckle and all the things
dear to home.
The streams .are enough to stir
the. soul -- the tidal reaches, and
the clear givings of the mount,-
ains and the hills, rippling, sparks,
beg, noisy and quiet according.
to the mood, of riffle end deep
eddy. The blue of sky is in the,
pools, and kingfisher clacking,
4.4d the plaintive cell of the
woocithrush.
Shadows reach down from the.
hillcresta and. • old. Maples lean
over the fence corners, Bracken
runs the roadsides. There is hard-
ly any noise in a valley, only
sounds., Sometimes the air 15 still,
arid again the wind brushes the.
trees and rustles the corn and
sweeps the meadow grass like a
breeze on water. • ,
Tr...!re, are stumps in old pap-
tore.;, and new trees on the hills...
The cascara leaves are autemneci
where kids have peeled the bark,
and the vine maples are thinking
of turning, The transparent apple
trees are laden and there .are
windfalls on the ground, .
There is peace in our valleys,
and industry and contentment,.
People with their own patch of
heed, their own doorsteps and
fences, their own way of life.
There is snugness and haven,
and perhaps a little bit of heaven,
too, • For beauty is heavenly,—
Aberdeen (Wash). Daily World.
London Buses
Slicked. Quickly
The big double-decker buses of
London Transport, Eng., ramb-
ling red landmarks so familiar
to Canadian visitors, are being
treated to regular four minute
beauty. treatments.
The push button treatment
leaves the vehicles thoroughly
vacuum cleaned, refuelled and.
lubricated. Each night, while
London sleeps, a small army of
10,000 maintenance workers
swings into action, examining,
washing and repairing the fleet
for the following day.
One gadget used is an immense
frame on which 56 brushes whirl
at 500 revolutions a minute. Cold
water jets drench the *exterior
of the bus and the brushes clean
and polish it in less than two
minutes. Every nine weeks the eb'aches
are given a "shampoe
g,. the mechanism. "The
'when gal -
lons of liquid soap -are sprayed
throe FP
gobbler," a powerful vacuum
Meaner; can deck of
labusin a)otte
gnu.
Money may not buy happi-
ness, but it's a pretty good down
payment.—Charles Buffing.,
By Rev, R. Bniclny Warren
B.A, B.D.
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and I am your God, suits the
Lord God. Ezekiel $441,,
A bishop said, "Of the cont-
plaints I have heard eencerninet
ministers, more of them concern,
ed the lack of a shepherd heart
than the lack of preaching
ability. "
'Live, was to speak to his Ow*
people who were also in cape
Ezekiel developed the shepber
heart, It was a difficult task t
which he was called. He, a cap*
' tivity, They had rebelled againat
God. They were impudent child,*
ren and stiff-hearted. Litt14
wonder that Ezekiel went to
them in bitterness and in heat
of spirit. Apparently he scorns4
the people to whom he was to
minister. He came to the captives
at Telabib by the river Cktebar,
He entered into the experience
of the people. He wrote of
later, "I sat where they sat, an
remained there astonished among;
them seven days." No one ca4
really help people in their spirit-
ual needs until he learns to know
not only the faces behind the
faces but also what has made the
faces what they are. "I sat where
they sat," is a prerequisite fOr
serving others.
Then Ezekiel received a charge
which gave him a sense of re-
sponsibRity. He was to be
watchman of the house of . Israel,.
If he failed to deliver the warn-
ing from the Lord, the bloodt
of the wicked would be required
at his hand. If his warning went
unheeded he would at least save
his own soul. But he must speak
reproof only as God. directed.
Ezekiel was to be a co-worker
with God in shepherding Israel.
,Though they were in captivity
because of their rebellion yet
they were not forsaken. Ezekiel
brought a message of hope. They
would be gathered again to their
own land. Messiah would comb
and be a shepherd over them
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had brought the man's famil,*
those 200 miles in a hurry. The
man will never forget that pester
with the Shepherd heart.
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ON THE BARK-They're off in the first pciodle race ever held in
Berlin, Germany, or probably anywhere, for that matter. The
race climaxed a poodle show at the tity's fairgrounds. The
dogs' owners were posted at the finish line, otherwise the
canines might not have budged an inch.
THgEU, ACRES ON THE MOVE-The largest tow ever transported on the Tennessee •River is
pictured on Pickwick take, about .215 miles from its starting point, Pacincali, Ky. the tow of
24 barges loaded with grain, scrap iron and steel is en route from Paducah to Knoxville,
Tenn, The 24 barges, in at formcition 100 feet wide, cover ail area of approximately' 126,000
square feet or almost three acres. The low is being pushed by a diesel tow boat, the itabin4
(In river parlance, ct taW,Is a formation of barges pushed, not polled, by a tow boot.) The
3,200 horsepower Robi4 it the most powerful boat on the Tennessee River. A big tow sutls
at this is not unusual for the Mississippi giver, but for the Tennessee it is an all-time record].•