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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1957-10-23, Page 3....rt.. b.. r hi....7N.., LIFT FOR HANDICAPPED-This , unusual school bus A, with a built-in elevator, believed to be the first of its kind ever constructed, has been placed in service in San Lorenzo, Calif., to transport handicapped children froin their homes to their own special school, At left, Tommy Stokes, who has driven handicapped children for 10 yebrs, wheels one of his small charges onto the bus' elevator for a quick trip to the floor level. At right, the short ride into tho' bus bring a smile to the face of the youngster. The new bus is fitted with floor attach- ments where the wheel chairs can be anchored. By Rev. K. Barclay Warren The Problem of Christian Freedom 1 Corinthians, .eh apter Mettler), Selection: There bath no temptation taken, you but Stlrit as is common to man: but God 0 faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye tSTO able; but will with the tempta- tion also make it way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. l Corinthians 1„0:13. How free are we, in this land. Of freedom? Laws, municip4 provincial and federal, oven's our behaviour. If we belong to an organization of those of simi- lar occupation there are more. laws. Membership in a club oV chureh add more laws, MO people are uncomplaining aborg these laws because they feel that they are made for' the elfare of the group and society in gen- eral. The man who roars his ear down the wrong side of a street to assert his freedom ignores the rights of others and endangers his ewn life. How free is a Christian? He loves his neighbour as himself. he will, therefore, abide by the laws of the lande unless he be. Neves them to be in direct con- flict with the laws of God. This situation arises in countries where God is openly denied as under Communism, A Christian is free from the bondage of sin. When he repent- ed of his sins and believed on Jesus Christ a new power came into his life. He is no longer a slave of evil habits. He is free. "1./ the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." (John 8:36.) A married man who over a period of years had been committing adultery with another woman asked in tears, "Can I find strength to live right?" We reminded him of the woman whom Jesus forgave and to whom He said, "Go, and sin no more (John 8:11.) Jesus didn't command the impossible. "If any man be in. Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all, things are be- come new." (2 Corinthians 5:17.) "He breaks the power of can- celled sin, He sets the prisoner free." The Christian is free to do right. He abhors the evil. He is sensitive to the interests of others. He will set an example worthy of -imitation. He has the spirit of Paul: "If meat make my brother to offend, I will eat n‘ flesh while the world standetla lest I make my brother to of- fend." Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking OWE1 'E1000 MOE ©LA® UEMUMUMEE U0W000 OOM MO UMUM U1 Mar MOM MO MOUE MUM OMMUMOU COJAMOBOOM OQ MEMIUMO BOo MEM MUM UOMM WM WO UWE UM QUOHEIMOOEM OUMEMOMEND UMC MEM lial0E7 a 4 4 4 41 4 1 1 1 I 1 41 I 1 1 4 0 Results of the first year's test under the Record of Perform- ance for Beef Cattle have just been announced by the Canada Department of Agriculture, Ot- tawa. In a few weeks about,3,000 calves, or ten times the number recorded in the first test, will be weighed and graded to 'obtain the initial information required for the second year's records, Weighing and grading will be done by officials delegated by the provincial departments of Agriculture who carry on the project in their respective Pro- vinces in co-operation with the federal department, and the livestock breeders. * * * In the recent test, 341 calves were entered-248 Herefords, 50 Angus and 43 Shorthorns. Of these, 176 were males and 165 were females. The male calves made an average daily gain from birth to weaning of 1.86 lb. per day, the females 1.68 lb. * 4 * Comparison of these results was limited to six Hereford herds, all that had sufficient calves entered and reared under- conditions suitable to permit ef- fective comparison within the herd. The six herds with a to- tal of 191 calves (94 males and 97 females) indicate the aver- age daily rate of gain that can be expected in beef cattle, first from date of birth to weaning and second from weaning to the 'end of the winter feeding per- iod. * e Average daily gain made by the 94 bull calves was 1.85 pounds per day, from birth to weaning, and by the 97 heifers 1.69 pounds. Thus the bull calves gained on the average 1/5 of a pound more per day than the heifers. 'But of greater signifi- cance is the difference in aver- age performance, or daily gain, 2.11 lb. for the top third and 1.49 lb. for the bottom third of the calves tested. Average dif- ference between these two groups both in the males and females amounted to about 2/e of a pound per day. In terms of beef production, at prices pre- vailing when these calves were weaned last fall,, this would have meant $22.80 per calf to a commercial cattleman. * * * The variation in' rate of gain between individuals within some of these herds was much greater than the average figures indi- cate. In one herd the top calf gained one and one half pounds more than the bottom calf. The two calves had the same treat- ment under ranch conditions. The slow gaining calf was al- most two months older than the best calf but actually weighed nearly 200 pounds less at weans GETS HIS GOAT-Deputy Sheriff Sill Soileau -selves rash of broken glass doors in the St. Landry Perinh, roar Opelousas, La. Investigating the fifth such incident in tut'. t weeks, Soileau noticed CI few short white hairs at the st•-s and later apprehended this goat. It seems The ari'mers, es, flectiOn the glass would cause hill) charge the de: 1. a Casa is closed. third and the bottom third of the calves. For the full feeding period, approximately 168 days, the difference in the average weight gained was 112 pounds, or $20.15 in value on the basis of $18.00 per cwt, for commer- cial cattle. 4. * Combining the records for both periods, calves that • were, within the top third at weaning and also in the top third at the end of the feeding period were worth just over $40.00 mor'h per head than these in the bottom third for both periods. Results indicate that there were a con- siderable number of calves among those making rapid gains at both these stages in their growth. These fast gaining year- lings were worth 25 per cent more than the sleiVer gaining yearlings on a commercial basis. Their value as potential breed- ing stock would be greater in pure bred breeders' herds. * Research has shown that this valuable trait of rapid gains is inherited and can be transmit- ted to future generations. Simi- larly, studies on rate and cost per pound of gain indicate that these two factors are closely related. Calves with a high rate of gain, in most instances, re- quire less feed to make a Pound of gain than those with a low rate of gain. Recognition of the top performing cows, bulls and calves within a herd and devel- opment of a breeding program around these animals is the aim of Record of Performance. Freedom Doesn't Come First ! We listened to a philosopher the other day. He said we are putting toe much emphasis on freedom. To him, the most important thing is fra- ternity. Christians use the word brotherhood, Freedom, of course, is still de- sirable, but we must acknew- ledge that our society is semi- free. And it must remain so. About 15 years ago, we were SINGING NELSON - Nel- sen, 21-yea:It-old son 'of radio and TV's "Ozzie and Harriet", continues his recently started singing career d) the Ohio State rair. Nelson, whose I'm Welkin?" record sold 'a oiillion caplet, is tt rieW Peen age' fad,. He's slated for an appearance an the Perry Ceara television- thewl UNDAYSCIJOR LESSON FARM FRONT Lightning Opens Beer Bottio Liaaning, the world's m incalculable force, has been playing tricks again. After striking a sixty-foot elm tree on a London common., It bounced on to the metals studs of a dog's collar. The dog was killed, Marty people owe their lives, to the freakishness of lightning. One man, standing on a steed mat in his doorway, was thrown to the ground by a sudden flash, lie was unharmed - but the celluloid of his collar-stud and the metal buckles of his braces were melted away, Scientists say that the energy in a single flash is sufficient to lift es much as 550 tons to a height of a mile and a quarter. A dumb beggar stood in a Lima, Peru, street one hot day in 1940, and watched a pretty, daintily-dressed girl approach- ing him, In her outstretched hand was a coin for his box. Suddenly there was a flash of lightning - and the girl stood before him stripped of nearly all her clothes. The beggar was so amazed that he spoke for the first _time in his life. He has been speaking ever since. Having been struck by light- ning twice in ten years, an Ely man was afterwards able to predict accurately a thunder- storm's approach hours before its arrival, 'My arms always tingle," he said, "and just before a storm starts" my body feels as if an electric current is passing through it." Lightning knocked uncon- scious a ,nan c ho had suffered ten years from rheumatism. He recovered and was amazed to find the flash had cured him, for he has never had another twinge from that day to this. Imprinted on the neck of a - young Cuban who was struck by lightning, police found the de- sign of a horseshoe. Later they found a horseshoe nailed on a window of a house thirty yards away from the spot where the man had died. A gold bracelet disappeared from the wrist of a girl as she raised her arm to close a win- dow while lightning was flash- ing. She was unhurt. One August -lay a man living in the Midlands picked up a bot- tle of beer and was about to open it when a flash of lightning came down the chimney, half stunning-him and wrecking the room. When he recovered he found that the neck al the bottle had been neatly and cleanly cut off, without a drop being spilt. 10,1('W 101.4.4 take it lesteraie while the wind held, So, having loads l all aboard, he drove slap-bang into the mid- dle of that reeking hell. The ear hurtled forward, hitting and sliding off bouldQrs, and at last carried its choking occupants out of - the death gorge and into the welcome fresh air. Kearton's knowledge of lions, gained while photographing them in their true haunts was tremen- dous, Yet some aspects of their behaviour completely mystified him. Why should a lion, a man- eater, leave a white man it was about to maul, and attack a na- tive? Lions, said Kearton, seem guided at times by a peculiar eense of unreason, You cannot rely on them to take the easiest course of action. On one occasion a man-eater began picking off a native rail. way staff, carrying its members away singly, night after night, until no one dared work at the station, Then three Europeans volunteered to keep watch and destroy the killer. A cabin was drawn up for them on a siding. It offered a good field of fire, Two slept, while* the third,, rifle in hand, kept watch. But on this night, all being quiet, the watcher decided to turn in. He dozed off. Then the man-eater arrived. It pushed back the sliding door with its paw, and steadiLy nosed into the compartment-all three sleepers were at its mercy. But the lion did not snatch the man sleeping on the floor nearest the door - the obvious Instead, he dragged down the fellow from the berth above, shook him ferociously and bounded off with him. Kearton Chimself once tricked a lion which barred his way. He switched on his car head- lamps, illuminating some bushes. Seeing the light, the man-eater investigated, giving Kearton the chance to escape. He had another narrow es- cape while photographing a rhino and her waddling baby. Suddenly, he realized., that an- other great beast, the three-ton male rhino, was stalking him from behind. Kearton raced for the near- est tree. A second or so later the great beast charged. Al- though hampered by his slip- pery leather leggings, Kearton just managed to shin up the tree, leaving the rhino snorting and baffled below. Not bad acrobatics for a chap of sixty-five! A rhino out for blood thunders forward as fast as a galloping horse for about three-quarters of mile-after that he's , winded. --Anyone caught by a rhino is either trampled to pulp, or gored to shreds by its murderous horns. On an earlier safari, Kearton was photographing rhino at night when. his camera's flashlight dis- turbed one of them. The beast charged straight at him. Kear- ton again scrambled up a tree, but had no time to worry about his apparatus. The rhino wreaked its ven- geance on the expensive camera, trampling it into the ground. Keartoit was glad he had learned to climb trees as a boy, ISSUE 43- 1957 /41 Cheating Death In The Jungle vou must not go to Atrien again nnlese you went to drop deed In the jungle!" cherry Kearton, jungle film pioneer, listened to the heart specialist's warning and smiled. All the other doctors had said the same thing. If he wanted to live he must give up his long career of adventure hunting big game with a camera, and retire to the country or some quiet suburb, Keartan's reaction was typical of him, At sixty-five, he imme- diately booked passage to Cen- tral Africa! Although a very sick man he set Off again with even more Ambitious filming plans, Alto. ,gether, he travelled 30,000 miles, cheating death all the time as lie "hunted" with his beloved camera. And, when the great safari ended, he breezed back to Bri- tain, a changed man whom his doctors scarcely recognized, Amazingly his health had been restored by the hazards he had overcome! He said he found the jungle, with all its terrors, more peaceful than London with its traffic! His most heart-stopping ad- venture occurred in the, danger- Gus jungle country between Nai- robi and Lake Victoria. His in- stinct for good pictures led him into a dried-up volcanic gorge, Within half an hour of entering it, he became aware of a sud- den ominous silence. Birds stop- ped chattering, baboons ceased their throaty serenades. Then an acrid smell reached Kearton's nostrils. His worst fear was real- ized, He and his ,native boys were trapped by jungle fire. Soon he saw an enormous bar- rier of flame and smoke licking forward through the 15-foot high elephant grass behind him. The gorge's entrance was obscured, blocked by fire, He could not drive forward, for to do so- he was unarmed-would. put him at the mercy of the lions, ele- phants and rhinos trapped- like himself, in the crackling death gorge. Already, he could hear their snorts of terror ahead of him. Snakes slithered by, too ter- rified to notice him or his na- tive boys. The fire roared on relentlessly through the narrow pass. His natives, their faces glowing red, their eyeballs smarting with heat and whitening in terror, crowded together,' calling on' their gods for mercy. There seemed no hope. Kearton felt sure that his self- prescribed health cure was about to meet a blazing end, but he tried one last trick. He got his boys to surround the car with a ring of fire, and coaxed it to spread outwards, hoping to create a burnt safety belt as the inferno roared down on them. Now a new hazard appeared. Five, hundred feet above them, at the top of the gorge's unscalable cliffs, baboons shrieked and scampered, desperately trying to escape the flames. In their panic they dislodged heavy boul- ders, which began to rain down perilously near Kearton and his party. • For nine hours this ordeal by fire and smoke and stones con- tinued. Then a miracle happen- ed, The wind veered slightly and Kearton, peering into the smoke, save, that the flames in the ele- phant grate had lost their fury; they now flickered barely a foot high. It was nearly dark and the ear's headlamps, though still ser- viceable, could not penetrate the smoke curtain, But there was a chance, a slender one, and he BRIDGE OF SIGHS -4ND REGRETS The mayor of Huyeapan de Campo, •in Mexico, is in the bad books of the people of his town. He not only offered to sell the town's main bridge to a visiting, e American-but sold it and then began to tear it down so that the buyer could take delivery. The mayor, Primitivo Rios, now stands charged with the. theft of the bridge, using two terms - free com- petition and private enterprise. Then the National Association of Manufacturers picked out one word from each of these expres- , sions and gave us "free enter- prise". The members of N.A,M. spent millions in advertising free enterprise, and they have just about encceeded in making the American people think that free enterprise and democracy are synonymous. They are not. Years ago, we had more eco- nomic freedom than we do now. Anyone could start a bank-even if it was doomed to failure. Secret rebates were given by railroads and insiders by the thousands got free passes, leav- ing the public to make up the difference. A giant oil company used to erect a filling station next door to small competitors and cut prices until the com- petitor went out of business. Enterprising pharmaceutical houses sold harmful nostrums with false claims. Fruit cover- ed with arsenic (applied for in- sects) was marketed. Life insur- ance companies preyed on the public. Grandpa - in your history book -- could tell you about the good old days of free enterprise. Now, we have only as much - freedom as can be used without stepping on the next fellow's toes. There are regulatory bodies to watch for your interest in communications, transportation, public health, aviation, utility rates, automobile traffic, and scores of other fields. All of the regulatory agencies are cutting in on someone's free- dom. Yet, which of these agen- cies would you suggest giving up? The only area en which it is not necessary to place a curb 15 the freedom of expression and religion. It is clear, then, that we live in a semi-free society. Our phil- osopher friend is probably right in his emphasis on fraternity, For the Brotherhood of Man crosses racial, religious, and na- tional lines. It is the highest concept that man has ever held, and if we remember rightly it was Jesus who first shook the world with such an idealistic notion. -Littleton (Coke) Independent I . CROSSWORD PUZZLE 7. nazdtd enterprise 8. Meadow 9, Exist 10, Mud of syrup ii. Hyten 14. Untruth 15 Twilight 20. Motion %- 21. Electric particle 22, Cut hay 28, Wayfarer 24. Parson' bird 211. Forbid 27. 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The heifers gained only 1.87 pounds, 4 44 In the bull calves records for this second period showed theta was again a difference of % of a pound tier (by between the average rate Of gain for the top 17 16 15. 1. ACROSS 3 Of that girl 4', Ancient Asiatic region 8, Portable light 12, Mimic 13. Religious festival it Ilefleet 17 ily any at 18, Pape Sheltered nook 20 TeamsterS eortimmul 21. 1 rInt13, 22 Beast of lairelen 23, rage 24. CrimPosition in verse 25 Free:MOM of 1'66(1 Si; Pattift rd plate 58, 'You and I 22. Crazing field 30. Therefore 22, TTaireut. .3.3 Unit of. reluctance I. Shirt button 35. Prior in time 27. (Uncial snow 28. Open vessel 32. Tinily ID, Trigh.pltelied flute it. nigher 42, Embrace 49 'Fascinate 45. Allusion 46.11talcD lea ther' 49. Server 90, nmIrtittoirt N 21 At. 4,%4 • c 19 20 24 22 23 27 25 Y f 30 31 29 28 Three Days To Wind Your Watch Tired of winding your watch and adjusting it? Some time in the future you won't have to worry. Not only will your watch be self-winding, but it will also be radio-controlled, enabling it to pick up a time signal and automatically correct itself. All you will have to do is to wear it. That's what watchmakers for- see for the future. It will be the final step in two centuries of experimentation designed to re- lieve mankind Of the task of winding his watch. Inventors have tried almost every source of energy under the sun-water- power, wind, heat, magnetism and atmospheric pressure. Once even the sun itself. One of the first self-winding timepieces for which a patent was sought was a house clock driven by the wind - a drive- shaft ran through the ceiling to the roof where it was turned by a weather vane. A few years later a cloak powered by a jet of water turning a small wheel was proposed. Ak, time went on inventions becanie more Ingenious. One clock was wound up by changes in temperature, the mercury as it expanded in warmth pushing up a rod that rewound the main- spring: Another watch was pow- ered by the changes in atmos- pheric pressure, They never came to anything commercially, • In 1922 came the first patent for an electric watch. Shoals' of others followed but a few got beyond the inventor's patent, for they were not truly automatic - sooner Or later' the battery became exhausted and the' watch stepped running. t vett the new electric wrist watch now On sale - the first introduced comrnere eially bee to be recharged every year, 33 0 32 The truly automatic watch, however, goes for ever. it winds itself tip no Matter whether you are a sedentary office worker Or a tennis star. Evert if you have false arm you can't move it doesn't matter - the inure sen- sitive Meddle tespond to' the MO- tien of your legs. What's the 'use of en autninatic wa t ch any way? Well, apart from, technical reasons, Swiss watch- makers pellet out that a man given a watch tivlidri he is ten will have spent, by the time he Is severity, hearly three days of ,his life winding it opt. 37 35 36 40' 39 38 44 43 W42 41 • 48 • • 47 45 46 61 50 49 10.1 .4tieWer eteewhete oti -th s page,.