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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1958-08-20, Page 3NEAR-RECORD U.S, WHEAT CROP — A mountain of new-crop wheat from Illinois and. Missouri starts tourney to Europe in this barge which is being loaded from a grain elevate,- near St. Louis, Mo, It will. be taken down the Mississippi to waiting ocean vessels at Baton Rouge, La. This year's wheat crop will Abe the biggest since 1947 and the second largest on record — more than 1,311,000,000 bushels. * IMAM FRONT 13 14 16 15, 18 ' 19 20 38 39. 37 56 55 51 16 Stir OP 17,'1 hose holding office 16 Seek'. up 20. Curve 21 Cup ter aasa.:Iting ineth,16 26 17111VIii, 29. Needlefish 21 Daily 12, wafted 34. Translate -oar ends 55Confilot 27. Burrow 30 Elnticed 40, CHO , 42 Assail 44, SPOI,t, 46 Or, leiter 47., Watch poeltel 50 Maker of •Lt, inen'S.clotheS 53, lake far fed 55 Zoroastrian scripture 55 Rents 67 back 58 RI }lett-LAI NHS DOWN I. Negro tribe iat the S u dan' 17 tkt 21 23 36 L. 2 3 4; 7. „ 9.. 10' it 12 26, 32. 40 27 28 29 34. 43 31 aRWA 41 44, 45 52 47 54 48 49 40, 57 7-12 58, .Alisiv,-fer elsewhere on this !page., 24, 51 56 33 30 35 , marksmanship, and goes to sho ,.rt. that nothing is ever entirely negative, The gobo thrives in this cli- mate, and once it gets a start is likely to be on band a long time A weed-drench will ruin it, but if you have a good catch it takes a little doing to drench all the burdocks, A few years back, after long years of careful eradication of the weed, we had none anywhere around, but then a Cal., came into my life, and the cat planted burdocks fel, me, g . This is true, A couple of rough, uncouth characters moved onto the Prince lot, and spent almost a year cutting pulpwood and lumber, and they had this cat in their little shan- ty When they finished that job and moved away they left the cat behind. lie was a large cat, well acquainted with country life, and he didn't seem to mind. He stayed on the tar-paper shanty and provisioned himself around the countryside as cats can, and seemed both happy and spry The slash of the cut-off sudsided, and a fine clutch of burdock came in, When the burdocks went to seed the second year, the cat would range through them, and would come out all stuck over and looking like the back of Burleigh's sweater. This didn't add. to the appearance of the cat. He used to sit up on a Stump and lament And later he used to come down through the woods and soak his tail in a springhole near my plum or- chard, and then he'd climb up on a limb and, claw at the burs in his tail, sobbing and wailing. The cat was sad, and you could tell. There wasn't much you could do, because nobody could get within a quarter mile of this cat, and he had no friends. But a couple of years later I found a ring of newly sprouted burdock bushes all amongst my plum trees, and they were doing fine. For a cat, it was a well-planted burdock crop. I put my hoe on the grindstone and got an edge on it like a razor, and I would go out and chop at the furdocks until I bad dismembered Gobo piled up in windrows, but this didn't dispose all of it. No mat- ter how much I chopped, there would be a sneaker left, and each year I had more and more Gobo. This year I invested in a • tall can of sure-do weed drench, and went after the stuff for real. Each morning I mix Up a sprinkling can and walk out along the fences, pouring my concoction on the broad leaves of my burdock. The stuff works very well, and after a few days it wilts, and then. dries away to a curl,' and after a week there is just a brown spot I think if I keep at it, I may undo that cat's work before any more of the stuff goes to seed.' "Children (the book says) de- light to gather the shaggy green burs of the Beggar's Button and form them into birds' nests, bas- kets, dolls, and a various assort- mean of other things." True — we used them like building blocks, sticking them together into choo-choo trains, wagons, and anything that came to mind, And if. Edith, with golden hair, came to • school one ` morning fairly closely cropped, it prob- ably meant her mother had' tak en the scissors to clear away a goodly batch of burs, and I like that phrase—"Children delight. . . .—By John Gould in The Christian Science Monitor. POINT OF VIEW A newspaper reporter in Syd- ney, Australia, made mention in %'.1iis.:paper that an Australian 'filth 'about New Guinea was be- ing the Australian pub- 4 iia'Aftidee.:the title, "Walk Into Paradise." The same film,• when • distributed 'ffi tthe U.S., will car- ry a .more pungent title: "Walk Info Hell." .MUGGING IJ,, UP ickck Parson, WoneAofth five , rtien::.cee:.,eefsiC 01, .Minneapolis, on „a'narcotics Charge, "poses " •the news' ",•cdrneramon. e,He Is shown' thin the city's,police headquarters. ROCKET SLIP — No outer eerace craft in the wrong orbit, this "Jet Rocket" is actually the diesel locomotive of a Rock Island Railroad train. It wound up in this ernbarrassing position after accidentally sliding off a turntable while being turned around. 011:116.,; eeeeeeeeeeeteee' geKeeee'. ASWWW.v.r, emeeekx,RP.' SWOLLEN MISSISSIPPI Passengert doing' dhobrol the excurSIOn -Str eamer Admiral had to walk a lit t l e more thti n owal to board the vessel in St. Louis, Me e be the swollen Mississippi River forced the uto •f tension ObrigvVdyt,,, Ike tlVer reached its crest Of about j0 feet in St. Louii on July 25.. olgitATSTic,vvr wa es. ewe %Mese* h. Cat That Planted. Burdock Burs Theophilt,1$ the thistle sifter, who sifted a sieve full of unsift- ed thistles and thrust 3,000 this- 'ties through the thick of his thumb, according to an ancient legend often reOcated in these parts, may not have known, as do, that the common burdock, or cocklebur, belongs to the thistle family and may be sifted -with similar success. I have been sifting burdocks of late, and have many more to do, In the book, where it says the burdock is a thistle, it also says the root is known as Gobo in Japan, where it is a popular vegetable. The Gobo root is about three feet long and taper- ed like a sprinting parsnip, be- ing able to sink through blue 'clay, chalcedony, granite, jasper, and vitreous rocks, so a harvest of a cartload would require some doing, If I were a hungry Japanese, waiting for lunch, I might show some impatience while the cook struggled to bring forth a Gobo, The burdock is not a beautiful thing, and 'finding it in "Wild Flowers Every Child Should Know" is stretching the defini- tions somewhat But it is there, under pink flowers, Children usually know all about the bur- dock, for no generation ever moved up through the categories without stopping to play with burdock burs. Really wicked little boys rub a handful into some girl's long hair, and the less wicked accidentally arrive at fundamentally the same thing. If you have a pure heart, and a ball of burdock burl, and go tossing them around, there is a margin of error seldom neg- lected, and the little girl goes home a-crying just the same. 'Then you get the seat of your pants warmed just the same, and the burdock business drops off for the season. To be more specific, we had a boy who was put in the front seat where the teacher could get to him fastest, and he used to wear a thick home-knit sweater made from black sheep's wool and undyed. Those of us up in the back of the room would take two or three nice burdock burs, and we would throw them so they would stick in the back of this sweater a kind of dart game If, perchance, one of these missiles went astray we . would lose it, more or less, and some lucky girl in the line of fire 'would' have it. But those that scored would pile up on Bur- leigh's back, and at recess time we would pick them all off- and get ready to start over again, So, the burdock is not only es- teemed as a food, but has a rec- reational value, and promotes 11. Nasal sound 53. Drop bait 'CROSSWORD ' ' 10.'reactier. ,. lightly 11, Tasmania 85. incision (ab.), „39 'I urn ridht PUZZLE it, Go to law . 41. Heart beat 19: Cribbage marker 43. Not fresh 45. Observd 21, Mass, cape 2. gilds 22: StrlPiing ACROSS etatesmen 24. Metal deposit 1: Oro* to be L L 2, PoliceMen 26 Watched 1. items of 4. Gr. clan narroWly property subdivision 26. Usee need le 13. Clay bricks .6 Rhythmical arid thread 14 hind of tiro - 6, Bar legallV Pe nt" ..%.°111cle CW1r1111'1 name :24 SeeletSnhfrse6ed 15. ildeepitillate Mutt Thought He Wasn't Joist A Dog So strong was. Mutt's ,convic- tion that be was not simply "deg" that he somehow managed. to convey this conviction to hu- man onlookers. One bitterly cold day in - j,PM,I^, cry, Mother went down-town do same shopping and Mutt ac, companiod her, She parted from, him outside- the Hudson Bay De- partment Store, for Nett had. strong antipathies, even in those early months; and one of them. • was directed against the famous. Company of GentleMan .Adven- turers , When Mother emerged at last, MUtt had forgotten that he had voluntarily elected. to 1•011),4,111. outside. Instead he W45. 'nursing a grievance 'at what .seemd to him to be a calculated. indiffer- ence to his comfort on my mo- ther's part. Nothing that Mother could say would persuade him. to get up. off the frigid concrete and accompany her home. Mo- ther pleaded, Mutt ignored her and fixed his gaze upon the steamed-up windows of the Stec Cafe across the street. Neither of them was aware of the small audience which had formed around. them. There were three Dukhobors in their quaint winter costumes, a policeman enveloped in a buffalo-skin coat, and a dentist from the nearby Medical Arts Building. Despite the cold, these strangers stood. and watched, with a growing fascination a"s. Mother ordered and Mutt, with slightly,. lifted lips and sotto-voce mutters, re- USING THEIR HEADS — Holding their heads high despite the loads they are carrying, women traders come to the market in ' Keta, Ghana. Market day in sparsely settled Ghana is a big occasion. It gives the women a chance to visit as well as con- duct their business. It's very often interesting to hear the other fellow's views even if — as happens in this case — they sound a bit screwy. Here-with I pass along a picture of the •future as seen by a Uni- versity of California professor. Just where the farmer fits into such a picture I haven't been , able to figure out as yet, but if I were you, I wouldn't *Ora about it too much) * .* A famous California savant has taken the play away from the pOliticians by his alluring forecast of tomorrow's worka- day world, Scorning the old slo- 'gan of "two cars in every garage and a chicken in every pot," Dr. Clark Kerr has beaten' politi- cians to the forecast that Amer- ican wage earners will be. en- joying "two houses to every family" within the next 25 years. The University of California's new resident forecasts that a four-day week in industry isn't very far away, with "a month's vacation, or longer," for the average factory hand. In a Utopian-tinted talk on "The New Leisure, the New Wealth, the New Community," Dr. Kerr told a meeting of the West's Metropolitan. Planners that these are ,monly a .few of the social probabiles unfolding in the nuclear age. * * * Dr. Kerr, a veteran industrial arbitrator by background, be- lieves that mounting productiv- ity and rising individual incomes will necessitate wider Work- •,sharing among the expanding ,,population. He believes •labor ''leaders will find that ihe pro- pose slit-hour ...worktm... day ,4oractical ,because-df the tirneworkers consume in, com- muting and the' eflicieirdilosses resulting frofir - breaking. in on factbry shifts, - The four-day week is the answer. At least every other week, ,ho insists, * '* — - ,.The Berkeley edueator thinks the _American city stands on the effulgent threshold of an even greater glory than anything yet achieved by Paris or London or New York arid San Francisco. But the suburb seethed to fade right out of his 1984 crystal ball, 'The American suburb isn't really citified and neither' is it notintry. He* foresees "a great renovation" of city centers to be enjoyed by people who are tired of commuting. He thinks the average American wage earner will' have "an apartment in the city and a cabin in the country," This trend means the decline of the suburbs, which Ratite," perhaps. the suburb," will become "the shims of the after all, "IS really very dull and altogether toriforinisti" * * The metropolitan' experts Wert told to# anticipate the urbanize- Cott of Arneride and tt-,•=agn .',, highways to accommodate•a commuting pattern that carries people away froin their city apartments to long weekends arid longer Vacations in their re= muter rustic castles. Dr. Kerr said he foreseea about 3Q per cent. It behooves the planners, he implied, to ap. ply themselves to creating more parks and better highways to accommodate the• new leisure that comes with new wealth. Coming down tp earth for a mernent, Dr, Kerr cited the Lin-, coin $quare development Pro- ject in. New York as a shining foretaste of tomorrow when the trashman will be making out a higher income tax return than the professor .and there will two homes in every bread- winner's life. The. Eyes .frigve. 'It It was stated by a French criminologist some time ago that '75 per cent Of the world's biga- mists have had brown eyes. The reason? Because brewn- eyed men are generally, more paSsioll,- ate and have stronger and deeper emotions. This doesn't mean, of course, that ALL brown-eyed men are potential bigamists, he hastened to point out, The fascination brown-eyed men often have for women was illustrated in the United States by the case of Dr, Webster who, after confessing 'that he had murdered two of his wives, ad- mitted that he had previously eloped with no fewer than ten infatuated women. "There was nothing in Web- ster's personality to attract wo- men except his extraordinary brown eyes," wrote a man who knew him, "They fascinated even those who were guarding him by the curious impression of hidden power they gave." Blue or grey-eyed persons liv- ed longer than brown-eyed ones, according to a survey carried out by a German insurance company. It was found that dark blue eyes in the young frequently change to a different shade after middle age. Some observers say that in Britain the blue-eyed strain In the population is slowly dying out for some unknown reason, and the brown-eyed strain is surviving. It has been pointed out that if one parent has brown eyes and the other blue, their children are much more likely to have brown eyes than blue. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking EI03OPIE wEl aEll S 3 9c: • aangsv aigtin 300E3D s v W eusno vga AI vniffignia WW1301 Ni[i] numu ABU muu asap -I© A01 3101 GOO tallo bjdkj 'MOWS d OR 1:1 I asnObv• IV3d3 21 allaBliThf "I SU •810C113 slimsv. 81/4 E031:1 liNDAY0001 LESSON' By Rev. Barclay Warren OA, U,D Justice to Minorities Leviticus 10:33-34; Deutero- nomy 24:14-15; Matthew 9:943; Galatians • 3:78. Memory Selection; Let bro. therly love continue, Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby3heire:172. some have -. enter tained angels unawares, He-. brews of English and Tench descent sometimes speak of New Canadians, of other racial extractions as "foreign. tehrsa.t" t hTenireyowcnonfvoerneifeanthtleyrs forges here from other lands, Only the Indians and Eskimos are natives of this land We would do well to heed the instructions given Israel: 'If a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with yotl shall be unto you as one horn among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God" The hired were to be paid "on time." This principle of the old law is practised today It is the responsibility of the employer to see that the pay is delivered on time, regardless of where the man may have been sent in his work. Jesus did not discriminate against minorities, The few Jews who collected taxes for the Roman Overlord were despised by their countrymen, But Jesus called one of them, Matthew, to become a disciple and apostle. He went to dine at Matthew's home to meet other members of the despised class of publicans. The Jews had no dealings with the Samaritans. But Jesus asked one of their women for a drink and proceeded to tell her of the. Water of Life She be- came a disciple and brought to Jesus many others who also be- lieved. The Gospel is for all. Paul wrote, "There is neither Jew or Greek, there is neither :no male r_ iefmreael, e:for3 there -es arene neither one in Christ Jesus" God is no respecter of persons. The ground is level around the cross. Dif- ferences of race, social standing or sex make.no difference there. We have all sinned. We may all find salvation in the one Person, Jesus 'Christ. The conditions are the same to all: repentance for our sins and faith in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour. Minority groups of any kind should receive just treatment at the hands *of both the state and the church. metropolitan regions almost cov- ering states as in some East Coast• areas; and with all this the "flowering of institutions" that promote and extend "recreation, health and culture" -for the masses. * * This, he believes, is the es- sential concomitant 04 "the new wealth" that will stem out of bursting technology and ris- ing productivity. He expects a mose intensive mass preoccupa- tion with the desire to expand incomes. Perhaps inflation will accelerate this. But the leveling trend already is far advanced. Labor 'skills will play second fiddle to premium pay for smelly or distasteful jobs in the leisure- ly decades' ahead. Coal miners who work in dirt,' darkness- and— great danger — where going to work every morning is like go- ing to war — or floor scrubbers or garbage collectors, these will be the elite of the technological renaissance. * * * Dr. Kerr thinks per capita income will be up 50 per cent by 1984, putting street car conduc- tors in the $10,000 a year brack- et or close to it. Having just toured Africa on a foundation grant, Dr. Kerr was struck by the wage •disparity between the skilled and the unskilled. Whereas in Africa, he noted wage differentials of as much as 1,000 per cent, in the United States the differential is about 50 per cent; Great Britain, 25' per cent and Denmark and Aus- trialia about 10 per cent. The University of California presi- dent 'thinks this narrowing, trend is fast developing in the United States. Look at it, this he'urged metropolitan planners froth San Diego to Seattle, the United , States is spending 15 per cent of its 'gross national produot for future investment, the SoViets . Me lt 48 Persian poet• 40. "Gond Queen - " 50,'Coal Product 51. Dread street (an,) 52. sheep 54 Posed for a nortrait fused to eneed. Both of theft were becoming exasperated,- and. , the tone of their utterances greW indreasingly vehement. . It was At this Point. that the dentist 'lost touch Wft-17' reality: •• He,stepped forward*" Arid ;ad., ,.., •ciresSed Mutt in ::.man-to,-man. tones; "Oh., i say, Olcl boy, be reason- able', he said reproachfully', • . Mutt replied ivith a mutter of gtitturartliSdairi and this was too much for the policeman. "Whet seems to be the mat'ter, hereV!..he asked. Mettler.. explained. "He won't go hcne. • He'just won't gor The policentan ;Was a man of action. He wagged his mittened ' paw under Mutt's nose. "Can't you see the lady's cold?" he ask- ed sternly., Mutt „rolled hIS eyes and yawn- ed and the policeman lost" his temper. "Now: see here," b'e cried, 'you just move along or run you int" It was fortunate that my fa- ther and Eardlie caine by et this moment., Father had seen Mutt and Mother hi, arguments before, and he' acted With dispatch, pick- ing theft both up 'bodily and pushing them iritO'Eardlie's front seat. He did not linger, for he. had no 'desire to be a witness to the reactions of the big police- man and of the dentist When they becarne aware Of the fact that they had been arguing with a dog tirion a public street. —Froth "The Dog Who Wouldn't Be," by .Farley Mowat. Obey the traffic signs they are placed there for YG SAV'ttY,