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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-04-23, Page 7fey Itev It. ii. Warren Vie Else tiof Pavid $anniel 18:5s0 Memory Selectleirg The /44rd e'eeth not as man seethe for man loolceth on the outward appose. anee, hut the Lord looketli the heart, 1 Samuel 1¢:7. When the cord rejected Saul from being king, he sent Samuel to Jesse the Bethiehernite, say, ing, "I have provided me a king among his Prts." One by one the seven stalwart sons were brought before Samuel but no one of these was the chosen of God. Then Jesse sent for David his youngest son who was tending the sheep. When this ruddy youth came before Samuel, the Lord said, "'Arise, anoint him: for this is he." And the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward, Because David was a skilful player on the harp he was called to the court to play before the king. This helped to' refresh the king who was frequently op- pressed by an evil spirit. Saul loved this shepherd boy from Bethlehem, Then came David's great victory over Goliath, As he approached the giant armed with a sling and five smooth stones he said to him, "Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hest defied. . . . This assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and' spear: for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands." David's popularity resulting from this notable victory was too much for Saul. He became jealous and angry and sought to slay David. Meanwhile, Jonathan, Saul's son, became a great friend of David's. "The soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jon- athan loved him as his own soul." Finally David had to flee for his life. David, was honourable even in exile, On two occasions his fol- lowers had opportunity to slay King Saul but David restrained them. The only weapon he used against Saul was flight. During this period David wrote many songs which we sing today. Popularity and the desire for it is the downfall of many peo- ple. In Billy Graham's New York campaign a man who had been a missionary for 25 years was among the seekers. He said his ministry had become unfruitful because he had begun to seek the praise of men for his work rather than the blessing of God. He confessed his sin and laid it at the foot of the cross—the only place where sin can be forgiven and problems solved. UNPAYSCH001 LESSON Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 1 5 5 V3ti5 d crifti N IN 3 Fringe Benefits The aecredited ornithologists and the laird watchers may on me with both feet, .but I thought I'd talk a little about "feeding stations" — mostly be- cause a lady I know has been feeding her little 'feathered friend's all winter and has just. taken Off for-4 month in Florida. They said there was quite a rac- ket around the free lunch coup - ter for the first few days of famine, .but I'm. inclined to think it may . not ..be quite .so bad as some people think, Out here in the country the. fringe benefits for the birds are nice, but not. so essential as they May he where humans have en, ,croached on natural conditions. 'The birds that stay with us all winter are fairly capable of managing without social secur, ity, Except occasionally under real distress, I've never "fed." a bird., Some years ago I had about 300 bushels of hard corn, on the ear, in my corncrib, and a bine- ,jay found a hole in the screen.. I heard his delighted screams but didn't investigate right away He'd fly with an .ear to a limb • and sit there pecking off kernels with a great deal of loud ap- proval. Afterward, he had about fifteen other bluejays. helping him, and when I discovered how popular I was they had a pile of ,.cobs under the tree and were so fat they could scarcely fly for more. I don't construe this as "feeding," for I patched the .screen and stopped the cheering. Now, several people lectured me on the hardness of heart, and pointed out that these bluejays would go hungry and be in great want, I must say that while a bluejay is a beautiful bird and a :born conversationalist, their their conversion factor is not so high as that of a determined pig, and I like to distribute my phil- anthropies where the return SNOOPING ON VENUS — His- tory-making,.firse contacts with any celestial body beyond the moon were made with the ra- dar pictured, above. The two electronic contacts with , Venus were made in February of 1958, and only recently , re- vealed. Signals broackest from Massachusetts institute' of Tech- nology's Lincoln Laboratory at 'Westford, Mass., made the 567 million-mile round trip*: Months were required to sift the sounds from a lurnble of recorded space static, and to make cer- tain that the signals were, in truth; received. ISSUE 17 1950 36 36 45 •• 46 47 1 2 I2 Is 29 •••••:33 45 41 4 13 30 .50 5 6 7 17 20 2 18 4 14. 011111 Ser-Olna dIsh 17 Plower coritaInerA 10 -Prophet 20 Sea tiered (1-Ter.) 31 Obligated, 21 Covered inside again 28. teat of AtV)Y10- 27. nomstiits benu to. 04110 t1t 010 140h1f1' (mad EJ:46 hiisehief 30. Dried 31. 'Perch 32. Vine Tree State (ab.) 33, Anwolntedtf• o ffl de 31, Plentiant 735. tolerated 37. flolloWS OS. (lonellide0 19, 'Docile 4a. Renting itkreenietti 4t. Rttlre 45'. Mike It Mistake 45, it Pan in A knni 8. of • ,, neite' 49. A tito , 't'o rut flee(*- 01-a ri' shows up in something besides a hideous caterwauling of unmelo- thous. chimes, It is a known fact that a pig can squeal beautiftillYt too, and is much better in a bean- Pot, This may be loss esthetic, but it is so. So I did an experi, anent We saw no bluejays after that, and everybody said I had been their downfall, I allowed three bluejayless weeks to go by, and then one night after dark I took the patch off the screen and left it as it was when the bluejays first fdund it, The next morning I awake to the ear-splitting de. light of fifteen bluejays sitting in the tree pecking corn, I do not believe a bird as smart - as that needs me to support him, Birds live on some basis of controlled population; they come about so many to the acre, An open field that has supported a few bob-o-linics and sparrows, with a couple of crows in grass- , hopper time, will swarm with many new birds once it is plant- ed to apple trees, The finches and orchard orioles and warblers will come in, with bluebirds and robins, and the place teems. The direct relationship of cover to wildlife can be watched. When these summer birds fly away, the grosbeaks and chicka- dees come out of the deep woods to winter where summer birds couldn't. These will come to feeding stations if you have one, but they're around anyway x- trerne cold doesn't seem to both- er them,• but if it warms up and, we have an ice storm they can then be in real trouble.. The ice coats the weed seeds and bush buds. True, they can outlast a few days of distress and snap back, but they will relish a hand- out for the meantime. Once in a while after an ice storm I've set a pan of hen feed on the roof of the duck hovel, and these birds will use it for a day or so until the ice melts, and then they'll be back in the weeds and bushes. I take the pan in, and they've never eaten very much. Partridges mind ice most of all. These are birds you'd never see at a feeding station, and they cannot be hand-fed. They have a natural habit of burrowing in the snow to ride out a storm, and if the storm turns to ice ,they are sealed under. I've seen places where a fox, walking on the crust, has found a partridge un- derneath and has stomped through to get his breakfast. Again, in• the spring, I have found eyidence that the foxes failed to find him. Pheasants, an introduced bird here, perch out a storm, but ice on their food will .ofter bring them in around the buildings, and I've had them go into the hen pen and eat from the hoppers. But let the ice wane, and they'll go back to the fence-rows and puckerbrush, About a couple of times a win- ter we'll have snow buntings show up—usually on the crest of a blizzard, winging down froth the sub-arctic in flocks. They seem to find weedseeds on land other birds have been combing. all winter, and are gone at once, so ghostly you wonder if you really saw them amid the sting- ing snowflakes. They have nb need. for feeding stations, and wouldn't use one. There is great abundance in our open country for winter, birds. They are seldom in as dire straits as our imaginations place them. It's pleasant to have them in. the lilac bush by the ktichen window, chewing on suet and peanut butter, but we underesti- mate their ability if we think they need us. I've never talked myself into becoming their gro- cery store; yet I enjoy them and watch them and they seem to like me withal.' At leatt I don't encourage them with comfort and then take off for sunny Florida between the soup and the entree. —By John Gould in The Chris- tian Science Monitor. 30. lieePere 31, Sodden Mat-fins ($lang)' 33, Religious sisters -34. Contraction. Of never DarlirM'S-37, Dissuade-39, Tableland 40. Limb 41, Period tirtime. 42. Red deer 43,13e the Matter With • 44. Playth ing 47 Wynn find. Aristket elsoktifee .oii this. page Be Careful When. Choosing Names It takes courage for parents to call their baby girl Venus, but that's the, name chosen by a young Italian couple ,,tor their daughter who was born several months ago, Why have they named her af , „be,his a °ma ri geddeSS o4,,Iqvg end —bea4ty?' Because, says the mother, who is herself slim and attractive, they are convinced she will grow up to be an unusually lovely and shapely young, woman. "Like millOnS Of others, my husband and I have always ad- mired the perfectly proportion, ed body of the most famous piece of sculpture in the world, the Venus ,de Milo," she ex.- plains. h o knows? Our daughter's figure may be al- most as perfect." Children cannot always live up to the names their parents choose for them, A boy who was given the names Virtue Triumphant last century be- came a crook when he was ' thirty and spent most of his life in jail before 'he died at the age of sixty-five. Giving a well-sounding, ap- propriate name to a child is no easy task. "Don't choose hur- riedly," advises an authority on names. "Make sure it's not a commonplace name. See that it's easy to say and fits in well with the surname, Give your NO MONKEY BUSINESS— .it- ting pretty is serious business for Sam Space Jr., one of a select group of monkeys being trained for space research at the School of Aviation Medicine. His reactions will help re- searchers solve space flight problems for humans. All ex- periments are conducted under' American Medical Association rules for humo'ne treatment of animals during experiments. . youngster a name of which he can be proud, — one that he owldoner,,,'tcome to dislike when he's Suggestsp another authority: "If 'parents can't thing of the right names for their children, it might be a kindness to num- ber them when they're born (Smith One, Smith, Two and. so on) and let the youngsters themselvea have a say in choos- ing their own Christian names when they're, old enough." Some years ago a couple in Chicago named Gatewood had a son and spent weeks trying to find a., suitable name for him. They decided to let him choose his own, but he never did so 'because he could` never - find one he really liked. He died in 1939 still without a Christian name and was buried with a tombstone over his grave• which says simply "Dr. Gatewood." "The name a child is given may be the deteritining factoe in the development of his per- sonality,'" says -a Psychologist", "in the ease with which he makes- friends and in the suc- cess or failUre of his life Never give a boy an •olcl-fashioned name."' Plain names are popular for boys born today — names like John, ThOindS, Mi- chael; Richard, 'P eter and Charles, EVeti before the -Queen ascended -the Throne, the name Elizabeth 'Was a popiilar cholee. Anne, Mary; Jane, Sylvia, 'Mar gareti. Joan, Catherine 'end Der- ' °thy are einetig'the many pciPit- lar names given td girls now adayS, It141-FAtEri COE In Aileen County, N. Police Chief Fred Hyatt stOpPed a man With ti,Setcliel bri his back, asked 'to see the contents, was reitiaed, then, feeling certain that he had Caught a bootlegger, Sent to town for a: Seareli Warrant; 'Opened the satchel;` fotifid half a gallon of Milk; VERY FOND OF CHICKEN• — A love feast only, so for, is the attitude of "Bobo," the cat, for "Snowball," Bobo brought Snowball into the home' of the Fred Tobias family, when she was an injured chick. One year of eggslraordinary friendship was unmarred up through the time-this picture was taken. IIIEFARN FRONT Jokautwen trial personnel. The committee helps families who want to stay in farming to acquire the tools, land and information that they need; increases the range of off-land opportunities and sees that they arm themselves with good training and good health. The program recognizes that the community can provide a better basis for aiding the low- income farmer than the agri- cultural sector alone can do. 4, I, 4, In the field of animal and poultry feeds, use of enzymes looms as a major step for- ward. En'zymes accelerate the trans- formation of material in plants and animals. It has been proved that en- zymes improve the utilization of some secondary grains, and research work is continuing. An early discovery was that a simple water treatment of barley improved its ultilization by chicks and that the addition of a fungal enzyme preparation brought about a similar im- provement. * * I R. E. Smith, Canada Depart- ment of Agriculture nutrition- ist, reports that tests at the N a p N.S. = Experimental eshow,ed water soaking of rye significantly improved its feeding value. Various enzyme. supplements were also fed with beneficial result s. Enzymes rnoste'faveurable were of the amylase group. * * * A recent discloSure is that a mixture'' of enzymes, rather than any specific enzyme, brings about t h e greatest response. The specific fraction or !rag tions pf the grains being alter- ed by these onzymes, to cause the improved utilization 121., poultry, is unknown, Consider ably .111 o r e basic research n eeded to determine the me- chanisms ..Of enzyme action, ..* * "INevertheleSs, use of vari- ous enzyme preporAtIonA in poultry feeds is - beoornIng: reality and in the not too dis- tant future our .ever,,growing list of feed ingredients will un- doubtedly include the name of some enzynie supplement," Com- ments Mr. Smith, Lions Getting Used To Tourists Ever since British settlers and visiting aristocrats began pot- ting away at elephants in the pristine wilds of East Africa at the turn of the century, the world's biggest unwalled zoo has been an almost exclusive preserve for the rich, the idle and the professional romantics, ranging from the sturdier of the Riviera set to Ernest Hemming- way, But the airplane has made Africa accessible as never be- fore, and since World War II a veritable army of hunters has swarmed into Africa's safari lands, Nine out of ten of the new. corners are Americans — Madi- son Avenue admen, Texas oil tycoons, Air Force, Army and Navy brass, and such public personalities as Arthur Godfrey and William Holden. Increas- ingly, safari firms are catering to a more middle-class trade, in recent years have found doc- tors, lawyers, dentists and busi- ness executives among their steady clisnts. Last year safari activity ac- counted for more than half of East Africa's $17 million tourist revenue, • and is still growing. There a r e seven safari 'firms operating out of Nairobi this year (vs. one in 1930). Once confined to a 100-mile radius of civilized Nairobi (pop. 230,000), the quest for big game has spread from northern Uganda to southern Tanganyika. The white hunters who lead safaris are making more money than ever — $7,000 a year is aver- age and $14,000 is not uncom- mon for the popular hunters. Luxury is at an all-time high too. Today no high-61ass safari leaves Nairobi without com- forts that range from a special scout car for the client and his white hunter to five-ton trucks that haul the amenities of gra- cious living — tents, radios, re- frigerators, portable showers and toilets. But even clerks and secre- taries can afford the camera safari, which provides them with a peaceful look at wildlife in the unfettered flesh and fas- cinating movie footage to amaze the folks back home, Nairobi's Overland Motor Co. offers a 15-day tour of game areas by car for a comparatively modest $700, including round-trip fare from Europe. Overlarid, which expected about 50 tourists at most during the 'first three months of 1959, now expects the total to top 800 before the sea- son is over. The animals in East Africa's national parks, secure in the protection afforded them by the goVernment, are becom- ing blasé about camera buffs, , 6.Knot I n wood CROSSWORD k =den,. 9 Ascended le, Adept 13. rootlike part 16. Care for .. 13.,Ainong Attached by ACROSS nciWist 20 , . stlteltil 1. A lifetime 1. u n it ni, eke, 4, IN. Indian , 21. Censure tricitY 0.13,/ 21Made.Ofa Pheasant 9. Skein of yarn 010 (e0liott.3 certain cereal 12. ththiag., 3, Piri&i' riarbed 23, Lassoed 13. Divert out • 24. AtitherltatlYe . 4. Matched 5, HebteW in C.A.:01 Pe PUZZLE decree 1F4OVerforici 27, rev * 4' * Dr. Andal suggested studies in specific areas: an. appraisal of the units and the potential of the area; and attempt to help farrieds make the' adjust.. merits necessary; and , to help launch younger members of the fathily into vocational training; Rehabilitation Or re elotetioti • -height be part of the :13tOgitili, * * Dr. Andel referred to the Rural beVelePinent PrograM in the United States -Which is 'at- tempting to aid knell arid loWe income farmers. The program IS provided 15y- the tdileral goir, eh-intent and managed by stale, County aid local tOrntilitteeS comprising people froth farm, school and church groups,- Ser,, Vice ClubSt business and Indus- Serious study should be given to improving the lot of the small farmer, Dr. Mel Andal, econo- mist with the Canada. Depart- ment of Agriculture, said in a, paper delivered to the Senate Land Use Committee recently. Dr. Andel said about one- third of Canada's 575,015 farms were uneconomic units housing approxiMately one-third of the nation's farm population of 2,746,755. The census definition of a sinall farm on which Dr. Andel based his statement is one that is too small to provide the operator and his family with what is considered, an accept- able standard of living. Accord- ing to the census, a holding of one to three acres and an agri- cultural production- of $250 a year is a farm, although it could not be so regarded in the ordin- ary sense.• The situation was somewhat confused by the presence of a large 'number of these tiny farms owned by retired couples, part-time farmers or hobby farmers whose farms were small by, choice. Many of them re- ceived non-farm income which was not included under farm income and therefore served to make the average income of farmers across Canada 'aPpear lower than It actually was. * Outside of these categories *there was still a very large number of ' farms which failed to provide their ov/ners with an acceptable standard of liv- ing — some 55,000 Prairie prove `mice farina of less than 130 aeees and some ,187,000 farms elsewhere of less'' than 70' acres of improved land. The reasons were often lack of capital to expand in area or to buy, new equipment, In- ability to transfer to more suit- .able land or to a more profit- able occupation, or simply fall, ure to apply proper farm tech- niques. * * The fact that there would al- ways be small farms, or at least relatively small, farms should not deter an investigation to help improve the lot of this large proportion of Canadian -nationals. Possibly this could be done by' greater application and. Use of the services and facilities already Provided by federal and provincial governments and uni- versities — scientific informa- tion, credit and ektension train. • „ .. PRETTY GIRL, PRETTY FLOWERS ,- It's been asserted-.that Canada's 'Capital City flax a Million pretty tiVII:Servide girls, but it, just isn't. feud, But Ottawa does have a million of the country' most' beeititif u I sprit:100nd flaWeri when the tulips blOcim daing the Canadtan Tulip OeitiVat front May 1`6tlt to 30th, *tit peefi"y evil' ie_tvtrit isostiAt,frant of , one of Offowa'S siTiarret • ik II , 7i by tulip", beds; . , ribta, by Italati 45,