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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
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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