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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-05-28, Page 3Then o r otbowedaav ehm n t he i knc4e toaat ,tt assign. ment. He must anoint two kingyi and a prophet, Elisha, to be hill own successor. Elijah arose, en+ couraged, to undertake the word God had given him, There are many lonely ly, people,. They have been laid off work lsecdtrse of age. The fu- ture isn't bright. But they can, if 'they will, find avenues of sere too. One 1114111 who did so, used to say when on in eighties, "I'm going to stay alive as long as I am living." He did, too, And he cheered many others on their way. Church Bandits Beaten By Bell In Asurville, a village near ,Antibes, on the French Riviera, people are amazed about their mild-looking priest who tackled two hulking church robbers and got the better of them, After a series of cjiurch thefts, the Abbe Coeuret installed an alarm system behind offertory ,boxes and waited for the bell to ring. One evening two Yugoslav re- fugees crept into the church and forced open the boxes. The eeriest then emerged from hid- ing and sprang at the thugs, For 'fifteen minutes the three of them fought• and then the Abbe brought one man crashing to the floor with an arm lock, The other thief raced away but Arius soon recaptured. The thieves were shocked to learn later that the Abbe was a former all-in wrestling cham- pion. Obey the traffic signs - they are placed there for YOUR SAFETY Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking b. CU pdp 3lN, 1.b3 ra 3 3C 6 ti 08 4:1 3.9 d o t 9 s3, 3 9 CC N Ili 3 14 d civa v .L. D3S b 3 1 N 1 Hp I ,IS O Q 3 V V, N r] 3 HEE N I N lijEl 1 V vic Ejellami 1053 its nip 3 131i5:2 ID 3 fil 12 10 12 .i. S 3 ®fir lc svri Elijah, God's Warrior 1 Kings 19;948 Memory Seleetien: The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord Is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? Psalm p7:1, Elijah is one of the most col- ourful characters of the Old Testament. His was an exciting life, Ahab, king of Israel, had married Jezebel, a daughter of the Zidonians and joined her in the worship of Baal. Elijah re- proved him and as a warning to all. Israel against following their rulers into idolatry, prayed a drought upon the land for three and a half years. Then, at a gathering on Mount Carmel, Eli- jah prayed the fire of God upon his sncriOne and the people ex- elaimed', "The LORD, he is the God." The nrophets of Baal, whose God did not answer by fire, were slain. Then Elijah prayed for rain and ran to Jez- reel before King Ahab before the storm broke. Jezebel, leerThng of the turn of events, sent a message to Elijah vowing to have his life within twenty-four hours. And now we see Elijah in his weakest hour. He fled for his life. Leaving his servant at Beer-sheba, he went out •into the wilderness and sat under a juniper tree and re- quested of God that he might die. Why was he so discouraged? No doubt, physical and nervous exhaustion played a part. We should never weary of God's work, but we may become very weary IneGod's work. The bodies, of God's servants are made of diiste too. Also, Elijah was "alone: He had left. his -servant-behind. The fruit Of the victory '"on Mbunt Carmel was not irrintediately evident. He became despondent. Then, too, it seethed as though his work was done. There was no challenge before him. Two good' sleeps and two supernaturally prepared meals helped to revive his spirit. Thep God spoke to him, not thrOugh the earthquake or the fire, but in a still small voice. He assured him that he Was, not alone in his stand for righteousness. Seven thousand others in Israel About thirty-five years ago when I first began to notice birds, the one that seemed strangest to me was the crested flycatcher. Each spring, in. late April or early May, when I heard its loud cry of "w-h-e-e-e-e-e-pt" ring through the southern New Jer- sey woodlands, I' knew that it had returned to spend the sum- mer, The crested flycatcher had one habit that puzzled me and lent a deeply mysterious air to this hole-nesting bird of the woods. In most of its nests I found al- most invariably a piece of dried snakeskin. Usually there were a few pieces in each nest; some- times an entire castoff snake- skin lay draped over the outer edge and trailed outside of the cavity in the tree in which the nest had been built. Some of the older and wiser people of my home village had a solution to this problem. They said that crested flycatchers put snake- skins in their nests to 'frighten away any animaletheta try might to eat their eggs Or 'young ones. Long befort I got interested in crested flycatchers, naturalists had puzzled over this strange habit and had a much more logi- cal explanation for it. One man in West Virginia who studied the ways of crested flycatchers iden- tified the castoff skins of at least five kinds of harmless snakes which these birds had woven into their nests. Yet, in some nests, crested flycatchers hadn't used the moulted skins of snakes at all. Instead they had added pieces of the shiny, outer skins of onions, waxed paper, paraffin paper, stripe of cellophane, and other materials that resemble dried, castoff snakeskin. Ap- parently the shininess of snake- skin makes it attractiyeenest ma. terial ,.to crested flycatchers, not any supposed protective value it gives the nest. - From "Song- birds in Your Garden," by John • Ks Terres. In the four disteicts of, On- tario's northwest - Patricia, Kenora, Rainy Riarereand Thun- der Bay - the -polnilation aver- ages one personoper square mile. Sip Sparch On. Try Mountain Dwarfed by a motintein, are members of a geOlegical surface party - the vanguard of every ell, search, They are the Shock troops of oil exploration, gath- ering rock samples, measuring geological formation, mapping the faces of mountains, Often they pitch their camps in the loneliest corners of Canada, for there is much to be learned in such places, Here, for example, near Rock Lake in the Jasper section of the Rockies, the geological story of the west -- and of petroleum - is laid bare. Millions of years ago these mountains were thrust up from the earth, exposing lay- ers of sedimentary rock. The same kind of rock, bearing oil in some regions, lies in a great triangular basin thousands of feet beneath most of Alberta, 'Part of the Northwest Territor- ies, much of Saskatchewan and a corner of Manitoba. By studying the mountains, geologists are gradually helping solve the mysteries of the en- tire oil basin, and so are help- ing, find oil. The search brought Imperial Oil surface party Na. 29 here in 1958. A helicopter -- the modern geologist's pack- horse - carried them from peak to peak, But in the end, it al- ways became the old fundamen- eel search' men again mountain, clambering over shale and lime- stone with instruments and packsack, striving to uncover the peehistoric secrets of the rock. Your day begins at dawn. The scent of balsam mingles with the tantalizing aroma cf bacon and eggs cooked in the open. Nearby, in a clearing, the heti- topter scmats ready, motor tick- ing over, pilot waiting. Perhaps, as part of the mapping party, you will spend most of this day in the 'copter, circling, hovering, landing, piecing together a geo- logical picture of the rock for- enati,onsa;'Or perhaps. you step .Our On some'diatant slope with your hammer, pack, compass BOUND FOR WATER -• This teen-ager in East Java, Indo- nesia, hasn't been bound to a stake. She's carrying a long bamboo water pail to a well, Canada's first national survey on farm safety will be conducted in May and June of 1959. Playing a key role will be '73,- 000 enrolled members. of 4-H Clubs across the country, who will report accidents on their home farms. The survey is being carried out by the Canadian Council on 4-H Clubs, the provincial depart- ments of agriculture, the Cana- • dian -Chamber of Commerce, the Canada Department of Agricul- ture,,-,ased ti-xp Canadian Federa- tion o eiculture. There* are no adequate nation- al statistics on farm accidents and it is felt that up-to-date in- formation on the kind, cause and incidence of accidents will facili- tate development of better farm safety programs. Farm parents and local 4-H Club leaders are being urged to get behind the survey. Question- naires, to be filled out, cover the period January 1 to December 31 last year. It is hoped to have results tabulated by mid- summer. More than 120,000 head of live- stock on the prairies are fami- liarizing themselves with what will be their "home away from home" this summer, They are being assigned to 82 community pastures, operated by the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation AdMinistration, At their disposal are about 1,800,000 acres of well- fenced grazing. Adttoes 1. call et bridge. ,re Transaction 8. Remainder 12. Open court 18. M1leasurd of „ yarn ' 14. Wings 15, Ringlet 15 Coinbtite' 12. Ointlire 15, 11.timarviati Coin 20. Ototips of baSebell bins ers 21. bill Of An anent& 23. Talk • 'ettrayttgli f 85.. (;ray 27. Stir 25. Snow Ounriet 31,111Aterial 'Objects 5S. Water stride, 35. Ory 85,Ohineae Shful, 38.,811130'" 39 ESteldernitIOn to attract „ ititerate-ft, 40 ObeiiiYOrk „ '41 Sioux' tSri 44, Hen fruit; '16.:Cintlity1t2! ,411 Obtaidef 11,'W1141"heig' (16:4' 68. SOntif '114. ebd the kitty' IS.,:Chatelifeeige 414. Si(11091AtiVe endlrit of this type of lane were re- quired td sustain one unit of livestock, Today less than 15 acres is needed and the grazing capacity is being improved con- stantly. This is the time of year that each, community pasture man- ager has his hands full, as the livestOck are admitted, counted; branded, vaccinated, sprayed and turned out into their summer homes. Twenty Years To Clip A Dog! Strange creatures, are slowly taking shape in many British gardens. Some resemble known animals. Others are so grotesque that at night they resemble things usually seen in night- mares. But many are graceful and passers-by stop to admire them. What are these shapes which make no sound? They are living examples of the topiarist's art. Topiary is the art of clipping slow-growing shrubs and trees into all kinds of fantastic shapes. And in the past two or three years this oldest of all garden arts has grown steadily in popu- larity. One man has a whole mena- gerie of "animals" and "birds" in his Gloucestershire garden, He has spent years training and trimming bushes into these shapes. Like other experts in the art, he says topiary clipping needs an accurate eye and a steady hand. Make one false move with your shears and you ruin the symmetry of a bush. Not many gardeners have the space (or the patience) to cre- ate whole topiary gardens, Most who take to topiary, work on one or two yews, creating this verdant sculpture from t h e But in one topiary nursery as many as 10,000 box and yew plants were grown' and then clipped into unusual shapes. Lifelike green hens and green ducks, all cf correct size, were made by another topiarist, It took him fifteen years to fash- ion a peecock. One dog, with tail, perfect head and body, took nearly twenty years to create. An evergreen clipped into the shape of a giant man sitting on a wall at Scarva, Co. Down, NS Ireland became known as tee Itienspty-Duitipty tree. A fine /figure of a lite-812e horse Was shaped from a hawthorn hedge at Oakhatti, Itutlend. A railway engine-driver cut and trained' A huge yew tree le his Hereford- shire garden into a representa- tion Of the iron Monster Iii which lie earned his living for tuany yeare, Bird lignite are usually the simplest for the amateur teen- aniet to ant and they take' be- tween five Mid ten years to reach Maturity. Large and Intel- sate designs are often trained' and etiaiPertecl err Wires While they .gro% but plain bird' shapes: 10\4 been Medd ibush during its early life and toting across' and', trimming every autumn-, A gdedthibe With the' 400 aikiate 'nein& 'o dutbitali &detect 111.111.1.111111.11.1.1111111pr fliormim WNW 4,1.1111rAiiiiire61111/Wr3/11111WWF 1111674r1.11'411111•1.41111111r1r-OTIIMPRIF . as garden .of green animals in. .Hertfordshire. These included teddy bears, storks, cocks and. hens which he had trained from 'box and yew trees, "My greatest ambition is to make a dragon, a lion end a tiger",, he said, 1,100,$osoing fly Rev it. Barclay Warren B.D, 11NDAY SC11001 LESSON PRICE OF A STADIUM -- Mrs. Victoria Angustian struggles with police after she and her family were evicted from Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles, Calif., to make way for a. planned Dodgers baseball stadium. A woman deputy holds Mrs. Angus- tian's crying, 9-month-old daughter, Ira, while another daugh- ter, Rachel, 10, also in tearP,:.looks on. THE FARM FRONT Joktvoussea ISSUE 2a-1959 and a saeveying ins rumeet veiled an aliclade. This 14 a strangely silent search. Other branches of the oil industry's exploration 1,044111 explode small charges of dyna- mite or drive chattering core drills into the earth. But here there is only the dry clatter of falling shale and the dull chunk of hammer against rock. For hours you work in an emp- tiness of, sky and 'Mountain measuring angles, elevation and distances, collecting rock sam- ples with their tell-tale bits of embedded fossil, Oil is found in such rock, Perhaps the sam- ple's you gather today will bees the drillers steiVe a well in Manitoba or Saskatchewan or the Territories, At noon you hunch down on top Of the World with a sand- wich, idly watching a ribbon of river curl a few thousand feet below. Then it's late afternoon, the aerial bus takes you back to camp and the job goes on by lantern light. Rock samples must be sorted, labelled and crated. Reports must be written. With the aid of the stereoscope, which provides a three-dimen- sional view, today's geological measurements aee correlated with an aerial map. From this will come a geological map. To- morrow's working area.is stud- ied, also under the. stereoscope. Tourists save up 50 weeks of money and dreams for holidays in places like this, but to you -the scenery is just a spectacular backdrop for a busy day's work. The clang of Aime Goudreau's dinner gong marks the welcome interval between , outdoor work and paper work. When the last of the work is out of the way, you spend the rest of the even- ing with gin rummy or poker and the inevitable "bull session" with your companions of last night, last week and last month. When a few men are thrown to- gether in the wilderness from May to September, as these men are, each comes to know him- seel and his fellows a little bet- ter: For the impatient ones, boredom arid -minor irritations sometimes become overwhelm- ing. For the others, this is a s welcome escape from city life, a `place of quiet thought and last- ing friendships. For young geologists, in par- ticular, a summer in the field is worth a year of book learning or office duty. Whatever your attitude to this job, you learn to "make do." The helicopter's infrequent trips to town and regular radio checks with base camp are the only links with the outside world. So you learn that life goes on quite satisfactorily without telephones, TV, movies and daily mail delivery. You discover that a washtub is also an adequate bathtub, You spin out the hours with cards or tunes from a battered accordion. You re-discover books. You scribble letters home by the glow of the ever-present lant- ern. And there is still plenty of time for sleep. Tomorrow - on to some other obscure mountain top. Next summer? Perhaps an assign- ment in the Territories or the Peace River country or north- ern Saskatchewan, e Wherever you go, you can be sure of this much: the site will be remote and the job will be important. And, depending on your point of view, it's the best - or the loneliest - job in the world. =From the Imperial Oil Review. "So you really think your memory is improving under treatment. You remember things now?" "Well, not exactly, but t have progressed so' far that I can fee- Vent:1Y- remember that have forgotten something,'' Should We Try to Change the Climate? By RAY CROMLEY NEA Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON - No telling what's- going to happen to man when. we start changing the cli- mate. That thought has scientists worried. Some of t h e in have been discussing the problem in- formally in and out of meetings of the National Academy of Sciences. They note that man is deli- cately adjusted to the weather: That men - husbands and bachelors both - get more emo- tional at certain periods, of the month and in different seasons of the year. That reports from Europe in- dicate periods of warm and dry southerly winds are always as- sociated with 'increases in death rates, in automobile accidents, in mental. disorders. That climatic changes "have probably been influential" in determining the growth and de- cay of civilizatione over the world. That many physicians are con- vinced that "certain types of weather disturbances are asso- ciated with particular illnesses." Diseases - even diabetes - ebb and flow with the seasons. So do outbreaks of crime, information on animals which suggested that men might pos- sibly be more easily killed by atomic radiation than women. There were reports that large atomic or hydrogen bombs ex- ploded at ,the right heights hun- dreds of miles in the atmos- phere. would' kill by radiation men living in satellites long dis- tances away. The scientists looked to ani- mals to determine more new ' ideas on what climete changes might do to man. They noted. that animals liv- ing in colder climates are usu- ally larger than those living in warmer climates, They quote reports that the higher the temperature, the faster ants move. They referred to 'findings that whole new strains of some viruses develop when living un- der slight differences in tem- perature. And, reported one researcher, referring to crickets: "It is said that counting the number of chirps hi 14 seconds and adding 40 will give the temperature within a couple of degrees." But they didn't go so far as to say that upping the tempera- ture of the world would make seen smaller, make him work faster - or make him sing with a quicker rhythm, Scientists note that any changes from the narrow range of environment man is used to - are likely to cause serious disturbances. Some scientists are appar- ently as concerned about the effects of air conditioning on man - as they are about space travel or about tampering with the weather itself, What happens to a man, ques- tions Rene J. Dubos, of the Rockefeller Institute in Ness' York, who makes "sudden and repeated shifts from the hot, humid atmosphere of the street to the cool and dry envircin- ment indoors? Comfort of the moment may have to be paid in the future in the !form of new respiratory and circulatory disorders," Worse yet., the scientists wor- ry, air conditioning "may inter- fere with" some of man's "sea- sonal cycles," What that might eventually do to his emotions makes some scientists click their tongues, Of course, for all the scientists know it could change man for the better. There were several things be- sides weather that worried the scientists looking into 'man's fra- gility. There was new research C, lireak in n • H. ',lper CROSSWORD 7, liaPist g 32. 1.11;110 r I e PUZZLE. S. Vilser Ain' 34. One Ogeoleivi To their owners - roughly 0,000 'grain growing farmers - they represent financial secur- ity in the event of crop failure. The stock is driven from the home harm to the pastures in the spring and collected after the f all -round-up, More applications for the ads mission of livestock are received each year than can be accepted in accordance with good pasture practices, with the result that the number of livestock per pa- trol? is limited, About 00 per cent of the com- munity pasture is in Seekatche- svaii and the balance is in. Mani- toba A 'nominal fee is charged ter gazing and various veterinary services. A breeding service is also provided, with the Canada Department of Agriculture supe plying bulls of a superior type and quality, About 1,000 bulls Ate treed each year in this pee- gram, D. Ardor . 31. Nlosieni 10..Salisfy nobles' 11 Ilaglish ris NO, Staring, 17on ju1 na openmotithru '57,0n the briny iv. ele.toie 41.51ountnin I n deep 2 2. Ilren (contr.) Ghee,'-,' ' DOWN 24. Sitio Art- 42. Pate I. So. Americannouricements 41, at nod . . rodent 25. Sin inese.coins 15 1 ndomitnnle 2,'OticlroOpint es.Thler . . spirit 8, Atieette .F.Tages re 41. Appoin tint 114 4. •Stiti in in ,cruises 411. Sul-race chloride 211. Depots 60. Teamster's r5 On the '29. gental Comm it3(1 sliel t 6rod side nereept ins Ai Sileott 4( cry 9 3 12 " 7 10 a • 14 13 17 16 is 20 111 4 'S 24 22 2I * Since 101` when drifting soil sounded the death knell for Many Prairie herds, more than *6,000,000 has been spent ing non-productive land MO toriiniunity Nett:tees, Over 4300 • Miles of fence hai"been Water plade's, deVeloped, col rele and istiildinge. constructed: Meet of the label taken' over for this arid was badly drafted arid either abandoned eie prefitable, In many cases settlers- Weed nieVed lOasIPPltA to lerigatett ai Oils'. S 4o 31 46 42 4 44 45; 41 49 43 31' 35 25 26 36 ts. 32' 17 33' 35 34 - 21 29 30 51' so 53 54 52 Ma. Coaked by reseeding rind coils trot 'grating practices, some See: tiOnS,' that Were considered We lesi have become highly produc- tive, TWetity Yeeit add acres Sr • • , „ , INC ADDITION OF DATA from Weather that already collected' by oiteet 'method' will give Man a more CaiiiprelienSiVei' picture of weather' afid: help tii diitoveettig how aitmail affects ea a nit Ow leo!. and Mental 441. AriSW•el elseSehree 'this` page' es.