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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-09-17, Page 3NUJ 001 LESSON AiitVdf elsetvliere 'tun this page Rev, R. garclaq. Warren,, MA., KA. • Cod's Cali to Faithfulness Malachi g:17 to 3:4, 16-18. Memory Selection: Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. Psalm 101:6. 'Pled with cirrid.c; yit clothe yctu,: but there Is none livapl; and he that earneth wages earnetlt wages to put it into a bag with holes.'" Haggai 1:4-6. Let us put God first. The tithe is the Lord's,. The one who recognizes this will find that nine-tenths of his in- come with God's blessing will ge further than ten-tenths without God's blessing, Many are proving it so. Malachi expresses Cod's dis- like of divorce. He says, "There' fore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth." There are precious promise.a for those who fear the Lord. When He makes up His special treasures He will spare them. And there Is prediction of the coming of Messiah, top, In The. Day Of Sailing Vessels ONE LIVED, ONE DIED — Loadeci;vith tons of c ases of beer, a trailer truck careened off an overpass in Los Angeles, Calif. The truck driver `we's killed, but Toshiyoshi Oni, 37, crawled unhurt from the wreckage after the truck dropped on his car, barely visible beneath the trailer body. T.IIEFAEIFRONT (106; but leave two or' perhaps three. Also take off any flowering buds, of course, and snip off the little winglike things at the nodes. You, may be able to root one or two' cuttings in water in a light but not sunny window. A surer way though, especially for several, is to root them in sand. Stick the stem deeply enough to hold the little thing firm in the pot. The Old Testament closes with the prophecy of Malachi. He calls for greater faithfulness to God. He reproves the people for giving the poorest of their flocks for sacrifice. The law call- ed for animals withoUt blernish lodiy yve, haVe seen people quite proud of themselves for handing in their old clothes to send to the missionaries for distribution to the poor heathen. They, in turn, went out and bought ex- pensive new outfits for them- selves. Now, it is good to give used clothing to the heathen. They who have so little will be grateful. Because the garment is now out of style won't matter to them. Moreover, if the cloth- ing were new, the customs charge on it in many countries would be so high that it would not be practical to send it. But when we hand in our left-overs we must not confuse it with sacrificial giving. Malachi urged the people to bring in the tithes. The curse would be removed and the Lord would pour great blessing upon them. In a new suburban area the low giving of the people was excused with the oft-used ex- pression, "They are just young, couples and they are paying for their new homes." I thought of the word of the Lord given by Haggai when lie was_ exhorting the people to rebuild the temple: "Is it time for you, 0 ye, to dwell In your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? Now there- fore thus with the LORD of fiesta: 'Colander your Waif. ' Ye havii brifiudi;": Out t bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not Planting Corp By Hopa.,And Foot The United States Department of Agriculture has found that yield per acre is increased if seed corn is planted with the points down and the sides par- alled to the rows. This impor- tant information arrives while We are in deep national hack for warehouse storage on sur- plus corn, and farmers have de- pressed the meat Market by forcing too many animals on the ,surplvs-surplus, That thing sticking up like Mt. McKinley is a moral. But no doubt somebody has already gone to work on a mechanical planter t hat will drop seed corn point dawn and sides out, that we may grow still more corn, Except for back- yard and kitchen gardens, no- body much has planted corn 'by hand in long, years, and it would be impossible to set seed se meticulously that way, By ma- chinery, however, It could be done, and probably will. Here in Maine, this kind of corn has never been much of a crop. We grow a lot of sweet corn and considerable ensilage, but we are not hard-corn coup- try: It used to be said that one year in ten was suitably hot and moist enough to give us a bumper crop, and between times we made out. Everybody, in those days, kept seed corn over for two or three years, in case there happened to come a failure. The thickest,, longest and fullest ears would be traced and hung over wires in the attic, to frustrate the mice and squirrels, and w o. u 1 d be brought down in the spring for seed. We had corn shellers that turned by crank,. but usually seed was scraped off on a bar of iron over a box. When •the box held about what you'd need, you put the unshelled ears back up in the attic as ,a backlog. There were various ways to treat Corn so the crows would let it alone, but even so the old planting jingle went, "two for the crows," and this totalled five or six kernels to a hill. Not that you ever counted — you felt, in danacii have" increased by 194W. Reflecting both rising costs and the rising number of automobile accidents, is the increase in prop- erty damage in Canada resulting from automobile accidents over a ten year period. In 1947 prop- erty damage was ten and a "half million dollars. By 1957 this fig- ure had passed the seventy-three million dollar mark, an increase of 900%. It stands to reason that prices, without exception, are much too high. Well, now,, thinking that over again, there is ONE big excep- tion. Prices for whatever we per- sonally have to sell are far too low. Anybody should know that! However, the following facts and figures might — I said might convince some of us that the automobile insurance people aren't quite as big robbers as many of us think. * • • There was nothing slipshod or lackadaisical about either the ships or the seamen, If the sails appear cumbersome to us now, it should be remembered that all the large ,sails lowered to the' deck, where they could be man- handled with comparative ease, and the lighter topsails (of which there never was' any pro- fusion) could be handled aloft very simply. They were small and of light canvas. A few boys sufficied to pull the bunt of si light main topsail — or fore topsail on a barkentine caravel — into the roomy top, where they had a good place to work — a better place by far than the, slippery, swaying, often ice-in- fested footropes of some big square-rigger trying to round Cape Horn, The area set in a big sail could be reduced by remov- ing its lower third, for this was laced on, and could be unlaced again by the simple• proceis of lowering the yard while the men stayed on deck. There were plenty of men, and the Portuguese were then and have ever since remained lent 'searnen. Watchkeeping; turns at' helm and lookout, the maintenance of the tetkoning — all these were well understood and thoroughly regulated with meticulous accuracy, which they could do in a ship that .was bal- WO by her sail; end had At problem from the. thrust of torque of fiounderint propellers to confuse her. They were under the constant supervision of en officer who never left his bridge to go.into.the chartroom or peer into a radar screen. The whole works of the ship, and the whole of the work of the ship, were in the open where all could see. A watch-keeping officer had in- stant and complete control and supervision of everything. — From "Wild Ocean," by Alan Villiers. Upsidedown to 'Prevent Peeking Several cuttings can be rooted 'at once if planted in one of those wide, not deep, se =called "azalea" pots in a mixture of sand and peatmoss, with a , small clay flower pot set. down into" the center. Plug the hole in, the flower pot and water the cut- tings by filling the' center pot with water. It will seep through. Some cuttings may take quite a while to root -- several weeks in fact — so don't give up U they won't go right about it. Give them more time. Keep , all the cuttings shaded at first with a newspaper, or something simi- lar, and at about 60 degrees. At the end of two or three.,weeks carefully dig up one cutting and see if you have some roots. If the roots are about three-fourths of an inch' long, transplant, your cuttings Into separate pots (21/4 - inch pots will do),, The soil from now on should be good garden: loam but not enriched in any special way. 'Geraniums will run to foliage if fed too much. By January 'these little pots ought to•be a mass .of roots. This is the time to transplant again, this time into pots an inch wider in diameter, and later into four- inch. If the cutting grows leggy, pinch out the top to encourage side growth. By' May or June these young geraniums ought to be ready to set out in the garden borders ,for next summer's flowering. Anyone with one or two good plants this autumn can raise a whole bevy of plants for next year in this way. • • 0 . There ore three eriaJor factors ';• Which affect automobile insur- -ance rates. During the.past• num- - leer of years these' factors have caused rates to increase. The three main culprita are: (a) Rise ing damage, claims, (b) Bigger, fancier cars with their higher repair bills, and (c) More acci- dents. and seven were too many, four too few. There was a "Xing of the Cornfield" planter made some-, where in Vermont that was popular, and very likely the firm still holds patents on the newer tractor-haridied planters. It dropped 'fertilizer along with the seed, Here, the fertilizer was taken care of by liberal applications of "dressing," and we continued to plant by h a n d. The hills would be about three feet apart, or a man's step, and at the toe of each advancing f o o t you would drop the kernels, I find. I can't remember the jingle, but it went something like this: Three to sprout, two will grow — Ono for good measure, two for the crows. Undoubtedly plenty of people will want to "set me right" on that. Anyway, a hill with two or three shoots in it was what we were after, and would be enough for a harvest. Thus, we walked up and down the fur- rows, dropping from a bag slung on the shoulder, and for my part I liked to operate barefooted because there was a certain way of rearranging the seeds with the toes, and it couldn't always be done with a boot on. There was a way to set a "hoss-hoe" so the seed could be covered, but it was almost as easy to scuffle dirt over the seeds with a hand hoe. Then, all summer, it grew, and usu- ally it grew very well so we'd have a crib full. Enough for the poultry and pigs — and the family. There was a meal chest in the shed, and every fall it would be filled with rye, corn, and buckwheat meal. We had stopped grinding wheat long ago. The very same cornmeal that went in the meal chest was also put in the zinc-lined bin in the barn for the animals. It was all one. We had cornbread two- three times a •week. Indian Pud- ding as often, and bro,wpbread Saturday night. It seemed, at the time, like a fine arrange- ment, and never once did any- body connected with the deal ever imagine 'that the yield would increase if we'd set the corn seed down "with the point under and the sides bilateral. What we didn't know didn't hurt us. But the USDA, stbmbling around in more corn then, they, know what to do with, has found one more way to increase the yield. I'm just glad I'm not a little boy again, facing a cou- ple of acres, and knowing what We know now. Standing seed corn on end with ,your bare toes is not my idea of advanced agronomy. — by John Crania in The Christian Science Monitor. GOO MOD©© DE10 HMEIMMMEOM 01110004,01:1020120 MOM m 000 ULM ©OM MILIWU On 010M000 MOM CUSOWIll DOITICOO BOM OBO500 00 MOH MOD OOM 0015 00 UNICI MBH6000 UMW MOO OMODODOME 00B WOBOO MIDO al • • • Not many years ago, auto- liability protection was consider- ed adequate if the• policy paid up to $10,000 for a claim of one individual, or a maximum of $20,000 for claims growing out of any one accident. Today with awards soaring, insurance protection is•often con- sidered inadequate unless it pro- vides for payments of up to $100,000 for a single claim, or for a maximum payment of $300,000. CROSSWORD PUZZLE How to Save on Your Insurance 1. The premiums on a "deduct- ible" collision policy are con- siderably lower than on one offering full protection against damage to your car. "Deductible" means that you yourself pay, for example, the first $50, $100, or $200 of any repair cost. 2. If 'you own two or more cars, you might save money by insur- ing them in one policy. Savings can be as much as twenty-five percent. 3. Make certain your insurance company lists you properly as to job and driver classification. You pay most if you use your car for business, least if you use it only for pleasure. Farmers and clergymen get a special break on rates. 4. If you have had no acci- dents in recent years, you might qualify for the reduced rates offered by some companies to "preferred risks." 5. Consider the age and value of your car in deciding whether to carry "Comprehensive" insur- ance — fire, theft, etc. O. Vigorously support traffic safety campaigns. Insurance rates have dropped sharply in some cities having effective safe driving programs. What many motorists don't realize is that the premium they pay is based on the accident experience in the territory in which they live. Losses for any particular acci- dent on an an insurance com- pany's records are charged back to the place where the car owner lives, not to the area where ,the accident occurred. Thus if a motorist from Toronto, for ex- ample, drives to Hamilton and causes an accident there, the cost of paying the claims will be charged against the claims rec- ord for' Toronto, not against the Hamilton area. WELL SHORN CENTER LINE 'A forestry worker stands near a crack in the road at West Yellowknife, Mont., following the earthquake that struck the area. Although the luxuriant red beard of Harry Falso, California ' bank robber, was a dangerous mark of identification, he stub- bornly refused to have it remov- ed. Instead, he hired a personal barber to live near him in his Fire Acres headquarters and im- ported from Chicago some $500 worth 'of hair oil.' One day, as he slumbered in the barber's chair, two of his drunken riders pushed a razor through the red locks that were the chief's pride and joy and, giggling, left his chin and head as smooth as an egg. A few minutes later a troop of cavalry, led by two Federal marshalls, swooped through town looking for Falso. They missed him. "Not a red beard in town," they reported disgustedly. "Only a bald, funny-looking gazoolc asleep in a barbershop. ISSUE 38 — 1959 "Blind as a bat" is a meaning- less phrase. .Contrary to pop, uIar belief, most bats can see perfectly. Well in bright light. 28. Ruthenium syinbol 29. Vegetable 32. Ctirvea 34. Roman weigh) 37: ClotheS driers 40, Eriethintered 42, Aalatte Do You Know? The emu, the national bird' of Australia, is the second largest of living birds. The adult birds average five feet in height. • A curious froglike fish of Africa, the goby, climbs trees to feed on wood ants, Often some gobies climb while others stay below to nab dislodged victims. • • A snowshoe rabbit is not a rabbit but a hare, often called the varying hare because his coat changes from brown in summer to white in winter. He depends on his white fur'and his huge, spreading hind feet—from which he gets his "snowshoe" name—to' escape from most of the -animals that pursue him. WATER, WATER' EVERYWHERE -- Margarette Brown "doesn't appear happy about pumping `Water from her well neat Shelbyville, Tenn. The pump has almost been inundated by the formation 'of a big pond near her home: How To Root Those Geranium Cuttings If you have some geraniums In' the garden you' .nerticulatiy like". or if yea have a starid,iti With a friend Who has Seine usual variety of one, now and into 'September is the time to start euttitiga from these plants for held Spring and SUrniner fieWeritig..(May and Jtlne is the tine to skisthemfor`Whiter-- lid:Wet lug plants.) Take your cuttings (or beg some from your friend) Itern the tip of a.platit, a firm but not woody Settioh. They should 'be• three to five inches long.. Melte a tlean straight cut with a sharp knife Or razor blade' jtiSt below one of the small joints (toda)' along' the stem Each tutting should contain two Or three of these joints,. and if possible - should have abrild branching ItIong its length. Next, take Off the lower leaves,„ WATERY ROW TO HOE — Pushing onward through waist-deep water, a farmer ih South Viet Nam follows his two welter buffaloes and plow through a rice field. Heavy rains CiVli flooded a wide area' of' tlie coUntrv. * e • Records from one county in Oklahoma show the average awards in personal-injury dam- age suits rose from $2,585 in 1947 to $89,781 in 1957, an increase of over three' thousand percent. Some of this increase is natu- rally due to inflation. The cost of everything involved in an automobile accident has risen considerably. In the past ten years, medical costa (hospital and doctors' bills) have' in- creased by approximately 150%. * The increase in cost of one of the popular low-priced model cars has been over two hundred percent in the last ten' years. Today's cars are faster and More powerful than those Of a. few years agO. Accidents when they do happen, tend to be more seri- ous and to cause' more costly' damage This together ieith in- flation has had the obvious effect. In 1939 it took two lietits to Install a new fender. At that time the fender was a separate part, boned to the car body, To day's' fender is part Of the body penel.. patting, on a ',new panel May • take .ea 'long "as 22 libitta. The, aiiititint Of time required to de this fairly common taSic has increased 1,000%'. Add to this the fact that the pride of td bath. in the past six, years has riaen, 50% and it is not diffiettit to understa'n'd Why in the United States, member CorepenieS of the Natienal BOreau of ,Cainalty Undffivetleti lost.' 147 Millreti dollars in 1957 from their under- Writing activities:' 'Most of this loss can be laid 6 -ant:ernOhne underwriting which is serrietirilea called, "the problem child of the eantaltY-ixiStitance btisiiieSS?" • • * Iii 1.04 : there were ibi,r513 paS- setiger ears registrations ill Ott- terio. Twelve years later this' litiniber had risen to 1,793,499 an ittereage of 900%. In the same Petted of tithe traffic accidents 7. Aged' 8. Tide 9, Three- pronged spear 10. Cofrode 11. Some 13., LARRY' 17. Spiteful woman country 10, Changes. 44. Daay mark 21. Ringa 46. Pale 22, Balkan 47. Speak 23., ClIfiltlait 43, BMA Seitind ' 49, Matter (law) 26 LOWethig the 00. IMMO . bottom 51. 26. Scatter 54, Patent ...„ . ACROSS DOWN 1. Total 1. Title 4, Const'ellatio'n 2. Atitoillobtle 9. Beverage joint 12. That cannot 2.Oectio he heard 4, Poem 14. FlOwed 11. Nthv'Enklakid 15, Wash lIghtlY 36, Voriteletia •penineUln itnnetIte IS. Contend 100 Squat'. meters 20 21, _Vegetable 22, Mit 24 `spreads 27, Coimiaetitive ending 26, •Sell its zmall nitantitlee 20,Clear 31'. :Wake certain 31, MON' 35, Once around 25. riet146§ for Mowing yhotion 30. Trehr.w tOttOt 36..Slehder 41. Irrthrld .42. London', Sub utb 42. enlot 45. Anent` , 44. fitilnetl, 47.1,1'MA:real' bright 60. Pi5W6',*a,gbii 32. 61. 37,. 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