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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-09-01, Page 7sympathy for the masses have not .spurred. the ,eelonial powers to granting greater privileges et .self-expresSion and self-govern- ment to the .peoples Under their rule, Colony . after c o.1 ony,„ especially in Africa, is gaining_ its independence, We speak dis* paragingly of the communist ad., 'tator. We tend to forget the de* sire of all men, everywhere, to be free. God may be using thi# communist for His purpose. Btit. the .communist, if he continues in. his denial of God, will him"- self, be broken as was the Assy, rian, suppwe, inevitable. For Yearg now, the.automobile industry has been efter me to buy second car. I could, then sport two high license plates and lack twice the status I do now. And the t lephone company has been Urging me to have at least two tell ?hones — not. a telephone and an extension, That was be. fore the stock split. Now, ex- tensions are as fundamental as a roof on your two houses, Not having extensions is equivalent to milling your own flour, The thing today Is two telephones, each with its own number, And they should be in colour, yet, Next thing I know, the paint people will be after me to re-do my rooms to match the tele- phones, It I were to suggest that I could re-do my phones to match the rooms, the paint peo- ple would sulk. And, doubtless, so would the telephone people. If my wife finally convinces me that we must have two se- parate telephones, I think I'll hold out for letting them clash with the decor. My two-pant suit does already, she tells me, To help me do my part in fur- thering our national purpose, the 'banks are urging me to use more of their services. Commercial banks and loan companies keep falling over one another in an effort to lend me money, On the other hand, the saving banks wag admonitory fingers my way, urging me to put aside some money every week for the things I need, writes J. Norman Mc- Kenzie in the Christian Science Monitor. And I do. But the money I put aside every week is for the things we already have, These are the things the nondrifting, decision-makers convinced me we needed last year. They in- clude a big-as-life TV screen that enables me to be exposed to suggestions !for the other necessities I lack such as swim- ming pools, refrigerator-freezers that loom like skyscrapers in the kitchen and hold a year's supply of TV dinners, a dandy boat and trailer I can hitch on to either of the two cars I ought to own, and other basics for ordinary, everyday living. Incidentally, the boating in- dustry is the only segment of American business that is miss- ing — of all things — the boat in this national purpose move- ment. They're only trying to sell me one boat and trailer. This attitude is as anachronistic as the Corn Laws that Adam. Smith grumbled so much about. And it may well be the chink in our shining national armour. It is from backsliders like the boat- ing industry that loose talk of drift and indecision can -- and probably does — arise. They are interfering with the national purpose. What do they take me for — a second-class' citizen? What about that other house I may buy? Is it to have that barren look with no boat and trailer parked in the front yard? One boat and trailer, indeed! This is America. I want two. And I mean to have them, even if I have to put in that other telephone to place my °race. NDAY SC11001 LESSON stand and got it on the ground, "It was •a hand-crank stone, The kind that sat on four rollers, and the shaft came out with two bends on. Funny nobody in the old days of Yankee ingenui- ty never figured a clutch on a grindstone. If you had a good hearing for it, you'd kick up quite some momentum, and the handle would fly around like a windmill. "Well, that's neither here nor there. I had in mind to roll this grindstone down past Mr. Gup., py's front porch, where he was sitting M. his rocking chair thinking up new things to be Mean about, and while I say I'm a little hazy now on just what effect this was to set up, it seem- ed at the time like a good thing to do. Roll it, you know, like a hoop. So, I got it rolling all• right, and I was cuffing it with a little stick, and away we went, "We went by Mr. Guppy's front porch, and he sat up and took notice. We went across the yard with the crank flying free on the other, side, and we wound up about 35 yards of hog fence on the handle, pulling out some stakes and taking them with us, and then we hit the soft ground of the sink-drain area and come to a muddy and final conclusion. Quite a run, 'twas. "So Mr. Guppy came down and says, 'That looks like my grindstone!' I now realized deep inside that -whatever it was I had in mind at first hadn't pan- ned out 100 per cent. Anyway, he looked at the edges of the grindstone, and se said I'd chip- ped it beyond repair, and would have to pay for it. "I have never known, then or now, what a grindstone is worth, new or secondhand. Money, then was just something you touched on in the eighth grade under 'Banking & Currency,' so after Mr. Guppy and my father had a summit meeting I agreed to hoe corn for Mr. Guppy until the grindstone was paid for. "It took two weeks. His corn patch ran from the main road down to Sandy Stream, and while I suppose it's half a mile, it seemed like the same distance as Utah. Every night he'd tell me I was doing well, and at the end of two weeks he said, 'There, now I figure the grindstone is paid for. Let that be a lesson to you, and you ought to be glad I was kind and lenient instead 'of try- ing to make things hard on you.' "So that night I hitched Old Meg into the wagon, and I drove up to Mr. Guppy's and began to load the grindstone into the wa- gon. He came out and said, 'What do you think you're doing?' I said I was taking my grindstone home. He said I couldn't do that. I said I could, that rd paid for it, and I wanted it. "He appealed to my father, and I remember my, father spoke very slowly, like a judge with a weighty decision, and he said, 'Now, Mr. Guppy, I don't want ' to appear to be defending the boy, but it seems to me you have exhausted - your discretionary powers. I'm inclined to think you were worrying more about the price of the grindstcine-than you were the rehabilitation of a way- ward youngster. In that cross- wind of motives, you have been hoist' on your own bargain. I suggest you take what it would cost to hire .a man for two weeks, and go buy a new grindstone — and I'll take on from here and handle the boy.' "That's what happened. He drove in and bought a new grind- stone for haying season, and I still have the one I bought from him, It's the best grindstone we ever had, and every time I use it I dodge the chipped edges and reflect on my misspent youth and the iniquities thereof." — by John Gould in The Christian Science Monitor. A Hard Way To Get A Grindstone "No," Said Jimmie Griffin the other day„ "We don't touch a hand-scythe at all," "Then I don't suppose you'd want to buy a good grindstone?" asked my friend, Flats jacieseM, in the tone of voice be likes to adopt when he assumes a philan- thropic role, and hopes to stick some innocent bystander with a rough trade, Jimmie said he guessed not. "That's too bad," said Flats, "I got the best grindstone anybody ever had, and it's legally' mine, and it's available at a young and tender price." "I seppose it's a coarse stone," I said, "No, it's not," said Flats. "It's -coarser than medium, but it don't draw on the metal, and it's a quick cutter without being flinty, if you know what I mean," "How did you ever came to own a grindstone legally?"I said. "I bought it. I bought it from old man Guppy up above Fair- banks." Nobody said anything, so Flats added, "The mean Guppy." Nobody said anything again, so Flats said, "I suppose this Guppy was the meanest man that ever set a foot on the State of Maine. He had an ingrown belief that nobody under 15 should ever have any fun at all, and that over 15 you out-lived the desire for it. I can't tell you all the mean things that man slid. But we boys around there used to like to work on his dis- position when we could think of anything, and sometimes the more agile-minded were able to contrive a situation that should have reformed him. "Anyway, come Fourth of July night, I took it into my head to do something that would reform Mr., Guppy in a complete and helpful way and. I took it out on his grindstone. It took a little doing, because a grindstone is heavy, and I was closer to the ground then, and I wanted this to be a big surprise. "Today, naturally, I don't have an idea why this was supposed to be funny or nice, or why it' was supposed to reform Mr. Guppy, or what possessed me to work so hard for such a little possibility. But I stole up behind his barn, and went into the shed, and with the strength of ten men I lifted that great gorm- ing grindstone down out of the By Rev. R. Barclay Warren )14., B,D, God's Rand In .040;1 lesaieli 10154, 1-2.,•14 14: 34.27 Memory Selection: The ;1,00 of hosts bath purposed, who shall disannul ..end his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? 'Isaiah 14:27, L".1 am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of noth- Mg," Revelation 3:17, This, the spirit of the Laodicean church, is strongly reflected in this age. But there come occasions to all of us, when our self-sufficiency dips sharply. A young friend, whose capacity rated close to the genius level, is doing his stint of service in the United States navy. He wrote to his father, "I'm beginning to realize that I haven't got the world by the tail." To us all there are times 'when we stand •in awe as flashes of light reveal to us that there is a higher Power over the destiny of our lives. We see God's hand in history. A. friend missed his plane by a few minutes. It was well that he did, for that plane crashed, killing all on beard. As we grow older, we can see how events that seemed insignifi- cant at the time, were really dis- plays of God's hand in history. The acceptance of my Christmas article by a newspaper in 1941 didn't even get mention in my diary. Now I can see that it was one of the most important events in my life. In our lesson we see how God used the heathen Assyrian to punish Israel. The Assyrian, with lust to conquer the world, was not yielded to God. Nevertheless, he was the rod of. God's anger against Israel. In time God used the Chaldean to break the power of the Assyrian. Then in succes- sion came the empires of the Merles and Persians, the Greeks and the Romans. God is still above the affairs of man. I have no leanings whatsoever to atheistic communism. But I wonder if Russia's professed CENTENNIAL PORTRAIT -- Artist Grandma Moses celebrates her 100th birthday with. this presentation of her portrait. The painting is by Dean Fausett, president of the Southern Ver- mont Art. Centre, Any Volunteers for Skeeter Bites? Four young Australian meal- cal research workers recently exposed themselves voluntarily' for three weeks to dangerous mosquito bites. They sat on the banks of the Mitchell River, in. Queensland gulf country, invit- ing mosquitoes to attack theme As the mosquitoes bit them the scientists sucked off their at- tackers with plastic hoses cov- ered at the mouth with gauze. Eleven thousand flies sus- pected of carrying a deadly dis- ease, encephalitis, were thus collected, Peeked in dry ice they were flown to Brisbane, where they will be used for research work. Experts hope to isolate front their bodies the encephalitis virus which, from time to time, ravages riverside settlements in Queensland. It is thought that the virus is ' brought from Asia by migratory waterfowl. The Australian mos- quito then 'feeds on the water- fowl. Tilt FARM FRONT J06 Amendments to Canada's fruit, vegetables and honey regulations have just been put into effect, the most significant of which deal with potatoes. They call for greater uniform- ity in sizes of potatoes, especially for those sold in consumer-size packages weighing less than 25 pounds. Size limits are specified for both round and long varietes. * * Seriously misshapen potatoes are to be excluded from Canada No. 2 grade. However, a slight- ly larger proportion of below- minimum-size potatoes in both No. 1 and No. 2 grades and pro- portionately more potatoes with hollow heart in Canada No. 1 Large grade will be permitted. The provision dealing with various types of damage in po- tatoes, such as maturity, clean- liness and sprouting, have been re-defined to bring potato grade standards more in line with pres- ent-day market demands. The sale of new potatoes which have special size requirements and no maturity requirements has been extended from August 31 each year to September 15. Of the importance for export sales to points other than the United States is the provision that a heavier weight of bag- ging must be used so that it will not tear during shipment. * Some revision in grade stand- ards have been made for -cher- ries, peaches and pears. They relate to cleanliness and permiss- ible damage at time of sale. They also lower the box" count for peaches to prevent inclusion of under-size fruit in graded con- tainers. Cherries meeting the re- quirements of Canada No. 2 grade may now be marked Can- ada Domestic when packed in any of the standard containers. • * Other changes included re- wording 'some sections because of a recent re-organization of the agriculture department and several additions to the' sched- ule that sets out the dimensions and capacities for standard pack- ages for fruits and vegetables. The regulations come under the Fruit, Vegetables and Honey Act, which is administered by the. Fruit and Vegetable Divi- sion of the Canada Department of Agriculture. * 4, * A devastating disease of poul- try known a; Chronic Respira- tory Disease (CRD), is consider- ed the most important respira- tory disease of chickens and tur- keys in Canada. CRD is believed to be caused by the pleuropneumonia-like or- ganism (PPLO), and according to Dr. S. E. Magevood and Dr. G. L. Bannister of the Health of Animals Division, Canada De- partment of Agriculture, the clinical disease is commonly ag- gravated by secondary bacterial invaders. tion should be given to ventila- tion, possible crowding, sanita- tion and nutrition. With broiler and production flocks, oral medication with anti- biotics may be helpful only by improving the appetite. Anti- biotic medication of flocks of average value may often be un- economical, but good nursing will minimuize the fianancial loss. Valuable breeding flocks may be given more prolonged anti- biotic medication and antibiotic injection might be considered. Obvious symptoms of the dis- ease are: nasal discharge, con- junctivitis, respiratory rales, "snicking" sounds and coughing, followed by loss of appetite, loss of weight, and in laying birds, lowered egg production. * • 4. To reduce insects, and mites that persists in crevices, empty farm granaries should be cleaned and sprayed before new grain is stored, advises E. A. R. Liscombe, Winnipeg Research Station, Can- ada Department of Agriculture. * • 4. Granary walls and floor should be swept thoroughly before spray is applied, and the sweep- ings buried or burned, he warns. Waste grain around the exterior of the building should be treated similarly. Insecticides recommended in- elude one per cent lindane, three per cent malathion and five ,per cent methoxyclor. Any one of these may be applied with a garden sprayer at one gallon per thousand square feet, or to the point of run-off. * All interior surfaces of gran- aries should be treated and grain should not be stored in them. for seven days after application, Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking .4.V119 /I I 16 6 3 A 117 3 A I V 3 a 3 Cr a 3 3 A 7. N a V n. a 0 d 3 8 A V J. 3 a 8 V 9 M J. 1 3 a a a 9 9 3 3 I N a a 3 VIV 3 3 d N Ef a HIA 5 5 3 n M V V I O O W 1 V Two Of Everything — Even Mortgages ! There has been a good deal of talk lately about our lack of national purpose and the need for putting an end to what has been rather lyrically described as our driet and indecision. If they mean me or the fellow down the street, they have a point. But if they mean Ameri- can business, they couldn't be more wrong. If there's one thing American business doesn't lack it is purpose. If there's another thing it is totally innocent of it is the merest hint of drift ox' indecision. I know. And I've got the bills to prove it, As far as I am concerned, American business has charted a clear course with the express purpose of providing me with an abundance of things I didn't know I could not do without " until their gray-flanneled min- ions opened my wife's eyes to the virtually primitive life I have been forcing her to lead. It began with the two-pant suit. The c 1O thing industry pointed out that with a two- pant suit I would always have at least one pair of neatly pressed pants. And thOy were right. My trouble is with the one jacket. The spare trousers look neat all right, but the jack- et tends to take on a slept-in look unless I wear the baggy) impressed other pair N pants. Actually, this bothers my Wife more that it does the. What does bother me is the latest arid most disturbing phase of this two-in-one national-pur- pose drive. It comes from the Douglas Fir Plywood Associa- tion. They think I should have two houses. And, I presume, two matching mortgages. It's bad enough hav- ing one house with no cleeet tooth fot My two-pant suit. Ima- gine having two houses with twice as little closet room. The two-house gambit Was, I RARE TWINS — Charrneuse, a six-year-old mare in Hanson, trance, surprises the animal experts and proudly shows off her twin foals. Twins are an extreme rarity in the horse world. Many men have acquired an education just by reading small print. Nessie The Monster Back In The Swim All agree that she is about 40 feet long with a long nec10 that swivels from side to side, a bar- rel chest, humps on her back, four flippers and a tail, Some claim that she has nostrils on. top of her head like the blow- hole of a whale. Ever since a local circus of- fered. $90,000 for the capture or Nessie dead or alive, diving en- thusiasts have been combing Loch Ness in search of her. But recent plans to track Nes- sie in teams with Bren guns and even bombs have brought pro- tests from the Scottish Tourist Board and the Society for the Prevention of ,Cruelty to Ani- mals: Nessie has one serious cham- pion in Dr. Maurice Burton, de- puty keeper of zoology at the British Museum, He believes that Nessie may well be a sur- vivor of the pre-historic plesio- saur, a water-living reptile thought to be extinct. Although, the age of reptiles ended 70 million years ago, Bur- ton thinks that the geographic and climatic conditions of Loch- Ness might be such as to pre- serve the 'plesiosaur. By TOM A. CULLEN Newspaper Enterprise Assn. London—Nessie, the Loch Ness monster, has reared her fascinat- ing head again while American tourists are flocking to Scotland. The monster with the six-foot neck and headlamp eyes has been turning up regularly ever since she was first discovered 27 years ago. Usually her appear- ances coincide with what is known here as the "silly season," when newspapers are short of copy and the Scots are short of American dollars. But this time she has been filmed. Those who have seen this re- tnarkable film made by Timothy Dineciale, a 36-year-old aeronau- tical engineer, say something funny was going on in the depths of Loch Ness while Dinsdale held the camera to his eye. The "thine' on celluloid first appears as a triangular hump above the water not unlike a submarine snorkel. It is motion- lees, with no head or neck vis- ible.. Suddenly ripples appear and it begins to move, faster than the motorboat which chased it. Dins- dale, who first saw it with bin- oculars at 1,300 yards, says that it was reddish-brown in color with darker splotches. Dindsale, a former Royal Air Force pilot, discounts the usual theories that the phenomenon was a shoal of eels or a midget submarine. "It was definitely a living animal, and it was be- tween 40 and 50 feet long," he says. Dinsdale admits that he read up on Loch Ness lore before stalking Nessie with his tele- scope movie camera, and that he had made a drawing of the monster from eye-witness ac- counts. Certainly, he seems to have known just where and when to rendezvous with Nessie. John Rankin, a Labor Member of Parliament front Glasgow, earlier this year predicted that Nessie would soon be surfacing again, and that this tithe she might be accompanied by others. Nessie was first sighted in 1933, and since then over 2,000 people, many of them sober, claim to have teen hcr, • BEARING UP — Ivan Kudryavt- sev doesn't seem to mind this, sort of thing as a performer with a Russian troupe appear- ,ing in Wembley, England. Ivan found the bear as a cub and trained him, A Wolf: A guy who knoWs all the. ankles. 17, Enchants 28, Period of light 31, Open hostility 32. Improves , .upon 34. Is worthy of 35. Public carrier 57. Cravat 33, Apple drink 40. half (prefix) 41, ifntrance 42, Russian rivet 42, Three-spot 13eam 45. Compass point 40. Large tank 3, Method 9, Acute virus disease 10. Of its 11. Meeting of neighbors 17. Hog 19, Sherf open Spout 22. Huge 23. thutnry nssittant 24. Caesura 25, 'Witty to uric e U. Central male that'adter CROSSWORD PUZZLE * * * A CRD control program should aim at the establishment of PPLO-free flocks, as the rearing of PPLO-free chicks is depend- ent on the parent flock being free of the bacteria. The organism is transmitted through the egg to the chick. 'If=flocks are known to be in- fected, the transmission cycle Can sometimes be broken by antibiotic injection, although this method has not been uniformly Successful, The use of PPLO-free flocks is the Most reliable method of securing disease-free chicks Ltd it is a very exacting proced- ure, * When laboratory diagnosis has confirmed the presence of PPLO as the principal agent in an outbreak of respiratory dis- ease, the 'Meese of Action to tot-, low shOttld depend on the poten- tial value of the flock. improvement hi environment is always essential, Also,• eaten- airrfa as 3, Scraped linen 4. Things of moment 6. Berry used in satices 6. Had obligations 7. Oriental lute Acuoss 1. 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