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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-09-08, Page 3HEAR UNITED NATIONS DEBATE — The wives of six U.S. Air Force men shot down by the ,soviets over the Barents Sea stand near the United Nations building in New York. They were attending Security Council debate on the incident. BIEFARM FRONT Job' ftev, it"eri Isuigh Denounces Soeini and Rereotial Evils _Isaiah 5:11-24. AlssMerY Selection; The Lerd et bests Shall be exalted in judg- ment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified hi riglifeoneneeS. Isaiah 0:16. In TJ.S.A, aacoholism is the 4th most prevalent disease, being ex- ceeded only by heart disease, cancer and mental illness. The Yale Center of Alcoholic Studies states that there are about 5 million alcoholics, According to the National Institute of Mental Health, alcoholism is the third highest cause of admission to mental institutions. Many thous- ands of these alcoholics were di- agnosed as having permanent brain damage from alcohol, The picture for Canada is not slants fieantly different. No one is immune to heart dis- ease, cancer or mental illness. But the abstainer will certainly never become an alcoholic, Many social drinkers who boasted of their ability to 'take it or leave it', have, under stresses common to life, become alcoholics, Of course the beautifully coloured advertisements never suggest the numberless tragedies that befall so many that partake: the high- way accidents, broken homes, ruined careers, various diseases, etc. Apparently there were alco- holics is Isaiah's day, Isaiah says, "Woe unto them that rise up early in-'the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them! —Woe unto then that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink." Wine was in their feasts and they regarded not the work of the Lord. The distinction between evil and good became blurred. Our lesson, written by Isaiah over 2700 years ago, is a very fitting description of con- ditions as they exist in Canada today. Recently a young man phoned me at 4 a.m. He had been drink- ing and wanted to stop it. His home was gone. He had spent p month in a clinic and learned much about the disease of alco- holism but when he met the old gang again he returned to drink. We talked together and prayed. He confessed his sin and believed in Jesus Christ. He looks differ- ent and acts different. He is praising the Lord for deliver- ance. We are praying that he may continue the rest of his life in the faith of Jesus Christ. Thus he will have a happy and use- ful life. Jesus Christ can save alcoholics and all who will come to Him. Most times a man g e t s to thinking he's a big shot, some- body fires him ! Precious plants may be safely left while you are away on holi- day. Water each plant well, then slip a polythene bag and tie the Lop around the stem. This keeps moisture in the soil. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking WAY SO001 LESSON AM.7 ONal el0 .7 C 5 .9 /A O /7 7 7 O O 7 A // O O 9 d A 9 N O U A O 9 /7 a 2/ N O d. N X d .1 J Ir /7 9 O O N 0 9 N O O 9 N O O Ir 3", N IV li m n kW re /7 9 If 0 I es, 9 N e/ 0 O 7 mai Answel elsewhere er n this page FASCIA4 VISITS WASI*401'6N Downfown Washington, D.C.. bears a resemblance to pre* World War 11 Berlin al George Liirictiln ReckWt Il !rtes to revive the glisest o6 fates-SM. Rockwell, head of the "American Nazi P‘arty,4 and hitwastakaelaede-ded companions were baUlet1 away by polio.• A .Cold Stri ke That :Never Was! Through the hsoneteade and orchards of British Columbia the magic whisper spread, "A fellers struck it rich in Scotty's Creek " Gold! Femmes sold thou* farms; workers threw down their tools. Responsibilities, families, homes were forgotten, The yel- low god beckoned and nothing else mattered.' Within a few clays the gold rush was in full spate Scotty's Creek was invaded. Some of the prospectors were ordinary hard- working citizens, others privets- turers and gamblers, They came on horse, in waggons and on foot. some clutching pathetic bun- dies which contained their total worldly wealth, Some old some young, and all fired with the same consuming ambition — to get rich quickly. They pegged out their claims on every available piece of land. Then the prospectors settled down to work — and hope and pray, But despite the sensational news which had swept British Columbia, not one grain of yel- low dust rewarded their labours. Except in one spot. 'An old fellow named Rowlands, whose discovery had been responsible for starting the gold-rush, still seemed to be doing very nicely. He had several Indians and Chi- nese on his pay'-roll, and every time the stage-coach left Scotty's Creek for Ashcroft, a small town some twenty miles away, it car- ried some of Rowland's dust, The othef prospectors scratch- ed their heads, It seemed dis- tinctly impossible that the only gold in. Scotty's Creek could be confined within the limits of Rowland's own claim. Yet the evidence- was there, plain and undeniable. Rowlands was lucky, that was all, they decided. But eventually two, more ob- servant than the rest, noticed a peculiar thing. Never did Row- land's hired hands find that gold which he so regularly dispatched On the stagecoach. Always he dug it himself, usually when his men were having a meal. After talking it over, Johnny Wilson and Doc English, the two prospectors, decided something -fishy yas afoot. But what was Rowland's game? After all, there seemed no point in a man pre- tending to have discovered gold if he hadn't. And anyway, where did all that dust of his come from? But once their suspicions were aroused Johnny and Doc couldn't ignore the matter. They watched Rowlands and his men carefully, held endless discussions, but still they made no progress. And all -the while' Rowlands was sending gold on that coach. Then Johnny — or it may have been Doc — recalled an incident which had occurred a few months earlier. A man named Bill Parker was driving an overland stage-coach. Under his seat was a box con- taining two gold bars worth about a thousand dollars each, and gold-dust to the value of thirteen thousand, He was taking this small fortune to the Ash- croft Bank. All went well until he reached the bottom of Bridge Creek. Hill, about fifty-five miles from his destination. There he was hailed by a man, and Bill reined in his horses, He would welcome com- pany for the journey. But his cheery welcome died on his lips. He gave a vicious -curse. The man held a gun point- ed unwaveringly at Parker's heart. Bill hesitated for a mo- ment, then put his hands up. The hold-up man nodded ap- provingly, He was elderly, Par- '20. C 12ecl ,. bridle 51. Stray from 50. Sealed with 44. Of bodily 40. Await 41. Mdceasitt, 42. Set of tools' , 12. Vapor 43. Hawaiian 28. Part of a 34. Geat.wheel 85, Male L. 15 36. Struggle for 87, Presently 20. Hindrance or 14, Consisting 18, indefinite 24. Scouting 25. Numerous 20. Parsonb 21. Young goat 31. Ekpert In la* 10. Surface layer 21. Skillfully 13. Ostrichlike 20, High rocky 15.. DispOsesSing 4, Fastener 7, Bright star , judgment 1. After the tall!' functioning clay cement honey cater tooth kruperiority difficulty artiele , in Virgo grotto manner of of people of earth 1.111 bird ACROSS 52, Tuber 53. Correct 54. Female Hirt 55, Evergreen 2. Negligent 1. Viper 5, Mischievous t, Span of yearp 4. Iderthian tree laborer child DOWN kor noticed, with, lee-cold eyes, "Now," he ordered, with a threatening stab of the gun, "chuck down that .box -- then heat it t" Sullenly, Parker heaved at the heavy box and threw it on the ground, Thee, raging with anger, he drove away furiously. Thet was the episode which Johnny Wilson and- DOC tiloglieh recalled. They remembered some, thing else too, something equally • significant. 'I' li e .. stage coach driver had been able to give only a sketchy account of the hold-up, man's appearance, • All that he had noticed of importance was that his eyes were es cold as ice and that he was elderly. And Rowlands, that most un- cannily lucky of prospectors, was an old man, too, It was good' enough for Wilson end English, They were certain that Row- lands was the bandit, and that to avoid his sudden wealth arousing suspicion he was using this pe- culiar method to dispose of the stolen gold, But what could they do? Al- though convinced that they had solved the mystery they had no proof — and to take action on such uncertain grounds was dif- ficult, Eventually they took the only step possible. They went to the police; and to their relief the police agreed with their theory. They wasted . no time, Row- lands was arrested end put on trial. He strongly protested his innocence, and the evidence was thin. Nevertheless. it was considered strong enough to . convict Row- lands. He was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment, He didn't serve anything like that period, TwO years or so later he escaped, and was never traced Neither was the gold he was al- leged to have stolen, apart from the dust he had sent to the bank. Many years later the box which, had held the gold was found in a ravine. Scotty's Creek? No more dust was discovered there after Row-. lands' arrest. It seemed obvious, therefore, that he had perpetrat- ed an extraordinary hoax, A QUEEN — Not ve y Siamese- appearing is Queen Sirikit. She weans a mink stole to visit Westminster Abbey in London. 6, Tended the Ill, Sp. title sick 31. Situation 7. Food fish 32. Transgress 8, Place 31. man's 9. Not g enuine nickname 10. Law of a It. Manservant church 17. Fruit 11. Showing 38. Early Hebrew resentment prophet IS. Shaft of light 09 --de Janeiro 17, Electric 40, 11.aro paste particle 92, Scott1S11 11, Simian privateer 22, Soar 43, Mythical 23, White blood monster corpuscle 46. Jan, colt, 24. Aecamaushea 4t. Potential 20, Russia n metal community 47 Clash itt i 27, Small barrel 48, P tint in lt anis 28. Purchase 49..larieptuderier About Lumumba From The Congo The passenger arriving at Idlewild airport one evening last month looked more like a. beatnik student hurrying off for a midnight poetry reading than a Prime Minister urgently hound for the United Nations. Blinking through thielseleneed glasses, Patrice Emerge. Lune, umba, first African Premier of the Congo, seemed bothered and slightly bewildered, His nervous expressive hands kept fingering his wispy goatee, pulling at hie bow tie. Then U.N. Cadillacs took his party to a pastel suite in New York's Barclay Hotel where he breakfasted hurriedly on bananas and grapes before taking off in a rush — and an- other Cadillac — for the Ghana- ien Embassy, "Me garcon formidable," his traveling companioes said of him — a phrase the Belgians are also using now. For Lumumba, whose very name sounds like muted drools in the rain forest, is a driving, kinetic leader, a persuasive orator, and a fana- tic Congolese patriot w h o means by hook or crook to build and lead a unified Congolese state. He lacks administrative judgment; he tends to feel that every detail requires his per- sonal attention. Lumumba also makes snap decisions and seeks snap solutions (as witness his recent frantic outpouring of messages to the U.S., the U.N,, the Soviet. Union). But if Lumumba is impatient and inexperienced, the fault is by no means all his. Lumumba was not trained for leadership — and neither was any other Congolese. Born into the Ntentela tribe in the Central Congo on July 2, 1925, Lumumba sometimes sug- gests that his father was a chief by donning a feathered sheep- skin cap, a chieftain's traditional headdress. In school he went as far as the Belgians would let him go: Through high school. Then, at 19, he went to work in a post office where for twelve years he sorted letters and studied French law by mail. An introspective yOuth who never smoked and took only an occasional swig of local home- brewed liquor, Lumumba be- came an expert dancer and a dedicated nationalist. By 1956 he was under arrest for embezzling $2,400 to help his' nationalist cause; Lumumba proudly ad- mitted it and spent a year 'in jail, Released, he became salesman for Polar beer, rolled up a for- tune, made his European ward- robe into one of the best in the Congo. (He likes dark gray or tweed suits, and bow ties.) Si- multaneously, he founded the Congolese National Movement, (MNC). Its goal: Indepedence — at once. As the winds of change howled across Africa, the Belgians ac- cepted the inevitable. Independ- ence was set for June 30. Lum- umba left his shy young wife and three children (a fourth is expected) at home and threw himself into electioneering, By putting together a clear major- ity of 83 seats in the 137-mem- ber legislature, he earned the job of Premier. Some Belgians have called him a Communist, but most ob- servers believe that Lumtimba's goal is to build in the Congo the same kind of strong African nation that President Kwarrie Nkrumah has created in Ghana. As he flew in to the U.S. last month, Lumumba himself had this to say: "I am not a Com- munist. I am deeply attached to the soil of Africa." — From NEWSWEEK. Dorothy Had The Last Word ! "It's about time the ,country forgot the last one — so I guess it's time to make another," ereck- od Bob Hope, confirming a re- port that he and Bing Crosby in= tend to make another "road" film: "The Road to Hong Kong." It will be the first of their foot- loose frolics since "Road to Bali" (1952), and the seventh in a wan- dering saga that began with "The Road to Singapore" (1940), Left in the dust: Dorothy Lamour, 45, sarong-clad siren-heroine of all the previous roadshows. Vintage roadsters Hope (56) and. Crosby (56) want a younger traffic stop- per. In Milevetesee, where she was singing at a supper club, Miss 'Lamour said she still goes swimming in the same size (12) sarong She first wore in "Jungle Princess' (1936) and hemphed: "Another woman? Who else could put up With Trope and Cros- by for six Week's?" Any old stamps and essitinaff lade jars? An attractive pencil hOlder for your desk they be made by gluing foreign stamps to the outside of n china marmalade jar, A coat of shellac Will provide a shiny protective surface, Hull-less seeded pumpkins may become a valuable crop of Canadian gardens and farms, federal agricultural scientists predict, New strains are now being de- veloped at the Morden, Manito- ba, Experimental Farm. Hull-less seeds of pumpkins are tasty and nutritious as a confection and a source of oil for,eceoking. C Seeds of ordinary pumpkins hayA, hard hulls that may be difficult to remove. Seeds of hull-less varieties are ready for use as soon as they are removed from the pumpkins. Oil content of hull-less pump- kin seed may be as high as 43 per cent, For this reason it is known as the "oelkurbis" (oil squash) in Austria, where it has been grown extensively for many years. The seed has serv- ed as a valuable food supple- ment during difficult economic periods and in -times of war. The fleshy part 'of the pumpkins is useful primarily for livestock feed and fertilizer. The Austrian oelkurbis ma- tures late and is unsuitable for growing in short-season areas. * * At Morden, it was crossed with early - ripening, common varieties for developing suit- able hull-less strains. Some of these have compact, busby plants that produce many fruits and many hull-less seeds in each. They are well suited to field production and may be adapted to mechanical, seed-harvesting methods. Seeds of these new strains being developed at Morden are not yet available for general distribution, In the face of increased de- mands for federelly inspected meat and betause of advanced technological changes taking place in the meat industry, the Canada Department of Agricul- ture organized a school for the officers of its meat inspection division. Twenty meat inspection as- sistants from all parts of Ca- nada have just completed an in- tensive six-week training course at Kemptvilte, Ontario, * Senior officials of the Health cf ,Animals Division supervised the course, assisted by profes- sors and associate professors from the Ontario Veterinary College at Guelph, representa- tives of the Food and Drug Di- rectorate, scientists from the federal Research Branch, and research and development per- sonnel 'from industry, It was held at the new I<empt- ville Regional Veterinary La- boratory, operated as an exten- sloe service by the 0,V.C. * * Subjects under study; Bacteriology, anatomy, WW1- 1 o.g se pathology, parasitology, toxicology, poultry diseases, the Canada Meat Inspection Act and its regulations, the act and re- gulations for humane slaughter of food animals, and the Food and Drug Act. Special ittention was given irt ante and post mortem veterin- ary examination of food ani- mals as well as plant sanitation. * The lectures on diseases most commonly encountered in pack- ing plants were supported by use of specimens and the tech- niques of laboratory diagnosis. .The course is designed to as- sure continuance oaf Canada's recognized high level of effi- Edney in meat inspection opera- tions.. It :*;the first to be held in Canada `and its value is yet to be Tully appraised by federal authorities. 4, Shipments of rabies vaccine are being prepared by the Health of Animals Division, Ca- nada Department of Agriculture, for transport by government vessels to the Arctic. About 8,500 dogs are vaccin- ated annually in the Northwest Territories. * * The vaccine is distributed and administered by RCMP officers for use on their own dogs and as many native dogs as can be vaccinated. There is continued evidence that the current outbreak has markedly diminished. During April, May and June this year, 76 cases were report- ed. In the same period last year, there were 235 cases. * * * More skunks are being found rabies infected than in previ- ous seasons. From April 1 to June 30, rabies had been con- firmed in a total of 18 skunks — 15 in Ontario, two in Mani- toba, and one in Quebec. At the same time, the number of rabies infected foxes has de- creased considerably. In the same three months rabies was confirmed in only 14 foxes com- pared with 68 for the corres- ponding period in 1959. ISSUE 34 -- 1960 Big Head Finally Got Holes In It! In Saigon he was known be- hind his back as "Le Salaud" ("bum"), a knife-slinging racke- teer whom the French finally chased out. In Marseilles, where he ran a bistro for pimps and hot-gem thieves, he was known as "Cabudu" ("Big Head"). This reflected the impressive size of his hats. Big Head was born 413 years ago in Corsica and christened Jean-Thomas Giudicelli. But to his home town he was "Mon- sieur le Maire," an honorary- absentee title, reflecting his gen- erosity: He bought a new organ for the church and on every visit passed out 10,000-franc notes to school children. With an income reckoned at $2,000 a day, Big Head lived in a $140,000 villa at Cap d'Antibes where to his millionaire neigh- bours he was known as "the man -in the white Cadillac." To police, however, he was "Corsi- can Johnnie," a gangland chief- tain whom they suspected of everything from throwing acid in the face of a chiseling pros- titute to complicity in the day- light robbery (at machine-gun point) of the B e g u m Khan's $700,000 worth of jewels in 1949. Big Head only laughed. A mil- lionaire among millionaires, he liked to sit on his terrace sip- ping a Scotch and soda and watching the sunset. He was doing just this one evening last month when a gunman crept up behind him and fired four shots into his back, and another into his head — for the coup de grace. Wailing relatives and taut- lipped friends chartered a spe- cial plane to take Big Head back to Corsica for a lavish funeral. Yet police feared this was not the end of the story. There was an evil portent: A cousin was seen dipping his finger into Big Head's still-warm blood and raising it to his lips in the tra- ditional Corsican gesture of ven- geance. The fears were justified. Two days after Big Head's burial, Cap d'Antibes' soft night air was shattered by seven shots heard not far from Big Head's home. Police found no body, only pools of blood on the grass, and concluded that vengeance had been swift and sure, CROSSWORD PUZZLE