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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1962-04-05, Page 3UNDAY SC11001 LESSON Why Horses Wore No ,Bells: 141 Summer ReY, Wareen, ILA., B,D. ACTUAL IGLOO - Ice fishermen on the Great Lakes use a variety of shelters including Wooden, plastic or canvas shanties, but the sight of an igloo created quite a sensation. 41 4 The Cross Cal4 Titus 20-3:8. As we approach Good FridaY, all Christendom pauses to thank- ! fully acknowledge Christ's death for us, Christians are divided in many things such as forma or church government, ritual, ete. But when we approach the gross, there is an amazing unity, Hero is an outstanding fact of history which stands as a watershed in history, We recognize this when we write on our letters, 1902:. The purpose of the cross is clear. "God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself," A man was asked, "When were you saved'" Be replied, `‘lareaaly two thousand years ago but I just found it out eighteen years ago," The provision for our sal- vation was made by Christ in his death for, us. But this provision does not avail for us until we turn from our wicked ways and. trust in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour. Our memory selection speaks of our crucifixion with Christ. Here it is: "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, Who loved me, and gave himself for me." Gala- tians 2:20. We are not literally crucified on a cross of wood, but in a very real way we are identified with Christ in his death. The word fot "I" in the expression, "yet not I," is, in the Greek, pro- nounced "ego." In order that we may share in the benefits of Christ's death, the "ego" or bis "I" is crossed out. Now we live by the faith of the Son of Go& The theme is then, in the word's of the poet: ."Let the beauty of Jesus be seed in me; All His wondrous compassion and purity. 0, Thou Spirit, divine, all my nature refine. Let the beauty of Jesus be seen in me." little'girl said to a visitor in the- `hospital, "Are you Jesusrt He replied, "No, but I am trying to represent Him." "Oh," she. said, "I thought you looked like Him." 4 4 4 vince the Sherpas that Yetis are not real, live, rugged creatures, native to the heights of southern Asia," lie said, 'but after long experience and a careful study of the Matter, I'm certain there is no such creature," Sir Edmund told of many hours spent with the natives of northern India and Nepal, list- ening to wild tales about the supposed supernatural abilities of the Yeti, how one can follow fresh tracks for hours, then, just as a face-to-face meeting is im- minent - the mysterious "sncw- men" will disappear, writes Her- bert B, Nichols in the Christian Science Monitor, That's the way the natives tell it, and they have tried to back up their ,stories with all sorts, of supposed Yeti oddments - "in- cluding some pretty grisly but obviously human remains," he said, "I do believe the tracks everyone has been following, in. eluding myself, are those of the Himalayan blue bear," Perhaps as 'challenging as any phase of Sir Edmund's work in the Himalayas, thus far devoted mainly to 'climbing and associat- ed physiological and mapping activities, is his plan to help the children of the Nepalese Sherpas learn to read and write. That is the prineipal objective of his current ;lecture tour in the United 'States, sponsored by World Book Encyclopedia. "When you don't have the funds to work with on a project of thia sort it means going to work first to gain the wherewithal," he, said Sir Edmund is here "until the end of the year" to give a long series of lectures, He hopes to do quite a bit of camping with Lady Louise and the children between talks. "We plan to really rough it a bit," he said, "no posh motels - sleeping bags and camp fare for everybody." Next year Sir Edmund plans another Himalayan expedition, this time to the summit of Ta- weche in Nepal, a peak still un- climbed. TAE FARM FRONT' J06:. , 71141 - - - , Can commercial cucumber growing in Canada' be expand- ed? • In an:-attempt to- produce a cucumber plant which will bear heavily, yet adapt readily to this country's sharp weather changes, the Ontario Agricultural Col- lege at Guelph, Ontario, has be- gun _experiments to cross a high- ly productive female cucumber plant from Michigan. State Uni- versity with an Ontario male plant derived from hardy stand- ard 'varieties. log tends to become loyal to thiS superstition in the future, in fact, -the.% would involuntarily hump up if. chance Caned. him to wank Under the Arch of TO* uniph, So much for the Way leg- ena start, Team bells and sleigh bells were pot the same thing. Team bells,'Avere, cast, had. some brass in them, and had, pitcli, They attached. to the hame straps the collar and swung with the movement of the horse, You would have an alto and a tenet' on a team, so to' speak, and by the sound of your bells the coma, r tryside would know who you were, Bess. Means didn't sound like Hod Marston. Across frozen snow on a sub-zero morning the team bells were as brave a sound as ever smote the human ear, and the one thing they did' not do 'was jingle, • Sleigh bells jingled, They were not made from hell metal, but were, pressed into little balls with a cross-mark cut in the top. Inside_ there was a free- moving shaker, like a pea in a whistle. Whole dozens of these would be riveted by the harness maker to .1 the bellyband or breasthand. Sometimes there was a bell-strap, like a surcingle, that you simply fastened to the summer harness when whiter caMe. , The little bobbits' would shake' and fret as the horse trotted, and it was a• sound com- pletely -different from the clear- cut ringing of team bells. A 'cow bell, incidentally, was still another thing. Cow bells were made from sheet metal, shaped and riveted and hung with a fairly heavy clapper. Cow bells didn't ring at all, but had a gong note, flat and unres- onant. Here in Maine there Was certainly no legendary meaning to the cow bell - our old pas- tures were juniper and ledge and tall growth, and a, cow was ex- pected to go find her grazing as best she could. If you didn't have a bell on her you'd never find her come night. We, had sheep bells, .too, Now, there was another kind' of bell, about like a sheep bell, which attached under.each shaft, fill or thin,' of the sleigh or piing. It had team bell quality, but•was smaller, and tended to tingle rather than swing. Instead of swinging from a strap, they were. „ rigid .to the wood, and rang: when the clapper, swung.,:This:a. kind of bell was never attached;, to buggies, wagons and carts only to things with runners, la cannot believe this suggests that only runners were .intended 'in 'Zech. 14:20, or. that Maine peo- ple-had no need of exorcising. evil spirits in the summertime. I am sure if the legendary rea- sons were valid, somebody would have rung a bell now and' then in July, which has always been our month of very poor sledding. - By John Gould in the Christian Science Monitor. I KNEE DEEP - Workman used a hand truck to keep a pal dry when the streets of the famed Fulton Fish Market flooded after some unusually high tides in New York City. Comes ,Dow an interestingat iet^ ter anal contentien frOm•Brewn- lee Hayden of California, 'who chides me tot; putting. bellS on •horses "'es a Warning device„Y lie says the origin is Biblical (Zech, 1420), and that the lore a and legend of harness trappings is too impressive for such dalliance.r Be says I should be more care- ful, and I shall, a. Yet I find myself wonJeling why our old Yankee forebears were so all-fired pious all Winter with their jingling compliance with Scriptural instructions, and quit as soon as the snow left to spend a pagan summer in horsey silence, We never had bells on the teams unless there was snow on the ground, and I understand there has been no heavy sledding in Jerusalem since they logged off Lebanon. The rugged old Maine teamsters may have had the only seasonal religion on rec- ord. These things are always fun. With all due respect to the over- whelming evidence, I think most of the teamsters would have ex- plained the bells as a warning. • The hand ‘caf„ little employment bath the daintier sense, and ,a teamster was, never without, plenty to do. He was an earthy, usually uncouth (how do you be "couth?") and work-a-day" fel- low whose exposure to cultural ponderings was 'small, And I think his superstitions developed with. Ms full knowledge of their reasons. Well, he had a superstition that you didn't talk while eating. All timberland meals are prop- . erly held in silence. This sort of thing could, after many years, be• construed into a pretty folk custom and given mystical sig- nificance. But he knew that talk leads to discussions, discussions to arguments, arguments to fights, and you don't fight in a dining room, He would tell you it's bad luck to leave a half-sawn log on the sawmill carriage over- night. This, too, could become a superstition and some day en- tered in the records. But behind the "bad luck" was plain old sense - sawmill carriages are delicately balanced, r u n on - tracks ,that can sag, and the inert etra: weight for a period of time t oulda w7•-throw the whole mill askew So, • it was "bad luck," and let •ft, at that. He would' tell yon--it'd - bad luck not to duck your head when you go in the dingle. A kind of obeisance to propitiate something or other. The dingle is a back shed sort of place off the kitchen or bunk camp. So you bow upon enter- ing, But if you pressed the old teamster for details, he'd tell you that dingles usually sit low In the eaves after a few feet of snow has beca trod down, and If you don't haul• your head down to a passing mark you'll likely get it shoved into your' shoulder blades by the momentum of your arrival. •A fellow who has run his toque into a two-foot dingle BOBBY'S G000,-.AND HOW HE KNOWS IT: In victory or defeat, Brooklyn's Bobby Fischer, the precocious prince of international chess, has never doubted his potential to be the best player in the world. least month, as he turned 19 and won the prestigious interzonal tourna- ment in 'Stockholm without los- ing a match, Fischer finally be- gan to catch up with his poten- tial. His next big event is the can- didates' tournament in Curacao this spring, the winner to meet Russia's Mikhail Botvinflik next year for the world championship. "I am going to be the world champion," insists challenger Fischer. "There is no one alive I can't beat." Q. Is it proper for a family tt follow its usual custom of speak. ing a blessing before the meal when there 'are guests at the meal? A. There is no question of "propriety" here. Devotion to one's religious principles is al ways in perfect order. LUMINOUS EARS Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking Fashions at St. Tropez change faster than they do in New York. Probably • because it's about the hardest place in the world to• be noticed. So, to relieve the mon- otony of the bare expanse be- tween her bikini's bra and briefs, the ahead-of-the-trend girl will have the heads of wild animals drawn in charcoal on her midriff by the resort's most popular art- ists, a Paris correspondent writes. And to ensure attention in a dimly-lit ballroom, a cosmetician there suggested that ear lobes be daubed with a luminous, glitter-dusted paint. 3. Append 29. 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Hebrew Month 07. Smbotit 38. Divide Into shares 41. Put on 42. Oriental Wks $ 45. Part of kite 46. Work together 48. Gem 49. Employ' 50. Formerly 51. Cautious 12. Flower plot 53. Old oath A Visitor From Mount Everest At an impromptu dinner in Washington in his honor recently Sir Edmund Hillary, tall, craggy New Zealand explorer-conquer- or of Mt. Everest's snow-covered summit laid claim to yet an- other world record. "I'm probably the most trav- elled tourist-class air passenger to be photographed exiting from first-class passenger cabins at the request of the airlines." Late afternoon had arrived and the Hillarys' Washington host and hostess, Dr. and Mrs. Edward C. Sweeney, were still not sure their guests of honor would arrive. The reception com mittee for Sir Edmund and Lady Louise at the Washington air- port included New Zealand's air attaché, Wing Commander John R. Claydon and his family, (Claydon was pilot and com- manding officer on Hillary's Antarctic flight when plans were being laid for the United King- dom's spectacular trans-Antarc- tic trek by Sir Vivian Fuchs and party from the Weddell Sea through the South Pole Station to the Ross Sea,) The flash-bulb barrage follow- ed by the front-line advance of reporters took too long a time for the three Hillary youngsters, Peter 7, Sarah 5 and Belinda 3, but they stood by like old troop- t), ers. "At least they didn't hand me a skull and all ask questions at once in three or four different languages," said Sir Edmund later, remembering a previous occasion when photographic props were at a premium and someone came up with some- thing supposed to be "approp- riate" to the return of Hillary and his party from a hunt in the Himalayas for the "Abominable Snowman," "You'll never be able to con- 4 try tn start an entirely new way of life. The old boast in song of "pick a bale 'a day" is puny before the relentless march of machin- ery across cotton fields. The me- chanical cotton picker can har- vest many bales a day, Nimble fingers and a strong back no longer count. * Machinery has been a boon to growers, even while it has forced the field hands from the farms. It is a trend that is not con- fined, but is a region-wide prob- lem, although more intense in certain areas. From east Texas to the Atlantic Ocean farms have felt its force. Abandoned farm homes stand in mute testimony to this change. It is a change that began before World War II, but which has picked, up speed since the war. The cutback in labor force has amounted to about 3 per cent, according to official figures. The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta comments in its monthly review that "because future adjustments in the farm labor force will in= fluence southern economic growth, this .pattern of change is of great significance." 4, * Because they have only their labor to sell, while the land- lords provide ,the land, capital, and management, the southern tenants have been close to the bottom of the agricultural in- come scale. They have little credit to use in borrowing money for expanding or going into busi- ness on their own. These and other disadvantages have driven tenants from farms into •other work at a rapid rate since the end of World War II. While this has been , apaprent in .all of the South, it is most pronounced in northern Ala- bama, northern Georgia, and the northern tiers of counties in Florida. * * * ' Farm tenancy has waned least in the sugar cane belt of Louisi- ana, Negro farm families, usually engaged as sharecroppers or' renters, are fewer than ever in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississip- pi. Some of the tenant families have tried to make a go of it on small farms. But their lack of skill, education, and capital and their background of being supervised rather than making management decisions put a big handicap before them. * The more female flowers a cucumber vine, produces, the more fruit it yields. Hybrid seed developed in the United States from a Michigan allafemale plant ha s shown double, normal yields in experi- mental plantings during the last two years at the College in Guelph. It will be distributed to 40' Ontario growers this :sPring:- by the Matthews-Wells ,CeaLId, - to try Out in half acre, plots AlOng!a with their usual craps. Prof. T. 0 Graham, of the Horticultural Department at O.A.C. has high hopes for the new' Michigan hybrid, which' he helped to develop. But he would like to see an even hardier var- iety produced. He has developed a male plant from standard strains, accustomed to the On- tario climate, which he will use with the hybrid's all female par- ent, originated by Dr. C. E.`Pe- terson of Michigan State Uni- versity, in an effort to develop as productive a vine as the new hybrid but with even 'sturdier qualities for growers in colder areas. * * Experiments in sex-changing cucumbers have been going on at 0.A.C, under Prof, Graham's direction for several years, Only -the ,female blossoms of a cucum- ber vine bear cucumbers. The others, which on standard vines outnumber females four or five to one, are non-productive melee. The' new hybrid bears fruit at every' node. The Michigan hybrid vine, more eompact than normal plants, requires half the acreage yet doubles the early yield of the small gherkin-size cucum- bers which bring the highest commercial price, Prof, Graham geld. Because the Vine does not expend its strength on non-pro- ductive flowers, the fruit devel- ape More evenly, Standard vines are usually picked every' second day to remove the fruit 'While it Is small. Btit the more evenly developing hybrid cucumbers need picking only each third day, * The hybrid showed better re- aults in the Ontario plantings than in areas farther south. This has encouraged the college to continue its cucumber expeti- Merits. Canadian encumber fields are on the northern fringe of the best etictutibeia,prodtteing geo- graphic belt. In the United States, cucumbers are 'the top ptotessed = vegetable: crop. In Canada, they rank third to tio,, tatoes arid tomatoes. Yet Cana, dian pickle packers could use larger cucumber crops if grow- era stepped up their-production, *44 * Petit Mecharaatiert IS driving thetteatide of Workers and 'huh- cite& of laniiliea from their homes' in the southern United States. Field hands nook to tOwit, lodking for jobs: Whole families, uprooted ftoM farina Of small acreage Which 'had been their hothea for generations, abandon their Oates and go into town to Answer elsewhere on this. page LOST HIS HEAD - The SnOW didn't prevent David Gravet . „, ... f of Ilford, England; from seeing the humorous side of d bleak , day With •his head completely hidden by scarf and coat, he tarried NA srioWiticirt heed" under his arm ,while Wditiild at the :St, 15.6.11'S bus StaP, Causing rnuny a trnile, .18Stiit 14 - 1961 'SUSPENDED ADMIRATION Member, of the Getman Gyninattie team look Ott dg Staff Sgt Richard Gradley does one of hit toeclal gynntiastie stUrits in Aldetthot,. England. Tough Work - Pulling A Bear's Tooth Veterinary stirgeohe at the Tarorige park Zoo, in Sydney, Australia, have been having prac- tical experience of a bear With a sore head. The bear, Koko by name, conies from Northern Alaska and Weighs three-quarters of a ton, Some time ago Koko developed toothache, and, as his views about dentists Word similar to most people's, Only Mere fOrteftil, the bear's Sore head was a major preblein, Enough tranquillizers to knock out fifteen men hod AO effect Oft Koko and four bottles of chloro- form 'Only dazed him slightly. 2ventttally, by using More anaesthetics, fourteen Men man- aged to quieten him enough for :one veterinary surgeon to give. :hint' a knock-out injection lit a vein While a teatil Of others moved the aching tooth, They used a power drill, 0 hatititier and a chisel let the job.