HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1961-06-08, Page 5parrots which we Saw in largo
numbers were Interesting and en-
gaging creatures. FT01)) our liv-
lag-room I could watch them
daily when they came to feed on
the nuts of the tall Mauritia
palm across the road, clambering
round the tree with the aid of
their powerful beaks, and peeling
the palm-nuts quickly and clean'
ty, SO. that a steady rattle of fall-
ing huaks was to be heard under
the tree when the birds. were at
work. If they were .disturbed
they would suddenly take off in
a screeching fig*, • wheeling
round and round in flight and
• filling the Air with their ear-split- •
ting , •very day at the
same time they would come to
feed in the palm trees of Mack-
,enzie gardens; and every eve-
ning, at just about .0:45, with a •
regularity that one could set the
clock by, they would leave their
feeding haunts and fly back, two
by • two, to the surrounding
woods. - From "Run Softly, De-
merara," by Zahra Freeth.
'Lost Ring Found
After 51 Years.
Nearly fifty-one years ago-a
year after her marriage a
pretty young housewife living in
Ohio, lost her wedding ring
which was inscribed: "Married,
June 25th, 1909, George to Jen-
nie," She thought she would
never see it again.
Jennie is Mrs. Jennie Garner,
who lives to-day in New York
and is a widow. The ring has
just been found by a young cou-
ple who bought the Ohio home
where the Garners lived fifty
years ago,
It turned -up while workmen
were excavating to instal a new
front doorway to the house. The
new owners gave the ring to the
local fire chief in the hope that
he would be able to find the
owner.
The fire chief knew a nephew
of the Garners and mentioned
the ring to him. And the nephew
remembered that as a lad he had
often searched for the ring at the
house. So Mrs. Garner is wear-
ing her beloved ring once again.
Wedding rings are easily lost
but it's amazing how often they
are returned to their owners.
A young married woman did
not want to tell her husband
when she lost her wedding ring •
on their vegetable farm in East
Anglia. So she bought another
just like it.
Twenty-five years later her
husband learned her secret.
While at work on the farm he
found the first ring with an on-
ion growing through it. Not long
ago a girl was sorting through a
tray of cheap glo v e s. She
tried on a left glove and as she
drew her hand out there on her
third finger was a shining wed-
ding ring. The young woman
who had lost it was traced.
UNDAYSCHOOl
LESSON
v, it. J5, Warren, BA., MD.
SOX COO IN TQInit
Ecclesiastes 12;14;
Timothy 4:74
Memory Selection: li Have fought
a good fight, 1 have finished my
course, I have kept the faith, 'A
Timothy 4;7.
Perhaps the best known verse
iz the book of F.celesiastes
"Remember now thy Creator in
the days of thy youth," The
realistic, though rather gloomy,
picture of old age that follows,
supports the exhortation.
I was one of the great number
of youth who thought that reli-
gion was a good thing to have
before dying but a kill-joy in
youth. I, therefore, decided that
when I got to be about forty.
years of age and 'had had my
good time, I would settle down
and get religion and be all set
for heaven when death should
come along. I would thus get the
best in this life and the best in
the life to come.
Such thinking is foolish. Who
knows that he will, live to be
forty? "Boast not thyself of to-
morrow," Further, how many
people of forty, who have left_
God out of their lives thus far,
are able to hear God's call to
them? If they hear, how man,y
are prepared to break with all.
their sins and sinful associations
and fully repent and believe on
Jesus Christ? Not many. I am
most thankful that through God's
mercy and grace, I heard and
heeded His call when. I was fif-
teen years of age. I've had a,
really good time, and no hang-
over, I have sought and found
God's guidance in choosing
vocation, choosing a wife and for
many other important decisiont.
Paul, as he neared the end of
his life, looked back with satis-
faction and forward with joy.
Though now an aged man, while
the outward man was perishing,
the inward man was being re-
newed from day to day. There
was no despondency here. We
can all have this experience if
we turn to Jesus Christ now and
give Him our all, We can't re-
call the years. The decision of
today only affects the future.
However, through repentance
and faith in Jesus Christ, the
past is forgiven. You can't loss
in turning to Christ. His love,
His peace, His joy, far surpass
anything and everything that the
pleasures ,of sin can afford.
Prove it for yourself.
Dictators do change with the
times - today they use tele-
vision to ,reach their captive
audiences.
it is charged• that this state of
affairs threatens that hallowed
agricultural institution, "t h
family farm."
The recent survey •appears 'to
scotch. most of the assertions
lewst as far as•the immediate fu-
ture is concerned. In 55 rural
municipalities within an east-
west strip about 50 miles north
of the border, 521 United States
farmers 'own 2 per cent of the
total grazing and farming land.
,The land involved -is contained
in 1,443 quarter sections of land
- 230,880 acres - a relatively
small tract in the vast wheat-
lands that stretch for miles
across the southern part of Sas-
katchewan.
About 72 per,cent of the acre-
age was purchased. by Ameri-
cans prior to 1957, an indication
that land, buying has not in-
creased to any extent in recent
years' 'while the United States
soil bank plan has been in op-
eration. The survey brings out
,that 67 per cent of the Ameri-
cans' holdings has been rented
back to 'Canadian farmers. The
highest proportion of land own-
ed by United States interests in
any one municipality is • 9 per
cent. * 0 *
American corporations, accord-
ing to .the' survey, are' not a
major factor in .the purchases,
only nine incorporated bodies
being involved, and only two of
them owning more than seven
quarter sections each. Most of
the remainder are organizations
representing institutions t h a t
provide assistance. to the aged or
incapacitated.
• Much of the land was bought
for $25 to $39 an acre, a lower-
than-average price for cultiva-
ted land, a point that appears to
negate arguments about inflated
prices being paid.
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Aside from the statistics pre
sented in the survey, what about
the individuals involved?
Typical is a young American
who operates a "family farm" in
Westby, Mont. He and his two
cousins own between. them 12,-
800 acres in Saskatchewan. In a
newspaper interview, the Amer-
ican said he began buying land
in the province in 1952, his latest
purchase being about 110 miles
north of the border where he
plans to build headquarters,
e
Many Canadian farms are
waiting for buyers, he contends,
but nobody else wants them. He
gets letters with offers. Canadi-
an farmers advertise land for
sale on 'United States television
stations and in newspapers. He
says ha pays hit share of income
tax and other special 'farm
levies, even though he is not
.eligible to collect on, the latter.
No soil bank money was in-
volved in his transactions.
A stationary job at least en-
ables one to buy many gadgets
that are portable,
From our Western. Provinces,
especially Saskatchewan, there
have come' rumors of a new sort
of "land grab". It was said that
United States farmers, paid by
their Government to let their
farms lie idle, were coming north
of the border and growing large
tonnages of wheat, thus adding
to the ever-increasing and trou-
blesome surplus of that grain.'
In a recent• issue of the Chris-
tian Science Monitor, Charles, E.
Bell comments as fellows on the
situation.
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A survey of, this wheat-grow-
ing province's international bor-
der communities has disclosed
that the so-called "American
farm invasion" is not currently
of serious proportions.
Results of the recent study,
made by the provincial govern-
ment across a 55-mile strip of
southern Saskatchewan, should
soothe those who have been, as-
serting' that large-scale Ameri-
can farmers are buying up Sas-
katchewan farm land with money
they receive under the United
States' soil bank plan "for not
growing wheat" in their own
country.
And it also shows that if any
"land grab" does develop, it will
be 'due to Canadian • faimers
themselves s e e k i a g American
buyers.
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The survey was recommended
by the Saskatchewan Farmers
Union, a farm group that claims
substantial membership in the
province. At district meetings
about a year ago, charges were
heard that 'United States farmers
were flocking north to purchase
farmland at inflated prices, op-
erating the units from their
home farms south of the border.
It was alleged that large tracts
were bought by United States
corporate interests.
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In the House of Commons, a
member of Parliament from one
of the border constituencies ask-
ed the federal government to
investigate the situation, assert-
ing that it was another example
of American economic penetra-
tion into Canada.
The argument goes that. Amer-
ican absentee farm owners con-
tribute little to community life.
They truck their own machinery
across the border - permitted
under customs regulations-and
take it back to the home farm
in the fall, buying only fuel and
repairs, plus minimum house-
hold necessities, in the nearest
Saskatchewan town.
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Because the :fame is vacant
most of the year, it is asserted
that there are fewer candidates
available for school boards arid
other public obligations. Thus
community institutions suffer, ft
is said that American operators
are not se bject to Canadian in-
"Cork tax laws, Because they
offer inflated prices for land, it
is difficult for young. Canadian
far1110T8 to expand 10 these days
When farm units must be lorgoi-
td be ecariornically operated. And
Rural Wells, And
Highway f.ngin.opr4
gvory time our Maine LegISla!.
tere convenes they consider a
flock of '"claims" by .,upset .citi-
zens over damage to wells. The
subject merits a dissertation. All
over Maine, it seems, are farm
wells whose value has beenede-
preciated by the activities Of our
state highway department, and
overtures by the citizens invel.V.
ed to this dictatorial administra-
tion fail to produce. satisfaction.
Rather than, go fly a kite, . as
suggested, the owner of the
damaged well hunts .up a Mem-
ber of the Legislature, and a
bill is introduced to compensate.
There are 'varioue reasons
given for the damage claimed,
Some wells are disturbed by
nearby blasting; the intricacies
of underground flowage are up-
set by • shock, and a well that
flowed :freely will dry up. Some-
times the application of salt to
winter roods, used to melt ice
and snow, will feed brine into
the ground and a sweet well
will lose its flee ,;-, Or gain one,
Sometimes gradieg ehangee con-
. tours, so surface water backs up,
or stands deep enough to flood
the area. And sometimes in lay-
MA put new routes engineers will
*imply run over a well, leaving
174 homestead as before, but
atered.
4leere need be no doubt that
sleh high-handedness causes in-
Convenience, sadness, and much
expense, A water supply is
vital, and is not an ordinary as-
set that can be judged by ordin-
ary terms of possession. You can
move a henhouse and you can
get alone withOut a strip of land,
But you don't find water under
every sod, and e well is not a
possession eminent domain
should lightly construe,
Maine has excellent under-
ground water, Poland Water, for
instance., which is sold the world.
over, comes from a farm well in
the Maine town of that name. It
brings 'fancy prices where water
is dear, but hundreds of Maine
farms have wells that suit them
without having a similar pen-
chant for merchandising, The
geography and geology of the
state contrive to make us rich in
good water, In the back country,
when you get away from indies-
trial . and municipal troubles,.
even the lakes, ponds, and open
streams are safe and palatabke,
Yet a home well or spring,
around which the has
erected its being, is always in a
special place. It is because that's
where it is.
The lore of "witching" always
ran deep in Maine, and before a
farm home was established there
would be much running around
with a forked stick. There would
be much consideration of what
the "rod" indicated. When the
precise spot was found, it bore
on the eventual location of the
house and barn. Up would go a
log • tripod with a pulley, and
down would go the hole - the.
dirt being brought up tediouSly
in buckets. When water was
reached, often below the vacuum
limits of an atmospheric pump,
it was hopefully • tasted .and its
flowage measured. Then came
the big rocks, which were lower-
ed to (`stone up" the well, and
the generations were secure in
the most important asset of all,
In our time, such old family
wells have been fitted with
pipes and pumps. We use a spiieg
which gushes richly from our
side hill, and operate our' own
water system. Too many people
today, I think, get their water
too easily from a tap, and for-
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
LADY ASTRONAUT - Women may be better spatesiiip drivers than Mere At least, that's one
result researchers have ;found after et year Of irnagindry space flights at the Martin Co.
Girl a bove is conducting a shnuitifed r•eqidetvout With another vehicle in (Outer space (cirtle
Oti street* The studies are part of Project ApOild, which alMed at sending drew of threat
fa the nitian, They Indicate That women adapt to space 4ryinQ Mare quickly thort Men.
VICE PRESIDENT 'IN PAKISTAN - Vice President Lyndon John-
son shakes hands with' a camel driver in Karachi, Pakistan,
while the driver's charge towers over the scene. The touring
official invited,. the driver to come to the United States.
THE FARM FRONT
JokA
get or never Iceleve hew rural
wells and springs supple the
rest Of us.
In this flomidation•hesele„ the
arguments pro. and eon have
. never considered in the slightest
• that 1 and many like me are tax-
payers, that we would be re-
quired to finance the "treatment"
for village people. Nobody has •
ever proposed to come up here
and spend money to fluoridate.
my water system, Understand me
- I don't want them to, but I
inention this to .show how coun-
try people with their own water
systems are generally counted
cut, The urban attitude permits
the highway engineers to take.
such liberties. with rural water
supplies. The "public interest"
has •decided'' that roads are more
important than water,
Obviously, the definitions have.
collapsed, You don't "pay for" a
well, It is a piece of • property
above and beyond the computa-
tions that prevail, You can't pull
a well up and move it fifty feet
away, as you can a stone wall or
a mailbox, The truth is that .while
a well may run freely, the ground
10 feet away is dry, or if it
runs as well the water may be
very different, Indeed, snch
things have been strongly in-
corporated into our moral fiber,
and even the wiideet savages
have dealt harshly with mis-
creants who fouled springs, -Even
when pondering the hdeteet of
modern war, we shudder. 'when
CD directives warn us against
contaminated water supplies. Yet
we .live in a .day when a state
agency may clump salt in our
well and refuse to be responsible!
These claim bills get 'varying
treatment, of course, The legis-
lators listen to the parties al-
though naturally the highway
position is expounded as -ex
parte as is the grievance. That a
citizen may, now and then, be
trying to milk a cow that doesn't
belong to him is possible. But it
does seem as if the constant de-
mend on legislative time to per-
use and ,consider the perennial
rural complaint about of traged
wells must stem from a basic
fault in our` public procedure. If
nothing more, there must be in-
difference to the importance' of
the well. There must be an
-advance-man attitude which
comes along with construction in
mind, and, looks at a well, and
says, "Hmmm - it's not im-
portant, it's just a well . ."
Would. any of you, care for a
nice, cold, glass of pure, sparkl-.
ing• well water? By John Gould
in the Christian. Science, Monitor,
COLLECTOR'S ITEMS - Colorful
new stamps will herald the new
Republic of South Africa, form-
erly the Union of South Africa.
Eleven of 13 'stamps show birds
and animals. From top, above,
are shown 'the shrike, secretary
bird and Natal kingfisher.
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24. Foreign lost (epilog.)
43. Drops lightly 29. Windmill Ball
26. Strong tastes on water
28. Pearly 44, C. Amer. tree
29. Pronoun 46, Chess piece
82. Branch of 47, Calls
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Man's Reach Should
Exceed His Grasp !
If there was one man in the
world who was a natural to head
such an expedition, that Man was
Sir Edmund Hillary. Tall, gaunt,
and toothy, Sir Edmund had con--
quered Mount Everest in 1953
and five years later, trudged
across 700: miles of Antarctic ice
pack to the South Pole, Now he
was to head a nineteen-man ex-
pedition to the top of the Hima-
laya's Mount Makalu, 27,824 feet.
By last fall a 22-foot-long pre-
fabricated. hut was set up at 19,-
200 feet. There the expedition
leaders huddled around a kero-
sene stove, testing their blood
changee and taking aptitude tests
to determine how rarefied ' air
affected their IQ's. With spring,
the .final test would be made -
an 8,600-foot assault to the top
of Makalu without oxygen masks.
Last month, that assault was
launched - but Sir Edmund was
not in the lead. At the age of
41, he had suffered a "cerebral
spasm," which brought partial
speech paralysis for 48 hours.
Mote recently he was reported
"resting in the sunshine" at a
Nepal village in the foothills,
There, the Sherpas, saddened at
the illness of the great blond gi-
ant who had first climbed Ever-
est with their own Tensing Nor-
kay, had'set their prayer wheels
spinning, Every night a hundred
yak-butter candles were burned
in'prayer for his recovery,
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84, Substance
87. Follow
40. Trimming
42, Blunder
41. Scheme
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.Parson bird
48. Encourage 40. Girl's name
61, Promise to
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Birds and Flowers
In Tropic Guiana
After our arrival in Mackenzie
it took a little time before we
found opportunities to go out and
explore the bush trails, but the
wealth of tropical flowers and
birds in the gardens of Mackenzie
, were, sufficient to occupy our at-
tention for a while without our
going further afield. To us new-
comers, the most striking fact
about our garden was that the
fashionable foliage plants which
we had recently seen on sale in
expensive London florists were
growing with the luxuriance of
weeds all around the house: cala-
dium and coleus, sansevieria and
tradescantia, These plants which
had acquired an inflated snob-
value in Europe here grew in
their rightful place and were in
fact scorned by local gardeners,
who would spend endless time
coaxing reluctant European flow-
ers to grow...
Of the• birds which commonly
frequented the village the kiska-
dee must be given first place on
the list. This was the bird whose
cheerful raucous cry was one of
the first sounds we had heard on
our arrival in Georgetown. Con-
spicuously handsome, ubiquitous,
vociferously gay and quarrel-
some by turns, the kiskadee for-
ceshimself on the attention of the
leait bird-conscious observer....
In 'the cool 'of the morning
'there was always. a hummingbird
feeding at 'the hibiscus beneath
our living-room windows. It
would hang suspended in space
for .a fleeting moment before
each flower, its wings a vibrant
blur which made a soft purring
sound as it moved swiftly from
one bloom to the next. . . "A
creature strayed from paradise"
Rodway called it, and it has in-
deed a beauty which is scarcely
of this world, a speed of move-
ment faster than the eye can
follow, a lightness in the air
which makes it seem a creature
not of flesh and blood, and when
the sun strikes green and bronze
lights from its mouse-brown
feathers it seems to glow with an
inner radiance.
I saw a hummingbird's nest
once; it had no eggs in it, but the
nest itself was a beautiful thing.
Built in the fork of a twig, it was
woven of silken vegetable fibres,
the floes from some kapoklike
seed.,,"
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pats on the back can help a man
propel himself forward?'
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Sequence 'pletUres froth his prowl car of the White. 'Station
wagon which' has lust igrtored a "left turn •onty". Photot
'ken, the German-indde edeteded Witt, Teeiffiteeix, wilt
be used as evidence' When the driver dopeart iii Coterie tSStIE i661