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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1962-06-28, Page 7NDM SCI1001 SON By Rev. B. Barclay Warren B.D. Christian Family Living Exodus 0:12; Mark 7.'; 943; John 19; 25.27, end the ether, mated at random, has low egg production, How, ever, the high,produelng baS a much lower percentage of eggs with blood spots in them than the low-procittch4 4train, Further proof comes .from a study of seasonal production, When egg production is high, (in the fall), the percentage of eggs containing blood spots is low, In March, when egg pro- duction is low the percentage of eggs with blood spots is high, Memory 8orIpturevlionor• thy father ' and thy ;01301,01! that thy days may be long upon the 404 Which the ..X4ord'thy God giveth thee, Most of the world's problems stem from failure in the home, Talk with those in reform schools and prisons and you will fin d that in most cases, their home life was far from ideal. Ask the school principal about the prob- lem children in the school. In most Instances the child's misbe- haviour indicates a disturbance in his emotional pattern related to some disquietude at home. We say, 'in most instances', for there are occasions when the perverted ways of the individual persist in spite of a good home, This commandment, like all others, is taught best by example. Precepts are not enough. Par- ents who do not honor their aged parents need not expect their children to honor them, We must do as we would be done by, Jesus unveiled the hypocrisy of his day by pointing out 'how many made void the, command- ment by pronouncing something as Corban as a substitute for caring for their parents. The pro- nouncement was really a vow and anything pronounced as Core ban really belonged to the tem- ple. However, if a son wished to be free from the lawful obli- gation of supporting his parents all he had to do was to pronounce "Corban" over his possessions and his obligation ceased al- though he remained free to use his possessions for his own, pur- poses. It was an illustration of how they made the Word af, God of none effect through their tra- e dition. Jesus added this signifi- cant statement, "And many such like things, do ye," One of the' last things which Jesus did as He hung upon the cross, was to provide for the care of His mother. He gave her into the care of the disciple He loved most, John. How beautiful it was of Him. Let us, follow His ex- ample by keeping this great com- mandment. Country Carpeted With. Wild Flowers some forty-odd miles below Puertccitos the road turnA ebrein - tly and starts up through a long sandy wash toward a level plain at the edge of the granite count, try, This is a lejlei steady pull, the soil is fertile •bUt dry mid sandy, and Yet; egcept for the fact that it is an uphill grade on a senelY Pell, the road is fairly goody,.., Here the country was literally carpeted with wild flowers, The season of ,p5p-low, was one' of the wettest winters Baja California has ever known-and we were destined to feel the im- pact of the weather, Down at Scammon's Lagoon, where we were headed there is a normal annual rainfall of about one-half of an inch, Now there had been seven inches in the last two months-with more to come, Only we didn't know it, So we crept up the sandy road carpeted with wild flowers until we came to the granite country. It is impossible to describe this granite country in words and it is exceedingly difficult to get photographs which tell the story of this vast expanse of weather, worn granite, lying silent in the sunlight; a country of mountains, deep canyons, native palm trees, elephant and cirio trees, - The cirio tree looks like a huge parsnip when it grows up straight. It has a cone-shaped trunk with branches that normal- ly are only a few inches in length and are covered with green leaves. However, the cirio tree does all sorts of , weird things. At times it blossoms out into a star at the top, At times this star turns into half a dozen CHILDREN'S GIFT -Ambika, a 3,000-pound Indian ele- phant, gives a keeper a leg up at the Notional Zoological Park of the• Smithsonian Institution. The elephant was a gift from the children of India to America. begun. He could hear the pump handle, or a cat reeling to get in, the slam of the woodbox cover on the iron oatmeal pot. It was time to get up, and his bed was warm and the kitchen was warm - but between was a dismal, below . zero unpleasant. ness. should be remembered that boys didn't wear the kind of clothes then that they do now, I was in high school before I lied long trousers, We wore knee- length boys' pants with long rib. bed black stockings, and we had a kind of waist affair that held our pants up until we got big enough to have suspenders, In winter we had high-cut leather boots, and if we were lucky got some felt boots, and rubbers, Felt boots and rubbers were the warmest footwear ever made, and the coldest was a pair of leather boots that had cooled all night in a bedroom. So, we had a way to gee out of bed and be inside most Of our clothes before we hit the floor, We had to, or they'd find us congealed in mid-air, A few adjustments could be made on the way to the kitchen so we'd get to the stove fully dressed, None of the old homes had any kind of insulation. Nor did we have anything like a nice shower to start us off right. Mother would dip some hot water from the reservoir on the stove, and we'd do what ablu- tions were essential right in the kitchen sink, A bath was a troublesome thing because in winter this was done next the stove, so the water wouldn't freeze while you were in it, and this required certain family ar- rangements. Somebody had to go to bed first. There was no effort made all winter to heat anything but the kitchen. The rest of the house was just as cold as outdoors, and possibly colder. The family there- fore lived in the kitchen, and we moved from it into our bed- rooms without knowing how un- derprivileged we were, or that America was moving so swiftly toward automatic h e a t. It's amusing to think that a hot brick did all that modern energy en- gineers accomplish today, A hot brick and a great deal of forti- tude and shivering. It's fun to sit in a nice front room, oil. burner purring down cellar, and see how -far we've come in my time. it wasn't had,, .but it wasn't so good, either. - By John Gould. • in the Christian Science Monitor.- TI1E FARM. FRONT . dok;, sylo a, Skeleton Coast. Like, the White Lady of Brand Berg, this fantastic plant is a na- tional pride: they are both depic- ted on South `West Africa's postal stamps. - From "Kalahari," by Jens Bjerre. Translated from the Danish by Estrid Bannister, - A Tree That Grows Downward! On our 'last d,ay inthis region we drove around the Brand. Berg, and in the Tamib Desert on the south side of the moun- tain we encountered a botanical phenomenon which would cor- respond in zoology to meeting a surviving example of those pre- historic giant lizards, the Dino- saurs, It was the plant oiled Weltwitschla Mirebilis, one of the strangest in the whole world, which gives the impression of a tree that has gone underground, It grows downwards! Its root, which looks like the trunk of a tree, can penetrate as deep as twenty metres into the ground, and it appears to draw its nour- ishment from water channels deep under the desert. By going underground, moreover, it pro- tects itself from sandstorms and the intense heat, It is without doubt the longest- lived plant in the world. The sub- terranean tree trunk can grow up to a metre in diameter, and the plant sometimes goes as long as twenty years between each flowering. It is considered to be the last stage of development of a primitive plant which, for some reason or other, happens to have survived in this part of the world and nowhere else. The part of the plant which grows above ground has a grotes- que look. It has- 'two permanent leaves, two to three metres long when full) grown, It never- gets new leaves, but its original ones break up into strips as time goes on, long. tentacles of parched bark which give the plant its popular name of "desert octopus," The plant appears to draw some moisture from the mists which sometimes drift across the desert from the. Atlantic, hun- dreds of kilometres away, for it is never found further inland than the range of this coastal mist. weltwitsehia is called after an Austrian botanist who die- covered' it less than a hundred years ago. It was then hailed as the 'greatest botanical find of the century, and has been totally protected ever since; the punish- ment for destroying it being a fine of £500 or two years impri- sonment. It is found nowhere in the whole world except in the Namib Desert and in an area fur- ther north in the partially .ex- plored Icaokoveld behind the milk intake from the nutrition- ist's point of view, and a school milk program ;that could reach such children would be benefi- cial, From, the industry's point of view the milk program could foster the milk habit 'in the' fu- ture adult, and it could actually increase total sales of milk in an area. Such an increase, how- ever, .would be a negligible fac- tor in diversion of fluid milk from the manufacture of other dairy products because of the small volume involved. * * Days When Only The Kitchen Was Warm They- tell a story about the iga fellow who was standing in his inghtshirt In the cold light Oe a Maine Winter's dawn, Split- ting a little wood at the chop- ping block, .and somebody asked him what in the world he was doing, He Said he always had dressed in a warm room, and be wasn't going to change this habit just because he'd forgotten to fill the woodbox the night be- fore, I suppose the great Progress of America can be measured by the number of warm rooms pee, pie have nowadays to dress in, and the leisurely way they dress, A youngster brought up in the days, of firewood could dress in seconds, including hat and mit- tens. The big old house my great- grandfather built had eight flues in the chimney,end it stood 15 feet square in the cellar and five feet square at the roof, Two of the flues were for the kitchen - the family hearth and the brick oven, The other six were for the parlor and bedrooms. The kitchen fireplace had been fit- ted to a range long before my time, and the flue bricked, to take a tin stovepipe. There were no dempers, and since a fire in any of the -fire- places simply roared up the chimney nobody was ever op- •timistic enough to build one in hopes Of heat. The flues then were merely efficient ventilators to keep the rooms nice and cool. When great grandmother got old and kept to her room they did. keep a fire going for her, But it gave more of suggestion than warmth, and more company than comfort. She would pull her shawl close • around her knit spenser, hitch a rocker up close, and presume that because a fire was burning she felt the heat. And, for those days and those conditions she was doing as well as anybody could. Other than that, our hearths were cold and the rooms were, cold, Incidentally, old time Main- ers always pronounced it "hurth." Anyway, when bedtime came the only warmth we had in our rooms was that we generated ourselves, and a "comforter" was better than .a blaze, This was a quilt or puff, and if you had enough you could sleep warm. We didn't haVe the fancy bedwarmers on a stick, but we had flatirons, soapstones, hot bricks and rocke maple sticks. A piece of stove; wood kept in the kitchen oven after supper was as good as any- thing to snuggle down with, and if it got too hot yeti could wrap it in a piece of flannel. The cord bed would sag under a boy in the feathertick, and with comfertere piled on top he could set up quite a fine situation for himself. His teeth would 'chatter and he would shiver for a, while, but when he got' warm it was congenial in there and morning was a sad interruption. However brightly the morning sun shone on the frosted' panes 'there was little cheer in it. Dis- tant and almost inaudible noises came to him from. the kitchen, proving that another day, had Most of us can't stand people who. are Intolerant. CROSSWORD PUZZLE BACK SEAT PILOT - Pretty Gina Drazin, displays the VIPS (V o i c e Interruption priority System), v, will be used to , , warn B-58 bomber pilots of trouble on board. The Nor- ,, fronics secretary's- voice will, • -replace the- flashing lights, ;buzzers •and bells which, for-' ,merly gave warning. Should, :fcir,instance, landing gear fail, Gina's--voice on tape will auto- matically ,alert the pilot, who will sit up and take notice at the unusual sound. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 2. Vegetable I. Singing voice 4. Curve 5. Signifies S. The kayo T. Ship's station (flout.) S. A.ddition to a letter 5. Askew 35. island In the 10. Antic (colloq.) Dutch 11. Let it stand W. Indies 38. Born 10. Very black 39. Soapstone 17. Time unit 41, Comment 33. Windmill 41. Serve the sail purpose 24. Alternative 44. Perch 35. Watering is. Linden tree place 47. Toward 27. Eccentria 48. Equal piece 11. Calif. rockfisit U. Immerse 52. First garden 30. Pristine 55. Late (comb. 31. Fortune form) 33. Word of 56. Yellow bugle consent 5 8. Article British Oaks Are On The Way Out The majestic oak, supposedly symbolic of the. British character,. is giving um the struggle at last. The noble trees which once sheltered and concealed Robin' Hood in Sherwood,. Forest soon be replaced with American oaks, the British Forestry Com- mission states. "The English oak needs shel- tered and• secluded spots. with plenty of Water. Mining and in- dustry are among the reasons why well-watered ground is hard to find," says an official. Apparently the American oak will •flourish in, poor, sandy soil. 'It groWs to a greater height ,and much• more quickly than the-Eng- lish variety. " On the subject of oaks, people in a little town in Madison, New Jersey, are sentimental about' a huge and ; ancient oak tree which grows in the centre of a busy" main road there. They have sworn to defend the tree• by force if the authorities attempt' to cut it down. The old tree has been there for at least 250 years', but today it, causes, obstruction to traffic. "We' will arrange for 'guards ta camp under the tree day and night if theie's any threat to the oak's 'existence," they vowed. ' IMMO COH MOOk MOW OM DEM MEWEEMDE ECU 190 EWEEWB MOM MOO BEMUMWM MEMO 00M RIO MOO MWMUM NOWOONU VOM BUM mwouun op MEM fflUE UMOMEEEEM MOD MO MEE 000M OM DITIE0 C ., I 2. a 4 '. ••S 4, 7 ..• •.• 8 9 , 10 ii IL 11 ;84. 14 t5 lb 17 X 18 19 20 21 22 :::•:::•,•:' ... '.. .o . 21 2 • Z 30 . .•••.',"v.'..yol.':' 0 31 ::''';$:: 32. 24, 27 ,,6„**'19 ...Z'O" ..v 37 • 9 i ..?..!: • 0 4t 42 .<.>:,`:..N:,•:?.:. 4 47 48 '"' N.,44 P. *.;.5(;) 51 52. 53 - :•.•:. •:•:...: 54 ,. SS 56 . 57 5.8 ::x59: .:,` (!o, 61 - li2 VC% (.3 ACROSS 1.01d Fr. verse form 5. Flatfish J. Cushions 12. Bring up 13. Night before 14. Cut lengthWise 15. Greed* 18. Poem 19. Firmament 211. Exclamation 31. Beverage container 23, Whistle blast 35. Turn to the loft 23. Disdained 29: Answer 53. Broad open vessel 34. Thus (tat.) 23. Caviar 37. Spike of flowers 45, Wise men 48. Auricle 45. Comeniqtnent in a building 48. Gum tree 49. Near 'BO. Before 53. Compass point 34, Imagined 87. Willow genus 32. Overwhelm ing amount-, • 00. Wind Indicator 01. Foraaken It Also W'oDOWN l ntind Other factors come into consi- deration of any such program: Whatkind of diStribution system to use and when' to 'issue milk; size of container;- competition from other beverages; use' of flavoured,: .milk; price charged and income of 'the area serv,ed: fn View-of Canada's mounting milk productiOn and the 'diffi- culty in marketing some dairy products the report , will 'be studied with Interest. 'by ,.the. dairy industry Entitled' "School Milk in Canada," 'if is. being made available',tO .interested Per- sons by the' Economics; DiVislen of the CDA in Ottawa:'• * * * Blood spots in eggs are a here- 'ditary trait claims poultry gene-, ticist, J. H. Strain •after tests at, the' Canada Department of Agriculture's; experimental farm at Brandon. Higkproducing strains do not necessarily lay more eggs con-, taming blood spots thansdO low- producing strains'. Therefore, ley' carefully selecting the breeding stock, eggs production may be in- creased at the same time a's the percentage, Of eggs containing blood spots +is decreased; * • * Proof that there Is no relation ship beteeeen high egg produc- tion and the occurrence of blood spots wee, bbtained by experi- ments with two strains of White Leghorn obtained from a single strain in 1950, One' strain was selected for high .egg production , 44 4 4 L Weapons tt;-..14. No sanitary precaution contri- butes more to a low bacteria count in' milk teen does keeping • the milking machine clean. Milk -residues in the fine cracks .of the rubberware, espee„, dally in the teat cup liners, pro- mote the 'growth of billions Of c t e r i a. Sinte rubberware cracks as it deteriorates, it is ad= visable to replace the liners af- ter about 750 milkings - that is 50 milkings of a herd of 15 cows. • It is more •econemical td have two, sets of liners in use than one. If each set• is used one week and then- rested one' week in a five per cent' lye solution, it will last • ' .half as long 'again as a set in constant 'use. * * There• are several pointers to keeping the milker clean: ' - Just before use, sucka pail- ful of -recommended ':sanitizing (germ-killer) solution through 'each. unit; use this solution . to treat cans, strainers,. etc., and them' wash the`cows:. ueldets; - Right after milking, euck a pailful' 'of clean, cold water through each'.unit; - Brush- the liners in a hot solution, of reliable dairy .clean- er, 'and .ehen 'fill .them, 'with 'lye solution (two 'teaspoonfuls' per gallon 'of soft Water); , =Brush • the pail 'and pail- head in het cleaning solution, rinse them in clean . water and invert' them 'on a metal rack, to drain and dry. * * * Further details are given in Supplement to Publication 627, eHow to -Care for „Milking Ma- chines and litibbeevearee' as copy of which can be obtained, from the 'Information DiVision, 'Cana- da Department' of Agriculture, Ottawa, * * 4, Eve n if Canada were to'carry out an extensive subsidized school milk 'program, the. 'result Would hot substantially reduce the amount. of milk going into ',:the.'ManufactUre of dairy" pro- 'ducts but. it would help- some under-nourished children. A long-term policy of i4Vel- orritTint aided by large grahts has brought school milk , con,. sumption, in the United States up to fOUr per cent of IOW fluid sales for the tountry. .School milk programs don't just happeh - they requite' hi- telligent and enthusiastic leedet, ship, say the expects. In, 'Wind., aor, Ont., the one'city' of font' surveyed Where dairies heed long been active in preidothig milk teevice to schools, the pate tielpatioh rate of 30 per detit ,end the consumption rate Of 'ounces per child enrolled, pear to be' the highest. in ,Cee tiedit Scheel programs: may be beneficial td both the dairy ihe dttetty and to ehildrete say the economists. It Is evident,.; that hinny Canadian school children have inadequate diet§ and low Answer elsewhere on; ;this page , 1,.,...,.1i, • long branches growing straight lip like a huge Roman candle. At times the cirio puts out limbs that twist and turn, and at times the whole tree itself for no. known reason will bend ,until it is like' some- huge, ;grotesque ele-. phaht's trunk. The elephant tree is a stubby tree with light-colered bark, re- minding One somewhat of an ele,- phant's •skin, and regardless of , the height it, attains, it alWays leaves the impression of stubby strength. It seems to get close to the groUnd So' ea- to' brace `itself. Thcarld region in,which it, grows has Most of its water, in the.form of brief, torrential showers, fOl- lowed' by drought...:The . bark is pale and wrinkled, the trunk Is swollen and stubby, Yet the : Over-all effect is one df tugged strength and •great beauty, "Up in the granite country winds laden' with deifting sand from the lower levels have car- ved the huge granite'boulders neat the' eurernit into gedtesque shapes; sometimes creating wind. Caves in thenl, sometimes making holes ana l Larches• completely through the'rocks. Lower down in the 'wind-protected •areile the , granite has weathered out until 'there are tinier when it seems genie giant hand has baked a leaf of, grehite bread, Weighing seer- eral thousand tons, dud ',theft has elided it into five or six piece's., Pont "Hunting the Desert Whalen Peesonal Adventures in • Baja California," by Erie Stan_ Itey' Gardner. CELEBRATIONS . „ Civil *et centennial telebta- tideie ate flopping. It.eeettie the American public t got tired Of l'eveting. lit the' slaughter of their great-grandiathers• sootier' than the Proilioters t hough t they' *Old, trio Wichita, (Ken:) title issUl libd • 'WITH WiNGS?7----It is' not -sortie revolutionary variation of the helicopter, The, plane wings lashed td the sides, pre part bf ef 'Wreckage being' hauled but Of the desolated nidUntaiii area at-I-taut:Creek Basin, in Wyorniria. FOR 'THE PRESENT, RELAXED ,== indorietian troop: relax, of 6itikarta during prepar& fiaht. for a rri!lifory review: They, could be Involved In WM-kite If Indonesia should move on Netherlanch-held Dutch Kew Guinea, which Indonesia cicilirs as her own territory.