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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1962-09-13, Page 3Stronge Tate Of Akiipr,$o Trqdo "so." 1s Said. "I get along tine with Nee! fellows, nee they let me strictly alone. Used to be a time they caused me somi.,trou- ble, pee:lung me and carrying eta whet they thought was j'okcs, but Rime the 19th of ovember in the year 1938 they have walked a straight line and keep their distance. We get elong fine." "The tune seems so precise," said the stranger. "I wonder do you have the hour and the min- ute, too?" "Eyalt, 'Twos ten-eighteen, ex- actly, in the forenoon, A lovely day," "Dray continue," said the stranger. "Well, they ain't much to it," he said. "I was running the store here, trying to do an honest business and putting out full measure and good quality with proper devotion to my public obligations, and these fellows moved in with their garage and filling station husinees, a n d I. guess they had a low opinion of me or something, because it did seem they went out of their way some to be mean." "Like what?"' "Oh, smallish things, but ag- gravating,. They was. hardly worth recollecting, but at the time they used to peeve me, and I did get riled at times I • shouldn't of. and I guess they knew it, Things like that do dis- tract you, and maybe I did show it," "Well, what happened on the 19th of November in 1938 at eighteen minutes after ten?" "I sold 'em a hose Thi5 fellow from up to East Minot comes in that morning with a boss and, 40 says, 'What'll you give me?' said I wouldn't give him noth- ing, You never see such a boss.. lie was swaybacked and hump- TIE FARM FRONT • popuis on woo vi ustir troYed. Birds that picked bugs off the trees were poisoned directly. Ground feeders, especially rob- ins, were poisoned by an indi- rect route. The spray (DDT dissolved in oil or kerosene) is very hard to wash off with water. It remain- ed on the leaves, These eventu ally fell to the ground to be egen by worms, which concen- trated the poison in their hod, ies. Robins that ate the worms were pOISOPe4 in turn. The Wallace-Bernard findings parallel those of ornithologists of the University of Wisconsin, They studied bird populatiens in three treated and three com- parable untreated communities during Dutch elm disease con- trol programs in 1959. Songbirds averaged 410 pairs Per 100 acres in unsprayed QOM" munities, while in treated areas their populations ranged from 31 to 90 per cent. lower, In Par- ticular, there were 50 times as many robins in the unsprayed as in the sprayed regions. House sparrows, on the other hand, seemed to be little affected, * S * Here is another illustration, this time from New Brunswick, Canada, A program to control spruce budwom by spreading half a pound of DDT per acre caused the loss of up to 9 per cent of young salmon In the Mir- amichi River in 1954. Fish and other aquatic ani- mals are especially sensitive to DDT. The Miramichi case is of- ten cited as typical of what may happen when insecticide gets in- to rivers and ponds either direct- ly through runoff or through fallout of dead insects and veg- etation. A third, example can be drawn from experience in England, Seeds and young plants of cer- eal crops can be protected from insect attack by treating seeds with insecticide before planting. This has become a very wide- spread practice in England, writes Robert C. Cowen in the Christian Science Monitor. It has greatly increased crop yields. But large numbers of birds, digging up some of the planted seeds as they do, have been poisoned, Foxes and other animals that eat the stricken birds are said also to have suc- cumbed, Such harmful side effects have been found both for insecticides and for the weed-killing chemi- cals popularly And erroneously thought to be harmful only to plants. Even when immediate ef- fects on wildlife have been mild, the long term reproductive abil- ity of birds and animals often has been impaired. Furthermore, at least one of the chemicals, DDT, seems to be spreading widely throughout the environment in low concentra- tions. In the United States, DDT has been found in rivers far remov- ed from any spraying area. It is coming through on food both to humans and to domestic ani- mals. What is more, only a fraction of the' food supplies can be checked by government inspec- tors to ensure that official lev- els of tolerance are not exceed- ed. To this one might add that chemical c o n t r o l techniques have, at times, been self-defeat- ing, The malaria mosquito was no sooner thought td be wiped out in some areas of the world, than it began to stage a come- back in a DDT-resistant• form, Agricultural pests, house flies, even body lice have similarly SCH001 SON Ily Rev. it. Barclay Warren, BA., 15.1), Faith to. Rebuild itngiai 1:1-8l; Zeeherielt 4:0-10 Memory Scripture: Let us go speedily to pray before the Lordi and to seek the Lord of hosts. zechariah$;21- In last week's lesson we noted the rebuilding or the altar, The people rejoiced. Some wept as they thought of the glories of the temple before. ritteen, years were to pass before any addie tienal work would, be carried out on the temple. The altar remained during this time in the Open, without a building to cover it. The problems were not materials, but morale, Haggai began to prophe$Y. The people were obviously pleading their poverty as an ex- cuse for not rebuilding the house of God. They agreed that it should be rebuilt but were not willing to make the sacrifice to secure its completion. Haggai pointed out the inconsistency of, this position. They had ade- quate money to spend on them- selves, but little to dedicate to God. Today we spend far more on chewing gum than we do on Missions, Haggai said, °Consid- er your ways." When people fail to be good stewards of what .God give% them, they are never satisfied, no matter how much they have, Haggai's statement has a wide application: "He that earneth wages earneth wages to put into a bag with holes," God also caused the heaven to withhold its dew and the earth its fruitful- ness. In the second chapter we see that some of the people were stil feeling badly that this build- ing was inferior to Solomon's temple, Haggai brings the mes- sage of the Lord, "I will fill. this house with glory." This is the most important thing about God's house, Zechariah began to prophesy a little more than a year after Haggai. He joined with Haggai in encouraging the people to complete the work, Hi pro- claimed the word of the Lord to- Zerrubebee "Not by might, nor by 'power, but by my Spirit' The temple was finished in 41/4 years after Haggai had stirred the people to action. Days of fasting became days of rejoicing. Thus two prophets heaped to quicken the people in their spiritual life, so that the temple was finished. eld the rromses, of evolution. pry change .to produee.. varieties. that resist. the poisons meant to .exterminate them, One could go on .and on in this vein -to build e black, and very unfair, case for never using an insecticide or weed killer, again. That would be as shortsighted as an unthinking dependence on these ehernieels now is proving to be. It is the misuse of elterni.,. cal control through human ig- norance or willfulness that is. the danger. In the battle for insect control, men need every weapon they an rind in their arsenal, Chemi- cals properly used are one, such weapon, But biological methods,. including the use of natural ene. =lee of pests, are also powerful aids. (To be continued in 014r. next issue./ lip, all at once, and stringy fro's't long years of tee, poor keep and hard luck, I said I. didn't want, no boss, Itiestwity$ that one, But the fellow said winter was coming on and he didn't have no barn, and no hay either, and all he wanted was for his faithful old beast to get a good home for the winter, and to just make him an offer. He said the amount was beside the point, he was just interested in a token of good fetal, and non- eat intent, I said the hoss warn't worth even a token, "So lw says, 'Well, give me something in trade. My old lady's been wanting a new churn, How about giving me that churn there?' "I did have a few churns to carry over, They cost me eight- fifty and they retailed for fif- teee, so I didn't have much in them. I said, 'Okay, take the hose and you can have a churn' Which we did, He leaves the boss tied to a rail out front, and while I was wondering what to do with him, he puts the churn up on his shoulder and strikes out on foot for East Mtn- ot, and. I suppose it was one of the curiousest trades I've made, man and boy." "There must be more," said the stranger, "Oh, yes, they Is. They most certainly is," he said, "Those fellows across the street at the garage had pulled a couple of mean little things on me that morning, I forget now just what they was but I was put out at them and I admit my mind turn- ed on some unworthy thoughts in their direction, A possibility had crossed my mind, you might say. So I said to Buster Phil- brick that we had just acquired an opportunity, and I thought those fellows had built them- selves up into a let-down, and the melon was getting ripe enough to pick. Busty was a cute little fellow, and he diclnit miss no tricks, so I could see he took hold of this one and was thinking about it, I kept wait- ing on trade, but I had one eye on Busty, .and pretty quick I see him go over to the garage. "What he done, was-he went over to the garage laughing away to himself, and one of the, fellows asked him what was so funny, 'Old Larrabee,' he says, 'He got himself a sticking in a hors trade.' How do you mean?' that beat-up, run-down, limber- legged plug he's got tied to the rail? Well, he got caught good on him. You wouldn't believe the amount of money he's got tied up in that pore old boss. Got caught good on him. Nobody never took such a trimming! You know what?' says Busty. `What you. fellers ought to do is go over and offer him fifty dollars for that hoss, and see him go right• up in the air! He'll be so mad he'll just go to pieces. Hee, bee, bee, hee,' says Busty. "Well, they done just that. I see them coming, and made as if I was surprised when they got here, and I says, 'What can. I do for you?' as if I 'spected them to buy a few things, One of them says, 'Mr. Larrabee,' he says, `I like the 'looks of that noble steed you have by your front portal, and I was wonder- ing if you'd take fifty dollars for him?' "'Why,' I says. 'Yeu insulting whelp, ofering me a paltry fif- ty dollars for that hoss, Do you. know what I got tied up in him?' Then I got cozy, and I says, 'I don't believe you've got fifty dollars!' He says `I sure have,' and he pulls out two twenties and a ten and holds them under my , nose long enough. for me to take them. It was the , 19th of November, 1938, and, I've had no trouble with those fellers sence." - by John Gould in the Christian Sci- ence Monitor, Company, She explains in de- tail the poisonous properties of insecticides and herbicides, and vividly documents the dangers of their misuse. The following few examples illustrate the damaging side ef- fects the new chemicals can have. These typify the cases re- ported by Miss Oarion although they have been gathered from independent sources. The following case was re- ported last June by two zoolo- gists at the 13th International Ornithological Congress. They are Prof, George J. Wallace and Dr. Richard F. Bernard from the University of Michigan. Elias trees on the university's 110-acre campus had been at- tacked by Dutch elm disease, a fungus malady spread by bark beetles. As is done in many other places, tree surgeons tried to controT'the fungus by controlling the beetles. Both bark and leaves of the trees were heavily spray- ed, The zoologists reported that, over several seasons, the bird Upsid-re ,we to Prevent Peeking ElIZBEIBEI Did MOM BIM 01210€112101 MIE101111E1 MEM 'Ejuriain muumuu ciumn IMMO OW 0011 CUODU UNIU NO 1201200 DOUE OUEUUME ©©©ED MWEIO MEE NOUOU OMUODEID LIMB IABOOM EMU ULU EILICIA0 OUM 'VOSTOK' 111PACI 11$111 104 A Az: .... SOVIET SPACEMEN' LAND - Russia's two spacemen were brought safely back to ea rtho in an area south of Karaganda, a town in Kazakhstan, a southern Soviet republic. Kara- ganda (2) is about 373 miles from what is believed to be the main Soviet cosmonaut launching site at Baikonaur (1). ISSUE 35 -- 1962 2886 30. West Indies islands 3i. Letter 33. Mix 34. Cupid 36. Puff up 37. Deputy 39. Level 40. English letter 41. Poor actor Scollogr) 42. Summer drink 43. Sense of hearing 44. Stalin 47. Letter of credit (nh.) • ACROSS 50. 1.1sasalna 51 ' custom 6. Arabian tribal chief 2„ 9. Attitell b3 stitches 4. 12. Anglc,Saken 5, king ts. Urgency 6. AC The President 15. Thinks logically 17. Moved ottiittati21), 13. Ratthid 10. Whirled 21. Part of a Pia)? fr FOOds Made curds om milk 26. Instance. 27. Hinged, MOVabl area lures 28. thee:trio: entreat tab.) 20. From 9 tete at bat 80. IMPtiderit Children 111,01tra•tittniti• 82. Ted and the 33. NaVIgatea 84, COPYcat: 85. Chita teeth 87. Itioorkeetly 88. Prevaricator 53. Cofiteita 40. Nfoliatit 42, Watded off 45, Take food 48, PilaTIM settler 48, EmIltid 48.:Seeteli tirle10 7. That thing CROSSWORD 8. Caretakers 9. Indications 10. Augment 11. Marry 16. Rational PUZZLE Fragrance 18. Fees Rather than 20. Iniedtions (slang) DOWN 21. Reconnoiter Evergreen 22. Reason. One (Scot) 23. Fuels Meat costly 24. Roof edges Stodd out 25. Marks of Skein of yttrn Wounds S-shalmd 27. Havingless curve moisture Mir SALT HARVEST - Specially designed harvesters and con- veyor equipment scoop thousands of tons of salt each day from 430-acre crystallization beds at Dry Creek, Australia, There are no natural salt deposits in the entire continent. During their spring (our fall) sea water is allowed to come into great basins, then moisture is dried out by summer sun. Shady Doings Among The Bird-Watchers The sight of a gray-rumped sandpiper would be enough to set the stiff upper lip of any ded- icated British bird watcher atremble, According to seeming- ly incontestable records, this rare bird was first seen around Hastings prior to World War I, and since then has been as un- common a visitor to England as a penguin. Its rarity, however, has never balked fanatic Britons who regularly stalk through the gorse seeking R and dozens of other exotic species. Bird watchers, therefore, were understandably stunned last month when British Birds, a leading ornithological journal, disclosed that the gray-rumped sandpiper had never been sight- ed at all; nor had such exotic breeds as the black lark, slender- billed curlew, masked shrike, or snow finch. In a 100-page re- port, the journal charged that more than 500 "discoveries" of rare species duly recorded over the years near Hastings were "completely fraudulent." The tale of deception goes back to 1903 and the so-called "famous Hastings records." A small band of watchers, led by the late Hastings taxidermist George Bristow, started making an astonishing number of finds on the surrounding Sussex Downs. Every find was confirm- ed by the carcasses of the birds - often sold by the watchers for as much as $140. Other watchers had no such luck, -though. Long puzzled by this discrepancy, top ornithologists recently pored over the records, and last week published the con- clusion that such a nest of rare birds in one area was impossible. Then where did the carcasses come from? Experts guessed the birds were imported on ice. WHAT HAPPENED? - Little Copenhagen, Denmark, tot wonders if Jack hos been at it again. Confusion lies in the fact that it is a Eremurus flower and not a beanstalk. 38 41 43 44 Is 26 32 45 12 eve dV4 eeetee• 29 35 40 21 sese Wee/ 22 41 46 ir 39 42 48 Answe etsewhvIt, Oh I is page 3 4 6. 5. 7 9 :+04 tkr 44i 10. 11 14 16 11 17 19 20 2) 24 25 28 0 31 33 34 36 37 UNFAMILIAR TERRAIN .;These picfuret are tiót, of the turfata of any .distant planets- -- they are tittiply.. Magnified frioth ball Crystals 'photographed in polarized light' by Edward..Getuk eibited. amateur Photographer of terieSitifie .ttibleeites 4 In our battle with the weeds and insects, a rethinking of basic strategy is long overdue, There Is aboundent evidence that the massive use of poisonous chemi- cads has serious drawbacks. Its side effects, in many cases, have been disastrous to wildlife, Often, it has backfired, evok- ing a tougher more poisonsresis- tent form of a pest than was pre- sent to begin with. It also may hold danger for men. Many of the chemicals are as poisonous to humans as to plants and insects. Their widespread use and their accumulation in our environment is a growing and as yet poorly understood hazard. Few would deny a vote of thanks to the chemists, entomol- ogists, and herbologists who have made the chemical control techniques practical, Especially since World War II, these tech- niques have yielded great bene- fits to mankind, They have helped create the fabled abundance of modern ag- riculture, They are credited with relieving much human suffering through control of disease-bear- ing insects. They are a boon to suburban gardeners. But while the chemicals are a potent tool for pest control, their value, as with any tool, lies in the wisdom with which they are used. * * Modern science and technol- ogy enables men to make sweep- ing changes in their environ- ment, with widspread conse- quences for the community of living things of which mankind is part. Unless the use of this new, power is based on know- ledge of what these consequenc- es may be, great damage could be wreaked within that com- munity almost before men were aware of it. This self-evident rule of wis- dom is virtually ignored in the fast-growing use of pesticides, Out of enthusiasm for the bene- fits they have brought, men often are using the new chemi- cals indiscriminately in Ways that government land iridustry testing prograins do not take into account. They , are causing what the well-known wildlife biologist, Dr, John L. George of the Pats USSent, -Md., Wildlife Research Center 'bells "a new type of chemical pollution , (in which) the trend is toward more highly toxic materials arid heav- ier dosage rates." A ,publie awakening to the danger this implies they be in the making in the United StateS. If it. Oilier, we will have Rachel Carden, ferried author of "The Sea Aretiiitt tie,"• to thaok for bringing the growing issue to, a ahead.. * She has sent forth a clarion ball in a series of hard-hitting articles published in Julie by the 'New Yorker magazine and drawn 'from her fortheoming book, "The Silent Spring," fo be published by Houghton Miffin