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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1952-4-30, Page 9Pee Cote Into Ti'oi2 By M, J, Collins It was about six -thirty and, Jenny and I were eating supper, The phone had rung several tines but, it being a rural line with nine par- ties on it we didn't even bother to listen. "That was our ring? jenny sud- denly exclaimed. I answered the phone, "Your Uncle Joe went to town this morning and he ain't back." It was Aunt Martha and she sounded a bit worried. "Maybe he had tr'oub'le with .his car. What was he in town for?" "Took four fat hogs to market " "Perhaps you should have gone with him." "The last time he tools pigs to the market, they didn't *ant to stay in the trailer so he made ane get in with them and if you think that's a nice way for a woman to ride to town—I don't!" Hardly had I hung up the re- ceiver when Aunt Martha's num- ber rang. I stuck my hand over the .mouthpiece and listener. It was the police department and Uncle Joe was {n jail. One of the constables had found him trying to open the door of his car, the only sea Price Controls --A Fatal Blunder During the Dutch Revolution, when Antwerp was besieged by the Duke of Parma, the authorities of the beleaguered city promptly clamped pries controls on almost everything within its walls—which may have been a stroke of genius front, a political point of view; but which proved to be a fatal blunder from thestandpoint of military logistics. Because prices were so low, the people inside the city con- sumed its stores•both speedily and wastefully; and tate people outside the city could not be induced to smuggle in new supplies for such •a small reward, So Antwerp, by its its own stupidity, blockaded itself fair more effectively than the Duke of Parma ever could have. Only in India, in fact, do we find a comforting glimmer of common „sense. In 1770 a famine struck the province of Lower Bengal and the government immediately instituted price controls. So the rice that re- mained from the previous harvest was quickly eaten; and fully one third of the population starved to death before another crop could be grown. But 16 years later when famine again struck the province, the government reversed its tactics, Instead of turning to controls, it deliberately encouraged speculation by publishing nationally the price of grain in every section of the country. Everyone knew where grain could be bought cheapest and sold most profitably; so supplies flowed promptly and naturally from the areas where food was most plentiful to the drought -stricken regions where it was most scarcer and disaster was averted. . —From address by Irving S. OIds, 'Chairman United States Steel Corporation. UNDAY SCHOOL LESSON trouble was that'Uncle Joe insisted the radiator was the door, so he was locked up for safety's' sake. I hung up and a short time later site phoned and told me her trouble. "Now don't get excited," I soothed, "I'II be right over." The miscreant was stretched out in a stupor when the officer open- ed the cell door. "Huh!" Aunt Martha sniffed, "The nerve!" You can still smell the stuff." It boded no good for Uncle Joe. When we reached their place I helped put the still groggy Uncle Joe to bed. Uncle Joe was just beginning to be himself. "Oh. my head!" he groaned, "my ...poorhead." He raised himself up o'ti his elbows, "Did he get away?" "Did who get away?" Aunt Martha asked, belligerently. Uncle Joe ignored her. "I parked our car down near the lakeshore, I°wasn't paying a nickle to park on the main street, and when I was coniin" bac!: across the short-cut, you know where it's alt growed up with brambles and bushes, someone carne up "right smart behind and knocked me out. I think he used at'1lottle."r'IIe shook his'herid. "Iluhi`A fine way to account for that smell!" Aunt Martha; snorted. 'Did he git my moneyHe sud- dcnlfgrontentbercd it. ' '' W 1I, ,yaou hav+en't got it if ,that's what you tucan' Aunt Martha in- formed hint tartly: "Ilere, you get back into bed, you're wobbly, and „let d?te Jiave a look at your head,": 'Still growling and protesting he did as tie,wtsS "Now you, sloe Quinn, .stay quiet!" She nagged a finge'r' under 4is rinse " '11 get „something for "'Our bene and your supper also." /gnat, Martha ,grimed at tnc as WC went out to the kitchen. A car pulled up by the door:' "Good heavens!" she cried with distnaj, ,",It's yr; Morrison, the minister) 'Iiverytltin is in a mess — and thc''nonditlon Joe's ,in -1 You keep aura, Joe' Quinn;, I'll shut the door and he won't!snow tnything about you. , ' ti i i Uncle Joe I 'Won't C ray riu c tried You eau t treat tae: like a :tilprit, C'inotr ;int" Uncle Joe' yell- ed at the top of lois' "Well, .Joe, you certainly had a spot' of trouble," Mr. Morrison said when he came into the ,room. "That bottle must have been Strong stuff." Aunt Martha gasped. Mr. Alorrison dug into his pocket and brought out a pocketbook, ,. "Where'd you get that?" "Well, Joc, ;the man that hit you Kith that bottle and robl;ed'you. lad a very bad accident and 1 was :ailed. l'nt glad to be a help to Toth of you," he said handing lain ns pocketbook, By that time Lind Joe td h ''' riq.la mile wide, alllh moneyf was .tact and .1 egtn>it1 tet from tltc ;team hi his eyes that Aunt Martha noel() hale td, dance' 'attciitter:cc,bit situ to get back In his �good graces,' C '.t •i:,t By Rev. R. B Warren, B,A., B,D. Warning Against Profane riving Exodus 20:7; Matthew 5:93-37; 23:16-22. Memory Selection: Thou shalt not take the name .of- the Lord Thy God in vain. Exodus 20:7. Driver, the noted Oxford He- braist, translates the third corn- ' mandinent as follows: "Thpu shalt not take up (upon thy lips) the name of Jehovah Thy God for un- reality," and adds, "that is, make ..use of the name for any idle, fri- volius, or insincere purpose." That certainly rules ,out what is popu- larly called swearing but which •might better be termed blasphemy. With many it has become a habit. They do not actually mean an in- sult to God and His Son Jesus Christ. They do it without think- ing. But that is certainly no ex- cuse for it. God will not hold them guiltless. There are those who only swear occasionally, for emphasis. What they emphasize is, the proverty of their own vo- cabulary and the weakness of their own mind and morals. The taking of a required oath before the court is,•of course, not blasphemy. But as far as a Chris- BattletlAgainst Ten 4Cater`pillar fr1Ta5 phdfb'tbows "tractbc"drawn power sprayer drenching trees wink DD in a resort area; near Midland, Ont., which was one df' thelmore heavilyuinfested sections oft'the'province in 1951. The infestatio is expected to be more widespread this year and Will include parts of Quebec province east of the Ottawa river. Lower left photo. hows a defoliated fruit 4it'tree strippedtbare'of its leaves by tent caterpillars. The "tents" where the insects mass together after feediplg are elm, sein. Lower _. right—forest tent caterpillars moving up a birch tree to feed on its tender leaves • tian is concerned, ib,asn'l,neces- sary in order to obtain a true state- ment. 41 man in court gave testi- mony that contradicted what' she had previously' declared. When faced with the contradictions he said that in, his -..,earlier statement h,e-'vas ,not speaking ,wider oath, 'That would relieve him of the pen- alty of perjury under human laws, but it would not make one iota 6f' difference regarding his guilt be- fore God. Recently in the House of Commons in Ottawa evidence under oath was under discussion. It was noted that in this particu- lar case the investigator admitted that he had lied in order to get the evidence. One member said that he was not prepared to believe the evidence submitted since a man who would lie when not under oath might also lie when under oath. How true! Answers to Intelligence Test 1—Rodin. -2—searching for wa- ter. 3—golfers. 4 -minim. 5—On- tario. 6—Lazarus. 7—(A) United States; (B) France; (C) Russia; (D) Italy. Gree 1c Town the Reds Destroyed Weaves Itself A New Life SPINNING NEW :LIFE for Naoussa,l©r eee,' the town destrbyed by Communists three years ago, these girl opit:i'ate n6W knitl mach- inery bought in Italy with help+:from the Mar9ha11: Pian: rNeousse, 1Grccce—A little more than three Sears ago, an armed band of Communists swooped down neon the small northern Greece own o 'ao sea. textilet # 1\ After. only three days, they were 'driven out. But in 'that time they • had "reduced the town to rubble and, for 'every day they remained, lit has 'taken' more thaun year to recover,,, I>'oines and shops; factories, ho- tels, public .buildings, the hospital 'and the electric plant—all were destroyed, IMore•,than 10�1civil{ons, 'including the Mayor, were nth•• dEi'eda /Hundreds more were kid naped. And the Communists stole 'everythiugrthey liotild move. 41,aoussa was a ghost town, Its 400'nextite workers filtered back to flttd gaunt ruins where befoyc had �faSrl' factories. . "";e rodwith the •4.it1VIdar- shall Plau ends, the worcers of' tiaotts.6a Its a recovered from the blow and are contributing direttly to •tllc ,tf'eisterh deldhse effort? Local wool and cotton mills are pro- ducing more wool and cotton yarn than ever before, filling orderb for 3,0500 btlankets and nearly 64,000 yards .of uniform cloth -for ;.the Greek armed forces. ' r4 t The -road -baclt heiet beeneasy. 4Vhcn the C'onununists attacked, Naoussa was stilt recovering from World War IL The prospe@f ,of starting , alk over, again was far from hopeful.- - Ml told, Marshall Plan aid brought iii ;netrriy 40,000 'tipinslihs, An entire cotton spinning punt w8e imported from- the U.S. at a cost of $500,000: Its machinery i .' gave jabs to- 180 person , and lts 8000 spindles now produce cotton yarn greater in 'value than all the spindles ruined by',,thc 'C-otnnnn imts. ' Naoussa now has 191 loons ie place and 45 snore to be installed. 1't'1igs. sotnt? 4500 textile corkers aad' probably will get more be. cense ..its ahem-Iant water power att"rncts textile nlants'r', Population has increased from 12,000 to 16,000 in the last' yeet•'tt'itute A hairy, brown -gray horde is expected • to invade Ontario ..early in Way, - ...Al * * It will consist of billions of leaf - hungry forest" tent 'deterpilhars which, if not halted, willdenude thousands of square, miles of the province's deciduous forest.'An egg count made last fall throughout the province, indicated that the heaviest infestations will occur ,iii a wide belt stretching imp . from North Bay to Lake Timagami and westward along Georgian Bay to Sault Ste, Marie. -Another infested block extends from Midland, on the southern part of Georgian Bay, to north of Parry Sound, east to the Ontario -Quebec border and south to embrace practically all of the picturesque Muskoka lakes re- sort country. A large section of forest in northwestern Ontario be- tween Lake of the Woods and Lake Nipigon, from the U.S.-border to above Lake Joseph, is also expected to suffer heavily from the ravages of the forest tent caterpillar. * * * While it will be trio costly to halt entirely the march of cater- pillars in every infested section of flit Broviac& at :ia posr;itaie.to ,curb drastically Breit destructive acti- vities is •'.Summer : resort -districts and privately-ownedwoodlots, says J. Ar Oaklrey, entomologist. He suggests that DD's is still the most potent weapon to deal with these pests. This mays be ap- plied as a wettable powder spray with ground equipment o in oil solution from the air. or, ground equipment may consist of hand-operated,stircup_pumps,:smalL tank sprayers or power sprayers, the latter (ab! to reach the top f $ red ` *n. t "t# .. 41r a , - Tti prevent migrating caterpil- lars lars frons swarming over homes ome s and summer coi0a es the. v r Patef,ve artd qs and' tp n �tside . walls' hDull 13c` drenched ;with ' treUahle DDT. * * * For .large -scaly control' of tent,, caterpillars, aerial spraying is by far the most effective treasure. For, ",. best resultstc aerial application should not begin until most of 'the Ieaves are at least partially open. Otherwise much of the rap- idly expanding foliage will not re- ceive any spray coverage. ' * * *. Mr. Oakleylearns that aerial spraying should, not be under- taken when the wind is more than eight mites per !tour as spray"may drift to neighboring gardens and cause injury to bees. Sprayers should be cut off when trout streams are being approached as " speckled trout are highly sensi- tive to DDT. * * * The tent caterpillar usually hatches when buds of poplar trees are bursting. Young caterpillars feed on the adjacent leaves and rest between feeds in a mass on the trunk or larger branches. From 20,000 to 100,000 caterpillars arc often found on a single tree. * * * When caterpillars are approach- ing full' growth and the trees on which they are feeding become de- foliated,' migration from tree to tree begins. At the, end of June, larvae are fully •grown'tabout one, and one-half inches long. .After spending ten days to tivo weeks in the pdpal':Stage Tolled up in yellow cocoons, they emerge as rusty- c'brotvnSfuoths with an average wing spread of one and one-quarter inches. The female moth has a life span of about five day's and lays her eggs shortly after breaking out of,21te'd cocoon. * * * Organized community effo4...1s. required' for a'succSssi`uf camp`argn- against the tent. caterpillar. L.,ast year in the 4ii '. nd-Musltlak '.tea whct'ei, iti%stt+ti01 i iarfic, rly nc 3 a er cdt rs leavy,� district W p p , mayors, chambers of commerce, socho children and o' the r fe sidents 'inthe Agit against t' pests. ''ear'sassault i , C e ted to eatannicli larger. scaa: v So let's al] .get busy and do our bit to subddb this dangerous in- vasion, t Squid Squashes 'Em -Previously on the secret list, the "Squid," Britain's powerful new anti-sub- marine weapon' is loaded with projectiles aboard the HMS Dar- ing. ,Death to the toughest of submarines, ,the multi -barreled mortar fires a pattern of charges ahead of the -destroyer. 7.1.,,*:rG1/;°,11.1,541b.B Early with .Verdes Grass Seed can hardly be sown too early in the spring. In fact somd people sow it last thing .just befoie the' snow in the fall: In any case it sltould'be planted whsle •=i• the weather is still cool. Iligb quality grass seed mixtures j as put up by reputable Canadian seed houses are much the best, These may cost 'more than the.oth- er kinds because they are the only pries that contain right proportions 01 various expensive grasses for permanent results: It. is much 'easier to get the.' ground fine and level in new lawns • and its repairing old ones ,before the seed is sown. Seed should l,g broadcast two ways, once across „,' and once lengthwise, • for even re- - sults, and of course, when there is - little or no wind. For the first cut=, ting a very sharp mower is advised, otherwise tate tender grass may be pulled right out by the roots. Grass like other plants will bene- $} fit from good rich soil and- an an- nul! application of well rotted manure or a'chemical fertilizer rich in nitrogen. • An occasional appli- cation of one meal 1411 add to depth of color, Well fed grass will ti crowd out a lot of weeds. Most of the others can beeliminated by the new chemical killers. :t Sweat Peas This is another thing to go in early. One should follow planting'.) Y directions closely; that is,,sow in the richest possible soil and in' a r shallow trench. Later on something to clituls on must be provided, Best materials are some branches, strings or net-. 'l ting. Normally; sweet peas will y!I grew about three to,four feet tali, but in Western Canada and sone other areas where this plant really flourishes much more than this will be ititgessafy. When btootrs' starts these should be removed daily in order to encourage long stems and '• continuous -blossoming. his Something Newt Plant breeding is a work that is never finished, The people who follow that profession are contin- ually ,producing and searching for new and imrpoved plants. They are giving us better colors in flowers, _new hardiness in both flowers and vegetablesr brand, new types more suited to our special climate. In exploring this wide-open field, the beginner -_is advised to keep in attind' local conditions and requirements. Flowers,•vegetabies and fruits that may give wonderful results in the Southern States or in England may be far..too tender. for aim part of ` Canada. Some things that thrive on Vancouver Island are not rug- ged enough for the Red River Val- ley. SIMPLE ENOUGH There was:a pile of stones in the road and a lamp on the top of it. An old fellow was in charge. "What's the lamp .for?" he was asked. "So that motorists can spe the pile of stones." "But what's the pile of stones for?" "To Tut the lamp on, of course." TEST YOUR INTELLIGENCE $core'10 points for each' correct answer in the first six' questions, 1.'Tire'scutpter" of :the datnott3 statue;"'Tian Thinker as .1 j - , P,gtha elN;b-, Rodin,, -Degas, Michelangelo 2 A dowsing -rod is used in: ' -5darchiiig for�watet ,'--dietel.enguiia' µtil ibifid'contost5 —foundries 3. The Walker Cup is awarded to: —swimmers—Punners —tennis players —golfers 4. The; smallest unit of liq id measure is take Ni. 4.e --=p'unctt ?i4dr' hm a muntn'r" a1-,-dratn �c � isin '� 1f iOJiilicc of 5. Gut Dion the —Quebec —Manitoba—Outario —Newfoundland 6, The man in the Bible who dic4rRwide was ; € . —Archimedes Lazarus ' Neituchadnezzar —Abraham ' ire scrariibled 'u and' o os t tical k sup, stir historical pP 's a 4,elow�are f g, 7.Tt.td the countries •which discarded.their, rule. Match then, :,scoring 10 points for each correct answer, Ital A George III Y 1 • g —.JAI, I„ovia--XVI —United States (C) Nueltolas II France (D)" 1Inmbert II Russia ''t Total your points, A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average; 70-80, superior; 90-100, very superior!{!! r> l • JITTER +• :I-WI5H't'KNEw HOWTOXEED FRED%. SHOE$ race% BEING 1(iCKED uNDF;R THF BED. r1 �. off- fJ �' t �,� • q t ' LE /rGOTTA HURRY -511.86 LATE fTO WORK. x By Arthur Pointer sole! WHO; NPILED MY S14OE5 TO .T116" FLOOR,?.