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The Brussels Post, 1953-8-26, Page 7TIILFA1M FRONT J06 On bhe nlajdiity of farms the production of vegetable canning crops creates a problem ,}n res, pect to the Inaintenance,of good soil structure and fertility. It is difficult to suggest tender types of rotation that .might be follow- ed since size of farm, acreage of canning crops, number of stock maintained and extent of other types of crop production are'de- ciding factors in determining a practical soil managemept pl'o- gram, • Growing a relatively small acreage of canning crops on a general or dairy farm does not present >t real problem in soil fertility maintenance, since it may be fitted into the longer rotations and sufficient manure may be available for the culti- vated crops. The real problem exists on smaller farms, of where the stock population is small or absent, and manure is not avail- able and cultivated c ash crop production is the major enter- prise. In such cases long term grass rotations are not economic- ally possible and yet soil struc- ture is dependent on replacing the plant fibre in the soil burnt up during the cultivation period. * * e With this in mind, a group of plots with different rotations of canning peas, tomatoes and sweet corn have been studied for a period of six years at the Smith- field Substation, Ont., on Percy fine sandy loam. In the four-year rotations without manure but with commercial fertilizer ap- plied to the canning crops, and in which a crop of tomatoes, peas, grain and a mixed clover -grass sod are'gttown, there was a small decrease in soil organic matter in a five-year period. In a simi- lar rotation, but with tomatoes replaced by sweet corn, and all the corn stover ploughed under, there was no reduction in soil organic matter. It appears that when the corn stover is returned to the: soil, .maintenance is not too serious, a problem, In other four-year„ rotations in which three canning crops are grown and the land is in clover sod for one year by the device of seeding clover With the corn or peas, the reduction insoil organic mattela was no greater than in the stan- dard four-year rotation with two canning crops. However, seeding red clover with peas or corn re - It's A Boyl -Ralph Kiner, star 1 Chicago Cubs outfielder, holds up seven cigars signifying the weight of his son, born recently at Mercy Hospital. Mrs. Kiner is the former Nancy Chaffee, a top tennis star. • duced the yield of these two crops and a satisfactory stand of clover was not always obtained. * * M Outstanding in interest was the soil improvement which had ta- ken place in two-year rotations of continuous canning crops, In these, rotations a crop of tomatoes or a crop of corn is followed in the second year by a crop of peas, Alto 'the peas are harvest- ed millet or Sudan grass is sown and the crop is disked in at the early flowering stage. Fail rye is then sown, which is disked in the following spring in prepara- tion for tomatoes or corn. In these two rotations twelve tons of manure per acre are applied every other year, These rotations produced five canning crops in the five-year period compared to an average of three crops in other rotations. Despite this fact, there was an appreciable increase in soil organic matter, exchangeable potassium a n d soluble phos- phorus. W h i l e it is true that manure was applied in these two rotations the average annual ap- plication of six tons per acre is perhaps not beyond the supply available to the grower whose canning crop acreage is relatively small. * * 4 While the rotations have pos- sibly not been in progress long enough to attach significance to difieences in yield, it is note- worthy that yields of corn, peas or tomatoes were highest when- ever manure was applied in a rotation and the average highest yields were produced in the two- year rotations described above, * * 4 Fortunately people cannot be treated like bees Or there might be some interesting develop- ments from an experiment re- cently made by the Agriculture Division, Department of Agricul- ture, Ottawa. * * * Treating bees with nitrous oxide gas apparently causes them to lose memory of their old loca- tion. Normally when colonies -of bees ere moved short distances, as may be required for the pol- lination of certain crops or fruit trees, the bees tend to return to the old rather than the new loca- tion of the hive. * * * In a test at Ottawa, six colonies of bees were gassed lightly with nitrous oxide, and then moved a distance of some 500 yards to an orchard which required pol- lination. The bees did not return, as they normally would, to the original site but remained in the new location. * , * If later tests confirm `this re- sult,, beekeepers will be able to move their hives short distances to new areas of bloom in the same or adjacent fields, This will give more effective pollination of fruit and clover crops and cut dawn the distance the bees have to . travel. * * * Since the gas acts as an anaes- thetic on the bees it may be use- ful also to the beekeeper in han- dling cross bees. It might even help the householder get rid of unwantedwasp nests if it has the same effect on wasps. * * * Gassing the bees was accom- plished by igniting ammonium nitrate (one tablespoonful to two colonies) by placing the powder on top of smouldering burlap or similar material in a bee smoker, and directing the resulting gas into the selected hives, Exposure CROSSWORD PUZZLE 'ACROSS I, some 4. 300r 8.11? the mouth 12. American uu titer 13 SIilgintt Voice 14 Octet et fBed octal 12 tread under roof 17. At any time 10, American Indian 10 do Wish nacelle r ' 21. Sot. 64,1* 24. Vapors 20. Venerates 20. Clerical collar 32. Exist 23. ndmpalind ether 36. Wing 30, Lprlght 33 Legislated 40. Aocllir0d knowledge 45 utilises 43. Speak in nubile 46. Paddle 43. Smooth 45.1'alklne tee e4. Square of three 60. Smell Wend 55, litea5ow' 17 Tttrns right 08 Cast nit 00 Stnnli barrel 1. Right 2. And'not 5. Affirmative re e 4. Engrossed 6. States 6. inhabitants of (suffix) 7. Mete deposits 8. City In 31. Urchins Mlssourf 34. Uplltt • 9. Rant 37. Straightens 10. Arabian 30. Ringlet seaport 41. Shield 11. Learning 43, Boling arena 10. Silent 44, American 20, San like not canal 21. British 46. Tapering trolley solid 22, Btnve man 47. Having 28, Declare retired 26, Plower . 50. rieinnant`bf 27. Rent again combustion 20. Cudgels 61. Sort 30. 'reward 62. Born shelter 33.015 Joke A ;ewer Else vlegre on This Pugs Rosemary and the Three Bears -Mothers visiting the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto from August 281h to September 12th will be able to enjoy the big event in a happy, carefree manner. At the some time their youngsters can have real fun and pleasure on the swings, slides and teeters in the Playground located in the West Annex of the Coliseum. Two qualified at- tendants will supervise the playground at all times throughout the duration of the Exhibition. Special entertainment by the Three Sugar Crisp Bears, shown here with songstress Rosemary Clooney, will help to keep the youngsters happy. Damp Strall-It'`w;as warm, so Alex Wozniak, of London, Eng- land, decided to put on his walk- ing "shoes" and take a stroll down the Thames. His shoes in this case are skis, each of which is in effect, a miniature boat with a keel. Wozniak push- es himself through the• water with two ski poles which have cork floats at the end. He plans to "walk" the English Channel in the future, to nitrous oxides for periods up to three minutes had no toxic effect on the bees. * * * The demand for beeswax has increased greatly during the past twelve years. Apart from the bee industry it has many industrial uses and although there has been a large increase in production since the 1930's, the price has remained about double that of its former level, Much wax is wasted in many apiaries and a good source of added revenue is overlooked. 4 * * A considerable amount of wax may be saved during summer by putting all pieces of scrap comb found during colony manipula- tions behind the hive' and 'ga- thering them -up occasionally throughout the season. Another n111)01' source is - t li a scrapings frons the fraines after the honey, has been extracted f r o m t h e combs.. Buoken a.n d warped combs ar>.d._co.tnbs• with large areas of ,drope cells, are another source' of' Wax, especially in the years of 'th'e peribdiolal" glean -•up. But the cappings from `the ex- tracted hoeeyp"combs are- the main annual supply,, Unfortun-• ately, they make a bulky, sticky mass if 'a viax-press is not avail- able, and for that reason they are often thrown out, The stickiness and much of the 'bulk can be removed by letting the bees work on -the cappings, By putting five to six fnehee of 'copings slid half that amount of widen water' in a wash -tub, and putting it out= side on a warm , day, the bees will take all of the liquid leav- ing only the clean, dry cappings. This should not be attempted if there is any possibility of Ant-' eriean Foul Brood being present in any of the hives, or if there are other bees within two miles, The tubs should be put at least fifty yards from the nearest hive and preferably with a fence, hedge or other obstacle between the tubs and the bee -yard to prevent robbing. Tests made have shownthat the . weight of the cappings is reduced by approxi- mately one-hdlf when thus soak- ed in Water and cleaned by the bees. * * * - Old cbmbs, scraps and cappings may be sent to any bee -supply company during. winter months for rendering or they may be melted and strained at home and the cakes of ,,,pure wax shipped out. If collection and rendering of the wax is well planned, it will form a source of revenue and will help to supply an indus- trial need. These Crooks Stole A Railway Bridge In January, 1938, police at Mar- rakesh, in Morocco, were called upon to solve their biggest lar- ceny case. Someone had, stolen a railway bridge. Twenty feet long, made of iron, and weighing seven t o n s, the bridge had spanned a river on a disused section of railway. The police eventually arrested a Moor, who admitted he had hired four men to dismantle.and break up the bridge. Although they took ten days to do the job, no one witnessed the act. When they had finished, the Moor re- moved the scrap and sold it to a dealer, The Swiss have a bridge that they build every spring and dis- mantle in the autumn. It's big enough to carry a railway across the Steffenbach, near Davos, but only seven men are needed t0 shift it. Engineers hit on this idea of a prefabricated bridge after win- ter avalanches made a regular and thorough annual job of re- moving every trace of the tracks, arches, and foundations of the. old rigid structure. Last year engineers at Calver- - ton, Notts, had the local inhalai- tants guessing when they built a bridge over nothing, Sited on the Papplewick Road, it was first sup- plied with abutments at each end. To take these, deep trenches had to be excavated. Next, the rein- forced concrete deck was laid flat along the ground, Not until then did the bull- dozers arrive to make the cutting for Calverton colliery's new branch .,line. They dug straight under the bridge, which was re, vealed complete for the first time. The strangest bridges of all ere to be, found in China, where they are often built zig-zag, This is to stop evil spirits following people across. Perhaps marriages lasted long- er in the old days because a bride looked the same after washing tier' face. - This Bishop Bought Two Hundred Wives Dr. li'gancisXavier Gsell, for- mer Roman Catholic Bishop Of Darwin, now in retirement In Sydney, has 200 dusky aborigin- al "wives." He bought them with Sticks of tobacco, rolls of cali- co, alico, pocket knives and Other trade goods. This was the Alsace -born Bisop's method of preventing the marriages of child wives to the old men of the tribe, Blue-eyed, square -bearded Bishop Gsell bought his first "wife" 42 years ago when he began mission work at Bathurst Island, 100 miles from the port of Darwin. He res- cued a nine-year-old girl by pay- ing £2 worth of tobacco, knives ,and turkey twill to the ancient aboriginal whose wife she was to become lay, tribal law. That child and 200 others who joined her in the years that fol- lowed were the first pupils at Bathurst Island Mission, edu- cated by the priests and nuns un- der the guidance of the bishop. Once the bishop's life was in danger when a terrified girl fled to the Mission, followed hot -foot by a war party of the wizened husband and his friends, They demandad that the girl be given up. The bishop refused, A power- ful native stepped out, waving a great spear and threatened to kill the white man who had dared interfere with the tribe's business. Betrothed Before Birth Unarmed Dr. Gsell stood his ground, Calmly he pulled out a handsome knife and a dozen plugs of tobacco. Native deter- mination wavered. Soon bargain- ing began, and finally a price was determined on. What Dr, Gsell did on Bath- urst Island was to halt race sui- cide, Under the tribal laws the old men each had. from 10 to 25 wives, while the younger men, aged up to 30 and even 40, had no no women at all. There was no courtship as we know it. All the #this were efllt- aswed frOm the day Of birth or even earlier, Young boys were allotted to mothers-in-law, These were baby girls, and 4lhe bays, were entitled to all the girl -children of the mothers-in-law. Such an arrangement meant that . they were old men before this came about. They might gain wives by ins heritanee - frOm relatives. ,But the custom in such eases was tO give the young women to old men and the Old women to the young men, Courtship -With Tobacco When Dr. Gsell arrived at Bathurst Island he found men of 60 with wives of 15, and boys of 15 with wives 0f 50 or 60. Children were rare. Owing to Bishop Gsell's prac- tice of "polygelny" over nearly 40 years, race suicide has been halted. His "wives" have been married to young men who have come under the mission's influ- ence, To -day, on 300 acres of fer- tile soil, the natives raise pigs, fowls and other stock, They have a thriving timber industry, ex- porting to the mainland a type of pine which resists the ravages Of white ants, which destroy most other timbers. Courtship has come to the mission aborgines. The young man who wishes to marry a girl offers her a plug of tobacco, It she accepts and smokes it, the young man's chances are good. Living at the Sacred Heart Monastery in Kensington, Syd- 'ney, 80 -year-old Bishop Gsell still keeps in touch with his many "wives" and their families. CONSCIENCE MONEY The manager of a movie theater in Milwaukee was sur- prised to receive a five -dollar bill, and even more amazed when he read the note accompanying the money which stated: "Here is $5 to pay for movies I've seen after sneaking in the side door." Honeymoon Trip Lasts Over Five Years How long can you swap kisses honeymoon style? The authentic thrill can last for five years or more in the experience of glam- orous Diana Nieldhart, a former fashion model. Back in 1948 she married ad- venturous Tom Hepworth, a photographer whom she had met while modelling, and they desid- ed to sail round the world on a non-stop honeymoon. When their friends waved them good-bye on the converted 70 -foot Brixham traveler Arthur Rogers, they thought they'd be back within, months. But Tom and Diana are still honeymoon- ing to -day, sailing from one dream island to another in the idyllic region between Tahiti and New Zealand. The girl who modelled the loveliest clothes in London now swabs the decks, hauls the run- ning rigging wand cooks in the tiny galleys, no matter how rough the sea. She and her husband have 'ridden through hurricanes and they've starved when their little craft was becalmed and they ran short of food. They've sailed across the At- lantic, sailed through Panama, caught little sucking pigs on Pacific beaches and roasted them in home-made ovens of hot stones, "This is fun," they write home to their friends. "We're honeymooning for ever!" • TRANSATLANTIC -JEEP No less startling than the Kon- Tiki thrill, too, is the honeymoon saga of Ben. and Elinore Carlin. The U.S. Army long since wrote off amphibious jeeps as impracti- cal, but Ben bought one out of a museum and devised a special petrol tank to strap below at sea and carry on top overland. When the Canadian police heard their honeymoon plans, they called it a suicide' attempt and tried to prevent chem from sailing. Instead, the Carlins put to sea with petrol, water and food for six weeks--tuhmed up at the Azores 1,800 miles away after only four weeks. Then they drove ashore to a garage for a check-up! To -day they've covered over 3,000 sea miles and 6,000 land miles. It's part of the new world- wide adventurous vogue for ever more exciting honeymoons. To- day's Jtlne brides are July thrill- seekers. Anxious to save cash but have the happiest time, one young couple actually landed in New York with only $100. That was as much as Swedish -born Gun- nar Borge and his Dutch wife, Doddy, were allowed to take out of Holland. But there were no restrictions, they found, against taking a car over. The first night they slept in the car -in their pyjamas -they woke up surrounded by cars in the morning and found they had parked amid the hectic traffic of Riverside Drive. The next night, south of New York, a policeman woke them up and demanded to know what they were doing. Afterwards, Gunnar and Dad- dy always went to a police sta- tion to ask permission to sleep. The police were so astonished that they usually established an all-night guard over the little car to ensure that they rested undisturbed. Ultimately, doing odd jobs whenever they could, accepting hospitality whenever it was of- fered, they toured 3,000 miles and left New York homeward bound with $20 still in Gunnar's pocket. MIDAY SCUOOL LESSON By Rev, It, Barplay Warrents LA,, (3 T1. Standards for Christian Leader; 1 Timothy 4: 7-16 19lemory Selection: Neglect stot the gift that is in thee ... medi- tate upon these things; give thy, self wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. 11 Timothy 4:14.15. Paul's advice to "refuse pre. fano and old wives' fables," (XQV) or "have nothing to de with godless and silly myths1' (RSV), is timely today. Men ars still bewitched by a lot of silly superstitions. One is constantly. hearing of new one or old ones revived. Of course it is unwise to walk under a ladder. Common sense tells you that you may get spattered with paint or a brick or a hammer may fan on your head. But hpw can it bring good luck to throw pennies into a p001? Well, it's good for the man who has charge of the pool, Included in the advice to this young minister is the exhortation, "Be thou an example of the be- lievers, in word, In conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity." The world watches a minister closely. A slight indis- cretion on his part will occasion more criticism than the same act by one in another walk of life. Not that God has one standard of godliness for ministers and an- other for laity, but he who up- holds the truth of God in word is expected to uphold it also in deed. He must practise what he preaches. Some ministers have some secret sins, some bad habits that they wish concealed from .their parishoners, This is not being a goad example. What a man really is, is soon reflected in his countenance. Truth will out. The veneer. is thin, A man may pass for more than he's worth for a time, but soon he will be assessed for his real character. God can b r e a k every bad habit and. cleanse from every sin. The way to forgiveness is the same for a1L The ministry is a high and holy calling and what a man does is just as important as what he says, There is truth in the statement that "Your actions speak so loud that the world can- - not hear what you say." (Upside down to prevent peeking), •i 3 7l a a N 611139 3 319 ✓ 3 1`'T''.3 1 5 1 3 N 1 N 9 N 180'60 021 t ti 5 3 .5 it V 0 0 3 N a b 3 1 3 O 3 1 7 V N 3 ✓ 1 1v V 9 3 3 va S 3 5 0 3 1 S 1 V a 0 3 9 9 3 3 3 V6 a 3 ' 1 n 3 A V b a 11 a 3 A 3 0 3 l d W 0 0 a a 0 1 1 v 1 Y 01 o 1 1 V }1 J. a A N V a 0 Prefab Skyscraper Takes Shape -There's something new in build- ing along New York's Madison Avenue. Ws the city's first aluminum -faced skyscraper. The entire job of putting up the outside walls on the 26 -storey skyscraper took only six -and -one- half working clays, while ordinary brick -and -stone construction would have taken eight weeks. The prefabricated aluminum panels making up the facade of the building were carted from a Long Island plant to the site ready for installation, left, waricet's start installation of the two -storey -high panels; at right, company officials look over a seven -foot model of the new building, JITTER. WSW PRIED EVERY KINDOF Barr. ISAAC WALTON COULDN'T NOON NIMMII� By Arthur Polluter fl. 2 • .`v't4 ' 6 7 • 3 9 10. 11 12 4415 $oe la 13 IS 4 i'17 3'Ia I+' do 19 g9 Zi z1 23 , i ire o 27 t� 30 3' BZ 36 37 434 99 Mg,et..14%./40 41 '\.•M�. 40 it r`w'. ... - :7% 4 47.......MAIM . ,+ w .. ,:' j 0 30 51 3Z 53 4 i i-_ 97If 95 5s 179 A ;ewer Else vlegre on This Pugs Rosemary and the Three Bears -Mothers visiting the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto from August 281h to September 12th will be able to enjoy the big event in a happy, carefree manner. At the some time their youngsters can have real fun and pleasure on the swings, slides and teeters in the Playground located in the West Annex of the Coliseum. Two qualified at- tendants will supervise the playground at all times throughout the duration of the Exhibition. Special entertainment by the Three Sugar Crisp Bears, shown here with songstress Rosemary Clooney, will help to keep the youngsters happy. Damp Strall-It'`w;as warm, so Alex Wozniak, of London, Eng- land, decided to put on his walk- ing "shoes" and take a stroll down the Thames. His shoes in this case are skis, each of which is in effect, a miniature boat with a keel. Wozniak push- es himself through the• water with two ski poles which have cork floats at the end. He plans to "walk" the English Channel in the future, to nitrous oxides for periods up to three minutes had no toxic effect on the bees. * * * The demand for beeswax has increased greatly during the past twelve years. Apart from the bee industry it has many industrial uses and although there has been a large increase in production since the 1930's, the price has remained about double that of its former level, Much wax is wasted in many apiaries and a good source of added revenue is overlooked. 4 * * A considerable amount of wax may be saved during summer by putting all pieces of scrap comb found during colony manipula- tions behind the hive' and 'ga- thering them -up occasionally throughout the season. Another n111)01' source is - t li a scrapings frons the fraines after the honey, has been extracted f r o m t h e combs.. Buoken a.n d warped combs ar>.d._co.tnbs• with large areas of ,drope cells, are another source' of' Wax, especially in the years of 'th'e peribdiolal" glean -•up. But the cappings from `the ex- tracted hoeeyp"combs are- the main annual supply,, Unfortun-• ately, they make a bulky, sticky mass if 'a viax-press is not avail- able, and for that reason they are often thrown out, The stickiness and much of the 'bulk can be removed by letting the bees work on -the cappings, By putting five to six fnehee of 'copings slid half that amount of widen water' in a wash -tub, and putting it out= side on a warm , day, the bees will take all of the liquid leav- ing only the clean, dry cappings. This should not be attempted if there is any possibility of Ant-' eriean Foul Brood being present in any of the hives, or if there are other bees within two miles, The tubs should be put at least fifty yards from the nearest hive and preferably with a fence, hedge or other obstacle between the tubs and the bee -yard to prevent robbing. Tests made have shownthat the . weight of the cappings is reduced by approxi- mately one-hdlf when thus soak- ed in Water and cleaned by the bees. * * * - Old cbmbs, scraps and cappings may be sent to any bee -supply company during. winter months for rendering or they may be melted and strained at home and the cakes of ,,,pure wax shipped out. If collection and rendering of the wax is well planned, it will form a source of revenue and will help to supply an indus- trial need. These Crooks Stole A Railway Bridge In January, 1938, police at Mar- rakesh, in Morocco, were called upon to solve their biggest lar- ceny case. Someone had, stolen a railway bridge. Twenty feet long, made of iron, and weighing seven t o n s, the bridge had spanned a river on a disused section of railway. The police eventually arrested a Moor, who admitted he had hired four men to dismantle.and break up the bridge. Although they took ten days to do the job, no one witnessed the act. When they had finished, the Moor re- moved the scrap and sold it to a dealer, The Swiss have a bridge that they build every spring and dis- mantle in the autumn. It's big enough to carry a railway across the Steffenbach, near Davos, but only seven men are needed t0 shift it. Engineers hit on this idea of a prefabricated bridge after win- ter avalanches made a regular and thorough annual job of re- moving every trace of the tracks, arches, and foundations of the. old rigid structure. Last year engineers at Calver- - ton, Notts, had the local inhalai- tants guessing when they built a bridge over nothing, Sited on the Papplewick Road, it was first sup- plied with abutments at each end. To take these, deep trenches had to be excavated. Next, the rein- forced concrete deck was laid flat along the ground, Not until then did the bull- dozers arrive to make the cutting for Calverton colliery's new branch .,line. They dug straight under the bridge, which was re, vealed complete for the first time. The strangest bridges of all ere to be, found in China, where they are often built zig-zag, This is to stop evil spirits following people across. Perhaps marriages lasted long- er in the old days because a bride looked the same after washing tier' face. - This Bishop Bought Two Hundred Wives Dr. li'gancisXavier Gsell, for- mer Roman Catholic Bishop Of Darwin, now in retirement In Sydney, has 200 dusky aborigin- al "wives." He bought them with Sticks of tobacco, rolls of cali- co, alico, pocket knives and Other trade goods. This was the Alsace -born Bisop's method of preventing the marriages of child wives to the old men of the tribe, Blue-eyed, square -bearded Bishop Gsell bought his first "wife" 42 years ago when he began mission work at Bathurst Island, 100 miles from the port of Darwin. He res- cued a nine-year-old girl by pay- ing £2 worth of tobacco, knives ,and turkey twill to the ancient aboriginal whose wife she was to become lay, tribal law. That child and 200 others who joined her in the years that fol- lowed were the first pupils at Bathurst Island Mission, edu- cated by the priests and nuns un- der the guidance of the bishop. Once the bishop's life was in danger when a terrified girl fled to the Mission, followed hot -foot by a war party of the wizened husband and his friends, They demandad that the girl be given up. The bishop refused, A power- ful native stepped out, waving a great spear and threatened to kill the white man who had dared interfere with the tribe's business. Betrothed Before Birth Unarmed Dr. Gsell stood his ground, Calmly he pulled out a handsome knife and a dozen plugs of tobacco. Native deter- mination wavered. Soon bargain- ing began, and finally a price was determined on. What Dr, Gsell did on Bath- urst Island was to halt race sui- cide, Under the tribal laws the old men each had. from 10 to 25 wives, while the younger men, aged up to 30 and even 40, had no no women at all. There was no courtship as we know it. All the #this were efllt- aswed frOm the day Of birth or even earlier, Young boys were allotted to mothers-in-law, These were baby girls, and 4lhe bays, were entitled to all the girl -children of the mothers-in-law. Such an arrangement meant that . they were old men before this came about. They might gain wives by ins heritanee - frOm relatives. ,But the custom in such eases was tO give the young women to old men and the Old women to the young men, Courtship -With Tobacco When Dr. Gsell arrived at Bathurst Island he found men of 60 with wives of 15, and boys of 15 with wives 0f 50 or 60. Children were rare. Owing to Bishop Gsell's prac- tice of "polygelny" over nearly 40 years, race suicide has been halted. His "wives" have been married to young men who have come under the mission's influ- ence, To -day, on 300 acres of fer- tile soil, the natives raise pigs, fowls and other stock, They have a thriving timber industry, ex- porting to the mainland a type of pine which resists the ravages Of white ants, which destroy most other timbers. Courtship has come to the mission aborgines. The young man who wishes to marry a girl offers her a plug of tobacco, It she accepts and smokes it, the young man's chances are good. Living at the Sacred Heart Monastery in Kensington, Syd- 'ney, 80 -year-old Bishop Gsell still keeps in touch with his many "wives" and their families. CONSCIENCE MONEY The manager of a movie theater in Milwaukee was sur- prised to receive a five -dollar bill, and even more amazed when he read the note accompanying the money which stated: "Here is $5 to pay for movies I've seen after sneaking in the side door." Honeymoon Trip Lasts Over Five Years How long can you swap kisses honeymoon style? The authentic thrill can last for five years or more in the experience of glam- orous Diana Nieldhart, a former fashion model. Back in 1948 she married ad- venturous Tom Hepworth, a photographer whom she had met while modelling, and they desid- ed to sail round the world on a non-stop honeymoon. When their friends waved them good-bye on the converted 70 -foot Brixham traveler Arthur Rogers, they thought they'd be back within, months. But Tom and Diana are still honeymoon- ing to -day, sailing from one dream island to another in the idyllic region between Tahiti and New Zealand. The girl who modelled the loveliest clothes in London now swabs the decks, hauls the run- ning rigging wand cooks in the tiny galleys, no matter how rough the sea. She and her husband have 'ridden through hurricanes and they've starved when their little craft was becalmed and they ran short of food. They've sailed across the At- lantic, sailed through Panama, caught little sucking pigs on Pacific beaches and roasted them in home-made ovens of hot stones, "This is fun," they write home to their friends. "We're honeymooning for ever!" • TRANSATLANTIC -JEEP No less startling than the Kon- Tiki thrill, too, is the honeymoon saga of Ben. and Elinore Carlin. The U.S. Army long since wrote off amphibious jeeps as impracti- cal, but Ben bought one out of a museum and devised a special petrol tank to strap below at sea and carry on top overland. When the Canadian police heard their honeymoon plans, they called it a suicide' attempt and tried to prevent chem from sailing. Instead, the Carlins put to sea with petrol, water and food for six weeks--tuhmed up at the Azores 1,800 miles away after only four weeks. Then they drove ashore to a garage for a check-up! To -day they've covered over 3,000 sea miles and 6,000 land miles. It's part of the new world- wide adventurous vogue for ever more exciting honeymoons. To- day's Jtlne brides are July thrill- seekers. Anxious to save cash but have the happiest time, one young couple actually landed in New York with only $100. That was as much as Swedish -born Gun- nar Borge and his Dutch wife, Doddy, were allowed to take out of Holland. But there were no restrictions, they found, against taking a car over. The first night they slept in the car -in their pyjamas -they woke up surrounded by cars in the morning and found they had parked amid the hectic traffic of Riverside Drive. The next night, south of New York, a policeman woke them up and demanded to know what they were doing. Afterwards, Gunnar and Dad- dy always went to a police sta- tion to ask permission to sleep. The police were so astonished that they usually established an all-night guard over the little car to ensure that they rested undisturbed. Ultimately, doing odd jobs whenever they could, accepting hospitality whenever it was of- fered, they toured 3,000 miles and left New York homeward bound with $20 still in Gunnar's pocket. MIDAY SCUOOL LESSON By Rev, It, Barplay Warrents LA,, (3 T1. Standards for Christian Leader; 1 Timothy 4: 7-16 19lemory Selection: Neglect stot the gift that is in thee ... medi- tate upon these things; give thy, self wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. 11 Timothy 4:14.15. Paul's advice to "refuse pre. fano and old wives' fables," (XQV) or "have nothing to de with godless and silly myths1' (RSV), is timely today. Men ars still bewitched by a lot of silly superstitions. One is constantly. hearing of new one or old ones revived. Of course it is unwise to walk under a ladder. Common sense tells you that you may get spattered with paint or a brick or a hammer may fan on your head. But hpw can it bring good luck to throw pennies into a p001? Well, it's good for the man who has charge of the pool, Included in the advice to this young minister is the exhortation, "Be thou an example of the be- lievers, in word, In conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity." The world watches a minister closely. A slight indis- cretion on his part will occasion more criticism than the same act by one in another walk of life. Not that God has one standard of godliness for ministers and an- other for laity, but he who up- holds the truth of God in word is expected to uphold it also in deed. He must practise what he preaches. Some ministers have some secret sins, some bad habits that they wish concealed from .their parishoners, This is not being a goad example. What a man really is, is soon reflected in his countenance. Truth will out. The veneer. is thin, A man may pass for more than he's worth for a time, but soon he will be assessed for his real character. God can b r e a k every bad habit and. cleanse from every sin. The way to forgiveness is the same for a1L The ministry is a high and holy calling and what a man does is just as important as what he says, There is truth in the statement that "Your actions speak so loud that the world can- - not hear what you say." (Upside down to prevent peeking), •i 3 7l a a N 611139 3 319 ✓ 3 1`'T''.3 1 5 1 3 N 1 N 9 N 180'60 021 t ti 5 3 .5 it V 0 0 3 N a b 3 1 3 O 3 1 7 V N 3 ✓ 1 1v V 9 3 3 va S 3 5 0 3 1 S 1 V a 0 3 9 9 3 3 3 V6 a 3 ' 1 n 3 A V b a 11 a 3 A 3 0 3 l d W 0 0 a a 0 1 1 v 1 Y 01 o 1 1 V }1 J. a A N V a 0 Prefab Skyscraper Takes Shape -There's something new in build- ing along New York's Madison Avenue. Ws the city's first aluminum -faced skyscraper. The entire job of putting up the outside walls on the 26 -storey skyscraper took only six -and -one- half working clays, while ordinary brick -and -stone construction would have taken eight weeks. The prefabricated aluminum panels making up the facade of the building were carted from a Long Island plant to the site ready for installation, left, waricet's start installation of the two -storey -high panels; at right, company officials look over a seven -foot model of the new building, JITTER. WSW PRIED EVERY KINDOF Barr. ISAAC WALTON COULDN'T NOON NIMMII� By Arthur Polluter fl.