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The Seaforth News, 1957-12-05, Page 27i Bible Reading The World Over A marine on Guadalcanal in World War II wrote to his mother citing certain Bible pas- sages and suggesting that they read them on the same day, When she called the local branch a Society the American Bible S ocy In Philadelphia to tell them of . his suggestion she had before her both his letter and a tele- gram from the Navy Department notifying her that her son had been killed in action. The woman's voice broke as she was telling the story, and she hung up the telephone. She did not give her name. The so- ciety was unable to trace the call and has never succeeded. in identifying the person who made it. Yet that telephone . call has . . echoed around the world. Not long thereafter a chaplain from Guadalcanal, Dr. James Clay- pool, came to work for the American Bible Society. When told of the incident, he was in- spired to launch a simultaneous Bible reading program known today as. "Worldwide Bible Reading." It takes place between Thanks- giving Day and Christmas and is now in its fourteenth year. The society has just issued its selected daily Bible readings from Nov. 28 to Dec. 25 — with passages for the remaining six days of the year for those who wish to continue. These are dis- tributed through the churches and in many public places by the. society. The observance has gained dramatic emphasis from its an- onymous origin and each year more people have made the holi- day season an opportunity for closer acquaintance with the Bible. Bible reading in some remote parts of the world is the only reading. Frequently a translation of the Bible, or some part of it, is the first written form of Ianguage there. Today the Scrip- tures, or portions of them, are available in more than 1,100 languages. These translations comprise the languages and dia- lects spoken by approximately 95 per cent of the world's popu- lation, according to authorities of the American Bible Society. Many times this means reduc- MASSIVE MOLARS — Despite his position, little Benjamin Kassim doesn't seem at all down in the mouth, as he finds himself caught in a set of mas- sive molars. The 5 -year-old was one of 12 finalists at the etghth annual Dental Health Contest at Children's Aid So - defy shelter. ing a dialect to writing, then. teaching the natives to read. One of the most recent projects „of this kind brought the Bible to mountain tribes in Formosa. There are between 300 and 400 such ' projects under way in mountain villages and faraway jungle settlements all over the world. , The American Bible Society reports a great demand for the Scriptures in India where the Sermon on the Mount has been translated into fourteen lan- guages, with four more transla- tions now in progress. Mahatma Gandhi never professed the Christian faith, but it is known that he liked to read the Ser- mon. Of the Bible, Theodore Roose- velt said: "Almost every man who has by his lifework added to the sum of human achieve- ment of which the race is proud — of which our people are proud — almost every such man: has based his lifework largely upon the teachings of the Bible." Said Woodrow Wilson: "A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this (ti knowledge of the Bible):" Years ago a great Russian au- thor, Fiodor M. Dostoyevsky, pleaded with the youth of Rue- iia, "I recommend you to read the, whole Bible through in the Russian translation . ,One gains, for one thing, the conviction that humanity possesses, and can pos- sess, no other book of equal significance." The American Bible Society today conducts its work in more than 60 countries and only last month commemorated the dis- tribution of half a billion vol- umes of the Scriptures since its founding in 1816. From the dis- tribution of 6,410 volumes in that year, the society has increased its circulation of the Bible until last year it reached a total of 15,170,058 writes Josephine Rip- ley in The Christian Science Monitor. Even so, the society estimates that 40 per cent of the population is growing up in ignorance of the Scriptures. Much of the tension of our times, as authorities of the society see it, may be traced to ignorance of the Bible and the moral precepts it sets forth. Working to eliminate this ignorance, the American Bible Society is associated with 23 other Bible Societies around the globe — all engaged in the work of translating, producing, and distributing the Scriptures. The work began centuries ago when a Baptist minister in Wales decided that something should be done to eliminate the scarci- ty of Bibles. This prompted a discussion of how to publish a Bible at as low a cost as possible. And if low-cost Bibles were to be published for Wales, why not for England? someone asked. And if for England, why not for the world? Thus was organized the Brit- ish and Foreign Bible Society in 1604. A donation of 500 pounds fdom this society laid the ofunda- tion for its counterpart in the United States 212 years later. To- day the American Bible Society has branches all over the coun- try ountry and headquarters at 450 Park Avenue, New York City. OH, BROTHER! A motorist, charged with speeding through a red light at an intersection, explained to the judge: "I always hurry through inter- sections to get out of the way of reckless drivers.' MODEL CITY — Twins Tani, left, and. Dran Seitz get "that towering feeling" when they touch the tip of New York's Empire State Building. Actually, the building is a replica made of balsa wood and is part of a Manhattan collection built by Guy Miller and owned by him and A. 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Even in covered -wagon days, Kansas C i t y, Missouri, • was known as the crossroads for travelers going North, South, East, and. West. Now it is known also as the city that lies in •the heart of America, with travelers passing through it going in many directions. Joe Kilbert's Airport Restaur- ant is known to thousands of these travelers, and his whipped - cream pies are their favorite dessert. Celebrities, as well as more ordinary people, have adroitly suggested that they would like to know how to make these pies, but Mr, Gilbert has always smiled tactfully and ig- nored the hint to give away his recipe. Now, for the very first time, he has parted with this information — to your columnist for you, writes Eleanor Richey Johnston in The Christian Sci- ence Monitor. Chocolate is the pie most Often ordered, but there are several other flavors also. I will give the recipe to you just as his chef wrote 1t out for him, and you can reduce it to any quantity you like. Put this mixture in a baked, cooled pastry shell and keep it in the ice box until dinner time. Then spread all ever it, right to the edges, seasoned whipped cream. The layer of cream should be almost as thick as the filling. Here's the culinary scoop! AIRPORT CHOCOLATE PIE MIX 4 quarts mllk 4 pounds sugar 1 pint egg yolks 1 ounce vanilla 1 ounce salt 1 pound cornstarch 8 ounces cocoa Place half the milk in a double boiler and let come to boil. Put the other 2 quarts in mixer, turn to slow speed, add yolks and dry mix. Stir until well mixed, then pour this into the hot milk and let cook until stiff, stirring all the time. Return to mixer and run medium speed until cooled and smooth. ', * * Buttermilk is one of the in- gredients of the following pie. Make it with pudding and pie mix, pour it into an already baked pie shell, bake it in a hot oven for 5-10 minutes, and serve it with pride! LEMON MERINGUE BUTTERMILK PIE 1 package lemon pudding and pie filing 3 / cup sugar 1 cup water 2 egg yolks, slightly beaten 1 cup buttermilk 1 tblsp. 'Miter (optional) 1 baked 8- or 9 -inch pie shell 2 egg whites 4 tablespoons sugar Combine pie filling mix, % cup sugar and water in sauce- pan. Add egg yolks and blend well. Add buttermilk and butter. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture comes to a full boil and is thickened.• Remove from heat and stir vigorously to make smooth. Pour into pie shell. Beat egg whites until foamy throughout. Add 4 tablespoons sugar, 2 tablespoons at a time, beating after each addition un- til sugar is blended. Continue beating until meringue stands in peaks. Spread over pie filling. Bake at 425° F. ,until delicately browned, 5-10 minutes. * * * Perhaps you'd like to make some sauce -y pies? Here is one made with apple sauce and one made with rhubarb. BLUSHING APPLE PIE Graham cracker crust: 5/, .cupmelted butter 3 cup( sugar 1r/y cups crushed graham crackers (24 crackers) Combine ingredients and mix well. Measure out 1 . cup for sprinkling over finished pie. Press remaining crumbs firmly over 8 -inch pie pan. Chill in re- frigerator at least 1 hour before adding filling. Filling: 2% cups canned apple sauce, well drained Yr cup cinnamon candies Mix candies with apple sauce. Heat just enough to dissolve candies. Cool thoroughly. Pour into graham cracker crust. Top with r,5 cup crumb mixture. Al- low to set in refrigerator about 1 hour before serving. Serve with whipped cream. * a. * RHUBARB CHIFFON PIE 2 teaspoons gelatin 2 tablespoons cold water 2 eggs, separated ijer cup sugar 1% cups rhubarb sauce Red food coloring r/ teaspoon salt 1 baked 9 -inch pie shell Soften gelatin in cold water. Stir and cook egg yolks and % cup sugar over very low heat or in a double boiler until mix- ture thickens. Stir in gelatin. Combine with rhubarb sauce. Cool until thickened but not stiff. Stir in iew drops food coloring. Beat egg whites and .alt until &oft peaks form. Add remaining s/a cup sugar gradu- ally while beating until stiff peaks form. Fold into rhubarb mixture. Pour into baked shell. Chill until set, about 2 hours. Do Fats Help Cause Heart Disease? Are fats, as often charged, really a factor in causing heart disease? At the annual meeting of the American Heart Association in Chicago a panel of the country's leading cardiologists gave their answer: Apparently not. Sta- tistical evidence relating chol- esterol and other fatty foods to heart ailments is not standing up under scientific scrutiny. "The evidence against fats," said Dr. Herman E. Hilleboe, New York State Health Commissioner, "grows weaker.” "Half the people who die of heart attacks have normal levels of fats in their blood," added Dr. Robert W. Wilkins of Boston, Mass., president of the associa- tion. "There is not enough known about the cause of heart attacks to tell everyone to cut down sharply on fats, or to make drastic diet changes." Panel members agreed that it was wise to keepthe fatty foods at a reasonable level to prevent overweight. But for the normal - weight person to avoid fats en- tirely "is not only unwise but possibly harmful," said Dr. Robt, E. Olson of the University of Pittsburgh. With less emphasis on the role of diet in heart disease new and more profitable research is un- der way, Dr. Olson said. Possible causes now under scrutiny: Heredity, liver inefficiency, dis- ordered metabolism of the body, and tension. Drs. Ray H. Rosen- man man and Meyer Friedman of- - San Francisco have concluded that occupational stress and emo- tional upsets may indeed be im portant factors. They reported a study of 42 male tax account- ants during three tax -deadline periods of the year in which they found that their blood levels of natural cholesterol rose at such times, while their blood clotted in less than half the normal time. Both conditions are believed to "stage setters" for heart disease. The physicians, who consider their findings "clear-cut evidence" that stress, not diet, helps bring on heart, attacks, agreed that taxpayers, under similar circumstances, might shoW the same signs. —From Newsweek. 'We might as well go out and see if there's a new satellite overhead." These Days A Girt Has To Fight Il To some moviegoers, the rise of Kim Novak has seemed miff but inexplicable. It has not, however, been the , easy, over- night rise to boundless fame and fortune, of the sort which was once almost a Hollywood com- monplace. In these hectic Holly- wood days a girl has to fight and when she has won, what has she got? Below is a ledger of Kim's progress, with pro- gram notes by Kim herself. --5100: a week: She got a con- tract with Columbia Pictures, and a small role in "Pushover", late in 1953. "They (Columbia) gave me my 'first` opportunity," Kim recalled. "Llucky for rne. I'm not an aggressive 'person," —$250: She got a good role in "Picnic", early in 1955. Then .came "The Eddy Duchin Story". As Kim recalls it, "Columbia said they would automatically give me a bigger raise if the picture goes well. The picture went very well. ; Nothing hap- pened." Meantime Columbia lent her to Otto Preminger for "The Man With the Golden Arm" and gave her a new contract at: —$750: "They said they would give me a percentage of the pic- ture," says Kim. "I never got a percentage of the picture." —51,250: This was her weekly pay for making "Jeanne Eagels", which she finished last winter. "I told Cohn (Harry Cohn, studio head at Columbia) before I went to Europe this summer that I was very indefinite about stay- ing in this business. I didn't care about the fame if 1 couldn't get the money out of it." —$2,750: This is her current weekly pay -check as she winds up 'From Among the Dead" for Alfred Hitchcock. She has a new contract, won after she changed agents. "Change is, part of life," said Kim. -$3,000-plus: This, under the new contract, automatically be- comes her weekly salary next year, "Today no one can make money," says Kim. "IT 1 can do the things I want for any family, and live comfortably, that's all. I can't have any self-respect if I let people walk over me." —From Newsweek. Finger marks on piano keys often can be removed ,with at - ordinary pencil eraser. Thi eraser fits easily between tits black keys and gets into all corners. For difficult spots re- quiring cleaning fluid, wrap eraser with a fluid -soaked cloth. It makes a fine applicator for difficult ,places. Sediment can be strained out of paint solvent or other liquids by pouring out of a bottle "cork- ed" with loosely packed steel wool. Discard steel wool when all the liquid has ben poured through. SAD FAREWELL — Close to tears, actress Ingrid Bergman is shown at the airport in Rome as she departed for Paris. With her is attorney Ercole Graziadei, who made the announcement of her separalion from film director Roberto Rossellini. IT. PAYS TO ADVERTISE - This billboard in dd haps last, message in 'the romance of Robert B started the billboard' romance last spring afte. series of friendly messages, They must have w in the near future. wntown Milwaukee carries the latest, and per- rachman, 33, and Arlene Hale, 27..Brachman r the couple had a spat.The board carried a orked because the' couple plans to be married