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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1955-10-13, Page 3Those engaged In scientific re- search work must always be mindful of the delicate balance of nature when dealing with soil, vegetation and fauna. Ac- tually `Nature's way' was dis- turbed when pre -historic man first undertook to cultivate the soil and penetrate into the forest.. Since that time the balance has been upset many times and of- ten only corrected after serious damage had • been done. . * +1 The untimely and drastic de- forestation of mountain slopes for example, has resulted m flooding and consequent erosion of good farm lands. Even the use of chemicals for insect con- trol can be an unmixed blessing, for the chemicals frequently eradicate the useful insects which often keep the harmful ones in cheek. And so the scien- tist must be watchful for the immediate results and for the aftermath, a * The June report of UNESCO gives a number of examples showing how the balance of na- ture was upset by what at first sight appeared quite -logical 'ac- tions. In 1859, twenty-four rab- bits were brought into Australia. Since that time that country has been ,plagued by millions of these rodents destroying both natural and cultivated vegito- tion. Today, Jamaica is troubled by the mongoose, introduced ori- ginally with the object of de- stroying rats which were pillag- ing sugar cane plantations. The mongoose, however, also attacks domestic animals and destroys harvests. 4 n In Africa, the destruction of the leopard has resulted in an enormous increase in baboons and wild pigs which eat up the -vegetation. In other countries the eradication of the otter has brought about the disappear- ance of fish. The otter for some peculiar reason eniovs a diet of diseased fish and thereby pre - ADMITS KIDNAPPING — Mrs. Betty Jean Benedicto nervous- ly fingers baby diapers in a Stockton, Calif., jail after she confessed kidnapping the in- fant son of Dr. and Mrs. San- ford Marcus from a San Fran- asco hospital. vents the spread of fish epi- demics. P 4' '4 Most people who move about in the Canadian bush in sum- mar are painfully aware of the black fly. Few have any know- ledge of what happens to these flies in the winter or how they are able to re -appear in such numbers summer after summer. A 4 M L. C. Curtis, o1 the Canada Department of Agriculture In- sect Laboratory, has made a study of the biology and control of black flies and other biting insects affecting Livestock. He describes them as quite , small, heavy -bodied flies, mostly black, but some red in colour and gen- erally with a bump -backed ap- pearance. u b R They begin to emerge in mid- June and are on the wing until the frost in the fall. IIe estimates there are 30 different species of black files in British Columbia. b '7 * Black flies invariably require moving water, often rapidly moving water for part of their cycle, Eggs are laid in late sum- mer on leaves, trailing vegeta- tion, or rocks. The eggs hatch in the spring into worm -like lar- vae and remain attached to the rocks, feeding on minute par- ticles which they strain from the water. When fully developed they spin a little slipper -shaped silk .cocoon attached to twigs or rocks. After some time is spent in this stage, the fully developed adults split open the pupa case and escape to the surface in an air bubble, then fly off in search of blood. + a 4 For control purposes, the lar- val stage in water is the weak link in the insects life cycle for the larvae can be easily killed by adding DDT to the water at the rate of one part in 10 million for 15 minutes. • a * . For example, a strcanl one foot deep, 20 feet wide, and 500 feet long could be treated with one ounce of DDT, and this body of water passing downstream would kill all larvae that it con- tacts. Care must be taken to regulate the dose of DDT to avoid harm to fish. The fish, however, can stand about four times the dose required to kill the black fly. Field men applying control measures must measure the stream flow and apply the pro- per amount of DDT. Each tribu- tary of the stream must be treat- ed right to its source, sometimes difficult in rough country. Blanket treatment by aircraft is effective, but quite expensive Alberta Now Second in Mineral Output Alberta ranked second to On tario in value of mineral pro - _ duction for the first time it 1954 •`, In the two previous years i plac- ed third after Quebec, and in 1951 it was in fourth place be. hind British Columbia More Bowling And Billiards In the le41-51 decade the num ber of billiard parlours in Can ada incNosed from 1.140 to 1,341 and the number o1' howling alleys from 175 to 428 Combined bil- liard parlours and howling al• levy decreased •bv two to 148 CROS W` ' U PUZZLE. pl'1it,...)7 —r 4 Sock nn 1 1111+,• 5 Doer ot; sondem'? vessels d and^'ra1t2* 4 la Porion= 7. 1;nrn Ura;:* 0•u'n a 9. 'rhrr0Y 11 1010111.58101. l prrtle ) 12 99'!,))? 1''')'Ig r, 9 i+,171 loge n 34. Shone tree 15.10,9+1) 17, "illi le - 19. t:ar,! 19. Anima, one 20 A1111111.1 t1nr101 21,1(17,7711)78 be4s 2a rune 23Desoenrlant oP Pisa it . 36 111101s 2b r-oa.exwly• pronoun 27. 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Although drought ruined most of the corn in his area, Davidson expects to harvest nearly 100 bushels per acre, But only one stalk will have two .well-developed ears, as that is an unusual growth for a dry year. HERE'S HOW—Dress uniform's for ceremonials such as the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace feature these 20 -inch -tall shakos, not worn as part of a British ser- vice uniform since 1880. Near- ly as old as the traditional headgear is the question: "Now can the guards see while wear- ing those things?" Maj. Alistair Ritchie of the Queen's Own Scots Guards, now making a United States - Canadian tour, reveals the secret. There's plenty of vision between combed -out hairs which fall across the eyes. Not -So -Weak When a mouse crept into a fire siren, terror stalked an En- glish village recently. The pre- sence of the mouse altered the nogg of the fire alarm just enough lo make it sound like the warn- ing of an escaped criminal from Broadmoor Asylum. five miles 2way. Villagers barred their doors. The police 'phoned an escape warning to the local school to fact, everyone was jittery until the mouse mix-up was finally solved. Even Big Ben was silenced for several hours when a mouse gummed up the works by get. ting under ono of the quarter- hour bell hammers, A mouse nibbled a holo in a gas p.pe 117 a Lincoln safe. Then a customer struck a match and the place was wrecked. In a farming region of France a cat sat so close to a stove that its fur caught fire. Diving into a pile of hay the scared cat started a $10,000 blaze. In Paris a rabbit escaped from a pet shop and three cars crashed when drivers jibbed at tine odd sight of .a rabbit running across the Champs -Elysees. W1'ien lesser creatures inter- fere in human affairs, in tact, results can; be freakish. Plot long ago, questions were asked in Parliament because of a wasp that stung an ambulance driver. While he was brushing the wasp away, the amublance hit a telephone pole. The driver was given the alternative of resign- ing or being sacked. His union took; tip the matter and the wasp eventually caused six committee meetings and court action. At Belle Glade, Florida, spiders interfered with the phone service by spinning webs around the lines, causing . trouble on damp days. Now phone rates are rising -because of the cost of employing a special squad of web -sweepers, men who clean the wires with long -handled brooms, ' Dancing Girl Was Doctor's Fee In this country we are apt to take the medical profession pret- ty n'luch for granted. It is quite otherwise in some other coun- tries — a fact vividly brought home to the reader in the re- cently published book "A Cure for Serpents," by Alberto Denti de Pirajno. Alberto is an Italian doctor who served in the African parts of the Italian Empire prior to and during the last war. For the most part he looked after the health of the local tribes, but more than that he lived among his patients, and grew fully to understand them as few white men ever do. Two stories he tells of the gratitude shown by patients illustrate' how success- ful he was in being accepted as a friend by chiefs of two proud tribes. The first,story concerns Fat- tuma and hr father, head of the Qouafi tribe. " The Qouafi had been in revolt against the Ita- lians, but had recently with- drawn from the conflict to see how the land lay. It was, there- fore, with some curiosity and trepidation that Alberto set out on receiving an urgent summons from their chief to go and cure his daughter. The Italian was expecting to find an arrogant and violent chieftain. Instead, he saw an old man bowed down with worry and fear. On a mat on the floor lay his daughter, scarcely re- . covered from a night of delir- ium, her glazed, dark -ringed eyes staring sightlessly into space. "Water," she murmured through cracked lips, and as Alberto bent to examine her she added: "My head hurts . . Her mother gripped the doctor's arms and told him how Fattuma had lost a lot of blood from the nose. She couldn't under- stand, she said, how it was that the evil spirits hadn't left with it. Dr. de Pirajno soon came to the conclusion that the evil spirits in this case were the germs of typhoid or paratyphoid fever. The .girl was treated ac- cordingly. She recovered. The mother wept, the ,father raised his hands in prayer. "Praise be to God, Lord of the worlds! The Compassionate, the Merciful . Allah had wiled that his daughter should live, and five camels waited outside Alberto's tent to take him •back •to the city. The sequel came three years later. During siesta time in the hottest part of the year, Dr. di Pirajno was awakened one day by his manservant, who told him that there was an. Arab to see him.' Wearilyhe got up and received his visitor, a tall, lean • Bedouin warrior with delicate features and dark, velvety eyes. The flowery greetings common to the Arabs were exchanged. Eventually the warrior got round to giving Alberto a letter from the chief. Greetings to our Lord Pirajno, the physician. May God have him in his keeping. Amen. With regard to the following, so that your health is good, by the mercy of God and His bles- sing, we ask a good word from you by your grace. Who brings yeu this is our honoured friend Ali of the Mad Sleiman, son of the pilgrim Mansur, God protect hila, Now he desires to marry my daughter, who is our only Is- sue. _ We are satisfied, and may God's will be done. ISut although Allah gave us a daughter, he also permitted you to give her a second lite when death was upon her. So we ask that you listen to the request and tell us if the prayer for the betrothal may be said. And we wait for your decision. And God be with you. Di Pirajno was touched. What doctor had ever been rewarded in so princely a manner? He gave his blessing and a wed- ding present. The warrior seized his hand and kissed it with ve- hement gratitude and rode off. Di Pirajno had had official dealing with him, and in course of conversation had mentioned that he was a doctor, whereup- on the aged prince had embraced him most enthusiastically and somewhat uncomfortably. A month later the prince's inter- preter arrived at Alberto's of- fice with a message saying that his master was dying and wished to . see him before he breathed ' his last. The doctor rushed to the prince's palace, to find him lay- ing almost naked on a couch. A girl was curled up behind him to serve as a bolster, another held his head up, while a third and fourth massaged his fore- arms vigorously as though they were kneading bread. Quickly Alberto diagnosed Jo - bar pneumonia, and soon the prince w a s unceremoniously wrapped ,in blankets and on his way to the local hospital in an ambulance. Within a few weeks he had completely recovered, and then cli Pirajno had to ex- perience the prince's gratitude. It started off tamely enough with an invitation to a banquet. Fortunately the doctor had a prodigious appetite and a weak- ness for.zighini, the Abyssinian stew made with red pepper. Half -way through the meal the dancing -girls came on, and a guest called on one of the girls to sing in honour of the doctor. She came before him and im- provised a song. She trembled before a lion, she sang, a gentle lion because he smiled at her, but a lion nevertheless—because he had been eating for four hours without a pause. Di Pirajno need not have been embarrassed; big eaters earned respect in Abyssinia. He rose, and in the flowery language of the region thanked the singer, complimenting her on her beau- ty and on her voice. That's where he made his mistake. The next day he re- ceived a gift from the prince —.the singer. Regretfully Alberto declined; the Viceroy didn't allow wom- en in his residence, he said, Three weeks later he returned home to hear a shattering roar which vibrated all his windows. In his house, held by two keep- ers, was a leopard, another gift from the prince to keep him company, He disposed of that by calling in the police chief to put the leopard and keepers into an empty shed. Later he pre- sented the animal to a native battalion as a mascot. Obsessed with the doctor's supposed loneliness, the prince next sent him a repulsive mon- strosity of a deformed hunch- back who went under the name of "My Joy." He was the prince's own court jester, and sang in a high voice. lumped on the fur- niture, -grabbed Alberto to make him dance with him. snapped at his legs under the table, and generally went to all lengths to make him laugh. But di Pir- ajno couldn't bear to be near him, and ordered him to be kept in the servants' quarters. Alberto was saved from fur- ther marks of the prince's grat- itude by returning home to Italy. But he had gathered a wealth of amusing and touching stories, and a great insight into the strange ways of the people of Italian Africa, all of which 11e has set down in "A Cure for Serpents." It Barclay Warren. 8.A., 11,1D. The World Into Whioh Jesue Came Luke 211-14 Memory Selection; Fear n for, behold; 1 bring you go tidings of great joy, which sh be to all people. Luke 2:10. For the next six months we shall be studying the Gospel oR Luke, and for three menthe more the book of Acts. These books were written by Luke, the physician, a companion 01 Paul. The Gospel of Luke gives us our most complete picture of Christ. 51 is a little longer than Matthew. Sixteen parables and six miracles are peculiar to this Gospel. Lulce was writing for a Gentile official, and no doubt with a larger Gentile audience in view. Luke himself was a Gentile of Greek culture. He passes over those elements in Christ's teaching which had particular ''reference to Jewish ideas and interests and dwells upon the aspects of Christ whieh Gentiles can readily un- derstand, The little country to which Jesus came was about 120 miles in length from north to south and with an average width from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River of about 40 miles. The people were under tribute to the Roman Emperor. The Greek language was widely known and it was in this lan- guage that most of the New Testament writers wrote. The life of Jesus here began as a miracle. He was born of a virgin. He was literally the Son of God and the Son of Man. This is most important. If we do not grasp this truth we may well doubt the record of mira- cles which follows. But know- ing that Jesus was the Son of God is a firm basis for faith; faith not only to accept the rec- ord as true but faith to accept Jesus Christ as our personal Saviour. A learned professor of philosophy said recently that "It is too broad and empty a propo- sition to say that through a crucified peasant, eternity is re- vealed in a unique way." He made this statement because he has not had the glorious revela- tion that this particular peasant was the Son of God. His unique entrance to this world was the first evidence of it, His resur- rection from the dead was the climaxing proof. Jesus Christ is the Son of God. ALL FOR HIS CATS A venerable French paintee sat in a roadside cafe in Mont- parnasse stolidly munching bag after bag of potato chips. His luncheon companion watched disapprovingly and finally, con- sumed with curiosity, asked, "Why do you eat so many potato chips?" The old man carefully shook out the crumbs, folded the Cel- lophane bags in which the po- tato chips had conte, placed them in his pocket and said: "I do it for my eats. They just love to play with Cellophane." 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