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The Seaforth News, 1953-11-05, Page 7ARM:11001 LESSON By tern R eaestay Werra 8 A.. B. D. Stronger Churches -.Better Communities Acts 2:41.47; Philippians 1:27-30; Peter 2:4-5, 9-10 Memory Selection: Let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ. Philippians 1:27. It is always refreshing to read again tahe flet chapters of the Book of Acts and catch the spirit of the early church. There was no caste system. Alter preach- ing for the first time in a cer- tain town church I was informed that the other church of the same denomination in that town was where the "upper" folks went. Well, there were no social dis- tinctions in the early church All had been sinners and all had been saved by the grace of the same Savior, Jesus Christ. They were brethren. No fraternity or association has ever equalled the fellowship of the early church, They were a praying people They praised God. There are many people like the nine lepers who can pray when in trouble but who forget God when trouble is past, They pray but do not praise, The folk in the early church had emerged from darkness into light. They were conscious of their high calling and were eager to win others to the faith they enjoyed. We need stronger churches for better communities, But we must not think of strength merely in . terms of wealth or numbers. Spiritual power is not achieved by money. While every church is eager to add to its number, we should expect the prospec- tive member to give evidence of having repented of his sins and believed on Jesus Christ to the saving of his soul. We have known of neon to join church and strut to a front seat when most of the congregation were seated, — for business reasons. Such men are using the church rather than God using them in the church, We need the spirit of purity and power of the early church. We need it everywhere. If we are to see a purification from our social evils, the church must be clean, Let us ask ourselves, "If every member were just like me, what kind of a church would my church be?" Let us pray, "Search me, 0 God, and know my heart: try rne, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting" Psalm 139:23-24. From the office of a memory training institution the follow- ing letter was addressed to a man who had taken the course: pr , "Sir,—We feel gratified that you should have taken the trouble to call for the purpose of expressing your satisfaction with our memory system. "May we ask if you will be good enough to write us a letter stating the benefit you have, de- rived from the completed course —with permission to publish? "P.S. — Your umbrella and gloves which you inadvertently left at this office have been 'for- warded to you by parcel post." SALLY'S sAtLIES "Most clothes designers are men, dear; That's why skirts are going 1, 1.0 .en..,..n Don't Drive Side -Blinded' The human eye hos the anility to "see" and recognize objects on either side while looking straight ahead, This Is called "side vision," it is known that when you are driving, this ability rapidly decreases with speed. Pictures below are accurately sealed to test data compiled by the Claims and Safety Department of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. They show how you lose "side vision" at 30 and 60 miles per hour, Have you ever had a car suddenly appear in front of you "from nowhere"? That car came from the shaded areas shown in second and third pictures below. Ever fail to see a traffic signal or sign? It was in the shaded area. Even though intersections may be unobstructed, collisions cart happen because both drivers might be in side« blind" zones where neither would notice the other. Protect yourself by looking from side to side instead of always gazing straight ahead. Normal "side vision" when not moving. (Usually 180 degrees or more.) At 30 miles per hour, "side vision" is cut in half. (You now have about 96 degrees.) At 60 miles per hour, you are, in effect, looking through a tunnel, (You now have about 42 degrees.) Son Was Hanged For Mother's Crime What would you say if you had spent nineteen years in jail on a murder charge and then were proven completely inno- cent? Skeleton -thin Carlo Bor- bisiero wept when he heard he was to be freed from his life sentence this year — and all the court wept with him. Carlo had been deliberately framed on a murder charge by a local Italian police chief. Everyone in his village anew he was five miles away at the time of the crime yet they dared not speak tinder the fascist regime. The real murderer confessed to a prison priest who had to fight for seventeen years to get a new trial. Acquitted 'at long last after Italy's worst miscarriage of jus- tice of the century, Carlo was carried semi-conscious from court and now believes he 'has little time to live. He is seriously ill with tuberculosis, "Innocent men are never con- victed," wrote an arrogant Mas- sachusetts prosecutor recently. Yet a Florida railwayman was actually on the scaffold with a rope round his neck when it was discovered that the death war- rant mistakenly ordered the exec cution of the jury foreman, In Alabama, William Wilson was condemned to death on a murder charge after his wife and daughter had disappeared. Bones were found on his farm b u t Successful Operation — Catherine Anne (left) and Carol Mouton are the first Siamese twins to be successfully separated. The twins, born at Lafayette, La., were born joined at the spine. Their parents are Mayor and Mrs. Ashton Mouton, The girls are in excellent condition, never clearly identified. The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and Wil- son served years of hard labour before the "dead" wife turned up again. She, with her daugh- ter, had been living with another man. Or take the case of Negro James Montgomery who actually served twenty-four years of a life sentence though innocent, on an assault charge involving an elderly woman, He was at last freed — yet never compensated — after it was proved that the prosecution had deliberately sup- pressed evidence which would have proved his innocence. In Spain two men served eight years of a life sentence for mur- dering a shepherd and then one night their "victim" -reported to the police. In Lisbon, pretty Louise Damasco collapsed and died of shock after hearing her husband condemned to death. And well she might. For his in- nocence was proved and he was released from prison — though not until thirteen years later. It's often claimed that it couldn't happen in Britain. But it was in the British Isles, in `hs days before southern Ireland was severed, that Charles McLough- lin was accused of murdering his father and sentenced to death. Through a lighted window a witness had seen Cherie., cov- ered with blood, struggl'ng to lift a dead body from the'floor In the corner McLoughlin's mother crouched, watching the ghastly scene. Next day McLouglilin's tattier was found buried in a shallow grave near the house — and the imprint of Charles's barite led from the house. On the scaffold he was heard to say: "Mother, may God 'for- give your" Twenty years later, old Mrs McLoughlin confessed that she had killed her husband with an axe, Her son had come home un- expectedly, discovered the crime and triad to conceal it, But • Charles McLoughlin preferred to hang rather than betray his mother. (lUIC1C ANSWER A public prayer meeting for rain held in a park in Olney sud- denly had to be moved indoors, A torrential downpour caused a postponement of the prayer while the congregation scuttled for shelter. Haif-Cent cost Caused Many Riots When tram fares go up in India, the balloon may go up, too. Riots in Calcutta over a half -cent in- crease in second-class fares Went on for weeks, and continued even after the increase was suspended pending an investigation by an independent tribunal, Trams have been burse d, bombs have been thrown, ten people have been killer. — and police, unable to cope with the rioters, have relieved their feel- ings by beating up reporters and Press photographers, Indian protests against unpopu- lar decisions are apt to take spec- tacular forms. About the same time that the Calcutta riots were on, hours in Madras primary schools were cut from five and a half to three. Educational enthusiasts regis- tered their disapproval by squat- ting on the single-track railway lines when trains were due. It is not only in India that demonstrations "agin the Gov- ernment" may take embarrassing forms Even before the big French strike started, disgruntled wine -growers blocked the roads in the Herault department in 300 places. Forty thousand people turned out, led by their senators, Parlia- mentary deputies, and mayors wearing scarves of office. They barricaded the roads with bar- rels of unsaleable wine, tractors and other farm equipment, and brought all traffic to a standstill. The object of the exercise was to try to make the Government buy the huge surpluses of cheap, rough wine that have accumu- lated during the last two years and turn them into industrial al- cohol. But as nobody would want the industrial alcohol any more than they want the surplus wine, the Government aren't keen on the idea. On a smaller scale, hut even more intriguing in some respects, was a recent educational protest in Southern Italy. An attempt was made to abduct a school teacher whose pupils had failed to pass their examinations. "So you were in hospital ten weeks? Must have been pretty ill," "No, pretty nurse!" WEFMM FRONT You poultry raisers have many things to contend with—high costs, poor prices and so forth. But thank your lucky star that you're not trying to make a liv- ing from poultry in England — because over there they have the Humane Society to contend with toot 4, According to the New York Times, The English Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is vigorously fighting the cage iaying system, because it is "unnatural," and thus "con- ducive to unhappiness among hens," The hen "becomes a mere egg laying machine" whose or- gans are "over -stimulated." the cruelty preventers claim. 4 # M They stirred up so much fuss that there's a lively debate go- ing on In the newspapers •-- and there may be a hill in Parliament. Meanwhile, the Farmers' Un- ion, British national farm organ- isation, is fighting the poultry - men's battle. According to a Far- mers' Union spokesman, a hen likes to do nothing but lay eggs —"it's her crowning glory." Also, he points out, battery hens are healthier, they don't peck one another, they keep their feet dry ("and that's frightfully import- ant to a chicken") and all in all a battery hen's life is "no more unnatural than the life of a man and his dog in a London flat" # # # There's agreement on ,just one thing: battery hens do lay more eggs. # Ever troubled with eggs that have blood spots in them? Be- lieve it or not, the cause may be too much racket near the lay- ing -house. R # * Washington State College sci- entists don't come right out and say so, yet, but so far it seems to be true. # # # They ran some tests after Prof. W. J. Stadelman noticed a big jump in the number of eggs with bloody spots while he was re- modeling a laying house. At the same time, a nearby road was under construction. # # i After he was through remodel- ing, Stadelman got to thinking. To make sure he wasn't fooling himself, he made recordings of guns firing, road graders roar- ing, and other noises that hens might hear. Then he took his ma- chine into the laying house and blasted away with the recordings. His experiment showed that the hens in the noisy pens did lay more blood -spotted eggs than other hens in a house without the disturbing noise. * * u It makes sense—scientists have said before that blood spots can be caused when hens jump off high roosts, or give themselves a severe jolt of same kind. * R 4, Dr, Richard Ringrose thinks that he has the answer to why tall anal winter -hatched pullets mature earlier and lay mallet eggs than spring -hatched birds. It's due to the difference in day - length during their growing per- iod, he says. # # # October -to -January birds, with only daylight, make their early growth during short days. As they approach maturity, days are longer, so they hve time to eat more. That's when they shoot on to faster maturity. # V # Dr. Ringrose says that it's a good idea to put birds on a 14 - hour day with lights as soon as they're hatched. That way, they'll begin eating more tight from the start and mature more evenly. If you have a good market tor broiler hatching eggs, particular- ly of the smaller sizes, then it may pay to give fall -hatched pul. lets no more than normal day- light and let them mature earlier, he says. But certainly it pays 10 give market egg producers the 14 -hour clay immediately, to get larper eggs. Clipper To Pleasure Boat Rolling and pitching in a green hell, decks awash, sail Clapping crazily, typhoon winds howling about the rigging, the stern kick- ing at a black sky — this was the Cutty Saric . the China Sea , . . this was training! "You're young, aren't you?' rasped the director. The recruit gulped. "Yes, sir," he said. "What experience have you had?" "I served my time in the Cutttt Sark, sir." "What, under Woodget? And you're still alive?" "Yes, sir. With Captain Woodget." The director of the P. & 0.. Company looked hard at him for a moment, then told him the firm of tailors the company used. Irving was signed on. To -day, Captain Irving, at eighty - one, runs pleasure launches on the Thames. And the Cutty Sark? She is there also, tied up alongside the Royal Navy College at Greenwich . quiet and still, far from the sav- Far Eastern weather, her bare mast and spars filled with Old Age and land -breezes — a train- ing ship for Merchant Navy offi- cers. "I can think of no better end- ing for the story of the Cutty Sark," writes H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh, in an introduction to Alan Villiers' new book "The Cutty Sark," an exciting story o► - the sea, She was trying hard to impress her companion. "I'm looking forward," she said, "to celebrating my twenty- fourth birthday next week." Suggested her girl friend: "Aren't you looking in the wrong direction?" Plowmen and Cheese Lovers Too — With the National Cheese Festival in full swing this month, many Canadian housewives are discovering that the healthful dairy product is the number one food at every meal. Dairyman J, C, Eccles, Brampton, centre, recognized number one plowman and holder of the World Plow- ing Championship alreadyknows knows the protein value of cheese, He is shown here tasting a piece of Canadian cheddar with tho Minister of Agriculture, the Honourable Fletcher S. Thomas, left, Odd Braut, Norway, runner-up for the plowing championship, is at the right, Over 70 guests, including repre- sentatives from 11 countries, received complimentary two ounce pieces of cheese on behalf of the Dairy Par•mers of Canada at a farewell dinner far the World Championship Plowing Organi.• lotion.