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The Seaforth News, 1962-01-04, Page 3• Grant's Fence Made Of Rule Barrels America is a land of fences, from the winding white boards. of Kentucky's bluegrass coun- try, to the barbed wire of west- ern ranches. There are lawn fences, and chicken fences, and even the stake -and -rider rails of Lincoln's Day. But at Grant's Farm, Missouri, is one of the strangest fences in the country, Thousands of people pass this historic fence daily, for it is lo- cated alongside a busy four -lane highway, But only a few know of its significance, the poignant drama, death and privation in- corporated into its cold steel. The long fence is made of Civ- il War rifle barrels, welded into a formidable barricade, There are 2,563 actual rifle barrels in the fence, Once ' those rifles were held by marching soldiers, in the greatest internal conflict ever fought. The men who held them-miaily of themboys b Ys -have all passed on. But the fence still eemains, a silent mem- orial. In this centennial year of the Civil War, this rifle -barrel fence brings into sharp focus the mag- situde and tragedy of the war itself, ' Back of the fence is a simple. log cabin, once the home of Uly- sses S; Grant, great Civil War general and 18th President. In its day the cabin must have been pretentious, with the usual "dog- trot" opening separating the two spacious rooms. And above the dogtrot spread the loft rooms, ' often used by children as bed- rooms. Grant himself felled the logs to build this cabin. Because at the time he was penniless, he called it Hardscrabble House, a name that still clings today. The ex -Army captain was 33 years old and "down on his luck" in 1855 when his father- in-law, Col. Frederick Dent, set aside 80 acres of his estate here for his daughter, Julia, married to the young soldier. The Grants lived here for four years, happy but poverty-strick- en. The only income Grant had was sale of vegetables from his truck patch, and wood he hauled !into Saint Louis on 'a two - wheeled cart, A graduate of West Point, he had seen service under Zachary Taylor in the newly admitted State of Texas. He fought with distinction in the Mexican War, earned the rank of captain, writes Grover Brickman in the Christian Science Monitor. But hard times dogged Grant's foosteps, In his discouragement he turned to the bottle, finally resigned from the Army. When he started building Hardscrab- ble House, both his spirit and his bank account were low. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 2F73 -4911g06 rea 011851 5 1j 3 .1. 3 a V 5 V V 3 a d 5 N 3 0aa HVa J.a013 0 i 1 I O O a V 3 5 O 1 N WI SPIV O7 5 A 3 3 a R 1 6 0 d 5 .1.9c15O.1.9c155 159 Nid 1 7 7 0I l H 5 5.LN 090 d' 0dons av tI dRIVd•V1 With the help of his wife, he started all anew at Grant's Farm. Misfortune still pursued hlm however. Be tried to sell real estate, failed, As a last resort he re-entered his father's lea- ther store at Galena, Illinois in an effort to support himself, Then came the Civil War --- and the rest of Grant's Life is glorious history, He was a bril- liant strategist in the war. When it was over,. he was a national hero, Ile was elected President, served two terms. But once . out of the White House, living as a eivillfan, his lack of aptitude for business pursued hien even more tena- ciously. By 1884 he was bank- rupt. The final days of his life were spent writing his Personal Mem- oirs, which today is hailed as one of the noted autobiographies of American literature, Perhaps the greatest memorial to his honor is his burial place, asG Grant's a mausoleum known Tomb near the bank of the Hud- son in New York City. But the really poignant years of his life, his struggle with pov- erty and many' types of advers- ity, including his battles with himself, were spent at Hard- scrabble House, The rifle -barrel fence that "guards" the old cabin is sig- nificant of the real Grant -the man who could not succeed as a civilian, but was brilliant as an army officer in the service of his country. Ancient Treasures Brought To Light Striking out across the Judean Desert, an Israeli task force of soldiers, scholars, and students moved in on their objective, the 1,200 -foot high cliffs on the wes- tern edge of the Dead Sea, The mission, however, was peaceful: To rescue from the obscurity of the centuries the heroic deeds of Simon Bar Kochba, who led the ancient Hebrews in a . revolt against Rome in A.D. 132-135. In New York to report on the Success e! the ex edition was Yigael Yadin, a leader of the group, former chief of staff of the Israeli Army, and now pro- fessor of archeology at H brew University. "We uncovered the most important documents 'since the Dead Sea Scrolls," Yadin said, in clipped British accents. The new find, a cache of fifteen Bar Kochba letters and 49 other documents, was discovered in a cave tucked in the cliff face. The documents, scrupulously dated, range from A.D. 88 to 135, Dr, Yadin explained, "They bring Bar Kochba to life in a dramatic way. As a general, he was more like Patton than Eisenhower," ex -General Yadin commented. "He wasn't using any niceties. In a letter to his lieutenants, for instance, he complained: You sit, eat, and drink from the prop- erty of the House of Israel, and care nothing for your brothers'." At first, the Jews met, victory; the diggers uncovered copper jugs, probably booty taken by the Jews But Rome's best le‘ gions eventually crushed the re- volt. The remnants of the army fled with their families to the Dead Sea caves, there to be be- sieged into starvation, Bar Koch - ba was probably killed in the fall of Bethar, the last Jewish stronghold. ISSUE 48 - 1961 !LOVES THAT POUND -Ail 200 pounds of good old Sam, iis St. Bernard, are as mixed up as can be. The Denver och has got it in his head that the pound is a second oome, Every time Sam sees the dogcatcher's truck he leaps to the front sept and tries to lick the dogcatcher's hands. tend Jones, one of his pound pals, holds him fora picture during r' s of three visits in two months,- . GOURD GLAMOUR -These squashes apparently can't de- cide whether they're animal or vegetable, Barbara Ray, left, holds one that looks like a; goose. Sandra Kay Bathe's squash is a "penguin." THLPARM FRONT John If men can learn effectively to control the harmful activities of insects, they will have taken a giant step in meeting the chal- lenge of the future. If they can drastically reduce the horde of uninvited guests that share humanity's larder, • they will substantially increase available food supplies. If they can curb the harass- ment of men and their domestic animals by mosquitoes, tse-tse flies and the like, they will lift an age-old burden from many of the earth's people. What is needed is a program of peaceful coexistence with the in- ' sect world. Many insects are merely in- nocuous, Some, like the bees, are decidedly beneficial, Even the ants and termites that damage houses help turn dead wood into soil and are an essential part of the economy of the forest. Certainly we do not want to demolish the insects, Yet the vandalism of some of them can- not continue to be tolerated if we are to make the most of the re- sources of our own world. Gad- flies, for example, can destroy a whole rice harvest, while the "winged stomach" of North Africa, the desert locust, is a legendary agent of famine. * 0 * Insects, of course, are only one of the types of organisms with which men must cope. Rats, fungi, and malignant microbes are others. The subject is so wide ranging it would take a series in itself to do it justice. For the sake of brevity and clarity, the case of the insects is singled out as typifying the problem ,as a whole. To state it in its most general terms, the problem is that of learning to share our planet with the hosts of other organisms that also inhabit it while effectively curbing the damage that some of them inflict on mankind. It is a problem that, in a biol- ogical sense, demands much tact and understanding. Our experi- ences in trying to cope with the insects illustrate this well. The insecticides that have brought many benefits are look- ing more and more like a pallia- tive rather than a solution. They often kill useful and harmful insects alike, poison wildlife and, if mishandled, can be dangerous to men. What is more, there is a serious question as to their long-term effectiveness. Insects species may develop resistance to insecticide formulas. After a period of temporary re- 1 i e f, entomologists sometimes find a resurgence of a' pest they are trying to eradicate. Their efforts have resulted merely in developing an insecticide -resis- tant strain. 0 * This is what the United Na- tions ran into in its celebrated campaign to eradicate the ma- laria mosquito, The campaign, which was organized in all In- fested countries, has been one of the most successful insect control programs ever undertaken. But along with their success, the mosquito fighters found time and again that poison -resistant strains were developing, so that the final chapter in this story has yet to be written, it is experiences like this that are forcing entomologists to look for more basic solutions to insect control. What they are looking for are specific means of controlling the ravages of specific insects with- out doing wider damage or up- setting the balance of nature in the process. This calls, for fund- amental knowledge of the blot: ogy of various ihseete and of the ecological niches they fill, writes Robert C. Cowen, in the Chris- tian Science Monitor. In a rough way, men have been practicing this kind of con- trol when they develop insect resistant strains of crop plants or when they fight a particular in- sect with its natural enemies. Now the need is to expand basic entomological knowledge and re- fine it into a many -pronged and flexible tool that will enable men to match the growth of food supplies and living standards, es- pecially in developing countries, with the rise of increasingly ef- fective methods to control food - destroying and other harmful insects. Sometimes the necessary meth- od is just a sensible use of insec- ticides guided by a basic under- standing of the insects with which one is dealing and used on a broad enough scale to handle a pest over a large area. Consider the desert locust. Prof. Ritchie Calder of Edinburgh Uni- versity has described its case well in his book "After the Seventh Day." It was he who coined the colorful description of this locust as "merely a winged stomach with a jaw. * * * "The 'strategic' range of the locusts is so great that a swarm originating in East Africa will devastate southern Russia or Iran or Pakistan," he says Yet he tells how a locust plague was avoided through an international campaign organized by the Unit- ed Nations that was able to lo- cate and destroy many of the swarms of hoppers on the ground before they took wing on a flight of devastation. More needs to be known about the habits and life cycle of this insect effectively to control it. Yet, in this case, the crucial as- pect of control is international co-operation in applying knowl- edge and control measures ona broad scale. Professor Calder notes this co-operation has deter- iorated in recent years, making a continually effective UN control program difficult. Sometimes it may turn out that it is better to try to find an al- ternative solution to a particular insect -associated problem than that of eliminating the insect In the case of malaria, for example, hope now is pinned on eliminat- ing the malaria parasite frem hu- man hosts rather than making an extraordinary effort to wipe out DDT -resistant mosquitoes, If the parasite can be removed while the mosquito population is low, the mosquitos will have nothing to transmit if and when their numbers are Significantly re- stored, * * t Still others of the new meth- ods of insect control may use subtle techniques based on sex or on genetic factors, For ex- ample, experiments are being tried in various places in which the mating call of a certain in- sect is recorded, amplified, and broadcast by loudspeakers to at- tract males or females to traps. In another promising approach, which is discussed in the ac- companying article, the repro- duction of insects is curtailed and a pest controlled in this way, Whatever the methods -em- ployed, the new approaches to insect control which now are being explored for long-term control in the future, feature specific control of specific pests without injuring other species. If one wished to speed up the i overt, ld attack on worldwide poverty, this is an area of basic entomolo- gical research in which an in- creased effort could pay big divi- dends, HOW TO TREAT THOSE CAMERA MEN Technically, Morocco's Prince Abdallah married Lebanese beau- ty Lamia Solh two years ago, when their families signed a nup- tial contract. But Abdallah and Lamia weren't considered hus- band and wife until this month's colorful medieval ceremony for which the bride chose a $14,000 Western - style wedding dress with a '72 -foot train, only to be ordered not to wear it, Abdal- lah's brother, King Hassan II, ruled in favor of a traditional Moorish gown, Another hitch: Some 60 bulb -popping press photographers upset Hassan, who brandished his swagger stick and commanded: "Everybody out- side!" , With that, while Lamia tittered behind her satin veil, royal aides and army officers ejected the cameramen bodily, There's nothing like an alarm clock to tell you the best part of ti^ day is over. NDAY SCI00I LESSON By Rev. R. B. Warren, B.A., B.B. R.P. Sunday School Lesson Growth Through Bible Study 2 Timothy 1;10, 4:5, Memory Selection; Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I. might not sin against thee, Psalm 119:11. Jesus understood the scriptures better than anyone else. They spoke of him.When, in the syna- gogue. at Nazareth, he finished reading the prophecy from Isaia ah. concerning himself, he said, "This day is this scripture ful- filled in your ears." After his resurrection as he walked with the two disciples on the way to Emmaus, "beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expound- ed unto them in all the scrip- tures the: -things concerning him- self." One may know h P the scriptures t ores without receiving Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. Jesus said to such, "You study the scriptures diligently, supposing that in hav- ing them you have eternal life; yet, although their testimony points to me, you refuse to come' to me for that life." (John 5:39, 40, N,E.B,) It isn't enough to know the scriptures; we must walk in the light of them. The verse in our lesson which has been most discussed is, 2 Timothy 3:16, The words, 'given by inspiration' are the transla- tion of a Greek word, literally meaning, 'God breathed'. There is no suggestion in the passage that the inspiration of the 01,1 Testment scriptures was being challenged. The point is that the holy scriptures which Timothy has known from a child, are not only able to make him wise unto salvation, but are "profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correc- tion, for instruction in righteous- ness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works." Timothy ought, therefore, to continue to study the scriptures that he im- prove in his ministry. Paul was not a higher critic, telling people that certain parts of the scrip- tures might be ignored. If he had been, he would not have been winning people to Jesus Christ as he did. - 7. Rennes 8. Allotted Portions 9. Owned 10. Ailing 11. By birth 16; a -shaped curve 20. Cow -headed goddess 21 Part 22, Vani'y 23, Wen'. er's bobbins on a shuttle 24 Pronounce mens 26. Nurtures CR SSW ° RD PUZZLE ACROSS 61. Antitoxins 1 Paper DOWN mulberry baric 1, Acme 6. Pro 2. Swiss river 8. 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S1 0' Answer elsewhere on this page Seething Congo at I�a5 Glance �l� I'lll ,it 141'1'' Ilii I�iL6i�li'!li. i4 II �a ii a,l i t0 Al.1.04 IAcb1,9.!I i, ,! ii til Leopoldville Leopoldville Elisabethvill ilei. '+I MILES 0 200 Ne swop it 1, til CENTRAL Congolese government at Leopoldville under Premier Cyrille Adoula seeks to unify The Congo. SECESSIONIST Moise Tshombe is the strong leader of Katanga prov- ince, who resists unity efforts, ELISABETHVILLE is stronghold For 1 Tshombe's forces. BALUNDA tribesmen, southern Ka - tango, support Tshombe. BALUBA tribesmen, traditional ene- mies of the Balunda,support the cen- tral Congolese government. ALBERTVILLE is in hands of Prosper Mwamba, Belube tribal leader and arch foe of Tshombe, ANTOINE GIZENGA, leftist vice premier. of The Congo's government, seems ready to support crackdown on Tshombe, He once hoped to don the mantle of the late Patrice Lumumbd, one-time premier of The Congo, STANLEYVILLE is seat of Gizenga's regime, U,N, TROOPS in The Congo, approx- imately 17,000, seek to preserve or- der. Some 7,000 join 5,000 Congelese opposing Tshombe's 9,000 troops in southern Katanga. U.N: s additional soldiers are on duty with 15,000 na- tive troops elsewhere in The Congo; Newsmap highlights element of the complex Congo situation now before the United Nations Security Council. The Congo question may spillover into Gen- eral Assembly' debate later in the session, Provinces of Congo are; Leopold- ville, EgUator Oriental, Kivu, Kasai, Kotrnga Shaded areas in embattled ICatango province indicute home regions of Balunda (pro-Tshombe) and Balubo (pro -Congo) tribes, traditional enemies.