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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1943-09-02, Page 3•r� THIS CURI, t1S WQRLD Ey whop Ferguson; • 6FiFrv. FiviE ARE LISTED iN THE AMERICAN NAUTICAL - ALMANAC FOR THE LSE Of NAVIGATORS. goIESS THAN ONE CENTURY Ae0 IT WAS DECIPED THAT MANL Q WOIJLp CONCEAL ANLC, HIS HEART STOP IF HE EVER.. TF2.A\/LEP A 01/1.01...,E .4 M/NC/7- '�''-CCPR. 1941 BY NEA SERVICE. INC, T. M. REG. U..$. PAT. OFF. L 9-13 ANSWER: Colgate, Hamilton, N. Y.; Brigham—Young, Provo, VAIN. Baylor, Waco, Tex.: Temple, Philadelphia, Pa. NEXT: The highest railroad. f A FARM WIFE CHATS TO WOMEN By Gwendoline P. Clarke Last Sunday we had visitors from a distance—a farmer and his wife, both of whom I would think are in their early sixties. They have had a long hard life always with too much work and too little comfort, Now the man is pretty well used •up with rheumatism, and his wife—well, I'm sure Mrs. Blank doesn't weigh a hundred pounds. s Mrs, Blank and I were talking, ta.s farm women will, of the sea- son's work and how difficult it had been to get things done this year after such a late spring. As -we talked -I could tell that mrs. Blank was a completely exhausted and discouraged women and I said to her—"Mrs. Blank, Why on earth don't you quit—retire, if you would rather call it• that?" "Retire? So I would—'but I can't quit by myself, can I?" answered Mrs. Blank. The logical reasoning behind her counter -question just about had me floored and it has been in my mind ever since because it applies to hundred of farm couples throughout the couutry where the women keep on. working only be- cause their husbands do. The farmer's wife may be fit or she may not be, but she tags aloug with her man, clay atter day, simply because she has to—be- cause "she can't retire alone". I think 'in the 'Social Security plans after the war it should be possible for farm couples over sixty to secure small holdings— say from one to five acres where they could keep poultry, a couple of pigs if they wanted to, and grow a good garden. In fact just enough land and stock to keep an average couple happy acrd oc- cupied. Probably one thing that keeps aging couples on farms long after their health and strength are ROBINSON CRUSOE Here's how Marine Staff Sergi. Bill Coffeen of Chicago looked on arrival at Guadalcanal after 12 days of wandering around isolated SouthPacific islands. Forced down on air mission, he lived on coconuts; met friendly natives who cared for hint, then was spotted and rescued by navy patrol plane. 1 spent is the thought. that if they retire and take a house in town they wouldn't know what to do with themselves. But offer such a couple a few acres of land and a warm compact little house in which to live and I am pretty sure nine out of ten would be glad to give up the home place to the younger folk and be quite content to spend. the evening of their years usefully but leisure- ly employed. * * Of course such -a plan would only be made, possible if the government were to buy ,up some of the larger . farms and divide them into small holdings, each complete with a house and, some outbuildings. A number of these farms might well form a sort of colony for retired farmers. Many a man might feel he could not afford to quit the farm to buy a house in town and yet might be only too glad to buy a small place where he would be assured of a partial living and a comfortable home amid the rural surrounding to which he has been accustomed all his life. There now, don't you think I have put forward a good plan for taking care of elderly farmers and their wives in the post-war years? But I suppose my suggestions will fall on deaf ears. As for ourselves, Partner and I would hardly be eligible for anything like that just yet but it would certainly be nice to look forward to—a sort of far- mer's paradise. * * In the meantime we have a war to think about, and all our plans, years and 'nine, are contingent upon the winning of that war. As to that I' am sure everyone has been heartened by recent Allied successes, but there will also be heavy hearts as the casualties of the Sicilian campaign are made known. That is unfortunately inevitable. And there will be other anxious mothers too. I mean the mothers of eighteen -year old sons. Young lads, who when the war started, were hardly out of public school. I am sure many a mother in 1939 looked at her school -boy son and said, "Well, thank .goodness niy Hughie is too young for this war anyway." But now Hughie's turn has come and it is up to Hughie's mother to be a soldier as well as her son. A soldier in the home—for Hughie. SUNDAY. S.CHO• 0L L ESS.0'N September 1.2. " ISRAEL MARCHES TOWARD, CANAAN — Numb'ers' 10;11-- 12:16. PRINTED TEi(T Numbers 100,1, 12, 29,36 GOLDEN TEXT—Come thou with us,, and we will do thee good. Numbers 10:29. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time—The spring of 1444 B.Q. Place ----The wilderness of Pav- an, south of Sinai, Order of the Host "And' it came to Gass in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony. And the children of Israel set forward according to their journeys out of the wil- derness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paean."• While detailed instructions in re- gard to the ordering of the camp for these years of wandering through the wilderness were ab- solutely essential for discipline and efficiency, the details do not carry .great spiritual truths and we need not dwell on then. It will be noticed that the tribe of Judah, which was always the most important sof the twelve tribes, from which David and all the kings of Judah arose, and from which the Lord Jesus Christ ultimately came, is placed first. God's Ministers for Good "And Moses ,:aid unto Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midanite, Moses' father-in-law, We are journeying unto the place of which Jehovah said, I will give it you: come thou with us, andwe will do thee good; for Jehovah hath spoken good concerning Israel. And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kin- dred. And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; for as much as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou shalt be to us instead of eyes. And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what good soever Jehovah shall do unto us, the sante will we do unto thee." It is an obvious conclusion, from the reasons here urged by Moses, that the many and won- derful promises of divine guid- ance and divine direction did not supersede in his eyes the use of all available human aids. . if we recall to mind that the host is calculated at more than two millions of people, it is quite evi- dent that even during the march to Iiadesh (and much more . in the long wanderings which fol- lowed) it must have been ex- tremely difficult to keep the various divisions together. In the broken and difficult country which they were to traverse, which had been familiar to Hobab from his youth, there would be scope enough for all his ability as a guide. And it would seem that it was just this prospect of being really useful to the people that prevailed with Hobab. We HAPPY WARRIOR Flower -bedecked, even to the barrel of his rifle, and laden with fruit, this British Tommy tramps through Catania, where enthusi- astic Sicilians greeted conquer- ing army with cheers and gifts. CANADIANS IN SICILY Long, forced route marches which had been part of the. Canadians' three-year training in England helped patrols like this to move rapidly and relentlessly from town to town in the invasion of Sicily. Peasant donkey carts like this one were commandeered to haul heavy weapons and other equipment. seek our Hobabs in the advice of sage, gray-haired counsellors; in the formation of strong, intelli- gent, and wealthy committees; in a careful observance of pre- cedent, • Anything seems better than a simple reliance on an un- seen guide. Now, in one sense, there is no harm in this. We have neither rignht or need to cut ourselves adrift from others, who' have had siiecial experience in some new ground on which we are venturing. It is a mistake to live a hermit life, thinking out all our own problems, and meeting all our own questions ' `as best' we niay. Those who do so are apt to become self-opinion- ated and full of crotchets. God often speaks to us through our fellows; they are his ministers to us for good, and we do well to listen to our Samuels, our Isaiahs, our Johns. Divine Guidance "And they set forward from the mount of Jehovah three days' journey; and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah went before thein three days' journey, to seek out a resting -place for them. And the cloud of Jehovah was over them by day, .when they set for- ward from the camp. And it came to pass, when the ark set . forward, that Moses said, Rise up, 0 Jehovah, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee. And when it rested, he said, Return, 0 Jehovah, unto the ten thousands of the thou- sands of Israel." The original word here ren- dered `scattered' denotes the action of waters in overflowing their banks, and is thence figur- atirejg. ipplied. to bodies of niers rushing in impetuous crowds and Pressing out of tlie„pathway on either side like a raging stream that bursts over its banks. When spoken of the dispersion of ene- mies it implies a routing and dis- comfiture that shall drive then one way and another like the foundations of a flood. So, when typically viewed, the language suggests that the death and re- surrection of the Saviour is the breaking and dissipation of the combined forces of His enemies (Ps. 68:2, 3, 13, 15), while on the other hand it is a `gathering together in one of the children of God that were scattered abroad', (John 11:51, 52; Isa. 11:10, .1). We have more need of God in times of peace than in times of effort. It is harder to realize His presence in the brief hours of relaxation than even in the .many hours of strenuous toil. There is quite as much, if not more, peril to communion of soul with God in times when the whole nature is somewhat re- laxed, than there is in times of work. So let us take special care of our hours of repose, and be quite sure that they are so spent as that we can ask when the day's work is done, and we have come to slippered ease, in preparation for nightly rest, `Return, 0 Lord, unto Thy wait- ing servant.' Work without God unfits for rest with Him. Rest without God unfits for work for Hint. The Pentagon building In Wash- ington housing war department offices occupies a square mile. Goodbye to Spinach The sands seem to be running out for—if not front --spinach. The reign of this green -leaf veget- able has been threatened for some time—apart, of course, from the unceasing war waged against it by the childern. Dr. Henry C. Sherman, professor of chemistry at Columbia University, has given the insipid "green -feed" a further push down the toboggan, He terms "spinach" an unfortunate. Of course, other scientists have said the same thing. The Mayo Brothers at Rochester, Minn., criticized spinach so severely as to cause a marked decline in real estate values in the vicinity of Crystal City, Texas, the world's largest spinach -growing centre, where a statue of Popeye the Sailor adorns the landscape. But the blasting of spinach be- gan long before today. As long ago as 1845, according to Mr. Eric Patridge's generally admirable "Dictionary of Slang and Uncon- ventional English," the term "gam- mon and spinach" was in collo. quiet use in London as meaning "nonsence and humbug" — and Charles Dickens employed the name in the same sense. On this side of the Atlantic, and in our own day, the little girl in "The New Yorker," with her immortal "I say it's spinach — and the hell with it," had kept up the war against the flat -tasting vegetable, even before science in- formed us willing -to -he told folk that spinach contains too muck oxalic acid for the good of our innards. Well, so be it. We are inclined to climb on the anti -spinach band- wagon andwagon with the children and the servants — and to add our pre- diction, green and puny though it may be, that the days of spinach like the sand it invariably con- veys to our protesting molars„ are numbered. In the United States sockeye salmon are sometimes called bluer backs. JAPANESE EMPEROR HORIZONTAL 1 Pictured ruler of Japan, 12 Elongated fish. 13 Sun god. 14 Pronoun. 15 Beverage. 17 Sped. 19 Strike lightly. 21 Entire. 23 Measure of area. 25 Negative. 27 Tops of waves 28 Males. 30 Slender bar. 32 Beret. 33 Kind of cheese. 35 Turbine wheel. 36 Poison. 37 Pack. 39 Quarrel. 41 Compass point 42 Pronoun. 43 Friend. 44 Belonging to it. 45 Pertaining to us. Answer to Previous Puzzle DDA S' I Nd111112a.-(4©OQ DD EN CC,E BLOWN N 46 Near. 47 Backward. 49 Full of briskness. 53 Dessert. 54 Knit. 56 Crafty. 57 Light brown. 58 Meditated. 60 Exist. 62 Delicate skill. 63 Child'S ropm. VERTICAL 2 Myself, 3 By. 4 Enthusiasm. 5 Either. 6 Rodent. 7 Little demon. 8 Musical note. 9.Whole. 10 Misfortunes. 11 Tellurium (symbol). 16 Title. 18 Correlative of neither. 20 Form of "be." 21 Limb. 22 Like. 24 Color. 26 Canadian cit. 27 Decaying. 29 His nation used — units to attack the U. S. A. 31 Cupolas. 32 Capital of his empire, ----- . ' 34 Encountered: 38 Rotates. 39 Mast. 4o Lignt tap. 44 Anger. 47 Excellent. 48 Vehicle. 50 Exclamation of pity. 51 Funeral fire. 52 Biblical pronoun. 53 Cooking utensil. 54 Pedal digit.. 55 Numeral. 571Vtusic note. 58. Postscript (abbr.). 59 Dutch (abbr.), 61 Symbol for erbium. POP—. , . and Clean Linen 5i I-40NDQEt) DOLLARS By J. PILLAR WATT IN CLI mma 131ZEA14PA ST Metioraukeio 11 A 1 1 49 50 51 52. POP—. , . and Clean Linen 5i I-40NDQEt) DOLLARS By J. PILLAR WATT IN CLI mma 131ZEA14PA ST Metioraukeio 11 A 1 1