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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1957-02-21, Page 7almost a revolution. More people own farms they live on, or have a big share of partnership. 9• "It will take more than a drought to get them off," said one local representative of the Farmers Home Administration. "These people have a courage to see it through, with a deter- mination fortified by a pride of ownership that was missing . in the 1930's. - "And there is a sympathetic understanding for each other's problems. The farmer who hap- pens to be lucky enough to have flowing wells for irrigation realizes that the dryland farmer is hitting some tough' years caus- ed by conditions beyond his con- trol. "And the farmer who can ir- rigate his crops knows that some- where the cost of bringing that water up from deep in the ground is going to hit an econ- omi,a.point beyond which there Won't be any percentage in farm- ing. Then he, too, will be looking up at the skies, hoping those rain -bearing clouds get up here from the Gulf of Mexico just at the right time to run into a cold front heading south from Canada." * „ ., These people need help, but they don't want charity. Most of them have have already mort- gaged their farms to the hilt just to take care of ordinnary running expenses. It costs money to buy seed year after year, put it in the ground, and watch it blow away without even sprout- ing, much less• taking root. And it • costs plenty to have to haul in hay and grain year after year to feed the stock. Some of the biggest landowners in the country have been selling off section after section, trying to keep themselves in business un- til the rains come. Local banks have done about all they can to keep the econ- omy from going under. They have stretched their facilities to make loans. But bank loans are made only to farmers o rickn show they are pretty g And nobody is a good risk if he can't get moisture for his crops, or grass on the range for his stock. UNDAY 5CI100I LESSON By lieu. R. Berm) Warren B.A., B.D, Our Mission as Disciples Matthew 9:35-10:8, 24-25 Memory Selection: The har- vest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the har- vest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest. Mat- thew. 9:37.38. Jesus ministered by teaching, preaching and healing. He min- istered not just from a sense of duty but because he felt for the people. He had compassion on them. But the task was too big for him alone. He urged the disciples to pray that the Lord of the harvest might send forth labourers. Some of those who attended on the ministry of Jesus came to share his vision. They saw the need and felt for the people. They prayed for God -sent lab- ourers. Twelve of these ardent souls Jesus called to himself and sent forth to help answer their prayers. They were given power to cast out unclean spirits and to heal all manner of sick; ness and all manner of disease. They put no price on their ser- vices. Jesus said, "Freely ye have received, freely give." He warned that they would receive persecution. Nearly all denominations are crying about this shortage of ministers. Too few are sharing the vision of the need of the people. We are too money -min- ded. The spiritual needs of people about us do not impress us deeply. We do not feel for Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking r©®OQ ' v ; DELI ©©m©0 .:.©0©P IE dCM ©©Q • P:j© e pypdo ©dpzla© vIE 'LOC ©0®ua0 ` lam► ©FIIE1 ©© VE1E110100 ©©CI E]lI!! y ' ©I1 iU c1 d 0 thein and with them. Hermits there are few called of God and sent forth. Ministers are not paid au ranch as those in other profe-- sions where a similar period et preparation is required. They have to dress better than they can afford. But they get along. When they have extra expense on account of such emergencies as :sickness there are always appreciative parishioners who rally to their support. When one knows he has been called of God to the work he would not exchange it for any other. British Publisher and multi- millionaire Lord Beaverbrook said 25 years ago: "If I were in a position to influence the life of a sincerer young man today, I would say to him, 'Rather choose to be an evangelist than a cabinet min- ister or a millionaire.' When I was a young man. I pitied my father for being a poor man and a humble preacher of the Word. Now that I am older 1 envy his life and career." THE FEAST OF ST. SWITHIN The Feast of St. Swithin on July 15 is the familiar date because of the old legend attatched to his name, but the origin of the leg- end is perhaps not so familar. Swithin was a pious monk of Wessex, who eventually became Bishop of Winchester. He was admired and trusted by all who knew him, and rose high in mat - tees of church and state. Never- theless he remained so humble in spirit that he asked to be bu- ried outside the cathedral, where the rain from the eaves would fall upon his grave. A later Bishop with more grandiose ideas planned to have him re -interred in a splendid and orate shrine inside the cathedral. But legend has it that on July 15 in the year 971, the day apppointed for this procceding, the change so upset the Saint that it rained for forty days, whereupon the plan to. move his body was given up. A minor piece of folklore attached to the main legend, and stilt current in some parts of Eng- land, speaks of July 15 as "the day which the apples are chris- tened," referring to the showers which may fall to help on the apples to ripeness. Drive With Care w PRICELESS - Most precious animal in the world is the appealing mite pictured 'above in the Columbus Municipal Zoo. It's a girl baby gorilla, precious because she represents a triple triumph- first gorilla breeding in captivity, first conception and first birth. Her arrival tossed an H-bomb in world zoo circles.' Theories, some 100 years old, said it never could happen. "Sweetie Face," 16 days old when this picture was snapped,, has a wizened face, a head the size of an orange, is 15 inches long and weighed four pounds at birth. She lives in an incubator and is fed human baby formula. twomoses Spare Man On A Bowling Team Although strong men have cowered and ladies fainted at • my manly physique, I am not primarily noted as an athlete. But I do think the night I beat the All Stars should go down ill history, comparable, at least, to the time I was playing left field and made a put-out at home plate. These two events, togeth- er, should assure me some fame in the annals of sport. The fact that these noteworthy achievements took place in the minor leagues, so to speak, should not detract from their significance. The baseball event, alone, is a world's record never even attempted in any league. I was on the high school team at the time, playing left field be- cause I had rubber boots. The span who laid out our baseball diamond had to blast a ledge away from the shortstop posi- tion, and he used up. all the ap- propriation before he got into the outfield. A boiling spring came from under the ledge, and it exuded into left. Playing left field was just a token position, because it was so hard to field a ball out there the teams had a gentlemen's agreement nobody would hit there, and if by acci- dent anybody did, the advance was limited to two bases. So I was standing out there ankle deep when Red Peaks cane up to bat. He hit a Balti- more chop. and our infield be- came confused. There was a good deal of throwing around, and we had him in three separ- ate run -downs - between sec- ond and first, third and second and home and third. As he ad- vanced, slowly but surely, it seemed wise to me to come in and lend a hand. Thus the play went from 4 to 3 tol to 3 to 4 to 5 to 3 to 2 to 6 to 4 to 3 to 6, etc., etc., and finally to me, and I tagged Red out as he slid home. It was not only an unusual play, but it was exciting to watch, and the crowd enjoyed it. They continued to cheer and laugh long after the play was completed, and now and again they would subside and go limp until somebody guffawed again, and then they would go off into another round of hilarity. For a time it was a famous incidnt, but after I was graduated and went into other pursuits people sort of forgot about it. Of late years my athletic in- terests have been confined to cribbage, popping corn, and shaking condiments on my meat. But recently I decided I was get- ting flabby and out of trim, so I undertook being secretary of our community bowling league. This gets me to the bowling alley one night a week, but the job is en- tirely clerical. I have to keep individual sheets on each bowl- er, compute averages, and show total pinfall and high scores. I took the job because nobody wanted it, and I felt the frater- nal aspects of the bowling league shouldn't be peopardized by hit - Or -miss records. The casualty rate in secretaries had been high. Some men had to give up the job because they moved out of town. and some moved out of town so they could give up th job. There is no emolument, but there is the happy consolation that one is contributing to a good fellowship. The bowling league brings to- gether every walk of life in our town, in bantering good will and in friendly competition. It was my feeling that by taking over the scoring I might protect the worthwhile aspects of the asso- ciation from foundering for lack Of computation. But I am not much of a bowl- er. They tell me I have a smooth delivery, excellent form, and a natural follow-through of good quality. I would make high scores if I could just hit the pins. In my official capacity I am not on the roster of any team, but if some regular bowler has to be out of town or for another rea- son defaults, I sometimes stand in for him and see what I can do. I enjoy this. And the other night the team from the Wor- umbo Mill lacked a member, be- cause Johnny Galgovich was working three to eleven. Upon due application I was prevailed upon to substitute for him. The Worumbo team was match ed, that evening, against the All Stars. The All Stars havebeen league champions more times than I remember off -hand, and are the team to beat. Four of their team are averaging over 100 --and as we bowl candlepins with the three small balls this is a most satisfactory average and should not be compared with the misleading figures of the much easier game where they bowl two balls with bottle - pins. The captain of the Worum- bo team, when asking me to bowl with them, explained that they had no chance of winning anyway, and the evening would be little more than a cruel slaughter. But you can't tell about me. The spark was struck. It wasn't my bowling, because I got my customary 78 the first string, but it must have been my radiant personality and my bonhomie. The other members of the Wor- umbo team began knocking down pins they didn't even hit. Nothing was wrong. One lad managed to beat down six spares. in a row, and after the third one his eyes were glazed and he was tottering with emotion. He would hit off to one side and get just as many pins, His score ran up like the cash register at a meat counter, and the All Stars be- came visibly dismayed. The All Stars were hitting precisely, beautifully, perfectly. But nothing much happened. The more they tried, the better they bowled, and the poorer their , score. In the end they all went home without saying goodnight, hardly, and seemed to be sad. They congratulated us, but their hearts were not in it. And in the record book, it shows that I bowled on the winning team. I inked it in a little heavily, to emphasize it, because I felt it was an important item, and since I am secretary I felt it was up to me to do it. -By John Gould in The Christian Science Moni- tor: WAR -EGYPTIAN VERSION -Future historians may believe that the Anglo-French invasion •of Egypt was repulsed with heavy losses to the invaders if they judge' by this new Egyptian stamp,. It commemorates the recent fighting by showing three Egyptian "resistance" fighters, one"Ri grenade -toting girl, charging for- ward as enemy parachute troops are slain on the Port Said beach and an enemy ship burns in the background. CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1. Divide with the grain 6. Flap 9. Came together 12. Instant 13. Days long gone I 4. Affirmatives vote L5. Torn 16, Made less tense 98. Lyric l9. Label 21. Biblical high priest 22. Saucy 24. Espouse 26. word of assent. 28. Public speaker 82. Swiss canton 88. Stripe 86. Natural 38. Windmill sail 09. Threaten 11. Record a vote 48. Complement of a bolt d4. Sever 48. Purpose 80. Unit of reluctance 62. Pikelike flak 53 Shackles s. ]Fatty fruit 8. Have debts 9. So (Scut.) 10. Gr t physician e of repose. 62, Conjunction junction 62. Pay out DOWN 1. Razor sharpener 2. Seif•.esteem 3. Body organ 4. Dessert I 2 3 + O. Portable-� shelter 6. Marl. 7. Stag of life 8. Tree trunk 9. Most 10. Organ of sight 11. Spread to dry 17. Armpit 20. Arouse 23. Drive at an angle 25. Present 37. Period of time 28. Nothing 80. Male sheep 21. Mythical bird 83. Weaken 84. Pair 85. Tolcl 37. %willed cloth 40.I2ealed the sick 42. Came to rest 45. Nimble 40. Black bird 47. Tendendy 99. Tableland 61. Felled trees 53. Watch pocket 54. Sheep 65. Went swiftly 57. Lick up g 6 7 8 ,+:M1•,9 to 144.96.0 . 4111811 ■ Answer elsewhere on this page. THE BARONIAL TOUCH -- Breakfast in bed is only one of the baronial privileges accorded. Baron and Lady Wolfschmidt, the two white Borzois seen above being served chopped filet mignon at San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel. But the Russian hounds don't always have it so good. It was just a stunt set up to plug a new brand of vodka. LPJ&M FRONT President Eisenhower's recent visit to the drought stricken areas of the south-west has caus- ed considerable comment, but I don't believe there are many in Canada at least - who realize just how serious the situ- ation is down there. So for your information I am passing along part of a dispatch from Boise City, Oklahoma, which will give you an idea. * * a. Five years of extreme drought have left an economic scar that threatens to become as lasting as the wind -gouged erosion of this normally fertile, produc- tive country. It is a natural disaster that has struck primarily at agriculture. But, like an octopus whipping itst tentacles out and lashing at every- thing within reach, the economic dislocation caused by the drought now threatens the un- derpinnings of this entire high plaine and even of the whole Great Plains area itself, sone - thing like one-fifth of the area of the United States. _ Cattlemen, wheat growers, cotton farmers, sheep raisers all are facing economic ruin - ex- cept,+those fortunate few, a piti- fully small percentage, who hap- pen to be in position to tap un- derground sources of badly need- ed moisture or the few river reservoirs built in the last two or three decades by the federal government. Here in this area are concen- trated the problems of the Great Plains, aggravated by a .drought now in its sixth year. The air itself is dry. It's the kind of atmosphere that keeps wood from rotting: Itdries every- thing up. Houses which have stood as landmarks on the flat- lands for more than a decade bear the marks of grinding sand blown from the earth's surface by a wind that never stops. There is more than irony in names of landmarks, natural and man-made. Running Water Creek, which rises northwest of Clovis, doesn't even show l any permanency on the maps, w the broken line indicates a stream that disappears almost before it gets started. Old set- tlers along this stream don't know where it got its name. Somebody had a bitter sense oS humor. "Else he tried to cross it in a flash flood," one old-timer sug- gests. But these people out here have courage, sympathy, ina- tion, and pride. It's different from the dust bowl days of the 1930's. There are no ling line•, of jalopies, bearing families and their few possessions westward to Califor- Iiia. Wes Izzard, publisher bf t recallse Amarillo, Texas, News, those days. They were re gthousands. west on Highway 66 by Cities like Amarillo, as well as small towns, could do little more than give them a meal of hot soup, some bread, maybe a gal- lon of gasoline, a pat on the back, and send them on. The westward migration Of 25 ;years ago was by farm tenants from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkan- sas, Mississippi. Not all were fleeing from the drought. They were trying to get out of an economic trap of falling farm prices, no markets for their pro- ducts, and climatio reverses. They had no pride of owner- ship. Few owned anything 'snore than an iron bed, coal -ail stave, a 'Model '2 Ford, and a few clothes. All they had to de Was V; pile In the car >snd head west. Today. trough, a great sociology gieat change has taken place-» TRAGEDY AT NIAGARA The news camera catches a t iheshtheprelude to a leading t wintertime tragedy Falls.at Niagara Falls, Ontario, as these deer strugglecY They are three of four that were trapped in the swirling currents. They battled for more than ca mile and got ashore, but were frightened back into the water, They were swept to their sleaths aver the falls.