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The Brussels Post, 1956-05-23, Page 3SCI1001 ESSON 'GETTING' A HEAD — Martian creature . wearing a strange head; riding en-strange motor- 'cycle is just an ordinary 'man. This father in Rome, Italy, uses this simple method to tote a toy auto borne 'to his youngster. 9 to 11 12 emu; t4 I5' :16 17 18 • rizig . • .„. • 21 22 V24 26 F5* 26 27 31 32 ••• 45, . • 34 33• 35 36 , 43 4+ 40 39 7 Ti 48 C'49 57 Lawn Cares' When real summer heat coines, one should make a few changes in the regular lawn care. Grass is a cool and moist loving plant and in most parts of Canada it is not likely to get that sort of weather in July and August. It won't make much growth when the thermometer goeS much above 75, In conse- quence one should cut less Often in hot weather and also set the mower higher. And even if we remove the clippings earlier in the spring it', is 'a good plan to let them lie where they fall in the summer. They will snake a mulch which, with the longer grass; Will protect the roots from the burning sun, Early sitninier, when the nights get ' fairly wartn, is the best time to apply the chemical weed killers, Used with reasonable care it is amazing how these will wipe Out dandelion, plantain and Most broad leaved, weeds. One; should cover the whole lawn but one must be eareftil to miss any , flowers' Or shrubbery because these sprays will seriously dam- age' if not kill thesis, Fora real soli' tine should always' repeat the spraying, in abent three Weeks to a month's tithe.'This second application Will catch those WeedS, which have sprout- ed from seed Sence the first treatinent, It is best 10 keep. one Sprayer, for this weed killing business only, otherwise' One tntiat be most careful to` wash ititiehind and nozzle nitirottgitly Were using for 'any ether pur- pose: Keep kittrittite There is a strong temptation When the weather really turns *kin to get out Midi dig. and GREEN TIP 311113 Gordon. a. a" AMBITIOUS — On the eve of his first •anniversary as president of Italy, 68-year-old Giovanni Gronchi, above,, has Italian poli- ticians reaching for the aspirin. Reason is that under Italy's constitution, the president is supposed to be a figurehead, with political leadership in the hands of the premier. But Gronchi is making like a "strong man," pushing Premier An- tonio Segni into the background. Observers foresee a blowup, with the possibility that Italy's new high court, inaugurated April 23, will rule on the exact limits of Gronchi's authority in the government. plant the whole garden on a single afternoon. Experienced people, however, restrain that natural urge'. They know that. there is no great rush and if they' spread the planting over several weeks or more, likewise the harvest and the pleasure of gardening will be spread out. Even with flowers, some spread, ing is desirable as we are thus' assured Of longer bloom and if the weather suddenly turns against us, we have not lost everything. With vegetables, the Wise gar- deter will sow standard things like beans, 'beets, carrots, corn, radish, lettuce, and so On not once but at least three times froM two to three weeks apart. In this way there will be some- thing coming along always, and at its best, New, quickly grown vegetables are always the most tender and some of them, like eorn..find beans, remain only at top quality for a 'few days, nowise rianiingi flints Plower varieties such as As- ters, Dahlias, Zinnias and Mari- golds, will be Most satisfactory in a soil 'to which manure: Or fertilizer has been added, while Poppies, Cosmos, Portulaca, Centattrea, Alyssum and Clodctio give excellent results in poor soil, If space is available annuala for cut flowers should be-grown iti a, row in the vegetable gar. den, Among the best varieties for this would be Snapdragon, Aster, Calendula, Annual Chry. santlietnurn, Galllorciai, 23ab0 Breath,. Sweet Pea, Salpiglossis end Zinnia., Watch FOr With so Many easily -applied chemical nurtures 'on the Mar, .kct, there is little if any eXctiSe for having"Ont"floWers and Vegetables damaged by insects or diaellae, It is no' longer nee. essary to prepare' various ceti- IL Barclay Warren,* B.At Sharing the Gospel With the World Acts 13:1-4, 44-40 Memory Selection: We are am- bassadors for Christ, ,as thougik God did beseech you by us: wa plaY You in Christ's stead, be ye reoneiled to God, 2 Corinthians 5;20 Cyprus is much in the news today. It is interesting to note that when Barnabas and Saul. accompanied by John Mark, were sent forth by the Holy Spirit and the church at Antioch, they went directly to this island, They had an exciting time at Paphos at the western end of the island. Here Paul seems to emerge as the natural leader of the group. In fact the whole missionary journey both in Cyprus and on the mainland is exciting. They no sooner touched the mainland than John Mark went home. Paul and Barnabas went bravely on encountering stern opposition from the Jews in each city. At Lystra after the healing of a cripple they were worshipped as gods, Then Paul was stoned, dragged out of the city and left for dead. But as the disciples stood about, he arose. Where did he go? Back to the city from whence he had been dragged. There and in the other cities weher opposition had been so fierce they preached, "confirm- ing the souls of the disciple; and exhorting them to con- tinue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God." When Paul and Barnabas re- turned to their starting point they found that certain men from Jerusalem had been tell- ing the Gentile Christians that they must be circumcised after the manner of Moses, A confer- ence was held. Peter said, "Men and brethren, ye know how a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe. And God, which knoweth the, hearts, bare them witness, 'giving them the Holy,,Ghost, even as ,he did unto us; and put ne difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. Now 'there- fore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon -the neck of the dis- ciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?" Af- ter Paul's report it was decided that 'the Gentiles would be ask- ed to abstain from pollutions of idols, fornication, things ..stran- gled and from blood. A serious threatened division of the church was avoided. It was not to be a Jewish church but a Christian church. The Trap-Nested Hen. Biddle was an awful tease . . . Learned to trip' the trap with ease. Cheating 'til the day she died, She never laid but what slut lied. —PAP Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking \bout 80,000 different kinds or insects live in Canada, ac- cording to a recent census made in the Canadian National Col- . lection of Insects at Ottawa. In making this estimate, G. P. Hol- land, Chief of the Insect Sys- tematics and Biological. Control Unit, Canada Department of Ag- riculture, and head curator of the National Insect Collection added that "new ones are being discovered every day." • * This means that there are about twice as many kinds of insects in Canada alone as there are different kints of animals, birds, and fish combined, in the entire wor 1 d. If Noah were building his ark today — this time for a pair of each of the living creatures of Canada only — he would have to include a room some 500 feet long and 160 .feet wide just to provide each pair with one square foot of space. • * • Museum specimens, being dead, do not require so much space. In fact, between two and three million insects are stored in the Canadian National. Insect Collection. As a means to enable . Canada to cope with the enor- mous problem of segregating and identifying all these differ- ent insects Mr. Holland stated: "This relatively young collec- tion has already attained status as one of the most important in the Americas. Its tremend- ous value as a source of authori- tive reference makes it one of our great national assets." * * * This summer some 1,500 en- tomologists who will be attend- ing the Tenth Internation Con- 111E FARM FRONT gress in Montreal, August 17- 25, during one of the Congress excursions, will visit Ottawa to see this collection and to meet the scientists who conduct re- search on the classification of Canadian insects. * • • . The Canadian National In- sect Collectidn is housed in the Science Service Building located on the Central Experimental Farm. The present staff includes about 20 research officers as- sisted by technicians, stenogra- phers and clerks. Their work differs from that of other of- ficers of the, Entomology Divis- ion who undertake projects on practical insect control in a di- rect manner. • * * "A fundamental objective of our work," Mr. Holland assert- ed, "is to make available the intimate knowledge of the en- tire insect life of Canada, so that speciei may be recognized when required, and to provide information on their distribu- tion and habits." • • • This is, an important objective since the primary basis for study of any entomological problem is proper segregation of the species of insects concern- -ed. Investigations and experi- ments on insect control can- not be made intelligently or evaluated statistically unless the particular species can be rec- ognized. and 5,800 acres in southwestern Quebec are now highly produc- tive and produce vegetables of excellent quality. These are largely pre-packaged and mar- keted through the large chain stores. The principal crops are potatoes, carrots, onions, lettuce and celery. An additional 5,000 acres are in process 'of being cleared and broken and will be in crop in the next year or two. * • • Besides the well decomposed, mildly acid organic soils, there are even larger areas of very acid, semi-humified peat that until recently had been con- sidered unfit for crop produc- tion. Recent research studies and a few field experiments, , however, have indicated that such soil can be made produc- tive at a cost which, although high, is far from prohibitive. During this past year, ` 10.500 acres of this peat have been purchased in Ontario and Que- bec and, will be developed for vegetable production. Practically all of this acreage is in rela- tively large holdings and the' operators have had extensive experience in organic soil man- agement and vegetable market- ing. These developments will provide extensive employment and should add materially to the agricultural wealth of both provinces. OTTAWA'S TULIPS IN BLOOM = Over 750,000 tulips bloomed in Canada's capita) city as Ottawa made its annual Canadian. Tulip Festival. The tulips, forming perhaps the most beau- tiful springtime flower display in North America, are found throughout the city—in front of the Parliament Buildings, along the city's famed Driveway, in parks and at the Central Experi- mental Farm. Here tulips frame the National War Memorial. coctions. All 'that one has to is to go to the nearest seed -store, tell them our troubles and get some handy preparation which is simply dusted or sprayed on. For every bug, or disease there is a specific cure or control. The main thing is to start control measures just as soon as the first injury appears. Treatment is not expensive, probe deeper, He had the re- mains of Mra. ArgtArcmg ex* humed. Within a week, the pa- thologist's report was that she had 'been killed by arsenic. Major :Armstrong Only paid the extrer4e penalty, it * * London's East End was once a danger area, When P,C. Wens- ley, of the H (White chapel), first trod his beat, the commercial Road, and many a dank by-way off it, 'was less salubrious than it is today, One day,.. while on the beat, P.C. Wensley passed a man in the. Whitechapel Road and noted that he was wearing a waist- coat with buttons remarkably like one found on a window-sill of a burgled house. One button was missing from that fancy waistcoat, On the strength of that, Wensley ar- rested the man, who remained silent before the magistrate. Sent, for trial, he still stayed silent. The explanation came with prosecution had completed its dramatic suddenneSs when the case. The prisoner then spoke. "All I want to ask you is this," he said. "Did you ever see a but- ton with two shanks? The shank of the button I lost is still on this waistcoat I ' am' wearing. The button the police produced, in evidence has a shank!" He was acquitted. Was he innocent? No. While on remand he had got another button, cut off its shank, and so foxed the jury. • • • While attached to the H Divi- sion, Wensley was baffled by the activities of a receiver whose identity nobody had been able to establish. There was at that time a cer- tain religious mission operating in the Commercial Road; and among its most prominent work- ers was a woman. She was mar- ried to a man in a good way of business, had several children, and lived in a very comfortable home. Yet this same "religious" worker had been for some twenty years acting 'as a receiv- er of stolen goods. And her husband never had the faintest idea of what his "pious" wife was up to! No detective pretends to su- per -normal .cleverness. Luck often plays a part in his in- vestigations. When Mr. Beard, a former C.I.D. officer, now in practice as a private inquiry agent, came into Superintendent Wensley's office- in the spring of 1924, he brought luck with him in the form of a small bit of paper. "I was asked to keep an eye on her husband by a Mrs. Mahon. She found this in one of his pockets. He has been absenting himself from home a lot. She's worried," The slip of paper was a cloak- room receipt for a trunk. "I prized up one side of it," Beard went on, "and I saw bits of blood - stained women's gar- ments." "I'll detail a good man to watch," Wensley said, "and we will invite whoever asks for the trunk to come along to the police station." Chief Inspector Savage, the watcher, was soon rewarded. Along came a man, with large and smiling eyes. Yes it was his trunk. The bloodstains? Oh, that! Had some meat in it for the dogs. But within a day those stains were proved to be human blood. Mahon, who had been having an affair with Emily Kaye, had murdered her in a lonely bun- galow at Eastbourne, stealing her £400 savings, drawn to fi- nance their, elopement., 0000 00010 EMU ORMO OWOM 00E MUM OENEMOOM ©EC] OMB2MEM OW OMEIMME ©O 1E MOOED 01U MOM MUM U00 MOO MHO DE MME] WW00 OUOMODOW MODE 000 OM OBDWUMME OWDM U00 MUDD 0E00 000 OWED MOO * • • This is a very large objective and one that will not be fully realized for several generations. Each of the 80,000 species occurs in several life stages, often very different, so that each poses a separate problem of collecting, identification and storage. • * * During '1955, Mr. Holland and his staff received some 900 ship- ments of,insects for indentifica- tion, mostly from Canadian en- ,tomologists engaged in prob- lems of insect control. In all, 50,000 speciments were identi- fied resulting in names of more than 6,000 different kinds of in- sects being reported to the in- quiring parties. * « * The Horticulture Division of the'Experimental Farms Service began research with organic soils (i,e, soil with a high or- ganic matter content composed of muck and peat), in 1936, when the Experimental Sub - station for Organic Soil was established at Ste, Clothilde, Quebec. At that time there were large un- developed areas of organic' soil in southwestern Quebec and eastern. Ontario. In Quebec alone. 51,000 acres had been sur- veyed and classified as to the "mineral and organic content of the 'soil and relative value for crop production. In addition, there were other much larger unclassified areas in south cen- tral Quebec and eastern Ontar- io. Although small areas were cultivated, both yield and qual- ity of the crops were low and the land was generally consid- ered of little value. * *. At the Sub - station the first . problem was to determine the best method for the development of the higher quality.: organic soils, namely, those that were decomposed and mildly ...acid in reactions The results of this work have been very gratifying CROSSWORD PUZZLE 'L Salto 2 Ponito • nn'en k et 2„ Lgu etii 3. daatiffear'g. 8nridl' ;,.1 IS' if I It. 4?. C1. se 018ii 01t 1,1(1 wriitnrtn 21 Serenitl AffrFOLNil.y 4 Unit mound Ts tr.111414.4 57 ol7t 1.4.'0410e:414,d 14. 41.ctuttei 9 °bitter:Attie 14 oatto 11. Hard .41 Note ot the `re ii` is "'CaIihrr• 6 Sign' 'Si the 31.; No• thing 83 Puni16,-shaped' reet,nint.le 34. three35 1Pitti to toitwv sun ot ,auL71.0' 39. PI tio0m. 40. itianif(.Pt (1. Melted 43. trnhanlly 45 oi ACROsS Cat t.hoiriiyi - 6, Pain, s aittOt Oetdh '12 (.71t;*, In Pa. .13 Foil0 1 I. Pooitni. 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The other was middle - aged Major H. Armstrong, Clerk to the Justices and a well-estab- lished and highly respected practitioner with a worthy war record. Though Major Armstrong had made gestures of friendliness to the younger man, food eaten under his roof had given the other symptoms like arsenical poisoning. The question arose: Was Major Armstrong trying to get rid of a professional rival by murder- ing him? The problem was how to carry out an investigation in the little town in secret — for a criminal forewarned is fore- armed. Wensley's strategy can be summed up in two words: Dis- cretion and speed. Very care- fully he picked the man to send, choosing Chief Detective In- spector Crutchett. From Mr, Martin this officer got the essential information of the next move that had been decided On in conference with his chief. First, said Mr. Martin, a box of chocolates had been received from an anonymous sender. Those who ate them became ill. Analysisrevealed arsenic in them. Next, after taking tea With Major Armstrong, he' had de- veloped symptoms of arsenical Poisoning. "And it' is suspicious," lie concluded, "that Armstrong keeps pressing me to take tea with him a,c?ain!" Next, two callers were Usher,- ed into! Major Armstrong's of- fice. They were Crutchett and the deputy chief constable of the county. "Major Armstrong, We, have reason to believe you have tempted to Murder Mr. Martin by poison," Crutchett announced "Have you anything you would care to say?" At once Armstrong Opened the drawer of hiS desk and tried to slip from it a small white package. He was grabbed and the pad- ket. Which contained 311 grain§ Of arsenic, was secured. Majer Armstrort'g, Jib* under arreati, WaS 'lodged the Wei Next; Werialey ektetided' hie' 50 53 56 ART' WITH A PUN ii—Hairy-'armed swIpe, by artist Viriteni .01±±itaid adds d slam bang touch' id one af.his canvases. The artist says that he paints "from the of the pinkie to past the elbow." His slappingi punching technlaue m'akes' it necessary For`' him to Mount canvases on stratig wood backing' Which will sta'n'd up "under Pizi1tola's forceful Interpretation of f'in'ger pa nt- log 4.• Answot •eisewhete Ott this page.