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The Brussels Post, 1957-01-23, Page 71INDAYSCHOOL LESSON AnsweY elsewhere' on this .pager Pa`.111. E.4 Billions In Gold . Buried In New York. CY Rev. It. itarota) 'Warren. royalty, nobility and the clergy. The great middle Class ate bread made of mixed white and whole wheat flour, Third-grade bread, with all the bran in it, was "for servants, slaves and the inferior type of people to feed upon." veryone owes a debt of grati- tude to John Montagu, a man torn between his loves for food and gambling, One day, hungry but unwilling to interrupt his game, he had a servant, place a slice of Meat between two slices of bread. Thus was born an invention which perpetuates the name of ,John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich, Early Canadian and Alaskan gold prospectors were called sourdoughs. because 'they saved a small piece of dough from each successive baking. The dough became sour as time went on but, mixed with water, it be- came the leaven for a new batch of bread. For years nutritionists urged People to eat whole wheat bread, Yet white bread remained the top seller. As far as we know, enrichment of white bread (ad- ding vitamins, iron and non-fat milk) now means that white bread has all the nutritional ad- vantages of whole wheat. For a fairly active man aged 25 of average height and weight, six slices of enriched bread will supply 21 per cent of the iron he should have daily, 16 per cent of the calcium, 19 per cent of the protein, 22 per cent of the thiamine and 20 per cent of the niacin. Needs that Jesus Meets Matthew 9:1-13 Rabbit Hunting No Kid's. Game Rabbit hUnting is something that a fellow usually does when there's nothing else to do, Nine times out of ten he goes rabbit hunting in the late fall Or winter, preferably when there is slight snow cover on the ground. And nine times out of the same ten he is much more successful at rabbit hunting than at any other type of hunt- , Memory Selection: Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiv- en thee. Matthew 9;2. WELL, 1 SWAN! — A clean-up job that's also a life-saving opera- tion is being performed on this once snow-white swan by Dr. Max Heinz Sy, right, noted German bird expert at the R.S.P.C.A. in. London, England. Swan was one of hundreds soaked with oil when a' barge sank near them. More than 100 of the birds died before aid reached them. '11.1EFARMIRONT: Job' lag that he may de, Take my own case, for 'In- stance, 4, My hunting companion of late is a slow riser, He would prefer to hear the singing of the birds and the sharp beams of the sun in his face as he arises from bed in the mornings, and sometimes it's quite a tussle to get him out in time to get in on the good hunting. And late in the pheasant sea- son last fall, when the birds were getting harder to find than teeth in a hen's mouth, I sug- gested a rabbit hunt. ",Rabbits," he snorted! "Why nobody hunts them except kids, Forget it!" As it turned out he had never bothered to hunt rabbits before in his life, and had no intention of starting 'at that stage of the game. But after a few minutes of persuasion, he consented to give it a try—but only on a trial basis. "If I don't like it," he said, 'and I won't, we'll just give it -up and spend our time hunting for something that Is fun to hunt." On the strength of that I called a farmer friend and arranged hunt the next day. That night it snowed. Not heavily, just a half-inch or so, 'but just enough to make it per- fect rabbit hunting. And about an hour before daybreak I used a crowbar to get him out of the sack and we headed for rabbit country. Rabbit country — that's anyplace in Nebraska where there is some slight cover and nearby food, Just as the sun came peeking over a wind-swept hill, we parked the car by a mile-long, brush-covered draw and hopped out ,to investigate. The head of the draw looked like the rabbits had been holding a camp meeting -there. Tracks by the thousands Four kind men had borne the, palsied man to „Tesus. Jesus dealt with his greatest need first. He said, "Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee." Then he healed him of the palsy. The critics could see that the man was healed. TO many it confirmed the fact that he had the power to forgive sins. Some, people need medical attention, some need better hous- ing, some need better food, but all need the forgiveness 'of sins. When people receive that for- giveness other benefits folio*. The new birth gives a new out- look. Wherever the gospel goes, hospitals, slum clearance, health education, and .the like' soon foie , low.. The Gospel is indeed Good News in itself and the 1 orerun- ner of other good. The next act of Jesus was to call Matthew from the receipt of custom. Matthew, who later gave us a gospel record, was collecting from his own people for the hated Roman govern- ment. One can understand why ' he and all his fellow Publicans were despised by the Sews gen- erally, It was a daring thing fox Jesus to take a recruit from this group and choose him to lot , one of the twelve men to accom- pany him. Certainly it wouldn't help his prestige with the re- ligious leaders. But Jesus was the Friend of sinners. He went to Matthew's home and ate with his friends, the Publicans and sinners. When criticized for it he said, "They that are whole need not a physician, but they that are sick." Jesus did not cater to social snobbery. He loved the rich young ruler and sought to win him. He loved the thief on the cross. He loved everybody and still does. Jesus is the Friend of sinners. He does not stoop to sin but he stoops to lift the sin- ner. He has power to bred every chain of sin that binds, Jesus Christ can meet your every need. On Writing Essays Down with essay contests, say high school principals. Of 200 principals who gave their views in a survey made by their nation- al association, only two found any merit in many national com- petitions to determine which stu- dent can write the best essay about politics, patriotism, pickles or what have you. The high school principals find these contests lead to dishonesty. Some students would submit un- blushingly, as their own, an es- say on honesty which had been written by Ralph Waldo Emere son onAdlai Stevenson. One girl a few years ago won a national contest in this way and the plagiarism was not disclosed un- til she had gone to Washington to receive the award. Most of the dishonesty in essay contests isn't this raw. But frequently essay contestants will appropriate a lot of material without credit- ing it to its author. In essay contests, students write to please sponsors and judges. If the pickle people spon- sor the contest, the students ex- toll pickles even though they may be allergic to them. Con- tests are not likely to promote critical thinking, They just put a premium on hypocrisy. Essay contests also put an in- tolerable burden on judges. Most of the essays are just plain awful. The remedy for this is not to have more essay contests. But the quality of essays might im- prove if there were more of the essay' writing tests in classrooms, where students are on their own, and ,fewer of "right or wrong" tests which are so much easier to correct—and easier to read, too.—Des Moines Register, bleached- dead tillers on many plants, but careful examination of the crowns for signs of rot is necessary for complete identifi- cation of the disease, In slight and moderate cases the extent of injury cannot be determined readily until yields are available at harvest time. Occasionally plants will be killed by a severe invasion• of the crown. They die early and are easily seen scattered here and there through the still green crop. Complete control of this di- sease is almost impossible be- cause these fungi may be carried in the seed and are commonly found in most soils. If seed treat- ment is necessary, and this can only be determined after care- ful examination by a pathologist, any of the fungicides used for smut control should be satisfac- tory. Rotation of cereal crops with non-cereal crops where practicable may help, together with good cropping methods for the district concerned, and the maintenance of soil fertility. led in under the trees, and there the snow had been beaten down as if a herd of cattle had been stampeding through, writes. Bob Munger in The Police Gazette. "Are you sure there are rake-, bits around here?" my ,sleep- blinded friend asked. After assuring him 'that there was a strong possibility of en- countering Mr. Cottontail, he agreed to give the draw a -try. At drst we saw no game, We must have walked at least a hundred yards before the first cottontail hopped up and blasted off through the trees and brush, "Bang zing .. crack!" Three ,22 slugs went whipping into the snow around, the rabbit's flying feet, but none of them connec- ted, and, the bunny went in mad leaps out of sight into a large patch of weeds. Well, to shorten this tale down a little, as the man said when he applied a knife to the puppy's posterior, we finally got to hit- ting some of the flying bits of fur. On further down the draw rabbits were jumping out on all sides of us . . behind us after we had passed by places were we thought no rabbits could have hidden . . , right beside us as we crashed our way through the weeds and brush , and far out in front as they were scared up by our clumsy feet. It was a day to remember. By noon, we had four rabbits each, more than enough for our small fam- ilies, so we called it quits. We had missed" dozens of shots apiece, but we were exhilarated from a hunt in which game was extremely plentiful, all the shooting a hunter could ask for, and some meat to bring home to the cooks. And speaking of cooks, that was the part of the proceedings that really swung my friend around to rabbit hunting. We gathered our dependents around a communal board that evening for a small feast, and it was a sight to behold. The rabbits had been fried un- til nearly done, then switched to a stew skillet to steam for awhile in a barbecue' sauce of sorts. The sauce had as its main- ingredient tomato paste, but a sprinkle of garlic had been ad- ded, as well as chili powder, celery salt, lemon juice and a slice or two of onion, The newly-born rabbit hunter pushed his plate back at last with a sigh like a broken bel- lows, rapped a knuckle on his oldest boy's head for silence, and announced in a formal manner that would have done credit to an elder statesman, "Friends, I want to say here and now, that this, is the best eating I ever had ' in my life . . following one of ' thel niok ,enjoyable hunts that I have ever had . . 'and I just want to say for all to"hear that I can now be classed as a rale, bit hunter. Thank you." After considerable., ceremony the rabbit-eating meeting was adjourned, but I'm, looking for- ward to the first snow. I'm ex- pecting a call from a certain EX-hater of rabbit hunting. NO SALE What Do You Know about Bread? Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking OME '0011M -MMOM ROM EOM MOM aam -omoo mon 00000 EOM ©DG BOODOM BODOMD DEMO EOMOE MOO 000 ©©no DEODE BOOM OBOROM EMOOME BOB MOM 00100 0000 MOM MID IMMO WEEP OMO anon IMMO OMB W. J. Makin, in his Caribbean Nights tells about the film sales- man who was trying to sell the latest Clark Gable picture to a cinema proprietor in the Wilds of Venezuela. "Clark Gable is dead," he was told. "You mean the film' Parnell?" "Yes. A box-office winner." "Si; Senor, but the Gable he died in that." "Look here, I don't—" "I tried to show another. Gable film after that," went on the Ven- ezuelan. "And what happen? Hell broke loose. Senor, my clients see the Gable die in one picture: Cannot one believe 'one's own eyes? So far as this village is concerned, Gable, is dead," ELECTRONIC WtIATZ1T,,,17,,,This whatzit" doeszif electronically. The fispatio.dynamic," design- ed by Nicolas' Schener of Paris, France, turns itself on and off, naves backward and forward, Ind reacts to color, sound and ight. "Cyspi," as the gizmo' is tailed, 431111 too useful, but for whatzit with wowzit, it sure Rt. Hon. James G. Gardiner, Minister of Agriculture, has an- nounced that a program of area testing and eradication of Bru- cellosis disease of cattle will be entered into by his Department. Brucellosis, or Bang's Disease, is ,a bacterial infection causing abortions and breeding difficill- tieS in cattle. Losses from it are estimated to cost Canadian cat- tlemen 'nine million dollars an- nually. Brucellosis infection in cattle is responsible for undu- lant fever in humans, both being caused by the same organism. • Procedure will follow the pat- tern which has been applied suc- cessfully in the virtual eradica- tion of tuberculosis from Cana- dian cattle. An area will be ac- cepted under the program on the recommendation of a provincial department of agriculture. All susceptible cattle in the area will be tested and infected animals will be disposed of, with com- pensation paid to the owners. A joint federal-provincial pol- icy Of calf vaccination against brucellosis has been in effect since 1950. This, along with sev- eral provincial control programs, is considered' to have reduced the incidence of the disease to the point where a national.pro- gram of testing and eradication is now feasible.. In addition to reducing losses 'from the disease,- the move will strengthen the position of Cana- dian cattle exporters in loreign markets which 'increasingly are requiring freedom from brucel- losis in cattle' imports. Operating procedures are now being drafted and the program will be in effect in 1957, * Various seedling, stem , and rq,ot diseases'tfilict the oat crop. One of these, a root disease us- ually referred to as common rootrot, is' caused by the fungus, Fusarium culinorurn,. or related species, states P. M. Shnmonds, Offieer-in-Charge, Canada De- partment of Agriculture. Common 'rootrot in oats was once a rather serious dieease but 'the newer varieties, appear to have considerable resistance..No doubt this resistance was ob- tained' by the plant breeder through' the stringent selection of the best lines during trials for .yields. Past experience in eliseaSe control, hOwever, has shown that new, more virulent forms of the fungui; causing the disease may appear, and se it is important for the grower to be able to recognize con-linen rootrot so that cntrol measures can be taken promptly. * Nr The common rootrot -fnngi riot only attack the roots but any part of the oat plant. They live in the soil or on the Seed. Coil, Segue -fitly seed arid seedling blights may Occur fram seed that Ilea become contaminated. such costs the' grower will note _poor, titieVeil emergence of the crop iii the spring and Many blighted seedlitiga, In later etagea of 'plant growth; infections from fungi living in the Sell or on contaminated Seed Usually in- trade the crown or adjacent plant tissues : Ohba: a plant is infected the diseased Area Pere Silts indefinitely,• Whether it en:: largeS rapidly causing seriOUS injury to :the plant depends Ott iveather conditions: , There appearS to be SeVere in- jury following petite:1S of warm Weathet and A ;sheltie& of inois. tare in the tell: Alternate sell of dry Weather': and heaVY fall as the, drOg, Starti Maturing increases' CMOs& rootrot darn. age. The in** 'inay show at A product which had its ori- gin thousands of years ago is to- day providing a livelihood for thousandS of Canadians and food for millions of others. In 1954, the last year for which figures are available, the factory selling price of bread in Canada was $173,000,000. The same year Canadians consumed 1,500,000,000 pounds of bread — an increase from 900,000,000 poundt in 1936. Tn the post-war years the con- sumption of bread for everyman, woman and child in Canada has been slightly more than 100. pounds. In spite of the food value of bread, most Canadians know little about it. They drop in at the corner bakery for a loaf, or have it. delivered to their homes wthout a thought about the story behnd the loaf they buy. For the first 10,000 years of bread's existence it was unleav- ened — a solid cake of crushed grain with water, salt and per- haps fat added. Leavened bread originated iii Egypt only 6,000 years ago. The Story goes that bread was baked in the same community factory where beer was breWed. Then one day a bakery employee snitched a brewing trough for his kneading and accidently mixed brewers' yeast with the dough the re- sult, leavehed bread. In mediaeval England white bread was reserved by law 'for The financial ,stability of the majority of the nations of the world, outside of the United. ,„ States, 4,5, represented,, in gold: bricks, lies in carefully- guarded cages eight floors belO'W street" level in' the reek of Manhattan 1slanct, New York, A brightly lighted, vault sys- - tern, inside an intricate leek me- chanism, deep in sub-sub- basementi of the rederel Reserve Bany of New' York at 33 Rector Street, is the workaday world of guards, inspectors) auditors and weighers of gold which, belongs to more than, 60 foreign nations; foreign central banks end inter, national financial ' institutions, The gold 'represents' more than one-third of the world's gold, excludiir that of, the United States and the Soviet 'Union. The largest gold hoard 'is in the United States Government's vaults at Fort Knox, Ky. Nations of the' world learned important •lessons in. Wcirld War II when their , gold was seized by Hitler's armies and those of the Japanese war command as country after Country was in- vaded. For safe keeping they shipped their gold to the United States. A'nd here far below the crowd- ed sidewalks of New York's,fin- ancial district lies approximately 6:9 billion dollars of ""earmark- ed" gold. Here international payments of gold are physically carried out as guards receive or- ders to move gold bricks from the depository cell of one coun- try to that of another. Most gold payments between nations are made in this vault, The gold vault is 80 feet below the street, 55 below sea level. Inside are 100 steel-bar com- partments, one or more for each nation-depositor. Each country's gold is kept separately. The vault is protected by a 90- ton steel door which is encased in a steel block 12 feet thick which weights 140 tons. The door itself is actually a huge steel stopper shaped like a bottle cork, larger at the to than ate the bottom., When it is closed, it turns so` that the passageway through it faces steel walls, and at the same time it is lowered three-eighths of an inch, Making the vault air-tight and water- tight. Locking bolts hold the huge stopper in place. Combin- ation locks hold them there. A battery of time locks, con- trolled by intricate combinations, is set so that the vault cannot be opened until the time designa- ted. An 'elaborate alarm system exists. No one person knows all the combinations necessary to open the door. Above the vault system are several floors in the bank each heavily gtierded and protected, by barrier aystems and elevators with lock-and-key. doors. The Federal Reserve Bank• of New York has never had an attempe ted robbery, All gates ,and doors in the bank can be closed in less than 10 seconds after an alarm is sounded,' states a writer in, The Christian Science Monitor. Gudrds are' required to main, tain a shooting average of at least 60 hits out of ' 100 targets. The shooting average is about 85'per cent. A' pistol range in the bank provides regular shooting prattiCe. Should two countries wish , to' settle a trade balance without the cost of shipping gold' from One country to another, they no- tify the New York bank; and the exchange can be made within, its,* vaults. Wittnoshipinents of 'gold are necessary, they are usually Made by to insure quickest exchange. Soelee, within ,the vault 'can weigh a dollar bill. A guard Sol,. &Miry' does this for the, visitor and' inforinS him that ,the bill Weighee3/100ths of a trot nitrite: The scales weigh Within 1/100th Of a troy MOO: Gold bricks in the vault bear all Stag Alt 'dates depending on When they were 'cast. Most Coin- Mon the , the : trapezoid Melded • in., South :Africa; where Most free world gold is mined, and the AtheriCan rectangular brick. Both bricks Are more than .,99.9 perk tent The Amer! -Can weighs about "-28 pounds . (avoirdupois) and is Worth about $14,000 at $354 trey ounce (12 ounces to the pkild in troy weight) : 'A thirdlitick type," from -Central Elie666; is froth mel tea,. coin ,diertreerittline Some ,copper ,,It. is approximately 90 ner Cent ptireeaa • ' Storage service is ProVided ;by,, the,' New' York' 'Federal Reserve Bank'Withoue charge tri tit cdn= ire" banks..of foreign couritrieSqn the Federal' Reserve .Systeera courtesy role aS' the • ,United State's' eetitial bank. 'The' 116W York bank is the ohly Plade in the world; it retie cords, where se Much Mitch gold, btila lien ethi be viewed by the Ptibli6 SCHOLAR'S LITTLE' HELPERS — When 11-year-old Phillippo Moreau, of Paris, France, Starts his homework, he is quickly joined by his furred and feathered pals. They are ".)ire a sleek Siamese cat born in Bangkok, and l'Mikou.," a. four-month-old Parisian awl. The pets are the fest of friends. A neurotic is one who believes the world owes him a loving. CROSSWORD PUZZLE 9. 'Alta 5. Salutation 6. pan1Ing • 7. Slumber • June bitg S. Alligatot pear 10, Red uced In graila 11. Elaatienbe 19, Light °oath* ` 21. Ca cloWS 24, Sal or 1, Small drimi 26. IZti ght'S 2, Meantime' cloak 8. Fertile spot 57, Faiths Ss, Gray isle• white M Tall Coarse .grass 60, AbSfeaCt. being , DOWN. 28. Alio 40. AOiltliern state 11, ProaeSSionS 32. Roiindile6 - language 34.',Sbelte 37.11.itmls tigairtst 39. Pat on' cargo 41. Rise high 43. Diateoptii 44, Closed otir 45. Jogs' 48. Mien* binding, rabeid 51. Scota i rivet 53, By etete shown above during to preViaUS voyage, is' the Ross Sea, Antarclita, the vessel, which immediate danger, brit water is leaking ii damaged, Thought for gardener-Motor- lats.! You'll he pushing up ra- thee than platting daisieS thit spring unless .yell Mind your' Motor Matinee.• ACROSS' 1, Pale 1. Caetieritor'S toi:40 S. Pedestal par t 12: Sunken fence 13 wicked 14. Abteive 115. FincoeS 1 6. Network 17. Itrilitift Sabi a for florae 14 r6.tti, fruit '21 Edge of a dress tialit bed ' 2 Take attaiitie 'at 25, T dIble thliSt 27. Trine 29. One Whd wades in` write 4 0 Church eadet'S 33, Fish okks, 35 ItidlitieSS Of fitiVae„ 6.,Prietaf a, coat 38 Wide. jar 40 Eiblical hiountnifi. 42', Thin getylt tft of tr6e,4 46. Pebblbit 47. dookirig" assc I 4t, . . asetvent ;P50. Platrance 52, Magid:M*1 Stick 54.1ari, herb. 55. •Ttibl elab 66. PaticInk :mit, ref SHIP 'TRAPPED IS ICE = 'The. cargo Ship reported trapped betweeti two huge fleet id has X18 Men' aboard, radioed that the weit iii 1`18' through hetet hi her hell tout that her propeller