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The Brussels Post, 1958-04-23, Page 31INDAYSC11001 LESSON By Aey, Barclay I'Verrele The Chtirelt's rower Acts 1:44; Memory Selection: But ye shall receive. powers after that ihko, holy Ghost is come 3,4)04 you; and shall be witneeees....unto me both in, Jerusalem and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto * the uttermost part of the earth, Acts 1:8, well buttered please, However, the Dilts told the cameraman, that whie corn is her favourite food, Zsa Zsa has a stomach like a goat and will eat anything that won't eat her. Zsa Zsa also does a pretty good job of posing for the photographer. KORNY KITTY — Most people would prefer turkey and all the fixings for Christmas, but not ZSCI Zsa, 'the pet cat of Dwaine and Phyllis Dilts. For Zsa Zsa, just make it an ear of corn, THE FARM FRONT dern ships are an atomic air- craft carrier and a destroyer (to be called a frigate). When these are completed, the Navy feels it will have prototypes for the task force of the atomic age,. In a test-towing tank on Eng- land's Isle of Wight, scientists of the Saunders-Roe Co. were putting experimental "fishlike" hull designs through brisk un- der-water paces. The goal of their studies is an atomic sub- marine tanker larger than the Queen Elizabeth and twice as fast. Lack of surface drag and wave resistance should enable to the huge sub to make 60 knots under- water. Although the cost of a nuclear-power plant is high, British engineers point out that the use of atomic fuel eliminates the need for large coal or oil bunkers and leaves more cargo room; radiation problems are simplified by using oil cargo or water ballast for shielding; high speeds insure more round trips per year. If it is built, the tanker will weigh at least 100,000 tons and be driven by underwater atomic jets which engineers now feel will be more efficient than propellers.—From NEWSWEEK. "These that have turned the world upside down are cOrne hither also," (Acts 17:6). So said the envious unbelievers when Paul and his party came with stahieon a iGeo,spel What rnwesassagthee tsclotieGheeol the amazing power of the early church? Jesus had promised his disciples on the eve of His ale tension that they would'receiv* power to witness when they re. ceived the power of the Holy Ghost. Ten days later the Spiel' came upon 120 believers in the upper room, Their hearts were purified. (Acts 15: 8, 9,) They were filled with holy love for one another and for their ene- mies. They had power to suffer and be kind. Stephen, the first martyr, prayed as he was being stoned to death, "Lord„ lay not this sin to their charge." "With great power gave the apostles witness of the resur- rection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all." On the day of Pentecost these men of Galilee were able to tall of Jesus to the people gathered in Jerusalem who spoke many different languages. Surely this was evidence to those who spoke and to those who heard that the Gospel was for all men every- where, We heard a returned. missionary tell how that shortly after reaching the field the na- tive House Boy indicated that he wanted to become a Christian. Neither knew the language a3 the other. She started to pray and to her surprise found herself able to pray with underitanding for the boy's salvation in his language. He believed on Jesul Christ. But then she had to tune to learning the language in the difficult way -that all do. The temporary gigt-had. met a definite need. We must adriiitehat the church isn't turning the world upside down today. We are thankful for all that is being done in the name o'i the Lord Jesus . But in the face of the world's need, it isn't enough. Peter, afteee Pentecost, spoke of the Itoli Ghost, "whom God hath given to them that obey him." (Acts 5:32). Are we failing in obedi- ence? God wants to give HIS Spirit that we may have power to witness. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking Beat Dope Boss With Triple-Cross As pretty, twenty s year - old Connie Pretorius wallod into the bank to collect her firm's cash the little realized she would soon be in deadly danger. 'or a man had followed her all the way from her office and now he was lurking outside, waiting for her to leave. After five minutes, Connie re- appeared carrying a leather satchel stuffed with cash, arid hurried back towards her office. The man, who was well muffled up to avoid recognition, set off after her, As she was hurrying through a quiet side street, a short cut to her office, she felt a sudden pain in her right arm, and it began to feel numb. She trans- ferred the bag to her left. hand and pressed on, though she was feeling fainter with every step, Then, through the mists of unconsciousness, she was dimly aware that someone was trying to wrench the bag from her grasp, but she held it tightly and struggled forward. At last, still clutching the precious bag, she stumbled into her office and collapsed. When a doctor examined her he found tiny puncture marks just above her right elbow. She had been attacked by a pew type of pay grab bandit—he had jabbed her with a hypodermic syringe, hoping she would fall uncon- scious and drop the bag. That case, reported from East London, South Africa, reveals just one of the many evil uses to which drugs are being put today, And this trading in hu- man misery is on the increase all over the world. Aware of this, the United Na- tions Commission on Narcotics is now urging member govern- ments to increase penalties for those caught and convicted of drug trafficking. The call for stricter penalties was initiated by France, Turkey, India and Yugoslavia, countries , that suf- fer much from the activities of ruthless dope merchants. In Turkey, recently, an Amer- ican Narcotics Bureau investi- gator posed as a wealthy Arab morphine buyer to help smash a powerful gang which had its own secret drug conversion la- boratory near Ushalc. Here the gang's chemists, working in a cellar, converted raw opium into morphine base from which heroin could be produced. This was smuggled, at fantas- tic profits, via agents in Syria and. France, to meet teenage and other drug club needs in the United States. By devious means, the Amer- ican arranged a rendezvous with the gang's leader. So completely was his confidence won—or his greed excited by the offer of 60,000 Turkish pounds—that he consented, after due haggling, to part with sixty-six pounds of morphine base. But, coming out of the gang- sters' lair and seeing the mor- phine package escorted to the car he was sharing with a dis- guised Turkish police agent, the American quickly sensed a dou- ble-cross in the air. A man with a rifle stood by. About ten other figures lurked in the shadows. It was after midnight. The American thought quickly—and decided on a dou- ble-croes of his own. "Step in- side the car," he told the gang's leader, "and we'll settle up," As they got in, the engine roared into life and, driven by the dis- guised polite agent, the car shot -forward. The American crashed his fist into the drug carrier's jaw. The armed thugs, taken by surprise,, poured a fusillade of shots after the car. But the po- lice agents had their money in-, tact, an unconscious smuggler, and a highly incriminating sam- ple of merchandise. Later, a strongly armed police Russians Launch Atomic Icebreaker As the' massive hull, of the world's first atomic surface ship slid lath the cold waters of Len- ingrad's Neva River last month, the Russians proudly announced the long-awaited launching of their atomic icebreaker, the Lenin. The ship, Tass reported, displaces 10,000 tons (as op- posed to 8,625 for the U.S.'s largest conventional icebreak- er), is capable of 19 knots in open water, and can crush its way through ice 6 feet thick. Powered by a high-pressure steam reactor, it "will be able to remain at sea for several months" without refueling. Some U.S. marine engineers feel that the Lenin's enormous size and weight are due to Rus- sia's more massive reactors. But whatever the reasons, the ice- breaker has at least one omin- ous implication for the U.S. She is scheduled to make Antarctica a port of call in 1958. If she does, the Russians will have available the first real power source on the primitively equip- ped White Continent. Although the U.S. has a bill for a "nu- clear-powered icebreaking ves- sel" under study, it will not come up for discussion until Congress meets next year. The United States" first can- didate for a nuclear-powered surface vessel was beginning to take shape at the Bethlehem Steel Co.'s shipyard, iSt Quincy, Mass., when Adm. jereuld Wright, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic, was the principal speaker at the laying of the keel for the guided-mis- sile cruiser U.S.S. Long 'Beach. When commissioned in 1961 the Long Beach will displace 14,000 tons. For sailors used to gun batteries and smokestacks—the Long Beach will have neither— she will present a startling sil- houette with her thick cylin- drical 'radar towers packed with the latest in detection and elec- tronic countermeasure devices. Next on the Navy's list of ma S3N 'W w ?JD KEW @WOE OM EOM OMER UMO MEM MEM sCl a UMEHME r4 NEM N3EMM A week or so ago I passed along to you an account of the latest United States plan to at- tack the vexing farm surplus problem over there. It is the brain-child of that greatly-crit- icized Ezra Benson, Secretary of Agriculture. So here is some- thing more about Mr. Benson and his ideas — a dispatch from. Chicago to the Christian Science Monitor by Dorothea Kahn Jaffe. * * Time: 1939. Place: A meeting of farm cooperative leaders in a Chicago hotel. A newly en- gaged executive secretary ad- dresses the rural businessmen —looks like a good man for the job. He has an intelligent, cour- teous way of speaking, a clean, well-scrubbed look, has had ex- perience as a farmer, a county agent, and organizer of coopera- tives in Idaho; has M.A. degree in .marketing. Name: Ezra Ben- son. * * Now it's 1957. Some of us who sat in that aUdience nearly two decades ago are once again hearing this man speak. He still has the courteous approach, the well-groomed appearance. But now, as United States Secretary of Agriculture; Mr. Benson is a very controversial person. While he came here as the featured convention speaker of the Amer- ican Farm Bureau Federation, which approves his policies, he is, to another farm organization, anathema. The latter organiza- tion pictures him as a man bent on destroying the prosperity of agriculture. Because of the op- position he has aroused, some political leaders within his. own party want to get him out. * What are the policies which have called forth such radically different reactions? Mr. Benson reaffirmed them and defended them here. Standing before microphones on the vast stage of Chicago's Civic Opera House, before some 2,000 men and women, he reiterated the con- servative stand which has made for him violent enemies ever since President Eisenhower placed him in his cabinet: * * * "To support prices of farm products artificially, continually and substantially above com- petitive levels—at levels which destroy markets and build up burdensome surpluses — this is clearly contrary to the farmers' interests. We should prune the tree of enterprise, not uproot it," * * Mr. Benson outlined for his farm audience three proposals which he will present to the next Congress. All are aimed at obtaining legislation which will relax certain governmental con- trols affecting farm operations and expand markets for crops. Nothing new, but wholly in line with the Secretary's thinking. As for this talk about demand- ing his resignation, Mr. Beeson referred to it without embar- rassment, "My personal attitude is one of resolution rather than resignation," he told the Farm Bureau people. Mr, Benson does not need his, present poet to keep him occu- pied, Ile has a job waiting for him When in 1944 he left the National Council of Farmer 'Coe operatives, Of Which he was ex- testate eecretatee it was to an- sorer the cell 'Of The Church 'of the Latter Day Sainte, He had received a life tip- pOiritment to the church's Council of TeVelee. He ac- cepted it expecting ttS remain in this dike all his days. Actually, he has never given it tip, for the church authorities granted Mr, 30118011 a leave of absence for the duretiori of his Work as decision to offer it on passenger cars caused difficulties in adapt- ing it so as to be efficient at low as well as high -speeds. A sports tar driver doesn't mind engine roughness at low speeds; pleas.- ore car drivers do. Chevrolet sold 2,570 fuel in- jection units this year, but get- ting servicemen trained to take care of them has been another problem. Edward N. Cole, Chev- rolet general manager, said it will be 'a long time before fuel injection will replace the carbu- retor, After the decision to de-em- phasize speed and horsepower, there was some talk of selling fuel injection on its gasoline= saving features. It's difficult to make a case for-'this, however, when the high costs are kept in mind. CROSSWORD PUZZLE 6, Dover 21. Relieves 7, Word of 30, Back of 0,- affirmation vessel 8, Determines 31. Liken 9, Make broader 34. More useful 10. 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T.:1mM. ey 55., (I n1/1 ed 7 8 13 18 12 is ; 14 21 ,151 26 27 2 24 28 29 32 '34 tee: 37 35 36 38 , 39 44 se; 5 45 48 49 SI 52 53 54 BREAKING THE ICE — The icebreaker Otocier plows through the ice pack at McMurdo Soul Ablilat:I.rotitilocdtl, me ac kp inrgreeaufpalitLI for supply ships,' which bring in needed materials for members 'id 55 56 67 An elsewhere on this page. 1 a MOU M WHIR MOMMO ERN MOM ©©ME 1U WPM ©Plot.] force raided' the hide-out and seized 1,500 lb. of raw opium and 140 lb, of morphine, cn out- size haul, Criminal gangs use drugs snot merely to debase addicts to their Own great gain, but also to drag young and attractive girls down to their own levels of depravity. A notorious, white 'slave traf- ficker from Marseilles habitual. ly toured. cabarets and bars respectable quarters of the city., seeking likely looking girls, On spotting one, he used all .his guile to entice her to his flat, And, there told her: "My dear, you look tired. You must take one of my golden liqueur Specials, You'll feel marvellous afterwards," The drink he poured out fel' her was heavily drugged, And when she came to, she was the Mediterranean's width away in North Africa, in an establish- ment of evil repute, having been spirited there in one of the vice king's speedboats. Without money, without help and with almost no resources, such a girl's chances of escaping the life of degradation looming before her were slim indeed. Drugs are even being used in certain districts to procure child recruits for the North African slave trade. Not long ago, while shopping in Lagos, a woman heard human cries issuing faint- ly from a large wooden box. She reported her suspicions to the police. Prising open the box, which had air holes punctured in it, they found four native children, each about four years old, All seemed doped, The police arrested a man who showed' proprietary inter- est in the box. When their in- vestigations are complete they` may know more about a racket through which a number of na- tive children have beelr mys- teriously-spirited away. Egypt, for years a drug traf- ficker's paradise, now regards dope-dealing as a crime more serious than murder. At Alexan- dria, not long ago, six drug traf- fickers were sentenced to life imprisonment and fined $10,000. One of them, a caretaker, pleaded that his wage was only $*0 a month, and with a wife and five small children to' keep he peddled hashish merely to make ends meet. The judge; however, rejected this plea; the man, he said, was a trafficker in vile death. In some fast-living circles in America, where wealthy clients or irresponsible teenagers seek spurious thrills, punch bowls full of morphine *are carried round by robed attendants. This poison is not drunk; the attendant merely fills a syringe and helps each reveller, when asked, to ram home a "joy shot." But these orgies, revolting in the extreme, are nothing to the final -curtain which each person so addicted must take—a long- drawn agony of craving, pain and depravity. At the root of this evil are the well-financed dope gangs, known to Interpol and other in- ternational agencies, which use drugs to dope girls for the bas- est of purposes and spread ad- diction among curious, unbal- anced young people. Such gangs think nothing of destroying life for their Own profit, BLOOD MONEY Alva Nicholas, 41, is a red- blooded he-man and boiling with wrath because the police of Kansas took a specimen of his blood — six cubic-centimetres of it — after he was involved in a car crash, The offended man claims that his blood is worth the equi- valent of $10,000 per cubic centi- metre and he is now suing the State of Kansas for $55,000 for the blood taken from him, plus another for "punitive damages." ME-COVERED COTTAGE — Truly worthy of"that title is this venerable building near Ash, England. The chimney of the old house, built in 1615, can just barely :be seen peeking out from the clinging 'vines of the top of the photo. cabinet officer. He can return whenever he finishes the Wash- ington stint. * 4, Mr. Benson has made it clear that he doesn't expect this to be soon. The work he began years ago, in Idaho—the promotion of farmer self-help programs such as the organization of coopera- < tives and marketing pools—he is pursuing with characteristic single-mindedness in the De- partment of Agriculture. He be- lieves in it; believes in other aspects of his program, and be- lieves e in them so firmly that attacks appear to mean little to him. , e e This infuriates his opponents, but it wins respect in friendly organizations like the American Farm Bureau Federation. Here the comment is likely to be: "Well,- you know he's sincereP.e- Toa: yrn:_ * * ersthat*means a great de Nixie:ee can charge Mr. Bene son with inconsistency, Frotif those days when he served a.,/, secretary to the organization of big marketing cooperatives to the present, he has stood for policies that will tend to give the farmer more control over his own affairs, policies which he declares are economically sound for the country as a whole. * • Regarding these policies he remarked at the Farm Bureau convention in his quiet way: "I have no disposition to re- treat." Fuel Injection 'On 1958 Cars Fuel injection will be avail- able on some 1958 cars, but there won't be much talk about it.' At last year's introduction of 1957 models, when horsepower was still a big selling point, fuel injection was one of the most talked about options by firms who had it. When it came to buy- ing it, however, first it wasn't available — then the cost was staggering. Chevrolet and Pontiac's sys- tem cost more than $400 when it finally got into production. Ram- bler's system was $395, but the Bendix Aviation Corporation which made it could never get it into volume production. For 1958, Chevrolet and Pon- tiac will still have it available for the racers and gadget fan- ciers, Chrysler will offer the Benclix system with modifica- tions; and Rambler has given it tip. Besides high price and pre- duction difficultibs, the indus- try's decision last spring to dc- emphasize horsepower' added to the factors squelching fuel in- jection as a replacement for the carburetor. Fuel injection is a moans — at present rather complicated — of squirting a spray of gasoline di- rectly into the combustion chain- hers of an engine. The carbu- retor, on the other hand, Mixes the fuel and air into vapor which is sucked into The engine, writes Everett C, Martin in The Chris- tian Science Monitor. There is some fuel-saving ad'- vantage to injection — About 1.0 per cent * but the main telling point is its increase of engine ef- ficiency Mainly at high speeds. On the Pontiat, for instance, the edclitiOn of fuel injectien raises the horsepower of an engine Us- ing three two-barrel carburote cre from 800 to 810. Chevrolet had Originally in- tended its injection system to be used to get maximum perform- Ellice out of the Corvette in sperte ear recce. An engineer Said the 16