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When the Righteous Suffix
Job Z; 3-6; 19; 1341
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nian that endoreth temptation;
for when lie :is tried, -he. Ana
receive the crown of life, which,
the Lord loath promised to them
that love him. James 132.
SEVEN CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE - Charred bed frames rest in the smouldering remains of the
Raymond Floyd home near Excelsior Springs, Mo„ March 15, where seven children, ranging
in ages from 2 to 11, burned to death. Their parent's had driven into town to do the family
laundry and left the youngsters alone in the house.
inseCte scattered upon the floor.
Ben was curious about the wasps
and he gathered a dozen ()re jig
of them for later study under
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kets of his mackinaw, and bur-
vied to the schoolhouse which he
reached just as the teacher was
ringing the bell. The other chit-
dren had reenoved their outdoor
wraps and 'hung them on the
wall nails near the stove, leav-
ing the nail nearest the stove
for Ben. The belated P1-101 re-moved hie cap and mackinaw,
hung
tookhis theM°nthseeantail, and bur- ri
The pupils soon became in-
volved in a busy afternoon of
geography and history. At about
three o'clock when the older
were busy reciting the capitals
of: the western states, we little
girls in the front row were dis-
turbed in the reading of our his-
tory lesson by the buzzing of
insects about our heads. The heat
of the stove had brought Ben's
wasps to a lively rejuvenation,
Just as Cousin Austin said with
confidence, "Idaho-Boise," Alice
cried out in alarm, "Bees, bees,
bees."
In a moment the school room
was in an uproar, Desk tops
were banged; school books were
dropped; children sprang to their
feet. In the excitement; Olive up-
set the water pail and I kicked
over a dinner pail on the hearth
of the stove, It was Miss Mason's
firm hand that brought order
out of the chaos. The little girls
were told to go to the entry and
close the door. The older' girls
were asked to open the win-
dows while Miss Mason and the
older boys armed themselves
scarfs and caps with which they
drove the, offending insects out
of doors.
After the wasps •had been
banished, the windows closed,
and the children reassembled in
the cold rooms*Miss Mason asked
the pertinent question, "Children,
did any of you bring those wasps
into the school room?"
A subdued. Ben raised his hand
to reply, "Please, Miss, I brought
a pocketful of wasps to echool. I
meant no harm. They were sound
asleep for the winter. I never
expected them to wake up."
"Pocketful of wasps indeed,"
exclaimed the teacher. "It is too
cold for school to continue. All
the pupils except Benjamin art
excused to go home."
Miss Mason's mild correction
of Ben took an .unusual Venn.
She asked him to look up the
word pocket in the dictionary
and to write, the definition on
the back blackboard. The next
morning when we came to school,
we read the sentence, "a pocket
is a small bag inserted in a gar-
ment for carrying small articles,
as money." Each day for a week,
Ben was bidden to read aloud the
sentence at the close of the day's
session.
The incident of the wasps and
Miss Mason's punishment sug-
gested to the boys a nickname
The problem of suffering Ls
always with us, The book of Job
faces these problems realistically
and answers some of them, Let
us consider three of tiler's.
(1) Suffering is not necessar-
ily punishment for the indivi-
dual's sin, God's testimony of
Job was, "A perfect and an un-
pright man, one that feareth God.
and eschoweth evil." Even after
his loss of property and children,
"In all this Job sinned not, nor
charged God foolishly," Then
after Satan's second vicious at-
tack, this time on Job's body,
the comment is, "In all this did
not Job sin with his lips," Job's(
so-called friends said he must
have sinned to have incurred
such suffering but God's word
of him is good.
(2) Suffering is a test of faith,
While pain has its origin in the
nervous system, the pressure
upon man's spirit is terrific. This
is evidenced in Job's laments
such as, "Let the day perish
wherein I was born," This is the
time when faith is a great source
of strength. Job said, "Though
he slay me, yet will I trust in
him," Faith thus tested in the
fires of affliction, comes out
stronger,
(3) Let us continue in our ef-
forts to alleviate suffering, but
we shall never eliminate it, We
have made marvellous progress
in the control of T.B., but cancer
increases. This world isn't heav-
en. Pain accompanies man in his
earthly .pilgrimage, The Chris-
tian must learn to receive bene-
fit through his suffering. Job
exclaimed, "When he heth tried
me, I shall come forth as gold."
Job got a clearer vision of God.
This is especially seen in the last
ehapter. He was chastened and
humbled. He learned patience,.
So for us all. We must capitalize
on our sufferings. When Paul's
prayer for the removal of the
thorn from his flesh was answer-
ed with a promise of grace suf-
ficient, he said, "Most gladly
therefore will. I rather glory in
my infirmities, that the power of
Christ may rest upon me," The
Christian can, by the grace of
God, be triumphant in the 'time
of suffering.
Ben's Pockets. Wore
Always Crammed
ine tit. Dr, Travell, who. insists
;lint dil'forent shaies hive rlif-
teretlt pespestee- A do -h
ccr irvtance, la related to. a ditsk,
A dining mom chair is rotated.
to a table. Neither aro. `rotated.
purp
She is somewhat of a speeiel-
ist on this subject, having .tle-
stood a proper kind of seat. for
farm tractors, as well as COM-
fOrtable scads for airplane pilots
who must remain in a sitting.
position for long periods during
flight,
She feels that a person should
select a chair as carefully as he
buys a suit, or a dress, A chair
that is right for a person who is
six feel tail . is not at all the
kind of a chair which will be
comfortable for a woman who is
five-foot-five, says Dr. Travell.
She claims the average person
cannot tell just by looking at a
chair wthether it is going to be
"a good fit." Nor can he judge
even by sitting in it, unless he
sits for about half an hour, or
takes, it home on trial,
"It's like . sleeping. on the sand,"
she eXPleina. "At first it feels.
fine, but you can become very
uncomfortable if you stay there
very long,"
Her theory is that every chair
should be selected with the pur,
pose for which it is to be used
in mind, "You wouldn't think of
using a lounging or reading chair.
at the dining room table)" she
points, out.
- Not that she recommends A.
"posture chair"; just one that
fits. Each chair has its own par-
ticular use. There is, no "all-
purpose chair," in her estimation,
any more than there is an all-
purpose shoe for all occasions
And weather. -By Josephine
Ripley ,in the Christian Science
Monitor.
Hgrribfq End For
Wprn.Ovt UDE. ps.
PubIle outcry stepped the bore
rot's of the Trish liorw trade --
the nighemare Channel crossing
followed by ghastly eeenes in
French goods yards and abattoirs,
But now an even eektellor trade
In live horses iS reported from
Germany,
Huge numbers of unwanted
term horses - throw-outs of the
tractor age - are being peeked
into. trains and transported from
West Germany to Italy,
At the frontier station of .Rees
enheim, Bavaria, people watch
horrified as operators fling open
railway freight cars to reveal
horses dead and dying inside, the
result of gross overloading and.
and cruelties in transit,
"Ventilatioo is neglected, and
with horses crammed into trucks
like cabbages, many undergo a
process of slow suffocation," re,
ported one investigator,
"Nervous horses panic, stam-
pedes are common, and if a horse
can somehow make room to kick,
bones are smashed and blood
flows,"
Another investigator described
an inhuman system of tethering
horses to ropes attached, to the
ceiling of cars, so that if they
moved at all, the animals stran,
gled themselves, - e•
Whips cracked anete cudgels
thudded when fresh horses were.
driven • into already, crowded
cars or animals reloaded at
change -points.
At Kufsteile the Austrian fron-
tier station for horse traffic
leaving Germany for Italy, fresh
barbarities have been witnessed,
One train, containing a pack-.
ed consignment of horses stood in
a siding for seventeen hours.
Owing to an official's neglect or
indifference, not a hand, was lift-
ed to give hay, water or help to
one,of the animals.
When the doors. were unbarred,
many horses were found groan-
ing with exhaustion and others
had been trampled underfoot on
the wagon floors.
Now, after nearly two years, a
German M.P. is trying to get a
bill before Parliament to stop
this ghastly traffic.
As he knows, the horses are
supposedly exported for slaugh-
ter. But on arrival in Italy; many
half-dead survivors, instead of
being sent• straight to abattoirs,
are resold to Italian peasants and
put to work on farms and hold-
ings. • .
There, in many cases; they are
used for slave labour until they
fall dead in their harnesses..
Tortoises Plague
African. Farmers
Tortoises, beloyed as pets,. can
be dangerous and pestilential, At
least, that's the view South Afri-
can farmers hold of them, Re-
cently thousands of mountain
tortoises lumbered down from
the hills to invade their crops
and pastures. Prolonged drought
and blistering sun had forced
them to seek new feeding
grounds.
Until recently, it was illegal to
interfere with them. For the tor-
toise, in the sunny African clime,
is protected as Royal Game. It
could not be trapped or killed
without a permit.
But realizing how serious is the
tortoise onslaught the Director
of Nature Conservation•withdrevv
the ruling. So: in a big round-up
which 'has just started, tortoises
are being scooped up by the hun-
dreds and either disposed of or
earmarked for transfer to distant
nature reserves,
One farmer, Mr. Van der
Merwe, has come up with an or-
iginal use ;for them:
"It's e grand chance for us to
get; together and found a local
tortoise soup industry," he says.
Me main outlet, he thinks, would
be catering, for aristocratic appe-
tites - such as royal banquets
and similar functions.
MOON SHOT? - No, this
not a scene at Cape Canaveral.
The unusual picture was made
on a farm. The structures are
silos, with the moon as a back-
drop.
for Ben, During the following
months of the winter term, he
was called "Pocketful Ben,"
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2. So. American
used for
linings CROSSWORD 7, Fully grown
PUZZLE ruminant 22, Desert train
9. Depot 34. Places
10, Cooking vessel 37, Persian hook
11. Reverence money
17, Edges 39, Sluggishness
19. Tumble 42. Cozy places
21. Coronet 44, Lasso
23. Scarcer 46. Father
23. Morning 43: Tear
reception 49. Dusk
15. Fresh-water 50. Not in
fish 52, Pro and --
26. Tales (colloq.) 13. Turn hay
Kennedy Is A •
Rocking-Chair Fan'
That old - fashioned rocking
chair discovered in the Presi-
dent's office is not one of the
antiques with which Mrs, Ken-
nedy hopes. to refurnish the.
White House.
It is a regular porch-type cane
rocker to which she has given
a decorator's touch; ,,withe
specially made foam rubber
cushion and aim coverings. The
chair itself hae,been -etained, ma-
hogany to match his other' office
furniture.
Discovery that President Ken-
nedy is a. rocking-chair man
came as a .surprise to reporters
recently.,
Actually it's. an old story. He
had thechair in his office in the
Senate. He admired a similar
chair .some years ago in the of-
fice of Dr. Janet G. Travell, how
White House physician and 'pos.,
tune authority, found it comfort-
able, and metered one like it
• Now when visitors doine in
and he wants to, "pull up a
&seize" he takes the rocker.
It Makes good sense, accord-
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Biting Dog
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burden
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nephew
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Use-oreeseees to Hr-event .' l'e !tine
A bad-tempered and vicious
.,.•black dog had been having things
all its own way in the French vil-
lage of Chalindrey. It barked at,
practically everybody, and bit
those to whom it took a particu-
lar dislike.
Then, one day along came M.
Charles Ruiz.
He is a genial, good - natured
man, but the dog took violent ex-
ception to him. Barking furious-
ly, it launched itself at M„.Ruiz.
The man ignored- the :dog and
continued on his way. But the
animal raced after M. Ruiz and,
sank its sharp , fangs into his
ankle, ,
A cry rang ant:I-But it did not
come from U. Ruii. It was the
dog.
M, Ruiz wears an aliunintrin
leg arid it wag the dog's mis-
fortune to pick this one for its
attack,
The black dog isn't biting any
more these days
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My brother Ben followed in
his father's footsteps in the mat-
ter of filling his pockets so that
Mother used to remark, "Ben
outcrams his father." Mother
could not take with Ben the
same measures that she took with
me because the pockets in a boy's•
clothing were too numerous to
be sewed up. She tried scolding
him, She sought to reward him
when he remembered to keep his
pockets clear and clean, but.
neither blame nor praise could
change his ways.
Even as a small child, my bro-
ther was a confirmed berry-
picker. It was he' who always
found the first sweet strawberry.
in the meadow grass and har-
vested the last tart cranberry in
the frosty marsh. Mother was
pleased that he liked to pick
berries but she deplored his
practice of depositing them in
his pockets where, crushed and
mixed with chalk and marbles,
they became entirely unedible.
Father, who himself was a great
berry-picker, pleased both Mo-
ther and. Ben by suggesting a
device that solved the berries-
in-pocket problem, He showed
Ben how to cut a band of bark
from a white birch, how to fash-
ion it into a cup and pin the
edges together with a briar or
a sharp twig. Birch baskets fill-
ed in turn with strawberries,
blueberries, raspberries, black-
berries, and cranberries were
welcome offerings which Ben
brought to our kitchen table,
When Ben was older, lie did
not cease to -pick berries but he
also gathered objects of a less
attractive nature. One year, he .
collected lizards and tree toads.
Another year, he amassed a col-
lection of rocks and mosses, and
for several seasons he centered
his interest on sea shells. What-
ever he collected, he placed in
his pockets so that his pockets
had often to be turned wrong
side out for cleaning and wash-,
ing. Finally Mother hit upon a
novel solution. She used heavy
blue and white ticking to make
holders that fitted into each poc-
ket, In this way the overworked
pocket was saved from much
wear and tear.
In the winter, Ben found
fewer objeots to collect. There
were no berries; rocks and
mosses were covered with a
blanket of snow. Spruce gum
was about the only outdoor ob-
ject that was added to his pocket
collection of odds and ends,
writes Esther E, Wood in the
Christian Science Monitor,
One winter afternoon, when
he was walking leisurely to
schoel, lie Stopped at Herman's
carriage shop, where his cousin
was painting a sleigh. In the
corner of the shop was a broken
wasp's nest with bodies of the
No matter how fearful We are
of the future we Want In see
lot more of IL
cular soil or situation. Labor is
also eliminated by combination
of jobs. For example, •a farmer
may 'attach a sprayer behind his
wheel -track planter to include
pre-emergence weed spraying in
his planting labor. He may plow
with a mulcher attached to his
plow, eliminating the need for
discing and enabling him to
plant in the conventional way.
* • e
Up to now, MT has required
no new machinery. Farmers
have Adapted their present
equipment to the new methods:
"They're wonderfully ingeni
Ous about it," said Mr. GalloWay.
"They study MT in our winter
schools, then go home and im-
provise. Some farmers change
the wheel spacing on their trac-
tors and add two extra wheels
• in order to put the tracks where
they want' them. One farmer
hitched his planter so the right
runner followed the inside edge
of soil Compacted by the rear
tractor wheel and the left run-
ner planted in the front wheel
track," e
This farmer, working his field
alone, made a praCtice of plow-
ing Several rounds With one trace
toe', then leaving 'it and mount-
ing the other tractor to which
the planter Was hitehed. In any
case, planting 'emit be done not
more than half a day after plow=
ing in Order to get good results.
1VIatittfacterers 'are watching
Inininitine tillage eXperienehts
like hawks, said Galloway,
Allie-Chalmere is offering a
Wheel track planter this spring,
he said. Deere" & Co., studying
experiences of users of their Ma-
thine*, report a Wiedensit teeni-
er i15 the northern limit of the
corn belt who ,gets' 1>30` btislrels
to the acre by wheel track plant-
ing, Mere than he ever got be-
fore,
Purdue University offers, a
table showing the average cost
of conventional and MT Methods,
It shown iii eVety ease a lower
eW POWer,pr acre, Counting abet end
aqiiiPitient.
"There* no fool like, ail oia
tools" goes the saying, 146,• you
eortairilk teal beat ettietiehei,
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gottor which'feeds" mostly on earthwornic An admirer hoick the tohdoh Z66. Witt sir Lett
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holy 2b pound's „ s the newest thin4 irt watee fratisporldtioti.,
Made for ttitietnien-,, Pit reef leirg,
In conversation among Mid-
west U.S. farmers you are likely
to hear talk of "this new MT."
The speakers are. referring, to a
simple, successful way to cut the
cost of soil preparation and cul-
tivation. MT means minimum
tillage; the reduction of the
number of trips over the field
preparing the seed bed,
* *
Harry Galloway, Purdue -Uni-
versity agronomist, says he is
impressed by the willingness of
Midwest farmers to try out the
new tillage' methods tested at the
experiment stations, In Ohio,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and
some other states, as well as In
Indiana, practical farmers have
put the MT methods to the. test
and are getting results,
to.
Gal-
loway says, Field men of the
Purdue University extension ser-
vice interviewed 37 farmers who
raised their corn by the MT
method and heard 56 of them say
"MT pays off." Most of ' them
figured it saved them from $2 to
$3, an acre. The lone farmer who
disagreed found the method he
used not adapted to his muck
soil. *
Mr. Galloway sat down in the
lounge of 'Purdue's Memorial
Union one evening and explain-
ed to me the fundamentals ,of
minimum tillage, diagraming soil
structure on a sheet torn from
his notebook. He made it plain
that in certain soils much of the
discing and harrowing done in
the traditional methods is net
necesSary or conducive to the
highest yields under today's con-
ditions. The methods developed
with horse-drawn plows were
not designed for use with heavy
modern machinery which p.ounds
the earth as the horse-drawn
machinery never did. Wheels
more, today's price squeeze and
the scarcity of farm labor en-
courage farmers to eliminate as
many motions as possible, writes
Dorothea Kean Jaffe in the
Christian Science Monitor.
MT seems to be doing this.
Conventional eon treatment, said
Mr: Galloway, calls for some 11
trips' with the tractor over the
field from „early spring to har-
vest. time, With MT methods,
these can be cut to as few as six,
althoughthey may run to eight
or nine, depending on the parti-
cular technique used,
The most striking form of
minimum tillage is known as
wheel track planting, Instead of
discing ' twice and perhaps har-
rowing also to prepare what used
to be regarded as "a nice fine
bed," the MT farmer plante in
the track left by the wheels of
the tractor that pulls the plow.
The field is left rough except for
the tracks, In them the' weight
of the trader has broken the
clods and imeacted the soil suf-
ficiently to give the seed a start,
ing bed. (utile'. notice how
weeds grow in the footoririts oe
a spaded garden?'" Mr Calloway
asked, "same principle.")
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There are adVelitages to this
Method Other then saving trips
around the field, By leaving the
soil tough except for Wheel
tracks it telitaine Mete Pereitie,
Mete Water sibeetbant, less in-
clined to Middle Moreover,
weeds don't grow SO feet its loose
toll as 'hi the conventional "geed
Seed, bed," This postpones the'
need for ctultiatioti and giVeS
the farther a thatite to do ether
jobs deinatiding hitiniediate•
teilftion,
There are VarliettS Othet rriliil
MUMtillage inetliddt tarn-Cot:4'
litiVi• blanket toi thein iPloWe
,Platititi' "low then 04W °fling.,
id tittage;s tea' a Akin*
otoeedlitti,. adit0e4 ti at psi C-