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The Brussels Post, 1961-11-30, Page 7By Bev.,14. B. Warren, 'KA,' B.D, R,p, Sunday School Lesson Growth Through. Bible Study , g Timothy 1:10, 4:5. IVIemory Selection; Thy wor4 have I hId in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee, role.' 1.1.9:11„ Jesus understood the scriptures better than anyone else, They spoke of him, When, in the syna- gogue at Nazareth, he finished reading the prophecy from Isaia- ah concerning himself, he said, "This day is this scripture Ail- filled in your ears." After his resurrection as he walked with the two disciples on the way to Emmaus, "beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expound- ed unto them in all the scrip- tures the things concerning him- self," One may know the scriptures without receiving Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. Jesus said to such, "You study the scriptures diligently, supposing that in hav- ing them you have eternal life; yet, although their testimony points to me, you refuse to come to me for that life," (John 5:39, 40, TI.E.B,) It isn't enough to know the scriptures; we must walk in the light of them. The verse in our lesson which has been most discussed is, 2 Timothy 3:16. The words, 'given by inspiration' are the transla- tion of a Greek word, literally meaning, `God breathed'. There is no suggestion in the passage that the inspiration of the Old Testment scriptures was being challenged. The point is that the holy scriptures which Timothy has known from a child, are not only able to make him wise unto salvation, but are "profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correc- tion, for instruction in righteous- ness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works." Timothy ought, therefore, to continue to study the scriptures that he im- prove in his ministry. Paul was not a higher critic, telling people that certain parts of the scrip- T. turps might be ignored. If he had been, he • would, not have been winning people to Jesus Christ as he did. Sometimes the necessary meth- ' od is-just a sensible use of insec- ticides, guided by a basic under- standing ..of ,the insects with which one is dealing and used on a broad enough scale to handle a pest over a large area. Consider the desert locust. Prof. Ritchie Calder of Edinburgh UM- - versity has described its case well 'in his book "After the Seventh Day." It was he who coined the colorful description of this locust as "merely a winged stomach -with a jaw." "The `strategic' range of the locusts is so great that a swarm originating in East Africa will devastate southern Rusila or Iran or Pakistan," he Says: Yet he tells how a locust plague was avoided throUgh an international campaign organized by the•Unit- ed Nations that was able to lo-' cate and destroy many of the swarms of hoppers on the ground before they took wing on a flight of devastation, More needs to be known about the habits and life cycle of this insect effectively to control it. Yet, in this case; the Crucial as- pect of control it international co-operation in applying knowl- edge and control measures on a broad scale. Professor Calder notes this co-operation has deter- iorated in recent years, making a continually effective UN control program difficult. Sometimes it may turn out that it is better to try to find an al- ternative solution to a particular insect-associated problem than that of eliminating the insect In the case of malaria, for example, hope now is pinned on eliminat- ing the malaria parasite from hu- man hosts rather than Making an extraordinary effort to wipe out DDT-resistant mosquitoes. If the parasite can be removed while the mosquito, population is low, the mosquitos will have nothing to transmit if and when their numbers are significantly re- stored. • * * Still others of the new meth-' ods of insect control may use subtle techniques based on sex or on genetic factors, For ex- ample, experiments are being tried in various places in which the mating call of a certain in- sect is recorded, amplified, and broadcast by loudspeakers to at- tract .males or females to traps. In another promising approach, Which is discussed in the ac- companying article, the repro- ducticth of insects is curtailed and a pest controlled in this Way, Whatever' the methods eta, ployed, the new approaches to insect control which now are being explored for long-terin control in the future, 'feature specific control Of Specific pests without injuring other specieS. If one Milled to speed tip the attack Oil woe ldWitle• Pciverty, this IS an area of bask' entonielti, gital research ifi Which ,are Creased effort could Pay big: dends: There's nothing ,Ilke an alai* clock to telt Yon the best Off Of 'the day is over'. CENTRAL Congolese government at Leopoldville under Premier Cyrille Motile seeks to unify The Congo, SECESSIONIST Moise Tshombe is the strong leader of Katanga pros- ince, who resists unity efforts. 11.1111,411.4,.11.10Timp4 Koripoio* • Alberhllie ELISABETHVILLE. is Stronghold for Tshombe's forces, Ka- tango, support Tshombe, uther bteO.ii EALUROA RAI:URA lribetinen, traditional ene- mies of the BelOrithi, support the cen- tral Congolese government., AL.BERtV1L1.2 1S in hands of Prosper Mwrinibir, of leader and arch foe of Tstronite. ANTOINE' 01204dA, leftist vice premier, of. The Congo's government, seems ready to support crackdown oil Tshombe. He onto' hOpOd to don the mantle of the late /Write Luinuniba, one-time premier of The Congo, STANLEYvILLE, is scat of GizeligO'S , . . regime: U.N. TROOPS in The Congo, approx- iniefely).7,000,.. seek to preserve ori• der,,SOMO 7,000.jeiii 5,000 Congelese opposing' _Tsheiribes 9,000 troopt in tolithera additional ooldiettote-en duty With 15,000 na- tive teeeo elsewhere in The 'Cringe. . . . , NOeseela-0 highlightt element of the cotholex COh06 situation now before the United Nationt Security Council, The Congo question may spill over into Gen, eta" Atsembly debate later ih the session. Provinces of Congo ate: 'Leopold- Viiie Equator Oriental, Kivu, Kasai, Katanga, Shaded areas hi embattled Katanga province indicate home tdiort$: of Boluhdo (06,Tshoitibe) and golubo (pro-Congo) tribes, traditional enehilft ,C.P.oriA Don't 0.0 Any .1.1400414, For Neatness NDAY SCI1001 SON GOOKD GLAMOUR-These squashes apparently can't de- cide 'hefher they're animal or vegetable. Barbara Ray, left; holds' Ole tFiarlociks like-a goose. Sandra Kay Bothe's squcish is a" "penguirl." ' ' - With the help of his Wife, he Started all anew at Grant's Earn), MisfOrttine. still .pursued hum however. He tried to sell real estate, failed. As a last resort he re-entered his father's lea- • flier store at Galena,. Illinois in an effort to support himself, Then. came the Civil and the rest Of Grant's life IS glorious giarIt st;t. ishistory.tia I I the e wy.iaasi,. a When br.i1 • it was over, he was a national. hero. He was elected. Kesident, served two-terms. But once out of the White House, living as a civilian, his lack of aptitude for business pursued him even more tena- ciously.. By 1084 he was bank- rupt, The final days of his life were spent writing his Pertonal-Mein- oira, which today is hailed as one of the noted autobiographies of American literature, . Perhaps the greatest memorial to his honor is .his, burial place, .a mausoleum known as Grant's Tomb near the bank of the Hud, son in New York city, But the really poignaht years of his life, his struggle with pov- erty and many types of advers, ity, including his battles with himself, were spent at Hard, scrabble' House,. The rifle-barrel fence that "guards" the old cabin is sig- nificant of the ..real Grant-the man who could not speceed as a civilian, but was brilliant as an army officer in the service • of his country, In a rough way, men have been practicing this kind of con- ( trot when they develop insect- resistant strains of crop plants or when they fight a particular in- sect with its. natural enemies. Novj:, the, need is to expand basic entomological knowledge and re- fine it into 'a Many-pronged and flexible -tool that enable men to match the•growth of food supplies and living standards, es- pecially in developing countries, with the rise of increasingly ef- fective methods to control food- de.stroying and other harmful insects. ° the be ea damage,lacc°ard no'hnoe wasa Mdylidg woodslore was useful. A neighbor at lest told me it was undoubtedly a raccoon, and he Came one night with a hungry old hound and after a few passes in the puckerbrush the dog sent e st ory y r a was caoso nt old. o a ilartrveee, hatincid tal coons climb UP the corner of the 'barn to the second-story hen,- pen, rip screen-wire away, and get in to murder laying hens, I have had them wipe out the clandestine nests of mallard ducks, and even catch a guinea ben - which is far from an easy thing to do, The raccoon will climb, swim, dig, and even pick a lock to get at something he wants, We have "wangan boxes" for our camping trips, and they have a hasp with a wooden peg through It, and. a camp-ground raccoon (the fat- test kind) will pull out the peg, release the hasp, and open the cover by the binge. Then he will tear up all the papers, chew up all the groceries, roll away all the cans, and eat whatever you had for he next two weeks, They are not brook-washers, but will take anything from new molasses cookies to the bacon rind you have been using all summer to grease oar-locks and eat it on the spot, Any time they find a piece of paper, they will tear it into 83 pieces (which is hard to do in the dark) and dis- tribute it lavishly. And where the iaccoon was once unknown, or seldom, in. Maine he is now throughout the whole state, and lives not only in the wildest townships but in the midst of our urban areas. I saw three rac- coons, about midnight, on Lake Street in the heart of the City of Auburn, investigating a trash can, and they had a household- er's waste distributed over the whole street. We picked them up with our automobile lights as we came along, and they stood there and looked at us go by. They are crafty, and agile. They are omnivorous, and will hunt fresh food, or scavenge. They are equally at home on the ground, in a tree, or swimming. And, for our present considera- tion, they are never neat and tidy, If the raccoon ever im- parts his habits to the American People, litter-wise, Smokey the Bear will become a firebug. - By John Gould in the Christian. Science Monitor, Ancient TreaOros Brought To Light Striking out across the Judean Desert, an Israeli task force of soldiers, scholars, . and students moved in on their objective, the 1,200-foot high cliffs on the wes- tern edge of the Dead Sea. The mission, however, was peaceful: To rescue from the obscurity of the centuries the heroic deeds of Simon Bar Kochba, who led the ancient Hebrews in a revolt against Rome in A.D. 132--185.,• In New York to report on the success el the expedition. was Yigael Yadin, a • leader of the group, former chief of staff of the Israeli Army, and now pro- fessor of -archeology at Iic.brew University. "We uncovered the most important, documents since the Dead Sea Scrolls," Yadin said, in clipped British accents. The new:find,. a cache of fifteen Bar Kochba letters and 49 other documents, was discovered in a cave tucked in the alai face. The documents, scrupulously dated, range from A.D. 88 to 135,. Dr. Yadin explained, "They bring Bar Kochba to life in a dramatic way. As a general,.he 'was more like' Patton than Eisenhower," ex-General Yadin commented. "He wasn't using any niceties. In a letter to his lieutenants,. for.. instance, he complainel; "You sit, eat, and drink from the prop- erty of the House of Israel and' care nothing for your brothers'." ' At 'first, the Jews met victory; the diggers uncovered copper jugs, probably booty taken by the, Jews. But Rome's best.le- gions The crushed the re- volt. The 'remnants of the army fled with -their 'families to the Dead Sea caves, -there to be be- sieged into .starvation. Bar Koch- ba was probably killed in the fall' of Bethar, the last Jewish stronghold, CROSSWORD PUZZLE If men. can learn effectively to control the harmful activities of insects, they will have .taken a giant step in meeting the chal- lenge of the future, If they can drastically reduce the horde of uninvited guests that share humanity'S larder, they will substantially increase available.food supplies, If they can ,curb the harass- ment of men their domestic, animals bY' mosquitoes, tse-tse fli'es and the like,' they will lift an' age-old burden from many of the earth's people. What is needed is.a program-of peaceful coexistence with the in? sect world. Many insects are merely in-, nocuous. Some, like the bees, are decidedly beneficial, Even the ants and termites that damage houses help turn dead wood into soil and are an essential part of the economy of the foreat. , Certainly we do not want to demolish the insects. Yet the vandalism of some of thern* 'can- not continue to be tolerated if we are to make the most of the re- sources of our own world,. Gad- flies, for example,, can-destroy a whole rice harvest, while the "winged stomach" of North Africa, the desert locust, is a legendary agent of famine. ACROSS 51. Antitins 1. Paper DOWN mulberry bark 1, Acme 2. Swiss river 3. Overlook 4. Possessions 6, Assortment of types 6, Worthless scrap * Grant's Fence 'Mack Or Rifle Barrels Amerlea is a land of fencea,. from the winding white boards. of Kentucky's bluegrass coon- try; to the barbed-wire of west- ern ranches. There are lawn .feneea, and ellielten fences, and even the stake-and-rider rails Of Lincoln's 'Day.. But at Grant's Farm, Missouri, is one of the strangest fences in the Country. Thousands of people pass this historic fence daily, for it is lo, sated alongside a busy four-lane highway, But only a few know :of its significance, the poignant ,drama, death and privation in- corporated into its cold steel. The long fence is made of Give, 1.1 War rifle barrels, welded into, a formidable barricade, There are 2,583 actual rifle barrels in the fence, Once those were held by marching soldiers,. in the greatest internal conflict ever fought. The men who held them-many of them mere boys -have all passed on. But the fence still remains, a silent mem- orial. In this centennial year of the Civil War; this rifle-barrel fence brings into sharp focus the mag- nitude and tragedy of the war itself. Back of the fence is a simple log cabin, once the home of Uly- sses S. Grant, great Civil War general and 18th President. In its day the cabin must have been pretentious, with the usual "dog- trot" opening separating the two spacious rooms. And above the .dogtrot spread the loft rooms, often used by children as bed- rooms. • Grant himself felled the logs to, build this cabin. Because at the time.. he was penniless, be. called it Hardscrabble House, a name that still clings today. The ex-Army captain was 33. years old and "dawn on his luck" 1855 when. his father- in-law, Coi.• Frederick Dent, set aside 80 acres of his! estate here for his daughter,- Julia, married to the young soldier. • • The Grants lived here for fQur years, happy but poverty-strick- en, The only income Grant had was sale of vegetables from his truck patch, and wood he hauled into Saint Louis on a two- wheeled "cart. A graduate of West Point, he had seen service under Zachary Taylor in the newly admitted State of. Texas, He fought with distinction in the Mexican War, earned the rank of captain, writes Grover Brickman in the Christian Science Monitor. • But hard times dogged Grant's foosteps. In his discouragement he turned to the bottle, finally resigned from the Army. When he started building Hards-crag- ble House, both his spirit and his bank account were low: 26. Eat away 28. Those who mitigate 80. Italian ootn 31 3. Bulging 4. Plague 6. Contented sound (Var.) 8. Sun disk 0. Perform 40. Age 41.. Rend 48. New (comb, form) 44,'wheeled vehicle 45. Gr. letter 7. Replies 8. Allotted portionli Owned ding y birth -shaped eurve 20. Cow-headed goddess 1 1.. Part 2ty 3., Vanity Weaver's bobbins on a shuttle 24. Pronounce-ment 26. Nurtures 3 2 4' 5' 6 8. 9 7 5. Pro 8, IIebrew atter 12. Boat propellers 13. Metal as it is mined 14. Yarn 15. Donations 17. Futile 18. Assay 19. Metal fastener 21, Small barracudas 23, Carriage 27. Makes a mistake 28. Ominous 29. Vigor 30, "[rouse of British Parliament 31. Philippine peasant 82. Issues 34. Drove 35, Crucibles 36. Analyze ra.minatl R cans, 37, Cheer word 38. Emanation 39. Pertaining to flight 42. Delight 46. Malayan dagger (7. Female sandpiper 48. Command to a cat 49, Finish line 50. Male descendant 12 ' /5 /4 IP 17 IS 20 19 22 2i 23 27 28 .L 5 N01 a 5 A 30 29 31 32 33, N 33- as 3 37 38 Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking O a 3 VI' 5 I ?1 d 9 V! Perhaps a nature lesson is due, now that the arlI10111141(411Bilt has been Made that the little raccoon will become the symbol of the anti-litter campaign. Like Smo- key the 13ear, he will talk to us from billboards and television screens, and, will urge us to be neat and tidy restraining us from the normal human, or Am- erican, urge to toss old mustard jars around and leave the wrap- pers from sandwiches to blow into the bushes and hang in memory of a fine time from every twig, Stnokey will tell us to Keep America Green, and Sammy will tell us to keep it clean, too. It say Sammy, because that seems to be my recollection of the name Thornton Burgess gave to his raccoon. Old Mother West Wind's chillun got names, And no doubt this author of Qhn- dren's stories will prove to be the ultimate source from which the, anti-litter campaigners got their first idea, Sammy Coon was _delineated as a tidy little frisker who, amongst other things, always carried his food to the waters of Laughing Brook and washed it with great care. Nothing was too good for him, In•, real life, Sammy Coon is rather a different character. When I was a boy, indulging in the delights of a Maine boyhood, the ktccoon was something we read about in, Old Mother West Wind. I don't have records of the Rise and Recognition of the Raccoon in Maine, and we may have had them around here in , those days, But we boys cer- tainly never saw one, and were not aware of them if they were here. And. I think we would have, because there wasn't much went on in the Great Outdoors which we didn't see and know about. I shudder, in the niceties of maturity, to think how we dal- lied in skunks, which were t source of revenue to the ambi- tious boy, and could sometimes be very profitable indeed, The aroma of the trade was a linger- ing thing, and the flavor of one of our grade-school arithmetic classes was sometimes heavy, In late fall, when skunk pelts were prime and brought the best prices, it was too late for out- door ablutions in Clukey's Brook, and it was too late for open windows, But donning a mack- inaw, our teacher would throw the windows open to the autum- nal wind, and we would do long division with our mittens on. This "class-room technique" is probably not taught at modern teachers' colleges, and I imagine a boy lately tangling with a dan- dy 85c skunk would know bet- ter than to come, A skunk is like Samson - when he went down he created a commotion which made him long remem- bered. I imagine some of our old teachers, now enjoying the luxury of retirement, sit knitting in easy chairs, and occasionally cringe as they remember the good old days in skunk season. But after that golden era I began to hear people talk about 'coons. We had, ourselves, a range of cockerels which were invaded one year and laid waste with pitiful efficiency, I supposed it was a fox or owl, perhaps a Cooper's hawk, and it might have been an ordinary puddy-tat or even a weasel. I set a pole trap, should it be an owl or hawk, and I took steps should it be a fox, fisher or bobcat. Housecats are wily, and weasels are worse, I took steps, and bided my time. But without effect, for it proved 9 ,1 3 0 d5 d d.1 S.LNQ ad 3210 V9 and VdV./.. 3 47. 40 41 39 a I 3 1 V .1 NV1WI 45 ISSUE 48 -- 1961 • 48 47 Insects, of course, are only one of 'the types of organisms with which men must cope. Rats, fungi, and malignant microbes are others. The subject is so wide ranging it would take a series in itself to do it justice, Fo.r the sake of brevity and clarity, the case of the insects is singled out as typifying the problem as a whole. To state it in its most general terms, the problem is that of learning to share our planet with the hosts of other organisms that also inhabit it while effectively curbing the damage that some of them inflict on mankind., It is a problemthat, in a biol- ogical sense, demands much tact and understanding. Our experi- ences in trying to cope with the insects illustrate this well. The, insecticides that haVe brought many benefits are look- ing more and more like a pallia- tive rather than a solution, They often kill useful arid harmful insects alike, poison wildlife and, if mishandled, can be dangerous to men. What is more, there is a serious question as to their long-term effectiveness. Insects species may develop resistance to insecticide ,formulas. After a period of temporary re- ,1 le f, entomologists sometimes find a resurgence of a peat they are trying to eradicate. Their efforts, have resulted Merely in developing an hisectitide-resis- tant strain, ,i. 4. 1. This is what the United Na, tions ran into in its celebrated campaign to eradicate the Ma- laria mosquito. The campaign, which was organized in all in- fested countries, has been one of the Most successful insect control programs ever undertaken. But along With their success, the Mosquito fighters found time and again that poison-resistant strains Were developing, to, that the final Chapter iii thiS story hat yet to be written, it is experiences like this that are forcing entomologists to look fat Mere basic solutions, to insect Control. What they are looking far are specific means of dontrellirig the ravages of 'specific` insects With, Out doing- wider damage or' up- setting the balance of nature in the tit0C4SS, ThIS calls for fund, amentai khoWledge of the ogy Of various' insects and Of the ecological niches they fill, *kited Bobeit C. Cowen,, in the+ Chris train Selena Whiter, 51 SO 49 Answer elsewhere on this Page .„ „„ `LOVES ,THAt POUND--All :200' spolitids of good old the St. Bernard( are as Mixed tip as can be,, The Denver Poach has got it in .his head that the poyhd IS a second EVery tirrie Sam Sees the dddzattheeiiNdk. he leaps into the front seat and hies to lick the dogcatcher's hands. Jones, one of his poured pals;:hoidS hint fee a pidtUre during ,orie of :three Viiits in two itibed-hS'k.