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Zurich Herald, 1953-03-12, Page 7They Cali 'Whiskers "Grass Belong Face" le than British island dotted about the South Pacific is spoken one of the strangest and most colourful languages in the world --•pidgin-English. It has beef described as "A dreadful attempt to simplify English by turning'.things back to front." Instead of saying a word like "pocket." you have to describe it as "basket belong trousers." In this way "whiskers" have become "grass belong face," .and the sun "lamp belong•Jesus.' A preacher in the British Solo- mon Islands has described how he translated the Lord's Prayer into pidgin: "Papa belong me fella, stop on top; name belong you he tabu; Pidgin belong You he come down along ground all same on top; Give ine fella kai-kai (food) enough along day; Forget 'im sin belong rale fella, all same me fella forget 'im sin belong all together .. ." ' Some years ago the South Sea Islands had a scourge of the dreaded hookworm, Doctors were sent out to rid them of the dis- •ease, but the superstitious na- tives refused to take. the medi- cine they were offered: At last a British doctor learned the lan- guage and tried to tell thein about the disease and the "one good fella medicine" he had brought • to cure them. By the time he had mastered pidgin he was able to tell an il- literate audience of natives - cannibals, headhunters and ail - about the complicated life- cycle of the hoodworm: "You look along dis fella fic- shure (picture). Two fella see nake. You look: one fella he man- senake, one fella him mary se- nake (male and female snakes). Dis fella mary, him be bad fella too much. Him he stop along inside boy; him he kai-kai blut (blood); him he xnakim too much small fella egg. Boy he makin something along 'ground. Egg he come out. Dis egg he small fella too much .." Every time he recited his lec- ture the doctor 'reported that a "frightened sigh fluttered through the audience." By the time he reached the end of his speech the natives were only too glad to accept the medicine, with the result that the epidemic was very sbon stamped out. etteneelealesere What's Next? -Watching British blondes pass . his cage in Lon. don's Zoo is the favourite pas- time of Winnie, the zoo's Syrian brown bear. Our photographer tried to arouse Winnie's interest in the birdie, but, as you can see, he was busy watching something &se. :mere 'S eters, Elegant Yet Practical Velvet flowers with jeweled centers are ap- pliqued on this pure white -.cashmere cardigan. Stems and leaves are embroidered. Little buds add a dainty note to the decoration which goes all around the sweater top. The cardigan is shown with a pullover, also in pure cashmere. BY BONA MIES, THE cashmere $Weaier, mink and diaMands, gen- erally can lie t es;at::ded as a luxury. And .r,e4 like many finale UAlings, it';'n sound, long- range investment.. It wears beautifully:, rarely°goes out of style and always carries its own air of distinction. It is, then, well worth the money, This season, cashmere sweaters by Hadley have been given beads or flowers for evenipg wear. Or, if you like, you can 'xidd your own trimming for a single wearing. The new cashmeres have fine detailing which includes: little ribbed collars, crocheted edgings and turtle neck tops` Some have wide scoop necks for evening wear and some 'are'. in white, red, or soft blue. Others appear in the classic blacks; f'eetral beiges, and whites. The , Hadley cash- meres are mothproofedin a proc- ess that makes them resist in- roads of salt water'or even per- spiration. In choosing your eashmere, pica; one that best suit;; 'your way of life. If your choice happens to be the classic pullover yr cardigan, you can change it by using bright accessories, scarves, gay flowers, or novo costume jewelry This delightful pare eashmere evening sweater has a new scoop neckline with crochet -trim and ribbed cuffs on the brief sleeves. It packs beauti- fully and can be a dancing -costume topper to go with a cocktail or evening skirt. The wide, lovely neckline makes a perfect frame for yewelr'. TllLFA1N [RONT Just how good is the Leghorn - Rhode Island Red•cross is some- thing often discussed by poultry raisers. Well, like a lot of other questions, the answer seems to be -it all depends. Will your market pay you full ;price for tinted eggs? If it will -and particularly if you,have a good market • for -medium heavy hens -the White Leghorn -Rhode Island Red cross may be the bird for you. * • e e: U.S. • Department of Agricul- ture poultry breeders, who have tried' hundreds of combinations of chickens inthe, past 20 -years to find something "better," be- lieve that they have what they've been looking for in this cross. It's made by breeding a White Leghorn cockerel to a Rhode Is- land Red hen. Of course, any old birds won't do: But recent tests demonstrate that • birds from high -producing strains' work very well. Recently Dr. F. A. Hays crossed a medium weight, high -produc- ing strain of Leghorns on a strain of Rhode Island Reds averaging 240 eggs per bird. Several lots of cross - bred chicks were hatched at different times; brooded with straight Rhode Island chicks; put out on range with the Reds, and then put ,in the .laying house with the Reds, so -that conditions would be identical all the day. 4 4 4 The cross -bred pullets out- layed their mothers by about 10% -or two dozen eggs per year! 1 , They were slightly smaller birds than the Reds. When they were full-grown, the cross -bred • hens weighed 5.66 pounds apiece, compared to 6.4 pounds for the Reds. They were mainly white feathered, with occasional red„ feathers. They're meaty birds with good body type, but if you're selling them to wholesale buyers, you may - find thein classified with Leghorns because of their appear - CROSSWORD PUZZLE £CROSS 1. Dry 4. Stupid person 7 4Tischicvcus children 12. Self 13. Cavil War general 14, .Fasten agent 15. Sea eagle 10. Assent 18, Caresses 80. Adtusted the pitch 21. tune:aalaed 23, Time long gone 8?. 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Other •buyers may pay top prices for •thein, because they're: ideal in market weight. * 4' • Their medium, weight and high. production makes them -efficient birds as far as feed is concerned. So far, their biggest drawback is. their tinted eggs. If that problem can be met on . the market, tie Leghorn Red cross may become an • important production bird. • 'k And, by the way, some poultry- men tell me that there's still a good use for those old-fashioned china nest - eggs. Remember? They use them to break -hens of . - the egg -eating habi.t, Put some china eggs on the fioor whext you're housing pullets that May- lay raylay some floor eggs. The birds blunt their beaks on the. china eggs only a few times before - they lose interest. 4 4, e: Here's another idem from south of the border which might be worth some of my readers con- siderating. You've got trees on your place -enough to put up several build- ings. But you can't get them sawed into Lumber. It Would cost you what they're worth to haul them to the nearest mill. What can you do about it? e, • Plenty, say a group of farmers in Medina County, Ohio. It was because they found themselves all facing this same problem that they decided they could do some- thing about it. in Janua,y, 1948, they went to- gether and bought a portable sawmill, with the SCS district board signing the notes. .Since then, their co-op mill has sawed over a million and a half board feet on more than 200 farms: There are several non - portable mills operating in the area ac- cording to Harold D. Gaither, writing in "Farm 3 otu'nel," x, * Charge for sawing is now $20 a thousand, with a minimum charge of $50 per farm, This covers payments on the mill, wages for the operator and assis- tant, rental on truck and tractor, repairs; and depreciation, Ali but $2,000 of the original $8,000 which the mill cost has now been paid off` out of mill earnings. John Heiser, one of the co-operators, believes it would have been better to buy the trac- tor and truck along with the mill, because their rental payments now add up to more than their. value. Calls for the mill are increas- ing. In fact, requests have piled up as much as a year ahead. Co- operators 'get first chance, but any 'Your manager tells me that you • : ought to do better tonight than you did on TV last time," farmer who follows good forestry practices can get on the list to have his timber sawed. M '4 .. The Medina farmers say that there are two main points to re- member in making the co-op mill idea' work; hire a good operator, .and know your lumber market before you start. A. good sawyer will pay for 'himself in getting the last board out of a log, and in sawing the boards to a uniform thickness and width, so that the lumber .will grade high. . About half of the lumber sawed by the Medina co-op mill used • on the farms where sawed. The rest is sawed to suit the buyer -a practice which nets them up to $15 a -thousand more ,thein for ungraded lumber. M :k R, •Keiser estimates that about liree-fourths of t h e lumber 'sawed by the portable mill to tate would never have been sal- fraged without it. rti * a. M Even if you aren't planning to ,wild, you may be passing up a •,y mance for extra income by leav- 4g nature trees stand when lum- bee prices are at anear-record high. City Already Old 1 Abraham's Da3r ' In the heart of the desert near Bagdadis a collection of ruins Worn smooth by the constant rubbing of sand grains. They look insignificant:, but are really some of the most important ruins of the world. Many of the assistants to Sir Leonard Wooley, who began ex- cavating there, said they were conscious of an afire of evil, a feeling that countless pairs of eyes Were watching them The desert Arabs will not go near the place. They would ra- ther travel miles out of their way than follow any tracks that leads near to it, They call it The Mound of Pitch, a strange name for What was once the greatest city on earth -- 13'r of the Chaidees, city of ma.,^,icialio, sorcerers, and dealers in witchcraft.. At` one time every royal court In the East boasted at least one Magician from Ur. The court magicians of Pharaoh, who com- peted with Moses, were almost certainly Chaldeans. They were famous and feared the world the world over. Ur is the oldest known city in the world. It was ancient before the Bible was first written -be- fore Abraham was born. It was even ancient before the first pyramid was built. Archaeologists have proved there was a tremendous flood in that part of the world. Its traces can be found everywhere in an eight -foot -deep deposit of clay. That clay was found all round Ur, but not within the city walls. While most of the known world was degtroyed and desolate' for centuries, Ur continued to de- velop. Sir Leonard Woolley's exca- vations have proved something else. The people of Ur were mighty men of the occult, but they were also mighty men in all forms of culture. One find was a solid gold dag- ger, studded with gems and rest- ing in a sheath of exquistely worked gold filigree. It could not be duplicated to -day, even with modern tools, yet it was fashion- ed two thousand years before Abraham was born. • Plaques have been unearthed ea.; ^h sh nw that the Chaldeans were fond of music, delighting in stringed instruments and singing. Their soldiers wore copper arm- our, and bas-reliefs of the type of chariot they favoured prove that they must have been the fastest and most mobile army on earth. Here, more than anywhere else on earth, excavations may yet give us valuable information of those mighty nations who were totally destroyed in the Flood, leaving no trace of their exist- ence. A woman with a dislocated jaw was being rushed to a hospital in Portland, Me., when the ambu- lance struck a rock, and the jouncing snapped the woman's mandible back into place. -W. E. FARBSTEIN ISA UDAY S€IIOOL LESSON By nen. R, Barclay Warren B.A...ao, Accountable to God Mathew 25:371-46 Memory Selection: Verily 1 sat unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least +t,l$ these niy" brethren, ye have done it unto roe. Matthew 25:40, Daniel Webster said, "My moat solemn though is that of my per- sonal accountability to God." This life is not the end. It is the proving ground where we make the decisions which determine where we will spend Eternity; Most people welcome the thought that Nero, Hitler, and Mussolini, will have to give an account of themselves to God. We would. think that injustice ruled the universe if these villains were not rewarded according to ,theie deeds. But "every one of us shall give account of himself to God." Ro. 14:12. Jesus said, "Every idle word that men shall speak, they. shall give account thereof in the day of judgment." Matt. 12:36. Paul writes of "the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of Gocl; who will render to every man according to hit deeds." Ro. 2:5,6. Jesus Christ, the Son of man,,. will be the judge. His' judgment will be fair. He knows man for he lived as a man upon this earth. But since He is also the Son of God He will make no mistakes, Human judges sometimes err. But Jesus Christ will not, Is our life being used for God. as it should be ! Or are out. talents being used selfishly? "Whosoever will save his life shall lose it: whosoever will lose hiss life for my sake shall find it." Matt. 16:25. As we minister to others, hungry, sick, imprisoned, -for Jesus' sake, we are really ministering to Him. Those who have caught this truth count it all joy to spend and be spent in the service of their Lord. They de' it for the pleasure derived now - and then there is a crown await- ing. Let it be noted that in both parables of today's lesson the sin was one of omission rather than of commission. In our courts the emphasis is on the commission of wrong acts. In God's sight it is sin not to use our gifts and strength for Him. There is no appeal from this judgment. The wicked shall go away into everlasting punish- ment. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking New Lamps for Old -Recharging cast-off •fluorescent Tight tubes has become a thriving business for Bernard J. Patton. He fits the dead tubes in a machine, seen above, and approximately 80 per cent of them come out with 2000 hours added life in them. Patron claims he does not understand why. welt, alt. tsg,.11nUsrsm°fates cit n$ NOW CHIMPS ON 1744tt^D 3144 SET IN THAT ( CAG$2 AND NO 22, FUNNY $1111q31 Arthur Pohttor .1 A 4 4 1