Tárogató, 1942-1943 (5. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1942-07-01 / 1-2. szám
TÁROGATÓ 13 TRIBUTE TO CANADIAN Mention should be made of the accomplishments of Dr. Frank Dickinson, Professor of Agriculture at the West China Union University in Chengtu. In the propagation of imported fruit trees, cattle and poultry he has made a distinct contribution. Thanks to Dr. Dickinson, such foreign fruits as the Duncan grapefruit, the Elberta peach from Canada, the Washington navel seedless orange, and the Eureka lemon of California can now be found in Szechwan orchards. Along with the imported fruits, Dr. Dickinson has also introduced better livestock. Seventeen years ago, he brought the first Holstein bull of pure Netherlands origin to Chengtu. Today, its offspring are to be found in West and Southwest China. Recently, the professor has shifted his attention from dairy cows to dairy goats, using two pure-bred dairy goat billies flown from Hong Kong to Chengtu. While commemorating the fourth anniversary of the outbreak of war, agricultural China is more confident than ever of her final victory. Her good earth will not fail her! —China Government Publication. Some Swedes are sending wooden houses to Norway and Finland to house the destitute. They have also sent sugar from Sweden’s own scanty stock. This is all a gift, with no thought of recompense. Twelve countries and eight denominations were represented at the Congress of Protestant Youth held in Lima, Peru. Baptists, Methodists, Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Quakers and Nazarenes were included. In occupied China the Japanese have long carried out a definite anti-Christian campaign, appealing to the people to return to their worship of their ancestors and other traditional faiths. But reports indicate that this seems to have strengthened rather than weakened’ the Christian Chinese and their work. Some time ago, a little bluejay landed out of its nest on to the street, and the mother was distracted. Sympathetic bystanders attempted to pick up the little stray and replace it in the nest, but the old bird attacked them so fiercely that they beat a hurried retreat. No less than eight persons were put to rout by the fiery bundle of feathers before one man managed to‘ net the bird and carry it off to the Humane Society to be cared for. BLIND AND HALF BLIND We have all been reading with admiration of the ways in which war-blinded heroes are being fitted for further service, not only in civil life but in delicate tasks for the furtherance of the Empire’s war effort. The blind and the half-blind, of whom we hear so little, what heroes they are! How many of us realize that the marvellous drawings in Alice in Wonderland were the work of a half-blind man? Sir John Tenniel, the artist, had only the sight of one eye, yet for 40 years he drew the political cartoons for Punch, on which journal he had as chief artistcompanion the famous George Du Maurier, who also was blind in one eye, and was losing the sight of the second when, to lessen the strain of drawing, he wrote his astonishingly successful novel, Trilby. Heroes and great gentlemen, both! —“Canadian Girl.” GOD ABIDES WITH MEN Often Christians talk as though God had left man pretty much to himself, and this thought strikes at the very foundation of the Christian faith. The truth is not merely that God was with his children in the past, nor even that he will be with them in the Golden Age which lies very far in the distance, but that he is with them even now. God abides with his people, and this remains true no matter what the storms which beat around us, and no matter what miserable failures we may make in our weak attempts to clamber up the heavenly road. God is not alone the God of the heroes, but the God of the frail and the God of the weak, and he is even the God of the unworthy. It is easy in these days, as we look out on the world and see the grievous injustice which marks much of humanity’s efforts to govern themselves, to think of God as exceedingly far away; but this is never true. God is especially near when we need him most. POSTMAN, AHOY! By Grace Archibald What a debt of gratitude we owe to our OUR ENGLISH SECTION.
