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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 02, 1945
Page
7
A poem from the New Mexican derides class power by imagining workers owning common goods and services. It envisions workmen, clerks, preachers, and cops owning their respective domains to reveal how ownership shapes life for ordinary people.
Large scale irrigation in Mexico converts arid lands into crops like corn and cotton. The El Azucar dam project in Nuevo Leon and Texas border areas aims to irrigate up to 350 000 acres, part of a nationwide plan with 154 million earmarked this year for irrigation. The program, begun by Aztec ancestors, is central to Mexico's industrial push under President Avila Camacho.
A 1945 Sunday lesson analyzes Genesis 24, tracing Rebekah’s choice to join Isaac, the blessing of a fruitful lineage, and parallels to the Church. It notes Isaac’s experiences among the Philistines, divine guidance, wells, and the moral of trust over worldly aid.
A Perth report recalls Indigenous groups in Western Australia seeing white people for the first time. The encounter involved native families observing colonists racing cattle carts and water taps as the party traveled along the trans Australian railway near Kalgoorlie and the Eastern Nullarbor fringe, with one youth stripping to learn about clothing.
Correspondents and advertisers are asked to omit copy for the August 49th issue and hold material for August 16th. The paper hopes to return refreshed and better serve readers.
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