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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 11, 1949
Page
3
Lester Arthur argues in The Christian Science Monitor that working to music is not new in Africa but an ancient custom. Native song accompanies road work, grass cutting, and daily labor, adapting to moods of nature and reflecting joy, hunger, love, and hardship across seasons.
The grasshopper outbreak extends across Wyoming Oregon Nevada and Kansas with densities from 500 to 2500 per square yard and millions per acre. A migratory swarm moves through Nevada into California Oregon while farmers fear extensive crop losses recalling the Dust Bowl and 1874 invasions.
In Glenville a careful trust company president Terry Oakes befriends locals with reassuring signs and a clever ruse. Duke Insabato and henchmen attempt a daylight bank raid but depart after a sign promises the bank is out to lunch, fooling the robbers and delaying the heist.
A verse praising the inventor of stairs for enabling ascent to the second floor. It credits the unidentified innovator with giving humanity access to higher levels and shaping where the world stands. The poem venerates the creator and requests his name be remembered.
A quote from Sir William Osler's 1918 Yale University address urges salvation in the present moment. He stresses beginning each day with Christ, embracing a creedless personal faith, and living a plain, diligent life. Osler links daily earnestness to future security and shared burdens.
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