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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1946
Page
5
A noted clergyman notes the shift from Pilgrim Father devotion to modern Thanksgiving as a secular holiday filled with turkey football and parades. Meanwhile church groups fund Bible translations in Latin America and Africa and join Church World Service in China to combat cholera and typhoid with large relief projects and sanitation work.
The report notes clinics treating 125 men daily to minimize disease in China and describes a program by the Committee on Friendly Relations Among Foreign Students to fund study abroad using surplus wartime goods. It aims to send 100,000 Americans overseas and bring 50,000 international students to the United States, with arrivals from 24 countries led by India and China. It also recounts Celmosa, the Colombo Evangelical Lutheran Mission of South America, founded ten years earlier to expand Lutheran missions in South America.
The effort, once independent, will be folded into the Evangelical Lutheran and United Evangelical Lutheran churches. Ten new missionaries are to be sent to Colombia, with about twenty five more as they become available. Pastor A S Burgess notes years of persecution but growing local support as the Word takes root.
A reader asks about the water dog or water puppies. The piece describes the water dog as the largest salamander in the Mississippi valley, about 18 inches, purplish gray with black spots and a large head, lopping ears giving it a hound-like look, four short legs and aquatic life. It breathes through gills, spawns in string-like egg masses, hides in rocks and logs in cold river sections, feeds on fish and insects, and is not poisonous. Fishermen use it as a barometer, biting when water is too cold for catfish. The author notes personal bites while removing hooks and calls the creature ugly.
A reader notes the water dog fish, feared for its ugliness but valuable as it feeds on diseased fish in winter. Fungus spreads in dense fish schools, so this species helps prevent outbreaks. The writer adds plant and insect musings and a closing tip on safe electrical unplugging.
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