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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-11-19, Page 7lieve that even this plan may encourage overproduction. Why shouldn't a small farmer who usually raises only a few hogs step up his production to the limit 'to get as much from the government, as he can? • * * • Both Canadian and American farmers are concerned about what will now happen to the American market for Canadian pork. Canada doesn't want to lose , its American market which has been taking an esti- mated 7 per cent of Canadian pork. But American farmers don't want their prices forced lower still by an influx of cheap pork from Canada. Among the organizations de- manding action to protect Amer- ican farmers now is the Ameri- can Farm Bureau Federation, which in mid-October sent iden- tical telegrams to Secretary of State Christian A. Herter and Secretary ,of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson following up`mes- sages sent in June and asking "that the United States take ef- fective action to prevent dump- ing of Canadian pork onto the United States market," by impos- ing duties. * * * "United States producers can compete on straight economic basis with anyone, but we can- not allow our livestock prices to be -Wrecked by subsidized com- petition arising out of deficiency payment schemes instituted by another government," said the telegram. While the pork problem is , thus threatening an internation- al crisis of a sort, it is not so far Upsidedown to Prevemt Peeking GUARDING THE GUARDS - Steel barriers protect a Buckingharti Palace guard in London, England. Harassment by spectatort of guards standing outside the palace grOuncis was cause 'for retreat. Henceforth the fence will separate thein, 2 • 39 47 21 5 Autumn Splendor Created For Man la'n I were a breley State De- partment official, geared to the perplexing Seelantiea of Wan= MEOW, I would hold my summit conference on Porcupine Mil - or some similar sun rt drenched October vantage point where the delegates could look off, It is impossible to survey the New 'itglaricl autumn in its rampages ,of colour and be mad at any- body. There is more than 'the toile age, if you need more, The sea- -son is frantic with the activity' of the inhabitants as they hture to get the crops under cover. and this is stimulating. It is al- ways good to see people work- leg. From the practical side, there is no time to look off; you've got your hands full any- way, But you do look off; every) body does. Nothing is so pressing and de- manding th a t you can't take time for the maple red, beech bronze, birch yellow, and deep russet of the oaks. Trucks lum- ber binwards with the potatoes, .apples disappear into the sheds, squashes are pil e d in yellow mountains by the canning shops. Everything is geared to pros- perity; but just when nobody has any time for it, you have to stop and look at,` thefoliage. Somebody tried to explain to me once how it happens a tree sets up this wild cacophony of brilliance, but it was no use. Something about sugar in the roots and the chlorophyll reac- tors among the isotopes. A Won- lerful thing. Well, there may be those in this world who want to reduce the fires of autumn to an equa- lion. I refuse to be impressed. The thing is much simpler than that. I think the leaves turn pretty so I can look at them and feel good about everything. I 'don't think. the sugar content of • the sidehill has one thing to do with it. Why Would all this take place,. like running a railway tystem, if it was just to satisfy tome complicated engineering .PILLAR OF CHARITY - On dis- play at Gorleston-on-the-Sea, England, is this towering col- umn of coins, mostly penny and threepenny pieces. The pillar contains about $400 in coins donated by vacationers to pro- vide holidays for the pkysicnl- ly handicapped. CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1. stenectittee 6. Yonng. Socialite (a17.)' Outcome 12. klotinti Indian 13. Mrs: nob60v6It 16 Sttength of , a solution 18. Lu g gage 17. No (S000 IS. An 6figi'6VInk Plate. 19 JAP. I gresslon 21 carved Ind hititqiie 23. Ittiglioli Idtterit *24 A gradgit 26. Steal. 28. Nut 29, Snetlfid- breferetien 11, snot nti 0'6141 96, Attila 96, OtiliAftitlefl't mnttier reaeoeiei edee , nottntnte 41. SPeti8orlitn 61iiirttrtef 43 A. 44. Ittilted 40. Total 48. SM.1,0 O to Tide Temtibsit". 46. NV:It eh NI lure,! for 61, V611/7"ball formula deep le the pores of the wood? It doesn't make sense, If I, wasn't here to look at it, what's the point in doing it? They could change the seasons here ;lust as well, the way they do in other parts of the world, without the fanfare and hooraw, The maple, except for me, could just as well act like a robber plant - which has the same in, ternal yearnings but never turns colour. The only' possible answer is - it's for me, So I enjoy it, What we do here, and we're not the only ones, is make a little trip. Some folks go over the mountains, but we've found one place is as good as another. I've seen the Intervales, and I've also seen one flaming, maple against the spruce of a back pasture. One leaf' is like the mountainside, So• without any place in mind, we just go until we find the spot that pleases us, and we stop there. Then we dismount, spread the camping-out stuff from the back of the truck, and stay there, until the daylight 'fades and the last trace of blue velvet has been squeezed from the sky and night is arrived. The fall air is clearer than the fuzzed-up kind in sum- mer. The sun is warm, without being a burden. Very fine, all around, In the fall the woods get a little livelier. The animals are , on the move, enjoying the scen- ery and getting ready for win- ter. A deer sometimes wanders out patty-foot to look us over. The squirrels come head-first down a tree and chatter. We, even had. a skunk once. Skunks ' are friendly, really, and don't mind company. And you almost have to fight off the Canada Jays. They are thieves, and care not for anything, and will 'fly in for miles at the sound of a bread crumb dropping. After a bit, what I do is ehrow some odd rocks together for a fireplace, and get a bed of coals. Afterward, I 'start the potatoes. have no idea what these potae toes taste like at home, for I've never had any at home. I get a pan hot, and then thrOw in a jorum. of chopped-up bacon. When it has dried out some, but hasn't begun to crisp yet, I put in some onions. I don't -know if . you have ever heard a pan of onions cry out on the fall air the way these do. It is as good as a fire siren, and will echo off'. distant erags, T h e r e may- be braver noises than a pan of onions in fOliage time, but they're hard to beat. After the onions have worked a little, I fill the pan with diced potatoes, and slip on a cover. The cover tends to quiet the cnions a bit, but it also starts a kind of steaming process which I like. I don't urge the potatoes on too much, let thern osmosify slowly. They'll take it. Next I sort of rub down the steaks, and open a package of peas, and start the cornbread and gingerbread. Then I . . But there, I shall spare the intimate details, or too many will envy me. I don't mean it that way. We spend some. time assessing the woodsmoke and the onions, letting the olfactory sense confuse itself with the visual properties of the peri- phery. In short, we just loll back and let, autumn entertain us.' It causes a day of days. There may be dark and care, but not here. And I always, some time dur- ing the day, reflect on what a waste this would all be if I weren't on hand to enjoy it. I lie back and never once reflect ' on •the isotopes in the cambium. That's absurd. The whole thing is spread out there just for us, and we're glad. - By' John Gould in The Christian Science Monitor. The main tiling to save for your old age is yourself, Buffalo In The African Scene We walked for about a guar- ter of a mile, All the while I felt increasingly uneasy and aware of the odd vibration and crackle of electricity charging the shining element of the high noonday air. , . We were in a round, hollew depression up to our chins in yellow grass and approaching the centre of the island, All around us, were dense copses of black trees sealed with shadow and invariably wearing a feather of palm in their peaked caps. Suddenly the guide slapped his neck loudly with the flat fo his hand. I myself felt the unmis- takable stab of a tsetse fly on my own neck and thought, if there's flies here, buffalo can't be far away. At that precise moment the copses all around us burst apart and buffalo, who had been with- in, sleeping, came hurtling through their crackling sides with arched necks, thundering hooves and flying tails, all with the ease and speed f massed acrobats breaking hoops of paper to tumble into the arena for the finale of some great circus. The guide dropped his spear, instantly fell flat on his stom- ach and wriggled away into the grass, So did the paddlers, Corm 'fort stood his ground only long ,enough to call out to me hoarse- ly, "Master, throw your gun away. Let's crawl on our hands and knees and pretend to be animals nibbling the grass. It's our only chance." Howeyer, I stood my ground HAWAIIAN LINCOLN - Lei- draped statue of rail splitter Abraham Lincoln is in the town of Ewa, Hawaii. because, in .some strange way, now that my uneasiness was ex- plained I was not afraid. Per- haps l knew, too, it would be useless to run. But whatever the reason 'I remember •only a kind of exaltation at witnessing so truly wild and privileged a sight. Automatically I slammed a cartridge into the breech of my gun and held' It ready on my arm while the copses all around ,me .went on exploding and the ground began to shake and tremble under my feet, For one minute it looked as if some buffalo, coming up from behind me, were "going ,to run me down. But at the last min- ute they' divided and passed not ten yards on either side of me. From all points and at every moment their number was added to until the yellow grass and the %orjtdh have gone, i , glade far beyond ran black wall ink had been spilt over it. They ished round a curve of the main v took the channel ahead in a solid black himP, like a ship being launched, throwing up a • over the reeds before they veil- buffalo, as if a bottle of India mighty splash of white water ought With strange regret, they and stood turn. ing over in my exalted senses the tumultuous impression of their black hooves slinging clay at the blue; bowed taithraic heads anti purple horns cleaving the grass and reeds arid sprays of thorn, like the prows of dark ships of the Odyssey oh the sea of a long ROMeric Summer.; deep eyes so intent with the inner vision driving them that they went by the unseeingly, - From "The Lost World of the l<ala., heri," by Laurens Van bet Post. A birds feet are so constrecte ed that the foot is forcibly clos- ed when the leg is bent. Iietice, bird's iriehitain steady grip on limbs or perches'even when asleep: STRAIGHT AND NARROW y- Francoise Groulx keeps everything lined up as she plows a furrow at Dundas, Ont. At 14, Fran- coise was the youngest contestant in the International Plowing Match. ME FARM FRONT The following :article by the Farm Editor of the. Christian Science Monitor is of especial interest to Canadian farmers, and so I pass it along to you. * .,* * Being, a good neighbor is not • always easy especially when the man -next door does some- thing .himself very much like what he objected to your doing earlier. ' Something like that has been happening lately between *the United States and Canada. Being friends from way back, these two good neighbors will doubtless find amicable ways of solving their individual prob- lems in ways to avoid stepping on each other's toes. The ques- tion is: How? Two important commodities are involved: wheat and pork. Canada, like other wheat pro- ducing nations burdened with surpluses of their own, has not been happy 'about some of the efforts to dispose of American wheat abroad, feeling that this disposal has cut into Canadian 'markets. Now the United States is con- cerned about a Canadian govern- mental program on pork which threatens to flood the United States with pork at a time when American farmers haVe depres- sed hteir own prices by produc- ing too many hogs: * * 4 . The situations in wheat and pork are not exactly parallel, but they are 'similar enough that Americans now,face a little taste of what it's like to have another =Hoe handling its agricultural surplus in a way that threatens to upset American markets. Canada built up its pork sur- plus in approximately the same way the United States acquired its tremendous stockpile of wheat: through government price supports which stimulated 'over- production b y guaranteeing farmers a profit: When the Canadian stockpile of pork reached a reported 120,- 000,000 pounds, the government felt forced to change its pro- gram. Pork, as a perishable product, cannot be stored for years as wheat can. The new Canadian program for pork calls for "deficiency payments" similar to those pro- posed some years ago for Amer- ican farmers in the still con- troversial (and far from defunct) Brannan Plan, 9 Under the new system, Cana. dian pork producers Will sell their hogs on the open market for whatever price they can get. At the end of the year, Canada will pay to farmers the differ. elice between the average mar- ket price and the support rate, Which is figured on the basis of 80 pct cent of the average Mar- ket price for the preceding 10 years. This subsidy will be paid to each, farmer at year's end oh only a limited number of hogs. Current gue5ScS as to the twin. her were recently reported by the Wall Street 3ounial as rang- ing from 80 to e00. Catieditthe are hoping the new program will aid the small farmer arid hold production;: down; but -Some be- reaching nor is It likely to a; long lasting as the wheat prob- lem. But A may demand inter, national cooperation of the kind now developing between two good neighbors le regard to wheat, * Within the last two weeks, the Canadian-American Committee, sponsored by the (American) National Planning Association, and the Private Planning Asso. elation N Canada, consisting of about 00 representatives of bus- iness, labor, agricultural, and professional interests in both countries, issued a statement "Towards a Solution of Our Wheat Surplus Problems." The general aim, concluded the committee, "should be to re- store the balance between sup- ply and effective commercial de- mend as quickly as possible- Such a solution requires as an ultimate objective the elimina- tion of government pricing polic- ies that require export subsidiza- tion, various forms of protections against imports, and other de- vices which effectively under- mine the operation of market forces," * * * Cooperative action between Canada and the United States should be considered, reports the committee, at least in the form of a joint program for using wheat surpluses in the two coun- tries for famine relief and spe- cial emergency purposes, and possibly in a broader program "which might envisage the es- tablishment of national reserve stocks of wheat in underdevelop- ed countries." It would hope to draw other wheat-exporting countries into the program. This, of course, comes close to the "food for peace" plan now being explored by five nations at the govern- mental level. These are economic objectives, which seldom have easy sailing when launched, as they, must be, on the heaving waters of na- tional and international politics. And so, even when neighbors agree-einforrnally or officially- on desirable objectives, the' ques- tion still remains: How can these objectives be attained for the good of all, and to harm none? DANGER SIGNAL The tail of the white-tailed deer is feathery and snow- white. When the deer is startled and begins to run, its tail stands straight up. In midsummer, the white-tailed deer has a red coat. When winter approaches, the coat turns to a light bluish gray: Males along 'the Canadian bor- der sometimes weigh more than 275 pounds. A Torontonian recently saw his wife off safely in a plane at Mahon Airport on a trip to New York. When he had at last fought his way back home through 'the traffic,,he found a wire reading: 'Arrived safely. Love, Mary'. NDAY SC11001 LESSON itrey Warren, •••,••1•4•00.1W4 Saul COnftVilta51 by Christ Acts 94-9 Memory Selection: Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name given among Men, whereby we must be saved. Acts ill lg. ••••• ••••••• The conversion, of Saul of Tar- sus was one of the greatest events in the early church. This man had stood by the clothes of these who stoned Stephen to death, He was a leader in the fierce persecution that followed. As he went to Damascus in this diabolical work be was confront- ed by Christ, In addition to the account of this experience given in our lesson by Luke, we have the record of Paul's own testi- mony to it before a mob in Jeru- salem (Acts 23) and again be- fore King Agrippa (Acts 26). Saul, later known as Paul, be- came the chief apostle. In fact, most of the remainder of the Book of Acts is an account of his ministry to Jews and Gen- tiles in Asia, Macedonia, Greece and Italy. He steadied the church when it threatened to split into Jewish and Gentile groups. Peter precipitated this emergency at Antioch. Paul, w h o se understanding of the church as the body of Christ was clearer, rebuked Peter and saved the day. Paul, was a learned man, having been taught by Ga- maliel, one of the most noted teachers of that day. Paul was the chief theologian of the early church as a reading of 'his 13 or 14 letters shows clearly. His- tory states t'that he died as a martyr. How was Saul converted? First, he was convicted for hie sin. When he heard -the words, "Saul,' Saul, why persecutest thou me?" he asked, "Who art' thou, Lord?" The answer came, "I am Jesus whom thou peree- cutest." Saul trembled and was astonished. He surrendered to the One whom he had beep per- secuting, saying, "L o r d, what wilt thou have me to do?" He yielded his will completely and trusted in Jesus Christ. From this faith he never parted. A miracle had happened. The per- secutor became a bumble and obedient disciple of the One whom he had persecuted. Ho himself suffered much for, his witness for Jesus Christ. Lord Lyttleton, an avowed atheist, studied the life of Paul to prove that his,alleged conver-. sion was a myth. As a result he became troubled about his own sandy position and was eventu- ally transformed into a devout believer. ISSUE 47 -- 1959 I 2 3 4 I2 15 24 25 28 33 38' 43' so 6. Sratidfathet..3201, .Pr.,i1tniti 101 1 it of Saul 6. Peet climbing appearando - device 32, Period 7. SrittObing 34. King a beetle reside 8; Solicit 35, l'aitt of a 62. Monetary. unit of Jallan 0; aroWing out 36 hrilignetegrate •- 1 0, PeOnn. 37. Coritimy plant 63. Mountain- 11. Trith 38, Italian eltv • (Scot.) s4. Rattle 1.8, Lettuce it, .4;111'0U/to 40 Sun flax 43. Title ,. DOWN 20. Trench- 46. [loyal person- 1. 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