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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1961-05-25, Page 6ty Z4144%144 f buy such tilnkete in New /troy. They're much cheaper there." 4835 SIZES 10-20 Asa. 4140 Springtime On The Gaspe Peninsula Human -Sieve. Trade Still Flourishes ned to wall of fishermen a shanties, tourist restaurants, and farm homes frequently a!or,3 the Gaspe coast, in a way un- known to other provinces. As demonstrated at federal provincial conferences, Le,. sage represents a sincere mood of conciliation which exists to- day in this French-speaking pro- vince, There is something sym- bolic about the long new bridge being built to join the Gaspe Peninsula with nearby New Brunswick at Campbelltan. The aavaeces of Quebec in primary and secondary indus- tries have helped bring profes- sional theater and an art center to the village of Perce, founded beside a mighty pierced-rock island rising abruptly out, of the bay. Fittingly, it is stocked every summer by the finest actors of French Canada, pefforming in the French language if not al- ways in French plays, for some- times American playwrights pro- vide the' vehicles. The actors won't be content until they have a first-class repertoire of French- Canadian plays, which they say have not yet been written. The farmers of this alternately soft and craggy peninsula of Gaspe jutting deeply into the Gulf of St, Lawrence are now moving onto the springtime land abOarct tractors, On' An, ..099s21111€ 0 u r n e Yt through its length and breadth, failed to see a single ox-pulled wagon of which the travel fold- ers used to boast and which I recall from previous travels in my yquth. The techniques of the mari- time economy of Canada's east- ern seaboard have changed much in the last few years and will change more in the years to come. But the mechanization which has come to Gaspe's fishing, farming, and forest industries has not yet dimmed the skill of the ancient wood sculptor or the common sense of the people who used to be called habitants, Centuries of high hope and sometimes disillusionment have made for hard heads. The tour- ists have assured the survival of the wood carver, and of bread baked in outdoor ovens by bright opportunist housewives, Tractors and balers have made the horse and the pitchfork obso- lete. They have also taken some of the profit out of small-scale farming, juit as they've elimin- ated some of the sweat from the farmer's brow. Yet agricultural crisis is a phrase the Gaspe farmer does not use. He adjusts, diversifies, obtains his living from his land, water, trees, and tourists. Or, envying his prairie counterparts whom he looks on as men who do not bother with cattle and thrive instead on subsidies, he gets out. Not very many want to move, They find security in their liveli- hood and seek little else, except perhaps a television set. The last great arm of communications has finally penetrated the , remote hills and valleys of this historic sail hundreds of miles from the nearest metropolitan center. The man who takes his dory out to sea in the early morning returns to his plot of farm land, to his pulp cutting or wood carv- ing in the afternoon. Codfish sell at 25e a pound or less at dock- side, for freight charges and the middleman have not yet added their toll. Fuel oil is creeping relentless- ly into hitherto traditional coal- consuming outlets even in this Atlantic belt where it is mined, writes Robert Moon in the Chris- tian Science Monitor. The farms and forests and fisheries, with intermingling and diversification 'of uses, will long remain the economic base. No magic will change, this despite the promises of politicians and the ameliorations of economic councils. The old isolation is gone now, though the Gaspesian is still proud of his cultural heritage and wishes to preserve it, if far less aggressively than even a few years ago. Far from being removed from international tensions, safe be- hind an extended land barrier to the west and a watery one to the east, the Gaspesian looks up and says he is on the direct flight path into central Canada. The picture of the new Filmi- er of Quebec, Ottawa-trainecl..„ Jean Lesage, can be found lapin- slavery s still obviously Pam, pant. in Africk the Middle and Par East, But some of the most frightful examples of human ex- ploitation today occur in South America, In certain regions of Peru,. warrior parties are con- stantly selling :shanghled slaves. to rubber plantations owners for serf labour in the Murderous' swamp forests. The healthiest fetch their former masters about $25., a head on the market. As the authority pledged to abolish slaveey, the Economic and Social Council of the United. Nations must tighten up the sla- very Conventions, send out fear- less teams of properly trained investigators, and take a firm stand le a new effort to root out the evil which is ruining the lives of hundreds of thousands of our fellow beings. The dark-eyed, beautiful nine- teen-year-old Arabian girl bore :startling resemblance to eXs Wetteart. Sereya of Persia,. But 44 to as, her huzband, a powerful eheach, was concerned, it added absolutely nothing to his atfee- tlon for her — just the opposite, in fact, For as the girl testified be- fore a special court in Cairo re- centIest "Only a month after my marriage, he said he was go- ing to sell me, And because I looked like Soraya, he decided to double the price he originally' lied in mind." Her husband, she alleged, had already sold sixty-five other wives to the harems of rich Per- sian Gulf and Arabian princes. And'not one of his victims had dared protest, When the girl took action against the husband, the Egyp- tian court gave judgment in her favour. She was awarded a di- vorce from her mercenary- minded husband, plus compen- sation. In parts of Saudi Arabia, sla- very is not considered a crime and causes no concern. But when desert raiding parties, keen to snap up human loot and . convert it into money, capture a girl from an influential fam- ily, then the sparks fly, This happened when the niece of a well-known merchant dis- appeared during a slave raid, Before her family could inter- vene,, she'd been sold to roy- alty. Relatives sent scouts out to search the desert for her. Eventually they heard of her auction at a slave market and their fighting blood was aroused. The family swiftly organized a powerful camel posse and ordered its leader to bring back the girl. This display of force rattled the authorities an d a telegram sped to the Royal Household informing them that the recent purchase was rather ill-advised. Sooner than risk an outbreak of hostilities, the girl was released unharmed. The Anti-Slavery Society in London has compiled an alarm- ing mass of new evidence illus- trating the cruelty and suffer- ing that are inflicted on slaves today. There are even baby "farms" in Saudi Arabia — stocked with small girls kidnapped in the streets. of Algeria and Tunis. Girl slaves are always worth more than boys — as potential mo- thers, they can breed even more slaves. The girls are forced to per- form menial tasks almost as 390n as they can walk. Some- es they are taken to superior "farms" to receive an ele- i4entary education, the purpose which is solely to raise their otarket values when they are &arty for sale. Jazz Is O.K. In Russia Now! BLINDNESS DIDN'T DIM HIS WITS — Raymond H. Watt, who is totally blind, emerges from his doorway witn his wife at Fenton, Mo. Watt decided to build the ark at right after a flood forced him and his wife from their home four years ago With the help of his son, he began building the houseboat two years ago. The cra ft consists of a sturdy raft mounted on 27 large oil drums. On top of the raft Watt built a small plywood home and a greenhouse for just such an emergency as he is facing now. Each One Different to what could be grown at home. A tour through Macdonald 'Hall illustrated how attractive rooms could be with simple furnish- ings. And the, kitchens . . the last word in efficiency even be- fore the era of dishwashing machines. Here was the marvel of hydro at its best, Maybe Mary heaved a half-conscious sigh, and then she'd tell herself philo- sophically — "Oh' well, who knows, maybe we will have hydro some day!" By noon the family would get together for the noonday lunch, provided by the College. Thu of course was a welcome feature to well - whetted appetites. The supply of sandwiches seemed in- exhaustible. Well filled "butter-' ed" sandwiches, a chunk of 'cheese, and fresh buttered buns. For drinks there was whole milk, buttermilk, tea or coffee. Cheese, butter, bread, 'rolls and cured ham were all made or processed at the College. After lunch there was a guid- ed tour to field demonstration plots, a professor from the Col- lege explaining the whys and wherefores of certain grain and forage crops. It was sometimes a farmer's only opportunity of keeping pace with the times, Partner's first recollection a Farm and Home Week goes back to 1909, when' as a boy fresh from England to learn farming in Canada he was given the day off by his employer to enjoy a day's outing. And enjoy it, he did — though. it meant a three- mile walk to the nearest railway station 'to catch the excursion train: That was nothing in the early hours of the morning but no so easy at the end of the day , knowing that milking and chores still had to be done be- fore tired limbs could earn a night's repose — "to bed, per- chance to dream" — an emi- grant's dream --a of maybe some day owning a farm of his own and doing some of the wonder- ful things hi had seen that day. In Partner's case the dream came true — and out of the dream came "Ginger Farm!" Jazz is at last respectable in Ruesla. At picnics, dances and cabarets young communists are getting with it — without the fear of being branded "detia tionists." But the party officials have not bowed to the tastes of deca- dent capitalism, The new relaxa- tion comes because jazz was or- iginated by Negroes with African antecedents — not by American imperialists. Says musician Leonid Utyosov in the magazine 'Soviet Culture': "Jazz is not a synonym for im- perialism, and the saxophone is not the brainchild of colonial- ism." Yet jazz really arrived in Rus- sia in 1925, with New Orleans saxophonist Sidney Bechet, It was tremendously popular, and the government jumped on the bandwaggon by forming the U.S.S.R. Jazz Band. For the purpose, it released ace trumpeter Andrei Goring from jail, into which he had been thrown for insulting a party of- ficial. Then, in 1929, Stalin abruptly banned jazz and all Western popular music as a "product of bourgeois degeneration." But the fans were not thwart- ed so easily. Records were print- ed on to X-ray plates, smuggled in, and sold on the black market for fantastic prices. Elvis Pres- ley L.P.s were fetching around $15. Illicit jazz bands were formed. whose leaders learned the latest numbers from Western radio programmes. So many such groups existed among students in Leningrad that the Young Com- munist League made nightly pa- trols in an attempt to stamp them out, But now a new era is heralded for Russian jazz fans. Sew it Swiftly ritiN tED PATTERN Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Why try to decide which Is your favourite? Crochet all three — they're useful so many ways. Pinwheel, 'flower, star — treat yourself to an easy-crochet trio that will dress-up any decor ! Pattern 748: round doilies ,8- inches: oval 7x9 3/4 in No. 50. Send THIRTY - FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Tor- onto, Ont, Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. JUST OFF THE PRESS! Send now for our exciting, new 1961 Needlecraft Catalogue. Over 125 designs to crochet, knit, sew, em- broider, quilt, weave — fashions, homefurnishings toys, gifts, ba- zaar hits. Plus TREE — instruc- tions for six smart veil caps. Hurry, send 250 now! Q. My husband and I were guests at dinner in some friends' home recently and, in order to help my hostess, I stacked my used dishes as I finished eating out of them. My husband says this was incorrect. What do you say? A. Your husband is right Al- ways leave your dishes as they are when you finish eating. Q. When a man is sitting down in some public place, and a strange woman stops 'and ad- dresses a question to him, is it necessary that he rise? A. If he wishes to show any degree of good manners, h.e will rise. Obey the traffic signs — they are placed there for Y OUR SAFETY. Is Fat In Your Diet Really Dangerous? People who have stopped eat- ing cholesterol - rich dairy and meat fats because they fear that the cholesterol will clog their ar- teries may be running more, net less, risk of developing heart disease. After nine years of research, Dr. Edward' H. Ahrens Jr. of tile Rockefeller Institute told the As- sociation of American Physicians meeting in Atlantic City recently that a diet rich in sugars and starches (carbohydrates) but low in fats raises the level of fats in the blood. These blood fats are formed by the chemical break- down of carbohydrates. They are not cholesterol but triglycer- ides — the main constituent of body fat. Some medical research- ers, including Dr. Ahrens, won- der if the triglycerides may not be at least as important as chol- esterol in developing thick artery walls. Until now, most scientists had assumed that a low-fat diet meant low-fat content in the bleed. Dr. Ahrens' research challenges this belief. He has fed his human subjects diets ranging all the way from one made up 'of 85 per cent carbo- hydrate, L5 per cent protein, and no fat to a diet Made up of 15 per cent carbohydrates; 15 per cent protein, and 70 per cent fat. The patients on the high-fat diet showed the loWest level of blood triglycerides, Dr. Ahrens report- ed. This research conflicts with the findings of Dr. Ancel Keys of the University of Minnesota, chief proponent of the cleolester- Ol-heart 'disease link, Advised of the new findings, Dr. keys point- ed out that people on low-fat diets iii countries like Faiehosa not only have low blood choles- terol levels but few triglycerides. as Well. To this, Dr. Alirene says: "The point isp our subjects were kept well nourished, People Who don't got enough calories to maintain body Weight Weill have a ,high-fat content in their, blood —or anywhere else." One suburbanite we keew, Who sold his home and moved to a city apartment, is gleefully converting a lawnmower into 4 lamp 0,5 a reminder ef his more strenuous' ditties' in the Stibttrba: ISSUE — 1941 AMONG THE STUDENT BODY President Kennedy and Mei.: Kennedy (bock to' ediiibrei) circulate among the to White House garden petty May 10. About 1 ;600 guests wen ii present; Washington' Sentar. and graduate tOfr • lege ituelenti from 74 COUnirlee and offiCiali Concerned With kiechorigit progiroria, TWO main pattern parts. — whip tip this basic beauty in an afternoon! No 'waist seam; — cinch with matching belt bt con- trast ties, Choose print, cheeks, or 'sunny solid for seasoh. Printed Pattern 4885: Misses' Sizes 10, la, 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 16 takes 21i4 yards 39-inch fa- brie. Send FIItTY CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted,: use postal note for safety) for this pattern., PleaSe print Neatly 8 I Z. NAME,: A lb D It E S S, • NUMBER, order to ANNE AbAMS, Box 13 3 Eighteenth St., New TototitO, ANNOUNCING the biggest fashion show of Spring-Summer, IOC — pages, pages, pages of ',patterns iii our new Colouf talogue just Oita Ilutry,, send t5f hOw There was a brief paragraph in our morning paper one day last week. A very brief para- graph yet it shattered a tradi- tion that had carried on for ninety years. In effect this is what it said: "The. Board of Gov- ernors of the Ontario Agricul- tural College has decided to dis- continue its Annual Farm and Home Week." Later I heard this decision had been• reached be- cause agriculture has become so specialized that Farm and Home Week, as an institution, had outgrown its usefulness and of late had been very poorly at- tended. So away goes another old cus- tom and with it a few nostalgic memories. Years ago Farm and Home Week meant a lot to farm people aelt was often their only means of keeping up with trends in farming. The O.A.C. itself is the centre of agricultural On- tario and for that reason special excursion trains were run -from various local points in Ontario to the lovely city of Guelph. A streetcar service ran from the railway station to the outskirts of the College. And what was the main at- traction of this annual outing for farm families? That is hard to explain. It meant different things to different people, but, since it was "open house" all over the College and its environ- ments, there was something to please everybody. The farmer who would have liked pedigreed cattle had he been able to afford it took great pleasure in wand- ering through the cattle barns, inspecting the well-fed, well- groomed cattle oft display. More than one farmer took young. Johnny along with him and would try to explain to him why one cow was better than another —and what a joy it would be to have a herd like that in the home stable. That would lead to the inevitable question — "Why DON'T we have cows like these, Dad?" "Why? Well now, son, maybe we will some day. Maybe we'll start YOU a herd with a yearl- ing heifer. And she'll grow and grow, and then there will be other heifers and by the time you're a grown boy we'll have us a registered herd." Sometimes it was a dream that came true sometimes it remained only a dream because there came a time called "the depression" or the "Hungry Thirties" when it was only his faith in the future that kept the farmer going at all — Farm and Home Week did a lot to foster those dreams. Before the days of the noisy tractor horses Word a great fain- ily attraction — father, mother and the children took a delight in the sleek, handsome beasts especially if the kiddies were ale lowed a ride on an old retainer turned out to pasture, In later years high powered machinery was a drawing card that no farm boy could resist, Jimmy would climb aboard.any tractor theft was handy-and imagine he was in the driver's seat on his own farm. Pot the farm Welton there Was the delight of wandering through the spacious ground'— especially if the Maas Were in bloom. Flower hods arid borderi Protrided insPieetion HE WASN'T INVITED — All little girls love parties and three- 'le i 'H C a rol " year-o'd Caroline Kenn edy s no exception . ere watches front the White Houtee balcony as her parente entertained ete-' dank dr a White Heine gardeli patty.