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woody glen where they would
have coolness from the hot son.
The f a ti r t h day of sumlner
.hound Mail'i and Elspeth up be•
times, ready to be al with their
neighbours to work at the peals,
Owing to constant rail the win-
ter feel had. never 'dried enough
to secure. And se the stacks bad .,
to be pulled, down to dry, Q,iiet-,
lY the men and women arranged
wet peats ill stacks of three,.
placing, .e fourth across the top.
While they stooped and lifted
they would marvel at the OM,
forting feet of sunshine on,their
backs, • 'seeping into their bones
.end bringing a wonderful sense
of well-being, As it grew better;
layers of winter ' clothing were
pulled off and flung on the
moor; even the oldest in the
Party discarded a muffler or
shawl.
When the work, was almost
finished, everyone steppe* for
the picnic meal, spread 'out on
the, grass where the ,scent of
thyme and, heather bleW in from
the 'moorland. Sitting down to
eat the old folk sighed 'their
content, while the Young ones),
laughed and „talked' in between
eating. Matti"and BIspethSeJoed
to their own company, regerded
the "crowd " half fearfully, but
refreshed with food they ningl;.
ed with the rest, and recalled
o t 11.-e r summers of . eimilar
warmth and light,
In the evening :the whole
company drove back home in the
carts, the .sky newdered with
primrose light and the rim of .A
waning moon rising above the
sea, deep to where the after-
glow -of sunlight still lingered.
The young people laughed, 'the
,old ones scanned the hills, foq:
any sign of a break in the sum-
mer weather.
It came on the sixth day,
when the skies suddenly dark-
ened and the women ran out to
bring . in the Sunday blacks from
the fences. "The rain • is soon
conning," Maid, shouted to Els-
peth who had a small clothes
market draped round her cels
mg, "But we did have the 'fine
spell af• summer," Elspeth_ an-
swered. "And did we not make
the most of it while it lasted?"
- By Marion Henderson in. the
Christian Science Monitor.
Tracing Treasures
Hitler Stole
five Fins Doys ke
One Whole Summer 1
As one of -his fast vengeful
Mowac;ts, u'AP"tilif e esIfftler isplacnonliedctiotn6
of art he had stolen from the
Museums and the Jewish collec-
lers of France and stored in the
salt mines of the Alt Aussee,
Fortunately, in the confusion of
the Third Reich's last days, per
Fuhrer's orders were never car-
ried out. Most of the works t4
art have been returned to France,
and the repatriation still goes on.
The fantastic tale of the Nazis'
spoliation of French museums
and collections has now been re-
counted in "The Art Front." The
author, Rose Valiant', was large;
ly responsible for recovering the
treasures. As curator of the Jeu
de Paume Museum Mlle, Val-
lend spied throughout the four-
year oceupation,on. the Germans,
who used her museum as a stor-
age and assembly point for all
art works destined to be shipped
to Germany. Then, shortly after
the liberation of Paris, she was
given "a reserve commission as
captain in the French Army and
followed the troops into Ger-
many to search for the thousands
of treasures - museum pieces
and the great collections of the
Rothschilds, t h e Wildensteins,
and David-Weill - she knew to
be hidden there. From 1945 until
1954 she served with a special
mission searching for lost or loot-
ed paintings, tapestries, sculp-
tures, and antique furniture.
Now a portly, cheerful, white-
haired woman of '71 (who holds
the rank of reserve colonel),
Mlle. Valland reminisced in
Paris recently about her artful
espionage. "When you're the
weakest," she said, "you have to
be the cleverest. I was afraid,
yes, but one gets used to that
sort of thing. The Germans made
me understand that I had to be-
have. I could never make notes
about the things I found being
packed for shipment to the
enemy. I relied on my memory."
In her book, Mlle. Valland
describes in witty detail the visits
of Goring and the special shows
mounted for him to choose loot
(he preferred the High. Renais-
sance), the 1943 burning in the
Tuileries Court of the "degener-
ate" canvases of Miro, Picasso,
and the arrival of General .1.,e-
clerc's Free'French forces in time
to capture the last trainload of
masterpieces destined for Ger-
many.
Today, working with the U.S.
State Department and the Bonn
government, Mlle, Valland is still
engaged in the seemingly endless
task of repatriating art works
taken during the occupation, "So
far," she says, "some 85,000 have
been returned, but not even the
Germans can make a complete
inventory of everything that was
taken."
Five days ol perfect weather
Often OOnstitute a Hebridean,
summe'r', and One which the Isles
tol„k eonsider well worth the
year p -Waiting, Hot sun,
aloud less blue skies, e-sha-
dowed h i 11 s mirrored in still
lochs, and long still nights with,
no pound save the lapping of the
tide and the distant call of a
late-tarrying euckoo--Mairi and
her crony Elspeth had often
dreamed of such a summer durs
ing the long trying winter,
Suddenly the perfect weather
came, and for two whole days
they just sat and enjoyed it, ab-
sorbing the blessed sunshine in-
to their bones, blissfully relaxed
on the cseepie stools they had
brought out from the dark kit-
ebens into a World of wondrous
light and colour,
Between long -spells of silence
the two old women talked of
what they intended 'to do while
the summer weathet lasted, but
with no thought of haste in their
minds, Unlike the people on the
mainland the Isles folk are not
enslaved to time. Clocks and
watches are far less obsesved
than cockcrowing and tide-flow-
ing, and Elspeth and fifairi, who
could hear the pulse beat of the
earth beneath their feet, did not
possess a reliable clock be-
tween them.
On the third morning of their
Hebridean summer the two wo-
men decided to discard their
winter shawls. While Mahe roll-
ed up the clootie rug and threw
it onto the fence, Elspeth start-
ed off by laying out her home-
spun blankets and extra bed-
ding, with her Sunday blacks,
to air in the warm sunshine.
'hen the fence could hold no
more, both women walked a few,
steps to a clump of whins which
they soon covered with every-
thing that required airing.
Summer weather was right for
the annual blanket wash, and
while every house in the He-
brides now has tap water the
old women prefer to do their
big washing by the burn, The
fourth day found the fire alight
early, with a column of blue
smoke rising from the giant
three-legged pot that boiled the
burn water. Bedding from sev-
eral houses lay on the chairs and
the great wooden tub held the
first blankets which the younger
women tramped barefoot. The
washing finished well before
midday (measured by the turn
of the tide), the clothes were
then spread out on the warm
sea grass that was sprinkled
with thrift and daisies.
Meanwhile the women with
husbands had other business on
hand. Work really started with
a Tearful spate of activity on
the third summer day. Those
who had sheep drove them to-
gether for shearing, and the
baaing and lamenting of ewes
and lambs mingled with the
barking of collies and the shout-
ing of the men who directed the
work. From their cottage doers,
Matti and Elspeth followed the
`progress of the shearing, watch-
ing the lambs, bounding over
the little. sheep tracks beside
their white fleeced mothers on
Ito bog and heather with the wise
and wary ewes making for the
py Rev. It, Barclay Warren
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A, Search for Life's Meaning
Ecclesiastes 1: 12-14; 3;1-9.
Memory Selection; In the world
ye shall have tribulation; but he
of good cheer; I:have overeellee
the world,
The Book of Ecclesiastes is,not
the most cheerful book in au"
Bible, It was written by Icing
Solomon in the later Years of his
life, The Song of Solomon was
written in the early years and,
Proverbs in the mature years.
But Ecclesiastes came when he
was older and sadder. He was
disillusioned about a, lot of
things,
When Solomon ascended the
throne, the Lord appeared to hint
in a dream and said, "Ask what
I shall give thee," Solomon re-
quested a wise and underetand ,.
ing heart that he might judge .
God's people. He received in ad-
dition, great riches and honour,
Solomon gave his heart to
know wisdom but concluded that
wisdom alone did not satisfy,
Then be went in for mirth and
pleasure but decided that this
also was vanity, Then he gave
himself to wine with moderation.,
He made great works adn gath-
ered much silver and gold. He
said of this period of his life,
"Whatsoever mine eyes desired
I kept not from them, I with-
held not my heart from any joy."
But neither did •this satisfy. He
commented, "Bethold, all was
vanity and vexation of spirit, and.
there was no profit under the
sun."
Solomon wasn't as good a mars
as he might, have been. He took
to himself many wives from the
heathen nations about him and.
they turned his heart away from
God. This book seems to reflect
some of the darkness that came
into his life as a result of walk-
ing after the desires of the flesh
rather than after the desires of
the spirit. But all is not dark.
He sees the way. The writing
finishes thus: "Let us hear the
conclusion of the whole matter:
Fear God, and keep his com-
mandments: for this is the whole
duty of man. For God shall bring
every work into judgment, with
every secret thing, whether it be
good, or whether it be evil."
There is no satisfying substi-
tute for geciiilleN, Pin appear°
glamourous but it leaves all ach-
ing void. Jesus Christ has coma
to show us the way of salvation
and open the way for us. In Him
is life, joy and peace. Happy are
those who put their trust in
Him.
BUDDIES - C, B. Roy, a fre-
quent visitor to Chicago's Lin-
coln Rork Zoo, has found a
luncheon companion in the
form of a squirrel named
Myrtle.
ropes to the gun barrel so that
it would rotate.
As the boring progressed, ques-
tions arose in the Count's mind,
Whence came the heat that was
being produced in the barrel, the
borer, and the brass chips? Could
the accepted view be true that
heat was an actual substance;
that here it was being derived
by actual subtraction from the
substance of the barrel itself?.,..
Count Rumford carried out ex-
periments of many kinds. Re-
peatedly he determined that no
weight was lost; but then, per-
haps the air itself participated
in the reaction and gave up some
of its substance to produce heat.
To dispel all doubt, the Count
conducted a final conclusive ex-
periment. To seal them off from
the air, he submerged the borer
and the cannon barrel in a tank
of water. The results were the
same: there- was no loss of
weight, even though enough heat
was produced to make the water
boil.' Since the effects of the air
could thus be ruled out, what
was the meaning of the produc-
tion of so much heat? To Rum-
ford the meaning was clear. Heat
could not be a substance that
flowed from one body to another,
as the great scientists of the day
believed, . .
Motion was indeed the answer,
and,Rumford's epoch-making ex-
periments opened the door to a
whole new understanding of the
nature of heat. lTe was, how-
ever, far ahead of his time. For
over five decades, until 1850, the
results of his experiments were
widely questioned. But then
came C1ausius in Germany,
Thomson in England, and a doz-
en others, proving and re-prov-
ing that heat must be motion
and elaborating upon the kinds
of motion that must be involved.
-From "The Ocean of Air," by
David I. Blumenstock.
CHECK THE WATER; SIR? - When Ira Yates dieard a crashing
noise in his back yard in"•Menlo' Piark, Calif., he went to i‘n-
vestigate. He found h a neighbor's' car ad railed driverless
through his fence and received on instant wash job in his
pool. The auto's lights were still burning.
111FAIIM FRONT
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well as certain information not
collected by the census. The June
survey form is to ,be returned by
mail, while the census form is
toThe held for the census taker.
• * *
The planning of the June, 1961
Census of Agriculture has been
no small task. Preparations be-
tan three ye9rs ago. Confer-
ences were held with agricul-
tural officials, at which 'many
suggestions for questions were
considered. Then, as the basis
of final research on the ques-
tions to be asked, a teat census
was taken in the areas of Ham-
ilton, Gait and Joliette, in June,
1959, * *
As a result of this planning the
main agricultural census 'form of
1961 contains 186 questions.
That's in addition to the •queries
of the population form, which
will be answered by farmers, and
non-faemens alike, In addition,
there are further questionnaires
on irrigation and woodlands, for
the farmers concerned, This is a
lot of questions but most farmers'
will answer only a fraction of
them, depending on the type of
their operation.
*C
To obtain a picture of nation-
wide patterns of agriculture, the
census form must make provi-
sion for every 'type of farming
-- wheat, potatoes, livestock,
fruit, and maple syrup, for ex-
ample. But most farmers speci-
alize in a particular type arid
only a portion of the questions
asked will be 'applicable to them.
Further, the amount of infor-
mation to be collected in the 1961
agriculture census is almost 20%
less than that collected in the
1951 census, Many questions on
productions and home use-col-
lected by the Dominion Bureau
of Statistics through regular
sample surveys-have been elim-
Mated from the 1961 Census.
*
How will the census be taken?
In the last week of May, most
'farmers across Canada will re-
ceive by mail the general agri-
cultural form, It is being mailed
before June 1 so that farmers
will know in advance of the ar-
rival of the census taker the
questions he or she will ask, It
is hoped that farmers will have
the answers ready when the
census taker arrives.
If the farmer is away when
the census taker calls the wife
can then have the answers avail-
able, The time of both farmer
and census taker will be saved.
*
Farmers in Newfoundland and
scattered areas across Canada
will not receive advahce mail-
ingS. However, they will be cow-
`• ered. June when census takers
call oh every Notre in the na-,
Lion,
Census takers are sworn to
secrecy, By law, returns from
any individual farm are held its
strictest confidence. They can be
Used only for statistical purposes
at the Dominion Bureau of Sta-
tistics. -
The agricultural census S1101.11d
iloe be confused with the yearly
June and December surveys. The
forthcoming June survey will
duplicate a number of questions
on the 1061 Cetisus However, the
return of both forms is heceSs
sary, since the June survey Pee-
Vides inforination which will he
published before census informa-
tion can be Made available, as
When the census forms arrive
at the, agricultural .processing
offices at Winnipeg, Cornwall
and Ottawa, the facts will be
transferred to code sheets. In-
formation about individual farms
will be merged to obtain a pic-
ture of the entire farming pat-
tern of Canada. Various tables
of results will be published and
released beginning in the spring
of 1962. The final report is ex-
pected by the spring of the fol-
lowing year.
* *
Results will help clarify trends
of agriculture during the past
ten years, both for the whole of
Canada and its various regions.
For example, how significantly
has contract larining grown?
How widespread are new farm
machines (forage crop harvest-
ers, electric milk coolers and
pickup hay balers, for example)?
Is the acreage given to such
crbps as rapeseed still on the
rise? How much has the farm
labour force declined in the dif-
ferent provinces? Are farms -
especially in the provinces of
Western Canada - growing still
,larger?
Too Many Clergymen
Too 'Long Prayers
President Kennedy's inaugura-
tion last January took 51 min-
utes. The prayers of the four
officiating clergymen took 28 of
them. (Richard Cardinal Cush-
ing, Roman Catholic Archbishop
of Boston, took the lion's share
-twelve minutes. Greek Orth-
odox Archbishop Iakovos took I'
more modest three minutes.)
Reflecting what was a coun-
try-wide reaction to this extra-
vagance of piety, the 66th annual
convention of the Protestant.
Episcopal Diocese of Washington,
D.C,, last month resolved that
prayers at such occasions be
limited to a short invocation and
benediction, "In the judgment
of this convention," read the re-
solution, "it is not in the best
interest of religion and it lessens
the effectiveness of great nas
tional ceremonies to have the
several major religious groups
represented and participating." -
Pigeons Are Hard
To Discourage
In the sculpture garden of
New York's Museum of Modern
Art, when the weather is fine,
art lovers flock to the white
tables on the terrace where they
feed delicately on egg salad,
cottage cheese, and iced tea.
Pigeons flock there too, outnum-
bering the art lovers by far and
feeding, not so delicately, on any
momentarily unguarded plate.
To thwart the poachers, the mu-
seum last month unveiled a dia-
bolical stratagem: Owls.
Twelve double-faced, glass-
eyed papier-mache owls, stuck
on posts in the myrtle beds and
perching in the limbs. of birch
trees, glared menacingly at the
dining tables. The pigeons seem-
ed midly curious.
"The first day, it wasn't very
good," admitted Oto Fredro,
manager of the Union News
Company-operated cafeteria. "I
had to paint out the owls to the
pigeons. Today it looks better."
But as he' spoke, the noon whis-
tle blew and half a dozen punc-
tual' pigeons planed over the
54th Street wall as usual, hopped,
up on tables, and waded in un-
afraid,
The museum's new psoblem:
Keeping its patrons from ni'istak-
ing the owls, purchased from a
Boston firm for $4.05 apiece, for
works of art. Signs in the gars
den say plaintively: "The owls
are Stationed here not because
they are esteemed as modern
sculpture but in the hope that
they will rid the garden of Ver-
mitious pigeons. Please do not
frustrate the owls by feeding the
pigeons."
Secret Of Heat
A Great Discovery
Fifty thousand years ago, men
consciously recognized the exist-
ence and importance of heat.
They knew that a heated rock
loses its warmth and becomes
colder and colder. They knew,
also, that heat once lost can be
restored by fire. Yet as recently
as 200 years ago the true nature
of heat was still unkown, The
discovery of its nature by Count
Rumford was one of the great
events in the history of science.
It was the essential prelude to
all that has since been learned
about the heat system of the
ocean of air.
I've always been unselfish,
Never fumed or fussed a lot.
In fact, I've asked for
nothing -
And tha'ts just what I got.
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of Loyalist dragoons in the Rev-
olution, knighted by the British,
Count of the Holy Roman Em-
pire, special administrator of l3a-
varia, - came to Munich to su-
pervise the boring of the first
cannon in the new foundry he
had established there.
The brass barrel'was placed
-sin its iron cradle and a steel
borer was screwed tightly against
it with a force of 10,000 pounds.
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contours or lowered to blear underpasses. A crew' Of fate
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MODELS OF DEATH Wockmen unceeet naturally Hiuheini-
fled bodies of adults' and children bti the spot where they
ielf hi Pompeii's streets when Mt. VetUviuS erupted itt 79 A,De