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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1962-11-01, Page 3thou host made us .for thyself. and our hearts are restless 'till they find their rest in thee," Man is clever, but he :isn't clever enough to rind peal until he ac- knowledges his sin, and find:, pardon throUgh faith in WV Lord -Jesus Christ, l/iolence .Hurts., Southern .1Su$1.ne4s, In the fall of 1957, just after segregationists wrecked the Hat-- tie Cotton school in Nashville, Term., George L. Benedict Jr. was trying to pemiade a Detroit industrialist to build a plant in 'Tennessee. Benedict, traveling representative'for the state's Id- dustrial and Agricultural Deyel- opment Commission, eloquently argued the state's advantages but the prospect retorted with an indignant question: "What kind, of a state have' you. got 'dSvn there that they're blowlq up schools?" Benedict's counterparts in .Mis- sissippi were facing eq&illy pointed questions last month. For g.6. years, Mississippi has been luring industries into the state in an effort to boost its underdeveloped economy. But immediately p.fter the recent riots at the University of Missis- sippi, one state industrial sales- man heard. from: eight Northern industrialists who had been con- sidering 'moving in-and four of them said theyeere bowing out. The re.aSori given by a Midwest furniture manufacturer: "It looks like you people are being led by the wrong element." Among Mississippi's industrial recruiters, none has been more energetic than Gov. Ross Barnett. Barnett has telephoned Northern businessmen, invited them to tour the state, and frequently called at their offices. He boasts that he has' added 27,331 jobs to Mississippi's payroll since lie took office in 1960. But after the Oxford violence, the Mississippi Agricultural and Industrial Board canceled a long- planned luncheon, scheduled in- Chicago, at which the governor was to have addressed several hundred industrialists, One rea- salt SeVeral in.antifact4orers wrote that they wouldn't be interested. Perhaps more infportant, said one official: "We. can't let Bar- nett go out of the state" (because of his role in the Ole Miss crisis, he might get -a very Gold recep- tion). In any case, most North- ern businessmen are acutely aware of the Congress of Racial Equality's threat to boycott the products of firm.s which move into Mississippi. a pound when sold to the gov- ernment-thus providing a sign- ificant deterrent to production of surplus fluid milk.' Representatives of milk and cream shippers of Ontario and Quebec claimed that this would completely eliminate all hope of developing integrated provincial programs of the' type then being conisclered in Ortario. * • "They asked us to' postpone the plan for a year in, order to give them • time to ,implement their own provincial programs .. • We agreed, after strongly advising the representatives of the two provinces that it would have to be reconsidered at the end of the year of grace if they failed to .put their houses, in order, "We then adopted a 1962-63 federal program which reduced the price of butter to the con- sumer,by 12 dents a pound while keeping . the producer's 'support price at 64 cents, "Thus our present program contains a really . worthwhile consumer incentive but is com- pletely lacking in anything which might tend to discourage prod- uction," One very important reason for our serious surplus condition is that the per capita consumption of several dairy products has been going down. The per capita consumption of butter is now hardly half what it was before the advent of Margarine, Even though the retail price* remained the same from May 1, 1958, until May 1, of this year, per capita consuynption 'of butter kept .falling, by over a pound a year during 1.959, 1960 and 1961. * Obviously factors other than price have accounted for the decline in consumption. These have included: A changing attitude toward animal fat consumption on the part of a diet and health-con- scious public; • A reduction in consumer in- come due to increased unemploy- ment; A growing willingness to use margarine as the result of actual experience; The fact that 'Margarine has been 'improving in quality and falling in price; And the fact that people have been taking more of their fat re, quirements in the ioran of cheese arid ice cream. * • • But, the decline has been primarily due to the fact that margarine and other substitutes have been available at prices far below those at which butter can ever be produced. and sold in this country. Our dairy farmers must realize that Canadian butter production ' cannot possibly stand on' its own edortornit feet lit eorriPetition With either margarine or import, ed butter. People' have also been doriattni=, ing Mess butterfat in Other dairy products. Stist as margarine has been substituted ler butter, so 2 Per cent milk, liquid. Skint milk and Skint milk powder' aVe been substituted for 3.8 per cent and Speolal high testing rriilk kore., ever; there has been a steddrY eclirie in the per capita stiMption Of sweet Oreant. "The 'attrOliis is also partly the tetult eXpanded prOductiOn. ISSUE 44 166e Canada's' prodUcti ron of sur- plus milk is becoming so heavy that drastic and positive action may be' taker" ".£6 reduce it, 'Agri- culture Minister Alvin Hamilton said recently, Seventy per cent of, the, na- tional o milk output comes from Ontario and QUeb'ec' whose milk and cream shippers had asked for a year in which to imple- ment' a voluntary program ex- peoted to bring about better, bal- ance between prodnction and consumptiion. With half the, market year al- '.ready, gone, Mr. Hamilton saw' nettling to indicath that 'Such a program would be ready before May. Meanwhile, milk and but- ter production continued to in- crease and the year-end butter Surplus stocks 'would likely 'be heavier than last year'S, The Minister-said no govern- ment wanted to compel pro- ducers to reduce production but the federal government may quite properly tell ' producers that the time has come when 'they must- agree to voluntarily restrict production or accept re- duced price supports. Furthermore, since a moderate reduction in price supports would not likely reduce output significantly, a drastic reduction might be necessary. * The Minister said, in part: "Canada's dairy industry today is at the crossroads. The present situation, bad as it is, will shoot- ly become abSoltitely chaotic and ruinous to all concerned Un- less we--the dairy industry and government-embark on a new course," The government early last spring was all set to adopt a program aimed at reducing production avid increasing Con- sumption. The plan called for buying and reselling butter at 52 Cents pound and giving Crean]. and manufacturing pro dinderS the difference betWeen. the 52 cents and the present 64 cent butter support price in the foam -of a cash, payment, No such paYnients were to be made to the' fit:lid Milk producers. * * This plan wound have enabled tonsil/tiers to.buy butter' 12 cents a pound Cheaper it ;a180 meant that, hater Made from surplus fluid milk would bring. 5' cents' instead of the present 64 dents liNDAY N11001 LESSON *n<, HIGH POSITION - Atop hiS Belgian draft hoi'se, Steven West, gets a pretty gOod view of the,77th Annual State Fair of Texas. It was his second' birthday. ilcv, Oarelay Warren. JX.A., MX) What 4111 X For? "aim 8; Hebrews g; 64$; Matthew 6; 21-$4. Memory Scripture; What is man, that thou art mindful of Win? And the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou bast made him a little lower than the angels, and bast crowned him with, glory and honour, rsatrn 8; 4. 5, Of all God's , earthly creatures man alone was made to stand erect with sufficient intelligence to lift his eyes to the starry heaven's and say, "God:" In the image of God, he was created a creature of intelloct; endowed ' with the powers,'Of6talbilgtit,f agination, reason and memory. Man has conquered, the sea,, the earth, and the air. Now he is reaching for space. All his ex- ploits are an eloquent testimony of this created greatness, The writer to the Hebrews takes up the question of our sue- mory scripture. He affirms that we see not yet all thingi put under man, "but we see Jesus,, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man," In the perfect plan of God man is of such importance that God himself did not hesitate to partake of human nature. Christ has become the Son of Man that we might became the sons of God, He partook of our human- ity that we might partake of His divinity. For which cause He is not ashamed to call us brethren. Since God has such an interest in us, 'we ought to put our trust in Him. We are more important to Him than the flowers or the birds which He has created, We hurt ourselves physically, men- tally and spiritually when, we fail to commit ourselves'comple- tely to Him. One of the great commands of our' Saviour is, "But seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness; and all these things shall be add- ed unto you." • When we ignore our Creator, life is out of joint. Augustine truly said, "0 God, Writing . A Letter TP The Queen A eompiracy of di,,i-rapport OA- • .fists betwixt this outpost of 'OM- pire and British royalty, and when I wanted to drop the Queen a note the other day 1 cOnldn't find out hoW to do it, I trust Her Majesty will treasure my •epistle, which I wrote any- way, when it arrive-not for its excellent eontents alone but be- cause it represents an achieve- ment, • We are bucolically dis- oriented, and far from the throne, and none of us has 'ever com- municated so high, • Out' local postal cleric .was immeasurably impressed, What I had to say to Her Ma- jesty is, of course, g private mat- ter, and it is not nt›, place to divulge the contents of so per- sonal a thing, onto she, upon due reflection and cOnstiltatien 'With her ministers, 'wishes to make our business public, that's all, right with me, But I would not feel right about , doing 4 myself, SUffice to say that I suddenly came upon a bit of intelligence which I presumed Her Majesty would appreciate knowing, and which, if I. remained silent, she was not likely to acquire through other channels. I owe no poli- tical allegiance to her royalty, but I dmowe the common ameni- •; ;, ties • of respect ,and admiration, and I felt it would be ungentle- ' Manly of me to hold back simply because our social • strata are so removed, A 15-cent airmail - stamp. will.. go to anybody, Ifound out at once that en- • tertaiiiing a, notion to write- .to. a Queen is not something you handy about. I didn't go around announcing it, Not after I men- tioned it first to my wife, I said, de you address a letter to - the Queen?" She said, "Why don't you just call her up?" Peo- ple, you see, don't expect „any,,..:t body. like me to be writing to Queen, and they adopt a faceti-. ous tene. They tend to doubt it:. • But I said, "No, I'm serious.. want to writeaio the Queen how do I start the letter?" "It depends''On how well you know her,",shesaid. "Why don't you say, 'Dear Bess'?" This may be Yankee 11:14:rolity, or the dem, ocracy,ef the American spirit, or iemay' b'e jealeilsY, but it isn't any help, The only woman in high places.Ne. know IS Senator Margaret Chase Smith, and when: we write to her• We say, "Dear Margaret," On the 'envelope we write Senatoi; Mar-r garet Chase Smith. If you think, 'this =friendly „relation- ship of incumbent to constituent,. you can say, "Queen Elizabeth, Dear Queen," you are mistaken. Of course you don't. So I began cozily approaching a few know-it-all friends who might counsel me on the etiquet- te involved, and I said, "How does one write to the Queen of FAL'. FUN-Colorful autumn . leaves areofot- playing with and Honor Mary O'Sullivan, 1, is doing just that near her home. jeolanntd?" Without exception, the only .antVer X got from them was, "What are you going to write to her 'about?' Our farm library. While deeeru, for normal purposes, does not over this. One book dismissed the entire subject of the episto- tau art by telling us. to say,. "Dear Sir or Madam as the ease may be." I think this would sound odd in the palace. Another book told us there was no infor- - mal manner of addressing a reigning monarch, but didn't tell. us what the fo,onol manner might be, It told us how to ad- dress the clergy, judiciary, am- bassadors, cabinet members and • the President, I haven't been. speaking to some of 'these on principle for quite .soma time, and some of them have been equally stringent with remarkP to me, I got down Shakespeare, to see If anybody had ever writ- teri,;'a 'letter to Gertrude, and so On, From. tangential and incidental, knowledge, I had the background information that a Taiping sov- ereign exists only in 'the Objective cases and in indirect discourse, and that whenever they speak they say, "We." To a non-sub- ject, in a foreign,' land, and. at a distance, this is too vague. to guide :remember. hearing President Wilson merely shook handS, with the Pope, .and o won- dere:4 if,; ,there be„ some r latitude with the Queen nen- Ehglishrhert, and abbe 'aid, 'Unit- ed Statesers, It might. be that "Dear Queen , is, shall we say, OK for e • an 'exotic square. If we can write "Mr. President we can-why mayn't we simply start, "Mrs. Queen I guess I made out all right, I figured that Her Puissant Majes-• ty knows what noblesse. oblige means, and would be ., under- standing. She is big enough to. shade her exactitudes to favor the iggerant foreigner. His heart was- warm, she would say, if his form is colder than -a winter clam, At least nobody here in town . was any' help, and the• ur- gency of the communication pre- vented wider inquiry. "To the Queen's Most Gracious Majesty," I wrote. "May it please Your Majesty," I said, -, And when Bill Moulton picked up my letter at the 'post 'office window • he read the address and said, "Whoopsi"- I -.do hope it:, arrives and is well received, And if I , had written, crudely and abrup- " "To Queen Bllzab,eth, Dear " Queen Im stile it would - also be well received. 'Do you suppose she'll :reply?: --, by John Gould in the Christian Science Monitor • MONSTER FLAGS The production increase can be accounted for in different ways and I would be the first to admit that price supports have played an important part." * * "On the other hand, I am quite sure that higher buying prices- rather than higher selling prices -have been responsible for in- creased production iri ' :many cases," The growing severity of the cost-price squeeze situation in recent years has practically forced a good many products to expand production in an effort to reduce unit costs and maintain net income. Finally, we must recognize that a large part of the produc- tion increase has been the na- tural -a,ceompaniment of the steady and rapid technological developments in dairy farming. These developments were bound to result in extra production even though the prices paid for milk and milk products remain- ed unchanged. This is because any improvement in methods of production makes it possible to get more product for each dollar spent. Producers who took ad- Vantage of the new techniques were able to reduce their costs per unit but only because they produced more units, CROSSWORD PUZZLE 8. Incubate 23. Willow genus 9. Be the matter 37. Speed contest with 39. Snow runner 10. Mischievous 42. Summit child 44, Badger-like 11. Shelter 19. Trees 21. Feminine animal 46. Footfall 47. Variety of cabbage 49. Midianite king 60. Spring flower 51. Plato's "Idea" 52, Fish line cork 3. Maple genus 26. Harvest 4. Carousal 27. Remnants 5. Besides 28,Malay dagger 53. GYPSY 6. Swan genus 29. Orgy pocketbook 7. Apple-like 30. God of fire Rubber tree fruit 32. Click beetle White vam 54, What is believed to be the big- gest Union Jack in the world, a giant of 1,000 square feet, ,came out of store for renovation and was flown in Belfast at celebra- tions . marking the fiftieth anni- versary of the signing of the Ul- ster Covenant. It , was uhfuriled from a 60ft. flagpole. This great flag was first unfurled from to 90ft flagpole at a big rally in Belfast on April 9, 1912. It is so large that hulnan figures are dwarfed by it. The.biggest American flag ever flown was hoisted some years ago above the New Jersey Tower of George Washington ridge over the Hudson River. It weighs 500 lbs. and Measures 90ft, by 60ft, It took nineteen men using four machine winches to haul up this monster flag•on guy ropes weigh- ing a total of 5,0001h. 56 ACROSS DOWN nickname 1. Overwhelming 1. Small quarrel 23. All (Let.) amount 2. Every one of 25. Iridescent 4, Arrest several gem 8. Security 12. 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OWWD MOM MEMO EMI mono rancho Emu mom moo no© um° mon mmo MOE EDIDOU Jh 1 NUM uoomn maw mumo moo nom to UMCO OMNI pc GROUNDED - Britain's Lord Slim• now a resident of Kenya, displays flamingo: chick which is unable to walk or fly because sods from.the water Of• Lake M igadi has collected.and dried oh its legs. A massive Operation Was begun to Wash the feet of same 306,000 chicks, with .piped water, Certain death °Waited those which could not` be freed GHOST TOWN tits it.btit eitbitiOlif of ha* the strife following ihdebehdehte has til ffOd soma areas iii the Como. MCI tiroSPirotiS town of Qukath-a,Oh, the LuatOba Rivet' iii kpfeingd, is now itioolfild by toff :1064 otiitget ds abandoned buildings 'fall it, Pieciet. The "Europeans who built the town fled in masse when viatehtt bast in' 1066.