The Seaforth News, 1956-01-05, Page 3TIE FARM MT
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Once or twice previously 7
Have quoted dispatches from
Washington telling how the
folks over there are having
their troubles with "crop con-
trol" and the ever-increasing
problem of shrinking farm in-
- comes and increasing farm
,costs. The following is along the
same line and well worth read-
ing, if only tau assure ourselves
that our "big brass" down lar
Ottawa are not alone in their.
bewilderment,
.. * *
This administration is not
proposing anything in the na-
ture of the killing of little pigs,
but in the "soil bank" idea it
is advocating that farmers be
paid for not producing.
It is proposing to spend an
estimated $1,000,000,000 over a
10 -year period to encourage
farmers to stop producing so
much wheat, cotton, and corn,
There is no doubt that the
idea is compeitely -abhorrent to
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra
Taft Benson, But it is equally
obvious that he has little choice
in the hatter. His opponents
may not have succeeded in
freezing hila out of the Presi-
dent's Cabinet, but they have
enforced the "politics first" poi -
icy as far as the farm program
is concerned.
What is proposed in the soil
bank is the retirement of land
from production - the govern-
ment paying the farmer to take
so many acres out of the sur-
plus crops.
Some of the money Will go
toward the cost of conversion.
Some of it will go in cash pay-
ments - thus helping to boost
aiaa3m income. The Farm Bureau
• :Aeration has proposed that
payment fright be `cut -rate -
grain from the government. In
Other words, the government
would sell back to the farmer
at a low price the grain it has
purchased from him at the sup-
port price. Thins, it would pay
him twice for the commodity.
No one really knows at tl'tis
moment how much it will cost
the American taxpayer to foot
such a bill. Estimates say it
might. cost $500,000,000 for the
first 18 months, and then on
into the billions as time goes
on - depending on the length
of the program.
Mt as ill the case of price
su port, once such a program
has been initiated and cash be-
gins flowing to the •farmer, it
is hard to take it away - par-
ticularly for politicians,
Not that lite idea in itself is
impractical. It is obvious that
farmers are putting into pro-
duction land that should be
turned to conservation, at least
for a thus,
M * n
But paying the farmer to do
what he obviously should do
MERRF MENAGERIE
1:24 • ,P,ar: les"n
"Well, look at Sir Walter
aslei:.h,"
, . Fashion Hants .. .
will he hard to explain to city
voters. Yet in any form emer-
gency, the economic welfare of
the whole country is involved,
so essential is food production
to the nation and so closely
linked is farm prosperity to all
prosperity.
The American Farm Bureau
Federation, representing more
than 1,500,000 farmers in its
membership, and one of the
most conservative of the three
organizations, has just voted for
the soil bank plan,
In fact, it has been proposing
just such a plan for a number
of years.
* * *
There is no doubt that the
administration has been forced
to adopt it becaue of election -
year uncertainities due in large
measure to the continued slump
in farm income. It will stick to
its guns on the practibility of
flexible price supports, however.
as compared to the Democratic -
proposed return to a rigid 90
per cent level.
The government already has
more than $7,000,000,000 tied up
in price -support operations -
not . all money down the drain,
to be sure, since some of these
commodities will be resold. But
losses in the conduct of the
program 'run higher and higher.
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Answer elsewhere alt this page,
Yet despite this tremendous
output to keep farm prices and
farm income up, they are still
on the skids. Republican poli-
ticians are clamoring fon a so-
lution.
The soil -bank plan is seen as
a quick way of pulling land out
of production and giving farm-
ers a hunk of cash to bolster in-
come at the same time. It is
considered a relatively short-
term operation, the theory be-
ing that as production is cut
back surpluses will be liqui-
dated.
* *.
When the great surpluses now
overhanging the market and
depressing prices are gone, it is
expected the present flexible
price -support system will oper-
ate effectively under normal
production conditions.
It has been estimated that
under the soil -bank -plan, some
25,000,000 acres will be taken
out of production, Skeptics
question whether this will bring
the reduced production which
has been figured, for, say they,
farmers can still use more fer-
tilizer on the crops. which they
do grow and step' up the yield
of acres already' at work,
3 * *
One good thing, however, will
be the retirement of marginal
14 ed.
a se d The Dead
For A Living
If an Irish farmer of Orrey,
Tyrone, had let his song W,Iliam
Burke, take possession of a
potato patch and set` up as a
farmer, the notorious "Burke
and Hare" murders would prob-
ably never have happened, and
some sixteen Edinburgh people
would have died normally in-
stead of being skillfully cut to
pieces. .
Born in Orrey in 1792, William
Burke displayed no peculiar
characteristic in his early life
which picked him out as differ-
ent from the average young man
of his class and time. Largely
uneducated, he found a job as
house -boy at the manse of the
local Presbyterian minister.
Later, he became baker, wea-
ver , and soldier in fairly quick
succession. His enlistment in the
militia was, for a seven-year
term, most "pl it ,spent as an
officer's batman. He now had "a
wife and three children.
• On his, discharge from the
army he returned 'with his wife
and children to his father's home,
He had an ambition to become
a farmer and asked his father
10 let him have a large potato
patch. His father curtly refused
and a, bitter quarrel ensued,
which .ledl.10 his deciding to
leave Leland.
}Ie
de-seected' his family and
went across to Glasgow. Here
he ,obtained work lin the Union
Canal as a navvy aid pickk'd up
a woman named Helen Mc-
Dougal. Though she had been
a coarse -looking beauty in her
time, Helen then• was nothing
more than an ugly and ill-tem-
pered drab. On the other hand,
a contemporary described Burke
as . having a r'down - looking
sleazy look of a dog." He was
short and thick of frame, with
a round full face, an insignific-
ant nose and a sullen expres-
sion.
• Together they drifted to Ed-
inburgh where they became
lodgers at Log's Boarding
House. Here they met William
Hare, of whose early life little
is known. Hare was a tall, thin
creature, "gruesome and ghoul-
ish" of appearance,' having a
"hollow -ground" face, and grey
eyes under thick eyebrows. IIe
was more than friendly with
the widowed landlady, Margaret
Laird,
One day Old Donald, one of
the lodgers, died -owing Hare
£3 in arrears of rent. To Hare
the event*as a minor catastro-
phe. Then it was he thought of
the body -snatchers, those soul-
less ghouls who raided cemeter-
ies for freshly -buried bodies to
sell to the anatomy schools for
medical dissection.
At that time the bodies only
of "malefactors, foundlings and
• suicides" could be turned over
to medical schools for dissection
by apprentice doctors, and the
demand for bodies far exceeded
the supply.
Hare and Burke switched a
load of bark for the body in the
coffin. They knew a likely
client, a Dr. Knox, who had a
reputation for paying good
prices and no awkward ques-
tions asked.
So Burke and Hare visited
Dr. Knox, struck' a bargain, re-
turned in due course with the
body of "Old Donald" and ex-
changed it for then large sum
of £7 10s. Their feet were set
on a grisly path of easy money.
Another lodger, Joseph, a
miller, was dying of fever. But
he wastaking, so long over the
job thatitlit partners helped him
on the way by stifling him with
a pillow. , His body brought
them £10: A third body -that
of another lodger, a sick Eng-
lishman -followed soon after
The deceased had neither
friends nor relatives to ask
awkward questions; the appar-
ent burial of the bodies in
pauper graves (coffins stuffed
with bark) satisfied the neigh-
bours. But now the supply of
sick lodgers ended, So, acting
as decoys, Helen McDougal and
Margaret Laird lured "clients"
into the lodging -house. The
first of these, it is believed. was
an old woman named Abigail
Simpson, a seller of "salt and
cemstone,"
Other female bodies followed,
the number being uncertain.
By then Burke, Hare & Co.. were
prospering. They dr'e'ssed bet-
ter and, when not engaged in
"business," spent the time ca-
rousing,
Among their early victims
was a faded woman named
Mary Haldane. When later on
her daughter met Burke and
Hare, the latter lured her also
to the house, saying they had
news of her mother.
But between to deaths of the
two IIaldanes came the affair
of Mary Paterson and Janet
Brown. Both were young, but
Mary Paterson possessed an ex-
traordinarily beautiful face and
an exquisite. flawless body, •
In the early morning hours,
Burke came across the two girls
in a grog -shop. Both were more
than half drunk and hadn't
eaten for twenty-four hours or
so. Burke set about making
them even drunker with ' the
aid of rum and beer. and then
took them to his brother Con-
stantine's home which was close
by.
Constantine, aroused from
sleep, took little interest in his
brother's affairs and let them
in. A little later be went off to
his work. By then Mary was
asleep, sprawling across a table,
but Janet; befuddled though she
was, declared she had to go.
As she left, IIare arrived. It set-
tled Mary Paterson's fate.
That night her lifeless, but
still beautiful, body was deliver-
ed to Dr. Knox. Though one
medical student at least recog-
nized the corpse, her untimely
death awakened no suspicion
.beyond th o s e harboured by
Janet,
Their success and continuing
prosperity, made them ,brazenly
careless,'fer the murderers now
chose to kill and dispose of in
the same manner a young im-
becile named Daft Jamie.' In-
offensive, harmless and lovable,
Daft Jamie ' was known and
liked all over Edinburgh,
For the first time, the sight
• of a cold; still 'toddy. instantly •
recognized, brought Pear into
the Kncm< establishment, Though
several students declared it was
Daft Jamie; Dr, Knox refuted
it. Yet his first order on the
dissection procedure was to re-
move the head and the . deform-
ed foot -the two, -outstanding
features which would make the
bedy recognizable to -investiga-
tors.
Then followed the Decherty
affair -and their las' murder.
Mrs. Docherty, an old Irish
woman, was taken home by
Burke after he had claimed that
he, too, was a Docherty. To
celebrate the occasion they
threw a large party.
Living with Burke at the
time were some lodgers, a Mr,
and Mrs, Gray. To make room.
Burke suggested they spend the
night out, which they did. When
they. returned the next morn-
ing, Burke warned Mrs, Gray
to keep away from some straw
in a corner of his room.
Woman-like, she had to in-
vestigate when the chance oc-
curred -and found to her hor-
ror the cold and lifeless body of
Mrs. Docherty. Leaving the
house, the couple hurried to the
police. And within twenty-four
hours all four had been arrest-
ed, loudly protesting their in-
nocence.
Not until Hare turned King's
evidence did the authorities
make any headway with the
case. For who can exhume, for
the tell-tale post-mortem ex-
ami,iation, a body already cut
into pieces and destroyed in
the interests of medical science?
The trial, which began on
Christmas Eve, 1828, saw the
• public in such a state of excite•
ment that 300 extra police had
to be sent into Edinburgh as
reinforcements. Burke and He-
len McDougal were indicted on
charges of killing Mary Pater -
5011, Daft Jamie and Mrs, Doch-
erty. But only Burke was found
guilty. The verdict against Mc-
Dougal was "not proven" Dr.
Knox, though implicated, also
escaped justice.
On January 28th, 1829, Wil-
liam Burke was hanged before
a vast, morbid crowd who oc-
cupied every window and van-
tage point to see the execution.
With poetic, ironic justice, his
body was sent to a rival medi-
cal school for dissection. Mean-
while, Hare disappeared, as did
the two women.
Yet the murders did achieve
something. Three years after
Burke's death the Anatomy Act
was passed, which removed for
all time the motives which
made the Burke and Hare mur-
ders possible.
Go To Grass;
To be healthy, eat grass. So
say scientists George O. Kohler,
W. R. Graham and C. F. Schna-
bel of Kansas City. They claim
to have established, after four
years of experiments, that grain
grass contains all the vitamins
xcept D, and has 28 times more
vitamins per pound than dried
fruits or vegetables.
To make grass fit for human
consumption, chemists have
dried, bleached and ground the
leaves of wheat, barley, oats and
rye, and produced a slight malt
flavour.
They have eaten this . grass
during severe winters, caught no
colds, and enjoyedexcellent
health. Now several U.S. fac-
tories are making powdered
grass on a commercial scale.
Approximately cost is only a
few pence per pound. "The use
of only twelve pounds of pow-
dered grass a year," said the
grass -eaters to the American
Chemical Society, "will supply
th enecessary supplementary fac-
tors for a ligeral diet to all U.S.
families at a price they can af-
ford for the first time in his-
tory."
NDAY Sa10011
LESSON
R, Barclay Warren. ,L.A. 18.411).
Jesus Rebukes Insincerity
Luke 11:29-44
Memory Selection: Be that is
not with me is against me: and
he that gathereth not with me
scattereth. Luke 11:22,
The modern way to make
friends and influence people is
to say to them the things that
please them, Jesus didn't follow
the modern line. He was more
concerned about helping' people
than pleasing them. Hence we
find him on this occassion stern-
ly rebuking his hearers. He said,
"This is an evil generation: they
seek a sign." Nineveh repented
at the preaching et Jonas but
this generation was unrepent-
ant though a greater than Jonas
was here, Likewise the Queen
of Sheba carne to hear the wis-
dom of Solomon but this gen-
eration were unheeding of a
greater than Solomon, This gen-
eration had great light but
were not taking advantage of
it. Hence their condemnation
would be the greater,
While at the home of a Phari-
see Jesus struck out boldly at
the sham of this most religious
group of the day. They fussed
about ceremonial washings
while their hearts were filled
with wickedness. They were
careful to tithe the most min-
ute plants such as mint, This
was fine. "These things ought
ye to have done," said Jesus.
But the Pharisees passed over
judgment and the love of God.
The Pharisee loved the front
seats in the synagogue. Most
people don't. We have been told
of one man who conies late to
his seat near the front. Hie
competitors say he does it for
advertising. Perhaps they are
wrong: perhaps they are right.
God knows.
God knows our hearts, We
may fool some people by ap-
pearing religious on Sunday
while we cheat and flirt with
other men's wives during the
week. But we don't fool God.
He knows the motives and will
judge us accordingly. Mean-
while God detects hypocrisy.
Let us be honest with our-
selves' and it will be easy to be
honest with our associates.
Shakespeare expresses this
thought: "This above all: to
thine own sell be true, and it
must follow as the night the
day, thou const not then be
false to any man,"
GOT A CAN OPENER?
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her two babies were swimming:
through the ocean, when a sub-
marine approached them.
The babies, being frightened,
darted behind the mother. But
she calmly said, "Don't bo
afraid, 'it's only a can of peo-
ple."
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Answer elsewhere alt this page,
Yet despite this tremendous
output to keep farm prices and
farm income up, they are still
on the skids. Republican poli-
ticians are clamoring fon a so-
lution.
The soil -bank plan is seen as
a quick way of pulling land out
of production and giving farm-
ers a hunk of cash to bolster in-
come at the same time. It is
considered a relatively short-
term operation, the theory be-
ing that as production is cut
back surpluses will be liqui-
dated.
* *.
When the great surpluses now
overhanging the market and
depressing prices are gone, it is
expected the present flexible
price -support system will oper-
ate effectively under normal
production conditions.
It has been estimated that
under the soil -bank -plan, some
25,000,000 acres will be taken
out of production, Skeptics
question whether this will bring
the reduced production which
has been figured, for, say they,
farmers can still use more fer-
tilizer on the crops. which they
do grow and step' up the yield
of acres already' at work,
3 * *
One good thing, however, will
be the retirement of marginal
14 ed.
a se d The Dead
For A Living
If an Irish farmer of Orrey,
Tyrone, had let his song W,Iliam
Burke, take possession of a
potato patch and set` up as a
farmer, the notorious "Burke
and Hare" murders would prob-
ably never have happened, and
some sixteen Edinburgh people
would have died normally in-
stead of being skillfully cut to
pieces. .
Born in Orrey in 1792, William
Burke displayed no peculiar
characteristic in his early life
which picked him out as differ-
ent from the average young man
of his class and time. Largely
uneducated, he found a job as
house -boy at the manse of the
local Presbyterian minister.
Later, he became baker, wea-
ver , and soldier in fairly quick
succession. His enlistment in the
militia was, for a seven-year
term, most "pl it ,spent as an
officer's batman. He now had "a
wife and three children.
• On his, discharge from the
army he returned 'with his wife
and children to his father's home,
He had an ambition to become
a farmer and asked his father
10 let him have a large potato
patch. His father curtly refused
and a, bitter quarrel ensued,
which .ledl.10 his deciding to
leave Leland.
}Ie
de-seected' his family and
went across to Glasgow. Here
he ,obtained work lin the Union
Canal as a navvy aid pickk'd up
a woman named Helen Mc-
Dougal. Though she had been
a coarse -looking beauty in her
time, Helen then• was nothing
more than an ugly and ill-tem-
pered drab. On the other hand,
a contemporary described Burke
as . having a r'down - looking
sleazy look of a dog." He was
short and thick of frame, with
a round full face, an insignific-
ant nose and a sullen expres-
sion.
• Together they drifted to Ed-
inburgh where they became
lodgers at Log's Boarding
House. Here they met William
Hare, of whose early life little
is known. Hare was a tall, thin
creature, "gruesome and ghoul-
ish" of appearance,' having a
"hollow -ground" face, and grey
eyes under thick eyebrows. IIe
was more than friendly with
the widowed landlady, Margaret
Laird,
One day Old Donald, one of
the lodgers, died -owing Hare
£3 in arrears of rent. To Hare
the event*as a minor catastro-
phe. Then it was he thought of
the body -snatchers, those soul-
less ghouls who raided cemeter-
ies for freshly -buried bodies to
sell to the anatomy schools for
medical dissection.
At that time the bodies only
of "malefactors, foundlings and
• suicides" could be turned over
to medical schools for dissection
by apprentice doctors, and the
demand for bodies far exceeded
the supply.
Hare and Burke switched a
load of bark for the body in the
coffin. They knew a likely
client, a Dr. Knox, who had a
reputation for paying good
prices and no awkward ques-
tions asked.
So Burke and Hare visited
Dr. Knox, struck' a bargain, re-
turned in due course with the
body of "Old Donald" and ex-
changed it for then large sum
of £7 10s. Their feet were set
on a grisly path of easy money.
Another lodger, Joseph, a
miller, was dying of fever. But
he wastaking, so long over the
job thatitlit partners helped him
on the way by stifling him with
a pillow. , His body brought
them £10: A third body -that
of another lodger, a sick Eng-
lishman -followed soon after
The deceased had neither
friends nor relatives to ask
awkward questions; the appar-
ent burial of the bodies in
pauper graves (coffins stuffed
with bark) satisfied the neigh-
bours. But now the supply of
sick lodgers ended, So, acting
as decoys, Helen McDougal and
Margaret Laird lured "clients"
into the lodging -house. The
first of these, it is believed. was
an old woman named Abigail
Simpson, a seller of "salt and
cemstone,"
Other female bodies followed,
the number being uncertain.
By then Burke, Hare & Co.. were
prospering. They dr'e'ssed bet-
ter and, when not engaged in
"business," spent the time ca-
rousing,
Among their early victims
was a faded woman named
Mary Haldane. When later on
her daughter met Burke and
Hare, the latter lured her also
to the house, saying they had
news of her mother.
But between to deaths of the
two IIaldanes came the affair
of Mary Paterson and Janet
Brown. Both were young, but
Mary Paterson possessed an ex-
traordinarily beautiful face and
an exquisite. flawless body, •
In the early morning hours,
Burke came across the two girls
in a grog -shop. Both were more
than half drunk and hadn't
eaten for twenty-four hours or
so. Burke set about making
them even drunker with ' the
aid of rum and beer. and then
took them to his brother Con-
stantine's home which was close
by.
Constantine, aroused from
sleep, took little interest in his
brother's affairs and let them
in. A little later be went off to
his work. By then Mary was
asleep, sprawling across a table,
but Janet; befuddled though she
was, declared she had to go.
As she left, IIare arrived. It set-
tled Mary Paterson's fate.
That night her lifeless, but
still beautiful, body was deliver-
ed to Dr. Knox. Though one
medical student at least recog-
nized the corpse, her untimely
death awakened no suspicion
.beyond th o s e harboured by
Janet,
Their success and continuing
prosperity, made them ,brazenly
careless,'fer the murderers now
chose to kill and dispose of in
the same manner a young im-
becile named Daft Jamie.' In-
offensive, harmless and lovable,
Daft Jamie ' was known and
liked all over Edinburgh,
For the first time, the sight
• of a cold; still 'toddy. instantly •
recognized, brought Pear into
the Kncm< establishment, Though
several students declared it was
Daft Jamie; Dr, Knox refuted
it. Yet his first order on the
dissection procedure was to re-
move the head and the . deform-
ed foot -the two, -outstanding
features which would make the
bedy recognizable to -investiga-
tors.
Then followed the Decherty
affair -and their las' murder.
Mrs. Docherty, an old Irish
woman, was taken home by
Burke after he had claimed that
he, too, was a Docherty. To
celebrate the occasion they
threw a large party.
Living with Burke at the
time were some lodgers, a Mr,
and Mrs, Gray. To make room.
Burke suggested they spend the
night out, which they did. When
they. returned the next morn-
ing, Burke warned Mrs, Gray
to keep away from some straw
in a corner of his room.
Woman-like, she had to in-
vestigate when the chance oc-
curred -and found to her hor-
ror the cold and lifeless body of
Mrs. Docherty. Leaving the
house, the couple hurried to the
police. And within twenty-four
hours all four had been arrest-
ed, loudly protesting their in-
nocence.
Not until Hare turned King's
evidence did the authorities
make any headway with the
case. For who can exhume, for
the tell-tale post-mortem ex-
ami,iation, a body already cut
into pieces and destroyed in
the interests of medical science?
The trial, which began on
Christmas Eve, 1828, saw the
• public in such a state of excite•
ment that 300 extra police had
to be sent into Edinburgh as
reinforcements. Burke and He-
len McDougal were indicted on
charges of killing Mary Pater -
5011, Daft Jamie and Mrs, Doch-
erty. But only Burke was found
guilty. The verdict against Mc-
Dougal was "not proven" Dr.
Knox, though implicated, also
escaped justice.
On January 28th, 1829, Wil-
liam Burke was hanged before
a vast, morbid crowd who oc-
cupied every window and van-
tage point to see the execution.
With poetic, ironic justice, his
body was sent to a rival medi-
cal school for dissection. Mean-
while, Hare disappeared, as did
the two women.
Yet the murders did achieve
something. Three years after
Burke's death the Anatomy Act
was passed, which removed for
all time the motives which
made the Burke and Hare mur-
ders possible.
Go To Grass;
To be healthy, eat grass. So
say scientists George O. Kohler,
W. R. Graham and C. F. Schna-
bel of Kansas City. They claim
to have established, after four
years of experiments, that grain
grass contains all the vitamins
xcept D, and has 28 times more
vitamins per pound than dried
fruits or vegetables.
To make grass fit for human
consumption, chemists have
dried, bleached and ground the
leaves of wheat, barley, oats and
rye, and produced a slight malt
flavour.
They have eaten this . grass
during severe winters, caught no
colds, and enjoyedexcellent
health. Now several U.S. fac-
tories are making powdered
grass on a commercial scale.
Approximately cost is only a
few pence per pound. "The use
of only twelve pounds of pow-
dered grass a year," said the
grass -eaters to the American
Chemical Society, "will supply
th enecessary supplementary fac-
tors for a ligeral diet to all U.S.
families at a price they can af-
ford for the first time in his-
tory."
NDAY Sa10011
LESSON
R, Barclay Warren. ,L.A. 18.411).
Jesus Rebukes Insincerity
Luke 11:29-44
Memory Selection: Be that is
not with me is against me: and
he that gathereth not with me
scattereth. Luke 11:22,
The modern way to make
friends and influence people is
to say to them the things that
please them, Jesus didn't follow
the modern line. He was more
concerned about helping' people
than pleasing them. Hence we
find him on this occassion stern-
ly rebuking his hearers. He said,
"This is an evil generation: they
seek a sign." Nineveh repented
at the preaching et Jonas but
this generation was unrepent-
ant though a greater than Jonas
was here, Likewise the Queen
of Sheba carne to hear the wis-
dom of Solomon but this gen-
eration were unheeding of a
greater than Solomon, This gen-
eration had great light but
were not taking advantage of
it. Hence their condemnation
would be the greater,
While at the home of a Phari-
see Jesus struck out boldly at
the sham of this most religious
group of the day. They fussed
about ceremonial washings
while their hearts were filled
with wickedness. They were
careful to tithe the most min-
ute plants such as mint, This
was fine. "These things ought
ye to have done," said Jesus.
But the Pharisees passed over
judgment and the love of God.
The Pharisee loved the front
seats in the synagogue. Most
people don't. We have been told
of one man who conies late to
his seat near the front. Hie
competitors say he does it for
advertising. Perhaps they are
wrong: perhaps they are right.
God knows.
God knows our hearts, We
may fool some people by ap-
pearing religious on Sunday
while we cheat and flirt with
other men's wives during the
week. But we don't fool God.
He knows the motives and will
judge us accordingly. Mean-
while God detects hypocrisy.
Let us be honest with our-
selves' and it will be easy to be
honest with our associates.
Shakespeare expresses this
thought: "This above all: to
thine own sell be true, and it
must follow as the night the
day, thou const not then be
false to any man,"
GOT A CAN OPENER?
One day a mother sardine and
her two babies were swimming:
through the ocean, when a sub-
marine approached them.
The babies, being frightened,
darted behind the mother. But
she calmly said, "Don't bo
afraid, 'it's only a can of peo-
ple."
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SURVEYING HIS LOSS - .kalph Vaca sadly stands in his 101
acre cabbage field destroyed: by a recent cold wave. Carro9k,
potatoes and celery also suffered in the cold which killed til
million dollars in crops. In western Washington and Orsockiii.
Vaca astimdtas hie own loss at $12,000.