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The Seaforth News, 1960-12-22, Page 7A Paean Of Praise To The Lowly Bean smile titne baelt, in pc'i'1(:'ittg elderly Accounts, I found a stimulating statement. It said that in 1611, at a French settle- ment on Saint Croix Island, some hungry seafarers put ashore, and out of consideration for their hungry condition the settlers then there gave then] three hogsheads of dried beans. You will observe that this was a good decade before the P11 - grim Fathers held their cele- brated First Thanksgiving on the shores of Plymouth Bay, so per- haps this prodigality with food, at that time, may tease you as it did lee. There is something notable about so many dried beans at that stage of our national development, for free. Today we have bean -cleaning machines, but until fairly recent times we did not, and the pros- pect of growing, harvesting, dry- ing, threshing, winnowing and picking over three hogsheads of beans would dismay any old. timer. Thus history has a way of skipping details, and the glib historian and the glib reader may well pass over the beans of 1011 without ascribing to them their full due. First, you need to know what a hogshead is. Its precise size varied, but it was always at least twice as big as a barrel. The bigger hogsheads that were used in early fisher- ies - and these Frenchmen on Saint Croix Island were fisher- men -- ran sometimes to 150 gal. lone. A molasses barrel, in com- parison, will hold 50 to 60 gal- lons. So, three hogsheads of dried beans are quite a snatch of food, and don't forget we are talking about the American supermarkets 10 years before the Pilgrims! We should also wonder a bit about the gardens of 1611. Think of clearing away the land, es- tablishing good bean soil, and putting in the crop. How did they plow and cultivate so much land in 1011? Remember, too, that these Frenchmen on Saint Croix Island weren't geared merely to wilderness survival they were set up to do commerce in an out- post of the French colonial struc- ture - they had to fish and cut bait, salt their catch, trap and traffic, and otherwise put in a day's work before they went to KLAN RALLY -. Bobby Shelton of Tuscaloosa, Alo., above, grand national wizard of Ku Klux Klan in Montgomery, Ala. Shelton said the rally was mere- ly a peaceful meeting to insure that New Orleans strife over integration would not happen in Alabama. beaning. And by 1611 their tee. tablis1uneut was so eecure that they not only grew their own beans, bol had enough left over tor seed next year and to give three hogsheads away! Saint Croix Island may dr arae not have had woodchucks. I find myscll wondering, and 1 wish some historian had thought to set this down. A woodchuck On raise havoc with a good stand of beans, and I think it would be nice to know about such details of colonization. Did they have a threshing floor? No doubt they did, for a trading settlement of that size must have had wharves, homes, boat ways: derricks, storehouses, and other capital investments. Somehow, to nee, the vague distance to 1611 is closed up by my sympathetic mind's eye im- pression of somebody flailing beans there on Saint Croix Is- land in the beginnings. hour by hour, pounding, tossing the vines around with a fork, pounding again, and then sweeping up. Afterward, with a brisk wind, they winnowed thein. And then, hogsheads and hogsheads of beautiful dried beans standing side by side to gladden the pia - neer hearts, Those beans, Ieei sure, suggest an establishment on Saint Croix Island of such size and energies as few of us supposed. New France was thriving, things were going on. And we should remember that England was backward about this stuff - its era of colonial expansion still lay ahead, and one of its first acts of economic empire was going to be to drive these busy Frenchmen from our Atlantic shores. Later on, after the Pilgrims did come, there was another in- stance where Maine fishermen gave food away. In 1622, desper- ate for food, the Pilgrims coast- ed their shallop across to Fisher- man's Island, one of the Damar- iscoves just outside present-day Boothbay Harbor, and the Eng- lish fishermen there loaded them with goodies. The gratitude of the Pilgrims is recorded in their own records, and it is proper his- tory to presume that the con- tinuity of the Plymouth venture hinged somewhat on this grat- uity. So, the emphasis on food at Thanksgiving Time interests me. While everybody else seemed well stocked and disposed to charity, the stringency of inges- tion at Plymouth remained the cornerstone of our more precious legend. True, the Plymouth saga has overtones of high purpose which we mustn't ignore, and nobody would want to. But I find that e';en the religious elements had their counterpart in the other settlements -- a Church of Er eland chaplain cants with the P Ipham planters, and the France had their ubiquitous Je- suits, A Fr, Baird is our source for the good French material, and when the English drove the French off Mount Desert Island, Fr. Baird vas '`captured" and taken to Jamestown, where he lived a whiter in sufficient com- posure to write a book. Now, I like baked beans, as you well know. I am sorry to find that the important key part they played in the colonization of America is historically ignor- ed in favor of turkey, cranber- ries, venison, pumpkin pies and the other now traditional luxur- ies from the Pilgrim epic. So, as we settle in for the customary celebration of this annual festive event, perhaps in the light of new knowledge, herein present- ed, some of us may decide to take just a wee bit off the Ply- mouth emphasis - and also be grateful for nourishing beans by the hogshead that fed the prior Frenchmen on lovely Saint Croix Island. - By John Gould in the Christian Science Monitor. The trouble with the ladder to success is that there's no one to hold it for you. CR SWORD D PUZZLE ACUOS5 1. Oaazy fnl,rla 4. ratio to !resp 8. Definite article 12. Rather than 13, Aside 74, Conger 18. Negotiated 17. Frighten 13. Scenting grnitp 26. (golf Inch urtor 71, Male. of beet cattle 21. 'Vold tate, 39. Mother ehlelten.o 29. Offended col]'iii', ,1.1 30, i'oreflned 7..e] 31 01, 4an0010n pro vtner 010 32. One who shoes !Dawes 33. Front 34. Tiny J3. Corrodes 6, pineal 37. Saunters 06. C"en crit parte 40. Wholly 41. 1•igesn Pen. 45. Aoeumnhuo 45. 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IIIEFARM ANT 06\vusgeilofrtrb. v4z A state ban on harvest strikes is one of the explosive proposals that probably will come up be- fore the 1961 session of the Cali- fornia Legistlature in January, 4, '7 Such a plan is being discussed 'at Sacramento. Dr. Daniel G. Aldrich, dean of agriculture at the University of California, has advanced it in a report to the state board of agriculture. Dean Aldrich takes the posi- tion that Food and fiber produc- tion is dictated by forces of na- ture and are not independent of labor, whose services must be rendered according to circum- stances beyond the producers' control. e p e At the same time, the Aldrich report holds that "those respon sible for employment of agri- cultural workers have an obli- gation to their labor, which not only must recognize them with all the dignity accorded any other individual in our society, but also afford appropriate working conditions and compen- sation if an adequate skilled productive supply of labor is to be available as production and harvesting demands." 4, # a Meanwhile a key state official in charge of Farm labor place- ment is forecasting a lively see. ,ion in 1961 as both the growers and unions battle for legislative advantage early in January. Irv- ing H. Perluss, state director of employment, says a legislative stalemate is not at all unlikely, in which case there would prob- ably be widespread harvest strikes again in California next summer. At the height of this year's harvest strikes when the Agri- cultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) was step- ping up its campaign for union recognition by the growers, Gov. Edmund G. Brawn called for proposals to remove farm labor relations from "the law of the jungle." Speaking as a success- ful politician, Mr. Brown advised the growers it would be unreal- istic of them to believe -the Leg- islature would outlaw harvest strikes without also making pro- visions for union recognition and collective bargaining. That is exactly the assumption on which the California Labor Federation is proceeding in map- ping out its new goals in the forthcoming session of a CaIt- fornia Legislature. In reviewing the program Thomas L. Pitts, state AFL-CIO financial secre- tary, is attaching high priority to intrastate organization and collo :tire bargaining rights in the field of farm labor. M k n He says growers' groups have "fought ably and valiantly against- such legal guarantees. "Yet what a great wail can be heard from the farms in tip Valley and on Montgomoly Street when the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee dares to employ til! organiza- tional strike. We are accused of bitting below the belt just when the crops are getting -ripe. But we ask, what is there in the dollar value of crops that gives some human beings the prior right to run roughshod over the rights of other human beings?" Such strong labor pronoun.x•- ments are indicative of the ena- tion -charged atmosphere in whleh the drive to outlaw har- vest strikes looms up in the ap- proaching session of the Cali- fornia Legislature, writes Harlan Trott in the Christian Science Monitor. Nevertheless, Mr. Pitts vows that labor will press hard to eliminate the "moral callous- ness" toward farm labor by se- curing for these workers "all the other socio-economic protec- tions long enjoyed by others * 4' 4« He forec•.:its also that labor will seek to remove arttfieial restrictions that limit the appli- cation of workmen's compensa- tion standards in such areas as w•eelc)y indemnity and death benefits. Other demands to be made on the 1901 legislature ere: 1. A state health-care program for senior citizens. 2. A 50 per cent wage -loss compensation :For the great bulk of claimants who qualify for un- employment and disability in- surance. 3, Reduction in the high cost of home financing "which has removed 70 per cent of our families from the housing mar- ket. Mr. Pitts points to New York's recent experience under both political parties to "demon- strate that the key to inexpen- sive sive and adequate money is the use of state credit" a ft o California's chief labor spokes- man disclaims the label "social- ism" in arguing that many pre- cedents exist for making state - funds available for low and mid- dle income housing at or below cost. - Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking N Q sg-Lys N©li 3 IN7V3b'.hMO 1. j b OT S V 'tai. 0 ..I. S 3iht Qtrn b o No 32fc 3 O 3y dF71.J. 1." .LS �1. v7btayQ31y3 -L © 3 (l. iVd4 3213 =S M 3 507 83� 7 d O 7 7 2 '7 7 B 3 b d H S 3 _LESSON By ltev, It Bayley t1 :mut le .L 1.1) The Compassion of Christ "Isaiah 61:1.6, 10-11; lelatthevl 11;7-3U Memory Selection: Take coy yoke upon you, and learn of roe; for 1 am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest nn• to your souls. Matthew 11:29. The Main distinctive of Clue - Hanky in comparison with otl°,•, religions is its emphasis on The old Ru elan ht•nul,• Hoe Great Thou Ari," hae beeenic popular here. Here is one ver.•1• and chorus: "And when I think that God 111. Son not sparing • Sent Him to die, I scarce ' tt take 1t in; That on the vross m} border, gladly bearing He bled and died to take aw:;y my sin. Then sines Illy soul. My Sarinul God to Thee, How great Thou art. How 0(111 .Thou art,'' How accurately Lisi.A}I p,• dieted the char tier et C ln<t : ministry. "IIo hath sent ale t" bind up the brukenheart.d, t t proclaim liberty to the ca1111, 5,: and the opening of the prison to them that are bound. -- To ,p• point unto them th:d mourn in Zion, to give unto t:len1 beeeity for ashes, the oil of joy fist mourning, the garment of pr..i,t• for the spirit ce. heaviness." Jesus Christ fulfilled the, prophecy. He forgave sin, hestrd the sick and even raised tee dead. In these acts we ave ail: compassion and His great. power. Ile, and He alone, has the au- thority to say, "Come unto llde, all ye that labour and are heavy • laden, and I will give your rest." He can 'fulfill His promise. Jesus is concerned about every phase of our life. He was moved ' with compassion when He saw the hungry, and He did some- thing about it, He was comgae- sionate on the bereaved and suf- ferring. He had compasion on the multitude who fainted and were as sheep having no shep- herd. He. cares for all these to- day. How many there are who are living with an evil objective or no objective Tesus cares for all. Let 111.5 accept His invitation end turn to Hun. He can satisfy the longing of every heart. ISSUE 51 - 1960 Infants of the animal world, pictured in their natural surroundings, babes iGithe woods make fascinating subjects for nature photographer Lynwood M. Chace. Twin fawns placidly survey the woodland scene. Baby gray squirrels cling fast to bark of a tree. Young green herons wonder when dinner's coming. Baby cottontail finds a place in the sun to snooze. 1111111619w1I ; .• • . ®I• u• me aZ2.. ..u-® wlimminimm 1 44" um I. J■ MEMO W ip ® IAMI Mr 111 ■ ORI 0155 ■■ Answer a seweiree on this page POOPED POOCH - This example of man's best friend seems to have given the whole thing up, on a New York sidewalk. IIIEFARM ANT 06\vusgeilofrtrb. v4z A state ban on harvest strikes is one of the explosive proposals that probably will come up be- fore the 1961 session of the Cali- fornia Legistlature in January, 4, '7 Such a plan is being discussed 'at Sacramento. Dr. Daniel G. Aldrich, dean of agriculture at the University of California, has advanced it in a report to the state board of agriculture. Dean Aldrich takes the posi- tion that Food and fiber produc- tion is dictated by forces of na- ture and are not independent of labor, whose services must be rendered according to circum- stances beyond the producers' control. e p e At the same time, the Aldrich report holds that "those respon sible for employment of agri- cultural workers have an obli- gation to their labor, which not only must recognize them with all the dignity accorded any other individual in our society, but also afford appropriate working conditions and compen- sation if an adequate skilled productive supply of labor is to be available as production and harvesting demands." 4, # a Meanwhile a key state official in charge of Farm labor place- ment is forecasting a lively see. ,ion in 1961 as both the growers and unions battle for legislative advantage early in January. Irv- ing H. Perluss, state director of employment, says a legislative stalemate is not at all unlikely, in which case there would prob- ably be widespread harvest strikes again in California next summer. At the height of this year's harvest strikes when the Agri- cultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) was step- ping up its campaign for union recognition by the growers, Gov. Edmund G. Brawn called for proposals to remove farm labor relations from "the law of the jungle." Speaking as a success- ful politician, Mr. Brown advised the growers it would be unreal- istic of them to believe -the Leg- islature would outlaw harvest strikes without also making pro- visions for union recognition and collective bargaining. That is exactly the assumption on which the California Labor Federation is proceeding in map- ping out its new goals in the forthcoming session of a CaIt- fornia Legislature. In reviewing the program Thomas L. Pitts, state AFL-CIO financial secre- tary, is attaching high priority to intrastate organization and collo :tire bargaining rights in the field of farm labor. M k n He says growers' groups have "fought ably and valiantly against- such legal guarantees. "Yet what a great wail can be heard from the farms in tip Valley and on Montgomoly Street when the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee dares to employ til! organiza- tional strike. We are accused of bitting below the belt just when the crops are getting -ripe. But we ask, what is there in the dollar value of crops that gives some human beings the prior right to run roughshod over the rights of other human beings?" Such strong labor pronoun.x•- ments are indicative of the ena- tion -charged atmosphere in whleh the drive to outlaw har- vest strikes looms up in the ap- proaching session of the Cali- fornia Legislature, writes Harlan Trott in the Christian Science Monitor. Nevertheless, Mr. Pitts vows that labor will press hard to eliminate the "moral callous- ness" toward farm labor by se- curing for these workers "all the other socio-economic protec- tions long enjoyed by others * 4' 4« He forec•.:its also that labor will seek to remove arttfieial restrictions that limit the appli- cation of workmen's compensa- tion standards in such areas as w•eelc)y indemnity and death benefits. Other demands to be made on the 1901 legislature ere: 1. A state health-care program for senior citizens. 2. A 50 per cent wage -loss compensation :For the great bulk of claimants who qualify for un- employment and disability in- surance. 3, Reduction in the high cost of home financing "which has removed 70 per cent of our families from the housing mar- ket. Mr. Pitts points to New York's recent experience under both political parties to "demon- strate that the key to inexpen- sive sive and adequate money is the use of state credit" a ft o California's chief labor spokes- man disclaims the label "social- ism" in arguing that many pre- cedents exist for making state - funds available for low and mid- dle income housing at or below cost. - Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking N Q sg-Lys N©li 3 IN7V3b'.hMO 1. j b OT S V 'tai. 0 ..I. S 3iht Qtrn b o No 32fc 3 O 3y dF71.J. 1." .LS �1. v7btayQ31y3 -L © 3 (l. iVd4 3213 =S M 3 507 83� 7 d O 7 7 2 '7 7 B 3 b d H S 3 _LESSON By ltev, It Bayley t1 :mut le .L 1.1) The Compassion of Christ "Isaiah 61:1.6, 10-11; lelatthevl 11;7-3U Memory Selection: Take coy yoke upon you, and learn of roe; for 1 am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest nn• to your souls. Matthew 11:29. The Main distinctive of Clue - Hanky in comparison with otl°,•, religions is its emphasis on The old Ru elan ht•nul,• Hoe Great Thou Ari," hae beeenic popular here. Here is one ver.•1• and chorus: "And when I think that God 111. Son not sparing • Sent Him to die, I scarce ' tt take 1t in; That on the vross m} border, gladly bearing He bled and died to take aw:;y my sin. Then sines Illy soul. My Sarinul God to Thee, How great Thou art. How 0(111 .Thou art,'' How accurately Lisi.A}I p,• dieted the char tier et C ln<t : ministry. "IIo hath sent ale t" bind up the brukenheart.d, t t proclaim liberty to the ca1111, 5,: and the opening of the prison to them that are bound. -- To ,p• point unto them th:d mourn in Zion, to give unto t:len1 beeeity for ashes, the oil of joy fist mourning, the garment of pr..i,t• for the spirit ce. heaviness." Jesus Christ fulfilled the, prophecy. He forgave sin, hestrd the sick and even raised tee dead. In these acts we ave ail: compassion and His great. power. Ile, and He alone, has the au- thority to say, "Come unto llde, all ye that labour and are heavy • laden, and I will give your rest." He can 'fulfill His promise. Jesus is concerned about every phase of our life. He was moved ' with compassion when He saw the hungry, and He did some- thing about it, He was comgae- sionate on the bereaved and suf- ferring. He had compasion on the multitude who fainted and were as sheep having no shep- herd. He. cares for all these to- day. How many there are who are living with an evil objective or no objective Tesus cares for all. Let 111.5 accept His invitation end turn to Hun. He can satisfy the longing of every heart. ISSUE 51 - 1960 Infants of the animal world, pictured in their natural surroundings, babes iGithe woods make fascinating subjects for nature photographer Lynwood M. Chace. Twin fawns placidly survey the woodland scene. Baby gray squirrels cling fast to bark of a tree. Young green herons wonder when dinner's coming. Baby cottontail finds a place in the sun to snooze.