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Zurich Herald, 1955-02-17, Page 3TIE FARM FRONT ,1o1,ilid.meU. Even if it does have a de- cidedly "below - the - border" slant, I think you will find this account of a speech made at a 4-H Club convention both in- teresting and thought-provok- ing. At least, I hope so. It is taken from the "California Farmer." * * 9r Rural America is as badly in need of a spiritual rebirth as it is in need of greater knowledge of the science of soil cultiva- tion, a leading farm editor told the National Association of County 4-H Club Agents meet- ing in Chicago in November. "We must learn to love the land as well as use it," Paul C. Johnson, editor of Prairie Far- mer and president of American Country Life Association, de- clared, He believes farmers must set aside materialism as their basic purpose and begin to see their responsibility as fitting into a larger purpose ..." * * * The great weakness of our free enterprise system is that most of its goals are materialis- tic in nature. An ever improv- ing standard of living based on higher income will yield certain nonmaterial by-products, such as better education, better health, maybe more leisure time. But for a great many peo- ple, farmers not excepted, it becomes a rat -race, a chain re- action of creating material wants and then trying to satisfy them. There is no true happi- ness traveling this dead-end road, as we can see from look- ing around us. * Why have we done so well • in production of food and so poorly in the production of sen- timents and traditions that con- stitute the art of rural living? Our churches should hold an important key, but. their influ- ence in the rural field appears to have declined. Our universi- ties and lesser schools have vast, programs, but few clear ideas. Our extension services have been successful in promoting scientific agriculture but weak in promoting the art of graceful living. * If our principal satisfactions lie beyond material things, it will be easier to convert energy ano productive power, over and. beyond that needed for a satis- factory standard of living, into land conservation for thefuture or the manufacture of neigh- .. borliness. and cultural satisfac- tions, <r There should be something different about living in the country, whether or not you are by vocation a tiller of the soil, Country life should give a wid- er choice as to how and where_, each person may seek his par- ticular success in life. It should give us more leisure and greater freedom of choice in using it. It should permit better devel- opment of family solidarity. It should give us a better chance to study the footprints of God, if for no other reason than the ground is not so cluttered with footprints of frantic people. We should, in the country, be pro- ducing more than our share of music, painting, sculpture, all the fine arts, The brotherhood of man should have its -great- est flowering here. * * * In this world of Higher Pur- pose there are many mansions. We know them by name, but they will never mean much to us unless we make a personal exploration, Brotherhood of Man. We have talked a lot about this subject lately. 4-H adopted it as a major aim, more particularly through Galli Men's Grouses Go To Your Head Women took men's slacks and shirts and made high fashion out of them and n o w Paris designers are going to Papa's wardrobe for millinery inspiration for millinery inspiration. These latest designs from some of the new hat collec- tions show the masculine in- fluence. A man's evening shirt makes one hat while a cuff, with cuff -button, makes another. Even the swallow -tail lines of evening clothes provide idea s. — By Rosette Hargrove N E A Paris Fashion Expert. Frorn Achille, Paris designer, comes this brown baku beret (left) in the form of a man's cuff with gold and diamond cuff links. Matching diamond earrings are from Van Cleef and Arpels. Black, blue and white chiffon toque draped on swallow -tail lines (right) is from the new Jacques Fath collection. A black loop in front threads through diamond leaves from Van Cleef and Arpels. Conversation piece is this hat fashioned by Claude St. Cyr from a man's evening shirt front. Collar encircles the head along with dark red silk tie and three -carat diamond stickpin from Mellerio. P'cture hat with precious jewels is this handmade lace and white tulle confection from Albouy of Paris. Poised on rose is diamond butterfly with jeweled wings from Van Cleef and Arpels. its foreign exchange program. Does the brotherhood of man mean equal opportunity for all, or `does it .mean alms for the poor? Do we want our brothers to be well fed and obedient to us like our livestock, or do we want them to be free? Freedom. What is it anyway? Freedom is a need of the soul, not of the body. Freedom is the opportunity to say and do what one's wisdom and conscience • dictate. Freedom is from God, not from government. There- fore it sometimes becomes nec- essary to defend it against gov- ernment. The farmers of the American Constitution recog- nized the sovereignty of God, and so they established the gov- ernment of the United States "under God." * * * In the political world we are tempted to spend a great deal of time and effort censoring out the bad, when we should be multiplying the good with such vigor and enthusiasm it will crowd out the bad as a healthy vigorous plant crowds out a weed. "' * * Without vision the people per- ish. Without courage, without an adventurous spirit, there can be no progress. 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Brought up at Holkham Hall, Norfolk, she was married off at sixteen to the blase, cynical Lord Ellenborough, who quick- ly left her to her own devices. In rakish, Regency London she fell in love with a dashing Prince Felix Schwarzenberg, followed him hotfoot to Paris, and lived with him there for two years. • By the time Ellenborough di- vorced her this affair had run its course. She had others, with the novelist Balzac and with King Ludwig I of Bavaria, then married a Bavarian nobleman, Baron von Venningen, meat the Byronic Greek Count Theotoky and fell headlong in love with him. When the Venningens left for their Baden estates Theotoky stayed nearby at Heidelberg, and the lovers went on secret rides through the forests. One night the suspicious husband galloped after them, challenged the Count to a duel on the spot and seriously wounded him with the first shot. Dramatically, Jane held him in her arms to die. But mirac- ulously he recovered, and when the Baron had freed her, mar- ried her and whisked her off to Athens. rn. Brigands' Camp Here there was' a rumoured affair with King Otho, a fran- tic one with a fierce Albanian general, Hadji-Petros. Lesley Blanch says in her irresistibly fascinating book, "The Wilder Shores of Love," that she fled with hint to the mountains, sleeping in camp surrounded by his brigands, sharing their reck- less adventures and hardships until the Greek Queen, who was jealous of Jane, interposed and relieved Hadji-Petros of his command. It was the end when the dashing brigand turned syco- phant and wrote the Queen say- ing: "If I am the woman's lover it is not for love's sake, but purely for self-interest. She is wealthy, I am not." With her maid, Jane packed up and made for Syria. She planned to visit Baal - beck, Jerusalem, Palmyra, and track down the ancient Queen Zenobia's legendary• kingdom, but within a month was involv- ed with a handsome young Arab, Selih, who swept her off her feet and into the black Be- douin tents of his desert tribe.' Again she had found the per- fect love. They would marry and live in perpetual bliss. Romantic Desert bays But first she had to see ruined ' Palmyra, and It Was while negotiating for a camel carevan to take her across the zed desert that she met in Damas- cus the Sheik Abdul Medjuel, whose tribe controlled the des- ert around Palmyra, and who, it was suggested, should act as her guide, since Salih could not accompany her into rival terri- tory. This chieftain with the glit- tering black eyes was intrigued by the beautiful Englishwoman. With him it was probably love _..at first sight, and very early he sensed that, although it was unheard of that he, a Moslem Sheik, should consider marry- ing a Christian, he would have to take the drastic step. When the caravan was at- tacked by robber horsemen brandishing spears, he .rallied his men and routed them at the point of his lance. And Jane, who loved drama and was her- self an amazon rider, found the incident exciting. Was not Med- juel brave as a lion, a hero, her saviour? There was a ten- derness in her that led him to hope. . , , • Meantime, she went back to Athens to wind up her affairs, and on her return renewed her romantic explorations with an- other Sheik, El Barrak, spend- ing romantic days and nights in the desert with him, This was enough for Medjuel. Hear- ing that they were riding to- wards Damascus, he swooped to meet her ... and El Barrak tactfully withdrew, Soon Jane saw in Medjuel all the qualities she had sought in other men. He was a man of kindness, honour -- and roman- tic passion. During her absence he had divorced ,his Arab wife who had borne hint sons. Now he was free to marry Jane on her own European terms, As they rode towards Palmyra once more, they kissed, They mar- ried at Homs, where he owned a I•iouse, but preferred living in desert tents. Jane shared both, and later built a fine house on • the out- skirts of Damascus. She adopted Arab ways, smoked a hookah pipe, went barefoot, wore the traditional blue robe and yash- mak, kohled her eyelids, be- came one of the tribe, mastered dromedary -riding, raced at the head of the Bedouins, and won their • admiration and respect. When rival tribes swooped to snatch their best cattle and to kill, she and Medjuel galloped at the head of their men to battle with them. One action was waged for three weeks. Holo Pasha attacked t h e i'r camp With . a force ninety - strong at dead o:f night, but Medjuel and .lane fought and routed them. In fierce inter -tribal warfare over pasturage and tradttag can - cessions, Medjuel's .leen suffer- ed great losses in men and cat- tle, their camps were sacked, and it Wet rrutiridured that Jane, fighting beside him, had been killed.But she rode back to Damascus, : by Medjuel's side in triumph to read her own obit- uary notices in the European press. When Damascus was an in- ferno during the massacre of Christians in 1859, Jane went alone through the city, to do what she could to turn the tide of carnage, and neither she nor her house were touched—a re- markable tribute to her stand.- ing among the Arabs. • Miss Blanch says she was happy, fulfilled, in this desert and Damascan life, but it was no serene idyll. There were lovers' quarrels, reconciliations, jealousies, part- ings, snatched honeymoon jour- neys alone together in the desert silences. They had a pact, instigated by Jane, that if at any time Medjuel felt constrained by European monogamy he was free to take another wife—but she must be kept at a distance, and Jane must never know. In time his occasional ab- sences and bazaar gossip tor- mented her bitterly, and there were scenes. On her side, dark hints surrounded the name of Sheik Fares El Meziad, for she remained a fatally attractive woman into her sixties. But the marriage lasted to the end. Medjuel was so appalled at the gloom of her Christian funeral that he hurled himself from the carriage and took to his heels like a madman. As the service was ending he gal- loped back to the open grave on leer favourite black mare, to pay a last tribute to the woman he had loved. Miss Blanch writes as vividly of other famous women who lived for adventure and love. I was disqualified from a jitterbug contest because one of my feet accidentally touched the floor. —Dennis Day. Underground River 2,000 Feet Down Then I understood;• though the cave came to an end, a tuanel opened at its farthest and low- est extremity. It was a black, gaping orifice, toward which the shining strips drew me on, I entered the tunnel, Its pro- portions were on the same scale as those of the cave -- 10 yards high, and 20 to 40 breadth. I took the time and the altimeter reading, scribbled for a moment in my damp notebook and set off briskly on Mairey's tracks. The huge tunnel ran on to the northwest, in a perfectly straight line. Half a dozen trains could have been driven through it abreast. . Two hundred yards down the tunnel, he was waiting for me. "Can you hear it?" he asked. I had to listen very carefully in order to work out where the noise came from, for the rum- bling seemed to issue from the whole rocky wall. In fact, it was coming from underneath us. "It's the river," Andre said. Parallel to it, the tunnel ran on, and we set off down it again. A little farther on, amid scatter- ed rocks, the water suddenly ap- peared. In a few steps, we had passed from a dry gallery to the banks of a big subterranean stream . After half an hour's straight- forward progress down this ex- traordinary tunnel, we stopped at 12:45 p.m. on the edge of a wide, calm, greenish pool. Prob- ing beyond this small lake, our lamps picked out the dark circle of the tunnel which seemed to stretch on ahead forever. I lit my last flare, and, turning the handle, shot a few feet of film. Andre took advantage of the light to survey the tunnel as far as he could see; he report- ed that it went on exactly as - before. It was a very great sacrifice for us to turn back on our tracks. W@ reconciled ourselves to it only because of the waiting men on the surface, who would be getting anxious about our long silence. But it was tough! Ac- cording to our calculations, based on altimeter readings, -we were about 2,000 feet underground, and more than a mile, as the crow flies, from the end of the cable. We had brought off a tremen- dous success. For we had really reached the base of the great limestone mountain mass, and were now at the point where, on a gently inclined plane, it rested on the underlying car- boniferous schist. Almost for certain, from now onward, there would be no more shafts; only a succession of galleries leading, very likely, to the Kakouetta gorge, 31/2 miles away, and an- other 2,000 feet lower down. What a potholer's dream it was to enter the heart of a mounain at the top, and come out again 4,000 feet lower down, having traversed the whole mountain. mass within! The realization of this dream probably lay in front of us. And yet we had to turn back. Not only were we leaving off an intoxicating task of ex- ploration; we were still con- fronted with the exhausing climb back to camp, and all the hazards of ascent up the per- pendicular shaft, — From "Caves of Adventure," by Haroun Taz- ieff. Translated from the French by Alan Hodge. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking CAN'T DO A THING WITH IT—Thelma Chaney is going to have trouble with her hairdo just as long as she has her hand on Nis Van de Graf electrostatic generator. Static electricity with whisit she's charged drains into atmosphere through her hair.