The Brussels Post, 1956-01-11, Page 7Once or twice previously,
have quoted dispatches t 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 to assure ourselves
that our "big brass" down in
Ottawa are not alone in, their
bewilderment,
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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 fermiers be
paid for not producing. "
It is proposing to spend an
estimated $1,000,000,000 over a
10-year period to encohrage
farmers to stop'' Prcidtreing so
much wheat, cotton, and .corn.
There is cibubt that the'
idea is compeltely abhorrent to
Secretary of. Agriculture
Taft Benson. But it is equally
obvious that ,he, hei little choice
in the 'matter. His opponents
may not have succeeded in
freezing huntout"'of .the
dent's Cabinet, but they have.
enforced the "politfes first" pol-
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 snr-
plus crops.
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Some of the money, will go
toward ;the cost -of conversion,,
Some Of it' Will'go in cash pay-
xnents —• thus helping* to boost
farm inccime:The' Farm Bureau ''
federation has proposed , that
payment , might.r„, be cut-};ate
from the government. In
other words, the goferrime4
would elC hack 16 the fernier
at a lbw Pricerthe •grain it has=
purchased' from him at the sup-.
port price. Thus„ it t‘wotild ,pay -
him twice for the commodity.
No one really knows at this
moment 'hew ,much it will . cost
the Amerioan'iaxiiaYer '161 'foot
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HAPPIER NOW,, Eleaneor
Powell, once ‘billed Holly.
wood as "the 'world's greatest
tap dancer," =is ` now a Bible
teacher conducting, a' religions
TV show for children. She• denies •
planning' a movie comebaCk,
saying she's happier' n'ow
Mrs. Glenn Ford, working with
children, than she Was Working
In movies. ;'I
such a bill, Estintates say it
might cost $500,000,000 for the
first 18 months, and, then en
into the billions as time goes
on — depending on the length
of the program.
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But as in the case of price
support, 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 the 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 time.
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J3tit, paying the farmer to' do
what he obviously, should do
will be hard to explain to city '
voters. Yet in any form emer-
gency, the economic welfare, of
the ?whole country involVed
so essential is ,food production
to the nation and so closely
linked is 'farm prosperity to all
prosperity. , •
The American Farm Bureatt
Federation,- representing more
than' t1;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.
Ibtibt' ihe
administration -has' been forced
td. adopt it ibectitie of•- electionc
YPar, uncertainties due in, large
measure to the continuedeslump,
in farm incOrne. It will stick to
its "guns,, 'on the *IirectibilitY:!Of
fieicible ,peCe Suppdits,'hOWever;
as compared to' the Democratic-.
'px'Oposed• 'return.; to a rigid 90
percent level. „
government :.alreadr, has
more than $7,000,000,000 ,tied up
in price-support 'operations --
not" all' Monet -doWn the' draill;"
id: he sitte,,•Since some"of these
commodities will be resold. But
-losses in •the, conduct , of, the
program run higher) and highert.
•• 'Ygt ctesaie ti:emenclotisi
output to keep farm prices and
farm income up, .,they ..are . still,
on the; skids. Repilblican ; poil",
ticians are clamoring for a. so-
ltitibn I
• The soilLbank 'Plan is' seen as
--a, quick-way of pulling 'land' out'
ofipl'oduCtioxi and .giving "farm-
ers a hunk of cash to' bolster in-
come at the same time, It is
considered, a relatively. short-
term 'ciperatiori, ' the 'theory be-
ing that as production is cut
back surpluses will be liqui•
F; dated. •
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special guests 'of Mr. Thomas F..
Troy, General Manager of the
Stotler, during their entire .stay
and they had at their disposal
a new Chevrolet for sight-seeing.
Runners-up in' the national con-
test were Pat Potratz; 10,' of
Erie, Pa., who won a set of the
famous 15-volume Encyclpaedia
Britannica Junior and a bicycle
and third„prize winner Roberto
Aguirre, V' of Nuevo Laredo,
Mexico; who was awarded a set
of the Encyclopaedia and an
electric train.
Fifty other youngsters who
demonstrated unusual talent in
the coloring line shared in prizes
consisting of sets of the Encyclo-
paedia Britannica Junior, bi-
cycles, table radios, record play-
ers, electric trains, walking dolls
and flash, camera sets.
The 278 entries in the National
Finals of the contest represented
the best of more than 150,000
entries which were submitted by
boys and girls under 10 in the'
U.S,, Canada and Mexico.
liaised The Dead
For A Living
If an Irish farmer of Orrey,
Tyrone, had his son, Willis ri
Burke, take possession Of a
potato "patch arid §etae"
farmer, the notorious ."Btirke
and Hare" murders Would 06
ably never have happened arid
Seine sixteen Edinburgh people
Would haVe died normally in,
stead of being skillfully di..4 td
pleceS. ,
' Born in &trey in 1192, William
Burke displayed no 'peculiar
characteristic in his early life
Which picked him Out AS differ,
etit from the, average young man
of his cl'a'ss and time. Largely •
linedUeeted he found a job as
libit§e,boY at the manse of the
1601 Presbyterian minister,
Later, he bedarrie baker, wea-
ver and soldier' in fairly, quick
SticcessiOn, enlistment in the
Militia was • for I seven-year
term, most Of it spent as en'
officer's batman. He, now hid a
Wife and' thiii!Childrent
On his ,discharge :the-
aritY he returned With his wife
and children to his father's
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Jesus Robukes Xnehleerity
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Memory Selection: He that )Is
aot with me is against me: eel
he that gathereth not with true
seattereth. Luke 11:23,
The modern way to make
friends and influence people,. is
to say to them the things that
please them. Jesus clicln't tallavf
the modern line. He was Mom
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 of Jonas but
this generation swas unrepent-
ant though a greater than Jonas
was "here. :Likewise the, Queen
of Sheba came 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 met taking advantage of
it. Hence their condemnation
would be the' greater. -
While at the ,home, of a Phari-
see JesUi struck out boldly at
the sham of, this mostcreligettot
group of the day. They ".fussed
about ceremonial , 'washings
while their hearts were filled
with wlckedness. ,They were
careful to tithe the most Min-
ute plants such as mint. This
was fine. "These things ought
ye `to -haVe• done," :Said JeSue-
Bid the Pharisees passed 'over
judgment and the love of God.
The Pharisee loved the front
seats"' in the synagogne. z „l\fitist
people don't. We have been tort
of one!natr who'bomes late t
his seat near the front. His
cbi#etitOrS say hey does"-it for
advertising. Perhaps they et*
wrpng: perhaps they , are . right.
Gact'ltilOwS.
God knows our hearts: Wei
may fool some people by ap-
pearing religious' an Sunday ,
while we cheat and flirt '
other men's wives during the •
week. But .we.'clOn't 7 fool• Got
HQ knows the motives and will
4udge us a:ccordinglY. Mean-
While 'God detects. hypocrisy. /
Let us be honest with our-
selves and it will be,,easy to be
boriest-' with our • associates.
Shakespeare expresses t h
!thought: "This above all: to
thine own self 'be true, and 'it
Must follbvv as the night thet
.day, thou.cant not then be
false' to any man."
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
reinforcements. Burke and. gel
len McDougal were indicted' on
charges: of -killing,FMary P,iater;
ion, Daft Janiie and IVIrs. Doch-
erty. But only Burke was found
guilty.", The verdict against Mc-
Dougal Nfo.*—bdt proven:"
Knox, ,; though implicated, also
escaped justice.
On 4anuary 28th, 1829, •Wil-%
liam Burke :Was hanged „before
a vast, morbid crowd who oe-
cupied every window and' van-
tage' Point to see the execution.
poetic, jr!Onie,...jnstice, 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, AnatCirnsk Act
was passed, which removed for
all time the motiv'ev which
made the Burke and Hari mur-
ders possible.
several students deClared It was
Daft Jamie, Dr, Knox refuted
it. Yet his first order on the
dissection procedure was to
move the head and the deform-
ed foot—the two outstanding
features which would make' the
body recOgOlZable to inVeatiffa.
tors.
Then followed the Docherty
affair—and their /eat murder.
Mrs, DoebartY, • 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„ exe
arninatien, a body already cut
into pieces and destroyed in
the interests of medigal science?
Go To Grassi
Little People's Contest
Canadian Boy Wins '55
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 establighedi after four
years of experinients, 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 in)
colds, and enjoyed excellent
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 Ameriean
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."
GOT A CAN OPENER?
One day a mother sardine and
her 'two babies ,were swiniming
through the. ocean, when a sub-
marine approached them.
The babies, being frightened,
darted behind the mother. But
she, calmly " said "'Don't be
afraid, it's only a can of pee-
pie."
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When the great surpluSes now
overhanging the market and •
depressing prices. are gone; •;itais
expected the predexit flexible
price-suppOrt ' system will oper-
ate effectivelY under normal
production'Conditicirid.
It has been 'estimated that
under the soil-barik plan, •solne
25,000,000 acres will be•-taken
out of -production. Skeptics
question whether this will bring
the reduced proctudtiOn WhiCh
• hat'been 'figUred, fox',"•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.
• 'Oneocr goOthing, 1;bweiier, "
• be the retirement of :marginal
lands . f.; „••-, •
7. Every one 28..Locr4ft4
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CLEVELAND (NEA) The wish'
of. a seven-and-a-half-year- old
boy to, bring a championship to
his •home town helped Andrew
Malolepszy,win the 1955 LITTLE
PEOPLE'S Christmas Coloring.
Contest.
lie had an, ambition to become
a farmer and asked his father
to let him have a large seta's
pati:h. His father curtly refused
end bitter quarrel ereined,.
setitch, 1p4 to. his deciding $.
leave Ireland.
Ue deserted his family and
went across to Glasgow. Here
he Obtained work on the Vniell
Canal as a navvy and picked up
a. woman named Helen
DOngal, Though • she had been,
a coarse-looking beauty in her
time, Helen' then was 1101114g
More than an ugly and ill-tern-
perecl drab. On the other hand,
a contemporary described 13urke,
as having a "down., looking
sleazy look of a dog." Ile was
short and thick of frame, with
a. round full face, an insignifie,
ant nose and a sullen expres-
sioa.
Together they drifted to. Ed-
in,btirgn 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,greuxicr face, and -grey
eyeS tinder , thick eyebrows. He
was more than friendly with
the widevved landlady; IVIargaret
Laird.
One day Old. Donald, one of
the lodgers, died-owing Hare,
£3 in arrears of rent. To Hare
the event was a, minor ,catastro-
phe. Then it was he thought of
the body-snatchers, those soul-
less ghouls ,Who raided eemeter-
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 'debtors, and the
demand for bodies far exceeded,
the supply.
Hare land Burke switched a
load of bark for the body in the
coffin. They "TY knew a likely
client, a.• Dr. Knox,, who had...a
reputation for paying gocid
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 was taking so long, over the -
job that the 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 .10 ask
awkward questiens;' the appar-
ent burial of , the bodies
pauper- graves (Coffins stuffed
with bark) satisfied the neigh-
hours. ,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, 4 is believed, Was
an old woman named Abigail.
SimpSon, a seller of "salt and
camstone."
Other female bodies f011owed,
the number being uncertain.
By then Burke, Hare & CO. were
prospering, They dresied 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.
Nit between te deaths Of the
two Haldanes came the, affair
of Mary Paterson and Janet
Brawn. 13Oth were young, but
Mary Paterson possessed an •ex-
traordinarily beautiful, face and
an exquisite, flawless body.
In the' early morning hours,
Burke catne across the two 'girls
in a grog-shop. Both were more
than' half drunk and hadn't
eaten for twenty-Sour 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. a r s e d frbm,
sleep, took little interest in his
brether's 'affairs* and 'let them
in. A little later he went off to
his Work. By then •Mary was
asleep, spraWling across a table,
but Janet, befuddled though she
WAS, declared Seti had. to go.
AS She left, Haterarrived, It set,
fled Mary Paterson's fate.
that flight her lifeless, brit
still beautiful, body. was deliver
ed to Dr. Knok. Though, • One
medical student at least reCog ,
nized the corpse; bet untimely'
death awakened no saspicieti
beyond t h o S"e harboured
Janet.
Their success and continuing
prosperity inade theni brazenly
careless, for 'the murderers how
ChoSe to kill and 'dispose of in
the seine' manner a 'Young im-
becile named Daft Jamie. in-
offensive, harmless and -"lovable,
Daft .Jamie was knOWit and.
liked all over Edinburgh,
Pot the first 'One, the Sight
Old; • Stift: bOdy, instantIY
Zifeetignited, brought fear' hi* '
the Kno* Though
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ANDREW MALOLEESO!
wantatt':a lquiritreal.
Ir... • 4) "y•- -
tAndy wayi.disapppintedriv(,hen
thi;-14/itoritredr..Alouelfes 4atiled to
win Candda's professional
ball title. He made up his, mind
to : bring glory., to. 'Montreal.
thebUgh, the National Coloring
Contest. ";!. • ••.
Andy's en.trli Was: s ubmitted
by.the Montreal 'Herald'afterlie
took first prize 10461 tonipeti
lion, It Wai'forWaiiied
land for final judging.
The judges, selected.i169. EA
Service, Inc., sponsorsi4 the 'eon.
tett, were nationally prominent
artists,
They chose as the best
-Of 278'entries,','.'
At tile Grand Prize winner,
Atif*fleW Trans-Canada Air
rinei Jct., New ,Yorke• Where 'the'
highlight was an CipPearcinta
Perry Coniii'S ShOW,
Andy and hit. escort Were'the'
irtlillillglifillial
il Illifililliiiiii ANIN Millen MIN
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SURVEYING HIS LOSS' -Ralph VOito stands in his t00
acre cabbage ,field destroyed., by a recent cold wave. Carrots,
potatoei 'and. tiloy also 'caered in the cold which knifed 1".
million dollar, in crops in western Washington' and Orege'is
Vac& estimates' hit oWn $12,0Ott Anatifet tin*