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The Brussels Post, 1961-06-29, Page 5t avg, .711.1,111 near the door, ,beyond which no, non-members may pass), Churc.. hill himself had vainly hoped return. from New York in time for the debate, but other Tor* were ready to speak for WIN Lord Lamhton, one of eight .oth,. also doomed • to the Lords, said rigid rules bro4gh4 the House ..of Lords into "disre. Pkite." Others. 0,p-roved. Tory robot Humphrey Berkeley said. it wag. a situation "which is .absurd: and Which 'we cannot 'Were* in 190," Then Gerald Kaharre. 'boomed a question at Horne $ao#, retary R. A. Butler; "Are yete not aware of the volume of spin. ion in the. Conservative Party which believes. reform of the House of Lords is long overdue?" Butler remained adamant. He cited a House ru'ing of 1837 to. show that Wedg.waect Benn'a re- fusing a peerage would wider, mine the • "hereditary principle"' which is one of the cornerstones • of the British constitution. He also mobilized the Tory majority'. to heels him up. One vote was to endorse the decision of the Privileges Cone rnittee and uphold a 1641 rule that "no peer of the realm can, drown or extinguish his honour."' Wedgwood Beim was rejecteds 204 to 125. A second vote deal( with Wedgwood Bean's plea to argue his case, That was reject- ed 220 to 152, Wedgwood Berm witnessed his defeat from the visitor's gallery' where he sat with his American, wife, the former Caroline Mid, dieton De Camp of Cincirinatis Ohio, and his son Michael, 46 But he refused to accept the de- feat. Instead, he announced than he would run for re-election Ise his _old seat, "I - have Several. plans up my sleeve," he eaid. An egotist is someone who it always me-deep in conversatiott. •••"'"7,wparte., Now. ArrarrIfIlr011i Memories Of A. Agricultwr$1 Abundant' liOANSFERABL tl!gC11)13ED's,B TART t'AGRICULTURE1 ./40.T.$PINDLJE. HUNGRY MONEY — As good as cash for those q ualifyion, this is a one-dollar coupon being Issued by the U.S. Agriculture Dept. itn connection with the new food stamp program. The project is designed to put the nation's food surpluses to work in aiding needy families. Under the program, a family can buy 75 of these dollar coupons for $50 and, be able to get $75 worth of food at a retail store. Banks will redeem the coupons of face value from the re toilers, Families having no income will receive free food stamp coupon's, anical picker, Of couse, it's no contest —• the picker can garner in several bales (about 500 pounds of seed cotton) in a day. But the machine can't do it as cleanly, Nor does the machine pluck the 'Psi:. ' from the boll with the der .1 of feeling of a human pic'cer. After all, the man has • .s the seed go in, has chopped 'und the tender plants, and his smelled the "cotton dust" for e • ionths. Besides that, his father and his father's father have gone through much•the same process for cen- turies — he's kin to the cotton, Where was I? Oh — raking leaves in suburbia. could pick over 300 pounds — but° I. never, saw it done, Two hundred pounds of fluffy; light cotton is a good day's picking. Now. perhaps thje contest is between the man and the, mech- Doesn't Wont To Be A 1,orcl If Sir Winston Churchill'. uncle had died childless, Sir 'Winston would have been barred from the House of Commons and forced to become the Duke of Marlborough — a role which would have effectively kept him from leading the Battle •of Bri- tain, So he quite naturally syrn pathized with an ambitious young Laborite IYLP. who dread- ed becoming the second Viscount Starisgate. "Yours is a very hard case." Sir Winston wrote the re- luctant heir. "and I am person- ally strongly in favor of sons having the right to renounce ir- 1 revocably the peerages they in, ; herit from their fathers." 1 The inevitable blow befell the young Laborite last November. On the death of his father, 35- year-old Anthony Neil Wedge- wood Benn was deprived of his seal, for Bristol Southeast. His $4,000 annual pay was automat- ically stopped,, and so were his free train ticket and his subscrip- lion to Hansard (Parliament's official record). "It was as if a great iron gate had come clang- ing down," he recalled. Wedgwood Benn determined to fight against what he called "a lot of tribal nonsense." Be sent the documents attesting his peerage back to Buckingham Pa- lace, and he appealed to the Commons' Privileges Committee to let him keep his seat in the House. "Tradition should breathe life into things that are dead," he said. "It should not breathe death into things that are alive." When the committee turned him down, the whole issue came before the full House last month, and Wedgwood Tlenn petitioned for the right to plead his cause at the bar of the House (marked by a leather strip on the carpet I like to go window shopping, I think that's what they call it, It may be murder on my feet, But it really rests my wallet. to some extent or Ito leave too much grass. And mechanical pickers produce "dirtier" cotton — worth less and harder to pro- (seas. But the mechanization will improve, no doubt. Then, too, other substitutes have been found, Long before the first chimp ever went up on the nose of a Redstone I saw geese "chopping" cotton. The geese voraciously eat the grass and weeds and ignore the cotton plants, some farmers have taken to turning flocks of geese into the cotton patches instead of human laborers, Of course the geese can't "thin" the cotton, but modern planting' methods aline:- Mate the need for this.' S Like harvest time here in Massachusetts, cotton picking time in Louisiana has a special air, Not that the alx.is crisp — because it's almost as hot in September and even into Octo- ber as it Is in August. But the cotton Is standing up on the stalks — ripe fruit to be picked. And a cotton field that will yield a bate or, two of the soft white fibre per acre is, if anything, lovelier than it was when the early blooms dotted the rows - with red and white, This used to 'be a time of con- tests, too: Which farmer will "gin" the first' bale of cotton? Who can weigh out the most cot- ton in a day of hand picking? I've known some to claim they Cotton Country gears into reverse and headed back to the main road, to pick up ice for the 011,so-neceSSerY keg of water. In the field the aerunch of hoes Soon rose along with the dust as each hoe hand picked a row and started his day's chore. This kind of work soon dissipated the trace of damp coolness that had hung in the early morning air. An occasional chopper would stop, gaze resignedly at the climbing sun, swipe at brow and neck with a colorful bandana, and cast a longing glance at the shady oasis where the water keg now rested on the tail gate of the truck. Soon the first hand would, with only a slight look of guilt,, drop his hoe and make for the shade—and a long draught of ice water, 13y 11 o'clock everyone would have made a trip to the water keg—and no excuses need- ed, So it goes at cotton-chopping time, But what of the scent that started this fond recall? That comes soon—too soon for the farmer, in fact. For this sub- stance is "dusted" on to the cot- ton fields from airplanes several times during the summer, start- ing about the time the young plants begin to form "squares." The boll worm or weevil fol- low's close behind the cotton bloom—and the farmer can't let the weevil get too many bolls. So the cotton is dusted, at inter- vals by skilled and daring pilots, writes,. Leon W. Lindsay in the Christian Science Monitor. The scent of the dust on late summer afternoons sometimes is carried for miles. And if you are in cotton country you learn to live with it—if not to like it. As a matter of fact, I suppose the scent of cotton dust will endure longer than the sight of hoe hands or pickers rollicking down the road to and from the fields In stake-bodied trucks. For although the last time I was in Louisiana the system hadn't changed much,' Mechani- zation is said to be replacing the field 'hand. There's a mechanical chopper, and most of us have heard of the mechanical cotton picker. The old hands will tell you that these new-fangled con- traptions just can't match human hands, They're right, too: me- chanical choppers, I have heard, tend to either damage the cotton it Was one of those days m ?aria' April that makes you feel „Like putting up screens or plant- ing 'Petnnias. F.Ncept in Massa- viisetts you. know you might as wail wait till. May, Fan yon get out and rake the lawn, because at worst it prOba ably won't snow again. Or you get en early start in the summer campaign against crabgrass. That's what one of my neigh. hers was doing,. The April breeze (which occasionally threatened to revert to March wind) brought a whiff of something that stirred a memory way don deep—and. turned me from raking ro nuts- ing. The scent was, characteristic of a certain type of pesticide—not 'pleasant odor, per se, but re- mindful of something nostalgic, Something associated with hot summer days „ , the South. . . All, that was it! It was the amen of cotton fields'in the Lou- isiana summer, Cotton and crab- grass killer? Yes, it's the same stuff they put on the cotton plants; you can ride by the fields With the car windows open and. the smell of it surrounds you. * This set off a chain of remini- scences, so that I deserted the leaves on my lawn. and the still- wintry landscape for the humid Deep South of early April, with the sun warming the soon-to-be- broken ground and the farmers 'thinking about getting seed into the soli, My thoughts skipped to the time — early June — when the young cotton plants poke through the sandy river-bottom land. That's when someone has to get out under the now-hot ,sun—the sun that makes cotton thrive— and "chop." Meaning: hoe out the grass that chokes the young plants and thin out. surplus cot- ton plants to provide plenty of -Own for growth. There was a time when truck- toads. of "cotton choppers" or ".hoe hands" rolled along the dusty roads of a, morning, head- cad for the fields from, ,points Where' the day laborers gathered to be picked up, . A truck would turn off' the noad into •a bumpy lane along a ditch bank, then jounce to a stop under a . wide spreading live• oak tree or ..a clump of cottonwoods. soon.aS. the "hands" were un- loaded _the driver . 'ground the The French Love Charles De Gaulle Bu Only Wh,n They Need Rim By TOM A. CULLEN Newspaper ;Enterprise Assoc. mult dies, people again will grumble at De Gaulle, ridicule his pretensions to greatness and compare him to King Louis XIV. De Gaulle's marriage to France is contentious; he' ap- pears,. like Socrates, to be nag- ging his wife. One need only watch De Gaulle on television to realize how irritating he can be. It is an extraordinary perform- ance. He s c o l d s Frenchmen as though they were a nation of er- r ant schoolboys. His lips are pursed petulantly, his eyes blink, He ends by pleading with the nation to be reasonable and be- have. Imagine President Xenne- dy acting similarly. It is tiresome for the French. man, living with the virtuous De Gaulle and being made to feel like a sinner. The temptation is to sin, But perhaps seine change hae been wrought by the crisis ih Algeria; it seems that De Gaulle Paris — "No one loves De. Gaulle except 45 million French- men," a famous French journal- ist remarked, "And even French- men. don't really love De Gaulle until they need him. "Then they come running like scared children and De Gaulle is always there to incarnate greatness," This is the paradox of Charles De Gaulle's hold on the nation. prance cannot live easily 'with irri Or without him.• Just now, se is muoh beloved, His leadership has saved France froth civil war and. na- ional disaster. His' prestige now .10 greater than it ever has been. H e is regarded with the same it we that Joan of Aro must have' nspired, Like Joan, De Gaulle s law unto himself, being above. party and class.. And yet, when the present tu- has brciken through the barrier separating him from the nation, For nearly three years, De Gaulle virtually has been a pri- soner of the army that brought him to power; his hands have been tied regarding the Algerian War settlement. But now, all has changed. The diSsident army of- ficers now are his prisoners, Part of De Gaulle's isolation from the public has been de- liberate, He has learned the se- cret that preserved the British monarchy while "Other thrones toppled --'the leader never should be too accessible; he should be slightly remote and. mysterious. In his memoirs, De Gaulle speaks of the necessity of "keep- ing oneself methodically at the right height and distance." The opening paragraph of his mem- Ors contains the key to De Gaulle's philosophy: "France cannot be France without great- ness:" So much for De Gaulle, the victor. Now what about the los- ers, the defeated generals and other officers in Algeria? Is the world to be treated to the spec- Janie of generals committing mass suicide like a flock of lemmings? Many of the old schciol officers loyal to De Gaulle feel this is the only solution for the van- wished, They' argue that the leoneur of the French army Must be redeemed,, that those who dishonoured the flag must cent- Snit hart-kart: To the,, outside world, this sounds' as anachronistic as duels in Bois de Boulogne at dawn. In some Ways, it attacks of comic opera, But tb the French, these at, fairs are tragic; honour is a very real concept here, Honour and the fatherland are indised oil public buildings and sewn on flags. The defection of so litany army Officers had struck France the gravest blow sInde the Nazis en= tete& in I540. It will take Fitness a long time to recover from this bitter humiliation. 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