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The Seaforth News, 1959-11-26, Page 3Autumn Splendor (rested For Main If'n I were a brainy State De- partment official, geared to the perplexing semantics of human affairs, I mould hold my summit conference on Porcupine Hill" - or some similar sun - drenched October vantage point where the delegates could look .oft. It is impossible to survey the New England autumn in its rampages of colour and be mad at any- body. There is more than the foli- age, if you need more. The sea- son is frantic with the activity; of the inhabitants as they hurry to get the crops . under cover, and this is stimulating. It is al- ways good tosee people work- ing. From the practical side, there is no time to look' off; you've got your hands full any- -Way. But you do look off; every- body does. Nothing is sopressing and de- manding . that you can't take time for the maple red, beech. bronze, birch yellow, and deep. russet of the oaks. Trucks lum- ber binwards with the potatoes, apples disappear into the sheds, squashes are piled in yellow mountains by the, canning shops. Everything is geared to pros- perity; but just' when nobody has any time for it, you have to stop and look at the -foliage.. Somebody tried to explain to me once how it happens a tree sets up this wild cacophony of brilliance, but it was no use. Something about sugar in the roots and the chlorophyll reac- tors among the isotopes. A won- derful thing. Well, there may be • those in this world who want to reduce the fires of autumn to an equa- tion, I refuse to be impressed. Phe thing is much simpler than that. I think the leaves turn pretty so I can look at them and feel good, about everything. I don't think ,the sugar content of the sidehill`has .one thing to do with it. Why would all this take place, like running a railway' system, if it was:justto satisfy some complicated' engineering. PILLAR OF CHARITY - On dis- play at Gorleston -on -the -Sea, England, is - this towering col- umn of coins, mostly penny and threepenny pieces., The pillar contains about $400 in coins donated by vacationers to pro- vide holidays for the physical- ly handicapped. formula deep in the pores of the wood? It doesn't make sense, If I wasn't here to, look at it, what's the point 14 •doing it? They could ,change the seasons here just as well, the way they do in other parts of the world, without the fanfare and hooraw, The maple, except far me, could just as well act likea rubber plant - which has the same in- ternal yearnings but never turns colour, The only possible answer is.- it's for rte. So I enjoy it. • What we do here, and we're not the only ones, is- make a little trip. Some folks go over the • mountains, but we've found. one place is as good as another. I've seen the Intervales, and'. I've also seen one flaming maple, against the `spruce, of a back pasture. One that is dike the • mountainside, So without any place in "mind, we just go until we find the spot that pleases, us,; and we stop there. . Then we dismount, spread the camping -out stuff. from the back of the truck, and stay there until the daylight fades and the last .trace of blue velvet has been ,squeezed from the skyand night Is' arrived. The fall air is clearer than the fuzzed -up kind in sum- mer, The sun• iswarm; without being a• burden. Very 'fine, all around. In the 'fall the woods get,; a little livelier, The'animals. are on the move, enjoying the seen-. ery and getting ready for win- ter. A deer sometimes' wanders out patty -foot to look us over. The, squirrels come head -first down a tree and chatter, We even had a skunk once Skunks are friendly, really, and din't mind company. And you almost. have to fight off the Canada Jays. They are thieves, and care' not for anything, and will fly, .in for miles at the sound- of iu bread crumb dropping. After a bit, what I' do is throw, some odd rocks together for 'k fireplace, and get a bed, of coals. Afterward, I start the potatoes. I have .no idea -what these pota- toes taste like • at home, for I've :never' hard any at home. I get' a pan hot, and then throw : in a forum of chopped -up baron. When it has dried out some, but hasn't begun, to crisp 'yet, I put in some onions. I don't know if you, have ever heard a pan of onions cry out. on the fall air the way these • do. It is as good -as a fire siren, and will echo off distant, crags: There may be braver ' noises. than a pan of onions in foliage time, but they'rehardto beat. • After the onions have worked a little. I fill the pan. with diced. potatoes,' and slipon a cover. The cover tends to quiet the onions' a bit, but it also starts a kind of . steaming process ' which r like. I' don't urge the potatoes on too much, let them osmosify slowly. They'll take it. Next I sort of fub downthe steaks, and open a package' of peas,. and start the cornbread and gingerbread. Then I . But there, I shall spare the intimate details, or too many will envy me. I don't mean it that. way. We spend some time assessing the woodsmoke and the onions, letting the olfactory sense confuse itself with the visual properties of the peri- phery. In.short, we just loll back and let autumn entertain us. It causes a day of days. There may be dark and care, but not here. And I always, some time 'dur- ing the day, reflect on what a-,. waste this would all .be It I' weren't on hand to enjoy.. it. I lie back and never .once reflect on the isotopes in the .cambium. That's absurd. The whole thing is spread out. there just for us, and • we're glad. - By Jobn Gould in The Christian ,Science Monitor. The math thing to save for your old age is yourself. CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 52, Monetary 1. Stonecutter unit of Japan 6. Young 58. Mountain socialite (Scot.) (ab•)84. 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F1ytng MR mmol molding, ®®■11®lee®11111111.®111 ®IUI°'°° a®U®R®R■ tag ®aa''t' ®i■''t<'O'®111®111 AA°7 ®*b'd'OA ® .� r 111SRA 20 ®®® ii11111111111iti .11111111110 111111111111111116111111111111111111 ®It1111`a=1111■°rte®■111111 Answer elsewhere on this page STRAIGHT AND .NARRO111f Francoise Groulx,.keeps everything lined up .as she' • plows a furrow at Dundas, Ont, At 14, Fran:, cols., was the youngest contestant in the ,international Plowing Match.• UI14I FRONT The followinr',article by the Farm' Editor ot,,. aha. • Christian Science Monitor is. ofs;especial. Interest to Canadian-' laymen, and, so I pass'it along • to. you. . Being •'a, .good neighbor is not' always easy - especially. ;when' theman next door does ,some-- thing;himself • very much like what he objected 'to your doing ' earlier. Something like that' has been, happening' lately between the United States and Canada. Being friends from, way back,, these two good -neighbors will doubtless, find amicable 'ways of solvingtheir individual prob- lems in ways to avoid stepping, • on each other's toes. Theques- tion is,: How? Two impgrtant •commodities are involved: wheat and pork. Canada, like other wheat pro'. clueing ,nations burdened with surpluses of theirown, has not been happy about some of the efforts to dispose of American wheat abroad, feeling that this disposal has cut into Canadian. markets. Now the. United States is con- cerned about a Canadian govern- mental program on pork which threatens to flood the United States with, pork at a time when American farmers hkve depres- sed hteir own prices •by produc- ing.`too many hogs. r, * e The ;situations inwheat and porkare not •exactly 'parallel; but' they, are similar „enough that Americans now face a little taste of what it'slike to have another nation handling;. its agricultural surplus ina way that threatens to upset ,American markets, Canada built •up ata`pork sur- plus in approximate, .the 'same way the United States acquired its tremendous stockpile of 'wheat: through government price supports which stimulated over- production b y guaranteeing farmers a profit, When .the Canadian stockpile of pork reached a reported 120,- 000,000 pounds, the government felt forced to change its pro- gram. Pork„ as ' a '.perishable product, cannot be stored for years as wheat can. The new Canadian program for pork calls for . "deficiency payments" similar to those pro- posed some years ago for Amer- ican farmers in the still con- troversial (and far from defunct) Brannan Plan, a a 4 Under the new system, Cana- dian pork producers will sell their hogs on the open market for whatever price they can get. At the end of the year, Canada will pay to farmers the differ- ence between the average mar- ket price and the support rate, which is figured on the basis of •80 per cent of the average mar- ket price for the preceding 10 Years, This subsidy will be paid to each farmer at year's end on only a limited number of hogs. Current guesses as to the num- ber were recently reported by the Wall Street Journal as rang- ing from 80 to 200. Canadians are hoping the new prpgram will aid the small farmer and ,hold pieedueticn down; but some be- lievethat even this plan may encourage overproduction. Why shouldn't a small farmer who usually raises only . a few hogs step up his production to.; the limit to get as much from • 3he government as he can/ Both Canadian and American farmers are concerned about what will now happen ,.to the .American market for Canadian (pork: Canada doesn't want to lose , its American market' which has been taking an esti- mated 7 per cent of ` Canadian pork. But American farmers 'don't want their prices forced lower, still by an influx 'of cheap pork .from Canada. Among the .organizations de- manding'action to protect Amer- ican farmers now is the Ameri- 'call Farm Bureau' Federation, which in mid-October sent iden- tical •telegrams to Secretary of State Christian A. Herter and Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft. Benson following up mes- sages .sent in June and asking "that the 'United States takeef- fective action to. prevent dump.. ing of Canadian pork onto the United States market," by impos- ing.duties,. a * a "United States producers can compete on straight economic basis with • anyone, but we can- not allow our livestock prices to be wrecked by subsidizedcom- petition arising out of deficiency. payment schemes - instituted by 'another government;" saidthe telegram. While the pork problem is thus threatening an internation- al crisis of a •sort, it is not so far Upsideduwn to Prevent Peektnp 311 1 N3 3IN 30 '7 NY 17Y d .L 41110 v.L 57 13101 N15 30ve'9V8_?!3J. it 3 O N13� F a y s o. 0N3 0347 NOSYw I1 8 O N h 5 '8 w 1 w s A A V 5 V 3 A reaching nor Is it likely to be as long lasting as the wheat prob- lem. But it may demand inter- national cooperation of the kind now developing between two good neighbors In regard to wheat. Within the last two weeks, the Carladiall-Ameriean Committee, sponsored by the (American) National Planning Association, and the Private Planning Asso- ciation of Canada, consisting of about GO representatives of bus- iness, labor, agricultural, and professional interests in both countries, issued a statement "Towards a Solution of Our Wheat Surplus .Problems." The general aim, concluded the committee, "should be to re- store, the balance between sup- ply and effective commercial de- mand as quickly as possible. , . Such a solution requires as an ultimate 'objective the elimina- tion of government pricing polic- ies'that require export subsidiza- tion, various forms of protections against imports, and other de- vi'ees which effectively under- mine the operation of market forces." 0 a 4 Cooperative action between Canada and the United States should be considered, reports the committee, at least in the form . of a joint program for using wheat surpluses in the two eoun- tiRes for famine relief and spe- cial emergency purposes, and possibly in a broader program "which might envisage the es- , tablishment of, national reserve stocks of wheat in underdevelop- ed countries." It , would hope to draw other wheat -exporting countries ' into the program. This, of course, comes close to the "food for peace" plan now being explored by five nations at the gov'rn- mental level.. ' These are economic objectives, which seldom have easy sailing when launched, as they must be, On the heaving waters of na- tional and international politics. And so, even when neighbors agree -informally or .offieially- on desirable objectives, the:ques- tion still remains: How can these objectives be 'attained for the good of all, and to harm none? DANGER- SIGNAL• The tail, of the white-tailed deer is feathery, and snow- white; When the deer is startled and begins to run, its tail stands straight up. In 'midsummer, the white-tailed deer has a red coat. When winter approaches, the coat turns to a light bluish gray. Males along the Canadian' bor- der sometimes weigh more than 275 pounds. • A Torontonian recently saw his wife off safely in a plane at Melton Airport on a trip to New York. When he. had at last fought his way back home through the traffic, he found a wire reading: 'Arrived -safely, Love, Mary'. LESSON By Bel'. 11, 11 Warren 11,A,. 0.0 Saul Confronted by Christ Acts 9;1.9 Memory Selection: Neither is there salvation in any other. for there is none other name given among men, whereby we must be saved. Acts 4: 12. The conversion of Saul of Tar- sus was one of the greatest events in the early church. This man had stood by the clothes of those who stoned Stephen to death. He was a leader in the fierce persecution that followed. As he went to Damascus in this diabolical work he was confront- ed by Christ. In addition to the account of this experience given in our lesson by Luke, we have the record of Paul's own testi- , mony to it before a mob in Jeru- salem (Acts 23) and again be- fore King Agrippa (Acts 281. Saul, later known as Paul, be- came the .chief apostle. In fact, most of the remainder of the Book of Acts is an account of his ministry to Jews and Gen- tiles in Asia, Macedonia, Greece and Italy. Ile, steadied the church when it threatened to split into Jewish and Gentile groups. Peter precipitated this emergency at Antioch. Paul, whose understanding of the church as the body of Christ was clearer, rebuked Peter and saved the day. Paul, was a learned man, having been taught by Ga- maliel, one of the most noted teachers of that day Paul was the chief theologian of the early church as a reading of his 13 or 14 letters shows clearly. His- tory states that he died as a martyr How was Saul converted? First, he was convicted for his sin. When he heard the words, "Saul, Saul, why •persecutest thou me?" he asked, "Who art thou, Lord?" The answer came, "I :'ani Jesus whom thou perse- cutest.", Saul trembled and was astonished. He surrendered to "the One whom he had been per- secuting, saying, "L o r d, what ttvllt thou have me to do?" He yielded his will completely and trusted in Jesus Christ., From this faith he never parted, A miracle had happened. The per- secutor became a humble ar,d ;obedient disciple of the One whom he had persecuted. He himself suffered much for his witness for Jesus Christ. Lord Lyttleton, an avowed atheist, studied the life_ of Paul to prove that his alleged conver- sion was a myth. As a result he became troubled • about his own. sandy position and was eventu- , ally transformed into a devout -believer. ISSUE 47 =1959 GUARDING THE GUARDS - Steel borders protect a Buckingham Palace guard in London, England. Harassment by spectators of guards standing outside the, palace grounds was cause for retreat. Henceforth _ the fence will separate them. a CLIPP' DWELLERS -- Residents of five San Francisco, Calif., apartment houses were evacuated after a landslide Into the .site of a 1 6 -story building.