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The Seaforth News, 1961-06-01, Page 6Woman Slave Trade+ Mill Flourishes The dark -eyed, beautiful nine- teen -year-old Arabian girl bore 14 startling resemblance to ex- neen Soraye of Persia. But as ar as her husband, a powerful ttheikh, was concerned, it added obsoletely nothing to his a'ffec- ttion for her just the opposite, n fact, For as the girl testified be- fore a. special court in Cairo re- ,Cently: ''Only a month after my marriage, he said he was go- ing to sell me. And because I looked like Soraya, he decided 'to double the price he originally had in mind." Her husband, she alleged, had already sold sixty-five other wives to the harems of rich. Per- sian Gulf and Arabian princes. And' not one of his victims had dared protest. When the girl took action against the husband, the Egyp- tian court gave judgment in her favour,. She was awarded a di- vorce from her mercenary - minded husband, plus compen- sation. In parts of Saudi Arabia, sla- very is not considered a crime and causes no concern, But when desert raiding parties, keen to snap up human loot and convert it into money, capture a girl from an influential fam- ily, then the sparks fly. This happened when the niece of a well-known merchant dis- appeared during a slave raid. Before her family could inter- vene, she'd been sold to roy- alty, Relatives sent, scouts out to search the desert for her, Eventually they heard of her auction at a slave market and their fighting blood was aroused, The family swiftly organized e powerful camel posse end ordered its leader to bring back the girl. This display of force rattled the authorities a n d a telegram sped to the Royal Household informing them that the recent purchase was rather ill-advised. Sooner than risk an outbreak et hostilities, the girl was released unharmed. ' The Anti -Slavery Society in London has compiled an alarm- ing mass of new evidence illus- trating the cruelty and suffer- ing that are inflicted on slaves today. There are even baby "fauns" iSaudi Arabia — stocked with all girls kidnapped in the n treets of Algeria and Tunis. Girl ayes are always worth more boys — as potential mo- ers, they can breed even more ves. The girls are forced to per - Sew it Swiftly brl.1NTED PATTERN TWO main pattern parts — whip up this basic beauty in an Afternoon! No waist seams — aineh with matching belt or con- trast ties, Choose print, checks, er sunny solid for all season. Printed Pattern 4835: Misses' Sizes 10, 12, 14, 18, 18, 20, Size 16 takes 278 yards 39 -inch fa- bric, Send FIFTY CENTS (stamps Gannet be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern, Please print plainly SIZE-, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER, Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. ANNOUNCING the biggest fashion show of Spring -Summer, 1061 — pages, pages, pagesof patterns in our new Colour Ca- talogue just out! Hurry, send Me now! form inertial tasks almost as soon as they can walk, Sante- times they are taken to superior type "farms" to receive an. ele- mentary education, the purpose of which is solely to raise their market values when theyare ready for sale, Slavery is still obviously pant in Africa, the 1lllddle t« Far' East, But some of the st ' frightful examples of human Qin' ploitalion today occur in Sends, America, In certain regions of Peru, warrior parties are con- stantly selling shanghied slaves to rubber plantations owners for serf labour in the murderotis swamp forests. The healthiest. fetch their former .masters about $25 a head on the market. As the authority pledged to abolish slavery, the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations must tighten up the Sla- very Conventions, send out fear-, less teams of properly trained investigators, and take a firm stand in a new effort to root out the evil which is ruining the lives of hundredsof thousands of our fellow beings, Is Fat In Your Diet Really Dangerous? People who have stopped eat- ing cholesterol - rich dairy and meat fats because they fear that the cholesterol will clog their ar- teries may be running more, not less, risk of developing heart disease. After nine years of research, Dr. Edward H. Ahrens Jr. of the Rockefeller Institute told the As- sociation of American Physicians meeting in Atlantic City recently that a diet rich in sugars and starches (carbohydrates) but low in fats raises the level of fats in the blood. These blood fats are formed by the chemical break- down of carbohydrates. They are not cholesterol but triglycer- ides — the main constituent of body fateSome medical research- ers, including D. Ahrens, won- der if the triglycerides may not be at least as important as chol- esterol in developing thick artery walls, Until now, most scientists had assumed that a low-fat diet meant a low-fat content in the blood. Dr. Ahrens' research challenges this belief. He has fed his human subjects diets ranging all the way from one made up of 85 per cent carbo- hydrate, 15 per cent protein, and no fat to a diet made up of 15 per cent carbohydrates, 15 per cent protein, and 70 per cent fat. The patients on the high-fat diet showed the lowest level of blood triglycerides, Dr. Ahrens report- ed. This research conflicts with the findings of Dr. Ancel Keys of the University of Minnesota, chief proponent of the cholester- ol -heart disease link. Advised of the new findings, Dr. Keys point- ed out that people on low-fat diets in countries like Formosa not only have low blood choles- terol levels but few triglycerides as well. To - this, Dr. Ahrens says: "The, point is, our subjects were kept well nourished. People who don't get enough calories to maintain body weight won't have a high-fat content in their blood —or anywhere else" Jazz Is O.K. In Russia Now! Jazz is at last respectable in Russia. At picnics, dances and cabarets young communists are getting with it without the fear of being branded "devia- tionists," But the party officials have not bowed to the tastes of deca- dent capitalism. The new relaxa- tion comes because jazz was or- iginated by Negroes with African antecedents — not by American imperialists, Says musician Leonid Utyosov in the magazine 'Soviet Culture': "Jazz is not a synonym for im perialism, and the saxophone is not the brainchild of colonial- ism." Yet jazz really arrived in Rus- sia in 1925, with New Orleans saxophonist Sidney Bechet, It was tremendously popular, and the government jumped on the bandwaggon by forming the U.S.S.R. Jazz Band, For the purpose, it released ace trumpeter Andrei Goring from jail, into which he had been thrown for insulting a party of- ficial. Then, in 1929, Stalin abruptly banned jazz and all Western popular music as a "product of bourgeois degeneration." But the fans were not thwart- ed so easily, Records were print- ed on to X-ray plates, smuggled in, and sold on the black market for fantastic prices, Elvis Pres- ley L,P.s were fetching around $15, Illicit jazz bands were formed. whose leaders learned the latest numbers 'tom Western radio Programmes, So . many such groups existed among students in Leningrad that the Young Com- munist League made nightly pa- trols in an attempt to stamp them out, But now a neW era is heralded for Maslen jazz fans, SHE WASN'T INVITED — All little girls love parties and three- year-old Caroline Kennedy is no exception. Here Carol watches from the White House balcony as her parents entertained stu- dents at a White House gontlen party. RONICLES IlejSEEVE1 There was a brief paragraph in our morning paper one day last week; A very brief para- graph yet it shattered a. ,tradi- tion that had carried on for ninety years. In effect this is • what it said: "The Board of Gov- ernors of the Ontario Agricul- tural College has decided to dis- continue its Annual Farm and Home Week," Later I heardthis decision had been reached be- cause agriculture has become so specialized thait_Farm and Home Week, as an institution, had outgrown its usefulness and of late had been very poorly at- tended. So away goes another old cus- tom and with it a few nostalgic memories. Years' ago Farm and Home Week meant a lot farm people as it was often their only means of keeping up with trends in farming. The O.A.C. itself is the centre of agricultural On-, tario and for that reason special excursion trains were run from various local points in Ontario to the lovely .city of Guelph, A streetcar service ran from the railway station to the outskirts of the College. And what was the main at- traction of this anusl outing for farm families? That is hard to explain. It . meant different things to different people, but, since it was "open house" all over the College and its environ- ments, there was something to please everybody. The farmer who would have liked pedigreed cattle had he been able to afford it took great pleasure in wand- ering through the cattle barns, inspecting the well-fed, well- groomed cattle on display. More than one farmer took young Johnny along with 'him and would try to explain_to hitn why one cow was better than another —and what a joy it would be to have a herd like that in the home stable. That would lead to the inevitable question — "Why DON'T we have cows like these, Dad?" "Why? Well now, son, maybe we 'will some day. Maybe we'll start YOU a herd with a yearl- ing heifer. Arid she'll grow and grow, and then there will be other' heifers and by the time VERSATILITY — Rosalind . Russell goes offbeat again. First it was "Wonderful Town," then, as "Auntie Mame." Now, back in movies again after her Broad. Way successes, she plays a Jewish character -- '.'Mrs. Jac- oby" — in "A Majority of One." you're a grown boy we'll have us a registered herd." Sometimes it was a dream that came true sometimes it remained only a dream because there carne a time called "the depression" or the "Hungry Thirties" when it was only his faith in the future that kept the farmer going at all — Farm and. Horne Week did a lot to foster those dreams, Before the days of the noisy tractor horses were a great fam- ily attraction . — father, mother and the children took a delight in the sleek, handsome beasts especially if the kiddies were al- lowed a ride on an old retainer turned out to pasture. In later years high powered machinery was a drawing card that no farm boy could resist, Jimnny would clink -aboard any tractor that was bandy and imagine he was in the driver's seat on his own farm. For the farm women there was the delight of wandering through the spacious grounds — especially if the lilacs were in bloom. Flower beds and borders provided many an inspiration as to what could be grown at home. A tour through Macdonald Hall illustrated how attractive rooms could be with simple furnish- ings, And the kitchens . . , the last word in efficiency even be- fore the era of dish -washing machines. Here was the marvel of hydro at its best. Maybe Mary heaved a half-conscious sigh, and then she'd tell herself philo- sophically — "Oh well, who knows, maybe we will have hydro some day!" By noon the family would get together for the noonday lunch, provided by the College. This of course was a welcome feature to well - whetted appetites. The supply of sandwiches seemed in- exhaustible. Well filled "butter- ed" sandwiches, a chunk of cheese, and fresh buttered buns. For drinks there was whole milk, buttermilk, tea or coffee. Cheese, butter, bread, rolls and cured ham were all made or processed at the College. After lunch there was a guid- ed tour to field demonstration plots, a professor from the Col- lege explaining the whys and wherefores of certain grain and forage crops. It was sometimes a farmer's only opportunity of keeping pace with the times. Partner's first recollection of Farm and Home Week goes back to 1909, when as a boy fresh from England to learn farming in Canada he was given the day off by his employer to enjoy a . day's outing. And enjoy it, -he did - though it meant a three- mile walk to the nearest railway station to catch the excursion train. That was nothing in the early hours of the morning but no so easy at the end of the day knowing that milking and chores still had to be done be- fore tired limbs could earn a night's repose — ."to bed,per- chance to dream" an emi- grant's dream -- of maybe sane day owning a farm of his own and doing some of the wonder-. 1ul things he had seen that day. In Partner's case the dream came true — and out of the dreamt carne "Ginger Farm!"' So What's New in the Office? A voice -operated typewriter ca- pable of typing directly from dictation, The machine acknowl- edges or recognizes some 100 syllables and prints them pho- netically, The results are, read- able for office .memoranda but need retyping foe more formal comm nic^tions; ISSUE 21 — 1114iI Springtime On The Gospel Peninsula The farmers of this alternately soft and craggy peninsula of Gaspe jotting deeply into the Gulf of St, Lawrence are now moving onto the springtime land aboard tractors. On an 800-mlieo u r ��tt a y, through its length and breadth, 1 failed to sae a single ox -pulled wagon of which the travel fold- grs pled to boast and which I recall from previous tr'avais in my youth. The techniques of the mari- time economy of Canada's east- ern seaboard have changed much in the last few years and will change more in the years to come. But the mechanization which has conte to Gaspe's fishing, farming, and forest industries has not yet dimmed the skill of the ancient wood sculptor or the common sense of the people who used to be called habitants. Centuries of high hope and sometimes disillusionment have made for hard heads. The tour- ists have assured the survival of the wood carver, and of bread baked in outdoor ovens by bright opportunist housewives. Tractors and balers have made the horse and the pitchfork obso- lete, They have also taken some rif the profit out of small-scale farming, just as they've elimin- ated some of the sweat from the farmer's brow. Yet agricultural crisis is a phrase the Gaspe farmer does not use. He adjusts, diversifies, obtains his living from his land, water, trees, and tourists. Or, envying his prairie counterparts whom he looks on as men who do not bother with cattle and thrive instead on subsidies, he gets out. Not very many want to move. They find security in their liveli- hood and seek little else, except perhaps a television set. The last great arm of communications has finally penetrated the remote hills and valleys of this historic soil hundreds of miles' from the nearest metropolitan center. The man who takes his dory out bo sea in the early morning returns to his plot .of farm land, to his pulp cuttilsg or wood carv- ing in the afternoon. Codfish sell at 25¢ a pound or less at dock- side, for freight charges, and the middleman have not yet added their toll. Fuel oil is creeping relentless- ly into hitherto traditional coal - consuming outlets even in this Atlantic belt where it is mined, writes Robert Moon in the Chris- tian • Science Monitor. The farms and forests and " fisheries, with intermingling and diversification of uses, will long remain the •economic base. No magic will change this despite the promises. of politicians and the ameliorations of economic councils. The old isolation is gone now, though the Gaspesian is still proud. of Isis cultural heritage and wishes to preserve it, if far less aggressively than even a few years ago. Far from being removed from international tensions, safe be- hind an extended land barrier to the west and a watery one to the east, the Gaspesian looks up and says he is on the direct flight path into central Canada. The picture of the new Premi- er of Quebec, Ottawa -trained Jean Lesage, can be found pin - a ted to Walls of 1ishermen'a shanties, tourist restaurants, and farm homes frequently along the Gaspe coast, in a way Un- known to other provinces, As demonstrated at federal provincial conferences, IVe Le - sage represents a sincere • mood of conciliation which, exists to- day in this French-sjaeaking pro- vince, There is something syr- , belie about the long, new bridge being built to join the Gasps Peninsula with. nearby New Brunswick at Campbellton. The advances of Quebec is primary and secondary indus- tries have helped bring profes- sional theater and an art center to the village of Perce, founded beside a mighty pierced -rock island rising abruptly out of the bay. Fittingly, it is stocked every summer by the finest actors of French Canada, performing is the French language if not al- ways in French plays,, for some- times American playwrights pro- vide the vehicles. The actors Won't be content until they have a first-class repertoire of French- Canadian plays, which they say have not yet been written, Each One Different Gt{Luvie.W6,144, Why try to decide which is your favourite? Crochet all three — they're useful so many ways. 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