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Zurich Herald, 1956-01-26, Page 5RONICLES 7 , NRFARM L [iolertt. Ciao A short while ago 1 went out on a limb suggesting that the Federation of Agriculture, Wo- nien's Institutes and Farm For- ums look into the proposed Na- tional Health Insurance, es- pecially since Labour is now agitating for action along those lines. I expected 1 might be dis- turbing a. hornet's nest but so far only one letter of .protest' has come my way. Does that mean that farm readers are not :Interested in this plan? • The writer of the one letter received gives me all the details about the spade work that was done by the Federation of Agriculture as far back as 1943. She assumes - quite' wrongly -the I had either forgotten or was ignorant of the fact that the OFA had always done every - Thing. possible to implement a National Health Plan. That I know, but after all their time and trouble, what did we get? Certainly not a National Health Plan. For one reason the time was not yet ripe. Active interest did result in the formation of Co-operative Medical Services. The Women's Institutes were also busy, and in this country at least, were responsible for the establishment of a County Health Unit. But that is a far cry from a National Health l?lan, The point 1 wanted . to,,., make clear - but in that 1 ap- parently failed -was that NOW is the psychological moment for farm groups to get busy look- ing into the working mechanics of the Proposed Health Plan be- fore it comes into force. To make sure that farm people get a square deal - that the Farm- er is not the Forgotten Man. "There is a tide in the affairs of man which taken at the flood, Leads on to fortune". That ap- plies to a Health Plan just as much as to a person. Not everyonecan take an ac- tice part in farm organizations but every person, can take suf- ficient interest to keep inform- ed on what is being done on his or her behalf. We shall be watching with interest the re- action of farm groups when more details of the Federal- Provincial Health Plan are made kn own. Maybe when details are com- plete for health plans for hu- mans we might star thinking about a health plan for live- stock! ivestock! A grade cow isn't worth much these days so that if she gets sick a farmer can pay out half "her value in 'vet' bills and medicine. r aecas3tvc strcnijtIi to ffe, onj modrurion jives it c�iarm. the JTtouse '"can Pau(Ricker of Seagram • 1llen who think of tomorrow practice moderation today• rf-t in .Abe meantime farmers have ° another little matter to worry over. We already have huge surpluses of wheat On hand so it doesn't comfort us at all to learn that Great Britain. has developed a new type of. hard wheat "Koga Two" that topped Canadian varieties at our own Royal Winter Fair. Ac- cording to press reports farm- ers in the United Kingdom ex- pect to grow enough of this wheat for the current crop year to save about $10,000,000 in im- ports of hard wheat from Canada. That!s fine for Great Britair - whom we have to ad- mire for her pluck and enter- prise. But the implications are staggering in regard to Canada, So developments in that direc- tion will also be quite interest- ing to, follow. Too bad it so of- ten happens that one man's meat is another man's poison. What a lot of worry our four - footed animals are saved by not having brains with which to think. Or have they? Surely, animals have some sort of thinking apparatus. What they do can't all be the result of in- stinct. Take Ruety for instance. Since he got hit by a car, and had, his leg broken as a result, he won't go near the road at all -for which we are very thank- ful. He follows Partner all over the place but if Partner heads for the road Rusty turns tail and comes home. Yesterday he did something very bad - but cute, just the same. 1 had left a glass of milk on the kitchen cabinet for Partner. Rusty came along, put his two front feet on the cabinet and helped himself to the glass of milk without ever spilling the milk of break- ing the glass. We might never have known what happened if Partner hadn't .caught him in the act. Rusty is still only about a year old. Such a big dog and yet just an overgrown puppy. He has the craziest, way of flop- ping himself around partly be- cause, since his leg was broken, he can't sit naturally on his hind end, so he sprawls either on one side or the other. Robbie is just the opposite. He sleeps down the cellar now and with his little short legs he has quite a time getting up and down the cellar stairs, as they are quite steep. But it wasn't long before either by thought or instinct - he learnt to take a run from halfway across the. cellar.. So now he is almost up the stairs before he knows it - just like a horse getting up speed to jump a fence. How many readers, I wonder,, had .a Christmas cactus in <bloom, for the festive season. Last year my cactus had finished bloom- ing by . Christmas. This year, as soon as the buds began to form, I moved the' plant to a cold room. Now it has four' blooms and lots of half -opened buds. Just the way I wanted it. NO ARMISTICE Throughout the meal neither the wife nor the husband had spoken. But as soon as the plates had been cleared away and they were seated by the fire, the husband's face lost some of its hardness. "You know, dear," he said, breaking the long silence. "I've been thinking over our argu- ment." "Well?" she snapped, without looking up from her book. "Yes, . dear, I've decided to agree -with you after all," he said meekly. "That won't do any good," she sniffed. "I've changed my mind." Some people have a veneer that comes off easily with a lit- tle alcohol. 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Played Chess With Prison Bread James Allan learnt to play chess in a country well known for its serious study of the game -Russia. But the circum- stances in which his initiation took place weren't happy ones. Nor were the chessmen he used the beautifully carved figures that are sometimes played with. His introduction to the game happened during the war while he was held prisoner by the Russians. Allan's instructor, a fellow prisoner ' hailing from Samarkand, undertook the role of teacher, and the chessmen their meagre bread ration. This bread was ideal for the pur- pose -it set like a rock after three days. Moulded into the various shapes of kings, queens, bishops, knights and pawns, it was left to harden. Colouring for the white pieces was supplied by whitewash• scraped off walls with finger -nails, burnt match- sticks provided the black col- ouring for opposing pieces. Even to this day, writes James Allan, D.C.M., in •an inspiring and moving account of his grim adventures while in Russian hands, "No Citation", he finds himself calling "Shakh!" instead of "Check!" Making slow progress from a leg wound, Allan, a lance -cor- poral in the Military Police, was captured by the Germans in a British military hospital shortly before Dunkirk. A daring and hazardous escape across Ger- many to neutral Russian terri- tory didn't bring him the free- dom he sought. He was prompt- ly clapped into prison -a suc- cession of prisons. In one prison, he, with sev- eral others, decided on a hung- er strike in an attempt to im- prove their lot. Later came the ineviable interrogation. During the inquiry a woman interpreter suddenly snapped: "Who was the first to go on hunger strike?" Undaunted, Allan re- plied: "Sylvia Pankhurst, and Gandhi had a go at it, too," Followed a furious shuffling of papers, frowns from the in- terrogator, frustrated searching, and finally an inquiry from the interpreter: "Pankhurst, how do you spell that?" The fact that Allan, before entering the C.M.P„ had been in the Scots Guards, was the cause of yet another bawling out at the hands of his captors. De- tails of service were entered in his papers, and the interrogator demanded to know for what. reason Scotland Yard and M.I. 5, had arranged his entry into Russian territory. Allan, flabbergasted, denied all knowledge of any link with either organization. Quite a stormy interchange of views took place before he realized that his questioners had formed a strong tie-up between the Scots Guards and Scotland Yard. Paradoxically enough James Allan owed his eventual release to Hitler, Germany's invasion of Russia turned that country from a deeply -suspicious neutral into a powerful ally. 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