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Mn, A 4 plus crops. : : i Once. or twice previously I have quoted dispatches 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, * . * 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 farmers be paid for. not producing. It is proposing' to spend an estimated $1,000,000,000 over 'a 10-year period to encourage farmers to stop producing so much wheat, cotton, and corn. There ig no doubt 'that the idea is compeltely abhorrent to Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson. But it is equally obvious that he has little choice in' the matter. His opponents may not have succeeded in freezing him out of the Presi- dent's Cabinet, but they have _ enforced the "politics 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 §0 many acres out of the sui- * * * ) -- Some 'of the money will go toward the cost of conversion, - Some of it will go in cash pay- 'ments --- thus helping to boost farm income. The Farm Bureau federation' has proposed that payment might be cut-rate grain from the government. In other words, the 'government would sell back to the farmer at a low price the grain it has purchased from him-at.the sup- port price, Thus, it would pay- him twice for the commodity. .No one really knows at - this moment how much it will cost the American taxpayer to foot Ea -------------- HAPPIER NOW -- Eleaftyor Powell, once billed by Holly- wood as "the world's - greatest tap dancer," is now d Bible teacher conducting a religious TV show for children. She denies planning a movie comeback, saying she's happier now as Mrs. Glenn Ford, working with children, than she was working In movies. Fie Be ah a a such a bill, Estimates say it might cost <$500,000,000 for the' first 18° months, and then on into the billions ° as time goes | on -- depending on the length of' the program. "¥ * * 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. » *. LJ But 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 is involved, so essential is food production to. the "nation and so closely linked is farm prosperity to all prosperity, The American Farm Bureau Federation, representing . more "than "1,500,000 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 stich a plan for a number « Of years, * LS * There is no. doubt that the i. administration has been forced to adopt it becaue of election- year uncertainities due in large measure to the continued slump in farm income. It will stick to its guns on the practibility of flexible price supports, however, as compared to the Democratic- proposed return to a rigid 90 per cent level. The government already has more than $7,000,000,000 tied up in price-support operations -- ~not all money down the drain, * to 'be sure, since some of these ~ commodities will be resold. But losses in the conduct -of the program run higher and higher, * * * Yet despite this tremendous output to keep farm prices and farm income up, they are still on the skids. Republican poli- ticians are clamoring for a So- lution, The soil-bank plan is seen as a quick way of pulling land out - of 'production and giving farm- ers-a hunk of cash to bolster in- come at the same time, It is considered " a relatively short- term operation, the theory be- ing that as production is. cut back surpluses will be liqui- dated. * Co» * When the great surpluses now overhanging the market and depressing 'prices are gone, it is expected the present flexible price-support system will oper- ate effectively under normal production conditions, It has been estimated: that under the 'soil-bank plan, some -25,000,000 acres will be takem | out of production, Skeptics question whether this will bring the reduced . production which has been figured, for, 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. * * * One good thing, however, will be the retirement of marginal land, CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 2. 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Little People's Con test Canadian Boy Wins '55 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 PEQPLE'S Christmas Coloring 3 _ Contest. ce ANDREW MALOLEPSZY: He wanted a champ for Montreal. Andy was disappointed when the Montreal 'Alouettes failed to win Canada's professional fool- ball title. He made up his mind to bring glory fo Montreal through the National Coloring Contest. Andy's entry was submitted by the Montreal Herald after he took first prize in local competi- tion. It was forwarded to Cleve- land for final judging. y The judges, selected by NEA | Service, Inc., sponsors of the con- test, were nationally prominent artists. "They those Andy's as thé best of 278 entries. As the Grand Prize winner, Andy fléw via Trans-Canada Air Lines to New York, where the highlight was an appearance on Perry Como's. NBC-TV show. Andy and his ascort were the . |. i - militia was for special guests of Mr. Thomas F. Troy, General Manager of the Statler, 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 d bicycle and third prize winner Roberto Aguirre, 9 of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, who was awarded a set of the Encyclopaedia and an electric train. weer 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. A CRO Raised The Dead For A Living If-an Irish farmer..of 'Orrey, Tyrone, had let his son, William Burke, take possession of a potato patch and set up. as a farmer, the notorious "Burke : and Hare" murders would. prob- ably never have: happened, and some sixteen Edinburgh people. would have died normally in- stead of being skillfilly cut to. pieces. . . 7 Born | in Orrey in 1792, william Burke displayed no peculiar characteristic in his early life which picked him out as differ- ent from the average young man of his class and time, Largely uneducated, he found a, job as house-boy at the manse of the local Presbyterian minister. « Later, he became bakér, wea- ver 'and soldier in fairly quick succession, His enlistment. in the a seven-year term, most of it spent as an officer's batman, He now had a wife and three children, On his discharge from the army he returned with his wife and children {0 his father's home. 'Dougal, 'a coarse-looking beauty in her . time; Helen then was nothing ~ bours. . was, He had an ambition to become a farmer and asked his fathes to let him have a laity »o patch. His father curtl ] and a bitter quarrel ensu which led to hls deciding # leave Ireland. He deserted his family and went across to Glasgow, Here. he obtained work on the Union Canal as a navvy and picked up: a woman <pamed Helen Mo- Though: she had been more than an ugly and ill-tem- pered drab, -On the other'hand, a contemporary described Burke as having a "down - looking sleazy look of a dog" He way short and thick of frame, with a round full face, an insignifie- ant'.nose and a sullen expres- sion. ' Together they drifted to Ed- inburgh 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 ghioul- ish" of appearance, having a "hollow-ground" face, and grey eyes under thick eyebrows, He was more than friendly with the widowed landlady, Margaret 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 ggmeter- 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, doctors, and the demand for bodies far exceeded the supply. Hare and Burke switched a load of bark for the body in the coffin, - They knew a likely client, a Dr. Knox, who had a reputation for 'paying good prices and no awkward . ques- tions asked. So Burke and Hare visited Dr. Knox, stryck 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. g them £10. A third body--that of another lodger, a sick Eng- lishman--{ollowed soon after. --The---deceased-----had--neithee-..| __. friends nor relatives to ask awkward questions; the appar- ent burial of the bodies in pauper graves (coffins stuffed with bark) satisfied the neigh- 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, it is believed, was - an old woman named Abigail Simpson, a seller of "salt and camstone." i : Other female bodies followed, the number being uncertain. By then Burke, Hare & Co. wera prospering. They dressed 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. But between te deaths of the two -Haldanes came the- affair of Mary Paterson and Janet Brown. Both were young, but Mary Paterson possessed an ex- traordinarily beautiful face and an exquisite, flawless body. In the early morning hours, Burke came across the two girls in a grog-shop. Both were more than hall drunk and hadn't eaten for twenty-four 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 roused from sleep, took little interest in his brother's affairs and let them "in, - Ac little later he: went off to 7 hid work. By then Mary asléep, sprawling across a table, but Janet, befuddled though she i declared she had to go, As she left, Hare arrived. It set- tled Mary Paterson's fate, That night her lifeless, but still beautiful, body was deliver- ed to Dr. Knox. Though one medical student at least recog- "nized the corpse, her untimely death beyond Janet. Their success, and continuing prosperity made them brazenly careless, for the murderers now chose to kill and dispose' of fn the same manner a young im- becile named Daft Jamie, In- offensive, harmless Jad lovable, Daft Jamie was Sknown and liked all over Edinburgh. For the first time, the sight of a cold, still body. instantly recognized, brought fear Into the Knox establishment. Though awakened no suspicion those harboured by . His body brought | was re Jamie, Dr. Knox refuted ot his first order om the ection procedure was to re- Bek oa declared it was move the head and the deform- od foot--the two outstanding features which would make the body recognizable te investiga- tors, Then followed the Docherty affair--and their last murd Mrs. Docherty, an old Ir woman, was taken home Burke after he had claimed that he, too, was a -Docherty. Te © 'celebrate <the ' occasion they threw a lage 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 Mus. to keep away from some straw in a corner of his room, Woman-like, she had te 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 profesting 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 ex- amination, a body already cut into pieces and destrdyed in the interests of medical science? 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 as reinforcements. Burke and Ha- len McDougal were indicted on charges of killing Mary Pater- son, Daft Jamie and Mrs, Doch- erty. But only Burke was found guilty. The verdict against Me- Dougal was "not proven." Dr. 'Knox, though implicated, also escaped justice, On January 28th, 1829, Wil- " liam Burke was hanged before a vast, morbid crowd who oc- cupied évery window and van- tage point to see the execution. With poetic, ironic justice, his body was sent to a rival medi- cal school for diggection, Meap- while, Hare disappeared, as did the two women. Yet the murders did achieve something. Three years after Burke's death the Anatomy Act was passed, which removed for all time the motives which made the Burke and Hare mur- ders possible. Go To Grass! To be healthy, eat grass. So say scientists George O. Kohler, W. BR. Graham and C. F. Schna- bel of Kansas City. They claim to have established, after four 'years of experiments, 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 no colds, and enjoyed excellent health, 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 American Chemical Society, "will supply th enecessary supplementary fac-. tors for a ligeral diet to all U.S. families at a price they can af- tory." Gray Now several U.S. fac-. ford for the first NN in his- BA, BD, R. Barclay Warren, Jesus Rehukes Insincerlty Luke 11:29-44 2 Memory Selection: He hut 8 mot with me Is against me: he 'that gathereth not with me scattereth, Luke 11: 23. The modern ay to make friends and influence people is to say to them the things that please them. Jesus didn't follow the modern line, He was more goncerned 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: th seek a sign." Nineveh repent at the preaching of Jonas bul this generation was 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 .bug were not taking advantage of it. Hence their condemnatiom would be the greater. While at the home of a Pharl- see Jesus struck out boldly ab 'the sham of this most religious group of the day. They fussed about ceremonial washings while their hearts were filled with wickedness.- They were careful to tithe the most min- ute plants such as mint, This was fine. "These things ough ye to have done," said Jesus. But the Pharisees passed ove# judgment and the love of God. The Pharisee loved the fro. 'seats in. the synagogue. M people don't. We have héen to of one man who comes late his seat near the front, competitors say he does it foe advertising, Perhaps they ard wrong: perhaps they are right God knows. u. God knows our- hearts. We may fool some péople by ap- pearing religious on Sund while we cheat and flirt wi other men's wives during the week, But we don't fool G He knows the motives and wi judge us accordingly. Mean- while God detects hypocrisy. § : Let us beghonest with oun. selves and FR HrDe easy to be honest with: var associates. Shakespeare expresses this thought: "This above all: te thine own self be true, and i& must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then ba false to any man." GOT A CAN OPENER? One day a mother sardine and her two babies were swimming through the ocean, when a sub- marine approached them, The babies, being frightened, darted behind the mother. Buk she calmly said, afraid, it's only ple." Drive With Care Upsidedown to Preveny Peeking = SURVEYING HIS 0s C--- Ralpt Vaca o soy ey in i y a ré&ten acre cabbage field destroyed 100- cold wave, Carrols, potatoes and celery also sufferad in the cold which kilied 1 "million dollars in crops in wastern Washington and Oragan. Vaca sstimates his own loss at $12,000, "Don't -- ba a can of pad. &. L&