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» ". Tet Ae a \ Autumn Splendor. Created For Man If'n I were a brainy State De- partment official, geared to the perplexing semantics of human affairs, I would hold my summit 'conference on Porcupine Hill -- or some similar sun-drenched October vantage point where the delegates could look off. 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 to see 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 so pressing 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 he 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 toots 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. The thing is much simpler than that, 1 think. the leaves. turn pretty so I can look at them and leel good about everything. I lon'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 tystem, if it was just to satisfy tome complicated engineering play at Gorleston-on4he-Seaq, England, 'is this towering i col- umn of coins, mostly penny and three penny 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 in 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 for me, could just as well act like a rubber plant -- which has the same in- ternal yearnings but never turns colour. The only possible answer is -- it's for me, 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 leaf is like 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 sky and night is arrived. The fall air is clearer than the fuzzed-up kind in sum- mer. The sun is warm, 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 scen- 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 don't mind company. And you almost have to fight off the Canada Jays. They are thieves, and care not for anything, and will {ly in for miles-at the sound of a bread crumb dropping. After a bit, what I. do is throw some odd rocks together for a fireplace, and get a bed of coals. Afterward, I'start® the" potatoes. TU have 'no'idea what thése pota- toes taste like at home, for I've never had' any at home. 1 get a pan hot, and then throw in a jorum of chopped-up bacon. When it has dried out some, but hasn't begun to crisp yet, I put in some. onlons. 2 - 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 théy're hard to beat. After the onions have worked' a little, I fill the pan with diced potatoes, and slip on a cover. The cover tends to quiet the cnions a bit, but it also starts a kind of steaming process which I like. I don't urge the potatoes on too much, let them osmosify slowly. They'll take it. Next I sort of rub down the 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 1 always, some time dur- ing the day, reflect on what a waste this would all be if 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 John Gould in The Christian Science Monitor, The main thing to save for your old age is yourself. CROSSWORD PUZZLE 62. Monetary unit of Japan 63. Mountain © (8cot.) ACROSS 1. Stonecutter | 6 lone, socialite ab.) 64. Name utcome DOWN . Sloan 1. Witticlsm | Indian 2. 8111 . Mra. 3. D abolical Roosevelt 4 g shaped Strength of molding a olution . NIEEARS No (Hoot, Ah engraving late Tea 3 -- - rd dd 1) Jap. outcasts Trans- ression arved Indian pole . English letters . grudge teal , Nut 29. 8pecifle preference 83. 8potona Raying eard Aecrid Quadruped's other = nhammedan Jotentate enserinn _- character ' 4: Tenitda Tenite 48. Total 18 ave in "The Tampest" AR. Watehfol $0. Greed for #1. Rife ban 2 Tre ¥ = Ov nu» Br - 19. { 6. Grandfather 30. Pupil of Baul 31. Plants 8. First pI pd appearance, GeVICH 1. Snapping 34. King's beetle Testdence 8, Solicit 35. Li] ofa ou ridle 2 Showing 3 36. Disintegrate " 87. Century plant 11, Trim 33. Itallan city 14. A litetime 40. Sun flax 18, Lettuce 43. Title. 20, Trench , 45. Royal person 21. Overdress (Hawallan) 22, Malin theme 47, Child's 25. Graph napkin 27. Flying 48. Norse county mammal 49 Onlf gadget Answer elsewhere on this page African Scene We walked for about a quar- ter of a 'mile, All the while I felt Increasingly uneasy and aware of the odd vibration and crackle of electricity charging the shining element of the high noonday air, . . , . We were in a round, hollow depression up to our chins in yellow grass and approaching the centre of the island. All around us were dense copses of black trees sealed with shadow and Invariably wearing a feather of palm in their peaked caps. Suddenly the guide slapped his neck loudly with the flat fo his hand. T myself "felt the unmis- takable 'stab of a tsetse fly on my own neck and thought, if there's flies here, buffalo' can't be far away. At that precise moment the copses all around us burst apart and buffalo, who had been with- in, sleeping, came hurtling through their crackling . sides with .arched necks, thundering hooves and flying tails, all with the ease and speed of massed acrobats breaking hoops of papér to tumble: into the arena for the finale of some great circus. The guide dropped his spear, instantly fell flat on his storn- ach and wriggled away into the grass, So did the paddlers, Com- enough to call out to me hoarse- ly,' "Master, throw your - gun away. 'Let's' crawl on' our hands and' knees 'and pretend to be animals nibbling the grass. It's our only chance." However, I stood! 'my ground MA HAWAIIAN LINCOLN -- Lei- draped statue of rail splitter Abraham Lincoln is in the town of Ewa, Hawaii, because, in some strange way, row that my uneasiness was ex- plained I was not afraid. Per- haps I knew, too, it. would be useless to run. But whatever the reason I remember only @ kind of .exaltation at witnéssing so truly wild and privileged a sight. Automatically I slammed a cartridge into the breech of my gun and held it ready on my arm while the copses all around me. went 'on exploding and the ground began to shake and tremble under my feet. For on® minute it looked as if some buffalo, coming up from behind me, were going to run ute they divided and passed not ten yards on either side of me. From all points and at every moment their number was added to until the yellow grass and the glade far beyond ran black with buffalo, as if 'a bottle of India ink had been spilt over it. They took the channel ahead in a solid black lump, like 'a ship being launched, throwing up a mighty splash of white water over the reeds before they van- ished round a curve of the main wood. . I thought with strange regret, they have gone, and stood turn. "Ing over in my exalted senses the tumultuous impression of their black hooves slinging clay at the blue; bowed Mithraic heads and purple horns cleaving the grass and reeds and éprays of thorn, like the prows of dark ships of the Odyssey on the sea of a long Homeric summer; deep eyes so .intent with .the inner vislon driving them that they went by me unseeingly.. -- Fram "The Lost World of the Kala- hari," by Laurens Van Der Post. A birds feet are so construct ed that 'the foot is forcibly clogs ed when the l¢g'is bent. Hence, birds maintain a steady grip on limbs or perches even when asleep. A ACL CAE | Buttate-tn-The-- -- fort stood his ground only long: me down. But 'at the last min- . AN { i CA Fk {LA STRAIGHT AND NARROW + Fra rk bE CO SrA A MERE RR CoA as Fda * ncoise Groulx keeps everything ined up as she plows a furrow at Dundas, Ont. At 14, Fran- colse was the youngest contestant in the International Plowing Match. The following article by the Farm Editor . of the Christian Sclence Monitor fs of especial interest" to Canadian farmers, and so I pass it along to you. * ° Being a good neighbor is not always easy -- especially when the man 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 neighbdrs will doubtless find amicable ways of solving their Individual prob- lems in ways to avold stepping on each other's toes. The ques- tion is: How? - Two important commodities are involved: wheat and' pork. Canada, like other wheat pro- ducing nations burdened with surpluses of their own, 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 have depres. sed hteir own prices by produc- ing too many hogs. LJ . LJ The situations in wheat and pork are not exactly parallel, but they are similar enough that Americans now face a little taste of what it's like to have another nation handling its agricultural surplus in a way that threatens to upset American markets. Canada built up its pork sur- plus in approximately the same way the United States acquired its tremendous stockpile of wheat: through government price supports which stimulated over- production by 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. Ld * Ld Under the new sysiem, 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 program will aid the small farmer and hold production down; but some be- FARM FRONT lieve that 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 the government as he can? [J LJ [J Both Canadian and American farmers are concerned about what will now happen to the American market for Canadian pork. >Cangda 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- fean farmers now is the Amerl- can 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 take ef- fective action to prevent dump. ing of Canadian pork onto the United States market," by impos- ing duties. LJ * LJ "United States producers can compete on straight economic basis with anyone, but we can- not allow our livestock prices to be wrecked by subsidized com- petition arising out of deficiency payment schemes instituted by another government," said the telegram. While the pork problem Is thus threatening an internation. al crisis of a sort, it Is not so far Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking "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. [J] L] LJ Within the last two weeks, the Canadian-American Committee, sponsored by the (American) National Planning Association, and the Private Planning Asso. ciation of Canada, consisting of about 60 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- vices which effectively under- mine the operation of market forces." ° LJ LJ 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 coun- tries 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 govern- 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 officlally-- 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 Torontonlan recently saw his wife off safely in a plane at Malton Airport on a trip to New York. When he had at last fought his way back home through the traffi¢, he found a wire reading: 'Arrived safely. Love, Mary'. LESSON By Rev. R. B. Warren. B.A. B.D. 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 testl- mony to it before a mob in Jeru- salem (Acts 23) and again be- fore King Agrippa (Acts 26). Saul, later known as Paul, be- _ came the chiet apostle, In fact, most of the remainder of the Book of Acts is an account of his ministry to Jews and Gene tiles in Asia, Macedonia, Greece and Italy. He 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 am Jesus whom thou perse- cutest." Saul trembled and was astonished. He surrendered to the One whom he had been per- secuting, saying, "Lord, what wilt 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 and obedient disciple of the Ong 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- slon 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 W GUARDING THE G UARDS -- Steel bar td + riers 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. gi has Heated 20 CLIFF DWELLERS -- Residents of five San Francisco, Calif,, apartment houses were evacuated after a landslide Into the site of a 16-story building. 00} al ale a Ae ry = «