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a LAs BUA LSS A short while ago I went out Ca on a limb suggesting that the Federation of Agriculture, Wo- men's Institutes and Farm For- ums look into the proposed Na- . tional Health Insurance, pecially since Labour. is, now pag agitating for action along those : lines. I expected I 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 1 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 1 \ "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. e§- ' also busy, and in this country at least, were responsible for the establishment of a County Health Unit. But that is a_far from a 'National Health i "Plan, The point 1 wanted te | make clear -- but in that 'l ap- | "parently failed--was that NOW | .is the psychological moment tor farm groups to get busy loogk- 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- The Women's Institutes were 1 | cry plies to a Health Plan just as much as tc a person. Not éveryone can 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 known. Maybe when details are com- plete for health plans for hu- mans we might star thinking *about a health plan for live- stock! A grade cow isn't worth gets sick a farmer can pay out half her value in 'vet' bills and medicine. ' FOR GLACIER-FROZEN DINOSAUR STEAK--You need a "cold- house" -- not a hothouse--to grow mushrooms like these. They're an item of winter's harvest on Chicago's lakefront. Freezing | ) i spray produces the effect as it does the cupcake-like formations 1 on pilings in background. . -------------------------- PR pa-------------- much these" days so that if she | ' pect to grow enough of this' . to save about $10,000,000 in. im- | Sr ----a aT, I $5 wi SUMMER "SNOWSTORM" -- It's summer "down under," and these men are walking through a blizzard of locusts near Mel- bourne as winged hordes plague Australian farmlands. In: the meaiciiad. i. u:.a 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- . wheat for the current crop year ports of hard wheat - from Canada, That's fine for Great Britain -- 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 vil hot ad Rall er animals have some sort of thinking apparatus. What they do can't all be the result of in- stinct. Take Rusty 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. I 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 pgrtly 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 -- cither 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. TO BRITISH PORTS: First Class:from $192 Tourist Class from $145 WINTER and SPRING SAILINGS At Thrift-Season Rates ROUND TRIP FOR AS LITTLE AS UROPE TO FRENCH PORTS: First Class from $199.50 Tourist Class from $150 $290 | See your local agent-- No one can serve you better | CUNARD LINE © VESSEL From NEW YORK From HALIFAX : 10 .. : -- Cherbourg, Southampton , FEB. 1 reel acai wea. FEB. 2 So. £28. A a Hep Soha eton *. SCYTHIA Fri. FEB, 3 un. e Soth, Livarmsol . Fri FEB. 10, Sat, FEB. 11 obh, Liverpool FRANCONIA Thurs. FEB. 16 Sor. FEB. 18 Haws, Southampton QUEEN EUZABETH Fri. Fes. 17 . y dos Fd "o amp . 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The bandage sticks to the skin, drying in about 30 seconds, but it won't stick to the raw wound itself, van Carlos prays at a mon- tery near Barcelona, Spain, after his return from exile in . whitewash Coincidence is usually frown- ed upon in fiction, but in real + life, history often repeats itself. What has scemed like a fluke oceurs again and again. When Wallasey youth Frank' Cookson fell into the River Mersey, he probably resolved that it wouldn't happen again. - But this August, fifteen, was hauled out for the third time. Holidaymakers on the 'beach at Egremont formed a chain to rescue him. i It was a rags alarming ex- perience for P.CI Harry Ward, of Eastbourne, when he was "lowered over Beachy Head to recover a woman's body. Then he had to do it a second time, .within a fortnight of his first "ordeal. _ Some pedple are dogged by 'the most unlikely disasters. Martha Matikia, a Bulgarian and was three times: bereaved. On each occasion her husband [. was killed by lightning. But luck was decidedly with + Figuroa Teofilo, a Mexican, who was involved in two 'plane crash- es in one day. Each time he escaped with only minor in- juries. In 1928 Max Grosskreutz, a speedway rider, fell from his machine and broke his wrist. Rumour magnified the disaster and Australian newspapers re- ported his death. Three years later, still alive and kicking, he read a second Australia, fans mistakenly pre- sumed his death and sent wreaths for his funeral. * When famous people fall ill their deaths are often falsely reported. It occurred twice in the case of Vesta Tilley, the music-hall star. It has happened twice to Bing Crosby, too. The oldest true story of this kind concerns John Kovecs, a Montenegrin, Twice he was thought to be dead and his body taken to the mortuary, but each time he had merely gone into -a trance. After the first occurrence, he wisely warned his wife not to bury him in a hurry. So, when at the age of sixty-nine he ap+ peared to be lifeless, she de- layed his funeral for a week. At the end of this time, he re- vived and asked for a drink. Frank, now obituary. Amazingly, it hap- pened yet.a third time. When he left the Argentine for 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 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...100." Followed a furious shuffling of papers, frowns from the in- terrogatar, frustrated scarching, 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. The wheels of officialdom began 16, grind slowly, and dt long last James Allan was released and returned to England with the first Allied yMission to "Moscow, under the leadership of Lord Beaverbrook and Mr. Averell Harriman, in late 1941. ; x His award of the Distinguish- ed Conduct Medal was made without citation. But the reader, after learning of his Racin ing: experiences, can drrive at bu one conclusion -- that it was awarded for the. courage he showed while in Russian hands. ¥ Airis ns "CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING BY CHICKS - EGG producers, don't waste feed on heavy dual purpose breeds that eat more and lay less than any of our six . special egg breeds or our three speclal dual MN ose breeds. Our new series , 401, and 402 and our Shaver Strain Cross White Leghorn, Warren Strain Cross Rhode «Island Red and Shaver White. 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