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| | 1 1 TRA] aga go ML a } | ---- '- 4 ad FRR 4 4 3 ANS ¥- Sd JUNE ' EDEL a "s Hi { FE Lig 6 BS > ' v tp rel) Fath ip XR ws BF RR a ¥ : + No AN ESSE EST ARES Shes FEE AT ae he ee 1 . a, on troop British Leader Likes Rough Sailing ! By TOM A. CULLEN NEA Staff Correspondent London -- (NEA) -- Richard Austen Butler, Britain's new" deputy Prime Minister, is the ian on whom, all the'weight of decision rests in the critical weeks ahead. z He once said he liked nothing better than to stand on. the brdige of a ship in 'a storm. He has his wish, He's on the bridge, and the storm over Suez and deteriorating Anglo ~ American relations is of gale force. Sir Anthony Eden, of course, remains Prime Minister even while in sick bay on the island of Jamaica, He continues to sign Mhportant papers, and to communicate daily with Butler and Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, : But Butler, on the vital spot, 'will be the one who ultimately decides when and under what conditions British troops, may pull out of Suez. He will say, too, what arrangements for clearing the blocked Suez Canal Britain will accept. And Butler likewise is the man who must preside over efforts to rebuild the crumbling Anglo-American alliance, Latest reports indicate that at some , diplomatic levels almost no con- " tact exists between British and U.S. representatives. A .third of Britain's dominant Conservative Party openly assailed America's attitude towards British Middle Eastern moves, Saddled suddenly with these burdens, 'Butler behaves as if he hadn't a care in-thewworld. In a recent House of Commons appearance he was full - of bounce, reminding onlookers that at 53 he is Eden's junior by six years and a comparative youngster -alongside 62-year-old Harold MacMillan, Chancellor of the Exchequer, , In Commons, Butler's Cabin- et colleagues can be seen slumped on the front bench, their faces ashen from slack of sleep. By contrast Butler ex- udes good health, his face pink and glowing as if he had just stepped from a shaving lotion advertisement, The. Manchester Guardian called his performance "breath- taking" in the Commons debate withdrawals - from Suez, It added: -"It well illus- trates the nerve with which the man met a situation full of dan- a Ko TEMPLE TOP -- A woman's hat Is her temple. according to French milliner' Svend. Model- ed in Paris. this topper is fash- loned along the lines of an Indochinese temple. Hat and matching coat, designed by Jacques Heim, are done in ger to his government, not to mention its vital jmportance to the country." Butler's brains are generally credited with turning the Con- ° servative defeat of 1945 into the electoral .victories of 1951 and" 1955," After the 1945 verdict, he * took command of the party's policy committee, completely revamping - Conservative proe grams to win acceptability from a majority of the voters, Said a Tory M.P. recently: "If Butler had not existed af- ter the war, we would have had to invent him br stay out of office for the next 20 years." In his five-year tour of duty as chancellor of the exchequer Butler was an outstanding hit, He learned how to sugar-coat the bitter pills in the national budget so that even the Labor " opposition had to swallow them, "He was so polite, smart and charming," recalls a Labor M.P., "that it was hard as hell to hit him," Yet, despite his strong influ- ence on party programs and the course of government, Butler never has seemed 'fully at home in Conservative ranks, As an avowed intellectual he has al- ways been faintly usupect. Some question whether he has the forthrightness they prize higher thas brains. "Butler is an enigma wrap- ped in a mystery," contends one Conservative, using the words Sir Winston Churchill once ap- plied to Soviet foreign policy. When Sir Anthony faced a- Tory xevolt last year, all But- ler could bring himself to say in the Prime Minister's defense " was: "Eden is the.best Prime Minister we have." This was rated a classic example of damning with faint praise. Pro-Eden forces have round- ly assailed him for his moderate stand on the = Suez crisis. Churchill's son, Randolph, des- cribed --Butler recently --as a "man of many indiscretions." Lord Beaverbrook's Sunday Ex- press demanded at one point that he "proclaim publicly his absolute loyalty to his leader." When Butler at length did -t --throw his support behind Eden, the general view was that it had earned him about as much political credit among true-blue Tories as Indian Prime Minister Nehru's belated condemnation of Russia's assault on Hungary" gained for him in Western capitals. , Angus Maude, one of the so- called "Suez rebels" among the Conservatives, left no doubt he had Butler in mind when he said not long ago: "The Con- servative Party will be rent by a massive revolt . , . if the gov- ernment withdraws our troops from Egypt on anything-like the -- terms agreed between Nasser and Mr. Hammarskjold." ~ Some of Butler's differences with his party arise from the fact, too, that he is the gifted amateur in a company of pro- fessionals, even though he has sat in Commons for 27 years and held government jobs for 17. ' His inherited wealth has en- abled him to take a detached view denied others who depend on politics for a livelihood. Some think he looks on politics from the dilettante viewpoint he brings to his fine collection of paintings. : Once, pointing to the budget, he said: "If it weren't for this | I should be frightfully bored." There seems little prospect he will be bored with the life he must lead in the crucial days just ahead of him. : A small porcupine taking a stroll in the California desert one night walked smack into a cactus bush and exclaimed, "Is that you, ma?" lamb's wool. --Bennett Cerf CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 4 Artificial language 6. Mase of {ce 6. German city . Denfes 8. Poems 9. Faint . Secretary Measures of length 7 Exchanges Redacts Moving parts Woman Unn Class Human race Ravine Negative Await adjustment Attempt Is sorry Tribunal Pouch Graces Acadian Scent Fold over Glacial snowfleld Outfit Demon Part of the mouth writ of exécution . Fame . Growing out . Wading birds . Golf mounds . Upright DOWN Walked . Old hags , Badgerlike animals ~~ reel DIDO DD DO wt rh rt ek tt NPE WEOAREONT ARORA mae E ial Nm a Attn: Edad Answre ; elsewhere on this page, 10. Part of a 24. Convincing flower 35. Held a session 13. Slope ) 37. Devoid of 16. Terminations interest 19. And not 38. Grape 22. Toll conserves 24. Kind of nut 30. Latest 26, Sweet potato 42. Scorch 28. Moceusin 45 Location ells 30. s 46. Boruan 32 Drill emperor 33. Ancient 49. Go (SHeot.) Roman 61 Shallow official vesses Telephoning On A Party-Line In our second year on the farm, there came to our pre- mises the gabby jingle of a party-line telephoftel "Where, during the wet weather of that first winter, I'd-had to bog, afoot; over the last mile of gumbo road to see how things were going at the farm, .-I-could now receive news .. . For a long time we maintained a telephone fund: a little box in which persons making long-dis- {ance calls were to drop the amount of the charge. Now and ggain I'd inquire as to its con- tents. But as the novelty of the phone wore off, so, alas, did my interest in the telephone box. I can only guess that eventually it simply dissolved. In any case, we are no longer, telphonically speaking, the outpost. The line now reaches to "the store," a mile and a half farther inland . . That the store has now assumed the duty of giving telephone ser- vice to the public adds to the drama of its personality, and also to the continuity of the Arn- wine's nocturnal repose. . Yet had our telephone been useful in no other way, it would have been worth the money as the means of developing our friendship with "Miss Nina," a lady who lives on the line that connects my phone in town and the one in the country. Miss Nina, whom we have come to lové dearly, is one of those reople who, when the phone rings, can never be wholly cer- tain about the difference between a "long" and a "short," That being the case she, to use her own words," "just butts in to make sare." Vo" 'She is the wife of Bill Reed, who, with his brother Clyde and their father Homer, make up one of the most effective trios of far- mers in Texas .". . It was Homer, acting in the highest tradition of country. manners, who told me when we first moved across the road from him, "We're glad you're out here, Whenever you -ncted anything on my place, mules, plows, a tractor or two, just come get theny." His daughter-in-law, Miss Nina, is small in stature but in spirit the size of a horse. And nothing is mere polite, if politeness con- sists. of sacrificing one's own- pleasure for the convenience of others, than Miss Nina when she says, "Excuse me for buttin' in, I'll hang up." - For hanging up is the last thing che want to do--and what makes it fun is that neither do we want her to. . _ In .the first place, Miss Nina has got something to tell. She's on the spot, can see from her hilltop residence whether the "creeks or the cows happen to be out, whether the roads are pass- able, whether or not it's advis- able to put chains on the car be- fore leaving town. You see, a party line is so much more local than even our local paper, which of course that party line constantly, from a news-dis- seminating standpoint, scoops -- From "Tale of a Foolish Farmer," by George Sessions Perry. CHRISTMAS COMPLAINT Although Conductor Arturo Toscanini and the late Giacomo Puccini, composer of Madame Butterfly, were close friends; "their friendship alternated be- tween periods of affection and quarreling. } It was Puccini's custom to give Christmas gifts of a kind of cof- fee cake called Panettone to his friends, sending a list of names to his baker with instructions to forward the cakes. However, one Yuletide he simply told his baker to use the list from the previous year, forgetting a quarrel with Toscanini. . Reminded later that Toscanini was listed, he tried to change the order, but the panettone had al- ready been sent. Puccini, "enraged, wired = Ar- turo: PANETTONE SENT BY MISTAKE. PUCCINI. The prompt reply, PANET- TONE EATEN BY MISTAKE. I'OSCANINI : Lessons In Logic A pretty young lady presented a check at a bank for cashing. The teller examined it, then ask- ed, "Can you identify yourself?" Looking puzzled, the girl dip- ped into her handbag and pulled out a small mirror. She glanced in it for a mo- ment, and then smiled, "Yes, it's me ail right," --Tit-Bits * L L] The teacher was trying to make + Elsie understand subtraction by explaining: "You have ten fin- gers. Now supposing there were three missing. What would 'you. have then?" Elsie replied promptly: "No - music lessons." ~The International Teamster ~wtives of Federal and Provincial 0 wR CHECKING ON THE RIND--Girl cle Bank help Larry Bomer count the rks in the Fort Worth National $1,000 he recently got when he cashed a check written on a watermelon. Bomer hitch-hiked from Los Angeles with the melon as a stunt for a TV show. THEFARM FRONT The annual Agricultural Con- ference was held in Ottaw . -De- camber 3-5, 1956. Representa- Governments and delegates from farmers' organizations re- viewed the agricultural situ- ation and discussed the outlook for 1957, Some of the high- lights of the outlook ag pre- sented below may be an aid to farmers in planning their operations for 1957. Agricultural Trade Situation The current high level of eco- nomic activity in the industrial- ized countries' of the world seems likely to continue well into 1957. Demand is expected to remain strong throughout most countries of the world, which will keep production and investment at a high lével. This should have a supporting ine fluence on the demand for agrie + cultural products. It appears that the decline in agricultural prices of the past few years may _ have levelled out in the latter months of 1956, and it seems unlikely that there will be any further decline in the general level of farm prices in 1957. Economic developments in the past year are encouraging to the outlook for trade in agricul- tural products. There has been . a general improvement in the international balance of pay- ments situation and a number of countries have increased their gold and dollar holdings. Another encouraging factor has been the introduction in various countries of more flexible fiscal and monetary policies. Western ~ Europe has "introduced some measures helpful to trade with the dollar arca. Under the Gen- eral Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Canada obtained conces- sions in the United States tariff on several agricultural prod- ucts, In the Commonwealth countries, a number of changes have taken place in import re- strictions ~~ 'providing Canada with more favourable trading conditions, particularly in the British West Indies. Economic Outlook For Canada, 1957 For the Canadian economy, 1956 was another year of sub- stanial growth. The rise in the physical national product was "close to the record of increase of nine per cent achieved in 1955. The creation of new capi- tal facilties proceeded on a broader scale than ever before and also increased more rapid- ly than in any previous post= war year. The general attitude of business is one of sustained confidence for 1957. Generally buoyant activity, moré emplyoment, higher wages, large dividend disburse- ments, and better returns to farmers™ brought a steady in- crease in personal income lev= els. Continuing strength is exe pected for 1957 in the financial position of the Canadian farmer, Economie conditions in Cane ada and the resst of the world TPIT IEA at 03 in 1957 should be fovourable to Canadian agriculture. Farm cash income will probably be maintained at the 1956 level; this will depend not so much on the size of the crop as on exports and the availability of ~ elevator space for grain del- iveries approximating those of 1956 from the large stocks pres- ently stored on farms. Cash #nhcome from the sale of livestock is expected to re- main at the 1956 level, The output of eggs may be greater but prices are likely to be low- er. Cash income from dairy products is expected to increase. Total farm operating expenses and depreciation charges may not _ differ very significantly from the 1956 estimatess, Farm Labour Labour requirements in agri- culture will continue to exceed the available supply. Labour shortages will continue the year round in dairying and stock farming while in other parts _ of agriculture additional work=-" ers will be needed only during the spring -and late summer months. The necessity for or- ganized labour movements within and between provinces will be greater than ever. Grains and Feeds Generally, good crops were harvested throughout Canada in 1956, although excessive rain and early frosts lowered the quality in many arecas.In West- ern Canada the almost unbrok- en series of bumper yields again has resulted in a shortage of space in country and terminal elevators. Supplies of grain for livestock feeding are consider= ably larger than expected re- quirements, 'but roughages, al- though adequate for a normal feeding season, are somewhat _ the 1056-57 crop. year, which _ earlier, the quality of the pro- below the quality ef a year - earlier, World production of wheat in preliminary estimates place at 7.5 billion bushels, is a record. Stocks available for export and carryover held by the four ma- jor wheat exporters in the fall of 1056, estimated at 2.3 "bile lion bushels, were only slightly . higher than a year earlier, Higher levels of economic ac- tivity throughout the world, smaller crops in Europe, and continuing "efforts of _govern- ments in some countries, to im- prove nutritional standards should have a sustaining effect on export movements, Total supplies of Canadian wheat for 1956-57 are estimated at 1,075 million bushels, con- sisting of the July 31, 1956 carryover of 537 million and the new crop of 538 million. Ale though the average protein con- tent of the new crop {s some- what lower than a year earlier, - the quality of the protein is im- proved. Total supplies of Canadian wheat for 1956-57 are estimated at 1,075 million bushels, con- sisting of the July 31, 1956 carryover of 537 million and the new crop of 538 million. Al- though the average protein content of the new crop is somewhat lower than a year tein is improved. : Total supplies of Canadian feed grains in 1955-56 are up about 17 per cent over last year's level of about 39 per cent above the ten-year aver- age. The increase in this year's supplies results mainly from a larger carryover and substans tially greater outurns of oats and barley. The mixed grains crop is the larggst on record and the corn crop, although be- low last year's greatly exceeds the ten-year average, Livestock numbers are somewhat below a year earlier and feed re- quirements may be reduced slightly. The export market is expected to absorb more oats and barley. during 1956-57 than last year. However, in view of the substantially greater do- mestic supplies, and despite the anticipated increase in exports coupled with continued heavy domestic requirements, it is probable that carryover stocks of oats and barley at July 31, 1957 will exceed the July 31, 1956 level by a fair margin. Given an average barn-feed- Ing season, generally adequate supplies of fodder--and the ma- jor feed supplements are indi- cated for the current crop year. Production of tame hay was slightly below a year earlier, and the quality is somewhat be- low average. Pastures continued to provide feed for an extend- ed period in Eastern Canada which tends to stretch out the available winter feed supplies. In Western Canada, although supplies are generally adequete, the margin of reserves in rela- tion to cattle numbers is con- sidered to be narrow. Supplies of millfeeds and high protein supplements of both vegetable and animal origin will likely be adequate for requirements. (To be continued next week) Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking (L]S] [NOH SIZ] L S|3INV 3 O31 |v|N[2 alLnld[3[2B8L[119]3] 3 MY CEINVLIV[SIl9 12 an 3INElla Vv lalola gf | NIN|L|v S|AW|(O| D(A] 8] CE "Hib S|LINI(JIBMAIVISIS 2] a|N| 3d ON AC NIV ~j3[Of[3|No a viw s[alo[L|o/z | BH Slavia S ala 1[2]ols By Rev. R. Barclay Warren B.A. B.D, Wise Men Seek Jesus Matthew 2:1-12 Memory Selection: They +, « » fell down, and worshipped himi and when they had opened thefe 'treasures, they presented unt® hm gifts; gold frankincense and myrrh." Matthew 2:11. The lesson topic states a grea$ truth. 'Wise Men Seek Jesus', I is historic. The lesson tells the story of these wise men of the East coming to Jerusalem and asking. "Where is he that 1g born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, "gnd are come to worship him. King Herod was troubled. He gathered the chief priests and scribes. They gave the answep from the prophesy of -Micaht "Thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, are not the least among the princes of Juda; for out of * thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel." The wise men went happily on thele way, guided by the star. They arrived at the house where Mary and Jesus were. More than forty days had passed since Jesus war born. They worshipped the babe and then presented thele gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. Herod had told them to report to him after they found the babe, under the pretense that he would come and worship Him, too. His real purpose was to slay the child. God warned the wise men in a dream so they returned to their own country anothee way. The lesson topic is not only historic. It is factual today. Wise men still seek Jesus. The unwise ignore Him and pass Him by, "Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depar$ from evil is understanding." Job 28:28. Jesus Christ is described as he "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowles edge." Colossians 2:3. It was when the prodigal 'came to hime self' that he resolved, "I will arise and go to my father, and _ will say unto him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven, and be= fore thee'." Luke 15:17, 18, Some think it is smart to sin. But that kind of smartness gets folk into a lot of trouble in this world and the world to come. It is wise to seek the Lord. He will give us the true wisdom. WISE MEN SEEK JESUS. _~ONE-DAY BIGNESS I am not on speaking terms with the butcher. I am too small to buy a quart of ice cream. I am not large enough to buy a ticket to the movies. I am hardly fit for a tip. But believe me, when I go te church on Sunday, IT am con= sidered really something, I am a quarter. SALLY'S SALUES "Say, Big Boy, you whistle like a veteran truckdriver!" = 4% ; LJ i oh RPL VEE ad ¥ ai? THEY'VE HAD IT -- British police are escorting two American turncoats from the Sino-Hongkong border to turn them over to an American Red Cross representafive in Hong Kong. Alie Pate, left, center, and Aaron Wilson, were among 21 American prisoners of war who refused repatriation at the end of the Korean War. China "at their own request", | cb Peiping Radio said Pate and Wilson were leaving re 9 4 Z} 33. A ad ---