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"wt arvest Fo A Iden 3 id 21 Laid Asin Vay Down South This was the day it happened over mast of south Georgia -- ust ass every year about eh a rEbog © "This {was the day', that tar. _mers came to town 19 exchange- their bright, golden" ripe to- bacco leaf for: the debt-payiny, shoe-buying money. This was the day that the markets open- ed. | : : : The flat, squatty squares of tobacco stood guard like silent soldiers. in the tin-roofed ware- houses. : Gnats and: sweat clamored for position on: those 'who' came to work in these markets. No one bothered to swat the gnats and seldom did they wipe the pers- iration that rolled freely. rt Swiftly the feet trudged along 'i.'the rows and rows of tobacco. ~ (Higher and higher is the pitch . Lofithe auctioneer, "Fifty-eight, "fifty-eight, nine, oh nine." & Higher and higher go-the tem- peratures. No one will deny that the heat inside is almost beyond belief. 'At the end of the row, a cool drink of water scooped from: a! bucket with an "old- - fashioned dipper. The pause is slight for the cry of the auctioneer must be "heard over 100. baskets -o! to- bacco every 15 minutes. So back down-the line they go. "Fifty- eight, nine . All the buyers are here - . , representatives of major tobac- <0 companies, independents, speculators and 'the house: buy- ers, Their éyes'seldom leave the piles of 'lemon-colored leaf, writes. Harold Joiner in the Atlanta: ournal. : Years of experience tell them this is. the: right pile. A swift touch and then a nod, a lifted . finger or. maybe just a twitch. That's their bid, caught by the . auctioneer and shouted to the roof-top. Nearby the fatmer, the real hero of this 'whole-act; stands' listening. With fingers crossed, Lil inde Vi ih £401 5 eo Fi Yt eh A CEN NR, he waits the final bid and eager- ly heads Yor the office to see what his total will be. Next stop for many will be the bank, Paying off that fer- tilizer bill and hoping for a lit- tle' leftover; "I promised Mary, that's my wife, a new dress out of' what's left," the sun-tanned, wiry farmer said as he stuffed' the check in his pocket. © To get out of this sweltering, crowded warehouse he passes upwards of a dozen barefoot lads armed with baskets of pea- nuts, boiled or parched for your choice. N A daily 'intake of $5,000,000 can be a big influencer in any field. It's a short period, but a golden one for the farmer, The merchant enjoys it, tou. His sales pitch is designed for the money-laden farmer. Usu- ally his plea is heard. This is the annual party, Its staged all over "south Georgia, in 23 market towns. And every- one is invited, They Don't Like These Modern Ways Far from" the bustle and night life of the big cities, The Nether- lands is still dotted with some of the world's dourest ° Calvinist communities. Among' its 'grim- _mest is the former isiet of Urk (pop. 5,500), a fishing village on the Zuider Zee. On Sundays, Ur- from the. roosters, turn their . paintings .to the: wall, read only one book ((the Bible), take only 'one processional walk (to church), Doing anything else is sinful. For years life in Urk was pretty: routine, and the town con- stable's dally report invariably read: "Nothing has happened." That was before Urk ceased to be an island. Ten years ago a road was built on a dike that connected Urk to the mainland, and the 20th cen- tury begah catching up with Ur- kers, especially the younger ones. Traditions began to change, especially the : pleasant one of "public cuddling," young lovers squeezed. each other on Friday and Saturday nights in Urk's 400- yard - long main street, while around them a circle of shouting and laughing boys and girls teas- ed the lovers ("Afterward," said one - traditionalist, "the brides were properly led to-the altar"). With the advent of short skirts, high heels and Dutch Teddy boys from the mainland, public cud- dling hecame more basic, On one wild night last winter, 500 youngsters, many of them drunk, rioted on the main street. Pubs therafter were ordered closed at This ended neither the boozing nor the love-making on the dike. Recently Urk's irked elders cracked down. A new Urk law made it a crime to "trudge, slouch, lounge, saunter, flock to- gether" or "to sit or lie® after dark along public roads. Maxi- mum penalty: a fine of 300 guil- ders ($79) or two months in jail. kers still separate their hens" in which |; hugged and 10 o'clock on Saturday nights. | Rural Scenes In Southeast Asia ------ Indochina is so far away from New York that it costs just about as much to fly there by circling the earth one way as it does the other, At the crossroads between - Indian and Chinese cultures; the. Kingdom of Laos is a' constitu- tional monarchy within. the French Union, one of the three independent states which to- gether used to make up French Indochina -- four now, including the Vietminh's Communist state in North Vietnam. In late 1054, when I left New York, a fair number of Americans had heard of Vietnam; that spring America, with most of the rest of the world, had followed daily the long and desperate French de- fense of its northern Vietnam- ese stronghold at Dienbienphu until it'finally fell on the sev- enth of May under the pounding of Vietminh and Chinese artil- lery © from the surrounding heights. But few non-Laotians had yet heard of Laos, a few miles from Dienbienphu, and twice during the two preceding years invaded by the Vietminh, Most people's reaction to the name of Laos was that of my mother: when I announced dra- matically that I was going to Laos; she sald, *That's 'very nice, dear, Where is it?" Well, Laos is an elongated:lghd of less than a hundred thoitsand square miles bounded by Thai- land on the west. and touched by Burma on the northwest, by China to the north, by Vietnam to the east and southeast, and by Cambodia on 'the southwest, The a3 gi MELON-CHOLY -- Fork in hand, dod Padk 4 Fe SOME COMFORT -- Dominio the kitten was trying to elp her friend Bambino the fawn forget her misfortune but apparently the effort was too much. Domino sleeps while Bombino main- tains a restless watch. The deer lost part of her left fore- leg In farm machinery and was taken to an animal sanctuary in Shaftesbury, Dorset, England. THE FARM FRONT This article about wheat- threshing in the days not-so- long ago started happy mem- ories in the mind of one reader -- who passes it along to you, wishing you the same, It was written by Charley Stookey and and appeared: in The Christian Science Monitor. Wheat-threshing season was a glorious time of year for the boy on a farm 40-odd years ago. It meant trips to farms three and four miles away--trips not made at any other time of the year, It meant helping play host to a score or more of men, some of them neighbors, others '"help" who followed the harvest. For the boy with a pony or riding horse it meant extra money for carrying water to the workers in the fields. In our | neighborhood I was the fortu=-- nate fellow with a pony, and for several years carried water for "many farmers in the area. In those days wheat was the major crop in our county in southern Illinois. In fact, St. Clair County was the leading wheat-producing county in the state. LJ LJ LJ Wheat was harvested with a "supplied new potatoes, Our dining room was large, and the solid - oak table with which my folks started house- keeping in 1884 could be ex- tended to seat 14 persons, This meant a second table, as the average crew numbered 25 men. Usually the second table pre- sented no problem, as the "pitch- ers," the men in the fields who loaded the wagons with sheaves of grain were later getting In for dinner than the men who . .drove the wagons. The drivers were neighbors, helping with teams and wagons, while the pitchers were oftert itinerant laborers. = J] * £3. Buying food for threshers was a wholesale operation. For a sin- gle meal a roast 6f beef costing s much gs a dollar wag bought. fa those days a dollar bought A man-sized roast, too. The garden string beans, peas, beets, cabbage, to- matoes, onions, and cucumbers. Usually all of these appeared on the dinner table along with the mcat, homemade pickles; jellies, preserves, cake, and two or three kinds of pie. This was the one time of year we had "baker's" bread. There was not time to bake enough bread to feed 25 men four or five times a day. From a bakery we bought a dozen or more loaves at a time of Vienna bread. Mama used to tell me to get the bread with "crust all around." It was hand-sliced diagonally. We fed the men four or fiye times a day. In our community, lunch at 10 am, and 4 pm. was a "must." However, the crew did not come to the house for this repast. It was taken to a spot preferably in the shade of a tree near the threshing ma- chine, and served on a checkered tablecloth spread on the ground. Lunch consisted of big platters of cold cuts of meat, sausage, and cheese with pickles, bread, cake or cookies, and pie. When I carried water on neighboring farms it was lunch- time that intrigued me. It was a German community and certain types of German cheese and sausages which I relished -- but were never served at our place-- were always to be had at the neighbor's, LN * LJ . A fifth meal would be break-" fast for the man who came early to fire the engine and have steam up by the time it was dry enough to thresh, and any of the itinerants who slept in the hay- loft. In the usual threshing ring of those days, getting help was a matter of trading and sharing. It required at least eight teams with bundle wagons to haul the sheaves from the field to the ma- chine, .and two teams with box wagons to haul the grain from the machine. When we were helping elsewhere we furnished one team and wagon. This was handled by my father or a hired man until. I was. big enough Then I took Dad's place. The pitchers were hired for the season by the operator and paid by the farmer on the basis of number of bushels threshed. It the yleld was good, and threshing was uninterrupted by rain or breakdown, a pitcher could earn as much as five dol- lars a day. That was an excel- lent day's wage. » * J Help in the kitchen was a community affair too, as was lending of dishes and silverware to set a table for 25 men. The A crew Ju our kitchen ¢onsisted of my mother, two aunts, a hired girl, and a neigh. _ bor whom my mother helped in return. Frequently Mama fretted about how long they had worked to fix a big meal to have it disappear in a matter of minutes in a most unappreciated manner. Dad was always glad to see the end of the threshing season, as it accounted for about four weeks of the year's hardest work. However, it did have com- pensations, occasionally in the NDAY SCHOOH LESSON By Rev R. Barclay Warten = B.A, B.D. A NEW SPIRIT RENEWS PEOPLE Joel 1:15-20; 2:12-13, 21-23, 28-29, Memory Selection: Fear not, O land, be glad and rejoice: for the Lord will do great things. Joel 2:21, The people of Israel were im trouble. A great plague of lo- custs had passed over the land. There was a great drought caus. ing distress to the animals as well as to the people. The pro- phet, Joel, called the people A. fasting and prayer. It was to be a mere ritual but the sym. bol of genuine repentance. "Rend your heart and not your gare ments, and turn unto the LORD your God," was God's message to them. The priests were to lead the people in repentance te God. "Let the priests; the mine isters of the LORD, weep bee tween the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them." Such exhortations te earnest seeking of God are ale ways accompanied by grea$ promises. God promises tha$ they shall have plenty and they shall be satisfied. He says, 'My people shall never be ashamed. The prophet in his vision - the blessings to come to people it they turn to God, Ig carried to a later day. He sees beyond the time of our Lord's ministry on earth to the pourt out of the Spirit on the day o Pentecost. This is the day Ia which we live. But are we re- celving the blessings which are available to us? Has the Spirit come to us, purifying our hearts as He did those of the early dis. ciples? Acts 15:9. Are we endued with power from on high? Acts 1:3. Are we making disciples for Jesus Christ as did these" Spirit-tilled disciples? Alas, we must confess to much weakn in the church. Many are b babes in Christ. There is strife and division. Others have joined the church without experiencing the new birth. They have nevee surrendered their will to Jesus Christ. We don't want to be gloomy but we must confess that thers is a spiritual drought affecting many pesple. We need to tura --t0-God in genuine repentance af the prophet urges in this book Then God will pour out of Hi Spirit upon us and great bless ings and happlness will abound The hornbill, an African bird, walls herself up with mud in side a hollow tree at nesting time. She leaves a small holg through which her mate feeds her and the young. When the v {] reparation Answer elsewhere on this page DRIVE WITH CARE! their horses. Forest, Southern 1llinols University hich bound the grain form of a shiny new Ford, Max- brood is ready to fly, the Love-smitten Urkers hoped to senior Jeannie North expectant- in Whey jroo) the sheaves Lo it well. or Overland made Eis mother bird breaks out of her oo his fhe bos simply 3 ly awaits the harvest at the | made the rounds of the field by the extra money from wheat, self-made prison. -- io Tt a on ihe away. school's unofficial watermelon pulled by a four - horse Min. oi in those Jaya ag the big 2 Hy atch. Vines appeared mysteri- later by a tractor. These sheaves cash crop of the region. Moone) ime a Ant in a EE io bath in (bundles) were set upright in } Some poet has written: ISSUE 34 -- 1959 hy - . a" " 0 nowadays in Ur and ail because | front of the Soden Union hs | "shoes" of 12 to 10 per shock Taghorant" tum Snckacd, © ofthat votien ee spring. Best guess is that seeds | spread to form a roof of Make me a child again just for Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking ~~ From TIME Were dropped omong he Ho straw for the heads of the tonight." VEE VI RTI : ers during a melon feast last di heaves. For my part, I'd settle for the qjv|3 N Surprisingly enough, _ porcu- summer 2 ee usually began late in opportunity to put my feet un- 3a|N[o[ [vl o| 1[1]3]s pines are excellent swimmers, : June with threshing starting der the dinner table during A[T]3[1|v|d]3]a] 1] s|N[O]D and buoyed by their hollow = about July 1. I cannot remem- wheat harvest in an old-fash- SlvidISIl39VIll3/N| IN quills, hey gan Frogs 8 Seilg 'Mekong River, which marks ber a Fourth of July when foned threshing ring. soa 3[1|V[1dBvIalv ge a J | They are solitary animals cace: | most of the twelve-hundred mile Jreshing was net ia Brogress er Aliens oa adel of tat N[ [al] T[a]3 WW Va : ? ower : r ers are made of so ALLIUM SATIVUM -- Mdny a Jy found In one siother's cans: is placid Ean nny ap an ther > -- Just op RO AE ex a bone and are shed Goce ho CEIM VID y J a 2s <ook would shun a kitchen not | pany. In spite of this, they mect tle 1 than the Mississippl. | enough rain to stop the work so year, while horns have only a Dvd ck Id all on somewhat more than platon- e longer than the Mississippl. RUNNER-UP -- Despite a tooth- Lar [SD] 3]3 stocked with good old. allium p Up beyond the 'green gorges of I could celebrate the Fourth. bb bony core surrounded by a dt SHAN 3 sativum. True on Formosa as | lc terms on occasion; from | 8 UEC HE BEEOR province | Seldom was my wish granted, | less victory4ype grin, Bobby | y,ny cheath and are a per- Vi3| Lg L1H0id N well as Canada, this Nationalist | these meetings, litters from ore | 5 Yunan, its headwaters are fed | although one rainy season the | Schwenker, 8, finished only | manent fixture. These are Al1ls|no[n[3] 1]d]s|N[0]2 h hecks th to four young are born. Thor- : T threshing machine remained at | second In a blueberry pie ea)- | never shed except in the case V|N|OH[0[D VIWIVI LIV Chinese farmer checks the neat oughly armed with soft quills by the melting snows of Tibet. 1 Ol wack wehoul i n Pah Wl EVIL Blalalvlg rows of plants in Taichung, IV's at birth, the babies need wa:t And until recently the Lao king- SE aie) wee fest, of the prong-horned antelope. d] usually set between rows of | only long enough for the sua go of {he Hivers middle Teaches The threshing rig 1 recall = rice. Allium sativum? That's to harden them; then they make Roof of i World, and not half | most vividly consisted of a "sep- CT a 'Latin for- garlic, their own way in the world. 20 well publicized. "The 8-4 Laos arator"- pulled. from farm to is soft as in "ah." The adjective Jem ahi Sperdied. by a coal- URN : 7 ; ; red steam traction: engine. REIRL Ey 0 tl Mf Hl i eg ee. There were two of these outfits rat CROSSWORD 10, Yuratan 33. Jea-green : the inhabitants call everything | in our community, both of which - PUZZLE 12 Buatches 3. Entertain" simply Lao. . . . : Hireshed at our place during my gl 15. Russian 34. Furnished a p Anywhsia Jeon) a lp to y "oe ° » ¢ \ | sc crew our million people live in Laos , < ACROSS 3 Wentashore 20. Edgeofa .36. Frenzy ' My father always insisted the ; § River in China 5: noche uy 22 Beatin Hi Teaitan town ' depending on who is making the operator clean his separator 11. Cossack chief 6 Whistle blast "(sian ) 44. Portico estimate, But it is agreed that thoroughly before moving to our 13. A diffraction. 7. frish Co 3 Jumia 46. Philippine they are dreamy, gentle, bucolic, place. This was to remove any 14. Noticeahly 8. Reglater 26. Fr coin 47 Drink non-aggressive people, Buddhists | wi1q onion bulblets which might 1 Remnant TT TT io of the Little Vehicle who live have lodged in it from wheat 1% Supper ; : i in bamboo-and-thatch houses on on farms of men not so particu- Ti iamprey [0 I IN |. | stilts, wading tranquilly in their: |. jar about this pest. Frequently 22. Deen, glossy marshy" paddies, 'fishing in .the | onions or garlic in wheat cut tHe i 23. Parormea 1" i ""| "lazy "rivers," and Worshiping «in "| "price as much as ten cents a BALL: 25. Long way oft _ Ty 7 og the curly-roofed: pagodas. . They bushel. (EE 28. havofthe = ; are content, They live'in a sub-" | "On occasions when my father PHS 13 Moccasin. i Wl n sistence economy, and -generally | suspected the cleaning job had 3 31 Sun god 5 there" is + enough = rices to-«g0 -| "rot "been well done he would BSR . 33. Hydrautte Pe 2 K around. The Lao gentleness tra- switch to the other operator for a { "3b. Deserve 5 ; ditionally has enchanted the | year or two. I firmly believe the RE 31; Secuting : foreign visitor, particularly one | operators respected Dad's de- iN 28. Ohfo colleges [17 ¥ 1] not trying to go anywhere or do | 'sire to. keep our farm free of RE n hallow dish & anything' in a hurry. Especially | wild onions, and 'that his in- RS 15 Yrre © i hd the French, beginning with Cap- | sistence on cleanliness helped R | AY Bra seam os mh i tain 'Cyupet; a member of the | reduce the pest in our township. wr 3 { 4 RhiTully Pavie expedition of the 1880s EE ; : y = Bout -- that" brought Laos within. the = & 0 "Apart fr ' Arrival of the threshing crew Pon Lr : + om French'orbit. -- From "The Lit- : uD) dg Sas gy $i wg al SS h 50 Athers tle World of Laos" by Oden. at Sub place Pb shtieipated ; : ios fle RA RE id #3 as Ao / wn Af Why i Meeker. * ays hand, with Sxun FIGHTING FIRE WITH FIRE -- A Hire fighter makes a "hasty retreat after setting a "back fire" ok } ha men, and quartering and feeding In an attempt to check blaze which blackened 10,000 acres in the San Bernardino National a