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Mrs Sayre has done quite a bit globe-trotting
with those clever-
by sugared speeches of hers.
Since she left husband's her
LONDON. husband, home and child COMFORTABLE ren, 'cram them with American momma of knowledge of world econo- 65, Mrs Raymond mics and bully the war-torn Sayre, farmer's wife world into pence and social 800-acre farm at from the Middle West, hit betterment.
Ackworth, Iowa, on April 1 this the headlines. Reason-she
Ол Women's
platform she jollied along the
year sho has Institute conference at the wears a pink straw boater travelled
Hall with such with a green rose in front, miles, talking to Albert
more no bought in Indianola, Iowa. many cracks as "Women are
in New dumber than men-they "My audience will at least women
remember my hats" she Zealand (10 days) couldn't be."
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MOMMA WOMEN
Black magic
THRIVES IN THE DARK CORNERS OF THE EARTH
QLACK màgic is getting
BLA
a new lease of life. From many primitive arcan come reports that disillusion is turning backward peoples to the oki daric practices.
Often among more advanced. communities bibçi magic Growing hard to era
eradicato.
A
13
recent example was the case of Armando Antonietti, 22-year- old Italian, accused of murder- Ing his aunt because he believed she was a witch with the "evil
It was said that he had con- suhted a local sorcerer. And 12 of the best-known sorcerers in his native province, were called to give "expert" evidence at the trlai.
"Witchcraft? Fanatic --. It'
of women in the Farm Bureau, couldn't happen here," you may
to president of the associated of all the 48 farm women Stater.
When she is home in July she will rise at 5.30 ("harvest is a busy time") cook breakfast for her husband and 16-year-old youngest son, spend the morning on household chores, cook lunch and dinner.
shy. But it has,
PINNED TO TREE
Some six years ago, a 74- year-old form labourer WIS found in Britain, killed with his own billhock,
A pitchfork had been driven through his body, pinning it to
the roots of a tree.
Experts in witchcraft believed it to be a witchcraft "ritual murder."
And the murder happened in February-dn ancient sacrificial month.
the old
days Fobruary 2 was "Candlemas"--a great occasion,
In
pagars
Once a week there is a trip to town, five miles away, with her own peas and tomatoes carefully prepared to pop into the "freezer locker" hired at £4 a year to quick freeze home - produced fruit, vegetables and meat.
In the afternoon she tackles business correspondence, arranges meetings, keops up with talked in Canada, New York grandfathers were both farmers, her serious reading. Spare time and Chicago as well,
was a bonkers for gardening ("I planted 400 witchcraft is part of the dally
That is all Ruth Sayre's don't remember anything (six weeks), and
shrewd blue oye.
pleasantries about
dumbness (quoted
Miss L A. R. Wylie), and
the
But there is nothing rosy words about her
to the well-meaning women who other homely phrase sign peace pledges or about the sensible house mand days of prayer wife invading the corridors peace.
Thene else about me." men's from
home on July 1 sho will have
de..
for
Sugar with it
of Uno with her apron on and
THE FARMER'S WIFE
Mrs. Sayre
but her father
and she was brought up in tulips last year but never saw
Last year she was here, in Copenhagen
and in Germany. Indianola, the county town where them Bower").
he worked. She took her BA The year before she spent three College in 1917, specialising in
She never smokes or drinks, months gingering up the women
is a Methodist by upbringing. in all three Western
of zon.est
"We are right in what is called Germany.
German.
There are traces of devotion to some aspects of withcraft in parts of Essex and Cornwall- and the practice of sticking ping or wax In wooden
images of enemies stili known to flourish.
is
In some of the more backward of the Empire
communities
life.
It is claimed that in London and other large ellies esoteric
rites are still practised in many
private house,
a
In South Africa, some months ago, a Natal MP. revealed that the Bible Belt," says she. "All white women were visiting na-
farmers round
Live witch-doctors,
Visit people here
a fortuna- Ieller.
are
just 09
As a student she marched in a Since 1947, when she was suffragette procession, while her the elected the Countrywomen's pre- young man, Raymond Sayre, Methodists, Baptists, Presby-P sident at a conference in Amster- calealed from
the sidewalk. terlons. It would be considered dam, she has spent some three She had aspirations about going shocking for a woman to touch Supreme Court in New York,
on Europe to carry months of every year talking to to
her liquor.**.
Her answer
her an apple pie in hand, are just sugar on the
"Wishful statements have. pill, enabling Mrs Sayre to tell 5,000 women in a taken the place of clear speech lasting 45 minutes thinking," she says, sharp that they are indeed ly. "That is just too easy A lot Peace dumber than men.
will not come that
dumber.
way. Go and do something foreigners, and a good deal more language studies, but instead she for yourselves. Grapple talking to her own rural com- married Mr Sayre in 1918, after For beneath the placid, with the difficult social patriots all over the United a year of schoolteaching. plumpish exterior of Mrs problems of our time, States.
Britain's Farmers' Union is for Mrs Sayre gives the conven- Sayre, mother of four and Learn the economic facts
farmers, but America's Farm tional answer when asked which grandmother of three, who of life. The roots of Com-
Bureati is for the farmer's family of her two lives she preters. "I is here officially as head of munism are in the misery
nice too, and Mrs Sayre was soon the just can't wait to get home," the 5,500,000 members of of the depressed millions. "My husband is very
of the women's she says with cvldent slacerity. Associated Countrywomen Two-thirds of, the world's about it," she maye. No salary local leader
activities there.
But I think that she would not be pleased if her easy-going of the World, smoulders the population have an income attaches to these missions. But flery spirit of a hot gospel of less than £15 a year. all travel and living expenses are "I talked at meetings with husband put his foot down and ler. Her mission to Do something to improve paid.
said, "No more hot-gospelling wake women up, push them that instead of signing
round the world." -beyond--the--horizons-of-petitions-against-war.”
REDS CAN'T BEAT MISTER CUPID
By Joseph Fleming
BERLIN. sprung up to capitalise on mari-
PEOPLE are still getting mar- tal dislocations caused by the ried for love or for money war and the excess of women in Communist-run East Ger- aver men.
many.
He catcalled
one baby in my arms and an- Although she is officially the other beside me," she says. In a world's typical_farmer's wife, nation of women who spceloliec I have seen_the_glint_in_her_ Mrs Sayre is the first to admit in confabulation she rose to be eye. that she became a farmer's wife the queen of them all in her by accident. Her British-born field-from township's director
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Sitting on Fence....
ELLING the story of
the
great. Russian
purge of the 1980's,
F. Beck and W. Godin point. out that the credit of party members and of ordinary Soviet citizens depended on the number of people they denounced.
Six years of Communist rule Soviet zone propagandists, in appears to have had no effect on their magazine serials, radio plays and Aims would have you to meet a girl,
the emotions that prompt a boy believe that only industrial "ac- tivists" and those who score Take the "22 year-old Moreover, young people de- high in Morxisi dialectics attain brunelle" for example, who nd-nounced their seniors to get their
vertised for "a man up to 30 jobs.
movies, Others took advantage of the Nevertheless, widowers with who is interested in
theatre, opera, dancing and purge to inform against those furnishes homes, women with above alt is a water rat who they disliked, and "every arrest dowries and "pretty young girly likes to swim in the summer and of an official meant that a new- are more sought after than hol- take long walks in the woods, ly built flat fell vacant." ders of a Communist Party card. United Press.
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Marriage advertisements East German newspapers run side by side with Communist at- tacks on capitalism and Ameri- can-style pin-up girls, but goin men and women secking mates.
with "Farmer's daughter furniture and good linen supply seok acquaintance with the pur- pose of marriage of a man with his own house" is a typical ad- vertisement which appeared in the Communist edited German Week.
"Teacher, Avo feet nie, good appearance, seeks, love match with pretty young girl" is an- other.
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CATS,
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As bait, the applicants offer everything from motor
and dairy farms to "blameless past.”
boats
Love has become a big busl ners in Germany, In the East as well as the.West. It is not ex- nelly for sale but a small in- vestment can put you well on the road to finding a "suitable comrade for life" or just some- one interested in utifal re creation,"
Countless marriage bureaus and newspaper departments havO
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"By the way, dear, I'm afraid that you'll have to cancel those reservations at St. Jean- de-Lur-the Secretary of State has just decided that this year we shall wil be abending our holidays at Llandrinded. Welli,"
Has it been a good day for denouncing, Sergei?
Very good, luan. I have denounced the butcher, who was getting troublesome about his bill. Also the grocer, for the same reason,
At the moment, I cannot de- the cide whel her to denounce dressmaker for sending me her bilis, or my wife for running them up.
As you are tired of your wife and the dressmaker is pretty. why not
vour wife?
denounce
by
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
better job, a luxury flat, and the dressmaker,
I shall always be grateful to you, Sergel.
You had better be, Ivan, A moment ago you mentioned indirectly a forbidden subject. The Christian Bible.
You would not betray me, Sergel?
How come, Nat?
Recently woman in the
asked for a separation, charg- ing her husband with witchcraft. He poured salt in her bed, she said, calling on evil spirits to contaminate her soul,
· A GIRL'S FATE Last year, in British Guiana, u_seven-year-old girl was the victim of a ritual murder by members of a bizarre cult.
There were tales of fantastic
officiating bishops."" been feed as uma series it transpired, had
to get some dark "god" to reveal the whereabouts of a buried treasure.
For the murderers, two men (and ̈a ̄woman," the treasure “hunt
ended on the gallows.
Don Taylor
the
tions, others sang, another made
up speeches and addressed them
to the crows.
In
my view this could become a dangerous habit.
You could start off with speeches like that... "My larta, ladies, gentlemen and crows, I have today the honour of pro- posing the health of our dis tinguished guest....!
# But where would it lead you?
The cawing of crows sounds like applause in a very much smoke-filled banqueting hall. So
You would be flattered.
During the war I was in touch with two Germans call ed Captain General Lance Corporal von Stinkenstrouser
Flushed with success and self- and Herr Doktor von Schmel- deception, you would then ad- Ingpantz. They worked dress the sheep, whose voices a Berlin office on the Rat would sound like approving tenrcekinstrasse, not far from "hear, hears" at a town council the Middenheapenplatz.
meeting.
After that, you would make a Sounds like a dirty spot to me, speech to the cows. Their an
"If you are not sufficiently proteful, Ivan, I shall wait till Nat. you have denounced your wife, and the official, and then denounce you,
To what advantage, Sergel?
'I could do with a better paid job, I am fond of luxury flats," I am also fond of the aressmaker.
Would a thousand roubles be enough, Sergei?
Ten thousand would be more acceptable, Ivan.
Atlantic
call
American, on the Trans- atlantic phone again:—
You have the simple, direct JOE DOAKES, the well-known wisdom of Solomon, Sergel. Pe haps you could tell me how to become the tenant of a luxury flat? I would liko the dress- maker to be comfortable.
That is simple. You matad denounce an 'official. Any official, Bergel?.
Any official of distinction, Ivan. But it would be prudent. to denounce one who is, alther vour office superior," or one tpho
the best flot in han Moscow.
· Imunediate superlor has the best fat in Moscow, Bergen,
Then you are a most, for tunate man. Denounce only
• "two" prople3and you have ̈ ̃ü ̈
...
Hello, there, Not' What's the noos from the old country? ... Why, nothing much, Joe,
except that
former German sergeant, who has settled over here, is reported as my- ing that the pictures taken of the concentration camps - at Belsen and Dachau were faked by the Americans. ̧.
moos would remind
A dirty spot for doing dirty swering work, Joe. In case of defeat you of the Opposition boos in they were organising sympathy the House of Commons. for Germany, just as they did after the Kalier's war.
You have become a first-class
speaker to
an
They have thousands of friends all over the world after Junch denying German atrocities, audience of crows.
Your eloquence has swung a Maybe you'll meet one in the United States.
council meeting of sheep over, to your point of view.
If so, what should I do, Not?
Your brilliant, fighting speech Just say, "Are you one of in a House of Commons full of Stinkentrouser's boys?" or "I reqetionary cows has been booed, guess you're working for Dok- You are derided, abused. You for Schmellingpantz! It may are quoted. You are famous. sound screwy, but watch 'em The road to Cabinet rank is curl up, Joe.
This is where you, must bo careful.
I certainly will, Nat, So long for now.
So long, Joe,
Farmer's
open,
You will either start talking to the wild flowers and the trees, become the object of
boy derision in the countryside, and
end up in the looney bin. CORRESPONDENT, working House of Commons audience of
Or you will address
another
on a farm, complained to a cows without noticing that one columnist that, although the of them is a bull with a remark-
The lousy son of a gun. Does work was satisfying physically able resemblance to Winston anybody over there believe tha17, It was difficult to know how in
The late Dr Goebbels acid employ one's mind for hours on
·If yous 'tell a lle often enough end, the masses will believe it, Jõe, Beside, I knew it would hap-
pen, anyway. *---
on Churchill.
There will be a roar, a stamp- ing of hoover, and your political and agricultural) career will be overall A
—Londen Expreis Keratos.)
The columnist replied that some farmer's boys thought up last lines in limerick competi=