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First-hand reports from reporters in four of the world's top food-producing countries-Canada, America, Argentine, New Zealand.

TORONTO.. million. They have been but the Agriculture Depart- THE Empire's guaranteed about 10s. a ment anys the country's

farmers 6,000,000

have bread basket bushol initial payment. -the Cana-·.

responded as never before The barley crop is also a

to beating production goals dlan prairies has never been record one of 295,338,000 by larger planting.

90,000,000 more

80 full. This year's wheat bushels - crop of 656 million bushels than ever before.

Food grain and livestock is. 100 million bushels The oate crop of 460 mil- grain, fruits and vegetablo

lion bushels has been ex- crops, all show highest re 558 ceeded only once since the sults since the Department.

Agriculture began The yield per acre is of

keep records in 1923. It would fill a train 12,000 the highest ever.

greater than ever before, and compares with

millions last year.

miles long, and stacked

war.

would mako a pile 1,000 MORE THAN EVER

in

feet high, wide and long. And it would give every man, woman, and child Britain one pound of bread a day for three years.

To the farmers of Canada it is worth at least 2815

DON IDDON'S DIARY

CANDIDATES HAVE THEMSELVES OUT

TIRED

sergeant.

I have a theory that if

There must be another way of one of the Presidential can-

conducting an election campaign. didates were to say: "I've Even the gaping public is punch- talked myself out.

I have drunk.

a

to

',

This year's all-crop-food Index is 131 percent of the

1928 figure, compared with

AUCKLAND. 127 percent last year.

NEW ZEA

increase there

LAND'S Milk production in 1953 90,000 farmers is expected to are likely to send still further, and Britain, in the should next 12 months, more dried toes, milk, butter, cheese, and -ment. meat than during any elmi- lar period since the war.

more

They will supply than half the total Imports of cheese and dried milk, more than a quarter of the butter, and nearly half of the carcass meat.

be more potu- ваув

the depart-

BUMPER CROPS

BUENOS AIRES.

FTER three years A of drought, the Argentine experts a bumper harvest of wheat, maize, and linseed..

the

!

Much bigger wheat areas have

that

ap-

niso

If good weather holds, dairy farmers will send The arcas seeded are more than last year's 98,000 highest in the Argentine's his These are wounding defect- something rakish and different,

tons of butter-fat. Produc- tory. The exportable surplus New York, Tuesday. It would be never to have to

lons. But all the Elsenhower then the European car is

tion is up 21 percent on the should be the biggest since the HAT is obviously smile again."

Mr Eisenhower is reported to

explain that obvious choice over Detroit. camp can do is

the olection is needed here is two have complained that the photo once

It has been a busy week on average figures for the last war. won will cast

out the Broadway. Miss Katharine Hep- minutes' silence. graphers order him around us if Eisenhower Two days would be it were his first day in the Army false prophets, the old guard burn, who started London with five years.

who, Stevenson says, "had

to her astonishing sole performance The season's yield is like- been seeded, and ideal weather even better, and two weeks under an irascible

Yet both mer are said to be be dragged kicking and scream- in Shaw's "The Millionairess," would be perfect.

sleeping well-why, when, ind ing into the 28th century," and has done the same thing to Newly to reach record propor- conditions indicate

More land is being proximately 2,000,000 tons will reassume the mantle of liberal York. Shaw and Hepburn are tions.

which where nobody knows.

stalcaman.

an explosive mixture

more cows milked.

The maize crop should Manhattan audiences are brought under grass, and be available for export.

delightedly. lowing

New Zealand expects to be the best since Peron camo

to power in 1946, export, at least the same

And the linseed industry amount of 950,000 tons of meat in frozen and canned expecting a crop of 600,000 tans, form. The bulk of this goes with 200,000 available for export, to Britain.

Contrary to many reports, the Premier Sidney Holland's meat Industry is reviving. Peron's

step new concessions to farmers Cabinet, anxious to up food production, is con- including taxation reliefs, better sidering further incentive machinery supplies, and cheap cattle feed, together with higher selling prices--are all' tending.lo produce more meat both for home and export consumption.

nothing more to tell you. Let's all go' home for the pause that refreshes; Let's reflect, ponder, meditate,

at

be a

When it's over

tuous.

I find these explanations tor- The men of good will are in a tailspin of dizzy doubts, scif- travail antl strained rationalisation. And they are explaining nothing,

Excellent week

new

+

The all-important question re-

LFRED DRAKE has opened Ain "The Gambler," but the and keep our mouths shut" THERE will be a large sigh of mains: Who is going to win?

relter

when the issue is And one of the ways for a news- then he would win the settled and Elstrhower and paperman to find out is to ring odds seem against this confused, election hands down.

Stevenson can shake hands and doorbells, buttonhole strangers, Intense druma,

Shirley Booth is delightful in Truman can waylay, the wiwary. No one, not even the gift- Eisenhower and

The man who sells me nows- "The Time and the Cuckoo," by ed Adlai Stevenson, is say shake hards (perhaps), and the

next-door neighbour lurts out to papers at the corner of 86th Arthur Lurents, a most graceful

play,

ay. And "Bernadine," by Mary ing anything very new

and Lexington Avenue decent fellow, not e Fascist Street

is a delightful Comedy, says: "Stevenson-they're calling this stage although he is or a Communist.

So is "Buttrio Square,” a new saying plenty.

Before that there are going to him à second Abraham Lincoln."

of the

restaurant musical with Billy Gilbert. The same old arguments be more train trips, more flight The owner

I usually lunch says:

the week for An excellent being rehashed and specials, more, harangues, and where

"Eisenhower, casily." (He also

Taft was

be theatre all round. : bound .to served up lukewarm or It is my unfortunate job to said

On the night-club circuit I saw piping hot, but there is Join the Eisenhower compalgo nominated.) His bartender says:

and heard Edith Piaf at the Ver. only sailles, and the place was little digestible for thought. train and plane for a last big push "Stevenson, but he will

in Upper New York Stale, here in scrape through."

crowded that the audience prac the city and in Pennsylvania-

tically stood on each others which are rich in elector-

shoulders. Miss Plaf's perfor areas

mance was pungent al votes.

are

More abuse

more abuse.

the.

18

From Hollywood I hear that

measures.

ALL-TIME HIGH

NEW YORK.

FOR the current year the United States has the second largest-food-pro- in 30 Rice and winter vlalon debut after holding out for wheat production broke an

long time.

all-time record. Audrey Hepburn has grasped stardom in "Roman Holiday," her first American film.

The taxi-drivers, operators, say "Elsenhower' If they think you are an Eisell In these last desperate days I hower supporter and to lure n PRESIDENT TRUMAN, striv. find the rankers more interest- decent tip, but when you draw Ronald Colman, 'one of Britain's duction record

commanders-in- them out they tell you they are ing than the ing to be original, is only chief. They are making more voting for Stevenson.

and perhaps more sense.

It is anyone's guess, and the succeeding in being recklessly newbert Agar, well known in longer this campaign goes on the abusive. He has dragged in racial issues, and his implica- Britain for a multitude of good less sure are the forecasts and former forecasters, Myself, I don't know tion that General Eisenhower is works, historian and

anti-Semitic and anti-

anti-Catholic

le publisher of the Leulsville I just don't know. hos Infuriated the Republicans Courier-Journal, has come out and made the Democrats wince. with an indictment, a devastat The simple truth is that both ing indictment, of Elsenhower. candidates and their supporting

orators are dreadfully

Lired.

They are jaded and jumpy. Two defections

weary and worn out.

Their eardrums have been assalled by cheers, shouts, and

and forests of buttons.

elephants and donkeys.

Eisenhower and Stevenson have och travelled about

him

Au

We still lead

seen

emblems, and toy our sympathying

Walter Lipa America's chromium-plated wire wheels on

best exports, will make his tele-years.

PALAVER

Weather extremes have aided bumper harvests,

A CLUE

HERE IS one of the reasons why the world is

· producing-- more food... farmers aro using much Increased quantities of fertilisers, especially phos phates.

World consumption bas nearly doubled since 1938.

IN PARK LANE

With Somerset Maugham

But now, of course, it must be remembered that lots of people who would otherwise have been

in the Services.

MOTOR-SHOW of sorts is It taking place... here, but GAR calls his statement doesn't compare with the British boos, by brass bands, whistles, A "Death of a Hero," and he exhibition. The great automobile cow-bells, and rebel yells.

to companies are displaying their says: "What has happened Their eyes have been blurred Ike, or who has happened to new models, but I have by flaming torches, red flares, hirn? Where is our world states- nothing rare or remarkable.

the de- Hurt by the inroads of Bri- We mourn brandished banners and men? sline placards, heaving seas of flags, clin and befuddlement of atish cars, particularly our sports

platter-sized great man. We should give him models, the manufacturers here"

but we should are now producing sports cars. BTC putting they our voles," At least,

and

or roadsters and

- This was Somerset Maug- torgotten literate convertibles miles, and Mr Truman has been political commentator, writing calling them sports cars.

ham talking, A few weeks his death. we and the Italians loading

I think Republican everywhere except the moon.

York New Herald- have the Americana beaten in ago he was seriously ill.

On writing 1 Tribune, prays that the General the sports-car field. hands, turned on 10,000 grins consider

("I nearly died," he says.) If a citizen wants "the anguish of his closed

whole nurseries of babies,

HAVE Now, at 78, he is back in [

always thought worn shopsful of funny hats.

unless they turn to ably priced, roomy, soft-sprung friends,"

whe

to see old friends. that writing should be like Each could be forgiven for Stevenson, "is not only family car, then the standard London

conversation of a well the accents of U.S. mas-produced model is the and new plays; to speak (at the I and what speaking asking: Where am um I doing here?"

greatness, but embodies come best value for money. But if a have said to a friend: "How nice American leader."

But it does not London. essays. CAID the man in Room really matter, because it

805 at the Dorchester: will be forgotten in two or writing had to spend five years

my tailor. three years." must see D'you know, I haven't had a now suit for six years."

They

have

pumped

beware 40,000 most distinguished

fox the

the

in

a reason-

Maugham paused, added: But no writer likes to dis with the idea that he will be

immediately

On old age

I asked Maugham about his after, life at 70; If he enjoyed that "tranquility of the evening," as he once described. old age. This was his answer

Mr Stevenson is supposed to of the qualities of a great man wants craftsmanship, Anish, a luncheon) of Kipling--his educated and cultivated man.

performance, originality of line, only public engagement; and

to buy a new suit.

MOUNTAINS OF THE

MOON !

He sat back on a settee and talked. Like this:

i

On fear

"Everything was big-for in-

• ONE MORNING (during

•

the "TRANQUILLITY of evening? I do not remem ber saying that — but then I have written a great deal cannot remember all I háve

I have never believed what' written, I cannot remember half some writers believe that it the names of the characters in

my: novels. should be an effort to under- stand what they have written. I want to be as simple and as élear as I can

On young writers

But tranquility! I have no wish to be any younger, I have had a good time, on the whole.

I have had my up# arid downs, but I should like to live for a few years longer.

I have achieved any ambl- tions I ever had. I have enough money to live as comfortably as I want to. I have no envy of anybody.

It amuses me to live.

London. of Leeds University, home after growth. At 9,000 ft. there was THE Mountains of the exploring the mountains for the the bamboo zone. At 10,000 ft.

• SO FAR ai i know, all the Uganda Government. 27

we left reality behind.

his last illness) I thought I "young" willers are in their Moon, whose legends have fascinated explorers That wrong pleture taken by There was a heath forest was dying. I felt so weak fortles and fifiles. I don't know

writers. and writers for more than a reconnaissance pilot excited with heather and bushes like that it seemed to me, just any young,

the ones you see in front gar- a little more and I was for 2,000 years, hide a valley the professor's expedition. They denis at home-but in this case it. I remember saying to author to go abroad. We made I 'offered a prize for a young Get out to find the exotic "lost growing to heights of foft. of paradise.

world" caught by a camera.

myself: "Well, if dying is as the age-limiz 30. Then we dis

On the future It was found by mistake They found an area of 60 square

by me"!

We had to rate it to 35. by a plane photographing miles covered, with craters lip stance, blackberries an inch in casy as this, it is all right covered that 30 was too young.

• NEXT YEAR: Maugham to Hp, some more than two miles diameter. the wrong territory.

It's a very

strange thing- plans to go "for the bust- long,

“All this went up to 14,000 ft. And I must say this: I suppose. It's the result of the time to Turkey and Greece; The story is told by 48-year-

until we reached the zone of was not afraid,

wan-people seem to develop for the last limo" to Spain. old Professor William Kennedy ́Alt were filed with trees and golden moss right up to

much more slowly now. flowers, and the whole area, snow lide.

"When you arrive at my time

• Herodotia (457 D. C.) believed the seethed with elephant, buffalo, happi

When I was young, people get of life you liave to say: "I want mountain -held the source of the Nue. Frolamy (A.D. 160) named llon, antelope and chimpanzee. A road built through that

region would take the tourists⚫ I REMEMBER saying to something of a hemo in their to do this, that, or the other for

carly twenties for example, the last time," he mid. them the Mountains of the MooYA,

me it myself then: "It's a boro Max Beerbohm and Rudyard meaning, simply. White. Ifountains. Professor Kennely said: "At into another world. To Rider Haggard (1850-1013) owt woule 7,000 ft in the mountains we beamed as though we were on that I shall not be able to Kipling. I brought out my first

Biantey, firet while man to

trees, vines and thick under press Bervice. -them Ruwenzori,

thare.

.

the

On fame

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