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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1943-08-05, Page 7y4; iw THURSDAY, AUGUST 5th, 1943 Pte. Jack McCall has been transferred from Chatham to Sidney,. Nova. Scotia;-• Capt. J: E. Smith of London spent Sunday with his. parents, Mr. and Mrs, James .Smith.. .• • 'tis. Dave, .Jewitt of Niagara.. e -the -Lake returned Monday to p, after spending a two weeks furlough at his 'home. • ,. Jerry Culbert in training with the R.C.A.F. at .Lachine, Quebec, spent the week -end with his par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. James Culbert. Arrived Overseas Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Stewart re- ceived . a cable on Sunday from their, son, Jinn; announcing his arrival overseas with the R. C. A. F. �. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Reed have en receiving, unusually good delivery of ovcrseas snail. During - de July they received three letters, all written in -July; ` frdii their. son Howard, "somewhere in Eng- land". One of the letters was re- ceived. ten days after being writ- ten. Eldon Buckingham; who re- ported, recently at No. 3,,Manning Depot- at Edmonton, Alberta, ,is:. in the same hut .as.•Rodney Mc- Lennan, who commenced train- ing in the R:C.A:F. about the same time: Eldon says he. saw Cpl.. Torehy Peden, former world champion 6 -day bicycle rider, performing in a bicycle race at a , reeen„t sports meet. Enlists In Navy Lane Gardner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gardner of Zion, has enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve. Lane enlisted' at Hamilton ,where he has been employed for sone :tithe in the steel plant. He is taking a wireless courseand expects to spend the first couple of months of thistraining at' 'Hamilton. He reports for duty next week. Has R.C.A.F. Commission PO. Tom Henry of the R. C, A. F. is spending -his furlough ,with relatives in the :«omrnunity., Tom is 'with, the auditing of equipment branch of the *Air Force, which duties take him from coast to. coast. A son of the late Mr, and Mrs. Robert Henry, Tom joined. the, Bank of -Montreal, in Lucknow, and has served with the bank in four provinces of the Dominion. He was employed in Western Canada for a number of years, where he enlisted. Tom received his commission about three -months ago. In The Mediterranean The, Lady Nelson, first Cana- dian hospital ship outfitted 'in the present war. is at present in the Mediterranean. Pursuant to international law which accords protection to hospital ships, the vessel- is brightly painted in the waylaid down `for hospital ships, 'and she travels fully lighted. A description efthe ship has been communica ed to enemy count- ries and its movements are made 'mown to the enemy., Cornmanding officer of medi- cal- personnel aboard the Lady Nelson is Major A. H. Taylor, M.0 , of Goderioh, Ont., and Chas. • MCQuil'in . Df” at elen attached to this medical unit. J . ++ to THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, . LUeKNOW,w ONTARIO PAGE SEVEN MISS .MACPH�nAIL ON FARM'`S 'ECONOMICS (By R. J. Deachman) . Miss Anes MacPhail, a former "riem'ber of `jthe House of Com- mons, a present candidate for the. Provincial Legislature of Ontario; .spoke recently over the 'radio, in the city of Ottawa. 'Miss MacPhail .is, so it seems, chairmart of the- Farm Program Committee. of the C.C.F. SheStill retains ' her keen' interest ..in agri culture -despite the fact that she is running now for, a constituency, part ' rural, part urban. The new role must have fash- ioned the tone of her address. She lamented the fact that only 10.7 per cent of the fanners had bath-. rooms. Only 37.3 per , cent :had farms equipped with hydro pow- er..'If' only the farmers could af- ford bathrooms .and hydro what. a tremendous increase of employ- ment would result from this 'de- velopment. de-velopment. Such was the tenor 'of her remarks. ' . Economies and Polities We are sorry but Miss Mac- Phail forgets;' something. It will be noted that she spokenot from the standpoint of the gains which would accrue to the farmers from po'sessing- these art enities-aildra advanta es, -:but rather from the employment that would be .given in the factories to the men Who produced them. This is hardly, correct. It would not add,in any marked degree, to total employ - ment. " Everyone desires that a farmer should have a bathtub. He needs it more than a bank clerk needs it, but the installation of this equipment on, a .farm is ..rather costly,' under',present conditions and, if the farmer, out of hisown income, purchases and Maintains a bathtub . and a modern water system, he . must either go into debt or reduce hid purchases of other commodities. <These are the alternatives which must be faced, Miss MacPhail protests against present , farm debts ---even wants them cancelled. If he reduces his purchases of other things in order to provide a bathtub, how does this increase total" employment? The bathtub makers may be"help- ed.-the makers of other things may be hampered. • In the case of hydro, there is a slight 'difference.` Hydro power might enable the farrier, if his farm happened to be fairly large, `to cut his costs. It is, therefore, a part of productive equipment and the question is 'whether or not - this ' investment would. pay the farmer better than some other investment and whether it would produce ' sufficient ' to meet the interestpayment, depreciation & maintenance and leave him with a balance on the right side of his accounts. Farm Income Miss MacPhai.l, may ; talk on these things as m"tieh °ae-She likes, .but ultimately ' the important thing for the farmer is a higher income -,-it is the thing whish matters. Given this, the farmer will choose his own_ way of spend- ing it and whether . he uses it to purchase a bathtub, install hydro( or build a new, pigpen, will be a matter of judgment in which he is as capable .of reaching a de-. cision as. Miss MacPhail or. zany other of his numerous advisers. Corning back to the other re- marks of Miss MacPhail, it is in- teresting to note how, always- she looks at things fromthe stand point of labor. She wanted, of course, production for use and not for profit. At least; she went so far as to seek to eliminate pro- fit and expressed the opinion, that certain commodities could be pro- ofit..were. elim- inated. The , suggested means of No Table Manners! No Waste!, Forget your eating etiquette! Chew ' bones' and tip your soup plate! In' The American Weekly -with this' Sunday's' (August 8th) issue . of The Detroit Sunday Times, you'll find a highly, enter-, taining article packed . with, com- mon sense telling why our gable, manners often are 'too 'polite for these war -time. days. "Get .The De- troit Sunday Times this week and every-1week! LARGE BARN PRE` TO 'FLAMES The first barn fire this' season occurred late Sunday night when the large L-shaped barn of Dan McLean on the Bluewater High- way ighway at the ' 12th Concession of Ashfield was destroyed. The outbreak is attributed to spontaneous .combustion and be- sides the season's' crop of , hay;` livestock destroyed in the' con- flagration included three calves, two sows and sixteen young pigs.. GRAIN IS POOR Generally speaking grain crop raspects are far from good. The wheat is, a pobr sample, and much of, it small and shrivelled so that it is scarcely chicken. feed. Due,: in part to heavy ,dews the oat crop has rusted badly andsome fields . are reportedto hardly be' worth' threshing: doing this was bya change of ownership. Industry was to be owned by„the'state, the province or municipality.. It. would be nec- cessary ` to take over ' the.,plants, the money for doing so would Have to be borrowed. The lenders would have to getinterest though that ' may not , always be a valid assumption. We recall the sug- gestion of the C.C.F. that loans should be compulsory and with- 'out interest. Nor did she explain her plan for dividing the savings which,' in her opinion, could be obtained from government and. mtmicipal,' ownership , of public utilities, a rather vital factor, ; by the, way, but Wholly ignered by Miss MacPhail. Two . Methods That is an interesting question. By her absence from the House of Commons, Miss MacPhail missed the opportunity of , hear- ing how labor, the vital partner of the C.C.F. would divide ,the gains. On July 7th the "Committee on Reconstruction and Re-estab- lishment .listened to the repres- entatives of `labor who are., at- tached to the political party to which Miss. MacPhail belongs. On that day they urged the establish- ment, of a 6 hour day and a 30 hour week with weekly , wages remaining the same as they now are for the 40 and 44 hour week. They were to receive the same weekly wage as they previously received, despitee reduction ofn hours, thus providing for an, hourly wage rate from. 33 to 46 per cent higher than they had before. If ,.Miss MacPhail had been there she would have supported labor in this attitudebecause the party to which she belongs is composed of two groups, one la- bor and .the pther , farmer and it would be quite impossible for to leave one , and cling to the other. So she , fights for a bath- tub and ' hydro equipment for the farmer, laments his inability to get either and supports a party which promises to see to it that the bathtub and everything else, sthe farmer. •gets will 'cost him' more than ever before. Economics and politics are ;usually difficult to mirsorrretimes• impossible; 1# WEEKL'!t EDITOR ' LOOKS AT ttaw wrsr n ip.cwVly for do wrfk y''n wIpapirf of Condo h. By, Jim Greenblat . . There was a dynamic, expect- ant air about the House of Corn - Mons late Saturday . night as members waited for the exodus to the - Senate chamber to hear Royal assent given to bills pass- ed. They were just, like young- sters at . school getting ready fel- summer orsummer holidays, gleefully sang Songs in varyingchords. from ten- or 'to profunda basso: They all trooped to the Senate and heard Chief Justice Sir Lyman Duff give assent, soon returned to hear r. Kin- move ad'ournment un- til January 27, 1944, ending 'a six month session. Members broke off, party lines vanished. while they shook hands, said goodbyes, cleared. desks. Sunday I' watched the usual visitors wander around the buildings, 'but the, vaulted cor- ridors seemed to miss .those hur- rying, familiar figures. Parlia- ment is . usually prorogued, but this tirneonly adjourned because; the war might necessitate a hur- ry -up call to convene members. At the hotel Sunday a departing M.P. said:. `.There's really no ' con- nection between Parliament ad- journing and shortly after, Mus- solini resigning". Grist from »the House Oppos- ition members also took consid- erable time in a front asking for lifting of the ban against Com- nnunists in Canada and Jehovah Witnesses: Minister 'of , Justice St. Laurent said to do so involved an order by "Governor -in -Council; he also pointed out that arecoin- mendation by a parliamentary committee last session 'had not been implemented by majority House vote. As to Witnesses he said 'in view of certain evidence their recognition would' be . a detriment to the war effort. .. . A special committee of 24 members named to scrutinize war expenditures. . . . la'`urther study of the draft health insurance bill by the Dominion and provinces, recommended in final report . of Social Security Committee. From coast to coast, you've arg- ued this; but the National Re- search Council tabled a report in the House that wheat is a costly raw material for industrial use; the quantity of it which could be used wouldcontribute in only a small way to the .Solution . of our, surplus problem.. ' The report shows' that Wheat yields alcohol at 2 gals. to the bushel. At t'if) cents (Ft. Wm.) a bushel, alcohol would cost 62c a gallon. In nor- mal times, however, molasses makes alky at 25c a gal. Whether waltzing the waves . in :the Mediterranean, North At- lantic or theAleutians, your lad in the ,Royal Canadian Navy is going to see on board ship each week from now on,, at least one current up-to-date movie with his favorite screen star. Plans have already been organized here by. the Navy Film Society. , You might beanterested,house wives. The ' other day at the Prices Board information branch act” a. Took- of tale xke''+ books you .will be getting be- tween August 23-28. ,Twelve lion are being .printed;-weighiner 270 tons, enough to fill nine box cars. Piled singly they would reach 11 miles in the air and heir""AA4" Million' pages -Valid - form • a ribbon 3 i, inches wide . five times across Canada; Color changes. in the ration book: grey cover, green for tea and coffee, red for sugar, purple for butter, meat ' brown, and 4 ,spare sePies,. They tell us . that a man would need to live until he is 2000 years old, if he. started counting coupons Canadians speind,, at the rate ' of 4090 per working day. By the way, your August and September canning coEiponsare, usabllc now, merchants having been authoriz- ed to honor them ahead of date. While it is definitely good news that a new farm machinery order increases quotas, it should be re- membered that »You won't get much benefit from it ' until the ' crop . year of 1944 ' for obvious.. reasons, .because many of the it- ems t ems .can't be completed until late fall.' With allotment- ' to zones as „ . " needed, machines Will' be increas- ed to tonnage equal to 77 per cent of the I940-41 output, that of repairs 156 per cent. The total will be 90 per cent of the aver-, i . h. JQ,achin_es produced in th basic period With increased raising of live- stock' and'poultry in Eastern Can- ada as against an indicated short grain crop, the department of ag-. riculture here has set up a sub- sidy on a sliding scale for eastern farmers to buy western 'grain for storage :against - next ' winter's feeding needs,, It starts with a 3 cent subsidy per bushel for grains " bought in .July, 21 cents in Aug- ust, receding . 1/2 cent .each month toa, subsidy of 1/2 cent per bushel in December. When it is realized . that our Canadian producers have got the job this year of supplying 85 per cent. of Gt. Britain's bacon re- quirements to maintain their 4 oz, weekly. ,ration, it emphasizes the tremendous' war job being- done eingdone on the farms from ocean- to ocean.. To hit this high mark in 1943 means that a '' greater per- centage of . hogs , offered for slaughter in : Canada ' will » have to be diverted for export. lit won't reduce the amount of pork' for, our own consumers much, how ever, as canning pork for export is also reduced, mostly fresh and smoked being used now.. Last year our shipments of bacon and ham. to the Old Land :was 0,249,- 519 cwt,' in money $99,723,878. MANUFACTURED BY • aid 0