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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1944-04-20, Page 6• • IR • • • ' ' RAGE SIX • • - =z 4r41.47‘ ' p 144.114-Tr,A#0814/0004,4,41140.0.,,,,,P.1,7.1,/*... ; Orr - The Lucknow Sentinel, Lucknow, Ontario Discuss • Post -War :P4ns For Bruce (From The Port Elgin Times) a place on the air map. • " . Unique in purpose, inomentons - in its importance And giving pre- ' mise of being far-reaching in its, • effects was the meeting held in •• 'Chesley on Thursday 'last when •; Bruce courity's problems • we. •taken up as a challenge by the ' BrUce County Pttbliihers' AssOc- atien And its gucsts. • '7. " The, included .Rugsell• T. Kel- ley. business ,Counsellor,:ef Ham- ilton;. Thos. Duff, M:L.A.; Warden Sheykdelt,Mayor W. P, ' ••• Wit!g, .CPesleY; :Mayor Robert `Allelfittie;,SolittliainPton'; Reeve. S., F. •Ballaehey,. Paisley; ReeVe Jos. • ketnneie. •Oulkoss;. D. • Forrester, K.C., E. Stephenson: Walker- ' ton;:.,Iteeve Kinloss;• Mears. • Reid and N. Ribey rep-•.• resenting 'the Federation of Ag- riculturei4Geo. Gear, Department of • m*.0..iure; J. S. Luckhain; Port.:Elgin;•, S. FOrrester, Paisley; • W. ThbrnPsOri, bard' of Trade, • Hunter. Wiarton; T. Heidif ,WeepWater; • Mrs. E. A: DoriCarr;:, *iartckt; • C. Schaus, 3..1iVorrall, Tees - water; "VeKpniej. Paisley; E. 'Wenger, lvflldmay, E: Short, So4thanPtOn; •C. W. MeLliarrnid, Port,Elgiri; . ' Struck Keynote ' •, The .keynote of the meeting was struck by Mayor Krug of Chesley' when in • a •• welcome to the guests from all • parts of Bruce County said: "The • man who.isnot thinking of post war plansis, dead". A session '7":"'"'Whith.---1A$ted".'for—four • the afternOon,..followed by din- •• 'nr and a short evening .sitting,• was.capably-preided•over by Mr: • C. Schaus,. president of the Bruce Publishers' Association. • , GrUest Speaker .1V1r.RusseflT. Kelley of Harn- ilton, a native .of Teeswater, de- • • livered an outstanding Address. •dealing with the problems facing ° , Canada today, and those •that • must be metin the' post -War • World. He. ,made many :timely suggestions of things that might be done in Bruce in order that it • may take its rightful Place. as 'one of the leading counties in Canada. A five -point program, for...Can- ada was stressed: (1) "Our great- est need today is the revitalizing . �f our Christian. life". (2) •"We Must develop a -really strong nat- .- •• ionar spirit". (3) "If. you have prosperous agriculture, Canada is . •prosperous". In developing this • point Mr.. KelleY stated that "a better job must be done in agri- • culture as farrnera are losing at he rate of one million dollars' a day through raising poor .itoek, • poor farm implements: weeds, corn borer and inefficiency". He • complimented the Federation :of ° 'Agriculture for .their fine work " and advocated "planning, operat- ing and marketing on a c� -oper- ative basis". "Chemurgy Will open new fields for the agiricultural Indus- • trV". He mentioned the use today • of apple syrup in the treatment • of tobacco and its many other uses. He predicted . the use of wheat for the manufacture of al- ohcol 'arid synthetic itil5ber.-14Y "Until the needs of Canadian people are better met than they are today there can be no over- production on the farm or in in- • dustry". "We still have", taid • Mr. Kelley "undernourished i-nas- , •••, ses"..'(5)_,Decentralization of in- • dustry must ,take place if we are • to have a bigger and better coun- try in which to live". • The: speaker showed several • chaffs of surveys already made • in Ontario by live Municipalities. who are making. plans to meet and soh -e post-war problems. He stressed the need of Bruce COUT1, ty making definite plans now to Arade, more intensive farming & ' • •'," .. • . . • ••"i • • The speaker, in summing up, stated that what businesswants after the war is "Removal of all price controls, access to raw mat- erials; abolition of selective ser- • vice, • orderly. disposal :of . excess • TIWRSD.0, APRIL 20th, 1944 war materials, proper re-estab- lishment of those in the armed 'forces", The farmer want, he • said, "lower prices, on farm im- plements, more stability of prices orderly marketing, electrification of farms, modern household con- veniences". "Labor", • said Kelley; . "m310 be assured of steady employment and a better standard of living". • Thos. Duff, M.L.A., Warden W. Shewfelt and several other. _ad- dressed the. meeting and contrib.- Uted many excellent ideas, iur the betterment of all -the citizens' of Bruce. After several severa uurs of in-, tensive discussion and debate. committees Were setup to reprc- Sent the county council,. buSirKsi " • ' • • interests and agriculture. • the committees appointed were as follows: citizens' committee, Hugh MeDiarmid, 1V16yor R. Mc- Vittie,'CO Schaus, Thos. Duff, M. L. A., L. B. Reid, R. Hunter; • county council committee, War- den W. Shewfelt, Ed. Downes, Robert Sloan, Geo. 7Stefiliensop, Ric:hard Elliott, Alex McTavish. V • a.• A 1,1 • • „ • ..• • 4i" • 1.• You may . not regard the Victory • Loan salesman as a salesman when he calls ori you. Heis a man from Your community whom , you likely know ;well . . . perhaps a neighbo-r. He may never have done any selling • before. He has taken on this work because he feels 4i1iat it is an important war • job that must be done. • • .As a matter of fact he is not trying to sell you anything. He Will ask you to save money. Farmers are,d.oing an portant war _ job, too . . . produci g food. Most farmerehave increased their.incornes. They have money to save. • o • You plan to use this money, and the things ,you plan to use it for are necessary things. The Victory Loan salesman will ask you to let your country have the use Of your savings now by putting your nipney into Victory, Bonds. • • Our' big job now is to win the war, • and to win it as soon as we can. • That's why every Canadian is aske to buy Victory Bonds. It's why eac of ts is asked to buy all we can. You can buy them with cash, which you • hacte saved, and you can. buy more • bonds and pay for them as you earn • mofiiy,.-ov-tr-a period -of six- Months. - I • • • b; tr. 6-41B • • . - t. • ',40•1614At:',/iikk Fil*.ii\NCE COMMITTEE ' ' • .