HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1954-11-24, Page 5Problem for Canadian People
Many Canadian unions, such as the
Steel Worker’s Union are under Am
erican head offices, Thus you find
Canadian workers, instructed to im-
pose wage demands which- make their
products so costly they cannot com
pete, even in the Canadian market,
With American output of the same
product.
To boost buying power and invest
ment in home industry German taxes
have been reduced so the top tax
payable is 55 per cent. In Canada in
come tax runs up to 83 per cent, ’
“It has beep said that democracy is
the worst form of government except
all those other forms that have been
tried from time time.”—Sir Win
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These past few weeks we have been
hearing a lot of complaints from
farmers about the dropping prices for
eggs and poultry produce, as well as
wheat and hogs, The folks who de
pend upon these commodities for their
income, are, frankly speaking, worried
about the future, and they have every
reason to be. If these folks are wor
ried about the future, then well may
their cousins in town, start to furrow
their brows, for any drop in farm
income will be reflected in a similar
drop in investments, and purchases of
machinery, appliances and other es
sentials, as well as luxuries.
According to the Dominion Bureau
of Stastitics, the farm income for
Canada, dropped seven percent dur
ing the first six months of this year.
This is the third consecutive six
month period that the farm income
has declined, and since that time,
hog prices, egg prices and wheat
prices have declined even further.
There is little that the farmer can do
to establish or maintain the prices
for his products. In only a few cases
has he anything to do with the mar
keting or handling of his products,
and even then there are enough big
businesses to establish a price. In
other words, he must take what he is
offered, whether he likes it or not. In
some cases the law of supply and de
mand dictates the price, but in other
cases there is some xdoubt. The fact
remains, that folks selling eggs at
38 cents for A large, are not making
a cent. It’s questionable, if they are
even breaking even, much less mak
ing for their time or their
Hogs at 25 cents a pound,
likely to net the farmer over
or two each, on the average,
this profit he must feed and work
with the animals for six months. Of
course, he always has their company
and companionship..
Farmers are the first people to
close the strings on the purse, in the
event of a recession. They have been
called, tight, miserly, close-fisted and
many other uncomplimentary names,
but I prefer to call it far-sighted.
Very seldom do you find a farmer
head over heels
buying things on the installment plan.
How many of the folks in town on
a weekly wage, know exactly where
95% of their pay check will go. They
have weekly payments due on the
house, the car, the stove, the refriger
ator, chesterfield suite, insurance and
many other smaller items that all
count up. In the event of a lay-off,
the answer is very evident. Some of
the folks in industrialized centres
have already felt the squeeze that can
be directly traced back to a reduction
of buying on the part of the farmer,
who has less money to spend.
There is no use hiding your head
in the sand like the ostrich. Farm in
come is down, down sharply, compar
ed to the post war years, and
buying power follows the same
In a centre that depends to a _
extent upon the surrounding rural
in debt, through
farm
scale,
great
HURON COUNTY SCORES
AT WINTER FAIR
The Huron County Livestock Judg
ing team comprised of Lloyd Holland,
Clinton, Frank Alton and Lome Hac
kett both of Lucknow placed eleventh
(11) in the inter-county livestock
judging competition’ competing for
the Jeffrey Bull Memorial Trophy at
the Royal Winter Fair on Thursday,
November 11th. There were twenty-
four (24) teams taking part in the
competition.
As a team they tied with the Lamb
ton County team for first place in
beef cattle judging and placed sixth
in the judging of dairy cattle. The “F.
K. Morrow Scholarship Award” of
$300.00 awarded at the rate of $150
each year to the top contestant in the
competition towards the expenses
taking a two year course at any agri
cultural school in Ontario, was award
ed to Frank Alton, Lucknow, a mem
ber of the Huron County team.
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