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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1982-01-20, Page 97;f: - opinion one !foot in the furrow ImckneW Sentinel, Wednesday, January 20, 1982 --Page by bob trotter Life for some farmers's wives can be terrifying. And it's Betting worse as the economic squeeze hits the back Dianne Harkin, president of Women for the Survival of Agriculture, is an articulate lady. She knows whereof she speaks. She paints a heart-rending picture:. Who can hear a woman or a child' screaming for help in the middleof a 100 -are farm? Where does a woman go when the tired,. over-worked bi- det* farther takes out his frustrations on his family' The next neighbor may be miles pardon me, kilometres—away. "They (some farm wives) , have. become the . hidden victims with the silentscrearns," she said, whenlow commodity prices and high interest rates threaten receivership or bankruptcy. • City women can telephone a distress centre or.a close -neighbor or even a friend a few . blocks away but these social services are hot readily. available inthe country. It might` be worth adding here, •too, that farmers help pay for these social services. "Besides, if you• are on a party line, redtrees your telephone call can be heard by about five neighbors" and who wants the whole concession to know about private family problems? Mrs. Harkin helped to found the Women for the Survival of Agriculture in ' 1975. and membership in the organization has reached more than 1,000. She and her husband and son operate .a farm near Winchester, 50 kilometres southwest of Ottawa. Interest rates have forced them to sell about 200 beef cattle and most of their. machinery. They are now down to the bare essentials needed to plant 165 acres of corn this spring:. • She said she has seen farm women crying at ineetbhgs because they see no future and no money. When her organization displays brochures from the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, the leaflet on bat - tend women is .one of the first to be taken from the display table. One cannot defend anybody who would ' even strike a woman. And I hate to say I. told you so, but ... a few months ago, this column• suggested that a great revolt is brewing in agriculture. When it comes, don't stand behind the manure spreader., Farmers can kick the cow or the dog or even a hog but when those animals. are solid, who is leftto kick around? Howterribly frustrating it is to see Months, years, of work slowly slipping away from under you and ,nothing can be done to stop the landslide. It's lice iggi ting fog or nailing jellyfish to a The stand the Canadian government has taken to fight inflation has been called courageous by some people. Maybe it will take another yearforthe positive effect to be felt. Salve economists say. it is waning and ,all Canadians have to do is tighten their belts and "suuvive" for a while. ' But the social consequences of these policies are now being felt in all sectors of the economy.. Are the policies worth the terrible things that are happening, espedally to fanners? I, for one, do not believe for one minute that the mandarins. in Bytown have any idea of the hardship that is' being wrought. Nor are they capable of walking in a farmer's shoes acrosis a barnyard. They are too far removed from the- real werld to know the consequences. ' , They simplywili not hear thehidden victims with the screams. *from page 6. Dove might begin the long but sure request she was determined to achieve. 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