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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1982-04-07, Page 7editorial The LUCK. NOW SENTINEL Sem Tome Establiebed .1873 • SHARON J. DIETZ - Editor. PAT LIVINGSTON '- Office Manager MERLE ELLIOTT - Typesetter JOAN. HELM - Compositor • Lucknow' sends!' Wednesday, Aril 7, 1262—Psie 6 Business and Editorial Office Telephone 528-2822 Mailing Address P.O. Box 400, Lucknow, NOG 2110 Second Class Mail Registration.Number 0847 Subscription rate, $14.50 per year In advance Senior Citizen rate, S12.00 per year 1, advance U,S.A. and Foreign, S315.00 per year In advance Sr, Cit..U.S.A. and Foreign, S36.00 per year In advance A dangerous game The Falkland Islands, a tiny archipelago in the south Atlantic, have become the centre of a dispute which could lead to a military confrontation between Britain and Argentina. Argentine troops invaded the Islands Friday taking control and Britain has dispatched a Royal Navy task force to reinforce the few Royal Marines already stationed on the islands. In the wake of Britain's unpreparedness for the invasion, the British foreign secretary Lord Carrington has already resigned and the defence minister and the prime minister Margaret Thatcher may not escape the same fate. A military confrontation will only result in human tragedy and the destabilization of the region. Argentina and Britain should sit down at the negotiating table and come to a reasonable settlement of the dispute. • For Argentina the the invasion removes public attention from their military government's .mistreatment of people and the country's economic woes. The real issue however is, off -shore oil rights. Argentina imports most of its crude oil and wants to begin exploratory drilling within 96 miles of the Falklands. Britain maintains Argentina has no right to do so because the sea boundary, between the, Falklands. and Argentina has never been established. In the meantime the 1,800 residents of the islands, mostly sheep farmers of British origin, are caught in the middle of the controversy which. Could see military action before it is resolved. This should, not be allowed to happen. Argentina and Britain should settle their diffrences wit out a show of force. Decorate Your Windows When light filters through stained glass windows the whole room takes 'on a warm glow. It's easy to create the effects of stained glass with construction paper, and the results are beautiful. The design for your stained glass window can be anything you like, people, animals, houses, or shapes. Have fun! To make a stained glass window you ,need: 1.a sheet of black construction paper 2.other colors of construction paper 3.scissors 4.pencil 5.glue 6.vegetable oil tfaibdtrees a by don campbell There is a road which runs from Toronto International Airport to the small village of Mono Mills, in a straight line, and almost exactly.pn. a • bearing of north-west. In recent years it has carried a heavy traffic load, which attempts to bypass the even more highly travelled routes. The drivers who use the road speed past places which could hardly be called communities, but once, they too shared an impbrtant place in the name. of Canadian progress. There were, names like Grahams-, ville, Woodhill, Paisley; SI6swick, some with taverns or hotels, on a route travelled by early settlers, and known as "The Old Sixth Line". Today of course, and in keeping with the old- • vancement of the times, it is called - "Airport Road". In 1843, there was a tendency for settlers to avoid the low land, and head for the higher country and the rolling hills. It was said that the higher lands were claimed for sentimental rather than agricultural •reasons. Much of the Tenitory 'won from the slopes is now (whennot otherwise claimed for development), left to the wild grass, shrubs and milk weed. The low lands once shunned by the early pioneers, are still productive, and are amongst the most fertile in, Canada. Mono Mills sprang up at the northern extremity of theold sixth line, because it was anticipated that a railway would pass through that place. • In fact, where the railway did reach . the pioneer route was at a place called Mono Road, but that was long after the current episode of our story. Along the historic byway, the Friends of Skye travelled in their wagons to find their crown grants, It took , three days to reach the point where marks on trees indicated the concession and lot lines. On the way, the men had collected the deeds to their crown. grants at the town of Brampton, and had rejoined the wagon train to continue the journey to the north-west. Friday," April 28, 1843, they at list reached the place which they had dreamed about. , It was a heavily wooded area and the trails were so narrow that the branches of trees scraped the canvas which covered the wagons. In fact, it was necessary to clear.away some of the smaller trees to make a space which would accommo- date a wagon and two horses. "Dinna fash yesel where your am land lies. Let's be content the noo, to bide together, until we can sort out the boundary. lines. There will be plenty o' time tae search for each man's land in the days tae come," MacCrimmon told them. Some of the women were apprehen- sive of the thought of being so far from • civilization, and amongst the great forest of trees. But as MacLeod said: "Many a man has travelled into this one foot ri the furrow Directions: 1.Draw a design on black construction paper —see diagram. 2.Cut out the shapes. 3.1)ick colors for your design and trace the holes you made in the black paper onto your choices. 4.Cut out the shapes, but make them a little bit bigger than your pencil marks because you have to leave room to glue. 5,Dab vegetable oil onto your shapes and see how the light shines through. • 6.Glue the colored shapes where they belong on the •black paper. • 7.Tapeybur "stained glass" design to a window and watch the light filter through. Beautiful! (c) 1981 Canada Wide Feature Services Limited by MacKay Fairfield Tate Flak seems to be coming from all directions against farm Marketing boards. especially those with the power to set production quotas. The Canadian Egg Marketing Agen- cy, for instance, was castigated , a couple of weeks ago' because $4.7 million was lost on the sale of surplus eggs. What most reporters fail to mention is that most of that loss was taken by the farmers themselves. Producers paid for the export deals through a 5.5 -cent -a -dozen levy paid to CEMA. Only, 2.5 cents a dozen is added to the consumer price to reduce the price on eggs sold to Canadian processors. One cannot help but add that five cents a dozen is a small price to pay to keep farmers on the land and keep hens in production. , The charge that marketing boards gouge the consumer does not apply when the statistics are studied. The Consumer Price Index for food rose 75 per cent from, 1976 to 1981, a five-year period. But the index for turkey and eggs rose. by 41 per cent and the index for. ' dairy products and chicken rose 65 per cent,. But prices for beef, for instance, more\ than doubled in that time and° beef farmers still operate under. a free market system. - In other words, the commodities produced' under a system of, quotas and formula prices rose in price by an average of about 53 per cent while the overall price of food rose 75 per cent. Listening to Agminister Eugene • Whelan not long ago, I ,couldn't help but be impressed with his statistics. "Sometimes,, when 1 brag about the proportion of, income spent on food in Canada - it actually declined from 22.2 pet'. cent to 17.7 per cent in the past 13 years - 1 get accused of advocating a cheap food policy in Canada," he told A' group of farmers at a marketing seminar sponsored by the Ontario Federation of Agriculture recently. ° • "Jhat'S nonsense. 1 want to see fair prices, that's all." And 1 am, firmly convinced that is • exactly what farmers want, nothing more but nothing less.' They want a fair price for their products and many of them are not getting a fair price.' If the consumer gets high quality food for a small percentage of his or her take home pay and the efficient farmer gets enough to cover costs, everybody should be happy. The fact that Canada has one of the lowest food percentage costs in the wilderness with scarcely more than an axe and a musket. It would . indeed have been a lonely place for one, soul to live alone. But we are many, and we shall build a community worthy of our Highland people, and blessed by the presence of God!" They found a spot near the centre of the wagon line,, and built fires in preparation for the only substantial meal, in more than three 'days. A nearby spring provided them with an ample supply of fresh clean water and Ian Jamieson opened up the first of his salt pork barrels. •. There was no time for the baking of bread, but bannocks were easily made on a large. iron sheet supplied by the blacksmith, David Grant. The pork was immersed in water to remove much 'of the salt and then cut into small pieces for stewing in several cast iron caldrons.. Some well sprouted potatoes were trimmed and added. "N� exactly a 'Scotch broth," Flora MacCrimmon laughingly told the Women, "but 'twill fill a big hole the journey has left in mi • They were all tired. After the animals had been watered and fed, and the children tucked away in the wagons, they sat around the welcome warmth of the fires, until at last, they too retired *for the night. There was little to disturb their sleep.. A cold • wind • blew. across the Caledon hills, and fanned the dying embers of the camp fires. • by bob trotter world should indicate to consumer that nobody is getting ripped off by marketing boards even if. they are quota setting boards. .When you spend only 17.7 cents of every disposable income dollar qn food, you are \getting food ata reas9n- able price whether you believe it or not when you leave your money at the checkout counters. It must be remembered that, when , you go into a.big food store, you are not only purchasing 'food; you. are buying all kinds of extras. What consumers must remember to do is figure out howmuch they spend on food alone. 'Food' does not include paper prodncts,' hardware, plants, soft. drinks, kitty litter or any of the other one -hundred -and -one -items you stuff into your so called grocery cart. • Eugene Whelan speaks for a lot of farmers. He has been' trying to get the \ message across for a decade that food in Canada is abundant and it is available at reasonable prices. It is time a few inore. city dwellers came to that conclusion and began believing the agricultural sectot in- stead of that other tough little troop of people out there who make a career out of attacking marketing boards.