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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1972-09-28, Page 28a, PAGE 12 4 OOPERICH SIGNAL -STAR, Til'l;1FSDAY, SEPT, rr b'i Oa 1. 1. f t 1 9 f 9 9 9 9 9 9 r 9 9 P MER 28, 1972 .fir +b. "b. ............ 1.1.'\ 1.1. 1.1.•1. I. . 9 9 i 9 Hobo (What The following feature story is a product of Southern Michigan . Prisons' Inmate Writing Program. The story is written by Ray 120530. Conley as told by .Pete Simer. Although a Canadian from Beausejour, Manitoba, Conley is,, doing time at "Jacktown", , Southern Michigan Prison near Jackson 'As ' another general election day approaches, no doubt much is at stake in my country. But nobody votes in my town and most of my 3,700 townsmen ap- parently are chronic misfits who couldn't care less: My town seems a million miles from my hometown: Beausejour, Manitoba. My town is "Jacktown" - Southern Michigan Prison, near Jacks*n, Now, in the morning chow line, a young,murderer anda middle- ` aged, burglar seem ready to tangle in an argument on the merits of the Republican Party. An alert guard breaks it up just in time. The burglar is serving his fifth term in my town. I. know him well. So, after he cools off; 1 needle him a bit, saying, "I take it you voted for Hubert Hum- phrey in nineteen sixty-eight." "You kiddin'?" he scowls. "Man, I never voted in my life. I got sense enough to " know no matter who gets elected, the best any little guy's gonna get is the worst of . it. The hell with votin' ! 'That's seditious philosophy, isn't it? "The hell witty votin'!", means down with democracy, your country, your government, and, ° consequently, every home (where government really begins) in the land. "Yet, I have been' guilty of comparable "sedition". It came out disguised something like this: "Didn't get around to voting; had too many other things to do on election day.", The reflection isn't easy to face, now that :I am exiled from my Canadian voting rights for many • elections to come. 'I begin to wonder how my neighbours feel about not being allowed to vote. 'Later, I question nearly 300 of them. Almost 90% merely shrug or otherwise indicate lack of con- cern. Eighty individuals admit that they had never voted! (Could the deeds that landed us • w yvo abort you?) �rw here by , germane to such disregard for democracy?) Con- sider three responses to: "Did Wu vote regularly when you were. free?" Gambling syndicate underling (age 33, serving 5-10 years): "The 'organization always saw to it that I voted; even told- me who and what to vote -for," Alcoholic (age 47, dewing 1=2 for non-support): "They'd let• me off work in time ,to make it to the polls,, all right. But I'd stop at a buddy's house to talk the election over. There'd be a bottle or two around. And somehow, before I considered, ail. the issues and candidates and decided who'd get my vote, it was either, too late, or I was too loaded' to care anymore." '' Sex offender (age 39, serving , -.11/2-10 years(: "I never bothered to vote except in presidential elections. I voted for Richard Nixon because my name is Nixon, too." (Wouldn't it be in- teresting to -know how many other votes are cast for similar, lackadaisical reasons?) As for me - well, sometimes it is unpleasant to face the mirror of patriotism. Instead of voting I have gone hunting and fishing and attended to personal mat- ters of assorted kinds. But my future, back home in Manitoba, will offer opportunities to prove my determination never again to skip a chance to vote. And I will vote as intelligently as -T can. --_ `In the meantime, what 'about you? o Like " many other sheer blessings in our full-fashioned' freedom, the privilege of voting just can't completely be ap- preciated until it is 'lost. I know.' So .I ' must agree with the im- migrant who said: "It is difficult for most ' Canadians to adequately appreciate ' their system of government because they don't understand what it is not."' However, our beautiful. Maple Leaf Forever waves best when every thread isintact. Similarly, the ' • government that this flag represents needs every vote. But nobody votes in my town.. Nobody may. What could 'be worse, patriotically? Your town; where 'every adult citizen may vote . . and you don't.. ........................,.._..... t 9 9 9 9 9 99 9 ew Savin 9 9 9 ponds. organizer • P.A. Blackshaw of O.;ven. Sound, has been appointed as an organizer in the 1972 Canada Savings Bonds campaign, payroll savings division, for the Owen Sound, Col-lingwood and Goderich area. His territory includes Owen Sound,IVleaford, Coll ngwood,, Orangeville, , Markdale, Southampton, Port Elgin, Kin- cardine, Chesley, Hanover, Dun- dalk, Walkerton, Palmerston, Winghatt , Durham, (-Tensall, Mount Forest, and Harriston. Mr. Blackshaw has been an organizer for all: Canada Savings Bonds campaigns rff the llf.est. This year marks the 27th an- niversary of Canada Savings Bona. and, during the period 1949-1971 inclusive, a total of • nearlY $5.5 billion.in CSBs were purchased through the Payroll Savings Plan across'the country. Lest year in the area, a total of $1,,0 worth of ens were purchased through payroll savings from 3,152 applications. T 197'7* Series will�go ori *le oa Oct2 and will be sold at runtil Nov 16. new ,sties, provides "an, an*l .avaritse, yield of 74 per. Wit It held to maturity in 12 y*r* atsn til `rat. of in- . WOK8.5peltMkt 'fOrthe Wit. • f hg. e o1 year; 7.50 per cent for each of the next four years and 7.75 per cent for • each of the final six years. ' A 'compound inter"est" teature is again incorporated providing for 3 extra interest certificates during the 12 year life of the bend. The purchaser of a , $100 bond, will receive $233.25 when ' it matures, November 1, 1984, if he, holds .all interest coupons and compound interest cer- tificates uncashed until then. If an investor holds his $100 bond, and its first seven regular coupons uncashed until Novem- ber 1, 1979 a first compoundin- terest certificate becomes - payable on that date for $11.75 Similarly, if the $100 bond and the • five;„remaining coupons are held uncashed until November 1, 1984, a second compound in- terest certificate becomes payable Tot' $&OO. Ifrhe holds his bond until maturitywithout cashing any of the regular an- nual• interest 'Coupons or cont. pound 'interest , certificates, a final compOuhd interest cer- tificate also b`ecomba payable for '$26.60. This brings the total prroc els at Maturity of a. $100 bond to $299.25. During the 1071 CO cam:'' . F beli‘Vos n NatIosiaI egg paign, more than 232,000 em- ployees in establishments throughout Ontario purchased a record total ° of more than $117.5 million worth of Canada Savings Bonds through the Payroll Savings Plan. "A_a national:4gg marketing agency should have the power to investigate the diet'- rtions caused in agriculture by vertical integratiop,." This was a major recommen- dation„ of the brief submitted by the Christian' Farmers Federation to the, National Farm Products Marketing Council in Ottawa on September 14. The brief was presented at the first of a series of ' public hearings into the establishment or a national egg marketing agency being held across, ,Canada in September. The other hearings were held in Moncton, N.R. on September 19 and in Calgary, Alta. on Sept. 22. These are the first set of hearings into the establishment of a national mar ting agency • for any. farm product since the controvercial Bill C-176 was passed by Parliament late last year. • The brief, presented by Elbert van Donkersgoed, secretary - manager of' the Christian Far- .mers Federation,'supported the establishment of the national marketing agency 1 t'owevei it -strongly- suggested that the agency also be mandated to investigate the distortions .caused" by corporate use of vertical integration. Vertical integration is the combining of primary ' produc- tion and a , number of other businesses into one integrated - enterprise. For 'example, some corporations' own hatcheries, raise pullets, keep layers, grade eggs, transport eggs, slaughter fowl, wholesale eggs and fowl and retail eggs 'and fowl. "The C.F.F. is deeply concer- ned about corporatism. Agribusiness corporations through their use of vertical in- tegration have gained control over certain segments of the in- dustry. This has happened at the expense of Canada's family farmers and is causing con- tinued distortions in `the in- dustry," states the brief. Paul Babey,, chairman of the National Farm Products Marketing Council, asked Mr. van Donkersgoed if he could be more specific about these distor- tions. Mr. van Donkersgoed replied, "T-1 e—teem, repot ° -by- budge Ross on the Ontario situation states that °37 percent of On- tario's egg production' is on con- tract with the agribusiness sec- tor and that 5 percent of the production is owned outright by agribusiness corporations. 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