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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1981-08-19, Page 251 GODERICH SIGNAL,STAR, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1981—PAGE 9A Director Paul Thompson and set designer Bob Pearson are shown here with the cow that starred, in the 1977 version of He Won't Come in from the Barn. The play is being staged at the Blyth Summer Festival again this year and while the director and set designer will remain the same, auditions are underway for a new cow to co-star with Ted Johns. No other industry in ' the world is as messed up 'asu • agriculture. More than 1,200 million people go to bed hungry every night. Famines still occur with astounding regularity. People will starve to death in northern Africa and southeast Asia this year. World population experts say more than 2 million peo- ple will starve in Africa alone. Starve to death._ • Russia and China scour the world to buy grain. They have the money to buy it and they get it. India, once one of the world's. greatest grain -growing nations, a country that eg- ported wheat, can no longer grow enough grain to fill the millions' of hungry' bellies in that 'beleaguered part. of the . globe- . . • Yet, farmers. in this country are held to quotas in producing •milk,. chicken, turkeys and eggs. If as many farmers as wanted to do so could 'grow all those commodities, the coun- try would be swamped, with food. Not long ago, the U.S. government actually paid farmers not to grow grain. The stories were rampant about the inanities that cropped up. Comedians told jokes about farmers sitting around, getting paid millions not to grow corn. The farmers sat and listened ' attentively to the corn they weren't growing. You know the . • stories. Even Canada got ' into the act with legislation paying farmers not to growgrain but to diversify in the west. Yet, today, world grain stocks are lower than they have been in 10 years. Until the new crop comes in any time now, grain stocks are enough to last the world about 10 days to two weeks. ' Canadian-agrieuiture-is-setting:out a-program_to sell, sell, _-_- sell as many products as possible around the world. Guessperts in Ottawa have just released a report indicating that Canadian' farmers can increase exports and decrease imports so the industry will become more than self- sufficient. But the gues'sperts also warn that it will need to be a hard - sell program, especially in European countries because those countries have a protectionist policy, the EEC, that will effectively stop the rest, of the world from selling farm pro- ducts over there. So, where will Canadian agriculture -sell its products? To the more affluent countries of.the emerging Third World such• Actors rehearse farm play in bars. Actors often complain that up the reason for the play: their rehearsal halls are as "Anyone who's brave or drafty as barns, bit not foolhardy enough to learn to many have as much reason be a farmer these days as the cast of He Won't Come would be well off to do it on In From the Barn, which the safety of a stage." runs August 25 to September 5 at the Blyth Summer He Won't Come In From Festival with the assistance the Baru is a revival of the of Goderich Elevators Ltd. hit that played to sold -out The actors in He Won't Come houses in Toronto and in a In From the Barn are two week run at Blyth picking up a little local at- Summer Festival in 1977. nasphere (the source of the The show features Ted atmosphere is not specified) Johns as both actor and by rehearsing the play hi a writer in this farcical barn not far from Blyth. treatment of the troubles of a "I wanted the actors to modern age farmer who absorb the essence of rural retreats to his barn in living," director Paul protest. The same hard - Thompson says. "We took'a hitting and hilarious satire straw vote and everyone that characterized Johns' agreed we would hit the hay, The School Scandal and St. sotospeak.'Sam of the Nuke Pile is Author and star performer turned on astronomical of the play, Ted Johns, sums interest rates, government Candidates needed The Huron County Soil and Crop Improvement Associa- tion. is looking for Huron County land owners who have managed their farms to conserve soil, water and other natural resources, thereby qualifying for the Norman Alexander Con- servation Award. Such management practices may involve erosion control (grassed waterways, proper tillage, crop rotation, etc. ), stream improvement (buf- fer zones, tile outlet protec- tion, ditch. bank stabiliza- tion, etc. ), woodlot manage- ment, windbreaks and reforestation and manure management. Lette•s ave awe,. mica b, Boo *.one. Futile Pa. Et:.,,,a psi N39 2( T as Mexico, Venezuela, Nigeria, Algeria, and to the richer countries such as Saudi Arabia, Japan and South Korea. That • is, if they can persuade those countries to trade. All tl<iis information is contained in an optimistic outlook for farming and agriculture in Canada, a paper produced by the high-priced help in Ottawa to be tabled for cabinet. The bureaucrats make everything sound rosy in the report; as easy as, well, getting paid for not growing grain. They say food prices are going to increase between 21 and 63 per cent behause of population increases, 'higher incomes and Constraints on food production. I'm getting a little tired of white papers, green papers, red. papers, toilet papers, Royal comissions, special committees, standing committees,. sitting committees, parliamentary committees and all the other paraphernalia that goes with our bureaucratic jungle called government. • If' they would just let farmers alone, they could solve most of their own problems without interference. They need help in the way of a few subsidies at this time; they need some surcease from these crushing high interest rates, usury, real- ly. They know the direction they want to go: They know where they should be going. Now, if we can get governments to give a little and then get farmers together to go the .way they know they should, maybe a few more people in the country would catch the faith and we would all help the world get back on an even keel: Maybe fill a few millionempty bellies, too.. 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GENTLE TOUCH BATA SOAP 2/ 894 THE SQUARE GODERICH CLINTON SEAFORTH MAIN CORNER MAIN CORNER 'TRIANGLE 11:11SC COUNT. • Vir regulations, plummeting returns on farm products and rising supply prices. The cast ilidudesJoins as the recalcitrant farmer who takes up residence In his bard, and Janet Amos, as his wife. Ms. Amos is artistic director of the Blyth Sum- mer Festival and is the wife of Mr. Johns in reality as well as on stage. William Dunlop, Graham Mc Pherson and Keith Thomas fill out the cast. The production is directed by Paul Thompson who directed the original production. Sets e ° designed by Bob Pearson and costumes are designed by Kerry Hackett. Lighting is provided by Louise Guin and. Although some per- formances are already sold out, there are still plenty of good seats available. He Won't Come in From the Barn runs every night except Sunday at 8:30 p.m. from August 25 to September 5 with matinees' at 2 p.m. on September 3 and 5. 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