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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1956-02-23, Page 3What's all this talk about farmers not getting enough in- come, when we pay such high prices for food we buy at the grocery store?" many citizens are asking. "Where does aur money go?" These questioners become even more puzzled when they discover, for one thing, that out of 18 cents they may pay for a loaf of bread, the farmer gets something less than three cents. What happens to the other 15 cents? Anct what happens to what the farmer does NOT get from the other food dollars spent in grocery stores? To keep all these simmering questions from boiling over un- necessarily, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, after conferring with. President Eisenhower. recently ordered the United States Department of Agriculture to make a special study of what happens to the retail food dollar, writes Helen Henley in The Christian Shience Monitor. * * Storm signals already were flying on this issue of food costs. Some partisan comments have blamed high food prices on labor, whose wages have steadily increased. Others blame industry., pointing to mounting profits. And even the farmer comes in for a share of blame, too, for many citizens believe that government price supports paid . to the farmer come out of what they pay the grocer. * * Citizens do pay that bill for price supports, too -but not as consumers, and not with .the SP GRAND OPENINGS - A pile- ated woodpecker, a disappear- ing species, aims its needle- sharp bill at a riddled pine tree. The rare bird is looking for grubs and worms, and judging from the number and size of the holes that tree must be full of his favorite food. The bird has been around the area for months, riddling two trees full of holes, dollars they spend in the groc- ery store. They foot the bill for price supports out of another pocket, in the form of taxes, a payment entirely separate from their retail food` costs. * * But if the farmer does not get the major portion of the consumer's retail food dollar, who does? * * 4' The USDA reports shows that many hands reach out to claim as theirs a share of every one of these dollars -and in no syl- lable does the report imply that any of those who; share the "take" are not fully entitled to what they get. What it discloses is that most Americans are liv- ing better and eating better - and paying the necessary costs for their improved situation. * * * Here's the story, as presented in the USDA report "Marketing Costs for Food": Since 1945, the farmer's share of the consumer's retail food dollar has declined steadily, dropping from a record high of 53 cents in 1945 to 41 cents in 1955. His share now is only slightly above the 1935-39 aver- age, while the rest of the American economy zooms along in unprecedented prosperity. * * * This decline is attributed to an increase in the spread be- tween farm prices and retail prices of food -what is called the marketing margin, which in- cludes all charges for processing and distributing farm products after they are sold by farmers. * * * These charges cover wage rates, reported to have increased almost 100 per cent above 1945, other costs - such as freight rates, packaging material, con- tainers, fuel, equipment, rents, etc., which are up about two- thirds - and state and local property taxes which have "in- creased substantially" since 1945. * s * Some citizens have looked askance at labor costs, which have almost doubled and which sometimes "amount to more than half the gross margin (dif- ference between raw material cost and selling price.)" But the report points out also that "actual labor costs have not in- creased as fast as wage rates because output per man-hour has increased. Compared with the 1947 - 49 average, hourly earnings •of food - marketing workers increased 43 per cent and labor costs per unit of prod- uet 26 per cent ... " ,4 4, * Total profits before taxes of some large food processors, wholesale distributors, and retail food chains have "grown sub- stantially since 1945," the USDA finds, but these profits "can be explained primarily by the in- creased volume of food sales handled by these firms." After all, there are more people to be fed now, American population having increased 25 per cent in the past 15 years, and incomes are larger. * * * And, the study discovered, "people on farms are buying more processed foods and buy- ing a larger portion of their total food" rather than living in self-sufficiency on the prod- ucts of their own acres as many have done in the ,past. PUZZLE Al' 11+190 1. 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Metal thread 11 1,7t1,4i i4 31. Sport monkey :I2. Anger 52. Become t tis page. 'WHAT'LL 1 DO WITH HI'Mr - Human children aren't the only ones who make a monkey out of mama. Mother chimp at the London, England, zoo has been going round -and -round with baby. And sleepy -time is still hours away. frame Aut Can it it "There was only one small cloud on the horizon, a cloud caused by the appearance on Ontario's dusty roads of a strange contraption called the automobile." With these words, a grand old man of Canada's automobile industry, R. S. Mc- Laughlin of Oshawa, now in his 85th year, recalled recently the birth of the horseless carriage at the turn of the century. By 1905 when McLaughlin was gearing up the family car- riage company to produce the new "contraption" there were only 565 cars in Canada and motoring was considered an ad- venturous, sporty thing. In the U.S., the Ford and Cadillac com- panies were not five years old and carriage -maker William Du- rant had 750 Buicks scheduled for production that year. R. E. Olds' one - cylinder Oldsmobile was commanding attention on the dirt and gravel highways. In England, Charles S. Rolls and Sir Henry Royce were about to bring out their first Rolls-Royce, the "Silver Ghost," Today the small cloud on the horse -and -buggy horizon has be- come an immense industry and the strange contraption on the dusty roads has shaped itself into more than two and a half million cars driven by Canadi- ans on asphalt roads and high- ways. With them are one mil- lion trucks, buses, motorcycles and tractors. Only 50 years af- ter the car makers swung into production, one ,Canadian in six has an auto, and Canadians spend more each year - two and one-half billion dollars to buy and operate their cars than the country spends on na- tional defence. The immediate effect of the Motor Age in Canada was to link communities with each other, bringing the country to city dwellers and the city to the country; to link provinces and regions by east -west travel and to make all the United States a near -neighbor. Back in 1900 not one out of 100 urban and people fai had a horse d es travelled by buggy only on rare occasions. In 1956 they use an automobile to get to work, shop, visit, go to a show, take a holiday or just to got out of the house and "motor" about. A continent has been laid at the feet - or wheels- of Canadians. In the post-war world, the automobile has accelerated this' revolution in the Canadian way of life as hall a million people found themselves mobile en- ough to move out to the sub- urbs from congested city areas. William A. Weaker, president of General Motors, calls it an "ex- plosion" in our cities. Out of the explosion's smoke has come a greener, mare expansive life in suburbia with its big shopping centres, playgrounds, gardens and varied community activi- ties. In the process, the ma- chine that made it possible has emerged from the luxury class to become a necessity. At the same time the auto- motive industry has loomed larger and larger in our econ- omy. Sales of vehicles account for one-fifth of all retail busi- ness done in Canada. From one wagon -works turning out a car every three days 50' years ago, there are now 20 manufacturing plants turning out some 1,200 vehicles a day close to half a million a year. The motor ve- hicle industry is Canada's second largest, topped only by pulp and paper, Like a new world in whirling motion, the auto industry has had a magnetic effect on our economy, attracting a ring of satellites around it: finance companies which in 1953 loaned $725,545,000 to help Canadians buy 640,512 new and used ve- hicles; and some 180 Canadian factories and shops, located in eight mainland provinces, which manufacture the 12,000 to 20,- 000 parts that go into autos and trucks, They absorb $308 million of the $588 Million spent in 1953 by auto manufacturers for ma- terials, Other primary and secondary industries in Canada find the auto makers their biggest cus- tomers. Producers of petroleum, steel, glass, nickel, lead, rubber and textiles benefit directly., Textile plants sell as much cot- ton cloth for car upholstery as they do for men's shirts. About half the rubber industry's out- put goes into automobile tires and tubes. In 1954 Canadians consumed nearly two and one- half billion gallons of gasoline -enough to send every Canadi- an man, woman and child on an individual 3,000 -mile auto trip. As an employer, the automo- bile industry grew from small machine shops with a few hand workers to plants with thou- sands working on mile -long as- sembly lines and in offices. It pays more than $130 million a year to the 33,000 Canadians in auto manufacturing plants. An- other 16,000 working in parts manufacturing plants in 400 communities earn some $81 inillion a year. It is difficult to say precisely how many Canadians have found full and part-time jobs as a re- sult of the invention of the auto, but an estimate would be half a million - one in 12 of Can- ada's labor force - depend directly on the auto industry for their livelihood. In addition to auto plant workers there are the wholesalers and retail- ers of cars and trucks, of tires, tubes and other equipment, of gasoline, oil and grease. There are those that paint and repair autos; bus drivers, truck driv- ers, taxi drivers and chauffeurs; motel and drive-in theatre em- ployees; and those who park, store, wash and polish cars. On the fringe are those who build highways, bridges and streets, the men who keep them in con- dition and those who sell the material to build and repair highways. There' are the high- way officials and their staff's at the civic, provincial and nation- al levels -- some 5,500 in On- tario. alone, Putting trucks on the road and keeping them there is a major industry within the auto- motive industry. Early in 1954 there were 825,476 commercial • trucks in Canada worth a bil- lion and a half dollars. Some 150,000 Canadians listed them- selves as truck drivers. B i g highway trucks rolling across the provinces like freight cars, were transporting one-fifth of the tonnage carried by Frail- ways. leets of smaller vehicles l e carried everything from cattle to corn flakes. More than half the products of Canadian farms go to market in trucks. They deliver 90 per - People Collect Almost Anything They call her locally "the old woman who lives for her shoes," and she's proud of the nickname. She's Over seventy and has a unique collection of 700 pairs of shoes, all of historical inter- est, which are displayed in her Ohio home. Shoe - collecting hart been her hobby for years. Every part of the world is re- presented by her collection. Says this ardent collector to privileged callers who view the shoes: "A collecting hobby like mine keeps you young." The queer crazes of collectors are- constantly hitting the head- lines. Is there anything in the world that isn't collected by some enthusiast? Doctors agree with the Ohio woman that this magpie mania is good for us, but they might think a collection painstakingly made by a Kansas City man rather morbid. He goes about the United States and Europe col- lecting handcuffs, about , 150 pairs of which now line the walls of his dining room. Some Of them, he'll tell you, have been worn by men con- demned for murder. One was worn by a murderer who, while fettered to it, killed a warder. A Chatham man collected 700 bicycle lamps, some dating back to the hobby -horse. A Lowes- toft man has more than 100 - varieties of beer mugs and 300 beer mats. An Australian mil- lionaire, Sir Edward Hallstrom, has a collection of 250 hats, but some years ago an American comedian, Ed Wynn, claimed to have a collection of 800 hats Of different styles. An ex -chef possesses 50,000 chickens' wish -bones and says his dearest wish is to double that number. But they're all in- tact he's never broken one to make a wishl In 1927 more than 100,000 postai curios col- lected by Mr. A. Moreton, a re- tired post office official, were acquired by the Union of Post Office Workers to prevent them leaving Great Britain. A Surrey man made it his hobby to collect twigs which had grown into shapes resembl- ing prehistoric monsters, like dinosaurs. He varnished the twigs, adding beads to repre- sent eyes and painting in scar- let mouths, and then housed them in an inn of which he was the landlord. Fancy collecting tears shed by famous people 1 1VIr. Alfred Gray, a former London piano tuner, spent his retirement inducing celebrities to weep into tiny phials. He won't be happy un- til he has filled at least 750. THE RIGHT WORD! "On the day on which my wedding occurred . ," "You'll pardon the correction, but affairs such as marriages, re- ceptions, dinners, and things of that sort 'take place.' It is only calamities which 'occur.' 'You see the distinction?" "Yes, I see. As I was saying, the day on which my wedding occurred . . . cent of the milk in Canada, 74 percent of the cattle and 74 per- cent of the hogs. In Ontario they haul 95 percent of every- thing the farmer grows. -From an article by Jay Graham in The Imperial Oil Review. ft ,N I100L LESSON K. Barclay Warren U.A. BEING TRUE TO OUR TRUST Luke 19:12-26 Memory Selection : He that Its faithful in that which Is least ltd faithful also in much; and he that Is unjust in the least 1 unjust also in much. - Luke 16 :19 The parable of the pounds„ like that of the talents, presents that practical teaching that God expects us to make good use of whatever he has entrusted to us. If we do so there will be as ample reward, for faithful serv- ice will result in greater re- sponsibilities being conferred, Also both parable teach that the unfaithful servant will face 4 stern day of reckoning in which he will suffer loss. The parables differ in that in our lesson the servants start with equal op- portunities (each having one pound) and end with unequal rewards -one is given authority over ten cities and another over five. But in the parable of the talents the servants start with unequal opportunities (having five talents, two, and one), and thefaithfulones, so far as the recorded words indicate, are given equal rewards. The par- able of the pounds suggests a gradation of future reward; in accordance with the degree of one's zeal and devotion -to Christ. As a counterpart of this, a gradation of penalty is clearly taught (Luke 12 :47-48). The recognition of the stew- ardship of life presents daily problems. How should I use the money* God gives me. Of course, T will give the tenth to the Lord's work. In addition I will present offerings. But what about the remainder. Where shall I draw the line between desirable living and extrava- gance. We are certain that God does not want us to live as the poorest of the poor in heathen lands. That is not the answer, But neither can we be reckless with what God has given us, John Wesley wrote many books the sale of which brought him a profit of $150,000. But he never spent more than $150 annually on himself. When he died he left an estate valued at not more than $50. A missionary to the Navajo Indians overheard a friend telling of a wedding. The bride had a friend who was a florist and she got all the flowers for $50. "Fifty dollars, just for flowers? And you call that u Christian wedding?" She wan thinking of the needs of her Navajos for food and medicine -needs which a few cents would help to alleviate. Let us live simply and give all we can. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking DANCING FOR THE QUEEN - These fantastic -looking "straw men" were part of the dancing reception committee which greeted Queen Elizabeth Il and the Duke of Edinburgh on their recent arrival at Kaduna, Nigeria. Top photo shows a group of natives in costumes of grass and straw during one phase of the dance. Lower photo shows another group of :picturesque dancers, with their odd, "faceless," intricately designed straw cos- tumes during another part of the dance. 2 3 4i. • 8 9 10 12 yv+ ,13 . tl6 ■■11la 14 ■ 15 21 ■■■22 ■■■ 23 1,25 26 28 29 iiiii;s: sz ■■®33 `,', 34 ■35 ■ ■ 36 ®®p�Mil 1ig9 ®�'4. ®' 41 y 4ZF:u'5 ■ 43 ®®® 44 i .46 .11 47 ■�5. 4B 111 5 14 ■It1®■ 2�... ■■ 5q r�r®• }55„ 57 ■■®bitiiit � ,,2�bf. id 1■ t tis page. 'WHAT'LL 1 DO WITH HI'Mr - Human children aren't the only ones who make a monkey out of mama. Mother chimp at the London, England, zoo has been going round -and -round with baby. And sleepy -time is still hours away. frame Aut Can it it "There was only one small cloud on the horizon, a cloud caused by the appearance on Ontario's dusty roads of a strange contraption called the automobile." With these words, a grand old man of Canada's automobile industry, R. S. Mc- Laughlin of Oshawa, now in his 85th year, recalled recently the birth of the horseless carriage at the turn of the century. By 1905 when McLaughlin was gearing up the family car- riage company to produce the new "contraption" there were only 565 cars in Canada and motoring was considered an ad- venturous, sporty thing. In the U.S., the Ford and Cadillac com- panies were not five years old and carriage -maker William Du- rant had 750 Buicks scheduled for production that year. R. E. Olds' one - cylinder Oldsmobile was commanding attention on the dirt and gravel highways. In England, Charles S. Rolls and Sir Henry Royce were about to bring out their first Rolls-Royce, the "Silver Ghost," Today the small cloud on the horse -and -buggy horizon has be- come an immense industry and the strange contraption on the dusty roads has shaped itself into more than two and a half million cars driven by Canadi- ans on asphalt roads and high- ways. With them are one mil- lion trucks, buses, motorcycles and tractors. Only 50 years af- ter the car makers swung into production, one ,Canadian in six has an auto, and Canadians spend more each year - two and one-half billion dollars to buy and operate their cars than the country spends on na- tional defence. The immediate effect of the Motor Age in Canada was to link communities with each other, bringing the country to city dwellers and the city to the country; to link provinces and regions by east -west travel and to make all the United States a near -neighbor. Back in 1900 not one out of 100 urban and people fai had a horse d es travelled by buggy only on rare occasions. In 1956 they use an automobile to get to work, shop, visit, go to a show, take a holiday or just to got out of the house and "motor" about. A continent has been laid at the feet - or wheels- of Canadians. In the post-war world, the automobile has accelerated this' revolution in the Canadian way of life as hall a million people found themselves mobile en- ough to move out to the sub- urbs from congested city areas. William A. Weaker, president of General Motors, calls it an "ex- plosion" in our cities. Out of the explosion's smoke has come a greener, mare expansive life in suburbia with its big shopping centres, playgrounds, gardens and varied community activi- ties. In the process, the ma- chine that made it possible has emerged from the luxury class to become a necessity. At the same time the auto- motive industry has loomed larger and larger in our econ- omy. Sales of vehicles account for one-fifth of all retail busi- ness done in Canada. From one wagon -works turning out a car every three days 50' years ago, there are now 20 manufacturing plants turning out some 1,200 vehicles a day close to half a million a year. The motor ve- hicle industry is Canada's second largest, topped only by pulp and paper, Like a new world in whirling motion, the auto industry has had a magnetic effect on our economy, attracting a ring of satellites around it: finance companies which in 1953 loaned $725,545,000 to help Canadians buy 640,512 new and used ve- hicles; and some 180 Canadian factories and shops, located in eight mainland provinces, which manufacture the 12,000 to 20,- 000 parts that go into autos and trucks, They absorb $308 million of the $588 Million spent in 1953 by auto manufacturers for ma- terials, Other primary and secondary industries in Canada find the auto makers their biggest cus- tomers. Producers of petroleum, steel, glass, nickel, lead, rubber and textiles benefit directly., Textile plants sell as much cot- ton cloth for car upholstery as they do for men's shirts. About half the rubber industry's out- put goes into automobile tires and tubes. In 1954 Canadians consumed nearly two and one- half billion gallons of gasoline -enough to send every Canadi- an man, woman and child on an individual 3,000 -mile auto trip. As an employer, the automo- bile industry grew from small machine shops with a few hand workers to plants with thou- sands working on mile -long as- sembly lines and in offices. It pays more than $130 million a year to the 33,000 Canadians in auto manufacturing plants. An- other 16,000 working in parts manufacturing plants in 400 communities earn some $81 inillion a year. It is difficult to say precisely how many Canadians have found full and part-time jobs as a re- sult of the invention of the auto, but an estimate would be half a million - one in 12 of Can- ada's labor force - depend directly on the auto industry for their livelihood. In addition to auto plant workers there are the wholesalers and retail- ers of cars and trucks, of tires, tubes and other equipment, of gasoline, oil and grease. There are those that paint and repair autos; bus drivers, truck driv- ers, taxi drivers and chauffeurs; motel and drive-in theatre em- ployees; and those who park, store, wash and polish cars. On the fringe are those who build highways, bridges and streets, the men who keep them in con- dition and those who sell the material to build and repair highways. There' are the high- way officials and their staff's at the civic, provincial and nation- al levels -- some 5,500 in On- tario. alone, Putting trucks on the road and keeping them there is a major industry within the auto- motive industry. Early in 1954 there were 825,476 commercial • trucks in Canada worth a bil- lion and a half dollars. Some 150,000 Canadians listed them- selves as truck drivers. B i g highway trucks rolling across the provinces like freight cars, were transporting one-fifth of the tonnage carried by Frail- ways. leets of smaller vehicles l e carried everything from cattle to corn flakes. More than half the products of Canadian farms go to market in trucks. They deliver 90 per - People Collect Almost Anything They call her locally "the old woman who lives for her shoes," and she's proud of the nickname. She's Over seventy and has a unique collection of 700 pairs of shoes, all of historical inter- est, which are displayed in her Ohio home. Shoe - collecting hart been her hobby for years. Every part of the world is re- presented by her collection. Says this ardent collector to privileged callers who view the shoes: "A collecting hobby like mine keeps you young." The queer crazes of collectors are- constantly hitting the head- lines. Is there anything in the world that isn't collected by some enthusiast? Doctors agree with the Ohio woman that this magpie mania is good for us, but they might think a collection painstakingly made by a Kansas City man rather morbid. He goes about the United States and Europe col- lecting handcuffs, about , 150 pairs of which now line the walls of his dining room. Some Of them, he'll tell you, have been worn by men con- demned for murder. One was worn by a murderer who, while fettered to it, killed a warder. A Chatham man collected 700 bicycle lamps, some dating back to the hobby -horse. A Lowes- toft man has more than 100 - varieties of beer mugs and 300 beer mats. An Australian mil- lionaire, Sir Edward Hallstrom, has a collection of 250 hats, but some years ago an American comedian, Ed Wynn, claimed to have a collection of 800 hats Of different styles. An ex -chef possesses 50,000 chickens' wish -bones and says his dearest wish is to double that number. But they're all in- tact he's never broken one to make a wishl In 1927 more than 100,000 postai curios col- lected by Mr. A. Moreton, a re- tired post office official, were acquired by the Union of Post Office Workers to prevent them leaving Great Britain. A Surrey man made it his hobby to collect twigs which had grown into shapes resembl- ing prehistoric monsters, like dinosaurs. He varnished the twigs, adding beads to repre- sent eyes and painting in scar- let mouths, and then housed them in an inn of which he was the landlord. Fancy collecting tears shed by famous people 1 1VIr. Alfred Gray, a former London piano tuner, spent his retirement inducing celebrities to weep into tiny phials. He won't be happy un- til he has filled at least 750. THE RIGHT WORD! "On the day on which my wedding occurred . ," "You'll pardon the correction, but affairs such as marriages, re- ceptions, dinners, and things of that sort 'take place.' It is only calamities which 'occur.' 'You see the distinction?" "Yes, I see. As I was saying, the day on which my wedding occurred . . . cent of the milk in Canada, 74 percent of the cattle and 74 per- cent of the hogs. In Ontario they haul 95 percent of every- thing the farmer grows. -From an article by Jay Graham in The Imperial Oil Review. ft ,N I100L LESSON K. Barclay Warren U.A. BEING TRUE TO OUR TRUST Luke 19:12-26 Memory Selection : He that Its faithful in that which Is least ltd faithful also in much; and he that Is unjust in the least 1 unjust also in much. - Luke 16 :19 The parable of the pounds„ like that of the talents, presents that practical teaching that God expects us to make good use of whatever he has entrusted to us. If we do so there will be as ample reward, for faithful serv- ice will result in greater re- sponsibilities being conferred, Also both parable teach that the unfaithful servant will face 4 stern day of reckoning in which he will suffer loss. The parables differ in that in our lesson the servants start with equal op- portunities (each having one pound) and end with unequal rewards -one is given authority over ten cities and another over five. But in the parable of the talents the servants start with unequal opportunities (having five talents, two, and one), and thefaithfulones, so far as the recorded words indicate, are given equal rewards. The par- able of the pounds suggests a gradation of future reward; in accordance with the degree of one's zeal and devotion -to Christ. As a counterpart of this, a gradation of penalty is clearly taught (Luke 12 :47-48). The recognition of the stew- ardship of life presents daily problems. How should I use the money* God gives me. Of course, T will give the tenth to the Lord's work. In addition I will present offerings. But what about the remainder. Where shall I draw the line between desirable living and extrava- gance. We are certain that God does not want us to live as the poorest of the poor in heathen lands. That is not the answer, But neither can we be reckless with what God has given us, John Wesley wrote many books the sale of which brought him a profit of $150,000. But he never spent more than $150 annually on himself. When he died he left an estate valued at not more than $50. A missionary to the Navajo Indians overheard a friend telling of a wedding. The bride had a friend who was a florist and she got all the flowers for $50. "Fifty dollars, just for flowers? And you call that u Christian wedding?" She wan thinking of the needs of her Navajos for food and medicine -needs which a few cents would help to alleviate. Let us live simply and give all we can. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking DANCING FOR THE QUEEN - These fantastic -looking "straw men" were part of the dancing reception committee which greeted Queen Elizabeth Il and the Duke of Edinburgh on their recent arrival at Kaduna, Nigeria. Top photo shows a group of natives in costumes of grass and straw during one phase of the dance. Lower photo shows another group of :picturesque dancers, with their odd, "faceless," intricately designed straw cos- tumes during another part of the dance.