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Zurich Citizens News, 1975-09-11, Page 4Page 4 Zurich Citizens News,September 11, 1975 • The eggs might scramble! Certainly no one who can read or hear is unaware of the cost of food. And it has become as much as one's life is worth to offer any suggestions about the means by which farm producers are seeking to achieve better returns for their labor and investment. Certainly in this neck of the woods we can all be thankful that commod- ity prices are higher than ever before because the pros- perity of our entire communities is largely dependent upon the prosperity of the farmers in the area. There is, however, one aspect of the present farm marketing structure which we find deeply disturbing -- not for what it is doing or will do in the future to the cost of the food we purchase, but rather because of the threat it poses to the future well-being of farm families. We speak here of the quota system for the market- ing of produce --eggs in particular. First of all, the plight of two farmers who may lose their entire businesses because the egg marketing board is demanding that they cease production, at least for the time being. These men failed to abide by the quotas set for them. The theory of a quota system is just great. Its purp- ose is to regulate the supply of eggs so that there will not be an over -supply and a consequent drop in prices to a level below the cost of production. In practice, however, any regulation which ca dictate what a man can do with a business he has paid for with the sweat of his own brow is a dangerous departure from the concepts of freedom which are supposed to be the backbone of our nation. We certainly cannot provide an alternative to the marketing board quota system, but were we in the farming business we would be alarmed about the future which is being shaped for tomorrow's farmers. If government, or a government -backed board can enforce a maximum level of production it may at some time also enforce other conditions which could squeeze thousands of farmers right into new and unwelcome restrictions. The leash is comforting when it is leading producers into the sweet pastures of profit, but it's still a leash. Some day it might start to choke. (Wingham Advance Times) To curb TV violence, change your shopping list! - Certainly the widespread violence on TV programs has already drawn an avalanche of public protests. Countless speeches and published articles have been directed against it. Government agencies are studying the problem. And even the networks and their advert- isers are at last beginning to recognize the extent of the public's discontent. Yet a survey shows that of the ten most popular American TV programs (also seen in Canada), six are crime dramas. So are most viewers really all that upset by scenes of gory mayhem and shoot-outs? Maybe not. Maybe it's because many people actually enjoy such scenes that they flock to theatres showing movies that dwell on them in sickening detail. Despite this undeniable fact, most decent -thinking citizens prefer more wholesome entertainment. Par- ents, particularly, worry about what their children see on the tube. But how many good alternative prog- ram choices are there with prime -time viewing hours dominated by one crime drama after another? The situation won't change as long as the networks find this type of programming attracts large audiences. For crime dramas can easily be mass-produced at rel- atively low cost, bringing handsome profits to the net- works and their advertisers. The best solution lies in cutting off the cash flow that makes such programs possible. This will happen when millions of viewers exclude from their shopping lists those products which are advertised on crime show commercials. (contributed) ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 010 II Apr" r*r Member: !�� CrNACanadian Weekly Newspapers Association f ILIMIB,� Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association ''i,.4retie i Subscription Rates: $6.00 per year in advance in Canada; $8,00 in United States and Foreign; single copies 200 The nternational Scene� (by Raymond Canon) inflation psychology Since double-digit inflation has been with us for some time an,d all sorts of articles have .been written on it as to its causes and possible cures, I am sure that just about everybody is properly confused on the subject. One thing it does do and that is get everybody thinking about inflation and I don't mean positively. Rather it starts the idea that prices are going to go up, no matter what and we start building inflation into our mind. It is the psychological aspect that I would like to talk about to- day. I certainly don't have to go far to find examples. Let's take the recent Russian grain purchases to start with. The Kremlin has a nasty habit of not telling too much about the real state of affairs about its grain supplies. Normally they like to grow as much as they can to satisfy their own demand; this is only nat-ural. However, when they have a bad crop and they are forced to buy it from the West, they don't do it on an orderly basis as we would like. In- stead, they make massive purchases and nobody is quite sure just how much they are going to buy. On the basis of this specul- ation, the prices on the grain exchanges start going up because there is the fear that so much will be sold that there will not be enough to satisfy all customers. Since shortages generally drive up prices, if the law of supply and demand works as it is supposed to, the price of wheat etc. goes up. But I want to point out that in this case there is no short- age, only an anticipated one and it could easily be avoided by telling the Russians right at the beginning how much they can buy. It is the psychol- ogical aspect of it all which really drives up the price. An even better example is coffee. I would imagine that you are aware of the fact that you are paying more for your coffee than you were a short while ago. If my figures are correct, the jump is price was quite noticeable and the basis for this increase was that frost had damaged much of the coffee crop in Southern Brazil. Hardly had the news got out when up went the price! I would like to go on record as stating categorically that no price increase was called for at all. First of all, any frost damage in Southern Brazil would take at least three years to work its wa.y through to the end consumer in North America. Secondly, the damage wasn't as bad as it sounds as the Brazilian government has been plan- ning for some years to move the coffee plants further north towards the tropical zone so that the danger of frost will simply not exist. Finally, even if the coffee crop in Brazil did suffer so- called shortages, there are always other countries from whom we could buy ade- quate supplies. From this point of view, there was no reason to jack up the price on this commodity; only the fact that we are gripped in a vicious case of inflation psychology made it easy to get away with and you can be sure that,. somewhere along the line, somebody is making considerably extra money at the consumers expense. However, as we all know, it is usually the consum- er that gets it in the end. All this is of special interest to me since it is the internat- ional aspect of inflatin which is affecting us. We are a long way from . Brazil or any of the other coffee producing nations and unable to deter- mine what is going on. We only know what we read in the daily newspapers and they are generally only report- ing what they receive from the. news services. You have to be deeply involved in the international aspects of econ- omics before the clearer picture emerges. As long as people have infl- ation on their minds, it makes it much easier•for things like the above to happen; It is just one more compelling reason why we have to break (continued on page 5) NOTICE WHERE TO VOTE Village Of Zurich Polling Subdivision No. 46 (Rural) (Zurich 1) All of the Village of Zurich north of No. 84 Highway. POLLING PLACE: - Zurich Community Centre Polling Subdivision No. 47 (Rural) (Zurich 2) All of the Village of Zurich south of No. 84 Highway. 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