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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1955-02-18, Page 76T FEBRUARY 18, 1955 Phone Write See Geo. T. Mickle &Sofls Ltd. HENSALL, ONTARIO PHONE 103 for. A MALTING BARLEY CONTRACT Don't Wait! Limited Amount of Seed Available We also Supply Fertilizer with Contracts Geo. T. Mickle & Sons Ltd. uron Speakiifg in the Speech from the Throne' debate in the Commons recently, L. E. Cardiff, M.P. for Huron, discussed current problems in these words: Mr. Speaker, like all other hon. members. who have . taken part in this debate I wish to congratulate not only the mover (Mr. Leduc) and the seconder (Mr. Carrick) of the address in reply to the speech from the throne, but all those who have taken part in this debate. I think. it is the privilege and duty of every hon. member who feels he has something to contribute to get up and make a speech. I represent perhaps the best riding in Canada. The people of my riding are certainly the most intelligent in Canada. I rise to- night to make a personal protest against the importation of New Zealand cheese at a time when we have a surplus in Canada. I make this protest because of the pressure which has been brought to bear on me by my constituents and the cheese producers and dairymen in my county. They have expressed dissatisfaction at fhe importation of cheese at a time when we have a surplus of 10 million pounds or more. The cheese producers of Canada deserve better treatment from the government. During the past two years they have done their best to help themselves. They have relieved the government of the Fast Service in .. . RUBBER STAMPS • WARWICK STAMPS Are a Mark of Approval From Coast to Coast WE DISTRIBUTE THIS COMPLETE COMPLEMENT OF MARKING DEVICES: • Rubber Stamps • Key Tags • Dating Machines • Stencils • Legal Seals • Name Plates • Steel Stamps and Type • Industrial inks • Badges • Numbering Machines • Shipping Supplies • Fountain Brushes and Markers • Conveyor Line Markers The Huron Expositor PHONE 41, SEAFORTH b • uestions fou nw, ad dout.:. THE TORONTO -DOMINION BANK The Bank of Toronto and The Dominion Bank are now one—The Toronto -Dominion Rank! With a network of 452 branches, operated by 5.600 employees, Toronto -Dominion offers Canadians outstanding banking service. •With offices in New York and London, plus world-wide connections, the bank has excellent overseas banking facilities. With assets of over one billion one hundred million dollars, and more than one billion dollars in deposits, Toronto -Dominion ranks as one of Canada's large banks, serving a million Canadians. Many customers may be wondering how the amalgamation will affect their connections with the individual institutions. We hope the following may be helpful. Do I continue to use my same cheque- book, pass -book and other bank forms? Yes, for the time being. New cheque- books, pass -books and other bank forms with The Toronto -Dominion Bank's im• print will be introduced later. Will cheques made out on Bank of Toronto or Dominion Bank cheque forms continue to be valid? Yes. Will my .Savings Account retain the same number? Yes. Will rnyarran for business leans and credit f ' isies continue? Yes. Are the personnel of my present rounds likely to change? The amalgamation will not involve any change in policy with respect to movement. manager of your local branch of The Toronto -Dominion Bank will be happy to give you further information. " TOItONIO ~ DOMINION BANK THE BEST I ISI DANKiNCei bGERVIQi ,.,r.. •„LJ6 z4 ,sCtda 7o • 1 C necessity of paying a subsidy on their product. They set up the necessary machinery to'look.after the sale of their product. Now they feel that the government has let them down. If this cheap New Zealand cheese was going to bene, fit the consumers of Canada it would not look so clad, but such is not the case. The processors wbo are importing this cheese are the only people who will receive any benefit. I understand that this cheese will be sold not as New Zealand cheese but as processed cheese, and at a straight profit of 5 cents per pound over Canadian cheese. Five cents per pound for 2:25 million pounds amounts ' to $110,000 which is a sizable benefit for one organization. One wonders sometimes where the nigger is in the woodpile.„Far- mers, especially dairymen who have tried to assume responsibil- ity for their product by taking it out of the government's hands and doing a better job than the government in getting rid of their surpluses, now find that a quan- tity of cheese is being imported to disrupt the Canadian market. We just do not understand these things; we do not know what are the answers. The farmer sometimes gets blamed for the high cost of food, but he is not responsible for the spread between the price he re- ceives and what the consumer pays. Take egg§ as An example. The government put a floor of 38 cents under eggs not so long ago, but what do we find? We find the farmer getting 26 to 28 cents for his eggs. If we are going to have a floor price why not give the benefit to the producer rather than to the retailer, or, the middleman who steps in and akes all the.pro- fit out of it? If the government are going to interfere they should interfere right down the line and see that the producer gets his fair share of the price his eggs bring robl+enis on the market. Prices of farm products have dropped 13 per cent over the past two years on the over-all cash pro- duction, with the prices •of some artieles dropping as much as 40 per cent. Yet we find that the prices of the necessary things the farmer has to buy have gone up. I know of no government which Gan balance an•eeonomy with one important group of the population being imposed upon. I contend that the responsibility of the gov- ernment is to find a remedy. Just the other day a carload of lamb was dumped on the Canadian mar- ket. Perhaps these things cannot be avoided; but when our farmers are getting such a small propor- tion of the national income, much less than is rightly theirs, I think it is time the government took some steps to protect their indus- try. It is not protecting their in- dustry by permitting the dumping of quantities of food on our mar- ket when we cannot get ed of what we have. I should like for a few mi es to refer to the great loss of life and property through "Hurricane Hazel". We all felt very sorry for those who suffered loss and de- struction, but there were other parts of the country where loss was sustained through storm and wet weather. The bean growers of my county lost many thousands of dollars because they were not able to harvest their beans. Loss- es as high as $10,000 were incur- red by single farmers, yet you did not hear very much about it. "Hur- ricane Hazel" hit certain portions of the country and damage prop- erty, but. it also showered rain on a great part of Western Ontario. The land was so wet all fall that people were unable to harvest their crops. Many growers in my part of the country never got in their beans at all. Some were earlier and were more fortunate in getting some of ..them off, -but in THE BELLS SHALL RING (By Fred J. Lawrence) (Though France, for some time past, seems to be passing through the throes of internal strife, yet, there must be not a few of her people who can look back with pride when recounting how a national heroine saved their land in those troublous days when she was consolidating her continental empire.) Along sweet -scented path, with book prescribed, Tight clasped to bos'm, as, with her mother dear, She holds sweet converse, as they wend their way, Like solar ray that penetrates dark Earth, With face aglow with love she bears to Church. The Church -bells ring, But, from the distance far, sound other bells, Denoting strife and baleful battles fought, To save the ravaging'of her dear land By her ancestral foe: across the sea— Lancaster, scion of ill-fated line. The Church -bells ring, The dutiful and pious damazel,• Plying bucolic task—her loved sires 'hest— Oft sat, to moan her country's dire estate, For( daily, messengers from far bring news, "The Dauphin's `leagured Pridejs due to fall!” The Church -bells ring, The Maid, o'ercome by sleepless nights and heat, Slumbers herself, betimes, her sheep, the nance, Recline in calm contentment, under boughs Of stately elms, placed here and there, to act As succor against both sun and storm. The Church -bells ring, The naive girl smiles, not this time at church -bells; In her sleep, there stands the form, refulgent, Of an Angel. direct Herald from Heaven, Conjuring her, "Go often to your Church! Be ever ready to give help in need!" The Church -bells ring, She woke, with heart attuned to less gross strains That emanate from metals forged by man, Hears, day by day. the same Cherubic Voice. Bidding her arm. "Go forth! to breathe new hope Into the flagging hearts of your allies." With mind distraught, through Angel voices heard. Though dressed alone in homespun, course and red. Did she, in vain. essay to 'vies the Court, Who sought with ribbed laugh and stern rebuke, To turn her thoughts and aspirations high, To things of Earth, eschewing Church -bell's call. And Heaven heard that prayer That they but grant her simple audience With her liege lord, that he may learn from her The Plan Divine. she so learned in her dreams; While blissfully her sheep sought rest and shade. 'Neath stately elms of her ancestral home. The bells ring out, but all around is din, And shouts of men in vengeful battle joined; Right at the portals of the domed town, So clear to Frenchmen all, in armour clad, Waving aloft her flag, the Fleur-de-lis, On'charger white, the new Commander rides! Now the conflict slackens, as when flow -tide Battles strong undertow. beseigers stand And, feeling before Heaven their cause was just, The straitened townfolk, with fervor renewed, Girding their loins, fighting with might and main. Forced the intruder back to island home. The Church -bells ring, Once more her countrymen can feel free blood Course through their veins, the hated Sassenach Has met his match; our joyful Maid beholds The Dauphin don his crown as King of France, Which done, she begs him to let her go home. Denied this frank request, Sorely against her will, did she inveigh, Doubting, •meanwhile, if Heaven wert well pleased While, as their head, she leads her men to war. Feeling her work was done, to don shepherd's dress, In loved Domremy, lay nearest to her heart. Once more the bells ring out, At last, bereft of faithful knights on field, Who, so valiant fought to save their Chief From ignominious clutch of hostile hands, They sound again to rouse the townsfolk brave, But Fortune smiled not on their high emprise. Like a base felon, forth with she is bound, Both hand and foot, like to some common clown, Sold too, like Him, of old, for petty sum, Then placed in iron cage, thereafter chained, Always in hopes that her most Gracious King Would now s.ape her as she had once saved him. The funeral pyre is laid around, about, A sea of avid eyes behold the girl, Being led forth to her Gethsemane; With head erect, she walks with queenly tread, Like dying gladiator, she sees naught Save crucifix, clutched closely to her breast. The faggot is applied; the vulgar mob Spontaneous close in, while high in air, Ascend the cinders of that vengeful blaze,— Her visage lighted by an inner fire. Those standing nearest, see by her drawn face," That Joan, at last, is with her Lord and Xing! AURORA BOREALIS many places the beg= were ne er harvested.' We did not he very much aboujr it; we beard tie complaint , The losses they suffered we almost, unbearable. They lost u only the cropbut the cost of pia ing and cultivating it prior to ha vesting. In many places this most ruined some of the young farmers who bad just started•u The older men who have been business for some years do n perhaps deserve the same deg of pity, but the younger men not quite know what to do wi themselves. They cannot me their responsibilities, and the fa is that they 'will have to wait full year before they can redee themselves. They have not' ask for government support nor they expect any, but in many pla es there was as much loss, apa from loss of life, as was suffer during "Hurricane Hazel". Much bas been said about t question of unemployment, and believe a great deal of that mu be the responsibility of the go ernment. Two years ago I dre the attention of the then Minist of Citizenship and Immigration the fact that a great number immigrants were coining into th country who were supposed work on farms, but after they a rived here they stayed a short tim on the farms before migrating to industry in the towns and citi of this country,, The farmers coul have employed that labour an would, but for certain reason stilltrbe able to do so. I 'emphasize the fact that tho fellows had no intention of sta ing on the land. According regulations they were supposed remain on the land for 12 month after their arrival in Canada, b some stayed less than two week It is my contention that if th policy had been changed and th regulation had specified that thes immigrants would have to stay o the land two or three years, the many who did not intend to wor on the farm at all would neve have come here in the first place Then we would not now have the on relief. The government also could hay helped to avoid the present unem ployment situation by insisting tha no one be allowed here unless h or she had a job. This, combine with firmer regulations as regard he land, might well have testae in thousands upon thousands o armers being able to absorb greater labour force. The fact tha the farmer is not getting his fai hare of the national income an s not getting sufficient for hi products has meant that he ha been priced out of the labour mar et and cannot afford to emplo ssistance at the prevailing rate f wages. - The result has bee that the farmers have been com elled to carry on without tha much-needed assistance and som f them, 60 years of age and over re trying to farm 100 acres o and without assistance. It seems to me regrettable tha n a country where there are thou ands of unemployed the farmer annot get any help. Some migh sk themselves why they shoul o to work on the land for 12 o 5 hours a day when they coul .ork in industry for $1.50 or $ n hour, and they may have some ustification for doing so. But af- er all, if they have no jobs the oney stops coming in, and they tart getting hungry. Then -I think hey will find that working on land s not quite so bad after all. As have already said, farmers could bsorb thousands of these men roviding they could be hired at easonable rates of pay. High taxation is another reason e have so much unemployment - his government has taxed indus- rialists out of business in some laces, for their taxes are so high hey have no cushion left to en- ble them to keep men employed industry for any reasonable ngth of time, with the result that ese men are added to the grow - g number of unemployed. If tax - s were not so high and indus- ialists were allowed to accumu- te some surplus for a rainy day think we would find that many f these men would be kept at ork. The fact that they are not again the fault of the govern- ent. The government must also take sponsibility for high wages. I an remember, as no doubt most on. members can, that when the ar broke out we drafted men in - the army at $1.29 a day. But hen munition plants were set up nd started working at full blast, e government found they had to ssist in the running of such plants nd advertised for men at twice three times the pay the soldier as receiving, instead of drafting em into the plants as other men ere drafted into the forces. This licy started the spiral of high ages, which has been continued er since, until we now find our - Ives in a very difficult situation. hat is another reason we have employment. I might say in all irness that when everything goes ell the government is fine, but hen everything goes in reverse e government gets the blame, d sometimes they deserve it. Before closing I want to express e hope that when the government bmits amendments to the War terans Allowance Act, designed raise the basic rates as well as e ceiling of permissible income recipients of allowancesothese en will receive not less than the nadian Legion has requested om time to time over the past w years. In my opinion ex-ser- cemen are fine citizens, and ould receive much more consid- ation than they have in the past. for one hope that this time they 11 be properly looked after. Canada took some six per cent of the United Kingdom's exports in 1953. • A young man and his girl were riding out in the country on horse- back. As they stopped for a rest, the two horses rubbed noses af- fectionately. "Ah, me," said the young man, "that is what I'd like to do." "Well, go ahead," said the girl, "it's your horse." {y' Exeter Phone 41.3 NOT - TOWNSHIP OF MckILLOP ALL CAR OWNERS IN THE TOWN- SHIP OF McKILLOP ARE REQUEST- ED NOT TO PARK THEIR CARS ON THE ROADS OF THE TOWNSHIP DURING THE WINTER Cars that are left on the roads are con- trary to the Highway Traffic Act, and are a detriment to operation of snow- plows. AFTER JANUARY 1, 1955, PLEASE NOTE THAT PROVINCIAL POLICE WILL'TAKE THE NECESSARY AC- TION TO SEE THAT CARS ARE NOT LEFT ON ROADS, AND PROSECU- TION MAY FOLLOW. W. J. 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