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aged to support the PALS organization.
(Preservation of Agricultural Land Society)
At the recent provincial board meeting of
CFFO it was stressed that the Niagara
Foodlands fund needs more money, due to
the expensive method of handling the
cases. Instead of organizing the protection
of the fruitland by large sections the group
has been defending land plot by plot. A
fund of $500 must be raised for the higher
costs,
"We support this program. If this area
goes to developers then where does the
rest of the farm land stand?" said Mr.
Oldengarm. "Protection is short term - we
must ask for planning."
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14 THE BRUSSELS, POST, FEBRUARY 21, 1979
Christian Farmers 25 years old,
Clinton.. meeting hears
Members of the Christian Farmers
Federation met last Wednesday night in
Clinton to hear fieldman Martin Olden-
garm speak about CFFO and its 25th
anniversary.
The Christian Farmers Federation,
formed 25 years ago by a small group of
Dutch immigrant farmers in the Strathroy
area, has grown to include 600 family farm
operations in 15 locals and at least 100
members at large. Membership now
includes other religious denominiations.
"We can safely dedicate ourselves for
another 25 years" said Mr. Oldengarm.
Mr. Oldengarm pointed out to members
that the organization is deeply concerned
about many of the issues facing the family
Farm today.
"We strongly support production quotas
'gut just as strongly criticize them for any
nequalities." Mr. Oldengarm said.
Under question is whether of not farmers
should become involved with research.
"We are co-owners with God of large
racts of land" said Mr. Oldengarm, "We
ely heaitily on research. If we are to be
..esponsible we should be concerned with.
the nature and direction that research
takes if it is to serve mankind,"
Member John Maaskant pointed out that
!arrners are involved in research already.
"All you have to do is make yourself
available" Mr. Maaskant pointed out."
'ontact Mike Miller at the Department of
agriculture in Clinton or Guelph University
.vould even welcome an offer of help.
The western local in the Prairie
Provinces now hires two full time research-
ers and they are funded almost wholly by
government grants Mr. Oldengarm told
members.
Members agreed with the speaker that
education on agricultural problems is
necessary, The provincial mandate of the
CFFO to local executives is to include
agricultural education in curriculum plan-
ning in schools.
Mr. Oldengarm informed members that
the situation with the Consumers Associ-
a6— -eems to be creating more problems
ti al .,olving them. CFFO says consumers
should withdraw their support of the CAC
if they continue their "dishonest policy
(Continued from Page 2)
bankrupt.
Big trial scene. The law upholds Shy-
lock's claim. Old Shy is whetting a big
carving knife on his boot. The rich
merchant stands, breast bared. It's as good
as the old melodrama, with the heroine tied
to the railway tracks by the villain, and the
train fast approaching.
Smart young lawyer to the rescue.
Shylock may take his pound of flesh, but
not one drop of blood, not one ninth of an
ounce more or less that pound, or his own
life, and all his property, if forfeit. Try that
one on the next pig you kill.
Now Shylock was stumped, (An old
Cricket term, chaps.) And that Will
Shakespeare knew his law. He was
continually involved in litigation, like many
a playwright. A great (to me) line in one of
his plays goes, "Let's hang all the
lawyers."
Anyway. The whole thing got me
thinking of usUry. This was once an honest
'term meaning interest on money loaned. It
has since come to mean charging excessive
interest oh Money loaned. A dirty busi-
ness.•
In Elizabethan England, usury was a
crime, and heavily puniShed. Right up to
the death Penalty, depending on whom you
knew, in the right circles.
statements." The Consumers' Association
has urged investigation of producers,
ignoring middlemen and the effect they
have on food prices, said Mr. Oldengarm.
Members were encouraged to redefine
the use of family farms and plan to protect
the farm land base,
"The consumer-producer relationship is
often dominated by confrontation." Mr.
Oldengarm said.
"For all of this we need a more active
and alert membership."
Bill Jongejan, Huron CFFO, president,
felt farm organizations could work with the
consumers' association provided that the
CAC educate itself not on product prices
but on nutrition and promoting Canadian
goods.
"Often consumers appear insensitive or
ignorant to primary producers," fieldman
Mr. Oldengarm said. "People removed
from the rural area lose contact easily,"
"We have to think about the good of the
country" said Mr. Jongejan. Who is
irresponsible-the consumer for buying the
cheaper imported product or the store-
keeper for pricing Canadian products
above imported?
"We are consumers as well and should
set an example" Mr. Jongejan said. "If
there is no milk on a menu do we say
anything?"
. The tables could be turned. "If a farmer
were offered $2,000 to sell his farm and
someone else offers him $1,000 to keep
farming what 'i n you think he would do?
There is tren endow; onus on the farmer"
said Mr. Olds..igarm.
Members discussed having their facts
presented to the consumers. John Maas-
kant expressed concern about ,unfair
practises which make it difficult to compete
with foreign products.
"We can compete" said Mr. Maaskant
"But not against dumping of foreign
products."
Mr. Oldengarm pressed the members
about their responsibilities to make their
views known concerning cheap food
policies.
"We underestimate the impact of one
letter to a politician." said Mr. Oldengarm.
In other business members were encour-
And I began thinking about usury, in it's
pejorative (that means name-calling) sense
in our society today. Is it shameful to be a.
usurer? Is usury something to be hidden
under the rug? Are there any penalties for
usury? Answer: no.
Our modern usurers are not even
ashamed of what they do. They advertise it
in all the media.
They run all the way from our banks,
among our most respected institutions,
down to our finance companies, so called,
among our less respected institutions, all
the way to the hood in Montreal who will
lend you money at 100 per cent interest,
and break your knees with a baseball bat if
you don't pay up.
Try borrowini $20,000 frcim Ann Murray
who touts for a Canadian bank, with no
interest. Her look would shrivel your
gizzard. Try borrowing from a "finance
company" without pledging your grand-
mother's bones for fertilizer in case you
can't meet the deadline.
We are surrounded by usurers, sucking
the blood out of us. Maybe Shakespeare
was right. Line up all the bank managers in
Canada, Shoot them quietly, and burn the
presidents of banks and finance companies
at the stake. I'd enjoy that.
Sugar and spice
By Bill Smiley