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Times-Advocate, 1982-08-11, Page 20DISTRIBUTE SIGNS TodaJUNIOR SHOWMEN - Adriann Brand, left, leader of the Exeter 4-H Horse Club, congratulates the top three the start of be South HHuron entrants in the junior showmanship class at a fun match held in Exeter, Saturday. From the left are third, Janice Junior Farmers campaign of Bishop, Exeter; second, Jackie Schottroff, Grand Bend; and the winner, Darren Vandergunst, RR 2 Crediton. ' putting up signs donated by the Farm and Home Safety Association to mark hazar- dous on farms in Huron The Junior Farmers will be going to all farms with tower silos or liquid manure tanks and posting signs in easy to be seen places so that people can be warned of the dangerous gases. Stephen, Usborne and Hay townbhips will be covered by the South Huron Junior Farmereacidtbeother Junior • Farther t! i{4Ii be cdvet- ing the r�t&ounty. So if you'!lave a silo or li- quid rilanure'ti nk you can ex- pect'to be seeing us! ' iF Times -Advocate. August 1 1,1982 .y • "The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn from history." Cannot recall where that quote came from... Winston Churchill perhaps? But we are apparently go- ing down the same path again: wage and price con- trols. For 40 centuries, historians have been saying that the plan to control rising prices failed utterly. The laws were repealed because no one paid attention to them. More than 4,000 years ago, the Code of Hammurabi in Babylon imposed a rigid system of controls over wages and prices. In ancient Egypt, government controls over the grain crop led gradually to ownership of all the land by the state. In China, Greece and Rome various kinds of regulations over the economy were tried and usually failed or produc- ed harmful effects. It has been said by better historians than I am that the city of Ant- werp fell to the Spanish in the Middle Ages because no one would risk bringing food to the city if market prices were not paid when the merchant got past the Spanish guns. In 1793, the revoluntionary government.of France tried everything passible to impose wage and price controls. The result was predictable: a large black market blossom- ed. Those who know American history are aware of the attempts made in the English colonies to limit the price of beaverskins. Washington's army almost starved at Valley Forge largely due to "that improvi- dent Act for limiting prices which has done great injury," to quote John Adams. As far as I have been able to ascertain, no nation whether democratic or dic- tatorial, monarchy or republic, has managed to make wage and price controls work. Unfortunately, what usual- ly happens is that the controls become effective only for e foot in the rrow'W., L•tWr• ar. ppi.c.•Nd by Bob Trotter ISSN, IW (Imes Onl wages. Prices continue to rise. No mystery surrounds the fact that labor unions simply do not want such con- trols. History has taught labor leaders that such measures end up controlling only wages. It is being called voluntary restraint by Prime Minister Trudeau and the minister of finance. To those who have lived through several periods of wage and price controls, the voluntary aspect is just a prelude to the real thing: mandatory legislation. While a prisoner of war in 1946, Hermann Goering was quoted as saying: "You (America with wage and price controls) are trying to control people's lives. And no country can do that part way. I tried and failed. Nor can a country do it all the way. I tried that, too, and it failed. I should think your economists would read what happened here (in Germany)... "Will it be, as it always had been, that countries will not Nis 2C7 learn from the mistakes of others and will continue to make the mistakes of others all over, again and again?" Voluntary restraint? What is voluntary about being told by Big Brother: Hey, fella! You want money from me, a grant or a loan? Then, you'd better shape up to our six per cent or you will not get your loan. It is like the little boy say- ing that you play by his rules or he will take his bowling balls and go home. Canadian economist W.C. Clark says: "The policy of fix- ing maximum prices... fails to accomplish the objectives sought. it incurs a multitude of unforeseen consequences which are frequently worse than the original evils." "The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn from history." I do not know what the solu- tion to inflation is but me thinks the imposition of wage and price controls is not the answer. ♦; ALL-4IMAU EVENT - The senior showmanship class at the Exeter 4-H Horse Club show in Exeter, Saturday, was strictly for the girls it appeared as no males contested the event. Even the judge was o gal Gayle Ecker, left, of Exeter. With her in the order of placing Huron farm and home news are, from the left: Cheryl Cann, first, RR 3 Exeter; Rosanna Woods, RR 5 Clinton; Karl Schmidt, RR 4 Clinton; Pauline DeVries, Exeter; Kim Kipfer, Dashwood. Pian sconservation O1 l program Huron Coupty Soil and Crop , Assistant H Improvement Association in- vites you to a Soil Conserva- tion Day on Thursday, August 26, from 3:30 to 8:30 p.m. featuring guided tours of Huron County no -till project plots and the terracing project. Special guest speaker will be Dwight Quisenberry, con- servation agronomist, USDA soil Conservation 'Service. 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