Times-Advocate, 1986-03-26, Page 29CAN CROP GROUP MEETS — The annual banquet of the Huron -Perth Can Crop Growers Association
was held in Kirkton, Saturday night. From the are Ontario
table Growers chairman
local haff an Bill Denham, division three chairman Keith Strangandguest speaker Charles Lemmon.
It has been happening for thousands
of years: If you don't like the
message, shoot the messenger.
King David of old sent one of his top
soldiers into battle when the king
knew he would be killed. He did it
because he lusted after the soldier's
wife. And he got her.
But Nathan, the prophet, nailed his
king to the wall in public. The press
of today are the secular descendants
of the prophets and -those wretched,
prying media people are' getting
blamed for all kinds of mistakes.
In other words, if you don't like the
message, shoot the messenger. If you
don't like what the press is saying,
call them names and blame them for
all the ills of the nation.
Politicians make foolish statements
or do stupid things and then blame the
media for telling the world.
A column I wrote a few weeks ago
suggested very strongly that Ontario
had too many hog farmers. The
statistics in all surveys in recent
years confirm the statement but I
received at least three letters, two
chastizing me for suggesting it and
one giving me holy hell for saying that
farmers have every right to enjoy
unemployment along with the rest of
the nation.
As fat cat Garfield says: When all
else fails, blame the media.
Canadians in their gullibility would
probably still be lending more money
to South Africa if the busybody media
men had not used pen and camera to
describe and show white policemen
using whips on black school children.
President Botha screamed foul, didn't
he? -- and barred the media from the
black township.
. It goes back to the Vietnam war,
too. The media got blamed for brin-
ing war into the livingrooms of
America. But I suggest that the
American people would still believe
they won the war if the news
camermenand women hadn't gone in
to the front lines.
The American people would never
have received the bad news from the
Pentagon.
The rotten tuna affair was un-
covered by snoopy reporters and a
minister of the Crown resigned.
Blame the media.
Television cameras revealeethat a
president of a Canadian bank ran the
operation from California and took
much of the bank's resources to the
sunny south with him.
The examples could continue to the
point of boredom: the Paris
newspaper which revealed the
government of France condoned the
destruction of the Greenpeace ship,
the Warrier; the most famous case of
all -- Watergate -- when two reporters
and a hard-nosed editor caused the
world's most powerful man to resign.
And Tricky Dicky Nixon still
blames the media.
If you don't like the message, shoot
the messager.
From the time of King David,
leaders have tried to silence the pro-
phets and their counterparts in to-
day's society, those snooping, prying,
Riddell lists
appointments
Four new members have been ap-
pointed to the Agricultural Research
Institute of Ontario and three others
have been re -appointed, all for one-
year terms, Agriculture and Food
Minister Jack Riddell announced this
week.
The new members are: William
Grieve, Dorchester, a prominent
Holstein cattle breeder and past
president of holstein Canada, Brian
Schubert, New Liskeard, a beef and
dairy farmer and graduate of
Ridgetown College of Agricultural
Technology. Dr. Pat Wall of
Wellesley, a large animal
veterinarian, exposed to all aspects of
animal practice and Robert Steckle,
New hamburg, a beef producer and
director of the Ontario Cattlemen's
Association.
Re -appointed are the vice-
chairman Hank Vander Pol,
Blenheim, Peter Hannam, Guelph
and Kenneth Murray, Waterloo.
The 15 -member Agricultural
Research Institute of Ontario, chaired
by Dr. David bees of Bolton, reviews
research programs at the ministry's
colleges of agricultural technology,
horticultural research and ex-
perimental stations. It then makes
recommendations to the Minister of
Agriculture and Food to ensure these
programs meet the needs of Ontario
Agriculture.
rotten, scribbling media people.
I know I squirm a little in my chair
when some poor politician gets a
dozen microphones stuck in his face
at the daily scrums in Ottawa and the
legislature buildings. I squirm
because I have been a member of the
press for so many years I can't
remember all of them.
But do remember, my friends, that
without the media, this world would
be a rottener place to live.
Corruption, usury, exploitation,
even slavery would be rampant
without the press.
As Thomas Jefferson said:... were
it left to me to decide whether we
should have a government without
newspapers or newspapers without a
government, I should not hesitate a
moment to prefer the latter. (Jan. 16,
1787).
Times -Advocate, March 26, 1986 ' Page 13A
Can Crop reorganized,
speaker looks at future
A reorganization of districts was
reported at Saturday's annual ban-
quet of the Huron -Perth Can Crop
Growers Association held at Kirkton.
Provincial director Harry Dougall
said district three would now include
the counties of Bruce, Lambton, Mid-
dlesex and Oxford in addition to
Huron and Perth. Keith Strang of Ex-
eter is district three chairman.
Dougall said 50 percent of the sweet
corn crop would now be produced in
district three. Another 25 percent will
come from. Essex and Kent with the
balance east of Toronto.
The provincial director said lower
settlements for some crops indicated
the economic situation. He added,
"Green beans are much lower this
year."
Provincial chairman Doug Flook
said, "It was a tough year for negotia-
tions. I hope we maintain the
equilibrium in acreages."
Joe Rider, manager of the Exeter
Canadian Canners plant, indicated
corn and pea acreages in the area
would be about the same as a year
ago.
Rider continued, "We have good
news about exports. We will be ship-
ping 260,000 cases of 17 ounce corn to
Hong Kong and 250,000 cases of 10
ounce liquid pack to England."
The topic of guest speaker Charles
Lemmon of Granton was "Agents of
change in the future."
He said "This is the first generation
where the experience of your parents
is of no value."
Lemmon suggested production of
food would likely have a higher pro-
file in the next 20 years. He went on
to say "Food will be used as a political
weapon in international affairs".
The University of Western Ontario
professor said travel in vacuum tubes
would exist in 25 years and travel
time from New York to Los Angeles
could be cut to 54 minutes by the year
1995.
Lemmon continued, "Space
tourism win be the biggest growth in-
dustry of the 21st century. A week's
vacation or a honeymoon on the moon
will be commonplace.
While most farms are still family
operated, by the year 2000 only 20 per-
cent will be privately owned. The
balance will be under the franchise
system. Franchises will promote
smaller farms and robots will do a lot
of the work."
He suggested biological refinement
would produce pigs that would grow
twice as large as now with leaner
meat.
Bill Denham was chairman for the
program which included excellent
magic productions by Bill James of
Hamilton.
Province to honor seniors
The Honourable Ron Van Horne, the Province of Ontario, and have
Minister for Senior Citizens Affairs achieved significant goals and made
and M.P.P. for London North, an- an outstanding contribution to the
nounced recently that the Govern- citizens of the province during their
ment of Ontario will honour individual retirement years. A Selection Com -
seniors with Senior Achievement mittee will choose up to twenty
Awards. This is part of the Senior seniors who will receive the award.
Citizens' Month celebrations to be "While we cannot single out all of
held in June. the thousands of seniors in Ontario
"It is important that we recognize who give freely of themselves to
others, we want to highlight through
and honour the many contributions these awards some of the significant
which seniors continue to make to contributions from which we all
their communities and our society," benefit," said Van Horne.
said Mr. Van Horne. People wishing to nominate a senior
Nominations for the Senior citizen in their area may contact the
Achievement Awards may be made Ontario Seniors Secretariat, 700 Bay
by the public as well as community Street, 3rd -floor, Toronto, Ontario
organizations wishing to recognize in- M5G 1Z6 or call (416) 965-5106 to ob-
dividuals in their area. Nominees tain an application form. Deadline for
must be senior citizens, residents of making nominations is April 30, 1986.
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