The Huron Expositor, 1949-02-04, Page 3•
'St, Andrew's uj ch Re-
views : Successful Year;
Elects Ofeers.
The' annual meeting' of St. .An-
drew's 'United Churoh, itippen, was
held on Wednesday ..evening„; Tan.
26, with one of the best attend-
ances of /recent year*. A large
number of members and friends
partook of a delicious pot -luck sap-
per, which preceded the meeting,
and was thoroughly enjoyed by all
those present.
After super -the business meet-
ing convened in' theSunday School
Hall under the chairmanship of the
minister, Rev, Albert Hinton, wit:.
Mrs. Harry Caldwellas secretary.
In opening the,, meeting after devo-
tions, the minister made sympa-
thetic reference to the families be-
reaved by death during the past
year.
The reports of the various de-
partments of the church's life and
%activities were presented' to the
meeting. All manifested sustained
interest in the worIi of the church,
and the treasurers of the organiza-
tions were able to reveal a healthy
state of affairs in the substantial
baalances reported, the local church:
treasury having a surplus of $460,
whilst increased suppert was giv-
en to the missionary work of the
church.
The Women's Association report-
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ed. another herr successful, ye+lri b
ruing assistance to the ohtlrch'e
treasury, as welt as contributing'.
rnateriail n to the final la/wes of
repair and decoration to the church
property. The devoted work o2
the ladles was touched, 'upon in a
happy speech by Mr. W. LI. Maths,
wlio paid the women of the church
a well-deserved tribute. The pas-
tor also remarked that the united
and unstinted offering of time,
labor and money on the part of
the men and women of the church
had resulted in making St. An-
drew's one of the finest of the
rural churches in the Presbytery
of Huron,
The Sunday School, reorganized
two years ago under the joint.
superintendency of Mrs. Harry
Caldwell and Mrs. John Sinclair,
again showed in its report the
faithful work and deep interest
that are manifest in this import-
ant part of the ohurch's life. In
speaking to this report, 'Mrs. Cald-
well made an earnest appeal for
help in serving the older age group
in the Sunday School.
Elections to the Board of Man-
agers resulted in the following
gentlemen constituting the com-
plete board for the current year:
Carl McClinchey, Jos. McClellan,
Robert McGregor, Robert D. Elgie,
R. M. Peck, Duncan Cooper, Arthur
Finlayson, Orville Workman, Ed.
McBride, Emerson Kyle, Archie
Parsons and Eldon Jarrett. Of
these, Duncan Cooper is chairman
and Emerson Kyle secretary, with
Miss Jean Ivison as ,treasurer of
the church.
The ,meeting concluded with the
minister expressing thankful ap-
preciation of the labors in the ser-
vice of the church by both officials
and workers, and also presented to
the meeting •a report of the action
Junior Farmers ' of North Huron, students at a four weeks' short course being held at Gorrie by
Huron Agricultural. Representatives Gordon Bennett and J. C. Rennie, visited district farms last week
for practical lessons in good farming practises. Here the Class is shown at the farm of J. M. Scott,
Seaforth, where Mr. Scott points out the merits of a 2100 -pound Shorthorn.
of the recent General Council with
regard to ministerial support and
the Pension Fund Campaign, after
which the meeting concluded with
,the benediction.
Mr. John O. Doig, of the F.B.I.
staff, Detroit, was here over Sun-
day visiting his mother and sister,
Janet.
]Miss Ida Dayman, of London,
visited over the week end at the
Thome of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Dayman.
Mrs. Norman Long is visiting
friends in Toronto.
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population remains on the farms.
It is ridiculous to suppose that 75
per cent of the .population can live
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with 25 per.cent. For better or for
(Continued from Page 2) worse, the Canadiann urban popula-
tion can no longer depend on the
Caaaditn. farm population to ab-
sorb the bulk of their aggregate
goods and services. Another mar-
ket must be found and maintained,
if our overgrown urban population
is to be reasonably, and profitably
employed.
During the war there was an un-
limited demand for the products of
urban industry, and price was no
question—cost-plus was the rule
rather than the exception. Since
the war, this condition has been
prolonged by means of the aid giv-
en to Europe, and by the spending,
OD the part of the town population
of the accrued profits •of the war -
years. Of this last the numerous
civic improvements undertaken by
the towns, the perfect rush of
s,:mmer-cottage building, and the
expans'on of tourist accommoda-
tion and amusements facilities
generally, may he taken as symp-
toms. The towns are living partly
on their own fat. These'conditions,
however, cannot continue indefin-
itely. Barring another war, from
which may Heaven deliver us, the
times must come when conditions
return to normal.
When this takes place, our ov-
ergrown urban economy, unable to
dispose of its production within
the national boundaries, must go
out Mrd compete with other coun-
tries, on equal terms, for world
markets. In these markets, all the
regulations which have artificially
enhanced the rewards of the Cana-
an unnatural advantage over the. dian • urban population will mean
farms and have Upset the equality,:,nothing, and less .than nothing. In
fact, they will be a handicap, and
if persisted in, the handicap may
well prove fatal. In all directions,
the costs of the urban eeonemy
will have to be reduced. This will
mean lower profits, industrial and
mercantile, lower wages, longer
Have you ever thought of what hours of work, less holidays, cheap -
is the cause of the housing short:* er services, less luxury and plea-
sure. It will be an almost impos-
sibly painful process, but it will
have to take place if urban em-
ployment is to be maintained.
Otherwise the towns will have
priced themselves out of their on-
ly possible markets. The alterna-
tive 1•:111 be wholesale urban unem-
ployment.
come tax to a farmer.
The result of all this has been
disastrous. For many decades,
rural depopulation has been .pro-
ceeding at an alaapning rate. Since
the beginning of the war, the move-
ment has become an avalanche. It
has been estimated that, since
1939, 300,000 people have left the
700,000 'Canadian farms. There are
thousands of abandoned farms,
,thousands of others partly aban-
doned', very few that are producing
as they could or should, scarcely
any that are properly maintained.
with adequate attention to future
production, or conservation. All
this is not the fault of the farm-
ers. Those that remain on the
farms have done marvellously un-
der very difficult conditions. They
have kept up production and con-
stantly improved the quality of
their products. In their work, they
have employed the most up-to-date
knowledge and the most modern
techniques. They have labored as
no other class in the community
has done—an eleven -hour day and
a six-day weeks is the common
thing on Ontario farms, with no
holidays, and five or six hours on
Sunday. The present plight of
Canadian agriculture, amounting
almost to a crisis, is due to one
thing, and one thing only — the
numerous regulations, themselves
a violation of every principle of
free enterprise, which have given
the urban part of the community
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which would otherwise exist be-
tween the two.
These conditions have proved/
disastrous to Canadian agriculture.
They will, in the end, prove even
more disastrous to the urban part
of the community.
age—a distinctly urban phenomen-
on? Not wartime destruction, as
in England. Not any unusual in-
crease in total population, either
by birth or., immigration. Not any
cassation of building — 'building
went on almost nortnally, even in
the war years, and since then has
gone on at an unprecedented rate.
There is only one main cause— In a genuinely free economy,
the wholesale migration, within urban unemployment usually
Canada, country to town. Partly, means a movement of labor back
to the farms. The farms, indeed.
are expected to absorb surplus la-
bor, and on the farms. particular-
ly under Canadian ;conditions,
where employer and employee com-
monly work together and eat at
the same table, labor is at least
assured of a decent subsistence,
and generally if labor plays the
game with any fairness, of kindly
and sympathetic relations with its
employers. This movement farm -
ward has indeed taken place quite
extensively in former depressions,
notably in those of 1596 and 1907,
a good deal of labor went back to
the farms. where it was employed
in making necessary capital im-
provements, and in catching up on
maintenance, to the advantage of
the whole economy.
It is not likely that this will
take place in any future period of
urhan 'unemployment. During the
past few years, our people have
been taught that the State owes
them a living. We can it, euphem-
istically, "Social Security." 'like
idea was unknown, 20 years ago,
and would have been resented, ev-
en by its beneficiaries. Now it is
adopted by all political parties.
Whatever we may call it, in real-
ity it is a system of State charity.
cannot fail to undermine the
All urban populations. in the end iniiependence and freedom of the
reust live by exchanging their ag- individual, and to correspondingly
gregate .products, in goods and ser- increase the power of the State—
vices, with rural populations, for another step on the downward path
rural products. There is no other to totalitarianism. 11 cannot fail,
way. Canadian policy for the past too. to preventnecessary economic
70 years, has been based on the adjustments. People will prefer to
.supposition that our very eaten- remain where they ars. and live in
ave agricultural resources (unlim- idleness on State -aid- which of
ited, we used to call then), would tours," will have to he "adequate"
be developed by a constantly in- —rather than seek work where it
creasing farm population. and that may be found. Idleness Inevitab-
10 this population the urban part ly results in social degradation.
.he economy could sell their The idle rich have long been a
goods and services at prices arti- bye -word for depravity. The idle
tidally enhanced by protective poor are no different. And the
tariffs and other regulations. The farms will not. get an adequate sup-
surposition, 1 think, was never ply of labor, as indeed they olid
valid. Whether it. was or not, it is not, during the last depression, for
certainly not valid now. Farm pop- the same reason.
ulation, everywhere, is decreasing I have not, painted a cheerfu
rather than increasing. There are .picture. Is there a remedy? I be -
no extensive areas of farm land to l.ieve there is, if we have the cour
be opened up, and, of that already age to apply it..
fanned, much is being abandoned, The remedy, I think, lies not in
in whole or in part, as I have al- more Government regulations, but
ready shown. It is estimated that in. much less. Free ehterprise, I
now only 25 per cent of Canadian believe, can knock the spots off
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• must. Agriculture re t'Qdend i"eer
roost irnpertant Rf ill, ill}flustjrirA ,
Producing the very rO0o,n i• of nll
life and having in its .custndy the
only petznanent natural resource,
the • fertile soil. Tho Terry exist.
*ince of humanity, ar we are be,
'ginning to see, depends on an its
creasingly efficient agriculture
Canadian agriculture must no long
er be Cinderella in the Canadian
economic household, compelled to
drudge in order that its more fav-
ored sisters may go In silks. Cana-
dian farmers do not ask that gov-
ernments shall do thing* for them
and Indeed it is doubtful Ghat ,gov,.
ernments can do anything worth-
while for them. All that is asked,
all that is needed, is that govern-
ments shall •atop doing things to
them.
Whatever injures agriculture in-
jures • equally, in the end, the
whole economy. A saying of an
ancient Chinese philosopher may
well be pondered. It is true in our
day as it has always been true.
"National prosperity is like a tree
Agriculture is its root. Trade and
commerce are its trunk a n d
branches. The arts and crafts are
its leaves and fruits. If the root
be injured the trunk decays, the
branches die, the leaves and fruit
wittier and fall."
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people were needed in the towns
for the manufacture of munitions
and war supplies. That this is a
valid explanation for the extent of
the movement is, however, belied
by several facts. First. Govern-
ments found it necessary, during
the late war -years, to prevent, by
regulation, labor from leaving the
farms. This, of course, in order
that equally necessary production
of food might be maintained. Sec-
ond, even during the war -years, the
movement toward shorter hours
and more holidays. In the towns,
went on uninterruptedly, while out
on the farms, the work -week was
lengthened almost unbelievably.
Third, since the end of the war the
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