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i4u~~~~, 1*40 - ~~~~TE CANADIA TTLiW ~JjiVUI.*d J~AZi Farmers and Factory Workers In National Economic Picture 6 The Statesman has consistentlyj time and again devoted its columns to consideration of the relation- ship between farmers and factory workers. There has been no ten- dency to take sides. The clear issue has been to state opinions of both interests with the hope of developing a balanced public opinion. The following article is contributed by R. J. Deachman, Ottawa, a farmer and Ex-M.P. who now sidered one of Canada's 4foremof economists: He writes s follows: T e relationship of labor to f, nmer and farmer to labor in the mpending struggle between the two is clear as the sun at noon- day. Labor seeks higher hourly wage rates and is utterly regardless of any other objective. Reductions in cost of living, increases in the total volurhe of wage payments matter not in the least. If it wanted higher pay rolls then it could legitimately line up with the farmer, or with any oth- er class.in Canada, for the econ- omic object of our existence is to increase the total national in- come. Now mark this carefully, higher wage rates and higher to- tal wage payments are like pickles in cream, they go ill together and in the great majority of cases when the wage earner thinks he has -something because his wage rate goes up he has kicked labor as a whole out of several billions if he lives in the United States and several hundred millions if he lives in the Dominion of Canada. The subscription price of The Canadian Statesman is $2 per an- num. Has the proprietor any guarantee that if he added $2 to the price and doubled his adver- tising rate he would mpke more money han he now makes. I doubt .> if he would. Wage rates, and I write first of money wage rates, in cents per hour, have gone up steadily from the average of 1923-25 to 1939 in the high wage industries; manu- facturing, mining and steam rail- ways in the United States. Can- adian figures on this question- are not so complete but we pattern fairly close after the U.S.A. The increase in the money wage rates in that time had been 17.8 per cent. There was also a re- duction in the hours of work from an average of 45.7 hours in 1923- 25 to 37.8 hours in 1939. Despite the increase in hourly wage rates, weekly wages fell slightly. Total pay rolls on the average of the three years, 1923- 25, amounted to $13,612 millions, they fell by 1939 to $11,186 mil- lions, a decline in total earnings of 17.8 per cent. It is, of course, part coiricidence that the decline in total wage pay- ments, or let us call it total pay rolls, should have been, in terms of percentages, exactly the same as the advance in the hourly wage rate, but when the real wage rate went up as it did in conditions such as then existed, it was inev- itable that there should be a de- cline in total wage payments, that decline amounted to $2,426 mil- lion, from $13,612 million to $11,- 186 million. High wages are gen- erally costly to labor, rarely is the effort worth the price. In this particular case the price paid must have been felt quite sharply in every state in the Union. It affected not only labor but other groups as well, particularly the farmer. CERTIFIED POTATO SEED INFORMATION The regulations affecting the production and sale of certified seed potatoes in Canada are ex- tensive, and, for the information of growers and others connected with the industry, a copy of the complete regulations may be ob- tained from the Plant Protection Division, Dominion Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, or from the district seed potato inspectors in the several provinces. The certification of potatoes -for seed purposes in Canada is car- ried out entirely by the Plant Pro- tection Division. Staffs are em- ployed-in each province, varying in accordance with acreage enter- ed for certification. The regula- tions are uniformly administered throughout the country. Certifi- cation involves the examination of the growing crops at least twice during the season, an examination of the tubers at harvest and at thipping time, and the issuance of tags to each grower to attach to the containers. The containers used comprise bags, barrels, and crates. According to the regulations, no potatoes may be sold for seed un- less duly certified. j I We'll Keep the "OLD BUS" Running for you New cars won't be available for, sometime in any numbers. No need to let the "Old Bus" run down be- yond repair. Our complete auto service will keep your car in running order. Our expert mechanics can locate any trouble and do an A-1 repair job. GARTON'S GARAGE PHONE 2666 BOWMNV"ILLZC Beaver Returns Here is the new Canadian Pacifie Railway Company crest on which the beaver, symbolic of the Domin- ion which the Confederation Line has served so long, re-appears after a 17-year absence. The change in the company's .trade- mark for use in all departments in this country and abroad was announced by D. C. Coleman, the chairman and president. Goodyear Develops New Synthetic Known as "Pliobond" A product of wartime research1 that will have many peacetime uses is the new synthetie adhesive cement known as "Pliobond," soon to be marketed in this country. The new product has been em- ployed successfully in bonding a variety of materials - including wood, metals, plastics, fabrics, ceramic ware, vulcanized synthe- tic rubber, paper, glass, plaster and Portland cement concrete. Ap- plication may be made either as a cold setting cement or under heat and pressure, depending upon re- quirements. Pliobond can be applied with brush, spray gun, spreader, or a roller. It sets rapidly, and in many cases the bond strength has been found to exceed the strength of the materials bonded. In bond- ing metal surfaces, shear strengths of 2,400 pounds per square inch have been obtained. Waterproof and resistant to al- cohol, petroleum distillates, and chemicals, the synthetic cement remains flexible when set. This property makes it useful for bond- ing fabrics, rubber, paper, leather, thin gauge metals, non-rigid plas- tics, wood veneers, and other flex- ible materials. The bond is per- manently flexible, and does not become brittle with age or upon exposure to low temperatures. Developed by research techni- cians of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Pliobond has been thoroughly tested and has proven its worth in wartime pro- duction problems in the United States. It will be manufactured by Goodyear in Canada at the company's plant in New Toronto, Ontario. Mr. L. W. Domm, Manager of the Goodyear Special Products Division has announced that Un- ited States Plywood of Canada, Ltd., have been granted exclusive rights to distribute Pliobond in the Dominion. Sales and merchandising will be administered by D. M. Rogers, Canadian manager of United States Plywood. Sales represen- tatives are Jay Kee and Ken Tripp. United Church Plans To Raise $3,500,000 Minister Pension Fund The United Church of Canada held an organization meeting in Belleville presided over by Prin- cipal R. C. Wallace of Queen's University to begin the campaign in the Bay of Quinte Conference area, which extends from Chalk River to Brockville on the East and Haliburton and Pickering on the West to raise its share of the $31½ millions new Capital Fund to make the Ministerial Pension Fund o o ieUnited Church actu- arially sound. The campaign authorized by the General Coundil at London is to be conducted by laymen with an organization like the Victory Loan Drive centreing around Sundays, April 28, May 5 and 12. At the meeting Mr. David H. Gibson, for- merly of the Navy League and Chairman of the National Execu- tive and Rev. C. H. Adair, Na- tional Director of the Campaign, presented the need for the new funds. Mr. Gibson said it was a layman's effort to lift the shame off the intolerable financial con- ditions under which ministers la- bored. The fund has 1,664 depen- dents. Elected to the Bay of Quinte Conference Executive were: Hon. Chairmen, Rev. H. B. Neal, Presi- dent o! Conference, Renfrew, and Elmer Davis, Kingston. Chair- man I. H. Keefer, Peterborough; vice-chairmen, David A. Gillies, Arnprior, and Rev. Dr. James Semple, Peterborough; secretary- treasurer, H. S. Johnston, Lind- say; chairmen of special names committee, T. H. Stinson, Lind- say; Alex Storie, Oshawa; E. L. Sackville, Peterborough; chairmen of general church canvass, R. F. Downey, Peterborough; Inspector A. A. Martin, Brighton; J. W. Kit- chen, Smiths Falls; committee at large, Principal R. C. Wallace of Queen's; N. E. Zimmerman, Ren- frew; N. Gilroy, Coe Hill; W. S. Gordon, Tweed; E. L. Fraser, of Trenton; Don Baxter, Bloomfield; H. W. Ackerman, Belleville; Lay- ton Sooch, Oshawa; Keith Gahan, Oshawa; Walter Rogers, Brock- ville; Mel H. Staples, Orono. Ap- pointment of a publicity man and a lay organizer will be dealt with by the Executive. Trans-Canada Air Lines is oper- ating three flights weekly in each direction between Montreal and the United Kingdom. Fare-pay- ing passengers may now book r flights across the Atlantic. New Hydro Setup . Gives Unlimited Power To This District4 Construction of a 25,000-kilo- watt frequency-changirlg station at Scarboro Junction, will make Osh- awa the focal point for a virtually unlimited sppply of electric power for the area east of Toronto by the fall of 1947, Dr. Thomas H. Hogg, chairman of the Ontario Iiydro- Electric Power Commission, said ip a recent interview. The station will link Oshawa and the eastern shore of Lake On- tario with the Niagara River pow- er system. Thirty miles of high- altitude transmission line will be erected and total cost of the job is estimated at $3,000,000. "This will mean an assurance of a continuous supply in the area east of Toronto," said Mr. Hogg. "If there is a failure in the Trent Valley system, the Niagara system will be available and vice versa. Seasonal drops in power will be eliminated." A new line from the Madawas- ka development in northeastern Ontario, already under construc- tion, will also pass through Osh- awa. ' The line, originating at Stewartville in Renfrew county, will pass through Peterborough as well as Oshawa en route to Toron- to. The frequency-changing station will convert 25-cycle power from the Niagara system into 60-cycle for use in eastern Ontario and Georgian Bay, and will change the 60-cycle power from the Trent River and Madawaska systems to 25-cycle for use in the central and western part of the province. Miscellaneous Facts From the Labor Front According to a recent release by Gladstone Murray, Director of Responsible Enterprise, Toronto, the following facts have been as- certained that may be of interest to readers following the conflict between labor and management. A British labor delegation that visited the Soviet Union during 1945, has reported that: "The standard of living of the Russian iron and steel worker, apart from war scarcities, is with- out doubt considerably lower than ours. There is no question of striking because it is illegal. Promotion to better-paid jobs on the processes is by individual mer- it. Seniority doesn't count and the decision lies with manage- ment (the State)." "Taking the 15 years, 1930-44, if all profits in the U.S.A. were distributed among wage earners, the increase in wages would be just under 6 per cent." According to United States gov- ernment figures, the gross labor union income for 1943 was $390,- 000,000 made up as follows: Un- ion dues $218 millions; fees, fines, etc., $70 millions; taxes for nation- al headquarters, $102 millions." The present labor war, describ- ed as a bid for power, can be counted on for a long fight with the above vast sums, added to each year, as useful ammunition. Foundation Studies Counties Health Unit The Northumberland and Dur- ham Counties Heal‡h Unit was visited last week by Esther Hirst, nursing consultant for the Rocke- feller Foundation, who is setting up health units in South America. Due to the fact that the health un- it here was organized without any previously existing set-up, it has been constructed in accordance with the needs of the district which it serves and for that rea- son its organization has been cho- sen by the Rockefeller Foundation for study. Miss Hirst is on an observation trip in Canada to study nursing education and public health. Dur- ing the course of her inspection of the health unit in these counties she has visited some of the branch offices of the unit. TO TURN THE TIDE Dates, radio and movie thrills, orchestrarleaders, football and basketball scores, rum cokes, diff- icult parents and teachers, impos- sible younger brothers and sisters, the dullness of home-these are what the average teen-ager thinks about all day. What we think about all day is our philosophy of l! e. Boiled down, this teen-age phil- osophy is to have fun in life. They like the dirt and danger of the world, and the only thing they see to fight for is freedom trom par- ents, teachers, preachers and oth- er "old-fashioned" restraints. In "old-fashioned" days this would have been called the phil- osophy of a "lost generation" and a "toboggan slide to hell." It is still all of that. But today it is also the philosophy of a "lost de- mocracy" for there are malignant anti-democratic forces on the prowl for personal or party pow- er. All they have to do to get control of today's youngsters and tomorrow's world is to keep kids' minds on sex, sport and trivial- ities; continue to divide them from their parents and responsibilities; promise all the "liberties" they want. Today, however, there is also another gang of youngsters in the feld. They stili think o! dates but of what theycan give to a girl friend, or boy friend, not whLt they can get. They still think of movies but of pictures that show our homes and country as they can be-clean, strong, united. They still like music but music that sets you on your way, not the kind that "sends" you. They still go for sport but go out for the game and not the box score. They still think home can be dull but if it is they see what they can do to liven it up. They get all the family having fun as they pull together for a goal much big- ger than it ever could be if all were thinking of themselves s pledge their unqualified and loyal support to the recently announced policy of the Suspension of Price Ceilings by "The Wartime Price and Trade Board" over a specified number of goods and ser- vices as a first step in orderly Price Control. "GOODS OR SATISFACTORY MONEY REFUNDED" This is the guarantee that protects you and will continue to protect you. It is doubly important as a safeguard for your shopping dollars against UNWARRANTABLE PRICE ADVANCE during this period of relaxing government controls. An Interesting and Pleasant Store to Shop in alone. They still think parents, sisters and brothers, teachers and preachers can be difficult but know that they can change them if they start by being less difficult themselves. Their philosophy is that: "We want a different world and, if the only way to get it is for us to be different first, we're going to be different startingnow." This gang may well change the moral climate of the world, especially if you go out to help them. But it's a mat- ter for infection, not correction. We can turn the tide of thinking and give new direction to our youngsters, but only if we find and follow new direction in our own lives. Many inquiries are being receiv- ed by the industrial department of the Canadian National Railways from firms seeking sites along the company's right-of-way for the establishment of new industries. I. Ministers Favor Use Advertising Methods (Renfrew Mercury) Acting on the theory that the end justifies the means certain churches -in recent years have shown a tendency to use the tech- niques of modern advertising to attract the congregation, and more particularly the young peo- ple. As one pastor explained, "With competition from other sources we feel we are right in drawing an equal amount of at- tention to ourselves and what the church has to offer." The distinc- tion is drawn between mere nov- elty and entertainment which tend to lower the dignity of the Gospel and is therefore not justified and the use of a sensational title which will arouse people's interest and cause them to think. Rev. E. S. Lautenslager is of the opinion that a "catchy" sermon title which is scriptural and fun- damental will bring people to church with the right motive. He believes that a minister should choose his sermon title with the same care an author titles a book or a dramatist a play but that il should always be anchored to a scriptural passage. If a title pro- vokes thought and arouses inter- est it is proof that it has made an impression. "The Gospel is not dull or eas. ily ignored," another divine points out. "Jesus created quite a stir ov. er the good news he taught anc preached. The Gospel has not los1 its ancient power to arouse, tc create, if you please, a sensation. The drawing power of a good solo- ist and a fine choir are admittec beyond question. After all, ever an institution such as the churc· must move and keep abreast o: the times if it is to retain its holc on youth and provide leadershiî in a confused and unsettled world POPE PIUS VOICES WOMEN'S TRUE TASK Pope Pius XII in a recent ad- dress said: The feverish agitation of the present moment of travail 6ystaying at and still more apprehensions of an uncertain future, have brought the position of women to the fore- front in the programs of both friends and enemies of Christ and HOTELS the Church. Equality of rights with man Moder> brought with it her abandonment Rreproof, of the home where she reigned as queen, and her subjection to the §-y PU'i same work strain and working hours. In the concessions made to women one can easily see, not the respect for her dignity of her mis- sion, but an attempt to foster the economic and military power of DO hIgher the totalitarian state to which all $050 must inexorably be subordinated. liA - To restore as far as possible the P«PUSU honor of the woman's and moth- FOR MAe er's place iñ the home-that is the row.M vo. watchword one hears now from NHMIM many quarters, like a cry of alarm, Mongml as if the world were awakening terrified by the fruits of material and scientific progress of which it before was so proud. t The fate of the family and the vm fate of human relations are at stake. PAGE 0