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Local riding associations also require some funds for their dayâ€"byâ€"day operations. A good local riding campaign at election time costs at least $15.000. Where does the money come from? It has to come from a broad range of individuals in society, just not a few wealthy individuals, busiâ€" nesses or unions. We believe that provincial and federal governâ€" ments must get their priorities straight and enâ€" courage by whatever means available people to keep their land in production, to foster farming as a proud means of earning a livelihood and to return more land to agriculture, rather than diminishing it daily. United Church Fundraising for political parties in Ontario has undergone a major change in the past two years. The current drive for money by the Onâ€" tario Liberal Party illustrates this change. Yet here in Canada, truly one of the breadbaskâ€" ets of the world â€" even if we use only the 13 perâ€" cent of our land mass considered to be;potential agricultural land (only 2% is prime agricultural land) more and more farmers leave the land every year, less and less of their farms are viable, the acreage is paved over or built up and agriculâ€" ture seen as a secondâ€"class business. Somewhere, like so many of the arguments in our technological age, people miss the point. Food and its distribution are among the most crucial questions facing planet Earth as its ability to feed itself declines daily. As cities grow around the world there is greater need for food producers every where to be encouraged to stay on the land and help meet this worldâ€"wide crisis. Waterioo Chronicle office is located on 2nd floor of Waterioo Square‘s Office Tower Enter via the mail entrance beside the Longhorm Restaurant {directly opposite the card shop) or from the elevator foyer beside the Tâ€"D Bank Take the elevator to the 2nd floor and you are there The statistics make strange reading â€" 26 acres an hour disappear, 7,000 acres of Niagara Peninâ€" sula farmland zoned for construction and on the other side of the ledger thousands die daily of starvation in the Third and Fourth World. Confronted with these contradictory stateâ€" ments, politicians argue that it is simplistic to compare world food shortages with the loss of prime land in Southern Canada. For, the reasonâ€" ing goes, even with the steady encroachment of farmland there is more than enough acreage left to feed Ontario and still export food products. The controversy around the loss of arable farmâ€" land in Canada rages as municipal planners and developers pressure all levels of government for greater access to agricultural land. Farmland loss published every Wednesday by Fairway Press, a division of Kitchenerâ€"Waterioo Record Ltd., owner, 225 Fairway Rd. S., Kitchener, Ont. address correspondence to Waterioo office: Waterioo Square, Waterioo, Ont., telephone 886â€"2830 Publisher: James M. Boland Editor: Mary Stupart subscriptions : $10 a year in Canada. $12 a year in United States and Foreign Countries 11@aD0i¢ people to To the civil service, the banks, the teachers, it is just foster farming another welcome holiday, a little bonus. Makes a good day velihood and to !° £0 bunting, or fishing for rainbow, or putting the boat . away for the winter. e, rather than _ To the young people of this land, however much their United Church _ teachers try to make them aware, it‘s just one of those established 1854, By Bob Ernest, president, Waterloo Wellington District Liberal Association To remain viable, political parties must deâ€" pend on thousands of individuals to make modâ€" est contributions. The tax credit system makes it easy for citizens to support the party of their choice. The formula for calculating your tax credit is 75% of a contribution from $10 to $100. The percentage decreases for donations over $100. Tax laws now permit residents to claim subâ€" stantial credit for contributions to political parties. A tax credit is a direct tax reduction in personal taxes payable. For example, if you contribute $10.00, the tax credit is $7.50 making your actual cost only $2.50. A $100 donation gives you a tax credit of $75 and an actual cost of $25. The Election Finances reform Act made imâ€" portant changes in the way political parties are funded. The main objectives of the new law are: 1. To limit the amount which any person, corâ€" poration or union may contribute to a political party or its candidates; 2. To facilitate and encourage broadlyâ€"based fundraising through modest contributions by individuals or groups; 3. To provide disclosure to the public of the names of those who contribute more than $100 a year to parties. The Ontario Liberal Fund is established accordance with this Act to enable citizens participate actively in supporting the party. Toâ€" the businessman, Remembrance Day is a dam‘ nuiâ€" sance. For years he fought iit, with one eye on his cusâ€" tomers who were veterans, and the other on his clerks, who would have to be paid for nothing, if he gave them the day off. â€" ~ To industry, it has long since been an anachronism, alâ€" though many of them do allow veterans the time off to atâ€" tend the service. y Each year the iconoclasts chip, chip away, hoping that eventually the whole embarrassing (jn their opinion) charâ€" ade will fade away, even though old soldiers never do. Last year, one Canadian Legion branch observed the day a week early, because the Nov. 11 date interfered with their deer hunting. : I wonder how much more will be chipped away from the image of Remembrance Day this fall? He whittled it down to half a day off, then an hour off for the memorial services. Today, most businessmen simply ignore the day, and it‘s business as usual. it < EtC o n + t Wl 8 ?fii&:} ho uen CE oi o o P l s ww 1 Bill Smiley y 16 oo j (*â€" 1 t * f allllg. * * * .. s, < * C $ ¢ â€" #* 4 § $ ® i o e J o+ 5* *, > Hetesosy, ‘ '\‘.“0‘\1 *s* “\"\ 0““» ‘» .._ ‘. “ “ .‘ .\-\ in i en i in to Remembrance _ _ Day | It‘s sort of sad. But maybe it‘s a good thing that somebody remembers all the fine young men who went off so willingâ€" ly, even eagerly. to fight, and to die if necessary. for ideals that modern historians sneer at There. the caps will snap, and the turkey will sizzle, aygd the dart board and the shuffle board will be in full swing, and all the young punks who joined the Legion as social members will be enjoying the facilities, and over in a corner a ftw Old Sweats from W.W.I will be nursing a beer and reâ€" minding. with a quickening of the eye, "D‘ya remember the time ...?~ They will stand and listen to the Names of the Fallen being read. They will be assured by the padre that They Did Not Give Their Lives in Vain. In the Minute‘s Silence, which is usually cut to 30 seconds, they will have a brief flicker of overwhelming grief. Not for fallen comrades, but for lost youth, and for the encroachrment of old age and illness and the final enemy. & And as the knifing notes of The Last Post keen in the Noâ€" vember air, there will be some real tears. Then it‘s attenâ€" tion, Reveille, and quickâ€"step behind the band, off to the Legion Hall, all that sloppy "sentiment‘ left behind, like the fallen comrades. Their ranks are thinning. and hardly anybody else turns up for the ceremony any more. But across the land, thouâ€" sands of men and women, potâ€"bellied, greyâ€"haired. slightly ridiculous to themselves as well as others, will march with solemn faces, on a cold and wet and windy day, to communâ€" ity cenotaphs across the land. But those are minority groups. Who or what is left to make Remembrance Day a significant one in Canadian life? There‘s nobody left but the guys who were actually there â€" the veterans. Does it mean anything to them? At the risk of sounding maudlin, I would answer with a ringing affirmative. And there‘s the military, the mighty and intrepid Canaâ€" dian Forces, who could probably repel an attack by the Swiss Navy and the army of Monaco. t gives them a chance to strut their stuff and show that they have been taught the Slow March. And there are the trumpeters who can handle the Last Post. They‘re few and far between, but around Rememâ€" brance Day they hit the Jackpot. A former student of mine used to pick up about $35, darting from one area community to the other, playing the Last Post at Legion dinners, and memorial services, and schools and churches. Oh, of course there are the politicians. There are still a few votes to be culled from veterans and their wives. For many a veteran‘s wife, it‘s a day of some anxiety. She knows perfectly well that, however carefully she has trained the old man, he‘s going to insist on going off to the Legion Hall, to "honor my old comrades.‘"‘ The trouble is, his old comrades have also gone there, to honor him. And between all the honoring, he‘s going to arrive home at an unusual hour, in an uncertain condition, and will feel evâ€" ery one of his 56 years on the morrow. That doesn‘t leave much of anybody, does it, who has any real stake in Remembrance Day? Even a decade or so ago, youngsters still had fathers and uncles who had served in World War II, and talked about it, and maybe had a souvenir, like the garterâ€"belt of a Women‘s Land Army girl, which they assured their kids was one of the catapults that were Britain‘s only weapon after the evacuation at Dunkirk. vague and ‘silly holidays, like Empire Day, or whatever that thing is called that used to be The 24th of May, the Queen‘s birthday. t