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the tribune stouffville ont thursday may 9 1946 1f tmtfftriur uuribunr established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and ontario quebec newspapers association issued every thursday at stouffville ontario subscription rates per year in advance in canada 3200 in usa s2ol a- v nolan son publishers notes and comments heated steering wheel next winter we mav get some more comfort in driving from a heated steering wheel cover to keep our hands warm in the below zero weather just a little electric heating con rolled up in a leather or rubber fabric and heated from the batterv does the trick science news letter rain drops longed for now somebodv has said that rain drops are the weeping tears of angels without debating the issue we want to say that if there is not soon a nice warm spring rain coming across thi- stouffville district there will be a lot more people than angels feeling like weeping thus far the spring has been dry and backward with too many raw winds no wonder we are all longing for the welcome spring refresh ment that makes the pasture lands green and causes the seed in the ground to spring up certainly a raindrop can be a lovelv thing whether it comes in silver mist or sheets of driving gray and in its healing kindliness it might seem divine raindrops fall on rooftops or windowpanes with a com panionable patter like small friends knocking to nnounce their arrival bringing a message of comfort one thinks of rain on dusty pavement rain on parched earth rain on withered grasses one thinks of rain lashing the sea rain deluging the tropics rain dropping benediction on hot desert sands and one is inclined to agree with longfellow how beautiful is the rain the whole universe would seem to concur in the decision for when the soothing hand of the rain has passed the earth raises a glad wet face and somewhere in the sky a rainbow may be found smiling a radiant smile of grati tude montreal gazette about the nearest thing of that kind was the refusal of millions of russian kulaks to cooperate with the soviet authorities 25 years ago the result was mass starvation with the farmers themselves the chief victims ihe basic difficulty in enforcing a farm strike era five- day week is the refusal of nature to play ball grass and cattle will continue to grow calves lambs and chicks con tinue to be born- cows must be milked and pigs must be fed no matter what the owner may think about it- if he refuses to cut the hay or milk the cows then he himself is the first to lose like the individual businessman the farmers main interest must be production as continuous and economically as possible it is ridiculous for the producer of beef cattle or any other farm commodity to think of withholding any market able product for any length of time once it pisses the right stage for processing it begins to deteriorate o- it runs up storage charges if grainfattened cattle are turned out to grass they will lose their finish and all the work and feed that went into that finishing is largely wasted once hogs are brought to the approved 200odd pound market weight they must be butchered or they will be docked for excess fat and coarseness of flesh and even the unfortunate who has never left the city pavement knows what happens to fruit and vegetables if kept too long if as a result of excessive cost or low price a product fails to produce a consistent profit the farmer will if he can gradually switch to something else but he only pyramids his losses by refusing to sell what he has already produced beef prices to the farmer in canada have risen 40 since the start of the war and even if the level was abnor mally low in 1939 that increase must surely rank among the highest for any product farm or nonfarm during this period if with such a gain beef raising in ontario is still unprofitable then there would seem to be something funda mentally wrong instead of this silly talk of striken a sober investigation into costs in ontario and elsewhere would be much more to the point friday ana saturday may 10 11 tjujt dangerous partners jaires cra 7v pirates of the prairies tim holt who will milk the cows the financial post among the more sensational headlines dealing with the latest meat crisis in the toronto area were the ones hint ing at a strike of ontario beef producers details were necessarily vague for the very good reason that srch a pro posal is just about unadulterated nonsense strikers dont fit in with farming any more than schemes for the fiveday week or the eighthour day the anglican advance appeal in common with all the communions of the christian church as voiced at the council of protestant churches at geneva switzerland the church of england in carada has undertaken a great forward movement for rededieation and thankoffering to be known as the anglican advance appeal this appeal was officially launched on the feast of epiphany and preparations for the financial drive during the present week are expected to bring great results the appeal has been officially announced in this paper mr cecil davis is local chairman a comprehensive summary of the anglican advance appeal its aims and allocations of funds is fairly familiar to members of that church and is one of the veiv worthy appeals of the current year no one need to be overlooked for it is the duty of those who wish to give to come forward with their offering by forwarding the gift to mr davis or by placing it on the plate on sunday afternoon snvice our capital correspondent written exclusively for the stouffville tribune by m l schwartz while toe dominionprovincial conference has left many impres sions along parliament hill which will not be forgotten for a long time yet some of them stand out much more than others with after maths not being ruled out at this lime amongst veteran observers especially along political lines it is pointed out that there is little doubt that taxpayers n general across this country do not favour any double set of taxation with federal government as well as provincial government doing col lections of similar taxes such as existed in certain directions prior to the war so that any elimination of such duplications seemed to meet with popular approval like wise it is indicated that regardless of the outcome of the negotiations the federal government did have the power to collect or the author ity to collect taxes on a fairly broad scale and this would allow the central authorities to get the necessary money to carry out the postwar programme tuough re construction processes would be slowed up if the federal and pro vincial governments did not agree it is reported in ottawa that at march 31 1910 exservicemen who have been approved as qualified to come under the terms of the veter ans land act included 10511 in full time farming 12570 in small holdings 347 in commercial fishing and 1123 in provincial land with 1127 veterans engaged in full time farming in this country receiving some or all of their farm equipment then again 700 per cent of the equipment purchased by them was new and 201 per cent secondhand this involving s1s210793 in pay ment for new equipment represented only the united king dom at the meetings in paris of the foreign ministers and not the british commonwealth of nations this being deemed an extremely important point to bear in mind according to veteran observers here there is widespread interest across canada in the question per taining to compulsory savings de ducted during the war and whether hese can or cannot be taken off the income tax payments now it lias been reported in ottawa that it is government policv not to allow compulsory savings deducted during the wartime to be applied on payment of the balance of 1945 income tax since such action it is emphasized here might result in discrimination against other classes of income taxpayers in canada poor visibility and accidents at railway crossings are closely relat ed it is reported in ottawa to such an extent that figures compiled by the board of transport commis sioners in ottawa show definitely that poor visibility has a direct bearing on the ratio of crossing accidents indeed it is revealed that poor visibility caused by the need of antifrosting and defrost ing devises on all types of motor vehicles including farm trucks is a strong factor in accidents especially during the months of the year when the ciays are shorter and the weather bad on account of frosting on windshields and wind ows in november and december among the underlying causes ol such accidents almost a third of the total saw the automobile or truck run into the train and in most other cases the automobile or truck drove on to the crossing in path of train as a result of the resignation of hon dr herbert bruce pc tor- ontoparkdale who will be 7s years of age next september the oldest member of the house of commons is now james e matthews liberal brandon who will oe 77 years next august a 19man committee of the senate will consider civil ser vice salaries and conditions with interesting results anticipated from stanley lloyd an i cninjvuu of the wartime prices i and trade board in ottawa has written song hit and it has been pared with the same month a ago reproduction prohibited federal features syndicate 1910 the parmer and thf 5day wjeek as seen byjlahervie of midnaporealta i have read recently with sur prise that the question of a forty- hour week may shortly come up for discussion in alberta i am a year shops master agreements or check offs but i have very definite ideas on a fortyhour week strangely enough i am in favor of a forty- hour week or even lessproyidingof course that all our citizens will enjoy these shorter hours with this in mind i would like to direct i a few questions to employers labor union members and even to the ordinary man on the street are you in favor of making any provision to give the farmers a stockman or what might be termed fortyhour week a mixed farmer and a veteran of j will any of you produce or invent two wars a cow that can be persuaded to take last fall we came within a few j a milking holiday from friday hours of a serious tieup in the afternoon at five oclock until mon- packing houses and a settlement day morning at eight oclock was reached by a reduction in will any one of you produce or working hours i have little or no invent a pig that will not squeal knowledge of union shops closed and will be perfectly content to do monday and tuesday slay 20 21 vacation from marriage deborah kerr robert donat meat investigators and inspectors tcicming i in the emplov of the wartime ts functions prices and trade board are report- tm ed to be s3 in number these being lrale supplemented bv the services of ra- ul a lion officials and womans advisory published in england with the and trade board and by the royal song being save a canadian mounted police in var- o sunbeam for a rany dav ioiis areas of canada since 19451 the estimates showthatmooo 1011 when meat rationing was re- mposed s1039is00 was spent in salaries in respect of men investi gators and inspectors and nwi0s41 was used as expenses in meat inspectors as well as investigators operations will be spent in 19101917 for the national gallery of canada canadian service personnel travell ing in or to the united states in uniform may purchase a round trip coach class fare on payment of 75 percent of the regular oneway fare president truman of the j united states has endorsed a form in answer to an inquiry minister er principal of mcgill university i of justice hon louis st laurent montreal- as head at the world bank has stated in the house of com- established under bretlon woods j mons in ottawa that the trial of the proposals he is lewis douglas its here stouffville youth christ grand opening saturday may ii and continuing every saturday evening held in the mennonite church at 815 pm hes outstanding rev h a baughey of pcntiac mich- one of americas most inspira tional and challenging youth evangelists tours america and canadian broadcasts also you cant miss this opportunity kings radio quintette theyre said to be torontos most famous singers of the gospel youll never forget them lilkiprogreive member of par- the relaxation of some import rej liament fred roe in connection strictions on canadian goods in thej with espionage charges is now british market under the sole iurisdietion of the ottawa is only attorneygeneral of quebec and he start could not intervene if he would to canadianmade bring about a delay in ths trial in added to thi it is tressed in the lies nning a in this direction and other i goods would le list from time to order to allow d nirittkc well- lime it is disclosed in ihis capi- known british lawyer ani mp to tal that the continued advance in act as counsel for the canadian commodity distribution through mp retail outlets across canada is an premier mackenzie king has encouraging development with the stressed clearly in parliament lhatdollar value of retail sale increased british foreign minister bevinby 12 percent in january 1916 com- j without being fed all day saturday and sunday what about the hay or grain that is ready to harvest will some one arrange to have the rain held back on saturday and sunday what about our boys who after years of overseas service have returned to our mixed farming area to an eightyhour week are they to be paid for forty hours only or are they to be paid time and a half for the other forty hours if so who is going to pay them and from what source is the money coming will a fortyhour week on the farm mean two shifts will two shifts mean a fifty percent increase in the farmers costs if so will you city boys agree to pay the farmers prices to cover this increased cost will you pay goc a pound for good beef 00c a pound for butter 70c a pound for bacon goc for eggs 15c a loaf for bread 15c for milk 2 for a chicken and guarantee o take all the farmers produce at these prices if a fortyhour week i- granted on the grounds that it will increase employment will those getting the benefit of these short hours agree to legislation being passed imposing penalties on anyone taking on additional work in addition to the ordinary necessities of life farmers are principally interested in the costs of processing their products if the costs of processing are increased by the adoption of a fortyhour week who is going to stand the increased cost who is there to stand it except the producer why are we farmers so dumb that we sit still and see this de veloping right under our noses why are our socalled farm papers not putting this situation more clearly before the farmers are the farmers going to speak up or are they again going to leave it to the usual dogfight between the processors and the professional labor leaders how many millions will ii cost the producers if the processors stop arbitrating and grant labors demand in full this year will labors requests include not only a fortyhour week but a substantial increase in pay as it did in 1945 will somebody tell me if the flour mills the dairies and the packing houses are miking too much profit and is the government taking substantial taxes thereon is agriculture directly and indirectly paying a goodly portion of the canadian tax bill if agriculture cannot make a profit who is going to dig up the money to rehabilitate our boys who fought for us while we stayed at home and agitated for more pay and more profits i believe all farmers recognize our responsibility 10 the returned boys but who is going to cig up the money for the taxes to pay our obligations to them as one who has seen something of the suffering in europe i am worried as i realize that we will find ourselves in the soup unless farmers industrialists business men employers labor leaders in fact all of us cut out a lot of this nonsense and wake up to the fact that work and work only on the part of all is the basic solution for prosperity and 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