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EA re i» Cer = 9 oT hal ak ule SA oe TRB Ats SR Apel RATS, IT'S EMPTY - This visitor went looking for treats on Queen Street the © other day, but all he could find was empty wrappers. Some days it doesn't even pay to try. ti ASHBURN NEWS Moring worship was quite well attended at Burns Church on Sunday, February 4th. The choir sang an anthem "Arise Shine." Rev. Black's sermon title was "Supernatural Light." The Women's Missionary CLEAN, SAFE FUEL. for the coming burning season, TRAVEL Why Experiment? HEAT YOUR HOME WITH RELIABLE, Call REESOR for a tank of Oil. Let us keep you supplied Reesor Fuel & Lumber 'NONQUON Society held their meeting in the church on Wednesday evening with 14 ladies pre- sent. The meeting opened with the singing of the hymn "Jesus Shall Reign." The scripture reading Ecclesi- 985-7951 SERVICE 160 Queen St. -- Port Perry 985-2336 fo Hawaii -- SCHOOL BREAK -- March 17th to 25th Some space still available = via American $379. 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Our March meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Heron. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Kerry of Utica were recent visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Herb Ashton. Mr. and Mrs. D. Ashton attended the funeral of the late Mr. Pickering last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Graham and family have recently moved away from our com- munity and have now taken up residence near Picton. / Fred Hugh at War memories fade except for disabled The years slip by and the memories of wars past are blurred, and their meaning becomes changed with time. A generation now coming into adulthood knows little about the Hitler War : and the so-called Great War of 1914-18, the one they com- memorate with the battle names cut into the town memorial, seems as distant as the American Civil War or the Battle of Waterloo. But it's not all so remote and far away if you left a piece of yourself behind a hedgerow in Normandy or on an operating table in a military hospital. It's true that a man can learn to walk again --and even play golf or fly an airplane -- with one live leg; and he can earn a living and dress himself with one arm missing. There are some very sophisticated and even fairly comfortable arti- ficial limbs (the proper technical term is prosthesis), and millions of dollars have gone into improving them. Back in the early twenties the war amputees formed themselves into the War Amputations of Canada, partly to help each other and partly to speak as a group to government pension boards. Twenty-six years ago they started the mailing of key tags to car owners during the annual license plate period, with funds being directed to the assistance of disabled comrades and their families. The key tag operation has grown steadily and is in nine of the ten provinces. (B.C. is served with key tags by another veterans' organi- zation). A computer now helps sort the lists, and more than ten million key tags will move out to Canadians from the headquarters in Toronto each year. Some 20,000 sets of lost keys will come jingling out of mail bags and be sent back without charge to their owners. The funds from the key tags (one dollar for the first two, 50 cents for each additional tag) are used to employ 35 full-time staff and about the same number of part-time employees in the assembly and mailing at Toronto. The funds also are distributed throughout the nation via the 19 War Amps branches and Dominion headquarters at Ottawa. The key tag money is used to help war amps who need assistance beyond their pen- sion amounts and to help the widows and dependents of war amps. There is con- tinuing work on artificial limb development. The nat- ional headquarters at Ottawa makes representations to the government on behalf of disabled veterans, former prisoners of war and in special cases among veterans. Now, as the wars recede and the veterans die off, more and more of the work of the War Amps is devoted to assisting civilian amputees. Scores of men and women and young people who have lost limbs in traffic acci- dents, or industrial mishaps, or through disease, have been helped in buying artifi- cial limbs, and in therapy and retraining. A new field has recently been entered with the estab- lishment of a unit to train-the victims of kidney disease to operate their own dialysis (artificial kidney) units. The little key tag does a lot of work. i = «i. ¥§ 5 day fay 3% 5 mile As | see it by Bruce Arnold If you are hoping for some relief from the skyrocketting price of groceries as a result of the inquiry into food price increases started last week by the federal government forget it. The motion to set up the inquiry had no sooner been passed when the Minister of Agriculture, Hon. Eugene Whelan, made clear the government's true intentions in the matter. it would appear that the government wants to set up a smokescreen around the whole inquiry by using the old divide and conquor technique. The idea is to get you farmers fighting with we grocery shoppers, so both groups will be too busy to bother Mr. Trudeau who is having enough trouble trying to consumate his union with Mr. Lewis. The Minister of Agriculture says prices have to keep going up until they get high enough to pay the farmer a decent wage. See the plan? Statements like that are designed to A. lead farmers to believe that all the complaints about high prices come from city slickers who want to rob farmers of a decent living, and B. make grocery shoppers believe that all the extra money they are paying goes into a farmers pocket. I have never met a housewife who did not "appreciate the fact that farmers work darned hard to supply our tables with food, and that the country could never survive without them. I have never met a farmer who had too much money. I have met deceitful politicians. This is what the Minister of Agriculture had to say to the annual meeting of the Canadian Federation of Agriculturerecently. ""Itis high time that farmers start to get a better deal in our society and economy," and "The last thing farmers in Canada need is a freeze on food prices which would reduce profits even further." Itis clear that Mr. Whelan not only does not have the answer to high prices - he does not even understand the question. Does the Minister of Agriculture think that farmers still sell their produce directly to the housewife? If so someone should tell him that farmers sell to a marketer, or marketing board for, let's say, 10 cents. The marketer, who has to make more than the farmer otherwise he would be furhter ahead to go to work for a living, sells to a wholesaler for 25 cents. The wholesaler sells to a grocery store for 50 cents. The housewife pays 75 cents for a dimes worth of food. Now whose fault is that - the farmers or the housewifes? Mr. Andre Fortin, the Social Credit M.P. for Latbiniere, offered an explaination in the House of Commons on January 23. Mr. Fortin said, '"The consumer is deceived by the false publicity (advertising) as well as by the middlemen between producers and consumers, so much that an item which should have cost very little int he first place is finally sold at an outrageous and abusive price because a whole series of middlemen took their share of profit without taking part in the production." Since we are discussing honesty here I should declare a possible bias. Mr. Fortin and I are members of the same political party. Do you think that is why I believe his statement is more truthful that the Minister of Agriculture's? To settle the issue let us get an outside opinion. Mr. Charles Munro, President of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, has no connection with either of the political parties involved here. ' Mr. Munro says that between 1961 and 1971 the Canadian food bill increased by 4 billion dollars, but the net farm income rose only 660 million dollars, or 16 percent of the total increase. Who do you suppose got the other 84 percent? No wonder 30 farmers a day leave the land. Mr. Adrien Lambert, a partisan colleague of Mr. Fortin and M.P. for Bellechasse, told the House of Commons on January 22, "I dare suggest that some 20 years ago the producers of raw agricultural materials were getting 28 cents out of every dollar spent on food' The M.P. added, "In 1972 that part of the consumer dollar going directly to the farmer was only 10 cents." ~ Let us not allow anyone to get us fighting among ourselves, you farmers and we grocery shoppers. After all we are both in the same boat. We both work hard for our money and we both pay prices and taxes that are far too high. If blame must be placed let us place it where it belongs, on the middlemen who rob us, the government which allows this situation to exist - or both. Real Caouette says that "The farmers get up at 5 to milk the cows at 6, and the middlemen get up at 11 to milk the farmers at noon." I believe him. §