Halton Hills Newspapers

Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), March 23, 1950, p. 7

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hbimhty mtafcrh b is the acton fftt mtett loss leaders ay the seemingly taevitefcle rwult f trying to keep everybody pro- twou by twterferinf with the ef ficient ejd oncpapuur uw of upply and demand ti to set up th government in hlgxly un profitable hut in see tm means that every on of us mutt have ioim part in the miteourtvgbis d- vfmura th idea baglns with wuu3 price to remain high after th cause that lnduted the high price has largely disappeared tha war bnoucht an normoui tound for farm produrte it alio provided hew purchasers who could not and did not haggle over prtrea now and quit naturally thoee whi received the hlfh prlrea do not want to take lets that u vary human ana undents da bu but it involves pllry that in all prob ability will be vaitly more roaty to us than any natural decline in prlrea could be you can argue of court that the rmat will be more avenly born that u true kvery- one will share the ims though not evrym benefited ovemmrnl decides that wheth er or not prices will at ay up that u what la meant by floor price hut turh floors without the huge aupiort ing rfrnundi of war are likely to tag then ihrrr are two alternative either the public will not buy until prices have rearhcl ft level they think reasonable or government muat atap in and per ches thua creating an arhlul scarcity that may make the hgher price seem inevitable that policy haa been thoroughly tried in the united state and the government there u now in busi ness with no possibility of profit at ihe time of writing these are tome item in the government purchase st million bales of cot ton itt mlluon buahsla of wheal hi million bushels of corn so mil lion bushea of potatoes 71 mil lion pounds of dried eggs iso mil lions of pounda of dried milk an unstated number of millions of pounda of butter and 30 million pounds of canned meat none of thane commodities did the govern ment want all of them represent ed a serious problem of storage and what wwa mora etajalflcaat j tremendous losses at the end of january thee adverts transaction had resulted in losses totalling v7 billion with the prospect that by midyear the los would be almost doubled i a slmlar effort on the part of our government would not onrv hut out many natural purch aser but at the same time would load these purchasers with a re sulting debt it u rather hard to ball eve that a policy that is so cosi ly and so wasteful it a reasonable substitute for a system that estab lishes a price on thr bails of av ailable goods priced within the reach of the great rt number of people hell walk soon tommy victim of reihra1 jiauy it ailcntl taught munlf coordination by a skilled physical therapist al ihe cer ebral pauy centre i ndon he needs sjmmui facilities uhlrh ou pro vide when you ue paiter seals sales campaign for whuh is marrh ii to april 9 ionatt mi may be wnl dire t in rotary hub a en administration costs invt little during the past year there has been relatively little unemployment in canada ye4 we are told thai lbs cost of administering the federal governments unemployment insur ance fund amounted to 17000 000 senator w m aselune of sas katchewan has suggested in a speech in the upper house that the seriate committee should investi gate this enormous administration cost senator aahme point out that contributions to the fund by employers employees and govern ment in lt4t totalled 130000000 and administrative costs therefore amounted to about 1 per cent of the total a condition which the senator described as hocking u ottawa haa been able to spend 117000 000 to handle unemployment insurance at a time when the prin ciple work of the department muit be collecting payments from work ers and employers we wonder what administrative coats will amount to if large unemployment occurs and the department haa the additional work of returning the insurance contributions to canadian workers if ordinary insurance companies had to waste as grest a percentage of premiums in administrative costs there would be little cash left to provide benefits senator aselune suggest i sn of an investigation of the funds administration dors not aecm st all unreasonable at this time tstois tttvlfrom or thl outmookd tattlf laws complicated and out of date cus tarns laws passed during the de preasjon and still on the book have th net effect of shutting off foreign markets from american manuacturvrs and farmers say jerome ileal ty urging an overhaul of outmoded us tsriff regulations in the march header digest the artlce u condensed from the am erican usoaxlne th- u s has msde available to foreign nations 17 billion wort of farm and manufactured goods under marshall plan yet wltei those nations try lo h the united slates their goods for dollars with whlc h to buy american ex purl rvwy otwtarle is put in tlirlr ws lleatt harges among he otti le are r die- red im- and ovenealous cutoiih offxkau ahsurdltles in u s cu iiiimi lhti irirn rtsslualkon tending tit dlwourage import from other nations are teuton titan tiled in tht atule one fuftcern a radio network whlth imported tttordirik if famous foirljjn hurt n iwll tff radln imh1c hrilevfd tf ourne idrtt th were lilnjtuijf in a jilionoitrnph record hut the us uttomt iwirtinent iulr1 thnt the i hief ntur in thi ret or w ns lis luntnd nml w mi n dut uii rr t litlfl jilin of i huii h im- i a rut gongs a u s linoleum firm paid ji7 f7 duty on a hlpm nt of aphal tik lnimirted from anada laid the floor and ihoutflit ihe deal com pleled then american customs stepped in made a rhemlial anal- ysla of the tile and dlboetrcd n thctlc resin undrr thla lnlk- at ion the duty uu raided to fwo 05 the header digest article uot s harry s kariviirfc a top authority on imports if 0ngre4 will revise the custom laws ad equate imptirts will increase ai irast ft billion dollars a year vjoucpvl pucafiat as mother and 1 strolled peat one of milwaukees ex elusive hotels we noticed standing at the doorway a beautifully coiffed french poodle leashed to a very correct chauffeur mother stopped to admire the pooch and couldnt resist patting his top knot madam said the poodles guard ian austerely if you had just come from the beauty aalao would you wish someone to run his fingers through your hair the readers digest kitchener upholstery it itwtt mtl u udh our cwfestu wti uka k s pitt tto4imi- niwmimu tm 1 tf free pickup and deuvery ph0nk 1 acton the iomlnlon of canada was established in 1r76 mftai- iivdrv v in its odd business series the fin ancial post reports a toronto engi neer who is doing ery well taking in washing hut he washes steel tron and bras not clothes at his metal uaundrv ltd in torontos industrial area there he takes in wtorn rusted palnl-covorol- metal parts and turns them out looking like new the metal laun dry tub a shot blasting machine welgha about four tons the wash ing is placed in an lnilde cabinet of bout five cubic feet closed up thla revolves and fine steel shot fto fine you can just make out the individual pieces clean off the metal it takes three lo ten minutes to clean a wash crrv op co inrt rrtstf london tknglanflt transport eatlmatee that each lomloner takes on an average about 480 ride a year covering some 1340 miles the syatem carries 4700000000 paaaengera a year which means some is 000000 journeys a day this represents an increase ol so per cen in travel compared with prewar days the rirat itlble printed in am- erica was printed in the indian language braida shoe store aton from oit of thk dark uncle bob lives in a small town at use end of a street known as lovers lane one night last sum mer he had gone to bed but not to sleep because his dog kept barking every few minutes directly under the bedroom window finally uncle dob went to the window and called out sharply hey iluddy cut that out the barking stopped and in the ensuing silence a young man a voice said meekly yes sir from lifes like thst in the reader dlpeat attention farmers we with to announce that our mr ross will he ai ihe dominion 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