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the acton free press thursday octobeh mtti ill business directory 1eifectanwtttttbb eases aaar riptf fcr see sssjfc sirs ms tvth jjrs hi fcr see es tvevsi jor iumjli 1 council news in recent issues of the fuse press gives the information that acton council has taken the initial steps with a view to the installation of a sewage system in acton the bnal chapter to that news may be written in the next year or so or it may be delayed for many years that will be decided by the iatepayeraalonc but there is great significance in the council news of the past two weeks twentyfive years ago the ooundl of that time made a similar important decision with the result that waterworks were installed here looking back over the years there are few who will say the decision to go ahead with progressive measures was not a wise one but the waterworks had considerable opposi tion a quarter century ago and its first years were trying ones and filled with many difficulties looking back in more recent years most folks can recall the opposition to having a garbage collec tion system inaugurated in acton we doubt if to day many would want this convenience removed details of procedure in the latest proposed ad vancement of sewage disposal will come along from time to time it will cost money to the taxpayers how much will not be known until plans are formu lated it will create disturbance and inconvenience and quite likely mistakes will be made that wise folks will tell how they could have been avoided several years later the final approval will be one for all ratepayers that is the democratic way of doing things in this country only the initial step has been taken and council has given the leadership that any progressive community must have tr r a dangerous guessing contest the probablo date when cease fire will sound in europe is important to us because almost every one in this country has a vital interest in the ending of hostilities given the approximate date families of men overseas can begin to estimate the time which must elapse before they receive their loved ones back home again labor has an additional interest in the date in planning for the transition period over lapping war production and the new production of peace time goods business men who must plot the future of their establishments with great care are especially keen to have some one give them an ap proximate date of the conclusion of hostilities in europe thus when at various times mr churchill gen eral eisenhower general montgomery admiral hal- sey and others have attempted to give the public an idea of the length of time it would take to finish up the military campaign their words have been read avidly but in the wake of such statements there has been a wave of other predictions from ten thousand minoi and less informed circles especially since d day almost very man in the street has been taking a guess at the date of v day all of this might be harmless were it not for the physchological effect that the content has on people at large for one thing many are led into the belief that the war is almost over and that the time has come for some relaxation at home further when the war keeps its furious paccv for weeks after v day dates previously predictcdv the morale of many people is unsettled in these crucial days preceding the final knock out canadians at home may again take the r cue from canadians at ithe battle fronts over there none marks time waiting for germany to collapse they are all on their toes fighting as energetically as at any previous period of the war over hero our duty seems just as clear cut a duty which calls us to work as hard as we have ever worked before and to keep oar production lines as vigorous aslbey iuuhb aver been before through the purchase of vjetory loan jtonds v it has always been a puzzling cnacstion what caused the last depression we knew i that we were bound to have a depression in lines of business because we had a series of droughts and because the foreign market for oar wheat fell to very low levels however anyone who remem bers the depression st all clearly will realize that had more depression than even tbese serious factors can justify to listen to one school of thought we might get the impression that all the business men in the coun try gpt together to pat everyone on of work in order to bring wages down and profits an if they did that they did not succeed very well for all that they accomplished was o pat people out of work wages did not fall snd profits simply vanished another achool of thought is that the whole trouble was that the purchasing power of the people vanished and when we look around at the great un employment in the country shrinking of profits in bnsincss and all the other symptoms of hard times it would be useless to deny that the purchasing power of the people did not go down very heavily national income fell to very low levels howev there is something wrong with this theory it explsios what happened bnt it does not say why it happened men were employed up to the time when they lost their jobs their purchasing power did diminish when they lost their jobs but it was the losing of their jobs which caused the pur chasing power to fall the purchasing power didjnot fall first snd the jobs get lost afterwards as n matter of fact it has been estimated that the pur chasing power in the form of savings was at least 6 billion st the depth of the depression the plain fact what seemed to make the depres sion very bad was that people stopped buying and that is something which we might keep in mind when the government is going to stop buying very soon and prosperity or depression will depend on whether the ordinary citizen and those who have in these years accumulated extra purchasing power start buying there will be lots of reservo purchasing power for canada when the government begins to close war factories it is true that the public debt is very high but as mr towers has pointed out this debt is all owned by canadians that means that the 10 billion which the war has cost is actually now in the hands of canadians and can be used to start buying useful things and start employment as soon as peace is here what remains is to discover whether the people will buy the goods which they want at the prices which prevail now if they will and they can busi ness will pick up rapidly after the end of the war spending by the government if the people of can ada do not want to buy at the existing price levels or those which are established at the end of the war then they will not buy factories will close down and we shall have a depression these are things which might be kept in mind in the period after the conclusion of hostilities for they remind us that full employment in canada is not something which can be arranged by governments or brought about by big business if you want to know what the outlook is for employment just go and ask the storekeepers of the town what they think of the prospect of selling large quantities of goods when they can get them at the prices which they expect to have to charge you will get a lot more practical information in that way ithan by reading all the books on economics which are written srlssls v editorial notes ijou can shop early for christmas if you decide to make it victory year and buy bonds for gifts when they go on aale next week v mighty glad we missed the snowfall the othei morning some way or other the coming of winter hasnt the thrills it used to provide v auction sales of farm stock have been very num erous in this district for some months it is fortunate that in most cases those who are quitting fanning are being succeeded by another farmer v with the acute shortage of houses real estate prices are getting a new ceiling as one chap who has to move shortly put it to us its not the value you have to consider but where you are going to get a roof over your head v wartime scarcities has taught many of us that some of the things we used are really nonessential for instance we have found that cigars are not at all necessary a few weeks of wartime scarcity did what our better half failed to accomplish in years v starting last week a series of advertisements are being published in the press including your local newspaper which are of immediate importance for they deal wholly with plans for the reestablishment of men and women in the armed services whai vhis war is over the aim is to inform canadians of heae plans we suggest that you clip them each week for reference when a relative or friend comes back from overseas they pack in a lot of valuable in formation for everyone a progressive cohservatm letter coontlmsm totoecmhinsofhalton if politics interferes with your right and mine to display iaztlwiil issllsllifi that amongst free men is an intrusion by politics and we have the right and the doty to combat that intrusion the spirit of coaspetitiaa must continue to be one of our main driving forces one platform must be baaed on reason and rational reform we must vigorously protest against being overridden by ordersincouncil and regulations by boards and commissions who have had no responsibility to parliament or people the interests of organized labour and the farmer tnust be increasingly recognized in the nations economy and the nations income must be more fairly allocated class hatred distrust and prejudice are dangerous to the future of canada and can only be corrected by removing the cause these great problems can only be solved by pro- tpcxly qualified ttmitwm these are the men we must search for in every riding in our country the p c a haltas ossmty continued next week mew lake btoukebs windsor cp taw eager ateaniera expected to f3j00ojdoo each will be operation on lite great canty steamship tinea as delivery can be made halifax cp premier a- s macmluan announced novm scotia will embark on a program of higgler and better highway after the war plan which should give oofuidexmble 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