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C P oo on en mt t C C eE OE C e O e es merremrleeaaeeeene APRIL S \__ 'Talking _ Through His Hat in Saying It's Not Needed to Help Victory' "Gross* incompetence" in the handling of Canada's agricultural problems was charged yesterday to the Federal Administration by On-- tario Conservative Leader George A. Drew, when in the Legislature hs urged Agricultural Minister Dewan to again impress upon Ottawa the necessity of drafting a planned pro-- duction. At the same time he characterized as an "amazing speech" that of Don-- ® ald Gordon, chairman of the War-- time Prices and Trade Board, in s & Winnipeg, on Monday, when that administrator declared: "Wheat is not needed to help win the war." When Mr. Gordon says that, "he is talking through his hat," declared Lieutenant--Colonel Drew. He claimed too, that if such a statement was going to be made--a statement of policy--that it should have beeh made by the Federal Minister of Agriculture, Hon. J. G. Gardiner. He said it might well be that $ less wheat should be grown and that production should be centred on soya beans and coarse grains. But as evidence of Government re-- sponsibility, such a statement, he said, should come from the agricul--| tural experts directly in contact with farmers. He also attacked Mr. Gordon for his statement that it was for the people to take on the job for the organization for total war, "Again * Mr. Gordon is simply talking through his hat." said Colonel Drew. "It should have dawned on & him that it dawned on the people of this country long ago that they wanted to be organized for total & war." need to be told what is the need. because they cannot be organized for war unless the leadership and organization comes from the top." Failure of the Federal Administra-- tion "to tell the farmers of this country what should be done be-- fore they are ready to plant their seeds for this year, is exactly the sort of incompetence and stupidity which can lose the war," said Col-- onel Drew.