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PAGE TWO THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO THURSDAY, JULY 4TH, 194Q Vôt OnubÎrn eltuteu Establfshed 1854 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Wfth which are Incorporated The Bowmanville News, flhc Newcastle Independent, and flic Orono News. 85 ycars' continuons service to the Town of Bowmnanvillie and Durham County. MEMBER Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and Class A Weeklles of Canada. SUBSCRIPTION RATES $2.00 a Year, strictly ln advance. $2.50 a Year ln thc United States. GEO. W. JAMES, Editor. The editor is indulging in an editorial holi- day this issue and has turned over this column to an old school pal of the editor who attended B. H. S. with hlm about the turn of the century. Modesty însists that the writer's name be with- held, but we may say he is an officer of the World War. has had considerable literary ex- perience and is a keen observer and extensive traveller. His comments on the war from the farmer's standpoint will be of particular interest to our rural readers and maybe an eyeopener to urban dwellers-The Editor. The Farmer and-The Famine What of the farmer in this war? How can he best fit into the picture? For months past, îndeed from the beginning of this war, ten months ago, we have waited for a definite war-time farm program. It is true that until the conflict took shape and direction, a planned course for the farmer was difficult indeed; yet even in those circum- stances and in the face of falling prices for f arm production the ultimate aim should have been -increased production along very definite limes. This column has stressed this need; that ahl talk of surplus should cease. Surplus can be transformed inta scarcity with appalling sud- deness in wartime-as we shahl see-unless this war ends suddenly. From the moment Denmark was overrun we should have laid down a definite farm policy here in Canada. After Holland and Belgium were subjugated the need was even greater. And now, since France is gone we MIUST take action in the sphere of agriculture. For famine is rîding hard upon the heels of slaughter and destruction-in Europe. It is the inevitable legacy of warfare. History teaches us that. And history also tells us that it is to the soft-hearted Democracies that famished faces turn-and even in vain. FEED STARVING MILLIONS We shahl be feeding not only our own hard 1pressed centre of the Empire but also the millions whom Hitler has hounded out of homes and health. Indeed we have already begun to do so. The United States has voted f ifty millions of dollars for relief in Europe. Thene are four hundred million people there and ail of them are under the heel or in the shadow of Hitlerism. They must be fed or they shahl die. Hitler can't feed them for he has no surplus. So it is to the western democracies these slaves must look for sustenance. By autumn, or sooner, we may expect to hear the wail o! the woe- begotten in Europe, then where shaîl our sur- plus be? In this war, as it has developed, there is nothing more certain than the unexpected; hence it should not surprise us to learn o! peace proposals !rom Hitler himself ere famine and panic overwhelm him; yet that prospect o! the moment, seems remote. Most likely he will fol- 10w his text "My Strîiggle," as he has s0 far done. and "blitzkreig" Britain. Here are his words: "There shaHl be a National Socialist civilization for the next 1000 years or- no civilization at ahl. Should Germany be de- feated she will leave behind a world in ruins." HITLER'S WARNING TO U. S. And here is his warning to the U.S.A.: "America had better keep her nose out of Ger- man affairs for I have it in my power to plunge the United States into chaos, and Civil War by mereiy pressing a button on my desk." That is his text. By now we should know that he means just that. His talk o! pressing a button means, of course, employment of his "Fifth Column." And he will accept the surplus we nlay ship to !eed his conquered slaves-and with it feed his conquering armies. DUR 1F1IST DTY TO1BRITAIN FRANCE RAS NO SURPLUS And France, conquered and in chaos, has no surplus whatsoever. Her people even now are feeling the pinch of hunger. Dreyfus et cie and Bungay, the huge imnporting agencies that form- erly absorbed Britaifis reshipped foodstuffs are "-gone with the wind." Italy, bottled in the Mediterranean, bas scarcely enough for her own people. She must burst the bondsimiposed by the British navy or face ultimate revolution. There remains only the Balkans, with poor harvests and the obligation of feeding their own populations first. Where then can Hitler turn for sustenance? He is today instituting a tremendously in- tensified drive toward production within Ger- many and Poland. He has lately transported 125,000 Dutch citizens to those areas, there to work as slaves in agricultural production. But the growîng season is largely over. Winter will soon be here-and famine. Meantime Britain maintains her continental blockade. More than that she has taken the North Sea and costal fisheries out of produc- tion for the use of continental peoples. FAMINE MAY DECIDE WAR Ail these factors as we study them, seem more and more to incline us to the belief that famine is not only imminent in Europe-but may decide this war. And here at home, on Canada, and in the United States-we must produce. We are at the beginning of feeding the evacu- ated civil population of the British Isles. Child- ren first. In time it may well be more than the children. It is the simplest and best way to meet the emergency. To bring boatloads of refugees across to be fed here means a one-way trip rather than to make a multitude of trips eastward carrying foodstuffs to feed them there. PLAN AGRICULTIJRAL PRODUCTION The end is not in sight. But we do know this; that the time has come to institute a planned agricultural production; to advise as to quantities and types of foodstuffs that will be needed for the season of 1941-and thenceforward. We ought to know, that with the influx of children, we shall need increased production of dairy products; that the old standbys of pork and beans - the fats and proteins - must be needed. We need a census of the hog population as well as an acreage census in ail uines of agri- culture-and at once. But we have no word from Ottawa about the farms or the farmers. In the recent emergency legisiation we find no mention of anything except industrial wartime output. The stress and the debates have centred about the factories; about guns and tanks and airplanes. FARMERS CARRY WEIGHT 0F WAR It is time we realized that the vast weight of warfare rests mostly upon the backs of the farmers. They have, so far, been left to their own devices. That may have been the normal- and the wasteful-in peacetime; but it is not enough today. Farmers, generally, are the most wide-awake of ail our population. It takes brains and initiative and management to run a farm and farmers also need capital. For years, prior to this war, farm capital has been depleted. Today we ought ta remedy that and get into planned and massed production for the duration. Should peace corne we can dump any surplus down the sewer-if necessary. Farm prices have fallen ail along the lime during the past few months; and living costs for the farmer have advanced. There is no encour- agement in this. AGRICULTURE LACKS LEADERSHIP Among farmers served by The Statesman we have mot foumd one, as yr-t, who has received !rom amy Department o! Agriculture one scant word as to a programme for the future; for the duration. It is time to nationalize; to cut out the con- flict and the uncertainties between the Federal and Provincial departmemts; to sweep away the seseless red-tape that webs the farmers footsteps; the bulletins and the statistics and the theories amd ahi the balderdash o! bureaucrecy. Bureaucracy butchered France. The brave Frenchman-the Frenchwoman-ere beMoaning that !ect ight now. It camnot bappen here! Or can it? Middlemem - the processers end distrihutors have for years lived and prospered, like leeches, upon the farmers-and o! course, legally, under oun govermmemtal setup. Instance just two thimgs: Milk and pork. The milk producer gets, epproximately 3V2c per quart wbile, a mile away, in the city, the dis- tibutor gets 10e to 12c for that very milk- under govermmemt protection. PATCHED OVERALLS TO PLUTOCRACY The producer cennot compete because he or she has no capital to instali the necessary ne- frigeratimg and pasteurizing machineny. It is mot strange, therefore, to see some distnibutors emerge !nom the state o! patched overalis ta plutocracy. Then we have that unholy alliance o! the Bacon Board and the Weaithy Packers. These two entities split the hog profits; have rolled up, recentiy, hundreds o! thousemds o! dollars which ightly beiong to the fermers- and which they ought to get-for what? For capital; for farm capital, ta improve and enlarge and speed up in these citical times. BACON BOARD A WASHOUT This Bacon Board, in wartime, is a washout. The fermens, generaliy, recognize that tbey can have no profits out o! this war as they did in the ast one. Within the space o! a few weeks we have seen wheat. tumble fnom 90c to 71c; hogs go down !rom 9c to 8c; butter slid fnom 28e to 22c- and so it goes: The Farmer's earigs-tbeîr capital absorbed by the plutocrats. We have made many enquiries o! farmers, locahiy, "What are your plans for 1941 now that the wer is on in dead eannest?" The replies, gemeralhy, were-"Oh, I guess the same as this yeen and lest year; just piod along and try to live." Waste land is everywhere. Look aroumd you! Why mot plant some beans. Hungry people will be needimg them ere the winter's out And, so, we say, it is high time for planning and encouragement by the Federel government. Do a little thinking aiong these limes- TODAY. AS 1SEE IT... By Capt. Elmore Phllpott (Continued fram page 1) STALIN STEALS SHOW Repeatedly during the past few weeks I have expressed the opinion that Stalin would neyer permit passively Hitler ta con- quer ail western Europe this summer; but that he would cer- tainly throw a monkey wrench into the machinery at the right time to prevent any such end. He has effectively done so by his bioodless victory over Rumania. Stalin's move on June 28th is among the most important of al events to date in this war. It does several things. It ends Hitler's dream o! being able to finish one thing at a time. The basic Nazi strategy has been to use ail their force on whatever victim was next in uine for conquest. At al costs Hitler was determined not to fight a war both in the east and in the west at one and the same time. In his book Mien Kampf he makes that the central .criticism of his mndictmnent o! Germany's leaders in the last war. He argues that if Germany must fight Britain in the west she must have at least the neutrality of Russiia ta protect her rear; and that if she fights Russia she must have at least the neutrality of Britain for the same purpose- and that whatever happens she must neyer attenIpt to fight Rus- sia and Britain at one and the same time. Stalin has flot yet violated the letter o! his treaty with Hitler. It is even probable that he in- formed Germany of his precise intention to do what he did. But no one can convince me that Hit- ler is pleased at the Stalin move. It sets a match to the whole Bal- kan powder magazine. It forces Hitler to despatch at least part of his army to the south east, as he has already had to do toward the Russian border with East Prussia. For neither Hitler nor Stalin is under any illusion as to the morals or motives which made the other sign the treaty of last August. Stalin is now in a position to cut off the entire remaining oul supply of Hitler and Mussolini. In this connection it is well to re- member that Hitler's vast con-i quests to date have not improved1 his basic position in regard to the1 supply of ol- perhaps the most vital of aIl his needs for fighting a long war. In ail countries over- run or sold out by traitors to' date the Nazis have seized large supplies of gasoline and other petroleum products. But in no country, save Poland, has eithert Hitler or Mussolini got physicalf possession of actual oil producing properties. Indeed his very con- quests have made his long ran&e position much worse. For the Bn2- tish navy can blockade the whole of continental Europe save only that part either actually control- led or within easy striking dis- tance of the Red army. JUNE 28 IN THE BALKANS1 Paasikivi, who represented Fin- land in her ne.gotiatioms with Rus- sia, said in one way he couid mot help liking tough old gangster Stalîn, and that was because Stalin so enjoyed his own queer brand of elephantine jokes. I can imagine ohd Joe roaring with taughter wbem he picked June 28 as the day ta bhow up the status quo in the Balkans. For it xvas no secret that on June 28 Adoîf Hit- ler had phenned to burn up the Versailles Treaty, in a spectacular stunt staged in the Versailles pal- ace on the exact twenty-first an- niversery o! he signing o! thati document. Unless I have Adol! al 1 wrong he wiht mark thet down ins his little book against his recent associate in the Kremlin.c But we in the western wor'dt coutd make no worse mistake thaît to mistake the motives or inte- tions o! the Soviet. If Stalin does enything to embarrass or harrass Hitler it is certainly mot to savey us, or heip us, except insofar as0 the temporary be]ping o! us may S help Russia and the Communists t to promote and further the inter- ess o! the Marxist world revolu-E tion. If England goes down thîss summer Hitler will have no fur-c ther wornies about oit, becauseF there wilt be no more btockade o! the ocean lanes whence oul comes. He will have no funther worries b about Stalin, for Stalin will ben forced to become a virtual pro-a consul o! the new Nazi empire, or m else face a totalitanian xvar whicha I do mot believe he would have a c snowbals chance to win atone. England will not go down this i summer, or amy other summer, L umless she is sold out by traitons. P My guess is that the ireal storm centres o! this war wili be firstM Emgtand, and last the Near East. ai If England faits, ahi feils. This ai continent will become the last ri !ortress o! !reedom, beset by trou- r( bles withim probably worse than those without. v If Englamd stands, as I am posi- cf tive she wilh, the crucial anea will i be mear the Suez. For the Suez is hz mot onty the geteway througb pi which Mussolini and Hitler could w gain free access to heif the sea- Ca ways o! the wonld. But the master o! Asia Minor is the possessor o! h( emough oul even to turn the wheels to o! that vast peace and war Empire Il O! which the Nazis dream. bE da ENGLAND NEXT? The British militery authonities seem ta expect the Nazis to make their real attempt et invasion somewhere nonth o! the Themes, on the east coast. That, o! course, is the locale o! the invasion plan outlined by the Germen stretegist, Bense. My guess would be that Hitler might rether try ta land somewhere mear whene William the Conqueror iamded. His whole1 past record shows that is how his TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO From The Canadian Statesman, July 8th, 1915 Pte. Dan Douglas has suffered another wound but of a slight nature this time. The injury is to his right arm and makes writing difficuit. He says, "You people at home cannot realize what a bom. 3bardment is like. Imagine a big thunder storm going on a hundred yards in front of you. The whole earth shivers like a lot of jelly and the air is full of dirt and fly- ing pieces of shell." A large gathering was held at the home of Councillor and Mrs. Geo. Stephens, Salem, to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. A social gathering was hedi the Methodist Church to makçe a presentation to the organist, Miss Gertrude Cawker, and choir lead- er, Mr. H. J. Knight, who were retiring. The latter held thatpo- tion for more than thirty years. Dr. Jas. L. Hughes was in town Tuesday arranging for the Old Boys and Girls home-coming to town on Cîvic Holiday. Births: McElroy - In Orono, June 24th, to Dr. and Mrs. W. F. McElroy, a son. Nind-To Rev. and Mrs. T. A. Nind, a daughter. Thompson-To Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Thompson, a daughter. Varnum-In Darlingthn, to Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Varnum, a daugh- ter (Martha Kathleen). July 8th will be Rose Day when 1 Mrs. A. H. Fletcher, "The Rosary" is having a sale of roses. Proceeds for Patriotic Fund. High School Notes: Dorothyi Johnston wins the Fairbairn Prize1 for general proficiency. Louise1 Morris and Marlon Worden win the Couch Prizes for writing. Principal J. B. Dandeno is to go to New Brunswick to teach Botany and Agriculture to the teachers in a summer course. Haydon: Dominion Day celebra- tions were held with good crowds attending and real summer wea- ther prevailed. Hampton: A large crowd gath- ered at Willow Park to take partt in a fine program of sports. Ed. i Ward refereed one game of foot-t ball and Will Baker the second.r Tyrone: The community wasa saddened by the death o! Mrs.0 John Fraser who died suddenly. t Hamnpton: Miss Mildred Colet who has been teaching at Drumd was presented with an address and sum of money as a slight token o! the esteem in which shea has been held by her pupils. T FIFTY YEARS AGO From The Canadian Statesman, July 9th, 1890 A gathering o! Liberals pre- sented a testimonial to W. T. R. Preston in recognition o! his valuable services during the re-. cent election campaign. An ilium- inated address, a gold watch and chain and a purse comtaiming $ 1,000 were presented to bim. Friends o! Mn. and Mrs. John Buckley honored them on the occasion of their 2Oth wedding anniversary. Dredging operations at the lake ire now complete and there is a depth o! 15 feet there. Counterfeit $2.00 bills on the Dominion Bank are afloat. One o! the easiest points of distinction is thet in the genuine article the figures are printed in blue înk, and on the counterfeit it is done in black. Rev. Jas. Smith, wi!e and child sailed for India in the interests of the Presbyterian Missionery Society. They have already spent ten years there. At the social fareweil given by riembers o! Queen St. Church, Miss Neads who occupied the position o! organist there for years, was presemted with a purse f money in recognition o! her services. Mrs. S. Meson Sr. made te presentation. Meeting o! the High Schooi Board with Messrs. Couch (pre- ding), Cubitt, Rice and Trebil- -ock were present. The suit o! Powers vs. the Board was dealt! with. On the return trip o! ourr aandsmen !rom Lindsay Ed. Cole- ian wvas severely injured while ttemptimg to get out o! the uegon to, investigate the sefety o! àbridge tbey were about toi ,oss. Mn. Dave Morrison was in To- ,nto helpimg his old friend John oriman who is leader o! the arkdale Band. O s h a w a: The McLaughiin Yorks has about 75 employed and re working to thein full cap- city. Their output is about 1,500 ,gs o! various kinds and 200 gears, Lt finished. Emfield: Miss Delta Wenry is sitimg at Breeside. . . The hum ýfthe thresbing machine was iard lest week. Mrs. R. Ormiston as been visitimg friends in Mari. >5ea. Mn. and Mrs. Wm. Tapp vere in Toronto during the .rnival. Enniskillem: Miss Kennedy !rom ere and Miss Hutchison, Brigb- an, paid a vîsit to Pickering... lie work on Mn. Martin's dam is eing shoved at a great rate these Lys. If everythimg goes well the s c y o ti E F a r( L 'c vi of pi 't LE la mind works. He picked Sedan as the spot to blast (or was it buy?) his way through the Maginot line. He used the same plan for the Battle of France as failed in 1914. His whole career seems based on the idea that he is trying ta prove to himself perhaps that he is the biggest big shot in history. So I say, keep an eye on the beaches kiear Hastings. But don't think he will get there anyway. Boyne Water Milîs will resumne work next week. Hampton: Mrs. Thos. Elliott is attending the funeral of a bro- ther. . . The church choir went to Lake Scugog Saturday. They report a good time though the fish were not overly plentiful. . . Mr. Charles Goodman is nursing a fractured finger. Maple Grove: Miss Gertrude Stevens is visiting at Mr. Mun- day's. .. Misses Minnie and Vel- ma Tyler are visitîng in Toronto. ..The lightning played havoc with telegraph poles in this dis- trict last week. Orono: Robert Best has return- ed home from Manitoba. . . Dr. Renwick has gone ta Toronto Hospital for treatment. TO AVOID CHAOS IN ONTARIO HOME GUARD ENDEAVORS A couple of weeks ago The Statesman pubiished a photo o! Lieut.-Col. Day Warnica, stating he xvas at Camp Borden with his regiment the Essex Tank Regi- ment. This wvas an error, for in the Windsor Record o! June l7th we find this interesting comment: "The best way to avoid chaos in Ontario Home Guard endeavors is to have each unit directly re- sponsible to the commander o! the miiitary district in which it is located. Guards in Windsor would come under the jurisdiction of Brigadier D. J. MacDonald, D.S.O., M.C., whose headquarters are in -London. In Windsor the Home Guard is developing into a crack outfit al- ready. The boys, they stili like to be caiied boys, even if they are a wee bit too old fpýr active ser- vice, are keen asumustard and they are going to it with enthus- iasm. They are commanded by Lt.-Coi. R. B. Crouch, who works in co-ordination with Lt.-Col. Day C. Warmica, Commanding Officer o! the Essex Tank Regiment, who is also commander o! the Windsor Garrison. Col. Warnica is responsible for the discipline, conduct and ongan- ization o! the military forces in the Windsor area. He, in turn, is responsible to Brigadier MacDon- ald. The Brigadier and the Col- onel have discussed the organiza- tion o! defending Windsor and they are !urthering their plans daily. There is no foolimg about the business. In this way, military discipline and organization is maintained. Unless the various groups and corps work in this manner, there will be ail sorts o! chaos. In case o! trouble, Col. Warnica knows where to locate his men and who they are. If evenyone formed his own guard, we might have the different groups fighting against one another in ernor, because it would be s0 bard to distinguish who was friend and who was foe. Mamy well-intentioned pensons talk o! formimg vigilantes or sixth coiumns or what not. The best way is ehl to get together and work in hanmony. In that way chaos can be avoided and a sys- :ematic scheme of defense de- veloped and perfected." Minister 68 Years Rev. S. J. Allun Dies Rev. Samuel James Allen died Jume 22md at his home, 59 Pime- crest Road, Toronto, brimgimg to a chose a ministry that extemded over much of Ontario and through 68 yeans. Mr. Allen was 88, and though he had been netired !nom the active mimistry for some years, he had, as his hast mimistenial1 work, been assistant to Rev. Dr. C. T. Scott et Howard Park Umit- ed Church. Rev. Mn. Allen was born in lfracombe, Devonshire, Emglamdi and came with his family to this1 Ini the Dim and Distant Past From The Statesman Files country at the age of seven. The family settled near Bowmanville. Mr. Allen graduated from Vic- toria College when it was at Co- bourg and entered the ministry in 1872. Eight years later hie mar- ried Ada Darch of London, Ont., who survives him. His charges took him to many parts of Ontario and included London, Centralia, Amherstburg, Brussels, Goderich, Parkhill, Clin- ton, Wyoming and Windsor. After superannuation some years ago he served at Howard Park until ad- vancing age necessitated his re- tirement. Surviving, besides hîs wife, are five sons, Lieutenant-Commander C. G. Allen (Retired) of the Royal1 Canadian Navy, Vancouver, C. C., Allen of St. Louis, Missouri, and 1 A. E., V. W. and S. J. Junior, of Toron.to, and two daughters, Mrs.i F. R. Turner and Mrs. Carl East of Toronto. Mrs. John Elford and Mrs. IL~t Wight, Bowmanville, are sisters of the deceased. The Canadian Statesman is a comniunity newspaper se r vin g West Durham. It belongs to everybody when it comes to the expression of opinion in a public way. Oine person has just as much right to send a signed letter to The Statesman as any other per- son and as long as there is nothing of a scandalous or libelous nature in the letters and they are general public interest they wif be published in the interesto , the whole town and surrounàing community. Please let us have your xritten opinions on publie matters. OUR WHRt~ There are n~o spectators in this war... we y te ail in if. No fredom ... no happines... no contentment is possible for any one of us until this evil thing . . . this worship of brute force is wiped forever from the face of the earth. Not every- one la privileged to wear the King's uniforin, but we can ail make some contribution to our common cause. We cari ail buy WFIR SF1VINGS CERTIFICFITES this month. . . next month... every month, as long as the war iasts. IT'S THE LEflST WE CfiN DO! The opportunity to buy WÇIR SAIVINGS CEBTIFICiATES la the privi legs of ail Canadiains.. the privilege of helping to win the war. War Savings Certificates are sold as followa: For a $ 5 Certificate you pay 8 4 For a $ 10 Certificats you pay 8 8 For a 8 25 Certificats you pay 820 For a $ 50 Certificaje you pay 840 For a $100 Certificats you pay $80 àlpply at any Rank, Post Office or other Authorized Dealer. War Savings Stomps cost 25c each and are sold every- where. 16 Stampiu entitie you to one $5 Certif icate. Every dollar you invest in War Savings Certificat«a àa an investment in security.. for you. . for your children. Buy them regularly every month. It in your continulng responsibility. Serve by saving 4,u WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES PAGE TWO 1 THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO