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PAGE TWOTHCADANTTEANBOMNLEOT1OTUDAACE2 11 THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1941 Fareweli Durham Farniers! The Statesman of Mardi 20, 1941 carried * seven advertisments listing farms and farm stock for sale. Here are some of the head- ings: "For Sale; entire dairy herd of Hol- steins"; "Auction sale of pedigreet! show cattie (dairy herd)"; *' Farm, livestock, inmlements, furniture-giving up farming." And so it goes!1 Otihers issue sale bills and listings do not appear in this journal. Ail this may be partly seasonal, but since farinera and farrn-help have gone to fac- tories in increasing numbere, over many mpnths, this trend bas been increasingly apparent. Significant in this hegira are two main <~things. These advertisers are English speak- ing farmers who (have quit the gaine. A.nd as they go ;--in corne those of forcign extrac- tion. In this one Township we now have close to 50 "rniddlc-Europeans" who have bouglit up and! are working these farina as they bargain and barter in broken Engl.ish. As Pro'fessor 0. B. Bissons says: "We are * getting close to peasantry ini today's farm dile-m a!" .And are not we close to it?1 This was tàie once prout! County of Dur- ham-British to the back-bone, famet! for beef-cattie, pedigrced stock, far-flung or- ehards, culture, prospcrity, from 'whence * went into the world scores of men and wo- men who have achievet! great distinction- and many of who«n are still alive, alert and! vigorous. IR sorrow we report to thein what is happening in Durham County today. They will know the "'why" of ail this and they may, from. their high places, lent! their wight to turn backward this trend to- ward - "fardevll!" They know it is not solely this war; tbis cbb of British blood has been uxider way for more than a decade. They know that it is an impoverishec! f arm poieY--WOrse than that, there 's no policy at al We wonder if other districts can match our experience here!1 1 Way Out Yonder i~Our' thouglits of late have 'turncd to aub- scribers for The Statesman who are scatter- le~ d, here and there, throughout the Globe. No copy of this paper now penetrates Hit- lcr's dornain, but subscribers froin Eire, across Britain, to Africa and South America, kll acroas the U.S.A., and am.ong the islands of the oceans, write to us occaionally in teris of appreciation. There is encourage- ment in this, and food for thouglit. There is contrast too, ini that, measured by way of nuinbcrs, letters front those "way eut yonder" are in far greater percentage than those received close at home. We often, ppnder the cause of ths but never fint! the solution. For many montha we have chain- pionet! movenients designed to aid agricul- tare yet soldoin do we get acclaim, for so doing. And even les., seldorn, indeet! very rarely do we get letters of censure, which in ii ues ~'goiie by, seemet! to be, the prerogative of .,"Constant reader." Through direct obser- *ation ant! frank admissions, we know that M2ýýý The Stateaman is read just as avidly as W, feretofore, but the old-time letter writers h Y ave pagsed. Lately, we have triet! to get reaponse, pSt-paid, concerning acreage dedline within ï.the ounty-but "no go," among the en.. '~~lightened and clite of agriculture in Qan- ~hada's banner county go, on the point of giving up this particular query, our thQpghts. <bave turnet! oatward. To stimulate thought, to set an example, çt o brighten our coluinna during the weight « ê warfare, we eall upon oui' "out yont!er" 'fonds for lettiers and suggestions. -8 Weask: Wliat features do you like best? twould you like us to carry that are t st the moment? Do you waat a week- ~rsummafry or just plain "Ithis ant! Lot us jog the "home-folk" into a t~gfra me of mint!. t>,,.CMlrenand War Aid D-o who think- that > are-not war-conscious. Just JumlVIwe of war-savings whole- eoffl up under their coinbined "ý4, mark you, ini atvance of 'gW. 'mentionet! this before, Wy we diacuss another by ghool children. They Establlahed 1854 AN IINDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER With which are Incorporated The Bowmanville News, The Newcastle Independent, and The Orono News. 85 years' continuons service to the Town of Dowmamillie and Durhams Count7. Member cf ftic * Audit Bureau 0f Circulations suBscSCRMIN RATES $2.00 a Tsar, strictl i alvance. $2.50 a Tear in ftic United States. GRO. W. JAMES, Editor. Mr. Hannam's Great Task Fcw whoheiard Herbert H. Hannan speahe at Orono, March 10, coult! fail te bc impres- set! with hie incerity, abiity and, wide knowlcdge concerning problema cf farmers. The fact that he was able te speak at great Iength, effortlessly, without notes, marshal- ling hie facta in ort!erly sequence, was abundant proof that for the past j15 ycare he lias been constantly aniniatet! with "a better break for agriculture." He sait!: "I viow my position as one of tremendous responsibility." And! se it is. More-than that, it is a treniendous task. To represent, as lie preacntly doos, the in- tercsts of 750,000 farinera, cf varying wants, ranget! acrese 4,000 miles cf space, requires a man of great vision, wide objectivity and robuet hcalth. Mr. Hannam lias these quali- tics. In hie speech, fellowing eacli point made, it was observet! that ho clinaxet! hie argu- mente with an incisive t!ownwart! stroke cf hie arn and! wihih: "Now thon," offeret! hie solution. These mannerisma usually mark the clear-headet! executivo. And because ho is executive, objective, and! thus open te suggestions, we offer two. First, in view of the fact that goviern- mente have made ne move te fit! out the extent of acreage geing out cf production in Ontanie;i due te fanin-labor going te. fac- torie, why net interest prosent Oounty Pet!- erations in the plan and! get the facts on record? Second, because the weekly press blan- kets rural Canada, reaching and! serving farming cominunities in a way ne other pub- lications can hoVe e to -why net a con- ference between Federation and! Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association executive eominittees? The objeet; te keep alive, alert, ant! interestet! all the units that compose the Federation, Some sucli acheme ta un- perativo. We direct this. pointedly and! hopofuliy to President Hannam. Britons Solve Miik Delivery We have before us a November, 1940 copy cf IlFarming New8 and North British Agri- culturist"' publishet! in Glasgow, Scotland- "lSeotlant!'s' oldest farming paper," accord- ing te its masthead. It may be the oldest, but it lias lest nothing in virility. Its forth- ight editonials aut! comment mark it as a journal riglit up te, date, battling as lustily as The Dhu for the iglits cf, ncrth country farinera. Within its pages we have reat! how they, oer there, as war rages, have solvet! the probleni of milk distribution. They tee, have had their Comnussions and! Com.mittees cf enquiry that have laid down reports with accempanying recornmendatiQns, but, over t2ere, with usual Szottiali determination, they have actet! and! foret! the issue. They adoptot! zoning ý%nd t!rastically redùced dis- tribution charges without reducing net te, preducers. Space won 't permit the full atery here. We are inclinedt! t try a comparison and breakdown later on for the benefit of local producers, who lately have- securet! a re- arrangement in basic priee, but which, some laim, dees net neasure up te expoctatiens. We have scen thein tickets ant! shail follew dèvelopments with some intereet. This British paper bears eut what we have claimet! can be donc in Canada and. riglit through this district. And! that ta this: The pnice te the producen can be raised ant! the ceat te the consumer lowered, imui- taneously without injury te any legitimate interesta. If the problern ecan be solvet! elsewhere, thon certainly it eau be solved here. If anyone, anywhere, wishes te pursue thie question, openly or otherwise, in w&r- timo or peaco-time we are preparet! for thon, sans gloves; blue-prints, sophist statistice or scentet! arguments. Our' solo bulwank is hard-bitten fact, lot the chips faîl where they may; but certainly few will faîl within the barn-yard. 0 Greetings High River Tmes We misset one cepy of The Higli River Tirnes of High River, Albiera, in our opinion eue cf the srn>rtest uewsiest, clevereet, weekliee in Canada. We are toît! that in that missing éopy was recordet! the obituary cf Peter McGonigle cf Midnapore, blhe gift te pcsterity cf Bob Edwards, M.L.A., feunt!- today a serioue problcrn - and! state the causes. By se doing you capture intereat as direct war-contribution. Then work eut a plan whereby eaeh pupil will be given a "War Service Badge," or button, if each pledges--and carnies out, help on farme where hclp is requiret!. Besides the badge, each will get full pay for ail work done. There are bicycles, cars and! tueks enougli te take care cf transportation; hoeing and work within their capacity can happily and! chcerfuily be accompliahet!. The idea is fer more attractive than a governinent acheme and! a local conmmittee coult! handle the idea as quickly as farinera phone in their re- quirements. .As a grey-haired editor, harking back in mcmery, if anyonc advanced such an idea years ago, we should have been for it 100 percent. We admit, franly, our regrets at net having become better acquaintet! with hoe and! fork. And if anyone offeret! us "Soldier Statue," by way of a war service, badge, we shouit! have *disdainet! the pay. Among many suggestions we have made during the past ycar, thia seems pretty goot!. Officiai tlandbooic et Canada We have lately received the O f f i c i a 1 Handbook of Canada for 1941. This book, 5%"x 8 % " with 186 pagea, covers the pre- sent situation in the Dominion, with cm- phasis upon those thinga niest important in these times, and the information is riglit down to daté. It ia a pocket aize edit-ioxt compilet! by the Bureau of Statistica and! iâ complemntary to the huge volume of tât Canada Year Book. For those wishing 4~ick information, and! particularly for schoolg it is valuable indeet!. There are profuse illustrations in half- tone, including a double-fôI fteEr and Counteas of Athione. b)t particular at- traction is the excellent dpuble-pagc, color- et! picture of. Their Majetteés'reception by the Inàian tribes of westernx Canada. Both these pictures are suitable foi framing. The price of the pubUetion is 25e per copy and! application shoul&-be made, with remittance, to The Klng 's Plinter, Ottawa. For bona fide teaehers, atudeënts, ministers, the price is only 10e andt aplication shouit! be made to the Dominion Stitistician. Pos-. tage stampa are not acceptable. Buy a postal notie, or enclose coin between cardboard, securely gum.mned. Toilers Muet Take It Toilera are those who aweat in factories and on farins. Let those with "white col- lar jobs" change places for 30 days and! thus so persuade theinselves. Toilera largely fil the ranks cf our armet! forces and those at home carry the larger share of war's demande. This argument can be sustained all along the line. Marshall statistics and! try this interchange-that's the test. Récent press reports foreeast still more restrictions for grimy sons of toil. Wages are* moving upward slowly, under tight rein. Pari margina, grudgingly, in one 'of two lines, mean a few extra dollars. In both cases, both deserving, plans have been laid to replace dilapidatet! old motor cars with either new one or better '"second-hand" one. The moet expensive machine extant is the has-been car requiring constant repairs. On farms today a car is a necessity. Now cornes this dictum.: "The govern- nmcnt 's desire is to discourage a person frein rushing out and investing a first paymnent as soon as he or she has a few hundret! dol- lars. " To that end!, ",steps wii be taken. " Production is te bcecurtailed!. Quotas long since have been fixcd on imports. Canadians pay arount! $450.00 more in Canada than similar cars coat in the 1J.8.A. Today, the 3 or 4 protectet! manufacturers in Canada No Rationing ln Canada With the scarcity of food! for most of the people cf Eurppe and! rany countries sevcr- ly rationet!, Canadians may well bc thank- ful for their plentiful supply. There tsaa lirnitet! rationing ini Britai'n, including sugar ant! fats. But on the continent of Europe there ie nowherc anyt1ing like the coneump- tien cf breat!, meat, sugar or fats that there ta in Cinada-except in Finlant! and! Swits- erlant!-according to a comparison compil- cd by the Financial Post. The average weekly censuniption cf breat! in Canada is given as 102 ounces per.persen. Iu France the ration is 87 ounces, in Ger- many 80, in Pelant! 62, in Belgiumi 56.ý Canadiens use a weekly average of 36.5 ounces cf meat, while Belgians have 22 ounces, (Jermans and! Nether lands 17.5, France 12.8 ant! Itily lias four meatlesa days eveny week. Weuse an average cf 31.6 ounces of sugar, while the highest consumption on the con- tinent cf Europe i. 17.5 ounces in .Switzer- land and Slovakia, and! Germauy uses 8 ounces per person, Italy 5.3, France 4.5, Bni- tain 8 ounces. Canadian consumption cf fats ta 14.1 ounces, but in Gerxnany it is 9.5 ounces, France 3.5, Italy 7, Great Britain 8, Nethen- lands 9. Many other thinge are rationet! in Eur- ope. The list i Germany includes coffee substitute, jam., cheese, eggs, oatmeal. Our worst wcrry in Canada lias been over a possible temporary shortage c f butter, and! it makes us dizzy te think of what te de with oui' surplus wheat. When Canadiaus sec the comparison bc- tween their foot! supply and! that of most peuple cf Europe-largely due te the wa- perhape the gratitude for their goot! for- tune will stimulate their efforts te help de- liven the worlt! fremit s present terrer. B As El«PUt I TOWAIRDS UNION Next weck there wIll appear the Canadian edition o! Clarence K. Streit's uew book "Union New With Bitain." Published on March 5hin theUicUnited States Streit's latest volume appears destined to play as important a part in wenld affaire as his carlier werk "Union Now." The remarkable gro,.th cf Uic sentiment favorable te, federal union cf Uic democracies la at- tested by threc facto. Iu Britain more than half cf Uic members of Uic Churchill governinent are publicly on record as favoring Uic princip le ef such union. In Uic UntdStates Uic latest Gallup poil indicates that whereas two million votons would have, sup- pontcd such a plan a year ago, no lees thon cight million would do s0 te-day. In Canada an actual, cemplete sud careful check of al uewspaper comment during the past six months shows Uiat over ninety per cent of al uewspaper editonials are favorable te such a plan. Support cornes from paperst of ail political backgrounds, buti lparticularly strong in the hlghly1 tafuential wcekly prese. is WHAT. IT 18 Faderai Union la net any Utopian dreain but a stemu neces- slty growiug eut o! Uic actual cx- peniences of oui' times. It la, in my opinion, dcmecracy'e cnly ade- quate auswen ote ibd for world suprcmacy by Uic Nazi-Fasciet an Communist tetalitariaus. Iu a nut- shell, it la a proposal te extend step by etep te international a!- faire precsly eyUi same principles of gevernmeut as we aii'eady ap- ply te local gavenument, regional goverument (couuty, provincial or state), sud te oui' national goern- mente at Ottawa, Lendon or Washington. That la, there wauld lie elected ceross te mnake Uic law, courts eoapply Uic laws, aud (what was lacklug in Uic League of Nations) a gocd, etrcng pelice force always availabie ta ses that ne wauld-be international ciminai gat a chance ta do what Hitler, Mussa- Ui, sud Japan have becu daing for the past ten years. W130SE ]PLAN? Ntaety-niue years ago Tenny- son wnote about Uiec caming fed- eratien where "the commnon secse cf moet weuld hoid a fretfui realm iu awe. He called il Uic parlia- ment ef man, sud fonesaw it as foilowing s worid war ta which aincraft would pla y the chie! raie. In 1936 Lionel Curtis, who had g layed s key part in bringing ta irUi the Union of South Africa, wrete a book called 'Civitas Dei,"j or City o! God, In which ho argued1 wlth great elequence that man-i ktad mnuet beglxute federate on1 Christian princîples or face ever increastag disaster. Iu 1988 thre on Britens, now Uic e R.A.P., moet luLondon ~4tomued Foderaii on#te or-q àW0 ",Ptr uach sw mmbpge.1 Support for such union grew by leapa udbounds that by Uic ou oea f warthere wcre 10,000 enrollet! members. Iu March 1939 Clarence Streit publlshed "Union Now" which be- came Uic world hmidbook cf Uic movement. lu Uic first place It was Uic firet completely reasoned argument for eut-sud-eut union which. includet! as a basis for dis- cussion a propesed constitution. lu Uic second place it urged euch union iminediately lnstead o! a t some future perhaps-place sud perhaps-time. Streit urged, union cf Uic U.S., the six British self governing na- tions, Uic four Scandinavian States, Holland, Belgiuin, France and Switzerland. Wliin a few intha his arguments were driven home with cruel -force. O! Uic 15 prne posnd. charter membere of federai union no less than 8 were cither completely conquered or encirclet! by June 1940.* Intelligent men sud wom 2 cverywhere began te realize Uic truth o! what la probably Uic moat important political fact ta Uic world te-day: The demnocracies cfa eliii stand tegether as a un- ion, or conUnue te go dowu oe biy onc. it was Uic facing cf Uiat fact which enceuraged Wiustou Chur- chili te become world Federal Unionist Number 1 when he of- feret! France political union eveu more cemprehensive than that prioposed by Mn. Streit. It was Uic facing of that fact, Sbelleve, whlch put ite imd cf Prauklin Roosevelt what was ta Uic last lunes cf Uic letten car- niéd te Wluaton Churchill by Wendell Willkie. «'Thou tee sal on, O Ship of State, Sal on, O Union, strong sud gteat, lumanity with all its fears and 411 Ita hopes cf future yeare Io hanglng breathcess on Uiy fate." UNION'S FRIE NDS Iu Bitain the greatest expen- ent o! federal union la, of course, the Prime Minster himscl!, Win- ston Churchill. QUiers, like Streit sud Curtis, have merciy wi'ittcn or ta]ked about union. Churchil actedabout it. Ou the last day o! Francc's independent existence the Churchill gaverument made ta France an offer o!f fderai un- ion. That offer was rejccted enly by a cabinet vote o! 13 te le. The wa ml H lhave been over alrsady, w l asw' in u comlete victory fer demecracy, had Uicemen cfVchy lest sud net won that vote. lu Britalu Il la Invarlably those who are strengeet for dcmocracy who are etrougest for federal un- ion. J. B. Priestley, Wlckham Staad, aud Vernon Bartlett whose voicos have becoms famliar te Uic wholc free werld on "Bnitata on*s", are ail federal unionists. Tli àrchbJishop of York saye: I ho et may be possible te etant a6dt0road that leêds to fed- nations which wilU possesi a ceni- frai organization pequipped wlth the necessary authority and pow- crs." Clament Atiee declares "there must bc recognition of an international authority superior te the individual state. Vlrtually ail memibers of the Churchill govern- ment are on record te the saine. cffect. The Minister o! Economic Warfarc, Mr. Hugh Dalton says: '«I say without hesitation that if the Unite# States would accept1 Clarence Streit's plan... it la the duty cf every sane British citizen te do his damnedest te get the plan accepted." I believe that Dalton's senti- ments arc those cf the entire Bri- tish cabinet. I am positive that they were those cf the late Lord1 Lothian, British Ambassador te the United States. Lord Lothian publicly wrote as strongly as any humaxi being could in support cf thic piciles cf federal union.g But a smai personal incident told me more than his public pro- nouncements. He gave a friend cf mine a message just before his death which plaily provcd that he regarded Uic promotion cf Uic federal union idea as about the greatest service that atiy civilian could render in this heur cf world change. enjcy their rnonopoly and! exact that tri- bute. For the toilera-this prospect: Keep up our war effort by.pay deductions frein wage -and! spent! your spare hundret! or s0 ini repaira on* the old bag-of-boncs and hay wirc that once *as called a car. Let the white collar crowd enjcy, as thcy have in the past, the newest and! beet and! thon have margine sufficient for luxuries ant! leisure. It 's the age oIt! custom when the pinch cores-lot the. toilera take up the slack, and carry the brunit and the burden. And! here is a pertinent sideiglit. Last esimer we car- riet a series of articles designet! to booet farin prices. A ceity tyeoon callet! at oui' of- fie-all in a dither. We nientionet! this to a farmer: "What kint! cf car was lie driv- ingl" wus the quick response. Wdll, frankly, it wasaa Cadila-eO*,we close on juat that note. Coleoge Paper Publlsbwd 60 Y«er Edward Nickerscn, a former member cf The Statesman staff ncw . attending Victoria CoIlege, has sent us a copy cf the speclal 48-page 60th annivcrsarY issue Of Uic university Publication "Var- sity."1 Ed. has written sports news J on this excellent dallý for two years now. embroiled in bitter controvèrsie and has usually corne eut victori- eus. One, article telsà that ..the Varsity has become its own. éSelo cf journallsm many well known reporters and journlislte having received tutelage there. Women now outnumber melt on Uic staff. The sPrlnkling o! j4P- stlck-tinged cigarette butté -:aËd. Uic comparative PUrMfCatiOti -of thc cenventional newspaper ôtba whlch add celer to thc press 0o,î- trast wiUi Uic virile days ci. the early Varsity when almost, aU carecrs, including n e w sPi ^ work, were strlctly stag atàh -AGAINST, AND wax In Canada enly twe prominent men have se fai' spoken againat Union New. One was Premier Aberhart cf Alberta. The other was Hon. G. Howard Flerguson, ex-premier cf Ontario. The for- mer professes te sec it ic meve- ment te unite democracy a sinis- tfer treacherous plot by Uic inter-i national bankers agaipnst Uic Bri- tish Empire. In this respect he echees (ne doubt unintcntionally) Uic vcry arguments used against federal unon by Hitler's own paper, by Virginie Gaydà, by Verne Marshall and ail Uic cUier anti-British crowd ta Uic United! States. But there la Uils differ- ence. Mr. Aberhart Uiinks it la an anti-British plot. Father Cough- lin, Uic Gernian-Ainerican Bund, and Uic oUicrs who use Uic saine argument agree about Uic bank- crs but declare Uiat it l is a British Plot t6 get poor Uncle Sam back"Into Uic British Empire. As for Mr. Ferguson, hla dis- quiet neo doubt arises frem hla dis- like cf change. The alcrt Con- servatives cf- Ontario, who once acceptet! Fcrgy's word as law, new thlnk for themscîves and are lnclined te take Churchill's ideals, Lord Lothian's, and Uiosc cf the present British cabinet as botter guides te action. The Ottawa Journal, Uic London Pree Press, the Toronto Evening Telegrani, Yes even the Orange Sentinel, have ail recently cxpressed thom- selves in favor cf Uic principles OPPosed in thla matter by Uic ag- ing sage cf Kemptvillc. ROLL ON MsIlSSI[SPPI Winston Churchill's f a m ou s Phrases about the neccssity for Britain and the United States te get "mixed up" together werc specificaily addressed te Uiosc who perslat alwa% ta looklng back. "No anec cmi stop it. Like Uic Mississippi it just kecps rolling along. Let it roil. Let it roll on full floed, inexorable, Irrealatible, te btoader lands and better days.yP Net ail thc Hltlcrs in Uic world, ner th.efr dupçs or, stooges and unpaid eheethroughout Uie wenld; nor Uic seule fears cf Uic men cf Vichy (net al cf whom live In France but who croak their defeatlam evcrywhere) can stop Uic British people and Uic Amer- Ican people from gettiug tegether. And when theY determine te do se Uiey wiil lay Uiecocrner stoe cf a structure which.will mean immediate securlty for theniselves and eventual peace for ail man- klnd. t ROY NICHOLS WALLPAPER Day now - assortment Wlare- prices nit 10c roll and up Ses our selection before YOU buy. PAINT PRiCES AÉE BEING IBAISE» FLO-GLAZE: Canada'. finest product, enamels, paints, varnishes, at no Increase lu prie. OL» COLONY: a high grade paint ln attractive colours at 10w prices. NUJ-WALL: the best coldwater paint on the market - econ- omical and iasting. 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