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PAGE ELEVEN THURSDAY, APRIIL 18th, 1946 THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO Markets and Prîces by R. J. Deachman Let us look for a moment at Western Canada. It has its prob- lems, plenty of them and, thank heaven, some singularly bright minds striving Lo find solutions. On March 11, a discussion took place over the radio between Ma- jor H. G. L. Strange, Research Director of the Searle Grain Co. Ltd., of Winnipeg and J. H. Wes- son, President, of the Saskatche- wan Wheat Pool. The subject wag, "Who Will Export our Farm Prdducts? " That is, should the exports be handled by private agencies, government boards, or by a combination of both? Major Strange put forward the contention that this can be done best by private agencies, by that means sales will be larger, returns to piýoducers will be higher than if handled by governments through boards. The answer of Mr. Wesson was: I SHEET METAL I WORK Gilson Fu.rnaces Chick Brooder Stoves, Washers and. Refrigerators Roofing - Eavestroughing DAVIS & GRANT Scugog St., Bowxnanville1 Phone: Office - 2842 Residence - 2674 ).Eggs with a smile for Britain T HESE are part of the 100 million eggs required to MIl Canada's contract with Eritain in 1946. There's a rcady market, says the Dominion Department of Agriculture, for ail top quaity eggs that can be produced in Canada this year. *'Neither the farmer nor yet the overseas consumer can afford the luxury of speculation in fixing prices of farm produets from now on. Whatever plan is adopted it must mean a system that will make for permanent stability of WHY DaIy's us Deliclous e Daly's Tac is deliclous because it is a high quality tea. Ask your grocer for Daly's Tec. You'iI enjoy iL. income for the farmer." Said Major Strange: From 1924 to 1928 Western farmers marketed two billion bu- shels of wheat. Private agencies sold aIl that farmers hauled at that period. The average price was $1.47, basis No. 1 Northern Fort William. The bins were fairly well cleared at the end o! the period." To this Mr. Wesson retorted: "We dlaim that this was be- cause during those years the pools marketed fifty per cent of the wheat, which wasn't hedged and so relieved the pressure on the future's market." Major Strange then went back for twenty-five years before the pools entered the picture. Eleven billion bushels had been sold at good prices in every year except years in which governments in- terfercd. Mr. Wesson retorted that it certainly didn't apply to 1932, when wheat prices went down in trading to 381/ cents a bushel in February of that year. It is a good story so far, argu- ment met by counter-argument, 'thrust and riposte," as they say in a duel. Let us look at it more closely. Mr. Wesson could hardly dlaim that the low price of wheat in 1932 was due to the fact that the grain was handled by private enterprise. Prices o! raw mater- ials were low, very low, all over the world, silk, wool, cotton, rub- ber, oul, in fact alI raw materials felt the shock of the existing de- pression. Could any organization on earth have held wheat prices at $1 in a period o! world-wide depression. It would have meant storing ev- ery crop and storage costs money. The world wouid not, in 1932-33, buy wheat at the price it paid in 1924-28, it couldn't, it would eat something else-or starve. Major Strange came straight back at Mr. Wesson's contention, he said: "The changes were political, high tariffs all over the world, re- striction of imports, foreigners were unable to buy because we weren't buying." That argument is sound but there was something else behind it. We were in the midst of a cyclical deptession, and cyclica] depressions cannot be cured by wheat pools or even by wheal cartels-there must be a funda- mental approach to that problem. The strangest o! aIl quirks in the human mmnd is the desire to treal symptoms and ignore causes. Back about this time the wheai cartel was formed. Major Strange stated the facts. It was organizec in 1933, it was called the "Inter- national Wheat Agreement," anc was signed by twenty-two na- tions. It stili lives but in a coma- tose condition. It recommendeda reduction in acreage of 15 per cent and the fixing of quotas for ex- port. Mr. Wesson challenged t1ii, statement. I give you his exact words: "That's not a valid argument against international agreements. Major Strange. The 1933 agree- ment was broken by only one country-Argentina - when she over-delivered on her quota." Major Stranged quoted fror Argentina's officiaI statement, "il was the eighteenth country tc break the agreement." Mr. Wes- son was stili hopeful in regard te the cartel-though no doubt hE prefers the name, "Internationa« Wheat Agreement"-anyway th( purpose is the same. When asked who would handJE the export o! Canada's wheat h( said: "I believe that to accomplish tie plan properly the Canadian Whea Board must remain a permanen institution operating under a Do In summing up this discussion we have a very clear eut issue. Mr. Wesson wants controlled marketing under government sanction. Major Strange wants a return to the open market sys- tem and the open grain ex- change. "The farmer," said Ma- jor Strange, "is seekmng an in- corne, not merely a price." That t t S e e it o ýe d d i -is lE LYà~ '4 TUEUR ROAD 10 OnI fro bu. go]c PLANNING Aà%HOUDAY? lu n l Ontatto Holiday" Thuredoy, Fi-Mmy end ntario profits Miost as xnuch -M tourist isinea as from )d maining. It's W o us to keep is business ,wing. 6 2 Every tourist dollar is shared this wa : 1. Hotels; 2. Stores; 3. Restaurants; 4. Taxes, etc.; 5. Amusements; 6. Garages. BLI PuL Pus îq t ni Êwo con"lb,,ockl' them wSd to come bocki'-" B'l j NU LABAJT il pu ICED IN pus jýnitES SHE IN D THE Ic INTEREST BY JOHN LABATT LLUMD Questions Asked At Parlianient Hill v is, he wants to market a large quantity of wheat at a fair price. Consumption wiil depend on price. We have had violent de- dlines in wheat prices in the past -they happened in times o! world wide depresion. Wheat is not a monopoly. There are competing food products. Would a controil- ed price lead to increased demand, better trade rélations? I wonder what woùld happen if, under controlled marketing, we had soid one hundred million bu- shels o! wheat to the United King- dom and the price feli thirty cents immediately after the sale, or if the situation were reversed and those in control soid it for $1.00 and the price afterwards went to $1.50, would that make for more satîs!actory relations between the wheat growers o! Canada and the wheat consumers o! Great Brit- ain? If the consumers o! Europe knewv that they were in the hands o! a board, functioning .with gov- ernment approval, which, in their Dm iion would be a cartel, wouid- n't they try to meet it by grow- ing their own? Fear at times de- termines a course o! action. Does- n't this seem like an easy way o! digging up trouble, and haven't we plenty o! that without going too far afield for it? It was an interesting debate. Each, with competency, stated his particular point o! view, but I still hope, fondly perhaps, for a free world, nothlng else will, in the long run, give us the world we want. It is the open way to rich- er life. quoted paragraph o! Mr. Wesson's statement: "Neither farmer nor, consumer can afford the luxury o! speculation in fixing prices o! farm products." Speculation is the taking o! a risk which must be taken. In Oc- tober, November and December Canadian wheat is ready for the market. Until it passes into the hands o! the ultimate consumer risk is inevitable. No one has yet suggested a method by which that risk can be eliminated, nor is there a means o! producing sta- bîlity o! farm income which would be without cost to the farmer. Simplicity o! manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid o! being natural, fromn the dread o! being taken for or- dinary.-Jeffrey If" a Here it isi1 ... the new Goodyear De Luxe AII-Weather. It gives you ail the proven engineering features of the most successful More thon that -it gives you the improvements thot have resulted from Goodyear's vast wartime research and experience. Ail contribute to the long, safe economical service of this great new tire. tires ever built. 1 1 Private members of parliament hjave the privilege on certain days of asking questions which they deem in the public interest and to which Governrnent Min- isters are required to reply, un- less, if they wish to invoke cer- tain prerogatîves, they may evade them. These questions and an- swers appear in Hansard. Since few people read thîs officiai re- port, The Statesman from timne to tîme picks out items of interest for general information o! taxpayers. Here are a few from late copies o! Hansard: "What was the cost of the Com- monwealth Training Scheme? What shares were paid by the contributing members?" Answer: Total cost, $1,757,367,389.86. Net paid by United Kingdom, $54,- 206,318. By Australia, $65,181,- 068. By New Zealand, $48,025,- 393. By Canada, $1,589,954,609.- 94.,, "What was the. total dollar val- ue in loans by Canada to Great Britain, since Sept. 19 39? An- swer: $700,000,000, which has since been greatly reduced. What the outright dollar gifts to Brit- ain durîng the same period? An- swer: One billion in 1942 and two billion, 43 million, mutuai aid as of Feb. 28, 1946." "Did Canada declare war on countries other than Germnany, Italy and Japan? Answer: Yes, on Finland, Hungary and Rou- mania, Dec. 7, 1941. No Canadian troops were sent to these coun- tries." "Has Canada resumed political relations with Italy? Yes, Prime Minister King announced, Jan. 22, 1946, the early arrivai of a representative of the Italian gov- ernment in Ottawa with the rank o! consul-generai. Canada has sent none to Italy." "What are Canada's politica] relations today ýwith Germnany and Japan? Answer: Canada is stili in a state of war with both as per terms of surrender." How many immigrants have en- tered Canada between June 1945 and January, 1946? Answer: 14,- 367, made up of these nationali- ties: Belgian 10, British 8,552, Czechs 46, Danish 10, Esthonian 5, Finns 2, Hungarian 28, Italian 12, German 753, Yugoslav 13, Mex- jean 18, Dutch 12, Norse 67, Polce 557, Rumanian 12, Russian 6, USA 4,206, together with small num- bers from other countries. Did the government buy 72 acres of land near St. Thomas for Veteran's Land Act? What price? 1Any buildings 'on it? Answer: Yes, price $14,750. No buildings on it. What was the government's ex- perience in taking over at Ham- ,ilton 20 buildings arbitrarily fron 1owners under the reconversion plan to relieve housing shortage? Answer: total cost o! reconversion 1and renovation, $283,89 1. The )owners paid $9,788 o! this, the go- ,vernment the balance. Few likE projects are proceeding today. 1 What is the cost to taxpayer. -for the government's broadcasi "Soldier's Wife?" Answer: $4,- 431.78 per week. What quantities o! clothing dih 1the government permit Canadiar .firm to export in 1945? In Jan.ý ;Feb., 1946? Answer: In 1945 men'ý shirts, socks, pyjamas, shoes anc .children's clothing, total units, 1, 484,760. For Jan.-Feb., 1946, to 1tal units, 258,121. 1 How many ex-service men an( .women are out o! work in Can -ada and drawing out-of-worl .benefits. Answer: As of Marcl 31, 1946, the total is 47,204. 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MOREPEOPE RIE O GOOYEARTIRE THN ONANY THET-IN 1 St. Paui's W.A. held it's regu- lar monthly meeting in the lec- ture room on April. 9, Mrs. Fer- guson presiding. Group 1 had charge of the prograrn and the association was greatiy interested in hearing a description of India and her people, given by Mrs. (Dr.) Milier who spent some years there. Various matters of business were dîscussed. Group reports showecl much activity. Group 1 served'refreshments and the social hour was enjoyed. Shows Big Increase The healthy condition o! the Holstein industry in Canada is re- flected in a statement by G. M. Ciemons, Brantford, Secretary- Manager o! the Holsteinr-Friesian Association o! Canada, that trans- fers o! ownership for the first three months o! 1946 totalled 12,- 813, a 20 per cent increase over a similar period o! last year. M1m bership continues toshow a s tea- dy gain, 374 new members havîng joined the Association sînce the first of the year. Membership now exceeds the 10,000 mark for the first time in the. Association's his- tory. SCOUT NEWS The 2nd Bowmanville Scouts met Thursday with nearly every- body out and in shorts. We start- ed a new contest last week that is to end in June. In a knot relay the Beavers came first twice out of two games. On Saturday the Cougar Patrol held a hike and caught some suck- ers and a boot. 1 -.a paper, such as is used for wrap- ping dynamite, is substantially increased by the addition of 10 per cent of glass fibre. Such pa- per is reported to disintegrate af- ter an explosion, reducing the possibility of fire from smoulder- ing small pieces. Inflation comes when we pay too high a price for living well and too small a price for living right. >tb-