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q.~' ('A ?iTA flT A ?'~T ~'rA T~MAN TlOWMANVILLE. ONTARIO THURSDAY, MAY lOth, 1946 AU1 TWU &AL&d ~ -. - - ------, - - - - "Fifth Floor Farrn Bloc." They Canada will be available ta meet shortages. Mr. Howe replied that W %j rabun »titenUi Established 1854 With which ls Incorporated The Bowma.nvilie News, The Newcastle Independent, and The Orono News 92 Years Continuons Service To The To of Bowmanviile and Durham County. Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Weekly Newspapers SUBSCRIPTION' RATES $2.00 a Year, strictly ln advance. $2.50 a Year in the United States GEO. W. JAMES, Editor. Baby Bonus Costing Canadians Quarter Billion Dollars Yearly Mr. Brooke Claxton, ni answer to a de- mand for more generous Old Age Pensions, warned the House of Commons that it svas only possible to make expenditures of this sort, at the cost of heavy taxation, and made it quite clear that hie feels that it would be impossible to go on increasing taxation, or even to hold it at its present levels, without unfortunate resuits. This is a very sound doctrine, and Mr. Claxton deserves to be thanked for waring Parliament that facts are facts, taxes are taxes, an d that a country cannot make itself rich by simply redistributing the money ini This is rather surprisilg doctrine oinîing from Mr. Claxton, for hie as the Minlister who invented the Baby Bonus. At the time that this experiment was tried. with a' general willingness ini the couuitr-, to do anything that could be doue to relieve poverty, and give the children of 0anada a better chance, the warning wvas soinndetl in various quarters that tbe cost wvould be pretty high, but Mr. Claxton and bis aissoo- iates just disinissed this. With au eleetion on hand, thiere wvas no0 talk of the dani-ei of wasteful Governmnent expendit ures. Looking at the Baby. Bonus niow. andi not- ing its resuits, it seems as thougli evervthing that was hoped from this seblee i basnot developed. Ail social service w~orkers in Canada are asking, for more muoue,%-tbau ever for the relief of poverty and it is gen- erally said that it wvi11 be impossible to pro- vide decent conditions for Canadian chld- ren, unless the Governnment niow sees that their parents can rent houses at miucli less than the cost of building themn. The Baby Bonus costs the Treasury $250,000,000 a year and that money cornes out of the pockets of you - the taxpayers. Criticisîn of it is made by the simple state- ment that this is a comparatively snîall amount of monie. to a country whvich has gotten accustoxned to spending, billions for war. I{owever, the cold fact stili remains that a quarter of a billion dollars a year is equal to the interest on eighit billion dollars. The total cost of the war wvas fifteen billion dollars. That is, the one item of Baby Bonus adds expenditures of public money, and there- fore, as Mr. iaxton reminds lis, of taxation, more than hiaîf as great as the most of the war. What is more, this wvas clone at a time -when .wages in Canada w'ere at the bighest figure on record, at a time whien the Gov- e-rnmet .tt, as boastingf of the imp)rovýeeiet The Cobourg Sentiel Star, iii a recent issue, tells its public tbat the Bowmanville Statesmail occasiolialI gets off the beant, ,editorially, in iimak-ing rstateients îîot in .accord witli ats. 1lu huie with our tradi- .tion of backiing farmners to tbe limit and %objection1 to tbe rin tendency tward -iatioilalisin, we said a fev things ini accord wîth genieral' publie opinion lbereabouts. \Ve deplored conditions5 attractitig Nvouig people off farmis; said that presenit farni wages net better returfls than the average for fac- itxry workers; that refusiing farni work con- -tributed to preselit deeline in farm produc- tion. Our renmarks on nationalisin have been --well aiithellticated ini debates at Ottawa and aneed no further comment. But the Coboiirg editor takes this liue: 'That young people should be cornmended -in their desertioli of farmis to seek better conditions, the coiivelieneCes aud recreat ions found in cities; that The Statesmian is wrong again for we proved in~ publislied figtires nu the Sentine1 Star. that "farmi production is increasing by leaps aud bouunds in spite of the currelit exodus front farmns." This is strangre doctrine front a rural weekly. 'We believe farmers wvill reseut press encourage- ment for yong people to " revot" at a time when patriotie and responsible people strive for utmnost food production to prevent mass starvation. Bad moral doctrine is to be deplored at ail times. As to farm production increasing we pre- sent as rebuttal several authorities generallY considered as moi'e competent than a rural editor. Hansard recently quotes the oreatest farm expert of the day:, "Farm production lias been declining sud is stili falling since 1944 and one retlson is that farm labor is difficult to get at any price." Figures supplied by the Minister of Agriculture re- veal the trend sud lie said lie would rather rely upon lis f igures than on those of the bureau of statisties. Finally the latest blue- book of the Prices Board, page 19, confirms these authorities. Our contemporarY sp- pears slightly mixed in estimating the direc- tion of lis "leaps and bounds." We may add in conclusion, that after a lifetirne spent ini weekly journalism, a prime essential is to keep informed, espec- ially ou rural affairs sud very carefully to exanmine facts before statiug opinions. We accept with good hurnor the criticisms iu- spired by the brashuess of budding journal- ists wliose experience eau be numbered in motîs rather ini years. We believe farm people lu thîis district as well as lu North- umberland C'ounty prefer the type of comn- ment aud leadership miost weeklies, includ- ing The Statesman, follow as souud sud re- k;pousible policy. We thauk our contempor- ary for the footuote, thiat after ail, "The Statesniaîî is a good newspaper." We seein to have heard it before. Non-Residential Construction The niavors of Canadian inuniicipalities bave îraised a liowl oveî Mir. Howe's decision to puit 01 their shoulders the problem of decidiug whist sort of non-residential con- structionî is to be permitted. The shiortag-e of housing is so great that the teudencyv is for the public to be irritated at the spectacle of otiier types of building beiug perînitteci, buit tbe suibject is one w'hich Valnuot be disinîssed as readily as that. lu tbe first place, mnxnîot only neecl biouses, but jobs to enable thîen to psy for the liouses. Tîtat ineans tlîat any atteinpt to stop) people building factories todsy could oly enîd iu there being people with hîoîses, Nvith no Jobs. Thleni there is another dauger. It is thiat aîîy stoppage of noîî-residential building iiht end lu a lack of auy building, sud unot ouly iu the buildingy of bouses. House b)uildinig is not very profitable at present aud there is certaiuly a great lack of interest in biiilding bouses for rentai, since, what with higli municipal taxation snd rentai control, very little capital is in- terested lu thîls sort of cuterprise. Meanw'hile, there is profit to made ini building- other types of construction. That is, if rigid regulation be applied to preveut non-resideutiai buiilding, the effect uuay îîot. be to produenmore hîomîes, but simphy, to drive ahi enterprise ont of the buildingr business as a whoie. It is becoming iucreasingly clear thiat sichi measures as rentai control, however popular, have thîeir dangers. Agricultural l-ousing More and more it beconies evideut that the Goverument 's honsiug plans do îîot ini- clude any pro~visionu for effective efforts to build more houses on farnis, and iu sînal communities. 'fhey are concentrated 01n relieviiig the îousing shortage lu thie larger centres. This question is tied tip w'ithî the very imnportanît question of hon' more xvorkers are to be obtaiîîed for elanadiaiî farins. The preseiit farm population is aging s0 rapidly that it is oniy a inatter of years until tis country ivili have nîo surplus food to ship abroad aud of only a few years miore until t 41eref. 1a liiîîot i)eeouhfond produced iii the urgentit need is to i)uiid 1n0 more worIC- ers' liouses ini the cit.) just nom,, but to con- centrate ail ouîr bousîîîg, activity o11 the provisioni of w'orkers' hiouses iii theiecointrv. If thie alternîative plan is chosen, anti an adequate volume of immîuigrationi is perinitt- -d, s0 as to provide Canadian fariîîs wîtli workers, then the iieed is for toth addecl houîsing on farîns, and more liousing îiu the cuities, to take este of thie preseîît shtortagre. Thie lesson is thiat thie nation lias to face the fact that ail its econonîlie problenîs are tied np togethier. Wage levels, price levels, lîousing, immigration are ail parts of a single probhemn, aud it would be a grave uistake to go on1 aiy longer -withi the pre- sent attempts to treat thein as thougli tlîey were independeuît questions, esdli of whichi eouid be solved by itself. Certainly. with the foodl situation of the world sucli as it is, it is evideut that the very basis of ail econornic poiicy lu Canada shîould be the adoption of ineasures to ex- pand agricultura4 production. Startiîîg frorn tlat, it would seem wise to coiusider every Ctler detail of econornie policy as part of tlîis, andI thiat iieludes hîousiiîg. The best tliings in life are îîot ratioîîed. Frieudship, loyalty, love do tiot require cou- pons. Parliamentary lnçonsistencies Shown in Public Records' of Bouse Some peculiar highuIglts corne to view arnong those who have the desire or the fortitude to read and study, from day to day, the officiai records of the debates lu the House of Commous, lu other words, ilausard. For the astute student who, witli a keen eye, tries to fathom whetlier parlia- rntary figures are sincere or not lu what they say, we propose here and now to ex- amine the recent performances in the House of two of the members wvhose names so fre- quently capture public interest iu debates, namely, Prime Minister Mackenzie King aud his more or less faithful follower, Jean Francois Pouliot, long-time member from Temiscouata, Province of Quebec, often re- ferred to as the ebullient, irresponsible, buf- fou of debates.i Seldom cauglit short and usualiy speakiîîg from prepared text, the Prime Minister sturnbled a bit in lis statement on the Rus- sian spy question. Part of his original text cauglit by reporters, wvas, that to avoid public attention, "at least until Canadian suspects lad* been found guilty by the Commission sud w-ere comînitted for trial" and this, as said, sliould by ail rules, have appeared lu Hansard. But, sud here is ,w'ere insincerity cornes ini, the Prime Mini- ister later caused Hansard to say: "At least until matters were in stich shape that only those against whoin evideuce seemed to be conclusive xvould be apprehended sud coin- mitted for trial." So we see liere that even the hichest wili changethie record aud thus sacrifice public trust. But Mr. Pouliot was even more brazen iin lus inconsistencies. With fulsome praise for tbe Prime Minister, lie digressed to clemand a distinîctive Canadian flag; lie wanted Dominion Day ch1î'ed ,to Canada Day; al to the eudI that w~e must renotnce Colonîial- isnî anti every vestige of Imperialisî. 1He wvent 011 to oppose the lban to Britaiîi, w-hicli if granted, lie proposed as security, the trans- fer to Canada of Bermuda aud januaca and other possessions. In other words lie de- xnanded thiat Canada become an ixnperialist power ouît of the dire distress of the inothier- land. No wonder people are begiîîiing to question the sincerity of some of our elected rel)reseiltatives. Tiiese facts are giveii as tbey fal just for the information of readers wh'1o have no0 tie to follow the record. Political Propaganda in Home and School Club The Statesman is filing for future refer- ence the very able report of the press sec- retary of Shiaw 's Home and School Club covering its final meeting of the season. A summary of this report is printed in this issue. The political antecedents of the speaker of the evening and his sponsor, to- gether with the general tenor of the address, have created th~e impression that nothing short of political propaganda has thus been introduced into an organization, which. by its very nature is a forum that should not be exploited in this manner. To introduce any shade of partisan polities into such a gathering is a first step toward dissention and possible split. The speaker alleged that lie souglit only for a better understanding between farm- ers and labor but his text was most wholly a tirade,,againist industry, with no word as to how farniers were to share in the benîe- fits lie demanded for labor. Iudeed, as re- ported, lie held that any increase in retail prices was unnecessary; that labor must have a varied diet in abundance of ail food products of the farm. *While thus indicating a demand tlîat farmn prices shahl not rise, lie demanded a minimum, guaranteed au- nual inconie for a labor family unit of ap- proxiînately $2,000. But there n'as no snch guarantee asked for the long-hour farm workers.* And yet, lie said, your figlit is our figlit. H1e w-eut on to say that profits of the Massey-Harris Co. last year were $12,800,- 000. Almost at the same time, in the House of Commous, a C.C.P. member adrnitted that these profits were cousiderably Iess than two millions, much of it accruing fromn war production. More than that, since 1939, farm implement prices have risen 8.9 per- cent and wages lu farîn ixplement factories, 54.1 percent. It is to be regretted that this Home aud School Club, probably the fiuest iln Durhiamu ounty, should have been sub- jected to such. an utterly irresponsible array of mnisinformnation. Labor is entitled to its full share of the national income; s0 are the farmers. But tliey can neyer become re- conciled througli baseless propaganda. The hope of the future lies not iu better hiumanl inventions, but in better human rela- t ions. ~ IN THE DIM AND DISTANT PAST From The Statesman Files l 1 I ... ........w FIFTY YEARS AGO May 13, 1896 Rev. W. S. Pritchard, formerhy pastor of Triuity Cougregatiouah Church of this toWn, has received his degree, Bachelor of Diviuity, and is now pastor of a church'at Oneida, Ill. Dr. R. J. Niddery, a West Dur- ham boy, is Mayor of Creemore. Carl Kent, the popular agent of the Cornet, Columbia, sud Ken- wood bicycles has doue much to prornote cycling lu this district. Mrs. F. Bleakly has erected a new fence iu front of her property on Church Street. Mr. F. H. Frost, conductor of the High School Glee Club, Miss Ethel Trebilcock, Miss M. Butch- art sud Miss Beryl Edsall were vocal soioists at the High School concert. A. J. Lockhart is moving to British Columbia sud will sell his household furniture sud effects. W. T. Bunt, a Hampton boy, McMaster University, Toronto, bas been appointed ta Listowel Bap- tist Church for the summer mon- ths. Orono: Miller sud Bsrfatt iu- tend opening s general store with Nash sud Lawrie lu charge. Blackstock: Dr. Fish is re-dig- ging his well which caved lu a short time ago.-Mrs. Tom Wood presented ber husband with s sou, May 3.-Miss Riggs of Euniskil- len is trying ta form s musical class. Hampton: Dr. Frank Howard bas gone ta Galawaxa, Ps., ta practise medicine. TWENTY-FIVE VEARS AGO May 19, 1921 Mrs. Edward Rutledge, Man- vers Road, celebrated her 92ud birthday, May 10. Arnang the guests were Mrs. C. M. Cswker, Miss Addie Cawker sud Mr. sud Mrs. F. C. Vanstane. Mrs. R. M. Mitchell is lu Tor- auto with her son Murray, who has undergone au operation at the Sick Childreu's Hospital. J. J. Mason sud Son, real estate agents, report these sales: Mr. Kirkland bas purchased Mr. W. H. Yeo's residence ou Elgin St., Mr. Yeo bas purcha'sed Mr. John Pahmer's on Odell St., sud Mr. Palmer has bought Mrs. Wm. Coombe's residence on Ontario St. Mrs. Clarence K. Lackwood, Brighton, announces the engage- ment of her daughter, Winifred, ta Mr. Gea. E. Chase, Bowmau- ville. Fred R. Foley assisted in an at- tractive mixed program of vocal sud instrumental music preseut- ed by the Methodist Church Choir under the direction of Mr. D. Ni- cholson. It came as a great surprise ta aur citizens ta learn that Lt.-Col. W. C. King, P.M., succumbed ta pueumonia sud passed away Sat- urday. Wm. H. (Bibl) Calver, son of Mrs. Gea. Barton, Liberty St., has been given the responsibility of the Mautreal brauch of the Taylor Instrumental Companies of Ro- chester, N.Y. Euniskillen: There was great excitemeut lu aur village wheu James Bradley's stable caught fire from a bonfire.-Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Stainton have moved into O. L. the late W. H. Martin.-W.esley Oke has had a 'phone installed to be up-to-date. Solina: The football team under the management of R. J. MeKes- sock and Roy Langmaid as cap- tain, play their first game in Brooklin.-Miss Mary Niddery re- cited and Mrs. John Baker sang nicely at a concert given in Eldad by the W.I. of Hampton and the Epworth League.-Mrs. Baker is training both young and old voices for Eldad anniversary. 0f ail the colors to be found It's green that makes the wheéls go round. Charlie Stephenson J oins Farm Bloc Featured in a recent report iu the Globe sud Mail sent in by its brilliant Press Gallery represen- tative, Kenneth Cragg, is the story of an unofficial Farm Bloc coterie, whose conceru is to meet sud dis- cuss farm problems sud to press the views of farmers on the floor of the House. The members of the coterie, a haif dozen Progressive Conserv- stives, number those owning farms in their districts. Amoug these are Major R. E. Drape, M.P., Northumberland Couuty aud Charles E. Stephenson, M.P., Dur- hamn County, who qualified by buying a farm in Hope Township last year after giving up the auto- mobile business. Meetings take place daily in re- cesses of the House sud their col- leagues refer ta them as the .10' A' /' e are~1*rG are heard from frêquently protes- tinè the recent rise ini farm impie- ment costs and the inadequate re- turns for farmers. Other f re- quently join them in their open door caucus. 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