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PAGE TWO THE CANADIAN STATESMA.N, BOWMANVILLE, ONTAR[O Salute to Agricuture From The Weekly Press of Canada The week of June l7th, 1946, is dedicated by the weekly newspapers across the whole of Canada as a "Salute To Agriculture." The issue of this paper carnies out the theme. The editors of weekly papers represent the voice of rural Canada through more than 700 papers week by week. They serve and speak for the rnost vital, productive element in our whole national economy, the farmers. We deem it most fitting at this crucial post- war period to bring to public attention just what farmers have done ini the war effort and what tliey look forward to ini the im- miediate post-war period. During six long years of war farm parents have given up more than 40,000 sons and ,daughters to the armed services and ini- dustry ini the fight for freedom. Meantinie hard-pressed, hard-worked, older farmi peo- pie have actually« increased food production for the cause by more than 40 percent. This has ahl been done without thouglit of their economie position. They rallied with only one thought: "Save our soil and our her- itage with our flesh and blood for freedomn and democracy." Thu.s is our "Salute To Agriculture. " But what of the future? We have w~on the battie and we seek for peace. We are told by statesmen that our hope for peace and security rests upon the re-establishment of foreign markets for our farm surplus. This we believe is a true picture for farin producers. No peace can survive in a hun- gry world. But farmers are, as they have been in the past, faced with an economîc set-up that places them in an inferior posi- tion ini sharing, the national income. They must no longer be considered "forgotten people. " In the history of this country farmers have neyer rallied as a body under one politi- cal banner to remedy their just dlaims for equality for agriculture. The-y have waited for the establishment of one impartial, un- ifying force to state their case. It is found today in the voice of the Canadian Federa- tion of Agriculture, the voice of farmers from coast to coast, affiliated and resolute destined to achieve the objectives of farni- ers everywvhere ini Canada. With ail these thoughts set forth ini a manner not to antagonize any other elements in our national life, but only to state obvious truths in respect of the farmers of Canada, it is deexned the course of wisdom and duty for the weekly newspapers of Canada to say a word of praise and to the farm mnen and women of this great country at this time and to suggest a vîew of the immediate future. May we add that the " Salute to Agriculture" thus expressed, will continue to be the con- cern of weekly newspapers always, year by year. Biggest Harvest Ever is Present Pred iction A homle-mun by a piiîch hitter ini a tighit situationi is ail alt sinuile to u-se at this tinie on the food front. Witlî industrial strife rampant on nany fronts threatening lpro- duction w~hile haîf thie world starves, nature comes to bat to restore the balance. Neyer in the history of Ontario have tlîing-s looked more promising for a bountiftil harvcst. In- deed, givelu ieeconpeuse of inistiire 0o1 the prairies, farîn prodiictioii aIl across thie iiation xuay reaeh record lieights. 'With the -weekly press of Canada featuring this week a Salnte to Agriculture' and with such a niagnifice nt panorama of thîe getoto everywllere appairenit, îN'e believe it fitting to suggest tlat all our people should bow lîumbly ini thankfulness to Divine Provid- enîce at this timîe. For the pest tlîree years food production hias beeln falling. Farniiers. oefully short of help, have carried on as have few others anywhere ini this country. No"' with thie armed confliet a vear inî the past it is boped that ini this harvest they nîay be rewarded ini better measure for thleir toil. No section of the population lias been more conscious of the distress of liberated peoples cisc- where. And it is an inspiring thought that onlv recently ini a world coufereîîce ini Eng- laud, farmers of the w'orld have beeil the first to coine to haîrnîonious agreemenît on a World Federation of Agriculture. Indeed it can be said thiat ini thîis world moveneuit, farmers have taken a lead that mnust be followed by ail otiier organizations~ if we shaîl have universal peace. Truere is still dishariofly ini the United Nations Or- gai"titiotiauand dsagrreeluiclt amoîg %vorld poiial leaders. There is stili widespread :strif!e iin industry. Only on the farnî front has ivork contiîiued even as farmn leaders hiave charted a course and set a unîi ersal example. No more fitting foottuote than thîis eulie writte i ni our SaWInte to Agriculture. History will wriite the record ini the years to come. Established 1854 With whlch is Incorporated The Bowmanville News, The Newcastle Independent, and The Orono News 92 Years Continuons Service To The Town of Bowmanvllle and Durham County. Authorlzed as Second C lams Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. AN IINDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER You cannot have gene rally highier wages and a shorter working, week (no matter how desirable they may be of themselves) ai-d a lower cost of living. If wages generally go up the wî~age cost of everything menu- factured or put 011 sale - everything that goes inito the cost of living - goes up too. This is the beginning of the inflationary spiral at its worst. We know a lot of labor people whio are reasonably content with steadv %work, steady wages, andi enough ini- cone to mieet thieir obligations and put a little bit aside for a rainy~ day. We know miaîî of these peop)le to whom a strike is an initolerable nuisance and vet they feel eonpelled to go ont on eall. Onîe of thiese days. wve feel sure, tlîis class of people ivili assert theinselves and ivili be found to be in a înajority in the labor nioveinent. Labor, by- union organiizatioli, wants to get ilîs and evils remedied. It is very seldom in these enlightened days that ilîs and evils ini industry are so great that they cauî be settled only- bY the strike method. Labor î'ýaits to keep earning and industry wants to keep earing and producing. rfhere is common ground between labor and employer and inuuch more often than iot a broad- minded, amiable, mutua 1 understanding- a wilingness oun the part of employers to discuss, consider. and rectify. Many strikes under way or planned these days are strikes against the public interest and against the initerests of the working man. and, ini fact, in favor of iîîflationary' movements - in w'hich the working mian is the principal loser. The "Strategy Coinmittee" publishies a lot of bulletins for the purpose of givinog the strikers and the people they întend to caîl ont on strike pep talks of prejudice. Onme bulletin appeals to the working man to "Talk to Your Groceryman ", whose busi- ness is said to "depend on the size of your pay enivelope." Well, the groceryman and other merchants of the Windsor territory, for instance, know from experience just about ho"' much bunk there is ini that kind of appeal. Usually it is the corner grocery- man aud the sînaîl merchant who "finance" a strike. In carlier strikes in the Windsor territory, as elsewhere, the small merchant bas carried the load by granting credit to the striking îvorkpeople and quite often has been the loser whenever the strikers lose out. In the big strikes of more recent days iu Windsor the small merchant determinied that he would not be the goat any more; nieither did lie have to be, as it happened. The union leaders pulled the workmen ont on strike - aud they stayed on strike until they had exhausted. first their cash savings in the baîîk, ai-d secondly had liquidated the Victory Bonds they had worked s0 liard to store up ini the form of added savings dur- ing the wvar. Once the workmen hiad been thus impoverislied the union leaders were willingY enough that they should go bàck to wvork. It will be a long tile hefore any onie of the recent 'Windsor strikers inakgWs enough nîoney out of increased pay to make up for losiug bhis whole wages for one-third of a v ear. No. the local groceryman gets a deceîît livinîg when everybody stays at work ai-d muets his obligation,, andi las somîe saviings. It seeius a pity that at a tine when civil- ian goods are needed andi noney is available to buy themn andI keep ev-er-,bIody -bus-,, witli- out hoisting priees aiid startîng- an inflation, vast b)odies of workers should be called out into i(leness and conpelled to spend their hard-Nvon savings, li(1lidate thieir Victor-, Bonds and spend tlhe îoney - solely tliat sonie agitators' niotion of advaîcig a radi- cal" isin", andi keephîng up a class war may be gratified. Party Line Observations 'Oh, it's you, Bob. Hou' are Mary and the childreu? . . . Isii 't it a lovely day? . . . 1 cii joy thie clear, cool spring days more than the best days iu sumnîner " . . They 're just as beautiful too, aren 't they? . . . Oh, yes, this is Wedniesday half-holiday in town, isn't it?' I'd forgottenl . .TJim told nme to tell you tiet lie 's sorry lie can't make it. lic's gcetting readv for seediîg andJlhe can't leave tlîe necessary, unsuitable, eiiployinent of hiauing manuire . . . Ofi, w-cIl, it's just the iiasty part of what we thîiuîk is the most suitable if c . . . 1 wishî a few thousand of thiese fellovs who are drawing unemploy- mnit iinsurance would gpet thîir silly heads straightened ont and take good-paying farmi jobs... Sure ,it would do thien a world of good physically, and thîey 'd have some nmonev left at the enîd of the ionthi. Somebodv 's got to hielp w'ithî farmn production. If our ou'iî people woiit do it, we oughit to hriuig i iiii iigrauits whio Nvill. We necd a g.reat niani mimiigrants anivay . . .1 i and 1 are tii-td retire on the farmîu, after the crop. if ive eau it get enougli help . .l'nisorry .Tiui vault go. Hc ueeds a chianige auJ a dayý off. F>aiirvmnig s a toutghl job ivlen -vou Jo it alone. Perhaps lie '11 be able to go some other tiue. Remnember nie to Mary. CGoodbye. '- The Sccîîc fromn Shingw'auk Farmi. COUNTY REPRBSENTATIVE E. A. Summers, Bowmanville The man most widely known among farmers of Durham County is E. A. Summers, Agricultural Representative. In August of this year Mr. Summers begins his l7th year in his present position. His outstanding service has been hîs work with Junior Farmers among whom he has developed numerous Farm Clubs sponsored by the De- partment of Agriculture. His judging teams have repeatedly won high honors, provîncially and nationally. Aside from general duties, Mr. Summers is secretary of a score of farm associations and was a leader in forming 'the County Federation of Agriculture.' On the go every day, visiting every part of the county, he still finds i*. MU.. UIU MUMU MMmU M mMMMMUl M IN THE DIM A NO DISTANT PASI Prom The Statebman Files June 16, 1921 Fred R. Foley represented Bow- manville Court, No. 964, at High Court Canadian Order of Fores- ters in the annual convention at Niagara Falls. Graduates of the Training School for Nurses of Bowman- ville Hospital to receive diplomas are: Misses Stella May Couch, Ma- bel Winnifred Morris and Elsie May Betts. Rev. Isaac Couch, M.A., B.D., a Durham boy and brother f Wes- ley Couch, Bowmanville, has com- pleted the ful pastoral term et the Quebec Methodist Church at Montreal and has gone to Strath- roy. Congratulations to Percy Mer- cer, Margaret Taylor, Gordon Ketchum who have successfully passed the Toronto Conservatory of Music piano examinations and Mrs. Herbert Smith who won hon- ours in primary singing. Enniskillen: Miss Lena Smith gave scripture reading at the Lea- gue meeting.-Everybody was shocked when they learned that Mr. Cousin's house had been des- troyed by fire. Courtice: Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Trull have gone to their summer home in Nanton, Alberta. time to tend his two-acre garden as an experimental plot for flow- ers and vegetables. A special ar- ticle on Junior Farmers appears in this issue. 4 In this edition, we bring you, us in making this publication pos- whoever you may be, a message sible. of ribteandsiplethnkstoa I is an honor for us to pro- of ribte nd impe tank to duce a "Salute to Agriculture" group of people, the farmers, their edition, because it is the realiza- wives and families, whýo through- tion of an ambition which has grown during the 92 years this ___________________paper has been published. The Statesman has always champion- ed the cause of the farmer in his fght for a fair share of the na- tional income, commensurate with his labor and his importance to the economy of the nation. We shaîl continue to do so, because we feel that the farmers are the backbone of the country, the sym- ... bol of sound, sensible, down-to- earth thinking, of tolerance, of service, of real friendship and religion. No greater compliment can corne to the edîtor of this paper than the assertion which we have heard many times about The Statesman, that it is a good farm journal. Our forebears were farmers and we are proud that our farmer rel- atives in this district still number in the hundreds as do the rela- tives of many of the citizens of Bowmanville. We believe that everyone in this area will be in- terested in the history, short as George W. lames it may be, of the struggles our ancestors had in clearing and set- out the years have done a mag- tling Durham county. We are nificent job for Canada and for all.proud of Durham, because of its achievements and its people. the world at large. We, of The Statesman staff take This edîtion and hundreds like pleasure and pride in recording it which will be appearing in for posterity a bit of history Canada this week are only tokens, which, we hope, will be remem- butwe ope thy wll ndiatebered for years to come. butwe ope thy wll ndiate We toast the farmers of Dur- in some measure the feeling of ham County, than whom there are gratitude which we, as weekly no better. newspaper publishers have for our loyal friends from the areas outside the cities and towns. Our feelings, we know, are shared by many non-farmers in this dis- trict who have co-operated with lune 17, 1896 Mr. J. Knight attended Han- del's. Grand Oratorio in Brant- ford. Mabel Northcote and Min- nie Sinclair, Bowmanville, partic- ipated in the chorus. Miss Winnie Jones gave a smart garden party to a large number of friends on the beautiful lawn of her uncle, Mr. W. H. Williams, Concession Street. Miss Bertha Jones and Miss Rutherford, Or- ono, were among the guests. Among those who have been successful in passing University 0 When Shali We Be Donc With Strikes that Impoverish Workers ? People at large are getting a littie bit fed Up on strikes and labor-management dis- putes - but labor would do well to take notice that people generally are not fed up with management alone, but with soîne of the labor agitation too. The trades union member, his w'if e and family and his home seem to be the main losers ini the present wave of strikes and agitations. We have had evidence locally of the existence of an organization which calîs' itself "The Strategy Commiittee" of certain labor organizations. It puts out lit- erature of various sorts - printed and mim- eographed bulletins which are a mixture of provocative matter and preposterous bunk. The idea of presenting, for instance, a three point program for: "l. lligh-er wages; 2. A forty-hour week, and 3. Lower e-ost of liv- iin," is such transparent nonsense that we Wonder that working people stand for it without protest. - Because of the necessity for extensive re- pairs and alteration our Bakery and Restaurant will be closed from June 24th to July 8th.î We thank you for your continued patron- age and wish to assure you of our desire to resume our servicq to you with the finest of quality production. CHAS. H. CARTER U have been healed by Christian Science"4 Sucli statements as this appear each week in verified testimonies of healing in the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SENTINEL A Christian Science Sunday Service will be broadcast over Station CFRB at Il a.m. Sunday, lune 23rd. Please send me copy of the Sentinel. Nomne.............................................................................. Street .............................................................................. Cit y.............. ................................... ......Province ............. Notice When i'S à Ionq distanc Cali necessarya You are the best judge. We think every ceil is important. That's why we try our best to put it through quickly. But more people are making more Long Distance cails than ever before-even more now than i: the war years. We are building new equipmnent and getting it into service as fast as we can. But rigbt now there's often more traffie than we cin take care of the way we'd like, and delays do occur. We'd appreciate your help a littie while longer. This summer, especially, please continue to ask yourself: feIs this Long Distance cail necessary?" FRANK WILLIAMS, Manager I WHEN YOU PLACE a Long Distance cail . ; " FIRST, give the operator the name of the distant city ... THEN, the telephone namber of your party ... TH EN, when the operator ask" it, your own telephone number. If you don't know the distant telephone number, please ma/ce a note of itforfuture use when y-ou hear the operator repent it. t-f and College examinations are: honors in full course in Domestic Violà Gillillan, second year at Economy.. University of Toronto, honors in Cogautin M.nd rs Moderm Languagesa; Maggie Eat- CogautintoM.ndMs wood, second year at University' Cephas J. Mountjoy (nee Alberta of Toronto, honors in Modern Byers) on their marriage. Languages; F. W. O. Werry, third Tyrone: Ed. Hawkey is home year at University of Toronto, after attending Toronto Normal honors in Mathematics; Mosetta during the winter.--». G. Welch James, Ontarid Ladies' College, has returned to Cobourg to re- honors in the Intermediate course sume duties.-The departure of in vocal music; Anna Fraser, gra- Rev. T. H. P. Anderson is regret- duate of Toronto Cooking Sehool, ted. I Member Audit Bureau of, Circulations Canadian Weekly Newspapers \Association SUBSCRIPTION RATES $2.00 a Year, strlctly ln advance. $2.50 a Year in the United States GEO. W. JAMES, Editor. THURSDAY, JUNE 20th, 1948 au P j