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TEE CANADUY STATESMAN. EOWMAUVILLE, ONTAMO THURSDAY, MARCH l7th, 1951 Our Economic System Wrong, Speaker TelIls Canadian Club Group The present economic syster in Canada and many of th~ other major countries of thi world today was thoroughl: condemned by P. J. Rowe, for mer Social Credit M.P. for ai Alberta riding who le noN farming et Janetville, in ei address ta the Men's Canadiei Club on Wednesday evening o lest week. Spcaking ta the club meni bers et their dinner meeting ir St. Paul's Sunday School audit orium, Mr. Rowe steted that oui economic systemn fails becausq of three things - toa-intcns( competition, duplication af ser. vices, end taa-great fluctua tions in price levels. An early writcr, Edmunc Spencer had declared that "so. ciety flourishes because of enta. gonism arnong its etoms", thE speaker said, but even the in- sects such as, bees and antE disprove this theory. It j5 through ca-operetion rathe: then entegonisrn or competi. tion that they build their col- onies and defend theniselveý frorn their enemies. "The bee: and ents do not fight ernong thernselves and destroy thern- selves, which proves that we do not have even the intelli- gence o! insects, because we do", Mr. Rowe declered. Monopolies Raise Prices He pointed out that large in- dustries do nat want tao keeci campetition, however, whicii is the reason why they fanm monopolies and cartels. He sta- ted that e combine of cernent campenies in Winnipeg had raised the price o! the cernent necessery ta pave the city's streets by $30,000,000 over what it had formerly been. "Thc merchants an these streets hed ta raise the prices of their goods ta pay this increesed cost and sa the rnoney eventually carne frorn the pockets af everyonc in the cîty", hie stated. Mr. Rowe alsa scored the greet waste ln aur ecanomy caused by tremendous duplica-1 tion of services. In 1929 in the time of Herbert Hoover's gav- ernment in the United States a survey bad shown that the average farnily produced $4,300 annuelly in goods and services, but its incarne was only $890. "It found that there were 157,- 000 service stations selling gas- alIme, of whicb 111,000 werel flot actually needed. If the twa men ernployed in~ these 1,0 unnecessery service stations had been put ta work praducing gaads, they cauld have creat- cd $450,000,000 in useful gads and services", the speaker as- serted. "This is an exemple of the weste which bas caused aur econamic breakdown." Fluctuations in price levels are another cause of greet hendships on the, ordinary worker, Mr. Rowe dcclared. If these fluctuations caused by the manipulations of profit- scekers cauld be eliminated, the ordinery consumer would benefit greatly. The Social Credit party, lie =i said, believes that the troubi he with the economic systemj Le that there is an inherent def. y ciency in purchasing powe S, causdd by money being kep n out of circulation in banks, ii )w funds withheld for deprecia n tion, etc. They believe tha n production and consumptiai of cen be balanced by makini more purchesing power avail n-able ta everyone thraugh pay in ing thern dividends. "I believi i that the trouble is nat an ini .i herent shartage of purchasinj e power, however, but the une e quel distribution o! it," Mr r-Rowe declared. a- Like Vast Cream Separator He pointed out that in 1931 id the 3,000,000 fermers in Cen. -_ ada hed an average incarne oi - only $447. On the ather bané ie 4,000 people in Canada hec - mare incarne then aIl the farrn ts ers put tagether. "This systenr is is like a vast creem seperetor", ýr the speaker said. "Into the ta; i. we pour the wealth of the farn -forest, mine and sea, and oui slabor. Sarne people et the cean cs spaut get incarnes o! $150,000 gor rnore, while those et the 1- ather end are paid sa littie thal ,e they don't know how they car i- get elong on it." 'e Mr. Rawe said that anc wri- ter had. declared that the Ot- tawa agreernents of 1932 dis- *crirninating against the have- flot nations, such as Gerrnany, hehd created the rise, of Hitler- ism. This is an inter-depon- dent world. We have anîy four tyears advantage before the àother nations catch up ta us in tthe H-bornb race. If we don't devise sorne way of redistribu- ting aur wealth, I don't know what is going ta happen," the speaker asserted. "There is a city of dreerns in the future", he steted. "When we reach it we will find it very different from aur present world o! crernped freedorn and impoverished dreems, where we buy in the cheapest market and selI in the dearest. In that city of aur dreanis, fia one will be bought or sold." Our present systern is the resuit o! aur feilure ta see the3 brothcrhoad o! mnan, he assert- cd. "There is no easy solution", he said. "We cen offer aur youth only hard things, but the harder a thing is ta eccorn- Plish, the rnare value there is in averca.mîng it. We cen be pioneers just lile aur ancestons. but aur pioneering now must be in the idea o! co-operation. Through the labor and sacri- fice o! aur youth and their un- selfish courage and loyalty ta ideals wc rnay yet build the land of aur dreams." Introduccd By Frank Riekard Mr. Rowc was thanked for his thaught-provaking eddressi hy Harry Cryderman. H-e bcd been intraduced by Frank Rick- ard, Ex-M.P. wbo painted out that be had met him in Ottawa, wherc Mr. Rowe went ta the House a! Commons in 1935 as e Social Credit Mernbcr frorn Alberta, but switched ta an In- A miati we know wanted ta send a young mother something really useful for her littie girl. What lie sent won him a warmer letter than he expected: "Flow perfectly lovely of you," the letter ran, Rta start that savings account for littie Debbie! 'm planning to add ta it evMr chance I get-and it will be wonderful for her when she grows Up." You, too, will find that for many occasions a savings passbook from The 1 LIni the Editor's Mail 26 Sherwoad Place, 1, St. Vital, r Winnipeg 8, Man. ri Dear Friend, e It has been my intention ta twrite 'you long ega, and send a n rny subscription, but sorna- Urnes an issue cornes and hard- ly a familier narne appears. What changes have taken place in haif e century, even in older, well established regions of Can- ada! People move about, farni- lies scatter, and sometirnes be-. corne lost to their own near « ones. I arn finding this sa, very1 forcibly as I continue rny coin- piling of data for the Law-Bur- ton, Hogarth - Elford family trees. I suppose we are no ex- ception. A short while ega a reply ta a letter of enquiry sent ta new found relatives in Kansas re- vealed thet they had been onE a trip up here and on ta Churchill in the 1953, with no knowledge of the hundreds of Law relatives in Manitoba, with some in Winnipeg. It evidently gave them a shock, and the let-9 ter had a sirnilar effect on nie.g Events are so happening, that 1f I expect ta have a trip east inv June. I shall certainly caîl et The Stetesrnen office ta set yau. I hope ta see meny mare I araund Bowrnanville, but I shallh have very short tirne with eechd ane. I understand Eldad willd celebrete e century of activity.c I would like ta be present. Per-C haps I cen. s A week ega an old couple Ia have known since 1919 observ- J ed their 55th wedding enniver- n sar.y. I had taught severel of J the farnily et Swan Lake, Man. el They are grandperents now. zr Mr. end Mrs. W. J. Moffatt, zr carne wcst fram near Black- el stock yeers ega. I enclose an ti item from Free Press. If yau ki should carne west, let me know. By the wey, Mrs. Maffatt wrote i her entrance exeminetions inH Bownanvjlle High School the ei first year it was apen. ri Your aId friend, C( Claude E. G. H. Lew, r( (Native of Saline) cc Canadian Bank of Commerce can be a very welcome gift. And if you haven't already done it, why not 'Igive" ane ta yourself? You'1l find that possession of a savings account is a steady encourage- ment ta thrift . . . and compound interest helps your balance grow. Sa cail in at aur nearest branch-and start saving today. Anyone et any of aur more than 680 branches wil gladly help you. dependent in 1940. He stated that Mr. Rowe was born in Darlington Township, but mov- cd to Hope Tawnship when quite young. He attended pub- lic school thene and high schaal in Part Hope. He movcd ta Al- berta in later yeans and at anc time wes editor o! the Social Credit Party's newspaper. He bas alsa written books on econ- amics and world events. He is now living in Janetville. President Frank Danland welcamed the members ta the meeting and three guests: How- ard Cryderman, Maple Grave; Clarence Avery and Reeve Sid- ney Little of Bowmanvllle. He annaunccd that the next meet- ing o! the Club will be the Ladies Night on April 27 and thet arrangements are now be- ing made for a speaker for that evening. Grace was said by Rev. A. G. Scott and the sing sang led by 'Harry Cryderman with Dave Marrison as accompanist. A de- liciaus naast bec! dinner was served by the ladies of St. Pauls' A!tcrnoon W.A. l loids Meeting At the Parsonage jMrs. W. Hutton wvas hostess for meeting a! Blackstock Wa- men's Institute held on March 2 et the Personage. Presîdent, Mrs. Lamne Thornpson presiding. Mrs. W. Archer gave the Bible reading. Financiel report sho-w- cd a henk balance o! $198.5ô3. Fifty dollars wvas vatcd tawardi the cupbaards which the O.N.O. club plan ta have huilt in tha:, Recreation Centre. Bazear corn- mittee reportcd plans for their April 15 bazear in the Coin- munity Hall; and Nestîcton Wornen's Institute members \vere invitcd ta attend a dem- anstration on supper dishes an May 23. Mrs. J. Rahrn and Mrs. T. Smith were named eanarninat- ing carnrittce for ncxt seeson's officers. May 20 wes announe- ed»as the date a! the District Annuel, Mrs. J. McArthurý wes inj charge a! e most interestingl program camprising e sang "Therc's a Land Cled Mol- land" by Nancy Dornell, and ai splendid debate, '"Resolved that todey's progressive educa-f tian is o! mare value ta the pupil than the systcrnpo! 251 yeers ega."Mrs. B. Gunr and Mrs. Ivan Thompson tok the affirmative, Mrs. Gilbert Marlow and Mrs. Richard Bowles the negative. Sa match- cd werc the opposing sides thet, efter considerable consultation an the part of the judge, a tie had ta be announced. Th's matching a! credits had its ad- vantages, for the !allowers o! bath systerns ent home happy', sefe in the belief that thev were still right. Mrs. McArthur read Edgar Guest's "Ail the Old Ask". A tasty lunch brought ta a close a Most informative meceting. AIl that is worth reckaning is wbet w-e do, and the best a! avers thing is nat toa good. but is ecanomv and nicbes. - MaY Baker Eddly,1 the bleedin' Colonials) cen tes- iti!y thet we advanced about Itwo miles altogether-when thc n ' s 'olUflil badly rmeuled FfhAm a n I sent from Passchendeele ta San mss Roots ColumnistI Quentin for a, so called, rest, jthe poor blighters run head long inta the March 1918, Germen "putsch," whcre Jesse machine gunned by low flyin le vs teken prisoner. No aircraft, while advancing knee wonder the pon chep su!fers deep, neck deep in the awful such poor bealth. mud, for over four manths, ta Whet burns me up, is the fact focation. loudly singing Haig's preises as Haig figured on taking Pass- e great generel. Which makes chendaele Ridge, then, througb me wander if perbaps aur pres- the gaps, bis cavelry would cnt bera, General Montgorn- gallop straight through ta Os- ery, won't be found ta have tend-!inally ta Bruges. been vastly over neted. OnIy Well, Jesse Allen (of the Im- tirne, and the historiens will Ed Youngm4i The Statenman's Gr If yau have anything elsc ta do, don't bother reading any imore of this week'r column, be- cause it is rcally addressed ta those cbaps wha taok part in the battle of Passchendaele. Jesse Allen of Newcastle, sent me a tear sheet frorn the Engîisb "Sunday Express", pub- lishcd by Canadien born Lard Bcaverbrook. The article is pretty long, bere'sé hoping my condensed version won't spoil it. Mr. Allen wcnt through the borror o! this nightrnare battie from Aug. 1917 ta Dec. 1917, while serving with the llth Klng's Liverpool Reg't. attacb- cd ta General Gough's i11 fated 5th Anmy. He stili remembers many a! his comrades bcing sucked under the "saupy" mud and drowned, or suf!ocated. Your scribe puttered around in the same arca during October and November o! 1917. It wasn't very nice! According ta the "Express," Pesschendeele was a senseless weste o! time, materials, and humen life. Sir Douglas Haig, British Commander, is blemed for starting the baneheeded scherne, and David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister, is cestigated for not stapping ii. In order ta push the Germans of! Passchendaele Ridge, aur boys hed ta cross a reclaimed swamp, that turned into a bat- tarnlcss quegmire once the Au- gust nains stertcd. The arCa in- volvcd was about the same aS e good sizcd city park: Yet, in that small spece, during four months, the British Common- wealth ermies suf!cred four hundred thousand casualties. In anc manth alone, 24 million artillcry sheils were lobbcd inta the erea, breaking dawn the elaborate drainage system, end smeshing cvery exîsting naad. The French Commander, Gen- eral Petain; General Foch, AI- lied Commander; the British War Council, including Lloyd Gieorge all oppascd the idea, but Haig's enthusiasm for the junket won out: Lloyd George gave bis consent, lived ta re- gret it, and it bas been consid- ered bis warst blunder o! the waer. Our Cenadian Prime Minis- ter, Sir Robert Borden, asked Lloyd George why he did.n't stop the ghestly holocaust: To da sa, he wauld have hed ta dismiss Haig, wbich might have caused Sir William Robertson, Chief o! Imperial Staff, ta ne- ign. Then too, he would need assent a! the Cabinet, who were nostly Haig admirers, in fact, nost o! the members a!f par- iament thaught Haig the wbulc heesc. Sa if the littlc Welsh- maen had donc bis duty, there night have been a general alectian. If he had been beeten, the new Gov't might stîi have :ept Haig as commander. Then toa, the influential Bnit- sh press were aIl singing Haig's preises, mnagni!ying aur ýforts, and minimizing the car- age-mastly beceuse vcry few arrespandents wene ellawed iear the fighting, therefore ould only tell their needers rhet garbled news the militery )eddlcd out ta thcm. The battle stertcd on July U; witbin twa wceks, thc guns ere sunk ta thcir axhes ini nud, men wadcd knec dcep in he "goa", everyday was rarny, twas risky ta step off any- hing solid. When General ough pointed out these candi- ans ta Haig, be Nvas told ta ýahcad and attack. And sa, hrough the bull headed egot- 3m o! ane general, e million ommonweeîth soldicrs, cadi )rdened with a sixty pouind t, sodden ta the skin, holding ciir rifles high ta kecp mud ut o! the mechenism, sturnhled long slippery carduroy roads, ked by enmy rtilery, and Iackstock W. 1. I M ru Ajax Marketeria Robcrts Upto~vn Markef 458 Simcoe St. S. OBI OLIVE!R Services fc 91, who di March 3, et ton, 'verecc day afternoo Eagle, in th- funeral hon ment was in tery. Pallbearer5 Douglas Star, ence Potter, and C. D. Co ers were W Haddy, Gler Lannon, Fred Jones. [TUARY THesZpa,5born in Goderich R W. POITER Clinton 35 years g, ws con- nected with the Conneli and or Oliver W. Patter, Tyndall meat market <Iacated lied on Thursday,onAbtStetCitnvee is home in Clin- onAbr tet,-itn hr ,nducted n Stur- Fitzsirmaons' Food Fair now li) n, hy Rev. A. Glen until bis retirement. ie Bell and Mutch His wife, the former Annie ne. Clinton. Inter- E. Stent, died three manmthq the Clinton Cerne- ega. 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