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EDITORIAL COMMENT The Moral Problem of Inflation Nobody goes to the ironmonger because he wants a loaf of bread . . . But a great many of us, troubled by inflation, turn for an answer to the politicians. I want to suggest that it isn't their kind of problem - that the answer to it (if there is one) will have little to do with new laws and policies . . . At heart, it's a religious and moral problem: its solution (if any) will be found in the kind of shop kept by priests and preachers and prophets and moralists. At best, pohlticians and parliaments can mitigate the damage: they can't go to the root of the problem. What is inflation, after all? It's an economist's word for over-consup- tion; for living beyound your income; for taking more out of the kitty than you put in. This has become a near-universal habit in "developed" countries: in ours more than most. The fact is that we've all got ideas above our station; we have come to take for granted a quite fanciful and unrea- listic notion of the "standard of living" to which we are entitled, as though by divine right. Why shouldn't I have'fillet steak for dinner every day? Why shouldn't I have a jet-holiday in Mallorca every year? Why should I work long hard hours at some dreary job, and for a low wage? Alas, there's no "Should" or "shouldn't" about it. The facts of arithmetic are what they are. The world simply can't provide all that many fillet steaks, and its reserves of jet-fuel are running low. There's no question of moral entitlement at any point. Each man is in this world naked and hungry until somebody does something about it something which will usually be difficult and laborious: no kind of society can be kept in being unless a very- large proportion of its people are prepared to work hard at monotonous tasks for a fairly small economic reward. To resent this is to resent the fact that two and two don't make fifteen ... Overlooking these realities and living as a man who inherited a thousand pounds and then proceeded to live it up at a hundred pounds a day, we have built into the structures of our society the deadly sins of pride, envy, avarice, gluttony and sloth. The outcome is what we call inflation; and to help this process along, we have conveniently orgotten two sound old principles - the principle that it is a disgrace, a moral failing, to be in debt; and the principle (long asserted by every Christrian moralist) that usury is a Sm. In so far as those two principles return to power, in so far as those five deadly sins are repented, the problem of inflation will simply cease to exist The only thing that will "save the country" is a revolution of falling expectation: no vote-seeker can afford to be honest about this fact. But no side of industry can afford to be honest about it either: capital, management, labour, they all de- pend upon our continued addiction to levels of comsumption which cannot possibly be sustained. Those five deadly sins are their bread-and- butter, and are therefore inflamed by every advertising campaign, every trade union claim. We are left with the churches, and they ought to be their own ground here . . . Can the ministers of Christ help us, with leadership and dogma and moral exhortation? If they cannot, or cannot be bothered, we are in a bad way indeed. The answer to inflation is to be sought in their kind of shop. - The Times (London) How Long Can It Last? (Uxbridge Times-Journal) The one thing that continually bothers this writer is wondering just how long we, in this part of the world, can live so fat while many other parts of the world suffer from starvation and bad health. Before anyone jumps up and says: "Hey, we haven t got it so good", just stop and think for a minute. When wasý the last time there was no food on your table? When was the last time that you couldn't spend as much money on an evening out as it would take to feed a starving child in the Middle East for months? When was the last time you didn't have clothing on your back to protect your from elements? No, if you think about it, the majority of Canadians have very little, if anything, to complain about. And then out comes the news. Recent announcements that we allow millions of eggs to rot on the shelves because the price wasn't just right, or some bureaucrats were arguing amongst themselves what should be done with the product. Meanwhile hundreds of foreign children cried through the night with a hunger pain in their small gut. And then Tuesday night on the front page of Toronto Star an American farmer putting the gun to a calf's head in protest against the low price he was receiving for his beef. Some 600 of these animals were to be destroyed and buried because it wasn't worthwhile for the farmers to raise them and send them to market. In the time it took to snap that picture another hundred foreign people died from starvation. This writer was raised with the attitude that we should be thankful for what we have and do everything we can to help others. When we see this blatant waste of food it turns our stomach. But worst of all we-can't shake this feeling that somewhere down the road we are going to have to pay for this "who gives a damn" attitude towards our fellow man, and it's not going to be comfortable. You would think we'd be smart enough to do something about it before it happens, wouldn't you? Poorly Balanced Justice In a recent Supreme Court of Canada decision a Larder Lake man was awarded damages amounting to $29,537 to be paid by a mning company which owns property in that northern community. The suit arose after the man was injured when he struck a pipe stretched across a roadway as he rode his snowmobile. The case is a classic example of the "uninvited guest" situation which, in so many instances, proves costly to the property owner. In this instance, the snowmobiler was travelling on a roadway which was not a public one. It was owned by the mining company and the pipe barrier had been placed across the road to exclude trespassers from the environs of a building which- contained explosives. The court ruling, which held the mining company responsible, was based on the fact that there was, indeed, a hazard and that there was inade- quate warning of that hazard. To dismiss the whole matter with a shrug and the conclusion that the mining company should have lots of money with which to pay the settlement is a failure to grasp the implications for property owners everywhere. We, personally, know how bitter such a judgment can be, for we happened to be on the losing side of such a contest a few years back. In our case an itinerant work- man, who had been paid to do a job on our property, managed to injure himself before he left and the court ruled in his favor, although to all intents and purposes he was, as in the Larder Lake case, a trespasser. There are, of course, all kinds of precedents for such decisions, but they certainly tend to make one careful that his liability insurance is paid and that he double locks his doors and gates. We, along with Alex Carruthers, MPP, and the Federation of Agriculture, hope steps will be taken by the Provincial government to correct this apparent injustice to property owners. 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This could only be used in a company where the payroll is done by a written system - perhaps 30 to 40 employees or less. After each persons pay is calculated and if a cents occurs in the net amount - i.e. $112.34. Take the cents (.34) and add on to the person's income tax. The employee will receive an even amount of money. He will receive these extra cents back as a refund in taxes paid. The government will get to use them all vear interest free. -mmi Nf N L~. N N Mu M M And each pay day the bank tellers are relieved of handing over change when cashing cheques. Virginia Fairey Dear Friends of C.A.R.S.: Arthritis is a clearly mis- understood and most often ignored disease by patient and public alike. Our publicity is factual statistics as it relates to the considerable cost of arthritis to the economy of our country. The price in pain and the suffering of the poverty it produces cannot be calculat- ed. If you awoke this morning Section Two The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, October 23, 1974 3 IntheD and -Distant Pa,,, Editor with your hands painfully sore and unable to pick up your coffee cup - your doctor told you that you had the incurable disease of Rheumatoid Ar- thritis - What would you do? Would you seek advice? Where? I believe citizens with your knowledge and responsibility are in a position to understand the enormity of our job to find a control for Arthritis as has been done in diseases such as Polio, T.B. and Diabetes. Control is in the forseeable future but only if the public understands and supports the research now being carried out. Meanwhile, we provide a Physiotherapy Home Care Program in most communi- mwmu gmmm rmmmmmzmm Sugar andc i Spice|| By Bill Smiley Stop and Give Thanks I'd planned to write a column about Thanksgiving Day this year but the days went shooting by and suddenly it was past. However, I was undaunted. As the preachers and writers tell us every Christmas, there is no reason that peace on earth and goodwill toward men should be confned to a single day. Nor is ti ere any reason that we should give thanks only on the second Monday in October. So here goes. Did you stop and give thanks on that day? Or did you just enjoy the long weekend, stuff yourself with turkey, and slump in front of the box to watch football? I hope you did better than that: at least went for a drive and gorged yourself on the fall panorama of colour, reason enough in itself for a deep and fervent thanks. I started to think of all the things we Canadians have to be thankful for, and the list seemed to be end- less. First of all, we should be grateful to be living in Canada, no matter how we squawk at income tax time, and gripe about the weather. Without getting misty-eyed or wav- ing a flag about it, this is a grand country. Our society is far from perfect, and there are injustices, and we are often badly served by our leaders, and, yes, the Americans own too much of us. But these things are more than offset when we start piling things on the other side of the scale. What are some of the goodies? Well, first, there are the intangibles. There are very few places in this country where a person is afraid to walk alone, even at night. Wé have lots of air, some of it hot, some of it polluted, but most of it clear and clean. Nobody is literally starving in this country, though the old-age pensioners would give you an argument there. Nobody lives in fear of the boots in the hall, the pounding on the door, the secret police. Our only secret police are the mounties, and every time they try something secret, the papers find out, and spread it all over the front pages, chortling. To continue the list, we have equality of speech. Even the Prime Mnister can swear in a public place, such as the House of Commons, and get away with it. We have equality of welfare benefits. The old lady with $600,000 salted away in bonds gets the same old-age pension as the old lady who has two herring salted away. What could be more equal than that? We have equality before the law. What's that you say? There's one law for the rich and one for the poor? Nonsense. It's the same law. The only difference is in the amount you steal, and the lawyers you can afford. If you steal big, and can afford a battery of lawyers, you get a light sentence. If you steal small, and try to defend yourself, you get .the m-rks. We have equality of opportunity. Ask any of our native people. Just ask a Metis or Eskimo if he doesn't have the same opportunity as the white boy who has to fight his way through Upper Canada College Trinity College, and Osgoode Hall law school. He'll tell you. Just be sur,e he doesn't have a beer bottle in his hand when you ask him. And we have peace in our land. Oh, there's the odd little fluster. Like the Mackenzie rebellion in Ontario and the Papineau rebellion in Quebec and the Riel rebellion in the west and some kook trying to put a half-nelson on the Russian head of state in Ottawa and a rabble of native people attacking the moun- ties in the same place. But these are just trouble-makers. Right? There's no question about it. In this glorious nation of ours, every- body is equal. The only rub is that, as George Orwell put it, some are more equal than others. Well, those are just a few of the things for which, we. should give thanks. Then thereare all the more tangible things. We have more oil and gas than we need, but by George, we've made sure the price is right, and those energy-squan- dering Yanks can go cold and use candles. We have two of the longest railroads in the world. How about that? Even though both of them des pise would-be travellers by rail, we have two of the longest railroads in the world. We have some of the finest wheat in the world coming out our ears, even though we don't seem to be able to get it into the boxcars and onto the ships to feed the hungry of the Third World. And how many nations in the world can brag that they have the second-best hockey team in the world? That's part of our national heritage and I think we should all give thanks for it. There's only one rub in this glowing picture. Our inflation rate, elieve it or not, isn't soaring quite as rapidly as some of the other countries in the west. But don't you worry about it. Among them, our politicians, business leaders and union bosses will soon have that sorted out, and we'll be up there with the best of them. Be honest now. Where would you rather live? In Europe, with all those people and pollution and culture and stuff? In the U.S., where the Great Exorcism is not taking place? In Australia, full of Austral- ians? Just sit back and give thanks that y ou are a Canadian, living in the best of all possible worlds. ties in Ontario. Our campaign for funds during September is your opportunity to support this program of service and re- search. Please send your cheque in care of C.A.R.S. to The Royal Bank of Canada, 21 King St. W., Bowmanville, Ontario. A receipt will be issued promptly for tax pur- poses. Sincerely, J.K.M. McLay Campaign Chairman GET CASH TODAT FOR OLD APPLIANCES THROLGH STATESMAN C L A S S IF I E D S 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 17, 1949 This week Higgon Electric was appointed the official issuer of Ontario vehicle licenses for the town of Bowmanville. For many years the late W.J. Bagnell was the official issuer for the town and since his death Mrs. Bagnell has carried on the business. This fall she requested to be relieved of the job and Mr. Higgon was appointed. For more than 22 hours, the town combed the area for Tommhy Poole age 6, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Poole and finally the tragic news came that he had fallen into a 40 foot well containing 25 feet of water, in the back-yard of a house on Queen Street. Mrs. Robert Cale presented an interesting talk on Citizen- ship at the Wednesday even- ing meeting of the Home and School Club at Central Public School. Monday evening November 7th Mrs. Howard Philip, Tyrone, opened her space home for a meeting of the Bowmanville, Darlington, Cart Wright, unit of the Women's Teachers Federa- tion. There was a good attendance. The nineteenth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Abernethy was ob- served Friday evening with a surprise party arranged by their daughter Grace. Mr..Fred Standard of Bow- manville is spending a few days at A.L. Wearns, Ennis- killen. Mr. James Gatchell, Burke- ton, spent Saturday in Lind- say. Winners of the Women's Auxiliary draw on Nov. 12th in aid of Memorial Park were D. Kemp, Mrs. H. Thertell, Mrs. T. Sellers, Lucy Lyle and G. Edmonstone. 49 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 5, 192i Town Public Schools Hor Roll of October Room 2 - Jr, 1V George Weekes, Dorothy Blake, Evelyn Goddard,Norah Haywood, Betty Flaxman, Florence Donoghue, Alma Morris, George Ives, Marion Alhn, Marin Leggott. Miss Minnie M. Jennings, teacher. The annual oratorical corn test will be held in the H.S Assembly Room on Thursday evening. Speakers and their subjects are Dorothy Bonny- castle-Legends of the An- cients, Mabel Dowson-Why Great Britian is called Mis- tress of the Seas. Margaret McGregor-Peace on Earth, Ted Mason-How India Be- came an Empire. Fred Bowen defeated Vin- cent Massey with a net majo- ity of 1040 in tbe Federal elec- tion recently. Fire Prevention Week was held throughout Canada the first week in October. The first car of coal for the new buildings at the Boy's Training School, arrived on Monday and bas been unload- ed Mr. and Mrs. E.R. Thurston and Miss Emma Alcumbrack, Toronto, spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. F. Quick, Queen Street. Report of S.S. No. 8, Providence for October Sr. IV - Mona Kinsman, Myrtle Montgomery, Harry Gay, Wil liam Everson, Willie Bickle, Beatrice Alin, Gordon Brown, teacher, Miss C. E. William son. A.Y.P.A. officers of St. George's Church are Pres. Harold Gibson, Vice-Pres. Miss Phebe Brock, Sect'y Miss Dorothy Gibson Treas. Reg LeGresley, Pianist Miss Brock. R.R. 4, Bowmanville, Ontario. Dear Editor: So, Mr. Carruthers has expressed concern over a Supreme Court ruling that awarded damages to the owner of a snowmobile, who was involved in an accident on private property. The decision comes as little surprise to farm property owners. For years the Federatlion of Agricul- ture has been pressing for changes in the antiquated laws that now exist so that results similar to the one intimated previously are eliminat- ed. Mr. Carruthers can be assured that this will not set a precedent. Things like this have been happen- ing for far to long. Mr. Carruthers indicates that the Ontario Select Committee on Motor ized Snow Vehicles and All-Terrain Vehicles has made recommenda tions to protect the property owner. What good is the recommendation outlined in last week's paper i someone trespasses on your propeî- ty at 3 o'clock in the morning withou permission and is injured? Yes, Mr. Carruthers, you, a chairman of this Government com mittee, and all MPP's should be concerned. Let's have some legisla- tion enacted quickly to eliminate the unfair trespassing laws now in existence. Sincerely yours, Don Welsh Secretary Durham Federation of Agriculture. Unfair Trespass Laws 11, 1