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Page Eight THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 16th, 1944 HoUon,Litile&f we're commg! ,t_ »u»«oreswillc Snheetd°gOod, nubble. |NORTHUMBERLAND MEMBER . ! SPEAKS IN LEGISLATURE (Continued from page 1) i Knowing the farmer as I do, he-)u I an individualist. He is a capitalist, 1 although, unfortunately, he has not had any capital in late years, yet he j is a capitalist. When agriculture does ] get organized to a point where they ' can dictate, I do not think they wili j dictate, because they must know that I agriculture and industry and labour | must work hand in hand in order a I have sound economy in this or any ' other country. There is a great work for the Federation to do. Controlled marketing, in my opinion, is very important, to hold back the surpluses from the ■ market. Possibly, if the Department : of Agriculture sould see Its way cleai ! 'o loan money with which to build | iold storages, that would be one of ! the best ideas I have yet heard, as ! it will look after the surplus farm i produce which generally causes farm prices to fluctuate. I I would like to say a few words ; about the proposed agricultural c mittees. I honestly think that the county committees can be of value io the province and I think, from takl ing with the Minister, the one thing he feels very keenly about, is that it must be kept out of party politics I and left in the hands of the farmer; SS'atA*- COMPANY LIMITED -Colonial" Sheet*.T ^^^B If you have anything to sell, or want to buy anything-- try our Condensed Ads. In the county there is much work I they can do. I think one of the first j jobs they could do would be to make | a survey of all the agricultural lands i in the county. In some counties we have great areas that never were fitted, and never will be fitted for v.Top production and a survey of this kind would assist the government in reforestation projects. In my opinion, reforestation must be done by the government or it will never be done, as it is along-time policy and an j individual cannot be expected to do it because he would not get the re-| ward from it. I think it should be I done by either the provincial or the | federal government, but it is something that should be-done, to create assets for the future. It will pay good ! dividends from the agricultural point ...it changes constantly to meet this country's changing needs FOR INSTANCE... Ever wonder where your ration coupons go? The answer is that your grocer takes your sugar, butter and other coupons to his bank, which acts as the government's agent in identifying and accounting for millions of spent coupons. This vast bookkeeping job --known as "Ration Coupon Banking"--is just one of the new, additional assignments which the banks have assumed as part of their wartime service. Another is the payment, on behalf of the government, of certain subsidies arising out of wartime price control. Still another is the handling of exchange transactions as agents of the Foreign Exchange Control Board. At the sam«; time the banks have arranged facilities to serve military establishments and new war-industry centres alike. Through loans to industry and agriculture, they have helped to increase the supply of raw materials, weapons and food. They have acted as issuing agents for approximately $5,700,-000,000 worth of Victory Bonds and War Savings Certificates, as well as lending direct financial aid to the government through short term loans. ...All this in the face of widespread staff changes resulting from enlistments of 8,360 trained bank employees. The war emergency has proved the readiness and ability of Canada's banks to adapt their services to new conditions. It has proved, once again, the strength of your banking system, which is providing a firm base of financial service for the greatest economic effort in the nation's history, and will with equal resourcefulness meet the challenge of the years ahead. of view. It would be a great benefit to the community in holding back flood waters and preventing soil ero sion, as well as retaining the soil moisture, and, it would also ad the beauty of tha landscape. Then, on the other hand, these county committees should be mor ;r less just to lead the farmers along and show them the way, rather than to give them orders, because the farmer does not like to be told what he can or should do. I would like for a minute to refer to health. I think it is very necessary that we should have municipal health services, because there are three classes of people, so far as doctors' bills and hospitalization are concerned. There is one fellow whom the municipality takes care of--and it is right that they should. There is another fellow who is independently rich and does not mind a doctor or hospital bill. Then there is the ordinary who owns his property and, as know it is alomst crippling at times when large doctor's bills roll up. For this man, I think something should be done, and done at once, to tak. care of hospitalization and doctor bills, because in the case of a family man, it would cripple him for many years. There is one subject in regard agriculture which, at this time needs more attention than anything else-the matter of education. I think It will pay larger dividends than anything in the province, to help to educate agriculturalists. We know that the present system has robbed the faims of their young people. The system of education that we have in our high schools in this province has been of an academic nature and agriculture has not been brought to the fore to a sufficient degree to interest these young people so that they would want to go back on the farm after being away from it for awhile. I am a firm believer in the larger elementary school areas, but I think a concerted effort should be made to show the people on the back concessions, who still hold out against school areas because they think i! involves the establishment of consolidated schools, which is a mistaken idea. I think a good deal of adver tising could b2 done which would point out the advantage of the school aieas. The department might make the grant a little more atractive for the establishing of school areas, because I have every reason to believe, and I think most of you will agree with me from your experience, that the school areas have been very satisfactory over a period of years wherever they have been established. I think our continuation and high schools need overhauling as fa agricultural teaching is concerned, or we must have agricultural high schools. I would prefer to use the high schools, but there is a lot of money locked up in these buildings and, iir most cases they are conveniently located for the localities where they are situated. 1 know many trustee boards in towns and villages are anxious to get as many county pulis in as they can, because it is good business. In our own municipality 4.5 mills is paid to the county for pupils attend-high school, which in turn goes to the schools. That represents approximately 20% of our taxes. We would not mind so much the high school education amounting to 20% of our tax bills, if we were getting value for our money, but I do not think we are getting over 20c on the dollar of value in the high schools at the present time, with the inadequate agricultural education we are receiving. The result is that our boys and girls are being educated away from the farms. The farms meed the boys and girls, and the boys and'girls need the farm. There is no better place for them. I would not want my family to be brought up any other place. I think we should have education in our schools that would point out the fine things that agriculture holds for them as a life work. I do not think a high school should receive a grant for county pupils un less they equip themselves to give the proper training in agricultural science because, after all, very few ' our boys and girls who go through, the high schools go on to the higher professions. In order to get value noney, we should consider the teaching of agriculture and give it a larger place in the high and continuation schools. It should be taught by highly trained, technically educated teachers--men and women who un derstand farming from the ground up. It may be a little far fetched at this time, but I really believe if agricultural education were made a more important part in the high school curriculum, it might be worked in conjunction with the agricul-furtl representative's office, where'the children could go out on the farms through the district. I believe that more extensive agricultural education would pay larger dividends on the \ money expended over a period of, years than any other one thing that I this government can do for agricul-1 ture. The new department of post war j planning is an important step in the ' right direction, for I believe now is the right time to set up our machinery and get on with the job of preparing for the re-establishment of our boys who are doing a big job for us. It is imperative that governments get on at once with this work of post war planning, not in words, but in action. 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