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oo PORT PERRY, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 8th, 1948 -- = -- A COUNTRY EDIT 44 SEES : OR WRITTEN SPECIALLY FOR THE WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS OF CANADA by sm GREENBLAT, Editor of the SUN SWIFT CURRENT SASKATCHEWAN ; ; | INTERVIEW WITH CHAIRMAN v y . I was at ease just a second after Canadian people," he declared. =~ "In being ushered fAnto his office. Donald this connection we are the envy of our Gordon, chaifman of the Wartime neighbours and our friends across the , ¥ 0 defend his beer interests and attack 0 Reading b tear mT y 3 m x RT ---------- to. ---- Dear 'Mr, Editor: : : Doreen Isancs, reading by Joan Hi Prices and Trade Board at 41 years sea. True, some selfish interests ap-| Ths Teowsed oon thele- mations, by the Prime Minister of this Dominion, solo: by Shirley Beadle. © A contest a of age, a big, dark man, wearing pear from time to time, but we cannot heavy glasses, but with a twinkle in permit any deviation in the policy laid his eyes and a soft Scotch accent in'down by the government. A few his speech kinda dominates the room, others" (and a mighty few, he made "the big piles of papers and documents it"plain) "try to beat the game, but on his desk, and you like him right we have one standard remedy for away. | them and that is recourse to the courts I thought, in this last article, youd of the land. What happens then is like to know something about the man' the responsibility of the judiciary." who pulls the strings that juggle your "No amount of compulsion in a living these days. But he didn't want! democratic country," Mr. Gordon to talk about himself. He'd just flown' pointed out, "can equal in effective- in from Vancouver, was busier than ness the co-operation of a people such heck and said, after a little plain gos-' as ours acting of their own volition sip, "Fire ahead, ask me questions." with enlightenment and understand- So I did. I had a few things in my{ing". mind that I know you have had unan- swered, too. So take his answers, not mine. 3 "What, in a nutshell, are the bene- fits to citizens in general from the Wartime Prices and Trade Board?" I asked, and he replied. 1 made actual notes. "The savings to consumers of the country ean roughly be estimated at $350,000,000, and the taxpayers as a whole a similar amount in the cost of the war to date. That's cost, but there is a much greater saving in human terms, for if inflation were to rear its ugly head, money could not measure the human misery, to say nothing of the effectiveness of our part in the United Nations' war against Hitler and Japs." [} | "We Have Done Our Best" The. chairman 'assured me he was aware \that an organization like the! Wartime Prices and Trade Board, run Lby ordinary human beings, had made mistakes and has its shortcomings; and here he pointed a really big index finger at me, "We have done our best, all of us." He was sure that the anti- inflation policy of the government has, at heart, the best long run inter- ests of the wage carning class. To wreck that policy, or to make its ad- ministration impossible, is an act he considers one of self-destruction. Well, you readers out in the country can take jt or leave it. Mr. Gordon says Canada has made cconomic history by demonstrating, that inflationary effects of*war can be controlled. But he is determined as Co-operation in Switch From Peace to War. needed for farm consumption. one can-say positively whether this would happen or not, and I fervently of inflation, No hope we never have the opportunity of finding out. We do know, however, that the last time the experiment was tried, in 1914-1920, everyone suffered eventually and farmers, | guess, the most heavily of all." The Lhairman feels we are not pay- ing a heavy price to avoid the disaster It takes only, in his mind, teamwork. and organization. And so I left him, Twas short as interviews go,"but maybe there is a thought for you and I in it. (This is the seventh and last of the series of articles by Mr. Greenblat.) The Annual Meeting of South Ontario County FEDERATION OF AGRICULTURE WILL BE HELD ON Wednesday, April 14th At 8.16 p.m. in the Township Hall at MANCHESTER The speaker will be MR. M. N. ROBINSON, Ontarie Director of Canadian Food Distribution - Council. Everybody Welcome Annual Report, Election Officers John Batty, Sec. Byron Hill, Pres EE -- PRINCE ALBERT The March meeting of the W. A. was held on the 31st at the home of Mrs. W. Brown. After the usual de- votional exercises, a business period followed. It was decided to have a quilting for war work at the home of Mrs. W. Martyn the following week. It was also decided that we have a pot luck lunch for next meeting. Wa missed Miss Madden who was absent with a cold, but we remembered her by singing one of her favorite hymns, long as he has anything to do with it, To my questions if disadvantages E } : . \ that to prove it can be done is not had cropped up, he admitted some had, "God kindly keepeth those He loves." A short program followed the meet- ton Cassidy, visited on Sunday with Mr. Frank Kendall, Mr. and Mrs, Joe Ward visited on Sunday with Mr, and Mrs. G. Ward, 'Pte. Earl Geer of Brampton, and Mr. Harry Geer, spent Sunday at the heme of Mr, C. Geer, Miss A. Harper and Mrs. H, Harper Visited over the week-end in Oshawa. Mr. and Mrs, Alfred Fisher spent Sunday with Mr, and Mrs. H. Kerry. The Red Cross workers will meet every Thursday afternoon in the Pres- byterian Church basement. Mr. Ivan Geer on Wednesday. Mr. Jack Walker visited at Mr, H. Walker's on Sunday, i Don't miss seeing "Aunt Tillie Goes to Sca" in Memory Hall on Monday, April 19th, ) EE La EPSOM Mrs. Drew McCulloch, who was chosen a delegate from here, attended the Red Cross convention in Toronto, last week. 1 Mrs. Roy Slack spent the week-end with her parents Mr. and Mrs, Frank Millman. Mr. and Mrs. John Stone, Columbus, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Ray Medd, on Sunday. Mus. Mr. and Earl Howsam with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Thom calling on' ce Mr. and Mrs. Walter Howsam on Mon- day. Mr. and Mrs. W. Rogers in Toronto on Sunday. Miss Mary Howsam spent the week- end with Misses Louise and Dorothy Howsam, » Zire Mr. and Mrs, Gordon Cumming hgve moved into the house vacated by Miss Violet Stearman. Mr. and Mrs. J, Neeson at their home here over the week-end. . Mr. Joel Claughton at Mr, and Mrs. Ray Medd's on Sunday. ---- = They Can't Take It. raising a howl over such a very mode- rate reduction in the consumption of beer, are drawing down upon them- selves the well-deserved censure of John Public. Many Articles more or less useful to the general public are not being manufactured for the dura- tion. Many of the necessities of life are being curtailed. Tea, coffee, sugar, and butter are rationed. But we must have more and more beer. Truly it] yy does nothing to the moral and méntal condition of its votaries. Shakes- peare was right, it is stealing away their brains. And what is this stuff that there is such a kick about? It is not even a thirst quencher. Itis a thirst creator, a habit-forming narcotic drug. Any useful qualities in a mug of beer are more than counterbalanced by that drug alcohol. Every mug of it is having a narcotic effect upon the user, Those who totally abstain. from it have the advantage in every way over those who take it. When Mr. E. P. Taylor abandoned his government post in Washington to he showed himself unworthy of the confidence placed in him by the Gov- ernment, and, if he does not resign his position, he should be asked to do so. There is something sordid, selfish and demoralizing about the whole business of making, selling and drinking bever- age alcohol, and it lowers the standard of citizenship of all who touch it. Yours truly, T. H. Bradley. ---- -- ASHBURN We are pleased that our pastor has recovered from his recent illness, The Ladies' Bible Class held their monthly meeting at the home of Mrs, Gordon Fisher, on March 30th, Mrs, Herb Ashton, president, conducted the meeting. The next meeting will be held in the church basement. The Young Peoples' Society hotd TEs + weekly meeting in. the church base- ment. ~ Alfred 'Fisher, president, pre- sided. by all. The program was as follows: reading, Ethel Stuttaford, reading, Mrs. Alfred Fisher, Catharine Fisher then favored with a solo. and some games brought the meeting to a close. & 4 i Miss Catharine Fisher of Brooklin, spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Fisher. Pte. Whitney Berry, of Newmarket, spent the week-end with Br. and Mrs, Bill Cassidy. Pte. Harvey Johnson of Brantford, spent the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. Johnson, Mr, and Mrs. Rice of Myrtle, have ° recently moved to the vicinity. ANS i A social evening was enjoyed but they were inherent in the switch |Suflicient. The policy must be seen, IE Lonely was sgved by Mrs. F. . . } . n how ; Pi Juke anc rs. A. Harper. from a peacetime to wartime economy, | through, To do so, in his opinion, | "pp "Faster Communion was held on i there chn be no weakening on any one of five points, namely: the fiscal policy. {money to you) calling for maximum taxation and borrowing; the price ceiling; salary and wage stabilization; | control and rationing of supplies as found necessary, and the direction of manpower to essential uses, and none that cannot be worked; out with the co-operation of primary pro- ducers, industry aid consumers. Maybe I tried to stymie him when I asked if controls, such as price ceil- ings, would stay after the war; perma- nent or temporary. "That," he said, "will be matter of government policy and, in the final analysis for the peo- -- ple themselves." re tion. Supposing the war lasts two or three years more? "Insofar as price control is' concern- ed, it is the creature of government, but it will also depend} largely, upon the future form of the war itself and how Canada can best fit into an ef- Farmers and Inflation And-here I asked the question im-, portant to these articles. How about! the belief among some that farmers constitute the one group who could benefit from inflation? Here is his answer: "Those who hold this belief seldom advocate inflation 'openly but' we hear it argued that under inflation! | If, for Sunday and nine young people were received into the church membership. Mrs. D. M. Jackson returned to her home here last week after spending the winter with relatives in Toronto. Birthday greetings to Mr. John Jef- frey who will be 86 on the 13th, and still going strong. « Mrs. Robert Heayn has come back to her old home to live. . Lots of water in the cellars these days. One lady borrows her neigh- bor's high rubber boots to make her rounds in the cellar. Mrs. H. Wagg and Mrs. A. Brown, of Oshawa, were at the home of their 'parents here over the week end. h ro " . UTICA The Utica Branch of the Red Cross collection amounted to fective part in the offensive. instance, parts of conquered Europe should be opened up, we would need to feed starving millions. That might be one thing. If it's tools for an of- fensive, that's another matter. We can only take such action as may be justified by the day-to-day develop- ments. It's obvious that all of us must be ready to give up much. of agricultural prices would rise faster, $100. Mr. R. if . than the prices of goods or supplies Wilbur was fhe colleetor. Mrs. L. Cdssidy, Mr. and Mrs. Clay- eI SSC AR on fwealleutowr | ey J \ oH fa ... and when you buy a Victory Bond, to help Bill, and : 5 Aw what we have been used to, and in even measure, if we are to be honest with ourselves in the demands for a -total war effort." =B Would you mind answering me if I ask whether there is any political interference in your set-up." Even his mustache bristled as he answered one word, "none." What About Subsidies? Jt I wanted his say-so on subsidies. You know us people back in the coun- try are liable to think they help the big shot, and are designed for that purpose. He put me behind the eight- ball by saying this: "As a matter of fact; subsidies are 'of relatively greater help to the little fellow than the big shot you speak of. . The big fellow is generally in a stronger financial position, and could weather the storms, but if subsidies were not paid to the little fellows they would be the first to fall by the way- side. Subsidies are paid and designed mainly for two purposes: one, to as- sure a stable cost of living, and se- condly to assure a supply of essential goods, These are handled in what can definitely be said in the interests of the entire population. They are paid in no case to increase profits, and the strictest accounting is made through- out." ; g That dominating figure of a man leaned over his desk as he spoke as seriously and earnestly, I thought, to me as to Mr. Ilsley. Then I wanted : Present facilities 'cannot --and that every second i telephone talks by just one Minute War calls must come first... which means that we should reduce onr nen- essential use of the telephone to the mininuuin. be increased; your co- operation is needed if war calls are to go through "promptly. CQ Please remember that the wasteful use of telephone time can hold up war business you save counts, and interest. buying some things; you can't get them, You are buying less of many things--they're rationed. 'You can't help saving more. See to it that "the war ends. You will have to replace things that are worn out.. You will want a lot of things. Money saved and invested in Victory Bonds will provide cash to pay for them. WHAT IS A VICTORY BOND? A VICTORY BOND is the promise of the Dominion of Canada' to repay in cash the full face value of the Bond at the time stipulated, "with half-yearly interest at the rate of 3% per annum until maturity. A Victory Bond is the safest investment in Canada The entire resources of the Dominion stand behind it, Canada has been issuing bonds for 75 years, and has never failed to pay every dollar of principal other boys-on active service, you do something that will H benefit you too. You save money. It's really a mistake to say that you "buy" a Victory Bond. You are not buying anything. You are saving money, and putting your savings where they will be absolutely safe, and where they earn money for you. (Each $100.00 Victory Bond earns $3.00 a year--3%, interest.) You are likely pro- ducing more, and earning more. You can save more. You are not your savings are kept intact#-earmarked for things you will need when A Victory Bond is an asset more readily converted into cash than any other security. : v4 VICTORY BOND You can buy Victory Bonds for cash in"a lump sum, or you can arrange to pay for them in convenient instalments over "a period of six months; «--*** Your Victory Bond salesman will be glad to tell ~~ particulars, - Nra---- you full | 4 to know if his surveys 0 that. more 5 _ compulsion is necessary or are people co-operating with the administration. A "We have the finest co-operation : imaginabld from the rank and file of Natimal Wier Finance Commitee H ; !