Maricle urges farmers _ fo organize protest F. E. MARICLE, Hanlin, Alta.: Government officials are trying to kid the farmers that there is a box car shortage. The Wheat Pool pointed out that it wasn’t a box car shortage but a lack of storage space. Officials then claimed .storage space was all taken up with low grade feed Wheat, which ‘was. unsaleable. The Wheat Pool immediately came back with the reply that this just wasn’t true—hundreds of thousands of bushels of good quality milling wheat, Grade No. 4 or better, was also taking up storage space. There you have it, there is no shortage of box case, no shortage of marketable milling wheat, but there is. a short-sighted market- ing policy pursued by the Domin- ion government, for which they are making excuses in order to cover them up. : Through blindly and stupidly tying our economy to Wall Street’s war plans, they restricted trade as the U.S. dictated. No trade with China. Lost a big deal with India, trying to force them to vote for U.S, war plans in the United Nations. Lost the British market when Canada con- curred in forcing Britain to dras- tically devalue sterling, by heavy import duties on British goods. By *accepting a quota under the International Wheat Agreement, much lower than normal export, while the U.S. dictated for them- selves a quota sixteen times their previous normal export. cepting a top price much lower than world prices, and a yearly dropping floor price which this © year is $1.30 per bushel. Present restriction of export could force it to hit the floor. Yet this was done at a time when war plans were going full blast ahead, bound to cause higher prices. Less for food — more for war. Let the farmers take the rap, the warmakers the profits. Let prices rise—St. Laur- ent says “No price control.” The farmers say “Bah!” St. Laurent says: “No excess profits tax!” The warmongering pro- fiteers say “Hurrah!” and feel the money they placed in election coffers has been well spent, and maybe their government can_ prove to the farmers that the Grain Exchange is better than UUIO MOULD Ub LL tt theta HUSUNI EEL PLAN 1 to three friends. rm Ze 0; - g Mm hes By ac- ~ Send us $1.00. We send vou 3 papers for 10 weeks to sell or distribute ‘TO THE PACIFIC TRIBUNE: the Wheat Board. Farmers, there is no shortage of box cars! There is no surplus of food, particularly wheat. You were correct in demanding trade with any country on an équitable basis. j You were correct in demanding majority representation on grain boards, so as to have a voice in policy making. » Your interest and our country’s interest is peace and an indepen- dent expanding trade policy. You want parity prices, but you’re getting quite the reverse. Don’t let them make you the goat any longer, while the big business warmaker rakes in the profits, Write your MP, or better still, send a delegation to sse him. Demand that he act to stop the government’s insane trade and war policy—demand trade with all on an equitable basis! Demand that your representa- tive have control of grain boards. Demand that warmongering profiteers be curbed and an ex- cess profits tax imposed, allow- ing only four percent on invested capital. The U.S. bonuses the farmers for losses taken under the In- ternational Wheat Agreement. Demand that you be bonused: for the bonehead deal the Dominion government made. ~ Act through your union to get ~ your leadership to give the lead in organizing a mass farm dele- gation to Ottawa with these de- mands. They sabotaged direct action this fall — demand‘ that they make up for it. Act now to stop the crisis from becoming a disaster! : Act now to stop the warmong- ering profiteers from making the world a slaughterhouse of humanity! Nof much to live on, but lof fo live for SUBSCRIBER, Lulu Island, B.C.: I think Tom McEwen’s ar- ticles,in the Pacific Tribune make wonderful reading; in fact, all the articles in the paper are very good. My husband and I don’t have much to eat these days, liv- ing on $6 a month. In addition, my husband is sick, just skin and bones, recently had a stroke and lost his speech. He’s over 70 and I am 63. Good luck to the paper, f pty yom) e000) 0 Lm mm ENCE EUE! . WIN THREE FRIENDS ~ FOR THE PACIFIC TRIBUNE PLAN 2 Send us $1.00 and the names of three friends. We will mail the paper to them for 10 weeks. t =f WOULD: LIKE -TO- USE: ‘let’s look af profits feed companies make F. RHODES, Langley Prairie, B.C.: I have just received my Pacific Tribune and the first item I looked at concerned the price of milk. I have been in the dairy business for quite 4 num- ber of years, and most papers carry the same’ old story—the farmers are getting rich. But I notice that Sid Zlotnik mentioned the feed companies at the Milk Board hearing and that E. C. Carr immediately ruled the sub- ject out of order. Shame! : With all the arguments regard- ing milk, practically nothing is said about the feed which I con- sider is playing a vital part in our industry. I don’t intend to take up too much space in your valuable paper, but will give you some quotations. In 1928 I shipped milk to Burns and Company and I got 70 cents a pound butterfat, at the same. time screenings were 75 cents a 100 lbs., shorts 90 cents a 100 lbs, the same with bran. Hay was $8 a ton loose. Now I am a member of the Fraser Valley Milk Producers As: sociation and their settling rate for No. 1 milk was 84 cents a pound butterfat, plus 60 cents 100 Ibs. of skim milk. At the same timd, on September 28, 1951, feed was oat-chop $3.10 a sack. On October 5 my next sack of oat-chop cost me $3.25, an in- crease of 15 cents in one week. So you see, between 1928 and 1951 milk has jumped 14 cents’ per pound butterfat and feed 300 percent. : I have also in front of me a statement, retail price list. Skim milk at 60 cents 100 Ibs, to the farmer—40 quarters at 18 cents to the consumer equals $7.20 more than the farmer gets for fresh milk, : No wonder the man in the city is kicking at high prices; no wonder the farmer is kicking be- THE SPORTLIGHT © ‘cause his income is too low. I think myself the feed companies are largely to blame for this situ- ation. PLAN 3 Send us $7.00. If you have no one to send the paper fo, we will select three people to receive the paper for ten weeks. Name peek a aie cre wt TS vad eee Name macpeecedercenseneet eee ee teense eee Name RE ae SE | RAS aa el Address cyt aormenee nie see eens Address peecer tere rere rene cenenrenenenee Alddvesssate ae ies kee | NU Dee LL bbe HEGhe "il Ti i i ai ELT " pating one more Arabian Night. By BERT WHYTE EHIOLD the orator. His eyes flash. His brow furrows. His voice descends to an intimate whisper and rises to a compelling roar. With a sweep of his arms he embraces his audience. He is not only a speaker; he is.also an actor. : Not so the newsman. He must catch the eye and hold the attention of his reader with words set in small type. Words, and words alone, are his weapons. But they become potent weapons when properly used. As Oliver Wendell Holmes once wrote: “A word is not a crystal, transparent, and unchanging; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content accord- ing to the circumstances and time in which it is used.” It has often been said that the best newspaper writing today appears on the sports page. The remark needs qualifying; along with some of the best writing appears some of the worst, almost always the-tortured chiches and unintelligible jargon produced by young sportswriters desperately fumbling for “colorful” words with which to conceal the main idea. In a recent-issue of The New Yorker, an anonymous editorial writer has lampooned this type of tyro sportswriter by reporting a recent World Series game in overworked phrases which once sparkled like champagne but now are as flat as stale beer. Here’s a sample: One o'clock. Classic under’ way! — Crafty ol’ Professor Stengel starts Big Vic Raschi. The Lip places faith in Dave Koslo, the Lionhearted.. Game rambles along. Large, affectionate hand from crowd every time Jolting Joe appears at plate. One! of the Immortals. More games in Classic than any other Immortal. Lefthander in control for. five innings. Scooter Rizzuto, Flashing Centipede at Short, bad medicine for Demons from Cogan’s Bluff. Set for tallies Dandies of Destiny upset by Galloping Phil’s engineering of double plays. All hell in sixth. Terrible devastation. Koslo the Lionhearted fons Coleman. The Great Yogi singles to right, whips to second on fumbled pill. The Lionhearted lets Clipper walk. Grand Slam McDougald up.’ Wild pitch sends Yogi to third, Fisherman's Son advancing sack, too. Grand Slam hits sleepy one to Thompson, who figures to nab Clipper. Not on vour life. Big John Mize walks. Bruiser Bauer up. Takes full count. Leans into one and sends it to left field. Panther Irvin can’t get back for it. Broad-becked ex-Marine from East Si. Louis draws up at_ third. Bombers 4, Cinderella Kids /. - -* . Little Shepherd of Coogan’s Bluff bites lip. Big Vic derricked in the seventh, but no Cinderella runs till the ninth, when all wickets loaded again, and the hashish sellers prepare to reopen bazars, cntici- Field Marshal Stengel ponders long and deep, flicks Destiny's ear, installs Lefty Kuzava against right- henders. Daring move, but Kuzava Destiny's Choice. Stanky in on long fly, Dark in on long fly. One more, and Miracle Men tie. Tension unbearable. Yvars connects, but Bruiser Bauer there, and game over. i * x . The 1952 Olympic Winter Games open in Oslo, Sweden, on February 14 and con- tinue to February 25. Decisive Summer Games will be held in Helsinki, Finland, July 19-August 3. Tickets for the Games will be expensive ranging from $1 to $7 for standing room, and from $10 to $15 for the Olympic Stadium, itself (see photo). All hotel rooms’ in Helsinki are reserved for foreign visitors, but hotelmen are still de- bating how much to soak them for accomo- dation. : * QUESTION AND ANSWER DEPART- MENT: Q.—Who is the best heavyweight fighter in the world today? A.—Ezzard Charles. Q.—When you wrote of Achilles sulking in his tent, you meant Ulysses, didn’t you? A—No, I mean Achilles. See Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida. @—Do you think hockey is @ more exciting sport than football, and do you not * think that football plays are too in- volved technically for the average fan, and lastly, is the ball in play more in football than the - puck is in hockey? A.—Depends. Q.—In ‘racing, how often do the favorites win, and how about the second choice horses? A.—Favor- ites win about 35 percent of the time, second choices about 21 percent. Q.—When will the Canucks hit a winning streak? A—My crystal ball clouded up — on that one. Sorry. me * Vancouver newspapers made a big splash over the fact that the football final sudden-death game for the championship of the Soviet Union was ordered replayed after Army defeated the Kalinin team 2-1. What happened was that near the end of the game a Kalinin forward sent the ball into Army’s net and even the score, 2-2. But referee N. Latyshev did not allow the goal. In his opinion Kalinin player was off side when he made the kick. However, the losing team protested the result—and the Army’s team supported its rival’s claim! Thereupon the Committee for Physical Culture and Sport, under the Council of Ministers of the USSR, granted the re- quest of both teams for the game to be replayed. (The Soviet Army , team again won, 2-1). PACIFIC TRIBUNE — NOVEMBER 9, 1951 — PAGE 11 4 :