The sun., 1919-10-14

harder for less money than his brother
or relative In the city.
Farmer Not n Profiteer.
More and more attention Is being d.
rected TO the farm. 1t Is the part OF
good business for every one to pay more
attention to the farm.
The farm needs the selling influence, OF
a special week, even as big manufac-
turer would put one on with his product
and we need 1t from the press. from
the pulpit, from the store and from tho
business man; from consumers. too. In
general, who recently have suffered so
greatly and who yet may fear even
worse things II they fail to study the
situation and learn that the farmer Is
not the profiteer. I-
More capital, easier credits and q
more equal chance or opportunity to get
established and to get ahead in tho
world in relation to manufacturing in
dustries-these, along with reader ac-
cess to the great markets of the great
urban centres throughout the world, will
as time goes on, materially affect the
food supply. The whole situation must
be adjusted and be reconstructed in con-
siderable part or the very bottom will
drop out of our civilization.
The organized farmers Of Canada have
caught the vision--many business men
have come TO see and foster 1t, too. And
this Is well; for without vision the peo
pie perish" and without food-well, what
would people do without enough to eat7
Have 1 made the tpint sufficiently
clear7 1t Is much to Le preferred that
you do your own thinkingl The situa-
ton is plain enough to almost every
body. but It Is not so clear as to how
to put a stop to what Is wrong and as
to what (will cure the evils. 1t is really
a question of Industrial unrest-the short
hours demanded In the city and the too
long hours yet necessary on the farm.
And not enough Cor insufficient) money
forthcoming to the farmer. who, In cor
sequence, cannot pay enough to retain
his farm labor. Farming Is not suffi-
GENTLY profitable-with the result that SO
many farmers are losing all interest in it.
Business men, for their own saliva
tons sake. have got to see to It that the
farmer gets the right chance--the right
opportunity. The farmers have given
up waiting for any one to come to help
them. They are taking hand in poll
tics and In governmental matters, in
marketing and in the distribution of
their products, and in the buying Of
what they need. These things are all
back of the great aararian movement Of
to-day. 1t Is not so much a question Of
wages or gross returns. 1t is a question
of actual or net existence. just as 1t is
with the mechanic getting s35 a week
and yet going down 81 per week to-day
in the place OF the 50 or more that he
was ahead in the old days when he got
s24 or less per week.
The question is being asked as t. he
extent to which the Canadian farmer
and his farming are going to assist safe
and sane adjustment OF existing social
and business unrest. It would, indeed
be a prophet who could answer this Ques-
ton. But let me assure you that you
can count on Canada's farmers and on
Canadians generally to meet their part
of the situation in solving the problem of
the worlds food supply, and to do 1t
by continuously developing agriculture
the only means by which food supply
can be kept UP to the needs of popula-
ton which, throughout the world, con-
tinues to increase.