Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-27
WHEAT POOL HEAD
BEGINS NEW POLICY
Mcfarland WithdraWs Agents
From Europej and Will
Sell by Gable.
BY JOHN F. SINCLAIR.

NEW YORK, December 27.-John l.
Mcfarland, general manager of the
Canadian wheat pool, has inaugurated
new policy in dealing with wheat pool
sales. He has withdrawn all his rep
reSentativeS from Europe and hereafter
he will sell wheat direct by cable.
This wheat dictator of the Dominion
is primarily after the British market.
For some time there has been a grow
ing opposition in Europe to the pools
supersalesmen being sent over there to
sell this crop instead of dealing directly
sensed a danger in this opposition to
the sale Of Canadian wheat and re-
VerSed his policy.
This change" he says, will assist
in removing from the minds of the
grain and milling trade abroad as well
rs from the minds of Canadians,
prejudice which has unwittingly be-
come prevalent-that is, that the POOLS
policy is designed to combat the world
and plough lone furrow to the detri-
ment of the consumer abroad and to
the grain and milling trade in general.
There is no doubt that this sentiment.
prevails overseas
The next few months will surely tell
whether this change in policy is wise
one.
Obstacles Of U. S. Board.
However, Mr.. Mcfarland is not the
only one meeting obstacles in this
field. The American Federal Farm
Board has run up against the same
kind of stone wall.
Before the war the sale of American
wheat in foreign lands was eagerly ham
died in many cities by hundreds of diff
ferent grain dealers. During the war
each of the countries unified the work
and appointed one grain firm to handle
the wheat it purchased. After the war
this plan was not abandoned. In fact,
It worked so well during the critical
time that most countries have main
tained the same machinery of buying
since.
Canada'S decision to recall all her
grain POOLS super-salesmen shows which
way the wind is blowing Mr.. McFar-
land probably figured it was useless to
have such set-up of representatives
abroad any more, because one need only
call on the telephone or cable a half
q dozen firms to find out when Europe
Is In the market and at what price.
But what Is to prevent these five or
six big European purchasers from call
ing each other on the phone before the
market opens and deciding what price
will be paid for wheat in Europe today?
There Is more truth than fiction in this,
too, for it has happened before.
Now the exporters of wheat, seeing
the success of the import plan, are TAX
ing the cue. Recently meeting of Eu-
ropean agriculturists consisting of farm
erS and grain dealers of Rumania Bull
garia. Poland, Hungary and Jugoslavia
was held atSBelgrade to discuss a plan
of unified control of their export sur
pluSes.
This is in line with the import ma
chinery. These East European agricul-
flIFigfS unrk eoIac Of for
wheat, corn and rye by a>centrally con-
trolled board made up of chosen repre-
Sentatives from the five different coun-
tries.
Before the next crop rolls around
American and Canadian farmers will be
faced with better organized COMPETE
ton in Europe than they have ever be-
fore met
Fiscal independence"
Not long ago, hard-pressed farmers
OF saskatchewan, who saw their farms
slipping down into the quicksand of
debt, met at Wilkie, Canada, and de-
manded that Western Canada Withdraw
from the Dominion of Canada. on the
ground that the Western prairie prov
1nces have no economic interests in
common with the Eastern provinces,
which Is manufacturing center
That Is 50, responds Nova Scotia
And backs it up with the formation of
the Nova Scotia party, which demands
rthe fiscal independence of Nova Scotia,
the control of all taxing powers, Gus
toms excise and all forms of revenue
whatsoever, and the expenditure CT the
kame."
william Rand of Canning prime
mover in this latest secession move
nnent, says that If Nova Scotia was ac-
tually clear OF Canada, economically, she
could easily and speedily make very
satisfactory trade arrng ment with the
United States. But tied as she is now
she cannot. In the meantime, Nova
Ecotta's business Is in bad way
We propose" Mr.. Rand says, Ito
make an appeal to the greater Nova
Scotia in New England and abroad for
their moral and material support in the
struggle which is inevitable"
E; asked we'll known Canadian bank
er in Toronto recently if there was any
thing to this secession talk"
There Is much to it." he replied.
economically, We are not and never
have been one people. Politically, we
are strip of land. 100 miles wide and
5000 miles long. But, economically. we
are three distinct and separate peoples.
Eastern Canada, bent on manufacture
ing: the prairie provinces. centering
their life on farming, and the Far West
mining, numbering, farming, with their
eyes centered on the Far East We may
survive as one nation politically. but
We, were never intended by nature to be
one"
Involuntary Insurance Plan.
have been reading a most inport-
ant report Of the Industrial Relations
Counselors, Inc, which numbers among
its distinguished directors such well
known American business men as Owen
d. Young, John d. Rockefeller, jr., and
Cyrus H. Mccormick. jr
1t Is a study of the involuntary in
surance plan for employees instituted by
various companies throughout the
When the Counselors compiled their
report there were ~ such systems in
existence. covering LOT 900 earners. less
than one-half Of / per cent of the
total wage earners. Since the report
was issued, the General Electric Co
and one or two other outstanding COM
panieS have inaugurated plans for I'M
employed insurance. Still, not one in
, a hundred of the workers employed in
the United States is covered at all at
the present time
The fact stands out that American
workers, by and large, are not so pro-
tected. They should be in some way
This much is admitted now by nearly
all the important business men in the
country.
The Counselors' report sums up the
situation in these words:
Both as regards relief Of the unem-
ployed workers distress and counter
acting the inevitable reaction CT I'M
employment upon business. the need for
more adequate protection against the
hazard Of unemployment cannot be
gainsaid."
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