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LETTERS am They want license fees for marketing Re: the question of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board Membership in The Ontario Federation of Agriculture.. = The Ontario Federation of Agriculture is only one of the recognized farm organizaâ€" tions in Ontario. As milk producers we have the right to join or not to join the Ontario Federation of Agriculture on a direct membership basis. Large numbers of farmers choose not 10 join the Ontario Federation of Agriculture because they feel that the Ontario Federaâ€" tion of Agriculture‘s policy of accepting money from, for example; the United Coâ€"operatives of Ontario and similar groups leaves them with important unansâ€" wered questions. Who forms the Ontario Fedgration of Agriculture‘s policy? Does the Ontario Federation of Agriculture represent producers of processors? The Ontario Federation of Agriculture also accepts money from the Ontario Cattiemen‘s Association. This association has and is by every possible means resisting any form of orderly marketing and supply management. If the Ontario Milk Marketing Board was to become a member of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, isn‘t it logical to assume there will be, among the directors a basic conflict: supply management verses the so called "free market system"? We as milk producers want our licence fees to be used for the marketing of our product within the system we have had and continue to support. C Would the interests of Ontario milk producers not be better served if our elected members on the Ontario Milk Marketing Board continued to give their full attention to the marketing of milk? We submit that any direct involvement by elected directors of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board in the Ontario Federaâ€" tion of AGriculture or any general farm organization will reduce the competency of the board. As members of the National Farmers Union, we strongly support the policy of orderly marketing and supply manageâ€" ment for all agriculture commodities,. A decision by the Ontario Milk Marketing Board to become a member of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture does nothing to support our policy or the policy of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board. In fact it probably would have the affect of weakenâ€" ing the grass roots voice of all general farm organizations, and this would include the voice of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture. As concerned milk producers and memâ€" bers of the National Farmers Union, we believe that it is our right to join or refuse to join any organization. We ask that the Ontario Milk Marketing Board protect this right. We trust that all Ontario milk producers will inform themselves regarding this proposal. You must decide how you want your money to be spent. This proposal is on the agenda for all the Regional Milk Committee Meetings taking place this month and in early April. If you do not make your elected directors aware that you are not in agreement with the proposal do not be surprised where your money will DIOXIN IN ONTARIO WATER Liberal Environment Critic, Murray Elston (Huronâ€"Bruce) has written to the Minister of the Environment on the issue of Dioxin in Ontario‘s Water Supply. He pointed out that Dioxin represents a whole new generation of health contaminants in our drinking water, that ‘"it and many other harmful organic chemicals generatâ€" ed by our modern industries are toxic and insidious. They are often odourless and tasteless, and generally hard to detect. be spent. They can have serious effects even in extremely low amounts (in parts per trillion}y. And they are persistent, remainâ€" Rayeâ€"Anne Briscoe Renfrew, Ontario National Farmers Union Dairy Committee HERB EPP Thanks from Red Cross Blood Clinics The Blood Donor Service, Canadian Red Cross Society, would like to express their sincere appreciation to you for your generous sponsoring of the advertisements placed in the Chronicle in support of our Blood Donor Clinics held at First United Church in Waterloo. Our service depends on the support of concerned citizens like yourselves in order to meet the onâ€"going challenge to Red Cross to meet the needs of our hospitals in supplying blood at all times. Our sincere thanks to your company or organization for the loyal support that we receive. Big success for annual Daffodil Day The annual Daffodi} Day of the Canadian Cancer Society was held on March 25 and As a result of the sale of daffodils Beta Sigma Phi Sorority will be presenting a cheque to the North Waterloo Unit of the Cancer Society in the amount of $14,200.00. We the members of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority wish to thank you for your support in allowing us to make our daffodil sales so successful. _ Thank }ou again for your interest in our work for the Canadian Cancer Society. Brenda J. Picard, Where is the economy heading from here? ing decades in our living environment, building up in strength and toxicity as more and more enter the environment. Their effects are not always immediate. Years pass by before they manifest themselves as cancer, or mutagens, or any number of ailments." . The world economy! Where is it headâ€" ing? What will it mean for you? Anxiety and despair are the legacies of our troubled times. The future seems obscured by question marks. Should I buy now before prices go up? Should I invest what little savings I have. Can I even trust that the banks are a safe place to deposit my money? Dioxin is being discovered in increasing amounts in Ontario‘s environment â€" in herring gull eggs, in trout, bass and eel, in the tissue of a Kingston man, in Elmira ground water, in the raw drinking water supply of St. Catharines and Niagaraâ€"onâ€" theâ€"Lake, in St. Clair River fish and in the stack emissions of SWARU‘s incinerator plant in Hamilton. _ 12 . Such concerns are not paranoia. In the United States, for example, 1982 saw more banks close than any other year since 1940. Bankruptcies were ominously close to the allâ€"time peak reached during the Great Depression of the 1930‘s. Towering interest rates had choked the life out of businesses large and small. And the problems are by no means confined to any particular country. So just where is the world economy heading you might ask in frustration. Frankly no one really knows whether tomorrow will bring news of an economic rally or further retreat. The economy is just too unpredictable. The United States has accumulated an internal debt of over one trillion dollars. Other countries have likewise piled up astronomical I0U‘s, including external debts of foreign sources. So where do we go from here, up or down? W.D. Pope Waterloo, Ont. fiâ€"dfi-ai" Elston has called upon the David Graham, Blood Donor Chairman Queen‘s Park Report Chairwoman. As he cantered onstage at the Kitchenâ€" er public library auditorium Monday night, Wilfrid Laurier University Social Work professor Dr. John Farina poured himself a glass of water â€" then watched in horror as the water gushed through the styrofoam cup to the desk below. Ministry of the Environment to take a number of steps now to head off what could become a ‘Dioxin Plague‘. _ 1. Establish regular, ongoing tests for harmful chemicals at the fresh water intakes of Ontario‘s drinking water treatâ€" ment plants. Little did the gathering audience know at that time it would be but the first of several examples throughout the eveâ€" ning of an item not holding water. Figuratively speaking, of course. Wi:ӎarry out similar tests for trace amounts of the chemicals in the treated drinking water at each of the plants. 3. Establish a research and development program on new types of treatment Sfitems for removing Dioxin and other chemicals. _ _ 4. Take steps to prevent Dioxin and other harmful chemicals from entering our aquatic systems. (Millions of gallons of A good Kâ€"W crossâ€"section was on hand, young and old, and hey, why not? What more magnetic marquis in this day and age than the one announcing the topic for the evening: A Nonâ€"Work Ethic for a Postâ€"Work Society. More specifically, resolved that greater unemployment is desirable. o _ Farina, advocate of aforementioned resolution, was brought in by moderator Dr. Fred Little of the WLU Office of Partâ€"time Studies and Continuing Eduâ€" cation to justify the stand that has brought him "national notoriety" since last fall. And Little also stocked a "fourâ€"star‘‘ panel of noted authorities to assess and ideally, to offer rebuttals to Farina‘s claims that we should revere unemployment, not condemn it. Had all the makings of a topâ€"notch heavyweight battle. Unfortunately, howâ€" ever, precious little proof of that came out in the pudding. If anywhere, the entire proceedings would have done well to be transposed to the UW Humanities Theatre stage, or even Stratford, given the speakers‘ predilection for waxing philosophic when a working class audience was more concerned with the realities of this and future generations. But that‘s not to say the evening was not entertaining. Twas ever thus, thanks not only to the slick coâ€"ordination of Little and Farina‘s gregarious nature, but also due to the witty, if rather limpâ€"wristed comments from the panel. Sitting in were WLU Ecies prof Dr. Arnold Frenzel, WLU English prof Dr. Gerald Noonan, Robert Secord, assisâ€" tant Deputy Minister for Ontario Minâ€" istry of Tourism and Recreation, and Cliff Pilkey president of the Ontario Federation of Labor. To be fair, Farina disappointed no one in the framework of substance,; in reasoning, however his arguments were lacking, and several were easily picked upon by the gang of four. To briefly outline Farina‘s argument, he claimed that we are in a postâ€"indusâ€" trial age. Unemployment is no more significant now than in the past, but we don‘t have outlets like wars and coloniâ€" zation to lessen the impact; instead, "today, we have parents who wonder if their kiddies will ever go to work." Early retirement, recruitment pushes by the armed forces, and pension incentives have done little to affect our unemployment figures. We are too highly institutionalized, yet place far too little respect and dignity on the base level of civilized living. Read welfare, guaranteed annual income, what have WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESOAY, APRIL 20, 1983 â€"â€" PAGE 7 RICK CAMPBELL It won‘t work "As long as you are getting some sort of income," Farina claimed, "you will be a respected member of our society ... I cannot buy the notion that our society has any fundamental belief in work itâ€" self." There‘s Farina‘s main argument, that we don‘t distinguish between having jobs and doing work. Income and jobs rate our idolatry, but we couldn‘t give a damn about the work itself, or even what it is we actually do. Punch clock and pocketbook are the name of the game, and in a postâ€"industrial state, that thinking is sadly out of touch with realiâ€" ty. With our problems, with our world conditions and with our attitudes, we face three real dangers, said Farina, the threat of thermoâ€"nuclears, overpopulaâ€" tion and the age of leisure. "And the age of leisure is the only one for which man will be psychologically unprepared,"‘ Farina stated. "The postâ€" industrial revolution has happened, exâ€" eept in terms of mankind‘s shifting of his value of reference." So what, the audience wondered, do we all do if indeed all the work in Canada can be taken care by two percent of our workforce, or all our workforce needs work only two per cent of the time? Up to that point, Farina was making some believers. But he tossed it right out the window with the statements we will survive royally by maximizing our potential, using what "the good Lord" gave us in terms of intellect, creativity, social savoir faire, physical and spiritual being. An IQ of 80 is nothing to be ashamed of, as long as we strive for 81. We must draw on all our resources "to precipitate the maximization of potenâ€" tial legitimate leisure activity." _ Sorry, Dr. Farina. That‘s where return the goods to the shelf. Where your argument leaked like the water in your drinking glass was in the assumption that the uplifting of the standard of the welfare system, the elimination of the need to have a job, and elimination of the need to earn an income will make for a better world, one where we can spend all our time maximizing all that potential you speak so ideally of. What they will instead do is the direct opposite, eliminate the need for selfâ€"moâ€" tivation, eliminate our desire to maxâ€" imize our potential, eliminate the will of mankind to contribute to a better world. No thanks, Dr. Farina. 1 suppose I just have blind faith in humankind‘s ability to ride this bucking bronco. I like my job. I like my income. And surprise of all surprises, I like the work too. My job is the vehicle yes, by my work is my passport to intellectual thinking, the stimulus for my creativity, and directly and indirectly the agent for my social, physical and spiritual wellâ€"being. _. Strip me of, and you strip me too of something I cherish far more than leisure. My dignity. toxics continue to be dumped into our land and water ecoâ€"systems with little or no remedial action being taken.) 5. Support the legal action being taken by two Canadian groups (Operation Cleanâ€" Niagara and Pollution Probe) in the U.S. to clean up the ‘"S" Area dumpsite in Niagara Falls, New York, which is susâ€" pected of leaking Dioxin into Lake Ontarâ€" i0. 6. Develop a Safe Drinking Water Act for the Province of Ontario which will deterâ€" mine safe levels and set standards which will protect Ontario‘s drinking water in the face of the growing chemical threat and the increasing ‘"Dioxin Plague."