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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 24, 1941
Page
2
The article argues the newspaper church relationship must be fair and paid. It notes publishers are often church members who support and attend church functions. The press grants space to church notices but cannot subsidize free publicity, as income comes from selling space.
A wartime poem adapts Kipling to mock German and Soviet tyranny. It targets leaders who promise victory while blaming others, praising propaganda, and glorifying force. The piece denounces false cheer, conscripted sacrifice, and the worship of ideologies as a counterfeit world.
May 6 features a demonstration by youth training groups and a dance. May 23 highlights the Silverton Junior Seed Club Dance noting thousands of wild ducks at Lake Manitoba marsh may be displaced by activities of the MacDonald bombing and gunnery school.
The Dominion Department of Agriculture distributes a pamphlet outlining a policy to reduce wheat acreage and pay farmers via acreage support to align with wartime needs. It argues supplementary income, more coarse grains, and soil and meat production, while avoiding inequitable higher wheat prices.
A discussion of wheat policy argues against Western bonuses, noting little rise in annual wheat acreage over six years. It cites demographic and consumption growth since 1929, weather, winter losses, and war as price factors, with Canadian exports strongest in weeks ending April 9.
Great Lakes region notes demand from occupied France for large U S wheat stocks. Factors lowering prices include Kansas winter wheat at 149 million bushels, a 475 million bushel combined Argentine corn surplus, Turkey barley output at 121 million bushels, and German advances into Greece reducing Greek wheat imports.
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