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square-principled and just no less so because the 

 class they represent is organized to stand up for its 

 rights. 



The situation is not hopeless. Most of these pages 

 we have been turning are Back Pages. ^Old conditions; 

 and much of the bitterness which they generated have 

 passedX The story of those old conditions has been 

 told from the viewpoint of the Farmer in order that 

 his attitude may be understood. But it must be re- 

 membered that the grain trade today is a very different 

 proposition from what it was and that many of the men 

 who have devoted their lives to it in the cities have 

 played a big and honest part in its development. The 

 Winnipeg Grain Exchange as an Exchange has done a 

 great deal for Western Canada, a point that undoubt- 

 edly has been overlooked by many farmers. Gradually, 

 however, the Farmer has learned that all is not evil in 

 " Babylon " ; for out of revolution has come evolution.* 



The key to that better future which is desired so 

 earnestly and wisely islEducationl The problems of 

 the day are commanding the mental focus of the nation. 



* Abnormal conditions in the grain trade at present, due to the war, 

 have led to government control of the crop by means of a Board of Grain 

 Supervisors, aside altogether from the permanent Board of Grain 

 Commissioners. This government commission has very wide powers, 

 superseding the Grain Act for the time being, and can fix the price at 

 which grain stored in any elevator may be purchased, ascertain available 

 supplies, fix conditions of removal from storage and determine the des- 

 tination of grain, receive purchase offers and fix sale prices, take 

 possession of grain in elevators and sell it, provide transportation, etc. 



The Board of Grain Supervisors consists of two representatives of the 

 organized farmers Hon. T. A. Crerar, Minister of Agriculture, and 

 H. W. Wood, President of United Farmers of Alberta; one representative 

 of unorganized farmers S. K. Rathwell; three representatives of the 

 Winnipeg Grain Exchange J. C. Gage, W. R. Bawlf and Dr. Magill 

 (Chairman) ; a representative of the British Food Commission Jas. 

 Stewart; two representatives of Labor Controller Ainey (Montreal) and 

 W. B. Best, of Locomotive Firemen; W. A. Matheson, of Lake of the 

 Woods Milling Company, and Lionel H. Clarke, head of the Canada 

 Malting Company and a member of the Toronto Harbor Commission. 

 Dr. Robert Magill, the Chairman, is Secretary of the Winnipeg Grain 

 Exchange and was formerly Chief Commissioner of the permanent Board 

 of Grain Commigsionerg, 



