"NI-'ll on Camps 
     
    
   
   
    
     It was a cl ssic. There was 
     
     those "damn socialists," the 
     
     N.F.U., squaring off against 
     
     -none other than the notor— 
     
     ious Frank Likely, YnP.C. 
     
     president - P.E.I.!! 
     
    

    
     It all started very innoce- 
     
     ntly. Gary Webster (prof. 
     
     poli.- science) had arranged 
     
     with the N.F.U. an encoun— 
     
     ter with the students study— 
     
     ing'underdevelopment'on P.E.I. 
     
     and the world. Instead, what 
     
     occured was an old—fashioned 
     
     square-off come Stand-off 
     
    

    
     ' between the unrepentant bus— 
     
     iness man and the aleniated' 
     
     farmer. 
     
    

    
     "We're being ripped off," 
     
     cried the representatives of 
     
     the/N.F.U. "There's more 
     
     bullshit in this room than 
     
     on any farm on the Island," 
     
     replied Likely. ‘ ~ 
     
    

    
     As the arguments developed, 
     
     a more realistic and under— 
     
     stood message descended. 
     
     The N.F.U. representatives, 
     
     four in number, two men and 
     
     two men, argued that cor— 
     
     porations involved in the 
     
     agri - buSiness, such as Can— 
     
     ada PaCkers, have strived to 
     
     keep farmers in Canada very 
     
     regional rather than nation— 
     
     al in their outlooks. This 
     
    
   
   
    
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     has resulted in cross—nation 
     
     antagonism between western 
     
     and eastern farmers which, 
     
     as the N.F.U. representativ— 
     
     es noted, kept an united 
     
     farm front from being a re— 
     
     ality in Canada. Without a 
     
     front,the middle man con- 
     
     trolled the-market. The mid— 
     
     dle man, namely the huge . 
     
     fiagrO - corporations involved 
     
     in fOOd processing and meat 
     
     packing, had no real con— 
     
     cern for the well being of‘ 
     
     the farmer.-Thus, of necess- 
     
     ity, the N.F.U. has arrived. 
     
     "If farming is to be made 
     
     a viable vocation for the 
     
     »youth of this country a gre— 
     
     at deal of planning over 
     
     the long term must be done," 
     
     stated one’of the N.F.U. 
     
     representatives. "With the 
     
     corporations in control of 
     
     the market, prices are so 
     
     "slip-shod" and variable 
     
     that when viewed graphically 
     
     it looks like an image of 
     
     the Rocky Mountains, this 
     
     kind of changeable market 
     
     allows for~short-run plan— 
     
     ning‘only," he further sta— 
     
     ted. ‘” ' 
     
     5 One of the problems Clteder 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     by the students was the 
     
    

    
     lack of communication through 
     
     the commercial media result— 
     
     ing in a "red" mystique sur- 
     
     rounding‘the N.F.Uo The rep— 
     
     resentatives replied that 
     
    

    
     the Union was a grassroots 
     
     organization, and depended 
     
     upon personal dialogue with 
     
     farmers rather than "sensa- 
     
     tional" news coverage to get 
     
     their message throfigh to the 
     
     farmers in Canada and on 
     
     P.E.I° 
     
    

    
     Part of Frank Likely's cross 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE CADRE, TUES. MARCH 5, 1974, Page 3. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Ka mpus ‘ 
     
     Koncern 
     
    
   
   
    
     by iool  
     
    
   
   
    
     gained from producer negotia— 
     
     tions with the board (namely 
     
     between the elected farm 
     
     committees which would be 3 
     
     in number and the marketing 
     
     board administrators. The 
     
     farm representatives would 
     
     have one national representa- 
     
     tive from the N.F.U. so that 
     
     an input from other farmers 
     
     in other regions Of Canada 
     
     would be heard and recorded.) 
     
     Likely saw the addition of 
     
     an N.F.U. representative from 
     
     the mainland as "outside ag— 
     
    
   
   
    
     f. 
     
    
   
   
    
     . 
     
    
   
   
    
     examination included an ex— 
     
     cursion into the meaning of 
     
    
   
   
    
     Bill 44 now before the P.E.I. 
     
     \legislature. Bill 44 is bas- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ed on an N.F.U. proposal to 
     
    
   
   
    
     Cabinet which would set up a 
     
     marketing board for the plan- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ned production and sale of 
     
     "cold" crops. The policy of 
     
    
   
   
    
     the marketing board would be 
     
    
   
   
    
     umon mm" 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Philosophy Dept. of 
     
     UPEI made a nice comeback 
     
     last Monday night, Feb. 25 
     
     when Prof. Joseph Naylor 
     
     "showed what he could do"! . 
     
     The topic under consideratio 
     
     in the 2nd public lecture 
     
     for 1974 was "the confration 
     
     of ideas and reality" with 
     
     respect to the Greek-Christ— 
     
     ain and Hebrew-Judaic trad— 
     
     itions. 
     
    

    
     "In the Greek — Christain 
     
     tradition," stated Naylor, 
     
     "the act of speculation was 
     
     seen as non-work or leisure 
     
     contemplation, this was bec- 
     
     ause Greek society was sup- 
     
     ported by a slave class wh- 
     
     ich gave the citizens or 
     
     'free' men the time and pl— 
     
     ace for such speculation. 
     
    

    
     In the Hebrew - Judaic trad- 
     
     ition, however, no such\ 
     
    
   
   
    
     _slave element existed which 
     
    
   
   
    
     meant that speculation waS' 
     
     an integral part of the dai— 
     
     ly practice of all Jews. 
     
     This meant that in the Greek 
     
     Christian tradition a sep— 
     
     aration of ideas and reality 
     
     seemed plausible, while in 
     
     the Judaic tradition no such 
     
     separation occured. Because 
     
     of this fundamental diff— 
     
     erence in attitude between 
     
     the two traditions, no Judaic 
     
     Christian_tradition_is real- 
     
    
   
   
    
     itation". "There you go ag— 
     
    
   
   
    
     ain —- trying to divide and 
     
     "can" the farmer", replied 
     
     the N.F.U. 
     
    
   
   
    
     All in all it was a worth— 
     
     while experience and prof. 
     
     Webster deserves congratula— 
     
     tions for setting up the 
     
     encounter. 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     istically possible, contrary 
     
     to popular belief," argued 
     
     Naylor. 
     
    

    
     (Since the Christian theo- 
     
     logians have raided the Gre- 
     
     eks for their philosophical 
     
     principles the dichotomy of 
     
     ideas and reality continues 
     
     to exist in the Christian 
     
     tradition.) 
     
    

    
     "Had the Christians under- 
     
     stood the Bible as a philoso— 
     
     phic - historic recording of 
     
     the Hebrew soul rather than