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The Ingrate (a Fable). 'Twas not an Apple, 'twas only a Crab, With a bitter tongue and the gift of the gab, That raged and railed at the parent Tree- Thank God, I am none of your progeny I have vision and thought, whilst you have none, And you'll stick in the mud as you've always done, Gnarled and stupidly rooted fast; "Nowlamfreetoimproveatlast." He had doubtless a great deal more to say, But a lean old sow then chanced that way; Her small eyes shone, and her molar tooth Made a sloppy mash of the gallant youth. T. R. PHILLIPS. 13th May, 1919.

r FARMERS' UNION. I Meeting of the Hay and I Giasbury BranchJ Mr J. W. Jones (chairman) presided over a meeting of the Hay and Glasbury Branch of the Brecon and Radnor Far- mers' Union, held at the Crown Hotel, Hay, on Thursday last. THE AGRICULTURAL COMMISSION. Referring to the conference held at the Royal Show at Cardiff, the Chairman stated that Sir Arthur Boscawen, re- ferring to the Agricultural Commission, pointed out that the future of agriculture I depended very much upon the evidence that would be given at the Commission, not only evidence as to the state of agri- culture during the last four years, which owing to the war had been abnormal, but also as to pre-war time. It was of great interest to them all that the information was not required for the war period only, and he hoped .every member of the Union who had kept books would be pre- pared to render help. MART ACCOMMODATION AT HAY. The Chairman also stated that since they last met, the Hay Urban District Council had received a petition from butchers and dealers requesting them not to change the mart from Monday to Thursday. There was one thing that he felt very strongly upon, and that was the inadequate and unsatisfactory provision made by the local authority for the far- mers' stock. He had seen rushes at markets and fairs, but he had never ex- perienced such an unsatisfactory state of affairs as he did at Hay mart on Monday last, with the sheep crowded on the road in such a way. He felt disgusted with the Hay Urban District Council and also with the farmers that they tolerated such conditions, and his question was, were they going to tolerate them any longer ? (A Voice No, no.") In his opinion it was absolutely impossible to move the local authority in this matter, although a deputation of the Farmers' Union had waited upon them and had placed the matter before them in a clear manner. ¡ It was true that the local authority had provided a weighing machine, but that had not been completed. There were three butchers at the last mart who told the auctioneers that owing to the unsatis- factory state of things they would not feel disposed to bring their permits to Hay again; and if the permits were not brought farmers would not be able to sell their fat stock in future. Mr R. T. Rogers was in favour of drawing the attention of the Local Government Board to the matter, and also of writing to Colonel Drummond, the live stock commissioner. He moved that they apply to the Local Government Board asking them to take action to secure better market facilities at Hay. This was Seconded by Mr George Davies and carried unanimously. MEMBERS' SUBSCRIPTIONS. Mr George Davies said the collectors were having great difficulty in getting the members' subscriptions. To get over the trouble, he suggested that the mem- bers should authorise their bankers to pay for them, as most farmers now had a banking account. The Chairman said a great deal of un- necessary trouble was caused by the delay in paying subscriptions, and he agreed with the suggestion but they would be obliged to get the members' consent before the bankers could pay. It was agreed to ask the members to pay through their bankers. CO-OPERATION. The Chairman reminded the meeting that they had decided to form a co- operative society, and that they would open up at Hay, Glasbury, Talgarth and Painscastle. They were now registered as a society, and it had been decided that the maximum amount of shares for one individual should not exceed JE200, and the minimum should not be less than ten per cent. of the rental. At present they would not enrol persons who were not members of the Farmers' Union. He was glad to be in a position to tell them that already shares had been taken up to the amount of £ 1,300 by ten share- holders. (Applause). A provisional committee of seven had been formed, and that committee would continue in office until the annual meeting. A short time ago he attended a meeting at Builth Wells, and from what he could gather there was a strong desire at Builth to join in the movement. Personally he was very much in favour of the idea, as a strong society would prove more successful than a weak one. Mr David Lewis (local organiser) spoke in favour of uniting as many branches as possible, as a small society was more likely to be a victim of the private trader and large companies than a strong one, as had been experienced in j the Builth Upper District a few years ago. Mr George Davies also spoke in favour of bringing as many Unions as possible into the society. Mr Jones, Painscastle, asked if it would be possible for some of the mem- bers at Painscastle to have their manures and feeding stuffs delivered at Whitney- on-Wye Station. Others would find it more convenient to cart their stuff from Dolhir. Mr David Lewis said truck loads could be delivered at any station that would suit the members, providing that the station was mentioned when giving the order. THE WOOL QUESTION. The Chairman said he was pleased that the National Farmers' Union Ex- ecutive was taking such a bold stand against the 21bs. allowance on the sale of wool. and he hoped every member of their branch would only dispose of wool at full weight. They should stand by the National Farmers' Union on prin- ciple, as it was fighting for their interest. There were over 75,000 farmers members ] of the Union, and if they all remained j loyal they would succeed. He himself had brought his wool into Hay, but he j had given orders that it was not to be 1 touched except by payment for the full j weight. j Mr Hughes said he had told by j one of the wool merchants that they j were prepared to compromise by taking | a pound draft instead of 21bs. j Mr Jones, Painscastle, said every ] member at Painscastle was in favour of j being loyal to the Union, but some far- j mers found it rather hard to keep back 1 the wool. 1 The Chairman said they were fighting for principles, and if some farmers were in need of the money they should borrow it. It was agreed to inform the General Secretary that the meeting had been in- formed that the merchants were prepared to compromise, and ask for instructions from the National Executive. PROPAGANDA FUND. It was reported that 123 3s. out of the £ 40 required from the branch for the j propaganda fund had been collected. i

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I Is a Pedigree Colt a Short- I horn Steer ? I I Much amusement has been caused, :1 particularly in agricultural circles, by t the recently published story of a Govern- ment department requesting an exporter of live stock who applied for a license to export pedigree cattle to state if the" pedigree colt is a shorthorn steer." The mistake is such a ridiculous one that probably many people have refused to believe the story. It is true enough, however, for the official document itself has been published in the Kirkcud- "j brightshire Advertiser," and we have 1 seen a copy. The inquiry was sent out by the War Trade Department, 4, Central Buildings, Westminster, S.W., and the body runs Sir, With reference to your application No. A 3 dated the 9/5/19 for permission to ex- port pedigree cattle to South Africa, I I am instructed by the Director to request J you to state if the pedigree colt is a | Shorthorn steer. I am, sir, your I obedient servant," &c. obedient servant," &c.

I BRECON \MM WEEK. Public Meetings "Send.Off." The week of intensive effort for the I Victory Loans arranged by the Brecon War Savings Coniiaittee began on Friday I last and will close on Saturday evening next. Over £ 80,000 was raised by the Aeroplane week effort rather more ] than a year ago the committee are now j aiming at £ 100,000, at least, and there is 1 a prospect of this sum being exceeded. I With the object of giving the effort a good send-off two public meetings were [ arranged for Friday last, with Councillor j Peter Wright, the well-known Newport Labour leader, as the principal speaker I as each. Councillor Wright made a fill: appeal for recruits at Brecon in the early I days of the war, and it was expected that his presence on this occasion would mean j good meetings. There was a good meet- J ing in the afternoon, but the attendance j in the evening, for some unknown reason, i was disappointing. I' Afternoon. I BRECON TO COMPETE FOR THE ) KIXG'f; FLAG. The afternoon meeting was held in the I open at the Fountain, and there was a very good attendance of farmers and others. The Mayor (Mr W. F. Parry deWinton), who presided, announced at the outset that lie had received a telegram I containing the following message :— His Majesty the King has graciously- consented to present a specially designed flag to the representative of city or town subscribing the largest amount to Yictory Loan proportionate to the population." He sent the following telegram in reply The Borough of Brecknock sends loyal greetings and accepts your Majesty's gracious challenge." And he had received the following tele- gram from the King's Private Secretary:— I am commanded to thank you for your loyal assurances to his Majesty in the name of the inhabitants of Breck- nock. Proceeding, his Worship remarked that last year they set out to get Y,50,000 to find aeroplanes to beat the Germans, and Brecon in its loyalty found over £80,000. Considering what had hap- pened since, they had placed the figure for the present effort at £100,000, and he had also committed the town to the competition for his Majesty's flag. As a business man he had opportunities of judging the position in the town very closely, and he could tell them that every business man was looking to see what money he could fed to put into the Vic- tory Loan. The loan offered the finest investment they could possibly desire, and he himself heard the Chancellor of the Exchequer say that it was not the intention of the Government to again offer loans at anything like the terms that were offered to-day. That meeting was intended more especially for farmers, and if they would only pnt the money they had got for their calves into the loan—(laughter)—the town would be a long way towards the 9100,000. (Ap- plause). The Government had accumu- lated something like £ 2,000,000,000 of temporary debt, chiefly in bills which had to be met, and they urgently required the loan to relieve them of the floating debt which was such a detriment to trade. We were complaining to-day that the sovereign was only worth 10/ and that was chiefly due to the fact that we had to pay foreigners 92 for every £ 1 worth of food brought to this country. If the Government could pay cash for our food, we should get it brought much cheaper, wages would be worth a great deal more, and a man would not require so much to keep his home going. (Applause). Councillor Peter Wright, at the outset of a forcible speech, told how as chair- man of the Executive of the Seamen and Firemen's Union, he had been responsible for the investment of every penny of their money in war loans. He did that because he felt it was absolutely impera- tive for everybody to put every sou he could into the war loan. Whilst our men had been fighting and giving their lives that we might live, some of us at home had had the time of our lives. There was profiteering everywhere, no matter where one went. It was no good to talk about the millionaires, the work- ing men were as big profiteers as the mineowners and the big shareholders. Everybody had been trying to make all he could, no matter at whose expense. Yet, but for the sacrifices of our men, we should have been slaves in the hands of the Hun, without liberty and without freedom, and we should have had to work for the remainder of our lives to pay the war indemnity. He had the honour to represent the Mercantile Marine—17,000 of those men were at the bottom of the sea. Why ? To keep you bounders alive," snapped the speaker. They did not care a hang, they were out to beat the Hun, and for doing it got just enough to keep body and soul together. To-day there were thousands of them maimed, who would never be able to do their duty to their families and the nation. Now that our men had brought the dastardly Hun to his knees, now that by their sacrifice and work they had secured liberty for the democracy, it was up to us to do our bit for the purpose of re- constructing society. After the last financial year the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer had a deficit of 9350,000,000. How was he going to pay that money ? Only by appealing to our manhood and telling us it was our duty to come to the assistance of the nation. The Govern- ment did not ask us to give the money

PROPERTY SALE. Merthyr Cjnog and Gwen- ddwr Farms, I In the presence of a fairly numerous company Mr Howell Powell (Mes-r. Miller, Powell & Co.) olrercd for sale by auction at the Wellington Hotel, Brecon, on Friday afternoon last three freehold farmsinthe parish of Merthyr Cynog and one farm in the parish of Gwenddwr, as to which it is interesting to note that it is held for a term of 1,000 years from Michaelmas in the fourth and fifth years of the reign of Philip and Mary at the yearly rent of 2d. All the farms have sheep walks on the Eppynt mountain. Llawllamarch. Merthyr Cynog, 70*230, y C! acres, let at 942 per annum to Mr Rees Morgan, was withdrawn at £ 1,050, but afterwards sold to the tenant at that figure. Trym-yr-Hwch. Merthyr Cynog, 78747 acres, let to Mr Wm. Williams at £ 36 per anmim, was sold to the tenant for £800. Tynywern, Merthyr Cynog, 88*801 acres, in the occupation of Mr Wm. Williams at f28 per annum, was sold to the tenant at £ 750. Tyr-y-Gledwen, Gwenddwr, 72*016 acres, let at f45 per annum to Mr Arthur Williams, was withdrawn at JE975. Messrs Jeffreys and Powell, Castle- street, Brecon, were the Vendors' sblicitors. Subsequently Mr Powell offered Pen- y-cwm, Llandefalle, 5'756 acres, with common rights, let at Y,7 per annum to Mr T. Jones, and this lot was withdrawn at JE120. Mr Lewis W. H. Jones, Brecon, was the solicitor acting.

Talgarth Police Court. Friday. Before Messrs E. Butler (chairman), J. T. Boucher, and J. W. Jones. ONE DOG—TWO OFFENCES. Lewis Morgan, of Blaencwm, Cwm yoye, Mon., was summoned for allowing a dog to be at large without a collar and also for removing it from the Monmouth- shire scheduled district into the Talgarth district without a license. P.s. Bendle gave evidence, and defendant was fined 10/- in each case. FOOD COXTROL PROSECUTION. Miss Sarah Ann Morgan, Bristol House, Talgarth, was summoned by Mr James Gunter, executive officer to the Hay Rural District Food Control Committee, for selling a tin of salmon at a price ex- ceeding the maximum and also for not exhibiting a canned fish price list. Mr Lewis Jones (Brecon) appeared to prose- cute, and Mr Leigh Davies (Messrs Jeffreys and Powell, Brecon), appeared for the defendant. Mr W. Evans, a divisional inspector under the Ministry of Food, said he went to defendant's shop on June 6th and paid 1/11 for a tin of salmon, for which the proper price had been 1/8 since March 26th. He then told defendant she had charged him 2d too much and that she had not on exhibition a canned fish price list, and she replied that she had made a mistake in the price, and the list was not exhibited because she had only just had it in. Mr Leigh Davies admitted a technical offence on behalf of his client, due to the fact that she had had no fish for some time and also had been ill. The Chairman said the Bench thought it was a technical offence, but they must protect the public, and defendant would be fined £ 2 10s, including costs, in each case. STREET FOOTBALL. Raymond Martin, Rose Cottages, David Jones, Church Villa, Harvey Parry, Phoenix House, Thomas Jarman, High- street, and Frederick Williams, Liverpool Stores, all Talgarth, were charged with playing football in a public place on June 16th. Mr W. Jones-Williams (Brecon) appeared for the defence. P.s. Bendle said he saw the five defen- dants playing football on the Square at 9 p.m. Jarman, Parry and Jones were fined 5/- each, and the summonses against Martin and Williams were dismissed.

they were treating us a jolly sight better than they treated Tommy in Flanders. He had been in the front trenches at Givenchy and seen our men shot down for a shilling a day and nothing but bully beef to eat and up to their necks in muck. (Hear, hear, and a voice: That's right"). The Government were not asking us to do that; they were only asking us to lend our spare cash at a good interest. If he had his own way he would have a survey made of all the banks and if there were any men who were depositing large amounts of money without using it as capital he would take it away from the blinders. (Laughter). The men who had been disabled ought to have a better pension, a living wage, the widows and orphans left by our gallant men should be provided with a decent home, decent food and garments to cover their naked- ness. (Hear, hear). He asked those who heard him to do their bit by paying all their spare cash to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to deal with the relatives our gallant boys had left behind. He met a man the previous day who had lost one of his wings, and they were paying him 5/G per week for it. (u Shame.") Some of them drank more in beer and smoked more in fags than that. If the people would do their part they would let the the chaps in Parliament know they must do better than that. Did they read the speech of Haig's, in which he said that some of our officers who had left their professions and left their all to-day were absolutely starving ? He appealed to their honour, he appealed to their manhood to lay hold of every quid" they had and offer it at the altar of mercy as a thanksgiving of what God and their fellow creatures had done for them these last five years. (Ap- plause). The meeting concluded with hearty cheers for Mr Wright. The Evening Meeting. I The Mayor again presided at the evening meeting and was supported by a number of aldermen and councillors, and other representative men were amongst a small audience. In his opening speech, the Mayor said the position was a very serious one from the point of view of the credit of the country. In order to carry the war to a successful issue we had had to squander millions. Mr Lloyd George had stated that the war had cost the world 930,000,000,000, and they might take it that a very large proportion of that sum had been borne by the British nation. Seeing that the sum total of the floating debt incurred by the Government up to May 31st last was over f,2,000,000,000, it was time that the people, even of an unassuming place like Brecon, should realise that the Government were up against an enormous question and do their best to help. What would be the good of the Peace if we were a ruined nation, if nobody cared whether the country sank or swam ? The only way iiMfcrhich the enormous floating debt of over 92,000,000,000 which he had men- tioned could be safely handled was by handing it over to the ordinary investor. At the beginning of the war there were about 243,000 investors in war loans, now there were some eight or nine millions of the population holding war loan of some kind. They asked now that those who had no stake in the country should immediately undertake a share of the burden, and those already carrying a share should add to it, so as to relieve the Government of their out- standing current liabilities. Brecon had done well in the past in the matter of war loan, but it had not done enough; and in view of the figures he had quoted he felt that the town would not be doing its full duty by subscribing between that day and the 12th inst. the almost insignificant sum of £100,000. He trusted that the people of Brecon would make a desperate effort, and not only invest their actual savings but also pledge their credit for as much as they could see their way to save between now and this time next year. He was not there to defend the Government against the charge of extravagance. War was nothing but organised waste, and if it had not been for waste, instead of re- joicing in a victory we should have been vassals of Germany without the prospect of freedom for any amount of money we could put down. (Applause). Councillor Peter Wright, who was cordially received, said he was sorry there were not more working men present but unfortunately there was a spirit permeating the whole of the United Kingdom that was rather antagonistic to their own welfare. He knew what workmen were, and he would like to tell some of the hot-'jeads and fatheads- (laughter) in Brecon and elsewhere that he had fought for the bottom dog for the last 30 years, and started when there were not so many Labour leaders about because there was nothing to be made out of it. (Laughter). He was there because experience had taught him, after travelling in every country under I the sun, after studying industrial con- ditions throughout Europe, that there was no country under the canopy of the heavens like the British Empire. (Ap- plause). He challenged any man, even Bob Smillie—and he had met him-to point to any other nation where the worker had the liberty, the freedom and the political franchise to work out his own salvation like he had in Great Britain. (Hear, hear). He admitted there were wrongs and errors, but it was due to the stupidity and the apathy and the ignorance of the democracy that such things existed. Ours was the only nation he knew where the people had the pos- sibilities and the powers at their dis- posal to alter the wrongs which were in existence by constitutional means. He wanted to preserve that and guard the state of affairs under which we would be able to accomplish the ideal for which every citizen should strive. He had just accomplished a trip right from one end of the. United States to the other, visiting every State, coming in contact with leading men of all grades and colours. He had visited every State in Canada, he had visited the leading statesmen and politicians in France, Switzerland, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and also those who were left alive in Russia. And they were all astounded, they could not understand how it was possible for a little island like Great Britain, with a small population, to have accomplished what it had done. We had accom- plished as a little nation the greatest feat in the annals of history. We could claim that we had not for ourselves only, but for civilization, retained the right to live and determine our own future. And now they heard these Bolshevists-dirty dogs he called them—talking about food. In spite of the fact that about 80 per cent. of our food stuffs had to be imported, food was cheaper here than in America, cheaper than in Canada, cheaper than in Australia, France, Switzerland, Holland,, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Whatever the mistakes of our Government had been, they had done what no other Government had ever accomplished. (Hear, hear.) If we had made mistakes it was very largely due to the fact that we were not prepared in 1914. (Hear, hear.) But Germany, who had been preparing for 40 years, made ten times greater mis- takes with all her preparations. While the Government were in power he was going to support them as a loyal democrat and °a loyal citizen. People like the Leader of the House and that brave little Welshman-(applause)-had made an appeal to us it was our duty to reply effectively in a practical manner. If we did that he could see the dawn of a new era, the opening out of a new epoch, he could see a future that would be greater than anything we could conceive. Our success in tho future I' depended entirely upon production. If we wanted more wages. more comforts, more pleasures in life, we could only get them by increasing our production and eliminating the parasites who were living on doing nothing at the present moment. He wanted (he citizens of the Unrod Tviivzdoni to waken out of their sluvnbei* and do something for what the nation had done for them. Referring to some of the mischievous activities of certain Labour men. Mr Wright re- marked that in 11)14. when the war .started, they were silent—not a word, not a deed- ,'ITid when o':r men were ) getting it in the u?ck—the contemptible I lit 'le Army—-not orpi^-slon v;>inion. In May, 191-5. whe-n our men at Yores were getting wiped out, not a word but when the Efun was getting it in the neck, they wanted peace by negotiation. (Laughter.) Just fancy peace by negoti- ation with that brute. (Laughter.) Then the majority of them started a campaign consisting, of men who never had a conscience prior to 1914, but who for the sake of preventing their dirty skin being penetrated by lead found they had one. (Laughter.) They did not mind who fought, "but for God's sake don't take me. (Laughter.) They did not mind stopping at home profiteering. They said this was a war for the.capital- ists they were liars. If it had been a capitalists' war the thing would have been prepared in 1914. And what did they do during the war ? Nothing but create mischief, holding secret meetings, trying to bring about all the stoppages they could. always speaking well of the Hun, nothing said about our poor Tommies. They wanted to do- away with warfare, they believed in peace, but they had been preaching war every day during the period of the war, and now they wanted to go in for direct action. They said To hell with constitutional means and up with the strike, and up with syndicalism let us have the mines for the miners, the railways for the railwaymen." That was their game. His hearers knew what they did at South- port but he knew that in spite of all there was something amongst the British working men that when the time came they would reject them with scorn. (Hear, hear and applause.) Their day would come, they would receive the reward of their labour there was an eternal law of compensation that would recoil on their dastardly, destructive policy. He advised working men to agitate by every possible means, but he warned them that if they extracted any- thing by force from their opponents the time would come when the mob in the industrial democracy would treat them with turn by sheer force and brutality; and he asked them not to be led away by these men whose only game was notoriety, to become like the German Emperor, to stand with a big stick and dictate and coerce other mery into their particular policy and philosophy. The one way to overcome the difficulty was to support the people who were in power, and show them by their actions that they were determined, like the men who fought, to give their all and work for the purpose of retaining and maintaining and re- building our mighty Empire. (Applause.) Ald. T. Williams proposed a vote of thanks to Mr Wright, and said he was sorry the attendance was small, and he was sorry also that the Mayor had not been supported as he ought to be by the Councillors. Mr W. J. Knight (president of the Chamber of Trade) seconded the motion. The Mayor, in putting it, said the attendance of aldermen and councillors was fairly representative, and he ought to explain that Councillor Miss Philip Morgan had written stating that she- could not attend through having sprained her ankle.