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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1936-03-19, Page 2PAGE TWO WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES Thursday, March 19th, 1939 The Wingham Advance-Time* Published at WINGHAM - ONTARIO Every Thursday Morning by The Advapce-Times publishing Co. Subscription Rate *—■ One Year $2,00 Six months, $1,00 in advance. To V. S, A., $2.50 'per year. Foreign rate, $3.00 per year, Advertising rates on application. Let’s all swing in behind the ball club this year* ■ ’t'1 It is said that France and her allies can place in the field in 48 hours 8,000,000 troops. We imagine that number would make a fair-sized war. * s|s * * Another week has gone by and the European situation is much the same. Britain acts as peacemaker, but how long can she continue to prevent an-- other world war, 4? * Jk Detectiye P. W. Hauck of Guelph, received a threatening note, warning him to cease his investigations into a certain case. These Chicago tactics are not welcome in Canada. >k * * Evidently Lieut-Governor Bruce is to continue to reside for the next year at least at Government House, Tor­ onto. The estimates of the Ontario I budget carried an item of $23,800 for • this purpose. j 5.5 5k !. The Catholic clergy of Quebec have I been warned by their superiors not ; to engage in politics. It has been our 'i opinion that some of the clergy have • been more interested in politics than < the saving of souls. I » * * A report says the draft of a naval treaty was approved by delegates to the naval conference at London. With practically all nations rearming, this does not carry much weight. >k sj: ik 5k Earl Beatty, hero of Jutland, and Comniander-in-Chief of the British Navy at the close of the Great War, has passed on. The Empire mourns his death. QUR HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY Last week we read in some of the weekly exchanges that come to desk that several small town Horticultural societies have disbanded as the mem­ bership had dwindled .until the societ­ ies could not carry on. This condition would exist here also if it was not for the active work of the officers of thL organization. The Horticultural society carries on ‘ a splendid work but can only function ! properly when there is a large mem-; bership. The fee charged by this soc- « iety is not large, one dollar, and the j members get much back in the way i of premiums j Our local society had planned for | an active 1936 but the co-operation of the citizens in general is necessary if it is to carry on as it should. It will be but a short time now till the Horticultural Society will be hav­ ing Its membership drive. Plan to be a member this year. This society de­ serves your support. ajc sjc sjc jjs TAXING UTILITIES During the last few years there has been an agitation on the part of some people to have our public utilities tax­ ed similar to private companies. The City of Toronto will in the near future seek authority from the electors to obtain additional revenue from this source. Taxing utilities in Toronto would bring into the coffers of that city about $1,000,000. If this idea is carried out the Hy­ dro Commission, the Transportation Commission and the Waterworks Sys­ tem will be affected by the above am­ ount. The people of that city will be taking $1,000,000 out of one pocket and putting it into another. The city Fathers will have $1,000,000 a year more to spend but it will be, as usual, the people who will supply the mon­ ey. We cannot see the advantage of this scheme. These utilities have not ■up to the present been taxed and all previous Councils have had to func­ tion without this added revenue. Peo­ ple to-day are seeking economy mea­ sures rather than having themselves taxed further. Public utilities are serving a most useful purpose in Ontario and. we sin­ cerely hope that they will be allowed to continue without added obstruc­ tions. ijt JS? TOURIST CAMPS Hon. J. A. Faulkner has introduced into the Legislature a bill to regulate tourist camps. This is a wise if reports are true concerning of these camps. Sanitation in of these places is not all that be desired and further registration of people who use these camps is an im­ portant item. We cannot understand why these camps have been allowed to operate in such a carefree manner. It is necessary for hotel propriet­ ors to have a standard license and register all guests. This law should be applied to tourist camps as they do a tremendous trade during the summer mouths. 5k ’k I products at 64.S. In 1935 the price Spring is in the air. Sap's running. | level of farm products stood at 63.4, We .have had a taste of this year’s j or just slightly below the level of maple syrup. Visitors from the south 11913, and the price level of mannfac- are arriving home. All these things | lured products at 73.3. Manufactured make one realize that summer is not! products were therefore 15.6 per cent so far away. above the level of farm products in * # * * 11935. If we turn to agricultural im- Hockey is over for this year. Our J plements—and I quote now from, fig­ next sport activity will be baseball, j tires presented by the agricultural im- BILLIONS OF CIGARETTES n move some some could (Kincardine Review-Reporter) In quantity and value Canadians consume nioie tobacco in the form of cigarettes than' in any other way. During 1934 the production of cig­ arettes in this country amounted to 4,843,470,000. There are no exports of any significance but there is some small amount of imports, so that the consumption by Canadians reached to that huge figure and probably a bit more. If you figure the population at ten million persons, there was an average consumption per person of about 484 cigarettes, or one and one third cigarettes per day for every man, woman and child. The manu­ factured value of the 1934 output was 838,182,600. Total output of the tobacco manu­ facturing industry in 1934 including excise duties was valued at $66,400,- 493 — an increase of $2,165,734 over 1933. That value compares with $85,- 371,786 in 1930. We were thus below prosperity days on that basis, but lower prices were evidently partly res­ ponsible. Cigarettes represented well over half the total value. Smoking tobacco was next to cigarettes with an output of 19,916,321 pounds val­ ued. at nearly the same number of dol­ lars, viz $19,939,514 and then cigars with an output of 116,858,000 valued at $4,557,959. There was produced al­ so 788,913 pounds of snuff worth $1,- 063,449 and of course, chewing to­ bacco. DEACHMAN’S SPEECH ON IMPLEMENTS following is taken from Han- R. J. DEACHMAN (North The sard: Mr. Huron): If we take the price level of 1926 as equalling 100, the price level of farm products in 1913 stood at 64, and the price level of manufactured Maitland Creamery ' would amount to approximately $50, which sum has to be paid out of the $17.67 gross profit of the manufactur­ ers. Clearly they are not making money; I quite agree with that, but there is a ieason why they are not making money and to that I now wish to direct attention. The ability of the farmer to buy has been destroyed, and as a result the farmer is no longer able to buy agricultural implements, It follows, naturally, that we are driv­ ing capital and labour out of the pro­ duction of agricultural implements and into the production of other com­ modities which have a broader field and a wider market, and the inevit­ able tendency of this policy, if con­ tinued, must be to make things cost more and more as far as the farmer is concerned. With that, possible, there is a tendency also to bring down the prices cf other products which are bought by the wealthier classes of the community. I submit, Mr. Speaker, that when the farmer has reached the position where he must pay fifty per cent more for the articles he buys than he paid in 1913, we have before us a problem which requires the most careful study, thought and attention. We cannot build an indus­ try in this country upon a decadent agriculture; the history of the agri­ cultural implement business in Can­ ada is ample proof of that statement. ■ I now come to the question of what! constitutes the remedy. I. admit that this is perhaps a more difficult prob­ lem in connection with agriculture than in connection with any other single item confronting the house to­ day, for the simple reason that this process has gone on for a long time. We have built up this situation by what might be considered fifty years of mistaken economic policy. I know it 'was intensified in 1930. I do not want to make a political issue out of this matter, but it was intensified in 1930 because the government .of that day held that it was essential, in or­ der to preserve the integrity of the nation, that we should raise the tariff on all the pioducts ‘.he farmer had to buy. But, Mr. Sp< aker, if the in­ tegrity of the nation had to be pre­ served by that process I ask this house what is to happen to the in­ tegrity of agriculture and what is to follow if, in the years to come, we continue oti the basis upon which we are building now, day by day des­ troying farm purchasing power in ev­ ery possible way and still expecting that we should live on the natural re­ sources of the country? I tell you it cannot be done. What must we do? Well, I think the government have made a small step- in the right direction; I think they are moving, but they are moving very slowly. I believe, as everyone in the house must, that there is a tre­ mendous amount of ground to cover if we are- going to restore agriculture to the parity which existed in 1929 and 1930 or in 1913. We have come a long way from that, and we cannot bet gack by simply cutting little bits off the tariff here and there. We must restore equilibrium between the pric­ es of manufactured goods- and the prices of farm products. This cannot be done by any slow, measured pro­ cess, because the farmer is perishing while we a park in on which is always place that problem before the govern­ ment to-day, before those who are on the opposite side physically but with me spiritually. They are in the be­ ginning of their effort; they have made a start. We who think as they do are grateful for that start, but we must go forward steadily and swift­ ly in the direction in which we have started, or at the end of the next few years we shall find that the farmer’s problem still remain unsettled. And if it is not settled by that time we shall have to find some other way of (settling it, which way may not be as | satisfactory as we would wish. | I believe it is possible to do many place between 1913 and 1934. The ag- |of these things. I believe the other | nations of the world want trade just (as we want it. Trade is a natural hn- ! man instinct. It starts with a boy (when he begins to swap jack-knives * at school; it will never end so long as | there is business instinct left in man. {There is no reason Xvhy, with the sit- 1 nation as it is, we may not hope for a y steadily expanding market. We have ' not succeeded in the past, -not because s there was no market but because we ’were unwilling to make the necessary I’ move to obtain the market. If we are willing to exchange our products for those of other people I have no doubt hhat we shall find other nations cq- jnaHy wilting to do the same, and in particular benefit, though, it may have j that way we tnay re-establish the ag- heJped to keep up the price of the J riculture the dominion on some implements. - I such basis as that on which it rested, Now I come to the question which | in the old days, has been raised by my hon. friend. Of I '— this increased cost $43.61 is added to I Mrs. Wj-jfe: “You simply can the price of the implement and the j find a maid who is honest. The balance, $8.21, is taken out of the | one left suddenly with nine of gross profit of the manufacturer, j very best towels.” sendfortnis Hot key Book and AUTOGRAPHED PICTURES at YOUR favorite players • Every boy will want this Book—.“How to Become a Hockey Star”, by T, P. (Tommy) Gorman, coach and manager of the World Champion, Montreal Maroons. Simply take a label from a tin of ‘ ‘CROWN BRAND' ’ or “LILY WHITE'' CORN SYRUP-write on the back your name and address—plainly— ' and the words “Hockey Book". 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Edwardsburg CROWN BRAND CORN SYRUP THE FAMOUS ENERGY FOOD LILY WHITE CORN SYRUP BENSON’S CORN STARCH CANADA CORN STARCH CHALLENGE CORN STARCH SILVER GLOSS LAUNDRY STARCH Products of The CANADA STARCH COMPANY Limited TORONTO o plement companies before the price spreads committee'—we find that the average price level of nine implements produced by the Massey-Harris Com­ pany stood at $86.39 in 1913 and in •1930 it stood at $130, or an increase in that period of fifty per cent. While the price level of implements is fifty per cent above what it was in 1913, that of farm products remains almost exactly the same. Mr. SENN; Would the lion. gen­ tleman also give the amounts of pro­ fit made b}r the companies? Mr. DEACHMAN: My lion. friend will have to wait for that. I cannot give it all in one sentence. Mr. SENN: I have it before me. Mr. DEACHMAN: We will come to that later, This means that the farmer who in 1913 laid down $100 worth of goods for farm implements must now lay down $150 of his pro­ ducts for the same farm implements; and as the price level is the same it means that whereas in 1913 he laid down one hundred units of goods for a machine, he must now lay down 150 units of goods for the same ma­ chine. It is very interesting to take the figures showing how this amount of $130 is made up. There was $42.08 of raw material and $6,33 worth of direct factory labour. Those two, amounting to a total of $48.41, were transposed into an agricultural imple­ ment which sold for $130 to the far­ mer in Regina. I wish to call the at­ tention of the Minister of Finance (Mr. Dunning) to that particular item. We have had during the past few years a tariff of twenty-five per cent on agricultural implements. Raw ma­ terials and labour combined in this particular example cost $48.41. Twentiy-five per cent on an imple­ ment costing $130 would be $32.50, so that the tariff imposed by the prev­ ious government amounted to almost seventy per cent of the value of the raw material and direct factory lab- ’ our going into this implement, and now the tariff would amount to near­ ly thirty-five per cent of the raw mat­ erial and labour cost. In addition there was 820.92 for agent’s commis­ sion, $16.58 for freight, $26.42 for oth­ er factory expenses, and gross profit before selling expenses, $17.67. I should like to direct attention to : the increase in these items which took fail to act. Somewhere in France there is a sun-dial is Garved these words, “It later than you think.’’ I Only One Low Priced Car is FIRST in Everything that Counts TERRAPLANE •F THIS — with *Terraplane alone among all popular low priced cars gives you this; > Full 115-inch wheelbase. • 195 inches over-all length. > Most power—88 or 100 horsepower— with freedom from vibration at all speeds. 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Far more likely to bo out of date by 1937. • No rear opening baggage and tire com­ partment, except in cars where trunk models are available—at considerable extra cost. Sparc tire mounted outside on all other models. • Single main braking system—cither hydraulic or mechanical—without, com­ plete reserve braking system and without Terraplane's type of easy acting parking brakes. • Older type front end designs—either with or without solid axle—none of which combines gentle spring action with rigid axle construction. • Coil springs—or leaf springs, stiffened to carry steering and braking loads. • Nothing like the Electric Hand is avail­ able on any other low priced car—and all have floors in front cluttered up with gear and brake levers. • Nothing like Terraplane’s deep “V-type” windshield in any other low priced car. EVERY 1936 car buyer in the low price field has just two choices. A Terraplane. Or a car without the features that Terraplane gives. That’s why thousands are changing this year to Terrapfane ... stepping UP in everything but cost. The list of Terraplane advantages doesn’t stop with those listed here. There’s greater durability. Greater economy, too, certified by thousands of sworn owner statements. You’ll find other advantages on every hand. Yours to try and enjoy today! Come in and see and drive a Terraplane. and up, retail at factory, Tilbury, Ontario, freight and license only extra. 88 or 100 h.p.—115-inch wheelbase. HUDSON MOTORS OF CANADA, LIMITED, TILBURY, ONTARIO am TIMOTHY SEES SPRING COMING s Deer Sur;— Here is it pasht the middle av March, an it won’t be long now' be- foor shpring will be shpringin hoigh, an a lot av us ould fellahs av the Octogeranium Club, who hev been in could shtorage, so to shpake, more arr less fer mosht av the winther, ■will be gittin out in the sun agin an lishtenin to the cawin av the crows an the singin av the robins. Yis, ’tis plaized intoirely we all do be whin shpring comes, afther the long cowld winther, wid its coal bills, an short days an long noights an big elick- trick loight accounts, an shnow to shovel iviry marnin, an coughs an cow'lds an lame backs, an the daily’1 papers often not gittin here till afth- ernoons. Och, sure, ’tis a dreary time some av us put in durin the winther sayson,. so it is, wid no mintal ixer- coise barrin playin checkers atr talk­ in poltyticks. But, av coorse, whin we hev a long harrtrd winther we enjoy the shpring $■ 3C-62& / the betther. An, shure,' ’tis the same in the pollytickle wurruld, afther a sayson av Grit rule, wid its blunders, we kin always be all the fer all shure av foine shpring weather whin the Tories git the runniu av tings agin, an the sun shoines, an the warm rains come, an the flowers bloom, an the trees come out in theer new dhresses an 'tis growin toime iviry- wheer, an wid iviryting. Wan day I wus talkin this way to a Grit, an he agreed wid me fer, sez he, “’Tis right ye are Tim, iviryting grows whin the Tories are in power, aven the national debt, and the ix- pinse av runnin the counthry.” Did, ye ivir hear such unraysonable talk in all yer loife? Av coorse the expinses hev to be greater afther a few* years av Grit rule, fer, shure, the counthry is not betther than a farram that has been rinted to a careless tin- ant fer a few years whin thim lads git troo wid it An so us Tories hev to put new roofs on the buildins, an repair the loine finces so as not to be pasturin our naybor’s cattle all the toime, an summer fallow the whole place in ordher to kill the wades that hev been allowed to overrun the farrum. Yis, theer is always a lot av nicessary i.xpinse afther a few years av Grit mismanagement, an us Tories hev to take the blame fer it, so we hev, ’Tis a quare wurruld. Yours till shpring comes, Timothy Hay. BARGAIN EXCURSION MARCH 27 - 28 From WINGHAM To TORONTO HAMILTON BUFFALO Dunnville Smithville Welland Return .Limit up For fRll information consult nearest Agent—Ask for handbill Canadian Pacific to $2.45 $3.25 $4.60 $3.95 $3.70 $4.00 March 30 I etit's commission increased by $10.98, | which was 101 per cent above the ag- l ent’s commission In 1913. Freight jcost thirty-four per cent more; mate­ rials cost sixty-four per cent more; 1 labour cost twenty-seven per cent j mure and other factory expenses, {largely overhead, increased by 246 per cent over 1913. If you will note these figures you will see that labour the direct factory wages, amounted to only twenty-seven pct cent, while nearly all the other items entering in­ to the cost were almost doubled, so that as far as factory wages were con­ cerned it does not seem that the tar­ iff of twenty-five per cent was of any Wingham, « . Ontario. Phone 271 aaiiiMMiiHiHnnMMMaiuuiunt i J M| KM««■LManagement, pensions, selling costs, I Mrs. Clyffc: “What kind were they? III collection expenses, bad debts, depre-j Mrs. Wyffc: “They were those ho- — | elation, experiments and other getter-I te! towels I brought back from the ------1 expenses on this list of implements I summer resort.” J | collection expenses, bad debts, depre- OPPOSES HITLER’S RHINE POLICY results to the Germany if Said to fear disastrous financial structure of Sanctions arc imposed, Reports from Berlin state that! of war; Hjalmar Schacht, CENTRE, Hitler is beingf strongly opposed in minister of economics, and Konstan- his remilitarizing of the Rhineland j« | tin von Ncurath. RIGHT, foreign defiance of the Locarno treaty. Gen- | minister, are reported to be strongly era! von Blomberg, LEFT, minister {opposing Hitler’si policy, Schacht is