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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1934-03-08, Page 2• THE SIGNAL 2--Thurday, March 8th, 1934 • meresbgenns 1$4$ (lO2iYtRTO11_ ywa•r of Cawodww Weeale N•w•alP•r• s••oaata•a Published every Thursday morn's&. gabs rlptloo price $2.00 per year, In advance. 'EE SIGNAL PRINTING Co.„ LTD. Telephone 35 . Goderich, Out. W. II. RossWrsOM, Editor arid Malinger in mind evidence given to the present• Investigation at Ottawa when it re- marks) that recent Canadian Industrial t.lstory show, that the taller the tar tff the shorter the pay envelope. • • • THE CURRENT WEEK IN CA.NAuA'S PAST Compiled fr riles ot The Montreal teasetta Thursday. March 8th, 1934 U. F. 0. AND 0. 0. 7. The Weekly Sun, which is looked upon as the organ of the United Farmer. of Ontario, admits that the dllance between the C.F.O. and the C.C.F. is not satisfactory to the farm- ers of Ontario an declares that "the occasion has now come for the farm movement in Ontario to reccesider ts whole position." Atter some reproaches for ['unser- ' votive and Liberal politicians ( who course had nothing to do with the sit - ration in which the U.F.O. organiza- tion now finds itself I. The Sun says: But ,the present developments, whether they mean dextreetioa for the ('.('.F. In Ontario, or mere- _•_ -= ty-a _-f p litilMingsmiaavoshlos. ar- definite question for all w hose chief concern is the future of On- tario agriculture. u As the months from the polling thaL aepatli_ booths slip quickly- past, the' original ware of confidence in the- U.F.O.'s alliance with the C.C.P. seems swiftly and steadily to be receding. Everywhere in rural Ontario, the conviction grows that, Kor all their high intellectual --Cyyaetty and devotion to the pub- lic welfare. the C.C.F. leaders have missed the tide. Aheorbed In the creation of a long-range program of general I highway No. 4, running north from eeenomtc planning, those reapons--, (Mario; llsgerolle Hall, Toronto, being able for C.C.F. policy have not Lunde t� The experience of this vain the oldPct only neglected the practicat •and t essential task of political organ- Premier of Brit nation. but they have failed to tare concentrate npon fhe really ur - Fent busine's of contriving im- mediate concrete measures to meet a condition of unporaeleled diagram. And as the decislv'.• day of prattles) action draws closer and ever rimer. tire attitude of seems If anything to grow more fleeter alaco The Prov t., be, as was suspected, only • sham. As a matter of fact, the Pruvince went iaaek 1get year by over $31,000,000. The e.l:eged surplus was $470,000, . while the net debt increased by $21.7117,745. The total net debt of the Province is now, In round figures, $400,000,000. • • • There In an agitation for the union of the three Prairie Provinces in one !,uge Province. In our opinion the Punitive. of Canada are too large Cather than too small. If Manitoba, Saskatchewan an Alberta should quite thts year, In isms than five year% they would be trying to break apart again. Imagine having to travel Ave Cr six hundred tulles (as far as from Goderich to Quebec City' to visit the Provincial capital. • • • - Rt. Hod Mackenzie "' whose ndfather, the -little rebel. was the first Mayor of Toronto, was given s place of honor In the city's tented. Oak celebration this week. No doubt he concealed a grim smile agile Tv- -oM .4r.. R- few year. .ate rears old at that rinse and - - - h• tee, r- ' Ytiah ata .�sade that 1t would eventually become one of the world's great seaports; but the great- est optiwlsts could not foresee the wonderful dezeleemtn1I3_nt the next forty years. Marsh $ 1834. -One hundred years ago St. George's Society was founded at Tor- otto-ou the same day that the town he road from Clinton of York was Incorporated as the elty Highways that ,t of Toronto, which this year is cede- to ele- • a Greenock was blocked. Greenock brattng Its centennial.. Its the junction point of highway No. 1838.-Brockrllle ordered a court 9. running east from Kincardine, and house toR * built s nd court as a rouse in hault it s the :,Hiriey i�it< rtsdiftsad". GODERICH, ONT. To Establish New Type of Schools liar* d 1881.--8t. Theisen, the important rallway centre, was incorporated u a city. 1904.-81r Joseph Trutch did at Victoria, B.C. A pioneer of British Columbia, he was one of the delegates to Ottawa to 1871 to discuss the terms neer which British Columbia would come Into Confederation, and he was flat first Lieutenint-oovertor of that 1aovince, from 1871-76. 1929. -The name of Ford City was changed to East Windsor. 1930. -Rt. lion. W. L. Mackenzie King introduced a bill to prohibit the export of liquor to the United States. *Mil 6 1668. -Restrictions were placed upon f.uports of wine and spirits by the Sovereign Council of New France. As a result an incentive was given to smuggling, which continues to the present. 1818. --The first Methodist church Sts opened at York (Toronto). The site is now occupied by the bead once of the Canadian Bank of Commerce. 1Sgb-A Board of Trade was organ- taetl at Vancouver. The city was only a. (Conttnsied from page 1) ).i0,804,100, being $32,526 below 1933. Titus a surplus of $215000 is expected :his year. For last years surplus of $276,000 was realized, although a des nett of $2,900,000 had been budgeted for. Capital expenditures for 1934 are forecast at $36.501,000, against capital receipts of $135,000. Corres- ponding figures for 1933 are $19,3417,- 0OC and $221,000. Acrordtng to these figures. at the roti of the present year the net debt of the Province will have been in- creased by approximately $36,000.000. The Increase during the past year was $21.767.000, making the present total net debt the staggering figure of 5299,441,000. The gross debt of the Province ie $502,027,000, the dlffer- euce between the tiro figures being re- rresented by realisable and revenue- producing assets, such as the T. & N. v. Railway and Investments of the Agricultural Development Board. There Is to be no new taxation this year. although the surtax of ten per eent. on succession duties. anoouneed last year as • "temporary measure," eontinaes In effect. hgo, when he was retuned a title to peed come in Toronto, although he - was then the Prime Minister of Canada. e- Mayor of Toronto At that time was not, of course. the patlemsts who now holds that once. ' • • • Repeatedly It was announced this winter by the Ontario Department of SEAMLESS TAPESTRY IJSS_ELS RUGS Heavy quality and deep pile in splendid pattefltl and hilarious coioringlRug - that will give splendid wear. In 3 sizes. On sale at much below mill prices. --144-X 3 yards. Regular $17.50, for 112.50, 3 s 31/2 yards. Regular $22.50, for $17.50 3 z 4 yards. Regular x.31, far VI SO • PURE SILK STOCKINGS 69c T. Central Milk Trade A Provincial Milk Control hoard may Wring up under the provisions of tine Milk Control Act, which has been gieen drat -end second.ce;adlugs by thL, (louse. While this board Is not apeet-r pally given power to regnlate milk prices, they will be able to do Ito under their right to license producers .and ,Itafrtbutorte and to-.reveke tease' li- censes at any time. I)Imputes among those engaged In the trade are to be settled by arbltrarton under the bill. Ikon. T. I. Kennedy. Minister of Agri- culture, when moving adoption of the hill, *tressed the important part milk days in the health of ,Site community. and said the measure sought to assure more equitable returns to all those engaged In the trade. Support of the LII: was forthroming from all sides of Itae Hosie, although Mr. Nixon thought !hat perhaps it did not go far enougS suggested that milk CO. arante �r Oliver lie de• • unique record in marital affair• and south roads are more readily . din- a was sworn as' rem r )tales the Tourist Department of the blocked with snow than are east ami i•h Columbia, and held o Illi An. ,hc Government the right to fix priers.Canadian National Railways. It is ,u -t 17th, 151''7. Interteediate Scheele - a gait claim deed to a man's affec•- west reads. The prevailing direction Marsh 7 el wind no doubt is an important - Provision_ for the establiAhment of tion and is du171t me ed Inthat Ira 16414. -Three men sailed front France intermediate schools is made !n < !� legal formality. in at- • The • for Acadia, who were to have a great introduced by Premferj(emry In _h1. young blood of Sydney was paying • '• lufiue•nce in the New World. They rsp•citp as 111i11ede•r of F.duratlon, batten to a young lady and after The Clinton Newat Record, like The . were I)es Monts, Champlain and de TLese schools would be established by paying court to her derided that he the C.C.F Bignal: dodges the Job of compiling a1 l'vutrim mart. ,try board of edneatitm desiring to preferred her sister, but before the 1701.- -Bishop Saint Vanier of Que• sfl more !1st of the twelve best-known person4I n4opt this course and would Ire at- sinter wouldancobtainel a marry quit she de - lata tree issued a New Franit ,instructing V pupils h t remote lu Huron county and Invites Its read -'Ile women n[ \es. Frani* to "honor, Ic schools i t decd from her sister t The occasion, In feces -furs new ors W submit lista- Cies J. Perth h f way rtape.t and submit to their lords and exercise county, we notice, The..Mllverton Sun masters." Iii_ lits 1tgliott t1-liet'?or t county, 175(7. -The death of John Buret+ as follows : Fred Sanderson, M.P,, I took place. lie had built the firs -f -a (Th ns. Richardson. M.P.P., Lorne Eedy, mills at Niagara Falls, a pioneer of hP wonderful development which has Senator Dr. J. 1'. Rankin, D. M. •ince taken place there. Wright. M.P»•'7k: R: Kennedy. G.-(:. 1Wk1'--1loo-•T reJ eie,Jeti lie come for tbe farm movement _n.,tarro to. reconsider its- whale ---posttton. - What "roastae-- doses -A. -5;s continuation continuation nt the alliance with the C.0 f . hold out of giving agri- cultural Ontario any really -effec- tive voice in the new legislatures which will shortly be chosen to govern this Prdviace and the Do- minion? Only the very tightest. we tear. Under present conditions the member, of the nein mote- ad selection.Most of those named meat seem doomed to drift fold • are well known In Iruron county. legal; into the`ot}Icial sheep .■+T1(•s*star fat ar without a ` Dt. ferry L. Tye is a former Goder- McPherson, C. A. Mayberry. John Ma- king, Dr. P. L. Tye. Angus Dickson ..sol Rev. W. h. Amos. T'hls looks like4' iiTt"lout 1,1. hey, t�_ ra . D. Tye of ffective influence in tbe . party councils. • With Liberalism. in its present state of non -committal opportun- ism that would indeed mean the death of another progressive movement --a blow not only to agrlrnitural Ontario. but ter the more ,tamest element in the Liberal- party, itself. For to the creation of a strong farm muve- meet, eapahle of exercising a de - "Wee independent Intimater Iles the only hope of ntie-Ing the Lib- - oral party. when It tomes again _ . to office. as It nndomhtedly soon mizew'jIL out of thy narrow rad' of poli- 'tiral expelienef ln`tc'r iYiffil-'5 kenzie King has driven 11. and for Roth for 11s Own the :rake of the more advanced wing of the liberal party repre- sented lay men like W. D. Euler and Vinrrnt Massey we believe that the form movement of (It1• tarin most eeize this occasion. late . as it is. to rel;atn nn Independent plitical existence as an effective progressive force. The Slgnnl from the very first printed nit the peril to the eauee of i,c•me tut itlnevnle nhrr penin agrf iltnre from any partnerRLip with eee.,,1 with blas d ruafter. Air., 0 the ('.('.F. The ISE O. leaders who '1e('hr•r«rn. " advocated a merger with the C C.F. The United Grates f= today stultified the loose echleb t1teF were' "The organized minorities."-4i14rry Luicn. 11e half simeR�: rvr many years in the affairs of Wirer - ton and the northern part of Perth ounty. ST. HELENS Weed by who would leave i ub- 1 is before trying their ea ranee examinations. to continue Id the in- termediate school for a course compar- 1.tle to the first two yefrit of blebl reason ot their former association. school. The cnurmcs orifi ire dell-Ended.i especially for students elm do not re- I The record forma part of those of St. quire the academic foundation for a (,eorge's Anglican church In Sydney, professional career or ra university w:arch was built around 1785 as a edneatlon. County pupils may attend garrison church and h con tainswhica gen- came o the effect t a she would not interfere in any e 118 her future husband nor e any undue influence on his affections by was an outstanding figure in British thew schools In the same mariner na I nine OtaiPP�e c Colimb(a nod a great leader, being high school pupils are now provided t from Nelsons cabin when his shl P visited there -with a fleet about 1893, s -ben chasing the'FrenchadmiralVill- eneuve. "Naivete is the prime characteristic of democracy."--e%abrfel 'Wells. Premier 191)2-0.: and hie' Justice fr(em'.16115.10 his death. 1974. -The Legislature of Baskatche- wt.n passed an Act by which they ac- -ceptel the Federal Old Age Pensions Ac 1. Nar� �,� .last fall was men E , 177b.iia n proclat House for the Ilse 'tMnr+ for. Extension of early closing bylaws tit include taint anti ohne repair shnp5 ix provided for In another hill which has palmed fleet reading. The Stratford furniture ,..workers' Quebec, a reward was offered for the apprehension of a person who had mutilated and horned a bust of King George III at Montreal. No arrest wits ever made. 1837. -The 'tank of British North ,�T A110'1'1411enmmeneeri business In Can - 8T. HELENS, Marsh 5. -The Harris Iola. it was taken over by the Bank Maaal_ee llama will meet on Saturday of Montreal October 12, 1918. nflernnsiu, March liq►i, at the manse. 19'22.-llon. Hodolph Lemieux was An Incitation in extended to the elected Speaker of the Howse of Com- se,nng girls of the community. mons and was re-elected tWive. In Mr. .las. 1Mrnin. sr.. is not keeping 1930 he WW1 called to the Senate. ,cs well as his many friends would 1924.--oshnwa woes incorporated -as eeink - a el4y, and has mince developed into lea 1a►>fs,�srttar m} �•tnrinr lily Mr. Ilugh.ltuLhcrford for -the seamen. it Canada. The Women's .Institute met on 1931. --Major W. D. flerrldlK, R.C., Thumb,' at Mrs. W. 1. Miller's, with i f Ottawa, wa4 appointed Canadian an atheaidan+'e cit thirty-one. Roll minlster plenipotentiary to the United call, !'llntlme ('lensing Made Easter," States. March II was Weil responded to. The subject. avttiW WoitIt end Woman -power." in 1T63. ---(Nee of the Hent business cisarge of Mrs. John Cameron. war measures of Governor Murrey and him iiad by Mrs. Wallace -Miller mrd was (•,moll In the 1lyltish regime wax the ♦try inlerenting. Several Ronan were pnmstug of an ordinance on tankrupt- •ung. .%n at-home will be held Fri- ey. This Rubjer•t has RInCP been the day everting. .Iareh-Qlh. tense of much legislation. Mr. McFarlane .has returned to his ;se of ty a R a ordon ruled Em- Pow...d to represent, and now that they find that the farmers of OntarO------- -- c --"Drily by hNefnational meter w 111 iwcs:#aehltNSun refl natflonal prior iwR ):. eliinnre they (If The Nun refiectty _..J. (tamssy Stacl)orrnlel. their,) would like to 'regain their In. oependcnt footing rind at the )tame time blame sometrotly cine -for .their tiftwever, the important thing is that the everntive now realizes that it is on the, wrong trek anti would like to'get back to a mate posi. mond- _ t+t�rtty " CHItER 1•P, CH1i1.1.('`l (liter up, ehiiiiin. tiy' the weather's lath ne was Int-or- E%elrY - time dar conies a freeze. dar'a panted as it town, anti on this day in cotter come a thaw Iii32 it celebrated Its Jubilee. In the It fattest ft little patience till de freer'''. c.irly days. It had been a trading pont ' time in done, proclamation tier, any commercial Intercouree with the United States was forbidden. I eid-age penslobs, highway construction when Premier Henry. replying to a quemtion by D. M. Roes (Proc., North Oxford). said the coat ter the Pro - since of 'vending in 'soldiers had not yet been awertained. since the Domin- 'on Depsrtment of Militia and Defence aad not yet ient in its bill. wan something to -.13 csiffied."--iMary Pickford. -Whet is the sense of grosvling be- cause your busanerm is not hitting the roof. Be thankful it in off the floor!" __Roger W. Babson. 4 How Taxation Is Multiplied in this Province of Ontario Premier lienry in presenting the in the form ot,...ute hisaraoca..for his wife and children contributem to the last week chinned that all the Pro- erivveernyne osef ntht::ilittPnrgovaintti ere. insurcaln°ecell Prerincial budget in the Legislature %intent Government took frcvm the ttoliee. tallying a railway ticket. doing prolate of the Province in direct taxa- tatiodnens %vela a bank, mending or re than laat year Ives a want $3.(100.000. telvIng a telephone message, or buying light or power from a ras or electric -out of $51,000,000," he declared, "less •ompany. Practically every incorpor- than 6,4.14101.000 can be salted direct teed company In Ontario contributes taxation. The municipalities are to the corporationa tax. The purchas rr of thin Issue of The Globe doe"; not (idled on to pay $1.210.000 toward serape Ills mite. The corporations tate is correctly described on page 20 of methene allowance., $450,000 toward the Public Accounts' am a tax. It $7,506,000 last year, and only corporations would in any honest une of the phrane be called a luxury tax. The payment of $1.254.000 gay life in- suspengion bridge across the gorge on emu, azur,r000, and care of pa- ls:Z.-Traffic wax opened over the 1929. -Premier Brownlee of Alberta That is all the direct taxation we can (aria -hone day, On the groimd tint -Tim Toronto •Globe makes„ the fol - Bents in mental honpitale $160,000. the Niagara River. reftleet tO intrimwee legielation for an be held accountable for." "' This alreitaIniret'41Otiliptivoaatu 1784.-Joneph Jordan. a fur trader, x at Inn" must hare P purchased the seigniory of Terretionne. %1 0 n41 er I g whether the Premier In MA (111 his death this historic property financial thinking 1A "SUM," or Just •.Pli to Senior McTavish. muddled. Any wayfaring man. (holies a fool, Pala become meivisi of the fact tl at indirect taxation will empty the inspayer'n poeket Pint as speedily and (ffectively as direct- taxation. What Slr. lienry Is trying to may is that he Sorg' not do the hulk of his Own. tax blame for the rough stuff. The Pro- vincial Trestattry nnly gots Rs share afterward in quiet, unobtrunive Way. And thle hose It gets aOMP of the money Mr. Henry *aye revenue, hut sot taxation. It got e2.941.000 sear from the Dominion Government rA • "anhaidy." Anti schen, did the Isominion Government get the money to pity the aninddy? From Income tHIPIC enablers tamest, sale* taxes. stamp fazes. se it to tote that every taxation - to &NUM taxation If int yorted„01, 21:wothat Mr. Henry Wald ilicervm dollars et revenue that was not ^favetinn" front Ottawa. No tallowy tax *bent Gast Practically everything toola over the etatinter of every great or Gills store in Canada paid a tax. of which the Treasurer nt Ontario wart one nf the ultimate receivers. Rat that la nal" hewinning Every oldies of Ontario trying to 11111V0 money ard later wit* an important naval and An if you lose yen, temee,„, why, it military demg. ZDI'rORIAL NOTES 'on de movi•.- the route tor .tbe Orand Trunk Puente When de hack apPeata de hardest, 11 litailwaY• Ctld wave an' warm wave, dey got - ter mitil de law, - Every time 34111 get. a freeze, yoh trotter have a thaw. Cheer nfo, chilltm, 110' pretwire to say th, propordtion by an' by is boon' lo thaw. Yoh. hope., dee keepa a drops/he- don't yoh let it make colt frown, .. tette-4W" , toti-inteake _ rt of surveyors cheer tip, StaillT111,---$Iree de weather's- left. Montreal for the West to lay out Aro pa y PaprIng. like prcanperity. 14 Just "Ord SannrOC our most 0401111 Mi- asma Iffie Man who nprinklen nand on ring bilingual 'money for Canada. lestfuor tate rasa win be won aa its foci again lin the pentiebor halre champ OM* WNW ar • oho ly 'Might as well. Wa all has our troubles, an' dar's nothin' new to tell Each botheration seems shout the worat yob ever saw, But every time yob eta a tree* Tors otter hien It thew DONNYBROOK 1' S. held regular meeting on Fri- day night in the liniment of the thurch. President John A. Thomp- son presaided. The lesson was read by Donald Thommon. after which rillitei. *gained "The SPW Canadian," were sbown. Dr. Ifortimore then rang two Chinerie mongol which were much ap- Wow Verna l'hamner }eft on Weds araelay for Stratford to eommenee her nurse's' training retiree. Several from here attended the donee at John R Thompaon's on Thnmelay The young pongee of this cottons- oe, It ntansietinfit' /Vance companies was not a spectrin ()Mario by e poor n segregate than the well-th-do. Astoria and Richmond Shoes for Men Ever), pure taper of a pair of Astoria or Richmond Shoes or Oxfords Is sure of getting a full measure of each of the qualltle's that go to make up a good Shoe. Full measure of style because each pair of Oxfords 1a made on an up-to-date modish last. • Full measure of service because they are made from the finest selected leather. -full measure of comfort because Astoria and Richmond Shoes a)�fcade In �d1Rj Shapes and on wise principles. P .E *ENTS FOR OODERICH GeMaViceur THE PRikerISAL SHOK MAI - Nor* Side of •Square • Qoder'toh oar 'Coal! Coal! Try our Alberta Coal frour-tbe Foothills in Alberta, which has StrOWNIllarborietif WOliderfUl Coal. Order some anti text it and you will burn no other. We also carry a full line of Anthracite, Poothontas, Steam Coal and Coke. For Plumbing, Heating, Tinsmithing, Shelf and Heavy Hardware, give us a call. All work promptly attended W and fully guaranteed. CHAS. C. LEE Pbones-Store 22; House 112 The Hardware Stare at the Barbee There is haidly any imminent+ or "lo- cate nativity the Government of On - islet) aloes not tax. Over 72n.mo tram mild last year to the Deportment of ns teen for the regletration and x *initiation of natriteasin-t raining. Miners paid $42.353 for Ileennem; trap - ;ere 727,900; motor Car chauffeur*. SON").140: real rotate brokers and snleInnen. $10,431; fur farmern, $41,417; guides, $5,4ffie said go .hfi-. tixes. 'They were paid en that the pennon's retying them could earn their living without running font of Pro- vincial laws. .The cumulative effect of thin piling of tax *RN Roomed up In of the Goodyear Company tn the atock- Solders of that corporatInn. IIP said: "In onr own ProvInee of Ontario be- tween the years 1904 and 1931 there has been an literature in tesetion of effigozieWely 20190....mag cent., while the powittelion has increased leas than 75 per cent. "Hot not direct taeation, me dear rer ' start this amazing Prepler- "not 0 feet Which leads lot of peoph. art the tioncluilos that the Premier is mueh more "indireei" than the taxes he plies 11•0111 ontorio with bleed in- differenee WHEN you think of a friend far away... and you haven't seen him (or maybe, her) for weeks . . . and you don't like writing lettsers Have a visit by Long Distance ... Ws the next best thing to being together •For friendly chat or emergency call.the dependable Long Distance telephone tit' your service; your 'messenger at trif- ling cost; easy a pleasant to roc Yon can talk 100 miles or so for las little os Soo list of rotes in the frost of your &rectory.