HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1928-02-23, Page 3A Il : OSPEROUS CANADA
PERMITS , REDUCED 'BUDGET
Fifty,five of Gain is National Surplus, ,Thirty-nine
Million of Our Debts Paid and Nineteen F
Million Reduction in Taxes
A COMMENDABLE RECORD
A national—belated but neverthe-
less welcome—Christmashresent was
handed -the ratepayers of Canada, in
.the -fifth Budget of the Hon. James
'Robb, made public, in Ottawa,
Thursday, February 15th, In shoat,
the chief items of interest are as fol-
.
lonvs: ;
Tax Reductions
Income tax -Ten per cent, reduc-
tion impersonal. -
Dorporation income tax—reduced r 8
per cent.
Sales tax=reduced'from.4 to 8 per
cent,
Tariff _Changes
,Cottons—The maximum rate under
the general tariff is reduced, with one
exception, from 37% to 30 per -cent.
Duties on coarse yarns are lowered,
but a 15 per cent. general tariff duty
is imposed for the first' time on yarns
of 40's count and finer, except mercer-
ized' yarns, which remain free under
the British preference.. -
Meterial reductions in a large range
of household cottons. •
British preference widened.
Woollens --Duties reduced on wool-
len ,and worsted fabrics imported for
dyeing and -finishing, and on many
lighter weights of such fabrics im-
ported in finished, condition.
Rates on ,!nutted underwear and
woollen socks and stockings to be ad -
tested so that more expensive lines
pay higher rates, while lines more
2ontn drily in demand will be reduced.
Yawns': for weaving are'•ifsade free.
Textile machinery made free under
the British preference.
Linen--Britisb preference rates on
finer grades reduced.
'Mining machinery—Reductions- in
duties are made on many items to help
the Mining industry.
Press and atereotypers'blankets are
to be free under the 33.P. and greatly,
educed under the general tariff.
Drawback of 80 per; cent. of duty -�
is to be• granted on certain papers
used in the production of inagaaines.
Aluminurn net floats` are free; and
Parts ' of engines for fishermen's boats
are reduced.
Non-alcoholic disinfectants Made'
free.
Drawback • of 60,- per cant to ,be
allowed on materials used in making
acro engines.
Certain crude petroleum not in its
natural state, for refining, to be ad -
mated free. until July 1, 1931.
Drawback of G0 per cent. to be al-
lowed on materials used in the, manu-
facture of tools when 50 per cent. of
production cost is incurred in Canada.•
An increase from 25 to 50 per cent
in the percentage oflabor and ma-
terial ,which must enter into Empire,
goods to secure for then; British pre-
ferential rales.
Financial Statement
Estimated total revenue for present
fiseal Year, $419,480,000.
Estimated total expenditure, 3364,-
665,000:
364;665,000.
Estimated surplus, $54,815,000,'
In five-year pe 'od endingNiarcli 31,
1928, total -'debt reduction will be
$144,700;000.
Deijt refunding operations:. in the
present fiscal year have enabled the
dovernnient to effect .annual interest!
savings' of 33,607,300.-
Estimated
3,607,300."Estimated net debtreduction this
year of $38,815;000.
Total estimated revenues this year
show. an increas"e over last year of
319,024520.
Total estimated expenditures show
an increase over last! year of $9,-
'030,312.
9;'030;12.
Trade for the first nine months of
this fiscal year shows: Imports, W3,-
054,606,
$23;054,600, an increase of $56;000,000;
exports, $970,154,900, a decrease of
$28,000,000.:
Favorable trade balance for nine
nonths, $147,1O0s000.
Research List'
Tabled in House
Canadian Coinmons ,In formed
of Work Undertaken by
Council
Ottawa.—Following the Govern-
ment's recent announcement of ,its in-
tention to spend the sum of $3,000,000
upon Iaboratories for the Council of
National Research, the House of Cour
Mons was furnished recently with a
list of the investigations Which' the
Research Council is at present con-
ducting. While somewhat lengthy in
its entirety, it specified the following
nine national •problems as being at
present the subject of research:
11 The use of Canadian iron ores. '
2,' Cereal -grain rust.
3. Tuberculosis in man and animals.
4, Reforestation problems, with
, 'specific respect to New Brunswick.
8. Best methods of obtaining 'acour-,
ate results in testing varieties, strains
and yields of gain, •
0. Problems of the grain industry.
7. Heating and insulation of build-
lugs.
• , 3. Storage of fruit in ;warehouses.
9. Utilization of Canadian ntagues
1n additien to the above investiga-'
twits by committees of the Council
itself, important researches are being
carried on into upwards of 100 indus-
trial and scientific problems, by the
aid of funds granted by the Council,
principally through universities. Per-
haps the three subjects of greatest
. economic and general, interest which
ane being studied are: '
1. The offeet of light -on life pro=
•
et?scs•
2. The effect of violet rays upon lay-
ing hens, -
3. \leans of improving the quality
of maple syrup, and sugar.
Paris Police Dine Free
The'Paris policeman's polyglot lite
Is decidedly a happy one. The clues•
tion ire is roost .frequently asked is
where real' French cooking can be.
sampled at moderate cost His re
i les are'generaily se satisfactory that
the inquirer often comes tack and in-
wi:tee him to dinner:. _
•
$911,000 ' Voted
For Agriculture
Ottawa. ,Tile House of Commons
has approved- expenditures for the
Dept. of Agriculture totalling 3011,-
000. The individual items in this total
were: Dairying, including a -grant of
$5,000 to the National Dairy' Council,
$26"•
0,000; cold storage warehouses,
330,000; fruit, including .a grant of
$8,000 to -the Canadian horticultural
Council; $241,000; seed, feedand fer-
tilizers • control, including a grant to
seed fairs, 3375,000.
To investigate all phases of the to-
bacco industry Hon. W. R, blether -
well, Minister of Agriculture, has ap-
pointed a commissien, E. P. Tellier,
fernier znetnber of the Ontario Legis-
lature. for North Essex and H. J.
-Archibald, Wallaceburg. A- third mem-
ber will be a -tobacco expert from the
Dept. of Agriculture.
Gales Studied
From Greenland
•
Storms over the Atlantic are' now
Iron forecast with a high degree of aecur-
acy _frr a meteorological station set
up on 'a mountain in Greenland ba the
second Greenland expedition ofp,thc
University :• of 1•Iiehigan -during' the
summer season of 1927 and headed by
Professor William Herbert Hobbs of
that university.
•Six great storms which have swept
the Atlantic, this continent' and Eur-
ope since last July, have been studied'
by the -observers established in Green-
land. In each case they observed the
storms two days before they broke en
the Atlantic Coast. The outside world
can be informed of coming storms by
means.of a slror wa6e radio station
already' established 'there. The Un-
ited States Weather Bureau is keenly
interested in the work and is supply-
ing instruments and funds in order to
carry On the work. ' •
There's no excuse now -a -days for a
follow who doesn't see a good „deal
of his girl.
Last year was a record bele for
visitors to the London Zoo; 2,155,203
people passed the turnstiles.
The Late Earl of Oxford and As(g lith
1 IUBBllllllll1111'
11111111 tlflt
fid..,-"-;'.
lllilllilllillll
>, I
BP!TAIN'S,DISTINGUISHED STATESMAN AND SCHOLAR PASSES
The Rt. Hon. Herbert Asquith will long live in the memory of the British
people as a great statesman and a thbrougih' English gentleman. The two
photos above show him in mufti and also fn a ceremonial naval uniform.
Japanese Warship
Captured Pirates
Fellow's First Piracy on North
Coast for Two Years
Shanghai—Tire first :piracy on: the
north coast of China :m two_ years
brought forth two Japanese war_ Draft
to. recapture Japanese .merchantmen
from the pirates.-
The Japanese steaamer'Hirao Meru
out ,bound from Shaugb et encounter-
ed a steamer flying a Japanese'. flag
accompanied' by a Chinese junk near
Haichow. The junk approached tate
Hiraco Baru and as it neared the ship
it was seen the junk was filled .with
U.S.- Will Build
Ottawa Embassy
To Spend Half Million on
Home for Minister
Ottawa•—A residence for the 'Un-
ited States minister to Ottawa, cost-
ing approximately. $500,000, will -.be
erected in Rociccliffe Park near the
official residence of,:the Governor-
General, according to a- newspage
story in the Evening ;Citizen.
The sitesaid by the paper_to have
been selected for the proposed struc-
ture is situated ori a knoll on which
at present rests the "Royal Shanty"
created by the Tate Senator•.Edwards.
e The "shanty" was the'' scene of the
o •aonator-lumberman's reception to the
o present Icing, when, as Duke of York,
he:visited Canada's capital in 1901.
The site was recently visited and'
e-, approved' as. the location for the Un-
dated States residence by Tion. Wm.
',Philips, the American .minister to Ot-
Itawa,.the paper declares. , It is said
the structure would be the official
- Eresodence of the' Washington represen-
ltative, while the legation offices would
remain as at present, situated in an
pirates. . The pirates fired on th
Japanese steamship, •' wounding th
Japanese-eaptala and killing on
's'sailor.The Hirao Mara finally escaped and
arrived at Tsing. Tao. The Japanes
destroyerestroyer Tsubalci and the Millionuilioa
Tsushima, started on the AranAranof the
Pirates, It was reported by wireless
recently that' the Tsubaki recaptureti
the ,,liip from the pirates near Hai
chow . after severe -fighting. The
Japanese.steatnship was identified -as
tiro 'Haitsu mars., It was presumed
here that the yessei liad been seized
by the priates, ' The fate of the ship's
crew was not reported, -
'Previously " the Japanese ' steamer
Zuilio 1llaru reported passing a steam
ship 'flying a Japanese flag and a Junk
The steamship' !Foisted the Chinese
version of"tbe "Jolly Reber," which
is not described in the reports.
Canada's Choice
Quebec Soleil (Lib,): The clevelop-
ment of our resources will be accom-
plished by using all the British mar-
kets, by all other foreign males and
especially by the market of the Uni•
tett States, which is, it seems to us,
the+nearest and. the most advantage-
ous. • From ho point of view of econ-
omics, Canada serves the universe by
her comjnerce; but no country offers
her•duelt opportunities as this neigh-
boring emtntry, which counts 120,000;
000 mouths to feed and which is not
oven separated from iter by a frontier.
'Nothing can overcome 'this natural
and •geographical foot.
office building near Parliament Hill.
•
•
De Valera Sails
t,. I'o Return Home
•
• "QUEBEC PATOIS"
:Le Devoir (Ind.): The •legend. of
"Quebec Patois" comes -from Toronto,
where "Parisian, French" fiourislres,
and has gor)is the round of Canada. If
we are not7? very careful, and do not
cheek it now, it will end by going the
round of the world. Indeed it often
happens that foreigners, even. our
:own cousins from France,, animated
doubtless with the best Intentions,
hawk the legend about, . , . Yt has the
greatest tenacity. We mast be con-
stantly on the lookout to contradict
it.
"Do you beiieve.. in the power of
prayer?" "1 would if 'you'd' gone
home an hour ago."
Irish Republican Leader Con-
cludes Visit to United
States
New York—Eamona de Valera,
Irish Republican .leader, sailed for
Ireland on the Leviathan: Feb. 11, after
an extended visit to the United States
in the interest of a newspaper be pro-
Iposes to .establish in Dublin.
"Committees have .lieen formed
from the AtlalOtie to the Pacific," he
said,. "to aid in the effort to. obtain
.funds to have the $500,000 ,we need."
' Ole declined to discuss the visit to
this country of President Cosgrave.
Asked a -bother he did not believe the
visits of himself and lir. Cosgrave
would serve to give the United States
a' clearer, opinion QF Ireland's prob-
l,nis, he said: •
"I,have said no such thing. Itis
not my; opinion,"
Heis returning to take the helm of
the Irish Republican party, be said,
-convinced that in the next •elections,
which aro due in five years if the
Present Government does not.resign,
the 'Republican party will enter the
Dail in majority numbers,'
"I see," said mother, reading the
evening paper, "that they are asking
for more duty to be put on silk stock.
hugs," "Put more, duty on them!" ex-
claimed the old main. "tivha.t else cloy
they expect 'em to do? Why, they
make their stockings coves' halt their
bodies, as it is."
Victim of the Sea
�"wa�`t •F?'�C�l
A SEA SAGA REFLECTING CREDIT TO CANADA
A,derelict:e•„ " `
The sclroouor itilayet�e after it bad been abanciouecl prytau its trey- was rescued by the Cauacltals Pathfinder" in a manner which
qugh.t fortis great praise:
(Earl of Oxford
HEL
Dies in England After a most auspicious
War rinse Premier . Passe
After Severe Illness--
Family
llness•Family Was With
Hi1ri-
WAS SEVENTY SIX
London:—The Earl of Oxford an
Asquith died on Wednesday mornin
last at his country home; the Whar
Sutton Courtenay. Berkshire, He wa
in his siventy-sixth year.
Members of his fatimily,`jnelpoln
Lady Oxford, better known as Margot'
Asquith and their daughter, 'the, 'morin=.
cess Bibeseo were with the former
Premier when he died.
When the Earl was suddenly,"taken
ill he seemed to feel that his end ryas
approaching and expressed the wish
that all his family should' come to loin
as soon as possible. Sir Maurice and
Lady Bonham -Carter joined the other
relatives at the bedside. Sir :Maurice
served his father-in-law as secretary
for six years.
For some time, "l eginning after his
retirement from active politics in
1926, Lord• Oxford had been ]n :'Ill
health. Throughout the country,
great sympathy is expressed for the
dead man was one of the great figures
in British political life of the last
decades.
Ho first entered the Cabinet more
than thirty-five years ago; for eight'
years, two of them war years, he was
Prime Minister of England, and for.
several years he was joint leader w:rh
David Lloyd George of the Liberal
party, now sunk to: third rank in Brit-
ish political life. •
The heir to his Earidopr is Julian,
V!rouna Asquith, fourteen -year-old
son of _the former Premier's oldest
son, Raymow,' Asquith, who was an
officer in the grenadier ,Guards, `when
he Was killed at the battle of the
Sonnne.. •
brightened by the cheery; c
s the bedeckings of 'Ontario's
and the new curtains on the a
room windows, the Legisia't
doyen to badness on Friday i
Joseph P, Earngey, Keno].
her, sounded' "the call of the
and Horace S. Colliver, Pri
ward: representative,- mcsved',
cl onded- the Speech from the
g clearing the way Tor, real bur
f, • Tuesday, 14th.
s Mr. ` Earngey $a w- newsp:
who talks as, well, Ile : lou
g message straight at the hear
lontario.
"We in the North," said he
pity you for your lack of kn
Come and visit tis, Spend tv
in -the North, and whet -i you cc
here you will be better equi
give relative opinions on: th+
and the South, ` It has been s
we Northerners come down he
ing for money—always'wantir.
tiling, •0f course! But wo al
down'. and offer opportunities
People. It is false to say that
always getting something, Mu
nothing in •return."
After Mr. Colliver spoke the
Leader,' 'William 'E. N. Sinal
journed the.debate until Tues(
MONDAY 13TH-
Inquiry into. Hollinger Mine
promised by Premier. ' Later :7
E. Godson was announced as in
of the investigation, with Peter
IC.C., as the Government legs
sentative.
A 'bill to amend the Success
ties Act, and • providing for. thr
changes, was •introduced -by Pr
Treasurer Monteith.
Dr. Monteith Also introduce
to amend' the Mothers' Allowan
the change providing that twc
re:ridlence in Ontario, instead -
'years in Canada, be the requi
A bill to amend the Public'
Act wa0''also •introduced by ti
vincial Treasurer.• The object
is to grant power to municipal
over 1.00,000 population to chs
to capital account all expenses
sary to hte preliminary invest
(such as sanitary ezigineea;la;
-that precedes a large const
program, such as sewage plc
The idea is to make possible
thorough investigation the
:janitation and public health.
Plane Endangers
Wolfe Monument
Aviator Loses Direction in
Mist and -Nearly Hits
Pillar •
Quebec.—The famous Wolfe monu-
ment on Battlefields Park came very
near to' being damaged 'when an air-
plane, after groping around in the
mist for a-landing'place on the park,
crashed into the higher part of the
massive wlllovt' tree which stands close
to -the monument.: The plane,, used by
the Canadian. Trans -Continental Air-
ways, was headed for the north shore.
There -was a heavy mist and the pilot,
Duke Schiller, had to choose hisland-
ing place by the Chateau St. Louis.
After flying over the building at a low
Iltitude; the 'plane circled the +park
a few times, the pilot apparently be-
ing still unable to mike mut the open
space to the west of the 'monument,
Finally, the machine descended until
it was level with the tops of the high-
er trees find one of the sings caught
in • the branches' of the willow tree,
which stands neer the Wolfe monu-
ment. Although the piloewas forced
to land ho cleared the monument. The
machine itself suffered little damage.
The canvas of one wing was torn
and. the' fuselage damaged, but Pilot
Schiller was able to fly, his airplane
to Murray Bay. •
Silesian Miner
Amazes Doctors
Daggers Thrust Into Body
y
Without. Producing Pain
or Blood
Henna—Pliuicdreds of physicians
gathered recently at headquarters of
the Austt4an Society for'Psycthic Re -
'search and -watched in amazement: as
Paul Diebel, 30 -year-old Silesian min-
er, had, witnesses said, tlaggers,-nails
imd knives thrust into his body with-
out evincing indication of pain or' pro-
ducing a now of blood.
.The spectators included many wo-
mon, Solve o,f whom -leaned' forward
with •opera glasses to catch -a better.
view of the miner as he was pierced
by his self-inflicted wounds, Others
fainted at the sight.
This was -the, first time a group of.
qualified science: men bad witnessed
his astounding exhibition. They pro-
uonneed''.i$ genuine.
•pigbel' began Itis performance by
thrtisting- a dagger through his fore-
arm so that the instrument -protruded
on the other side: IIe showed his
arra around' he` room before he with'!:
drew the dagger. • I'fot once did lie
wince tsnd be'did not shed a drop- of.
blood.
The miner, next "by concentration
.00
will power" caused drops of blood
to trickle through, ' the wall of his
stomach, following -with oxptaision of.
blood from the. knee:
Iljs
most dramatic -act was fo make
al large moss In blood' appear: on_lris
back, The blood .being forced La the
surface apparently by uncanny oxer,
else ofwill power.
Diebel concluded his exhibition by,
allc•viing 'one of the spectators to
shoot ni large metal bolt into, liis
chest by- means of a catapult. Ho
i11
:iroe}si hcoawlmolyf pwaiithn darew ptheem1it(t4sei!10prhlslii-
clans to examine the•bloodless wound
,produced,'
Imports and Exports
La Presse (Ind,): (Exports froiin
Canadahave decreased, while im-
ports have :increased.) The necessity
of hnporting into the country arises
directly from our need •to export our
own products, The problem 0011-
sisis, fcoan the national point of view,
not in reducing the: number et' our im-
portations, but hi the exercise 01ado-
h1s omit° judgment in the choice of these
imports so that they will 'serve the
,needs of our national production.
AMENDING OTHER -AC'
Bills to amend the Muni
Act, the Local Improvement
the Bulk Sales Act were int
by Attorney -General Price. Tl
is to provide for the paying o:
est in compensation proeeedim
second' is to allow a corpora
assume more of the cost of ai
titular work than. 10 ordinarily
where a •general by-law has e
passed, applying to world of -
character.
Under the suggested amend
corporation might, in the case
old • Provincial highway r
through the community, assum
of the cost that would be fi
abutting land•'
The proposed' change in th
Sales Act ie to give a Junior
as well as a •Senior Judge, the:
appoint a trustee if the vend
not appointed one.
Ilon. William .i'inla•,fson brut
a bill to provide the necessary'
tion in regard to Ontario's pari
power development' on the l
River.- His bill is entitled: ".
respecting the Lac Soul stomp
Frank W. Wilson (Con., Wi
tried to introduce hie "Beer
glass" motion but was ruled
order."
TUESDAY, FEB. 14TH—
This day saw real fireworks.
W. E. Sinclair, Liberal Leader,
his "wandering bullots"' aensati
terminated the best speech the
Itas ever heard him make w.
amendment to the Address wir
effect; will place the members t
ord as to whether or not the G
mitt has been guilty of neglect
failure to legislate this sessic
old -age pensions.
CRITICISM ALL ALONG
Mr. Sinclair clubbed the Fel
Administration., and from ever
ceivable angle. Not only did he
his ,warfare to Mr. Ferguson an
ions departmental, activities
Government, but to subordinate
without the Queen's Park eolith
this connection "Strong Man" I
Honouring
ROYAL PRINCES A
Tie Prince of Wales, Duke
graphed as they "folloWed flail