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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1937-08-26, Page 7THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1937. THE SEAFORTH NEWS 1 1 Da 1;rf !kale onthlv Statements We Mtn save you money on 'Bi'll and Charge Forms, standard sizes to fit ledgers, white or colors, , It will pay you to see our samples. Also 'hest quality Metal ,Hinged Sec- tional 'Pont Binders and 'Index. e S aforth News Pho nee 84 1 1 THE CANADA YEAR BOOK 1937 The pulblication of the 119!3V edition of the Canada Year Book, published by authorization of the Hon. W. D. Euler, .M'ini'ster of Trade and Com- merce, is announced by ;the Domin- ion Bureau of S'tatis'tics. The Canada Year Book is the official statistical annual of the country and contains a thoroughly up-to-date account of the natural ,resources of the D'omin'ion and their development, the history of the country its institutions its demogra- phy, the different branches of pro- duction, trade, transportation, .finance, education , etc. -=in brief, a compre- hensive study within the limits of a single volume of the socias and econ- omic condition of the Dominion. This new edition has been thoroughly re- vised throughout and includes in all its chapters the latest information av- ailable up to the date of going to press. The 1907 Canada Year Book ex- tends to :over 1',140 pages, dealing with all phases of the national life and more ,especially with those susceptible of statistical measurement. A statis- tical summary of the progress of Ca - .nada is included in the introductory matter. This gives a picture in figures of the remarkable progress which the country has made since the first cen- sus of the Dominion was taken in Alin sixty-six years ago. Attention may be called to some ,of the more important features of the re- cent voldme. Chapter 1, treating of the physio- graphy of the country, has been al- most entirely re -written and a spec- ial section on Economic Geology, pre- pared by F. J. Alcock, Ph.D., Mines and Geology Branch, Department of Mines and Resources, is included. The regular section on !Geology, which will be revised in the near future, has been omitted this year. A special ar- ticle, "Faunas of Canada", prepared for the Year Book by R. M. Ander- son. Ph.D., Chief of the Division of Bidlogy of the National Museum of Canada, appears on pages 29, to 512, The results of the Quinquennial Cen- bus •of 119631 are included with the treatment of Population in Chapter V, and a special section on "Occupa- tions of the Ca'nad'ian 'People" rounds out the treatment of data from the ,119631 Census which appeared mainly in the 11314'-1315 Year Book hut was sup- plemented by later material in the 19I3Ki Year Boole Agricultural s'tatis ties of the Quinquennial Census are given in Chapter VIIIr--rApricul'ture which also includes a short article on "Agricultural .P;rogress in Canada and the Dominion ''Experimental Farms Sy", Rsteme-osganiza'tion of the work of sev- eral Departments of the D'om'inion Civil Service in ;19.36, under the new Departments of Tra'n'sport and of Mines and Resources, has provided ati opportunity to ,revise and recast the statistics concerned with 'these phases of adntinistraltion. The necessity for maintaining statistical continuity with the past nt'akes diffieuit such whdle- sale recasting. Ln the present instance statistical series have, in ceeltaia cases, been delfinitely broken and a new de- parture was unavoidable, hut, as far as possible, continuity has been niale- tajned in the changes that have been made. Chapter XVII II - Transporta- tion and Communications -for in- stance, has 'been entirely recast and it is felt that the treatment now gives a clearer picture of the relationships of the different services involved. A section- on 'The Press" is included at the close of the cheater. In the Public Finance Chapter, an attempt has been made on pp, 8'11- 8117, to give, in condensed tabular forint, a summary of the Dominion Government 'Tax S stem as f J 1 y o u y, 19'316. The impontant section of Sub- sidies and Loans to the !Provinces, has also been expanded. The operations of the Bank of Ca- nada are now esta'bl'ished in the finan- cial system of the country and it has therefore been considered advisalble this year to recast Oh'apter XXPI- Currency and Banking. Adijustmen'ts will, no doubt, be necessary from time to time but it is felt 'that the main features of the new outline will serve for some time to come. A special ar- ticle on "The Batvk of Canada and Pts Relationship to the Canadian ancial System" appears on pages BBl to 5. This should eon:tribute to a clear understanding of the position and functions of the Beak on the part of the general public. .A list of special articles appearing in the past editions from the year 1119118 to 1'9.315 will he found at page vi immediately preceding the map of Canada, !The accessi9ss of King ,George VT FRIENDS fr We are combining our newspaper with these two great magazine offers, so that you can realize a remarkable cash sav- ing on this year's reading. 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By a special concession, a limited number of paper -bound copies have been set aside for .ministers of religion, bona .fide students and sohool teachers, who may obtain copies et the nominal price of 4S0 cents each, -AND SUDDEN DEATH (Continued from Page Three.) out stepped the driver with only a stretch on his cheek. 'Bust' his another was still inside, a sp'llnter ofwood from the 'top driven (four inches into her brain as a result of a son's taking a greasy curve a little too •fast. Nio blood -no •bones -horribly twisted - just a gray-haired corpse still .clutch - lag her pocketbook in here lap -as .she had clutched it when she felt the car leave the 'road. PI you customarily pass without clear vision a •lona• way ahead, make sure that every member of the party carries identification papers -it's dif- ficult to identify a body that has its whole face bashed lit or tern pfa The driver is death's favorite target. 11 the steering wheel holds together it ruptures bit liver or spleen so 'he bleeds to death internally. Or, if the steering wheel breaks off, the matter is settled instantly by the steering column's plunging through his abdo- men. By eso means do all head-on colli- sions occur at curves, The modern death-trap is likely to be a straight stretch with three 'lan'es of traffic. /This sudden vision of broad straight road tempts many an ordinarily sens- ible driver into passing the man ahead. Simultaneously a driver com- ing the other way swings out at high speed. At the last moment each tries to get into line again, ,but the gaps are closed. As the cars in ;the line are forced into the ditch to .capsize or crash fences, the passers .meet, al- most head on, in a swirling, grinding smash that sends them caroming ob- liquely into the others. A highway patrolman describes such an accident -five: care in one mess, seven '!tilled on the spot, twx died on the way to the hospital, tw, more dead in the long run, :He re- membered it far more vividly than 'he wanted to -the quick way the •doctor turned away from a dead than tet check un on a woman with a .broken back; the three bodies out of one car so soaked with aril from the crank- case that they looked like wet .crown cigars and not human at all; a man; walked around and .babbling to 'hint eelf, oblivious of the dead and dying, even oblivious sof the dagger -like sliv- er of steel that "stuck out of his streaming wrist; a ;pretty girl with her forehead laid open, trying hope- lessly ,tn crawl out of a ditch in spite of 'her smashed hip. A first-class massacre of that .sort is only a question of scale and numbers -seven corpses are no deader than one. 'Each shattered man, woman or child who went to make tip the 5164 corpses chalked up in ;Ontario last year had to die a personal death, Overturning cars specialize in cer- tain injuries. Cracked pelvis, for in- stance, gel aro rat e ei n g agonizing months in bed, motionless, perhaps crippled for life -.broken spine -result- ing from sheer sidewise twist -the minor details of smashed knees and splintered shoulder blades •caused by crashing; into the side of the car as she goes over with the swirl of an in- sane Taller coaster -and the lethal consequence's of 'broken ribs, which puncture hearts and lungs with their raw ends. The consequent internal hemorrhage is no less dangerous be- cause it is the pleural instead of the abdominal cavity that is filled with blood. Flying glass -safety glass is by no means universal yet - contr'ibu'tes mach .more ' than its share to the spec- ta'cular side of accidents. It doesn't merely ,stat -the Fragments are driven in as if a cannon loaded, with 'broken bottles had been ifrea in your face, and a sliver in the eye, traveling with such force, means certain blindness. lA leg or arm stuck through the wind- shield will cut clean to the ;bone through vein, artery and musole 'like a piece of ;beef under a butcher's knife, and it takes little amount of time to lose a fatal amount of tblooal under such ,circumstances. Even safe- ty glass may not be wholly safe when the car crashes something at 'high speed. You hear picturesque tales of haw 't Eying hunttn 'bxly will snake a neat hale in the stuff with its head -;the shoulders stick -rhe glass halls -slid rhe 'raw keenedge of the hole decapitates the body as neatly as a guillotine. But all that is .routine in ally com- munity. To be remembered individu- ally by the doctors and policemen, you have to do something as grotes- que rotes-slnae as the lady vele) 'burst the wind- shield with her head, splashing splint- ers all over the other occupants of the car, and then, as the .car rolled ov- er, rolled 'with it down the edge of the windshield firame and cut her throat from. ear to ear, ;Or park on the pavement too near .a curve at night and stand in front of the tail light as you 'tate off the spare tiro awbich will immortalize you in somebody's mem- ory as 'the fellow who was mashed three 'feet broad and two inches thick by the impact of a heavy-duty bruok against the rear of his own ear, Or be as original as the pair of youths who were thrown out of an open roadster this spring -thrown clear- but each !broke aowindshield post with his head in passing and the whole top of each skull, dawn to the eyebrows, was missing. Or snap off a nine -inch tree and get yourself impaled by a ragged branch. It's had to (find a surviving accident victim who can hear to talk. After you came to, ehe gnawing, seaming pain throughout your body is ac- counted for by learning that you have both coilarAones smashed; both s'hou'lder blades splintered, your right ani broken in three places and three ribs cracked, with every chance of bad internal ruptures, But the pain can't distract you, as the shock begins to wear .off, from. realizing that you are probably on your way out. You can't forget :that, not even when they D. 9114 Mims eihirelprraCtmr Electro Therapist - iviassage Office - Commercial Hotel Hours --Mao, and Thurs. after nouns and by appointment FOOT CORRECTION by manipulation-1San-ray treat- ment Phone 2127. shift you from• the :ground to .the s•bretaher :and your broken ribs bite into your lungs and the sharp ends of your oaliar-bones slide over to stab deep into each side of your soreaming throat, When you've stop- ped screaming, it all comes 'back 'to yon -you're dying and you hate your- self foe it. That isn't fiction, either. it's what it actually ,feels like to the one of the 5416, And every time you pass on a blind curve, every time you hit it up on a slippery road, every time you drive with your reactions slowed. dawn by a drink or two, every time you follow the man ahead too close- ly, you're gambling a few seconds against Anis kind of ;blood and agony and sudden death. Take at look at yourself as elm man in the white jacket s'hakets his head over you, tells the boys with the sbretcher not to :bother and turns away to somebody else who, isn't quite dead yet. And 't'h'en take it easy. RO ` E SHOWS FIGHTING SPIRIT After watching trotting races at Sarnia, delivers telling attack on Hepburn. Sarnia, Aug, 18. -Peter Chilcoot, owned by the Honourable Earl Rowe, won the hearts of three thousand spectators at races held at Sarnia today. Earl Rowe captured the acclaim of three thousand residents of the riding of Lambton County when he addressed them this evening after having presided over the races at Sarnia this afternoon, fearlessly assailing the "short, wanton and tragic regime" of Hep- burn at Queen's Park, Rowe championed the cause of British justice and sportsman- ship, of which he had presided over such a fine exhibition. Mr. Rowe reviewed the broken promises of Mr. Hepburn, and showed how he had failed in every respect to live up to his word, "Mr. Hepburn promised at Kitchener,. June 11, 1034, and other places: '-I can and will cut down the costs of administra- tion fifty per cent.-'," said Mr, Rowe, "Mr, Hapburn said at Toronto, June 16, 1934: '-Every time you increase taxation you lower the purchasing power of the people and the standard of living-'', "How Mr. Hepburn cut administration costs fifty per cent, --How Mr. Hepburn 'de- creased' taxation and raised the purchasing power of the people and the standard of living may he seen by looking at the figures, Let us examine his record," said Mr. Rowe. "The Provincial expenditure in 1933 of the Conservative Government was fifty mil- IIon dollars. The Provincial expenditure in 1934-(0 months, Conservative; 3 months, Liberal government) was fifty million dol- lars, The Provincial expenditure in 1936 of the Liberal Government was sixty-seven million dollars, This shows an increase of seventeen million dollars in expenditure, "What taxes were collected by the Hep- burn Government? The taxes collected in P133 by the Conservative Government were arty -one million dollars. The taxes collect- ed id 1434 by the Conservatives and Liberals were fifty million dollars. The taxes esti- mated for 1037 by the Liberal Government were ninety-two trillion dollars. Here is an increase of forty-two million dollars since 1934. "Do you remember that Mr. Hepburn promised at Vankleek Hill, June 6, 1934, and other places. '-1 will peg the Provin- cial debt-'," said Mr, Rowe "How did Mr. Hepburn peg the debt? The total debt at the close of the fiscal gear in 1933, with a Conservative Government, was live hundred and eighteen million dollars. The total debt at the close of the fiscal year in 1934, with a Conservative and a Liberal Government was six hundred and forty-six million dollars. The total debt at the close of the fiscal year in laic, with a Liberal Government was six hundred and eighty million dollars. This shows an increase of thirty -Four million dollars, "Do you remember that Mr. Hepburn promised at Toronto, June 16, 1934; am out to get rid of the supernumary boards and commons-' 'What didissiMr, Hepburn do about ft? How did Mr. Hepburn get rid of super- numary boards and commissions He abol- ished none( He appointed one in 1034, one in 1937. He promised a racing commission in 1938, "Me. Hepburn thundered at Toronto, June 16,1934: '-I protest the `blank cheque' method of disbursing Northern Development funds, - Under my regime there, will be no such appropriation without submission of the details -to the legislature-', "When he came into power, what did Mr. Hepburn do? The Hepburn Government gave Hon. Peter Heenan a 'blank cheque' to disburse the following Northern Develop- ment funds: Between November 1,1934, and March 31, 1935, Mr. Hepburn spent ten mil- lion dollars; from April 1, 1935, to tldarch 31, 1936, Mr. Hepburn spent thirteen mil- lion dollars, He increased the grant by three million dollars in a year." Turning to the question of labour, Mr. Rowe said that Mr. Hepburn professed to be the friend of the working man. "You Will remember that. Mr, Hepburn promised at Gananoque, J ane 5 1934: '-that minimum Wage legielatima will be extended to men-', "After three sessions, the llepburn legis- lature pawed an Act making minimum wage legislation a possibility. Rut, in actutaiity, where d9 the workmen of Ontario stand 10- day? How many workmen in Ontario, August 1, 1037, are assured of minimum wages? Not one(' - "Iso you remember Mr, Hepburn's boast that he would insult the King, and close Government House? Mr. Hepburn said at Gananoque, June 5, 1934: '- 1 will close Government House at Toronto-'. "Never did a Prime Minister so burden a Lieutenant -Governor with work. Did he close Government House? How much did the Hepburn Legislature vote for the main= tenance of Government House until Drlartili 31, 1938 -Thirty-nine thousand dollaisl ' It is a damning indictment of the Liberal Gov- ernment," said Mr. Rowe, "Now, let us turn for a moment ter this much vaunted surplus that the Hepburn Government has •produced. They talk of a surplus of nine million dollars. It seems loco a masterly political effort, and would beim- pressive if we did not examine the income of the Hepburn Government. "In 1933, the Conservative regime col- lected fifty million dollars in revenue from the Province of Ontario -and showed a sur- plus of shout half a million. But in 19$6 Mr. Hepburn took eighty-two million :dol- lars out of the pockets of the taxpayers, That means that he increased your taxes by thirty- two million dollars. You will remember that he promised to reduce your taxes. Think of it -thirty-two million dollars more were adde;- s your burden of taxation: With thi.4 - excesstve sum added to his revenue,. is Wetly wonder that he showed a nine million dol- lar surplus?I only wonder that it was not more. This is the greatest increase in taxa- tion ever made by any government in Ontario. "It was your money -taken to promote the welfare of the Province,- And did be pay heed to the medical and health services' that the Conservative Government had given to the Province? :He did not, He curtailed expenditure, under the pretext of economy. What economy is it that cuts down the grants to Incurables, that curtails the grant to the sick and the insane?, That cuts down hospital grants for three years, but on the eve of an election decides•to look into the question again? In the name of humanity,, what sort of economy is it that allows insane asylums to be overcrowded -so that patients sleep m corridors? "Mr. Hepburn cut down the grants to col- leges and vocational schools. Education in Ontario will soon become the privilege of the rich men's sons, if 11ir. Hepburn is re- turned e turned to power. I speak now to the parents who have Hoped that their sons and daught- ers may some day go to the University, so that they may be better fitted to fill their place in the community. It is a great ideal More power to the young then and women of Ontario that seek education. But the Hepburn Government raised the fees at the University. It was difficult for many students in the past to ,pay their way -now greater obstacles are thrown in their path to pre- vent their achieving their objective. To what end? So that Mr. Hepburn can brag about a surplus, Titis surplus is your money. Are you content to sit by and see it achieved at the expense of the poor, the sick, and the insane? The Conservatives aim to' balance the budget, not to build up a political sur- plus by excessive taxation. "Next, let me call your attention to the bad faith of the Hepburn Government and its relief administration toward the Domin- ion Government and the municipalities of the Province in the matter of the distribit• tion of the Dominion relief grants, 'Begin- ning with the month of December, 3935,, the monthly grant-in-aid from the: Dominion treasury was increased by four hundred and fifty thousand dollars for a period of four months, "I challenge Mr. Hepburn or any of his Ministers to show that the municipalities of this Province, taken as a whole, benefitted by one dollar of this increase. The fact is that in April, 1936, the municipal share 01 relief costs in the Province was sharply in- creased in spite of the provisions of the Dominion Order -in -Council that the Prov- ince should relieve theburdens of munici- palities. In April last, by its scheme of subterfuge of monthly maximums, the Prov- ince forced the municipaliti6s to pay over one hundred thousand dollars more for re- lief than they did in the preceding months of the year. The sole beneficiary of the increase from the Dominion is the Provin- cial Treasury, but the game of bluffing the municipalities still goes on. "1 challenge this falsification of figures and this political juggling of relief facts. This problem calls for capable administra- tion - Conservative administration, true statement of fact, a sympathetic attitude to- ward suffering humanbeings, and an honest effort tofind permanent solutions. These arenot the policies of the present Govern- ment. The public of this Province is being kidded into a behei that the problein is being solved. . while the truth is that patronage and polities are playing with the rights of municipalities, the lives of working men and Women, and the money of the taxpayers"