HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1932-04-14, Page 3THURSDAY; APRIL.,"14 1932.
THE SEAFORTH NEWS
PAGE THREE
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i • tees darts ince.
Saturday, April 9th, . was 'the•; fit man trenelies we'd•ashed into the op,-
tteemth anniversary of .the ed'pture of
T1lieny Ridge by the Gantadian's, one of
;the Most costly and decisive victories
of the Great War: The intervening
'years have seen :asofte'i,ing of the
hitter war -time annnosittes; in ,their
stead has crept in friendship an ad
mira'tion for ,former. foe's: But Ne
'memory of 'the dead is ever'cheris'h-
ed in the ;hearts of! their 'lov'ed:ones''
and of their; country..'
The Seafortli . News liars been pelt•-
!mitte, to reproduce a' letter written,
Iby-a lieu.,tenaiel to, his. young wife •fm-`
ediately ,after Wry,. which,' presents:
vivid pic.fure of the ;events orf _that
row thistoric fight. .
g t He 'was killed one.
(month later, ori May firth, 19117:
e5141112. In the Middle .of It
;Dearest K
'IHd`
Curb w h utvsca'thed�the and aiael
a my
apt in 'af .fire,: an'd carne
g y out
sef the little croltvd who went up to re
idfpree the 50th.
'alit lovas ' a; livid christening,—
'three
gimes "over the top"':in five days. I•t
was a reah'spent, Jimmie 'with hands
'born with barbed wire and feet all
' blistered, who limped 'back' into calrap
'at 3 a.m. the other morning. His
'face 'hadn't been , shaved since he
started out,''his clothes' and every wee
bit exeosed,' were. caked With mud.
You " wouldn't have known him. He
twastoo tough for words.
It has taken .three. days ;to, rest 'his
nvearied bones alter the• week of sul-
phur and gas and •snow and he11..You
will 'have read'about the 'taking • of
•'Vimy Ridge by the Canadians. We
were in. the hottest of it. •
+The Hattalion, with an attack in
!'Find,went out gaily enough one ev-
ening to take its stand in the trenchee
preparatory to -launching an�'assault.
,
It got to its allotted place in some
ol'd•chalk 'pits swept by• shell and
Arap•nel and, re ared'to settle down
P A
orteng . utte or•uneofwar
was againat us. __Another battalion',
hadn't quite reached its -objective that
'day and .the 50Th was detailed to doe
qts work, '. The ground was mud np to the waist,
iSo out of the' ohalk pits we march- +with ,shetl hole's of water, in which
ed, scrambling through very exposed many, a .man was drowned. -Even to
:sections of the country in. scattered :walk over, let alone •charge over, it
;fragments, and down to another focal-' was•ex'haus'ting work. However, we
ity. We stood.' by 'all- 'that night; got there, with companies, and even
and at noon received sudden. word 'battalions; hopelessly mixed up. et
wewere to attack'on that front. No- snowed so that you eouldai't see more
'body knew much about the plan, but than a few yards ahead. When dawn
we:rushe'd'off—and for the first time broke, we consolidated our eew ,posi
.tawa real : Ba'ttle'field. tion, with more prisoners conning in.
Re had to' go across the original 1!111 alone Jimmie took in .a•,prisoner.
INo plan's Land, and than again ac- He got behind -his' own lime, of course
rose several recently captured trenches without knowing it. ^ He 'ha'dn't.. a
to our assembling point. Luckily; bomb -or 'a'rifle. ' His revolver was so
'there wasn't much time to think, and clogged with mud it couldn't be used.
we just tumbled as quiet as we could 'But there .ahead of him were Heinies.
into our places. The hourwas set The two furthest away skedaddled
'for the advance, anartillery barrage. hke blazes (I don't wonder, J'immie
behind us :set up horrible music, anti 'poked so tough). The other _"chucked
Just :as it ditiished battering in the Ger down his. rifle and threw Up his 'hands.
Crackle, ,crackle, :bang, bang, bmtg;
�b•ing shej!Ils I and shrapnelsand bullets,
and machine ,guns played an'orches-
;tra olf,hell, The blue'coatsed "Henries"
as--..theyt.are 'called(iere, put up' a little
scrap, but;were kicked. out of tate first
trreuch ',
Then the artillery ,put a barrage
'on the west of our .trenches, and thud
We goat on from ptoin,t'to point—en—lite
at last out of the confusion, tante
sametthing .definite—we had. reached
our objective and were consbldating.
1 had one section of it .ali (alon:e vei'th
'a'•nisxture of men from all companies,:
and met an officer in. sight.' I hari
seneeenough to try, and.' make"our po-
clition more- secure. While we were
doing that,• who should tumble into:
the trench out of N10 Mary's IJand but
a• whole '• wad af: Germans. They were
crying "IO'amerad" pad' holding up
their hands, :in they came in scores
and In pairs—iron', over 120 had pass -
To liven thinge up a ltittle, counter-
attack with bomlbe was made" at one
point.' It wasone of the most excit-
ing'momeslts of all, because we could-
n't tel1.'far a minute whether it was a,
real 'ane or just 'a raid. ' Luckily it
was only a raid. • We 'lost some few
men before it was beaten off, and a
bomb• that 'eteploded.within 'bwo feet
of me stunned'atie For a se'cond, or so.
alt killed a: man right aoross my chest.
He.saved me though. Things quieted
'clover then and we were relieved by
another,- battalion about midnight.
We were 'sure we were relieved
permanently, 'but after keeping us in
nearby trenches all night and the next
day, they sent us back to complete
the attack upon .which•we first set out.
You can imagine how Jimmie ' felt
then•. IWe' walked straight into peel=
tion all night, with the, time for ad-
vance ,fixedfor just before: dawn.'
It was light moonlight when we
started, but thick clouds soon leaped
up, and by the.time we assembled, it
was bitterly cold with' a driving snotty,
storm. -and I hadn't any • gloves.
'The enemy saw us as we assembled
on top of the ridge, and' began to pep-
per us in earnest as we moved over.
I made savage menaces with my use-
less pistol; and pointted toward our
own Inci.; He beat it in as fast as lais
lege could carry him.- ,
, All
i•m.-
Alt .t'hat d'ay, we hung oe to our
new,position, All that night we stood
to, expecting 'a counter-attack. The
followinrgday we were due for relict.'
Word eanse in, in fact, that we were'
to he relieved, when suddenly excite
meat was' in the air again. We were
to advance, Newshad come of a
1Gerntan retirement to ,the east direct
ly in front of us. So we "got over
the top", for the third tiine, '• This
time it Was pos'i'tively weird. There
wasn't a IIeinie to be seen. We went
forward fa etctended order through
the towns of Givetiely and I.evion
where the. Germans had been in force
Only ,a few hours before' 0Fot„evert a
sraiper^am'ang the ruins. We, went' for
1,000„ .yards, taolc up position an a
ridge, ate some dry bread and bully
beef (all the same .a'picnic). At dusk`
We were relieved by an Imperial regi
And that walk 'back to the billets.'
I shall. never forget it. I was so ex-
hausted, .I just'lwanited to lay dowry in
the mud ,and do nothing. And what
a joy to .get back to a hoe meal and
billet$—''billets in huts in: the grounds
of a:real. old French chateau. ” The re-'
action was enornfous. Some of the
officers got nice wounds, I was
a'm'ong them.
THE BUDGET.
;In' his budget speech on ;Wednes-
day last, Hon. E N. Rhodes dealt'
with the fall in customsreceipts' and
other ,revenues from which Canada
has, continued to •suffer dueled' the,
past year in common with perhaps ev-
ery other country' in the world. Cus-
toms' receipts de'cli'ned to •theex'tenit of
nearly one hundred and three million
d'o'llars,'the' drop being due' partly to.
increased tariff protection irepose,d by
this government and in part to lower
commodity prices. Revenue from in-
come tax fell off about ten million
dollars. The total. receipts from text -
tion for the ,fiscal year ending March
'31,' 1932, are estimated. ' at '$273,000,000,
Whitt' compares with $296,000,000 last
year and $378,000,000 the year before,?
a drop' of about $105,000,000 in two
years. A .summary of all.. revenues for
the past fiscal year gives the 'Govern-
ment an income of $33'4,000,000, as
compared with $4446,000,000 two years]
ago, the •shrinkage 'thus,, being $1012,-
000,000.
. 'This was a tremendous falling off in
available resources, and the .Govern-
ment has had to cut its cloth accord-
ingly. 'Outlay has for the inost part;
been kept well within the estimates.
rdinaryexpenditures for the fistall
year just •ended totalled just under;
$379,000,000, or '$19,000,000 :less than
was estimated. 'Capital expenditures
were almost cut in two, but special
expenditures were necessitated by the.
unemployment situation and by the
distressful ,co•ndi't'ipns existing in Wes-
tern Canada owing to thea success-
ive crop'failures over 'angel areas, and
to the excessively low price obtained
for the wheat that -'was grown. The,
bonus of five cents a bushel on wheat
cost the Federal treasury $1'1,000,000.
The 'Minister gave an interesting'
analysis of The manner in which the
money' devoted to unemployment was
spent in association with the prov-
inces and "municipalities. The ,contri-
tbutionof the Federal treasury in the;
ounter
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make doubly sure by carrying
'two anchors. 'If one should not
hold in an emergency,' there is
'another available to take its
place.
In their personal finances, many
men rely chiefly on the one
anchor of their regular earnings.
But the wiser ones prepare for
"It is
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tie.
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— Latin Proverb.
an emergency by creating a•
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Reserve. Come what may, you.
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•
financing ,of "public works for relief
purposes during the fiscal year just
concluded totalled $26,986,000,, This
figure constitutes an absolute' justific-
ation o'f'the blank •cheque ;policy upon
which' 'Mr. .Bennett : has steadily in-
sisted. The Oppositionwished to
earmark from $100,000,000 to $200,-
000,000 for relief purposes, but it will
be remembered that the Prime Minis-
ter steadily • refused to take any 'such
sum front Parliament ,on the ground
that if ;he took it he would have to
spend ' it, and that his job was to con-
sider the taxpayer as well as the un-
employed. I't was to enforce this
policy to protect the taxpayers that
closure was used. by „Mr. Bennett
w thin the :past couple of weeks.
In addition to 'unemployment and
farm relief the -.Fede'ral Government
hashad to assist. several of the pro-
vincial governments, particularly in
regard to the meeting of o'bliga'tions
'falling ,dee ori the New York market
where they were unable to:float new
issues. In order to protect the nat-
ional credit the Dominion has granted,
the provinces referred to temporary
financial ,relief to the tune of ,nearly
$112,000;000. IAitogether under the
'Relief Act of 1930 and 1931 the Gov-
ernmtetit has ,expended• or loaned near-
ly $61,000,000, Coming to total figures
we find that the estimated total ex-
penditures for the past fiscal year
were $454;000,000 as compared with
$395,000,000 twoyearsago, an increase
of $516,000,000, this increase being
wholly accounted for by elle unem-
ployment situation and .the crop dis-
aster inn' Western. Canada.
The Minister of Finance evinced a
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natural pride 5n the overwhelnain
success of the 1'93'1 Conversion Loa'
and of the subsequentNational Ser
vice iCoaleThese two flotations star
prised _even Canadians and great'
Strengthened Canada's reputatio
abroad. Nothing could be better fo
the country's, credit, than the eager-
ness with which our own people have
backed the : National Administration
with their savings. It is worthy of
emphasis that of-les!s than 109,000
subscriptions received dor ,the iNa'tioe-
al Service Loan nearly 56,000 were for
$1,000 or' less, and nearly 49,000 for
amounts beteveen$1,000 and' '$5,000.
'This reaves fewer than 5,''000 subscrip-
tions for larger` sums,
'It is to be remarked, that though
controllalble expenditure. amounts to
only 318% of the total estimated ex-
penditure, iel`r: Rhodes has succeeded
in. cutting his aggregate outgo by
20%, or $38,000,000 in round figures.
'Arfter this ,drastic elimination' of un-
necessa'ry. outlays there is still a gap
of $5'5,000,000 .between estimated' ex
peuditures and estimated ` receipts on
the old, basis of taxati'om • The in-
creased taxation.. an•n'dunced •in the
,bud'ge't is to bridge this 'hiatus and
give a 'surplus af:'$4,300;000 for the
'fiscal year upon which t we • are now
entered,. This forecast takes auto ac -
comet et all' current 'services Of the 'G ,v
e'rnfacnt; • including those ,capital ex-
penditures'• which have liids :erto been
paid out of current income, But/it
does net include public works charge-
able to capital account which will run messages and 'long-distance telephone
into.prabably $9,600,000, nor does the calls coating more than 1''5 cents are
'estimated surplus allow for expertdi- taxed 'five cents each, payable by the
tures on unemployment relief or the
Canadian National Railways . Two
reasons for this have been adduced
by the Minister; one is that the coun-
try could not in its present condition
stand for the taxation necessary to
take care Of these items, and . another
is that no one can tell at present what
the cost of unemployment relief dur-
ing 1932-33 will amount to. Lastly,
The ,financing Of the Canadian 'Nations
al Railways- will remain in an =ascer-
tained .position until after 'the Royal
Commission ont: Transportation has
presented its report.
The increases in taxation annonnc-
ed- by the. Minister of Finance were
less than were expected. There' is, a
reduction in. the exemptions on_•per-
s'onal incomes, and thetwenty per
cent. reduction 'heretofore allowed is
eliminated. These changes .are so far
retroactive as to apply on 1931 in-
come. Pise new rates increase" the
levy an large incomes more than upon
small incomes. The rates of taxation
oar corporations and joint stock COM.
palsies is raised, .In order to expedite
the collection of revenue the payment
of these taxes is accelerated: This de-
vice is'. copied 'from Great :Britain. The
increase of two per cent. in the sales
tax is no more .than was expected, and
is preferable to the turnover tax pro-
posed by some. The 'sales tax ail]
now be six per cent„ and some articles
formerly exempt will now be levied
upon. There will be a tax of one 'per
cent. on the net premiums of insur-
ance companies other than life, mar-
ine and farm insurance companies.
,No one likes nuisance taxes, but the
.Government has to snake ends meet,
sothat the increase in stamp taxes
will have eo be accepted with the best
possible grace by all concerned,
Practically no changes are made in
the custom's tariff. This is due to the
imminence of the II'nrperial Economic
Conferece, whmi
ich is to, meet next
IJulyat nOttawa•"
Taxation 'measures may be 'sum-
marized as follows: '
.(1) The 'sales tax is increased from
four to six per cent., effective Thurs-
day, ,April 7th,
'(12) 'The special import excise tax is
raised (from one to three per cent., ef-
fective immediately.
'('3) Income -tax exemptions for
married persons are reduced from
$3,000 to $2,400 and for single . per-
sons from 41,500 to $1,200. The 20
per cent. ,rebate on income 'taxes is
abolished and a five per ' cent.' sur -tax
is imposed on. all taxpayers ,paying on
more ,than $5,000 income. These
changes; apply on .19131 incomes.
('4); The cor'parationi in,cotiie tax is.
increased from ten to eleven per ceutt:,
and ,the exemption granted :family
corp'oration's is abolished.
(5) The e'hegtte tax is raised from
two to threecents on instruments of
from $5 to $100 value „and.:to six
cents above $100,
(6) Aten per r cent 'tax, with a min-
imum charge of 25 cents, is imposed
on sleeping car tickets, and a ten-
cen.t, levy is 'put on all chair car tick -
(7)
All telegrams, cables, "radio
sender or caller. This tax, the Cheque•
tax and 'the ,ptallman tax do not be-
came effective until May 2.
,(18) IAII insurance companies other•
-than life, marine and farm mutual.
musk pay a one per cent. tax on their
total net premium.
'(9) All persons insuring property'
with any British or foreign company
not maintaining a deposit in Canada
shall pay a tax of 15 per cent. of the
premium, effective on 1931 premiums.
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Any of the above lines we can .give.
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INSURANCE AGENCY
Phone 334 Seaforth, Ont.
Blood Tested Chicks.
Hatcheryand flocks are both ire-
spected under the -Dominion Depart-•
Meet of Agriculture's Hatchery Ap- -
proval policy. The testing of the.
blood samples • was done by,Capitail
Laboratories, Ottawa, The bred -to -
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to-date by the purchase of male birds.
from high record R.'OJP. liens owned:
by some of the most successful breed..
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We expect to hatch about 1500+
Barre,d Rocks, 250 White;Rocks and:
500 Leghorns per week. Please order
a'botat one month before you want the
chicks if you can. Don't think ton
lunch about price; we will use you
right,
Come and see us, or phone 97 r 4,
Heusall. We will he glad to talk
thingsover with you. Feed, stoves,„
and other supplies kept oti'hand.
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BABY CH.IiCKIS AND CUS'TOM_`
HATCHING
,We are offering six popular.
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' ity Baby Chicks, Barred and
White Rocks, Black Minorcas
Jersey Black Giant, White
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Wehave installed a neve.'
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for cui'tons hatching- only,
Trays hold eleven dozen egg -s.'
each. Plant
in charge of an
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or write your reservation
early.
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Exeter, Ont., Phone 184W