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THE WZNGHAM ADV44NGE-TIMES
Thursday, June 14th, 1934.
The
Whigham Advance -Times
Published at
WINGHAM - ONTARIO
Every Thursday Morning by
The Advanee-Times Publishing Co.
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THE TAX RATE
At the last meeting of the Town
Council the tax, rate was struck for
1984 at 50 mills.: This rate is 5 mills
higher than the rate of 1933. To many
this rise in the • tax rate was consider-
able of a shock, but to others, it was
:expected,
The estimated expenditure for 1934
is $59,293,000, The receipts estimated
are $55,200,00 from resident taxes and
$4,093.00 from other sources.
It is doubtful if the 50 .mills rate
will balance the budget this year and
take care of all the overdraft from
last year. If this had been done an-
other 2 mills would have been added
to the rate.
The Council have shown consider-
able courage, in raising the rate so that
the finances 'of the town will not go
further behind and it is important as
there are many municipalities in On-
tario who are head over heels behind
because of reckless spending or be-
cause they did not pay as they go.
It is unfortunate that the only way
to meet a town's expenses is by tax-
ation,: and the only way to keep the
rate down is by paring expenses.
If you have looked over the esti-
mated expenditure that was published
last week you will find two itents that
are added cost that cannot be avoid-
ed -new roof for town hall, and re-
lief. The amount for roads and bridg-
es is higher this year than last and
the auditors insisted that the amount
set be set aside.
It is regrettable that the rate had
to be raised, but it appears to have
been unavoidable.
* * *
ELECTION DAY JUNE 19th
By the time we go to press for our
next issue the provincial election will
be a thing of the past and the people
of Ontario will have spoken. There
are many people who do not bother
to go and vote but happily the ma-
jority of people exercise their fran-
chise.
It is the duty
of all who have a
vote to record it. In some countries
people are compelled by law to go
to the 'polls. The right to vote by the
people was won by our forefathers of
generations ago by hard fighting with
much loss of life. Do not neglect
your duty' on election day -Be Sure
and Vote.
* * * *
An investment of $100 in the Rob-
ert Simpson Co. in 1929 appreciated
to $3000 by 1932. That's what may be
called the Midas touch.
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Two girls who, worked with cement
have died. recently. This cement used
in shoe factories contains Benzol.
Manufacturers who have employees
work with dangerous substances
should be compelled to use every.
means possible to avoid disaster.
* * * *
A hen near Kitchener laid two eggs
In less than five minutes. That is
'speeding up production with a ven-
eance.
4= * * *
Customs receipts for April and May
have shown great increases. This is
a healthy sign.
* * *
The Central Bank will start off with
a profit of $30,000,00 from the gold
it will take from the Canadian banks.
Not a bad start.
* * * *
A blind student of Georgia 'Tech.'
school graduated with honors. Peo-
ple who are handicapped with such
afflictions and make good as many
do, surely set an example for other
people.
* * *
Max liner is supposed to be in poor
condition for his fight with Primo
Camera. This announcement instead
of creating interest gave the public a
"who cares" attitude;
* .Sa * *
It is :Said that quintuplets are born
once in 41,600,000; Many a woman
will breath a sigh of relief after read-
ing the above statistics.
COUNTY COUNCIL
SETS SAME RATE
6 Mills Is Tax Rate, Same as Last
Year.
Further Paving of Highways
Opposed.
The June sessions of Huron Conn
ty Council opened on Tuesday after
noon last week at Goderich,
In his opening address, Warden
Elliott said: "I am sure it is very
gratifying when the roll is called to
see all the members present. We are
!meeting today under rather unique
circumstances. It is seldom two mem-
bers of this body are aspiring to a
higher position. As Mr. Ballantyne
and I have met here today to transact
county affairs, I hope members will
confine themselves . to the county's
business and leave provincial ones out
>f the deliberations.
"I would like to pay special tribute
to the chairman of the Property Com-
mittee, Robert Turner, Deputy Reeve
of Goderich, who has taken much in-
dividual pains," said the speaker.
"Those of you who have travelled
in a southerly direction will notice
that the provincial highway (the Blue
Water) has been made safer,"
The Warden eulogized the work of
the new clerk and the treasurer whom
he said were men of fine calibre.
The present treasurer is borrowing
as required. Over the five months'
period the saving in interest is $535,
1because of this system.
The Department of Highway not-
ified the council in a letter that 'cer-
tain roads, comprising the Flue Wat-
er Highway, are being assumed by
the provincial government. The let-
ter was filed.
was read, and reported that the coun-
ty buildings were in good condition.
A memorial from the County of
Welland to Rt. Hon. R. B. Bennett,
The presentment of the Grand Jury
prime minister of Canada, and Hon.
i
George S. Henry, prime minister of
Ontario, was submitted. It asked to
have Thanksgiving Day be set to fall
on the Sunday nearest to the 11th of
November, so that it will not inter-
fere with Remembrance Day which is
a statutory holiday. Referred to leg-
islative committee.
Addresses Council
G. M. Govenlock, inspector of the
County Home, briefly addressed the
council. The installation of the elec-
tric stoker had proved a coal saver.
Ross Johnston, corn borer inspect-
or, reported that he had not found
much corn borer in the county.
The goaler's report showed that 45
prisoners had been incarcerated since
January. Daily rations cost per day
per person, 10c.
The Old Age Pensions Committee
reported a complete overhauling of
the systema There are 683 names on
the pay roll. Applications recom-
mended, 47; deferred, 11; refused, 16;
notice of deaths, 21; pensioners trans-
ferred to other places, 2; from other
places, 3. Amount paid to Old Age
Pension Committee from 1st of Jan-
uary, $270.67. The report which was
submitted by R. Bowman, chairman,.
was adopted.
Motions.
Eckert -Hanley -That the treasurer
prepare a detailed .statement of the
year 1933for all accounts and same
be printed in June minutes. Carried.
Bowman-Munnings-That the prop-
erty committee examine the condition
of the filing system at the Registry
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You know what farming in the land of the Soviet
has become.
State collectivization with industrialization the
supreme goal, has made the farmer little better than the beasts
of the field, the hewer of wood and the drawer of water to
the more favored classes, those to whom communism looks
for the ultimate success of its state industrialization experi-
ment.
FARMERS MUST BE FREE
Ontario wants no "swing to the left". Its farmers must be
left free. The men who, in 1932, produced $226,446,000 of
this province's wealth, cannot be made the stepping stone for
some radical experiment in state 'industrialization.
Farmer though he is, Ontario's Liberal leader is prepared to
sacrifice his own friends, to betray his fellow workers in the
fields in a frantic bid for control of Ontario's vast natural
wealth.
By his own confession he "swings well to the left", towards
the land where the communists, the socialists and the radicals
dwell.
HIS OWN WORDS
• Accept his own words to the electors of West York on May
14, 1932.
"1 swing well to the left where some Grits do not tread."
Or take his speech to St. Thomas voters on February 11,
1933. Then the CC.F., its ideals not yet analyzed, its
' impossible -to -be -achieved dreams still unexploded, had seized
briefly on a part of the public imagination. Mr. Hepburn
saw in it another opportunity for a bid for power at the
expense of the solid, producing classes of the province. So
seizing his opportunity, reeking nothing of what such a pro-
gramme would mean, he said, in all the enthusiasm of his
inexperience:
The C.C.F. is an example of this realignment of
political thought. It is the latest move in Radicalism. I
sympathize with the people who make up the ranks of the
C.C.F. They are tryinci, at least, to find a way out."
Signed:
THE
STAGNATION AN MORTIFICATION
Ontario's Liberal leader would cut the cost of government
fifty per cent.
A tall order, but quite possible if Mr. Hepburn and his
party are prepared to sacrifice progress and give the people of
Ontario stagnation and mortification.
To cut his expenditures Ontario's Liberal leader, among
other "economies" would wipe out the Ontario Department
of Agriculture.
He has placed himself on record to effect this.
The Toronto Globe, in reporting his speech at a banquet
in Toronto on December 15, 1932, says:
"The departments of Game and Fisheries, AGRICUL-
TURE, Labour, and Mines, the Motion Picture Bureau,
Research Work and Colonization were a 'few which Mr.
Hepburn cited as instances where curtailment or ABANDON-
MENT of one service could be effected without hurting
administration."
WHAT OF THE FARMER?
Possibly administration would not suffer.
But what would happen to the farmer?
Where would he be with his overseas selling agent gone
merely to set up a record for low spending?
Would it be true economy to wipe out, at one enthusiastic
gesture, the agricultural research which makes available to
n andwithout every farmer, without money w thou price, 'all all the
resources of science, skill, knowledge and experience for the
enlarging of output and the improvement of quality at lower
operating costs?
WOULD THESE HELP?
Would it help the farmer to wipe out the department which
held,for, farmers and farm women, in 1933, a total of 93
courses in agriculture and home economics at as many centres
throughout the province?
Would the monetary saving justify the elimination in every
county of the trained agricultural representative, the man to
whom the farmers look for advice in cases of plant or stock
disease?
Through abandonment of the Ontario Department of
Agriculture, Ontario's Liberal leader would abandon the
Ontario Marketing Board.
Can the Ontario farms
r afford to be without this board, or
be another of the Costly Economies
poses,
The Ontario Marketing
Board knew that fruit produced in
Ontario was good fruit,
but it knew also that it was not
reaching outside markets in a way which made potential
buyers aware of its goodness. Through co-operation with
fruit growers, cooling pla
:es and a grading system were estab-
policy was decided on, Ontario sold
65 carloads of apples beyond
its own boundaries.
In 1933, after ten cooling places had been established,
sales in Great Britain alone totalled 450,000 barrels, val-
ued at $1,080,000.
In addition to this, there were correspondingly large sales
on the continent of Europe and in the Canadian West.
In the same five years the export of pears and plums grew
from practically nothing to more than 100,000 packages.
This is one service rendered by the Henry Government
which the Ontario Liberal Party would wipe out in its effort
to make good on the rash "economy" promise of its leader.
But this is only a small part of what the Ontario Marketing
Board, product of the progressive Conservative administra-
tion, has done for the farmer.
PROCES WENT UP
In 1932 it saw another opportunity and this year saw
Ontario Brewers who had abandoned Ontario barley
using 1,000,000 bushels of the Ontario product at a price
$150,000 above the current market quotation.
The board turned to the problems of the turnip grower.
As a result of its first season's work the board obtained one
contract for 1932 for 40,000 bushels and the price obtained
now by the farmers is between 50 and 100 per cent. better
than before the board became interested in the situation.
Export sales of cattle in 1933 for the whole of Canada '
totalled 50,317 head, valued at $3,189,194. Aggressive sales
methods of the Ontario Marketing Board were responsible for
TWO-THIRDS OF THIS TOTAL -31,783 HEAD,
VALUED AT $2,014,471 -GOING FROM ONTARIO.
What the Ontario Department of Agriculture and its sub-
sidiary, the Ontario Marketing Board the Department which
Liberal Leader Hepburn would wipe out -has done for the
bacon industry needs no comment, The figures speak for
themselves.'
BACON SALES JUMPE
In 1932 Ontario sold thirty million poundsof Bacon inthe
British Market. In 1933 the figure has grown to 40,000,000
pounds. AND THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS OF 1934
HAVE BROUGHT INCREASED BACON RETURNS OF
MORE THAN $15,000,000 TO THE FARMERS OF THIS
PROVINCE.
Export of dressed poultry has grown from a negligible figure
to a total, in 1933, of $1,226,098.
To improve live stock herds of the province it agreed to
pay twenty per cent. of the cost of pure bred sires. In 1932
alone there were 430 applications and $37,000 was paid. In
the five years 442 approved herd sires were sent into Northern
Ontario. On these the Ontario Government paid 30 per cent.
of the cost, plus the freight.
Efforts of the department and co-operation of dairymen
have improved the quality of the 86,000,000 pound annual
production of Cheddar cheese from 89 per cent. first quality
in 1924 to 96 per cent. first quality in 1932 and Ontario
Cheddar Cheese now brings a premium of from two to three
cents over cheese from other countries.
Ontario is the only province Which loans money to farmers
on the `security of their lands and chattels. In 1933 it loaned
in round figures, $6,700,000 to 3,415 applicants.
PLEDGED TO ELIMINATION
This is the department which Mitchell Hepburn, leader
of Ontario's Liberal Party, has pledged himself to elimi-
nate.
In one fell swoop he would wipe out a, department
which has done more than anything else in the Dominion
of Canada to see the farmers of this Province through the
period of agricultural depression,
Ontario cannot afford the loss of its Department of
Agriculture.
Ontario must have construction under the progressive
Henry Administration.
Destruction under Liberal leader Hepburn would mean
ruin,
LIBERAL -CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION
OF ONTARIO.
Office as we are sure these docu-
ments are in very undesirable condi-
tion. *Carried.
Saunders -McNabb ---That when a
reeve is notified by the clerk that a
resident of his municipality has been
sent to a hospital and has been class-
ed as an indigent that the reeve. reply
to the notice stating whether the
township will accept the responsibil-
ity or not, so the clerk inay be de-
finitely sure that notice was received.
Davidson -Turner -That we grant
$650 to Clinton General Hospital and
Wingham Hospital, Scott Memorial
Hospital, Seaforth and Alexandra
Marine and General Hospitals, Exec-
utive.
Munnings-Bowman-Moved in am-
endment to motion re Mothers' Al-
lowances Board that County Clerk J.
M. Roberts and Mrs. Redditt, of God-
erich,, be members of the Mothers'
Allowance !Board, Carried on divis-
ion of 16-12.
Matheson -Eckert --That the Council
recommend the appointment -of Coun-
tyty Clerk :Roberts, chairman, and R.
S. Hays, of Seaforth, member of the
Mothers' Allowance Board,
A livelydiscussion on whether or
not a ten or twenty font strip of pavo-
'nient should be built from Clinton to
Blyth on No. 4 Highway was launch-
ed and culminated in a resolution be-
ing passed by a vote "that
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this council disapproves of paving be -
ing done in Huron County, and that
a resolution be forwarded to the
Highway Department to that effect."
The first discussion was on the line
of asking the Government to cancel.
the contract to build the road, Clin-
ton -Blyth, but did not ineet with fa-
vor, Member after member declaring
that since the contract had been let,
it would only be creating trouble to
cancel it.
Reeve McNabb, ..l who sponsored the
motion, said the council of 1931 had
opposed building of roads `and times
had not improved: since then.
Reeve McNall, of Blyth, vigorous-
ly upheld the expenditure on the road
in question, and at times the discus-
sion developed into a debate between
him and Reeve McNabb.
Warden Elliott said he did not go
to Toronto as a deputation, He went
with it. Mr. Macaulay had asked his
advice about the Blue Water High-
way. "It was not the wish of the
County Council to lay pavement,
What we wanted was the road brought
up to standard for pavement for the
sake of the labor involved."
Reeve Wright said the building of
roads is never going to get this coun-
try into a prosperous condition,
Agriculture is the backbone of the
country, We've got to get back to
the land. He advocated petitioning the
Government toask each: municipality
p y
to look after its own relief,
Estimates Presented
County Treasurer Ersnine"submit-
ted the following estimates:
Estimated expenditures general ac-
count 1934: Loans owing at Jan. 2,
$45,000; schools $92,350; hospitals and
industrial schools, $18,000; adminis-
tration of justice, $15,400; old age
pensions $14,000; transfers to county
hone account $9,000; municipal' gov-
ernment, $7,000; demand ° loan inter-
est, $4,500; children's.: shelter' $3,500;
jail, $3,500; county property $2,700;
grants, $2,500; mothers' allowance,
$11,000; printing and postage, $1,000;
insurance, heat and light, $1,400; reg-
istry office, $1,400; exchange, $175;
refunds ';re tax receipts not credited,
$36; miscellaneous, $124; total $232,-
585.
Less estimated receipts: Jan. 1,
cash in bank, $5,548; provincial school
grants, $25,000; old age pensions, ustice $8,-
j 5
000; administrationadministrationof ,; , $ , 000' ,
licenses, $550; registry office, $317;
fines, $150.; division courts, $75; int-
erest on bonds, $60; miscellaneous
$100; owing to general provincial
account, $
highway : 2,013, total, $46,-
x,
813; expenditures to be raised by mill
rate, $185,772, 41-5 mills on assess-
ment $44,271,175; $1$5,938,93; surplus
$166.07.
Fixed expenditures provincial high-
way account: Debentures and 'interest
$12,950; Dept, of Highways 1933
maintenance? $10,458; owing to goner-
1.-fcYF!m1,
alaccount $2,013; interest on highway
account, July to Dec. $218; total $25,-
639; 3-4 mill on assessment $44,271,-
175, $25,562; surplus $923.
Youwill notice that I' have sub-
mitted the estimates on the two ac-
counts at the same total rate as 1933
but have taken 2-5 of a mill from the
provincial highway to the general ac-
count.
The afternoon session was presided
over by Reeve R. J. Bowman of. Brus-
sels, whose appointment by the War-
den was authorized by Council at the
morning session, to allow Mr.lllliott's,
attendance at a political meeting in
his behalf, held in Exeter, The same
privilege was accorded Mr. Ballan-
tyne,
A deputation ,from Grand
Ben
das
v'
present and Reeve Sweitzer on their
behalf asked for police jttrisdietioti
for Grand Bend, intimating they
wouldlike a county constable ap;
pointed and recommended that Joseph
G.ravclle be given the position which
was endorsed.
Ex -Reeve Henderson of Morris was
asked to a dr
d ass the Councdl. He had
been appointed to the Winghatri High
School Board. He was not in favor of
reductions in teacher's salaries. In
Wingham the Principal's salary had
been reduced front. $3000 to $8000.
Only a few days elapsed when lie got
a better school at k higher salary, "Tt
is not fair to the children hi Huron
when cut salaries to thee
point Where'we caii only procure s -
coed orwe, third-rhaveatit teachers," he said.
Ex -Warden McKibbon of Wingham
also spoke.
Mr. H. Cox of Colborne and J. • J,
Hayes also briefly addressed the
Council.
The report of the Good Roads Com-
mission was adopted, as follows:
"Right meetings of the commission.
have been held this year, and the to-
tal o60f ,"thecommittee pay -sheets is
One meeting was helcl in Toronto
at the time of the Good Roads con-
vention, and trucks , were examined.
Sessions of the convention were at-
tended and many interesting address-
es s were heard.
d.
An 'application under the Relief
Measure was madefor work, totalling
$50,000, and approval was secured
for an amount of $200,000, of which
$120,000 was estimated as labor cost.
Since the attitude of the Council re-
garding this matter was not known,
it has not been possible to formulate
definite recommendations regarding
the work for the season, If it is de-
sired to raise no niore money than
last year, by transferring certain costs
to the construction account, the cost
will lie: General arid maintenance,
$61,000, subsidy $30,500; possible re-
lief exp(t"enditttre $66,000, subsid $46,'
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