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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1923-03-23, Page 1PIETY -SEVENTH YEAR WHOLE NUNEER 288t.1 tewart Bros: Formal Presentation of Spring Time Modes To -Day & To -Morrow An Interesting and Extensive Showing of Millinery, Dresses, Suits and Coats, For Women, Misses and Children YOU ARE INVITED to this comprehensive showing of Styles from Fashion's source, as exploited by the leading author- ities, displayed inwide and comprehensive variety. The Exhibit of Stylish Millinery A wonderful charming collection of New Spring Hats of widely varying suitability, of aristocratic style and exclusiveness. Women who wish to be authoratively informed of what the world of Fashion will wear this Spring, are cord- ially invited to view this, the best a n d largest of all our Millinery efforts. The Display of Fancy Suits and Coats We have assembled a most comprehensive show- ing of the very latest styles. They include the most admired garments of Canadian and A erican de- signers. There are dozens of models to choose from; each garment carrying an individual expres- sion of distinguished style, reflecting the high de- gree of exclusiveness that always characterizes this store. Ready to Wear Dresses for Women and Misses Probably no department in the store will be more interesting than the new style Ready -to -Wear Dresses. There is. such a radical and outstanding change in the new styles that you cannot hbip but be carried away with enthusiastic admiration. We have a wonderful variety in every wanted dress— Silk,, Taffeta, Duchess, Messoline Silk, Crepe, Can- ton -Crepe, Crepe Knit, Serges, Tricotine of flannels and home spuns. All Sizes and Shades. r%6h4hG'4"'ir ONTARIO'S PO ITICAL SITUATION Part iIL The more we' scan the official re- turns and become more conversant with the records of individual Min- isters, and their wholesale expendi- tures, the more one is inclined to ask: Where has the Hon. Peter gone? —the keeper of the keys oft the Treas- ury box. Has he deserted his seat on the box and thrown the lid wide open? Possibly he may even have 'thrown away the keys, either when he handed his negotiating friend, that $4,0000 to go on a pleasure trip to England, or when the Torontto brokers got held of him in December, 1920, and obtain- ed $16,000,000 of Ontario bonds at $92.34 per $100, which they locked in their vaults but a short time and re - add at about the even $100? In this one transaction nearly $$1,250,000 or the equivalent of 125 of the best $1U,- 000.00 farms of the Province wus thrown away. Those same Provincial securities were being sold this Janu- ary on the Toronto money market at $ I4)6 03. It is however, when we e0r211' 10 the rnud'wilding department of the Gov- erunu•et that the people are justly alarmued nut only as to what is being dont and the loose methods of super- vc'iun, but also us to the vast amount of money the cost of the system will entail, together with the manner •rf its distribution between the several counties of the Province. I'revious to assuming office the leaders of the U.17.0,, political, char- acterized the road building scheme orf the Hearst Government as being un- justifiably expensive, and simply fur- nishing speedways for automobile fends. If what was true with grants of $1,895,128.74 to Public Highways 5n 1919, wDat must we say of a scheme at Ieaat six times more expensive, with a continuous speedway from Windsor to Montreal,and under which grants were made of $14,082,277.96 in 1921, and $18,227,647.08 in 1922, This present road building policy of the Drury Government, carried out at this present time, when a spirit of wise economy should be the watch- word of every public administrative body, is not only wildly and blindly extravagant, but the principle of the sy; tem, together with the glaring irequalities of Provincial grants with- in its several counties is not only such as to encourage tremendous out- lays for road -building in the several municipalities, but which, if persisted in, is heading this Province straight- way towards financial bankruptcy. Take the Provincial Highway be- tween Woodstock and London, which war formerly in the County Road System, and as such, was equipped to the satisfaction of' the Provincial Highways department. Between these two points there were twelve concrete structures, with 20 -foot roadway, spanning water runways from 6 to 14 feet wide, and all in first-class condi- tion. These, I am told, were all blown up, and replaced with structures of 33 -feet roadway at a cost of some $1'7 per cubic yard and about $2 per foot for excavation. The same may be said of -the two fine steel bridges over the Thames river at Thamesford, and over Doly's creek, which were replac- ed by other structures at a cost of upwards of $140,000.00. Take again the Provincial Highway from Stratford to Goderich. Along much of this highway there had been built some of the most substantial concrete culverts and bridges to be found any place, and which were dynamited, to be replaced with longer structures, at enormous cost. According to general reports, the same loose methods of supervision ever new road construction seem to frevail everywhere, but anyone famil- iar with the locality and work be- tween Stratford and Goderich, knows NI, well that, thus far, as a sink- hole, for public moneys, it is second ouly to the famous Westshore Rail- way, north from Goderich. What is the present road policy of the Government? 1. It has laid out some 1,821 miles of "Provincial Highway," being con- structed by the Provincial Highways Department., for the construction or which the Province pays 80 per cont., and the Counties, through which it passes, hears 20 per cent. of the cost, 2. It calls to the County and Town- ship ('nervi is in old Ontario, saying: "'Chen proper returns are sent in to the Highway Department of the road cr. nstritetion done, the Province will hear (30 per cent. of the cost of Pro- vincial County Reads, 40 per cent. of the e net of County Roads, and 201 per cent, of the expenditure on township rends. While it is true, that a great part of the taxation imposed for road -building is the result of the. work authorized by Municipal Coun- cils, it is also true that the road policy of the Ontario Government gives a very strong incentive to this m0nicipal spending, and this is one of the reasons why local municipal taxation is away over double what it was ten years ago. The Government does not base its grunts towards County and Township roads, either on population or the respective needs of the several locali- ties, but upon the actual egpenditm'e of the several counties and town- ships. As a consequence, witness the nnfairness of the distribution of pub- lic moneys, which is a direct incent- ive to the members of those public bodies (who might otherwise be very careful) to enter upon a carnival of road building expenditure:— Grey County in 1921 re- ceived nearly $260,000.00 Hastings, of nearly equal area, about $100,000.00 .5:ttiifdr357o-s,Cr�F'AY:s SEAFORTH, ' FH AY, MARCH 23, 1923. A Getting Acquainted Sale FOR 15 DAYS From March 24 to April 8 SATURDAY, MARCH 24th is going to be a great day for the worthy citizens of Seaforth and vicinity, because on that day at ten o'clock in the morning Cheifetz Bros,, Toronto are going to open in Seaforth, in the Campbell Block on Main Street, a general store of High Grade Ladies' and -Gents' Clothing House Furnisb.ings and Dry Goods As a means of getting acquainted with you and make you come to the store a soon as possible, we are going to offer you for the coming two weeks every article in the store pr Ftically at a profitless price, and in some instance at less than cost. We are not going to mention either articles or prices because we want you to collie yourself and be convinced. Cheifetz Bro SCampbell Block •1 Seaforth Halton, with one-quarter of the area, about 3200,000.00 Frontenac received a little over $30,000.00 While Carleton, with prac- tically the same area, over $1,000,000.00 Thus the tendency towards exten- sive road building programmes be- comes inevitable. The members of Municipal Councils begin to fear that this cannot last; that the public Treasury will go dry, and so they rush into the stampede before it is too late. As witness the great in- crease of' Government grants for township road -building, between the years 1921 and 1922. All counties now want Provincial Highways. They get from the Prov- irce 80 per cent. of the cost, and the Government undertakes the building of these. The tendency to grab from a cen- 4 0 0 4 0 • 0 35 to to 50 Per Cent. Off ON ALL PICTURE MOULDING & FRAMES Extra Special Price on 16 by 20 inch Frames. All Sample Enlargements and Sample Photos in the Store will be sold at less than Half Price. Come in and see it' your Photo is here. D. F. BUCK, Photographer SEAFORTH - - - , ONTARIO 5's 111 0 -C>s. 0 0 4 teal found, for local benefit, could not be given a greater stimulus than by a comparison of the Government's share of the expenditure on Provin- cial Highways, in different counties in 1921. Taking fifteen counties at random. it is found that the Government's 80 per cent. contribution towards the cost of Provincial Highways varies front $1:3,000.00, in Prince Edward County, to $776,000.00, in Wentworth; $104,000.00 in Prescott. and Russell; $.10,000 in Victoria; 8130,000 in Peel: c"4 000 in Renfrew; $225.000 in Sim- cor, $44,000.00 in Bruce. 5''hen we see the like of this, is it my wonder other Counties attempt to raid the public treasury? Is there any measure of justice to the several Counties? And, yet, (in the words of the Farmer Leaders themselves), "it is all for the purpose of building a speedway for automobile fiends," end almost the only reply of the Min- ister of Ilighways is, "it will he the means of inviting and bringing thou- sands of foreigners t, take their auto drives through Ontario and leave thousands of dollars behind them,' Who will got: the benefit of this money? 1t is simply another great. inconlivo to further encourage the Middlemen and entice still mare of to. people from the farms. Very little of tin, money- will ever find way info thy• peeled, of the real wealth -producers of the country. Over $21,000,000,00 was expended in 1921 by the Province and various municipalities in old Ontario 071 road work carried through by (he Govern- ment. itself or by municipalities, with plans approved by the Government; and the same expenditure must have been over $30,000,000.00 in 1922. 111 1921, amounts spent within the several counties, varied from $105,000 in Prince Edward County, to $1,912,- 000.00 in Carleton. In five counties or united counties, the expenditure exceeded $1,000.000. In fifteen others it exceeded $500,000; Perth County,. $e41,000 equals nearly double the amount, of the aggregate municipal taxation of nil townships in Perth in 14.21; 5221110e 8770.000; Peel, 3610,- 0011, prartically the vnit221 of all hogs sold in Peel; Carleton, 32,000,000.00; Lincoln, 81,107,000, more tpai n one- third of all field crop value,'In these reunties; Welland, $736,000, more than the value of all grain clr�ops in the county in 1921; Halton, 3585,000, one- fifth of its field crops; Rent, $793,000, thing Wit? :teem,'t '. liaise put onthe a . long ap$eri" eleettiarlate qry then4seivea app ng 't iB •britkeaY this the reason why the people sib' maintaining a dead silence? Is that they are just waiting for their ballots? TAXES AND IMMIGRATION, "We're taxed to death." Thus saint' City Man No.' 2. How we all hate, taxes.. .This. tribute to "Caesar" does not seem to be appreciated in Canada any better than in Judea 71,000 years ago. Yet, like death, it dogs our' footsteps and every year its bony fingers worm their way into our pocket books, dip deep, and takes-. its levywithout so much as a thank You. Come on in, Mr. Immigrant,' re all willing to share up with. Soh on this. Come, help us pay our taxes. We know you didn't assist us. to borrow the money or even spend it, but we don't mind you helping us: to foot the bill when the time comes for the'debtto be repaid. How much do we owe? you. ask. Oh, not much. Let us count it up: Dominion debt, 32,500,000,000.00; Pro- vincial debt, $230,000,000.00; total, 32,730,000,000.00. Well suppose for the moment we try to realize what. thia debt means. Suppose we were to get that money printed into dollar Mlle and we asked a bank clerk to. count it out to us three per second, and he worked steady for eight hours. a day, 300 days a year. It would take him over 1,000 years to count it. Again, suppose we laid those same bank notes side by side and end to end, we could lay a side walk of dollar bills, 3 by 8 inches wide all around the world, that is, a sidewalk 3 feet 8 inches wide and 25,000 miles long. Now we certainly are up against a big problem in our capital account and we might just as well look it square in the face and mea- sure up what we are asking our im- migrants to help us meet. So we'll do a little more figuring and see what it means to him. Let us suppose our immigrant is a sturdy Scotch yoeman with a good- looking wife and five rosy cheeked youngsters pulling at her apron strings. He's here by the invitation. of the Hon. Mr. Doherty,, who is go- ing to locate him on a nice 100 -acre farm. What capital debt are we go- ing to place on him and his family? Well, our Dominion debt, divided' among 8,500,000 population, equals. $300 per head- Our Provincial debt amounts to $77 per head, a total of $177 per head—a grand total on the. Scotchman and his family of $2639. That's the capital debt we throw at him as soon as he arrives. Now let us examine our taxes and see what we are going to charge him for the privilege of living in Ontario, Can- ada. The figures I am now going - to give you are for the year 1920. These are the latest figures; the 1921 book is not yet to hand and may net yet be ready for general distribution. Ir1920 the Dominion Government collected the following revenue:— Customs tax $168.796,823.00 Excise 42,698,083.00 War Tax 82,079,801.00 Total $293,574,607.00 These are the main items of gen- era! taxation; $56,171,731 was gath- ered from other sources, but the above figures as they indicate general taxr- ation, are sufficient for our purpose. Taking the above total and striking an average per unit of population, we get $34.54, a total of $241.78 for the. Scotchman and his family. Now we turn back 10 the customs tax. For es cry dollar collected through cus- toms frons the Canadian, the Canadian manufacturer collects three dollars. In other words, in 1920 through the ma ration of the custom t.arifT, thi'. Canadian manufacturers extracted the additional sum of $500,390,469.00, average of se0.18, a total against the Sr„tchman of 3407.16. Now turn t„ municipal taxes. If the immigrant. is located on a 100 -acre farm ill Tnelc,v'smit.h er Stanley, his yearh- nu,nicipnl tax will approximate $95, I We'll put thus, it,•n<, together - 11, minion Tax $241.74 Manufacturer'.0 Tax 417.00 'Municipal Tax 91.09 Total $ 723.84 How this indirect taxation blinds one. If a robber were to hold up the editor of this paper and rob him to the tune of $010.00, what a row there would be; but, between the Dominion Government, and the Manufacturer it is managed se quietly that one only marvels where the money has gone to Is itany wonder that farming is a very hazardous financial opera- tion? Take $750 from a farmer's income and he hasn't much left for himself. Well, what are you going to do about it? Don't you think that the first thing Canada should do is to set her house in order before allur- ing other peoples to our shores? What evil have they done that they should be brought here to bear our burdens and carry our debts? Let 215 have mercy or It will be a case of "He was a stranger and we took him in," FRANK WELCH. Beaver Board Fibre Board When making Spring time Interior Home Alterations, do not overlook the value of Beaver Board and Fibre Board in repair- ing and beautifying Waits and Ceilings. OUR HOUSE PLAN BOOK SERVICE To anyone infer. -..•d in House Building, we offer the free use of our handsome Cook of House flans—"American homes Beautiful-" If you are thisM:ir' of building a home, do not fail to visit nue office and look o‘,1 the Plans in this book. N. CLUFF & SONS Planing Mill and ('oal Yard SEAFORTII 4 0 0 4 0 • 0 35 to to 50 Per Cent. Off ON ALL PICTURE MOULDING & FRAMES Extra Special Price on 16 by 20 inch Frames. All Sample Enlargements and Sample Photos in the Store will be sold at less than Half Price. Come in and see it' your Photo is here. D. F. BUCK, Photographer SEAFORTH - - - , ONTARIO 5's 111 0 -C>s. 0 0 4 teal found, for local benefit, could not be given a greater stimulus than by a comparison of the Government's share of the expenditure on Provin- cial Highways, in different counties in 1921. Taking fifteen counties at random. it is found that the Government's 80 per cent. contribution towards the cost of Provincial Highways varies front $1:3,000.00, in Prince Edward County, to $776,000.00, in Wentworth; $104,000.00 in Prescott. and Russell; $.10,000 in Victoria; 8130,000 in Peel: c"4 000 in Renfrew; $225.000 in Sim- cor, $44,000.00 in Bruce. 5''hen we see the like of this, is it my wonder other Counties attempt to raid the public treasury? Is there any measure of justice to the several Counties? And, yet, (in the words of the Farmer Leaders themselves), "it is all for the purpose of building a speedway for automobile fiends," end almost the only reply of the Min- ister of Ilighways is, "it will he the means of inviting and bringing thou- sands of foreigners t, take their auto drives through Ontario and leave thousands of dollars behind them,' Who will got: the benefit of this money? 1t is simply another great. inconlivo to further encourage the Middlemen and entice still mare of to. people from the farms. Very little of tin, money- will ever find way info thy• peeled, of the real wealth -producers of the country. Over $21,000,000,00 was expended in 1921 by the Province and various municipalities in old Ontario 071 road work carried through by (he Govern- ment. itself or by municipalities, with plans approved by the Government; and the same expenditure must have been over $30,000,000.00 in 1922. 111 1921, amounts spent within the several counties, varied from $105,000 in Prince Edward County, to $1,912,- 000.00 in Carleton. In five counties or united counties, the expenditure exceeded $1,000.000. In fifteen others it exceeded $500,000; Perth County,. $e41,000 equals nearly double the amount, of the aggregate municipal taxation of nil townships in Perth in 14.21; 5221110e 8770.000; Peel, 3610,- 0011, prartically the vnit221 of all hogs sold in Peel; Carleton, 32,000,000.00; Lincoln, 81,107,000, more tpai n one- third of all field crop value,'In these reunties; Welland, $736,000, more than the value of all grain clr�ops in the county in 1921; Halton, 3585,000, one- fifth of its field crops; Rent, $793,000, thing Wit? :teem,'t '. liaise put onthe a . long ap$eri" eleettiarlate qry then4seivea app ng 't iB •britkeaY this the reason why the people sib' maintaining a dead silence? Is that they are just waiting for their ballots? TAXES AND IMMIGRATION, "We're taxed to death." Thus saint' City Man No.' 2. How we all hate, taxes.. .This. tribute to "Caesar" does not seem to be appreciated in Canada any better than in Judea 71,000 years ago. Yet, like death, it dogs our' footsteps and every year its bony fingers worm their way into our pocket books, dip deep, and takes-. its levywithout so much as a thank You. Come on in, Mr. Immigrant,' re all willing to share up with. Soh on this. Come, help us pay our taxes. We know you didn't assist us. to borrow the money or even spend it, but we don't mind you helping us: to foot the bill when the time comes for the'debtto be repaid. How much do we owe? you. ask. Oh, not much. Let us count it up: Dominion debt, 32,500,000,000.00; Pro- vincial debt, $230,000,000.00; total, 32,730,000,000.00. Well suppose for the moment we try to realize what. thia debt means. Suppose we were to get that money printed into dollar Mlle and we asked a bank clerk to. count it out to us three per second, and he worked steady for eight hours. a day, 300 days a year. It would take him over 1,000 years to count it. Again, suppose we laid those same bank notes side by side and end to end, we could lay a side walk of dollar bills, 3 by 8 inches wide all around the world, that is, a sidewalk 3 feet 8 inches wide and 25,000 miles long. Now we certainly are up against a big problem in our capital account and we might just as well look it square in the face and mea- sure up what we are asking our im- migrants to help us meet. So we'll do a little more figuring and see what it means to him. Let us suppose our immigrant is a sturdy Scotch yoeman with a good- looking wife and five rosy cheeked youngsters pulling at her apron strings. He's here by the invitation. of the Hon. Mr. Doherty,, who is go- ing to locate him on a nice 100 -acre farm. What capital debt are we go- ing to place on him and his family? Well, our Dominion debt, divided' among 8,500,000 population, equals. $300 per head- Our Provincial debt amounts to $77 per head, a total of $177 per head—a grand total on the. Scotchman and his family of $2639. That's the capital debt we throw at him as soon as he arrives. Now let us examine our taxes and see what we are going to charge him for the privilege of living in Ontario, Can- ada. The figures I am now going - to give you are for the year 1920. These are the latest figures; the 1921 book is not yet to hand and may net yet be ready for general distribution. Ir1920 the Dominion Government collected the following revenue:— Customs tax $168.796,823.00 Excise 42,698,083.00 War Tax 82,079,801.00 Total $293,574,607.00 These are the main items of gen- era! taxation; $56,171,731 was gath- ered from other sources, but the above figures as they indicate general taxr- ation, are sufficient for our purpose. Taking the above total and striking an average per unit of population, we get $34.54, a total of $241.78 for the. Scotchman and his family. Now we turn back 10 the customs tax. For es cry dollar collected through cus- toms frons the Canadian, the Canadian manufacturer collects three dollars. In other words, in 1920 through the ma ration of the custom t.arifT, thi'. Canadian manufacturers extracted the additional sum of $500,390,469.00, average of se0.18, a total against the Sr„tchman of 3407.16. Now turn t„ municipal taxes. If the immigrant. is located on a 100 -acre farm ill Tnelc,v'smit.h er Stanley, his yearh- nu,nicipnl tax will approximate $95, I We'll put thus, it,•n<, together - 11, minion Tax $241.74 Manufacturer'.0 Tax 417.00 'Municipal Tax 91.09 Total $ 723.84 How this indirect taxation blinds one. If a robber were to hold up the editor of this paper and rob him to the tune of $010.00, what a row there would be; but, between the Dominion Government, and the Manufacturer it is managed se quietly that one only marvels where the money has gone to Is itany wonder that farming is a very hazardous financial opera- tion? Take $750 from a farmer's income and he hasn't much left for himself. Well, what are you going to do about it? Don't you think that the first thing Canada should do is to set her house in order before allur- ing other peoples to our shores? What evil have they done that they should be brought here to bear our burdens and carry our debts? Let 215 have mercy or It will be a case of "He was a stranger and we took him in," FRANK WELCH.