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4 The Canadian Statnm, EowmanvMfl, <an. 28, lIN IDITORIAI. COMMENT These Questions Are Sensible Why flot get maximum effort out of our really gifted people who make business run well and who develop this cou.ntry? On their flair and energy the Welfare of the whole country depends. "Why flot devise plans to attract to our country people with capital, inventive- nas, skills and energy by providing here greater incentives for these quali- ties than in the land of nur neighbor and in many other lands?" The chief of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Neil J. McKinnon, asked those questions at the Canadian Club ïcf Toronto last week. Commenting, The Financial Post asks: Don't you think the questions are sensible? Present tax palicy punishes the competent and it does flot belp Canada attract the people we mast need from other countries. Soak-the-smart income tax rates do nothing of conse- quence for revenues. The whole tax take over the 507v level is less than 117 of total personal income tax reven- ues and less than one-third of 11% of total federal revenues. Look at succes- sion duties, says Mr. McKinnon. They are a prime reason why so many Cana- dian firme are selling out to Americans. Wby not, be asks, skip inheritance taxes on all the assets of Canadian residents which are invested in Cana- dian equities. These levies produce less than 2%, of our revenues. What will the Carter Royal Commission recommend? This clearly is the time ta dispose of some of the politically popular, but economically fatuous, tax follies. Nine different deductions fram a worker's pay cheque are flot unusual naw that the egular bite for the Can- ada Pension Plan bas begun, reports a financial writer for the-Toronto Globe and Mail. Fis sumvey lists the collec- tions that employers must make for governments as personal incarne tax, pensions, bospital insurance and unem- ployment insumance. Other deductions may caver union dues, group life insur- ance, medical services, charitable dona- tions and the savings bond plan. Employers do flot elist the prospect b ut tbey will not be surprised if the Eist is extended in tbe future. The deductions can bring reduc- tions in take-bome pay af 20 ta 25 per cent. As an example, froni tbe payroll records of a food manufacturing cam- pany employing 950 workems, an em- ployee who is married and bas one child and earns $92 a week bas deduc- tions of $19.54 and a take-bome pay af only $72.46. Apart entimely from the rnoney deducted fmom the employee's pay, or the matching contributions made by the employer, the cost af making the col- lections bas become a formidable ex- pense. A manufacturing company ini ~London, Ontario, says that despite the Installation of data processing machines, -clerical payroll staff today is double ,ihat needed ten yeams ago for the sanie .tiumber of employees. A Montreal de- partment store witb 1,000 employees estimates that its bookkeeping costs for payrolh deductians flow equal one per cent af total payroll - which would seem ta be an expense af about $50,000 a year and whicb, of course, would have ta be passed on ta the store's customers. Further ta this point, since wage and sahary payments in Canada now total $25 billion a year, the extra cost ta business af administering payroll de- ductions could be in the neighborbood af $200 million a year - a business expense that, of course, bas ta be re- covered in higher prices. The deductions-at-source systern is no hoon to the public or business, but it ista others. Labor unions, for in- stance, would find it difficuit and per- haps impossible ta achieve 100 per cent collection of dues without the check-off. For governments it is an efficient and infaîhible way af collecting bath incarne taxes and welfare contributians. It flot only saves them administrative cos,!s and bother, but any esentment over cuts in take-home pay is likehy ta be aimed entirely at the boss. In the case af incarne taxes, where the worker theoretically bas until Aprîl 30tb af any yéar ta remit what be awes on bis previaus year's earnings, it mnakes col- lections on a pay-in-advance basis without the worker even being aware aI it. But for bath business and workers, the deductions-at-source system is a sort of writ aI garnishee against wbich there is no appeal. Report from,,0f fciwa By Russell C. Honey, M.P. Canada's 27th Parliament opened this week -as those Members elected an November 8th gathered in Ottawa ta observe the time honomed rituals asso- ciated with the occasion. Thre iniyrghverrgven paiicn less three f irtyshagvenents .tao much priority over poitics. In the Iast two Parliaments the Ibreat af an early dissolution bas had a tendency -to cause many debates ta degenerate ,-nto political squabbles as each party jockeyed for high gound in the event cian early election. It bas been said that Parliament Ais now on trial. 1 think this is essen- ýtially true. It is certainly on trial in t he public mind because the Canadian -people are not prepamed ta tolerate the rubbing af saIt into aid political wounds. Tbey expeet Pariament ta get on with» the nation's business in an efficient and expeditiaus manner. One can still be hopeful but after three days of the new Pariament some grave doubts are appearing. In the last session of Parliament, sweeping changes weme adopted in the procedural ules of the House of Com- morts designed ta minimize repititiaus Èpeeches, squabbling over futile points of order and other tactics designed ta -tbwart the effective functianing af Parliament. These changes included a e > ime lumit on question periods and 1 Provision for limiting debates by agree- ment among the parties in the House. -The ules also fcatured a complete me- e.rganizatian af the Committee struc- ,ture to give Parliamentary Committees a great deal mare responsibility, par- ticularly in the matter of studying De- partmental estimates and examining the details of legisiation before it is finally adopted by the House of Com- mans. In the last session same changes in the ules weme adopted ta overcome the abuses which weme possible under the existing ules. In the fimst days af this new Parliament a question bas been raised as ta whether or not these rules wilh carry over into this new Parliament. Early indications are that the Prog- ressive Conservative Party will want ta revert ta the aid mules. The Liberal and minor Opposition parties have in- dicated that they want ta continue the new streamlined ules in this new Parliament. The issue wili bave ta be settled within the next few days. If there is a majar confrontation over the ules issue it wilI be evidence that this Par- liament will probably regress inta procedural squabbles, time-consuming arguments over points af order and the other problenis which have featured the past two Parhiaments af minarity gov- ernments. Ail Canadians hohd high hopes for the future af this new Parliament. I do not like ta be a pessimist, but, the iockeying we have seen ta date over the question af adapting the new strearnhined ules indîcates that we may nat be able ta expect much relief frorn the procedumal pmoblems which phagued the last two minarity govern- ments. Duzherm Couatiy'.GaetFaily journal ~ Estfibhshd 112 yeamraao in 1854 Alio ao corporatinq c:.The Eowmanville ew TheNewcatle Indpendont The Orono Nowa r Lï AuthorL*od as Second Ca,. 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Eyes glinting, voices lowered, they discuss with relish Aunt Sadie's cancer of the liver, the weekend accident in which a pillar of the community smash- ed bis pelvis while heading for the city with bis mistress, or Uncle George's advanced dropsy. It's a shame, then, ta disappoint these people when there's a chance ta add a little color ta their lives. This week I bad that chance. I cut my foot rather badly. Notbing serious, but en- ough ta give mie a gond heavy limp. It happened on the weekend, and Monday morning I was ready for theni. The first eager enquirer caught me just inside the door, as I arrived for work. iVhat was it? Bad flu and a broken ankie? Hopcfully. Arthritis getting un- bearable? Coyl3'. No, no, notbing as simple as that, I assured lier. I explained that my wife and I had been practising aur karate on Saturday night, as usual. Growing bored with srnashing those big dents in the refrigerator with the sides af our hands, we'd decided ta try sanie footwor.k. I'd launched a jump-kick at my wife's teeth. She, a real karate expert, had stuck out ber tangue, and it was so sharp she'd opened a four- inch gash in rny foot. Four inches deep, that i S. I don't know whe tber the lady who'd asked believed me. I just walked off and lef t ber standing there, mouth open, eyes slightly crossed. The next enquiry came from one of those loudmouths who Iiked ta em- barass one in front of a group. He tried. Loudly, "Wbada do? Get drunk and fall down the cellar stairs, ha-ho?" Not at ahi, I toldhd im calmily. I'd got drunk, been locked out, slept in a snowbank ail nigbt, wakened with a frozen foot, and bad bad ta have three toes amputated. I asked bim if be'd like one as a souvenir, but he didn't seem ton keen. 25 YEARS AGO (Jan. 30, 1941) Edgar Tomlinson, chief mechanie at McKeever's Garage, Tempemance St., bas returned from Toronto where ho tank an intensive course in motor mechanics at, the Chrysler-Plymouth Service School. Thirty-six officers of flhe Second Battalion, Midland Regiment, and the 32nd Company Veterans' Guard of Canada, assembled under orders, on Sunday st Mill- brook for discussion of regi- mental affairs. The annual mess banquet feâtumed the occasion. Officers f r o m Bo w ma nv iille were Col. Lamne T. McLaughlin, G.M. C., D.S.O.; Lt. Col. Percy Jobb, V.D.; Major Spencer (C h apla inr), Capt. Joe O'Neill, M.C., and Lieuts. A. L. Baker. Leitch Scott and Bill Brown. The "Smiling Tbru Club" of 14 ladies held a euchre and draw 8t the home nf Mr. Ear] Byam, Church Street, on Monday evening. Prîze winners were Miss E. Mc- Intyre, Earl Byam, Thomas Gould, William Slaght, Miss J. Leach and Mns. T. Grahamn. Mr. Henry Lath- rope was winner of the draw on cushion. Mr. James McDougall, Toronto, was in tawn lest week calling an bis aid friend, Mr. John McIntyre. Fred Richardson, Port Hope lawyer, had a narow escape from death Saturday morning when a Hope Township fammer entered hie office and aimed a .22 rifle at him, the buJhet landing in Richardson's jaw. Only bis presence of mind in throwing himueif ta the floor of the car when he realized that a crash was imminent is believed ta have saved the lufe ai Ross fice, Bawmanville, when hie car left the highway a mile east af Pickering an Sunday. The partnership af Me- Keever & S mith, Garage, has been dissolved as of Dec. 31, 1940. The reason for this lu on account af Harold C. Smith being taken on the National De- fense Department at Otta- wa: Aircraftsman Jack Gibbs, R.C.A.F.. C a mp Borden, visited hie parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Gibbs. Mr. Thomas Dustan, Trin- ity Cdllege, Toronto, wa.s home for the weekend. Pte. Ronald Richards, Mid- land Regt., Cobourg, was home for the weekend. Miss Aura Prout le hall- daying with her cousin, Mrs. H. Leal, Tweed. Orono: Charles Cooper iand daughter Audrey were tippéd over whe comusg Orono Mondu =iyJ The next customer was a malicious old bat who looks like the flower, but ln réfflty Is the serpent under it. "«Been flghting with your wife again? It's about tim se put her foot down. On yours, hee-hee." "Well, we weren't exactly f ighting," I told her. "I bad the shotgun out and was just trying ta scare ber a littie, just in £un, when the damn thing went off and blew a bale in my foot the si;e of an orange. Wanta see?" She tumned green and started ta sway, so I left t er. A fourth interragatar, a young lady who loves trouble - other people's that is - came up ta me, eyes glisten- ing, and solicitoushy hoped it was noth- ing seriaus. I said flot really, just a few severed tendons. Never be able ta wigghe my toes again, but lucky ta get off sa easily. "After ail, it was a 30- foot drap." Gaping, she pursued. "What in the world bappened?" "Nothing much. I feli off the roof and landed on one of the iran spikes in the front porch railing." "But what in the world wcre you doingr up on the roof, in the mniddle of winter? You must have been out of your mind!" "Oh, no, flot really. 1 was just try- ing ta get my wife ta corne down out of the tree." And that shut ber up. As the day \vent an, I told other vultures that: A Greyhound bus had stopped on top af my foot and didn't mnove until the lights changed; the foot had been burned beyond recognition by a faulty electric blanket; that my daugbter bad been helping ta chop kindling for the fireplace, missed, and lopped off aIl but my lilttlest toe. Getting my coat in the claakroom at the end af a pretty interesting da.y, 1 heard two female colleagues, unaware of my presence, reconstructing the ac- cident. "Drunk as a billy-goat, they say, and climbing a tree after black squir- rels, witb a shotgun." "No, na. 1 beard he'd gone after bis wife and kids with the axe, and dropped it an bis foot." I limped off. Quietly. Triumpbantly. 49 YEARS AGO (Feb. 1. 1917) Mrs. A. W. Brewster, daughter Mary and son Robert, who have been visit- ing hem parents, Mr. and Mrs, W. L. Key&, let Satur- day for St. Marys ta visit ber sister, Mrs. E. F. Weekes, enroute home in Detroit. Mr. R. G. McConochie re- ceived a severe flu from the icy steps of the High Schoal whicb bas caused him ta romain in his room for a few days. The two escaped prisoners semvîng a lufe sentence for rourder wbo were captured heme last week by Chie! Jarvis single-handed, were taken ta Fort Madison State Prison, Iowa, by tho Chief. Chief Jarvis says ho was shown every kindness pas- sible by the U.S. police force enroute and by tho officiais nt the Prison Farm where he Ianded bis two prisaners safely. Lodge Wellington, S.O.E. B.S., No. 19, newly elected officers are: Past President, H. J. Babcock;, Worthy Presi- dont, R. Holmes; Vice-Presi- dent, T. Heightan; Chaplain, W. H. Thîckson; Secretary, W. W. Boddam; Treasurer, Jas. Elliott; lst Committee- man, H. H. Richards; 2nd Committeeman, J. Gi; 3rd Committeeman, W. J. Berry; 4th Committeeman, A. M. Hardy; Sth Committeeman, Ricb. Hamblyn; 6th Com- mitteernan, W. J. Bragg; In- side Guard, D. Grigg; Out- side Guard, Jesse Hunt», District Deputy, M. J. Smith; Physician, Dr. A. S. Tilley, M.D.; Janitor, J. Hunt. Mr. Wm. Prawer ai the Bankc of Mentreal, Que., has beuri chosen one et seven men ta go ta the bank in London, England. He spexit Sunday with bis mother, Mrs. W. P. Prower. Mr. and Mrs. T. C. J@well entertained the returned saldiers and a number ni ather fiends Wednesday evening. Mrs. F. D. Dickson wha sang sa beautifully in the Methodist Church Sunday week was guest ai ber sister-in-law, Mrm. Gea. Cal- Ian, Duke St. Miss T. V. Prout and Miss E. M. Babcock are spendting a pleasant week at the lat ter't home, Belleville. Mrs. Thos. Stajp1eton, of Cedardale, recently visited ber parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Brimacombe. Miss Doris Jugger, St. Catharines, Io visit gher cousin, Mr.. (Dr.) Rl. W. Clark. Capt. Albert Norton, But- lais, N.Y., is vloltlng nid friend# ber.. Cn.W. J. Hoar of the U5i-att., Lindsay, apoit SUadaY at home. Memorial Hospital Weekly Report Week of Jan. 17-23 inclusive Adminions . - - 70 Births--2 mai@, 6 female 8 Discharges , ---------77 Major operations -,------ 17 Minor operations .---- 28 Emergency treatments- - 22 Visiting hours 3-8 p.m. daily S- M. &id,gYoungman 's Columrt A fortnight ago, the Statesman re- vealed that, now, farmers; farmers' wives, and farm help are covered by Workmen's Compensation Board legis- lation, and about time, too. The Board began operating on Jan- uary lst, 1915, and, for fifty years has leaned over backwards making sure that any dumb cluck in industry was well protected when injured, 'but the same Board neyer seemed to bust a gusset on behaif of the one who kept mneat, spuds, and flour available for the pampered darlings of industry. The farmer has been the "forgotten man." Having been a 'farm hand', and having operated my own farm, I know that the farmer is the last bastion of individualism in this country, which fact may have kept him from becoming unionized to the point where he could demand, and receive the same treat- ment accorded others. The recent tran- sit strike ini New York City is a case in point. If the farmers of Canada were as highly organized, and as ruthless in their behavior, and withheld their pro- duce from the town and city markets, they would receive the undivided at- tention of everybody; and ail levels of government would quickly grant reas- onable demands. Farmers have been, and are, organ- ized, in Canada, but don't seem to have prof ited much by their unionism. Why? Is it because their leaders are humane men, who advise against vio- lence, and thuggery? We know that, last sumrner's Farmers' Union march on Ottawa was a well conducted, dig- nified affair, but what was gained? What did they want? Well! One of the things they'd like is Parity of Prices which, in simple terms means if the economy of the country is buoyant, farmn incomýe should be correspondingly buoyant - and why not? The average farmer has a large in- vestment in land, buildings, livestock, machinery, and other essentials, and bas to be a weather judge, veterinarian, soil analyst, carpenter, mason, econa- rnist, accounitant, machinist, etc., so why shouldn't he have reasonable price stability? JANUARY SNOWFALL I woke this morning, ta a warld 0f dazzling sunshine, ligbt, and shade, The snow, in deep white calm, unsoiled, A very fairyland bad made. It reahhy was a gala scene, The sky above, pure turquoise blue, And every spruce and evergreen, Their skirts with emmine trimmed, made new.. And lavely violet sbadows lie Across the ways, none yet bas trod, On such a morning, you and I May see the bandiwork of God. HOW VERY TRUE! A little boy was sent one day, To buy a loal of bread, He started out, igbt blithe, and gay, But this is wheme it led. The bread was warm, and very new, And smelhed just simply grand, The littie boy-was hungry toc, And from that boal, 50 soft. and new, Pulled bunks out af one end.' Sa, by the time that hïé'came 'home, That bread was like a sheil, This is the end of 4ny small oem If more - l'Il let you te-lep N.. -- But how is he going to acquire it without strong, unified action? Belong. ing to a local union is flot the answer. The union must be International in scope, or there- would be U.S.A p.. ing of farm products ta nullify os- sible Canadian farrners' strike. ffl When this writer arrived in Can- ada, sixty years ago, this country* economy was largely agricultural. In those days, when the politician was ap- proacbed by a group of agriculturists seeking proteétive legislation, he could say "Yes indeed, my rural friends, your interests will be studied." But, behind their backs bie could say "We've nothing to fear fromn thase yokels because, in spite of their overwhelming numbers, they are not organized to force their demands." Today, the wily politician can say "You are the backbone of our Canadian society, and deserve a place in our ecanomic sun." But at the saine time he probably says, sotto voce, "these hicks don't scare me because they only represent forty f ive per cent of the Canadian economic force. and are flot organized to the point where they are a serious threat at the poils." So it appears that, through lack of intelligent organization, and dynamic leadership, the farmer has been, and is bis own worst enemy. During the f ive months long strike of the General Motors employees, a few' years ago, those chaps stood f irmn to the point of risking loss of jobs, homes, cars - everything. Would members of a farmers' union do likewise? Sympa- thetie unions donated considerable cash ta the Oshawa cause - would farmers across the country, do the samne? When industrial leaders demand inecased dues, there is grumbling, but the members pay up. Could members of a faim union be counted on to be as agreeable? Only the farmers can answer these questions. One thing seems sure! Until the farmer emulates the tactics of the in- dustrial unionist to back up his demands, he is going to remain what he bas always been -- the forgotten man of the Canadian economy. A Writ of Garnishee tX Corner for Joets In the Dim '.a Distant Past From the Statesman File. f