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AP | Member of The Canadian Weekly Newspape: Association THE STAR EDITORIAL Thursday, February 12th, 1959 . Taxes This is the time of year to begin dream- ing of spring and thinking a very great pity that the two should go together for spring is, for most of us, something quite wonderful and taxes are, for most of us, sémething quite dreadful. But both spring and taxes have been with mankind a long, long though they haven't always come together, that is, at the same time of the year, they have come. And we suppose so in the future. But let's lay spring aside for the mo- ment--a kimd of luxury and promise for the hard days ahead--and let's do a little thinking about taxes. * They have a long history. tribal days taxes were first a sort of tribute levied on the weak and the poor by the powerful and ric pose of making the rich richer and the poor, poorer, - For hundreds of years thi equal yoke served to keep the majority of human beings in servitude to a small min- ority. Taxes, all kinds of taxes flourished and wealth concentrated in the hands of a few made its presence known by a con- spicuous luxury and waste yy The Estimates The estimates brought down by the Fed- eral government represent a record in the history of Canadian government expendi- estimates is roughly the two lars. One of the main reasons for these high estimates is roughy the two lars devoted tunately, such expenditures up the inflationary trend. ment is faced with very serious problems, indeed. It has committed it measures and subsidies which represent a constantly expanding budget and yet, at the same time, it is harnessed to defence o national defence. otes and Comments disaster. of taxes. It's - . time and al- that it will be In ancient introduced as feel that taxes h for the pur- 8 kind of un- make available that invited is spring. war years. billions of dol- fence economy billions of dol- Unfor- servatives are simply speed expenditure. The govern- ture? self to welfare 1 tions: The disasters which- we have labelled history rather reversed things. To-day we tax the rich to make the poor - vicher--not rich in an individual sense, but nevertheless rich. come, the higher your taxes. 'these taxes used? To supply all sorts of service and protection. transportation, -- especially for diplomats and the families of soldiers -- education, hospitalization, pensions, family allowan- ces, sewers, waterworks, police, fire, army, air-force, navy and subsidiary forces--art galleries, museums, archives, libraries-- the list goes on and on. When we pay our individual taxes, we stop-to consider how rich we poor have be- > come through the collection and disperse- ment of taxes our resentment and our grumbling seem quite out of place. Just imagine any one of us trying to buy any one of the services or benefits which taxes of all this, the truth of which is inescap- abe most of us will go on suffering taxes most unhappily--cheered only perhaps by the thought that over and beyond the taxes costs as great as those it met during the Obviously, as the Prime Minister so ably put it, you can't have it all ways. fare economy means inflation. two together and you have what the Con- what about taxes to meet such an expendi- The Conservatives in election pro- mises committed themselves to tax reduc- We await the miracle by which they" hope to achieve this in the light of the recent estimates. Weekly newspapers, facing the most crucial period of test they have ever experienced, are being revitalized by the strong competition they face, Bdrry Wenger, 1958 president of the Ontario Weekly, Newspapers Associa- tion, 'told the annual convention at Toronto's Royal York Hotel, Febru- ary 6 - 17. Mr. Wenger, who publishes the Wingham Advance, -said that despite the strong competition of other mass communication, weekly papers will not disappear, . : "With the application of intelligence and imagination onthe part of man- agement, the rural weekly is still and will continue to be the one medium in our land which is thoroughly digested in every detail," he said in his annual report. "And most certainly the weekly newspaper is the only publica- "tion of any kind into which the char- acter, reputation and truthfulness of the publisher is projectedin a person- al, neighbour-to-neighbour fashion." Maintaining that no daily news- paper, no magazine, radio or TV sta. tion is read or listened to with the faith and credénce to which the ma- jority of weekly newspapers are ac- customed, Mr. Wenger stated: "Our : journals have tremendous influence on the course of history in this province --no small responsibility for an edi- tor to face." i The higher your in- And how are Roads, public are a burden--but when we to us all? But, and in spite Werden Leavens, secretary.- man-) ager of the association and publisher of the Bolton Enterprise, said that weekly publishers' should not forget that all national advertising is local A de- advertising if their local dealer must . v get the copy for them. means inflation ALS wy "It is friends up and down Main Street who tell the boys downtown to put it in the local weeklies," Mr. Lga- now faced with--A record | The question now arises, l] His remarks reflected the convention theme displayed behind speakers in the business sessions: "We'd Better Sell Better Now." . An address by Jack Baldwin of the photo advertising department of the Fairchild Instrument and Camera Co., New York City, followed the reports of Mr. Wenger and Mr. Leavens. Clipped Comments NEW MIDDLE CLASS Of Many Things At the Friday Awards Luncheon sponsored by the Natural Gas Comp- anies of Ontario, Oakah L. Jones, vice- president and general mamager, The Consumers' Gas Company, assured "Weekly Papers will not Disappear" Says 0. W.N. A. President over, the Canadian Statesman of Bow- manville was first, the Midland Free Press Herald second and Leamington Post third. The J. P. Johnston Trophy for ty- pographical excellence was awarded to the Port Elgin Times. The Printed Word Trophy for best editorinl page was awarded to the Midland Free Press Herald with the Tillsonburg News "gccond and Leam- ington Post and News third. Cockficld Brown and Company Tro- phy for advertising excellence went to the Renfrew Advance with the Bur- lington Gazette second and Midland [ree Press Herald third. ) An award for the best use of pic- tures, by the Fairchild Camera and In. strument Corporation, was won by the Midland Free Press Herald. The E. T. Stephenson Trophy for Best Front Page was won by the Lea- mington Post, with the Canadian Statesman second and the Oakville Journal third. Anne Bonn of Toronto was present- ed with the $125.00 OWNA bursary for her thesis on the Listowel Banner. She wrote the thesis last summer dur- ing her vacation from Ryerson Insti- tute where she is a student in journal- ism. . - Icdward J. Mannion, director of ad- vertising for the Thomson newspapers, spoke on the subject of "Rétail Adver- tising." Canadian Pacific Railway officials arranged an extensive tour of the new Royal York addition--a 400-room addi-" tion that again makes the hotel lar- vest hotel in the Commonwealth. The Ontario room has a large mural in oils entitled "The Toronto Purchase'. Other pictures constructed of inlaid fruitwood recall provincial history. At the annual convention dinner on I'riday evening with the Ontario gov- crnment as hosts, Ton. "ved M. Cass, Q.C., Minister of Highways said that weekly newspapers are a fund of in- formation for his department and other departments in the provincial government. The record breaking highways pro- gram for the past five years has been fully in pace with rural road building and improvement as well as major pro- jects like the Burlington Skyway, he said. members that the expense of doing work in the natural gas industry is never a factor where the public inter District Doings "1941 to 1956. "of the grand total came from the class Considered solely on the basis--of annual income, the Canadian middle class is changing. Evidence of this comes from a government publication entitled "Taxation Statistics 1958," issued by the taxation division of the Department of Natiohal Revenue. One of the tables in this useful book gives a distribution of taxpayers by income classes for the taxation years It shows that in the carlier year the largest group of tax- payers was composed of those carn- ing from $1,000 to $2,000 a year. There were 368,862 in that group out of a total of 871,484 taxpayers. In 1956, the number of taxpayers was more than four times as large, at 3,- 908,176. The largest taxpaying group had shifted to those earning from §3,000 to $4,000 a year. They ny bered 1,015,449, while the group-below them, earning from $2,000 to $3,000, had 993,830 members. In 1956, as in 1941, it was the mid- dle and lower classes of taxpayers up- on whom the récéiver-general of Can- ada depended for the bulk of his sup- port. In spite of the steeply gradu- ated income tax, which taxes the big- gest bite from the largest incomes, more than half of the income tax pay- able in 1956 came from incomes of $6,000 or less a year. About one sixth earning from $3,000 to $4,000. It is possible, even probable, that these taxpayers do not realize their importance in the country's economy. Except for those who are self-employ- ed ,they never handle the millions that they contribute to Ottawa. They may mot even realize that their earnings are actually as large as the figures show, for it is their take-home pay that matters-in their personal financ- ing.. Their income taxes are almost as invisible to them as. the sales and excise taxes that are hidden in the costs of everything they buy. They feel the cost of living, but they are not encouraged to relate it to governmen- tal extravagance. --The Printed Word By Ambrose Hills KEEPING EM BREATHING! This is a serious tribute to the me- dical profession, but I can't resist be- ginning it with the gag about a news- paper reporter who asked an old gent for the secret of longevity, and was given the priceless answer, "Jest keep breathing, son--keep breathing." Inability to breathe freely is no joke, as thousands of asthmatics will tell you, and that's why I want to pay tri- bute right now to the medical doctors who have been encoufaging an experi- ment full of promise for those who suffer from bronchial asthma. The experiment began in -- of all Hockey players are desperate if nything goes amiss with the function- ing of their breathing apparatus. Plante, for example, had a long strug- gle with his breathing. Goyette, and even boom-boom Geoffrion had brea- thing problems. Fortunately, the fa- mous Canadiens had a physiotherapist asthma! The doctor decided to try it. 'em breathing. . " Fortunately, too; Montreal had a medical doctor who sometimes watched hockey. This doctor had an asth- matic patient, a problem patient over whom he had been worrying. Perhaps the physiotherapist who kept those players going could help a man with asthma! The doctor decided to try it. That was five years ago. That was the beginning.of an ex- periment. Bill Head, the physiothera- pist, with the superyision and encour- agement of the medical doctor (and soon other doctors, too, were sending patients and helping in the develop- ment of the méthod, found that his skill in manipulating the rib cage of an athlete could be used to help asth- matics, sometimes dramatically, near- ly always considerably. Soon the pa- tient is able to take over and do his or her own exercises to maintain the blessed relief. : ..80 far, only sports writers, inter- ested doctors, and somé one hundred relieved patients have known about his exciting work. Doctors are tradition ally shy of publicity; and Bill Head, a trained physiotherapist, but not a medical doctor, will need medical sponsorship and the facilities of a me- W Saturday night Hockey Broadcasts. | BOWMANVILLE COUNCIL-PASSES i Bowmanville and their pets from ra-| i est is concerned. "I don't want to go into a long essay BY-LAW TO KEEP DOGS AND CATS FROM RUNNING AT LARGE" New Anti-Rabies Measure A by. to protuct the peopl " wound up when we think of the recent y - law to protec ep eo flurry of unjustified allegations con- cerning the safety of natural gas dis- bies was passed at the meeting of " Bowmanville Town Council held in the Town Hall on Monday evening. The by-law, No. 1711, passed on Menday evening provides for the lian. that will improve on an already high sing and registration of dogs. It also standard of safety regulations. forbids any dog or cat owner to allow | tribution systems and appliances. As far as safety is concered, he ¢aid, the entire industry will welcome | A great resurgence of human spirit on natural gas safety, but we in the natural gas business can't help getting Reserve near Bala, Muskoka, was pre pany legislation or amend legislation. About 80 per cent of capital expen- diture i= devoted to improvement and extension of regular roads apart from arteries like Highway 400, Mr. Cass explained. Philip LaForce of the Gibzon Indian <ented with the Country Correspond ent of the Year Award. Mr. Laloree, virtually a full-blooded Iroquois Indian' District Churches LalForce (left), 69, of Gibson Inc Champion country correspondent for a weekly paper, Philip lian Reserve near Bala, receive Ontario Hydro's award of merit from James A. Blay, Hydro « Director of Information. Presentation took place in Toront, during the annual convention « Association, which selected Mr. Bracebridge Herald-Gazette. of Ontario Weekly Newspapers LalForce for his column in the A] won the award for his outstanding work cach week in the Bracebridge Herald-Gazette: He became correspondent when his brother, the reserve Seribe, died in 1951. Edwin A. "Chick" Spenée, publisher "of the Strathroy Advance, was named "Mr. Weekly Newspaperman of the Year™ at the dinner. Mr, Spence who began his career as a newsman with the London Free ress has owned the Advance since 1935. Before that he served in nearly every type of editor- ial post, both as an active reporter and on the desk. War I and World War IL ~ Convention delegates were guests of the Canadian Bankers' Association at a wake-up breakfast Saturday. New Officers' Luncheon when Gregory Clark, well known Canadian feature writer, spoke. New officers ave: President, George Ellis, Goderich Signet-Star: 1st Vice- President, Fugene A. MacDonald, Al- exandria-Glengarry News; 2nd Viee- resident, Herbert Co Campbell, Dut- ton Advance; Secretary - Manager, Werden Leavens, Bolton Enterprises +2 Past President, Barry Wenger, Win- ham Advance. Bert Smiuth, Port Credit Weekly; Lynn The following directors were elected: | Carl [.ashbrook, Rodney Mercury: He served in both World | Im- perial Oil Limited played host at the | Manvoe, Meaford Express; David Dills, Acton Frege Press; D. M. Me- Quai, Renfrew Advance; John James, Prescott Journal. | Gu FUEL 8 A COLD- COLD HOUSE 15 ALWAYS BAD, BUY OUR GOOD OIL ) HEATS LIKE MAD!!! IMPIRIAL q OtAacER Phone YUkon 5-2572 ® PORT PERRY ONTARIO 4 Bowmanville Statesman; John Morris, places--the Montreal Forum, scene of | their pets to run at large. Town Councilwill appoint a dog-catcher and! location and construction of a pound. ! creative talent in i ! . . a pound keeper and wil) approve the lively arts in Canada today, is evident "manifesting itself in an awakening of the fields of the . One doesn't have to wonder whether in the Ontario Weekly Newspapers its winter or not, and today (Tuesday) competitions, A. M. Pratt, director of | seems to be a good day to remain home curriculum for the Department of i Education, Manitoba, said in adjudi PICKERING COUNCIL TO GET TOUGH ON COTTAGES fare Officer, Pickering Township coun- | newspaper contests. cil passed a motion this week that One of the feautres was the undoub- those persons who have been living in ted excellence of photography and en- winterized cottages up to the present graving in many of the entries, he re- time be deemed as special cases accor- marked. "Another feature T espegial- ding to the by-law but that in future |y commend to the attention of all edi- any cottages that are lived in year tors and publishers regardless of fi- round must be brought up to the stan- "nancial resourses is the encouragement [for tho ¢ who may. And vet, by and ! . . ! Carge, the weather has very little in- Following a report from the Wel. cating 1058 entries for the better! . floence on our business activities. 1 know as a facet, that on a very stormy and icy morning, that a Teacher ar- rived at School at 6.00 a.m. to be sure of not disappointing the pupils. These dave do remind us of winters in Nor- thern Ontario, when horses and cutters literally had to be pushed through dard building by-law now in effect.' WISH TO FORM POLICE VILLAGE AT W. ROUGE MEETS OPPOSITION A plan to set up a Police Village in the Pickering Township community of West Rouge, met with rather strong opposition by some members of Coun- cil at their regular meeting on Mon- day night last week. Mr. Kenneth W. Jones, President of the West Rouge: Community Association informed Council that a majority vote of 89.9 favoured such action. Mr. Jones said that they wished the Township to en- ter into an agreement similar to the one with the Police Village of Clare- mont. The West Rouge has a popula. tion of 1,600 and an area of 600 acres. ~ < a 4 5 Pi chanical treatment for bronchial as- thma is to come into widespread use. I have a notion that the sponsor- ship and the facilities will soon be- come availablé, Canadian doctors and the Canadian people have a reputation This by-law will be strictly enforced. | for sponsoring progress in any area where health is concerned. dieal school or university if his me- 1 snow drifts. The hor=e and cutter are ontributor: ticularly of local contributors, particularly gone, and now we ean travel in heat- those whose efforts fall into the kind ed cars, even though last evening one of writing known as creative." had to stop so often and remove the "The weekly newspaper can play a tea Tro the windshiold, We were very important part in the field oF} ote to have our Three Services on creative writing by encouraging local | Sunday, and our heating plant on the writers, however youthful, to submit " their work for publication in its pages." aditors Note -- This applies to the larger weeklies, for examplt The Can- adian Statesman, Bowmanville. Island did a good job. Sometimes it doesn't take very much to slow us down. All three Churches were very comfortable. Thanks so much Marion Wehster for vour lovely solo at Pros- pect. We were able to carry through all our activities last week. There was a good attendance at Scugog "Head" W.A. at the home of Joyce Heayn. Plans were made for a Crokinole and Fuchre Party in the Hall at the 'Head' on Saturday evening Feb, 21st. Also SQeugog 'Mead' WAL will he Host to all our W.A's on Wednesday, June 3rd in the evening. The Presidents will be getting together and planning the meeting. Manchester W.A. on Thurs Winner of the Joseph T. Clarke Tro- phy for newspapers under 1500 in the general excellence contest was the Winchester Press representing East. ern Ontario. The Rodney Mercury, from the Western area of the province was second and the Gore Bay Dispatch, Manitoulin Tsland, was third. The Albert V. Nolan Trophy for centres of 1500 to 4600 population was won by the Port Elgin Times whose day at the home of Ruby Fielding, was publisher is a former Toronto adver- also well attended. We misged the tising agency executive, Kenneth Pel Presidents but it wag blowing and tis. The Stofiffville Tribune was sed- diiftifz so much, that we all under- ond and' thé Strathroy Age-Despatch' stood and sympathized. Thanks ever third. Iso much Marion Cawker for taking In competition for the Aurora Ban- over. Manchester plans to hold a ner Trophy for towns of 4500 and |Special Meeting on Thursday, March Val EEA Mita 19th in the Church and have our Min- peter show his pictures of Jamaica, and tel! about come of the develop ments ther: Full particulars about other parte of the programme will be given, and mvitations to come of the adjoining W. As are going out On Sunday at Scugog CGrace" Church, the Superintendent and Tea- chers and Scholars of the Sunday School held their I romotion INxercises, and certificates and pins were given to the pupils. We did miss our first arrivals at Chureh, namely Marion and Don Crozier, wht are in the South We that it warm in Florida, afl look forward to having you with us again; but with Provided that the weather is favourable, there" will sunny hope really < 1s two good coats of tan. be evening service at 8.00 p.m. in Scu- grog "Head" Church this coming Sun- day evening. We have commenced the week by a series of postponements. The roads were too heavy and icy for Brown Owl and Tawny Owls to venture forth; and also the Leaders were not able to meet with the older girls in the even ing. However girls, you are all invit- ed next week Wednesday to meet with the "Guides" in Port Perry, and trans portation will be arranged. Please get in touch with Joan Aldred, Kath- leen Loates and Myrtle Manns, It looks right now that there will be no Cubs and Scouts this evening either. They have just heen called off. Scu- gog "Grace" W. A. is scheduled: to meet at the Parsonage tomorrow ev- ening. The Minister and his wife give a very cordial invitation to all the ladies of the cob "Foot" to he with us each month, Prospect W.A. Scugoy, Manchester and Prospect will meet on Thursday evening at the home of Tot Holtby, Please note that the Stewards are meting in the Pros- pect Church on Friday evening at 8.30 immstead of Wedneaday the Stewards are attending a meeting of Milk Producers on Wedne:! iry pom Many of Teven- Seugogr Choir will meet on Friday Last Sunday our Theme was JESUS, and we renewed our faith in His Tower to heal. "We believe that in Jesus Christ, God acted to save man, telling at measurceless cost, man's «in vpon Himself; that the Cross reveals at once God's abhorrence of cin, and Hi. saving Idve in its height, and depth, and power, and that the Cross iv for all time the effectual means of reconciling the world with God". Here was the closing note on a Theme that can never be exhausted: "By a great outpouring of His love, Christ has pro- ven the seriousness of the evils that confront us. He saved others. Love would not save Himself, Are you not evening j Holy God hanging on a Cross for your «ins? But there on the Cross, God | conqjjuered sin. His love triumphed, I And so can you. Only a faith in Je- | sus Christ as Saviour alone can give Ito us the Victory." We invite you one and all to come and worship with us con Sunday. | Happy birthdays to Sharon Hulcoop, Ivan Jeffrey ,and Velma Michie of the" Island; to Doug Aird of Manchester, and to Joanne Mosienko and Robert | Greenwood of Prospect. : wishes and love to all the sick and shut-in. The sun still shines, even though the clouds will get in the way. moved my friend at the sight of a, Our best EIR, nn, < -- or ay A CYNE i oh oa A 's ou Ep A " Vip, on aie oi Zr Ad Hon Pg FO Ere i