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sr2 the georgetown herald wednesday evening may 8th 1940 the georgetown herald news af geergesswn nerval oka whnaaa uimt swwaruowm will fed and terra cetta canada 3lb0 ayear united states 200 a year stagfe conies so advertising rates wlh be quoted on application walter o bsbhn publisher btaixoerfleld l moglfcrray phone no leslie clark reginald broomhead the editors corner wab taxation dean wilson gives us this week in ottawa week by week e summary of opinion in the capital as to the probable bases for increased taxation during the war rumor has persisted for some tune that income tax exemptions for both married and unmarried persons may be lowered while this would result in increased revenue for th government we eel that it would throw an even more unfair burden on the salaried man a man who is on the payroll of any concern is always the goat when it comes to paying income tax there is no possible way he con avoid giving a true picture of his earnings contrast this with the man who is in business for himself the professional man storekeeper sole owner of a small manufacturing busi ness there are many in this class who consistently give a false report of earnings and pay little or no income tax it would be ridiculously easy for the government to check more closely on this group of people suppose a man owning his own busi ness has reported an income of 1600 a year upon investigation it is found that i his living expenses have been 2000 a year and besides this he has a bank account and owns some stock and bonds surely the government has a clearcut case of income tax evasion against this man there are many people who are in this position some of them quite unwittingly i remember discussing the question with a friend a few years ago he had run a country general store and had done very well at it a new car every year a son in college comfortable home and yet he had never paid a cent of income tax z asked him why he had never paid income tax and he answered quite honestly why rve never saved over 1500 in any year he was quite surprised whe i suggested that the government was not interested to what a man saved in a year but in what he earned those were the days the performance of mr ralph gordon at the ioop ladles night on monday brought a flood of memories back to this writer who can ever forget the wonderful week of chautauqua looked forward to for six months before and talked about for six months afterwards vlerras hawailans private pete the swiss bell ringers stock companies direct from broadway provided the smaller towns with first- rate entertainment there was- the thrill of watching tbe train pull in with all the equipment putting up the big tent stringing the lights the chautauqua gang who swore so fluently usually college students the strange foreignlooking people who came to perform then the last evening when the tent came down after the show as if by magic and finally the next morning when all the town kids gathered to mill over the aban doned debris cigarette boxes handkerchiefs chocolate bar wrappers and perhaps even the odd nickel or dime gradually chautauqua lost its hold as an entertainmentpuller improved motor cars talking pictures radio not only distracted people but gave them a standard of comparison which chautauqua could not equal slowly it fell back until today jt is but a memory in the meld of the origin of chautauqua how many of you know the origin of the great chautauqua circuit it began years ago as a yearly religious revival in the town of chautauqua in new york state soon it grew famous ministers and prominent lay men gathered from neighbouring states for a revival week then un idea spread to other towns in time other features were added first a lecture on some social or political problem then a reader from shakespeare an instrumental number a monologue and finally plays magicians and comedians fin ally it emerged as a mammoth- varfety show bringing culture and en tertainment and education to the townsand villages of two nations better late than never the editor wishes to apologize for a grevlous sin of omission we have failed in our doty and were sorry the past week we have gone to bed each night haunted by the painracked faces of pasesrsby won dering why this misery in a town so fair as georgetown can we ever be forgiven will our omission be forgotten in the rto come we bone m to all these patient sufferers the herald gives the glad tidings xtkj can take em off poetry one dat at a time one day at a time witb its failures and fears with its hurts and mistakes with its weakness and tears with its portion of pain and its bur den of care one day at a time we must meet and must bear one day at a time to be patient and strong to be calm under trial and sweet un der wrong then its tolli shall p its-aor- it shall darken and die and the night shall bring peace hot yesterdays load we are called to bear hor the morrows uncertain and shadowy care why should we look forward or back with dismay our needs as our mercies are but for the day one day at a time and the day is his day be hath numb its hour thougtr they haste or delay bis grace is sufficient we walk not as the day so the strength that he gtveqi his own annie johnson flint futghenrns when you have a kind of feeling thatyou have too much to do and you mumble round the kitchen that your work is never through when youre sore at the dishes and the kettles and the range then your troubles kltchenltls and you need a little change if your feet seem awful heavy and theyre hard to drag around if youre peevsh and youre fretful at eacn tiny little sound if voudonotseemtoplease yourself when you have done your best why your troubles kltchenitis and you need a little rest if you do not feel like dolling up and getting a marcel and little things annoy you till you want to stand and yell if you do not feel like working neither do you want to play then your troubles kitchenltis and you need a holiday but you do not need a doctor medicine nor pesky pills what you needs anew environment some new faces and new thrills oo away for bout a month or so by car or bus or tram that will knock your kitahenitls so twill never come again ralph gordon 628 crawford st toronto kant casualties in toad momatwoh the fasgbs w tell tola hmk of an event which oc mn 10 that town eaofa yesr- odm each year tt mama that every itoma ja fergus dtasrjct seta an lmpttlato head cor the 0wrtneamn be pest wfattt i for ioa4 and they otsttsan naval at any rrrmtss tiwilri far tw r ttuoaandal canons ttan ap- the sidewalks in such numbers that it was hard to avoid stepping on them and the feel of a toad underfoot is not pleasant motorists ran over hun dreds of toads next morning the pavement rumv tag parallel with the river was corned with honored of squashed corps from ooelpo comes the story of afcnuar occurrence on the same nig tbu offer an opportunity for or amateur naturalist to study the migra tion of toad at egglaying time to dtoooverrtiether they always mow on the same day or whether the was- ttw or soma other feature is respon- germany under blockade dotoculties op toads and transport summary or raw materials available let us review the co reach- in the preceding articles germany can if she 1 willing to devote man power to agriculture take care of most of her foodstuffs only in vegetable oils need she suffer she can appar ently gain access to the iron she needs unless sweden is cut off she cannot obtain copper but has a large reserve of it she cannot obtain nickel and other minerals important in metal processing but is using substitutes though tills may mean poorer metals there is plenty of coal for normal needs although even here the house- holder suffers there will be a short age of rubber- difficult to overcome and a serious scarcity of textiles es pecially wools and cottons while in oil an essential commodity large- scale warfare would soon use up ger man reserves and bring a ahortageai- though at the present scale of war fare this may not happen for some months the usj3r has at present little to offer to germany apart from lum ber manganese and possibly small quantities of wool oil and rrain not enough to make a great differ ence while the soviet could expand production to obtain a larger export surplus this would take at least two years russia has gold which she could offer much needed by germany but in return for goods or gold the u ssr would demand german supplies particularly of machinery tools and plant and to supply this type of ex port germany must use productive capacity which may well be needed for more direct war effort o far we have considered ger man needs only from the standpoint or accessible materials now let us look at the means of obtaining these materials by trade and domestic pro duction first trade the countries which are not cut off by blockade from germany have goods needed by the nazis what can germany offer all of them including the ujssjt will want either gold or goods in pay ment foreign exchange germany has not enough gold or foreign exchange to pay for her imports in 1914 she had about three billion gold marks plus about twentyfive billions invested out side germany which could be used to pay for imports- today even allow ing for concealed items and for gold and securities that germany obtained when austria czechoslovakia and po land waro seised germany can scarce ly have two billion marks altogether an amount that would pay for normal oenniutliiipottsnrdrbnty four months of this probably less than one hundred millions are in gold some experts believe that she has ac tually much less than two billions manufacturing for export there fore germany must export goods to pay for imports one of the few na tural commodities she has for export is coal yet synthetic production of oil and other commodities requires large amounts of coal for this and far trading purposes germany had deprived her householders of coal un til her cities were illheated apart from coal germanys best export products are manufactured goods especially arms tools and mac hinery the problem is whether ger many at war can spare enough men and enough raw materials to produce goods for export her reserves of la bour and of goods are small and to maintain foreign trade she must strain her war capacity seriously under present conditions apparently she can bear the strain for a time at least for she is exporting arms and machinery to central and southeastern europe yet even today her effort is limited by available raw materials and here as we have seehthere is no surplus to provide enough exports germany must it would seem deprive herself of sup plies needed internally transportation even should ger many buy goods abroad there is the problem of getting them to ger many obtaining material from bel gium holland and denmark is not difficult on the other hand south eastern europe and the vsbh can not easily send large quantities of goods to germany the danube one route from rumania is frozen for part of the year while rail transport from the balkans is hindered by a shortage ol equipment and a desire on the part of the balkan states to have germany provide the cars for carry ing the german railroads rolling stock is however in poor condition in 1838 she had 4000 less locomotives and 80000 less freight cars than in 1929 the ussr transport system too is not adequate to deal with large exports to germany much of which must cross polish territory where the 1930 destruction and the change in gauge provide serious obstacles manpower germany to provide ex port and synthetic substitutes needs much manpower she also needs manpower to raise the crops she must have m other words there is likely to be a shortage of men this ol course applies to the other belliger ents as well but lack of foreign ex change and reliance on ersatz or german advantages it must be added that germany has had more experience in dealing with the difficulties of a war economy than ha brt anprancer oennsny had already in the prewar days ac customed its citizens to hardships and its business to rigid controls with a degree of success that speaks well for the endurance of german dtlsens if not for their independence transshipment all these estim ates of germanys position have been based- on th assumption that the al lied blockade is cutting off from ger many all goods except those which may be supplied by countries adjoin ing germany if however ttiere should be a leak in the blockade then germany may carry on almost inde finitely apparently there has been a serious leak recently as shown by the exports of the united states direct traffic with germany has been cut off but traffic with germanys feeutml neighbours has increased the in crease has been abnormal no possible extension of domestic consumption in those neutral countries could account for the change the only conclusion to be reached is that goods exported from the united states ostensibly for use by germanys neutral iielghbours are being reexported by those neu trals to germany hitherto the allies have tried to check this by persuad ing the neutrals that it is- not to their advantage to assist germanys chances of victory apparently per suasion is not enough and if the bloc kade is to be effective supplies to neutrals must be rationed if necessary by the use of force this may be diffi cult in the case of the tjbxl al though already certain cargoes in the pacific on the way to vtadivostock have been detained it should not be so difficult with the lesser neighbours of germany for it is scarcely conceiv able that any of them would ever join the conflict on the side of germany so great is their distrust for her methods of payment germany of course must even in the case of trans shipment still have the difficult task of paying for her goods if she could make some arrangement with a friend ly usbh she might get much need ed goods here we meet a difficult problem of ethics for example the ussr can apparently take care of its own needs in ou by domestic pro duction imports of oil into tbe vs sm might well leave way for the u ssr to export to germany a quan tity equal to the import tonnage thus the recent sale of united states oil to the ussr in the par east free russian oil for germany wise canada recently was reported to have sold a large quantity of wheat to the ujsjsji which might free russian wheat for germany on the could get wheat anyway it w not on of the objects to which she will b greatly lacking and any surplus could be obtained if not from the n germany ndoentral erica through russia since aha is go ing to get it anyway- canada tmght as wall seu it to her and be that muoh better off financially tor gg these argument of course apply only to goods which germany cap obwn in- adequate amounts it would not apply in tbe case of oil of which she must experience a shortage t and abould it be proven that germany can be forced into a shortage of wneat they would not hold yet slnoevthe whole question of supply to germany is so elastic and germany may well experience shortage almost- anywbere it still seems difficult to justify any allied exchange even indirect df goods with germany moreover such ex change cannot be good for public morale conclusion while the blockade may not imme diately cause a serious upset by cut ting off essentials it hasbeen from the outset a great handicap to ger many yet its complete effectiveness depends upon firm rationing of ger manys neutral neighbours and here apparently the allies have- been hesi tant in oil lies germanys greatest weakness while the lack of rubber textiles and alloy metals will be felt as time passes in other categories germany can produce or obtain sup plies given trading and labour ca pacity the stresses throughout the whole system are such that apart from individual impending shortages there is also a series of cumulative strains on the whole german struc ture brought by trade and c n r time table standard tune goto east passenger 616 am passenger and mail 10x33 am passenger and mail 646 am passenger sundays only 831 pjn passenger dally l pm toronto and beyond going wert passenger and mail 834 am passenger saturday only 115 pm passenger daily except saturday and sunday 609 pm passenger and mall 046 pm passenger sunday only 1130 pm gaing north passenger and mall 845 am going south passenger and mail 650 pm depot ticket office phone zw f r watson dds huxs georgetown office hours 9 to thursday afternoons frank petch licensed auctioneer and all classes of insurance prompt s s91 georgetown p o box 413 job printing neatly executed at this office radio repairing we specialize on this work 13 yean experience j sanfordson i j phonb oeobgetown m a m nielsen tsth tear of praeuoe chiropractor xray drugies therapist lady attendant office over dominion store georgetown hours 3 5 730 fi30 pm closed thursday phone lsow gray coach lines timetable standard time leave georgetown for toronto g 614 am 408 pm 818 am 908 pm 1148 am 903 pm c 233 pm for khchener x9jso aan x 6j0o pxn 12x36 pjn e 790 pm x 305 pjn 41036 pjn a 405 pjn ell35 pm x through to london a dally except sun and hoi b bun and hoi only c sat only d daily except sat sun and hoi e sat sun and hol g daily except sun all coach travel information at w el long phone 89 leroy dale kc m sybil bennett ba barrmen and solicitors mill street i georgetown phone 19 mimmmm is at war this appear affly wfean okbada ir with oerntany xt baa bean difficulties and transport and labour problems yet if and wherethe ger man system may break only the bold would prophecy apparently germany herself believes that she can play a waiting game and that in spite of these shortages her system will not break before britain and france lose the will to resist ger man leaders have made statements re cently that uphold this thesis they claim that the superior allied wealth is offset by greater morale to ger many and greater ability to withstand hardship yet we have here seen that is is not merely a case of -gar- many bearing hardship it is a case of obtaining supplies without which germany cannot continue to fight digest tuesday to tuesday i the news monuments mabxees and letthbjng pollock ingham gait ont designs on request phone 2048 i inspect our work to greenwood cemetery monuments- omsvubv muuibumnl lyof fa oomer post and i a food display in stock amckehar prop it osbsim sl wast oakvstu ss tobide scratches in mahogany and other dark woods artistically paint them with iodine cbnecienob is gods presenpe hi man qntavnbowiw kenneth m langdon barrister satlcttsr notary pnbllo first mortgage money to loan office gregory theatre bldg mill street phone 88 11000000 for hitler a group of pittsburgh citizens have offered 1000000 through the car negie institute to any persons who will deliver hitler before the 31st of may for trial before a high court of justice for his crimes against the peace and dignity of the world defence minister sees magtnot canadian defense minister norman rogers inspected the maglnot line to the last phase of his european trip he expects to be in canada for the opening of parliament this month government vs business lkbccr ou companies in british columbia have suspended deliveries refusing to cut gasoline and oil prices on the gov ernments demand rumours are cur rent that the provincial government might take complete control of the oil business considering it a public util ity construction on the new rainbow bridge at niagara falls was begun this week this replaces the famous honeymoon bridge which collapsed a few years ago tragedy on tbe lake the freighter arlington sank to lake superior captain fred burke went down with his ship all others rescued canadian eggs fob britain britain will buy canadian eggs at a price fixed by the ministry or food this price it is believed wlu be around 25hc a dozen laid down at montreal elmer c thompson insurance skkvb0e fire auto wind c p raflway and abied steatttamn ssoorstowb phoneljwofj gmrewn 1 explained qtandmt what are you crying willie oause uncle john dropped a bbig box on his ttos grandma ob thats nothing to cry about why dktnt yon just laugh w11u thats what i ddkl a very good way to prevent rocking chain from marring your floor is to wax the big shot a man of large calibre isnt he yes he is a big bore the recent offer or the new zea land bank to lend 1000000 pounds free of interest to its government for war purposes has been gratefully ac cepted by the new zealand govern ment the loan is for the duration of the war and six wwm after cjomintotlug on thisverygeneroq of fer mr fraser deputy prime mini ster of new zealand said that al though this was the most s o of as received by the goveruthrnt it was only one of many ihtam untu hi n rutm 3