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The Canadian Statesnian, Bowxnanvtlle, Jan. 15, 1909 EDITORIAL WMore Thought LE Webelieve there will be sparks fCing when Parliament returns te Ottawa this week over Finance Minister 1%sns handIing of revisions to the eItte and Gift tax laws. Weeks and iths have passed since Mr. Benson aaiounced during his budget on Oct. 22bd that he was proposing a new es4te tex alter midnight that night. So lé, enly some details of the revisions hâve been announced and they came nqt te Parliarnent but te the press. The full extent of the changes have stili nât been approved by Parliament nor h4ve they been reieased ini detail. 7At the marnent, it daes appear that h* intends to aboiish ail federal estate taxes on assets bequeathed to a spouse, bVt the rater, zoom upward wvhen the surviving spouse dies and the rhildren rwéeive the estate. This mave bas upset fam organizations and their members wlo feel that it wilI discourage if net n1e it impossible ta carry on a family farm or a smali business. They feel that th,* business or farm will have 'te be sold te meet the estate taxes. We are awaiting more details but It would appear that Mr. Benson's new legisiation is about as wcil thought out as the Basic Sheiter Exemption for property owners and renters that the provincial government passed Iast year. 411 it achieved, in aur opinion, was an ultimate in confusion for everybody côncened ta the point where it naw appears it wiil be altered this year. I the meantinie, landiords must be think- Ir'g seriousiy of raising their rentai charges ta take care of bath an inecase in municipal taxes that appears inevit- able and the amount they may have ta pay out ta their tenants. Why legisiators don't take a littie M~ore time ta analyze these most im- portant pieces of legisiatian that affect the lives, earnings andýplans of so many taxpayers we'il neyer know. They seem to be doing their utmost ta discourage and frustrate those wha are seriousiy trying te be good citizens b * working hard, building businesses and farms that provide empioyment for aur people, taxes for ail levels of government and some security for their retirement. We shall be watching Parliament Wvith great interest when the proposed r6state and Gift tax changes corne up fbr discussion. The foilowing comment from The Port Hope Guide gives an COMMENT ess Speed Needed indication of the thoughts being ex- pressed by many newspapers. "The greediest finance minister in Canadian history, ta -ase an epithet applied ta him by one of Canada's lead- ing radio commentators, is Edgar Ben- son, and if one can justify the word greedy in this context, there is little doubt that he is right. "His recent budget bv its increased estate tax rates is tailor-made ta hasten the purchase of Canadian businesses by foreigners. For years ec'onomists have been painting out that laws that make it necessary for a family ta seil a famiiy business in order ta pay succession dut- ies are one of the mai n causes af the gradua] takeover of Canadian business- es by foreign - usually United States - awners. For same vears many econo- rnists have advocated the abolition of death duties altogether, as several provinces have dane or are in the pro- cess of doing. nat because theY want to favour the wealtby but because taxes on estates prevent the formation of Canadian capital, and this country des- perately needs capital. "Indeed, Canada taxes capital par- ticularly' severelY, a questionable pro- cedure for a growing country. Since home-Rrown capital is taxed -- whicb mneans il is used ta pa.v the expenses of the Goveinnient - foreign capital quite naturally cames in ta fi the nleed. If this is wvhat Mr. Benson. and Prime Minister Trudeau and Mr. Rutssell Honey. who in a recent rolumin praised Mr. Benson's budget, want, fine, but does Canada really benefit in the long run ? "One of the f irst considerations for anyone responsible for Canadian taxes should be ta give this country a more attractive tax policy than the United States. Yet aur income tax structure is noticeably tougher on people in the middle income brackets wbere aur more talented younger people find themseives. One r eason s0 manv of tbemn go ta the United States is that not nnly are the salaries higher there, but tbey are allowed ta keep more of what they earn. "Our Gavernment acis as though it were not aware of any of these things. As a matter of fact, perhaps it isn't. It's so much easier to pretend that ane is living in a vacuum." MacDuff Ottawa Report A Year For Decisions "I would say things went very well. They went ex- aictly according ta my ex- pectations and more or less exactly acc'rding to the way we planned them". That was Prime Minister Trudeau commentlng on his gavera- nment'% achievements la 1968. It was Pierre Trudeau's year. He began It as the swinging Justice Minister who had just cemented his reputation as a progressive hy int.roducing Crirninal Code ameadments that were hailed as a social revolution. By April, after an intensive leadership campaiga, he was. leader of the Liberal Party and Prime Minister of Cana- da. In June he was return- ed ta power with a majority goverament - only the sec- ond that the country hiad elected ln more than a decade. But the time of testing is not over, as he recognized himself at his last press con- ference here. Last year was a trne for laying foun *da- tions; this year is one for decisions. One of the first things Mr. Trudeau annouaced after he became Prime Miaister was a reorganization of the Cab- inet cammittee structure, re- ducing their number and giviag themy more authority to, make decisions. The aim was ta give the full Cabinet more tirne ta deal with broad policy questions, rath- er than being absorbed ln the thousand-and-one littie problems of the Government. The system seems to be a success. "Cabinet is reach- Ing many more decisions ia much less time.' Mr. Tru- deau said, and his opinion is borne out by other sources. Part of the success of Cab- inet also seems to relate ta Mr. Trudeau's personality; former Prime Miaister Lest- er Pearson kept only a loase rein on Cabinet debate, Nvith the resuit that it ofien dragged on, but Mr. Trudeau hears the arguments, then cuts It off betore It can get 25 YEARS AGO <.anuary 20, 1944) Lateiy eievated ta the position of Superintendent of the local plant of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Chai-les Cattran took over the office of ex- Superintendent A. M. Hardy on January l5th. T. Baker and Son, Sauina, recently soid a young Short- bora sire ta Mr. Tuf. Port Hope, and a heifer caîf toaa breeder in Ohio, U.S.A., ai good prices. Shorthurns of these types are always in demiand these davs.' Trhe Saivation Army Home League met Tuesday even- Ing ai the home of Mrs. F. Mclrîdoo and was weli at- teaded. During the pro- gram the "Spitfire Club" presented the League with $40,00 ta be used for war work. Onwego Graup of Trinit.N C.G.I.T. met nt the home of the President, Margaret Stacey, on Tuesday evening. The editor o! The States- man and his famil.v are greatiy indebted ta Mr. and Mrs. Noble 1. Meteaif, Maple Grave, for a heaping bowl a! Devonshire Cream. Dev- onshire Cream ils a real treat these days as such a delicacy is off tbe market. Mrs. Forbes Monroe bas returned from Ottawa to, visit ber parents. Mr. and Mrs. Wrlghtson Wight, while ber husband, Warrant Of- ficer Forbes Monroe, Special Service Branch, R.C.N.V.R., Is statioaed temporarily on the East Coast. P.O. and Mrs. H. S. Hob- lizelli (nee Catherine Elean- or Victoria Spencer) were ouesis o! Canon and Mrs. C. R. Spencer and lefi Monday for Biagotville, Que.. where he Is posted. Mms. George Graham and Barbara. who have been ai Prince Rupert. B.C.. for the frist six months, where her u- nl l staiioned. re- turzwd home, SuadaY. repetîtiaus. One af the corollaries of the new, more Intensive work by Cabinet committees bas been the rosier system under which ministers are la the Commons for thé question period only threè days a week. The Opposition has complalned bitterly that this liraits their right ta question the Government, but so far there do not seem te have been aay cases where Issues of the firsi magnitude couid not be ra ised. The division of responsi- bilities among ministers has also been shuffled. A new Departmeat of Communica- tions, taking la the oid Post Office Department. is being organized. The De- fence Production Depart- ment becomes the Depari- ment o! Supply; regional de- velopment programs are be- Iag r'onsoiidated la a new departmeat bulit on the foundation of the Rural De- velopment Department; the Industry Department is be- Ing merged into Trade and Commerce; Fisheries and Forests are being merged. Strenuous efforts - not yet in their final form - are being made ta put the Prime Minister's own office on a more efficient basis. One of the mosi remarkable features of this develapment has been the Increase la personnel ta 32 from 12 at the beginning af 1964. An- other is the establishment of regianai desks which are supposed ta keep the office la touch with opinion la the variaus parts of Canada - a job some backbeaeh MPs bad thought was theirs. Finaiiv, there were the new ruies governing House af Commons procedures. They are frankly designed ta save tîme bv seading some work ouita standing committees - coasideratian aif spending estimaies, for examffle, and detailed study of bis. Ia other words, the ibrust 49 VEARS AGO (January 22, 1920) Canadian Express Com- pany willi soon move from Bounsali Block ta the Horsey Block, opposite the Post Office, where they wiil do business as usual. Mr. and Mrs. James Saw- den, son John, Mrs. B. Bryant, Mrs. Wilfrid, Whit- by. we're Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Read. MrI. J. H. H. Jury bas been attending the three days' convention ai' the Canadian Optom-tietrical Associ a t i o n and reports a làrgeiy attend- ed meeting and splendid lectures. Mr. Jury was the first President af this As- sociation. Mrs. W. H. Dustan and her daughter Mrs. R. R. Mc- Nichai, Toronto. leIt on Manda'y ta spend the wlnter with the former's son, Mr. W. M. Dusian. Fresno, Cal. Mr. Dustan wiii go ta the suany climate a litile laier on. Mr. and Mrs. Hiecior Walk- et', Mrs. J. Moore, Wbitby, and Mrs. Frank James, Osha- wa, were guests a! Mrs. Wm. Hamlyn on Tuesday. Mr. W. H. Caiver, Ro- chester, N.Y., who Is attend- Iag an Opticai Convention la Toronto, speni Sîsnday with hi. mother, Mrs. Geo. Bartoa. Mr. W. J. Bragg, M.P.P., and Reeve T. S. Holgate ai- tended the Pouliry Show In Port Hope, Tuesday. Miss L. A. Smithson, Toronto, formerly o! the Hlgh Scbool Staff. was guesi of Mrs. C. Osborne, Ontario Street. Miss Lena Haddy i. en- joying a couple o! weeks' holidays wiih her brothers and oiher relatives In Toron- to. Mr. Herbert Fawler. of Toronto ai bis mother's. Miss Evelyn Bounsall re- cently vWat'edhI Toronto. lasi year was on hausekeep- Ing. The aim was ta con- struet the mechaaism that wôuld let the Government dèal quickiy and effectively with Issues. A reiated effort was the initiation of a num- ber af palicy reviews, uat.- ably a aew look at foreign and defence poiicy and a review of social security measures. Reports are also being expected on the Indian Act, labor relations, sparts and ather subjects. "Ai an executive and as a parliamentary farm of goverament, we have done mast of the thiags I haped for la terms a! maklng them more efficent, and we have set the machiaery In wark for reviews la many of the main areas aof goverament and naw it is a matter of being ready ta take the aext stage", Mr. Trudeau said. "In ibis caming year there will be the reports of many o! these revlews that I men- iioned a moment ago. We will have some very Im- portant decisions ta make la the area of external affairs, Iacluding China. iacluding aur relations with South America, includlng our po- sition ln Europe, position I n t h e Commonwealth, position la francophonie. Ia defence we will have same very important decisions ta make la terms of NATO. NORAD and other forms o! collective security. "I think the whole prob- lem af Indians ia Canada will be of very great Import- ance la the caming year and I hope that we will be able ta present to Canadians an Indian policy which Is pro- gressive and acceptable". "We have, I think, in the area af the constitution, a very important coafereace camning up... "Ia terms of legisiatian, the Officiai Language Act, whlch, as you know.v has been an the order paper since eariy in October, If not late September. is a very Important piece of legisia- tion. We hope ta proceed with that. We hope that the Criminail Code ameadments wiil be praceeded with... "La the econamnic area, we wili continue ta reshape aur econamic policies s0 that we cut back la non-productive areas and invest more in the productive ones. Pro- ductive ones would mean do- lng more for regional dis- parities and econamic ta- equalities. Housing. This wilI mean. as I say, a very great deal of reassuring o! a lot o! aur social security programs ta make them mare efficient. "I dont know If all this can be finished la a year. but this is the type of prob- lem we are now readv ta attack, now that we have spent. a great deal aof time reforming the structures of parliament and of the ex- ecutive arm of goverament". The final problem be men- tioned was the one of his own communications with the public one that he tackled la 1968 but did not salve. "The juice Is not comlng back and forth and flot flowiag as smoothlv as I thought", he lamented. "An exampie of this Is rmy own office. We are stili getting, 1 thiak it's 200 ]et- ters a day, a little more, a litile less. and each persn who writes waats an Indi- vidual answer . .. Obviously I can't do it ail myseif-- It Is disappointing ta me ta kaow that I am disappoint- lng people because they ex- pecitat have a reply frami me, and even the mosi edu- cated and enlightened people are surprised ta think that 1 don't have ai leasi urne for them". These camments were ap- pareniiy provoked by the complaint of a Toronto pro- 1In an age racked by violence il may Weemn trivial indeed ta speak of the de- dline-of manners. Yei that faliing-off is - àymptomatic of a concurrent decli-ne of tblerance and bence bas something ta do with the violence itself, states the Wall Street (N.Y.) Journal. *What decline ? Variaus times past were far raugher than ours, save per- haps for the small civiiized elites. In- talerance is rooied in human history. Still, the growth of boorishness is a highly visible phenomenan to~-day, pas- uaiy ail the more sa because until rteently many of us had regarded aur society as continually improving in Cltvility and broad-mindedness. In such cq1rcumstances the new inciviiity is bath notable and disiurbing. .1White prejudice toward Negroes is &Mswered, on the part of some Negro spokesmen, by an enraged black racism ývhich denies any virtue in white civiliz- ation and evidently wanis to obliterate it. Whereas mutual accommodation, is the basic hope for better race relations, these people advacate the very opposite. 1Many of the students who want ta "ik.structure" the university are not sêeking ta right admitted wrongs. (same doubtiess are sincere about it). They iwant ta tear il down. Though they are not sure what they would substitute, il wnuld be something they wvauld arbi- trarily impose on ev,,erybodly else. They may think tbey are anarchists or com- rnunists; implicitly they are facisis. Or take the wbole question of disagrecable physical appearance, sa characieristie of ttbe radical students, the heeklers and the hippies. Few adults abject ta long hair and beards as such - they have been worn with elegance in ailier per- i&ls. What is objectiaitable is the utter slovenliness with wbich they are worn te-day, accompanied by an equal sioven- 1üiess of dress. This squalor is deliber- aýte, of course. It is meant ta si.gnif v a rejeclion of and cantempt for the world çZdecent manners. These rebels do -nai care ta ive in peace with others; crude- ly intalerant, they would like to turn an the rest ta their special mode of hf e. Sa the decline of manners is a mat- ter of some significance. It bas ofien been remarkcd thai manners are the glue that holds society together, man bavîng a fair amaunt of innate savagery in him. Manners as a manifestation bath of tolerance and respect for law are particularly important in aur political society. Mare ihan any otber, il was founded and thus far bas been preserved in a framework of tolerance. The politi- cal system would not work oiherwise. In a vasi land of conflicting interesis and numerous ethnie strains, reason- ableness and compromise in the best sense are not luxuries but essentials. We do not know whether the pres- ent disorderliness is a passing phase; maybe it is. Certainly we do not know of any pat remedy for il. But we do think it is in no wise surprising that violence frequentiy erupis oui of these aafish, cantemptuous and bigoied atti- tudes. And it is bard ta sec thai it bodes well for the country when far too many people assault not only a political sys- tecm but the digniiy af the individual and of buman life itself. ONE OPINION I plod through the blawiag snow Sad and cold. Yes, cold. My thoughis canter to and fro, Perhaps I'm just getiing old. The branches on the trees are hare, The spruce looks destituie, There is gloom everywhere, And my best fricnd's gane South. Then, suddenly, I hear a vaice, A litile lad's, 'bout nine', I mensuire oui an ounce of choice Between his gait and mine, For as 1 siep - ves, one b 'v ane, He bounces by 'Mom, Winter's Fun ! ~ Marion Taylor Ford The. Orono News10 > Authonised un Second ClosMail by the Post Office DpI, Ottawa, and for payment ci postage in cash Produced every Wednesday by THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED P.O. Box 190 62-66 King St. W., Bowmnanville, Ontario JOHN M. JAMES GEO. W. GRAHAM GEO. P. MORRIS EDrTOX-PUBLISNEX ADVTG. MANAGER BUSINoESS MGR. .,Copyight ond,,'or property ighâts subuist in th. image oppea"nq on this proof. Permission Io reprodute in whal or in part and in ony form whatscoe.r, porlfcularly by photographie or offset In po.ul a publication, must h. nbtined hem th. publisher and the printeT. 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I tottered about for ten days, a tot here and a toi there, not quite desperately HI enough ta stay in bed, and therefore getting little sympatby. Kim spent the festive season going to bed ai 2 a.m. and getting up at 2 p.m. Mostly because of a new boy friend, wbo is out on bail. That's right; be's out on bail. My wife did her best to set fire to the bouse, one Sunday night wben I was at churcb. For years, V've been tell- ing ber to burn junk in the fire-place: paper and wrappings and boxes and such. She finally caught on. Sa did the evergreens with which she annually decks the mantel, when she threw ia the fire a cardboard box about two feét by four. She stood there, paralyzed. watch- ing the joint go up in flames. The anly muscle working was ber tangue. Wben that stops \warking, sb&lIl be ready for the cold, cold ground. She screamed: And Kim responded nobly ta the crisis. Upstairs, she came down like a bomb, seizpd a basin of water from the kitchen sink, and burled il wiih uner- ring aim al] over the fire, her mother, the rug, and the hi-fi. Did the trick, tbough. Speaking of Kimi and f ires. she had a New Year's Eve party which caused more turmail than the Battie af the Boyne did in Ireland. It wasa't that shý- demanded a big spread or a hired orchestra or anything like that. She had only ane request: that we get oui befare the guests arriv- ed and stay nut until they were gane. The normal response of a father ta such a stipulation is ta smack bis band on the table and roar, "OK. No parents, na party !" Wbicb he did, about eight times. Finally, by some circuitaus route known only ta families, we arrived at a compromise of sorts. There would be no drinking. Undesirables would be severely policed by Kim and two of ber largest girl friends, and two boys who would be personaliy responsible to me, by George, or else. There wauld be no gate-crashers. See policing, above (Gate-crashing is a narm at a party in a small town, where everybody in the teen world knows everybody else and after ail, what do you say, Dad, when somebody arrives at the door with a big, silly grin on his big, silly face and asks, "Can 1 came ta your party, Kim ?") It was resolved that the food wouid consist of patata chips and pop. "FlIow can you be so square. Mom, kids don't eat at parties ?" Later, Kim graciously allowed ber mother ta make about 480 sandwiches, It was agreed, after a motion by me that went something like, "If yota think I'm going ta walk the streets ini a blizzard on New Year's Eve just be- cause a stubborn brat like you doesn't want ber parents around just because she's having a party for a gang of deg- enerate teen-agers, then you've got another tbîak comning. young lady!" that the party wvould end at 1:30. It's a long stary, but she finaliy kicked us into the snowdrifts at nine p.m. It was too eariy ta go anywherè. We drove around the block a few times, my wîfe peerîng desperately toward the bouse on eacb circuit. We dropped in on sick friends. ta get warmn, or sick, and guess who ran straight ta the phone and called home. The response was chili 'v : "Yes, Mother. No. Nobody's drunk. Will yau please stop bugging me, tbere's somebody at the dam- ?I' The old lady called four more tinies froni as many different places. Responses grew even chillier. We ar- rived borne at three a.rn., ready to face the debacle : a wasteland of broken dishes and tronipled grapes. And sitting there witb ber out-on- bail friend, listening ta records, was the Cheshire cat berseif. The bouse was as dlean as a funeral parlor. Tbey'd been working like doers for an hour. No burns. na broken dishes, no scratches on the grand piano. Notbing. Including the 480 sandwiches, about 12 pounds of fruit, and ail the bread and nuts in the bouse. Other features of the Bill favouri;l able ta the owner of propcrly include - ] (a) Notice o! intention ta expropriate must be served upon each regisier- ed awner and expropriatîng bodies shall publish a notice of expropri. ation for three consecutive weeks in a local newspaper. (b) Any owner of lands who bas been notified o! intention to expropri- aie and who desires a bearing shal nolify the approvîng autbority by registered mail within tbirty days after the first publication of the notice. (c) Where an owner notifies the ap- proving autbority that a hearing is requested, Ibat authorily shall refer the matter ta the chief inquiry off icer appointed by the Minister of Justice. The chief inquiry officer shaîl as- sign an inquiry officer who shall f ix a lime and place for the bearing. (d) At leasi five days before the hear- ing, the expropriating auihority shail serve a notice upon each party ta the inquiry indicating the grounds ulpon which it bases it.s reasons for expropriation and it must make available ail plans, maps and other material relevant ta the expropriation. (e) The inquiry officer shail repart 10 the approving authoriiy a summary of the evidence and state bis opin- ion on the merits of the application for approval of expropriation. (f) The appraving autbority shail con- sider the report of the inquiry offi-j cer and shall approve or nat ap- prove the proposed expropriation gi-ving written reasons for its decision. Compensation for the expropriation of land is ta be determined by the Land Compensation Board, the memberg of whicb shail be appointed by the Lieut- enant-Governor and Council. The legislation provides that com- pensation payable ta the owner of prop- erty expropriaied is based uipon and paid in accordance witb the following principles: 1. The market value of the land and sucb additional suni as in the opin- ion o! the Board is necesasry In enable the owner ta relocale big residence in accommodation that is ai leasi equivalent ta the accom- modation expropriated. 2. The damages attributable ta dis- turbance including such reasonable costs as the inconvenience and the casi o! finding another residence (moving cosis, etc.) 3. Damages for inluriaus affection and any special difficulties in re- location. The debale on Bill 5 was a length~ anc with some nine hours o! discussia in the Standing Commilice alone. creaied, however, an image o! theN Ontario Legisiature atitis besi wilb ;;Il parties assuming a responsible attitude ini the interests of the people of Ontario. BILL 5 THE EXPROPRIATIONS ACT 1968-69 The expropriation o! properiy by the variaus expropriating bodies in the province bas in the pasi created much controversy and indced in many cases deep resentment an the part o! praperty owners. Bill 5, The Expropriations Act, 1968-69 is designed to correct many o! the injustices o! the pasi, and ta proteet the rigbts o! the property owners whase lands are being expropriated. The Bihl revises The Expropriation Procedures Act, 1962-63 and incorpar- aies the principal recommendations of the Law Reform Commission in ils re- port on the Basis for Compensation on expropriation. Ceriainly il provides a completehy new set of values and righis for property awners involved in ex- propriation praceedings. Under the legisiation an expropri- ating authoriiy shaîl not expropriate land witboui the approval of the ap- praving authority. Section 5 o! the Act defines these authorities as follows:- (a) (1) Where a municipality or a local board thereof expropri- aies lands for municipal pur- poses the approving authoriiy shaîl be the municipal council of the municipaliiy. (2) In the case o! universities and other educationai institutions the appraving authoriiy is the Minister of University Affairs. (3) In the case of hospitals or other beahih institutions the Minister of I-Iealib is the appraviag aul haritv. (4) In the case o! al] other corpora- tions the authority is the Prov- incial Secretary. (5) Expropriations under The Pub- lic Works Act must, be approved bx' the Minister of the Depart- ment for whicb expropriation is being made. (6) Expropriations under the Pow- er Commission Act must be approved by the Minisier o! Energy and'Resources Maniage- ment. (7) In any case not provided for in Section 5 the approving authority shahl be the Minister o! Justice and Attorney Gen- eral. The opposition endeavoured ta bave an ameadment ta Section 5 ap- proved wbereby in the case o! exprop- riation by a muaicîpality the approving autborily would be the Minister o! Municipal Affairs. Mr. Wisbart, the Minister o!f.Jus- tice, in defending the wording o! the section pointed oui thal Mr. Justice McRuer in bis repart on the subject was ai pains everywhere in that repart ta say that municipalities should be their own appraving autharily. The principal, Mr. Wisharl. siated, is ibai an elecied bodyv should be accountable for any expropriations At m4kes. H h About Good Manners Report from Queen 's Park by Alex Carruthers M.P.P. Durham County's Great Family Journal Established 115 yearsagao in 1854 Also lncorporating The Bowmanviile News Tii. Newcastle Independent