hw PAGE FOUR <$ i THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1915. The British Whig 82ND YEAR. 1 SOME CIVIC ITEMS, The city receipts of the year, all told, amount to $344,689.70, and of ol S CO,, LIMITED, Published Dally and Seml-Weekly by THE BRITISH WHIG PUBLISHING . @. Ellott 8Sec.-Treas. President | san A. Guild +++: Mansging Director | an | this amount $280.978.556 comes from taxes. The increase of $600,000 the assessment last year fortunately helps out in 'the revenues of this year. Ii the war goes on there will be little building and consequently little increased revenue in 1915. The owners of dogs will contribute $n taxes $1,000 this year. The amount should" be $2,000. There are at least la thousand: canipes at large, whom | no one will acknowledge in the pres. ence of the assessor; and they would | not be visable il they had to be taxed. . The bends recently sold yielded in | premiums $2,700. They sold at an! | opportune time, and they sold well { The debt of Kingston, by the way, is | lower than some other cities of in wo | similar size, and the buyers of secuti- | ties know this. Let the Council jack | up the debt, however, by a couple of hundred thousand dollars and the de- | | mand for local debentures may noi Telephones: Buginess Office . Editorial! Rooms Job Office ke 80 keen. Do the aldermen see the point ? Our street lighting is becoming very SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Dally Edition) year, delivered. in-city ...... Year, #f paid in advance .... year, by mail to rural offices to United States ...... dial r.to United States ...... $1. x afid three months pro rata. Attached 18 one of the best printing offices in Canada. TORONTO REPRESENTATIVE i. EB. Smallpeice 32 Church St. 8. REPRESENTATIVES U. New York Office 225 Fifth Ave. Pp, Manager ribune Bldg. Manager REGULATING THE DEBT. The Whig said, in a recent issue, that Sir Frederick Williams, the gen- eral menager of the Bank of some power that would control and regulate the issue of municipal trolled and regulated by the Government Board of Fhngland. Some action in this direction . has already been decided upon. Mr. Mo- Pherson, M.P.P., is the author of bill that is now before the Legisla- ture and which limits the borrowing power of municipalities to a per capita basis. A town of 10,000 population would have to limit its debt to $200 per head; a village of | 00! last year. Job | Mon- | treal, advocated the appointment of | de- | bentures in Canada as they are com- | Local | al | expensive. This year the expenditure will be $18,000 or £3,362 more than Mostly tha result of the 00 | white way, which is bound to be ex-| | pensive no matter how the Council! may economize in light. Too much! money in conduits and posts. A lit-| tle lato the aldermen are seeing that something less costly would have! done. ! Education comes high. | poses the outlay this year will be! | $88,374. The expenditure is boom-| | a } | ing, though the population does not | materially increase. Would the ex-| | penditure be any the less if thei { School Boards had to levy and col: | lect their dwn taxes ? | Tha fire department. gets along with! $930 less this year, but the police de- | partment must have $412 more. Jf{ | the police department, by some re-| arrapgement of duty, could only show | the city the return it can get for its! | money, all would be well. { For all pur-| | | Japan is evidently taking advan- | | tage of the Furopean war to press | | her advantage in China. It is a | | case of 50,000,000 making demands | | which 400,000,000 do not like and | | have not the courage to refuse. Ja- | {pan is very aggressive. She will | { ultimately dominate the whole of i . 1 Asia. 1,500 population would not be allow- | od to carry a debt per head. The assessor, annually, will, cording to this measure, (if it be- vomes law), send a retain to the Ontario Railway and Municipa] Board, and it will become: the authority which shall pasy upon all municipal loans. The necessity of something of this kind is made evident hy a com- parison of the municipkl debts in the province. They vary very much, and as they vary the credit of the towns and cities varies. > Some regulating power is very necessary. ac- A bill is before the Legislature which aims to lmit the school trus tees tenure of office to one year. An annual shakeup. in the membership of the board may .exeile' mors interest "in school affairs and it may not. CANADA'S FEEBLE-MINDED, The Federal Government has been" urged to do two things that are most and necessaxy--{o enquire in- to the increase of feeble-mindedness among the people of Canada, 'nd cause of it, and to provide pensions for mothers under certain circum- One can recall the evidence which Dr. Helen MacMurchy, of Toronto, collected . ypar after yoar with much labour dnd perweverance upon the --- subject, and the effect of her per sussions upon the local government | of Ontario. It is dealing somewhat intelligently with' the subject. Under the direction of Dr. MacMurchy it has begun a systematic education :of the . people on foehle-mindedness, and "eventually ite results. exceeding $150 | this educdtion will have i A VERY TIMELY FIND. The tax rate this year is not to hs! raised, and for the reason that aq civie find. has been reported, and one which comes as a very pleasant sur | prise. The sinking fund,' to the! knowledge only of she treasurer, has | a surplus which js available for gen- | eral purposes, and $10,000 of this | surplus goes to meet the vey serious financial emergencies of the day. Whan the Whig heard about the proposal it | was prepared --ts. attack it with all the vigour at its command. At once there seemed to loom up the danger of mew raids such as the Council made upon the water department's| funds before _they had been trans ferred to the safer custody of the Utilities' Commission. An sosegiaddy explanation, however, bas been forthcoming. In 1887, with the beginning. of the local improve- ments, @ sinking 'fund account wag opened. The plan was lo provide for the repayment of each loan as it ma- tured, principal and interest at three per cent, Later it was decided to in- it the tax rate would have been rais- ed, and in a year when an advance is not at all desirable. The deficiency of 1912 is put down at $13,403.37. That is after the vote of $5,000 for patriotic purposes has been authoriz- ed by a special act of the legislature. Economy in appropriations, and the sinking fund contributiop, has a budget which should be lived up to and with the enviable consequence that the gperations of the vear may be financed without a deficit. ¥DITORIAL NOTES. The Federal Government has real good to "its friends. It gave them all the commissions and been con: cessions it. could--as the autlitor-gene- | ral's report reveals. The finance minister of Canada will be called, if he is bot called it al- ready, The Great 1 Am. In the use of the first persomal pronoun he has not had an, equal since the days of | Sir Charles Tupper. On January 25th the contracts, and pay lists jn tion with the Valcartier camp not been presented. What was ! Why had they Ween ) accounts, connec had the matter held back ? The Toronto News refers to Hon, T. W. White as' "the .most accom- plished finance minister in the his- tory of confederation." The conscious of his superiority without this adulation. Mr. Rowell, the leader of the tario Legislature, would: scrap enough On- the million-dollar house for the lieuten- | which | ant-governor, and build one some one not -a- millionairs aspire to occupy. might To give a cily engineer the to make an expense account for up- keep when tendering on local improve- | ment. work is the spirit of a hill of George H. Gooderham, M.P.P. This legislation in" which the engineer's department of this must be interested. is The Public Accounts' Committee will clear up some of the points of dif- ference between the' auditor-general and the government departments with respect io expenditure under the War Appropriations' Act. It seems hard to drag some informdtion from offi- cials when they do not want ta give | it. Political converts or perverts are always bitter. Borden, White Willison were Liberals, best effores. the secret of their conversion. They | might tell it some day when in a con- | fessional mood, Correspondence has been" tabled at Ottawa showing that an order-in- council had_been issued for $1,050,080 for the submarines which bought from tion Conipany. have been $1,150,000, and the error Canada the Seattle Construc- only occurred aftor the Bank of Com- | merce and aunditor-general asked for explanations. . Mr. Pugsley ground for his enquiries into submarines, too much. | In sny event they wont NCSTON EVENTS 25 YEARS ACO vest the simking fund in the city's de- bentures, at varying interest, no part of it, of course, earning the interest of recent years; but interest that was certainly Jhigher than that stated "in 'the local improvement by-laws. The result was an increment Which $n creased, when compounded, very rap- idly. After a time the method af i city; in treating this increshent on the sinking fund, was changed. At the end of each year the sinking fund account was balanced, and the sum over and above thé amount necessary 2 § Peis BL The steamer Pierrgpont is being ve- paired, The excavation work: in connection with Carruthers' science hall has been commenced. : The gas lamp at the corner of Brook and King strests is kept burn- ing every might. A leak makes it im- possible to turn it off. CHINA GETS 60,000 JAPS. Pekin, March 15.--The Chinese Government has official information to meet the liabilities of the year| Sy ANNIVERSARY SUNDAY 2 en- | abled the Council of 1915 to present! man js | right | city | and | and lauded | the Liberal catse as worthy of their | f The world has never got | The amount should | had | these | IN SYDENHAM STREET METHO. DIST CHURCH. Rev. T. W. Neal, Toronto, Was the Preacher--A Very Large Congre-! gation Present At the Evening Service, Anniversary Sunday in Sydenham Street Methodist Church was mark- ed by the welcoming back of a for- mer pastor in the person of Rev. Thomas W. Neal, Toronto, who de-} livered two eloquemt sermons." An-| other happy feature of the occasion! was that after sixteen years in the ministry the preacher of the day met the man by whom he was ordain-| +ed. | One of the largest congregations| that bas ever been in Sydenham Street Church was present at the | {evening service to hear Mr. Neal who. took his text from II Timothy, 11: 3: "Thou therefore endure hard-! ness, as a good soldier of Jesus] | Christ." ; . "Some people think that life is a} dream," said Mr. Neal, 'but the! apostle Paul dispels this idea by in- timating hat it is a fight from start to finish if good is to be accomplish- ed." ) Comparing the life of the Chris- tian worker to the soldier the! preacher pointed out that the first] great essential of both is to become; enlisted. Then comle discipline and] service. A great call has gone out] in the past, but now the call is still} greater... The speaker said that it] | thrilled him to see the response of] volunteers, from Canada, Australia| and India to serve the Motherland Those who have gone to the - front | are standing in our places on the battlefield to fight for us. We at! | home should do our part by better- ing conditions as our soldier boys | |are doing in France amid the bloody | strife and all the horrors of war. | There never was a time when so! many great things are to be done, | | declared Mr. Neal. Ii a church for | gets to fulfill its purpose it should be! | covered up. The foreigner question is| | a vital one. The church must take! it in hand or else its fall will be! Spri SPRING. at moderate price, we ce to see vou this spring. 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Because ,so many toreigners | | became Roman citizens before they! | became Roman at heart. An illustra. tion was given by the speaker of the | Spartan lad who was be'ny trained to! { go into battle. From childhood this | teaching was instilled into him by | bis mother, and if he could nab de | fend himself by §is shield he must at least be brought back dead upon it If his sword was a {oot to» short he| | must needs fake another step ahead. | The church ghould be like this. ' We must look for worihy leaders to lead us through such a crisis as at! present confronts us. It is our re- sponsibility to do as well as those ! who are fighting in blood and all the' hell of war. | Special music was rendered by the choir at each service. The morning anthem was "My Faith Looks Up to Thee." = A solo and choral sanctus, "A New Heaven and a New th," was rendered by Harold Angrove and the choir at the morning service. Miss | Christine Cochrane played a beautiful violin solo and Lieut. Rhys, 21st Bat- talion, sang "The Publican" at the | evening service. ADVANCE OF BRITISH {IN VICINITY OF NEUVE CHAY. | ELLE IS FOUR MILES | Canadians Fought With Great Bray. | ery ---- British' Confident Of Mak. | | ing a Prompt Clearance To North. ward. | Paris, March 15. The advance { the British troops in the vicinity of 4 Neuve Chapelle is estimpted at about {four miles. The Germans are 'de. clafed to have been forced back be yond the forest. This advance of the British includes their various forward movements since the inning . of | their activities wt this point. } The French official statement says » "In the bend of theYser the Mel. gan army has weonsolidated and in crenbed the results obtained by it | on Thursday, i "The British troops continue to | progress, "They erossed the Brook-of | : ww Layes, which runs parallel t6 the | MADE-IN-CANADA road from Neuve Chapelle to Fleu- | | i J oi | { | | Bib Grafonola's | bys |Spring Shoes For Women. 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