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t SO A Martin was office Friday with a demand far ft correction We had he placed him in a very bad light He wanted it understood Mi not the kind of player who required a loaded pistol on the table top When bid em they- stay quoth he reference was to our column of lost week in which remarked thai Herb Glad- fc mains return from the far would brighten the live of Messrs Bill Howard and Robert Martin with whom the traveller played a weekly game Wo remarked in paying that from the account of the players themselves it was if they played with loaded tola within easy reach It in deny this canard that Mr Martin hastened to the office you he continued somewhat mollified by our Will to correct the item mind you we play an eager There b no shilly shallying about- But our pom are verbal and they are leaded with quotations from Montrose Macau- and Burns You asked that your bridge table talk is in tho IE of these greats Exactly he replied Well its not so for fetched that the authors offer plenty of scope It would lend an aspect of culture barbaric habit of ift bridge One can hear the player murmuring Lady famous line Out damned spot out say as he attempts a finesse in spades Or with a hand full of aces and loaded for game scolding a lagging partner in the word the immortal Robbie used towards a mouse wee tiro As they say nowadays if you dont like the weather wait a minute it will change Was there anything like this before From subzero to thaw overnight not once but several times this winter What a mess It makes of the yard As the snow recedes it leaves bare the ashes spilt In the middle of last months storm and as the FOUR ground softens the yard be- comes rutted it looks like an intersection in a switching yard We dont like It one bit We were off on a logcutting expedition on Saturday after noon We havent swung an axe in earnest for some years but the weather was sunny and bracing and we had a good deal of enthusiasm Unfortunately enthusiasm is no substitute for muscle After a dozen swings of the axe it began to get heav ier and heavier In 20 minutes we were done in completely Sunday we were rather stiff but cheered that it wasnt as pain ful as anticipated Monday we discovered we cheered too soon Kelt as if we had been rolled over a cliff in a barrel of stones You have to got used to it says Art No argument there Wi Aurora width teifeWW Thursday of Main St market by and Expats Limited Subscription tot two years for of A of Canada Canadian Weekly Newspapers Audit Bureau of Circulation Authorized as Second Cast Posf Department Ollawti A JMN I Newt Womens Mfo THE EDITORIAL PAGE THURSDAY THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF FEBRUARY NINETEEN HUNDRED AND Horn the Files of IKd About the market last Butter was firm from to cents a lb and new laid from to cents a Chicken sold from cents a pair McCaffrey has been to the sales de partment of the Office Specialty Company in Toronto On leav ing he was presented a gold filled fountain pen and pencil On Vednewlay night the Horticultural ity held a meeting in the of trade town and officers Hunter vise A K Manny Dr auditors I Stephenson J Queens gone real estate Easiness at Miami morning firs tobacco shop was broken and of taken law office Matho4 and the tailor of Mr were also but nothing was Junior hock- team defeated at last Friday flight This the first game in the They have woneven game4 and lost none- and ored the The team met by the town band when it arrived at tin station on Sat morning Mayor Kave a short onratulatory ad dress at in the Odd- fallows Hall on Thursday the of the league was a access Tliero tables of euchre were Mrs- John MclAimy Mrs Hill Mrs Harry and Mr were dance Only a small market last Sat urday because of the heavy snowstorm Fresh eggs were 13 cents butter from to 20 cents Live chickens sold at cents a pair and dressed as high as cents Pork was from to a beef from 550 to 6 rabbits cents a pair A Armitago leaves for Hamilton on Tuesday to repre sent Newmarket at the Grand of The A lot of ice is being taken out of Fairy Lake this season Four ice cutters employed by Messrs Hunter made a record last Fri day cutting blocks of ice varying from by inches to 10 by inches The ice carnival held at Mount Albert rink on Tuesday night was a grand success Miss as Star of the Klondike was best dressed lady Other prizewinners were George Herbert Shields Aiex Wallace Frank Rowland and Will Aurora who returned from South Afri ca with the second contingent left last Friday for Dawson City to take charge of the post office in the absence of his father W V and Cornell Pickering have been visiting their cousin C Scott for a few days Mr manager of the Office Specialty has been in Ottawa all week superintend ing the erection of a big Job of metal work for post office department in the government buildings There was a good attendance at the meeting of the worth League on Monday Mrs president of the occupied the chair and Miss Maude Richardson acted as or ganist Those taking part In the program were Mrs C Hughes Mrs CI Jackson Jack Mrs McKay and Miss Mabel Cone PROVINCIAL AID NOT ANSWER Everything is going up in price the food we cat the clothes we buy the services we employ We can hardly expect that the tax rate is going to be an ex ception When the tax rate goes up it doesnt come down Mayor Michael Starr told the Aurora board of trade He believes that the property owner in carrying too heavy a burden He suggests more fin ancial assistance from tho provincial government Queens Park already offers an extensive program of financial grants to the municipalities on everything from education costs to recreation The system for provincial aid is established No doubt it could be extended to provide further financial assistance to the property owner But is it practical There is no found money for municipalities even at Queens Park Every cent hat province pays out to the municipalities is so loaded with conditions for its expenditure that the municipal authorities have become little more than rubber stamps for provincial policies The province is not to be blamed It is public money that is handed over to the municipalities The province is responsible for it so every precaution is taken to make sure it is in the provinces opinion wisely spent The provincial grants are used too to encourage a higher standard of municipal administration The province is we suppose reasonably successful in the achievement of these limited ends But in the total the province has so encroached upon local authority that municipal councils the corner stone of our system of representative government have been undermined almost to the point of Increased aid from Queens Park may offer a shortterm benefit to the propertyowner but eventually the propertyowner loses out Increased aid from Queens Park means further encroachment upon mun icipal authority and more control from a central auth ority Is there a property owner in the thousands of Ontario municipalities who believes he would get better government from a central authority in Queens Park than he is getting from his own town council Increased aid is not the answer to heavy property taxes The property owner will get relief only when the whole structure of taxation is revised to conform with current needs The following figures show the direction of taxation trends In the total taxes collected on the three levels municipal provincial and federal totalled about a person in Canada Today it is about In the federal government col lected percent of total lax revenues today it is percent In the provincial government collected percent today it collects percent In 1930 the municipalities collected millions or percent to day they collect 5 millions or lit percent Finally about percent of all municipal revenue comes from real property taxes about the same proportion as a decade ago How in heavens name can municipal councils get along on decreasing revenues at a Utile of inflated costs and a greater demand for municipal services No wonder the property owner is overburdened He is the only source from which the municipalities can draw their income Until our system of taxation is revised to give the municipalities the sources from which to draw sufficient funds for their expenses the is going to continue to suffer an unequal lax burden and if municipal councils are going to look to the pro vince for further aid they will lose what little is left of their independence ASSESSMENT INEQUALITIES The whole method of properly luxation is duo for a complete overhaul Increased costs brought about by rapid expansion and a demand for more comprehen sive services have shown up the weaknesses of man ner in which property is taxed Nowhere Is the need more evident than where there partly rural partly urban municipalities School Section No Three offers an example of the breakdown of present section extends north of Newmarket along Second St The South end of the section is heavily urbanized north end Is still rural The south end has the popula tion and requires municipal services but pays the lowest lax per capita The north end has large properties requires comparatively little in the way of municipal services and pays the highest tax per capita Or for that matter any one of several municipal ities in the north end where urban growth has extend ed into what was a few years ago still essentially rural areas offers examples of inequalities Sharon ville Holland Landing Oak RidgesLake Wilcox all have or face this problem The difficulties become immediately obvious when the urban areas ask for urban services and are blocked by the large property owners because of the heavy tax debt they must assume Or alternatively when the urban areas impose urban services upon rural areas which bear the bulk of the cost on the strength of a majority vote In its essence the conflict between the two groups boils down to a conflict between property and population This is unfair to both parties A situation where the rural sections might block essential services to urban sections or urban sections impose strangling taxes upon rural sections should never have been per mitted to arise There is no justification whatever for imposition of high taxes on a minority by the majority nor for a minority to block services to a majority Yet this condition will continue to exist as long as the antiquated methods of valuing properties continued There are instances where some of the issues can be settled by what is essentially compromise methods made possible by financial assistance from the govern ment This is the case in School Section No three where the formation of a union school section with Newmarket will settle a long standing dispute But those compromises are not always possible and cer tainly do not solve the basic question of inequalities of assessment REDUCING DISTRIBUTION COSTS Although the cost of food has more than doubled since the Canadian farmer still gets only about percent of what the consumer pays The remainder is taken up by processing and distribution costs Dr Burton of College cited these figures in a recent Montreal address and suggested that it was time something was done about it The Financial Post says that It is probable as Dr Burton hints and other farm authorities have claimed that in certain lines more efficient methods of distribution might result in substantial economies But it should be realized as many farm organizations have discovered when they ventured into that field that costs are bound to be very high in handling many farm products considerably higher than for most other commodities Such things as fresh eggs milk fruit to mention but a few are highly perishable and must ho moved quickly Spoilage is a very considerable factor ia many items Often this moving requires the of highly expensive refrigerating equipment One only has to examine the profit record of companies engaged in processing and distributing farm products to realize that this business the gold mine some people seem to suppose The Cast may bo quite correct as far as it goes but the plain fact is that adherence to old fashioned methods of food handling has been it needless cost to the farmers and the public Nowhere is this more easily demonstrated than in the maimer in which milk is sold In these columns recently we quoted ex ample of the Akron Ohio distributor who sells his milk in gallon containers from retail outlets at a price of II renin a quart As well as the saving to the Hiirner this practice has permitted him to pay a prim ary price for all milk from the producer It ia mo re than coincidental that Toronto still distributing milk in the manner of years ago should pay least and sell at more than several other large Canadian cities doubt if it is as tho Post suggests the thought of gold mines that prompts farmers lo consider entry into the food processing and distribu tion fields so much as the belief that tho met hods now In use can he modernized to the advantage of both consumer and producer It is not likely that this section of the country is in any danger of invasion What would happen to tho heavy tanks of enemy if they had to travel along some our back country roads at this time of year Possibly the condition of the roads is a local defense measure about which we knew nothing not the is and national or act right nips By Ginger Our natural ftrlUt bad his This to of our home fawn natural born a telling effect phino box in a of the only jsound of hound the back door hooted thwn out to he could brood alone Only your favorite cat art cri tic has able to the behind the bolted and the hoarded tip windows I Inter viewed yesterday He sat smoked Pando butts and attired He cut diet down to nothing yesterday ho only half a chicken a quart of milk and six bananas for lunch said Slim And they called me a revolutionist Hut Ill show Ill take my pictures the Cor ners saloon next month There HI have a real showing It oil started with the opening of a local show Slim applied for some hanging space am an too Slim informed the authorities Ti sorry but we Will have to take fingerprint he was told Then we must check with the have ymt birth certificate and check ywx medical history for sort of disease you might bring in So went through a screening He parsed the tests except the last which had his technique Where diJ you izll down asked of yesterday Wall it turned cut that these fellows the had their hearts set on using traditional techniques to paint that Slim asked Wall theres wrong With ill guess but it just so happened that I use contemp orary techniques to paint tradi tional problems Of course that would never LI do here they had told Slim I it seemed like a very small point to me but that is why was rejected Slim told me afterwards The fellers take a problem like the slums in a big city and paint it i Mike would have painted it But or the other take a like the living or the sufferings erf humans from add- and use technique such as painting it as it you was a leaning tower of at night timer Very I Vfta a a of fact a problem once a oft wirVfr I on A him upside n rs to be real I tnte5f them wy They ift wfe F with if wet ii fc A fi j it start his tirrs K it Car- -fsV- T contemporary by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches We shipped out soma week and go per hundred dressed weight Going through some records for the year past we find that last January we sold pigs for During 1930 between January and end of the year we got the fal lowing prices back up again to 2S Jane and 32 August and then it went down again in the fall then it started climbing again- Well thats quite a fluctua tion Right now one could get an offer for a female pig with or without registration papers of any age might say thats quite alt right But is it We are willing to bet that the hog population this year go- te up and about 15 months from now prices will be down again Then the men caught with a lot of pigs will sell the sows and the pigs and the merry go round will start over again One of the reasons for state of affairs is the fact that it is Very easy to go into hog raising and very easy to got out There is a market for all weighs and the housing equip meat and general overhead isnt very specialized The question wo would like to ask in these hog prosperous days and the problem we like to have solved what would happen if the Canadian farmer had to do what Was done during the last war put forth an extra special effort at raising a very large number of pigs for overseas shipment We are very much afraid that such a demand would find the industry unprepared itiitl quiff unable to meet it No can be founded on the In and out grower who are fair weather hog usually lack the which provided sta bility They cannot use labor ami feed efficiently In time of emergency they would be the ones who will be unable to produce unless subsidised Secondly the industry could- THE OLD HOME TOWN of feeaaj ire fi ant sold cursory sort control is worked the most them all wilt be and We know establishment rhinitis has been brought in by pigs taught at a sale foe which the had been Yet alt the advice we can get is snie general comments good and We have been inside V another breeders pig barn for- a long time visitors are not welcome thank you in our pig barn- And finally the industry not going to be able to produce up to requirements until seme effort is made to reconcile compromise stand- standards Take judging of hogs Vv at the Royal There are classes judged alive lit ifliM- of those did the animal come any eights and only eiice that high There are two classes judged as sides these two classes the litter mates of the hogs which didnt place higher than eighth- took the first out the Up places Somebody be wrong and will be foolish enough to suggest that the fault lies with the standards The very type favor h in the is the most to disease and the lowly lanky type gives the on we want These are the things we like to have some action on First from the breeders who should do some honest soul Then the search service departments J should If necessary stop all shows and fails ami sales until the disease spread stops this isnt done there is only solution left and that is subsi dies And who likes ij i jy fi5vi