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THE ERA WED JANUARY 1009 VOL 118 NO I THEERA I Provincial government will decide on GOtrains for York County in 69 Readers GO NORTH MIN MCCT MINISTER setting pretty close to the end of January Mr Canada Libre President Charles de Gaulle sticking his biff nose into Canadas affairs once again and Prime Minister Trudcaus flippant attitude in the House of Commons are two incidents which have outraged most Canadians President dc Gaulle first outraged most Canadians when he made his famous Vive Quebec Libre speech His latest intrusion into Canadas affairs was an invitation to leaders of Quebecs Provincial Government lo discuss policies that are mainly the responsibility of the Federal Government and therefore the responsibility of every Canadian citizen His latest slap on the face to Canadians was when he snubbed our country by failing to invite our ambassador to a state dinner When Mr Trudeau was questioned in the Commons on what the government intended to do about the snub he replied I think that our ambassador in Paris knows of other places where he can get a good meal The question at least deserves a serious answer and not a flippant remark Both President Gaulles nose and Prime Minister Trudeaus tongue are too long SUGAR SPICE By Bill Smiley Those winter carnivals Canadians unlike Scan dinavians dont commit suicide during the long cold dark winter At leas- not more than the Instead they just half- kill themselves by attending a win ter carnival This makes them feel so rotten for the following week that theyre so glad to he alive that they wouldnt even con template suicide Ive seen people age years during a winter carnival Dont talk to me about the October beer in Munich or the carnival of the hulls in Pam plona or the Mardi in New Orleans Those things go on for a week or a month itnd theres a tot of ind incriminating kissing and dancing in the streets and drink- an orgy into a weekend the winter carnival Every self respecting Canadian town has winter carni val of some sort and if the govern ment had any brains it would de clare a national festival for about the first week in February It would be a great pies- Personally Id ho willing 10 kiss practically anybody and dance in the streets should it be below and drink almost thing except antifreeze if I had a weeks carnival to look forward to and back on It would break the rigid back of winter Wed just be climbing back into our ruts about Valentines Day and there would be spring right around the corner Two years ago as a project our school had a g Frosty Frolic It was beautiful There was no organization at all which is the secret of a good time One bright white February day we marched down to the park eh am I behind an impromptu band and had a hell of a time Skidoo races and teachers being powered by mobs of kids and having their faces well washed in snow For at least a month after that we didnt hale each other I went in the snowshoe race and finished 21st Went in a and was dragged yards through the snow by exu berant yelping students Three years ago son Hugh laden with school work and music and not doing too well in either bogged to lie allowed to go to the Quebec winter carnival He of we let him go entranced All those dancing in the streets being merry loving one another He came home went to work pulled up his marks by 12 percent and passed his performers music exam Ther- Kim has been in vited to winter carnival it a versity by the jailbird I men tioned recently Should she go Shes 18 or near enough In another country shed be mar- It will all sort out but 1 think the winter carnival is a great institution When its nil over there arc husbands looking for lo the The winter carnival has something for everybody For the kids then- is he excitement and the colour and the chance of be I li Mtimniulnlf I the swinging set there are wild rides through the woods and the parlies and the breaking of hone on the ski hill For the middle- aged there is curling and com panionship and remembering the old days before those noisy damned snowmobiles were inven ted live the winter car nival Hut lets spread it out a little Fortyeight hours of kissing and dancing and drinking brings even a sturdy Canadian to his knees See you at the carnival The new Estate Tax Amendments now before Parlia ment must be changed it thre nit the baby with the water Estate and gift taxes are eliminated between husband and wife but the budget aims to re coup this by raising rates on gifts and bequests to children The proposed basic ex emption is to be plus 000 for each child and rates on taxable value will range from per cent to per cent This may he the death knell of the family The family farm is the basic unit of Canadian agriculture Modern mechanization has made the acre general farm obsolete acres and up is a common hold ing in Eastern Canada and acre ages into the thousands are fre quent in the West The failures of Chinese communes and Hussion collectives illustrated by their pur chases of Canadian wheat and the sorry financial records of some of our Canadian corporate farms con trast with the surpluses commonly produced by the North American family farm With all its fnurts the family farm is the beat agri cultural system going today A typical Ontario farm will have invested in land build ings stock and equipment subject to variation depending on the type of farm number of operators In prime farm areas 350 acres at 300 500 per acre may be worth to and yet yield only a modest living On a taxable value of estate tax would be 23700 plus pol ecat on the balance over Such crushing taxes may force sale or breakup of the family farm With this sort of tax how can the farmer pass the family farm to his son It Is all very well to tell farmers to set up family corpora tions or to moke their sons part ners as soon as possible but this who will not srav on the farm What if the son in im practical or unsuccessful What if a generation gap dispute deve lops The fanner hesitates to urn the farm over and in fact if he does he is im mediately subject to gift la contribute their labor often at low rates on assurance of inheritance They spend the best years of their lives building up the family busi ness Now it mav be crush i ugly taxed on the fathers death The son can either leave the farm or risk the confiscation of years of labor unless his father transfers his farm now The father who wants to leave the farm to his son must cither surrender the farm now or risk taxes so heavy as to force a sale on his death And if lie docs turn the farm over to the son now gift tax exemptions arc to start at One solution would pro vide that where farmers sons have contributed to the joint family busi ness estate tax would only be levied on the fathers share of the joint venture Another answer is a drastic alteration of exemption schedules There may be still further answers all of which should he It has been truly said Farming is no longer a way of life It Is a business Rut farming is not a business like the others Governments need revenue and farmers should pay their fair share ial circumstances of the part of the economy on which the tax will fall While aiming at revenue and fairer shares the new Estate Tax Act may impose an intolerable bur den on the family farm on which per cent of our people live and on whose food 100 per cent of our people depend It must he changed THIS WEEK by Walt E The great brain On the question of immi gration Canada seems continuous ly confronted with a twofloor di lemma She must keep front door wide open to encourage the entry of immigrants to Canada while keeping her back door shut Canadas immigration re lationship with the US has been one of unequal give and take we gain a few and lose a tot For ev ery two American immigrants heading north to Canada there are three Canadians hightailing it off to the Slates The population leak has been with us a long time and to day here are one million Canad ians living south of the border We can imagine them sipping in a of nationalistic nostalgia the Canada has tried sundry schemes to dam the southward flow of people but the American dollar lias always looked greener than the Canadian to some obser vers Couple this with southern sunshine well thats a Siren with a tune quite hard to resist The situation is particu larly critical because the moving tide of population from Canada represents a problem not only of quantity but quality Their num bers include a high proportion of physicists and physiologists doc tors and dentists economists and technicians the cream of a young nations intelligentsia Statistics released this month by the Technical Service Council show that in the studv year of there was a rise of Canadian engineers and scientists moving to the US A total of engineers took jobs there and the Council predicts that increased job openings in will perpetu- ate the trend Aggravating this prob lem is the fact that there arc Canadians studying at Also National Science Foundation survey last year dis closed that a number of doctors equal to onethird of all those grad- Somc immigration offic ials optimistically may have hoped that the quota restriction system introduced in the US last July would partly plug the leak in Can adas manpower dike but this can he dismissed as wistful thinking Although the quota limits the in flow of immigrants from Western Hemisphere nations to an nually this has not so for thwar ted Canadians seeking immigrant visas for the US Balancing our losses slightly the number of American immigrants Canada of late has been rising partly due to the nar rowing of wage differences be tween the two countries In 1907 there were 19038 American arri vals some of whom were draft dod- of those are alert young men of considerable promise but many fled the draft before they could complete their college educa tion in the US An experienced Canadian engineer or scientist for a partlyeducated American young ster thats a trade in the Yanks favor Meanwhile as Canada laments the loss of her scientists many hnvenot nations have ac cused us of brain burglary in our own Secretary General II for example last month complained that Canada and the US were sapping underdeveloped countries of their skilled and pro fessional people the loss of manpower is largely economic For every physician surgeon or scientist to pay the cost of more than 20000 When a Canadiantrained scientist or doctor decides to head for the border with his high priced education that represents a migh ty big investment for the Canadian taxpayer to flush down the brain By BILL GAMBLE This is not one of Mayor s predictions but rumor has it that a certain Arabic sect has taken to the hills to watch the end of the world which they de clare will take place on June 15 A few years ago a Hindu sect spent days submerged In the Jamuna river in a similar vigil There is a strange about such sects which from time to time withdraw themselves to a place apart to await the end of the world Hut one hears no thing of them afterwards When the big day has drawn its worldendless close do they disseminate in groups dis appointed their faith shattered and take to immornl living Or does the head man simply post a sign saying Cancelled Due To Perhaps after a certain time they believe that the world really has ended as planned and that the rest of us arc just kid ding ourselves hat we continue to exist This seems a more likely conclusion Nothing holds a group together like sticking to a dogma no matter what Ask the com munists if you dont believe me dont risk an ulcer attack worrying the world ending on June 15 I dont think the moralists would go for it Since they refused us a cocktail bar I just cant visualize hem permitting the world to end through my new telephone directory the other night well everyone to his own bag I think 1 came up with the an swer something hat has been puzzling me for years why so many men around Newmarket are absolutely fanatical about fish ing Frequently I ponder with a IniMMii c dubious spirit of challenge thnt fishing creates In ho hearts of my fellow men Personally detest the socalled sport How any sane adult can sit for hours pitting his brain against that of a little fish is beyond me Id be bored to the point of trauma Anyway as I was say ing my new telephone directory has given me some sort of a clue now believe fishing is inherent in Newmarket moles Flipping through he Newmarket section noticed such names us Fish Fish er Salmon Hue Sturgeon Pike Hay Pollock Cod Codling Pickerel I etc And to strengthen my suspicions even found a Lake and a A lady called me from Richmond Hill he other night with what appears to be it reasonably valid complaint and asked if Id include It in my column object she said to the custom of calling ships auto- mobiles tractors and so on she Its men who arc the difficult mil temperamental sex so why should not difficult and temperamental machines be spoken of in the masculine gender THE ERA York 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