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FAV IEV -'i!ENDA TTSA.BWAVLL.OTROTUSAMYlt,18 Spring Has Arrived iStyle Let's Go and Stretch a Lung The past few days have seen a definite improvemeat in the wea- ther. Transient birds can again te found sleeping in the parks, and the buda are bursting to bust. Deputy-Reeve Frank Jamieson, Chairman Roads and Streets, is directing the' activities of the men wbo are expertly. ladliag muck from the storm sewers around town. Town Road Superintend- ent Ab. Ruiter is doing his utmost to smootb over the bumps and hollows created in the roads by frigid old man Wirter. Floodwaters have subsided in this area, but the West is one big lake. Construction engineert wil soon be designing bouses witb pontoons for the bottom lands Opening Day for International League bail in Canada Is May 3-whon Montreal Rayais meet Jersey City end Toronto Is matched witia %yracuse. arouad. Trout season is again in full swing, although the trout are tbumbing a saucy fin at whatever bait the angler is throwing at them. We often wonder wby the Spring fisherman doesn't tel bis frieads that be is going on a camping trip. The Fighting Pereh For that is usually wbat bis out- ing amounts to. Even the most optîmistic fisherman cannot be sure of landing more than a percb or two. And in the past few years the humble perch has decid- ed to ciassi!y bimseif among the game fish. He bas acted accord- ingly, sniffing warily at the bail, and trying to lide the worm off the book. __ -A NEW RECORD, A NEW TROPHY FOR THE LEAFS 0F '261 Louisville stadium baked under a gloring Kentucky sun. On the dia- mond Toronto Maple Leafs were meeting the Louisville Colonels. The stake was the Lttle World Series championship. The Lefs- International League winners-had edged the Colonels in four home games. This was the deciding day. An lnjury ta Leafs' star pitcher forced a last-minute substitutionm A win seemed deubtful-but spar- kling pitchlng pulled them through. Heid te five bits, the Colonels were shut eut, 5-0. The Leafs became the only team in basebail history ta gain the title in five stralght gamet --a record that stands today. Team spirit and goed sportsmanship have won world-wide respect for Canaidians. And team spirit wlth sportsmanshlp help you tee-in work and play. Tegether they keep your opportunities In Canada ï j a unlimited. If the spnlng fisherman tld bis wlfe that he intended only to soak ini the fresh air and the beauties of nature, bie could surprise her once in every elgbt or nime'trlps by bringing home a trout or two. As it is, it seems that the biggest finny news event of the future will be the opeaing of the sucker or perch season. Pun My Word Tbe fisherman will be the suck- er as lie perches on some rock singing bass as bie tries to console himself for being a piker. At the moment of writlag the town Is having an Apnil shower on the fourtb of May. How can tbis be? Mother nature knows no caiendar. She Just grets bot or cold or wet or dry as she feels like it. If she wants to have an April sbower in the middle of May, it's up to lier. 1 Wander Where? This is tbe time o! year wben tbe maie gets itcbing feet. It is traditional that tthe maie sbouid want to stretch his legs and crave to seek far places. Wbere? He doesn't know. He just waats to move. Every train wbistie seems to invite hlm to- dash off into some remote corner of the continent. The lumberman, after a winter of beans and dried pork, nibbles on the few scarce green shoots that bave dared to poke their stems above the grouad. The housewife throws open- a few windows to let the fresh air in and the stale odors, beld in by the storm windows, out. Guarding The Garden Home owners are just beginn- ing to get the urge to paint. Three or four years of weathering bas taken the gioss off the window and door sis. The amateur car- penter is .anxious to builq bimself a new set of steps, and t he horti- culturist (in English, gardener) is envisioning the plan of bis flow- er garden for the coming growing season. Delayed by ornery weather, the farmer is now daring to poke bis precious seeds in the ground. And the vegetable gardener bas spent the three or four dollars on seeds that hie hopes will return hlm forty or fifty dollars worth of ed- ibles. Ah! 'Tis Spring. The biood courses madly through the veins and the body is alert and active. Ho hum! Having written tbis, we'Ul trundle off to bed. Dept. of Health Increases Grants To Ont. Hospitals Special maintenance grants made to some 140 Ontario bospit- ais by the Ontario Government amounting to $2,604,542 were an- nounced recently, by Premier Les- lie Frost. These grants, a bonus or special allowance, based on 25 % o! the grants paid in 1949 to the hospitals for maintenance costs, are in addition to the ordin- ary maintenance grants wbicb for 1949 amounted to about $10,000,- "These grants are special allow- ances or bonuses to the hospitais to aid toward their maintenance costs", the Premier said. In bis recent budget address the Premier stated the governmen 't intention to give the bonus. The cheques in payment of the speciai grants are already in the bands of officiais of ail the hos- pitals, Mr. Frost said. Following is the partial iist of the hospitais and the amount of grant: Stevenson Memorial, Ailison, $1,055; Rosamond Memoriai, Ai- monte, $591; Arnprior and Dist- rict Memorial $1,196. Royal Victoria, -Barrie, $3,300; Belleville General, Belleville, $6,- 947; St. Josepb's General, Blind River, $3,010; Bowmanville Hos- pital, $600; Bracebridge Memorial, $1,713; Peel Memorial, Brampton, $1,415; Brantford General $24,- 164; Children's Convalescent, Bur- lington, $414; Brockville General $3,499; St. Vincent de Paul, Brock- ville, $1.312. The secret's out;;. the word bas gone 'round Winchester is going places. This fresh MILD smoking pleasure is being discovered by more Canadians everywhere who are turning to and enjoying Winchester Cigarettes. join your friends . ; ; try a week with Winchester ; ;; you'Ii want to stay with them for life. Wi nchesterw.w C %IGAE TTrE s STOP TOBACCOS -VfitiNiA*dU?* US B444W TO GIVE YOU SMOKING SATISFACTION Acroas Canada With the Weeklies Canadlana: Mrs. Doris Mc- Laurin of Kelowna, B.C., sueci Chas. Skittles of Quaiicumn Beach $300 special damages after being struck by a golf bail and knocked unconscious . . . Girl Guides of High River; Alta., offered to baby sit for anyone jzomg to the blood bank to donate blood ... A group of Canadan financiers are reported behind a plan to buy the 475-acre estate of R. S. McLaughiin at Osh- awa and turn it into a movie fac- tory, witb experts brought in un- tii Canadians can bè trained . . at Bienheim, Ont., the Rotary Club staged a $5 a plate banquet to hear a taik on racial brotherhood and there were 500 present... basebaîls and softbaiis are now beîng produced in the Lannom & Wellinger factory at Barrie, Ont., the entire production for the Can- adian market ... at the village of Rosedale, B.C., the volunteer lire department built their own fire engine on a chassis for wbich $1,000 bas been donated . . . Frank Goldsmith, 96, left Reveistoke, B. C., for Kamloops after living there for 65 years . . . At Brace- bridge, Ont., Albert Hollinsworth officiai weather observer for Cen- tral Muskoka received a new wind vane from the meteoriogicai bureau to replace the existing one, in use since 1876 . . . On Mississippi Lake in Ontario, the Carleton Place Canadian reports, they will try cross-breeding mail- ards and black ducks; the ducks tamed last year were protected during the hunting season . . . J. S. Downey of Nokomis, Sask., just received a letter sent from a Portland bank 39 years ago to his uncle, now deceased, W. J. Dow- ney of Govan . . . At Tavistock, Ont., Harold Stock dropped his wailet; unfortunately two piggies ate up $269 ibis and an $84 cheque, driver's license and other papers. The Cranbrook, B.C. Courier gets tough, saying: For every driver who is hasty because of a genuine need to get som-ewhere in a hurry, a bundred drivers are hasty for no sound reason at al- because tbey are congenitaiiy careless, irresponsibie and incom- petent. In a materiai world, the High River, Aita., Times gets sentimen- tal, part of an editoriai being: Our friends are the jewels we cherish. They are our intangible assetsi which we have collected in the process of living, far transcending material assets. They are not iimited to time and place, but are carried forever in the heart. The Amherst, N.S., Sentinel discussing services not being "free" points to the B.C. bospitai scheme, sumýning up: "Clearly there are giaring faults in the B.C. rate structure, or in the system of administration, or both, when in a year and a haif special charges imposed on the people failed by neariy $5,000,000 to meet operat- ing costs. "Industry" points out: Admitt-I ediy, the cost of living is up rough- iy 60 per cent. over the figure for 1939, but Canada 's wage ear- nons, inciuding the three fighting forces, made 196 per cent, more money last year than tboy did a decaaie ago. Total earnings o! $7,- 700,000,000 formed the buik o! the country's net national income o! $12,900,000,000, tbe Dominion' Bureau o! Statistics estimated ne- cently. Chaiking up Canada's achievements in a baif-century o! progress, the Bureau estimated that wage-earning salaries iast year increased by eigbt per cent. over 1948. Farmers earned $1,- 500,000,000, down 7 per cent. from 1948. but a gain o! 233 per cent !rom 1939. The main things to keep in mind about municipal government, says the Surrey, B.C., Leader, is that is was conceived as the broad base o! our free democratic structure. Bringing the problems of public affairs right 10 the doorstop of the common people, pioneerîng a new nation, introduced factors which our forefathers cherished, exer- cised and de!ended. The restoration o! free mark- ets and o! freedom from ahl com- puisory marketing schemes would do more to stimulate farm pro- duction and lower farm costs than ail the plans and the perfection- ists have ever produced. Earned profits are the principal factor in securing the adoption o! better practices and nothing is so persua- sive as btter returas from better efforts. Farmers who are free 10 profit by their own intelligence and iadustry wiil produce the most food at the lowest cost and maintain the bigbest fertility o! their land because good !arming pays best.-Fromn The Rural Scene. The Smiths Falls, Ont., Record News points out that a survey o! service club members would show that a very large percentage are engaged in church work. Lh&AplY freelY. end rub. faadrui<; a no §trous it "b r inQcIt paint, neuraigie. lumbago. LARGE ECONOMICAL mIn E SC Basebali and Taxes By R J. Deacbman - Babe Ruth, knowing sometbing o! baseball, received in 1931, $80,- 000 for the season. The icorne tax took hlm for a ioop. Hé netted only $68535-after taxes. Ted Williams, in 1950, will re- ceive $125.000, Federai income tax will eut him down, be will end up the year with $62,028. Inflation, since 1931, bas cut the purcbasiag power of the dollar, so Ted Williams' take-bome pay in 1950 is a little more than bal.! tbat of Babe Ruth's in 1931-57% if you want to be exact about it. 'Yes, these figures are American, Il couldn't bappen to us, or could it?' The question is worth con- sidering. Let us examine the facts. Here is a business execu- tive who bad, in 1939, an income of $10,000. He also had sometbing of more value, a wif e and lwo cblidren. His total income tax in that year whas $748.45, o! whicb $194.05 w.as provincial income tax -there is now no provincial is;- corne tax in Ontario. In 1949 he wouid pay, on the same income, $1 ,582.00. This cbap was a bigbt lad. He rose rapidiy in business, Ia 1949 bis income was $25,000, subjeet, of course, to income tax and touch- ed by the bigher cost o! living. Let us see how he fared. On bis $25.000 income ho now paid $7,- 625.00. His take home pay was $17,375.00. Lucky dog-but wait, we are not yet througb with thîs boy. The cost of living is up ap- proximateiy 60 %. In other words he must pay now $1.60 for the goods which cost bim $1.00 in dis- tant 1939. If we divide bis take home pay by $1.60 we will have bis earnings in terms o! dollars of 1939 purchasing power. Wbat is the answor?? I have worked il out for you: It is $10,858.00. He didn't got away with mucb on the $15,000 salary increase, did be? Let us see wbat happeaod to a smaller fish in the puddle. As- sume tbat tbe man with $5.000 in 1939 moved up to $10.000 la 1949 and see what happoned to bim. In tbe earlier year he paid in tax- es $133.60 leavi.ag hlm with $4,- 866.40. When bis income rose to $10.000, bis taxes amouated to $1,582.00, leaviag hlmn witb $8,-1 418.00. Now rua it tbrough the iacreased living costs-divide by 160-be bas or had la bis baads or in tbe baak $5,261 00. I won- der if ho tbougbt mucb of bis new found riches. Wrhat bappens 10 the fellow witb an intcome o! $2,750 la 1939? Ho paid no Foderal incarne tax. If bis income is aow $5.000 be pays $453.00 ini income tax. He bas $4,- 547 ta spond equivalent to $2,- 842 la terms o! pre-war dollars. The income o! eacb had increased sligbtly, the cbap -who beld to bis old earaings was strictiy out of luck. War 'canaot enrich the na- tion, war leaves us poorer than we were. A farmner cannot get nich by burning bis crops. The manufacturer gains notbing from smashing bis machines. War is destruction. withoùt reason or common sease. The only things it creates are poverty, bate, want and misory. The conquest of war is the greatest task o! humanity. Will we evor be equai 10 it? THE FACTS IN THE CASE 1939: Income Tax Income Personal Exemptions Dominion Provincial $10,000.00 $2,800.00 $554.40 $194.05 5,000.00 2,800.00 96.00 37.60 2,750.00 2,800.00 Nil Nil 1949: Income $25,000.00 10,000.00 5,000.00 Personal Exemptiong $2,300.00 2,300.00 2,300.00 Total $748.45 133.60 Ni] Incomo Tax $7,625.00 1,582.00 453.00 It may be noted that in each of the examples detailed for 1949 it has been assumed for the purpose of determining the applic- able exemption, that the chi]dren are qualified to receive Family Allowance benefits, and therefor, oniy $150.00 exemption for each has been used in the calculation. OBITUABRY. FREDERICK LOUIS BRAY After a lengthy peniod o! fail- ing heaith, Mr. Frederick Louis Bray passed peacefully to rest Wednesday evening, May 3rd, at bis home near En! ield, in bis 84th year. The late Mn. Bray. son o! Jon- athan and Sophia Colo Bray was bora October 15, 1866, at Enfld, where Mn. Harold Ormiston now resides. Later the famiiy lived at Ashburn, movingZ to Braeside Farm about 76 years ago. Tbey attended En! ield scbool and church. Mr. Bray united with the cburch and was S. S. Supeninten- dent for some years. and also was *Bible Class teacher. His great love o! music was evîdenced by service in the bass section o! the choir and, aiso, when Enfieid Band was a popular group o! en- tertainers, he playod the bass horn in that organization. He was a loyal momber o! the Sons of Temporance. During the past !ew years be bas llved very quietly. He de- pended much on the radio for en- tortaiament, and kept well-infor- med on current events by regular perusal of the weekiy and daily newspapers. The funeral, whicb took place at the M. F. Armstrong Funeral Home, Oshawa, Saturday after- noon, was well attended by rela- tives and friends who will over hold decnased in klndiy rememn- brance. Beautiful flowers from relatives, nelghbours, and Enfieid communlty bore sulent testimony to their love and euteemn. Bey. R. M. Seymour, Enniskill- en, conducted services at the Fu- neral Home, and graveside at El- dad Cemetery where interment took place in the family plot. Bearers were Messrs. Oliver Mc- Cullougit, Norman Scott, Wallace Pascoe, Norman Stinson, Harold Ormiston and Wilfrid Sanderson. Attending the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. George Bray, Miss Irene Bray, Mrn. L. M. Keith, Miss O. E. Luke, Toronto, Mrs. F. W. Lee and Mrs. R. E. Freeman,'Bow- manville; Mr. W. Dyer, Colum- bus; Mrs. T. H. Everson, Mr. Stan. Everson, Oshawa: Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Pascoe, Solina; Mr. Jas. A. Werry. Mrs. E. A. Werry, Mrs. H. McGiil, Enniskillen; Mr. and Mrs. A. Grose, Raglan, and many others from surrounding district, Prof essional hockey star Jiin Conacher is flot related to "Chuck", Lionel or Boy. Lillian Mae Marsh SCHOOL 0F DANCING - Oshawa- BALLET - TAP - TOE Character Barre 'lATURDAYS at Masonlo Temple, Centre Street, Oshawa or Write: 18 Patricla Ave., Oshawa Ready For Spring and Summer Work? 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