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. . -- . - . v . n. .o'n_u.~o.«fi.‘u§) ‘5 ' mmffinrmpiur Alumna 'mnuus. ONTARIO memmm;m Whammy” muons Ola-“A” Weekly Gm years. To this large amount, the Ottawa newspaper points out there must be added the sums spent by the provinces and the municipalities. The taxpayers have provided a total or over $300,000.000, The Ottawa Journalbeiievea for the relief of the unemployed during the past four years. If to this staggering total there it added the sums expended by private charities and philanthmpic institutions. then the grand total will exceed ”00.000900 a year in the past {our m ‘ "25¢ i. -. ' ' The Advance believes that u there had been well-planned expenditures to the Intent of $100.0M.000 a year for wmdmandneededkindthiseountryandits As to the relative cost or employment and direct relief, there can be no question to the mind of the ordinary thoughtful man as to which plan is the more truly economi- cal. The Advance is inclined to the belief that in actual dollars and cents the cost of direct relief will prove in the final analysis to be the more burdensome. Indeed, is it not a fact that direct relief has assumed so appalling a total cost that. at present it is generally admitted that it can not be continued. but that the other method, the plan or pro- viding employment. must be adopted to save the country from ruin? Figures presented by the Minister of Finance recently were quoted this week by The Ottawa Journal to show what: Canada has expended in the past four years for the relief; of those sun‘ering distress through unemployment. The Minister. of Finance mentioned $130,000,000 as b81118 spent by the Dominion rsovernmet for relief during the past four At the end of 1933 the town of Timmins was in much better financial condition than the most of towns of similar size. This was not due to any better position occupied by the town. because Timmins was in no better situation finan- cially than other towns with equal advantages and oppor- tunity. In large measure The Advance would credit the superior position of 'I‘immins to the fact that the munici- pality avoided direct relief as much as possible. So far as the governments would permit it and circumstances would allow, Timmins confined itself to giving relief work rather than direct relief. In so far as the town was forced to de- part from this policy. just so far was it levelled to the situ- ation confronting most towns and cities. There is no doubt that the providing of employment as a relief measure has a tendency to reduce expenditures for relief. It is also the best method known to keep relief among the deserving, Further it is the method of relief that makes the most appeal ‘ to the minds and hearts of Canadians and other Britishers. "Give us a chance to make our own living,” is the expression that is most used and thought by the people in general in this country. and the problem of unemployment is no nearer solution. standards of living have been reduced. and ambition has been strangled. On the other hand employment starts scores of happy circles that make for more employment. The unfortunate man subsisting on direct relief cannot support anyone else. He cannot even pay his taxes. The man in employment helps keep the butcher. the baker, the candlestick-maker. He is in position to contribute in some measure towards pay- ing the taxes that are necessary if governments are to give relief through employment, or even through direct relief. necessary. .In any case, it seems that even if employment cost more than direct relief, the extra cost would be well warranted. Employment would be a good investment. Direct relief is only a wasteful expenditure. After all the money expended on direct relief has been paid out the country has nothing to show for it except the fact that a number of people have been kept in existence on terms that the most of them will deplore. They have not starved to death, but they have eaten bitter bread. They have lost their independence, their cheerfulness, their industry, their gallant outlook on life. They are poorly equipped to resume the struggle of life. And with all this, the country is poorer, To all this the invariable reply has been:--"Where will the money come from?" To this The Advance has retorted with the query:~â€""Where is the money to come from for the dire burden of direct relief?" To The Advance it has appeared that the final cost of direct relief promises to be much greater than the actual expenditure necessary for the providing of employment that would make direct relief un- Ever since unemployment in Canada has been so serious that some form of relief was absolutely essential, The Ad- vance has urged that the providing of employment is the only method by which any measure of permanent and desirable relief could be available. It has been argued that direct relief by. its very nature only made matters worse. It starts vicious circles that require more and more relief. Direct relief not only pauperizes the country but it takes the soul of independence and spirit of initiative from those forced to accept its bitter charity. Well, reader, there’s your editorial on the weather! And you‘ll get better editorials. when there's better weather! That is what The Advance writes about the weather. What The Advance thinks about the weather is what the rest of you are thinking. That’s why it is not published. course the winter must end, but it looks now as if it might be next winter before it does. It has been officially an- nounced that the provincial elections will be held next summer. That, no doubt, is why people are so uncertain as to whether the elections will be in June or September. or course there are some compensations. For instance, they are still having curling bonspiels at South Porcupine. Also, there is historical precedent for the present sort of thing. if that be any comfort. In 1917 (or some other year) old man Winter waited for May. All the speakers at the Sons of England banquet Monday night missed a great chance. One of them at least might have quoted the English poet, with variation:â€"“Oh. to be in England, Now that April's here." 1 ""U V Until this year the beauty of the North Land weather was! equally unafraid of names: its variety,-somethlng worth writing about.â€"glorious sum- To-day it seems to be generally agreed that employment iner, crisp, sparkling winter, sometimes all in the one day. and employment only is the only sure safe, permanent and Now all the days are in the one winter. Why write about . economical plan for remedying the present situation. The the weather when there is nothing known except winter? people are behind the Governments in this. What is urgent- This Winter is as persistent as the lies of a communist. 0f . ly neeclecl now is that the plans be speeded up so that the The Advance has been asked to write an editorial on. the weather,-â€"asked by a reader, but. whether triend or foe, who knows? Timmins, 03m, Thursday, April 2651'; 1934 EMPLOYMENT THE ONLY RELIEF mm ABOUT THE WEATHER 4’30)!” ions mistakeâ€"that of attempting to ixixpose the new tax without consulting the member of the cabinet in position to the it the best advice in the mattet. It made another mis- mummmumsmmm Itvflll Ci'ea seems to be right. as usual, in suggesting material modification of the proposed levy. Some other basis than that or gross production would appear to be necessary. The mine developing low-grade ore should have special con- sideration. The interests of the workers. both as to their numbers and their wages, must be fully guarded. The new basis of the tax must be developed with these considerations in View. The Government has already made one very ser- The protests against this part of the new budget are not based on selfishness. The protests are made in fear of injury to the broader interests of the workers and the country as a whole. It the protests are not given the most patient hearing and the most sympathetic consideration, then it will have to be admitted that democratic principles are not held in the highest regard. If it can be shown that this tat can be imposed without injury to the country and without acIual hardship to the industry and its employees. then protest will be withdrawn. It seems apparent that the tax as it stands on gross production can not fail to work injustice and injury, at least in some cases. Hon. Chas. Mc- This editorial article commenced by suggesting that it was unfortunate in one way that one certain or uncertain newspaper should suggest that the whole outcry against the new ,, tax was based on a selfish desire to avoid taxation. It may be added that in another way this suggestion may rouse 'the Government and the people in general to a complete survey of the situation. In such a case the result may not be'as unfortunate as might be supposed at first thought. A thorough study of the protests against the new gold tax suggests that there is less selfishness than usual in the opposition. The protests after all are not so much against the tax itselft though assurance had been given that therei would be no added taxation to hamper the success of this particular industry that was doing so much for the country. The protests are more against the form of the taxation than against the tax itself. To apply the tax against gross pro- duction, rather than against profits seems to be to hamper' the small and struggling mine, to prejudice the number and the wages of the men employed in the industry, L05 menace the development of low-grade ventures. I Elsewhere in this issue will be found a summary of the opinions registered against the proposed ten per cent. tax on gold production. Hon. W. A. Gordon, Minister of Mines in the Dominion Cabinet, appears to be strongly opposed to the new imposition in its present form. Hon. Chas. McCrea, Minister of Mines for Ontario, is quoted as expressing the Opinion that some change must be made, and undoubtedly will be made, in the proposed imposition. The ideas of these men surely are entitled to more than passing con- sideration. Another point that has been stressed by those protesting against this new tax is the effect the new imposition will undoubtedly have upon foreign capital needed for the de- velopment of Canada’s mining industry at this time. It is only a few weeks ago that direct assurance was given from Ottawa that no new imposts were planned on the mining industry. In view of this assurance, the drastic nature 01 the proposed new tax comes as a distinct shock. has accepted very heavy taxation with little complaint... It is unsportsmanlike because there had been definite assur- ance that no further taxation was planned for the gold mining industry. and the proposed new levy thus had the unpleasant nature of a disagreeable surprise. It was un- warranted because the truth of the matter is that the first and the chief objection has come not from the gold mines but from other bodies that are concerned with the general welfare of the country. The first protest against the tax, as sent out from the Porcupine, for instance, was not from the mines, but from the Timmins board of trade. The first protest from Toronto to Ottawa was issued by the Ontario Prospectors’ and Developers' Association. From Sudbury, North Bay and other boards of trade and business groups, objection has been voiced against the proposed tax. or course, the mining interests have added their opinions, but would it be fair to expect that they would see a bur2den placed upon their industry without some attempt to sécure“ fair consideration. The point that The Advance is striving: to make clear is that the chief opposition to the new levy comes from those who are indirectly rather than directly. concerned and mainly because the honest belief is that the! proposed tax will injure the country in general more than it will harm the mining'industry. In all the protests against the proposed new gold tax emphasis is placed on the prob- able reduction in employment to follow so drastic and un- expected an impost. Some of those protesting have ad- mitted their chief fear is that the ten per cent. tax on gross production may force a reduction in wages in the mining! industry. Others have felt that it must of necessity mean; a curtailment of operations in the mines that have been! planning extended working of low grade properties. It is the small, the struggling mine that appears to be menacedn It would appear to .be folly, indeed, at this time to prejudice . or injure one of the few industries in Canada that have been able to weather the depression and to carry on for the ad- vantage of the country as a whole. This is the sort of attitude that seems to be behind most of the protest against the proposed new tax. I i i l In one way it is unfortunate that there should appear in a certain or uncertain Toronto newspaper an editorial note suggesting that the protest against the proposed tax of ten per cent. on the gross production of gold in Canada proves only that the mining industry does not like taxation. Such an insinuation is both unsportsmanlike and unwarranted. It is unsportsmanlike in View of the part the gold mining industry has taken in the past few years in assisting Canada bear up under the depression. and also because the industry cure of the trouble be hastened and that Cunhda follow in the footsteps of Britain in the matter of returning to better times and better ways. There was yet another way in which the public were not ready. perhaps. for a complete programme of employment as the full measure of relief until experience and hard fact impressed the lesson. That was in the matter of discipline and response to the goodwill of those who had to meet the bills. Hon. Wm. Flnlayson’s plan some years ago for the creation of road camps as a relief measure created a clamour of disapproval because some one termed them labour bat- talions. In the United States they have been called "labour armies.“ and there has not been a murmur from the most frantic pacifist wishing a 101). Canada to-day should be equally unafraid of names. would-facebettertimeswithanamyofeseetsintheform of needed public works. It may be admitted that three or four years 880. perhaps, the country was not in the mood for the better plan of providing employment rather than keeping body and soul together by direct relief. There may not have been a reali- zation three or four years ago of the coat. direct and indirect. of din-ect relief. Probably it was not realized until more recent years the inescapable truth of one (act noted by The Ottawa Journal-that “the cost of relief must be kept within the limits of what can be paid by those able to pay taxes." GOLD TAX SHOULD BE MODIFIED m W mum. manna. out-mo Much newspaper publicity has been given to an incident in the professional life at Dr. Harrison Gross. of Winchester, Ontario. Dr. Gross «has called recently to a maternity case in Mountain township and round the mother dying from iossofblbod. Tosavethemottm’slife immediateaction was imperative and there was no help near, except what could be given by the young country doctor himself. With no equipment save what a crummy doctor aim: carries Hon. Jas. Lyons, or Sault Ste. Marie, is in favour of the proposed ten per cent. tax on gold production. He seems to be about the only man who should know anything about it who is is favour of the imp-:sition. It may be that Hon. Mr. Lyons believes the tax will raise ten trillion dollars and that is about the amount of extra money that will be needed to- build the Trans-Canada highway along the rocky shore of Lake Superior. A radio announcer on Sunday gave the name of a well- known hymn as “By cool Salome's shady rill." As several readers have minted out, it, was Siloam that was the- cool one, and Salome was a rather warm number. Possibly, the radio announcer meant to say, “By Shady Salome's cool'rlll." Last week Edward Charette, of Elk Lake, was sentenced to three months' make a third and still more vital error if it attempts to crowd through this tax without modifying it for the good of tho country at large. ELK LAKE MAN DRAWS TERM OF TBREE MONTHS FOR THEFT George Carr, of Timmins, who had been held at Cobalt for 18 days after being released from Haileybury jail, where he had been committed [by a sentence imposed at Kirkland Lake, came before Magistrate Atkinson at Cobalt on Saturday and was given his liberty when Acting Crown Attorney Pearlman said the crown had no evi- dence to offer and withdrew the charge. Timmins Man is Freed on Theft Charge at Cobalt Gagnon Canie ..... Eddy ....... Honester N icolson . Armstrong Fleming Leach ....... Belleveau Saint; ......... Allen ......... Army went round shaking hands, as tickled as punch. Well he will h ve to do it all over again tonight, as th did not win. for McHugh and Hornby were asked to check over the sheets and 'the latter found twcn pins for Canie and made the score even. and another string will have to be bowled tonight before the winners are declared and then they will roll against The Advance. the win- ners to meet the Power tomorrow (Fri- day) and Monday in the finals for the silverware. Anyway here are the real scores of Monday's match:â€" GRAVEL AND SANDâ€"AND PLACER Art and Pete came to bat! Art made 30 pins on his last and Pete needed 15 pins to win out :by one pin and only got 12. Gam'bles lost out by two pins. according to the scorer. It was a fight to a finish, Gambles being 73 pins down going into "the final game. and the fruiti-ers were getting bad breaks until the final. stages when Henry let loose and struck out the last five frames. Gambles met the T. N. O. on Mon- day for the first of the play-offs on the three-team tie, and there was quite a comedy enacted after most of the play- els had gone home. More Ties Result in Commercial Bowling Totals Totals . N. 0. Thought They Won the Match on Monday, but the Scores were Really Tied. Art's ’Art Broken. Enjoy ALL-BRAN as a cereal, or cook into appetizing recipes. Be sure you get Kellogg’s ALL-BRAN. It contains much more needed “bulk” than part-bran products. In the red-and-green package. Made by Kellogg in London, Ontario. Isn’t this sunny way better than taking patent medicines-30 often harmful? Two tablespoonfuls of ALL-BEAN daily are usually suffi- cient. Chronic cases, with each meal. If seriously ill, see your doc- tor. ALL-BRAN makes no claim to be a “cure-all.” In addition, ALL-BEAN provides vitamin B and iron. Within the body, the fiber of ALL- BRAN absorbs moisture, and forms a soft mass. Gently, this clears out the intestinal Wastes. Kellogg’s ALL-BEAN tarnishes “bulk” in convenient and concen- trated form. Laboratory tests show the “bulk" in ALL-BRAN is safe and effective. In fact, it is much like that found in leafy vegetables. This ailment frequently causes headaches, loss of appetite and en- ergy. Yet, in most cases, it can be overcome pleasantly and safely by eating a delicious cereal. Food has a lot to do with how you feel and how you look. For in- stance, you need plenty of “bulk” with your meals to avoid the risk of common constipation. 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