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j v- a j wi t xiyg jwj fexlckss- ja rc the -tribune- stouffvule onty thursday janr4 1944 established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and ontario quebec newspapers association issued every thursday at stpuffville ontario subscription rates per year in advance in canada 200 in usa 260 y a v nolan son publishers notes and comments ic 1 are they really necessary three royal commissions have just been appointed at ottawa we learn from our ottawa letter specially written for this paper the duty of one commission is to tell the government whether cooperatives are liable for taxation or not isnt it rather remarkable that a royal commission has to be appointed at fabulous cost to tell a body of men who made the jaw just what is meant by it if the law makers do not understand the wording of the statute why not rewrite it so that it would be under- standible surely it would be cheaper than hiring expen sive judges to tell parliament the meaning of their own act royal commissions or appointments to it is a quicker route to millionare road than any other ve know of are finding that they will have to pay up to 600 to have the assessing done in the detailed manner required by the scheme if the average cost is 500 and there are 26 mun icipalities in grey this with thecountylassessor will cost about 17000- of course that will not be repeated every year and the figures may be topihigh but it causes one to wonder what results wil be obtained after such a generous expenditure of money will we have a better system men are human and men err they are also out to get the best deal possible for the municipality they represent the county assessor will have to be a superman to decide the fairness of assessments made by 26 independent as sessors if he called them into consultation he would pos sibly get 26 different answers we might agree that other fellow should be assessed 5000 but would we agree that we should be assessed at such a figure 1 grey county thought it had a system that was fool proof since the act states that assessments should be based on the value of the property not 50 or 66 or 75 per cent of the value but the actual value grey proposed to take sale values as recorded in the registry office compare them with the assessed values and presto the answer is found but this system was dropped because of expensive legal actions taken against it what better future lies ahead of the new system after spending possibly 17000 on it i 4 the county assessor we were interested in reading a lengthy editorial in the chesley enterprise on the county assessor business and all the arguments for and against such an official the claim of this paper is that the county assessor will only be an added expense and will solve nothing there is no individual in this or any other county who can give a cor- rect valuation on the properties in even his home munici pality let alone those he knows nothing of since neither the cost of a building the sale price or the rental price adequately settle the matter we have to admit it is all a matter of opinion and there is no ground rule that can be applied however here is the opinion of the enterprise property assessment is of course the basis on which all our real estate taxation is based and it is a matter of interest that so much attention is currently being paid to ways and means of developing a fairer more equitable basis of assessment t the ideal structure of taxation has not been erected there are those who claim that cooperatives competing with regular business are favored in the fact that they- pay no taxes- it is well known of course that businessmen escape income tax levies more lightly than do the men and women on a straight salary grey county council has felt for years that the towns were not paying as great a propor tion of taxes as were the townships relative values consid ered the cpr has long insisted that it was most unfair that is should compete with the governmentowned cnrj which pays- no taxes and which often dips into the federal treasury for money with which to meet its deficits after many years of watching proceedings of munici pal courts of revision we feel that it- is almost useless for people to appeal against their assessment unless they have ah outstanding claim for redress there is no standard of measurement in one case it will be claimed that properties are assessed at twothirds their actual cash value but oh the other hand there are properties which are assessed tir more than the owner paid for themto prove their case men have quotedjhvassessment of other homes of a com- and the court generallyargues that poss- ibly this second man is underassessed the latest move to get an equitable assessment is to have a county assessor grey county is trying out this scheme it was hoped that it might be operating in 1944 but it will not likely be established until next year bruce county council has done well in deferring its decision until t it has some experience as a guide the grey county system of a county assessor ought tn be good to justify its cost the assessor himself with office and help will probably cost about 4000 some townships what are profits by lewis milligan english is an elastic and very accommodating lang uage there are words and combinations of words which can be made to appear to convey different meanings or ideas which are really identical an illustration of this is contained in a statement on cooperatives and taxation by george keen general secretary of the cooperative union of canada comparing the cooperatives with the hydro systems mr keensays such surpluses those of the hydro as is the case of the cooperatives are not profits but really overcharges those two words profits and overcharges appear to stand for two different things but a moments thought will reveal that they are one and the same thing all pro fits are overcharges that is charges over and above act ual costs the only difference in this instance is that in the case of a private corporation the surplus goes to the shareholders while in the case of the cooperatives the surplus goes to the members of the cooperatives societies mr keen contends that there is a fundamental dis tinction between private enterprise and cooperative enterprise because the former operates to make a profit out of- the general public and in doing so it charges more than is necessary to provide the service- but mr keen admits that the cooperatives them selves charge more than is necessary to provide the ser vice by selling at competitive market prices the surplus thus derived he calls savings and he adds that saving is not profit the members cannot make profit out of them selves this is surely playing with words the plain fact is that the socalled saving is the same thing as the profit accruing to a private enterprise in the same line of busi ness it represents profit which would go to private if there were no cooperatives and which would be subject to taxation the cooperative therefore operate o mske a profit out of the general pubjic prat least out of its private enterprise competitor which has to make up- the taxes that should come out of the profits which mr keen calls sav ings or overcharges mr keens statement was issued in reply to an ad dress by g s thorvaldson president of the income tax payers association i did not hear the address and i am not opposed to cooperatives for i regard them a legitimate part of our system of free enterprise cooperatives are not socialistic they are really private corporations run solely as mr keen says to provide a mutual service for their members at cost if the services were provided at cost mr keens argument for exemption from income tax would be quite sound but since they make a profit in the form of an overcharge they are actually running on the same basis as any other kind of private enterprise j ft j d li lrtss sunday school lesson x lesson for january 7 golden text behold 1 am with thee and will keep thee whither thou gocst gen 28 15 the lesson as a whole approach to the lesson matyiew sets forth the lord jesus asthcmessiah the promis ed king of israel so he is pre sented in the first verse as the son of david and son of abraham throughout there are many quot ations from and references to old testament proheciesin order to show how all havebeen fulfilled in him it is because of this that we sometimes speak of matthew as the jewish gospel this does not mean that it has no message for christians but rather that it is designed by the holy spirit so to presentchrist as to make it clear oh5rtestjewish inquirers that he is the one of whom moses and the prophets spake in chapter 1 117 we have the genealogy of the king and in 1 1825 the birth of the king in chapter 2112 the gen tiles do homage to the king and in 2 13-23- our present lesson we see the preservation of the king we need not- be surprised to find that everything in connection with the advent of the king was of a miraculous character when we realize that he was truly imman liel god with us as predicted in isaiah 7 14 when god came down to earth how could it be otherwise than that certain natural laws should be suspended in order that he aright enter into our world in a manner becoming to his majesty anxl power so we see him taking our humanity as born of a virgin mother his coming made known in some supernatural way to the wise men from the east and his life preserved by divine arrange ment so that the malice of herod could not reach him in order to destroy him the beauty and sim plicity of the narrative fills us with admiration and moves our hearts to worship and thanksgiving for gods unspeakable gift the historical setting the genealogy given in matthew is that of joseph the foster father of jesus lineal descendant of david and heir to the throne through whom the throne rights were transmitted to our lord his birth occurred in bethlehem late in 5 bc or early in 4 bc while the visit of the wise men took place possibly some two months afterward and this was followed almost immediately by the flight into egypt verse by verse matt 2 13 when they were departed head- the previous verses to get the full account of the visit of the magi wise men who instead of following herods com mandment to bring him word again returned to their eastern homes bya different route then the angel of the lord appeared again to joseph and bade him take the young child and his mother and flee into egypt there to abide until further- instruction came in order to protect the child from the wrath of herod who was deter mined not to permit anyone to live who might contest the rights of his family to the throne verse 15 out of egypt have i called my son these words were spoken by jehovah through hosea chap 11 1 and referred to israel as a nation now they were to be fulfilled a second time in himwho came to redeem israel he like the family of jacob went down into egypt and was brought out of it in gods due time verse 16 herod slew all the children in bethlehem from two years old and under in his rage and fury herod ordered the mass acre of these innocent children hoping thereby to destroy him who was born- to be king of the jews verses 1718 then was fulfilled that which was spoken by jeremy the prophet jeremy is a trans lation of the greek form of jere miah the prophecy referred to is found in chapter 31u5 in rama was there a voice heard rachel weeping for her children- primar ily these words seem to refer to the distress of the mothers in judah when their sons went into captivity but the passage is cited as fitting perfectly with the grief of those whose infants were so ruthlessly slaughtered often in scripture wo find these twofold applications verse 19 when herod was dead behold an angel of the lord appeareth in due time the word came through a heavenly visitant speaking tojosephna dream as before verse 20 saying arise and 1 go into the land of israel the way was now clear for the young child jesus and his mother to return to their own land herod had passed away and now had to answer to god for his life of crime and cruelty verse 21 he arose and came into the land of israel josephs obedience to each command of the angel is noteworthy without rais ing any questions he immediately complied with every commandment which was given him in this super natural way we know very little of the life and experience of this man who was chosen to be the foster father- of jesus but what little we are told gives us to realize he was one who was very sensitive to the word of the lord verse 22 when he heard that archelaus did reign in judeahe was afraid herod had murdered most of his own offspring but archelaus was permitted to live and to him lie willed his kingdom joseph feared he mighcbe as vic ious as his ungodly father so hesi tated about actually putting his little family into his power but again god directed him by appear ing to him in a dream and warning him notto settle in ludea but to turn aside into the parts of gal ilee v verse 23 he came and dwelt in a city called nazareth from lukes gospel we learn that mary was- living in nazareth when gabriel first appeared to her luke 126 joseph also dwelt there and it was from this city the two journeyed to bethlehem whero jesus was born luke 2 4 they therefore returned to their own former home town and there jesus grew from childhood to manhood because of his residence therehe was called a- nazarene a name intimately connected with the he brew word netzer meaning branch as in zechariah 6 12 and other scriptures in a secondary sense it might mean a separated one a nazarite as in numbers 6 2 for jesus was the true nazarite separated to god from his birth the heart of the lesson from his earliest infancy the holy child jesus was in a very special way under divine protect ion for though god manifest- iri the flesh he was not exempt from human suffering angels like a heavenly bodyguard watdhed over his early years they an nounced his birth even as gabriel had predicted his incarnation and they were sent of god to explain the mystery of marys condition to joseph and then instructed him as to each step he was to take in order to guard his sacred charge from the vengeance of herod and others who might seek to put him to death before the appointed time business directory jj dental e s barker ld d3xs honor graduate of royal college of dental surgeons and of the university of toronto office in grubtns block s phone 274 markham every tuesday office in wear block m the total value of all field crops in canada in 1944 is now estimat ed at 1319 millions compared with 1134 millions with wheat constituting about onethird of the whole this is a new high figure being 185 million above the 1943 estimate and almost double that of 1939 which in itself tells a story of the splendid war effort on farm fronts saskatchewan topped all provinces in order of magnitude with total value of all field crops estimated at 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