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PAGE TWO 5lIIl BARBIE EXAMINER murmur Inn Published Iuice Weekly Monday and lhursday MacLARlIN WALLS 8W EIROPES lllNGER OF THE MIND The March of Books campaign being con ducted by the Canadian Library lnstltlitlltlll and the Canadian Council for Reconstruction through UNESCO presents an opportuni to assist in restoring the scores of libraries in Europe that were destroyed or damaged dur ing the war The March of Books gives Canadian businessmen individually or through their companies tradinor professional organiza tions an excelle chance to make practic al and valuable contribution to European postwarreconstruction and fine public Ire iations gesture for Canada TAX NOTE TO LEGISLAIORS In his presidential address to shareholders at the 19th annual meeting of the Mutual Life Assurance Co of Canada Louis Lang emphasized the necessity 101 greater gov ernment economy Only buoyant anti irr ilated national revenue he maintained is able to support the weight of present heavy personal and corporation taxes He sees little prospect for tax relief the taking of the least possible amounts from the peoplciwhile the country must carry such heavy and essential burdens as the servicingr of the national debt and the continuing ex pense of national defence Little prtispect for tax relief that is unless the economy is exercised by the government in all directiohs He gave added Weight to his point with this quotation Our rulers will best promote the improve themselves to their own legitimate duties by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course commodities their fair price industry and intelligence their natural reward idle ness and folly their natural punishment by by diminishing the price of law and byiob serving strict economy in every department Of the state Let the Government do this the people will assuredly do the rest That quotation as Mr Lang mentioned waswritten by Lord Macaulay 118 years ago IS certainly much more applicable today than when it was first written The suggestion is made that copy of this declaration pasted on the desktop of every federal provincial and municipal leg islator in Canada could not help but have salutaryeffect on our tax bills AND NOW FARM BLITZ II Many of the farmers of Simcoe County probably have not even raised their eyebrows at reports of spectacular farm blitzes that shrug of the shoulder for the farm blitz It emphasizes thecostli ness of soil depletion When $10000 is spent on one farm in one day just to bring it up to par it means that conditions on the land are considered serious some of the work was described When they arrive in the morning they see an average farmstead characteristic of the state but in few short hours of the blitz the fences are moved to permit cultivation across oraround rather than up and down the slope acres are cultivated andseeded to recommended var ieties and improved grass mixtures gullies are filled levelledfertilized and seeded grassed waterways are made the woodlot is thinned cf its diseased and weedy trees young forest treesimdi low grade land farmpondis made and stocked with fish the buildings may even be painted gates and doors hung on hinges and roofs patched All this and more takes place and the farm islefta model of upto udatecsoileonservatlon practices Atremonstration in another state more than 700 people took part in therdaysioper ations and the equipment included 72wheel tractors 28 traptype tractors motor pa trols terracing machines heavysub Isoilers and track lime spreaders In addi tion there were numerous narrows discs plows seeders ditching units and sprinklers Of course the same thingis being done in Simcoe County on moderate scale For yearssuch commotion measureshave been encouraged by department of agriculture of ficials and interested farmers Throughout THE BARRIE EXAMINER IESIDINI nu MANAGING EDIIOI CEPIESIDENI AND EUSMESSI IARAGEI greatest ment of the nation by strictly confining maintaining peace by defending property have been held in the United States It has become habit for many persons to pass off gigantic American demonstrations with But there is one thing that can be said MEMBER Class Weekllzo of Canada Audit Bureau of Circulation Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association rmm of Bulru 8300 year lly Mail 230 ear itlt Canada $51 Ill ril Smelt ogins Monday 3c Thursday he iv rn WW thing that can be corrected overnight In fact the most worthwhile methods of soil conservation would be those that would en courage type of farm practice that would carry over from one generation to the next idowri through the years Reading about the huge farm blitzes should give moral uplift to all those farmers who are endeavoring to build up their farms and maintain the productive capacity of the good tulllll NEWFOUNDLAND HEARD FROM Cornerbrook Ntld Western Star It is well known fact that when Nova IiScotia entered into the Federal Union that Maritime Province was soon to suffer many indignities from thFblg provinces to the west specially from Ontario whose big busi uess literally swooped down upon the new neighbor and virtually eliminated all corn petion We are also given to understand that their description of the people of the new province was anything but flattering And now its Newfoundlands turn and it appears that they are making bargaining of this future province by going out of their way to secure and publish pictures which they have the gall to describe as typical and which can only have the effect of ruining ourutourist industry We refer particularly to five pictures of Newfoundland which were published in the January 13 issue of the Toronto Star Weekly under the heading of The Fathers of Confederation Dream Comes True glance at this picture will show that the photographer Went to great pains to secure some of the worst scenes to be found any wherein the country The picture of the twa hermen at work are not of course those to which objection is taken We are proud of our men in oil iskins and capeanns and feel that they are the backbone of this countrys economy land We do not think that it was necessary to publish the others fir If Canada expects Newfoundlanders to be jgood Canadians she should begin immedi Iately to prsent true picture of the country IThere is opposition enough now to the idea 50f Confederation and the situation will iscarcely be helped through misrepresenta tion and low journalism OPINIONS or omens LOANEDDEBT lPort Arthur NewsChronicle What the world owes to Britain can never be esti mated much less repaid If anything ever could have hurt her it could have been nothing more than the suggestion that some of her beneficiaries her daughter nations upon whom she conferred the bene fits of freedom and the better life would like to dis card the descriptive titlelBritish Perhaps they will think better of it before they cOme to final decision ADVERTISING THAT DOES NOT PAY Acton Free Press In Brockville recently William Donald McTavish pleaded guilty to charges of theft by conversion of $9700 and it was revealed 11 merchants had con tributedthisamount to Mr McTavish in payment for advertisements in directory dealing with telephone numbers The police court item serves to emphasize once more that Barnum knew what he was talking about when he said Theres sucker born every minute In recentassue of the Farmers Advocate Giibtongued salesmen with slick advertising schemes slip into Canadiantowns every now and then clip local merchants for sizeable amounts of hard earned cash and then flit gaily on to the next town and new collection of victims Thaimadvertising pays has been proved time and time again but it is questionable indeed wheth er there is value to the merchant in the type of advertising sold by slick and suave visitors here who represent little known or far distant news papers andperiodicals or else unfold some intricate but glowing schemeIt can happen here and it is well to make careful inquiry before putting cash in unknown media and with Istrangevsalesmen NEWMARKET COUNCILS INACTION UNWISE Newmarket Era and Express Town councils delay in making decision upon the letter ofIresignation sent it byithe six assessors canonly serve to intensify the distrust and sus prcron whichrhave developed so rapidly over the past tonweeks Publicwonfidence has been severely shaken by statements appearinan the daily press Speculation and rumor have been substituted for fair weighing of the issue The councils inaction does nothing to restorepublic confidence In 1947 industrialassessmentswere raised from $231115 to $461005 an increase of nearly 100 percent In 1948 residential and commercial properities were reassessed at councils order The assessorsclaimed they did not feel it necessary toreassessindustry in 194 because of the increase in 1947i The court of revrsron disputed their claim and the manner in which industrial assessments were raised in 1947 The court ordered the assessors to reassess indus try The assessors have now placed their resigna tion beforevthetown council Those briey are the facts It would be improper tmmake any comment on in dustrial assessment levels now That is before the this county there are reforestation plots An extensive soilgsuryeyruhasbeen undeerken small scale demonstrations have been car ried out For example last year on the ram of Keith McLeod andSon near Hawke stone there was such projectA seven acre field of sembwaste land was cleared of or willow and alder and was plowed mammal limestone and commercial fer tilizer were applied and the surface drain ge was improved Threedifferent mixtures and clever werefsown Growth Was Bdllplstllre days per acre was in ap first year It cost $200 for lbbtdfdillwrand oeedplus the expense nth demonstrations These projects do not ty of the $10000 blitzes armueh over in moon Is mime ceiedss the court has ordered shnets of Simcoe cert court and any comment could be interpreted as pre judicial to the courts findings However vel of the industrial assessments in the past have been influenced by fixed assessments given first to the Davis Leather Co Ltd in 1933 and to the Office Specialty Mfg CouLtd in 1937 by vote of the people Again the levels of industrial assessments could have been challenged at any time before other courts of revision which in the past have been made up of members of council That they werent challeng ed before indicates that they were satisfactory to the courts at that time This court of revision has acted wisely in ordering the assessors to reassess industry just as the rest of the town was reassessedTo havefollowed any other course would be to have encoura ed distinction be tween industryand the resto town which could only lead to growin illfeeling most detrimental tortewmarket The ony way in which the present lack of public condence can be overcome is to pro bation bethe assessors constitutesan un Wanted armament of initially The council by its Iindecision is prolonging that the aSSessors feel they must resign their resignation should be ac ed and new assessors lifted and lab finish ed withgdespatch Nome gaining and everyone is losingby multiplication of distrust that the eduncils indecision has encourag THE BARBIE EXAMINER BARRIE ONTARIO CAMDA QP RIILIA EXTENDS BEST WISHES Iflrrllia Packet and Times Barrie Examiner has this week entered the lwiecaweek The Examiner has been favored forcing them lllItl 21 to 21 pages week has made rnovo for which the publishers have been preparing for some llllir by extending their premises adding to their equipment and enlarging their staff These pre parations have now been carried forward to point where the changeto semiweekly can be put into effect the same time the subscription price of The Exam iner is being advanced to $3 for town subscribers $250 for mail subscribers and $350 outside of Canada The Packet and Times extends best wishes to The Exam iner for success in their new cu tcrprisc CONGRATULATIONS IN ORDER IOrillia NewsLetter Congratulations are in order for MatLoren and lIWalIs of Tire Barrie Examiner which this week expanded into biweekly newspaper The first Monday edi tion appeared this week and was credit to the management BEST IN ITS CLASS IStayncr Sum To the Barrie Examiner ve ex tend congratulations on step forward in giving news cov erage to its subscribers This week The Examiner largest and in our estimation best in its class of all weekly papers started its biyveek lyscrvicc Subscribers to The Ex aminer now receive both 21 Mon day and Thursday edition With the town of Barrie growing as rapidly as it is and under the pro grcssivc guidance of Editor MacLaren and Manager Ken day when even biweekly news phpcr will he discardedin favor of more frequent publication ISEMIIIEEKLY OR BIWEEKLY Toronto Daily Star That fine and enterprising week lly The Barrie Examiner announces that it is now to be biweekly published Monday and Thursday Biweekly Sure enough While biweekly ordinarily means once in two weeks the best dictionar ies say it can also be used cor rectly to indicate twice week But why not semiweekly which is not ambiguous 25 Years Ago THE BARBIE EXAMINER February 24 1924 Barrie Local Notes CNR net revenues as stated by Sir Henry Thornton were over $20 millions The BCI band and orchestra under Bandmaster Syl vester were entertained at lun cheon and received much praise for the fine progress they were making Wm Finlayson MPP addressing Ladies Night of the clouul Barrie Kiwanis Club urged the compilation of ra war record of Simcoe County successful year was reportedby thecongrega tionI of the Baptist Church under the pastor Rev Bunt Skating on the bay was available for only couple ofdays the ice becoming covered with snow Bennett was reelected chair man of the Water and Light Com mision St MarysyounIg p99 pie practice for their 1924 musical comedy revue Rev Jones Graham accepted the call to the Oro Presbyterian charge Arthur Bryan Canadian sioner to 52m who was throth the earthq ke in September was to spend week with Mr and Mrs nting The Clerk of Oro instructed to write the Supt the CNR re pair of gates on line between Cons and andalso to ask the Clerk of Orillia Tp for statement of work done on the OroOrillia Township line the lst years St Andrews Ladies Aid during 1923 raised $9007 and nished with asurplus of $400 On thechurch interior 0609 was spent There was keen dIe bate on the subject that the dis cipline and guidance under the teacher inuenced the character of the child more than what he learned inthe home theairmar tive winning John Magloug he of Ailundalc was laid up with Contemporaries Extend Congratulations Our esterriled contemporary The field this desirable its big Walls we can easily visualize the winter yet recorded LINES 10 theI THURSDAY FEBRUARY 21 1940 44vv homo Improvements etc II Years Ago RAISE SUBSFRIPTION Hill ALLCOIN Calendar Bank ro AIIISIOII Herald THE BARBIE ADVANCE February 16 199 Barrie Local Notes Thos Foster Barrics oldest citi zen who lived with his soninlaw Tlrc Barrie Exarniner arrived with two issues this week one onl Monday and larger issue on lhnrsday Coincidentally Tire Ex aminer announced rise in the Vld strong incentive to systematic roving Your coins change the calendar Come in and let us show you how it lIl1 ltllllllliS on Mondays and John pumdw MCDOmm 51 can help you save IIHUSdHw lill sitHerons adifillllillwdl 1915 ITITODIIQI 1th died on Feb lhin his 92nd year wrmg pummmgl Much I1 or town so strIiplIIons Bum in London England he play marl StleCllpllOIISl UR Iand $250 for ed an important part in singing year or more ago when The AlI Iliston lIIIeIralId alongI with most of littsmlg llpokllglic SUblCCI Io Withdrawal by cheque lIlIlfIIII5tImI bIQllllllo film Caretaker Wni Dodds asked that blinds5 of reniodelling the office Wimp Shear Tom that OW Imd plant For that reqson The mg to 10w impeliaturo he was lllxarnirierwas unable to Inake the fllgfgrlsrmwlnifllcgs13851 change to the higher price Very Soum ward his children to the IIfree as he was taxpayer lThe Property rmdSupply Commit lee recommended the printing of 12000 blank forms for use by the few weekly papers now sell for less than $250 year Scott Branch Manager Barrie I3 Dunlap Stfeel STEADILY GROWING gllrlriglrxbllioinffgriffgggigmgg schoobteachers to write parents Estimates for the year were ap The Barne Exam on On proved at $12728 in the discussion Lyme blwcekly heldIof teaching music in the schools IsmidlV dgmwmg he Change has Major Ward remarked that from fldmb ytothlhe Id his observation of the subject mu priiiifjvpapvem 15 sic was inadequately taught in some classes At meeting held in the Collier St Methodist Church it was decided to raise $l450 from Barrie District to go to the aid of St James Church Mon treal meeting was held to consider thequestion of shorter route to Georgian Bay from the Samuel Rose CHARTERED FROM MOUNT FOREST Mount Forest Confederate The Barrie Examiner one of the leading weekly newspapers in Can ada has developed into biweekly torneet the heavy demands of the TANI Lrowing town With fine larg6l as comer sweet Mum sis mcm Starts us Increased pumi ing action IOIIZIVE survey macle canon ns week The confEdeY Annual meeting of the RV HOS ale congratulates The on Its advancement Examiner pital was largely attendcd The valuable services of Miss Camp bellSiipt were landed and need was expressed of enlarging the hospital or building new one Rev McLeod was President IM Slianacyu Vice Pres Dr Raikes Sccy Stewart Treas In the hall was erected tablet bear ListorC to Y0R20F THE IDWN hnoui DICK ATKEY tClinton NewsRecordi Congratulations to our old friends of The Barrie Examiner on their paper taking its place this week as live semiweekly publication MA Regarded as one of the finest the names of all those whohad weeklies In Canada The Exam mg inerI Starting this lcontributed $100 or more to theII Starring week is pub lished Monday and Thursday thus providing better news service for one of the fastestgrowing large towns in the country Herman Tomlinson who was partner in The NewsRecord for few months back three years ago is manager of the commercial printing depart ment of the business lt CANADIAN GENERAL COUNCIL The Canadian General Council of the Boy Scouts Association was incorporated in Canada on June 12 1914 by an Act of Parliament and hospital SimcoeCounty Briefs Chas Polling tendered his resig nation as Treasurer of lnnisl Tp and was rteappointed by Council Two miles from DuntroonMNalhan Devine while chopping wood was instantly killed by falling tree He left wife and three children meeting of Midlanders declared in favor of submitting bylaw for $50000 towardsa charcoal furnace and smelting works of the Canad Iron Furnace Co Tenders let for supplies to inmates the Lonel Barryniore and The Mayor VonOURlown GRANT MAYOR Mayor of Barrie SUNDAY iiiDD pm 580 on your dial Gaol and other County bpildings by an amendment on July 25 1917 was given the sole and exclusive at the followrnngrrces Beef Ivvrth MUTU BENEFIT II ht to certain titles and bad es Wt bone 60 lbv Wk with HEALTH AND ccmcur ASSOCIATION Aiy unauthorized person makging bone 8c per 1b The sum total of gt or them to retract reveals mm Box as tame prosecumn Cristoe for bookbinding C0un IThe Lafgt Exc slvc Health and Accident Company Jupptsaid gaolsalaries were about II in the world oIood porsonmg caused by being $2000 and IIhIeIthought there were we by at scgoolLbiZ too manyOlclals gne tllle was sue or in arrr ivi piiiiogs sent to amp zero Brow of Toronto Methodist sion Court last year Trinity mill at Colwell was feet in di formerly of Angus presented the with new yscmm Angus Dramatic Club presented the cIom ameter at the Itop Wm Wrg edy Prof Pepi Full Pep gins of Guthrie had lambs ton Simcoe County Brids Weeks 01d the in this Part In the Count Court beforeIOf eleven applications for assessor Ch r1 Stewartwas in esp es 59 39 an en ay was chosen 20 to 25 below zero at occupied on the case of Andrew Sh Krllyleagh The Reeve and bra or vs 5ae aelgn Coun Sutherland met War 21 was to consider the advisability of permit some pine basswood and hemlock timber great days curling was enjoyedIIunder the auspices of the Churchill Curling Club and written LIP by Lennox Very ardent curler The club was organized in 1878 and members at first played with wooden blocks On mill ponds The rst rink bull in 1880 was crushed flat with snow in IBM and rebuilt ten months later Overthree columns ofspace in The Examiner was devoted to the days sports Churchill took rst honors among 47 rinks atbon County Council decided to spend $4000 on improving Litf tles Hill even though the County rate might be seven mills $200000 was the county appropria tion foriroads of which $37500Nwa5 allotted to towns and villages Sunday was the coldest day of the ting him to cut pine trees on the east side of the Penetang Road between Concessions12and l3 James Arthur of Shanty Bay talk ing of going Ito Chicago soon At Craighurst the mercury regis terecl from 22 to 26 below Zero forf eek and the highest averag during that period was lobel the hewr reads there was no Sun day sariice at Guthrie Church Several slei loads of yougg folk from Cun cs dIOve to arfleld Wingroves to have good time and present linen shower to his dau ter Fern Mrs Teasdale ort course for Young farmers washcld in the Methodist Church at Bond Head Map Year box social was enjoyed at the home of Joe Brown Holly The UFQClub uploaded car of salt and ipped caricad or stbckIat Org Station Despite the ter rible dorm which razed on Friday at betray about 20 mreholders of Tel moan gamered at the lull for annual meeting The mercury dropped to 26 below tramDun Motor In Your Car balance Monthly Dangerfiellotun as Collier St Phone 2m Always perfectly bahnbod for strength softness and absorbencyl ROLLS 22I50I5HEEIS 918 not zero Bum IjjIVW lt5 II vi Ifi lr en 31 75 fa Chrmmosl