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page two the tribune stouffville oat thursday january 23rd 1941 guje imtfftrilu qlrtbmtp established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association issued every thursday at stouffville ontario eight to ten pages average circulation 1400 subscription rates per year in advance in canada 3200 in usa 250 a v nolan jp editor and publisher editorial comment the new defense tax it has been estimated that during this new year there will be nearly twice as many whitby citizens required to pay income tax than ever before this is not mainly due to a decided boost in general incomes although there has been some slight increase over a year ago but to new taxes ordinarily this might ue expected to bring strenuous objection but in view of the fact that the money raised is to be for defence purposes citizens generally are likely to consider it a privilege to be able to pay it for the financ ing is needed for vital equipment to back up our countrys fighting forces in order to help make the burdens as light as pos sible the government recently sent out notices concerning the different methods of payment which many citizens re ceived these show that all single persons receiving over 600 a year and all married persons receiving over 1200 a year are affected by the national defense tax and all within these brackets will recognize from the notices that it will be advisable for them to give the problem of remitting some thought the rate of tax for married persons will be 2 per cent if the income exceeds 1200 and for single per sons the rate will be 3 per cent if the income exceeds 1200 and 2 per cent if the income exceeds 600 and is not more than 1200 where a single person is working for say 450 a year and his board his employer must estimate the board which would bring the employee into the paying column and the employer is bound to collect the tax it is such instances as this that will affect many farm hands located near the larger cities so far as the farm owner is concerned there appears to be no requirement that he estimate in his income any thing consumed on the farm that he grows or raises but he is required to tabulate everything he sells and if there is a profit of 1200 then he is liable for defence tax- let us play fair with our municipal officers many municipal councils struck the same key note at their inaugural meetings last week when they declared that lower taxes would be the order of the day that is a fine gesture and we hope that all places succeeded in attaining it lower taxes are always appreciated especially in war time when there are so many other means of taxation while keeping this lower tax rate in mind it is to be hoped that the municipal legislators will not overlook that a servant is worthy of hs hire and thus avoid scaling salaries downward or fail to scale them upward if the need should be apparent we all remember the blunders of the past when so many men were holding down important municipal offices because they did the work cheaply ser vice seemed to be a secondary consideration and many places lost money because of this the cheapest help may prove to be the most costly the work of municipal assessors tax collectors clerks and assessors is steadily mounting as a result of out side demands for scores of reports that often take days to compile these officers shouid be fairly paid unfortunately there are so many ratepayers who will tell you the work of some officer could be clone for half what the municipality is paying yet if you question these people closely one soon learns that they know little or nothing about the amount of work involved therefore it seems the part of wisdom and fair play to rely on your municipal council to properly remumerate their hired help fairly and he prepared to stand before the ratepayers as a representative who is willing to be fair not mean and ready to take advantage of those who serve them- the great majority of ratepayers will commend councillors for such a stand overlapping and needless services recently a hint was dropped by the financial post that farreaching changes may be seen in community ser vices especially in distribution services within a short time- as a war measure the federal government may take steps to eliminate the unnecessary duplication in many lines we hope the unnecessary overexpansion too will be made note of and checked especially in the cities of course there is abundant proof of the waste of man power every day in the week delivery men from a half dozen dairies and half dozen bakeries may be seen any day on the same street or block take even a village like stouffville the other morning we saw parked near our office a toronto bakery truck and the same day there were two departmental store trucks from toronto in the neighborhood delivering small parcels even to a dozen oranges or a pound of tea which could have been secured in town just as cheaply multiply the number of drivers these big stores engage to cover the area they do and one would be amazed most of it so unnecessary according to the post ottawa thinks that one third of the present number of men and equipment could do the same work it adds by next summer its highly probable that drastic steps will have been to tap this source of man power in order to meet the rising demand for war labor this matter is one which firms likely to be affected by the suggested government action might wisely consider now any method adopted to reduce overlapping and merge services is bound to create some degree of disorganization charts bombing raids qvemeca jifcul air marshal sir nichurd peirse they call him lucky peivse and say he leads a charmed life is the man who sends out british bomb ers to raid axis territory from xar vik to naples from bordeaux to berlin hes proud of another nick name punch em peirse given him since he became commander-in- chief of the bomber command lets waste nothing campaign continues some time ago two organizations in town fired with the same patriotic zeal unknowingly con flicted in their arrangements to coilect waste material the public school made their collection on the first saturday in december and later in cooperation with the school three lots of junk too large in quantity and weight for school children to handle were picked up by trucks sent out by the study club this was taken to the school and the proceeds in cluded in the public school collec tion at the beginning of the year when it became known that the public school staff hesitated to carry on the good work for fear of interfering with other plans an executive meeting was called on january sth and mr watson and his staff urged to continue with the full support and cooperation of the study club planning to have a collection once every two months the public school requests all waste material ready for collection on saturday february 1 the soxo of the lazy farmer my neighbor says there aint no way to make the farmin business pay except to work with all your might and labor hard from morn till night weve got to toil for what we get and earn each dollar by our sweat there aint no easy road to wealth in farmin if wed git some pelt to store away for later years weve got to earn it it appears by tcilin with a right good will with out a stop for rest until our work is done the slacker is soon busted in this game gee whiz some folks can prosper by their wit and never have li work a hit but not us fanners good strong backs are what we need to earn our tax the lord intended folks should toil to earn a livin off he soil i suppose perhaps my neighbors right mirandy says id lie a sight more useful if id work like him find do my chores up with a vim but after all it cant be wrong to whistle as we go along and give some pleasure out of life although it may annoy your wife to see you in the shade just when she wants the garden made i git my work done up some way and though this place of mine dont pay as much as neigh bors i enjoy this life lots moro than that old hoy t wont leave much when i am dead for im enjoying lite instead and when im buried neath the hill no one will quarrel about my will new xua administrator below is a letter just received by kev a j orr of melville from his sister a b orr of barnet england it would be difficult for you to picture what our house looks like today although it is several de crees better than last sunday we have now only one window in the hcust the rest were blown out by a land mine which fell in our vicinity ist week it was rather an alarm ing experience but compared with folk around us we escaped lightly the damage to our town is appalling and many people have lost their hovnes and all they possess herbert has worked hard and boarded up several of the windows there will be no glass until after the war and the council had to put 15 pounds worth of slates on the roof as until that was done tho rain just poured through two ceilings and four places on the landing so you guess we are in a fearful mess mother is n a nursing home for the time be ing and so far as we can see has quite recovered from the shock we only got her out in the nick of time from her room as in another minute the glass of the french window poles and all were blown onto her head wo spent 10 hours in the cellar as owing to the absence of windows andblackout we dare not turn on any lights until next morning it was the longest and most miserable night i have ever spent however we are all alive and not even a soratch be tween us so have much to be thank ful for a b orr letter leceived by mrs t white unionviile rr 1 dear sister and brother i am writing to tell you how we are getting on in england the airraids have been dreadful audi we are afraid to go to bed and dont know when we are going to have a nights rest ave lie under the table for safety we had s bombs drop not far off and i shall never forget it i thought as though our time had come they were after the railway we are rationed 2 ozs of butter and quarter ounce of sugar and a small ration of meat things are awfuly dear and it is hard to get feed for the cattle still we live through it and we never know from hour to hour what is coming we are very thankful for your food and troops we have to give all we can possibly afford for the war effort i do hope we are spared from losing our home through bomb or by a tire we should not have much if it were not for our plendid airforce and good army and navy for a time we did not have any raides here but now we have them the same as the rest of course we go over germany too was mount albert notary for 44 years dr allen peebles new head of the national unemployment admin istration was formerly engaged in similar work in british columbia whose policy h helped to shape one of the old residents and business men of mount albert pass ed away in whitby hospital this month in tho person of c w davidson he was born in uxbridge the son of mr and mrs benjamin davidson in 1s72 and attended school there ho taugnt school for two years and finally entered the law office in oxbridge of t w chappol ke moved to mount albeit and carried on business as a notary public and conveyancer for the last 14 years he was also one ot the founders of the mount albert tele phone co and was a staunch liberal ho is survived by his wife form erly ella terry of mount albert and four children mrs a locke helen mrs d loach hilda and mrs frank gore ruth and one son bruce all of toronto two sis ters mrs mary scott of toronto and miss elizabeth davidson rn of akron ohio and ono brother fred davidson of seattle also survive this little pig nows ai special importance to farmers was recently emphasized by the cbc farm broadcasts depart ment the hon j g gardiner said at a press conference recently that canadas present bacon agreement with tho united kingdom provides for a revision in the event that prices for pork products in tho united states rise substantially reporting on this development on the cbc farm broadcast don rairbairn pointed out that such an increase in prices across tho line was not improbable in fact figures released by the united states de partment of agriculture late in december estimated a decrease of 10 pc in the fall and spring pig crop in the united states with fewer hogs being marked and with consumer demand in the united were kttfrv 5tepaus15 lar shell service to check your battery frequently and add water when needed we also offer complete battery ser vice including recharging and replacement every new battery we sell is fully guaranteed we have the correct type for your car in several price ranges stop in and look them over shell boadways service station states on the upswing because of the defence program it is not unlikely that prices will rise from one to two dollars per cwt byspring actually reports the farm broadcasts department of the cbc pitch an increase lias been predicted by some economists in the united states if live hog prices over there did go up two dollars a cwt it would bring them in line with current quotations here in canada and in chat case a revision in our present bacon agreement with the united kingdom might be considered by the british ministry of foods fakers sentenced charles robinson and george burns who breezed through district towns from hamilton with their pockets full of printed cards headed a cripples appeal and who put on a fake limping stunt that was such a torture to gaze upon that sightseers were supposed to reach into their pockets and extract some silver images of the king to assist these distressed guys to get by were sentenced in walkerton court last week to fourteen days seek to secure two million buyers of war saving certificates who war ottawa january 21 finishing touches are being put on prepara tion of a canadian sales campaign in behalf of war savings certifi cates which will eclipse anything of its kind ever attempted in the country according to government spokesmen at ottawa during the month of february a gigantic at tempt will be made to canvass every province in the dominion the objective to secure no less than two million men and women will pledge themselves to buy savings certificates regularly no definite money limit has been set but the aim of the war savings committee is to increase the month ly purchases of certificates from a present total of something under three million to ten million dollars a month in other words tho government hopes to have at least 120 million dollars worth of certifi cates sold during 1941 in order to cover so much ground in a period of one month thous ands of volunteer workers have undertaken to bring it about un der the general direction of the war savings committee there will he some fifteen hundred provincial district and local committees hard at work from coast to coast and each one of these committees will have subcommittees devoted to the task of handling every phase of the in tensive work which the campaign demands send the tribune to absent friends brierbush hospital government licensed main slrcct east stouffville maternity medical and surgical cases taken ambulance service registered nurses and 24 hour service mrs e r good phone 191 businessdirectory medical dr s s ball physician and surgeon xray office cor obrien and vula phone 196 coroner for york county dlt arthur l hork physician and surgeon phones mark 67 stouffville 306 stouftville office in residence ot late dr storey office hours tuesday thursday 1000 to 1130 saturday evenings 730- to 9 oclock dental e s barker lds djfcs honor graduate ot royal colfef of dental surgeons and ot uu university of toronto office in grubins block phone 8201 markham every tuesday office in wear block dr j f weatherill office over bank of commcoee office hours 9 to 12 noon and 130 to 539 ja phone office phone residues 180 18002 claremont every tuesday office over bakers store phone claremont 1401 a c kennedy chiropractor church street stoubvhts monday wednesday fridays 9 to 12 am insurance see h o klinck obrien aver or your insurance needs in- fire life automobile burglars and all casualty lines thomas birkett general insurance agency representing reliable companies includta lloyds of london england phone stouffville 25902 a c burkholder insurance canada life assurance cs -also- automobile and fire harry m spang representative empire life insurance also mutual automobile insurance telephone 6616 stouffville ontario barristers office phone residence pij 3160 3514 arthur w s greer barrister solicitor notary pafiuc o king street east oshawa ontario resident partner branch office wcpollardkc port perrr uxbridge ontario phone is r g clendening funeral director ambulance service phone markham 9000 l e oneill stottffviiile funeral dhtector and embalmer continuous telephone serrlea day and night business phone residence pfcon stouffville marble granite works orders promptly executed p tarr proprietor phone 4303