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the tribune stouffville ont thursday april 4 1946 uijp gtouffmll uiribun established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and ontario quebec newspapers association issued every thursday at stouffviue ontario subscription rates per year in advance in canada 200 usa s2t0 a- v nolan son pu notes and comments memorial hall should be supported the ratepayers and others in and around stouffville are asked to support a project for a memorial hall in stouff ville if the people had asked for a hall when the war was on and the services of these men whom the hall is intended to commemorate the funds would have been subscribed almost overnight let us hope that none of us will forget the service and at the same time not overlook the fact that the district is terribly in need of a public meeting place such as this hall would provide total cost of sigooo should not be a formid able sum to raise if persons are willing to subscribe as they can afford if 10000 is raised by public subscription the rate- ingpayers of stouffville will be asked to furnish the remain ing 6000 bv debenture public subscriptions will be sought first since it is reasonable to suppose that if 810000 is raised in this popular way the voters would not let the boys down for the balance 6000 on debenture would not neces sarily affect the tax rate spread over perhaps ten years now we have two poor examples members of parliament who seek salary raises or tax concessions at this time are setting the country a poor example in the opinion of the financial post editorially it states as expected the illtimed action of dominion members of parliament in voting themselves a taxfree boost in salaries has stirred up similar desires elsewhere the members of the ontario legislature now seek to have their 2000 indemnity freed of income tax not only did dominion mps set a shocking example by raising their remuneration at a time when all salaries were supposed to be frozen but they set a most dangerous precedent by claiming for themselves a tax exemption which is denied the private citizen there is little doubt that members of parliament are underpaid and until this situation is corrected we run the risk of not attracting the best citizen into public life but offering a tax concession that is denied everyone else is certainly not the way to handle the problem the whole success of the income tax hinges on its equal distribution provided all share equally in the burden then it will be borne if some are granted relief then the flood gates are open to every sort of pressure and abuse why whitchurch county rate down and stouffvilles up the reeve of stouffville anticipated being questioned by ratepayers as to why the county tax rate in whitchurch dropped one mill this year while the rate for county purposes in stouffville advanced a mill not one citizen so far has taken the reeve to task on this matter which would have been a justifiable thing to delve into- whitchurch tax rate for county purposes for 1946 shows a sharp drop of almost one mill stouffvilles county rate at the same time is increased one mill but it is not as serious for the ratepayers of stouffville as it appears on the surface it is all brought about by the change in the school act true the county general purpose rate has sharply advanced as has the cost of grants to public hospitals whitchurch stouffville and all other municipalities must bear this increase equally ottawa letter by jack smith mp wmwbs north york reason for the apparent difference in the two rates falls in the category of the school grants a municipality in a nonhigh school area pays for the cost of education of its high school pupils through the county levy while a municipality in a high school area such as stouffville pays for the cost of its high school pupils direct therefore the municipality paying for the cost of education of its high school pupils through the county levy would naturally receive the benefit of the governments substantial grant through the county levy for education that is why whit church rate is sharply down stouffville reducation came direct through school grants and was passed on to our ratepayers last year by reason of a three mill drop in the tax rate when the cost of education for stouffville is lined up with the rates paid in whitchurch it will be seen that stouffville is benefiting en the same ratio as whitchurch or any other municipality in fact stouffville tax payers benefited a little better than almost any other municipality in the whole county last year for the rate was reduced by three mills which no other place equalled the cut this year may not be so great but that is not apparent yet- dont hit the bank teller if you cash a cheque at a bank where you arent well known dont resent it if the teller puts you through a searching catechism as to who you are and how you got the cheque hes only trying to protect you and himself and the drawer of the cheque from possible loss and trouble later on cheque forgeries have increased enormously in recent months and tellers generally are on their guard because if a forged cheque is cashed its their responsibility every week dozens of forgeries are reported to bank head offices many are government cheques and in the majority of cases the forger is under 25 often under 20- many during the war were working in war plants at large salaries unable to get the same income now but having a wartime spending standard they turn to forgery the road was made easier by the tremendous number of government cheques issued including family allowances soldiers dependents allowances gratuities and clothing allowances and income tax adjustments millions are going through every month and as government cheques are not likely to be questioned as regards the drawers signature the forgers task is limited to duplicating the signature of the payee- the methods used are so much alike in all cities that some bankers feel a ring of forgers is operating apartment houses are favorite places for forgers to work it is quite easy to steal cheques from apartment mail boxes then it is only necessary to convince the bank teller that the party presenting the cheque is entitled to payment the criminal may forge the signature of the payee may get someone else to endorse it by forged signature and theri offer tp endorse it himself as a double safeguard offering identification by a bogus registration card or fake telephone call company cheques are often forged also in some cases where a company has its own cheques forgers get dupli cates printed and then draw a cheque payable to themselves forging the names of the secretary or other officers who would normally sign it where a fraud is committed the bank officer if he can not show that he has used reasonable caution may be held responsible so dont blame him if he is extra cautious especially as forgery insurance is carried by only a few if any banks frfilfyf rfridav and saturday april 5 s man alive with pat obrien high powered phyllis brooks uncle hy says i like the april sun because im tired of winters ice and snow andovercoats and flannelwear and mornings with their ten below soon now ill leave the idle crowd and plant my feet where fields are plowed i like the april winds because they bring us back the woodland choir the oriole to the orchard tree the martins to the old church spire the blue birds to the fence and lea the robins close to home and me i like the april rains because their warmth will reach the woodland glen and tell the wild flowers sleeping there that spring is in the air again along the road the peepers wake and water fowl are on the lake 0 monday and tuesday april 15 16 leave her to heaven gene tierney cornel wilde arranging plans for creating a beautiful nations capital the critical shortage of housing mater ials was emphasized in ottawa when it became known here that the war assets corporation an nounced a program of dismantling surplus buildings on military establishments across canada so that these may be made available to authorities of the veterans land act and wartime housing building plans the united states gov ernment has scrapped all their dis posal procedures and set up the exact machinery which canada has been using for the disposal of war assets even adopting the same name war assets corporation this has been made known in this capi tal send the tribune to absent friends it is hinted in ottawa that more news for farmers may he coming in face of the virtual deluge of such news lately on account of the federal governments desperate drive for more and more food pro- duction as well as exportation in answer to an urgent appeal from abroad the minister of trade and com merce hon- james a mackinnon i has already made a very important statement in parliament in regard to special measures aimed to bring j about an increase in wheat deliver ies in western canada and to indicate his governments 191617 program for oats barley and oil needs while we have been work ing on a very large wheat and flour export program luring the present j crop year we hope to be able to j increase shipments over the quantities originally planned whether this is due to socalled hasty war marriages merely coincidental or any other cause it is a fact nevertheless that there is a flood of unusual proportions sweeping into this capital in appli cations for divorce iwfore the senate divorce committee at this session presumably wholly from quelec if not all since the pro vince has no divorce courts com plaints have been made again and again against the present proced ure in past sessions but nothing much has ever been done in this respect though numerous proposals have been made from time to time to change this system of granting divorces to canadians from quebec indeed this system has even been termed scandalous by critics who have urged a drastic change in procedure as well as a general widening of the grounds for divorce presently restricted to infidelity in canada especially since divorce laws have been widened in other lands there is no probability that the alaska highway will be open to the general public in the near future said in parliament can adas minister of national defence hon douglas abbott in explain ing that this 1250 miles road of the greatest possible strategic value will be taken over by the canadian army from the united states army about april 3 with information in ottawa hinting that it will be used for training purposes there are no facilities for servicing motor cars and supplying them with gaso line and so on he continued consequently it will not be pos sible for the canadian army to undertake the responsibility of permitting ordinary civilian travel on the road to the immediate future we shall have to look into it further after we have taken it over with various causes contributing to its origin including claims of j prevailing employment conditions a lowering of takehome pay for many workers a rise in the cost-of- living constant demands of changes in the price ceilings etc it is learned in ottawa that as a result of a meeting here of the wage con- ordinating committee of the can adian congress of labour unions the prediction has been made that a large number of canadian workers may be involved in campaigns for wage increases in the next couple of months in order that these may be adjusted to be in accord to the changing conditions indeed the dissatisfaction over the claims of the costoflivings rise and the index of such changes in the governments costofliving index has become so acute that a demand for a royal commission to invest gate it is being urged at the present time a member of parliament phileas cote liberalmatane has proposed that premier mackenzie king should be nominated the chairman of the peace conference in paris france expressing the hope in the house of commons that canadas prime minister may become the president of a univeral government or world government the can adian broadcasting corporation will soon produce the first opera in canadian literature and music it has been disclosed in ottawa by the youthful chairman of the cbc a d dunton who indicated that this opera deirdre of the sor rows is to have it premier per formance over the canadian net work in april one of the highest posts in the canadian dip lomatic service will be open in may when rt hon vincent massey will give up formally his job as canadian high commissioner to the united kingdom chief jus tice of the supreme court of can ada hon thibaudeau rinfret is this countrys administrator until the new governorgeneral design ate viscount alexander takes over the task since the chief justice was sworn into office just as soon as the earl of athlone had departed and he will carry on until the new governorgeneral accepts formally his office in ottawa incidentally a new and thorough spring clean ing is taking place in this capital in preparation for the new gover norgeneral with workmen clean ing and decorating the union station here and parliament hill receiving a similar treatment and while on the subject the famous french town planner jacques greber offiffcials of the government and premier king h3ve held a meeting in ottawa in a stouffville war veterans memorial hall campaign for funds opens on april 15th do your share give all you can spare match their deeds with your dollars this space dpnated by riches hardware and central feed store