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i the tribune steuffville ont thursday july 4 1j46 be tnuff trill uribnnr established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and ontario quebec newspapers association issued every thursday at stouffville ontario subscription rates per year in advance in canada 3200 in usa 250 a- v nolan son publishers notes and comment new security to replace victory bond sales the minister oi finance announced today in the house of commons that in response to public demand the govern ment will offer a new security the canada savings bond for purchase this fall the canada savings bond will replace both the victory bond anil the war savings certificate which were formerly offered as securities designed for the investment of personal savings the new security will be similaar in most details to the victory bond- it will be avail able to the general public through banks trust companies and investment dealers although there will be no organized doortodoor campaign as in the past a payroll savings plan will be available to employers who wish to operate it in announcing these peacetime saving facilities the minister referred to study that had been given to the sub ject following the ninth victory loan it is understood that a survey taken last november showed that a large number of employers represening approximately one million employees were in favour of continuing a payroll savings plan a second survey indicated that 82ve of past buyers of war savings certificates and victory bonds plan to buy government securities if available smaller tax payers given unjust treatment the budget was not received here with any degree of enthusiasm on thursday when it was learned that the dominion government intended to burden the people with the heavy wartime taxes for the whole of 1946 as they demanded during peak of war years everybody looked for ward to relief immediately since such was overdue it was said that the government would be hesitant in raising the exemptions from personal income tax from 660 and 1200 since thousands upon thousands of the tax payers come within this scope and if the exemptions were raised thousands of tax employees at no 1 front street and other depots throughout canada would find themselves out of employment no wonder it raises the ire of the tax payer when he feels he is being exploited to keep up jobs for government employees then too the tax payers are not going to overlook the fact that the house of commons provided themselves with a snug 2000 each for expense money that is free from tax while they have refused to exempt a man getting nothing more than 2000 total income expenses and whatnot for the smaller tax payers there certainly is nothing but disappointment in mr hsleys budget but he may take heart the small tax payer looms large in the pollingbooth of this country when his time comes to deal with those who have failed to deal fairly with him work for government employees increased farmers will be allowed to pay their income tax on the basis of three years earnings it will take a mighty sized staff to tabulate this sort of tax for the government it seems that mr isley did a good job for government employ ees in his budget in making all the work imaginable check ing income tax forms and chasing up the small payers and just when folks thought relief was in sight should farm prices be controlled had prices moved freely in the last few years canada would have tpday a good many more million bushels of wheat to offer starving europe contends the financial post questioning editorially the advantages of controlling farm prices it is extremely doubtful if man has ever devised a fairer safer or more stable method of remunerating agri culture than paying high prices when crops are scarce lower prices when they are abundant the post notes that there is much talk in certain agri cultural circles today about floor and ceiling pricessubsidies bonuses quotas priorities and other forms of state and group control but suggests that the wartime experience of canadian farmers with regimentation of this sort has bred suspicion and dissatisfaction concerning it among farmers some farmers at any rate are not convinced that the old simple system was so bad when supply and demand functioned freely there were wide swings in prices it is true but so were there wide swings in farm production not only is a fluctuating price fairer for fluctuating production but it tends to create a more stable supply higher prices encourage greater acreage when the world is short of wheat lower prices work the other way when the bins are full sunburn and poison ivy its our first peacetime summer lets make the most of it advises jean lambert in an article in the forth coming summer issue of health official journal of the health league of canada miss lambert assistant to the managing editor of health warns against excessive sunburn poison ivy undue fatigue tells about the dangers of drinking untested water and unpasteurized milk and advises vacationists to learn to swim before you paddle your own canoe in regard to suntan the writer advises that it takes a full two weeks to suntan safely first exposure shouldnt exceed 10 minutes in the morning and 10 in the afternoon unless we realize that a sunburn is a real burn just as real as though we placed a hand on a sizzling hot stove were in for trouble writes miss lambert as she advises that while many of the suntan lotions on the market help to prevent burning they are not a cure for burns poison ivy looks like virginian creeper but has three leaves instead of five- it is very ingratiating growing meekly in waste places equally at home in rich woodlands or near bathing beaches iuss lambert warns that all parts of the plant leaves flower fruit bark or roots are equally poisonous this plants poison can be carried by clothes which have come in contact with the plant particularly if the clothes are damp at the time of contact animals walking through the plants also will carry it if you do become involved with poison ivy dont scratch and remember that your greatest friend is cheap laundry soap which gets down to business with the oily poison advises the writer important thing about wages money is valuable in direct proportion to what it repre sents in goods and services a dollar has no intrinsic value of its own it merely represents so many ounces of butter so many loaves of bread so many pounds of potatoes and so on wages therefore are not important when reckoned in number of dollars per week or rates per hour what is important is what can be bought with those wages woodstock sentinelreview average gross cash farm income 2000 one of the most intelligent and useful debates on agriculture has been going on in the house of commons during the past month most of the members who have spoken on the various aspects of agriculture production and marketing have been well informed and the debate has been maintained on a high level writing on the question from shingwack farm muskoka editor of the scene asks the question what 4000 gross farm income means and then proceeds to answer in the following way the average gross farm income of canadian farmers is 2000 a small sum before expenses however that is a national average including all the small and poor farms what does the 4000 average gross income of better farms mean in net returns the investment in the average farm in canada was 7000- in 1940 for the purposes of this rough calculation it is assumed that the average investment in a farm earning a gross cash income of 4000 was 14000 in 1945 what are the business expenses to be deducted the following rough estimates are on a minimum basis labor 1200 feed seed fertilizer veterinary services sprays drugs etc 500 gasoline oil implements car and power 500 fence harness and miscellaneous maintenance 100 depreciation on buildings 8000 at 2 per cent 160 taxes and insurance 250 interest on 14000 at 3 per cent 420 total 3130 this leaves a balance of 870 net cash income to which may be added a maximum of 600 noncash in come from the farm a total net income of 1470 for a highlyskilled farmer working at least 60 hours per week and his wife wh devotss at least 30 hours per week to farm production or 4680 hours per year at approximately 32c per hour from this total income of 1470 earned at the rate of 32c per hour 980 for the farmer full time and 490 for his wifes farm work half time the farmer and his wife must pay all the living costs of the family and provide the children with education away from home in many cases his income tax from which no deduction may be made for the work of his wife and children and all of the capital expen ditures for new buildings new equipment breeding stock drainage and other improvements necessary to maintain the productivity of his farm must come out of the combined 870 net cash income of himself and his wife compare these returns based on good luck and good crops with other dusinesses and occupations involving 14000 investments and find why the migration from farm to city is unchecked y- yr friday and saturday july 5 and 6 her kind of man zacharv scott y radio stars on parade w brown our capital correspondent written exclusively for the stouff ville tribune by m l schwartz while it is a peacetime budget yet it is interpreted on parliament hill that it contains hints of un settled conditions both at home and abroad so that some of the costs may not recur on similar scale in subsequent years though canada is now more prosperous and more further along road of reemploy ment and reconversion than was anticipated last autumn when pre vious budget presented with ordin ary expenditures and other charge able to demobilization and recon version involving an expected out lay of 2709 million total revenues of 2510 million and a reduction of revenues from taxes by about 251 million in a full year under econo mic conditions similar to those at present the forecast of a budget deficit for current year of roughly about 300 million for the ourrent year however it is most significant that nearly ik per cent of expendi tures will t covered from revenues and this means a more rapid ap proach to the balancing of the bud get than it had been expected to bo possible only some months ago in the best informed sources in ottawa the charge made by hon alex andre tache speaker of the quebec legislature that there is not a single frenchcanadian out of 25 deputy ministers in ottawa may be a correct technical statement yet it is emphasized in this capital that at least six frenchcanadians oc cupy posts as high as deputy min isters it is reported in ottawa that the average wages of male farm help per day as at may 15 1916 with board was 273 in 1941 301 in 1915 and 325 in 1915 and such average wages per month was sg188 s66s8 and 7136 in 1041 1915 and 191g respectively in reply to the request for infor mation as to how many alberta coal mine operators have sought financial aid fro mfederal govern ment agencies in order to increase production reconstruction minister howe has disclosed in ottwa that the number of coal mine operators in alberta who have or who still are receiving financial aid is 71 and there are nine in british columbia no financial assistance has been refused to any coal mine operator where in the opinion of the emer gency coal production board or coal control such assistance would have aided the overall situation he said my family and i planned so happily to make our first visit to canada immediately after the war and when the word came to us last july that we were being sent to caiiadaour excitement was intense said in an address in ottawa vis countess alexander wife of can adas governorgeneral it seems to me a matter of personal interest that there should be more than just learning a few words of the others language whether it is french or english declared chief justice thibaudeau rinfret of the supremo court of canada in the course of a talk in this capital i must say it is a deplorable thing that there should bv among us a fcck of unity hen all admit that it is f tlje highest importance in regard to the widespread claims about nail shortages in canada it is stated in ottawa that this is not due to production faults since it is now at the highest peak with be tween 103000 and 105000 100pound kegs rolling off production lines every month the shortages are blamed here on the building boom alone j h campbell public rela tions manager of the cpr told the senate tourist committee that this railway intends to continue its longrange programme in tourist ad vertising by trying to diffuse the tourist traffic over the widest possi ble area throughout the year plans to give veterans top priority in purchasing farm machinery and surplus war assets through regular retail channels have heen placed before the veterans committee of parliament by j s crawford farm equipment chief of the veterans land act a member of parlia ment has protested in the house of commons against encroach ment of stall employees of the house on office space and quarters originally occupied and destined for members of parliament the vote in parliament in favor of the plan of the government for increasing membership of the house of com mons from 215 to 255 was 10722 though the only came after four amendments to the proposal were rejected lnder this new plan of representation which will be in effect before the next genera election in canada quebec would get s more seats british columbia 2 more and ontario and nova sco tia one each with prince edward island yukon alberta and new- brunswick remaining unchanged and manitoba as well as saskatche wan losing a seat there were 1904 army courtmartial convic tions for desertion in canada from january 1 1915 to may 1 1916 this being revealed in ottawa by de fence minister douglas abbott reproduction prohibited 1946 federal features syndicate editors mail we do not undertake to answer questions under the heading of letters to the editor however we have taken the trouble to cover this enquiry from north markham dear editor i read with interest what you had to say about vege tables being mentioned in the bible and conclude that you know a lot about such things was it not only recently that you said by the skin of the teeth was a bible phrase and you quoted the verse now can you tell us is it a fact that the bible savs out of the fry ing pan into the fire inquisitive this quotation is not in the bible according to our reference but the frying pan is mentioned twice in the scripture of levitious 2 7 and if thy oblation be a meat offering baton in the frying pan it shall be made of fine flour with oil and levitious 79 and all the meat offering that is baken in the oven and all this is dressed in the frying pan and in the pan shall lie the priests that offereth it readers who have bible ques tions to solve should refer them to a minisvr of the gospel as this newpapr does not claim to be an authority versed sufficiently in bible study as to be able to record compeicnt answers i send the tribune to absent friends tliev say that most inventors were lazy people that they were too lazy to do things the hard way so they invented something that would either make the work easier or better still do the work for them well heres a new experiment in farming that must have started with a farmer who was too lazy to sow wheat every year one who looked longingly at the wild grasses and wondered why he had to work so hard planting every year while those wild grasses sprouted of their own accord continuously the ex periment started in russia and is now continuing in the united states it is an experiment that will result in continuously growing wheat or if it will not grow by it self forever the sowing will have to take place at only five year inter vals n v titsin a russian professor spent twenty years crossing wild grasses that grew without planting with wheat for a long while the results of the experiment bad been unsatisfac tory because when he had gotten kernels it had not been wheat and when he tiad gotten wheat it had not been the kind that grew per manently without sowing every year and then when it looked as though he had a hybrid that was both wheat and a continuously growing kind it was too easily a victim of mould and the cold still lie had the hardiness of spirit that all farmers have and he didnt give up hope his vision had to become a reality and in time one hybrid gave him the very thing he wanted the daring dreams of all farmers wheat that would grow like wild grass wheat that would grow with out eternal sowing even then he could not be sure he had to wait and watch it grow for years to see whether the future generations of what would grow of its own accord without sowing now the fortyseven year old professor is getting ready to give to the world his continuously growing wheat which is similar to american wheat the bread baked from it was delicious and the experimental one hundred acres brought an excellent crop further experiments are being made now and wheat farmers may soon see the day when they will have to sow only one year to be able to reap for several years old josh tax exem itioxs are increase income tax exemptions are in creased to 1500 for married per sons and 750 for single persons in the budget provisions presented in the commons by finance min ister ilslcy there will however be no change until jan 1 1917 same tax in 1916 as when budget was announced between 550000 and 600000 per sons will be freed of all income tar obligations under the higher ex emptions but not for 1916 a plan whereby farmers and fish ermen may average their income tax for three years an expense ex emption for members of provincial legislatures and a sweeping simpli fication of the whole income tax system were other features propos ed under the new scheme which is effective jan 1 1917 the public as i whole will pay 113000000 less in income taxes while changes in the family allowance exemptions will benefit recipients of that bonus by a further 12000000 mr ilsley said the old home town w i mw by stanley you and yous srehaj thumb out of the ten pounds of grass seep you planted 7 this is all that came up i pm 45 stulf 3n thh- home syectkoc p5omt-