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the tribune stouffville ont thursday june 12 1947 established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and ontario quebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations paidinadvance circulation as of march 1st 2553 issued every thursday at stouffville ontario subscription rates per year in advance in canada 200 in usa s250 a- v nolan son publishers notes and comments markhams building bylaw there is a bylaw in the township of markham designed to prevent shacks from springing up in the municipality shacks would inevitably be occupied by people who when more diilicult clays come will be the first to require relief aside from this point there is the undesirable feature of having shacks anywhere how is the bylaw working you may ask and the answer is generally good however a weakness in the bylaw is that it does not apply to farms and so any farmer may create a shack town it seems evidence of taking advantage of this weakness in the bylaw is seen near kingwood where a number of socalled shacks are springing up within half a mile of the home of a councillor further development of this are as an undesirable section should be stopped at once by amending the bylaw to take care of the situation the surprising thing is that something has not been done before now to stem the increase of shacks at ring- wood now that the situation is brought to light many people in the district affected will hope that speedy action is taken to remedy the loophole in the bylaw still one hog in periods of inflation we sometimes long for the good old days when butter could be bought for 20 cents a pound and whisky was si a bottle but it is sometimes forgotten that wages too were low in those days generally speaking prices are comparative this is illustrated by an incident related in a letter from a lumber house in themiddle west while it may be good for a smile it does contain a basic thought the firm writes we had a farmer in the front office the other day after 19 bundles of no 1 red cedar shingles when he heard the price 1635 per square he didnt quite blow off the roof but he walked out with marked indications of disapproval he was back an hour or so later however to take the shingles explaining ive been thinking several years ago it would have taken the priceof a hog to roof that building and its still just one hog have your chest xrayed within the next month every citizen in the district will be offered a free health service the stouffville lions club has made arrangements with the national sanitarium association to provide every man woman and child in this area with a free chest examination without any cost or obligation whatsoever this campaign is part of the national sanitarium associations plan to find unsuspected tuberculosis and so reduce the incidence of this disease local officials planning the survey estimate that 3000 persons will receive a free chest xray that prevention is better than cure all will agree in the prevention of tuberculosis mass xray surveys have been found to be among the most effective measures it is hoped therefore that everyone will take advantage of this excellent opportunity to protect their own health the health of their family and their community the menace of tuberculosis lies largely in the fact that a person can appear perfectly healthy and feel fit and yet have the disease happily when detected in its early stage it can be cleared up fairly quickly and the person return to his employment the surest way of finding out whether one has tuberculosis is through the xray examination each person found to have a shadow of the disease may then immediately receive the necessary attention the survey has yet another benefit it will greatly arouse the public awareness to this insidious disease with this awareness fully aroused there are good prospects that this grim enemy of the people will eventually be done away with shift in sheepkaising canadians eat very little mutton and lamb statistics show that the per capita consumption ofbeef in 1942 was 631 pounds and of lamb only 52 pounds in the sheepraising industry in this country emphasis is on wool instead of mutton a- ii bogue writing in the ottawa citizen says that the number of sheep kept on canadian farms has varied little over a period of years in the early days large flocks of sheep were kept by eastern farmers they were mostly english and scottish settlers who came out from the old country where they were used to raising sheep and where no farm was complete without a few sheep but that is not the case today there are thou sands of farms in eastern canada without any sheep what ever sheep are raised principally on the marginal lands on the western prairies their numbers have greatly increased in 1901 ontario possessed 42 per cent of all the sheep in canada this dropped to 26 per cent in 1941 on the other hand the prairie provinces had only 73 per cent of all sheep in 1901 but 445 per cent in 1941 in that year the number of sheep in the west was 1278000 out of a total of 2862500 for all canada one reason for this shift in sheepraising from east to west says mr bogue is the large expanse of grass lands and natural pastures on the prairies particularly in the foothills of alberta which are very suitable for sheep- raising no fencing is required in western canada herding is expensive but less so than the costly fencing needed in eastern canada the menace of coyotes in western canada is no more serious than that of marauding dogs and wolves in the east evidently hogs and cattle are considered by eastern farmers to provide better and quicker cash returns than sheep- but there are also distinct advantages in keeping sheep mr bogue points out that lambs can be prepared for market in about four months whereas it takes five to six months to finish a hog and two years for beef cattle other than calves moreover in hog and poultryraising natural feeds are consumed while sheep live off the land thriv ing on poorer pastures than cattle require and often clean ing off the weeds pay for municipal councillors stouffville is one of three or four municipalities in the county of york which obtains the services of its reeve and councillors without any remuneration being made that may be their fault since- the council has it within its power to vote themselves pay for their municipal services how ever this paper always contended that such action should be preceded by a preelection announcement such was not made last november consequently the 1947 councillors should not take pay for their services we are not sure that paid officials around the council board would prove any more qualified or render any better service than the village is getting or has received in the past nevertheless the time is coming when pay will be demand ed since the trend is that way and as we point out stouff ville is one of three municipalities not receiving compensa tion that is not many out of twentysix municipalities in the county of york doing great work the british and foreign bible society has through its worldwide distribution of holy scripture made the bible the most easily obtainable and the most widely read book in every cdhtinent its service to canada began with the supplying of its first translation a gospel for the mohawk indians 1804 the year of its foundation twentytwo such versions are now produced for canadian missions and in addition translations in over 80 languages have been supplied for the use of those from foreign lands who have come to canada last year the upper canada bible society raised v s18491310 with this money the canadian auxiliaries pur chased 215013 copies of the scripture after defraying all expenses s120000 was sent to the parent society in london for its worldwide work some idea of its needs can be de rived from the statement that 50 million copies of the scripture in 90 languages are needed in devastated europe asia has scoreless millions of new readers while africa has some 800 languages many of which still have no transla tions the society branch at stouffville aims to contribute s1000 annually to this work the sum should not fall short of this how income taxpayers stouffville and district will pay this year income tax payers will find it very convenient to clip the follow ing table so that it will be available next december for their 1917 tax remittances departmental ollieials have aver aged the rates effective in the first half and the last half of this year and the results are below within a few days the national revenue department will issue to employees the tabulations showing the new schedules of deductions from wages and salaries applicable from july 1 onward as a result of the tax cuts announced in the bud get on april 29 but because the deductions for the first half of this year were made at 1910 rates and the deductions for the latter half will be on the basis of the 1917 rates it has been necess ary for the finance and revenue department to strike an average for the two sixmonth periods which the taxpayer will use when next march or april he prepares his tax return to the government on his total earnings this year using the tabulations given be low the taxpayer can quite easily estimate his total tax for the present year in determing his tax able income he should if single deduct 750 from his total earnings if married deduct 1500 plus 100 for each child for which familv allowance is received if he has children and does not receive family allowance for them an exemption of 300 is given on each thin a married man with wife and two children receiving the family allowance will have exemp tions totalling 1700 if his total earnings are 2000 in the year his taxable income would be 300 tax a tabulated herewith are the tabulations of total income tax this vear on the first 100 cf taxable in come 1g per cent or 16 i drs not exceed 11500 16 upon taxable income of 1001 353125 upon taxable income of and 17 on amount by which inln500 and 43 upon amount by come exceeds 100 and does not ex- which the income exceeds 11500 ceed 200 33 upon taxable income of 200 and 18 upon amount by which and does not exceed s13000 117625 upon taxable income of 13000 and 45 upon amount by the income exceeds 200 and does which the income exceeds 13000 not exceed 250 12 upon taxable income of 250 and does not exceed 14000 the amounts which the taxpayer and 19i upon amount by which will pay on his 191s earnings will the income exceeds 250 and does i be below the foregoing rates as not exceed 300 next year he will enjoy for the full 5175 upon taxable income of twelvemonth period the roduc- 300 and 20iupon amount by which the income exceeds 300 and j does not exceed 400 7225 upon taxable income of 100 and 21 upon amount by which the income exceeds 100 and does not exceed 500 9375 upon taxable income of 500 and 22li upon amount by which the income exceeds 500 and does not exceed 1000 20625 upon 1000 and which and does not exceed 2500 our capital correspondent written exclusively for the stouff ville tribune by mlschwartz at the moment the door is wide taxable income of open said hon humphrey upon amount by mitchell labor minister in discuss- the income exceeds 1000 jng the movement of displaced s not exceed 2500 i persons from europe to canada 5g625 upon taxable income of let us be frank and honest about 2500 and 25ic upon amount by that let us not throw out a smoker which the income exceeds 2500 screen in connection with these and does not exceed 3500 i unfortunate people by suggesting i2125 upon taxable income of that we are treating one race in one way and another race in another all they have to do is to get passage 3500 and 26 pxp upon amount by which the income ex ceeds 3500 and does not exceed from great britain and provided 1500 they are healthy they can come to s10s625 upon taxable income of canada the same applies south 1500 and 2 upon amount by africa australia new zealand which the income exceeds 1500 and the united states and i think and does not exceed 5000 i the country should know that 2220625 upon taxable income of l 5000 and 30 upon amount by a report currently heard in the which the income exceeds 5000 capita is that canada is likely to be and does not exceed s0500 abe to fill the united kingdom 167025 upon taxable income of wheat contract for 160000000 6500 and 34 upon amount by bushels at the july 31 deadline due which the income exceeds 6500 to expected improvements in trans- and does not exceed 500 portation and other factors 235625 upon taxable income of j ss500 and 3sj upon amount by notwithstanding all the whispers which the income exceeds ss500 which have started in the wake of and does not exceed s1050o j the disclosure in washington that 5312625 upon taxable income of the united stales may seek to s10500 and j0s upon amount bv arm train and organize the arm- which inccrne exceeds 10500 and ed services of this western hemis phere in cooperation with such other powers including canada and latin american countries yet it is indicated here that this is actually nothing new save a possible effort to standardize weapons of com mon defense with the added com ment that such consultations be tween friendly powers have often taken place so that it is no inter ference in the affairs of these other nations forces the present method used by the dominion of national revenue in calculating a farmers total income tax for the years 19411910 in the event that he had not previously filed a return it is reported here is based on such data available from the full financial records of his operations since assessments are founded on same where the farmer has kept inadequate or negligable records it is necessary to recon struct his income by examination of the growth of the surplus in his assets over liabilities by analysis of such data as to income as can be secured from reliable sources and from such partial records as to in come and expenditures as he has actually maintained there is no one method of doing this which can be applied uniformly in all cases but the procedures conform as closely as possible to recognized accounting principles women may not like to read that the cosmetic tax is being continued since as an official spokesman for ithe government has indicated be- j cause it was on a long time before the war the rate was moved up a bit but i do not know whether we j need to stimulate the production or isale of these particular products as yet when the government was asked if there was a record of canadians who have left this country to live in russia and who are still there the reply indicated that no record is kept of persons leaving canada to reside ii other countries as far as the files in ottawa shew j monday ind tuesday june 23 24 ive always loved you maria ouspenskaya philip dorn premier george drew will speak in the provincial affairs series over the cbc ontario transcanada network monday june 16th 1030 to 1045 pmedt c b l toronto listen to station oil burners are still being made and sold in canada though the authorities here warn that no such oil burners should be installed un less a previous arrangement had been made with a reliable distribu tor for the supply of fuel oil- it is stressed that anv reduction even one or two per cent in oki sales tax this year would have ran to a substantial sum of money with this being the real reason only wlrjj it had been decided against rednc ing this tax reproduction prohibited 1947 federal features syndicate daughter of famed italian after her arrival in britain on a tenor rina gigji is seen concert tour she lives next rehearsing with jack hylton door to her father in rome