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the tribune stouffville cnt thursday june 19 1947 kbhe tmrffmllp unbunp 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 arid comments reserves are a good thing last week the town of lindsay authorized the sale of 10000 worth of bonds belonging to their hydro system in order to meet increasing capital exenditures this money was part of savings totalling over 50000 which had ich savings not been accumulated a loan would have had to be negotiated with its attendant added costs over the past two years stouffville hydro system found it necessary to deplete reserves of 19000 to some thing like si 1000 the money spent being for capital outlay its a fine thing to have a reserve at a time like this when every municipality is expanding which calls for capital outlay there was a good deal of criticism levelled against the hepc by municipalities in the past years for forcing the councils or local commissions to lay in a reserve but the wisdom of that move is now proven to have been a wise and prudent one stouffville water works has a small reserve of 5000 or 6000 which could all be spent in one year if the necessary expansion of the system could be proceeded with at this time the new rates effective with the next billing should provide more working capital so that the system may be brought more nearly up to standard not ready for it health insurance on a comprehensive basis is not likely to be adopted for some time to come because canadian hospitals cannot meet the needs even under present con ditions let alone the vastly expanded needs that would result from a system of state health insurance health minister paul martin gave some idea of the magnitude of the problem that will have to be solved to meet present requirements answering a question in the house of commons he stated that 27000 more hospital beds are needed of this number 8000 are needed for acute cases that cannot wait to be treated in addition to the shortage of beds there is the short age of nurses it is estimated that nearly 9000 more nurses are needed to meet present requirements also the number of doctors especially in some parts of canada is far below minimum community health standards let the lash speak one cannot help but wonder what the world is coming to things are badly out of joint not only in the international scene but also in our own country in canada normally a country where violent crime is comparatively rare we are witnessing an epidemic of hold ups and this at a time when there are employment oppor tunities for all who want to work there are in our midst lawbreakers who prefer to prey upon society rather than do an honest days work they will employ desperate means too in order to gain their evil purposes as was shown by the slaying of a guard in the attempted robbery of a bank at ailsa craig after the first world war a wave of banditry swept the country but it hardly reached present proportions the crime epidemic in those days was reduced noticeably when the courts began meting out lashes to those convicted of armed robbery a warning should be sounded by the courts of the land that the lash awaits those who persist in making a danger ous living by pointing a gun the holdup gentry must be made to understand that crime does not pay the lash brought those with criminal intent to their senses on a former occasion no doubt its more general use would do so again who sets tax levels there is a great deal of truth and sense in this editorial from the windsor star which says many people can well take to heart the lecture delivered by hon douglas c abbott in which he laid responsibility for tax levels on the people for the second time during the budget debate he became rather severe with those who clamor for extra governmental services and at the same time demand reduction in levies obviously this is a senseless attitude but one that is exemplified by entirely too large a proportion of our population the government however cannot slough off all its own responsibility in this way mr abbott probably went a little too strong on the unreasonable demands of the taxpayers- he said too little about other factors bearing on the load that is laid on the citizens his lecture was good politics but it was not entirely fair the impression to be gained from what he said was that the demands of the people for services have everything to do with tax levels that is of course not so the govern ment itself can do much to lower imposts by introducing economies which are entirely within its power the cuts in income tax contained in the last budget were substantial opposition sniping has lost much of its effectiveness because generally speaking the people are pleased with the savings passed on to them but the limit in reduction has certainly not been reach ed the government has taken a step toward economical financing but it still has far to go there remain too many evidences of extravagance on this depend further decreases for which we hope in the future true we have as mr abbott pointed out many bills from the last war that must be met nothing can be done to reduce that indebtedness other than to pay it off as quickly as practically possible through revenues from taxation but the government could rid itself of other effects of the war without the expenditure of a cent it could divest itself of the extravagant thinking which grew up under emergency conditions it has been too slow to do that we have for instance a civil service establishment more than twice as large as in the immediate prewar period it is ridiculous to argue that this could not be substantially cut and in this matter public pressure to maintain the war time level is virtually nonexistent the plain truth is that the government has not been able to get back to a peacetime psychology in respect to expenditures this is its own responsibility and part of the mental readjustment must show itself in the ability to resist pressure from the people for extra services we have a right to expect an access of grace in this important field our capital correspondent rationing announcement on a large number of items including food- j stuffs such as butter jams jellies jete moreover it is hinted that the written exclusively the stouffjf g vffg2zsf vule tribune by mlsehwartz ip since under the new condi- tions the usefulness of sugar ration- ever since president truman of is disappearing a the de-ration- the united states visited oita s of jams and marmalades means there has been a flood of rumours in 2fhlffis huvw availawe for circulation how these two frierdlv u uun neighbours intend to bring about ah j even closer collaboration between i came to this countrv when i them in defence production and was eighteen said labor minister finance in order to aid one another humphrev mitchell 1 never took in this postwar period not onlv in a nickel from anvbodv in this coun- their own interests but for the try and i went to work the dav benefit of other friendly nations i after i got here including the united kingdom as the attack on the trade unions well as other allies in the war with in quebec is something we cannot canadas supply of united states afford to ignore we live too close to funds dwindling at an ever-increas- quebec col david croll mp aci- ing rate and demands for canadian dressing the civil liberties associa- goods as well as other aid including lion meeting in ottawa financial growing steadily some the greek people are eternallv momentous measures are expected grateful to canadians for the hel here though up to this time any your country sent us during the war hints of such possibilities have been especially because it was given merely rumours including oriel voluntarilv and again without which received wide circulation strings declared prof gregory lately that united states might asimatis professor of the law school jfc 7 friday saturday june 20 ji time of their lives bud abbott dangerous millions kent taylor assume canadas wheat contracts with britain and be paid in us funds and applied against the us loan though this it must be stress ed was just a rumour there are in this land today many people who believe that one way of answering world stability in the future one way of avoiding a third world war is for the peace- loving nations to have a reasonable degree of unity and reasonable strength said external affairs minister stlaurent in the house of commons we have had the bitter experience of the late thirties with its policy of appeasement a policy under which we hardly dared to say no if somebody else shouted loud ly yes we had the bitter experience of that policy and therefore i think a policy of ensuring that we have maximum cooperation and strength in order to maintain a peaceful world by cooperating with other nations which we know to be friendly is a sound and practical course to take of athens and member of parlia mem who visited the capital wptb and q questions answers price controls have all gone out of the window but they have main tained the controls behind the scenes that protect the capitalists of this country charged in the house of commons a ccf mp clar ence gillis i am not concerned about the wealth that canada pack ers swift canadian company or any of the rest of them have the thing that i have always protested against is the power that they exer cise behind the scenes to stop the people of this country from creat ing new wealth themselves a suggestion has been made in parliament that an excise tax on sales by canadian manufacturers should be applied instead when the goods are in the hands of retailers since it is claimed the present system of taxation caused a pyramid which gave the govern ment in revenue much less than the consumer paid as a result of the tax with the proposal being that stamps might be used to indicate that the retailers had paid the tax however the government has rejected this suggestion because it would make the government deal with a great many more licences stamps in addition were costly in fact the government had saved about 40- 000 a year by cutting out a tobacco tax that required stamps there are strong hints in un official quarters in ottawa that the ration book mav be just another wartime souvenir in a relatively short time and this is a reaction here to the recent decontrol and de- i went to the hospital with a broken arm and had to remain overnight and part of the next day my bill was 27 which 1 paid a week later i received a doctors bill for 30 does the hospital bill include the doctors fee can a doctor charge any price a hospital bills do not generally include the doctors fee the charge of 27 would be for your room and meals nursing care use of operating room etc there is no ceiling price on professional services it would be impossible to fix a ceiling on any service which depended entirely on individual skill and knowledge q could you tell me how much the cost of living has gone up since 1939 a since august 1939 the cost of living has increased by 32 q as 1 have a boarding house would i be entitled to extra sugar for canning i enclose the numbers of the ration books i hold for my boarders a when the first canning sugar coupons become valid the ques tions pour in concerning the use of these coupons frankly a ration book belongs to the per son to whom it was issued and you cannot remove the canning sugar coupons without permis sion from the owner if your boarders remain at your home for six months we feel they should allow you to use half their canning coupons if they remain for the year you should have the use of all sugar coupons however we must make it clear that these ar rangements must be made be tween you and your boarders as there is no wptb regulation governing this matter q why do they remove the ceil ing on butter when it is already so expensive a the ceiling was removed in line with the policy of the govern ment to remove controls af soon as possible there is a fairly good supply of butter in canada at the present time and you should not find much if any increase in price during the winter months butter is always less plentiful and it would have been a poor time to decontrol q our church is planning a gar den party on friday june 27 would we be allowed to sell hot dogs and hamburgs on that day no friday is a meatless day and you could not serve any meat whatever why not sell sandwiches instead these could be made up without meat phone company and by various mines following the purchase of a farm at the square he lived in that community until 1921 he finally settled in richmond hill where he conducted a trucking business until his retirement four years ago he is survived by his wife eliza beth welti and two sisters mrs ralph haight glendalo calif and mrs william hutchinson detroit mich albert chapman dead farmed at victoria square wellknown citizen of richmond hill and a town councillor in 1929- 30 albert a chapman aged 73 died at his home there last week born in markham village mr chapman lived there until he was and mrs w i smith on sunday seven in 1881 he moved to toronto i garth stewart and shirley vail where he resided until 1900 resi- 1 of toronto spent monday with his dent of new liskeard in northern parents ontario until 1911 mr chapman miss marie pike spent the week- was employed by the bell tele- end with her parents at sunridge glasgow mr and mrs lome byer and family of markham visited with mr street carnival and dance under the auspices of the stouffville lions club in stouffville wed june 25th over 500 in lucky draw prizes electric washing machine axminsler rug and other prizes bingo bingo featuring lions bruce clark and jack smits at the mike games fish pond refreshments monster street dance billy hole and his live wires proceeds for lions welfare work lion truman baxter dance chairman lion bruce clark games chairman over 5000 feet of excellent dance pavement iion tcif krnnie ticket chairman lion elmer daniels street chairman