In view of the proposal to grant a fixed as- sessntent to a packing~ plant, it is interesting to note the practice regarding tax exemptions in the several provinces. On this subject the Fin- anci:tl Post sa_vs:---lt is, generally speaking, the habit for Canadian municipalities to grant limited tax exemptions or a fixed assessment to :1 new industry for a certain period of years. Such an investment may prove to be worth while for the town but the provinces should agree among themselves as to the limit to which such exemption must go. l`here is no Ieneral agreement now on the matter. Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick have no laws on the matter. Nova Scotiarequires con- firmation of the exemption by the legislature, but this is purely formal. In factgin Nova Scotia :1 cash gift or loan, guarantees of bonds, etc., can he had byvote of the ratepayers, confirm- ed by council and legislature. Manitoba and Quebec prescribe limits to tax exemption. Sas-, katchewan is very strict--in the letter of its luv--and restricts bonusing to tax exemption for the current year, but this is easily `evaded by selling city land at below its real value and in other ways. British Columbia grants rather wide powers in the granting of bonuses, al- though these powers are circumscribed by strict legislation. Alberta permits fixed assessments. Qntario permits fixed assessments but regular school and local improvement taxes are-paid. The law provides for no other bonuses but nevertheless there was-a recent case in which special legislation was obtained by a county to permit it to guarantee bonds of a new enter- a `grant: The Fergus News-Record says the quickest way to find the popu'~latio.n of Fergus is to ring the fire bell. In Barrie an automobile crash is equally efficient. Dr. Einstein has just dished up some more mathematical formulas which seem likely to give his fellow scientists another attack of. mental indigestion. The Kincardine Review-Reporter thinks the provincial highway Snow vfences have. done` excellent work this winter as far as they hav_e_ gone, but they have not gone far enough, or rather high enough. A four`-foot snowfence, the paper says, has -been found inadequate this wine TAX EXEMPTIONS FOR INDUSTRIES EDITORIAL NOTES Steps should be taken to bring before the County Council at its next session what trans- pired at the meeting of the County printing committee last week when tenders were man- ipulated in order that a contract might go to the tenderer favored by the chairman, Reeve A W. J. Johnston of Orillia Township. At this meeting was seen the spectacle of a chairman, supposed to be looking after the interests of the County. strenuously endeavoring to secure a for the Orillia News-Letter a price of $2.00 a page for printing the minutes in the face of a much more definite tender from the Barrie Advance at $1.80 a page; and failing in this came the still more amazing action of the chair- man in producing a second tender from the News-Letter at 30 cents a page less than the price he had tried to shove through. As The Ex- aminer was not a tenderer and has not printed the minutes` for years, we have no personal concern in the affair. Our only interest in the matter is in having public -business transacted fairly and above board. J: IIIHFILILILUIJJU an CVQDCQVI --.-. . Collingwood Bulletin-The provincial government has ordered the County Council of Simcoe to build a. new reg- istry office and in accordance therewith an expenditure of $40,000 is,to be made for a new building. We in the i county are to pay but county treasurer Coleman assures us that we will not feel it. Imagine squeezing out forty thousand bucks and not knowing anything of the extrac- tion. Truly friend Coleman is a marvel. ---u tar and `many ara now buried in drifts. What sort of a winter.are they having over in Bruce County, anyway? ' ' - FOREIGN FILMS London Daily Mail-The growing number and` popu- larity of picture palaces make it more than ever import- ant to secure for British-made lms a fair share of the lm market. We do not want to be dependent on any foreign producer for our pictures. The British people have their own manners and their own customs and do ` not like to be subjected to what is in reality a very potent foreign propaganda. Probably the spread of lms in which the characters talk) will tend to assist the home- produced lm, as a foreign language or English spoken with a strong and unfamiliar accent would be equally unsatisfactory in a British theatre. If this is going to be the case it is an additional reason why the British lm trade should act with energy and seize this opportunity to create a flourishing industry. TORONTO STAR S NEW HOME In company with many other weekly news- papermen from Ontario and Quebec, the pub- lishers of The Examiner last week_ had_ the pleasure of visiting` the new home of the Tor- onto Daily Star into which the staff, some six laundred in number, recently moved. As might be expected from an expenditure of four mil- lion dollars, great results have beenachieved. The building`, towering 340 feet towards the sky, is the most beautiful business edifice in Toronto as well as the most modern, while the offices, workrooms and equipment of the Star are the last word in the way of newspaper facilities. The Star s new building and plant, which ranks among` the finest newspaper pro- perties in the world, not only reflects the trem- cndous growth our Dominion has made but is an evidence of ample faith in Canada s future. The remarkable progress of the Starmay be mainly attributed to the exceptional organiz- ing genius of Joseph E. Atkinson, its president, to the enterprise displayed in every department and to the attractive manner in which its con- tents are presented to its readers. The Examin- er is glad to join in the congratulations extend- ed to Mr. Atkinson and his staff on their oc- cupancy of the Star s splendid new home. Weekly newspaper editors who were shown through the new plant of The '1oronto Star last week came away convinced that printing ma- chinery, like automobiles, has made some re-` markable strides in the last ten or twenty years. Another evidence of the'pas~sing of the Pro- gressives is the news item that Bruce County, which at one time had two Progressive M.L. A. s, now has twenty-two Liberals and eleven Conservatives in its County Council. The appellate division of the Supreme Court of Ontario has upheld a decision of Judge Muicahy of Renfrew County, ruling that busi- ness and income assessments should be includ- ed for county equalization purposes. This mat- ter, of importance to all municipalities, has been before the courts for nearly a year and has cost the Town of Pembroke, which instit- uted the action in the county court and later appealed, a pretty penny in the matter of law costs. . During the illness of His Majesty King George, it has been pleasing to read many kind references to him in the press of the United States. Here is an example, taken from a Sou- thern newspaper received this week: The whole world has followed with genuine sym- pathy and solicitude the reports from the bed- side of King George V, who as this is written appears to have won his brave fight for life against tremendous odds. Since his accession to the throne in 1910, King George has maintain- ed the affectioneof his far-flung empire, and has won universal respect. While upholding the royal traditions, he has been a democratic and sympathetic ruler, with true zeal for the wel- fare of his people. Everyone will rejoice that he now appears to be on the high road to re- covery. Long live the King! Toronto received its snowfall just in time to prevent the ski-ing and mushing invasions from Northern Ontario -becoming a complete fiasco. Up until a few days ago it "looked as though they would have to make the last lap on roller skates. ' . In spite of political and financial disturbanc- es which have prevented normal economic pro- gress in China, Canadian exports to that coun- try are increasing at a more rapid rate than ex- ports to any other part of the world, says the- monthly letter of the Royal Bank. Prior to 1<)15'there were only two years in which the value of Canadian exports to China had been in excess of one million dollars, and in that year the value was only $250,000. In the last twelve months the value of exports to China was in excess of $14,000,000, and in 1926, the record year of Canadian exporting, the value of exports to China amounted to $24,- 000,000. Annual exports to the Chinese and Japanese market now have a. value in excess of $`5o,ooo,o00. DISCRIMINATION IN INVESTMENT NEEDED Financial Post--It was notable that while Sir Joseph Flavelle, in his presidential remarks at the National Trust meeting recently, threw out some sound words of caution regarding current prices in security markets he did not definitely express the opinion that markets had run ahead or the prospects for development in the country. Sir Joseph "stated that ination in values is bound to result from uncontrolled optimism. The real danger, he declar- . ed, will result from consideringthe favorable features in the present situation without taking account oi! possible "ungavorable features. 1.. -r-...._Ib.. ........-.-ha `Inning nnnnrunvn sin!` 11`. the 511' JOSepIl'S remanss wen: uuuacxvnuvc auu am. one same time encouraging, He emphasized the value or dis- crimination in investment. Sir Joseph is apparently very much of an optimist on Canada and sees great oppor-V tunities for the amassing of wealth in this country but he sees clearly the need tor prudence and sanity and he (1137 cards as at once .the idea that `enterprises undertaken in this country are likely to meet with universal -success`. This is a verysound ' y to be the conservative-optimist that Canada" needs today.` ' V ' . IIIEVOTEDIB IEEBUIUS. lr Joseph"s remarks `were conservative and at. the ---A tin-ma nnnnvluanlna uh hIIIT\"I_`P1II Vhl Of dis- DI0I0X0X0X<>X0X<>X<>X<>X<>X<>X<>I0X0X<>X<>X0I* bl >x< -1+ EDITORIAL COMMENT ga OPINIONS OF OT!-IERS TREASURER A MARVEL? T IS NOT on record that the Im- nerial Oil Co. holds anything against the editor of the Creemore Star. so it may have been just an accident that a team of Percherons belonging to their Creemore agent the other day charged madly across the street straight for the newspaper office, or worse still straight for the sanctum sanctorum where ye editor was seated before a plate glass Window. This page is not large enough to record the impressions that passed through our mind in a few brief seconds. says the editor. MiracuIously nothing serious happened. The sleigh tongue missed our plate glass by inches as the horses swerved and` launched the attack broadside. The slow horse on the in- side again fell his collar top striking the door of the apartment upstairs and bursting oif its hinges. A score of men were quickly on the scene and released the horses as! well as the big tank of petrol which was tight up to the front window. The entire damage was neg- ligible but believe us, we had a scare. We have often marvelled at the intel- ligence of some horses. Here was a team that sure knew their onions when they`. sought publicity. :k :1: :1: .--.__-.----u-o--vv- veauv Av aauou ' 1` long since been proven beyond doubt that a wolf will not attack a human being, "newspaper reporters continue to write thrillers. The latest from Chapleau, the experience of two schoolboys V-who battered a big timber wolf into insensibility and death after a desperate, twenty-minute struggle," during which the wolf repeatedly re- turned to the attack, has of recent weeks gone the rounds of Simcoe county press. The story should be tak- en with a grain of salt. An old-time nimrod who investigated several hun- dred cases of these so-called vicious . wolf attacks disproved every solitary one of them. The closest he came to an attack was the case of a tender- foot who, hearing wolf howls, climbed a tree and was found by his friends next morning nearly frozen to death. The nearest wolf tracks were a quarter of a mile away where the animals had passed on the trail of a deer. We know personally of a trapper who was forc- ed to step back a few feet from a fe- male wolf after it had been mortally wounded only a few yards from a lit- ter of pups, but any animal will pro- tect its young. Even closer to an "at- tack by a wolf was the experience of a farmer up north last week. He caught a wolf in a trap, clubbed it on the head and put it in a potato bag, apparently dead. He threw the bag over his shoulder and proceeded to walk home when suddenly he felt a stinging sensation in the rear of his anatomy. He dropped the bar: like a hot cake and proceeded to administer a few more blows to the writhing an- imal. His trousers required a good siz- ed patch on the seat. That was a real close shave and the story is undoubt- edly true. Wolves in captivity will take the odd snap at a human when he is not looking. but as far as seeking out and deliberately attacking a man in the bush, never. The wolf will not even cross a human`s trail, let alone follow it. A Toronto newspaper several years ago published a hair-raising story of three of four columns telling of a prospector who successfully fought a whole pack with his gun un- til he ran out of ammunition. The story went that "he even killed his dogs and fed them to the wild beasts to hold them at bay. He despatched the last two wolves with his snow- shoes and was found on the trail half frozen after he had trekked a safe dis- tance from the scene of conflict. The hero" later admitted the whole story was a hoax. Several months hospital bills are as yet unpaid and the man today is an inmate of a pro- vincial lunatic asylum, a public charge. N UNUSUAL visitor to Fergus last week was an English starling, the rst, according to the News-Record, to make its home in that town. The bird is larger than a sparrow but slightly smaller than the purple grackle or blackbird. At a distance is resembles a blackbird but has a much shorter tall. and speckled with light brown spots. The bright yellow bill is also conspicuous. A strange feature is that this bird is very friendly with the Eng- lish sparrows, eating with them and sitting on the same limbs or the tree. The smaller birds do not resent its presence either. Both species are im- portations from England, but it is hop- ed that the starlings will not become such a nuisance as the sparrow, says the News-Record. .1. .1. IFE WON"T'. seem the same, says the Stouville Tribune, if we don't have the early morning `clink, clink of milk bottles to penetrate our dreams and warn us that it is almost time to get out of bed. This observa- tion was prompted by the announce- ment of a new cardboard container for milk. It is a glazed, water and mois- ture-proof cone-shaped arrangement and can be thrown into the waste basket after the milk is used. It is said to be giving entire satisfaction and has been approved by several boards of health across the line. v_-__ -._-_ -_.---v-v `ha 5- -wanna vunnuv for one man to be continuously in charge of one newspaper. Such has ' been the experience of H. J. Pettypiece who is still at the helm of the Forest FreepPress. Recalling his 46th anni- versary as publisher of the Free Press, Mr. Pettypiece says: The circulation of the paper was then 400, and it was printed on the historic William Lyon M MacKenzie hand press, which is still in use in the oice. Five years later Mr. Pettypiece bought out his part- ner's interest in the business, and has since then conducted its continuous publication. In those early years there were` sixteen papers published in Tnvun$u`Au\ nnrufcv vain!` I-Atlas-I fl-nnvn awn RTY-SIX`S?E1;1% is a long time j one man WISLVF uutuuvu yayvau gouwuuanvu coo Lambton County, and today there at only six. The decrease` is mainly due to the greatly increased cost of pub- lication since the great war. That The` me` Press has continued its success- ml publication and reached a circula- tion or 1,700, islargely due to the gen`- THE BARBIE EXAMINER %*%%*&w&$$w&**%*$i SHORT HOCKEY S_EASON_ V IOTWITHSTANJSINIG that it has! The Weekly Mirfor Reflecting High Lights in LL- \l..... l...__. f\..L.._'- I`%I I96 ---5 the News fro I` `W X. m Ontario Town Newspapers erous patronage from its many friends at home and abroad. And among his many friends, Mr. Pettypiece num~ bers hundreds of newspapermen all over Canada. The Mirror joins in best wishes for his continued health and -..._.... -..lL- VV IDLIIFD AVA prosperity. DREAMLAND - MON.-'I,`UES.-WED. N These Items on Special Sale Feb. 15 to 21' `prise. Buy Advertised Things. Figs |b.g JELLY BEANS A. E. WHITBY TODDY #5: 47 2 ASSORTED FLAVORS--_l.'B. TIP TOP Clothes All One Price TUESDAY, FEB. 19 ll\l VV \1JLv As it is, Barrie s 1928-29 record is a credit- ahle one. Only one of the team had played be- fore in organized hockey. They were an un- known quantity and went out and won five out of six games, three on foreign ice. They de- serve credit, and with more attention to offen- sive rather than defensive hockey might have gone farther. Only the most experienced play- ers can successfully play the Kitty-bar-the- door game and even they often foozle it. Moreover, it is not impressive or interesting to watch. Let the boys learn to skate fast be- fore they attempt to learn the tricks of sea- soned veterans. AMEALINAGLASS FINEST COOKING NATURAL awn sr:1.1.% 1:-'o R LESS! 16c BOY DROPS LANTERN-FIRE DFSTROYS BARN -The loss is estimated at from $10,000 to $12,000 with Insurance of $3,200. -Barrie Examiner, Jan. 10th. The above surely emphasizes the necessity of ADEQUATE INSURANCE on FARM BUILDINGS We are prepared to quote you very - MODERATE RATES CONSISTENT WITH SECURITY. 29c UP-TOWVN TICKETS, CANADIAN NATiONAL RYS. .. F. A. MALCOMSON P1 It s rather odd that fellows who are not sup- crstitious will remind one that it isn t necessary to light three cigarettes from the same match. He will help you choose the right material for your new suit. There are over 200 patterns and weaves to choose from. All the very latest fabrics imported direct from the leading markets of the world. Everything tailored to the individ- ual measure of the customer at one standard price. ANOTHER ADVANTAGE IN SHOPPING AT LOBLAW S IS THE EASE WITH WHICH YOU MAY HELP YOURSELF TO THE MANY WELL KNOWN BRANDS AND KNOW YOU ARE BUYING THE HIGHEST QUALITY AT A SAVING. 1GR0`CE'I'ERlAS co. LIMITED YOUR FAVORITE F0005 AT A SAVING REMEMBER THE DATE LARGE " ` PE A s TENDER TOILET ROLLS 4 rolls 1 1 c JAM 26c 3 tins 25c RED AND GREEN GAGE PURE PLUM PONY BRAND The Junior -C3.H.A. hockey7-s"ea-son'in Barrie i was of less than a month s duration this win- ter. The first game was played on January 18 and the last on February 12. it seems that it will take a half dozen or more of those real, old-fashioned winters, starting in November and lasting until April, to put Barrie and other mid-Ontario towns back on the hockey map. At present artificial ice teams get away to a start in November and the teams of the north the first week in December. The Barrie team and others hereabouts did not get a chance to skate the kinks out of their legs before the second week in January and before they got a ohance to hit their stride the season was over. 33 Elizabeth St. BARRIE, ONT. Thursday. February 14. 1929 ll Dunlap St. Phone 447W It is quite apparent that with shorter and less severe winters Central Ontario hockey teams are working under a big handicap. They have not the opportunity to acquire the speed or condition so essential in a champion aggrega- tion. For years hockey honors have been fought out `between the artificial ice teams of the cities and the natural ice teams of the north and west. r\ 0 I .r\-r\ _I\ ,, ,1 We never knew what those fancy radiator Caps were for until the otherday, on glancing out the window, we saw an autoist hang a blan- kct on one.