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~â€"ne governments $161,250. The annual inâ€" terest on that at 5% is $8,062.52 so that even if the tax authorities were to settle on that basis, the girl would still owe the governâ€" Say she devotes her entire income, after income taxes, to trying to pay those succesâ€" sion duties. After four years she will owe Assuming that the fund earned 4%, the young lady‘s total annual income is $20,000 of which she has to pay $12,000 income tax. That leaves her $8,000 a year out of which to pay the $45,500 succession duty installment. (And remember, she couldn‘t chip into her capital. It isn‘t hers.) This total tax has to be paid in four years, or $45,500 per year. This 80â€"yearâ€"old was to get the income of the $500,000 estate, the capital to go on to others at her death. The young beneâ€" ficiary immediately found herself saddled with federal succession duties of $72,000 and Ontario succession duties of $110,000 or a total of $182,000. But H. V. Laughton, general manager, National Trust Co., has reported the case of one such young lady which stirs our soliciâ€" tude for her. Much more important, it arouses our indignation because the same sort of thing may well happen to people who are not 30 years old and do not have $500,000 in their trust fund, states The Financial Post. Normally, not having married one, we wouldn‘t give a second‘s worry to a 80â€"yearâ€" old girl with a trust fund of $500,000. THE CASE OF A "RICH" GIRL Though there are hundreds of varieties of peaches, Elberta is not only the leading commercial one but is one of the few known by name to consumers. The Chinese cling seed was planted by Samuel H. Rumph at Marshallville, Georgia. It was a neighbour who suggested that the peach be named for Rumph‘s wife, Elberta, with the telling arguâ€" ment: "The peach is perfect. And so is she." Thus came, more or less by accident, two of the present blessings of the American and Canadian table. * On the apple the senior member of the firm bestowed a name that he had long held in reserve for an apple of the quality, flavor and aroma of the newcomer. Improvements in breeding since that day have corrected an original drawback, the tendency of the Deâ€" licious to ripen before it attains full color. down and had grown up again, Hiatt gave it a chance to live, and it bore that handsome, knobbyâ€"ended apple now so familiar to conâ€" sumers all over the land. Four specimens later sent to an apple show conducted by the Starks led to negotiations for the propagatâ€" ing rights. The January issue of the American Fruit Grower observes the diamond jubilee of the Elberta peach, leading commercial variety in the United States, and the golden jubilee of the Delicious apple. In the case of the Delicious, the anniversary marks the date of its commercial introduction _by the Stark Nursery in Missouri rather than of its discovery by Jesse Hiatt, an Iowa farmer. As The New York Sun editorializes, from a Chinese cling peach seed planted in Georgia in 1870 and a chance seedling found in an Iowa apple orchard in 1872 come two notable 1945 anniversaries for fruit growers â€"and consumers. You have often heard fruit give the advice to "wait until the 1: tas come in." It is very sound . a cause that variety of peach remain: canning purposes. But who know originated? Or how the fine apple, . got off to its start? E Frank Fairborn, Jr. -?1.””.””.HH-””.HU.H”.HH-H”.JW”flflh‘]!.iIJ«'.EH?.H”.I!!I.HH-U“zi FRUIT ANNIVERSARIES w ing dépendent, and true dependence leads always to the most perfect independence. True independence is never afraid of appear #_ 00 COs oh. O Noapicet e m 7 is d Issued every Thursday from office of publiâ€" cation, Main and Oak Sts., Grimsby, by LIVINGSTON and LAWSON, Publishers. HII.H”.HH-HH.HII.IIII-HH.UH.IIII.IIIIIIIHIH.’.‘E!HEIIHI.HHl!liJHHHIE Subscriptionâ€"$2.00 per year in Canada ar per year in United States, payable in advance. Afte}"th‘e seedling had once been cut The Grimsby Independent TWO FACTS & FANCIES Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association. Telephone 36 Nights, Sundays, Holidays, 539 J. ORLON LIVINGSTON, Editor ""‘Lincoln County‘s Leading Weekly" Established 1885 It is very sound . advvlc; beâ€" ch remains tops for who knows how it in Canada and $2.50 , Delicious, t growers late Elberâ€" There was quite a bit more to it than that too, and no doubt many New Yorkers reading their papers in airâ€"conditioned and We thought we knew something about snow, but a writer in the editorial columns of the New York Times, and he must have been a poet, has noted some things that we must admit have heretofore entirely escaped us, says the editor of The Seaforth Exposiâ€" tor. For instance: NOT POETRY TO US The need for reducing taxes will be imâ€" perative and immediate as soon as the war is over. If taxes are not reduced, the exodus to the United States will assume proportions never assumed before. And in former genâ€" erations it was serious enough to cause great alarm in Canada and great advantage across the border. As there are more Jews in New York than in Palestine, there may yet be more Canadians south of the 49th parallel than north of it. "The snowdrift is the sculptured figure of the wind done in crystal, If there were such a thing as frozen motion, surely it would be a snowâ€" drift, new and gleaming and softly curved. Big drifts are magnificent. They show how the wind can walk with giant strides across the land. But there is a simpler beauty in the little drifts, the feather drifts that trail away from the veriest weed stems in an open meadow. They are the filigree of the wind, the fine detail of the snowâ€" storm." ~~ vo see many tor increasing the national overhead. We don‘t see any forecasts by exâ€" perts or predictions by neighbourhood obâ€" servers, that we‘re going to increase the population by births. We don‘t see any poliâ€" ticians risking their political necks by preaching the need for immigration. ~ Most of what we see are plans for creating governâ€" ment jobs, All who hold. rovernmant imhs Another trait which used to be common was that people who had ideas of spending money used first to ask themselves if they could afford it. Neither Mr. Ilsley nor any other person in authority appears to have dealt with that question. We don‘t see any plans for increasing the national income, but "Aunt Belinda," said the ‘"how do you know how to tie . You aren‘t a school teacher." ho hnini e 27 en tich ie Arctricl Aivdnt Abvicisisaints. know much essayed to help. Mr. lisley, much as he is deservedly reâ€" spected, reminds us of the orphan schoolgirl who, many years ago, went to live with two aunts, one of whom was a school teacher. On a Monday, as the loving little one was getâ€" ting ready for school, the aunt who didn‘t 1,“,‘___ SEA 3 2 1 " 1 Perhaps the answer to Mr. Ilsey‘s willâ€" ingness to bow to professional judgment unâ€" leavened by practicality, is the commendable respect held throughout Acadia for higher education. . Almost any farmer down there goes to college. The difference between Mr. Ilsley and the farmers in his own valley is that they are practical men even though they are oldâ€"fashioned enough to remember an ocâ€" casional Latin phrase such as Labor Omnia Vincit, which being translated, might mean that only if we are producers can we be richâ€" er. It isn‘t surprising, of course, that Fiftyâ€" Seven Experts can be wrong. But what may surprise many is that the Minister himself, a product of canny Nova Sceotia, where most people do their own thinking, can be fooled by a flock of academic adolescents who, while scorning the use of mirrors, have convinced themselves, ostensibly, by phrases. The more obscure the phrase the more valid the arguâ€" ment, according to this school of thought. Which may explain why Winston Churchill, who was so backward at school he could learn only plain English, was so long in reaching the top. The Fiftyâ€"Seven Experts who advise the Minister of Finance on matters fiscal, moneâ€" tary and economic seem to be agreed that the Indolent Fathers‘ Allowance Act (otherwise the baby bonus) will add to prosperity by giving buying power to those who haven‘t got it now. Which is‘ like saying that a family becomes richer by spending more. DISAGREEING WITH FIFTYâ€"SEVEN Here the devious c avaricious tax gatherers tangled fiscal system, pr glow with their most inf ments $62.52 a year as long as she lives or until drastic income tax reductions change her net income from the estate. As Mr. Laughton observed : Mr. IIsley, much as ‘"‘The only sensible thing for the girl to do would be to refuse to have anything to do with the estate. . . . While we all know that Parliaâ€" ment by law can declare that black is white, I think the public as a whole is completely unâ€" aware of the development of this new process in technicolor which not only turns black figures into red, but leaves the poor beneficiary entirely out of the picture. ‘"While the effect is more spectacular in connection with a large estate, there is the same effect in proportion in the case of any moderate estate. I could give you example after example of actual cases where the results of the appliâ€" cation of succession duty â€" taxes particularly when combined with income taxes, are simply absurdâ€"aand also tragic." clous tax gatherers in our disreputablg} ed fiscal system, provincial and federal, with their most infgrnal luminosity. »ALPLIS. We don‘t see any poliâ€" : their political necks by need for immigration." Most are plans for creating governâ€" devious conspiracies of the THBEB _CGRIMSBY INDEPENDEN T themselves if â€" Mr. Isley nor government jobs _ bright a hair r . And so do t child ribbon 5.â€"What "year‘" on the 12th of July, were there "huge evergreen arches", spanning the Main street ? 6.â€"Who can recall the year the "tall brick chimney‘ ‘was taken down which stood on the west side of the "old forty", just south of the Gibson avenue bridge? Trusting these items, with others following will "revive" the "Village Age". 4.â€"Who has a "photograph" of the "old raceâ€" course", taken during the "track and turf age" in Grimsby, when the "track" was situated on Maple Avenue, north of the C. N. R. bridge, where the Queen Elizabeth highway crosses ? 3.â€"Whose "Homestead" of the "old architectual design‘", enclosed by an ‘iron fence" was on the south side of Main street, just west of the "Palmer store" ? 2.â€"What "year" was the "Vic Carpenter‘s basâ€" ket factory fire", which destroyed the "entire" south east corner of Main and Paton streets? 1.â€"By what name was the "hotel known", sitâ€" uated on the east side of Depot street, just south of the G.T.R. tracks, and owned by the "Konkle" famâ€" ily? % In the January 25th issue I was impressed with your "write up" of the "walnut tree age", especially the "Gilmour tree", when we were supplied with ‘"chips off the old block", but you omitted the tree at the corner of the "Wylie" property on Depot street and that "focuses" our attention on the "Who Knows?", paragraph again. <g.. sc t e .. es cG9T9 y oo 2k oofi f o. _ o o3 c‘ qi oeesn oo aoepe eeeerereeienanae. c titn.oan in o0 ..-.-.~--;§':?:f:5:3:5:3:1" 38 5:%;:*1*5':?{‘:"“ : oC‘ c ccll c o es : % e o * o c t l C000 o ’f_ég‘ 3 _ _ > m t . oi "*M"i ooo . .cs s â€" *:5;5;5;5:5;55":':"*'.-*3'5555553;' * ooo ol â€"" s .. 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We don‘t have time to pause and dream poetically on the snow and its beauty. steamâ€"heated apartments, would think that snow was j ust grandâ€"for other people. When minutes seem On AHeZive Service WHO KNOWS? Hamilton, Feb. 5, 1945. I remain, Francis Hill, 241 Charlton Ave. W AT\EPhG> (atse â€"â€"T0 Cans2 like HOURS . .. N Cioing Wings To Words Lives can depend on prompt and efficient telephone service. Bell people never forget that fact. But it might have been anywhere. In times of crisis, operators and other telephone workers have a way of rising to the occasion. That is part of the Bell tradition. And it is as true today as it ever was, even though the extreme demands of war have taxed to the utmost our resources in both equipment and workers. Saturday afternoon visitors from Beamsville, telling the joke about the resident of the eastern metropolis, that moved the Chick Sales "telephone booth" away from a property and had to move it back. The second move by the light of the moon. That terrific rumbling and clattering that one hears is not a bunch of army tanks passing through town,. It is "Buzz" Bourne‘s two trucks struggling up Depot street. Theal when he was Noblé Gré,fid o_f_ Ehe Oddfellows Lodge in 1921â€"22. Andy Anderson in a new role. Advance Agent for the big Independentâ€"Lions Club broadcast to be held on March 2nd. 1 HIS particular emergency â€"a serious illnessâ€"occurred in a small Ontario town. 6iz) Euchre games are in full swi Back Shoe Shop. Thanks to Old Sol, the Post Office steps safe to tread. brow. Anderson and Aiton having heavy discussion in" their Main street office. P Andy Anderson in The picture in Theal Bros. window of "Dick‘" Wednesday afternoon. More dogs on the street. At last the street is cleared of MAIN= SJ REET Mormememnnnnrenrennmnne ie e ieemeaemene on Thursday, February 22, 1945 manager sprouting a third eyeâ€" A. C. PRICE Manager. swing, in the Old snow. than people are