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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Published by Times-Gazette Publishers Limited, 57 Simcoe St. South, Oshawa, Ont, Page 6 Thursday, March 22, 1956 Provincial-Federal Deal On Taxes Seems Finished So far as Ontario is concerned, it looks as if the tax rental agreement with the federal government will be allowed to expire without remewal in any form. The latest provincial-federal conference resulted in a complete im- passe. The finance minister laid the proposals formerly presented to the provinces on the table, and intimated that they were fixed, final and un- changeable. And that was that. The provincial premiers, ready to submit alternative plans, went home without even hearing them discussed. In view of the statements made at the conference, and later in the legisla- ture by Premier Frost, one cannot see the Ontario government accepting the federal proposals. This means that next year the tax rental agreement will end, and the payments made to the Ontario treasury under it will cease. This places a serious problem in the lap of the government of Ontario. The revenue received from Ottawa under the tax agreement represents a very considerable portion of the Ontario treasury receipts. This will have to be made up in some way, and Premier Frost has already intimated the pos- sibility that the province will have to enter again into the fields of personal income tax and corporation tax under the British North America Act, it has the right to do. Whether the people of Ontario will take kindly to this dual taxation is, however, a different matter. Many of them will feel that a further effort should be made to reach a satisfactory agreement with Ottawa, such as would give the province greater revenue that the income and corporation taxes would produce. For that reason, we hope the last word has not been said by either side on the question of the tax rental agreements, The Atomic Bomb And Religion Is fear of the destruction inherent in the atomic and hydrogen bomb turn- ing more people to taking a keener personal interest in religion? That this is the case is the opinion of Archbishop Barfoot, primate of the Anglican Church in Canada. He added to this thought the view that the present in- creased interest in religion "is due to the fact that man is trying Christianity because he has tried everything else and failed". For centuries people have talked about our way of life as a Christian civilization. The extent to which has been a fact is, of course, questionable, There are millions who profess to be Christians in this country, and hund- reds of millions in the world. But the question which naturally arises is the extent to which their actions, individu- ally and collectively are motivated by their Christian faith. We need to be reminded frequently that Christianity is not only a belief, but is a belief that requires positive expression in life. One cannot escape the fact that the majority of so-called Christians have left it to a relatively small circle to give the fullest expres- sion to this way of life. It is because of the zeal of this handful that the Christ- ian faith has been preserved for the people of today. If fear of atomic and hydrogen bombs can drive more people to a full acceptance of Christianity, much good can result. It would work wonders in the world of today if Christianity were ever to become effective on a really widespread {cale, not merely as a re- ligious faith, but as a way of life. If that could be brought about, one can readily see that it could transform the world, and even remove mankind's fear of the terrible destructive power of nuclear weapons. But The Consumer Will Pay It is a far cry from the cracker bar- rel country store to the push-button shopping centre of tomorrow, says the Financial Post in its editorial columns. Under discussion was a preview of what the grocery supermarket of the future, will be like. The supermarket, it says, will do everything but pay for the groceries. Here are some of the things that are on the blueprints for the years ahead: -- "For the housewife, shopping will be a pretty soft affair. she'll be walked about even bigger stores, past thousands of items -- not all food -- on moving platforms. Vending machines will save her the anguish of choosing this or that handful of tomatoes. She can buy all the perishables she wants, because they will be sterilized to stay fresh for days and weeks. Entire meals will be hers for the push of a button." This all adds up to a very glamorous picture of what shopping is going to be like in the push-button age of tomor- Editorial Notes Sudbury is heading for a population of 80,000 through annexation. This is a tribute to the importance of the min- ing industry. An Oshawa boy lost an eye to a BB shot gun, another of those shooting in- struments which adults give to small boys, and the manufacture and distri- bution of which should be prevented. The Daily Times-Gazette T. L WILSON, Publisher and General Manager. M. McINTYRE HOOD, Editor ' The Daily Times-Gazette (Oshawa, Whitby), ecom- bining The Oshawa Times (established 1871) and the Whitby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863), fis published dally (Sundays and statutory holidays ex of C Daily Publishers Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau of Cir- culation, and the Ontario Provineial Dailies Association. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use for the local pews published therein. All hts despatches are also reserved. ny i Offices: 44 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario, University Tower Building, Montreal, PQ. hi SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshawa, Whitby, Brookli; y a, Port Perry, Ajax, and Pickering, not over 300 per week By mail (in province of Ontario), outside carrier de livery areas, $12.00. Elsewhere $15.00 per year. DAILY AVERAGE NET PAID CIRCULATION FOR FEBRUARY 13,041 row, It is one more phase of automation. But there is one thought that sticks in our mind as we try to visualize these future supermarkets. Who is going to pay for these bigger than ever supermarkets, with all their electronic gadgets? What will happen to the cost of living index by the time the costs of the new food processing and packaging has been added? Will not all this push-button method of do- ing business increase the exorbitant spread between what the producer re- ceives for food products and the retail price the consumer pays? There is only one answer. The con- sumer will pay the whole cost of every- thing that is added to the distribution system. The retail prices of food will have to include the extra costs of more processing and packaging. That is one conclusion that is inevitable. The house- wife may have easier shopping, but she will receive a good deal less for her food dollar. Bits Of Verse THE OSHAWA STREAM Ye sweet winding rivulet That flows to the lake, The haunt of the coot, Wild duck and drake. I oft have roved thy woody banks In search of fauna treasure Not for biologic gain, But salubrity and pleasure. I've gazed at the Fraser And the Harracanaw, The Tweed, the Clyde, 'And the wide Arkansac. But none can compare With the Oshawa Stream, That flows to the lake Like an aeolian dream. JAMES MYLES. Bible Thoughts A Princeton professor wrote a book, 'The Direction of Human Evolution." The book end- ed in complete confusion and bewilderment. John was definite and specific. To be like Christ Is a worthy ambition and life goal, Now we are children of God, and it is not vet: manifest what we shall be. We know * * * we ghall be like him, for we ghall see him as he is.--] Jobn 3:2 WE NEED MORE THAN RA PUP TENT Arab-lsrael Clashes Big Concern Cause NITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP)-- The United Nations Security Coun- cil is expected to meet in emer- gency session late this week or early next in answer to a United States call for urgent action on the Israeli-Arab crisis. The U. S. delegation called on the council Tuesday for "urgent and early action"--the same words President Eisenhower used in his March 7 press conference. The prospect was raised , that Secretary-General Dag Hammar- skjold might be sent on a new peace mission to the Israeli area. Henry Cabot Lodge, chief U. S. delegate, reported a build-up of armed forces near the Israeli bor- ders by both sides, and said shoot- ing incidents were 'recurring at a dangerous rate." Border clashes have erupted frequently between Israel and the neighboring, Arab states of Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Lodge said the border clashes and armed build-ups were viola- tions of the 1949 armistice negoti- ated with UN help, "It is a matter of deep concern to the government of the United States," the American delegate continued, "and it therefore re- quests urgent and early action by the Security Council to consider the situation now prevailing in the Palestine area." Diplomatic informants said the U. S., France and Britain want the Security Council to send Ham- marskjold back to the area. The secretary - general returned last month from talks with Arab and Israeli leaders, and said they had promised to settle disputes peace- rully. But there has been no let-up to border incidents. QUEEN'S PARK Private Members (et Better Deal By DON O'HEARN Special Correspondent To The Times-Gazette TORONTO: Private members are getting a better deal in the legislature than they used to in the past. Back in the early days of the PC regime a private member didn't have much influence. When Mr. Drew was premier, particularly, their voices didn't carry much weight. But over the years this situation has slowly been improving. An instance of just how much was given the other day by At- torney-General Kelso Roberts, who had a delegation in to see him on some matter or other. Mr. Roberts heard the delega- tion, but at the end he advised them to get in touch with their private members. The members, in turn, of course, would carry the message of the delegation to the cabinet and the premier. LEADERSHIP FACTOR Partially responsible for this ren- aissance is the fact that Mr. Rob- erts, and other ministers such as Clare Mapledoram, had spells of the frustrations of conscientious Back benchers trying to do their uty. And they learned the hopeless- ness at times of trying to do this duty. In the attorney-general's case, of course, there is the added factor that he is a leading candidate as a successor to Premier Frost, and having already contested one con- vention knows the importance of having the support of the private members, ILLEGAL STRIKE A key decision of the labor re- lations board was given in the case of the Canadian Textile Council and Harding Carpets of Brantford, The board found that the union had called an illegal strike, Its reasons were that the union, while in negotiation, had at a formal meeting proposed that the members shouldn't work any more overtime until the dispute was set- tled. And union members had pro- ceeded to follow this decision. MUCH OUTCRY The decision already has caused a strong alarm in the ranks of labor, and more undoubtedly will be heard. Labor members on the board dissented, and in local council meetings since there has been the cry that it is putting the cause of labor back 50-years. And that it is in effect interfering with their Heal to strike. AGAINST AGREEMENT For the sale of clarity, and in the board's defence (and it un- doubtedly will come in for con- siderable attack) it should be pointed out that the crux of the matter so far as it was concerned was that after inspection of the union contract it decided that in not working overtime it was going against the normal terms of this contract. FOR BETTER HEALTH Experiments Under Way For Growing Live Skin By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, MD loss of body fluids and bacterial DOCTORS at Duke University are working on experiments which may help save many lives. At the Medical School's Depart- ment of Plastic Surgery, they are trying to grow live skin. Laboratory experiments already have shown that in a special rowth media skin may increase ten times its original size in Retiod of two weeks, NEW TECHNIQUE The technique tested at Duke by Dr. Nicholas Georgiade, assistant professor of plastic surgery, in- volves the growth of skin of a burned patient in the laboratory for later use as a permanent graft. As far as I know, this is the first time that an attempt has been made to produce a patient's whole skin -- both outer layer (epidermis) and true skin (derma) in a laboratory for later grafting. BACTERIAL INJECTION When a burn causes death, usually because of the it is ive infection of the unprotected areas. In fact, with present methods of treatment, 83 persons will die out of ever 100 who suffer burns cov- ering more than 55 per cent of the body surface. Skin grafts taken from another MAC'S MUSINGS These are very deceptive And treacherous times We are having from the Standpoint of weather, And several times we have Had springlike days, only To be followed by more Snow and ice to let us Know that the winter Season is dying hard. A few days ago we did A plece for this column Saying that the snow had Disappeared, and left The bare, bleak earth With its debris ready for Spring garden work as soon As the ground dried out. But alas, the very day After we wrote that plece Down came the snow and The freezing rain and Once again covered the Garden with a mantle of White, and left icicles Hanging from the eaves, To endanger our safety. So even if March is here We cannot take it for Granted that winter has Quite left us, and that We are now into spring, For as we look back we Can recall that March Can be the one month Of the whole year that Is quite unpredictable. END OF DROUGHT COLOMBO, Ceylon (Reuters)-- Widespread rains throughout Cey- lon aroused hope for an end to the country's drought, which caused power and water supply cuts. person help some. They provide mechanical protection from 10 days to a month, After this, however, this "foreign" skin con- tracts and dries up. It is incom- patile with the patient's own skin, For a permanent graft, the skin must be taken from the patien's own body. If a person is severely burned, he migh not have enough to spare for this grafting process. You can see the urgent need for a method of multiplying the skin a patient can spare to cover the damaged areas. QUESTION AND ANSWER N. O.: Would taking vitamins daily take the place of sleep? Answer: Although vitamins are helpful, it is advisable for you also to get enough sleep The | A Tabi: of Canada For Information DIAL RA 5-1104 THOMSON, KERNAGHAN & CO. ( MEMBER TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE) BOND and BROKERAGE OFFICE 16 KING ST. W., OSHAWA Resident Mgr, ERIC R. HENRY MAC'S MEDITATIONS How U.S. Cities Are Given Help By M. McINTYRE HOOD At the city council meeting at which the city's budget for 1956 was adopted, Mayor John Naylor had some forceful things to say about the need for greater federal aid for municipalities. With in- creasing costs for education and other services being heaped on the municipalites, Mayor Naylor expressed the hope that the federal government would assist the prov- inces to help the municipalities carry their heavy burdens. He also advocated a reallocation of tax sources and a re-distribution of responsibilities. This statement of Mayor Naylor was recalled to our mind the other day as we read some reports on what is being done to solve this problem in the United States. It was a few years ago just as serious for the municipalities there as it is today for Canadian cities and towns. But below the border, the United States federal and state governments have recognized the plight of municipalities, and open- ed the door to new municipal tax sources, They have accepted the fact that the property owner cannot carry the financial responsibility created by the postwar expansion of their cities. CHANGED PICTURE Here is one of the results. Prior to the second world war, United States cities acquired 97 per cent of their tax revenue from the city roperty owners. Today, 41 of the hls cities obtain more than 32 per cent of their revenue from non-property taxation. Ontario municipalities are still bound to the property owner as their main source of tax revenue. Even before the war, some Unit- ed States cities had the doors open- ed to other sources of revenue. New York introduced a general sales tax in 1934. New Orleans fol- lowed suit in 1938. Philadelphia adopted a one per cent admission tax in 1987 and in 1939 introduced the first municipal income tax pro- gram in the United States. Ontario municipalities for a long time has the right to collect a municipal income tax, but this was abolished in 1936, when the provincial gov- ernment introduced its one mill gubsidy and municipal grant sys- em, NEW DOORS OPENED Since 1946, however, several have thrown open the door to new municipal tax revenues. Pennsyl- vania recently authorized its muni- cipalities to levy any taxation which did not conflict with state sources. Ohio has met the demand of municipalities by turning over to them the three per cent state admission tax. More than 630 cities in the Unit- ed States have some form of retail sales tax, 28 have a municipal in- come tax, 326 have applied a cigar- ette tax. Cities in 11 states have adopted an admission tax, in seven states have applied a gasoline tax and in 10 states have levied a tax on liquor. In 1951, cities in Californ- ia collected $40 million from a gen- eral sales tax. Municipal cigarette taxes in 11 states range from one to five cents a package. In six states, municipalities have been authorized 'to operate liquor stores and more than $8 million is collected anaually, But, while fed- eral and state authorities have been willing to grant extended tax powers to municipalities, they are on the alert to avoid overlapping on the part of the three govern- ments. There is another phase to the relieving of munici burdens in the United States. urgency of municipal requirements is causing a number of U.S, cities to adopt a policy of building now and paying ter. This policy is being encour- aged through the federal govern- ment making loans available to municipalities for road, water and sewage system expansion. Express- ways and other municipal projects are constructed for immediate use. The municipal share of gasoline tax revenue and other tax revenues are pledgad to finance the govern- ment loan. An example of building now and paying Jats is to be found in De- , where two expressways are being to completion on the basis that future tax revenue wom opésation will pay their cost. The cities of Chicago and Boston Yave follow us, in the United States, the higher levels of government have en cognizance of the financial problems of the muniei] ies, and made it possible for to Hatten he load Whish has been e e property owners. MAY NOT APPLY HERE We do not suggest that all or any of the plans which have been adopt- ed in the United States are ap- licable here at the 'c make them require the resent time: ing of legislation ass on by the Ontario Legislature, widen- ing the powers of taxation open to the municipalities. That there is a need for such legislation is the opinion of most of the municipal authorities in the province of On- tario. But the United States' ex- Jetience shows that it can be done the higher levels of government are willing to give their co-opera- tion and assistance. BYGONE DAYS 30 YEARS AGO Mrs. C. R. Crozier was present- ed with a life membership to the mission circle of King Street Unit- ed Church. The boys of South Oshawa Hock- ey Club held a carnival at Brad- ley's rink. Rev. R. A. Whattam was in charge of the program and J. Lee and T. Leonard acted as judges. An afternoon tea was held by the Christian Church Ladies' Bible Class at the home of Mrs. H, B. Samells. The guests were receiv- ed by F, Dickie, D. Morris, H. B. Samells and entertainment was provided by Mrs. W. Dearborn, Lillian Southwell, Kelvin James, Mrs. Roy Bennett, Hazel De- Guerre and Mrs. V. Drew. The General Motors Football Club Ladies' Auxiliary held a so- cial evening in the Industrial "¥". A large crowd attended and H. L. Broomfield gave an interesting talk and songs were rendered by ompson. The CGIT girls of St. Andrew's Church held a mothers' and daughters' banquet and 80 moth- ers and daughters sat down to gaily decorated banquet tables. A short program of sing songs led by Miss M. Cassellman, a violin solo by Eunice Robinson and readings by Harriett Swail and Mrs. Turkington, were rendered. The IOOF presented a four-act drama in the Martin Theatre un- der the direction of Mrs. Bell. Mrs. Shemilt handled the business arrangements. City Engineer W. C. Smith re- ported Lake Ontario's water level at Oshawa was 3% feet below nor- mal and 25 feet further out on the beach than usual. Quebec City Blacksmiths Dwindle From 40 To Four By ALAN BRUCE Canadian Press Staff Writer QUEBEC (CP)--Edouard Mar- coux: Marechal Ferrant. This sign, which in English horse shoeing-smith, a sil- ent reminder of a passing age, appears over a tiny shop in west end of Quebec City's Lowertown district. century, Quebec Cit: he teeming it Edouard Marcoux is a black- smith, a member of a time-hon- ored family of tradesmen which has become all but extinct in the modern world. At the turn of the counted some 40 forges; today there are four. Mr. Marcoux, a short, wiry man of 65 with a matter-of-fact air, has been a professional "forgeron" for 30. would be lined up outside . . . and all that for $18 a week. , . ." That doesn't sound like much for a week's work, but in days materials cost next to mnoth- ing. Mr. iarcoux shoes a horse for six dollars today, but iron, nails bolts, etc., take more than half of Mr. Marcoux has beén practising his trade here for about 10 years now. He was born in the tiny vil- lage of St.-Raphael-de-Bellechasse, where he worked for several years out on his own. Before to Quebec, he was employed in vari- ous parts of the province. Mr. Marcoux has never had a career, but he recalls several nar- row escapes. More than once, he 5! years, and still plies his trade was thrown headlong by a kickin, with as much enthusiasm as ever. He admits with a shrug of the shoulders that business isn't what it once was, though. TOUGH OLD DAYS "In those days, we used to work until nine ight. During the , when the horses needed special ice-shoes, we were oftn draggd out of bd at three in the morning. The ani- mals, sometimes as many as 25 or from six in the mo at ni th hoof. "It was just a matter being more careful the next time." Being a blacksmith also gave Mr. Marcoux the opportunity to eer a few shrewd business deals. Quite often, a customer his horses around, anyway. 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