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‘ Timmins, Ontario, Thursday, Jan. 17, 1946 |kindergarten training be made available to all __If the citizens of Timmins really hate dogs to _the extent that the stupidity of the byâ€"law would _indicate, the dogs would never have been in _ Timmins in the first place. But it is believed a good many people in Timmins like dogs, and most . folk like them well enough to permit them to live unchained during the winter months. _ THE EDITOR Those who telieve that a newspaper‘s editorials . . . PHOoNE 26 . _ _ ~_ [should be focussed on events occurring in the area 0 O . mMMINS, oONTARIO . ~€ served by that newspaper will take considerable|‘~_ . Members: Canadian Weekly: Newspaper Asseciation ; satisfaction from the editorial page of that issue ot Ontario. â€": Quebec Newspaper Association _ ‘The Daily Press which bears the date of January {::’ Published Every Tharsday by i5th. u w. LAKE, Publisher oOne editorial in that issue urges stronger supâ€" ,,.,, - port of the Board of Trade by Timmins Subscription Rates: men: the other mentions the annual report of| ‘Canada $2.00 Per Year. United States: ‘300 Per Yea"|the Nlountjoy Community Nursery School, and! 1 ‘The Editor, â€" If the town council thinks the byâ€"law as it presently stands is fair to the dogs and to the children whose muchâ€"beloved pets they are â€" then it is suggested in all seriousness that the counciliors, not the dogs should be ""disposed of". y Action to amend the byâ€"law may be considered small thing â€" but only by those who consider child‘s tears to be a small thing. @BBIt of this illâ€"advised legislation â€" there nine charges laid in court this week. As a triumphant testimonial to legislative hardâ€" heartédness, nine dogs were "disposed of". ‘It is a gooed thing to have pride. in one‘s garden, and adnfittedlyâ€" Timmins can stand any amount of beautifying that flowérs and wellâ€"kept lawns can add to it.. But the amount of gardening done in the past week has not been particularly imâ€" pressive and, so far as lawns are concerned the visibility is zero. It is therefore doubted if any dog, searching for a spot to bury a bone, could do much damage to anyone‘s dahlias in the past few days. The dogs could have had a few hours of freedom gflthou‘t doing too much damage to the boulevards, â€"â€" : > â€"â€" â€"But w ,;’beheve Tlmmms would have even more to be pret d of if=this byâ€"law were repealed and - bstituted ‘for‘ it permitting dogs a free run: t}:onf-October to April. â€" Somé twenty years ago, at the urging, we underâ€" stand, ;if some irate gardeners, the powers that be were persuaded to pass a byâ€"law to the effect that "dog might roam at large within the limits Timmins. The | -;J.gw still stands, to the continuing disâ€" grace dE the â€" It is i@mâ€"good 1dea~ jand one which‘ should comâ€" mend ifself, both to council and school boards. Lacking a bulldmg created solely for the purpose, Timmins‘and other towns might be well advised the most of what they have. It is to be hat Mr. Brewer, in the public interest, will find the time â€"and. opportunity of pushing the idea further: «He should have little difficulty in findâ€" ing citizens who will coâ€"operate with him to this end ‘a P raay His letter, dealing with the matter more ably and in greater detail, is printed in this issue. â€"It points out that school buildings, in use only eight hours aday, might serve as community centres outsidebfast:hool hours. It urges that planners of new scl;;}oolf pu\ildings keep this aspect in mind. «gt A_ #o0 0d In this week‘s mail was received a letter from Wendel, B. Brewer, whose idea, whether he knew it or not, was the inspiratwn for an editorial in thes; columns last Week o# e __ 1 2 t 4o 2o 2l M s is in c oR d e in i0 ic wo% o_ L8 41 % In ftsâ€"own interest the public will keep a sharp eye on any obstacles placed in the way of the Commission, and on those responsible for those obstacies â€" the public should know its enemies as well as its friends. But whatever the difficulties faced by the Commission, these should not be perâ€" mitted to interfere:. The public welfare, and to a largedegree, the future of Timmins itself, deâ€" pends on the Commission attaining its objective â€" a ~supply of sound housing, available at a price which the average man (and this includes exâ€"servicemen) can properly afford to pay. 1t should be explained, however, that while the| At its meeting on Sunday, Local 241 of the various committees which have had the housing|Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union decided problém in hand were, at best, simply bodies to ask for representation on the recently formed creatéd for the business of investigating and for | Housing Commission, planning, the Housing Commission has the power|. On the face of it, the request would appear to Te m ow I 4 441 aA 1 2 a TT T A 4»1» ue o w TL sc T. n 2o o mm sls â€"a oo be I a cmae to act "‘Thit.e were definite limits to what the committées could do, and within these limits they operated as best they could. A survey was made, a hoyusing registry set â€"up, and plans for further actionâ€"were laid. At this point the Housing Committee takes over. Established by a byâ€"law of the Town of Timmins, it has the power to acquire land, to build housâ€" ing, and to arrange the required financing up to impos’ed limits. In short, it has the power necessary to deal with the housing problem. _Of one thing the members of the commission may be sure â€" there will be no lack of interest in its activities. The problem with which it has to deal is one of the most important faced by the town this year. It can be assured, too, of the good will of most of Timmins‘ citizens. And in equal likelihood, the Housing Commission may face determined opposition by a small minority. To: many of those who have attempted to follow ‘the rather involved story Oof efforts to solve the Timmins housing problem, the establishâ€" ment of a Housing Commission may seem of litâ€" tle consequence Many of those discussing the situation this week take the view that it 1s "Just another committee." IMMINS, Ontaric. Whfle in Tsronto recently, I attend=d ) Im Club meetitrtg. We were adâ€" Pessed by Controller McCallum of the ronto City Council on the subject ce ie it wl IT SHOULDN‘T HAPPEN TO A DOG persuaded to "dog migh t Tlmmins THE HOUSING COMMISSION unity Centers;. Mr. McCaliuin ) mnm ‘of time during year, ltmtmtinz on behalf ty nexnt. the place of mters in the life of the ~ Faeronto and he gave us the Advance, se se â€" uP !dthai hchadwhuecm: investigated very carefully, a number Oof cities in the United States who had commurity centers, and has also 2aâ€" thered â€"information from â€" Canadian municipalities on the subject. Brieily, Mr. McCallum‘s conclusion was that Yor the time being at least, community centers should be based on existirg : people, and qx mme, ne meommendaa t.he use of the schools.â€" ~ The speakter, of course, drew most of his illustmflons from eondmons, the use of the schools. :.‘ .. | year, five The speaker, of course, drew most | hours a c of his mmtmflons from : conditions What v that existed in the gityox Toronto and | to utilize. while conditions in ‘!‘lmmim nre in" ‘ ticable fo "surely he should concentrate on preventing the corruption of the morals of the morble the corruption of the morals of the marble players." . "Surely he must realize that the older reneâ€" gades, steeped in years and years of sinful bingo, deep in the degeneracy of dealing in wicked and disgraceful raffles, are now so far beyond the pale that it is a waste of time to endeavour to legislate them into the straight and narrow road. ' ‘"‘There it is where the crusading attorneyâ€"genâ€" eral, with his zeal for the redemption of the proletariat, might have made his start. "He should "view with alarm" this marble busâ€" iness and issue lengthy directives to all crownâ€" attorneys in the province, instructing them to convey the good news to all chief constables. The news that the government has at last seen the light in â€"full measure and will proceed with the redemption of the younger generation. â€" "Junior and the attorneyâ€"general both know that spring is coming. And the marble season. And think of the shame of it. Those boys play ‘"for keeps". "Save the youth and you save all," somebody said or may have said. "But what about junior? Surely he has not been overlooked in this scramble to cleanse everyâ€" body‘s habits. "Of course, if mother wants to go to a race track when such a place is open, she will â€"have no trouble finding places where she may mager all the cash she desires. Apparently, the same attorneyâ€" general smiles beneficently on that race track pastime. x ‘‘And, of course, father has some other outlets for his gambling instincts. He can go down town and bet $10 or $1,000 that a hole in the ground, or a piece of land where there is no hole, will turn into a gold mine in time. Mother can pour her money into holes in the ground also. "But if either goes fooling with a handful of corn at home or in somebody‘s hall intent on winâ€" ning a prize, that is really degrading and must be stopped. At least it must not be allowed to beâ€" come a habit. It‘s on the straight road to perdiâ€" tion and a kindly attorneyâ€"general will certainly attempt to legislate mother and father away from such pitfalls. The Nugget looks at gambling from an amusing angle, mixed with some shrewd common sense Here‘s the rest of the editorial: "So, it is illegal for mothers to go to some hall once a week, to place little kernels of corn on a numbered sheet of paper. That is definitely gambling and because the Ontario attorneyâ€"genâ€" eral does not like gambling, he is going to save mother from perdition: Save her from the deâ€" gradation of a weekly night of bingo. If it is genuinely interested in the housing problem, the Union could be of considerable help to the Housing Commission by making a survey of union membership with a view to finding out how many miners would be interested in buying new housing and what types of housing are deâ€" sired. An expression of interest and of desire to coâ€"operate comes better late than never. "Gambling is gambling," says an editorial in the North Bay Nugget, under the above heading, "whatever way you look at it." Union members have the same voting power in the municipal elections as have farmers, merâ€" chants, clerical workers, etc. All have an equal responsibility for the voting which resulted in the present councilâ€"which includes, incidentally, several mine workers. The miners are therefore assured of represenâ€" tation on the town council, and, by the same token, of representation on any body named by that council. It may be of some consolation to Union men to learn that, had Mayor Brunette had his way, one of their number would have been on the Comâ€" missionâ€" The council decided otherwise, but in this too, they can find consolation â€" the council is elected to represent the people of Timmins, and this does not exclude union members. On the face of it, the request would appear to be a little late. Work on the housing problem has been in progress for several months, yet nothing has been heardâ€"of the Union‘s desire to take part in it Now, after the required byâ€"law has been passed to set up the Commission, and naming its members, comes the announcement that the Union wishes to name a member. It is difficult to understand a display of interest which makes itself known only at this late date. Both editorials are wellâ€"written, wellâ€"reasoned arguments concerning matters of importance to the people of Timmins and of the Porcupine CGamp, and are very much worth reading. The only thing about them which we deplore, is that we hadn‘t written them ourselves. children. commends to its readers the proposition that THIS THING CALLED GA MBLING REQUEST FROM THE UNION It was recently proposed that a community certer be built.in Timmins at the cost of $500,000.00 and rightly or wrongly., it was voted down by the ratepayers. In Timmins, we have possibly a million dollars invested in schools ana a great deal more will be spent in the future on schools that are used apprnximately nine months out of the year, five days a week and for eighti hours a day. What would b# more sensible than to utilize this, investment where pracâ€" ticable for t.he rest of the time? It many cases dissimilar, we, in this rapidly. growing town, can profit a great deal by Mr McCallum‘s investiâ€" gation, packing house workers has been auâ€" | thoriged by their union Those cemâ€" ployed similarly in the U.S. are alâ€" lready on strike. The parade of vegeâ€" :‘ tariors should commence any time. The report does not deal with all taxâ€"exemntâ€" organizations, but. is conâ€" fined to the Canadian National Railâ€" ways and its subsidiaries the liquor control boards, electric ~power, teltâ€" is readily agreed that school ‘buildings would not be ideal for community center purposes but since it seems imâ€" possible to have a community center designed for that purpose, â€" why not utilize something that is next best? . ~â€"â€"Hold, on, dear reader, and do not desert me at this point. Although you may gbhor the subject of taxation, this is a matter that personally conâ€" cerns you directly or indirectly, for every evasion of exemption from taxaâ€" tion throws an extra and unjust burâ€" den upon those who pay taxes.. . â€"I have just read an interesting reâ€" port by Prof. J. L, McDougall, of the School of Commerce and Administraâ€" tion, Queen‘s University, in which he gives the results of a special study he has made of the ircome from comâ€" mercial operations which are exempt from income and excess profits taxes, with estimates of the amount of tax revenue lost to the Dominion in. 1944 by those exemptions. i In Toronto, one of their difficulties was to organize the various activities for community betterment throughout the city but plans are cLow under way t, centralize all community enterprizes and to give them leadership. It would seem that no ore pays taxes willingly or, at least, gladly, and there are.those who carry their obâ€" Jection to the extent of evading the taxâ€"collector altogether. There are numerous ways of doing this, most of which are dishonest and illegal, but some of them, while they are quite lsâ€" gal, are manifestly unfair and even unethical. BY LEWIS MILLIGAN | Whiien man emerged from the savage state and began to live in organlznd: communities, one of thae first penalties he imposed upon himself for that ad-i vancement was the payment of taxes, and he has been paying them under, protest ever since. | conveniences ard equipment that should be utilized by all the members of the community after school hours as well as during study periods. I am not going to burden you with a list of the advantages and disadâ€" vantages of such a plan but I suon.n that our school boards and municipal government should carefully consider the plans that are being carried out by the city of Toronto so that as time goes oun,,Timmins will not only have the best school equipment out also a number of small commurity centers distributed throughout this growing municipality. When future schools are built, plans will be included in the ‘building~{or Expre.sbns of ‘tle â€" viewpoiuts through the medium of your paper of members of our municipal gover n-_ ment and our school boards would be greatly appreciated. The reprieve from the death senâ€" tence awarded Major Gen. z{ut, Meyer, charged with responsibility for shooting Canadian soldiers, came {fro:m Major Ger C. Vokes, commander of the Canadian occupation Force, it is stated. Russia at one time offered a sea base and other valuable assistanre to Germany in return for the liner Breâ€" men, according to the diary of Adâ€" miral Reeder of the German feet. Churchill finds the current situaâ€" tion too interesting to retire from pubâ€" lic life, rewsmen learned this week. Eighty points will get you out of the army now, according to a recent announcement. Sixtyâ€"five points will Two men have been charged. with theft of equipment along the Alaska highway. Thefts of U.S. Army materâ€" lal are creating a "desperate‘" situation, it is said. The Japanese government has rcâ€" signed and it is reported that rightest parties are vieirg ; with the comâ€" munists for control. A : It is stated this week that wage controls may be eased ir the next fortâ€" night, although controls will remain to some extent, as a necessary part of the antiâ€" mfiationary policy. Palestine. is an Arab courtry and should stay that way, according to the Kings of Egypt and Sauda Arabia, who protest against further Jewish immigration. _If the strike of steel workers in the U.S. is not settled today, President Truman promises to make his own suggestions. Iran is reported ready to ask thc United Nations Orgarization for proâ€" tection against interference in that country by the Russians. *‘ Frarce is ready to take over the trial of German war criminals, as United States and Britain step out of the witness box. Trying times, these. Yours very truly, Werdell B. Brewer ‘These are extraordinary figures, and Prof. McDougall says they represent 58 per cent of the estimated total of personal ircome ~tax payers of tue country, and he adds:~ ‘"‘The. longer these exemptions to the corporate inâ€" come tax contiriue to be granted, the less likely ~is an easing of the burden upon other â€"sources of tax revenues." If‘ Prof. McDougall‘s estimate is corâ€" rect, the the removal of these exempâ€" tions would reduce by more than haif the: personal income tax on 1,423,00}) taxpayers with inctmes below $1,800. Furthermore, Prof. McDougall points out. that. these exemptions seriously affect private business, He declared that so long as the. exemptions conâ€" tinue, taxpaying private enterprize will eventually be impossible where public ownership is possible; ard that priâ€" vate business will be impossible where taxâ€"exempt co-operative business ca: gain a foothold and then crowd the taxpaying business to the wall by reâ€" investment of its taxâ€"free earnings. Prof, McDougallâ€" estimates that the department of National Revenue lost from: â€" $109,000,000 â€"to . $125,000,000 by those exemptiors. â€"This last figure, he says, equals the personal income !ax on 1,423,000. t.axpayers with: incoines ‘below $1,800 §3 The effect of this is to peralize all taxpaying businesses to the advantage of taxâ€"frée competitors It also peraâ€" lizes the customers of private busiâ€" In making his investigations, PruZ. McDougall says he was unable to obâ€" tain specific information regarding profits from published reports of public corporations. He statés that the Onâ€" tario Hydro Commission‘s annual i«â€" port "lacks the first requisite of a l‘vll accounting of its stewardship, the full and clear accounting of income rcâ€" celiv He made several attenmipts to obtain his information from tle secretary of the Commission, but his requests were evaded, â€" nessés in many cases. "This," says Prof. McDougall, “produces gross inâ€" equality and as between those communities with and those without public ownership of local untilities." It is a strange contradiction of public ownership‘ when the public, as the "owners", are denied such iniorâ€" mation, while private ownership is obliged to give a full accounting of iis finances to the govemment It would seem that public ownership tends to become a tightly closedâ€" corporation, with private and even secret manageâ€" ment and bookkeeping. Prof. McDougall very rightly insists that, so long as any taxâ€"exemptions remain, they ought to be explicitly 1¢â€" cognized in public accounts But he claims that taxâ€"exemptions granted to organizations which engege in business activities should all be cancelled. This is merely a claim for justice and fairâ€" phone â€" and â€"street: ventures owned by provinces or municipalities, and the great . trading coâ€"operatives. play on behalf of all those who ; forced to pay for the upkeep of govern- mert by â€" A Niagara Falls couple are being commended for buildirg a home with their own hcme on their three acres of land. That three scres would do for A rew subdivision up in this crowdedâ€" northland. The Wartime Prices and Trasice Board deny responslbility for the siowâ€" up in the. sale of new cars. Strikus have necessitated car parts being brought . into Carada . from â€" outside, and these have in turn: made necessary a revision of prices, it is stated. A Vancouver dockyard has received a contract for the â€" building of ten ships, valued between twelve and fourâ€" teen million dollars. This news comes at the same time as the statement that the number: of unemployed in Vancouverâ€"has reached the 185,400 There were. 1.318 less fires in Ontario in 1945 than in 1944,. the quarteriy bulletin of the Ontario fire marshsl states. The fuel shortage, we supposc? An Ontario judge: has recommended the strap for juvenile ‘delinquents. "It hurts ‘their digtity," he . claimns. "Dignity" is not the word we used when we were a boy. Looking for wage increases, 200,000| good to say abc electrical workers are all set to go On| If that is wh strike. The number of strikers in thc| does to you, we U.S, is at present around the million tion of spinach. mark ¢ Argentire has its troubles, tuo. Factories emptied this week in protest against government action affecting their wages. Warehouses and busiâ€" nesses are being nttacked by mobs in Buenos Aires. > The whole Canadian Army setâ€"up in Hollat d is to come under investigaâ€" For $100 you can get a front seat at the Lsuisâ€"Conn battle at the Yiainkâ€" ee Stadium in: New York on June 19. oOr you can read about it for a nickel, on June 20.. : Ontario . ‘ particularly. Tororn:to was the centre of the "highâ€"grading" racket, ‘according ‘to a director of the Quebec provincial police. Toronto and Ontario police are quick to dery it tion. â€" Three officers who shipped cars back to America started it off. _ the trick for ay Iindustrial disâ€" _E 449 e The guy who writes those wide columns on the other side of the page seems, from this corner, to be pretty wellâ€"off his rocker this tha change in weather, we expect But Hevry is having trouble getting instruments, seems if. Production of instruments, which lagged with the war years, hasn‘t caught up yel. Young folk wanting to take up music, and old folk trying to break a lease, just can‘t get an instrument for the purpose. Speaking to Henry Kelneck the other day, Henry, as you know, makes with the brass out at the Pavilion and doubles as proprietor of The Music Box. His trumpet is as sweet as ever, but he gets a sour note row and then out of the Music Box. Can it be, we wondered, that we arc dishing out too heady a potion? Is it too rich a food, too rare a wine? Then, as we came to the erd of the cereal, we thought again: No, can‘t be â€"â€" nothing is too good for our readers. And nothing is exacotly what they ges PFirst, he gets away to a normal start with his usual housing blast. Then, after going higher than a kite on the subject of the town‘s dog byâ€"law, he goes into a spin ard finds something good to say about the Daily Press He has expanded the Music Box froia a place where you can buy recordings to a place where you can buy, given the cash and the inclination, almo.nt anything in t« of musis suppli® Other morning, as we were slurping our way through our customary bowi of snap, crackle, pop, au lait, the thought came to us â€"â€" is this column too good for our readers? If that is what those wide columns _c_loes to you, we will take our usual porâ€" So if you have a musical instrument of any kind, and want to make sure Junior doesn‘t getf his hands on it, pass the word along to Mr. Kelneck â€"â€" it will be good business for both of. you, One youngster wants a violin, another a trumpet, and yet another hankers for a sax. Failing to got enough new ifstruments, and wantâ€" ing to see the kids started on their way, Henry is looking for used ones. PRIVATE JONES BECOMES PRIVATE ENTERPRISE â€" Opportunity is knocking for thougands of returned: Canadian servicemen and women. With their reâ€"establishment credits, many are starting small businesses, buying farms or completing their education,.. o t Energy, initiative and new ideas will play a great part in the success of these neéw enterprises, but caution too, is needed. Imperial Bank of Canada welcomes these new Canadian businessmen and offers them its services. Discuss your problems with us. Jw jiw Business Loans Savings Accounts Current Accounts Boanking by Moail Collections Safety Deposit Boxes Timmins Branch _ H. C. SCARTH, Manager BANK SERVICES rty on Saturday right. Our. ner, gay in a powderedâ€"cgg gowh with ketchup accessories, knew only two systems of playing bridge â€"â€" one of playing all the black cards first, and the other of playing black unq red cards rilternatively. in this cclumn. Were it rot ror ns sact that her style of play was as confusing to her opponents as it was to her partner there might well have been murder done that night. And her conversaâ€" tion held the same unique: quidlity â€"â€" she was under the impréessi@n that Bretton Woods was the forest in which the armistice was signed. â€" â€".â€"â€" Any of our readers who have learmd not to expect too much of life are inâ€" vited to come around when the wiis is out and help themselves to a~cactis. We especially recommend the "Spiky Amazon" or the "Left in the Dark" â€"â€" you will be simply crazy abmit them. Simply crazy period. fax:>%a Jiw While we‘re on the subject of our family troubles, we might â€"asâ€"well â€"deai with the subject of our cactus collecâ€" tion. About all we know about cactus (other than the fact that the plural is either cacti or cactuses) is that they are a nuisance. Every time we go to look out a winâ€" dow, one or other of the stunied plants fall off the sill on to the floor and makes our continued presence in the house a matter of doubtful wisâ€" dom,. TKA It was Mother who first, int.roduced cactus into our family â€" She got her radio programs mixed up one evening and sent in the tops of two Oldsmoâ€" biles to a seed house which, equally confused, sent back a free assortmcent of the freakish plants. The collectlon has since grown to the numbo@r of seventyâ€"five, which isn‘t a very. big rumber when applied to ‘cactuses. We often wonder why weâ€" married her. One of the worst things about catâ€" tus is the way they keep cropplng Up in the conversation.. They are known by such odd names as ,‘"Mother and Chickens", â€" "Iddyâ€"Biddyâ€"Poo" and "Withrow‘s Folly" â€"â€" none of which fit satisfactorily into any | dlscu.,sion of current events. We had thought, when . we Jeft Winnipeg, that our cactus days were over. But no. As soon As it was learned that we . were . comfortably settled along came a shipment of cactus. ' R Victory Bonds Money Orders Foreign Exchange Safekeeping Personal Loans Traveliers‘ Cheques â€" : d 4 t y