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Helen Simpson Lynett J. F. Lynet! ORDER HELEN SIMPSON F‘LOVVERS For All Occasions Phone orders delivered any- where in North Yonge St. District 2518 YONGE STREET THURSDAY, JANUARY 30th, 1941. (At St. Clements) MOhawk 3000 THESE ARE WE PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PROVINCE OF ONTARIO The estimated savings or gain to the province of Ontario. on the 1937 base, is $5,326,000 per annum. But a careful analysis of the figures indicates that in- stead of a gain of $5,326,000, the actual net loss to the province for the 1937 period would be $6,432,000. Thus it will be seen that the information given on page 96 of the Sirois report as to the expected improvement in the financial position of the province on the 1937 base is inaccurate and not in accordance with the findings of the treasury department of the province . At this juncture I desire to make a. statement wiih respect to the estimated saving or gain to the province of Ontario, as contained on page 96, Book II, of the recommendations of the Sirois commission. Estimating the cost of relief for the fiscal year which begins April 1, 1941, calculated on the present basis of sharing the cost of relief, and estimated from the best available information. the relief picture in Ontario will be represented as follows: Dominion share. . . . . . . . . . .'. $2,555,000 Provincial share . . . . . . . . . 2,892,000 Municipal share . . . . . . . . . . . 1,278,000 If the Sirois basis he adopted, for the fiscal year 1941-42, the cost is estimated as: Dominion share . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 566,00 Provincial share . . . . . . . . 4,927,000 Municipal share . . . . . . . . . . . 1,232,000 Thus it will he observed that by adopting the Sirois basis the dominion would enjoy a saving of $1,989,000, while the province of Ontario would be called upon to increase its expenditures by the sum of $2,035,000, and the burden of the municipalities would be prac- tically the same as under the present plan, the differ- ence being less than $50,000. The officers of the treasury and welfare departments are here, and are supplied with all details with respect to relief figures, and in fact other relief figures. and we are prepared to discuss these matters in detail if and when required One of the services that- has cost enormous sums dur- ing the p'ast decade is that of the cost of relief. Under the present basis of contribution the dominion pays 40 per cent. of direct relief costs, excluding medical services. Including medical services the dominion con- tribution is 38 per cent. of the total expenditure. For the present fiscal year, that is, the period endino‘ March 31 next, relief will cost Ontario the sum of ten million dollars. Of this the dominion's share will be $3,800,- 000, the provincial share $4,300,000, and the muni- cipalities' share $1,900,000. We also pay to the municipalities an annual subsidy of one mill. based on the general assessment of the municipalities, and this amounts in round figures to the sum of three million dollars per annum. Another function of government that is growing annually is education, and it is estimated that for the present fiscal year the province will spend upwards of thirteen million dollars. The annual cost to the province of mothers’ allow- ances this year will exceed the sum of five and a quarter million dollars. All of these itemsâ€"that is, old age pensions, pensions for the blind and mothers’ allowâ€" ancesâ€"are annually increasing in amount. I quite agree with the estimate made by prominent actuaries that they will continue to increase for the next fifty years. It is difiicult at this time to estimate the final limit of the cost of these three social services, which, as you are aware, were never dreamed of by the Fathers of Confederation. Then, in exchange for the income tax, which was formerly collected by a few of the 900 municipalities. we have substituted a. provincial income tax. and have assumed the entire cost of the share formerly borne by the municipalities of old age pensions and mothers’ allowances. The annual cost to the government of Ontario for old age pensions, as represented by the present fiscal year, amounts to three and a half million dollars. This in- cludes the province's share of pensions for the blind. In matters of public health, Ontario has made great strides and has, since this government took charge, at an annual cost of millions of dollars, assumed the entire burden of the care of indigent tubercular patients. Public health in Ontario costs the province of Ontario a'sum exceeding $900,000 per month. This wholesome and enviable budgetary position has placed us in a position to carry out a policy of assist- ance to the 900 municipalities which form the local government administrations of Ontario. For example. the province has d’ssumed the entire capital cost of construction of our great highway system. the financial burden of which formerly rested in part upon the municipalities. The province also contributes in various ways toward highway construction expenditures by municipalities. Briefly, let me state that we have followed since the lat of April, 1936, a sound financial policy. as shown by our budgetary position. In 193637, 1937-38. and 1938-39. we had balanced budgets. This year we are promised by our premier who is also the provincial greasxlin-er, a balanced budget, a. surplus and a reduction :1 e t. I am prepared to-day to review the financial hiskvry of the province of Ontario, particularly relating to the years since the present government has been in charge at Toronto. Mr. Bracken was on better ground when he advanced the idea that provincial autonomy, without adequate revenues for discharging the functions of government for which provinces are responsible, is but little more than a farce. To put the same idea in another way, without fiscal independence there can be no provincial autonomy. I consider it rather an unfortunate choice of argu- ment to ask that the Premier of Ontario emulate Brown. I hold that in taking the attitude he has, Hon, Mr. Hepburn has been but living up to the traditions of Brown, and has defended and upheld 311' that Brown stood for. and is safeguarding the rights and responsi- bilities vested in the separate provinces by confedera- tion. I prefer to support and adopt the material structure which was created by Brown, rather than attempt to interpret its spirit, as Mr. Bracken has pur- ported to do. If Mr. Bracken’s argument were to pre- vail, history would be degraded, our ideals shattered, afid the names of our public men cast into the ossuary 0 time. Perhaps I might properly preface what I have to say to-day by referring to two points touched upon by the Premier of Manitoba (Mr. Bracken) in the pre- sentation of his argument before the opening session of the conference yesterday. Hon. Mr. Bracken made what I might cal‘l an earnest plea to the delegates of this conference, and particularly to the Premier of Ontario, to consider the attitude taken by the late Hon. George Brown at the various conferences leading up to confederation. In bringing Mr. Brown‘s name into the conference he has suggested that Mr. Brown very properly forgot his own personal feelings in the matter and joined hands with Macdonald and others in shaping confederation as expressed by the British North America Act. "Mt. Prime Minister and gentlemen, before this conference dissolves, the province of Ontario would like to place before it its financial position with regard to the eflects of the Sirois report on the province’s finances. HON. T. B. McQUESTEN, K.C., ONTARIO MIN- ISTER OF HIGHWAYS AND MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS, (Vol. 2, pages 83 to 87): of the Domnion-Previmial Conference on the Sirois Report Ontario Balances Budget Compares Relief Costs pair pair CONTINUED FROM PAGE SIX (CONTINUED) SOCKS hot HON. ADELARD GODBOUT, PRIME MINISTER OF THE PROVINCE OI" QUEBEC, (Vol. 2, page 117). “May I say this next. When my colleagues and I con- sidered the calling of this conference there was between us a great diversity of View as to the wisdom of having such n gathering at this time. In saying that I do not think I am betraying any cabinet secret which I am sworn to respect. I fqr one took the view‘that it was very doubtful whether it would be wise to have a conference in war time." RT. HON. W. L MACKENZIE KING, PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA, (Vol. 2, page 112): "I read the Ontario newspapers, and this morning I read a statement in a. Toronto newspaper to the effect that this commission report was 9. Quebec report. prepared by and for Quebec, for the benefit of that“ province. That article urged the people of Ontario to oppose it. My friends who are here know that at the same time in the province of Quebec this report is considered by some as leading to the destruction of provincial autonomy and the sacred rights of the citizens of that province. It has been stated that the French-Canadian race will be enslaved if this report is adopted and accepted.” RT. HON. ERNEST LAPOINTE, MINISTER OF JUSTICE AND ATTORNEY- GENERAL OF CANADA, (Vol. 2, page 100): efforts to do what we are bound to say “ould result in wrecking confederation,~as we understand it, and in destroying provincial autonomy and rights‘ We are returning to our business. and our final word to the dominion is that word with which we opened: If the dominion decides to prosecute the war on a basis of cooperation we shall be ready, as we have always been in the past, to cooperate in every known way and to throw the full weight of our great province into the dominion's war endeavour." Now, Mr. Prime Minister, I have finished with my presentation of the financial effect of the report as it appears to this province, and I am authorized on behalf of the premier of the province of Ontario, the Ontario delegation, and the people of the province, to announce that our association with this so~called conference is over. Some other members may take this opportunity to present their reply to the financial address of the Hon. Mr. Ilsley. and to Withdraw as we are doing. We leave it to the rest of the members to continue their As the Prime Minister has said, “You leave us with the expensive functions of government." And I hold that the figures I have submitted prove that we will have insufficient funds to discharge these functions of gOVernment, that health and education in particular will suffer, and the standard of living of our citizens who are in the class of what might be described as the lower economic scale will be akin to a condition of servile dependency. ‘ The real estate owner to-day, who can barely raise the amount of his taxes, will find that for every dollar of taxes he pays to-day in Ontario he will be called upon next year to pay $1.20. And this under war condi- tions, where the cost of living is already mounting, and is, generally speaking, ten per cent. higher than it was at the outbreak of the war. No one conversant with the problems of public fin- ance that, beset the provinces and the municipalities in Canada to-day will attempt to deny that the burden on real estate at present has reached a point where it is difficult for the farmer to meet his rates and taxes; it is discouraging for anyone to attempt to build a home; and, in fact. daily in Ontario discouraged home- owners are attempting to salvage something from their equities, and are parting with their homes, which rep- resent in large measure their only life savings. This, Mr. Chairman. is only the beginning. These losses are bound to increase, because the functions of government left with the province are, from their very nature, increasing in their burdensome character, in so far as the need for revenue is concerned. This would involve some new type of taxation, but inasmuch as taxes on estates, taxes on incomes. taxes on corporations, and taxes on mining profits, would no' longer be available to the province of Ontario, any additional burden of taxation required to raise revenue to continue a reasonable standard of education would inevitably fall upon real estateâ€"upon the farmer, the home-owner and the business man. Now, if you will add the net loss in revenue to be sustained by the province of Ontario of $17.000,000 to the $5,000,000 certain loss to be sustained this year by the municipalities of Ontario, you have the enormous sum of $22.000.000â€"net loss to the province and the municipalities. I also bring to your attention the fact that muni- cipalities of the province of Ontario will suffer for the present fiscal year by the implementation of the Sirois report, the loss in revenue exceeding $5,000,000. The splendid work done by the department of health of Ontario in waging a successful fight to stamp out the menace of iuberculosis. which fight is being con- ducted at an annual cost to the province of upwards 0! $3,000,000, could not be carried on, unless revenues from some other source were forthcoming. But that is just one indication of what the loss in revenues would mean to education in our province. Education in Ontario would be set back fifty years. This would apply particularly to the “little red school house” and to the struggling separate schools. which under present conditions require the same as public schoolsâ€"annual grants from the provincial treasury. One of the first results of this loss in revenue, brought about by the giving up of the succession duty taxes, would be the loss in revenue to the University of Toronto of the sum of $500,000. I would refer you to the Revised Statutes of Ontario (1937) chapter 372. section 129, which is the statutory authority for pay- ment from the proceeds of succession duties to the University of Toronto in the sum of $500,000 per annum. of Ontario. This inaccuracy amounts to the large figure of $11,758,000. The reconciliation of these amounts is available and can be explained by the technical smears of the treasury department. With respect to the present fiscal year, the situation is infinitely worse. If the Sirois plan were adopted and made effective for the present fiscal year. which ends on March 31 next, the province of Ontario would be laced with a. certain net loss in revenues of the Slllm of $17,000,000. This for the present. fiscal year a one. at Leaves The province will be required to give up annual revenues of. . . . . . . . . .: Deduct from this, expenditure as- sumed by the dominion. and the ppe mill‘ _sqbsidy_t_o the {nunicipgl- ities‘ paid Real Estate Burden Intolerable 10 ton 1' of child bottle cov Set Education Back 50 Years a loss of which co'uld not longer- be a total sum of............ On Monday night, January 20th» Thistletown ratepayers presented- a petition to Etobicoke council request- ing that Thistlebown be made ‘part of Embicoke township. Reeve W. A. Armstrong said special legislation would} have to be passed- to annul that which made Thistletown a po- lice village ‘cven years ago. He proposed that This'tletown trustees confer with the council before any steps toward inclusion of the village in the township :be taken. $17,000,000 $40,000,000 23,000,000 THE LIBERAL, RI No fruit grower should be Withâ€" out the two spray calendars for (1) apples and‘ (2) stone fruits amfl ‘bush fruits. The vegetable pi‘otection cal‘endar lists [both fiehi and greenhouse pests and’ methods of control. It should1 prove a boon to every vegetaible grower in the province. The spray calendar for apples con:- tains seven illustrations and‘ in ad» ditionl to the regular sprays, outlines srpecial sprays for lbud moth, 1'0st alphid, green aphid, leaf rollers and European red mite. Thene is also a special spray scheâ€" dule for orchards heavily infested with codfling‘ moth. The 1941 Ontario Department; of Agriculture Spray "calendars for ap- ples, pnears, stone fruits, bush fruits, and vegetable protection are just off the press and, available at the off- ice‘s of Agricultural Representatives. They may also be obtained free of charge by writing direct to the Fruit Branch, Ont. Dept. of Agriculture, Toronto. Thomas Street noon. The 19 Church have fifty quilts f0] Mrs. able to and is‘ 1 her mo Toronto SPRAY CALENDARS 1941 editions- for apples, stone and [bush fruits, and vegetable protec- tiom may be olbtained free of cha-rg‘e from Agricultural Repreâ€" sentatives ami Ont. Dept. of Agri- culture. Several members of Newtonbrook United: Church Sunday School ave. preparing to take part in an Oratorâ€" ical Contest on “Temperancé”. This is an annual event in the Sunday School. Rev. A. H. and Mrs. Hallbert and Mrs. A. W. Galbraith attended the Sunday School Convention held: at Victoria Square last Thursday. A sewing meeting for the Red Cross was held at the home of Mrs. Thomas Street last Thursday after- noon. The ladies of the United Church have already made about fifty quilts for refugees. Mrs. .Kent of Goul‘ding Ave. was able to leave the hospital last week and is recuperating at the home of her mother, Mrs. F. Foreman in The World‘ Day of Prayer Service for this district wil'l: be hech in- New- tonbrook United) Church on Friday afternoon, Feb. 28th at 3 o’clock. Misvs Jean Taylor entertain-ed a number of her school friends to dlin- ner last Friday evening. Mr. Roy Gurney, past presidlent of the Y.P.U. is dsri‘lling ever-y Morn~ day evening and is instructing in signalling. A number of the young men of the United‘ Church Y.P.U. are in Active Service now. The United1 Church Choir enjoyed a. sl'ei'ghing party to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Reid Brumwvell on Bay- vieuw Ave. Last Friday evening. Alf- ter the practice Mrs. Brurmwel‘} serv- ed lovely refreshments. The Women’s Association will‘ hold their regular monthly meeting next Thurs-day afternoon, February 6 in the 8.8. hall. The Mission Band met last Sab- uvday afternoon with over thirty in attendance. The special theme for this year is “Worship”. The devo- tional topic was “Worshiprpi'nvg' God by Song”. Jean Taylor recited the 12l15‘t Psalm. The study on “Trini- dad)” “as continued and was made very interesting. A miniature house of Trinidad was on display. Mam- garet and} Willma Adair contrilburbed piano .sol‘os. Plans were made for a St. Valentine party on Saturday, February 8th to follow the regu‘laar meeting. Choir practice will rbe- held on Fri- d-ay evening at the home of Miss Edna Street. Last Monday evening the Y.P.U. entertained the Young People of Lansing United Church. Mr. Rexg. Hewett, the new president of New- tonlbrook Y.P.U., presided. Mrr. Nor- man McDonald read the scripture less‘on'and’ Miss Margaret Shaw off- ered' prayer: The meeting was un- der the direction of the Christian Fellowship convenorr. A Bible Quiz was an interesting feature of the meeting. The captains were Miss Ann Elliot of Lansing and Miss Mar- garet Shaw of Newtonbrook. Miszs Shaw’s; group were the winners. Rie- f‘re‘sihcm-ents were served. An Officers Conference of the Sultmban Area of Toronto Centre Presbytery Y.P.U. was held in New- tori‘arook United Church last week with over sixty in attendance. The various departments in the Y.P.U. organization we're very ably discuss- ed> by leadJers of the Young People’s Council in Toronto. The members of Nvejwtonibrook Y.P.U. served re- freshments at the close of the meetâ€" ing and a very happy social' hour was enjoyed. CHMOND HILL, ONTARIO Newtonbrook :Ont. Crop Improve- NOW AVAILABLE ng Ave. talv las't w- the home Foreman 1-9 R€d )rf Mrs. after- United albout Officers elected by Boiton Red Cross for 1941 were: President, Mrs. B. R. Lemven‘s; secretary, Mrs. Agnes Raynor; treasurer, S. Ruth- e'nfordl. 3,819 articles were made in 1940 and $700 was raised£ in the Oc- tober appeal. The group showed a year end balance of $215.00. Mr. J. 0. Little of Newmarket is recovering from a serious attack of pneumonia. A display of seed for sale has; a?so been errarnged, the object being to assist those who have surplus seed of high quality to sell1 and to assist those who need] to arrange for their requirements. Wednesday afternoon will feature addresses on “Cultural Practices” by Dr. E. S. Hopkins, C.E.F., Ottawa, and: “Conservation and) Utilization of Manure" by Prof. G. N. Ruhnke, O.A.'C., Guelph, Wim. Wallace, B.S. A., Wood‘slee and: I. B. Whale, Wild~ wood Farm, London, will; lead the discussion on these subjects. Horn. P. M. Dewan, Onvt. Minister, of Agriculture and) Dr. G. I. Chais- tie, President of the Ontario Agri- cwlmuval ‘Col‘lege, Guelph, will speak at the annual banquet Wednesday evening. W. R. Reek, On't. Dep. Minister of Agriculture, Dr. L. H. Newman, C.E.F., Ottawa, James Laughland and Prof. R. G. Knox, O.A.'C., Guelph, Douglas Hart, Woodstock, C. C. Tenr nant, Toronto, and) W. Alex. Muir, Woodstock, will deliver addresses and take part in the discussions Tues- dlay evening. A highlight of the annual meet- ing will be addresses: Wednesday forenoon 'by Lawnence M. Kerr, B.|S.A., of Chatham on; “Farm Man- agemen” and) a discussion led: by Wm Brech-irn of Freeman. Dr. G. ‘P. MaRastie will discuSS “Recent De- velopments with Field} Crops” folh lowed by Alex. Stewart, Ailsa Craig who will lead! the drisacu‘ssion. Tuesday afternoon will be devoted entirely to a discussion of the [po- tato situation in the Province and how it may be improved. The fol- lowing will‘ participateâ€"Dr. G. P. ‘M‘oRostie, O.A.C., Guelph; J. T. Cassin, Toronto; A. W. Lachine, Gu-ehph; Norman Parks, O.A.C., Guelph; H. Whiteside, Guelph; and G. C. Burt, Hillsbung. Representatives from 41 County and District Branches of the Ontario Cfop ImRrovement Association will cmwene at the King Edward Hotel, Toronto, February 11th and 12th; at what promises to Ibe the best annual meeting ever held-by the Associa- tion. Repnes‘erntatives from 41 counties and; District Branches to convene at Toronto Feb. 11 and 12th. ment Association to Meet Wooowom iMilk many antique pieces A Quantity of Fuel ' And many other items too numerous to mention eral‘ Rockers 1 Sewing Machine Quantity of Carpets, Rugs anti Mats 1 Large Congoleum ng, nearly cum Quantity of Dishes A Quantity of Glassware, including MOOM‘ 1 Small Quebec Stove Entire Dining Room Furniture, in- cluding one good? O‘ak Table Sitting Room Furniture A Number of Chairs, including sevâ€" The entire contents of 3 'bgérooms 3 Feather Beds 2 Stoves Late MRS. H. BROWN. North 'or VICTORIA SQUARE Lot 34, Con. 4, Markham Twp. AUCTION SALE HOUSEHOLD GOODS FURNITURE, Etc. SAT., FEB. 1st, 1941 The Property of the Estate of the TERMS :â€"CASH Sale starts 1 p.m. S.T. L S. FARMER, Auctioneet PAGE SEVEN