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2 THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hill, Thursday, July 30, 1953 In the past five years, detailed and com- prehensive health surveys have been made in every province, and there is now avail- able 3 large body of information and sta- -tistics on the national health picture â€" I‘everything from doctors‘ bills to average 2 heights and weights. From now on. gov- ; ernmental health plans will be firme bas- - ed on a foundation of exact knowledge of I the requirements. w. s coon. Editor According to the census the great bulk of the heads of families on wages and salaries are in the income group be- tween $2,000 and $3,000. The average is about $2,400. On those income heads of familie pay little income tax and none at all where there are three or more children. What they pay on sales and excise taxes depends on what they buy but they do not buy as much as those with bigger in- comes. So tax cuts which average out at $170 per family are bOund to be a lot big- ger than $170 for a few people, a lot small- er for the great majority. All families, but especially the med- ium and small income families are bound to be affectedby the consequences of tax reductions. All have a stake in Canada. All will have to pay for what they get in defence and in welfare services. 0f Canada's total budget $2,000,000,000 goes on National defence. No party pro- mises to reduce that. Some say econo- mies can be made by cutting out waste and extravagance. But Canada is in a great defence partnership with the United States, Britain, France and other coun- tries. At “2.000.000.000 Canadians are pending a. slightly lesser proportion of their national income on defence than the other partners. If economies are possible mOst Canadians and any responsible Can- adian government would want to see Can- ada pay its fair share, provide more de- fence with the money saved. The largest grants under the natiOnal health plan. of course have been for new hospital construction. A total of more than $56.000_000 has been advanced by lthe fed- eral government to help build 400 new hos- pitals or hospital additions. Hospital fa- cilities have been provided for the first time in 144 Canadian communities, most of them rural. Roughly 46.000 beds (well over the original target of 40,000) have been added since 1948. and nearly 6,000 bassinets have been provided for infants. In addition. government grants have made provision for new nurses’ residences total- ling 5.700 beds. v" r..[,., Mr. Donald Fleming of Toronto, esti- mates the Conservative plan to reduce _taxes by half a billion dollars would am- ount to $170 for every family. it might ’if one averages up the big cuts which would come to wealthy families with the small cuts which would come to average families, and the very small cuts which Would come to below average families. It could not possibly mean that every family would have $170 more to spend on a radio or TV set, a new coat for mother or a trip to the Canadian National Exhi- bition. v r _ A Taxes are paid in a lot of ways but it is the big income people and the big cor- porations which pay most. Mr. Coldwell, the CCF leader would make these people pay more. Mr. Fleming and Mr. Drew w0uld make them pay less. Another billion goes out in payments to Canadian citizens, old age pensions, family allowances, veterans’ pensions. The federal plan has also offered schol- arships and special grants for training health workers. Since 1949, federal funds have aided in training nearly 5.000 persons for provincial and municipal health staffs. Two angles of the tax problem are rarely explored by politicians who glibly promise to knock half a billion dollars of’f collections in a year and others who argue that such cuts are impossible. One angle concerns who benefits by a tax reduction. The other concerns the longer-term effects of tax cuts not match- ed by equal cuts in spending. It must be obvious that if taxes are cut the people who benefit are those who pay taxes and especially,those who pay the most. It is just not possible to cut taxes on people who do not pay taxes. I. A_LI The National Health and Welfare Department has made public a booklet re- viewing the government’s five-year ' nat- ional health plan. It is an impressive do- cument. The plan. inaugurated in May, 1948, by the late Rt. Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King_ was designed to assist the provincial gov- ernments in giving Canadians an adequate program of health cane. Since its inception. the national health plan has made $167,000 available to the provinces for a wide variety of pro- jects â€" some 3,000 in all. So far, the provinces have taken up 394.000.000 of this offer. most of it in grants for hospital construction. Provision has alsorbeen made for as- sistance to research, and more than 200 individual investigations and experiments are now under way in a. wide variety of One of the first objects of the health program, was to gather information on the extent of sickness in Canada and to find out what facilities are available in each province to meet it. Prior to 1948, infor- mation in this field was scanty. W An Independent Weekly â€" Established 1878 W'Wu'V'V Subscription Rate $250 per year; to the United States $3.00; 5: Single Copy Member Audit Bureau of circulations Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association J. E. SMITH. M.P., Publisher flnnK. Editor ALVERN A SMITH, Associate Editor .â€", .__.,, Telephone TUrner 4-1261 “Authorized as second class mail, Post Ofl’ice Departm ent,_btt8wa” alibi: liberal National Health Plan Sensible’ Tax Policy But the more debt the mbre interest to pay. Since the end of the War the gov- ernment has reduced the debt by about $2.5 billion, thus cutting annual interest char- ges by $75 million. cl" Within the term of the next parliam- ent the first of the big long-term w‘af loans extensively held by the average Canadian becOme due. In 1954 the government has to find more than a billion dollars to pay off bondholders, about the same in 1956 and about the same in 1957, more than three billion dollars altogether. The average Canadian must be inter- ested in whether that money is found out of current revenues or by new borrowing. Interest rates are going up. If new bonds are sold the debt charges will go up. If by borrowing to pay off the debt and bor- rowing more because taxes are out below operating expenses the government adds to its overall interest charges, the aver- age Canadian may find himself paying less taxes for one year but'a lot more in later years. billion. A glance at what is happening in the United States shows what sensible gov- ernments usually do notwithstanding the enthusiastic promises of'some of their sup- porters. The United States government has been operating in the red, going deep- er into debt. A lot of people expected tax cuts from the new government. Tax cuts are not forthcoming. The government says it must balance the budget first. It looks as if the average American agrees. Does the average Canadian want the Can- adian budget unbalanced? Putting these irreducible items to- gether you get $3,796 million out of a total planned expenditure of $4,462 million this year. And the way taxes are now coming in it appears revenue will just about equal expenditures. There is no surplus in sight. There remains less than $700 million on which reductions could be made. That $700 million goes to pay the Civil Service, to pay all the official wages, salaries and expenses of government other than in the defence department. A cut of $500 million off this $700 million would mean government would close up or a lot of family men would have to work for nothing. There are other ways of absorbing a tax cut besides a reduction in expenses. The government can go into debt, as it did during World War Two during which the debt rose from $3 billion to a peak of $13.5 medical problems. Major studies have been made of the new drugs ACTH and cortisone, and an investigation is being carried on in the use of gamma globulin as a vaccine against infantile paralysis. One of the big items in the health plan has been the provision of costly tech- nical equipment to provincial and munici- pal health services. X-ray machines‘ iron lungs and, other expensive equipment have been made available in communities which could not afford them. Interest on the public debt comes to $468 million a year. No one suggests the government should let the bondholders down by welching on its agreements. Pay- ments of grants and subsidies to the pro- vincial governments comes to $328 million a year. Any cuts in those would force the provincial governments to raise their own taxes. Health Minister Paul Martin has ob- served that Canadians’ life expectancy has increased by 20 years since ,the turn of the century. thanks to a prosperous economy and prudent social reforms. The Liberal government has had a sound and sensible tax policy and will re- duce taxation further just as soon as world conditions make such a reduction possible. .__.v.. .v. -vmvuAyu uuu {\allqulal wuln, a lot of it for free diagnostic services. To battle tuberculosis. the federal government has contributed to 21 new mobile clinics and more than $2.000.000 worth of drugs and treatment, including the new B.C.G. immunization vaccine. Perhaps the most striking evidence of the TB program’s suc- cess is the fact that the TB death-rate has been cut. in half in the past five years. “The achievements under the nation- al health plan.” he says, “are part only of a great forward movement_ supported by Canadians as individuals and through their governments. to bring opportunity for good health to all our citizens.” Local health services generally have been expanded by the federal grants, and 8.600,000 persons (roughly 60 per cent of the population) are now served by more than 100 health units or health depart- ments. The program has also seen a renewed attack on some of the major individual health problems â€" mental illness, cancer and tuberculosis. There are now 77 men- tal health clinics in Canada â€" five times the number in 1948 â€" and all provinces have made large extensions in their facil- ities for treating the mentally ill. In the cancer fight, nearly $8,000.000 has been provided for research and remedial work, Perhaps the biggest achievement of the five-year plan has been to bring new health services to rural areas. A large part of the new construction and services financed from federal funds has gone to Canadians living far away from large cit- ies. Nineteen new health units, for ex- ample, have been established or are being assisted by federal contributions. Nil-w .uoIT \RCULATI‘ UREA. Mr. Befijamin Brillinger is of- fering. due to ill health. the Dom- inion House hotel and his 107 acre farm in Vaughan Township for sale. An intensely hot wave passed over this Section of the county last Saturday and Sunday which was almost unendurable. On Saturday the thermometer registered 98" in the shade. Mr. Warren Hewison and men are busily engaged in painting and eautifying the Presbyterian church both inside and out. Richmond Hill had better look out or Warren will be moving out here. He thinks that a place like Maple. growing and prospering. is a more suitable location than the Hill, especially as the latter place is not possessed of railroad privileges which Maple is .blessed with. Mr. John Palmer receiwd a nas- ty gash on the head and was ren- dered unconscious last Monday morning when a board from the roof of his newly constructed barn struck him. The city of Toronto repently vot- ed $5,000 for experimenting on the possibility of bringing water from Bond's Lake to the city. The experiments are now being made. Hammocks, 50¢ each at Gren- nan’s; heavy cotton, 5c yard at the Concrete; Tea, best quality, 30c lb. at the Concrete. " Mr .G. Gilmour of the Grand Central Hotel has the only public reading room in the village. He has fitted up one of his sitting rooms and has everything comfortable for the reading public. Edwin Langstafi and Hastings Porter of Thornhill are out on bail. They are charged with abductin a 16-year-old boy, Harry Sylvester. July 23. 1914 Men’s tweed pants. all sizes, $1.75; girls’ middies. with belt, and gingham house dresses. $1.15. $1.45, plain $1.00. Ladies’ print Atkinson and Switzer. July 30 will be the 7194: anniv- ersary of the “Kinnear murder” which took place a short distance north of Elgin Mills. Mr. Wm. Har- rison has presented the Public Li- brary Board with a typewritten sketch of his recollections of the tragedy. JULY 21. 1887 The Maple correspondent com- ments: J. Lush, merchant in Richmond Hill offers to take produce in re- turn for merchandise. The new Public School building is rising higher day by day and by A painting symbolizing universal peace and freedom by the efforts of enlightened men through the United Nations was recently unveiled in the Security Council Chamber at U.N. Headquarters. The 16 by 26 foot mural was painted by the famous Norwegian artist, Per Krohg, on commission from the Norwegian Government which contributed the decorations and fittings of the Chamber. The marbleâ€"framed mural is set into the east wall of the room and faces the public gallery. Shown are two workmen completing the installation. First of its kind in Canada is this new wheel truing machine now in operation at the new $1,000,000 diesel plant being com- pleted by the Canadian Pacific Railway at Nelson, BC. The unit, shown in opera- tion here, permits diesel locomotive wheels to be machined without removing either the wheels or trucks from under the locomotive, and will be used in the ser- Norway’s Gift Graces U.N. Council Chambg: dc: Excerpts from the files of The Liberal Home paper of the Richmond Hill district since 1878 'ay Back When” William Dennie of Markham township has a particularly fine field of Goose wheat this year. The wheat measures five feet four ins. in height. Mr. E. T. Stephens of Roselawn Farms has Timothy standing six feet high. The annual Richmond Hill Field Day and Street Dance on August 24 will have such features as a Pyjama Parade for Beach Pyjama costumes and a Pet Parade. ‘ July 22. 1948 Richmond Hill Council has de- cided to put the matter of sewer installation to. the ratepayers. The Holland Marsh which conâ€" sists of 7000 acres has experienced a bumper crop from the 5,634 ac- res under cultivation. July 21, 1932 Mr. J. Roy Herrington was e1- ected District-Deputy Grand Mas- ter of Toronto District C at the sessions of the Grand Lodge, A.F. & A.M. this week at Kingston. W'prk will soon begin on a new village well on the Mackie proper- ty. The cost will be approximately $8.865.00 and the drilling company will guarantee 150 gals. per min- ute. Richmond Hill village is seeking the services of a full time police officer. the end of this week the brickwork will be completed. By present ap- pearances. we shall have a Public School by the end of this year that will be a credit to Richmond Hill and the County of York. Local Real Estate: Why Pay Rent? $1000 â€" six roomed house, semi- detache'd. plenty of garden. close to Metropolitan Station. Small cash payment, balance like rent. The proposed TTC bus service was run last week end but judging from public opinion the radials are still preferred. WA REJ >\ 73 ALBERT st. 4"). OTTAWA ONT' 2x v vicing of diesel locomotives operating on the Kootenay-Kettle Valley divisions of the CPR in southern British Columbia. Its purpose is to restore by means of specially designed milling cutters the normal con- tour of the tread and flange of wheels worn by operation of locomotives over frequent, tight curves on the right-of-way through mountainous territory. â€"â€" Canadian Pacific Railway Photo Perhaps tension and nervous strain isn’t as new as we think it is for the ancients of Dre-Christian times had a good deal to say about the search for tranqu‘lity. How- ever, today tension is ot regarded as a malady but as a sign of vitality. We talk of men being “on thei" toes," when we see they are keyed up like fiddle strings. Too many of us are like the youngster who said his greatest ambition was to [We on a rollerâ€"coaster Nearly thirty centuries ago a Hebrew psalmist found a way out. He said. "I will lift mine eyes unto the hills." In quiet contemplaion of the Eternal he found peace for his 'troubled and restless heart. If we had more faith in God We would be less nervous. If we kept in touch with Him we wouldn't be annoyed when we missed the turn of a revol- lng door. When a nervous child was asked how she felt she replied: "I feel in a hurry all over.” Every night in the United States more than six million sleeping tab- lets arev required to put American people to sleep. This is one of a number of startling statements made by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale in his book on Positive Thinking. He goes on to say that the use on. sleeping tablets has increased 1,000 per cent in recent years and as for aspirin. this might be called “The Aspirin Age," for the tablets are on sale everywhere and the recom- mendation of these and other sed- atives is taken for granted. If it be true that, “Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-correctâ€" ion." then we ought to face the fact that if religion has not brought to us a good measure of serenity then it hasn‘t done much for us. The brilliant writer, Harriet Martineau, daughter of a clergyman, became a sceptic because she saw that her father and her friends were just as worried as irreligious people. “If I believe what they preach," she reasoned. “Then I wouldn‘t worry‘ about anything.” One day while walking along Fifth Avenue in New York with a bus- iness executive, he asked me to go for fifeen minutes into a quiet church. “I slip in here several times a week ," he said “It helps me to get hold of myself.” Often those whom circumstance seem to have favoured, men of ex- traodinary gifts, have in‘pride of their strength confessed that peace and satisfaction have eluded them. Restlessness is not wickedness but always men have understood that the fevered. restless heart can- ont he in tune with God. That is why so many love to sing Whittier’s line: Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess, The beauty of thy peace. I don‘t know how Dr. Peale arrives at his figures but he is a careful writer and no doubt gets his infor- mation from reliable authorities. He goes on to say that fifty percent of all the hospital beds in the Unit- ed States are occupied by people suffering Ifrom emotional distur- bances: patients whose nervers are out of control. An analysis of the situation shows that the list of neu- rotics includes a large percent-age of successful people; who count for a good deal and enjoy social stand- ing. Sunday Afternoon We all~know that the Her- culean task of cutting operat- ing expenses of our Govern- ment has absorbed our new ad- ministration ever since Janu- ary 20. Also, they have made cer- tain reductions in corpora- tion taxes. taxes on cigarettes. and are giving individuals greater credits for dependents. It is surprising how little publicity has been given to the fact that the Canadian Govern- ment cut personal income tax- es 1170 beginning July 1. 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