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Taxes--Who Is Responsible For Them?

Tt fs an old saying, and true, that there are at least two things which no
person in the world can escape,—death and taxes. So far as the former is
concerned it is inevitable; it may be postponed by ratlonal living, by obsery-
ance of the laws of nature and hygiene, by the exercise of “safety first”
principles, but, in the end, it cannot be avoided.

Taxes, too, are inevitable if orderly government; a properly organized |
community life, and essential public services are to be maintained, but, and |
this is the important thing, the taxpayers have it within their own power to)
determine the size and extent of the tax burden they shall carry. |

Begin a discussion of the subject of taxation and the chances are that}
nine out of every ten persons, yes, ninety-nine out of every one hundred, will)
fat once Iay the blame for their unduly heavy burden upon Governments,
éither Federal, Provincial, Municipal, or all three combined. Governments, of
course, are partly responsible, but the taxpayers themselves are even more)
responsible, and it is high time Mr, and Mrs. Taxpayer realized this fact of
their responsibility.

In the first place, the taxpayers are responsible for creating the Govern-
ments. It was their yotes which placed the Governments in power. It is
by virtue of the votes of the taxpayers that Governments continue in office
to apply their policies, impose taxes, and spend the proceeds of those taxes,
or, contra, are ejected from office. The taxpayers cannot escape this primary
responsibility. eS

Gov are ci of groups of human beings, with
all the failings of human beings. Placed in office they naturally desire to
stay there, while opposing groups out of office just as naturally desire to get)
in, All these groups, therefore, angle for the support of a-majority of the
taxpayers, who are the final arbiters. If one group presents an attractive |
programme of public works, large exp , Much employ t,|

and consequent free spending of public monies, contrasted with a more con-
servative and economical programme advocated by an opposing group, and)
the people endorse the former and reject the latter, then, again, it is the tax-|
payers who are responsible for the ensuing large borrowings on the public |
credit, the creation of a large public debt, and the resultant heavy taxes to)
pay the charges on that public debt. The group in office may be responsible |
for proposing an unwise policy, but the taxpayers themselves set the seal of |
their approval to that policy and issued instructions that effect be given to it.|

In the third place, there has never been a governnrent entrusted with the
duties of administering the business of all the people which has not been
confronted with demands from the people that it do this or that, provide this
service or construct that public work, extend financial support to this or~
ganization or that project. The cabinet of ministers, or municipal council)
as the case may be, may feel that the action urged upon them is unwise, but |
if the clamor is loud enough, and the demand of the taxpayers themselves |
urgent enough, they will, as rep) ives of the and |
upon their support, yield to such demands. The result is more and heavier}
taxes. Governments must accept some responsibility for yielding to such

- demands when their judgment ordered otherwise,—there are times when it fs}
the duty of Government to resolutely resist public clamor and refuse their)
demands, even when it means the defeat of the Government and the placing}
{n office of another group which will carry out those demands,—but the!
major responsibility rests upon the taxpayers, the voters.

‘Then these self-same taxpayers make bitter complaint because their
taxes are heavy. They discover they cannot pay the taxes imposed upon
them by reason of the very expenditures and borrowings they themselves in-|
sisted their Governments should make, When it Is too late, because the|
obligations have been incurred and must be met, they demand that their
taxes be reduced, or wiped out altogether. And when a responsible Govern-|
ment, entrusted with the preservation of the credit of the Dominion, a Prov-|
Ince or a Municipality, declines to do this, because it cannot be done honestly,
and {f done dishonestly would react to the further disadvantage of the tax-
payers, then many of the taxpayers make the further mistake of listening
to, and being guided by, other groups which promise to do what is being
demanded. In his difficulty Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer is willing to jump out of
the frying pan into the fire. _

When the taxpayers make a mistake, either as individuals or collectively
as a community, they must pay the penalty. If a child puts its hand in the
fire it will suffer pain, There is no escape; It cannot undo its rash action.
So, too, the taxpayers cannot tear up and repudiate what they have done, or)
their Governments, acting for them and all too frequently upon their own|
urgings, and with the approval of the majority, have done for them. ma

must abide by the consequences.

What they can do, and should do, is set to work to remedy the mistakes |
made in the best way they can, and sternly resolve not to commit the same!
mistake again. A little more thought and judgment before plunging into}
expenditures and debt is the surest method to reduce taxes and keep them
down. ri

A Silent Cannon Prizes For Royal Ranch

Innovation In Artillery Is Tried Out
"In Italy InV

When We Slomber

Seems To Be Controlled By
Amount Of Iodine In the Blood

A new idea of what sleep really Is
discovery that it seems to be con-
trolled by the amount of fodine in
the blood—was reported to the British
Association for the Advancement of
Science.

Thyroxin, the iodine-containing se-
cretion of the thyroid gland, appar-
ently is the sleep-controlling sub-
stance, sald Dr, G. S. Carter. It does
its work in reverse fashion for artifi-
cial sleep-producing drugs, however.
Sleep seems to come when the supply
of thyroxin in the blood {s detreased,
not increased.

The winter-long “sleep” or hiber-
nation that is habitual for many ant-|
mals also seems to be controlled by
thyroxin, Dr. Carter said his expert-|
ments showed. |

He tried thyroxin on frogs, which
have a different temperature and
pulse rate in winter while” hibernat-|
ing than in summer when they are
active. When thyroxin was added to

Sleep

temperature and pulse increased to}
the summer level. Thyroxin was the}
only gland secretion that had this)
effect. |

Progress Of Silk Industry

So Far Economic Disturbance Does |
Not Seem To Have Affected |
This Business |
The silk industry of Canada has so |
far evidently not been affected by any |
economic disturbance. In 1931 e
value of See avion of this industry |
amounted to $18,187,492, an increase
of $378,894 or 2.1 per cent. over 1930.
There has been an increase in the
Canadian silk industry from 1917 to
1931 of over 666 per cent in produc-
tion, of 1,348 per cent. in capital in-
vested, and in the number of employ-
ees 661 per cent.
The silk industry of Canada is di-|

vided into two distinct branches, real |
silk and artificial silk. The industry is |
located entirely in the provinces of

Quebec and Ontario, thirteen of the

23 establishments being in the former

named province and ten in the latter.

The principal items of production are

broad silk or piece goods of real silk,

of which 8,657,612 yards were made in |
1931. Piece goods of artificial goods |
measured 4,073,434 yards; real silk}
mixtures measured 2,869,866 -yards|
and 4,383,839 pounds of silk, artificfal |
silk, yarns and threads and their mix-
tures were produced.

Soviet Food Industry
Results Of First Seven Months Of|
This Year Are Unsatisfastory |

The work of the food industry to |
which Soviet Russia looks for its!
daily meals was called “unsatisfac- |
tory’ by D. Levitin, member of the!
collegium of the commissariat of sup-|
ply, in a report on the results for the
first seven months of this year.

In spite of beginning production in
several new modernly equipped ener]
prises adding greatly to the produc-
tive capacity, he said, the industry
during the first six months of the
year exceeded the production for the
same period in 1931 by only 6.5 per
cent.

This, he said, was “quite insignifi-
cant.” The 1932 plan calls for an in-
crease of 36 per cent. over the pro-
duction for 1931.

He blamed the result on bad man-
agement, a poor supply of raw ma-
terials and carelessness in many en-
terprises in taking steps to preserve
perishables.

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A “silent cannon” which emits no His Royal Highness, the Prince of |
smoke or flame may become an inno-| Wales, joined the ranks of the big
vation in the Italian artillery. | winners at the Canada Pacific Exhibi-

‘The cannon was perfected by ‘two | tion in Vancouver. -
Neapolitan engineers, Guglielmo De! Besides carrying off the grand
Luce and Ferruccio Guerra, former | championship bull and female awards, |
officers in the artillery. animals from the E.P. ranch at Pek-|

Official trials of the gun were in| isko, Alberta, won 21 other prizes in
the Ansaldo shipyards at Pussauil, | Shorthorn classes. The prizes were for |
where a government delegate was| yarying ages. |
present. Others who witnessed the | Sees stocl ta Fs |
trial said the gun “was entirely suc-
eessful.

A chemist says the first alcohol
ever distilled was Arablan; which
may explain those nights. |
Pope Pius X. has decided to install

electric heating in the Vatican) The government of Spain is making
palaces.

|. special study of unemployment.
Pains In Stomach and Bowels
So Bad Would Have To Sit Down

Mrs. ©. Landry, Moncton, N.B., writes:—‘‘I can
certainly recommend Dr. Fowler’s Extract of Wild
Strawberry for cramps or pains in the stomach and
bowels.

‘Last Summer I had such awful pains in my
stomach, and lower part of my bowels, at times, I
would have to sit down. I took ‘Dr. Fowler's’ and
was soon relieved,

“When my children were small I always kept a
bottle in the house and it helped them wonderfully
whenever any of them had bowel complaints,’?

time

leg wash for stock. Also
removes corns in horses and quickly |
relieves bruises, sprains, swellings and |
joint stiffness.

Rescuer Was Cautious

A resident of old Fort Erie was
telling how he had rescued a man |
from drowning off Point Abino,

“I saw this fellow away out and
heard him cry for help,” he said, “I
swam out to him and found him float- |
ing face downward. I turned him|
over to make sure it wasn’t the as-
sessor and then I towed him ashore.”

Lightning Plays Queer Trick

Lightning played a queer trick up-
on the mechanism of a watch found

| upon the body of a man in England,
| who was

struck by lightning and|
killed. When the victim was found the |
watch had stopped at 4:20 p.m, Some
afterwards the watch com- |
menced to go again—but backwards. |
eee ee |
Where English Draw Line |
has

An enterprising investigator

| just discovered that the postoffice de-

partment of England will let you send

| a telegram calling a man a “chump”
| or a “blockhead,” but it is against the

rules to call him a “fathead.”

| was not able to do anything.

| constipation,

| py outlook—in Short, sheer go
the heart of the hibernating frog, its | health!

‘DOES OWN HOUSE:

WORK AT 70

With the Help of Kruschen)

“For nine years now I have used |
Kruschen Salts and could not di |
without them, I take a third of a
teaspoon in a cup of water as hot as T
can drink it, No sickness, no head-
aches now. I am 70 years of age in
April, and just with taking Kruschen
Salts am able to do all my housework
duties myself. I recommend Kruschen
to all my neighbors. Before I began
taking it I was never away from the
doctor, but now I never need him.
used to have sick headaches and then|
But}
now-it is different—thanks to Krus-
chen Salts.""—(Mrs.) J. G.

Kruschen keeps the organs of the
body working actively, cleanses all
clogging impurities from the system,
and sends clear, vigorous blood
coursing through the veins. And the
result? An end to all Life's minor
{lls and miseries. No more headaches,
tiredness, depression, “‘nerves," or
Instead, a sensation of
delightful freshness, high spirits, hap-

| grading of Garnet wheat than he, if it

Garnet, Wheat
Not Sufficient Evidence To Justify
Separate Grading

If Garnet wheat had been seperately
graded during the past year growers
would have had to take a cut in price,
asserted Hon. Robert Weir in a state-
ment to the National Agriculture
Conference at Toronto.

Contrary to the opinion of the na-
tional research council said Mr, Weir,
the Department of Agriculture he ad-
ministers had taken the stand there

I) of man," Sir Alfred sald.

Invention and Idleness
Warning Is Sounded In Connection
With Mechanical Progress:

Sir Alfred Ewing, president of the
British Association for the Advance-
ment of Science, sounded a note of
warning to mechanical progress 86
he opened the 101st annual meeting
of the association at York, England.

“We must admit that there is a
sinister side even to the peaceful ac-
tivities of those who in good faith and

with the best intentions make it their |=

business to adapt the resources of
nature to the use and convenience

‘Telling of the great progress of the
“mechanical age,” Sir Alfred declared
“man was ethically unprepared for so
great a bounty. The command of
nature has been put into his hands
before he knows how to command
himself.” He declared that man had
lost the joy of craftsmanship because
of the machinery of mass production.

“In many cases unemployment is
thrust upon the worker, an unemploy-
ment that is more saddening than any
drudgery. And the world,” continued
the association president, “finds itself
glutted with competitive commodities,
produced in a quantity too great to be
absorbed, though every nation strives
to secure at least a home market by
erecting tariff walls.”

Sir Alfred could not name a remedy
for the situation, but declared he re-
fused to think that man is destined |
to atrophy and cease through culti-
vating what after all is one of his
most God-like faculties, “the creative
ingenuity of the engineer.”

The president spoke with enthusi-
asm of the benefits of electrical com-

had

was not t ‘to justify
the separate grading of Garnet. The
department did not accept the view
Canadian wheat was less satisfactory
to the United Kingdom millers after
Garnet came on the picture.

Mr. Weir declared no person would
be more eager to support the separate

were beneficial to wheat growers.

Don’t Submit To Asthma. If you
suffer’ without hope of breaking the
chains which bind you do not put off
another day the purchase of Dr. J. D.
Kellogg's Remedy, A trial will drive
away all doubt as to its efficiency.
The sure relief that comes will con-
vince you more than anything that
can be written. When help is so sure,
why suffer! This matchless remedy is

sold by dealérs everywhere.

Ai Empire Soldiers
Now Commemorated

Even Those With No Kriown Grave
Named In Memorials

When the British war memorials
were unveiled recently at Thiepval
and Arras, France, by the Prince of
Wales and Marshal of the Royal Air
Force, Lord Trenchard, respectively,
every empire soldiér—officer and man
—who was Tost in the world war
and never found was commemorated
by name.

The Thiepyal monument is carved
with 73,367 names’ of men “with no
Imown graves,” while that at Arras
records 35,000 names.

A Household Medictne.—They that
are acquainted with the sterling pro-
perties of Dr. Thomas’ Eclectric Oil
in the treatment of many ailments
would not be without it in the house.
It is truly a household medicine and
as it is effective in dealing with many
ordinary complaints it is an inexpens-
ive medicine. So, keep it at hand, as
the call for it may com: most un-
expectedly.

Prominent In Politics
Although there is only one lawyer
in Canada for every 1,600 people,

Prince Of Wales Is Winner At C.P.R. Douglas’ Egyptian Liniment is an| there is one lawyer in the House of

Commons for every four members of
other callings. The ratio in the sen-
ate is slightly higher and in the pro-
vincial legislature it is about the
same. These figures were worked
out by Mr. Justice A. F. Ewing of
the Supreme Court of Alberta, and
presented to the Canadian Bar Asso-
ciation in an address on ‘The Place
of the Lawyer in the Public Life of
the Country.”

Maguires, famous in
Irish history in 1843, were a secret as-

The Molly

| sociation of tenants pledged to resist

the collection of rents.

HRHAMILTONs
PILLS:

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‘sS*HEADACHE __ |
“INDIGESTION - |
BILLOUSNESS:

“GONSTIPATION

which, he said,
brought distant parts of the earth's
population into close contact and
sympathy with one another.

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Decreasing Revenues

Quebec Reports Deficit For The First
Time Since 1896
Decreasing revenues in Quebec
were reflected in the annual financial
statement of the province recently
made public. A deficit of $584,708.61
was reported, the first time since 1896
that Quebec has not wound up its fin-
ancial year with a surplus.
* The annual statement shows ordin-
ary reWenue was $36,941,020.36 while
expenditures amounted to $37,525,-
728,97. The decrease in the revenue
as compared with the previous year
was $4,589,600.20, compensated for
partly by economies effected in vari-
ous departments of $3,912,824.23.

Persian Balm’ is irresistible. Fra-
grant as summer flowers. Cool as a
mountain spring. Wonderfully invig-
orating. Softens and whitens the
hands. Makes skin soft-textured and
youthful. Used by women as a powder
base and as a peerless aid to lovely
complexions. Used by men as an ef-
fective hair fixative or shaving lotion.
And for children, nothing soothes and.
protects their tender skin like the
delicately cool Persian Balm.

Wanted To Be Friendly

But Attempt Proved Embarrassing
For Service Club Member

It happened at a service club lunch-
eon. The yisitor was being introduced
at the door, And the usual attempts
were being made to make him feel at
home.

“Say, haven't I met you before
some time? Maybe in business.
What's your line?” asked a club
member. .

“Well, maybe you have met me in
business,” said the visitor, somewhat
bashfully. “I'm with a detective
agency.”

Then there was 4 general laugh,
as the embarrassed member pushed
his way through the crowd.

Royal Photographers

There is scarcely a member of the
Royal Family who does not carry a
camera on holidays. From the King
and Queen downwards each takes the
liveliest interest in“shapping, and not
only in that, for they also like to de-
velop their own films. The Duke of
York is the champion photographer
of the Royal people, and is the proud
possessor of an album of delightful
pictures depicting the Duchess and
the two little Princesses,

Mother—Poor boy, how did you
hurt your thumb?”
Son—'With a hammer, just a lit-
tle while ago."
Mother—"But I didn’t
ery.”
Son

hear you

“I thought you were out."'

For Baby’s Bath
More than that of any other —
member of the family, baby's
tender, delicate skin needs the —
greatest care and attention. The
soft soothing oils*in Baby's
Own Soap make it specially
suitablé for babies, and a

s
ba

clinging fragrance reminds one

of the roses of France which
help to inspire it. Papal
“Its best for you and Baby too”

Many Coins Are Lost
Nothing Surprising About Finds Maé
In Ancient Towns
People are often surprised when un
clent towns are excayated that so
many coins should be found. Well,
in ten thousand years’ time archas
ologists get busy with their spades im
Great Britain, they may be even more”
astonished. Pennies issued by th
Mint during-the past 70 years woul
cover an area a mile in length b
nearly half a mile in width, for
numbered 1,760,000,000. How many |
these do you think have been
The answer {s a staggering fig
Not less than 500,000,000. The lost
pennies represent the best par
shilling a head for every man, womam
and child of Britain's population. Ey
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serves

Canada’s Northern Game Re

Exclusive Hunting Grounds Set Aside
For Indians and Eskimos
The government has set apart fot
large game preserves in the: North
West Territories as exclusive hunting
grounds for the native Indians, Eski-
mos and half-breeds.
prevents exploitation of the fur re- —
sources of these areas and it is hoped
also will tend to foster and increase
the supply of game which will over-
flow to the adjacent districts where —
commercial hunting and trapping are
allowed. A considerable portion of the
Yellowknife Game Preserve, one 0
the four, is shown on the Hunter Bay-
Coppermine River map sheet
p by the Topog
vey, Department of the
Ottawa.

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COOKING ODO

Even fish and cauliflower
down to Canapar Cool
archment —

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BETTER, CHEAPER AND E#
COOKING
Delicious as cauliflower, cabb
tain other vegetables~are,
imposed a heavy penalty on
fearlessly cooked them. Not to
those, hoe Sate ee
enjoying the finis! uct
thine is equally true of fish.
Canapar Cookery Parchment, @ ¥
genious invention, docs away wit!
annoyance entirely. While ses
odors, it also retains
value. Cooking in Cana)
parallels the famous French |
simmering and confining |
flayor in the closed c co
You buy Canapar in a large eny
handy-size sheets which may be
and used over and over again
won't absorb odors. When
tables you simply wet the Ca
make a bag similar to a pudd
you steam them, you line th
with Carat arrange food
ing, and fold back corners of |
to prevent steam from drip
You can actually cook tl
once in the same sau
saye fucl—and tl
intermingle.
Steamed, or boiled, fish
solid and swimming in its
odours. No sticky steamer 0
to clean up afterwards.
Line your roasting pan
then the fats and juice can
is more succulent and there
or scraping of the pan after
Many yyomen use Canapar fo
—it is so silky and sa
doesn’t spread lint.

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“Grandpa, will you give me a drum

| for my birthday like you gave Jack?” |

“Why?”
“Cause dad gives him a quarter a
week not to play
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abolished slavery,

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