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"As a matter of fact, ‘the motorists of the province have paid in gasoline taxes and in license fees a sufficient sum of money to build every foot of road on the provincial highway system in this province and to pay for its maintenance and leave a balance; and if all the moneys which have been paid into the treasury had been put out on roads and no money borrowed for the purpose of building roads, there would be today not one cent of provincial highway debt, but on the other hand there would be a surplus. Motorists of this province have paid and paid in full, and there is a balance to their credit for the conâ€" struction of the highways of this province and for the moneys paid out also by the government to assist &01 counties." 5 The editor of the Woodstock Sentinelâ€" Review comments on the statement of Attorneyâ€" General Hon. Gordon Conant to the effect that the motor vehicle traffic should alone bear the cost of the construction of highways. The Senâ€" tinelâ€"Review says the Attorneyâ€"General is talkâ€" ing nonsense and urges Ontario Ministers who know better to tell him so. The Sentinelâ€"Review states that general taxpavers have contributed nothingâ€"except the credit of the provinceâ€"to highway construction or maintenance. The statement of W. G. Robertson, general manager of the Ontario Motor League, is quoted in supâ€" port of contention, as follows: 4 ‘ Ontario Forester E. J. Zavitz, in a recent address, observes that deforestation is threatenâ€" ing the supply of water for the farms. Farmers for years have realized that without trees their lands lose in productiveness and monetary value. Mr. Zavitz urged upon farmers the importance of acting with the province in the reforesting of areas that cannot be otherwise used to adâ€" vantage. Waterloo County has a number of reâ€" forestation plots and township councils are favorable to increased tree planting. | "If Premier Hepburn retires, the Liberal party in Ontario will lose an outstanding leader. It was mainly due to the individual personality of Premier Hepburn that the Liberals were successful at the polls in 1934 and again in 1937. Premier Hepburn has shown qualities of leadership which have made for a successâ€" ful administration. While the growing demands of unâ€" employment relief and social services have made it impossiblé for the Government to reduce Ontario‘s capital indebtedness much, Mr. Hepburn at least has checked the growing debt. o | ‘"Hon. Mitchell F. Hepburn has definitely made up his mind to retire from politics and return to his St. Thomas farm. He will see the coming session through, but at an early date he will resign. This is not the first time Mr. Hepburn has decided to retire, but this time he means it. The Australian tour, from which he returned yesterday, has convinced him that his health is such that he must give up the responsiâ€" bilities of leadership. He looks well and is tanned as a result of the sun and‘the Pacific breezes, but he is far from well. Before he left for his Southern tx'ipl his blood pressure was 230. It is now down to 190,| but this is still alarmingly high. He has lost weight] as he was ordered by the doctor and has reduced from ‘ 190 to 179 pounds. But the plain facts are that Mr.‘ Hepburn has not made the recovery he anticipated, and his resignation will be handed in soon after the coming session." . 1 The return of Premier Hepburn to Ontario from his Australian trip, much improved in health, was pleasing to thousands of his adâ€" mirers as well as political colleagues and foes alike. He will definitely lead the House at the coming session. At its conclusion he intimates that he will tender his resignation owing to inâ€" different health and at the urgent advice of his doctors. The managing editor of the London Free Press, who met the Premier at Chicago on his return from Australia, writes as follows: ‘In the passing of Mr. Louis J. Breithaupt this week, Kitchener loses one of its outstandâ€" ing citizens, prominent as one of Canada‘s leading leather manufacturers since the eighties, a leader in civic enterprise and all worthwhile philanthropic movements, He was a former mayor and for years a director of the Mutual Life and*Economical Fire Insurance Co. Mr. Breithaupt wlil be missed by hundreds of friends and business associates among whom he was highly regarded. ROY 8. BEAN, WILLIAM M. BEAN, Managing Editor. Associate Editor. SUBSCRIPTIONS PAYABLE IN ADVANCE §$2.00 per year in Canada. $2.50 per year in the United States and foreign countries. Single copies, Tuesday edition # cents, Friday edition 8 cents. Town of Wazerloo and Waterloo County Town of Waterloo and Waterioo Ceunty, is published moves to have every married woman thrown oL T Shratls fi.fi moves every married woman thrown nmmm"?md’uwm“mfififilmww W Newspaper Association and ef the Ontarioâ€" K0 OD and now Alderman Meinzinger Quebec Newspaper Association. charges certain members of the police force zwuy\hm-fimeMMWy. stands in Kit ,.m‘_ .4 pxveentt | CAN THEY TAKE KEys3? chener a n d Waterloo and T‘Hc Warercoo CmronicLs® . â€" PUBLICITY FOR KITCHENER ‘uterloo Chronicle, Waterloco County‘s ‘___ Kitchener is getting its share of publicity, Mm.gm-_“'u.&-w_g'_z_ummm First Mayvor Gordon LEADING INDUSTRIALIST PASSES CONANT TALKING NONSENSE SAYS EDITOR PREMIER HEPBURN TO RETIRE FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1939 egee MEALS FOR TRANSIENTS :?;::;l (Peterborough Examiner) In Peterborough transients can sleep at the police station and they can secure two meal tickets per day Fre.e but about two days and two nights is the limit of the i his provision, after which the transient is expected to tdemonstnte that he can live up to the name of his de uP elassification and be off to another community. It is o his only during the winter season that meal tickets are ssion provided, and the giving out of the meal tickets has his is apparently made little or no difference in the number etire, of transients. Our belief is that it is better to have from tickets provided at the police station than to have _that strange men making their appeal at houses. A good onsiâ€" many hours a day a woman is alone in the home in ed as many instances and she may be uneasy enough when it he a stranger comes asking that he be given a meal. Premier Hepburn‘s first statement on his return from Australia was the proposal to reâ€" duce the number of seats in the Ontario Legisâ€" lature from 92 to 72. It is a move in the right The Leadership League, sponsored by George McCullagh, is still going strong with well over 125,000 membership, representative of all parts of the Dominion. l Since then Hitler has met obstacles in Poland and the Balkan States, France has stood forth stronger than ever, the French alliances with Russia and Poland jnre declared to be unshaken, the attack on the Ukraine is off, there is talk of handing back the Sudeten area to Czechoslovakia, the march to the Mediterranean is halted before it has begun, and Hitler has taken to talking of colonies instead of the Drang Nach Osten. The prophets, changing their tune quickly, are now convinced that he means to crush the western demoâ€" cracies first and that he will then go on to achieve the ambition outlined in "Mein Kampf". Whatever hapens or does not happen, they are resolved to be' gloomy. (Evening Télegram) When the air is filled with doleful predictions of what is going to happen, it is worthwhile to consider what has not happened. There is, for instance, Hitler‘s march to the Mediterranean. This, according to the prophets, was sure to follow the Munich peace. France, they said, had lost her eastern alliances and become a secondâ€"rate power, Poland was going over to Getmany.! the Balkan states could not resist, Mussolini would acquiesce and there was nothing to stop the dictator: in his Drang Nach Osten. On his way he would uke' the Ukraine in his stride, and friends of the Soviet wept because Russia was left at his mercy. ‘ ( NOBODY WANTS US, SAY YOUTHFUL | TRANSIENTS » Two young men, transients, who had stolen small articles from a chain store and tried to sell them because they had no money and nowhere to sleep, ’defended their action in St. Thomas police court, says the Timesâ€"Journal, by saying: "I‘d like you to take into consideration the conditions under which we are living. We belong to the army of forgotten men who wander from place to place because they won‘t let us stay in any one place long enough to find some work, and nobody wants us any place. We have to beg along the streets and at back porches for what we live on, and we sleep in cool, dirty jails where you have to be intoxicated before you can sleep." 1 LIFEBLOOD OF NEWSPAPER IS ADVERTISING { (St.. Catharines i â€" There are 2,000,000 wor (Simcoe Reformer) Referring to the personal attack made upon Karl Homuth, M.P. for South Waterloo, in the House of Commons by Hon. Ian Mackenzie during the heated debate on the Bren Gun contract, in the course of which the Minister hurled the aspersion of "Prussian mentality", the Timmins Free Press makes the followâ€" ing pointed observation: "The South Waterloo member is a son of a German father and an Irish mother; two of his brothers died as the result of service for Canada in France; and altogether the new addition to the Tory ranks at Ottawa was far from a vunerable target for Mr. Mackenzie, especially since the latter‘s Canadianism is no older than the vintage of 1914. Mr. Mackenzie would do well to look to his bi6â€" graphical reinforcements before he launches an attack dom who pay six cents a week to provide hospital treatment fer themselves, if and when needed. The income per year for hospitalization .has reached $30,000,000. What a blessing alike to patients as well well as hospital authorities such a system would be for this province! And there is a belief that it will come to that some day. danger In London, Ont., the police are taking keys out of parked cars, and when the owner returns he finds ATTACKS SOUTH WATERLOO MEMBER PROPHETS CONFUTED BY EVENTS EDITORIAL NOTES St.. Catharines Standard) 8,000.000 workers in the United Kingâ€" nerwise. First Mayor Gordon THEY TAKE KEYS? (Toronto Star) | The Queen will lay the cornerstone of the supreme court building at 11 e.m. Friday, May 19. Trooping of Color The trooping of the color on Parâ€" liament Hill at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 20 will be witnessed by thoir majes !ties and will mark their seventh pubâ€" |lic appearance during their Ottawa I\isil. Their eighth will be in the ;afternoon at the garden party at Gorâ€" ‘ernment House. ‘ _ Parlament has been requested to appropriate $75,000 to pay for preâ€" liminary expenses in connection with the royal visit and $350,000 to proâ€" vide for transportation expenses in connection with the royal tour. The The department of public works is preparing plans for the erection of a covered stand to be built on Nepean point ‘from which â€"their majesties will view a great fireworks display on Parliament Hill starting at 10.30 [c'vlock Thursday, May 18. The disâ€" !play will continue for half an hour |and climax the day‘s activities for their majesties which will have inâ€" !cluded a parliamentary Ginner for 1,000. ‘ The government will join in decorâ€" f ating the capital but it is understood will not be adorned with flags or ; bunting. E | Connaught Place will be a riot of |color while 100,000 persons are exâ€" pected to take part in the ceremony. |The royal tent will be placed on the terrace on the west side of the meâ€" morial and official guests will be piaced on the east side. Eighteen guardsmen holding the banners will ‘surround the memorial and at the }word from their King will open out like a curtain presenting the monuâ€" ment to view. Special Platform Canadian National Railways will erect a platform to be built where the C.N.R. line crosses the Ifland iPark drive almost immediately beâ€" hind the Royal Ottawa Sanatorium. Their majesties will leave their train <t this point and, weather permitting, step into the open state carriage drawn by four horses and with driâ€" vers and postillions drive along the driveway six miles to government house. This, it was said, will give the people of Ottawa their best opâ€" portunity to see and cheer their maâ€" jesties. The ceremony will be one of the most important features of the Otâ€" tawa program for the King and Queen during their fourday stay in the capital from May 17 to May 20 next. OTTAWA.â€"Guardsmen in scarlet tunics holding banners 14 feet high will surround the national memorial on Connaught Place at 3 o‘"tlock in the afternoon of May 18 and at the words of dedication from the King, thus unveiling Canada‘s monument to her 50,000 war dead. face, the new revenue should go to municipalities instead of being re tained by the provincial government. He points out that the province has assumed a number of what were at one time municipal obligations, such as their share of old age pension costs, but it must be born in mind that he also took away the income tax, from which many places had deâ€" rived a substantial revenue. Grantâ€" ing that the net result of his changes, Guardsmen To Unveil War Memorial At King‘s Order BUT NOT A SALES TAX 'lncllldln( hig oneâ€"mill ‘bonus, was (Toronto Daily Star) favorable to the municipalities, it is Premier Hepburn intimates that he well known that most of them have will increase the gasoline tax or the still had to tax property beyond what motor license feesâ€"probably the forâ€" it |h¢m{aylng if building is to mer, as it falls most heavily upon be en * those who use the roads most. Only| Premier Hepburn himself realizes a year and a half ago he said that this and says he is studying ways and the government was more likely to means of aiding municipalities in reduce this tax than to increase it.'thelr taxation difficulties, Perhaps and it was he who did decrease the be will consider the highway subsily motor license fees to the present ‘scheme put forward by the Chevrier figure. If he is now to make a volte commission whereby there would {isl 4 F -â€"Tfl- C t @. j 9 o Gnex$ J y \7’ s : S“(K «‘ 6 isAE N O agtist | ® m * oo cccan m Would you mind doin‘ that againâ€"real slow? PRESS COMMENT LAFF.â€"Aâ€"DAY Hens and chickens over six months old woere estimated at 5,335,700 as compared with 5,285,800 a year preâ€" viously. Hens and chickens under six months increased almost 300,000 to 8,954,000, _ Sheep and lambs and also showed reductions. Number of: sheep one year and over was estimated at 419,â€" 700 as against 427,300 December 1, 1937. Lambs under one year wore 131,000 as against 148,900. All secâ€" tions reported a downward trend in sheep. » Number of milk cows declined from 1,223,500 to 1,218,000. Swine, six months and over, decreased 16.3 per cent. with only 385,600 reported on farms as compared with 460,500 De cember 1, 1937. Swine under six months were estimated at 1,003,000 as against 1,030,600. | A year earlior there wore 2,619,200 head, the drop of 63,000 being acâ€" counted for chiefly by a reduction of 39,500 in beef yearlings, of £,000 aleers over two years, and of 11,900 calves. Survey Reveals ‘Less Livestock . In Canada | "It is no longer the salvation of the souls of the faithful, members of the Roman Catholic Church, but the influence of the Vatican policy upon the policies of peoples, it is no |longer the internal life of the parâ€" ishes but the internal unfolding of |the diplomatic power of the Vatican, ‘which have become dominant." TORONTO.â€"There were 2,555,900 head of cattle in Ontario at Decemâ€" ber 1, according to a department of agriculture report compiled after the semiâ€"annual survey in coâ€"operation with farmers and rural schools. ‘"‘Pacelliâ€"was never a shepherd of souls, a priest in the pulpit. For nearly 40 years he was a diplomat, a politician of the world politics of Ahe Vatican. Thus the position which the Catholic Church now wishes to take is clearly defined: what is placed first is no longer the church as a house of God, but the throne. of the Pope. "With Pius XII it is not a ‘pastor amgelicus‘ who sits on thepontifical throne. ‘The new Pope guarantees by his personality that the Vatican policy practised under Pius XI, and for which the present Pius XII might already in recent years have been held indirectly responsible, will be continued. BERLIN.â€"The Danziger Vorpostâ€" en asserted that in the choice of a new Pope the Roman Catholic Church has shifted emphasis from the salvation of souls to Vatican inâ€" fluence in international politics. Breaking the reserve which the Gerâ€" man press generally has observed since Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli was elected Pope, the Danzig newspaper German Paper Writes On Pope department of public works, which is in charge of decorations, will have to secure additional appropriations to bear the cost of thousands of extra flags to be used during the royal tour in all parts of Canada. ,be government grants to offset the cost of provincial highways passing through cities and towns. One rumor has it that the government may authorize a municipal sales tax. Nothing could be more inimical to the welfare of business in this proâ€" vince. The federal sales tax of eight per cent. is already too heavy a burâ€" den, and aimost any other form of taxation would be preferable to levyâ€" ing a local sales tax on top of it. | _ â€"â€"â€"â€"BUY FROM Mayor Gordon said that the comâ€" mittee and himself "resurrected the whole disagreement and that both parties immediately became intersetâ€" ed again". ‘"We met both and then attended the mass meeting to confer with the strike executive. 1 may say that the situation does look very bright at the present time," he stated. _ "I wpersonally believe the strike will break either one way or another today," Mayor George W. Gordon told The Review. "During our conâ€" ferences on Friday and Saturday, the conciliation committee believed they bhad two "stalemates" on their hands who just wouldn‘t budge, but I beâ€" lieve we have finally found a loop hole." P | "Just recently, definite arrangeâ€" . ments have ‘been made to manufacâ€" _ ture tires in Sweden and England, because Kitchener costs are too high, â€"and this will take still more business _out of Kitchener," said Mr. Martin, admitting thére was "danger‘ of it going further. "We have got to be very careful." Mr. Martin promised that arbitraâ€" tion proceedings would begin immeâ€" diately after production was reâ€" sumed. ‘"We have stated that after the emâ€" ployees go ‘back to work, we are wilâ€" ling to arbitrate this point before the department of labor of the proâ€" vince of Ontario and to abide by their decision, however," he said. Mr. Martin said the Dominion Tire was paying "fair wages for this comâ€" munity and the highest it can posâ€" sibly pay for the type of business it is doing." % + __Mr. Martin asserted that attempts which he said had been made to comâ€" pare wages in Kitchener with those in United States "do not mean anyâ€" thing". ‘"Unless you study the marâ€" kets where they sell their goods, and the comparative costs of materials and equipment, you cannot conceive the proper picture," he told The Review. "Competition from lower wage and lower cost countries has already driven these Kitchener companies out of some export markets," conâ€" tinued Mr. Martin. "Several facâ€" tories in, Canada have been closed and are closed today because prices could not be met in some export markets. Rubber products are exported from Hong Kong and other places at even lower_cogt than the English products, | ‘"The discrepangy.is the result of the fact "l.,.x: ‘:frwn mnn?“n ae _ "Exports from our Kitchener facâ€" tory must meet their prices or we cannot make sales. It is extremely difficult to do this and pay more for everything, except rubber," Mr. Marâ€" tin told The Review. too, in both tires, he said Using England as an illustration the general manager said wages there are much lower, materials, with the exception of crude rubber, cost much less, while machinery and equipment cost less. "As a result, the total cost ofâ€" rubber tires or shoes is much lower than here," he said. & the fact that a large percentage of our business here is export and we must meet prices from countries where wages are much lower than here," stated Mr. Martin, pointing out that costs of everything are lowâ€" er. At a mass meeting of strikers in a local theatre Sunday, Glen Gann, of local 101 of the Uâ€".R.W.A., Detroit, referred at length to the discrepancy between wage levels in the U. S. and }lmpossible To Compare Wages In U.S. And Here KITCHeNER.â€"J. A. ‘Martin, genâ€" eral manager of the Dominion Tire factory here, strikebound for almost a month, told The iReview today that it WT not possible to compare wages paid rubber workers in the United States and those of rubber workers in Canada. BONGARD & COMPANY Toronto Stock Exchange _ Winnipeg Grain Exchange Montreal Stock Exchange New York Curb (Assoc.) Montreal Curb Market _ _ Chicago Board of Trade Canadian Commedity Exchange _ Commodity Exchange Inc. BBA HODERN, EXPERIENCED BANKING SERVICE ...*ho]lfl Years* Successful Operation . . . "sERVICES OF THE BANK OF MONTREAL"â€"Ask for beoklet both rubber footwear and KITCHENER BRANCH ; 107 King St. West J. P. Van de Water, Mgr. Waterloo Branch: J. R. BEATON, BANK OF MONTREAL 80 King St. W. â€" TORONTO STOCK BROKERS AND BOND DEALERS COMMODITIES, GRAIN ESTABLISHED 1817 "Everything is prepared to present the nations which, because they have not enough, ask something from the nations which have too much as opâ€" pressive burdens from ‘which the united world should free itself," he wrote. | "One may be certain," he conâ€" tinued, "that within a few months, ‘when war warehouses are filled, the British tune will change and resound ‘wlth notes less in harmony with the melodious flute of peace." | _ But now, he asserted, with the conâ€" fidence born of their new armed strength they were preparing . to greets demands of justice and equaâ€" lity, which Italy or Germany might make, as "an insupportable surprise". He said events had confirmed his previously expressed suspicions that British Prime Minister Chamberâ€" lain‘s formula of "peace by negotiaâ€" tion" rapidly was changing to one of "peace with intimidation". Great Britain‘s huge expenditure for her army, Gayda continued, "anâ€" nounces the firm intention of Engâ€" land to transfer herself to the conâ€" tinent with land forces." He said that, considering the "new evident aim of the united democraâ€" cies to unloose an offensive shortly," Italy could only provide herself with new armaments, as she recently anâ€" nounced she was doing. Asserting the democracies were pouring "tens of milliards" (billions) into armaments, Gayda said "every investment demands a profit, espeâ€" clally in capitalistic regimes which are called democratic. The profit of milliards spent for" cannon is offenâ€" sive war." Phone 4517 _ 48 Ontarie 3t. 8. ‘"‘Everything proves the great deâ€" mocracies are moving speedily toâ€" ward war," he wrote in La Voce d‘Italia. _ROME.â€"A flat charge the great democracies are preparing to start a war shortly to destroy the totalitarâ€" ian states was made by Virginio Gayâ€" da, Fascist editor who often reflects Premier Mussolini‘s thoughts. i Financial Service Lmrxhvifi its extensive Statistical 0 tion and its fifteen years‘ erience in the financial advisory ;:El, is in the best positior to give you the necesâ€" sary information to help form your investment policy. WE HAVE NOTHING TO SELL j EXCEPT FINANCIAL | INFORMATION _ FINANCIAL_ SERVICE LIMITED Says Britain Is Planning War Investigate & . . BEFORE . . . You Invest GOLD MINES LTD. 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