7 f i i tre ees ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS_AND MATSQUI NEWS Best Tea Serve the “SALADA TEA The Relief Expenditure Burden With the Federal elections over and the political complexion of the next Parliament of Canada defined, the government of the country will be faced with a number of important problems to decide, and not the least of these is the question of the steps which must be taken to ease the debt burden of governmental units in Western Canada. By governmental units is meant the governments of the provinces and of the municipalities, urban and rural. During the past five years the public finances of the Western Canadian provinces and of the municipalities, which are their creatures, have been strained to the breaking point to meet the problems which drought and general unemployment have brought in their train. Not only has the public purse of the Western provinces and of the municipalities been depleted in the struggle to ensure that their citizens should not starve, freeze or go shelterless in their grim fight against great odds, but they have been obliged to pledge their future resources, to an alarming extent, to enable the citizens of the present generation to keep their heads above water, In the three prairie provinces millions of dollars have been spent to furnish a ial pi of the p ion with food, fuel and cloth- ing, and in the urban centres wtih shelter as well; and this, despite the fact that the Federal government has also contributed large sums to bolster up the p and the icipali in their fight to ensure the necessities of life for their people. In addition, however, to the money which has been expended out of current reven) these p ial and gov 's have pledged many more millions of dollars against the credit of the future earning power of the people, a debt which will have to be liquidated in the future either by the taxpayers of to-day or by the rising generation, or a combina- tion of both. Without going into statistics which, at the best, make dry reading, it is axiomatic to say that the indebtedness which has been piled up on this count, directly and indirectly, reaches a staggering total and has passed the figure which is within the competence of these governmental units to meet from existing resources. One of the conditions contributing to the existing condition of the finances of the Western provinces and icipali' is the i ity of the distribution of the tax burden as between individual taxpayers and the inequitability of the distribution of the bases of taxation as between the federal, provincial and municipal governing entities. abt | The financial situation which has developed as a result of these inequali- ties is one which will have to be faced and remedied by the newly-elected Parliament if the Western provinces and municipalities are to remain sol- vent and are to be enabled to extricate themselves from a position which has become intolerable. So far as the municipal governments are concerned, their financial plight has been accentuated by practical limitation to realty as, at least, the principal tax base, and this applies to both rurals and urbans, only in dif- ferent degree. Land has more than passed the limit of its endurance as a source of revenue for governments. Other spheres of taxation are denied to the municipalities, and this is one discriminatory feature which will have to be remedied. In seeking additional sources of revenue municipalities are cramped by legislative action of their superior provinces and the provinces in turn are hampered by Federal authority. What is needed is a nation-wide conference in which the municipalities can get together with the provinces and the Dominion and, in a spirit of tolerance and recognition of the difficulties of one another, come to an agreement which will provide for specific delimitation of spheres of taxation and a definite understanding that the several governmental units will not in future encroach upon one another’s taxation preserves. This i should be into legislative enactment and if it involves amendments to the British North America Act, as undoubtedly it would, efforts should be made to secure the necessary sanction. The problem of relief, it has been reiterated by competent authorities time and again, is a national one. The provinces have said so. The urban municipalities have said so and the rural municipalities hold the same view, even if they have not adopted resolutions in convention to that effect. If the Federal government is not prepared to recognize the situation Beauty In Old Londany eae Pictures Of Infinite Variety Can Be Seen From Great Bridges Old St. Paul's, perched high on Ludgate Hill, oncey a commanding position, is being gradually crowded out by other buildings. The most im- pressive sight of Wren's venerable cathedral is that looking from Fleet- street up Ludgate Hill, I have heard jaded newspaper men, familiar with Fleet-street at all hours of the day and night, grow lyrical about the loveliness of that glimpse of St. Paul's at dawn, A great white London seems to have sprung up like magic. But it has not obliterated the past, and one of the charms of a walk through the city is thé” unexpected glimpses one gets through its narrow courts and alleys of old taverns, little shops, and ivied churches that have stood unchanging through the centuries. It has been said that one cannot walk a hundred yards in London without seeing a bunch of trees. That is almost completely true. In fact, there are enough trees in the London streets and squares to make up, if placed together, a very respectable forest. Who has ever noted that there are over seventy trees in the Strand? But nothing excels the river views. Wherever one looks, or from what- ever angle of the seven great bridges from the Tower to Lambeth, there is picture after picture of infinite variety and beauty. At night, when the Embankment sparkles with its thousand lights, the view from the bridges of London’s curving water- front has the quality of pure magic. No Whistler nocturne could do it justice —Overseas Daily Mail. { Making An Empire Britain Did Not Accomplish It By Force Of Arms Signor Mussolini adroitly sought to weaken the influence of British efforts to avert war with these words: “My only desire is to serve my coun- built up the British Empire.” but in small parties, named James Cook. legs of a hostile native. the invasion of Australia. day; Spars For Royal Yacht dressed, where they are destined for Hii in the west as a national problem, the only alternative is for the Federal government to make it possible for the p i and ici: jes to Majesty's yacht Britannia. liquidate past, present and future expenditures by providing them with the machinery to levy the money where the money is available. The industry United States produced $44,000,001 worth of aircraft and parts in 1934. try as did the great Englishmen who But the great Englishmen, lacking aero- planes and poison gas, went into the unknown lands, not in vast numbers, Once a few of them came to Australia with a man They did not blow the aborigines to pieces with cannon, but found it sufficient when opposed to fire a few pellets into the That was It can hardly be described as a conquest by force of arms. True, here and there in the Empire there has been fight- ing, and in the dark past deeds have been done which people of British blood would not dream of doing to- but it is to the solitary ex- plorer.and to little bands of naviga- tors that the making of Empire must be credited——Melbourne Australasian. Two huge spars of Douglas fir, one 103 feet and the other 90 feet, have been shipped from Cowichan Lake to Great Britain, in the Serum For Paralysis Domonstration Is Made Of New Treatment For Dread Disease A serum he said was as positive and effective in the treatment of in- fantile paralysis as the serum widely used in treating diphtheria was demonstrated by Dr, E. C. Rosenow of the Mayo Foundation, University of Minnesota, before members of the Kentucky State Medical Association. The serum, Dr. Rosenow told the physict and is the result of 19 years of experi- mentation and while it does not com- pletely solve the problem it is effec- tive when used within 48 hours after the disease is contracted. Within that period it is as effective and positive as the serum used for diph- theria, Dr, Rosenow said. , Dr. A. T. McCormack, secretary of the Kentucky state board of health, said the demonstration made by Dr. was “pretty ? 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Cars carrying 200 pas- sengers leave a station every three minutes. Rear Admiral Byrd Says Dominion try flyers was paid at Toronto by Rear-Admiral Byrd, famous United States Antarctic explorer. to Mayor 's civic reception outside of city hall, Admiral Byrd said Canadians knew more of polar flying than any other pilots. snow and ice and in sub-zero weather made them excellent pilots for Arctic or Antarctic expeditions, he said. combines the best features of the slot machines are magnified, so that Automatic Lauds Canadian Flyers Pilots Best For Arctic Exploration A tribute to Canada’s north coun- Replying S mystery, is built on a little island Pi Tokio's subway| not far from Mombasa, in the Kenya Colony. The streets of this strange municipality, which are so narrow that the sun scarcely even shines in them, are lined with the ruins of — many palaces. 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