Page 3 THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAER, B.6, Thursday, January 19, 1856, By R. J. SCOTT | ESITORTALS Relieve The Land Taxes — land, income, sales, whether they are of the “hidden” variety or right out in the open, have - Plagued citizens of every country for centuries, Per- force we are all forced to admit they are a necessary evil if a government is to provide services for the People, but there has always been wide disagreement on their application. If a tax is placed on cabbages, then all the cabbage-eaters in the land will claim that a hardship is being worked on them because of the chance that they were born with a liking for the vegetable. JUG, There is little likelihood of such a tax being im- A PITCHER posed though, because those responsible for balancing See the budget would realize that the cabbage-tax would JUG SCOTT'S SCRAP BOOK 7 if pe at he Lilly pul We ke en if 7A = > 1 u | AYO ARE PLACED on oP of At CRUDE Hu’ UAL SERVE AS HOMES FoR ARMENIAN PLASANS merely result in people turning to brussels sprouts, SLANG, and away would fritter the source of government asansent income, Because of its very security, one of the basic tax- able items has been land. Bar volcanic eruptions or . = we SZ Z = tla DorMouse gets 15 NAME. FRO) MTS DROWSINESS For Letters to The Editor AGREES WITH COLUMNIST Horsefly, B.C. January 14, The Editor, The Tribune Williams Lake, B.C. Dear Sir: With regards your editorial ‘Judge it on Merit’ which ap- peared in your last issue, it seems to me that you haye not quite understood the full idea that Mr. Drinkell was trying — ably, in my opinion — to put across in The Forum of the same date. It seems to me that Mr. Drin- kell’s main objection to a five year appropriation is that it les- sens the control on spending that can be exercised by the tax- 1956.| everybody and not merely the more provident of our citizens who are proving their confidence in the district by land or busi ness investments. I know that in the past it has been demon- strated that a Poll Tax is often uneconomic — owing to collec- tion costs — and very danger- ous procedure for any politigal Party in power, but some means should be found to see that everyone contributes his mite towards education. The lumber industry is certainly contribut- ing considerably towards local Prosperity with its big payrolls but it is equally certainly bring- ing into the district a large number of transient employees Williams Lake Tribune Established: 1931 - Clive Stangoe, Editor Published every Thursday at” Williams Lake,-B.C., by the Tribune Publishing Co. Subscription: per year $2.50 Outside Canada _____ $3.00 Advertising rates on application Authorized as Second Class Mail by the Post Office Department, er or rented houses and con- tribute precisely nothing to- wards the cost of their chilren’s schooling. Let us have some sort of di- rect taxation so that the costs are more equally shared. Yours truly, water erosion, the land is always with us. Any debt incurred on land will eventually be paid off in normal economic times since title cannot be transferred with- out the litle matter of such indebtedness being paid off. But the land tax formula can b abused, particu- S$ Working land is an pense against production, and like other expenses, if it cannot be controlled in relation to gross turnover of money crop, it can reach a point where the owner of the-land is facing a grave crisis in his operaion. This is particu- larly true where taxes for designated purpose are im- Posed on the land. Such taxes are the share of a district’s educational costs and hospital costs, where a hospital improvement district exists. With designated tax expenses, the land tax rapidly loses its relation to land value or value of productivity, and becomes tied to service costs that rise in direct Proportion to the population increase. Such has been the case in our own area. A second 4 basic industry, Iumbering, hove on the economic scene and soon grew to a giant of productivity. Here was an industry though that employs far more people than ranching, and yet at the same time operates off Crown land in most instances. The result has been paricularly Heticeable, service cost wise, in the growth of school population and the necessary facilities. Although paying its fair share of provincial costs through stumpage and other charges, the industry Tesponsible for the increased service cost is not con- tributing directly to the district’s share of this cost. The burden is still on the land, which has not increased its capacity to earn any more for the owner. Department of education officials are prone to point out that the provincial government pays some- thing like 75 percent of the cost of education in the district, a statement which is true, but does not alter the unfairness of the present formula. If the landowner was having difficulty paying 25 percent of the cost of education last year, the fact that the government is 5 WOLIES DORMANT ALL WinfER. TST ag Tn de, te gt ser The Cracker Barrel Forum By A. J. Drinkell people who could fill this entire issue con- testing last week’s leading editorial. if they could tip their hats to the Directors of the Cariboo Cattlemen's Association for deciding to force a show down on the matter of school taxation. cramped position in the editorial Just Looks We have no doubt there are a number of The boys, however, would be quite happy Unfortunately, in our Yon ONY Dresent | aee;: gentlemen, tail but this y a wag of the do — proudly dog-house the best we can man-|— vigorously — joyfully. From the Files of The Tribune H. Poston has been notified and Coroner— W Shop has been -taken over by ONE YEAR AGO January 20, 1955 | A record attendance of 65 members und S$ guests attended the annual m nd banquet Stipendiary Magistrate Cecil by the Attorney-General’s = envy: 5 u of the. Willi d of ment of his appointment as in: Small Debts Court Magistrate, ~ "| formed th Board Tr Judge of the Juvenile, Court, ee ee On trate that the main street of the village is to be paved in the spring— The Williams Lake Garage has been 's Coffee Mr. and Mrs. Ken Wells of Princeton— The switchboard at 100 Mile House hag been re- Placed with an-imprdgea ee going to contribute 75 percent of any increased costs he authorizes is going to be small solace. His argument is that there should be a are(or the cos distribution purchased by George Lefrancois = WEARS AGO y 16, 1936 “ofthe 25 percent district sharefof the cost. “With this argument we agr The land, particu- larly the type in this area that is suitable almost solely for ranching, is bearing too great a burden of service cost. Whatever formula is reached in trying to equalize this cost burden, we think it will have to be done soon if a valuable industry is to be maintained in a healthy state. New Deal For Road Users? The Minister of Highways recently added to his departmental staff a Victorian newspaperman, who will act as an executive assistant or in a similar capaciy. Eyebrows have been raised in certain quarters over the appointment, perhaps because of a feeling that the new man’s job will be to present the department, its works, and especially its minister in the most favorable public light. In other words, the administrative assist- ance will be public relations or, more baldly propa- ganda. The indefatigabe Mr, Gaglardi appears to be quite capable of conducting his own public relations. To his undoubted talents .as a stump orator, he adds blazing faith in his own department’s work and the ability to stamp hard and often on his critics. But the department’s own public relations are entirely another matter. The room for improvements, in fact, is so vast as to tax the energies of a one-man bureau. _ The traditional policy of the department seems to have been a curious mixture of over-centralization of authority and of a brusque none-of-the-public’s busi- ness attitude. Thus employees in the field have been afraid to Say anything and headquarters at Victoria has had no Mechanism through which information could be chan- neled to the public. The result has been confusion everywhere, in emergencies particularly. Reliable information on highways conditions has been almost impossible to procure by such agencies as boards of trade serving the travelling public. In Vernon, for instance, all during the past sum- mer there existed complete confusion over the actual conditions to be encountered by the public when pro- ceding towards Revelstoke and beyond. Revelstoke, only 100 miles away, is in a different administrative district and information could just not be obtained quickly. Tourists and travellers have an outrageous habit of wanting to take off for their destinations when they want to go and not necessarily when they could be guaranteed safe conduct on the Queen’s Highways, bridges, and ferries. If a really earnest attempt will be made by the new appointee to bring order from the present chaos and to give local authorities reasonable freedom to Miss M. Grubb’ was rj turned as President of Williams\Lake Li- brary Association— Contract for hauling mail between Ash- croft and Quesnel has been ta- ken over on a temporary basis by S. Smith of Quesnel— Mrs. Thomine Mikkelsen, long time | resident of Horsefly passed awa | at her home in her 78th year— 187 babies were born in War| Memorial Hospital during 1954 | — Maurice Fortier, a Barney Barron, of Chilcotin has sold his ranch to Rexford Moon and will leave for the coast— Ole Kendon, of Spring- house suffered a severely cut wrist while chopping wood at his cabin— Nature Scrapbook By Bill Myring former Haney youth lost his life in a logging accident near 100 Mile— Pussy willows are out on the other side. of the lake— ater which a fresh- es into its stomach is that which accompapies its food. The idea that a fish drinks water comes from the “‘gulping’ of water which a fish does as it breathes — the ‘taking in’ of water through. its mouth cavity and the ‘expelling’ of water through its gill openings. Salt- water fish do ‘drink’ water. Since the water in which they live tends to draw the less salty body fluids out of the’ fish, they take in water more constantly and excrete the salt through special cells in their gills. FREE delivery FIVE YEARS AGO January 25, 1 Town barbers raised the price of haircuts from 75 to 85cents — Constable Fred Gregor has joined the Williams Lake de- tachment of the RCMP— Mrs, T. Bishop was re-eleéted presi- dent of the Ladies Curling Club — George Owen and Mel Mat- chette, Public Works mechanics, were forced to spend the night on foot in a blizzard when their truck broke down eighteen miles from Tatla Lake— Represent- ing the Indian population of the Interior, 60 Chiefs gathered in council at Sugar Cane to frame a brief to the Dominion Govern- ment expressing their unta- vourable reaction to the pro- posed Bill 267, a revision to the Indian Act— A federal health grant of $3000 towards the cost of construction of the Alexis Creek Outpost hospital has been approved by the Minister of Health and Welfare— CHANGE IN SCHEDULE effective - February 15, 1956 for local Delivery WHEN ORDERING BY MAIL OR PHONE BE SURE TO SPECIFY YOUR BRAND provide on-the-spot information of general interest, (Subject to consent of the then the new organization will amply vindicate its|] Public Utilities Commission) PILSENER, U.B.C. BOHEMIAN establishment.—Vernon Ne ON ALL ASCADE, OLD STYLE, LUCK ROUTES LN BRITISH COLUMBIA Niquidet Transport Any objection may be filed 4 i Superintende PACIFIC BREWERS AGENTS WILLIAMS LAKE _ HORSEFLY with the Superintendent BREWERS ties Commission, B.C., up to February 5, 1956. For full information contact Williams OFFICE — Greyhound Bus Depot, winiams Lake Phone: 62R-2, town — Horsefly 3. snort 1 long Mail - Freight and Passenger Service | ¢ . 7 = | $l This advertisement is not pub- lished or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Govern- ment of British Columbia. | Motor Carriers, Public Utili- | | Greyhound Depot, wake, payers and cannot prevent a pos- sible expenditure of the whole fiive years’ grant in — say — three years and then saddle the taxpayers with a demand for a supplementary grant. Nor do you seem to have grasped his illus- tration using ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul.’ Nobody would expect that the whole precise amount ot money voted to each project would in the final issue be used exactly as originally allocated. who live in either company own- Donald K. Peters. Pacific Great Eastern Railway Co. Through: : 3 between VANCOUVER, B.C. and PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. ° Including Sleeping & Dining Car Service Prince George - Squamish Dock April 24 to September 24 inclusive ene | 30 a.m.-Mon-Wed-Frid & Express Service : Ly-Vancouver (Union Pier) 9 The fear is that the trustees,,||ll 7 wittiams Lake 5:20 a.m.-Tues-Thurs-Sat < having an unaccustomed amount Ly-Williams Lake ~ 5:60 a.m.-Tues-Thurs-Sat of money at their disposal, may Ar-Prince George 1:30 p.m.-~Tues-Thurs-Sat become ‘nigger rich’ and spend Ly-Prince George 4:00 p.m.-Tues-Thurs-Sat 80 much on an originally. un- Ly-Willianis Lake 11:20 p.m.-Tues-Thurs-Sat endowed Piul that when Peter Ar-Williams Lake 11:50 p.m.-Tues-Thurs-Sat i Ar-Vancouver (Union Pier) 6:30 p.m.-Wed-Fri-Sun asks for his inheritance it will 15e Bee THROUGH FREIGHT SERVICE oe é ad Lv - Vancouver - Mon-Wed-Frid Then comes the» point on Ar - Wma. Lake - Wed-Frid-Sun which your whole editorial re- Free Pickup and Delivery on Freight and Express volves, that it would not be ul FOUR DEPARTMENTS erendum because the manner of To Serve You— its financing are objectionable (Surely, your use of the word ‘veto’ is strictly out of order as no group has this extreme power.) If this reterendum is passed without an outery as to its financing (and how else can a practical form of objection be shown?) no reason will exist in the Government's opinion for not continuing to add and add to the land taxes as a source of school revenue. Would you howl if it were suggested that the money should be raised by a tax on ‘wsprint? The point is that theré is no other effective way to register disapproval of school financing. 2 * Groceries ° Menswear ie Dry Goods | *° Hardware MACKENZIES LTD. In another letter to your pa- per Mr. Norton Olsson, suggests an increase on stumpage as a means of raising the required ieee This in view of his fig- ures regarding the main source of local revenue seems to be a very fair argument but this does not to me go far enough. It seems obvious to me that pro- viding the school revenue should be a burden to be carried by A Few Pointers on Using Your ’Phone 1. BEFORE RINGING THE OPERATOR: If on a party line, lift the receiver to find out if the line is in use. Then replace the receiver. TO CALL THE OPERATOR: With the receiver on the hook, give one long, vigorous ring of about three seconds duration, WHEN THE CALL IS FINISHED: Hang up the receiver and turn the crank vigorously and continuously for about three seconds to let the operator know that the line is free so she can disconnect, N ad THIS RING-OFF IS IMPORTANT, as otherwise the operator 2 G will report your line as “busy” to anyone trying to call you. BRITISH COLUMBIA TELEPHONE COMPANY