Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 5, 1920, Winnipeg, Manitoba Section pages 17 to 30 Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights wednesday May printed and Publ Lslie Man Lloyn free comr by. Limited a joint Stock company incorporated under tie Lawn of mini Toft. It Titt lid office Anil no Nib of business 300. S12. Sot and Carlton Street in the City of . Manl Tom. B. I. Mack in. Frea silent Lind general Reri Ateret at the general Post of flee. London. Kor. For transmission through the Maile in the British at Inland Revenue rates. The Hudson s Bay company he Celebration by the Hudson a s Bay company their two Aud anniversary has had the effect among other s of drawing the attention of tic people of Manitoba to the development of their province and the background which the development has proceeded. The corporate of Manitoba goes Only fifty years before Fonfeder i the province was part of he immense territory of Eupert s and these territories had been traversed and opened up to and european influence by the Hudson s Bay trading n is during a preceding period of nearly two centuries the r a topical narrative of the activities of the company extending the shores of Hudson Bay right across the Canadian Coti the . Mainland South to the site upon which san Francisco now stands and North to the Mackenzie and Macfarlane overs tiie City caller who Lias never been away from the influences and conveniences of City life some of the extent of Canadian hinterland and the conditions under which the first settlements on the Prairies were . We cling now tracks of the railways and concentrate our existence in a narrow strip of territory the perusal of the Hudson s Bay Story will give Many of u some faint of the Gigantic terrain stretching to the Arctic i rom Zinent to is at our backyard and which has hardly changed the first Hudson s Bay posts were built two centuries ago and has hardly Felt at All the influences modern civilization. The Hudson s Bay company was chartered As a trading enter or rebut a company operating in a uncivilized country and a country so Rich and favourable to settlement could not remain a acre commercial Enterprise. To succeed it was necessary that the company and its officers should become intimately connected with us he and social conditions of the territories in which they oper i de and it is to the records of the company that he historian must now turn who would Trace the his tory of the North West. The objects of the com Pany did not favor a policy of settlement being but it was one of the company s c4overnors, nevertheless who first saw the great agricultural possibilities of the Prairie and who brought the first settlers to Manitoba. Lord Selkirk had a vision head of his Day he was not understood by his contemporaries his settlements at Kildonan fared hard but it is not necessary to mention that his settlements struck their roots into soil and flourished. The City of Winnipeg is still in its youth but it supplies a sufficient proof that lord Selkirk s ideas about the suitability of. Manitoba As a Centre of civilization were fairly veil founded. The connection of Llie company with Winnipeg needs to text embed comment. Winnipeg is in effect the creation of the company. It was Hudson s Bay officials who originally settled he District it the old forts built by the i Larry and port the nucleus of the modern City is formed. Within the last fifty years the City has spread to such an extent that the old landmarks of its origin been almost lost hut it is of some significance that at least one important civic development in will have to be in direct conjunction with the old company if it is to be done at All that is in connection with the projected mall which is to Portage Avenue South to the new parliament buildings on the Assiniboine the Selkirk settlers of the Kiel re Bellion and the birth of Manitoba and of the High Points of political history since that time. There is a very informative Page epitomize no fifty years of telling of the Piralic school opened in 1871 and now of Public schools University and agricultural College of the first crop report of 1876, when bushels of wheat Are recorded and that of last year of wheat. Railways electrical conveniences 834 manufacturing and Many other is sniff cant facts Are noted. But the brochure has remarkably Little of the Blue Book flavor of esp the necessity of bearing upon Statis tics. Every Page is an incentive of further Reading of so Replete with the color and Romance of adventure the dynamic feeling of growth is never lost. This latter Success May be due in a Large de Gree to the very Fine illustrations and to the glowing bits of poetry which Mark each Page. The pictures which alone make the pamphlet Well preserving arc of Henry Hud Sou Simeur de la Veren fire lord Sel Kirk red River cart old port Garry without and lord Dufferin Winnipeg in 1870, Hunting the Buffalo new parliament buildings har Vest scene and armistice Day in Winnipeg. The Frontis piece is . Tha Prince of Wales captioned As the Prince of Canada a not unfitting Symbol in his Youthful and quiet dignity of the Young province. Speaking at the banquet to the company s employees on May 1. Sir Robert Kindersley the present governor referred to the the company intend building a huge company building on a site on Portage which stands right in the Way of the proposed Jalall. It the store is Ever built 011 this site the mall will impossibility. Sir Robert said the store would Cost about to build in deference to the projected mall building was being delayed until it was definitely announced whether or not the mall Vas to be constructed. There is no doubt but that the mall project Mould go through. It would ensure this City the Broad Central which is absolutely essential to its successful building development sir Robert. The company were anxious to go to work speedily on their Portage store and if the mall is to be built it will mean that the company will have to give up a portion of their ground and move their building farther his the project definitely to a decision and a reasonable time possibly in the next twelve months the civic and provincial authorities Able to icy intend to construct the mall or not. The Hudson s Bay company remains a notable institution i in Ana Ian life. It is in a flourishing condition and sees before it Fields of Endeavor and new opportunities of service to the country it helped to establish. Its anniversary this year has been the outstanding incidents in the history of Manitoba. Registration of voters the citizen. In la Kins care to so enrolment on the voters Lis a. Making provision for something of s3.000 up to per annul. And published by messes whilst All incomes in excess of larger at three Dolla look 3-Ickenna, whether new one or a reprint i do not s published in London at three and ii Spence and in new York at a Dol a and seventy live cents. There is a quo per annul Are subject to a sur in a characteristic fantasy in the new statesman. Hillaire Belloc re Calls m. Taine saying about a bit of Renan one cannot see Bow it is so or. Belloc and tax at the rate of from 52 to 65 per with Paun maker and his forces in which eight members of the Volun Teer Force and some fifty indians were remains of Lieut. C. S win Ford and pet. A. M. Ferguson were brought into the City arrangements for interment at St. John s Steamer i Northcote which had been s traded on a Sandbar reached Clark s Cros j sing with arme Hospital stores and i cent. This Means that an unmarried i supplies delaying the Advance person or widow or widower without dependent children whose annual in come is. Say is entitled to an exemption of and liable for a Normal tax of four per cent on and eight per cent on i.e., in come exceeding and a. Surtax of one per cent on 2 per Zient. On 3 per cent on or a total tax amounting to can see verse i whilst the tax of a married person or persons with dependent children. Earning the same income would be computed on similar basis with the exception that the statutory exemption increased to and an additional. Exemption is granted of s2 00 for each child under is years of a. The taxpayer is entitled to deduct Orn his annual income amounts paid during the year to the patriotic Ami s done has he not done All kinds i or of Good Verso Himsel by but he can not see How poetry is done. How s a startling of the soul produced by the collocation of a few simple words what essences it in their sound and to Weir order which opens he blinding doors of or. Belloc can imagine the Binger of some i in mortal song saying i Lave awkward manners and a fool so. Smile. I cannot earn More than t few hundreds a year and my father Eft me nothing Imong you a i. I Cut a poor figure but i have myself Nade i am therefore the Complete possessor father and master of something entirely different from anything which you command whether you command wealth or lineage or Beauty or any of the talents which Delight Mankind in song or in instrument of music or with the pen or even in building. I surpass you All Lor i wrote this that and the other thing and it will stand or. Belloc adds that of All boasts Short of virtue it is the or Oidest boast a Man can Well solitary i Ould never imagine a immortal Singer looking out on the world and boasting of his Genius. And be sides Hwesi once the immortal song is out of him he world is a. Joint owner. The song is his and ours us our children s children s. I doubt if a poet has the moral right to tinker with has captured the hearts of All readers. But some poets have revised in cold blood to the lyrical undoing of phrases and lines which had become he Possession of hosts of readers. Let me conclude with an old song toy the Manx poet. How it haunts us the year round summer or no sum Mer o Bia Debird what a Iboy you Are How you do go it blowing your Bugle to that one Sweet Star. How you do blow it1. And does she hear you Blackbird Iboy so ? or is it wasted breath Good Ord she is so Bright the repeat or. Belloc what essence is it in their sound and their order which opens the blinding doors of the Book Max. Balance of naval Power. Are i Ball Hurd in the Kay it Lias never been the custom of rations to build against allies and therefore there is no possibility of Lompoc Tiniou with Japan and the United states is something More than in ally and we can. Therefore Rule Cut the american Navy. Whether the league of nations be comes an instrument for composing the nations or not. It is impossible that any circumstances should arise which would aut tiny Peoples the two going English speaking to War. Are forced by every consideration there fore to Rule out any thought of Corn petition in naval armaments with the americans and the japanese. M e have never measured our naval strength against that of. The. United states and Japan. Why should we do so now what other of the first class Emain there Are Only French and the both these countries which Are in Alliance with us. Have been forced by their absorption in the War on land to neglect their naval forces. We have inherited from the War a Navy so Strong in ships and in men that there is no occasion for anxiety As to the future. We can adjust a two or three Power Standard in out minds and yet find that the actual strength goes far beyond it. We possess a supreme Fleet with a Martin of. Safety which is indeed larger than Over existed before. Have to do is to keep alive spirit in this country and maintain the. Jayy league in condition so that if the occasion arises to a Chance in the International situation As it May Well arise sooner than some of us imagine the whole organization May be mobilized and used ii any emergency. red Cross funds and other and War funds which have Een approved by the minister of Mance. From the amount of income tax which would otherwise be payable taxpayers Are entitled to deduct the amount paid to great. Britain or any of its self governing colonies or dependencies for income tax in respect of the income o f the taxpayer de from sources therein and the amount paid to any foreign country for income tax in respect of the in come of the taxpayer derived from sources Therin if and Only ifs such foreign country in imposing such tax allows a similar credit to persons in of income derived from sources within Canada. The income derived from any pen Sion granted to any member of his majesty s military naval or air forces for any disability suffered by the pensioner whilst serving in any of his majesty s forces during the War begun in August 1914, and the income derived from any pension granted to any dependent relative of any person who was killed or suffered any disability whilst serving in the forces in this War is exempt from taxation. For the present purpose income May the roughly divided into two classes namely a wages salary or other fixed amounts b profits from Trade commercial or or other business or Call ing interest dividends or profits received from Money at interest upon any Security or from stocks or other investments. From income described under class the Only deductions allowed Are the statutory exemption of or As the Case May be. And allowance for each dependent child under is ape and amounts subscribed to patriotic funds under class b deductions May be on account of carrying charges interest and taxes on vacant lands and in the Case of rentals received from Tene ment property All carrying charges such As taxes repairs and insurance Etc. The act requires that every person whose income is in excess of the Gen. Middleton and troops. Thirty years ago Donald .3roley Bros were Given the contract for construction of the Duluth and Winnipeg rail amended to proposition for construction of a water Power on the Assiniboine River was presented to City Council approved of the holding of an exhibition during the Kyan Arthur Wickson and w. K. Mulock wore elected officers of the Bible society. Twenty five years ago Aid. Kennedy gave permission to the promoters of the holy Trinity lodging Hoxie to utilize an area of land in fort Rouge for the growing of potatoes and vegetables by the patrons of the Toms and j. Mccracken Wero elected Secretary and treasurer respectively of the Winnipeg typographical Union. Plumbers of the City were on s Trike for a nine hour Day and wages of a the Law society examinations e. A Taylor. A. 11. Dubuc and f. To. Sharpe were called to the bar. Twenty years ago the carpenters of the City asked an increase of wages from 30 to cents per fire water and Light committee recommended to Council the acceptance of the tender of Gamewell and company for in stalling r fire alarm Don ., was wiped out by fire. The league before the people from Twig Xci York loom senator Johnson has chosen to interpret his victories in the West and his Brave showing in new Jersey As a test of the the Day before yesterday he thanked god that it was no longer a disgrace to Call one s self an american. As Johnson reads the temper of Tiia country it is determined to hold this Republic inviolate against the Wiles of european and Asiatic and refuses to make the Republic subordinate to a Junta of diploma s sitting in Geneva or the straight Challenge to the John son Dogma was immediately Forth coming. It came from the Only other Republican candidate of outstanding Hoover. As the Johnson Ian policy of a. Washing of hands Hoover asserted the higher and More permanent american Faith no greater mistake can be than the Assumption that our people Russell Lang s we Lith oldest and in la Jok ship Somerset jumir., Moth Fri Day to or not sunday Punj try Are Showl Nic Nice of whose income is in excess of ill great intr cards on who statutory exemption shall on or before Jab Rii lit sentiment n or a fit rite twin Pant suit will cure that shabby feeling tailored in All the new styles from the conservative three Button business Man s sack to the Ultra fashionable English Model with one but ton. Now As to the new imported Tvr eeds worsted and Serges. They Are fit Kite tailored which Means the Best linings and trimmings that Money can buy. And this is important. Pit rite tailored suits Are guaranteed to keep their shape. Suit prices just what you wish to to the 30th of april in each year with-1 out notice or demand make a return i of income received during the last eur when card my we preceding Calendar year and every , lint the enjoyment " i 1 Farmer Villi lie. Tiit the Wiik by in is ii or you will our Booc Miles the person required to make a return of their income who fails to do to the time limited is subject to a Burlington watch 21 jewels exclusively sold on easy terms from our own store 338 Portage ave. Penalty of 25 per cent of the amount j nil Ftp to the n it Tenro Ogk to it Llu. Of the tax payable. In the act. There is a provision for a penalty of a Day where return of income is not to the government in the Cassol such persons who would not have been subject to taxation owing to deductions claimed if they had the necessary return. An also required to make a return of All Well known. Persons in their employ receiving any weddings tote Short Jere of wedding our will us ii Tel this Wedi Hujer of i in Why. Salary or remuneration any portion of which is liable to taxation. In accordance with the provisions of the act the. Minister of finance shall on or before the 31st of october in each year or on or before such i other Date us he May in any Case pre scribe determine the several amounts payable for the tax and thereupon Send by registered mail such notice of assessment to the taxpayer. The act requires that the tax shall Bufi paid within one month from the Date of mailing of the notice of assess ment and in default a penalty of 5 per cent of the am unt of such tax is incurred and of 1 per cent shall be added for each month or portion thereof. During which the tax and penalty re main unpaid. you please. Shop closes lit g ., 10 For service see Fairbanks Rattray Ltd. Rental anti lock birthday congratulations to the boy scout movement from the guardian boy scouting will not. As a few of ardent eulogist suggest solve All our moral and social r difficulties. But it is one. Of the few great original social inventions of our time. It rests on real insight into the mind and soul of boyhood and to save is easy saving is a. Most beneficial habit and an easy one to acquire. Place a certain amount of your income in this Bank at regular intervals. Deposits have a marvelous Way of growing and in a Short time you will have a savings account of four figures. Imperial Bank main office of the training that it gives is attended North end Branch. J. H. Procter m.d., Virden born by the. Delight that fuses a new piece Westminster its. Scotland May 5, of knowledge right into the character Portage and Colony. Edinburgh t 1q1 so and makes it treasure for life. A. R. B. Hearn Muster. H. Robarts. W. J. Graham. Acting a. O. A. Belyea a inf ;