Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 12, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free Carrier in Winnipeg 2sc per week. Winnipeg Friday january 12, 1940 Price so per copy edition with Conics Loc has a different Man Pala Tabu taste homemade bread made from the finest ingredients Bryce bakeries Ltd. Phone 87088 and oar Oil ret Call Dolly Defice hotly charges neglect describing the defence depart ment s handling of separation allowances for mothers of soldiers As a horrible mess mayor John Queen said thursday that he had written a Strong letter of protest to Ottawa. The reason for the letter he said the discovery of the worst Case of neglect so tar. Four months ago a Young Man who had been sup porting his Mother quit his Job and enlisted in the camerons. He was promised at the Lime that his Mother would receive the separation allowance. No payment has yet been made and the Mother has been forced to apply for Relief. She is being taken care of by the Relief department. At Christmas a charitable organization gave the Mother a Turkey and the Rod Cross came to her Aid so Worth of groceries. The department seems to have lost All sight of the fact that these toys who have offered their lives for this country Are working people. They have no reserves. They can not Ati Orri to and wait for their he declared. He added that he is receiving com plaints daily from other mothers who cannot get their allowances. Plans for a Small but Gay wed Ding party were shattered. Thurs Day when the Fiancee of Edward Albert Weitzel arrived in Winni Peg from Beausejour with a num Ber of friends and found that her prospective husband was pacing a oel in the jail at City police Headquarters. Wishing to avoid visiting head quarters the Young Bride elect who police said was to have been married thursday sent a Friend to the jail to visit her Fiance. Whether or not wedding Bells will still ring for the couple de pends on How magistrate r. B. Graham deals with Weitzel when he sentences him in City police court. Saturday morning. With August Schirle Weitzel pleaded guilty Friday to three joint charges of theft of spare tires from parked automobiles. The stolen tires police said were to be used in the manufacture of door Mats. Lyons again head of big Brothers Robert Lyons was re elected president of the big Brothers association of greater Winnipeg at its first annual meeting thursday eight at 236 Edmonton Street. Other officers Are vice president Melville j. Rourke Secretary Stanley a. Steinmann treasurer Winston Talbot publicity chairman John Campbell new directors John Swan. F. Finer j. Rourke w. Talbot and w. J. William. Wartime s blow when things go wrong and repairs Are needed the first corps Field Park company. Royal Canadian engineers comes into its own. Top left sappers g. W. Thompson g. C. Keir and m. Adan Are shown working on a wounded motor top right sappers j. W. Percy w. Braunstein and f. Henry also hard at work lower left three More of the first corps sappers w. H. Campbell h. Allen and r. J. Mclean while lower right sapper g. Reeves proves the versatility of the company with a few deft touches on a suffering Boot. Dickens Fellowship Vances in travel modes advances made in methods of transportation since the Days of Dickens were brought noticeably to the fore. Thursday evening at the monthly meeting of the Dick ens Fellowship Winnipeg Branch in theatre a of the University building. As a prelude. To an illustrated lecture on sky trails of the Empire by Rev. W. G. Martin h. G. Wade showed slides of modes of transportation mentioned frequently in the stories of Dickens. Announcement was made of the annual dinner to be held at the Royal Alexandra hotel feb. 7, with Carlyle Allison As guest speaker. Among the Christmas greeting cards received by the local Branch was one All the Way from the Dickens club of Norway. It is by. J. H. Gray. This is budget balancing time at the City Hall and the hard pressed City fathers have figuratively speaking reserved a chair or those Amateur experts in civic affairs who know that our government is outrageously extravagant and that millions of dollars could be saved by the use of sound business with a deficit on its hands the finance committee would like to know where it could save even a few thousands. Balancing the budget is the big Gest annual headache of the City Council and the Layman glancing at the total of expenditures often mutters slash the whole thing 10 per but when they get Down to the estimates item by tem the slashing becomes All but possible. Each department of the City must include All its expenditures for the year Down to the last typewriter ribbon in its estimates. Thus Long Lefore the committees Ever see the now that the auxiliary services organized tinder the department of National defence Are really getting Down to work it is expected that the boys of the . Will soon learn to appreciate what is being done Lor them especially in the Way of entertainment. For this week two special attractions have been organized the first a saturday matinee at 2.30 . At the civic auditorium concert Hall when the University of Manitoba dramatic society will present you can t beat fun. Then sunday at 3 ., the War entertainment Board is staging a concert at the playhouse theatre. Both those pleasures Are available to ticket holders Only. These tickets Are limited to the seating capacity of tiie respective scenes of activity i but Are available a All orderly Morns free of charge to the troops. Each ticket includes the wife or girl Friend and All ranks Are advised to Contact their orderly rooms right away in order to secure the free invitations. Here and there among the troops notice the shoulder badge read . And probably Many people have wondered what it Steans. These letters refer to the military staff clerks who arc More less the office staff of the various District Headquarters and the department of National defence at Ottawa. In military circles they Are six non As the subordinate staff and whilst battalions brigades and Divi usually select their own sub yet the . Arc often upon to Supply men for these l positions. To qualify for a military staff clerk a Man must be a stenographer and be Able to meet a definite Standard of Speed and accuracy. They Are the office men the staff officers and therefore to All the correspondence which is so necessary to keep the Ball rolling. In . 10, Lieut. A. D. Mckay is in charge of the . This officer has three sons Allex High land cadets now serving with the ca.s.f., sgt. Wallace Mckay with the e.c.e., Halifax sgt. Colin Mckay with the -r.c.e., Calgary and pet. Gordon Mckay with the Cana Dian dental corps at Tuxedo bar Racks. The superintending clerk . Is t. H. Johnson who in the last War was overseas with the 8th King s Royal Irish Hussars. He came to Canada in 1921, joined the . . The same year and transferred to the . In 1922. Several Winnipeg lads Are on this sub staff including cps. C. Wey land w. Beech w. Binkley r Godfrey a. Cane and w. Grant the newest recruit is f. Devreux whose father was a member of the . With the Winnipeg grenadiers we find Lieut. A. W. Prendergast intelligence officer married Jan. -5 other marriages Are those of cps j w. Hallbert and h. K. Bluesman and pets. W. Thomson w. J. Tuckett and a. C. Linfield of c company also pet. W. Mcleod of d company Bondsman w. D. Holbrook has been transferred to the . Pet e g Starrett has been taken on strength from the . Paymaster and Lieut. R. M. Davies was admitted to Hospital Jan. 5 but should be on duty again this week end. Sergt. A. Boyd has been promoted to staff sergeant Cpl. R. O. N. Bull dog Drumond to sergeant and pet d Van male to Corporal. These Are All members of the orderly room staff. Saturday 20, the ladies auxiliary of b company will hold. A dance in the Garrison Drill Hall. This will be restricted to men in uniform and their friends. Inside Winnipeg estimates there Ead scratching. Is much frantic the departments classify their spending under the following headings personal ser vices salaries and outside services extra material supplies and repairs equipment additions and replacements truck and Auto expense and fuel Light water and Power. Before these items can be made up it is necessary to go Over All equipment and see what needs fix ing or replacing. The Engineer s department must make a Survey of City streets to estimate the amount of work required this item is Al ways drastically All departmental equipment is bought out of current income and is not capitalized. Starved for equipment most civic departments have been starving themselves for equipment these past few years. If they do in clude amounts for new trucks or cars the chances Are it will be Cut out by the finance committee unless it can be shown that the Purchase is imperative. Once the department head has his estimates All collected he will Call in the chairman of the committee which controls his department the two will go Over the accounts item by item arid the chairman will Sug Gest changes. Knowing the Strin gency of the financial situation he will often advise deletions. In. Previous year the next step has been to Send the estimates to the controlling committee. This committee again attacked the list in detail and the total appropriation was reduced. Then it was sent to the finance committee where every item was again scrutinized and wherever possible reduced process took weeks. Procedure changed this year under Strong Leader ship by mayor John Queen the procedure was changed. The Esti mates went direct to the Treasury department. It added them All up and notified the finance committee there was a deficit. Now the various committees will know the exact state of civic finances when they Are working on their figures. Anyone who thinks there is any log rolling on civic estimates of the aldermen ganging up arid support ing one committee s request in re urn for support of their own would be disabused of the idea by a single finance committee meeting. It quickly developed into a free for cutting Bee. As a general Rule the Heads of various committees put up a Strong Battle to get their Esti mates through intact. They have intimate knowledge of the working of their own departments and real ize How important each request for Money is. But when some other committee s budget comes along they Are All for cutting. Here is for a new fire truck. Let s Cut that out. The fire c i Parment can get along for another year surely. We can t afford that this some one will exclaim. Equipment wearing out the Heads of departments have been hearing that year after year after year. The fire department engines Are wearing out the garbage collecting trucks Are going to pieces the Engineer s trucks Are becoming obsolete. Motorists complain of the condition of the streets pedestrians want better sidewalks merchants want cleaner streets housewives want better garbage collection but none of them wants to pay for the service. For that reason the City has been operating on a starvation budget for 10 years. Exclusive of Relief and Relief debt charges the City will spend about less in 1940 than it did in 1930. Steinberg re elected jewish choir head j. Steinberg was re elected pres ident of the jewish Community choir at the annual meeting help recently in talmud torah. Others elected were vice president Cohen Secretary j. Blie social mrs. Musical chairman Mark Desser treasurer Max Des ser finance j. Altman librarian Ruby Baker recording Secretary Evelyn Haft publicity and pro or. S. Goodman attend Ance s. Leb sick and welfare mrs s. Linhart. B. Brownstone and m Jacob Are the choir directors. Loong Byrd from the int press Fitejr revenues Down costs increase a budget deficit of faces the City for 1940, h. C. Thompson City treasurer told the civic finance committee at a special meeting thursday. The first draft of the budget Calls for expenditures of with an estimated income of last year the budget was balanced at in his 1940 calculations the City treasurer assumed that the Golden to Bank of Canada it Cost 111 Canadian dollars to buy 100 . Dollars. The extra ten represents the depreciation of Canadian currency. The remain ing Dollar goes to the Bank of Canada to pay for the Cost of administration of the Exchange control. An article in the free press inadvertently said this extra Dollar went to the the chartered Banks Are not involved. Sixty years 12, 1880 a Toronto company had made application for a charter to construct a railway from the Falls of the Little Saskatchewan to Tui Rocky mountains with a Branch to the new Souris Coal Lodge Park was rejoicing Over the birth of a Young full blooded Buffalo Mother and son were both doing fifty years 12, 1890 the dynamos of the Northwest electric company which had the contract to illuminate Winnipeg had arrived pole and line work was going on speedily and the company expected to turn on the lights on the East Side of main Street within a week. Forty five years 12, j.s95 the prisoner of Zenda new popular novel by Anthony Hope had been secured for serial publication in the free Dempsey the nonpareil of prize ring was in new York train ing hard for his bout with Tommy Ryan welterweight. Forty years 12, the Lively farce Brown s in town was winning laughs at the Winnipeg theatre managed by c. P. Biography motion picture machine at. The grand theatre in Winnipeg. Was show icing views relating to South Africa and the Canadian contingent. Thirty five years Jan. 1905 the. Deputy King s Printer of British Columbia was suspended by Premier Dick Mcbride for Pur chasing Worth of Lead pen w. Harris was elected president of the Winnipeg baseball club and j. M. Lamb was re elected Secretary and manager. Thirty years 12, 1910 Glenn Curtiss broke two world s records in the great aviation meet at los. Angeles Santos do Rhone s eight second record by Ris Ingin within six and two fifths seconds after starting his motor and he ascended at feet from the starting Point whereas the previous record was 115 feet other contestants w6re Lou Iii Paul ban and Lincoln. Beachey. Twenty five years Jan. 12, 1915 efforts were being made to have the Canadian expeditionary Force re billeted or removed to France to finish training As it was Felt cold wet Bury Plain was affecting the health of the troops. Twenty years 1920 or. Gordon Bell provincial bacteriologist expressed his belief that the danger from sleeping sickness in Manitoba was abating.1 the most recent film sensation the Miracle Man was showing in Winnipeg stars Lon Chan Fly Betty Compson Thomas Meilaan and i Joseph Dowling Berg sinking fund plan would be used again this year that the entire City Hydro surplus of would be taken by the City and that the City assessment would be Cut with the finance committee to hear the bad news from the treasurer were chairmen of All standing committees. They were urged by chairman c. E. Simonite to go Over their departmental estimates immediately keeping the size of the deficit in mind and let the finance committee have their approved Esti mates in a week. Reduction in revenues reduction in anticipated revenues of accounted for More than the deficit. Increased expenditures Over last year amounted to there was a deficit of in the 1939 payment into the debt equalization fund and the balance was accounted for by Lack of a surplus carried Over from 1938 into the 1939 budget. Imp. Thompson estimated that the War would Cost the City in 19 10. Exchange premiums on inter est and principal payments would account for while it would Cost the utilities for special guards. The City Hydro is paying for guards and Exchange. The water works depart ment will have to stand forms share of the Cost of guarding against sabotage. Last year the City used of the workmen s compensation Reserve fund. This is not available this year. The Hydro surplus is Down to extraordinary expenditures because of the War. The reduction in the assessment will mean a loss of and there will be a reduction of income from the sinking fund of in 1938 the City included for its share of Relief costs. This year item is Cut to the social welfare commission cases however will take As compared with last year. Substantial increases have been made in the estimates of several departments. The fire department has asked for More and others As follows police health municipal Hospi tals Street maintenance school Board on the other hand the Royal visit took last year and this item is out of the budget taxes on City property Are Down and Bank interest will be off the following table shows the breakdown of the 1940 budget and comparative figures for 1939. It is not expected that the final 1939 figures will be available for some weeks but or. Thompson estimated that the expenditures would be within the estimates. 1940 1339 estimated estimated realty revenues general property Mills business tax tax Sale and tax property receipts proceeds debt redemption equalization fund miscellaneous Revenue surplus from 1938 10 expenditures general government Protection of persons and property. Health and sanitation highways and bridges.-. Education Public charities. Undistributed debt charges provincial Levy unclassified Reserve for tax arrears and assessment appeals deficit from 1939 total estimated deficit for 1940 balanced Winnipeg couple have Golden wedding at los Angeles or. And mrs. C. P. Rapelje observed their Golden wedding anniversary Jan 9, at the Home of their daughter and son in Law in los Angeles Cal. For More than 40 years or. Rapelje was employed with the Canadian Pacific railway and ran Between Winnipeg and fort William. Or. Rapelje and his wife were married in 1890, at fort William. Soon commenced working for the Canadian Pacific railway company. He retired on pension 10 years ago. The couple spend their Winters in California with their children. They have one son and one daughter. Roy Welch Heads Dorset association of Western Canada Roy Welch was elected president of the Dorsetshire association of Western Canada at the annual meet ing monday evening in the Royal templars Hall. Edward lock was chosen vice president f. H. Pauley was re elected Secretary treasurer h. Nobbs and a. Eyres were appointed auditors and the executive will consist of mrs. Coleman mrs. Agar. Mrs. Chester mrs. E. Welch mrs. Mcdonell a. Platt and Ewelch. There was an increase in membership and the financial statement was the Best yet the speaker of the evening was major h. G. L. Strange. Officers re elected by furriers Guild at a meeting of the Manitoba division of the furriers Guild of Canada at the St. Charles hotel thursday night All officers were unanimously re elected for 1940. W. Cohen of the w. Cohen fur company again Heads the Organiza Tion As president and a. J. Innes of Toronto fur company will serve another term As vice president wandering. And wondering with Chester Bloom i m wondering if our future Farmers and hired men will be seen at work spats. Big powerful rubber tired tractor very cab upholstered heated and equipped with radio Dustproof hot. Days cooled by electric fan. Releasing the Farmer from sweat dirt and boredom. Built to compete a dozen other new cheap types around and releasing More men from labor on the new if re Speed farms. Epitome of a mechanized age which has revolutionized Western farming i a Quarter Century. Remember the half Section Farmer with two four horse teams probably few of the new generation do. He had just enough implements for himself and one hired Man with whom he democratically exchanged farm tasks credit based on the frugal methods of the1 settlers from Ontario in 1880. A successful Manitoba Farmer has asked me to write this says City people do not realize what s happened. If that Pioneer Farmer said my Friend had t boys of his own to help him he might be a bit crowded at Harvest time by the rapidity with which the Grain ripened. But he could get extra help. At Harvest time he exchanged work with his neighbors if possible which meant a month of threshing. Then came the Long Harvester excursion trains bringing thous ands of Eastern hands to help. They re gone too. Vanished with the astonishingly vanished age of huge steam driven tractors and threshers which scarcely reached their Apex before the lighter gasoline powered machinery drove them out. No longer says my Farmer Friend at Dawn is the air of Manitoba Plains vibrant with the tooting of whistles announcing that the Thresher fireman has risen before the rest of the Crew has steam up ready to go. No longer do the farm women go to bed near Midnight and Rise before Dawn to Scurry about cooking enormous stacks of hot cakes pans of biscuits heaping platters pork sausage Fried Ham Bacon and eggs and Gallons of Coffee to feed ravenous harvesters 8 o clock breakfast. Neither Are they nor their co operative neighbor women working any longer half the night to bake mountains of bread pie and cake roasts of beef and pork preparing tubs of vegetables and digging out huge jars of preserves for those Gargantuan Noonday and after dark evening meals. Nor accumulating reserves of biscuits to Send out with the Coffee for the 4 pin. Snack in the Fields. It s a vanished Era those Long hours of work in the summer to sow and reap at the right time says my Farmer adviser. Vanishing too is the laborious care of horses in the Winter months feeding them on coarse grains. There were less horses and mules in the United states Jan. 1, 1939, compared to Jan. 1, 1930, decrease about 13 per cent. In Canada farm horses numbered on june i 1931 on june 1, 1939, the number was decrease of about eight per cent still going Down my successful Farmer Friend tells me of a City acquaintance who called on an 800-acre Manitoba Farmer last Harvest the Farmer s wife and her. Small daughter were i getting into the family car to attend a woman s meeting at. The Village Church. In the Field he found the Farmer standing beside his motor truck into which the threshed Grain was sliding from the Hopper of the Harvester reaper. Operated by two men it had stopped momentarily to unload the accumulated Grain. My Farmer Friend asks me if. I remember How the geographies 25 years ago said these combines belonged to California and Montana. They re everywhere now smaller 3% to More compact efficient and cheaper to easier to operate. This Farmer we re speaking of whisked All the Grain away in his motor truck to the elevator in the Village three Miles Distant at 40 Miles an hour. By himself he could keep up nicely with hta Combine the Only trouble was this Dew prevented the Trio from going to work until 9 o clock in the morning. Three men to reap and Harvest an 800-acre farm and remember again asks my frien4, those country roads lined with the old 50-Bushel Erata wagons plodding to the elevators. Now trucks Roar info town with the Grain Hydraulic lifts tilt them so the Grain rushes to the elevator pit agents must be Lively to weigh and write out the ticket quickly enough not to delay the Driver. See map in tuesday s free press of 241. Miles of railways in Manitoba which the railway companies want to close Down gone Are the Days says my Friendl of the pioneers who brought their Grain to town in sacks and the Grain buyers who stood one foot on the Wagon wheel and the either on the Edge of the scale Hopper while they emptied sack after sack. Their eyes would Bug out now if they could see the Speed with which it s done by machinery. Those railway freight cars you see being hauled around on trucks Are another sign of1 the new businessman Farmer. He s buying the discarded ones his Grain in and hold for higher prices. Less help is needed for the work. We re on our Way but Don t ask me where we re going ;