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PRINCE^ GEORGE CITIZEN. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1932
-Five Cent*
Home Buying Best| Guarantee For Industries
� w A NkKenae Delivers I
"a*- ^ VictOria �" AtoS of Tudot_R�f e League
Suffers Great Loss With HeTvy Pu-hases of Coal From United States
19.-nBritish Co-create new
(Etttzpu mi �-taff Wish All Us & lerg JWernj
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far their h
BlineIS,
men,
Canada, and buy
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here in an address
of the ^ ��> is a member, additional coal Canada would have been vear if Canadians- had the 13,532,000 tons, � American chan-work would have to a total of 120,000 and children, most of relief. Similarly, Brit-250,000 tons of imports of a given
Mayor Patterson Reviews Financial Standing of the
City of Prince George
each with: an average ^ Victoria 0�>
to wo* 300
last' year-
t'��one commodity m-hich �� hl their province
Warrant Sales Find the Funds to Pay Salaries
Chicago Will Divide #5,000,000
Among Its Army of 42,000
. Unpaid. Officials
TEACHERS HIT HARDEST
Court Refused to Eject Woman
Unable to Pay Rent While
Her Salary Held Up
Chicago, Dec. 20�The army of 42,000 persons who make up the employees of Chicago and Cook County are now said to be assured of a payment of $5,000,000 on account of arrears of wages before Christmas as the result � of a sale of tax warrants. This will ease the situation somewhat, but the position of the school teachers ,has been especially trying for the past two years, and there is now owing them as arrears in salaries approximately $33,-000,000.
Recently a woman teacher in one of Chicago's finest high schools was served by her landlord with not!cf> of eviction for non-payment of rent. A granted her a thirty-day stay
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help their province tneur pm^vcv,-books, for the same true in nearly every., line of pro- ! duction. The most staple ^nrfit.km!
calls for prosperous induow*w __,
home, -w'ith profits to share, and-steady had emp!ovment to give. Profits pay in- i had been
Mayor Patterson was to have met a number of the ratepaj-ers of the city on Friday evening in the city hall to discuss municipal finances. The meeting, however, was not advertised and fizzled out, and the mayor was notified his presence would not be required. In interviews he had with were active in ar-
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meetin
Pat-
had gathered the recent on i, Muuiuu j v~ the municipal financial at j situation, issued by the city treasurer, misunderstood. By some it xiau uecii taken to mean that on the operations for the current year the
employment to give. P
come taxes, and the payment of in- operations for the current y come taxes removes the necessity for j city would show a deficit of $18,243. other added taxes, in a circle of bene- This, however, was very wide of the fits which include the Increased cir-! mark- The statement was prepared dilation of B. C. dollars within the with a view to showing the financial
portion at the end of the year, rather lt f the operations for
ilation of B. C. doll
rHiKo. portion at the end of the ye,
The Tudor Rose League was started; than the results of the operations for in England a year ago. It has now j the current year. Two rather import-350.000 � members, including 100 mem-' ant items were included in the state-bers of parliament, and 12,000 firms'ment, the bank overdraft as at the actively behind the drive in Britain, i beginning of the year, amounting to -� m..Ary~ -oevm $1,217 and a bank loan amounting to
municipal government Is costing fully as much as in prosperous times, when developments were under way. Some of these critics profess to see a way whereby $5000 could be saved in municipal administration, and some, re-cogniizng less restraint, set the saving they could make at $10,000. If the cost of municipal administration is higher than the ratepayers think it should be they have themselves to blame, since such increase as there has been is largely represented in interest and sinking charges for tihe repayment' of money spent under loan by-laws authorized by them. It certainly cannot be maintained the councils have been carrying unnecessary men on the payrolls, or that the city employees have been too highly paid.
He invited the cloesest investigation of the record of the city council for ithe past year. In the city hall it would be shown that through changes in personnel, and a general wage reduction, the payroll for the current year will be $1,650 less than :.t was for dti of 265% There
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sinking fund charges have been met. of execution with the landlord's con-In the waterworks service the cost sent. The larger part of salary earn-^ permanent service has been cut ed and accruing since last April is st'U during the year from $1,341 ;o $229. owing to this teacher, and to all other or a saving of $1111. The revenue of members of the teaching staff in Chi-this service has been reduced, but not capo's public schools. At long \nter-to the same extent as that of the vals in the past nine months there lighting and power utility. This year have been payments on account, but there will be a cash surplus for the in recent we>eks no cash has reached waterworks department, and when the the teachers. (
s**rvi�> receives its proper credit for In the budget planning for 1933 the
Its members wear a small T^01" "~I $13,800, bad*e. pledging themselves to support * during the products of their
nk loan
amounts had been the year) but are not
d the year) but a
g Chargeable to the current years op- the * ^^ ^n be a deficit on
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service receives its proper credit ror in tne duuwi, v^w.,..,, �,. .....,.....
municipal services the surplus w'll be probability that the hypothetical sal-
considerably increased. Incidentally aries of unpaid teachers may be cut
this will be the fxst year since the looms darkly on the hor'zon. No one
waterworks were installed that an ac- can dispute the necessity for retrench-
�tual cash surplus will be shown. This is ment imposed upon' everv tax-levying
due largely to the reductions in the body in Cook County. That necessity
city's bonded debt for waterworks. has been emphasized by the recom-
There has been' some criticism of mendations of a citizens' committee, on
the administration" in connection w'Jth public expenditures which set $20,000,-
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the administration in comictwun �.�... ,�..,.�. . ..,......
street construction and mantenance. 000 as the.outside limit of the acftrre-w^t. i cni t.hp waees on streets were gate budgets for city and county next
then of their country, and-within the -- b^ ^^ wiu be a deflctt on Empire in any event. f^nsj|lj*f!j i the operations for the current B.C. terms that means buy B.O^oas, | ^ be between $3)0oo and
Canadian Roods, and empire products, ^ ^ $18i243 wnich a number of in that order.
What the public sometimes -. -looks, is that concerted effort in applying this principle, even in coppers and small change, roUs up Into actual jobs to their fellow citizens. The Tudor Rose League brines 'this vividly home, and its a. vvi�~" - ,��,,�
| th ratepayers feared on their reaaing over- j * ^ tfty treftsurer.s statement.
epayers feared on t
tfty treftsurer.s statement.
Patterson, in an interview SS says there Is more ^ lation t^ apPre-
�?1�Jlew of the municipal- ^view ^ year
year
financial position of
or
agO, and
PRESIDENT HOOVER WILL FORCE ISSUE ON DEBTS PAYMENTS
Washington, Dec. 20�President Hoo
S orSSTears ag.
reason to fear airincrease> in the
mill-rate, or the
drastic cuts
^ to the tax
finance
velopments
off :n tax
w asnington, uvm. *u�icaw����� � low r ver on his special message to congress present year, on tho war debt situation, which was government s completed after a. three-hour: confer- in the municipal ence with advisors, clearly intimates receipts he felt ^---^-^ his intention, with or without the as- committee would oe ^ of tne
stature* of congress, to co-operate with budgeting on. w� be nO
Prudent-elect Roosevelt tax the ere- current year, �ven ^Tl^ conditions at'pn of the necessirv machinery for marked ^^^"L^ ^d dom'nion. dealing with the serious problems in- throughout the pf� ^ for
volved in war debt payments, disarm- When property-owner. ^ ^
ament and world economic consWera- money they pass upgilties they tions. The president also requests auth- years, despitetne ney h ^ m_ ority to declare an embargo against ^ncur by ^ doing, out y ^
tu- export of arms and munitions to tend to make such tax p _,__
1931, or a reduction of 26.5%. There had been a saving of $75 per month when the present city clerk was engaged. The former incumbent received a salary of $250 per month and also lequired the full-time assistance of a man- in the handling of relief work, at $4.00 per day. The present city clerk receives a salary of $175 per month and attends to the relief work with the assistance of a man for one or two days a week at a salary of $3.50 per day. These economies with a general wage-cut of 10% brought a wace retrenchment in the city hall of $1650
c*muouiiu�& the same featured the record in the city power station. For tihe first eight months of 1932 the chief engineer received a salary of $210 per month. When he resigned he was replaced by a man at $140 and the part-services of the city electrician,
per annum.
Somethin:
For 1931 the wages�on kept down to $1,004, chiefly in the operation of the caterp'llar. For the current year this "had been cut to $251. uid this covered the use of the machine in dragging the snow plow. In the working of the caterpillar gasoline and oil costs about equal wages, so with respect to tihe caterp'llar the economy for the current year represents in round figures $1500.
So far as the charge goes that the city council has not shortened sail during the depressed times the mayor said he had mentioned retrenchments in the permanent staffs in the city hall, power station, water and street departments which reach the total of $7,810. On top of this some of the critics of the council assert It would still be possible to effect further retrenchments of from $5000 to $10,000. It is doubtful if these critics realize the small part the controllable ex-
LESTER PATRICK
SUCCEEDS HAMMOND
AS RANGER HEAD
New York, Dec. 21�The long-standing feud between Col. .John H. Hammond, pres'dent of the New York Rangers hockey team in the N.H.L. and William F. Carey, head of tho Madison Square Gardens, has been ended ...with the rcsitniation of Hammond. Lester Patrick has been elected president of the Rangers in the place of Hammond, and has also been elected vice-president of the Mad'son Square Gardens corporation.
ces of the city e
lofwrich the power station is debited with an additional $50. There was also
t i the V�**?**�*
h a
a wage-cut in the V�*? 10<". For 1932 the wage-bUl for the Power station will bo $5,746, including -urns paid for relieving men, as against OTwage-bill of $7,090 for 1931. effected ^ the powerhouse
the export of arms and munitions to tend to ma all countries in which actual warfare ^U keep Uieir ejCst h idiate outbreak taxsale This
This is
-J or where an immediate outbreak tax-sale, of war threatens. j
CAPONE'S COUSIN FATALLY SHOT IN A SKYSCRAPER FIGHT
Chicago, Dec. 19�Frank Nitti, � ^ JV.-------
�>�sin of the spectacular gangster A,\ .fc the mtmidpaUty will have
Capone. was fatally wounded last night nueg "m 1933 which it did not,
in a- irun-fiBht which was staged on _ . _.__,. tw0 .years. As io
position lose their property.
taxes, with the re-have tax
e. was fatally wounded last g gun-fight which was staged on f of a skyscrapW ]i�b outside section. Today the attending
S�� fhope for
past two years. As for the grants the mayor said any !~"c- rfvrf
coveraUofthe economies effected, the current year there has been a 2 of .14.957 gallons of fuel mU and a saving of 177
which was added to the
For s6me time the chief en iid not feel ho could rely upon
�; f� HpHver the reciuived load'without �t to delner tne^ j_. ^ ^^
one of the Fairbanks-engm� for fve hours in the Given proper attention the pre-staff has shown the National en-rioe, not requ're the assistance of T^irbanks-Morse engine and the Prurl" � K in fuel and lubri ; extra
RESUMES AND CAIXS his mind BACK^CREW OF 100 *
RamUtcn,
their d'.tfi-
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Utcn, Dec. 19�tTt? National grnnts. which, the
Pipe Company which has besn One statement ^
d f l ths has said ^�
mayor
* *t�3 \-AJinpiiuy wiii�-ii in*** ------ . hro'iTh^ to no 'ce na
down for several months has said had i^n - ltv conncil had ' ordenj on hand to warrant be�m that fc|?^^y careful in tlie and the crew of one him- not been ^Mdg ^ Tnc ^a+e-have been called back for, matter of exp.n __ ^ ^^ hard ^^ employment. �ent �* that
Mavor
erson
�i4d that
bc cut
although
penditures of the city bear to the whole. For the current year we have an estimated expenditure of $100,000. but of this amount the uncontrollable expenditures totalled $fi6.309, leaving but $33,691 out or which retrenchments could be made. For interest and sink-'ng fund requirements in connection with the bonded'debt the city had to find $28,849, or nearly 30 cents out of every dollar of estimated revenue. The net cost of tihe .schools, an expenditure out of the control of the city council, will be approximately $24,500. On top of this the city had to find an addi tional $6,941 for interest and sinkinc fund charges in connection with debenture debt, and for the redemption j of maturing debentures, altogether duo to the d'scount on the Canadian dollar in New York. There was noth-inc for tihe city to do but pay, and pay we did. Then we had *"a new charge to meet, the cost of social services with which the government has saddled the municipalit'os. and this required $2000. Now if to all these amounts you add the cost of unemployment relief, amounting to some-tihino: more than $4000. you have uncontrollable expenditures this year amounting to more than $66,300.
Desp'te this Mayor Patterson con-tends the.-e is no necersity to the already heavy mill-rat^ for nor to place any tax upon improvements. Tho present has been thr difficult year in the history of the .city to finonce. but w!th collections no worse in 1933 than they have been during the current year it should be possible not only for the city to
CHIEF JUSTICE OF ALBERTA CONDEMNS FORECLOSURE SUITS
Edmonton, Dec. 20�The chief justice of Alberta today postponed a number of foreclosure actions acainst farm lands. He expressed himself strongly against proceeding w;th foreclosures against farm lands and urtced the parties to endeavor to pet together with a view to giving the debtors more
be possible not only for t y
break wen with the same mill-rate but to pick up the whole or part of fhe deficit of 1932. To begin with th ".ity will not be hit very hard by tihe discount on the Canadian dollar in New York. This year it paid the dis-(Continued on page 2)
time.
SASKATCHEWAN EDITOR MADE DEFENDANT IN ACTION FOR LIBEL
Regina, Dec. 21�Calling a man a communist .Js considered action-a,blo in Saskatchewan where communists are somewhat numerous. W. F. Kerr, editor of the Saskatchewan Liberal is how defending a damage action brought by George Ross, one of the defeated candidates in the recent al-derman'c election. Kerr is alleged to havo dubbed Ross a communist and now Ross is seeking to collect damages for libel.
RADIO RECEIVING SETS HAVE MULTIPLIED RAPIDLY IN CANADA
Ottawa, Dec. 21�The dominion bureau of statistics states there are 770,-436 radio receiving .-.et� in Canada at the present timo, the fees from which are expected to finance the outlays of the recently appointed radio commission. The bureju also po'nts out that there are 85,430 owners of sets who have failed so far to take out
who have
the required licence.
George Milburn has received an offer of a collection of gramaphono records for the relief camp. Now if some one will dg up a gramaphons the records can be put to service.