The Westmount examiner, 27 mars 1936, vendredi 27 mars 1936

[" pgress- |; Under the Campbell, K.C,, ialled to order and close to five tindred.close friends of the hon- red \u201ctrio\u201d listened with avid in- \u201c Fred the careers of Mrs.who was eighty-one on the twen- 1 ing first their ice during their long lives, sec- \u201condly their distinguished service to the thirdly their keen with pride to the fact that their achievements were the direct result\u2019 of a strength of body, mind, heart and achieved success in their relative spheres through the medium of| their strong personalities.© Paying tribute to Mrs.White as the inspiration for the unusual success in various phases of commercial and political life attain- rnd delivered \u201cBn address that ssociations present to \u2018present ighty-first birthday anc \u201cBob\u201d is eightieth birthday.Tribute r Wednesday at Victoria Hall à at'a à reception of MeGil Honour oy The Westmount .Conservative felicitations sions of continued good health to Mrs: Scott on attaining | White on the accasion Le joint chairmanship, Mrs.George Cornell and George the meeting was st while \u2018Mr.Campbell out- Scott, team faces y-first of this month, and Mr.\u201c White, who attained the four-! padminto score mark on March 15th.Stress- aminton matches.great public ser- the running.and constant ice \u2018and interest in the.city of 9.7.tmount, the speaker pointed of character, \u201cY\u201d beat hen\u2019s club No.No.2, 12-4.\u201cR.S.*, Mr.Campbell remarks to the point be remembered loriy the City.of Westmount.and St.\u201cJohn Scott, a purse and a bouquet of roses; to Mrs.White, a floral bouquet, and to Mr.White, a set \u201c0f- pipes.Mrs.made the presentation of the purse «Mrs, \u201cfloral offering.Mrs: Henry Jo-|.\u201cséph presented Mis.White, { © Panet Raymond, made.the presentation to.Mr.° White.In replying to the presentation, \u201cMrs.Scott delivered: a \u2018witty -ad- dress, not missing the opportunity to capitalize on the equality her sex has received by ~ feted: on the same platform with \u201cMr.White.servative,\u201d stated Mrs.Scott, \u201cTL Churchill.Mrs.and 1 raised a Con-! Mrs.Hector Cadieux, and Mrs.C.\u201cservative.family; \u2018and when.over ; ; sixty years of age made\u2019 my lirsl CL political ence of the populace won: or lost \u201celections; in the opinion of: Mus, Scott, not politicians, and in closing she offered a number of re- ~~ -cipes to \u201cThe Grand Old Man\u201d in ; \u201cthe hope that he might attain her age \u2014 which, of course, is \u2018an im-!do 38; 4160: : married-.one, a ons were made to Mrs.\u201cGeorge \u201cCornell to Mrs.\u2018Scott, while Weldon tendered \u2018the bouquet: to while Alderman of Westmount, Replies *beïn£| charge.\u201cI was born \u201ca éon-|'yenor, Mrs.\u201d Bronsdon.: speech.\u201d The \u201cindiffer- evening, (Continued on Page 2) In Recognition and Admiration of < Robert Smeaton White i\" The following poem, composed by a Westmount resident, sand written in recognition and admir MP.\u201cMan, nu by Rt.Hon.R.B.Bennett.We meet tonight to greet an honored br other, And freely say \u2018with.pride to-one another, Here is a comradé staunch and true, A pattern set for me and you.Full four score years have crowned his head with glo d in his kindly face, one reads the story © was read at the recent dinner tend )f victories won, and days well spent.As sinks life's sun in sweet content.ach circle made with compass rate, d every action on the square.to live and set a good example; ÿ-stone, all can plainly see, uth: and Hg testy.Westmount Park Team Entering Finals Westmount \u2018Outremont Teachers in the next match of the Murray The matches have now narrowed down to the quarter finals, and\u2019 eight teams: remain In the third round, Conservative party, and held Monday night, team defeated Sun Life No.1 by Other results are as follows: \u2014 Second round: St.Alban\u2019s No.2 beat St.Stephens 10-6; Sun Life whieh beat St.James 12-4; which was a replay after draw; Southwestern Fry-Cadbury Stephen\u2019s No.brord\u2019s, default.\"Preliminary third round: Stén- beat St.Alban\u2019 s «Third Round: Erskine American beat C.P.R.- No.2, -12-4; No.1 beat Steplièns Club No.\u201cor in the| 16-0; St.Luke's beat St.Andrew by default; beat Southwestern \u201cy\u201d, 11-5; St.Stephen\u2019s Club No.1 beat St.Alban\u2019s No.1, Outremont Teachers beat St.Stephen\u2019s Club:No.3, 12-4; St.Barnabas beat Sun Life No.2, 11-5.Paul Jämes No.1 the Empire.Whist Tonight : At Victoria Hall The Ladies\u2019 Auxiliary \"of \u2018the Lions\u2019 Club of Montreal will\u2019 hold an Empire Whist party tonight | \u2018in Victoria Hall, in honour of the auxiliary members who have contributed sewing to the Child :Wel- : fave \u201cAssociation and to.crippledj, 1 children during the year® Mrs.Haroid The committee posed of.Mrs.R BE: Parker, con- \u2018forthe Banquet Cc.F.Shearer, A ADDRESS Taking as his subject \u2018Materials, and how tose them:D.A.Pavitt will address members ol the Independent Art Association tomorrow The meeting will be held in Stu- \u2018Sherbrooke Stre ) and will commence at 8.30.ation of R, + be heatd Monday evening in a pro- Tis blameless life has e\u2019er been true to.duty, \u2018 lo récord mean of small has marred its beauty ; t fifty years his life has been a sample Ussing: Murray\u201c Brooks; he situation Chure Univer ein \u201caddr essed the Young Peoples Society of.Er- skine- and American - Church theirs regular weekly: supper neet- ing Wednesday night.\u2018 Speaking of Mahatma Ghandi, My, Brooks stated that the lead-) er's greal influence dvér the millions was due Lo his personal characteristics, particularly his magnanimity of spirit.Mr, Brooks said he Delieved Ghañdi was:à saint, and that in othe histor-| ians would look hack upon him in that light.Thé term \u201cmahatma\u2019\u201d, said Mr.Brooks, is aword meaning \u201cgreat soul,\u201d and M.K.-Ghandi is the only person in the world upon whom.it had been bestowed, and it is indicative of the Ixreat esteem in which the honoured one is held in India.Mr.Brooks, who has spent a numberof years in the Indian Empire, stated that no matter how weak and frail in body Ghandi might.be, in spirit he was strong and active.He is the protagonist of.the people and their leader in their battle for liberty and independence.Mr.Brooks recalled \u201cthat Ghan- di's \u2018fast unto death was fort to bring the \u201cuntouchables\u201d and higher castes closer together, to allow the former.into the temples\u2018and to \u201cobtain for them a more equal standing in their own | land.Co ; Mr.Brooks; outlined the person- \u2018al history of\u2019 the studies in England, as well as the effects of his.participation in the Zulu rebellion and the Boer War, Murray R.Chipman, president.was in the.chair.FATHER AND SO BANQUET AT \"V7 \u2018mount Branch To Hold Event Tomorrow Even- Tomorrow evening at 6.30, Fathers.and Sons will gather inthe Westmount Y:M.C,A.Gymnasium \u201cwhen Fathers honor.their \u2018sons with their presence.and Song drink toasts: to their Dads; Rev: Chas.;Geo.Smith will take us allon- à humoroté expedition for the subject of his address is \u201cGoing Fishing\u201d \u2014 a 1xood subject for this time of year.John \u201cWo Ross jr.and Maurice Brain are arranging for Boxing bouts by the younger boxers, and Jack.McNiven has arranged for.a couple of fencing bouts.Up until Wednesday night over one Tiün- dred had made reservations.Reservations may: still be made hy: \u2018phoning WE.6716.JUBILEE SINGERS TO APPEAR HERE The Virginia Jubilee Singers will gram of negro spirituals, folk music\u201c.and\u201c plantation\u201d.songs: in Westmount Baptist chureh.This group of vocalists has toured the American continent with great success, and has sung'in many Canadian cities as well, The singers will also participait e in the Sunday evening service at ne church.0e EE WOMEN\u2019S ALLIANCE ; MADE GIFT Mrs.John Seott, veteran Feminist-and staunch tory sup- | porter, received a bouquet of flowers Saturday \u201cfrom the Canadian Alliance for Women's Vote in Quebec.ath.anef-; i seriousness of the situation which \u2018mount.Dads and Lads of The West-' | questionable ends.\u201c| the Mayor | ing further borrowing | the pork barrel.â \u201cNo time to \u2018play \u2018 possum when: you're: ona bit of high ground, watching drove him from his home, this disconsolate opossum is a reminder that wild \u201clife, too, suffers when streams by the sudden thaw, Le al Resident Takes Issue Wi Pertinent Letter On Financial Situation Facing Montreal And Îts Bearir.g On Westmount Received\u2014 Water Tax Case Cited\u2014Houde's \u201cBan\u201d On Newspapers\u2014- Letter in Detail.The following letter has been: tax to approximately double it's normal rate inorder to raise ad: ditional funds for the Montreal City \u201cHall to carry on with, and the \u2018counter-action of our own city in lowering assessment val ues to nullify \u2018this move brings \u201chome\u201d \u201cto.\u201cWestmount.citizens in a \u201cmost realistic manner the confronts Canada\u2019s Metropolitan City, and.which: will \u201chave: additional - repercussions to Wesi- Following is; Mr.Watson's let- ken on the shore of the Olentangy river, near Columbus, O,, sent d.its banks like hundreds of othdr streams throughout the cbuntry received, from Mr.and proves to be of no mean interest in view.of the financial situation facing the City of Montreal, the proposed measures by which the iCity Fathers hope to bolster up the sadly depleted treasury, and the bearing of the present crisis on.the mahatma, his} : : a \"The recent raising of our water?ter: = \u201cMarch 23rd., 1936] The Editor, Westmount \u201cEx cominer\u201d \u201cSiri The Apostle Paul, charged with fomenting \u201can uproar\u201d in Jerusalem, claimed he was à \u201ccitizen of; ho-.mean, city.\" Had he heen resident or native of-Mentreal \u20181 would -probably;'have féit/ he had: no such clains \u2018and -while, Montreal itself is certainly no.mean; City,\u201d \u2018ils \u201cMunicipal Government leaves: much to be des According to Press reports, the proceedings\u2019 at the City Hall lately \u2018savors more of a hee: \u201cgarden; a cat\u201d and dog fight, a cov king main or what have you, than of: a dignified efficient Council: elected to serve: the publié iniers est and \u2018not thei own cel fish and: The passages al arms hetween and.a cerinin Alder man each wasting the \u201cpeople time and money in © asting aspersions on the physiognomy of the other, and\u2019 other barroom -ex- wide taughing-stock of the Coun- ¢il and unfortunately of the City itself.This may he amusing to outsiders but is-most humiliating to the residents and taxpayers.«Montreal has a debt rapidly approaching three hundred million dollars, equal to.the \u2018National debt of not so many years g70.This debt is the result of past and present extravagence, waste and \u2018perhaps: worse.\u2014Notwith- | standing heavily increased taxation last year and a proposed hea: vier burden this year certain Aldermen are now strongly \u2018advocat- and are asking the Quebec Legislature for a considerabie share of the Pro- vineial revenue to, as Alderman Biggar aptly puts it; fatten up Not only did Montreal tax its and: probably i (mount is primarily to blame for isupinely- allowing: i ts.citizens to \u201cthese taxes, changes are making a \u2018Dominion- Hurs into.the own citizens almost to the limit! od:refugäe.Marooned ; ice~strewn river that the swo go on a rampage.This suapshel th Tie \u201cFrank Watson, 8 f° Westmount.Income 1 tax and \u2018now threaten a material increase in the water tax on the: \u201cground.that Westmount had reduced the property \u2018assessment, although today instead of being based on about eighty percent.of \u2018the market \u2018value, the assessment, ränges from 110%\" to 125% of what property \"would bring atthe present time.Incidentally + since\u201d Westmount: .Corporation took.over from the Montreal Light, Heat and Power.Co.the distribuiion of electricity our bills have gone \u2018up.twenty-five percent So much, for public \u2018ownership.Of course the City of West- Be exploited.and \u201cin: not firhting this scandalous imposition to the last.ditch, and for.misleading the ople at a mass meeting held in Victoria\u201d Hall prior to.the passage of the Montreal \u2018Bill embodying Mayor Jenkins, ex- ayor and\u201d Ald Panel Rayinond.gave wo strong andiunequivoeal as surance \u2018fhal Montreal's proposal would be vigorously opposed, ex- ayor McLaggan\u2019s slogan hein: \u2018No taxation without representa: \u201ction,\u201d but apparently these.gent: Flemen af the crack.of Houdes whip Jumped thre\u2019 his \u201choop.that vicious cle, of increasing; debl And taxation, confiscation and ve: pudiation.Certain Montreal aldermen also are putting forward the irrational \u2018proposal that the\u2019 F ederal Government increase \u2018its already.over burden of debt and taxation by dumping.another five million dol- Canadian National chasm under Dorchester Street.I do not know what work it is proposed to do with.this five mil-! Mions:-but- as.isAhe Case withi most preliminary- estimates it] would probably mean eight \u2018or ten millions added to a Dominion debt of nearly.three billion.dollars spread over -a population: of a few millions.There seems to be far too much secrecy on the part of the Executive Committee and some of the Aldermen and.an indisposition to let the taxpayers know through the publie press just what is \u2018going on; in fact.Mayor Houde at a recent Overseas Association dinner said: ; \u201cNow if you-want to help Mme stop reading the newspapers for a.week.That Will show them they do not tebresent the people\u201d and - Ala.Biggar was.censured for préssing an honest opinion \u201cPork Barrel\u201d.At dinner « the Mayor thize with pared, anit ix more fully organirés ii ere Mills, DSO.v.D: \u201cMrs, J, far di tant whi Cross: Society v upon for War Servic forting to.know that ; ion of Canada the Soe ot Le n he etilled for service, than al ay other per- jod-in its History) The financial statement \\ total receipts of $5R:681, mit bursements, $44,386, a defisit ol $35,724, as.compnred with $60,774 in.1934, Officers were elected.as follows: Patron, His Honor thé Lieüten- ant Governor; honorary president, Lady Drummond; ipresidents, \u201cPremier\u201d Tascherean, Sir H.Montagu Allan, C:V.0, Lady Atholstan, Lady Hingston; Mrs.H.B.Yates, Mrs.Colin: ell (Quebec), Sir Frederick: Ha liams-Taylor, Brig.Gen.H.8.Bis | kett, M.D ,,C.B,, Huntly R.Drum- mond, A.BE: nell, Hugh Paton,.Robert Adair, Brig.Gen.G, Brie MeCuair, CM.D.8.0., Colonel \u201cW.S: M.Me- Ter.M.C.President, .Lieut:-Col, G Hanson,