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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1932-06-02, Page 2• Canada, The, Empire and The World .at Large . j CANADA Too Much Optimism. • ' elf anything could hart the fothcom• king Imperial Economic Conference it would be the raising. of extravagant intment and disiilustee. The wanting expectations leading to -inevitable div • Gppo ing hint droppe y :Sir --Charles- Gordon, therefore, is timely ;and Use- ful., Like, other ,authorities, he reels a- quiet.:optiniism.:about,.,trhe Conference,: and, at the same time .:recognises the danger of .inflated expectations. As he' • pointe out, the Conference will. not ,re- etoluttonize the. whole' trade of the •Em spire, .Indeed,• the ,'iiolent". wench Which 'wines • with trade revolutions, as with other .revolutions, 'would be most i unwelcome . Instead, ''those., who' are .'i`ar-sighted• will look•:$grward:to laying ' °,ht Ottawa the• -,foundations for; a steady"' and permanent increase in'imperial' •trade; And,: ,there. is , every Promise. • that this practical ideal will be real- - ized.—Montreai•Star. • Ali -C niadian :Restaurant'For 'Londont from banks,despite the impltcetion'I that m Eloy being tucked away was to, be made Less valuable. Such inireesen, ing and contra„dicterY shifts pf capital reveal the .way fear is demoralizing World finance. They also ,point to the, advantage Canada) has held over el - most all other countries duringthe en- tire, peria n-tire•,period of the depression through the fact that conStdence. of Canadians,, in' their fiscal system and fnancial'in stitetions , has not ' been -disturbed.--: Toroete Telegram. A Canadian, resident in London : •writes ' to the ite'wspaper Canada ane; gesting,the establishment .of :ft' Cana dii an restaurant in the capital of the Empire ,as a focus Point for 'resident' a'nd•'vissitii `Ca"nadtans.:'-Greeks, Chin: one, Italians and 'Russians: can all re- pair to centres where they may meet their` countrymen. and eat and drink nationally. Canadians have no • suck amenities, and the aspersion on their 3nitiativa, ars no small. one. Now 'the: gauntlet has been • thrown, downby a Smith African. Mr. Lewis Lew; a retired Cape Town hotel pro - rte or has courageously braved the, cultiea • of the•. situation bristling ,dim and : has justopened` a South African arrack bar and lounge in the Adelaide .Street: wing' of Gatti's Restanra springbok's head faces the 'entrance; there is a counter laden with snoek,; biltong, •niebos, moaned, crayfish and other typically South • African deliclr Cies; and the. selection. of Dominion: wines does credit to Mr. Leuw'9 ma • tures •jadgment and, provides, inciden tally, • an unrivalled opportunity of con- • • THE EMPIRE • what is:"British?" A point that will. hare to' b'o discuss-, ed, at 'Ottawa is the definition of a' Brit. tisk product.' Origipally, Canada, which led the way in .prefer,ential trade in the Empire.,_ regarded as '.. entitled to • preferential treatment any•article itn Which British material and (or) labour; re"presented• 25 per trent. of the' total value: Thatdefiiaition':has -been amend ed and now, trot only is Canada but elsewhere, th British proportion must n he less than 5Q per: cent., and' the. danger of importation hereon, prefer- ental terms Of goods mainly foreign' but passing es Empire products is very. real. The need for uniform definitipns .10,_a11_parta_ot •.the_Empire, seems' obvi ons.—London Times Trade, •Supple ment. ' . yerting 'sceptics of the F,mpire s. vinl- rultnral abilities: • . • The South AtricaiL community, has beeti..quick to take advantage .or Mr. Leaves enterprise, and already, in ad dition to, a regular,restattrant'clientele, the , founddations have 'been -'laid of a South African Reunion. Club, for. which 'i►eadqualrtexs have, been taken in, the roomy premises of the first'iioor. "Lon- don Loo- don.'." Canadian" ''feels .:strongly- that • '' :tome Canadian-should_.go..and`. de like }vise.=Toronto Mail and Empire.. • • • India at •Ottawa During 'the week the •composition of India's delegation 'to the Ottawa' Con pounced but it is. ference has been an , _ impossible to feel any enthusiasm over the names.; ' Sir- Atul' Chatterjee, the system. more cleared channels willbe loner in London is aI needed for Canada. The Mexican side. SRir�ice Iniiuignitrated ?�T44. T Miss Helen Oakley ' and Miss Stair Lyon, Toronto •debutante*. • to enter the Canadian Airways plane. in- augurating the service between: Toronto,.Windsor., . The• were accompanied 1 Rimert-Oakley. niece: y 0 Alaska Has Least Density of •Population, With Belgium . , Highest Retia for • Europe' lati- n of the world is about 1,992,500,000, and therz 'before the United States Chamber. ot. are 39:2 persons for every sgeare,mCte Conuneree, W. L•;D3icGregor. president • .r President , of C. C of Prr�$ , Address Declares Can- Sound ads _ New York The pope o 1 San Francisco In an address here I of land on earth; according to figures issued recently by. the U.S. Depart- ment of Commerce. . , The department.has compiled data for 103 countries on-- area,- :population and density of, population of the larg- est arg est .city, using.official statistical . pate-. licationc of the individual, nations. The United States; with.a land area of 2,973,7.60 and an estimated popula- tion .of, `inoree than• 124,000,000, has a density of 41.7 persons a square itu_e, it is shown. ' Alaska. ha :the smallest density of ' any country ;listed, with only ..50;00o'. iaihabitanta for 586;400 'sgnare-niiles of land, the density is 0.1 People are•'mare closely,.packed, to- ther in Hong Kongthan•in anyotli6 listed area.: Eased on a:l-a''nd :area Cif' only 390,square miles. and a popula tion of 853,00.0 in 1931, the density , is. 2,187,2 a square mile. - - CH•1NA••hIOST- POPULOUS: China, the most Populous )nation,• with 474,821,000 inhabitants in •1930,. had a density of :110.4 .for the 4,00q,- ON 4,300, 000 square miles of.land areas Among the major countries having a„ high. density are the United Kingdom -with 489.9 persons .a ;square mile;, Sigh Commits highly 'competent "'official, ''but - Sir. George Rainy and • Sir P.. P. Ginwalla, two 'successive;Presidents: of the India Tarin* Board, .have throughout their -of- ficial, career been exponents of the 1 will .have to be heard also The 'Ma- :;drid :conference. schedulN-t )r tills tali• isa logical place toiron. out these dif- ficulties, ' it is obvious that the United States must give up some .of its wave highest and most Chinese type • of Pro -1 lengths to Canada and Mexico, whieh, . . teeth* Whatever the report - of the ,will make thepresent shortage of delegation and on that . we are not ` wave-lengtl . even more acute:. Bos- hopeful—;India ' possesses full .lIscal'rton• Christian Science Monitor' .' `autonomy. Action can. ,only be taken on agreement,. if any, reached at Ot- tawa through the:agency:ot tariffs, and tariffs can only' be .passed by. the All - India Legislature: --Calcutta English- Farmers in Northern Ontario may' have from the government supplies of red pine and spruce trees for purposes of reforestation. • . Every advantage ;should be taken of this offer. Planting, trees is not much trouble, and fulfure generations will bless those who: de such work to-day.—Toronto Globe: "All .For Each; Each '.For AIL" In Calgary, Alberta, some seventy- five unemployed war veterans have se - cared premises, pooled their slim 're- sources, and set out to maintain them selves. By concerts,and other enter- tainments they secure funds. Barbers, cobblers, tailors, add so ' op, .in this cc-co`6i untty-work for -the belief of ail. ' Commenting on this venture. the •Cal- gary :Albertan says it is doubtful that other that ex -soldiers, could, make it succeed.' I "Organization made the scheme a success.. All the. good -will in the world would not have placed these Hien where they are now • bad they not agreed to sink their individual interebts in their common interest, had they not submitted willingly to, a cer- 'tarn discipflne, and bad not soinebode planned and organized,' This .enterprise proves two things; the value of discipline, and that. neves laity remains the mother of invention.. The undertaking has the advantage of appealing - to popular sympathic on Patriotic grounds, as it presents a 'de- finite plan for assisting the returned Man; and'it is' well worthy of a trial in other part's or the country.—Toronto Globe. • • There',: a silver. liming to every • cloud, , and 'the 'hard:•tinies bare pro- . duced one of the best epigrams in years from idr. B- P. Alley," of the t'anadian Batik of 'Comnierce, Who 'says: "The way out of a depression i3 not around a corner btit up a .hill "— Teroiite ;hail and Empire. , , • Empire First • • If the Mother ' Country : and the "Do- minions go to. Ottawa each expecting to reap- immediate material. advant- ages, the soreness of disappointment • ll be danger to. good relations: • If The Superiority of faxitiish Military Aircraft The great reputations • of the Royal Air Force and of Britih-built ' military ah�cia'ft--is-shown--by act h t flying officers and . cadets from no fewer than 27 foreign': countries have received courses of training at Royal. Air .Force establishments, or have been attached.to' them, since.the be- ginning of. 1928. Included in the wi e a - ug. list of cox ntries represented are sev- each member goes -with $ spoken or ,oral. ofi.-the Latin-American states: s kea:..e_• • of. `-'For. anrseives -first: :'Argentin a, Bolivia; Chile,, and 'M xico nn .pi? , *y fol the Empire s Gond, ' why should., le, 'continental countries, Belgium, any deserve to gal at ill? They must Czechosloetakia, Denmark, Estonia, put the Empire first . and alt these .Finland, France. Greece, Latvia, Noorr-- things' shall be added 'unto them, for. ' way Holland, • Portugal, rola , they are partners in the Empire; as other extra -Euro- pean partners, not rivals, they must discuss their business; and 'as partners they mist claim to share the advantages that 'come from their discussion. As Partners, yes. and partners in a family h but' business. relations- are; to Canada Facing Acti 'rade Era In Better . Condition Th British mania, Sweden, Spain, and Yugo- slavia; and seven o er uro- pean nations: China. Japan; Siam, Turkey,. Egypt, India and Iraq. Al- together 138. officers and'cadets from these countries have been' attached nsiness, n h service establishments.— ther severest test of family affection. • Toronto Mail and Empire. This is a caution of which we would re- ( . mind. day in an ~, lying . in Africa throughout the Empire whose duty it Now Made Possible is to make any of the preparations for London—:A further speeding -up of Ottawa. If one of the delegates' at Ot- Imperial Airways service in South tawa, thinking' to do his duty by those- Africa has ben'achieved by equipping who sent him, tries to get the better, some of the airdromes for, •night fly- an -:. Other Country, Any` . Says Trade 'Coln- • missioner , London --Tire • Overseas Trade : Be-• of the Canadian Bank of; Corp declared. Canadian institutions were essentially sound• and the .country.,ia a position to- go Ahead as soda as the economic- horizon clears._-- " Canada today is absolutely sound" he' said, • stressing' the strong position of. banks, trust, mortgage :aod, insut�- ance:compaiites in the Dominion. To the. forthcoming Ottawa Imperial) Conterence,and•to foreign' Countries in which steels .regarded highly, Mr. Me- Gregor •said,•Canada, can hope tot icon', r increased': ads:; Those Stieeessfnliy fee, �'• 'Who nnagined the..British. Empire Wats '• a. dead issue, he added would find they • • tad_ based their belief on mi3 informs apan Empire -Minded''•• i. a•of the British. family of nations. • he cont' ued, "hav'e become mote Ent- m pire minded, than we during these p • C twit-Years.—T Pire omit Conference in Ottawa to be' held this July pis on indication that we are now committed' to an Empire' ° econ- omic policy,. The. practical translation)' of that policy means,that the Empire's imports from fbreign countries, -^both through sentiment- and by-preterence, with 3472,.- Belgium with 691.6, the will •be. increasingly defected to 1 Netherlands. with . 599.4, Gerrnany;t:tisli sourees,'.while there .promises to with 353.8 and Italy .with 343.6: be an absolute, apart:froni:a deflective, Greater London is reported •to have development of reciprocal trade . " . -8,403 inhabitants- as-• of -.1931- and' "Those-w.bo are not'- of the Empire." ' New York' 6,930,000. It is pointed out, flair: McGregor said "'are unwise to nn - however,' that. the':-figuresr• are not der -estimate the commercial potentieli closely comparable, -as the area of. ties and trading power of the British greater London is . 693 ; square : miles, nations. and may well' keep an eye on_ but that of - ygistration London is the Conference.. (inlet '. Square..._r__, .-. t o_ he Caeadiatechaut 217 . ;mile and the .poen Tire president of 't that therewould. . '• lation of the latter area only 4,396,821. her. added, however., . • In seventy four instances of 103 the be no attempt at the conference to pro - `country's largest City: also is the cape: mote exclusionism or economic )sola tion for the British:Eiiipire which had ,- WOMEN OUTNUMBER MENbeen in business' too long for that 'sort . Females ,generally outnumber males Of thing.: t Empire First partment .recently made public a re- thronghont the world, it is 'indticat.,;•d pert .from F, W. Field;, British Trade Commissioner in Canada and New- foundland: in which he said there was oun tor "We •shall, however, certainly adopt in• the job ahead the commercial policy ' of Empire first;" he said. "and; if for- eign nations also want' to do business. gr' d the opinion the Dominion ti rt d t have the great6 with us . on reasonable .terms' and on a about rfo embark on another era est percentage •of males h "3 mutually profitable on' the basis of data for•. thirty-three nations. In only ten of these:is the. population ,more than. half male. Ar- gentina is reported o. with , basis • then we. was , o active development--- ' ---- -and-Ceyloneis-.next_.witk_ 9 lift doubtless- it be -quite P? ePared-to Canada, the report said, had resisted one out of every 100 persons in the i negotiate with them." the ,forces; of depression in notable United States.are mete. Latvia re Mr McGregor suggested that United neer and :was probably in • better ported the • smallest ' percentage "f''States interests,. owning many millions inn general condition than, any. other coun�. males, with 46.6. and France .was next of dollars' worth of investments is lair Id conditions improve, with 47:5. f•--another)-V egate, the ri%t In the family is opened.--QSPectator (London The Bountiful, Bahasa '"Were is not for the banana we should be in a terrible position today. • It is almost the one product in the world the producers of which •are still receiving, if 'not prosperity prices, at any rate prices that represent a mar- gin of profit. That is why, In spite of the depression" Jamaica has up to the present been able to carry on as sue- cesafuily as she•has. If we had sugar representing 50 per cent. of our ex- perts to -day, and bananas only 20 per cent., we should be in a very precari- ous position indeed with sugar at its present prices.—Kingston (Jamaica) Gleaner. OTHER OPINIONS Economic isolationism ink trop- -abote It 3s,. 'now p"ossib[ io dye`ment. Behind. in a little gar en, Salisbury •in Rhodesia to Cape Town mer." , usband=`I wish youd "may t a few small rose bushes provide the ares beca°le inefficient business men. in 15%flying hours. a ,tourney • which "pass"the Summer, Helen. `"spend"• is' Addressing a sales managers' con - so confoundedly suggestive" flowers that Clemer.ceao• love& sot ference the Prince said , "`t have takes dS hours by train. well. e �" Small Farms Gain. try: Should world con i it added,: the Dominion was likely to'I be one sof the first eountries to recover. The condition of Canada; Mr. Field wrote; fag "ween ascribed largely to the ,hardy character, of the Canadian people.. "While that is true," he con- tinued, on tinued, "tlie ' country's. industrial and financial fabric ,received considerable strength during the good years from 1925 to 1928. • • "If; .the. depression. continues- much longer Canada may find its:common daily round task more difficult" As soon as world conditions improve the ( script of the Iasi page of. his book, to think that With American ingenuity Dominion is. likely'. to„be.,one of the `•Grandenrs et Miseres dela Yictolre,,' to think rains workhig fihrongii-Canadian first countries to recover_ At this i b a quilt that time it appears to us an attractive a ada stood to•gain materially from any. concrete advantages Canada "might se- CIe ` enceau Museum cure' at the :conference '• or from any ''"" measures. of Empire -wide preference Paris—Paris has added 'ret one ,which• might be adopted. He',si ggest more ,to its king, lift of.ground Soo sa The it would be worth while, for'the little flat on the ;ground floor of a United States chamber, and. Particular- Conse in. `. the Rue Franklin, there ly its.members- with interests in Can- • Ciemenceap „lived,. has. Just. been • ' eda, to, watch closely progress of the opened' to the public. His bedroom.' conference'ilunng' the summer. which was also his work'r trey om • It looks as though the development talus a bed Without' a mattress -for %of Empire trade will give Canada more the' "Tier" always slept. on boards than ordinary commercial. opportnni= , and .a work table with ,the mann- ties overseas:” he said ,"and I venture kept in pace y the gods factories, these opportunities may also he , used In the dining room, on.be shared by •you-''"" scarcely. explored for co -opera-' table�rtthere are three large testi- avenue t tion between units of the Empire m keys. which had.been given to Clem - their mutual interests and foir a tom- 'enceau- They ,are the keys of the Prince Defends Graduates Bastille., The famous skull still bangs on a hook in the tiny hall, London.—The Prince of Wales re- and several of Claude eIonet's paint (_eptly deprecat�d__b_c_apinion a . gs:-_adorn.Motet_ walls of-t'he -apart-1 c tined attack upon present problems." His Wife ---"It's -about tate to •think Pre Vie: halixsneud- the; S tt3.t gyp' of Public Schools --Varsities •d ' public school and university . grade - „ • Not Wanted As Boarders We have ail we can do in pa.uada now to look after those •who are in need of a'ssistattte "Mink haring ship- inents of Dote:ltabr'rs thnist en us as •star boarders.. *Vet then pienty---and they Ceti rindorstand lstd`11sh'- 'drat they Mnst quit' their .defiance' at once "or imanediately beenme participants ill en excursion' parte headed f%)t the land from which they came. anti with no re- turn orivilettee Strati•+r',i Ilea( C1171. I1PrnId. •• • Canada's Confidence . while Europe rholrPd a e n l+•err to ffer from (lie doiI r_ •. 1),:(-.tu5'^ of the • :Americans tt'Pt'" feeing, to Ilal' sante rurrat cy :oft wititdratrinv. It from e r- •, culzttiou, in c,,nint4444y ntaritets and The tariffs and • quotas and embar- goes that are going up 'everywhere •would be bad enough if they were emergency measures reflecting the operations of a war mentality. But too often they are now being'defended not as expedients 'but as a new economic• dispensation: The gospel of the:"self contained" nation is preached will) a vehemence which is in the main part, ti.o doubt, thee outcome of our ,distress: But it is mischievous, just the same, •to read on every hand that every coun- try -should try to forget, to the etmost possible extent, •that there is a 'world troMele. - Forget extents, forget ship -11 Oita -to et foreign. .inri stmentss. go illi„ for cultatiug your own garden, and, around it rai'e ae iiielt a wail as you - ean ni:ake. - Canadian Broadcasting E_ t':tnad:es need -for ware -lengths b- mitres obvious when the east streteties'. and the many isolated regions of that country are taken into consideration.• A Xioptilatioti basis for wave -length 'r- a is ha ells' nsabi•. 'in" the area to be Covered is the question,, not the. nii•n,7, .1 of r.nnit• ci'aartietl into a given area: With tate tn•'olio-ed Canadian i • ?= . Helen Feller. fatuous k neri'cafl authoress, blind since birth.' is " lie of Iter -bete'= m ---*o:,",.-- .di-lrotore_ proceeding te Glasgow for an LL.I). degree: Her, s•'•etetary grand's beside het . • • heard` it contended some employers will not engage • public school and , university graduates because they are Favor in England unaccustomed to hard and sustained • w ori:. 11 this were .erne i1 scald in- Birmingham. Eng.—In Worcester- deed be a. heavy indictment against shire and • Warwickshire Counties our public schools and universities. there bas been a decided increase "While it may hare been true of: recently in the • iitr'rtiber of small farms of ttcm two to fire acres, on some, and Atill true of a few; 1. io not believe it is generally tree." which owners have built: or are During the Great War, the Prince said. the country turned is her pub - lie school boys for officers. Ili% could not remember an instance of a building. homes. Poultry Arming is • one of the chief industries on these farms and eggs are sent every day into Birm-1 public school man shirking duty and ingbam and^ outer large towns in 1 hardship, however a.rduons and favi= the neighborhood- Eggs are cheaper.; ghing it might be. While the urge , in the.Midlands • Cols sprang than to serve their country might be a . they have been for years. Partial explanations of the valor of Eclipse to be Viewed ' led sound education and trainigw piay- •�an m runt part in fitting ani - By 'British Astronomers i po • . for national emergency. London.—tec�rdiag to late=t reports; Al the present time' an English- ttiree Bn"tisb t cpeditinns will leave for t marts ditty was lees heroic, but Bons Canada in July to observe the total' the less vital. Today's call, 'OS eclipse of the sun, Which will be tris-. Prince stated.' is for national servile ible over a large portion of Eastern •1 throngli 1 o►tra ens conduct. of coin Canada. .! coerce. • Parent Qu", will receive the party, r� .• . from Greenwich Observatory Cam- G Close Check Kept ' britfge astronomers ' wilt establish 1 thentseives at Maeeig. and the imperial' on Manitoba Autoisbl r oltege of; Science party wit have head -1 Winnipeg. -Manitoba drivers. 'where giiartya' t ale( Observatory. ! the accident damage a exceeds $25, now ' • I have 'to prove finanr' al ``responsidibity'i MtJST BE. SERIOUS. 1 before obtaining a 1922 idrivor`s license di Mothera 'tame down 04 gtairt wear -hinder the lane.' • • i t;'worried frown. -I Drivers charged with being intoti- "Ilenry," she said to her h,tsbautle catied while operating thele ear sr • 'Ann"t You. think n?a, had better -seed ttruck must also give proof of financial for a ,dotter. Little Berrie says heregpansibilitY:. 'Fhe forms acceptable is reale so tied:' an automobile iassuraoce policy. • , Father umiled a little railetisly. 1 Kew regulations are being stringent..• "Tut, tat!.. he replied:. `•fle's 1011 ly enforced. and'they are also ref " had before the; and soon got over, active. Drivers who had an accid` it .^. Two years age are being retuned S'are. ah i r ' t is year, eyed thungir • ''Yes, dear: that May he, but serer MIS in 191, unless of the pr9 fof t at. 1-,alday time; she replied, spotlsilrility i3 now forEti'coate