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Canada, The, Empire and The World .at Large .
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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
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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
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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.
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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