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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1927-01-13, Page 6
I Canada’s Future Financially Assured BANKERS’ PRESIDENT IS OPTIMISTIC. Increased and Profitable Bust- ness, Lacal and Foreign, is Story of GE. Neill, Presi dent Canadian Bankers Association. Recent bank statements are-begin ning to reflect the increased prosperity in Canada. Perhaps th© outstanding feature Is th© substantial increase in current bank loans, indicating th© greater volume of business. Th© Sep tember consolidated bank statement gave am increase of $41,566,000 in such loans over th© figures for the previous ' year. Th© statement also shows an $8,000,000 increase in total deposits. • Th© steady growth in the volume of foreign trad-s is another indication of th© basic prosperity of th© country. For the twelve months ending Sept. 80, 1924, 1925 and 1926, th© total value of Canadian foreign trade amounted to $1,912,243,000, $3,023,025,000, and ?2,- 304,697,000. This inceas© is at the rate of about $200,000,000 per year. Healthy State of Industry. Most o-f the important branches of( manufacturing have bten increasingly active during th© past year. Pig in n production for the llr.-t ten months of th© year shows a 41 per cent, increase, and th© automobile output was 35 per cent, ahead of that for le.-t y ar. News print production L n: v ah. ad of that in the United States. The farmer did not harvest as large crops as- in 1925, but the majority cf tho farmers began th© year in a fe- latively stronger position than in 1925, and the returns for this crop pro mise to be sufficiently .large to again Increase agricultural buying power. In this connection the prices for farm products are relatively higher than th© average price for other products, amu condition©. A Rare Coin. reproduction above slavery coin minted in 1838 one of three known to exist, property of a Toronto man, shows which It is the triet, and it la expected that th© capl- . tai expenditure In this plant will ©x- 1 ce&d $100,000,0-00 before the projected development is> completed. Ths large volume of water power which is avail able in Ontario and Quebec promises j to make Canada one of the world’s < leading countries in the manufacture I of electro-chemical products. It is ex-1 peeted that investment in the installa- ; tion of new turbines wil be made at» ] th© rate of not less than $60,000,0-00 I ! per year for some years to come. ' Foreign Capital Attracted. I The fact that there is prosperity in practically all lines of Canadian in- durtry, including agriculture, mining,' forestry and fishing, indicates that the ’ I resent growth is sound, and Ibis is attracting the attention cf financiers all pans cf the world. In recent ymi-’S investors from the United States have become keenly interested in Canadian resources, and they ar© now investing about $200,000,000 a year in , Canada. In the past few months there , Emperor Hiroh|to and Empress Nagako, the now rulers of Japan, f w Proud Position of Canadian Agriculture, BY C. W. PETERSON. (Canadian farmers receive, from time to time, a great deal of gratui- tous®advice from their city cousins on the virtue of studying efficiency in their calling and discarding old- fashioned methods. Sometimes there is a veiled hint to the effect that he is spending too. much time in his automobile and .otherwise neglecting his farm. Undoubtedly, some farmers are extravagant and probably are not working as hard as they should and their poor financial returns can gen erally bo attributed to neglect of their business, -At any rate, the implication is, that the Canadian farmer is not “tending his knitting0 as closely as his city brother, who is represented as tho indefatiguable “go-getter,” who ' counts that day lost upon which he. is unable to add one more touch to the perfection of his business or in dustrial machine. 1'HE~U. S. RECORD. Secretary Jardine, of the U.S, Dept, of Agriculture, said recently that dur- J ing the past fifty years the number of i persons engaged in farming in that ; j country has inci’eased eighty per 'I cent, while the output of farm pro- < due© has increased 300 per cent. Not- ; withstanding all that is said concern- , ing th© opportunity to improve income by better methods of farming, a con- ’ temporary south of the line points out ’ that the stubborn fact still remains that the American farmer has in- , creased in efficiency, and, what is ’ moye, lie produces larger quantities ■of agricultural products per person than any farmer in the world. A CHALLENGE FRO-M CANADzL What about tho Canadian farmer? ............... _ =‘In 1870 wo had two and a third mil range of factors shaping Canada’s j lion people engaged in agriculture, 0ne>half century, ago both Canada, United States. Th© number of per- and the United States were mainly sops in Canada, per thousand acres agricultural and their respective popu- ’ of improved land, has declined from lattens bore a very similar ratio to 1212 in 1871 to 124 in 1921, the year of their respective areas of improved latest returns. The similar trend in land. For every thousand acres of. the United States was Arrested at the improved land, Canada had 212 per-1 low point ©f 176 and, since about 1890,, sons and the United States 205 per-ithe tendency there has been sharply sons. The Dominion then, ns now, | upward as a result ©f great intensive possessed a much smaller settled area,, but apparently was, if anything, slightly the more intensively develop ed country of the two. For a given area of improved land Canada had more population—whether engaged in agriculture or in manufacturing, min ing, lumbering, fishing, trade and other’ pursuits, To-day the situation is strikingly development in the form of manufac turing, mining and other industrial pursuits, The turning-point for Canada-can not be far away, The country has en joyed a remarkable renewal of exten sive growth during the last two or three decades writh th© result that, judged on the basis of number of r „ population in proportion to extent of different, Both countries have in th<ri improved agricultural tend, the Do- meantime enjoyed great agricultural and great industrial growth, but their relative intensity of development has been entirely changed. The latest re turns show that Canada, instead of having more persons in proportion to the area of improved tend, has now not much more than half as many as the United States. In the last fifty years tho number of the country’s in habitants per thousand acres of im proved land has increased in the Un? ited States, but in Canada has de clined by over 40 per cent. The full explanation of this change involves many factors- but , hinges •■4.* % ♦ minion is to-day less intensively de veloped than it was fifty or sixty years ago. It is a notable fact that if the Do minion wore to-day as highly cm in tensively developed as it was over its smaller area of settlement of fifty years ago, its present population would stand at more than 15,000 000 instead of rather less than 10,000,000. Th© rapid expansion of settlement ovei’ vast prairie regions, where farming is featured by the us© of every labor-saving implement and by ‘h high acreage of working land per man, has reduced to an unprecedent- mainly on the fact that during the! edly low figure the numbar of persons I in Canada per thousand acres or other unit of Improved land. According to the Resources Service the Dominion now appears to be ex ceptionally rip© for a long upward trend in intensity of development. This present position in regard to in tensity of development is on© of the most significant points in the whole last generation the major share of American growth has been along manufacturing, mining and other in tensive lines, while Canadian growth, featured by the immense spreading out of Western settlement, has bean J more largely extensive. Glace Bay, N.S.—A new colliery re- j by sixteen successful Manitoba butter-! ^kis trend of Canadian devclop- cord was made on the 14th of Dec, makers at the Royal Winter Show,iment probao.y approached its ex-- Avhen the Dominion Coal Co. pits pro-1 Toronto, by presenting them each with1 treme' . years the ratio of . „ - - , _ . t- duced 19,700 tons. The day's produc-’a cheque of aunmilar amount. Mani-! population to the extent of improved-outlook, and is perhaps the most sug- with an annual production of 242 mi. tion wou.d have been we.i over 2J,0d0 toba in 1926 won twice as many prizes tons but for a collision between two-as were won by any other province of electric locomotives, smashing up fifty, tho Dcminicn. boxes but leaving no casualties. ‘ _____ ______ Fredericton, N.B.—Over a million has been a marked increase in the in-' Christmas trees were shipped* from terest which investors from Great Bri- ■ this province to United States mar- tain are tairing in this market, and i kets, according to unofficial estimates there have been substantially more > based on exports of some 590 carloads inquiries from abroad covering Cana- averaging 2,000 trees to-the car. ----------...... .............................. Suchjaots indicate Quebec, Que.—The Ontario Paper and this is a relationship which makes that the financiers in these countries' Co. has completed its preliminary for stability in a country as largely )are fully hlive to the wealth of Cana-* work at Outardes River on the north agricultural as Canada. Promising Mineral Outlook. 4 Fnirt Coast to Coast For fifty years the ratio of^ 'land has been falling almost continu- gestive of all in affording some idea of, lion dollars. In 1925 we hud a rural ously. It has already fallen much th© possibilities of future Canadian: population of about 4,700,000 with a lower than it ever dropped in the growth. :■■■■■_............... .......-----------------------------------------------------------------1 4 dian resource, and that they are pre-! shore, with the construction of its paring to take advantage of new op--power house and'the development of , , _ il._w ____ It should * 1,200 H.P. from the Qutardes River,; ago, and took up a quarter section of 4>™ laoc TOno 5994 smn non not be forgotten, however, that there J The lowest series of waterfalls has land in his present district, nW ownsJKJ Jip’;s in KnX™ Canada,’been developed and electricity will, 800 acres. Since he began in Alberta £rio ^Quebec give pronSse that Uiere are-encouraging signs thatj now be available for the model town?..hfe wheoyrop has; av^aged 40 to the returns from this source will con- r tinue to increase. Th© new smelter; at Rouyn, Quebec, will be in operation pho-rtly, Huge Power Developments. Si-no© ■electric power is so closely delated to both manufacturing and • however, shouM be most familiar with mining, it is a matter of satisfaction our undeveloped resources ,and should that such great -progress is being made : be most ready to take advantage- of in increasing Canada’s power pro-due- j this! new period of growth. As w© oon- tiom Tho Royal Bank of Canada’s ■■ template the future of the country, we Tho value ot the Canadian mineral POrtn»M« >» IW «<»r. Regina, Sask,—Thousands of dress ed turkeys and chickens left Saskat chewan for the eastern provinces and the United States to supply the Christmas needs; The shipments were made mostly out of Regina and Sas- pivyuico vu«.x **TOxM kujuuo, itayui'.vu *, v>c* .» katoon, and were consigned to New|homes to the homeless child. The fol- dred years ago, ano .T. D. Whelpley, York, Chicago, Boston, Toronto, Mon-i lowing letter, sent by Mr. Kelso, | writing. in Current History, reaches treal, Hamilton and other points. I Director of Child Welfare Work, to' ‘ Calgary, Alta.—R., M. Bacon, of|L. Putnam, Supt. of Women’s Insti- Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, who! tutes, should be taken up by all inter-’ came from Harlan, Iowa, eleven year3 j Canadians ar© awake to the opportuni- which is being built by the Ontario 50 bushels to the aero and his oats 80 -----------------j x-i---- tx i_ __x. rv. tvLu.u ic t-v>~-,Vn as1 to 100 bushels. _________ - | Vancouver, B.C.—Forty-three regu- . Toronto, Ont.—-A mineral discovery j lay steamship- lines Ideate out of the as ‘ to 100 bushels. - | Vancouver, B.C.—Forty-three regu- ties which surround them. It is not Paper Co. and which is known that we deprecate foreign investment ’ Tascharcau. in this country; on the contrary, we’ • . , are glad to have aid from every source J Of some importance is reported in . Port of Vancouver, according to the in developing the latent wealth of th© Northern Ontario by R. S. Potter, of j annual report dfthe Dept, of Marine country. Those who live irf?Canada, ~ ' ............. ~ i i ___________ __ ___________ _ _______ _ ______ _____Winnipeg, Man.—The ^o electric power statistics show that th© ■ must realize that it is our duty, as welil ’ Government duplicated the pri: I daily kilowatt hour production in 19261 as being to our advantage, to, profit Is close to 20 per cent, larger than in.by the prosperity around us and the 1925. Construction of a great -electro-1 expansion which lie's just ahead, by metallurgical plant is now under way [ doing our full share in this task, of at Arvicla, in the Lake St. John dis- j building a great industrial nation. . ...........- . . .i--r r- -vui.ir.rL.urn.-. i- .1-r.r i.i-— - - ’ .- _______ Knife-and-Fork Sandwiches. ■ ■With a few exeeptions, kndfe-andi- ?f<xrk sandwiches are served' hot andj are more substantiali than those mads for tea and other afternoon affairs. Each sandwich is an average luncheon or supper portion, and by varying the fixings, they can be served' all the year iteund. To make, trim cruste from- bread ■Which is owe or two days old, then E0ioe. (The crust i-s not wasted, but tiried and- rolGted for crumbs.) A smaSl amount of butter is then creamed and softened for easy spreading', and matching slices of broad ar© spread ready for the fillings. The following recipes are for homie-cooked fillings, with a few straight from the can for lemiergencies. Th© sandwiches that are served with, sauces require plates (loop, enough to hold the sauce nicely. Gar nish attractively, for dainty serrio© is always appetizing. For sa-usage^and-appl© fiStog, wash and slice three tart apples, removing cotes. Fry in butter, dusting with pepper, salt and a Jittle sugar. Slip fhe' moat out of sausage skn'ns, season &*rid shape it into flat cakes. Lay two Kelces of fried apOe on a slice cf bread ^and a cake of sausage on top of tho ‘ apple, cover with the etherr slice of broad and garnish with radishes, a Mcallion' and parsley or watercress, or thinly sliced pickle. Liver and cuirrant-jcT.y filling rc- qUfiires lualf a pound calf’s Mver (wash Homes Urgently Neetjed. The great need just now is' for good-hearted people throughout the province to open their hearts and I I Matheson, to the -provincial Govern--and Fisheries. Thirteen ply to Eur- ‘ ment. Th© find is declared to be’ope; 8 to th© Orient; 3 to Australia, copper-zinc-lead ore and may be a?New Zealand, Hawaii-and Fiji; 7 to continuation of the rich copper belt in ■ the Atlantic coast of Canada and the Quebec Province, j United States; 9 to Central and South ~ ’ovincial I America and the West Indies, and 3 plfize won' to California. .and cook until tender, then chop fine). Add one tablespoonf u3 butter, salt and-1 ; pepper to taste, and one teaspoonftil1 ; sugar. Butter the bread slices slightly and spread each slice with currant jel'ly, then th© liver filling. Garnish with watercress. I Creamed-egg filling wiQl- please. To make, cook until- hard enough fresh' eggs to allow two. to each sandwich. Butter bread, slice the eggs and ar range neatly, dusting with peppea.' and salt, then put on the top slices. Have ready a rich cream sauce, or a cheese i sauce, and turn it over tho sand- . wiches. Garnish with a little parsOey and thin slices of broDed bacon. The cheese sauce is simply cream sauce with a tableqpoonful of grated’cheese added at the last moment. A Pretty Chemical Experiment. But a piece of beet-root into a glass, ■ Add a little lime-water, and th© piece wflil^become white. Into this colorless mixture -dip a -piece- of white cloth, diry Lt .rapidly, and behold! the cloth will be dyed red. Reflectors for Vehicles Given to Quebec Farmers Poland-—The Key Nation of Europe “Poland is the-key of the European edifico/’^said Napoleon I. over .a hun- production of 1,453 nvLton dollars, and that was a law crop year. Our increase of production in 55 years is 600 per cent., with an increase in ' rural population of approximately 100 pei’ cent. Our system of agricultnro “ is almost precisely the same as in tho United States with value of produc tion per man enormously in favor of the latter on account of higher prices. The Canadian farmer has apparently beaten even the United States in creased gross rural production record hollow 1 THE PARAMOUNT POSITION. There is no urban industry that cart boast of any $uoh spectacular increase in per eapita output, as far as I am aware. The plain fact is, that the Canadian farmer evidently stands at the very top of world agriculture in point of efficiency, and, while vvo are mint J th© same conclusion. He says:-“The i'oieign relations of Poland are of i>fore than passing interest and con cern to other nations, for if they are good, the general peace and security of Europe ar© practically assured, If Poland should engage in a aval*, either ■ of an offensive* or defensive character, other countries in Europe would of necessity become**involved, and when I the disturbance would end, or how it would end, no one familiar with the deep flowing currents of international politics to-day would dare predict. On the eastern boundary of Western Europe a united and prosperous Po land presents a stalwart front toward th© advance of communism. Divided and weak, her territory would become the western boundary of Eastern Europe under the influence of sub versive doctrines. It is to th© moral, political'and material interests of the whole world that Poland should be sufficiently Successful in the carrying out of her plans for reconstruction to prevent disturbances from within and to maintain her position in the inter national councils.” London Building Sites Exceed New York Value ested in real philanthropy: Dear Mr. Putnam,—I cannot speak too highly of the splendid assistance given by the members of the Women’3 Institutes in equipping and supporting the various children’s Shelters of the province. I hear frequently from my representatives of the. substantial gifts made and the encouragement that naturally follows from this gen erous remembrance. • If I might make a suggestion it would be this: -that presidents and secretaries of the local Institutes act as homerfinjers, for however good the shelter may be, it is only a shelter, and our earnest desire is to see every child firmly established in some good family. At th© present time we have nearly two hundred children waiting for someone to claim them, and it seems too bad they should have to re main in storage for a year or two. with so many comfortable homes in our province that might be gladdened by the.il* presence. Our motto is— Every child a real home; a child in every home. Yours sincerely, J. ,J. Kelso'. . v I on th© subject, I might further p cut that in th© spheres of economy of management, hours of work and tensity of application, he can unques tionably teach the urban dweller very valuable lessons indeed. Tho farmer appreciates deeply an intelligent in terest in his problems by all and sun dry, But he is weary of unintelligent criticism. While there is always room for improvement, Canadian agricul ture is evidently very efficient. DOUBLE THE OUTPUT. Canada is not, however, producing a sufficient velum© of agricultural products for export to sustain and furnish furl time employment to our urban population. This is where the economic shoe pinches rather than in tho matter of farm inefficiency. In other words, we want-more farmers rather than better farmers. It will be found difficult to materially im prove the very high standard of Can adian agriculture. m it*"- Quebec Plans Museum on Battiefields Park Quebec.—Plans are being prepared for the erection of a building in Bat tlefields Park to serve as the reposi tory of the archives of the province and also as a Provincial Museum. Wil frid Lacroix is the architect,'and the plans will b© submitted to the Pro vincial Government for approval - in the near future. It is estimated that the cost would be about half a million dollars, and, should the plans be ac cepted, work will commence next spring. Quebec.—One thousand farmers in the Province of Quebec are soon going ifo receive unexpected gifts from the i Roads Department, in the form of re flectors, which are to be fixed fore and aft on vehicles propelled by animal locomotion. The Roads Department ifhas ordered 1,6-60 of these reflectors i as an expeiument. They are so adapt ed that when headlights come’ within range of the reflectors they catch the beams. It is believed that the new( reflectors will be the means of pre venting a number of accidents on country roads. . —-.....- - • [ “First Cast Out the Beam—” I If we improv© ourselves we improve I ' others by our example. ' that of the farmer? i .---------------------*---------------------- A printer’s problem: To eliminate the “punc” from ordinary punctuation. Is there a mors harrowing job than Prize Winner. Th© children were playing a singing gain© in which each was/to sing-that he some- little bird that no on© else would think? of. Little Charles thought ho had a good one,' and when It came his'turn he sang: “I’ ma little scarecrow, I’m a little scarecrow!” Whsn a man aims at nothing he sel dom masses his target. CTia4B53«*aM5MMMJWnccfrwtJBKa< Parthenon’ Was Church. Tho Parthenon, built a.s a t-empite to Athena at Athens, was used as a church -curly in the Chrisllaj Musical Locomotive. A locomotive whittle mote musical than the well-known screeching type i.5 living tried on a western railroad. London.—Building sites in princi pal London business quarters tend to fetch steadily rising prices slightly in excess of values of similar New York’ property, according to reports of re cent Fifth Avenue sales, Since 1923 the estimated gross value of real estate in the city “proper” has in creased by about £10,060,000. In streets near the Bank of England and the Stock Exchange, office property realizes to-day from £70 to £100 a square .foot, as compared with tho average ^rico of £60 a year* ago. In the Bond Street section of the-fashion- abl© retail district property Values average in the neighborhood of £50 a square foot, but in many other parts of London sales of land for building purposes are very common at about £10 a square foot. .......... l . * [•» .-—A report from Berlin, ■ I he names of the various countries I shown on the clock are stationary and -do not revolve with the outside disc, I Hence, those names ore never upside j down. One half of the disc is white j and the other half black, to signify plight and day. The disc makes one 'revolution every 24 hours, : Among tho 26 centres or countries ! whose time is shown by the elock ate: | Rio de Janiero, Iceland, Lisbon, New I Zealand, Melbourne, Tokfo, Pekin, Rome, London, India, and other places, I The clock requires winding every four days. Hamilton, Germany, of a clock in a large rail* way terminal there which showed simultaneously the time in a dozen different countries of the world caused no wonderment to John Duncan, 250 Prospect Street, this city. He has a clock, made by his own hands, which shows simultaneously the time in 26 ■different centres of the world. Mr, Duncan worked off and on at his clock for 20 years, and completed It about one year ago. The clock is onoao'od J» <i frame id inches square. After Five Years’ Silence. . After being ’deaf and dumb for five years as the result of a boxing acci dent, a London man lias recovered both hearing and speech in an am ing manner.. * . Whilst in hospital for the treatment of a-deeply-embedded splinter in. his j finger, it was found necessary to give] him au anaesthetic. On regaining] ccsclonsness. Urie pritteut exclaimed to an attendant who touched him he was “All right." In some 111© anacethefic. or the s! operation had restored 1 and h raring, — WORLD’S FIRST MAGAZINE FOR THE BLINb GDES TO PRESS TiiirMucM by Its blind investor Into Ltw Antrri'M several months ago, it. hw> p'i“0V£-.u so pe.pu.Iar that i< D. larged to GO pages for national cireitkiftou, "The Braille Mirror” became pooifllfi© ris a. remit of tlte^fnt«ulon rf spacial' r.-r>c-Ss«e»3 and steTb-types by-.T. Ttefcr t its publisher. Atkinv-c*,rcr>?kc8i wjth b’Jnthrrifl at 35 y&irs of age, had bad no previous experience in the mechanical lino when ho began lifer Wcntlwr. The magazine covers a wMo rang© and enibl&s blltiid people to r-aad &dvoa*tismnen<ts for* tho first time in 'their lives®. \London.—Telephone users in Jeru salem can ask for their numbers in eleven languages and ‘ the exchanges will put them through. Writing in tho monthly Telegraph and Telephone Journal, L^ M. Smith, superintendent of ‘‘telephones in Pales tine, says: “Palestine Ims^in. addition to tho three official laugttstges—Eng lish, Hebrew and Arabic—several other languages in common use, such as French, German, Spanish, Greek, Italian, Russian, Armenian and Ru manian. ■“Thia is a formidable list, but a caller in any of these languages can be served without much trouble in the Jerusalem exchange, where each of the telephonists'Speaks at least three lZ" I languages well and can deal with ; simple demands ter numbers passed i tn five or six different tongues.” An Odd But Simple Puzalo. _ Oito of the’ party sttfliten-’y i'hut anybC'dy i?u.ton<& ©f lru Imirdi in l such a po'Sdito'ii that h’s oth<r han*! ’ ■ ‘ ’V?”’* Ot tv-rjoii© ..............and ihere fa b great deal ot tun at the Iblumsy atte-mp-is. The ix-sRkfn is to ’ clasp an -elbow with oua of the hanGa; Turkish women are becoming ’av^ y©rs and doctors. The dispute "over the control of Tangier in-.Morocco finds .Spain and Italy on one side and Fran-co and Eng land on the other, Mussolini pietuf- csquely calls it another revolt of the proletariat against tho niiddlc.-c.ass&» —Spain and Italy are tho proloteriand among tho nattens, France and En^ color tend tho pi’osjterous and wealthy Ixnm* goosio, a mysterious maan.T either han’t touch it? - - thock of the '!n th® room, trits- at <«iw, both speech gen-Ernliy it ... 4kSymphony. We hear, If we efiteid, a singhig in the sky; But feed no fear, knowing that God ie alw&ys nigh, And none pees by, <, Except Hid ten®, who- cannot bring Tiding® of evil, since they sing. —■Helen Hunt Jackson. Colors Girds tJordfc See. Tt is reported that birds are blind to blues and violets. s ■fl *# / < *