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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1927-03-31, Page 7CAN AMAN RAILWAYS PLACE CANADA THIRD IN WORLDS MILEAGE RACE .THE COURAGE OF HER PEOPLE INDICATED BY CANADA’S RAILWAY GROWTH. Each Country in Position to Furnish Many of the Re-* quirements of the Other. ne'^c. & R- UNE would reduce MILEAGE TORONTO-BUFFALO Unexcelled Transportation Of­ feree^ AU Parts of Our Klreat Country. if W •> MARITIME PROVINCES REAP SPECIAL AD­ VANTAGE. Ninety years ago Canada had six­ teen miles of horse-powered railway; to-day our country has the third larg­ est mileage in the world. The world’s total estimated mileage in 1924 was 738,577. Of this one-third, or 250,282 miles, is in the United States. Next comes British India with 40,401, and Canada a close second with 40,061. COST TO CANADA. The bill for this extensive mileage ( lias had to be paid and the total capi- ’ tai liability amounts to $3,413,865,613. The Dominion, and Provincial Gov­ ernments have advanced, guaranteed, or assumed directly, a total of $957,- 272,059, or tho country owes nearly $24,000 per nrllle on the total trackage in Canada. Besides this, the govern­ ments, both Dominion and Provincial, have given crown land subsidies to the extent of 47,194,880 acres, which at a moderate valuation of $10 an acre brings the value of government assist­ ance up to the staggering total -of nearly $33,fl0’0 per mile of road con­ structed. RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION AND POPULATION. A study of the census returns and railway construction ovex* a ten-year period shows a strong relationship. Whether heavy construction was res­ ponsible for a corresponding heavy immigration might be hard to prove, but the fact remains that from 1911 , to 1921 Canada built a larger mileage of rail than for any corresponding period (21,223 miles), and the in­ crease in population during that per­ iod was nearly 3% millions, the great­ est gain in any 20-year period in Can­ ada’s history. Even with its great increase in population Canada is still a sparsely settled country. We need millions more on our great Western ■ lands before our great railway enter­ prises can -possibly pay, but we are now ready to offer reasonably con­ venient transportation to prospective settlers. RAILS AND TONNAGE. might be interesting to note at point the tonnage carried for was 106,429,355, the number of ( i I | Comb&tLngr Wolves I | in Northern Canada j I Woftt-kllUng Ctfonipaign® are a® old Quality and Productiveness of organized society but th® Jiepartmont o»r Pm.Urv Rrinv. World’s ;»' «« Istortor ta® iflftxAwl ft mw j element into them by endeavoring 0 I make thle iravewm® bewt pay tor Wo I own deetruetion, If walvee were easy ROYAL EXHIBITS AT 1927 ■. to W «wo wotm wtov to » wt CONVENTION I menaee—the trappers would attend to V LAN A | ....... , J most diflieult of all animals- to kill or Why is Canada the best country in capture and for Ihi® reason the trap* the world in which to raise domestic naturally gives tote attention to fur­ fowl of all kinds? This is the question bearers more easily taken, that many thousands of people, who j Canada’® northern country i» stead- do not Jive in the Dominion, are ask- jjy opened up. FosMbilittes in mg themselves. . «««>»«. to propound this query because of the imes are coming tote sight, but it is a magnificent display of birds made by; truism that these cap only be develop- Canada at the World’s Poultry Con-1 wtth the aid of the native popula- gress in Spain in 1924, and also be- tion of Indiana and Eskimos'. For cause of the fact that Canada holds generation® the natives have depended ■the world’s egg-production records fOr a great part of thelr food and cloth- ■both for a pen of ten hens and for an' mg upoa caribou. The wolf preys individual hen. As a consequence cn nnimal and does further dam- they will gather in Ottawa for the a(gl& by destroying the fur-bearers third World’s Poultry Congress from J caught in the traps of the hunWo To July 27 to August 4, 1927. I check those losses and to protect tho A good many Canadians may feeU subsistence of the Indians and Eski­ that because they do not know one, mog. tho Dominion Government in 1915 •breed of poultry from another they offOT&(l a bounty of $20 per head' for have no interest in this gathering, I each wolf kilted in tho Northwest Ter- but, if so, they miss both its national, ritories, the hunter being allowed al­ and personal significance. In Europe,; ter receiving the bounty to sell the particularly in Great Britain, the ad- peit for what it would’ fetch. This vancement in poultry breeding is brought about little, if any, increase largely due to the personal and finan- m the number of wolves destroyed, cial assistance given by leading citi-1 and to get the situation into hand the zens. His Majesty King George and North West Territories and Yukon the Prince of Wales (both of whom Branch in the winter of 1922-23, and. will have exhibits at Ottawa) are again in 1923-24, sent a wolf-hunting amongst the outstanding poultry i party into tho caribou country east of breeders in the Empire, and. their ex- Great Slave lake which resulted m ample is followed by hundreds whose the destxuction in the two years of 320 purpose is patriotic and philanthropic —persons who are interested in birds because they are mors keenly interest­ ed in men. It is expected that the Congress in Ottawa will be attended} ■by about seven thousand delegates' from outside Canada, hundreds of whom come with the idea of seeing whether a country which produces such fine poultry would not be a good place for men and women from the over-crowded agricultural areas of Europe, The more citizens from dif­ ferent parts of Canada there are at Our Pcultry Brings World's Congress to Ottawa. Expansion of trade between Can­ ada and Cuba is to be expected as the result of arrangements which have recently been made between the two] countries for the extension of mutual ( trade preferences. Through negotia-i tions, made on the one hand by the, Canadian Minister of Finance while; on a visit to Cuba, Canada will receive preferential treatment from Cuba and the products of that country will be admitted to Canada on terms’ similar to those extended to France and other favored nations. The .most friendly relations have existed between Canada and Cuba and there has been evidence for some time on the part of the Republic of a pro­ nounced inclination towards forming closer ties in a trade way. Of this, Canada has not been slow to take ad­ vantage. It has been a simple matter of negotiation, since the products of the two countries are so widely diff­ erent, each being tn a position to fur­ nish many of the requirements of the other. ing themselves.They have been led -hunting, ranching, mining and other [ Major G. H. Scott } British airman, who- piloted R-34 across Atlantic, is likely to come to Canada to advise on aircraft matters. . Foundation Stones. The laying of a foundation stone has always been- a highly significant act in ceremonial life. The stone : itself is usually inscribed with names, and strange treasure-trove is sometimes deposited in or upon it, for the interest of unborn genera­ tions who, ages hence, shall grub among the ruins of our ancient, and perhaps forgotten, civilization. We speak of the foundation, stone of society, of the Church, of the State. It stands always fox* the thing of chief importance, upon which the whole fabric rests, upon which, in the ultimate resort, its stability de­ pends. That is why we hearthstone’ is the foundation stone of the highest civilization we know. Does this still remain true, despite much modern criticism of marriage and the I-Ioipe? Burns put the case for the perma­ nent significance and value of the hearthstone in his famous stanza: To mak’ a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime O’ human life. “There’s nowt so queex* as folk,” says the Northco.untry philosopher, and that queerness is not more pat­ ently manifest than in the current jibes against the institution of mar­ riage and the prognostications of its coming doom.- People who live in hot-houses can never be trusted to read the ther- ‘.mometer. Besides, it is always a foolish and futile exercise to gener­ alize on insufficient data. Yet- that Is what over-clever people are con­ stantly doing when they discuss mar­ riage and family life. Instead of taking a sweeping sur­ vey over the world’s most highly- developed communities, and taking account of the myriads of happy homes contained therein, they search j the columns of the papers for the scandalous and. the eratic until, against one of the oldest -of axioms, the part becomes gieiater than the whole. These pessimists look at us all through smoked lenses, and see, through dim clouds of their own making, the world as a battle-ground of disgruntled pairs, instead of a | paradise of happy homes. They magnify misery ten thousand- times, and minimize happiness and, con- tentment in a like degree They give us slow-motion pictures of happiness and accelerated representations of ('the widei* side of life, until some i think marriage “stodgy,” and life at fits best little better than a dance of jdeath. i These are obvious distortions of truth. There is much in our modern ' megaphone methods—the Press, wlre- 3—to mask and hide the essential right­ ness of our great social conventions, to which the vast majority of civi­ lized folk adhere. Besides, the sobs of the world are much more in- The triSuinS ^ian its smiles. I Yet Home continues to be one of the great little words of our lan­ guage. It has an aroma which the foetid atmosphere of the divorce ■court cannot spoil. Certain it is that if this foundation stone be removed, even if its stability be threatened, the end of the structure we call civi­ lization will be in sight. Sb long as there is a girl to love, and a man to love her; so long as , the hands of the little children liold ! tight to the heartstrings of both, so ! long will the foundation stone of • society remain “well and truly laid.” I say that the it this 1924 passengers carried 42,921,809, with a gross earning of $445,923,877, with operating expenses of $382,483,908, or a net revenue of $63,439,969, or less than 2 per cent, on the total capital­ ization of 3% billion, dollars. So it can be easily understood that increas­ ed population and increased business are the only solution of our country’s problem as to how to make our rail­ ways pay. HUDSON BAY RAILWAY. I A further $5,000,000 is to be spent] this year" on the completion of the Hudson Bay Railway. Expert opin­ ion seems to point to this railway ex­ tension beipg a boon to the western* shipper of wheat. There is only some] ninety miles of steel to lay on already j graded right of way to complete the lxiad, and the terminal facilities at Fort Nelson have already had some six millions expended thereon. Re­ ports indicate that a rich mineral country will be opened up and the fishery industries will have an impetus by being brought directly in contact with the great Western market. We, as Canadians, may well be proud of our great railways systems—the two largest individual systems in the world—the Canadian National, with some 22,(X>0 miles, nationally operat­ ed, which is the largest system in the ___ ______ _______ world, and the C.P.R., which follows J. less, the vast growth of cities- close behind with over 18,000 miles' “ ■* ’ tinder one management. More Speed; Manchester Guardian (Ml): First Commissioner of Works express­ ed himself as “filled with dismay” at tlhe suggestion that railway trains should bo made to run at 150 Julies an hour. ... If some trains were run a little faster many people who travel, on them would be more pleased; but that, many people want to see’trains, moving at twice tlie fastest speed j which is reached to-day is extremely j Unlikely. It is the merest truism to ’ * say that in the long run no time would i - be saved by such an alteration; the’ paradoxical but perfectly accurate moral of the history of the last hun­ dred years is that the faster we move the less time we have to spare.. In­ crease the speed with which distant places can be reached and you increase the number of distant places which have to be visited. .......—-❖ ■- Why Leave Him? Winnipeg Tribune (Ind. Cons.): Canada, as per suggestion of I-’rosb dent Coolidge, is considering the question of reduction of naval arma­ ments, according to Ottawa dispatches. To produce any material evidence of good will, Canada is almost reduced to the necessity of shoving a midshipman off a dock IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.- Mutual trade between the two coun­ tries has expanded‘considerably since the war, and this tendency is now likely to be stimulated. In the year 1916, Canada imported from Cuba to the value of $1,540,519 while export­ ing to that country to the value of $1,431,290. In the twelve months ended November, 1926, the Dominion’s imports from the Republic were $8,- 074,101, while her exports to that .country amounted to $8,099,890. The tendency, however, has been for Can­ ada to buy from Cuba to a greater extent than she sells to that country, as indicated in the figures of previous corresponding years to the above when export trade totalled $7,486,472 and imports amounted to $11,424,570. It is only to be expected that the trade treaty will stimulate Canadian exports to Cuba and bring about a more stable 3nd even balance of trade. The principle imports of Canada from Cuba, as indicated in the trade figures- of the last fiscal year, are: sugar, $9,982,'000; tobacco, $823,246; and cigars, $116,926. The Canadian sugar refining, industry, which has been built up entirely on imported raw material, has been accustomed to pur­ chase to a heavier extent from Cuba than from any othei- individual coun­ try. Imports of tobacco from Cuba are quite substantial and that coun­ try is Canada’s chief source of im­ ported cigars. Both, are products the importation of which is likely to be affected in the future, the one by the progress of the domestic sugar beet industry and the other by the growing appreciation'of home-grown tobacco, but it will be some quite considerable time before Such influences are felt. OF BENEFIT TO MARITIME PROVINCES. The principal exports of Cuba are potatoes, $3,915,513; wheat flour, $1,- 118,198; whiskey, $855,786; hay, $74,- 398; fish, $959,574; condensed milk, $375,185; planks and boards, $154,- 163; newsprint paper, $179,464; auto­ mobiles, $117,148; copper wire and cable, $69,000; electric apparatus, $73,000; and calcium carbide, $359,- 384. Cuba vies with the United States for position as Canadays first custom­ er for potatoes, in the last fiscal year taking about fifty per cent, of all Canadian exports. The floui* trade with the Republic looms up quite im­ portantly. Cuba is a heavy purchaser of dried codfish, dried haddock, smok­ ed herring, pollock and particularly canned salmon. While the diversity of Cuban im­ ports from Canada would seem to en­ sure a general benefiting for the Do­ minion from the treaty it must inevit- abmly re-act to the especial advantage of the Maritime Provinces. Most of the trade' with Cuba is carried on through the ports of the Maritimes, from which there are regular sailings, and the treaty should bring them in­ creased activity. Further, it is the) products of the Maritime Provinces] which are largely in demand in Cuba. The potato trade is entirely with these; three provinces, New Brunswick alone having shipped 427,106 bushels to the Republic last year. This is almost as wholly true of the fish ^Jrade, while hay and lumber products can best be furnished by this same territory. wolves. The pelts thu® obtained were sold at auction and the proceeds ma­ terially. assisted in paying the cost of these expeditions. Considerable Saving. i i Kind of Laborer’ He Was. Reggio--“Yoe, I’m only a day labor- > limo Ior, you know; but liawf the don’t work,” She- -“Then you’re only an other day laborer, I’d say.” every The proposed cut-off which' the. Canadian National Railways proposes to build, with the authority of Parlia­ ment, between Pilkington and Niagara Junction will be 16.7 miles in length. The continually increasing business through the Niagara gateways has for some time past necessitated the in­ vestigation of further track facilities to Bridigeburg. On that part of the route Welland Junction to Bridgeburg, where the Wabash Railway has joint running rights on this former Grand Trunk line, the business has reached such a density tnafc double-tracking, or othei* trackage had to be consider­ ed. In this connection a desire for a shorter and fastei’ route Toronto to * elusive rights over these tracks. This Buffalo led to the railway investigat- j may take the form of a long-term ing a cut-off in lieu of double-tracking Welland Junction to Bridgeburg (Niagara Junction). After investi­ gation of several possible lines, the proposed branch was selected as the best. ’ It will shorten the distance be­ tween Toronto and Buffalo by 8 miles. This extra trackage via' a new line, Pilkington to Niagara Junction, was\____ ... — found to be more economical than I powers for construction. double-tracking Welland Junction to Bridgeburg. The railway management feels th^t it is necessary to have in hand the authority for the construction in order to meet eventualities. The Wabash Railway, by an agreement in 1919 have fox* a period of 21 years running rights over the Grand Trunk Railway tracks Bridgeburg to Windsor as their main route into Chicago, and their business on p-art of that line, Welland Junction to Windsor, occupies the main use of the line. They have now approached the Canadian National Railways with a view to negotiating a new arrangement having in view securing to themselves what will am­ ount to perpetual and practically ex­ lease of, or possibly mean the* purchase of the line Bridgq&urg to Windsor. In the latter event the Pilkington- Niagara Junction cut-off would be re­ quired to be built, but no new money would be necessary as there would be -funds from the sale of the other line, but authority from Parliament is re­ quired in order to furnish charter In 1924, following up the success thus crea®ed from $20 to $30 per wolf, upon, condition that the pelt be (Surrendered) to the Department. The pelts are re­ ceived. from the hunters at the various | Royal Canadian Mounted Police posts, I and. shipped direct to the fur auctions xvxxaiv ux. vauaua uuexc cvxv ■ j Eagt&m Cauada ]>G dfeyoged of at the the more likely the out- This has given a side delegates will be to learn some-’ ” thing of the different provinces and to take back with them an adequate con­ ception of what the Dominion has to offer. } SCIENTISTS OF REPUTE. attained, the bounty was lu- great impetus to the, woif-extermina^ lion campaign and at the same iinne ha® lessened the cost pei* wolf to the Department; for while some of the pelts taken under the bounty scheme are only of average value the majority The Congress will include also many are prime skins of the. huge timber scientists, of international reputation wolf of the north, skins1 which are in biology, genetics, pathology, zoo- sought by dealers from all ovex* the logy, etc., from all the countries of | world. A the sales held in 1926 and the one in January, 1927, pelts to the number of 964 were disposed! of for $13,861. Thus, although the hunter was encouraged1 by the increased bounty of $30, to get more wolves, the Government effected a considerable saving as compared with the former bounty of $20, and the expansion of the market caused by the knowledge that There will, tlxerefore, such pelts can be secured in quantity will tend to further reduce the cost of combating the wolf menace. Col. Thomas Edward Lawrence Whose book, “The Seven Pillars of Wisdom,” recounting in 300,000 words his experiences among. Moslem tribos- Poor Quebec. Ottawa Droit (Ind. Lib.): The de­ cision of the Privy Council, which is unjust to Canada, give® rise to all manner of suppositions. , , - . New­ foundland has been favored by the Privy Council because it is oi* appears tq be more loyal than Canada. As for the Province of Quebec, it has noth­ ing to be grateful fox* In the treatment : which it receives in the highest tri­ bunal of the Empire. Last April it lost its case in the nxattoi* of the Rouyn Railway. Some years ago- its French laws were attacked in the Despatie- Tremblay case. And when the Privy Council declared Rule 17 to be “ultra vires,” it was French culture and the survival of our race which were Iilaced in peril. Mr.. Tasehereau, Prime Minister of the Province of Quebec, who went in person to Lon­ don to defend the cause of his pro­ vince in the Labrador • affair, will no doubt, pitch a lower note in discussing i tlie efficacy of the British connection | to maintain oui\ territorial and moral j independence. I i I I Europe. There will be a large num­ ber of British agricultural county agents, and the representatives of the great importing houses of Western Europe. These will be, so to speak, in addition to the world’s great experts in all lines of poultry breeding and in the, production and marketing of poul­ try (live and dead), eggs, equipment and supplies. rn1-—- —■’11 J-1 ■£’—~ be very much to interest all patriotic Canadians, whatever their profession or business. Representatives of thirty different countries will attend, and there will be one of the greatest displays of poul- . try ever assembled, In which it is be- lieved Canada’s part will not be in­ significant. The delegates will be wel­ comed by His Excellency the Gover­ nor-General, and by the Prime Min­ ister. The Minister of Agriculture, the ministers of agriculture of the various provinces, and other promin­ ent citizens are on the congress com-! mittee, which has all the details in charge. The Congress officers are: Presi­ dent, Mr. Edward Brown, London, England; director, Mr. F. G. Elford, Dominion. Poultry Husbandman; sec­ retary, Mr. Ernest Rhoades, Trans­ portation Building, Ottawa. i Lonely Posts for Women. Without -fuss or fear, dozens, of Bri- Family and Society. Dean Inge In the .London Evening Standard (Ind.): The break-up of the. family, would mean the dissolution of society, and the loss of the purest affections which sanctify human life. I know no more detestable sentiment than the wish of that most undutiful son, Samuel Butler, that the genera­ tion did not overlap, so that we need j not be bothered with our parents. Mel- i chizedek, he would say, was much to ; be congratulated--he was burn an or-‘ ph an. He Won. | Two men who had traveled were j comparing theii* ideas about foreign! cities. | “London,” said one, “is certainly the! foggiest place in the world.” “Oh, no, it’s not,” said the other. ■ “I’ve been in a place much- foggier J men during the great war, was pub- than London.” • “Where was that?” asked his in­ terested friend. “I don’t know* where it was,” replied the second man, "it was so foggy!” — — When Augustus Nodded. Ono of the questions in a historical paper in a gills’, school just before the ho-Hdays began was: “WJial do you un­ derstand by the Augustan Era?” Ono girl ■answered: “Tho Augustan era was the cow ... „ — a mistake of Augustus.” (water and then drain the cranlmasoJ* I lished at $20,000 a copy, on March 18. Only’ 10 of 22 copies printed will bo sold to the public. Johnny Knew. Little Johnny, a city boy in the coun­ try for the first time, saw the milking of a cow*. "Now* you know where the milk comes from, don’t you?” he was asked. “Sure!” replied Johnny, “You give some breakfast food and He Wrsn’t Sacked. < One morning an invoice clerk turned J up at his office even later than usual, j His employer, tired of waiting for him,! hail himself gone about the work. The I enraged merchant laid his imn aside very deliberately. “Mr. Jones,” lie said, sternly, "this will not do.” “No, sir," l-eplied Jones-, glancing over liis employer’s shoulder, "it will not. You have mado these invoice®- out to the wrong people. Far bettor to 1 have waited till I came!'’ Described. When a certain boy was asked what soda-water tastes like, he replied: "Like your foot’s asleep.” He must be a brothex* of the lad who remarked that vinegar tasted like “thawed 6»nd-paper.” Another boy, of the same family, having for the first time got a mouth­ ful of Chile-peppers, exclaimed, with tears in his eye®: “No more needle® and pins on toast for me 111 j. On all occasions A BOXER, SHOULD < " KEEP HIS FEET ON THE ©ROUND. J for posts in the Colonial Service in distant lands-, says- a London maga- p_ I zine. Many who will brave scorching cli­ mates and. endure- the absence of all but a few white people are nurses. But other posts- have also recently been accepted, by women, as for ex­ ample that of secretary to the Board of Education of the Southern Pro­ vince®, Nigeria, to which Mrs. S. H. Leith-Ros® has just been appointed-. Lonely places like St. Vincent, one of the Windward Islands in the Atlan­ tic, the Leeward Islands, and Hong- Kong, the Straits Settlements, the Gold Coast, and the Bahamas, are a few of the British colonies to whidi British women are now journeying to take up their jobs. To the Straits Settlements a woman medical offioex* i ed—Miss I<. M. include -those B.S.—while as tress to the Educational Department at Hong-Kong, Miss I). M. Jacques has been chosen. “It is the woman who likes hard i work and. who also understands the | romance of living in far-away parts of . I the Empire who succeeds at these ! Colonial Service posts,” said an auth- I ority, | The Cause of the Trouble, i An old man in the village was a re- ; gular member of the prayer meeting i held every Saturday night at a certain ’ mission hall. At every meeting, too, he would pray tho same prayer, which ’ finished up with words- .something liloa i these: “And, oh, Lord, blow away the I cobweb from our brain.” j Thia prayer was repeated for years ’ 'until one night, after tho usual send.* - monte and on the old man sitting - ; down, an old lady in the congregation ]bui'st out very earnestly with, "Andv i oli. Lord, for goodness sake kill that ispider!” . f % has just been appoint- Hyslop, whose degrees of L.R.C.P., M.B., and physical training mis- X Yes, What Other? “Do you like long-drawn-out after- dinner speeches as well as the other land)?” I “What other kind?” —— —• — Disturbed, l4widlsidy“-‘'An.d why don’t you illco the room?” Roomer1 “"Your canary i® a® noisy that I caixT practice on my saxophone?* Use Chains on tee. Use tiro chains wliem stieets- ora wet or covered with sno w or R-&,