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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1924-1-24, Page 7Canada from Coast to Coast Halifax, N.S.-Nova'" Scotia' ' now possessesone motor car . for every tevmy-nine inhabitants, according ,to •official figures for 1923. Total aegis- tratiors for the past year totalled 18,030, of which number, 16,060 were passenger curs and 1,970 commercial vehicles. In addition 130 dealers' li- censes were issued, covering 520 cars. It is estimated, from present indica- tions, that fully 20,000 motor cars --s be registered for operations on he highways during 1924; about twice thenumber registered five years aggo During the past season 3,380 tourist motor cars, entered the pro- vince. rovince:' Quebee, Que,-It is estimated by the provincial tourist bureau that 125,000 tjsge American ,automobiles visited Quebec province in 1923. Of this number, forty thousand travelled over the King Edward Highway, the principal route of automobilists from across the border motoring to Montreal, and a record in the annals of that thorough- fare, as regards American cars. Cochrane, Ont. -Rapid progress is being made by the contractors in the work of harnessing Island Falls for the Hollinger Consolidated . Gold liiines. The or..eration of trains twiice. a week has been of big assistance, and the installation will probably be completed in time to supply the in- creased requirements of the Hollinger by •the time the milling plant is en- larged to 8,000 tons daily. Winnipeg, Man. -There has been a very rapid increase in the sales of British -made z iachinery in the west - ere provinces as a result of the ex- hibits made gat the big summer fairs, according to A. L. Beale, British trade commissioner .for Western Canada. Ile says intensive efforts on the part of British manufacturers is greatly Increasing sales in the West, amount- ing to at least ;.$3,000,000 a month. Regina, Saek.-A carload of bri- quettes made by a special process at Hebron, North Dakota, from carbon- ized char manufactured at the lignite utilization plant at Bienfait from Souris lignite, has beenreceived here. A thorough test of the fuel for do- mestic purposes will be made. An- other carload has been shipped to the Bureau of Mines, Ottawa, where ex- haustive tests willbe carried out. Edmonton, Alta. -As a direct re- sult of the world's records won recent - 1y at Chicago by Alberta -grown seed grain, the Provincial Department of Agriculture has been flooded with orders from many countries for seed grain from its cleaning and marketing plants. Enquiries for more than 160 carloads have been received from points in the United States, Great Britain and Europe. Prince Rupert, B.C.-Twenty-nine million pounds of halibut were landed at this port during the past year, with the figures for the month of December. incomplete. This total is considerably in excess of the previous year. Several large shipments were made to Chi- cago and other middle western states. points. WORLD FIGHT AGAINST OPIUM LAUNCHED First International Opium Conference Arranged by League of Nations. A despatch from Paris says: -A world fight against opium and the narcotic drug evil took definite form on Thursday when the League of Na- tions issued invitations to the first In- ternational Opium Conference, to be held at Geneva the. first Monday in November, and a second conference on the third Monday of the same month. The first conference will include delegates from countries having Far Eastern possessions, where opium - smoking exists. • The second confer- ence, which will include representa- +� -es es eeactually all countries of the world, will push The Hague Conven- tion decision to secure a broad agree- ment concerning opium and its deriv- atives, and definitely limit the pro. duction of opium. A report that Prof. Manley 0. Hud- son of the Harvard Law School may have won the Bok Peace Plan prize has' created interest in League 01, Na- tion circles. Prof. Hudson was at- tached to the legal section • of the League during the summer months of last year. Only Woman Licensed as Ocean Sailing Skipper A despatch from New York says:-- 'Aye, ays:-'Aye, Aye, Madam!" Thus does the crew of the good ��°'✓ schooner Ruth Martin answer their skipper. What is more, they take a certain pride in the unusual saluta- tion, because Mrs. Jennie E. Crocker, of Cliftondale, Mass., is said to be the only woman in the world holding a captain's license for en ocean-going sailing vessel and another certificate entitling her to act as first mate of • any steamship afloat. Nelson A. Crocker, lord and master of Captain Crocker ashore, is her first mate afloat. Mrs. Crocker has sailed all the seas of theworld with her husband since they were married, 19 years ago. Two Merchant Ships Believed Sunk by Old Mines A despatch from Hamburg says:- instruments of the war, harmless for years, are believed to have found vis- tims at last in two merchant ships in the North Sea. These vessels, with all hands, are thought to have been sunk by the floating English mines which once constituted part of the bloQckade of the North Sea against the Gelman fleet. ,l'dYines have been brought to the 4•urface during recent violent storms n the North and Baltic seas. A num- ber have been picked up and exploded to assist in the breaking up of huge ice fields in landlocked .coastal waters. Ice Imprisoned Vessels Supplied by Aeroplane • re A despatch from ' Christiania says :-Aeroplanes are carrying sup - blies to 50 ships that are now wedged. • New Earl of Warwick Lord Brooke, who has succeeded to the ancient estates of the Earl of War- wick. His mother is the famous socialist Countess of Warwick, who has thrown in her lot with the British Labor party. The new Earl was in Canada in 1913 as commander of the Second Mounted Brigade at Petewa}va Camp, and during the war commended the fourth and twelfth Canadian In- fantry Brigades at different periods. 1,800 Year Old Garden of Pompeii Nov Restored A despatch from Ronne says :-In the last days of Pompeii a pictur- esque garden with marble fountains and frescoed niches was one of the adornments of the city. One entered through a carriage pavillion, the high entrance surmounted by a bell. Across the threshold a court in white and gold between two rows of pillars led to the spacious sloping terraces, wat- ered by a drowsy brook. The twitter of a thousand birds completed the pastoral landscape. Excavators have resurrected this garden. The lawns are green again, as they were when Vesuvius erupted A.D. 79. A silvery bell again peals for visitors; the murmuring brook wanders in through new conduits, and songsters, descendants of the birds who were singing about Pompeii more than 1,800 years ago, carol as their forbears did in the days made famous by Bulwer-Lytton. Nine Months' Trade of Canada Shows Big Increase A despatch from Ottawa, says: --- A summary- of Canadian trade pre- pared by the Department of Customs and Excise shows that for the nine months. ending December, 1923, Can- ada imported $678,211,000 worth of. merchandise for consumption, as against $677,260,000 worth imported in the same period of 1922. During the sameperiod of 1923 Canada's domestic exports were val- ued at $815,861,000, as against $732,- 576,000 in 1922. Foreign merchandise exported during the nine.. months am- ounted to $10,889,000, as compared with $10,649,000 in the corresponding -period of 1922. Imports and exports for the nine months of 1923 amounted to $1,494,072,000, as against $1,309,- 836,000 in 1922," There was a .considerable increase in the number of -automobiles register- ed hi the western provinces in 1923 as compared with 1922. In British Columbia 6,000 more automobiles were licensed in 1923 than in 1922, and in 1922 , the increase was only. 910 over 1921, Alberta registrations increased 1,250, against an increase of 112 for 1922 over 1921, 'Saskatchewan comes forward with an increase of 2,500 mo- tor' cars, against a small decrease in 1922: Manitoba will show a small in- crease in '1923, against an inereace of 1,775 in 1922.over 1921. the ice in. the Cattega:f and dr -the Danish coast: .The aircraft drop: *lacks of .food and other stores near the imprisoned veseels. $4.55 to Pound Paid by Britain for U.S. Liberty Bonds A despatch from London says: - The approximate rate at which the 92,000,000 paid by Great ritain to he United States last December were urchased , was, $4.58 tothe.: pound, eville Clamberlain, Chanbellor of eke :Exchequer, explained' on Thurs- aY, Payment was actually made in riberty bonds purchased at a dis fount •I HOW THE DIXMUDE MET ITS FATE The great dirigible airship, the Dixmude, which with a French crew of half a hundred, has disappeared mysteriously, is now believed to have been struck by lightning, far above the clouds, during a terrific storm over Africa. Romance and tragedy mingle in the story of the airship, which was surren- dered by Germany; and applied by France for her own use. Defying the elements of the air, it started off on a long cruise, and except for the finding of the body of its commander there is no trace of the missing ship. The sketch shows what apparently happened to the Dixmude far up in the air. The Light That Sometimes Fails. BY ELIZABETH MacCALLUM. "It is a case of fairly high myopia; with changes in the back of the eye. Will require for some years the care provided by Sight Saving Class. Im-' provement not looked for." These words `stared up at the reader from one of the school doctor's case history cards, And down in the second row was the eight-year-old girl who was, myopic and would not grow better.' "What are we going to do with her? Why, we shall send her to the Sight Saving Class, of course, and if she can't improve, at least we can prevent her case from growing worse. An ordinary classroom is no place for her. And the teacher made as if to dismiss the subject. "But what is a Sight Saving Class?' the visitor persisted. "I never heard of one before!" "Better see for yourself," came the reply. "It's up on the next floor, Room 10. They'll be glad to have you." And so we went. The teacher, a charming slip of a girl who knew her business thorough- ly, but had not professionalized a bub- bling spirit out of existence, explained her work to us. The purpose of the special class was to give academic training to children of impaired vision at the minimum cost of eye -strain. "That is why the colors in the room are soft, and the lighting carefully planned," she added. "And that is why we use movable desks which may be set close to any part of the black- board as desired. Our desk -tops are adjustable, too, you see, so that by regulating the slope we may ease the strain on the pupils' eyes. Gated in our provincial schools for th blind, But many children who ha considerably more than one -ten vision cannot, on account of eye defect or disease, cope with the wor as set for children of normal vision Some children also can read smal print, see the blackboard and carr on with regular class work, but onl at the expense of their vision, nervou system, and general health. Children from these two groups need special consideration, and it is their difficul ties which Sight Saving Classes try to meet. The curriculum is adapted to individual needs. Classes are smal for this reason and because th pupils are of all grades and varying eye conditions. The teacher of th Sight Saving Class has two responsi bilitles-to care for the eyes of the pupils and to train the pupils to take proper care of their own eyes. An eye , specialist visits the class every fort- night and advises the teachers and nurses concerning each case." We learned also that there are only four Sight Saving Classes in existence in Canada to -day, three in Toronto and one in Halifax. The service ren- dered by these classes is so valuable, however, that an extension of their work is inevitable. Parents of chil- dren whose vision is impaired will second eagerly the efforts of educa- tionists to add to the number of Sight Saving Classes in our public schools. What one such class has accomplish- ed in the short space of one year has been reported in these words by the teacher in charge: "Seven pupils have returned to regular grades with improved vision; the defects were only temporary but had severe strain continued during the time these defects were present, they would, in all probability, have become permanent. We cannot hope to see the same results each year, for many of the cases will never improve -but we can save what sight remains by minimizing strain and yet give such pupils the academic work which is possible only with special equip- ment." e ve th New York from Liverpool by way of Boston with two starboard lifeboats k • stove in and with her bulkhead be- neath the rail of the, promenade deck j crumpled. A despatch from Winnipeg says:- ' At least six ocean liners will be; Cable announcement that ocean char- y late in their arrival here as a result; char - tees had been secured for twenty-six ASQUITH ADVISES LIBERALS TO SUPPORT " 0 CONFIDENCE" MOTION A despatch from London says:--, ate, but If Labor negotiates its first Former Premier Asquith, ,leader of hurdle of a railway strike, a second the Liberals, in a speech in the House ' and mote difficult obstacle awaits. it of" Conunons advised : Liberals to in the'foriii f "the Miners' attitude. vote in favor of Labor and A dockers' • strike is also pronounce voted Conservative and . a few ab - ed inevitable by Labor experts and stained from voting. the sky;has suddenly become clouded While 'this debate is going on, the with many important -wage disputes, real storm centre of the political situa- apparently produced by the approach-, tion .lies in the threatened railway ing advezit of a' Labor Government. strike. and the belief 'of 'the ••workers that The still more serious menace of a their own Cabinet. suust support, their coal strike grew more ominous on demands. Thursday. The miners'' vote- in laver; Labor's "no" confidence" motion In of denouncing the wage:agreement the form -of -an -amendment to• the ad. - that. ended the 1921 strike was an- dress in reply to the King's speech, nounced. The inen by a' vote of.510,- was presented by John R. Ciynes, who 000 to 305,000 demand higher wages, scored the Baldwin Government both The agreement does not expire until for what it had done and what it did April 17, so the crisis is not imrnedi- not do during the last twelve months.. ATLANTIC STORM TAKES TOLL OF SIX LIVES Daiimge to Liners and Delay in Reaching Port as Result of Gale. A despatch from New York says: - Stories of the havoc wrought by the storm and the 70 -mile gale that tore the Shenandoah from her moorings as it swept over the North Atlantic coast were told by arriving vessels and by coast guardsmen. Five per- sons are known to have lost their lives when the barge Plymouth went down two miles off Long Branch. More for- tunate, the crew of the Danish freigh- ter Normania were rescued by the steamship Henry R. Mallory, just be- fore their vessel foundered off Nor- folk on Friday. The Cunard liner Ansonia reached How to Treat Your Town Praise it. Improve- it. Talk about it, Be public-spirited. Tell about its business men. Remember it is your home. Take a real home pride in it. Tell of its natural advantages. Help the' public officers do the most good. When strangers come to town, use them well. Support local institutions that benefit your town. Don't call your best citizens frauds and impostors. Look ahead of self when all the town is to be considered. Vancouved to Ship 26,000,00 Bus. Wheat Next 3 Months of the storm. French Army Strength Less million bushels of wheat from Van- couver between January 20 and April 30 was a strong selling factor on the Than. Pre -War Standard ;exchange. It had been figured that _ there would be difficulty in getting de- - despatch from Paris says :-As I liveries of so large a quantity before a A n spring, though there are known to be 11 g piece of news in connec • twenty million at Buffalo and fifty at e tion with the economies being made bay ports, which might reach sea - to restore the value of the franc, the board all rail. French Government announcedIf the cargo charters e, that at present from Vancouver show such i_ the standing army or France has been ! reduced to 350,000, which is 200,000 a high record it is anicithe here less than the pre-war standards, 1 there movement through the Pacific The French officials claim that the' route may export some forty-five mil- reduced army gives France the dis- tinction of being the only world power;, New York Gradually Moving except Germany, which has a smaller army to -day than Iefore the war, de- claring that the ff;•ur•es disprove the charge that France is militaristically increasing its armed forces. During 1923 the Occidental Fruit Co., British Columbia, shipped three J. W. Evans who in. a lecture on hundred and ten cars of fruit and "Shifting Continents" at King's Col - vegetables from Kelowna made up lege, said this had been going on for of one hundred and thirty cars of millions of years. canned goods, and one hundred and Observations made at Greenwich eight cars of fresh fruits and vege- show that the town is moving thirteen tables. inches southward every year, "You have noticed," she went on, "how tremendously large my letters on the blackboard are? And we use large letters on our buff writing pads, and we use no books unless. they have the special_ clear -text type. But we don't use books very much. You see," she laughed, "I do a great deal of talking myself, and often my pupils go for purely oral lessons to the class- rooms where children of their own grades are taking regular work." We stayed for over an hour to watch the children and their teacher at work and at play together, and during the recess which followed learned still more about the purpose and achievements of the Sight Saving Class. "Children having Tees than one- tenth vision," we are told, "are edu- Ocean Floor Subsided as Result of Earthquake A despatch front Tokio says : :The repairing of deep sea cables, severed by the earthquake of September 1, has disclosed that at one point off Oshima Island the bed of the ocean has sub- sided 200 feet for a distance of eight miles. To the east of Oshima the damaged' cable had to befished up from a newly created abyss more than 4,000 feet deep. A LONG JOB, Away from Europe, A despatch from London says: - New York is moving away from Eur- ope at the rate of seven inches a year, according to the calculations of Dr.' Weekly Market Report TORONTO. Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern, $1.11%. Manitoba oats -No. 8 CW, 46c; No. 1 extra feed, 45c. Mani:aba barley -Nominal. All the above track, bay ports. Ontario barley -63 to 65c. American corn -No 2 yellow, 98c. Buckwheat -No. 2, 69 to 72c. Ontario rye -No. 2, '70 to 72c. Peas -Sample, $1.45 to $1.50. Millfeed-Del., Montreal freights, bags included: Bran, per ton, $28; shorts, per ton, $31; middlings, $37; good feed flour, 2.10. Ontario wheat -No. 2 white, 93 to 95c, outside. Ontario No. 2 white oats -38 to 40e. Ontario corn -Nominal. Ontario flour: Ninety per cent pat., in jute bags, Montreal, prompt ship- ment, $4.60; Toronto basis, $4.60; bulk seaboard, $4.25. Man. flour-lst pats, in jute sacks, $6.20 per ban -lel; 2nd pats., $5.70. Hay -Extra No. 2 timothy, per ton, track, Toronto, $14.50 to $15; No. 2, $14.50; No. 3, $12.50; mixed, $12. Straw -Car lots, per ton, $9. �a Cheese -New large, 211 to 22c; twins, 22 to 22%c; triplets, 22% to 23e; Stiltons, 24 to 25c. Old, large,' 25 to 30c; twins, 29 to 81c; triplets, 30 to 32c. Butter -Finest creamery prints, 46 to 47c; No. 1 creamery, 48 to 45c; No.' 2, 42 to 43c. Eggs -Extras, fresh, in cartons, 52 to 58c; fresh, extras, loose, 50 to 51c; extras, storage, in .cartons, 43c; extras, 40 to 41c; firsts, 85 to 36e; seconds, 29 to 30c. Live poultry --Spring chickens, 4 lbs. and ;over, 28c; chickens, 8 to 4 lbs., 22c; hens, over 5 lbs., 22c; do, 4 to. 5 lbs., 15c; do, 8 to 4 lbs., 15c; roosters, 15c • ducklings, over 5 lbs., 19e; do,,4 to 6 lbs., 18c; turkeys, young, 10 lbs, and up, 22c. Dressed poultry, Spring chickens, 4 lbs. and over 30c; chickens, 3 to 4 lbs., 25c; hens, over 5 lbs., 28c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 24c; do, 3 to,4 lbs., 18c; roosters, 18e; ducklings, over 6 • lbs., 24e; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 25c; turkeys, young, 10 lbs. and up, 28 to 32c; geese, 220. • Beans --Canadian, handpicked, lb,, 7c; primes, 614c. Maple products -Syrup, per imp, gal., $2,50; per 5 -gal. tin, ' $2.40, p•er gal.; maple sugar, Ib., 25e. Honey -60 -lb. tins, 11 to 120 per -From John Bull. lb.; to 10-lb12o;, 2 tins, -ib. 11tinsto 123 to ct 154 -lob: cotins,mb, honey, per dozen, No. 1, $3.75 to $4; No. 2, $3.25 to $3.50. Smoked meats -Hams, med., 25 to 27c; cooked hams, 37 to 890; smoked rolls, 19 to 21c; cottage rolls, 22 to 24c; breakfast bacon, 25 to 27c; spe- cial brand breakfast bacon, 30 to 330; backs, boneless, 80 to 35c. Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 50 to 70 lbs., $18.50; 70 to 90 lbs., $18; 90 lbs. and up, $17; lightweight rolls, in barrels, $37; heavyweight rolls, $32. Lard -Pure tierces, 17 to 174,c; tubs, 1714 to 18c; pails, 18 to 181/ac; prints, 19 to 20c; shortening tierces, 14% to 15140; tubs, 16 to 15%c; pails, 15% to 16c; prints, 17'/s to 18c. Heavy steers, choice, $7 to $7.75;. butcher eters, choice, $6.50 to $7; do, good, $6 to $6.25; do, med., $5 to $5.75; do, coin., $4.50 to $5; butcher heifers,' choice, $6.25 to $7; de, med,, $5 to $6; de com., $4.50 to $5; but, cher cows, choice, $4.75 to $5.25; do, mel., $3.60 to $4; canners and cutters, $1.25' to $2; butcher bulls, choice, $4.25 to $6.25; do, cone., $2 to $3; feed- ing steers, good, $5.50 to $6.50; do, fair, $4 to $5; stockers, good, $4 to $4.75; do, fair, $3.50 to $4; milkersand springers, $70 to $100; calves, choice, $11 to $12.60; do, med., $8 to $9.50; do, con., $5 to $7; do, grassers, $3 to $4.50; lambs, choice ewes, $12 to $12.50; do, bucks, $10.50 to $11 do, culls, $7 to $8; sheep, light ewes, $5.50 to $6.50; do; fat, heavy, $4 to $4.50; do, culls, $2 to $3; hogs, fed and watered, $7.75; do, f.o.b., $7.25; do, country points, $7 do, selects, $8.50. MONTREAL. Oats -Can. west., No. 2, 55 to 55%e; No. 3, 52% to 63c; extra No. 1 feed, 51e; No. 2 local white, 48% to 49c. Flour -Man. spring wheat pats., lets, $6.20; 2nds, $5.70; strong. bakers' $5.50; winter pats., .choice,. $5.65 to $5.75; rolled oats, bags, 90 lbs., $3.05; bran, $28.25; shorts, $31.25, Middlings, $87.25. Hay, per ton, car lots, $15 to $16. Cheese -Finest westerns, 17%c. Butter -No. 1 creamery, 42 to 421/se; No. 1 pasteurized, '43 to 431%. Eggs -Storage, extras, 40e; No. 1 stock, 35c; No. 2 stock, 28 tie 30c. Potatoes -Per bag, car lots, $1.40. Med. to corn. steers, $5.25 to $5.50 coin. dairy type cows, $2.75 to $3.10; canners, $1.50; .60• c 0 m. bologna bulls, $2.50 to $3; med. to con. veal calves, $9; better ones, $10; lambs, $10; hogs, thick smooth and butcher type, $8.50.