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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1924-9-4, Page 7E BIG SEAPORTS OF THE DOMINION. ,CH' HAS ITS PECULIAR PLA.CF; IN OUR ECONOMICS. Montreal Ranks Second on • American Continent; Van- couver Leads as Grain Exporter. The post-war era in Canada has been featured by a very gratifying ex- pension xpension in the trade carried on by the Dominion with foreign countries, the value of the total volume of trade transacted having increased in the de- cade between 1914 and 1924 by $822,- ' ,75,439, or more than seventy per cent. With this development, and the great- er bulk of trade coming to and leav- ing from Canadian seaports, has come a corresponding rise in the prestige of those oceanic outlets of the Do- -minion, and most of the ports of Can- ada have undergone somewhat of a revolution and occupy to -day a much more important place in world con- sideration. Canada has five principal seaports, Montreal, Quebec, St. John, Halifax, and Vancouver. Each of these has Its peculiar place in Canadian econo- mics. 1%lontreal and Quebec, being situated on the Gulf of the St. Law- rence, and reducing the rail haul from the great producing interior, are the great summer Atlantic ports whence the greater part of Canadian export Accade leaves between May and No- veiixber and most of the important trade is received. St. John and Hali- fax are the winter ports whose great- est activity commences when frost has gripped the St. Lawrence river. Van- couver is the great Pacific outlet and inlet for the increasing trade which is being carried on with the countries of the Antipodes and Orient. Great Increase in Traffic. The total volume of Canadian trade transacted by these five porta, in the past fiscal year amounted to $690,648,- 168, or approximately 36 per cent. of Canada's total trade for that year. Montreal is easily Canada's first port with a total trade in the past year amounting to $380,984,136, of which. • imports accounted for $191,867,086 and exports $189,116,050. Vancouver is theecond port in importance, hav- ing a total trade of $152,407,534, of which $53,808,630 was import value and $98,598,904 ;that of export. St. John ranks third with a total trade value of $77,562,805, $20,622,689 being import , and $56,940,116{ export trade. Total value of trade at Halifax was .647,521,132, being made up of $17,051,- 617 representing imports and $30,469,- 515 experts,. The total trade -handled at Quebec had a value of $32,172,561, of which $16,240,993 was import and ' $15,931,568 export. ' • 'rhe great inerease in the traffic car- ried on by Canadian ports may be realized in n comparison with the figures of the year 1914. In this ten- year period the total trade of these five ports has increased by some 86 iaeper cent. It is gratifying to note that 'this increment has been to the great- est extent built up by increasing ex- port trade, the increment in this case in the period amounting to 116 per cent. This is very clearly illustrated in the ease of Quebec and Vancouver. Quebec, which formerly was doing a vastly greater import than export trade, has now drastically reversed the situation. In 1914 the exports from the Pert of Vancouver were less than half the value of imports; in the past year Vancouver's export trade had nearly double: the value of the im- port. Take Places as Word Ports. That the trade of these ports is in- creasing at the present time at a re- markable rate, whilst naturally sug- gested in trade figures, is borne out by the value of business handled at these ports in the past few years. Taking the years 1922, .19.23 and 1924, 14Lont- reale' imports have been $167,8•12,273, $173,938,311, and $191,867,086, and ex- ports $158,518,544, $17,898,537, and $189,116,050 respectively. , Substan- tial increases in import and export trade are recorded in' the cases of Quebec, Halifax, and St. John. The annual increments in:the. case, of Van- couver ere outstanding, imports in.the three -years, being -648,235,845, $46,965; 214, and $53,808,630, and exports $42,- 367,051, $61,71%505( and- $98,598,904. In the strides.: they have taken since 'the conclusion of the war with the de, velopment of Canadian trade, the status of the ports v'f 'the Dominion • has been : in the continuous ascendant, and from having almost purely .local. standings some of thein have come to. Ir—take thein 'places• with. the oldest and longest established seaports • of the world. Added • to this prestige are various developments under way • at the present time. or .presaged which augur for them yet greater interna- tional importance: • Montreal, to -day, .for 'instance, has become the fifth Oblong the great sea- ports of the world, ranlring after New York, London; Liverpool, and Ham,. burg, or taking a: place after only one port en the,American continent. Van- couver has rapidly overtaken other ports on the Pacific .coast, until in ton- nage handled it is exceeded by two only of them, and leads : the . entire coast7s an: exporter of grain.. At both i. nee grbrts d'evelbi n eats are :under way for a vastly greater traffic, -Pres- ::.AND THE WORST IS YET TO COME aged, calculated to further enhance the prestige of Canada'e great ports in the East' and West. A Little Careen Lane. A little'greee lane goes through my mind, A lane that my heart runs back to find; A lane here the air is cool .as. dew, And the ferns are high and the rocks are few, And every :branch of the tallest tree Would whispera fairy tale to- me, And every' bird had a golden note In the .Song that came from his oriel- ' son throat, And life had a hundred gifts to give, And. I had a hundred years to live, A little green lane goes through my mind, A lane that my heart goes back to find— My heart—for never my feet will go To walk that lane that I used to"know, For maybe my eyes would fail to see The vlsian that memory holds for me, 4n�d I'd miss the fairy tales 1 heard rind the song of the crimson -throated bird, So I'll keep the dear unbroken spell Of the little green lane r love so well. —Nan Terrell Reed. About Three Cheers. Cheers are demonstrations of en thusiasm, Often .they are safety valves of abounding spirits. College men and women use them to give vent to their pleasure when one of their football heroes -makes a good gain. They use them also to give enthusiasm and enouragement to their team when it is working against odds. The population Uses cheers• to en- courage the going soldier and to show appreciation to the returned war hero. Cheers are also used in polities, Cheers are crowd demonstrations. Sometimes they come spontaneously from the crowd, but sometimes they are the intense personal enthusiasm of a few who have the ability to get a crowd to cheer. If the cheers come from the crowd it is well; if they come from the few to the crowd it is not SO well. It is cheerful to cheer, but it is sane to aordetimes look behind the cheers, for we have known some things which were chiefly made up of three cheers. Which Run Longer Without oil.' "If you want machines to run you've got to oil 'em.” "That's true of all except national political machines." Monsters of the Wild. In the unknown Arctic region be- tween the Colville and Porcupine Rivers, where Dr. Philip B. Smith has led a party of the United Etates Geo- Iogical Survey on a perilous mission of exploration, it is rumored that there are weird animals of immense size. These strange tales have been spread amongst the fur traders and gold hunters by the native Eskimos and Indians regarding the territory which appears on the maps largely as a blank space. The Smith party has gone to investi- gate nvestsgate and chart this region. Reports have come from the Polar basin that great lakes of oil were to be found in this wilderness, but the tales of the 'Eskimos and Indians are ever stranger than these. They say that the land is haunted by weird beasts, some of such great size that they leave tracks as large as din- ner plates. It is stated that no In- dian can be persuaded to penetrate this region even though tempted by the promise of abundant fur. Some of the more credulous of the white men, linking these tales with their scientific reading, contend that there may still lurk in the far north remnants of thhea inastodonherds. that have left their, bones and ivory in al • S Z(ns 11 ONO! /t,I JAP 4,L*ALERS iANNER`s RILL -Dons -n-!E ORic' —.4 a • Trade With Gertnany. One of the most outstanding fea- tures of Canadian trade in the past fiscal year as undoubtedly the remark- able growth In the export trade Can- ada conducted with Germany, this hav- ing increased in the twelve months by over sixty per cent. over the fiscal year 1923, and by over 200 per cent. as compared with the figures of the year previous to that. Not only has the volume of total trade transacted with Germany now reached a point where it surpasses anything reached in the pre-war years, but the division of trade has .:drastically altered. Whereas prior, to 1914 Canada was a heavy importer from Germny and ex-' ported In relatively small quantity,1 Canada is now importing on a come, • paratively small scale, while the vol ume of her exports are annually in- creasing at a very substantial rate. In the three fiscal years 1922, 1923 and 1924, Canada's imports have been from Germany $2,041,016, $2,563,409 and $5,379,935 respectively. The prin- cipal items of import in the past year I come under the headings ofchemical&. and allied products, non-metallic min- , erals and non-ferrous metals, the former amounting to a million dollars and the two latter to approximately! half a million each. The remargable manner in which import trade with Germany has been cut is seen in a comparison with the import figures of 1914, which were $14,686,069, or 1910,1 when they were 07,958;264. Canadian export trade to Germany in the past three fiscal years has been $4,509,547, $9,950,877 and $16,153,650 respectively. The export trade of the past year was made up of agricultural and vegetable products $12,722,430; animals- and products $1,561,087; fibres textiles and products $16,042; wood, wood products and paper $7,693; iron and products $225,913; non-ferrous metals $947,297; non-metallic minerals $633,699! chemicals and products $3„948; and miscellaneous products $35,541. The great bulk of trade with Ger- many at the present time consists of agricultural products, more especially wheat and flour, the latter commodity being in rapidly increasing demand. In the final past year Germany took 1,351,512 bushels of Canadian wheat valued at $1,637,095. The demand for Canadian flour has 'increased remark- ably, and is not abating. In 1922 Ger- mny took 51,343 barrels. of Canadian' flour worth $318,232; in 1923, 675,599 barrels valued at $3,985,409; and in 1924, 986,826barrels valued at $19,313,-1 2go.; The -recent readjustment- of&an-1- cial • difficulties which were hampering 1 most every stream bordering the'low _ _ _.. _ the flour trade with Germany is con- fidently expected to further increase the volume of exports from Canada. ° How Stonehenge Was Built., How the builders of Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain, with the appliances of, say, 3,500 years ago, managed to get the vast stones upright and place others on their tops has always been one of the marvels of primitive en- gineering, says a writer in the London Daily Mail. In his book "Stonehenge," just pub- lished, Mr. E. Herbert Stone has a most interesting series of photo- graphs taken from large working models "by means of which the vari- ous operations connected with the raising of the stones of Stonehenge as here described have been rehearsed step by step in full detail." A figure representing a Neolithic man, who has an elk -like smallness be- side the huge monoliths, is introduced in the different views to give an idea of scale. For the purpose of this experiment in this "reconstruction," hir. Stone has taken the average weight of the stones of the outer circle at Stonehenge as, for uprights, 26 tons each, and for the lintels placed across their tops, bee tons. The appliances used, he points out, would be mainly ropes, rollers, and shear legs, plus man -power work- ing in carefully rehearsed unison. Mr. Stone suggests that the man who designed Stonehenge "was prob- ably a foreigner." After the upright stones had been firmly bedded in the ground, "an earth bank is thrown up around the pair of upright stones on which a lintel is to be placed." . The outer part of this bank is "brought'to a smooth surface and rammed hard, to mage a track up which the lintel is to be hauled." Then when everything is in place the well -drilled man -power takes the strain and drags the great mass up the slope till finally it rests on the tops of the two embedded stones. The bank can then be removed, leaving the huge trilithon towering clear above the ground. Anything to Obligee Fool. An affected young man who was din- ing out felt called on to correct his hostess when by..a slip of the tongue she ordered the servant to remove the "fool," meaning the fowl. "I pre- sume," said the young man, "you mean the fowl, madam." "Very well," responded the hostess, who was'rather annoyed, `•'take away the fowl and' let the fool -'remain." er Yukon River. A Wonderful Insect Col- lection. The British lviusemn. possesses by 1 farthe most comprehensive insect col- lection in the world; It has not until quite recently been possible to make [ an exact catalogue of all items, but,af- ter three years' work one has now -been completed and 'published. ' - According to this, the collection contains 1,118,000 insects. There are 325,767. butterflies- of 40,210 different kinds, 398,000 beetles of 67,30e differ- eat kinds. Of bees, wasps, and winged; ants there are 19,608 kinds. Of bugs, hies, gnats, and mosquitoes there are ,7,267 species represented; of grass- hopper types 3,900, and of plant lice 21 species in 140 items.. Private donors have done most to swell the collection. One alone gave 230,000 .insects, another 30,000;. while one entire collection of butterflies which was presented consisted of 31,- 130 specimens. . 6 Hatching Teeth. "How is your baby sister,. Billy?" asked a neighbor, who was making a call. "Oh "she's only fairly well, thanks," replied B111y; '','she's lust hatching her teeth." Stories About Well -Known People The X -Ray Duchess, X-ray work is not "a' hobby many would choose, but the Duchess of Bed- ford has practised _ it with success, at a cost of many thousands of pounds, for the past ten years. The Duchess is in charge of an X-ray department in a hospital at Woburn built by herself tvKenty years ago. She frequently helps at operations. Incidentally, the duchess is one- of the most hatable sportswomen. She can handle a horse, a rod, a gun, as well ea most men. Another of her-ac- compiishments, is that she bas an ex- traordinary influence over wild ani- mais. ' Won't I??' ,, I doubt whether any novelist has hatched a more amusing proposal and acceptance out of his, brain. ! Made,.Manuel Laugh. A Good story'comes• from Paris con cerning'two ex-iiionaichs,XingManuel of Portugal and'the Shah of Persia. They were seated' ;together at an ultra -fashionable public resort, placid- ly sipping their champagne and watch- ing the dancers, when, a Parisian sat down on the only extra r1,air at their table. The newcomer made himself agree- able, and the conversation soon be- came general. When the time came for departure the Parisian asked with whom he had the honor of speaking. "I," said the former King of Porta - in a recent lecture in which she was gal, "am the King of Portugal'" trying to illustrate the fact that truth "1," said the former Shah, "am the is stranger than fiction. Shah of Persia." I • "No novelist," she, said, "would dare • The Frenchman betrayed no sur- use uruse this true incident, for instance. A prise whatsoever. "Good -night, gentle - gentleman in India suddenly decided men," he said politely, and then as he to offer marriage to a girl in England, turned to go he added, "The Great so he cabled: " 'Will you?' "The answer came promptly: Qulek Results. A delightfully • true -and truly de- lightful—incident was told by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, the well-known writer; Mogul bids you adieu," Manuel is reported to ha`e laughed, but the Shah was not so pleased. A "City Garden. God of the flowers! Painter of crimson roses . Spinner of mist, and Weaver of wind and rain! Send Thine angel of peace, when the long day closes, Down to Thy garden again. This was Thy garden e'er the high walls were Iifted; Here the wild apple grew, and the thorn -set pear; 0, in the springtime how the scent of them drifted Out on the evening air! Still an apple -tree liargers—just as a token; Still there's a• sumach wearing one feathery plume; Yonder a dog -wood lives -grey with the years, and broken— Dreaming of silver bloom. Mignouette lines the walk, and many a pansy— Though never a bee comes near to taste their sweet— Down by the gate grows tangled and bitter tansy, - Longing toreach the street. Here at the heart of tumult, and toil and malice, The lover finds his love ;the dream- er his dream, And here, like a cup of Heaven, a lily's chalice - • Lifts to the white moonbeamt —Virna Sheard. ' Results of the Outdoor Life. Farmer—"Yes, my trees are a hun- dred years old and still bearing the best of fruit." Fresh Air Enthusiast Of course they are—just another example of the results of the outdoor life! • The Magic Vitaanine. At a recent meeting of the Ameri- can Chemical Society, Professor Wai- ter Eddy took from his pocket a small vial and passed it round among the assembled chemists. All they could see was a small quan- tity of white powder at the bottom of a bottle. Yet it created a _sensation, since it was the first vitamine that anyone had ever •been or handled,. An amount no more than three-hun- dredtb,s of a milligram, which is about ss much of the powder as could be caught on the point of a pin, given every day to a young rat stunted by nt rli t ld e 1 t a normal rate at Boy Scouts from almost every past of the universe took part in ,this great thanksgiving servico Wemb- ley. In the foreground is the Qnebec 'detachment, Clubs Are Handy Things. Be" (speaking of women)—"Now in New York it's club women on all sides." She—"Yes -- such a brutal place! Somebody's always beating a woman up there." The Impulse and the V c: Not many months ago a lady asked to see a famous London preacher atter onci"tbf the services in his church. He at once received her and was astonish- ed when she said, "Doctor, I have come all the way from Paris to have this interview! My husband has been out of employment for more than two years, although he is an exceptionally well-qualified teacher. At last, think- ing we might find a position in France, we went to Paris. Our search was still unavailing. But the other day I was seized with.a strange impulse to return to England and to come to your church.. It was as if a voice had kept saying to me by day and by night, 'Go to Dr. and tell him.' I may say, doctor, that all my life I have been trained to pray, and through all our misfortune I have consistently put our troubles before the Lord. Consequent. ly I felt I did not dare to, disobey thg Impulse and the voile. So here I am." "Well, madam," said the doctor, deeply interested, "I do not quite sea what I can do to help. Perhaps the best thing I can do is to give your husband a letter of introduction to the high commissioner of one of the colonies," He did so, and then - the incident passed from his mind. Some weeks later he received a let- ter from the high commissioner on an- other !natter, but there was a post- script ostscript that read, "By the way, the man you sent to me the other day ar- 1 rived just as I was showing out of my !office our minister for education, who i,3 over here seeking a staff of special- ly qualified teachers. Your man proved , perfectly suited for the work required land is leaving England immediately." Scarcely had the minister finished reading when the lady and her hus- band were shown into his vestry, They had coma _ to pay their farewell re - 1 spects and to thank him. "I was right, you see!" cried the lady gayly. "I was right to obey the impulse and the voice!" How true it is that there are more things wrought by prayer than this world dreams of! - t, Mr. Ostrich Helps. Not -the least' interesting of the at- tractions ttractions in the South African Section of the British Empire Exhibition is a flock of ostriches. For the benefit of visitors, . demonstrations' are given in plucking the feathers in the manner adopted in this great industry in South Africa. The nest of tho ostrich is always built by the male, though this certain- ly is no arduous • task, and It consists of little more than a round hole dug. in the sand or earth. The hen then lays an egg every other._ day, about fifteen making a full nest. The hen sits on the eggs during the day and the male bird takes her place through the night, an arrange- ment which would appear to have bean admirably provided for by na- ture,for while the male bird is adorn- ed with jet black feathers *and is therefore Indistinuishable at night, in the •daytime the drab color of the hen bird's feathers covers nest and eggs and is equally unnoticeable. The Height of Cruelty. "You axe not doing much business," suggested the dentist across "Cho hall. "Not much," admitted the oth ; den- tist, touched bytbis mark of apparent sympathy. "Then would you mind 1f 'some of. my patients used your vatting••roczaz?" •