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Great market is Open t0 Canada Yet
Britain Can Take All the Food Sup-
plies Canada Can Send,
The extent to which the British
Islies are dependent on outside
sources for food supplies Is forcibly
dealt with in a recent booklet of the
Empire 'Marketing Board in which it
is stated that 'there is ample room in
Great Britain for all foodstuffs that
the oversea Empire producer can
send. The figures are illuminating
and point to enormous future pos-
sibilities for Canada in supplying
foodstuffs to the United Kingdom,
says the Department of the Interior
through its natural resources intelli-
gence service.
For Ten Weeks.
In the booklet referred to, it is
stated that the whole of the when
produced in the United Kingdom
would only provide bread for about
ten weeks, even if none were requir-
ed for seed and other purposes. A%
present foreign countries are provi:!-
ing the staff of life for more than
20 weeks in the year. The bread re-
quirements of England and Wales,
Scotland and Northern Ireland are
therefore being supplied by Canada
and from Ocher Empire sources to
the extent of something like 22
weeks or to a scarcely larger degree
than from foreign sources.
Meats Also.
A similar condition prevails as
regards beef and mutton, pork and
bacon, butter and cheese. In all the
principal foodstuffs, the production
of the British Isles falls very far
short of meeting requirements and
foreign supplies are being used to a
greater extent than is perhaps gen-
erally appreciated, a condition of
affairs which resulted in 1926 in :he
setting -up of the Empire Marketing
; Board to further 'the marketing of
Empire produce. Home -produced
beef and mutton and pork and bacon
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furnish about 20 weeks' supply says
the board, Butter sufficient for on-
ly seven weeks is produced in the
British Isles and cheese for 13
weeks, Foreign countries supply
beef for 23 weeks in the year, mut-
ton for 12 weeks and, pork and ba-
s con and butter for six months.
Dependent on Foreigners.
The tremendous scope for devel-
opment in the marketing of Empire
supplies is emphasized by 'these last
items. Overseas Empire countries
are supplying pork and bacon for
only six weeks out of the 32 weeks
in which Great Britain is dependent
on outside sources. Beef is supplied
by the Dominions to a slightly great-
er extent, namely nine weeks out of
82, mutton for 20 weeks out. of 32,
and butter for only 19 weeks ou'c of
45. "It is clear," says the board,
"that there is ample room for all
the foodstuffs that 'the home farm-
er and the overseas Empire producer
can send us."
Danzing has established a censor-
ship over all advertising of motion
picture theatres.
• One of the earliest canals built m
Canada was by the Northwest Fur
Company in 1797, which came into
use by a wooden lock for canoes
and bateaux about 1802. A section
of the canal is still preserved within
a stone's throw of the great Soo
lock 900 feet long nearby. The site
of Sault Ste. Marie was an Ojib-
way village, and afterwards a
ler'eneh trading post and Jesuit mis-
sion.
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Repeat Empire
Shopping Week
Toronto, Jan, 4 ---The advisory
council in Canada of Empire Shopp-
ing Week Thursday decided to pro.
coed again with the organization of
the varied ac'civitiea that were sue•
cessfully carried out in hundreds
of cities and towns In Canada last
year. J. E. Walsh, general man-
ager of the Canadian Manufactur-
ers' Association, presided, and the
date of the shopping week for 'this
Year Was tentatively fixed as from
May 25 to June 1, inclusive,
It is expected that Hon, James
Malcolm, Dominion Minister of
Trade and Commerce, will be hon-
orary president of the movement,
The advisory council is composed of
the presidents or chief administra-
tive officers of .12 national organiza-
tions, together with Sir William ti,,
Clark, high commissioner n Canaria
for Great Britain, W, R. Dryman,
chairman of 'rhe Commercial Intelli-
gence committee of the Canadian
Manufacturers Association, who is
chairman of the executive committee
C. W, Rowley, assistant general
manager, Canadian Bank of Com.
coerce, honorary treasurer and the
honorary secretary.
Organizations Represented. .
The organizations represented are
—National Council of Women of
Canada, Girl Guides Association
(Dominion), Boy Scouts Association
(Dominion), Canadian Legion of
the, British Empire Service League,
Itetail Merohante Association of Can
ada, Canadian Chambers of Commer-
ce, Trades and Labor Congress of
Canada, Association of Canadian
Advertisers, Brtish Agents Associa-
tion, Canadian Association of Bri-
tish Manufacturers, and the Cana-
dian Manufacturing association.
The purpose of Empire Shopping
Weelc in Canada in addition to
many important educative funct-
ions, is to stimulate the purchase
and sale of empire products and
manufacturers in Canada. The un-
derlying principle is that the pro-
ducts of the country in which the
week is held—.in this case Canada—
are favored first in purchases, then
the products of other parts of the
empire.
Ar'rangemen'ts have been made to
have the work carried out by a
strong executive committee whose
personnI will represent many of
the organizations on the advisory
Council.
Weather forecasters say that con-
trary to poular opinion, the moon
has no effect whatever on the
weather.
According to the latest returns
Canada had, in 1924, 60,181 retail
stores, reporting 8,782 wholesale
ones, and 2,851 wholesale -retail. The
large sum of $1,580,000,000 is re-
presented in capital of these 66,814
establishments, employing 241,860
men and women. All the sales total-
ed $8,000,000 representing an en-
ormous turnover in as ingle year.
Reconstructs Continent's Oldest Music
The oldest music hitherto re-
corded on the American conttn.ent
has been unearthed and recon-
structed for production at the
forthcoming Sen Music Festival at
Vancouver. These are three
song -dances ascribed to the Indian
Chief Mambertou by Mare Lescare
bot, the young lawyer from Parts
who ht the year 1609 published an
entertaining account of the life
of the French garrison at Port
Royal in Nova Seethe Loscarbot,
like all educated men of his day,
was sotnething of a musician, secs
wrote down In wife notation the
melody of songs he heard this
Indian chief sing, but no modern
historian appeal's to have realized
the importance of this notation.
However, in meonstruotlug an
loigllah version of "L'Ordre d.e
Bon -Temps," written in French by
Louvigny de Montigny, J. Murray
Gibbon of the C. P. R., was struck
by the possibilities of this must),
and suggested to Dr. Healey
Willett, of the Toronto 'Conserva-
tory of Music, that he should ar-
range It for modern production.
710 an Indian, the melody is only
halt the music, and the problem
was to discover the original
rhythm. Fortunately, after con-
siderable study, Dr. Willem was
able to find in the traditional
tribal music of the iltelicite In-
dians, who are descendants of the
Souriquols of l,escarbot's tine,
three traditional dance rhythms
which exactly fit the melodic flee
of the notes recorded by the
b'ronell historian of throe hundred
years ago. to this manner three
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delightful song -dances have been
reconstructed and have been in-
corporated in the balled opera
"The Order of Good (sheer," which
will be produced on January lith
at Vancouver. Hitherto the old-
est song identified with i'aeade
has hem the hymn "Jesus Aha-
tonia," which Father Brebent
translated Into the 1•Iuron dialect
about the year 1042 for the Indian
converts itt Quebec. The song -
dances of (thief Mahnbortou are,
however, native to Canada fwd
were noted by Lesearbot in the
year 1600. The probability is that
they were old even at that time,
as folitttines are handed .down. by
Indian musicians from generetlon
to generation.
NOT THE SAME
RSON AT ALL
`,Fruit-a-tives" Stepped
Pain and Terrible
Dizziness
Mme. GAIJIN
It seems almost n miracle—tile way
Fruit -a -fives" benefits women suffer-
ing at the el,auge of life. "1 teas obliged
to go to bed because of the terrible
dizziness, pain and weakness," writes
Mme Onesime Clodin of I'aquetvillo,
N.13. "During this trying time
'Fruit -a -tines' proved a godsend to
me, and now I am in perfect health.
Every woman should follow my ex-
ample and take 'Fruit -a -tines,' and
they would surely get the wonderful
relief that 1 did. ' Try it. Your dealer
has this wonderful fruit medicine
25c. and 50e, a box.
The Newspaper's Part
Frequently we• are so closely as•
sociated with institutions or a com-
modity that we do not appreciate
their worth, remarks the Oshawa
Times. This applies in general to
newspapers. Every city, town and
hamlet hal its newspapers. Even
sometimes a few houses and a score
and garage at a "wide place in the
road" constitute excuse enough for
the starting of a newspaper and not
•infrequently that wide place in the
road becomes a real town and when
it des one may rest assured that
newspapers that seemed to have had
no excuse for beginning life had a
very important part to play in the
community's unexpected deve'.o,h•
ment.
So it is all along the line of oro•
gross. No city ever gets very far
without the sincere co-operation of
newspapers,
Probably no other one thing ;.; a
better index to a small town than ifs
weekly publication. Very often
that is about all the stranger has to
go by in making up his mind Mont
n community. If a new peper that
falls into his hands is a bright laok-
Ing sheet, fall of news and hoe a
prosperous ale, the stranger ie Per
thin to judge that it wee pubis=hod
in a live progressive town.
' Those who read their nen-snaring
and carelessly throw them aside,
overlook the fact that they are not
doing all for their o•vn town that
they can. If those newspapers in-
stead of being destroyed wore pl teen
in wrappers and mailed from 'erre
to time to Mende and relative, at
a distance, the gond 'chat could ler
aecmmplished would soon be reflected
in the city's growth.
Chambers of Cehrtr.^tee are i're•
• quently blamed for not getting ea;
more boost literature to he sent a
1 broad. Those who raise titese rem•
plaints could do a great Ileal them
selves by sendnig out the literature;
that comes into. i,heir own hands in
the form of their local newspaper.
Rest assured there is no business in•
clividual in a town more interested
in the growth of his community than
is the editor or publisher, for as 'thee
town grows he grows.
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WHY EDITOR'S RAVE
Typographical errors are to ha
found in the .best regulated family
journals as an Editor knows by rea-
son of long experience. 'A typical
example eame to his notice recently
and is given here:—
The flower show had been a grecr
success, and a few evenings ]neer Mr
Blank, who had performed the open•
ing ceremony, was reading the local
paper's report of it to his wife.
Presently he stopped reading, his
justifiable pride turning to anger.
Snatching 'up his stick, he rushed
from the room. Amazed, his wife:
picked up the newspaper to aster•
tain the reason of her spouse's fury.
She road: "As Mr, Blank mounted
the platform, all eyes were fixed on
the large red 'nose' he displayed.
Only years of patient cultivation
could have produced en object of
such brilliance."
Chinn has a population of 486,000-
000,
Regular air services is to be estab
lshed between Teheran and Ieushire
Persia.
To relieve the congestion of
freight on the Magdalena river in
Colombia, a railroad has been built
to transport goods along the bank
opposite rapids which have delayed
steamers.
TARE.
Little techs+ Is Quite Startling In Its
Singular Beanie.
Alt hou h glaus of pus at ter,
whether It be flesh 14 "e tit ,,
in1arh41ry eu1:.444 s. ,1 ill Willi I1
apparently va,der in a 114
reveries; end returner elee mum, r. The
e 1 .r-ehatis'1 ug cnlore. of the ocean,
:�p15.111y. aro most ctrt,c:n€: taus;
bcat1Lifirl.
At times Dirt11, the sun tutting
sunk heveat!n thewater 1„ rison, the
4(44tens areemblazoned Ina envy of
carmine, and gold turgnedve and
t nrel'ahl pale 11111Qtt- and amber, and
wable Cr waters roti ei 141441 (lends
the vivid rotating of the western sky,
the hOitvhlg surface of the ocean is
transformed into a veritable sea of
opal, gradually, as the fiery hues of
the western sky pale away, fading in-
to a dark, sombre indigo,
But p'71111s• the most sti'ikirrx in-
stance to be suet, In 4110 whsle world
of the wondrous apparent coloring
of bodies of wetter to the marvellous-
ly beautiful "Blue Lake" in Switzer-
land. Encompassed on all sides by
lofty mountains, their loner ran lees
luxuriantly Cloth, d with vc rdur.;
down 10 the cdgr uT the water, and
thein' higher activitlea are garbed in a
mantel of eternal snow. the 110le
lake, nestling in its deep hollow basin
and protected from winds and storm,
is quite startling in its singular
beauty,
The water, although really pure
and colorless, appears to be of a most
vivid and hitr,rnse sky -line. And its
transparency is so remarkable that a
emelt nickel coin dropped into the
water In the centre of the lake can
be seen gyrating downwards until it
reaches the bottom, apparently more
than a hundred feet beneath.
BRIDGE O1' VALUABLE: TI111BER.
Constructed of Mahogany Except For
a Few Iron Supports.
As almost everyone knows, ma-
hogany is among the most costly
wood In existence, This tropical ma-
terial is seldom used in the construc-
tion of buildings of any kind. Its
principal use is for high grade
furniture,
There Is, however, one bridge in
the world made of this wood, The
structure is located in the Depart-
ment of Palengue, State of Chiapas,
Mexico,' a district in the extreme
southern part of the country near the
boundary of Guatemala, It is con-
structed entirely of mahogany except
for a few iron supports, bracts and
nails that are necessary.
The bridge spans the Rio Michol
and its total length, including the
approaches, exceeds 150 feet, It is
fifteen feet wide. None of the tine -
bet's In the bridge are :;awed, for
there are no sawmills In that region.
Instead, all the timbers are hewn and
split,
GREEKS WERI•: (`LRPER.
Iinew How to Spin 'cops Over 2,500
Years Ago,
The Greeks knew how to spin tops
over 2,500 years ago.- They had
pocket-knives with brut.z, blades and
exquisitely carved ivory ha s, and
clasp pin, nun, '.7 like the• ,TD ty pin
by which Its m"dnit ince atei made a
fortune, were common. says Poputar
Morhancis Magazine.
A process for matting clear yel-
low -white glass was announced as a
new discos -cry not leng age, hut ex-
cavations in Euypt she :t that the nut -
term was kuuwrn Ui.•i' i i the• weer..
century B.C. A :,'l of 15o p ce: 44:15
recovered from the ruins of an an-
cient city,
A sewer system that would com-
pare favorably with any constructed
to -day was laid in Crete some ' ,Gel,
years B.C., and you can turn the fau-
cets of a system that was metalled In
ancient Pompeii.
GUS To'rI\G.
Lax Law in U. 5. Blamed for Mush
C'rhne.
The chances Of being robbed are
thirty-six times greater in a large
London. Crime is said to rust the
United States $13,000,000 a year. An
ex -burglar, talking to a newspaper-
man, says: "All crime research work
is done by persons who never com-
mitted crimes." He then goes on to
say that the lax restrietio ns in the
sale and carrying of firearms is one
of the outstanding causes of the
amount of crime in the United States.
A tough youngster can get a gun al-
most as easily as he nen buy a tooth-
brush. England, Prance and other
European countries have pretty well
put gun -toting out of business by
laws that are severe. — Coppers
Weekly.
Village of Large Families.
Of all the communes in Italy noted
for large families, that of Palazzolo
della Stella, in the Province of Udine,
apparently has won the prize, This
little commune is composed of 2,800
Inhabitants, with' 466 felnili0s, of
which there are tlu'ee with sixteen
children, one with fourteen, eight
with thirteen, eleven with twelve,
twenty-two with eleven, thirty-four
with ten, forty-one with nine, fifty-
three with eight and fifty-one with
seven.
The little town had seventy-nine
Ot its sons killed during the Great
War and is now trying to raise the
money to erect a monument in their
honor.
Rubber 1'iuii, t;'i•rure Trains.
So successful have rubber pads
proved as slhock-absorbers and silen-
cers for railroad trains, alter a teat
on one rail length of a Federated
Malay States Railroad, that they are
being tried on longer stretches of
track. The rubber, says Popular
Science Monthly, made by a special
process, was foundto deaden the
sound of the clinking of rale and to
absorb vibration.
Light travels 480 times round the
earth and sound scarcely thirteen
irallbs in one minute.
'WEDNESDAY, JAN. 9th; 1920.
fii% T I IILAfili'fi I3I.t I
Special Annouocemeiit!
Ilaving been appointed Distributor for the
hrysler
Corporation
We offer Cars at $695,00 and up, including
six different models, viz, : Plymouth 4 ; De
Soto .6 ; Chrysler 62,6 ; Chrysler 65 6
Chrysler 75,6 ; and Chrysler 8o 6. All with
the longest wheel base of any small carr, also
hydraulic 4 -wheel brakes.
Com( in and look them over.
E. O. CUNM'' INGHAM
Phone 9x
BRUSSELS
! The Car Owner's Scrap -Book 1
(By the Left Hand Monkey Wrench)
ENGINE IN COLD WEATHER
Running in second for a block or
'two in cold weather not only helps
warm up the engine, but stirs up the
gear lubricant and makes shifting
easier.
ATTENTION TO SPARK PLUGS
Old or worn-out spark plugs cause
poor stateing and excessive drain on
the battery, poor running and loss
of power, especially on hills. Often
large engine repair expense is saved
by simply installing a new set of
spark plugs. This is recommended
every 10,000 miles.
BATTERY TROUBLE
Kern the battery fully charged
winter in order to obtain maximnnhl
efficiency. While a partly (Recharge -
ed battery will operate fairly well
in warm weather, extremely cold tem
peratures will reduce the efficiency
by more than 50 per trent. A : till
engine also is a .=were drain en tine
battery, and for the reason use Vie
sthrting red lighting systems to t
scrvasil'ely,
FDJUST SPARKPLUG GAP •
E;as:er starting of the engine c't„ •
he made if the s io k plug gap is ad-
ju.et'-d to the cornett space, ;v!u„n
1•• l..ttc,..,n .0_0 and .023. , Adjusting 1
the .gap also will save ..ru:.t on ,.
battery. In n summer's driving the
ah explt clto .020 or .040, throag:r
wear and service. Such a wide gale
requires an enormous amount of
electr^e•icl current to jump it. The
eine le hard starting, and extra •
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(train on the battery.
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ATTENTION TO HEADLIGHTS
Dazzling automobile headlights area
ar menace( to motoring safety. To
drive an automobile in 'town or city
or on the open highway with bead,
lights which are improperly focused
mice as a result. are dazzling for the
drivers of approaching cars, is to
court trouble for oneself and jet)•
pardize the safety of all ocher
motorists. headlights are an aid
to safe driving only when they are
in proper condition. Otherwise they
defeat their purpose and are a hind•
ranee rather than an assstance.
Headlights when in proper condi-
tion must be bright enough to light
up the roadway and at the same time
be so focused that beams will be
bent downward and kept out of She
eyes of approaching drivers. Every
car owner should subject his head-
lights to periodic examination. Pro-
per adjustment calls for a certain
degree of expert knowledge and if
the owner does not know how to
make the adjustment himself, he
should see to it that it is done at a
plate maintained, or designated by
the local 'traffic authorities or motor
(dubs.
The oil filter should be renewed
every 10,000 miles.
Clean out the car heater to pre-
vent odor,
If breaks ii'e not dependable drive
in second gear in traffic.
More vigorous use of the braises
will sometimes stop squeaking.
The .,lipping; of a fan belt is fre-
quently due co oil and grease.
:'1. quicker start is made and bat-
tery pewee is saved if the lights are
switched off when using the start-
.ing
tart-
.int - motor.
Ties charging nate of the genera-
tor should be increased if the car is
used for an exc•eesive number of
short runs in cold weather.
Drive the car with tires at the
minimum pressure when caught Out
in an ice storm. This will asoure
safety and maximum traction.
The safest place for the cap of
the gas tank when getting gasoline
is in one's pocket. The cap is then
sunt to go along with the car if
forgotten.
Do not race the car to a service
pump when the gas is getting low
in the 'tank. Gasoline eonsumption
depends on a speed at wihich the
ear is travelling.
There are a great many ways to do a job of
printing ; but quality printing is only done one
way—THE BEST. `ve do printing of all kinds,
and no hatter what your needs may be, from
name card to booklet, we do it the quality way.
P, S, --We also do it in a way to save you money.
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