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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1926-2-24, Page 6• .WEDNF,SDAY, FEB. •24, 1926. .44g44.14,, Waned We pay Highest Cash Price for Cream. 1 cent per lb. Butter Fat extra paid for all Cream delivered at our Creamery. Satisfaction Guaranteed Brussels Creamery Co. Phone 22 Limited mLJ Watilif:JO2L,',14:2"4.14Ailif,x4f Canada's Pulp rapr Remarkable Growth Recorded Dur. ing Past Twenty Years—Now Holds First Place in Value of Pro- duction One of the outstanding features of Canadian industrial development in the past twenty years has been the rapid growth of the pulp and paper industry from a position of relative insignificance to that of the leading manufacturing industry in Canada. It attained this position in 1923, the latest year for which com- parative figures are available, when it displaced the flour -milling indus- try which had held first place in 1921 and 1922. In 1023 the pro- duction of pulp ?and paper exceeded in value that of the flour -milling in- dustry ($154,845,991) by over 829,- 000,000, in round numbers, and it surpaesed the value of the output of each of the next two industries, saw -milling and meat packing, by' al- most $45,000,000. The pain and paper industry also stood first in the amount of salaries and wages paid, viz., $38,382,845, which exceeded saw -milling by about five million dol- lars. Figures show that the pulp and paper industry adds more to the val- ue of the raw materials than most other secondary industries, and in the year in question this • increment in value amounted to over $113,000- 000, or 168 per cent. Considerinc the total net value Of the combined industry as the sum of the values of pulpwood exported, pulp exported and paper manufac- tured, the toal in 1024 was 5187,- 174,703. This was a falling off of $1,407,405 from 1923, but the in- dications are that there will be a very considerable increase over the 1923 figures in the year 1925. There were 115 plants manufac- turing pulp and paper in 1924, with a eapital investment of 5459,457,- 696. Nearly 5112,000,000 has been added to the capital investment in these plante since 1920. Rapid Growth of the Industry The above figures give an idea of the standing of the pulp and paper industry in relation to the other in- dustries of Canada; the following figures of annual average preeltletiOri OVVI' four year periods show its rep - id growth :-- Pulpwood eut in Canada Percentage Period. Cords. Exported. 1009-1912 1.61e,820 57.3 1913-1916 2,382,404 42.2 1917-1920 ,551,316 33,0 1921-1024 4,124,734 29,2 Pulp manufactured in Canada Percentage Period, Tons, Exported 1909-1012 524,889 57.9 1913-1916 . 1,040,053 39.6 1917-1920 1,074,423 39.2 1921-1924 • 2,100,062 34.8 Collection of figures of paper manufactured began in 1917 and from that thine newsprint has form- ed about 80 per cent of the total of all paper ptoduced. The folloveing table gives newsprint production, iind • quantity and percentage Of newsprint exported. Newsprint Reduction Tons, Tons, Percentage, Year, Produced, Experted. ExpOrted 1.917 ..... 680,847. 596,187 85.4 1918 784,783 686,533 80.6 1919 ... ,• 794,561 708,420 89.2 1920 , 875,696 761,944 87.0 1921 805,114 709,241 88.1. .1922 . - 1,081,364 959,514 88.7 /923 1,251,541 1,187,962 91.0 '1024 1,388,981 1,219,884 87.8 . Exposts and Imports The exports of those products, paaticulatiy paper,are among •the most important items in the externa1. trade of the Deaninion" and theY ex- ert marked inffnence 10 tabiliaing eXchaliga. This was pattieularly initiceable .dtiring the period of trade fOLIOWing• 1920, Tikes -tots Industry al exports of the industry in 1924 amounted in value to $153,027,527, and the imports to $10,703,933, re- sulting in an excess of exports over iinports of $1.42,328,504. The dis- tribution is shitevn in the following table 1924. Exports. Imports, Pulpwood $13,536,058 Woodpulp . 40,242,972 51,375,991 Paper 99,248,497 9,327,942 The imports consisted chiefly of special lines of pulp and of card. board, cardboard containers, and book, writing, and wrapping papers. In analysing the figures in the a- bove tables it is seen that while there has been a rapid increase in productien of :)II . three lines, the properties of 'ports to total pro- duction :!, punrs-ood and pulp has been •• ',alining almost steadily, whereas 'a regard to paper the pro- portion s :ported has remained fair- ly const •--:. News! a '.,t is, of course, the great staple in he paper trade. In 1994 Canada was the second country in the world in point of qu,antitse pro- duced. During some months of 1925 Canada forged to the front place and it is expected that in .1920, 'hav- ing in view the large installation of -paper plants in 1925, Canada's pro- duction will be increased to such 811 extent as to rank her the greatest newsprint -producing country in the world. These facts serve to emphasize the importance of the industry and the need of each citizen doing his part in the conservation of Canada's fors est, upon which this development depends. QUAINT CALENDARS Tailingl h 1 days was not such an unromantic procedure as it la to -day. We tick off the days and months with a blue pencil, but the ancients used to cal- culate by the moon. It is said that Noah used the early Egyptian calendar of a five-month year, thirty days to the month, and each month three weeks of ten days. Sticks, tied in bundles, was the in- variable way of telling the day and season with the greater part of the ancient world, and even to -day some American Indians keep five bundles of thirty sticks, pulling out one stick for each day. The last bundle is repeated in each half year to lev- el things up, and the middle bundle is split in two to judge the approach of mid -summer or mid -winter, as the case may be. in the South Sea Islands the "moon stick" is used to determine the seasons. A notch is cut in the stick after each passing moon, Ear -off Borneo uses a picturesque calendar consisting of various lengthe of tattooed poles. The HY- eke have a custom whereby they tell the season by the length of the hurcs shadow. Calendar makers tour the country in the season of sowing and planting these colored poles on the various ; farms. EY a sYstenl °I queer cale.ulation they adjust these poles to a certain length shadow, and tell the native farmer that he has to cut hi $ crop when the shadow reaches another length, marked ori the ground. Invariably this shadow marking proves remarkably accu- rate and successful, and ft the due time the ealendar makes makes ail - other tour Of the farnm to receive his payment of part of the mop, Some Egyptologists claim that the fantous 'Sphinx is nothing more than an .astronomittil device for telling the seasons. The shadows cast by sunrise and sunset wer taken as the deterraining factor in telling the lthew ,Seatolla of spring, stireiner and *inter, . . ,, • ' - 1, A CHIL LOVE It Was More Thi..1 That Later so By ETHEL HOLMES I am an old maid. I have never had i love affair and never expect`to have me. Perhaps thia Is why I tako an in. trest in the loves of other people, gothing is so attractive to me as to watch a young couple drifting into Mat current which at first moves so imperceptibly that they are not aware they are in it. Indeed, so unconscious are they of being incipient lovers that it does not occur to them to conceal the fact from any one else. And to me there is something espe. daily touching about the loves of chil- dren. Some deny that there is such a thing as a pair of children lovers. I deny their negation, and I do so on a very sound basis. When I was ten years old I was in love with a boy of fifteen. This is the nearest I ever came to love. I remember one day sitting at my window sewing when a boy and a girl passed on the other side 01 the road. The boy's straw hat was dingy, and there was plenty of ventilation In its crown. His only other clothing was a shirt and trousers -no shoes or stook. flap, nothing around his throat, his collar being open and displaying the tanned skin. The girl's clothing WAS neither better nor worse, and there was about as much of it. The two were evidently absorbed in each other. What they were talking about I was too far from them to hear, but it was of vital importance. It may be that the boy had been "kept in" after school and they were indig- nant over time thus lost in play. It may be that some urchin bad smashed the china head of the girl's I Whatever it was 11 was being discuss. ed with animation. And I maintain that these childish interests are of more real importance for the time being than those which come later. No addition to an adult's stock of wealth gives tlie same zest as a new toy to one of these little people. Often afterward I saw these two and always together. In this they were different from other children who play, boys with boys and girls with girls. I learned that they were Henry Morse aisd Lila Bunker, a farmer's boy and farmer's girl. Iudeed, we were all farmer folk, all knew one another, ev- erybody being interested ui some degree at mast in every one else. a simple com- munity and more than usually free from the petty jealousies common to man. kind, Henry Morse's father was determined that bis son should have a good educa- tion, and the boy was sent away to school. After this I used to see Lila going by our house. but no companion supplied Henry's place. She was al- ways alone. and I fancied ber thinking of her other self. But this was simply fancy on my part. As I have said in tbe beginning, not baring bad any love affairs or my own. I conjure up love affairs for others. In this case of Etenry and Lila I knew nothing of what was passing between them except from observation, so I may be excused for filling in occasionally that the story may not seem too disconnected. At the last I was present and shall not have to draw on my imagnitition, Wben /leery came back from school there was a mow modish appearance to his clothes and to his manners. Poor Lila, who bad remained on the farm, had only an unadorned beauty, freshened by pure air and sunshine, r d,thlgh n eywoeirenowenraywbountshvota b si.nyeeaa7 taller, and I could net see that their in- terest In each other had waned, though the chi/dist) unconsciousness that they were of different sex had disappeared. I used to see them go by the house to- gether as formerly, but the prattle of childhood bad given place to the more sober conversation of youth. I often wished I could hear what they were saying to each other. Stems, did so well at school that his rather decided to send him to college. I wondered what effect his four years' association with young men and wont - en of the world would have on my pet love affair. I retired that Henry, hav- ing become used to the polished girls he would meet, would return to see In country girl lacking tbe airs and graces of ber sisters of the eity. 'Would this alienate him? It was to be expected that it would, And, though country born end bred myself, I don't know that ,thoSe Of us who go to tbe city and acquire city ways are to be blamed when we return and yield to dissatisfaction witb country ways Beery remained away a year at col- lege before he came back to the farm. Then one July morning, when sitting afrny window darning socks, 1 looked ap, and there on the opposite side of ' the road were the couple I had first noticed eight or nine years ago as children. Though Henry was plainly 'dressed, his Clothes were tot eountry Clothes. It seemed to rae that be might pass anywhere as a My bred young 'Man. Ind Lila -h05' My heart went; , oat to t80 poor child in her effort te I dress in a fahhion inoro in keepitig , With the apparel of those girls to whom !Henry had been aaeustorded. It wall Pall inference with nie, but it 'Was plain ? to See that she bad prepared herself againet his return to modify the differt t flC6 between het' atal their imbilibients. '1 I trondereo it tie noticed this end if THE BRUSSELS POST , ....................n.vx.................om. .-- i Canadian Inv1ted to Geneva it pleaoed or displeased him. Sprely her Husband May Not * eat i 'I.' effort was not very successeul. lu the ,.. comitly one may get city fashions, bet I r7-',77"---- ---7.10,7177777 ,.. it is not every werlter wile aux make Wife Under Our Law ', ' them up. But ill the few moments they were passing it was impossiblesfor use to tell if there had been any caning° In . Henry's teelings•for Lila. So 1 placed out the story in this wise: Henry was beginniag to see the differeuce between her and the girls he had met. I mean by "her" her clothes --a certain deli- clency in what city people call chic. I am not referring to Lila as a. soul, not even AS a body. tor in bodily beauty she would doubtless far surpass many t O city girl. Well, it bat do 1 refer to? i Why, clothes and milliner; that's all. After this Henry seldom came name s during vacations. 1 beard that 110 s uaually went camping with his fellow students. At any rate, I lost track of I my lovers. I was ruluctoutly obliged t to consider my stings if not finished, at least passing through a stage of inter- ruption. Lienry bad become interested in a career which would Mims noth- lag to do with farms or farmer people. Wisen he was graduated I learned that be was intending tci study medicine. But before be entered a medical col- lege his father, who spared no expense on his education, sent him abroad. When I heard of all these matters, which were taking him farther and farther away from provincialism and his provincial sweetheart, I groaned in spirit, for I saw that my love etory was likely to end in nothing. It was some time before Henry was to leave the medical college that I heard bad news of Lila. They said ole had some trouble that was drag- ging her down, but the doctors could tot discover what it was. They could not diagnose it -that is what they said 01 11. Her father sent to the city and brought a doctor to the farm espe. Malay to see if be couldn't tell what was the matter with her. The doctor said he coutclu't lind any ormknic trou- ble, whatever that means, and the only remedy he thought might benefit her was change of setae. Ire advised her father to take her on a trip. But Farmer Bunker couldn't afford to do that, and Lila didn't care to go. I considered tbis merely a pert of my love story. It was Wain to sue that Henry Morse had drifted away from the little girl 1 had seen bim going by our house with when they were chil- dren, and the parting was killing her. They say story writers often fan in love with their imaginary characters. Therefore it's not strange that a storY "router like myself should fall in love with a real person of flesh and blood. I had always known the Bunkers, so I went to see Lila. That was in the spring -May, I think. I feund her sit- ting in an easy chair at her whitlow, pale, languid and without interest in anything. It may be that she divined by my bearing toward her that I knew what was the matter with her. At any rate, when I event up to tier, took her hand anti drew her hood down on my shoulder she left it there and seemed to get relief from the tears that came. While she was weeping on my shoul- der I was thinking. Not having anS lover to bring, back for myself, I wish- ed 1 coal bring back one fOr this poor girl. And I fornaed a plan. But it was swam thue before I car- ried it out, not WI StIMITIOr came. Then I told Lila's parents that I thought it wotild do her good to come and make me a visit. Since Lila said she would, like to do so, they consent- ed, and within a few days she was in my room, the room from which I had iirst seen her go by with her child lover. 1 said nothing, about Ilenry Morse either as boy or man any more than If he didn't exist. But when I put Lila in an easy their at the very vviudow from which I used to watch ber and him, and thought of her as she was then and saw her as she wns now I made up iny mind that it I was go- ing to make a good, real story of her case I couldn't rely an things to hap- pen themselves. I'd have to bring them about myself. 1 %vas thinking, 103, that my love story had keit going on long eaough, and it was time 11 0018 brought to a close. Besides, Lila was so weak that I feared in her coudition she'd contract some real disease.. So I wrote Dr, Lleury Morse, who had just been ad- mitted tonractice, Mit I had it patient In my family who was dying of some disease that none al our connrsy doc- tors could tell anything about, end I would pay him whatever he asked if be would make e tlynag trip anti diag- 11059 the case. He wrote back the he remembered me very well aud would run down in a few days, Of course I didn't let on to Lila what I had clone. She, POOP ebild, wasn't drearnieg what an influeace my seeing tier go by my window so many years before would have oil her life. I boned Henry would COM ILO soon As possible, tor silo was drooping more awl more every day. Well, one morning be came. Ele be had Answere4 my call atter his arrival even before going home. I was glad of this, for I wee fearful he'd hear something that might Interfere with my plau. I just led Iiim upstairs, opened tbe door, and be went in and I closed it behind him. I reckon he didn't make as long a call as that on a patient for n good many years, I don't know what hap. 00006 between them—didn't see the surprise of either of them, MI I know is that when be came out two or three hours Miter be went in he looked at me as though be was going to my some- thing, but pressed my band instead, Then I went in to Lila. She had the haPpleat smile on her face 1 am saw. She put her arms around my beck and cried and laughed. And that's the end Of the story, 1 don't see why reel story Willem don't do something themselves to fin - Search of Statutes Reveals That On. tario Magistrate is Quite Wrong —Old Common Law Doesn't Ap- ply, According to Blackstone That the Ontario magistrute who Teently rub '1 that a husband in ()D- ario haa the right to slap his wife s quite wrong, is indicated by a tudy of legal authorities upon the ubject. Husbands, therfore, who feel !m- uffled to inflict chastisements upon heir wives for some real or fancied vrong are directed to section 29 (e) of the Criminal Code, which makes it an indictable offence punishable by Imprisonment up to two yoars and whipping, to assault and beat a wife, thereby causing her actual bodily harm. Code sectiOns 290 and 291 also deal with assaults, end are most certainly applicable to the case of an assault committed by a hus- band upon his wife, and according to legal authorities of the province, convictions are frequently made an - der these sections. Common Law Obsolete Ancient doctrines of the Common Law, it is believed by ofllcials of the Attorney-Generalls Department, do not apply in such cases. In Black - stone's Commentaries, 3rd edition, 1748, pp. 444 and 445, it is said, in part :— "The husband by ,the old law might give his wife correction, for 118 he is to answer for her misbe- haviour the law thought it reason- able to entrust him with this power of restraining her by domestic chas- tisement, in the same moderation that a man is allowed to correct his servants or children. But this pow- er or correction was confined with- - -- scripts Commission in eonnection with the archives brancli of the Do - C w -Testing ;of a production certificate to any minion Government. ; cows which reach a satisfactory stan Prof. Silent has been a volumin- By province' third. of. production of. milk anid but -1 ter tat in 13 consecutive months anc elm writer on history, banking„ ,v- onornics, etc., besides collaborating to maintain the cow testing register with Dr. A. G. Doughty in "Cauada Hon. J. S. Martin Outlines New Plan . for all cows which have qualified. and its Provinces," twelve volumes, for Improving Ontario's Herds I and "Collection of Documents Re - General Soulthomlinoff Dead lating to the Constitutional History of Canada." Hon, John S. Martin, Ontario Minister of Agriculture, announces ' that the cow -testing work carried bn in this Province will in future * under the Provincial Department of ' Agriculture. For some time past the Provineial officers, especially Agricultural Re- presentatives, have been taking aa active part in this work, and thore RTC a number of districts where the work has been entirely e.arried.on by Provincial men. The Federal Department has expressed its read- iness to, allow the work to be entire- ' ly taken over by the Provincial De- partment at any time the latter was able to assume it. With the Start which has already been matte, even before the formal transfer, it may , be expected that there will be a steady arid more rapid development ; or interest in cow testing through- I out the Province, In the carrying on of the work through the Provincial Department, the immediate direction will be 511 the hands of the local Representa- ; dee in the. different counties. He j will, however, have the active co- ' operation of the Dairy Branch, which will look after the testing, and the Live Stock Branch, whieh look after follow-up? work in herd improvem ent. As the work le of direct commer- cial advantage to the producer, the department expects several things from the producer in return for the service it is prepared to render. Broadly speaking, the Minister has defined the part to be taken by the producer and the department as follows: Each farmer to provide his own weighing and saMpling equipment, such as scales, milk box, satin() bot- tles, and clipper. To weigh and take a sample of milk of each cow Meat and morning on three days eacn month, say 10th, 20th and 30th, and record weights ort forms supplied. To deliver samples tO testing. sta- tion or centres, as determined, and to secure retuen of box and empty bottles. To agree to keep a record for tba full year—lactation period—of ev- ery pow in the herd. To pay a, fee of 50 tents pea eow rem year. To accept sainplea, either from in- dividual farmers or farmers organ- ized in, associations, To supply suitable accommodation and equipment and tost ench eample :for butter :fat once 00011 Month, Testing to be done by the Stair of Ilia Dairy Baanelt at any of the fol. lowing . nlates: Cheese fattories, creenieries, offices of Agrieiiltural Represetitatives; apeciel tatting sta, Hong in reasonable bounds and the hus- bend was prohibilisl from using vio- lenee to his wife. "But with us i n the pelitOr 1 of Charles the Second, this mama. or corroction hvgan to he douht,,d and a wife may now have the ray of the peace against her hus- barid." Thus it is elver that in the early a eighteenth century and since, a wife ; entitled to protection by the ' criminal law from physical violence and ill usage front her husband. Legal Dicta Blackburn, J., in Phillpips vs. Bar I net, also commented: I"There is no doubt that if a wife receiveel bodily injury from the Professor Adam Shortt, I hands of her husband he is liable to M. A L.L.D., F.R.C.S.; Canadian Icriminal proceedings for a felony or economist, who has been invited by , misdemeanor. and upon this and the Council of the League of Na - ether occasion's she is in law a sep- tions to participate in the preparat- mate person." ory committee meetings of the in- ternational economic conference to be held in Geneva this year, is one of the best known authorities on history, banking and economics in the Dominion. He was born in Middlesex County, Ont., on November 24, 1859, son of George F. Shortt and Mary Shields, both of Scottish descent; and receiv- ed his education ut High School, Queen's University, Kings- ton; Glasgow and Edinburgh Uni- versities, Scotland. Prof. Shortt was for a namber of years professor of Political Economy at Queen's University, Kinexton, which position he left to join the Civil Serviee Commission of Car- ada, of which he became head. There are also statutory Provis- ions in England that if a husband has been convicted of assault upon his wife, a separation order may be made against him. There is no shui- Mr section in Canada, but Section (13 of the Criminal Code, which gives a parent or guardian the right to ex- ercise reasdnable force to correct a . child, student or apprentice, does not extend to the case of a has - band's jurisdiction in this regard over his wife. Consequently, persons who pre - 500<0 to act under the authority of the dictum of the Ontario magis- trate are liable to find themselves in I the toils, facing a two-year sentence ' with lashes, or minor pumihments, 1 according to the degree of the as- Latterly he has occupied the post of sault. chairman of the historical Mann - General Vladimor Soukhoinlinoff, foemer Minister of War in the RUS. aian Imperial Cabinet, who was al- leged to have been responsible for the breakdown of the Russian army because he failed to inerease the output of munitions, and prevented the military department from supply ing the troops with guns and shells, died in Berlin, aged 78. He was ar- rested shortly after his resignation from the portfolio or Minister of War In June, 1915, and subsequent- ly convicted of criminal negligence and high treason. It was allogvd he eommunicated secret information to German agentS, and that he accepted bribes from contractors. After serv- ing one year of a sentence of hard labor for life, he escaped in Sep- tember, 1917, reaching Germany via Finland. With reference to Mr. jus- tice Eve's question in the courts the other day, might explain that the saxaphone is something which started as an instrument aed grew up into 0 11003)011. Punch. IL.6.11370. IrPeflelnlalltarlYs is the ALWERTISING space enterpris ing merchants use in THE POST to tell the good folks of this community about their stores and their goods. Good ADVERTISING is moving • eloquence, too. It brings new customers to your store. . It builds good will, It , creates new business, moves goods and makes bigger profits possible. ADVERTISING is a hard!,working ally that should be co.operating, with every merchant. Why. not investigate its merits. Ask us about it. PROGRESSIVE MERCHANTS AHVERTISE Issued by Canadian WeekliNewepapers Asset:intim] leb their ovvn stories, To niake provision tor the istnitg ' — 1. 1.1 'I'