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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1926-3-17, Page 6NiTBDNESDAY, MARC}17th, man • •se,:„Itaisi, „lair,' a THE BRUSSELS POST Wanted 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 Mussolini Regime Dr. Bertrand M. Tipple, former pastor of Methodist Episcopal church in Rome, and who is quite in- timate with the workings of the var- ious Italian Governments, gave the following view of fascism in a de- bate at Boston Danger of Imperiialism Dr. Tipple contended, on the oth- er hand, the essential element of Fascism is its intense nationalism, and he asserted that this nationalism "naturally swells into imperialism." "Italy must be a great empire," he declared. "She must have ex- tensive colonial possessions. It Is but fair to state that surplus popu- lation is Italy's gravest problem. She must find room somewhere for an extra 500,000 annually. It is a problem which should engage the serious and sympathetic attention of the League of Nations and all West- ern statesmanship concerned with world peace. At the same time let us understand that Fascismo's imper- ialism involves far bigger projects than merely providing for surplus population. "Fascismo aims to achi•eve its am - Rev. Bertrand M. Tipple, D.D. bitious ends by force. The speeches and actions of Mussolini and other prominent Fascisti show conclusive- ly that Fascisthno neither trusts in peace nor desires its too prolonged continuance. The speech of Count Cippico at Williamstown last sum- mer ridiculed the present-day dreams of pacificists. The Pact of Locarno that has so greatly hearten- ed the forces laboring for perman- ent peace was treated cynically by the official Fascisti press. Italy's Place in Sun "Italy deserves her rightful place in the sun. Under parliamentary government she was gaining that place. The record of Italy's achieve- ments from the premiership of Ca - your to that of Facta is one of which her people may well be proud. it:11Y, like other European countries, ex- perienced serious social disturbances after the war. "Certainly there is no reasonable excuse for Fascists' peamanent usur- pation of the Government by force and their continued policy of ter- rorism since they came into absolute control of Italy in the last quarter of 1922. Order, prosperity, efficien- cy are words frequently in the mouths of the Fascisti leaders. And to a certain very considerable ex- tent they represent realities. "Order has been re-established, a slight boa:rive of business condi- tions is oassrvable and a general im- provement in efficiency, particularly in the got • enment and its transpor- tation is a ':iceable. But the gain is in daily jsepardy because it results from a systam imposed by force and not the free will of the people. Sees Growing Menace "Fascismo's menace to internat- ional peace is more and more appar- ent from day to clay. To the Corfu incident is now added Mussolin's in- temperate speech on the German minority in the South Tyrol and a second implied challenge to the League of Nations. "What will be the outcome of Fascismo? At home or abroad it will soon Or late succumb to super- ior forces. At home, the tradition of freedom, individual as well as , national, is no less strong than in , France, England, or America. In ' the end, near or far, this spirit of ! freedom will prevail. "Abroad, the moral world already I condemns the principles and prac- tices of Fascism°. The seine moral I world that wrecked efficient, im- perialistic, militaristic Germany will compass the destruction of efficient, , imperialistic, militaristic. Italy." Death called another of Kings- bridge well known residents when Miss E. Sullivan succumbed to heart disease at her home there. She had been an invalid for a number of years, during which time she was tenderly .cared for by her sister, Katherine. So cheerfully resigned to her affliction, her sunny nature appealed to everyone. Miss Sulli- van was born at Si. Marys, Ont., ill 1861, and for the last fifteen years has been residing with her sister in Kingsbridge. lanwescer . - — woranineestftmammeasooltsV.I.,-.43UraTRA10=91,2,-.2,T.1.674irlrala you hold you pen? Of course there's a right and a wrong way to hold your pen for easy writing —but why take the trouble to correct early formed habits? Don't fear writer's etamp—prevent its No matter how you write there's a Waterman's holder and pert-fioint that will exactly suit you. Drop its to -day and make us prove it. it the nomeramma....M• Ma121~ittralstt5Z~t501~74~LACPliPe 1~44% Rarely do Canadian citizens take measure of the greatness of their , own Dominion, and perhaps this isi more or less to be expected in view I of the immensity of the territet y under jurisdiction of the Federal government, at Ottawa and the 2cer-1 city of population. Despite the great I undeveloped areas north of the in- ternational boundary, and sparse settlement, Canada has accomplisnecl a great deal of which Canadians can be proud, and has a record of re- sources of which they can boast. There follows a few facts about this Dominion of ours—just facts about Canada — which have been gathered from the four corners of the country. Some of them may be well known, others will be found to be new. They are given without any idea of tabulation, and are Just interesting authoritative notes on the country in which we live: This year marks the fifty-ninth anniversary of Confederation which formally started on july 1, 1867. The golden anniversary of the turning of the first sod of the Can- adian Pacific Railway at Fort Wil- liam was on May 21, 1875. Canada's share under the Dawes reparations plan is estimated at $294,000,000 in thirty years of its operation. The Dominion leads the .world in wheat and flour exports; in nickel and asbestos, and pulpwood resourc- es. One-sixth of Canada's developed electrical energy is exported to the United States. The western provinces of Sask- atchewan and Alberta reached their twenty-first year in 1925. Canada has the largest railway yards in the world, at Winnipeg— no less than 258 miles of track, nearly equal to the distance from Winnipeg to Regina. Census returns show 4,868,903 of the Canadian population of 8,988,- 483, in 1921, wereof British origin; French, 2,452,751. The three leading racial groups in the Canadian population are (1.) English, (2) French, (3) Ukrain- ian, or Central European origin. Canada leads the world in wheat exports, and also for wheat yield per acre. The Dominion has nearly 50,000 civil servants in its federal pay -roll. Canada had, in 1924, a working employed force of 760,000. Canada's trade with the United States, 1924125, was $927,460, 27; $510,003,256 being imports and $417,457,171 esports. Nearly half of Canada's agricul- tural wealth is in the West—or, in 1923, $3,556,771,000 out of $7,- 365,023,000. Canada's interchange of cornmorce increased 70 per cent. between 1913 and '923, and 240 per cent. compar- ed with 1909. Canada has a permanent military force of 3,500 and 110,000 school cadets. The Dominion comprises more than a third of the Empire area. The Canada -U.S. boundary line is the longest, and the longest unde- fended in the world. Government statistics show 24,1,- 605 Canadians paid income taxes of $54,'04,028 in 1924, Canada has four tax-free war loan bonds outstanding, totalling $1- 076,000,000. Our dollar was the first and only currency to be quoted at a premium over the U. S. dollar since the war. Canada ranks second in the list of the world's lumber producing countries. The C. P. 12, is Canada's largest taxpayer, of $31,666,82 from 1919- 23. Canada's export of gold ore and dust have increased front nearly $4,- 000,000 in 1922 to $28,358,440 in 1924. The first Canadian baronetcy was created by Charles T. in 1626, 300 years ago, in Sir Robert Gordon, in Nova Scotia, , Empire Day (May 24) is a holi- day honoring the birthday of Queen Victoria, su.parcecling the old "Queen's Birthday." Canada had, in 1924, 652,121 re- gistered motor vehicles, or one to I every 140 of the population. { In Canada seven of the nine pro- viaces have passed town planning acts. Canada's aluminium products in 1923 reached a value of $7,0l7,- 830. Canada has more than 20,000 re- gistered foxes on feat' farms. Thirty-three air craft are being used by the Royal Canadian Air Force in patrols, forest and fire ranging,surveys and mapping in all parts of Canada. Government wireless stations will be establiehed in the Far North at Aldavik, in the Mackenzie River delta, 2,000 miles north of Edmen- ton. Canada produced 53,000 tons of 1 copper in 1924, as against 38,000 tons in 1913. The Dominion has produced a hul- less variety of oat at the central ex- perimental farm at Ottawa, with an average yield for two years of 84.- 14 bushels per acre. ° The exports of agricultural and vegetable products from Canada during 1924 were valued at $445,- 516,290, an increase of $29,305,- 300 over 1923. Wood and paper exports ranked second last year with a total of $255,349,780. Canada exported 2,711,460 dozen eggs in 1924; Canadians consume twenty-six dozen per head in a year and the Canadian people are now approaching the consumption of an egg per day per head, requiring 270- 000,000 dozen. Government exports on coke for household use are encouraging as to its possibilities. It is estimated that 52 per cent. of the domestic fuel requirements of the actual fuel area of Ontario and Quebec could be supplied. Canada has six seismograph sta- tions for recording and measuring earthquake shocks. Exports during the calendar year of 1925 totalled $1,059,057,898, as compared with $1,014,944.27 in 'States. 1923. Canada caught 455 whales Canada has the greatest miracle in church on the continent, north of 1923 off the coast of British Colum - Mexico, at Ste. Anne de Beamore, bia which yielded an income of $332,781, and a total of 7,618 have near Quebec, which is annually at - been caught in the last fourteen tended by tens of thousands of pil- years. The supply is grslims gradually dim- a ' inishing. The Dominion has the most 'corn - Canada has 160 species of hard- plate governmental system of wire - woods and thirty-one of softwoods less telegraphy of any country. —a total of 191. The telescope in the observatory More than 100,000,000 a year is near Victoria is the second largest $ involved in Canada's fire losses, in- in America. eluding value of property destroy- Canada's meat exports reached ed, cost of fire protection and pre- $24,434,270 in 1924, mostly bacon vention ano insurance. and 183,242 head of cattle, worth Canada had, in 1924, 20,803,648 $12,622,863, or a total of $37,037,- ., head of livestock, viz., 3,588,788 horses, 9,460,836 cattle, 2,684,743 Canada has the largest buffalo herd in the world in Buffalo Park sheep and 5,069,181 swine, totalling a value of 3641,144,000. at Wainwright. Diamonds are found in British Jeanne Mance founded the Hotel Columbia. So far oaly small stones Dieu, or God's Hospital, in Montreal in 1644-281 years ago. of no commercial value have been There are 400 golf clubs in located, but the blue clay formatIon ' tlie Dominion and the number is rapidly has been found. increasing. The world's largest drydock, 1,- The C. P. R. used 6,500,000 ties 150 feet long, is located at St. John, in 1924. N. B. Canada has the .least per capita Ontario leads all the other prov- debt in the Empire, including federal inces, and Canada leads the world, in ariplane forest lire patrol. provincial, and municipal, of 3412,- The Canadian mining industry 66; Great Britain, $922; Australia, used over $7,000,000 worth of $820; New Zealand, $884, and South nup- Africa, $647. ing powder and over $2,000,000 for , plies in 1923—$3,000,000 for blast- Seven million acres of prairie sod mine timber. were beoken in the last five years. , Based upon a twenty-year average Canada is rich in molybdenum o:f seventeen bushels of wheat per ores, used in the manufacture of steel. acre, this additional tilled area , The Province of Quebec boasts could have yielded 100,000,000 of the lowest per capita taxation bushels if all sown to wheat. No 011 country the world he C ioa debt account of any province in Can- tltet: ada. shown so great an increase in crop o.in s Life insurance in Canada totalled on December 31, 1924, the huge sum The Dominion is conducting sue - of $3,750,000,000, as against only cessful experiments with a new 835,680,082 in 1869. wheat, the Garnet, that promises to come to :maturity earlier than the No Canadian life insurance com- Marquis, and may therefore be sown any has ever defaulted and no per, son has, therefore, ever lost a dol. farther north to advantage. lar through the failure of any Can- The prairie previnces are not a adian life office. treeless waste. The humble and succulent Can - Canada leads the world ill the use, when potato yields over $50,000,- of electrical' energy per capita oi population, viz., 820 kilowatt hours, 000 a year. The Switzerland coming next with 700. homely and useful Canadian COW numbers nearly 10,000,000, Oats is Canada's chief quantity crop -420,000,000 bushels in 1921, worth $316,000,000. worth $208,762,000. Canada is the second largest manufacturing country in the F,m- Dire. Canadian orchards produce over 4,500,000 barrels of apples every year, and a Canadian apple—the Mc- Intosh Reclaais the champion dessert apple me the Ernpiee. Canada has, in the Hollinger, one of the richest gold -producing mines in the world, rising to $12,000,000 last year, and it is only one a a score of producing minea in the Por- cupine district. This country WOh, last year, the king's cup for markmanship at Bis - ley. The twin cities of Port Arthur and Fort William lead the world in grain storage capacity, of over 00,- 000,000 bushels, 11 the C. P. it. sidings at Winni- peg were put in one track line, they would stretch front Toronto to Corn. wall. There are 1,500 branch United Stater industries hi Canada. 4,341"italocas ' The cost of producing wheat iti Canada is appreciably less (front 32 to (15 cents per bushel) than in tin United States. Canada does a large foreign banking business with deposits on September 30, 1924, of $855,744,- 961, (an increase of $59,000,000 in a year), with current loans and discounts of $185,160,963 and call and short loans of $148,925,920. Montreal is the largest inland post in the world, a thousand miles from the open sea, and it handled 165,- 000,000 bushels of wheat ill 1924. The Dominion's dairy industry exceeds $250,000,000 a year. Canada spent $276,261,100 on building construction in 1924. Ocean vessels drawing fourteen feet of water make their way over 2,000 miles into the heart of Cana- da from the Atlantic to the head of Lake Superior. The major part of Canada's public debt is held by the Canadian peo- ple, or 70 per cent. Canada refunded over 3100,000,- 000, of war obligations inside 'of the country. The, C. P. R. is forty years old, and it is 100 years since the world's first steam railway in England. ' Only 37,800;000 acres of the prairie provinces area of 167,000,- 000, acres was under crop in 1923, or only 22 per cent. The Canadian newsprint mills have a total capacity of 1,500,000 tons per annum—as much as, if not more, than those of the United ,04111,1-. COSTS LITTLE Accomplishes Much A two cent stamp does'a lot fps very little money, but it would re- quire thousands or tWa cent stamps arid personal lettent to Mika yam wants known, to AP 01Afly pC004 ss a are, investment in..our Classified Want Ada ,e.pVid. NO 14 IF V Was* anada's Best lano ----Prices from $375.00 up TERMS TO SUIT ALL Do not waste time solving puzzles but get in touch with the old established and reliable firm and get full value for your money. Vlas ‘isch 97 Ontario St. Phone 17 AIDLIOSinalimpivinsearaw A RIVER OF MYSTERIES SECRIITS AND DRAMAS OP THE THAMES' POLICE. London Writer Tells Story of Work ofRiver Police—Their Job is 'Dif- ficult and Arduous—Patrol Thirty - Six Miles. "Some people think tbe River PO - lice are a branch of the Royal Navy," said one of these hale and hearty watertnen. "When the penny steamer boats went up and down the Thames, they thought we were the crew! Actually, we are it branch of the Metropolitan Police Force, when our force was first formed, it was got together by the East India Com- pany in the same sort 'of way that the insurance companies formed the old London Salvage Corps. Rich ewe. cbants, whose property was stored in wharves and shipowners with - boats worth many thousands of pounds, paid our wages. 'That was somewhere about 1780," About eighty years ago. however, the authorities recognized that the job was so important that they took over the river police and joined them up with London's ordinary constab- ulary force; with them, they took over thirty-one cutlasses, fifty -live large flint pistols, five blunder- busses, and some rattles and hand- cuffs!. They only use the handcuffs now; and they are or a newer kind. The merchandise passing through the Port of London usually totals over $3,000,000,000 in a year. From this Store, tho tnerchants 1oc, in eight years, over it century ago, goods worth no less than r,50,000,- 000! The duty' of combating- the ef- forts of thieves and smugglers was too important to be left to privets hands. In the old warehouses and abandoned wharvea criminals hid by the dozen. All along the river thgro were dons and haunts full of the scum or London. Fights with rivee pirates—they once numbered over 2,000—were as dangerous as those which 1 h-re4v gangs now wage. Tho valuables in tier Pool of London were their prey, and two different gangs fought each otker,4as do the race gangs now, whenever they were not righting law and order. The river police, slays Bunnell Swaffer itt Tit -Bits, vamp rimm the longshoremen 01 the Thames. They were hardy, bravo men, and although, when they began, horrible murders were common, the gangs were dis- banded and broken up gradually. Now, boasts London. the Thames is policed like Piccadilly. In one re- cent year, the total reported thefts were as small as 36001 "We live like men at sea," said an old river guardian. "We have swatches, and we do patrols Just like destroyers round the ocast." And they have etrange stories to tell. One night, a small yacht was mak- ing towards the open sea, looking or- dinary enough until a passing skipper gave a hail. As there was no reply to his continuous calls, the skipper lowered a boat to make enquiries, only to find no sign of life above stairs; but, below, seated around a table in the cabin, were the bodies of four men—all dead; Between them was a balf-eaten meal; but there was no clue as to why they died, or how. During the war the Thames police had to seize enemy vessels directly hostilities began. They then started policing the captured ships, super- vising the landing of aliens; and alt along the river they had to watch for illicit signalling and the use of Stratford ECKSILVIXIMINI viretess telegrapny fly spies. Through the air raids, their duties were doubled; and, wheuever there was an explosion on the riverside— some of them were attended by great loss of life—the river police had to take the dead to the :nortuary and the injured to hospftal. Compared with that, two of their little peace- time Jobs, watching the race for Dog- get's Coat and Badge, and guarding the Houses of Parliament, are pleas- ant pastimes. Not long ago, Abraham Jackson, formerly Master of the Essex Stag - hounds, and the owner of £50,000, was found dead in the Thames at Rotherhithe with msirks of a blow on ahe back of the head. He had lived for two years at the Grand Hotel, Northumberland avenue, a recluse, one of London's mystery men. Then • lie borrowed a one -pound note—and 'went out to die. It was a river policeman who picked him up. Three months later, a young Cam- berwell girl was found floating in the Thames near Tenfple Pier. Por days, detectives and amateur investi- gators •by the score had scoured the neighborhood of her home. All that was known was that, after going to Holy Communion in the morning, she spent the day playing with her baby niece, went to buy some sweets, and was never seen again alive. "A fun- ny old man has been following me about," she had said the day before. That was all. The river police found her, days afterwards, In the Thames. A young machinist, of Ealing, drowned herself In the Thames not long ago, near Vauxhall Gas Works. "X have decided to end my own life," she wrote In a letter she left. "n l. the only way out of it. Oh, how I have tried to battle againht 10. delu- sions; but that dreadful voice in my brain kept talkine till it malle nh• tit sperath." The river police t..itt 0 hoe body. Usually, it hundred. bodies are picked up in a year The parish in which the corpse is found pays live :Millings each time, nail this is divided aiming the crew that makes the discovery. Why is it that the Thanihs attracts 00 many suicides? When desperasey unletriea people, walk along the Em- bankment.. or me or the bridges, 1 timose the glittsr 01 liehts in lee winaows of the bliv 03, th, it tileo 1'.,: t: e,,m fort daezles 10 m and drivr:i Chem, u rg.• ;le Into The dark and gloomy waters, Waterloo Bridge 03 t80 fame:, for suicides; it is the one from which most of London's contracting - luxury and gloominess Is seen, First Fresh: "What do you know about fraternities?" Second Same: "Nothing. They are all Greek to Inc."— Salt Shaker. sa "I see svhere Henry Ford is buying up old fiddles." "Yes; he probably wants to get a monopoly of all the squeaks in the world," sa as a. A man who can speak six languages has just married it woman who can speak three. 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