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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1924-9-10, Page 2Thi F MG SEAPORTS OiprTHE DONJON EACH HAS ITS PECULIAR PLACE IN OUR ECONOMICS. Montreal Ranks Second on / meriean. Continent •, Van- couver Leads as Grain. Exporter. The post-war era in Canada has been featured by a very gratitying ex• pensionin the trade carried on by the Dominion with foreign countries, the value of the 'total volume of trade transacted having increased in the de- code between 1914 and 1924 by $822,- 175,439, or more than seventy per Cent. With this development, and the great. er bulk of trade corning to and leav- ing franc 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 ptincipai seaports, Montreal, Quebec, St. John, Halifax, and Vancouver. Bach of these has its peculiar place in Canadian econo- niin+t. Montreal 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 it is working against odds. trade leaves between MAI* and No. Tlie population uses cheers to en vember and most of the important courage the going soldier and to show trade is received. St. John and Hall -appreciation to the returned war hero fax are the winter ports whose great- Cheers are also used in polities. est activity commences when frost has Cheei'r gripped the Si. Lawrence river, Van. Sometimes they corse spontaneously couver is the great Paciee outlet and from the crowd, but sometimes they inlet for the increasing node which is are the intense personal enthusiasm being canted on with tice conntrles of of a few wlto have the ability to get the Antipode.; and Orient. a crowd to cheer. If tate cheers come from the r rnwd it is well; if they come Great Increase in Traffic, from the few to the crowd it is not so Tice total volume of c inr..li:tn trade! well. It is cheerful to cheer, but it is tr rr acted by these five porta In the ;Fane to sometimes look behind the part lista! year amouutea to $890.648.-1 cheer., fur we have known some 16s., or approximately 35 per cent. of I things which were chiefly made up of Canada's total trade for that year, !three cheer,. \i• ntreal is easily (hnafla's first port,;! with a total trade in the past year amounting to 9;lam,:C14,136, of which 1 lntparts accrnntecl for $191,567,(186 and exports $189,116.olu. Vancouver is ; the second port in importance, hav-1 ing lied a total trade of $152,407,534, of which $5:3 O$,63n was import value and $".15,5esee4 that of export. St. John ranite third with a total trade' value of $77,562,s05, $2(x,622,689 being; import and 256.940,116 export trade. Which Run Longer Without 0,1. Tota: value of trade at Halifax was '-[f you want machines to run you've $47,521,132, being made up of $17,051,-ill:got to oil 'ens." 617 representing imports and $30,469,-1 "That's true of aU except national 515 exports, The total trade handled:political machines." at Quebec had a value of $32,172,561,1 of which $16.240,993 was import and, Monsters of the Wild. $15.931,568 export. • In the unknown Arctic. region he - The great increase in the traffic car-' twceet the C.hiville and Porcupine ri-d on by Canadian erste may be Rivers, where Dr. Philip B. Smith has realized in a comparison with rine Ire a party of the United Elates Geo-+ figures of the year 1914. In this ten lr irai Survey on a perilous mission year period the total trade of thecae of , ep;ot•atinn, it is rumored that there , five ports has increased by sous 86 are weird animal, of immense size. per cent. It is gratifying to nate that These strange talc:; have been this increment has been to the great- spread amongst the fur traders and, est extent built up by increasing ex. gold hunters by the native Eskimos; port trade, the increment In this case and Indians regarding the territory'; in the period amounting to 116 per which appears on the mal:, largely as cent. Title is very clearly illustrated a blank (:pace. way for a vestry greater traffic pres- aged, calculated to further' enhance the prestige of Canada's great parts in the hast and West. A Little Gra Lane. A little green lane gees through my mind, A lane that my heart runs back to end; A lane hero the' air is. cool' as dew, . . And the ferns are high and the rocks are few, And every branch of the' tallest tree Would whisper a fairy tale tome, And every bird had a' golden note In the song that cause from Itis -'crier-_ crier - son throat, ' And life had a hundrol gifts to give, Anti 1 had a hundred years to live, • A little green lane gees through any mind, A lane that my heart goes Meek to find -- My heart --for never my feet will go To walls that lane that 1 used to know, 1 For maybe my eyes would fail to see The vision that memory holds far me, And I'd niisq the fairy tales I beard And the sung of the crintsou-throated' bird, So I'll keep the dear unbroken spell 02 the little green lane I love eo well. 1 —Nan Terrell Reed. ti About Three Cheers. Cheers are demonstrations of 011- thusiasm. Often they are safety valves of abounding spirits. College meu and women use them to give vent; to their pleasure when one of their; football heroes snakes a good gain. They use them also to give enthusiasm, _. and en0uragement to their team when' i -Ar o THE W RST IS YET TO COME -y al fart,,,/ Q7PE0aU JAPJuGGLER i 1ANNR•'s 'TRH iNn Purl: Pocts T)-lE (Ric' DAN Stories About 'Jell own People The X -Ray Detohess, „''Won't I?'"• I doubt wltetlte3• any naveilet 11315 hatched a nacre aureate; proposal and acceptance Ont Of his brain. Made Manuel Laugh. A Good. story'coln.es front Paris con- ceining te0 elrenonerehe,,Wing Manael X-ray work Is sat a hobby mite/ would choose, but the Auclieee Cr Dee - .ford lute praat',cae it wftjt success, et. a cost of many thousands of Pounds,+ Inc the past ten years, The Duchess is in charge of an Xray department in tt Hospital at Wgo, built tv herself oY Portugal and the Shah of Persia, twenty years con, She Irogae.ltly R hey were seated together at an helps at operations' is af ultra -fashionable )public resort, Placid- , the act, its duchess ie 000 to Iy sipping thett' ehampagno and watch" the most notable sportswomen, She i can handle a horse, a red,. a gust, as ing the dancers, When c Well as most teen. .Another of her aa- cotuplisltments' is that site tats an ex t'aordlnary influence over wild ani "sols. Qulgk Results. A delightfully true—and truly de llghtful-•-lncidettt wes told by Mrs Belloc Lowndes, the well-itnown writer In a recent, lecture fn which ,she was trying to illustrate the Paerthettrtith la stranger than eaten. - "No novelist," she said, "would dare use this true incident, for instance. gentleman in India suddenly decided to offer marriage to a girl in. England, so he cabled: 'Will you?' "Tine answer carne promptly: 11 Parlaian sat dawn on tine Only extra cltalr at their table. The newcomer' hada blamed! ageee' - able, and the conversation soon be- 1 011100 general, When the time came for departure - the Parisian asired with wham he lute ; the Bonar of speaking. I," said the former' King of Pestle gal. "am the 2Cing of Portugal." "I," : said the former Shah, "ant the Shah of Persia." The Frenchman betrayed no sur A prise whatsoever, "Good -night, gentle. men,",ire sold politely, and then as he t turned to go he added, "The Groat Mogul bids you adieu." - Manuel Is reported to have laughed, but the Shah was not so pleased. A City Garden. God of the Rowers! Painter of ertmson 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: Trade l+Wdith Germany. I the dour trade with Germany is con- This was Tby garden e'er 'the high Ildentl xpected to YurUnor increase One of the most outstanding fes -1 the volume of exports from Canada. '; tures of Canadian trade in the past • , fiscal year as undoubtedly the remark- I • the Stonehenge, on Out on the evening air! Y y e walls were lifted; Hero the wild apple grew, and the thorn -sot pear; 0, in the springtime how the scent of them drifted able -growth in the export trade Can- I-Iow Stonehenge Was Built. ' oda conducted with Germany, this hay -1 How t 1 builders of Stonehea e ing increased in the twelve months by'. Salisbury Plain, with the ae111iauces over sixty per cent. over the fiscal of, say, 3,500 years ago, managed to 82111 an apple -tree lingers—just 1923, and by over 200 per cent.. get the vast stones upright and p1aee PI g lust as a as compared with the figures of the others on their tops has always been token; year previous to that. Not only has one of the marvels of primitive en- Still there'shera usumach wearing one the volume of total trade transacted gineering, says a writer in the London feathery plume; with Germany now reached a Yonder a dog -woad lives—grey with' point Daily Mail where it surpasses anything reached. In his book "Stonehenge," just pub - in the pre-war years, but the division fished, 121r. E. Herbert Stone bas a l Dreaming of silver bloom. of trade has drasticaliy altered. most interesting series of photo - 111 'lv• ' ase of Quebec and Vancouver, The Snaith party has gone to Investf- Quebec, which formerly was doing a gate and chart this region. vastly greater import than export Reports have come from the Polar tate, has naw drastically reversed basin that great lakes of oil were to tee situation. In 1914 the exports be found in this wilderness, but the from the Port of Vancouver were less tales of the Eskimos and Indians are; than half the value of imports; in the ever stranger than these. past year Vancouver's export trade They say that the land is haunted by' ,had nearly double the value of the im- weird beasts, soma of such great size port. that they leave tracks as large as din Take Places as World Ports- ser plates. It is stated that no In-' That the trade of these ports is in- clian can be persuader) to penetrate, creasing at the present time at a re. this region eves n an t tempted by I markable rate, whilst naturally sug- the promise of abundant dul Some of the more credulous or the gested in trade figures, is borne out. by white men, Linking these tate; with the value of business handled at these their scientific reading, contend that ports in the past few years. Taking there may still lurk in the far north the years 1922, 1993 and 1924, Mont- remnants of the mastodon herds that teal's imports have been $167,812,273, Have left their hones and ivory in a:-' $173,018,311, and $191,817,086 ar ports $158,518,544, $1T,89R,537 and most every stream bordering the lrw- $189,116,050 respectively. Substan-? er Yukon River, teal increases in import and export Wonderful Insect Col - Quebec, are recorded le the eases of : Quebec, I•Iallfax, and St. John. The, lection. 0nnnal increments in the ease of Van-' The British elueennt possesses by couver are outstanding, Imports in the far the mast comprehensive insect col• three years. being $48,235,845, $46,965,• lection In the world, 1t has not until 214, and $53,808,630, and exports $42,- quite recently been "possible to make 367,051, $61,718,505( and $08,698,904. t an exact catalogue of ell items, but af- Iu the strides they have taken since ter threw years' work one has now the conclusion of the war with the de- been eolnpleie1 and published, Velopuleut of Canadian trade, the. According to title, the collection status of the ports or the Dominion c051151ns 1113.;300 ineects. There are has boon in the continuous ascendan', ;',,707 Io tt ,.ilrt of 40,210 different and from having slmest purely local kind 355.1'01) beetles of 67,300 diifer- standinga some of them have come to eat l,ud:r. r i inert, wasps, and winged. take their places with the oldest and ants there t 11,605 kinds, Of bugs,; longest established seaports of the. Mee,. en)1 00,1 mosquitoes there are wand. Added to this prestige are 7,267 owe 1 s repro_ente1; of grass - various develnpvlenle under' wee; at h h„ ee t,' i 3,000, 22nd cf plant lice the present time or presaged whirls 21 •eeelos in 140 11enll. augur for then( yet greater leterna. (','icer Sa2rf hav done most to tlt+nal importance. swell the Collection. One alone gave Montreal, to -day, .for instance, has- 250,000 ineects, another 30,000, While become the fifth among the great sea. rate 'entire collection of huttertiiee ports of the world, ranking after New 0113,11) 0-511 pre: entp:1 consisted of 31,- York, 1; York, Loudon, Liverpool, and Ham. 130 speciluens. burg, or taking a place atter only ono w port on the American ,;ontineet. Van. Hatishing Tecth, couver has rapidly overtaken other "flow is your baby sister, 23111y?" Ports on the Pacific. coast, until in leu• asked it neighbor, who was making a nage. handled It is exceeded by two 011E Only of th0m, attd leads the entire "Oh, elme,r only fairly well, thanks,' coast as an exporter of grain, At both 'replied hilly; "she's lust thatching her these ports developments are under teeth." 1 the years, and broken Mignonette lines the walk, and many a Whereas prier to 1914 Canada was a graphs taken from large working pansy— ; heavy timelier from Gerniny and ex- models "by means of which the vari-' Though never 11 bee comes near to i ported In relatively emelt quantity, oas operations connected with the taste their sweet— • I ' Canada is now importing on a coin- raising of the stones of Stonehenge as Down by the gate grows tangled andi paratively small scale. while the vol- here described have been rehearsed . bitter tansy, i ume of her exports are annually in- step by step in full detail." 1 Longing to reach the street, creasing at a very substantial rate. t A figure representing a Neolithic In tine three fiscal years 1922, 1923 man, who has an elk -like smallness be- l.Iere at the heart of to I and 1924, Cana1a's import; have been side the huge monoliths, is introduced molt, and toil [rum Germany 22,041,016, 2,rand monde, $.. aG3,400 in the different views to give an idea The lover finds his love -the dream - 11211 $5,379,925 respectively. The men- of scale. er his dream, I Clubs Are Handy Things. He (speaking of women) --"Now in New- York it's club women cm all. sides. She --"Yes — such a brutal place! i Somebody's always beating a woltan ;up there." The Impulse and the Voice, Not many months ago a' lady asked Ito see a famous London preacher after cleat items of import in the past year For the purpose of this experiment And here, like a cup of Heaven, a come under the headings of chemicals in this "reconstruction," Mr. Stone has lily's chalice ane allied products, nor-metaille min- taken the average weight of the stones Lifts to the white moonbeam! er.tis ani non -Perron- metals, th former amounting to a million dollars for uprights, 26 tons each, and for the and the two latter to approximately lintels placed across their tops, 6ef), half a million each. The remargable tons. The appliances used, he points manner in which import trade with out, would be mainly ropes, rollers, Germany has been cut is seen in a and shear legs, plus man -power work -1 comparison with the import figures of ing In carefully rehearsed unison. 1914, which were $14,686,069, or 1910, Sir. Stone suggests that the man 1 1 when they were $7,i58,26.1. : who deigned Stonobange "was prob- Canadian export trade to Germany' ably a foreigner." t in the past three tercel years ]las been' After the upright stones bad been . —Visna Sheard - $4.509,547, $9, 950,877 and $16,153,6550 firmly bedded in the ground, "an earth rt.spective.y. The export trade of the bank is thrown up around the pair o last year was made up of agriculture) upright stones on which a lintel is to and vegetable products $12,722,430; be placed." The outer part of tale animals and products $1,561,007; fibres bank Is "brought to a smooth surface textiles ane products $16,042; wood, and rammed hard, to mage a track up wood product, and paper 97,093; iron which the lintel is to be hauled:' and products $225,913; non-ferrous Then when everything ie in place metals $947 297; non-metallic minerals the well -drilled man -power takes the $633,6991 chemicals and products strain and drags the great mass up the slope till finally 11 rests on the tops of the two embedded stones. The bank can then be removed, leaving the huge trrilitbon towering clear above the ground. f Results of the Outdoor Life. Farmer—"Yes, my trees aro a bun- tired years old and still baarlag the best of fruit," Fresh Air Enthuslrnt—"Of course 3 they are—just ancther example of the results of the outdoor life! I The Magic Vitaznine. At a recent sleeting of the Ameri- can Chemical Society, Professor Wal- ter Eddy took from 1110 /rocket a small 1 vial and passed it round among the 1 assembled chemists.., tI A11 they could see was a,;ma11 quan,� I tity of white powder at the bottom of a bottle. Yet ft created a sensation, since it was •the first vitamine that anyone bad ever seen or handled, 1 8 An amount no more -titan three-hares of a milligram, which is about t 1 SS much of the powder as -could be caught on the point of a pin, given t every day to a young rat stunted by e living on deficient diet, would cause it to grow again' at a normal rate, $3„948; and miscellaneous products $35,541, The great bulk of trade with Ger- many Lt the present time consists of agricultural products, store especially wheat and sour, the fatter commodity haing fu rapidly fncrrasiug demand. • Anything to Oblige a Fool. In the Creel rest year Germany took - 1,351,512 Mallets cf Canadian wheat An affected young man who was din - valued at 91,687.095. The demand for ing out felt called on to correct his Canadian flour Inas inurea eea remark- hostess when by a slip of the tongue ably, and is not abating, in 1.922 Ger- site ordered the servant to remove the may took 51,343 harre'p of Canadian "feel,” meaning the fowl. "I pre• flour worth $318,232; fn 1923, 675,599 nrue," said the "'night"' "you mean barrels valued at $3.985,409; and in the fowl, nlndam." 1924, 986,826 barrels value at $10,313,-; "Very well," responded the hostess, 280, The recent readjustment of linen- who war, rattler annoyed, "take away the fowl and let the fool remain," dial difficulties which we1e hampering one of the services in his church. H0 at once reoelvedher and was astonisht ed when she said, "Doctor, I have c come alt the way from Parts to have this interview! My husband has been.f out of employment for more than two. d years,. although he is an exceptionally well-qualified teacher. At last, think- a ing we might find a position in France, i we went to Paris. Our search was still uuayailing. But the other day 1 was seized with a strange impulse to 31 return to England and to come to you church, It was as if a voice had kep ,saying to the by day and by night, 'Go to Dr, and telt him. 1 may say, o doctor, that -all my life 1 have been trained to pray, and through all ou Canada's Composers 13; Rector Cilari�eawortlt From various parte of Canada, 1 oc- ce,sionaliy get enquiries as to whether there are any original Canadian coin• .posers; and what they have done. The fact is that there is' an ever growing band 0f them. I allude to serious com- posers with actual command of the technique of their calling; not to the many who aro inspired to write dit- ties, which do not get far beyond their immediate circle. in recent years utero have been two serious songs by Canadians which have g0110 aground the world, and the vogue of which stili continues, One is "Welting for the Sunrise,"' .by Ernest Seitz, . 0. very brilliant pianist also, and the other, "There !e no Death," by Geoffrey O'Hara, I was reminded of the ex tent to which original collpositiOn le progressing among Canadian when` by chance I beard in 0110 day. since the New Year, a dozen new works, by several hands. Now long previously I bad heard almost an entire evening of interesting original songs by Hor- ace Lapp, an able young organist and Pianist from Beaverton, Ontario. On the day of which X speak, I heard Colin McPhee, another youthful Toronto pianist, play with the New Symphony Orchestra of Toronto, a Itiano concerto in three movements, 11 was by n0 means • his -first attempt, for four years ago a work in the same form from 1118 pen was played by the Balti- more Symphony Orchestra. Now a piano concerto is a very serious at- tempt; almost as important as a sym- phony, and demanding an immense wealth of technical knowledge, as well as large volume of inspiration to give it interest and variety. While Stir, licFhee'a work exhibited certain Witches of crudity, it on the whose re- vealed such a wealth of fresh and vital material as to represent a real achieve- ment. On the same evening 1 beard J. Campbell McInnes, who has hun- dreds of songs of all countries and all periods at the tip M his tongue; render nearly a dozen lyrics of Canadian Rom' Mitten. Five of them were by Dr. Healy Within, who has Pet many lyrics o music, and has composed organ and horal works of importance. And 1 was glad to see Dr. Wiliest choosing or some of his songs poems of Cana - fan autbo•ship, notably- seine from he pen of Noralt Halla.nd, The singer Ise. rendered a song which won the Nee in a committer. he luangurate.d ast spring. It w•ns entitled "In the Half -Light," and was composed by iss F, Durell Clark, a Hamilton huly, The most delightful of the whole series was a aetting of a fifteenth century arol in honor 01 111e Madonna, by Dr. meetelaeelillan, a Turonto organist, ne of the quaintest and most del3g11t- ul settings I have heard from any modern composer. The modernistic endeney which emanates front Itus• ia, was shown in the. graphic deserip= ive quality of three sears by Leo mith, a Toronto vicliuceilist, whose en !las been active in enmpcsition or sense years. One wits a setting .of uncal] Campbell Scott's poen "Echo." f a singular and novel character was settiug of "nrersin 1t0r," to thre., by Toronto lady, Millicent Payne, In titch Dr. Sn11111 by a unique feat in sermonic treatment had sut'ceelled in ggesting the sound of a 0011 frig 111a - line, and making it nmeieal. Yet an• her of his unusual works was a Pat - ng of Chesterton's aunties preen he Donkey," in which the ass who r t c r misfortune I have consistently put our troubles before the Lord. Consequent- t ly 1 felt I did not dare to disobey the t impulse and the voice. So here I stn." "Well, madam," said the doctor', P deeply interested, "I do not quite see 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 eommissfouer of one of the . a colonies," He did so, and then the incident! h passed from his mind. Some weeks later he received a letel •, su ter front the high commissioner on an -'• of other matter, but there was a poet-{ ti script that read, "By the way, the „Z, scan you sent to me the outer day ar-1 rived just as I was showing out of ms office our minister for education, who Le aver here seeking a staff of special ly qualified teachers. Your man proved perfectly suited for the work required and Is leaving England immediately.' Scarcely had the minister enished reading when the lady and her bus band were shown into his vestry. Tbey had came to pay their farewell re - peas and to thank hint. was right, you see!" cried the ady gayly. "I was right to obey the mpuiso and the voice!" How true it Is that there are more hinge wrought by prayer than this arid' dreams of! carried our Lord Into Jerttsolem :amidst waving palm;, boasts or his one day glory. In this onnlr .lir. Smith imitates without 00(11) leing 0111.x1001 effect, the notes or a donkey's b:;ty, „ So that if anyone asks me whether we have in Canasta cmulosers of real originality, I am able to an_-wer "Yes." Boy Scouts from almost every part et the universe took part le this gre ley, In the foreground is tlie'Queber atentlunent. thanksgiving service at Wernit- t 0 fl v P a Mr. Ostrich Helps. Not the least interesting of the at- ractions in the South African Section f the British Empire Exhibition is a ook of ostriches. For the benefit of tetters, dentoitstralions are given in luciting the feathers in the manner rlopted In the; great Industry in South Africa, we Tho nest. of tho ostrich is always ,lin built by the male, though this certain.' ly is no arduous task, sad it consists' of little more than a round hole dug; • in the sand or earth. 2110 The ben then lays' an egg everyoth other clay, about fifteen malting a Cull ci nest. The lien sits. on the eggs during • the day and the mato bird takes her we place through the night, en arrange. 010 Inent wbich. week]appear to. have au been admirably provided for by ma ea titre, for while the male teal is adorn. 0d with jet black feathers and is therefore lndietinulshaltle at night, in be the daytitne• the arab color oY the hen bird's feathers covers .nest and eggs Lind is cements unnoticeable. The Height of Cruelty. ern "Yon are not doing muchbusioose," the suggested the dentist across the hall, wit "Not much," admitted the ether den en, touched'by this mark of apparent 't" sympathy, for "Then would you mild If some of 1110 013' patients used your waitiltg.room?" Inside Information. lain her draped and darkened tent the mateur pahnlst was telllug fortunes tfor the charity bazaar. "A11," eh sold impreeeive.ly to a fair maiden who had iunpaiieetly tiltiaite.1 her turn, "I see by your hate( that you are going 10 be married." "How wonderful! breathed tate • client, with a blush tine a giggle. Moreover," eon lin utel tate Peercra, s note of acerbity ereetJtug into her voice, "I see the happy nnut 4s to be Mr,Jinks." "But surely," exelalr ,,:l the maid to real surprise, "you (linnet read at from the lines In 1155' hand," "Lines 12oth1ug " exriaiulee the ethyl with sudden scorn "Yea oreting the ring 1 roturne.1 to. -lir. its three weeks ago." A Good ldtdi s. 'One of 1116 funniest remarks! 1 re- ntber hearing," elle told nee the er day', "was muds by n pian in the rple of a theatre 1 was visiting. 'A mother with a y0nilg baby that old insist on crying 0rts sitting se by when the man leaned over, t1 said: 'Excuse no. but hes that by been christened yt t7' '\l'hy, nu; 110 the reply, "Then may I suggest that it sltould called "Good Idea?" 'Whatuver 201'7' Begatiee 1t should. be carried out.' The cry of the lige is. more for i'ret- ity them for charity. If one exists, other will follow, or better still, 1 not he needed.-•-•.Ileni•y i). Chapin, he follow higher up is getting paid something about the job that you y not have taker the trouble to learn.