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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1930-02-06, Page 6t? ,aral Canada's Opportunity To Get Large Share of '"Big Money,,'' Mr, C. E. Keil', Vice -President and Managing Director of the Royal Bank, Points the Way to a Wonderful Opportunity ' AREAL GOLD MINE Bank managers can not usually ,be accused. of optimistic, promotion Propaganda but that is really'what appears in the January Letter;of the, Royal Bank of Canada, The gold nine to which' Mr. Neill refers is Canada's tourist trade: The Dominion. Bureau of Statistics recently published the following table: Expenditures of Tourisis. 1922-1930 1922 $ 91,080,000 130,977,000 1938 1924 154,876,000' ' 1925 177,882,000, 1026 180,,791,000 1927; 215;765,000 1923' 250,501,000 1929 ' About 300,000,000 An increase of 239% in seven years. Mr. Neill saysin reference to this great influx of :wealthy .travellers, "Thie groat annual migration pre- - scuts au unparallel opportunity for increasing Our trade. Ae yet there has been no concerted effort: to build the tradition that there are purchases 'whin can be mane in Canada more advantageously than hi the United States.' It estimated that in Prance the amount of sales to each visitor averages $750, If we could make pur- chasing in Canada sufficiently attrac- tive so that the average value of the. merchandise taken out of the dountry amounted` to only one-tenth of this sum, it .would make a difference: of more than one billion dollars a year in bur trade." There have been few careful studies of the subject, but those who are most familiar with tourist expendi- tures in Canada state that the pre- ponderant amount is for lodging,•. food, 'gasoline, and beverages, and that it 3s probable that not more than sixty million dollars, or. less than four dollars per capita, has been spent for merchandise which was taken out of the country. This small per capita expenditure is striking evidence that "Buying in Canada" has not been made an important feature of tourist risits. Concerted effort by the Na- tional and Provincial Governments, Boards o1 Trade and Tourist Human could make merchandising to tour- ists a more profitable venture than the whole of the present tourist trade and the opportunity to buy in Canada should become au added inducement that would serve to increase the number of people who visit the cella- try. Our governments have a responsi- bility which can be plainly seen by the following paragraph from the same source: In order to attract more visitors from the United States, the German government makes a large annual ap- propriation for advertising t'ho attrac- tions of Germany throughout the 'United States. e In France, the ale Dropriatton for this purpose Is iu ex- cess of one million delays, but the French Government is not advert's- deg• 0u as large a scale as Germany. en a recent discussion in the National Assembly of France there was great emphasis placed upon the necessity for maintaining the prices of luxury of duty. products at reasonable levels in order to maintain the volume of tourist purchases at maximum levels. Op- position;was expressed toward exorbi- tant metes which reduced volume of trade and led American tourists to do their purchasing in other coun- tries. , Advertising appropriations and legislative discussion of merchandiz- ing policies constitute'. direct recogni- tion of the importance of the tourist trade to national welfare. Where the Small Town Comes 1n People from the 'United StatO9 tra- vellieg in Canada by motor car dom. Mg largely from great cities search- ing for an outing in the "great out- doors" of -Canada. By lack' of proper hotel accommodation in the smaller towns and villages they are forced to keep on the main highways so as to sea our ooiintry and always be near good hotel accommodation for the night. By preference these ,same touristswould never stop .in a large centre if they could get a Good bed and bath in the rural localities.. Any of the -present well run rut 1 hostelries prove that such accommo- dation brings tourists. The writer is Personally acquainted with several little hotels dotted here and there 10 more hamlets throughout Ontario where business fairly" booms.through- out the season of motoring activity. Form Local Companies In places where there is at present no satisfactory : tourist accommoda- tion this lack can be supplied by the formation of a local jointstock com- pany, which can purchase present poor hotels and turn them into at- tractive tourist Inns. Apparently local, bank managers can interest head offices in any such endeavors to the extent of securing information, supplying data and pos- sibly credits. It is worth while for rural sections to consider such opportunities, for with a hotel to house the transient a further paragraph from the Royal Bank letter is lull of suggestions as to bigger and better sugestions for all. It is as folows: "As a natural_preludeto the move meat to increase buying in Canada, there should be a concerted effort to build more adequate hotels and. hos- telries for tourist acdommodation. The hotels in our large cities' and in the better known resorts are excel- lent Itt small towns and villages the Iack of adequate accommodation is deplorable. Many of the most attrac- tive parts of this country are un- known because they hive no facili- ties to house visitors. There should he suifcfent local pride to insist up- on proper accommodation for visit- ors. Thera should be sulUcient local pride to insist upon proper accommo- dation for visitors, Those towns and cities which are well located with re- feroucee to tourist travel can Increase their wealth by malting it more at• tractive to "Buy in Canada." Dont forget and also play up the fact that each American visitor is permitted to take $100.00 worth of merchandise back to the U.S. free Whalers Win In Ice -Locked Seas 36 Norwegian Factory Ships Reap Rich Harvest in 1929 Operations DURBAN S. AL—The whaling' -in- dustry's yield for the year past will be no less than 4:10,040,000, repre- senting 2,0404,00 barrels of oil, de - cleared Captain Jacobsen, command- er of one of the oil tankers which, with some- of the Norwegain fleet of whalers recently visited §out1i .fri- tan ports. Describing the work of replenish- ing the supplies of the "mother ships" of the Norwegian whaling in- board, wiiiclr is the tanker's fun - facture of bootleg liquor at home. War on the Border Ottawa Journal (Cons.) : Certain Canadian newspapers, noting the de- cision of the United. States to place an anti -smuggling army on the border, state that thia step is due to Canada's failure to prohibit liquor exports, It is curious reasoning... The truth, in fact, is that this sudden decision to place 10,000 rifles on the Canadian border is simply a panic decision taken after attacks launched against en- forcement some few days ago by pow- erful figures like Senator Borah. Itis a political gesture, taken for political reasons, and for little else, Americans Well know that the problem of making the Eighteenth Amencineat effective is not a matter of 10,000 rifles on the Canadian border, They know—and have publicly stated—that it is a ques- tion .of the prevention of the nanu- tier., Captntu Jaeobseu said; "Titire B-erybociy )snows it has never been dustry and taking whale oil on Cotttradieted—that less than 5 per cent are no harbors in these latitudes so of the liquor illegally distributed in the off-loading oras to be done at the United States comes from Can - sea, solicit is no easy matter, as one er to nose one's wayada., If, therefore, 10,000 men are re - bergs "'among ice- quired to control this 5 per cent., what bergs in the uncharted seas south size of an army is going to be required of latitude 60. When. transferring to control the traffic in its entirety? ' our toads wetie alongside each And will it be provided? However, other. I usually lie in between two that is bhe business of the United factory ships that way. States. No business of ours. What "On my return now,". Captian is Canada's business, :though, is the. t Jacobsen continued. "I will get in- „nforeelnent of law on this side of the ' art/alone to meet the factory ships border; and it is hard to see why we on a certain.. day at such a place, If should take a step that will make this f go straight there I soon find my- more difficult and more costly jot to self among icebergs, very big ouee,, pull Uncle Sam's chestnuts out of the and have to waste a lot of time dodg- fire, , fag backward and forward through them, till 5 reach the right longitude, The U.S.Dumps Her Surplus then I turn due south tilt I get into the area where the . factory ships ; in the 'West should bb. Calgary Herald (Ind. Con,) : It is I then send out •a message iu announced in Washington'that ten Norse,. which is picked up and re-' more trade commissioners will be sent plied to by the mother skips when into Canada to promote the sale of ;close enought, by wireless telephony American goods. They will be eta• and then we • arrange where we are tioned at strategic points in Western tp meet, These mother ships 01 fat- Canada. They will, attempt to ?Mini- teries, keep in it ring all around the niize hostility to the high tariff policy ack ice in which the whalers are ;Forking, ' ,;There aro 30 factory ships of: Nor - .., ay in latitude 00. The biggest 10 128,000 tone drawing 35 feet of water, ),nd there are 200 of our whalers all the year round in the tar South. It is a big, industry. We have 8000 men employed down there, and the insusiry brfngo Norway in 60,000,000 kronen a year." Speaking about the Discovery ex- pedition, Caption Jacobsen said he considers they are going 'too ,tar east for their weather obsevations to be of any benefit to Australian farmers, Scenes Before, and. After Fatal Crash DEATH PLANE WHiCH CLAIMED THE LIVES OF PASSENGERS AND PiLOTS Hereisshown tri -motored .Ford plane No. 9888, which crashed near Odeanside, Calif., killing augers and two pilots, bound for Los Angeles from air races in Mexico. fourteen n'asF SIXTEEN DIE AS GIANT AIR LINER CRASHES TO GROUND ON WEST COAST Wreckage of Maddux T.A,T, air liner, which crashed to earth and burned, near Oceanside, Calif„ killing four- teen ourteen passengers and two pilpts, Telephoto reproduction, Ont<. rio's. D. Law Demands Secrecy Doctors Forbidden by Law to Divulge Names of . Patients Toronto, Ont.—Every parson In this province undergoing treatment• for venereal diseae° is protected by law against publicity, states Dr. W. J. Bell, Deputy Minister of the Depart- ment of Health in an article on the Venereal Diseases Prevention Act of Ontario; appearing 1n the current 15. sue of the Canadian Public Health Journal.' This article written to facilitate the Co-operation existing be- tween the physicians and the Depart- ment, stresses the fact that secrecy is legally imposed upon the physician in such cases. The Act also provides for free trot - runt for indigent persons, for pay- ment of physictaus in such cases, for the establishment and maintenance of clinics and for the distribution of literature and drugs to physicians. Infected persons are compelled to take treatment and continue It until declared non -infective, and penalties are provided for persons who, not be- ing physicians, admiulster treatment. Responsibility for the treatment of indigent persons ie placedupon the municipality, through the medical of titer of health. Penalties are pro-. vidod for persons who, leaving rea- son to believe themselves infected, transmit the infection, and any per- son accused by an infected person as the source of the infection may be compulsorily examined. "The public waren under arrest or in custody constitutes a group more easily reached," Dr. Bell states. Special provisions are made to look alter inmates of public institutions. Every hospital in receipt of Ontario Government aid is required to make effective provision for the treatment of these diseases, excepting exclu- sively child -treatment and isolation hospitals. The physician is required to report such cases, but even there the strict- est aeerecy is maintained, since the physi:tan is not instructed to furnish the patient's name, but merely a num- ber or other designating mark. , "Eighteen clinics have been estab- lished in the Province of Ontario at various points," the article states. "Six of this number are located at various hospitals in the City of To- ronto: The balance are located as follows: Hamilton General Hospital, Brantford General Hospital; London, Victoria Hospital; Windsor, Bank of Montreal Building; Ottawa, 180' Canal Street; Owen Sound, 10112 St. West; Fort William, McI{ellar Hospital; St. Catharines, General .Hospital;,'Ning- stop, General Hospital; Petorboro, City Laboratory, Sault Ste. Marie, City Laboratory; Ni(:cltellar, Water - 100 HOspItal, be paid for, and impose certain limi- tations as to the length of time dur- ing wluleh the treatment of any in- diviclual case may be charged to the Department. For to patients at hospitals in which clinics are established, the Depart- ment pays fifty cents per day for each day of treatment up to three months, but does not pay for any patient as an in-patient and an out-patient at the same time. 21 should be remarked iu passing that treatment of eases of venereal' disease is not administered primarily for the- purpose o1 clearing tip a case or curing an individual. Treatment, as prodvidod lot• in the Act, is for the purpose of clearing up a foots of in• faction as a means of controlling the spread of venereal disease. -- "Never Iet yourself think that you cannot accomplish what you set out t0." --Henry Ford. Sixteen years after the sluicing of the Titanic by collision with an ice, berg, 461 dependents of 'the 1,402 per- 'sons drowned are still receiving periodic allowances from the $2,000,- 000 fund raised by Mauston House, London. The fund possesses 'Invest- ed property, according to the latest annual report, amounting to $1,436,- 000, In the United States the Wo- men's Titanic Memorial Association ie about to erect in Washington a men oriel to the lost—a symbolic marble sculpture by Mrs. Harry Paine 'Obit - nay. The establishment of it clinic ap- of the Hoover Administration and 1:o proved by tho Provincial Department, counteract" the 'edeat of the growing' of Health is aided k.. h """,t of sentiment in Canada for greater trade Within :the Empire, The extension of the American "selling corps system in Canada conveys a lesson which should not be lost on the business men of Great Britain If Uncle Sam findm it pays to increasehis trade commis- sioners in the Dominion, it should be egUally advantageous for British in. A Sea Rmance Lost Schooner Was Roaming Ocean For 48 Days Now in Port London.—A remarkable story was published here January 17 of the schooner Neptune, which set sail from St. Joliu's,,Newfoundland, for the Ask- ing village of Newton in Bouavista Bay, 100 miles distant, on Nov. 20, and arrived at Tobermory, North Scotland, on Jan. 16, after being at sea 4B days, covering a distance of 2600 miles. The Neptune is a wooden vessel of 126- tons, built in Denmark in 1020. , Including the Passengers, ono of whom was a woman, there were 11 persons on ' board. There was no lack of food, since the vessel carried a cargo of provisions, but water had to be rationed. ' Most of the time the skipper had no idea of his position, only twice be- ing able to speak to other vessels, the first time on Dec, 9 and again on Dee. 23. The Neptune was sighted off Are. namurchan Point by the steamer Hes- perus, which took her in tow and brought her safely to Tobermory, Isle of Mull. The period during" which the Nep- tune was at sea was notable for the heaviest weather in the Atlantic of the present century, and the veesel had been regarded as lost with all hands, e1,000 for apparatus, etc. we per annum 10 voted toward the salary'est i the social service nurse attached to the clinic and $500 ,is granted as a yearly honorarium • to the physioian in oharge of the clinic. The Depart. went le empowered by the. Regula- tions to grant honoraria to assistant phyaloiafs :ani 9110 clinkp, terests'to follow suit. Canada offers ,ln' addition the Department Pala to them a favorable market at the pre- each clinic established in a hospital sent time because of the awakened for the treatment of out-patients, public interest in Empire trade. fifty cents for each treatment for gonorrhoea and arty gents for on as 51'' to ,r s,veops close mend Industrialdisputesin Great Britain treatment" 0f,9yphille. The Regula •us from the west- have caused the loss of 338,000,000 tions, stipulate teat not Moro than one working days in tips lust eight years. the tr t dal for a patient will Brings $3,000 to Relieve Veterans WHE11E BRAVERY AND BiG HEARTEDNESS GOES HAND IN HAND I3. I3. Robson, V.C., offeeed this menu carol, prize souvenir 0f Prince u; Wales' V.C. dinner, upon which aro written signatures of the Prince and noted V.C.'s, to Poppy Day Vend,tb auction for funds. It brought in $8,000 at a "Maple Leaf" isockey game and nata 'gractously retnr*et to this gii14$tbti4.i hero; Federal Parliament Plans usy: Session ori Tariff an Rum A tic Right: Tariff Schedules, ' and Run's Clearances to Be} The Chief Topica PLANS BEING LAID Many )teams of International - Importance Will Face Out Federal Representatives When the Session Opens on February 20th Next The terlif readjustments ltO isia- own country in competition witis tion against clearances of Iiquor oar- liquor stores controlled by provincial) governments. goes obviously intended for the Uni- ted iited States, reiteration, of Canada's sovereignity over wide areas in the Arctic regions, pronouncement of Policy on, the St, Latiyreuce River deeper waterway to the sea, consid- eration of a proposed' plan for nation- at control et radio' broadcasting eta - tions. Readjusted Duties Favored There is 'no quarrel among political parties as to the necessity of action to ,erect United States developments ou the "tariff, Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King, Proposes readjust- ed duties, as occasion warrantee on imports from the United States. This Honey he would combine with farther trade advantages to Britain and other empire countries, as well as to those of Latin America and the Far East, with which Canadian trade is grow- ing. Expansion of govevnmeut-owa- ed or subsidized steamship lines and aid in establishing neer services would be included. Empire conference Invited The tariff issue gates added import- ance in view of this year's prospective empire economto conference. Canada has invited all the empire govern - meats to hold the conference In Ot- tawa, the Canadian capital. Loudon is the more probable choice, however, The meeting place is immaterial; the conference will almost certainly adopt plans intended to increase trade with - fa the empire. Liquor Clearance The government's intention to ask Parliament to appro.e legislation end- ing issuance of clearance for liquor cargoes, which are undoubtedly deaths - ed for the United States, map meet some opposition from a few •of its information as to prospective develop - own supporters, as well as from a tent of Fort Churchill as a great air - number of Tories. It will probably Port, since aviation experts are of the carry with a good majority. opinion that it will be the leveled Whatever the government may have landing and re -starting place of fly - thought of Washington represents- ers from either the west or the Far tions, action Of the nature indicated East bound on voyages to their op-, is regarded as inevitable in the face posites, as well as for travelers be - of insistent criticisms and demands, tween this continent and Europe. In general their tone has been more A deflate pronouncement is expect• hostile than that of me United ed from the government as to its States publicists and polltiolaus, readiness to proceed with the United though their arguments have been States in the joint development of similar. Apart from the absurdity 0f the Elf. Lawrence waterway project. allowing rum cargoes for the United There are contusing cross -currents in States to be loaded .under a guise of this matter, more or less tinged by legality, Canadian Critics believe that local political views, and involving too mauy of these shipments are still also power' rights of the • provinces, being short-circuited and sold in their off,Ontario and Quebec. Australia Wilds Arctic Sovereignty Questioned Norway as -well as the United Staten is challenging Canadian claims of soyereignityj over some parts' of. the Arctic region, approatmating, rottghl9r 000,000 square miles. ' No doubt the issue Will eventually go to au arbitra- tion court. In the mean time 'Can ada le carrying on her work of orator- ation and survey of the regions clam- ea. laimed. The government has kept. watch and ward over the nomad Judians and the Eskimos of the North for many years. the Royal Canadian Mounted Police posts and patrols being the visible elgns of its authority. One post, that on Bache Peninsula, claims distinc- tlon as the most northerly in the world, lees than 700 miles from the Pole. When the government railway to Fort.Churchilt on Hudson Bay begins regular operation it the coming sum- mer, °anlage of supplies to the Arctic posts will be greatly facilitated. The questions as to the feasibility of the Hudson Straits route for ships tarry- ing western Canadian grain to British9 ports will also be answered. But looming on the horizon are the questionings of other nations, parts -i cularly as to jurisdiction over thei rich fishing areas of the Straits and, adjacent waters, which have been sur veyed, mapped and studied by the' Royal Canadian Air Force in an epic series of flights. The goverunient' will make its position clear, ono! more, In respect to these northern ter•' Merles, Incidentally it is likely to give some To Produce Potash Valuable Fertilizer May Come from Unproductive Ter- ritory if Plans go Through Adelaide, S. Aust. Prospects of the discovery of large deposits of potash salts in the bed of Lake Eyre in the sparsely populated regions of Central Australia, as a result of the Cecil Madigan expedition, are causing much discussion here. Should the deposits be found, there would re- sult an important new industry that would go far to change the face of a territory that is proving one of Aus- Muse m Official Pleads Native Relics Harlem I. Smith of National. Museum at Ottawa Wants Old Indian Rock Carv- ings Saved CO-OPERATION NEEDED' The Dominion Archaeologist, .O& tawa, says that the petroglyphs or monumental Indian rock carvings of Canada are threatened by at least nine different kinds of danger of mutilation and complete destruction. Some have already been injured, but all could be cast in cement and then Mathis most serious problems. the casts would serve not only for Mr. Madigan is working with a study,, photographing, at etching, motor truck some 250 milesnbeyond Painting and exhibition out of doors the farthest limit o2 the railway, in. Dominion parks and other public -Ae recent arrival. from Northern places, but also as a scientific record Territory is Charles W. D. Northern exactly .‘like the original jn trios where t1Le originals become damaged attorney for the Vasey. Brothers, or destroyed. Tice casts can be plan whose meat works at Darwin on the ed where people can easily see them north Coast have been closed 'down as in the parks at Banff or Jasper for practicatly 10 years owing to un- while many of tiro originals are hi satisfactory labor conditions. Mr. out of the way and almost Inaccessl- Cohacher says Northern Territory Ule places. can be made torprogress only by pri• veto enterprise, which will be able to 1 The dangers threatening tate petro - function only if there are prospects glyphs are as follows: of making a profit. He discouraged. (1) People carve initials, pictures attempts at expansion by large de. and obscene marks among and on the velopment sohemes, for which, he pettoglypha. There is a Provincial said, the Governmeut had not satn- law punishing this action, But in tient funds.' out of the ,way places the perpetrat- The Northern Territory Pastoral ora are seldom if ever caught, Leases Association, however, have I (2) Log booms are fastened to iron' submitted a number of proposals to; stakes placed in the rooks among the Bruce Government for placing the the petroglyplis. pastoral business on a sound basis.1 (3) Horse trails cross them. Among these is the construction of a (4) The tide and waves lave them railway to go across the Barclay table- at six localities. lands—some of the richest areas In (5) A stream not flows over them the country --into Queensland, open - ,in at least two localities. ing up the northern section in a stmt.1 • (6) Boulders are rolled over them tar . manner to the opening of the by the surf in at least six localities. south through the new railway from (7) Driftwood is rolled over them Odduadatta to Alice Springs. Cont- by the sea in at least seven localities.' monwealtlt railway experts had re- (8) A loggingrailroad will probably ported that such a- line would more, be built over the largest petro'glyph than pay running expenses, The re- known in Canada. since to log a val- port was snbmittetl to tate Bruce Gov ley the only pass is Uetweeri a 70 ern:net prior to its resignation and foot canon and a mouDtain where the lite attitado of the new Labor Gov- carvings occur., eruatent toward Northern Territory :..(9) A water pipe has been laid on has yet to be ascertained. one of the most romantic of them For the' present the territory is obsuring at least part of it. virtually at a standstill, apart from (10) Camp fires are built on petro - the t♦ orlcing of three silver lead glyphs because local people seldom miz„s, following au important die- regard the carvings as more than bare covert' of the motel, but owing to de- rock, have been taught to build camp ttcieney in water supply, little expo- fires where the fire cannot spread • cion. is expected. Motor lorries and cancel teams lotus the main moans of and to put them out on leaving; They throw water on tt,^ "'- ' ' " ,s,,• !&tiriply „x0 *250 rua !AMU, Of the t'iateog1yphr is °recited There is deep in the' hearts of men, and the petroglyphs ruined, with all their faults and all their Canada has few monuments, anti- wickednese, a kind of moral sense quttiea, castles or ruins compared which makes it aorror waren the with Ireland, Italy, Spain,'Iingland, weak are, trampled onnand titers is no Greece and logypt. What she hos one' to avenge them,—Mattde Royden,, aro valnas tourist attractions and ablo Temptation usually Ueghineth with. so .are money makers for Canada: the fantasy' and appetite, and 'repro not to :mention the artistic and senteth some worldly; ileshl, thing as scientidn • vahue, very Pleasant and desirable,-eRiehard -B3axtter. 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