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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1928-09-13, Page 7P> ospPrity and Financial Freedom for Canada So' close are the economic ties be- t.ween us and our Northern, neighbor, that` recent' reports of Canada's Pres- ent':prosperity and coming financial independence arouse nearly as much interest an this side of the Canadian border as on theotiier. Here we have an expert of our own' Department of Commerce predicting that Canada will, "at no very - remote future," join the United States as one of thecredi- tor nations of the world. Anil this is backed up by the announcement of the Canadian Minister of Finance that government' loans maturing this fall will be paid off out of the treasury, instead of through borrowing from the American market. At about the" same time a Toronto dispatch appears in the Nero York Evening Post, be- , ginning asfollows:•. Unprecedented mining and building 'activity, increased employment, a note- worthy volume of external trade, heavier earloacliugs, and, most import- ' ant of all, the prospect"' of a Bumper wheat crop, all contribute to an'un- usually bright outlook for the second half of the year in all. five of Canada's ,economic areas. Canada's record of prosperity dur- ing the present summer has `seldom been equaled in any similar period, in. the Dominion's history, declares r. C. Royle, in one. of his: financial .dis- patches for the Consolidated Press. To a' large extent, lie explains, "'this is duo to the production of grain, and the' prospect for. the remainder»of the year is • exceedingly bright." Indeed, this authority hears 'that in the Wheat- growing heat growing prairie provinces, "employ menti has reached a peak of 127,3, tak- ing one hundred as the five-year aver- age from 1922 to 1926." "So far as the future Is concerned, Canada is 'sitting pretty,'" writes Charles L. Shaw in Forbes: Its most serious problem of all con- tinues to be sparsity of population and the lack of an immigration policy that gets immigrants, but the people now resident in Canada are, by and large, enjoying a moderate, but sound prosperity. The exodus from the in- dustrial centres to the United States, which 'threatened alarming conse- quences a few .years ago, appears to have petered out. Labor conditions are better to -day than they have been in years, the tide of industry is rising Last, and almost every sign worth - noting points -to a continuance .of business betterment with out North- ern neighbour, t2w materials furnish the key to Canada's future greatness, we read on, "for there are few countries in the world. with access to such a colossal treasure. chest :02 undeveloped re sources, we ;are reminded. It has been estimated that $3,031,000,000 of United States,ntondy is now invested in Can- ada an- ada•,as. against British investments of $2,110,000,000. Nearly half a billion dollars. of American money went into Canadian, investments last year, and, "during the last five years a single New, York Meanoial house has mar- keted Canadian securities in New York worth $1,200,000,000." One Am- ericam"fin'anoial group, according to Mr.. Shaw, is planning to spend $50,- 000,0e0 in what has hitherto been re- garded.as a barren stretch of wilder - fess -the so-called ll'iin-Flon mining area in northern Manitoba. Much ot the DSminion's recent prosperity is I due to Ito Mines. In fact, "the value of the country's mine output was $240,- 000,000 in 1926; it has :trebled since 1907:" - But Canada's mining develop- ment makes a long story by itself, and Mr. Shaw goes on to note the extent to which United States dollars are be - Ong invested in Canada's pulp and. paper industry. An unnamed Cana- dian business man is quoted as say- ing: • We will in -a few -years be the lead- ing gold -producing country in the world. We are already the: dominant factor in the world wheat market, and su- preme in the production of pulp paper and several other commodities of:in- creasing importance tq humanity. No wonder Canadian investments' are popular in the United States to -day. Further' evidence of Canada's in= r - creasing economic fmportauce Is set down as hollows: • In 1914 Canadian citizens owned no government securities; to -day a large percentage of, Dominion and. previa - alai ;government bonds are held by the pebple. SPectaculat' evidence of the present prosperity of the country is seen in the purchase by Canadians during the past year of 159;000' motor cars, valued at $160,000,000—a fact. which in itself demonstrates that Can- ada, besides being a ready absorber of, American investment funds, is a customer of no mean consequence. A" nation's backbone of prosperity is ushally to' be found in its farm lands, and in this respect Canada runs true to the usual form. For three suc- cedsive years the farmers of the Cana- dian West have enjoyed reasonably good haievests and have received fair prices for their produce., Canada labors under the disadvan- tage of not having a cheap coal sup. ply near its main industrial zone, but this is offset in part by the great pos- sibilities 01, Water -power,: and, besides, \"the oil and tar sand deposits of north. ern 'Canada are -'rem sin' 1 as• p g a factor la the country's industrial future." And' yet, Mr, Shaw. says: Canada is not booming. r Prosperity is based on something sounder and more; lasting than a boom. In fact, a boom 10 the last thing that .Cana- dians want. Mr. C. 12 Neill, ],late President of the Canadian Bankers' Association, has issued a warning' againetr overepecula- ;tion,-and is reported as- saying: Al, yet there is no b oom in Canada. The. future .as not been overdfscount ed, hist'` let us keep a true perspective and endeavor to direct' the develop- ment 62 our country along sound lino, thus paving the way for permanent stability and good times. Returning •` to : predictions of Can- ada's coming financial independende,• we find the New York Ilertald Tribune, noticing, the announcement 02 the Canadian Finance `Minister, Mr. J A. 'Robb, that "instead of refunding se $53,000,000 in maturing loansthrot borrowing in the American' mar this fall, the Dominion will pay these obligations out of the surpl in its �treasiiry; ho intimates furth that from now en, for :the next years at ,least, the: Dominion will in. a position to take up all of itis los in the same way.". On which T Fleraid Tribune comments: Canada has had its financial di culties in the,years since the war, b today, from a financial standpoint well as from an economic standpoi it stands on the threshold of the gre est prosperity that it has known, present step in its debt -financing is definite recognition of this fact, sig fyng• as it does, that. the Domini has not only been able to :balance i budget without borrowing, but to p off, as well, a substantial volume maturing indebtedness. To those; who hays watched th progress of Canada' economically recent years it will come as little su prize that the Minister of Finan is able to report that, while taxatio is being steadily reduced on the on hand, the ,Government is thus ab. to discharge its outstanding indebte mos as it matures, on the other. The oosclusion that Canada h reached the capital -exporting stage based on the recta. statement of R HMI of the United States Departure of Commerce that Canada's.presen position "Is very'similar to that the United States during the last year prior to the World War"; it is "th position of a so-called debtor natio" which is' reducing its old debts t foreign investors or is making ne foreign investments of its own in an aggregate volume eeeeding that of it new borrowings,from abroad." A The Herald Tribune remarks, "n clearer indication could be asked of' the Dominion's approaching financial independence," --(Literary Digest,) MO tgh mark alt us er R•ve be ns he fit ut as nt at- The a ni- on tis. ay of e in r - CO n e le d- as is Ra lit t of a e n w Two Interesting Letters • Midsfilp- -- Jele, nt Ove Snow AMiD THE SUMMER SNOWS IN PARAOiSE VALLEY Summer heat holds no terror for these youngn 20 •"Washington,6657 feet above sea'level. :we. ten who "are. going i a ride in lire dog taxi in Rainier National Parti, s s 0 A Gearless Auto A new transmission for automo- biles that elimiinates shifting of gears and automatically changes speeds was described to the ,Society of Au- tomotive Engineers .in Quebec, recent lY, by its inventor, D. Sensaud de Lavaud, a French engineer, Automo biles run on the streets of Paris fitted with this new transmission have icon vinced 11I. de Laavaud that his device is not only sound technically but can be applied commercially to motpr- vehieles. Development of the trans- mission has required seven years. Says Science Service's "Daily Science News Bulletin" (Washington): "Because with ordinary gear -shift cars, the driver never operates con- tinuously at the most efficient rola tion between 'speed of .engine and wheels, Mr. de Lavaud claimed that the automatic transmission will in crease the average speed possible and effect a fuel saving of more than 20 per cent. in general and some 40 per cent, in the dense traffic areas of cities, A. long transmission shaft is driven direetly Imam the engine ;tad rotates an inclined 'inertia hub,' which changes .the rotation of the shaft into reciprocating motion. Con- necting the inertia hub with the drive of ttte rear axle are rods which, by acting on roller ratchets, translate the back -and -forth thrust into rotary mo- tion applied by the axles to the wheels. The tribk of the . transmis- sion consists in, the variation .of ttte inclination of the inertia 'hub" with the engine torque and road resistance,. which automatically varies, the throw of• the connecting- rods, oonseciuently the rotation ot the wheels and the speed of the ' car. This automatic transmission is combined with a gear- less differential ,and 'aplanetary re - Terse -gear located on -tbe rear axle. Advantages of his automatic trans- misslo nover gear transmission are listed by M. de Lavaud as follows: Ordinary down grades can be negoti- ated, even with full throttle, without noticeably changing the speed of the enema. It is impossible on level stretches or on ,up grades to accele- rate the engine beyond normal speed for the transmission- Stalled engines are impossible, The power of the au- tomobile is controlled entirely by the throttle. • "Acceleration, particularly to usual speeds, is muck better than with gear transmission. The car coasts freely down -hill," Of what I have written I say in the words which Patrick Henry made famous: '.'If that be treason, make the most of it "—Nicholas Murray Butler. I should bo sori y, very sorry in- deed, if almost all the books written to -day did not perish. --George Moore. South African Item of Interest Here A clipping from a South African paper covering a recent visit to Rus- temburg, Transvaal, of the G'overnor- GeneraI of South Africa and Princess Alice -includes a paragraphof inter- est to residents in Vancouver. •Tile paragraph ,reads: "Her Royal ,I3ighhess..Princess Alice has accepted a sketchof tlto Gover- nor-General and Her Royal Highness from Miss Carrie Hicks, daughter of Mr. '0'. Hicks,, formerly a well-known member of the' criminal investigation. department 'and now of Rustetnburg municipal staff. This gifted girl of 17 has had no Instruction in her art, yet, she has' already won a London prize," Miss hicks has relatives in Canada, an uncle, NIr. Adam 'Hicks, a well- known pioneer of Vancouver. In a recent letter from his niece, Mr. Hicks received a snapshot of Princess Alice taken while She spoke a few words with here - Men are not flattered by- ' being shownthat there has been a differ-. enee of purpose between the: Almigh- ty and them,—Abraham Lincoln; Appear in Listowel Standard The Walter Boys, Members of the Olympic Team, Gave a Personal View of Amsterdam That Throws Much Light on Conditions There STRANGE Knowing that the following letter from Graham and John Walter, me bets of the Canadian Olympic team Will be greatly enjoyed by the publi generally, we are pleased to publis • them for the benefit of our. readers. We are -indebted to the boys for the privilege: (Listowel Standard.) Amsterdam, Monday, July 23, 1923 Canadian Olympic Team: What a time we have trying to find time to write letters! We work out twice a day and have to be in bed at 10 o'clock, so with a bit of sightseeing our days are more than full Amsterdam is a very interesting place and I've seen more things . to. wonder at in this place than you can imagine. On Sunday Jack and I took a canal .boat through the canals and harbor of the city. Wo saw the old- est parts where the housos'hang per- ilously over the water and the. only approach to the front doom is a small boat of some description which they anchor to the door knob. The streets are all very narrow and the mass of humanity that struggles up and down them every night ie unbelievable. Every third person, man, woman and child, rides a bike and how. they ride! This is the queerest place with 'the queerest customs. Imagine seeing a cart en the street with a jar of living, squirming eels .in it and on asking the pusher of the cart what the eels are have Win swallow it like a raw egg or an oyster. That's what they do .over here. Another, common sight le to see an old woman in Dutch cos- tume cleaning small lisle on tate street which she sells to passersby for 10 cents, who eat them raw as we would a chocolate bar. On my slight acquaintance with the Dutcher I would say that his chief pleasures are to be found in beer par- lors and in music. Every third place is a saloon and every saloon has its orchestra; that his chief characteris- tic is inquisitiveness; crowds collect and follow you everywhere; that his favorite pets are dogs (you have to watch your'step); that his best food is bread and butter; that the day of the trodden -shoe is passing but, not gone; that their hospitality is second to none and the warmth of their recep- tion nover to be forgotten. I've been .. taking pictures at the stadium of Americans, Australians, Turks, Poles, Hungarians, Dsthonians, Irish, Finns, and a lot of others whose countries T cannot spell, but it is a wonderful sight and the "sign" lan- guage is the universal language around here. Sincerely, `CUSTOMS - s 1 some of our team songs. The crowd m- I got "so large that when the theatre people began to come out they could c' not get past the doors. The cops were h called and, .with their swords, not batons, they managed to clear a paste age. One of the boxers we used to trai in Ottawa "Y" met me in th • hall today. We were both surprise Tie. Philadelphia •,company which has established an office in a mono. Inane shows that it is not disturbed about a firmer foundation for the busi- ness of aviation. t1RAHAM, Amsterdam, July 28, 1928, • The last time l wrote you -a letter I guess we were on the S.S. Albertic. We docked at Southampton and took a train to London, Where we put up for the day at the hotel Cecil, about the finest hostelry in London. We saw a greet deal of London from the back of a cab. We had a good work- tett at Stamford Bridge, The trains here are really fast and we got to Barwick in a hurry. There we em- barked on the good ship "Archangel" for Rotterdam. `• It was on this ship' that we got.' our; first taste of second- eiass passage. It seems that we were booked to sail the tellowing evening first-class,, but the committee Were anxious to land us in Holland as early' as possible, and as a result we slept in places over the propeller. A bunk room with two z portholes is plenty lint for me, but no one was any the worse for it. The trip from Rotterdam' to Am- sterdam is very interesting with the windmills shooting their great fans like arms'tsp into tiie sky. The Dutch people are both very modern and very ancient. Down the narrow 'shipping streets yeti sees a sheik dressed in the height of fashion followed by a•fellow-countryman with a little tight coat and pants at half- mast, or a workman dressed in a lea- ther suit and knee pants and wearing big wooden shoes; and what wooden shoes they are. Some aro plain, some are varnished; and some have steel. laces riveted into the wood which' make them real snappy.^ They are, very curious and, folio'W us around with monotonous regal rity.. The other night a•nucnber of' us parked. in front of 3 big theatre and sang `"4V'01,..1-1(." Sunday School Lesson September 16. Lesson X11,—Pau Writes to His Priend's in Corinth —1 Cor. 1: 10-13:: 5-11; 21-23. Golden Text—Behold, how good and how pleasant It is for breathren to dwell together in unityl—Psalht 133: 1. ANALYSIS I, THE DANGER OF DIVISION 1:10-13. IL UNITY W1TH VARIETY, 315-11. III. THE HERITAGE OF CHRISTIANS, in 21-23. INTI O0UCTION---This letter is one of e the four great evangelical Epistles of Zeist to Borne, where Kaiser Bil lives. We did not see old. Bill, but go a picture of his groundsmau, and stole a rose from his spacious estate We were afforded a wonderful oppor tunity to see the country life of Rol land in a drive from Utrecht to Am sterdam. The. landscape is dotted with Holstein cattle, and not a single fence separates the many herds. I' appears that many of the little sluices or candle are quick sand at the bot- tom and at the calf.age the'animai i thrown, into the water and given an eperience with the treacherous quick sand, a hard lesson but a lasting one. The little canals can hardly 'be seen, but they are all over the land. Yester- day I saw what was very funny to me. A. herd of cattle was grazing on the land at the bottom of a twenty -foot cliff. At the top of the hill all types of ships were moving along the canal. A tree had fallen across the road and it. looked like a long delay as the Dutch workers in their wooden shoes proceeded to cut the tree in several sections in order to clear the highway on which the traffic was already piling up. The 30 odd Canadians with pio- neer initiative peculiar to the race (that's good) took hold of the tree and dragged it off the road, leaving the Hollanders standing in their wooden shoes with their mouths open,' staring at us dumbly as we Whisked by iti our big bits. Since the above was •written some time has intervened in which yours truly has beheld the greatest spec. thole of his young career, The "Par- ade of Nations" in the olympicc Stadi- um at Amsterdam was beyond a doubt one of the greatest in. the history' of athletics. Every seat in the vast stadium \vas filled'and the bleacher section was one huge mass of human- ity, The Prince Consort arrived in 1 State and the' affair began to move. All the' nations lined up on the cam- pus outside the stadium. Then, the parade began. with the countries filing in in alphabtical order, with the ex- ception of Greece, _whose athletes were the first to enter the great stad- ium in recognition of the fact that they were the sons of the founders of the Olympic games. Canada filed in about third and I think:that we looked about as hot, if not hotter, than 'most s of them, s : crowds : us The c otdq gave, a wonderful:reception. There were 47f countries in ail represented, and it was most inepiritlg'to us of the British Empire to see our flag appear in 001 mate, 'different forms and carried by! so many -different races of people: Australia, Rhodesia, Ireland, Scotland, England, :l'nUa and Canaria ail jlelong-' t lug to ohoyr'ba%'famiiy and all racog•� niziug in each outer one great frateru- ty of nations, Yes, the old Empire vi11 take a stiff breeze to shake it, and wherever the flag; files the sympathy 2all and the good wishes of all are centred there. Waiters, yes they have them in Iolland, but they are the worst in 't he world. Must close now. Best to all. JACIK.' No motorist will contend that the etrol retailer should. not be 'granted a reasonable prodt. Paull and was written during the visit f of the apostle to Ephesus in A.D. 58. e It was caused by the serious faults 2 land abuses which had broken out e among th converts at Corinth. "THE DANGER OF eiveSIONs, 1:10-13. f V. 10. One of the unfavorable quai- 1 rues of the Greek character was in- ability to work together with others. s Each Greek city considered only its e.lown interest and was unable to jail with other cities, even in times when threatened by a common foe. These -'same tendencies reappear in the d church. V. 11, It was some member of the household of hire who had informed Paul of the sad outbreak of quarreling in Corinth.V. 12. Four distinct parties existed among 'these people, each of them ap- pealing to some great man es their leader. Some claimed bo have Paul as their guide. The next clique pretend. 1 ed to follow Apallos, who was a pol- e fished Alexandrian scholar familiar with the teachings • of Greekphil- osophy and Who was possessed with a ' wonderful gift of eloquence. The third - party chose es their champion Cephas - or Peter. The fourth party seems to - have claimed that they alone were true to the gospel and they said that a•31 other garbles did not possess the real grace of God, to see each other so far from Metcal Street. Don Carrick is a mighty fin chap, We have had a great deal o t fun on `the square in front of th ]Queen's palace with. a Dutch "artist? who attempted to draw a sketch o Carrick. I saw the new stadium yesterday and it la undoubtedly the finest of it kind in the world, although I beitev the track is slow. I-We took a trip to Utrecht yester , day, the city where the English an • French settled their argument over Canada many years ago. We were in an oldChurch which was built about the time that Old King John( one of my namesakes) signed the Magna Charta, There is a tower in this city built in 1300 and is something like 386 feet high. A bus took us througIt V. 18. We must not conclude that the differences in these parties extend- s ed to those whose names they adopted•. There wits no such division between Paul and Appellor and Peter, who. worked togebher in harmony. This fact is clear from' the indignation with whidh Paul denounces these sad disorders, He knew perfectly well that such party spirit would prove to be the death, brow to all Christian life and progress. Christianity is essen- tially a unity. Party strife contrac- dicts the teaching of Jesus. II. UNITY WITH VARIETY, 3:5-11, V. 5. Paul's remedy for this fac- tious bendiency is to show how all hu- man workmen are mere instruments in the hands of God who originates and controls all things. God is like a husbandman who has many differ- ent laborers and who entrusts some speoial,'task to each of these. V. 6. Paul's task is that of planting new churches in different parts of the Gentile world. Apollos calve after and did the watering or cultivation. Each is necessary. Each party may have its own special work, may make its !own peculiar contribution; but there need not be any strife or bitter criti.- eism. I V. 7. Th entire power rests ulti- mately with God, who alone can give I V. 8. Paul carries on the image of labor to the subject of. reward for t work done; and shows that difference in function will not interfere with lite fit return doming to each of. those who faithfully uses Irks gift. g V. 10. Paul changes the simile and e represents the church as a building, 1 whre he head the duty of laying the found <tion, and 11 . rorty ,eros with others to see that the right kind of structure is placed on this foundation. The following verses give a vivid pic- ture of the different material which may be used for this work. Three of these are perishable, other.three are imperishable, and ere long the fire will come to test them. Each Corin- thian Christian should see to it that Ices work allay stand- the test: Why, therefore, waste precious time in this partisan conflict? Let each one build t aithfu,lly his own part and leave the rest to God. a. III. THE HERITAGE OF CHRISTIANS,"g t, r 21-23. Ca ; ,piing Industry in Great Britain to Be Developed England Hopes -to Reduce Irrl- ports, Increase Emy.plo ment, Says Sir Edgar Jones New York,—Great' Britain, which has been importing from $125400,000 to $150,000,00 worth of canned foods each year, will begin this summer buijding up a canning Industry to sup , ply its home market, according to Sir EdgarIt, Jones, chairman of the • National Food Canning Council, who arrived here recently, • He said that the yield of 1,000 acres Of Peas would he canned in England this summer and, from this compares tively small start, sponsors of the movement believe an industry will be developed in the British Isles that will produce, within a few years, at least one-third of the amount of canned foods now imported. Ile describes the move as the first definite attempt to establish a vegetable canning Janine - try in England, and said that it would not only provide employment eventu- ally for thousands of workers, but would be a decided contribution to- ward increasing the domestic food sup- ply He•safd that the new industry would gradually be increased to include a complete line of vegetables and that the fisheries of the British Isles are being enlarged so as to supply the do- mestic market with canoed. ash, The National Food Canning Council was organized in England two years ago. Canning machinery was pur- chased in the United States last year to equip 10 factories in England. Or- ganization of the council was due di- rectly to the difficulties English argri- culturists have been experiencing and to the fact that so many industrial workers in England have been idle, while the British Isles have offered a good market for canned geode pro- duced by workers in other lands, 13ir Edgar said. Scots Excavate Picts' Village Site of New Archaeological Discoveries Is Skail Bay, in Orkneys •.Glasgow: Archeological discoverers of great interest }lave just been made on the Skara shore of Skail Bay in tate Orkneys. A prehistoric village of huts connected by winding stibterta• nean streets has. been laid bare. The Office of Works is conducting the excavation operations on a.gorup of Picts' houses under' the direction of Prof. V. Gordon Chiide of Eldin burgh University, an archeologist ',familiar with prehistoric Scotland,. The latest find is a new chamber' or, hut,' which is in a better state of preservation than the! one _examined by. Petrie in 1800. For the first time he relics and the construction of one E these wonderful structures have been accurately observed and pheto- raphed. Much pottery ]las been tin- arthed, including eenumber of quaint - y ornamented sherds never previously seen, but which are' expected to help th approximate dating of the Site. The excavations when completed will probably reveal an entire village t with streets, passages and galleries. b Good Judgement t Requires Information's Your- judgment is nQ better than your information i s a good d etateme g nt o memorize, It: is certain that to squire judgment,' on roust invest! ate a •subject from different angles. he first information may only tell art of the truth. One may discover that he has been misinformed or so ightly informed that it is a poor undation• on which to'form an penin 02 you only read what you already nOyy, ,you �garil notltitle, 6 one, do. ot want to't'eau aoilletting 'U,..1' ad the “other :side of a question on vhich they have narrow but profound convictions. They stop. the paper that dares discuss views with ,which they cannot agree or • ttnderetaed. They condemn the preacher or the teacher who taxes their minds with new ideas, The way to acquire knowledge is to ep an open mind so that different gles of thought may present them- lves for your information. That is s e basis of sound judgment, Crime in London Only 4 Per Cent, of New York Total Britons, Celebrating Centen- ary of Scotland Yard; Point to Speed of Justice "Bobbies" Are ` Unarmed Successful Solution'of All Murders in 1927 is Cited London. ---The celebration of Scot- land Yard's one hundredth birthday has' furnished the occasion for an ex. haustive analysis of England's victory. over crime. • The metropolitan police torte was organized a century ago by Sir Robert Peel, whose name is preserved in the popular appellation "bobbles:" It has been built up into au institution of such efficiency that England now claims to be the least criminal nation in the world. How great is thedifference in crime' between Eritise municipalities and those of other countries may be seen 1u a comparison between the two largest cities of the world, New York and London, Cites New York Crime The total of all crimes in New York, with a population of 6,000,000, during one fiscal year was 333;083. The total for London. during the Same period was 15,662, out of a es,lsulation of 746,000. In other words, London's weight of criminality was practically 4 per cent. that of New York. Closely associated with the London.' er's exultation in this low figure is his belief that it is caused by moral rather than armed force. The London policeman does not carry a revolver. His only weapon is a truncheon, or stick which he uses only when he himself is attacked: The "bobby" is a respected member of the, commun- ity and usually a magnificent specimen of manhood- He walks unarmed into the most dangerous quarters of the East End of London. lie has been known to arrest six men who attempt- ed ttempt ed to attack him merely by wielding his baton assiduously, Swift Justice In Britain The Londoner believes Coe: much of Elle crime in America is canned by the fact that the police are an armed force. Violence, he thinks, breeds violence. In England the two undoubtedly major factors which conduce to the reduction of crime aro the successful detection of crime by Scotland Yard and other police organizations, and the prompt justice emoted out to the ofendera. In the metropolitan area of London last year not a single mur- der was left unsolved. In every nee the murderer was uncovered add brought before the court. Criminal justice is far faster in long Iand than civil justice. It is no un• usual event for a criminal to be tried, convicted and hung within four weeks of the commission of his crime. a"hfri'--- rapid-fire punishment deters prospee tive criminals from insurring the rise of a like fate. Wholesale Moving Great 1500 -Mile Trek of 300 Families Across South Africa to Take 12 Months • Barkiy West, S. Africa, Within next few months there will begin what may be regarded as the last of the great treoks that have made South African history. Some 300 families, comprising 1,842 persons, with. 340 wagons and 15,000 animals, who for the past two genera- tions have suffered hardship, will make a new begidning. They are the Angola Boers in the Portuguese West African territory, whom the Union Government has graciously allowed to settle in South West Africa. Only a small number are well off. The greater number are needy. They will receive a -loan of £350,000, free of interest. Bach family is to get a farm of about 10,000 acres In extent. For the first five years of occupation they will be lessees, and thereafter the purchase may be paid in 30 years. In cash each family receives £400 to £800 for house, bore -hole, windmill And dam.'The cattle advances must be repaid within five years. The few who possess £1,000 or more, are al- lowed to take up land on the same conditions as any ordinary settler. Some of the families will have to trete 1,500 miles by wagon before reaching their allotted farms. No farmer- may introduce any liye stock from Angola, so that when the Kunene River is reached ail animals must be disposed of, At the drift the Adminis- tration of South Africa will assume the responsibility of the continuance of the trek, a further distance- of 700 miles, truly a formidable undertaking, when the desert nature of the terrt- ory to be crossed is considered. The trek -will then be continued in retches 'of three groups -of five Wag - ns each, every fortnight. According o the prepared schedule the greatt rek will occupy about 12 months to omplote. - 0 1 p V. 21. instead of boasting about't their own leaders. and criticizing the sI leaders of the other parties, let diem to rather• relnemiber how el:eat and inani- lrp eee.tlee opportunebies' which ay(n t fh'a'nu, ,c > k V. 22. All the good things 'n 6 1 thus world' are sent`' by a loving 3Fether phi n heaven: All that life con :eine is open re to them,' and even death itself will ppot 1 destroy their heritage. Curls• liars. overcome the power of death. The freedom and privilege of tht Cllris- ians are amazing. But all depends. upon acceptin=g Christ, . Depend on no man on no friend, nen�ds lint him ,who can depend on himself. Ile only ,who acts conscientiously to - Ice an wards himself, will act so towards se others.—Johann Kaspar. Limiter, tilt Industries Increasing ng in Old Country? In the course of his presidential ad- dress at the .annual meeting of the Chamber of Shipping of 'the United Kingdom at Rugby, Sir William Seager said, there were signs that a revival. to a state of comparative prosperity might be expected before long, If the 'heavy industries were moypg l,Qw1 .r4 al71 proslteri t � i'1W til leas mOVln T Y e o g it expansion of tidily -tour new Indus• Oa, fiivoir•Lug the additional employ- mentof 574,001} peoi,'e, was a most en- couraging sign. ` , n, ,N Salesman (to man buying ootiipiete' gardening equipment) -"you'll aunt' one of these syringes for green fly." Amateur Gardener -"Yes — er I ee. Now-er—where. do I get the, green flyl" -. •