HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1927-08-18, Page 6PREMIER BALDWIN'S
NOTABLE MONTREAL SPE
A True,'BI'itUsh Conception of,"What Empire laity
and W set' Britain is Doing About it
HIGHLY OPTONIISTIC
Delivered before, the lviontreal_Cana- working in 'London on what is called,
Limn; Club while visiting the Eastern geophysics ;and experinrehts are.. he
Metropole, Ing' carried, ea between the Mother'
"Gentlemetii T have been ,.;over- Country and'. Australia in several neer
whelined by the reeeptfd a• given by
the City ot-'Montreal to your guests.
last'night and this morning. ',bo far
as the welcome. was extended to me,
r. recognize fully that it was not so
• Innen. to me as.la milli, but --to the
Prime Minister;of„t1ho,Motheti'"Genn--
try; and I'know that an equally"warm
w elcome Would have awaited ' any
statesman, to whatever party he be-
longed, as a 'Inark of your sense of
sympathy' -With the man who bears
perhaps the heaviest burden today in
the whole Empire.'
' 1 may say' that Uie. spirit of that
w elcome was such. that When I• got
beck ,,to the hotel mf to 1t I, tore up
CH
leans
methods of detecting minerals'under
the surface without hssvm.;'either to
dig or bore,: a hole. Those methods
are' known "asgravimetric, electric,
magnetic and seismic, and 1 am told
.that they aro revolationizing prospect-
ing' both fol;" minerals and oils. I am
'quite' surd :that in 'a.'country, Bite this'
the results of such investigations will
be of the greatest interest
At Work on Fishery Problems -
"Then, again, there is an industry
in Great Britain -which has .suffered
very much since the war, and that is
the•fishing ledustry, and I am glad to.
say that two of .Your leading fishery
experts have came over to consult
everything which I had meant to say with us and:talce counsel, and -possibly
to you except.a littlebit which 1 am
going to give, you now, and I (meant
to' rely upon the inspiration'. et the
moment, if you will allow me, whens
I have said what I have to say; just to
talk:. with you as man to man.
"I' want to tell you''first ,of, all, be,.
gauee you are all "buefness :_men in
Montreal, 'something of what we ere
trying to,do.hi England today, to help
both the Empire, spirit and .Empire.
The :Empire Marketing Hoard.
"Wo are, as you know 'devoting' a
considerable sane Pe money every
year, a maximum in one year of 85,-
000,000, to the services of a new hoard
called "Ile -Empire Marketing. Board,'
and altltbu'gh that body is a new one,
• and although it is essaying ' to do
something never attempted before, I.
believe that it has made progress, and
I believe that it is 'going to' play a
• very important part to the benefit of
us all in two different. ways which I
will try -to make 000al, to. you.
"This board works In very close co-
operation with the teovernment ,of the
- day, and the bulk of the money which
it is spending at present is being de;
voted to a campaign .• of what you
understand in the New World as pub-,
Berry We have enlisted the 'services'
of a board of writers and artists of
imagination to aid us in that work:
The board, to use their own words,
have set themselves to advertise an
idea rather thane commodity. They
are trying to create the consciousness
,,, of Empire among the people of Great
Britain ,and they want to carry with
,that oonbeiouaness, a'sense `of the ob-
ligation on the part of the individual,
first of all in Great Britain, .to men
and Women in 'other parts of the Em-
pire, anti subsegttetitly, I: ` hope,
tlirotighout the Empire tomob and
women living in other parts of it
That is the first step to create an at-
mosphere.,
Leavelt Already at" Work.
"I am, quite surethat at home this
leaven hae already begun to work. If
you go `late clay of the big shops to-
day, not only in London or the chief
provincial centres; you will find nosy
lhat,people are act1 ely alive.: to, the
demand for British and for. Emipre
goods, and that these p11ra'ses ale
ecradually acgeirt'ng a real sales value:
1 am quite confident that It is only a
'question of time before that habit will
take root among the people in Great,
'Critelli; for whatever our faults may
be In the Old Country, we have a cer-
tain amount of tenacity and obstinacy,
end if that Idea .is: once firmly eta
grained, our, people will never lose it.
SApPlause), •
"Now, there is another aide to this
Work, I think of equal importance, in
which we have enlisted the co•oper'a
;thin of men from all-over lite Empire.
The imperial Aonfei'enee spent
sometime discussing it last autumn,
and it is.tltis: It is the'prosecution of
jicientiflc-reseatcit througltoUt:the lint-
.pire,
"Now, I need not talk to ah audi-
ence like this of the value of that
kind of research.. The 'neither :°ot
peeta of all kinds that attack crops
and llye stock is tremendous, and 1
have been told by a maty- leganec', in
these matters that about one-tenth of
the crops of the ,whole world, or one•
_ fifth of the crops' in tropical conn..
tries, aresacrificed to the ravages of
some kind of pestis- insect • or' other-
wise—every year,
Enormous Work for Humanity.
"Now, nearly half the Empire lies
within the .tropics, so you will soon
see of what importance, that is ' to the
Empie. But We at home auffer,from
things like ''foot-andenoutli' disease,
and from various crop ravaged,' and
you suffer from rust, I think, rather
badly at tines in the West, and front
',other pests-`•'tliie'attack. 'the grain
crops. , If you can control tate tre-
meildous : wastage that occurs, you
eel be doing an enormous work for
humaui y:
"We ',alerted. in Surrey, in England,
a new kind of zoo, a parasite zoo, and
they are working there to try to dis-
cover,to breed, and to send all over
the Empire the right sort of parasites
to attack the insects that do the dam-
age.
"Then poultry production is another
thing to which science 15 now devot-
1 Inc itself, We want to make the ]ten
learn sotrothing. themselves, so that
wo may enjoy expert lOnowledge about
fishingand'fishery beds, and so, forth,
that we may be',able to spread
throughout the ]7ntpire„
"All that work is the kind of work
that is never advertised, and you -do
not leo much Maria i0 in the papers;'
but that is the kind of work that can
effect more for human progress and
human :happiness than almostany
activity that is goin on to -day. And
enr'opos of that, -I think we all 'want
to .bear. In mind _that 'we are all, trying
to work together throughout ' the
whole Commonwealth of. Nations to--'
clay within our Empire according to,
the eratioue -stages of economic de-
velopment in which we are. We at
hone are urbanized and iudustra'lized-
to about as great an extent as it
healthy, more so than, perhaps'; any
country: in the world, and at the
other pole we have some countries in.
the Dominions- that are still in the
pastorage. You in Canada are in the
very happy positionat present of oc-
cupying, an intermediate and, I hope,
fairly,balanced,' position, leading,
neither to the `one pole nor to the
other; and: what I would say is this:
I hope you will• long keep, it so.- That
is by far the happiest bondition for
a country' to be In. Humanly speak-
ing, You cannot ' be urbanized ,too
much for centuries, because of the
room you- have. but I do hope tbat for
generations to come happiness and
Prosperity may flourish, and that you
will maintain some kind of equilib-
rium 'between industrial and agrlcuI:
tura” interests, :(Applause).,
laymore and to lay faster. There is
an enormous egg market in Great Brib
Jain, of which we want a good share
fOr, ourselves, and while at present"
we aro getting enormous 'que.ntities
of eggs from foreign countries,. I,.want
to see all the eggs that we cannot pro-
duce ourselves coming, asthey ought
to come, front the Dominions.
Mathematical .Prospectors.
"Then .there is 'another subject on
which I most confess myself pro-
foundly ignorant, but ea an enlidhtone"
ed, audience like this, probably you
- .know all abode, ,it. I have been told
by scientific men that it will bo very.
important in future for inert. Who go
prospecting,; whether for'.oil, -gold, or
'whatever -it}nay be,:'to equip them
I selves first,' not With a• boring tool,.but
with a knowledge. of 'higher mathe-
j matins. '
"We Have a number of seteulific
men, reinforced from tho' Dominions,
Give Empire FTr"st Choice. ,.
"Let us never forget that weliiave
in the Empire, especially in the trop-
ical parts of it,` enormous quantities
of primary products which you ean-
nat posstbly grow, but which You will
need, things Ince rubber, cotton and
tea. Although I know,you are .grow-
ing sugar now, and tobacco -and I he-
lieve successfully --yet It may be that
for' some -years yet you will leave to
buy a considerable quantity from out-
side of Canada, , Refnantber- then to
give tete Empire your first choice in
all these goods rather than go •any
where else.
"Remember this, too: We in Great
Britain have forty millions of people
wito are consumers, and who are do.
ing an enprinous lot of business with
you. We buy ii great. deal from Can-
ada ,and the more . we iltuy the better
I shall' be pleased. But wo eau only
buy saecossfully, and as we ought to
do, if we can all our geode; and the
whole export trade, at any rate, Of
the Old World has been disorganized
and thrown out of joint by the watr.
"We '-are'recovering our- position,
struggling hard, but we are doing it.
We are selling about one-half of ortr
Manufactured. exports .to the • Do-
minions to -day ,and they are incom-
parably our best markets, and I want,
you to feel that, as your purchasing
power grows with your prosperity, the
only: way is which the Old Country
can continue to be that market which
you. desire to see "fir your primary
products will be by doing what you
can ih dealing frith the Old. Conn-.
try' in her exports where you 110 riot
make the things yourselves
"Now, if I night just take a few
minutes of your time, I would like •0
make one or two observations.
• Anything But Decadent,
"I- have' not been fn Canada long
enough to know. What you think about
Great 'Britain, but If anybody tells you
or if yen read anywhere—no matter
by whom , it is writtteu—that Great
Britain is decadent he any way, that
is the:- biggest mistake in the world
teeday.. (A op1attse).
"We have our 'difficulties; I do not
minimize ;them; ,brit tl<ere never has
been' ct time with: se when. Bfltaln has
shouldered her burdens more man -
billy or is more -determined to pro-
gress and, go forward,, than today.
There never has been a time when'
there was more life, more keenness
for 'progress, for education, for
science, for discovery,. There has,
never been a time when the Old Coun-
try 'was more quivering with life. We
may, as 1. have said, -make Our mis-
takes; we have our dltficnities, but
the heart of, the country has never
been sounder. .it has been tempered
by athat terrible experience. We ,all'
went through.. We are suffering from
the loss of a whole generation of
young then, but we know it, and are
'determined' to inake good, and the
young men coming on are proving
worthy successors of those who fell
in trance and Flanders, and they are
determined to take their plecee;
while the older men are dtermi/ted
to .stick it until the younger ones are
ready. (Applause).
"Naw 'there is no doubt that the half
century ahead of us i5 going to,be -a,
momentous one i ache history of the
world, because one of the serious re
sults 60 the war, lasting as long as it
did, was that ave' passed through half
a century of Progress In ideas 1n
about tour years, That applies to, the
Old World; I do not pretend tq speak
•about Canada. 'So you cannot wonder
,that thing's in Europe sometimes are
puzzling. to .those wild' have the good
f ortun e to lure in ,a .country. where :'ori
y Engulfs JL RaIL a Veterans' Service
t HIS CAR "SWAMPED" BY ENTHUSIASTIC-VETERANS'AT EXHIBITION PARK, TORONTO
The Prince's visit to Toronto was marked by one particularly striking' demonstration of loyal devotion at the Memorial Service at the Exhibition Park Veterans' Service- Hie
royal' highness, whether by, design or not, was driven by way of a side entrance. A police car nosed its way through the crowd and a few yards behind came his royal highness.
The prince was engulfed in a swaying, waving, cheering mass of humanity, and at last he was forced to leave the car and force his way as best he could to the grandstand by"
foot, protected by police offieers. He emerged a trifle flustered, but smiling, of the incident. The: picture above gives some idea of the scene.
INCEMNPr
can make a fresh start, and do, not ' has never been- held In this way be -
forget that. Ifore, ' of, the fellowship and brotller-
"The problems aregoing to be ex- hood of man and' the opportunity
traordinarily difficult, and they wi11'there is for the fellows who Have the
be made difficult by the rapid advance good luck to have better education, to
in science that is .bringing people i use that education and the advent -
closer together thin they -ever I ages they have had to help the fellows
in the past, and is causing the older i who have :not had 'such opportunities,
Civilizations to impinge directly on, for the rat of -their lives instead of
those who have not their civilisation I thinking only of themselves,
and Culture in a way that has not "Public life la,aehard school; there
happened before. The. great problem; is no money. in it. Sometimes there
is whether we` are going to educate I le 'a certain amount• of money in if.
the whole world and train it to bo aiid a great many kicks, and you at-
ilt for governing itself, ds we do in ; ways end in disaster: You are always
our democratic countries, be fore the :fired out, and you are lialile to be
whole areas 'of eivilizationebreak up fired out without notice, and there is
and .tut swamped and go under. Ino pension. Iiut you do have the sat-
- leads me to this, and it is a isfactfen of doing 0 man't yob, and if
subject on whelk I feel very strongly, tanybody doubts that, then lethim try
and you mustforgive me if I say that «« job for a week, and he will never
I am speaking merely aeon English -1 question it again,
man with his experience of P',nglnud,I
There has always' been' in England a A Word of Advice.
tradition of public service, but thorui gh "'In Canada you know far better
1' have been in .public life Many yeses, than 1 arbor your problems are; but
and have always been interested in it, 00011 as I regard them 3,000 miles
I have never known in ingland such away, I can see as tate years go by
interest taken an public life by our that the highest test of'statesmansbip
.people as since the war. will bo called for in reconciling the
eof sAge. interests of a riculture and nd ratry
The Problems This Ig i l -,
"There •ls a reeegnitton Hurt the or reconciling the interests of East
Problems of this age will demand the and West,of binding together East
best Grains, the Highest and' the cold- and West and Central Canada, and of
est courage that the world can find, guarding -the progress of -the couniry,
and I rejoice to think that in the poli remembering always that you in Can -
tics of to -clay in •England in the poli- ado typify—especially in this part of
tree of the whole country and in local Canada—the- finest civilizations In
affairs --the best stamp of our young Europe, that of prance and that of
men are coming in, sacrificing In S ngland;• Civilizations that have work-
ntany,cases the prospects of making ed against each other, that have
what undoubtedly many of them could fought each other for ideals over the
make; •Targe. Fortunes, and sacrificing
an enormous amount of their leisure
and legitimate fnu'of life, to say noth-
ing of the illegitimate, and it Is the
illegitimate` joys that breed, bolehe-
eism--and they are largely recruited
in England from men who went
straight from school into that far
harder school of the war, where they,
boys ::themselves, got that idea which
centuries, but always in the van of
progress. Try as the years go by,
and let your statesmen try, that kind
of civilization, 'Chat kind of civilize -
time never gets too much diluted, tend
do not be In -too much' of a hurry to
become wealthy. Remember that tete
quality of the -nation is. far more 11n•
portant than the quantity. . Time is
on your side. You, have a thousand
Years before you' in which to develop
this great continent ----
"Nothing can stop you; you must
progress with .the world's progress -
You may some day be the . greatest
nation in the world. ' -But lay your
fqundations deeply and firmly." Give
the best you have got in your men to
galao the fortunesofyour nation, that
when, in the future years, she has at-
tained that position which I pray to
Cod she may attain, she may be a na-
tion to which all the peoples of the
wot'Id will look with respect and with
affection, and it may be that she will
still typify in the highest degree the
magnificent civilization in which her
roots were flrst•planted centuries ago
iu Europe."
Canada Builds More Auto-
mobiles
•
Ottawa, Icor the six months eilfed
Stine 30th, 1927, automobile produc-
tion in Canada totalled 126,808 cars,
having a salea value, f.o.b., plant, of
580,943,9097, a, gain of 2 per cent. in
number and per cent. in value over
the corresponding period of last year,
when 124,878 'ears valued at $75,760,-
450 .were produced in Canada.
During Sum, the apparent consume'•
tion of automobiles in Canada as-de-
termined
s•determined by adding the imports of
4,621 to the 15,608 cars'made'for 'rale
in Canada, amounted to 2Q,229 oars.
For the first half of 1927 the apparent
consumption,. thus; computed, totalled
7f the number of "professions"
keeps on growing, eh° road to distinc-
tion soon wil' lie in 'dignifying 'one's
work with the antique title of"job."
'rain very mucin struck with the ad-
vantage of people living in an ear.
Tier period than the present; They
had the first opportunity of saying
the right 'Ching: -Winston Churchill..,
Prince of Wales" to Attend
Polo Match in US,
New York—The Prince of Wales is
expected to be among the thousallde
who will witness tem, Internratilenal
pato tnatehes e between tate United
States, and England starting Septem-
ber 5 at the Meadowbrook Club, Long
Island,
The Royal box is being completed et
the fleid, which will have a seating
capacity otemore .than 40,000 persons,
More than 521<0,000 for tickets has
been be lb for the international
even't,.teeifying to the unprecedented•
coneern Crier the resumption of the
classic series. This amount has come
entirely from polo players and clubs
associated with the United Statee Polo
Association but hundreds of applica-
tione from all poets of the world are
yet to be considered.
With the ]lue-up of America's, "big
four" already determined and the
British Armpit -elm -11a selection immin-
ent, players of bothcteame are 00 the
intensive period of their training;
• Motor 'Accidents
I%<V many serious' accidents occur.
because cars fall In tate ditch along.
side the road What eArthly use can
there be in 'these ditches, three or
four feet deep, since as a general rule
our highways are made like an acs's
back and drainage•d8 a nature' p0000as,
thus doing away with the neoesslty of
a deep ditch like this. • Moreoveir, not
all the modern roads to tete United
States have ditches....The time bas
come When our'roade- shouldbe' whier
and better.. Mare money will of
course be'nezded,^ but the price' of au-
tomobile licensee oan be •raised, The
great majority of motorists will pay
withcrtt compioint,'lcnowing that .it is.
for their own advantaga—Le Monde
Dueller (Ind.).
ee "gigs
.t
A Function of Province -Wide Interest
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fon-for the slarkof lite. Prom right to left,
When our Royal -�risitors� •eihtcred Toi.onto- they ofllcialiy opened'. the New ..'Union -Station waiting so g L
Stanley Bah•in; 11011.;l -toward G. li'erguecn•
r � ,,;erre; Premier Stanl y r ,
Hon. )1. D•,Stase,' ht: Go aernai(;., 3I,1..I1: the 1 place of Wdlt Mrs, W. C. Rood; Prince G��
Popular Hero
Retires '•
Admiral Beatty • u
dm al eat y is
.Post as
, BQuits.
First' Sea Lord; . Seven'
Years' ' Service • Saw ;'t:
Heavy' Naval Cuts "lt
•
London—Lord Beatty, Admiral of
the Pleat, has gone for the last time
to the Admiralty as the first Sea
Lord; he will tio succeeded by Sir
Charles, Madden. Olr the occasion of
his retirement from office .he.has, been
made' a Pratt' Ce uncitor, an ]loner.
only thrice previously conferred on a
naval officer,
Lard Beatty's'term at the Admiralty
is memorable not only for the length
of over„eeve.n, 7eare but for the far-
reaching changes, mode owing to post-
war conditions. Lord Beatty is stilt
only 56, years old and will remain on
the active list another nine years. -
His brilliant war s•srvice has been
largely responsible for his advance-
ment. His tactical handling of the
British battle cruiser fleet ie. the Jut.
iand engagement to` n
matter 'of controversywill, butnghis'-remaicoupa
age crag reflected in his famous re-
nmark after seeing two of hie vess.eie
brawn 0P:
"There seems to be something
wrong with our s•Trips to -day.
Turn three points nearer the enemy.."
Outstanding features of Lord
Beattie regime at the Admiralty have
been carrying out the reduction of the
naval strength laid down by the
Washington Conference, the applica-
tion of war lessons to ship designs,
the gran for enlarging the Singapore
naval base, the development of the
Dominion navies and the creation of
au air arm for the fleet. '
It is a smallerbut sctentiflcts]1y
well-equipped fleet that Lord ,Beatty
hands on to his- successor,
His 'wife is the eldest daughter of
Marshall Field of Chicago.:
Gold in Canada
+• SGeld has been found in every pro-
vince of Canada except Prince Ed
ward Island. The ere, recorded : die-
aovoty was made in 1824 on the Gil-
bert river, 60` miles south • of Quebec
city. Placer mining operations com-
menced here in 1847 and intermittent
operatibtiri-have`been carried on ever
-Ainco. Placer discoveries were made
in Ontario, in British Columbia, ,and
in Yukon Territory ,nt much later
dates. Lode mining for gold` began at
Tangier river, Nova Scotia, in 1868.
Last year the total production -of gold
in Canada was 1,729,000 ounces, val-
ued at $35,749,000. Approximately 85
per cent. of_ this. production was ob-
tained from /Melee in northern On-
tario, and 14 per cent, from ,British
Columbia.
Canada's Seed Grading Sys'-'
tem. Held in High Regard'
Commerce in seeds in Canada is
conducted on a basis of "legally de-
fined grades, and the quality of seed
sold must Conform to prescribed grade,
definitions. This ihvolves responsible
duties for the inspectors of the Do -
Minion Seed Branch, pepartreent of
Agriculture; who grade all agrlcultnr- ,
al seed and a large part o fthe field
root and garden vegetable seeds re
quired for domestic use and for ex- -
oprt. 'According to -the •latestannual
report of the Minister of Agriculture
32,017 control saiiiples lucre examined
and graded at laboratory points dues
ing the fiscal year 1020.26. The total
quantity of sped r'epr'esented by these
samples amounted to several millions
of bushels. That the, system followed
n this country ie sound is shown by
the recognition given on foreign alar•
kets to Canadian seed offered under
official sale and grade names, Fi'.