HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1924-08-28, Page 3KEEP YOUR WITS IN "I $EE."
To play the 'game the, players form
a line, and the -leader goes to each,
one and whispers some movement he
;is to make when the signal is given.
The leader might say to one, "Kick
your right foot backwards"; to an-
other, "Move your fingers and
thumbs"; to another, "Tap with your
left heel"; and to another, "Turn
your head from side to side." After
all the directions have been, given, the
leader stands in front of the line hold-
ing up a handker•cihef and the game
is ready to begin.
When the leader drops the handker-
cliief, all the players start doing what
they have been told to do. If anyone
forgets, he is put out of the game.
Then after a minute or so, the leader
picks up the handkerchief and calls
"change." This time everyone does
what the player to his right has been
doing, the one on the end of ,the line
imitating the one at the head. If any-
one does not change at once, the leader
calls his name, and he is out of the
game.
The leader then drops the handker-
chief again, and the ones in the line
start doing the movements they did in
the first place. Of course as people
are dropped from the game and the
line becomes shorter, it is harder to
watch for signals, keep your own mo-
tions going, and see what the neighbor
on the right is doing.
As the game continues, the leader
should give the signals closer together.
The last prayer to go out of the 'game
is the winner,' and must indeed have
been wide-awake.
"Tatters" is a Persian cat, with long
blue -gray hair and green eyes. He
got his name because he was -so rag-
gedy when he was little. Raga Bound-
ed like a dog's name, so wecalled him
Tatters.
his -Ma est can claim an ancestor wlro 000,000 bushels; United States,'28 ,-
closed
was en -Majesty pen with
little chickens000.000
a ' rs successfully led the Picts and Scots 000,000 buslieh, Argentine, 107,
dee cry time
Wewent watched Tatters,
time he near'them or against the Ancteua Britons as long bushels; Australia, 85,000,000 bushels_;
and every
even looked at them, we scolded him ago as 330 B.C., the year in which India, 16,000,000 bushels;: Russia
awhen normal -160,000,000 bushels.
Russia—
ante thumped his ears a little. Not Babylon fell. Then. we find that the . countries
enough to really hurt, but just so he This was Fergus, the son of Fer-
o
took ih this
d know he must not even look' at chard, who le reputed to have been which much import wheat
wool
them,` That is the way we have 'train- descended from Eochaid II. and the, sante period about as follows:
on the ear. Jewish princess., After the defeat of Great Britain and Ireland, 217,000, -
ed him, just hea little tap the Britons' the two Celtic races in
soon learned eo walk way,000 bushels; Germany, 68,000,000 bush -
Pretty
When he was six months old we had
The House of David.
By the time this year—Empire 'sear
-draws to a close„ Britain will have
been visited by. .practically every
sovereign in Europe. It is soothing
to our' national pride, therefore, to. be'
able to reflect that in length of des-
cent
es -cent` our King takes precedence over
them ail,
Indeed, if there is any truth in .le-
gends., he is directly descended from
I{ing David of Israel, one of whose
descendants is reputed to have mar-
ried Flochald II„ a Scots king, some-
where about 580 B.C.
Eschewing legends, however, and
keeping•to history, it is certain that
fiQvv L Iver pool
Fixes the Price of Wheal
She Receives Grain Throughout the Year'From the Wheat -Surplus Countries.
By rrederick Simplot'.
th id traders because
So it is hunger, ships and trading price which it pays becomes a sn
aye made called world 'Price.
Jacob begat Joseph, who speculated in
Egyptian wheat. He was the fleet of
all' dealers. to run 0 corner. And St.
Paul, the, Bible says, put to sea on a
grain boat. This export of wheat 1s
an old business. Before wheels were
used, animals carried grain on their
0 - backs from one land of Asia to' an-
other.
genii* combined that v
Liverpool the world's biggest wheat
market.
To see what world factors,tend now
to fix .wheat prices, let us first. set
down the , grain -growing lands that
can export a surplus,. These, for the
period of 1921-22, Were: Canada, 215
"TATTERS"—A TRUE STORY.
Lots of folks say, "I like kitties, but
I won't have one around because they
catch birds." So 1 want to tell you
about one that doesn't.
way around the 'coop, and he never
went near it,
Birds look so much like chicks that
he left them alone, too. And the next
year he remembered his lesson and
avoidedthe neighborhood of the little
bi dies' pen.
He is nearly four years old now.
We have never seen him touch a bird
but once. He often sleeps in the yard
under a tree, near a faucet that leaks
a tiny bit. Hundreds of birds come
there every day to drink, but he pays
no attention to them, the
One day a baby bird fell out of
nest in a rose -bush, Tatters ran and
caught it in his mouth and began
playing with it, as he does a ball of
catnip, and never offered to bite it.
He gave it to me and rubbed around
my feet as much as to say, "Wasn't
that a nice ball to play with?" It,.
apparently, never occurred to him that
he could eat it.
The thing that makes this all the
more remarkable is the fact that Tat-
ters is a mighty hunter and keeps the
garden and adjoining fields clear of
gophers and ground squirrels, and the
garage free from rats and mice,
To me this is proof that kittens can
be taught to leave birds alone,—Mabel
Jane Mcllwaine.
Scotland_ were so pleas 50,000,000 bushels; Neth -
that they: vowed that the kingdom erlands,. 22,000,000 bushels; Italy, 53,-
000,000
3;
000,000 bushels; France, 43,000,000
bushels.,
Brritain the Heaviest Buyer.
But it is to that one small busy and
crowded area called Northwest Eur-
ope that the bulk ofatl export wheat
goes.. England is -the heaviest of all
buyers. And of all buying centres,
Liverpool is. most active. Here wheat
converges from alln the fields of the
earth; from here •the world's grain
movement is directed.
Just how big a share of all grain ex-
ported' is bought and sold by Liver-
pool nobody knowe. Its grain mer-
ohante, their. agents and correspond-
opts are scattered everywhere, Much
of what they buy 1s never actually un-
loaded on British soil, but is diverted
to other European ports. Tho British
Isles themselves consume something
ed with Fergus erg. Belgium
CANADA'S RESOURCES IN WOOL
should always belong to, his descend-
ants, and so far, although some two
thoueand years have now elapsed, the
oath has been kept.,
The House of David, as the descend-
ants of Pergus were called, ruled Scot-
land until the deaths of Alexander III.
and the Maid of Norway. The crown
should then have passed to the Earl of
Carrick, better known as the Bi ce,
who was also of the Rouse of David.
And, after a period of warfare, Bruce
did snake good his claim to the throne.
The Bruoes were succeeded by .the
ill-fated Stewarts, who became heirs
through the marriage of Walter Stew-
art, • High Steward of Scotland, to
Dorothy Bruce. Five Janiesee in suc-
cession wore the crown before Mary,
Queen of Soots, changed the spelling
of her name to the more familiar
Stuart,
Then the death of Queen Elizabeth
brought the Stuarts, in the person of
James YL, to the -throne of England,
through themarriage of an earlier
James to a Tudor princess. Six
Stuarts were crowned soyereigus of
Scotland and England. Of these one,
Charles I., was executed; another,
James II., was driven into exile; 'a
third, Mary, ruled jointly evlth her hus-
band, Dutch William. On the death of
the sixth, Queen Anne, the throne was
again vacant.'
During this queen's lifetime Scot-
tish statesmen had successfully in-
sisted that her successor must not only
be a Protestant, but one of the House
of David as well. The British Parlia-
ment found that the only person who
fulfilled both these conditions was the
Elector of Hanover. Ile was directly
descended from Princess Elizabeth,
Abundance of Sheep Lands—High Quality of Our Wools—
Flocks Increasing.
The sheep Industry in. Canada made and bright In character. The bulk
Y
considerable expansion during the war of eastern wools grade medium comb -
ears. There was some decrease dur- ing and low medium combing with
ing they years 1921, 1922 and 1923, but some fine u medium combing and ceased-
the
on aid- the daughter of Janes I„ who, he 1613,
ed good prises which upward
were maintain- 0rable quantities of lowecamping and had married Frederick, the Elector
ed for tenths and the upward -trend In coarmse. Eastern domestic wools have Palatine.
wool prices has again. stabilized the ,excellent felting qualities and are well The Hanoverians, as they were call -
industry and the present tendency is adapted for the manufacture of mel -ted, proved tY.emselves able rulers and
to increase satires than decrease the rum and heavy weight goods, including wotthy representatives of the line of
size of 'flocks. set'gesa„nd tweeds,. ruga, blankets, Fergus.
The estimated wool production of sweaters and underwear. Since the coronation of George I„
Dominion for 1923 was 15,539,418 In Western Canada the percentage the succession has never been broken.
pounds. Of this amount from 10,000,- of domestic wools is steadily lncreas-
000 to 12,000,000 pounds passes ing, There Is also a probability that
through the regular trade channels the amount of range wools will lee in -
and is sold either to Canadian nulls or creased considerably in the next five
1s exported. The balance of the wool Years. Western domestic wools are of
olip is worked up locally by farmers' much the same quality as eastern
wives, being spun into yarn for socks,l wools although they probably run more
mitts, underwear, sweaters and other to the finer grades. The nature of the
articles of apparel. soil and the openness of the country
tends to the production of a heavier
•
Abundance of Sheep Lands. shrinking wool. Soil -drifting also de -
The sheep resources of Canaua are' tracts from the brightness of the ,
more or less unlimited in that there is fleece and on this account grades of,
abundance of waste lands in most of western wool are subdivided into
the provinces admirably suited for, bright, semi -bright and dark. Wool
sheep raising, Furthermore, there are produced form Western Canada range
many farms, particularly in Western sheep compares favorably with wool
Canada, that as yet are carrying no Produced on other rnge areas of the
sheep. The climate and natural tope.' World. The bulk of the range wools
graphy of the country is admirably: run to the fine, fine medium combing,
suited' to the rais-ng of sheep. in and medium combing grades.
Eastern Canada on mixed farm lands;Wool Grading Since 1913.
and in the grain belt of Western Can -1 grading, which was first lnstl-
eda, the small flock of ten to fifty ewes I toted by the Dominion Live Stock
1s generally kept. These flocks can Branch in 1913, has done much to im-
be maintained at little expense and i prove the market finalities of Cana -
return an excellent revenue for the dlan wool, About twelve thousand
labor required and money invested, sheep raisers naw consign their wool
In the rougher parts of Eastern Canada, for grading and co-operative sale. This
and in some districts of Manitoba constitutes abbut one-quarter of the
larger flocks of from one to several
hundred head are kept under semi -
ranching 'conditions often by new set-
tlerswho may have been originally
miners or fishermen. There are still
sheep raisers. The growers have their
own marketing agency, the Canadian
Co-operative Wool Greeters, Ltd. This
organization is an affiliation of some
thirty wool -growers' associations and
available many areas suitable for the handles all the co-operative ship -
carrying of flocks of this size. In meats consigned for government grad -
southwestern Saskatchewan, southern the,
and parts of northern Alberta and In As a result of grading, Canadian,.
British Columbia sheep ranching is wools are now purchased frggiyi-oi a.
practised quite extensively, but even graded basis in the TJnJp 'States and
in•these provinces there are tracts of in Great Britain.b5 well as by Cana -
land available for ranching or semi- [lien millE rl e more general use of
ranching purposes. I pure p ii riuns Is steadily increasing'
Wool produced from Canadian sheep,,
both in the east and in the west, 1J. 8i and, having in mind the present.
a very high quality for each re ectfve ; strong demand for breeding ewes, it
grade,. Eastern sw„ j,§- re all pro -I is confidently expected' that wool`pro-r
'se•- U. even-
the domestic breeds of duction will niaterlaldy' increase dur-
EAF LE',hey are very strong of fibre ing the next few years.
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rinpei"r r-- - ' I
,Not long ago a nearly white tribe
The Earth's Mystery:People. was located in the heart of Brazil,'
A hitherto unknown white race, sug- where tradition states that white In-
gested by same to be of Welsh origin,, diens have long lived, No direct evi-
1s reported by explorers ' juet back Bence is available, but more than one
from the Darien district' of Central explorer, among diem Colonel l!aw-
America, thus adding to the nurnber cett, perhaps the gi;eatest living
of mystery races discovered in recent authority cn Brazil, believes that they
years. 1 are shill to he found in considerable
The Japanese census of a few numbers These Indians are said to
months ago revealed the unsuspected hays clue eyes.,
existence in that country ofa tribe,Compared with their neighbors, the
whose .'members wear '00 clothing, eople of Ankole, itt;South Uganda,
bout with, the bow and arrow, and are quilt pale in com5lexion. They
speak no known dialect, Inhabiting e are of fine phyeeme, and apparently
remote valley in North .japan, these .have no affinity with. the Negroes of
strange peopleare almost savages; the country.
while what is more interesting to the
ethnologist, or student of races, is that ^ When Cupid bite his mark he gen-
- they are white -skinned.
.6' percentage of the higher grades
He—"You're an artist at dancing."
She—"And you're a caricature at it."
The Parsee's Point.
When navigation arose wheat began
to move overseas. .h.s. the industries
and populations of countries have ebb-
ed' and flowed, streams of export wheat
have changed also, in volume and di-
rection.
Time was when Mesopotamia, cradle
of the race, was the granary of the
World. I stood one day on the ruins
of Nebuchadnezzar's palace at Baby -
Ion, and looked out over the very fields
where that vain king was sent to eat
grass,with wild asses. Now all those
once green fields are mostly sandy
wastes, and the busy' millions there
when Xerxes and. Cyrus came are van-
ished.
To -day Liverpool, not Babylon, is
the world's great grain market,
Yes, you say, we know abort Baby- she will pay depends on how badly
Ion. It etaod amid vast wheat• fields millers in Europe want wheat. how
—like Winnipeg or Minneapolis, -10 These wants are measured by
had only to load its grain aboard the much wheat is grown locally --and to
Arab dhows and Chinese junks and what extent rye, barley or other
send it down the Euphrates to the sea. breads can be substituted. in
But Liverpool? That seaport, set, But if all the big wheat -grow g
away up in the North Atlantic on a ' lands have a surplus Liverpool can
tiny isle—lrow can it buy and sella rest easy. Its supply is assured.
most of the world's wheat, from places'
as far away as Australia or our own
Pacific coast?
How can the price Liverpool, pays
They are woe
•,
their ships have made the world their
field. 'Bach is the cause, and at the
same time the result, of the other,
And the force behind both is the
hunger of increasing millions,
In any wheat -exporting country,
then, the local price tends . to be the
same as that paid be Liverpool for
similar wheat --'less the cost of freight,
interest, insurance and handling.
It is extremely sensitive, this Liver-
pool price. History shows how cer-
tain
ertain eventssat the ends of the earth
may affect the world wheat price. All
surplus -crop ,eountrles aro watched
with the minutest care during the
growing season. WIth astonishing
sensitiveness the Liverpool market
tends to anticipate conditions in these
countries and to 'forecast • what the
crop returns are 14kely to be. In
times of crop shortage, ar when the
supply or wheat 1n sight le low, the
price at Liverpool reacts to the slight-
est pertinent news with amazing
rapidity.
It is plain that Liverpool will pay
only enough to keep the world stream'
of wheat moving in -her direction. What
ti FOREST INDUSTRIES*
OF CANADA
The season just concluded was a
very successful iiia 80 far as the log-
ging and'' lumbering industries were
concerned. Quebec,' Ontario, Britiak
Columbia and the Maritimes' all re-
cord ekceptional mite 'and the total,
achievement 'ie expected to substan-
tially ;surpass; that -of 1922, which' it-
self 'showed a ' substantial lncrease
over the year 1921. Altogether the
activities of the past .winter consti-
tute an encouraging index to the
Canadian lumber and allied trades and -
the condition of the export market
with its increasing demands.
According to the statisticsrecently
Published Covering the lumber opera-
tions of the year 1922, there were, in
that year, 2,922 milds operating as
against 3,126 in 1921, a reduction of
six and one-half per cent. The aver-
age production per mill, however, in-
creased from 918 thousand feet in
1921 to 1,074 thousand in 1922. Dur-
ing 1922 a total of 3,13$,598 thousand
board feet measure of lumber was re-
ported valued at $84,554,172. This
compares- with a production of 2,869,-
817 thousand feet board measure in
1921 with a value of $82,448,5&5, a
gratifying increase inboth volume and
value.
Everyprovince of Canada contributed
in some measure to this commercial
production, two provinces of the Mari-
times and two of the Prairie Provinces
only reooad•ing decreases,` Br•itielr
Columbia was the leading province.
with e production of 1,157,854 m. ft.
b, m: valued at $27,571,142, a heavy
increase over the previous year. On -
When there are bad craps all over Carie followed with 776,280 m. ft. b. m,
the world, however, Liverpool, know- valued at $23,687,380, showing a small
ing that the British Isles are never increase over the previous year, Que-
more than a few weeks ahead of fam- bee, which came third, accounted for
over 200,000,000 bushels annually. for wheat determine whether a farm ine—will quickly bid a higher Price• a production .of 649,354 m, fe b. m,.
The five or six countries that have boy in Alberta can afford a new shot- This, bid against an already high worth $17,489,026. Other provinces in
surplus wheat to sell, on the other gun ar his sister a piano for Christ- price in the land of cnop shortage, order were: New Brunswick, 360,030
hand, are scattered all over the world, mac? Or does it? makes the home price there even high- m, ft. b. m„ value $8,906,394; Nova
and most of them at long distances The story is very interesting. er. Scotia, 101,954 feet, value $2,509,912;
from, Liverpool, After Norse traders settled at the Or if crops are bad, say, in all the Manitoba, 54,930 feet, value $1,371, -
Also, these wheat -surplus lands en- mouth of the Mersey, it took Liverpool wheat lands except Canada and the 062; Alberta 25,618 feet, value $649;
joy various climates. Since some are many centuries to grow up. United States, Liverpool will have to 791; Saskatchewan, 9,609 feet, value
north of the equator, while ethers' are The Key to Liverpool's Rise. bid more to get enough wheat from $283,922; and Prince Edward Island,
population these two countries. At such a time 3 472 feet, value 080,043,
south, they harvest crops at different But as England's grew ,
seasons of the year. This tends to denser, Liverpool gradually developed we may have a heavy crop and still Proiiuction of Pulp and Paper, i
keep a stream of grain moving tow'O.rd a three cornered trade with all the get top prices.
Liverpool ata fairly steady rata dur- world. It learned to buy in one over -I Liverpool prices, in turn, typify the A yet more important branch of
A t
Ing the different months of the year. sea market and sell in another. Once, prices offered by London, n were, Canada's forest product industries is
Thus: for example, the world's slave trade ' Paris and Berlin, There Is no arbi- .that of pulp and paper, which has ex -
The United States exports wheat centered here. In one year its mer -I trary price-fixing. Liverpool' buyers, hibited phenomenal growth for some
most steadily during August, Septetn chants sent 185 ships to Africa for big and little, bid just enough to get. time. Whilst the exact figures of the
ber and October. blacks; these they sold in the West, the wheat. production of this Indastry are not
Canada, during October, November Indies, bringing num and sugar back The Corn Exchange, they call their available -for 1923, it is known that
and December, to Liverpool. grain market in Liverpool. • Itis open they are much larger than 1922, when
rise of Liverpool, from 10.45 to 4.15. But often, from a total value of $106,260,078 was ac-
Australla, during January; February, Always, behind the r p counted for. In the past year the mill
March and April. was the pressure of growing popular one to three, it is quite deserted—for
Argentina, during February, March tion, It is generations since England lunch.
and April, really fad herself. To -day site imports There is no Pit, and no shouting, ex-
citement and gesticulation.
Russia, during September, October People say the British are sea -mind- To -day, whether the Alberta boy from 1,082,000 tons to 1,203,000 tons. ,
and November, ed, They trust be or starve. The gets a new shotgun still depends very The products of the forest are ac -
Since the world's surplus wheat denser their population grows the much on what Liverpool will pay for copying annually a relatively higher
wheot..
ROWS so largely toward Liverpool, the more •sea -minded they become. place in the Canadian export trade,
and have now come to take 'second
place only to agricultural products.
The exports of wood and paper in the
calendar year 1923 amounted to 0287,-
533,964, of which the United States
accounted for 0266,346,429, and the
United Kingdom $20,641,944. The
6 fol-
lowed
1 dY hi Principal items in this export were
Planks and boards to the extent of
$76,639,713; manufactured wand to
A Parsee, on a visit to London one
winter, dined wen a bishop. The
bishop tried to convert him.
"You're a cultured fellow," said the
bishop, "you've traveled a 1'at, and
read good books, and yet you worship
the sun:"
The Parsee gazed out of the win -
[lows at the thick London fog.
"But, my dear sir," he said, "you
have no idea what a splendid thing the
sun is. You should just see it once!"
The human race is so adaptable to
environment that in less than one gen-
eration the whole method of life might
be changed.-Mr:`r. le. Wade.
£rally Mrs. it,.
capacity of Canadian plants was in-
creased by some 380 tons daily, or
114,000 tons per year. The production
of the one item of newsprint increased
Automobile Ownership'
in Canada
1P an increase in the Purchase of
motor vehicles is to be taken as- indi-
cation of progressive prosperity the.
situation in Canada is particularly
gratifying. The ownership of cars In
the Dominion is increasing yearly at
a very substantial rate, and figures
published for the present year already
indicate a material Increment over.
those et 1923. Canada now takes
third place in the total number of
motor vehicles of the different coun-
tries
oun
tries'of the world, Great Britain hav-
ing last year assumed the second posi-
tion formerly held' by 'Canada in this
regard:" Canada, however, still occu-
pies the second place to the United
States in per capita ownership.
The total registration of all classes
of motor vehicles in the nine pro-
vinces of Canada in 1923 was 585,079,
an increase of 13.68 per cent, over
that of the previous year 1922, which
registered an increase of 10.9 per cent.
over 1921, A feature of the registra-
tions of motor vehicles in Canada dur-
ing the year was the increased per-
centage .of commercial trucks, amount-
ing to 18 per cent., compared with an
increase of only 13 per cent. in pas•
senger vehicles. The Importance of
t a red; ,sl '
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the motortruck as an auxiliary instru-
ment of commerce 1s being realized to
a greater extent in all provinces.
Of the total 585,079 motor vehicles
of all classes in Canada in 1923, 515;
077 were passenger automobiles. On-
tario led in number with 245,815, -o -
lowed by Saskatchewan with 69,017.
Quebec had 60,303; Alberta 39,742;
Manitoba 39,059; British Columbia 33,- ly, but during the notices he said, the value of 149.26219111 pulpwro3 to
144; Nova Scotia 16,104; New. Bruns -"You" will, I hope, excuse an Interim- the value of $18,525,000; shingles to
wick 15,433; Prince Edward Island_ 2,- lation at this point: While I -have $9,902,000; laths, 05,095,168; and
331; and the Yukon 69. Worked out been standing in this pulpit to -night I square timber, $4,037,000.
on a per capita basis this means that' have been reminded of some words of The value of pulp and paper exports
there is a passenger can in Ontario advice one of the professors gave to from Canada in 1923 showed an la -
for for every 11 persons, in Saskatchewan the students when I was in college. urease of 20 per cent, ever the pre -
10 Persons. in Quebec 38. in Manitoba 'Be very chary of reproving people vious year, there being an increase in
15' in Alberta 14; in Nova Scotia 32; publicly for behaving badly in church,' the export of every kind of paper and
pulp. The value of the exports of fin-
ished paper showed a greater advance
over the 1922 totals than did the value.
of the sports. of pulp, however. For
Canadian book and writing paper the
principal markets were ,Australia and
New Zealand, smaller quantities going
to the United Kingdom, Japan and
South Africa. Wrapping paper ex-
ports were chiefly to the United King -
dem, Australia, South Africa and
Japan,
By Par the greater part of the pulp
exported from Canada was destined
for the United States, which took 216,-,
956 tons of mechanical pulp, 146,346
tonic of sulphate, 147,594 tons of
blenched and 167,182 tons of un-
bleached sulphate—a total of 678,07e
tons out of an exportation of 875,370
tons. Canadian exports• of pulpwood
cies according be the occupations of so much thot I have never yet publicly for the year amounted to 1,384,230
the owners, is Ontario, the first dndus- ! reproved bad behavior in church. The cords valued et $13,525,004. 'This 'is
trial province of the Dominion. It is offertory will now be taken.'
significant, therefore, that in this ter-' For the rest of the service the young
ritory where industry leads, farmers 'offenders behaved perfectly.
constitute the largest single class pos-I'
sessing car, with 29 per cent. of the
total owners. In the province 5 per
cent, are owned by'those in profes-
sional occupations, 39 by those in mer-
cantile, trade and sales occupations,
3.9 by contractors, and 23.1 by others.
Taking Ontario as a standard, the
Percentage in the Western provinces
of the total cars to be found in the
farming districts would be much
larger.
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There is no 100m for salesmen like
the one in the story who reported to
his sales manager a number of inter-
[views
nter•-
[ views with pa ospective customers. Ho
said he didn't get any orders but that
each one was a feather in his cap. The
sales manager wired back, "You've
gathered enough feathers; fly home."
Why He Didn't Reprove
Them.
At a service recently conducted by
a well-known minister a pewtul of
young people behaved badly during
the first part of the proceedings, whiz -
tering, fidgeting and giggling. The
minister did not reprove them direct -
in British Columbia 16; in New Bruns- 1 he said. 'Once when I was in a pas -
wick 25; and Prince Edward island i tore I paused in my sermon and ad -
38. Over the entire Dominion there is 'ministered a severe rebuke to -a young
one car to every 17 persons.
figures is that man who was constantly ,talking and
The fact which becomes strikingly giggling and shuffling about. After I
apparent in a survey, of the above
wick
from the pulpit at 'the endtondo
cars are owned in of the servibe ono of the officials of
the provinces which are most essen- t the church came to me and said, "I
Bally agricultural, Thus, with the think you were ill-advised in speaking
exception of Ontario, the territory be- Iseverely to that young man, because
tween the Great Lakes and the Pacific � the' poor fellow is an idiot." I was
coast surpasses In this regard the re - ,much cbagrined to know that unwlt-
mainder of the Dominion. An effort tingly I had added affliction to one
has been made by the Government to who was already too sorely afflicted;
secure information which will have a and ever since then 1 have always re-
beartng neon the extent that agricul- trained froom reproving those who be-
turlsts, as compared with urban dwell- have badly. in church, lest I should be
ars, are becoming possessed of auto- ` reproving another idiot.'
mobiles. 1 "I will not say why I have recalled
The be-
Wo -
province that makes a full these words of my dear old tutor and
classification of registrations of vehl-' will only add that they impressed me
Among the curious things accident-
ally swallowed by human beings are
open safety -pins, staples, small pieces
of jewellery, small toys, and the metal-
lic tip of an umbrella,
Behind and After Him...
"Tom says he has a number of citi
tens behind flint In his business opera-
tions,'
pera-
tions;''
"Yes ---trying to catch tip with him,
I hear."
The letters of the word can are the
initials of the positive statement,
"Oast away negation." That is the Claws on its wings as well as on
first step'fora young man to take if its legs enable the hoatzin, a South
he wants to succeed in a big way.' A-inerican bird, to climb trees like a
-3. E. Greenslade. cat.
the highest figure reached by the ex-
ports of this raw material, and is a
big increase over the .exports of 1,011,-
332
,011,332 cords veined at'$10,359,762 in 1922.
Increasing demands are corning to
be made upon the Canadian forests
as supplies of timber diminish else.
where, and .the exports of the pro-
ducts of the woods assume -a greater
aggregate in trade figures each year.
in particular 15 the United Statesa
heavy importer, more than fifty per
cent, of its Canadian iurportations be
ing made up, of wood products, whilst
on the Pacific Coast a trade; which pro-
misees hi time to rival it is being built
up with the countries of the 021 ent.
The great manufacturers are .not
those possessing vast mechanical
knowledge, but rather those who have
visions and dreams, the men with
courage and hopefulness.—Roger W.
Babson: