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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1929-05-01, Page 7Does Disaster Face Canada? A Few Items Gleaned dna ran Sources From Coast to Coast Does Not Look Like It Sir George Paish Wrong Re0011t press dispatches have plaed 'up rat118r'prominently the gloomy 'forebodings of . 1lritaiil's champion 1' ,pessimist, Sir 0001%0Patslt. , Sir !George visited Canada in 1919 or !there about and his interpretations of the world's economics were interest - •lug and to say t11e least, disconcer't- ing.. He pictured the post war con ditioa ;as oue where the world had !rolled over a deep chasm and that it was then falling to the evertasttttg and eternal bow wows. Recently Sir, George the gloomy has burst forth again, The world is on. the verge of financial collapse. The writer ;is .Ito dee,.-thinking economic highbrow but he can read and partial- ly understand the written word, if the following news dispatches 10010 coast to coast in Canada. mean any thing they mean that. Sir George Paish has ;once more "missed his putt." w._ P. as compared with •$60,729.3�8 In 4927. Qnta*rno novae Lead, copper Irad ,Foal, in that order, were would appesr tthe lergost. iiredurera, Brings s all► ness so It hat progro0e and ltro1pertty are rpt ltore Rol' Can - ado., Canada Not Disposed to Bar Rum Running I'm Alone, Case Turns Public Opinion Against Request for Tighter Border Control • Ottawa ---Whatever form the :negoti- ation between Ottawa :and Washing- ton over the Canadian. schooner I'm Alone may take it is certain that tate sinking of this boat has destroyed whatever small chance) existed that. Parliament would do something to meet the request of the33111031 States for a tighter control over the border liquor trade. Naturally ,this state- ment is not possible of exact proof, but undoubtedly it is true that public opinion in this country has been shocked and astounded by the long pursuit and deliberate sh1king of the Pm A1gne by armed American' Coast Guard patrols, 200 utiles off shore. Before Parliament there are nu- merous petitions from prohibition or- ganizations praying that it be made a crime In Canada to ship liquor over the international frontier, but in 01- ficial circles it is held unofficially that these documents are signed by the sort of uncompromising drys who, in the United States, would be members of the Anti -Saloon League and that they do not speak tor be great body of the people. Why should Canada, it is asked, concern itself with this purely do- •mastic American 'problem, and make a'crime out ot•what Is now legitimate trading on this side of the line, when on all the evidence millions of Ameri- cans break the prohibition lav, daily and even .men in important official posts seem to show no particular solicitude for it, 'Thus it will he found incotis•euieut eardiug to -this settler's. wife, who con - to .do iglu = at this ,session ^abOnt Goes: • ll a g. fit It one much ,, t i ho ni it n t0 a w •• us meas It is A s g o ,del b the b ;...�.�-- ! can rsave..if one tries, and .living ex•- Brunswick swa New Revises Its IViotor Vehicle Code The Canadian . Province of New Brunswick has recently remodeled' its motor ;vehicle taws. Among the salient features of the hew regulations 000: Open country speed of forty miles per hour. 0ves or intersec- 'No parking on cn tions. Persons over 16 years of age with licenses obtained in the country of their residence may operate a car in New Brunswick for not longer than ninety days in any one year - Jail sentence 'without the option of Line for persona convicted of driving while intoxicated. Wheret results in injury an accident y or death of causes ProPertdamage to the apparent extent of 550 or more, the driver must immediately resort to the proper authority.. From the East Halifax, Nova Scotia.—The- freight import and export business of the port of Halifax this season' exceeds that of last season by about 30. to 40 Per cent. Mottling to the Board 01 Trade bulletins, this has been one of the best shipping seasons the pert has ever had. Apple 0..ipments are about 100,000 barrels head of the 1927-28 season, Quebec, Quebec. -The Pbrt• of Que- bec is preparing forr a busy season as is evidenced bythe activity along the ;waterfront. Montreal, Quebec—DominionBnreau At Statistics figures show February's' exports ot automobiles to be twiee as large in volume as .those for the same month last year, the largest buyers -being the -United 'Kingdom, South .Af- rica, Australi •' h India •audNew: a,B1tis '2iealand; while there were also' some. sales :'tb Argentina, Du101113feet Indies,; -Egypt, •and the -United -States. -Fehr. nary's 'exports 05 passeagee. cue. .amounted 'to :$0,1162,973, compared =with ;2,479;515 1n January and '$1,491,609' in February, 1928. 'Exports to.trucks .amounted to $1,221,716, as'against 57,- • 337,2077 110 January and $551....,172 in February, 1928. From Ontario • Toronto, Ontario, -Canadian bond sales to date, according to the weekly,' summary of A. E. Ames &'Co.,"'aniount to $115,654,289, a; compared with $65,- 215,607 for the corresponding puled of 1928. and 590,920,501 for that of. 1.927. Government issued made to a 2 - 5 - i al of Municipal $25,- 601,189, , total of G 417 00 o n n of583,636,- 100. 83 636 • tion , GD1,1S9, and Corpora$ . 100. Canada purchased to the extent of 581,030,289; the United States 580,- 124,000 and Great Britain $4,500,000. From the Prairies, e , Winnipeg, Manitoba, — Homestead filiugs for the two first months o4 the year m a lumbered 1,416, 1G compared P red numfret with 1,036 for the same two months of 1928. Alberti's entries amounted to 702 as against 502 in January and February of 1928; Saskatchewan's were '595 against 430; Manitoba's 78 against 74 and British Columbia's 41 against 30. , Brandon, hianitoba,-A season of record building activity is promised by the number 01 projects at present in the planning stage or actually in process, In fact, there is every pro- mise of last year's active seasou be lag surpassed. Regina, Saskatchewan.—Tile butter production of the province in Feb. ruary nearly doubled that of the pre. vious February, being 263,912 pounds, as compared with 284,356 ponuds in February, 1928. The. 'winter season as a whole has been an active One in creamery circles with each ` month showing an increase over the. salne. month of the previous year. A special train of tractors, valued at $400,000, recently reached Regina. There were 280 machines in all, oc- cupying 70 railway cars. The tractors were distributed to farmer buyers in Saskatchewan and Alberta, Edmonton, .Alberta. — According to announcement made by different busi- ness firms and governmental bodies, over 57,000,000 111 building is in 'sight. for Edmonton this year. The previa - vial government is planning to spend around 51,250,000 on new construction which' includes a new normal school, $000,000 addlinistrative building, and a $250,000extension to the University hospital fe in prospect. Permits to (date are six times greater titan the total for the saute period last year. From British Columbia irancouver, British Columbia.—Con- struction has ? begun on the Marine. Building which, when completed, will be the tallest building in Canada west of Toronto, towering 18 stories above the northwest corner of Burrard dud Hastings Streets. a,� The D0111111100 Bridge Company will 'shortly begin construction of the.first unit of a structural steel fabricating plant in Burnaby. It will bo opelatetl is conjunction with the .plant the cot parry now owns on False Creek. T10 new unit, will cost' about 51,500,000. Aa increase of nearly 54,000,000 ill the value of the mineral output of Bri- tish Columbia 103 1928, as compared with that 0f the previous year, is toted hi the preliminary report of the' Cauvassiag farm-woriters with a -provincial mltteralogist, The value of navy of his supporters as possible: all minerals is placed at $84,687,601, Story of One Immigrant Tells That Success is Possible in Northern Ontario 'CLIMATE PRAISED The bitter disappointment experi- enced by some Euglis7,t emigrants,: biro tried life in Canada as %whore during the harvest time on Canadian farms last summer, has been noted In these pages, 'with the press explana- would not have been saccessful any tion that some e)1 the die111uaioned where on a term, ilia that others had journeyed to Canada', front England merely as an. experiment Dat now a concrete case of the happiness found on a Canadian farm by a British couple and their children le recorded in the London Times ay the wife of a farmer who has been is the Dominion oft six full -years. She and 'her hue band decided to emigrate, we are told, because Canada offered more scope for a small faintly with limited means than anything they could hope for in . the British' isles, and they Picked out the Province of Ontaelo "greatly ou acount of its proximity to gangland; the idea of being only nine days from London rather appeal- ed to us," At the outset in Canada,, it is further stated, they decided that "they were there more to save money than to make money" for the •flrot few years, because to make money one must first be willing to sink a certain amount, which they did not feel justified in doing at the begin' ring. Their initial effort, it .seems, was the purchase of a fair-sized farm, with a few tumble-down buildings, in one of which they lived while they. were having a boure.buiit. The,new one was a nine -room bungalow,, with an attic capable of .being divided into five more rooms, and with all modern conveniences. including many labor- saving devices. The cost of putting up this grouse in Canada was less than it would hare been in England, 'ac - h r Ontario where we Tenses 4u •Norte u live are -very much lower than at tote; -so" are •rates - andataxei, We' decided,' edecided,' to :begin with, to employ no -labor in' the house or outside except pn special oeeastons, and as I had heard+that a -servant was difficult to. get 1 thbught I. world try to,earry oh without help, though ,I found • it was al'ayd possible to get -a 'girl.' The 'girl' is usually French-Canadian, talks very little Englisit,'receLYes not less than 520, the equivalent to £4, a month, or 11 employed •by ,the day from 51,25, and iv111 do any and every kind of job. "I decided to have a 'gll•P once a week to give me a hand, but I had no idea how to prepare for. :this 'at- tack. Site would appear 30031 after 8 a.m, and expect to work without any n • except a half-hour for lunch, e iterval P until 6.30 in the evening; and I found it almost Impossible to 1eep the sup- ine' al to the d eniand. work 1 Y of ork Y 11et My vision of a restful day, getting through arrears of darning, letter- writing, and perchance a little read- ing,' soon vanished. I _vrould settle down In a comfortable chair with a lawful of socks to mend, when round the door would pop Marie -Rose, 'And now what, Minus?' and I would hue to think out some further occupati'•a for Iter, my carefully-tbrought-out supply for the. day's work. having out and outside off. When there is a } given out by the middle of the morn - parasite in the a> enplane the pilot is '.iug. By 6.30 p.m. she left fresh and smiling, with a dollar and it. quarter in her pocket, leaving behind her a completely exhausted 'Mims.' Even- tually I found myself far more tired after my day's help than any other day in the weelc, so I gave it up, ex- cept about once a month, and when I had given time and thought to Pre• Out of the Depths Again Stanley Baldwin Eternal Boy SCUTTLED CRUISER IS FLOATED AT SCAPA FLOW Called one. of the most remarkable salvage teats ,m marine history, the German warship Kaiser, scuttled 10 years ago in Scapa Flow, is brougllt•to the surface again. " paring 'a reall full ten hours of work. tion into Canada has increased fro One soon gets accustomed to doingl124,362 in 1927 to 132,298 in 1923, th everything oneself, though certain number of British immigrants show things such as washing Can be done. 'out,' but it is advisable • to inquire about the water supply before entrust- ing any' 11ght'coloi•ed garmentstothe hands of a washerwoman." • The secret of success, according to By SIR EDWARD BARRY Mr, Baldwiu has, just figured in an incident in tate British Heinle et Com - mono Nitwit showed him as tiro strong •man with' the manner that is firm, though gentle,. The Postma0ter• General had reflased to see a depute, tion 00 an important national canna tion, The Premier .saw the depute, tion himself, and, In his own words, gave a "courteous reply to a courte- ous request" Sir Edward Parry sag- Bests that this might be a slogan for Whitehall. m e 3 a decrease from 45,012 hr 1997 to 43 229 iu '1923 ,excluding the miner -Iia vests,$, , . . "1f we have had fewer British Sm migrants to welcome during the pas year, we have had more from the Un this farmer's wife, is working by the ted States. In 1927 the number clock,-settitig aslde..deflnite"times for settlers who crossed the internatiou eacli. Joh; and :.beginning and• ending•I boundary to settle in this country, w i , i um er• •" Dura 1928 this. n b at the- set • tinge.:, Ono noon tem -115118;6M g how long .various • jobs talcs, and WO risen to 23,829, :.due, probably, to 1 tread: ; creasing unemployment in the --II "It b an chance theWork is flu1sh ted' States, y y ed five minutes '-'before) -• echedaledil "This means ,that. while iminlgr time it gives one the feeling: of tion from the United States increas leisure, wherea9 if there is a great during the past year by 25 per on deal' to do and one sets •oneself no immigration from Great Biltaiu tine 'limit -one is always chasing and creased by 4 per cent." rushing tound.I don't work so very , hard either. I never start before 7 am., and ,make .a rule to knock off'. all housework and domestic work' at 3 o'clock,, leaving all tea and supper washing-up to •b0 :done the following. morning ,supper .usually having been prepared earlier in the day. I always try to put in half an hour resting and reading•: from 3 to' 3.30, and then I into town e driving n 0 out, very often v g g with the children to shop or to' see friends; or possibly going ot a neigh- boring . farm with a message from m. husband. "I do not think it will come amiss to say, for the benefit of mothers go- ing out: with small families, that itis healthy country for hen y marvelouslyY a children. Last winter there were only two clays on which the children had to be kept indoors; and certainly the open-air lite in Canada, with na- ture as nurse and school -teacher, is one of the best upbringings ,mentally, morally, and physically. It makes \lean liaa+ls the children independent in the right 11 l way, observant able to feud for them- "Most 10811 are not at home in r- ot al 40. ha `s n- ao ed de - yew 1NPi5TANT,iii DOR; Ag11t63TORS tlANQ116T• 14 I III I xi =�• J even Mr. Dir, Baldwin made a pleasant encash the outer day, taking as his text Byron's ltne: Alt, happy yore; Once more who would not be a boy? It is a great thing for a than is pub- lic life to have kept the spirit of boy. hood in him and the honesty to ac• knowledge it unabashed. "I always think," said Ur, Baldwin, "one of the great charms of my sex Le that the best of tis remain boys to the end," and it is that characteristic of our Prime Minister that bas gain- ed. him a place in the hearts ot the people. When Pharaoh Refused The Press desired to dtseuss with the P.M.G. a question of pubife policy, The P,M,G. was sulky and inacces- sible and on two occasions when they called 115 peeped at them over the blinds, but was not at home, So they went to see Mr, Baldwin instead, and had a lleart-tO-heart talk, and came away happy, Our P.M.G. should read about Pharaoh. When be refused to see deputations he found his roll -tem desk swarming with fat, healthy frogs the `next morning. Our mod- ern Pharaohs should study history, The' House 01 Commons wanted to know all about the incident, and Mr. Baldwin was.asked why he had re- ceived the Preits'representatives that the P.M.G. had refused to receive. "In the same •way I always receive them," replied. the Prime Minister; "a courteous reply to --a courteous .re- q uest." - •f o Politinal Leap r g ^ When Bir. Baldwin was=' further, tacked with the • impropriety • of a Prime,. Minister "going over --the .=head; of a trusted Minister" he evidently:re- garded the process as a sort of every- day political leap -frog, and replied with joyous determination: "I never feel. any hesitation -in doing so it 1 think it desirable in. the public inter- est." The House was delighted. For at its best it has the psychology of a col- lection ot schoolboys. And Mr. Bata- via with a boy's instinct, has made just the reply that.the captain of the school would have made B 0Omeone had asked him why he' -had taken oft an efficient bowler and gone on to bowl himself. It had seemed to him ami. 4 the rests 0g that it was the irate That settled it. Extending Canada's Air Mail Service Plane Makes Sucoessfnl Flights to Points in Mac- kenzie Valley, North. west Territories model's improvements in means of transportation and communication aro playing an ineroasing part in the egg tension and improvement of Cauada'a meal service. Early this year both the aeroplane and the radio were utilized 'for the inauguration of a new service to ameliorate 111e postal isolation of the inhabitants of the Northwest Ter. Some more howlers for the exam- inations: Joan of Arc's father was a pheasant. Perkin Warbeck said he was the son of a king but he was really the sou of respectable people. A skeleton is a man with his inside not afraid to jump out. -An optician is a cheerful eye s. 3cialist. A patri clan is an Irish nobleman. All Scotch- men wear :quilts. "The Last Bose of Summer" was written by the man who wrote "Caller Herring." Wolfe said he would rather write an elegy in a country c"'u'chyard than light the bat- tle attle of Quebec. That Canada is not receiving a sufficient proportion of Britons as im- migrants worries some Canadian and some English editors. At prgseut, remarks • the London Daily Express, two Europeans aro entering Canada for every Briton, and this fact is con- sidered "ominous foe the Canadian In January lion. P. J. Veniot, Post- master General, learned that t Western Canada Airways Conipent- had arranged a schedule of, ten Mah:s down the Mackenzie from Waterways, Alberta, to Simpson, in the Northwest Territories. Pilot 0. H. Dickens had been detailed for the work in a Fokker Plane equipped with skis, The. Post- master General immediately made ar- rangements to take advantage of this circumstance. Considerable marl had accumulated at McMurray, near Wat- erways, to be transported by dog -team, and authority was granted to move this moil by plaae on one or more trips. In order to complete arrangements for t10 new service, radio messages. were sent out from Edmonton to the Postmasters at the different posts at which it was intended to call and in this way preparations for t,,e speedy handling of the mail was completed. On January 23 Pilot Dickies Left. Me - Murray at 12,50 p.m. In his Fokker plane and reached Fort Smith at 1i o'clock the same day, At 10.30 am. on the 26th he continued on to Simp- son, which was reached the morning of the next day, having remained over- night at Providence, Unfavorable weather prevented the commencement of the return flight until the morning ot January 27. The plane flew front, Simpson to Resolution on Great Slave Lake and completed the 400 -mile: trip from that point to McMurray in :2 hears. and -40 -:Mattes. •Ga*February 6 -a awed -trip was made+ w!th c a aeity load; leaving 15icBTurrav nt,6,16 a.m.,••proos+edin g to Resoiutibn •anttii'eturning a McMurray at -4,10 .p.m. --'.First-class •mAfl tom dteselutios; Fitzgerald and Fort - amnia ttia 'was brought out on the return trip. All the accumulated mail at McMur- ray was moved, and the emcees at- tending these operations induced' the Post= 'ar General to authorize another flight from McMurray to tato accumulated mail from intermediate points to poste' farther north—Wrig- ley, Norman, and Good Elope -a total distance of 1,993 miles. This was safely carried out during the flrstweek in March. Similar cervices in Northern Canada were those being carried on between Whitehorse, Mayo and Dawson is ar .v 13 II to Jana a Territory.P Yukon nine round -trips had been made this winter, and the speed with. which the services have been perfumed is agate, in striking contrast to that of the n equipment tractor and horse -draw used until recently. Striking evidence of the apprecia- tion in laces Is f o these outlying g p afforded by a letter of thanks sent to the Postmaster Geuerai by the white residents of Resolution, 7.W,T., in which they point out that the air matt service has given them more mail In. tivo trips than they had received dur- ing the last four winters by ordiaary near ing clothes, if they have any other place to go. The Mexican rebels will never win any battles as Iong as they allow the Federals to write the official reports. "We have decided that my son shall future." Says the Montreal Daily be an artist," "Has he a special tal- Star: net?" "Yes; lie cau go a week with. "In spite of the fact that immigra- out food." Old Wartime Leader Starts His Campaign. LLOYD GEORGE BELIEVES IN candidate in the Eddlsbtu•y division LEARNING' CONDITIONS FIRST HAND of giving personal help to as constlttieney, He follows the we11 known plan Microbes Bladed for Street Blow -Up Germs Now Said to Have Causer Explosions in Old London London—The newest danger of cities, a microbe that lives in the ground beneath them and does its best to blow them up, is suspected in London by the distinguished British biologist, Professor J„ S. Haldane, as au explanation of a mysterious explo- sion which tore up long sections of street paving in the Holborn district last December. That explosion undoubtedly was' caused by a gas of some kind which Collected in conduits and manholes underneath the street and exploded violently when one of the manholes was opened and a light struck inside it. The problem with which Lon- don authorities are now wrestling is to decide where the explostve gas came from. Called as au expert witness because of his long experience with such ex- plosive gases in mines and elsewhere, Professor Haldane suggested his start- ling tartling microbe theory at the aright of the gas. It is well known, he said, that mi- crobes which live in the mud of swamps are able to maufacture the gas called methane, which explodes violently when mixed with air and touched off by a match or a spark, This is the "marsh gas" which bubbles out of such swamps, and which is Possible, the distinguished biologist believes, that these seine microbes live in vast numbers in the moist, dirty sub -soil of a city and slowly pro- duce t111s same explosive gas. Pave- ments keep the gas from escaping into the air. Accordingly ,it may ac- cumulate in seldom -opened eoaddits or manholes, prepared to send the whole street skyward if someone fncau• thusly introduces a light, Canada's Mining Advance From a comparatively obscure posi- tion in 1900 with a production of less than 565,000,000, Canada is steadily advancing to the front rank of the mineral -producing countries of the world with a total production In 1928 valued at 5271,000,000,. In the adversityof our best friend we) often find something that Is not exactly displeasing.—La Atoehefoa canid, Possibilities In Canada Realized Sir R. Borden Says U.S. Has Friendly Feeling for Dominion Ottawa—Steadily inreasing realiza- tion of Canadian possibilities is be- coming very evident In the United States, according to the Right Hon, Sir Robert Borden, who has returned to the capital after spending two months in the south. A few days were spent in New Yorir, where Sir Robert had the privilege of meeting at dinner, a gathering comprising many men very promio- eat in finance, industry and transport atiou. He was particularly" impres- sed with their friendly attitude and with their warm aripreciation 01 Can- adian development, progress and In stitutians. " Without exception," said Sir Ro- bert, "they evincedthe utmost faith in the future ot our Dominion, and emphasized its abundant resources. A. leading Now York banker spoke with great admiration of our banlcing eye^ tem and of its remarkable success. "The vice-president of a very Litt portant railway commenter on the fact that In Canada we had practical ly only two railway systems, while fat the United States there are more than 100, and he expressed the opinion that Canada, in this respect, occupied a more advantageous position than the United States, Keen interest was evinced in the remarkable develop ment'of electrical energy in "Canada and the znlnerai development !n the northern portions of Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba. Policeman at Willesden—"I told the defendant'1 was a policeman acid ho replied: "1 altouldn't care a d -- YOU w010 a ntaglstrata,"