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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1930-03-20, Page 3ee hat d''l"bout Empire Free Trade? The Thrilling "Race Horses" of the Northland Try Their SStainina Will Beaverbrook Carry His Plan? The _Question of 'Principle is of Equal Importance to that Of the Financial Bezl'efit or Otherwise Involved in the Policy . - Mr. Reuter, MVI.P„ moved the Empire —it *as reported in levery.paper. in Free Trade resolution in the British -Canada and in a lew in England.— Haute of Commons, but it was tallied "'I was greatly amazed at the inter- t " out. The "Times," commenting on est which ie being shown in Great Mr. Reiner's remark that "Nothing Is Britain' in 'tibia 'Empire Crusade. impossible" says:— 'There is greater interest in pm - "But one thing which certainly de- pire trade in Britain to -clay than even serves that title is the amendmentby i in the time of Chamberlain-, I detect- -the British Parliament of a Dominion ed .a quitedistinct hardening of senti- tariff, Here, M. the .determined ,and •meat in favor of the In-oject'. notorious adherence of the. Dominion. 'lSemetimes T meet with the intol peoples to thelr tariffs, was the first .erable suggestion that Great Britain and greatest obstacle In the way of should wait until the Dominfbn sends Empire free trade, and nothing but a a message to its .that it wants Free campaign far exceeding the limits of Trade within Bre ' Empire. b'bese islands could hope to over- ."'When did Great Britain give up tome It" " the leadership of the Empire? When What does the British Empire think i9 Great Britain going to give it up? of Empire Free Tracie? It is agues- Not while. we can fight the Empire non whioh has to be answered. quite battles, . apart front the statistics as to the A View from Australia wisdom .of the policy, and this week "I go to Australia, about which I much prominence has been given to ant told the same story. Ninety-five the .matter, and a half per Cent. of all the ,export Is there any ,proofthat the Do of that` Dominion is what might be minions and India are prepared, to al- 'called primary export—that,is, agri low British manufacture•d geode to cultural produce, minerals and metals, enter their ports free and •compete timber, and the result of gelling. CM - against their own growing secondary ?lonely, Australia is immensely inter - industries ?" asks the Daily, Telegraph, ,ested in the market of Great Britain, Facts it is Folly to Ignore for here that primary produce finds "Evidence lies et present the other its sale. way. The nationalist spirit of the "It tis. true that Australia lhas built ,Dominions and of India is hard set up considerable manufactures, enter- ,againet such a policy. It was Cob- prises that represent only 30 .per cent._ den's 'dream that the Colonies, at of tbe total production of the country. dhey then were, Would be content But Empire Crusaders do not -with theti• primary industries and . be want to break it down. They do glad to send its raw material in ex- not want to break down production change for our manufactured goods. anywhere. They do not want to the dream was vain then, is the breakit down; they have come to case better' now that these industries build it up. have been so ,fostered and develop- "If we have free trade in the Ent ed? There is wealth in raw mate- pire, anything that makes* for the flats, but in manufactures and sec- wealth and development of Australia endary industry there is • greater is good for as. wealth and there is also power. If "I received quite recently' a tele- one thing is sure, it is that the Do- minions and India are indisposed to look atany proposal which limits or confines their industrial development. "These' are facts which it is folly to ignore, and. which cannot be swept away by ` well-intentioned but .unin- formed enthusiasm. We say this while cherishing th'e fullest sympathy with every well -considered movement for the growth of Imperial trade and with a profound belief in the .value of that trade to this country" Mr. Scullin, the Commonwealth Prime Minister, referring to the Em- pire Free Trade campaign; sem-- "'Pliers ays;—"There is no hope in life of getting Australia to agree to allowing the foods of every part of the Empire to enter free, no matter under what la- bor conditions they are manufactured. No Government pledged to tmild an aecondary as well as primary Indus- 4ries could agree to 'removing tariff protection. We believe in giving first preference to Australia, and af- ter that preference tp Great Britain and to the other Dominions;" "Mr. Scullin, the Australian Prince Minister, has stated in the plainest Possible language •that Australians are determined to make their own goods in their own country by -their own people," comments the Daily Herald. "The Cauadian Manufaetalers' As- sedation long ago proclaimed it their unalterable policy, which has bean endorsed in action by Canadian Pro- teotonist Governments, that the minimum or so-called 'preferential', tariff on British goods must be high enough to 'afford adequate protection to all Canadian producers' The Beaverbrook crusade has :been most sexerely handled in the Canadian press. "The following delleioue quotation As from a recent issue of the Daily Province (Vancouver). After point- ing out that even the United States, although politically homogeneous and a magnificent economic unit, is find- ing out that it cannot liVe to itself alone, it proceeds (under the cap- tion 'Empire Ballyhoo*. "'It is idle to think that we can cajole the people of Great Britain with the pretty Conceit that a tax On foreign beef and wheat will not be in effect a tax food, and that free beef and wheat from Canada will not actually cost more In Britain, be- cause of such a tax, than it would Lost if there were no tax at all.' "That ie Canada's answer to Lord Beaverbrook and it Is crushing." -. Lord Beaverbrook Quotes the Empire But Lord Beaverbrook in his speeoh at Canterbury on Saturday did not shirk this matter, and 'his' evidence in the other direction Is quoted in full. Lord Beaverbrook soak-- "The aid:-"The answer I -get is, 'Oh, yes, the Dominions won't agree' That fs just a piece of nonsense. I' speak first of all of the Domtpion of Canada. I know something of -that Dominion. eThe' Dominion of Canada is as much interested in the economic union of the Empire as Great Britain itself. There is less opposition to the cam- paign of free trade M Canada than in Great Britain, and there is too • much opposition to it, both in Great Britain and 'in Canada. • "I could develop my argument about Canada, 'but I would only say Rio. Mr. R, B. Bennett, leader of the Conservative Party fn Canada, visited England., in the middle of De- cember. "Mr. Bennett went back to Canada supporting' Empire Free Trade—but I don't represent to you that he is he went, back to ,Canada, and .this is what he said in the .Canadian Press gram from Australia informing me that Senator Elliott and lir. John Allen, an, es -Prime Minister of tire State of Victoria, were the mover and seconder of a resolution in favor of the 'policy of Empire Free Trade. They moved it at the ICyabram (Vic- toria) District Council of the Coun- try' Party. • "The Country Party is a very im- portant party in .Australia, and these are two: very important figures in the Country Party. That resolution will. go to the convention of the Country Party for consideration next Mareh, and we shall see if the convention of the Country Party adopts the re- solution. I shall wait patiently and hope fully, firmly believing that the Country Party will adopt that- resolu- tion, "Now we conte to New Zealand, "Mr. Cobb, Minister of Industries. and Commerce, stated in the House of Commons in New Zealand:-- "/ know of no remedy for this state of affairs except, free trade within the Empire, and a tariff against foreign that if we get economies unity of tba tariff they impose on our. exports. "In an endeavor to set up Ibis mg" - 011110 .unit, rest assured we shall get lots of opposition here in Great Bra Min and plenty of opposition in the Dominions. "I am not representing for a mo- ment that the Dominions are em- bracing the plan, but we shall find that if we get ecenomicy unity of Great. Britain and all the non -self- governing Crown Colonies • and Do minions all bound together in Empire Free Trade, then we 'can. compete with the world," ‘Whether this evidence is convinc- ing as to the popularity of the Em- pire Trade campaign readers will judge for themselves. '71e British Empire has survived and grown in the main," asserts the Daily News, "because it has been made so clear that itsideal was that each party in it, however humble, should be left perfectly free to work out its 'own salvation in its own way. WHERE DRIVER AND TEAM ARE A UNITE IN SPEED AND COURAGE Ready:for start` of first day's racing in Eastergt International Dog Derby et Quebec; Emil St, Godard The Pas champion, .prepares for .first • lap of 41 miles of the 123 -mile race. This Is the cardinalprinbiple which 'Empire' Free Trade challenges, The one of then, without exception, while challenge .was answered long ago 1 y the men who "Miele the British' tea Into Boston Harbor." "We represent only one side," says Reynolds's Illustrated News; "tire Do- minions represent the other, Each perhaps ready to favor us asagainst the foreigner, is 11110'11 neon building lip industries of its own, and is not in the least likely to enter into any scheme: hardly even into -any cussion—that will let us have a de- finite advantage over its own indus- tries." "Last „week's debate on what has cone to be called Empire Free Trade Showed up the impracticability of that doctrine," states the Sunday Times. "Admirable as it may be in theory, it could never happen. But one good tiling the campaign bee done is to bring the Empire to the fore in politics. "The development of Empire trade is fundamental to our future .prosper- ity,'and Conservative policy must con- centrate '0n bringing that develop- ment about." "The Adelaide Chamber of Com- merce has decided to telegraph to London a request, for the considera tion of the coming congress of Cham - bars of Commerce' of the Empire, that the next .congrese.be held in Austra- lia," telegraphs the Times correspon dent "The Chamber also'resolved to 3n-. form the congress of its opinion that, since certain Dominion-, like Austra- lia, pursued a policy, of protection, a soheme:of Empire free trade was im- practicable, It'lvas'desirable instead, the Chamber held, to establish a sin- cere, gradual, and .effective policy of trade reciprocity calculated to widen the market for primat'y products and, at the same time, make for the pros- perity of secondary industries. "A special committee of tb'e Cham- ber considered the Empire tree trade proposal and expressed its opinion that while such a scheme }would be advantageous to all primary produc- ers, roducters, it would mean the destruction of Australian industries 'created by an enormous expenditure of private capi- tal and by protection' and also loss of employment for numerous work- ers." orkers." "Technical developments 'will modi- fy the conduct of .wars, but they will not abolish wap, so far as one is able to forecast events."—Admiral von Tir- pit2, A na>tnullah Will • Pay Turkey Visit Report Says Sentiment is Growing in Favor of Return to Throne Istanbul. -Turkish officials confirm- ad,a report that Amanullah, deposed King of Afghanistan, will start for Angora` immediately to interview Pre- sident 1vlustapha Rental. He will re- main at Angora for some time as the guest t of the Turkish Government, wbicb has.put the villa of a deputy in Parliament at his disposal. The deposed king is expected to re- turn to Istanbul later to join the family' of his wife,' Suriya, who says that a strong sentiment is growing in Afghanistan favoring hie return. King Amanulah lied Afghanistan af- ter the throne wad 'seized by 'Bache Sakao, formerly known as "the waterboy of the north." , Battleships and Naval War 1'Ielvin F. Talbot In the Nineteenth Century (London) (The author is a Lieutenant (S.C,) 1n the TLS, Navy). Were war (tetnally unthinkable, the high seas could be immediately dis- armed, except for the floating pollee, which would always be needed to pre- vent the recurrence of piracy and to assure the sasety.of life and Property in lands where local authorities are unable or unwilling to furnish the pro. tection given by every civilized and sovereign State. Such a force might count many regiments of marines, their transport and their train with °Nem in support, but it need in- ch/de no Rodneys, no Marylands,and no Minus. The very existence obat- tleships, despite the Pact of Paris, pre. supposes the possibility of war at sea on an extended scale. These great steelforte, the central bastions of naval power, were built to fight, if fight they must, in tremendous battles on vast and lonely seas. Not by their 16 -inch salvos can distant trader and missionary be guarded, and 'long-suf- fering lands be freed at last from the curse of Haitian bandit, Chinese war lord, or Communist fanatic. Battle- ships are not the weapons of world order against world chaos, but of na- tion against nation, ter ---- "I would rather wear out than rust out. Viscountess Rhondda. brought home the bacon. Mail Plane Makes Successful Test Regina Winnipeg Route Proves Feasible for Night Flying Regina. — Three minutes behind schedule the first Western Canada mail 'plane to make a night flight from Winnipeg to Regina, over the beacon lighted aerial trail of 1330 miles, land- ed. at Regina airdrome recently, It was a teat flight, and proved the feasibility of the western route as far as the Saskatchewan capital, which is the longest hop of the Prairie mail cir- cuit. The revolving beacons, placed at emergency fields in Manitoba and Sas- katchewan, functioned perfectly, guid- ing the pilots over Prairie fart, lands and cities. The schedule calls for completion of the flight from Winnipeg to Regina in 3 hours and 20 minutes, Captain G. A. Thompson, of the Western Canada Airways, accompanied by 'survey pilot P. H. Calder, brought his 'plane to a perfect landing at Regina in 3 hours and 23 minutes. Picked up by a huge search light, giant Foltker-4, built especially for air mail service, zoomed to earth as flood lights swept the landing field. This is the first test flight, and com- mencing March 3 regular service will be maintained between the western cities, Just What They Wanted "Yes," said the eminent oculist, "Jones had a curious affliction," "Really! And what was that?" ask- ed his friend, "Everything he looked at he saw double," said the former. The other shook his head sympathe- tically. "How sad!" he returned. "I sup- pose the poor fellow found it hard to obtain employment?" "Strangely enough, no," said the oculist, "The local gas company snapped him up as soon as they heard of it, He's, now reading gas -meters.' 'The most far-reaching phenom- enon of our time is the industrializa- tion of women."—Will Durant, • Bacon may have writ ten Shake- speare's :plan, but Bill seems to have Nothing Looks so Sad as a Lost Steamer on the Rocks RIDING itle A POINT Or ROCK AT HIGH TIDE SHE TURNED TURTLE AT LOW WATER The Gentian steamer Monte Cervantes, sunk in Beagle canal, cef iishaia, Argentina, after a. rock had ripped a huge hole in Ober bottom making her cargo and hull it total loss. Canadian Divorces Reach 816 in '29 Ottawa, Ont. --A record for the num- ber,of divorces granted was created in Canada during 1920, when a total of 816 marital bonds were,dtssolved. This was an increase of thrifty -one divines over the 1928 total. The report shows an almost steady increase in divorces since 1913, when sixty' final decrees were granted. By 1919, the year following the signing of the armistice, the total had jumped to 376. The fact which throws considerable light 011 the divorce situation in Can- ada is found in the marriage and di- vorce bulletin of the. United States Bureau of the Census. The; statistics of this publication indicate the sur- prisingly large extent' to which di- vorces are granted in that country to persons married in Canada. The bulletin states: "It is possible that many Cauadian;s acquire a resi- donee le the United States for the sole purpose of obtaining divorce, be- cause, In general, divorce laws are more liberal In the United States than in Canada." Fraser Suggests Stations Use More Power Montreal.—Canada will not be be- hind its neighbors to the south in the character and power of its radio broadcasting stations if the reeom' mendations of the Royal Commission on Radio' Broadcasting are carried in- to effect, A. N. Fraser, chief engineer of the radio branch, Department of Marine, weclared, addresing the Eng gingering Institute of Canada in Ot- tawa on "The Development of Radio in Canada. While many of the original stations In Canada employed transmitters rated at from o0 to 250 watts, there now are several stations equipped with transmitters rated at 5,000 watts, said Mr, Fraser, That these still fall short of the -power employed for broadcasting in the nited States was shown in the statement that Ameri- can stationsare employing many broadcast transmitters rated at 50,000 watts. watts. The Unemployment Problem Loudon Morning Post iCons.): No sane mean will pretend that any party holds -a complete cure In its hands; but there are at least remedial mea- sures, Public economy is one et them; the depleted capital of the country should be carefully husbanded so that it'may be applied by our capitalists to productive enterprise. To divert it from the employed to the unemployed, as the Government have done, is folly, To use it for extravagant schemes, like building a Channel Tunnel, for example, would be like pouring it down a drain. What money remains should be left to fructify In the hands of the people who are accustomed tc use it to the best advantage. West Indian Sugar London. Titres Ind,).: At present the West Indies are producing .sugar at an averrr-a loss of from £1 to 25s., a ton. T: L.ie preference Is taken away Lord uliver calculates that the aver- age rate of loss will be £5 a ton. That, of course, would mean the death 01 the industry. As it is, the growers in the West Indies are producing and trying to sell their sugar In competi- tion with the growers of other nations who are supported by high tariffs, bounties, and subsidies, If they are compelled to give up the unequal strag- gle they might be able in one or two 01 the islands to produce other crops for export instead of sugar. But as a general rule they have no alternative. The Despair of Mr, J. H. Thomas New Statesman (London): It is clear that Mr. Thomas has quite given up the hope of doing anything imntedi- ately by way of finding work for the main body of the unemployed. In Mr, Thomas's view, as in that of the permanent civil servants with whom he is chiefly working, there is no short -run remedy or even mitigation. The sole case for unemployment lies in the revival of industry; and that in turn depends in it turn on ratioaaliza- tion. Until we have rationalised our industries, and then recovered our markets, the unemployed must put up with their plight; for, as Mt'. Thomas sees it, the provision of worst, by the State can affect only a small proper - tion of the whole. But this view does not pass unchallenged. Indian House to Take Over Radio Legislative A.sselnbly Decides to Operate Broadcast- ing for Two Years New Delhi, luau—The standing cona. mittee of the Indian Legislative As- sembly; with only one dissenting vote, recently agreed to the Government's proposal to take over the Indian. Broadcasting Company for at least two 'years. The annual expenditure Is estimated at 2100.000 with a carrying charge of 650,000. The state will im- mediately commence operation of, the stations at Calcutta and Bombay, act- ing with the assistance of 'a repre- sentative advisory committee. The action is made necessary by the com- pany's serious financial position. Curse of Phar ohs h Recalled Again Peer's Death Brings to Mind the Superstitions of the Egyptians Against -Disturb. ing the Tombs of Their Ancient Kings. London --The fabled "curse of :the Pharaohs' was recalled recently when Westbury, grandson 01 Queen Vice to7ia's noted Lord Chanccllrm, pInn* ed seven storeys to his death from a flat in London itt which were sevoral exquisite Egyptian art warks labori- ously dug from tombs in the Palley, of Kings, The death of the 77 -year-old peer, u-hich was declared to be ''suicide while of unsound mind,' followed less than three months atter the (Uscov- ery of the body of hal anly son, Hon.. Richard Bethell, 46, in his room at a club. The son, who apparently died in his sleep, had been secretary 20 Howard Carter, tubo excavated the tomb of Tut Ankh -Amen. It was said at the time of the exca- vations that there was a superstition that the Pharaohs wcaild have ven- geance on any persons who molested their tombs, the ill luck to extend tp the families of persons involved. Richard Bethell, it was revealed, had given Lord Westbury ide Egyp- Ilan art works which were in his flat on St. James street where the peer was killed. Spectacular Death Lord Westbury's death was spee- tacular. He fell 100 feet from a bathroom window en the seventh storey of the building, almost causing the death of a charwoman who was beneath the glass roof of a street veranda through which his body crashed. The charwoman, who was cleaning the steps, was knocked down anti cut by tying glass. She was taken to a bcepital, suffering from bruises, cuts and shock. Lord Westbury's grandson, Richard Morland Tollemache Bethell, 15, suc- ceeds to the title. The barony was conferred upon Lord Westbury's grandfather in 1561. The story of "Tire Curse of the Pharaohs,' said to be an ancient sup- erstition which was particularly as- sociated with the tomb of Tut -Ankh - Amen -was first widely known at the time of the death of Lord Carnarvon, who was bitten by an inset, just as the expedition which he headed was ready to open the tomb. Had Presentment Hon. Aubrey Herbert, half-brother of Lord Carnarvon, died later after predicting that "something dreadful will happen to our family,' as a result of the excavations. Dr. J. C. Mardrus, French Egypt- ologist, commenting on "the mysteri- ous series of deaths which comment,• ed with that of Lord Carnarvon,' re- called the -deaths of George J. Gould, who died after visiting theValleyof the Kings, and of six authors and journalists who died within a few years after accepting an invitation to inspect the tombs in the valley. Other unusual deaths superstitious perscros connect with the "curse' in - elude: Sir Archibald Douglas Reid, who was planning to make an exam- ination of the mummy; Wolf Joel, who succumbed to an inexplicable malady after visiting the tomb; . and Prof. Georges Benedite, noted Egyptologist and director of the Egyptian antiqui- ties sectou of the Lr ivre .Museum, \Uso died in Egypt, • The United States and Europe Round Table tLondon): America is now the largest exporter of industrial goods; she has one of the highest tariffs and imports less than she ex- ports; she is one of the largest cred- itors, far the largest as regards pale Iic debts, requiting Increasing pay- ments in respect of debts and f efus'n> to take the goods by which alone thear_ payments can intimately be made, The only possible results is an inerea*ins American capital investment, in one form or another. in other countries. In particular this often takes the form of the acquisition of controlling shares in basic industries. To many coun- tries this process presents the aspect of increasing financial, industrial. and indeed political domination. "We haven't even the choice," said one dis- tinguished person, "of our money cr our life. America wants both. She is not content to beat us. She e arts to buy us up." What the Public Wants Manchester' Guardian (Lib.): A Min- or storm has been raised by the re- mark made in public the other day by the Director -General of the British Broadcasting Corporation that "it is a dangerous policy to give the public what it wants." But Sir John Reith is right, It is only by employing ex- pert pioneers and scouts that the pub- lic ever learns to demand a new en- joyment. The obvious, whether it be the photograph as against the eoncep- titin of the, artist, or the sentimental ditty as against the symphony, is al- ways tine easiest thing to grasp and the more immediately' popular, The B.B.C. leap the happy ,position of 'ac- ing ' able, as a fairly unfettered Sta:e 0010ern, 10give the public both what it wants and what it may learn 'o love and demand, In London recently George Roney celebrated his 20,000th appearanceon;, the stage.