Zurich Herald, 1927-03-31, Page 7•
CAVA
IAN RAILWAYS
PLACE CANADA THIRD
IN WOR 'S of c
E RACE
THE. COURAGE OF HER
PEOPLE INDICATED BY
CANADA'S RAILWA''
GROWTH:
Unexcelled Transportation Of-
fered All Parts of Our
Great Country.
Ninety years ago Canada had six-
teen miles of horse -powered railway;
to -day our country has the third larg-
est mileage in the world, The world's
total estimated mileage in 1924 was
738,677. of this onestJhimd, or 250,282 .
miles, is in the United States. Next
comes British India with 40,401, and
Canada a close second with 40,061.
COST TO CANADA.
The bill for this extensive mileage
has had to be paid and the total capi-
tal liability amounts to $3,413,865,613.
The Dominion and Provincial Gov-
ernments have advanced, guaranteed,
ren assumed directly, a total of $957,-
272,059, or the country owes nearly
$24;000 per nage on the total trackage
in Canada. Besides this, the govern-
ments, both Dominion and Provincial,
have given crown land subsidies to
the extent of 47,194,880 acres, which
at a moderate valuation of $10 an acre sometimes deposited in or upon it,
brings the value of government assist- 1 13°
for the interest of unborn genera-
tions who, •ages hence, shall grub
among the ruins of our ancient, and
perhaps forgotten, civilization.
We speak of the foundation stone
off society, of the Church, of the
State. It stands always for the thing
of chief importance, upon which the
whole fabric rests, upon which, in
the ultimate resort, its stability de-
pends.
That is why we say that the
hearthstone is the foundation stone
of the highest civilization we know.
Does this still remain true, despite
much modern criticism of marriage
and the Home?
Burns put the case for the perma-
Major G. H. Scott
British airman, who piloted 11-34
across Atlantic, is 'Likely to come to
Canada to a41viee on aircraft matters.
Foundation Stones.
The laying of . a foundation stone
has always been a highly significant
act in ceremonial life. The stone
itself is usually inscribed with
names, and strange treasure-trove is
ante up to the staggering total of
nearly $33,00 per mile of road con-
structed.
RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION AND
POPULATION.
A study of the census returns and
railway construction over a ten-year
period shows a strong relationship.
Whether heavy. -construction was res-
• 'sensible for a corresponding heavy
immigration might be hard to prove,
but the fact remains that from 1911
to 1921 Canada built a :larger mileage
of rail than for any corresponding
period (21,223 miles), and the in-
crease in population during that per-
iod'was nearly 3% millions, the great-
est gain in any 20 -year period in Can- nent significance and value of the
ada's history. Even with its great hearthstone in his famous stanza:
e increase in population Canada is still To mak' a happy fireside clime
'a sparsely settled country. We need To weans .and wife, •
That's the true pathos and sublime
0' human life.
CAN
DED BY NEW PACT
Each Country in Position ;to
Furnish Many of the Re-
quirements of the Other.
A -CUBA TRADE'
millions more on our, great Western
lands before your great railway enter-
prises can possibly pay, but we are
now ready to offer reasonably con-
venient transportation to prospective
settlers.
-T... R<iILS AND "F0NNAGE.
•
"There's nowt so queer as folks"
says the Northcountry philosopher,
and that queerness is not more pat-
ently manifest than in the current
illus against the institution of afar-
ae.sengere carried 42,921,809, with a
gloss earning of $445,923,877, with
operating expenses of $382,483,908, or
a net revenue of $63,439,969, or less
than per cent. on the total capital-
""iza,tion of 33 billion dollars. So it
can be easily understood that increas-
ed population and increased business
are the: only solution of our country's
problem as to how to make eur rail -
MARITIME PROVINCES
REAP SPECIAL AD.
VANTAGE.
'Peoprle •yx o .live "in hot -houses can
never be trusted to read the ther-
mometer. Besides,,_ it is always a
foolish, and futile exercise to gener-
alize on insufficient data. Yet that
is what over -clever people are con-
stantly doing when they discuss mar-
riage and family life.
Instead of taking a sweeping sur-
vey over the world's most highly -
'developed communities, and taking
ways pay. account of the myriads of happy
HUDSON LAY RAILWAY. I homes contained therein, they search
A further $5,000,000 is to be spent i the columns of the papers for the
this year on the completion of thel scandalous and the erotic until,
Hudson Bay Railway. Expert opin against one of the oldest of axioms, the
ion seems to point to' this railway ex-! part becomes greater than the whole.
tension being a boon to the we stern These pessimists look at us all
shipper of wheat. There is only somei through smoked lenses, and see,
ninety miles of steel to lay on already i through dim clouds of their own
graded right of way to complete the, making, the world as a battle -ground
road, and the terminal facilities at of disgruntled pairs, instead of a
Fort Nelson have already had some i paradise of happy homes. They
six millions expended thereon. Re- i magnify . misery ten thousand times,
ports indicate that a rich mineral and minimize . happiness and con -
country will be opened up and the, tentment in a like degree They give
fishery industries will have an impetus' us slow-motion pictures ,,of happiness
by being brought directly in contact And accelerated representations of
with the great Western market. We,!'the wider side of life, until some
as Canadians, may well be proud of think marriage "stodgy," and life at
our great railways systems :the two � its best little better than a dance of
Expansion of trade between Can-
ada and Cuba is to be expected as the.
result of arrangements .which have
recently been made between the two
countries for the extension of mutual
trade preferences, Through negotia-
tions, made on the one hand by the
Canadian Minister of. Finance while
on a visit to Cuba, Canada will receive
preferential treatment from Cuba and
the products of that country will be
admitted to Canada on terms.sim'ilar•to
those extended to France and other
favored nations.
The most friendly relations have
existed between Canada and Cuba and
there has been evidence for some time
on the part of the Republie of a pro
nounced inclination towards forming
closer ties in a trade. way. Of.. this,
Canada has not been slow to take ad-
vantage. It has been a simple matter
of negotiation, sine the products of
the two countries are so widely diff-
erent, each being in a position to fur-
nish many of the requirements of the
other.
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.
Mutual trade between the two coun-
tries has expanded considerably since
the war, and this tendency is now
Likely to be stimulated. " In the year
1916, Canada, imported from Cuba to
the value of $1.540,519 while export-
ing to that country to the value of
$1,431,290. In the twelve months
ended November, 1926, the Dominion's
imports from the Republic were $8,-
074,101, while her exports to that
country amounted to $8,099,890. The
tendency, however, has been for Can-
ada to buy from Cuba to a greater
extent than she sells to that country,!
as indicated in the figures of previous
corresponding years to the above when
export trade totalled $7,486,472 and'
imports amounted to $11,424,570. It' The proposed cut-off which the
is only to be expected that the trade Canadian National Railways proposes
treaty will stimulate Canadian exports to build, with the authority of Paella -
to Cuba and bring about a more stable
and evenbalance of trade, i meat, between Pilkington and Niagara
largest individual systems in the
world --the Canadian National, with
tome 22;000 miles, nationally operat-
ed, which is the largest system in the megaphone methods—the Press, wire -
world, and the C.P.R.; which follows less, the vast growth of cities—to
close behind with over 18;000 miles' mask and hide the essential right -
'under one management.
death.
These are obvious distortions of
truth. There is much in our modern
- PO
More Speed.
ness of, our great social conventions,
to which the vast majority of civi-
lized folk adhere. Besides, the sobs
of the world are much more in -
NEW C. N. R. LINE WOULD REDUCE
MILEAGE TORONTO -BUFFALO
V-,
Str Catharines'
i erritton,
Thorold
Suspension Br.
•
Pilkington
Welland
Pt: Colborne
aorlerich
Proposed New Lines aoioNiamisao
Existing Lines
The principle imports of Canada
from Cuba, as indicated in the trade
figures of the last fiscal year, are:
sugar, $9,982,000; tobacco, $823,246;
and cigars, $116,926. The Canadian
sugar refining;,,; industry, which has
been built up entirely an inipo>•
Junction will be 16.7 miles in 'length.
The continually increasing business
through the Niagara gateways has for
some time past necessitated the in-
vestigation of further track facilities
raw to .Bridgeburg. On. that part of. the
,oeite.,Wellan ialata •on to _B.,aadgeleurg,,
Vieie extent i t iCuba
than fr"oin any other individual coun-
try. Imports of toliacco from Cuba
are quite substantial and that coun-
try is Canada's chief source of im- or other trackage had to be consider- securing to themselves what will am -
ported cigars. Both are products the ed. In this connection a desire for a ount to perpetual and practically ex -
importation of which is likely to be shorter and faster route Toronto to elusive rights over these tracks. This
affected in the future, the one by the Buffalo led to the railway investigat- may take the form of a long-term
progress of the domestic sugar beet ing a 'ent-off in lieu of double -tracking lease of, or possibly mean the purchase
industry and the other by the growing Welland Junction to Bridgeburg of the line Bridgeburg to Windsor. In
appreciation of home-grown tobacco, (Niagara Junction). After investi- the latter event the •Pilkington -
but it will be some quite considerable Niagara Junction cut-off would be re -
time before such influences are felt.
OF BENEFIT TO MARITIME PROVINCES.
The principal exports of Cuba are
potatoes, $3,915,513; wheat flour, $1,-
118,198; whiskey, $855,786; hay, $74,-
398; fish, $959,574; condensed milk,
$375,185; planks and boards, $154,-
163; newsprint paper, $179,464; auto-
mobiles, $11'7,148; copper wire and
cable, $69;000; electric apparatus,
$73,000; and calcium carbide, $359,-
384. Cuba vies with the United States
for position as Canada's first custom-
er for potatoes, in the last .fiscal year
taking about fifty per cent. of all
Canadian exports. The flour trade
with the Republic looms up quite im-
portantly. Cuba is a heavy purchaser
of dried codfish, dried haddock, smok-
ed herring, pollock and particularly
canned salmon.
While the diversity of Cuban ,im-
ports from Canada would seem to en-
sure a general benefiting for the De -
minion trom the treaty it must inevit
abrnly re -act to the especial advantage
of the Maritime Provinces. Most of
the trade with Cuba is carried on
through the ports of the Maritimes,
triguing than its smiles.
from which there are regular sailings,
Manchester Guardian (Lib.): Theyet Home continues to be one of and the treaty should bring them in-
:First C,ommiseioner of Works express the great 'little words of our Ian- creased activity. Further, it is the
eel himself as "filled with dismay" at uaae it as an aroma which the products of the Maritime Provinces
the s,tggestion that railway trains foetid atmosphere of the divorce which are.largely in demand in Cuba.
should he triads to run at.150 miles an with these
,court Cannot spoil. Certain it is that three potato
provinces, is alone
hoar. I'f some trains were run this foundation stone be removed,' p
-
bavine shipped 424,106 bushels to the.
Republic last year. This is almost as
wholly true of the fish trade, while
where the Wabash Railway has joint
running rights on this former Grand
Trunk line, the business •has reached
such a density that double -tracking,
C AA'S HENS
BEST OF LAYERS
Quality and Productiveness of
Our Poultry I3rings World s
Congress to Ottawa.
ROYAL EXHIBITS AT 192/
CONVENTION.
Why is Canada the best country in,
the world in which to raise domestic
fowl of all kinds? This is the question
that many thousands of people, who
do not live in the Dominion, are ask-
ing themselves. They have been led
to propound this query because of the
magnificent display of birds made by
Canada at the World's Poultry Con-
gress in Spain in 1924, and also be-
cause of the fact that Canada holds
the world's egg -production records
both for a pen of ten hens and for an
individual hen. As a consequence
they will gather in Ottawa for the
third World's Poultry Congress from
July 27 to August 4, 1927,
A good many Canadians may feel
that because they do not know one
breed of poultry from another they
have no interest in this gathering,
but, if so, they miss both its national
and perabnal significance. In Europe,
particularly in Great Britain, the ad-
vancement in poultry breeding is
largely due to the personal and finan-
cial assistance given by leading citi-
zens. His Majesty King George and
the Prince of Wales (both of whom
will have exhibits at Ottawa) are
amongst the outstanding poultry
breeders in the Empire, and -their ex-
ample is followed by hundreds whose -
purpose is patriotic and philanthropic
-persons who are interested in birds:
because they are more keenly interest-'
ed in men. It is expected that the
Congress in Ottawa will be attended
by about -seven thousand delegates
from outside Canada, hundreds of:
whom conte with the idea of seeing
whether a country which produces:
such fine poultry would not be a good:
place for men and women from the
over -crowded agricultural areas of
Europe. The more citizens from die
ferent parts of Canada there are at;
the Congress the more likely the out-
side delegates will be to learn some-
thing of the different provinces and to'
take back with them an adequate con-
ception of what the Dominion has to
offer.
double -tracking Welland Junction to
Bridgeburg.
The railway management feels that
it is necessary to have in hand the
authority for the construction in order
to meet eventualities. The Wabash
Railway, by an agreement in 1919
have for a period of 21 years running
rights over the Grand Trunk Railway
tracks Bridgeburg to Windsor as their
main route into Chicago, and their
business on part of that line, Welland
Junetio,,,- tot -Windsor, occupies.. the
main ase of the line. They have now
approached ' the Canadian National
Railways with a view to negotiating
a new arrangement having in view
a, little faster many people who travel ,oven if its stability bo threatened,
on them would be more pleased; butthe end of the structure we call civi
that manypeople want to sea trains lization will be in sight. hayand lumber Catr best be
moving at twine the fastest speed 1
So long g as there is a girl to love I , p
which i
furnished by this sante territory.
s reached to -day is exextremelyand a man to love her; so long
as
nnldkely. It ie tho 'merest truism to the hands of the little children hold
bo that in the long run. no time would tight to the heartstrings of both, so
be saved by such. an alteration; the! long will the foundation etone of
paradoxtoal but perfoc 1y accurate society remain "well and truly laid."
moral: ofthe history ofthe lahurt.y«-
diad years is that the faster we move
the less time we have to spare. In•
oiveas'e the speed with which distant
places can be reaclbed and you increase
tate number of distant places which
bwve to be visited.
Why Leave Him?
Winnipeg,., Tribune (Ind. Cone.):
Cattada, as per suggestion of Presi-
dent Coolidge, is considering the
question of reduction of naval arma-
ments, according to Ottawa diseatchee
To produce any . material evidence of
good will, Canada is earnest reduced to
the necessity of shoving a midshipman
off a cloche.
Kind of Laborer He Was.
Reggie ---"Yes, I'm only a day labor-
er, you know; but iutwf. the time i
don't work."
She• --"Then you're only an every
other day laborer, I'd my,"
He Won;
Two men who had "traveled were
comparing. their ideas about foreign
elties.
"London," said one, "is certainly the
foggiest place in the, would."
"Oh, no, it's not," said the Other.
"I've been in a 11lace mach foggier
than London." ' lashed at $20,000 a •eo(ry, Oft March 18, Described.
"Whero was Llan asked his he Only 10 of 22 Copiee printed will be When a certain boy was asked what
gation of several possible lines, the
proposed. branch was selected as the
best. It will shorten the distance be-
tween' Toronto and Buffalo by 8 miles.
This extra trackage via a new line,
Pilkington to Niagara Junction, was
.found to be more economical than
quired to be built, but no new money
would be necessary as there would be
funds from the sale of the other line,
but authority from Parliament is re-
quired in order to furnish charter
powers for construction.
Poor Quebec.
Ottawa Drait (Ind. Lib.) : The de-
cision of the Privy Council, which is
unjust to Canada, gives rise to all
manner of suppositious. . New-
foundland has been favored by the
Privy Council because it is or appears
to be more 'loyal than. Canada. As for
SCIENTISTS' OP REPUTE.
The Congress will include also many'
scientists, of international reputation'
in biology, genetics, pathology, zoos
logy, etc., from all the countries of
Europe. There will be a large num-
ber of British agricultural county
agents, and the representatives of the ."r~.
great importing houses of Western' -
Europe. These will be, so to speak, in
addition to the world's great experts;
in all lines of poultry breeding and in'
the production and marketing of poul-
try (live and dead), eggs, equipment
and supplies. There will, therefore;
be very much to interest all patriotic
Canadians, whatever their profession
or business.
Representatives of thirty different
countries will attend, and there will
be one of the greatest displays of poul-
try ever assembled, in which it is be-
lieved Canada's part will not be in-
significant. The delegates will be wel-
comed by His Excellency the Gover-
nor-General, and by the Prime Min-
ister. The Minister of Agriculture,'
the ministers of agriculture of the
various provinces, and other promin•
ent citizens are on the congress com-
mittee, which bas all the details in
charge.
The Congress officers aro: Press -
dent, Mr. Edward Brown, London,
England; director, Mr. F. C. Elford,'
the Province of Quebec, it has noth- Dominion Poultry Husbandman; sec-
ing to be grateful for in the treatment retary, Mr. Ernest Rhoades, Trans-
wbic,li it receives in the highest tri- portation Building, Ottawa.
banal of the Empire. Last April it
lost its use in the matter of the Rouyn
Railway. Some years ago its French
laws were attacked in the I)espatte-
Tremblay case. And when the Privy
Council declared Rule 17 to he "ultra
Standard (Ind.): The break-up of the
vires," it was Preach culture and the family, would mean the dissolution
of saeiety, and the lees of the purest
survival of our re or tirlascich were affections whndclr satnctify human life.
placed i peril, lire Province
I know no more detestable scan lie.
Prime it wliow of the Province of than the wish of that niioat entiutifud
Quebec, who went in person to Lon; sou, Samuel Butler, that the genera -
don to defend the cause of his
pro.
ro tion died not overlap, so that we treed
wince in the Iolrldcr affair, will no not be bothered with our parents. need doubt efficacy
a lower anti. in discussing not leek, ho would say, was much to
this aint i of the h connection be congratulated "-he was horn an or -
He
our territorial artd moral plemen
independence•.
He Wrsn't Sacked.
Ono morning an invoice clerk turned 0X1N&
up at his office. even later than usual.
His employer, tired of waiting for him,
had Himself gone about the work. The
enraged merchant laid Itis pen aside
very deliberately.
Mr. Tones," he said, sternly, "this
wlill not •do."
"No, sir," replied bones, glancing
Family and Society.
Dean Inge in the London- Evening
Col. Thomas Edward Lawrence over hie employers a fou er, t w !.
Whose book, "The Seven Pillars of net. You have made these invoices
Wisdom," recounting In 300,000 words out to the wrong people, Far better to
his experiences among Moslem tribes- have waited till I came!"
nen during the great war, was pub-
telestect friend.
"I don't. know where it was," replied
the seconcl man, "int was so foggyea
When Augustus Nodded-
Ono of the questions in a historical
paper tau gills' school just before the
holidays began was: "What do yon un-
sold to the public,
Johnny Knew.
lsittle Joltnn.y, a city bort' in the coun-
try tor the first tunes, saw the milking
of #t coW.
"Now you know wltee the milk
Conies from, don't you?" he was askei.
dersteild byethe Augustan Era?" Ona "Sure:" replied Johnny. "You give
girl answered: "The Augustan eta was t:he cow some bretiket st food and
n mistake of AugtrstuL" cater and then drain the crankease."
soda -water tastes like, 11e replied:
"Like your foot's aeloep."
Ple must be a brother of Vieille lad who
remarked that vinegar tasted like
".thawed sand—paper,"
Another boy, of tko same family,
having for the first time got a mouth-
ful of Carle -peppers, exclaimed, with
tears in his eyes:
"No m«l'C medico and pills on toast kind?"
for me!" 1 "What other• kind?"
147/
N ALL OCCASIONS
A 130XE SHOULD
KELP H15 EEtT ON
THE ,GR.OUND. ex
Yes, What Other?
"Do you like long-drawn-out after-
dinner speeches es well as the other