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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1930-03-13, Page 7What About Empire Free Trade? Will Beaverbrook Carry His Plan? JThe Question of Principle is of Equal Importance to that of the Financial Benefit or Otlieie Involved in the Policy Mr, Reiner, T1.P., moved the Empire! —4t wes reported in every pa,per fl Free 'Trade resolution IA the British:1 Canada and in a few in England. — House of Commons, but it was talked " '1 was greatly amazed at the inter= out, The "limos," commenting on est which is being shown hi. Great Mr, Itemer's remark that "Nothing is Britain in the Empire Crusade. impossible," says:— " There is greater interest In Em - "But one thing whicll certainly de- pire trade in Britain to -day than even eervee that title is the amendment by in the time of Chamberlahe I detect= the Dritieh Parliament of a Dominion cd a quite distinct hardening of south teriff. Here, 'in the determined aud ment in favor of the project.' notorioue adherence of the Dominion "Sometimes I meet with the Intel- Veeples to their tariffs was the first erable euggeetiou that Great Britain and greatest obstacle 'in the way of sltaold emit until the Dominion sends Empire free trade, and nothing but a a ineeenge Lo us that it wants Free ' campaign far exceeding the limits of Trade within the Empire. these islands could hope to ovor- "'When did Great Britain give up • !come it." the leadership of the Empire? When What does the British Empire think is Great Britain going to give it up? of Empire Free Trade? It Is a tines- Not 'while we Can fight the Empire Con which las to be answered quite battles. apart from the statistics as to the ' A View fromAustralla ;wisdom 'ef the policy, and this week "r go to Australia, about which. I much prominence has been given, to am told the same story. slelinetSefive the matter. and a half4per 'cent. of all the export "Is there any proof that the Do- of that Dominion is what might be Minions and India are prepared to al- called primaey export—that is, agri- low British Manufactured , goods tO cultural produce, minerals and metals,. enter their pelts free and compote Umber,. and the result of fishing. Ob- egalast their 'own growing secondary \lonely, Australia is immeasely 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 at present the other its sale. , way. The nationalist spirit of the "It is true that Australia has built Dominion's 'and of India is hard set up considerable manufactures, enter-, against :suet), a policy. It was Cob- prises that represent only 30 per cent, den's dream that the Colonies, as of the total production of the country. they then were, would be content "But Empire Crusaders do not 'with their primary industries and be want to break it down. They do glad. to send us raw material in ex- not want to break down production cliango for our manufactured goods. anywhere. They do not want to "If the 'cireani was vain then, is the 'break it 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 Em - ed? There is wealth in raw mate- pire, anything that makes for the Tials, bat in manufactures and sec- wealth and development of Australia . : ondary industry there is 'greater is good for us. 'wealth and there is also power. If "I received quite recently a tele - one thing is sure, it is that the, Do- grain from Australia informiug me minima; and India. are indisposed :to that Senator Elliott and 1\Ir. John look at any proposal Which limits or Allen, an ex -Prime Minister et the confines their industrial. development. State of Victoria, were the mover "These are facts which it is folly and seconder of a resolution in favor to ignore, and which cannot be swept of the policy of E'mpiro Free Trade. away by well-intentioned but main- They moved it at the Kyabram (Vie - formed enthusiasm. We say this toria) District Council of the Coup. - while cherishing the fullest sympathy try Party. with everY well -considered movement "The Country Party is a very im- for the growth of Imperial trade and Portant party in Australia, and these with a profound belief in the value are two very important figures in the of that trade to this eountry." Country Party. That resolution will Mr. Scullin, the Conimonwealth go to the couvention of the Canary Prime Minister, referring to the Em.- Party for consideration next March, • pire Free: Trade eampaign, says:-- and we shall see if the convention "There is no hope in lite of getting of the' Country Party adepts the re - Australia to agree to allowing the goods of every part of the Empire to enter free, no matter under what la- bor couditions they are manufactured. No Government pledged to build up secondary as well as primary indus- The Thrilling "Race Horses" of the Northlami Try Their Stamina WHERE DRIVER AND TEAM ARE A UNITE IN SPEED AND COURAGE Ready for start of first day's racing in Eastern International Dog Derby at Quebec; Emil St. Genlard, The Pa champion, prepares for first lip. of Al nines of the 123 -mile race. Canadian Divorces Reach 816 in 29 Ottawa, Ont. --A. record for the num- ber of divorces granted was created in Canada daring 1929,:when. a total of 816 marital bonds welirilibsolVed. This was an increase %Of thirty-one divorces 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 fad *blob throws considerable light on the divorce situation in Can- ada is found in the marriage and di- vorce bulletin of the United States I3ureau of the Census. The statistics of this publicatioe. 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 Canadian% acquire a rest, deuce in the 'United States for the sole purpose of obtaining divorce, be, cause, in general, divorce laws are more liberal in the 'United Statesthaz in Canada." 3 This Is the cardinal prineiPle. which 'Empire' Free Trade cheileagee. The 4-1 one of them, without exception, while! challenge was answered long ago by. rnanullah Will Mail Plane Makes P• ay Turkey Visit Successful Tes the men who threw the British teai "We represent *only one side," says Says Sentiment isRegina - Winnipeg Ron Report into Boston. Harbor." I R Reynolds's Illustrated News; "the Do -1 Growing in Favor of Perhaps ready to favor us as 'against] Istaniml.—TurIcish officials confirm- Ttegiva. — Three minutes behind the foreigner, is intent upon building schedule the first 'Western Canada mail 'plane to make a night flight from Winnipeg to Regina, over the beacon lighted aerial trail of 330 miles, land- ed at Regiva airdrome receutly. It was a test flight, and, proved the feasibility of the western route as far Proves Feasible for Night Flying minions represent the other. Eaoh, Return to Throne t te Fraser Suggests Stations Use More Power montreaL—canadp, will not be be- hind its neiglabors to the south. in the character and power of its radia broadcasting stations if the recom- 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, addreeing the Eng gineering Institute of Canada ia Ot- tawa on "The Development of Radio hi:Canada. While many of rite original stations - in Canada employed transmitters rated at from 50 to 250 watts, there now are several stations equipped with transmitters rated at r,,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 Amer!. can stations are employing many, broadcast transmitters rated at 50,000 watts. axles could agree to removing tariff proteetion. We 'believe in giving first preference to Australia, and af- ter that preference to Great Britain and to the other Dominions." "Mr. Scullba, the Australian Prime '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 Canadian Manufacturers' As- sociation long ago proclaimed it their unalterable policy, which has been 'endorsed in action by Canadian Pro- tectionist Governments, that the minimum or so-called 'preferential', wilt on British.goods must be high. enough to 'afford adequate protection to all Canadian producers.' The Beaverbrook crusade has been most severely handled in the Canadian press. "The following delicious quotation is 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 nutt- ing out that it cannot live to itself alone, it proceeds (under the cal)- . thin 'Empire Ballyhoo"): up industries 01 its own, andels not in the least likely to enter Into any scheme—hardly, even into any dis- eussion—that will let us hava.a. de- finite advantage over its own Indus-, tries." "Last week's debate on what has come to be called Empire' Free Trade ?ornament at his disposal. showed. up the impracticability ,The deposed king is expected to re - that doctrine," states the Sunday to Istanbul later to join the Times. "Admirable as it may be in. l'amily of his wife, Suriya, who says theory, it could never happen. But that a strong sentiment is growing in one good. thing the campaign has Afghanistau favoring his return.. aone is to bring the Empire to the King Amanulah fled Afghanistan at- tire in politics. I er the throne was seized by 33acha "The development 'of 'Empire trade Sakao, formerly known as "the is fundamental to our future.' prosper- waterboy of the north," ity, and .Conservative policy must con- centrate on bringing that develop - solution. I .shall wait patiently and, limit about!' hope fully, firmly believing that the"The Adelaide Chamber of Com - Country Party will adopt that eesolu-1 Merce has. decided to telegraph to tion. London a eequeit,. for the considerre "Now we come to New Zealand. tion of the coming. congrese of Cham- bers of Commerce of the Empire, that 'Mr. Cobb, -Minister of Industries, the next congress he held in Aintree end Commerce, stated in the House of 'Commas in New Zealand: - 9 know of no remedy for this state of affairs except free trade within; the Empire, and a tariff against foreign that it we get economic unity of the tariff they impose on our exports. "In an endeavor to set up this econ- omic unit, rest assured we shall get lots of opposition here in Great Bri- tain 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 economicy unity of iGreat Britaiii and all the non -seta 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. "The British Empire has survived and .grown in the maim" asserts the Daily News, "because it has been elle so clear that its ideal \vas that ed a report that Amanullah, deposed King of Afghanistan, will start for Angora hureediately to interview Pre- sident Mustapha Kemal. Ile will re- main at Angora for .some time as the guest of the 'Turkish Government, which has put the villa. of a deputy in lia," telegraphs the Time e correspon- dent. "The Chamber also resolved to in- form the congress of its opinion that, since 'certain Dominions, like Austra- lia, pursued. a policy of protection,. a scheme of Empire free .trade was praeticable. It was desirable instead, the Ohamber held, to establisha sine cere, gradual, and effective policy of trade reciprocity calculated to widen the market for primary products and, at the same time, make for the pros- perity of secondary tudireteies. "A special committee of the Cham- ber considered the Empire 'tree trade Proposal and expressed its opinion that while such a scheme would be advantageous to all primary produc- ere, it. would mean the destruction of Anstralhm industries 'created by an enormous expenditure or private capi- tal and by peolection' and also. loss of employment for numerous Work- ers." "Teelmical developments modi- fy the conduct of wars, but they will Battleships . and Naval War Melviu F. Talbot in the Nineteenth Century (London): (The author is a Lieutenant (S.C.) in the 11.5. Navy). Were war actually unthinkable, the high. seas could be immediately' dis- armed, except for the floating police, which would. always be needed to pre- vent the recurrence of piracy and to assure the safety of lite and property in lands where local authorities are unable or uuwilling, 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 cruisers in support, but it need. in - chute no Rodneys, no Blarylands, and no Mitses. The very existence of bat- tleships, despite the Pact of Paris, pre- supposes the possibility of war at sea on an extended scale. These great steel forts, the central bastions of naval power, were built to fight. if fight they must, ia tremendous battles on vast and lonely seae. Not by their 16 -inch salvos can distant trader and missionary be gaarded, and long-suf- tering lands be freed at last from the curse of Haitian bandit, Chinese war lord, or Columnist fanatic. Battle- ships are not the -weapons of world order against world Oleos, but of na- tion eigainst nation. . as the Saskatchewan capital, which is the longest hop of the Prairie mail cir- The Unemployment Problem London Morning Post (Cons.): No sane man will pretend that any party holds a complete cure in its hands; but there are at least remedial mea- sures. Public economy is one of 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 dens, is tollY. 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 to use it to the best advantage. cult. The revolving beacons, placed. at emergency fields in Manitoba and Sas- katchewan, functioned perfectly, guid- ing the pilots over Prairie farm 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. Calaer, brought his 'plane to a perfect landing at Regina. in 3 hours and 23 minutes. Picked up by a huge search light, giant Fokker -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 8 regular service will be maintained between the western cities. each party in. it, however humble, not abolish war, so far as one is able should be lett perfectly free to work to forecast events."—Atimival von Tir- out its own salvation in its own way, pitz. " is idle to think that we can cajole the peOple of Gnat Britain with the pretty eoncele that a tax on .foreigii beer and wheat will not be in effect :a tax on feotl, and that free beef and. wheat from Canada will not actually cost more in Britain, be- cause 'of such a tax, than it would cost if there were no tax at all,' "That is Caeada's answer to Lord Beaverbrook and it is crashing," Lord Beaverbrook Quotes the Empire But, Lord Beaverbrook in his speech at Canterbury on Saturday did not shirk this matter, and his evidence in the other direction is quoted in full. Lord Beaverbrook said:— . "The answer I get is, 'Oh, yes, the Dominions wan't agree.' That is just a piece of uensonse. I speak first of. all of the :Dominion ot Canada. I know someth'ing of that Dominion, "The Dcaolaion. of Canada is as mutat interested in the economic anion of the Emetic as Great Britain itself, Tbere is lOSS opposition to no cam- paign of tree' trade in Canada than in Great Pritairi, and there is too much opposition tett, both in Great Britain 'and in Canada. '• "1 could develop my argument about Canat but 1 would Only say this, 111r, t. 13, Bennett, leader of the Consorvitive Party in Canada, visited Englund in the middle of Do - "Mx,. Bemiplt went bath' to Cauada supporting Thepire Free ',Trade—but --I don't refiresent le you that hp is he went back 10 Canada, and thie Is Oat Ito said bi tiro Canadian Prue "I would rather wear out than rust out." 'Viscountess Tthonada. Just What They Wanted "Yes," said the eminent oculist, "Jones hart a curious afiliction." "Really! And. what was that?" ask- ed Itis friend. "Everything he looked at he saw double," said the former. The other .ehook his head sympathe- tically. "How sad!" he returned. "I sup- pose the poor fellow found it hard to obtnin employment?" "Strangely enough, no," said tile oculist. "The local gas company •sampped him up as soon as they hemd of it. He's now reading gasaneters. West Indian Sugar London Times (Ind.): At present, the West Indies are producing sugar at an average loss of from Li to 25s. a ton. If the preference is taken away Lord Oliver 'calculates that the aver- age rate of loss will be £5 a ton. That, of course, would mean the death of the industry. As it is, the growers in the West ladies are producing and trying to sell their sugar in, competi- tion \vita the growers of other nations who are supported by high tariffs, bouales, and subsidies, If they are compelled to give up the unequal strug- gle they might be able in one or two of the islands to produce other crops fot' export instead or sugar. Bat as a „ general Tule they have no alternative. "The most far-reaching phenom- enon of our time is the industrializa- tion of women."--1,Vill T)urant, Bacon may have written Shake- speare's pies, but Bill seems to have brought home the bacon. Nothing Looks so Sad as a Lost Steamer on the Rocks •r.^°`` tirrorturN. , S' RIDING W WATER a' The German st rumor Monte Cervantes, SnakArt Beagle eanal, Ushala rgentinn, atter a 'rock lied ripped a huge bolo in her bottom making her Cargo and hull a:total ]ass, The Despair of Mr. J. H. Thomas New Statesman (Loudon): It is clear that Mr. Monies has quite giver up the hope of doing anything immedi- ately by way of finding, work for the main body of the: wiemployed. In Mr. Thomas's view, as in that of the permanent civil servants with whom he is chiefly working, there is uo short -run remedy or even mitigation, The sole ease for unemployment lies inthe reviviti ot industry; and. that in tura depencle in it tarn on. ratioattliza- tion. 'Untilewe have rationalized our industries, and then recovered our 'markets, the unemployed must put up With their plight; for, as Mr. Thomas secs it, the provision of work by the allenged. Stale can officer propor- tion atthe whole. But this view does not pass unch Indian House to Take Over adio Legislative Assembly Decides to Operate Broadcast- ing for Two Years New Delhi, bidet- 'rhe standing com-: Marto of the Indian Legislative As- sembly, with only ono dissmat big vote, recently teereed to the Clovernmerits Proposal So take over the lntlinfl BrogaeaStfilL; Company for at least two year, The annunl expenditure is estimated at 8100.000 with a earrying charge 01.Vi0,000. The etate will ine- mediatelale corrorienee 'operation of the stations at Calcutta and Bombay., act- ing With the assistance or a repre- sent at iv e advisory (10 mmit t ee. The ac,tin l made necessary by the vein- Pany's serioas finaucial position.