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Canada Gets Her Share
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lt C. BUCHANAN INT THE CANADIAN MAGAZINE.
If you have any doubt that the eon- in the view of those who negotiated
ferenca was a sauces, are disappoint- the egreement, the outstanding speci-
ed. wit% its results, don't tell any- fie gam for Canada is relief from
body. .73e careful about what the Soviet state-controlled competition.
neighbese think of your intelligence, It ensures fair competition for this
Twelve inteaEmpire trade treaties, country, especially in lumber and
Count them. Read there. A dozen wheatethe first of which is now vir-
trade treaties between Empire coun- tually excluded from the British
tries, all based upon the giving effect market by Russian price -cutting, and
to a principle never before adopted by the second of which has been subject
the Empire, the principle of Empire to the threat of Russian dumping for
economic co-operation through recip- the last two .years. Britain agrees to
rocal coneessions. Twelve practical ef- prohibit the entry of any commodity
fective treaties intended and designed on which state-controlled prices are
to increase trade within the Empire calculated to frustrate, in whole or
just as soon as Empire industrial and in part, the effect: of preference. Art
commercial agencies can bring them embargo when necessary.
into operation. Seven of them be- Whether the western grain inter-
tween Great Britain, world's greatest ests like it or not, the six • cents a
market for natural products, and bushel preference over foreign wheat
British countries with these products should mean a sheltered market for
to sell. the principal product of Canadian
Twelve treaties that are really one agriculture. The rate of preference
treaty, an arrangement definite and is all that was asked, more than ex -
detailed. for the joint, cooperative des pected. So with the four cents a
velopment and employment of the pound rate on copper, an important
economic resources and facilities of concession.
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the Empire for the Empire's common The reason Canada has not been le
benefit. The broad. foundation and the British bacon market for the last
the first high storey of a new eco- dozen years is that Canadian -farmers
tomie Empire, Imperial Ecanomic claimed the raising of hogs was pro -
unity, - which has not been sincethe fatless at prices prevailing there while
Empire ceased to be, in clays long wheat growing, until three years ago,
past, "England and the colonies." But wee peofitable. Canada asked for a
this is voluntary unity. preference. The agreement provides
It is an arrangement designed not that under any quantitative regulation
to combat world trade, 'but to stimu- of the imports of bacon and hams
late it by prompting the prosperity of that may be established provision will
a quarter of the world's territory and be made for -free entry of Canadian
people, that is not resented by the bacon and hams up to a maximum of
rest of the world but accepted as an 2,500,00 hundredweight. Should this
example and an inspiration in inter- provision in respect of bacon and
national co-operation—the employ- hams serve the purpose desired by
ment of protection for the promotion the Canadian Givernment, it would
of freestrade. go far to encourage diversified farm -
More specifically; a larger, more. ing in Western Caneda, regarded es
the most feasible solution of the agris
definite market in Great Britain for
Canada's natural products, in return cultural problem. And the substan-
for advantagesin the market of tial preferences on dairy and poultry
Canada for the manufactured pro- products should have the same effect,
ducts of Great Britain—free entry for as also the removal of restrictions
those products we don't produce and against., Canadian cattle. Fruit
some that we do, special concessions growers of the eastern provinces and
for others and fair competition for British Columbia also secure prefer -
all the rest. Benefit to both -producers ances. The fisheries and the mines get
and consumers of Canada. the same treatment, the latter on
All these things were the avowed zinc, lead. and asbestos es well ae
aims and objects of the Conference. copper.
All of them are attained in the re- In short, preferential treatment 11
sults of the Conference. • secured for the principal products a
Why, then, suppress your enthusi-
the farm, the forest, the fisheries and
asm? You're had three years
the mines. Most of it repretents new
of
Wor additional preferences over those
gloom. Why "wait and see?" -
granted voluntarily by Britain in the
even, affect that cit. of superiority
tariff act of last December, and it is
toward, these full-blooded, historically
to be remembered that the continuance
inclined sons of old John Bull who
acclaimed it as a new Magna Chartal
The great charter :af. Reneymede eve-
atsatiethie as Well as eesdirised-te
Britons of that day enjoyment of
their inheritance to the measure of
their advancement. What -else does
the great charter of Ottawa do? No
political rights had to be established
here; they existed already. But Ot-
tawa utilized the political Empire
for • the purposes of our present day
civilization, securing to Britishers
throughout their quarter of the world
greater enjoyment of their common
inheritance. So, do not fear that any-
one will call you a fool for beating
your drum about a conference that
has these reeults. You won't be
scoffed at by any wise man. Enthusi-
asm does not imply simple belief that
this Conference has done what no
conference could possibly do. Nobody
thought it was - going to open the
gates on a new heaven and a new
earth. Nobody expected it to restore
the hectic, hollow happiness of 1928-
29. No honest person will say that
what -it.does do is not a great thing
. . for Canada and the Empire.
What are the results, as far as
Canada is concerned?
They are; in a general way, a
share in whatever advantages may
accrue from this new basis of Einpire
economic co-opegabion; and, specifi-
cally, just about 95 per cent. of what
Canada asked from Great Britain,
togethbr with such benefits as may
lie in three separate agreements with
other *dominions. '
Froth the agreement with the Unit-
ed Kingdotn who cotild have expected
more? What was asked that was not
obtained? A preference of 20 per
cent. on lumber in piece of the 11) per
:cent. secured. Something additional
to the 10 per cent. on zinc Enid lead.
A tariff preference on. bacon instead
of the quota secured. That's about all
we didn't get. And about the only
reason we MO get these was the
'admittedly justified concern of the
gain. Th d was blowine
. .
Britith Govertiment for consumer
Simple Values
Herschel Beickell in The North •
American Iteview.
More than one person has found
consolation in the orderly 'process of
nature. More than one person has
been forced iudeed to rediscover that
amid all the, follies of the human race
the sun shines, the rain falls, the
wind makes the same inusic in, the
trees. These simple things were push-
ed into the background during he
recent attack of insanity. It was the
difference between a straight road of
concrete and a roaring automobile,
and a gently winding country lane
afoot. We confused movement with
progress; we deliberately forgot that
there are eternal, simple values in
the world, for which there are no soh-
stitutes. That no matter how far and
fast -we may tun we do not escape
ourselves, and that these selves cax.
not be satisfied by making our livea
more complex. Only the other day' I
listened to a speaker who said there
was no possible comparison between.
the average American and the aver-
age citizen of any other country, for
did we not have newspapers in every
small town, and motion pictures, not
to mention automobiles and radio and
electric refrigerators?
What New re rig
Is Wearing
1ilustrut.ed Dressmaking Lesson lour-
nished With Elver?) Pattern
I wondered if this eulogy were at
all deserved. Spain' came into my
mind, a country whose life has hard-
ly been touched by any of the symbols
of progress just mentioned. What
wisdom is in the Spanish peasant,
comes from the soil. and from life; it
is hard and shrewd, ironically humor-
ous and fresh. Can this wisdom,
which belonged to the American pion-
eer, and which survives in remote
rural regions of this country today, be
replaced by movies or radio? Or is it
true that these thins do no more for,
hiost people than to make them lees
capable of using their native intelli-
gence? This ,is ho argument for a
return to primitive conditions; we
have a civilization with which we
must do the best we can, hut we shall
be better off if we realize that there
is at least a chance that the Average
American is not the finest product of
the human race, and that listening to
Amos 'n' Andy is not really better
for the mind and spirit than spending
an evening in a cafe with two cents'
worth of wine and hours of conver-
sation. A. man can clarify his
thoughts by talking; he finds out
what he thinks as he talks. Fie is at
least active; even if the radio had
anything to give it could not make
people think.
I have had the good luck to spend
of those voluntary preferences was :recent weeks with the sun and the
dependent upon the making of a recap- sea; to wake early in the morning
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In exchange, Canada grants te .
days that newspapers were still bes
Britain additional preferences under
ing published, and to be far more in -
220 tariff items mainly in iron an.d
terested in the housekeeping of a pair
steel products, textiles, chemicals,
O r song sparrows than in the political
leather, glass, gums, toilet articles,
situation. (The housekeeping ended
some of the items going to the free
th tragedy, for the two youngsters
list, others taking reduced preference
were eaten by a varmint the day af-
rates of duty; and "reasonable cons -
ter they made their appearance in
petition" on all commodities of Brit -
the world, but at this moment their
ish manufacture. father has resume his post in a maple
This reasonable competition to be
tree and is singing as if he and his
on the basis of "relative cost of eco -
wife might try again.) All these
nomic and efficient production," is re -
things would be less interesting, pro-
garded by the British as their big-
bably, if -the world outside did not
gest gain. The Canadian tariff is
seem so full of troubles; if one were
not to exceed such a level as 'will
not constantly meeting people whose
secure it, and the Canadian tariff
lives seemed to be ruined because
board is to determine that level, re -
they had lost their money. Those of
viewing duties on British goods at
us who have never had and may fail
the request of the British Government
to syinpathize as fully as we " might:
and giving audience to British p00. to
it is that these people
ducers, its findings to be recommended
are victims of a civilization of which
to parliament for implementation.
nothing is more characteristic thin:
The. only reservation is in the case
its extreme ups and downs. It ie
of products of Canadian industries
not fully developed. It means that easy to say that if, after the depres-
sion of 1921, we had all been satisfied
established and efficient Canadian in-
dustry, competing successfully in to live reasonably we should have
avoided the utter madness of the
world markets, will have to meet fair
last boom period, but the pressure
British competition in their home
toward madness was terrffie, and the
market; retaining protection against
people who kept their heads were
lower British production costs. -
merely lucky.
Net specific result • for Canada:
But have we now learned any real
Larger, more secure market in Great
lessons from our embarrassments?
Britain for the products of agricul-
There are still elements in the situa-
ture (including live cattle, pig pro -
tion that may set us off again very
ducts, dairy and poultry products,
quickly when the wheels begin to
fruits), the lumber industry, the min -
spin. . — And recover we shall, for
of recovery, to a certain degree, at least,
ing industry and the fisheries indus-
try, together with such lowering is as inevitable as disaster; but no -
prices to the consumer of manufac-
body, and least of all contemporary
tuned commodities as may accrue
American politicians, can do anything
from greater competition uncles' lower
about it except to get in the way as
tariffs on imports from Britain; and
much as possible. The disease run
this at the cost of subjecting the Can -
its course in spite of the doctors.
adian manufacturer to reasonable Meanwhile the simple values are
competition on a basis to be detertn-
still here. The other day I was out
tried by the Canadian Tariff Board. in my canoe with. its tall sail—and
A pretty successful conference. Or,
not so very long afterward was out
as one Canadian cabinet, minister in -
of the canoe. A canoe with ns tail
variably' calls it: A (lanai. good bar- .
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win instant approval..
Don't you think the deep ;sae give
it a distinctive appearance.? And the
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sophistication. The skirt is circular,
fitted smoothly through the hips.
And you'd be surprised how inex-
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Make.
Style No. 2554 is designed for sizes
8, 10, 12 and 14 years. Size 8 requires
21/1 yards of 39 -inch material with 'Ys
yam of 35 -inch contrasting and 'd
yard of 35 -inch lining.
For fall, it's ever so smart in dark
blue crepe with white pique trim.
Tweed like cottons and thin woolene
are also fashienable.
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Write your name and address. plain-
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Sunday School
Lesson
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October 16. Lesson ill—The Home
and the Coming Generation—
Genesis 18: 17-19; Deuteronomy 60
4-.9; Mark 10: 13.16. Golden Text
—Train up a chid in the way h
should go: and when he Is old, he
will not depart from it.—Proverbs
22: 6.
1, TEAMING TILE CHILDERN, Gen. 18;
17-19.
IL TEACHING THE CHILDREN, Deut. 6:
4-9.
DEDICATING THE CHILDREN, Mark
10: 13-16.
1. TRAINING THE CHU4REIN, Gen. 18:
Jehavla71-11,91.eavins, for Sodom, reflects
upon the fine character of his friend
Abraham, and the • great futuee that
lies before him because he wit train
his family religiously, Gen. 18: 18, 19.
That training would be made possible
because "I have known him," v. 19,
that is, God lived close -so Abraham,
Abraham lived .ose to God. His good
character would be reinforced by the
patriarchal discipline. The patriarchal
organizalion of society demanded'a
strong family government.
Is its breakdown in modern times
hoes:Mal or 'harmful. Arthur Mac-
donald, American criminologist, says:
"The great bulk of yout.ea ' offenders
comes from the homes where parental
control is lax, or non-existent." Trial
marriages, divorce, domestic anhappi-
nese, are due in great part to undis-
ciplined wins, fleshes untrained to
consider others. Abrabs.m, by wise
discipline, was going to train his chil-
dren and family for useful citizenship.
Ile was to train his children hi right
conduct, "the way of the Lord, to do
justice and judg,ment," v. 19. Psy-
chologists tell us filet a child learns
first of all, to do things, later on, he
acquires belies, convictions. Train
hen to share his candy with his little
playmates, help others first, play his
games fairly. The religious idea,
-Which habits like 'Llese express, ran
then safely be saught.
IT. TEACHING THE CHILDREN, Deal% 6:
Beginning with the training in right
cenduct at the very earliest ..ge, how
about the religiom teaching? How
teach about God? v. 4. A too common
childish idea of God is that expressed
"God won't love you if you are
basil" Dr .adful! This is very harm-
ful., not only from a religious paint of
view, but from the physical and men-
tal. Many nervous and mental dis-
orders are being traced to fear in -
est .11r sthreets of. epuneehment at
a gale, the harbor was doing its best
to imitate -the Atlantic Ocean, and
some people might imagine a more
delightful afternoon than towing a
waterlogged canoe to shore, but there
was fun in it. The water was bois-
terous with a sense of life, and what
is better than to be physically tired,
and to lie flat in the sun on the sand,
and to have a final dip and a rub-
down, with dinner waiting not too far
away? Was it riot true that the
Chinese poet said: The desires _of
217.0t are without end, but the things
that gird content are few and welt
known?
Sots Claim Smallest Bellboy
Daniel. McLaughlin, three and one-
ths Two Hevr4
Perhaps they beat in three•
quarter tinie. Anyhow, Edward
Reynolds fit Pittsburg has two
iearts, much. to the ainazeinent or,
medicos, 011c4. 011e lett and one
on right side.
hung on the doterpost—all rantindere
of the law of God.
III. -UrnieliTING TH.3 CHILDREN, Mark
10: 13-10.
The parents who brought their ...hit-
dren to Jesus (v. 30) were 2onCernel
about tleir spiritual welfare. "Heaa-
ing from the boy?" we ask. "They are
well, and doing well?"—assuming -that
the parents' chief interest in their
boys future is their physical health
and their financial prosperity. But
first • things firet, character and ser•
viceableness.
Jesus reminded his well-meaning
but blundering disciples that "of such
is, -the kingdom of heaven," v. 13. "01
stsch" probably inernbe "belongs to
each"—people considered by society of
no consequence, people who are recep-
tive, real, willing' to accept what they
(le not merit, operaminded, open-
hearted.
"Blessed them" (v. 1() mean::
"bleseci them fervently." The church
has always regarded this incident as
a justification for infant baptisns,
where parents dedicate their children
to Gd and undertake to bring them
up in .a religions way.
The child's first g6ii'latither'is
first saw God in my mother's face."
The mother's prayer at the baby's
crib, while intellectually meaningless,
is nevertheless deve'oping the reli-
gious sense. But some day the child
w11 ask, "To whom am T praying?
Who is God?" The answer, "The good
and loving Father of us all, on: to be
loved, not teased." Guide the child
from bad behavior with•the tears of
God, not with his menacing' tager.
Good deeds make God happy.
Verse 5 "emphasizes the condition of
.
all successful teaching. Children learn
by imitetion and exar.ple. Abraham
is to live out consistently the religious
truths he would teaeh his child. Muth
of our Bible teaching in home and
church is futile bece.use the children
do not see it lived out in our own lives.
Jolla Ruskin tells of the teaching he
is believed to be the smalle.st bell- the perfect meaning of peace
received at home: "I had been. -Wisht
half feet tall, of Glasgow, Scotland,
boy in the world.
SELF-HELP
No government under heaven con
do half as much for any man as
every man can do for himself. —
Dean LefroY.
PRAISE
Praise is well, blame is well; but
affection is the final and most pre-
cious reward that any man can win.
—Mark Twain.
The Big One—"My football days
are over."
The Little One--"Crippledr
The 13ig One. ---"Nope, but Me ses
gotter git me hair out."
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words hurry and disorder I
neves knew in the stillness of my
ehildhood's home. Next to this quite
priceless gift of ewe, I had received
the perfect understanding of the na-
tures of obedience and faith.. Nothing
v as ever promised the that was not
given. nothing ever threatened me
ti was not inflicted, and nothing
ever told me that was not true." Tar -
bell..
Abraham was 1.01; to leave ;he
teaching to other people (v. 7), a point
for socially ambitious mothers who
leave their children's prayer -time, if
any, in the hands of hired helpers,
whose own the chilC. en are not; it
point also for modern fethers who are
so engrossed with business awl club,
that no time -is left foe tie compan-
ionship of their own boys. The ideal
father spends some evenings veth the
boys—"talk with there when thou sit -
test in thine house." He takes time
to go on hikes with thom—"when thou
walkest by the way." "Father's," long-
est walk, too often, is just to the
garage door!
Verses 8 and 9 refer to the little
boxes containing certain 'passages
from theLaw. One was worn on the
forearm, one on the forehead, one was
Silent Room
This is the room he loved with warm
content.
Here ail familiar
•
objects seemed to
tarmony roug
sent.
From easement
reverent
The light fell softly
square
Like a drawn
air
Of the bright
spent.
windows, law acoel
in a glowitos
symbol, from diviner
soul of happy hours
This is the, roora—new every object
here
Leaps out and cries
my grief
With swellingvoice,
wails of gloom
In grim processional behind the bier.
Here there is pain that throbs with-
out relief,
For death has passed across this ail-
ent room.
--By Helen Frith • StickneY.
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Diprotodon Remains Found
Remains of the diprotodone an ex-
tinct marsupial of the Pleistocene age
that was almost as large as a matt
elephant, have been. found is great
abundance in certain dried-up salt
lakes of the central and south Austres
Han deserts. The kangaroos and wom-
bats are the 'nearest living relatives
of this animal, which so far asis
known, was the largest of the ani.
mals that carried their young in a
pouch.—Detrolt News.
Wind Machine Ends Forest Fire
Tests recently proved successful at
Los Angeles of a new methodot
fighting brush and forest fires by
blowing them out with a "wind tna-.
chine."
The covetous man is like a camel.
with a great hunch ou his back;
hea.ven's gate' must be made higher
and broader, or he will hardly get in.
—Thomas Adams.
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