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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1924-09-04, Page 6feu 1 iY SEAPORTS OF' THE DOUNION EACH HAS ITS PECULIAR PLACE IN OUR ECONOMICS. • Montreal Ranks Second on American Continent; Van- couver Leads as Grain .Exporter. The post-war era in Canada has been featured by a very gratifying ex- pansion in the trade carried on by the Dominion with foreign countries, the value of the total volume of trade transacted having increased in the de- cade between 1914 and 1924 by $822,- 175,439, 822;175,439, or more than seventy per cent. With this development, .and the great- er bulk of trade coming to and leav- ing from Canadian seaports, has come a corresponding rise in the .prestige of those oceanic outletsof the Do- minion, and most of the ports of Can- ada . have undergone somewhat of a revolution and occupy to -day a much more important place in world con- sideration, Canada has five principal seaports, Montreal, Quebec, St. John, Halifax, and Vancouver. Each of these has its peculiar place in Canadian econo- mics. Montreal and Quebec, being situated on the Gulf of the St. Law- rence, and reducing the rail haul from the great producing interior, are the great summer Atlantic ports whence the greater part of Canadian export trade leaves between. May and No- vember and most of the important trade is received. St. John and Hali- fax are the winter ports whose great- est activity commences when frost has gripped the St. Lawrence river. Van- couver is the great Pacific outlet and inlet for the increasing trade which is being carried on with the countries of the Antipodes and Orient. Great Increase in Traffic.• The total volume of Canadian trade transacted by these five ports in the past fiscal year amounted to $690,648,- 168, or approximately 35 per cent. of Canada's total trade for that year: Montreal is easily Canada's first port with a total trade in •the past year amounting to $380,984,136, of which imports accounted for $191,867,086 and exports $189,116,050. 'Vancouver is the second port in importance, hav- ing had a total trade of $152,407,534, of which $53,808,630 was import value -and' $9.8.598,904 that of export.. St. John ranks third with a total trade .value of $77 562 8Q5, $20,622,689 being; import and $56;940,116, export trade. Total value of trade at Halifax was $47,521,132, being made up; of $17,051,- 617 representing imports and $30,469,- 515 exports. The total trade handled at Quebec had a value of $32,172,561, of which $16,240,993 was import and $15,931,565 export. The great increase in the traffic car- ried on by Canadian ports may be realized in a comparison with the figures of the year 1914. In this ten- year period the total trade of these five ports has increased by some 86 per .cent. It is gratifying to note that this increment has been to the .great- est extent built up by increasing' ex- port trade, the increment in this, case in the period amounting to 116 per cent. This is very clearly illustrated inthe case of Quebec and Vancouver. Quebec, which formerly was :doing a .vastly greater import than export trade, has now drastically reversed the situation. In 1914 the exports from the Port of Vancouver were less than half' the value of imports; in the past year Vancouver's export trade had nearly double the value of the im- port. Take Places as World Ports. That the trade of these ports is in- creasing at the present, time at a re- markable rate, whilst naturally sug- gested in trade figures, is. borne out by the value of business handled at these ports in the past few years.. Taking the years 1922, 1923 and 1924, Mont - rears imports have been $167,812,273, $173,938,311, and $191,867,036, and ex- ports $158,518,544, $17,898,637,' and $159,116,050 respectively. Substan- tial increases in import and export trade are recorded in the cases of Quebec, Halifax, and St. John. The annual increments in the case of Van- couver ere an-couver.are outstanding, imports in the three years being $48,236,845, $46,965,- 214, and $53,803,630, and exports $42,- 367,051, $61,713,505{ and $98,598,904. In the strides they have taken -since the oonc'lnslon of the war with the de- velopment of ,;Canadian trade, the status of the ports •of the Dominion has been, in the continuous ascendant, and from having almost purely local standings some of them have come to take their places with the oldest and longest established seaports of the world. Added to this prestige . are various developments under way at the present time or presaged which augur• for thein yet greater interna- tional importance. Montreal, to -day, for instance, has become' the fifth among the great seas porta iif the world, ranking after New r York, London, Liverpool, arid Ham- burg, or taking a place. after only one port on the Anieri•can Continent; Vae- cauver has rapidly overtaken other i ports on the Pacific coast, until in ton- nage handled it is exceeded' by two only el thorn, and leads the entire 1 Oita as an exporter of grai), At both t).teae ports devgopments are under way for a vastly greater traffic pres- aged, calculated to further enhance the prestige of Canada's great ports in the Past and West. A Little Green Lane. A little green lane goes through mY mind, • A lane that my heart runs back to find; A lane here the air iscool as dew, And the ferns are high andthe rocks are few, And every branch of the tallest tree Would whisper a fairy tale to me, And every bird had a golden note In the song that came from his crim- son throat, And life had a hundred gifts to give, And I had a hundred years to live. A little green lane goes through my mind' A lane that my heart goes back to find— My heart --for never my feet will go To walk that lane that I'•used to know, For maybe my eyes would fail to see The vision that memory holds for me, And I'd miss the fairy tales I beard And the song of the crimson -throated bird, So I'll keep the dear unbroken spell Of the little green lane 1 love so well. —Nan Terrell Reed. • About Three Cheers. Cheers are demonstrations of en- thusiasm. Often they are safety valves- of abounding spirits. College men and women use .them to give vent to their pleasure when one of their football heroes makes a good gain. They use them also to give enthusiasm and enouragement to their team when it is working against odds. The population uses cheers to en- courage the going soldier and to show appreciation to the returned war hero. Cheers are also used in politics. Cheers are crowd •demonstrations. Sometimes they come spontaneously from the crowd, but sometimes they are the intensepersonal enthusiasm of a few who have the ability to get a crowd to cheer. If the cheers come from the crowd it is well; if they come from the few to the crowd it is not so well. It is cheerful to cheer, but it: is sane to sometimes look behind the cheers, for we have known some things which were chiefly made up- .of three cheers. _ Which Run Longer Without 011. "If you want machines to run you've got to oil 'em- "That's true of all except national political uwchines." ' Monsters of the Wild In the unknown Arctic region be- tween the Colville and Porcupine Rivers; where Dr. Philip B. Smith has led a party of the United Etates Geo- logical Survey on a perilousmission of exploration, it is rumored that there are weird animals of immense size. These strange tales have been spread amongst the fur traders and gold hunters by the native Eskimos and Indians regarding the territory which appears on the naps largely as a blank space. The Smith party has gone to investi- gate and chart this region. Reports have come from the Polar basin that great lakes of oil were to be found in this wilderness, but„ the tales of the .Eskimos and Indians are ever stranger than these: They say that the land is haunted by weird beasts, some of such great size that they leave tracks as large as din- ner plates. It is stated that no In- dian can be persuaded to penetrate this region •even though tempted by the promise of abundant fur. Some of the mare credulous of the white men, linking these tales with their scientific reading, contend that there may still lurk in the tar north remnants of the mastodon herds that have left their bones and ivory in al- most every stream bordering the low- er Yukon River. A Wonderful Insect Col- lection. The British Museum possesses by far the most comprehensive insect col- lection in the world. • It has not until quite recently been possible to make an exact catalogue of all items, but af- ter three years' work one has now been completed and published. According to this, the collection contains 1,118,000 insects. There are 325,767 butterflies •'Of 40,219 different kinds, 398,000 beetles of 67,300 differ- ent kinds. Of bees, wasps,and Winged ants there ere 19,608 kinds, Of bugs, flies, gnats, and mosquitoes there are 7,267 Species represented; of grass- hopper types 3,900, and of plant lice 21 species in 140 items. Private donors have done most to swell the collection. One alone gave 230,000' insects, another 30,000, while one entire collection of butterflies which was presented consisted of 31,- 1O . specimens: Hatching Teeth, "How is your baby sister, Ilius?'r asked a neighbor, Who was making a call. "Oh, she's Only fairly well, thanks," replied Billy; "she's 9ttst hatching `her teeth." ',ANL) THE WORST IS YET TO COI " ";/' @elpstz,, aum hos...-.4� JAPJu4iLERS TANNER's `rRH1NEP f3DLL-pocis FAYi�MM/� -THE 0121x. D/•�N'c t.. - w IltnS+oma Trade With Germany. IA� One of the most outstanding fea- tures of Canadian trade in the past fiscal year as undoubtedly the remark- able growth in :the export trade 'Can- ada conducted with Germany, this hav- ing increased in the twelve months by T--�---�-�--•-»gyp--� .. tories About W�e1J Known People The X,Ray "Duchess. X-ray work is not a hobby many would choose, but the Duchess cf fled - ford has praotised it with success, at a cost of many thousands of pounds,. for the past ten years. The Duchess ie in oharge of an Xray department in hospital at Woburn built by herself twenty years ago, She ireq ie Ytly helps at operations. Incidentally, the duchess is one of the most notable sportswomen. She can handle a horse, a rod, a gun, as well as most. men. Another of'her ac- conpliehnients, is that she has an ex- traordinary influence over wild ani- mals, Quick Results. A delightfully true—and truly de- lightful—incident was told by Mrs. Bellec Lowndes, the well-known writer,. In a recent lecture in which she was trying to illustrate the fact that truth is stranger than fiction. "No noyelist," she said, "would dare use this true incident, for instance. A gentleman in India suddenly decided to offer marriage to a girl in England, so he:cabled: " 'Will you?' "The answer carne promptly: " Won't T„ " I doubt whether any novelist has hatched a more amusing proposal and aoceptanoe out of his brain. Made Manuel Laugh. A Good story conies. from Paris con corning two ex -monarchs, IKing`Manuel of Portugal and the Shah of Persia, They were seated together at an ultra -fashionable public resort, plad d- ly sipping their champagne and watch - Mg the dancers, when a Parisian sat ,down on theonly extra chair at their table. The newcomer made himself agree- able, and the conversation soon be. cane general. When the time came for departure the Parisian aslted with whom he had. the honor of speaking. "I, said the former King of Portu- gal, "am the King -of Portugal," "I," said the former Shah, "am the Shah of Persia." The Frenchman betrayed no aur prise whatsoever. "Good -night, gentle- men," he said politely, and then as he turned to go he added, "The Great Mogul bids you adieu." Manuel is reported to have laughed, but the Shah was not so pleased. A.City Garden. - God of the flowers! Painter of crimson roses Spinner of mist, and Weaver of wind and rain! Send Thine angel of peace, when the long day closes, Down to Thy'garden again. the flour trade with Germany is con- This was Thy garden e'er the high fidently expected to further increase walls were Iifted; the volume of exports from Canada. Here the wild apple grew, and the thorn -set How Stonehenge Was `Built. How the builders of Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain, with the appliances pear; 0, in the springtime how the scent of them drifted Out on the evening air! over sixty per cent. over, the fiscal of and by over 200 per cent.Still an apple -tree lingers—just as a year 1923, r say, 3,590 years ago, managed to the vast stones upright and place token;. as compared with the figures of the others on their tops has always been Stili there's a sumach wearing one year previous to that. Not only „has, of the marvels of primitive en- feathery plume; the volume of total trade transacted 1 gineering, says a writer in the London Yonder a, . dog -wood lives—grey with with Germany now reached a point Daily Mail.the years, and baoken- where it surpasses anything reached 1 In his book "Stonehenge," just pub- I Dreamingof silver bloom. in the pre-war years, but the division lisped, Mr. E. Herbert 'Stone has .a � of trade has drastically altered. most interesting series of photo- Mignonette lines the walk, and many a one of the services in his church.. He Whereas prior to 1914 Canada t k worki• ng at once received her Clubs Are Handy Things. He- (speaking of women)—"Now in, New York' it's elub women on all sides. She—"Yes. such a brutal place; Somebody's always beating a woman up there." • The Impulse and the Val e- Not many months ago a lady nuked to see a famous London preacher after n a was a graphs teams from largepansy— and was astonish- heavy_ importer from Gerniny and ex- models "by .means of which the vari-1 Though „ever s hen comes nnhr to ed when she said, "Doctor, L have come all . the way from Paris to have this interview! My husband has been out of employment for more than two years, although he is an exceptionally well-qualified -teacher. At .last, think- ing we alight find a position in France, ported in relatively small quantity, ous operations 'connected with the Canada is now importing on a corn- raising of the stones of Stonehenge as paratively small scale, while the vol- here described have been rehearsed taste their sweet- Down by the. gate grows tangled and•. I bitter tansy, ume of her exports are annually in- stag by: step in full detail." :.Longing to reach the street." creasing at a very substantial rate. I A figure representing a Neolithic. " In the three fiscal, years 1922, 1923 man, who has an elk -like smallness be- Herb at the heart of tumult, and toil and 1924, Canada's imports: have been', side the huge monoliths, is* introduced we went to Paris:'. Our. search was. from Germany( and ;malice, $2,041,016,'• $2,565,409 in 'the different views to give an idea' The lover finds his love—the dream - and still unavailing. But the other day 1 .'$5,379,935 respectively. 'The prin.- of scale. er his dream, was seized with a Strange impulse to' tipsl items of import in the past year For the purpose of. this experfinent.•And here; like a cup come under the headings of cheiiiicals in. this `,`reconstruction," Mr. Stone has lilq's chalice •V` �� church. It was as if a voice had kept and allied products, nen-metallic min- taken the average weight of the stones erals •and non-ferrous metals, the of the outer bircle\at Stonehenge as, former amounting to a million dollars for uprights, 26 tons each, and far the and the two latter to. approximately lintels placed across4 . their tops, ,6 half a million each. The remargable tons. The appliances used, he points manner in which import trade with 'out:wauid be mainly ropes, rollers, Germany has been cut is seen in a ' and shear legs, plus" man -power work - comparison with the import figures of ing in carefully rehearsed unison. 1914, which were $14,686,069, or 1910, Mr. Stone suggests that the man when they were $7,958,264. who designed Stonehenge ."was prob- Canadian export trade to Germany ablya foreigner." in the past three fiscal years has 'b After the upright stones' . had been be $4,509,547, $9,950,877 and $16,153,650• firmly bedded in the ground, "an earth respectively. The export trade, of the bank is thrown up around the pair of p g upright past year was made u of a ricultural stones on which a lintel is to and vegetable products $12,722,430; be placed." The outer part of this aniinale and products $1,561,087; :fibres bank is "brought to a smooth surface textiles and products $16,042; wood, and rammed hard, to mage a track up wood products and paper $7,693; 'iron which the lintel is to be hauled." and products $225,913; non ferrous Then when everything is in place metals _$947,297; non-metallic minerals the well -drilled man -power tabes the ' $633,699! chemicals and products strain and. drags the great mass up the $3„948; and ''miscellaneous prolducts slope till finally it rests on the tops of 1 $35,541. The great bulk of trade with .•Ger- many at the present time consists` of agricultural products, more especially wheat and flour, the latter commodity being in rapidly increasing demand. q;�ything`to Oblige a Fool. In the.fircal past year Germany took 1,351,512 bushels of Canadian wheat An affected young man who was ding valued at $1,637,095, The demandfor ing out felt called on to correct his Canadian flour has increased remark- hostess when by a slip of the tongue ably, and is not abating. .In 1922 Ger- I she ordered the servant to remove the may took 51,343 barrels, of Canadian' fool,” meaning the fowl. "I' pre-' flour worth $318,232; In 1923, 675,599 1 enure," said the young pian, "you mean barrels valued at $3,986,409; and inithe fowl, madam.' I the two embedded stones.- The bank can then be removed, leaving the huge irilithon towering clear above the ground. 1924, 986,82E barrels valued at $10,3?3,- Very* well, responded the hostess, every day to a young rat stunted by j 280. The recent read ustment of finan- who was rather annoyed, take away livid on deficient diet, would cause . Dial difficulties which .were Hampering the fowl and let the fool remain." i g rt to grow again at a normal rate. Elite to the white moonbeam! ,saying to me by, day and by night, 'Go V.irna Sheard. to Dr.• and tell lira.'. I: may say, doctor, that all my life I have been trained to pray, and through all our misfortune T have consistently put our troubles before the Lord, . Cbnsequent- ly I felt 1 did not dare to disobey the Impulse and the `voice. So here' I am.", "Well, madam," said the doctor, deeply interested, ,"I do not quite' see what -I can do to help. Perhaps the best thing I can do is to give your Results of the Outdoor Life. Farmer—"Yes, my trees are a hun- dred years old ` and still bearing the best of fruit" Fresh Air Enthusiast -"Of course they are -just another example of the results of theoutdoor life! The Magic Vitam ne. At a recent meeting of the ,Ameri- can Chemical Society,.Professor 'Wal- ter Eddy took from his pocket.a small vial and passed. it round among the assembled chemists. All they could see was a small quan- tity of white powder at the bottom of a bottle. Yet it created a sensation, since it was the first vitamine that anyone had ever seen or handles. An amount no more than three-hun- dredths hreehun-dredths of a milligram, which is about ss much of the powder as.. could be caught •on the point of a pin, given n-- husband a letter of introduction to the high commissioner of one of the colonies." He did so, and then the incident,•,• passed from his mind. • Some Weeks later he received a let- ter from the high commissioner ori, an- other matter, but there was a post- script that read, "By the way, the nen you sent to me the other day ar -rived just as I was showing out of my office our minister for education, who. is over here seeking a staff of special- ly qualified teachers. Your man proved perfectly suited for the work r-equieed and is leaving England immediately." Scarcely had the minister finished reading when the lady and her hus- band were shown into his vestry. They, had conte to pay their farewell re spects and to thank him. "I was right, you see!" cried the lady gayly. "I was right to obey the impulse and the voice!" e .How true it is that there are more things wrought by prayer than this world dreams of! _-- - Mr. Ostrich Not the least interesting of the at- tractions in the South African Section of the British Empire Exhibition is a flock' of ostriches. For the benefit of visitors, .demonstrations are :given in plucking the feathers in the manner, adopted in this .great' industry in South Africa. The nest of ,tho ostrich is always built by the male, though this certain- ly is no arduces' task,and it consists of little more than a ro mcl hole dug in the sand or earth: The hen then lays an egg every other day, about fifteen making a full nest. The hen sits on the eggs daring • the day and the meals bird takes her Place through the night, en arraege- i eat Which -would' appear to liaise been admirably provided for by na- ture, atore, for while the male'bird is adorn- ed with jet black feathers and le therefore indistinulehable at night, in the daytithe the drab color of the hen bird's feather covers nest and eggs, and is equally unnoticeable. The Height of Cruelty, "You - are not &leg nlut,li hue inoss." suggested fie dentist across the hall. "Not lunch," adanitfed the other dens tilt, touched by this mark Of apparent sympathy. Boy Scouts from aXriast evoi�part theuriverse too1tPart in this great thanksgiving service ley, In the foreground its the' Quebec detachment. I Usk t Wernl- "Thenwould you mind 1Y surne of my patients used your velting•rouzii7"