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RAPIDLY INCREASING
PRODUCTION IN
CANADA.
'Dominion is the Continent's
Last Source of Large Sup-
plies of Raw Forest
Products.
Figures of output for the first
months of 1923 give further indication
of the rapidly increasing production of
newsprint in Canada and the manner
inn which the Dominion: is continuing
to overtake the United States in this
regard and secure the supreme pleee
in the industry :on this continent Foe
the„first four months of 1923 Canada
"produeed 398,835 tone of •newsprint
against 329,416 in the same period in
1922, gin increase of 69,419 tons. The
month of January showed an in,erease
of 18,379 tons compared to the pre-
vious ,year; February, 13,641 tons;
March, 20,388 tons 'and April, 17,011
tons.
The production of newsprint in
Canada ten years ago, in 1913, was
350,000 tons. Last year the produc-
tion was 1,090,000: tons. This, year,
maintaining the same” average
achieved in the first four months'
,.period, Canada should record au an-
nual .production of something tike
297,820, The extensive additions, to
the existing industry and es,tablish-
ment.af new plants being undertaken
this year, will exert a marked in
8uefice on the production of 1924 The
,average production of newsprint in
`Canada in 1922 was 3,825 tons pe...day;
in 1924 it is expected that this average
will be 4,315 tons per day.
Growing Demand In United States.
The reason for this rapid and
voluminous. increase in Canadian pro-
duction is, of course, the growing de -
mend for newsprint in the United
States and the Republic's greater in-
abill:ty, each: year, to furnish its own
requirements. Whereas in 1913. the
Tfnited States was producing 85 per
cent. of its annual newsprint supply
and importing 15 per cent., in 1922
domestic mills• only produoede 56 per
Dent and the nation was. importing
44 per cent. The United States total
imports of newsprint last year amount-
ed to 1,029,266 tons,' a record high
figure. Canada suppl4ed 87 per cent.
the remaining .13 per cent, comm
from Sweden, Germany, Finland and
Norway in order; of tonnage.
About 20 per cent of the United
States annual oonseitption .of'pulp-
wood came's fromCanada, says Prtip
and Paper Industry,. and about. 85 per
cent, of the Canadian manufactured
newsprint finds its way across the
border. The'output of Canadian news-
print mills in 1921 was 850,000 tongs as
agaiu•st. 1,215,000•tons of nited
States mills. In 1922 Canadian mills
produced 1,036,551 tons of newsprint
as against United States output of .1,-
447,688 tons. This year:the produc-
tion will more nearly approximate
that of the United States.
The manner In which the United
States has conte to depend upon the
Canadian industry""for its newsprint
supply was clearly indicated in the
ar
figures of the ye1922.Canadian
mills in that year expiortea more than
88 per cent. of all the newsprint they
produced, retaining- retaining- only 12` per cent.
for home consumption. The United
States purchased 82 per cent., or 887,-
000 tons, of the total Canadian, output
Of that year. The other 6 per cent
igen t to " Australia; New Zealand, the
United Kingdom and 'South! America.
For the first four months of the pre-
tsie:nt year the value of newsprint ex
ports from Canada rose from $21,000,-
000 to nearly $T6,000,000. As com-
pared with 1922 exports showed an
-increase of 63,924 tons, or nearly 22
per e6ait: Exports, o `newsprint to the
United `States for this period amount-
ed' to
mount:ed'to 348,182 tong compared with .272,-
747 tens in the corresponding period
in 1922, an increase of more than 27
peas cent
The Necessity of Conservation.
a success in its especial line. One, et
bast, was !mown previously,, the cure
of lupua'by .the direct applie•ati*n qE
Prof, Pinsen'e rays, The co'ncentra-
tion of these rays on the affected skin
was a long and tedious process, be-
cause the light had 'to be filtered
through an instrument resembling
an, inverted telescope an only a small
surface could be treated at one time:
Now it has been Mound possible to
treat six cases at once by utilizing in
aro lanip of 30,000 candle power,
placed within a few inebes of the sielc
tissue, Such .a tremendous light, how-
ever, would kill the ordinary person
by scorching him to death were it not
for au ingenious trapping of the heat
rays by a. newly invented contrivance..
This has been such a wonderful suc-
oess in the London Hospital where it
was• devised that a •subs•cription Is be-
ing raised to get •x10,000 to equip an.
entire room and •so be able to treat all
comers,
Nearer home, in Philadelphia, an ap-
paratus has been, invented by Col. • D.
P, Ghandiall to utilize his spectroch-
rom•e therapy in the •treatment of
burns. His machinefilters out the
curative rays andtheir application to
the burnt surfaces is • said to bring on
healing faster and better than by any
other known means., Dr. 'tete Bald-
win of the ,Women's Hospital, Philo-
delphia, is trying Col. Ghandiali's
method in an extreme case.--th.at of
a girl whose back was burned from
Icer shoulders downward and across
its breadth.
Scotch Thrift.
Sandy had just met his girl, at the
end of the street, where she was wait-
ing 'for
ait-ing'for him. She was looking into a
confectioner's window when Sandy
made his presence known by remark-
ing:
"Weel, Jennie, what are ye gaup to
have the nicht?„
the, , not inclined to ask too much,
replied: "Oli, I'll. just tak what you'll
take, Sandy."
"Oh, then, we'll tak a walk," said
Sandy, as he led her away.
Pruning Expenses.
Chorus= `Dri'e`d plums again:!"
g Boardinghouse Mistress — "Gentle-
men, 1 must prune expenses, you
,,
know. .
4'1.41 dogs were killed for food in..
m
Gerany in the first quarter of'12$,
against 2,141 in 1922. I
Each year the 'United States is oom-
ing to a greater extent to depend up-
on its iniportattions to supply Its news-
print weeds and the..Canadiau industry
has to be extended to meet these de-
mand,s. With all the extensions • to
the industry, under construction or
prreje0tod, at the peesient time, operate
ing In 1924, that year shoubTThiiow a
production ` of substantially ever a
million and a quarter tons, The time
when Canada will surpass the United
States as a produoer of newsprint is,
in fact, within sight, and the Dominion
supreme, In this regard, on the con -
'anent.
Cacada,is the continent':, last source
of any large supply of raw tweet, pro
ducts, and thee• position she occupies
to -day in the production of newsprint
and °thee paper' products, and the
higher one She is due to fill, are de-
pend.eut entirely on the permanency
of the Suppe. In this connection it is
gratifying to note that the Dominion 18
deriving profit from the Ideates other
countries, !rave taught, and eachyea.r
taking more r,lgorous precautiehs to
preserve the forests against wastage
and through governments and pratete
orporat.io:lis urging a utilization, most
corporal
and profitable, to the end
that this ludestry may be conserved to
the country as a permanent source of
,rieventte,
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—AND THE WORST IS 'Y , T O COIVIE
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London! to Raze Houses t,'
Abolish Slum Colony..,
•1:
Within a short time one of Londons
alums will be definitely cleaned out,
owing'' to the drastic proposal of the
Borough of ,Bermondsey, them council
having deckled to pull down all build;;
logs in Salisbury Street, -ane' of the
most notorious shun 'districts in the
entire .city, "sayes a recent despatch.
The place will be rebuilt with modern
houses.
Forty years ago : this district was
condemned by the public- health au -
thorniest as insanitary, but until this;
week nothing was done to remedy
matters. Whilethe replacing 02 ram-
shackle old houses with new .blooks
ie going on. inhabitants will be pro-
vided with temporary accommodation,
Bermondsey is the first of .Landon -
boroughs to tackle the problem of
slum clearance. .
In 1911, the last thorough inspection.
of London's housing condition, . no
fewer than 1,900 groups of houses
were condemned, but practically all :of
these not only are still in existence,
but are still densely populated
'Tile aver a era ate- 7W ch ft,
g' �
lives ' is folie: years;, but .; some e �e.
been known to live for thir`te'en yearr.'s,.
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Making Wireless Private.
A. Danish technician ,has invented a
new style of transmitter and receiver
for ase in wireless, telephony, which
will conflne the message to the person
for whom it is intended;
His • experiments. between -stations
situated thirty miles apart are said
to have been quite successful.
The transauitteris a duplex arrange-
ment, part of the spoken voice being
transmitted through a . tube attached
to a microphone, and travelling at a
much slower rate than the part of the
voiice transmitted directly through the'
microphone itself.
The receiving apparatus is equipped
with a reverse •arrangement, which
speeds up the slowly transmitted part
of the voice and slackens the quickly
transmitted part in such a' way that
the whole is, reassembled in proper or-
der by thetime it reaches. the ear.
The first religious "newspaper ever
issued was the Herald of .,Gospel Lib-
"erty, which was published by Elias
Smith .of Portsmouth, N.H., in 1809.
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The phrase "riot worth a rap" does
efer to a rap en the knuckles. It
11 00.4 Irdfn=Eiie- days of George T.,
w__t► s" the "rap'.' was a counterfeit Goin
oftefx passed 'off:-fora halfpenny.
Russia Slowly Adopting Gold
Standard of Money.
Russia is gradually ;'working into a
new monetarY syste'in, based upon ac-
tual values in gold or negotiable a.e•
entities, which pxonieee soon to e]fui.-:
Mate the billions of paper rubles :now
flooding the country, says a Moscow
despatch.
At the present time a ileal monetary;
;system prevails, the one based aeon
the new standard, the other upon
paper =teethe.
The new money, known as "ebero-
vonetsa," the olcl Reseal), name for
gold pieces, is paper 'currency issued
by the state bank in units equal in
value to ten gold rubles of tire Pre-
war issue, and •supposedly redeemable
in .gold upon presentation.
Silver coins;,1n ruble and fractional
denomiaation:s,'have been minted, but
not yet Issued. The financial authors-
ties are awaiting the time when
"ch•erovonetSa" are in general circula-
tion to issue the silver money, whioh
will replace the present ruble paper
as fractions of the state bank notes.
Eiglisb, American, French, Dutch
and other currency are now in free
and ;general circulation in Moscow,
but gradually find their way back 1n -
to the state bank, which, Whenever
possible to persuade clients ; to do so,
pays out the "cherovonetsa•" in order
to accustom the people to their use.
They are well made ,notes, on excellent
paper, slightly larger than U.S. cur-
rency.'
- Baffling the Forger.
Devices to curb forgeries and to
prevent the raising 'of- checks have
been on the market for years, but a
novel one comesin the announcement
of a New York inventor who has per-
fected an ink that dries instantly and
defies eradication. It took twelve
years' of experimentation to get this
ink, but its possibilities—if all the in-
ventor claims for it be true—are al-
most boundless. The mere dispensing
with blotting paper alone ends a daily
nuisance for hun,drea of tbousauds,
while the safeguarding of checks, 12
the ink proves all its maker promises,
should keep many a banker's hair
from turning gray.
In line with the newly invented ink,
and probably as a direct •outcome of
the•-wa:r, is the ,perfection in Germany,
of:: a machmne something like a type-
writer that jiroduoes, an absohttely
safe code. One has beeninstalled in
the Berlin Chamber of Commerce, and.
is said to work well. Electric con-
tacts and an array of cogwheels shift
15,000 possible combinations of the
keys into millions• of different .com-
binations.
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Not a Health Crusader.
"1 think I should have named my
baby 'Flannel,';" saaid. ]v1rs. Kinks:
"Why?" said Miss Jinks: .
l'
Because,' answered Mits. Binks,
"he shrinks from washing. -
Silent Presence.
When earth grows greoious et the nodi
of spring,
And veils her hair in mist, ani!'
twines her feet
With acarves of emerald greext
flowered through,
Then • strangely .,'bauntipg as A4.
dream are S'en
A ghost of same dim desert land; a
thing
Elusive and so wanted --••fair and
sweet,
But when the autumn elders droop
darkly o'er,
And withered leaves whirl helpless
from the boughs,
My heart turns homeward, and MY
reaching bands
No longer seek a shadow en the
Sande,
You enter, warm and glowing, at the
door,
And dwell, a silent presence, in my
house.
-Winifred Lockhart Willie.
By Sea and Aar..,,
British Naval authorities have re-
cently been studying the designs of a;
ship which will combine all the funs-
tions of an aoean liner with those of
an efflici,ent aeroplane carrier.
This remarkable vessel ie to be
equipped with a large flat upper -deck,'
free from all eincumbranc:es suck as'
masts and funnels. Thi -e will serve as
a starting and ianddng-place for sea-
planes and aihropianes.
The chip' will carry from fifteen :to-
twenty aeroplanes. Before the port et
destination is reached, these will leave
the liner with pastsengers, with whom
they will fly direct to the various in-
land centres they wish to visit. In
this way, much time and trouble
caused by landing and catching .trains
will be avoided, Similarly, passengers
will be brought dLirect to departing
liners from inland towns.
Should this new type of ship be
adopted, vessels approaching New
York from Europe could send off aero -
Planes which would reach Toronto,
Chicago and other inland cities before
the arrival of the steamer in New
York.
Puzzled.
Bird ---"I wonder what kind of bird,,
laiRl that eggeeeSs e -.. s, -
A carrel can carry four times as
much on its back as a horse.
Story OIympic, • Oiant Liners'
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First of the giantesses of the North 1912, when in the midst of an. East- the North of Ireland to tow in a water- lookout man picked out the outline of
Atlantic to be launched, war veteran bound passage the Olympic struck logged dreadnaught, H.M.S. Audacious. a lurking submarine, which was lying
and holder of all records for troop some submerged object with a jar that She arrived In New York en Christ- on the surface. Immediately after' his
transportation during the days of thewas felt -throughout the _huge fabric mos-,' 1917, for her first load of Ameri- warning shout one of the ship's for
U=boat's reign, and then "Steinached" and a swerve like that of an express can troops. ward guns blazed out, and the ship
and rejuvenated by the "installation of trainrounding a curve. Later it was Altogether, it is said, the Olympic with her helm hard over spun around
oil -burning apparatus, the White Star found she had lost on -e blade from her carried ever 300,000 people while on like a great racing yacht and crashed
liner Olympic, 46,439 tons,is still go- port, propeller. But she made port only warservice, including hundreds of into the enemy. •
ing strong. ode knot under normal speed, and wives and families of Canadian, sol- "The blow was glancing, or the sub -
Not many, certainly, among the ocean travelers were confirmed in the tilers, and she was also the favorite marine would have been cut in two
thousands who annually seek passage belief that if ships, were built large ship for most of the notables who and roiled under the great mass of the
on the ship by preference, because of and staunch enough the sea held no crossed the Atlantic on National heal -
Olympic. But the blow cut off one
her established reputation for comfort more threats. nests• during the tear, end of the submarine and the remain -
and reliability, ever stop to wonder at '. Tragedy of the Titanic. She 'did not come through all this
popularity .on an ocean un• der drifted past our stern; where one
her sustained popu y Less than two months later, how- scratched; and the chief scar was a of the gun crews on the poop planted
crowded with crack ships; which are, ever, coons a tragic awakening when mark of honor, consisting of plates a shell squarely into it. One of the
In. point of years, children beside her, the Titanic tore her whole bottom out. bent and fractured by intentional col -escorting destroyers dropped behind
and which, by all the haws. of progress, lision with a U-boat, which was des- ed
an an iceberg. Sentiment promptly put over boats and rescued thirty-one
should long ago have relegated her to veered to the other extreme, and the tr°yed. A member of her crew, wrote survivors out of a total crew of sixty."
the second class: entire fire room crew refused to trust of the occurrence:
It was away back in 1908 when the "The Olympic Another Narrow:(escape.
startled the nautical the Olympic on her next. scheduled yanpic had -her adventures
White Stas limes voyage, But she 'finished her sum- while slab was carrying Amerioan On another occasion, in the 14Tediter
world by announcing its purpose of net's, work as a ferry and then went troops,- During i\farch, April and May d
building twin ellipse to be nameda narrow es -
building e 'ersubmarine commanders ranean, the Olympic ha
'Cape when a torpedo was;launched at
back to hes builders to be remade in the Gman
Olympia and Titanic, of a size and ton- the light of the lesson of the disaster made at least seven attacks on. her, her, but arrived just le time to get the
nage, 45,000, deemed impracticable lip of her sister. but not once did the enemy have time backwash thrown up by her great pro -
till then, and on October 21, 1910, the In Merck 1913, when she was ready to-. launch a torpedo, for in every•cane pellote as she turned and began to
Olympic was slid into the water from to Tetuan to service her'owners 'de- he: was, either greeted* by a six-inch travel at right angles to icer former
the ways of the ,Harland Sc Wolff. shell of•one., of the destroyers• was: on course,
rds• at Belfast to be followed about elated that she was: unsinkable, thanles�
I to a steel, shell carried front No. 3 1Lis' tra�k with depth charges. The Her wartime commander, Sir Bert_
a month later by her Ill-starred sister, bullhead forward to the rear of the most thrliling experience. took place ram Hayes, was: reputed to have re-
g I turbine room aft, while her watertight early May morn_ ceased more honors than any other
Thirteen Tugboats Needed. in the darldnessrof an
Ing in the .English Channel, when the merchant skipper afloat, and was the
It took :six months to conipl.ete her dean - had been carried two- decks
after she was launched, and her maid- higher, making it possible to keep her
en crossing was completed June 21, afloat even. though half full of water.
1911, -when she was -tied up alongside) The next dramatic .moment in her
her dock,at'New Yorlt without mishap, career came in August, 1914, just af-
beint�g warped to her berth by thirteen ter the declaration of war, when Cap
tutg-bouts, one of which she all but ftp- taro Haddock, her master,' received or-
set -during the process. • There were dors- to take the big ship directly to
kinks neressary to the handling of Liverpool, German cruisers or iso Ger-
such ships' In harbor,:whi•ch had to be man cruisers, and proceeded to 'obey
learned by experience, - them by steaming down .• the North
Several voyages were made unevent.: River, while .his crew, thumbs to
fully, and theta hi September the sea- aoses, made derisive gestures at the
faring experts °' were 'thrown into a Leviathata, then the Vatel•land of the.
furore by a 'rear end. collision" , be- Hamburg -American line, safely but in
tween the Olyiaipic and the British gloriously tied up to her slip in i -Io-
crntse-r es the two vessels boken.
were passing up the Solent .from the For a time she continued to ,serve, in
Needles. Suddenly, without a soma. her civilian .capacity, sand then disap
ing signal exchanged, the cruis-er, peared into the anonymity which over-
which was abreast of the liner, took most famous ships et that time...
swerved In under the counter find her The censor applied his muzzle to the
ram tore a 30 -foot hole in the bigger press and there was no more public
ship's, side below the water line. record. oe laver comings and goings till'
Watertight partition:s prevented a alis- .the war was .done.
aster, but a new peril seemed to have ' G,hamplon British Troopship.
been added to the multifarious den- Then it`was round that elle had, been
gers of navigation when a Naval Court the champlon British troopship: To
of Inquiry exonerated the Iiawlte's of- the Gallipoli campaign site had trans-
ricers of blanie, declaring the cruiser ported 8,000 troops in no voyage, at
hard been drawn. into oalltsion by the that time the largest' lumbar ever
`suction" of the giantess, moved by any ship. Afterward she
The next reminder that even the big- ferried Canadian troops and Chinese
gest of vessels must be ready to'stan•d label' battalions, and - one inoidcaa,t of
rough kncelcs atsea carne to February, tilts service was a genera attempt oft
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first . merchant marine commander • in
active service to be knighted. In 1916
the French Government awarded him
a gold life saving medal for gallant
conduct in: the rescue, of the crew of
the steamer Provincia, and the same
year he was mentioned in dispatches
in connection with the Gallipoli cam-
paign. Thesinking of the German
submarine brought him the D.S.O. and
in 1919 .he was appointed aide -do -camp
to the Ding .and created Knight Com-
mander of St. Michael and St, George.
His unique honor, however, was an
honorary •chieftainship in the Cayuga
Indian tribe, with the title of "Tah-
nya-di-yes," or "the man `'rho crosses
great waters•," eonferred during a tem-
pestuous voyage by the Chief of the
Six Nations,
Converted to Oitoteurner,
One unsuspected aftermath of her
,war service was not discovered till
July, 1922, when the Olympic went in-
to the huge dry dock at Southampton,
England, for her routine summer sur-
vey ,and it was found that her steru
post was fractured. The White Star
officials said they had no means of
knowing how long the injury -had been
developing, and pointed out that all
daring the war that section of the
structure had been under exceptional-
ly heavy strain, a 46,000 -ton ship not
being designed to zigzag at top speed
like a motor boat, as she had been
compelled to do through the long dan-
ger zones. of the Mediterranean anti
Atlantic, At that, the Injury was
minor, they pointed out, as on her last
homeward voyage the ship had done a
record run for a few hours while .cross_
ing the Channel to Cherbourg.
For in the meantime the faithful
ship had undergone a process of res
juvenation, which, while it dirt not bit
her into the speed class of the Maitre-, .
tante and other professed greyhounds;,
had materl:ally improved her possibili- `
ties in that line. She had been tori'w
vested to an nil burner and in Nevem-
4r, 1921, had detuonstrat•ed its advan-
tages by making her fastest time west.
ward franc Cherbourg to New York in
sp4te of two days of bad weather. Her'
passage, from the Lizard to Ambrose
Channel, was 5 days 12 hours, and 39
minutes, an hour later than her best
in 1012, When she was a dusty two.
year-old.
The Olynpie is 882x4 feet over all,
with a breadth of 94 feet at the boat
deck, which is 97 feet above the keel,
'.rhe distance from the keel to the top
of the funnels is 175 feet, The ship:
has eleven steel decks and Meer
watertight bulkheads.
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