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' THE HURON EXPOSITOR
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Have two and two ceased to make
dour? Does,, the core of the apple
appear on - the outside? Is the big
end of the pear at the , stem? In
other words, is the paradox now orth-
odox and have we reached the stage
where the more contradictory and
absurd an argument appears _ the
Arrester becomes its power of convic-
tion and the more easily does it
wend its way into the hearts and
a finds of the people?
(We have all heard of .the situation
in the. United States where the farm-
ers ar.e receiving cheques for letting
weeds grow in the fields where grain
bas formerly grown and for not rais-
tions for all time perpetuate such
follies? They cannot. Then why
not stop now?
• * *
(We read in the funny papers, and
1. am not now alluding to the chil-
dren's comic, but to the serioUs .pag-
es of the protectionist .press, the con-
tinually reiterated assertion that Je-
pan• is deluging the world with goods
and driving all other competitors
from the face of the globe. And the
people believe it! An analysis of
world trade by the Economic Inbelli.
genee Service of the League of Na-
tions, reveals the fact that in 1929
Japan's exports were just ` 2.9 per
ing hogs. • Naturally such a perversecent. of the world's exports and in
arrangement has its humorous side.' 1933 they were 3.1 per cent. In, part,
Not long ago the Financial Chronicle at least, the increase iii 1933 was
of New York received the following due to the extension 'of. Japanese
letter it may be left with you for trade with (Manchuria, a newly occu-
+careful perusal: , pied and rapidly developing territory
"A friend of mine in New England ; where there is a certain amount of
ih•as a neighbor who has received a trade expansion at the present time
government cheque for $1,000 this;. But the mere production of figurhs
year for not raising hogs. •So my. proving the folly of views held will
friend wants to go into the business not calm the minds of those wive have
himself, he not being very prosper- 'decided that Japan shall be depicted
ous just now. He says, in fact, that as a nightmare aid that those who
the idea of not . raising hogs appeals ' do not sleep 'with that particular
to him very_strbngly, I nightmare and appear to enjoy it are
'Of course he will need a hired lean guilty..., of some strange unpatriotic
and that is where I come in. I vfrite action. -
-to you as to your opinion of the best i * * •
kind of a farm not to raise hogs on,. Now lest you think that 'I am tak-
the best strain of hog; not to raise
and how best to keep an inventory
• sof hogs you are not raising. Also,
.do you think capital could be raised
_ley issuance of a non -hog raising gold
bond?
."The friend who got the $1.000 got
it for not raising 500 hogs. Now we
-figure we might easily not raise 1, -
ZOO or 2,000 'hogs, so you see the
. -possible profits are only limited by
the nunfe er of hogs we do not raise.
"The other fellow has been raising
-bogs for forty years and never made
-more than $400 in any oneyear. Kind
-of pathetic, isn't it, to think how he
wasted his life raising hogs when he
could have made. more M. not raising
thea e. I thank you for any advice
you niay offer."
* *
Illogical ar.d absurd things Eke this
lane becoming quite common. Not
long ago the _British government de-
cided to grant a subsidy for tramp
steamers to the extent of £2,000,000.
'Mien the measure was brought down
1Mr. Rurciman defined it as a 'sub-
sidy to be used "for defensive pur-
po..wes." It was to be granted only
on condition that the tramp shin own-
sers formulated a scheme satisfactory
to the government which would:
'(1) 'Prevent, so far as possible, the
subsidy from beirg dissipated by the
domestic competition of British ships
carrying tramp cargoes, and
(2)„ Ersure that it is efficiently di-
rectnd towards securing the greatest
.employment of British tramp ship -
riling at the expense of foreign sub- would keep out. manufactured goods
sidized shipping. and thus compel increased production
Note carefully these facts — the, at home. It was a childish corcep-
subsidy is not to be used for lowering + tion—crackers for the cracked, so to
the freight bills of those who pay I speak.
the subsidy^it is to .be used for the r In order to do this it raised the
!purpose of injuring those who are
lowering freight rates for the British
as the foreigner was doing lay pay-
ing bonuses to tramp ships. In other
words, the idea is to hurt those who
are paying the nation's bills.
In Great 'Britain they have a bonus
at the present time for the produc-
tion of sugar from beets. It's an ex-
pensive and costly performance. In
ing unction to my own soul because
I refuse to accept these stupid de-
lusions which feed and gorge the
minds of so many, let me tell you
one on myself. My back collar but-
ton fell out of my shirt and rolled—
not under the dresser, but under the
'bathtub. Under the bathtub in our
house is harder to reach than the
millenium. So 'I swore softly, for-
got about it and put the collar on
without it. And the collar never mis-
sed the button—it sat there quite se-
dately without the aid . of the cursed
thing. Here I' have been going a-
round with an extra collar button
for 60 or 70 years more or less`, and
yet had no real use for it. The Anglo
Saxon race has been using back col-
lar buttons since the days of Alfred
the 'Great. They were never' needed.
Someone has been taking "us for a
ride. Try it—yoti will find that I am
right. Is it surprising that we carry
around all kinds of useless lumber
when we have been taught to believe
that we had to do it—and .we have
been taught, politically, for ages that
2+2=4 7•a!
* * *
Then we have the very remarkable
case of what might be defined as a
split intelligence in our Minister of
Trade and Commerce, 'Mr. Stevens.
The policy of -the present govern-
ment is a policy of high tariff pro-
tection for the Dominion of Canada.
That statement will , not be denied
by c ren its mos ardent defenders.
It started out with the idea `hat it
tariff and the granting of an increas-
ed tariff against competing comtrodi-
t iee is the kerant of a right to charge
a higher price for the Canadian pro-
duct. To get this privilege Canadian
manufacturers journey to Ottawa,
lobby in their own cause and at times
so it is said, make contributions to
campaign funds.
The. Price Spread 'Committee of
Java six tons of sugar can be pro- which Mr. Stevens is chairman, refus-
duced from an acre, in England 1.3 es to investigate certain industries in
the Dominion of Canada because it
•
tons. The difference of course is to
be arcade up from subsidies and it has
cost the British . people, in the last
few years, from thirty to forty mil-
lion pounds to carry on this folly
-which Sir Herbert Samuel defined at
one time as ``a contest between the
sun and the subsidies." In the end
the sun will win. God only knows
what the bills will be fore that hap-
-pens!
And now comes the supreme para-
dox, having bonused the production
-of sugar in Great Britain the govern-
ment 'bonuses the tramp steamers to
bring raw and refined sugar to Great.
13ritain in competition with their own
bonused product. Was there ever
anything more absurd? Perhaps not,
if we accept our own bonus for the
production of wheat followed by a
decision to cut acreage. Can the na-
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knows that these industries have
taken flagrant advantage of their tar
iff opportunities for the exploitatior
cf the Canadian people.
Now when a tariff privilege which
enables the recipient to charge more
for the product which he produces
than he could otherwise charge, has
been received by a Canadian manu-
facturer. it is a gift•to him from the
people of Canada and he can do what
he likes with it.
Sometimes he continues to sell his
product at a higher price and to
pocket the added price. Or again. he
may capitalize the gift which he has
received, which entitles him to larger
earnings than he could otherwise se-
cure, and sell the capitalized value of
the privilege to the people of the Do-
minion of Canada and walk away with
the swag.
Tariff protection. therefore, is a
special invitation to him to recapital-
ize his company at a higher valuation
than it had before. It is a definite
and specific invitation to him to
merge with other companies ane
within the shelter of the tariff, to
fleece the Canadian people_
(Where these tactics are worked
once in non -protected industries they
are worked a dozen times in the type
or form of industry which benefits
largely from the application of pro-
tective tariffs.
Mr. Bennett has 'been and now is
the main defender of the policy of
protection which 'permits this.
,Mr. Stevens has been the right
hand man of Mr. Bennett in back-
ing up the policy of high protection
which enables the Canadian manu-
facturer -to charge more, to recapital-
ize his industry and exploit the in-
vesting public.
1When Mr, Stevens finds out that
this has been done and that the high-
ly protected gentlemen are taeing ad-
iantage of the condition he has cre-
ated he makes a speech accusing them
of doing what he has induced them
to do and suggesting that their mor-
als ought to have prevented them
frond taking advantage of the gifts
they have received at his hands.
Then he secures the appointment oo
a committee for the investigation of
price spreads and publishes a :pamph-
let about it (hater thorned by :,he cen-
sor of his own party) in which ap-
pears these sweet words:
do not want to be mush about
this thing but on Friday night I
could not sleep and I got up after
midnight and went down to my den
and wrote that speech that I gave in
Toronto, between then and 4 o'clock
in the morning. Then I went to To-
ronto and I delivered it."
Paradox of Paradoxes! Miracle of
miracles! !Here is a mann who has
been a leader in the creation of the
condition which he condemns. He has
been what might be considered the
causer of the cause, or at least he
was behind the mean tvho crested per-
fect conditions for the development
of trusts, mergers and exploitations.
Te and his associates have been the
fundamental source and inspiration
of the order which he has establish-
ed. Then he gets up at midnight, un-
able to sleep (no wonder!) and writes
a speech in condemnation of it all,
while he goes on, day after day, ac-
cepting and supporting the doctrine
which brought about and must con-
tinue to bring about the things he has
condemned.
* * *
Let me state an axiomatic truth.
It matters net whether an industry is
capitalized at a thousand shares or
at a million shares. If it is 'open to
the comtpetition of the 'markets of the
world, unsheltered by a tariff, it can-
not achieve for itself more. than nor-
mal. profits on its year's transactions
—it cannot exploit, over any long
Period, the people of the land in which
it . developed. If • it has a million
shares it must divide its profits by a
million and pay dividends according-
ly and if it has a thousand shares
it must divide by a thousand and pay
scc•ordingly. But give to that indus-
try a. tariff amounting to 50, 60, 75
or 100 tier cent. and it can recapital-
ize at a higher figure, sell its stock
to the public and charge the consum-
ers enough to pay dividends upon the
increased capitalization. Watered
stock is not an injury in itself but
only becomes an inpury where tariffs
or some other special privilege give
to industry the right to exploit the
people.
There has probably been more non-
sense written about over -capitaliza-
tion and watered stock than about
anything else with the possible ex-
ception of the balance of trade. but
we will continue to accept paradoxes
as orthodox until we have learned
the first essential lesson of economics,
a lesson mortised and tennoned in
the eternal verities. It is simply
this:
"All economic problems must be
looked at from the standpoint of the
consumer for the interests of the con-
sumer are the interests of the human
race."
It is because we ignore this axiem•-
atic truth that we wander aimlessly
in the ample fields of trial and er-
ror. We are hunting all the time for
sumptuary laws to control our living
when all we need is the capacity to
recognize a simple and obvious truth.
'If Mr. Stevens would attempt to
understand this fact he might come
forward as the flaming evangel of a
new order instead of standing as he
is now, attempting to condemn his own
favorites for their extravagance and
excesses, condemning them for do-
ing the very things which his own ac-
tion has more possible and inevitable.
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Officer For Huron
Under the Farmers' Creditors' Ar-
rangement Act -Major E. A. Corbett
of Fordwich has been- appointed offi-
cial receiver for Huron County. This
act, a Federal Act, framed principal-
ly for the relief • of western farmers
during the past few strenuous years,
is now being adopted and used in On-
tario, the object being to bring about
some arrangement between ,farmers
who are in financial difficulties and
their creditors whereby they can con-
tinue to carry on without having to
sacrifice their farms. Any farmer
wishing to consult-)ilajor Corbett and
make use of the provisions of this
act should write or phone him for
an appointment and talk the matter
over with him.. It`• •is said to have
worked well in the west. In case an
assignment is necessary, Major Cor-
bett also acts as assignee, making all
arrangements nhcessary, and at a
minimum of costsJ--Clinton News -
Record.
Shooting History
(Condensed from The New Yorker in
Reader's Digest.)
About 18 hours after the first SOS
from the burning Morro Castle, news,
reel pictures of the disaster were.
showing on Broadway and were mov-
ing out by train, ship and plane to all
parts of the world. Here's how one
of the film companies, Fox Movietone
News, did the job:
The SOS was received at Coast
Guard stations about 4.30 a.m. One
of the Coast Guard officers earns a
small retainer by tipping aMovietone
off to important •ha'ppenings, and just
after five o'clock he had the New
York office on the wire. Within a
few minutes everybody in the organ-
ization was summoned instantly to
work by telephone. Six field crows
—each consisting of a cameraman, a
sound man, and a contact man to
make arrangements—were assembled
and given these assignments:
No. 1, to hire an airplane and shoot
pictures from the air.
No. 2, to get aboard the rescue ship,
Monarch of Bermuda, interview sur-
vivors and buy up any amateur film
in sight.
,No. 3, to get to the vier and await
the Andrea F. Luckenbach, which was
bringing more survivors.
Master Grant Chesney, grandson
of Mr, and Mrs. James Howatt, fell
and broke his arm at Seaforth the
end of thef,.week.
A little daughter has arrived to
stay with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Doerr.
Mrs. Wilmer Wilson has returned
to Clinton.
,Mr. and Mrs. John Manning are
celebrating the diamond anniversary
of their wedding at the home of their
daughter, Mrs. W. Marsh, Carlow, on
Saturday.
The Baptist Young People went to
Carlow on Wednesday night and
were entertained by Mr. and Mrs
Earl McKnight. It took the form
of a masquerade social. Mrs. A. W
Sherman, 'Miss Vera Taylor, Billy
Raithby and Billy Ferguson carried
off the prizes.
A number from the village motored
to Blyth on Tuesday night to the
M. and M. Convention held in Queen
Street United Church.
Visitors: Mr. F. Thompson and Mr
P. IManning, Londesboro, with Mr.
and Mrs. J. Howatt; Mrs. Mark Arm-
strong, Miss Mary and 'Master Thos
of West Wwanosh, and Mr. and Mrs.
John Thompson, of St. Augustine,
with Mr. and ;Mrs. William Thomp-
son.
The Baptist Ladies' Aid met at the
home of ilVrjs. John McKnight on
Thursday afternoon, with Mrs. C. A.
Howson in charge. Mrs. L. Ferguson
read the Scripture. ' After the busi-
ness part of the meeting, Mrs. J
Ewing gave a i reading and Miss
Ruby Carter ' sang a solo. Lunch
was served at the close of the meet-
ing.
eet-
in Folks away: Mrs. C. A. Howson
with Mrs. M. Jewel and Mr. Scott,
Benmiller. WIe are glad to report
that Mr. Scott is improving; Mr. and
Mrs. Jas. H. Johnston with Mr. and
Mrs. 'Roy Farrow, Mitchell.
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Cover with grated cheeee and garnish
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anchovy.
Nos. 4 and 5, to take shore scenes
at strategic points on the Jersey
coast.
No. 6, to hire a tug and get as
close to the burning ship as possible.
the aviation man had the tough-
est jab. With vicious rain and wind
and a hundred -foot ceiling, •pilot after
pilot whom he telephoned turned him
down. He finally went to a lunch
wagon at one of the flying fields and
found four -pilots sitting there. He
goaded them, calling them yellow co-
wards, until one could stand it no
longer and agreed to fly him. The
ship had no instruments for fog fly-
ing. 'Making Sandy Hook by dead
reckoning and luck, they followed the
breakers down the coast at an alti-
tude of 25 feet. They got their pic-
tures, but on the way home were
forced down three times. By noon,
however, they tore into the office with
500 feet of negative.
The newsreel men who got aboard
the Monarch got interviews with the
surviving members of the Morro Cas-
tle's crew before they were taken in
tow by the Ward Line's lawyers.
They also bought quantities cif ama-
teur film shot by passengers on the
Monarch. The outfit on the tug, af-
ter shooting many close-ups of the
burning vessel, went aboard the Luck-
enbach and likewise got pictures and
spoken Observations which turned out
to be exceptionally valuable, for the
photographers awaiting this ship at
the pier were almost completely frus-
trated: To prevent any interviews
with surviving Morro Castle seamen,
offieials built up blinds to mask the
cameras from the gangplank, thought
out ingenious tricks of lighting to im-
pair the effectiveness of cameras, and
manufactured a cacophony of sound
to mask the true noises of the arriv-
ing ship with its dazed passengers.
iBy three o'elock in the afternoon,
5,000 feet of film were in New York.
It was developed as it came in. When
editors had cut it, the voice man
spoke explanations of the various
scenes, prints were made, and by
10.30 the completed extra was ready
to be sent out. It contained sixty-
eight' separate scenes covering virtu-
ally every aspect of the disaster.
About 100 ,men and women had work-
ed steadily for 1,8 hours to put eight
minutes of film on the screen.
After I heard about this, I went
to one oft the newsreel offices to 'see
bow they make up their routine news-
reel. 'In a darkened room, I found a
half-dozen men staring at a movie
screen on which a flock of outboard
motorboats were droning like idiotic
bugs. The race went on for nearly
10 minutes; then the lights came up,
and one of the men spoke wearily to
his assistant: "Oh, use about 50 feet
of it."
Fifty feet means a good deal less
than a minute on the screen. I ask-
ed, "Why did they shoot so much of
that junk when they are going to use
so little?"
IHe said, "Hoping for a spill, some-
thing spectacular." That's how most
newsreels are made. The cameraman
shoots everything. They shoot near-
ly every moment of the big football
games, hoping to catch the brilliant
run. They shoot for hours at Com-
munist den onstrations, hoping to get
a few feet of a cop letting a Comniy
have it on the head. The result, when
edited; is ten minutes of world ev-
ents.
Fox Movietone News, the biggest
of the five newsreel outfits in 'Ameri-
ca, keeps 100 cameramen prowling
up and deem the World, and every
week these men shoot about 100,000
feet of 'film, the negative costingesi*
cents a foot. Out of this enormous'
quantity the editors prune 1000 feet,
the length bf the reel you see. , Vir-
tually
irtually all their sound effects are made
at the time the pictures are shot.
When dubbing is necessary' it is not
done synthetically. The sound is
simtply taken from some other reel
in the tMovietone library 'with equiva-
lent noises.
Speed, naturally, is everything.
Hence editing goes on all the time,
most of . it at night as the deliveries
of film generally occur late in the af-
ternoon. But little remains of the
former fierce competition for scoops
between rival organizations. It is
difficult to make an exhibitor show
an unscheduled film when it means
the interruption of his regular and
delicately timed program. Exclusive
pictures are still highly prized — al-
though they generally are obtained
accidentally when luck puts a cam-
eran'ian into the midst of some un-
forseen even Rarely, too, an ama-
teur camera n will be on the spot,
and then his pictures become a prize
to be won by the newsreel which has
the quickest fferor the biggest
purse. When the Vestris sank, a man
shot 200 feet of the doleful sight
with his 16 -mm. hand camera. Word
reached New York from the rescue
ship that the film was saved, and all
the newsreel folk set out to get it.
Fox won the race by sending a man
far out to sea in a 'power boat. •
The right of the newsreel men to
cover all events as freely as the press
covers them, with no exclusive priv-
ileges to be bought, for money, was
established in 1923 when the famous
ZevePapyrus race was run at Bel-
mont Park. Some days before the
event, August Belmont called Tru-
man Talley, head of Movietone, to his
office. Pathe had offered $50,000 for
exclusive rights to photograph the
race. "I don't like to sell exclusive
rights," Belmont said, "but the heavy
cost of holding the race makes it
necessary. Do you want to offer
more than that?"
Talley said, "How much is the New
York Times paying to cover the race
in their sport colurmtns ?"
"Nothing," said Belmont.
"Then," said Talley, "we don't
care to make any offer."
The Fox people saw what this leas
letting them in for: a future crovided
with wild (bidding among all the com-
panies for exclusive rights to all sorts
of affairs. So they set out to break
up the practice before it could get
started.
They bought 40 hand camerae and
taught everybody around the place
how --to use them. They rented the
old ice factory at the head of the
Belmont track and secretly prepared
it as a camera stand for equipment
with telescopic lenses. In the trees
at the lower end of the track they
built camouflaged platforms by pho-
tographers. They chartered two air-
planes for shots from the sky.,They
had their ace cameraman sworn in as
a deputy sheriff and he went into the
grounds carrying his hand camera
under his coat. Other cameramen
came in with the crowd, concealing
their.- equipment.
The Pathe people 'knew that efforts
would be made to shoot the race, and
they had taken precautions. When
the Cry, Went up "They're off!" a hun-
dred smoke gpota began to pour off
black vapors all up and down the
track; Reiiiecting mirrors directed
their rays against the windows • in
the ice factory and the nests in the
trees, making it impossible for the
Foix men in these places to photo-
graph. *rt the men with the hand
cameras got nearlf 5,000 feet of film
which covered the horses' from start
to finish. Since then, there has been
n6 serious attempt to sell exclusive
camera rights to any considgralble
event, prizefights excepted.
IOn the other hand, the newsreel
people have to make certain conces-•i
sions to the sporting entrepreneurs.
They have, for example, signed agree-
ments not to take slow-motion cam-
eras into 'bhseiball parks. Two or
three years ago, during a slow-mo-
tion camera caught Jimmy -Dykes
sliding into third base. The umtpire
called him out, thereby changing the
whole complexion of the game. Two
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none ended.tion or down into Om
black pits to shoot a mine die
And they can't fake. You can't look
at war, riot, or death and destructisat
from a place of safety if you expect
to 1iave action on your negative..
Cameramen earn about $100 a wreck
on the average. For thisthey con-
trive to be a combination of expert
craftsman, pack horse, Nosey Pik.
er and Battling Nelson.
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Advertising is
Good for Us
•
That dusty picture of an optimist and a pessimist—the opti-
mist seeing the doughnut and the pessimist the hole—is just a
way of describing most of us: some of us habitually look on the
bright side of things ; others of us on the dark side. Always there
are those who have a melancholy pleasure in fault-finding. And
so there are always those who look upon advertising as an econ-
omic waste and a means by which the sale of inferior merchandise
can be promoted.' It is quite possible to discover wrong things
about advertising—just as it is possible to find wrong things about
water and air, about books and speeches, about motor cars and
aeroplanes, about schools and churches, about Canadians and
Scotsmen, about knives and forks.
Advertising is news and information, and who shall say that
it is wrong to communicate news and information? It would be
a pretty dull world, full of dull people, if there ceased to be a dis-
seinination of news and information.
In all ages and in all countries those giving out news and in-
formation have attracted to themselves attentive audiences; and
this is as true to -day as it was 1000, 2000, 3000 years ago.
Wkiat stores are busiest? Is it not those stores which give
out most information about what they have to sell? The public
is daily spending money—probably $2 a day for every man, wo-
man and child in the trading area covered by the circulation of
our newspaper—or, say, $2000 for every 1000 persons. So you can
calculate for yourself—you, a retailer, what is spent daily in our
own community for food and shelter and clothing, and for all the
other things.
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THE HURON EXPOSITOR
McLEAN BROS., Publishers.
Established 1860.