HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1930-02-06, Page 3Rural Canada's Opportunity
To Get Large Share of Big Money
Mr, C. E. Neill, Vice -President and Managing Diiector of the
Royal Bank, Points the Way to a Wonderful
Opportunity
A REAL GOLD MINE
Bank managers can not usually be
accused of optimistic promotion
propaganda but that Is realty abet
appears in the January Letter of the
Royal hank of Canada, 9'lte gold
mine to which Mr, Neill refers le
Canada's tourist trade.
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics
recently published the following
table:
Expenditures of Tourists 1922.1930
1022 $ 91,680,000
1928 130,977,000
1924 159,876,000
1925 17 7,882,000
1926 186,791,000
1927 216,763,000
1926 250,501,000
'1929 About 300,000,000
An increase of 233% in seven years.
Mr, Neill says in reference to this
great 11111(18 of wealthy travellers.
"This great annual migration pre -
sante an unparaled opportunity for
increasing our trade. As yet there
liar been ao concerted effort to build
the tradition that there aro purchases
which can be made in Canada m01'e
advantageously than In the United
States, It le estimated that in France
the amount of sales to each visitor
averages $750. If we could make pur-
chasing in Canada sufficiently attrac-
tive so that the average value of the
merchandise taken out of the country
amounted to only ono -tenth of this
0nnl, it would make a difference of
ntoro than ono billion dollars a year
in our trade:'
Tilero have been few careful studies
of the subject, but those who arc
most familiar with tourist expoldl•
tures in Canada state that the pre•
poudorant amount is for lodging,
food, gasoline, end beverages, and
that it Is probable that not more than
sixty million dollars, or less than
four dollars per capita, has been spent
for merchandise which teas taken out
of the conutry, This small per capita
expenditure is striking evidence that
"Buying in Canada" has not been
untie all important feature of tourlet
'visite, Concerted effort by the Na-
tional and Provincial Governments,
Hoards of Trade and Tourist Bureaus
could melte merchandising to tour -
fete a more prolitoblc venture titan
tho whole of the present tourist trade
and the opportunity to buy in Canada
should, become an a,pitod inducement
'that would serve to increase rho
number of people who visit the coun-
try,
Our ,governments have a 1)0sponsl-
bility which can he plainly seen by
tho following paragraph from the
ea1110 source:
In order to attract more visitors
from 1110 United States, the German
government melee a largo annual ap-
prupriation for advertising the attncc-
Gu ns of Germany throughout the
United States, In Franco, the ap-
propriation for lids purpose Is In ex -
ceps of one million delays, but the
French Uovertlnlent is not advertise
leg on as large a scale as Germany.
In a recent diecussiol in the National
Assembly of France there was great
eutphaste placed upon rho necessity
for maintaining the prices of luxury
Products at reasonable levels in order
to mabntan the volume of tourist
purchases at maximum levels, Op•
position was expressed toward 0eorbi-
taut prices which reduced volume of
trade and led Alherieau tourists to
do {Moir purchasing in other 801111 -
tries. AdvOrtdehng appropriations and
leglolotivo discussion of merchandlz-
ing policies constitute direct recogni-
tion of the importance of the tourist
trade to national welfare,
Where the Small Town Comes in
People from the UTnited Statee tra-
velling to C11nudlt isy motor car coin -
lug largely from great cltiee search-
ing for an outing in the 'great out-
doors" of Canada, lly lack of proper
hotel accommodation in the smaller
towns and villages they aro forced to
keep on tite main highways n0a0 to
000 our country and allvaye be near
good 11ot01 accommodation for the
night. 13y preference these same
tourists would 501)01' stop in a large 80nge1'8 and two
centre If they could get a Good bed
and bath in the rural localities.
Any of the pre0001 well run x111) l
hostelries prove that such accommo-
dation brings tourlsta. The writer Is
personally acqualuted witch several
little (hotels dotted here and there In
more hamlets throughout Ontario
value business fairly booms through-
out the season of motoring activity,
Form Local Companies
In pl0oes 1vlere there is at present
110 satisfactory tourist acconnmocia-
tion this lade can be impelled by the
formation of a local joint stock cone
pany, which can purchase present
poor hotels and turn them into at-
tractive totlriet lane.
Apparently local hank managers
eau interest ]load offices 111 any such
endeav010 to the extent of securing
information, supplying ante and pos-
sibly credits.
It ie worth while for rural reckons
to consider such opPortwhitios, for
with a hotel to house the transient a
further paragraph from the Royal
Rank letter is full of snggeolions as
to bigger and butter sngestons for
all. It Is as folows:
"As a natural prelude to the move
meet to increuee buying in Canada,
there should be a concerted effort to
build more adequate hotels and hos-
telries for tourist nccenpuodatiou.
The hotels in our largo cites and in
the better known 'resorts taro excel-
lent 1u small towns and villages the
lade of adequate accommodation is
deplorable, Many of the most attract
Geo Pons of this country aro un-
knowu because they have no facili-
tloe to house visitors. There should
be sufficient local pride to bullet UP.
On. proper accommodation ter visit-
ors. There should be sufficient local
Pride to insist upon proper accommo-
dation for visitors, Those towns and
cites which aro well located with re•
ferences to tourist travel can increase
their lvealtll by slaking it more at-
tractive to "Buy in Canada."
Don't forget and also play up the
fact that each American. visitor is
permitted to tate $100.00 worth of
ulerclnandise beck to the U.S. free
of duty,
Scenes &fore and After Fatal Crash
DEATH PLANE WHICH CLAIMED THE LIVES OF PASSENGERS AND PILOTS
I{ore 1s shown tri -motored Ford plane No, 9688, Which crashed near Oeeenside, Calif., 'kliltng
pilots, hound for Los Angeles from air r0,2013 lo 'Mexico.
Brings $3,000 to Relieve Veterans
1 to orUmer9 reel lie
fre000ft"'null brotuati ,'n`
l0 11.10er 0,t,ioerS 0t. 001)0
lllh{,aelbrb cos 0) 141
pl cs1)811)'3,11/ate/ate,sae':
tae hour thra petteres9
10)01 aagn8 rid 111 tuti1141' r
h 11010 Ni -)08
WHERE BRAVERY AND BIG iIEARTEDNESS GOES HAND IN HAND
H. 13, Robson, V.C., offered this menu card, prize souvenir of Prince of
'Vales' V.C. (limier, upon which are written signatore: of the Prince and
netcd V.C,'s, to Poppy flay 1'01811 to auction for feuds, it brought ill $7,000
ata "ilialde Lea." hockey game and teas graciously volumed to rho 901100003
here
fourteen.
Pas.
SIXTEEN DIE AS GIANT AIR LINER CRASHES TO GROUND ON WEST COAST
-Wreckage of Mediae el.A.'1'. air liner, lvhicli crushed 10 earth and burned, near Oceanslde, Calf., hitting four-
teen pes,'nge10 and two pilots. 'l'elepl'olo reprodueten.
Australia Wilds
To Produce Potash
Valuable Fertilizer May Come
from Unproductive Ter-
ritory if Plans go
Through
Adelaide, S. Aust.—Prospects of
the discovery of large deposits of
potash salts in the bed of Lake Eyre
In the sparsely pOpnlatecl regions of
Central Australia, as a result of the
Cecil Madigan expedition, are causing
much discussion here. Should the
deposits bo found, there w0111d re-
sult an important new industry that
would go far to change the face of a
territory that is proving olio of Aub•
tralla's most soden problems,
Mr. Madigan 13 working with a
motor trucic some 250 miles beyond
the farthest 11mit of the railway,
A reeent arrival from Northern
Territory Is Cherie% W. D. Conacher,
attorney for the Vesey Brothel's,
wlhoaemeat works at Darwin on the
north coast have been closed down
for practically 10 years owing to tut -
satisfactory labor conditions. Mr.
Comelier says No•t133rt1 Territory
can he matte to progress only by prf•
vete enterprise„ which will be able to
function only If there are prospects
of. maltieg a profit. He discouraged
attempts at exp1081011 by large de•
volopment x01)010 s, for which, he
said, the Government had not guilt -
Meet funds.
Tho Northern Territory Pastoral
Leases Assoclatiou, hewever, have
submitted a number of proposals to
tho Bruce Gorern11101tt for placing the
pastoral business on a sotnhd basis.
Among these le the construction of a
railway to go across the Barclay table-
lands ---souse of the richest areas iu
the country—into Queensland, open-
ing up lihe northern section in a stmt.
tar Manner to the opening of the
south through the now railway from
O« dnadatta to Alice Springs, Com-
monwealth railway experts had re-
ported that such It line neeild more
than pay running expenses, The re-
port was submitted to the Bruce Gov
enema prior to ate resignation and
the attitude of the new Labor Gov-
eminent
oveminent toward Northern Territory
hes yet to be ascertained,
For the present the territory is
virtually at a standstill, apart from
the working of three silver lead
nliRes, following an important die-
cov0ry of the metal, but owing to de-
ficiency In seater supply, little expan-
sion Is expected. Motor lorries and
camel teams form the main menus of
180111)19'
There is deep 111 the hearts of men,
with all their faults and all their
wickedness, a kind of moral souse
which mattes it a horror when tate
weak are trampled on and there is no
one to avenge then. ---(Hanle Boyden.
Temptation usually heginneth with
the fantasy and appetite, and repre•
0011tet11 some worldly, fleshly thing as
very pleasant and desirable,—Richard
Baxter.
Federal Parliament ''tans
Busy Session on Tariff and Rum
Arctic Rights, Tariff Schedules, and Rum
The Chief Topics
PLANS BEiNG LAiD
Clearances to Be
Many Items of International Importance Will Face Our
Federal Representatives When the Session
Opens on February 20th Next
The tariff readjustments, legisla• own country in competition with
Hon 000191st elearancee or liquor tar- liquor stores controlled by provinciel
goes obviously Intended for the TJui' got el
ted States, reiteration of Canada's
sovereignity ever wido 01008 in 11)0 Arctio Sovereignty Questioned
Arctio regions, pronouncement of Norway as well as the United States
policy on the St. Lawrence River
deeper waterway to the sea, (00810 -
oration of a proposed plan for nation-
al control of male broadcasting sta.-
Hone.
Readjusted Duties Favored
Is challenging Coned1011 claims of
eovereig111ty over some parts of the
Arctic region, approxinhating r014117
500,000 square 1111100. No doubt the
103)[9 11111 eventually go to an arbitra-
tioln court. Iu the moan time Cam
Thera 13 no (parted Antoni pollticai ala le earryhrg on her 1vorlr of explor-
parties as to the necessity of action to abet and survey of the regions clans-
meot United Stated developments on ed•
the tariff, Prime Minister, W. L, The government has kept watch and
'Mackenzie K1u.g, proposes readjust- ward over the nomad Indians and the
ed duties, ae 0001101011 warrants, ea lesktmos of the North for many years,
imilorts front the 'United States. flits the Royal Cauadian Mounted Pollen
Polley he would combine with further posts and patrols being the visible.
trade advantages to Britain and other signs of its authority. One post, that
empire countries, as we11 as to those oil Baolhe, Peninsula, claims distinc-
of Latin America and tho Far East, tion as the most northerly is the
with 881)1011 Canadiau trade is grow- world, less than 700 miles from the
ing. Expansion of government: own- Pole.
ed or subsidized etoamohlj, linea and When the governmeut railway In
aid in establielling new services fort Churchill on Hudson Bay bogies
regular operation it the coning sum -
Empire Conference Invited mer, carriage of supplies to the Arctic
Tho tariff issue gains added Import- Posta will be greatly facilitated. Trio
once ill view of this year's prospective questions as to the feasibility 01 the
empire 9cononii¢ conference. Canada Hudson Straits route for elites oarly-
11as invited all the empire govern- 109 western Canadian grain to British
monis to hold the conference in 06- Porte will also be answered,
tawa, the Canadian capital. London But looming 011 the horizon are the
is the more probable choice, however, questionings of other nations, partl-
T11e meeting place is inmuatorial; the culerly as to Jerisdlcton over the
conference win almost certeilily adopt ricin fishing areas of the Straits and
pit1ns Iutouded to Increase trade with. adjacent waters, tellIc11 have been sine
to the 9tnpire. weed, mapped and 'studied by the
LiquormClearance Royal Canadian Air Force la an epic
T11e governent's intention to ask series of flights, The governmentParltameut to a1) rove legislation end- 11)111 mance its position clear, once
Ing issuance of clearance for liquor more, in respect to these northern ter -
cargoes, which aro undoubtedly leen 1 � ritorles•
ad for the (loafed States, ohne meet Incidentally It is likely to give some
some opposition irons a few of its lufarmntlon as to prospective develop-
own supporters, as well as from a meet of Fort Churchill as a great ail'-
IInhnhOr of Tortes, It tentprobably .port, sauce aviation 0xpo1'ts are of the
carry with a good majority, opinion that it will be the favored
Whatever the government may have landing and re -starting place of fly -
thought of Washington representa- ere front either the west or the Feu
1on ike nature aed kbound oll voyages to their 09-
11,81
s iours, regardacti(imago
as of inevitablte in thelndicface 1)OSltearts, as x011 as for travelers be•
of insistent criticisms and demands. 'ween this continent and Europe.
In general their tone iris been more A definte pronouncement is expect: -
hostile than that of she United ed from the government as to ate
Slalom publicists and politicians, readiness to proceed with the United
111011911 then' arguments have been States in the joint development of
similar. Apart from the ab011141ty of the St. Lawrence waterway project,
allowing rem cargoes for the United Thera are confusing cross -currents in
States to be loaded udder a guise or tills matter, more or, less tinged by
legality, Canadian entice believe that local political views, and 11180101119
too many of these shipments aro still also power rights of the provinces
being short-circuited and sold In their of Ontario and Quebec,
would be included,
Ontario's V. D. Law
Demands Secrecy
Doctors Forbidden by Law to
Divulge Names of
Patients
Toronto, Out,—Every person int thio'
province undergoing treatment for'
venereal (113eaeo is protected by late
ogain8t publicity, states Dr. IV. J..
Boll, Deputy Minister of the Depart-
moat of health in an articie on the
Venereal Dlseoses Prevention Act of
Ontario; appearing la lite current is
sue of the Canadian Publio Health
Journal. This url.lcle written to
facilitate the co-operation existing be
[ween the physicians and 1110 Dollard'
went, stresses the fact that seereey
la legally Imposed upon the physician
in ;ouch cases.
The Act alio provides for free treat-
ment for Indigent persons, for pay-
ment of physicians in such cases, for,
1110 establishment and maintenance'
of clinics and for the distrlleitiol of
literature and drugs to physlolans.
Infected persons are compelled to
take treatment and continue it until
declared non-tufective, and penalties
are provided for persona who, not bee
big physlciano, administer treatment.
Reepouslbility for the treatment of
indigent persons le placed upon the
municipality, through the medical of -
hoer of health, Penalties are pro
vided for persons who, having ren,
son to believe themselves Infected
transmit the infection, and any per•
non accused by an infected pereoa ne
the Femme of the infection may be
compulsorily examined.
"The public when under arrest or,
in custody c0netltute4 a group more
easily reached," Dr. Boll stator,
Special provleions are made to look)
after inmates of public institutions.
Every hospital in receipt of ()Marto
Government aid is required to 10ake
effective provision for talo treat 1001
of these diseases, excepting excite
sleety child-treat11t0nt end isolation
hospitals,
The pihyeician Is required to report
such cases, blit even them the strict
est secrecy is maintained, since the
physician is not instructed to furrLoll
the patient's name, but merely a num
Oer or other designating stark,
"Eighteon clinics have been estate
110110(1 in the Province of Ontario at
various points," the article states.
"Six of this number aro located at
various hospitals In no City of To-
ronto, 'Pile balance are located as
follows: IIantiltea General IIospital,
Brantford General Hospital: London,
Victoria Hospital; Wlndsor, Bank et
Montreal Building; Ottawa, 180 Canal
Street; Owen Sound, 10th St, Wost;.
Port William, 111cKell u' Hospital; St:
Catharines, General IToeplial; Icing•
Ston, General Hospital; Peterboro,
City Laboratory, Sault Ste, 'Marlen
City Laboratory; Kitchener, Water.
loo Hospital.
'file establishment of a clinic op-
proved by the Plovinciat Department
of Health is aided by a grant of
$1,000 for apparatus, etc, $500 per:
annual is voted toward the salary of
the social service nurse attached to
the clinic and $500 is granted as a'
yearly honorarium to the physician
in charge of the clinic, The Depart-
ment Is empowered by the Regula•
Holm to grant honoraria to assistant
physicians in the clinic.
la addition the Departnont papa to
each clinic established In a hospital
for the treatment of out-patients,
fifty caths for each treatment f01'
gonorrhoea and fifty cents for each
treatment of syphilis. The Regula
110110 stipulate that not more than 011e
I treatment per day for a patient will
b0 paid for, and impose certain lint.
Itatons as to the length of time der-
' hug which the treatment of any lu;
I(11vldu01 case may bo charged to the
Department.
For inpatients at hospitals hl w1.11011
clhdce are established, the Depart•
meat pays fifty cents per day for each
day of treatment up to three ulontih0,
bat does not pay for any patient as
an in-patient and an out-patient at the
same time.
It should be remarked in Pa0011)0
that treatment of cases of v011010ai
(1180010 is not administered primarily
for the purpose of clearing up a case
or curing 00 Individual, Treatment,
as prodvided for In the Act, is for the
Impose of clearing up a foals of he
lection 110 a meting of controlling the
spread of nereri 00)000e.
Sixteen y cars after rho staking of
1110 'Titanic by collision with an ice-
berg, 461 dependents of tate 1,492 per
sons drowned are still receiving
periodic allowances from the $2,000,-
000
2,000;000 fund raised by Mansion House,
London, The fund possesses 1110001,
ed property, according to the latest
annual report, amounting to 91,436,-
000. Tie the United States the 310.
men's Titanic Memorial Association is
about to erect in Washington a 58001.1
oriel to the lost—a symboli0 marble:
sculpture by Mrs, I{arry Pairio WW1.'
soy,
Rolling to the rescuo of "VTies
June," a Loudon eteuogr apher who
had made a par08110te drop into a
tree a ar8Vl11 recently found her sit
ting on a bough unhurt and smilingi
happily,
industrial disputes In Groat Brllainj
have caused the loss of 338,000,000
amaze g days 111 ti13 last eight years.'
"Never let yonr3elf t9tak tihat you'
cannot accomplish what ,you set out!
69,".-1-lenl'y P'Ord• ,