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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1930-04-03, Page 3Submarines and Security Not Merely a Scrap of Paper By J. L. Garvin Guarantees against misuse must be dug to Amorica, Britain and Japan asked at this Conference, and we can would have been over £290,000,000, not doubt that so far no signed paper otherwise bound to be spent by them can provide thorn they will be given, an "replacement" between 1934 and At preseut even on paper no gnash. 1937, tees exist except what are implied— New conies the greater lead. It the and we do not uudereethnate it—by whole Conference reclprocatee in the absolute renunciation of war un- other ways, America and Britain will der Article II, of the Kellogg Pact. begin this year to scrap a large pro - There are, however, such things on portion ot their existing battleship record as the "Root Resolutions," fleets, The procesc will go on as fast which havo never been ratified by as rho Admiralty can tonnage It. This France, Why? These Resolutions country at present has two more bat• were intended to form a part of the tleshlps than the United Staten, and rest. They were introduced by that meet do moot for parity. By next great veteran of law and wisdom, Sem autumn at furthest Britain would ator Halm Root, Amongst other scrap five of her sea-caetles, America things these articles prohibited at three, and Japan one—that alone tacks on any merchant chips what- would mean nine hulls out of forty - ever by submarines, eight, or nearly a flfth part of the There is no more Indispensable pro. whole hulk of metal now embodied in vision in connection with the Kellogg the monsters, Nor need it end there, Pact and the accepted "outlawry of For the purpose of bringing the Con• war" by the whole world, At Wash• fereuee to a memorable triumph in Mame in February, 1922, just eight every chief respect, the three battle• years ago, the Root Resolutions were ship Powers night well agree to scrap signed by all the delegates, including within the next halt -decade twice as the representative: of France, But much no they already contemplate. from that time to thia they never have Details about the future of cruisers, been ratified by France herself, They both large and small, are about the are consequently null and void, The future of destroyers, involve many extraordinary position at this moment croes•arguments which are exceeding - is that there is no legal protection for ly important. We cannot go into the shipping and trade of any country those details now. As regards Britain against indiscriminate destruction by and America alone, settlement en the submarines. Into this insufferable basis of parity is ensured on thorough - situation the interests of all maritime ly reasonable and conelderable line's peoples in tile world have been with regard to cruisers, `as in every brought by the logic of one people in. other respect. Mr, Stetson's state• silting on complete Armed Security ment menus President Hoover's fair for herself without any normal regard deal, and there could not be a fairer for the logic and security of others. deal. We still quite decline to be - It follows that two things are re, sieve that Japan by insisting upon one quh'ed, First, the agreement ot the ten -thousand -ton cruiser more, will en - French delegation to ratify these ar- tangle the whole proceedings; Instead ticlee of the Root Resolutions which of following Bismarck's advice and In our later language "outlaw" the ae- retntorcleg the impontlerabilia of Se- saeoinatlon of merchant ships; and, curity by a further gain of both Ann secondly, the actual and adequate re- ericau and British good -will. duction et the total French submarine The American and British proposals program, with specific limitations as for the eweeplug reduction of battle• to nombere and sizes, ship strength forthwith' are a tremens], We repeat our hope that et those ons example of moral and practical two points, the first will be amicably courage in the cause of Naval disarm. secured. France can have no interest anent. Will France make an equal in resisting the overwhelming opinion response by reducing her submarine of the world. For if the Conference programme and agreeing to prohibit failed on the submarine question that absolutely the use of that arm for the opinion would have to be organized. destruction of merchant shipping. Or In due course, every signatory to the will she insist upon a logic of Armed Kellogg Pact would have to be in. Security, which Is bbcoming more and viten to sign the antl•submarine ar- more incompatible with the security tides of the Rea Resolutions. By no of many other nations, and conflicts Possibility can this part of the quos- with the world's urgent opinion and tion be allowed to remain where it its rising caused?—Montreal Standard. now stands, --'t But that is not enough, Submarines, Nerve Saves Plane or all naval weapons, cannot baiex- empt from reduction all round with ___,_ complete elimination of the compete. Kingsford Smith dive element, Without tough difilcultyCaptain g sufficient success'fu this direction will Performs Unique Experi- not be secured. France will not oily ment With 'Plane reject ou military grounds the British Sydney, Auetralla.—Capt, Charles and submarine. can arguments for abolish - Kingsford D, Smith, the Australian ace lug thehe submaine, Ono the famous who flew from the United States' to "global" principle, France claims the Australia in 1928, has just performed the smugglers, elastic right to allocate a large mar - one of the most thrilling exploits of Reports from Cleveland state that gin of teenage either to one type o' hie career, another as she may deem well. Ilex the "mother ships" are to be the 75• He is now the director of an air- foot cruisers. Those will be etaton• naval policy still is to create a dentin- line, Recently when one of the cour- ant 0090101100 force, We understand ed at approximately 10 miles anchor• the argument. But there nue logic Pony's trlplo•engined machines made age along the watery border line. Be - meets alager logic firmly represent - near forced landing in a forest clearing tweet these 8h1ps, the small spend iug, as we said, the general interest of near , it se o, Northern New South boats will keep a constant patrol on all maritime peoples. Ieral Interest nal Wales, it seemed that the plane could the look-ont for raft laden with Can - affairs, as in natural affairs, the logic be withremodoily byt beingcdismantled, adieu liquor, each ship being in con- Smlth went to the scene, repaired stunt communication with the others or a large majority cannot be expected tie damage[t under -carriage, tied the always to give way to a minority, no and the shore. matter stow convinced, cogent and pane's tall to a tree and set his em Word of all boats leaving Canada glues going full speed. When the ma- laden with liquor will bo wired head - tenacious, chile lifted from the ground a farmer l qaarters Cleveland and the inform - "global" of transfer within the cut the rope and the plane flashedcordon "global" system of total tannage so away into a rocket. Ttion will at evhere are now aay d to the load piceeboats as to enable the most sinister type of Even thein the straining plane, duck• 4 in service, Fenton states, and to these naval weapon to be increased though lag like a broncho could barely rise will be added 15 new 32 -foot cruisers other types might be diminished—this above the towering forest trees. A will be oP attaining a speed of 50 Is a most dangeroue principle. It topmost bough tore the fabric from miles ee hour, strikes at the very root of a mala ob• uuderueatlt the fuselage and the ma- As yet the Canadian shore is ice• jest of the Conference—eradicating chine trembled like a wounded bird, bound; but as soon as the ice breaks caval competition. For example, so but It kept up and Smith got it safely up the war will be on, far as Franco at the end remains free 90 the airdrome. Washington—Passage of the to develop her submarine war, so far posed Canadian law which would ban andpro- Britain ro be compelled tomultiplyoptica Defence of the Dominions clearance of liquor cargoes to any and improve destroyers. Na option country which forbids' such Importa- would be left to this country. Up to Singapore Free Press: At Present, tion, would end all important liquor now, our neighbors, In reply to every and presumably for tI good many tion, ovnulgling on the Great Lakes, but auggeetion for reducing the numbers years to come, there will be no nue of would increase Great of this kind and standardizing the types of sub- the Dominions which could regard it- would the Atlantic seaboard, this n - marines, could point to the American, self as being la a position to resist aall alonging to the is seabo of the British and Japanese monopoly of the aggreesiou of any o2 the major Treasury Seymour Lowman, Secretary of the giant battleships. At last, that par- world powers, nor, it may be added, of customs andmcoastguard services. titular ground of objection bas been owing to physical and geographical believes that it would do awaylie also with beibel swept away. conditions, could a combination of need for any would In - drastic, we come back to the new and Dominions which excluded the Mother aare in tth number of men fea the drastic, policy of scrapping the sea- Country carry out such an effective re- reconsolidated border patrol, which hue castle; most distinctly declared by the sistance, For the present, therefore, co s prated to Control, hi Pres!. American Secretary of State, though the Dominions have to recognize that . 7 Tighter Watch On All Liquor Being Planned Disquietening News from U.S, Border Officials Received that Speedy Boats Aimed to Intercept Smugglers, Leaving Canadian Side of Boundary END OF SMUGGLING With reports from Ottawa indicat- ing that the proposed 951 pr0h11)1ting clearances of liquor step malts from Canada to rho United States will he carried successfully, there ie further news of an extremely disquletenlug nature to those associated with the "liquor rings" across the internation- al boundary. It was haled on a report from Cleve- land, Ohio, that a giant cordon of "another ships" with schools of sulali speed boats plying between, will be stretched lengthwise through the cen- tre of Lake Erie this spring 1n a new attempt to block the flood of Canadian liquor pouring into the United States. Just what this means to this inter- ested in the liquor business here is indicated 1n the fact that, even if the Government's proposal to ban clear- ances of whiskey to the United States proves a failure, and liquor 1s still per- mitted to be cleared under export for the United States, rum-runnere are etill confronted with the possibility of ]laving their wares stopped half way across the international boundary line, Whether or not the Government bill will be passed, of course, remains to be seen, but the fact rennins that whatever happens, United States au- thorities are tightening up their bo- der patrol and are aiming themselvee more strenuously than ever against the inroads of the emugglors, 0no thing is certain, however, those in touch with the situation claim, and that is tho fact that it the b111 is pass- ed, liquor prices across the border will go skyrocketing overnight. Although liquor made In Canada Is still plentiful across the border rum- runners will have very reason to boost their prices if the bill to carried, "risks," etc., they will claim, warrant.Mg any increase. And with the Uni- ted States' customers demanding their liquor, it is quite certain that what. ever prices are asked on this side of the boundary they will willingly be 1)0119, The news that the United States was preparing to tighten its patrol, was still more dlegnietening when it became known that the plan accord- ing to Arthur P. Fenton, U.S. Conn• missioner of Customs at Cleveland, calls for the removal of the rum• chasing activities of the coastguards and allied patrols from the harbors and rivers of the American shoreline to the international boundary out on the lake. To do this, all the nine coastguards districts, it is reported, Will bo unified into one front against The Late Earl Balfour For when 00 Empire mourned std the civilized world paid eulogies. "Passage of the Canadian Anti - Liquor Clearance Act, which I under- stand is expected to be accomplished by Easter', will greatly lighten the work of the customs and coastguard services on the Great Laken," he said, "This has already been shown by the Pact that on the Dominion shores op- posite Detroit and Buffalo, the ware- houses are being cleaned out of what liquor they have on hand and aro not restocking. This indicates that, the Canadian liquor dealers who have been shipping to the United' Steles are assured • that the anti -clearance Mw will be passed. "At the present time we have about 2110 men in the Detroit area 001 about, 150 in and around Buffalo, I doubt 1t these forces will be materially re- duced for some little thio, but these men will have an opportunity to pay more attention to other work, and this will enable then to handle a large part of the tasks for which President Hoover asked an increase in the per- sonnel of the consolidated border patrol he euggeeted to Congress, "Another effect which the passage of this act will probably have will be increased efforts to smuggle Can- adian liquor to tills country via the French ports of St. Pierre and Mique- lon, at the mouth of the St, Lawrence. At the present time these two places are the bases from which the greater amount of liquor illicitly entering this country comes. The Great Lakes sit- uation being well In hand, and with the coastguard relieved of Ito concen- trated patrol of the Inland waters, it wilt bo able to handle this situation far better, without any great increase in personnel, Petty Stuff Only "Tile passage of this act will meal that smuggling on the Great Lakes and its tributary water will be con - tined to petty stuff. In the past the rum -runners could take their boats up to export docks and loath them with scores or hundreds of cases of whiskY. Now they will be compelled to rely upon the liquor stores run by the various Canadian provinces, and can only make their purchases by the ease at the most and then at far high- er prices than they have paid in the past. "Perhaps more important than any- thing else will be the fact that a con- tinual source of friction between the two countries will be removed and this country will do Ito part to repay the Dominion for its action by halting, where possible, all smuggling from this country to Canada." The world's deepest oil well, drill- ed in 1929, is In California and is 9,350 feet deep, dent Hoover. Mr, Ramsay MacDonald and the Bri• reliance must be placed upon Great tish government are well known to be Britain to carry the main burden of in absolute harmony. The original Commonwealth defence, idea, though good in itself, was far less eweeping and trenchant than what se now offered. Under the terms Dr. Cook Appointed of the Washington Treaty all the float. ]Manager of Camp lug fortresses, forty-eight of them, now possessed by America, Britain Chicago. — Dr, Frederick A. Cook, andjapan, were to be abolished by who won transitory fame in the Arctic 1942; but niter Goliaths, equally large and paid for a misstep by spending and more destructive, as embodying five years in Leavenworth pennon - the ceaseless progress of naval tiary, started his "cone back" recent - science, were to replace theta, The ly with the cheers of 900 boys-rluging Conference opened with a general hihis ears. willingness on the part of the Ameri• , He has accepted a post as penman - can delegation, quickly reciprocated eut physical director of the Boys' by Great Britain, to prolong the legal Brotherhood Republic and will direct life of the naval Aualclur and to sus- the, organization's summer camp at pend all replacement until 1935, when, Burlington, Wis, at another conference, the whole quay- The 65 -year-old man straightened Gott of the future of battles nips would 1118 shoulders and smiled when the 000 be freelyre-consider d in relation to boys shouted their confidence in hint Political circumstances at the time as he was made a life member of their and to the advances of naval tech- organization. Duly two persons hove ntque in the tntevviil. This by itself been so honored In the past, Mrs. Alar• harbor, In ulslante may be imputes. was a great thi13. 'rho fivaucial sets -shall Field and President Roosevelt, Theory Discounted By Hon. V. Massey Business Good Compared With 1929 Department of Finance Rea port Shows We Have No Reason to Fear Future Ottawa.—Although buniness in Cane ads, in so far as its course was re•' fleeted in the indices of the chartered, banks, aLowed a recession during tho, first mouth of the current year, the situation as at the end of January compared lavorably with rho corn responding date last year. The monthly bank statement issued by the Department of Finance tho other day showed that current loans in Camila, an thccepted index of busi- ness activity, totalled at the end of Januar:, $1,1180,800,710, an increase of $100,000,000 over January 31, 1929, although a decline of $19,000,000 from December 31, 1929. Current loans outside of Canada were 9257,510,432, a decline of $2,000,000 from January 31, 192e, but an increase of $7,000,000 over December, 1929. Call loans in Canada at the end of January were 9237,421,000, a decline of $31,000,000 from January, 51,1929;' ce•11 loans outside of Canada were $211,750,000, n decline of $115,000,000 from January 31, 1929, indienting a lessened demand for brokers' `sans in New York, Notice deposits, wh'ch were $1,439,•, 814,000 at tho end of January were higher by $5,500,000 than at the end of December, but dowr by $84,000,000 from January 31, 1929, indicating a certain drain on savings accounts. Bunk note circulation at the end of January was 9156,002,000, a decline of $19,500,000 from December 31, 1929, but only of $2,000,000 from January 31, 1920. The bank note circulation at the end of January is always about $20,000,000 less than at the end of December, so the decline indicated above is slightly lass than the seasonal • change. Bank note circulation in Can- ada attained its highest end -of -Janu- ary figure in 1920, being then $217,- 000,000, but that war at the peak of high prices, Since pre-war the note circulation has increased from $97,- 000,000, Jan, 31, 1914, to 9150,000,000 an increase of til per cent. While these banking figures, on the face of thein, scent to indicate that business in Canada in January of this year was as goon if not better than in January of last year, that view needs to be discounted by the fact that the banks have substantia' loans more or less tied up with the wheat pool, and probably with private grain traders. These loans are doubters good busi- nese for the banks, with the three prairie governments standing behind the wheat pool; but they have been and stir are to some extent inactive leans; they have ..et contributed much' business to tho transportation corn - parries, although probably most of the dollar -per -bushel loan made to the pool and by it advanced to the wheat growers has been expended by then, to the benefit of business, SEES NO HARI) TIMES IN WEST, Winnipeg.—A hearty vote of opti- mise was sounded by C. H. S. Bam- ford when he addressed the annual meeting of the Manitoba Retail Mer-' chants' Association here. Mr. Bain ford is general sales manager for one of the biggest retail concerns in the city, and he based his statements' largely upon the figures supplied by W. Sanford Evans) ILL,A,, who is' recognized as one of the ablest sta- tisticians in the Dominion. Every sign points to a decided im- provement in business condition in the West, Mr, Bamford told the gathering, and there was no reason for pessimism provided ordinary caution and com- mon sense are employed. Sales are mounting in Winnipeg every day, and we are on the threshold of a better and brighter day in Western Canada, he said. "I don't believe for an instant that we are in for hard tines in the West," Mr, Bamford emphatically declared, "Everywhere signs point to a decided impravemert in business," One of the reasons the speaker advanced for his optimistic views is that the agricul- tural production cf the three prairie rovinces---field crops, livestock, dairy produce and poultry--anourts annual- ly to a figure approaching the enor- mous total of $1,000,000, while the majority of whom are making good on i railroads are this year embarking on farms throughout Ontario province, a western expansion program costing - $60,000,000 and the industrial output of Manitoba alone is worth $162,000,- 000. He did not mention the :pining developments which are estimated to be circulating $1,000,000 a month in Tide of Auto Travel Not Due to Prohibition Washington,—Iron. Vincent Massey, Canadian Minister to the United States, discounted the theory that pro- hibition 1s responsible for the tide of automobile travel into Canada from the United States. In at adclrese before the ann nal con- ference o2 the United States Automo- bile Association and Motor Club ex• exutives the Canadian Minister assert- ed that considerably more cars per capita come from Canada into the United States that move north into the Dominion. During 1929,.he said, more than 600,000 motor cars crossed the line moving south, while 4,500,000 cars drove into Canada, "To come up to our standard as visiting neighbors in proportion to population," he continued, "I must politely point out that you will have to send us 7,600,000 cars, I have suggested the motor car as a very potent factor in international relations. The automobile is now en- gaged the world over in crossing boun- daries, reminding its passengers of different characteristics which marls people on both sides, and giving them sympathetic appreciation of why such differences exist" He: "Am I the first man you have over kissed?" She: "0f course', Why do all men ask the same question?" In a certain club they own an ab- normally slow card player. Hie part- ner once oheerved, "Excuse the but is this Auction Bridge or Suspension Bridge?" British Youths Come to Canada Montreal.—Juvenile Immigration to Canada was inaugurated for 1030 dur- ing the week -end when the first par- ties of British youths for Canadian farms landed at Halifax, having been brought forward under the auspices of the Canadian National Railways. Two parties, totalling 46 boys, reached Halifax during the week -end, and will be placed on farms in Ontario by the British Immigration and Colonization Assoclatioa, These boys have been specially se- lected from various parte et the Bri- tish Ielee, by the Juvenile branch of the colonization Mika of the Cana- dian National Railways in London and represent a splendid type of British youth eager to better themselves by gradually winning ownership of laud In Canada, Juvenile immigration is one of the most promising features of coloniza- tion at the present time Last year some 1200 youths were brought to Canada ender the auspices of the Canadian National Rallways, the There was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.—Benjamin Franklin, An Unusual Picture from the City of the Dodges Manitoba alone, but be pointed out that so lore as there are people pro- ducing all that wealth in the west; there is a sound market for a vast amount of goods, as people must live and have something left over after buying necessities with which to pur.fl chase lexncJ "Hard tithes" fs largely a mental at. (etude, forget them, and go on as you would have you never heard of such a. bogey, was Mr. Brunforeet counsel, Tem commercial travellers met In the dining car and opened conversa- tion. "Of course, you're from Lanca- shire?" said one, The Manchester, man replied that he was, and asked why the question had been asked. "0b, I was just accounting for your meant," said the other, Suddenly ponrek* �-- tins Manchester eau sold: "And where de you 00010 90010?" " Worces• THE AIRPLANE HAS CHANGED PHOTOGRAPHY THE WORLD OVER ter," replied the traveller, imloeestly, h Pell 'Power on Island of San (Ileorg'io Maggiore, link', is !moire t0 thousand of tourists, amt.amt.Acs to Vanire "A, well, new I can account for your iv seen the 01)1100' 113(111(16 reaurn. 55000."