The Exeter Advocate, 1923-3-8, Page 7Canada from. Coast to Coast
1 St. -John's, Nfld.—The recent •agree-
inient between the Newfoundland Gov-
arnnzent •aivrl the British Empire Steel
Corporation, respecting the 'iron ..ore
development at Wabanna, provided
for 8,400 -days' oaf work per week dur-
ing February and March and 9,000
flays' work per week during April and
/[ay
wolves; was $1,029,750, 'Some of the
inou;e: valuable catches were: beaver,
30,000 `value $420,000 eilver fox 100,
$7,500; mink 7,000, $49,000; timber
wolves 3,750, $150,000; and 1,000 fish-
er, $50,000;
Winnipeg, Man.—Under the aus-
plees of the railways, the . Pravieciai
Government, and • livestock assoea•
Sydney, N.S.--Announcement is time of the previnee, two livestock
rade that the British Empire Steen improvement trains, similar to those
Corporation will proceed at once with which 'toured the province last year,
t+he erection of a powerful conim,erolaa will again be operated in Manitoba
radio station here. The chief •objectduring the coming summer.
is to maintain consbant communioa- Lethbridge, Alta --R, C. Harveles:
tionwith. the Corporation's large fleet Southern Alberta lambs, finished in
of steamers. It is also intended for Fort William on grain screenings and
communication with the company'e 'ha•Y, are topping the Toronto market.
offices at the ore mines on Bell Island,
Newfoundland, where a large station
tviln ,also be erected.
Devon, N.B.—Various lumbering' in-
terests are said to be behind a peojeet
ba establish a large milt to handle the
hardwood products, including floors.
This will open herein the early spring.
Hardwood.products are new 'being re-
ceived from. Ontario by !builders.
Montreal, Que.—A despatch from
London, Eng., testifies further to the
stuperior qualities of Canadian 'bacon
received in the British Isles, the Do-
minion product being in greater favor
than that of Denmark :and threatening
to sieize its market.
Fort William, Ont—The number of
fur bearing animals trapped or killed
in this district fox the season of 1922
was 98,350. The total value of pelts,
including bounty received dry local
trappers on 15,000 timber and bush
Mr, Harvey* rnade his initial test last
year of shipping lambs to the head of
the Lakes and using cheap grain
screenings from the terminal eleva-
tors as feed. He turned off 7,000 head
topping both the Toronto and Buffalo
markets. Ile- is repeating the per-
formance this year, only he had 10,-
000
0,0.00' head of lambs for sale instead of
7,000.
Victoria, B.C.—One •of the biggest
fishery deals on this coast' in years
has been -consummated between the
Canadian Fish Co„ Ltd,, and thel
North Pacific Packers, Ltd., holders of
property formerly owned' and •operat-
ed by the Western Packers, Four
large eaimeries become the property
of the Canadian Fish Go. In addition,
the company,is purchasing the Lagoon
Bay Cannery, These properties will
employ about 800 inert during the
fishing season and will produce at
least 100,000 eases of salmon.
The Young Man Out of
a .lob.
BY H. M. MORRIS.
A young mare cane to Toronto re-
cently from the farm to •seek employ-
ment, and so far has not been suc-
cessful, He has enquired at the office
of many commercial, industrial.. and
manufacturing establishments to face
the following questions, "What stand-
ing had you when you left school ?
Have you had any experience along
the line of work required in . this in-
dustry? What age are you?" The
7oung man informs ane that he re-
plies as follows: "I passed the en-
traneo at thirteen years of age and
have worked on the faran ever since
and am now twenty-one. My parents
wanted me to go on to 'school but I
did not realize the need as 1 do now.
lbw I have come to the conviction
that fanning is not any job and before
it is too late I want to get into the
vocation that I can make my life
work."
This young man is typical bf hun-
dreds and even- thousands of young
men who leave the farm for the urban
centres. It is not, es is .commonly
supposed., education- that lures them
away from the farm. This young man
and many others left the farm and
tried sortie other vacation in spite of
their lack of education. Ask any of
these young men if .they are in favor
of the Adolescent Scheel Attendance
Act,'which requires boys and girls to
stay at school till they are sixteen
years of age and you will invaa iably
hear, "Well, it would have been a
blessing for me if my parents had
made me go to school and I suppose
they would have done so if it had been
compulsoy'r." Or if you ask any of
the 7,00( pe'opl'e who are attending
higbt classes in the Technical School,
Toronto, where they may take courses
in printing, plumbing; electricity, ane-
ehanics, •steain and gas engines, auto-
mobiles, architecture, millinery, do-
mestic science, sewing, nursing and
'etc, you will no doubt get a reply in
favor of an extension of the compul-
sory school age to sixteen years.
. The Adolescent School Attendance
Act was passed by the Legislature in
1919, under the Conservative Adinin-
ilstration, when the ,Hon, IL J. Cody
was Minister of Education. By pro-
Ciamation of the Lieutenant -Governor
made on the 13th day of July, 1920,
Section 3 tame into force in'Steptem-
ber, 1921, requiring that all boys and
girls between the ages•et reurteen and
sixteen inclusive, to be accounted• for.
as being either at school or engaged
in some useful_ employment. Children
are not eompelle'd to Leave home to at-
tend -school. but scheol boards are
urged to make provision to give them
a practical training in the home school
Six Million for Agriculture
Hon. W. R, Motherwell, Mhiisl r of
Agriculture, has bad • estimates total-;
ling $6,085,500. passed In tite X)onainion
Ilouse for his department,
or by several school 'sections combin-
ing for Continuation Classes,
''a The following argument for the Act
was advanced by F. P. Gavin of the
Department of Education, in an ad-
dress before the Trustees' and Rate-
payers' Associatien in 1921, "At prase
ent children are allowed to leave
school at fourteen years of age re-
gardless of their attainments, withouti
any preparation for wage-earning and
without an opportunity to find out
what work they are best fitted to do
in life. They are not mature enough
either in body, in mind, or in char-
acter to gain admittance to desirable
employment. The doors of skilled em-
ployment where they might continue
tee learn something useful are -closed
to ,such youthful workers. The Tech-
nical Branch of the Department of
Education has. made surveys in ten
Ontario cities for the purpose of de-
termining the need, if any, of techni-
cal education, and the nature of it, in
each community. In calling upon em-
ployers to learn the number and dis-
tri'bution of employees, we enquired
about the age at which they would
take young workers. . In the. case of
skilled or semi -skilled occupations the
employers, with scarcely an exception,
stated they dicl not employ adolescents
under sixteen years of age. "They,
are not strong enough," "they waste 1
too much material," "they do. not'
work," "they have no sense of respon=1
sibility;" are the things employers say
about then, -.What, then, is: the re-
sult? Sueh •children find employment
in unskilled occupations and blind -
alley jobs, leading nowhere and only
too frequently with (bad environment.
They shift about from one occupation
to another with little opportunity to
acquire skill or to increase their earn-
ing pd'wer. They soon reach the. maxi-
THE U.S. SHIPS GOLD BACK TQ BRITAIN.
It must•have been•a cheerful sight for Britain to see the incident above,
Gold bullion isagain being shipped back across the Atlantic to Great Bri-
tain. The dock -workers shown in the '• picture are handling solid gold bricks,
which are on their way back to the money centre of the world, London. In
shite of -the efforts made to wrest that position. from the British capital,
financiers are sat'isfaed that London's position is as secure as ever it was in
relation to the coma ecce of the world,
trol, there is a sudden rise in the fre-
quency of petty crimes. One must con -
elude there .Cliould• be some kind of
school influence and ,control during
these two dangerous and difficult
years of the adolescent's life..
United States Navy Owns
Biggest of Zeppelins
A despatch from London says:—
The construction of the new Zeppelin
ordered by the United States Navy,
will be finished soon at the Zeppelin
works at Friedrichsh•afen, according
to a despatch from Berlin. The air-
ship will be the largest ever con-
structed and will start from Berlin
for Chicago early in June. It will fly
under the American flag, but operat-
ed by German mechanics and airship
experts. The trial flight will begin
in April and several over the Alps
are proposed. When everything' is
perfected the airship will start for
Berlin, 'where the final preparations
for the trans-Atlantie flight will be
made.
H. H. Stevens, M.P.
In reply to queries in the House at
Ottawa made by Mr. Stevens, Dr. Bel -
and stated that Canada has. 9,500 drug
addicts. Prince Edward Island is the
only, spot in the Dominion free of drug
peddlers and addicts. Thirty China-
men have already been deported and
FOURTH OF HER CLAIM
AWARDED TO CANADA
POINCARE ADOPTS T
ODS
OF _ DEALING Willi
A. despatch from Paris says:—Pre-
miler Poincare has decided upon three
important measures to subdue the
Ruhr. They involve:
tel. Infliction, of the death penalty
—by arrangement with the English
—upon all Gernnans responsible for
fatal railroad aecidenbs.
2. Imprisonment of all defaulters of
the 40 per cent. coal tax until they'
pay.
3. Movement of "colored as dis-
tinct from °"black" troojrs into the
Ruhr.
These steps have not been decided
upon without grave 'deliberation, and
the decision regardirug colored troops
is said to be due to the insistence ef
Marshal Foch that the colonials have
been absorbed to -such an extent in
the French army that there is no rea-
son why Moroccans and Annanites
should not be used for purposes of
occupation..
Several of the Ministershave sug-
gested that keeping the 1922 class
with the colors will be sufficient, but
tine idea has been out -voted, and the
alternative presented was either par -
Bill for War Expenses $32,-
900,000 is Cut by Asquith
to $8,000,000.
A. despatch from London says:—
Fermer Premier Asquith, as arbitra-
tor of the differences, between the
British and the Canadian Govern-
ments, relating to an adjustment of,
debts standing over from the war,
has handed down his •decision, award-
ing Canada $8,000,000 as a settlement,
The Dominion claimed $32,900,000.
Both sides accepted Asquith as arbi-,
trator, and for his work he is to re-,
ccive £1,000.
The dispute was the result of finan-1
sial transactions which took place be-:
tween Canada and the Imperial Gov -1
ernment during the war. While hos-
tilities were proceeding the British!
Government received advances from
Canada of something over one thou-
sand million dollars. The British
Treasury, on their part, supplied Can -j
adian troops with food, clothing and
munitions, and also British currency
for paying Canadian troops.
At the request of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer interim adjustments of
the account took place between the
two Governments at various dates up
till March, 1920, at which date the
Imperial Government owed Canada
over one hundred million dollars.
When the final adjustment of accounts
came to be dealt with a decision had
to be reached on the question of ex-
change. The Canadian Government
held that payments made to then on
account of the debt should be credited
to Canada "at exchange rate of the
day" on which the payments were
made.
On the other hand, the British
Treasury held that sterling must be
credited at par of exchange, namely,
$4.86 2-3. ^
The interim, agreements were held
by Canada to be tentative and for
the convenience of the British Treas-
ury. The British Government, how-
ever, held that there agreements were
final, and they were not disposed to
reopen them.
H. H. Asquith, in giving his award,
omni earning capacity which they find has allowed the exchange on all trans -
insufficient to maintain decent stand'- two Ianndred more are in custody actions' covered by the interim agree -
aids of living as men and women. At; charged with handling drugs. vents to stand, and the outstanding
twenty-one they usually find them- balance due to the Canadian ratern-
ment is to be settled at the "rate of
the day" when payments are made.
The substance of the decision means
that Great Britain has paid the bulls
of her balance to Canada with de-
preciated' pounds, but has raseived par
value for them. The ,srnall amount still
due. to Canda will be paid at current
rate of exchange.
selves without a grade, or any special. i France Receives Coke
skill, too old to start over again, and From Czecho-Slovakia
on the way to i'ncr'easing the ranks of •
unskilled and casual labor:
No child can be adequately educated A despatch from Vienna say's:—One
:ter life by fourteen years of age. The thousand tons of coke arebeing -ship-
sudden transition of such a child from Ped from Czecho-Slovakia over Aus-
sebool to, wage earning, and ;especial] tria to I�ranee daily, and the .Austrian
of -the kind he must t ' t Y Government has 'ordered railroads to
acceis p, oo
complete and too dangerous.
This sudden transition from one
joint •control o:E the school and the
home to the apparent -freedom of wage
earning only toe•frequently results in
a retrogression of character just' at
the time character is becoming fixed.
The complete removal ,of the school
control. and the loosening of the hone
eomteol when a boy begins to earn
money are responsible for much of
the "rowdyism" so apparent in -adol-
escents,
"In 'all civilized lands 'criminal sta-
tisties show two sacl and significant
facts: First, that adolescence is pre-
eminently the criminal age when most
first `commitments occur and when
most vicious careers are begun; sec-
ond, the proportion of juvenile delin-
quents seems to be evyywhere in-
creasing."
The report al the Toronto Juvenile
Court ` shows the ages of children
brought into court souring 1920. The
percentages of these ages are:
Age . 7 years 1.05
Age 8 years . 3,22
Age 9 years 7,14
9.04
10.30
1.5.21
14 18
18.55
20,19
Age 10 }ears .
Age 11 years-
Age
earsAge 12 years
Age '13 years •
Age 14 yeas
Age 15 years
Age 16 years , . 2.63
Age unknown ............ 1.40
The table shows that 89 per cent.
ofthe delinquents are 14 or 15 years
of age. Judge Molt points out that
up to the age of 14 the school and the
home "'heave joint -control of the child.
As soon as the school,gives up its coi11f,
expedite the shipment. It is said
Austria fears sabotage by railroad
men would lead to unpleasant com-
plications.
Czech miners who were being trans-
ported. to France, and who were held
up in Austrian territory, were allowed
to pass upon the "Government's order.
Should Austria provoke thein to it,
the Czechs night -'cut off her coal
supply.
German. Ambassador Lunches
With British Sovereigns
A despatch from London says:-
-For the first time since the war, the
German Ambassador, Dr. Gustave
Stahiner, unci his wife, lunched with
the King and Queen at Buckingham
Palace on Thursday.
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tAM�`IETtkER C M al"
me-lbPo t4
Q *Jet's'olftvalte.
-moo.,it. SN-0-
twOrkai V4,b
tial n,;ebflizadon er use vrf 0,10r ,
troops. Plrtie rai an wotil'ct:
imperil the Poiaeare "a/finietry,.'an vaew'.
of the Preaaiieele statement .on the der
the Ruhr _wee ereugied that no Wil'~'
Bier •ot iaiiroadxananwould be Mobile
feed, so -colored •troops are apt to be
used.
A despatch front Dusseldorf saye:ae.
Two decisions having an important
bearing on the adnainistaratibn of the
Rhineland and the Ruhr by the Allies
are Vannouneed; at French headquarters
here, The first is the final step in -giv
ing necessary lrowere to tie French
and Belgian conimandere to admin-
ister the German railroads and the
second provides for the collection of.
an internal revenue tax on tobacco
and alcoholic beverages.
In the decree promulgating these
decisions the Inter.Alnicd High Com-
mission's right tie '.operates tate rail-
roads along the left drank of the Rhine.
is turned over formally to the army
authorities, partly as a precautionary
measure to guarantee the safety of
the troops of eceupetden, The Cole
ogne bridgehead area occupied, by the
British is not included in this order.
Buys "Quest" for Canada.
Capt. Bernier, the famous Canadian
explo'rer, has purchased Shackleton's
famous ship, "The Quest," and thus
indicates that Canada is once more to
enter into Arctic exploration, He will
bring the ship to Canada in the spring.
Century Old Man Has
Had Only 25 Birthdays
A despatch from Winnipeg says:—
Although technically ha has had only
twenty-three birthdays, J. S. Steven-
son of Winnipeg has entered his hun-
dredth year hale and hearty.
Mr. Stevenson was born February 29,
1824, and has been cheated out of
about 75 birthdays. He even skipped
a leap year, because the day was
rightfully his in 1900, when by a
quirk of the calendar he was missed,
again. Mr. Stevenson came to Can-
ada when, he was nine years old, and
forty years ago moved from Ontario
to Manitoba.
Natural Resources
Bulletin
The Natural Rasourcea Intel-
ligeneeService of the Depart-
ment of the Interior at Ottawa
says;
The area of Ontario is 407,-
262 square miles, of which 365,-
880
65;880 square miles is land and
41,382 square Hailes is water.
The province's population in
1921 was 2,933,662, of whom 1,-
226,879 were rural residents
and 1,707,283 were urban. The
population represents an aver-
age of 8.02 per equare miles.
There are in the province 25
cities of 10,000 and over and 46
cities and towns of 5,000 and
over, In 1921 of a total immi-
gration into Canada of 148,477,
42 per cent., or 62,572 settled in
Ontario. There were, in 1920,
686,344 pupils attending public
schools, and $30,626,435 was ex-
pended on education in schools
under publie control^
French General
Issues Proclamation
A despatch from Cologne says: ---
General Degoutte iseuad a proclama-
tion that all Germans in the Ruhr who
cbey the orders of the French military
authorities, and pay the taxes being
.levied upon them, will be protected
from charges of treason 'hy the Ger-
man Government.
It is also proclaimed that the Al-
lies will not leave the Ruhr until all
penalties for -obeying the oocupational
forces have 'been revoked.
Men of every nationality secures "
status ef citizen* of Canada during
the fiscal year ending March 81, 1922.
Altogether 10,360 foreigners were na-
tioitalized. Amerieans with 2,206 and
Russians with 2,060 led in the number
of persons who became naturalixeet
Canadians. •
' Weekly Market Report
Toronto.
Manitoba wheat—No. 1 Northern,
$l.`2.43'a.
Manitoba oats—Nominal.
Manitoba barley—Nominal.
All the above, track, Bay ports.
American ,corn—No. 3 yellow, 91c;
No. 2. 891/sc.
Barley—Malting, 59 to 61c, accord-
ing to freights .outside.
Buckwheat—No. 2, 78 to 80c.
Rye—No. 2, 84 to 86e.
Peas—No. 2, $1.45 to $1.50.
T,iillfeed—DeI., Montreal freights,
bags included: Bran, per ton, $26;
sehorte, per •ton, $28; middlings, $28.50;
good feed flour, $2.00.
Ontario wheat—No. 2 white, $1.14
to $1.16, 'according to freights outside.
Ontario No. 2 white oats -48 to 50c.
Ontario corn—Nominal.
Ontario flour—Ninety per cent, pat.,
in jute bags, Montreal, prompt ship-
ment, $5.10 to- $5.20; Toronto basis, .
$5.05 to $5.15; bulk seaboard, $4,95
to $5.00.
Manito!lea flour—Iat pats„ in cotton
sacks, $'7.10 per bbl; 2nd pats., $6.60.
llay—gxtra No. 2, per tori, track,
Toronto, $14; nixed, $11; Clover, $8..
Straw Cati lets, per tori, track, Toe'
rent°, $9.50.
Butter—Finest pasteurized cream-
ery, seljcts, 50 bo 51e; prints, 51 to
52c; ordinary creamery solids, 46 to
48e; prints, 48 to 49c; dairy, 29,e;
coofiig, -15 to 18e..
' Egg+ss—Fresh gathered, 37 to 39e;
heed, 26 to 29c.
Live poultry—Chickens, milk fed,
over li labs, 25c; do, 4 to 5 Airs 22c;, Middlings, S38 to $36, Hay, No.o,'p
over 1 lbs,, �?�c; ,dot 4. $� � �h� t a ; 'cj � l�::t�,. �' t�.1�,..-�-�."i
1$0; do; to .ldbs,.,1 tax 0; spiky ut uhbac? c aeanl , , 521 kci
over 5 1(hs., 25c; do, 4 to 5 obs., 1$61, 5 r6sii c rr�yr lass rix
do, 3 to 4 lbs, 15 to 18c, roosbers.,12 g ' , 4 -
t baggy war lots, �x ii�•�io 1�, ��i
to 15c; duekbnoasy aver 5 abs., 5 to Lig 'ht butcher west i5d `heife
•de, 4 to 5 abs,, 22 to 25c; tiartey!e, $„6.50; &oleo baby ,beef1 Zie¢ e
,,` 10 lbs. and up, 25c; tic, old) .kol>ct. &fry cows, $4,50. do, co• t
err 1, .245.
5 k nit h es ' a 4' ss i',
Dressed poultry—Chickens, milky I:f { c 42iiei`s, sand a ti0 "t$4
fed, over 5 ilbs,,' 80c; do, 4 to 5 1�os,,, j $2.76; ;ga�ocl hes y . 61'fsy�; d , iii0'1$a
26e; , ;4 , over 5 lbs., 26e; do, 4 to 5 84; d. con of sl A ,'to . $ll, f
lbs. 4c; do 2 to 4 Vie, 29c; ha'ansy t g i d V aiN�, '; tiid: ' $0,60' ace x
ver 5 ltbe., 25c; -4e, .4 to 6 lbs., 24o; ons, *11,, it Agr " " '
Jo, 3 to 4 11(60., 22c; ra'oeter,s, 22e; quality hogs;; ti> le '
ducklings, over 5 lbs., 28 to 30e; do, corn- hags; $9.50.
4 to 5 lbs.. 22 to 25e; turkeys, young,
10, lbs. and up, 25e; do, old, 20e.
Potatoes—On track, Toronto, '75 to
80c per 90 ib. bag.
Heavy steers, -choice, $7.60 to $8;
butcher steers, choice, $6.50• to $6.75;
do, good, $6 to $6.50; do, med., $5.50
to $6; do, coin,, $5 to $5.50; butcher
heifers, choice, $6.25 to $6,50; do,
med., $5.50 to $6; do, con,, $5 to $ 50;
butcher Meows, choice, $4.50 to $5.25;
do, med., $8 to $4; canners and cut-
ters, $2 to $2.50; butcher bulls, good,
$4 to $5; do, con., $3 to $4; feeder
steers, good, $5.50 to $650; db•, fair,
$4 to $5; Stockers, .good $4, to $4.50;
do, fair, $2.50 to $3,50; calves,
choice, $12.50 to $18; do. med.,
$9' to $11.50; do, corn, $5 to
$8; mileh eows, choice, $70 to
$90; springers, •ehoiee, $80 to $100;
lambs, choice, - $18.50 to $15; sh•eeppsy
otaice, 87.50 to . $8; do, culls, $3 to $4;
hogs, feet and watered, $10.50; de,
fob., $9./5; do, 'country points, $9.501
Hogs quotations are based on the
prices of thick, smooth hogssold on a
graded. basis, or reflects, sold ono
graded basis; bring a premia zt of 16
per ,cent. over the price of thick,'
emooth hogs. ; • r , M�
otreat
Corn;: Am. o, 4v`0ilo•w, ,#33, to 94�1c
Oats, Geta. we, r. Vgi to 6110; �dei;3
No, $, 59 to 601, eit14 I,o i fide 66
zq 57e; o, 2 radar. y itai„54 ,
.'profit`, ail, sOtIn tv rib/
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6:40;
lids•, $(6.6q. " smoily ba
elet( o syb g"D0 ,, 18.1btc $6.
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Tian, $2 to $28 hori5, $28 to 61
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