The Brussels Post, 1924-4-30, Page 2PROSPECTS GOOD FOR
IMMIGRATION SEASON
BRITISHERS EXPECTED IN
INCREASING NUMBERS
Strong Conviction Through-
out Canada That Growth in
Population is Most De-
sirable.
The opening of navigation ou the St,
Lawrence is expected to usher in the
greatest immigration season Canada
has experienced since 1914. The total
volume of immigration to the Domiu-
len in 1923 was 137,681, as compared
with 70,153 In the previous calendar
year, an increase forthe twelve
months of 95 per cent. There was an
increaa•e of 126 per cent. In the case of
British immigration; United States
movement reriorded a decrease of 14
per cent; while the movement from.
all other countries taken together in-
creased by 110 per cent Predictions
are freely made that the•influx of new
citizen to Canada In 1.924 will record
a further increase of 100 per cent. or
so, which, should they prove correct,
will result in the entry of some 280,-
000 people to Canaria, or a volume ap•
preaching that of the days of 1913 aud'
1914, when Canadian immigration
reached its zenith.
Such estimates are not extravagant -
This huge section of a log was part of the exhibit that Canada has sent for the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley. It was by far the
hardest that the men had to handle, weighing over four tons.
ly sanguine. Taking every pertinent —
actor into consideration, there is no tariff commission after long and
logical reason wiry these figures seerelting investigation, that the Cana-
sbauld not be reached. Canada is with- dian farmer can produce wheat at a
On a Sudden Disturbance.
A tumult In the •kitchen! Cup and
out any doubt on the threshold of a substantially lower rate than the cup
MODAL'S FUR AUCTION
new and very promising era in immi• A is farmerhas naturally not Ring cut their protest. Glasses Jing- The Canadian fur auction sale which years. For two and a halt centuries
gration affairs and it is impossible to been without its effect. The remark -
foretell the proportions of a future able crop -production of Western Can
movement. At the time of writing the ada in 1923, particularly the extraor-
figures of only one month of 1924 have dinary yield of Alberta, which !s be -
been published, one which is relative- sieved to have constituted a world's re-
ly quiescent in a popular mnvement. card, together with the Prairie Pro -
Yet January, 1924, ben recorded an in. vinees' unusually heavy aggregation of
crease of 56 per cent, aver 1923 In the winnings at the Chicago International,
total of immigration, whereas the car- has tended to throw this territory once
responding month last year indicated more in the limelight.
an increase of 6 per cent, only. It is anticipated that .immigration
British Immigration. from Central Europe will be heavier.
A vastly increased immigration in The knowledge that Canada is throw -
1924 is inevitable. The general feel- ing per doors wider open and is mak-
ing on the ubeeet alone in Canada ing every endeavor to secure agricul-
practically a urea it. The D^minion's lural immigrants naturally has a pro -
attitude, on the matter and its bearing nounced effect on people seeking fresh
on natlanal economics has un-1',rene spheres fur their endeavors, and the
a virtual revolution, and to addition to effects of the United States quota law
a great stimulation cf rnt'rrra alto ..; inevitably react to Canada's benefit.
keying up. there Ls a practical unison! There is little doubt, with this U.S.
on the beneficial effects and necessity quota law in force, but that at the pre -
of promoting immigration by all pos-'sent time Canada is looming large in
Bible means, and therefore a unity of the minds of European immigrants as
activity and mere general action than the lard 02 opportunity, and that they
leas been seen since the conclu,sion of are realizing that the Dominion stanes
States since aro dead• Since its inception 126 bons varying
mar an ,
ling wake
Tire silence, aud the Dutch clock
chokes a tick,.
The candle flickers, and dawn droops
the wick.
The gray cat starts and stiffly arches
up,
And wanders wild eye] at the noise
they make.
Tumult grows siient. Kettle gently
sings.
The candle burns with steady flame
and takes
The tearing shallows from the wall,
and draws
Them firm and still. The cat with out-
stretched paws
Purrs by the fender dreaming happy
things,
Bravely the kettle thrills and bubbling
makes
A liresong. Glasses gleam; the china
winks
In fiamelight, and the Dutch clock
stares and thinks.
—V. C Clinton -Baddeley.
s Ba Company's raw furs
Chivalry in Silence
Oonrteay ie not o1I1' a ivastter'of
•anepahq wo :c utr gb�eerve the forms et
poiitene le in what we Day and Yet mise
its sesenet), verbal'» beaauso we ere
not willing •te lutea to ethers,
For instance, when Ola people are
elieaking t?10 majerity of us are frank:
1y impatient, Grabclpe paelief,s is
about to launch an aitecdot4, It may
he as ancient as the bills—it probably
1s --but that 11 no reason for our
scareely-concealed boredom. It we
were trvrly, courteous wa would ]'.sten
wait 0 good grace, ate though we•r•.eally
were intere;3ted, .
Bat youth, nowadays, seldom stops
to oonsieler other people's feelings;
and sometimes the old folk—and mic1-
die -aged folic, too, Inc that matter—ere
bardlyallowed even a share 1n'conver-
sation,
If they do attempt to take part in
the talk someone, sane "Oh, please,
spare us that atony-6t's so anclent." years approximately 30,000 bgyy and
Whereupon aunt, or grannie, laPsea in- i•giris have migrated from England to ,
to a hurt silence, while the young pee• I Canada, while in the same period ap-
p1-e prattle merrily on. more pain than plicattnes for thee° juveniles have
numbered some 455,000, the majority
being from agricultural centres.
In the past .arrangements for the
handling of these boys and girls In
Canada has bean more or less unsatis-
factory. Many of them were sent to
this country with practically no know-
ledge of Canadian customs, and this, of
fluous hurts. Fete
slow
as we -may course, retarded their assimilation. In
think them in some ways, they are,not spite of this, however, these youthful
slow to (Recover when they are not immigrants have rapidly accustomed
wantods themselves to conditions in Canada,
The other any, in a board'ing•houss, and the results have been more or less
an old lady of eighty four, who was. all gratifying.
alone, said, rather wistfully: "You see, Nevertheless, the need of training
the old people don't natter." centres for these boys and girls, be -
Can we not make the old feel that fore their distribution to the various
they are wanted -can we not try to farming centres of the Dominion, has
make. old age a time of happy and been apparent to those interested in
peacefulwaiting Inc the end which the movement in Great Britain. In ark
comes so very soon? This would be. clition to ,the. Cesar Farm In New
PROVIDE TRAINING 1
FOR BOY IMMIGRANTS
BEFORE SENDING THEM
TO CANADIAN FARMS.
Kiwanis Clubs Doing Laud-
able Work for `Yung
Britishers.
Interest In juvenile immigration 10
beteg increasingly manifested by Can-
ada and arrangements bave been made
by the Government and colonization
interests to bring over from theBritisit
fetes tale year a larger number than
heretofore, The demand for these
Youthful citizens has greatly exceed-
ed the supply. In the last score of
one would imagine is given by re -
Meeks of this kind; for by ouch means
those older than ourselves. are made to
feel thele age, to realize that they are
"out of things,"
Willing or unwllling, the old aro
thus relegated to the background, and
the knowledge tbat they are super' -
took place in Montreal in February the Hudson - showing true courtesy and, perhaps, it Brunswick, for the training and die•
was termed by those who conducted it • have been first offered to the public in would not be so very boring atter all. fribution of Scotch boys, one of these
and those who attended the most sue-; London, and their semi-annual fur auc• Per those older than ourselves have a' training centres established in 1913 In
Cezeful held since the inauguration of: tions have for generations determined wider store of experience than our; Canada is the Dakeyne Farris, located
Canadian sales four years ago. W0.11 the price cif pelts for the world• be- own, and some of them, at least, can' at Falmouth, N,S., about three miles.
over three hundred fur buyers were , new policy is, therefore, by way of be- tallt vary akar"ninety of what they from the town of Windsor, This farm
Present, ea record s, a goo from ing an acknowledgment of Canada's have seen and the people whom they was established by an English gentle -
the Untied Stator, a geed representa- reasonable right to market her ewe bave met: man; Mr, Oliver W. Hind, who was
. lien from Europe, including the .first produce within her own domain.
buyers from Germany to attend, and It is interesting to note the man
representatives from Siberia and Man- in which Qgirada's export trade in furs
chririn. 'has grown since the beginning of the Sometimes a shadow from the past so that the hays Wright reserve praeti-
Tbe Canadian fur auction sales have century. In 1901 the Dominion export- Falls on my heart; cal training in Canadian agricultural.
definitely achieved for Canada a note- ed furs to the value of 51,658,965; in Levo smiles and, laughter' rings in methods before going on farms.
worthy and envialae place in the fur, 1905 to 52,398,890; in 1914, $5,622;56; vain; Worth of the Dakcyne Farm.
industry and and which logically an- in 1917, $5,856,714;
Canada as the world's prime modem& 230,444; and in 1922, $14,978,199. The Sometimes a shadow Pram the past g
sii erierpelts should be the market . decreasing values in recent years have Darkens me so and in accordance with the plan of the
le p founder, individual instruction is given
for this same produce, and since the ec- been attributable to a drop in market I cannot see, because someone`I loved
tablishment of the sales it has been values rather than to diminishing
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buyers from the corners of the world. It is significant to note that the iu- Sometimes the sunshine from the past full round of duties that may be ex -
by reason of the magnitude and quail-, crease is not wholly accounted for in Streams round my head; ectad of hien when he takes up work
ty of her fur collections. Since the the greater volume of undressed furs
Again In ecstasy I breathe p
the on the ordinary general farm in Beat
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0
fragrant ]towers that now long ern Canada.
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. Memories. •
largely interested' in boys' work in
England and who realized the advisa-
bility of a training school .in Canada
C in. 1919 $13,737-
.
13,7, 7,- Ail light and music from pry world Each year a number of boys are sent
ada should have occupied years ago.; 621; In 1920, $20,921,871, in 1921, $12, depart. from England to the Dakeyne Farm;
proven that the Dominion can attract quantity.
Shed tears long 5'ears ago.
In dairying, stock -rasing, poultry keep
and general farm work Each boy
thus learns, by actual experenee, the
:first fur sale was held in Montreal in exhorted, though mis
P major importance, but that a
, have been auctioned off at the tri•an- greater volume of furs is being ship -
of
ance in a furtradeBur exports in 1901 was $33,
danced Ina very significant announce- s,r n,�
ment, which is to the effect that at the in 1920, 594,688; and in 1922, $41,013.
spring fur sale at Montreal the Hud-. Manufactured furs rose from $13,134
son's Bay Company wnl offer a limited in 1901 to $53,070 In 1914; to 5161,347
quantity of its raw furs, for auction,' in 1917; to $199,174 in 1920; and, on
and that if results are satisfactory the account of dwindling values, dropped
experiment will be renewed in future to 5144,899 in 1922.
• 1920 furs to the value of $18,806,600 item o 1
file war. 113 Canadian governments, to -day
the railways,
r national, patriotic and did a century or so ago, and should be s �, And though the twilight hour be dark, mage from 13 to 20 years have been
benevolent societies are all working where the United States is to -day in a F; c va ' Waal sales ped from the country dressed and in a Ice -bound and drear
x �Mxi Canada's rapidly achieved domrn rnanuactured state the v eine I thrill and glow, because someone I assisted to come to Canada. Of these
tor the same object, and In addition , couture, or less. about 50 came berate the farm was es -
new and novel charnels, created In 1923 The prospect is much brighter for l �, the is further evi dressed P loved tabltahed and went largely to Ontario
to supplement the voluntary tide, are Canada at the present time, and one of r3 i 1914, 511550 in 1917, 570,747;
functioning at greater efficiency We the most gratifying features at the
year. j situation in the general unity of agree -
British immigration, which last year ment on the desirability of further im-
recorded an increase of 126 per cent.migration which is resulting in a gen-
over the previous year, should this eral and united activity. After being
year in all reason show an even higher divided for years the conviction is to
rate of increase. Canada has gone all intenta universal that a steadily
a considerable distance in encouraging maintained growth in population is ab -
the British movement above all others, solutely necessary to Canada to keep
in opening the door as wide as possible ' pace with productivity in its many
making concessions of various orders, • lines of natural wealth.
and facilitating entry by every means.' r
Taking this in conjunction with the
very apparent desire of so many Bra- Royal Wireless.
dish people to emigrate, and the agree- A wireless• set, especially designed
able attention Canada is again receiv- • for the King by the Chief Engineer of
ing, there should be a tremendous flow the British Broadcasting Company,
of people from the British Isles to the 4 was recently installed in Buckingham
Canadian pravinees throughout the
spring and• summer.
United States and Central Europe.
There is general expectation of a
tido of agricultural immigration from
the United States to Canada this sum-
mer, reversing the tendency at 1923
statistics. Preliminary indications of
the winter and early spring show the
eyes of many middle western fanners
Palace.
This set has some novel features.
For instance, the aerial and earth are
formed by copper -plate, let into the top
part of the cabinet and into the lower
part close to the floor. There is thus
no need to makeany external connec-
tions at all.
The set, which works a loudspeaker,
embodies two high -frequency valves,
turned Canadawards. Depressing one detecting and three resistance
farming conditions, the high prices of capacity not magnifiers. The doors
farm lands, and high farm taxation is are of open-work construction, filled is
largely accounting for this. The con- with semi -transparent silk panels of
elusions reached by the United States Royal purple.
EMI mentber of the Australia!) court, halt arrived on tele eontinent te study
Dr. Gonzalo Cordova
Was recently chosen .as the president
of the Republic of Ecaudor at the re•
cent national elections. ' He has long
been in the public eye of his people
and 1s considered the only logical man
for the post.
Pictures in the Sky,
Before the yellow sun has set
Or shadows gathered round as yet,
I like to watch the clouds on high
With filmy figures flitting by.
Sometimes a dancing clown I spy
With peaked cap and twinkling eye,
And then again 1 see a boat,
With all its gleaming sails, afloat,
At times a king upon a throne
Is seated silent and alone.
More often, though, a lady fair
In trailing robes I see up there.
I weeder where they go at last—
They always hurry up so fast!
Perhaps they gather in the moon
And feast and dance to merry tune.
But still I somehow think it's true
That they aro people Just like yon—
The'sky a great big looking -glass
'Co catch their pictures as they pass.
---Eugenia T, Quickenden.
Prompt Action Necessary,
Doctor ----"Well, Mr: Jackson, how
are you feeling this morning?"
Mr. Jackson --"Much better, thank
you, - The only thing that troubles rise
is my breathing."
Doctor- "t•Im, yen. We must see if
wo can't gel; something to stop that."
Yielding is sometimes the best way
of suceeeding.
Royal Robes.
Sir Harry Johnston in the Story of
My Life tells his experiences with
many African' headsmen and chiefs. A
few whom he encountered in the re-
gion of old Calabar were chiefs or
kings of the Bilk tribes; two of thein
were known by the curious titles of
King Eyo Honesty VII. of Creek Town
and Bing Duke Ephraim IX. of Duko.
Town. Both "Duke" and "Ephraim"
were probably traders' corruptions of
native names of somewhat similar
sound. "Honesty" was an inherited
second name, fairly earned by its or-
iginal bearer some hundred years ear •
lier, Two other native rulers were
JohnBoko Cobham V. and Asibon
Edem III.
"All these chiefs spoke English more -
or less," says Sir Harry, "and John
Boko Cobham struck me as a shrewd,
well -instructed man, a natural lawyer
versed not only in the intricate native
code but also acquainted with the
main principles of English jurisprur
dente. Despite such abilities and ac•
oomplishments both John Boko. and
Arbon vacillated in clothing, some-
times donning royal robes trimmed
with real or imitation ermine 0114 not
infrequently appearing at my house in
nothing more pretentious than a yacht-
ing cap,"
King Duke Bpreim I . was at first
even mono unconventio hl, since until
the consul remonstrated with .him he
would' pay an official call et the con-
euktte with simply a tall hat on! 'At-
ter his attention had been 'galled tothe
want of respect that Itis lack of cloth-
ing Implied the Costumes he later wore
at official meetings were disturbing to
every one's gravity of countenance.
"The last time I saw him; when he
cants to bid me good -by in May, 1582,"
Sir Harty concludes, "he wore pink
tights, a cabman's many -taped coat, a
red cbimney.pot stat and 'blue spec.
facies!" -
All In the Meaning,
Mrs, Petit -•-•"Oh, Henry, what doee
the word 'contract' mean?" •
Mn
Peck—"It ntaet s to make small-
er, my dear. For instance,•heat ex-
pands and cold contracts."
Mrs. Peck --"Tion , it's ail. right.
}Tarry told me he was contracttug
Some heavy debts, and I was nervous
tin you explained it,
Fuultfindera are never out of n job.
broker's Limit,
The Pawn
A bousewife, wife bad engaged a
country girl whom she regarded as.a
very unsophisticated person, told her
one morning to 'take those clothes
odtter the back bedroom and put them
in soak."
The girl was missing forsome time,
and the mistress thought she must of moss. The car seemed unhurt. { Montreal Kiwanis Club, at the request
have forgotten her task. "That was fine," said the farmer, es of the British Immigration and Coloni-
Going into the kitchen, she asked: he got up and filled his pipe. "Wo zatton Association, has secured and
"Did you put those clothes in soak, sartinly` went the pace, Tell me this, has equipped the. St. Bernard I3otei,
Mary?"
"Yes, mum, and the mean old fel-
low would only give me fifteen dollars
on 'enc." •
Was glad that yesteryear.
J. Breckenridge Ellis,
What Puzzled Him.
Amuotorist gave an old farmer a ride
and the West, but the rest have had
the farm training at Falmouth and the . ` ---
larger proportion of them have remain-
ed in Eastern Canada. A pleasing tea.
tura ot the work of this training centro
in his car, It was years ago, and the is that several toys, after. graduation,
farmer, who had never seen a car be- have been assisted in purchasing
fore, was tremendously impressed. To farms, and in practically -ail cases
impress hint still more, the tdotorlst money or equipment loaned has been
put hie toot on the accelerator, and•: repaid in full,
far six or seven miles. they tore along; Apart from farm training, but never -
like the wind. Then something wenn theless along the lines of properly re -
wrong with the steering gear and they].calving and placing these boys, and in
ran into a tree. 'anticipation of a large volume ot juve-
But no harm was done. The farmer,Wile immigration from Great Britain,
and the motorist alighted on a bank the Immigration Committee et the
A little too late is much too late.
though—how do you stop her when Montreal, es a clearing house to
there ]ain't no trees?" Ithese boya on their arrival;
—�'---- Laudable Assistance of Kiwants
Club'
He that loveth pureness of heart '
It is the
'for the grace of his lips the king shall .Intention of the liiwanls
Club International Affairs Public Conr-
be his friend'. mittee for Canada to keep 1n contact
with the boys atter they pans through
—AND THE WORST IS YET TO COME •
saaj
ti
.i
seeekse
eltiti9 •o -
the hostel. And In this connection the
Kiwants Clubs throughout the Domin-
ion will be asked to lend their co-
operation Ia their respeetive-localtties.
The hostel In Montreal -hal aceommo-
dation for one hundred boys. It is in-
tended to clears them as ,quickly as
possible, but while in Montreal their
stay will lm made comfortable, The
Iiiwahis Club made itself flnanclellY
responsible for the furnishing 'and
equipment of the hate' to the extent
of 510,000.
The work of prepitrlog young Bri-
tish boys for their future lite int Can-
ada has been ot luesthnnble ;a:na.
They have ttoveloped into. 'splendid
CCanadian citizens; many of them row
own their own farms, tvirilo Mimes bave become professional men,
There ere many who ei.atm that hive -
tale immigrants are the most valuable
class brought to Canada. .Certainly,
and will agree that they nre n most tie.
kirnbla class, future citizens wire w111
grow and develop with the country in
full understanding of its many diffieni• •
ties and its great possibilities. Too
Muth !menet be done to encourage
and educate the juvenile iirunigratit.
A thousand probabilities do not
matte one truth, •
Theis vert blind that cannot sea the.
sun,
We do not always oro those who
admire us, and the do not always love
those we admire,
We Can seldom hide what we think,
for even our silence orlon expresso*
our opinion,
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