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The Clinton News Record, 1928-08-09, Page 3ti.,esr Owes laerican Cousins Fed ,on M sin(olrrnation AlZericarl Farm ,Journal.Gives Extraordinary Editorial`WhIch Invites Comment From Our 'Hydro Electrla" Province THE FACI`S. FOR OUR READERS Under a • ai•oni.inent . heading an' of rural power districts, that the Pavy. American- teo'ei journal ("Successful vtncial Government, as part'o8 its poI- Panning") gives its readers some icy of assisting agriculture in various strange Information, The article Is ways, makes a grant towards a part headed as follows: ' / of 7'the original cost—of constructing ONE-THIRD OF FARMS ARE the lines, which reduces the 'initerest MODERNIZED an dsinlcinefund payable by -the farm- ers. The average charge for rural consumers in 1927 amounted 'to about Then comes the bald statement: One out of every three New York per month. Coiisidez'ingtfiatCho State farms uses electricity. it is also service, in a large Portion of cases, shown that each home has an average included lighting of barns as well as Of , 2$' outlets, 12• for each tenant home houses, tale°opei'atton of motors for and O for tho`barn. such farm work as ;feed -chopping, The editorial continues; "There milking, separating, silo•iilling' and were 860 motors on .1,181 farms; near- -Water pumping, and also in mauy ly 30 Per cent, of which were of quer- cases; an electric range, and other ter horsepower and the great majority household appliances, ' the average were of one horsepower'or less,, used mostly for milking machines, .Pump-, charge of $4 Is remarkably reasonable. ing, cream separating, shopworlc; oto.' Out of thorevenue derived at these "Aside from lighting electricity is rates, however, the' Hydro -Electric most used in these New York homes Power Commission pays all expenses for 'irons, `vaauuzii Cleaner's and Veen- of producing and delivering lho power, pays off Ing machines..And in deoreasing a part 08 the original cost battery of all .the equipment used, from the .number used for toasting,' generating—station to the last distri- charging, curling irons, :heaters, per- bution transformer, and has a sub- colators and sewing machines; Lees .stantial,surplus fn hand that can be frequent •use'i1 Made of ,electric pads, lreturned to the consumers. ]est year, stoves, grills; fans, waie irons,- hat there was returned iu cash about $230,- plates, ranges and refrigglerators, 1000. from the surplus of previous "It would seem that these: New years. Yorkers have 'stuck pretty' closely to I Users Benefitthe cheaper equipment and the uses •, that most: relieved the workers from It is .found that, when a rural power drudgery. If it were not for this fac- district is first built, some of the farm tor, refrigerators should stand well at ers aro hesitant about taking the eery, - the head of the list, and tans have ice, and others' do not make full use a very important place. Only about consumers enter intocontract with a fifth of them are pumping water by of it. In a short time, however, more further question was, Whether the this efficient method. I the Commission, and all soon And it Gentile 'convert could enter into :full "In other states or localities the ,profitable to extend their use of; elec- Social, communion with the Jew? Thus equipment will vary according to the tricity, Under service at cost, the the issue' was very real, affecting the way in which equipment has been effect is to reduce, the charges, as is made popular by salesmanship or clearly seen from thefigures in the demonstration, or perhaps buying report. While the "service charges" ability." . I for farmers in the :"light farm service". nt ' $4.56 a month in some of the newer ==day School Lesson Auguet 12. Leeson .Vt1—•The-Counel M Jeruealem, Acte 16! 1-11, Golden Text---il, the Son therefore steal ,make you free, ye shall be free hie deed. ---John ei 80. ANALYSIS L Tun roierr Or IssuE, 1.8, II, THE ASSEMBLY AT JIIRUSALEM, 4-11. INTRODUCTION—No body of thought- ful men and women can unite their forces in service and"worship without sooner or later experiencing some shades of difference in opinion and conduct.' Human nature is very var- ied. There are minds that ere natur- ally conservative and cleave to'old traditions. Others are eager for. change, and see the golden age ahead, and are impatient with those who can not see with thein. Nor is this.neces- sarily an evil, sines difference of opinion and discussion are not perils -unless we exercise them in. -an unlov- ing spirit of rivalry. In the story of the first council we have an inetrize- Live instance of this' fact, while we also have a model by which the church may, in every age,, try to settle the differences which. break out among us. L.THE POINT AT ISSUE, 1-3. V. I. The difficulty arose out of the forward step taken when the offer of the gospel was made to the Gentiles. It had already been decided that mem- bership in the church was open to all 'those who came in .faith. But the method in which.this was to be done had not yet been settled. Some claimed that the Gentiles should receive cif<. cumeisibn and observe all the laws • of the Jewish people. This was the atti tude of the Pharisaic party, who ewe dently had sent down their represen- tatives to the church at ,Antioch. A Mese for example may be as,high as Worthy' of Comme a' If this journal did not have any districts, yet in the older districts the' Canadian circulation one might simply`, „service charge" may be as low as social and religious rights of the new converts. If the, narrower view pre- vailed, this re-vailed,'this became a denial of the uni- versal mission of Jesus. V. 2. The teaching of these emis- saries came like a thunderbolt to the new church' at Antioch and created a great confusion. Paul and Barnabas evidently were leaders in the theatre - pass the article by with ashrug ane $2•50 per month for the same clasaifl- sion, "arid they denied the principle a smile, but many Canadians will seecation. It is antlaipated that this ton which these Jews proclaimed. The '%,.and the editor of this -page cannotdenay to increase the use of this bene claim Vas so impossible that Paul fel- refrain from comment. ficial service, as.well as to; reduce the impelled to use all his power in op-. posing it: The only course to follow DZ. Authority;(?) Quoted cost, will' characterize future opera- was to appeal to the church from A certain Professor A. E. Stewart tions in the field of rural ' electrical which these leaders pretended to come, - of the United States has recently been development in the Province of and it was decided to amid a large add in the public eye awing to thepubli- Ontario. So, on the whole, ` Ontario important delegation, Paul and Bare cation of a pamphlet 'striving to point' compares not so badly with any State nabas and certain others. If the pas - out how much better privately riper- in the 'inion to the South, sage in Galatians 2 describes this visit we may notice that ated electrical production plants are Paul says definite - than publicly -owned Projects. In this lynthat he had also received direct commandment from God to attend. "rt pamphlet he failed adequately to was in consequence of a revelation bring out the accomplishments of the 4t., that I went .up at -all."" We do not Ontario electrical tuidertaking, effect know the other members of the depu- !ng certain comparisons, on the basistation, but Titus was apparently with of percentage of farms served, be- them. tween Ontario and some of the States ' V. 3. The entire church was evident of the Union, •( ' t' and they all accompanied' the rztem- Doesn't Mention N.Y. State i ;y hers for some distance, probably to Othe States cited by this writer, I Seleucia the port. As the apostles the State shelving thethe cities ofPhoenieia .and told of � greatest 'per- i{I journeyed do ierusalem they visited carnage 08 farms using electricity was their rest work among the Centiles, California. where the extensive use of to the great joy of the brethren. electric power for irrigation pumping. ly-.greatly.. concerned in this matter !amplified the difficulties OP.ruial. -. II. THE ASSEMBLY AT JERUSALEM, 4-11, has �'a V. 4. 'The brethren are cordially electrification. Even In the -case of Welcomed at the mother church, and California, however, only 23 per cent. Paul and Barnabas publicly tell ,of of the farms were 'sported as using 3 the work which they had done among electricity. In the other States men-, the Gentiles. Cloned, the percentages ranged from 7.V.-6. The sect of the Pharisees like- . per cent, t0 2 per sent.. The per cent. ly consisted 'gone in this instance of those of farms using electricity in New I I I who had to Antioch and who now York State was not even mentioned, repeated their damand that circumci- sion was essential to salvation. and it seems certain that if the figure /1 V. 6. It is not very easy to follow had been 33 per cent.,or even one- b d the procedure, lint. if we may use Gal. tenth of that amount, it would not 2, it is possible that after the first have been omitted by Professor Stew- eneral meeting there were several art, For the whole of the United _ private conferences when the matters States, Professor Stewart estimated were carefully thrashed out in coln- that about 2.6 per cent, of the farms j all councils, This,is the usual method in Were electrified, and as this includes 16 37 l` r all and is the only way by 'California anbe d the other selectedwhichany harmonious settlement can i gained, States, it seems clear that the per V. '7. Then the, entire- church was cent.. oh farms receiving electrical called together and the first speech is service in New York State must have g given by Peter. His impulsive and been very small indeed. Th generous nature led him to make a The New York State Public Serv- plaited skirt joined thfi bodice, d very definite contribution to the dis- mission. lee Commission has jurisdiction over ' the bark NO 1637 is for His speech is summarized .in vs. 7-li. all electrical utilities serving con- V. 8. Tie refers to his own exper- sunters in the State, but, in the ex- h fence when he was sent to baptize tensive,„statistical reports published Cornelius. Then God, had given the by it,- rural consumers are hot re- t y Holy Ghost to these Gentiles thus garded as being suftclently numerous } f tt B Price 20 showing that their hearts were fit to ' to justify separate classification. receive such. a grace and that there' ' was no differencein Gods sight. Ontario's Rural SeryIoe d h V. 10. Peter confesses that in the. The"rapid,extension of facilities for g h early days before his conversion he electrical service in rural Ontario is Every had felt the coke of the lave and he. a noteworthy source of satisfaction now pleads with the church to ac - to all who have at heart the best in. t i i d by 1 tercets of the Province as a whole,. and agricultural industry, in particu- lar. Every since, in 1910, the Hydro - Electric Power Commission of On- tario began to transmit power from Write your name and address plain - Niagara Falls over the first sections ly,' giving number and size of such of its transmission •lines, the problem patterns as you Wait. Enclose 20c in of. providing electrical service in�rural stamps or coin coiiiii preferred; wrap districts has open studied. 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Will Vie With Englaud's'Best LATEST AND LARGEST ZEPPELIN 18 \CHRISTENED The L-127, which, its German builders ,hope will cross the Atlanta with passengers, before the English complete the 11-100, now building. Alsati . n Chief Is lZele•.'• sedy . lP'oincare Dr.is lin, .Leader of Au- tonomists k tonomists in Chamber, Receives a Pardon Paris, — President Gaston Der- mergue, at the' Instance of the French Government, has. pardoned Dr. B:iok- lin, leader of the Alsatian Autouo=' mists, whise condemnation• to prison at the Colmar trials last May aroused a furore In France and whose elec fion to 'Parliament created consterna- tion in•;,Government circles. Three other' Atitonomiste •imprisoned at the same time have been recently set free, and that action is regarded as among the most -courageous which the Gov- ernment has taken since Raymond Poincara hag. been Premier,, Thus Poincara . follows Britain's methods with subject rebels. Smutts and Botha of recent date made' true lm- perini subjects. So, France will find, will these Alsatians. • These Alsatians, however, in the course of their trial, pleaded that their Treaties with different countries. We demands for an autonomius govern -leen get a clear idea, by making com- ment in Alsace was the limit of their ,, parisous between Canada and the wishes and that never did they desire, United States. We can also go back high cost of service which is inherent Service, 73 West Adelaide. St,, Toronto, in territory where consumers are s0 Patterns sent by'return mail. much more widely separated than in the cities and towns, were Invest! - gated, and the flrst rural lines wore constructed in 1912. It was n t, how- ever, until some years later 'ghat the , co-operation of the farmers rind of the Provincial ' Government: had been en- listed to such an extent that a really rapid expansion of the service was ..,.possible. Some Startling Figures The Activit that has been in evi- dence Y dence in recent'years may bo iilue- trated from figures taken from the Annual Report of the .Commission for 1927.- To the enol of that year,; rural primary lines totalling 8,100 miles in length, and costing over $6,600,00, had I ne YY oocls Appeal to. . the Primitive Primitive aro .all the elements of woods lure. Mystery is• one' element. There's a beckoning' of the unknown, a agmmons in hidden places. Mystery accounts somewhat 'for' the. hushed voice, the muffled step and the legato walk with which men commonly enter the woods. One great factor of woods lure in the calm but ceaseless change in which the realm of Nature evolves. The. been approved for construction, Of turning of the seasons, the prismatic these, over 2,900 miles wore in actual pattern of ,the leaves, the scattering operation;' serving 25,000 consumpr0, distributed over ae. area of about 12�t. 900 square miles in 211, towiiskippe. 1t is planned to construct, in 172$, and probably in subseuent year, ddi blgnal rural linos at the rate Of ebee t 1,000 miles Per pew', Extol -401P by made from the ower sings tl ' traverse the 'rovte 99 seine eyes i}4 •_ are thre fare const J4 ee tgp eliu y, alent for each 4 41 ,lain needed to the els encs+ distribute gyi Tho Cost o¢. Power As in the ease of the towns and cities service is given at cost, with the edditiou8l advantage in. the case and the forming of the.clouds, the very process of erosion: these and Ulce manilestatlons of Omnipotence and Eternity call for t�`i0 spi4'It �f` ni'ejk iii r ejQ e., Now ere else as t)iei'c� i ua1, sublimity or greater de Vet li i, iL in the woerdSBut T de el tki}i t a all inn-04ri;al ,•Jy not de- ,.i ei 'a a , .:, pp 5e s s b y• cit sac hi • ronin ,., e ofp" n g�i fin Th Ia l� ad-tu A Braving' Pox the t'i0-1, ascii the sero ti. p urgiiitt "that cri ti lysis or t9l9 1g,M 1, e s7ail aecl oeii .uric in the u 1t t�� ti dawn- p n ping that must finsv✓er sof whether or :no man or beast is the master. Canada's Treaties By R. J. Deachman, This is the open season for Trade Treaties. Minister of Finance Robb has put through a few, more. ' Finan- cial experts on the ether side of the House cry "Ruin!" The cry Is a bit far fetched. The•fountains of .the Great Deep will not be broken up be- cause we increase either our exports to, or our improta from Checko-Slo- vakia, Esthonia or Portugal. Our Trade Treaties. We have made a number of Trade Treaties in the past andthey seem to have done some good. Our trade with those countries is in a really prosperous condition. Canada has treaties or has admitted to treaty privileges, France, Belgium, Holland and Italy, and a number of others. The United States, on the other hand, has a stand -and deliver tariff: No concessions are made to anybody. They. work on the theory that the. foreigner pays the tariffs. Mr. Dooley, exploded that long ago When he sald:. "Tis, the foriner pays, providin' he gets past Ellis Island!" It is not difficult to determine what has really happened in regard to our Alsatian withdrawal from Prance,.ee the days before those Treaties were They reiterated that they had fought I made and , note the changes which the Germans on the• same point as , have taken place since. It is custom: strongly as they have oppoaed the cry tai, suggest that we have been sit complete absorption into France. Following the armistice there have been French governments which have admittedly proceeded too fast in try- ing to make all Alsatians good Branch which we prefer to leave to others. men.. The efforts were too strenuous IE a part of our birthright goes with to teach 'French to the inhabitants each bushel, wduldu't the same who knew only German,' and to break The ;Canada Year '. ook7 1927-28 publication of the Canada Year tion,' dealing with general educe: Book, 1927-28, Is announced by the General Statistics Branch of the Do- minion Bureau oil Statistics, This comprehensive <volume, which is now ready for public distribution, is, the official ntatietical annual .dealing with the resources, `, history, institutions and socai and econoritle oconditions of the Dominion: The present edition has been thoroughly revised through- out and includes in all its sections the latest information up to the; date of going to press. the habit of giving away our birth- right. How we sell our birthright in. disposing of wheat out of which the "Dagoes" melte macaroni, is a problem up a system of confessional schools which applied to Alsace and not to France. M. Poincare saw that Alsace must be absolutely a part of France, but that the process of assimilation mast be gradual, The Alsatians could be encouraged and were ready to. bit loyal French- men, but could not be bullied. Wisely, Mr. Poincara has busied himself re- versing the mistaken policies and has promised that the Government would "respect their tr'aditionsiand customs and preserve so long as they had the desire their school and religious sys- tem, namely the confessional and bi- lingual instruction and .a -regime of the concordat." M. Poincare went further and ap- pointed an Alsatian, Alfred Oberkirch, Undersecretary of State to advise on 'Alsatian matters. "Finally he has al- lowed the. sentenced Alsatian leaders to go free. In every way the Govern- ment has shown its'ge d will,.and though -there may be som� grumbling now, if the Alsatiane are wise and show in Parliament 'their sole wish is tribe thorough Frenchmen, the past knowledge that salvation home . Fwill bo forgotten and the Alsatian faith alone, Peter was fo lowed by problem may quite. probably be com- Paul and Barnabas who gave .a re- pletely liquidated: Certainly a splen- made Lt their wor{cy and then James rdid' beginning has been made.. tirade a statement supporting the views of • Peter and adding ; a quota- tion from Amos, predicting the return of the'Gentiles to the true faith. Tho decision was then eeaphed and it was cumcieion .Was not to he regarded as essentialt8-salvation but the Gentile cot verts were to observe certain of the laws of the Jews. Total Power Installation By the, end of 1927 Canada had a total hydraulic installation of 4,777,. 921 horsepower of" Which' 82 per cent.` was installed in central electric sta- tions.. '^ Adolphe Sax, inventor of the.saxo- phone, during his lifetime, was knock- ed down a'yflight of stairs, swallowed' a pill, was burned twice, drank poison, and was nearly_ asphyxiated, and blown up. Isis grievances were great, but he managed to.even the ,score, The Bolshevik Menace J. Baker White'in the National Re- in favor of the policy of freedem Cir- view (London): The Bolshevik lead- ers regard the Brib h Empire as the greatest barrier ^ against the -World Revolution, ane believe that until' that barrieris destroyed World Revolution will never become an accomplished fact,. They recognize alsothat the Empire cannot, be brought to .the ground by an attack concentrated merely on the British Isles, but that our Colonies and,noininions must be attacked as well. If the colleges aro going In forin- tellectual championship 'i contests, same- provision should be made ' for the lightweight class, -Springfield Republican. amount of birth -right go out with a bushel of "Yankee" wheat? Nineteen hundred and twenty-two, as everybody knows, was the bottom of pest -war. depression. If 'IVO take- the comparative imports and exports of Canada and the United States with France, Belgium, Holland and Italy 'in 1922 and again in 1027, we will have an idea as to the relative prog- ress made by the two countries during Ills period: Canadian and American Trade With, France, Betglum, Holland and Italy Exports of Imports of United States United States 1922....$602,353,364 $296,848,737 1927 624,865,134 436,118,177 Exports of . Imports of Canada, Canada. 1922..,. $45,488,260 e22,171,140 1927 82,190,104 49,083,698 You will note fjom these figures that exports from the"United States to the countries named increased in the -- period by more than 3 per cent. Ex- ports from Canada went up over' 80 per cent. Total increase of exports from the United States amounted to over $22,000,0.00. From Canada in the same period, exports increased' over $30,000,000, On the other hand, .Am- erican imports Increased $140,000,000. Canadian imports by approximately $26,000,000. It is interesting to note that United, States figures reveal eft - ports ae fairly Stationary—in-Canada there is a Sharp increase. In both countries -imports are up. In 1922 the •United States imported 49c for every dollar of ,exports—Canada, 48c. . In 1927, tho '!United States imported 70c for every dollar of exports—Canada 600 for every'- dollar of exports. Thatt. Credit Balances, Then, having failed in all other arguments, the apostle's misery pro- seeded, to tell us that anyway, it we have increased our exhorts, it is only in agricultural products and .these, of course, make no difference. Glance back for a moment at the figures' in the story. In 1922, we -had in round figures, a credit balanceinour trade The present ;, issue of the Year Beek extends to' 1,100 pages, and is Muffled into fifteen sections, as .fol- lows:—(1) Physio' raphy, including the geography, topography, geology,: climate and natiiral resources; of Canada: (2) History and Chronology, including a chronology; of Canada by yeara' ranee 1497; (3) Constitution and Governnsent, with an account of the history of the Dominion Parlia- ment and the Dominion franchise; (4) Population, including summary fig- ures of the eensue of 1921, and a"de- tailed 'treatment of vital statistics and immigration, ,together -with a state- the languages,,nationalites and bir meat ' on immigration. policy; (5) places of immigrants; preliminary r Production, including a general surdsults of the census of 'manufacture very of Canadian.production and sea- for 1926 as well as detailed analyse tions dealing with apiculture, Bores -1 of these statistics for- 1925; an ez try,. furs, fisheries, mines. and miner Itended, discussion of Canadian trade ale,:' waterpower, manufactures and 'a"summary of the first authoritatty construction; (6) " Trade and Corn -1 statement on the tourist rade of Ca' nierce, giving details of Canadian' ada; maerial on the traffic and th foreign trade; and of interprovincial, financial opsition of the Canadian N'• and local trade; (7) Transportation tionat Railways; a special article of and Communications, with subsections Canadian legislation respecting Co on government over transport- , bination in Restraint of Trade, by th alien agencies, steam, and electric Registrar of the Combines Inveatiga railways, express, companies, roads tion Act; an important etude, of th and highways, motor `vehiofes,' air, wages statisties collected at th navigation, canals, ' shipping and; Census o 1921; he results of a ne navigation, telegraphs, telephones and I study of the national wealth of Can poste office;' (8) Labor and Wages, in-; ada as in 1926. The appendix con eluding an account of the Dominion tains figures of . immigration and o and Provincial Departments • of trade for the fiscal year ended Marc Labor and the international opera -181, 1928. The volume, which is iilus- tion, lnduetrial eombinatione and cur- i trated by many more maps and dia rent wages, as web as wages static- (:grams than in previous years, also ties based on the census of 1921; (9)Iincludes an index with some 4,000 Prices,' including wholesale and retail page -references, and an eight -page prices, security prices and prices of Statistical Summary of the Progress services; (10) 'Finance, with detailed' of Canada since 1871. treatments of'Dofninion,, provincial i The Year Book is obtainable from and municipal finance, national the King's Printer, Ottawa, at the wealth and income, ,currency and price of $2,00, this figure covering banking, and insurance; (11)"Educe:• merely the. cost of paper and binding. Our Royal Family Are, True Lovers of Sport E,i R _ ,,.a aeon^ . T 1 gN LLS WIN AT WIMBleSDON QJEEM 116ARY AND FLING .GEORGE.WAT�H HELEN WI P Ince Arthur'of Consiaugizt, the Earl of Athiono, ween 'Wary of England (Who Is seldom seen wearing dorso 141,441 Y, in rFFyi>h b lyjtl� s ectaeles the Countess of Athlone King George and at the extreme right„ %lady May Cambridge, at the sinal re a1'14e, 1yos o a at li P ),• Do matches.when Ilelen 'Wills won fez the second consecutive year. 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Belching tons of lava, the. volcano Mayon early to -day ereae in the throes of its worst erup' tion since 1900, with a series of earth shocks rocking the countryside and of products other than "crude agrienl- spreading -terror over the western! turas" aro new almost doubler ' what portion of Albay. Province. Hours after the stat molten rock shot high into the air the lava fio'a and earth 'rumblings continued, Al the first. Sign of ' renewed activity, natives fled and, with the disturb., once continuing, the tew remaining inhabitants of the little town of Li. bog, near the foot of the mountain, moved to safety, As molten rock, fire and ashes shot skyward from a new crater which opened yesterday itbout500 feet frons the summit, women and chlldreii paraded the streets of Legaspl, Weir song sand prayers for divine protea Con mingling with cries of 'Markt When lava from the now ,crater ,bit the base of the mountain it splashed a quarter of a mile. A vast area slowly was 'being covert ed as the lava Rowed to lower levels, Considerable damage had been done n: the higher country and a stream i 'has been dried up "by the hot liquid rock. Mayon began eruptions of serious proportions in Juno and continued until early July, wizen the distui•'pa once apparently had been ended. AM that time. Governor General Stinfsoii visited the -province to inspect the, situation and added his assurance to that of scientists that the worst ph the cycle of ortions heed )?eased, Thousands o natio s whet had fied ((Q, e he first runebit en paduaily ti- s �ered back to the bon>res. gl7 '7 71 iti�.'eat say the plaints! �tlt�a Qj 7911.107" 'Witnesei1 aamv:)l, $22,000,000: That Is, after paying for our imports from these countries we had $22,000,000 of^ a credit, balance available for the purchase of other things. In 1927, our balance was $32,- 000,000. Nor were all our exports agricultural products. ' The Belgium. convention, Was made in the fiscal year of 1924, We shipped to Belgium that year, goods to the value of $17,- 452,442, of which 714,850,206 was com- posed of agricultural' products." In 1927, the exports were 721,341,116, of which 718,446,886 were agricultural. products -in: other words,' our exports they were before the Treaty, or ex- ports xports of non-agricultural products in• creased as .'much during .three years of treaty operation as in all previous times, The world's trade continues to grow' from ` generation to generation. Yet the world too -day, is only at the beginning of commercial'development. We shall laugh a -generation hence at the puny volume of, the nation's busi- ness as transacted to -day. Of course, it is quite. true that the Treaties 'are not of tremendous 1m- portance. They are however, minute tiny infinitesimal lowerings of the blockade of production which :stifles our growth and checks the progress of agriculture, mining : and-manufac' taring. No one could criticise them, save in the sense that they de not go far enough to do, much good. Tire arguments used against them In the House of Commons are senseless be- yond words. Still, members of Parlia- ment must have their fling—the com- mon people, take a saner view—more treaties would be welcome -broaden- ing out th existing ones weuld lee a help. Every stone knocked off high tariff walls helps forward National del'elopment. The most we can get out 0f 1 Is its discipline for otirse)yes, end usefelness for others:—Tyro I wards, Sus Isisa,,7 that 11 a ilapp nes/ was vett en too date