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The Seaforth News, 1930-02-13, Page 7.M Rural Canada's Opportunity To Get Large Share 'of 'Big Money Mr. C. E. Neill, Vice -President and Managing Director of the Royal Bank, Points the Way to a Wonderful Opportunity A. REAL GOLD MINE Bank managers can not tinnily be excused of optimistic. promotion. propaganda put that' is really what appears in the January Letter of the Royal Bank of" Canada. The gold mine to which Mr, Neill refers is Canada'.s tourist trade. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics recently published ` the following table: Expenditures of Tourists 1922-1930 1922 $ 91,086,000' 130,977,000 1923 1924 168,876,000 1925 ,177,882,0.00 1926 186,791,000 1027 215,763,000 1928 250,501,000 1929 , About 309,000,00.0. An increase of 233% in seven years. Mr. Neill says in reference to this great influx of wealthy travellers. . "This' great annual migration pre- sents an 'unparalledopportunity for increasing our trade. As yet there has been no congested effort to build the tradition that there are purchases which can -lie made in Canada mere advantageously than in,the United States. .Itis estimated that in France the amount df sales" to each visitor averages $750. If we could 'Make pur- chasing in Canada sufficiently. attrac- •tipe so that the average value of the Merchandise taken out of the country amounted to only one-tenth of this /sum, it would make a difference: of • more than one billion dollars a year in our trade." . - t There have been few careful studies of the subject,, bu'• those who are most familiar. with tourist expendi- tures 111 Canada state that the pre- ponderant amount is for lodging, food, gasoline, and beverages, and that it is probable that not more than sixty million dollars, or less than four dollars per capita, has been spent for merchandise which was taken out of the country. This small per capita expenditure Is striking evidence that "Buying in Canada" has not been made an important feature of tourist visits. Concerted effort by the Na- tional and Provincial Governments, Boards of Trade and Tourist Bureaus could make 'merchand Bing to tour- ists a more profitable venture than the whole 00 the present tourist trade and the opportunity to buy in Canada /should become an added inducement that would serve to increase the number of people who visit the coun- try. Our governments have a response bility which can be plainly seen by '8be • following Daragrapb from the Same source: ' In order to attract more visitors from the United .States, the German government makes a large annual ap- propriation for advertising the attrac- Bons of Germany tbroughout the United States, r In France, the ap- propriatioli for this purpose is in ex- cises of one million doiars, lint the French Government is not advertis- ing en as Targe a scale as Germany. In a recent,riiscussion in the National Assembly of France there was great emphasis placed upon the necessity for maintaining the prices of luxury products at reasonable,levels in order to maintain .the volume of tourist' purchases at maximum levels. a OP position wasexpressed toward exorbi- tant pricey which reduced volume of trade and led American tourists to do' their purchasing ' in ether coup !tries. Advertising appropriations and legislative discussion of merchandiz ing polities constitute direct recogni- tion of the importance of the tourist trade to national welfare. Where the Small Town Gomes in - People from the United States tra- velling in Canada by motor car com- ing largely from great cities search- ing for an outing in the "great out- doors" of Canada. By lack of proper hotel accommodation in the smaller towns and villages they are forced to keep on the main highways so as to see our country and always be sear, good hotel accommodation • for the night. • ' By preference these same tourists would never step-in a large centre if:tlhey could get a Good bed and bath in the rural. localities. Any of the present well run 'rur^l hostelries prove that such accomnro dation brings tourist!, The welter is personally acquainted with several' little hotels dotted here and there in mere hamlets throughout Ontario where business fairly booms 'throu' 1i- out the season of motoring activity. Form Local Companies Zn places where there is at present no satisfactory tourist accommoda- tion this lack can be supplied by the formation of a local. joint stock com- pany, which can purchase present. ,poor hotels and turn them into at- tractive tourist Inns, Apparently local bank managers can interest head dikes in any such endeavors to the extent of securing information, supplying data and pos- sibly credits. It is worth while for rural sections to consider such opportunities, for with a hotel to house the transient a - further paragraph from the Royal Bank letter is full of suggestions as to bigger and better sugestious for all. It is. as folows: "As a natural prelude to the move- ment to increase buying in Canada, there should be a concerted effort to build more adequate hotels and hos- telries for tourist accommodation. The hotels in our large cities and In the better known resorts ase excel- lent, 'In small towns and villages the lack of adequate accommodation le deplorable. Many of the most attrac- tive parts of this counties are en• known because they have no facili- ties to house vlsitore, There should be sufficient local pride to insist up- an prpper accommodation for visit- ors, There' 'should be sufficient local pride to insist upon proper a000mmo- dation•for visitors, Those towns and cities which are well located with re- ferences to tourist travel can inceease their wealth by making it more at- tractive to"Buy in Canada." Don't ,forget and also play up the feet that `each American visitor is Permitted to take $Ioo.00 worth of merchandise' back to the U,S. free of dui --y r�— Brings $3,000 to Relieve Veterans Scenes Before and After Fatal Crash DEATH.PLANE WHICH CLAIMED THE LIVES OF PASSENGERS AND PILOTS Here is shown tri -motored Ford plane No. 9688, which crashed near Oceanside, Calif., killing fourteen _pa sengers and two pilots, bound for Los Angeles from ale races in Mexico. - SIXTEEN DIE AS GIANT AIR LINER CRASHES TO GROUND ON WEST COAST W'eckage of Maddux T.A.T. air liner, which crashed to earth and burned, near Oceanside, Calif,, killing four- teen passengers and two pilots. Telephoto reproduction Australia Wilds To Produce Potash Valuable Fertilizer May Come from Unproductive Ter- ritory if 'Plans go Through Adelaide, S. Aust.—Prospects of the discovery of large deposits of potash salts In the bed of Lake Eyre in the sparsely populated regions of Central Australia, as a result of the Cecil Madigan expedition, are causing much discussion here: Should the deposits be found, there would re - suit an important new industry "that would go far to change the face of a territory that iseproving one of Aus- tralia's most eerious problems. Mr, Madigan le working vita a motor truok some 250miles beyond the farthest limit of the railway. A recent 'arrival from Northern - Ontario's V.'D. Law Whalers Win Demands Secrecy, hi Ice' -Locked Seas Doctors Forbidden by Law to 36 Norwegian Factory Ships Divulge Names of Reap Rich Harvest in Patients ' 1929 Operations DURBAN S. At—The whaling in+ Ode, provinceoundergongryt eatment for dustry's yield for the year past will venereal disease is protected by law he no Tess than £10,040,000; retiree senting 2,0404;00 barrels of oil, de- against publicity, states the Vi?. J. cleared Captain Jacobsen, command. Bell, Deputy Minister of the Depart- er of one of the oil tankers which ment of Health in an article on the 1 with some of the Norwegain fleet of Venereal Diseases Prevention -Act of whalers recently visited South Aerie Ontario; appearing in the current Is can ports. sue of the Canadian Public Health Describing the work 00 replenish Journal. This article written to ing the supplies. of the mother fbollitate the co-operation existing be- ships , of the h is the an whaling ing tween the physicians and the Depart- board, which Js the tanker's fhere went„ stresses the fact that secrecy tion, Captain Jacobsen said; ',Them is legally imposed upon the physician dustry and taking whale oil on 1.n such eases. •. •ars no harbors in these latitude@ so The Act also provides for free treat- ment for indigent persons, for pay- ment aywent of physicians in such cases, for the establishment and maintenance of clinics and for the distribution of literature and drugs to physicians. Infected persons are compelled to take treatment and continue it until declared non -infective, and penalties are provided for persons who, not be- ing physicians,administer treatment. Responsibility for . the treatment of indigent persons is placed upon the munioipality, through the medical of- ficer of health. Penalties are pro- vided for persons who, having rea- son to believe themselves infected, transmit the infection, and any per- son accused by an infected person as the soiree of the infection may be compulsorily examined. "The public when under arrest or in custody conatitetes a group more easily reached,". Dr. Bell states: Special provisions are spade to look after inmates of public institutions, Every hospital in receipt of Ontario Government aid is required to make effective provision for the treatment of these diseases, excepting ,exclu- sively child -treatment and isolation hospitals. The physician is required to report such cases, bat even there the strict- est trictest secrecy is maintained, since the physician is not instructed' to Welsh the patient's name, but merely a num- ber or other designating mark. "Eighteen clinics :have been estate Belated in the Proyiuce of Ontario at various points," the article states. "Six of this number are located at various hospitals in the City of To- ronto. The balance are located as fellows:. Hamilton General Hospital, Federal Parliament Plans Brantford General Hospital; London, Victoria hospital; Windsor, Bank of BusySession on Tarr and Rum Montreal Building; Ottawa, 180 Canal Street; Owen Sound, 10th St, West; Arctic Rights, T Schedules vv, Runt Clearances to Be The Chief Topics PLANS BEING LAID Many Items . of International Importance : Will Face Our, Federal Representatives When the Session Opens on February 20th Next The tariff readjustments, legiela- own country in competition with tion against clearances of liquor +car- goes obviously intended for the Uni- ted States, reiteration of Canada's sovereignity over wide areae in the Arctic' regions; pronouncement of liolity on the St. Lawrenoe River deeper waterway to the sea, coned- eration of a proposed plan for nation- al control of radio broadcasting eta - Territory is Charles W, D..Conacher; tions: attorney for the Veeey Brothers; Readjusted Duties,Favored whose meat works at Darwin on the There is no quarrel among political north coast have been closed down parties as to the necessity of nation to for practically 10` years owing to un meet United States developments on satisfactory labor conditione,- Mr, the. tariff. _Prime Minister, W. L. Conaeher says Northiern Territory •g9esa nI b pri• M'ackeuzie King, proposes readjusts liquor stores controlled by provincial gevernmente. Arctic Sovereignty Questioned • Norway as well as the United States is ellati'enging Canadian teams of sovereignity over some parts of the. Arctic region, approximating roughly 500,060 aquare mites. No doubt the issue will eventually go to an arbitra- tion court. In the mean time Can- ada is carrying on her work of explor- ation and survey of the regions claim- ed. y` The government has kept watch and ward over the nomad Indians and the t vete enterprise, pro o y y ed duties,. as occasion warrants, on Eskimos of the North for many years, vats enterprisee,, which will be able to imports from the United States. This the Royal Canadian Mounted Police function' only if there are'- prospects p of making a prat. He discouraged pe'lioy he would combine with further posts and patrols' being the visible attempts at expansion by large de- trade advantages. to. Brfitain ante otherthose ,signsonBache of its Peninsauth'ogulaity„ Oneclaims post, that em ire countries as well as o -, distino- said, the Government 'had not guff of Latin America and the Far East; tient funds • • Leases Association, • however, have ed or subsidized steamship lines and submitted a number of proposals to aid r establishing new services the Bruce Government for placing the would be included. pastoral business on a sound basis. Empire. Conference Invited railway to go across the Barclay table- anon in view of this year's prospective questions as to the feasibility of the velopmett schemes, for which, he p with welch Canadian trade is grow- • The Northern Terrltei9 Pastoral- ing. Expansion of goyernment-own- tion as the most northerly n the world, less than 700 miles from the Pole. . When the government 'railway 'tn Fort Churchill on Hudson Bay begins regular operation in the coming sum• mer, carriage of supplies to the Arotie Among these is the construction of a The tariff issue gains added import Pests will be greatly facilitated. The lands—some of the richest areas in empire eaonomio conference, Canada Hudson Straits route for ships carry - the oountiy—into Queeneland, open• lits invited all the empire govern. ,ing western Canadian grain to British ing up the northern section in 9 81mi, meats to hold the conference in Ot- ports will also be answered. far manner to the opening of the tawa, the Canadian capital. London But looming on the horizon are the youth through the now railway from; is the more probable oholoe, however. quesbionngs of other nations, parti- Oddnadatta to :A,liee Springs. Com- The meeting plane is immaterial; the cularly am to jariediction over the monwealth railway expert, ..had re- conference will almost certainly adopt rich fiehng areas of the Straits and Ported that such a line would :r more adjacent waters, which have been sur- than pay running expenses. The re- port was snbmibted to the 13ruce Gov- ernment prior to its resignation and the . attitude of the new' Labor Gov- ernment toward Northern Territory has yet to be aseegtainee. For the present the teyrltory virtually at a standstill, apart from. the. working of three elver lead mines, following an iwmortant die- nunrber of Torsos. It will probably poprt, /since aviation exports are of the fieion s of the metal, but owing to de• oarry with a good majorit , opinion that it will. be the favored fiebeney in water supply, little expan- sion is expected,' Motor lorries and Whatever the government may have landing cam teams form the, main means o Monett 2 Washington represents ere from either time west or the Par Batt bound on voyages to their op - There PD y is regarded as inevitable rin the face p s, bn t d Europe. Plane Intended to increase trade witlss- in the''empire.' Liquor Clearance The government's intention to ask Parliament to approve legislation end- ing issuance of clearance for liquor cargoes, Which are undoubtedly gestin? ed for the United Stair, may meet some opposition Zrom a few of its own eupportera, as.well as from a veysd, mapped and studied by the' Royal Canadian Air Force in an epic series of flights. The government will melte its position clear, once more, in respect to these northern ter- ritories. ` • Incidentally it likely to give some information as to prospective develop- ment of Fort Churchill as a great air - el h °i su l f tions, actton of the nature rdioated � - ethic vie well as for travelers bo• There is deep in the hearts of men, of insistent crlticisme and domande: Ween this ton men an with all their Mite and all their In general their tone has been mord A dediite pronouncement, is expect- @ , al seliee hostile than i that and eliti alt e, ed frms t ep goner wit t as to its wiggdn as a lciaahorr r when the States `Aubl c s Po ea the 'United' mh4oh makes it h :,.Ea.'..—. t ._.BI..>.. WHERE BRAVERY AND BIG MEAIeoTEDNE$S GOES HAND IN HAND weak are trampled on and there is no though their arguments Have been States in the joint development of avenge d similar, Apart from the absurdity of the St, Lawrence waterway D 1 one 60 avethem Mande Boyden. ro eot.. H. H. Robson, V.C., offered this menu card, prise souvenir of Prince of Temptation usualyeenn 1 b ! eth with allowing rum cargoes for the United There are confusing cross -currents in n which' are written eignaturea of the Prince and Wales' Nee., dinner, upo th e d jretite and repre•' States to be lorded under a guise of this .matter, more or less tinged by t d V C'9 toPoppyDay Fund to auction op un g f 3 ds. It. bion ht in $3,000 instar au ap nae • tech someme worldly, fleshly thing as legality; Canadian critics believe that local political views, ala! involy g sen of these shipments are stili else power rights of tine pretences ata "Maple Leaf" hockey game and was graceoualy returned to the generous very pleasant and desirables—Richard', too S man' 'hero. Baxter ben sheik circuited and sold in their • of Ontario and Quebec,. Fort "minima, McKellar Hospital; St. Catharines, General Hospital; King- ston, General Hospital;, Peterboro,. City Laboratory, Sault Ste. Marie, City Laboratory; Kitchener, Water- loo Hospital. The establishment of a clinic ap- proved by the. Provincial Department of #Iealth is aided by a grant of 51,000 for appara•::7, etc. $500 per annum is voted tor: and the salary of the social service nurse attached tb the clinic re . $500 is granted as a Yearly 1' serarium to the physician in charge of the clinic. The Depart- ment is empowered by the Regula- tions to grant honoraria to assistant physicians in the clinic. In addition the Department pays to each clinic established in a hospital for the treatment of out-patients, fifty cents for each treatment for gonorrhoea and fifty cents .for each treatment of syphilis. The Regula- tions stipulate that not more than one treatment per day for a patient will be paid for, and impose -certain limi- tationsas to the length of time dur- ing which the treatment of any in- dividual case may be charged to the Department. • For in -patients at hospitals in which clinics are . established, the Depart- ment pays fifty' cents per day for each day of trreatment up to three months, but does not pay for any patient as an in-patient and an out-patient at the same time. Itshould be remarked in gassing that treatment of cases of venereal disease is not administered primarily for the purpose of clearing upa case or curing an individual. Treatment, as prodvided for in the Act, is for the purpose of clearing up a focus of in- fection•as' a means of controlling the spread of venereal disease. Sixteen years after the sinking of the Titanic by eoIlision with an ice- berg, 461 dependents of the 1,492 per- sons drowned are sbi11 receiving periodic allowances from the 02,000,- 000 fund raised by Mansion House, London.. The fund possesses invest- ed property, according to the latest annual report, amounting to $1,436,- 000: In the United States the Wo- men's Titanic Memorial Association le about to erect in Washington a mens- oriel enuoriel to the lost—a symbolic marble sculpture by Mrs. Harry Paine Whit - nay. the off-loading has to be done at ,sea, which is no easy matter, as•one 'has to nose one's way among ice- bergs in the uncharted seas south of latitude 60, When transferring our: loads we -tie alongside each other. I usually lie in between two factory ships that way.,, "On my return now," - Caption Jacobsen continued. "1 will get in- structions to meet the factoryships on a certain day at such a place, If I go straight there I soon find my- self yself among icebergs, very big ones, and have to waste a lot of time deft, - ing backward and forward through them, till I reach the right. longitude, then I turn flue south till I get into the area where the factory ships • should be. "I then send out a message in Morse, which is picked an and re* Plied to by the mother ships when close enought, by wireless telephony and then we arrange where we are to meet. These mother ships or fac- tories, keep in a ring all around the pack ice in which the whalers are working. "There are 36 factory ships of Nor- way in latitude 00- The biggest is 23;000 tons drawing 35 feet of water, and there are 200 of our whalers all -the year round in the far South. It is a- big industry. We have 8000 men employed down there, and the industry 'brings Norway in 60,000,000 kronen a year." Speaking about the Discovery ex- pedition, Caption Jacobsen said he considers they are going too far east for their weather obsevations to be of any benefit to Australian' farmers, as the weather sweeps close round the' polar regions from the. west- ward. estward. Rushing to the rescue of "Miss June," a London etenogra,pher who had made.' a parachute drop into a tree a crowd recently found her sit- ting on a beugh unhurt anti smiling happily. Industrial disputes in Great Britain• have caused the loss 'of 838,000,000 working days in the. last eight years. "Never let yourself think that you cannot accomplish what' you set out to." -Henry Ford,. • War on the Border Ottawa Journa. (Cons.); Certain Canadian newspapers, noting the de- cision of the United States to place an anti -smuggling army on the border, state that this step is due to Canada's failure to prohibit liquor exports. It is curious reasoning... The truth, in fact, is that this sudden decision to place 10,000 rifles on the Canadian border is simply a panic decision taken after attacks launched against en- forcement some few days ago by pow- erful figures like Senator Borah. It is a political gesture, taken for political reasons, and for little else. Americans well know that the pprobtem of making the Eighteenth Aredni.ment effective is ne• .a matter of 10,000 .rifles on the Canadian border. They know—and have publicly stated—that it is a ques- tion of the prevention of the manu- facture of bootleg liquor at home. E•-erybody knows—it has never been contradicted—that less than 5 per fent of ,the liquor illegally distributed in the United States comes from Can- ada, If, therefore, 16,000 Hien are re- quired to control this 5 per cent, what size of an army is going to be required to control the traffic in its entirety? And will it be provided? However, that is the business of the United States. No business of ours. What is Canada's business, though, is the enforcement of law on this side of the border; and it is hard to see why we should take a step that will snake this inose difficult and more costly just to pull Uncle Sam's chestnuts out of the fire. The U.S. Dumps Her Surplus in the West Calgary herald (Ind.<Can.): It is announced in Washington that ten more trade commissioners will be sent into -Canada to promote the sale of American goods. They will be sta- tioned at strategic points in Western Canada. They will attempt to mini- mize hostility to the high :tariff policy of the Hoover Administration and to counteract the effect of the growing sentiment in Canada for greater trade within the Empire. The extension of the American selling corps system in Canada conveys a lesson which should not be lost on the business men of Great Britain. If Uncle Sam finds it pays to increase his trade commis- sioners in the -Dominion, it should be equally advantageous for British in- terests to follow suite Canada offers them a favorable market at the `pre- sent time because of the awakealed public interest in Empire trade: Advice, like show, the softer it falls, the longer it dwells `upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind .S. T. .0eleridga. To sendalp uneducated child inte the world is little better thenaunning out a mad dog or wild beast into the street. Paley.'