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The Seaforth News, 1923-07-05, Page 6\CANADA'S TRADE 1922 r 23 SHOWS SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE The trade report for the fiscal year, United States', amounting to $97.0,- 907 650 ,-907650, followed by the United King- don with 5510,355,116. Total trade with Femme arnonnted to 526,338,553; with British West Indies, $21,9577,3t,s; with Japart, $21;721448 with Ane- tralia,, $20,241,687; with Belgium, $17,522,617; with Cuba, 516,379,0813; with the Netherlands, $15,408,1'76; with Btitish East Indies, $15,246,819; and with Germany, $11,617,894. ending March 81st, 1923, shows Can- ada's business to be considerably high- er than for the previous year; For the year figures ' show a favorable trade balance of 5129,772,400 as against an adverse. trade balance of $1,748,539,8B0 in comparison with an adverse trade balance of 550,961,- 855 in the year ending March, 1921, Canada's total trade in the year just ended amounted to 51,734,686,486 hi comparisonwith 51,488,033,664 in the previous year, an increase of 5246,683,422. Of this total 5802,457,- 043 was aceoauted for by imports as against $747,762,984 inthe previous INCREASES IN-rh50151' TRADE. Inereeses in Canada's import trade are noted in business with Africa and the Indies, the United Kingdom, Uri- ited States, Newfoundland, New Zee- } and, Argentina, Belgium, China, Gcr many, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. There were notable declines in importations. FrOM Cuba, France, Greece, Japan and Switzerland. The substantial in- crease recorded an tar;;,value of Can- ada's export trade business with the United Kingdon' accounted f•;r 579,- 705,770 of this increment and that with the United States for 576,491,- 575. Exports to China increased from 51,900,627 to . 55,125,697; to France from $8,208,22S to 514,118,877: and to Germany from 54,509,517 to 59,950,877. There wereheavy -increas- es in exports to Australia, South and West Africa, Cuba, and Menlo. and smaller increases in the cases of Ber- niuda, West Indies, Hong Hong, m- gentina, Belgium, Greece, Nether- lands, Roumania, Sweden and Switz- erland. Theonly decreases in expert trade recorded were in trade with Newfoundland, Brazil, Italy, Norway and, to a small extent, with Japan. A SATISFACTORY SIIOWING. Canada's trade for the last fiscal year, an increase of 554,694,059, and 5932,229,448 by exports as compared with 5740,240,680, an increase for the year of 5191,988,763. Exported for- eign merchandise to the extent of 513,- 844,894 brought the grand total of Canadian trade for the year up to $.7,748,539,880 in comparison . with 51,501,689,995. Leading in the list of Canada's im- ports for the year were fibres, textiles acrd textile products to the extent of 5170,146,958. Iron and iron products accounted for 5148,241,455; non- metallic minerale, 5139,919,012; agri- cultural and vegetable products,.main- ly foods, $108,701,762; agricultural and vegetable products other than foods, 552,940,022; aunnals and ani- mal products, 546,787,774; miscellan- eons, 546,136,811; non-ferrous metals, 537,492,604; and chemicals and allied products, 525,798,101. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS HEAD EXPORT !CAST. The export list is headed by agri- cultural and vegetable products, niain- lyfood, which accounts for 5384,226,- 936. Next in line, also accounting for a heavy volume, wood, wood products and paper with 5229,165,216. Animal and animal products are also over the hundred million mark with 5137,486,- 160. 137,486;160. Iron and its products account for 554,373,173; non-ferrous metals, $45,753,498; non-metallic min- erals, 528,317,634; miscellaneous, 516,- 511,579; 16;511,579; agricultural and vegetable products other than foods, $26,713,214; chemical and allied products, 514,743,- 804; and fibres, textiles and textile products, 59,272,623. The total trade Canada transacted within the year with countries of tbe. British Empire was 5619,183,477, and with foreign countries 51,114,733,009. The individual country with which the heaviest trade was carried on was the IN PLAIN VUIW,-BUTe--. Philadelphia Ledger. 77,342 BRITISHERS MAY SETTLE IN U.S. New Immigration "Quotas" for 1924 Announced by Washington. A despatch from Washington says: -The new immigration "moths" year makes on the whole a very gratifor the fiscal year 1924•have been an- fying showing, Not only has a groat- pounced by W. W. Husband, Commis er volume of business been transacted, sioner-General of Immigration. They but it has been the kind of business show no vitally important changes most beneficial to Canada and an un- from the allotments for the fiscal year favorable trade balance has hon 1923, which ended on June 30. The From Conservatives turned into a favorable one. Dealing only ones that have been made are a Standing .of.Parties in the New Legislature CONSERVATIVES ..... • 1677 LIBERALS 13 U. F. O. 4 LABOR 1 INDEPENDENT CONSERVATIVE GAINS From the U. F. 0.......:...,,... 81' From the Liberals 14 From Labor 8 From Independents 1 LIBERAL GAINS. From U. F. 0. only with Canada's two principal Gus- result o political f changes hap es in Europe tom frotn the United States is more than There is no change in the total num- ers, small mailsn crease insrap orts ber• of immigrants that can be ad FU. F, 0. GAINS. rom Liberals counterbalanced by a substantial in- matted during the fiscal year that -'• crease in export trade to that coon- opened on July 1. This is fixed by Lightning Destroys 1,500 try, and in spite of the greater velumlaw, and remains the same -71,661 Acres of Timber Lan of business transacted, thenit-favor- aliens may be admitted monthly, or able balance against Canada has been 357,803 immigrants for the entire A despatch from Fredericton, N.B., much reduced; whilst the greater am- year. Nor is there any alteration in says; -Lightning caused'a forest fire Dunt of business transacted between the number of immigrants entitled to which destroyed 1,600 acres of timber Canada and the United Kingdom, indi- entry from the United Kingdom, Ger-lands in the south-west Miramichi Gated in a larger favorable balance in many, Italy, Sweden and Russia -the River, near Napadogan, a divisional' the case of the Dominion. - . countries ordinarily sending the most point on the Transcontinental division immigrants to the United States under of the' Canadian National Railways, existing conditions. All told, there is .according to reports reaching the De a shift in allotment of only 656 Me partment of Lands and Mines. migrants from the "quota" of one cessation ofe fires throughout the province for country to that of another. Rains have brought a cess ' th The regions involved in this change the time being, reports to the depart of allotments are designed as Austria, ment stated, 54 8 a Dominion News in Brief Vancouver, B.C,-Sockeye salmon sold 4.17 cars daily, a total of 10,000. fishing has commenced and many bun- cars. drede of boats and thousands of fish, Toronto, Ont. -The Western Co. of extending ermen have left for the fishing areas, Chicago, have opened a Canadian of- fice and factory here. They are inane - eery to Alaska, facturers of hair net; tooth brushes, motorises ete• They have a factory in ,China Edmonton, Alta . -Alberta moand also in the; United States, and are burned up approximately one million importing `geode from both countries. gallons of gasoline during the month Quebec, Que.-Tile advance guard of May, this'year, ;aecor•dang to re- of the Buckeye Fishin8• Chub of Col - turns filed with the provincial secre- umbes;Ohio, has been in the province tary's offree.' At least this is the quart- making arrangenients fer the annual tity upon which the Government tax outing of the club which has been of two cents a galloli will be collected aking, fishing excursions to Canada fbae 0fty years. Ae eanrpalag space kris from gasoline dealers. The provin-Ibsen selected on a lake twelve .mile's tial treasury is therefore enriched to e is special above Buekinghsm, in, the Liev e dis- the extent of 520,000 for the month. tric't, and one hundred members of Regime Sask.-The Saskatchewan',Ieguithe clubnt to .e,nanvl heEuunsurpassed Co-operative Creameries, Ltd:, the biggest dairying organization in the province, has just completed arrange- ments whereby all of its exportable butter output during the summer months will be shipped to Great Bri- tain. This will involve shipping be- tween two and three million pounds of butter. ' Ford, Ont. -For the fifth consecu- tive month of this year the Ford Mo- tor Co. of Canada, Ltd., has broken its previous monthly -records; and the out: put during the month -of May was the highest in the history of the company. sport oz one urs�r,u�. .,St. John, N.B-Lumbering opera- tions are to be car_ Tied on during the summer months in several parts of the province, although it has been the cus- tom to cut the.. logs and haul them during the winter months. During the season just closed the heavy snow in the southern portion of the province made it necessary to curtail the cut, and several operators bound them- selves without sufficient logs to keep their mills running during the sum- mer. In order to supply their wants in this direction, several, firms will have logging crews in the woods- for During; May, the Ford Motor Car Co. the summer. The Week's Markets ets TORONTO. Manitoba Wheat -No. 1 Northern, 51.201/4. Manitoba 'oats -No, 2 CW;` 541c;' No. 3 CW, 52c; No. 1 feed, 5004c. Manitoba barley -Nominal.. All the above, track, bay ports. Am. corn -No, yellow, 51.04; No. 2, 51.054,. Barley -Malting, 60 to 62; accord- ing to freights outside. Buckwheat -No, 2, '70 to 71e, Rye -No. 2, 77 to '79c. Peas -No. 2, 51.40 to 51,45. h Mi lfeed-Del-,' Montreal freights, - bags included: Bran, per ton, $26; 6 ;shorts, per ton, 529; middlings,' 535; good feed flour, 52:15 to 52.25. Ontario wheat -No. 2 white, 51.21 1 to $1.23. Ontario No. 2 white oats -50 to 510. Ontario corn -Nominal. Ontario flour Ninety percent. pat., in jute bags, Montreal, prompt ship- inent, 55.10 to 55.20; Toronto basis, 55.05 to 55.15; bulk, seaboard, $4.95 to $5. Manitoba flour-lst pats., in cotton sacks, 56.90 per barrel; • 2nd pats., •56.85. Hay -Extra No. 2 timothy, per ton, track, Toronto, 515; No. timothy, 513 to $14; mixed, 512.50 to 513.50.; lower grades, $8. Straw -Oar lots, per ton, track, To- ronto, $9,50. Cheese -New, large, . 19e; twins, 20c; triplets, 21o; Sttltons, 22e. Old, large, 32c; twins, 3214c; triplets 33e• Stilton; 3314,mNew Zealand old d cheese, 28 to 300. B -Finest prints, to 36c;utterordinary ccreameryreamery prints, 33 38 to 84e; dairy, .24 to 25c; cooking, 22c. Eggs -New laids, loose, 28 to .29c;. new ]aids, in cartons, 32 to 330. Live poultry -Spring chickens, 400; hens, over 5 lbs., 220; do, 4'to 6 lbs., 20c; .do, 3 to 4 lbs., 17c;, roosters, 15c, ducklings, over 5 lbs., 300; do, 4 to lbs., 28c; turkeys, young, 10 lbs. and up, 25c. Dressed "poultry -Spring chickens, 45c; hens, over 5 lbs., 28c; do, 4 to 5 lbs„ 24c; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 20e; roosters, 17c; ducklings, over 5 lbs., 30c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 29c; turkeys, young, 10 lbs. and up, 30c. Beans -Can., hand-picked, lb., 7c; primes, 604e. Maple products -Syrup, per imp.' gal, $2.50; per t-ggal.-tin, 52.40 per. gal.; maple sugar, lb., 25c. Honey -60 -lb. tins, 1031 to 11c Der Ib.; 3 and 20,8-1b. tins, 11 to.12eic per ib.; Ontario comb honey, per'doz., No. 1, 54.50 to 55; No. 2, $8.75 to 54.25. Smoked meats -Hams, med., 26 to 28c; cooked hams, 41 to 44e; smoked rolls, 26 to 28c; cottage rolls, 26 to 28c; breakfast bacon, 80 to 34e; spe- cial brand breakfast Lacon, 34 to 38e;. backs, boneless, 37 to 42e. Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 60 to. 70 lbs., 518; 70 to 90 lbs., 517.50; 90 lbs. and up, 516.50; lightweight rolls, in barrels, $36; heavyweight Hon. R. Howard Ferguson New Premier of Ontario, HAPPY ENDING TO MYSTERY OF THE SEA Captain Foster of British Ship Wires His Wife from Isle of Mauritius. A despatch from London says: -A mystery of the sea had a happy end- ing when Mrs. Foster, e. resident of Barry, received an unsigned cable message from the Island of Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean, reading: "Safe, excellent health." Mrs, Foster is the wife of Captain Foster, of the British ship Trevessa, which was given up for lost in the Indian Ocean nearly a month ago, since which time the wife' has been prostrated with grief. The Trevessa, a vessel of 5,000 tons, was on a voyage from Australia to England, when, on May 28, a wire- less message from her was picked up, saying that she was sinking, and that the crew had taken to the boats, The wireless call was received by the Tres wan, owned by the sante eompany, -whrhv Which se thatm l at time was vessel n but 300 miles from the position given by th Trevessa. The Trevean hastened to the scene, and searched for the sur- vivors until June 7, when she reported from Sydney that she had found only wreckage and 'an overturned boat. Coming on the heels of the message t0 Mrs, Foster was a oeblegram from the vessel's owners, filed by Captain Foster ;from the Island of Rodriguez, in wliieh he reported that he had ar- rived there with 16 members of his brew, and believed the boat containing the others would. turn up. Railway Gradients. Few gradients ape% ral'lways are etaeper •than 1 to 60. Modern locomo- tives will take muds steeper gradients, but they are net emohomieal to work. COAL MINERS WARNED TO AVOID A STRIKE Public Will Not Tolerate Sus- pension of Supply This Year. A despatch, from Washington says: -Warning that public sentiment "will tolerate no suspension of the anthracite coal supply this year," was served upon coal miners in session at Scranton, Pa., by the United States Coal Commission. The warning was contained in a letter signed by Chair- man John Hays Hammond, urging the ruiners to seek an understanding with the coal operators. Mr. Hammond told the ruiners, who are in session considering new wage demands, that the public expected an agreement and expressed the hope that both the workers and the mine operators would recognize their duty to the public. "The commission hopes," Mr. Ham- mond wrote, "that the prompt .and satisfactory response received to its suggestions in the matter of the bi- tuminous contract will be repeated in the negotiations about to be under- taken in the making of an anthracite contract. "The public,"` the letter adds, "ex- pects an agreement and we have full confidence that both miners and op- erators will recognize their duty to the public and will be able to effect a speedy conclusion." The miners are informed that the commission's report on the anthracite industry will be completed in a few I days and forwarded to them for study and warns' that "in the meantime we urge upon both sides that in addition to the welfare of each, that of the great body politic of the American people is involvd and that public sentl- 4 hent will not tolerate a suspension of Its anthracite coal supply with the be- ginning of the Fall and Winter sea - Greece, `Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Syria, Turkey and "other Asiatics.", Immigration to Canada is ineroits- Another interesting aspect of the new ing substantially. During the five quota regulations involved no change months ending May, 1923, 89,441 im- of allotntent, but one of designation. migrants entered Canada, or 41 per The British Isles are entitled to cent. over the total for the corres- send 77,342 immigrants to the United pending period in 1922. Immigration States during the current fiscal year, from Great Britain alone for the five which was also their allotment for months shows an increase of 100 per the past fiscal year, but the. British cent. Isles were designated in the 1922-1923 quota list as the "United Kingdom," '; r.. whereas the new quota list for 1923- 1924 designates that part of the world under the heading, "Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Irish Free State." No attempt is made by the Ameri- can authorities to subdivide the quota of 77,342 alloted to "Great Britain and Northern Ireland" and the "Irish Free State." It snakes no difference to the American Government whether all of these come from England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland or the Irish Free State. The new designation for the British Isles is understood to have been made so as to conform with that of the British Government, The letter concludes with the ad- monition that "as the present Contract provides that the continuance of pro- duction after August 31, 1923, shall be upon' such terms as the parties' may agree upon in the light of the report_ o • the commtssi r I f i on the mmissaon 4 e' confidently expects that all questions will be left open for consideration of a joint scale committee," Decorate Graves of Canadian Soldiers at Shoi-ncliffe A despatch from London says: - Thousands of -spectators were present at the impressive ceremony at Shorn clifio Cemetery when children from all the schools of the Eythe and Folkestone district placed flowers on; the graves of Canadian soldiers. Local mayors and other.celebrities delivered addresses, e rovindial S'fCasurer The number of eters visible' to the sulked eye is 5,000. nr... itoSR... Mere. ttt1-"se1i8'ot • ana•otner St. John, N.B., is to have a large new modern hotel, operated and man- aged by the United Hotels of America, according to an announcenient made by the firm of Thomas, Armstrong and Earl Grey of Failoden Bell, Limited. The new hotel will be He may return to the British Cabinet eight storeys high, and there will be ae Foreign Minister an succession to approximately 200 rooms, all with Lord Cureoar, who 1± is said, will shoe baths or bath connections. 117, resign his Mike. --5 l L L STOP ' AND cRYtiv Vlontr MAKE Awl NOISE. AT AL` lF `tw u:: --T 'l-iI. eE✓aT rro( DRUM flora le, $38. Lard -Pure tierces, 15e4.,;to 1504e; tubs, 1504 to 160; pails, 16 to 1614c; prints, 18c. Shortening, tierces, 144, t to 16c; tubs, 15 to, 1514e; pails, 15'/8 to 16c; prints, 17 to 17eec. Choice heavy steers, $8.85 to 58.75; butcher steers, choice, $7.76 to 58; do, good, $7 to $7.50; do,rued., $6.50 to 57; do, 0ora., 56 to $6.25; butcher heifers, choice, $7 to $7.50; do, med., 56.60 to 57; clo, cora., $6 to 56.50; butcher cows, choice, $5 to $5.50; do, med., $4 to 55; canners _and cutters, $1.50 to $2; butcher hulls, good- $4.50 to $5;50; do cora., $3 to $.4; feeding steers, geed, $7 to $7.50; do, fair, 56 to 56.75; stockers,good $5 to $0: do, fair, $5 to $5.50; milker springers, each. $60 to $80; calves, choice. $8.50 to $9.50; : do,med., $0.50 to $8; do, $ $ cora 34.30 to $6;'huubs. spring, 514 to 515: sheer?, choice _light 56 to $6.50; do, choice heavy], 54 to 54.60; do,culls and buck: $2.75 to 83.60; hogs, fed and watered 58.35: do, f.o.b., $7.75; do, country points, 57.50. M7NTIIEAI,. Corn,' Am. No. 2 yellow, 9$c. Oats -No. 2.CW, 60hi4 to Ole; No. 3 CW, 58 to 59c; extra- No. 1 feed, 57ee to 58c; No. 2 local white, 56c.Flour, Man. spring wheat pats., lets 56.90; 2nds, $6.40: strong bakers, 56.20; wel- ter pats:, choice, 56.05 to 56.15. Rolled oats, 90 -lit bag, $8,05 to 58.15. Bran, $26 to .529. Middlings, 534. Hay, No.. 2, pet ton,ear lots, 518 to 515. Cheese, finest er.sterns, 163/1 to 161/ c.. Butter', choicest creamery, 3030 c. Eggs, selected, e2c.": Cows, canners, 52; better quality, 58.75; best grads` 54.50 to 55; bulls, World's Champion Challenger Sir Thomas, Lipton, who, huts issued anther olialllenge In an effort to Be- eline the America's oup for Britain. Ile has set about bueleling another Sbammocic, which will be. the fifth of the famous. racing boats. ' 53.50 to 54; calves, common drinkers, 53.50; good veals, $6.60; fair and med. suckers, $5.50' to $6; hogs,. good, 510; med, 59.75; sows,, 56.50 to 57; select bacon hogs, under Government grad- ing, $10.50 per cwt. Pool Organized to Handle Alberta Wheat Crop r A despatch from Calgary, Alta,, says: -Organization'` of a voluntary wheat pool in Alberta to handle this year's crop will be proceeded with im- mediately, it is announced by 11. W. Wood, president of the United'Farne- ere of Alberta. . Naturail `:'Resources Bulletin The Natural'`Resonrces Intel- ligence Service of the Depart- ment of the Interior at Ottawa, says: Some of the strdctural ma- terials of Ontario, among them limo, brick anal building stone, while not approrsehing the val- ues of the gold and silver out- put 'of the province, yield 'quite large returns, and occupy a very; important position in the building industry. During 1922 there were sold or used -in the construction, chemical and. other industries in Ontario, 3,(311,022 bushels of. quicklime, valued at $1;265,775;. 37,094 tons of hydrated lime, valued ab 5482,548, and 172,- 881,000 bricks, valued at 58,- 218,126. Stone for. building, ,and other purposes valued at 54,710,056 was quarried in the province, consisting principally of limestone, granite and' sand- stone, • Move Up and Go On. Most biographies are less than in- •epiring, because they are toe enit'l- placent -a record of success, The writ- er, for himself or for his here does , not care to record'. what went amiss. is ate does not like the picture 0f':t man in perplexity, knowing .not whither • he shall turn, calling in vain (as it might seem) oe. his God, 'his' frieuds and the resources in himself. In the standard pattern of the con- ventional life -story a man goes from strength to strength. He seems a darling of the gods, a minion of for. tune. Thee world passes him a silver salver and invites him to pick and choose. All goes as if in motion pic- tures. Fortune favors the brave; the "breaks of the luck" are all his. But in life it is not so. The strug- gler alone knows how long is the bat- tle; holy often the bitterness of de- spair is his portion. "He who never. ate his bread ,in tears," says Goethe, "knows ye not, ye heavenly powers." But in the hard, fierce effort is the • making of. a man, as Leasing knew when he said that between the strug- gle and the crown he would choose the straggle. "Forth . beast, forth, out of . thy stall!" wrote rugged old Chaucer. "Loots up, thank God for all. Hold the high way and let thy spirit lead thee, and the truth shall deliver thee; have ho fear!" There is always inspiration in the talk of a big man who. after many trials has succeeded. Every great en- gineer has known the heartbreak of a collapse of some careful plan he worked out. He did his own part well; some'detail, necessarily left to a subordinate, went awry. The weak man gives up and goes under. The strongman removes up and goes on. De- ' feat is always an elective in this our world. "The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars but in ourselves." It is so easy to charge to. circumstances that for which we ourselves are ac- countable. . When Thoreau said that a man sits as many risks as he runs, he was wise to the danger of an inertia that simp- ly lets adversities fall like hailstones on a roof and makes no effort to rise and shake them off. It is forever' the easiest thing to tell ourselves, like a poor guide' on the Matterhorn,."I can- noti" But the advice of a football coach was, better: "If you think you can, you can!" He who hesitates is' not always lost; he may' be sensibly thinking out the way he means to take. But he who spends much time in intro- spection that paralyzes action and breeds a panic fear needs to rouse himself to a determined course and a bold. deed if he would save his soul. Eighty per cent, of Canada's. output of fish must find a market outside of the boundaries of the Dominion, it was stated at the annual meeting of the Canadian Fisheries' Association held at Montreal recently. To increase the consumption of fish in Canada, it Was proposed: that a publicity cam- paign be conducted as soon as possible, The Provincial and Federal Govern- ments will be asked to aid this cam- paign financially. 4 Urges'Peaae 055188 Lady Aberdeen, wife of a former Govieenor Cson ra l of Canada, niece p,neeQdemt of the In senotionee (handl of Worumns sent e. nvinsage to the Cansdiian Crutuoi8; in-ccmrvention at Halifax; asking its en -operation In re- mrovSng bbm canoe e1 war,' Service. Because I hated you, -I have been very fair, eleasurecg grain by grefin, And hair by Ilihir. Counting the thing I yield And points that I defend;,. 'rouse find I've served you went In the end. Better, perhees, that one Who, loving 700, Asks you to give and give, As levees. do! -Louise Drisernll. Farmers in Southern Alberta are again interested in sugar beets. A aiumber of trial plots are, being grown this year in the vicinity; of Cardston rind Raymond, If the crops tern out` satisfactorily, and further tests show . the sugar content of the beets' to be - sufficiently high, it is expected that a sugar, factory will be put up and the. growing of beets ,become a regular industry. Fresh indictaions are ,being con- stantly given of the continued interest of. the Prince of Wales' in his Alberta ranch, and every year the ranch is increasing the importance of its place in the western livestock industry. Ite- cently the ranch welcomed =pull Som. ors," a five-year-old thoroughbred, and winner of many Eriglish turf classics; which arrived to head the stud, -ac- companied by four superb mares,' Iq the same -week an animal front the ranch won the; championship in the Shorthorn class at the Calgary show of beef and, dairy cattle.