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Zurich Herald, 1927-05-19, Page 7CANADA'S OUTLOOK BRIGHT Jubilee Year Promises Pros- questionably have its effect urn file perity as Well as Cele' bration. 927 crop. While it is altogether too early to Make any prediction as to result, and only the situation at the moment clan EXPANSION IN ALL DE- be figured upon, it can safely be said PARTMENTS OF COUNT-. TRY'S ACTIVITY. that, taking all things into considera- tion, pondiitions are normal and en- couraging. This, coupled with the in- creased acreage which see -mss probable The bright rim apparent on Cauadtit's in the Prairie Provinces, would auger economic horizon at the opening of the a heavy tonnage for 1927, Farmers year has continued steadily to widen, are quite optimistic and looking for- I ward to -a good •crap year, basing their and the approach of the middle, .of the year finds the promises of the earlier I optimism oh the fact that few springs months for the main part being ful- � have started oft with as much moisture on the land. New British Enterprise. filled. A survey of the many branches of Canadian economic activity reveals conditions uniformly bright and steadi- ly improving. The close of the fiscal year disclosed the Dominion in an improved financial condition, the net debt of the country having been lowered by ;$50,000,000 in the course of the twelve months, malt- ing a total reduction of $125,000,000 since the debt of Canada reached its peak at the end of March, 1923. Re - Venue from income tax in the last year declined by • $8,000,000 and the recent budget provided for a reduction in in- terne ncome tax rates of ten: per cent. There is a marked decline in the volume of Canadian financing being done thie Year, Government reports indicate that %eonomic activity in Canada, in the early part of the year, has been well maintained, surpas'ing that of the cor- responding period of 1926. The vol- .,, ume of business has been greater and the price reduction movement showed a slowing up. An easier money situa- tion has prevailed with a gradual ad- vance in the prices of Canadian bonds and industrial stocks, with heavier trading therein. The steady gain inemployment has continued, the situation at the end of Canada has for some white been eagerly waiting for the time when Eng- lish capital would return to take its place with United States capital, which came to supplant it In the war and post-war. periods, In the economic de- velopment of Canada through the ex- ploitation and utilization of the Do- minion's great natural resources. The time has been slow in coming, and Canada has increasingly deplored, the apathy which resulted in her neglect while investment funds went in vol- ume from the British Isles to foreign countries. - With Canada's rapld recovery.., from the post-war depression and the bright- ening of the domestic situation in the United Kingdom there . have been sporadic indications ot reburring in- terest in the British Isles In Canadian developinent enterprises. Most of these have been on a fairly elaborate and valuable scale. The 'Spillers in- terests made a big investment in West- ern Canada, and their new flour mill in Calgary is to start grinding in a couple of months. The English than of Cort- 1 auids pioneered the Canadian field for the manufacture of artificial silks. The Anglo -Canadian Pulp and Paper Com - March being better than at any corres- pany is an efficiently funtiouing corn - ponding time for the past six years. bination of British capital and Cana- ' At the same time the index number of lien enterprise. The English firm of 236 c6mmodities, listed by the Gov- Rowntree has entered in impressive manner into the Canadian cocoa and I bluebird. But he begins to sing as Gov- ernment, continues to fall. chocolate market. British' capital is soon as he gets his breath. In fact, starts off in a sideways direction, and Canada's foreign trade goes on ex- he merely settles down on some good, sails and flaps by turns, much like a ending at a healthy rate and in grafi- said to be becoming actively interest-; p sightly perch, cranes his neck, and quail. It acts uneasy on the wing, and Eying manner. Export trade has reach- ed a point where its, volume is double that of the period immediately prior to the outbreak of the war. Further growth in the immediate future is in- dicated in the evident anxiety of cer- tain countries to conclude special trade treaties with the Dominion. For the first quarter of 1927, in keeping with the trend throughout 1926, there was a betterment of 10 per cent. in the volume of railway traffic over the corresponding period of the !previous year. Rail movement would indicate the trade of the country to be au a higher level than at any time since 1921. Immigration, both from Europe and the United States, •continues to swell in a manner which assures that the increment of 1926 will be substantial- ly enlarged this year. Lands are mov- ing with a briskness which is distinct- ly reminiscent of the immediate pre- war years. Industrial expansion in all sections of the Dominion is continuing, an es- pecially pleasing feature being the evi- dent intention on the part of British oapital to have a larger hand in this. At the same time, building construc- tion in the country continues, month by month, to increase over 1926, and is proceeding at a rate unequalled in any year since the outbreak of the war, The tourist season ie opening aus- piciously with a yet greater degree of interest evidenced in Canadian holi- day .attraction with the Dominion ex- tending her facilities and accommoda- tion for visitors. All signs point to a or present. Now, husbands did not, further increment to the series which in fact, present all their Property to have featured the post war years in Professor Negues, of the Mechanical Institute, Paris, has invented and built a cinema capable of taking 38a pictures per second instead of the usual 12 to 18. It takes 180 feet of film a minute, and is 20 times tastes- than the faster movement of a bird in flight. THE MEADOW LARK A Valuable Bird That Should Be Better Known. When meadowlorks that on their breast Carry the dandelion's crest, Pipe, in the waving grass," - according to Mr. Lloyd Mifflin, the spring carnival is on. The meadow- lark usually arrives some few days Tater than the sang -sparrow, robin and rich jet black over his bright yellow vest front. Some medal won in a singing contest long ago, perhaps, and ever since proudly handed down from father to 'son. As Burroughs declares: "Its yellow breast, surmounted by a black crescent, it need not be ashamed to turn to the morning sun, while its coat of mottled gray is in perfect keep- ing with the stubble amid which it walks." The outer tail feathers are white. When the bird flies away it seems to be signaling some mate to follow. Its manner of flight is rather peculiar. It ed in the Northern Manitoba and other mineral fields, and periodic evi- dence is given of interest in lesser in- dustries. Not Fly. He (trying to ring up)—"I believe you are the wonderful youug lady aviator—" She ---"Yes, but pass on, please—I'm. not fly." Bishop Explains "I Thee Endow. With all my worldly goods, I them en- dow.—The marriage service. AIR my worldly goods with thee I share—The proposed new form. A little known explanation. of the meaning of the first phrase is given by the Bishop of Manchester in the Man- chester Diocesan Magazine. Some people, he writes, seem to think the proposed new phrase- is a smaller boon than the former. This, proceeds the bishop, assumes that "endow" virtually means "give" revenue from this source. their wives; on the contrary it is only to recent years that . the married wo- Followers of the country's first in- men's property aot has secured the "dustry of agriculture are initiating theid activities under the most favor- able of circumstances, with earlier con- ditions favoring a suocessful crop on a substantially larger acreage than last year• Another heavy crop, at the wife in the enjoyment of her own. But the word "endow" means "pro- vide a widow's pension." At one time a man had to provide a dowry or widow's pension for his wife in the event of his own death out of any same Profitable prices es those of 1925 landed estate of which he was pos- and 1926, would be apowerfui Motor in sensor, but not out of other posses - seting the Dominion another giant sbons. The church held that he ought stride ahead in all phases of her life. to provide it from any hind of wealth Taken altogether, and broadly con- that he had. eidered, conditions in Canada, at the The familiar words, therefore, really present time, indicate a sound and • mean, "I undertake to provide a healthy position and brightness of widow's pension for you out of my per- sonal, as well as out of my real estate." They have no reference to the time when husband and wife aro living to- gether. The new words do. prospect. General Agricultural Situation. Weather conditions over Canada during the month of April have been somewhat out of the ordinary. The spring break-up carie at least two. weeks ;earlier than usual, but little work has, bean done up' to the first of May. Ie the Prairie Province some efforts have been made at land opera- tions and a not inconsiderable acreage Ivan planted during April. In Eastern Canada, however, prectioally nothing has been accomplished, In Ontario it has been too wet for land work and in Quebec too dry for seeding, while it is too e,aiy for operations in the Maritime Provinces. The acreage prepared in the three Prairie Provinces shows a substantial increase Deer 1926, the aggregate for the territory' being 15,374,862 acres, an increase of 10.9 per cent. Manitoba has 3,078,700 acres, a decrease of 9.5 per cent; - Sasileatcliewan 8,020,631 ►cies; an Increase of 7.7 per cent; and Alberta 4,277,581 acres, an increase of 41.9 per cent. During the latter part of April, Western Canada received a heavy rain and snow which delayed farm operations but stored up to pleat!. ful supply of moisture which will un- Aggie's Tosh t Kingston Whig -Standard (Lib.): Miss McPhail's declaration that the press is controlled by a military ma - shine that is trying to bring about war is nothing but tosh. The press of Can- ada is just as anxious to prevent war. as is Miss McPhail, and probably does a good deal more toward that end than she does. Miss McPhail ; seems to be- long to that peculiar type of ,Individual wixo, has no faith in the statesmen of his, or her, own country'or the policies they formulate, but can always find a lot ot "wise, patient and kindly people" in the camp of the enemy. Probably the most complete de tinition of diplomacy *as given by a little boy in an Hnglish class: "Ws the thing that .gets you in trouble," he said, "when a boy bigger than you has told soiriething that isn't to and you tell him so without using it." like an alarm -clock that is correct to its swift but stiff, burring flight soon the minute, begins "tbe whir orf the coiues to an end onthe first safe perch. meadowlark and his sweet roundelay, Not that the meadowlark is a timid as Longfellow calls it. bird. When he gets last in song, head Soon, "the meadowlarks are sing- lifted high, he forgets danger in the ing, a thousand( if there's one," and great desire to make his bugle horn it's April, and dandelion -time, and heard afar. Too, he has the pretty, everything is tuneful and colorful. , sociable habit of following a vehicle Just what the meadowlark says along the road, flying in advance, then while piping away so industriously has never been definitely decided. Per- haps he says everything listeners have fancied, and even more. Thoreau heard one perched in apple -tree s1 - Ing "seel-yah seel-yah, and then, per- haps, s•eel-yah•see-e, and several other. stratus quite sweet and plaintive, with one farther off with notes like ah, tick: sees -yah." But Thoreau's attempts at describing the song are decidedly clumsy. John Burroughs hears the. bird sing, "Spring-o'-the-yearl" To many he struts in the sauciest manner: "I -I-II see your pet -ti -coat!" "When the redder -lark is wingin' 'Round you and the woods is ringin' With the beautifulest singin' That a mortal ever heard," is Riley's way of describing the bird's habit of singing as it flies, which should permit it to bear the name "lark" for all it is in no way related to the famous English skylark. "A prominent April bird that one does not have to go to the woods or away from his own door to see and hear, is the hardy and ever -welcome meadowlark," is one • •of John Bur - to this popular bird, drawing themselves together so that many a spring -time they resemble small turtles, or big or auto drive all the toads. Their gray -brown down adds to these birds whistling the resemblance. Learn to know the meadowlark Not perching to sing until his wheeled com- panion catches up. The meadowlark is a most valuable bird, aside from his musical powers. He is an insect eater almost entirely, during the insect season. He helps rid the fernier of such pests as cutworms, armyworms, beetles of al sorts, grass- hoppers, caterpillars,, maths, and mill- ers. When later in the season he perches on the shocks and sings at the top of his voice, he is celebrating his victory. Like the farmer, he has a right to stand there, arms akimbo, re- joicing over the successful isue of the season's planting. The mothers' colorings of brown and gray make her blend into the shadows of the field floor, and to find her nest when site is on it is a triumph in eye- sight. When she has time, the builder otter burrows her nest into a tuft of grass or grain, malting it a sort of ig- loo with a covered hallway of some, length. The young are blind the first few days of existence. Both then and for some time thereafter, they will fluff their feathers and hiss when frighten- ed, crouching down on the ground and roughs' tributes I have enjoyed railway journey more because of blithely on a post every rod or so along the way, like musical guide- posts. "Meadow" is another fit term, since the bird bears on its back the brown and lighter streaks of sod and grass iu } shade and sun. On its breast is the; bright hue of the yellow spring flowers• 1 There is a yellow stripe over the eye IA CORNER FOR XOUN.G CAI�IDA AROUND THECAMP FIRE By Myrtle Jamison. Trachsel. Spring is here, The woods and place of stones for your frying pane, fields are calling to those, who love and coffeepot. to go roaming in the open, nd at the. After the food ,has been enjoyed fit end of every hike ordrive there is great fun to sit about the fine plays, %tumid be a jolly fire for roasting ing games. If your crowd goes tramp wienies or toasting bacon, ing or picnicking very often together When ever it is possible to obtain they will get into the habit of singing a good hot bed of coals it is great fun around the Sire, and there is nothing to bake potatoes or eggs. Wrap them nicer to do. A ukulele or banjo helps,. in several layers of very wet brown but you can get along without either,; paper, and bury them in the coals. For the first attempt make a few This cooks them by a combination of copies of the words of the old fa -1 steaming and baking, and when the 'miller songs—sentimental songs, col- paper has burned away they may be lege songs, old camp -fire favorites. broken open, buttered, sprinkled with Stunts that must go all the wa salt and eaten with a spoon. Or they round the circle will getrnuchenjoye a may be put into old tin coffee cans The crowd may sing up and down the" with the lids fastened on securely and scale, they may tell funny stories, do' buried in the coals. A one -pound can setting -up exercises or anything else' holds three medium-size potatoes, and that will be ridiculous when copied by; it should take about half ars hour to the others. bake them. For example, one person with a, In building your fire never ljuild it solemn face says "Hal" The next too large or it will be too hot,to work line must say "Ha,ha 1" and so on,t over comfortably. For kindling use each one in turn adding another "ha N' birch bark, dry twigs or shave down r to the list of them. Should anyone' nice dry stick, leaving all the shav- smile during the performance or fail' ings attached at one end. Pick your to give the right number of "ha's,"1 twigs from dead branches on the trees he must pay a forfeit. instead of from the ground, where One crowd I know always plays, they are always damp. Lay your fire "Buzz" when the fire needs fuel, the so the draft can get up through the first boy or girl to be "buzzedout"1 wood at the bottom. having to go and get the wood. When guides are cooking over camp Still another game that never fails fires, they use a frying pan with a to amuse is Ghost. Someone gives. hollow handle into which they stick the first letter of a word, without giv- e freshly cut green pole four or five ing the word, the second adds another feet long. ` They boil water for bever- letter, and so on, until someone is ages on "tea sticks." To make setea compelled to finish a word. He is stick, cut a green sapling six feet'long then a quarter ghost, and after finish with a branch left on the small end ing four words is a ghost and no long-, to form a hook. Stick the heavy end er spells. If anyone ` speaks to him, of this pole into the ground so it will that one is also a ghost, and out of, stand over the fire at an angle of 45 the spelling. degrees. Put a big stone or log under A player must always have a word it to keep it in position and lay a in mind, but does not give it unless second stone over the end that'' is in someone doubts his spelling. Some - the ground to hold it fast. Hang the times one will add a p to la and be bucket of water on the hooked end: surprised when he is told he has The bucket may be raised or lowered spelled "lap," when he was thinking by simply moving the pole. of "lapse." Two -letter words do not If you wish you may build a fire- count. grubs. His path will be marked by small holes in the ground, as though made by a slender stick. Listen to his song. Put words to it. Watch him in flight, as he goes about his nesting ogres. Follow him with your eye as he leaps into the air and goes singing on his way, just for the pure happiness of being alive an'i able to rejoice with wings and voice. You will findyour mind and heart uplifted, too, as was Paul H. Hayne's when he sang: "And the field -lark see upspringing in his happy flight afar, Like a tiny winged star." An Ultramarine. "That 'soldier of the ,sea' seems to be decidedly blue." "That ought to make him an ultra- marine." Famous Bells. Many interesting references to bells are made in literature. Bells, of gold are mentioned in the twenty-eighth chapter of Exodus•, but they were used by'trying to find its nest in order to ; as an ornamental fringe to priestly make a collection of eggs, or collec- robes' tion of anything except pleasant, in- The ancient Greeks and Romans teresting pictures of it in your mind. used band -balls, and the cattle wore Watch the bird at its various occupe-ithem aboust their necks as they do now. tions. For example, in early spring; I The English and French have used if you catch one going over a patch of bells since the sixth century. Every - ground, bill to earth, as if making in- one has heard of the "curfew" bell, and one on the crown, and the male qufries of the seeds below, follow him. wears a, crescent-shaped necklace of You will find that he Is boring for Unique Parts design of motor car whose wheels turn completely around no that in orowded trate the ear ca'n turn in its `own lengthy which was introduced into England in the tenth century by William the Col queror. The "king of bells," or the "tzar kobokol," is at Moscow, in Russia. This famous bell is made of -a composition of metals, in which gold and silver are parts. It no longer rings, but is in use as a chapel. When used, twenty-four men were required to ring it, The bells of Rus- sia are the most famous in the world. In Moscow alone, before the destruc- tion of that city by fire, there were 1706 great bells. In Pekin, China, there are seven bells which weigh 120,000 pounds each. The bell of St. Paul's Cathedral, inn London, is also famous. It was rung for the first time on January 1st, 1699. Abundant Water Power. The power available for the de- velopment of natural resources is a conspicuous feature of Canadian econo- mics%. Water power in abundant quan- tity Is available from oast to coast not only near the 'present oenttes of industrial development but also in or near the areas of inetalile minerals and limbed reserves. In the compare- tieely small - areas where the water power is limited, viz., in the 'southerk portions or Alberta and Saskatchewan and in the Maritime Provinces, there are enormous resources of eoai and lignite. Water power 1e -abundant in conjunction with both the forest and metallic is mane ••al resources . i rata 1 i s in ail parts, of Canada. PLEDGE CHILDREN AGAINST WAR Manitoba Journal Would In-. clude Strikes if Movement Reaches Canada. "Some well-meaning people are or- ganieing boys and girls in the schools of United States into what is called a Peace League; the children have to sign a statement or pledge in which they pledge themselves never to go to war or to "take up arms against their fellow men." The movement is being praised very highly in some parts of Canada and no doubt en effort to start this will be soon attempted in Canada, says The Payroll, a monthly journal published by the Employers' Associa- tion of Manitoba, which comments edi- torially as follows:— "Are these 'children pledged against taking part in any kind of war? Civil war, for :instance? Or strikes? What is a strike but civil war? Unless these children are pledged equally against strikes, the movement can be classed as it really should be, probably an - ether iusidious phase of Bolshevism. "What was the helghest note in the anti-British propaganda here? Was it not that Britain had blockaded Ger- many and deprived its children of milk? And would not a strike of milk - drivers refuse to deliver milk but that they are prepared to stop anyone else from delivering milk, using force to do so if necessary. "Milk 1s only used as one illustra- tion. Any strike deprives some part of the people of some necessity or comfort of life. Any strike is civil war; present day strikes are more easily seen as war with their "peace- ful pickets" to villify and stone those who would give the service the strik- ers have stopped. "The movement may be condemned on the ground that it pledges children to disregard their duty as citizens and to defy the Taws of the land. It pre- supposes that people are free to disre- gard or defy any laws of their country with which they are not in sympathy. But these arguments are not needed to conunteract or to stop the movement in Canada. All that is needed is to in- sist that all war, including strikes, be included In the pledge and the move- ment will collopse at once." Extending the Franchise. London Daily Telegraph (Cons). The real and vital decision was made tau years ago. The present decision Is its direct and inevitable conclusion. Whenthe franchise was then given to the majority of women it. carried with it the future certainty of the equal franchise for all men and all women on the same terms It is far too late to attempt to import prejudice into the question by describing votes for women at 21 as "votes for flappers." I The male "flapper" of that age is as open to cheap ridicule as the female. Double-llarreled. London Advertiser (Lib.): The new (United States immigration rule requit- ing passport and bead tax fees front Cenadians who cross the border even temporarily may have a double -bare reined effect es far an Canada 18 roma cerned. It may inoonveaitenee xnang 9ri;dlviduals but it wi•.. VW probably - . loop muchCaziacllan masa et home-.