Zurich Herald, 1929-10-24, Page 3Canadian Exports
Within ,Empire Are
Much On Increase
Trade With United Kingdom,
,r However, Shows Fall-
,ing Off
. Canada's external trade is being es-
tablished upon a•broader basis, It is
becouiiug less .dependent Upon a • few
•oonntries and thus appeal's to be less
liable to sudden' fluctuations,. 'These.
interferences arc based upon a com-
parison of eight months' trade over
'the last five years, In that period ex-'
ports .to the United Kingdom have
been failing off, while those -to other
parts of the Empire have been grow-
ing. •
Exports to the United. States .have
beeu advancing but anoderately only.
The most striking development has
been in exports' to other foreign come -
tries. Imports from• the United Icing-
' doin are somewhathigher now than
they were, in 1926 but exports of Cana
dian produceto that country are low-
er.
From other countries, within the
.Empire, imports are higher as are el-
ect exports. Imports from the United
Ia'ingdom, in the. eight months of 1925
were valued at $106,056,000, •
Exports to U. K Less
For the eight months of the present.
Year their value was $128,906,000. Ex=
'ports of Canadian. produce to the
United Kingdom is 1926 were .233,
852,000 In the present year the value!
has reached only $169,265,000..
Imports from other countries with -1
In the Empire for • the eight mouths 1
have.risen from $28,055,000 in 1925 to
$43,977,000.
Exports of Canadian produce to
other Empire. countries in 1925 were
$48,360,000 and in the Present year
$68;270,000.
Imports frons. the United States in
the first eight months of 1925 were
valued at .$378,825,000. in the present
year the value was $65,683,000. Ex-
ports to the United States in the same
comparison have advanced from $293,-
532,000
293,532',000 to $342,044,000. Imports from
other foreign countries in the eight
mouths of 1925 were $65,593,000 and
for the eight months of the present
year rose to $91,75,000. Exports of
Canadian produce to other foreiga.
countries advanced from $127,360,000
in 1925 to $196,244,000 in the present
_year.
Exports of Canadian produce have
shown a decline during the present
year but this falling off has been
paralled once before in the quinquen-
uiuni•
By 1926 total exports had reached
a value of $755,150,000, an increase of
$50,000,000 over the previous year in
1927 on the other hand, they dropped
back to $734,644,000. Iit the eight
;months Of .1928 they had again ad -
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EXPLORATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE
PATROLS IN 'NORTHERN CANADA
Lord iilingdon
Lays Cornerstone
Governor General Receives
Hclxiorary Degree from
McMaster
1920 Ifaei lton, Ont., —His Excellency
visci Hilt Willingden, Grovernor-Glu•
eral of Canada, last week declared
the COM erstoate of McMaster U'niver•
city "well, and truly laid," The .lion
oral/ degree of Doctor of Laws was
conferred upon Isis Excellency be
Chancellor Whiddeu, on behalf of the
university.
la speaking c�ff;lllehlaster's wonder•
ful record, Lord Wluingdon drew at;•
tention to its achievements in .the
gust, hud ,mentioned the face thee
many of its graduates are leaders nn
the continent today.
"Those who. guide the affairs Maw
have in view a more ef%lclen: educe•
time' system in a larger naive' s'.y
in beautiful surroundings,", he said.
"Periods of distress and difficulty
have been. overcome, and those res•
ponsible forthe affairs of Aicllastet
must be well satisfied this afternoon.
While denominational in its founder
tions, it is undenominatioual to grad-
uates entering its fold, and I am glad
to learn that to young_ men and we -
Men who will attend in future it will
be largely residential in eharm:ter."
No Air Mail Lost
In. Service to Date w
New Department Grows
Steadily in Mileage and
Poundage
Never once since the Post Office
eeo" Department took over the air mai'"
services have the mails carried by
Patrols, plane failed to reach their des' iaatioa
and this despite the continuous in-
crease in miles flown and poundage
carried. In December, 1927, when the
service was inaugurated the total mile
age was 572 and the poundage 2,2550.
In August of this year 41,738 pounds
of mail was carried and 57,102 miles
were actually flown, being less thee
400 miles below the scheduled dis•
tance. In February, 1929, more than
60,000 pounds of mail were flown.
The most popular rcute is that from
Montreal to Rimouski where the
d g o gp�� planes connect with the trans-Atlantic
Liquor ;s liners. More than 11,000 pound:; 01
To J.S. Decreases snail went by airplane over this route
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Activities—The above map shows the approximate routes followed by Government of .certhenthe inspea carrying
of iby nspections,
io. , Finnie
Canada's Arcticof
and investigations in the Arctic legions of the Dominion.. In the westercl7�own the the course
lady and back the Yukon. investigations
Director of' the North West Territories and Yukon Branch, which tock himthe Arctic and the patrols through RoyaleCanadian TheVlouvest Police
of Mr. 1v. IT. B. Beare east of Great Slave lake, of -Maier L. T. Burwash along by the coast, and ,iii`. Geroge b'. MaCa a charge, on her olive
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are also iitcliCated. In the -eastern Portion of the map is shown the course -followed_ J.
800 -
it journeyto Melville island accomplished by Inspector A. H, Joy, of the R.C•M.P.; Mr. D, Soper's
investigations
vHaesti alion police detachments.xe p -
mile Patrol; the 1,800 m e
sola during which he traveller 2,300 miles;.and regular patrols by the Bache � Peninsula,
and tFTiH tlPttogiss also � shown. Officers of the Department of
A survey of the shores and islands in James bay carried out by Messrs. .a
approximately 49,045 miles in their respective investigations and patrols brought tcompletoonnin
192. This
and members of the DeR.partm.P.ent
covered tu
1829, This map, supplied by the Department of Natural Resources, Ottawa, is of particular interest in view of the McAlpine ReliefExpedition
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around Chesterfield Inset and north west from there.
Pilots Mobilize in Sub -Arctic Welland Canal to
ea• `t N001
For Grim Battle With Elements Open Next Year
Chief Engineer Says $1 10,-
000,000 Already Spent
on Work
The North Country Sees Forces Prepare to Put Stern Fight
Into Search for .Lost Explorers
Winnipeg.—Canada is fighting a money or effort and they will keep uP "It is hoped to open. the Weiland
stark battle. with the. Arctic Barren.' the search all winter. Thee emuggs canal on Dominion Day next year;"
Lands of its Northland. planes are equ
lives of eight a pile which can be seen by clay as, well as said Alexander J. Grant, chief engineer filing across the Canadian border, was
'The price is the li b night. So they should be able to of the canal in a recent interview.' seen by officials in figures made pub -
t
ipped with
In the month of August. The new
services operated by the post (ffice
Figures Are Made Public by between Montreal and Detroit and be -
Secretary Lowman of tween Toronto and Buffalo are prov-
ing very popular, especially the latter
Treasury which in. August conveyed 8,314
Washington.—Evidence that the pounds.
government is succeeding in its in- A part from the sudden drop in the
tensive campaign to stop liquor smug- figures both fcr mileage and pound-
age due to the withdrawal of the
winter services, there is a steady rise
in both. The .service has got far
beyond the eeperimental stage and
there is now little risk of loss of mail
arising merely out of the fact that it
is being carried through the air.
The Post Office is constantly inau-
gurating new services, the latest be-
bibitiosi enforcement efforts- ing that from Fcrt McMurray to
Only 48,62e cases were cleared lana Aklavik in the Arctic circle. This
month, he said, in comparison with) service will be 'given eight times a
54,520 in' .August, and 154,439 in Sep -1 year.
tember, 192S. Much of this, he added,,
never reached the United Statse, be -
into
e I WildBirdCrop
ing seized en routs or smuggled back I ,
into Canada, after being cleared as 1 Increases Rapidly
a means of evading the Dominion's
y n t . ,
ars belonging to the Dominion Ex- signal to any pilots passing witliiid 20;
Alo`e`s• The. opening of the gate lock at the Tic by Assistant Secretary Lowman
1 and of the TreasuiY
vanced
present year the figure is $775,825,000. Moments count in this battle.
f•
d toanti for the
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the seasons to
standwithbated North,planes
h s subconsciously, the skisorpontoons with safety. They
expeditions of Henry Hudson, Frank- must soon halt until ice forms
to 40 miles of them
The situation is complicated by
V
as a
oc
when 'locks one, two and three are
next ring, a un .
be purely of local interest, too. But
t'1 ms on i think that the opening of the
whole length is a matter of national
lin Scott, and those other martyrs to numerous lakes there. Similarly the•,
ihterest.
Arctic cold. ' l Eskimo rescue parties are tied up un- "Ninety-three y -three bier tout. of the work
Winnipeg is the base from which til ice enables them to travel in some- is now and to date about
the generals . in this battle operate. l thing like a systematic search over s now completedoo have been spent. Some
They have many _airplanes some of the barren lands which must hold the $1 0,0 that, remains to be done
the most valiant pilots facing condi-1 secret . of the position of the •missing of will work that sem u to tillee
tions as deadly as those of the.•Great 1 fivers. it lsg is transferred from the old
War, ~there the life of a pilot was sto the new canal, This is work at the
three weeks. intersections of the new and the old."
And they have the redoubtable Cola
James Cornwall, "Peace River Jim,"
organizing Eskimo hunters and trap-
pers at Baker and Beverley.Lakes and
Bathurst Inset to help in the search.
C. H. Dickens, war ace, and among
the most dauntless flyers of the Cana-
dian North, has flown solo from Fort
Smith to Coronation: Gulf and return,
nearly 2,000 miles, picking up one
party of prospectors, and reporting
"no trace" of the missing men,
t}se' Ontario end 1 a affair "Quite a reduction," in the amount
Winter is rushing down from to fact that this is between opened Spring, , th function will of liquor cleared. from Canadian ports
and 1927 for the eight months period, Pole. 'People b t d breath; the cannot use either for the United States in the vicinity
of Detroit, was reported by Lowman,
was thus very close toithe ,decline
recalling, pec ap 1 f le we who has charge cf the Treasury's pro -
which has taken place its the present I
year. Its' the present year; this de-
cline has --been duevery largely to. a
falling off in the exports of wheat. A
very similarsituation prevailed in
1927.
The drop.in exports.as between 1926
Jealous of Soldiers
Masked Men Strip London-
derry Girl Dancers of
Their Clothes
Londonderry; Ireland. --A. sensation-
al story of. a .holdup by masked men,
who stripped them of their clothes
and threatened to shoot them, was
told here Saturday night by 22 Lon-
donderry girls who started out for a
dance given by British soldiers, and
returned wrapped -in blankets.
The girls left here for the dance in
a large truck. They were en. route to
one of the Lough Swi11y Forts when
a band of fourteen masked men stop-
ped the truck and forced them to
alight. The men then stripped them
of their stockings,'slioes, party dress-
es and other clothes, all of which -were
thrown into a pile and burned.
The girls and chauffeur were then
lined up and the masked men said ,the barren lands to the east. They
are at Baker Lake and they plan to
fly through to Bathurst Inlet, there
to report back by radio and awit the
PERSONALITY
Personality is a combination of in-. Askecl for the reason for the length
dividual qualities developed to the, of the gate i'lock, which has already
highest degree of excellence. • been opened and is one of the longest
.; in the world, Mr. Grant said that as
Russia and China are beginning to the foundation was of rock it was
understand each other now. That'e thought that the labor involved in
what makes 'em mad. -Arizona Pro- bunting a large lock there would be
doter. no greater than that involved in ex-
1'tu' cavating a canal and it was decided
Secretary Mellon says that the "
to build a large basin in order to give
rllone's was sunk under the Tariff Act.' quick access to the canal to a large
The ultimate consumes' will know how number of vessels.
Immediately he turned the nose of she felt—The New Yorker.
his plane back into the North arriv-
ing at Fort Smith. From there he
files on a three-day jaunt to Fort Re-
liance and makes a 500 -mile look
northeast, South and back to Reliance
Pilots Roy Brownlarictor over the
"Red Knight of Germany," and Andy
Cruikshanks are conducting as brave
a battle, if not so spectactilar, against
they were going to be shot.
One of the.girls, however, eprang
front of the chauffeur and cried:
"Ho is my husband; if you are go. starting of the Eskimo parties across
ing to shoot hint, shoot rile• first." the country in a systematic combing of
It was then discovered that two of the territory.
the girls iiatl escaped and ran towards
Bases of winter search are being
e .
the
station of Civic Guards. The opened up at Baker Lake, near Chest -
masked men dispersed and Civic etfteld Inlet, at Stony Rapids, on the
Guards arrived shortly afterward. eastern extremity of Lake Athabasca
They supplied the girls with blankets in northern Saskatchewan and at Dui
and accompanied them back here,
Officials expressed the belief that
the outrage was committed by men
Who. were jealous because • the girls
were ,going to a
soldiers.
Rectify evils
check wrongs'
overwhelm dice
bawnt Lake, North West Territories.
Bathurst Inlet and a dozen other
radio and supply bases will be hooked
up in the combing of a vast territory
done givers by British exten ng
1100 miles north and south and extend -
lug' 200 utiles into the Arctic, The
'whilst small, and area is 270,000 square miles in extent-
lest
xtentlest they grow and
and is three times larger than. Great
Britain.
Meanwhile the lost flyers have been
The saloons will never, never return• missing ' 5111043 September 8. TheY
The filling stations have all the promi- have only one mouth's supply of food
Pent corners, ---Florida Tisnes-Union with them and they are equipped with
- — :--=— only Mamas gasoline stoves which
Fine 'uos and ati insinuating ap• 11 b
e useless unloss they
were lit
pearas co are seldom associated with
before the gasoline supply is 'exhaust -
virtue.
led.
1 peep silence abcut many things„ Brig. General D, M. Hegarth, who is
for I do not want to put people out 0f in charge of the search for Dominions
countenance; and I din well content Explorers, says his company is not
if they arepleasedwith things that eves considering tate question of ex-
• annoy me.•• -•'•Goethe, 'Dense, They intend 'to spare no
The Kind of
liquor tax.
Expressing gratification over the•
showing, be ascribed ft to the adds-
tion of enforcement agents and coast-
guard personnel to the prohibition
fcrces in the Detroit area and increas-
ed vigilance on. their part since the
vigorous anti -smuggling campaign
was undertaken there several months
ago.
You are worthless if you are worth
something only to yourself.
'Tundra' Facing the McAlpine Relief Expedition
Hastings Sanctuary is Protect-
ing and Increasing Game
Birds in that Section
A. note from Belleville says that the
bird sanctuary controlled by the Jack
Miner League of Hastings, which is
situated near that town had over 500
Canadian geese this spring and. many
more are expected to rest there this
fall during their migration to the
south. The sanctuary was inaugur-
ated with geese presented by Jack
Miner.
Over 100 wild ducks have been
raised this year, which have been re-
leased but not tagged. Three years
ago three pairs of mourning doves
were imported to the sanctuary and
this there were more than 200 nests
in very small area. The sanctuary
ccutains 15 acres and is heavily wood-
ed.
New Highway Advocated
St. Catharines, Ont.—A new high-
way to relieve the frequent conger,-
tion on provincial highway No. 8 frosts
Hamilton to Niagara Falls, was re-
commended in the Grand jury at the
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assizes ill their . presentment to
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11Ir. Justice Raney in his charge to
the jury spoke in strong terms of the
increase of accidents due to drunken
drivers. The jury gave serious eon -
sideration to the matter and dealt as
follows with it in their presentment.
"The grand jury views with great
interest your Lordship's reference to
the menace to public safety presented
by the great inerease its motor traffic
and agrees that every means should
be undertaken to avoid loss of life
and injury to persons."
The Fiji Islanders own 1,0"74 auto-
mobiles riow. The da.y will come
When all cannibal tribes will use them
w.. ,. ...,, . instead of spears.--l:ay Features,
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PROSPECT FROM ROCKBOUND 'SHORES OF LONELY BAFFIN LAND les, and We wonder why nobody has
CHore, =UL D, Sc per, government explorer, in tried to emphasize that it can also
Baffin Land shore, showing Eskimos and canoe and equipment used by J.give a person a lot of• grit.—Judge.
recent. explorations. ,