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Canada, The Empire and The World at Large
CANADA
Prince of Wales—Agriculturist
As demonstrated in the develop-
ment of his E. P. Ranch in Western
Alberta, the Prince of Wales is an ere
thusiastie breeder of live stock. At
the recent Northampton Show at
Rushden, His Royal Highness beat
Some of the most formidable breeders
of cattle. One of his Shorthorn bulls
and a Shorthorn heifer calf captured
first prizes. These animals came
•froen his farm at Lenton. At the De-
von show in Tavistock he showed
some fine animals and made a great
display of farm produce. The Prince
pays speCal attention to the needs
consumers. He has arranged for
tenants to study the provision dep
ment of a London West End store
learn exactly what the public requi
of thein. Not long ago he visited t
store himself to see how they w
getting en. His Royal Highness tak
a deep interest in every aspect of the
nation's: life and the life of the Empire.
—Mail and Empire (Toronto).
of
his
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to
res The B. C. Loan
he A British Columbia loan of 41,500,-
ei e 000 is being underwritten by London
es financial houses at 5 per cent. inter -
fixed up In some way by February the
World would go smash. The old per-
verse world didn't fix up war debts or
reparations or much of anything else,
and it refused to go smash. Now we
have a lot of other experts telling us,
that unless the corning Lausanne Con-
ference does succeed we'll all go bust
for aura. Well, our own humble ex -1
pectation is that Lausanne will settle
nothing, and that the world won't col-
lapse. The world is extraordinarily ,
tough. Somehow or other it possess-
es intangible assets that economists
and experts invariably fail to reckon
with; so that just when it seems to
be on the verge of ruin something or
somebody comes along to save it, or
to give it a few more years of grace.—
Ottawa Journal,
Canada's Future
We are firmly of the opinion that
Canada offers to -day, despite all the
difficulties of the time, as many if not
more material advantages to honest
and intelligent citizens who are will-
ing and ready to work as she did in
the past. The important thing is to
work, and to face with calm and ener-
gy all the trials through which we
have to pass. Better times are com-
ing and Canada will very probably be
one of the first countries in the world
to overcome the obstacles which are
temporarily obstructing our progress.
—La Tribune, Sherbrooke.
Canada and the U.S.
The United States Senate re-
cently voted virtually embargoes
against Canadian lumber and copper.
It voted to place a duty of $3 per 1,000
board feet on lumber; to place a duty
of four cents a pound on copper. This
affects, practically destroys, $28,000,-
000 of Canadian trade. All but a crip-
pling blow to our lumber industry, and
a severe check to our copper exports,
this action by the United States Sen-
ate may yield good. It may be that it
is just what is required to impress
upon all of us the vital importance of
not permitting failure in the coming
Imperial Economic Conference. For
the real meaning of this news from
Washington is that Canada may as
well make up her mind that she can -
est and selling at 99. The feature of
the loan is that it should be the first
launched on behalf of this Province
in London for the last eighteen years.
It indicates a return to a process of
Imperial financing for Empire needs.
That the loan should be underwritten
in London is an excellent evidence of
faith there in the future of this Pro-
vince, What British Columbia has
been able to accomplish may mark
the beginning of a rejuvenated inter-
est among English investors in Cana-
dian development. The present hap-
pening comes at an appropriate time
when so much attention is being cen-
tred on the forthcoming Imperial Con-
ference at Ottawa.—Victoria Colonist.
Eastern Coal in Ontario
A few days ago the first cargo of
coal from Nova Scotia under the new
system of bonusing by the Dominion
Government was unloaded in Toronto
Harbor. It was a practical illustra-
tion of what can be done by Govern-
ment assistance for the, extension of
markets. Nova Scotia was able to
penetrate further into Central Canada
than was possible under ordinary
economic laws. Coal produced in the
United States had found a new com-
petitor in coal mines in the extreme
eastern portion of Canada.—Mail and
Empire (Toronto).
The Hudson Bay Route
It is perfectly clear that something 1
more must be done before the West
will get full advantage of the Bay
route. The $50,000,000 was not spent
Follow Old Ceremony
With grooms holding traditional Crowns over the bridal couplel'e
heads, Mrs. Waveney. Trew of London, England, became the wife of
Vladimir Provotaroff at the Russian church.
United States should solve her own
domestic problems, and, by solving
them, provide the stimulus and the
example to other countries. But ob-
serving from a distance—a nearer
view of the prospect might modify my
Pessimism. I am unable to imagine
a course of events which could restore
health to American industry in the
near future. I even fancy that, so far
from the United States giving the ex-
ample, she will herself have to wait
for stimulus from outside. I, there-
fore, dare to hope, however improb-
able it may seem in the light of recent
experience, that relief may come first
of all to Great Britain and the group
of overseas countries which look to
her for financial leadership. It is a
dim hope, I confess. But I discern
less light elsewhere,—J. M. Keyes in
the Atlantic Monthly (Boston).
The Lindbergh Tragedy
The knowledge that there exists
somewhere in America a man or woe
man capable of snatching a baby from
is crib aud doing him. to death has
been the occasion for nation-wide re-
vulsion and horror. But whatshall be
said of the fact, revealed since the an-
nouncement of the baby's death, that
mere than one ,hundred demands fc,r
ransom were received from peeiene
anxious to capitalize this outrage?.
What shall be said of the whole reel-
ment of those who have thrust them-
selves in front of cameras, invented
stories of "contacts," carried on petty
battles for prestige and generally be-
mired the trail and made mock of a
family's grief and a nation's shame
and indignation.—Baltimore Sun,
Mot hope for anything like dependable on. the Hudson Bay Itailsvay and the
de,ar'rangements with the United. port and aids to navigation merely to
_nege eel* 3,11010.MIAPPri.
, u . can or a DeMocratic
administration, and no matter what
the political complexion of Congress,
doesn't propose to buy anything from
Canada that it can help; and any ar-
rangement that it may make with
Canada of a contrary character will
be a temporary arrangement, subject
to withdrawal at Congressional cap-
rice.—Ottawa Journal.
Wide Open Sjaces
Undoubtedly gardening is not only
splendid exercise, but a profitable oc-
cupation for all who are in a position
to take advantage of it. It has been
undertaken on a considerable scale
this season in Brantford, as a result
of the scheme to provide garden plots
for those who desired them. Those
who have not plots for gardening will
do well to engage in whatever suit-
able outdoor recreations they can find
convenient. The main thing is to live
0, life of activity in the open air •and
sunshine as much as possible during
the spring and summer months *while
the weather continues favorable. This
applies both to children and adults,
Medical authorities have never plaeed
es much emphasis on the nece-eity of
living in the fresh air as they are do-
ing at present. Happy are those who
can devise ways and means to spend
at least a portion of their spare hours
in the open air.—I3rantford Expoeitor.
Incredible Change
Two years ago a picture of the
:United States of America as it is to-
day could have been placed only in
the category of the imaginary and ut-
terly incredible. The national trea-
sury is faced with a deficit of it 500,-
010,000, and the richest country in the
world will be driven. to defy. all the
recognized canons of sound public
$nance by borrowing to balance its
budget, President Hoover's sun Is
Setting in a stormier dusk than his
evorst enemies could have predicted,
tondon Spectator,
The Farmer's Lot Improves
Tt is difficult to speak for farmees all
tver the Dominion, but certainly so
ar as the farmers of Western Canada
e concerned --- apart from the
'ought area of 1931—they are goner-
Ily speaking getting into better shape
ow than they have been at any time
A the past three years. Leave he
armer alone—build up no fraudulent
• opes by appointing Government
cards on this and that—and he will
Ireztually come through in pretty
*Mud condition.—Winnipeg Tribune.
Prophets of Awn
X4st December Sir «eorge Paish
ad our gar* 41,40 br telling us that
toss tar debts and reparations were
:40S140:40,4440,014-40lOttaar_ ete he
shipped at a total transportation cost
just a shade lower than the cost by
way of Montreal. There would have
been no justification for spending such
a large sum for that purpose. It was
spent to give the West the benefit of
materially lower rates than by the St.
Lawrence route, It was spent to give
the West the benefit of its geographi-
cal advantage.—Winnipeg Free Press.
THE EMPIRE
British Agriculture
However rauc]i its fortunes have de-
clined, British farming is still one of
the most important industries in the
Empire, with an annual output enor-
mous itt quantity and still more enor-
mous in value, owing tcethe quality of
its products. In different parts of the
Empire statistics are compiled in dif-
ferent ways and exact comparisons
are therefore impossible; but all the
available figures go to show that the
annual value of the agricultural pro-
duction of Great Britain is very little,
if any, less than that of Canada and
greatly exceeds that of any other of
the Dominions.—London Times,
The Toll of the Roads
Sir Herbert Samuel suggests the
remedy of kindliness and friendliness
for the slaughter of the roads). This
is a serious qdestion which has to be
settled one way or the other. In any
view, and 1 speak as one who has con-
trolled the pollee, it must be settled
on the penal side. I do not believe
that the 2,000,000 motorists, including
the commercial drivers, are going to
drive in such a kind and friendly man-
ner as to prevent any accidents on the
public roads. . . There really is
no answer, and having regard to the
years during which we have tried to
deal with the question by courtesy
and friendlineas, and by seeking to
make the motorist and the pedestrian
more cognizant of one another's rights
—a method whicli has completely
failed—I have come to the quite de-
finite conclusion that the State should
intervene, that It is its duty to inter-
vene, and that Such -steps should be
taken as may prevent the holocaust
of death and injury on -our roads, The
popuIetion Is an asset of the State.
Not only are men and women entitled
to their personal safety, but the State
is entitled to see that its people are
preserved from danger in order hat
the great asset of human life and
human activity may be preserved for
the good of the State as a, whole.—
Lord Brentford in the Spectator (Lon-
don),
OTHER OPINIONS
The, Emplro In the Lead
Nothing could be of greater ad-
vantage to the world thait that the
To Mark Polar Year
Amsterdam.—The Netherlands will
establish a magnetic station at Ang-
magalik on the east coast of Green-
land, as part of its contribution to the
"Polar year" experiments in 1932.
A first "polar year" took place he
' 1882-83, with the practical result that
the magnetic conditions around the
north pole were ascertained, while
magnetic charts for the use of shipping
in the northern part of the Atlantic
Ocoee were drafted.
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Bookie's clerk: " 'Ere, you can't lay
them prices—there's only three run-
ners." Bookie: "You watch me, lad-
die—and you'll see four!"
U. S. Machinery Export
To Canada Decreases
Washington.—The decline in ex-
ports of metal -working machinery to
Canada from $5,410,000 in 1930 to
$3,400,000 in 1931 is noted in a re-
port issued by the Department of
Commerce on the United States ex-
ports of this commodity during 1931.
"The -curtailment of industrial ac-
tivity in Canada and France during
1931," says the report, "was bound
to have au unfavorable effect on the
demand for high -production tools
and equipment. The outstanding
items of shipment to Canada were
rolling mill machinery, sheet and
Plate metal working machines and
foundry and molding equipment."
The report points out that exports
of these products practically main-
tained their level of value in 1931 as
compared with 1930 and 1929. The
totals for those three years were
respectively $40,000.000, $42,000,000
and $40,800,000. The reason for this
was the largely increased export to
Russia, which jumped from $2,600,-
000 in 1929 to $14,200,000 in 1930 and
$22,000,000 in 1931.
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Back -to -Farm Move.
Noted By U.S, Bank
Springfield, Mass.—Applications for
loans and loans granted at the Federal
Land Bauk of Springfield continue to
run well ahead of last year.
Since Jan. 1, applications have been
made for a total of more than $3,000,-
000 and loans granted have totalled
$1,449,000. Those seeking loans in-
clude many owning their property, in-
dicating a scarcity of local credit.
While farm product prices are termed
ruinously low, payments are being kept
up at the bank to a gratifying extent.
Among those at the bank in the last
few days was a foreign -born unemploy-
ed resident, having $75,000 saved and
previous farm experience, and anxious
to get back to the land. Another with
$35,000 had walked through. the Con-
necticut Valley, looking for a farming
job without success, and had decided
to purchase, and still another stood
ready to pay as high as $15,000 for a
dairy property.
Life
Life is a quarry, out of which we
are to mould and chisel and complete
a character.—Goethe.
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Maine's Farmer -Governor
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Governor Gardiner of Maine is shown here clipping a sheep
While Lady, his faVorito mount,. oversees the operation, To tote -
pieta a home -Product, his Wadi will card, spin and weave the wool
Into a Suit.
Engineer Describes
Errcrs of To -da
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Casoline Sales
y Up Six Per Cent®
How Research Can Jmpro-sre
Life in Machine Age
A Milwaukee engineer, John P.
Perris, recently told a joint meeting
of the Engineers' Society of Milwau-
kee and the faculty of the College of
Engineering of the University of
Wisconsin what is wrong with this
machine world of ours, now that it
has fallen upon lean days. He sug-
gests, moreover, that the research,
engineer can help us by attacking
problems which manifestly cry out
for solution. Economists may not
agree with Mr. Ferris's contentions,
but there is no denying that he stim-
ulates the imagination with some of
his proposals.
"We need a better and. cheaper
house for the average man," Ferris
maintains; "one that can be made
in a factory to take advantage of
factory economies." It must be
sold for at least one-third what it
now costs for a structure of equal
size and satisfy the most exacting
taste. liar
niers must be brought closer to
one another and urban workers must
be spread apart by "new patterns of
community arrangement." We need
-city engineering both for structures
and traffic control.
We need new fuels and sources of
power. "Perhaps we must find
them in some unstable atoms; per-
haps in the tides or in the centre
of the earth or in cosmic rays."
Flying is not safe enough. Air-
planes should be invented which are
inherently so stable and so easily
managed that the pilot need not pos-
sess extraordinary skill.
It takes too much effort now to
prepare food. Mr. Ferris, there-
fore, thinks there are Possibilities in
synthetic foods. "We need food so
cheap and easy to obtain that it will
take its place besides air and water
as necessaries of life that are almost
free, available to all, and thus re-
moved from the list of things for
which men must strive. The ef-
fects of such a change in our at-
titude toward food and shelter would
revolutionize life and would elimin-
ate much of the drive behind econ-
omic strife, warfare and cruelties of
all kinds. It Would leave us freer
to strive after real pleasures and real
accomplishments."
Any number of new materials are
needed, according to Mr. Ferris,
"such as ductile and workable glass,
synthetic leather (to make unneces-
sary the slaughter of animals which.
will soon be no longer needed for
food), synthetic rubber, eheaper ma-
terials for clothing, etc." Our wood
should be used to better advantage.
Reforestation . eereideeseeadeha,
haiarti,r* .
harvesting lumber as a crop that our
forests may be restored."
Management needs reform. A tech-
nique ought to be discovered "which
will preserve the merits of the pres-
ent absolute authority of manage-
ment as far as technical efficiency
goes and yet modify absolutism in
order to allow a far greater amount
of self-expression for the individual
worker."
A Psychological_ Change
By Jules Sauenwein
Foreign Editor Paris-Soir, in an In-
terview in New York.
A new and distressing happening
in the last three years is that the
people no longer seem to have the
psychological resistance they had dur-
ing the war. They had it on the bat-
tlefields and in the crisis after the
war. But now it seems their mental
resources are almost exhausted. At
least in Europe it is so. The result
is, on one side, fear, and on the other,
despair.
The people on. the Continent are off
balance—no more equilibrium. I
think it is equally foolish to think of
Germany starting a war and of
France fearing an immediate war. I
am almost -tempted to say the misfor-
tunes threatening Europe are worse
than war. By this I mean that with
the so-called elite, the leading people,
having failed to determine real ways
out, this crisis might be taken in the
hands of the mob. If the financial
leaders fail, then the most brutal ele-
ment, the mob—and I don't say it con-
temptuously—will take the case,
Italy Plans Farm Colony
Rome.—Now that Italy, after in -any
years of almost incessant guerrilla
warfare with the predatory desert
tribes of the hinterland, .has at last
succeeded in quenching the last sparks
of revolt in the colony of Cyrenaica,
the problem presents itself of how to
populate it, so that it may become an a
outlet for Italy's surplus population. e
Speaking in the Chamber on the
budget of his Ministry, General De
Bono, the Minister of the Colonies,
announced the early creation of a spa- t
cial organization for the colonization h
of Cyrenaica. This body will pur- s
chase land in Cyrenaica suitable for h
agriculture from -the governinent at b
the nominal fee of one lira for every m
two acres and will then cede the land. e
to the farmers who feel impelled to
work in the colonies.
Boxing Instructor (after first les-
son)—"Now, have you any questions
to ask? Beginner (dazed)—"YeS; s
how much Is vour correspondence c
course?"
Increase Made for Six Months
Despite Drop in Regis-
traTorouto.—Gasollue consumption h
Ontario increased by six million gat.
Ions, or six per cent., during the six
months ended April 30, 1932, over
the corresponding Period in 1931,
Hou. Leopold Macaulay announced
recently,
For the six months ended April
30, 1932, the figure was 104 million
gallous, while in the preceding year
it was 98 millions, despite an 8 per
cent. decrease to registrations ol
motor vehicles this year.
In an analytical survey of the
motor vehicles situation hi. Ontario,
the minister dealt with the respec.
tine rights of passenger and corn.
niercial vehicles, indicating future
regulation of trucking rates and the
selection and operations of theft
drivers.
Registration Drops
Commercial vehicles were about 12
per eent. of the total registrations,
Mr. Macaulay pointed out. This
year's figures, up to May 28, reveal-
ed total registrations of private pas-
sengers cars as 409,876, compared
with 444,399 for the similar period in.
1931, a. decrease of about eight per
-cent., which was much slighter
than, that obtaining in the United
States. Commercial vehicle regis-
trations showed a decrease of only
3.5 per cent, wth 53,286 this year
to date, against 55,236 last year.
However, Mn. Macaulay was confid-
ent that this year's total of com-
mercial vehicles would be greater
than in 1931, since trucks were only
being registered as there were Jobs
for them.
Continuing his analysis, the min..
ister stated that while truck regis.
tratious were down only 3.5 per
tent., car loadings were decreased
20 per cent., which he considered a
fair indication of the relative de-
crease in, railway and truck freight
business.
"It is a debatable point how far
trucks should contribute to the up_
keep of the highways," he continu-
ed. "The highways were first built
at the demand of passenger car own-
ers. Itt addition to the fact that
trucks constitute only 12 per cent.
of the total, there is the question of
weight," and he referred to an ex-
perience if his own, of standing un-
derneath a steel bridge while a 12 -
ton truck passed over it at about 60
miles an hour.
"We must realize that the roads
are here primarily for the motorist.
Don't forget that. There are
74: at409,-
cars, and 600,000 licensed oper- -
ors to consider first."
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Not Easily Discouraged.
A tale is being told in Johannes-
burg in illustration of the South
African wool -producers' difficulties.
A native brought a bale of wool for
sale, but refused the offer of a penny
per pound. He peeferred to accept
the suggestion that he send it to
the coast for sale at the weekly auc-
tion, although he realized that this
was a risk.
The storekeeper through whom he
did this eventually got the account,
which, after deducting rail charges,
-commission, and other expenses,
showed a deficiency of one shilling
and sevenpence.
It took the native a long time to
grasp this curious transaction and its
arithmetic. Finally he said he had
no money.
After some discussion, the store-
keeper agreed to take a chicken for
the money..
•In due course the native brought
two chickens. The storekeeper
pointed. out that he only asked for
one.
"Ah, yes, I know," returned the
native, "but I have another bale of
wool I am bringing round."—Christ-
ian Register.
Chile Lifts Duty
On Wheat Imports
Ottawa.—According to a news dis-
patch last week from Santiago,
Chile, the duty on foreign wheat has
been removed due to shortage of the
local crop and high. prices. , While
no official comment was made here
it was stated that any circumstance
that broadened the market for wheat
was significant to Canada.
This country has enjoyed very
little export trade in wheat with
Chile, the total amount sent to that
country in 1931 being valued at less
than $1,000. In 1930 it was nil,
Chile usually raises enough wheat to
satisfy the demands of that country,
nd wheel imported wheat is requir.
d the nearest source is Argentina
By App'olntment
The business man had died and gone
o—well, not to heaven. But hardly
ad he settled down for a nice long
moke when a hearty hand slapped
on the back, and into his ear
owned the voice of a persistent sales -
an Who had pestered him much on
arth.
"Well, Mr. Smith," chortled the
salesinan, "I'm here for an appoint.:
ment,"
"What appointment?"
Why, don't you remember?" :that.
elan= went on. "Every time 1.
aim into your offiee you told ine
you'd sec nee here!"
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