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Canada, The Empire and The World at Large
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CANADA
Conference Results
Beyond the actual tariff arrange-
ments, three results have conte out of
the Imperial Conference of prime and
vital interest to Canadians: 1, The
creation of a tariff Board which, if.
properly constituted, can. and should
tend to keep the tariff out of politics
and beyond political manipulation. 2,
The putting of an entirely new face on
the agenda for the nothing World
Economic Conference, which will be
the major testing ground for the whole
principle of tariffs. 3, An. encourage-
ment to the reciprocal tariff element
in United States, to come out with
proposals for bettering trade relations
with Canada,—Vancouver Sun.
British Justice
When Lord IIylsant was sentenced
to one year in jail for publishing a
misleading financial startemeut there
were those who believed that he
would not serve his time like an ordin-
ary prisoner, or that he would serve
any considerable part of it. He had
:been a. member of Parliament, was a
member of the House of Lords, CDIl
netted with some of the aristocratic
houses of England and Wales, a per-
sonal .friend of every member of the
cabinet, and he was—or had been—a
millionaire. But the noble lord went
to jail, and he has just been released
after serving ten months of his twelve,
-which is the customary remission view (London).
granted to a prisoner for good conduct.
British law is no respector of persons.
—St, Thomas Times -Journal.
obligations to American, investors in
American funds. The less we Pur-
chase in the Republic; the greater will.
be the value of our dollar across tb.e
late; our expense of meeting the pre -
mann. 'charge on American money will
go down proportonately. Inasmuch
as coal is one of our cltlef imports
from the United States—running into
a sum estimated anywhere up to a
hundred million dollars annually it is
certainly desirable, from a national
'Point of view, to cut such imports
down to the lowest possible figure.
Heavier buying of Welsh coal willl
help. The individual may pay a little
more, but the general effect will be
good.—Border Cities Star.
THE EMPIRE
Epidemics of Crime
In every country except the United
States, where the disease seems en-
dmic, epidemics of criminal violence
break out with a certain regularity.
The automatic pistol and the motor
car have made these appeals to force
more sensational and more difficult to
deal with, yet a glau=e at the past sug-
gests. that they are seasonal and al-
most a natter of fashion. This coun-
try has just passed through one of
these periods, and it is noticeable
that it coincides with a time of hot
weather. Experts in France, where
such waves of violent crime are com-
mon, have always connected them
with the Dog Days.—Saturday Re -
Accident Every Forty Minutec
According to the records of the Mo-
---tor Vehicles Branch of the Ontario
Department of alghways, motor vehicle
accidents during August last year aver-
aged more than. 33 per day. Included
in. this number there were 77 fatalities
and 1,025 persons injured. This re-
cord, be it understood, is for the Pro-
vince of Ontario alone, and not the
whole country, as one might imagine
from the size of the figures.—Ganan-
oque Reporter.
Quotations From Shakespeare
Even the most illiterate quote Shake-
speare every day. Indeed most of us
do not know we should use quotations
for these current sayings from the
Bard of Avon's writings: "Dead as a
doornail; eaten out of house and
home; as good luck would have it;
mad as a March hare; cake is dough;
•every dog has his day; fast bind, fast
find; every man to his trade; familiar-
ity breedsacontempts good wine needs
no bush; make hay while the sun.
shines; past cure, past care; pitchers
have ears; poor and proud; sink or
swim; speak by the card; the world
on wheels; we burn daylight; woo in
haste and -wed at leisure; give the
devil his due; -and what the dickens!"
--Brandon Sun.
Small Farms In Ontario
It is the very general belief that
Quebec is preeminently the province
of the small farms. But it is not so.
Ontario is. The old idea was that the
typical French - Canadian farmer
• divided his lands amongst his sons to
keep them around hint, so far as pos-
sible, in that family contentment and
social intercourse so typical of the
habitant. But the cold figures of the
Dominion Bureau of Statis•tis tells. us
otherwise. There are 46,539 farms in
Ontario of less than 50 acres, and in
Quebec only 23,686. -- St. Thomas
Times -Journal.
The New World Society
There can be no doubt whatever
that Mr. Wells' support of a world -
dictatorship based upon complete and
A Flying Tackle
The University of Washington should be
with Tony Burke ou the tackle end. Here
demonstration of his, fitness.
up among the leaders
we see hint giving a
•
Altitude Rec •, rds
In the Empire
New Records Set by Two
British Aviators in Bri-
tain and Australia
London.—British pilots flying at op:
posite ends of the Empire, have ad-
vanced claims to two new aviation alti-
tude records.
centralized financial control will make Captain Cyril Unwine claimed a new
a strong appeal to the cosmopolitan' record for land planes with a flight to
group of financial "Samurai" now in- 45,000 feet at Brien! Friday. (The
official record is 43,154.9 feet held by
Lieut. Apollo Soucek, United States
Navy) .
At Port Darwin, Australia, an atn-
phibian attached to the British navy's
ship, Albatross, was reported as
claiming a new altitude record for that
type of ship with a flight to 23,000•
feet.
It was also claimed that a balloon
released from the Albatross (without
of the idea of a i4rorld Society of Na-
passengers) reached a height of 70
tions, even if it be possible, of a 1000 feet, or more than 13 utiles. This
triguing for the world's throne; but if,
as we believe in common with ordin-
ary humanity, nationality is as natural
a fact as individuality and one of the
essential characteristics of the species
Man, then not all the efforts of all
the would-be dictators of the world will
be able to eradicate it, or even sus-
pend its action for more than very
brief and bloody periods. We are not
so chauvinist as to deny the attraction
World Commonwealth of Nations. The
emergence, hesitating and amorphous
as it is of a British Commonwealth from
the shell of a British Emipre, is per-
haps a shadow of a possible future.
But the difference between a world of
nations in. intelligent and voluntary
co-operation and a world of functional'
groupings subservient to a super -State
composed of self-selected, all-powerful
neurotics, is exactly the difference be-
tween a harmonious society based on
slavery and sanctioned by force.—New
English 'meekly (London).
The New Welland Canal
The West Indies, which regularly
bear witness to the efficiency and cour-
age of Canadian National enterprise
as interpreted by her magnificent
steamship service, will applaud the
Welland elland effort as further evidence of
what the Canadian spirit can contri-
bute, not only to the growth of Can-
ada, but to the development of the
world.—Trinidal Guardian.
Reindeer For
"Made in Germany"
During April, May and June of
1932, imports from Germany were
valued at $2,576,845, as compared with
$3,209,490 in the corresponding period
of 1931. The exports to Germany in
the last three months totalled $1,210,-
119, as against $4,061,681 last year.
The falling off in the volume exported
is large. Imports from Germany Cov-
ered a wide range of products, but the
chief items were classed uuder chemi-
cals and chemical products, amounting
to $778,020 in the last three months;
iron and its products, $.352,155, non-
metallic minerals, including coal, $211,-
086; fibres, $811,629; miscellaneous,
$456,731.—Brandon Sun.
Worthless Fortunes
The miser is . a phenomenon as old
as civilization and from the very be-
ginning he has been a great puzzle.
There died in the middle west the
other day an aged recluse who had
lived its a tiny apartment on a mean
'side street. To all appearances he
:was just one notch above actual desti-
tution. Beit when his effects were ex-
amined after his death, it was found
that he owned cash and securities
worth upwards of $800,000. Cases of
this kind are couttuually coming to
light, of course, and there Is nothing
)ilispecially unusual In this one. But it
,Dear make onewonder, anew --"Why?"
lee money did the man no earthly
igood,, It Is now being divided among
;$9 Cousins, and It is doubtful if he
liaved it on their account, It did him
MS good whatever. What can be the
tnottve that makes a luau treat his
money that way?F Gualplt Mercury,
Buy Empire Coal
It Is costing Canada an enormous
W L of money Meet eet her interest
Hungry Eskimos
Three years ago, the Lomen Brothers, Alaska's "reindeer kings," con-
tracted with the Canadian Govern -
Government to deliver 3,000 reindeer
to the mouth of the Maskenzie River
in British Columbia, 4,000 miles away,
to provide food and clothing for
starving Eskimos there.
The contract calls for the payment
of 195,000 on delivery of the rein-
deer,
The herd was started in the fall of.
1929 in charge of Andrew Bahr, old
reindeer herder, assisted by four Lap-
landers and six Eskimos. Bahr has
just been heard from the first time in
seven months. The lerd now num-
bers 3,400. they have never stopped
travelling, even during 70 degrees be-
low zero temperature.
Bahr hopes to reach the Mackenzie
River on his strange trek by the
time winter sets in again, then cross
the river on the ice and deliver his
reindeer herd some time next win-
ter.—Wall Street Journal.
Grasshopper Diet
Kills Turkeys
Dodge City, Kan. --Ed.. Robbins has
a flock of 9,000 turkeys at hls ranch
near Belvidere. This is one of the
largest turkey crops its Kansas and,
according to Robbins, the most per-
plexing. His turkeys have indiges-
tion. There are so many grasshop-
pers this year that the turkeys have
been overeating and many have died.
Robbins's worries have abated some-
what since he fenced in the turkeys
with a grass -topper -tight fence, He
said it cost a lot of money but it is
the only way to keep the turkeys
from foundering on grasshoppers.
was set up as a record. There are no
official records for passengerless bal-
loons. Professor Auguste Piccard rose
nearly 11 miles over Italy in his latest
stratospheric ascension.
Captain Unwins used a specially
designed 500 horsepower plane. The
cold we.; •so intense he had fico" resort
t.. a special oxygen pumping appar-
atus..
His goggles, gloves and clothing
were electrically heated.
The amphibian. at Port Darwin was
a special type named the "Sea Gull,"
attached to the Albatross, which is a
eeaplane carrier. Conditions were de•
scribed as perfect for both the Port
Darwin ascensions.
Geyser Spouts Ne
New Zealand
Citizens of Ohinetnutu, country
town in the thermal district, received
a shock when a geyser suddenly spout-
ed in the main street. Mud, stone and
steam spouted skyward to over 100
feet, and some of the shots resembled
the famed Pohuto geyser, greatest of
all New Zealand's blowholes. A second
geyser broke through later. The
larger one measured 25 by 20 feet.—
"San Francisco Chronicle."
Canadians Eat Much Butter
Canadians are the champion butter
eaters of the world, says the Canadian
National Railways. From 1928 to 1931
the per capita butter consumption in
Canada increased from 28.54 to 30.24
pounds.
Swiss to Electrify all Trains
Berne.—With 85 per .,cent of the
Swiss federal railway's already electri-
fied, it is announced that the last
coal -burning locomotive will be re-
tired froth service in 1940.
Paralysis Causes
50 P.C. of Deaths clined as follows—Wheat flour, from
_ $1,795,477 to $1,094,460; fish, from
$2,133,396 to $1,859,316; planks and
boards, from $1,931,175 to $970,571;
wood- pulp, from $2,502,372 to $1,436,-
689; newsprint, from $8,416,977 to
$7,251,752; copper, partially manufac-
Dominion Leads.E 'Canada a
� i anaclaLeadsWorldMaintain Balance In Paper Export
August Trade Figures Favor -I First Also in Export of Nickell
able to •Canada by and Asbestos Second as
$5,271,086 Gold Producer
Ottawa.--During the mouth of Montreal,—Canada is the production
August Canadian produce was ex- and export of many staple product
ported to the value of $41.,314,120 and rattles high among the nations of thoi
foreign produce $541,002, or a .total world. 1. the production of printing
of $41,855,122, During the same monde paper, nickel and asbestos she leads
there was imported for consume -I the world, she occupies second place
tion $36 084,036. This includes iu the production of gold', iu the out
foreign goods afterward re-exported. put of zinc she occupies third plana„
This export balance was accordingly and fourth place in the production et
$5,271.0866 'These figes were t•e copper, automobiles, wheat and lead.
leased recently 'by thure Department
of National Revenue,
During August, 1931, the total ex- lug paper, nickel and asbestos, she
ports were $49,894,363 and imports occupies third place in exports of
$47,303,079. wheat flour, fourth place in exports of
A marked upswing in the export automobiles and woodpulp, and fifth
of several groups of commodities was place in exports of rubber tires. Ex -
registered last month, the most sub- I ports oP these staple products make
stantial being wheat, Canada export- 'up 55 per cent. of the Dominion's
ed $10,642,471 worth of wheat in total exports or home products. Can -
August, 1932, as against $6,620,677, ada also ranks high in the world's ex-'
for August, last year, or an increase ports of many other staple products,
of slightly over $4,000,000. such as lumber and timber, fish, cop -
Furs meats, cheese and automo- Per, barley, cheese, raw furs, whiskey,
biles and their parts were also on meats, farm implements, pulpwood,
the upgrade last month in camper- cattle, raw gold, silver„ rye, oats, rub-
ison with the figures a year ago. Fur ber footwear, leather and hides.
exports rose from 3755,572 to $877,- The growth of the automobile in
535; meats increased from $289,996 dustry, in Canada as elsewhere, is one.
to $739,439; cheese front $1,528,135 of the most remarkable industrial de -
to 31,653,838, and automobiles and velopmeuts of the twentieth century.
their parts from $377,930 to 0752,420. Canada's export of automobiles for the
Export of other commodities de- fiscal year 106, the earliest date for
which figures are available, amounted
to 67 cars only, with a value tit 363,-
329.
63,329. The record of the export trade
in automobiles was reached in the
calendar year 1929 at 64,863 passenger
cars and 36,848. motor trucks; while,
under the influence of world-wide de-
tured from 31,174,944 to 3468,447, pression, exports in the calendar year
fantile deaths its the Dominion of and nickel, from $910,892 to $252,439. 1931 fell to 9,282 assenger cars and
Canada last year occurred in this Customs Revenues Drop 4,531 trucks. In the last calendar
province. Quebec's figure being year the United States led whit an ex
9,443 and that of the Dominion 20,- Canada's customs and excise reven- port of 82,457 passenger cars and 48,-
preliminary figures for the conn- ue in August decreased by $1,307, 243 trucks compared with 339,613 pas-
senger cars and 196,758 trucks in 1929.
Other countries which rank above
Canada in automobile export are the
531,S86 compared with the same per- United Kingdom and France, the dif+
iod a year ago. ference being observable chiefly le
During the month of August last, passenger cars.
customs duties declined from 38,219,-
892 to 35,653,381. This drop was not Cultivate Tourist Traffic
quite offset by the increase in excise Beautifying h6^Jca 9
taxes, from $5,888,S60 of 37,595,281. By Y g` Y
Excise duties fell from 34,641,316 to Beautification of highways was
33,708,290, while there was also a urged in an address by Mr; S. L.
small decline in sundry collections. Squire, of Toronto, past president of
the Canadian Good Roads Association
at the convention in Digby, N.S. Well -
kept farm residences, buildings and
fences, the removal of dead trees
and the trimming of live foliage, the
proper upkeep of municipally -owned
public works, attractive parks, lawns
and gardens in large and small com-
munities were mentioned by Mr.
Squire as tending not only to make
touring more pleasurable, but as
raising property values everywhere.
The subject was brought to our
at-
tention a few days ago by an old sub -
Total revenue for the five months scriber who was born and brought up
was 383,039,649 as against 388,571,- on a farm hoar the present City of
r Stratford. In his boyhood days
there were few railways, no paved
highways, no motors, no means of
rapid contmuuication. Each com-
munity was more self-containbd, and
In export trade the Domiulon leads
the world in exports of wheat, pritit-
Quebec's Infantile Mortality
Rate Double that of
Ontario
Quebec—Nearly 50 per cent of in -
353, i e 3 b
try show.'
Quebec's total was double that of
Ontario, which had 4,830, and was
more than the other seven provinces
combated, with diarrhoea and en-
teritis accounting for 2,525 deaths,
or over 25 per cent of the provincial
total.
Montreal contributed slightly over
one-quarter of the total for the pro-
vince, figures for the Metropolis be-
ing deaths, Shawinigan. Falls 72,
\lrestmouut 39, Lachine 44, Outremont
two, Three Rivers 229, Verdun 95 and For the five-month period the de -
Levis 41. crease in customs duties amounted
Of the children who died during to 316,074,803, the figures for 1931
the year 5,417 were boys, who out- being $47,792,720 as against 331,717,-
numbered girls by 1,309, the statistics 917 for this year.
show. Excise taxes, however, rose from
Quebec's figures show that 24 chil- 318,105,033 to 332,939,905, au increase
dren under one year of age died of $14;834,S72.
,4'rone measles, 10 from scarlet fever, The decrease in excise duties ror
220 from whooping cough, 26 from the five months was 34,242,313, the
diphtheria, 320 from influenza, 23 figures being 322,238,196 for 1931 and
from erysipelas, 86 from tuberculosis, 317,995,883 for the current year.
113 from syphilis, 116 from peening Sundry collections dropped from
itis, 62 from convulsions, 40 from $435,586 to $355,943.
bronchitis, 876 from pneumonia, 76
Evora diseases of the stomach. 2,525
from dialihroea and enteritis, 13
from hernia or intestinal obstruc-
tion, 405 from congenital malforma-
tion, 1,110 from -congenital debility,
1,474 from premature birth, 636 from
injury at birth, 768 from other dis-
eases 'peculiar to early infancy, 502
from other specified causes, and 17
from unspecified or ill-defined causes. St
The report also shows that three ing through this city were surprised
1
were 2,450illegitimate births the recently to hear, from an apparently
lirovince last year, out of a Domin-
ion total of 8,342, while though Que-invisible source, such crisp nistruc-
•bee led the province in infantile
mortality, it also was the leading pro-
vince in births.
French Schools Insure Pupils
Paris—French educational author-
ities now offer accident insurance
for children at 20 cents a year cov-
ering injuries received . on the way
to school. Payments up to $2,500
are made, even when traffic acci-
dents are the fault of the youngsters.
830 from the figures for August, 1931.
In the first five months of the cur-
rent fiscal year, the drop was $5,-
536 for 1931.
For August the total revenue was
317,009,176, •compared with 318,817,-
007 for the same month last year.
farmers and village residents vied
Voice From Air Directs with each other in beautifying thelr
Motorists Through Traffic properties. Ho said that the coni-.
munity in which he lived was like a
Stratford Conn. —Motorists pass- long drawn-out garden. But recent-
ly he made a tour through Perth and
adjoining counties and was greatly
disappointed at the change for the
tions as "Move over to the right side worse. The properties along the
of the road, Connecticult registration roads did not appear to be as well
J-01" and "Your left rear firers flat, kept, and there was not the pride of
Possession which prevailed when he
was a youth. He blamed the auto-
mobile -for two effects. It threw
clouds of dust over roadside flowers,
and the local owners of ears had no
time from joy -riding to beautify their
places.
It may be that our old subscriber
was biased in his recollections. Dis-
tance in time may have made the
early scenes more enchanting than
they really were. The subject Is
worth investigating, for, as Mr.
Squires said, incoming motor tour-
ists spend some 3300,000,000 yearly In
Canada, and this profitable trade is
worth cultivating. This, altogether
aside from the importance of cults-
voting in our own people a love of
the beautiful.—Toronto Mail and Em_
London.— Rapid growth of . air Mire.
New Heavyweight Threat
Jack Doyle, who recently celebrated his 19th birthday
going to knock the spots off Pettifer, He is regarded as
heavyweight material by Dritish fight fans. J;ack's also an
addict:
says Inas
promising
accordloit
No. 3568." Investigation revealed a
booth at the road's edge, occupied by
a policeman who admonished traffic
through a radio -controlled amplifier.
The booth was constructed in the
centre of the town on the order of
Chief of Police William B. Nichols,.
who hopes by this method to relieve
police motor -cycle service on the con-
gested thoroughfare. Every slip-up
on the part of a motorist was noticed
and corrected by the watchful sen-
tinel in the booth. From time to
time he intoned through his loud
speaker. "This is a crowded city. Be
careful"
Travel by Plane Gains 100
Per Cent. in Gt. Britain
travel is shown by the fact that 13
years ago only 20 passengers left
Croydon in an average week, now 2,-
000 leave that airport weekly.
This 100 -fold increase promises to
be rapidly exceeded, for in the first
six months of this year Imperial Air-
ways carried 30,000 passengers front
Croydon alone, as many as the total
carr:ed during the whole of last
year.
It is now possible to book by air
from Croydon for 130 continental
centres apart from Empire services.
Soviet Peasants
Must Rent Horses
Moscow.—The Soviet Govetninent.
has ordered "individual" peasants to
place their draft horses at the dis-
posal oi` the collective farms.
The peasants will rent their horses
when they are needed by the collee-
tine farnes, which must not only pay
for the use of the animals but bear
all expenses of feeding thent,
The animals will be used in the.
fall sowing of 'grain and in trans-
portation of Tartu produce.
New Process Enables Factor3
To Slice Wood Paper -Thin
Wood can be sliced in paper -thin
sheets ready for printing with type
or engravings under a new process.
Green softwoods such as spruce,
Douglas fir, hemlock and cedar, are
cut into blocks and placed on a ma-
chine fitted with a very sharp knife.
A motor revolves a large wheel, driv-
ing
riving the knife with a piston move-
ment at high speed. The product is a
sheet one-hundredth inch thick, shav-
ed its. "books" by leaving a 'half-inch
portion of the block solid at the edge.
The sheets can be torn off as needed,
saws "Popular Mechanics Magazine."
Hardwoods can be sliced in thin,
sheets that include the finely drawn
fortes of burls and knots In addition
to its usefulness for printing, the
sheets of wood are practical in the
manufacture of lamp shades, candy
boxes, etc.
Happiness
Happiness has very few wants, —
Marcus Aurelius.