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HON. J. C. ELLIOTT
Minister of Public Works,
Nam'ble-witted, genial, blesed with
Unfailing good -humor, rarely perturb-
ed and endowed with the invaluaible
ability, to handle delicate situations
with tact, the Hon. John CarnObeli El-
liott, K.'C„ Canada's Mtifnister of Puib-
Iic Works is a sound Parliamentarian,
a first-rate administrator, and a pop-
ular figure at the seat of government.
Whether he is being reproved for'ap-
propriating only $10,000 for a post
office in some little village when $25;-
000 was expected; or being congratu-
lated for setting aside $100,000 for
wharves and breakwaters when noth-
ing was expected, "Jack" Elliott re-
ceives praise and blame with sublime
equanimity. And in the course of a
Parliamentary session he is the tar-
get for both in greater measure, per-
haps, than any of his colleagues.
That is one of the penalties of be-
ing Minister of Public Works, equally
as it is one of the advantages. Mr.
Elliott's Department is a "spending"
one; if any revenues accrue from it
they are scarcely worth ment'.cning.
But, just because that is so, it there-
fore follows that the portfolio of pub-
lic works is one of the most import-
ant in the Cabinet. Little wisdom is
needed merely to spend other people's
money; it is another thing to spend
other people's money judiciously and
with due regard to the source from
which it comes—that is to say, the
pockets of the people of Canada.
Like many other good men, "Jack"
Elliott began his political apprentice-
ship in the provincial legislature. The
general election of 1908 found him
with a seat at Toronto on the benches
in opposition to the government of
Sir James Whitney; and in those cool
shades he learned patiently but thor•
oughly about governments and how
they should be criticised. Of the lat-
ter he did his share, for not once in
his lengthy career as a provincial leg-
islater did it fall to his party to find
themselves on the right of Mr. Speak-
er. Perhaps it was this protracted
period of opposition that made him
"au courant" of all the tricks in the
political bag, and encouraged the as-
similation of all the ways and means
wherewith to counter those tricks. At
any rate, no one viewing from a de-
tached standpoint the entertaining
drama of "getting the estimates
through" can but admire the agility,
the great good -nature, the inestimable
patience andl the skill with which
"Jack" Elliott is blessed.
The year 1925 saw his arrival at Ot-
tawa, and in six months he had been
appointed Minister of Labor. Six
weeks later he had advanced to the
portfolio of Health and Cevie Re -
Establishment, which, when all is said
and done, is quite a record. Ten
weeks after that, the Mackenzie King
administration resigned; and with the
rest of his colleagues, he went out
into the wilderness.
In this great game, however, the
people of Canada are the last arbiters
and they saw to it, in no uncertain
fashion, that the barren wastes of op-
position was not the proper place for
the Mackenzie King Government The
Liberals were overwhelmingly return-
ed. and the few weeks old Minister of
Labor and Minister of Health found
himself invested with another job. He
became Minister of Public Works.
Thus, from March to September of
the year 1926, "Jack" had held three
portfolios. He could be well forgiven
for wondering what was coming next;
out the Prime Minister gave him a
rest. Since that last appointment he
has had no other task, except, per-
haps, that of acting as head of some
other department in the absence of its
incumbent,
Last year he went to Geneva in
company with Mr. Euler. Minister of
National Revenue; and attended some
of the sessions of the League of Na-
tions. He performed his internation-
al duties with the same urbanity as
he carries out 'his tasks in Ottawa,
and that quality in a Minister is an
asset of inestimable worth.
HON. F'ERNAND RINFRET
Secretary of State.
The Fourth Estate is represented in
the Mackenzie King administration by
the Eon. Fernand Rinfret. formerly
editor of the newspaper. "LeCanada"
of Montreal and now Secretary of
State. Away heck in his struggling
years, the Prime Minister himself us-
ed to work on the Toronto Globe as
a cub reporter,, but he never aspired
to the dizzy heights of the editorial
chair. To be lime Minister of a
country is one thing; to he editor of a
newspaper is another. As Socrates
said in his comment on Life and
Death: "Which is the better, God only
knows!" Between them Rinfret and
his Prime Mini titer may have found
the solution.
Politics and journalism are insepar-
WRIGLEYS
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on any trip.
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and enjoyment. The sugar sup-
plies pep and energy when the
day seems long.
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and good for you.
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Thousands cwritee kidney cad bla der
Lis, constipation, inoeation, Cas, back-
nohe end overnight with "l ruiva-tildes".
1� ewes quiet. Sound sleep at once. Get
lir nit-a-tIves"iron druaidst today,
able, and Mr. Rinfret was proficient
in both spheres. He was a good jour-
nalist—or rather, a good newspaper-
man. (The distinction is important,
for the accepted definition of a journ,
alist is "a newspaperman out of a
job!"). And he is an accomplished
administrator.
The portfolio of Secretary of State
is somewhat complex. The duties of
the Minister directing that Depart-
ment ramify through every feature of
national life. Questions involving the
naturalization of aliens, problems a-
rising out of the incorporation of com-
panies, out of the distribution of
money connected with war reparations
payments, the printing of government
Iccuments. tile order of precedence of
high notables of state—a thousand
bend one things that are all part and
parcel of the government of a coun-
:ry-, the chores. in fact, of the admin-
istrative household. The Secretary of
State must know something about ev-
?re-thing, for lei deals with every-
thing. For the most part, so do news-
paper editors, a fact that somehow
ivalified Mr. Finfret for the post,
He arrived in ,the House of Com-
mons via a by-election in 19.20 and has
stayed there by a process of ascend-
ing majorities in each election. In
19.6 he enjoyed the greatest majority
that the St. James leivision of Mont-
real ever gave to a candidate, 10,548.
For five years he sat as a back-
bencher, acquiring a reputation as an
able debater and assimilating knowl-
edge of parliamertary procedure that
has stood him in good stead. In 1926
he was sworn in as Secretary of State,
a post which he has filled with tact,
t utstanding ability and good sense.
HON. LUCIEN CANNON
Solicitor -General.
The youngest member of the pres-
ent Liberal cabinet, the Hon. Lucien
Cannon. K.C., is also one of the most
belligerent. One thing is clear and
it is that Lucien Cannon never runs
away from a fight, It may be the
Irish part of him; but whatever it is,
that particular aggressive quality has
very often stood the administration in
good stead, for when he is through
debating, there is not a great deal he
has left unsaid. Gifted with a caustic
wit, with a keenly logical and analytic
mind, and with a genius for turning
the other man's rapier against him,
he is a legislator of prime quality
and of proven ability.
He is one of the five lawyers,.'in the
cabinet, end the right-hand man of
Ernest Lapointe who, in the matter of
administrative politics, is his guide,
philosopher and friend.
In opposition from 1017 to 1921,
Lucien Cannon was one of the most
pugnacious members of the House of
Commons, he was always to be found
in the first wave of the attack, demol-
ishing with biting criticism all the
flimsy defenses of his political foes.
And this pugnacity continues with his
party in power. He is never the de•
fender; he never lets go the initiative.
The Conservative opposition attacks
in the expectancy of driving the gov-
ernment to the wall. but in a few min-
utes it is they who are battling 'des-
perately- against the aggression which
this young Quebecker unleashes. He
believes in "carrying the war into
Africa," in attacking the enemy in
their own camp, and because of that,
because also of his destructive, caus-
tic wit, the Onpoeition watch his war-
ily.
Lucien Cannon is one of the bril-
lia' young law graduates of Laval
University, the offspring of genera-
tions of lawyers and jurists. He is
only 43 years of age, but already there
is behind him a lengthy Parliamen-
tary career. Tike William Pitt, "the
Great Commoner," he assayed to
launch himself into politics before he
had attained his majority. Tn the
general election of 1908 he was de-
feated and again, three years later, he
met with no he'.ter success. Attract-
ed then by the provincial field, he en-
tered the Quebec Legislature in 1913
and resigned to contest Dorchester
against the Hon. Albert Savigny in
1917. Once nae re he went under.
But his opportunity came during
the "khaki election" of the same year,
when Dorchester at last succumbed to
his siege. Since: then he has known
no other riding. For eight years he
sat as a "private member," one of
the most colorful and most brilliant
of the young Quebec group. He was
a hard worker, an able debater and
was supported by a largefollowing
f liow^ing
from his native province. In 1925 Mr.
Mackenzie King appointed him Solici-
tor General, and that portfolio he con-
tinues to hold.
He is equally effective as a lawyer,
and in the course of his official and
constitutiofra4 duties has frequently
been required to plead before the Su-
preme Court of Canada, and also -4o
represent the government in cases
heard before the Judiciel Committee
of the Imperial Privy Council. The e,
in the presence of the wisest and moo
learned in the practise of jurisprud-
ence, he has established for himself
a reputation for sound knowledge of
the law and for
great ability y i n
marshalling his facts and presenting
them with utmost clarity.
HON. PETER HEENAN
Minister of Labor.
Over 160 labor disputes smoothed
over, disastrous strikes averted, years
of respite from indu9'itrial unrest gen-
erally and millipne of dollars saved to
the woxkingeman, scelal legisslation of
theest advanced character written
4int' Statute•Books--so reads the
teem.of the Hon. Peter Heenan,
1Vli nieter of Labor. ilio -'coal -runner
en:dl'oeoanetive engineer, now beeemes
a Member of the Privy Celina of His
jetty's Government hil Canada, this
:r t -hearted fishw'Canadi n is situp.
3{y
ly 4Teter," to rill ga'stos and Glasses.
He counts his friends. by the thousands
all the way from Sydney, N.S., to
Victoria, BSC. '
Neither political achievement nor'
material success has turned his head.
Peter is never "upstage," never any-
thing but the robust champion of the
working -man, with a voice in the or-
dering of affairs that carries no small
weight. He never had a college edu-
cation or a professional training; and
he is not ashamed to confess it. Only
a few weeks ago, with great restraint
and quiet dignity, he reminded the
Conservatives in the House of Com-
mons of thisi fact. He had been born'
under a thatched roof in County
Down; but in that humble abode he
had been taught good manners and
courtesy which, he said, some of his
opponents seemed to lack. The refer-
ence was to the deplorably bad taste
of the Conservatives in interjecting
sneering and jeering • interruptions
ceaselessly during a two and a half
hour speech which Peter was deliver-
ing on unemployment. His shot sank
home.
Peter Heenan mined coal in the
pits of Cumberland, England; he has
railroaded in Central America, and in
Canada? This country has been his
home for 28 years, and whether as
alderman of Kenora, Ont., chairman
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers, or minister of the crown, his
chief interest is that of Labor. The
Ontario Legislature was his first po-
liticaI stamping -ground, but in 1925
he arrived in Ottawa and a year later
was installed as Minister of Labor in
the Liberal Government. Peter allow-
ed no grass to grow under his feet,
and Mr. Mackenzie King was not long
in appreciating his native ability and
broad sympathies.
If one were to ask him what he con-
sidered his most lasting achievement,
outside of the 170 industrial disputes
in which his intervention has brought
about peace, he would, perhaps, point
to Old Age Pensions. The comfort
that he has brought into the lives of
the aged citizer:s of Canada is incap-
able of assessment; it is a simple fact
that the proud and worthy inde-
pendence which many thousands of
our old people now enjoy is attribut-
able in very large measure to the gen.
erous, warm-hearted and human qual •
ities of Peter Heenan.
(Continued next week)
HOT JULY DAYS
HARD OS BABY
July — the month of oppressive
heat; red-hot days and sweltering
rights; is extremely hard on little
ones. Diarrhoea, dysentry, colic and
cholera infantum carry off thousarrls
of precious little lives every summer,
The mother must be on her guard to
prevent these troubles, or•if they e,mae
on suddenly to fight them. No other
medicine is of such aid to mothers
d.'ring the hot summer as is Baby's
Own Tablets. They regulate the bow-
els and stomach and an occasional
dose given to the well child will pre-
vent summer complaint, or if the
trouble does come suddenly will ban-
ish it, The Tablets are sold by medi-
cine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a
box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine
Co., Brockville, Ont.
Current Crop Report.
Reports of an optimistic nature
have been received during the past
few days from no less than thirty-two
agricultural representatives in var-
ious districts throughout the province.
Despite the fact that some injury was
caused by cold weather in the latter
part of May and growth was retard-
ed in some sections because of lack
of moistiere, the general theme of
these reports reflects the promise of
abundant crops in a general way.ov-
er the province. Recent rains have
brought the meadows and pastures on
rapidly. Alfalfa, clover and hay
promise splendid crops in the mapor
ity of instances. Fall wheat is show-
ing excellent growth in most locali-
ties. Livestock is showing rapid im-
provement since going on the grass.
Early strawberries suffered by reason
of the early frost, but other fruits in
most counties are in a satisfactory
condition. Considering the vagaries
of the weather during the past two
months, the situation throughout On-
tario is very encouraging.
HOUSEHOLD DISCOVERIES
A Use For Wooden Meat Skewers.
I save all the meat skewers from
roasts, scrub them, and keep them in
a drawer with the dusters. I always
have them handy when cleaning out
corners. They are very useful for get-
ting
into the corners of windows,
s
stairs, cupboards, .enc., when cleaning.
Keeping the Floor Mop Clean.
I keep an old whisk 'beside my mops
and after shaking each time I whisk
it well—cleaning off all the durst at•d
fluff which has 'clung to the mop It
is then ready for the next cleaning
period.
Protecting Curtains.
During the summer, while 'the
screens are in the windows and the
curtains are apt to 'become soiled from
blowing against the screens, I tack
a clean piece of white tap,e from one
side of the window to the other—on
the inner side. This keeps the cur-
tains from whipping against the
screen—caving both laundry and wear
and tear.
When Driving Nails in Plaster.
Wh 'n you wish to drive nails into a
plaster wall, first immerse the nails
in hot water --until thoroughl,' heate'.l
—then the plaster will not break.
A Laundry Hint.
In my clothes pin bag I placed a
row of stitching down the- centre,
making two sections. Itt one side. 1
keep all the darker and older clothes-
pins, These I use for 'the stockings•
and dark colored clothes. On this side
of the bag I have marked "dark.' In
the other seetin I keep all the fresh,
4,f < < t .- , ,:..
new bet thespins'--for use with w'ilibe
and light colored clothes. On this side
of the bag I have marked "light"
Dripping Taps.
Instead of continually putting on
new washer's, try the following: Un-
screw top part of tap a little way and
put in two or three drops of oil.
Cleaning Varnished Wallpaper.
Wash Dupe 'with tea, ,then polish
with sweet oil and turpentine.
When whipping cream use your
double boiler, pot ice and salt in low-
er section and cream i apper. The
cream will whip much gtckerr and will
be almost frozen when ready to use
on cake ox dessert.
When flouring flesh, steak, liver,
etc., put the required amount of enur
in a paper bag, put in article of
food and shake the bag. This method
distributes the flour evenly and does
away with the washing of plates, as
the Vey can be burnt.
• Save the white strip on the end of
row of postage stamps. Comes in
wenhandy for sealing of envelopes
anti" small parcels, also useful as lab-
els on jape or marmalade jars; hold-
ing torn music together and the leaves
in books.
Every town in England ought to be
burnt to the ground.—G. B. Shaw.
GERMAN MULTI -MURDERER
TRACKED DOWN BY GIRL
Women are passing through the
streets of Dusseldorf these nights
with a feeling of security they have
not known for more than a year.
Whatever unpleasant mission any of
them may be on, they go at ,east in
the knowledge that they are not run-
ning the risk -of being murdered be-
fore they arrive. For the strangle
has been caught. The monster who is
known to have murdered at least 10
women and girls in Dusseldorf and vi-
cinity in the past few months is se-
cured behind stout steel bars. And it
is well for him, for crowds have gath-
ered outside the jail where he is a-
waiting trial and they mutter men-
acingly. Led by fathers and brothers
of the girls the madman has slitin
they would seize the first opportunity
of tearing him to pieces. It had se:em-
ed certain, until the man had been ar-
rested and questioned, that he was a•
maniac who would cheat the gallows
of its lawful prey, but now it, seems
that, while he is' insane in the sense
that every wholesale murderer reuse.
be insane, he is legally answerable for
his crimes. For any jury to. acquit him
now would lead to riots, probably at-
tended with loss of life.
The multi -murderer is Peter Kuer-
ten, a middle-aged man, who ap-
parently has spent several years in
prison for wttrious crimes of violence
but who until the day he was arrest -
'ed, was held in general respect by his
'acquaintances. He is a mason and has
been out of work for some months.
He lived' in a tenement in the center of
the city and a short time ago when
his wife became insane and was sent
to an asylum he received the sympa-
thy of many •pf his neighbors. It now
turns• out that she went mad schen he
had confessed to her that he was the
Dusseldorf vampire for whom the best
police in Germany had sought in vain.
Readers may recall reading in a o: --
mer article how this man would send
messages to the police and newspaper
offices telling them of contemplated
murders and even giving instructions
as to where they would find the bocies
of missing victims for wham they
were hunting. He seemed thoroughly
to enjoy this game. But once ne was
confronted with a victim who had es-
caped from him he made no further
pretence but made a full confession
With a kind of horrifying gusto. He
even confessed to a murder of thirty
years ago that had been forgotten.
If Kuerten has anything in his part
career to regret it is probably the` he
had mercy on one victim, for it was
she who tracked him down. This girl
had met a young 'marl who- promised
to take her to a home for girls where
she could spend the night. Instead
he took her into, a park where he made
proposals that frightened her. The
young fellow seemed to be on the
point of attacking her when an elder-
ly men came along and offered himself
as her protector. The younger man re-
treated and then the rescuer told her
that he would take her where she
wanted to go. But first, he said, they
would go to his house for supper. She
consented, and they ate together.
Afterwards they went out again and
soon reached the forest on the out-
skirts of the town where the afternoon
en -counter had taken place. Then he
suddenly turned on her and said,
"Nobody can see you. Nobody can
hear you. What would you do if I
tried to kill you?" The girl fell on her
knees and begged that he might spare
'her life. He seemed undecided for a
moment and then asked, "Could you
find your way to my house?" She
said d s
hecold not. c o . He then threw
' r cw
her on the ground hut offeree no fur-
ther violence and turned away, di,ap-
pearing among the trees.
At the girls' home, which she reach•
ed almost fainting with terror, the
told her story but nobody would be-
lieve her, thinking she was a half-
witted romancer, desiring to pose as
a kind of heroine. So she wrote an ac-
count of her adventure to a girl
friend. But the friend was no longet
at the address on the envelope and it
happened that after some wanderings
the letter fell into the hands of the
police. They immediately hunted up
the girl and she swore that her story
was true. They asked if shee
could
guide the•ni to the house where the
man had taken her and she said yes.
So the girl, with the police following
her, went tie the heart of the city and
the search began. But memory failed
her. The houses in the district were
much alike. She could not he sure.
Once she actually entered the right
house but led the police to, the wrong
floor. They became disusted and
abandoned the hunt.
But the girl was determined and
kept prowling about until finally she
saw her assailant. She followed )tine
and learned his name. Then she flew
'to the police. Again they entered the
house 'and the arrest was made. At
first Kuerten denied the crimes of
which he was Itemised, and was taken
to the station to be confronted with
another girls who had naurrow y escap-
ed death et the hands of the vampire.
Astonishing Guns
Shoot Food to Eat
Wheat and rice grains given
their most nutritious form
HERE are wheat and rice grains shot from
guns.! To give them a new deliciousness...
a more perfect digestibility.
First the choice, plump grains are sealed in
guns. Then revolved in fiery ovens. Then fired.
This causes 125 million explosions in every grain.
It blasts open every tiny food cell. Thus every
particle of the grain is made as completely diges-
tible as though it had been cooked for hours. And
so Puffed Wheat and Puffed Rice attain the virtual
nourishment of hot cooked cereals.
And what new flavoriness ... what delirious,
crisp crunchiness ... this wonderful invention
brings to wheat and rice. The grains are puffed
to 8 times normal size. They taste like' sweet new
nutmeats. They entice as
grain foods never have
before.
Serve Puffed Wheat and
Puffed Rice every day in
every way you can. Your
family deserves this finer
kind of nourishment. Your
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Quaker Puffed Wheat and Puffed Rice
She had previously been called upon
to identify her assailant dozens of
times as various suspects were arrest-
ed and always had failed. So she en-
tered the room smiling. She glanced
at Kuerten and her face paled. "My
God!" she exclaimed, "It is he." Kner-
ten made no further denials bat chat-
ted freely with the police. He said
that he had killed 'because he wanted
to avenge himself on humanity. Ask-
ed if .he felt no remorse after mur-
dering little children he ruled, "Herr
Commissioner, I slept far more quiet-
ly than you." The fact came to light
that Kuerten had previously. been
questioned by the police• in the course
of their hunt for the mysterious kil-
ler. A neighbor, it appears, hail
thought his actions suspicious and had
reported them. Police called on Kuer-
ten but he had been able to lull their
suspicion's{. So they left hie roums
without examining a closet in w4lich
could have been found garments that
Would have ended the quest then and
there and saved other lives. Kuerten
admitted that at the time of his cap-
ture he was about to resume his kill-
ings.
NEW CAR CHANGES MAINLY IN
'MOTORS
Hopes in Detroit are that tee bring-
ing out of new models will quicken
sales. There have been some new -car
announcements, but not many. Mult-
iple cylinder cars are to be featured.
Lower prices will krevail, win or lose
and there will be a multiplicity of col-
or combinations. Changes in the gen-
eral mechanical features will not be
noticeable with exception of the mot-
ors.
Factories are planning (vacations of
two weeks, which may be extended,
as it is now believed. that May was
the peak month -for the year. The fall-
ing off in sales in all but the lower
priced cars has been very noticeable:
Conditions have affected all makers
of parts and accessories, and com-
panies in the field are in the dumps,
These companies have depended for
quantity production through business
with the makers, and cutting down of
production has increased the cost so
that many have claimed to the writer
that every article sold to dealers and
jobbers brings a Loss.
As has been previously reported,
seven makers are making 76 per cent.
of the cars the other 25 �to30
makers are dividing 24 per cent. It
will be seen why the balance of the
makers are in the dumps.
Another report comes from a De-
troit' visitor, who placed an okay on
all that Ralph Allen, former head of
Duratex Company, said about the au-
tomobile metropolis. The gentlemen
who okayed Allen said that he never
saw 'Detroit so pessimistic, so badly
in the dumps, so 'blue, and. so alto-
gether dead.
. Detroit reports state that some
makers did not follow the rule of
manufacturing only to meet demand,
but gambled on the future. Storage
facilities are, themefo r, reported orte
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d to
-be scarce, and many makers are on
a two or three day per week schedule
in consequence.
Detroit has a mystery car on its
streets. It is described as looking
very much like•a miniature Lincoln of
custom-built 'body and somewhat on
the lines of the Ford sport phaeton.
Every luxury of a full grown automo-
bile ie. to be found in it. Le Baron,
Detroit, made the body. Lamps are
of French intake. Passengers in the
rear sit with their feet in spacious
wells. The instrument boards are of
solid mahogany and are faced with
cbreinium plated strips. The Model,
it is said, was built especially far
1' deet Ford on a Ford model A chassis -
and there will be no duplication.
Ilfutpp's two new lines are lower
prided. The new lines, include a 'New.
six -cylinder series and an eight -T,
cylinder. The new cars will be known
as the Century Six and the Century
Eight. Hupp now has five separate
lines.
Peerless at Cleveland has also an•
nounced a new line, its fourth. The
new models have a Weyman body on
a special Peerless chassis, a Peerless
straight eight motor and 125 -inch
wheel base.
Pierce -Arrow has a line just made
known that is lower priced than any
Pierce car ever made. The wheel base
is 132 inches and the horse -power is
113. There are three models.
Willys Overland has also made its
summer announcement—a new lower
priced Willys Knight.
Durant also comes out with a new
one, a four -door coach model.
There will be other announcements,
but it is said that in view of general
conditions some makes will withhold
announcing new models at this, time.
Used cars continue to be a glut nn
the market. Dealers are forced to
sacrifice to sell. Trade-in prices are
consequently low, and this. condition
costs dealers many sales.
Reports state that dealers are in
good shape as regards new cars on
hand. They have not been forced to
take cars as formerly and so have
kept stocks on the floor low. Working
as they are to -day dealers see a profit.
for the year, whereas the average
dealer in 1929 with prosperous times
is reported to have lost $20,000.
Export 'business has fallen off and
adds to the depression of the makers.
A recent passenger to Europe said
the captain told him that whereas in
days gone by he went out loaded with
motor cars he now had one and two
and seldom more. The docks along
the D.L. and W. Railroad at Hoboken
reflect the condition of to -day. Last
year boxed motor cars were piled high
daily, but to -day there are mighty
few to be seen.
HOW UNCLE SAM KEEPS
CANADIANS IN THEIR PLACE
With some bitterness for which
Americans, not Canadians, should be
ashamed, Mr. Leslie Roberts,'a Mon-
treal journalist,' contributes to Har -
per's Magazine ant article entitled,
"Step Uncle Sam." In it he reviews
the causes of a good deal of reeent-
ment against the United States the
istobe
foundCanada, in C oda andshows
sh s
that in all cases 'they arise from Am-
erican laws or the actions of Ameri-
can officers. Mr. Roberts wants to
know how long this is going to last,
and how far American officialdom will
go in alienating the good -will of her
hent neighbor and customer. We have
no answer to this. But it is a good
sign that an American magazine of
the quality of Harper's is hospitable
to 'Mr. Roberts' article and that the
consequences of American policy to-
ward Canada should be brought to the
attention of American readers. If the
Canadian hostility of which Mr. Rob-
erts speaks is not as widespread and
continuously felt as he seems to oe-
ev'
li e the reason is that Canadians
ions
havebeen good-humored or cynical
enough to dismiss most .of these' dis-
courteous *or even outrageous Anteri-
can acts with the word "politics." Nor
does Mi. ate/bents take account of the
undoubted' fact that these outrages
and discourtesies have the emphatic
approval of a considerable body of
Canadians.
The writer speaks of the Chicago
drainage steal of water that belongs
to Canada 'equally with the United
States; the prohibitive American tar-
iff; the restrictions on the border, and
the American liquor question. The
last Weed issuing as it did in the I'm
Alone and Shawnee cakes, is undoubt-
edly the most menacing to coaltinued
ordial relations as it is probably the
meat humiliating to 'Canadian pride.
Wlhen'.the gevernmeet put through its
bill to make it illegal for Canadians to
•
export liquor to the United Stag
members of parliament said that if
the request had come from British
Guiana it would have been contemptu-
ously refused. We think this is a fair
statement. One member wanted to
know how far American pressure in,
Canadian affairs was to be yieldei to.
He predicted that the pressure would
increase while its friendly citaraceer
would correspondingly abate. Tie
Prime Minister said that he would no
longer wish to conduct the affairs of
the government if parliament did not
sive him the authority to end a situa-
tion which was imperilling the good
relations of the two countries. In other
words, Ste» -Uncle Sam would fnake
things unpleasant for us if we did
not help him enforce his laws.
But we paint out that this ending
of the export liquor trade to the
United 'States at a sacrifice of per-
haps $30,000,000 annually had the en-
thusiastic support of all Canadian pro-
hibitionists. The fact that prohibi-
tionists in both countries can rise
above' national prejudices is one not
tie be lost sight of. Our own hope is
that the experiment, so "noble in pur-
pose" will either reach perfection or
be discontinued before Canada will be
asked, with a pistol caressing her ribs,
to give further assistance in the mat-
ter of enforcement. So strong are the
principles of prohibitionists that we
have little doubt that many of them
in both Canada and the United States
wouldi give hearty approval to an
American demand that all manufac-
ture of intoxicating liquor should
cease in this country in order that
there should be no leakage to the
United States, We remember thet at
the time the I'm Alone was sunk a
Ieading Canadian newspaper spoke of
the incident as a warning to Canad-
ians engaged in. a disreputable b'asi-
ness.
The most interesting item in the
indictment Mr. Roberts brings against
"Step -Uncle Sam" concerns Herbert ,®
Upjohn, a young Canadian newspaper-
man domiciled in Vancouver for many
years. He entered the Nniteri States
an a six months' permit which show-
ed that he was a British subject
though not Canadian 'born and bad a
good record. According to Mr. Rob-
erts he would have been an asset to
any country where he might have set-
tled, but he made the error of oyer -
staying his allotted six months in Los
Angeles, In consequence of this four
armed officers entered his hotel room
and carried him off to jail. Upjohn
protested that a little more considera-
tion might have been shown to a for-
mer war comrade, whereupon the in-
spector made what Mr. Roberts, rnsl
to think was an amazing reply, writ.
"So you're one of those guys who
think they won the war? You're gon-
na learn there's a place on the map
called the United States, and before
you're through with this ' country you
are gonna learn also that British Duu-
pire talk is as stale as a lousy cheese.
We make rules for Chinamen --'the
same rule goes for a Britisher."
In jail, Upjohn was associated with
people usually found in jails, the pop-
ulationbeingaugnentedat the
time
of his arrest by the human fish in
a dragnet that the police had spread
through the undeewarld in hope of
catching some unknown murderer ,of
a policeman. He was fingerprinted, ex-
amined by detectives, and finally sen-
tenced to be deported to the country
of his birth. Months followed with
iUpjohn in jail until the time came
for his deportation to go into etieot.
Then it was 'announced that he would
be sent to Shanghai for it happened
that Upjohn 'led beets born there. He
was refused peamrission to communi-
cate with his home in Vancouver, and
eventually be sailed for China in the
company of a gang of Chinese who
had been •calught while being smuggled
into the United States. Well may Mr.
Roberts ask in closing his article, "Is
there no end to Holly.?" And just as
wall we; may reply "Ne."
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