The Blyth Standard, 1930-04-17, Page 7Farmers Not So
Badly Off, Says
Wheat Pool Head
''Already Received $1 a Bushel
on 1929 Crop, and Got
Very Fair Price in
1928
Winnipeg —Before "embers of the
Riwanis Club here, Colin Ii. Burnell,
President of the Manitoba Wheat
Pool, declined emphatically that when
Provincial Cloverumonts gave a guar-
antee to the batiks On behalf of the
Pool, they (Ih] not risk a dollar of the
people's motley,
The Pool has moot roes of $30,000,-
000 in the Wlneat trade, and is pre-
pared to back its commitments with
this 011101(01,
11 is inconceivable that all this
money can he lost on tate year's trans-
actions ,leaving the detleietey to he
made good by the governments, he
sold. Natural and artificial conditions
last year put the Pool in a difficult
p08111011, declared 111x. Burnell,
importing countries, such as Ger-
many, France, and Italy, had unusual•
ly heavy crops. And 'hest countries
levied a tux on foreign wheat of '77
cents, 51 cents and 73te cants, re-
spectteely.
An nnuuually largo crop gave Euro -
peau buyers power to postpone' their
purchases, "li'n'ing the exporting sea•
son of 1929,' said Air, Burnell, "the
price of Argentine wheat was at times
34 cents lower than that of No, 3
Northern, 11100411 ht milling value it
was only about three cents 1010,
A small group of 011poter"' ((1111' con•
trot the Argentine market in emelt the
ammo way, as he claimed, three com-
panies controlled the Winnipeg mar-
ket before the formation of the Pool,
This eu11ble0 wheat to be thrown on
the market at low piece.
The Pool steadfastly pursued its
policy of selling when it has custom-' ferendunl may be accepted as a great
er8, (listend of forcing quantities on to 1 advance over enytlirrg previously ob-
tained, And because in the geue•a1
election preeeetling the refcreedunl
the main battle will ha fought on the
iesue as to whether the referendum Is
to bo applied, he inferentially pro-
mises that propaganda will be main-
tained with redoubled energy.
Empire Crusade
Is Being Renewed
With Fresh Vigor
Beaverbrook Returns to Cam-
paign for Imperial Free
Trade
Loudon. --Alter a more or less quiet
period following former Premier Bald -
pronouncement on the food tax
and with respect to 0 relereulum on
Gib' vital question, Lord Bente'brook
and his newspapers are resuming the
Empire Crusade campaign with fresh
vigor,
From the standp0tnt of the Domin-
ions there is special interest in Lord
13eaverbrook's definition of what the
crusade alngan means whoa applied to
the Anglo -Dominion phase,
Imperial Free Trade
In a public address Lord Beaver-
grook''d0o1are11: 'By Empire free
Trade I mean unrestricted free trade
between Great Britain and the Crown
Colonies and between the Dominions
and the Crown Colonies with a tariff
wall against the foreigner.
'Between the Dominions and Great
Britain I propose a system of limited
partnerships with the largest pleasure
of free trade possible, but Ido not sag•
gest the abolition of tariffs imposed
for revenue purposes nor do I propose
tiat the Do liniots remote those
duties which protect their economic
Industries.
"Tho realization of oar policy de-
mands not only an entire freedom to
impose taxes on foreign manufactured
goods, but also of foreign foodstuffs,
because without this we have no bar-
gainilg power with the Dominions,
unit no mecum of restoring prosperity
to the various branches of agrlc111(010
ll England; and the whole fabric of
Empire Free Trade falls to the
ground."
Lord Beaverbrook says that the re -
the option market, Bald Mr, Burnell.
`11 is not the intention of the 1'001 to
gamble with the farmers' wheat,
"1'he Pool has entered the option
mark01 only four theca since its for -
elation.
"Even if the worst comes to the
worst, 1110 farmer has hail a very fair
price for his 1920 crop, and for last
year's crop, he has already received
$1 a bushel," concluded Mr. Burnell.
Canada's Exports
To France Gaining
French Taking More Interest
in Dominion and Plan
Holidays Here
Although ('0110000 087011 trade witJ1
Frame reached gratifying proportions
during the past year, 1930, it is be-
lieved, will see a now record establish-
ed, according to he G. Dastous, presi-
dent of the Canadian section of the
British Chamber of Commerce at
Paris, who is in.lilontroal visiting earl -
flus Industrial coece'm5,
Mr. Dastuns, a native of Montreal,
stated that never in lner trade rela-
tions with Franco had Canada colt-
olnded so successful 0 year, In tine
12 months commencing January 1,
1929, exports to Prance totalled $33,-
b40,:157, whereas 1111928 the figure was
1(;24,040,958,
"The percentage of gain in the ten-
tage of exports to France in 1929, as
compared with the previous year, le
81111 greater," Bir, Daslons said.
"From 357,142 tons in 1928 we have
reached 591,38t tons la 1929, an in -
To Placate Dominions
Lord Ilotn'erbrOolc's explicit declare.
lion against any attempt to remove
protection of Mclust13100 so far as the
Dominions aro concerned, should 1'e•
duce some elements of suspicion over.
seas.
In sharp eorfrast to 11110 declaration
Is Lord Salisbury's letter to 1'10
'fillies, wherein ho bestows his bless-
ing on Empire Free Tracie as a won-
derfal ideal, but as too distant of ae-
cOmplialuneet to 001e British (mins•
try, whleh, he holds, demands Immol-
ate rationalization and ntok'nizati0n,
`i'11e weakness of Lord Salisbury's ar-
gument is that It will probably re•
quire as much time to achieve the tat-
ter as to obtain the former a1d if the
British 011aatfon is so urgent, nothing
can prevent both being attempted con.
currently.
The Daily Express carries a feature
which Ilclades Illuminating figures re-
garding the proportion of Empire and
foreign products 110701'ted 10to Great
Britain; and 1n collection therewith
has pointed comment, It asks why
this should not be changed to "all Brie
Ugh." For instance Britain imports
mutually £30,000,000 worth of foreign
wheat, whereas the Dominions and
the British agriculturalist have a sur•
pias sufficient to supply that amount.
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London Still Leads
piens. of 65 per cent, In the last de- Auckland Weekly News: Although
(he baulk rate in London is the same
endo the nearest approach to these as it was a year ago, the prospects
are vastly different, The maelstrom
of speculation in the United States
long -
°01'.1 year and w0 are justified in has been quelled, Now )voile no
0r offers high rates for the world'0
thinking that 1910 exports to France ( mo 3,, ain't London has regained its
will reach the billion mark in francs.' position a0 the 011-atea1 centre of
figures was in 1927 when the towage
was 398,333.
"Undoubteilly 1929 has been a re
10 reviewing these figures, Mr. Das -
toes said 11 was gratifying to 'tote
Wet the/0010000 in Canadian 0xpo't0
is not only creditable to cereals, but
also the manlier of other commodities,
"It exports to Prance have of late
years been on tho upgrade and with
such encouraging prospects prevailing
to -day, it is partly due to the favorable
pcopagauda, -not only from official
quarters, but from the Canadian Na -
110001 and Canadian Pacific Railways
and Canadian banks which are in
Pae,
"Tourist traffic from France to Can-
ada Is lncrea0ieg, and several hundred
have already taken bookings to spend
their h01111(ys fu Canada this summer.
"Tide activity at home Is supported
by leading Frenclunon who by i00an0
of orticl00 in the 1/0003, lectures, have
done much to spread 1110 fame of the
Dominion through France:"
Government Railways
fereel1wv Argus: That the principal
business of a Minister of Railways
cou0i010 10 refusing applications fo$
Increased pay is a lesson which Mr.
C. W. 11101011 took a long time to learn.
Even to -clay 0130 mantle of Mr. Jagger
site uneasiy on his shouders. Bat
he really does appear to understand
at last—though wild horses would not
drag from 111111 an admission in 00
many words—that the requests which
pour in from all sides, palhetlo,
minatory, or pseudo -economic, have
to be dealt will' firmly tutees ha in
prepared to see rho whole railway
System reduced to nta11kruptob
gravity, Instead of 01(104011(y and
apprehension, there are now ease and
lrangullity, with substantial rea0ou0
for expecting a period of stability.
"'Vulgarity, not rusticity, Is the op-
posite of good•mauhere"—Dasa Inge,
"Just as the tear increased the
wealth of the Celled States, so it 101111-
tiplled their woalnesses."—Andr0Tan
diem
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The Most Popular Babe in the Empire
THE LiTTLE PRINCESS WHO MADE THE GUARDSMAN DIZZY
Marcus Ailoms, lite great English photographer of children, sent this
lovely study of Princess Elizabeth Lo 7,1r, Charles Ashley, president of lire
Ontario Photographers' Association, it response to a haus-Atlaatie telephone
conversation 10 which err, Ashley asked for the loan of some 700100110 0C
royal children to arouse interest la the coetest0 beteg run by the Photo-
graphers Association of America to discover elle most attractive child in
America and in Ontario, respectively. The little 7131110000 recently discov-
ered, In Buckingham Palace yard, that every time she passed the guardsman
o10 0outry-go, ha presented axing to her, And before the nursemaid discov
orad the situation, the little priece03, by (.rotting back and forwards in front i
of the 000'07,', had run the poor fellow nearly ragged.
This Age of
False Values
'7110 £1.2,000 paid to the victor of
the Scott -Sharkey 11401 for a compara-
tively brief appearance In the prize
13104 serves to illustrate lite utterly
false values which tate modern wood`
places 00 its workers,' says the Sun-
day No1118, London,
"A 101111 w'Iio by natural gift and in-
dustrious training can be made para-
mount in the linking genie can amass
a fortune in a few years. The plan
who as Prime Minister has to should-
er tine cares of at Empire, or as .Lord
Privy Seal has to 1100 some solution
of one of the most ghastly problems
which confront the 11 11111011 mind, mist
be content with a mere five thousand
a year, out of whicll he ((lust pay largo
stuns to Maintain '110 dignity of 1110
01111;0,
Sharkey received about -£1,300 a
minute. Dl', J.. If. Thomas's salary
works eat at Veil, a minute,
"!Most boxers leave the ring the
richer, Most statesmen leave office
the poorer. That is the stark fact.
"Not that one would try to value
the brains of those who strive to bring
peace, order and good government by
the pound sterling. That would be
fatal, and It would also be futile be-
cause statecraft is only one of the few
1111.000(00 in which this gl'u'ing in-
equality of false values f0 apparent.
"One does not need to be a Bolshe-
vik, or even a Socialist to realize that
there is something wrong with the
social 0001)001y of the nation that pays
£30,000 a year to the comedian who
make0 it laugh and rho sumo sum to
the entire staff of a coal Write who
daily flirt with death to keep the home
fires but'uittg.
"Is the film star of Iloliywood as
valuable 10 the co11unnnity as those
employed on a score of big farms who
keep a town fed by their united ef-
forts? Yet the reward is the same.
"It wee Disraeli who said, '13ritain
clan never begin again.' Probably not,
but if site and other nations ever do
this question or false venues will be
the lig problem.
"There are not likely to bo :010,000
a year 11111000 or £5,000 a year farm
laborers in the new Dream State any
more alma there are likely to bo £2
0 week boxers or film stars, but there
might be that sense of proportion
which would sate the future com-
munity front some of the odium and
ridicule which one present 0001111 sys-
tem invites by its fatuous lack of
that most priceless of gifts—perspec-
tive."
Lost Opportunities
Singapore Free Press: (A Dutch air -
has 'leen opened bel worm Singa-
pore and the Dutch Iast Indies), Our
Dutch neighgors have now begun the
establishment of ono of inose feeder
titles whichare the blevilable and
necessary adjuncts of Ino ;rent 1017or.
ial lino from London to Sydney. That
feeder lino should have been 0atal•
lisped by British enterprise 011d 11 is
a matte' for genuine regret that the
opportueity has been lost. As it is
the Dutch Company is already talking
of extending the line to Rangoon, and
that line also Is Duo which legitimate-
ly Is within our 0711010 if only our
merchants and oar Government had
the courage and foresig01 to under-
take It. , , , Thus 1to shall have the
melancholy spectacle of tit Imperial
liners arriving at the greatest British
junction in the Far East and 'linable
that all the feeder lines to and from
that junction are in the bands of for-
eign colnpaues,
Autoists Declare I Explorer to Seek
Chains Not Needed ` Trace of Fawcett
Royal Auto Club Told of Ex-
periments on Streets in
Winter
in order to ascertain tlhe value of
chitin' In hinter driving, the Royal
Antouobile Club of (11000a asked
their menthe's' to give opinions and
nanny took advantage of Ole requee1
to relate their exporlonees. Ie gen•
oral the letters reeefvod showed that
motorists did not, see the necessity
for chains 0011 found that safe 0110(08
leas quite possible without their use.
E.kcerpl'1 from three typical letters
follow:
"Inuring this winter 1 have driven
((11110111 cha1as. It is the first time
in 11 years 1 have done so, and ex-
cept fcr a. few occesiens when nego-
tiating lulls 1 have had no more trete
bio than with chains. I approached
corners w11h care, and never follow -
e11 another cul' too closely, if toe toad
was ley 1 reduced my speed, I used
my brak00 against my motor to slack-
en speed and if I had a tendency .o
slid I declutched and dirt not apply
the brakes. I carry a pair of chains
in case I get caught It deep snow or
have to pull myself 01'00 a very Icy
place, Driving 01911001 chains 18 0
matter for the individual driver."
In Hare Cases
"1 do not think. chains 1(0000saty
e10001 1n rare ca0ee 00 a help in lily
Ing (Mellish deep snow or mud, I do
net think that the use of chains pro-
motes eafety for I believe they give
to malty ease;, a false 50080 Of scour. 1
itv. l have Duly t -sed chains a few I
times Turing seven or eight years of
driving 01111 I have conte to the coir
dusem that, as long 00 01310 11'11308
carefully taking into consideration the
condition of lite (1100)s, it is 1101 nee. �
es.,ary to use chains."
Tread Gives Traction
"For five winters I have ex110r1-
meeted with and without chains be-
cause 1 live on the Lime( Level, In
Montreal, and am obliged to des-
cend or aseeud fairly steep inclines.
If the tiros are 001 W010 0mo0111 1
believe that tho tread effete better
traction than chains "
Brake Theory Changes
Unbeknown to many 010101' car
buyers, there has been a tendency re-
cently to divide the braking force be-
tween front and rear '.wheels 111 such
a way that the former take the great•
er portion of It, 111 some I101000e8
the percentage being 00.40. The rea-
son given for the change should be
clear to Most car owners, It is that
in deceleration more of tine weight of
the car is thrown in the front wheels
with the result that they can take
more braking force without skidding.
"hour quarts used to make one gti-
lant—now they maks a dozen rough,"
The Better World
Cairo Sphinx: The theory that
since the War there 1100 been a sud-
den moral npllfe and faith it better
things Is difficult to reconcile with
growing patronage of 01,4111 chubs and
the fatting off of church congrega-
tions, to say nothing of the palp0rfsnl
of those who run hospitals and the
aiiiuelce of those who tun places or
pleasure.
"But, any dear, whatever rho you
want will another new 00013" A new
hat, darling"
Capt. A, H. Morris to Head
Party Into Jungles of
Brazil
',melon --Tho phantom trail of Col.
P. IC, Fawcett, noted British explorer,
will be taken en la April by Capt, A.
If, Morris, who said 0n No ave of
1110 departure for Brazil's jungles, he
hopes to prove conclusively w1101(1er
Fawcett 10 alive or dead,
"I shall sail for Rio de ,Janeiro
shortly and there enlist a bat-dfu1 of
natives who risked their Ryes with
me before," Cate, 1/101010 said. "I
intend then to matte for Paraguay.
:11y last message to civilization will
bo from Black Horse Camp,
"From there I expect to pick up
110(0s of Fawcett. The stories of
his fate seem unsatisfactory, I have
travelled so much in Brazil, rho na-
live0 Blow me. We will, 1 hope,
glean something front them."
Col, Fawcett, experienced In South
American jungle exploration after 13
years spent In expeditions there, dis-
appeared in the slimmer of 1925 fn
the strange fastnesses of the ICulin000
River region of Brazil. 170 1110 ac-
companied by his sou, Jack, a youth
of 21 at the time, and another young
Englishman named Raleigh 18)111011.
Fawcett was seeking to prove South
America the "cradle of ctv11101) fon,"
Fascinating Troll
Capt, Morris, who is one of several
who have sought to 110)1 the end of
1'awcett's elusive, fascinating trail,
referred to the reports 1(10 explorer
had been killed by 11081110 tribes.
"Cot. Fawcett may have been 11111 -
ed," he said. "111 that case we ex-
pect to tied some h'aees of 0101—at
least his bones. Ile 111000 probably
was overtaken by fever and deserted
by ids followers,
"'There Is a possibility of his being
alive and searching for the lost Con-
tinent of Atlantis.
"Also, 11 f.0 possible he underwent
hardships so terrible that hie reason
was temporarily affected. I believe
he may shit he lost in the wilds of
the interior."
Captain elorris said Ile had recefv-
ad a letter from a spiritualist elafm•
lug to have had a "spirit message"
from Fawcett saying he had died of
fever.
Morris anticipates ho will be 801110
at least six months after he leaves
Black I-Lorse camp on the way to 1110
interior near the border of Paraguay.
Quebec to Widen
Electricity's Use
Quebec ---A plan to promote 1110
greater use of electricity in rural Que•
hoe is embodied in a hill introduced
Into the Legislature b•1' 1110 provincial
Premier, L. A. La0chel'eau,
The chief difficulty In 1.110 way 01
farmers obtaining electrical energy
has 110011 rho cost 1t establishing
transmission lines. The Government
and the hydro power companies have
Neon working out. a scheme to widen.
the circl eof those far I1 the country;
able to enjoy benefit, accruing from
elle numerous water powers of the
province,
'191e Government bill provides that
municipalities may without it refe'-
euchuu borrow 50 per rent. of the
money required to extend transutis-
sion lines into new territory, At
business develops tine pew'00 coli-'
patties will absorb the cost of these
, tines.
'1'0e electrical companies have been
sending demonstration cars through.
tate rural areas to show how electrical
aids make 1 B easier for 1110 Hunner
and 1110 housewife. They have found
the Linters so interested that they
propose to carry on n 10 years' caul•,,
palgn to extend the use Of 0ledrlelty
fin rural parts,
.HONOR~
10 the estimate of honor, w0 should
learn to value 1110 gifts of nature
above that of fortune; to esteem in
our 1)0100tors the qualities of 00(1013';
and to pronounce the deecentlant of 11
king less truly noble than the oft.
spring of a 0011 of genius, whose writ-
ings will instruct or delight the latest
posterity.—Gibbon.
MIRTH
Man without mirth is like a wag -
you without springs, in which one is
caused disagreeably to ,jolt by every
jezaylumh over 1(111011 It runs,-
1lenry IV'ord Beecher,
17. 1i, yloetroypd Warwlok ereat0a effective etuuka 8creeu 4urin4 oomhlned Briti01 float ulanoeuvrai in Modlterllaman0 reQ11 tjipas