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SMi S MIPI s sea level a boom la the last thing that Cana- dians want. Mr. C. E. NelU, late President of the Canadian Bankers' Association, has Issued a warning against overspecula- tlon, and Is reported as saying: As yet there Is no boom In Canada. The future has not been overdlscount- ed, but let us keep a true perspective and endeavor to direct the develop- ment of our country along .sound Una, thus paving the way for permanent stability and good times. Returning to predictions of Can- ada's coming financial Independence, we find the New Y.ork Ilertald Tribune noticing the announcement of the Prosperity and Financial Freedom for Canada 80 clot* are the economic tiee be- twMn u* and our Northern nelKhbor, that recent reports of Canada's pres-l •nt prosperity and comhig financial I Indtpendence arouse nearly as much I tuterest an this side of the Canadian; bofder as on theother. Here we have •a expert of our own Department o( Commerce predicting that Canada Will, "at no very remote future," Join th* United States aa one of the credl' tor nations of the world. And this la backed up by the announcement of the Canadian Minister of Finance that government loans maturing this fall will be paid off out of the treasury. Instead of through borrowing from the American market. At about the •aroe time a Toronto dispatch appears Id the New York Evening Post, be- ginning as follows: liuprecodented mining and building activity, increased employment, a note- worthy Tolums ot external trade, heavier carloadlngs, and, most Import- ant of all, the prospect of a bumper wheat crop, all contribute to an un- usually bright .utlook tor the eecond halt of the year in all five of Caiiuda's •oonomic areas. Can.-idu's record of prosperity dur- ing the present summer has seldom been equaled In any similar period In the Dominion's history, declares J. C. Roylo, In one of his financial dis- patches for the Consolidated Press. To a largo extent, ho explains, "this Is due to the production of grain, and the prospect for the remainder of the year Is exceedingly bright." Indeed, this authority hears that In the wheat- growing prairie proTlnces, "employ- ment has reached a peak of 127.3, tak- ing one hundred as the Dve-year aver- age from 1922 to 1926." "So far as the future is concerned, Canada Is 'Bitting pretty,' " writes Charles L,. Shaw in Forbes: "its most serious problem of all con- tinues to be Bparsity of population and the lack ot an Immigration policy that gets Immigrants, but the people now resident in Canada are, by and large, enjoying a moderate but sound prosperity. The exodus from the in- dustrial centres to the United States, whl-'h threatened alarming conse- quences a few years ago, appears to have petered out. Labor conditions are better to-day than they have been In years, the tide o( Industry is rising fast, and almost every sign worth noting points to a continuance of biLslnevj betterment with out North- ern neighbour. Raw materials furnUb the key to Canada's future greatness, we read on, "for there are few countries In the world with access to such a colossal treasure chest of undeveloped re- sources, we are reminded. It has been estimated that |3, 031,000,000 of United States money Is now invested in Can- ada as against British Investments Of $2,110,000,000. Nearly half a billion dollars of American money went Into Canadian investments last year, and, "during the last five years a single New York flnanclal house has mar keted Canadian securities In New York worth $1,200,000,000." One Am- erican flnanclal group, according to Mr. Shaw, Is planning to spend $50,- 000,000 In what has hitherto been re- garded as a barren stretch of wilder- ness â€" the so-called Klln-Klon mining area In northern Manitoba. Much of tho Dominion's recent prosperity Ik due to Its mines. In fact, "tho valun of the country's mine output was $210, â-  000.001) in 1926: It lias trrblod since 1907." Hut Cnnada's mining dovolup- mont makes a lunc Htory hy itself, and Mr. Shaw goes on to nolo the extent to which United States dollars are be- hig Invested in Canada's pulp and papur industry. An uniiamod Cana- dian buslnais man Is quoted as say- ing : , Wo will in B tew years bo tho Iwad- ing gold-producing country in the world. Wh are already the dominant factor In the world wheat market, and su- preme In the production ot pulp paper tnd sevural other commodities of in- jreaslng Importance to humanity. No vonder Canadian Investments are fopular In the United States today. Further evidence of Canada's in- yeasing economic Importance is set town as follows: In 1014 Canadian cititens owned no |ovurnment aacuritiesi to-day a large percentage of Dominion and Provin elai government bonds are held by the people. Spectacular evidence ot the present piospcrity of the country Is seen in tho purchase by Canadians during the past y«nr of ir>9,000 motor cars, valued at $160,Ono,OOO^a fact whi<;h In Itself demonstrates that Can ada, besides being a ready absorber of American luvoetment funds. Is a customer ot no mean consequunce. A nation's backbone of progperlty ti usually to be found In its farm •"â- *** lands, and In llils respect Canada runs (rue to the usual form. Kur throe suc- cessive years the farmsrs of the ('ana- dlan West have enjoyed reasonably good harvests and havo rocelved fair! racelvfd a .snapshot of Princess Alice prices for their produce. taken while she spoke a few worda Canada labors under tho disad'van- 1 "''h *••'• tage of not having a cheap coal sup Midsummer Jaunt Over Snow Crime in London Only 4 Per Cent of New York Total Britons, Celebrating Centett' ary of Scotland Yani- Point to Speed of Justice "Bobbies"~A^e Unarmed AMID THE SUMMER SNOWS IN PARADISE VALLEY Successful Solution of All Murders in 1927is Cited London. â€" The celebration of Sc^t- ' land Yard's one hundredth birthday I has furnished the occasion for an ex- haustive analysis of England's victory over crime. The metropolitan police force was organized a century ago by Sir Robert Peel, whose name is preserved In the popular appellation "bobbies." It has been built up into an InaUtntlon of such efficiency that E^ngland now claims to be the least criminal natl'tn In the world. . How great la the difference in crime between British municipalities and those of other countries may be seen In a comparison between the two largest cities ot the world. New York and London. Citea New York Crime t^xnwj inc oumrficn oi-iwtt%j i i^ r-^\n/M^io& vnwL.i^i The total of all rrtmAfl In New York Summer heat holds no terror for these young women who are going tor a ride la the dog taxi In Rainier National Park, Washington, 6,567 feet above ^^^^ ^ populaUon of 6,000.000. during one fiscal year was 333,083. The total for London daring the same period ity The Prince Consort arrived In \ was 15.662, out of a populaUon of 7,- State and the aJTair began to move. 746,000. In other words, London's All the nations lined up on the cam- j weight of crtmlnalltr was pracUcallr pus outside the stadium. Then the ' < Per cenL that of New York. parade began with the countries filing j Closely associated with the London- __ „, in in alphabtlcal order, with the ex- e''* exnltaUon in this low figure is hla The Walter Boys, Members of the Olympic Team, Gave a ceptlon of Greece, whose athletes ! beUet that it la caused by • Two Interesting Letters Appear in Listowel Standard Personal View of Amsterdam That Throws Much Light on Conditions There STRANGE CUSTOMS Knowing that the following letters from Graham and John Walter, mem- bers of tho Canadian Olympic team, will be greatly enjoyed by the public Canadian Finance Minister, Mr. J. A. \ generally, we are pleased to publish Uobb, that "Instead of refunding some j ^Xicro. for the benelit of our readers. $53,000,000 In maturing loans through j we are borrowing in the American market this fall, the Dominion will pay oft windmills shooting their great fans like arms up into the sky. The Dutch people are both "very modern and very ancient narrow shipping streets it la caused by moral were the first to enter the great stad-l nither Uian armed force. The London lum In recognition of the fact that I I>o"ceman does not carry a revolver, they were the sons of the founders ' His only weapon Is a truncheon, or ot the Olympic games. Canada filed LiJlck, which he uses only when hs In about th.rd and I think that we [himself la attacked. The "bobby" Is looked about as hot. If not hotter, than f respected member of the commun- most of them. The crowds gave us ; "^ »nd usually a magnificent specimen There were 47 ' **' manhood. He walks unarmed into a wonderful reception. countries in all represented, and It Down the \ was most Inspiring to us ot the BriUah you see a Empire to see our flag appear In so these obligations out of the surplus in its treasury; he intimates further that from now on, for the next five years at least, the Dominion will be in a position to take up all of its loans in the same way." On which The Herald Tribune comments: Canada has had Its financial diffi- culties in the years since tho war, but to-day, from a flnanclal standpoint as well as from an economic standpoint, it stands on the threshold ot the great- est prosperity that it has known. The sheik dressed in the height ot fashion many different forms and carried by followed by a fellow-countryman with ' go many different races ol people: j \\ e are indebted to the boys for the j « mtie tight coat and pants at half- i AustralU, Rhodesia, Ireland, Scotland, privilege: (Listowel Standard.) | mast, or a workman dressed In a lea- , England, India and Canada. aU belong- ther suit and knee pants and wearing jng to one great family and all recog- big wooden shoes; and what wooden ' nizing in each other one great fratem- shoes they are. Some are plain, some ity of nations. Yes, the old Emplrs Amsterdam, Monday, July 28, 1923 Canadian Olympic Team: What a time we have trying to find time to write letters! We work out twice a day and have to be In bed nt 10 o'clock, so with a bit ot sightseeing our days are more than full. Amsterdam is a very Interesting place and I've seen more things to I are varnished, and some have steel I laces riveted into the wood which \ ' make them real snappy. They are : I very curious and follow us around ' ] with monotonous regularity. The I other night a number ot us parked will take a stiff breeze to shake It. and wherever the flag files the sympathy ot all and the good wishes ot all are centred there. Walters, yes they have them In Holland, but they are the worst la wonder at in this place than you can ! '° ''â- Â°"' °' * '''^ theatre and sang < the world. imagine. On Sunday Jack and I took ! ^'""^ °' °'"' '«'^" «°°8«- '^^^ "^"^^ Must close now. Best to all. a canal boat through the canals and «"' '° ''^''S® '^*' ^''8° ">® theatre I JACK. harbor of the cltv. We saw the old- P''°P'« ^««^'»° '° ^ome out they could » present step In its dobt-flnnncing Is a i est parts where the houses hang per- 1 "°' «f' P"^' "*«â-  ^°°"- ^he cops were 0-_|.- F-vravaf A definite recoBnltiou of this fact, kIbmI- lloualy over tho water and the only ! ""'''' "«''• â- *"*» '*>«"â-  swords, not I^ICUIS IJXCaVaiC tying as It does, that the Dominion , approach to the front door Is a small ^'''°"^' '^^^ managed to clear a pass has not only been able to balance Itn I boat of some description which they 1 "â- **' budget without borrowing, but to pay off, as well, a substantial volume of maturing Indebtedness. To those who have watched the progress ot Canada economically In recent years It will come as little sur- prize that the Minister of Finance Is able to report that, while taxation Is being steadily reduced on the one hand, the Oovernment Is thus able to dlRchnrgo ita outstanding Indebted- ness as It muturuH, on the other. The <'on(lUHlon (hat Canada has I Picts' ViUage anchor to the door knob. The streets | One of the boxers we used to train are all very narrow and the mass of with in Ottawa "Y" met me in the Site of New Archaeological humanity that struggles up and down lia'l to-day. We were both surprised ; Discoveries Is Skail Bay them every night Is unbelievable. '<• see each other so far from Metcalf â-  '' Every third person, man, woman and Street. Don Carrick Is a mighty fine child, rides a bike and how they rido! | ''hap. We havo had a great deal ot This Is the queerest place with the ', '"" on the square in front of the queerest customs. Imagine seeing a , Queen's palace with a Dutch "artist?" cart on tho street with a Jar of living, â-  «'ho attempted to draw a sketch ot Carrick. the most dangerous quarters of tho East End of London. Ha has been known to arrest six men who attempt- ed to attack him merely by wielding his baton assiduously. Swift Justice In Britain The Londoner believes that much ot the crime In America Is caused by the fact that the police are an armed force. Violence, he thlnka, breeds violence. In England ths two nndoubtedlr major factors which conduce to ths reduction ot crime are the succeastol detecUon of crime by Scotland Yard and other police organisations, and the prompt JusUce meted out to ths olfenders. In the metropolitan area of London last year not a single mur- der was left unsolved. In every caso the murderer was uncovered and brought before the court Criminal Justice is far taster !n Eng- land than oivil Justice. It Is no un- usual event for a criminal to be tried, convicted and hung within four weeks ot the commission of his crime. Such rapld-flre punishment deters prospec- tive criminals from Insurrlng the risk ot a like fate. squirming eels in it and on asking the piiKhcr ot the cart what the eols are have him swallow It like a raw egg or an oyster. That's what thev rendiod the capital-exporting stage Is • '^° ''^'"" ^ero. Another common sight liused on the roctn statement of Ray I *^ '" "^^ "" "''' '^'"'"^'n 'n Dutch cos- Hall of tho United States Department '""'" ''ennlng small ficli on the street ot Commerce that Canada's present ' "''>'<'•' »l'a soll.s to passeraby tor 10 position 'Is vwry similar to that of j 'â- ^"''' **"' ®"t Ihem raw aa wo would the United Slutos during the la.st years I " < liocolate bar. prior to tho World War"; it is "the! On ray Blight acquaintance with the position of a so-callod debtor nation Dutchcr I would say that his chief which Is rmliirlng Its old debts to foreign Investor.s or Is making new foreign Investmt'iits of Its own In an aggregate volume Breeding that of Its now borrowings from abroad." As The Herald Tribune remarks, "no clearer Indication could be asked ot the Dominion's approaching financial independence." â€" (Mterury Digest.) pleasures are to be found in beer par- lors and In music. Every third place is a saloon and every saloon has its orchestra; that his chief characteris- tic Is InquiHltivencss; crowds collect and tiillow you everywhere; that his favorite pets are dogs (you have to watch your step); that his best food is bread and butter; that the day ot in Orkneys Glasgow. â€" Archeologlcal discoverers ot great Interest have Just been made on the Skara shore of Skail Bay in the Orkneys. A prehistorla village of huts connected by winding subterra- nean streets has been laid bare. | _. The Ofllco of Works Is conducting ^reat the excavation operations on a gorup ot Picts' houses under the direction ot Prof. V. Gordon Childe of Edin- burgh University, an archeologlst tamili.ir with prehistoric Scotland. The lati'st tliid is a new chamber or hut. whh-h i.; in a better state of preservation thiui tho one examined < ^T«at trecks that by Petrie In ISl'O. For the first time | African history. the relics and the construction ot one I Some 300 families, comprising 1,843 of these wonderful structures have | persons, with 340 wagons and 15,000 been accurately observed and photo- animals, who for the past two genera- graphed. Much pottery has been un- j tlons have suffered hardship, will earthed, including a number ot quaint- ' make a new beginning. They are the I saw the now stadium yesterday, and It Is undoubtedly the finest ot its kind In the world, although I believe til. track is slow. \\'t' took a trip to Utrecht yester- day, the city where the English and Krench settled their argument over Canada many years ago. We were in an old Church which was built about the time that Old King John( one of my nnmesakes) signed the Magna Charta. There la a tower in this city built in i:i00 and la something like 386 feet high. A bus took us through Zeist to Dome, whore Kaiser Bill lives. Wo did not see ohl Bill, but got a picture ot his groundsman, and ly ornamented sherds never previously j Angola Boers in the Portuguese West stole a rose troiu his spacious estate. We were afforded a wonderful oppor- tunity to see the country lite x>t Hoi- Wholesale Moving 1500-Mile Trek of 300 Families Across South Africa to Take 1 2 Months Barkly West, 8., Africa.â€" Within next few months there will begin what may be regarded as ths last ot the have made South! seen, but which are expected to help African territory, whom the Union th approximate dating of the site. i Oovernment has graciously allowed to South African Item of Interest Here A clipping from a South African paper covering a recent visit to Itus- , temburg, Transvaal, of the Governor- 1 '''"''''"â-  ''"'*^' ""nsarians. Esthonlans, ' Irish, Finns, and a lot ot others whose countries I cannot spell, but It Is a wonderful sight and the "sign" lan- guHge Is the universal language around the wodden shoe Is passing but not . land in a drive from Utrecht to Am- Bono; that their hospitality Is Second "terdam. The landscape is dotted to none and the warmth of their recep- with Holsteln cattle, and not a single tlon never to be forgotten. fence soparates the many herds. It I've been taking pictures at the appears that many ot tlie little sluices stadium of Americans, Australians, or canals are quick sand at the bot- tom and at the calf age the animal is The excavations when completed will probably reveal an entire village with streets, passages and gallerlea. Alice includes a paragraph of Inter- j est to residents In Vancouver. The paragraph reads: "Her Royal Highness Princess Alice haa accepted a sketch of the Gover- nor-General and Her Royal Highness from Miss Carrie Hicks, daughter of Mr. F. Hicks, formerly a well-known member of the criminal invf-stlgHtion department and now of Itustemhurg municipal staff. 'I'his gifted girl ot 17 lias bad no Instruction In her art, here. Sincerely, thrown into the water and given an eperlence with the treacherous quick sand, a hard lesson but a lasting one. The little canals can hardly be seen, but they are all over the land. Yester- day I saw what was very tunny to me. A herd ot cattle was grazing on the land at the bottom ot a twenty-foot cliff. At the top of the hill all types The last time i wroto you a letter nt shlp.s were moving along the canal. I guesH we were on the S.S. Albertic, | A tree had fallen across the road and Wo docked nt South.tmpton and took It looked like a long delay as the a train to London, whore we put up Dutch workers in their wooden shoes; tor the day at the Hotel Cecil, about proceeded to cut the tree in GRAHAM. Amsterdam, July 28, 1928. yet, iha ha. already won a London | ^^^g f^„^^^ ' hostelry in London. We 1 sections in order to clear the highway Miss Hicks hat relativos in Canada, an uncle, Mr. Adam Hicks, a well- known pioneer of Vancouver. In a | regent loiter from his niece. Mr. Hicks ply near Its main industrial lone, but , Men are not flattered by being this is offset in part by the great pos- shownthat there has been a dlffer- ilbllltles ot water power, and, besides, ' enos of purpose between tho Almlgh- •the oil and tar sand deposits ot north- ty and them.â€" Abraham Lincoln. am Canada are promising as a factor, ♦ In the country's Industrial future." Ths Philadelphia company which And yet, Mr. Shaw sayt: has aitabltshad an office In a mono- Canada N not booming. Frnspiirity plane shows that It Is not disturbed la based on somethlag sooodsr <ui4 S^ut • firmer toandatioa for the bual- uors Uating than a boon, u faot, nsss of avlatloa. Raw a great deal ot London from the on which the traffic was already piling ' bark of a rah. We had a good work- : up. The 30 odd Canadians with plo- ! I out at Stamford Bridge. The trains ! noer initlativa peculiar to the race hers are really fast and we got ta!(that'a good) took hold of the tree Harwick in a hurry. There we em- and dragged it off the road, leaving, barked on the good ship "Archangel" the Hollanders standing In their 1 for Rotterdam. It was on this ship j wooden shoes with their mouths open, I that we got our first taste ot second- staring at us dumbly as wo whisked class passage. It sooms that we were ' by in our big bus. hooked to sail the following evening! since tho above was written some flrst class, but the committee were I time has intervened in which yours anxious to land us in Holland as early as possible, and as a result we slept In places over the propeller. A bunk â- room with two portholes is plenty hot for me, but no one was any the worse for It. The trip from Rotterdam to Am- truly has beheld the greatest spec- tacle of his young career. The "Par-.- ade ot Nations" in the Olympic Stadi- ""oet some nice dogs." um at Amsterdam was beyond a doubt one of the greatest In the history ot athletics. Every seat In the vast stadium was filled and the bleacher settle in* South West Africa. Only a small number are well off. ! The greater number are needy. They I win receive a loan of £350,000, free { ot Interest. Each family Is to get a ' farm ot about 16,000 acres In extent. I For the flrst five years ot occupation ' they will be lessees, and thereafter . the purchase may be paid In 80 years. ' In cash each family receives £400 to £800 for house, bere-hole, windmill ' and dam. The cattle advances must be repaid within five years. The tew i who possess £1,000 or more, are al- I lowed to take up land on the sams conditions as any ordinary settler. I Some ot the families will have ta . trek 1.600 miles by wagon before ' reaching their allotted farms. No farmer may introduce any live stock ^ from Angola, so that when tho Kuuena I River Is reached all animals must be ^ j disposed of. At the drift the Admiuis- The apple crop ot Canada for 1938 tratlon of South Africa wlU assum* is estimated at 3.167,380 barrels, an ' ^>»« responslblUty of tho continuauo* Increase over 1987 of about 860.000 : »' "»» "«''• » 'wther distance ot 700 barrels. miles, truly a formidable undertaking, when the desert nature of the terri- tory to be crossed is considered. The trek will then be continued la batches ot three group.s of Ave wag- ons each, every fortnight. According to the prepared schedule the greatt rek will occupy about 13 months to complete. « ! Industries Increasing in Old I Country? I In the course of his presidential ad- dresg at the annual meeting of the Chamber of Shipping ot the United Kingdom at Rugby, Sir William Baager said there were algns that a revival to a state of comparative prosperity might b» expscted before long. If the heavy industries were moving slowly toward prosperity, they were none the less moving. Ths expansion of thirty-four new Indua- tries, involving the additional employ- ment ot 874,000 people, was a most en- seVeral \ ouraglng sign. No motorist will contend that the petrol retailer should not be granted a reasonable profit. -â€" "♦ â-  Cirnco: "I'm going to enter Kido In the dog show next year." Mabel "Do you think he'll win?" "No, but he'll An International expedlt'on organi- zed In Russia pla -s to explore the unknown territory ot the higbotrt Bterdam is very interesting with the \ section was ons huge mass ot human- mountains In that country. Salesman (to man buying completa gardonlug equipment) â€" "You'll want one of these syringes for green fly.** Amateur Gardenerâ€" "Yes â€" er â€" I scp Now â€" â-º^.-^vhere do i tat tha grueu fly?" * *'.