Port Perry Star, 14 Nov 1929, p. 6

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Position to Play Big % Part > -gptom . x One of Canada's proudest achieve- ments commercially is her status as fifth in international commerce. Not only is Canada capable of supporting | herself, but she has a wealth of pro-| duction for which other countries all over the world are clamoring, In over 130 different countries, Canada, which! ordinarily to the inhabitant would be | regarded merely as a space on the map, and a background for thrilling adventure stories, becomes a reality in Canadian goods which are display. ed for sale and which they buy as commodities or luxuries. Ships sall the Seven Seas carrying Canadian ®oods far and wide, and in return bring back to us the choicest of dis- tant dands. Two of the main clients of the Do- minion of Canada in the export trade are the British West Indies and the Orient. The West Indies trade is a natural and increasing factor of inter- Empire commerce. They are our clos est ifiperial 'nefghbors and lack near- ly all the produce in which we are so rich. Important to Canada The- importance of foreign trade on Canada's Pacific Coast 1s one of our brightest hopes for the future. Nearly three-quarters of the world's popula- tion dwells in countries bordering on the Pacific, and many of these are only just opening up to western civill- zation. The British Columbian ports are some of the most Jogical and con- venient for the Orient trade, and it would be difficult to exaggerate the possibilities this offers when the full development of these countries is at- tained. One of the most widespread trades of Canada is that in furs. It would be useless to enumerate the different countries which she supplies in this line, for she is recognized as the world's general fur depot. Wheat is at present the most voluminous de- partment of the export trade and finds its chief customers in the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, the West Indies, Denmark, Ireland, Holland, South Africa, Norway, Spain, Greece, Italy and Brazil. Hay to Europe Hay Is sent to Germany, Belgium Holland, British West Indies, and the United Kingdom, while the same places provide markets for a great proportion of the barley and oats which we produce. Canadian forests sources of lumber for Japan, China, Australia; New Zéaland, the United States, South Africa and the British 'West Indles; and in the form of pulp and paper are exported to the United States, Great Britain, the Argentine, Australia, New Zealand and other markets, Although tobacco growing in any quantity is a comparatively new ven- ture in Canada, it has made tremend- ous strides in the past few years, and Canadian tobaco is becoming known in the world's markets. At the pre- sent time, about 29 per cent. of the Canadian crop {is exported to the United Kingdom. Feeds Many Peoples Besides providing a great deal of the bread, Canada also produces and exports a considerable number of .other things which find their way to _the world's table. Meat and lard are sent to the United Kingdom. Ger- many, Belgium and Holland; cheese to the United Kingdom, British, West Indies, United States, Belgium, Hol land, Germany, South Africa and Den- mark; eggs sail from Vancouver to Auckland, New Zealand, and from Montreal to England, The Red Cross Helps Guatemala Volcano in "Guatemala Sud- denly Erupts--20 So Far Dead and Relief Crews 'at Wo : are the main | protecting the sales market. ters, is not without its valde to part of the public which learns catastrophes rather than from experi- m! and expansion carefully planned, and that caution must be observed in not pursuing profits at the risk of losing, the whole business. American indus. try has learned that lesson well, and the last few years have seen hand-to- mouth buying, rigid inspection of over- head costs, and careful attempts at As a re sult, there has not been as severe an industrial disaster since that last one of 1920-21, and there are a number of economists of note who maintain that the country has actually ironed out the business cycle or flattendd fits rolls. The recent unprecedented fall in stock market prices is not directly re- lated to industrial activity, but to the large number of individual investors and speculators who have hoped to get rich quickly by buying securities on a small margin. The lesson they have learned, at some considerable expense, is that, while expectations of great profits may boom a stock up far out of proportion to its earnings, such hopes will not keep it from a drastic fall. Investors who were caught in the unpleasant episode which culminated this week have realized that those without ample resources should buy stocks outright or at a margin constj- tuting so high a proportion of the purchase price as to make it easy to hold on to securities at a critical period. They have probably also learned the wisdom of buying securi- ties which, beause of their relation to actual earnings, are paying a dividend that makes it possible for the owner to hold on indefinitely without being overwhelmed by carrying charges. If the large investing public has learned some such lessons as these, it is prob- able that this month's decline in values may at some future time be looked upon with a more tempered re- gret than the recency of the occur- rence now permits. Christian Science Monitor. -- --} es. Whaling Season Ends on Vancouver Island Total of 406 This Year as Compared With 314 in 1928 Viotoria.--The last whale has been hauled up on the beaches of the west coast of Vancouver Island for the sea- son and the year's quest for the world's largest mammal in the north Pacific is now only a matter of record. A total of 406 whales were taken this season by six whaling steamers of the Consolidated Whaling Corpora- tion, compared with last season's catch of 314. In the past there has been a steady market for the oil and bone of. the whale, and now British Columbia whalers are finding money in whale's teeth. These are sold in Japan. The sperm whale, which is the common species off the British Columbla coast, is the only large whale equipped with teeth, Removal of all the marketable por- tions of a whale carcass is but a. mat- ter of a few minutes when the expert Japanese and Indian cutters com- menee operations. The blubber or flesh is cut in strips; 30 feet long b¥ three feet wide and one foot thick. It is peeled off like a skin from a giant orange, the "pull" being generated by a steam winch. One side finished, the whole whale is turned over with fourfold blocks and the other side is stripped. The ribs are then chopped through with an axe along the back- bone, and the whole side torn out to explore the inner workings of the monster. These are neatly severed from the body and hauled out. What remains of the carcass 1s then hauled off the landing skid, cut up and turn: ed into fertilizer. The blubber, cut into easily-handled pieces, are fed into a revolving knife, which reduces them to the size of Guatemala City.~The government and the Red Cross put forward great efforts to give relief to the 800 vic- "tims of the t eruption of the vol: | _ cano Santa 70 miles northwest of this city. official" death list. "Tho" volana suey nosan violent eyor these little pleces drop into tanks, where they are boll ed for 10 hours and finish as sperm THE DRAWING SHOWS THE SALIENT POINTS OF INTEREST OF NORTHERN DRAMA The illustrative map and diagram reproduced here show dramatic features of how, presumably, the McAl party became 10st on tite shores of the pine civilization, aeroplanes presumably became "blind" planes were then pulled ashore and a eventually falling In with friendly Eskimos mining men's arrival was flashed by it was relayed to Fort Churchill, Arctic ocean and how orders, will be instigated and flashed over the afi to morthern posts. and flew out over Queen Maud gulf, fter a lapse of time the party started who guided them across the ice to Cambridge Bay. ARCTIC CIRCLE . In" preparation for their rémoval to As the diagram shows, the McAlpine finally landing in water. The aero to hike along the shores of the Arctic, News of the the Arctic ship Bay Maud to tbe ship Fort James at Cape Joahaven, where Back, via Baker Lake, would come wireless instructions to Bathurst Inlet radio statien, from where messengers would start out on foot to Burnside statioh, where three aeroplanes started to bring out the lost men,. «The journey from Cambridge bay to Bathurst is a 250-mile hop across Dease strait, be- tween Victoria island and the myinland; over Kent peninsula, which projects northward on the east side of Bathurst inlet, and across the hal "frozen waters of the inlet to the southwest shore. where the radio station is located. Three of Captain Blanchet's patrolling quartette made the journey to Cambridge bay to bring out the new-found McAlpine men. Cruickshanks. lake, 300 miles west, on Hudson Bay, is their goal. minus of the Hudson Bay rallway. Churchill, in turn, is about 1,000 miles pine and his seven companions are expected to reach Churchill by thé middle of November, and No message has indicated the identity of the 'pilots who manned the trio of machines, but four pilots under Captain Blanchet's command are Roy Brown, William Spence, H. Hollick-Kenyon and Andy A 450-mile jump faced the Blanchet phalanx in their next move towards civilization, and Baker Baker lake is some 600 miles north of Churchillff bay ter: Colonel McAl-| north of Winnipeg. Thayer Lindsley, director of Dominion Explorers, declared that the company's party, missing for eight weeks in the Arctic, should be in Winnipeg before the end of the month. : 2 food, Bi%e. Noo vil he n corn--No. 2 yellow, $1.05 vered, Toronto inh Philadelphia Gives Show for Boys Dogs "Mutt" Barred at "Plain Dog" Show, but the Dif- ference Is Only a Name Mennonites Seek Homes in Canada Dominion Considers Proposal to Admit 5,000 'from Moscow A dog, no matter how lowly his origin or how fir.he may be from dis tinguished lineage, i mot a. "mutt" and the officers and gents of the Philadelphia Society for the Preven. tion of Cruelty to Animals are anxious to make this plain. If a canine hap- pens to belong to that class of ineligi- bles for blue ribbon honors, he is just a "plain dog." But he is fever a mutt. This was made manifest when the society held its annual "Plain Dog Show," which had been exploited by facetious newspaper writers variously as "a pooch exhibition," a show of un- lovely pups," and a "mutt bench." The term mutt, although approbious to the S.P.C.A., has a different mean- ing to the urchin who, perhaps, has found his pet lunching around an ash can. When a very freckled and very red headed boy leading a yellow "plain dog," a hopelessly plain one, by a string, applied for Admission to the show, he asked: "Say, lady, is dis de place where de mutt show is going on?" The attendant eyed him with an ex- pression that may have mepnt any- thing, but she replied: "This is the place where we're hold- ing a 'plain dog' "Well, dis dog is a plain dog all right, lady, but he's oné of de best | bacon slabs: Carried upwards by athe Ottawa. --It is learned that the de- partment of immigration and colomi- zation is confronted with a proposal to admit approximately 1,000 Men- nonite agricultural families, represent- ing about 5000 souls , who have ar- rived in Moscow after having been dispossessed of their farms in Siberia, So far as is known these families are without funds or friends in Russia. They have heard of the opportunities awaiting agricultural settlers in €an- ada and are eagef to find refuge In this cougtry. < A It is understood that the 'depart ment has been asked to allow these people to join fellow Mennonites prin- cipally in Western Canada, who may be willing to open their homes and give them refuge until next spring when they will be able to find employ- ment onthe land. This action urged not only on humanitarian grounds but because the families con- cerned are bona fide agriculturists, law-abiding, well-behaved, and . al- though disposed to settle in groups are by no means communists, The good record of the great majority of Mennonites already settled in Canada is urged in their behalf." Immigration officials {interviewed admitted that a proposal to bring 1,000 Mennonite families to Canada from Moscow has been presented to them, but they would not state wh er or not the proposed m 'would be authorized. It is Ambitic that much depends upea the assur- ances which can be given , that the families will be given shelter and maintenance In Canada by fellow Mennonites until suh' time as they are able to establish themselves. smd) Women Working For Senate Seat No Appointment Likely Be- fore Christm es Already Mentioned - Ottawa. --Plenty of women are writ- ing to Ottawa these days seeking a seat in the Senate. If they are not doing it themselves, others are put: ting forth their names. No appoint- ment to the Senate is likely before Christmas and, of course, one can be made only where there is a vacancy. These exist in Ontario, Quebec and Manitoba, but nowhepe else. Hom. Mary Ellen Smith's name.is put for . bia, where there is no vacancy. Mrs. Bdith. Rogers, M.L.A.,. of !Ottawa, wil be selected. . She is the ! millionaire daughter of.the late Sen- ator. MacKay, of Mon , very pro- minent in the Liberal women's organi- zation, a fine speaker and a personal 'friend of the Prime Minister. * ----e To be a chemist you must study mevement. chemistry; to be a lawyer or a physi . clan you must study law or medicine; but to be a politician you need only 1h stuty your own interests. --Max | ward, but she is from British Colum. nipeg, may have a chance. Many here of think that Mrs. Norman Wilson, of | No. 2 north, 4, $1.26; No. feed, 92¢ (c.f, Man. oats--<No, 1 feed, 66%¢; No, * Millfeed, abgs included--Bran, per ton, $35.25; ghosts, per ton, $37.25; middlings, Ont. grain--Wheat, ge to 80c; a n HAY AND are quoting to shi prices for carlots Toronto: the following ivered on track, No. 3 Timothy, , $13.50 to I a eat straw, baled, ton, $10 to 10.50; oat straw, per ton, $10 to $10.50. No. 1 Timothy, loose, is quot- ed at $19 to $20 per fon. delivered. PRODUCE QUOTATIONS. Toronto wholesale. Cealera : re buy- ing from country shippers at the fol lowing prices: - Eggs--Ungraded, cases returned, | fresh extras, 52 to 53¢c; fresh. firs 46c; seconds, 32 to 83c. Butter--No. 1, 39% to ?9%c; No. 2, 38 to 29¢, Churning cream--Special, 43¢; No. 1, 42¢;¢No. 2, 39¢c. Cheese--No. 1 largefi colored, nar: affined and government graded, 19% to 20%ec. 'ROVISION PRICES: To wholesale Jealers are quot- ing the following prices to the tradé: Smoked .meats--Hams, med., 32 to 87e; cooked loins, 50 to 58¢c: smoked rolls, 28¢; breakfast bacon, 26 to 37c;: back, peamealed, 38 to 40>; do smoked, 45 to 47c. Cured meats--Long elear bacon, 50 to 70 Tbk, 24¢: 70 to 90 Ibs. 22¢c; 90 to 110 lbs, %'~. Heavvweight rolls, 40¢; lightweight rolls, 25e. --Pure, tierces, 16c: tubs. 17¢; pails, 17%c; prints, 18 to 10¢c. Short- ening--Tierces, 13% to 14%c; tubs, 14¢; pails, 14%ec; tins, 16%¢; prints, 16%e Ye. Pork--Loins, 28¢; Néw York shoul. dors, 18c; pork butts, 28c; pork hams, A a Ontario To Extend Care of Epileptics "Province to Build Extra Quar-|- ters in Hospital at Woodstock Ontario will rank second to no other : state in the world in its treatment of epllepties when work finally has been completed on tenders which the pro- vinefal department of public works will call within a wéek for additions to the Ontario hospital at Woodstock. The pi it capacity of this hos- : patients. Under the work 'this ity 'wil be bled in hay and straw 3 No. 2 Timothy, baled, ton, $15.50; and as harmless as a barnyard cow, 'He will regret to hear of its death, will pags to the happy hunting ground where there are no files, irl ceniimsnn Hungry Coyotes Inv li 4 Al } Predatory. Animals From Yu- kon Constitute Real Problem White Horse, Y.T.--Coyotes are thicker than evef in the Youkon coun- try and large numbers of them have drifted across the border into Alaska this season, acording to game Wwar- dens and hunters. Wolves are also ingreasing, although more gradually than the coyotes. The situation is becoming alarming in Alaska, where co-bperative investi gation by officials of the Yukon Terri. tory and the Alaskan Biological sur tons® have shown that heavily on the fur considerably greatet of they continue drifting westward. A . Young life is young we think that all - "THe folk we meet are friends; ~

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