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{HE OSHAWA UAILY I'IMES, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1928 PAGE NINE The Great and Increasing Nati of the Automotive Industry to Canada By ROY D. Y of Canada, Ltd. Mr. Thomas Edison was recently asked to pick out the inventions of modern years which have conferred the greatest benefit upon the great- est number of people of this gener- ation. One of the first things nam- ed by the veteran philosopher-in- ventor was the motor car and with characteristic directness he said, in affect, "By making it possible for the average citizen to move out- side the very restricted circle com- mon in premotoring days the motor car in now making men and women broader minded and better educat- ed than their predecessors. They think and act more quickly and show a far more intelligent in- terest in a larger. number of things." Isn't that true? In the space of half dozen blocks on Yonge street, Toronto, was counted one day last week cars from Prince Edward Is. land, New Brunswick, each of the Western Provinces, one from Great Britain, and from many different states in thé country to the south of us. At the Canadian National Ex., there was as usual, cars from every province in Canada, every state in the Union and doubtless one or two from over seas count- ries, In 1927 over 10 million tourists from other countries entered Cann- da by motor car, and over two mil- 'Hon four hundred thousand (na- dians toured other countries in a similar manner. The automobile is today probably the most effective of all of the many means used to | advertise this wonderful country. es owned automobiles or trucks. The government cemsus, taken in Western Canada in 1926, showed that there was them over 107.000 passenger cars and trucks on these farms and 1927 and 1928 added many thousands more. Much of the prosperity Canada is today emjoy- ing came from the splendid har- vests of 1926 and 1927, and it is common knowledge that these But Mr. Edison was doubtless thinking of the educative effect of the motor car within the limits of a single country. When Mr. Edison spent his boyhood days in a little Ontario village the town boy and the country boy were as poles apart in their knowledge of local condi- tions. Today, thanks to the automo- bile, there is very little difference; each visits the other's domain suf- ficiently often to be conversant on local conditions. At the Exhibition of 1900 prac- tically anyone could distinguish the city or country visitors but it would puzzle you to pick them out at the Exhibiton this year. If the motor car had nothing more to its credit than the breaking down of limit- ations between nations and peoples of various localities it would still be probably the one invention which has conferred the most benefit up- on the greatest number of people of this generation. What Automotive Farming is Do- ing For CanaGa. Last fall a friend of mine fisited Western Canada, to see for himself what motor vehicles and appliances are doing for the Canadian farm- ers. One of the clearest mrontal pictures which he brought home with him was, as so often happens, a semi-humorous one. At a cross- roads point miles from any town was a sign which read, "Winnipeg 1600 miles. 'Lets go!" Humorous? | | the automobile. At the census of 1921 about 70,- 000 farmers of the prairie provine- Yes, but quite practical, thanks to | bountiful harvests, particularly that of 1927, could not have been garnered without heavy losses from rain except by the use of modern motor trucks. During 1928 all pre- vious records of sales of trucks and tractors to Western farmers have been broken. Coming nearer home it is well to remember, now and then, that in spite of the vast wheat yields of Western Canada, Ontario is still the Dominfon's greatest agriculture province, and here the motor veh- icle is in even greater evidence. 73 Per Cent. Of Ontario Farmers Own Automobiles Quite recently a leading Ontar- fo Farm Journal made a survey of 4,000 farms in the province and found that 75 per cent. of the far- mers replying possessed an auto- mobile, while 18 out of every 100 had a tractor and 7 a motor truck. Right here is one of the chief rea- sons why Canada is so amazingly prosperous, in spite of the fact that we are not getting as many immi- grants as we would like. Canadians of *today produce so much more than did their prede- cessors. A modern farm equipped with tractors, motor trucks and combines will produce more food stuffs with ten men than an old {time farm of similar size with one hundred men. The Manufacture of Automobiles is Now Canada's Fifth Largest Industry Quite apart from the obvious benefit of car-ownership is the (question of the importance of the a new and better radio has come ! RADIO -- entirely perfected -- entirely without batteries Like the Panatrope, Brunswick Light Socket Radio represents advanced musical triumph, plus accoustical perfection that be- longs alone to Brunswick, and cabinet artistry that suggests the finest of furniture. Never be- fore such completely satisfying performance . , truly the kind of radio you would expect the . House of Brunswick to produce, built to the high musical Hoe. i of the Panatro The entire musical scale BRUNSWICK RADIO MODEL SKRO CONSOL of American Walnut with Built-in Electre B maegnetic type speaker. 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Actually it means much more to the Dominion than that position indicates because the auto- mobile industry, unlike those pre- ceeding it on the list uses a large volume of manufactured products in its plants. It is estimated that over 100,000 people are employed directly or indirectly in the manu- facture and maintenance of auto- mobile vehicles in Canada. The growth of the business cam be visualized by some recent fig- ures. In the year 1916 only 126,000 motor vehicles were registered im the whole Dominion, today the to- tal is rapidly approaching the mil- lion mark. As recently as 1921 and 1922 the number of automobiles produced in Canada was 66,246 and 101,007 or a total for two years of 167,253. In 1927 the year's production was 179,054 or 12,000 more than was produced in a two years only six years ago, and 50,- 000 more than the total number of cars owned in the Dominion in 1916, Inflyence of the Automobile on nada's Export Trade. Canada exports automobiles to every civilized country not except- ing the United States. In some countries the motor car is almost the only imported item which bears the stamp "Made in Canada," in others Canadian made motor veh- icles have paved the way for the import of other Canadian manufac- tures. This export trade swells the national income by over $30,000, 000 a year and provides the wages for several thousand Canadian fam- ilies, "Motor City" In Canada The real importance of the auto- mobile manufacturing industry to Canada can perhaps be best illus trated by picturing a city in which the automobile manufacturing - [plants of the country are congre- gated. Such a city would contain well over 100,000 people and would approximate, in size, the cities of Hamilton or Ottawa. "Motor City" would contain ahout 24,000 homes and families, and because of the type of workers employed and the wages paid these houses would rank about the aver- age. The city would have bank deb- its of about $650,000,000 a year and the residents would pay income tax on about $8,000,000 a year, In "Motor City" homes there would be 22,000 telephones 23,000 electric meters and as many gas meters. There would be about 21,- 000 children to be fed, clothed and educated, and all that pertains to a modern Canadian city of 100,000 people. Such is a fairly conserva- tive estimate of what the industry means to Canada today. These are a few only of the wide variety of ways in which this in- dustry affects the life of every man woman and child in the country. To take the motor car out of Cana- dian life today would be to be set back the clock at lcast two genera- tions. Toronto people who run over to Niagara and back in the after- noon and evening would miss more than transportation, Without mot- or trucks, the city would find ft extremely difficult to keep up its supply of milk, garden produce, fruit, ete., indeed motorless Can- ada would prove extremely uncom- fortable to an overwhelming ma- jority of Canadians, CLERIC ENDORSES MILD SWEARING Better Than Continuous Grumbling, Declares British Canon [} Southbend, England, Sept 10.-- Mild swearing, such as the gentle- manly damn, as a relief for emo- tion was endorsed by Canon Ellis Norman Gooding, Vicar of 8t, Mary's and eon-in-law of the First Bishop of Chelmsford, in an ad- dress here. Speaking before a local assocla- tion, Canon Gooding said: "In my opinion a good, healthy 'damn' is much better than continuous grumbling. I object to stupid, ugly swearing, but 'damn' releases the emotion and eases the feelings. "The late President Wilson's 'tut-tut' sounds most impractical to me. It's no good saying 'tut-tut' while thinking 'damn'. # 'Damn' is a word for men. There is no possible harm in it and it is much more satisfying than other horrible expressions sometim- #s used." SENATOR-KNOW-IT-ALL (Woodstock Sentinel Review) Semator Borah of the United States says that the "Canadian sit- uation is one where liquor is plen- tiful, corruption is flagrant and bootlegging universal." Needless to say he had not investigated con- ditions here, and is apparently fall- ing into the error of judging all countries by his own. HONOR MEMORY OF "EMPIRE BUILDER Centenary of Sir George Simpson's Visit to Pacific Coast Fort St. James B. C., Sept 19.-- Had it not been for Sir George Simpson, Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, whose historic visit to this little post a hundred years ago yesterday is mow being cele- brated, the province of British Col- umbia would be in the possession of the United States and Canada would have no utlet to the Pac- ifie Ocean. This statement, made yesterday by Charles Vincent Sale, present governor of the company of adven- turers, did more than anything else to impress on the minds of those gathered here for the centenary the importance of the exploits' of the man who has been called the Cecil Rhodes of Canada. Sir George Simpson for some years lived In Lachine and Montreal. "Fort St. James in those days," said Governor Sales, "was the out- post of an Empire, the' visible sign of British occupation, a centre of government," He went on to tell of the claims of Spain to all the coast south of the Russian. posses- sions, of Spain's walving her claims Oshawa Luggage YOUR INITIAL FREER On Suit Osse or Club Rag Saywell & Son BOND ST, WEST in favor of the United States, "our American Neighbors," he sald, "were disposed to believe that the title was clear to all the south of the Russian possesions. And so it might have beem but for the fur trade and for such men as Alexand- er MacKenzie, Simon Fraser, John Stuart and Sir George Simpson. "It was in the strugsle between the North-west Company and the American interests for the country west of the Rocky Mountains that Simon Fraser founded Fort St. James in 1806. The Astorlans came and vanished and in 1821 the Unit- ed States proclaimed her right to the Pacific Coast and Sir George Simpson became a Hudsons Bay Company governor. Three years later Simpson, to put the affairs of the Columbia district in shape and saved the coast from the United States and Russia, crossed the country from York Factory, mak- 'ing the journey in 84 days, 20 days less than any previous record, and established the Company's head- qaurters in such a way as to mark the limits of what he thought would be British territory on the north and south. "Then," said Mr. Sale, "he went back to Hudson's Bay, and in the year 1828 made his second overland journey by a new route to consolidate the work he had commenced. It 1s the visit that he made on that second journey to Fort St. James, 100 years ago, that we are commemorating today." In addition to that of Mr. Sale, addresses were delivered by His Honor, Randolph Bruce, Lieuten- ant-Governor, of British Columbia, Judge F. W. Howy, of New West- minister; Roderick MacKenzie, M. P. P.,, Williams Lake, B. C., Rev, Father Coccola, of Ft. St. James; and G. W. Allan, Winnipeg, Chair- man of the Canadian committee of the Hudson's Bay Company. The Lieutenant-Governor declared that it was one of the greatest things the Stuart line had ever done when Tou go otk at Hight iNS5IDE Light Guards theHome It wards off intruders For safety's sake leave a few lights burning when La . and always use d. 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