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'PAGE SIX ' THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1930 Beatty Makes Important Proposals Aimed to Assist Western Farmers ; C.P.R. President Calls on United Canada to Rally to Help of Courageous and Loyal Pioneers -- Such Action Just and Wise and In Interest of Entire Country. esforn conditions and what should be done about them formed the subject of a notable speech made by E, W. Beatty, chair- ¥ man and presi- dent of the Canadian Paci- fic Railway at London, Ont, last week. In direct and sim- ple style Mr. Beatty briefly analysed the western situa- tion and put forward a so- ries of sugges tions for : im- mediate and effective action designed to carry western farmers over the present period of adverse conditions. He stated that his suggestions were those of a private citizen made with. out the knowledge of any govern- ment authority in this country. He put them forward as the representa- tive of a corporation which extended throughout all parts of Canada and was vitally concerned in the econ- omic situation in any section there- of. There was in this important utterance no suggestion of anything in the nature of intended charity towards the West. The whole pro- ject, he said, should be directed by warm sympathy for a community of courageous pioneers threatened with distress and by a desire to provide just assistance when it is badly needed. There should be full appreciation of the fact that the prosperity of East and West, of farmer and city are inextricably linked together. He believed that the country as a whole would come to the assistance of a great section suffering from a temporary but severe depression from causes be- yond its control, not only because it is just to do so, but as a wise measure of national policy. Mr. Beatty said in part: "Western Canada is suffering from the effocts of unusual world conditions in the marketing of grain and in its low price, and hardship is being experienced on the prairies in consequence. I do not need to elaborate on the cour- age and the resourcefulness of the people of Western Canada, nor the confidence many of them feel in their ability to come through this depression as they have others. I do not require to do more than mention what we in the East owe to that part of the country, both in a material way and in the national strength contributed by the loyal people of that part of Canada. Neither do I need to stress the im- portance of a knowledge of the con- ditions prevailing in those sections and of the necessity of co-operation in meeting unusual situations in the interest of the whole country. The former Government of Canada and the present Government have, at different timos, adopted policies designed to strengthen the econ- omic position of different sections of this Dominion. Through such policies, ths position of our Mari- times has been improved, and through more recent changes in fiscal policies the position of tho manufacturers of Capada is intend- ed to be improved and the unem- ployment situation is likewise de- signed to be, in part, at least, alle- viated by direct contribution by the Federal authorities to public works. 1f these policies be planned to ac- complish betterment' in certain parts and activities in Canada, then the same attitude may properly be adopted in relation to the peculiar problems of our western provinces. None of these suggestions which 1 propose have any relation to the question of marketing wheat, price fixation or otherwise, since these problems depend so much on world conditions, I am 'directing my ob- servations to the problem of meet- ing emergent conditions of great hardship which may arise during the next four or five months, 'Obviously, our Western pro- ducers should not fear the loss of their equity in their homesteads in view of the frank unwillingness of mortgage companies and other holders of liens to press for im- mediate liquidation of maturing obligations or for arrears of inter- est beyond the abllity of the farmer to meet his payments, so far, at least, as this is due to the present depression in the wheat market. Two problems, however, do remain: the fear of want during the coming winter--confined largely to the smaller and financially weaker farmers--and the fear of inability to finance another year's farm op- erations, "To me, an unprejudiced and un- official, but not disinterested, ob. server, it seems indisputable the Dominion Government should not hesitate to intervene with an offer of assistance, as a national public duty. The governments of the three prairie provinces, owing to their in- timate knowledge of local condi- tions, are best adapted to provide relief, but owing to their pledging of their credit as security for bank need Federal assistance in the mat- ter. If the Dominion Government were to agree to assume a portion of the obligations regarding the 1929 crop, and the provinces were to use this release of their,credit to permit them to assume the full burden of relief to their citizens, the ald of the Dominion Government would be given in a useful direc- tion, and the operation of relief measures by those best equipped for the task would be assured. These obligations should be assum- ed by the Dominion Government only to an amount equivalent to actual relief expenditures by the Provinces in aid of farmers. Since it is inevitable that some critics will assert that this is specific ald to members of the Wheat Pool, it may be well to point out that fhe reverge is the case. The guarantee of the Pool loans by the Provinces might be so regarded, although even in that cass the Provinces were unquestionably moved by a desire to save a collapse of the wheat market that would hurt Pool and non-Pool farmers alike. The suggestion that the Dominion Gov- ernment now assume those guaran. tees is made solely to enable the Provinces to direct their best efforts to the relief of all their farmers, Pool 'members or not, "I would suggest, too, that as a further ald to the restoration of confidence and as an evidence of complete faith by important busi- ness interests in the future of agri- cultura in the West, an agriculture credit corporation should be formed to provide livestock for farmers who wish to diversify their opera tions, The Company should be a private conporation, organized in somewhat the same form as that organized in the United States, with the support of the banks, Mortgage Trust and Loan Companies, insur- ance companies and the railways, and, if thought advisable, perhaps of the Federal Government Itself. The moneys should be repayable on easy terms, the risk would be small, and the administration costs would be reduced to a minimum through the voluntary nature of the under- taking. I would suggest that five million dollars be raised in this manner and that the project should at ald times be treated as one of sound investment. This method of ald would be specially valuable, since many Western farmers would find their domestic economic problems greatly simplitied by the addition of livestock to thelr farms, and since every head of livestoc' placed on a western farm aids in loans to the Wheat Pool, they may |the marketing of surplus grain." HAMILTON MAN 13 BADLY WOUNDED WITH REVOLVER Hamilton, Dec. 15--Pressing the muzzle of a against his right temple, Roy Grif. fiths of Apartment 3, 3 Arthur Avenue north, aged 25 years, was morning, when the firing pin was accidentally released and he fell to same time, prevent the from discharging by bullets clever man- .52.calibre revolver | | the floor with a bullet through his | | head. | ed to be dying at the Gencral Hos- pital late last night. The young man was report- | Griffiths was in the home of Rus. sell King, apartment 5, 120 Charles | street and had been drinking, it was alleged. Shortly after mid. | night he produccd a revolver from | his hip pocket and despite protests from other guests. insisted upon showing his: skill in the handling | of the weapon. He announced that be would | about to demonstrate a trick be- fore party guests early yesterday move the fully loaded chambers by | operating the trigger and, at the! fpulation of the control. At Last Chamber Ths young man boldly placed the gun against hig head, Four times the barrel advanced a notch as Griffiths clicked the spring. He | reached the fifth and last chamber when the accident occurred. The police found the victim un- conscious, lying on the floor in a pool of blood, with the revolver clasped in his right hand. The pellett had entered just to the right of the right temple, haa passed through the brain and out the top of the 'skull. "We've got to start to Save!" @ How often the words are uttered--how often the wish fails to harden into a definite resolve for lack of a 'workable plan. -{ Life assurance instils regular and systematic habits of thrift into those who lack the will- power to save. Jt is a constant brake on families that spend too freely, It establishes a the need of which heads anent plan of orderly economy, of houscholds often to but are unable to enforce. @ A Sun Life of Canada Endowment Policy provides a practical plan for utilizing small regular savings to confer a2 double boon -- present home and family and 2 protection for the rmanent and profitable in- vestment of uns security. @ The Sun Life of Canada has an appropriate plan to cover every need. SEE A SUN LIFE MAN SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA Head Office: Montreal NESTING PLACE OF BLUE GOOSE FINALLY FOUND Success Crowns Long Search Made by Government Scientist Ottawa, Ont.--After six years of relentless scarching in the Arctic wastes of the north, a Canadian gov- ernment scientist, J. Dewey Soper, finally discovered, in June, 1929, the nesting place of the Blue Goose, The North West Territories Branch of the Department of the Interior now has issued a booklet, describing Mr. Soper's long search and including all the data and facts he gathered in "Blue Goose Lond," in Baffin Island, Because the booklet is the only | authentic report in the world on the | nesting and breeding habits of this | species of wildfow!, it is in great de- | mand among ornithologists and is be- | ing distributed to all parts of the North American ' continent the viewpoint of a bird Jover the] booklet tears aside the veil of mys- | tery that has enshrouded the Blue Goose ever since the species known to man. The first part of the report with Mr. Soper's six years of wan- dering through the Barren Lands of the north during which time he tra- velled 30,300 miles before he succeed-! ed in locating the legendary "Blue | Goose Land." The mystery of the| deals of | of the Blue Goose, breeding habits of this species of goose has intrigued' ornithologists for years, The Blue Goose spends the winters on the Louisiana coast and in the early spring begins its long flight northward, It has been traced up the Mississippi Valley, across the Great sakes and as far as Hudson Bay and James Bay but from there its trail vanished completely, It was in 1923 that Mr, Soper be- gan his long search to end the mys- tery. During a trip of 7,000 miles, touching at Greenland, Ellesmore, Devon and Baffin Islands, enquiries were made of the Iiskimos and white men concerning the northern habits Finally, he was told by an old Eskimo that the goose nested on the shores of a lake far in the Baffin Island interior. Mr, So- per decided to follow this single clue and in 1924 struck a camp on Cum- berland Sound, Baffin Island, Decause of the lateness of the season, how- ever, he was unable to trek over- land before the goose began flying south, He spent the fall and winter mapping and exploring the country and in visiting Eskimo tribes, , Early in the spring, with a party of Eskimo dog-drivers, Mr. Soper began his trip into the interior, After | five months of strenuous investigat- ing, he returned to his headquarter From | with the mystery still unsolved, The | Of the weather, old Eskimo had been mistaken in his information, Undaunted by this {: lure, Mr. So- to locate Blue Goose Land ter of 1926 was spent in long over the rugged terrain of Baffin Jsl- and, exploring and informa- tion from the | So persist- ent was he that named by the natives, "Kiam man in scarch of the Blue Goose, soliciting kim he was ' the trips | In the spring of 1926 a new camp was struck on Cape Derset at" the southwestern extremity of Baffin 1sl- and, Eskimos from this locality in- formed him the goose nested on tlie tunda along Foxe basin, Unfore- scen events necessitated Mr. Soper's return to civilization in "the fall of 1926 and practically the whole of the next year was consumed in study and preparation for the final drive to be conducted in 1928, In the summer of that ycar, Mr, Soper returned to the north, again taking up headquarters at Cape Dor- set, The fall and winter were spent in mapping and exploring the coun- try. In May, with four sledges, 42 dogs and five Eskimos, "Kiameatte" set out for the Foxe Basin country, A permanent camp was struck and named "Camp Kungovik" after the skimo name for the Blue Goose, With two Eskimo helpers Mr. Soper prepared to spend the summer there, deciding to chance a retreat later | through the interior of the island by Lmcans of a canoe. It was at this camp that the Blue Goose found at its breeding | ground, thus solving a zoological {ms stery of long standing, About Si% weeks was spent in observation, pho- | tographing and gathering minute data was lon the nesting habits of the birds. Mr, Soper says it {was the bleakest, coldest, gloomiest | and most inclement" he had ever ex- | perienced, rain beat down. 'Only a few hours of | daylight appeared in the twenty-four, The only sound to be heard was the | ever-present honking of thousands of Blue Geese, With it all, however, Mr. Soper | says in his report: "Tlie most beau- The temperature was peri- | was | per became more resolved than ever | lously close to the freezing point at | 1. The win-! all times and an incessant raw, cold | spectacles that I have ever seen in bird life, were these great gatherings of Blue Geese on the marsh-lands of Western Baffin Island. In the still: ness of a June night when the sun was sinking in a weird red and golden light over the northern horizon at midnight, their Icose ranks appeared like huge snowbanks against the hackground of the browning tundra, The beauty of it all fell upon the eye as does a surpassing poem, or strains of music upon the ear. It was epic, with the heroic flavor of those larger experiences in nature which strike across one's pathway but once in a lifetime," Of his hazardous canoe trip back to Hudson Strait and a waiting gov- | ernment steamer Mr, Soper had little [to say, Out in the unprotected sea I the frail craft was tossed about as a | eockle-shell and finally 72 miles of old ice masses had to he = rimounted, The food supply of the Title party gave out but with their precious car- ro of scientifiz material finally the S.S. Beothic #as reached, nine hours before she sailed for the south, The question of conserving the Blue Goose, Mr. Soner says, is large- ly a question for United States, It will be unmolested in its Northern breeding grounds for many years to come and only when it migrates to the south is it vulnerable to the guns of sportsmen. | 'The British Foreign Legion has asked an investigation of charres | that popples are being sent into Britaip for sale on Armistice Day when those made by disabled sol- diers at home are sold for the ex- service men's fund, tiful, as well as the most emarkate] CANADA AND EMPIRE REFORESTATION Candia is yearly playing a bigger part in Empire reforestation, Fife ty-three per cent of the tree seed exported has gone to Great Britain, forty per cent to New Zealand, an' the remainder to Alistralia, Irelanc {and other parts of the Empire. Dux {ing th past ten years the Britis) Forestry Commission has planter 140,000 aces of softwoodg, the greater part of the seed used comin from Canada, WARN POTATO GROWERS While there is a marked fr provement on the part of pota growers in the grading and mar ing of their product for sale, ti general practice is still far sho of the requirements of federal reg ulations under the Root Vegetable | Act, The Dominion Fruit Commis sioner states that in Ontario alon over fifty infractions huve been dealt with by his inspection staff 80 far this year. "The general ree quirements for marketing potatoes are: They must he graded "Cane ada No, 1," "Canada No. 2," "Cane ada No. 3," or "Canada Fancy'; the grade must he marked by » tag on the hags and by stencilling on harrels or other containers, the marking to show the name and ad. dress of the grower and the grade regulations for grading and marke of potatoes in the package. The | ing potatoes apply throughout Cane ada and infractions involve sere | fous penaltics, | i Falling across metal plates on | which Thomas Smith wag standing, |a broken electric cahle in a coal | mine at Croy, Scotland, caused the | electrocution of the man, The Annua hr 1S HOPPING dition shawa Daily Times The will be published on WEDNESDAY December 17th Make Sure of Your Copy and Read of Marvellous Shopping Opportunities Offered by Oshawa Merchants this Christmas - - \ 4 r p77 7777, 2, V/s tmas