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¥ 3 ] 4. H ------ ------ ----- --- ne : Ie - THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1931 ~ PAGE EIGHT Is By Thuie's nothing worse whereof 1 ow Than knowing not which way to go. 5 . --Flip the Terrier. To feel that you are lost is a very dreadful feeling. I know of noth- ing worse. It is a hopeless feeling that makes you feel helpless, and with it there 1s almost always a ter- rible fear. Flip the Terrier was lost, and he was lost in ore of the worst _ of all places to be lost--the Dry De- . Flip to find them. sert, It was his own 'fault, He should have known better than to allow himself to be led away in a strange land. Yet this is just what he had done. He had discovered Kit the Desert Fox and at once had started to chase Kit. Never had he seen so small a Fox and he had been sure that he could catch this ome. You see, he hadn't known that Kit was onc of the fastest of all the Fox family. Kit had deliberately led him on. He had kept just far enough ahead of Flip to encourage the latter and make him think that in a few min- utes he would catch up. Straight out into the desert Kit had led him: You see, Kit had a home and fam- ily not far from where Flip had first seen him, and he didn't want So whenever Flip had stopped for a minute to get his breath Kit had waited just far enough away to tantalize the little dog. So in the starlight Kit had led Flip farther and farther out into the desert, and Flip hadn't realized where he was going. He lad had but one thought, to catch Kit. When at last he was <o tired that he could run no more Kit had simply disap- peared. Kit was not tired out. He had trotted off out of sight of Flip, then circled around and headed straight for home. You see, Kit wasn't lost. No indeed. The desert was familiar to him and he knew just where he was. Flip stretched out on the sand and panted and panted and wished he knew where to get a drink. But there was no place to get a drink, for this was the Dry Desert, a wa- terless land for the greater part of the year. So Flip lay and panted and panted until at last he felt rest- ed. Then he got to his feet, intcnd- ing to go back to the ranch, It was then that he discovered that he didn't know where the ranch was. He hadn't the least idea in which direction it lay. At first he thought he could follow his own scent back, but the dry sand had held no scent. It was then that Flip sat down, pointed his 'nose to the twinkling stars and howled mournfully. But he soon realized that this would get him nowlrere, so he stopped howl- ing and started on. He could see the tall black shape of a giant cac- tus. He remembered that it was be- hind a cactus that Kit had first . leaped out. ¥ : . 'When he reached this cactus he realized that this was not the one A little way to one side was anoth- er. Hopefully he trotted over to this one. This wasn't the one eith- er. Once more Flip sat down and nted his nose to the stars and howled. This time there was an an- Juwering how! far in the -distance, ut there was something about that howl that sent shivers runming up and down his backbone. Tt sound- ed like several voices howling toge- ther. In reality there was only one yoice, It was the voice of one of Old Man Coyote's relatives. . Flip didn't howl any more. He had a feeling that it would be best not to. There was something un- pleasantly threatening about that - 8 i faint howl. He didn't want to meet the owner of that voice. No, sir, he didn't want to meet the own- er of that voice, So he turned and trotted in the opposite direction, and if he had but known it, in exactly the wrong direction. You see, that So Flip lay and panted and pant- ed until at last he felt rested, Coyote was just on the edge of the desert. Flip was going farther and farther out on the desert. Every little while he sat down to rest, And how he did long for a drink of water, a nice, long, cool drink! His tongué¢ hung from his mouth. He was tired, thirsty and very much afraid. He would lie still until he was rested and then he would wander on again. The dark strange shape of a giant cac- tus would loom up and frighten him. He whimpered. This was a strange and unfriendly land, and oh, how he longed for his master! (Copyright, 1931, by T. W. Burgess) The next story: "An Unfriendly Land." Dear Mr. Editor: "Will you please read the enclosed poem carefully and return it to me with your can- did criticism as sogn as possible, as I have other irons in the fire." My Dear Sir: "Remove the irons and insert the poem." A judge was having tea with some friends who had recently been mar- ried. "Have you tried one cakes" asked the young wife "No,". replied the judge, "but I dare-say they deserve it. of my A constitutional amendment is proposed declaring that men and women shall be equal. 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' A fascinating voyage there and back in time-hon- ofed White Star tradition with as long as you want in England and Europe for as little as $15 a day, all-inclusive. A truly dis- tinguished holiday and one that is easy to budget. WORLD WHEAT * ACREAGE LOWER Monthly Review of Condi- 'tions Issued by Bureau Ottawa, May 26.--"The cvidences of materially reduced wheat acreages have become more certain in all the main exporting countries," states he monthly review of the world wheat situation issued by the Dom- inion Biiréau of Statistics. "The world winter wheat acreage is practically constant with that of the previous season," the report continues, On "March 1, the Unit- ed States report. showed farmers' '| intentions of reducing the 'duram acreage by 24 per cent and other spring wheat acreages by 12 per cent. This Bureau issued a report for Canada on May 12 reporting in- tentions as at May 1 of an 8 per cent reduction in Canadian spring wheat acreage, which would amount to nearly 2 million acres, For Aus- tralia, a cable from the International Institute of Agriculture forecasts the acreage to be seeded this sea- son as 13,500,000 acres, which is a significant reduction from the 1930 acreage of 18;160,000, The Agricul- tural Commissioner of the United States Department of Agriculture at Sydney expects the wheat acre- age to be 30 per cent less than last vear, This would amount to 12,- 700,000 acres. Since Australian seeding operations may extend over a long period and well into the month of June, it is likely that the actual acreage will be higher, ra- ther than lower, than the forecast. Less definite news comes from the Argentine regarding 1931 acreage, since the seeding there is carried on for about three months yet. How- ever, there have been despatches forecasting lower acrcages because of the depreciated returns to farm- ers for their wheat. For Russia, the United States Department of Agriculture reported that at April 20 only 8201000 acres of spring grain were sown, compared with 50,870,000 acres up to the same date last year. The seeding is particu- larly backward in the Ukraine. An official despatch circulated by Broomhall on May 9 was to the ef- fect that 34 million acres of spring grains were sown, compared with 90 million acres last year. Russian statustics are rarely accurate, but it is evident that seeding is quite back- ward. | "The usual seasonal slackening in world wheat movement was evi- dent during. early April, but this decline was not as sharp as in 1930, and there was a pronounced im- provement in the latter part of the month and in early May, World shipments in the second week of May were the highest of this crop scason. The recent increase i largely due to improved demand from continental Europe for Cana- dian and Argentine wheat, whilc large quantities of Australian sorts arc being sold to countries ex-Eu- rope. Russian shipments continue erratically, but in moderate volume, United States holdings are not yet being pressed on foreign markets to any great extent but their ship- ments have gained in volume since mid-February, with real prospects of increased future movement, The spring season on the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence gave an im- petus to the Canadian movement and ocean shipments of the first week in May were the highest since last September, India did not enter the export wheat during April, but a small shipment was recorded in the first weck of the present month, The surplus available for export and carry-over in the four coun- tries (which was 740 million bush- els on March 31) is estimated at 692 million bushels on April 30, made up as follows: United States, 312; Canada, 186; Argentine, 108; and Australia, 86, In each country the surplus is appreciably higher than at the same date in 1930, but the total is only slightly greater than at April 30, 1929, after the heavy crops of the preceding season. Stocks in deficit countries are low- er 'than last year. Since January 1, the world export movement has been over 36 per cent higher than in the same period of 1930, and it is probable that this difference will be maintained or exceeded until the 1931 crops of Europe are harvested. Such a rate of disposal will help greatly in the reduction of stocks, which are still the dominating bear factor on world markets. Both Ger- many and France have modified their regulations regarding wheat imports during the past month-- Germany by a tariff reduction amounting to about 32 cents a bu- shel and France by upward revision of foreign wheat milling quotacs." Canadian Conditions "The season of navigation in 1931 opened on the Great Lakes two weeks earlier than last year and during the period from the opening of navigation to May 8, the move- ment of wheat amounted to 18,157,- 283 'bushels of which 8,970,572 bu- shels were shipped to Canadian Lower Lake ports, 2,828,682 bushels direct to Montreal and 6,349,029 bu- shels to' Buffalo. "In 1930, the season of navigation opened on May 1 and up to May 7 some 6,195,903 bushels of wheat were shipped, 2,001,864 bushels and 1,331,- ushels going to Lower Lake ports and Montreal respectively and 2,862,760 bushels to Buffalo. "Export figures for April are usu- ally the lowest of the year. This is partly due to retarded movement while awaiting the opening of navi- gation on the Great Lakes-St. Law- rence route. However, there is a definite bias in. the figures of the Customs Department for this month as compared with the others. State- ments are Collected exactly up . to and including March 31 to end the scal year. The April statements are closed at Ottawa on the last day .of the month and thus exclude the 'of all shipments out of Vancouver for about ten days, part- ly due to time in the mail _part- ly to the six days' grace allowed be- fore reporting exports. Similarly, the figures from Eastern seaboard ports and from the Head of th ace short 2 number of dav in the latter parf*of the month, when exports are heaviest. The Customs Department showed no exports from the Head of the Lakes to Buf- falo, while the elevator clearances in the last. two weeks of April were over two million bushels, Reports from all Cahadian' elevators show export clearances of wheat alone during April as 11,593,801 bushels, but the Customs Department figures for April are only 4,680,769 bushels, "The March Review reported the total Canadian wheat surplus (for export and carry-over during the season as approximately 376 million bushels. This has been reduced by exports up to April 30 of 190 million bushels, leaving a remaining surplus of 186 million bushels. This com- pares with a surplus of 169 million bushels on the same date of 1930. Despite the low official export fig- ures returned for April, the month- ly exports. for this crop year ex- ceeded .those of the same month last year for the ninth successive month, "The total exports for the nine- month period ending April 30, 1931, were 189,854,784 bushels as compared with 125,708,501 bushels for the same months of 1929-30 and the. av- erage for the five-year period 1925- 30, of 234,116,042 bushels. Exports for the nine months of this crop year now exceed those of the en- tire crop year 1929-30 and there are prospects of improved movements in the ensuing quarter. HOLD SHORT MEET Report of International Settlements Bank Passed at Basle Basle, Switzerland, May 26.-- It took only 356 minutes the other day. for the central bankers and other delegates to settle their business at a meeting of stock- holders in the Bank for Interna- tional Settlements, Since his report had previously been submitted, President Gates W. McGarrah confined his re- marks to a brief speech of wel- come, When he asked for dis- cussion nobody had anything to say and in rapid succession his report was adopted, a dividend of six per cent. was voted, and his other recommendations were ap- proved. Then the general meet- ing adjourned. Mr. McGarrah's report summed tracing the banks growth from seven shareholders to 23 and from deposits totalling 220,000,- 000 Swiss francs with assets and liabilities of 300,000,000 to de- posits of 1,780,000,000 and total assets and liabilities of 1,900,- 000,000 last March 31. The Swiss franc is worth a little more than nineteen cents. Division of Profits Net profits totalled 11,186,521 Swiss francs, division of which be recommended as follows: Le- gal reserve fund 559,326 francs; dividend at six per cent. for the period between the respective | dates of payment of capital stock | and March 31, 5,156,260 francs; i special dividend reserve fund for use in maintaining the cumula- tive six per cent. dividend, 1,- 094,189 francs; general reserve fund, 2,188,378 francs. The remainder of 2,188,378 francs for distribution among the governments of Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Rumania, Yugo Slavia, Greece, Portugal, Japan and Poland in accordance with the Hague agree- ment of 1930, and on the under- standing that deposits by these | governments will continue for at least five years. President McGarrah sald de- posits so far were solely from governments and Central Banks, neither private banks nor indi- viduals being among the deposi- tors. Long term funds over which the World Bank has disposition aggregate 404,000,000 francs, these being made up of paid in capital and government deposits by Germany and creditor powers. 'Certain Government treasur- tes," he said, "which maintain deposits through their Central banks accumulated with the Bank of International Settlements the Sums necessary to meet their so- called out-payments abroad. These represent 21 per cent. on our balance sheet. This category of deposits led to the clearing of inter-Governmental = payments which eliminated numerous con- versions from one currency to another, operations, which if they had occurred through ordinary markets would only unnecessarily trouble the exchange. Organiza- tion of this inter-Governmental clearing constituted a new facul- ty for inter-national financial op- erations. "It is, however, in steady de- velopment of deposits of Cantral banks for their own account that one finds the reason for the steady growth of the volume of funds at the bank's disposal." Forty-three per cent. of the bank's resources represent eur- rency reserves of Central banks. Reserve Centre 3 "Thanks to the spirit of co- operation between 'the Central banks the Bank of Interntional Settlements has become an orga- nization one of the principle § tivities of which is to act as a reserve centre for fi Lex~ change holdings of ta in the respective countries which are charged with the duty of maintaining exchange stability." All investments of the Bank of International Settlements "are made through thé intermediary of the Central banks concern which are thus.aware of all op- erations in their markets." Due to this \policy, President McGarrah said, no Central bank as yet has exercised its veto right. up the activities of the fiscal year {- long term and 10 per cent. iu- termediate term and pearly all the funds of these two categor, jes are invested in Germany, In conformity with the statutes the Bank: of International Settle- ments has granted no advances to Governments, ; To "help countries in need of economic development, however, especially concerning promotion of export, the Bank of Interna- tional Settlements has decided to set aside 150,000,000 francs for middle term credits, hoping this example would stimulate others. McGarrah said that as trustee the Bank of International Settle- ments functioned without a hitch. He sald the, German reparations annuity for the year ° ending March 1931, amounted to 1,641, 000,000 Reichs marks plus the cost of service of the German ex- ternal loan of 1924. Of this ro- tal 512,013,400 Reichs marks were payable in Reichg marks ror financing of deliverers in kind, while the remainder was payable in foreign currency. The Bank of International Set- tlements also served as trustee for annuity payments ofe# Bul- garia, Czechoslovakio and Hun- gary, according to the Hague agreements of January, 1930, and as fiscal agent for service of the German external loan of 192%, the German Government Interna- tional at 54 per cent. loan of 1930 and the Austrian Govern- ment International Loan of 1920, Moreover, the old-fashioned man who kissed his sweetheart's hand didn't have to watch which one the cigarette was in, Pictures in a women's ready-to- wear catalogue give us to wonder whether there's anything that wo- men aren't ready to wear CUBA THREATENS STRONG MEASURES Government Suggests Sus- pension of Constitutional Guarantees Havana, Cuba, May 26.--Sus- pension of constitutional guaran- tees--a move tantamount to mar- tial law--was threatened by the Government authorities Saturday as one means of suppressing arm- ed rebellion reported to have be- gun in the eastern end of the island republic. Octavio Zubizarreta, Secretary of "Interiod, said that while the revocation of constitutional guar- antees had not been ordered Piles All Gone Without Salves or Cutting Itching, bleeding, protruding piles go quickly and don't come back. If you remove the cause, Bad blood circulation in the hemorrhoidal veins causes piles by making the affected parts weak, flabby, almost dead. Salves and cutting fail because only an internal medicine can actually correct these conditions. Dr. J. 3S. 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The Interior Department re- ported that no deaths haa oeccur- red in Oriente or Santiago prov- inces, atthe extreme southeast- ern tip of the Island, where re- ports of armed uprising caused high concern here, However, zev- eral men were reported wounded in skirmishes said to have oc- curred between Joyal troops and the insurrectionists. Nationalists Opposed Gen. Mario Menocal, former President and a leading Nation- alist, indicated that the Nation- alists, although opposed to the Machado regime, were not par- ticipating in the armedgs move- ment. He said that "our enemies are the ones who say we are in arms." President Machado has reneat- edly demanded that his politi- cal enemies come out into the open and fight, Hz feels such action would be much easier to combat than subversive move- ments which keep the country worked up. Some believed that the upris- ings in the eastern area wers a result of the President's chal- lenge. 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