The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Does Disaster Face Canada? A Few Items Gleaned From Canadian Sources From Coast to Coast Does Not Ixok Like It Tai compared with |(>it.729,358 In 1927.. I Lead, coiiper and coal, in that order, I were the largest pfodiT->rs. I So It would aiipear that progress \ and prosperity are In store loj; Can ada. Sir George Paish Wrong Keceiit press dispatches have played up rather promluently the gloomy forebodings of Britain's ciiaiapion pessimist. Sir George Palsh. Sir George visited Canada in 1919 or Ihere about and his Interpretations o( the world'a economics were interest- ing and to say the least, disconcert- ing. He pictured the post war con { ditioa as one where the world had Canada Not Disposed to Bar Rum Running Ontario Home Brings Happiness Story of One Immigrant Tells That Success is Possible in Northern Ontario Out of the Depths Again CLIiMATE PR.AISED aiuoa ,«. „u^ o....^ .j^ Alone may take it is certain that the rolled over a deep chasm and that It . . ., . ^ . . , « <â- â-  . .i,» „,..„.i..-,i„,r s'lking of this boat has destroved was then fall ng to the everlasting , , ,, , .,../,.. The bitter disappointment experl- I enced by some English emigrants, m Alone Case Turns Public i^'>° ^^i*'' '"« '" Canada as woricers during the harvest time on Canadian farms last summer, has been noted fa these pages, with 'he press explana- wouid not have been successful nny- tion that some of the disillusioned where on a farm, and that others had Journeyed to Canada from England merely as an experiment. But now a concrete ease of the happiness found on a Canadian farm by a British I •Opinion Against Request for Tighter Border Control Ottawaâ€" Whatever form the negoti- ation between Ottawa and Washing- ton over the Canadian schooner I'm and etenial how wows. Recently Sir Gsorge the gloomy has. bur. t forth again. The world is on the verge of financial o >liapse. The , j^ ^^^^^^ •writer is no dee. -thinking economic '_/* . , ' . Parliament would meet the request of the United States for a tighter control over the border Naturally this state- , , ... I nient l.i not possible of exact proof, highbrow but he can read and Partial- 1 ,^__^ undoubtedly it is true that public ly understand the written word^ "| opinion in this country has been the following news dispatches from ^,,^^^.g,j ^^^ astounded by the long whatever small chance existed that' , , .i • , ., > , ., 1 .1.. . J couple and their children is recorded do something to t . ., , , „. , ., ,, . in the London Times by the wife of a coast to coast in Canada mean any thing they mean that Sir George Palsh has once more "missed hlsl putt." From the East Halifax, Nora Scotia.â€" The freight Import and expor*. business of the port of Halifax this season exceeds that of last Reason by about 30 to 40 per cent. According to the Board of Trade bulletiu;', this has been one of j pursuit and deliberate sinking of the j I'm Alone by armed .\inerlcan Coast farmer who has been In the Dominion ofr six full years. . She and her hus- band decided to emigrate, we are told, because Canada offered more ."cope for a small family with limiteil means than anything tliey could hope for in the British Isles, ami tliey picked out the Province of Ontario Guard patrols. 200 miles off shore. | '•greatly on acount of Its proximity to Before Parliament there are „«-' E"8=«"''- ^^^ '<•«=* °' ''«'"« only merous petitions from proMbitioa or-!"'"« <•"•" f""" London rather appeal- ganizations praving that It be made 1 ^d f "s. At the outset in Canada, a crime in Canada to ship liquor over >' !» further stated, they decided that the iuternational frontier, but In of-l "'ey ^vere there more to sav.- money ficial circles it is held unofRvlally that \ "'an to make money" for the ttrst these documents are signed bv the ^^^ years, because to majte money sort of uncompromising drys who. In I one must first be willing to sink a the best shipping seasons the port has the United States, would be members ! certain amount, which taey did not everiiad. Apples ipments are about of tlie Anti-Saloon League and that | f'-el justified m doing at the begln- 100 000 barrels head of the 1927-2S ' they do not speak for he great body ; ning. Their mitial effort, it seems. 8ea«on of the people. «as the purchase of a fair-sized farm, Quebec, Quebec.-The Port of Que- Why should Canada, It Is asked, with a few tumble-down buildings, in bee Is preparing for a busy season as 1 concern itself with this purely do- one of which they lived while they Is evidenced bv the activity along the | mestic American problem, and make) were having u hou?e omit. Tr.e new waterfront ' a crime out of what Is now legitimate | one was a nine^oom bungalow, with Momreal, Qtiebecâ€" Dominion Bureau I trading on this side of the line, when ! an .iltic capable of being divided into of Statistics figures show February's ' on all the evidence millions of Ameri-itive more rooms, and with all modern exports of automobiles to be twice as : qans break the prohibition law daily | conveniencos, Including many la'- large in volume as those for the same I and even men in important official saving devices. The co?t of put SCUTTLED CRUISER IS FLOATED AT SCAPA FLOW Called one of the most remarkable salvage feats in iuaiiue hiilory, the G?rman warship Kaiser, scuttled 10 years ago hi Scapa Flow, is biougat to the surface again. month last year, the largest buyers 'posts seem to being the United Kingdom, South Af- ! solicitude for It. rica. Australia, British India and New Zealand, while there were also some sales to Argentina, Dutch East Indies, Egypt, aud the United States. Febr nary's export.^ of passenger cars amounted to J."!. 382,973, compared with $2,479,515 in January and ?1,491,C09 In February, 1028. Exports to trucks amounted to $1,221,716, as against $1,- 537,2077 in January and $551.. ..,472 in February, 1928. From Ontario Toronto, Ontario. â€" Canadian bond sales to date, according t ) the weakly summary of A. E. Ames & Co., amount to JU5,6.'i4,2S9, a: compared with $«0,- 2l5.(j07 tor the corresponding period of 1928 and $93,920,307 for that of 1927. Government issued made up a total of $G. 417,000; Municipal of $25,- C01,1S9. and Corporation of $S3,C3i;.- 100. Canada ptirchased to the extent labor- ting^ up this house in Canada was less than j it would have been in England, ao- 1 cording to this settler's wife, who con- tinues: "It is astonishing how much one can save if one tries, and living ex- penses in Northern Ontario where we live are very much lower t'aaa at home; so are rates and taxes. We I decided, to begin witli, to employ no ' labor in the house or outside except j on special occasions, and as I had 'heard that a servant was difficult to The Canadian Province of New | gpt I thought I wo- Id try to carry on Brunswick has recently remodeled its j wUhout help, though I found it was motor vehicle laws. Among the , always possible to get a 'girl.' The girl' is usually French-Canadian, talks show no particular Thus It will be found inconvenient to do anything at this session about the border business. New Brunswick Revises Its Motor Vehicle Code paring a reail full ten hours of work, i tlon into Canada has increased from One soon gets accustomed to doing 1 124.362 in 1927 to 132.393 in 1923, the everything oneself, though certain . number of British Immigrants shows things such as washing can be done j a decrease from 45.012 in 1927 to 43.- 'out,' but it is advisable to inquire i 229 in 192S ,excluding the miner-har- abotit the water supply before entrust- i vesters. ... ' ing any light-colored garments to the j "If we have had fewer British Im- 1 hands ot a washerwoman." j migrants to welcome during the past! Tlie secret of success, according to ; year, we have had more from tiie Uni-I this farmer's wife, is working by the i ted States. In 1927 the number of â-  clock, setting aside definite times for 'settlers who crossed the International' each job, and beginning and ending ' boundary to settle in this country was ' at the set time. One soon learns ilS, 663. During 192S this number has i salient features ot the new regulations are: Open country speed of forty miles per hour. No parking on curves or intersec- tions. Persons over ll years of age with licenses obtained in the country ot their residence may operate a car In of $S1,030.2S9; the United otates $30,- >;e^ Brunswick for not longer than 124,000 and Great Britain $4,500,000 From the Prairies Winnipeg, Manitoba. â€" Homestead ninety days in any one year. Jail sentence without the option of line for persons convicted ot driving niings for the two first months of the while intoxicated. numbered 1,416, as compared! Where an accident results In injury year j or death, or causes property damage to the apparent extent ot $50 or more, the driver must immediately report to the proper authority. . .J. . Some more howlers for the exam- inations: Joan of Arc's father was a very little English, receives not less than $20, the equivalent to £4. a month, or if employed by the day from $1.25. and will do any and every kind of job. '•I decided to have a girl' once a week to give me a hand, but I had no i<Iea how to p.epare for this 'at- tack.' She would appear soon after S a.m. and expect to work without any interval, except a halthnur for Innch. until 6.30 in the evening, and I found it aliiKist Impossible to l.eep the sup- ply of work equal to the demand. My vision of a restful day, getting througii arrears ot darning, letter- 1 writing, aud perchance a little read- 1 lug. soon vanished. I v.-ouId settle down in a comfortable chair with a with 1.036 for the same two months of 192S. Alber" I's entries amounte.l to 702 as against 502 in January and February of 192S; Saskatchewan's were 593 against 430; Manitoba's 7S against 74 aud Briti h Columbia's 41 against 30. Brandon, Manitoba.â€" A season ot j pheasant. Perkin Waibeck said he record building activity is promised was the son of a king but he was ^^ j,^,_^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^ j^^..^,,^.. ^^,^.,,p^^;. ^ by the number of projects at present I '•ea';>-,"'e ^"" _"'... ':':'>'.^r.*,"'','t.''^°';'f: \ for hc-r! my careru.ly .I.rouglit-out I supply for the. day's work, having ' I given out by the middle ot the morn- I ing. By 6.30 p.m. she left fresh and how long various jobs take, and we read: "If by any chance the work is finish- ed five minutes before scheduled time it gives one the feeling ot leisure, whereas if there is a great deal to do and one sets oneself no time limit one is always chasiug,and rushing round. I don't work so very hard either. I never start before 7 a.m.. and make a rule to knock oft all housework and domestic work at 3 o'clock, leaving all tea and supper washing-up to be done the following morning , supper usually having been prepared earlier in the day. I always try to put In half an hour resting and reading from 3 to 3.30, and then I go out. very often driving into town with the children to shop or to see friends, or possibly going ot a newh- boring farm with a message from my husband. "I do not think it will come amiss to say, for the benefit ot mothers go- 1 ing out with small famliics, that it Is 1 a inarvelously healthy country for children. Last winter there were only j two days on which the children had to be kept indoors: and certainly the open-air life In Canada, with na- ture as nurse and school-teacher, is In the planning stag- or actually in | --V skeleton Is a man with his inside process. In fact, there is every pro- mise of last year's active season be ing surpassed. Itegina. Saskatchewan. â€" The butter production of the province in Feb- ruary nearly doubled that ot the pre- vious February, being 553.912 pounds, as compared with 25*1,356 pounds i:j February. 1928. The "iiiter season as a whole has been an active one in creamery circles with each month showing an increase over the same mouth of the previous year. .\ special train ot tractors, valued at $100,000, recently reached Kegina. There were 2S0 machines in ail, oc- cupying 70 railway cars. The tractors were distributed to farmer buyers in Saskatchewan and .Vlbcrta. Edmonton, Alberta. â€" According to announcement made by dirterent busi- ness firms and governmental bodies, over $7,000,000 lu building is in sight for Edmonton this year. The provin- cial government is planning to spend around $1,250,000 on new construction â- which Includes a new normal school, $500,000 adminislrativo building, and a $250,000 extension to the University hospital is in prospect. Permits to (late are six times greater than the total for the same period last year. From British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia. â€" Con- struction has begun on the Marine Building which, when completed, will be the tallest build'.ng in Canada west of Toronto, towering IS stories above the northwest corner ot Burrard and Hastings Streets. The Dominion Bridge Company will ihortly begin construction ot the first unit ot a structural steel fabricating plant in Burnaby. It will be operated In conjunction with the plant the com pany now owns on False Creek. 'I'he new unit will cost about $1,500,000. An Increase of nearly $4,000,000 la the value ot the mineral output of Brl- tLsh Columbia for 1928, as compared with that of the previous year. Is noted In the preliminary report of the provincial mineralogist. The value of all uiQcrals Is placed at $6(,6$7,691, out and outside off. When there is a parasite in the areoplane the pilot is not afraid to jump out. An optician is a cheerful eye s 'cialist. A patrl clan Is an Irish nobleman. All Scotch- men wear quilts. "The I.,ast Uo.-e ot Summer" was written by the man who wrote "Caller Herring." Wolfe said he would rather write an elegy in a i apful of socks to mend, when round, „» .i, i ^ , , • â-  , „ .,, ,, -,,•!, .1 , 1 one ot the best upbringings .mentallv, the door would pop Mane-Rose. -\nd I „,„..„,,,. , ,-,,,, , ,.,,,, , , , , , 1 morally, and physically. It makes now what, M ssus? and I would have ,,,„ . .,, . , • , . , ., . , t the children independent In the right way, observant, able to tend for them- selves." I That Canada Is not receiving a j sufficient proportion ot Britons as im- I migrants worries some Canadian and ; some English editors. .-Vt present remarks the Londo i two Europeans risen to 23.329, due, probabl.v, to In-j creasing unemployment in the Uni-' ted States. | "This means that while immigra-; tion from the United Slates increased during tl:e past year by 25 per cent.,! immigration from Great Birtain de-' creased by 4 per cent." ' Stanley Baldwin Eternal Boy By SIR EDWARD BARRV Mr. Baldwin lias just figured In an iucideut In the British Hoii.ie of Com- mons which showed him aa the .strong man with the manner that Is firm, though gentle. The Postmaster- Genera! had refused to see a deputa- tion oa aa Important national ques- tion. Tl:e Premier saw the deputa- tion hiinse!.', and, in hU own words, gave a "courteous reply to a courte- ous request." Sir Edward Parry sug- gests that this might be a slogan for Whitehall. Mr. Baldwin made a pleasant spesch the other day, taking as bis text Byron's line: Ah. happy years! Once more who would not be a boy? It is a great thing for a man In pub- lic life to have kept tne spirit of boy- hood in him and the honesty to ao knowledge it unabashed. "I al vays think," said Mr. Baldwin, "one of the great charms of ray set is that the best of us remain boys to the end." and it is that characteristia of our Prime Minister that has gain- ed him a place in the hearts of the people. When Pharaoh Refused The Press desired to discuss with the P. 'MO. a question of public policy. The P.M.G. was sulky and inacces- sible and on two occasions when they called be peeped at them over tha blinds, but was not at home. So they we' it to see Mr. Baldwin instead, and had a heart-to-heart talk, and came away happy. Our P.M.G. should read about Pharaoh. When he refused to ses deputations he found his roll-top desk swarming with tat, healthy frogs the next morning. Our mod- ern Pharaohs should study history. The House of Commons wanted to know nil about the incident, and Mr. Baldwin was asked why he liad re- ceived the Press representatives that the P.M.G. had refused to receive. "In the .same way I always reoeiva them." replied the Prime !\linister: "a courteous reply to a courteous re- quest." Political Leap-frog When Jlr. Baldwin was further tacked with the Impropriety of a Prime Minister "going over the head of a trusted Minister"' he evidently re- garded the process as a sort of every- day political leap-frog, and replied with jo.vous determination: "I never teel any hesitation in doing so if I think it desirable in the public inter- est." The House was delighted. For al its best it has the psychology of a col- lection ot schoolboys. And .Mr. Bald- win with a boy's instinct, has made just the reply that the captain of the school would have made if someone' had asked him why he had taken 05 an efficient bowler and gone on to bowl himself. It had seemed to him that it was the Interests ot the gama. That settled it. Microbes Blamed for Street Blow-Up Have in "Most men are not at home in even- ing clothes, it they have any other j place to go. j A smiling, with a dollar ami ;. quarter in her pocket, leaving behind her a completely exhausted '.Missus.' Even- The Mexican rebels wil! never win ndon Dailv Express ' '*"-^' Ijattles as long as they allow the „ ,, ^ „, ,..,...>,.......â- â- ......, are entering CanadaV'"'""'''"'-' '"^ ''â- 'â- ''* '''*°^'^'-''*'''*P°"'' nially 1 found myself far more t red , ^^^ ^^.^..^ p^.,^„ ^^^, ^,,,^ ^-^ ,^ ^^^ ^s after my day '.s help than any other. ^,,,^^^^, "ominous for the Canadian!.. "We have decided th.- mv son shall = .... ...... ,'"'^"' "'f '''^^â- â- '" ^ ,f '" '' "f;^": future." Says the .Montreal Dailv be an artist." "Has ha a special tal- country r :rchyard tha:, fight the bat- 1 '«''' '>""" ^"'^^ « "'"" "' ""^J ^'"L" ' i Star: j nef.- "Yes; he can go a week with- tle ot Quebec. I """ snen time and thought to pre- ..,„ ^^ ^,^^ ^^^^ immtgra-' out food." Old Wartime Leader Starts His Campaign LLOYD GEORGE BELIEVES IN LEARNING CONDITIONS FIRST HAND Canvassing farmworkers with a candidate lu the Eddlsbury division con.'>fltuoncy. He followi the well kuown plan ot giving personal help to as niauy ot his supporters as possible. Germs Now Said to Causer Explosions Old London Louiioa â€" The newest danger ol cities, a microbe that lives in the ground beneath them and does it« best to blow them up, is suspected in London by the distinguished British biologist. Professor J.. S. Haldane, aa an explanation of a mysterloiiar e.\pIo- sion which tore up long sections of street paving in tlie Holborn district last December. That explosion uml.iubtedly was caused by a gas of some kind which collected in conduits and manholes underneath the street and exploded violently when one ct tha m.TJiholes was opened and a light struck inside it. The problem with which Lon- don authorities are now wrestling ij to decide where the explosive gai came from. Called as an expert witness becaus« of his long experience with s'.ich ex- plosive gases in mines and elsewhere. Professor Haldane suggested his start- ling microbe theory of the origin ol the gas. It is well known, he said, that mi- crobes which live in the mud ol swamps are able to manfacture the gas called methane, which explodes violently when mixed with air and Muched off by a match or a spark. This is the "marsh gas" which biibblei out of such swamps, and which Is possible, the distinguished biologist believes, that these same microbei live in vast numbers in the moist dirty sub-soil ot a city and slowly pro- duce this same explosive gas. Pave- ments keep the gas from escaping into the air. Accordingly .It may ac- cumulate in seldom-opened conduit.* ni manholes, prepared to send the whol« street skyward If someone Incau- tiously Introduces a light. Canada's Mining Advance From a comparatively ob.-^cure posi- tion In 1900 with a production of loss than $65,000,000, Canada Is steadily edvanting to the front rank ot tha mineral-producing countriss ot tha world with a total production In 192S valued at $271.000.000.. In the adversity ot oAc best fviond we often find something that Is not exactly displeasing.â€" La Kocliefou caulil.