MUNDAY, TFC. 1421. 12, 2,000 MLES OF RALWAY Acres of Farm Land in Australia. London, Dec, 10. --~--Aiming Population of 20,000,000 through the egnstruction of 2,000 miles of railway and the opening up of 50,000,000 acres of land to pre- vide for 100,000 farmer® in Austra- at a lia, Sir Joseph Carruthers, of Sydney, i has prepared a policy or plan which has been submitted in detail to the Australian people for their approval or otherwise. He has contributed to the London Times an outline thereof, In his appeal for "A White Austra. Ha" Bir Joseph points out that the | Commonwealth, with only 5,500,000 population, has an area equal to that of the United States, and "quite as rich and fertile," though the United States' population is 105,000,000 Sir Joseph Carruthers is an ex-Premier | of New South Wales and a life mem- | ber of its Legislative Council. "We are very unsafe with so vast a territory and with so few people," Sir Joseph states in his letter to the Times, and adds: "We know that fact toe well, although we hesitate to talk openly of it." That there is a feeling against indiscriminate im- migration, and that "the working- man is against any policy that does not provide for the absorption of the immigrants' labor without imperfi- ling existing conditions," is referred to; also the statement is made that these views are not confined to one political party, but are more or less shared by all. "The main thing, however," Sir Joseph says, ** is that deep down in the hearts of Austral- fans exists the desire that their coun- try may be made safer and happie. by having more and more men of the people | Jo pa part, jed and in detail to the | Australian peor First of all, the j2im is to systemize the two essential tnings, immigration and the perman- jent employment of the immigrants. It. is proposed to use the Grown [lands of Australia as the key of the | situation, Ninety-two per cent. of | Austrailia is still Crown lands--only eight per cent. is private land. seph outlines a policy in the pre- 2 of which he has had a chiet ish the peopling of Australia Sir | paration submi {742,000,000 acres; private [163,000,000 acres. Assuming that {half of the Crown lands are unsuit able for settlement for many years to come, the remainder would com- prise a vast acreage of agricultural | land with a larger area of good pas- | tural country. These Crown lands | lie mainly outside of the influence of | existing railways, and in some cases {they have other disadvantages that can only be overcome by public works, such as water conservation and water supply. ~It is proposed that railways should | be constructed according to plan and {system in order to open up large | areas in selected situations, also that roads and other essential works shall | be carried out to precede settlement. Thess works, in their construction would afford employment to labor, skilled and unskilled, when complet- ed would serve to convert lands that {are now comparatively idle into pro- ductive farms. Thus a farming popu- | lation might be settled in sequence to the work of development. Natur- {ally, towns would be expected to fol- low at points along the railways. {From primary production trade and { manufacture would result. So popu- lation would grow with a demand for its labor. Substantial and tang- ible assets would be created, greater in value 'han any expenditure, Anglo-Saxon race to work for it, and | if needs be, to fight for it. With that | Sir Joseph Carruthers points out The | relative areas are: Crown lands, 1.- | lands, | which policy has been formulat- | E O => 5 ALY BRITISH WHIG. S--y ] ¢ Ontario. You employed The value of t JA Job For Every Man 224] Prosperity For All r. Manufacturer-------- ® \ ary 4 li 918 you operated 15,365 manufacturing establishments throughout 333,926 people. You paid them $321,160,214, he products manufactured, including raw materials, was $1,809,067,000. Part of this was war business but it shows what Ontario's manufacturers can do. You paid 52.3 per cent. more for common factory labor than you did in 1913. You paid 46.8 per cent. more for skilled factory labor than in1913, there is an intense love of what the | that there are 80,000,000 acres of British Empire stands for, and au [rich wheat lands in southern parts abiding desire for a continuance ot or Australia, where the rainfall is its supremacy. The lessons of thy |eXactly what is needed for wheat war have proved this fact up to the [8rowing, yet the Australians culti- hilt." | vate only 8,000,000 acres of this The suit or overcoat that you made in 1913 to retail at $25 increased in price to the point where it sold for $65 in 1920. It is clear that you have made reductions because Fian of Coperation, that same quality suit or overcoat is offered retail to-day On the question of how to aecom- CONSTIPATION, BAD HEADACHES, Faint, Dizzy Spells Coustipation is one of the common- -est ills of mankind, and one too of- ten allowed to go unlooked after, un- til some serious coniplication sets in. 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Milburn Co., Limited, Toron- to, Ont. Bilious? Take NR Tonight Th Se SLR os a NW hestasher "Guarentond: writes: --""I have been | | land, There is a larger area of dairy { farm lands in the higher rainfall re gions of Australia, he says, and not {one-third of this area is used. The reason for this he adds, is the lack of { railways to open up these lands. To jconstruct railways end make the lands available would be to create openings for a farming population for whose products there would be ample markets at home and abroad. Thus the task of peopling Austra- lia, in Sir Joseph's opinion is asso- {ciated with the work of railway con- | struction into the unsettled parts, | where there is an abundance of good {land now lying unoccupied and un- | touched. He estimates that 1,000 | miles of railway would, on the aver- |age, open wp 25,000,000 acres of {land within twenty miles of the rails. { The cost of comstruction, in Sir | Joseph Cartuthers' estimation, woula be about £10,000,000, and other works essential would cost an addi- tional £5,000,000. Averaging the {farm area at 640 acres to each far, | there would be 40,000 farms provid- {ed along every 1,000 miles of 'rail- { way. On the basis that one farmer, di- rectly and indirectly, creates emplay- { ment for two and a half more work- |ers | employment not only for that num- | ber of farmers, but for 100,000 othe, | workers, according to Sir Joseph's { Plan. Assuming that there are three | Persons on an average in the family of a breadwinner, the total popula- | tion that could be added as a resuly | of "establishing the 40,000 farms | Would be 420,000 men, women and | children. i The scheme thus far largely in- | ereasing Aus'ralia's population | spoken of as "The Million Farms," because it aims at obtaining that number of farmers as a basis for an increase of the population to the 20,- 000,000 mark. As to the question of financing the project Sir Joseph estimates that £30,000,000 will be needed to star. with, so that 2,000 miles of railway may be constructed to open up 50,- 000,000 acres of land, and to pro- vide for about 100,000 farmers. He states that Sir Denison Miller, gov- ernor of the Australian Common- wealth Bank, is an open and ardent advocate of the scheme, and regards it as financially sound, The under- taking is too great for a country with a population of only five and a halr million population, but as it is vital to the Empire's well bein that Aus- tralia should be made a bulwark o, Empire it is suggested that Great Britain, even with her resources severely taxed, as they are at present, should become a partner of Austra. lia in financing the policy of popula- tion. Australia it is believed, could raise one-half of the money required in the early stages, and ultimately would be able to éarry out the under- taking without external aid. -------- Justice Middleton has granted aw injunction restraining the U.F.0. co- Operative from holding its annual meeting this week. Sir Henry Drayton has receivea the war cross of Czecho-Slovakia for ald given the serbian corps in transit through Canada. Premier Tashereau, Quebec, denies the rumon that he will become chief Justice of the supreme court. In Yukon, Black, Conservative, was leading Congdon, Liberal, by twenty-one votes on Friday. Oa alleged attempt to smuggle Chinese into the United States was frustrated et Windsor, Port Arthur Liberals wil} consider & protest of the Port Arthur-Kenora election, \ , these 40,000 farms should crest is | Provincial The goods on hand at 3.--That Retailers time have been desiring to build people reasonable prod Pe should be 7.--~That Labor shall | | and endorsed by agr for new tenders on their that building contractors should make a special effort to reduce prices to a Minimum in order to restore this important key industry. 5.--~That Banks and financial institutions should be prepared to co-operate to the utmost with all productive enterprise by i credits and by decreasing rates conditions may allow. 6.--That Farmers should be asked to maintam uction, and in the ewent of a roportionate reduction being reached in other needed improvements and facturers, wholesalers, retailers, Qe Advisory Committee on Unemployment considered the industrial situation and endorses the following statement of proposals:-- 1.--That Manufacturers should be asked to take a price for goods on hand equal to the cost of replacement having raw material and of lal 2.--That Wholesalers should be asked to sell rd to decreased cost of r used in manufacture. replacement prices. should be asked to sell at replacement prices. 4.--Knowing that the costs of building at the present those considerably reduced, should be encouraged to ask pro work; and er supply allowing all reasonable as rapidly as prepusd to make tterments. be asked to take willingly a reduction in wages proportionate to progressive rease in cost of livi i reduction has not already taken place. The above statement has been submitted to the following intsrests---manu- . in so far as sucha ilding industries; and the v at Ey $43. This is a typical example of the situation in many other lines of industry. In a general plan of co of the community are -operation, in which all classes asked to take part, will you operate your factory so that the public will be enabled to purchase your product from the retail merchant at as great a reduction as your replacement cost D materials and labor will warrant, thereby enabling order goods from the wholesaler, retailer to order and re- who, By so doing, producing at in turn, will be able to order them 2 you may not only keep Ontario factories normal speed production, thus increasing of raw the from you but may possibly increase employment. This plan, successfully carried out, will help to bring about a normal adjustment in conditions, gradually and surely, and you will ? Help Ontario "A Job Prosperity For All" Buy! ~~ Build! -- Work! 4 « New Canadian Premier. | 3 Watertown, N. Y., Times W. L. Mackenzie King, leader | 5@Ven years An ny, sues as he had outlined them early In the campa'gn and now emerges as the hero of his epoch in Canadian politics. This young leader--he is bu* forty- of age--possosses an of the Liberal party, achieved one cr | #lert personality, aggressive, strong, the most notable victories known to Canadian politics in 'he polling yes- tepday. He was the outstanding fig- ue in the campaign. He assumeda a pushing, like the young country whose premier he is about to become. It has been sald that he did not show up well in parliamen' against Mei- leadership that was most difficult. | hen, the premier, for the latter was He stood in the place Laurier had occupied so long and thal of itself was no easy task. He had also to fight off a certain preju- dice aroused wgainst him by reasom of a residence of several years in 'he United States. It was charged 'that he was 00 thoroughly Americanized to become a desirable leader in Car adian affairs. But he bore all the as- saults serenely, kept to the main is- Sir Wiiftrid | more spectacular and quicker in de- bate, but on the platform during the campaign which has just closed he made a remarkably good showing, far better than did the prime minis- ter or any of the Conservative speak- ers or debaters. His selection as prime minister will mean that young Canada is t> have its day. Some of the leaders in Canadian politics in other decades seamed to desire to make of the ua- tion an old country. They showed a tendency to stifle the impression "hat it was a8 a young man eager for a race and with all the streng.nh 'and equipment of youth to make the race, Laurier, always young, did not give this impression, but it came under Sir Robert Borden, and indeed under Meighen. Now the youth of Canada comes into its own, and Mackenzie King will make the Liberal party a party of youth as representing the spirit of the coun- try. _ This new premier will not Amer- fcanize Canada nor would any Amer- ican have it so. But his residence here gives him a thorough knowledge of our aims and aspirations and at least there will be no misreprenta- Do not" sutfer 1tehi : Lead the Way to for Every Man Published by ~Authorily of the Ontario Government on the advice of the Provincial Advisory Commilice on Unemployment. tion of our spirit. He assumes charge of a government that will be most friendly to the United States for the campaign in certain aspecls was fought out along that line. These could be no more ideal selection for this leadership than he. The old order passes in Canada. The Conscrvative leadership as swp- resented by Meighen and Sir Robert is out of date. 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