= The Address by United States Pre- sident Significant for Canada. Growing Demand for Food- stuffs from this Country. . "Pyeparstion mist be meade also for the time, fast approaching, When we are to be one of the gresi- et of the agricultural buying Re Joraident Coolidge of the J States had broken his fa » sen phasis in a recent address bafore Absooistion of Land Grant oliéges. Twenty years ago there were a few publicists and' spekkers in the republic raising their voices in warnings. Then the big its pedple may be sm - Coolidge now. But the ents of conditions on this continent do not. The President elaborated his point. "In a few years," he sald, "the natural increase of population, and the inevitable tendemey to im dustrialization will place us among the nations producing dafiels rather than a surplus of agricultur- al staples. It may-not be generally known but even now we consume more calories of food in this coun- try than we produce." What a message for Canada! Wiat a revolution in the history of the United States is here sketched in a few words. Nor is this all. pateh¢s from London a few days later intimated that thé British government had under considera- tion the appointment of an Imper- fal Beonomie Committee whose pri- mary duty would be the bringing of the food commodities of the Domin- fons more prominently béfore the home country consumers than now. That would involve improvement in marketing conditions, and better systems of handling feodstufs so as to avoid waste and loss. A Oase in Point The next decade or two may be earmarked In history as that of Canada's opportunity, recognized and grasped, to become the food shép of the world. A steamer laden with Canadian figur made from Canadian wheat, eft Fort Williap this fall for a direct voyage Hamburg . which she expected to complete in twenty days. The fact that a few years 880 we were at war with Germany, Austria and other countries has not blinded them to the excellence of Canadian foodstufts. They .are in the market with Britain and the and powers, for ada"s produce of the farm and the ranch Canadians of the present genera on have seen some remarkable uetuations in the export of the country's natural products to the United States, due to tariff laws and regulations. None of these have brought such hardship as was ex- periesiced by our sturdy forefathers in the sixties when the reciprocity agreement was abrogated, or some subsequent tariff wall erections familiar to most readers. They could mot harm Canada to the ex- tent that was possible in the past, because this country years ago be- came a world wide trader whose diverse interests are mot at the mercy of any other single nation. As a matter of record Canada's principal exports to the United States for twelve months ending September; 1924, totalled $419,- 816,685. Partisans may be left to the ar- guments that the word tariff al- most instantly provokes. Presi- dent Coolidge has given the world at large one reason why, so far as his country is concerned, it must ldok to the "fast approaching!' day when it will be a buyer of agricul- tursl staples. And where will that country leok for them first if not to Canada? Our Apples in Demand The pro#ipéct of becoming a unit in the world's food shop is one to which every province in Canada ean look with copfidénce. There is not one province in which agriculture, using the word in its broadest sense as inclusive of cattle, sheep, horses, and fruit raising, has not a place of major importance. Take apples as an {llustration. The Maritime pro- vinces, Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia are all apple exporters. The Wembley Exhibition taught Canadian apple exporters two things, first, the necessity of careful packing, second, that there is prao- tically no limit to the overseas mar- Food .. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG ket. Concerned over the fact that Canadian apples were often sold at & loss in Britain because they ar rived In a bruised condition, a Spousal side packing was used for boxes of apple exhibits sent to Wembley. This kept them from any contact with the boxes with the result that they were ia as good condition when the exhibition closed as they were when taken from the orchards in Canada nearly a year before. Orders aggregating in value thous- sands of pounds were taken for Bri- tain and several European coun- tries, and Canadian officials express the confident view that the present 'overseas apple trade will be easily doubled. There is a disposition in the urban centres of Canada to picture the United States markets as abso- lutely closed to most of the pro- ducts of our s and ranches. But in spite of tariff walls the im- ports of animals and animal pro- ducts from Canada during the last fiscal year amounted to $55,800,000 while agricultural and vegetable products reached a total of $51,.- 355,000, a combined amount of $107,155,000. This is an Increase in the last two years, in spite of the additional height of the U. S. tariff wall. In the same period the ex- ports of like products to Britain has beea about three times the amount to the republic. The growth of the cattle trade to the Old land since the removal of the embargo is an inspiring story, and a éase in point as illustrating the hope of rural Canada, the home of our basic in- dustry. Apart from its steady growth there is another bright fea- ture of the cattle trade--not a single head from Canada has ever been found to have any suspicion of the foot and mouth disease which is again devastating British herds. The market which this country is building up in Britain for its cattle promises to be one of the most valuable adjuncts to the total of trade that the Dominion is de- veloping. Incidentally it is worthy of note that the popular conception of the West as a "wheat mining' area only is giving way before the know« ledge that it is also becoming a cattle and horse raising section and 8 dairying country of nete. The latest successes of Manitoba heavy draft horses at Guelph, Toronto and elsewhere, following the triump! of the West with Percherons an Belgian horses, and beef cattle and butter, ate a fair warning to Ont- ario and the Eastern provinces th future expansion in live stock, an horse raising as well as in dairying is not to be confined to them. It is not to be supposed that the only requirement to Canada be SP ay rs y op of wm e Wor 17 ww WW WW CANADA UNLIMITED a i LS A A G6 Sr aa For TU UDARY Poe ow. OP SN eu = (0) Let Them All Come. coming the food shop not only of Britain but of a great part of the| world, is for her farmers to increase production of grains and root crops and the raising of live stock. Even the most casual of newspaper read- ers has had opportunity enough to learn that the farmer has had as rough sledding during the past few the urban centres. joice with the Tarmers at the evid-| Canada stands ready to take full|customer. the country's basic years as many of the industries in| good deal remains to be done, how-| States aré offering to her. The latter re-|ever, before it can be said that|former country is already s big|September last and It took from Canada|ean be developed to Tv [. industry. | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 19¥r Bhabha | Nn A [those which Britain and the United (and ' goods--meostly The | products in the fiscal year trade a still 5 ences of returning good times for|advantage of such opportunities as|$391,105,698 worth of produets]velume, popes ada its hidden mystery. You see" --tafking ina fiat, sibilant purr--it is the magic carpet of Isfahan--the flying carpet of Isfahan!" np » (To Be Continued.) furnace-crimson and .cherry-red "and lilac subtle as a spirit flame, with ser- pent-green and emerald-green, with amber like the bloom of grapes and the dead-gold of autumn leaves, with on Him the salute '--say that Allah has not left any calamity more hurtful to man than woman?" came the other's pious quotation. "Doubtless the Prophet--on Him the NERVOUS HACKING Cannot be cured by a glass of water, but will disappear under the healing and soothing effect of CHAMBERLAIN'S look----they are the tears, crystalized by the will of Allah, which she shed while weaving the extraordinary fabric!" "1 ook 1" "Buy ™ "Look!" "Buy!" The pulling, bartering symphony rose "THE THIEF OF BAGDAD" "As the lambs crouch hidden in the pas. Based sy of the on Dengiss Parteners ittsay + Arabian Nights, by By this time the Prince of Persia was drawing near to Shiraz, leaning back, as was his habit, on the heaped, silken pillows of his litter; helping Himself erally to sweetmeats and sugared he nuts; listening drowsily to a slave girl curled at his feet, who was cropning him to slgep with a"lilt- ing Afghan love song: "Since my sight fell on 'those dark eyes of thine, Never can I forget those lovely eyes of thine. Of the hawk"s are they? /The pea- cock's or the falcon's?d Or of the soft-eyed antélope? The glances of thine eyes? ture, oe From the shade of thy tresses look those gentle eyes of thine. As the armed trooper stands, his lance "in hand beside him, Thus stand the long lashes round those warring eyes of thine. As one who has drunk wine, thus into- xicated is my being Whether they be Priests or Dervighes or even Hermits, On each one's heart they feed, those cruel eyes of thine. 3 Yét whatever thou wouldst gaze on, look well upon me, 0 Fathma! while there is power of see- ing in thine eyes . . So the litter--with the Prince by this . time sound asleep and snoring loudly through his nose, like a guttural and raucous accompaniment to the little ve girl's dulcet piping--reached the of the Badakshani Merchants; rude shouts as they cleared the way with: ' ; "O thy right!"--yelling as they brought down their long, brass-tipped staves with full force. "O thy left! O thy face! O thy ear! O thy heell"-- suiting the swing of their sticks to the part of Asian anatomy which they were striking--"O thy back, thy back, thy back! Give way, ignoble and un- mentionable ones! Give way, sellers of unclean filth! Give way, leprous sons of burnt fathers!" But, in spite of the soldiers' abuse, the merchants, knowing of old the Prince to be an extravagant spender, crowded about the litter, pushing and jostling each other, heaping their trea- sures of jewels and brocades and em- broideries and perfume and costly rari- ties about the snoring potentdte's small, fat feet, vociferously clamoring that he should look, touch, buy: "Béhald, Protector of the Pitiful! Only a thousand Persian gold pieces for this priceless émerald! See! It is flawless and cut in the form of a Kas- hmiri parrot! Only a thousand gold pieces--and I am losing money on the transaction--may I be father to my sons |" "Behold, O Heaven-Born! A pink turmaline from Tartary as big as my | Its touch is guaranteed to cure fever, dyspepsia, whitlows, and the pain of sorrowing hearts! Call me a Jew, a Christian, a bath servant, a cut. off one, if I lie!" look, O Great and Ex- head! "Look, look, : quisite Moon! Look, O Holder of the, Scales of Benevolence with the Strength This brocade--lock, the Prince kept on sleeping and |look--it although there was a great soldiers who preceded the lit- dé the air ring with defiant and Ea ever more shrilly until the Prince, at last awakened by the tumult, sat up, opened his eyes, rubbed them, and dis- missed the merchants with a promise to look at their wares some other time. To- day he could mot. For he was awaiting Hakim Ali, that descendant of the Ar- changel Ishrafil and the Kurdish vam- pire, who had been notified ' of the Prince's coming by a swift messenger galloping ahead of the caravan. Hakim Ali, in spite 6f his--to say the least--péculiar, mixed ancestry, was a good, one hundred per cent Persian pat- riot and eager to do all in his unhallow- ed power so as to help his sovefeign lord. He came now, crippled, naked but for a beggar's loin cloth, and carried in the arms of two slaves. His was not a very prepossessing exterior. His eyes were yellow flecked with green, his hair was red, and his face brown--unpleas- antly so, resembling in color, texture and outlines an over-dried cocoanut. His body was emaciated and ribbed like a bamboo frame, and from his mother, | her, the Kurdish vampire, he had inherited COUGH REMEDY Every user is a friend birds' claws that took the place of hands and feet. From her, too, he had inherit- ed the neat, furry little tail, very much like a goat's, that he whisked from side to side to drive away the flies and mos- quitoes and that he used to gesture with as mere humans use their hands, » And violently he gestured with his tail when the Prince told him aboyt Zobeid and his_overwhelming love for her. "Bah!" exclaimed Hakim Ali. "Your words are as wind in my ears! Person- ally. I disapprove of women™ The Lord God created them only so as to prevent life from being as charming and agree- able as it might otherwise be." "You dislike women?" "I do not care for them, These seven centuries or so have I been a confirmed bachelor." "But"--objected the Prince--"I love " mn "Did not the Prophet Mohammed-- blessings !--was right. But still--I love Zobeid. For the sake of one of her pre- cious eyelashes would 1 commit the many,sins. And so I want her to Be my wife." "By my tail! Almost a woman's reason!" exclaimed Hakim Ali impati- ently, scratching his nose with his left hind claw--"that is to say, no reason at alli!" But the Prince of India was stub- born in his resolve. He implored the other to help him find the greatest treasure, the most exotic rarity on earth, ddding: "There is no price I would not be willing to pay for it, in- cluding the revenues of all my king- dom, and all the jewels of my ancient dynasty I" Hakim Ali laughed. "My lord," he replied, "you will not have to pay one millidnth part of it." With his tail he ppinted at a bazar Booth where a mass of Persian, Bok- haram, and Turkish rugs was heaped up for sale, precious, silken master- pieces of the weaver's art, gay with New Hair Creation Turns Bobs Into Formal Coiffures black and silver as a fervid summer with delicate yellow as the seedling of a pea. "Rugs? Bah!" objected the Prince. "All the world has rugs." Again Hakim Ali laughed. He puint- ed to the corner where, carelessly, ne- gligently thrown, was a threadbare, worn, drab-colored square of carpet with a fair fringe all round. "Look at it!" he said. "What about it?" "Buy it. Fen silver pieces will be erfpugh." 'Why should I buy it?" voice--"there is nothing rarer in the " night that is flashed by lightnings and | "Because" --Hakim Ali lowered his} Seven Worlds of Allah's Creati "And then, when the transaction had been finished through the Prince's ma- jordomo who, incidentally, bargained the rug dealer down to six pieces of silver and deducted twenty-five 'per cent from this sum as his personal com mission, Hakim Ali whispered into the Prince's ear the secret of the rug: "Not oné of thése foolish Badak- shani merchants knows its value nor USE SULPHUR IF SKIN BREAKS OUT Just the moment y 0 n apply Men- tho - Sulphur, to an itching, burning or broken ont skin, the itch- Market For a hundred thousand