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1936 THURS., OCTOBER Ist, Rieti | Lei yh es EYBURIAN Page 7 ----------_ The Ottawa Spotlight By Wilfrid Eggleston Ottawa( Sept, 29. -- Canadian farmers in various parts of the country appear to have secured larger markets in the United States as a result of the trade agreement signed a year ago. The new tariff rates have been operating since January Ist, and the figures for eight months are quite encouraging. It is always difficult to assign any one parti- cular cause any national events, because modern life and com- merce have become extremely complex. But there seems to be a real relationship between the lower tariff rates given Canada and the enlarged shipments of "goods to the States. Shipments of cheese, for in- stance, rose from a value of '$45,314 in the first eight months of 1935 to $1,109,741 in 1936. Shipments of poultry rose from 77,564 poinds to 172,475 pounds. Cream shipments rose from seven gallons to 8,094 gallons; horses, from 4,344 head to 14,495 head; cattle from 81,744 head to 189,407 head; potatoes from 232,153 bus- hels to 651,890 bushels; turnips, from 852,629 bushels to 1,206,424 bushels; strawberries from 250,- 273 pounds to 678,002 pounds; maple sugar from 1,539,790 pounds to 4,736,975 pounds. In spite of duty reductions, ex- ports of hay, of alfalfa and grass seed showed a decrease. but with these exceptions, all farm items on the trade agreement showed an improvement. It is quite likely that some of them would have gained, treaty or no treaty, but not likely that the gains would have been so spectacular. Off for the Antipodes And now Hon. W. D. Euler, Minister of Trade and Commerce leaves for Australia and New Zea- land, to negotiate new trade agreements there. Whether the present ones can be improved upon is a question not easily an- swered.. Canada has been enjoy- ing the better part of the bargain, judging from trade figures, with both countries, and Mr. Euler may find it necessary to offer some substantial concessions to Australia and New Zealand in order to retain the present vol- ume of trade. These agreements were signed in 1931 and 1932, preceding the Ottawa conference. At that time trade with both countries was at a relatively low ebb; it has grown quite remarkably -- since. With Australia our trade at present 1s the highest it ever was; with New Zealand seventh on_ the list. Which illustrates the importance of the mission upon which Mr. Euler is leaving. They are tinkering with the Dominion Housing Act again to see if it cannot be made a little more effective. The present gov- ernment doesn't think the statute is very much use, but they found it there, on the books, and are trying*to make it work. Only about 500 applicants for loans have so far been approved, pro- viding homes and apartments for perhaps-700 persons. 'This doesn't touch the fringe of the housing problem in Canada. The Housgni Act only assists that small class of persons with a fairly good in- come, some capital or land al- ready available, and held up only by the high cost of second mort- gage money. The people who need housing the worst get no help at all from the measure. May Help Somewhat It is possible that the latest amendments to the Act will bring] ' it within the scope of a few peo- ple in more modest circumstances. here is $10,000,000 of Federal money waiting for loan aproval, enough to launch a 50-million dollar project. So far only eight or nine per cent of it has been put to work, after 15 or 16 months of operation. More ambitious housing plans are being developed by the archi- tects of the National Employ- ment Commission, and we shall have, in the next session, legisla- tion to launch subsidized building of thousands of homes for work- ers across the country, it is indi- cated. This coming session is hound to see a revival of the 1912-13 cry for imperial and Canadian defence --if war hasn't broken out be- fore then. There are growing in- dications that a body of opinion in Canada believes that we need to strengthen our coasts, and improve our air defence. Even the least jingoistic of newspapers are beginning to say that the Léague, on which we based our hope of the prevention of war in this generation, has lamentably A HEALTH SERVICE OF THE CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES IN CANADA | MAIMERS, CRIPPLERS AND KILLERS "There is a lion without; I shall be slain in the streets." --Book of Proverbs At an early and later ages of life, in the first half and the sec- ond half, in city and country, in backward and progressive com- munities, among peoples savage or primitive, or crude or more civilized, from blazing tropics to! Arctic snows, what are the chief} maimers, cripplers and killers of the race? In the earliest days the primitive peo- ples kept some kind of health by moy- ing away from their accumulated camp dirt, and by keeping away strangers who might bring strange diseases. A primitive community in its isolation had few kinds of diseases; a*modern civilized community by its. travel and trade has gathered many. Primitive peoples had a sense of safety in their 'isolation, and an adventurer from an- other tribe who would break that iso- lation they were inclined to meet at the bounds of their settlement, with a club. Modern people deal with disease not by isolation but by Science. In the middle ages, when the protec- tion that isolation gave had been large- ly lost and the protection that Science gives had not yet been gained, the people were in a bad way. It was a strange year when there was not a plague or a pestilence somewhere. While we speak of the Great Plague as having struck London in 1665, when amorig less than half a million people the deaths rose to eight thousand or more a week, it is true that the Plague had been endemic, that is constantly failed, and that we must find as surance and aid elsewhere now. We shall hear a good deal about the Monroe Doctrine, the need of a highly armed British Empire, and so on. more or less active, with considerable death rates in London, for sixty years before that. The middle ages were truly pestilence ridden #80 are many places in the world today In spite of Pasteur and Lister, Koch and Ronald Ross, in many re- gions still the infections are the great toll-gatherers for Death. In the trop- ics, except where they are well health- officered, as in the Panama Canal zone, malaria is the greatest menace to life dnd health, and to industry as well. It was malaria, by the way,,more than anything else that knocked the physical and mental and moral bottoms out of the glory that was Greece. As it spread even the literature shows deterioration and growing pessimism. While malaria in Canada is negligible, yet Dr. Osler thought, the whole world over, it is of the race. Tuberculosis, consumption, the Great White Plague, was for centuries "Cap- tain of the Men of Death" in many countries. Now in a couple of genera- tions, the captain is reduced to corporal or less, though still Field-Marshall or Commander-in-Chief in many ignorant, low-living, poverty-depressed communi- ties such as those of our half-primitive but house-dwelling Indians. They: live in houses but don't know how. In Manitoba the Indian death-rate from tuberculosis is twenty-four times that of the unmixed whites. In some pitiful places of the earth, such as the Yellow River Valley of China, hunger still snipes by retail, as lit has done among all primitive peoples whose living depended upon the happy UNUSUAL love ! SEAN ARTHUR Scallions of | ile vulsed eve [Cobambia Feature Service. FACTS REVEALED y s >» . if place in the Hall of fame. During the filming of ADVENTURE IN MANHATTAN; she played alove scene with JOEL Mc CREA, who had been munching scallions.Jime out had tobe taken in "takes" so Tonque-twisting linquist and collects foreiqn dictionaries. fveryone at Columbia Studios was con-- by "Movie Spotlight' merits a REGINALD OWEN served three years in France as lieutenant : of the Royal Garrison \) Artillery... ye G HERMAN BING isan accomplishe ry time Herman rolled his* v's*. SHOTS OVER BR Artistic value and extra light combin F you live by the sea, lake or river, or when you spend time by them for health and recreation, don't for- get that you are in a snapshooters' paradise. Always where there is water, by it or on it, there are presented to the amateur picture-taker scenes of charm, beauty, action and human in- terest, as subject and background for eye-delighting photographs. The ocean surf, the mirrored calm of still waters in bay and inlet, the beauty of shore lines, seaport vil- lages nestling at the water's edge, shaddwed wharves, majestically moving steamships, speeding motor craft, graceful sailing yachts heel- ing to the wind, the men of the sea doing their salty tasks, and, inland, much the same scenes on lake and river--what more in opportunity for the camera enthusiast? In addition, where there is water, one seldom has to complain of lack of light, even on the stormiest day, for water is a natural, sometimes dazzling, reflector. Indeed, if you will take note, color tones of most everything that composes the scenic frame of bodies of water are more brilliant --bluer, greener, redder, yellower, whiter--thai in land- scapes. Chances for clear, sharp pic- tures are the best. This over-sufficiency of light is something to allow for when you are making pictures over the water on eSNAPSHOT CUIL IGHT WATERS BA e to help the photographer in scenes that include an expanse of water. Clouds and back lighting enhance this shot. opening. Just as you squint your eyes on the water, the diaphragm of the lens generally must be stopped down to a small opening to keep it from letting in too much light. Cameras with fast lenses and ul- tra-rapid shutters are decidedly an advantage on the water, as else- where, because, when you want a close-up of a racing motor boat or the dive of a bathing beauty, the re- quired extra speed is available, but the inexpensive fixed focus box type of camera does a splendid job with many marine scenes. Its average of clear, sharp pictures over bright waters is high. Good enlargements, too, may usually be obtained from the negatives. The second or smaller stop opening is the one to use where light is so intensely reflected. Aboard steamships and sailing yachts are wonderful chances with any camera for striking angle shots, up or down, of funnels, sails and rig- ging, with cloud-studded sky or whitecaps as a background. Again, vessels at anchor in the shelter of a breakwater where outlines of their hulls are reflected in the water's surface often make enchanting pic- tures if thought is taken of the com- position. On the water, too, we find the best opportunities for pseudo- moonlight pictures, shots taken into the sun when it is low (with fairly small lens opening), catching the shining path of its reflections from the dancing waves. bright days. Beware the large stop 103 JOHN VAN GUILDER Want Ads. Bring Results Will Bring Results today the greatest killer and maimer|chances of the hunter, and still slaugh-'ed morons are at the wheels. And 2 ters by wholesale in times of flood and|Great War, monumentally stupid, with calamity . In Russia in the past five giant scythe, lays many years estimates of deaths from famine raneg from three to fifteen millions. Our own boasted civilization, which in many ways have little enough to boast of, have their own killers, maim- ers and cripplers. Ordinary people maimer or crippler of them all? all, the world is millions of lusty youth, a needless and world- devastating harvest, in the rotting swaths and windrows of horrid death. Which, then, is the greatest killer or After wide and the ways like ourselves can lose health and vigor ™e" live and die are very serious, so and even life,by eating--or slimming--|that this evil pre-eminence can scarcely not wisely but too well. From streets and highways the demon speed vomits into hospitals the broken hodies of young and old. Too often booze-light- be adjudicated. Questions conceining Health, addres- sed to the Canadian Medical Associa-~ |tion, 184 College Street, Toronto, will be answered personally by letter. MAKING UP A SHOPPING LIST The hall needs a new rug, More towels are needed for the bathioom, anda the kitchen floor could certainly stand a coat of paint. Thec will soon need tires. Well, hildren need shoes. The car we buy a hundred new things every year. Scattered throughout Canac make the very things we need. on sale in certain stores wit these products, aad certain la are manufacturers who Their products are hin easy reach, Certain of of these stores, are espe- cially fitted to take care of our special need. But which products and which stores? Which can we afford, and which do we think best? We must look to advertising for advice. Advertising is the straight demand, It saves time spent leads you directly to your goal. tisements. we can determine values can be found. shopping becomes a simple line between supply and in haphazard shopping. It By reading the adver- in advance where the best With the aid of advertising, and pleasant business, and budget figures bring more smiles than frowns. From the pages of this paper you can make up a shopping list that will save you money! / * goods. brass, wood, leather, of the materials that make up a list of personal And even experts are fooled, sometimes by concealed flaws and imperfections. purchases. Advertisements Are a Guide to Value % Experts can roughly estimate the value of a product by looking at it. handling and examining it. texture, the "feel" and the balance of it all mean something to their trained eyes and fingers. More accura Its But no one person can be an expert on steel, foodstuffs, fabrics, %& There is a surer index of value than the senses of sight and touch--knowledge of the maker's name and for what it stands. most certain method, except that of actual use, for judging the value of any. manufactured goods. Here is the only guarantee against careless work- manship, or the use of shoddy materials. %* This is one important reason why it pays to read the advertisements and to buy advertised The product that is advertised is of your confidence. MERCHANDISE MUST BE GOOD OR IT COULDN'T BE CONSISTENTLY ADVERTISED Buy Advertised Goods appearance, Here is the tely, by its and all worthy |