; * Great Britain Is Only Country ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS AND MATSQUI In The World To Take Her Tariff Out OF Politics Oa _Unlike every other country in the | world Great Britain has taken her, tariff out of politics. Day by day, the “Advisory Committee of Tariffs” is in session, under the chairmanship of Sir George May, the well known, business man whose economy report a | year ago was the cause of the crisis which set up the National Govern- ment. With him sit the other two mem- bers of the committee, Sir Sidney ; Chapman and Sir George Powell. | They perform a function usually as- ‘Britain Likely To Capture Toy Market | Has Started Manufacturing and Or- ders Are Pouring In Up till recently nearly all the mod- erately-priced clockwork toys in which children delight were of foreign manufacture, Now, thanks to the new tariff of twenty-five per cent on foreign toys, Britain has gone out to capture the toy market. A big manufacturing firnt has laid down plant costing £30,- sumed by a government itself, report | 000. They are erage 2,000, i ar- independently to the government and | ticles for the Christmas market and are now engaged in building a tariff | expect to double output the following in a way tariffs have never been be- fore: | year. It has meant employment for =< } 500 people, and another 1,000 are to The committee has full power to] be taken on if hopes are realized. investigate any tariff already in exist } ence. One of their early acts was to reduce the import duties on certain woollen schedules from 40 to 10 per cent. They issued this order over-! night, and it was promptly imple- | mented by the government. | The procedure is for it to conduct | | feet farther than their rivals at one Everything is made under the same roof, from clockwork mechanism to packing cases. The articles, though cheaper now than American and Ger- man toys, are very much superior. The clock motor-cars run at least 50 ALL QUIET ON THE BRITISH CABINET FRONT | King GEORGE avs | nations of the world, states the Mar- ‘lean FE Marler Sees A Big Potential Market In The Orient For Canadian Wheat Canada Produces Prize Celery Dominion Product Ranks Among Nations Of World Everyone knows that Canadian hard wheat sets the standard by which all other wheats are judged. Few real- ize that as a producer of prize celery, Canada also ranks first among the First ket Intelligence Service of the Domin- ion.Fruit Branch. Proof of the superior quality of Canadian grown celery is found in every grocery or fruit and vegetable store. Fresh young stalks, straight | from the celery-growing areas of the Dominion, are reaching the market in | quantity and although the quality | is exceptional, prices are very rea- | Lack of initiative to look for foreign markets for their products by Cana- dian wheat growers and millers, in particular, is deplored” by Hon. Her- bert Marler, Minister for Canada in Japan. “In my opinion the grain growers should have an expert stationed at Shanghai all the time to investigate the possibilities of selling Canad.an grain,” declared Mr. Marler. “Ten years ago China imported 53,000 tons of wheat; a few years later she im- ported 377,000 tons, and the amount {in succeeding years varied, but in 1931, China imported the stupendous amount ‘of 1,500,000 tons. In the first four months of this year she import- ed 600,000 tons of wheat. “The percentage of Canadian wheat sonable. jimported by Japan and China has In choosing her celery, the house- | been steadily diminishing instead of wife would do well to keep the fol- |‘ percentage remaining stable or lowing facts in mind. Always look for ; going up. stalks that are well bleached, with-a| ‘“@Vestigation should be made by good solid heart foundation. Stems 8'&n growers and millers as to the should be succulent and snap readily | Possibility of selling far more of our’ ita: tticairy 3 é 5 | winding; while the better models are adh qu ry i , ere sie ae: it” fitted with electric light, a windscreen # SAE Dices Troms Yi wiper. thatiwl indi dustry. It may investigate withcut tat really mire Fee ae prompting. It may call witnesses to | approved War Office pattern climbs aa eeGee eee undaunted over telephone directories, % ; and alwa: urmounts the inkwell the British treasury. On receipt of bale beets this report it is published without Already orders are pour- undue delay. It then rests with the} government whether or not to im- | pl t that r dation. The | government may refuse to act. But | the government has denied itself the power to pass -higher duties than} those r ded by the tee. | It may, on the other hand, pass} lower duties. If any industry feels the duty recommended is too low, the govern- ment refuses to hear the case. The industry must appear again before the committee and prove its point. Not everyone may appear before the committee. That is, representa- tives of the public at large have not the right. Any industry may appear, or any merchant or dealer in any commodity. It is hoped, in this way, that the consumers will receive due! attention from the committee. In} the case of British industry, the pres- | sure of exporting interests are so} strong that demands from industrial- ists for more and more protection) are at once countered by the export | Winnipeg Newspaper Union pes trades, who appear before the com- | mittee to show proof that if the | duties are raised, their ability to ecm-/ X Sir Joun Simon Sranyex BALDWIN when bent. Avoid stems that are flat | and thin, as they are often stringy. | Celery that is green and poorly) bleached usually lacks flayor Stalks | that are badly split at the base} should never be purchased. | With Canadian celery so plenty ful, this delightful vegetable should | have an important place in the diet of | King George hurried to London from Balmoral Castle, Scotland, and all Cabinet Ministers and heads of the various parties in the British House of Commons were prepared for the split which severed three important Cabinet | Ministers from the flock. Sir Herbert Samuel, leader of one Liberal faction, | resigned, as did Sir Archibald Sinclair and Lord Snowden. Their places were | immediately filled, however, and the so-called smash-up died a natural death. } MacDonald satisfied Sir John Simon and his Liberal supporters by handing out some of the vacated posts to Simon Liberals and Stanley Baldwin took | over Lord Snowden's position as Lord Privy Seal. Just what part His Maj- | esty played in the scene is not, and perhaps will never be, known, but the Government breach was soon healed. a Sechee Should Be Cautious’ | | Knowledge Of Vitamin. May Compli- | tween Debtor and Creditor eate Problem Of Growing Old No debts are ever paid except by News that vitamin “G”’ may be willing, healthy debtors, and no force obtained in common foods adds grave known to human technique can make . implications to the discovery that th’s ‘a one-sided bargain sound. It is the| vitamin is capable of lengthening very basis of capitalist enterprise | youth. Knowledge that tomatoes, that the debtor's interest must coin- | spinach, liver, yeast and other foods cide with the creditor's; that the contain this peculiar property is likely debtor must also benefit by the debt! to complicate rather than simplify he owes to his creditor. Otherwise | one of the greatest problems of life the capitalist loses his money. When; —that of growing old. | debts are artificially created by poli- | Although specific use of this vita-_ ticians of one country who simply de- ' min has not been developed fully, its | mand large payments from the poli-! discoverer asserts that it promises) Business Pays Debts — Creates Necessary Relationship Be- every household. It provides an ex- | cellent appetizer and side dish and because of its mineral content is ideal | for purifying the blood and lending | general tone to the whole System. St. Thomas Times-Journal. Canada Stands Third In Silver Production ‘And British Columbia Is Now Leading | All Proyinces The Canadian silver production in| 1931 was approximately 2014 million! ounces, or 10.5 per cent of the world’s | computed production of 196 million ounces.Canada has for many yea ranked third amongst the silver-pro- ducing countries of the world, being! exceeded by Mexico and the United | States, the former contributing about , 42 per cent and the latter about 22| per cent annually to the world’s total i production. | The silver mines of Cobalt and ad-| joining areas in Northern Ontario | -grain and flour to China. “When we secure our place in those markets,” said Mr. Marler, ‘we must See that a steady supply of the pro- ducts is sent out or we cannot hope to have stable markets in the Orient or anywhere else. “The minister of trade and com- merce, Hon. Harry Stevens, has done and is doing all in his power to assist - the export trade of Canada,” declared the minister. “In addition to markets for our wheat and flour there are vast oppor- tunities in the way of our paper pro- ducts in the Orient, as well as canned milk, apples and such like,” said Mr. Marler. “But all these require investi- gation because the market of the- Orient is a competitive market and will not come to Canada, but Canada must go after it. “Our organization in the Far East is in excellent shape. In fact, it may be said to be quite the equal of any other country.—Free Press. . Word Now Recognized “Appendicitis” Omitted From First Volume Of Oxford Dictionary In the course of his Bolingbroke, lecture dealing with “the surgical rev- olution,” Sir Humphry Rolleston said: “The word ‘appendicitis, much were for many years the principal’ criticized as a barbarous hybrid of sources of the Canadian production, | Latin and Greek termination, itis but their output in recent years’has! was constructed by R. H. Fitz, of shown a gradual decline. | Boston, Mass. in 1886, It does not pete in the world market will vanish. For this reason, the committce’s. functions have, since it was set last, been largely that of a court of con-| ciliation where conflicting clams are) fought out and a balance struck. | So pleased is the government pe - the functioning of the board that the) British delegation at the Imperial | Conference pressed hard for the es-| tablishment in every dominion of = similar tariff board. On the proper functioning of these boards, the Bri- tish delegation pinned their faith for the implementing of the agreement) calling for the institution of competi- | tive tariffs throughout the British) Empire, e.g- tariffs fixed at a level at) which efficient industry would be pro-, tected from unfair competition from) outside. } | | eS ee Funny Or Agricultural The Empire Marketing Board tells us that “Of the 250 million pigs in the world only 12 per cent are Em- 's The Empire has, however, a ne 7a i the goats." Itis' It's cut rather along slenderiging pasty ame d lines, making it equally suited ‘for difficult to know whether the Board th. miss or the matron. is being funny or agricultural, says) The draped treatment of the bodice Free Press. | is very smart. And don’t you think eee Pes | the puffed sleeves, tightened at the IT’S SIMPLICITY ITSELF TO MAKE THIS CHARMING DAY DRESS Here’s an individual dress you'll just love for its interesting details. Guest (to the rich hostess) —‘‘Was | Waist angrADIe’ ur house ever robbed?” { Multi-Millionaire—‘“Well, it may, have been, but of course, we would not notice it.” | A satin crepe is stunning for to fashion it. You can also use rough crepe silk, which is extremely voguish. Wool crepe would also prove a charming} medium. | Style No. 779 is designed for sizes | 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44) inches bust. Size 36 requires 3% | ticians of another country to pay for | “lengthened youth for the human such trumpery absurdities as wars, of ! race.” Should science persist in car- course the thing ends in smoke. Busi-| rying its discoveries to their logical ness, not politics, is the only motive | extremes, they may prove a double- that can create the necessary rela-| edged sword to mankind. tionship between debtor and creditor. How long, for example, should a 7 man be permitted to prolong his Sarcastic But Polite youth? Is there not danger that fem- A constable stepped out at the end) inine requests for spinach would of the police trap. “Excuse me sir,’”’ | amount to confessions of approaching he said, producing his notebook, “but | Old age? What is to become of the you have exceeded the speed limit machinery and methods of face lift- over a measured piece of road.” | ing and hair dyeing? Would not men “J’ve done nothing of the sort,” re- | feign youth merely to escape their torted the motorist, “‘and besides—” | daily portion of spinach? What if a “Well, sir, if you don’t believe me, | dietetic interpretation of history you can ask the sergeant, as it was | showed that lack of vitamin “G” the pig-sty yonder.” de Leon? “J wouldn't trouble him for worlds,’”’ Science, if it is wise, will avoid was the acid reply. “I'd sooner pay; extremes. It would be a grave mis- | five fines than disturb the sergeant | take to make the sunset of life no at his meals.” | mort mysterious than a window pane. Boycott activities are being con- tinued in Central and South China. All fishes apparently contain iodine, usually a minute quantity. him who took the time. He’s over by | prompted the famous quest of Ponce} | Important contributions to Can- | ada’s silver production are now being | made by mines in the Noranda dis- | trict of the Province of Quebec and in | the Flin Flon district of the Province | of Manitoba. The Yukon Territory has | for several years been producing an- | nually about four million ounces of! | silver, derived from the argentiferous lead ores of the Mayo district. British Columbia is now the leading | silver-producing province in the Do- minion, having contributed about 39 per cent of the total production in} 1931. The silver is obtained ma‘nly as la by-product in the treatment of the |lead-zinc ores from the well-known | mine at Kimberley. | | | | Farmer Found Others Had Lost Pail In Well | G. F, Warford of Hancock, Maine, | | lost a pail in his well. He had been on! this farm only since the “back to the, country” movement started, and he} needed that pail He started to grap-/ | ple for it. The first try he hooked a | pail, but it wasn’t the one he lost, so | he tried again, and twenty-four times he tried and each time he brought Two Dozen For One appear in the first volume of the Oxford Dictionary; the editor, Sir James A. Murray, said that when that yolume of the dictionary was in course of preparation (1888) he con- sulted a regius professor of medicine, and was informed that it was not necessary to include it, as the disease: was very rare. “Although it had been described many years before, by James Parkin- son in 1812, by John Burne in 1836, | by Thomas Hodgkin in the same year, and by Thomas Addison in 1839, ap- pendicitis was not generally recogn- ized until influenza reappeared in this country in 1889; it was then called { perityphlitis, a term dat'ng from 1843, and entered in a subsequent volume (1905) of the Oxford Dictionary with a reference to appendicitis.” Photos Of Submerged City Remains Can Be Seen Beneath Level Of Sea Photographs are being taken of the submerged city of Jamestown, once the capital of Nevis, an island in the , West Indies, The remains of the city may be seen near the shore, beneath the level of the sea, Jamestown was up a pail that he had never seen be- fore, and the last try brought him up the pail he had lost Twenty of the pails were better than the orig- inal one he fished for. | School Children Help visited by an earthquake on April 30, 1680, and the town slipped into the sea, carrying with it all its riches and a population estimated at 14,000. More than 20,000,000 square feet of lisheep and lamb leather was produced | yards of 39-inch material with % | yard of 35-inch all-over--lace. Price of pattern 20 cents in stamps | or coin (coin is preferred). Wrap coin ; carefully. ; How To Order Patterns | | Address: Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Ave., Winnipeg Pattern No.. «ss Rize... | Name . Doctor: “No wine, no theatres, = Mittle, spend a lot of time in bed—and _ get as much amusement as possible.” —Buen Humor, Madrid. 1963 ane eet wed ETITTIG Ta ie nee w Nn. U. | | | | SWORD-SWALLOWER: “I've bin an’ seen the doctor, sir, an’ ’e says , | I've to go on a special diet.” SHOW 72ANAGER: “What does ‘e recommend—razor-blades? j Humorist, London The | of preserved { opinions alike. The emergency conservation com- mittee of the Toronto Local Council of Women is richer by 4,000 bottles, produce presented by} school children of the city. The chil- dren did much of the preserving themselves in the domestic centres of their schools. science Government min n Sumatra are | producing the best coal in the Neth- erland Indies. | The first permanent tooth to make | its appearance in the mouth is the six-year molar. | There never was in the world two ready paid his bill” in Spain in the last year. Hotel Thief; “Too late, he has al Jugend, Munich