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The Trade

Agreement

About all that can be said at this juncture in support of the Canada-|
United States trade agreement signed at Washington on Friday, Nov. 15, is
that it is a step in the right direction and should be a prelude to further |
concessions in the interests of a freer flow of trade and commerce between

two great neighboring and friendly countries.

Both the former Canadian administration and the newly-elected Do-
minion government are deserving of commendation and congratulation for
their respective shares in the negotiations which culminated in a pact to

promote greater commercial intercour

se between two States, geographically |

and ethnologically designed for close relationshins.

Insofar, however, as judgment can be pronounced on the tangible bene-
fits to be derived by the citizens of the Western Canadian prairie

provinces

€s a result of the agreement, that is a verdict which ‘must await results

demonstrable after the pact has been
for some considerable time.

This is a statement which cannot be emphasized too strongly.

in operation for awhile, and perhaps,

For it

must be borne in mind that the benefits of a reciprocal commercial agree-
ment cannot be reaped immediately the gates are flung open; nor can the
maximum exchange of commodities, for which concessions have been grant-
ed, be real’zed in the earlier stages of the operations of an agreement.

There are good reasons for this.

The amount of the duty reductions

involved is by no means the only factor which determines the quantity and
value of the goods exchanged between the co-operating signatories. There
must be an available supply to meet a demand atthe time the demand re-

Quires it. The demand must exist to

take care of the supply. Trade prac-

tices and

gencies are conti

which have to be reckoned

with. New financial arrangements have to be made when commodities are

diverted into new channels of trade.

Existing stocks may have to be

liquidated. New methods of packing and shipping may be involved.

Then, too, it should also be pointed out that a number of the commod-
ities on which dut‘es have been reduced under the agreement are subject-
ed to quota restrictions and these will have some bearing in limiting the

benefits to be derived.

These are only a few of the factors involved in the diversion of trade
over new routes or in-developing a trickle into a broad stream. There are
others, and because of th's, the Western Canadian producer must expect to

wait awhile before he is able to reap

enhanced prices for the products he

expects to sell in a new market and, by the same token, the consumer can-
not hope to be able to purchase overnight goods imported under a newly
Signed agreement at a great deal less than the price he has been accustomed

to pay.
Unquestionably one of the most

important concessions to Western

Canadian agriculture is the reduction of the duty on live cattle exported to

the United States.

This is one of the items, however, on which a quota

restriction is placed. The-lowering of the duty -will provide a needed out-
let for a considerable number of cattle but, on the other hand, many cattle

raisers, who have been almost driven

out of the business in the past two

or three years on account of drought conditions, will not be in a position

to take advantage of the new market

for some time.

While Western Canadian consumers will undoubtedly benefit by reduc-
ton of tariff on a number of commodities importable from the US.A,, it
should not necessarily be assumed that the benefit will be immediate on all
articles covered by the agreement or even, in some cases, to the full extent

of the reduction in duty.

For example, it has already been announced by

the radio dealers’ association in Winnipeg that the lowered duty on radios
will not result in reduction of price to the Canadian purchaser because
radios sold in this country are made in Canada “and are considerably
Sheaper than the American models plus duty.” ¥

These statements are not made with any intent to belittle the agree-
ment, the efforts of the governments who have had a hand in the pact or
the ultimate results which may ensue as a result of the insertion of the thin

end of the wedge, but they are made

in the hope that over-optimism as to

immediate results will not result in disappointment.

No matter what the operation of this first agreement may bring in the
way of benefits to Western Canadian producers of exports and consumers of
imports, the important thing is that it paves the way for further conces-

sions and, it is to be hoped, in the not
It might also well be pointed out

far distant future.
that there are some indications that

the operation of this pioneer pact may prove to be more beneficial than the

more cautious commentators anticipate.

eastern Canadian

The daily press reported that

are appr

and, on the other side of

the international boundary a number of interests, fearful of the effects of
new Canadian imports, are planning to lodge vigorous protests at Wash-
ington. Straws show which way the wind is blowing.

This would indicate that the new agreement may be pitchforked into
the political arena in the United States and may be a casus bellum in the
next national elections in that country, with what restilts remains to be

seen.

It is comforting to know that President Roosevelt has stated he be-

lieves the agreement will double the trade between the two countries within
a couple of years and it may reasonably be expected that he will defend his
action rather than recede from the position he has taken.

Speeding Up Growth
Electric Power Now Factor In High

Pressure Gardening
Electric soil heating for propag

Introduced By Gah

Women In Scotland Take To Wearing
Of Rainettes  *

tion of seeds and promoting growth
of plants to be set out in fields, is
making+headway in Canada.

The Dominion department of agfi-
culture reports installations in On-
tario greenhouses have proven sat-
isfactory. Also in hotbeds and cold
frames for propagating seeds of
tomatoes, cabbage, cauliflower, egg
plant, peppers, cucumbers, melons,
certain flowers, and sweet potatoes,
the use of electric soil heating has
proven valuable.

In the fruit growing district west
of Toronto under-soil heating has
hastened the development of plants
to set out in the field by about three
weeks, the department reports.

There are now nearly 200 instal-
lations of electric soil heating in On-
tario.

A horned fish, 1014 t long, was
caught recently near Cullen, Scot-
land.

The sawfly larva sprays its enemies
with a shower of acid.

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‘tom in various forms.

Cc: are g ly accustom-
ed to the wearing of rubbers as a
protection in wet weather. In the
British Isles rubber coverings for the
feet are not so common, the general
practice being to wear heavier soled
boots and shoes. This is: particularly
the case in Scotland. The women of

Scotland are taking to the wearing |

of rainettes, or gaiters, introduced by
Canada to the market last year in
place of the old Wellingtons, which
are now being relegated to the coun-
try and for use by children. Canada
supplies the major proportion of the
rubber footwear imported into Scot.
land, with Hong Kong occupying sec-
ond place, according to the industrial
department of the Canadian National
Railways. A part of the trade is
supplied by domestic manufacturers.

Discontinued The Custom

Every Christmas from 1813 to
1931, the King of England was pre-

sented with “four and twenty wood-
cocks baked in a pie.” The custom

was begum by Lord Talbot and con- |

| tinued by all viceroys and governors-
general of Ireland. In 1932, Donald
Buckley, governor-general of the Irish

Free State failed to send the tradi-
tional pastry
Survival Of Old Days
The venison banquet, given to the
Prince of Wales by the Mayor of
Windsor, is survival of the days

| when King John, in the hope of dis-
| couraging poaching in Windsor For-

est, made a gift of venison to the
whole town once a year. Successive
Sovereigns have carried on the cus-
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New Weather Predictor

gnetometer Can Forecast Condi-
tons Two Years Ahead

Selby Maxwell, instructor in
| meteorology, who has been doing re-
search work in @ laboratory at
Northwestern University, Evanston,

| IL, has invented a “magnetometer”
| to aid him: in his computations.

“You can predict the world’s
| weather for two years in advance
| with the same ease that you might

predict a storm .for to-morrow,” he
asserted.

Last August, he said, he knew
| there would be a major storm in the
| northeastern United States in mid-
November. In October he made 12
charts of the storm's course, and
placed a blue print of the storm in
the hands of navy weather men and
his friends,

His new principle is based on the
fact that the relative motions of
the earth, moon and sun are irregu-
lar, resulting in a slight motion ot
the earth’s whole mass.

“That causes the atmosphere,
Which is like a fluid, to slosh back
and forth over the earth, just as
water will slosh out of a pan if the
pan is jiggled,” he said.

Maxwell predicted little snow this
winter and another drouth next sum-
mer.

Fashions A Tisscope

Western Ontario Student Makes Him-
self An Efficient Instrument

A few pieces of sheet metal, some
bits of a broken windshield, and
Randad Cole, of Clinton, University
of Western Ontario student, can
watch the rings gaily spinning about
Saturn, or the moons on their never-
ending trail around Jupiter.

For 18 months, he devoted his
Spare hours to working on odds and
ends, and out of them, he fashioned,
at no great expense, a telescope.
Recently he showed his creation to
his astronomical professor, Dr. H. R.
Kingston, who described it as one of
the most successful telescopes for
amateur purposes he has seen. «

Mr. Cole made the lens out of a
piece of broken windshield, grinding
it himself. For the six-inch mirror,
he invested in a piece of one-inch
plate glass, but even in that case, he
made it into a mirror himself.

Two pieces of sheet metal, rolled
to resemble stove pipe, formed the
base of the telescope. About it he
constructed his lenses and mirrors,
his delicate instruments, all of which
Were made out of wood, turned on his
own lathe.

Royal Wnter Fair

Alberta Is Heavy Winner In Cattle
Class

Alberta came to fore at the Royal
Winter Fair when Charles Bull, of
Calgary, exhibited the winner in the
senior yearling division for bulls,
Hereford beef cattle section) Ex-
hibits of Kendall Stock Co., Kew,
Alta., and Frank Collicutt, Cross-
field, Alta., were second and third,
respectively.

Western entries also dominated
the bull junior yearling class with
first ribbon going to W. Crawford,
Frost, Hanton, Alta, on Donald Stan-
way Third. In second place was
Hughes Bros., High River, Alta., with
| Wintercott Bardolph.
| The Prince of Wales ranch of
High River, Alta., with Bapton Ora-
| tor, was judged best in the bull, two
| years and under three class of the
| Shorthorn beef cattle section.

| No Vaccination Mark

| Just Swallow A Pill Is The New
Method
The day when little Mary will vac-

A New Ship Elevator
Will Be Capable Of Hapdling Vessels
Of 11,000 Tons

A ship elevator is being construct-
ed near Rothensee, Germany, about
eight and a half miles north of
Madeburg, where the Midland canal
crosses the River Elbe by a large
aqueduct.

The difference between the level
of the water of the canal and of the
river varies from about 81 feet at
high tide to nearly 56 fect at low.

This new elevator will resemble the
famous ship elevator at Niederfinow
in so far that it will be able to ac-
commodate ships of 11,000 tons, but

otherwise represents a different
type of construction.
While the Niederfinow elevator

rises 210 feet above the earth's sur-
face, the new construction near Roth-
ensee will be built deep in the ground.
Instead of the water trough which
carries the ships being borne up and
down on wire-pulleys, here it will
rest on two floats, each 30 to 96
feet, which are propelled by hy-
draulic pressure, and move up and
down in shafts 210 feet deep.

The shafts, which have now been
completed, stand over 150 feet apart
and are each 33 feet thick with cast-
iron interior walls, reinforced with
concrete. Pillars 60 feet high carry
the water through, and, like the
Niederfinow elevator, the whole
structure rests on an enormous con-
crete caisson. /

Canadian Book Contest

$2,000 To Be Awarded In Prizes For
The Two Best Books

Announcement is made of a contest
open to any Canadian citizen who is
@ resident of Canada (as of Sept. 16,
1935) and who feels they have the
ability to write a fiction or non-fic-
tion book in the English language of
not less than 60,000 or more than
125,000 words. The contest closes
June Ist, 1936, and the winning books
will be published within six months
after the prize is awarded.

Eminent judges have been chosen
for the contest as follows: Dr, Pel-
ham Edgar, National Président, The
Canadian Authors’ Association; Mr.
S. Morgan-Powell,- Assistant Editor-
in-Chief, The Montreal Daily Star;
Mr. C. R. Sanderson, Deputy Chief
Librarian, Toronto Public Library.

Application blanks for the contest
and futher details may be obtained
from George J. McLeod, Limited, 266-
268 King St. West, Toronto, Ontario.
Secretary, The Canadian Authors’
Association, P.O. Box 1424, Montreal,
Quebec,

We hope that some of our readers
will enter this contest, and wish
them all success in their efforts.

Curious Old Laws

Smoking On Street Is Still Mlegal
In Britain

A recent freak court case at Hast-
ings caused lawyers to search the
statute books and remind Britons
that curious laws remain unrepealed
and could sénd anyone to jail.

Still illegal in Britain are:

Smoking a cigarette in the street.

Sunday radio broadcasting.

Christmas dinner of more than
three courses.

Making a mince pie “an abomin-
able and idolatrous thing.”

Playing billiards on a Sunday.

It is possible, according to the old
laws, for anyone to be jailed for in-
ducing another person to drink more
liquor than would be good for him.

Held Meeting In Air
Believed to be the first business
meeting ever held in the air the
Blackpool Airport committee while
returning from the Isle of Man heard
minutes read and concluded trans-
action of business just as their plane

| cinate herself by gulping down a pill)
| was visioned by Dr. Lloyd Arnold of|
the University of Hlinois. |
| The vaccination mark will thus be
done away with, the medical college|
professor told bacteriologists of In-
| diana, Michigan and Ohio. The pill, |
| he said, will contain vaccine, or dead
| bacteria. |

In order that this stuff may not]
be destroyed by digestive fluids, |
science plays a trick on the spr
ach, administering a bile pill thirty
minutes before the vaccination pill|

| is taken, he said. H
As a result, the stomach remains,
quiet for one or two hours, and the|
| vaccine passes on unchanged to the|
small intestine, where it is slowly ab-|
| sorbed into the blood stream. |

|

Sounds Like Good Advice |

A farmer once asked the editor of

@ country paper for advice, as fol-
| lows: “I have a horse that at times
appears normal but at other times is!

|lame to an alarming degree. What
| shall T do?"

The reply came: “The next time
| your horse appears normal, sell him.” |

Janded.

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In Primitive State

Says Indians Of James Bay Area
Haye Changed Little In Past
Centuries

Despite three centuries of mission-
ary and other contacts with the
white race, one group of Canadian In-
dians to-day was reported much the
same as it was 1,000 years ago.

Dr. Truman Michelson, Smithson-
ian Institute ethnologist, found last
summer that the James Bay Indians
in the northern part of Ontario have
changed their language, customs,
folklore and mythology little during
the past eight or 10 centuries.

He said they probably are nearer
than any other Indians to the type
of primitive Algonquins who peopled
eastern North America long before
the white man arrived.

Famed River Drying Up

Many Ships Stranded On Sand Banks
In Blue Danube

The famous Danube river is drying
up—as a result of drought unpre-
cedented for this time of year.

The Danube and Sava, which
meet under the walls of Belgrade, are
now lower than for more than 50
years. In many places people can
wade across them,

All navigation on the Sava has
been abandoned and many ships are
stranded on sand banks. On the
Danube only small vessels of less than
four feet draught can pass.

River service between Belgrade
and Vienna has stopped.

Willing To Help

Charles Phillips in his “Pade-
rewski” tells a story of Lord Bal-
four. In 1917, Balfour was in Wash-
ington, and one evening at dinner he
handed back the menu card to the
Negro waiter and, placing a gener-
ous tip by his plate, said, “Just bring
me a good meal.” A very good meal
was served, and the same thing hap-
pened several times.

On the last occasion the tip was
trebled. “Thank you, sah,” said the
Negro, “an’ if you done got any
othah frien’s w'at cain't
jes’ send ’em to me, sah.”

read, you

A flannel cloth dipped in oatmeal
makes a good cleaner for painted

As one gets nearer the earth's
magnetic poles, the pull on the com-
pass needle becomes weaker.

kK.

Rubber latex is successfully used

for cement purposes.

Life Insurance

Companies Haye A Mission To Per-
form That Is Vital To The Future
The Canadian Life Insurance Offic-

ers’ Association is “the biggest of
the big interests,” but that is a rea-
son for pride and not apology, Fin-
ance Minister Charles Dunning told
members attending the 42nd annual
meeting of the association at Tor-
onto. Mr. Dunning spoke briefly.

Representing assets of $2,500,000,-
000, and acting on behalf of 3,500,-
000 policy-holders life insurance men
have a duty of trusteeship to per-
form that is vital to the future of
Canada, Mr. Dunning asserted.

“There is scarcely a big interest in
this country,” he remarked, “that is
not in reality an intricate system of
trusteeship. Without you, and the
trusteeship of $2,500,000,000 which
you represent, Canada would be in a
vastly different place than it is to-
day.”

Big interests must not be regard-
ed as sinister just because they were
big, said Mr. Dunning, in urging in-
surance officials to stress their trus-
teeship to the people.

Making Canada His Home

Young Boy Travels Alone From Eng-
land To Edmonton

Looking as neat and fresh as
though he had just stepped out of an
English grammar school to spend a
“half holiday,” nine-year-old Nor-
man Bell completed a 5,000 mile
journey from. Durham, England, all
alone. Left an orphan last Christ-
mas with the death of his father,
Norman's yearning for adventure and
sight-seeing apparently turned to-
ward Canada and when he received
an invitation from his uncle, Arthur
S. Jackson, 11820 93rd street, to come
to live with him in Edmonton, he
readily accepted.

A Foot-Conscious Country
The United Kingdom is the most
foot-conscious country in the Old
World and buys more shoes per foot
than any other country, except the
United States, according to organ-
izers of the Shoe and Leather Fair
at the Royal Agricutlural Hall in
London.

In a girl a nose turning up sharp-
ly is retrousse; in a man it’s plain
pug.

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