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Flooding The Home Market

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The Canadian Horticultural Council, meet- ing at Ottawa today in conjunction with retail grocers, will discuss what is described as the “crisis" facing the fruit and vegetable industry.

How Liberal treaty ntaking affected the home market for these products last year was shown in Parliament the other day, when answers to the following questions were tallied by the Illinister of Trade and Commerce:

"\\"hat was the approximate value of market garden products exported to the United States during the tuelvc months cndiitg Dec. 31, 1933?"

.\n-",\vcr: "Fresh fruits. $564,124; fresh vege- tables, $905,015."

"\\'hat was the value of market garden pro- ducts imported into Canada from the United States during the same period F”

Answer: “Fresh fruits except bananas, pitte- apples and citrus fruits, $2,865,933; fresh vege- tables. $4,539,911".

Is it any wonder that our fruit and vegetable industry is facing a “crisis’, with the home mar- ket handed over in this wholesale fashion to American competitor?’

A Tangled Web

"Augur" the well informed London eerie!- pondent of the New York 'l'in1es has this to say on the European situation. Italy’s quarrel with Britain over Ethiopia and with France over Spain drove Mussolini into the unnatufkl Bcrlin—-R0me axis arrangement. Yet Musso- lini does not desire to be cut off from all pos- sibility of a return to friendly collaboration with France and Britain, especially the last named, because it is absolutely needed for Italy's se- curity in the Mediterranean. It was known in London that Herr von Ribbentrop on Herr Hit- ler's orders had invited Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Foreign lllinister, to be present in the Reichstag for the Chancellor's speech. The hope was on that occasion to obtain his signa- ture to an alliance with japan. Signor Musso- lini finds the commitments of the existing alli- ance with Germany quite enough. Therefore he forebade the visit. Experts in London, care- fully reading relevant passages of Herr Hitler's speech, find. them truncated as if at last mo- ment a reference to the tripartite alliance had been removed as premature. A tripartite mili- tary and naval agreement by Germany, Italy and japan would be extremely disagreeable to Britain, because in some circumstances it could make impossible the transfer of adequate naval forces from European waters to Singapore. Prime lllinister Neville Chamberlain, therefore, is highly apprehensive over Signor Mussolini's line. He wants to strengthen the link with Italy so that she will entirely drop the obnoxious combination. That is the principal reason for Mr. Chamberlain's anxiety to see the French- Italian quarrel settled. On his instructions Sir Eric Phipps, the Ambassador to Paris, is press- ing Premier ‘Edouard Daladier and Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet to liquidate im- mcdiately the trouble with Generalissitno Fran- cisco Franco's Insurgent regime in Spain be- cause that is the first step toward a settlement of other pending issues.

Britain's Trade Problems

fhe. international crisis in September result- ed in less trade disturbance in Great Britain than might reasonably have been expected, and it naturallv accelerated the pace of industrial production for rearmamcnt and other defencc purposes, rcpwrts the chief Caitndiait Trade Coni- missiottcr at London. It is not yet apparent, however, to what extent the demands upon in- dustry for dcfcticc requirements are contribut- irg to the maintenance of production and em- ployment. lt was a bclief, commonly held, that, flue to induslry’s prc-occltpation with govern- ment orders, :1 large civilian demand was ac- ctirtitilnting which would lake up the slack when the volume of arlnritietit orders decreased, but. although it cannot be sttoposetl that the demand for" rearniatneztt tnitternl has reached its peak. production, as a imttcr of fact, was on the dc- CllllC in 1937, and unemployment in steel and lngineering~tlie two industries most directly af- fected-dncrcased. This suggests that rearntzl- tnent cannot he considered as a primary factor i11 the maintenance of industrial activity.

Declining British export trade, due to world ‘unseltlement, has, in view of its vital import- once to indnstrv, been the subject of anxious concern to the Chamberlain Government. As-n result, the President of the Board of. Trade

i , Ilnnouhced that discussions were taking place

Ywitlta number of industries as to the possibil- 11y, of meeting the difficulties being encounter- New factors pow have to “b; taken into account as a result of the methods I international trading employed by totalitarian atel, controlled" or subsidized competition. and lthe‘ lnclcof stable currency exchange. These

nd‘iucrcasinglyntnfavournble balances of pay-

tig m Export Credit-"GuaranteLBill under ' ihiclhtlié Board, ofQTt-ttde, through the Export Gediu Gvbrdnteitfleutn 1, into be ' ' M to increase theli it» ‘ '

, valuation includen $82,787,073 assessment, for

of far-reaching importance to the future of Bri- tilh export trade, and, speaking in the House of Commons on the subject of ("vermin and oth-

of the Department of Overseas Trade declared that the only course open to the Government was to organize industries jn such a way that they would be able to act as units in combating un- orthodox methods adopted by competitors In other countries.

I Editorial Notes 1i

Bacon died this date, 1626; the First Can- adian Division landed in France, 1915. » i i 1O I

The next fortnight will be crowded with so- cial events preparatory to Lent, which begins on the 22nd.

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Millions are to be spent in creating a 40o mile traction road between Peace River and Great Slave Lake, while "i1ot a dime" is avail- able for our harbour improvements or Brighton Bridge project!

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Fuehrer Hitler has sent Herr Fink, comedian, to a concentration camp for making fun of him. A little humour is evidently a dangerous thing in Aryan Germany, indeed, equal to four years‘ expulsion from tl1e*RiiCl1Ls lflllllll‘ Chamber.

Perhaps another delegation of the unemploy- ed to Ottawa ntight be a little more effective than the representation we now have there. Nice men behind counters and as back patters may be all right, but they are not. go-getters. I I

The first death sentence resulting from Soviet Russia's catnpaign against lazy workmen i185 just been announced. The doomed man was S. V. Morozoff, leather factory employee who at- tacked his managcr after being punished ‘for a breach of labor discipline. He was convict- ed of terrorism and sentenced to be shot.

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Improvement was noted in the 1938 valuation of imported fertilizers, aggregating $4,526,419 in comparison with $3,993,659. During the last month of the year the value was $432,619 §5 against $843,697 in November and $345,005 "1 December, 1937. Domestic exports were also higher, totalling $7,481,996 in 1938 as compared with $7,158,022 in 1937. Cyanam1d_ exports amounted to $3,143,238, and ammonium sul-, phate $1,697,204. In December the value_of ex- ports was $494,969 as against $623,433 "1 N0" vcmber and $4646,438 in December, 1937.

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The City of Ottawa does not spend enough money in daily newspaper advertising to attlact tourists, Alderman Pickering said at a meeting of the industrial and publicity committee Wed- nesday. He realized Ottawa did not now have the money to spend but when it was possible he would like to see up to $50,000 used in that way. It would be the best investment the city could make. Alderman Perley felt newspaper publicity should be continuous and the chairman, Alderman Hamilton, agreed with this. Alder- man Pingle said: “I am all for newspaper pub- licity." v u a a

Imports of farm implements and machinery in 1938 were of the value of $2o;319,626 com- pared with $17,233,658 in 1937. The Decem- ber imports at $511,932 were somewhat lower

There was a. heavy drop in the importation of cream separators, particularly from Sweden, which fell from $30,984 to $15455- PKYKS 0f traction engines at $184,057 were a large item; most of these came from the United States. Completed traction engines amounted to $231,-

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The Liberals are at sixes and sevens in Nova Scotia and Manitoba: in Quebec they are‘ so dis- rupted that the whole Mackenzie King Govern- ment is going to Quebec Saturday to attempt to pull them together; in Ontario the Provincial Liberals will have nothing to do with the Fed- cral organization; in Alberta S.C. prevails, in Saskatchewan merely the power of the machine dominates the foreign vote; while in British Columbia, the Pattullo attempt to sell out to the U.S.A. to bring Alaska nearer Washington, has raised a storm of protest. That leaves Nil. and Hill. to be accounted for, and we know how the Liberals in these two provinces are at utter variance one with another, and especially with their representatives i c a n- n

“The Bren gun contract was on a cost plus basis," said Mr. Lawson in the House of Com- mons. “If it was improvidcnt we should have no more of them. If the contract was a pru- dent one then how much more prudent it would be to give similar contracts to our railway on, a cost plus basis.” He assailed the “bureaucratic and undemocratic attitude" of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and said George Mc- Cullaglt, publisher of the Toronto Globe and Mail, had “made a tnonkey" out of the corpora- tion. The corporation said Mr. hIcCullagh, be- cause of his wealth, could not be permitted to buy time on a network, but permitted him by the use of more wealth to accomplish the same purpose by sending recordings of his speeches out to a group of individual stations for broad- casting.

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Taxable municipal valuations in Canada i1: x936 aggregated $8,118,673,618, of which $7,- 578,744,397 was taxable realr property, $47,&5,- 861 personal propert and $395304” lnclimlt-

as follows:

Prince Edward Island $.§,561,2oz, Nova Scotia $171,109,587,

New runawlck $3,oo2,146,474, Manitoba $477g21,364,

katchewan $1,o87,413,856, Alberta $519,710,605. British Columbia. $452,684,537. The Ontario

rchoolpurpose: only, for. cities. Assebsment for J

m for other ,h‘llltl_tyip?llflflubtq'ttlllilbl' Elem ‘ or» a . m u.» f" xtwmrtlimgtelirlunrd Iéllfl

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er competition in world markets, the Secretary

than a year ago, when the amount was $874,975. W’ P°

$168,456,159; Quebec $_a,199,369,834, Ontariofi

.1111 manpower-tints GUARDIAN -

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Two you! BIO, 210230: mu Meulmzracht, 0111c! phynlclm 0f Blspeojaerg doaplt-ul m (101)341- llagen, enmluou o. 71-year-old sweulsb englnper who and lost tour inches and wu slowly nil-ink- 1n: book to boyhood beliht. Bo tn,- tle hm bl:

bones become that once wnen he bent toplck up a heavy weight. he heard bl: spine crack. To bolster u hlstelesouped vertebrae doctors and tried tl-lree dl leather corsets, fnbrlo corsets wlth tron stays, u well u heavy doses of Vitamin D, calclum and ground eggshells. Dr. Meulengracht found that the pat,- lent. but always had sufflolenc cal- clum tn his dlet, but that ap- parently llttle of lt. had been ab- sorbed for many years. No tax-t- pook dlagno-sls explained his case. m last. week's Lancet Dr. Meulen- gracht revealed the answer to this medlcal ‘mystery. "The patient was a "IIYDOCDODGIIEO," he said. “and observed by his evacuations." Every morning for 35 years he had taken one teaspoon of Carlsbad salts as a laxative. Carlsbad salts "are malnly composed of sodium sulfate and sodium bicarbonate, and presumably a. oertan amount: of calcium of the food was trans- formed ln the intestine lXli/O ln- soluble calcium sulfate which was than evacuated." The result. was “a calcium deficiency of the skeletal system." When the pa- tient was deprived of, Carlsbad salts hls disease was checked. Al- though stllt short, and top-h-savy he can now move about free and uncorseted. ——Tlme, New York.

A “ assault on Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, is likely to be made by BHLl-Sh climbers next year. Mr. W. H. ‘lfllmnn, leaner ol the recent ex- pedition, whlch was repulsed by the elements, ls now stated to be on his Wily to Tibet, on whose frontiers Everest stands. Hts ob- jeet. ls to see the Political Officer 1n Sikkim, and obtain parnnsslon to organize next. years expedl- tlon. Mr. F. S. Smythe, a member of Mr. ‘rllmanfls party, mentioned this to a. newspaper representative on his arrival in Bombay from Colombo. Mr; Smythe is returning to England from hls third attempt on Everest. He has visited India on three other occasions to scale other peaks ln the l-llntalayas. The eon uest of Everest, he sold, was an deal worth striving for. He. agrees with Mr. Tllman that tne only way to do lt, ls to continue the effort. year after year with a smaller personnel of climbers, nop- lng that the Clerk of the Weather wlll shed his wiles. Mr. Bmythe dld not, think that an airplane could be of any great use to climbers on Evereest, though an mlrplane was being employed to drop provisions and flash weather messages to the German cllmbers on Nanga Pal-bat. For one thing lt, would be unsafe for airplanes to fly over great. heights, and espeelillly so ln the treacherous weather conditions o1 Everest. Lord Clydesdale, who had considerable experience of mountaineering and aviation, once told hlm that lf an airplane was forced to land at great, altitudes, lt would be dif- ficult to take off agaln owing to the rarlfied tmosphere. -Indlan Press Un on.

uram elevation can-gel are u: lsstlo between the Port. of Saint, John and the Federal Transport: Department. The charges here are as they are ln Montreal, one oent a, bustlel, and lt has been polnted out to the Ottawa authorities by the Saint. John Board of Trade that such a. rate ls detrimental to rt ln vlew of the fact that. the charge at United States At- lantic ports ls one-half cent a bushel. A telegram from the Board of Trude to the chairman of the National Harbours Board asked that the charge here be cut. from one cent to one-half cent, so as to put Saint. John on the same basis as the United States ports. It. was stated that. the lower charges 1n effect at, Portland, Baltimore and other Unlt/ed States harbours had been responsl for the routing of considerable Canadian wheat through those ports to the deterl- ment. of saint. John. Steps should be taken to see that Canadian ports do not suffer as a result of competition from ports outside the Dominion boundaries. If Canada. ls to gain the full beneflts osslble from the zraln trade. w lch is heavily subsldlzed with Federal funds to which all parts of Can- edn contribute, then no circum- stance should be disregarded which wlll guide the flow of that trade over Canadian transportation sys- tems and through Canadian port-s. —Sl1lnt. John Telegraph Journal.

The Purvls Unemplo ment Com- mlsslon of 1080 cos the tax- llflyerri $335,549. Unemployment re- mains a national problem of which the fringes of solution have not yet been touched by any govern- mental venture. It remains a prnb- lem just; as rave as when the Mackenzie Kng Government na- nlmed power. --Vtct,crlg Colonist.

Weconfela lnublllly to gel am- thuslartle over the Government's latest rellsf plan. Not, that. lt ls wholly lackln ln merit. The pro- vlslon to fe the transient unem- ployed, even at Lhla late date. draws the llne between stony ln- dlfference and recognition of necessity. Bug lt falls to deal with the basic Inc are of a problem with eight. years of entrenchment. It la a makeshift for temporary use. - Toromo Globe and Mall. '

How the nun does gel uronml! Reader’: "Dlfleat, quotes L .L Btevenson ln the Detroit News as saylng: "Because he sleeps bet.-

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BAKING SODA AND OTHII ALKALIES FOB- DYSPEPSIA A: n, younglit about the onh rnedlclne about, the house that I

carbonatlo of soda. Any u setment of the stomach usual! ea for a, half-teaspoonful of liking soda and ‘sklplng’ of the next meal. Often a close of eastor oll was first given. Thls was good treatment because our symptoms were due to eating too much or too hurriedly or because we were nervous or ex-

ted.

Even to-day despite all the ‘al- kullne remedies now available for ‘acid stomach’ or “ecldlty" bl- carbonate of soda ls used by phy- sicians more than any other slnzle ulkall. _

Diet, specialists and research

chemists have been able to show that, other alkalles have more pow- er to overcome or neutralize acid- lty than has bicarbonate of soda but. alkalles have other actions b2- sldes neutralizing acids. In certain cases combinations of magnesium, calcium with bicarbonate of soda are more effective. When there ls stomach upset,- ment and an alkali Ls considered necessary there are some sugges- tlons given by Dr. Walter E. Basfedo, to the New York number of North American Clinics, that should prove helpful to all suf- ferers wlth dyspepsia.

“Alkulles are useful for only

brief action and the time to use them ls when the distress appears, or, lf lt; occurs at a regular flme each day, it should be given just before this dlstress occurs. If lven at, the wrong time, as lmmh late- ly after meals, when the dlscom- fort comes on an hour or two after meals, the alkali ls useless and may prove harmful. As a rule, al- kalles should not. be given tn ‘large’ quantltles lmmedlatel after meals for they destroy a1 pepsln and stop dlgestlon. On the other hand. often a ‘small’ dose after meals given with peppermint or ginger, anlse. or other cnnnlnatlve (gas- ralser) wlll drlve up the excess mm and promote after-meal comfort." 1' um not suggesting that suf- ferers with indigestion or dydpep- sla should take regular doses of 1m alkali every day. ‘rhere ls some cause for the indigestion or ell-- tress-sluggish llver or gall blad- der. stomach or intestinal ulcer, eating hurriedly or when tired or upset-and these conditions should be corrected. My only polnt; ls that, as Dr. Bustedo suggests, lf an alkall ls taken, ll: should be when distress occurs or just before the distress usu-llv occurs and. lf taken lm- medlately after u meal. but n. very small amount should be used.

EVENING The shadows now lo do grow ‘Ilwt brambles llifi: $11 cedars

W, 14301811135 seem mountnlm, and the an

Appears s. monstrous elephant.

A very little, little flock

Shades thrloe the ground that. ll; would stock, _ Wllllet tlltle small strlppllng follow-

lnir t am Appeals a. mighty Polypheme. —Charlu Cotton.

A Century Ago

(Brtchanie) It ls timely indeed, Lhouuh rather mm, ln view of the recent e - lenoe of that country. to recall hut Charla Darvul. while on hls voy- age around the world on the Beagle. experlen-oed the great. earthquake

graphlc record of his impressions it. It lasted two ntlrlutes. The motion. which Darwin says mode hlm almost giddy. ls described as "someth ng Ilke the movement of a vessel ln a llt-tle cross-ripple, or st..1l more Ilka that felt by a. person skating over thln lee, whlch bends under the weight of his body." The tides, as Darwin saw them. “were very curiously affected. The great shook came at. the time of low water, whleh Towed very quckly, though not ln great waves, to h1g1- wator mark, and then-as qul ly returned to lls oper level." In the evening ‘t. ere were many weaker shocks, which produced tn the harbor the most. ccmpllcaled ewrents. some of great strength.

Reaching Talcahuano and Can- cepclan a. few dag-s lat/er. Durwln found both cities desolatei, not a house standlug ln ether. The great. w-ave had almost washed nwav the rulns of Taleahuano. and he learn-

been _ - . The most. strlklng effect of the Chilean earthquake of 1835, declare; Darwin, was the permanent eleva- gom of ‘the lend, whlch tgiaound ncepcon was upralaed or three feet. At BuntwMarlI, wand, thirty mlles away. where the eleva- llon was stfll higher, Cuptulnlllz Bernie's command ,

ter when soothed by the continu- otu rattle of tram wheels, Bl: Horn, pruldent of the

Pwlflo Hallways, n commuted thlt

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bad i sprlnI-tldes for thou all ls. Do, found the elevation r . . e . illimwllé’: lthlwtfil‘ limit ‘for of ‘asters! cot-ltd: i‘ olept earth-

lemember was baking soda. - bl--.