CANADA TODAY

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 20, 24 July 1934, Page 9

CANADA TODAY

LEADING IS EECOYERY

AUSTRALIAN GOOD WILL

TWO MEN AND A BEAR

(From "The Post's" Representative.) VANCOUVEB, Juno 0. Cortlandt Starnes, who changed his uniform.from soldier at the end of the Kiel ..Rebellion-to . Mounted Police Inspector, has gone to his last rest, three years after retiring from the famous f orce ; which •he commanded, and in which ho served for 45 years. In those early days of the West, the police were more than peace officers; they were administrators. They carried the Queen's writ into the wilderness, kept .a firm harid'ori the Indians, chased the whisky smuggler, drove out the cattle rustler, and helped the settler and trader to carry on. From Hudson' Bay, Starnes went into the newly-opened Yukon, then'back to the-prairie, where tho Indian and buffalo had given way to the wheat homesteader. He had a full liije. He was a good -officer, a good Canadian. Ho helped to make the Mounted Police tho great force it is today, and to lay the foundation of law and order in silent places. High satisfaction is being expressed throughout Canada at the announcement by tho League of Nations' that Canada lud ' the world in industrial recovery during the first quarter of th. year. Tl»e largest contributing factor to this, happy situation is the working of the Empire Conference trade agreements. They have brought heavy increases in the export of lumber, fruit, hogs, and hog products. The im-provement-is relatively greatest at the extremes of the Dominion—British Columbia and' the Maritime Provinces. In tho circumstance^, it is to be regretted, that, after, many months of investigation, the Canadian Tariff Board, which was established by the Conference, could not see its way to make a recommendation on the application of the English textile industry for a preference on the existing Canadian tariff that would, in the words of the treaty, "allow the United Kingdom a reasonable competition." DROUGHT. AND GRASSHOPPERS. On a 2000-mile front, across tho prairie, a grasshopper plague, thid of its kind in the history' of the West, is being consistently foughfr, whilq tho thermometer touches 100 degrees' and over in the centre of tho wheat belt. At the time of writing, it is estimated that nearly 50 per cent, of the wheat crop is affected. Saskatchewan, tho Empire's "bread basket," has * 1000 poisonmixing stations in 200 municipalities; 10,000 tons of bran, 13,000 gallons of sodium arsenite, and 1000 large trucks of sawdust are being used. .In Saskatchewan, the grasshopper menace is greatest, but, by tho scientific use of poison, it~ is hoped to reduce tho crop loss to 10 per cent. As a gesture of good will to Canada, Australia has offered, through ...'her Trade Commissioner, Mr. L* R. Macgrcgor, a trip to Australia and back to the Canadian high school pupil who writes tho best essay on the Commonwealth. A.t the Empire Day banquet at Montreal, Mr. Macgregor said the offer was made in the hope of encouraging a more intimate understanding between the two Dominions. Suitable prizes arc also being offered to the essay winner in each of the nine provinces, while the. Dominion'winner will be the guest in Australia of the Minister of Commerce, the Hon. P. H. Stewart. THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. • An attempt to force the North-west Passage will be made shortly by a party of nine men from Cambridge University, headed by Mr. J. M. Wordie, of St. John's, who was geologist and chief- of the scientific staff with Shackleton in the Antarctic, and who has led several expeditions to Greenland. Dr. T. G. Longstnff, noted mountaineer and leader of the Oxford expedition to Greenland in 1028, <js a, member of the party, which includes a 14-year-old mess boy. The latest bear story comes from Manitoba, where a farmer and his hired man wero disturbed by a-bear whilo cutting brush. - The bear fixed his attention on the hired man, who bolted for tho open. Tho farmer brought up tho rear, and when his man showed signs of tiring, he took the lead, and enticed the bear to follow him. ■ The hand took, his turn at pacing, and the strange relay race continued until they! lured the bear'into the farmer's yard,1 where the -first man home got a gun and dispatched tho boast.

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