GLANCE AT CANADA

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 22, 25 July 1935, Page 22

GLANCE AT CANADA

POLITICAL OUTLOOK '

THE MIDNIGHT SUN

AMERICAN TOURISTS

(From "The Post's" Representative.) . VANCOUVER, July 4. ,At this period of the year there is a large influx of American tourists to Canada. The visitors' knowledge of Canada is apparent from the fact that many of their automobiles carry sleighs, which look somewhat out of place in temperatures bordering on the nineties, Canadians always look for "tourist" yarns, as they look for fish stories. The best to date concerns the visitor that went to Parliament House | in Ottawa and expressed regret that he "did not hear Premier Laurier speak." For periods ranging up to thirteen days on. the shore of the Arctic Ocean, the sun does not set at about this time of the year in Northern Canada. In the Yukon, on June 22, the longest >lay, visitors from all parts of the continent attended the annual "Midnight' Sun" celebration. They climb hills to see the sun set, but only to the homon, before starting to clh..b again in the sky. Sporting events start at midnight. At that ■ hour, (too, visitors are photographed .reading a newspaper. With twenty-fdur hours of daylight, growth is very rapid. Vegetables ripen quickly, and l;he whole countryside is aflame with the bloom of nearly five hundred types of wild flower indigenous to the Arctic. RECIPROCITY WITH UNITED ' , STATES. .Negotiations have again been resumed for .a reciprocity agreement between Canada and the United States. The authorities at Washington delayed action gome months ago when Mr. Mackenzie King declared that, if the Liberals''were returned, to power, 'he would immediately reduce tariffs. Meanwhile, more than passing notice is being taken in1 Canada of the opinion advanced by Mr. H, O. Chalkley, Commercial Counsellor to the British Embassy at Washington, who says, "It is beginning to be recognised in the United States that the only way to save the export trade is by increasing imports. If the United States does not, through its own action, bring its international account into, better balance, it is feared that other countries will do it by closing their markets to American exports. If it restores the balance by increasing imports, in relation to exports, it will save its export trade and at the same time help to stimulate the trade of the world." Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor-Gene-ral-designate of Canada, recalls that the first Viceroy of Canada was a Tweedsider, Murray of Elibank, who fought With Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham. In the same address, commemorating the time when Scots guarded the border before the union with. England, he told of a Scot who died in the fourteenth century and appeared before the golden gates.. When St. Peter inquired about his c're^ dentials, he said: "I have'done my best. I killed 327 Englishmen, including the Bishop of Carlisle." While St. Peter was verifying his claim, the

borderer decamped with the goldea gates. - - '" ' BENNETT TO LEAD CONSERVATIVES. There is general rejoicing in Canada at the announcement that the Prime Minister's health is so improved that he will lead the Conservatives at the forthcoming General Election. The Liberals, by whom Mr. Bennett is held in great respect, join in the rejoicing. They have watched him carry on for five years under tremendous difficulties. That Mr. Bennett has lost none of the fire of his attack was shown by the manner in which he handled the Communist delegation. The Liberals are glad he will carry on, because his record will be their target, and they have been practising assiduously at it for five years. So everyone is happy, except possibly Mr. Stevens, former Minister of Commerce under Mr. Bennett, who has been sharply criticising him in the later part of the session. Mr, Stevens is the enigma of the political outlook, Mr. Bennett's decision to lead may. convince him of-the desirability of remaining in the Conservative fold, rather than attempting to lead a fourth party on the hustings.