AMERICA INVADED

Evening Star, Issue 19329, 16 August 1926, Page 1

AMERICA INVADED

CANADIANS ENTER ORffl ARMS AND GOODWILL, The partition that fences tho south* orn half of the American Continent from its northern reaches opened over Lake Erie, and gave 3,500 sons of the Maple Leaf entrance to Cleveland on June 12, A nation and a city greeted one another. It was Cleveiand-Canada Day. for the first time in history a municipality, Cleveland, has officially set aside a day in honor of a Government of a foreign country. It was the first time a foreign Government officially paid the same tribute to ,an American city. It was the first time in 100 years that the armed forces of a foreign Ration have landed in the United States. The Toronto Scottish Regiment, in kilts, goatskin sporran, and bagpipes, were mot at the, pier by. the Cleveland Grays, century-old Cleveland Musketeer Battalion, in shakos and battle-axes. They were given the freedom of the city and the Grays’ armory as quarters, and with, that gesture the differences between the two people were taken for all time away from the military and left in tho hands of the civil authorities. Tho purpose of CleveiandCanada Day is to vanquish those differences, „ , . ■ In their place, _ W. Hopkins, city manager, said, will_ group up a cooperation, a friendliness, and a more frequent mingling of the two peoples. To ■ this thought nearly .the entire Provincial Cabinet of Ontario, headed by George S. Henry, Minister of Public Works and Highways, and the representatives from thirty Canadian cities and many business men’s organisations, voiced their approval. The day started with tho welcoming of the visitors’ ships by the city tug, with all flags flying and the-greeting of the regiments. The kilties paraded through down-town streets at 11.15. Most of the stores displayed the Stars and Stripes crossed with the Maple Leaf flag of the dominion. The Chamber of Commerce gave a luncheon to all the business men at noon. . In a heavy drizzle in the afternoon, Colonel L. L Connelly, of the Grays, presented an American flag to. Colonel C. C. Harbottle, of the Kilties, at Dunn Field, the American League baseball park. Hotels entertained the guests at banquets, and, the evening was given over to a citizens’ welcome in Public Hall. Seven thousand hoard Mr Hopkins’s programme. “ Canadians have tho same blood, too same Laws, and the same language,” Congressman Theodore E. Burton said. “ Thev are not foreigners to Americana, although they come from across an international boundary. The relations of these two countries are, phenomeua.l. Wlku’o is IJtore finotJicr SjOOO* mile border that has seen no wax for 100 years? ONE ISSUE IN COMMON. ‘‘Cleveland and Canada have one groat issues fli common: tho lake water diversion. Neither of ns wanto it, he said, and pledged himself-to oppose it without conceding one inch from his present stand that it is economically legally, and morally wrong.” He looks for greater amity among Anglo-Saxon peoples. . . Mr Henry pictured Ontario as a summer playground for tho middle wrist, particularly Ohio. It has 60>000 miles of highways, and a 25,000,000d01 annual budget to maintain and extend them It is tho homo of tho newsprint industry to-day, with an annual production worth 100,000, OOOdoI in lumber products and a steady flow of American capital adding to the indusper cent, of the world’s nickel deposit# are in Ontario’s townships, and tho gold and silver mined there to date is valued close to 500,000 OOOdoI. One million borse-power is derived from harnessed streams, and the 100.000 square miles, with its 40,000 square miles of waterways, is far from fully developed, from a commercial standpoint, and hardy known from the vacationist’s point of view. Ho seconded Mr Burton’s stand against tho hike diversion. S. Monroe, of the Toronto Council, hoped that Clcvcland-Canada Day would bo an annual event.