PEACE SENTIMENTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19529, 11 July 1925, Page 7

PEACE SENTIMENTS.

CANADA AND THE UNTIED STATES COMPARED. Some figures have recently come to mo which present a contrast between Canada and the United States (writes the New York correspondent of the Melbourne Age). They are to the effect that in Canada 92 t per cent, of the farmers own their own farms, while in the United States only 62 per cent, own their land. For independence and happiness the Canadian farmer seems to have the best of it, for it means that in America 38 per cent, of the farmers are paying rent as tenants. Speaking of Canada, I am reminded that, while recently on a visit across the border, I found that the sentiment favourable to the League of Nations was many times stronger than, in the States. . One rarely hears mention of of the League in the States, while I heard it discussed a number of times in a short visit to Canada. > For example, I heard of college professors “never missing a chance to bring the subject to the attention of their classes.” There seemed'to be a widespread endeavour (for on noticing the contrast just over the border I began to make inquiry) to promote the idea. The same thing has been done, I believe, all over the British Dominion, revealing probably that the British have a reason for keeping the League alive, while the Americans have no reasons. Having revealed the facts as regards different attitudes, I leave it to my readers to discover the reasons. While in Canada I found many of the citizens complaining that the citizens of Canada were not as progressive as the Americans. It is perfectly natural that American life should be “ dominated ” by the, big Republic, since the States now enrol 113,000.000 citizens, wnil© Canada has less than a tenth. For example, the very power of numbers has practically forced the Canadians, contrary to good old British custom, to “turn to the right”—on highways and side walks, as well. Some of the Canadians I met declared that peace sentiment was much stronger in the States than, in the dominion. They said. “Here we are tied up with the Imperial idea that comes forth from the Homeland, and we are afraid to open our mouths, while in the States you have the Quakers (starting with the William Penn settlement) in the east, in the middle west at Chicago is Jane Adams, and on the Pacific Slope is David Starr Jordan.” I had to admit some things to the credit of the States, and then I began to point to some things in which Canada led.