CANADIAN NEWS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20089, 4 May 1927, Page 10

CANADIAN NEWS.

CFhom Odb Own Ooheespondent.) VANCOUVER, March 8. The first effect of Ontario’s change from prohibition to liquor under Government control has been the development of a huge real estate boom along the shores of Lakes Erie and Ontario, on the Canadian side. , Of late years the shores on both sides of the lakes have been favoured places for the erection of summer cottages by Americana and Canadians. With stringent prohibition on both sides, there was no preference in building sites on either side of the international boundary. But the new Ontario law, which takes effect next month, provides _ for permits for tourists or summer residents buying supplies of wines and liquors; As a result, Americans, who have cottages and bungalows on their own side are disposing of them, preparatory to making their summer home in Ontario.

Canadian farmers, close to the border, are turning their holdings into city lots, and getting big prices for their land. Just across the border are big industrial cities, like Buffalo, Cleveland, and Detroit, and the distance from a summer home on the Canadian side is just a short run by automobile to and from business each day. Canadian officials and municipal authorities are anticipating a big rusn of traffic for the coming summer, and are making extraordinary preparations. Ontario, like Quebec, the Prairie provinces, and British Columbia, will become immensely wealthy through the liquor traffic with Americans, and will have no difficulty in declaring a big surplus, with rebates to municipalities and remissions in taxation, that have attended Government control in Canada. SOCIAL DISCONTENT. " At least one-half of the young people in our colleges are inspired by the same kind of social discontent that animated Kaf'k Marx, and, if we think we can put the iron lid of suppression on their ideas we are working for revolution and shipwreck,” said Professor Stephen Leacock, of M’Gill University, in an address to the Professional Institute at Ottawa, on "Social Justice and Social Revolution.” After reviewing the Marxian plan of Socialism, and its development in its later days, Professor Leacock said: — “Socialism is slavery; that’s all there is to it. I would be a Socialist in a minute if only the Unfairness of the present system were concerned. But the introduction of Socialism as a governing force would launch us into a mechanical world of authority and command, giving equal reward to the loafer and the worker. I think we shall move nearer to the Socialist conception, but the basis should be, and must be, every man for himself. No other motive will keep the world going. If waste be eliminated, I am convinced that four hours of work daily is all that is necessary.”