MR BALDWIN IN CANADA.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17168, 2 August 1927, Page 7

MR BALDWIN IN CANADA.

EMPIRE TRADE APPEAL.

BRITAIN NOT DECADENT.

ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable' Assn.)' (Received August 2, 11.15 a-m.) OTTAWA, August 1

Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the British Prime Minister, addressing a gathering of IOO'O at the Canadian Club, declared that the British Government was. devoting five million dollars to the Empire Marketing 1 Board to advance the idea and create the consciousness of Empire. He urged Canadians to buy British goods and hoped the remainder of the Empire would buy increasingly more Canadian products. Mr. Baldwin declared: "If anyone says Britain is decadent, he is mtxking the biggest mistake in the world. There never was a time when the Empire had more life than now. Its heart was never better." He appealed to the young men to enter public life, warning them that the trials as well as the rewards were great. "If any man does not believe it, let him take half my job." Concluding, Mr. Baldwin said: "Don't be in too much of a hurry to become wealthy." "It is only a -question of time," he declared, "before the practice of asking first for Empire goods has become ingrained in our nation, which whatever its other shortcomings, has never been accused of lack of tenacity, when once it has got a firm bold of an idea." Mr. Baldwin set a new fashion by addressing the club in his shirt sleeves owing to the oppressive heat.