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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 11, 1930
Page
2
In these testing times the public must maintain cool heads and reasoned action. Leaders who stir passions and propose drastic, destructive changes risk deepening misery, while constructive dialogue and lawful reform can ease hardships. Citizens can shape policy through democratic channels to serve broad welfare, not narrow interests.
A Saskatchewan delegation from the Canadian National Institute for the Blind met Premier Anderson at the Regina Parliament Buildings to urge the provincial government to petition Ottawa for pensions for the blind. The push follows Manitoba’s similar demand. The group included Captain Baker and Major E Flexman, with Dr F C Middleton as chair, and covered national crop reports showing Canada’s 1930 wheat output at 395.854 million bushels, with the Prairie provinces accounting for about 374 million. The report notes large increases in oats barley and rye as well.
A machine with a blade and attached dint measures how hard beefsteaks resist cutting. Worry can reduce a person’s weight by about 40 pounds, though few seek that remedy. Savings bank deposits in Germany rise. England may revise its horsepower tax on cars.
Under the new provincial land regulations 60 homesteads in northern Saskatchewan were purchased through the Prince Albert land office in November. About 1,060 enquiries have been received about vacant lands under the scheme where vacant Crown lands sell for 1 to 3 dollars an acre unless multiple bidders. Land has been taken up in the Hudson Bay junction Meadow Lake and Nipawin areas, with many new setters coming from the south.
J A Craig deputy minister of agriculture for Alberta announced that a soil survey chart created for the British government in 1860 has been located after being lost for years. The seventy year old chart’s rediscovery ends a long search.
Western farmers and allied bodies flood Ottawa with resolutions urging federal relief. Proposals seek abolition of the gold standard, government payment of farm debts, and a fixed wheat price from 70 cents to a dollar per bushel, but ministers deem these measures impracticable and offer only unemployment fund relief.
Sisley Huddlestone argues in the New Statesman that French orthodoxy holds security above disarmament. They advocate fixed armament restraint only after securing safety, while questioners seek definitions of absolute or relative security and the degrees acceptable for disarmament.
At the Canadian Association of Tourist and Convention Bureau meeting in Winnipeg Mayor Ralph H. Webb said western mayors were assured by Prime Minister Bennett of a fifty fifty federal provincial share to finish the Atlantic to Pacific highway. The projection calls for a paved route within ten years from the Maritimes to British Columbia.
The R-101 airship disaster sparks debate over using helium instead of hydrogen for lift. Two regions in the British Commonwealth, Canada and Trinidad, show interest. Worldwide helium supply hinges on the United States, with new western Canada discoveries boosting hopes. Prospects of gas recovery depend on future airship policy.
United States Attorney-General Mitchell’s annual report notes Canada’s May 30 1930 Export Act amendments boosted cross border and sea smuggling. French St Pierre Miquelon remains key supply point with five of 29 foreign ships seized this year. Nova Scotia ports show rising activity as ships linked to Canadian owners operate offshore. 27 709 people jailed for prohibition violations in 1980 up from 1929. enforcement improved.
A Mexico City despatch reports Peter Verigin and Aaron Sapiro of the Canadian Doukhobor colony meeting with the secretary of agriculture to discuss 10,000 to 20,000 Doukhobors migrating to Mexico if land is available. They secured support from the National Confederation of Chambers of Commerce and a hearing before the agriculture secretary, with potential settlement in the north.
A board report shows September railway crossing accidents caused 19 deaths and 70 injuries from 45 incidents across provinces. Quebec led with 18 accidents, followed by Ontario and Nova Scotia, while only three occurred at protected crossings.
Imports from the United States and Great Britain into Canada dropped from 1929 levels in October. U S trade fell more sharply than Britain's as total imports reached 78,355,000 dollars versus 116,271,000 the year before, a decline of 37,913,000. England nears a record peak in aeroplane and aero engines output. Minard's Liniment for Frost Bite.
Mrs Edward A Allen of Bezanson Alberta reports renewed strength after using Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills. She previously felt run down and weak, could barely do housework, and now recommends the remedy to a neighbor. Pills sold in drug stores or mailed from The T Milburn Co Toronto Ont.
Alphonse Champagne of North Battleford Saskatchewan says 2000 Canadian horses have been sold to the Soviet government. The animals will be shipped from Western Canada soon. Champagne, former North Battleford MP, reports his Europe trip changed his view of Soviet Russia. He notes friendly officials and people eager for Canadian trade.
Dame Laura Knight tours England with a circus this summer and presents vivid canvases of ponies zebras and elephants in London. Behind the scenes sketches draw praise as circus performers visit the show and applaud with acrobatic turns.
Douglas' Egyptian Liniment is especially recommended for spider or infection of cow's teat. Also invaluable for spavins curbs and splints, providing versatile veterinary relief.
Sir Charles Gordon says Canada enjoys no permanent low mood amid abundant resources. In remarks at the Bank of Montreal annual meeting in Montreal he reviews the bank's business and the Dominion's year, asserting Canadians should congratulate themselves on the economy's vigor and soundness under current circumstances.
The latest estimate places Yugo Slavia's population at about 13,400,000, reflecting updated demographic data for the region and its major administrative zones. Government statistics offices note the figure as provisional pending census verification.
Mr C G Cowan of the British American Bank Note Company told the St Lawrence Stamp Collectors Club banquet that over 1.4 billion Canadian postage stamps were used last year, filling 19 750 miles in a line, with ninety tons of paper and thirty five tons of glue to affix them. The notice also promotes Miller's Worm Powders as a worm remedy for children, claiming protection, healing, and restored strength.
W M Neal general manager CP Railway western lines denies any plan to embargo grain shipments to Vancouver amid press speculation. He says present and prospective conditions do not justify an embargo on CP lines to the Pacific port.
The passage notes science and modern medicine change care, with people seeking dental replacement when faced with minor pains or eye issues. It highlights painless tooth extraction and artificial replacements that cost money, replacing natural teeth with crafted substitutes.
A modest Scotchman recalls the Douglas family as verra auld with a history stretched into antiquity. He jokes that the five volumes recording the family contain a marginal note near the middle of the third volume declaring that the world was created at that time.
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