Sherbrooke daily record, 15 août 1931, samedi 15 août 1931

[" Established 1897.SHERBROOKE, CANADA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1931 Thirty-Fifth Year, THOUSANDS HEAR PRIME MINISTER IMPORTS WERE OUTLINE ADMINISTRATION POLICY j MUCH HIGHER THAN EXPORTS Road Construction and Colonization Activities Being Carried on With View to Relieving Unemployment\u2014 Awarding of Bridge Order to Local Firm Announced by Premier Taschereau at Gathering in Armory Last Even- ing.*\u2022 CITIZENS of Sherbrooke turned out last night en masse to welcome Hon.Louis Alexandre Taschereau, Prime Minister of the Pi\u2019ovince of Quebec.At the Helvidere street armories, five thousand persons crowded the structure to capacity, while as many more gathered around the loud speakers placed outside to hear the words of the Liberal chieftain.Radio reception was perfect and many refrained from attempting to enter the warm building, consoled with the fact that, while they could not see and cheer their revered leader, they would at least be able to hear his spoken word.The Premier reviewed his Government programme for the aiding of unemployment.And he brought a message of good news to the workers of Sherbrooke County for he told them that only that day the Government had approved a bridge contract that_meant a $200,-000 order for a local structural s-teel plant.He again told them of lus scheme for settling the unemployment with farming experience on the land.Once again he made a promise that if he was returned to power he would call a special session of the Legislature to prepare a programme of public work for the winter months that in his opinion would materially help to relieve the distress that usually follows a period of depression.He repeated his challenge to the Opposition to keep unemployment out of politics and asked the leader of the opposition, as Mayor of the City of Montreal to co-operate with him towards ameliorating the conditions that will be experienced during the coming winter.In his opening remarks, the Pi'ime Minister thanked the pro-Mayor for the whole-souled welcome,, extended him on behalf of the citizens of Sherbrooke.He referred to his first visit here forty-two years ago.Forty-two years was a long time in the life of a man, he said, and he noted many improvements in the city since then.For the last thirty-one years he had been a member of the Legislature and some of his opponents said that he was too old to carry on the task of administering the premier province of Canada.i \u201cBut\u201d, he said, \u201cpersonally I feel better able to carry on the affairs of the province than I did thirty- j one years ago and if elected I pro- ; pose to devote my energies in the | future as in the past to the service of my beloved province.\u201d He had been Premier of Quebec for eleven years, continued Mr.Taschereau.This was the third time that he was coming before the electors and he would review the ; reasons why they should again re- ! new their confidence in him.\u201cSixty years and more have pass- i ed since Confederation\u201d, he said, ; \u201cand Canada has progressed greatly j in that time.In the Province of Quebec, both Liberal and Conserva- ; five governments have been in j power, each having divided the per-j iod almost equally and I ask you to compare the accomplishments of the j two parties.\u201cOur opponents criticize us for, the alleged invasion of foreign capital.But this foreign capital is the j lifeblood of the province.True, we! have encouraged foreign capitalists | to invest in this province, but in doing so we have aided not only the j workers and the farmers, but also the moneyed men of the province.j \u201cIf we had not encouraged this investment, where would many of our leading cities of today be?What\u2022 would he the condition of Shawini-gan Falls, Arvida, Jonquieres, Drum-mondville and many other of your| beautiful cities of the Eastern Town-j ships?We say to these capitalists, I settle in Quebec, open your plants, j employ our young men.Are we not; right?In Sherbrooke alone millions have been spent by Americans in | developing industry.\u201cDo you believe it is reasonable for the leader of the opposition to protest this?Ontario is spending; thousands of dollars to attract for-! oign manufacturers to that province, Would you have me tell these American manufacturers, \u2018do not come here.Go to Ontario?\u2019 We are! on the best of terms with Ontario, | but wc wish to develop Quebec first.\u201d Turning to the policy of the Gov- [ eminent towards the laboring man,! the Premier asked his listeners to \\ compare what the Liberal adminis-1 iration had carried out with the total ! lack of any legislation under the ! Conservative regime.\u201cIn 1900, when I was Minister of j ublic Works and Labor,\u201d he said, j \"we introduced the first Workmen ?Compensation Act to be passed on tlie North American continent.For the first time the injured workman was not required to prove at common law that the employer was at fault for accident.The employer was icquired to prove that, the employee 'Continued on page 7) PREMIER HENRY HELD MEETING WITH BENNETT Figures for Year Ending March 31 Published by Dominion Bureau of Statistics.Further Relief for Unemployed in Ontario Discussed \u2014 Labor Minister Took Part in Meeting.OTTAWA, Aug.15.\u2014Good progress in working out the details of unemployment assistance which Ontario, in co-operation with the Dominion Government, will carry out, resulted from conferences Premier George S.Henry, of Ontario, held yesterday with Premier R.B.Bennett and Senator Gideon Robertson, Minister of Labor.The two chief features of the Ontario programme are that in the southern section the Dominion and the province will grant assistance to municipal undertakings very-much along the same lines as they did last winter, and that in Northern Ontario assistance will largely revolve around the building of the trans-Canada highway The decision was made that the highway will run through the Ottawa Valley to North Bay and will come east from Kenora to Heron Bay.With regard to the intermediate stretch it has not .'ee i decided whether the highway will be routed by Cochrane or Sudbury.In the stretch between Renfrew County and North Bay there will be a partial re-location over a stretch of 100 miles.In the western section between Kenora and Heron Bay 400 miles of new highway will be built.Letters were sent out from Toronto to the municipalities asking to conduct registration of the unemployed in their localities so that plans can be made to extend assistance where it wlil be most neec.-ed.It is proposed that the single men who are unemployed will go to the work on the trans-Canada highway and as far as possible married man will be given work near the,r homes.$83,944,701 $88,671,738 $177,431,386 $274,316,553 OTTAWA, Aug.15.\u2014 Canada\u2019s foreign trade in the fiscal year which ended last M\u2019arch 31 amounted in value to $1,723,550,729, according to a preliminary summary issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics.This was made up of $816,938,048 in exports and $906,-612,681 in imports, or an adverse balance of $89,674,633.Canada\u2019s exports of Canadian produce amounted in value to $799,652,667, the remainder being made up of re-export of foreign produce.From the figures issued an interesting survey of the increase in exports of Canadian produce since Confederation is given.In 1868 these had a value of $48,504,899.Three years later they had risen to $57,-043,590.Thenceforth the uprising was steady and continuons.Following are the decennial totals: 1881.1891.1901.1911.1921.$1,189,163,701 1931.$799,652,667 It will thus be seen that Canada\u2019s exports of native produce have increased over 1,500 per cent, between 1868 and 1931.Imports in the last sixty-three years have also increased, although not to such an enormous extent as exports.In 1868 imports entered for consumption had a value of $67,090,159, and in 1931 a value of $906,612,681.That is to say, imports had risen 1,300 per cent.Duty collected in the first year of Confederation amounted to $8,801,-446, and in 1931 to $149,097,855.In] this connection, it is interesting to note that the duty collected in 18681 was 20.2 per cent, of the total dutiable imports, in 1931 it was only 26 per cent.Canada\u2019s banner year for exports was 1918, the last full war year, when these had risen to $1,-540,027,788.Imports had a value of only $963,532,578, leaving a favorable trade balance of no less than $622,637,214 \u2014 the greatest in the history of -the country?.SAYS REVOLUTION WILL CONTINUE NEW YORK, August 15.- Dr.Domingo Mendez, Capote, delegate ; general of the Cuban rebels, said to-] day that the uprising would conti-I nue despite the capture of General I Mario G.Menocal.\u2022 TWO MEASURES TO BE CONSIDERED WHEN BRITISH PARLIAMENT MEETS One Will Be a Finance Bill to Impose a New Taxation, and Second an Economy Bill to Enable Government to Wield Axe on Expenses\u2014Representation Made Against Abolition of Empire Marketing Board.LONDON, Aug.15.\u2014The Cabinet\u2019s \u201cbig five\u201d are scattered from the Scottish highlands to the English Channel ruminating over the economy proposals.Two bills will be necessary, it appears, when Parliament meets.One will be a finance bill to impose a new taxation.The othe1' will be an economy bill to enable the Government to wield the axo on expenses.Should the heads of all three major parties reach agreement on the Government\u2019s proposals a substantial majority for them in the House of Commons would, or course, be assured.Nevertheless economy bills usually find rougn going.They arouse opposition from every interest affected.The Labor Left Wingers increasingly truculent of late will fight an,.' cuts in the social services just as they fought the Government bill to remedy anomalies in the \u201cdole.\u201d The New Zealand and Australian Agents\u2019 Association has already made representations to Rl.Hon.Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Rt.Hon.J.H-Thomas, Secretary for the Domin-'ons, against abolition of the Empire Marketing Board, which is being considered.The Board, financed by the British Treasury, advertises Canadian and other Empire produce in Britain.Its abolition was recommended in the recent report of the May economy committee.Political prophets forecast abolition of the board as likely to be among the Government\u2019s economy measures.Labor ministers generally an echoing Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald\u2019s Lossiemouth appeal to the nation to \u201ckeep steady.\u201d Cooperation for a national safety on the part of the three national parties, is the way Rt.Hon.J.R.Clynes, Home Secretary, puts it.EXPECT BUDGET IN ONTARIO TO SHOW DEFICIT Government Understood to Be Looking for New Sources of Revenue to Produce Balance.THE MAN WHOM YOU MAY WANT TO KNOW Emery Hector Fortier Born in a home on the hillside overlooking Sherbrooke some forty years ago.Emery Hector Fortier has been in the public eye for a full score of years\u2014both as a business man and as a civic-spirited citizen.Mr.Fortier is head of the Emery Fortier Syndicate, which conducts high-class grocery stores in East Sherbrooke, and in which portion of the city'he is known to every man, woman and child.At lifteen years of age he had finished his schooling and taken a commercial course at Glefeson\u2019s Business College, and immediately entered the firm of ^iebert & Fortier, who operated an extensive chain of grocery'stores.First as errand boy, then as clerk, and afterwards as office clerk.The wisdom of young Fortier\u2019s father was evidenced in his giving his son a thorough grounding in every detail of the business.Ten years ago this firm was dissolved, and Emery Fortier entered into partnership with his brother, George Arthur Fortier, and purchased two of the most important stores with which he had been long affiliated.So successful were they that in a few years they were able to purchase the properties wherein were located the shops of the Fortier Syndicate.Persuaded whilst twenty-nine years of age to enter the civic arena for the East Ward, Mr.Fortier served a two-year term, but declined re-election as he felt that he could better devote all his time to a growing business, but four years later he was again induced to accept the nomination, and much of his spare time has since been devoted to civic affairs.His colleagues in the City Council soon recognized his ability and experience as an executive, and this year he was pronîoted to the most important committee as chairman, that of public works.Within a month of his selection he had given proof of his talent in getting things done, and the recent adoption of the sidewalk building by-law was an endorsation of his executive talent and of his vision of what should and could be done.He has a pleasing personality and a facile knowledge of both languages, and is both a friend and a representative of whom any citizen may well be proud of.In Civic Affairs he has been chairman of the Relief Committee, chairman of the Finance Committee, chairman of the Water Works Committee and chairman of the Health Committee which versatility of experience gives him a legislative background for the fulfilment of the \"ambition of his life,\u201d which he frankly confesses to be his desired goal in his election to the Quebec Legislative Assembly.Mr.Fortier is also-a member of the Sherbrooke Chamber of Commerce and of the St.Francis Snowshoe Club, but his business and civic activities have not afforded him the time for sharing much in the pleasures of the social clubs.In 1912 Mr.Fortier was married to Elodia Dion, deceased who is sadly missed and mourned by a sturdy family of seven children, five boys and two girls.Roger.Marcel, Gilles, Maurice, Jacqueline, Andre and Rejanne.Their home is at 37 King street East.TORONTO, Aug.\t15.\u2014Faced with an operating deficit for the current year that may run as high i as $8,000,000, the Ontario Goveru-i ment is tightening up its retreneh-! nient policy more than ever, and is ! taking steps, it is understood, to eliminate wastage and dupiication ] in depannental administration, and it is said to have its treasury exerts now scouting the possibilities of new tax levies.The deficit estimated for this year in the Budget speech of last j : session was $2.670,000.With only ! ] nine months e; there is reported a deficit, however, of slightly in exue.- or o - .i In every singe depar: nient it j I Government activity revenue is sain j to be down, considerably, this year.Succession duties have fallen off | Sale of liquor is reported some 60 per cent below the corresponding (Continued on Page 7).ALFRED GAGNE WAS VICTIM OF MAN FINED FOR FINANCE AND AGRICULTURE DEALT GIVING A RIDE WITH BY DEPARTMENT MINISTERS TO NEIGHBORS Sustained Interest During First Appearance of Two Youngest Cabinet Ministers, Hon.Gordon Scott, Provincial Minister of Ottawa Man Found Guilty of Competing With Ottawa Electric Railway Company.OTTAWA, Ont., August 15.\u2014 On grounds that accepting money from friends whom he drove to » ork was in contravention to the 'terms of the city by-law concerning the Ottawa Electric Railway, Oliver Shaw was found guilty yesterday in police court of illegally competing with the company and was fined ten dollars and two dollars costs by acting Magistrate J.F.McKinley.The conviction was registered on one of three charges brought by the company against Mr.Shaw, the other two being withdrawn.On judgment being given, Red- j mond Quain, counsel for the Ot- \u2019 tawa Electric Railway Company, announced in court that similiar charges would be brought against Ottawa motor car owners who persisted in giving \u201clifts\u201d to passengers who otherwise would be carried in the street cars.All three charges laid against Mr.Shaw by the Ottawa Electric Railway Company were of the same type alleging that he \u201cdid unlawfully compete with the Ottawa Electric Railway Company within the limits of the City of Ottawa, in its business of transporting passengers for hire.\u201d Shaw himself, summoned as a witness, stated in response to questions that he had been in the habit of driving three of his friends and neighbors into their city offices.There had been, he said, no financial arrangements made, and no paymet was discussed between himself and his friends.At different times, however, he continued, they had made him contributions for the purchase of gasoline for the car.He added that he was always in the habit of picking up his neighbors when he passed them on the street with his machine.Treasurer, and Hon.Adelard Godbout, .Agriculture\u2014Former Justifies Government Financial Policies.FAMILY GRANTS NOW PROPOSED DELEGATES LEFT TODAY FOR LONDON BOMBAY, India, Aug.15.\u2014 Twenty-seven Indian delegates to the second round table conference on the constitution of new India, sailed for London today.The delegates were extremely disappointed that Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the most powerful single faction in India, the Hindu Nationalist Congress, was not among them.Commission to Study Position of Family and Consider Granting of Allowances.MONTREAL, Aug.15.\u2014Rural credit was dealt with by both the Liberal and the Conservative leaders in Quebec\u2019s general election campaign last night.At Valley-field Mayor Camillien Houde, the Conservative chieftain, repeated his promise of a loan to farmers at two per cent.At Sherbrooke, however, Premier L.A.Taschereau denied the possibility of such a loan.The cost of a loan to farmers at two per cent would have its compensations, argued Mr.Houde.It would serve to prevent the drift of men from the farm to the city, which was now robbing the land, embarrasing the cities, and adding to the unemployment problem.The loan could be easily arranged over a five year period, insisted the Opposition leader.Mayor Houde stressed the importance of protecting the aged, widows and poor families.If returned to power on August 24 he would appoint, a commission to study the position of the family and consider the granting of allowances to large familjes.He thought ft unfair that single men should receive the same wages as married men.A premium of two cents a pound on butter and the provision of old age pensions with federal co-operation were part of the Conservative policy, said Mr.Houde.He also urged the revision of the workmen\u2019s compensation act, which he described as the most iniquitous in the country.UCH interest was shown by the large audience at the Armouries on the Belvidere plaza in the speech of the Hon.L.A.Taschereau, who was followed in his every phrase by quiet and earnest attention, and this interest DV MD UAfiniT vvas 'veli sns,ained on the occasion Dl ifm, nUUI/Li ,of 't16 first appearance in Sher- ! brooke of the two youngest mem-\u2014\u2014\t.\t> l)Crs the Premier\u2019s execu- States that if Conservatives Are tive family the Honorable Returned He Will Appoint a Gordon W.Scott, Provincial Treasurer, and the Honorable Adelard Godbout, Minister of Agriculture, the former speaking in English and the latter in his mother tongue.Both of the new members of the Cabinet made a favorable impression, and both were accorded warm and hearty plaudits by the large audience as they ablv seconded the appeal of their Chieftain for the renewal of the confidence of the electors.The Provincial Treasurer is the time-honoured representative in the Cabinet of the English minority in the Province of Quebec and he earnestly expressed his admiration of the Prime Minister as a gentleman and an administrator.Mr.Scott is the executive head of the largest firm of auditors in Canada, P.C.Ross & Sons, and has spent a lifetime in the study and compilation of figures in every kind of business He has in his employ so-me one hundred chartered accountants and auditors, and is perhaps the one man above all others in the Province who has the fiscal experience required as an equipment for the portfolio to which he was called by the Premier.He resigned his seat in the Quebec Legislative Council to accept the post which he had occupied unofficially for the past year, and will contest St.George\u2019s, in Montreal, a constituency in that city where there are meny business men who appreciate his fitness for the Treasury.Offered several \u201csure\u201d seats, Mr.Scott preferred to try and gain a verdict in a business man\u2019s constitu-jency, and will try and wrest from jthe Opposition a seat they had con* isidered safe until Mr.Scott was ] chosen by the convention.I The Hon.Adelard Godbout is considered one of the best men in the PERILOUS PART OF JOURNEY HAS BEEN COMPLETED BEST WISHES EXTENDED BY AUTO ACCIDENT HIS MAJESTY Former Resident of This City Governor-General and Countess Had His Neck Broken in Three- of Bessborough Congratulated Car Collision in Albany, N.Y.Upon Arrival of Their Son STREET FIGHTING IN GERMANY LIMBACH, Germany, August 15.\u2014One man was killed and four were injured in street fights during the night between Communists and National Socialists.THE WEATHER *-if MOSTLY FAIR AND WARM Pressure is low over Hudson Bay, the Mackenzie Valley and the Southwest States, and continues high over the eastern part of the continent.Scattered showers have occurred in the Maritime Provinces, while in nearly all other parts of Canada the weather has been fair and moderately warm in all provinces.Forecast : Light to moderate southwest winds; fair and warm.Suudiu'; ALusUy.Tail aaid warm- ALBANY, N.Y., August 15.\u2014His neck broken in a three-car collision on the main street here yesterday, Alfred Elzear Gagne, formerly of Sherbrooke, Que., is dead.Joseph Collman, driver of one of the other cars, suffered cuts.He and James Luther, driver of the third car, were detained pending a coroner\u2019s investigation.Edward Lacker and Carol Gimbel, who were in Collmar\u2019s car, gave the police this version : Collman\u2019s car was following Luther\u2019s westbound.Gagne, approaching in an opposite direction, sideswiped Luther's machine and hurled it directly in the path of Collman's.The body of ihe unfortunate young man is being sent here, and burial will take place at Thetford Mines.The late Mr.Gagne was the youngest son of Mr.and Mrs.Michael Gagne, of Sherbrooke, Que.MONTREAL Aug.15,\u2014The condition of Lady Bessborough and her son who was born yesterday was today reported by the secre-trary to the Governor-General ns \u201cvery favorable.\u201d The youngster, MONTREAL, QUE., August 15.\u2014 His Majesty the King has cabled to the Governor-General ot Canada, the Earl of Bessborough, congratulations on the birth of a son to Lady Bessborough, and has expressed a wish to be godfather to the son born to Their Excellencies at the Royal Victoria Montreal Maternity Hospital early yesterday morning.The official statement issued by Lord Bessborough\u2019s private secretary from Ravenscrag, the Governor-General's temporary residence in Montreal, was as follows: \u201cHis Majesty the King has cabled to the Governor-General his warm congratulations on the .tnrih of a son to Lady Bessborough and has graciously expressed a wish to be godfather to the boy.\u201d It was stated at Ravenscrag that no information was available at present as to the christening arrangements and no additional bulletins concerning Her Excellency and lier son had been issued.who weighed between nine and tea pounds at birth, ts fair-haired with blue eyes.\t* A FEELING OF OPTIMISM WAS IN EVIDENCE ON CANADIAN XHANGESi^'inTi^t'c^KrtS [of the practice and theory of farm-\u2014 - ¦\u2014¦¦¦ -\t\u2014\tjflfT; The son of a well-known farm- Favorable Developments in Oil Producing Areas Found cULurrSr MT^^h\" Immediate Response in Oil Shares\u2014Depletion of Stocks Minister of Agriculture is but thirty- Leads to Hopes for More Than Seasonal Recovery\u2014 |wouldTndi^that^he3 iT^the Key Industrials Displayed Definite Upward Trend.threshold of a great career in his ______\tnative Province.He resides at St.TORONTO, Aug.15.\u2014A notice-;A£n« d« ^ Pocaterie, where he finable feeling of optimism was in !Shed UP \u201cIs practical and youthful evidence on Canadian stock jwor,k'on ^he ,farm, the highest exchanges this week.Prices of the jcr\u20acc,it, and where he was afterwards key shares displayed a definite up-|eP\u2019faged a* a professor and demonward trend as investors once again ItA3, 0!:- A proud rather was the entered the trading in confident;' \u201c\t\u201clrn \"'heu de \"-a?stvle>\t6\t| sworn m last year as Minister of It was the most impressive\t,, I\tsrsu ïa\t-f I\tiïïÿi-Xt'\"m ST.TAir'i >r;b\tf\"\u201d\"?; -\t, \u201e tney leritit more tnan suuaee m duties, one can understand how in Colonel and Mrs.Lindbergh Sue- !\tfor^t^dull^ss IS ]th«ir rejuvenation the Liberal re- cessfully Covered 1,067 Mile! Corporation earnings statistics fh™-\tthr°UEh Flight Across Bering Sea.\t'\thave been particularly\tencourag-; Tersely,\tsuccintly,\tand in the S\t 6\t:\t\u2018\"f, lnt ?°™ParVson wlth\tDie first ! phrases of\tthe business man, so that SEATTLE, Wash., August 15._ ?alf 1 19,30\u2019 wheat Pnc/S re' everybody could follow and grasp the Colonel and Mrs Charles A Lind-! tain the, !arger part of .the,r re' meaning of the millions handled by bergh were at Karagin Island today,