Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-28

| Canada and the United States is the
best demonstration possible that we
obey at least one of the Ten Com
mandments: We love our neighbors
as ourselves" There have never been
national Damons and Pythiases more
truly devoted than found here where
the boundary line for 1900 miles is
only an Imaginary line" with never
gun nor fort nor even picket, be-
yond the sentinels of commerce. The
only wonder Is that with all this am
ity there have been no nuptials be-
tween Uncle Sam and the Lady Of the
Shows. However, the couple are
young folks yet, and the modern tend
ency Is not to marry too young.
The question of age in nations diff
| fers from a similar question concern
| ing individuals. The Lady OF the
! Shows is almost Oslerized-that is.
she would be If she were an individual
for she is now celebrating her 6Oth
| birthday and does not care how many
recognize that fact. But as nation
she Is just f1apper.
| For a week, which began last Fri
day, Canada is celebrating the sixtieth
anniversary of her confederation of
| the provinces into the. Dominion of
| Canada and the recognition of that
Dominion as self-governihg unit of
| the Commonwealth of the British En-
pire. She stands today. not as sub
ordinate colony" of Great Britain,
but as an equal In the empire.
k&*H
| It seems almost incredible that
within the last quarter of a century
| the conception of Canada, as held in
n
"intelligentsia," has been so gro
| tesquely inadequate. We have assumed
| that Canada was but a narrow rim be-
tween balmy United States and the
| frozen Arctic, and that her attempt to
| grow within that rim was praiseworthy
| but pitiable. A President of the United
States. in an important communication
| less than q score of years ago, re-
| ferred to Assiniboia and Athabasca
as provinces, although they had
never been provinces. and at the time
of his reference had long ceased to
exist as any kind of political entity,
| having been cut up into several prov
| inces, each larger than all New Eng
| land.
A few years prior to that presiden-
| tial blunder a newspaper man pro-
posed to attend the first Northwest eX-
! W
| held at Regina, Saskatchewan. Before
departing upon that great adventure
he consulted the editor of a North
western United States daily and asked
| if the daily would like to receive de-
scriptive articles about the country.
yes" was the answer, Especially
description of the Saskatchewan Val
| ley"
Editor and correspondent consulted
an atlas and discovered that the Sas-
| katchewan River was within half an
| inch of Regina" so it was agreed that
upon reaching the city of the exposi-
| ton the correspondent would hire
horse and buggy and drive over to
| the river some afternoon"
Instead of that exploration break
| ing into an afternoon, the correspond
ent boarded train and rode all day
from Regina to Prince Albert, located
| on the river, and then the most north
ern outpost Of settlement. There he
asked a native how much farther
north agriculture was practiced. ana
| the answer was that the finest gram
he had seen was grown on the north
ern shore of Great Slave Lake--as
much north of Prince Albert as Mime
apolis was south. but that that was
| far from the limit. That was late in
the "Nineties" Since then, that CORE
spondent has made several trips into
the marvellous country, which has re-
mained so marvelously unoccupied. in
spite Of the boast that her immigra-
ton during the first decade OF this CEN
fury increased her population "a per
cent. Since the confederation OF the
provinces, Canada's population has
trebled. Yet even that growth In 30
wears has not equaled the increase Of
the United States during the first 60
years of the nineteenth century, which
was at the rate of increasing 35 per
cent every decade, or about IL times
the population of the beginning Of the
period.
The area Of the provinces forming
the original Dominion of Canada was
| $50, 900 square miles; now the total
area Is 3.279 900 square miles. The in
crease Of area alone is greater than
the total area of the United States.
It's wheat acreage has grown from
SOC, 900 to $4,000, 900 acres and the
crop from 100000 to 410.000,000
bushels, vet that is not 10 per cent
Of its available wheat acreage. The
annual value of it's minerals has in
creased from an annual output of S4.-
600 900 to SPAS, 900, 000-yet only the
outer edge of such resources has been
touched It's manufactures have grown
in output from 100000 900 to $780,
000, 900, yet Canada Is not yet devel-
oped industrially in proportion to her
own needs.
| Her railroads have grown from g.
27S miles to more than 10000 miles.
but her line to Hudson Bay remains
to be completed, and when that is
built the grain fields of Saskatchewan
and Alberta, following more closely
the globes great circle" will move
nearer to Liverpool by a distance equal
to the long stretch from Winnipeg to
Buffalo. Grain then will go to Europe
without breaking cargo from central
Canada to the markets OF the world"
as centered in Liverpool.
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