Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-28
BACKGROUND OF EVENTS
BY PAUL y. COLLINS.

les, with their grand glaciers and with
mountain lakes of hot and cold water
and with scenery of superb grandeur
and beauty. There is moutain
stream which plunges down its rocky
way until it's current strikes "A rock
and splits; that is the Great Divide"
where half the water flows north and
east into the Saskatchewan River and
into Hudson Bay, while the other half
goes south and west, emptying into
Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean.
So the brook creates an island of all
the continent northwest. That island
has a climate so balmy that it COM
pares in mildness with that Of the
District of Columbia, rather than the
trig1dity of the Arctic. Thereon grow
the finest and most prolific crops of
wheat in Notwithstanding when ripen-
ing over the limitless plains Of Alberta
like the waves of 4 golden sea.
Yet, with a step. the traveller on
the Canadian Pacific Railway NAV
walk from the train into the crevices
of the Great Glacier. and lose him.
self within walls of clear blue ice.
The glacier is hundreds of feet high
and many miles in extent, starting
Tar back in the mountains and de-
scending like a great creeping mon
D
ing only Is to 80 feet a year.
While British Columbia possesses
limitless resources, including her
great forests, minerals and agricuI-
tural fields, it is Eastern Canada
Ontario and Quebec-which TODAY
stands nearest the development of
industrial greatness. The possibil-
tiles of water power, electrically de-
yeloped, are Unreasonable. The
St. Lawrence River navigation, which
is of as much interest to American
grain shippers as those of Canada.
waits only on the governments and
engineers of both countries to bring
the Atlantic into practical connec-
ton with the Great Lakes and the
Northern Mississippi as we'll as the
Saskatchewan Valley into proximity
to Europe. as our ancestors never
dreamed of.
There is no jealousy in the United
States in beholding the growth. of
Canada. Its increase will bring q
greater market to our own doors.
and its vast unoccupied territory, to
which settlers of the right kind
regardless of numerical limitations
but with full care as to quality of
the immigrantS-are freely invited
will supply a needed safety valve"
for the high pressure of immigration
which is now distressing Europe.
Within the last year. diplomatic
relations. through direct ministries
in Canada and the United States
have superseded the diplomacy via
London, and put Canada on the map
as independent of her part as a unit
in the British commonwealth of
nations, and the president of the
assembly of the League of Nations
at Geneva is a Canadian. In fact.
as now constituted. the league gives
the same recognition TO Canada with
her population of 9,356,00O as it does
to any other nation or as it could
to the United States of America 0f
we Joined it, with our population
Is times as numerous.
So the Lady of the Shows has
come of age and is as big as any
other nation. No wonder she is cele-
brating her greatness with decora-
lions and oratory and the booming
of guns in salute,
At banquet i'm Winnipeg. a few
years ago. rendered i'm honor OF a visit
of the National Editorial Association
of the United States. there were fea-
tured on the platform two animals
mechanically contrived One was a
British lion and the other an Ameri-
can eagle. and as they faced each
other both were continually bowling.
Ihat automaton group persists to
this day. Canada, America salutes
you! May your tail never be twisted,
nor your claws pull single feather
out of the appendage of the Bird OF
Freedom!
iCoDyriEht. 1927. by Paul V. Collins)