Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18
CANADIAN TOURIST
TRADE INCREASES
Dominion Enjoying Greatest
Year In History as Thou
sands Flock There.
By JOHN r. SINCLAIR.

| 1OnON1O, OnLAr10, AUGUST IT.
Canada Is overrun with visitors. Never
before have they had so many. Cars
| OF every make, carrying license num-
/ bers from every one of the American
| States can be seen daily moving over
the Dominions smooth concrete high
ways.
AS evening approaches, the electric
lights shine on thousands Of signs
which say Tourist Accommodation
Here" These homes-for most Of them
| are private dwellings-in which tour
along the paved highways all the way
from the border cities to the far In
land villages.
Prices charged are reasonable and
some OF the accommodations excellent.
! One would think that the hotels, there
fore, might suffer from this rather
severe competition.
| Huge Sums Expended.
But the hotels themselves have been
turning away In many cases hundreds
OF visitors nightly. The prices charged
\ in the hotels are on a par with those
| In the United States-perhapS, If any
thing, little higher.
The tourist trade has become q pro-
| fession. 1t IS estimated that q sum
around $3.50, 100000 was spent by Amer
ngureS Tor this year are, Of course, not
yet available. But it is estimated by
many observers that the figures will run
considerably over $500, 100000 for this
season.
According to an official United States
estimate the total tourist expenditure of
| its citizens abroad In 1928 amounted to
5000, 900, 900. Canada, therefore, re-
| ceived about 272 cents out Of every
dollar N A~
year That figure should move up 10
little over 30 cents this year.
The Right Hon. Winston Church.
Ill, former British chancellor of the
exchequer, whose reputation as the
stormy petrol Of the British Parliament
is well known, Is visiting in Canada
| now. He has made several addresses
at important cities and expects to con-
tinue such meetings in other cities as
ne goes west for months visit to
California
Eighteen hundred business men sat
down in the banquet room of the new
Royal York Hotel In Toronto last Fri
day This hotel, by the way. the latest
Canadian Pacific Railroad structure and
probably the finest one in the British
| Empire, opened just two months ago.
Tribute to Churchill.
When Mr.. Churchill entered the room
the audience rose en- masse and cheered
him. He took command of the situa-
ton Immediately. He looks like q
statesman, having big dome head, al
most bald, red hair on the sides, cut
fairly short, contrasting with the long
curl OF 20 years ago. He is thick over
the shoulders and behind the neck
and slightly stopped. He has keen,
steady eyes, set far apart, a lighting
Jaw and rudy complexion.
Beside him sat white-haired Sir Jo-
, seph Flavelle, chairman Of the board Of
| the Canadian Bank OF Commerce.
Other banks and big business leaders
were at the main table.
Mr.. Churchill speaks slowly, his
simple but very effective
| The British have habit Of looking
at the dark side of things-that Is the
way we correct our mistakes" he said.
But the dominionS should know that
We are still, after the greatest war ia
history, the greatest creditor nation la
the world. We are growing steadily Ia
wealth, in knowledge, in financial
strength and IN power. Let no one
forget that"
He questions whether Great Britain
and the United States can work out Q
paper parity Of naval strength, because
there IS and can be no parity Of cir
cumstances existing between them"
| To apply rigid numerical equality
to conditions SO markedly UNEQUAL.
whatever the yardstick may be, runs Q
great risk Of not arriving at the true
| goal, which Is that the United States
and the British Empire shall be equal
| powers upon the sea-" he said
But this was not the question which
the former chancellor gave most Of his
address to-that concerned Canada's
relations with Great Britain more than
anything else and more than naval
matters do.
Single Economic Unit.
Can the British commonwealth Of
nations work out q plan to make the
empire q single economic unit and pos
sibly single fiscal unit?
| Take that question out of the realm
of politics. Let 1t be studied by the
| greatest business brains in the empire.
Let them report back a plan whereby
the different commonwealthS can be eff
feetively merged into the greatest
economic unit IN all history. When that
Is accomplished, then let the govern
ments step in and make it effective"
| This in q nutshell is the suggestion
advanced by the former British min
lister to effectively meet world compete
ton.
It is significant that the leading
politicians Of the world are realizing the
dominating importance Of the business
leaders today. Twenty-Five years ago
such q suggestion would have been
howled down. But not now.
Every newspaper in Canada is giving
front-page space to wheat conditions in
the Western provinces. Whenever it
rains 1t Is news. A hailstorm gets q
lead. For much Of the prosperity in
Eastern Canada comes from the pur-
chasing power of the crop money Ia
| the West.
Canada today is q much more i'm.
portant factor in the world wheat situ-
alton than the United States. While
the United States produces about one
third more wheat than Canada the
United States sends abroad now not
more than half IS much. The reason is
obvious. The United States produces
about 800, 000,0 900 bushels year and cen.
sumes around 600 900 900 of 1t within
her own country, so she has about AGO.
000, 900 bushels left for export.
| Canada produced 537 ,000,0 900 bushels
in 1928 and sent abroad about 400, 000,-
600 Of 1t, for her consumptive demands
are much less, naturally, than the
United States.
! In 1918 Canada had $4,000, 600 acres
in wheat and raised $4,000, 600 bushels.
This was an average of 10 bushels to
the acre. Last year, in 1928. she had
| assoc, 900 acres in wheat and raised
| 537, 10000 bushels. This was an aver
age Of 20.9 bushels to the acre, the
| greatest in her history,
| Crop Below Average.
This year the crop is away under
average. Even the most optimistic do
not think Canada will have more than
half Of what she had last year. Some
place it much less
SO with less than . normal crop not