The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-11
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIAIMS
scripps- Howard Foreign Editor

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
scripps- Howard Foreign Editor
TORONTO, June 11.-High up in
q suit Of Offices in the skyscraping
concourse building here, overlooking
the scurrying harbor and Lake On
tario, is the busiest spot in Canada.
It Is the headquarters Of the in
dustrial commission, whose Job it is
to look after American factories
seeking q location on this side Of
the border-the strangest and most
significant migration in the busi-
ness history of the United States.
On the wall is a map Of the
Great Lakss-St. Lawrence river re-
gion, with part of the Dominion
showing above and part of the
United States showing below the
international boundary.
Map Studded With Pins
The map is studded with vari-
colored pins. There is a whole for
est Of thern-red-hea pins, SAT-
fron-headed pins and pins with
white, green, blue and violet heads
-jostling each other for room.
1t reminded me Of other pin-stud-
ded maps I had seen, in division
headquarters in France, marking
gains and losses Of the great armies
that confronted each other over
there, naneuvering for advantage
in another great war.
TITS an interesting map you have
there" I remarked to the young,
very much alert manager, Hubert
3. Keenleyside what are the pins
for?"
Represent q. S. Industries
Those pins" he said, represent
American industries.
THE red-headed ones" he ex-
planned, represent industries which
have definitely accepted sites for
branch plants in the Toronto area.
The yellow ones are industries that
are on the point of doing so. The
green pins are good prospects and
the white ones have written ask
ing for information with a view to
locating here or hereabouts.
THE blue-headed pins are major
propositions. The violet ones are Of
lesser Importance. But we welcome
the smallest along with the biggest,
for every enterprise that comes to
us helps. For, you know" he
added with smile, "the little ones
employing only few workers at
first, have a way of becoming big
ones providing many jobs and con-
Stunning large quantities Of Canadian
raw materials"
They Have go Getters'
American industry, its $5,000,00o,-
900 export business crippled by the
tariff war precipitated by the
Hawley -Smoot broadside, is being
forced to seek more favorable bases
from which to operate.
And Canada, quick to see the OPP
portunity presented by the Amer
lean blunder, is leaving no legiti-
mate move unnade to land as many
of these industries as possible
No chamber of commerce go
getters anywhere in the United
States ever showed more ingenuity
in going out after these prospects"
than Canada is showing as cities
and provinces compete for them,
from Halifax to Victoria.
If your super-tariff is raising
foreign barriers against your prod
ucts," says Canada, in effect, Just
come over here"
Shaping His Own Policy
mot only do we offer you a rich
Canadian market and Preferential
tariff rates with most of the mem
berS of the British empire, but the
benefit of our specia TRADE relations
with more than a score of other
countries as well"
Cheap water transportation down
the st. Lawrence to European mar
kets and a shorter haul across the
Pacific to the far east, soon destined
to become an Unsuitable consumer
Of western made products, and adj
vertised widely here along with
cheap power and a plentiful sup
ply of labor.
Premier Bennett quite plainly re-
CARDS tariff boosting as a game at
which two can play as we'll as one
Seizing upon Wash!ngton's trade
exclusion policy on the one hand
and Americas exploitation of the
Canadian market on the other, as
evidences of an impending economic
annexation Of the Dominion by the
United States, he is haping his own
policy accordingly.
America Comes Last
Canada now has four rates ~
sort OF sliding scale-on goods en-
tering her territory: British prefer
entail most-favored nation, inter-
mediate, and general, which last
applies to us. This is translated to
mean Canada first, empire second,
friendly trading powers third and
America last.
Liberal Canadians are somewhat
skeptical of the Bennett policy.
They say he is counting the same
danger that now nlenaces American