AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1930, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS

CANADA’S QUANDARY. [United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] OTTAWA, March 25. The Canadian opposition to the Prime Minister’s announced negotiations for a liqour smuggling treaty with the United States threatens serious political dissension. Premier MaeKenzie King says that it is better to co-operate with the American Government than to make matters easy for the criminal clement. The Opposition Party declare that the United States threatens to line the Canadian Border with ten thousand armed men unless it secures a treaty, which would he hypocritical as rum running would continue. CARXERA IN MOVIES. 150,000 DOLLARS CONTRACT NEW YORK. March 25. It is announced that Primo Carnere,. the giant Italian lmxor. has signed a. contract, with which he will receive 150.000 dollars, from the Afetro-Goldwvn-Ma.ver Coy., for throe weeks’ work in portraying Hercules in a Lon Chaney cinema. A POLITICIAN’S VIEWS. (RecmVprl this dnv at in a.m.' VANOOUVEH, March 20. Geoffrey Harmsworth, nephew of Lord .Rothermere, who is visiting here, declares the Old County is suffering from too. much politics and too little statesmanship, too much self and party and too little country and Empire. “Lack of appreciation of Empire opportunities predominates in the whole of British public life today.”

“Ail election in the Old Country with Conservatives, under Air Baldwin, would mean an overwhelming victory for Socialism,” says Harmsworth. Ho believes 1 ' Britain and the Colonics must inevitably come to the realisation that economical salvation lies <on]y in the adoption of the Empire trade policy.

LIQOUR LAW ENQUIRY. (Received this dav at II a.m.) WASHINGTON, March 26. At the conclusion of the House “dry” hearings, Air Lentz (President of American Insurance Union) testified that prohibition had cut down the nation’s death rate. He isaid during five years prior to prohibition 1914 to 1919, a survey of seventy-seven insurance companies showed the relation of actual mortality was from sixty to sixtv-three per cent., but the average for 1921 to 1927 wa.s only ifrom fifty-three to fiftyfour per cent. Dr. Mcßride (General Supt. of the anti saloon League) stated,—-“Prohibi-tion is a' success, is popular and can be enforced.”.. He added: “The answer to this wet frenzy is a speedy enactment by congress into law of the President’s programme with such appropriations as will give prohibition a chance.” Drury (ex-Premier of Ontario) stated Government control had failed to reduce drinking, crime or bottlegging in Canada. Government control is not a remedy. Effective control is indeed impossibly*, The Anglo-Saxon U'mnarament will not stand for the inquisition necessary into private affairs to establish any effective control. He gave extensive statistics purporting to show an increase of lawlessness in Ontario.