CHANGED COUNTRY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 January 1940, Page 3

CHANGED COUNTRY

CANADA'S ECONOMIC FORCES. The Canada of 1939 is not the Canada of 1914. writes Mr Floyd Chalmers, editor of the "Canadian Financial Post." The Canada that joined with the Motherland in 1914 was a country almost wholly dependent, on agriculture and on the industries whose foundations were on the farm. The Canada that has joined with Great Britain and the other Dominions in 1939 is a country that has attained full stature in the development of rich supplies of vital raw materials, a country whose factories have put her near the top among the leading industrial nations of the i world. Just before the present war began the German Institute for Business Research made a study of 23 essential materials. It found that Canada stood first among the countries of the world in production of “mechanical" woodpulp. second in paper, third in aluminium and cardboard. and fourth in zine. lead, calcium, cyanide and electrical power. Curiously, the study om- I itted nickel and asbestos. in which Canada leads the world; gold, in which she shares second place: and foodstuffs such as wheat, flour, bacon, etc, where she is among the top-ranking nations. If this is indeed a struggle of economic strength, if it is to be a war of "econo-1 mic strangulation." then Canada brings I to the cause of the Allies many battal- ' ions of economic soldiers.