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M nigneiord, Ont, Expositor

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I Book-Week

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Mrs. _l”~‘rank Reeves. more gener- all "known as “Quota Watana" a writer -of reputation‘ and a'Cana-

it was a great pity our talent should be lost and suppressed on account of the poor market of this countrv. “Good writers," sl1e said, “who after all must live. find" better re- ward for their talents elsewhere, so they leave Canada to sell it.”

(.‘om~n1euting on this. Saturday Night notes:

“Unfortunately. this is only too true. So far as periodical literature! go'es“,“\-. »:- x_j., ~ position. Those who have gone in- to the situation carefully give fi- gures to prove that six out of every seven magazl"..“s," read in -Canada come from the ‘United States. Twenty-five of the best known of these magazines and periodicals have a total circulation in Canada of nearly six hundred thousand cop- ies per issue. or a grand total of upward of twelve million copies per year. And these figures take no account of dozens of other U, S. papers and cheap magazine type- sold throughout the country.

“Probably no other country in the world is laboring under disad- vantages compara-blc with those which Canada faces when it comes to the ‘printing and publishing business as it pertains to periodi- cals‘. To the south are upward of a hundred million people, the vast majority =being readers of periodi- cals—their -own of course, All these periodicals, published weeklv, monthly or quarterly as the case

United States public. Naturally they carry United States advertising which tends to wean Canadian readers away from the Canadian market. But more seriou.s still they tend also to wean Canadians from their homeland. Like. trickling water wearing away granite we are slowly but surely year by year, be- coming better Americans and poor- er Canadians by reason of this flood of United States -reading matter. _

“Of course there is no quarrel; with the United States over this; matter. They are tbuilding up their’ own nationhood and quite properly and ifkwe were doing likewise ther ',""'_'_‘;.".._,_’_~;\____"Hi!‘ J!‘ I?-'\;‘;'1}'iin q_< But the fact is“; are doing quite the reverse. 1

“It may surprise those unac- quainted with the publication busi- ness to learn that a large number of periodicals entering this country from the United States are sold to the consumer at a price that does not m-ore than cover th_e first cost of the whi-te paper and the press work, to say nothing of the over- head. composition, engravings, art work, editorial cost, etc. Of course this deficit is made up’by the ad- vertisers. :1 huge field covering as it does upward of a hundred mil- lion people, spread over half a continent.

“We have become the dumping ground for the surplus product of the United States magazine makers. They manufacture primarily for their ow11 market, and the extra cost -so far as Canadian circulation is oncerned is merely press work and white paper. When printed matter, such as circulars, cata- logues, etc., enter Canada from a foreign country, a duty is levied. When foreign made books, the usu- al novel for instance, enters Can- ada. it also pays a duty, but not so the periodical. They are as free as the air itself. On the xother hand when a’Canad-ian publishing house imports paper, ink. engravings, ma- chinery or any article of foreign make that enters into the manu- tacture of a peri-odical they are all subject to tariff charges.

“It is estimated that the annual value of labor, wages. overhead, etc.. as it pertains to the Canadian circulation of 25 of better known United States periodicals, and there

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that do not enter into these calcu- lations. amounts to nearly five mil- lions of dollars. That is to say if these periodicals were m'an‘ufa«:- tured in Canada as W-ell as sold in Canada the country would be bet- ter off to the tune of nearly five million Collars per annum, t-o say nothing of the raw materials invol- ved. It is any wonder our printers and pressmen, as well as our writ- ers, are seeking work in the United States. '

“Owing to United States compe- tition in the Canadian market the periodical pu'blication business in this country has proven to be one financial disaster after another. It is only here and -there that a Cana- dian periodic'als 11a-s been able to sur" 1;. and if present, conditions are .' «Fed to c‘ont'nue, the few we have will sooner’ -0 later be com- pelled to give up -the fight and thus surrender the entire field to their United States competitors.

“It is obvious that if we are to have sound and prosperous Cana- dian magazines and other periodi- cals, teaching true -Canadianism and aiding in the work of selling Canadian goods to Canadians, -the government must get behind the project -to the extent of giving pub- lishers some degree of protection against -the -dumping process which is now going on and which over a space of ten years ‘has increased the sale -of United States periodicals in the ‘Canadian market by upward -of three hundred per cent.”

“Books are the legacies that a. gr-eat genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as pre- scnts to the posterity of those, who are yet unborn.—Add.ison:

“The Spectator." -

This week is observed through- out the Dominion of Canada, as Canada’:. Book Week. Yesterday was the first -day of this annual ins-tiituti-in, inaugurated by xthe Canadian Author's association in the interest of the writing profes- sion of ‘Canada During the coming six days‘ the reading public is ask- ’ 0 give special attention to -the

of‘ -Canadian Authors. The

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week. Children's Book Week was recognized last month.

Just at present “I-Ier" present is present among the Shop-o-scope Offers. ‘

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Once the head starts to ache and pain yor may rest assured that the cause comes from the stomach; liver or bowel::, and the cause must be re- moved b-fore permanent relief may be had.‘

The-re ‘s no better remedy for head- aches of every description -than

Burdock «Blood Bitters

as it removes the cause -of the head- aches in a way that no other remedy will do. 5

Mrs. ‘Vin. Hclpard, Lower’ Stewi- ackc. NS, writes: “I suffered for :1 long time with my ‘head. It would ache am‘. ache until it made me so sick I could not do anything, ‘but after taking four bottles of B.B.B. I feel that 1 cannot recommend it too highly t'o all those suffering from headaches of any l-ind." ’

B.B.B. has -been on the market for the past 46 years and is recognized by all W\O have used it to be without an equal as :1 remedy for headaclies; put up mix by The '1‘. Milburn Co., Limited. -"1/‘oronto, Ont.

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