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Tu'=.r~rlnv. Dccernber ' 2, 1924

M nigneiord, Ont, Expositor

 

 l
i F .' Canada's 

I Book-Week 

* :5:

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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are one hundred and fifty others

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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

d Women’s Canadian Vclub _

*h :34-’rV’L‘.‘«ek —b-y»‘htings‘ng.

——C'x71T"C'z’t‘n;aEiian'speakers~. during the

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

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

Her Headaches Were So Bad
She Couldn’t Do Anything

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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