17 MAY 1924, Page 11

The international frontier line is such an unsubstantial thing that

the ambitious young Canadian moves to Detroit or Buffalo, New York or Chicago, with no more to-do than he would move to Toronto or Montreal. The recent period of industrial prosperity in the United States, with its inevitable attraction of high wages, is the lure which attracts young Canadians. So long as industry is pros- perous in the United States it is difficult to see what is to check this stream of outward bound Canadians. The Canadian newcomer to the United States has, of course, a great advantage over his British brother, for the United States does not seem as a foreign country to him ; its customs are familiar to him and its way of living very similar to that to which he was accustomed at home.