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canadian turnips given premiums their fine flovour put them in demand in us because of their fine flavor and ap pearance canadian turnips shipped into tho tnited state3 from the pro vinces of prince edward island and ontario have predominated on all major wholesale markets ot the east ern united states without odorate shipping distance of the dominions passing through the usual channels ot trado ot consumption in hotels res taurants and homes these turnips have commanded a premium over those of domestic origin the domes tic turnips in the eastern united states for the most part are sold on local farm markets or to factories or wholesale centres however they do not exercise a decisive influence on the market prospects for canadian turnips in the two main consuming centres for canadian turnips new york and boston priuce edward island turnips command the highest prices states the canadian trade commissioner in new york during the season which extends from september to tho follow ing april or hay opening prices are usually moderate in october rising to a peak in november as the holiday season approaches and as a rule rise again after the first of the year the papers s ay editorial comment fhoil here there and everywhere new national harbors board canada eggs of pullet flock are small not a normal nor a desirable condition in birds wont settle anything according to league of nations figures there are three million more men under arms in the permanent forces ot the world today than at the outbreak of the great war which was to have ended war the number ot men in armies aud navies today is set at s200000 aul does not include the semioflicial forces in so e lands many of our troubles may be traced directly to tho tlreat war which set tled nothing and seems to be leading to a new war which will settle noth ing agalu except perhaps tho fate of civilization niagara falls review and no motor cars a man who can lump six feet on the earth could jump 36 feet on the moon because tho force of gravity on tho moon is only onesi h of the pull on this planet pedestrians must envy tho man in tho moon kitchen er record the approach of fall usually i brings an influx of small pullet eggs that are difficult for the poultrynian to market advantageously nature intended the first two or thee mil let eggs to be small in order that the egg passage might become grad ually expanded and in condition for the larger eggs to follow continued production of small eggs is not however a normal or desirable con dition breeding largely determines the size of egg of any one bird if small eggs are used for incubation the re sulting oftsoring will have a tenden cy to produce small eggs on the other hand if only eggs of good size and shane are used for incuba tion the pullets resulting from the hatch will lay but a relatively few- small eggs provided conditions en couraging the production of small cges are avoided feeding has only an indirect effect on the size of egg hatching out o season or forcing for production at the expense of normal body weight will decrease the size of tin eggs a continued period of small egg pro duction in pullets that came from parent stock ivmt produced good siz ed eggs is usually due to incorrect feeding or management that has re sulted in the pullels reaching ma turity without acquiring normal body weight a few pullets should be weighed at intervals of a week or 10 days to chock up on their gain or loss in weight due to egg production a3 long as body weight is maintained or increased production should con tinue and egg size increase but if bodv weight is allowed to decrease a drop in production a reduction in the size of egg and even partial or comnlee molt is likely to follow to maintain body weight scratch grain should be fed plentifully and the night feeding should be largely of whole com watch the mash con- sumntion and increase the scratch grain and reduce the amount of mash fed if body weight begins to decline well to remerrler britain was our best customer in october bought 47000000 worth of our goods it is something to remem ber ottawa journal wise preserved apricot3 have been the basis of an extensive and profit able industry which had nothing to do with war but now science comes along and points a way of using this innocent fruit to blow human beings into eternity already the austral ians according to the dispatch are disposed to look upon dried apricots and apricot jam as mere byproducts cf a new war industry apricot stoues are what count brandon sun only needs do business prophets usually talk as though good and bad times come and go with the inevitability of tho tide this doctrine of economic predestinu lion must not be allowed to obsess us into a state of submission to fate the universe may be mechanical but the aftair3 or mankind are subject to the will of man neither depressions nor booms are inevitable if wo make up our minds to avert or control them booms and depressions are made by man and anything that is manmade can be unmade or made differently by man stratford beaconherald a reversal the man who tossed a gold watch at president roosevelt now wants it re turned time marches back wind sor star the empire prelude to peace tho world speaks of peace as it it were to be achieved only by tho ces sation of the hostile attitude of civil ized nations towards each other we must not forgot however that an es sential preliminary to that blessed state of affairs is economic peace it that can be brought about tut manu facture of arms and munitions may yet be converted to tho manufacture of the needs of man each in that country best suited economically to its production johannesburg times canadas new national board is making its first visit to montreal the hoard spent a few hours viewing the harbor from the harbor yacht sir hugh allan and then later by motor car from the shore side they are convening in the board room of the harbor building- seated left to right are alex ferguson port manager montreal co a e dubac vicechairman kalpy o campney chairman b j roberts third member of the national board standing are f vv riddcll executive secret ary national harbors board ottawa and j a duchastel assistant port manager montreal cancer germs found jn corn research socetv finds cancer tumors in early indian corn by howard w biakeslee associated press science writer philadelphia tumors in indian corn seeds which trace the cancel- problem back to tho earliest bogln- liigs yot discovered wero reported to tho american philosophical society by dr donald f jones of the con necticut agricultural experiment sta tion his investigation was sponsored by funds of the international foundation for cancer research and the ameri can philosophical society tho corn tumors microscopical in size woro found lr the endosperm tho portion used as its first food by tho little seed their origin was trac ed directly to tho changes in the her editary units the chromosomes which by coming togothur during fertiliza tion produced tho seed corn tumors art not cancer but tho similarities botweon development ot corn tumors and the malignancies ot animal cancers are striking dr ones pointed out closoly parallel rowths have been found in the bod- los of fruit flies arising apparently rom similar chromosome changes luring fertilization our tobacco crop twentylive years ago canada had a record tobacco crop of 12000000 lbs this year it was not a record but it stood at i3000000 pounds it is progress in terms of production st catharines standard and so it goes mary pickford is to marry buddy rogers this will be her third hus band tho previous two having been owen moore and douglas fairbanks douglas fairbks has also mar ried three times anna i sully mary pickford and lady ashley owen moore mary picktords first husband later married kathryn perry and so it goes hroughout movie- dom what a meeting of exv there must ho at large hollywood gather ings and that one ease where ox is not the unknown quftity to ronto star one makes average the average mother according to a salt lake city churchman should have three children at the same time just one child uan make some mothers feel pretty darned average windsor star harry lauder on tour sir harry lauder the famous com edian has started on a world pleas ure trip without seeking to secure any bawbees by entertainments en route he manifestly still retains the habit of doing the unexpected bu his myriad admirers wlp hope that he may have a braw time on tho tour brantford expositor danger hours during certain hours of tho day for tho uext three months wiso automo- bilo drivers will be exceptionally cau tious in picking their way through trafllc for according to statistics death lurks closer to tho pedestrian between 6 and 8 oclock pm during october november and december than at any other umo or tho year during that period the early dusk in creases the risk of accidents as thou sands of workers crowd tho centre lino cut in and out and speed just to get homo a mlnuto or two earlier it each driver will reflect that his family would sooner hare him como homo a few minutes lato each day than risk his own neck or that ot another perhaps the danger period mentioned would loso soma of its deadly significance vancouver sun humanity has grown unhappy bc- ausc of tho uncertainty of lifo tnd fear of disaster revolution and ar apricots in war during the great war it was said peach stones provided the basis of some form of protection from poison gas now word from australia says apricots are being grown thero prin cipally for thoir atones which havo been found to contain a material use ful in the manufacture ot powerful explosives canned dried and othor- new zealand defence at a time when all the talk is of national security and defence it may be permissible to say a word or two about the most defenceless country in tho world new zealand like other modern nations this dominion relies for protection upon an army a navy and an air force the army consists of a permanent force a ter ritorial force and several corps of school cadets on may 30lh 1935 the strength of the permanent force stood at 92 officers 11 staff cadets and 421 other ranks it is divided elaborate ly into regiments and corps the per fect skeleton as it as bee called o an army but naturally yon can tramp up and down the length and breadth of new zealand and not meet a man in khaki donald cowie in the fortnightly london knows its beans new institutions for subnormals new brunswick has 1500 who are mentally just twelve b i saint john nb we ha about 1500 persons in new brunswick who because of some hereditary or accid ental defect can never get beyond 12 years of age mentally dr fletcher peacock director of the saint john vocational school said in a talk here many of them always remain at five or six years should children ot these mentally lender years assume the duties of citizenship can they be expected to build successful homes do we want them to repro duce their kind cither legitimately or otherwise most states havo now faced this problem and grappled with it the modern way is not to throw the de fective children into the river as sen eca advised tho roman state to do nor to let them enter society promis cuously as we do in new brunswick but rather o establish in- tution3 and farm colonies to care for those unfortunates who through no fault of their own require protection our progressive minister of health has said publicly that he intends to move in the solution of this pressing social problem of new brunswick the mental ilyglence council ot the province which has the proper care of the feebleminded as one of its objectives is actively interested and has already launched a campaign to robillzo public opinion behind tho health minister by rousing our citi zens to tho importance of treating our subnormalr moro humanely ot pre venting them from multiplying through segregation and of removing fro society tho source of much ot its misery slums and vice sterilization was not tho completo answer to tho pronoi dr peacock contended alone this ould loavo the defective unprotected and still a menace to society such a policy would result in an increase of prostl- tutn and venereal diseases and give tho unthinking public a falso sense of security most of the subnormals wero un employed many living in public insti tutions at tho expense of the state tho majority could be trained to bo at least partially solfsupporting in farm colonies and industrial occupa tions dr peacock assorted writes the lethbridge herald boston will have to look to its laur els if the staid and soir massa chusetts city doesnt watch out lethbridge alberta will annex its title of bean town and be proud of it for three years in succession now lethbridge district has won grand championship honors in beans at the toronto royal and to make our position in the bean world even more secure we have invaded the windy city and taken top honors in field beans at the chicago international we doubt if boston ever took a prize for a raw bean in its life bos ton we will admit put the baked bean on the map but when it comes to the raw bean which is the basic ingredient of baked beans pork and beans and beans a la mode we yield the palm to no one you cant have boston baked without the bean in the nude as it were and when it comes to beans as nature intended them to be we can furnish boston with the championship blue ribbon do luxe brand as long as lethbridge is to go on winning tho grand championship in beans we would suggest that closer diplomatic relations between boton and lethbridge are in order santas pack to be heaviest since 1929 science building transportation housekeeping and handicraft toys predominate new york santa clans this christims will carry his biggest pack since 1029 according to the voy in stitute here tho retail toy volume is expected- to reach 215000000 a 15 per cent increase over last year santas gifts will introduce more than 1000 new suence building tran sportation and housekeeping toys as well as a record crop of handicraft sets the predominance ot toys re producing peaceful arts and industries and home equipment as contrasted with european emphasis on uniform ed dolls was demonstrated at the an nual preview of christmas toys held by toy manufacturers here cowboys policemen and historical military events are the only battle trategies featured and represent less than one per cent of the total vol ume movie radio stars and newspaper comic characters sponsor a double quota ot educational play sets bal loons games costumes wheel toys and even childrens furniture there ir a record number of dolls dolls with hair and complete doll ward robes popular new childrens books use games and art to make learning to read interesting the dominant interests ot the adults are inevitably reflected by toy- land said james l fri managing director of the toy association yuletide 193g marks 20 years of development in the toy industry wich has closely followed the ad vancement in science art industry and general living standards reflect ed in our life since the cavemans says toys have tacn designeds to 1- like grownup models but mod ern toys also aim to be pur oseful safe durable and educational in tho fullest sense watch children after asi hh 233 child exposed to new ills if al lowed to return to school in weakened sute dont let the children go out too soon after an illness or just a cold take bronchitis for instance or any throat cold or the temperature kind called grippe tho hoy or girl seems to throw it off in three or four days stays about the house for a day longer then sets out tor school all goes well and except for a cough with no germs in it he seems to bo all right but he is weakened and a good hunting ground for any thing else that happens to come al ong disease is always in us we either throw it off bocauso we are able to defeat it by sheer strength or we show it hospitality becarse we are low in something the clanger is not so much in any return of the departed illness as in picking up a second cousin of hie or iginal and finding it a more invin cible foe that is the way with grippe particularly or bronchial at tacks grippe has as many aliases as a professional forger it is not one but a hundred diseases the child who recovers from a spell ot chest grippe can more easily suc cumb to intestinal grippe ask tho doctor he will tell vou yes un less strength has been restored to normal insurance against all ills is o course citality ticking on all cylin ders the mechanism must be right to avoid further attack or suscepti bility another matter screams for atten tion after any disease with temper ature the vitality of muscles and hones is down h must be nursed back by rest and gradual easy exer cise if worked too soon or too hard tissues all over the body pay a sym pathetic price eyes are more easily strained feet give out to stay not quite right all through life sometimes ears be come affected other organs and cer tainly the heart get too lazy to do their jobs so let the invalid but dont call him that take life easy for a good long while after a seri ous bout with illness johnny may be tired all the time without any reason of illness he is stooped and dull and thin tonics you say do no good and ho has never been really sick in this case get him off for a goingover as jon as you can it is something else he is a fatigue child from sources within himself and needs moro than food rest or tonics toxemia or else poor blood chemistry may bo robbing him of vitality a child had diphtheria tho ottawa journal tells of the death of a child of two years in that city from diphtheria explaining that the little one had never received treatment to render it immune to at tacks of that disease going back into other years it was not an uncommon thing to read in the newspapers of deaths from diph theria we can think of one family where four children died and they were rot of the neglected sort ac cording to what was known at the time they were given every possible assistance diphtheria then was something t- be dreaded peterbor ough kvjiinor ghjb aircraft group uscina organization work by tha tiodel aircraft league here will be extended among uegina girls this year flying meets will be held every saturday l g on currie canadians are naturally interested to learn that lloyd george in tho final volume of his memoirs has liigt praise for the late general sir arthur currie and for the austra lian sir john monash lie seizes upon the circumstances that both currie and monash were civilian soldiers who proved brilliant military leaders lloyd georges encomiums arc the more interesting since tho veteran war minister lays about him with a will letting the chips ml where they may particularly gratifying are his remarks about the prowess of the canadian troops whenever the ger mans found the canadians in the line opposite them he asserts they prepared for the worst there is general testimony of this observation anions german as well as other sources the fiery little welshman was just the riiu to appreciate the spirit of the canadian troops in france stage and screen having been on the sick list george arliss has been advised to spend the winter out of england production of his next picture there fore postponed until april he may visit hollywood but not to act nancy carroll the movie actress has no marriage plans despite the announcement of tommy ifanville the asbestos heir that she would be his next wife miss carroll and her tenyearold daughter patricia ar rived in new york on the queen alary somebody told me about that miss carroll said 1 really think tommy might have asked me about it first theres nothing to it of course miss carroll is to spend six weeks with her family in new york she will return to england in january to make a picture x her former husband father of patricia is jack kirkiand the ambassador hotel in holly wood went british armistice night for the greatest array of uniforms from every corner of the empire ever seen on the coast among film personalities present were madel eine carroll holliwell hobbes c aubrey smith major sam harris henry stephenson 1 peace and quiet by gluyas williams euiyte mllurm75 r bfoldfoslbpplallrfe his drum amd lb read auieitv fop a while because parerhs would like a utfle peace opens book and 5farvs asks a intervals wlwi reading hlmmik fo does re6ftl mean himself vzw mlkh off key amd halberd anp whaf is a postern 6at chan6es from humming fo fapplks his feef on floor id rather die a nice man and a poor man than be the ha dest and the richest man in the cemetery e wynn l0se5 inferesf iw book aud ikles makih6 a watffs 10 know if trlerf reauv are cslnjfs as if sas ih frtls book were sfeamboprf whistle 1hers evr how po gh bjawik6 frlroush 19ev kkow for w wg hakds mrs eric blore heather angel elsa buchanan charles chaplin and the eearl of warwick eileen wcnzel former showgirl has accepted 10000 from louis j ehrel jr and closed the case ap peals court recently cut verdht from 30000 for facial injuries in an au tomobile smash cornelia otis skinner will go lo england in april for recitals resumes read1k6 olf- flk6 to some jok6 paretffs decidettwfoj irle whole house is words and fawksbook more peaceful whtf tb parems fo see how hes fltfrtkc his drum frityre pronounced coprriftt ltm by tb bdl byndiatt lae 427 francis ledercr is asking frank capra to give him greta garbo for the george sand role in chopin with lcderer playing the part of the composer buried in the movie trade journals is the news that moscow has booted out propaganda films drama music opera and nrt and that all entertain ment hereafter must be devised on its possible entertainment value hair polishing polishing the hair between sham poos is a wellknown nctrsss scciel for keeping her hair always sleek a soap and water cleansing once a week she finds isnt adequate for her needs especially in now york she say my hair looks a bit dull the clint day aftor the shampoo so i polish it first i brush for five minutes then i rub a good hair ionic into my scalp and brush aaln afterward 1 part my hair in soctlons hen wipe each strand with a clean silk cloth thla sounds pretty homely bit its effective and works much the same way as polishing furniture the long er you rub the brighter tin surfaco gets