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voice of the press canada die empire and the world at large canada t prices over 25 yea in the 25 years ago coumn of the brautford expositor the following produce prices wera recorded for that time butter 2sc to 30c a pound eggs 28c to 30c a dozen chickens coc to 1 a pair ducks 120 to 150 a pair beef 6c to 7c a pound pork 9c nd 10c a ptuud lamb 10c and 12c a pound pota toes 70c a bag turnips 30c a bushel oniots g5c a bag apples 15c to 20c a basket on saturday last the standard had the following prices for the produce market butter 25 cents eggs 35 to 45 cents chickens is cents per pound live 50 cents each ducks talive go cents each pork 8 to 10 cents a pound potatoes 1 a bag and other vege tallies generally higher it wiil be seen that if the 190s sealz ot ivug and taxes still applied the farmer would not be so badly off st cath arines standard advisable there is enough nicotine in a cigar we read to kill two cava that should teach cows not to srtioke cigars havana journal progress toward recovery the improvement in the fundament al things now well recognized by everyone will register its effect mure emphatically a few months hence tuau it does now the money stili has to come in for much of our present in creased production and as it comes ami gets into circulation we shall feel tht- rising benefits we shall be very much more conscious of it in the com ing spring than we are now by that time we shall have reaped full benefit of the improvement that is now appar ent and tljat in turn will be stimu lating tne people to still higher hopes ii is a time for tempered optimism of course lor it must be recognized that a world tjai has been so sick must convalesce more or less slowly and our progress depends largely upon the progress made in the world a large maritime merchant agriculture comes first mining is a wasting industry and ag riculture is a buildingup process the minei extracts the mineral wealth fioni the earths interior and goes on leaving a despoiled area behind him save for the possibility of conversion into agricultural lands or forests pro per agricultural methods improve lands and mainlalu and increase fer tility with the passage of time a country dependent exclusively on min ing faces an inevitable extinction one dependent on agriculture can be at least assured of continued existence and abundance of food in every great nations economy agricultures place comes ahead of that of mining iood production is mankinds primary occupation when food supplies tail all else is valueless calgary herald deal after the head of the family in this respect brantford expositor eating laws did you know that for many cen turies there were laws which said how much a person might eat edward the third of england made one in the year 1330 by which his subjects were forbidden to go in for more than two courses at any one meal except on certain special occasions strangely euough though it was not long before people began to disobey and kept on doing so that law remained until 1s5g when it was repealed a king of france made a law ot the same kind in the year 1310 it stated that nobody in the land was to have more thau soup meat and piiddiug at one meal and even the royal banquets wero iept down to that limit ottawa journal destruction of wealth why should we limit the destruction of wealth for the common good to pigs and wheat and cotton and coffee it it is a good thing to keep people busy cutting down the goods that they pos sess so that they can get rich on what is left we might turn our attention to houses and shops and theatres and ships if we burn up euough housi and sink enough ships the tims will soon come when some ouo will have a job building new ones then every one will be quite happy siuce it is only the work that is needed not the pigs and wheat and shop and houses and ships fort willam timesjour nal two million dollaicrop the lowly sugar beet has been a saver for the agriculturists o this and other counties during many years when cash crops have been scarce and when it is considered that the canada and dominion sugar company will pay out in the neighborhood ot two million dollars to the growers raising beets for the chatham and wallaceburg factories this year it is easily seen what this industry means to the people in general in this com- muuity chatham news- marriage under difficulties lync ing parties continue in us the markets mob seize alleged slayer of three guard out of gov yv hi alfalfa bill murray to rabbits over 4 lbs 6c white du-k- slioot to kill if necessary were mus- over 5 ibs do 4 to lbs ontario briefs we couldvt take your last cent said bandit who approached the tered into service tonight to protect i cc poultry a giade dressed spring jack wisdom from an enraged kansas i er g mob i lbs 14c over 4 to 5 lbs 13c over 21 angered by the imminent blot on his to i 12c broilers over 1 to 2 of mr and mrs jack w hampshire who use the international ferry boat at sauit ste marie as a meeting place hampshire an american barred from canada and his wife from the united states they meet in the engine room ot the ferry and part on the last boat canadian banks there is no need to elaborate on the standing of the banks in canada true they aie criticized as are all banks in all countries but they have open ed theii doors every morning of every ranking day through the greatest de pression o the worlds history and hat fact talks down almost every criticism that could be levelled against them the bankers of cauada have accepted hs their first duty the safe guarding ol their depositors money and ihey have kept their banks sol vent financial news northern land settlement the settlement ot the claybelt will haidh he made by townspeople from od duaiio or elsewhere they havent the background the experience the gin oi doing with little the man who does not lint contentment in clearing land in seeing his little lields gradual ly grow and who finds it hardship to live hi a primitive way for a while wont do for the north the work is hard the winters are long and pati ence and optimism are needed sauit siar new use for potatoes word comes from dublin that an industrial alcohol to be used as fuel tor motor cars as well as in dyes heat ing and lighting has been developed from potatoes and will be made a government monopoly the estimated production cost is sixpence a gallon the potato is a lowly vegetable but there certainly is nothing lowly about a development which holds out such immense possibilities it is just one more evidence of the remarkable ad vances being made in scientific re search in tbeseamazing times hall fax herald across the border if you would like to know about one or the dodges over tho border which enables crooks to escape punishment for their misdeeds consider tho plight of mrs clara alt of chicago mrs alts home was burglarized in 1u2s twenty times siuce then mrs alt has gone to court prepared to testify against the men who havo been charged witli the crime and each time the case has been continued so that mrs alt has had the fun of going to tho court house 20 times for noth ing the other day a new hearing was scheduled mrs alt was on a womans committee to welcome mrs hoosevelt to the worlds fair so she ddnt go to court she was sent for nd lined 10 for staying away cuelph mercury canadian characteristic fercival itoherts director of the us steel and the pennsylvania rail way company has for 33 years spent a summer vacation in canada and on reaching montreal on route for home ho said when interviewed why i al most feel hi e a canadian asked as to the flttl symptom he replied wilh emphasis good common sense johnny canuo fcortalry takes a great the empire the lesson of 1914 it is probably true that no one in great britain either wants war or thinks that war is a good thing tho old view openly expressed by very distinguished people before 1014 that war is not only necessary but desir able and a tonic for the nation did not long survive the touch of reality it was one of the earliest british casualties of the great war and its resurrection in this country is unlike ly economist london the spirit of canada dominion status which is primarily the product of canadian conditions is the essential basis upon which the canadian people combine a genuine loyalty to the british crown with a passionate belief in their own national destiny canada we must remember has been settled a long time accord ing to the standards of the new world few of her people even among those of british stock can acknowledge the mother country as the land of their birth canada is therefore british in spirit not so much because her citi zens have even an ancestral love of great britain as because great bri tain has endowed her with enduring institutions ii v hodson in the spectator london strike causes suffering amongst idle horses port arthur dec 10 the pigeon river company one of the lumber firms involved in the present wide spread striko ot timbercutters dis closed tonight that it had complain ed to the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals that a striko commltteo and picketeers wore bar ring lis newlyshod horses from ob taining exercise the horses havo been in their stable for the past two and a half weeks and one has died since tho stable was padlocked storm warnings out for two lower lakes i clcveand dec 10 northwest storm warnings for lake erie and lake ontario were issued at 10 pm est by the united states woath1 er bureau here storm warnings also wero displayed on the upper lakes tho weather bureau said winds will become strong northwest on lake erie tonight and en lake ontario tomorrow canada takes 12 titles at chicago 58 head of ontario cattle win 33 awards coin ex hibitor wins chicago dec s with tini issaksen of elfioj sak newiy- erowned monarchof north america- wheat men securely in the drivers seat canada aided by a select group of farm students from six province totiuy had garnered the majority of prizes at the chicago internationa grain show and livestock exposition keen judges in the grain and saod classes awarded dominion exhibitors 12 crowns in 21 classes competed in the united states took nine in the wheat oats flax corn field peas rye corn and alfalfa classes canada male a clean sweep isaaksons sample of hard rid spring wheat took first place in com petition with samples of 78 other ex hibitors alberta exhibitors picked up the majority of the championships won with a total of six and prizes in 41 minor awards ontario entrants placed second with two champion ships the eastern province however led all other provinces in total grain show awards with 127 prizes to hr credit ontario turned to corn to mark up the majority of her wins for ane of the few times in corn history a junior exhibitor from ontario d t weaver of turnervillc placed first in region one over farming masters of the united states and canada a select coterie of cattle breeders from quebec and ontario all but stole the show at the livestock exposition alexander maclaren of buckingham que climaxed the brilliant showing by winning two grand championships two reserve crowns and 14 other awards including three firsts ontario exhibitors established a record with awards in 33 classes from 58 animals exhibited you ought to choose both physician and friend not the most agreeable but the most useful epictetus banker dies attending church burton manning prominent london citizen is stricken loudon out dec 10 death in vaded the church of st john the evangelist this morning to take by a sudden call burton b manning man ager of the main branch of the do minion bak who died of a heart at tack during the reading of the first lesson rev canon jeakins the rector had just risen and commenced to read when mr manning collapsed in his seat unconscious other worshippers and the ushers carried him out ad rushed him in a motor car to st josephs hospital but physicians pro nounced him dead gravely concerned canon jeakins continued the service to be handed a note soon after iforming him of mr mannings death with eyes tear- dimmed the rector proceeded too shaken to mention in his subsequent sermon the tragedy that nearly all were aware of mr manning was one of the most prominent members of kiwanis club interested himself especially in the work of underprivllegd boys and hlm- slf was a big brother to half a dozen he was prominent also in the london hunt club an duntil his health failed about thre years ago was an active golfer in his younger days in his home town brampton and in toronto where he was stationed with the do minion bank he was a star hockey player he had been with the dominion bank for 27 years and prior to coming to london as manager in 1921 he was stationed at brampton st thomas toronto dresden orillia huntsville and st catharines surviving him are his wife one sister mrs s f sloane ot toronto and two brothers dr w g manning of hamilton and fred manning of winnipeg tuesday morn ing his funeral services will be held in the church in which he died and in terment will be in hamilton produce prices j poultry buying prices invades oklahoma to poultry a grade alive spring managei of a drug store in toronto cuwr nf chickens over 6 lbs lie over 5 u and found that his ico would be one d ordered 1 1 to 4 lb broders over 1 to however fr ping irom tjje 10c over 4 to 5 lbs 9c over zv to cash w kingfisher okla dec 10 oklaho- j 4 lbs 7c over 3 to 3k- lbs cc old a 23yearold cow which recently ma national guardsmen under orders j roosters over 5 lbs 6c domestic presented its duugannon owner with its 20th calf is dead the animal ost its teeth some time ago and could lat nothing but chop and apples upsetting her digestive system a decrease of 1472 in the numer persons employed in ontario in 242 leading industries is reported from an official source for the month of october the average number of hours worked per man was 184 larg est of any month this year a letter from jerusalem bearing the address miss drummond bridge st ontario canada was delivered to a peris woman after 25 days in transit after reaching the ottawa dead letter office it was sent to niagara falls and thence to paris newfoundlands return to her jld status as a crown colony is- virtually assured as the government of he island told the legislature of its pans for giving immediate effect to tht recommendations of the koyal com mission that investigated the island d minions financial and economic po sition ottawas popjlation has increaseu from 132551 in 1132 to 135300 this year according to the annual report of dr t a lomcr medical officer of health submitted to board of health the figures are taken from the returns of the assessors who checked all wards this past summer the worlds most famous train the royal scot was loaded on board he freighter beaverdale at montreal for return to england which she left i months ago the train has toured most of the united states and canada been a feature at the chicago cen tury of progress exposition crossed the rocky mountains twice and been visited by an estim ted 3000000 per sons alex corrigai of uouyn aged 55 years and a native of shawville met a tragic death carrying explosives n oie of his pockets these being used in connection with mining he placed his pipe in the same pocket and an ex- boast of no violeuce in oklahoma during my administration governor murray acted summarily to forestall i the threatened sixth outbreak of mob violence in the nation within a month wisdom was in custody of wichita kan detectives when the militant chief executive summoned the troops the kansas farm hand was leading a posse in search of the body of harry pritchard wichita merchant he had confessed to the slaying officers said earlier in a day crammed with the fist unfolding of a dramatic detective story a hunter had found the body of mrs pritchard another victim ot the 25yearold farmers vengeance the motive for the slaying was re venge according to the officers ver sion of wisdoms oral confession ob tained after his arrest 250 miles east of here early today before pritchard and his wife disappeared on the wic hitawellington highway nov 23 he had filed a charge accusing wisdom of passing a 21 worthless cheque the farm hand also was accused of slaying emory large a fellow ranch hand because officers learned large knew details of wisdoms suspected cattle rustling activities larges body was found two days after the pritch- ards disappeared in a dry well on l w johnsons ranch near meade kan after news of wisdoms arrest clim axing three weeks of a search by thou sands of oklahomans and kansans be came known lynch threats flared at wichita during the afternoon more than 2000 wichitans manned 500 auto mobiles ready to dash out and seize wisdom from the officers a rope dangled from one car when the prisoners whereabouts definitely became known tonight the mob moved into okhahoma deter mined to get the prisoner another canadian wins wheat title lbs 15c fatted heis over 5 lb 12c over 4 to 5 lbs lie over i to 4 lbs 9c over 3 to 3v- lbs 8c old roosters over 5 lbs 8c domestic rabbits over 4 lbs 12e white duck lings over 5 lbs lie do 4 to 5 ibs he colored 2c less young turkeys over 8 lbs 15c young geese 8 to 13 lbs 9c guinea fovl per pair 7tc b grade poultry 2c less than a c grade 2c less than b wholesale provisions wholesale provision dealers aie quoting the following prices to retail dealers pork hams 13c shoulders 10c butts 12mc pork loins 14c pic nics 9c lard pure tierces t0c tubs lie pails hvic prints llc shortening tierces 9c tubs 10c pails lie prints 10c live stock quotations steers up to 1050 lbs good and choice 375 to 425 do med 3 to 350 do com 2 to 275 steers oer 1050 ibs good and choice 4 25 to 475 do med 350 to 4 in com 250 to 325 heifers good and choice 375 to 425 do med 3 to 350 do com 2 to 275 fed cahc- food and choice 625 to 7 do med s4 to g cows good 250 to 27 do med 2 to 225 do com 150 to 2 canners and cutters 75c to 125 bulls good 2 to 225 do com 150 to 175 stockers aid feeder steers good 275 to 325 do com 2 to 250 milkers and spring ers 25 to 10 calves good avd choice veals 650 to 750 do com and med 350 to 025 grassers 2 to 250 hogs bacon fob 540 do oft trucks s570 do off cars 505 good ewe and wethei lambs 750 to 775 do med 675 to 725 do bucks 575 to 050 do culls 5 0 to 6 sheep good light 250 to s3 do heavies 2 to 250 do culls 1 to 150 no evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline sereca wins national title r plosioi resulted he leaver s wif proud father forgets anrf famii his native land j ueath lms cose tlle l0ilg cl i ruiiwn there is a proud daddy in i dusiness career of w h chase recog- chicago prank lsackson of elfros k 0nt wuo apparently nized as one of noa scotias wealthiest sask was chosen wheat king of nt 01 0 ie and early founder of her appe north america by grain and hay has noc n eill exporting industry he was a pion- jndges at the international livestock i governmental it lj aiso nj juwer development seems asto whether he lives in the in the annapolis valley where tie united states or canada owned great apple orchard tracts mr ernest sabourin wrote from moose chase died in his 82nd year creek out to the united states j consulate describing his healthy v grants to canada family of 10ooy the odest 11 years q jj christmsa and the youngest two months and r m 0 wor condi- suggested the government should twentyeight young settlers who pay him a bonus of at least 100 each the united states consulate pass ed the letter aong to the office of the prime miniiter and mr sabourin will receive a letter of concratula- tlon if nothing eso exposition here john d patterson of richmond hill out showed the champion fat south down wether jess c andrews west point ind won reserve honors purdue scored another champion ship with a pen of fat berkshire bar rows the university of minnesota showed the champion fat poland- china barrow grain and hay judges picked leon ard stuart lexington nebraska as alfalfa champion another canadian grower william kogors of tappeu bc won second place lsackson won with hard red spring wheat of the reward variety itojfc form league gers grows the minium tiain of durj j y forum um wheat lsackson s wheat weighed 065 pounds a bushel the grain ro- 1 geneva dec 10 a plan to reform gers showed weighed 061 the league of nations by dropping lsackson succeeded another cana- j punitive provisions from its covenant dian wheat ruler herman trellc of wembley alta who had won the title three times and was ruled out of the running for that reason this year border traffic shows decrease fort erie out heaviest drop on record is shown in figures be- and making the league free for as sociation of all nations broadly dedl cated to promote international peace has been broached by a meeting of high officials it was learned today geneva would become a world forum unfettered by commitments which pre- vented countries like the united i states from joining under the plan i a second group of officials includ- i ing leaders opposed to changes de- i manded by premier mussolini of italy until assured beforehand that they advo cates retention of some punitive ar ticles leased recently by collector of cus toms frank t paulson fort erie in both vehieu ar and passenger traf fic over peace bridge and ferry here in november 1933 total number of 1e approved by all nation automobiles handled via feiry and bioge was hut g49if against 09794 in fife same month a year ago while passenger traffic declined from 227- 3 10 to 176ss0 15 persons homeless in fire at winnipeg i winnipeg dec 10 fifteen per- i sons were made homeless today as lire destroyed three homes in sub urban brooklands and foiced the oc- cupants including an infant into 13- degrees below zero weather to- night the families were being aided by neighbors steve szuiiiachowskl shown on the leit threetimes crosscoun try champion won the national title in 13 minutes 2 35 seconds peter oleay runnerup is seen congratulating him montrealtoronto flier kills woman at ste annes ste anno de bellevue que dec 10 mistaking the montrealtoronto express for a local train which stops at this station mrs edith lyles co of montreal dashed across the tracks hero in an effort to reach tho station platform was struck by the express and instantly killed true beauty contest has new rules seattle a now kind of beauty con test called a true beauty contest is under way here are some of the rules no flappers no paint lipstick or rouge no bleached or colored hair no pluck- el eyebrows no iowiuckimi drefs- no colorci nails and no shijt r hose guelph man firstto buy champions at chicago chicago one of the first cham pions to be sold at the international livestock show was purchased by co lin blythe guelph out blythe paid 1000 for divide golden archer first prize winner of the junior bull com petition in the shorthorn breeding class the animal was shown only once before at the american royal show in kansas city where he took first prize adl933 dundalk the marldae standard in its issue of deember 7 not i833 curries the following advertisement i want a yoko of oxen ilerefords with white faces and long tails weighing 1000 pounds each or over to he well broken and quiet to handle tho advertiser is william carter of markdala estate of viscount grey is valued at 123791 london dec 10 probate saturday of the wi i of the late viscount grey of iallodon showed an estate valued at 123791 the bulk of which was bequeathed to a nephew heat waves in england seldom last longer lisri tle o four days accord ing to rccris i went out to canada under the aegis of the emigration department of the salvation army have been able to save enough money tor christmas holidays in he home country the arrived at liverpool recently besides money in their pockets many had letters credit up to 200 each has paid his return passage in canada ihcy were encouraged bj salvation army to deposit savings in a bank at 3 per cent interest they will resume their former iubs in can ada on returning marauding dogs destroy 31 lambs guelph dec 7 ir one of the mosi vicious raids ever made on sheep ir this district marauding dogs during the night wiped out a dock of il lambs on the property of the ontario reformatory ten were killed out right while the remainder of the hock were so badly mauled they to be destroyed supt john hunter announces thai it is the first sheep killing that has ever occurred at the reformatory and the whole case is shrouded in mystery because it is impossible to determine just how the raiding dogs gained en trance to the pens in which the iambs were kept barges in britain are to be raised canal barges that have lain urdet water in various parts of england for several years are now being raised and refitted for use in the expectation of trade revival some of the e pick led craft have been lying in quiet back waters of the thames after the war owners of canai barges were unable to compete with the rising tide of road transport ano the barges were sunk si range as ii may seem to preserve them british ctnal barges aie bull i two kinds of wood both ol which suf fer from exposure to sun and wind the bottoms are of elm three inches thick and the sides of twoiixh oak timbers huron old boys plan new firfry of county toronto the huron old ijys sociation f toronu has i publish an authentic and rmpi n sive history of the count 1 rl u a committer was formed 10 make tm nce at rtngemcts at he an- meeting and reunion here reomlj dr ii j ilojgins as elected pieilni for 1031