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lloyds refuses all insurance against war within 5 years now york official odds against 8 european war within the next 12 uoutks are 100 to 1 but odds against auch a war within two years are 100 to 10 lloyds of england will take no bets at any price that there will not be- a war within five years a manufacturer or a commercial firm whose business would be ruined by a european war can take out in surance with lloyds underwriters to day by paying a premium of seven guineas for every 100 guineas on the face of the policy if he wants to extend the period for two years it will cost him 40 guineas he can howeror obtain a reduction on the premium by nam ing in the policy those nations which will become involved in hostilities luoyds reports that some busi ness on those terms has been trans acted recently in accordance with the policy however they decline to make public details war feats expressed in such high rates for insurance have been stimu lated by indications of tremendous armament activity xot since the fiery forges of the great krupp can non works at essen were welding the german war machine has there been such unprecedented fabrication of guus and shells as is reported today tbo creusot valley south of the pleasant- burgundy wine district of france is black with smoke the skoda works in czechoslo vakia yickersarmstrong in england mitsui in japan and all their muni tionmaking subsidiaries in aninter- locking chain that extends around the world are seething wiih activity theiralert salesmen are taking or ders from washington to tokio the united states has announced its pur pose to build a defensive navy up to treaty strength so has england japan has couutereu with renewed building activity and tho contention that present treaty ratios are insu fficient that she must have parity nitrates basis of high explosives are passing through the panama canal and the suez canal in unprecedented tonnage an american concern has just been favored with a french or der for 25000 tons of nitrates which are snatched from the air toronto savant dies in china dr davidson black discov erer of pekin man stricken brilliant career peiping dr davidson black to rontoborn scientist ad discoverer of the prehistolc pekin man near here dil last thursday of heart disease he had beer workirg on his latest archaeological discoveries in the laboratory of the rockefeller founda tions peiping union medical college i- u of t graduate born in toronto in 1881 tlie second son of the late davidson black and margaret delamere dr black was educated at the university of toronto in 1913 he married adena nevitt to ronto daughter of the late dr har rington xevitt dr black began his carrier in an- xtomy as instructor at the western reserve university school of medi cine cleveland ohio in 1909 and remained there for seven yeare the latter four as assistant professor the following two years he was a captain in the canadian army medical corps he went to peking in 1918 as profes sor of neurology and embryology at peking union medical college dr black was honored with many awards for his research in fields of neuro anatomy physical anthropology and human paleontology and contributed articles on these subjects to scien tific journals tie was a member of the thatched house and arts and letters clubs of toronto clean hotels for tourists canada week by weak in its latest issue of the tourist bull tin issued by the provincial government department of roads emphasis is again placed upon the need of a high standard of cleanli ness in hotels within the province al though a high standard has already been attained it is obvious that pres sure wiil be continued to raise it even olghei the bulletin says in part a great display of luxury is not suitable in a small hotel but cleanliness should be found in large and small hotels be iris at the base of the good reputa tion of all establishments receiving giving shelter and food to travellers we believe that excessive cleanliness would advantageously take the place of luxury even in large hotels called palaces in europe it is added that airhotels and inns in the province should have an appear ance of tdiness that will be in keep ing with the beautiful and good roads so as to give to the province of quebec a reputation of neatuess in accordance with the numerous attracj tions it offei3 to tourists and travel lers returns home atlantic ports border plants hum with industry hum with traffic j employment hits high level heavy freight volume puts i wtodsoraccording to the monthly business survey issued by the bor- when jeanette macdonald beautiful star returned to her home in pasadena from a trip she was greeted by her 100pound sheep dog captain the markets h c rickaby given geologists post will succeed dr burrows in mines department office member of staff toronto march 19 announcement was made over the weekend by hon charle3 mccrea minister of mines that the post of provincial geologist made vacant by the death of the late dr a g burrows has been filled by the appointment from the geological staff of harold colman rickaby senior precambrlan geologist with the mines department the appointment was ratified by orderincouncil of the henry cab met on saturday sir rickaby is an honor graduate in chemistry and mineralogy of the university of toronto in 1922 and also a master of arts graduate in 1923 he was research assistant in the department of mineralogy from 1921 to 1926 inclusive and joined the provincial mines department in 1927 while he has been associated with the department in geological studies since 1920 his work since be coming a permanent member of the staff has been principally in ban- uockburn sudbury and swayzo areas mr rickaby was overseas from 1915 to 1919 in active service with the princess patricias canadian light infantry what does your handwriting show by geoffrey st clair grapho- analyst all rights reserved editors note leters are coming in in batches in response to the auth ors invitation to readers to analyze their writing some delay is unavoid able as each letter requires careful scrutiny but replies are being mailed as quickly as possible if you want your handwriting analyzed see the an nouncement at the end of this article a young lady from a small ontario town ends me a letter and encloses f a specimen of the writing of her sweetheart part of her letter follows in sending you my own handwriting and also that of my sweetheart i would like you to advise me i am very worried and unhappy i love my sweetheart very dearly and i have always thought he reciprocated my affection but i am beginning to won der if be really does and whether he is tho right typo of man for me i love him very much but would far rather finish things with him now than to have a lot more trouble and unhappiness later en we are engaged to bo married but he keeps putting off making a dato for tin wedding and i havo been told that he goes out with other girls he admits this but begs mo to forgivo him and assures me that when wo are married he will have nothing moro to do with other girls at the same time he puts me off by telling mo that lib business is much too insecure for u3 to contem- plao marriage now please advise me i am sorry for my correspondent but am inclined to believe tbat she is sensible enough to realize as she says in her letter that it is better to effect united farmers cooperative co saturday was paying the following prices for produce eggs prices to farmers cases returned a large 21c a medium 19c a pullets 17c c 15c butter ontario creamery sol ids no 1 29 to 29 no 2 28 hi to 289u- poultry a grade alive spring chickens over 6 lbs each 11 over to 6 lbs each 10 over 4 to 5 lbs each 09 over 2 to 4 lbs each 8 broilers over 1 to 2 lbs 10 fatted hens over 5 lbs 11 over 4 to 5 lbs 10 over 3 to 4 lbs 08 old roosters over 5 lbs 07 black and red feather ed birds 2c less per lb white duck lings over 5 lbs 12 do i to 5 lbs 11 colored 2c less young turkeys over 8 lbs guinea fowltpex pair 75c b grade poultry 2c lb less than a c grade poultry 2c lb less than b poultry a grade dressed spring chickens over 6 lbs each 16 do over 5 to clb3 each 15 do over 4 to 5 lbs each 13 do over 2 to 4 lbs each 12 broilers over lyx to 2 lbs 15 fatted hens over 5 lbs 13 do over 4 to 5 lbs 12 do over 3 to 4 lbs 10 old roosters over 5 lbs 10 black and red feathered birds 2c less per lb white ducklings over 5 lbs 14 do 4 to 5 lbs 13 colored 2c leas young turkeys over 8 lbs 17 guinea fowl per pair 75c b grade poultry 2c lb less than a c grade poultry 2c lb less than b wholesale provisions wholesale provision dealers are quoting the following prices to toron to retail dealers pork hams 2014c shoulders 13c butts 17c pork loins 18c picnics 14ic lard pure tierces 10c tubs 10vc pails lie prints 10c shortening tierces 9c tubs 10c pails lie prints lohc do you want your handwriting analyied oo you wish to know the character that is fliown in it send a letter in your own handwriting with 10c coin and a stamped 3c addressed envelope to geoffrey st clair room 421 73 adelaide st west toronto a euro now rather than make a great ont leters are confidential deal more trouble and unhappiness for herself later on her own handwriting shows a warm ardent nature that simply must have the affection of others she is honest and trustworthy and ha3 a good deal of natural pride her writ ing shows that she would like to own a homo of her own and that family life would be her metier on tho other hand the writing of her friend is not so good it shows unreliability and a predilection for de ceit he is of a cooler type than my correspondent not naturally affection ate in the kindly sense he is of a rather physical type my advice to tho young lady is that the young man is not the one best suited for her if she raarri03 him he will deceive her just as ho is deceiv ing her now because it is his nature to do so and there is a streak of dishonesty in him this coupled with the very definite indications of deceit tells me that she will only bo unhappy if she continues to go with him and speaking o the practical she is not getting an younger she is losing her opportunities of making the acquaintance of a man who may be come fond of her and make her a good husband live stock quotations steers up to 1050 lbs good and choice 500 to 550 do medium 125 to 475 do common 350 to 425 steers over 1050 lbs good and choice 550 to 025 do medium 500 to 550 do common 125 to 500 heifers good and choice 500 to 550 do medium 425 to 475 do common 350 to 425 fed calves good and choice 050 to 700 do medium 500 to 000 cows good 350 to 375 do medium 300 to 325 do common 225 to 275 canners and cutters 125 to 200 bulls good 325 to 350 do com mon 275 to 300 stackers and feed or steers good 400 to 450 do- common 300 to 375 milkers and springers 3000 to 4500 calves good and choice veals 700 to 800 do com and medium 350 to c50 grassers 300 to 350 hogs bacon fob 825 to 830 do off truck- 805 do off cars 900 to 905 good ewes and wether lambs 850 do medium 800 to s25 do bucks 750 to 775 do culls 00 to 700 sheep good light 450 to 500 do heavies 300 to 425 do cull 150 to 250 manitoba to observe boxing day holiday every railroader in maritimes to work halifax the- greatest volume of freight which the maritime ports has known has been steaming into this city bringing a new era of prosperity to railroad employees and waterfront men auguring well for the future of the oldest province tonnage ahead as an indication of the progress of the- port the total tonnage carried by vessels in and out of the harbor in 1932 was 145s0s3 tons in 1933 it was 1751s26 and the figures for the first two months of 1934 were 3s2991 in january and february 1932 the months showed a volume of 2s1037 tons for the first lime in history the total volume of cargo tonnage in tho port in any one month exceeded 200- 000 tons this record was made in october 1933 when a total of 20cs91 tons were handled this record was broken in decembei when 214440 tons came in and again in february 1934 when the total reached 2101s4 tons in 1931 in order to look after the grain business halifax added a s100- 000 tower or leg to its grain handling equipment and the following year 209- 385 bushel3 of grain were handled at the port this was the first can adian grain ever received over an all- water route from the great lakes the following year it halifax had sufficient elevator space 10000000 bushels of grain cbuld have been routed here the first arrival of canadian water- freighted grain made history the ss steelville with 215000 bushels the brown beaver with 97000 and the crelhead with 274000 arrived the same day there has been a vast increase in the watershipped grain tonnage which has incidentally also helped the railroad for while some wheat had been coming by water other products have been coming by rail hopefoul of future the great lakes saw the start of seven sailings in 1929 with g511 tons of cargo in 1933 there were 94 sail ings with 87555 tons handled in hall- fax in january 1931 halifax water front i employees received 206000 for their labors in february226000 railroad men some of them- out of work for a year or on part time are happy and contented they feel that the ba days are over that the stead ily increasing rise in freight is not merely a temporarytmatter that even with the easing off vt jo shipments of coal which have been heavy due to the cold winter and the high tar iff on american bituminous coal the future is more- assured for the first time in the history of canada apples from the okanawana valley have been shipped across can ada in the dead of winter in tempera turecontrolled cars and silk trains so long oft the route because of vari ous conditions aie reappearing in the alaunia sailing last week from halifax the freight was so heavy that her holds were filled and staterooms were used to carry the overflow cargo truro imports brakemen truro ns happy days aro here again at least for the railway men of this section of the canadian na tional system freight movements have about doubled in capacity dur ing the past two weeks and now there i3 an average of about fifteen trains a day clearing from this sta tion as compared with an average of about eight for the last fow years every available railway man is em ployed and it was found necessary to import brakemen from other sec tions of the line to handle the freight trains extra trains the hauling of the lumber to ocean ports will create much more activity for freighthandlers on the railways already through the musquodoboit valley that branch f the canadian national system has inaugurated ex tra train services to meet the demand of the lumbermen v d industry close ly allied with it der cities chamber of commerce industrial employment in the border cite3 for february hit its highest level since june 1932 a net increase of loss persons over the january total was shown and for number of hours worked a large in crease was indicated as many plants which had been on short time were again operating on a fulltime basis the border cities cover windsor east windsor walkerville riverside sandwich tecumseh ojibway and lasalle automotive plants employment in automotive plants is booming but scne other indus tries also showed gratifying gains tho total number employed in report ing factories which included all with 15 or moro persons on tho payroll was 13131 as compared with 11590 a year ago an increase of 1541 this was a reversal of last years trend when the february totals were 541 below those of january the comparative figure for january 1934 was 12043 februarys figures exceeded any re corded since may and june 193 when the totals were 13405 and 13- 253 at the time however many fac tories were on short time and aver age hours of employment were prob ably less automotive industries as at febru ary 28 employed 162 persons an in crease of 15s2 for the year and ssi for the mouth which also reversed last years trend when employment in this branch declined in february increase of 207 nonautomotive industries taken together showed a total of 4969 as compared with 5010 a year ago a decrease of 41 but an increase for the month of 207 the increase in february 1933 over january of that year was but 14 the slight decline in the total for nonautomotive fac tories possibly was attributablo to cessation of manufacturing at the ojibway plants of the canadian steel corporation 3 powers bound to work united meats stipulate that the governments will endeavor o decide before may 15 on a plan for helping agriculture in hungary it was also agreed that transit through the adriatic ports would be stimulated as much as possible this was in lino with the plans for in creased reciprocal trade a permanent co amission o- experts was provided for and these experts will constantly work on economic mat ters affecting the three countries one commercial protocol said that starting april 5 an agreement will be negotiated to facilitate the importation of austrian manufactured products into italy student prince author is dead italy austria and hungary put signatures to three agreements are consultative rome march is italy austria and hungary have become allies today for their premiers signed threo consulta tive pacts hero on saturday the pacts were drawn in an unre stricted manner and invite the colla boration of all other european nations in a program for peace and commer cial cooperation one agreement was political each of the three signatory countries agrees to consult the others before taking any decisions on matters of interest to any or all of them the other two were commercial an official communique said their ob ject was to aid in the development of economic exchanges among the three countries it also was learned that one of the commercial protocols was written in an effort to assure the economic in dependence of austria but diplomatic circles assumed that ali three agree ments in effect bind austria to confer with italy before making any move connected with her political independ ence such as a union with nazi ger many premier benito mussolini chancel lor englebert dollfuss of austria and premier julius goemboes r hungary signed tho pacts in the huge office of mussolini in the vtnezia palace late in the afternoon agreements tho political pact will bt carried out ia conformity with existing treaties experts attached co the staffs of dollfuss and goemboes will remain agassiz bc two barred rock pul- behind here and will dotermlne tho lets have set an egglaying pace in berlin march 18 wilhelm -meyer- foerster author of the worlds great est stage hit alt heidelberg known to canada as the student prince died today after a long illness he was 72 alt heidelberg claimed the big gest stage success of all time it was a dramatized version of a short story meyerfoerster wrote in 1899 called karl heinrich this attained a sale of 30000 copies within two years its success induced the author to rewrite it as a play the play has been translated into every modern language and at present is being pro duced in tokio in japanese and in johannesburg union of south africa in english v egfglaying leaders set new records voice of the press canada a general idea his honor judge mclean of pic- ton likes a good joke he tells the one on the foreigner who recently came before him for his naturaliza tion papers when asked who was the premier of canada the man ans wered that it was bennett to the question who was premier of ontario the roan said henry but when ask ed who was the king of great britain the surprising reply was ferguson trenton courieradvocate essential to prosperity commodity prices are going up and you dont hear even a whimper from the consumer they all realize that if the country is to be prosper ous the greatest producer of all the farmer must get a fair price for his produce chatham news nickel and war if canada shut off nickel from all the world every nation would bo on the same footing and the danger of war not lessened for if history is to be believed men fought when armed only with the bow and arrow much could be said for preserving our nickel resources for empire use but this would require joint empire action moncton transcript wont be seen out in provo utah mary mirth dahlquist has never missed being at sunday school for eleven years now if she had killed her husband and been acquitted she would have been offered a fat vaudeville contract but it will be waste of time to watch the electric lights to see the name of mary from utah niagara falls review paper money the chinese are given credit for inventing many things centuries be fore they were discovered in the oc cidental world such for eamplc as chinaware gunpoyder and printing but very few people know that the chinese were the first to use paper money authorities on chinese his tory believe that paper money was current in china 1 the beginning of the ninth century ad london fre press x worth while in regard to mothers allowance the general verdict in ontario will be that they have been well worth while that they have resulted in lesser de mands upon public institutions and that they make it possible for widows to take care of 1ieir children in their own homes a most deiided advantage from more than one point of view peterborough examiner two us railroads loaned 2366531 washington two additional loans to railroads totalling s230g531 for new equipment and maintenance were announced recently by harold ickes united states public works adminis trator tho chicago milwaukee st paul and pacific was loaned 1906531 for building 75 new passenger cars air conditioning of 22 diners and lounge cars and installation of 300 loading devices on automobile cars tho new york central was leaned 400000 to pay track men in laying 37000 tons of rails and fastening details of the two commercial pro tocols one agreement arries preferential duties for goods exchanged by the three countries and the experts will work out the complete list the commercial agreements havo for their principal announced object tho development of economic relations between italy austria and hungary on the basis of the outcome of the stresa conference last year and the danubian memorandum presented by italy last september provisions ot the commercial agree- the current 51week contest at the do minion experimental farm hero that threatens the worlds record pullet no 3 owned by the delta land co vancouver has laid an egg each day for 129 days her eggs aver age 22 ounces to tho dozen pullet no 2 owned by a pennington of agassiz has missed but one day in 129 her eggs have averaged 24 ounces to the dozen w h hicks superintendent of the faim declares these performances were almost un believable he knows of no other previous record to touch them ussrs bid for highest building swifts at edmonton raise wages 10 pc edmonton march is some 325 j hourlypaid employes of tho edmon- wlnnlpeg mirch isbojiinf day ton plant of the swift canadian corn- dee 2s the clay after christmas will pany ltd have received a wage in- become a statutory public holiday in crease of 10 per cent effective at manitoba in future if the legislature once g t robertson manager an- 1 appro es a bill to be introduced next nounces the increase will add rtout wednesday by col ralph ii webb 25000 annually to hie companys conservative member for assinlbola payroll i time and money man arranged the clock to suit himself perhaps some day he will see the same can be done with cur rency which in itself is neither half so complicated nor nearly so service able as the timepiece was it has been done with time let us hope for the day when it s done with money ottawa citizen canada will come through canada and the province of on tario have their problems plenty of them but our general position is strong and when contrasts are made with many countries that might bo named our country stads out as a rock of towering strength never fear canada will come through with colours flying windsor border ci ties star architects drawing of the proposed building to be the worlds high- is recently accepted by tha central executive committee of the xssr making more jobs when circumstances eliminate a blacksmith shop it is replaced by a garage or a servicestation employing more men the tradition of the cross roads carriage shop i continued in the automobile factory and so on down the roll of industry among them the engineer the inventor the scien tist it appears abundantly proved have made far more jobs than they have destroyed and in addition they have added enormously to the com forts and luxuries available to the masses of the people ottawa jour nal not in the curriculum in many quarters there will be iigrecment with prof- stephen lea- cocks statement before the mcgill society of toronto to the eitltect that if a university cannot get along these days without a famous football team it ought to get cut of the educational field toronto glcme speed in russia soviet freight trains it is eon- tended do not travel at a faster rate of speed than two or three miles an hour due to obsolete rollingstock and faulty management at that rate the justlycelebrated mixed train from brockville to westport is a positive flyer brockvillo recorder one drink too many a montreal judge has ruled that a man can take three or four drinks and still remain in complete posses sion of his faculties at the- wheel of an automobile such a rule might apply in one instance and be invalid in others the safest rule for all automobilists whilst drivin is that one drink would be one too many montreal gazette t