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parliament may recess month to send bennett to jubilee ottawa hints federal vote in midjune sept 16 discussed on parliament hill as alternative leaving on llgco mue motor trip ottawa parliament hill received its first major and largely indirect clue to too possible date of tie forthcoming federal election over the weekend in news that the govern ment is discussing a months recess for parliament from april 18 to may 20 in order to allow premier k b dennett to attend the silver jubilee celebrations in london as an election clue such an inten tion upon the part of the ministry ivas mainly negative it simply ruled out definitely the possibility of an early spring appeal to which political prognosticators have been clinging with some tenacity despite recent evidences in parliament itself against the likelihood of it materializing coupled with the report of the jis for the parliamentary recess however and of more direct bearing on the election situation were inti mations from authoritative quarters to the effect that the cabinet discus sion went beyond simply the neces sary arangeuients to enable mr bennett to go to london and dealt in tentative detail at least with de tinue election plans two dates were said to be mentioned one was as soon as practicable after the prime ministers return namely monday juno 17 the other was in septem ber monday the lgth it the preliminary canvass of coinei opinion the juno date is de- cared to have found the great num ber of advocates amongst the minis ters expectation at opening when the session first opened an early spring election was anticipated generally in federal political circles the opinion was based on the ex pectation that the liberal opposition would be militant in the last session prior to an appeal to tiie people and that the government would make an issue out of the obstruction of its program and dissolve the house kyerits however have not fulfilled this forecast instead of being mili tant the liberals have oeen apath etic they have given the govern ment to understand plainly that uiey are not prepared to furnish it with any issue arising ou of opposition to its reform program the other argument for an early election that the canadian prime minister who goes to the imperial celebrations should have a mandate from the people has not been press ed by the opposition since the ses sion opened it was fairly well un derstood that the government would be disposed to give serious consider ation to such a contention if it were raised for while the london gather ing this year is mainly of a congrat ulatory nature to his majesty there has been the suggestion that advan tage may be taken of the presence of the dominion premiers to discuss some imperial matters with the liberals quite evidently disinclined to court an early election on any grounds however the gov ernment is left with the duty of ar ranging mr bennetts attendance in london and with the freedom there after of choosing the election date which it deems most suitable the middle of june is fhe earliest time possible after the prime ministers return the 24th the last monday in the month would be preferred over the 17th only for the fact that it is st jean baptiste day a frenchcan adian national holiday an election in either july or august is not fav ored by conservatives on the grounds of the number of city voters tradi tionally supporters o hie party who are absent on vacation at that time september accordingly becomes the- next month to be considered and in it the third monday the 16th is un derstood to have been the subject of discussion the stronger cabinet opjijpn how ever is believed to ruu ltevor of a june election the pelkieat tide is admkted to be running at the present time in the governments favor and a majority of the min isters hold the view that it should be taken at the flood new wax process for plucking birds research hxpert gives de monstration birds strip ped clean of pin feathers and hairs voice of the press is phil iaddoii a 24yearold devon grl left london england recently to make an 11000 mile car trip during which she will suney the route to be taken by competitors in the 193g road race from algiers to johannesburg she is shown left being presented a horseshoe and sprig of white heather for luck by viscountes3 elibank just before she left say carelessness shown presenting poultry for sale producers and ex- of dominion hold conference here to better trade leading per the markets vermilyea sane two doctors hurts animals say specialist for defence on other hand testifies i accused insane belleville three psychiatrists took the witness box in the nineday id murder trial of harold w verm ilyea saturday to give evidence as to the mental condition o the form er california fruitfarmer on the night the crown alleges he beat mrs aurelia vermilyea to death with a hatchet dr j j robertson of belleville former college mate of the accused man took the stand to testify for the defence that vermilyea was insane and acted upon what he believed to be divine guidance he was fol lowed by two crown rebuttal wit nesses dr w li mitchell mcgill university professor and dr robert armour toronto specialist who tes tified that the accused man was sane following evidence of dr armour opposing counsel prepared to address the jury but mr justice nicol jef frey presiding called for adjourn ment owing to the gravity of this cape court will resume at 9 am to il ay as the three specialists gave their technical evidence largely contradic tory vermilyea sat solemnly in the prisoners dock his eyes moving quickly from witness to counsel as questions and answers shot between them he seldom smiled dr robertson second psychiatrist called by the defence told of his interviews with vermilyea and ment al examinations the accused man talked frcelv with him the special ist said telling him there was a conspiracy against him among members of his family he had written to his mother for money vermilyea had told him and had been refused he had suggested divi ion of her estate among other members of the family he saiil he did not agree with jiiin thori he said he began to realize there was a conspiracy and that they the members of his fam ily were conspiring against him he saiil he thought he would go crazy it preyed upon his mind so much he said he began to formul ate a plan to rectify this conspiracy he said le had to raise money he added then i came east and you ijnow what 1 did the crown alleges vermilyea came to belleville from his ontario calif fruit farm killed his mother and returned to the california city by automobile train and airplane i most assuredly bcucvc he was an insane man dr roberson ns- ccrtcd crossexamination did not washington artificial feed ing of animals is a hindrance rather than a help the wild life division of the national park service be lieves officials of the division said ar tificial feeding is expensive reduces the physical stamina of the animals and results in abnormal concentra tion which in turn creates range problems division experts consequently have recommended an immediate reduction in the amount of food furnished at the corals so that the victims of mans misguided philan thropy will be reeducated to selfin dependence doctor performs operation between births of twins st thomas ont when the stork broght twins to mr and mrs orval gardner here it took plenty of time and obliged the attending physician three hours elapsed be tween the delivery of the two babes and the doctor had time to perform a previously arranged major opera tion in the same hospital he had ivc minutes to spare character building groups for poor children in u s a america needs a characterbuild ing movement along the lines of the oy scouts and girl scouts cheap cn- igh for the children of the poor judge cccile b weiner of the buffalo childrens court said to day in reporting poverty was bring ing increased juvenile delinquency boy scouts and girl scouts and other like characterbuilding groups are beyond the means of all but the few of our children the woman justice said uniforms dues camp ing fees cannot be obtained with out money- italian women pray that men be spared from war ottawa waste and carelessness found in the poultry industry of canada were chief problems studied at a conference here last week heads of poultry departments of the big packers met with leading produc ers and experts of the dominion and provincial department of agricul ture an interesting speaker was how ard c pierce of new york one of the authorities of the united states on poultry marketing he found poultry offered for sale in toronto and montreal better in quality than that for sale in new york or other us cities but miserably presented to the public say carelessness shown carelessness sir pierce empha sized was shown in preparing can adian poultry for market he re ferred to bleeding plucking and other features in which lack of care ful handling injured sales value of the product the object of the conference was to decide on recommendations which will be submitted to the canadian produce association convention which opened in toronto w a brown chief of the poul try services of the department of agriculture said there would be a market for 10000000 pounds of canadian poultry in the united kingdom this year if proper quality- could be provided last year some thing over 2000000 pounds was ex ported to britain prof w r graham of guelph spoke of comparative importance of eggs and dressed poultry preparing report john i brown of montreal chairman of the special poultry com mittee of the produce association will prepare a report based on the discussions to be presented to the convention he impressed on the ex perts the need of cooperative efforts to eliminate seme waste in the poul try industry which was causing heavy losses every year mr pierce praised canadian tur keys and said before he left new york he was told by one producer that he would buy 50000 young tur keys in canada if he knew where he could get them of satisfactory quality produce prices united farmers cooperative co saturday were paying the following prices for produce eggs grade al 39c and with cases returned a large 27c a medium 26c a pullet 24c b 18c c 16c butter ontario nofl 1 solids 25 vic no 2 25c poultry quotations in cents dressed live dressed mllkfed a hens over 5 lbs over 4 lbs 8 to 4 lbs old roosters a 11 10 8 6 a 14 18 11 17 10 15 14 13 18 10 14 15 17 spring chickens over 0 lbs 18 5h4 to 61bs 12 5 to 5y lbs 11 4 to 5 lbs 10 under 4 lbs 9 turkeys young geese ducks 13 broilers 1 to 2 lbs 11 hay and straw no 2 timothy hay baled ton 1650 to 1750 no 3 timothy hay ton 15 to 16 straw wheat baled ton 10 oat straw 9 to 10 wholesale provisions wholesale provision dealers are quoting the following prices to the toronto retail trade pork ham 21c shoulders 14c butts 15mc pork loins 20mc pic nics 14c lard pure tierces 13c tubs lsvic pails 14c prints 13c shortening tierces 9c tubs 10c pails 10mc prints 10sc women on farms of italy shown fewer by half rome fewer women arc engag ed in industry in italy though 3- 903637 still exercise a profession and 12024639 an occupation or trade a recent statistical inquiry shows that the femal population of italy numbers 2104210 of whom 16- 592438 are oer 10 years of age a comparison with previous cen sus years shows that in 1882 the- total percentage of the female popu lation over 10 years of age employ ed in industry stood at 172 per cent it fell to 107 in 1901 to 103 in 1911 to 82 in 1921 and in 1931 has fallen to 77 per cent considered in relation to the fig ures for male employment the re turns show that while in some branches the number of women has increased there ha3 been no corre sponding reduction in male employ ment toronto if current reseatch work being conductcc at the governments experimental farm at ottawa on the development of wax for plucking poultry continues successfuly con sumers in the dominion will soon be able to buy poultry whch ha3 be3i cleanly plucked little if any singeing will be required it is stat ed while surface dirt and surplus feathers will be removed by pro ducers through the waxing operat ion dr n h grace of ottawa has been requested by government au thorities to continue his experiment al work and it is expected that the new process may soon be available to all producers in canada within a short time at the concluding session of the 23rd annual convention of the can adian produce association at the royal york hotel dr grace dem onstrated the new process using eight chickens they were each placed in a can of melted specially prepared wax and then hung until the wax hardened when the wax was hardened and removed it con tained surplus feathers hairs quills and pins the skin of the birds still held its fine texture and was not punctured the new waxing process is econo mically sound dr grace stated dur ing the demonstration the special wax required for the operation he stated could be bought in large quantities at possibly so low as six or seven cents per pound smaller producers buying small lots may have to pay up to as high as 10 cents he believed however experiments at ottawa have revealed that one pound of wax will serve from 40 to 50 birds with wax waste during operations jjplaced at around 5 per cent used wax can be melted and strained and made available for furlher use canada out where cold is dry burr we admil the virile quali ties of frigid air and the stimulus induced in sluggish veins by the icy- blasts but zero is always suffcr- rd never welcomed his departure is much more popular than his ar rival- may it we trust be soon winnipeg free press lloyd george it was a summer afternoon in 1890 when mr gladstone in frock coat and tearose complimented mr lloyd george frbsh from a by- olection in carnarvon in the long years since then two reigning brit ish sovereigns have died the brit ish empire has fought two wars dynasties and nations have disap peared the map of the world has been changed yet now we read that this same lloyd george whose voice has sounded through all this din of four decades of world upheaval and revolution is to launch a new po litical movement in his seventy- first year veteran of a thousand fights he is buckling on his ar mor from the ottawa journal the titanic fund when the titanic was sunk in 1922 a mansion house fund was started for the relief mainly of old people and children bereft of aid by the loss of supporting relatives the response was 11512 and it is now announced that 276 persons are still sharing in the disburse ments of from 15000 to 20000 annually it is rightly regarded as one of the best administered funds ever recorded brantford exposi tor duke and duchess of kent make trip to haiti by airplane our health is good ottawa in days of depression general health is better than in days of opulence and lino living several doctors told the house of commons last week during a health debate dr j p howden liberal st boniface said starvation is the cure for many diseases and it was because people did not have the money to buy rich foods that their health improved and it was true dr howden added that many people dig their graves with their teeth town may print its relief list the latest returns show that 1- 538069 women are employed in agriculture 30763 in agricultural industries 95519 in the textile trades 25378 in paper mills 98287 in the chemical trades 1221 in the public entertainment industry 171- 136 in other industries 293064 in commerce banking and insurance 27317 in transports and communi cations 49080 in public and private administrations 49599 in religious establishments about 135000 are engaged in teaching 74360 in the sanitary pro fessions 10189 in other professions 47307 in domestic service 96247 are land or house owners or rentiers 11268279 are housewives 931349 attend school or college 64432 are pensioners 264332 are engaged in other nonprofessional occupations and 64162 are of unspecmed sta tus the percentage occupied in agriculture has fallen from 60 per cent in previous returns to 334 per cent san juan puerto rico the duke and duchess of kent rose at 445 am on valentine day to continue their honeymoon air cruise taking off at 615 am by flyingboat for haiti it was still dark when the royal couple accompanied by governor blanton winship reached the pan- american airport after a hasty breakfast they chatted while 23 pieces of royal baggage were stow ed away and the other passengers went aboard both the duke and duchess smoked cigarettes as they saw the southern cross fade out of the sky and the rising sun color the eastern sky the duchess wore soft brown felt hat but her trimly tailored travelling suit was of a shade as pale as the dawn when she entered the plane as pilot lorber signalled he was ready for the takeoff there was sufficient light across the harbor the motors burst into a roar and in the distance hms dragon boom ed a farewell salute the duke and duchess were en tertained at dinner in the govern ors mansion reforestration in new zealand they set to work with a vigor and an enthusiasm that are now beginning to bear fruit a hundred years ago when new zea land was first settled by the eng lish it was half forest today only onetenth of the area is forest this is the result of reckless clearing of trees during the closing period of the nineteenth century but painful experience taught the new zealan- ders that much land unsuitable for pasture was excelllent for tree- growing and they have profited by their experience montreal star auction sales the terms that used to appear on auction sale bills giving so many months credit on approved joint notes and a percentage off for cash are apparently a thing of tho past hereabouts a more abbrevi ated form is now in common use and the most of the sales are 0s- ually terms cash numbers of ihe posters also bear the admonition hat nothing is to be taken from vhe premises until satisfactorily settled for it would appear that the farmer has gone on the cash and carry basis also acton free press handbills many citizens may have the view that if handbills have to be such matter would be more welcome if it came through the mails than communicated to them in tho present manner littered all over front steps verandah or sidewalks there frequently to become ugily em bedded in ice or snovy in winter time mixed up with mud or slush in the spring caught up and blown all over the place by the four winds of heaven in the summer time and become mixed up with wet and slimy leaves in the fall it is to bo feared handbills have not had an al together purifying effect upon tho vocabularly of the human race regina leaderpost forty english boys and girls to come lo canada in may settle on 1000 acre farm on vancouver island will university of toronto has operating surplus toronto the university of to ronto had a credit balance of 64761 in operating expenses for the year ending june 30 1014 according to the report of the board of govern- rome thousands of italian wo men arc crowding the churches these days to pray that their son- husbands and brothers be spared from war with abyssinia most of them retain vivid mem- ors tabled last week in the ontario ories of the great war and few j legislature operating costs were displayed any enthusiasm for the 2545693 and revenue 2670642 mobilization proceeding in all sec- the general revenue was 1520642 tions of the nation and to this was added a legislative grant of 1000000 and a stipplemeh- the ptoplc of america are turn- tary grant cf 150000 the market ing as never hoforc to those permi- value of investments as of june 30 nent values that are not limited to was in excess of the book value by the physical objectives of life approximately 601000 franklin i roosevelt i the creative cneigies t the in dividual and individual liberty must be safeguarded a au test hoh from tho tyranny of the few and of th many ogden l mills brampton possibility that bramp ton will publish the names of relief recipients weekly in the local news papers with the amounts they re ceive was intimated by members of the towns relief committeo last week in a drive to reduce relief ex penditure the towns relief burden has heen steadily mounting ofllclals claim and they believe that such ac tion will deter persons not requiring relief from making application dras tic cuts in the relief scale have been made during the past week joke is nearly death of youth ordinarily the progressive crals get a real opportunity to change the rules only about once in a generation henry a wallace yarmouth xs when two com panions hauled a bench from under william scott l of plymouth ns while he was workin a rotary saw the youth had a narrow escape from death he fell forwarddirectly up on the swiftmoving teeth but stuck his aim out to stop the fall forty stitches were required to close tho wounds and he is in danger of losing the arm march wheat parley postponed at london london the meeting of the in ternational wheat advisory com mittee scheduled for march 5 has been postponed it has been an nounced pending clarification of the position on export quotas of the big four canada australia ar gentina and the united states instead representatives of the big four will be asked to meet here on that date for a fresh attempt to seek agreement on extending and amending the existing international wheat agreement which otherwise expires on july 31 end of its two- year team the international wheat commis sion was unable to accomplish any thing at its meeting in budapest last november and extension of the agreement as well as establishment of new export quotas is still up in the air trouble over a large in crease in its quota by argentina was mainly responsible montreal forty english children aged seven to nine will conio to can ada in may to form the nucleus of tho fairhridge farm school ou van couver island major m f trow stated here recently major trew will be the headmas ter of the new school which is spon sored by tho child immigration so ciety of great britain to train eng lish boys and girls to enter farm life in canada he passed through montreal on route back to england from british columbia ocean flying while flying oceans and things amelia earhart has to keep her ears on a beam wireless and her eyes on a magnetic compass an aperio dic compass a directional bank and turn indicator a rate of climb clock an artificial horizon alti meters an ice warning thermometer and a supercharger pressure gauge the machine age has gone feminine too border cities star speed limit the special civic committee on traffic and parking has recommend ed thatapplicaion be made by the city to the legislature for power to pass a bylaw fixing tho speed limit in winnipeg at 30 miles an hour alderman and police arc apparen ly agreed that this measure must be the society ho said had bought l tak lo curb the mounting toll of 13 1000 acres of land on vancouver is land and building would commence shortly through private subscrip tion and cooperation of the british government the children will bo trained on the largest farm school of its kind ever attempted in canada it will be modelled after the fair- bridge farm school of australia major trew estimated when the school is in full operation 400 boys ami girls will he in residence they will he aken from english institu tions and chosen by the london commitlee of the society at the age of 16 they will be sent to farms in western canada accidents and fa alities on city streets winnpeg tribune no doubt it is possible to read newspapers on the niagara highway now fine i the new sodium apor lamps have been installed and we suppose j some rap will try doin it viie driving at 60 mph cupid in england cupid niut be iorkin overt me in england veddiigs iiec nmi- bsicd 143243 in is an increase of 13751 ocr tie prcius year st thomas times journal