seek realignment ofradiostations 20 to 40 superpower plants considered for us sys tem locations on bor der washington a study aimed at realigning the united states radio system to provide from 20 to 40 superpowered stations and probab ly 150 new lowpowered ones has been undertaken by engineers of the federal commission plans under consideration are said to call for the establishment of highpowered stations on the can adian and mexican borders these it is a boy the british empire hails the glad tidings that a son is born to the popular duke and duchess of kent london great britain rejoiced on oct 9th as news flashed to the nation that a boy had been born to the duke and duchess of kent special late editions of the news papers carried the news to the em pire its a boy was the unconventional way many spread the glad tidings of the birth of a prince to britains royal house crowds gathered outside the city guild hall and the home office stations however would operate with directional antennae throwing where in accordance with established most of their power inland and away practice bulletins were posted a cracking good stunt from the border stations of canada and mexico outside the home of the duke and duchess little knots of women and radio experts familiar with the girls gathered to discuss the news plan said that the recommendations brought in by the engineers after their study of the field might or might not be approved but that in any event it would take a year or so to work out the realignment of the present board they said the idea originated from the successful experimental opera tion of station wlw at cincinnati on 500000 watts the only station in the united states of that power as tentatively worked out the plan was described as calling for clear three channels establishment of from 20 to 40 glancing up at the windows of the happy royal home hours before the duke of kent had revealed his princely pride when soon after the inital announcement he ap peared at the front door pale but smiling and waved his hand to the subdued cheering of a small crowd both mother and sbn were reported doing well it was considered a happy coincid ence that the dukes son the seventh in the line of succession to the throne was born precisely one year after the king granted prince george tho titles the duke of kent the earl of bankers cheered heavier deposits eleven banks report 500- 000000 increase in three months thrills galore featured the cleveland o motor rodeo when jimmy lynch and his devil dodgers went into action in this opener a steelbodied car pictured in the air as it crashes through heavy wooden fence stations of around 500000 watts st andrews and baron downpatrick clearing three new channels on the broadcasting band between 1500 and 1000 kilocycles and assigning up to 50 small low powered stations to each of thee cleared channels experts said that such an assign ment would bo in line with engineer ing advances that have been made in the last several years since the present general system was worked scarcely had the father been told by doctors of the arrival of a son in his household when a telephone call was made to sandringham where the king and queen are in residence other messages were sent to the prince of wales the duke of gloucester and the princess royal victoria alexandra alice mary the dukes son will rank as sixth music in school not a frill but a necessity says speaker at recent teachers meeting out in some quarters it was ex- gentleman in the land being preceded pected that the plan would call fori by king george the prince of vnles wsigniront of most of the super- the duke of york the duke cf powered rations to chain broad- 1 gloucester and his own father in casting with the new lowpowered j line of succession to the throne he units to give local service to small will stand after princesses elizabeth areas i and margaret who are children of the the study was started last januiduke of york but he will take pre- ary with a view to improving pro- cedence over the princess royals two grams for rural listeners a report sons was to be made within a year the baby is the kings third grand- millions of farmers were said to son he in communities which had little or no broadcast service some ex perts said the use of such a plan would give a group of highpowered stations so situated geographically as to be able to penetrate to prac tically any section of the country along with new small stations which could serve the needs of the indi vidual communities consult canada mexico ottawa before any general plan was considered finally by the unit ed states which would involve the setting up in that country of super- powered radio stations each of 500- 000 watts power canada and mex ico would bo invited to confer with washington on the proposal as it would involve probable interferences with broadcasting operations here and in mexico it was stated last week no invitation to such a con ference has been received here the only information available in ottawa is that late last spring the federal communications committee in the united states set up a com mittee to consider the question of improvements in broadcasting that country some 630odd stations are functioning in the united states and the committee was named it was stated to study how broad casting services there could be im proved and clarified without caus ing interference to countries on cither side of the republic since then no intimation of the likely at titude of the committee has been communicated here on t8e air dominion department of agriculture to give series of radio talks hundreds of congratulatory mes sages arrived at the belgrave square residence among them a personal congratulation from the king and queen the telephone line from san dringham was busy handling inquiries while prince and princess nicholas of greece kept in close touch with the house the prince and princess had waited up all night with the duke sir john simon home secretary was the minister in attendance as rquired by british law at the birth of a possi ble heir to the throne prince george fourth and youngest son of their majesties was created duke of kent a year ago she tly be fore his marriage to princess marina daughter of prince nicholas of greece and granddaughter of former king george of greece the wedding which took place in westminster abby november 29 was the occasion for a great outburst of national rejoicing london celebrated with such festivity as had net been seen for many years the duke of kent who is 32 years of age was born at sandringham he was for a time a lieutenant in the royal navy in 1923 he was created a knight of the order of the garter in 1934 he was made a knight grand cross of the royal victorian order the following year a knight grand cross of the most distinguished order of st michael and st george the duchess is 23 years of age im the happiest man in the world that its a boy prince george the babys father told prominent britons who called at his home to congratulate the family the event was the quietest matter for all concerned and the duchess is as wel as could be expected so is the boy kincardine public school teach ers of west bruce met recently mayor j g ellenton welcoming the teachers pointed out liey are builders of the future citizens and urged them to regard their office as more than a mere job jlore than 125 teachers were in attendance as the convention open ed in her address miss mcgillivray said that more use of the strap at home would require le s of it in schools she pointed out the inspector is a friend and counsellor who woud help the chitd and teacher to better knowledge sacrifices needed rural school pupils are called on to make sacrifices so should rural school teachers by giving full edu cation to pupils whose school years will bo limited she vrged music in all schools not as a frill but a neces sity teachers in rural schools who scorn farms should not be allowed to teach in rural districts she opined w k f kendrick ba b paed of toronto normal school in his ad dress on methods of teaching history warned against a narrow outlook and suggested a revision of teaching methods he urged teaohers to give to pupils an appreciation of their own surroundings so that the desire would not be to get away from their homes in teaching he urged a natural atti tude on the part of the teaoiers ns steel plant employment gains sydney ns the dominion steel and coal corporations steel plant here now has 2100 men on its pay roll the largest working force since 1929 corporation officials said re cently the force would be maintained at that number until the close of navigation on the st lawrence river the rise in employment during the past few months was due to increas ed rail orders from south africa which with smaller orders kept the plant working full time about 7000 tons of the 9000ton rail order for south africa have been rolled and will go forward shortly the speaker who sat from 1930 until he had to retire the beginning of last session mrs black was a charm ing hostess popular with members of all parties wild flowers of canada gave her an absorbing interest and she is known as an authority on them liv ing for a time in the yukon during the period when her husband was new york new yorks leading gold commissioner and since he re- banks aro struggling up the hill to presented that far northern con- profits under the burden of heavier stituency mrs black was able to deposits cultivate this hobby in a field which the load is severe financial clrcljfew women could draw on during es insist inasmuch as the first 11 j the short season the valleys of the condition statements issued last j yukon district produce beautiful week indicated the banks aro hard flowers and mrs black became pressed to find places where the funds j familiar with the varieties there she may bo put out for hire at a satis- is known as a lecturer and writer on factory return canadian wild flowers bankers who cast up totals at tho the switch in political fortune will weekend noted the aggregate depos- place mrs black on the opposition it total of the first 11 banks to re- j side of the commons whero miss port had increased by somewhat more agnes maephail so long sole woman than 500000000 in the short space of threo mouths on tho other hand it was noted the relatively small net changes in commercial loan totals showed this important channel into which deposits normally flow had not thawed out many industrial corporations which usually lean on the banks for com mercial funds already have more cash on hand than they need poultry may be tattooed to halt loss by theft overeating causes ache not the pie says expert chicago it isnt the pie but overeating that brings on the great tummy ache monroe strause los angeles old the national restaur ant association recently the properly made pie is highly digestible asserted strause who was introduced as the champion pie maker of the united states but it gets the blame for the pains and overstuffed feeling when the real trouble is overloading oefore the dessert course is reached the best advice on dining was mothers injunction save room for that pie sonny he added member of the lower chamber has sat for years while the process is a very gradual one women are in creasing their representation in both commons and senate in the upper chamber there arc now two woman members voice of the press as conditionfigures for the late sown crops in canada in 1935 in cluding peas beans buckwheat corn potatoes alfalfa and sugar beets states the dominion bureau of stat istics indicate that yields will be slightly below average but above the level of 1934 rickets patksiis not to he found the preliminary estimate of the total production of wheat in canada in 1935 at 290541000 bushels is 14092000 bushels or 53 per cent above the 1934 unravised estimate according to the dominion bureau of statistics the quality of the crop this year is definitely poorer than that of the 1934 crop remain low good yield in west will keep ontario prices close o present level guelph possibility that poultry- men of western ontario will resort to tattooing of poultry in an effort to halt chicken thieving in this section of the province is seen as a result of a suggestion approved at a recent meeting of the western ontario poultry association serious losses suffered by farmers and poultry raisers in recent years led to a discussion of ways and means of thwarting thieves and it was the general opinion of the meeting that tattooing would be an effective method officers of the association were elected as follows president a j newland gait vicepresident f hayes hamilton and w tew strat ford detroit cant find a for dr alan brown cast 42993971 rise in six months swarmo of wasps rout pack train vancouver wasps arc numerous throughout british columbia this year hundreds of nests honeycomb the rocky ground of the cariboo district and on vancouver island you can stand still anywhere in the woods listen quietly and hear a humming like a flock of distant the dominion department ot agriculture will again be on the air each thursday evening during the forthcoming winter months over the coast to coast network of the can- adian radio commission stations at 620 to 530 pm eastern standard j airplanes a logger in the courtenay time from montreal over the district of vancouver island reports fronch network from 820 to 830 j he told of finding an area where pm eastern standard time for a bear had demolished a dozen nests tho maritime provinces ontario i in the space of a quarter of a mile quebec and the prairie provinces feasting on the young wasps it and for the british columbia net- found work from vancouver 9 to 910 toronto indications of increasing prices in potatoes are found in the fact that growers in the orangeville district have gone into a potato pool and have already stored 20000 bags in ground pits to await the top price it was stated it will be possible to import into ontario potatoes from the west and do so profitably in spite cf the heavy freight rates potatoes in western canada can be bought for 25 and 30 cents per bag which means that with a freight rate of co cents per cwt they could be laid down in toronto at slightly more than a range of 91 to 95 cents current prices for ontario po tatoes run from 95 to 1 per bag trade opinions expressed was to the effect that producers in ontario have little chance of controlling the price despite the lighter yield it is estimated the 1935 crop in the dom inion will be just about sufficient to make up the home requirements until the 1930 crop is available there will be little or no chance of exporting potatoes this year reports issued from fredericton and ottawa however seem to have added fuel to the trade war fire un official estimates from fredericton were to the effect that the new- brunswick crop this yeir would not pm pacific time this season the same title for the scries of talks will bo used namely romance and dividends in agriculture each talk will be of 10 minutes duration the seasons programme includes a variety of subjects which should be of intcvot to everyone the most important advance i have noted in the nation during my vidua to another even many nests arc situated on the exceed more than 5000000 bushels of rbidden plateau and pack trains seed and table varieties compared with last years mark of between 10- 000000 bushels and 11000000 bus hels the average years crop is about 8000000 bushels the dominion bureau of statis tics reported a decrease of 203 per cent or nearly 10000000 cwt in canadas estimated potato crop for the year compared with last year forbidden arc often attacked by the stingers horses rear and plunge as the swarms sail in to the attack the stings remain with the horses only a few minutes however and they arc soon quietened may iniii- it is certain that thought be transmitted from one f llfeiiroo is the growth of tb spirit- are separated by long distance cent while the yield per acre was of compassion elihu boot dr alexis carrel 107 per cent below last year they the acreage was reduced by 108 per canadian export and import figures soar september revenues up ottawa the department of na tional revenue last weak reported canadas exports during september showed an increase of more than 50000000 as compared with the corresponding month last year and that exports for the six months end ed september 30 were up 26078637 against the same period in 1934 im ports for the month increased 2- 571827 over the same month in 1934 for six months imports increased 10915334 the total trade increase therefore for six months is 42- 993971 september exports were valued at 04564915 compared with 58135- 13g in september 1934 while the value of the first six months of this year was 343111180 against 317- 032543 last year imports during september were valued at 14779329 compared with 42207002 in september 1934 the six months total was 280002027 this year compared with 263746g93 in 1934 revenue from customs and excise for september was 19537857 which was 140853 more than thct corre sponding month in 1934 for six months the revenue was 111099723 which was 3409584 below the total for the corresponding six months last year income taxes for september were 2479024 an increase of 381111 over september 1934 for the six months income taxes totalled 63- 707130 which was an increase of 10465978 over the corresponding six months in 1931 detroit plans of dr alan g brown toronto child specialist to demonstrate treatment for rickets before the international medical as sembly here recently went awry for lack of a subject to demonstrate on what no rickets patients ex claimed dr brown when dr louis gariepy clinic committee head told him a thorough canvass of all de troit hospitals failed to reveal a single person suffering from rickets dr brown went on with his dis cussion of the disease without a sub ject he declared he has yet to see the case of rickets that will not re spond to treatment plain biologically pure cod liver oil is still the best remedy to admin ister to the child with rickets he said dont let the child decide whether you will administer it that is the trouble in these latter days most mothers begin the day their babies are born to let the babies de cide what shall be done about things a spoonful of honey dissolved in a glass of warm milk is used as a creator of energy by finnish athletes before undertaking strenuous ex ertion during long distance mara thon races they take a very small porticn of honey a little on the tongue only as a reviver if ycu had your choice would you work for eight hours a day and retire on a full pension at fortyfive or would you rather work four hours a day and continue to work until you were seventy george bernard shaw the markets produce prices two days hunting of pheasants is set united farmers cooperative co saturday were paying the following prices for produce eggs with cases returned a large 33c a medium 32c a pul lets 21c b 22c c 19c butter ontario no 1 solids 24c no 2 23 14c poultry quotations n cents dressed live die scd jlllkred bens over 5 lbs 4 to 5 lbs 3 to 1 lbs old roosters a 12 11 10 7 a u 13 12 9 nov and 2 in six counties spring chickens over c lbs 1g announced may be widened toronto a twoday open season for ring neck pheasants nov 1 and nov 2 in the counties of middlesex kent essex haldimand lincoln and wclland is officially announced from the office of hon harry c nixon minister of game and fisheries three cock birds per day i3 bag limit pheasant shooting on these days may also be permitted in counties of ontario durham northumberland although the partment has not definitely made up its mind on this point there will be no open season in york peel halton or wcntworth the second twoday shoot of this fall on pelee island will also be held on nov 1 and nov 2 with local restrictions as well as departmental regulations applying 20 19 is 1g canada they have the big idea there was an item in tho news papers recently and by actual meas ure it received one inch of space but it told a good deal it came from amulet sask and said that farmers of that district were shipping truck loads of carrots to less fortunate farmers in the north in driedout years and amulet had its share ot them farmers there received sup plies of vegetables from other sec tlons now they find themselves in a position to help and they know where others are who need help so they aro keeping tie thing going it is well that those farmers in bas- katchewan shipped vegetables to thoso in need it is well that some person who heard about it had the good sense to see that it got in the newspapers what a worm we would have if the farmersaudcarrots idea began to expand sratford beaconherald before days of rouge after listening to the usual dam aging comparison between the girls of today and the girls of years ago pert miss teenage remarked well it they were all so darned innocent how did they know when to blush exchange flying doctors in canada wo have no ofliclal fly ing doctor service such as australia possesses but invaluable aid has been rendered for some considerable time past by the canadian airways ser vice the ambulance notes of the company contain scores of records of flights varying n length from ten to several hundred miles all of which were made in response to ur gent appeals for transportation and which in most cases definitely meant the saving of life in canada air transport has com pletely transformed the service of government medical office as may be seen from a record of a recent tour of camps in western ontario when in less than four hours a doc tor using a plane was able to visit four different camps carrying out completo inspections and travelling 102 mlies in less than four hours aeroplane service has also made medical service possible over terri tories which in bygone years were covered only by dog teams making one trip per season this is now re placed by many trips per season in comfort over a vastly larger area at considerably less cost and without the grave risks that inevitably at tended the dog team tours star montreal will strike easily year round exposure of the sun makes the skin rough and dry so the nudists can easily strike their matches brandon sun prevent war anywhere the best way to keep america out of war is to do what wo can to prevent there being a war anywhere into which she can be drawn says newton d baker and he might have added that in these modern days it is hardly possible to start a war any place in which most of the nations of the world would not be involved chatham news the two the and de- 5 to g lbs 15 4 mi to 5 lbs 11 under 414 lbs 12 spring broilers 1 to 2 lbs 12 fresh turkeys dresed 24 to 25c ii fresh geese lressed 12 to 14c lb 1g new woman mp authority on wild flowers of canada wholesale provisions wholesale provision dealers are quoting the following prices to the toronto retail trade pork ham 2014c shoulders 15c butts 18c pork loins 21c picnics hc lard pure tierces 15c tubs lgc pails 1014c prints lgc shortening tierces 10ic tubs 11 vic pails llc prints hc hay and straw no 2 timothy hoy baled ton 10 to 11 no 3 timothy hay ton 8 to 9 straw wheat baled ton 7 oat straw g mrs george black cultivated hobby more fully during stay in yukon ottawa the election of mrs geo rge black as independent conserv ative from yukon the seat her hus band the former house speaker re presented from 1921 till this year gave to the house two women mem farmers who abandoned their drifting soil farms in the southwest of saskatchewan during the dry years will not go back that is the j bers as miss agnes maephail was opinion of dr c c spencc of the returned from greybruce economic branch of the federal de- 1 mrs black will be in familiar sur- partment of agriculture iroundings in ottawa a jnfj of j grain quotations following are yesterdays closing quotations on toronto grain trans actions for ear lots prices on basis cif bay ports manitoba wheat no 1 northern 9514c no 2 northern 92c no 3 northern 87c no 4 northern 83 no 5 northern 77c manitoba oats no 2 cw 3914c no 3 cw 33c extra no 1 feed oats 33v4c no 1 feed 31c mixed feed oats 32c manitoba barley no 3 cw 39c no 1 feed screenings 1450 per ton south african corn 65c ontario grain approximate prices track shipping point wheat 73 to 76c oats 26 to 29c barley 30 to 35c com 53 to g5c rye 37 to 40c malting barley 44 to 48c sleepless drinks tea a toronto mornng nowspaper pro duced a picture of mussolini already familiar a picture of the fellow with a terrible scowl on his face wearing a steel helmet above was the outline sleepless drinks tea ono finds it difficult to feel any quickening of the pulse over ii duces approach to a nervous break down one feels that had the ner vous breakdown been completo and occurred some ten years ago the world would be a happier place to day furthermore when one cearns that he has been drinking not cey lon or china tea but camomile tea one loses reverence even for tho steel thing on his head we have drunk that stuff one drops dried camomile flowers into a tea pot and pours hot water on them if one desires one adds tll- leul mint and verbena the re sult is not unlike dish water in which seaweed and pepperlment drops have been steeped ii duce may never be wrong but to our way of thinking anyone who drinks the stutt deserves a break down sanctions or no sanctions hamilton herald wealth of the north another gold find is reported on the shores of lake athabaska tho riches of tho north aro great and even yet arc baroly tapped ed monton journal the reporters picture it is the same in newspaper reporting the whole truth can not bo told there isnt time to wrlto it there isnt space enough in the paper to hold it and if it could be all told the reader would grow weary before he had waded half way through it the newspaper like the court aims to get at the essential truth tho reporter selects his details and builds his picture tho things that do not matter htt leaves out he is a painter rather than a photographer vancouver province much nonsense is being talked of the need of certain nations to ex pand both italy and germany could support their present populations in comfort under economic 32 system lord strabolgi