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scotch offer barter plan would offer manufactured articles for alberta products edmonton a picture of al berta wheat and cattle crossing the atlantic in exchange for jute fur niture cloth woollen blcnkets shoes and shirts was drawn recently for provincial treasurer cockroft by two directors of the scottish cooperative wholesale society robert murray and j w leckic the exchange of goods would be accomplished through a barter ar rangement so many bushels of wheat for so many yards of cloth there would be no exchange of money the idea of the aberhart social credit government being to import goods so they could be ex changed internally for social credit dividends directors of the scottish co operative old the provincial treasurer that had factories already turning out many products not manufactured in alberta the organization buys 1000000 worth of canadian wheat every year and is agreeable to a bar ter agreement the director said alberta has no factories turning out furniture cloth jute shoes or shirts in large quantities depending largely on eastern canada for its supply if a barter organization went into operation extensively it would be eastern canada that would lose the business busy on the lakes everybody has been glad to see the increased activity of freight and pas senger vessel on the great lakes this year the public has a pronoun ced liking for steamere passing through the soo canals this year were vessels carrying 51 million tons of freight and the season has some weeks to go last year the full sea sons total was 4s millions no less than 35- million tons of iron went through the canals this season had wheat done relatively as well as iron a still larger total would have been shown the canals at the soo far outdis tance the other great canals of the world in the quantity of freight car ried the figures for 1931 compare as follows sco canals 12 million tons suez canal 31 million tons panama canal 24 million tons kiel canal 16 million tons in nearly every case the canal traf fic reached its record peak in 1929 the worlds worst economic depres sion caused an extraordinary shrink age of traffic but during the first two or three years a marked im provement has taken place and this year promises to be the best since 1930 or 1931 the record year of the soo canals saw 92 million tons of freight passing through the locks even this years traffic promises to be 35 per cent below that maximum the rapers say editorial here comment from there and everywhere canada ontarios fish and game the province cannot be too particu lar about the enforcement of its game and fishing laws both fish and game are pf enormous importance and every effort ought to bo made to con serve them nothing in he nature of slaughter should be allowed such as has been the case with partridge in recent years ontario with its large areas of national parks should be a paradise for game and fish and the government will find that public op inion will support it in every effort it makes towards their conservation brantford expositor on bare feet give me time to get on my feet and i will pay that oil said a young almonte man the other day during the fair we saw him throwing away quarters on games at the midway and the other night we hear he lost g0 in a poker game if the youi man is left alone hell soon be back on his feet his bare feet almonte gazette a costly colony the people of italy are b ginning to realize that it will be a very long time before any benefit can be ob- but if the nations stabilize their cur- tained from the natural resources of rencies and remove trade restrictions stupid young fellows keep on stealing motor cas and they keep en g ting caught and they keep on gehing pun ished there is something wron- in the head of the young man o the older one who thinks that it is an easy mattar to steal a car and get away with it there is a number on the car and it is easily seen it can not be removed without armsing sus picion at once there are traffic of ficers in cities and on the highways and they are constantly in touch with all reports of stolen cars peterboro examiner will scarcely find men so docile as the last it is hoped it w t find them so poor either but why have a next chatham news the silent toast a few days ago a wellknown pub lic man in onario chief guest at a luncheon of directors of an agricul tural organization responded to the toast to the king this was an eg regious blunder quite inexcusable a man who is accustomed public banquets and ceremonials t is quite often done one of the bigwigs be ing called upon to reply particularly if he holds some kind of public of fice or is a militia officer there is only one man in the do minion who can reply to the toast the king and that is the governor- general who is the kings ersonal representative but the fact is the toast to the king is never replied to anywhere strictly speaking only his majesty can do so the correct thing is to rise and say the king god bless him or to sing the na tional anthem and then d in and it is all the same whether the beverage is watei or ehainpasne but to make a speech in reply never stratford beaconherald mounted police dbperse crowds in victoria park as victory marchers arrive large forces of police were on duty in victoria park when the 100jo members of the communist parly and other antifascist factions arrived for their mass demonstration after the victory march through the east end to celebrate the failure of fascist plans to march mid hold meetings in the samie district last week picture shows mounted police dispersing the crowd in victoria park london the best two stories of baron munchausen the worlds best liar are included in the new grade vi reader well if children are to study lying they may as well learn from an acknowledged master london advertiser solid improvement the dominion bureau of statistics economic index advanced last week to 1171 a gain of i per cent when cotapared with corresponding week of a year ago this is evidence of solid improvement in the countrys business ottawa journal to the extent that appears to be prob able waterborne traffic will continue to increase rapidly printing the news news is of for and by the people and thats the rub for the things a man is ashamed of and wishes to hide are exactly the things the people want to read about editors especially those who work in small towns or cities have an un enviable lot if john jones does something foolish and runs afoul of the authorities shall it be published his friends say if it were anyone else but john i would say yes it makes good reading but you know how sensitive are johns feelings other than his friends raise a fuss because its not published and the editor who entered the business with a banner emblazoned all the news thats fit to print jettisons an other ideal kamloops sentinel ethiopia the war cost over 1000- 000000 adding enormously to the debt of the treasury and how the in terest s to be met has not been dis closed only five divisions of troops have been brought home and it is estimated that expenditures in ethi opia during the ensuing year will amount to about 300000000 last year 200000000 of new taxes were imposed and the budget or this year is already that amount in although the present fiscal only two months old st timesjournal an ontario purtkin in the garden of walter stroh at conestogo there grew a pumpkin large enough to give every resident of the village and then some a taste of octobers favorite pie the pumpkin weighed 105 pounds and took one man bustling to handle it elmira signet girl in a million ida nicholson 17 who hopes to become a concert singer has been selected as the prettiest farm girl in western ontario at a contest in windsor she rises at six in the morning helps with the work de votes some time to music and retires at nine she can bake well and knows how to milk a cow likewise she has rosy cheeks and large grey eyes she lives on the fourth con cession of anderton township and some of the boys in the office are already looking up the road maps peterborough examiner material thinking and this spell must and can be broken it is this belief in the dusttheory of mans origin which denies the brotherhood of man it is the reality of mars spir itual origin which demonstrates the brotherhood of man here and now the responsibility for europes crisis rests upon no one statesman and no one people the greatest force for war comprises do single country d no siigle race the greatest force for war is the worlds bling accept ance of the theory tha man is ma terial and mortal from which stem false gods and false conflicts grow hong kong press at the close of day in ireland too there will be no safety on the roads for motorists or pedestrians un til public opinion asserts itself- and insists that the present perils are lessened or until those whose duty it is to help in removing them are made to understand that they are unfit for their responsibilities irish indepen dent dublin the red year is thomas chief dawn of day premier hepburn was mado chief dawn of the day by tho six na tions indians hut it will likely be n year or two before he goes ou the warpath kitchener record premier hepburns indian name is chief dayohessarah which sounds about as bad as anything earl rowe or col drew could think up to call him peterborough examiner premier hepburn is renowned for the earliness of his arrival at his office which may have something to do with the title of dawn of day conferred upon him by the six na tions indians brockvllle recorder and times crow meat good if you can eat it washington the united states department of agriculture has guessed that crow meat is all right 4 you can cat it experts said they wero receiving inquiries from persons who had heard reports that hunters in iowa and some other states found crow edible our guess is that it is similar in tood value to other wild fowl the food experts said nut as for eating it well new wealth the mineral resources of canada have produced in tho past half cen tury six billion dollars of new wealth an enormous sum and one which is not commonly realized by tho ordin ary citizen tho steady flow of wealth that comes from below ground has done more to help this country than is ordinarily appreciated dur ing tho past half dozen years in par ticular it has played a tremendous part in helping to keep things mov ing without her mineral wealth to holster up revenues in other fields that had fallen close to the vanish ing point canada would have been in a very sorry plight canadian geographical journal b healthy fun what other game can come up to golf for healthy nottostrenuous ex ercise a comfortable stroll for throo or four miles over springy turf under beneficial rays of a warm sun at least olghteo healthy swings at a ball from tho tees irons on the fair ways goodnoss know how many sometimes but excrclso just tho same say five or nx or seven strokes to the bole including the tap ering off putta on tho green 90 to 100 or more separate pieces of club work in a game and of course the walking is not all on tho flat a little climbing to greens remotely lo cated sporadic forays into the wood ed sections to look so hopelessly sometimes for a ball misdirected ami the fresh air one breathes on the course for three hours purified by tho scent of tho trees and wild flowers ottawa journal the next depression norman thomas socialist candi date or president of the united states says the next depression no money for hockey the whole problem of professional hockey for windsor this winter boils down to a question of money whether or not the fans realize it cash is required to operate a team in the league if there were some chance of coming close to breaking ever the promoters would go for it again but from their experiences in the past they dont see how they can run a team again this year with out standing ready to por a lot of money into the pot even before they got started this year there would he leftover debts from last season to be cleared windsor star the empire based upon a lie the inevitability of war rests upon a lie man born of dust would be discordant warring hateful selfde structive this lie needs its falsity exposed by active christianity its spell upon men is tho deep sleep of at its peak the citizens research institute of canada has been making a study of income tax and comes to the conclu sion that revenues from this source would not be increased by higher rates in the upper brackets they think the rich are being soaked about to their capacity for bearing punishment that if government try to take any more money from them governments will defeat their own purpose the institute finds that the income tax as levied in the united kingdom bears more heavily on smaller in comes than do the canadian levies but less heavily on larger incomes our exemptions are larger but on the other hand everybody here is hit by tho sales tax which is not a part of the british tax scheme certainly we seem to be going ab out as far as is practicable in the matter of redistributing wealth and wo should be entitled to assume that the income tax both dominion and provincial and in some provinces municipal has reached its peak ottawa journal theres a certain tender feelin that i notice comes astealin round my heart and never seems to go away till the chores have been completed and once more we are seated to enjoy the restful closin of the day darkness somehow always finds us in a state o mind that binds us to the fireside we have learned to know so well home to us is still a treasure and we get a heap o pleasure from its comforts more than tongue can ever tell folks who cherish home and stay there those who eat an sleep an play there are the folks who know what hap piness can be oh theres nothing half so pleasin when the world outside is freezln as this cozy nook that love keeps warm for me when old age at last has found me when its shadows creep around me and lifes sunshine slowly fades an disappears then with heart still free from sadness in this home where all is gladness ill enjoy the peaceful twilight of the years o lawrence hawthorne last year one to every fifty farms with an average of 47 persons injur ed for every 1000 farm inhabitants a total of 132931 days were lost from work only one county morton was free from farm accidents other reports varied from one in haskell to 94 in marshall mohler said the board was contemplating a study of the possible relation of types of farming accidents to provide necessary information for preventive work when a cow moos farming is dangerous writes the kansas city times j c mohler secretary of the state board of agriculture told members of the kansas safety council meeting here that statistics had shown far ming to be the most hazardous indus try in the state of the 223 deaths resulting last year from industrial ac cidents he said 112 occurred on farms one hundred and twenty- seven persons sustained permanent injuries a compilation by dr earlo g brown secretary of tho state board of health mohler told the delegates listed 3255 accidents in kansas farms there are always some people who want to rule and regulate the world they want to run everything in it now take for instance the rockport mass board of health it has issued an order to herbert d gray that his cow must stop mooing because some of the neighbors complain that her berts cow moos in the night and they cannot sleep there are a number of cows kept in the district but this gray cow is the one which moos at night the complainants are sure of that so the order has gone forth that this cow- must stop mooing at night mr gray has replied that he will be pleased to comply with the rule if the board of health will send him a book of instructions on how to regulate the mooing of a cow and that we think is rather a good and sufficient reply we would like to see a set of regu lations dealing with a cow and its moo we have heard it said that it was one way of communicating with her calf but the cow will moo when it hasnt got a calf she will moo be fore being milked and after being milked but seldom when the opera tion is on cows have always mooed and they always will although there have been many times when we have wondered what they meant by it peterborough examiner some new things about poultry in san francisco they are advertis ing electrocuted poultry and it means just that in ihe killing rooui of a large poultry plaut the birds aro attached by the feet to a conveyor and as they move along the line their heads are clamped to another convey or then a mau pulls- a lever send ing 1000 to 1500 volts through the birds as the fowl pass on their throats are slit by the revolving knifo then into a hot bath they go and fili ally on to the pluekers apparently chick sexlng is not tho latest and final word in sex determin ation science may make chick sex- ing unnecessary considerable inter est was aroused a few months ago by the scientific announcement that use of hormones extracted from the sex glands of slaughtered cattle and sheep made it possible to reversejho ncrnial sex development in malo chicks so that all eggs into which minute quantities of the substance theoliu had been injected would hatch femalo birds now dr benjamin h willicr of the university of rochester reveals that successful attempts to alter tho sex of female embryo chicks within the egg so that all chicks in a given hatch will he malo has been effected with the use of synthetic hormones if these experiments can be suc cessfully reduced to practical incu bator operation then chick sexing will be out of date and a buyer will simp ly order so many pullets and so many cockerels it is all very interesting says the farmers advocate but sometimes these announcements of scientific dis covery are prematurely made labora tory results are not always so amaz ing when translated into actual farm practice perishable things the days instructions fighting spirit by g williams it- opponents 60 trlroofch 6efs fo feef and for 10 yard 6ftlh hva team to come v oh aw show a little seflles heads0ard beiuerentw im pjujce sfalks uptoune wttrl clemchep fists and sc0wun6 fiercely sfops lb remove mup cajeftuy from osffs 61ses froosers a vruke wtth gefsltfplace 6aiis time out and 60e over tb bucket takes adrhkd005ik6re6t of wpr over face takes his piace in im amd shoots aw inspir- ittnnets 60 op ponents come ifirooth tbr 10 vm 6mn mdsoon fo3a qpyrlmlabytabril the peterborough examiner ob serves the dentist works with an assurance today which was unknown some years ago when he goes to extract one tooth two or any num ber of them he knows his patient will not cry out and alarm those who are in the waiting room the individual who is losing the tooth or the teetli can with a degree of indifference watch the man at work can notice that he tries one set of instruments and then another can see too when he lifts the offending tooth from the jaw the reason for all this is the freezing or numbing of the nerves and tissue and all else in the vicinity of the tooth the dentist uses novocain but just what is novocain we asked the dentist because the name seemed unsatisfactory when one says onion it means something be cause the object referred to is known it looks like an onion and tastes like an onion but novocain is different by the way of reply the dentist produced a technical diction ary from which the following word was taken to tell just what novocain is here it is paramidobenzoyldethylaminoethe- nolhydrochlorid it is our daily aim to keep this page interesting and also to make it uceul ai i inormative i r f it will be possible to show intellig ence and deep learning by pronoun cing that word it can be done a medical man did it in this office not two hours ago all that is some day bound to perish secretly in my heart i cherish tho tender seeds at the apples core the coloured shells on the wind blown shore all that is born to bloom a little while i delight in the frail the brittle the plant whose growth is touched with decay the cricket that lives for a summer day not for me any heavenly portal all that i prize is simple mortal the love that for a moment lights bewildering roads on stormy nights the happiness that comes through dreaming when the brain is tired of scheming the foolish hope that in the hour when all seems lorft bursts tnto flower helene mullins hollywood cal ifornia the plowman hears radio egg duel egss at 20 paces ver tlii weapons at a iot angjles due witnessed by 101 persons harvey 1uucr and gus lyjii the duellists vi led to decide wjso war the bel ter iiksman uin were allowed li ves each missed with the first 3 vii lle fourth tty bolh made c re hits on the otnse adam ap r f yon won n point motorcars fitted with receiving sets have long been quite common but it is only recently that we have begun to hear of tractor plows equipped with radio observes the new out look we do not know who started the practice whether the radio manufac turers or the plowboys themselves but the agricultural experts hail it as taking seme more of the drudgery out of the tilling of the soil there is something strangely fascinating about this most ancient of human occupa tions and we confess to a certain feeling of resentment when it was in vaded by the tractor men tilling the soil have always seemed to us to bo men doing a great work in the world it was monotonous perhaps but it was picturesque and it seemed leis urely and we know that men plow ing the fields have thought deeply about life the coming of the tractor seemed sacrilege but it had to come the plowboy used to whistle and sing by turns as he followed his team leisurely turning the furrows tho coming of the tractor meant good bye to all that no man could lift a tune against the rattle of a gas engine and so radio comes to his aid not so long ago the plowman was supposed to be remote from the madding crowd and out of the swirl and sweep of the fussy world now he can be right in the midst of it listening to news from the four cor ners of the earth as he jolts along on his tractor plow it is good news this story of radioequipped tractors it is one of the best uses to which radio has yet been put in the wholo range of its application blind mans dog also going blind vancouver tragedy hovers over a street corner where blind j nicholson sells his newspapers for seven years his faithful dog prince has guided nicholson about the city streets vctcrinaries have decided they can do nothing to aid prince who they say is going blind like his master i am confident that no nation shows more idealism and a grc tcr spirit of goodwill than the united states