♦ ^liH Sparks from the Press CANADA More Cars Are Bought In the eight muntlis to the end of August in thia your Cunxidiuua have b:)UKbt 88,975 new motor vehlcli'g lu thu same period of 1935 the numbei was 80,895. so tlio Rain Is ten porcent. In August Iho number of vehicles pur- chased ad-nnced !»>â- 0.9 percent, and the value 12.3 porce.it, .seeming to show that Canadians are buying more expensive cars. It Is Interesting at least, and possib Mfio-ant, to m te that In every province except Alberta more new cars were sold In August of :!C than In August of '3a. Thus Manitoba has showed • gain of 36 percent. Saskat chewan of 29, British Columbia of 17 ()iiebec of 23. Ontario of seven, the Maritime Provinces of 11. Alberta sales declined by 13.6 percent. â€" Ot- tawa Farm Journal. bpeed In Education All parents wish tbelr cliUUren to bo smart at school Some parents push their children ahead as fast as Ir pos Bible, and even urge t e teacher to give them special att .ilion, • that they will keep up with â€" or excel their playmates of the same ago. The Ottawa Journal iM' ' s this is a nnis- take, and goes on to .nake out n e i- Bible case against efforts to equal the records of the exceoH""""" Studo"'" --vu.« eduoatlon. o.^uuuing cannot be too thor ough. It Is far better to rIow down the brilliant >upll than to rush the aver age child, or. as (he Journal express es it "education In :'Twer, broader doses mixed with play Is likely to be better in the end than -vhen taken In Indigestible gulps." â€" Chatham News. attack and probably he had entered that same pen a good many times be- fore and nothing ever happened. But on this occasion thu attack came, and one can never tell just when thai will take place. It Is '.hat uncertainty which makes the bull such a danger ous animal. And It Is the long period when a man may work in the pen witli a bull and receive no Injury which puts him off guard and causes him to forget that the attack ..lay come any time, and with no warning. â€" I'cter horoi'Kh Kxamlner. Drivers Do It The papers report the case of an Illinois woman who has llvej five years with only half n brain. NotliinH remarkable about that. Some car dri- ers got by with none at all. â€" Strat ford Heacon-Herald. 'Soaking" Tinem The Dritlsh Government has collect- ed Inheritance taxes amounting to the equivalent of $4,843,770 from he estate of the late Sir Henry Well- come. The total estate amounted to $10,694,795. This is a Izeable sum, even for the British Treasury â€" and Indicates the determination of gov- ernments In these times to make a great estate bear an adequate share of the burden of public financing â€" Ila Hfax lerald. Strange Indeed . Lloyd George was o roHponsiblu probably than any other man outside of the French statcsm n for thi harsh and itnpossiblo terms of the V'er-.sallleti Treaty. He would hang the Kaiser on' drive Germany Into the dust And much of the troi ' Ics of Kuropo to- day are due to the attempts that were made to humble Germany and reduce her to th , status of i second-rate power Lloy(' Oeorg â- must a., it a great deal of the rosponsibilitios for the blunders of 1919. IJoyd George has been visiting Germany and the mercurial VVi-lshnian returns ai. ad nilrcr of Hitler, declan j that Ger many is all. ' ig only for defence In her extensive armament plans, de- fends the way she has broke the Pact of Versailles and supports Hit ler's demands for a return to the German Umpire of Momel and Dan- zig. It all sounds .ery Ktrango com- ing from I.loyd Ge( ;'e, the champion demicracy and Mb- alisni. It is 30 wonder that the Hrlljh ,)eople eer Lloyd George, but refuse to 1st iil*> with pov.- !r in those trying days of poace. â€" London Free Press Education For Marriage Preparation for mar, iage Is about the last thing thought of In school,; there aro no coui-ses in homn-niaking and motherhood. It Is true that domes- tic economy Is taught but where Is the/ teaching relating ;o household economy, to homo decoration, dress, hygl'ne. iHirsIng and usie, all mat- ters which have a bearing )n lp)me making? Marrlag Is " o most po i career of womanhood, nnd the train Itr: fo>- It Is ii, L'leited In a lar^-o inea Burc. The desire to have in the back- ground the Idea of economic ludepon deuce and to ho prepared to achieve It, If necessary. Is all very w.'l., but there h nometblng evf n more impor tant, and that Is the making of good wives. â€" Vlctir -i (Colonist. Cannot Trust A Bull Frank torey. i far.ner near Sea- forth I Iln.oM L'ounty, was badly in Jurod when a bull turned on him. We read that Mr. Storey wont into tho pen where the iinimal Is kept, and with no warning it turned on him. gored him badly and ir inipled on him. His cries brought I wo daughters who attacked the bull with pUchfc.rks and rescued Iheli father. The animal op- peared lo have become so enraged that a man was cnl'ed from Si'-fnrth and ho .shot It. Men who have been lo'cileis .ot livestock for years have Informed us On a number of occasions that no hill can bo trusted or regarded as safe This case near Senforlh Is typical of others. We tinvo no doubt Mr. Storey entered tho Hiall or pen where the bull was kept In order to attend (o It He would do nolhhr (o provoke an Câ€" 4 Day's Walk We get tired rocordinf,- slatistics of globe-girdling ships is! sea and in the air, of l(-ng-dlstance stunts all var- ieties of athletic spoodstors. Here are some fact.s and figures about wallcing In tho ordinary course of your day and mine. Wo do not vouch for their ab.so- iite accuracy, but tlioy wore given as follows In a paper road b fore the â- lion.-^l As.sociatlon r.' ^' ' > â- walks twenty .i.e milos a day. A woman shopper walks !:;ht miles. Tho ploughman Is a Utile hard to accept. Tho bargain counter s" vo r ems about right. Hui the housewife and tlio siness ' 'in simply cannot bo visualized. Say a iidicn is twenty feet ong. To wain nine miles a day. or about fifty fiou sand feet, means walking two >:ious and "ve hundred times the length ot tho kitchen, or Its eqr-valent In up stairs, dow stairs and in my lady's chamber, cellar, laru and attic. if the bii.slnesa man who illis ten miles a day presides over an establlshrr^ni with a four-huni'red-foot frontage, be would have to trav^'-se that lloor space one hundred and wenty-flve times a day. If ho really does It he Is â- lot a very pood business man. I. it if tho experts had calculated th • a bus- iness man In the course of a year de- velops six inches of >â- ' in callosity In pressing buttons. It would sound more like it." â€" The New Outlook. Honor For Varsity Chancellor, Sir William Mulock -..aiigemen'.K have been completed for a homecoming reunion ot graduates of the University of Toronto, it was announced by the Alumni Federation of the University of Toronto. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ' • m • • • • jMARKET QUOTATIONS »-»-♦-♦-• * » < Two Races The world struggle seems to bo nar owing down to two racs. the human race and tho armaront race â€" Th.! Toronto Saturday N'ight. THE EMPIRE Manufactures As Defence No CO ntry can regard Itself no.v as being adequately defended if Its manufacturing industries be not firm ly established. When Great Britain commanded t' seas and the Uomin Ions were merely part of a great Km pire there was no necessity for â€" and If there had been necessity there was no possibility of â€" thinly populated portions of the limplre providing ex cluslvely for their defence. Present circumstances resuire that each Do minion shall play its part, and the manufacturers of Australia may he relied upon to contribute to national solidity. â€" Melbourne .Argus. Jackie Moran, Xl-yuiuroid torraor Chlcagoau, jumped rroin auiograpn hunter to contract movie player Ju a year. Ills long-term agreement with I'atamoiiut studios â€" reward for his portrayal of the boy load In Valiant Is the Word of Carrie" â€" had Super- ior court approval. Mary Plckford, on seeing Jackie in Chicago, encouraged him to enter film work. PRODUCE Ph,i.i.S United I'a mer.s' L'y-oper..tive Co are paying the following price . for produce: EGGS â€" I'rices to producers, cases returned basis, delivered Toronto: "A" large 2'Jc "A" medium a7c Pullets, "A" Z2t "B" 21c ''C- IHC BUTTKK - No. 1 Ontario solids. 24o; No. 2, 23c. POULTltY - (Quotations in cents.) Drciscd Live l):esse(l Mllkfeii HENS "A" "A" "A" Over 5 lbs 12 4 to 5 lbs 11 3>^ to 4 lbs 10 3 to 3V4 lbs 9 Spring Broilers 1% - 21/a lbs U Spring Chickens IJnder 4 '/a lbs 10 4"^ to 5 lbs 11 ,'â- . to 6 lbs 13 Over 6 lbs 14 Old roosters ... "^ WHOLESALE PROVIPION PRICES Wholesal provision dealcn are quoting the followlnr prices to the Toront retail trrde Pork - Hams, 21c; shoulders, 14i,SjC butts. 17c; loin. 21 ; picnics, 14c. Lard â€" Pure tierces. 13c, tul I•"''^c: palls, 14c; prints, 13Vi'C. Shortening â€" Tiorccs. lU',-,c, tubs. 10%c; pa;i llVic; prhits, UVic. Tax to be added lo 'I shortening prices. GHA' I QUO AllUNS Following are quotations on grain transactions for car lots, prices on basis c.l.f. bay ts: Manitoba Wheat â€" No. 1 Norths n.n 3-8; No. 2 Northern, »i.O!) 7-S: No. 3 Northern, $1.0« 7-8; No 4 Nor tbern, $1.03 7-8; No. 5 Northern, $1.01 7-8; Feed Whr u, 88 U.t.. Weateri Oat:, - No. 2 C.W., 49Uc; No. 3, C.W.. 46'Ac; No 1 feed oats. 47Uc; No. 1 feed, '44?ic. Manitoba barley â€" No. 3 C.W.. 65 '/ic; No. I "eed screenings. $iG.r.ii per ton. Ontario grain, approximate prices track sb luiig point â€" Wheat, $l.U.i to .$1.05; oats 40c to 41e; barley COc lo UJc; coru. 80c to 82c; rye, (J5 to liGc iiini; h-.'-U-r. '8c to Jl.Ol; milling oats, 42 to 44c. LIVESTOCK PRICES Slev-rs, up t:; 1,050 lbs. good i/. u » 5.:;5 Do., nied um -125 4.75 Do., c-nmion 3.50 4.25 Steers, over 1.050 lbs., choice 5.75 6.uu Do., good 5.25 6.7j Do.. ii:edium ... 4.50 5.25 Do., common 4.00 4.5u Ikifers, good and choice 5.00 5.J5 Do, medium 4.50 4.75 Do., common "50 4 25 l''i-(l (â- :i|ves good and choice 7.50 8.UU Do., good 6.50 l.lh Do., medium 5.50 6.25 Covv.s, good 3.25 3.50 ' .. medium 3.00 3.25 Do., common 2.50 2.75 Cannors and cutters 1.25 2.2:i Dulls, good 3.00 3.26 Do., common 2.50 2.7.'> Stiic'ker and feeder oers, 3.75 4.2r) •1 ' CO IP 3.25 3.50 Milkers and springers 35 00 CO.OO Calves, good and choice voal.- s.oo S.j'J Do, coi mon to med.... 5.00 7,51) Grassers 2,50 3.5U Hogs, f.o.b 7.50 Do., off trucks 7.85 8.U0 Do, Off ars 8,25 Good ewe and wether lambs 7.75 8,00 Do. I edium 7.25 7.5U Bucks i.75 7.UU Do., culls 6.00 6.75 Sheep, good ligl „ 3.50 4.00 Do., heavies 2.50 3.5i) Do, Cliffs 1.50 2.00 Swiss Ministry Gets Wide Powers nKKNK, Switzerland â€" The Na- tional Council has voted dictatorial powers to the (Jovernmcnt in urgent economic matters. A bill, approved 87 to 58, gave tlie Government the right in "cx- tromoly urgent cases" to take mcai- iires not provided by law, before the Federal Assenilily has an opportu- nity to pa.<5s on them. l.y KLN EDVVAKlA-. Here are a few facts you might pack along in the old tackle-box. Now that the ^;o.ilcr days are here and we can expect the first frosts. According to the Indians and our more modern cuides. you will find they nearly all agree that Septembei is the inontl; when the big Muskies are caught. (That is the greater nuiobcrri. Some of these fact: apply to all game fish, Ifut now that we're in the season of Muskie, Pike and Lake Trout, we can try them out this sea.son. In casting, a great many peopW make the mistake of trying to throw the pluK (baseball fash ion) with the vvliole body. This is wrong because the ac- tual throwing power is done by a quick forward snap of the wist. Then again it seems to be the popular idea to throw tlit- plug out of sight. (If possible). I'll grant you that soinetiriies it i." neces.sary to reach a spot th't is impossible to apiiroach e.'nept by a very long cast. Here is a startling fact. Ninety per cent, of the fish caught while casting have been hooked (on casts between thirty ' and sixty feet. So try to ease up on the nius cle and put the plug where you want it, if only twenty feet away. The use of plugs is becoming, yearly one of the finest and most .sportsmanlike ways of stalkin;; fish. Making your own plugs is a great hobby. But here is another thing. Vou can buy the best plug of any of the leading manufac- turers, for around a dollar. This includes complete description of how to obtain the best results in the use of this tackle. Remember it is not on the t rface that the whole action is accomplished. For instance, after the cast is made, the rod is thansferred to the left hand, now we start reel- ing. First slowly, then a little faster. Now we jerk the rod up- wards or sideways. Then we let the tackle settle a little. I'll ven- ture to say this method will bring results. One last word â€" 'jet out on the water and cast from deep water to shallow. Lure your fish where he feels safer and at home in the cool depths. Double Income Predicted Soon Roosevelt Stresses "Return- ing: Prosperity" and Con- fidence of People WASHINGTON â€" President Roose- velt told an annual meeting of the Mo- bilization for Human Needs Income of the United States soon would e double what it was at the low point ot the depression and ''confidence has re turned lo the great mass of our peo- ple." Several times he referred to 'return Ing prosperity" and on that thesis he built an argument that private relief organizations should expect a larger measure of private nin and that every Individual has a greater obligation ''to aid In the relief of dlstre-ss in his or In her own community." Turning to general economic con ditlons. Mr. Roosevelt asserted: "Nearly 6,000.00 more men and wo men ale now at work In private In- dustry. Three million others aro en- gaged In useful work provided or as sisted by government, [-"actory pay rolls the first quarter of this year were more than $70,000,000 greater each week than they .vere in the first quarter of 1933." Fight For Farm Lasts 52 Years Death of Woman Recalls Long: Drawn-out Court Battle. VANCOUVER â€" An exciting bat- tle, verbal, legal and otherwise that rageJ 25 years around ownership of Greer's Reach, now Kitsilano Reach, was recalled by the death ol Mrs. Louis Greer, 8!>. a protagonist in the long-drawn out struggle . Samuel Greer, reJoubtable Irish- man, was a squatter on property near Kit.silano Reach granted to railway interests. From 1895 onward owner,ship of the lan,l was disputed in the courts and on the land. The most e.xciting episode occurred in 1897 when eviction papers were served on the Gr^er family. The Greer homestead was visited by Sheriff W. J. Armstrong and a large party of police officers Sam- uel Greer met them with a barrage of burkshot. After the smoke of bat tie had cleared away several casual- ties were taken to the hospital ana the young homesteader removed to jail. With the defence relegated to Mrs. Greer officers of the law moved in, seized the family furniture and loaded it on a box car. When they started to raze the house Mrs. Greer countered by removing her furniture from the car. Officers rushed back to the car only to find the staunch defender had repossessed the iiome- stead. A parley was held. Mrs. Greer agreet' to surrender providing the invaders caught and crated her chickens, and milked her cow. This was agreed to and for the next hour officers of the law were busily scouring the woods for errant chick- ens. Alter the chores were accomplish- ed Mrs. Greer changed her mind and refused to budge from the family property. The battle ended for the time being with transfer of Mrs. Greer and her children to town. The fight for possession of the household, however, continued in the courts. As late as 1900 Samuel Greer was endeavouring to prove ownership to the property. He died in 1925 no nearei a settlement than when the dispute first arose forty years before. Oxford Press Acquires Interest In Firm LONDON â€" The Oxford Univer sity Press has acqui.-ed an interest in Clarke, Irwin and Companj Toronto, and will be represented on the board of directors Oy Sir 11 .mphrey Mil ford and John Henry, it was learned heit". Henry has been with the Can- adian branch of the Oxford Univer- sity Press for twenty -one yeaib. At the same time W II. Clark and J. C. W Irwin, executive ofTicers of Clark, Irwin and Company, arc ap- pointee manager and a.ssistarit man- ager, respectively, of the Canadian Branch of tht Oxford Jnivcrsity Press. Under the new management the O.xford University Press will be con- fined to Bible.s and trade books, while Clark, Iiwin an^ Company will concentrate in promoting edu- cational books. Mystery Writer Is Put In Shade TORONTO. - The late Edgai Wallace was a tortoise In output ol writing compared with the average United Church minister. Rev. [)r, G. G. D. Kilpatrick, of Melrose United Church, Hamilton, farmer^ of Otta- wa, told the Wycliffe College Alum- ni .Association recently. In 25 years, he .said, a minister wrote enough to fill 150 volumes, estimated at the rate of two sermons on Sunday and a prayer meeting during the week '•-â- *"('^m:f^« AND OF oz â€" Based on the stories by L. Frank Baum "Dear me!" exclaimed Dorothy in surprise. "Have you been here all night, too?" "Of course," answered the hen, "when the coop blew away from the ship I clung fast to this cor.ier wtih claws and beak, for I knew if I fell into tlie water I would surely bo drowned. Indeed, 1 nearly drowned as it was. I was never ;.o wet in my life." "Ye.s," agreed Dorothy, "it was pielty wet, for a time, lint do you feel comfortable now?" "Not very," replied the hen, 'The sun has dried my feathers and I feel better since I laid my morning egg. But what's to become of us, I'd like to know?" "I would, too," said Dorothy. 'Hut tell me," she continued, "how does it happen that you are able to talk?" "Why, as for that," replied the yellow hen, thoughtfully, "1 never spoke a worn in my life, l»ut wiicp you askea n question a moment ago, it seemed the most natural tliinfr in tho world to answer you!" "That's strange," said Dorotny. "If we were in the Land of Oz 1 wouldn't think it so iiuccr, for there all animals can talk. Hut this ocean must be a long ways from Oz. "What is Oz?" asked the hen. curi- ously. 'Well," began Dorothy, hesi- tantly, for she was at a loss to explain that wonderful country. Hut just then the hen interrupted. "Look !" she exclaimed, "we're not far from land." "Where?" cried Dorothy in excitement. "Over there," .n.swered the hen, pointing with one claw. "We seem to be drifting toward it, so by noon we should find ourselves on dry l:ind." "I shouM like that," said Dorothy, with a sigh, for even now her feet and legs were wetted by the sea water which came in through the slats. .Sure enough, the cot)p soon grounded on a sandy beach, and Dorothy and the hen clambered out. There were no houses to be seen, not any sign of people on the place. :;i 4 en. -»• ! a fjgS^L ^Ht.