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WINE, | +» FARM PROBLEMS Experts Are Helping Them Overcome tural FORMER. THURSDAY. MAY 13, 1926 od plant breeding and improvement are able to increase the yield of some of the stable Chin- ese crops by 10 per cent. in § years a real step toward famine preven- tion will have been taken, sipce the improved strains: will have. then been distributed 'to Chinese farm- ers, ka "The Chinese are eagdr. to learn in- 63 ACCIDENTS ON GRADE CROSSINGS On the Canadian National Railways During the Year Your Sheep Deserve Attention EMILIE GOURD WELFARE WORKER Has Become Most Popular Through Her Work Among Tie ARCADE .. Difficulties. y sge------ .~ Ithaca,-N.Y., May | 10.~~American experts, are helping agricultural ) their Chinese 'colléagues solv problem of famine Orient. Rk. Plant breeding authoritivs of the New York State College 0 Agricul- ture at Cornell Universit, operating with the Nanking\U sity College . of Agricultu Forestry in a concerted efiort. to produce better varieties of cops in China in the hope that the Renace of famine may be greatly le sened if not ultimately removed. \ The instruction and investigajion at Nanking work was begun than a year ago by Pref. H. H, and 1s now being continued by C. H. Meyers, Prof. Love declares that' if _pyevention in the hunger-ridden rep fc of the 4 struction," said ; Professor: e the | For centuries. ghe seed or to weeding out terial, | niver- and use, and are sowing Chinese eties of wheat, barley, corsa, and soy beans." : te THOSE THIN WALLS ess : w Lipve Piaf. \ Am- i try do you suppose? flat is writing a letter." and they take kindly. to 'eur. Lave. "The task of teaching China to rajse more food ia largely ome of show- ing her how to develop better seed. has - been - using most of her available agricultural land, but she has. given very little attentiom either to improving her the poor ma- "We are devoting our attention to crops that will yield maximum. re- sults with the methods already in "John Is that'a mouse in our pan- "No, my dear, the man In the, vari rice next H] -- -upiBrain, Rerves, and, Body 1 Delicious Laity Digested At all' drugists 60c ©0c $1.50 One'cup of Ovaltirpe cont pine more nourish - bigs di 17 cuprils i di ig ying 8 © 'General Motors' Wood For Immediate Delivery . & | Scranton) i TL DDO PM sizes. \ V': COAL POCAHONTAS, CANNEL and STEAM Use our uptown office, 37 Simcoe Street North, in charge of Bob Henderson Phone (Yards), 262 ; Phone 9C (Uptown Office) 540 All coal and coke orders weighed on city scales if desired. Waterman's newest fountain pen is called Ripple- / Rubber. The material is hard rubber--the most lasting and satisfying of all pen materials. The - color design is a series of cardinal and black ripples resembling in design the marks left Swiss Women Geneva, May 11.---If women voted 'in Switzerland and were ask- ad to cast their ballat for the most eminent in their confederation there doubtless would be a flood of votes for Miss Emilie Gourd, who personi- ties dynamic activity in all move- ments for the public welfare. Miss Gourd, of Geneva, is editor of "The Feminist Movement," the official organ of the national alli- ance of Swis feminist societies. Women of Switzerland are permit- ted to vote only in certain muni- cipalities on questions touching re- ligion and education. Hence, they are waging 'a persistent campaign to obtain the general franchise right, The leader in this movement does wot expect the new Swiss parllament to play an important role in sul- fragist history, but the struggle will 80 on, "Our tactics are to win over to the cause of women's suffrage first one canton, then another canton, and then still another canton," Miss Gourd said, "Which canton will come to us first 1 know not. The big test will come when the voters as a whole as a federal body will be asked to decide whether women are to vote in Switzerland." Mis Gourd was born in Geneva in 1879, the daughter of J. J. ers are placin the care the ally realize sumption has at last overtaken pro duct now, most inviting. sheep raising source of cas out nf debt. As time goes on, progressive farm- a higher valuation on the variety of sheep they raise and are given, It is gener that a sheep raiser se- cures two crops per year--the lambs and the wool, All indications paint to a well sustained price for lamb and mutton due to the fact that con- on and prices heing paid for wool, mutton and lambs are, even Compared with other live stock, provides a profitable income. Early lambs can be made ready for market by June and when the wool is harvested and sold in June and July, this rey. enue is received at a season when most needed by the average farmer. Theie are many instances where farm flocks of sheep have kept farniers In one instance, 0 ewes roduced 65 lambs which when mar- feted averaged 66 pounds at 15c per pound or a total of $648.37. The woo! tipped .com the 50 ewes averaged a 1 he arm 1i0ck os sheep give wo or 193 each year---ambs and wool. trifle over seven pounds per head and brought well over a $100.00 or a total of almost $800.00 from the flock of only 60 ewes. Such a harvest, however, is not possible without a return by the owner, He must lay the foundation hy securing a desirable ram and must have good basic value in the hreed of sheep he is raising. While there are more than 1,575, 000 shearable sheep in Canada, onl approximately 29,000 are pure-hred, Annually the numher of pure-bred sheep increase in proportion te the total number of sheep, which is a favorable indication for a continuance of quality for years to come. The sheep owner realizes that only on quality' may he build a permanently profitable business in sheep raising. A close study of breeds most suit. able to existing conditions and most advanced methods of feeding and care, always carries with it a large dividend in results obtained. Your sheep deserve good attention. Gourd, well-known philosoph and professor at the University of Gen- eva. At an early date she herself hecame a professor in the private high schools and later was made secretary and then vice-president of the Union of Women of Geneva. In 1914 she founded and person- ally directed a sewing circle for wo- men whom the great war rendered | Canadian Tariff Cut Beneficial to U.S. Industries homeless and workless--a circle which continues its usefulness to this day by providing employment for needy women. Miss Gourd has directed several in- vestigations into social problems af- fecting the welfare of women, pre- sided over the Geneva exposition which was devoted to showing "what Geneva women are achieving in prac- tical production, and was foremost in insisting that two women should be appointed as assistant police offi- cials at Geneva, In 1908 she became secretary of the National Alliance of Swiss wo- men societies and later, as president of the Geneva association for women sufirage, launched a popular move- ment in favor of extending the fran- chise to women. Then followed elec- tion as secretary of the International Alliance for Women Suffrage and for it organized at Geneva the eighth in- ternal woman suffrage congress. She is now the representative of this or- ganization to the League of Nations and the International Labor Of on all subjects of interest to women. Despite this activity, Miss Gourd has 'written several worth-while volumes, in addition to her daily journalistic output. (Toronto Mail and Empire) "Automotive Industries," an au- thoritative trade paper published in Philadelphia, has a five-page ar- ticle under the heading, "Canadian Tariff Cut Beneficial to U, 8. In- dustry as a Whole." The article is illustrated by a cartoon showing Juck Canuck removing obstacles at the boundary line and welcoming Uncle Sam driving an American auto- mobile across that line into Canada. The reading matter that goes with the cartoon is as follows: "The lowering of the Canadian tariff reduces the barrier against the entry of U. 8, automobiles and will undoubtedly result in materi- ally increased sales, Those manu- facturers who have invested in Can- adian factories, however, stand to lose the advantage which they pre- viously enjoyed." Other passages in the article are as follows: "Canada is an Important and eas- ily accessible market for the auto- wobile products of this country." "Obviously those companies which have not had manufacturing plants in Canada have nothing but good to receive from the downward revision of tariff schedules." "Consequently all of the manu- WINNIPEG MAS SUCH LONG EVENINGS (From the Ottawa Journal) We hear a lot about westerners having little time for anything but bard work and yet Winnipeg with a population of 286,000 bas 20 golf | taining plants in by wavelets on the sea-shore. Although startling when it catches the eye, it never becomes tiresome or monot- onous. The effect is original 4 and beautiful, exciting 'ad- 4 thusiastic about the opportuities af- forded them for business in that territory. Only one thing is bothering them, as well as those who have been maintaining Canadian factories: The dealer sit- uation apparently was not comsider- ed at all in the making of the tar- iff revision. :- The price reductions which naturally have followed the reduction of levies leave the Camad- ian dealers with car stocks on which they must take a beavy loss. The 3,500 dealers and distributors who make up the Canadian distributing organization stand to lose some- thing - like $5,100,000 on these stocks, according to C. J. Brawley, secretary, Toronto Automobile Trade Association." "If our Canadian plants decide that those plants cannot be operated profit- ably under the conditions made by the lower tariff---and it seems like- ly that this" will be the decision in a number of cases--a considerable immediate loss would seem to be involved inevitably in jdle plant facilities, idle production equipment and so forth. The tariff advantage fo be gained om export shipments through Capada to Great Britain and its possessions would scarcely be sufficient to compensate for loss of the Canadian market by Canad- jan plants, since exports last year comprised only 31.5 per cent. of the total Canadian passenger car pro- duction" In the United States "Commerce Reports" of November 3, 1924, warning was given to American manufacturers against hastening to establish branch plants im this coun- try. In that publication the cliief of the United States division of for- eign tariffs made, under the head of "Canadian Tariff Policy and Ameri- can Export Trade," the following statement: "The growing movement for the establishment of branch factories in Canada by American manufacturing concerns, both as a means of sup- plying the Canadian market and as a more advantageous base for ship- ping to certain export markets, is closely tied mp with Canadian. tar- iff policy both in its internal and ex- ternal aspects. in fact there are movements under way mow which a year hence may considerably cur- tail the advantages of operating branch factories in Canada, at least from the wiew point of supplying foreign markets." That American observers seemed courses . Two of which are support- ted by the taxpayers. increasing "their | manufacturers having to have pretty good information as to the King Government's Poten- tions, intentions deferred a little be- yond the term he calculated, TOPIC THAT WAS TABOOED A planter asked a colored preacher what subjects he usually . preached on in his labors among his people. "Oh, dif'rent subjects," said the preacher. "Sometimes Ah preaches on love, sometimes on baptism, some- times on heaven, and such subjects." "Why don't you preach occasion- ally on the subject of chicken steal- ing?" "Well, Ah tell you, bess, when Ah preaches on dem subjects it allers throws a kind o' coldness over de meetin.' The plans for the establishment of an up-to-date Motor Camp at Lake Ontario Park by the Kingston Branch of the Ontario Tourists' Association are being held up for the present owing to the many objections raised in certain guar- ters to the details of the proposal. 1 | facturers who have not been main- | Canada are en- | With it has to just rinsing, Tourists' 1925 Figures compiled by the operating de- artment of the Canadian National I show that during 1925 on the lines of the system there were 65 grade crossing accidents to vehicles, in which 40 people lost their lives and 51 were seriously or slightly injured. In only nine cases were there no fatalities or injuries. All but twelve of the acci- dents happened to automobiles or mo- tor trucks. While it is difficult to place the blame in all cases, subscquent invedtigations rigorously pursued showed the railway company was not at fault, every pre- caution having been taken by it to pre- vent these oceurences, In two cases three complete famil- ies were wiped out and in one acei- dent two whole families lost their lives, It is also a patter of undisputed fact that good fortune rather than any other circumstances was alone responsible for the comparatively low mortality figure among such a large number of cross- ing accidents. The automobile has yet to be made that can try conclusions with a swiftly moving train, and win. Investigations proved that in a large number of cases the accidents were due solely to carelessness on the part of the drivers of the automobiles, Listed among the accidents are two where autoists drove their cars into the ten- der of the engines; three where the automobiles hit the second or car back of the engine and one where the driver actually crashed into the twentieth car back of the engine and did it with sufficient force to bruise and somewhat injure the occupants of the automobile as well as to damage his machine. No one month was free from cross- ing accidents, but October led, which might indicate that towards the end of the motoring season, drivers became more careless in aproaching railway Crossings. The accidents by months were: Jan vary, 1; February, 2; March, 4; April, 3; May, 7: June, 4; July, 9; August, 6; September, 7; October, 10; Novem- ber, 8; December, 4. Deputy Commissioner Cuddy of the Ontario Provincial Police in charge of all criminal investigations sald last night that District Inspec- tor Gurnett of Belleville is still at work on the Warkworth case. He stated he had no official knowledge garding the case, MOTORING JUST NOW IN ITALY (From the London Express) Italy, at present, is far from dull, as is shown by this extract from a letter 1 have had: "We were approa- ching the town of Tivoli when, sud- denly, a band of Fascisti rushed out, stopped the car, and plastered it with their colors and a huge notice, 'Viva Mussolini." We sat quiet, and so did ithe chauffeur. "Some distance further on a red, his head gashed open, ran by our | codors; but most of the people cheer- | ed us and waved their hats." third-|4 Friday and Saturday Continued FF \ Extraordinary § ®, Selling _,| of ™! 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