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voice of the press canada the empire and the world at large canada the deadly peashooter one juvouile nuisance follows anj other in st thomas now its pea shooters tin peashooters costing one cent each motorists have complained about boys shooting peas and shot at then as they passed and friday even ing telephone calls were eceived at the police station from nervous wo men reporting that mischievous young sters were shooting peas against the windows of residences a woman also reported to the police that she stepped on peas on the sidewalk lost her bal ance and fell injuring one of her limbs isoys with peashoe ters who were nearby when the woman fell are believed to liavo been responsible definite instructions have been given the members of the polico force to take possession of ail shooters that they see in the hands of youngsters merchants should be prohibited from selling such things to children st thomas timesjournal rural school fairs the rural school fairs becoming each year more popular are undoubt edly doing a great deal to inspire country boys and girls to know more about farming and its possibilities and the growth of this movement is a healthy sign these school fairs are contributing an important service and they deserve the support of the com munities in which they are held their success is a good omen for the pro gress of agriculture peterboro ex aminer the rise in prices newspaper readers have heard a lot about the renewed toeling of confi dence provading business canada and the united states the upward trend of basic commodity prices ex cepting wheat which is allimportant to the west in the last vo or three months accompanying the remarkable activity in stock and bond prices has given ground for that confidence the advance in prices has not however narrowed the gap between farm pro ducts and manufactured goods and until that has been done progress is not likely to bo very satisfactory saskatoon starphoenix turning point reached the general feeing that the turning point in economic conditions has been reached is supported by the econ omic annalist published by the de partment of agriculture ottawa it shows that tliero was an increase in the bureau of statistics index of wholesale prices for august which marks the first upturn since novem ber 1931 the amount of the in crease which was from gcg in july to cg8 in august is not in itself signifi cant but the fact that a slight in crease was registered may bo of im portance the price level of a num ber of basic commodities including sugar rubber cotton silk copper tin silver and coal registered gains on canadian and world markets the economic annalist adds that perhaps the most satisfactory indica tion of what may bo ahead is that tor about a year prices and the trend of business though slightly downward have passed the period ofwild gyra tions that characterize the earlier stages of a depression indications of stability have not been lacking in re cent months such stability has pre ceded an upturn in business during previous periods of this nature tor onto mail and empire portancc year by year- telegraph london daily empire cooperation one of the great troubles of the pre sent day is that industrialists and mer chants have lost their ability to make plans confidently tor tho future the great value of the ottawa resolutions lies in tho fact that they reveal to the world that british policy has the backing of the whole british empire an appreciation of this solid and sig nificant fact may and we believe will exercise a determining influence upon the deliberations of the coming inter national conference cape argus the british navy and the empire new zealand has been wont to claim with pride that britain has been given preference of many years without any thing being asked in return the atti tude is legitimate up to a point es pecially as evidence that sentiment in favour of empire trade has long flour ished it is not quite correct to say nothing ias been given in return whether asked or not as mr downie stewart pointed out long ago britains entirely disproportionate burden of empire defence has properly been claimed as a setoff to preferences auckland weekly news the results at ottawa the material results are not very great but the agreements are import ant in that when ratified by the vari ous parliaments they will formally regularize commonwealth trade ar rangements over a wide field and form a solid foundation on which more am bitious structures can be erected natal witness pietermaritzburg canadian scots remember essex comrades three thugs beat nightflying gag toronto man on the continent release victim after spend- canadian scottish memorial to their essex co mrade3 an oak panel was unveiled at warley essex barracks chapel recently by lieut a it stone essex scottish of canada left to right lieutcol a e maitland mrs hardingnewman majgen j c hardingnewman lieut a r stone and mrs a e maitland experiments made this season to m lit w provide a night air mail and later mg imgnt in house passenger service between frankfort toronto savagely heating up their and cologne and reported to the da- elderly victim although n- resistance partment of commerce by v i was offered three men bound ai i lowrie consul gemrtil at frankfort- gagged cgyearotd maurico fogler in onmain reveal the backward state ot his house at 230 dundas street west light flying on the continent as com- on saturday night tojk everything ot pared with the united states whera value they could find and then caliw the major airline do as much as one- made themselves a merl in tho kit- third of all their flying between dusk chen and afterwards went to sleep l and dawn over the lighted airways an upstairs room adjoining tho one in i the distance flown on the german which they i iced the helpless fogler ij about 100 miles and the route at nine oclock sunday morning crosses a range of mountains the they untied the rope binding foglers highest of which is 2782 feet tha hands and then walked out fogler i airport at cologne is lighted suffi- yelled for help from his window and ciently a number of electric lights then collapsed ho waj taken to tor- which throw red beam- upward mark onto geiural hospital where it was the contours of the airport in addi- found he had sustained a posslb tion a powerful searchlight throwing fracture f le jaw a lacerated eye a v beam is provided to mark the vegetables for canada signs are not wanting to show that a good number of person intend to grow vegetables in jamaica their objective is the canadian market the line ot vegetable culture that interests them most is tomato canada im- pors about two million dollars worth of tomatoes between october of one year and may of the next the bulk of the tomatoes that are offered for sale in canada during the six months referred to are from the southern states of america and the republic of mexico the possibilities of the cana dian market should appeal to parties in jamaica as they have appealed to growers in some of the sister colonies it is of importance to remember that the dominion government admits bri tish westindian tomatoes duty free while the foreign product is subject to a duty of 30 per cent ad valorem jamaica gleaner other opinions st lawrence waterway the next step in the development of tho inland american empire is the st i lawrenco waterway already five- 1 sixths completed there are 22 states linked together over a period of years to effect this waterway opportunity and every one of them knows on the evidence of long painstaking examina tion that the benefits from its comple tion will be immediate and its future fruits to those who prepare for them incalculable this waterway is com ing and it is coming soon in face of the 55000000 people directly affected by it it will take a very intrepid and reckless political party to try to ob struct it detroit news dr geo s barton named new deputy of agriculture ottawa dr george s barton pro fessor of husbandry anil dean of the faculty of agriculture macdonald college mcgill university has been appointed deputy minister of agricul ture according to official announce ment to this effect dr barton fills the vacancy caused by the retire ment last year of j h grisdale born at vancouver hill ont on june 29 18s3 he was educated in ontario and quebec from the uni versity of toronto he received the degree of bachelor of scientific agri culture subsequently laval uni versity made him a doctor of scien tific agriculture in 1907 he became assistant in ani mal husbandry at macdonald col lege and three years later was named a lecturer his professional chair came in 1911 and seven years ago dr barton was appointed dean of the faculty of agriculture vicepresident of the canadian society of technical agriculturists from 1920 to 1923 dr barton was made president in the latter year he held the post from 192325 in addition dr barton was president of the eastern canadian society of ani mal production 192s30 dr barton is married slow driving brings man before magistrate westport conn mr fred buck t new york has learned that one may drive too slowly in connecticut he was rec- tly ordered to appear in town court on a charge that he held up a long lino of traffic on the boston post road by operating his car at 25 miles an hour surcharge on traffic to us 6 to 9 per cent ottawa the rate of exchange for new york funds as affecting cana dian railways from october 15 to 31 has been set at nine and threeeights premium by the dominion board of railway commissioners during this period the rate ot surcharge no inter national freight and express ship ments will be six per cent pas senger surcharge will be based on nine per cent surcharge decrease in juvenile crime an official report from ottawa shows that there has been a decrease in juve nile crime amounting to 10 per cent in the major offences and 25 per cent in the minor ones this is satisfac tory and naturally enough people are asking the reasons for it some of them think that greater facilities for games and recreation have a good deal to do with it which can bo used as an argmuent why homo lessons should bo abandoned so that more tme can be devoted to them another reason given is that tho depression has been making people stay more at home and thus the children have come under greater parental care kings ton whigstandard the empire jailed for debt there wore goooo people sent to jail in 1930 according to the report ot the latest prison inquiry thirteen thousand of theso were imprisoned for debt twelve- thousand wero impris oned for not paying the fines inflicted on them seven thousand wero kept in custody on remand a great num ber of theso wero imprisoned in this way because they could not find bail thus nbout halt of tho prison popula tion wero put behind tho walls he- cause their principal crime was poverty london daily express survival of the fittest wo should not ignore sir george newmans warning that tho great de crcaso in infant mortality means tho survival of many weakly and perhaps even dctoctivo children who swell the numbers ot tho unfit whether these weaklior members of tho com munity can bo raised to a standard of normal efficiency is a problora which our health sorvlcos havo not yet folvod it must become ot greater itn- child labour mr hoover has made an eloquent and sensible appeal to tho whole na tion to pre s for tho abolition of this monstrosity it is to ho hoped that his words may receive tho attention they morit he urges a declaration of war on child labour for two reasons either of which alone should suffice to unite public opinion actively against that blemish upon our national life it is the president points out an evil which connotes injustice to children impairs their health and re stricts their preparation for manhood and womanhood it is further a gross injustice to tho adult worker who need3 all available opportunity tor employment that he may support hl3 family this problem is no unim portant matter it affects tho actual lives of upwards of 2000000 american children today boston globe name is changed sudbury to avoid confusion with tho burwash industrial farm the namo ot the burwash post office in tho village will be changed to estaire on nov 1 postmaster w whitehead of sudbury said saturday the name ot tho railway station however will not be changed officials ot the cana dian pacific railway affirm british motor cars given preference by hong kong hong kong contribution of tho british crown colony of hong kong to empire trade betterment sought under the agreements of the ottawa imperial conference came friday with formal announcement that brit ish motor cars would enjoy a prefer ence in entering the colony there will be no customs duty but foreign cars will pay a special addi tional registration fee of 20 per cent on their landed cost execution of reid set for january 6 and sundry other bruise- for cool nerve and audacity this burglary stood alono in recent crime history police declared after they had obtained foglers story the trio went about the business ot beating up their victim in an almost fiendishly cruel manner one of them brandished a gun which served to prevent any at tempt at resistance but this did not prevent them from hammering him in to a state of near nconsclousness two taken in custody shortly before midnight police ar rested two young men and after con siderable questioning held them un der charges of having and carrying airport in times of heavy fog radii equipment keeps the pilot and tl server in contact wih stations by operating the radio key in the air plane the exact position of the piano is determined by the statiens at frankfort and cologne and traismit- te- by radio to the operator in tho plane with instructions in what di rection to fly at frankfort when a plane nears an airport an automobile with a num- l r- of ordinary keros ne or oil storm- lmps attached to hooks in run from one side of the field to the ether in the direction against the wind and the lights are placed in a line on tho field the first amrs placed in the weapons at a late hour police de clined to state whether they had been j danger zone near the edge of the field linked with the robbery ot fogler are fitted with red glass while the they are following ones to the end of the lino chriss lambroff 22 of queen street are ordinary white gass the flier west and henry michel 23 ot rich- should see in which direction he should mond street west land and the red lights at the ono lr j c j i detsergts frank crowe and wili end oi the line of lights show the di- jungle murderer sentenced liam mcallister were driving west on i rection from which to approach when montrealottawa air service suspended montreal temporary suspension ot tho air service between montreal and ottawa effective after saturday was announced friday by canadian airways limited the line had been operated since the opening of the imperial conference and was well patronized while the conference was sitting but carryings had fallen off 3inco then it was stated monk rasputins daughter to be circus equestrienne paris mme mario solovieff daughter ot the assassinated monk rasputin who wielded great power at tho russian court in tho years just prior to the revolution arrived her sunday to make her debut as a circus equestrienne she has achieved suc cess as a dancer in berlin bucharest madrid and lisbon but has not ap peared as a circus performer before at peterboro assizes peterboro convicted by a jury murdering his jungle companion har ry thomas a belleville war veteran by stabbing him in the breast in a boathose here on the night of sept 3 henry w reid 3g formerly of camphellford was saturday sentenced by mr justice wright to be hanged on jai g reids only reply when asked if he had anything to say before sentence was passed was a murmur that he had not had a fair trial on the part of the jury and a lowvoiced plea have mercy upon me fred cummings peterboro youth who was convicted of criminal negli gence as a result of tho death ot mrs audrey cook a passenger in cum mings car when it plunged into a ditch was sentenced to two years less a day in the ontario reformatory a similar sentence was imposed on georgo w vass 23 found guilty of manslaughter in connection with the death of his uncle william connors who was killed when a car driven by vass collided with another vehicle slight gain in employment and payrolls in the us washington the united states lo- bor department reported a gain ot 3g per cent in employment and an i- crease of 2g in payrolls during sep tember on the basis ot figures from 54s51 reporting establishments in manufacturing employment wus up 45 per cent from tho august fig ure and payrolls increased 5 per cent these figures were based on reports from establishments with 2g208g7 em ployees whose combined earnings in one week wero 44020055 of 14 in dustrial grouvs reporting the depart ment said 12 showed increases for the month queen street at about 1130 when the plane is about to land a charge ot they saw two men walkng east the magnesium powder is ignited olec- polico car drove ahead to the corner i trically at each end of the wing to of peter street where it waited as furnish light for landing the advan- tho two men came abreast the officers tages of this hiethjd are said to be tho leaped out each seizing one man extremely low cost and the fact that they were searched on the spot and there is no light in f ont of the filot police stated a shoulder holster ccfh- all projecting structures sround tia taining a 32 revolver was found un- airpert have been provided with red dor michellb shirt i lights all operated by a central both men were taken to headquar- switchboard ters here sergeant of detectives ft wilbur dawn questioned them police claim a visitr to lambroffs home ro- flying fields guarded vealed that he had been keeping the frcm j te w gun for michell for a couple of weeks j toronto the future of canada lambroff was charged with keeping offensive weapos michell with carry ing concealed weapons both charges refer to the came weapon fogler who operates a watch repair ing shop in the front room of his dwelling te a bachelor and lives alone dominion apple crop from an aviation point of view la said to be immense and that in a few years what steps are being taken to guard aircraft against high- tension wires this was the question by one ot the speakers of the institute of me chanical engineers from great bri tain during a discussion after an ad- smaller than last year dress by dr f a gaby of the hydro- electric power commission of on tario at the university of toronto where the party was welcomed dr gaby who traced the story ot hydro development and its engineering pro gress replied that power lines woro placed underground near landing fields as population increased ex tension of the underground system would follow the commercial apple crop of can ada will total 34b500 barrels this year according to she agricultural de partment of the canadian national railways by provinces the crops is estimated as follows nova scotia 1- 808500 new brunswick 34000 quebec 173000 ontario g80000 british columbia 4 4 8500 doxcs the crop in eastern canada is below that cf last year bu it is higher in british columbia for the whole jf canadian farm loans the dominion the crop will be about 361552 barrels less than in 1931 other fruit returns for the year in canada are pears 454000 bushels or 57 00 more than last year peaches 878500 bushels or about even with 1931 plums and prunes 254500 bush els an increase cf 20000 bushels li apes 54044000 pounds or 2680000 pounds more than last year the grapes are used largely lor the manu facture of wine an industry that was established in cansda in 1852 forest fire wipss out oregon town ontariomanitoba line remapped in 4 months winnipeg originally chartered in 1s97 the provincial boundary between ontario and manitoba has been re traced by a survey party which re cently returned to winnipeg the party consisting of 11 surveyors and axo men under j w pierce winni peg remapped the lino between tho provinces and hewed a trail to show tho border through the hush they were away for four months australia may use egrets to kill off buffalo fly brlsbano australia the blood sucking buffalo fly a post may meet its waterloo it a plan to import egrets from india goes through tho egrets lovo nothing better than to gobblo bloodsucking bugalo flics and cattlo ticks tho only fly in tho ointment is that honey producers fear egrets also havo a tasto for bees hunter shot in his home board profit 271322 ottawa operations ot the cana dian farm loans board during tho year ended march 91 1932 brought a profit after all expenses wore do- ducted of 271322 it was shown in a report tabled in the house of com mons recently the profit for tho previous year was 156423 under tho act the dominion gov ernment subscribes to five per cent ot the stock provincial govern ments five per cent and borrowers flvo per cent subscriptions at tho i j end of march 1932 wero as follows lnrougn cat and uog fight domiuion ot canada 393937 brit portland ore all tho perils that j columbia 59605 alberta 158- stalk the trail when a man goes doer hunting were successfully survived by edward love but a cat and dog fight in his own home resulted in his being shot lovo had returned from hunting and set his gun down in tho corner a cat and a dog chose the scene for a spirited battle they struck the gun tho gun struck the floor and liho discharged bullet struck loves right leg 15 manitoba 2777s quebec 109- 1s9 new brunswick 26177 nova scotia 12470 and the borrowers 403135 macaroni wheat types studied in the west of agriculture washington revises crop estimates for this year j washington forecast ot 2s84- 6s2000 bushels of corn and a pro- liminary cstimato of 711707000 bushels ot wheat for this years crops in tho united states were re ported rejently by tho department winnipeg oct 11 a study ot varie ties ot wheat and the location ot areas in western canada most suitable to a monhvago its forecast of corn production this year was 2854307- 000 bushels last year 25g3271000 once a forest fire gels under way theres no stopping it and it a town happens to bo in tho way- cochran oregon is just a pile ot smoking debris today aftor a rocent holocaust the plant will be in oporation within the next tow weeks tho production ot highquality macar- bushels wero produced onl will soon bo under way at an ex- 1 a wheat crop ot 71453s000 bushels perimental laboratory being installed i was forecast last month while pro- by tho national research council at jductlon last year was 894204000 tho manitoba agricultural college bushels the preliminary estimate ot win ter wheat production is 441788000 bushels compared with 7s94g2000 bushels last year production ot all 8000 ions of sugar spring wheat is estimated at 209919- arrive from australia ooo bushels compared with 272750- montroal australia sent 8000000 bushels a month ago and 101742- tons of sugar to canada on tho 000 bushels produced last year motorship forrcsbank which is un- loading hero after discharging her service cargo tho forrcsbank will inaugurate so long as wo lovo wo serve the now service between montreal long as wo aro loved by others i and vancouver to bo operated by would almost say that wo aro la th vancouvcrst lawrence line sho dispensable and no man is useless will probably cloar next saturday while he has a friend robert louts for the british columbi port stevenson