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CANADA
Prices Over 25 Years
In the "25 Years Ago Column" of the
Brantford Expositor, the following
produce prices were recorded for that
time:
Butter 280 to 300 a pound, eggs 28e
to 30c a dozen, chickens 60o to $1 a
pair, ducks $1,20 to $L50 a pair, beef,
5e to le a pound, pork 9e and 100 a
pound, lamb 10c and 12e a pound, pota-
toes 70c a bag, turnips 30c a bushel,
onions 650 a bag, apples 15c to 200 a
basked;.
On Saturday last The Standard had
the following prices for the produce
market; Butter 25 cents, .eggs 35 to
45 cents, chickens 18 cents per pound,
live 50 cents each, ducks (alive) 60
cents each, pork 8 to 10 cents a pound,
potatoes $1 a bag, and other vege-
tables generally higher. It will be
seen tbat if the 1908 scale of living
and taxes still applied the farmer
would not be so badly off. St. Cath-
arines Standard.
Advisable
There isenough nicotine in a cigar,
we read, to kill two cows. That
should teach cows not to smoke cigars.
—Havana Journal.
Progress Toward Recovery
The improvement in the fundament-
al things, now well recognized by
everyone, will register its effect more
emphatically a few months hence than
it does now. The money still has to
come in for much of our preseut in-
creased production, and as it comes
and gets into circulation, we shall feel
the rising benefits. We shall be very
mucn more Conscious of it in the com-
ing spring than we are now. By that
time we shall have reaped full benefit
of the improvement that is now appar-
ent, and that, in turn, will be stimu-
lating the people to still.higher hopes.
It is a time for tempered optimism, of
course, for it must be recognized that
a world that has been so sick must
convalesce more or less slowly and
our progress depends largely upon the
progress made in the world at large,—
Maritime Merchant.
Agriculture Comes First
Miuing is a wasting industry and ag-
riculture is a building -up process. The
miner extracts the mineral wealth
from the earth's interior and goes on
leaving a despoiled area behind him,
save for the possibility of conversion
into agricultural lands or forests. Pro-
per agricultural methods improve
lands and maintain and increase fer-
tility with the passage of time, A
country dependent exclusively on min-
ing faces an inevitable extinction. One
dependent on agriculture can he at
least assured of continued existence
and abundance of food. In every
great nation's economy agriculture's
place comes ahead of that of mining.
Food production is mankind's primary
occupation. When food supplies fail
all else is valueless.—Calgary Herald.
Canadian Banks
There is no need to elaborate on the
standing of the banks in Canada. True,
they are criticized, as are all banks
in all countries. But they have open-
ed their doors every morning of every
banking clay through the greatest de-
pression in the world's history, and
that fact talks down almost every
criticism that could be levelled against
them. The bankers of Canada have
accepted as their first duty the safe-
guarding of their depositors' money,
and they have kept their banks sol-
vent.—Financial News.
Northern Land Settlement
The settlement of the claybelt will
hardly be made by townspeople from
Old Ontario or elsewhere. They haven't
the background, the experience, the
gift of doing with little. The man who
does not find contentment in clearing
land, in seeing his little fields gradual-
ly' grow, and who finds it hardship to
live in a primitive way for a while
won't do for the north. The work is
hard, the winters are long and pati-
ence and optimism are needed.—Sault
Star.
Sating Laws
Did eou kuow that for many oen
tunes there were laws which said how
much a person might eat? Edward
the Third of England made one in the
year 1336, by which his subjeots were',
forbidden to "go in for" more than
two courses at any one meal --except
on certain special occasions, Strangely
enough, though it was not long before
people began to disobey—and kept on
doing so—that law remained until
1856, when it was "repealed." A king
of France made a law of the same
kind, in the year 1340. It stated that
nobody in the land was to Have more
than soup, meat and pudding at one
meal, and even the royal banquets
were kept down to that limit.—Ottawa
Journal.
Destruction of Wealth
Why should we limit the destruction
of wealth for the common good to pigs
and wheat and cotton and coffee? If
it is a good thing to keep people busy
cutting down the goods that they pos-
sess so that they can get rich on what
is left, we might turn our attention to
houses and shops and, theatres and
ships. If we burn up enough houses
and sink enough ships, the time will
soon come when same one will have a
job building new ones, Then every
one will be quite happy, since it is
only the work that is needed, not the
pigs and wheat and shops and houses
and ships. Fort William Times -Jour-
nal.
Two Million Dollar Crop
The lowly sugar beet has been a
"saver" for the agriculturists of this
and other counties during many years
when cash crops have been scarce;
and when it is considered that the
Canada and Dominion Sugar Company
will pay out in the neighborhood of
two million dollars to the growers
raising beets for the Chatham and
Wallaceburg factories this year, it is
easily seen what this industry means
to the people in general in this com-
munity.—Chatham News.
Aberdeen Spends
Aberdeen, noted for its reluctance
to part with its pennies, has embark-
ed this year on the biggest building
schemes in Scotland. The city coun-
cil passed plans for two hospitals cost-
ing nearly $2,000,000 and 1,180 new
houses to replace slum properties,
costing over e3,500,000.—St. Thomas
Times -Journal.
New Use For Potatoes
Word comes from Dublin. that "an
industrial alcohol, to be used as fuel
for motor cars as well as in dyes, heat-
ing and lighting, has been developed
from potatoes and will be made a
government monopoly." The estimated
production cost is sixpence a gallon.
The potato is a lowly vegetable, but
there certainly is nothing lowly about
a development which holds out such
immense possibilities. It is just one
more evidence of the remarkable ad-
vances being made in scientific re-
search in these amazing times.—Hali-
fax Herald.
Across the Border
If you would like to know about one
of the dodges over the border which
enables crooks to escape punishment
for their misdeeds, consider the plight
of i'Jrs, Clara Alt, of Chicago. Mrs.
Alt's home was burglarized in 1923.
Twenty times since then Mrs. Alt has
gone to court prepared to testify
against the nen who have been
charged with the crime; and each
tine the case has been continued, so
that Mrs. Alt has had the fun of going
to the court house 20 times for noth-
ing. The other day a new hearing
was scheduled. Mrs. Alt was on a
woman's committee to welcome Mrs.
Roosevelt to the World's Fair, so she
didn't go to court. She was sent for
and fined $10 for staying away.•
Guelph Mercury.
Canadian ,Characteristic
Percival Roberts, director of the
U.S. Steel and the Pennsylyania Rail
-
way 'Company, . has for 33 years spent
a summer vacation in Canada and on
reaching Montreal epi route for home
he said when interviewed: "Why I al-
most feel like a Canadian," Asked
as to the first symptom lie replied
with emphasis, "Good common sense."
Johnny CanUck certainly takes a great
deal after the head of the family in
this respect,—Brantford Expositor.
THE EMPIRE
The Lesson of 1914
It is probably true that no one in
Great Britain either wants war or
thinks that war is a good thing. The
old view, openly expressed by very
distinguished people before 1914, that
war is not only necessary but desir-
able and a tonic for the nation, did
not long survive the touch of reality.
It was one of the earliest British
casualties of the Great War, and its
resurrection in this country is unlike-
ly.—economist (London).
The Spirit of Canada
Dominion status, which is primarily
the product of Canadian conditions, is
the essential basis upon which the
Canadian peoplo combine a genuine
loyalty to the British Crown with a
passionate belief in their own national
destiny. Canada, we must remember,
has been settled a long time, accord-
ing to the standards of the New World.
Few of her people, ,even among those
of British stock, can acknowledge the
Mother Country as the land of their
birth. Canada is, therefore, British in
spirit not so much because her citi-
zens have even an ancestral love of
Great Britain, as because Great Bri-
tain has endowed her with enduring
institutions.—H. V. Hodson, in The
Spectator (London),
Preparing For Big Fight.
Bifl'! Bing! Bang! Len Harvey, British mauler, begins training
at Whetstone for his fight with Jack Peterson.
'look to London in financial affairs,
and' when in such affairs the Do-
minions are in a privileged position,
The declaration that was made in Lon-
don may, in fact, be the beginning of
a return to the pleasant and easy or-
der of things in days before the. war.
At any rate something definite appears
to have been done to bring about con-
solidation of the Empire. All.parts
are being told that it is a good thing
to stand together, and the world hears
once again of the financial supremacy
of London.—Brisbane Courier.
The Value of India's Livestock
The betterment of India's livestock
and their products is an important
factor in the economic uplift of the
rural masses. A good deal of atten-
tion has already been devoted to this
problem by the Imperial Council of Ag-
ricultural Research, and particularly
by Colonel A, Olver, the Animal Hus-
bandry Expert. The field is one in
which little systematic develapment
has hitherto occurred, yet it is of enor-
mous importance to the country. Col-
onel Olver recently estimated that in
British India alone there are roughly
three hundred million domesticated
animals and that the cash value or In-
dia's animal products, of which cattle
labour and dairy produce are the two
most important, cannot be less titan
R. 1,500 crores (about $563,500,000)
annually. These are staggering figures
and cannot, we believe, be approached
by any other country in the world or
which statistics are available.—Bom-
bay Times of India.
Canned Foods
Unfortunately, the coutaiuers do not
disappear when their contents are con-
sumed. They have become a publle
nuisance. The consumption of tins,
pots, packets and bottles, even in
country districts, has become so great
'that it is almost impossible to get
away from discarded containers. The
local authority usually collects them
to form a dump for the better housing
of vermin. It is astonishing to find
that even in a small district contain-
ing a few thousand people an enor-
mous dump is quickly forrned. Uncol-
lected specimens are left to rust away
as they litter the countryside by .the
thousand.—Sir Leo Chiazza Money, itt
The Jeeiglish. Review (London),
The Solidarity of the Empire
There is evidently a strong belief
that the Empire can do a very great
deal for itself. The Empire is hap -
plea and moat powerful when _it. can
Seventeen Cattle Dead
. From DehorningOperation
Paris, Ont.—Seventeen cattle bled
to death of the farm of Wylie Godfrey,
near here, following dehcrning opera-
Vons , it was learned.
The explanation of the wholesale
lass is said to be that the cattle had
been feeding on sweet clover ensilage
which thinned their blood to the point
where dehorning was dangerous.
A fellow -farmer and cattle dealer
is said to have dehorned the cattle on
request of the owner. He was not in -
funned that the stock had been on a.
sweet clover ensilage diet, this farmer
states, and did not learn that anything
was amiss until the night of the day
he had performed the dehornings.
All efforts to stop the bleeding were.
unsuccessful.
Church Vans Travel
Into Far North
Distribute Relief to Settlers in
Sparsely Populated
Districts
For six months of the year the
Sunday school vans of the Church of
England travel into far northern dio-
ceses distributing literature and cheer-
ing hearts of scattered settlers, Miss
Irish Sayie told a Winnipeg audi-
ence.
One of the 16 vans took Miss Eva
Hassell and Miss Sayles up into the
Peace River country, starting out
from Edmonton on May 25. The rough
going was described by Miss Sayles,
who said women and children of all
nationalities and creeds were visited,
and usually the reception was cordial.
Often the meal was a frugal one, that
settlers offered to the missioners, but
they insisted upon sharing it to the
last crust.
The travelling church and Sunday
School was inaugurated in 1920 at
Miss Hassell's own expense, and was
so successful that the Western Can-
ada Sunday School Caravan Fund was
started. Donations from England are
the mainstay in support of the work,
the speaker said. If only for the
sake of Athabaska diocese, six times
the size of England, and with only
15 clergy, the work is worthy, in the
opinion of the woman who has trav-
elled thousands of miles in her van.
"The problem of living this winter
without cash and with nothing to
turn into cash, is the one that faces
Peace River people," she declared.
"Families to the number of 400 are
being clothed by friends in Canada
and England."
Tobermory Ship -to -shore
Radio Service Limited
Ottawa.—The ship -to -shore radio
stations at Tobermory, Ont., and
Clarke City, Que., will be continued on
a limited service. This announcement
was made last week by Hon. Alfred
Duranleau, Minister of Marine.
Fourteen hundred blooms on a single
plant of cascade chrysanthemums es-
tablished a record at a London flower
show.
flood Old Santa Claus
.He's Represented in Dozens of Canadian Cities Bringing
Christrnas Spirit of Peace and Goodwill to Rich
And Poor Alike -
Santa Clans, a composite figure of
lean and fat, short and long, but al-
ways rosy-oheelced and chuckling, Is
abroad again in the land.
In dozens of Canadian cities and
towns, this scene is repeated:
Excited children push and pull at
restrained parents. Father wears Bond
Street clothes, an imported Ulster; or
he wears grimy jeans and a self-effao-
ing sheepish grin,
Mother wears a fur coat, or shivers
in someone's discarded finery not in-
tended for either season or the weath-
er.
.A band swings down the street, mar-
tial music fills the air, the Drum Ma-
jor's shako sweeps the sky above the
throng. It's been a hard, troublous
year for rich and poor, and father is
determined not to be too much im-
pressed.
A ripple runs through the crowd.
The King approaches — in red and
white whiskers.
"Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha -al" he
booms without restraint. His red vel-
vet all but sparkles in the early winter
sunshine. His cheeks are rosy from
the cool air.
"Well, well and well, hullo there,
Sonny,' he shouts with an encompass-
ing wave of a short fat arm.
A startled, wondrous smile grows
into being. Santa has spoken -to Son.
Father looks at Sonny's face. The
banal notes and heavy discords of
want and riches are alike forgotten.
Father is all smiles, good cheer, full
of Peace-on-earth—and suddenly form-
ed Christmas resolutions.
Santa, the modern incarnation of
the Mediaeval Christes Masse, coin-
memorating the Birth of Christ, con-
tinues on his way. But the look on
onny's face remains imprinted on the
thoughts and actions of others.
And the Christmas spirit, as typi'
lied by the composite figures of 100
Sautes on 100 street corners, in the
aisles of Mercantile establishments in
the North, ,South, East and West,
marches on toward December 25,
Front Halifax to Vancouver, profess
sional and amateur charmers of youth
are beginning a reign that shall be
almost unchallenged.
Organized relief agencies and re,
ligious bodies are adding their contra
button toward a nation-wide stage set
ting of Holly and Mistletoe for the
good Saint Nicholas.
Upwards of 1,000 Salvation Army
Kettles will stand on as many Street
corners throughout the Dominion der•
ing the next two weeks, some of them
attendd by Santa Claus himself in one
of his numberless manifestations, The
Salvation Army goes yearly into the
seeking coins tossed by city folk,
aglow with the spirit generated by
Sonny's smile. Most of the money of
this and similar agencies is used to
take Christmas joy to those who other
wise would be neglected.
Some of the other red -garbed San
tas are volunteers, but the •majority
are professionals, working for pay and
proud of their calling. Salaries vary
from a few dollars a week in small
towns to larger sums paid the skilled
performer in large department stores,
Celebrated Christmas
On Way to North Pole
Captain Scott and his men on their
way to the Pole once celebrated
Christmast Day by having a wash in
a cupful of water each, and by wash-
ing their shirts. On another occasion
after being on short rations they kept
Christmas Day by consuming such lux-
uries as raisins and chocolates for
breakfast, and for supper they indul-
ged in four courses. First of all,
there was a full whack of pemmican
with slices of horse meat flavored
with onion and curry powder and
thickened with biscuit, then arrow-
root cocoa and biscuit hoosh sweent-
ened, then plum pudding, then cocoa
with raisins and finally a dessert oI
caramels and ginger. `After all this,"
says Scott, "it was difficult to move.
Wilson and I couldn't finish our share
of the plum pudding. We felt thor-
oughly warm and slept splendidly. But
the advance was slow the following
day, probably to the tightening of the
night before.
Protect Cnildren When
Celebrating Christmas
Christmas 'time being a season of
joy, every precaution should be tak-
en to . prevent any untoward circum-
stances which might enter into its
celebration.
Too often the careless placing of
lighted candles has resulted in pain-
ful burns, and even death to those
participating in the Yuletide festivit-
ies. "Santa Claus" has been the vic-
tim in innumerable cases.
Tiny electric lights now are most
used in lighting the Christmas tree,
and that reduces the fire danger ma-
terially. If candles are to be used in
the decoration—and they undoubtedly
lend an effect not to be obtained by
the electric lights—they should be
placed on the mantel and in other se-
cure locations where contact with
their pretty blazes is not likely to be
made.
In Christmas sports involving the
slightest danger, children should be
directed in their play by an older per-
son who is competent to effect a res-
cue if necessary.—Charles Frederick
Wadsworth.
Eramosa township is offering a $5
bounty on sheep -killing dogs.
$4,000,060 Blaze Sweeps 4,000 Acres
Pine honks and cabins in the pith of fire Which swept Tujunga canyon, California, were destroyed,
s belongings.y
while hundreds or families' lied 'With a few. personal Four thousand acres was destroyed' at
an estimated loss of $4,000,004.
Accidents Down
On Highways
Death Toll, 287, Decreased
16.8 P.C.—More Pedes-
trians Victims
Motor vehicle ccidents in Ontario
so far this year have continued to
show a decrease from the 1932 total,
according to the Department of High-
ways. The only main item which
continues to show an increase over
the 1932 totals is the number of
pedestrians involved in accidents.
During the first nine months of
this year, 6,186 accidents were re.
ported, a decrease of 5.1 per cent
from the total of the same period
last year. These resulted in 287
deaths (16.8 per cent. decrease), in-
jury
sjury to 5,761 persons (4.3 per cent.
decrease) and $592,934 property dam-
age (19.2 per cent. decrease),
During the same period gasoline
consumption decreased 1.77 per cent.
and motor vehicle registration de.
creased by 1.95 per cent.
Two Movie Notabilities
Marry For First Time
Hollywood.—Alice White, diminu.
tive film actress, and Sidney Bartlett,
young scenario writer, were married
recently at the 400 -year-old town
hall in Magdalena Bay, Mev., they in-
formed friends here. it was the first
marriage for each.
The wedding climaxed a romance
that at one time involved the couple
in a grand jury inquiry and a court
trial, when their names were linked
with a beating administered to John
Warburton, screen. player.
The Warburton case attracted wide
attention. when Martin Block and
Russell Brown, charged with robbing
and. beating the actor, allegedly told
police that Barttett hired them. They
said Bartlett was incensed because
Miss White, his fiancee, had been
beaten by Warburton.
Prince Buys "Peke"
Woman Feels Proud
One of the proudest women in Lon-
don, Eng., is Mrs. F, A, Marriott,
wife of an ex -policeman and breeder
of Pekingese dogs.
Gipsi Tamara, a Peke she bred at
her kennels in Edward street Re.
gent's Park, has been bought by the
Prince of Wales and is to he the
mate of the puppy he purchased re-
cently at Stavely Lodge. Melton
Mowbray. '
The Prince paid £12 for the puppy,
but Gipsi belongs to a distinctly more
aristocratic family, for the price woe
castly higher.
How much is a professional secret,
but it was considerably more than
x£50
British Goods
Over 50,000 small sales of Canadian
food products are said to have been
made recently to the housewives of
Nottingham, England, during a "Can
ada Shop" fortnight in that city ob.
,serves the Brockville Recorder. By
way of reciprocity, Canadians might
well lend patronage to any s miler
movement undertaken in this country.
Heavy Traffic Shaking
Some Colleges of Oxford
Oxford, England. --Soule of tali
ancient University town's most veto'
erable buildings are in danger of coir
lapse through the shock of moderli
heavy traffic, It was stated in a re
part prepared by Warden fisher a(
New College and Sir Michael Sadlee
Master of University College,