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Caiuidian Foodstuff Needed If War Comes TORONTOâ€" The imporUnco of a largo agricultural population, to pro- vide a spiritual and moral back- ^ound that is essentia! to every na- tion, was discussed this week by Arthur G. Street, British farmer, author and lecturer at the luncheon toceting of the Royal Winter Fair Jlissociation, the Canadian Club and he Empire Club. During a period of troublous times, Mr. Street pointed 9Ut, Britain faces the important task of maintaining a sound agricultural industry, to provide her with foo<istufrs "if and whon the world goes mad." Yet, he said, at the same time Britain ex- pect.s that when war breaks out Can- ada will continue to send products to Britain. For this reason, he said, British farmers recognize the im- Jorumce of Canadian agriculture, but ope that Canadians will recognize (he neco.s.sity of British agriculture ^eing maintained and preserved as vital to Britain's future. Smithies Wane KINGSTONâ€" There are lots of Bprca<:!ng chestnut trees but there Aren't enough blacksmiths. In fact the members of this ancient profession are worried. For it looks as if tiic mighty men will soon be as extinct jis hoop-skirts, shaving mugs and mag c lanterns. The tragedy of the profession, or trade, as you will, is that there isn't enough young blood in it. That's what J. J. Taugher of Kingston says. In fact he said it at the convention of tile Mi'.ster Horseshoers and Carriage Worki is' Assoc'ation held at the City Hall. This gathoiing brought out 20 delegates and there was even the question of whether the Association should continue or not. Eventually it dec ded to carry on. Bui it's like Mr. Taugher said. There are very few apprentices iearnir^ the trade. "In fact," said he, "I visited over 35 shops and most of the men in them were between CO and 711 years old. In < nly a few were there men un- <Jer 10 years. He thought that the J^lack.-^hiith's pay was really to t>lam( . He figured that there were 80 few apprentices because the emit); es w, re not making sufficient mo.icy. The conv. r.iion adopted a motion to petit on the Government to set a itanJard for ;i!l blacksmiths who in- tend opining their own shops, and to a.sk for the registration of all present shops. Rich-.ird Prior of Toronto was electe^l president of the association. Oth?r officers are: first vice-presi- dent, F. E. Gilroy, South Mountain; find vice-president, W. G. Cameron, Falbrcok; ."ird vice-president, James J. Ta'Ji;her, Kingston; treasurer, Don I - THE . j i MARKETS I I '♦•' V K€»i'»>:«>;*:v:»:,...;c:,:.>»x»»>K< POULTRY J'lic s paij to country 8h)i>perH: ^pring Broil to I'/i ll).f 16 H4 to L' lbs 18 to 2Vi lbs 19 i% to â- ! lbs 20 Dressed r!e!. A Sel. Sel. 14 IG 17 18 18 20 21 22 Milk n. Sol. A. DroHsod A. Sol. n. Fatted Hens â€" Over 5 lbs 15 13 4 to Ti lbs 14 12 t% to 4 lbs 12 11 8 to •:,'<. lbs 11 10 Old Roosters â€" dver r. lbs 12 10 (K'd and black feath- ered birds 2c per lb. loss than !i!)()ve prices). Other Fowl â€" Oulnia fowl, pir pair 75 00 Domef.lle raiiblts. por lb. .. 12 00 Nr,*": (' ».'rii(lo poultry 3c below H fcra-'- •^OUl.TRY AND EGGS (Buyiny prices: Dealers aro (luotliig producl.s for un- graded o.ijiiR, delivered, cases return- «'l. Eggsâ€" Orade A larRe 17 Orado A met.hini 15 Orndo B 14 Gra-Jo C 14 Dcalors aro quoted on grni]°-i ergs, oases free. drnde A larKe iaV4 to 20 Qrcdn A medium 17'^ to 18 Grade B 16Vj to 00 Orado C 16',4 to 00 HAY AND STRAW No. 2 tlmntliy, $10 to $11 por Ion; jlo. .1 timothy, J8 to $!); or.ts and Jhoat straw, $7 to $8. Above prices lio.b. Toronto. __ to no to 00 to 00 to 00 MacLcan, Toronto; and secretary, Edward Kearney, Macintosh Mills. Postmasters Protest Rates LETH BRIDGE, Alta. â€" Protest against a rate of nine cents an hour overtime provided for postmasters was made at the opening session of tho eleventh annual convention of tho Alberta Branch of the Canadian Postmasters' Association here. "No other class of labor has such long hours or such responsibility with such small overtime pay," said one postmaster. He declared post- masters work "an official day of 14 hours." Food Prices Rise * SASKATOON â€" Price of food in Saskatoon rose 17 per cent between last November and May 13 and 2G per cent since November, 1935, ac- cording to figures presented by tho Central Council of Unemployed to the Young Men's Section of the Board of Trade. The Council asked for an increase in relief grants for food because of the rise in prices. Claims Farmers Shoot Dogs WILLOWDALEâ€" H. R. Bain, To- ronto stock broker, appealed to the North York Township Council this week to rescind a by-law under which he claimed farmers were permitted to shoot dogs found roaming on their property. "There arc many instances of wanton cruelty, some where dogs are apparently deliberately wounded and then left to die in agony," he de- clared. The Clerk pointed out that there was no township by-law per- mitting such shooting. "It is per- missible under a Provincial statute," he announced, and the matter was dropped as the Council lacked juris- diction. New High in Radios TORONTOâ€" Total radio busine.'-s in (Janada for 193G exceeded that of 11)29, the peak year, by more than 27,000 sets. This indication of busi- ness recovery was given by B. A. Trcstrail, at the opening of the an- nual convention here. Mr. Trestrail, who is sales and aUvertisirg director of the Canadian Radio Corp., stati'd that the past year's high of 250,250 SL'ts would probably fade in compari- son the figures for 1937, which he estimated would be colse to 300,000 sets. "I base these figures on surveys which have been made," Mr. Trcstrail said. "At the present lime there are more than 1,000,000 obsolete radios in the Dominion of Canada. As near as it is possible to g(!t figures 39.3 per cent of Canadian radios are more than five years old, while 51 per cent are four years or more." Canadia.; Do Most Telephone Talking TORONTOâ€" An average of 210.8 telephone conversations were made by each person in Canada last year statistics released by the Bell Tele- phone Co. of Canada, Ltd., result of a world-wide survey, reveal. Canada leads the world in its per capita usage of telephone service, the re- port shows, the United States being second with 197 calls. In communities of 50,000 or more Canada has an average of 18.78 telephones per 100 population while in lesser communities it has 7.28 per 100, both figures standing high in comparison with other countries. To- ronto is the 11th city in the world for telephone service per 100 popu- lation, the report reveals. Start Boat Trip PRINCE ALBERT, Sa.sk.â€" Plan- ning to reach Halifax in their 21-foot rowboat within eight months, three Edmonton youths, Jack Peters, Anton Glaser and Fred Peters, rowed ear,t down the North Saskatehcv/an River this week, after passing through here on tho first leg of their inlands-water odyssey from the Alberta Capital. Urges Marrying Of Country Girls Psyc'ioIogUt Says They Are In- cuvance Against Divorce Business Better Graduates Learn Things are looking up in profes- sional and industr'al circles if tho experience of the alumni office of the University of Toronto can be taken as a guide. For the first time in some years, it is revealed, graduates aro finding it much easier to obtain employment. "The situation is distinctly better" stated an official. "There are more positions available, and we have filled more positions this spring than we have for some time." It is reported that summer work for undergraduates also is showing improvement. Task of finding sea- sonal employment for the under- gpads falls to the lot of tho Students' Administrative Council, and it is re- ported that many students have been placed. OKLOHOMA CITY. â€" Country ,'rirls are "A-1 insurance" against divorce. Dr. W. A. McKecver, psy- chologist, told the Lovers' Church here. "Certain types of marriage will be rated as safe risk.s," ne said. "The man v/ho haa the good judg- ment to cast about among available farm women and will single jUt one who is trained in all kinds of work, will get an A-1 insurance risk. "Tho unmarried city man, who can speak at least a smattering uf the farm language, should motor in- to the country regularly for a few Sundays with an eye to spying out a buxom country girl for a wife." SPORT TODAY By KEN EDWARDS Air Service June 16 NEW YORKâ€" Pa.-scnger air serv- ic3 between New York and Bermuda v.ill start Juno 10th, it was announc- ed this week as the Pan-American Airways 21-ton Bermuda Clipper took oft for its final survey flight to the Islands. Pan-American and British Imperial are to operate separate services, but their sche<lulcs will dovetail. The Cavalier, opening the passenger scrv- icj, will leave Bermuda next Wednes- day morning at 10.15 a.m. E.D.T. The Bermuda Clipper will make her first passenger flight on June 18th. First Air Mail PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.â€" Thirty- five thousand letters from all parts of the world were included in tho first flight of the new Prince George to Fort St. James, Takia Landing and Manson Creek Air Mail Service, pest office officials of this Northern British Columbia tov.n estimated. It is the first air mail to fly regularly to the isolated points in the northern part of the Province. Urged Property Taxed WINNIPEGâ€" Taxes should be levied against occupants of property, whether owner or lessee, and the basis should be rental value rather than the present system based on capital value, tho Winnipeg Board of Trade said this week in making recommendations for improvement of the city's financial position. Among other suggestions were a more vigorous policy of tax collec- tion and investigation of the city manager plan of administration. Well, folks, after the rumpus up at Thorncliffe and the so-called kidnapping of our sport friend, let us hie our- selves to other parts. It seems that everything is fix- ed for Schmeling to fight Joe Louis in September "if" Joe defeats Champion James J. â€" I have my "doots." » » • Hero is something you may very well have g'uesscd. Since Sir Malcolm Campbell is the world's speed demon, it is only natural to think that he would try something else nev/ and different. He has tried his hand at explor- ing. In South America, the Blue- bird's skipper hunted buried treasure in a big way. • « • Scrap-book facts:â€" In 1890 Abnor Powell stole seven bases in one day . . . Pete Wood in 1888, "beaned" 34 batsmen and so created an amusing record â€" he also had 59 putouts in 1889, a record which still stands. * « * Everet Marshall, the Oklahoma flash who happens to bo around here these days, has not lost one bout while wrestling in the last fr.ur years. Jack Corcoran, who plans one of his greatest shows for this week, tells us that his old money-maker, Howard "Hangman" Cantonwine, is running a road-house near Los Angeles. Did you khow that Cantonwine once told bed-time stories over the air from Toronto? Now he puts 'em to sleep with a smart body-slam! » • • About the beefiest moundsman in the International League right now, is King Kong Kline, who hits it at 2(50 pounds.. Bo with you nu.\t week â€" Ken. NEWS PARADE Commentary on the HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEKS NEWS - i By Peter Kandal =^ People aro spending money again and travel agencies are looking for- ward to one of the heaviest summer season in several years. That the rush has already begun is evident from the experience of one honeymoon couple who found Is almost lir.possible lo book passage for the West Indies cruise for the month of July. Travel- lers to the Continent say that Trans- atlantic bookings are almost as hard to secure. Not only have bookings Increased but the travel people say that the class of accommodation sought this year is better. The big demand of the season is the ''all expense cruise" and this the agencies are offering to all places niid at all prices. Since the Corona- tion, the big European attraction has been the Paris Exposition. Dogged from the beginning with persistent labor troubits, the big show Is now open and the last buildings are rap- idly nearly completion. Steamship and railroad rates, while slightly higher are not much chang- ed. Hotel rates are rising, however. According to one authority, the tra- veller will pay 7% more for acco- mmodation this year than last while those who haunt the summer resorts will find prices up 15%. The Shotgun But force is not forgotten. Plans are being laid down tor two 35,000 ton Italian battleships and the would- be war lord has declared his intention of Increasing Italy's underwater fleet to 140 ships. Meanwhile English fac- tories and shipyards are so busy with armaments that Canadian importers say they cannot guarantee deliveries of English goods. Right here, con- tracts for $14,000,000 in war supplies have recently been awarded. Even Canada's navy, secnnd hand though it is, has been increased by the pur- chase of t'"o destroyers from Britain. Clercial Inconsistency Last week saw tho culmination of a royal romance when the Duke and Duchess of Windsor made their vows in the presence of clergy but without the blessing of the church. Historians are commenting on the seeming in- consistency of refusing sanction of t" e marriage because of a divorce when the state church of EJngland came into being at tho behest of a 'â- â€¢ng who created it for tho purpose of sanctioning tho divorce and subse- quent marriage. Archbishop Cranmer of Canterbury was the man and the king â€" Henry VIII. Death of a General Superstition failed to save the lite of General Emilio Mola, Spanish in- surgent commander in charge of tho siege of Bilbao. The general was once told that ho would die with his boots on. Elying through thick fog to a meeting with General Franco, Mola's plane crashed into the side of a moun- tain and when they found his body â€" there were no shoes. General Mola always removed his shoes when flying but did It not save him when his hour was struck. Wheel of Fortune While most of us aro looking for an increase in the weekly pay cheque Duke of Windsor and His Happy Bride With Best Man and Witness to Their Wedding «!"'n-^vw •'"i^* wedding that climaxed ihe worlii 9 most celebrated romance, the Duke of Windsor and hs radiant Lriil.', tl.« ... .tr Wallis \,;.rl.elil, posed on the terrace of tho Chateau do Cande, Monts, France, with Herman L. Rogers (left) who i^avo the bri 'e nv.ay at the :eligiou.^ ceremony, and Major E. D. Metcalfe (right), Edward's former equerry, who acted as best man. Thit picture was flown to London and sent to America by radio. as a reflection of the better times, we can hardly expect to be so blessed ' as some people were last week. As » for example, the Torontonlans who won $85,000 on Midday Sun, winner of" this year's English Derby. Or to :ake'* another turn of the wheel, Mrs. Mar- garet Strong de Cuevas, whose only ' comment when she was informed that* her grandfather, John D. Rockefeller had left her $25,000,000 was, ''There* must be some mistake." « Dollar Empire Those money barons who are still* alive appear to have adopted the mot- to, "What we have, we hold". At* least, that is something of the infer- ence taken from J. P. Morgan's com-* ment on the tax laws." It Congress, makes stupid mistakes which leave loopholes in the law, it Is up to Con-* gress to remedy them, not for us tax- » payers". Smiling, Morgan contirfhed . by saying that he had not incorporat- ed his yacht as a method of tax evas- • ion because he ''did not think it worth . while." Matchmaking Through a severe blow to the rebel cause, the campaign against Bilbaor goes on with as much severity as. ever. From Italy comes word that Mussolini is planning to do by grace* what he has found very difficult by. force. It is said, that he will propose Otto, pretender to the Austrian* throne, as the next King of Spain and to bind him to Italy, will marry him" to Princess Maria of Savoy. Preserve The Peace And money is said to hold the key' to futura events in tho Far Eastâ€" • money in the shape of a ^40,000,00^ British fortification program at Hong Kong and a consistent investment policy in Southern China. The Japam ese are thought to be seeking a no\^ Anglo-Japanese pact of friendship as a means of securing a place in the* new world economic plans looked foi* out of the Imperial Economic Con-, ference now taking place in London and possible co-operation of Grear Britain and the United Siates. Province Plans Reforestation Farmers Are Robbing Themselves* At Present, Says Hepburn SIMCOE, â€" Experts and depart-. ment heads will be asked to develop a plan of "constructive" reforestation in Ontario, Premier Hepburn told GOO' councillors and otTicials from 32 coua> ties at a banquet here. "Wo are going to formulate a real^ constructive policy in order to plant the typo of trees that will be market- _ able in the years to come," said the Premier. "I am going to call in the experts to develop such a plan." Use Northern Forests The provincial policy, ho said, v.aa , to utilize matured forests in Northern Ontario in relieving the unemploy- men situation and developing a profit- - able market in the United States for Ontario pulpwood. "The Southern pine menace is a â-  real menace," said the Premier. And southern interests were organizing to fill Northern U. S. pulpwood needs with Southern pine while Ontario was retaining matured pulpwood undev- eloped at an actual loss. ''Tho Province of Ontario needs at first work for our men and their re- venue." With such an end in view, ho continued, the Provincial Government is opening up the North country, and building mills and towns, and devel- oping the pulpwood resources. The St. Williams reforestation farm in Norfolk is recognized by foresters as the finest in tho world, the Prem- ier declared. It was not considered advisable for tho Government to even launch any large reforestation project in the older parts of Ontario, but it was advisable to encourage farmers and others to plant waste landa, hill- top and side hills. Waste In North Ontario The situatioik was different in Nor- th fn Ontario. Large areas wero laid waste there by fire and lumbering. Large tracts were coming to maturity and not being utilized with a result- ant loss. ' Tho policy of allowing Onario for- ests to mature and burn was wrong,'' tho Premier declared. He said his Government had opened up large ar- eas and given much employment. And last year, tho Forestry Department showed a profit of $3,500,000, where- as in 1934 it operated at a loss. Pulpwood was being supplied nov; to United States mills that had been •ibout to turn to tho Southern States tor their needs, he said. Purposo of the Norfolk conference, the Premier said, was to study the sail conservation, and reforestation â€" two ''entirely different subjects." Tho dr.»ining of mllllcna of acres of low lands in Ontario to bring them into fertility roaultcd in rampaging floo ' 1 in tha Spring with attonJant property damage whil;< in thu Summer drought dried up .ureauis and wells. J. * !