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\"~~.* Thgx WarterLoo CHronicLs â€" in : andidias Avithite ts dsb .00. > dn hh id d hundred feldâ€"miceâ€"‘"believe it or‘ The handsome sum of $3438,300 ents road, the Bloomingdale to New not". The only reason that there will be spent by the county road and|Germany road, and the Petersburg â€" are not even more mice, is because bridse committee this year provided|St. Agatha road. there are aleo a fow hawks and owls the Ontario Government contributes Chairman W:Ener explained that in the neighborhood, who each de a fair share of the money. This was|the requests to the Department were vour about a thousand mice @A year. decided upon at the A;u-xf'L meeting of | both reasonable and proper. However, even a hawk lkes a treat the members of the Waterioo County The proposed road works include now and then, and meakes a raid on council when the council approved grading totalling about $19,000; a convenient chicken yard. ‘Then the raxon presented by chairman|to surfacing â€" and _ resurfacing, the farmer, begrudging the loss of Peter A. Wagner, Reeve of Wellesâ€" lb’(,l.OOO' brldsu, $49,500 ; suburban his chickens, goes gunning for the ley townahip. areAs, th 000; maintenance includâ€" hawk and kills him. ‘This automaâ€" _ The expenditures will not necesaiâ€" ing miseellaneous, $94,600. A zoologlat is a man who takes seriously what a farmer takes for granted. For inctance, these men of «clence tell us that in one acre of alfaifa, or other tall grass land, there live from two hundred to three hundred feldâ€"mice,â€"‘"believe it or not". ‘The only reason that there are not even more mice, is because there are also a fow hawks and owls Which lengthy harangue will probâ€" ably cause quite a few Waterloo County farmers to chuckle deeply at the‘plight of the poor city fellers; but wait a minute, the laugh is on you. In fact,â€"And you ought to know it by now, the laugh is always on the farmer! If one man could bait, set and place twentyâ€"five traps an hour,â€" which would keep him going some, it would require the services of fifty men working on the efghthour day to look after the job, and at the cityâ€" relief wage of twentyâ€"five centa an hour this would cost the city of New York some three thousand dolâ€" Iare before the month was up! That is tho problem that has been worrying the clty fathers in New York, according to recent headlines. At first glance it would seem an exâ€" pensive jJob to provide bait for o many traps, but If a b@lfâ€"inch cube of cheese waus placed on each, it would require twelve hundred and Afty cubic inches, or leaa than a foot of good Cinndian cheese to adequateâ€" ly handle the situation. Of course it might be neceesary to set the traps every night for a week, or possibly a mon(h. io sufficiently reduce the rat population of New York, and then would come the greatest oxâ€" pense,â€"paying the men needed to do the work. A plagne of rats: ten thousand rat trape: no cheese! In the United States, where twice the population of Canada is being fed, housed and clothed by the government, the authorities are trying to abolish not want but plenty. They are plowing in cotton, corn, wheat and tobacco; should discovered a better and more common sense scheme to give the producer a fair margin on goods sold than by destroying foodstuffs and cotton. The United States former Secretary of the Treasury, Ogden Mills, who resigned office time ago, commenting on the present difficulâ€" ties facing the government, says: "We shall never solve the paradox of want in the midst of plenty simply by doing away with plenty." It would be better to abolish want and retain plenty. With millions of people in want, the abolishing of plenty merely makgs want seem inevitable and inescapable. Millions of Americans have been pleased by the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment but as yet it has failed to give the United States government the increased revenue expected. All estimates as to the amount of taxes the traffic would contribute have been excessive. The federal government calculated upon a conâ€" sumption of 105,000,000 gallons which would be subjected to federal taxes. The prospect is that not much more than half of this will pay taxes. New York State looked for 15,000,000 gallons of wine, beer and hard liquor to be drunk in a year. Revenue figures say that about half that amount is being drunk. Governor Lehman is having an investigation made to determine whether the disappointing government returns are due to illicit drinking. Some observers say that while this is no doubt an important factor still more important is the decreased consumpâ€" tion of all liquor, legal and illegal. A Small Frogyâ€" The announcement that Mr. Rhodes had cut expenditures between eighty and ninety millions, as compared to about three years ago, is encouraging. The Rhodes budget presented in the House of Commons has been on the whole favorably received in Canada. The reductions in the tariff outnumber the increases, which indicates that the Government regards present schedules as emergency ones rendered necesshry for the protection of our farmers and working under extraordinary world conditions. The tax on sugar was cut in half thus lightening the burden on the housewife. The reductions on bakery products is also welcomed. The cut in the taxes on beer and wine may tend to reduce the consumption of hard liquor. With the gradual return to normal conditions, the Government no doubt will further revise cusâ€" toms schedules. + . SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Anywhere in Canada, $2.00 a year; in the United States, $2.60 a year, payable in advance. ADVERTISING RATES: On application. Advertising copy must reach the office not iater than Monday noon to insure insertion. . A Weekly Newspaper devoted to the interests of the Toewn of Waterioco and Waterioo County, issued at Waterloo, Ont., every Thursday by D. Bean & Soma, Lid., owners and publishers. The Chronicle is a member of "Class A" Weekly Group of the Canadian ‘Weekly Newspaper Association, andâ€"the Ontarioâ€"Quebéc Newsâ€" IN A LARGE POND WANT IN FACE OF PLENTY THE RHODES BUDGET U.S. LIQUOR LAWS Chairman P. A. Wagner‘s Recoms mendation Approved.â€"To Make Three Roads County $343,300 for Waterloo A resident of Waterloo township, who lives on the banks of the Grand River, reported recently that flocks of gulls had remained on the ewolâ€" len river apparently on their way to the Great Lakes. J. P. McEvoy is no zoologist, nor is he a farmer,â€"he is the gentleman who writes the story for the comic strip about Dixie Dugan, which runs every week in the Chronfole; neverâ€" theless this vague treatise on the best laid plans of mice and men may well be concluded by quoting from his works. Besides the adventures of our friend Dixie, Mr. McEvoy also writes about a emall city family called the Potters, Pa Potter deâ€" lighte in explaining world affairs to the family, concluding his eloquent orations with some such momentus obeervation as, "I tell you,â€"the farâ€" mer is the backbone of the nation!" At which Bill Potter, Jr., pipes up, "Yeah; and that‘s why ho‘s always getting kicked in the pants!" | tically leaves a thousand mice to scurry around for a living in the farmer‘s alfalfa, and since each mouse will eat a little more than his own weight of hay every day, the minimum lose to the farmer will be about two cents per mouse or twenâ€" ty dollars a year. Thus he has to take his choice between losing the chickens or the alfalfa. He can'tl win. LAKE GULLS SIGHTED Highways. â€"The Tadpolo The public always agrees that courage should be recognized; consequently there will be approval of the Toronto Police Commission‘s grant of $20 to William Nobel, who risked his life in grappling with and capturing a houseâ€" breaker, since convicted. John Dillinger, escaped United States banâ€" dit, appears to be about as elusive as the late Christian De Wet, hero of the guerrilla camâ€" paign carried on during the last year of the Boer War in South Africa. The widow of one of the victims of a California lynching is suing the Governor and other officials of the State for something more than $1,000,000. The efficiency of the American Government in capturing its law breakers seems to increase with the distance they get from home. Quantity production has hit Ontario farms, with our Barred Rock pullets depositing two eggs in one. The Lutheran pastors show no disposition to falter in their struggle to make Germany safe for the freedom of the pulpit. Caledonia, Ont., observed the weekâ€"end with three inches of snow! This New World Caledonia also seems to be "stern and wild." It is estimated by the International Relief Famine Commission that the average annual income of 76.6 per cent. of the peasant families is a trifle below $200, and that their expendiâ€" tures amounts to $2283. Thus in normal times only about 23 per cent. of Chinese peasants are able to avoid going into debt. A well informed Chinese student, writing in the New York Times, gives further evidence of the suffering of the Chinese people. He says the alarming rate at which the production of China‘s farm lands is decreasing is attested by official figures from the maritime customs showâ€" ing the rapid increase in the importation of essential foodstuffs from abroad. In fact, conâ€" ditions in rural China, he says, are so bad that despite antiâ€"Japanese propaganda Chinese imâ€" migration to Manchuria continues to increase. ‘Factors in the ruin of the rural farmer are war lords, extortionate taxation, the exactions of greedy money lenders, and the growing and smoking of opium. Between 70 and 80 per cent. of the country‘s population, estimated at 483,000,000, live on the land, and most of them can be ruined by a single crop failure. The prevalence of militarism and the constant reâ€" currence of civil wars have cost the Chinese peasants more dearly than the natural calamâ€" ities which during recent years have played such a tremendous part in bringing bankruptcy to farming areas larger than some of the medium sized nations of Europe. 4A well known Toronto missionary, with many years‘ experience in the mission fields in China, reports that the farmers, said to be the backbone of China, are in desperate straits. In one province the Chinese have collected taxes from the farmers for 69 years in advance and the poor people are heavily burdened. them into the Missiasippi to be carried out to sea, so that, hogs being scartce, the price ghemmnyrlu. The heads of the governments they are buying pige, kuifing them, throwing | CHINESE FARMERS NEAR COLLAPSE | County Roads and Bridges AD WV WE d Pn EDITORIAL NOTES The Department of Highways will be asked to take over as county hi{.hwnys the Linwood to 8t. Clemâ€" ents road, the Bloomingdale to New Germany road, and the Petersburg â€" St. Agatha road. 0 tate any increase over the two mills vrovided in the county taxation last year for road purposes. _ HOUSE ROOF ABLAZE IN NORTH WATERLOO The roof at the home of C. A. Hern of Kitchener was burned on Thursday when it was eet on fire by a spark from a nearby chimney. The blaze was reported by a passerâ€" by. Toronto General Houyiul $469, all for the treatment o in&igent paâ€" tients; and in addition, Toronto Hospital for Consun;ftlves, $984, and Haldimand War Memorial Hosâ€" pital, $14. Grants included $12,746 for treatâ€" ment of County patients at the Freeport Sanitorium; St. Mary‘s hospital, $4,904; Galt Hospital, $2,783; K.â€"W. Hoarital, :1.251; London Health Association, $1,095 ; Ontario Hospital, Woodstock, $691 ; Charitable grant to various instiâ€" tutions of the province cost the County of Waterloo the sum of $35,000 in 1933, according to a reâ€" port just published. Of this amount over $24,000 was spent on indigent patients at various hospitals, while over $9,100 was spent on Old Age penslons and their administrations. Costs $35,000 For Charitable Grants in County Bloodâ€"Testing of Cattle R. B. Faith, Director of Extension, for the Holsteinâ€"Friesian Association of Canada, who was the guest speaker at the annual epring meetâ€" Jing of the Porth County Holstein Breeders‘ Club held at Stratford, said that blood testing for the conâ€" trol of Bang‘s Disease has been makâ€" Ilng remarkably good progress in |many parte of the province of Onâ€" tario since the work was first taken on by the breeders in a serious mindâ€" ed way more than a year ago, and ho predicted that before long every breeding area would be engaged in It. Already nearly two hundred herds had ‘been found fully negetive under the Federal policy, waile a much larger number were under process of being cleaned up. The view was Timothy Seed Production Domestic production of timothy seed in Cangda is stlll far short of consumption, so that still further production of this crop may be enâ€" couraged. Timothy ordinarily yields from 200 to 300 pounds of seed per acre, and growers have received on an agerage about 6%4 cents per pound for the seed basis No. 1 grade, over the past three years. Canada uses annually about 10 million pounds of timothy seed and until 1931 some 9 million pounds of this was imported from the United States. Reports received from the Agriâ€" cultural Representatives would inâ€" dicate that the condition of fall wheat in Ontario is still in doubt. Certain sections report that the crop is greening up ‘but a great many of the roots are weakened, and unless the weather is favorable a considerâ€" able area will have to be cultivated and resown to spring crops. Farmers who are dependent on 1932 seedlings for their hay crop will be obliged to rely on annual hay crops, At auction salee prices are considerably imâ€" proved over last year, especially prices paid for horees. Maple syrup will apparently be a light run as the reports from practically all the maâ€" ple syrup districts show a decrease in production. "Any corn grower this spring can uo a great deal to save himself a lot of unnecéssary handpicking of corn stubble if he will use care and foreâ€" thought in his method of dealing with his corn field,‘ states L Caesar, Provincial Entomologist. "If he plowse the field carelessiy and does not bury the stubble well he is eure to drag it up in working the soil. and e0 will have a lot of handpickâ€" Ing. Also, if he uses a toothed cultiâ€" vator instead of a disc he will drag up & lot of stubble. leld per acre of the crop as a whola y per acre and in the sustained high quality for milting purposes, as reflected in the promiums generally received for Cu:tdhn whoeat in the princtpal â€" Grop Improvement Evidence Evidence of ‘ crop immprovement that has resulted from the producâ€" tion and general use of registered and certified seed of wheat over a period of thirty years in Canada may be Observed in the relatively high _ Rurnishedâ€"by the O .. Department of Agriculture Current Crop Report THE WATERLOO TRUST AND SAVINGS COMPANY Waterloo For the Farmer Bury Corn Stubble WI L L Read It Over And See If It Meets PRESENT Conditions Up To Date ? Is Your | _A wedding eupper was left untastâ€" ed, astonishment communicated itâ€" self ewiftly among the guests at a quiet Scarboro Bluffs parsonage, Toâ€" ronto, and a demure brideâ€"toâ€"be flung aside her nuptial gown to weep bitâ€" terly Saturday after city detectives had intruded upon the peaceful setâ€" ting to announce that the intended groom Already had a wifeâ€"and three children. At least 15 candidates are now rea: dy to stand for election, it is underâ€" etood. Before official nomination day for the ‘battle rolls around that numâ€" ber will have been increased by posâ€" sibly 26. whose herds were not under test, would find It_more difficult than hapâ€" pene to be the case at the present time, to obtain markets at profitable prices for eurplus catle which had to be sold, whereas those herds free of the disease would occupy a most favorable position in being able to capitalize on their achievement, Widescale participation of the C.C.F. in the coming Ontario general election is assured, according to off!â€" clals close to this movement‘s headâ€" quarters administration, Read your Will. Does it meet with your satisfaction ? Our Trust Department will be pleased to assist you and your attorney in making any necessary revisions. __ Your estate may have change its size and its structure. Your business, your home, your securities and life insurâ€" ancesâ€"all may have changed their relationship to its total value Perhaps increased inheritance tax will affect the aggregate bulk of your estateâ€"leave a smaller residueâ€" materially change the proportion going to each heir. expressed by Mr. Faith that the day was not far distant, when breeders WEDDING STOPPED BY POLICE RECENT EVENTS may have made your Will obsolete. C.C.F. TO HAVE 25 CANDIDATES A savings account in the 115â€"yearâ€"oid Bank of Monâ€" treal, regularly maintained and added to constantly, is a safe, profitable way to accuâ€" mulate money for any purpose. Kitchener | ‘The Hydroâ€"Electric Power Comâ€" | misslon of Ontario, with its uniâ€" |formly high standards cf construcâ€" tion and other favourable circumâ€" | stances, is able to maintain its serâ€" vico with a minimum resorve capa ’clty of but 10 per cent. These miniâ€" mum percentages apply to prosperâ€" ous times, and represent the desirâ€" able spare capacity at the time of BANK OF MONTREAL The provision of adequate elecâ€" trical power to meet actual demands with reserve margin to ensure conâ€" tinuoue service and to take up the temporary elackening that occurs during depression, is a eubject reâ€" garding . which many â€" conflicting statements have been made, but which can readily be understood if the basic considerations; set out in these surveys are kept in mind. The current monthly letter of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, in dealing with the subject of power supplies and requirements at the present time, confirms â€" strikingly the conclusions reached by Dr. F. A. Gaby, Chief Engineer of the Hydroâ€" Electric Power Commission of Onâ€" tario, in his comprehensive published enalysis of power trends. TOTAL ASSETS IN EXCESS OF $g750.000.0u0 A. WORD TO _ : HUSBANDS %‘ and FATHERS Waterloo Branch: J. R. BEATON, Are you gaving all you can now to provide them with the means for comfort, independence and success in the years toâ€"come? 5 You are working for them. Their furure comfort and success is your ever present anxiety and the inspiration for your best efforts. HEAD OPFICR Why Hydro Constantly before you â€"on your desk, perhaps, or at least in your imagination â€"is a picture of your wife and children. Galt Established 1817 LIQUOR CASES ADJOURNED In Kitchener police court the cases of Eph. Boettinger and Charles Schmalz charged with keeping liâ€" quor for eale contrary to the L.C.A. were adjourned until April 26th. This is the fortunate position which the power users of Ontario and their employees are in toâ€"day. The Hydroâ€"Electric Power Commisâ€" slon in 1929 had arranged for power supplie; to hecome available year by year up to 1936â€"7 from the only ecoâ€" nomical sources available to itâ€" namely, from it; new Chats Falls plant and from purchased power. Of course, when the factories shut down for the night, extra reserve capacity corresponding to their temâ€" porarily discontinued power demands must be kept available until mornâ€" ing. Correspondingly, when their is an industrial depression, extra powâ€" er ‘reserve capacity in accordance with the amount of idleness of facâ€" tories must ‘be kept on hand. Otherâ€" wise the factories could not resume operation and reemploy their workâ€" men when the dawn of recovery apâ€" pears. Buys Power the day and year that the i)ower de mand is greatest. MONTREAL Preston Fiea