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D President of Advancement of Science, A despatch from Toronto says:-- change is widely accepted, but Science plays an important, though, enormous advances have been perhaps, secret part, in the life of and it depends only on the intelligence every citizen, and it was in apprecia- and education of the populations how tion of that fact that a large number rapid the future progress will be. of Toronto people turned out to Con- "Public opinion must be educated to 'vocation Hall to accord a fine send-off recognize that most diseases are pre- to the inaugural meeting of the Brit- ventable and say, with King Edward ish Association for the Advancement VII, 'If preventable, why not pre- of Belence, and to hear Major-General vented? . Sir David Bruce, president, give an. "It is one of the first duties of those outline of the recent advance of medi- in power to see that their people have, 'cal science. in addition to houses with plenty of Sir David's address was sosexten- light and air, a good water supply and - sive in its scope that it is impossible a good drainage system," continued to indicate its content in a few words, Sir David. "Money cannot be spent but in addition to challenging modern to better advantage than in the attain- medicine to take the offensive in the ment of these three essentials to battle with disease, he stressed, among health." other things, the necessity of spending Dealing with still another subject, money to provide the inhabitants of Sir David spoke of the need for a modern cities with hygienic surround- better understanding of diet as a ings; the responsibility of the jndi- means of preventing those diseases vidual citizen to accept vaccination of due to defective diet. A diet was no his children; the importance of the longer recognized as complete if it widespread application of the new contained proteins, carbohydrates, knowledge about the life-giving vita- fats and salts. It had also to contain mins to diet, and the need for still certain substances which were known more energetic attacks on tuberculosis, as vitamins. Without vitamins the a disease which he thought would be other four substances could neither conquered ultimately, given the whole- promote growth nor support life in- of | EPS gs dt r ris 3 . SOR % -- ; 8.8. France. BRITISH BOYS ADVISED TO SETTLE ON LAND Science Committee Finds a! hearted co-operation of all health, definitely. promotion forces. | The natural fruits of the earth! "Medicine in future must change its were not deficient in these life-giving strategy; instead of awaiting attack substances, but much of civilized it must assume the offensive," said man's food was deficient." "It is only! Bir David. "It must no longer be said when man begins by artificial means that 'the man was so sick he had to! to polish his rice, whiten his flour, and send for a doctor.' tin his beef and vegetables that the "The medical practitioner of the; trouble begins," said the president. future must frequently examine people| Sir David brought his address to while they are apparently well, in!a close with an eloquent plea for inter-| order to detect any incipient depar- national co-operation in the fleld of ture from the normal, and to teach science. "Science, indeed, knows no and urge modes of living conformable, boundaries of nations, languages or, to the laws of personal health, and|creeds. It is truly internationzl. In the public health authorities must see| spite of interruptions, it is the duty to it that environment is in accord-|of science to go on steadily forward, ance with scientific teaching. illuminating the dark places in the "It may be a long time before the hope of better times." Wide Field for Them in Canada. A despatch from Toronto says:--|° An interesting report on the oppor! feo (mnada's auditor-general, Georges Gonthier, left recently for a well- earned vacation in Europe. The camera caught him Just as he boarded the The Week's Markets TORONTO. Manitoba 'wheat--No. $1.63%; No. 2 North., $1.44%. W, 35434 No. 8 ¢ Man. ozts--Nv. 3 bi¥%e. 1 North, All the above, c.i.f,, bay ports. Am. corn, track, tunities for immigrants in Canada, as yellow, $1,281, Millfeed--Del., Montreal freights, viewed through the eyes of a special committee of the Educational Science Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, was pre- sented on Thursday, and the general trend of it is advice to immigrants to count upon going on the land instead of into industrial or commercial lines. The report stated in part: "While a boy is at school the prob- lem of his future career seldom troubles him; he is content to wait on opportunity when school days are over. Few boys up to sixteen have any definite ideas or desires on the subject. Unless their parents or friends have places already marked out for them, they tend to follow some prescribed course of study leading up to such examinations as offer certifi- cates qualifying for entrance into the often determines a boy's career. In the| case, however, of the many boys who! show no power or liking for any spe-|{"' cial school subject, their future occu- pation depends often on some chance opening. Banks and other offices are full of such young men, yet many of ment, bags included: Bran, per ton, shorts, good feed flour, per ton, $31 er Ont. wheat--No. to $6.60; Man. flour--1st $8.20 per bbl; 2n Hay--Extra No. 2 $12, Screenings--Stand Toronto--~No, 2 $1; 7; bag, $2.0 2 white, red or : Jiddlings, mixed, $1.16 to $1.20, f.0.b., shipping points, 'accordin Ont. flodr--Ninety per cent. in jute bags, Montreal, Toronto bulk seaboard, $6.20. ats., in freights. at., rompt ship- asis, $6.60; jute sacks, pats.; $1.10. timothy, per ton, track, Toronto, $17.60; No. 2, $17; No. 8, $15; mixed, $13; lower grades, $10 to, Straw-Cazjot, per ton, $9.50 to 10. ard, recleaned, f. o.b. bay ports, per ton, $22.50. Cheese--New, large, 18% to 19¢; Eggs--Extras, twins, 10 to 19%¢; triplets, 20 to 21c; 2 Stiltons, 21 to 22¢. various professions or into commercial |24c; twins, 24 life. Thus the school curriculum very, 26e. Butter--Finest creamery prints, 87 to 88¢; No. 1 ereamery, 36 to 36¢c; No. 1d, large, 28 to to 26¢c; triplets, 26 to 2, 84 to 3bc¢; dairy, 28 to 29¢c. fresh, 142 to 44c; extra, loose, 40 to 4lc; firgts, 34 to 85c; seconds, 27 to 2Pe. in cartons, Live poultry--Her., over 5 lbs. 26¢; do, 4 to b Ibs., 24¢; do, 8 to 4 lbs, 15¢; evacuation, and it is repo period of one year whis set. i London, Aug. 10.--~The news from Paris that the French Cabinet has Jil so; do, culls, $9 to $10; sheep, ight ewes, $6 to $6.50; do, a, to .60; hogs, fed and watered, $9.75 to $10; do, f.o.b., $9.26 to $9.50; do, try points, $9 to $9.25; do, select, fed and watered, $10.70 to $11; do, off cars, long haul, $10.15 to $10.40. MONTREAL, Oats, CW, No. 2, 62% to 6bc; do, No. 38, 61% to 63c; extra No."1 feed 60% to 61%c; No. 2 local white, 59 to 60c. Flour, Man, sprin wheat pats., 1sts, $8.20; do, 2nds, $7.70; strong $755 to 91.35, Rolled ote bag. of 00 3 to $7.86. oats, ba, Tbs., $8.10 to $5.20. _ Bran, 820.25. Vocodstock on Saturday evening and Shorts, $31.25. Middlings, $87.26; "08 found ead on his farm shortly, | Hay, No. 2, per ton, car Es, $16.50 after 5 o'clock. He had arrived from] to Ho. 2 Ottawa at noon and was apparently' | Cheese, finest wests., 17%c¢; do.,' in the best of health.. He sec out to easts,, 17c. Butter, No. 1 pasteurized,' walk through the fields, telling. the [84%c} No. 1 creamery, 38%e. Eggs, members of his household that he' auras, 40c; Jrea) h Baste) 33¢. oq Would return at b o'clock, As he did iots of heavy drinkers and com. veals, not yoturn they went to look for him $65; grassers, $3.50 to $3.76; lambs, and found him lying as he had fallen. | , $12; do, com., $10; hogs, $9.75 They believed him unconscious and al to $9.85; cows, $5.60 to $6.25. doctor was hastily summoned and said. A that the position of the body indicated that he had died almost instartly. Mr. Carvell's death apparently was due to heart failure, Fe was a man of great physique and endurance; but to intimate friends within the last year or two he had intinat~d that he '{ suffered a little from hear: trouble. Stricken Inspecting N.B. Farm, While St. John, N.B., Aug. 10.--Hon.' Frank Carvell, Chairman of the Board of Railway Commissioners of Canada,' was suddenly stricken at his hone in' '| however, he' was apparently in good health. Frank Broadstreet Carvell, in his Parliamentary day one of the most aggressive and fearless of mentbers in the Commons, was horn at Bloom-! field, Carleton County, N.B., on Aug.! 14, 1862. His father was A. Bishop Carvell, a native and a farmer of New Brunswick, and of United Empire Loyalist descent, and his mother was Margaret Lindsay, a native of Ulster, -|in Ka When he left Ottawa on Friday last,|- July weather resulted in an increase of 48,000,000 bushels of winter wheat over the forecast made a month ago, the major part of the increase bein ] and Nebraska, Spring wheat- had almost ideal was | less favorable, and in Washington the crop is unusually poor. From Aug. 1 condi wa forecast of 224,767,000 bushels was made for the spring wheat crop. That is 28,000,000 bush- els more than the forecast last month. Corn deteriorated much less than usual in July, and while the conditi nm of the crop on Aug. 1 is the lowest on 3 th three exceptions, since statistics were begun in 1863, a fore- cast of 2,5676,400,000 bushels is made for this year. WIDER DISTRIBUTION OF BRITAIN'S PEOPLE Prince of Wales Advocates Girls for Life in the Dorsitric A despatch from Toronto says: -- The greetings of the Prince of Wales to the Association of British Scientists were extended at the inaugural meet- ing at Convocation Hall when the mes- sage was read formally. The Prince said: Dear Mr. President: Will you be good enough to convey to the members of the British Associa- tion at their inaugural meeting in To- Ireland. ronto my cordial good wishes for a Mr. Carvell was educated in the very successful session? im public' schools of New Brunswick and| My knowledge of Canada assures at Boston University, from which he me that your visit will be warmly | obtained the degree of Bachelor. of welcomed, and that nothing but good Laws, and, after reading law with' can come of such a gathering, where Lewis P. Fisher, K.C., of Woodstock, |the representatives of the most ad- i N.B., he was called to the Bar of his vanced thought from the Old Country Province in 1890. He practiced law, will meet in discussion the equally these would, from their character and spring chickens, 2 Ibs. and over, 4b¢; physical qualities, be far better suited roosters, 1bc; ducklings, 4 to 6 lbs, for th i ife| "0c. ; AE are Yizulons and freer life Dressed poultry--Hens, over § lbs, 28¢; do, 8 to 4 lbs, 18¢c; spring chick- ee bei sa, : bs and, ove, i oe Joosters; ic; ducklings, 4 to S. Ten Years Added to Life in Last Half-Century Sir Richard Paget Specialist on the legal aspect of the development of inventions, of London and Somerset, who addressed the Bri- tish scientists on voice production. FAMOUS INVENTOR ATTENDS MEETING OF SCIENTISTS Left to right: Col. H. Chase, commandant of the Royal 22nd Regt, Quebec, with Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the steam turbine. Beans--Can. handpicked, Ib., 6%; primes, 6c. . ' Maple produets--Syrup, r imp. i Dominion News in Brief Charlottetown, P.E.I.--The Potato from all parts of the British Isles ar- Growers' Association are taking steps| rived here under the auspices of the to secure a supply of labor to handle] Salvation Army and were placed on/ the greatly increased potato crop of farms. This is the third party under the Island, which promises to yield! the Salvation Army immigration a 300 per cent. crop, as compared with scheme to arrive at Brandon, the first last year, on account of the increased two aggregating some two hundred acreage. It is expected that 9,000 boys, nearly all of whom are now set- acres of certified seed potatoes will be tled on farms in the neighborhood. haryested. Regina, Sask.--Building construé-! Halifax, N.S.--Greater Halifax has| tion in Saskatchewan actually started' to-day the largest permanent popula-| during the month of June was valued tion in its history, according to figures| at $674,000, an increass of $114,178 given out following a careful check|over the month of June, 1923. Build- for directory purposes. The total, ing premits in Mocse Jaw for the first population of Halifax, Dartmouth and half of the year totalled $399,847, and suburbs is 70,000, Halifax city alone in Saskatoon to $936,130. having 59,676 and Dartmouth 7,647. Edmonton,' Alta.--Successful straw-, Woodstock N.B.---One log is rafted, berry culture three hundred miles every two seconds throughout a nine-' north of the international boundary, hour day at the Nashwaak Pulp and has been proven by R. A, Gordon, of Paper Co, rafting grounds at the, this city, One hundred plants brought mouth of the Nashwaak river. *A new out from Ontario wintered well, bos- series of rafting records have been'somed heavily, and produced prolifical- established during the present season ly a well formed, colored fruit of fine which are believed to have eclipsed flavor and firmness. Mr. Gordon has anything which has previously been likewise had much success with fruit produced by a crew of similar size trees, cherry, wild plums, and crab' anywhere In America. A crew of apples. twenty-five men are engaged in the Victoria, B.C.--Whaling operations "actual rafting in addition to some this year, according to report, are very] sixty-five men emplo along the successful. Four stations and six or river. About twenty million feet of seven whalers are working. Some the company's lumber has already been the vessels have an average of thirty rafted this season and the total clean-' ) up for the season is expected to be' 'il is finding a ready marke. in Eng- : ronty bins million. r | lend, whilst Yhile meat Samui has be- Sherb: a come av rstabushed com v along ara ha pa oa, pd the West oust 'of Africa, tie entire farms throughout the Eastern Town. British Columbia whale meat pack of rips since the first of the year by the 'ast year hein gold thera. ] Eastern Townships Immigration So-| Most of the immigrants are and Scotch, but many come , Sweden, -- To Honor Royal Mounted by Fine Stone Memoris In the midst of the dire predictions of what is going to happen to the world if the Dawes report is not adopted comes the comforting assur-i ance from the British Medical Asso- ciation that babies born to-day have an expectation of ten years more of life than had their grandparents, The assertion is confirmed by insurance actuaries, one of whom said: "A great improvement in longevity has been noticed even in the last few years, as was shown when the insti- tute actuaries revised their table about two years ago. Accurate sta- tistics show that the improvement of mortality for men since 1890 is 20 per cent. and for women 22 per cent." The editor of "Whitaker's Alman- Ib gal, . 10-1 111% to 12¢; 2%-1b, tins, 12% to 18c; | comb honey, per doz, $3.50; No. 3, $2.50 to $2.75. 2.60; "per b-gal. tin, $2.40 per gal.; maple sugay, lb., 25 to 26c. Honey $0.1. ting, 11 to 11%ec; per . tins, 11 12¢; b-lb. tins, No. 1, $2.75 to Smoked meats--Hams, med., 26 to 27¢; cooked hams, 40 to 41c; smoked rolls, 18 to 20c; cottage rolls, 20 to '22¢; breakfast bacon | cial brand breakfast b backs, boneless, 83 to 88c. 23 to 27c; spe- acon, 29 to 3lc; Cured meats--Long clear bacon, 50 ack," moreover, is recasting the tables! 16%c¢; pails, 16% relating to the expectation of life, which he calculates' now more than ten years longer than was the case a few years ago. . if ee a Wheat Cutting Started o, good, $6.50 to $6. $10; butcher steers, choice, 17% to 18c. y to 70 lbs, $17; 70 to 90 Ibs:, $16.50; 90 lbs. and up, $15.50; lightweight fxolls, o> barrels, $32; heavyweight rolls, . Lard--Pure, tierces, 17% to 18¢; Repulse in another canoe and became tubs, 17% to 18%¢; pails, 18 to 18%c; separated in the fog. Miss James and prints 20% to 20%c; tierces, 15% to 16e¢; tubs, 16% shortening, to to 16%c; prints, Export steers, choice, $7.50 to $7.75, $6.50 to $7; export heifers, 75; baby beeves, $7.50 to $6.26 to 76; do, good, $6 to $6.25; do, med, to $5.75; 5 to §6; do, com., $4 to $4.50; butcher Doifers: choise, $6 to 3 ods . o . o, com., $3.50 to $4.25; in Sections of Alberta butcher cows, choice. , 94.25 to $5; do, med., $3 to $4; butcher bulls, d, A despatoh from Lethbridge, Alta, $4 to $4.50; do, fair, $3.60 to $4; says:--Spring wheat cutting started } y T 'on cutters on a 320-acre field at Coaldale on hols $6 to $6.25; do; 60; s choice, - $4.95: Thursday. The yield is estimated at & 26 bushels an acre, Cutting has also started at other points in South- western Alberta and will begin next head so far for the season, and whale yo bolognzs, $2.50 to do; fair, hi : 50; ners and $1 to 33807 focding creams parts of 'the canoe's furnishings and. fair, $5 to $4.50 to $5; id og to in Woodstock for many years, In 1899 he entered the New Bruns- wick Legislature for Carleton County, representing that riding one year, when he resigned to contest the same seat in the Federal Liberal interests. He was defeated, but in 1904 he was successful in his election effort and! remained as representative of the riding until his appointment in. 1919 as Chairman of the Board of Railw Commissioners. » see lf. SCIENTISTS PLEASED WITH ONTARIO APPLES At Ontario Government Re- ception the Visitors 'W. Presented With Several A despatch from. Toronto Bays:-- When the officers of the British Asso- Satin: recsived. official welcome: from i the vin Government at thi r+ overturned canoe, It transpired that). : aa i) she had loaned the coat to Miss Shea.| 1ament Buildings, they Jere 'Intro. Calls for help were heard from the[S" scene of the tragedy, but when other] ® toats reached the spot their was no + . sign 'of life and only a few floating' gn] British Squadron Seaman Drowned at Halifax Halifax, N.S., Aug. 10.--Nora Shea, 25, Halifax, and Leonard Hickman,' 88, electrical artificer of H.M.S. Re- pulse, were drowned in the Northwest Arm to-night when their canoe upset near the shore by the Pine Hill Col- lege. They had been making their 'way back to the Jubilee Boat Club in company with Madeleine James, of Halifax, and another officer from the her escort reached the boat house fin- ally and after a long wait, decided, that the others had landed at another | boat house. When Miss James reach- "ed home she found-her family mourn- ing her as dead, it having been report- ed that her cloak had been picked up with cushions and paddles from an . the cloak, to indicate what had 'pened. Hickman', 'milkers, 1 inj orn lingham, Kent, Square coins, i 0 comer snd mel rv keen 'and active intellects of the Younger Land. My interest has been particularly atrested by one item that is to come up for discussion, namely, the Educa- tional Training of Boys and Girls in this country for Life Overseas. The call of the Empire for a wider dis- tribution of the home population, for men and women to open up the vast uncultivated areas in the great Over- seas Dominions is more imperative to- day than at any time in its history.- Sim showing in its deliberations such a broad interest in these problems, and I trust, and indeed am confident, that the influence thus exercised may result in great and extended benefits to the Empire, : Yours truly, { EDWARD Pp, . 'US. Line Affected. from New York says:-- railroad merger in his-* combined. Ww 3 -- Coy 11,000 Mi of