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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1935-05-16, Page 2Midshipmen Hold Parade b! /*’ , --....... !“*’ '* « • CANADA V Voice of the Press CANADA STY LEC H A NG E _ THE WORLD THE EMPIRE AT LARGE . I The girl who. usbd to-spend a lot of time in front <jf the glass making . sure her hat was otf straight now spends the same amount of time -.. "making sure-it-isn’t™— St.—Thomas Times-Journal. ----7WENTAtt¥-lkU~t-”<— There is decided merit in the pro-, pogalof. the Hon. Dr. J. A. Faulkner, the provincial Minister of Health, that the word “insane” shall be de­ leted .from Ontario’s statutes wher- • ever it may* occur and be | replaced by the phrase . “mentally ill and de- /■. fective.” We have made much pro­ gress from that dinf period in which individuals suffering from mental illness were considered to be in such , a hopeless state that they were con-; .fined in .virtual prisons and set apart from the world for the remainder of their days.—Brockville Recorder, -production, an odd turn of events hag resulted in a substantial increase in the number of. farmers. Census bur­ eau officials estimate, ’that at least half a million new. farms have sprung up in the United States during* the •-dri-p'reasloffr’^^ :believed that this-4s . due , to the re­ turn, to rural areas of city folk whose jobs vanished when factories shut dqwn. Over a period of, many vears The American faxmr”p^ulatibn~stead- lly declined. It is surprising enough to find this trend reversed, over a _flve-year.stretch;_„but^to^try,.toJ_un-! derstand Just how this reversal fits in with reducing -farm production is quite a task.—Quebec Chronicle-Tele­ graph. EXPENSIVE ANO SLOW It has b.een estimated that it costs $25*000 to kill one man in modern war. Worse than that, the grandson foots the bill for the man his grand­ father killed.—Toronto Mail arid Em- pire. ■ , parade grounds at the United States Naval Academy at Anftapolis, Md., as the future• SC6HC OH . Jz «*4a*uv * |>* ■_ ■ J** — — —- . —- „ . - pffieers of the U.S. Navy go through their paces in first dress parade of the year. ISLAND STEPPING STONES ...r,^So.ohJ^.ery»UittIeibislanid*T-—i;n~tha^ ocean is going tofind/itself important and'3T?fs.” certain TEiat, with* Aviation developing as it is, places which in .the past have not* even been spots on- the map will become centres of interest. ..Here, for instance, is. the. *^™*ease-'"Of-*rt*h*el|-~W in the Pacific Ocean. These Are three small islets, with a total-area '.of . /hot more than 2,600 acres,' yet they ’ • are . to be a point of call oh the pro­ posed U.S.-China air route, plans for .... which .are now well under*: way with Pan-American Airways.' and, the Unit- . ed States Government co-operating. ’ ’• —Sault Star. /'. * ’; . / SECRET OF LONG LIFE. Mrs. William Russell of Mitchell, celebrated her 101st birthday 'on March 25.Sb unusual is suoh ari 'event that it'comes under, the head­ ing of remarkable. * , :—:.Like^a-good™man.y..o.thers~to.“W.hom" length, of years has been measured 7iiP nricr^sing" .Wrs'.’.. Rti; sell: had. something to' say about, the sec­ ret of a. long life.. It had .nothing t# do with diet,, but it -was merely that getting up early in the mgrning was ~the~pla*ce-“wherein^^^ And- Mrs. ; Russell means four ao'clock in the (morning* When she says “early.”—Stratford. Beacon-Her- & ■ " ■ I . ' I . . I ‘ * THE POPULAR BRITISH PQJST OFFICE. By an energetic campaign of ad­ vertising by the systematic study of the public needs, by the drastic chea­ pening of the services, the Post Of­ fice has been transformed,! almost overnight, from a semt-obsolete bur­ eaucratic machine into 'an : enterprise charged full with vitality. Sir Kings- ley Wood deserves the gratitude of the "cbuntry^ for /liTs -ftcr=sighted* ail'd": courageous achievement.' — London Morning Post. 'T"'. '1 i’ ■ aid FIXING THE BLAME medical man recently opined -------^-—BRLT-AIN^S-PRGGRESS-^ The- toound*he_ss_^ol/th.e basis jrin7 whicih British recovery has been built . is shown mere - clearly than ever, in\ Neville-Chairiberlain's budget tor the —coming=toreaT7^Thto=*urerage'^Bfitbff3" . standard , of living has steadily im-’ - prcved. - The cost* of . living lastvyear' was substantially below the level of 1931, when the National Government came into power... Industrial-produc­ tion rose ,12 per cent, last year;, ex- ’ pprts increased $1.45,000,000.—Winni­ peg, Tribune. * I Ai. ’that heredity is, a factor-in head-- a'ches. \ ■ *.■■"■’ It -seems--our -ancestorg -a-re-biam- . ■ed for to ’lot of things “these daysr ^We"had-’Wieved^hat~m*any“iffb'd‘e^ ^hea.da&hesr^aulted^7££Eon^-;s;iEEegfuIai&. hours, and sometimes excessive eat- ing or drinking. There must still be a variety of causes to produce toe effect, depending upon the indi­ vidual factor, oL course; but what a final' excuse a man may offer here­ after-—that an -ancestor is 'respon­ sible for his “morning after.?? feeling., —Border1' Cities* Star. * LURE OF THE UNKNOWN. Thijg is a' time of year when a spir- -it-ot* rgsifeBsiress' takes ~g5TcT "Ybsterdny-the" chaiirman of toe'. . Southern Railway. did a little electri­ fying himself. , Waiting-rooms,, he said, would be made into places .where anyone could enjoy Jhe wait-, -ng. . Though' here, and there travel by rail has been much more cheerful lately, the general standard remains* so low that to. most train traveller*^ these sentiments will* seem rey*<?.!«-^ -tiopary.. -~A-nd--i-n~t4uth*Lnothing, short- ;>otoa ue.v-olu.tio.n..:is,..w.an.Le.d ‘ vantages of travel ' by train are in •Sanger of being "buried"'in a doleful wilderness of ugly' dark “termini, old- ! “fashioned- stations and .Victorian car- Tiages^tondon Daily-'Herald. ' ——— i. ... ■ ' > PUBLIC HEALTH IN S-A., The great Obstacle - to the general adoption of more hygenic measures everywhere appears, to be the rel.uc-' .tance.of the community., arid also off Provincial* .and' local authorities to pay for thOm. I’he provision of pure water, and of adequate sanitary tacti­ JEh.eL a<U. Piladelphia, April 30. —* From 300 of the dead, medical science has its dnawer to-day. to one of its major 'mysteries'™whet'her--7**'huma'n-’"'per.s'on*-- ,_ality... is: j-ust .,a jraatteitobf glandg—j..__ The answer is no the glands, dp not make personality,’ but th^y are.. Jb.j powerhouse. They* leave un­ explained why brie person is a geni­ us. another a pauper, but for .what- nisli -the “drive.” *.’■_, * Dr. Walter Freeman, of the Black­ burn Laboratory, SL lillizaheth. Hqs- pital, and George * Washington 'Unl- .versify, Washington, reported to toe Ani'ericn College of' Physician*/.that they explain the drive which makes a 'Scientist kpend "5'0."year^’ studying a mouse, or the' power of. the Orator ■ who kWays'ni'iTlons. ; *..'..........................' THE ENDOCRINE...' . .costs ay- : victims of . the war in the whole [world, Professor Hersch of the University of Genevp. sums up, “is. doomed to failure,’’ in the first place “because we lack reliable* data for the - backward countries.” Rut, he adds, “even with these gaps- w.e ar- rive at the following approximate: es-, tlmates” of deaths directly and indi­ rectly attributable to the world War: Military Civil Europe 12,637,000 — -; America .......... 170,000 Asia ............. 69,000 Africa,^......... 99,000 Oceania 76,000 . 12,219,000 1,500,000 13,700,000 900,000 60,000 13.055.Q0O13,055,000 28,379,000. Which gives the staggering total of •’etirly 42 million people destroyed1!’ —a number actually greater than the population of France, England and Ay ales, and four times as, great as the total population of thd Dominion of Canada.—-Halifax Herald, A SPECULATION. The - population of the United States in 1800 was 5,308,000, less than .. half the population of Canada today. Even in 1820 it did riot exceed 9,636,? 000, or 1,500,000 less-.than' the num­ ber of .people whojive in thia Dom­ inion now. The rate of ' increase, however, was consistently * greater tha,n that of panada,” owing to the -----hea-vy- immigrriUOri which continued until drastic restricive regulations wbre imposed fifteen or .twenty years ago; Wheq economic conditions hrive improved. it may be. predicted ' that Canada’s poptilatibii, will increase* at a greater rate, than-at ariy other time , * in . her history and 'may reach 20,-” 000,000 within toe. next Iwo de^a.des..„ —Victoria Times,’ . organized childhood *. The school child of twenty, years ago knew little or nothing of air­ planes or rad ioj or automobiles, but today these -'are part Of .his life. Child life is also organized today as never * before with Boy: Scouts, Girl Guides, camps, 'clubs, • choirs- and athletic* tearhs. The process' of relat­ ing. p(li'ication*»t.o. tfiis more socialised existence 'Is in. itself a problem of .importance,—-Lbndoii Free Press, < ■ * paradox on the farm.. . ' Although the Washington ' Govern­ ment has taken unprecedented steps In the last two* years A' to reduce farm '' 1 (e I \ V* pot pelie.tt.ate far into the sinuses. After much c^periiriepting, he has devised an improvement* which de- ’• . serves, thp consideration of 'phyai- ” icians ,who specialize in the treat- / ment of diseases*of the ear, th?oa,c . and nose, His modification inakeg. it possible to appl.j heat not only ’ to the region of the bones and Us- / sues hCe.cted, but to control it’ au­ tomatically. . . ■ ' •’.InHlie 'tr'eatment of. sinus, disease, tubes' of purest rubber are iasertei , into the nostril as far as ’ the, hard " f palate.. Each . tube* is divided length-. by ^’’^rartat-ionr'^ —^ch--*-- -/■- branches .-from a main tribe -leading to a* compression and suftion pump.; * -The-business, of the pumps js . to ‘drive-hot wafer .through the systorh ; * of tubes . in a eeaseless flow. An eieetVic heater kedps /an- r* tore." . which ■ pounds*. ............. „ ; , . , thing like the hot-water circu/atory ’"systonv by whieh—houses.»™-a.he-J5o.m^=-—. tiiries heated. The rubber tubes are simply heat radiators controlled by to. tUgrJb°3^at. * .; ■ wise fsiectric heater keeps Viilves control/the pressure, ’ "I varies from one'.' to*, three • What we have ■ is ,i some- ‘ WHS -ta3-lts-"aad-o'ccui)atioriS7-to—go-warrd'eT- Ing in search of change, and sights that are new or different. , It io, perhaps, the. modern symp­ tom of the wanderlust to which man­ kind in past ages wks. able to give rein in the mass. Wanderlust is won- derulst; longing for the . unknown things to be! seen at the' end of strange waters. Individuals ,of all ageis and all* generations have known it—have . felt - it dragging' them- from the beaten tracks to trails, that lead1 into unchar ted regions; Some’never* return. Some return in rags, weary arid broken, with scars to prove their adventures. A few returff in fine Tai- ment, enriched, with stirring tales of good, things' found arid evidence that bears them out. . Wanderlust takes many forms. .' Sometimes it gets into the feet and pulls its victims along strange paths towards wondrous-plhces, new lands, unexplored wastes. Sometimes it gets into the mind and leads towards istrange theories, and after strange «$bjectives, some oit them real, some chimerical, some good, some bad. Sometimes the lure of the unknown draws toward strange political, morj al, social, economic pr metaphysical “isihs”—some of which prove soupd and safe, but' isorne unsourid and deadly dangerous. Many wanderers perish on their journeys along strange mental; lines.. Others return, sadder and wis^*; * ' \ - Whatever , directions tfie*. wander­ lust takes individuals, it would be a, dull, world/ without It. — Kingston Whig^-Standard. , THE EMPIRE cal authorities, on the “other hand, have allot got the money to .spend’, and for that reasori it has been suggested to the Provincial Finance Commis-. •^ion that the whole organization of the Public Health Services, is,, well as the financial provisions of the Pub­ lic Health Act, need revision and re­ adjustment; The position has been lu­ cidly reviewed by the Secretary for Public Health, rind the’ remedy has heeh evident for many years past. The present time provides .an excel­ lent opportunity for initiating the re? formA that alone can fiial^e 'satdhfac- tory provision for a heaithy South Af-- rioa In the future.—Johannesburg Times. AGES OF MAN . The age in which he does not know anythifig and doesn't know he does­ n’t'know anything'.1 The age in which he doesn’t know anything, but thinks he knows it q.11. The age in which he ‘is- convinced that his father Is, a diimbel). The age in. which he comps to find out he doesn’t ktiow it ’all. The age in which discovers that . this father is possessed of normal J good sense. The age ip which he' , discovers that he really knows very i l||tle. The age in which he discovers ' his' father was possessed • of more ' sense thafi he has. The age in which ' ho hag-,'he hag/a eon who thinks* he Is dumbbell.'-London Opinion. . I /■ t c > ..... - \ 1 I 1 f ■ 1 I 43 It.'is astonishing how much heat local tissues and -bones can stand.,* At first the’ temperature is' only f 112 degrees F., but'. every ninety [ seconds .it is liaised one degree. Usually 128 degrees can be endured without, .discomfort. Patients lie, on their backs and* let the hot. water circulate separate^-ffro111 th? . mu* • cbus membrane oMy by a thin wall , ,'o.f rubber. A treatment lasts from * - I ' fifteen to twenty minutes. The sin-. ' I * -uses'; which * li'e'.. .near • * the.' muedus ■ ' ..rnembrance .of the nose, are bene- f • filed, as they usually, are when sub-.* j . jected to heat „ treatment In this .' ( , case the benefit -is especially mark- . ed Undoubtedly * some hea.t is con- . TTEA^F TREAT’M'IS’NT--RECORDS ----- — ■■ ■ What' actually happens is not clear , in any method .of heat; treatment. But before-ahd-after .X-ray pictures - of 170 .c'hses of sinus .disease treated ? pearan.ee "of telltale* shadow.,' some- . times partial clarification ,_arid’ only, rarely no imprbveipeht at .all. .... In 'Ills article ,in American* Medi- . . cine'; ]Dr. Sh.or.ell refers to the im-. 'pro.ver'hent 6f hearingJn... cases ^of . j sinuses..* » . and^whl^.^;jto£ui^unt.^ Collu:nJin . recent.lv short-vtove therapy ha% come • ', ,* * * * . ...L.-au Ayaves. than *, yd . .in; ///■ evideinT';d-f-a*n assofria&on of sinus 1 disea-s'c *'and infection of the, middle, car, ^I -bhve the Afttol*ing that,, ing tp the position of the stnusesj1 at the top of-the respiratory tract; they * are a menace to” all! lower-lying , structures,” he ventures. Drainage from infected* sinuses .. contanxiiiat<?s__ everything .it reaches. .' v . ' The conclusion is drawn that ear infection's,, which*'’ ihay result«, in . a second; FOR SINUS DISEASE . * : . * ■ ’. • v Warmth. Is Supplied by Water Run Through Tubes , in Nostrils There probably never,was a time r*when*---hea.t“"was“-''npt-"Teg*a*Fd*ed^ j jneansu-of,. .altexiatui gL_pauu,*;JtoSjL~wllrij^ occtirs when. a hot-water ba^ is ap- ' plied to a laipe. back or an aching, ear is. still obscure;'■ physicians. talk of' stimulating th'e circulation., .of. do­ ing* something to cells that is still ,to^T^iitoeGto-Qfe.s-P^nJa-t.iAr-v--*Lne-pla.m.. fact is that heat * often aids nature ’ in achieving her own ends. , " Much* of ‘what.’ constitutes .modern physiotherapy ■ depends,. on- the hjipfh cation ■ of heat by electrical appara­ tus. When a .phys-ician . invokes diathermy .he - sends through afflict.- i deafne^ .that..fol-. . ■ed-.-tissues -and-organ's/,a ■ cuprtfit j .lreathlent of the ” ' which has the proper ehijii.*acte.ri.stics ! ■',*..' .. . *i„ i • t J This answer was found jii measur- ang™{rfi<r’^^ Internal secretion glands, of 3.00 pel*-" sonsj who died at ~Sl. JtClJzab.eth. Hos- , -pitaTr-Tlie.v ’lfad—been long .tiifie-titF • tients, tbeto personalities ’ in . life carefully recorded. It is : trup, Dr. Freenian" said, ,that numerous personality * tendencies werb seen which -'appeared to . be as­ sociated with* whether one or another of these gland*.; was extra large or extra small, He added: “Two important,'func-’ tions, as far as the personality is , recently shor/wgve therapy hasx cohie ■ 'Vhiehr hr iea- — . ------------ t......... .... . .. ( radio 'penetrate the. body: ^vjlliou't ''the use ■ of" anytiwg*'Tfiat touches , . skin. Extraordinary results have been I c!,s- ■achjeved'"i;'n: 'killing the-r>iictelfi'a df ./aJ,*.i some virulent d^seas'es in this way. The hot-water, bottled , the electric lamp and the radiator, that eniits^iri- fra-red rays have no. such power/ Becaus’e'there is-so much guess­ work about these heat' . treatments. Dr: William Bierman lias,* -actually s ii n k- th e i:*ni o/.* n i i .pl ek---in—r....lha..!...flesJj4 =?m!rl::=thns~ drive. The irritability and emotional instability seen in hyper thyroid- ism, in hyper insuliriism, in u hyper parathyroidiSm and in certain otlief endocrinopalhips, are relieved by re­ storing the normal endocrine bab ancei . \ ■ „ • ’ ’ ! “The energy drive is augmented to a greater Or less degree by cor­ recting any deficiency pf the pitui­ tary, thyroid, adrenals, or gonads. “Nevertheless as far as determin­ ing (Whether ,an individual shall be "prohd, sensitive, suspicious paranoid individual; or a timid, shut-in, dreamy-schizoid person; , a. boister­ ous, jolly, hailfellow weW-met cy­ cloid.; or a moody pedantic, egofcen- trie epileptoid individual, the endoc­ rine glands would Fieem to have little say in the matter.’’ , prevailing view, he .found that heal from the electric lamp penetrates more deeply than, heat from; the infra-red ‘radiator. 'What '.happens when a diatherma’.l current 'or short- wayes' penetrate tissue no o,ne knows exactly. It is, impossible to measure temperatures ip electrical- -ly heated tissues because the meas­ uring apparatus* itself is affected. All this is of riiomenl in consider-* ing . the work that ■ Dr. I.. Daniel Sho^rell of New York dcscribes\ in- American Medicine. He is a spe­ cialist in the’ treatment of diseases, of the ear, nose ' and threat, and Sinuses-attract his attention. * Like others' in his field he recognizes the benefits of heat Treatment. Also be sees that the'heat radiated Vy lamps and. sources of infra-red rays can- its1 Journal. Cullom laLtoeatness., tTlom is apparently in favor.of opera- * J"tionstof tobirie-sorto- Dr. LShprell j*e• ? I lies on 'h is modified heat. »tpeatme*nt~—-. and presents his. case records to sup­ port his stand. * ^,. Your Non-Stop v Endurance Test British Farmers In Tithe / * Protest '■ ’ ’Wl f rr.-rv.’ * b •* - - • ^;i a /;■:••• •: k-:. ? 1 " ■No. man has eVer constructed suck a marvelous,k complicated piece of \ mia^i^'nery a)3 nature has put inside I of his bodytoNo Watch la more delk 1 calmly adjusted -- each part'depends ent on the othqr*. J ' Quite unknown to you, most of .the tipae that amazing machine ;of ■yours is'•,ntatking.. its own repairs. Minor adjustments are automatically madfe. Sometimes, • though, outside j help is needed — help from a com** I petent map or a surgeon. \ I Machines that’ have been, run a I long time without inspection, especl- I ally,those jhore thajiJMirty years old, I deserve to have a thorough inspep; \l tion at lea^t once a year. G’ve that’ *1 maa'iine of yours an opportunity >to I owtlnug faithful service,* Find but, ' 1 if it needs repairing or tuning up. ' I * .-t----1.'. **• ri.......* ' k I Beating Disease I Mule .' spinners’ canter which has | for generations, been, tfie dread of I j'/inc,'i.slitre col-top spinners toais at. I last been conquered. Its* cause has I bo.rn traced to the spinner’s, contact. I with certain lubricating"’oils as * lie j leans over this machine, and an ef- . ‘ " I •fee,live preventive cohsis.ta of smear- • I Ing Over (ilie, opposed, parts of* the . I body with lanolin ,aye riR be- . I fore and al'le^r work. Dririhg the* last.^ . J few years t|ipusahds, of exper’tnen-ts . ' 1 have been conducted by*'Di*. TworC,* I ■head of the Cancer Research De- I .barinmnb at Manchester University. ' ‘I and his brotocr, Mr.. J. 'M. Twort, bf *' I the *Maiichester Cancer Cofnnvitlee, " 1 with a v.iew*' 'to discovering lubrica- , I tifrg oi’.u yhmh may; safely be used I on the spinning .machines, and’ the I evidence [n dale points the finger of * I sti'-'pidon tifVthe heavy-oil engines as I ih? groatest offenders. >»i;....;■■■ ,,’■!* ***,-, ,1 Km • v More than >100 farmers, protesting against*, the .tithe . collectio'ris, ■* “Qimcnr, Anrms bom burned effigies of the_,Atohbhshop*. of‘(*tonterb,.ui?y in” clerical gaf-b and Queen Anne dinin'** • I stration t^t Ashford, Ke fit; England. The/>rotest was .staged after lack of bidding” Iffid nrovenied auction bf. nine dair/cows seized in an effort to'collect moTp than $300 in tithe aiTc-u's P '.........................Combrissioners. The above (plTOto^shows • trhe .effigies' being carried h> *iheEeclestiastical the ^on fire. •v l r ,*. ‘Ali^'»//‘'hu'iq,, W'/'" toto* . '/■ -y/ 1 ' ." I ... 'h(. cns,sod soeW-to'be the' lra- st.-iic <>f man. Even the rural dirtier' is mor,o disced for the irip hr* misses bn a stormy he iH bia sed for .all' the io* mikes right Oil time. »r ' ■ir't,. '' ’* *,v - *?•*,’ •";*'to'*'l*"