The Brussels Post, 1929-8-14, Page 2WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14t1i, 1029
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Huron County House of Refuge, at Clinton
Call Your Doctor Early
this work, possibly the most import-
ant of all, that is not so generally
appreciated. And that is the saving.
By Dr. Gordon Bates of infant and school children. This
(General Secretary, Canadian Social begins with the expectant mother.
Hygiene Council) , She is being taught the importance
of pre natal nre. She is being urg-
ed to see her doctor frequently be -
"Why should My taxes be spent M fore the birth of her child, or to re -
maintaining an expensive depart- gularly attend elf nics maintained
ment• of health?" ; for her health and safety. Public.
One occasionally hears that77,7n-,1 health nurses call upon her, and
, even nowadays. There arc tactfully stress the importance of
still a few people who point out that doing so.
a department of health goes not pro -1 Two weeks after the birth of the
duce anything and therefore, they ehild, the nurse again calls, the
suggest, does not justify its exist- mother is directed to 'well•baby'
enee. centres, where her child is examin-
But does anybody claim that we ed, weighed, any defects noted and
cedd est along ,,; po.lce the mother referred to her doctor to
force despite the .faet tot'- it doesn't have these remedied.
produce anything er-r' And the The newest development in this
life -guard at a sums,: •;• resort. lie scions- of 0;Pd-saving is the 'pre -
isn't a producer, y he saves ,ebool-ag'' clinic, for .the physical
half a dozen lives &trier a summer, examination of children before they
we deem him we!I w trthy of Ii tart to school.
hire. And all during the school life of
- During the yen. 11128, Was brass the child. regular physical examin.
were saved by the Medical Health ntions are provided for it, health ed•
Department of the City of Toronto. eeational material is sent to parents,
I quote Toronto figures because they teeth are carefully examined, and
are readily available. Hamilton, On- • hygiene education thoroughly and
tario, furnishes quite as good an exsysternmatically carried on by the
ample. Nearly two thousand people, teacher.
at least. Peasle in all walks of life. • A11 of these thingrs contribute to
Enough to populate a whole villages. the saving of many more than 1933
Here is how that figure is arrived , lives in Toronto last year, as well as
at to the preventing of untold sickness
In 1910, when Toronto began to ; misery, and economic waste—and
spend a good deal of money to pro- ! all those things point clearly to one
tett its health, there were 15.1 deaths inescapable fact : that the effective -
every year, for each thousand peo- !nese of any public health depart-
ple. In 1928, only 11.8 cued, out of merit, and the number of untold
every thousand. Working that out sickkness and the economic wastage
In terms of Toronto's many thous- that it will save any community de -
and population, a distinct saving of pend entirely upon the amount of
1933 lives is shown. And even that money spent upon it, and carefully
figure mark you; is not fair to the expended by it, under the direction
department, which is actually sav- of competent public health officials.
ing many more lives than that every 1 A certain injustiee is indicated here
year. I In big, Canadian cities, death rates
That figure is based upon the in: are being steadily reduced through
provement in the department since the efforts of the public health de -
1910 not upon the diffsience he- partments. Rut rural Canada is not
tween the death rate of 192)3 and I sharing in this march towards social
the death -rate as it would have been health to nearly the same degree.
if Toronto had had no department The reason is, that rural Canada
at all, has not the money to spend in saf e -
And what r,-.si,onsible for this?' guarding Ps hen!..h, that ui4.,an blow do, does th.• (1,partment op(l.ate to ada he. In .,la ee of lbe slendid
save all those lives? -
First of all, the water supply
diseases ; typhoid, dysentery, diar-
rhoea, Me. To day Toronto's r 1'tt,-
late from typhoid .9 wij, that of
rural Ontario is 0.43.
Than milk. A veritable lake mill:
is poured into Toronto every day,
and all of it excepting less than ono
half of one percent. is pasteurized,
The result is that bovine tuivu.eulos.
is of bone and eland—is virtually
eliminated from Toronto, and septi
sore throat arid all other menmunic•
able diseases are reduced. Every-
one is familiar with the ordinary
rotttine of health department the
g1:.11.oi1in5!u_r, Or,
llut er
VENIZELOS SUCCESSFUL
Over 400,000 women and girls who
were. weak, 'blue," nervous, run-
down, and unable to do their work
prey orly, have improved their
heal .h by taking Lydia B. Pink.
ham's Vegetable Compound. By
accurate reeord, 08 out of every 100
report benefit. You can be almost
certain that it will help you too.
Premier Venizelos, according to
returns received was given a sizeable
majority in ihe 'General elections in
Greece, gaining 18 deputies from 25
towns. Quiet prevailed everywhere
-scent at Argos, where, in a riot be.
teaser; eppo,sing factions, three were
•eriously hurt.
health organization serving Toronto,
the work of which I have just
roughly outlined, the average rural
community has to get along with
one official, and a part-time official
at that a medical officer of health
who is miserably unpaid, even for
his part-time work, and who cannot
conceivably do the work that should.
be done. Provincial departments of
health are doing a great deal and
important work to stem the tide of
rural disease and premature death,
but until rural 'communities are
served by small, full -tune counter-
parts of the health departments that ,
are succeeding so well in cities, any-
thing like complete success is pos-
sible.
Experiments with such rural
health departments, ' or 'county
health units' as they are usually ter-
med, have succeeded far beyond ex-
pectation in Quebec, British Colum-
bia, and Saskatchewan, and to -day
one of the largest tasks facing the
public health worker in this demo-
cratic country is to educate public
opinion to the end that governments,
may be justified in spending public
money on the establishment of ade-
quately financed and staffed health
county units over the entire Dom
inion.
Control of Early
And Late Blight
Th most important factor to take
into consideration in order to obtain
a healthy tuber crop of healthy tu-
bers is the treatment of the plants
throughout the growing season with
either dust or spray in order to cont.
bat the ravages of the fungous par-
asites which cause early and late
blight.
Early blight manifests itself on
the leaves by the appearance of dead
spots showing definite concentric
ringing which gives the lession ti
target -like appearance, while the late
blight lesion appear on the leaf tips
and margins and may quickly 171 -
valve the entire leaf. The late blight
infection can readily he distinguish-
ed by the purpling of the leaf tissue ,
at the edge of the infection and the
appearance of a thin fuzzy fungeous
growth on the under sides of affect-
ed leaves.
The blight symptom); are first rib
served on the leaves and the attack
may be so severe as to entirely de-
foliate the plants making them die
prematurely, but the real loss is
sustained wh;',r, plants are improper-
ly treated allowing the disease to
spread to the tubo 's causing thein to
rot in stet:ago,
The first treatment should he ap-
plied when the plants are about 12
inches high and the procedure re-
peated at regular intervals of ten
• days or two weeks throughout the
growing. 44NVOTI. POiSMn should he
added with the first two tr,atnients
and at any other time when needed
for the control of potato beetles.
The fellowing :•7hovild e
u.rd for the most suceessfel control
of the blights.
S',ra', Coppr.r .S111/11110 TAMP Water
14 two treatments 41b 4Th - 40 gals.
Iri - th treatments 5 th 511) 10 gals
lith treatment alb 40 gals
Oth to‘last 7')b 71h 40 gals
Dust Dehydrated Cop'er Sul TAMP
20 its 80 lb is
Liquid should he amdied at the
rate of 80 gallons per nere, rind
dust et the rate of 80 paunch; per
nem for the first two applieationa
and from 85 to'40 pounds for all re -
VISITING. CANADA
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to.erram
Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, form-
er British Chancellor of Exchequer,
is on a visit to Canada with a party
from the Old Country.
maiming applications.
The application of fungicides to
the growing crop is absolutely neces-
sary if a farmer wishes to Obtain a
maximum crop of marketable tubers
free from rot.
If at any time there is a disease
affecting a crop formation for its
control can be received free from
the Federal Department of Agricult-
ure by addressing your communica-
tion to the Officer -in -Charge at the
nearest Plant Pathological Labra -
tory.
Treaty Flight Finishes
The Treaty 'Flight among the
Northern Ontario Indians has been
brought to a successful conclusion
with the landing of the plane at
Remi Lake, and the return of the
greater part of the personnel to civ-
ilization by train, it is announced at
Ottawa.
Five -Power
Naval Parley
The possibility of a fire . power
naval disarmament conference
London in thenear future, tp sub-
stitute for the Washington confer-
ence, whieh was originally scheduled
for 1981, was seen m reliably in-
formed political quarters in London
as a result of recent developments
in Great Britain and the United
States.
A Pinch of Snuff
Snuff is going up again, at least
the 'consumption of it is. It display-
ed signs of falling .eir in popularity,
hut the latest statistics of the Excise
division of the Department of Na,
tional Revenue show that 82,016
pounds of this commodity were 101-
tered fore onsumption in May last.
That .14 6.000 pounds more than in
May, 1928. Where it all goes to is
mere or less of a mystery, but the
lered Inc consumption in May laat,
this powdered form of tobacco. goes
on. apace, Who UM snuff in this
year of grace 1920? There's the
pinch.
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13iblesSare now issued in 618 lang-
uages by the British arid Foreign
Bible Society.
FORMER JUDGE SICK
Hon. Wallace Neobitt, eminent
Canadian counsel and President of
the Canadian Bar Association,
who suffered a slight stroke while
holidaying at his summer home OA
Georgian Bay. He Is a former Jus-
tice of the Supreme Court of Can-
ada.
BIBLE THOUGHTS
..For This Week Pass
Bible Thouptds memerimi. win prove
prieelees heritage in sitar year.
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SUNDAY.
With his stripes we are healed.—
Isaiah 53 : 5,
MONDAY.
My people shall dwell in a peace-
able habitation, and in sure dwell-
ings, and in quiet resting places. --
Isaiah 32 ;18.
TUESDAY.
Above all things have fervent
charity among yourselves : for char-
ity shall cover the multitude of sins.
--1 Peter 4 : 8.
WEDNESDAY.
Who is a God like unto thee, that
pardoneth. iniquity?—Micah 7 : 18.
THU RSDAY
For I am the Lord. 1 change not
--Mal. 3 : 6.
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FRIDAY,
Remember now thy Creator in
the days of thy youth.—Eccl.
12 :1,
C==:3
SATURDAY.
Fight the good fight of faith, lay
hold on eternal life. -1 Tim. 6 :1.2.
SPEAK GENTLY
Speak gently 1 it is better far
To rule by love than fear :
lipeak gently !let net harsh words
Mar
The good we might do here.
Speak gently! 'Tis a little thing,
Dropped into the hearts deep well,
The good, the joy, which it maY
bring,
Eternity shall tell.
•
A MORNING THOUGHT
1.ct me to -day do something that
shall take
A little saddness from this world's
vast store,
Of joy's too scanty sum a little
more.
Let me tonight look back across
the span.
'Twixt dawn and dark, and to my
conscience say --
Because of some good act to beast
or man—
"The world is better that 1 lived
today,"
Wheeler Wilcox
*,,to
The dellerions flavour eg'SAIADA
has no equ'all. DA not be tempted
by the price cheap teas
'Fresh Irons the gardens'
585
The Car Owner's Scrap -Book
(By the Left Hand Monkey Wrench)
ANOTHER CLUTCH HINT the resistance to chemical changes
If the clutch release bearing is with which it conies In contact.
lubricated by a grease cup, giving INCREASED SPEED RUINS
the cup more than (Ina turn may
provide too much lubricant with bqd TIRES
effect upon the plates. They are Motorists are tempted to speed up
likely to slip, their car on fine, straight stretches
of concrete highway, but they do
not realize that speed generates heat
and heat is most destructive elem-
ent to which tires can be subjected.
Any time a driver increases his car
speed five miles per hour, he is in --
creasing the amount of heat gener-
ated in the tire from road contact
and, in hot weather it is costing him
in tire wear out of all proportions
to anything he ordinarily gains from
that speed. Heat tends to soften
rubber tread, and when rubber is
soft it will shear off and wear more
quickly under the abrasion of road
friction than will the same rubber
DON'T USE HAMMER
Those 'broken radiator ornaments
that one sees on so many cars are
due to the fact that often the own-
ers have tried to hammer them into
place. They won't stand pounding.
HAND THROTTLE HELPS
There are numerous little tricks
about driving the car on long din-
tance journeys -that contribute a
meed of restfulness from time to
time. One of these is to feed gaso-
line by hand instead of using the
accelerator. There is many a long,
clear stretch of road up which it
may be done with safety, unheated.
A HANDY VARIETY
OIL DISAPPEARS WITH HIGHER
There is one handy variety of SPEEDS.
spare that many motorists never
Oil consumption M!rit.FO:i propor-
think about. It is a grease nipptionately with the rate of engine
le
that can be used as a subtitute for speed. At high speeda, it disappears
the one that refuses to permit the at rat almost amazing. It is
passage of lubricant regardless of worth bearing in mind at this season
What the car owner does to relieve when so much driving at higher
the situation. Sooner or later, every speeds.
crtr owner meets a nipple Of this •
variety and one of the best ways TAKE CARE OF SCRATCHES IN
out of the dilemma, as well as eas- PAINTED BODY
Mat, is to install a new one. Tt is important to apply an early
treatment to scratches, to preserve
POLISHING EASIER
the body of a car. Scratches and
..In this day of chronium plating
cuts in the body finish if let alone
on exterior parts of the car, it is no
might cause "sore" spot in the body
trick to keep the bright parts bright
metal and, if neglected, rust will
A final rubbing will restore its ori -
gather in the finish about the spots
ginal lustre which is intact beneath ,
and eventually it drops iff gradually
the layer of dust. 'to 'enlarge the effected spot.
BUTTER WILL DO IT
When the finish of the car be- I MORE MILEAGE FROM TIRES
The mileage of tires can be great -
comes flecked with tar as it often I
does, there are a number of .special 1Y lengthened by changing them
preparations that will cleanse it. about. Tests have proven that the
Even utter will do the job if it 15 ; right rear tire gets the most wear of
handiest at the moment. all on the automobile, with the
others going down the scale in this
TO TEST WHEELS order : Left rear, right front, left
In checking the front wheels fol front. Every two or three thousand
toein measurements should be made miles, move the right frees to the
from the hub centre line with the left rear to equalize the ar. Pun -
wheels pointed directly ahead. ctures will take care of the wear of
! WORTH REMEMBERING the spares.
The engine of the car should be 1 GASOLINE ECONOMY
lacnept t nentlesaonn,s anaomwonnegrs thanedimoppeorrtn--
stopping of a car, due to stop streets
It is the constant starting and
torsAnsehnornuuldintteadke gtrhelassesteips arrestop lights, and traffic tangles, that
4n: finite
consumes gas unreasonably. If every
fire hazard, .; 111711( driver would bear these facts in
A dirty car is a handicap in sell.
tdying.engine frequently be- sible, he would soon find his car
mind and endeavotir when in traffic
ingAor dtrila 'to keep under way as nmeh as pos-
comes a generally neglected one. showing bettermileage per gallon
insgdankpedindnisrte ablinditso,ilenratanyks,beetcnever-
gear, when in a traffic light a block
of fuel. Always proceed slowly, in
POOR ECONOMY away shows red, in order to be still
under way when 'the light Changes.
Lubricating oil' that is sold at a
•
In this way the engine./ may be accel-
ity that great care and laborious at-
very low price cannot 'nave the qua'.
erated to pick up speed; without
ever coming to a dead stop. 13y ab -
There
afford. Cheap oil has not
the National Academy 01 sch,„„ svhich prodUce sulphuric acid that
ive to bearings and finished surfaces serving this very simple rule, a de -
There are 280 living members of tided, and at tim.es surprising, sav-
at Washington, Dgate all department of. science. C. who invests. a more carefully made oil possesses ing in fuel will be notsd.
Free sulphuric; acid is the oil reser- 4.
.
voir of an engine is highly destruct- largirs•LOOK AT YOUR LABEL
CANADIAN HONORED
Dr. Harvey Smith, a native or Win-
nipeg, who has been elected Presi-
dent of the British Medical Asso-
ciatinn, 'which held Ito ;Ismael
meeting in the Old Country last
week,
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MISTAKE
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is reading the small "Buy and Sell" ads.
on the back page of T H E POST care-
fully and regularly each week,
There is always something of interest to
be found in them and bu)ers and ,sellers
who are anxious to qet in touch with
each other in the quickest. ,and most sat-
isfactory way can make no mistakes in
using this 0olurrn.
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