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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1950-6-21, Page 6Fashion To Blame For Foot Ailments Not the least of the indignities endured by policemen is the nick- name "fiat tloot." But it appears that the implied reflection is unfounded, Recently three negroes of New- ark, New Jersey, asked the police department there to waive its ban on flat feet so that they might be allowed to take the examination for police recruits. To support their plea they brought along star sprinter and twice -win- ner of the national pentathlon, Eur - lace Peacock, His feet are flat as pancakes. It is a well-knoyvn fact among medical mien that the feet of so- called civilized people are not as well -formed or free from trouble as those of the millions who never wear boots or shoes. Oyer seventy ailments afflict the feet of townsfolk, and women are the worst sufferers. It is reckoned that 80 per cent of women suffer from some feet trouble or other, as opposed to 20 per cent male victinms. Fashion is largely to blame for many foot ailments, and whereas the human foot is naturally broad and rounded, many women, martyrs to fashion, crush it into a narrow and pointed shoe. There is no question that the foot is the most long-suffering mem- ber of the human body. Yet h ought to be the most thoughtfully treated of all. The average person, even in these days of mechanized transport, walks 65,000 miles (equal to about two and a half times round the globe) in the course of a lifetime. Thus, the need for well -fitting footwear is obvious. Of course, if we were brought up without foot coverings we should never miss them, and possibly our feet would be the better for it. Only a short time back, for in- stance, a team of West Africans was playing high class football in Eng- land—and playing in bare feet. Some of these Nigerian lads, who played matches against a number of leading amateur clubs, could hick a football seventy yards bare- footed. Yet so natural was this feat to them that they made little of it, and their chief concern, when they arrived, was food—and the climate, which, strangely enough. they found to be too hot for them. 300,000 Tons Of Deadly Poison The Academy of Science of the Institute of France has just re- minded the world of a 5,000 -dollar prize awaiting the first scientist who succeeds in communicating with any planet other than Mars Since Mme. • Anna Guzman, a wealthy widow, first established a 20,000 -dollar fund for the prize fifty years ago, hundreds of cranks have claimed it in vain. The Guzman prize, however, has proved useful. Every five years the accumulated interest is paid to the researcher adjudged to have made the most important contribution to knowledge of the solar system. This is only one of the world's prizes -in -waiting. No mathemati- cian, for instance, has been able to solve the "theorem of Fermat," .And Pierre de Fermat died in 1655! A 250,000 dollar -fund for a prize is held by the Academy of Science of Vienna. Every year for 25 years at least 1,000 solutions have been sub- mitted. Have you any workable ideas for using up huge quantities of quick- silver? The Swiss Bureau de Ra - partition offers 25,000 dollars to anyone able to find profit in long- standing surplus supplies. The prize-winner must provide for the consumption of 3,000 flasks, each containing 75 pounds of quicksilver, annually for a number of years. Then there's the ready money on offer by the Bolinden ore mines in northern Sweden to anyone able to suggest a profitable outlet for 300,000 tons of arsenic. Ore from the Bolinden mines contains seven per cent of death -dealing arsenic, and copper, sulphur and iron can- not be mined without accumulating the poison., Although Bolinden supplies ar- senic to the world, the glut re- mains. In 'a Stockholm laboratory scientists are working to find new uses for the white powder. They tried burying the surplus, but all vegetation within a radius of miles was poisoned and died. Tons were dumped in a remote cor- ner of the Baltic. After a few days thousands of' dead fish floated to the surface and nearby fishing vil- lages faced peril and ruin. So the Bolinden company experts to store the bulk of its surplus forever. Water Purifier Canister demineraliser attaches to faucet, turns out water of purity cf distilled water, for battery use, Claims company. No heat, power needed, but twit has electronic in- dicator to show exact pttrity of de- livered water at low cost from time to time to bring back to full power, says firm. TIFFA1NFR�OT o %tr tC.l-tJ.d'& One of the hundreds of quota- tions I think I know—until I try to put it down on paper—is the one that somebody will probably set to music, one day, and title it fHE PARIS-ITE'S SONG. # * * I'm not going to look the quota- tion up; but from memory it runs something like this, "Great fleas have smaller fleas upon their backs to bite 'ern; and smaller fleas have lesser fleas, and so proceed ad infinitum" * '5 * Which should be enough to in- troduce some observations from,Dr. Charles W, Brown, of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry. He says that nearly every farm has had some experience of animal para- sites. Some have had hog troubles, or an animal hit with Bang's Dis- ease. Or maybe—and I know this will flit right home with many of my readers — cattle that have reacted to the T.B. test. * * * And here is what Dr. Brown has to say about some of the more common disinfectants, and the way they should be used: * 'k * Preparation of Buildings: Before you use any disinfectant the build- ing should be thoroughly "dry- cleaned." Remove all litter and manure. Spread it on fields where livestock will not come in imme- diate contact with it. "In case of wood or concrete floors, it will pay to clean them religiously," Brown explains. "Dirt forms a protective layer around the bacteria, protecting then from the disinfectant" * * Application: Some kited of a pressure sprayer is probably the most satisfactory way to treat a building. :k :k * Physical Agents: Perhaps there is no better soil disinfectant than heat. You can use a burner or flame thrower on open lots. They are dangerous in buildings. The prompt burning or burying of dead animals, dead chickens and aborted fetuses can not be stressed too much• Burning is best only if you com- pletely burn the entire carcass, Otherwise, burying deeply and covering with quicklime is good protection. * * * Sunlight: Sunlight is a wonderful disinfectant. It's not only one of the best, it's free. The disinfection properties of sunlight are greatly reduced after it comes through or- dinary glass. * :k e Formaldehyde Solution (Forma- lin): A 4 per cent solution of for- maldehyde in water is considered a reliable disinfectant. This is made by adding one part of for- maldehyde solution to nine parts' of water. It has deep penetrating powers and a penetrating odor. The gas is very irritating to the eyes and nose. * ,k * Carbolic Acid (Phenol) : Both carbolic acid and phenol are ex- tremely poisonous and must be handled with extreme care. Car- bolic acid is one of the old-time standby, farm disinfectants, Both should be kept under lock and key, so there is no possible danger of children coming in con- tact with them. Today, other disinfectants which are not so dangerous to the user are preferred. A person using even weak solutions of carbolic acid must take precaution to protect the skin. However, a 5 per cent solution of carbolic acid is satisfactory for ordinary bacteria. It will not de- stroy hog cholera virus or the spores of anthrax and tetanus, It snust not be used in dairy barns, since milk absorbs the chemical, takes on an odor and taste. Dr. J. Stewart Lott, London. -Ontario, who has been award- ed the first fellowship granted by the Ontario Division of the Canadian Cancer Society, Dr. Lott will continue cancer re- search studies in England and Europe. Inside Trilby—Trilby, a circus elephant shows everything down to her tonsils as she opens wide to let trainer Frank Noel' check her gum after extraction of a five -pound tooth. With help of 8,000,000 units of penicillin, the gum is healing nicely. Saponated Solution of Cresol: This is a soap solution of cresolo i you can get at most drug stores. It must be used in soft water. In a 2 or 3 per cent solution, it is effective against hog cholera virus. It also is valuable in disinfecting the premises following the finding of a tubercular animal. Four ounces of an approved cre- sol solution to a gallon of water is recommended for use in buildings. This should be handled with care, though it is not as poisonous as carbolic acid. It should not be used in dairy barns. * * k Lime: Quicklime is easy to ap- ply, and can be scattered around barns lots, where it will destroy most common disease agents with which it comes in contact: Usually the lisle is applied by slaking with water, then diluting the slaked lime four to one with water. One pint of water to two pounds of quicklime is usually the correct proportion for slaking. Lime solu- tion is also irritating to, the skin and eyes. Lime will not destroy anthrax spores, tetanus organisms nor the tubercle bacillus. Lime solution is often added to other disinfectants because it shows any areas that are missed. :k * * Lye: Lye is a very effective dis- infectant around dairy barns and hog houses, A 2 per cent solution is useful against Bang's disease infection, A pound of lye with five and one-half gallons of water is the usual mixture. If the water is hot, the mixture is more effective. Lye is not ef- fective in destroying tuberculosis germs. Extreme care should be used in handling concentrated lye. * x * Chlorine: Chlorine disinfectants are not practical for use on barns and in lots since any organic plat- ter destroys their usefulness, Hypochlorites: This is the name applied to chlorine disinfectants sold under a variety of trade names for use on dairy equipment. You wouldn't use them on a hog house, but on your separator or milking machine, The strength of solution and directions for use are usually printed on the label, and should be followed. * * * Sodium Orthophenylphenate: This is very valuable in destroying germs of tuberculosis, It has an advantage over cresol in that it is odorless—it can be used in dairy barns. It should be used as a 1 per cent solution by dissolving in hot water, * * * Iodine: This applies to animals —not to humans. Iodine for live- stock is sometimes useful as a skin disinfectant, Tincture of iodine is a common preparation. No ban- dage should be applied after its use. * * * Remember: Select a disinfectant for a particular use; there is no general disinfectant that will serve all purposes. And guard against indiscriminate use of disinfectants. Most hog diseases are easily car- ried on the feet of humans. A plan of disinfectant at the door of the hog house or the feed -lot gate may prevent a disease outbreak in your hogs. Clean ground is a preventive for parasites—not • against virus div - eases like hog cholera. A MAN in Northampton parked his car outside the police station while he went inside to buy a $5 ticket to the policemen's ball, On returning, be found a par'tfnn tag on the can hORT Q S1.X61TC l LC A prominent California educator —college president or some such— has come out with a suggestion which is' at least interesting. He urges that school children, when studying mathematics, should be taught practical things, such as the gambling odds on horse -racing, draw poker, slot machines, radio give-away programs, sweepstake tickets and so on. This educator thinks that if the kids grew up knowing how little chance they had of winning, they wouldn't gamble at all. * 'k * Well, maybe he could be right. But somehow or other we are just a tenny mite doubtful. * * * Now this idea about the advis- ability of such education for the young is by no means new. Years ago they used to tell about an insurance agent who had similar notions, and who constantly de- plored the ignorance of the rising generation about such matters. One day a young fellow came wanting a Life Insurance policy, so the agent started to question hint, his life and habits. "Tell me," asked the agent, "in a six -handed table stakes poker game, what would yott say a pair of jacks would be worth, before the draw?" * * ,k "Six handed? Table stakes?" re- plied the applicant. "Why, a pair of jacks would be worth every chip you had!" Big Bookie — Frank Erickson is booked in a New York police station after a County Grand Jury, probing organized' gamb- ling, returned a 60 -count gamb- ling and conspiracy information against the bookmaking figure. He faces a maximum of one year in prison and $500 fine on each count. Son, said the insurance man solemnly, "go on home, and don't come back. I don't want your busi- ness, because you're a bad risk, In fact I'nn surprised that you've even lived as long as You have,' * 'k But that is all by the way. Before we got off on that detour we were expressing doubt as to whether edu- cation of the sort proposed by the Californian would eradicate the gambling urge, no matter at what age you tried to apply it As an illustration, let us,—as a partially - reformed horse -player, give an il- lustration front real life. * * R Away back when we and the world were considerably younger we had a friend who—although he had a pretty fair position—was con- stantly broke because of his burning passion for having a bet on a horse in every race that was carded. We had given him the old stuff about "You can beat a race, but you can't beat the races," and all the rest of it, but it made no difference. Finally we thought that maybe a mathe- matical demonstration would help. « * * "Listen, Mac," we said to hint. "Get yourself a pencil and a piece of paper. Now, you know that the 'bite' at a race track is around 20 per cent. Every time you put a dollar in those nlutuel machines, only eighty cents of it conies out." * s ,k ' "I know that as well as you do," he answered. "So get on with what you have to say, if anything, be- cause I'm in a hurry." ." 1 y * k * "Well, let's suppose, just as an example," we continued, "that on a certain day there are just a thous- and guys at a certain track, and that each of them has just a hun- dred in his kick. So they make an agreement that they will bet all they have on every race. Naturally, some of then are wiped out in the very first race• But out of that hundred thousand dollars, with a 20 per cent bite, how nutcli comes back after that first heat'," k * * "I don't need any pencil and paper for that," answered niy friend Mac. "It wonld be eighty thousand or thereabouts." :0 * * "So that eighty grand gots back on the second race," we said. "What is the comeback when it is fin- ishedP" * * * "Sixty-four thousand," replied Mac after a moment's mental figur- ing. * ra "So there's sixty-four thousand bet on the third," we persisted. "Fifty- one thousand comes out," was Mac's answer, "only I wish you'd . hurry up and let lee get going." '5 * :N But we weren't to be derailed, taking him right down through an afternoon's racing and showing him how, after seven races, that original stake of one hundred thousand had shrunk to just about one fifth of that amount. * (5 * "So now you can see what suck- ers all you horse players are," we concluded triumphantly, "In addi- tion to all the other chances you take, you're trying to buck a racket that will automatically shrink a hundred grand into a, little over twenty thousand in just seven races." '5 .. "I thank you kindly, pal, for the lesson and the sermon," said Mac, "But I've got to get going. I know that you haven't any money, so I've got to hustle around and try and dig up a few bucks. Honest John Calder has a real good thing in the sixth at Thorncilffe—one that might pay eight to one or better— and I'd hate to be looking out the window when it comes clown, So long. I'll be seeing you." s k * "Just a minute, Mac," we replied. "Here's two bucks that we were going to give the milkman 011 ac- count, but we can alwayi stall him off somehow. Put the deuce on Honest John's good thing. It's pretty near time he had a winner and, as yon say, it would .be a shame to 'miss it." * * ,k That, as we said before, is a true-to-life incident; or as near enough to the truth as makes no never -mind. And it should show why we personally doubt whether 0 Rich in flavour !. ✓fi Classified Advertising.. 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