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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1942-05-07, Page 6PAGE 6 tog Biscuit Cleans Teeth o By Friction, Says Expert The dog's teeth need some' care other than diet to keep them in good condition. Tartar on the dog's teeth may make its appearance within a month after the second or perma nent teeth have come in (about the age of seven months). The presence of tartan is not due to a lack of calcium or food elements.. Tartar is excreted by the gums; it may be gray or brown. In time it pushes back the gums so that the roots of the teeth are exposed. This: causes the 'teeth to become loose, cavities become lodging places for food—thus pyorrhea is encouraged. Hard or dry food, dog biscuit for instance, cleans the teethe by fric- tion. This is about all any tooth paste or powder does. Brown spots sometimes make their appearance '.shortly after dis- temper. These stains are not re- movable. However, they do not in- dicate any serious condition of the teeth. Brush the dog's teeth twice a week, using a mixture of baking soda and table salt;. wipe firmly with a soft .•cloth. Giant Clams Weigh From Two Hundred, 600 Pounds There are various kinds of clams along the coasts of North America, Among them is the Washington clam, which is found along the Pa- cific coast from Puget Sound to the southern end of California. It often grows to be six inches long. The "hen clam" of the Atlantic coast is even longer, reaching a length of seven inches: Like soft- shelled clams, hen clams dig into sand. Men use spades and rakes at low tide to obtain them. The world's largest clams live in the Indian ocean, also in the South Pacific. Some are found near Aus- tralia, others in the East Indies. Not counting theshell, a giant clam may weigh from 25 to 30 pounds. That, in itself, is something to think about, but the weight of the giant clam's body is small compared with the weight of its shell! Counting the shells, some giant clams have been found to weigh from 200 to 600 poundal The shells are from two to three feet long, and are nearly as wide as they are long. On South Pacific islands, shells of the giant clam have been used as bowls for holy water. Drink Tobacco Like Tea. The world has been smoking to- bacco for almost 400 years and dur- ing this time has put the cultivated weed to a hundred strange uses, but only in the mysterious Matto Grosso, the "great woods" or jungle of in- land Brazil do men drink it. In the southeast, in a region called by some explorers. Terra Sagtuk, or Dark Lands, a small native tribe lives near the Iotta river. These people of whom there are only a few hundred, call. themselves the Guerrayu. They serve as hunt- ers, guides and pack carriers. Most Matto Grosso natives have no idea of the value of their services and are generally satisfied with what- ever the white man gives them. Not so the Guerrayu, Their chief insists on fixing "rates." Almost as strange as the Guerra- yu custom of drinking tobacco like tea was the use of it by the Chinese in the late Eighteenth century as a spice. Reduced to powder form and mixed with ginger it was used on rice, roast pork and in wines. Mil- lions followed the fad without en- joyment until it died out. Examining Blanket Look at the binding of a blanket. Be sure that it has two or three rows of stitching, or a row of feath- er stitching, to hold it firmly; and note whether the corners are turned under deeply or are skimpily fin- ished with stitching close to the edge to keep: it from raveling. Bind- ing of silk looks best, keeps its color best but doesn't wear nearly as well as sateen or rayon -and -cotton mix-, tures that make a heavier binding, 'good for the life of the blanket. Watch size, too. Many "bargain" blankets are undersized, You'll want at least a 60 by 80 for a single bed, and at least a 72 by 84 for a double, Even more comfortable are 60. by 84 and 60 by 90for twins; 72 by 90 and 80 by 00 for doubles. As to colors, choose those to suit your tastes and decorating schemes, for almost all blanket colors today are long-Iasting. Murillo Painting Discovered A rare painting by Bartolome Es- teban Murillo, Seventeenth century master, and said to be "priceless," has been.. discovered in an obscure corner of the Louisiana State mu- scum. While Benjamin Robert Foster, museum art 'director, was refurnish- ing and restoring the picture—origi- nally thought to be a portrait of Arnezaga, third governor of Lousi- ana—the signature suddenly showed through, the top film. "It is impossible to estimate the ..value of the painting," declared mu- seum officials, "but a connoisseur might pey $100,000 or even more for it." The Murillo signature has been checked with numerous art volumes and matches "exactly." Further- more, the pigments of paint of the Murillo signature "are as old as those of the portrait itself." "Blankets for. Britons" ere supplied by the Canadian Red Cross by the thousands' for bomben. ,out 'civilians and shelter sleepers. You Roll Them Better With French Moths Escape and • Devastate Our Forests Entomologists say that both the gypsy and the browntail moth were introduced from Europe, the first in 1869 by a French' scientist in- tent upon breeding bigger and better silkworms, and the second about 45 years ago' in nursery stock from Holland. Some of the Frenchman's moths escaped and multiplied into the race of these, pests which spread through- out New England and into New York and New Jerseys and which the gov- ernment entomologists havebeen fighting by quarantines, control bar- riers, spraying and other measures ever since. The gypsy moths at- tack almost all common trees, though apple, oak, willow, aspen and gray birch seem to be preferred. The browntail apparently is more fastidious in its choice of foods; con- centrating mostly on fruit and or- namental trees. Outside cleaning up the woodlands or orchards of infested rubbish and rotting growth, the chief control measures for gypsy moths are to paint their egg clusters—which they deposit in splotches containing hun- dreds of eggs on tree trunks, fallen leaves and debris or even stone walls—during the fall and winter months with a now well-known creo- sote mixture; to band the trees ear- ly in the season with sticky material or an overlapping flap of cotton or burlap; or to spray the trees with lead arsenate, mixed with a fish or raw linseed `fixing" oil, while the caterpillars are feeding. Education Called `Victory Insurance' Every high school and college diploma is "victory insurance" that this war won't be lost after the peace treaty, though won on the battlefield, says Dr. James M. Wood, president of Stephens college of Columbia, Mo. "We lost the last war after the armistice," he points out, "because of lack of civilian post-war leader- ship in the world." For two decades. a pioneer in citizenship education for women, Dr. Wood believes all schools must concentrate on train- ing youthful citizens to readiness and willingness to assume responsi- bilities in a post-war world. "Our schools must provide , the leaders," he declares. The freedom and high standards of American education, he added, are dependent for their survival upon the maintenance of the democratic form of government which has fos- tered its growth. Schools can render no greater service than to stress citizenship training for youth, Dr. Wood says. "Winning the war will be of no avail unless we, are prepared to adminis- ter the peace," Meanest Bird. • Probably the world's most exclu- sive bird is the Antarctic skua. Liv- ing iving at the most southerly point of the earth, it is the only higher ani- mal, except man and his dogs, that occasionally crosses it. Dwelling in this inhospitable place, the skua sur- vives only because it is a brutal kill- er and a cannibal. Born hard-boiled, representing an extreme example of Darwin's phi- losophy of survival of the fittest, this bird begins life as a cannibal, There are ordinarily two eggs to a nest and the baby skuas come out of their shells fighting. One chick is a bit weaker than the other, and the frailer brother or sister is driv- en from the nest and killed and eaten by its rapacious blood kin. If it survives the ferocious attack of a brother or "sister, it may become the prey of its own hungry parents. The skua also eats its own eggs. This cannibalistic behavior main- tains a delicate balance between population and a severely limited food sur,piy. Mustard Popular Spice Mustard today vies with pepper as being the•most popular spice, and not all mustard is used in the kitchen, either. The use of mustard is as old as history, but not until a woman discovered that the seeds could be powdered and made into a paste, was mustard the seasoning we know it on the table. In England, in the early Eighteenth century, a Mrs. Durham' developed a thriving trade because she used pestles and mortars to crush the mustard seeds into a condiment The blending of mustards is a delicate process on which depends the finished flavor. The volatileoils are also used medicinally, while the husks are • compressed for fertilizer. Research shows that mustard add- THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Mosquito Virus Causes Sleeping Sickness Death. More than 3,000 cases of human sleeping sicknds with upward of 300 deaths in 1941 are reported by the United States Public Health service. The particular species of mosquito transmitting the virus to humans is widespread in states west of the 'Mis- 'sissippi, So, just as the southeast- ern states are battling mosquitoes , to curb malaria, the West must fight 'them to prevent the further spread of sleeping sickness (encephalitis).. A few cases have been reported in this area. In the Yakima valley of, Washington 27 humans and 50 horses. had sleeping sickness last year. Sleeping sickness u`sually is associ fated, for some unknown reason, with sporadic cases of infantile paralysis. And . sleeping sickness, itself, fre- quently leaves its mark for life on ' the minds and bodies of its victims. The only sure way to avoid the dis- t ease is to keep from being bitten by mosquitoes. Proof that mosquitoes, under nat- ural conditions, transmit the disease, has been provided by University of California scientists. Over 10,000 mosquitoes were frozen and shipped in dry ice from the Yakima valley to ithe university's San Francisco lab- oratories. Sleeping sickness vacci- nation for humans is not yet practi- cal. Insects Take $185,000,000 Toll in Forests, Parks Teeming hordes of insects, some so small as to be almost invisible to the naked eye but whose aston- ishing iife habits have been pains- takingly studied and recorded by scientists, each year take an annual toll of at least $185,000,000 in killed or blighted trees in the forests, parks, farm woodlots and shade trees of. the United States. The destructive activity of these busy armies reaches its peak during the hot summer months, but the re- sults of their costly and insidious attacks upon the trees are most ap- parent in the early autumn when most vacationists are turning to the great outdoors. This •$185,000,000 estimate of in- sect damage is based upon the lat- est compilation of statistics by the bureau of entomology and plant quarantine in the U. S. department of agriculture. The scientists con- fine themselves to damage or loss in tangible values, such as timber, woodpulp, or turpentine output, and make no attempt to measure lost in- tangibles, such as woodland scenery turned into areas of dead, browned trees, or drying trout streams and watersheds likely to result when trees are killed over wide reaches. Crickets for Timing Seale Talk about ingenuity. Well, W. J. Pollard Jr., Los An- ' geles bank executive, has estab- lished a new high. The photo enthusiast is even put- ting the crickets to work for him in his picture making. How does he do it? "The chirp, of the crickets used to annoy . me," he explains, "when I was. working in my darkroom. "The steady beat of their voices proved rather monotonous to me at first. "Then the very steadiness of the rhythm attracted my attention. Why not use their chirps for a timing scale in making enlargements?" And that's exactly what Pollard does. "They've never let me down yet," he discloses. The banker counts one for each chirp oftheinsects, "Imagine," he says,'"having a living clock among your accesso- ries." ed to the bathwater helps rslievle W fatigue and nervous tension, Vitamin le Vitamin B prevents nerve dis- eases like beriberi, skin diseases like pellagra. Deficiency in B , is fairly prevalent, causes too -easy fatigue, nervousness. Daily diet re- quirements green vegetables, par- ticularly fresh peas and beans. Fruits. Meats, particularly liver, kidney, heart of animals, lean pork, beef. Milk. • Egg's. Whole wheat bread and whole grain cereals, like rolled oatg. Oven" -refined milling processes destroy vitamin B. Unstable. Destroyed by overcook- ing. Dissolves in water, so use as little water as possible he cooking and . save it afterwards for soups, gravies, etc. Not stored in body; must be constantly replenished. 8 Families Decrease Homes of, the future will be small- er, because families are shrinking in size and the proportionofolder per- sons in the household is rising, ac- cording to the forthcoming report of the Federal Home Loan Bank board to congress. "Of all population trends, probably none has greater significance to the housing market than the number and size of families, for housing de- mand is largely determined by these two factors," the report says. "Over half of the increase in the number of families during the "thir- ties" resulted from a decrease in the average size of family from 4.1 to 3.8 persons. "Such changes as these in the age structure ofour population have a direct influence on . the need for housing," the report concluded. "We, may, for example, expect a' greater demand for small,' compact dwell. ing units 20 house older people." When Is Flat Foot Flat? One old question of podiatry is: When is a flat foot flat? And there is no ready, certain answer. For some races flat feet are normal. and all right. The only criterion about flat feet is that you have them if the, arch, has fallen,; to pro- duce :a deformity of posture, and— in addition—you suffer from foot fatigue and. pain. Pain in the back, headaches, cramps in the calves of the legs and dull aching pains in the soles of the feet are the danger signs. Walking always has been, and still is, the best of all exercises to strengthen the "feet and keep them healthy. • All of us cannot be professional walkers: •• like: Edward Weston, but all of us can stop be- ing softies by walking more. THUR,4., MAY 7 1942^ n General New Advance on Cancer Fight in Advanced Stage New encouragement for the pa- tients of cancer, even in the ad- vanced stages of the disease, is held out in the latest developments of medical science revealed. Using a type of atomic bullet, the neutronparticle, hurled out by the atom -smashing cyclotron machine, scientists have controlled cancer which' had been pronounced speed- ily fatal, • New methods of diagnosis and treatment, have been worked out which promise greater success in the prevention farad cure of can- cer of the stomach. —. Drs. John C. Larkin and R. S. Stone and their colleagues, at the University .of California. in Berke- ley and San Francisco, gave eatperi- mental treatments to 129 patients of "hopeless, inoperable oases of can- cer." In - all these cases the patients' own surgeons Were making no head- way in checking the progress of the disease, and had given up hope of any success. Out of 129, as many as 61 patients have so far been saved from expect- ed death. It is too early to say that they are fully cured. Some of them appear to have no recognizable sign of cancer left. But a few more years must pass before "cure" could be pronounced. Relief of pain and other disabling symptoms, and the prolongation of life beyond the expected limit were achieved in all of these 61 cases.. Canaries Get Asthma, Too; Manifested by Sneezing Catarrh, or a cold in the head, is of frequent occurrence in canaries and other birds exposed to drafts -in wet, chilly weather. It is manifest- ed by sneezing, a discharge from the nostrils and sometimes a thick- ness due to an accumulation of mucus in the throat. Generally, the bird is not so lively es usual, has a capricious appetite and a dullness of the feathers. Asthma, so called, is frequent in the canary. , It is, in reality, a mild- er form of aspergillosis, affecting in a slight degree the trachea and bronchial tubes. It is usually mani- fested by a noisy, dry wheeziness. The bird is generally weakened, due to the strain on the system by the difficult efforts of breathing. Aspergillosis is a disease due to the fungus, or mold, Aspergillus fumigatus, invading the air passages and, in bad cases, the air sacs, of which there are nine distributed in the lower portion of the neck, be- tween the lungs and ribs, and inside the wall of the abdomen When it invades the air sacs it forms a yellowish mass in the sacs. It is composed of a great mass of fungi and exuded secretions of the interior of the sacs, Canary Tough Bird "'Dopey," her pet canary, has a fondness for whisky and tobacco, Mrs. Clint Hager' of Atlanta says, and sometimes "gets drunk as a billygoat and wants to fight," "Dopey" fell from his nest at birth a year ago. Mrs. Hager said she and her husband revived the bird with a few drops of whisky, raised him in a shoe box incubator. Now, she says, "Dopey" comes winging in for his share whenever cocktails are served, and at parties helps himself from anybody's glass, Once, after a few "drinks," the canary flew at the Hagers' bulldog. The dog ran out the back door. Now they are inseparable friends. "Dopey" picked up the tobacco habit, Mrs. Hager said, from her husband's pipe. He picks the to- bacco, grain by grain, from the pipe and swallows it." The bird refuses to live in a cage, and, Mrs. Hager asserted, "some- times treats us like we were his equals." Speech Was Speechless "Rapid Fire" Asaff of Battery A, 55th Training Battalion; saved coins for a month to call via long-distance telephone to his Texas sweetheart. He planned carefully a three- minute speech, deleting words he thought superfluous, and making ev- ery phrase dynamic. Armed with a fistful of coins, he squeezed into the phone booth. He pushed the money down the slot and heard the operator make the con- nection. "Hello, Tommy,"' his sweetheart said. No answer. The operator chimed in, "Go. ahead, Camp Callan." "Hello, Tommy," the girl friend ,repeated. Stillno answer. Asaff was opening and closing his, mouth but nothing came out. His well -laid plans, as they often do, had gone astray. 200 Color Gradations As the result of researches con- cerning the innermost secrets of the eye and the brain's vision centers, conducted for nearly nine years, Dr. Stephen L. Polyak of the University of Chicago has found several hither- to unknown laws of color percep- tion. In his treatise,; `The Retina," pub - Blind by the University en Chicago, Dr. Polyak states that man is capa- ble of perceivingabout'-200 color gradations;. - however, when the "arnazing ma- chinery of color perception' is de- fective of breaks down somewhere, I partial color blindness results. BETNG TRAIILED BY GERMAN • (continued from page 3) For the first time, the question money began to bother us, when learned we might be in Lisbon i definitely. We could bring only eaeh in American money out of En land under the strict wartime • rule -Out of that, we had to pay our fare home from New York,"Other expense began to come up. We held a' eo ference and pooledi our.resou'rces . last, finding that we had just enoug to stay one week at our hotel in Li bon. We knew nothing of the la. guage. For ,two days, we livedo lik paupers, hoarding every escudo, ti the British Bmbas'sy came to our ai and guaranteed our hotel bill. Headquarters of the Gestapo We, stayed at the Hotel Victoria 1 Lisbon, not at the expensive P'alaoi It had; been recommended to me an American, foreign correspondent i London. "It's • new and elean," - said, "so long as you don't mind stay ing in the same hotel as the head o the German Gestapo in Portugal." I laughted that off. In London, th sounded Like. an added adventure. S on my.'recommendation,-we.stayed the Victoria. It was new, and clew and cheap ;and the meals were goo And we saw the head of the Gestapo not just once, but too often. His me kept a close watch on the eight Ca adians. It gets on your nerves. in few days. The Avenida da Libord'ale is th main street of Lisbon, The name, a you may guess ,means "Avenue Liberty." It stretches north and soul up a broad' valley between Lisbon' ten hills. The avenue is reputed t be ene of the most beautiful in the world. I don't doubt it. It is'wid Down each side is a broad roadiva In the ventre, is a four -lane highway In between the outer strips and th centre ,are gardens with palm tree and edible chestnuts and benches t sit on under the palms and on th grass. Here and there are sidewall cafes, where everything can be had to drink from ice erenin sodas an strong coffee to much stronger things The roadway circles around than, monuments or fountains with gold- fish swimming in the waters. And al the :sidewalks are of mosaic --lilt] .pieces of colored marble laborious) laid by hand into patterns. Not only are there scrolls and flowers, but th, history of Portugal is written there for those who can read the language Up and down the Avenida, there i a steady stream of traffic. 'On th roadways at the side, old -fashion streetcars with open sides pass ever few seconds. I never saw so rnan street cars on one street anywhere The automobiles are mostly tiny car and, one could ride half a mile in taxi for six American cents. Most o the people are on foot, many of the with bare feet. There is poverty everywhere it Portugal and it intrudes even on t the beautiful Avenida, Hundreds o women pass in an hour, with baskets on their heads containing silvery fish or grapes or flowers. Men carry case of wine or heavier loads. Many o them have little fancy wicker baskets with a lid and handle. I was 00110U about them. One day I followed. a old lady. She stopped occasionally. t pick things off the street. At last she sat on a bench and I sat down beside her. She opened her hamper, Insid were little bits of metal, On the ]i w Eng s th Lis n 1 n a lty n a n d Can of e $4 s n= 1t e di t • he t a n a o o' 1 • Y• • e s 0 e 1 1 RE e s f h s al e t t c v 1 e Y e s e d 'Y Y s a f m t 0 f h s f s tt 0 e d of the basket, she had a horseshoe magnet, With the magnet, she tested all the metal scraps. The iron ones she put in one pile, the non-ferrous in another. There's no need; for sal- vage campaigns in Lisbon. Nothing goes to waste. v "YOUR HOME STATION" CKNX 920.kes. WINGHAM 826 meters w.enic Y• PROGRAM HIGHLIGIHTS FRIDAY, MAY 8THi 8.30 aan. The Early Birds 10 Almanac News 5 p.m. 1i. V. Pym, organ 9 pun. House of Dreams. SATURDAY, MAY 9TH; 8.45 a.m. Hymn Tine 12,00 Farm and Home Hour 5 pan. Songs of the Islands 9 p.m. CKNX Barn Dance SUNDAY, MAY 10TH: 12.45 pan. 'Ifichard Liebert 3 p.m. H. V. Pym, piano 7.30 p.m. Church Service MONDAY, MAY 11TH: 8.25 a.m. Overnite News Seminary 11 a.m. "At Home with the Ladies" 7,80 pan. Freddie Martin Oreh. 8.15 p.m. Laura at the Piano 'rUE$SDAY, MAY 12TH: 9,45 a.m. Eddy Duchin Orch, 10.10 a.m. Charlie Kunz, piano 8 P.M. "That was the Year" 9.15 p.m. Salute to Empire WEDNESDAY, MAY. 13TH: 9 a.m. Voice of Memory I 1.15 par. Bradley Kincaid, songs ' 6 p.ni. George Wade's Cornhuskers' 7.80 part. Honor the Law 2HUIISDAY, MAY 14TH: 0.30 a.m. Stars of the Week 1 pm; Gene Autry, songs 5.45 p.m. The Book Review 6.40 p.m. Fur Market Quotation. "Yes, you're smart .. - or are you? 1 thought I was smart too, back in the 20's. Then the depression came and taught me a lesson!" "We'd be a lot smarter if we put less of our money into our own outfits and more of it into the outfits of the boys who are defending us. How? By pledging ourselves to do without so that they may have plenty to do with!" "You want them to win, don"t you? Well then, buy War Savings Stamps every week .. That's how you can help them. Besides, by saving, you'll help keep prices down and have something for a rainy day. Let's be really smart!" Buy War Savings Stamps from banks, post offices, d uggisls, grocers and other retail stores. National War Fintlnee Conimittce. Ck,L CROSS PLA' S iSASTE ELEF Ready for Any Emergency SVitl' detail of cards for registering the Trained Workers and Supplies I who nett relief and requisition for if Canada is invaded, from the east for supplies that are needed, It is or from the west, or if disaster strik- es suddenly in any part of Canada, every type of emergency where nal ' the Canadian Red Crass is ready, A bers of people are suddenly plan into helplessness and suffering carefully perfected plan of action, nd the ea achy of local rel groups of trained and organized Retl agenciesa. p Gross workers and necessary supplies of medical equipment, of food, blank- I Quickly, when need arises, ets and colthing are there and; waiting plait can be put into action. Tra for whatever emergency that may. Red Cross workers are ready to go arise. Within a few hours at most work with the military authoriti the entire resources of the Canadian the Air Raid Precaution organizat Rett Cross can be mobilized and made' and other local agencies such as 1 available wherever there is need. I lice and fire departments. Their sponsibility is clearly defined' --in Experienced in meeting sudden stn- l event of disaster -caused and cat e+genciee caused by fire, flood, torn- F ado or famine, the Canadian Rea be me, by the families tltemsely Cross has organized to meet the de- The injured must be given pre mands of war on the home front as medical attention ,the hungry must well as overseas and for the past fed and the homeless mist be clot two and a half years the national, provincial and local organizations of the Red Cross have been preparing to meet the urgent call, if and -when it comes, Hospital supplies, surgical equipment and thousands of blankets have been stored at strategic points a1011R• the Atlantic and Pacific cd Equipment has been standailzect for a 25 -bed hosiptal unit of which seine 30 will be located in costal cities and towns ready for use when needed, In addition twelve complete portable surgical units are already placed. But most important of all when disaster strikes either in time of peace or 'time of war is the need for a de- finite plan of action and a nucleus of skilled workers to put it .into effect. The Canadian Red_ Cross has such a plan which is now in the hands of its provincial and local organizations across the country. It tells as simply and directly as possible .what to do and it is complete clown to the last and given accomodation. Fami must be re -united ,relatives must notified and thousands of frantic quiries must be answered.. When 'aster strikes, people tarn naturally 'the Red Cross . In some Canadian defense ar surveys have been, made by Red Cr workersto find out where and many people can be housed if •ao cities and towns have to be evacua Medical supplies, and blankets placed with careful forethought a: how they can be used to best adv tage. Storehouses at inland poli constantly keep large reserves wh can be made quickly available, B anost important of all the Red Cr has planned for disaster relief, it h trained worelgrs. 1f and when d aster strikes in Canada it will be t first' few hours that count and it for those hours that the Canadi Red Cross with its nation-wide orga Nations is prepared, and ready.