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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1942-06-18, Page 61 , • ,, r . PAGE, rbrr , • ' "My HUSBAND and the children say that now there's so much money coming in, I should have all the things I've always wanted." "But I say no thank you! My Freddie gave up his job willingly and lives in a tent. The least each of us at home can do is to go without this and that and buy War Savings Stamps every week so the boys over there will have everything they need for victory." Huy War Savings Stamps from banks, post offices, telephone offices, department stores, druggists, grocers, tobacconists, book stores and other retail stores. National War Finance Committee 14-S A Gold t‘• Work Wet, Die St. John Ambulance Association Re- students in his school, and such ports a Year of Splendid Service ;students qualifying for the First Aid Certificate of thh Association on Most people have heard of the nassing the regular examination, good work undertaken and perform- — ed by the St. John Ambulance As, Practically everyone who has tray.socitions but few know that the On- elled the highways of Ontario ha tario Branch of this admirable or- noticed the Highway First Aid ganziation, with headquarters at To- Posts, sponsored jointly by the Sc ronto, is "A Foundation of the Grand John. Ambulance Association ,the Oa Priory of the British Realm of the tario Motor League, and the Ontario Venerable Order of the Hospital of Division of the Canadian Red, Cros St. John of Jerusalem"—an institu- Society. These posts are continually tion which finds its origin fir the far- inspected and replenished by two distant days of the First Crusade. patrol ambulances', under the- direc- tion of the St. John Ambulance As When the Ontario Bramb of the St. sedation, which travel continually on John Ambulance Association held its the main highways of the province annual meeting recently, a remark- able record of activity in the, public It is a tribute to the foresight ani weal was disclosed byits president, wisdom of those who first conceive-' Col, the Hon. H. A. Bruce, M.D., M.P. the idea of establishing such post No less than 760 classes in First Aid that, in the year just past, no less and Horne Nursing were conducted in than 930 cases of injury (68 of which 170 communities in 47 counties' and were serious) were given first aid districts, in the province of Ontario. treatment at these highway posts and As a res-ult of the instruction givem by the patrol ambulances. This in these classes 19,238 certificates phase of the work of the Association and higher awards were gained, an in providing help in times of accident increase of 2,848 over the -previous at points distant from immediate year. medical attention, surely deserves the, commendation and support of It would would be difficult to overall/ilia- size the. value of such an outstanding eryone who has 'occasion to travel along the King's highways. contribution to the public welfare of Ontario, for, a trained First Aider isst With the intensification of traffic, taught to recognize those cases ofdue to increased war production accidents and illness in whichshe can throughout the province, and with render efefctive assistance efficiently ,the- great development of industrial and promptly, improvising, where activity in both towns and cities, the necessary, with such material as may work of the St. John Ambulance. As - be at hand. Naturally, his duties sociation is a public necessity which end when medical attention becomes should be, and doubtless is, apprecia- available, but many indeed are the ted' by all sections of the community. times when .doctors have testified to the splendid work performeby cer- Officers elected for 1942areas fol- d tificate holclers• ef the. St. John Am- lows: Pnesident, R. V. LeSueur,. Esq., hulanee Association in dealing with IC.C.; Vice-president, Col. H. D. Lock- hart Gordon, D.S.O., V.D.; Honorary emergent eases. • Secretary, M. W. McCutoheon, Esq.; A• further step forward in the work Honorary Treasurer, F. K. Mornow, of the Association has been taken, Esq.; Secretary, J. D. Wallace, Es•m; since special war-thne, regulations now enable a teacher who holdthe Representatives on the General Coun- s f.:It. John Ambulance First, Aid Certi- cil: F. K. Morrow, Esq.; G. Beate to give instructions 'GO the L. P. Grant-Suttie. THE 'CLINTON rrNEVVS-RrtCORD Electrolytic Process •* Cuts Time Many Hours Time, the most vital -factor in the aerial strnitg of Amylase and he hinlattled deindarncieg, is rdentnia its match in the aircraft factories of the United States, where modern science is slashing processes which a few years. ago would have re- quired days and even weeks to a matter of minutes. An example is the development of the electrolytic transfer process in the reproduction of work tem- pletes, as perfected at the Lockheed Aircraft corporation plant near LOS Angela: Thefirands of metal parts go into the modern military aircraft. For each part there must be a pattern or template as a guide when the pert is being produced. The process begins with a master template of, metal from which nu- meroq works patterns are ispde• . the old ds rgpnaucinUthe istork templates was a long Elnd tedious job, involving the scribing or tracing by hand of each dupli- ._ e pittetri on a =ILI skesti the ast6r templite beilaffied as a fel erence drawing. Hours, days anti even weeks were required, depend- ing on the size ap4 complication of the triad, template. Today the job is done in five minutes. The original drawing is scribed on a metal sheet which is to be- come the master template. The sheet is then sprayed with a trans-- fer solution. The master pattern and a sheet of metal which is to form the work template are placed in a special press and, while held tightly togeth- er, are subjected to electric cur- rent. This transfers the lines on the master templates to the copy plates almost instantaneously. Any de- sired number of copies can be made from the master pattern. Perhaps 'White Magic' Might Fool Hitler Too Throughout the past ages asbes- tos has been an object of wonder and interest, and Einstein claims it is the oldest thing in the world, the earliest record of it being about 450 B. C., when a Greek sculptor fash- ioned a lamp of asbestos to burn incessantly at the feet, of Athenia. Legend has it that some 11 cen- turies ago a world war was averted. by a, small asbestos tablecloth, when a savage horde of cutthroats from the east threatened to invade the kingdom of Charlemagne, king of the Franks. The ruler, who had visions of a great empire increasing in wisdom and prosperity through years of peace and security, called a peace conference. At this gathering, Charlemagne tossed an asbestos tablecloth which he had in his possession into an open fire, and the cloth was with- drawn unscathed. The rude guests, believing they had witnessed a performance of "white magic," hastened back to tell their leader of Charlemagne's mysteri- ous powers, and advised against any invasion. Miracle of Insulin Insulin, the hormone which allows diabetics to live more or less com- fortably,' was discovered by a two- man team: Charles H. Best, a med- ical student whose education was interrupted by. war service in the British tank corps; Frederick G. Banting, a surgeon who dropped a rural practice to follow a brilliant research hunch. Banting and Best found how to extract insulin from beef pancreas (sweetbread); and discovered that this animal organ supplied enough insulin to keep the average diabetic going for 20 days. Scheduled shots —as many as four a day—gave years of useful life to ' such people as the late King George V of Eng. land, George Eastman, H. G. Wells, Hugh Walpole and hundreds of thou- sands of other less -famed diabetics. It was discovered barely in litne to give Dr. George R. Minot the new lease on life he needed to go on and discover the liver treatment for -an equally fatal disease — pernicious anemia. First County Fair • County fair, the traditional Amer- ican farm exhibit, where city people go to enjoy themselves, had its ori- gin 130 years ago, according to his- tory. Elkanah Watson, gentleman' farmer of Pittsfield, Mass., fostered what is claimed to be the first mod- ern county fair there in 1810 or 1811. This is indignantly denied by Phila- delphia writers, who say not only that Watson got his idea in Phila- delphia, but that first American fair was held in that city in 1686. Fa- thered and encouraged by William Penn, founder, these annual fairs were held in Centre square, site of present Philadelphia City Hall, from 1688 to 1698. Dollar Mark The dollar mark is variously ex, plained as superposition of TJ over 5 (initials of United States) or of S over P (Ps being old Mexican abbreviation sign for peso), or re- sulting from sign on old Spanish piece of eight (eight reales); which was inscribed with "Pillars of Her- cules" with S scroll about them, coins formerly, current in Spanish colonies of America. Word "Dol- lar" comes from German "thaler," in turn an abbreviation of "Joach- 1 -- . • ' Imaginary Ailments ... Termites Have Ravenous TerrniteAs aprpeejstrihtieo te,fanrLt-liktienibcreear- tures with a ravenous appetite for Innaber. They usually attack wood • Indicate 'Inadequacy' Certain patientswhoconsult doe: tors complaining of feeling tired out bang all in, at 0 yet ahPYS /1.0 organic 'eat& forthe- exhaustion, sh�uld be recognizedfor what they , are—people who are 'constitutional- ly inadequate," Dr. Walter C. Al- varez of the Mayo Clinic, Roches. ' ter, Minn., told doctors at the Mis- souri State Medical Association con- vention in St. Louis. "1 always ask what relative went • into the sanitarium," he declared. • "And they generally say'Why, pilt Ala. 4V, 121.4 ghe had enough dritle her -ciazy.' "When I hear this I tell them 'This is what you got out of the family grab bag. Be glad it's no worse. Learn to live with it!' "It is surprising how many pa- tients with funny palpitations, aches end nerves that play tricks on them have an Aunt Lizzie in the EiTi house," the physician contin- ued. "That's the explanation, but it doesn't gbew up in their case his- ' tories. Neither do their histories , ra7 anything omit familz rewel about feali at 'iliac:Ma m their 3O3Ft, 9? disappointmenV..7. Sorn of tkoffigil Whe reach the ' doctor with such complaints are "perfectionists," Dr. Alvarez said. "They wear themselves out trying to make their servants do just so, their rowdy young sons act just so, and their husbands get to their meals on time and do everything else precisely as they think it should be done." Hopes He Will Develop Two Disease Symptoms There is a private in the 76th In- fantry in Camp Roberts who is al- ways moaning about his imaginary poor health. It is his pet subject. His tentmates-sheard enough of the crier's constant griping, "Tell us," they said, "if you are in such bad shape, how did you get by the medical examination at the induction station?" "It's like this," groaned the moaner, "every doctor that looks me over gets a funny look on his pan as he writes something down on my record. When I get to the last doctor he tells me to sit down before I fall down. That I do. Then this sawbones looks me square in the eye—which I don't see very good out of, mind you—and says, sadly: 'Son, you have got all but two symptoms of every disease known to medical science.' "'Well,' I says, grabbing my hat, 'I guess that lets me out. Hey, doe?' 'On the contrary,' says the Doc, handing to me a Class 1-A card, 'we feel that you will develop the other two symptoms up at Camp Roberfn—and we are anxious to see what happens.' " Biblical Sites in War Much of the fighting that took place between British -Free French forces occurred in Lebanon, prom- inent in ancient and Biblical his- tory. Lebanon, before World War I, was part of the Turkish province of Syria. After the war, it became a separate state, governed under French mandate. In 1927, Lebanon achieved the status of a semi- repul1ic, but continued to operate under French influence. Vichy France fought bitterly to hold both Syria and Lebanon, when British troops moved in to take over, on the ground that Vichy, in reality, intended to permit Ger- many to use the two mandates as bases for a drive on Suez. The campaign in Syria and Leb- anon was tragically ironical in that Frenchmen were fighting on both sides. It was claimed alternately by both sides. that many soldiers were deserting to join up with their brethren. Salt Water Taffy Salt water taffy is so named be- cause it was first made at seashore resorts. Various Atlantic . ocean pleasure spots—Atlantic City, Wild - wood, etc.—Claim credit. The pio- neer was piobably Joseph Fralin- ger (1848-1927), who went to Atlan- tic City in 1885; boiled the first batch of candy on the boardwalk himself and sold it as a novelty confection. He was joined in 1887 by Theodore J. Lapres (1867-1935), New Orleans candy man, who mar- ried the boss' daughter in 1893. Salt water taffy priority was claimed by many others, but in 1925, ruling in a suit by a Wildwood, N. J., man, the U. S. Supreme court held the term can be used by any- body and is not the subject of patent or trademark. Taffy became a staple- seashore candy because heavy wax paper wrapper protects it from humidity or moisture. Heart Beats Amplified Employing as his subjects per- sons with irregular heart 'action Dr. A. C. Johnson, Los Angeles, with the aid of a stethoscope and an amplifying device, demonstrated that spinal cord adjustments aid in treatment of heart ailments by in - •creasing or retarding the speed of heartbeats, as desired. In another phase of convention activity, Dr. Nathan Chudacoff de- clared that blood livers or section- alized dehydrated complete livers of o cow, which contain one-fourth the blood of the animal, will cure per- ,ficious anemia with ssemarkable that comes in •contact with the ground. Ein that isn't all. These skillful engineers have been known to build their mud tunnels up a two- story concrete wall to get at wood. Fortunately, there is an inexpen- sive yet effective treatment which keeps termites out, which makes wood last twice as long. Wood properly treated with 'creo- sote oil is safe from termites and other wood borers. Today, wheth- er wood is used for homes, tele- phone poles, fence posts, railroad ties or farm buildings there need be no fear of termites if the lumber has been correctly creosoted. Thus millions of dollars of need, less damage to lumber has been avoided. Trees that would other- wise have been cut- down are still standing on our priceless water sheds. Our soil is better guarded against erosion, All because Amer- ica has learned to conserve its igstst rath by treating wood with cieok 12, America's colossal pre- scription' for wood preieriatiiins millions of tons of coal, tar, coke, pitch and chemicals have to be produced and hauled; thousands of American workers are given em- ployment. Truly the manufacture and distribution of creosote oil has become a huge business in itself. Provide Some Kind of Windbreak for Garden If you live and garden where the wind swoops -down from the hills or across the plains or in from the sea, there are certain procedures to fol- low and precautions to take that will insure success. First, provide protection for the entire garden. This means some kind of windbreak. For such a break, select trees and shrubs that are in general fast-growing and that have close-knit branches and small foliage. Include plenty of thorny things and be sure to add ever- greens—especially if winter winds run high. (Consult your nursery- man as to what varieties of trees and shrubs are best for your local- ity.) Take care that the windbreak will not eventually put everything else in the shade. In the great open spaces a good rule is to set tree rows 25 to 40 feet from the flower garden, with plenty of shrubs and low -growing bushes in front of the trees to keep the wind from swoop- ing through underneath. In a small garden, a compact hedge or a fence plus shrubbery is the shelter answer. Exceptional Horsepower How many horses would it take to match the power of a hundred horse- power motor? The answer is not "a hundred horses, of course." As a matter of fact, it is nearly 300 horses! The, reason for this is that when horsepower was officially deter- mined it was a very exceptional horse that served as the standard. When James Watt experimented with one of his early steam engines in a London brewery, the brewer insisted that one of his horses could do as much work as Watt's engine. So Watt accepted the challenge, and the brewer's- favorite horse toiled side by side with his steam engine, pumping water for eight hours. During this period the horse averaged 73.6 meter -kilograms. A meter -kilogram represented the power necessary to raise 2.2 pounds about a yard. To make calcula- tions easier, the 73.6 kilograms were rounded to an even 70, and this was said to be equal to one horse -pow- er. On the basis of later tests, how- ever, it was discovered that the av- erage horse was capable of only 27.8 meter -kilograms' work per hour —this is slightly more than a third of the established horse -power unit. Recovery No Assurance Recovery from one attack of in- fantile Paralysis is no assurance against further assaults by this dread disease, Dr. Howard A. Howe, Johns Hopkins university, and Dr. David Bodian, University of Chicago, told a recent meeting of the American Neurological asso- ciation. They reported experiments with animals that showed that immunity resulting from the disease was lo- cal, just where the virus had trav- eled along the fiber pathways of the nervous system. Animals con- valescing from an attack which af- fected the brain were able to con- tract the disease again through the nose, and two monkeys that had had an attack of infantile paralysis confined to a limited section of the spinal cord contracted another typ- ical case of the disease in the pre- viously =invaded portion of the central nervous system. • • 'Reused' Wool slave you ever heard the term "shoddy"? That is what textile men call "reused" wool. One of the greatest scandals of the Civil war was the fortunes ,made by selling "shoddy" to the Union army for its uniforms, The Men of the Blue poked elbows and knees through the cloth in no time. As to the inclusion of fibers other than wool in a -piece of goods, Mad- am Consumer will have to judge for herself whether. that hurts the product or whether it enhances it. It all depends on the product. Hooked Rugs Americani • Have Old World Ancestry Hooked lugs are as definitely American as the Yankee traders who drove down every year from northern New England to the coast- al towns where they swapped knit- ted feetings, homemade cheeses and farm commodities for West In- dia goods and calicoes from the far East. - Among them are the "hookies," many generations of Welsh anti Scottish fisher -folk. Other near - relatives, with designs showing Moorish and Persian influences, came from the mountains of Spain. The pulled stitches used to work the motifs strongly resemble the knots of turkey work, the immediate fore- runner of the American hooking of the early Nineteenth centdry. • BM the good wives of Massachu- sette Bay Colony—never used the thick, alit loops of turkey work to ornament floor 'Coverings. It was too precious. They pulled loops of wool through the covers of the thick rugges they threw over their great canopied besle- to keep ttemselves snug apsi warm when icy winds Whialed along the towpaths of Boston Common. . Wolritiliff or wool -on -wool coverlets were used as bedcovers in Certain section s of New Essislsesskl until well into the Eigiireenth cen- tury. Some of them appear to have been worked in heavy darning stitch. Other examples, notably one made by Molly Stark, wife of the fiery general of old Derryfield who led his New Hampshire neigh- bors and the Green Mountain Boys of Vermont to rout the Hessians at the Battle of Bennington, definitely were hooked with crochets, an old embroidery needle with a hook on the end. Find Bone of Prehistoric Elephant in Back Yard Imagine finding, an elephant in your back yard. That's what Frank Sladek did re- cently. Not a live elephant, or even an en- tire elephant, but enough of an ele- phant to create a stir among sci- entists at the Los Angeles museum. While digging a cellar at his home at Long Beach, Calif., Sladek un- earthed a giant bone unlike any he had ever seen. He took it to the museum, where Henry Anson Wylde, vertebrate paleontologist, identified it as part of the ulna of a prehistoric Imperial elephant. ."These elephants," said the sci- • entist, "last roamed the earth at least 50,000 years ago. They were the largest animals of their kind and weighed about 12 tons." The animal lived in the Pleisto- cene period, the same as that of the elephants found in the La Brea Tar Pits, Sladek discovered the specimen about 15 feet below the surface. Wylde explained that Sladek's home is located in the delta area of the Los Angeles river. The bone may have been carried into the spot where it was found by a current in the old river. Economic Division Germany sets up an "Economic Division" attached to the Army of , Occupation in occupied countries, and this body is empowered to take over any material or land that it wants which is paid for in "occu- pation marks," which are nihre printed bits of paper that are ar- bitrarily given an exchange value for the normal currency of the country. German soldiers in occu- pied territory are paid generous wages in "occupation marks" to en- courage them to purchase all man- ner qf articles from the shops, which the storekeepers are obliged to sell to thern at no increase in price. Whether these "occupation- al marks" will ever be redeemed is questionable. Consequently by the mere printing of paper money in Germany, the Germans can ac- quire anypropertythey want in the occupied countries. 'High License' No Help "High license" laws were adopted in last century as method of attack- ing liquor traffic by reducing num- ber of saloons and improving their character. System of high fees was first tried in Nebraska in 1881, with licenses costing up to $1,000. Other states rapidly followed suit, and in 1887 the Pennsylvania legis- lature passed the Brooks high li- cense law. The Brooks law raised liquor license fee from $50 to $1,000, cutting down number of licensed liquor dealers in Philadelphia from nearly 6,000 to 1,343 in 1887 and 1,204 in 1888. The high license method failed to discourage liquor traffic, however, and all saloons were closed for the first time under wartime .prohibition act in July, 1919. Sickness Threat to Defense pr. Kingsley Roberts, director of the Medical Administration service in Washington, D. C., told the na- tional conference of social work re- cently that 'sickness was a greater threat to defense produption than strikes. "There are 4,000,000 man -days of work lost to industry every year in this country," Dr. Roberts re - nested, "with only 10 per cent due to industrial illness. This leaves an appalling total of 360,000,000 lost through nonindustrial illness, part Iof which can be prevented," * When Tonsils Shouldn't Come Out Doctor Advises Don't have your youngster's ton- sils taken out when there is infan- tile paralysis around—he's two to. Lour times as likely to catch it after a recent tonsillectomy, according to. a warning issued by the medical de- partment of a well-known life in- surance company. Records of many hundreds of cases of "polio" treated in hospitals In city centers show a much higher frequency of the "bulbar," or dead- lier form of polio, and a much higher fatality rate, among patients who had had their tonsils removed, the report points out, The open season for infantile paralysis outbreaks extends from June to November, with the peak number of cases usually reached in August. Having the children's ton- sils out is risky if there are any cases of polio in the vicinity, the report suggests, and in such cir- cumstances the operation should be postponed, unless the tonsils are se urgent. rdiseasedgent the need for immediate removal is rerieral, such comparative rec- ords as are available indicate a higher susceptibility to infantile paralysisamong children without their tonsils, than among those with toniai the report states, which suggests that the tonsils have a definite protective function, and should only be removed if a men. ace to health. Children two years old are the age group most frequently stricken by infantile paralysis, the report states. Susceptibility to "polio" infection drops off sharply above four yearn of age. However, some adults are stricken in every epidemic. Modern methods of treatment, in- cluding hydrotherapy and manage, are getting complete cures in nu- merous cases, and a steady advance in understanding of this disease suggests that it may soon be brought under control. • Coarse Brown Bread Is Source of '8' Vitamig A necessary vitamin is B—a group of at least half a dozen different chemicals. Vitamin B is found abundantly in whole wheat and coarse grain's, is appreciably reduced in the milling process, when the rough coat is "scalped" from wheat kernel. Most of the 'big flour mills and bakers have recently agreed to put vitamin Bl, nicotinic acid and iron back intq their flour and bread. But experts' pointed out that such "enriched bread," although a step fqrward, was not the ideal solution of the problem. Reasons: (1) sufficient productive capacity for riboflavin, which may be a required ingredient of the new flour, will not be ready for almost a year; (2) enriched flour is not as rich in minerals and vitamins as whole grain; (3) to keep up his vitas min Bi requirement from this source alone, a person would have to eat almost a whole loaf of en., riched bread every day (of the non - enriched white bread, he would have to eat three to four loaves); (4) the amount of vitamins available to put into bread may just now be seriously curtailed by shipments to Britain; (5) natural flour goes a third of a way longer in breadmaking than re. fined flour. Coarse brown bread is still the best source 02 vitamin Bl. Useful Parsley Parsley is, perhaps, the most use- ful of all herbs, entering all forma of savory cooking either as season. ing or garnish. It is easily estab- lished and may be used as a fluted border to an herb garden. Parsley requires an early start. The seeds must be sown a bit deeper than most seeds and they must be cov, ered with one-half inch of soil. And now for a word to gardenera who have a fine bed of parsley grow- ing in their garden. When using, pick only the leaves; never disturb the crown of the plant. Being a perennial it is quite hardy. Thyme is an almost indispensable herb for culinary use. Being a hardy perennial it comes up year after year and requires practically nc. care. John Doe John Doe covers a multitude 4 sinners; the subject of every dis- creet scandal, his name is legion. With his cousin Richard Roe, John Doe started in England way back in the reign of Edward III, their debut being attributed to that clause in the IVIagna Chaste which provides for the production of witnesses at every criminal trial. The fictitious names John Doe and Richard Roe were used to represent the interested parties; and since most of the litigation in those days concerned disputes over land and trespassing thereon, these names, came to be a part of every process of ejectment. What Else? Jacob Nobel of Cleveland, Ohio, is 108 years old and his recipe for longevity is to smoke, drink and CUSS. Nobel, who is somewhat shy of re< porters, let his landlady, Mrs. Fan- ny Silver, do all the talking while he went to City Hall to get his citi zenship papers. which would entitle him to draw $12 a month relief, Nebel was a grown man when ha left Hungary in 1804 for America.