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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1942-07-02, Page 6PAGE 6 E CLINTO1V • NEWS -RECORD TRURO, JULY 2, 1942 • Farmers drive cars less than city ,people and 'get 1ow rates from Pilot. But farmers do drive-- one um** eared • aecid'ent could wipe out your home oryour savings. Buy the. full protection of Pilot: Automobile Insurance now. i J. W. CRAIGIE, Goderich GEO. G. MacEWAN, Goderich. Representing We write insurance' to cover selected risks in Automobile, Fire, Burglary, Plate Glass, Public Liability and other general insurance. Reduce Fee On Airgraphs Sent Armed Forces To rSix Cents Service Extended Between Civilians In Canada and United Kingdom on June 15—Fee 15 Cents processing. The great reduction of the Air- graph fee and the extension of the service to Civilians should also prove an incentive to the public to further co-operation in helping` save valuable cargo space. urgently required for On June 15 postage on Airgraph war supplies. It will be remembered Messages from Canada to our -Forces that a single reel of microfilm, in the United Kingdon, or the Middle. weighing only 6 ounces, contains' 1500 East will be reduced to just Six cents ' messages, in contrast with the space per message from the present rate 'required to store 1500 letters of or- ef Ten cents, the Honourable William dinary size. At the outset Airgraph P. Mulock, K}.G., M.P., Postmaster I service was confined to letters ad- General dGeneral announces. As further conc- dressed by Canadians to the Armed cession to facilitate correspondence • Forces in the United Kingdom and between people in Canada and the , later the Middle East, and afterwards United Kingdom Airgraph Service . was extended by the Postmaster will be extended. to Civilians on the General to messages addressed from above date. personnel of the Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, and British and Allied Forces serving in Canada, to their families and friends in the United Kingdom. The reduction of the Airgraph fee to our Forces should do much to in- crease the use of this time -and -space - saving facility by which messages written on special forme obtainable at The new extension of Airgrapb Till Post Offices, are processed on a • Serivice to Civilians it is hoped will reel of microfilm and carried by plane I draw closer the ties between persons to the United Kingdom, where a pho- l in Canada and their friends in the tographic enlargement is made of United Kingdom. each message which is placed in an I The rate on. Airgraph Messages envelope and forwarded for delivery. sent by Civilians to Civilian addresses In the case of Airgraphs from Canada in the United Kingdom will be 15 to the Middle East, the original forms cents a message. are flown to the United Kingdom for , ntat oot foal to bias/lie y boy e 5,d1et,,,"s��, hoe1,,.�;� "THE WAY I look at it is this. My boy enlisted of his own free will. He's got to do .. without a lot of things he's been accus- tomed to. I wouldn't feel right if I couldn't go without something too!" "The least I can do is to work hard and save. My kitchen, my shopping bag, my , work basket are the nearest I can get to his battlefront. But I can buy War Savings Stamps— and lots of them — every week, so that he may have the tools to win. And that's what I'm doing! How about you?" 'Buy War Savings Stamps from banks, post offices, telephone offices, department stores,. druggists, grocers, tobacconists,. book stores . and other retail stores. National War Finance Committee 12.8,, Experiments to Producer to Silk Never Succeeded The story of silk, ounds a,coun- terpoint to the story, of America. When. men, first came from Eng- land and Spain to found a new world across the sea, silk was a romantic si bstanee-sharing the glamour of the mysterious East with such. other exotics as precious jewels, herbs and spices. The persistence of the effort to es- tablish sericulttrre in the American colonies is not generally known. It was started in 1620 by Frenchmen settling at Buckroe, Va. Two years later, King James I sent his Vir- ginia colonists 80 ounces of silkworm eggs, not so much because he want- ed them to produce silk, it was said, as because he detested tobacco and hoped to discourage the .growing' of it. The following year the assem- bly of the colony decreed that 10 mulberry trees must be set out for each 100 acres of property held. But none of those measures endangered the supremacy of tobacco. The Carolinas and Georgia under- took silk production a century or so later with somewhat more success, the Carolinas in particular being well suited to the 'growth of the mul- berry trees which feed the worm. In the 1760s, New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania offered bounties to encourage sericulture. But it was complained that the American prod- uct was "badly reeled on hand looms and; roughly spun on the large wool wheel," so that it could not compare with the imported product. Living Problem $impie, Synthetic Fuel When p According to Physician 1 The ,modern American carne in for a kroadside recently by: Dr. Ar- thur H. )Steinhausi physiologist of the George Williams college. "I dare say many Americans have no idea how they tlem elves, alone and unassisted, -really feel," the doc- tor observed. "They barge into the new day under the stimulation of caffein -laden Java. Soon they dead- en their 'jangled, nerves with nico- tine." The worst, however, is yet to come, according tilt the doctor, espe- cially if you happen to be one of those persons ,who' enjoys a social hour and maybe a beer with the boys on the way home at night. From half past afternoon until, late at night their irritated minds find solace in alcohol. At head- ache time an aspirin gives them an escape. Bubbling alkalizers remove yesterday's brown taste to make room for today's. "If foodless and matchless, John Doe some day, would walk through the woods and upon tiring sit by a stream to straighten out his cock- eyed thinking. Then when hungry he should pass up hamburger stands and taverns to a plain wholesome dinner. After helping the wife with the dishes he should play with the kids or otherwise occupy himself with socially constructive work. He might be surprised with himself." 'Flavne Thrower' Used In Fight Against Pests Hitherto used only in industry and as a weapon of warfare against hu- mans in both World War I and II, the flame-thrower now is winning a battle against rats and insects. It is due to become, officials of the Pan American Sanitary bureau be- lieve, a valuable instrument in fight- ing bubonic plague. In the past, the war against plague -carrying rats was hindered by the fact that although the rat tl,4s Wledt the fleas e�rne re-, 'namive ed aland Tontlnued to spread the disease. The flame- thrower, producing a mobile blaze of,sor„le 2 000,ilegree§ F., has proved effective in destroying not only rats and fleas in rat burrows and nests in the flocs and walls of dwellings and other buildings, but other ver- min also. By passing this flame slowly over the surface, spiders, bed bugs, fleas, cockroaches, and lice in the cracks or on the walls and floors are almost instantly killed. The fact that the fire -torch effec- tively destroys fleas in rat burrows, as well as the rats they infect, is considered highly important in con- trolling the plague. Raps Health Rules' Modern scientific" health rules, according to Dr. Arthur H. Stein - haus of George Williams college, > are often as erroneous as their pred- ecessors P ecessors of yesterday. "Too often health rules were merely devices designed to force the prejudices of one generation on to the next," he declared. "About a generation ago such rules began to lose their grip on us, so we turned to science for health facts. This has got us into even more trouble. In the place of one family cherished le have a score of r v health rule, we now high-powered, recently Y concluded, statements formidable sounding claiming to be health facts." fury "thunderingu The Y of these claims" by manufacturers and stockholders as to the health merits r cts has had i of their products o u P P le effect one favorable at least, how- ever, Dr. Steinhaus pointed out: Can people now ask for reasons back of health statements before accepting them completely. Wrinkles in Skirt To look well groomed is no ac- cident. If you don't want your clothes to fail you, don't fail your clothes. One of the surest ways to save on your dry cleaning costs is to brush your clothes thoroughly when you remove them. This re- moves all surface dust before it be- comes imbedded in the weave of the fabric. There's a way to sit on your skirt to prevent wrinkles. Here's how: When you sit down, take the side seams in your hands, gently pull them out. After you've done it a few times you'll find it becomes a habit. ' And how it helps the look of your skirt when you get up! There's nothing that will so ruin the effect of a smart costume as run -over heels. Keep your shoes clean and in repair for longer wear Physiology Expert Says `Bunk' on Food Taboos It's all right to drink water with meals and to mix such foods as' shrimps and strawberries, milk and fish, according to Dr. Arthur H.. Steinhaus, distinguished physiology expert of George Williams college. Discussing the modern Amer- ican's eating habits, Dr. Steinhaus, visiting at the University of Cali- fornia, attacked the "superstition against water." ;'Is it harmful to drink water with meals?" he asked, "Earlier views held that it was harmful because the stomach juices thereby were, s:Tiou�iy, dil}ltgd. };Deri„rn--sntati9 i iias pro'ed that water is one of the best stimulators to stomach secre- tion,` Digestion is improved. Even old wetee js no significant deterrent to digestion" Statements that certain combina- tions of food are harmful to the in-. dividual were branded as "ground- less" by Dr. Steinhaus. "Shrimp with strawberries, milk with fish, starch foods with acids— they're all harmless unless the in- dividual is allergic to one or several of them," he declared. "The nor- mal stomach secretes an acid much stronger than that which is taken in so-called acid foods." z, Gas Supply Gives Out Scientists can tap huge stores of synthetic f el to keep the nation's mmotors running -should the United States ever experience a gasoline shortage such as Europe faces today. Figuratively speaking, science can load the fuel tanks with coal, woad, sewage, molasses and numerous other substitutes. There is little likelihood of Ameri- can motorists being forced to use costlier synthetic fuel ' until this country's huge reserve of petroleum above and below ground are near exhaustion, But should the time ever., come � when motorists, farmers and com- mercial truckers find their gasoline supplies shut off, there are many unexploited sources of synthetic fueI in this country which .might be de- veloped. Among' the Substitutes which1 American motorists might use in tient of a drastic gasoline shortage are liquefied coal,' charcoal and wood; alcohol made from molasses and other farm- products; ethane, butane and propane gases obtained from natural gas; methane gas from sewage and coal mines—and even water itself. A good many people have had the idea of burning water—extracting the hydrogen by separating the H2 from the O. It has been tried in this country, South America, Europe and perhaps elsewhere in an experi- mental -way, but it is too expensive to be used in anything except a few experimental cars. Petroleum experts estimate that approximately one-quarter of Eu- rope's motor fuel supply is synthetic and that at least 40 per cent of Ger- many's annual supply of fuel is pro- duced synthetically. • 'Army Chiropody' There may be some truth in the old saying that "an army marches on its stomach"—but Temple, Pa., uni- versity authorities point out that it's also true that an army marches on its feet. On this theory, the university has established a course in "military chiropody," an emergency measure designed to keep America's new army "on its feet" by acquainting chiropodists with the foot problems of soldiers and sailors. The project has been created with government sanction and is planned to duplicate a successful, similar program' byBritish chiropodists Pdists for Britain's home defenders, according to Dr. Charles E. Krau sz dean of the Temple chiropody dy school. Pointing out that while a painful corn or ingrown nail does not ex- empt a man from military service, Dr. Karusz warned that neverthe- less these and other local foot dis- turbances lower morale and dimin- ish physical capacity. Cancer Traced Dr. Ludwig Emge, professor of surgery at Stanford, deelared re- cently there is some reason to be- lieve a vitamin A deficiency may have something to do with chronic ulcers of the stomach which may eventually become cancer. He pointed out that radio -active substances, made by the use of the cyclotron, will enable medical men to trace cancerous tissue through- put the human body. He said this is the most hopeful line of research developed for the treatment of can- cer. He did not go so far as to say that radioactive substances can be used. as a cure, stating it had, been dis- covered that, .cancerous, thyroid glands, for example, will not take radioactive iodine, Six Seen Easily Near Jupiter and Saturn are two interesting clusters of stars. The Pleiades are often called the "Seven Sisters," but only six stars are seen easily. They form a very small dip- per, but that is not the so-called "Little Dipper," which is formed by the North Star -and six fainter stars. The other cluster is not named on the map, but is called the Hyades. They form a letter V with the bright star Aldebaran. Just above the northeastern hori- zon is Capella, the fifth brightest, star in the whole sky. It forms part of a five -sided figure, Auriga. Capella is a double star, the components of which are, respectively, 100 times and 50 times, more luminous than our sun. They revolve about each other in a period of 104 days and are separated by a distance of about 80,000,000 miles, or 85 per cent of the distance from the earth to the Gasoline Ration Scheme Gibbons Can Swing Forty, e Gives Rise to Rackets it;, Feet; Make Good Pets The new gasoline rationing plan has ' inspired grumbling among service men in Manhattan—but it was just a ray of sunshine to "Hap- py Harry the Hackie." If;; there are racket possibilities in a situation, Harry can scent ahem out, Repeal, put him out of the bootlegging business; the pari- mutuel machines ruined his book- making business; but the recent night blackout on gas sales has broadened his grin. He explained: "I carry extra gasoline when some dope gets stalled at night, I drive up and sell.him two gallons for a dollar. Last week I make more from gas than from fares." He frowned when told a new plan of gasoline conservation had been • put into effect but regained his grin 1 when told it called for a 10 per cent reduction in deliveries and that the service station attendants would see to the rationing themselves. He Said: "That's great. I get me a bigger business than ever now." Of the million cars operated daily in New York, only about 200,000 are transient; and July sales throughout the city are 20 per cent lower than September sales, because many motorists are out of town on vaca- tion. • Thus, operators explained, the cut generally may amount to 30 per cent or more of the fuel normally avail- able. Hottest Man on Earth Is Under Silence Vow Many of the natives living at Gem Lake, near Mount Abu, in India, carry religious fop tic' mo tae extearne. One Hindu `'d dbtic con- stantly inflicts upon himself a ter- rib -le self,-tgl'turg, x%ie mke may t)ee any seen day sitting between four fires, and he has lived thus for 30 years, performing his remarkable penance in fulfiih4rent of some un= known vow to his Creator. His self-inflicted punishment con- sists in sitting, nude, inside the small square made by four raging fires, with the sun glaring down upon his bare flesh. The noonday sun's rays alone, in this region, are hot enough to nearly roast the aver- age European, but the addition of the fires makes the Indian's posi- tion a veritable inferno. The fires are fed with dried cow dung—the local fuel—and anyone who goes near finds the heat so intense that it is impossible to get within several yards of the stoical native. In addition to his fiery ordeal, the man is under a vow of silence, and for more than 10 years has spoken to no one. This extraordinary de- votee lives on the scanty food pro- vided by the alms of pious Hindu visitors, who consider it a religious duty to make some trifling offering which they place in a receptacle not too near the four-square flames. sun. Tobacco Superstitions When tobacco first reached. Eng- land in 1565, it was put to strange uses and all sorts of superstitions were invented about it. People be- lieved that smoking would keep one from growing old and it was used to insure male succession -and succes- sion in general. Doctors whose pa- tients could afford to pay $37 a Bound for tobacco sprinkled it about sick rooms to tone down fever. During the plague, 1664-1665, to- bacco chewing became a part of English social life. The passing of the plague did not end the fad and men, women and children keptright. on chewing it and the perfect dandy carried a silver spittoon as his early Nineteenth-century descendants'car- ried a monocle. Sun Only Dwarf Our sun is made to, appear like a dwarf compared to some of the stars in our galaxy. Recent measure- mentsd George H. Herbs made b Y g g at the University ni ersitY of California ob- servatory at os L Angeles indicate m that Ras Algethi has a diameter of '690,000,000 miles nearly e arkY three ties he diameterofP Antares,pre- viously viously considered the largest star. It would take nearly 800 of our suns in a row to measure this distance. Much of the volume of these giant stars is filled with a highly attenu- ated gas. Of the, future state of our local universe, our sun and our earth, there is little definite knowledge. A heat death, due to the cooling of al] the suns and stars, is a possible terminal state. Scientists at one time thought the sun had traveled a long way in that direction but that was before we knew the sun maintains its heat in an atomic - energy process by the consumption of matter. More Than Three Genders Most. English classes in school teach us that all nouns fall into three classifications called genders; these are taught as masculine, fem- inine and neuter. But these are not sufficient says Maurice Weseen in his "Dictionary of English Gram- mar." A 'man is masculine; a woman, feminine, and a house, neu- ter. But what about such words as children, parents, relatives, etc.? They do not fall into any of the three genders. A fourth gender is necessary, scholars say, to include nouns which are either, both or all genders. This fourth one is called common gender. Maybe this will change the custom of calling all school teachers "she" as though they were all feminine. Fear of Dentist Chair `Less With New Methods Dentistry's rapid forward pace was described recently by Dr. Rob- ert L. Borland of Los Angeles. Dr. Borland ascribed the ad- vancement to four factors. The first, he stated, "comes from laboratory test tubes," where have originated anesthetic solutions that "blend so beautifully with the hu- man blood stream that there is no local irritation, hence no local pain Thrini or following a well-done ex- traction "2,1"';`i_ ,; }"k : APr`,,..— Second, he continued, is the bet- ter diagnosis made possible by im- provements in X-ray technique. The latest advance in this field, he related, is "a stereoscopic X-ray picture which reveals tooth forma- tions in their true proportions of depth in the jaw, thus making diag- nosis accurate on a three-dimension- al reading." t Third, Dr. Borland reported, is , the vast accumulation of accurate clinical evidence since discovery of the X-ray, giving a base for high- • est efficiency and lifting the dental science from "the mechanical stage of its youth." Lastly, but by no means least im- portant, he said, is the public co- operation in tooth care which has been obtained through newspaper and other' educational programs. Twins Have Same Scars Allen and .Charles Thompson, three-year-old sons of Mr. and Mrs. Orville Thompson of Princeton, Ill.,. are identical twins—even to appen- dicitis scars. They have been exactly the same height and weight since birth, cut teeth together and learned to walk together. They underwent appen- dectomies within 45 hours of each other. "Wahoot Wahool'° That is what gibbons call out at the break of day. The sound echoes through the woods. Perhaps a,: dozen of the animals 'call it, or shout it, in a chorus. A gibbon is an ape, and like other, apes, it doesn't have a tail. It is found wild in islands of the East Indies, also in certain parts off: southern Asia. Siam, or Thailand,, is one of the places on the mainland! of Asia where there are many gibes bons. For the most part, gibbons live in trees. Clinging to branches with, the hands at the eiid of their long arms, they are experts at traveling, from branch to branch. In the for- ests of Sumatra there are gibbons which can make 30 or 40 feet in a, swingfrom one branch to another!' The gibbon is the- smallest mem.j' ber'of the ape family. It seldom is more than three feet tall. Gibbons stay in trees most of the time, but it is possible for them to run along the ground. A gorilla can walk on two legs, but does' not have so much skill in this field as a gibbon. While walk- ing or running, a gibbon keeps him- self in balance by stretching out his arms, or by placing his hands behind his neck. Some gibbons do not cry "Wa. hoo!" at dawn. Instead they shout "Hoo -lock!" Such gibbons live in Thailand and Sumatra, and have the special name of "Hoolocks." When they cry out in chorus, we might almost think they were sing- ing. They have their chorus at sunset as well as at dawn, -° a; Cosmic Ray Study Theg highest reaches of the Cas- cade mountains are a laboratory in the cosmic -ray research of Walter Dyke, University of Washington physicist. Dyke has plabed photographic plates on Mount Rainier, 14,408 feet; Mount Adams, 12,307 feet, and other peaks. Before summer ends, he will collect the plates for fur- ther study. The young scientist explained that the 1 oto- ates are ordinary photo- graphic' Y P graphic" film with a fine grain emul- sion. If a ray strikes the film at an angle, it probably will leave a track across the surface. Cosmic rays, Dyke said, leave dif• ferent tracks. He hopes to identify the numerous types by studying their tell-tale `tracks" under a microscope. Many cosmic rays will pass through the film before one leaves a track. The plates are not left in a horizontal position. c U. S. Detectors American airplane detectors, such as are now being used in spotting aircraft over London, have made their appearance along the Eastern front, according to an article in the London Times. The new plane de. tectors enable the observers to pial the course of enemy bombers and locate them accurately about 50 miles from their target. - The detectors, similar to Britain's new radiolocator, help the Russians locate Nazi raiders despite fog or darkness. Since raiders can be spot- ted so far away from the site of the detector, Russian interceptor planes have ample time to, go into action. This American device is said to be largely responsible for re- stricting the number of Nazi planes which have so far succeeded in reaching Moscow. - Rewarded for Mistake They make mistakes in Uncle Sam's forces and because of one George M. Mead of Fremont, Ohio, is enjoying an unexpected five-day furlough at his home here. Mead recently completed air corps training at Scott Field, Ill., and he was transferred to Kelley Field, Texas. After making the long trek to Texas, Mead was in- formed upon arrival that his superi- ors had sent him to the 'wrong base and that he had been assigned to Mitchell Field on Long Island. As compensation for his tripe oack and forth across the country, at governmental expense; he was hiven the five days leave to spend ere en route. ' .,,4FV.:C.k:41`X+.-.s,• War Priorities May Make Cotton Hose Expensive While cotton stockings may be the hope of the American woman for the future, don't get the idea that cotton hose are going to Se extreme- ly cheap; at least none of the kinds that look worth much. Because cot- ton sells for about 18 cents a pound afhile silk is over $2 a pound this mighit at first seem true:.. But this is net 50.- a Cotton stockings now on sale run around $1 a pair and the price for_ the better ones probably will not be less than this, and perhaps more. The reason? America has plenty of raw cotton —millions of bales of it in storage— but America does not have the yarn= spinning machines needed to con= vert this cotton into fine lisle yarns,, One way to try to solve this dilem- ma is to build more cotton -spinning; machines to handle the fine fibra production but that route to sac - cess gets all tangled up with the ma- chine tool trade and priorities, for a spinning machine is a most intria cate machine. The newest advance in cotton. stocking production is to try to put, more elasticity into the fibres by chemical treatment. The big trou- ble with the cotton stgckings of the• past is that when they stretched: they stayed stretched, resulting in that bug -a -boo of women—stockings s that bag and wrinkle at the ankles, • Beer -Drinking Goat Because he took to beer, Barney; a white angora goat and the most photographed mascot in the fighting forces, has been discharged from the army. For a year he had beer - mascot of a garrison battalion. Barney broughtht disgrace ace u oa „''self when he undertook a tour of North Sydney, Australia, hotels with a man. After several beers, Barney dashed from the hotel and climbed a shelf in a confectionary shop. He swept bottles of candies from the shelf, then bolted into a vegetable market, where he feasted. on tomatoes. He was "arrested," taken to a police station and locked. up for three days. When members of the garrison lo- cated him they were presented with a bill for $30 damages. He has now been given to a man who has undertaken to give him, suitable food. Tobacco May Yield Oil Switzerland is undertaking a na-. tion -wide experiment in the produc tion of oil for table and industrial' purposes from tobacco plants. A new decree of the Swiss public economy department provides that•. undisclosed portions of the tobacco. harvest will be permitted to go to seed, from which the oil will be manufactured by the national food control offices. Should the experi- ment be successful it will be extend- ed next year as an aid in solving' the critical fat -shortage problems. From 450 to 900 pounds of tobacco seeds may be harvested from each acre, the ,communique announcing; the, decree said. Tobacco seeds, ite adds, contain about 40 per cent oil,. which may be used for table pur-_ poses. Naziism Not Hitler's Hitler didn't even originate Nazi-. Ism, but copped the idea from, someone else. "While Adolf was still a corporal in the. First World war, another Austrian named Walter, Riehlhadcooked up a form of na- tional socialism which included ex- altation of the state, scorn of the. church and castigation of the Jews. Adolf got in touch with this Austrian, lawyer in post-war days and be came, first, one, of his devotees, then a lieutenant; but they split{ when Hitler—insisted on pulling offe, an armed putsch in 1923 from that. Munich beer hall.