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The Clinton News Record, 1942-07-09, Page 6• •• rrr r• r i'AGE6 THE :`CLINTON 11,T EWS-RECORD 0 , THURS., JULY 9,1942 • You might be the next victim of fire—fire that can • quickly desire), Your home, your business, 'ur party, your whole life's work. Let Pilot Insurance necePt 'the risk—ready and quick to pay any just • claim. The clot is 'very low. We write Pilot Insurance to cover selected risks in Automobile, Eire, Burglary, Plate Glass, Pub- lic Liability and other insurance. J. W. CRAIGIE, Goderich GEO. G. MacEWAN, Goderich. Representing PILOT INSURANCE. COMPANY Enlistments from Clinton and District Aiken, Arthur Aiken, Willard Andrew, Rev. B. F. Adams, Lloyd Bezzo, William Bateman, Maurice Bartliff, Brace Brantley, Frank Brundson, Melvin Cooper, Fred Cooper, Clayton Campbell, Robert B Cornish, Cyril Carter, George Counter, 'William Corran, James Clark, Borden' Corleee, Alvin Cudmore, Wilbur Cuchnore, Reginald Cndmore, Charles Cooke, Thomas C. Cooke, Kenneth Cook, Robert Cook, William • Colquhoun, Laurie Colquhoun, Donald Cuninghame, John Craig, Albert Castle, Samuel Castle ,Thos. Carney ,Bartram Cowan, Howard Cowan, George Douglas, Dr. R. P. Daeves, John Elliott, Edward Elliott, Cecil M. Eling, Ted. Fitzsimons, Norris Fitzsimons ,Norman L. Fisher, Gordon Fremlin, Royce Fremlin, Richard Peen -din, Harold Frame, Morris Galajdo, Nicholas Gliddon, Carman Gliddon, Clarence Hawkins, John Hawkins, Hugh Bovey, Ernest Harris, Gerald Haddy, Wesley Hunking, Elwin Hanley, Murray Hendermn, J. Clifford Ilewson, Ralph Habkirk, Norma Hall, Kenneth Holmes, Cecil ,• Hearn, Gordon Haig, Jack Higgins, Brown Hopson, George Jervis, Ivan Johnston, Walter Kennedy, David Kennedy, Stanley. Kendall, Roland Knights, George Leppington, Roy Lawson, Harold Little. Jack Langford, Harold Lobb, Alvin Lobb, Everett Lockwood, James Lightfoot, Allen Little, William McEwan, Harry McGuire, Morris Monteith, Gordon McPhee, Pearl Mittel!, Ernest McPherson, Harold McLaughlin, Alfred McFarlane, Thomas McCullough, H. B. Murray. James Murray, Gordon MeIlveen, Jack Managhan, Hartley Morrison, James McMichael, Charlee McKay, Ferguson MacKenzie, Douglas MeCreath, Ted, • McDonald, Ronald McDonald, Edward MeKeight, Leonard McPhee, Herman , • Monteith, Rolfe • Mutch, Charles McIntyre, Dr. A, H. Middleton, Ted. Monaghan, Wilfred McLeod, Bob McLeod, John Neilaras, Clarence Neilans ,Mrs. Clarence Nickle, Jack Nickle, James Neilans, Elwin Neilans, Chester Osbaldeston, Walter O'Connell, Thomas Osmond, Albert Pickett, Roy Perdue, Donald Rozell, Clarence Sehoenhals, M. J. Schoenhale, John (Bud) Steep, Thomas Shanahan. Jack Sperling, Phillip Snider, Melvin Spencer. Sam Steep, Joseph Steeling, Lloyd Smith, Reginald Steep, William Stock, Lloyd Steepe, Melvin Scotchmer, Alfred Scotehmer, Thos. Sturgeon, James Snell, Gordon Sprung, Donald Stott, Kenneth • Thorndike, Douglas Thompson, Dr. P. Vanderburg, Kenneth West, Jack West, William Williams, William H. Ward, Douglas Whitmore, Fletcher Westlake, Lloyd Yungblutt, Stanley Seeds, Bernice CLINTON BOYS ENLISTED FROM OTHER PLACE Argent, Bill Axon, Fredi Brown, Percy Ball, Harry Campbell, George Campbell, Ellwood Carter, Rosa Cartwright, Duncan Cook, Reginald Cook, Charles Cudmore, Murray Dinnan, Albert Dixon, Di.k Dewar, James Franks, Vernon , Milford, Charles Gordon, Terry Guest, Brydone Garrett, Ernest. Hawkins, Madelon Hovey, William Heard, Frank Hovey, Fred Hovey, Weldon Johns, Laurie Johns, Allan T. Johns, Pete Kennedy, Clyde LaWrason, George MeTaggart, Fred McGill, Edward McGill, Glen McDougall, Bruce McCabe, Dick Osbaldeston, Alex. Peck, Ronald Perdue, Jack Pickett, John Rorke, W. Kenneth Ross, Erwin Richards, Cyril Radford, Nelson Streets, Kelso Schoenhals, Stewart! Schoenhals, Lloyd; • Seeley, Harold• Steep, Etat Tureen Grant Verenti, Gordon Wilding, Bill ; 9 Wrote 'Sim Song' While • Mice Crawled Over Face The famous "Sun Song," or Song About Creatures, was written by St. Francis of Assisi, in. Italian. • It is still a widely popular hymn in all churches, 'most familiar perhaps in a translation which begins "All crea- tures of our God and King, lift up your voice and with us sing Alle- luia!" ' Under great difficulties St. Fran- cis wrote this remarkable poem in the unusually hot summer of 1225, when he was ill and so suffering from loss of sight that he was un- able to have his eyes exposed to any light. During this illness the good man lay helpless, and according tiff one biographer: "He Was plagued by a swarm of field mice which probably had their home in the straw walls of the hut and which eventually ran over his face so that he had no peace day or night: and yet it was precisely he this wretched sickness that he composed this won- derful masterpiece." There is some dispute as to the authorship of many of the hymns that are ascribed to St. Francis, but none concerning this Song of the Sun. It is a charming expres- sion of St. Francis' childlike delight in God's good works. • 'Hunch' Bets Okeh, Says Expert on Betting Odds Scientific betting is sounder than common sense methods .of wager- ing, but there are gambling situa- tions in which the las of probabil- ity cannot be alied and times ppnett, when even playing a "hunch" is dic- tated. This conclusion was presented in a discussion of the science -of prob- ability, now an indispensible tool in modern bizsiness as well as in sci- entific research, by Dr. Milton B. Singer, research associate in philos- ophy at, the University of Chicago and authority on mathematical methodology. Dr. Singer classified methods of betting into the scientific, common- sense and superstitious. The scien- tific method is superior to the two others, he said, because it provides an exact method of calculating odds and chances. "However," he declared, "it can- not completely supplant the use of common sense and superstition in making bets, There are many bets in which the laws of probability do not involve repeatable phenom- ena, or because statistics about the relevant factors have not been gath- ered." Sign Language Something over a century ago, 12 - year -old Alice Cogswell encountered a young man in the garden of her father's home in Hartford, Conn. The young man, Thomas Gallaudet, had just completed his theological studies. He was waiting for an in- terview with the girl's father, whom he hoped might aid him to deter- mine his field as a missionary. Alice had been deaf since she was two years old and, at that time, deaf- mutes were classified among the feeble-minded and insane. Idly, Gallaudet attracted her at- tention with a few simple gestures. To pass the time, he casually point- ed to his headgear and with a stick; wrote on the ground H -A -T. A gleam' of understanding passed over the child's face. She grabbed the stick, copied the word, took the hat and placed it upon her own head. Point- ing to another object, she handed back the crude "pencil." Commu- nication had been established. Thomas Gallaudet's life thereafter was dedicated to his work for the education of the deaf. Cosmetic Hygiene ,• New York university offers a well- rounded course in cosmetic hygiene to both men and women. This course, introduced five years ago by Florence E. Wall,outstanding woman chemist and cosmetologist, teaches students how to know their own needs and how to choose their cosmetics wisely and use them to the best advantage. The No. 1 cosmetic necessity is a water softener. That's any one of those fragrant needle -fine crystal salts or powders that you heave by the handful into your basin and your tub. They're important, but not be- caupe they waft a cloud of perfume, but because they make the minerals in water receptive to soap. Thus, you get more action from your soap, little or no curd in the water, and a better job of cleansing. The water -softening habit is one in which this class of students is en- couraged for all washing purposes —hair and hands, as well as bath and "basin laundering"—especially in hard -water districts. IA Knowledge Trebled "Knowledge of heart disease has trebled since the First World war and has advanced as' much in that period as in the prior 200 to 300 years," said Dr. Paul Dudley White of Bostora Mass., president of the National Heart association and Har- vaid ' lecturer, recently. "What used frequently to be teemed indigestion is now frequent- ly called heart disease, and what used to be termed a disease of the arteries is also now frequently diag- nosed as heart disease. * • "We still can't give medicine and have heart trouble go away, but We are learning tremendously more about hygienic measures, such as proper diet and bodily and mental 'Slanguage Growint • v* Band z, s GA) drawl Aznerican slang, and new stranm-, lined expressions, coined to fit the requirements of jazz are fast •replacing Italian word.s on jazz mu - •sic scores; according to Benny Good- man, band lander. Instructions, such as "fortissimo" 'and "glissando," •which composers and arrangers.used to write on their musical tecoree, are giving way to modern terms, such as "schmalz"" and "smear. "Fortissimo" appears very sel- dom nowadays, says Benny. The same idea is conveyed by "sock it" and "ride." "Scherzo" is a word that used to pop up pretty often. But today it has given way to "me- dium bounce." Musicians the world over recog- nize the words, "con expression" to mean "play with feeling." Only Americans, however, have been dar- ing enough to discard them for the more picturesque term—"play with schmalz" or "sclunalzando." "Staccato'. which formerly in- structed musicians to cut the notes short is now rendered by "bite it off" or "what It off." "Tutti," which to classical musicians meals "all play together," has become "free wheeling," "glissando" is now "smear" and "pianissimo—"whis- per it." "Ad lib which, in classical Mu- sic, told the soloist to go ahead and interpret a passage in his own way, has bowed to "ride solo," or "go to town," "jam," "take off," and "go out of the world." Millions of Universes Much Older Than Earth Our earth, approxiznately 2,000,- 000,000 years old, is just a newcom- er in the cosmos. A new estimate of the age of the cosmos, made at the Mt. Wilson observatory, Los An- geles, places the date of its creation at not later than 2,000,000,000,000 years ago. The millions of universes distributed throughout space outside of our own Milky Way galaxy are, therefore, 1,000 times older than the earth. This is only one of many interest- ing discoveries made in the survey of the heavens during the last year at Mt. Wilson 'observatory. Dr. Edison Pettit made measure- ments of the temperature changes on the moon during its 1940 total eclipse .with a delicate thermo cou- ple set in the 100 -inch Mt. Wilson telescope. He found that when the earth cut between the sun and the moon, causing a total lunar black- out, tremendous temperature •changes took place on the moonaoa drop of 415 degrees Fahrenheit be- ing recorded. In the full glare of the sun the moon's surface has a temperature of 206.6 degrees, and when totally cut off from the sun's heat the temperature drops to 208.4 degrees below zero. • Leech Worry Faced with the impossibility of obtaining imported bloodsuckers, France may be obliged to go back into the business of raising its own, it was learned. A century ago nothing in the French doctor's Medicine case was considered as efficacious a cure for all ills as the lowly leech. With the progress of medical science in the Nineteenth century, the hard-work- ing invertebrate fell into disrepute, In recent years, however, French physicians have returned to the idea that the therapeutic value of the leech is not to be Warned. Unfortunately, leeches are off the market. The comparatively small quantities used in,, recent years came from Hungary, as the Hun- garian' variety was considered su- perior. To make up for the short- age, it is proposed that leeches again be obtained from Brittany and southwestern France. Diet Fads Bunk? Doctors tell us that most of the ideas and fads regarding dieting for health purposes are bunk. There is the idea that eating meat in- creases the blood pressure and makes a person more 'animal" and warlike. Eskimos have lived on met for centuries, and are very healthy and peaceful. Some people are vegetarians, believing that meat causes cancer. But the fects are that many animals which live entirely on vegetables have cancer, and no more commonly than ani- mals that live mostly on meat. Fast- ing is another fad which is supposed to cure all manner of ailments, yet doctors say that fasting is a very dangerous practice the way most people do it. Medical science rare- ly finds anything commendable in popular health and diet fads—they are nearly always pure bunk. Autos Increase Deafness Considerable deafness is due to irritation and catarrhal conditions. These may be brought on by riding in an automobile with the window open beside one's head. The stiff breeze through the window may make the shoulder temporarily -stiff and the ear, permanently deaf. It is not this deafness, however, which makes the driver ignore advice from the rear seat. And don't try to be hardy and get along without ear flaps for protection against winter's blasts. The fact that women pro- tect their ears by concealing them underneath their hair,, depending upon the style, May be one factor in giving women better heeding than care, as an offset to the nialady." • men New Cotton Insulation Resistant to Decay, Heat , ; A new cotton insulation, treated to' be both flameproof and water - repellant, has been put on the mar - This is the first time cotton has been used for insulation, It has been breught about by the developinent of processes which make it possible to extend cotton's fire-resistant qual- ities far beyond the danger point. The new insulation will withstand a temperature of more than 1,500 de- grees F. without flaming, Cotton in itself is naturally water - repellant, so the insulation will not tend to absorb water or vapor. Five of the six forms in which the in- sulation comes are inclosed in asphalt -impregnated paper or in combination with ;reflective metal insulation. The other qualities of cotton most of us are well acquaint- ed with—its cleanliness and freedom from dust, odor and decay. This insulation material is sup- plied in blankets 16 to 24 inches wide and from 1 inch to 35/a inches thick. It can be cut to lengths to meet any conditions in construction. The blanket types in which it comes are made with flanges for fasten- ing to rafters, joists or studs, holding the cotton blanket in the center of the wall construction to provide space on either side for circulation of air. This increases the efficiency of the insulation, as a small amount of air space has some insulative value in its own right. • American Art Got Its • Start in Philadelphia American art, which had its be- ginnings in a small way in Colonial times in Philadelphia in the face of pioneers' struggle and hardship, came into full flower when the last frontier had been explored and Americans turned to other pursuits. The standard "Dictionary of Amer- ican Painters, Sculptors and En- gravers," by Mantle Fielding of Philadelphia, lists the names of more than 5,400 men and women who have contributed to public and private art galleries, art museums and institutions whish now stretoh from coast to coast. Some of these names—George Inness (1825-94), landscape painter; James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), noted for his portrait of "Mother"; Winslow Ho- mer (1836,1910), with his landscape and marine paintings; Thomas Eak- ins (1844-1916), Philadelphia -born artist and teacher; Mary Cassatt (1845-1928), Pennsylvania "impres- sionist"; John Singer Sargent (1856- 1925), portrait painter; George Bel- lows (1882-1925); Currier and Ives, and others became widely known. In a war-torn world, with 75 per cent of the earth's people locked inj mortal combat, America, the strong hold of freedom and democracy, re- mains the last stronghold of are and music and the other refinements' of civilization. Type of Heart Disease Specific reports on the various, types of heart disease are; Congenital, the type present at birth, uncommon and still difficult to combat. Rheumatic, occurring mostly in the northern climates and not at all in the tropics, also difficult, but with progress in combating it being made. The superimposed type, occurring through an invasion of the blood stream by streptococcus, now 10 per cent recoveries as compared with a former less than 1 per cent, Syphilitic, ;rare in advanced com- munities, with populations which co- operate in medical care and can be eliminated entirely as a type of heart disease. Degenerative, which includes cor- onary and that associated with high blood pressure. These, occurring in the middle and older age groups (40 years and- nip), frequently result from overeating, lack of any exer- cise and too much strain and worry. Sinks to Bottom Does a ship sink to the bottom of the ocean, or does it only sink un- til it has displaced its own weight in the water? A boat of any kind may be filled with water to a certain extent, and then may float along at the surface, but if it goes clear under water it keeps going down to the bottom. Some have supposed that the pres- sure deep in the sea would keep a sunken vessel from getting to the bottom. Yet there is no such effete Pressure in the deep sea does not "squeeze" water together, at least not to any extent which will make a difference. Water cannot be squeezed in the way gas can be. The pressure below the surface is due to the weight of the water above. The weight above will not keep a vessel, or any other object, from sinking to the bottom. • For Women Movers Women who aren't happy unless they can move all the furniture in the house at least once a month will be interested in the invention of Connie I... Agee of Long Beach, Calif. Suppose the article to be moved is a huge upholstered chair that is not equipped with casters or sliders. First you push a small lever on the back of the •chair bottom. • This causes a single large caster to drop down and make con- tact with the floor directly beneath the chairaz center of gravity. Now, Without much effort, The chair caa be pushed in any direction. • Why 'Marching Through • Geergia' Was Couiposed "Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the ju- bilee I ' Hurrah! Hurrah! The flag that ' makes you free! So we sang the chorus from At- lanta to the sea, • While we were marching through • Georgia." The Tommies stepped to its stir- ring strains in India, the Japanese when they entered Port Arthur, our own doughboys in the last World war. On November 15, 1864, Gen; Wil- liam T. Sherman left Atlanta in ruins and started his famous march to the sea . , . a month later, after one of the most ruthless and deva- stating marches in history, he closed in on Savannah . . . breaking the heart and the ability to carry on of the South . . . the whole (and per- haps the most searing) episode in our national history being commem- orated in the song "Marching Through Georgia," which appeared shortly after . . . detailing this mo- mentous exploit . . in many parts of the South still remembered and never forgiven. "Marching Through Georgia" was written and its air composed by Hen- ry Clay Work: Connecticut Yankee; versatile printer whose mind was forever wandering off on harmonies; inventor of a rotary engine, knit- ting machine and walking doll; mu- sic writer whose efforts were the rage during the Civil war. Fish Eat Plankton, Man Eats Fish for Health Right now men of science are plot- ting said scheming over the best ways to strain whsle food, so small it can scarcely be seen,,out of the ocean 'and serve it on your table. These tiny candidates for modern menus are called plankton. They are the myriads of small plants and animals that float lazily through ev- ery cubic inch of water in the ocean. Because of the transparency of each • minute form, the floating mass is usually invisible to the naked eye. Bizarre and fascinating are these specks of living things from an ale most unseen world. Among them • are jewel-like one -celled planta called diatoms, many kinds of algae, small shrimp -like crustaceans, most edible of which are copepods and "krills," and many other minute, adults of the sea. ' Then there are the tiny shell -less: babies of a host of bottom -living. creatures such as clams, oysters . crabs and prawns, which spend their precarious naked infancy on, the surface of the water. Small jelly fish, sea worms, and fish eggs,. too, make up part of the great plank-. tonic horde. All these ocean drifters have been, on the bill -of -fare of swimming crea- tures ever since sea•life began—but man has eaten this strange food only indirectly. Fish eat plankton—or • other creatures that have partaken of it—and man eats fish. Belief in 'Evil Eye' Has Many Variations While belief in the Evil Eye has been generally discarded by most civilized peoples it was a common superstition of all the ancients, es- pecially those along the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, and goes back to the Babylonians and Sumerians of Mesopotamia who mention it on their clay tablets as early as 3000 B. C. In reality a form of witchcraft, it was based on the assumption that a glance from the eyes of certain per- sons, particularly the envious and the angry, could so infect and cor- rupt the air as to cause injury, ill- ness or misfortune to both living and inanimate objects. Animals as well as humans were thought to possess this evil faculty and Pliny, in his famous if some- times fanciful Natural History, tells of one such beast living somewhere along the upper Nile that possessed so malignant a form of the Evil Eye that it killed everything • within reach of its glance. Fortunately, 1 however, reports tib old Greek his- ; torian, the creature was extremely 1 slow of movement, otherwise it might have exterminated the entire human race. The ancients took all manner of elaborate and complicated precau- tions to protect themselves against the unwholesome effects of the 'Evil Eye. Face Changing Alteration in the human jaw and face is continuing despite the sys- tematic morning and night cleans- ing of our teeth, and might be worse but for this good American habit. Studies have shown that the condi- tion of teeth and jaws is improved by the generous drinking of milk —which provides calcium and phos- phorus for them—and by citrus fruits and tomatoes, which furnish large amounts of vitamin C. But even in people who have such a diet, decay and degeneration is marching right along, changing their faces. Good heavy chewieg, and lots of it seems to be the only way we can keep from losing the lower jaw eventually. Already the typical Ain cc ic an needs $53 worth of dental work. And there are at least 25,000,000 children in the United States who need to have their teeth fixed right away. • Vacuum Coffee Vacuum method for making cof- fee—Use one heaping tablespoonful of coffee for each three-fourthsmeas- uring cup of water. Measure cold or freshly boiled water into lower bowl. Place over flame. Do not place upper bowl in position until water boils, then reduce flame to simmer. Adjust filter and measure coffee. Place the upper bowl on lower bowl, giving it a slight twist to make an airtight seal be- tween the two bowls. (Water will al- most immediately be forced through center tube into upper level.) When all but the small amount of water below the bottom of the tube has risen, stir the mixture well in thei uppper bowl. Allow to simmer one minute, then turn off the gas. When the brew has returned to lower' bowl, remove upper bowl, Serve at once. • Washing Ears Small boys will like this verdict of science—although it is perfectly all' right to wash behind the ears. Wa- ter in the ear, however, is a bad thing since the water swells the wax. • The ears should always be washed with a rag that will not leave a pool of water in the ear; dousing the ear With a handful of water is laden with danger. Ear plugs should 'always be worn while swimming, since the water of the pool or beach may not only swell the wax, but also, with greater danger, carry ia some in- fection—but don't worry about coral or octopus eggs. And don't let John nie forget *the back of his ears, Snake Venom Helps Cure Epilepsy Disease Cases, Twelve to 14 hundred physicians, in this country now are using snako. venom for treatment, Dr. Eugene Maier, who has done much to bring to the public's attention the value of• venom in treating diseases, de- clares: "The use of venom is still in the, pioneering stage," the physician says, "but we think we are making progress." Venom is used in the treatment of epilepsy, arthritis and other dis- eases. It is now being used with notable success at Chattanoocha with epileptic patients at the Florida state hospital for the insane. Re- markable thing about the treatment is that the results are quick and a cure is often effected within three or four months. After cure the epileptic does not necessarily have to continue taking, the treatment which is given through a hypodermic needle. Some of the venom used for - medicinal purposes comes from. Ross Allen's reptile institute at Sit - ver Springs, Fla. "The first venom treatment," Dr. Maier said, "utilized bee venom. That was centuries ago. When I% began the work, I thought what would be the use of starting out with bees? So I began experiment., Ing with snake venom." • Artificial Blood "Artificial blood," discovered ree cently at Henry Ford's hospital, De- troit, is purest pectin suspended in a solution of salts and distilled wa- ter. It Is given intravenously, as a blood transfusion, slowly over a pe- riod of hours and substitutes for the, blood plasma, or fluid lost. The discovery does not compen- sate for the red blood corpuscles, but physicians point out that, un- less the red blood count is danger. ously low, the body itself will man- ufacture its own red blood corpus- cles. If the patient has one-fourth the. normal red corpuscle count, the ar- tificial blood should prove effective. Adults usually can take from 1,000, to 1,500 cc, of a 1 per cent solution of the pectin fluid. The "artificial blood" can be bot- tled and kept at room tempera- ture, making it much more availa- ble than whole blood, or even the. "canned blood" so important in war Use. Orchids to Vanilla Pure vanilla extract is made from: the fermented, dried pod -like fruits. of an orchid, grown in Mexico, of the genus vanilla. An important component of the characteristic (la- vor and odor of vanilla is due to a, substance called vanillha which is eventually dissolved into alcohol to, make what's known as pure vanilla extract. Something that tastes and. smells like vanilla, however, can also be synthesized from oil of cloves, from cumarin, which is made' from something called the tonka bean, which grows on trees 80 feet, high in South America, and from lignin (wood tissue). The food and, drug administration requires labels, on bottles of this kind of flavoring, to say that it is artificial flavoring; and to say that it is an imitation of vanilla. But you've got to read, the label to get the benefit of that: requirement. • Eye on Vitamin Bread The bureau of food and drug ina spection is keeping a close watch on, the bread fortified with yeast, iron, vitamins and other products that makes the sale of bread a veritable, gold mine for flagrant advertisers. Every effort, the bureau said, fa - being made to limit advertising to truthful statelments. "Vitamin claims for bread are. generally based on the average vita- min content per loaf before baking," the bureau points out. "What the. actual vitamin content is after batw- ing is problematical."